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WEDNESDAY.
FERRUARY 26,1919.
MODERN MODES.
DAY BY DAY.
IN JUDGING OTAKES, LET US NOT FORGET THAT A KINDLY SPIRIT WILL MEYER DO ANT'HARM,
la the Open Billiant Chath announcement that Mr. R.Epionship, Mr. F. W. Black and Stabbe, G.M.G., Colonial Secretary of Ceylon, has been appointed Mr. K. Higashida meet to-night. Governor of Hongkong. The new Governor is personally known to several local officials, for he was J. Brett has been appointed A Shanghai paper says, H. here on a rather extended visit Secretary to H. M. Legation for some eight years ago, when he Commercial Affairs in South investigated the question which Chius, and will shortly leave for
is now under consideration of a
Hongkong Commission-the re- Hongkong, where he will take vision of civil servants salaries, | up his residence, All who met him speak most He has made highly of him.
The Vanity Fair Company rapid progress in the Colonial Service, for it Was only pens its new season at the eighteen years ago that Theatre Royal to-night, with a entered the Colonial Office
as special an Second Class Clerk, and now he programme. The box plans for receives what is regarded as the this performance will be on view "plum" of the Service. He is con-between five and eight o'clock siderably younger than most of at the Hongkong Hotel. the former Governors of the
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Colony, but that is all to the good
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DEATH.
CRISPIN-At the French, Conrent Hospital on Tuesday the
23th. February 1919, at 9.30 p.m. Adelaide, the wife of C. Crispin,
Kowloon Docks, aged 47 years.
The funeral will pass the Monument on Thursday morning, 27th inst, at 8 a.m.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1919,
STRANGE CRITICISM,
will add fresh lustre to his already admirable record.
THE GERMAN FLEET.
ference that
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attractive
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
SOME INTERESTING QUESTIONS.
The Legislative Council meets to-morrow, when the Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak will ask the following questions -
(1) With reference to the fol- lowing Resolution unanimously passed at a crowded Public Meeting in the Theatre Royal on the 7th November last
in these days, when freshness of - Somebody threw crackers into outlook. is so much to be desired. a matshed and this set fire to it. In the name of the community The owner of the matahed was generally we have no hesitation informed that a certain Chinese in saying that his advent will be woman had indulged in this keenly awaited, and that he will came and remoustrated with her. receive a hearty welcome to our Each summoned to his or her
trust that his shores. We
aid the choicest words in the Chinese vocabulary. The woman Governorship will prove fruitful
invoked the aid of a bamboo and the man an iron bar. The man brandished his weapon, on his enemy cutting her deeply on the forehead. The prosecuting The newspapers at Home state sergeant said both parties were that the British Admiralty is to blame. The owner of the about to arge on the Peace Con-matshed pleaded justification for German Fleet be sunk, and that $10 or gave him the alternative the surrendered his deed. Mr. Wood fined him the Atlantic and Heligoland forts of going to gaol for seven days. be razed to the ground. Nosurprise will be felt at the latter of these requests, for the destruction of The gross proceeds of the these forts is absolutely necessary opening night of "Pinkis and the may be held, of course, that they the Hongkong War Memorial for the safeguarding of peace. It Fairies" are to be allocated to should be occupied by une or Fuad. Foriaintiness and beauty, more of the Allies, but. that prono fairy play of a similar nature position would give rise to muchu compare with "Pinkie." It difference of opinion on the part is a musical play for grown-ups of those concerned. We think and children, appealing to all. that the recent proposal is the The Hongkong production has best solation of the problem. been brought entirely up-to-date With regard to the proposal to siak the surrendered German by, the introduction of several fleet, there will be, we think. numbers out of "The Happy much discussion. There is, of Family," a Christmas play with course, the chance that the report music by Cathbert Clark. The is not true, but the Home papers public is reminded that the book-SEGLIGEE OF CHIFFON AND SATIN. The slip-on models, by the way, bave probably something to go on. ing opens at Moutrie's on Friday, The proposal is on the face of it the 27th inst., at 9 a.m.. There lines are
Loose, graceful, insouciant are the newest things in negligees. very startling. Surely some being no advance booking by Features of the Occidental copies varieties and are made of crepe the distinguishing They come in both long and short better means can be devised for the disposal of
vouchers, the general public will of Oriental dress, as it is to-day de chine, crepe Georgette and the. Ger-
all share the same spportunity of and as it was in the long ago similar materials. can
obtaining good seats.
man Navy. Sheer waste
never be commended, whatever the object in view. This is no question that the German fleet
MODEL GRECIAN ROBE IN MAUYE & TELLOW.
Designs of the Moment by "Sacha."
"That the Government
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asked to appoint "Commission to enquire into "the Housing Problem "and transit questions in **connection with
same,”
the
and submitted to the Government in a covering letter from the Con- stitutional Reform Association on the 8th November to which the Government replied on the 15th November that
*the Resolution quoted therein ."will be laid before His Ex- "cellency the Governor oa "his return to the Colony "
in view of the resignation of His Excellency, Sir Henry May will the Government state what measures it now proposes to take to give prompt effect to the wishes of the Colony!
(2) With reference to the follow- ing telegrams despatched by Renter's Agent to Reuter's head office in London on the 8th November
"Large Public Meeting resolved unanimously that Germans "deported from the Colony to "Australia should at the con- "clusion of the War not be permitted to return to Hong-
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kong or China but be re- patriated to Germany. The *Meeting re-affirmed the "unaltered conviction that no
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German subject be allowed
to reside in the Colony or "trade here for a period of "years.".
on the 9th January
"At a Public Meeting it was unanimously resolved to "telegraph the Secretary of "State for the Colonies ask- ing for reform in the Con- stitution of the Legislative "Council to secure the in- crease from 6 to 9 of un "official members thus giving "a majority of the unofficial” Will the Government state whether these "telegrams were suppressed or not by the Cable Censor, under instruction from
the Government, and if so why?
(3) Will the Government state
grams is likely to cease? when the censorship of com- mercial, private and press tele-
(4) Will the Government take Several of steps to urge the Admiralty to yesterdays. The original garment them are sunplaited and show include Hongkong in the tour of took no heed of the corset and its the edges bound with ribbon. the Grand Fleet which it has constriction of the female form Frequently there is a ribbon been announced will be sent to since the idea was first mooted, and it would seem from all accounts/destroyed from a naval point of watch Chinese jugglers in their Western accessory, during the and
There have been many criticisms of the League of Nations must be destroyed, but it can be tardar or the football ground to
There was a large crowd yes-divine; and it is in the discard-lacing part way down the front Australia, New Zealand, and
ing of this essentially to facilitate the speedy donning India? that the critics are not all silenced even yet. Broadly speaking, adjunct to the Allies in peace. is gathering deceived his frinds moments of leisure, metres view and still remain a useful
(5) Will the Government take the bulk of the adverse comment has been based on the contention Our technical knowledge is not
acrobatic turns. Some one in
removal of the little that the principle involved is all right theoretically, but that, with great enough to know whether and associates that he was carry-true relaxation of the body and dotted Swiss, embroidered mos- mans?
steps to secure for Hongkong, as garment. negligee finds its raison
public War Souvenirs, some of. buman nature as it is, it will never be found to work out in actual the erstwhile German fleet caning a silver watch in his pocket-mind while enswathed ja cloudfillin and organdies are delightilast Census and and when does Negligees and matinees of the guns captured from the Ger- practice. That, of course, is a point that can only be answered by become merchant ships or liners, He had a nice chain protadiog experience. Suffice it to say that the question has taken on a more but nevertheless, we hazard a out and one thief, who was quite semi-diaphanous folds, com- the year around. They are daintys Cererament propose to take (6) What was the date of the concrete form quite recently, for the scheme contemplated has been set forth in all detail by the publication of the draft of the Articles guess that this might be done. In enamoured of the chain, thought and filmy laces, after the simplewesring qualities and tabsuccess- panded of delicate chiffon, satin in themselves, practical in their and if the letter and the spirit of these Articles are observed by the machinery must be in them- So he pulled it out, but, to his
any Case the material and it was attached to a nice watch. formulae of the East.
the next one? nations now paying lip-service thereto, the consequence is bound to
ORDERS OF THE DAY. be a minimising of the risks of war in the future. At any rate, it is and
selves of colossal value surprise, he pulled out a whistle.
Éves the ribbons are fully. no matter what the
First reading of a bill intituled something to the good that the scheme finds so many ardent times of reconstruction of world he was so sick at this discovery the colours, the final effect must use especially in
lavable, although experience An Ordinance to restrict tempor- materials, or how infinitely varied supporters among statesmen of all nationalities, men who are quite industry and shipping.
suggests that it is well to remove arily the persons who may engage as capable of appreciating the difficulties as are the arm-chair
that he dropped the chain and
be free from any suggestion of of satin before confi liug the gar-tain whistle on the ground. The force fussiness and must spell "rest" critics who profess to see no possible chance for the carrying into
the dainty blue and pink strips in business connected with cer effect of the proposals.
of the drop attracted the attention
ment to the uncertain mercies of metallic ores. ifit is to appeal to the fastidious the laundress. Bearing in mind the point that the underlying idea of the
of the crowd, and a hue and cry founders of the League is to prevent future wars, we are rather signing of the Armistice, there and arrested. The pick pocket In the first days after the were raised and the man chased astounded at the attitude taken on the subject by Mr. Borah, an seemed every sign that Germany was provinced before Mr. J. R. American Senator, as revealed in one of the cables which we printed was about to become another Wool this morning. yesterday. It appears that a motion was brought forward in the Russia. Chaos and bloodshed that he used to sleep in the street, blue, violet and white, gray and naniber sad beauty since their
THE SITUATION IN GERMANY.
these
country
For
woman..
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There is a veritable rage for the two-tone negligee orchid and He said pink, blue and maize, pink and
CAPS ARE QUAINTLY OLD-FASHIONED, Boudoir cape have increased in
non-ferrous metals
and
First reading of a Bill intituled An Ordinance to prohibit the carrying on of banking, business for the benefit of or under the control of certain persons. U.S. Senate calling on President Wilson to preserve an unbiassed were
First reading of Bill intituled mind until he bad discussed the League of Nations with that body. day, and the whole
the order of the This, to begin with, is rather confusing, since President Wilson is seemed
but he was doing odil jobs. Ser. rose, and so on. The usual way revival several years age. It is An Ordinance to amend the regarded as one of the statesmen
to have fathered the absolute destruction. Gradually, enquiries.
be rushing who
to geant Floyd was asked to make is to have the satin slip of white essential that they should be of Summary Offenses Ordinances, scheme from the start, if indeed he
or flesh tone topped by a filmy exquisitely fine quality in both 1845 to 1918. is not generally however, we considered its sponsor.
First reading of a Bill intituled over-slip of two colours in Georg-laces and embroideries, and that in An Ordinance to authorise the To ask him therefore to preserve orderliness and discipline of the Saw the innate an unbiassed mind
ette or chiffon. The slip may be shape they should be far removed Union Insurance Society of Can- on the calling upon a temperance advocate to suspend judgment on abstin- civil strife and disruption, and at home. Fifteen men and a wo folds from shoulder to ankles. old portraits and engravings for
aubject appears rather like German issuing from the mass of not turn up at the Races gambled overdrapery falls in opalescent signers have evidently studied capital into gold.
Some of the Chinese who did loosely belted, but ordinarily the from the commonplace. The de- ton Limited to convert its silver ence from alcoholic liquor. But to return to Mr. Borah's speech, we until recently there seemed every find him describing the League as "a most radical departure from reason to believe that the German man were found in a house in Chiffon breakfast coata (a decided inspiration and these have been American policy to avoid entangling alliances." By the same nation had determined to make the Circular Pathway too absorbed in departure from process of reasoning, Mr. Borah should have objected to America's most of its changed conditions an illegal Chinese game. When models) are lined with silk and youthful element of the modern ever having entered the war. We can appreciate America's past TheSpartacist movement had been brought up this morning all
old-age modernised so that the eternally foreign policy, and the ideas at the back of it. But we are living overcome, and though this meri-plea leci guilty except the woman frequently of shaded tones. These woman is in no way jeopardised in a new age now, and what suited many a country years ago willace was always hovering in the and the sixth an: seventh da are easily slipped on and off and by the. quaint character of the MR. WILSON'S MANDATE
are feminine to the last degree.. (old-new bondoir caps.
gambling
WOR
the
FASHIONS IN LAMP SHADES.
INTERNATIONALISATION.
FROM THE WORLD.'
Internationalisation has many aspects. A "Mainichi-Chronicle message somewhat discounts the theory that President Wilson in
At the intest discussions on the
not do now. We have, in fact, reached a stage when America background, it was considered fendants. The Chinese constable, cannot continue on her past policy of isolation; she must come even that it would be kept within who arrested this more largely still into world politics. And if association with other bounds. But all this has changed party, said the woman Powers in the task of preserving world peace is to be regarded as an in the last week, and in one huge backing the lack of the Efth "entangling alliance," then the United States should not grieve over stride, Germany has nearly gone defendant. That in itself would a departure from traditional policy.
But more surprising still is the reference which this American and humiliation at first brought not convict the woman. What real- obscure the light is the one to this connection we find repeated Nations should have a bone to
back to the stage to which defeat Senator makes to Britian in this connection. He argues that the her. For the moment the Spar-ly incriminated her was the story choose. The characteristic blues the chequered patterns so well, gnaw.
The lamp shade that does not a dinner table very attractive. In vented it so that the League of United States should be made one of the guarantors, under the tacists, or to give them their that she went to the house to sc League, of the territorial integrity of the British Empire. At first Russian name, the Bolsheviks, are her nephew, who had a cold. The and greens of China and the approved in cushion covers. sight it might appear that this suggestion were based on a friendly supreme at least in Bavaria, where nephew, it appeared, was non eat well with rooms in which that with padded silk frait a paper statel, the idea of a common ins motive, but when later Mr. Borah speaks of the League as the sensational happenings are report at the time of the arrest. The
quaintly pictured scenes accord The pretty plan of trimming German colonial question, it is greatest triumph of British diplomacy for three centuries and then ed. A Soviet Republic has been seventh defendant mid he went element is already manifesto basket, cushion and workcase 23tional control was dropped ba goes on to refer to Amaries's greatest commercial rival" as having proclaimed in this state, and the to the place to fetch his shoes, while as for the Japan dengan itself. If Mr. greh, or any other of the American Republicane, is the situation. Ministers have under the impression that Britain is espousing the League of been shot at and killed in the Quite a fehle resination this white and gold upon a black or other berries, with their leaves, objected to the very term inter if not overdone. Olusion of the system in Morocco and Con- Nations from any ulterior motive, they are sadly mistaken. In the Diet, and civil war has broken man possessed, but the story brown frame are admirable.
ordinary surronndings, and în grapes and apples, plums, and [tral Africa, while President Wilson- past, we have been fairly well able to look after ourselves, and we out. It seems that Germany.is did not catch on, as there were do not doubt that, whatever happens, we shall be able to do so in unable to rebuild herself, and the no cobblers in the premises. The Little candle shades in two course there are tassels, without
festoon some designs, and of nationalisation," as con the future. It is for the benefit of weaker States that we have allies will in all probability have gambling party were fined $3 shades of one colour, such as blue which fal-lala no home decoration cal intrigue, have taken up this League of Nations ideal so warmly, and our to lend a hand in saving the each and the 46.1, ordered to be or rose, with plenty of white and or dress design seems quite alternative willingness to fall in with its principles provides the greatest country from itself. possible proof of our sincerity and unselfishness,
a border of crystal tassel make complete.
five votes to Améries's ope, the other side of the picture presents military are unable to cope with which he had given in for repair they are still more assemble to /4why be extended to a lamp shade cause of the ghastly failures of
confiscated.
dministrative failure so