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THE AMERICAN WAY.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8. 1919.
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The "all cle" was sounded
That statement added words to branch
cutter this the effect that, without force, and morning at the Magistracy. under no larger compulsion than their own patriotism, the over-! whelming majority of newspapers gave unfaltered obedience to today at 11.30a.m. at the Central: every desire of the Government Police Station. The Police were in all matters of military secrecy, in tears that business was so dull. "carrying through successfully a They apparently forgot the tremendous experiment in honour hawkers. and trust.
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THE BRITISH WAY.
A Police report: "Sent to the Government Civil Hospital a Chinese male named Lai U Ham, No British journalist can read address unknown, aged about 35 that tribute without mixed feel- ings At Home. and here in years, found by Inspector O' Hongkong also, the authoritites Sullivan in a nude state in Caine have seen fit to bind the Press Road." Artista please note! hand and foot during the war, the holding over the heads of publish
would have been one iota less loyal than their American con-) freres? None whatever. The
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skull.
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MODERN MODES.
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EVENING CLOAK OF VELVET,
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
Is influenza so simple a thing, a fee so easily to be moved, an enemy to be worsted with, but little force? One fears not; but a correspondent writes to a Home. paper that you have only to put two teaspoonfuls of blackcurrant jam or, jelly into a tumbler, filt up with hot water, and drink on getting into bed, being heedful to consume every morsel of the Ises or sediment. This, he says, in "a [certain remedy.” If so, our troubles are over. Why not try it for Kaiserism and housemaid” „ Клее?
The United States, it seema, is ashe." President Wilson speaks of the United States and the Fowers associated with her." One commentator remarks that most of us would have hesitated be tween "it" and "them." AS & matter of fact, the question of singular or plural oncè divided the United States into two bostile armies. The Civil War between North and South was not fought, theoretically at all events, on the slavery question, but to determine whether each State in the Union was or was not a sovereign com- monwealth. with the right of secession. The Democrats held that each State was sovereign; the Republicans held that 80- vereignty resided in the Federal Government.
A verlict of accidental death ers the direst punishments in the was returned yesterday afternoon
We call the men of the New event of infringements of the at the enquiry into the death of
Army civilian soldiers or Kitchen- drastic regulations drawn BP. a Chinese wan fell from a house
DESIGNS OF THE MOMENT BY full, round youthful ruffle word Territorials and old Regulars. Is ers, to distinguish them from the In the United States, the at Aberdeen during a police raid! authorities left the matter 10 and succumbed from a fractured
with a collarless coat. These there a name for the man who is the honour and patriotism of
coats are usually caught to a Civil Servant now, but wasn't the Press, which has done wha
A very charming design is gether at the neck and left open one before the war began and every deceat journalist would do)
shown above in an evening the rest of the way, and are won't be one when the war is The War Charities Store. Sub-cloak of velvet. Heary pad-made full in back, in the style over? Anyhow, I was talking to. namely, willingly observed re- quests which were made with Committee can now supply the ded embroideries are used for long known as "box"
two of these men, and he told me good and sufficient reason. That various working parties of the trust has not been misplaced, as Queen Mary's Needlework Guild trimming, and the collar is of Jersey skirts are worn with their story, says a correspondent the glowing tribute paid to the with wool. Applications should The most noticeable change in seen in wide girdles of the same firmi before the war. He said: "The many sweaters and a new note is in a Home paper. One of them had been in big position in a big American Press abundantly be sent to the City Hall not later shows. Is there any reason to than 11 m. on Monday, the long coats is in the hnge collars, material as the skirt used over Civil Service beat me in a mouth. the absence of any very defnite the sweater of another colour. I gave in, and now I sit still and suppose that British journalists 13th inst.
sleeves, the extremely roomy Many sports coats are noticed do nothing. When I was in busi- The stealing habit is infections tonnes effect and the compar-lof suede leather and have a ness I could submit a certain pro- HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1919.
beautiful sheen on their surface, position to my chief. He would BANKERS TAKING THE STRAIN.
only difference is that America The Chinese female has now!
A model in a beutiful shade of like the orchid, which might be say. Good. Let the printer have trusted her Preas: Britain lopted it. One girl, who gave preferred compulsion. And her age as sixteen to Mr. J. R. soft deep purple duvetyn is tria the reflection from their change fall instructions by Eve this Although at first sight in the financial world last year, there may ay we speak feelingly on the Wood, this morning, received six med with seal fur. Deep cuff able silk linings. The back, for afternoon. I tried that on in the have been very little in the way of life and variation, some of the subject the regulations are still weeks' bard labour for stealing panel extends to the bottom of the over which passes a smartly tail-By five o'clock! In five months* sleeves are of this fur, and a deep distinction, has two inverted pleats Civil Service. It was no use. developments, especially those pertaining to British banking, have in force, though in the States even $1,112 belonging to her mistress cost at each side. Both back and ored belt, while in the front are porary Civil Servant had been a been buth interesting and important. The advantages which Society the voluntary system has been The money was recovered. derives from a good system of banking depend to some extent upon done away with for two months or
front are very wide and bang commodious patch pockets and professional "man. He declared the point of development which the system has reached. In a go. Had the Press either at Home
In the challenge round of the loosely like a cape from beneath smoked pearl buttons.
that if he had tried to run his country possessing a highly developed system the advantages or in Hongkong been dealt with as
the large collar of seal. derived from it may be briefly stated as follows: (1) It facilitates it was in America, we have not the Bradley Lawn
Tennis Cap.
Picture hats, of all kinds, and office on Civil Service lines he For has never been used to demonstrating the theorem that would have been ruined several exchange of commodities and enables the wheels of commerce to least besitation in saying that the yesterday. Corp. R. Townsend, such an extent, in whole gar-to the picture hat, nothing is times over. "Nobody," he said run smoothly and rapidly; (2) banks act as distributors of capital results would have been just as R. E.. defeated 2nd. Corp. W. by attracting the surplus of the community in the form of deposits satisfactory. But a pernicious G. Blumfield by 6-1, 63, 63, ments, and in trimming on dresscs impossible, are back again. Or will take any responsibility. and re-lending it where it is in demand, (3) where there is a central system of muzzling the news and thus retained the trophy of fur is seen, the novelty is the At any rate, in their infinite of any kind." He was going into and garments. While every sort didn't they ever really go away? Nobody will risk making a mis- take. Nobody will stand initiative more readily mobilised in case of emergency, rates are standardised Papers has arisen in this war. The cup was later presented by, petit-gris. It is remarkably effec-variety and their adaptability details. but I stopped him. "Don't and co-ordinated efforts among the banks are rendered possible. The time will come, however Miss Ventris, who was handed a tive on blue serge and blue velvet; they savour of extreme newness, bother," I said. "I've heard it all bank the ultimate reserves of a country may be concentrated and
the world.
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time-if then." The other tem-
Now that the admiration of the
when it must be relaxed. Then
from pretty bouquet The concentration of much of the banking resources of the Enited the Press will have a soul to call
and the slight brownish tiat, Not only for evenings and dinner before. You'll find it in the Kingdom in the hands of a comparatively few large and strong joint its own.
Jenkins.
often seen in this fur, makes it and the "dress-up" dress are they Circumlocution Office chapter in stock institutions is the most characteristic feature of modern
charming on the favourite shade designed, but for the street sait Little Dorrit." British banking. The war, it may be said, had provided a stimalus
Our readers are reminded of of brown. Brown is the leading and the morning. Oue, for in- rather than a dragon energy and ambition. The credits that had INDIA'S LOYALTY.
the Constitutional Reform colour; particularly when com-stance, has stiff blue wings bound been arranged had been spent with a rapidity that had accelerated
with black. A rich and wound into a crüshed white One of Germany's hallucina meeting which is to be held at bed banking business in England. As security for these loans England has pledged her past accumulations, and the earning power of tions in August, 1914, was that the City Hall to-morrow evening. coppery shade of brown velvet broadcloth crown in a tailored civilised world rests with Marsh-
demand for posterity. This is, of course, extravagant and wasteful, but war is India, reported to be disaffected The
a coat and skirt is lined almost military way. The great al Foch, it is interesting to recall always extravagant, and history shows that military expenditure by British rule, would soon go into representative government is one with black antin and trimmed drooping brim is, of course, of the fact that in May 1916 he was on a large scale has always induced a prosperity that lasted some open revolt. Kaiser Wilhelm bas with which we are in absolute with black far
black velver, in accordance with nearly killed. Foch then com- "manded the Army of the North, years after peace. The outbreak of the European ar precipitated been, and his War Lords were, sympathy. A crowded meeting
Monkey far is very fashionable the ancient tenets of the specie. They were will show that the public is in and squirrel is one of the most certainly mistaken. many grave probleme. International credits and exchanges were
One other, like the old fancy with his
and while riding in a motor-CET son-in-law, Captain completely disorganised, ocean transport was for a time partially obsessed with the idea that in earnest on the matter.
popular furs of the season. pictare-hat, of softness and Fournier, the car dashed into a paralysed, the entire business and economic structure of the British spite of all the professions and |
proofs of India's
A fichu, lace pleating or net feathers and swirling crown, also tree between Dammartin and St. Tales was shaken to its foundations and a catastrophe of calamitous Practical
Going to law is an expensive or same form of neek finish is in black velvet, has beige feather Souplets. adhesion to the British Throne,
Foch, was severely proportions was narrowly averted. It is a tribute to the economic
job. All cannot afford its. rauch used; usually white or fancies and beige faille on the hurt in the head. His son-in-law and banking strength of England that the shock has been so admir they could add to her troubles
time of great peril. laxuries. Those who cannot, take ecru, sometimes blue or ably withstood. A panic of cataclysmic proportions might easily in
even crown.. This is an enormous hat, was still more seriously injured. [tilted up more on one side than Both of them were taken to the have resulted. Through the prompt and effective action of the Thank God such a thing did the law into their hands. One British Banks, the danger had been arrested, confidence had been not come about. There was a Chinese, who to had get $18 from
Round-necked blouses with on the other, and with one feather American Hospital at Juilly, and restored and specie payments had been maintained in the face of certain amount of anarchism his employer, took his quilt and hage ruffles are very smart. curling up and the other droop remained for several weeks. The afterwards to Meaux, where they rampant in the country and it pawned it. "If my wages are There is nothing more attractive ing under. The crown is com- accident took place during the When the full history of this war comes to be written we was proved beyond doubt that given to me, I will give up the and more becoming than this paratively low... venture to predict that a high place of honour will be given to German spies and agents were quilt," said our friend to Mr. British banks for the way in which they have not only weathered busy sowing the seeds of dis- Melbourne, in his Court this
content throughout the length the storm' themselves but have helped to solve the financial problems and breadth of the country, but the morning. Case adjourned. of the British Government Men, munitions and money,
CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.ed from 8 to 9, and that the number of official members shall recall, were the three essentials laid down by the late Lord Kit: sedition was nipped in the bud. chener for the winning of the war.
The next general meeting of To hold the people of a country The British banks' policy of
RESOLUTIONS. remain as at present, namely, 8.
3. That of the seven elected The late Bishop Boyd Carpenter caution in the matter of the security against which they would responsible for such unfortunate the Hongkong University Medical AMENDED advance their large reserve accumulations and the thoroughness. childish. India rose to the occas 10th inst., in the School of incidents is mandacious and Society is to be held next Friday,
The resolutions to be submit- unofficial members (all of whom charmed everyone. for which they had provided for depreciation of investments during ion and her princes and peoples Anatomy at 5 p.m. previous to ted to the public meeting at the shall be British sabjects) two charmed the Kaiser, who had the period of falling prices that had existed for some years found ried with each other in rallying which tea will be served in the City Hall on Thursday have been shall be elected by the Hongkong into German and published, with several of his sermons translated them in the best position possible to withstand the financial earth round the Imperial standard at a School of Physiology. Mr. Phoon amended and now read as General Chamber of Commerce; a preface by that distinguished quake that convulsed the world for over four years. England has profound reason to be grateful that her banks in peace, time time when the enemies of the Ses. Weng will read a paper on follows:-
one by the Justices of the Peace; scholar Harnack, Some time ago Brisish Empire counted eschewed the speculative risks attaching to industrial undertakings disaffection and internal troubles Hysteria," to be followed by a "That this public meeting of three (two of whom shall be of the Bishop all his life a delicate
British whilst
race and one and that when war occurred their assete wore in a very liquid state. This spontaneous outburst of log debate on the subject. Professor Hongkong residents,
of man--was suffering from TOKY One of the most interesting financial problems which had presented itself during the war was the effect of the war on banking deposits, alty has dispelled for ever all sense H. G. Earle will occupy the chair, affirming its unswerving loyalty Portuguese race) by British sub grave nervous breakdown. Fo This is so important subject that will doubtless be investigated, by the rulers and the ruled. Renter
to the Crown and Empire, is of jects who are jurymen, or are many weeks he was unable to Now that the Chinese New Year opinion that the instructions to qualified for, but exempt from sleep, and night after night his many financial authorities.
There has been an enormous increase in banking deposits at tells us that six thousand de- is approaching, keep an eye on His Excellency the Governor jury service; and one by the devoted wife she died three years Home since the beginning of the war, Having regard to the vast legates and visitors met on the year trousers. They are likely relative to the mode of selection Chinese General Chamber of so read aloud to him, for eight operations of the State in connection with the war, this growth was capital of India for the annual imbibosome of our bachelors amendment in such a way as to representative of the Chinese
2nd instant at Delhi, the to disappear. One Chinese, who of the Legislative Council require Commerce, or some other body nerves and induce sleep. Years, to have been anticipated, but it loses nothing of its remarkable alo character: Uroat as was the prosperity of the British Peaks in 1915
We
of distrust and suspicion between
this
it is even greater today. These big financial institutions render or took advantage
lustrousers. The baly The regards dll the unlia And in order that this and Aimmense services to the country, but their business is to thrive on opportunity to
mperor thing he remembered was plac-dificist mamibers of the raid for attention, and canned Iturning over people's moner, and never has there been so much of Moyalty to the King
Although a political society ing them on a wail]""Theas "Council (other than the two tion may be given to the this about in the aggregate as daring the war period for, as Reuter extremists, the National Congress are my trousers" he said when Chinese nominated members) the thus publicly expressed, informed us on Monday, the total turnover of the London Bankers
has Kotehown
shown them at this Magistracy, principle of election instead of Meeting requests the Gov Clearing House for 1918 was £21,198,000,000, an increase of
Said Mr. J. B. Wood to the thief, nomination shall be appliedment to transmit this £2,026,000,000 compared with 1917 and an increase of £4,716,000,000 still meet in public
Twenty-one days hard labours, Z. That the mmber of un- by telagram “tơ He cord period of 1913. The increase, we are told or its loyal and duti Government burrying and disbursements, greetings to His Majesty moon the fire come
Vare yours.
official members shall be increas-Secretary of State for the
on the pre
that,
dark days of the second battle of Verdun, and the censor forbade all reference to the matter at that time.
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He even
hours at a time, to sooths his
very fervent old George W leading comed 100 the Bishop, and
with ganuine
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