Brown Brands
WATSON'S
OLD
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 22,-1918.
BROWN BRANDY
25 YEARS IN WOOD,
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
TELEPHONE No. 616.
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To-morrow's Anniversary. To-morrow is the annivAIRAIY of the death of Gustave Dore, the artist (1883).
The Dollar...
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COMPANY REPORTS.
The West Paint Ballding. Co. Ltd.
The twenty-ninth report of the General Agents of the above | company states 2-
TIENTSIN FLOOD RELIEF, TO-DAY'S HISCELLANY
Hongkong-Representative
on the Council.
The oldest bridge in Paris, the Pont Neuf euch is the oddirony
The following correspondence of
nomenclatura-celebrated
an
is forwarded us by the Hon. anniversary the other day-not- of itself, bas of the famouRA Colonial Secretary
of
To the Hon. Mr. Claud Severn, sirian state upon ite drawn,- OMG, Acting Governor that of Henry IV. It was mi in its proad place on the bridge s Hongkong.
hundred years ago, and has been admired by countless Britiah tourists aver sinos. Ist of 'thosÉE –
Metropolitan Union Flood Relief Council, -Shih-Fu-Ma Tv Chich,
The General Agents now sub- mit to you a statement of the fairs of the Company, and balance sheet for the year ending 31st December, 1917. The net
Paking, December 25th, 1917. Sir,--We Have received a letter profits for the year amount to from our Ministry of Foreign itself made of Napoleon's can-
| #76.009.87, which with $2,688.87
it
Affairs to the affect that the
who have seen is how few know Chaudet's Napoleon, which adorn ed in 1815 the Vandoms Column.
Afer a long period of silencS so far as naval notione are con osrned, it is most refreshing 10 learn that the vigilance of the British Navy at the mouth of the Dardanelles has resulted in the sinking of the Brealan and the Grippling of the Goeben. These two cruisers, it will be remember ad, managed to escape into the Dardanelles in the very early |days of the war and were pub ecquently "sold" to Turkey, along with their German crews, on be found on Page 1. the same day on which Britain
Prize Day. declared war on Austria-August | The Hon. Mr. Gland Severn, 18, 1914. Their incorporation into CV.G., is to present the pria the Turkish Navy greatly streng the Ellis Kadoorie School on thened that force, as both were February 4, at noon. quite modern craft at that time.
Raffle Result Occasionally since the war we Ticket No. 150 won the doll and have bad news of these oraisers chair, and ticket No. 59 won the indulging in periodical raide, Junior cooking stove rafied in but they have, in the main, aid of St. Dunstan's Home for worthily followed the example set Blinded Soldiers and Sailors. by the so-called Garman High Defence Corps Orders. Seas Fleet by being content to re-
In the Dafence Corps orders main in hiding. Possibly thinking published on Friday a mistake that the British were too busily occurred in regard to the annual which engaged elsewhere to bother musketry course firing for "B" Dardanelles, the Company at King's Park Range with about the
evidently decided to make a dash 430 p.m. The order applies to
and the Hongkong community to join the Austrian Fleet in the No. 5 Platoon, and not to No. 6.
Auditors. The accounts have for their esteemed sympathy with complained that we bought too Adriatic, but Britain'e reamen ware on the watch, with the The Union Church Guild meets been sadited by Mr. H. Percy our cause. It is very generous of many of her potatoes last spring, results already indicated. This tomorrow at 9 p.m., in the Smith who now retires, and offers the Hongkong community of and now says our profiteers are which you are the honoured chief buying too much of her baltar. little incident is a splendid Lecture Hall, Kennedy Road, himself for re-election.
contribute so much money for and forcing up priosa. She had tribute to the British command when the Hon. Mr. Claud Severo,
the noble work of life-saving. We to make the same complaint in of the seas, and we imagine that C.M.G., delivers his second lecture
abell endeavour to make this fact respect of yarn in the days before. Turkey feels very sick today on British Malays, the subject
known to the suffering people's
Arkwright. In spite of Jamee over the loss of the best units being "Forty Years Development.
that they may ever remember argreaves the English warp was in her Navy. Incidentally, in the Malay States," The lecture;
with gratitude the kindness of too soft, and could not be used with these two cruisers out of the is open to the public.
your community.
for weaving, and we had to buy. way, what a splendid chance
We aball also deem it a great much that Irish manufacturers from Ireland. We bought so would offer itself to Russia to do A Chinees was charged before a little naval work in the Black Mr J. R. Wood, at the Police 8 were abe in a fighting mood. Conrt this morning, with stealing Bat while anch a development is anal from a steamer in Harbour, anlikely we can at any rate feel Defendant told bie Worship that gratified by the thought that once the parser at the steamer gave it again British naval strategy has to him. Bis Worship did not be been too good for that of the lieve the story and infl cled a fine Germana.
of $5 or, is "default, seven days, hard labour.
the amount brought forward from Ministry has received non), was melted up for the at the previous year makas an
amount available for division of despatch from the British Lega-caging, as was also the Roman 878,698.74. From this amountsion in Peking informing it Napoleon on the top of the com
that the British Colony of Hong Boulogne camp,
memorative column at the- an interim divizend of $3.00 per
whence the share has already been paid, and kong has donated, through its
is now proposed to pay a final Acting Governor Hop. Cland Corsican proposed to favado dividend of $3.00 per share Severn, one hundred thousand England. A third statue was dollars (100,006) Hongkong car
added, that of Desaix (Napoleon's making a total dividend for the twelve months of $6.00 per share, renoy for the purpose of relieving general, who was given command the flood sufferers of the Pro- of the "English" army), which, and to carry forward the balance vince of Chibli.
stood on the Place des Victoires. $3,698.74 to the credit of a new In acknowledging the receipt Henri the Bearasia in singaler Thus the spirited presentment of Profit sad Loss Account.
of this most bounteous offer, Directors-Hon. Sir C. Pallow me, in the capacity example of Imperial vicissitudes. Chatar and Mr. A. O. Lang now of the President of the retire by rotation, and being Metropolitan Union. Flood Relief
War brings about strange-
ommunications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for commanders of these two beats on Thursday, the 24th inst., at eligible offer themselves for 18 Council, to thank your good self situations in commerce. Iteland
All communications intended for publication should be addressed
to the Editor.
Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager.
Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.
Telephone: No. 1 A.B.C.. 5th edition.
MARY TO
Western Union Office address: 11, Ice House St.
DEATH. DANENBERG-Mrs. C. Danenberg, of No. 1, The Albany, aged 74, on the 19th January, 1918:
The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1918.
RUSSIA'S DEMORALISATION.
"
|The Enemy's Plight.
While things at Home may not
be as satisfactory as we should all wish them to be, still they are
[ondition in which they are in
Lecture,
Theft of Coal.
The "Court Cards." The "Court Cards" provided another most delightful evening
election.
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The Hongkong General'
Estate, Ltd.
to
honour if the Hongkong.com
The fourth report of the Board of Directors of the above company
manity would, through their made angry protests on the sub- lates
The Directore have now to sub esteemed Acting Governor, name it to the authorities, just as- it to you a general statement of any member of the British Lega. they have this year about potatoes
and batter. the effairs of the Company, and tion in Peking to represent them to balance sheet for the year ending attend our weekly meetings and 31st December, 1917. The net has to enpervise the disburse profi's for the period amount to menti of the relief fand. $84,927,57 which with $11,119 57 bought forward from last account makes an amount available for division of $96,047.14. It is now
가
Directors.Dr. J. W. Nɔble
With my best regards, 1 beg &o.,, (SIGNED) HSIUNG ESI-LING, President.
To His Excellency the Right
"Poems
Sir James Rannell, Bodd, our Ambasador at Rome, who is doroting part of a brief visit to- London to lecturing on behalf of the Camps Library, is walk at the Theatre Royal last night, proposed to pay a dividend of Bussis ia unquestionably going from bad to worse. The
qualified to speak on the subject of books, for he is a litterateur as Bolsheviks er Soviets, or whatever is the correct name of the fans
these present greatly enjoying the $7.00 per share absorbing
well as a diplomatist. The out. tion, into whose hands Russia and the Russian nation have bees,
bright and cheery #forts of the $70,000 00 and to carry forward Honourable Sir John N. Jordan, ooms of his first diplomatio willy nilly, committed, sppear to have no sense of restraint or of
performers. The whole entertain the balance $27,047.14 to the G. C. LE, K.O.B., K. O. L. G., appointment-as Attache in the fairness, no sense of decency in their national and international on anything like the terriblement was marked by originality credit of a new Profit and Loss His Majesty a Miniater, British Embassy at Berlin-was a book relations or knowledge of political economy-nothing, indeed, 87 Germany and Austris. From and quality, there being a very Account.
Lagation, Peking.
on the Kaiser's father, the Em an insensate, maddening, and almost, one would think, a morbid time to time authentic news filters happy blending of mirth and
Government House, peror Frederick, and since then selfishness, which tolerates nothing of which it cannot or will not out from Berlin regarding the music, To-night there will be having left the colony, the Rev. Hongkong, 19th January, 1916. his publications have included approve or is incapable of understanding. The outlook for Bussia widespread want and disease the
complete change of programme. Father Robert was invited to join Sir, I have the honour to several volumes of poetry, of during the past few montha has been black indeed, and, judging are everywhere to be seen through Mr. T. Hay, son of 1st Class David Landale and Hon. Mr. E. Excellency's letter of the 3rd in Many Lands" and "Bellads Oranted a Commission.
the Board in his place. Hon. Mr.scknowledge the receipt of Your which the best known aze by the latest telegrams, the situation is emphatically very serious out that land fortunate in being Mr. Gr. G. T. May, R.G.A., LaShellim having resigned Hon. January and your telegrams of of the Fleet." The news from Petrograd, which we pablished in yeater ruled by the Kaiser, the "All been getted a Second Lieut. ia Hr. O. E. Anton and Mr. A. H. the 17th January regarding the day's issue, is almost painful in the depth of stupidity: Highest," cises ignorance, gross indifference to the most elementary, rights of claims to be on intimate terms volunteered for service outside place. These appointments now of the Metropolitan Union who blasphemously the Royal Flying Corps. Mr. May Compton were appointed in their request of the Director-General the many classes that constitate society in Russia as elsewhere and with God Almighty. Austria'e the Colony and embarked for require confirmation. Rev. Father Flood Relief
London clabe, despite their in many other blemishes (to call them by no harsher name) that are internal eff sirs are likewise by no England in March last. Prior to Robert now retiree by rotation.
Council that inevitable losses in wartime, are therein so abundantly revealed. Likewise, the news makes very means improving, and telegrams leaving the Colony be served with and being eligible cfore himself country should be appointed on well used just now. George this in many instances extraordinarily of representative funny and entertaining reading the sort of thing which provoked to hand point to s state of affairs the Asiatic Petroleum Company for re-election. a kind of spontaneous commingling of laughter and tears. For in Vienna that must be causing and was a member of the Civil Auditors. The accounts have to designate Mr. Wilton for this lab
the Council, and that you proposed Augustus Sala önce defined a example, could anything "be, at one and the same time, more painful the Government of the 'Das Service Company, Hongkong been audited by Messre. H. Percy purpose. I have telegraphed Bgea to keep the white women at a wespon used by may- or more exquisitely funny than the Sovieta" "Declaration of the Monaroby serious concern. Workers' Rights," which, for analloyed selfiebness and class tyranny
Smith and C. Bernard Brow to-day that I concur in your pro-
B distance"! Bat ladica nowa has surely never been equalled, in modern times by any "nation? The Bolsheviks evidently seek to establish something that is little of late very grave industrial ontside No. 2 Police Station this
as in Germany, there have been' A shocking accident occurred selves for re-election.
who now retire, and effer them-posal and I should be glad if you days, besides having excellent better than mob law, in which the workers are to be glorified, troubles. Strikes are reported to morning, en Indian fireman being
would convey to Mr. Hsiang lube of their own, are frequent almeat deified, and in which there is to be not the slightest consider be increasing; alan, it is stated, accidentally kaccked down by a
Hailing an expression of thanks visitors to clube which need to ation for the other elementa and the best elemente, mark you of there have bean big demonstraram er and run over. The
from the Colony for his action in pride themselves on exoidding them. And have not women re- Russia's enormous population. The Bolsheviks, doubtless the most tione in the capital, orowds block wheels of the car passed over the, The Hongkong Land lavestment
I have &o,
placed innumerable clabimen bitter against the Romancff'e baieaucratic tyranny, seek to set up a tyranny just as complete and which probably, if ever it unhappily made to food workers and railway of the vehicle could pall ap. The ing the traffic." An appeal is man's abdomen before the driver
Bervants, and given members (81) F. ELMAY,
thereby a quicker service? matures, will be very much worse in many respects.
Governor, &,. The trouble at present seems to have been between the Bolshe adds the Labour organ that makes jacks before the man could be ex- workers not to strike, because, car had to be prised up with viks and other members of the Constituent Assembly, which at last the request, it only adde to the tricated and it was then founder of Diretors of the above The Hongkong Land Reclamation bad been brought together after many strange happenings. With distress." To all appearance, that he wнe dend. its appearance one would have imagined that even the Bolsheviks therefore, as in Germany so in
To Volunteers.
widespread want and disease,
A Distressing Fatality.
would have welcomed it as the most likely means of changing the Austris-Hungary, the conditions Oplum Possession.
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and Agency Co., Ltd.
The twenty-ninth report of the
company states:-
The Directora have now to
existing chaos into some sort of order. But what has happened? prevailing are by no means anch Mr. J. B. Wood, at the Pulice submit to you a general state-
A Chinese charged hefore
No sooner has the Constituent Assembly (which, presumably,
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the matter,
Co., Ltd.
The sixteenth report of the
perplexed about the old wa
Hen in oivil life are becoming
Time was when shabbinees wAS a hallmark of patriotism. The money earmarked in the family budget for a new suit of dittos was diverted to War Saving Cer The Directors have now to tificates, and the well-worn
is the nearest approach 10 & body, representative of as the Tentonio would-be con- Court this morning, with being ment of the affire of the Com-Board of Directors of the above all clangoa that Russia can aspire to at present) met querers of the world would wish in possession of 29 tsele of pre pany, and balance sheet for the company states: than the Bolsheviks, emulating the
them to be. It all goes to prove pared opium. A lakong stated year ending 31st December, 1617. modern Hana that when an individual or "a that ba WER. on the Dog The net profits for that period submit to you a general statement working cuit was given an extra in their worst characteristic, resort to an exhibition 'of might|nation attempts to bite of more las Wharf and saw three men amount lo $363,067.93 which of the effire of the Company, press and an ammonia sponge Over right that is deplorable in every respect and which bodea than he or it can chew, he or it whom he Fa-pected. He went to- / with ́ 40,536,40 brought forward (and balance sheet for the year down. But lately this little
sadly for Bassia's immediate fature. On the occssion of the meeting
very soon
of the Assembly what do we find? The Bolsheviks plainly show nothing at all left to chew."-
ing their attitude towards anything approsobing authority by sat ting up an opposition to it that is positively intolerable. We read that "at the gangway" they stationed "sailors armed with rifies
while at the entrance they placed two field "gune," If they would FOR SOLDIERS & SAILORS. Oue of the men track hit in the is now proposed to pay a final able for division of $688,831.54, visits to their tailors with a plea
bat point their rifles at the heads of the enemy and put their field gans to proper use they would commend the respect of the world but this, of course, is too much to expect from a hopeless est of
finds that there iswards them.
Two of them, from let account makes solending 31st December, 1917. The voluntary economy seems to have throwing a parcel to defendant amount available for division of net profits for the year amount to lapsed. Public opinion has not and advising him to get it sad $403,604 33. From this amount $41,704.12. which with $647, encouraged the ebabby patriot to make bie escape, jared under an interim dividend of $3 50 per 1037.42 brought forward from last keep on with the old clothes, and the wharf and got safely away. share has already been paid. It account makes an amount avail- so numbers of men are paying sly on their lips, if not in their hearts, cheet. He was able to get hold of dividend of $3.50 per share and It is now proposed to pay a defendant. Defendant was dia siter writing off Manager Direa-dividend 7 per cent on the paid for the necessity of keeping up charged sad the opiam confiscat tore" fees there remains a balance op capital, after providing for appearances.
of 828,180,58 to be carried to which there remains a balance of Thefts from Talkoo Rifle Range. the credit of a new Profit and $623,206.54 to be carried to the credit of a new Profit and Les Two Chinese were charged be. | Loma Account.
Directors, Hon. Mr. fore Mr. J. B. Wood at the Police
E. Account.
fanatical fools such as are the Bolshevike. From bad to worse they Fund to Provide Boxing Gloves.rd.. Froceeded. Within twenty-four hours the Assembly was dissolved end the reign of disorder and stupidity given a fresh impetus. Truly a pitiable state of affairs.*
$5
No doubt M Hall Caine, newly oreated chief adviser to the film
And what could be more maddening than the Bolsheviks' To the fand which has been dort this morning with Shellim having cerigord Mr. A. Directors-Hon. Mr. E Shellim propaganda department of the political programme ? It reads like a bad joke. Here are a few tasugurated by the sporting of the items: The abolition of private ownership, work to be com-journal Boxing with which to sterling five bage, the H. Compton was invited to join having resigned Mr. A. B. Comp National War Aims Committes, pulsory the workers to be armed the leisured classes to be dis provide boxing gloves for soldiers property of the Tsikon Rf the Board in bia place and this ton was invited to join the Board accepts the praise in Range. Defendants aid, they appointment now requires con, in his place and thisappointment | spirit when Mr. Lloy armed, the organisation of a Socialist Army, this repudiation of and sailors on satin service, we felt a little cold and wanted a few firmation. Mr. J. P. White sud now quires confirmation. Or writes that you have, loans. That is all, but is it not more than enough? Is it not the have received the following most pitiful farrago of nonsense that ever omsested from an Already soknowledged... apparently mane body of politicans! So long as Rusia tolerate Net Langham men capable of uttering such imbecility she is doomed. Her fairs J.A.B. were bad under the Romanoffe; but, misdirected by the Bolshevike, “Jem Maco" they are very much worse. And so long as this band of embryonic Mr. Ashman-(Tanya politicians is in power, so long will Russia remain the laughing Maro).. stock of the civilised world, a vast maan of pitifal inertia befited Paddy about by fools,
bage to cover them when sleeping Sir Robert H Tang retire by Robert Ho Tang and Mr. 4. H. a reputation for work. in the street. It was stated by a rotation; and offer themselves for Compton now retire, and offer commensurate, wit
themselves for re-election European sergeant that there had re-election.
Mendons
been a lot of petty thieving going Aaditors The accounts have Auditors. The secounts have seeing
on on the range, over 8200 been audited by Mesure, H. been audited by Mesara, H. Pero worth having being done, Bath, Peroy Smith and C. Bernard Smith sad Of Berns
men were sent to prison for niz Brown, who now retire and offer who now retire weeks each and four hours stooks, themselves for re-elections mended for re ele
Brown a