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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 20тH, 1917
On the 19th at 11.80-No returns from Inde bins. Pressure has increased consider- ably over N.E. Japan, the depression having passed into the Facile. It has decreased alghtly over 8, Mancheria and the Philippines. and ixoreased slightly elsewhere.
The anti-cyclone is now central in the vicinity of Tokio. There appears to be still a shallow depression over the China Sea
Hongkong rainfall for 24 hours anding st 10 am. "to-day, 0.10 inch. Total since Iel Jaanary, 7.30 Inoboe, against an average of 9.18 inches.
The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon. -to-day in as follows --
FORNOAST. DISTRICT
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impressions and describing his experi ences. The title of the articles is Mr. Shaw's,
wall. I was reminded of him by the fact that in the whole, countryside there was an extraordinary prevalence of gas and Boom whizzzzzzBoom. gaiters, Whizzzzzz -Boomwhizzzzzz-all
then, crescendo molto sito diminuendo, subito, Whizzzzzz bang clatter.
DEFENCE OF AMERICAN RIGHTS.
Fortis MR. RUOTS PLEA FOR UNIVERSAL
In such
a bang and clatter had the gentleman by of peace he might have lost it much more
LOTTERJES IN THE COMPANY DAYS.
WHAT CALCUTTA DID, The system of lotteries na a means.
BERlems of Kate of raising money has always had a cer-
Speaking at the
the roadside lost his head. Well, in tiniestructive Patricians at Washington on tein fascination, and ju many countrice-
1
[BY GEORGE BERNARD SHAW] Mr. George Bernard Shaw visited the British front on the invitation of Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig. We pub ish below the first of a series of articles which Mr. Shaw hay written, giving his painfully and mischievously. There are January 25th few days after Mr. | digg are still resorted to by the Govern.... Wilson's peece without victory": adming as well as by private individuals. dress to the Senate Senator Root said: In the days of George the Fourth, they
The present war which is raging in Europe was begin upon a avowal of were very common in England, and in- national action that no reasonable aui numerahlo lotteries were organised by
· State thoughtful neutral ought to ignore. The the Stute for public purposes, and by those rules of morality which control central principle was that exigency, State intereat, is superio in
worse ware of ending one's walk of life.
Stimulated by the orchestration, the ear develops an extra 10 h.-p.; and pre- sently I am again in Ypres. Its houses are standing like the villas and farm houses; but, like them, have no roofs, he but shelter against floors, nothing: shrapnel the Germans having with exemplary perseverance converted a city
no
Not long before the war, I was return ing from Germany through the Vosges, not tied to time in any way, and pleasing myself as to my route. I took Domreiny on my way for the sake of St. Joan of Ars, and Rheims for the sake of its date that life assurances, etc. In India the
of
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private persons for the disposal of art
of comfortable homes for friendly peop individuals. Upon that principle / collections, diamonds, jewellery, land,
Thus
tion apon, a nation to keep the faith of
lottery was none the less common, and
one of the old newspapers and records... of the European officers give very in- eresting accounts of the lotteries which
public and private purposes, were organised from time to time, for
It is a
losaly unique French sculpture, especially, may see fit at any time to use the town for
a treaty if it did not suit its in- Virgin whom I intended some day to anti German military proceedings.
the Boche on the warpath mocked by
It doesn't matter much put into a play. I spent an evering in a French garrison town, and reflected, not the Denon of the Unintended, who has a treats. for the first time (for my tour had taken glorious time of it when the drums begin what you and I think about these things, me through Toul and its warlike frontier to beat Everything is arranged at the it doesn't matter that I think they were region at its outset), on the combination front with military precision and order immoral and criminal, as I do,
Out of a hundred orders one-half the entire military power of this vendita a dangerous and adrien but nothing ever happens as it was What does mattor in that approximately
and with an arranged.
the portie world supports that proposition. And extraordinary recklessness of everything forty-nine are Wash out,
including appearances, exhibited by formula which encrls. Even the visitor say to you, and I wish I could say it strange thing, but it is borne out by the French army in peretime. They is soon shaken.
punctuality. In the mornational conduct be approved in the METEOROLOGICAL never brushed their clothes they never of order and pune of his civilian routine to every American, if that principle of cleaned their horses or their wagons or ing the captain proposes in the after struggle that is pending, be approred by their gun.
said that a Frenchman noon the general disposes--mostly by the free people of America, bo approved implying very agreeable invitation, which is joy by the conscience of the civilized world, then our American freedom will surely is never clean unmistakably that
T com always clean and never ready. pared them with the endless column of German soldiers I had seen not long before one morning in Trier (Treves) down the street to a sentimental German tune in a march that was almost a dance, so prettily they swung their bodies to it.
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- NATIONAL CONVEKTIONS,
gunt
WHY THE QURS CEASED.
die, and dis while we live.
Several schemes,quoted by Mrs. Peony, in her "Coromandel Coast," may be started as a means of raising money for cited. In 1795 a private lottery was How long will the Monroe Doctrine the support of several deserving chari- be worth the paper it was written ons in connection with St. Mary's Church in 1823 if that condition is to go on f
limost every landable: ments, that facts as recorded in historical docu
was associated with a lottery. ject, charitable, scientific, or educational pro Almost every one, in all ranks of society, Look, for a minute, at the German over the chaplains, considered this a Ypres, then, defended and done in as Note proposing a peace conference, which to its hearths, its floors, its roofs, and its sed a phrase which aptly describes the legitimate method of raising funds, and sums of money in them. The newspapers domestic amenities, still rears its walls andaunted in the sky, and still provokes concrete application of the principle did not hesitate to invest considerable the German artillery to send ever and about which I am talking. It said. We give an interest to a tour of its streets were forced to take the sword for justiceof the eighteenth century were full of That was lacking in the happy season of and for liberty of national evolution." The convention is that the Frenchman the monday carillem. An aeroplane flew Liberty of national evolution! It was advertisements, and there must have been The world is partition with them. Attention may be drawn is a bort dancer, and the German a across above me a British aeroplane (as national evolution that over-ran Serbil stiffened, over-drilled rainrod-swallower it happened. I did not see a single Boche It was national evolution that crushed a large amount of swindling in connco- but here was the German, willowy and in the air during my eight-day visit) Belgium. musical, and the Frenchman brusque and presently the sky about him flowered tioned Asia, Africa, Australasia, the to several of the more important of the contemptuous of the gracea, doing very into puff-balls. He sailed on triumphant Islands of the Sca, all taken up except thing with a jerk and a snap, as if there ly; and I had an extraordinary Tapse of America. And we stand here with the schemes placed before the public, for the were nothing in the world to be con patriotism, and indeed of decency, when Monroe Doctrine against the push and purpose of raising funds in aid of sidered except getting it done. I judged the puff-balls and the bang-bang of the sweep of that mighty world tendency of charities and public buildings,
the principle that neither faith of trea as it now seems rightly, that the French aircraft guns stopped, apparently dis national evolution. To progress under man would be a very formidable fightecouraged. Forgetting that the warrior in And I thought it a pity thee the German the sky might easily be one of my own ties nor obligation of law nor rule of It seemed to State that finds its interest to take what should be soldiering, which was evidently ant his bine, through. I thought that he, personal friends, I demanded why the morality should stand in the way of a
did not keep it up. me intolerably perfunctory of them to wants for its national interest. too, would be devoted and difficult to
As for ourselves, I could not give in so soon. It was explained to me conquer.
We are so out-that the guns would have to be relaid to think about us at
that we defy bring them on a target that was travelling
• Thee Doctrine is not internain Fort Madras. Government imposed rageously thoughtless thought. We should have been working at a hundred miles an hour. As a person as hard at our military business as the of my intelligence ought to have known tional law. It has been maintained by only one condition on the promoters of French and Germans were; but we would this without having to be told, I was three things. In the first place, the men not listen to a word about them, and somewhat abished, and also a little horri Monroe's time never thought of such this scheme, vir, that a certain portion were quite content to take frightful fed on reflection by the discovery of chances.
We have bad car usual. Luck myself in the character I have so often a thing as not being ready to fight for of the sun was to be set aside for the They were Belgians, those people The Madras, by which both European and These ventures with them but we have not deserved it reprobated: that of a sportsman their rights. (Cheering and applause.) repair of the roads and bridges of from the military point of views and My guide took no interest in the second has been that the balance of power Indian would benefit. indeed, have not got off without paying artillery beyond enabling me to circum in Europe has been so even, so close, and were called The Male Asylum and vent certain persons whose duty it was to ever body has been so doubtful about Road Lotteries, and speedily spreng. dearly for our laziness
At Rheims it cocurred to me that I'
keep people out of the more dangerous had never seen Ypres, and that I had
were raised and ont of this, Rs13 lakhs Belgian triptych in my pocket parts, of the town, and insisting on full what the other fellows were going to do into popularity: Between the years 1785 speed across the square and past the that nobody found it worth while to taka and 1803 no les a surn than Rs. 14 lakhs went in prizes, and Re 1 lakh in charity. instead of making straight for Boulogne, Baptume,
med tower and twenty or thirty fon & row with the United States, And,
The enterprise now got beyond the con sample of façade that was once the third, England's Fleet. (Cheering and red north, through a knowing Cloth Half, He was a gigantic officer, applause.) Now I ask what that Monroe
trol of the private individuals who Arrns, Lillo and Ypres,
We have reached started it, and a committee was appoint that it was my last chance of seeing
the historie interest of Ypres, apparently to protect it? .. as they were. I found Arras a Spanish an Irishman of the south, fascinated by Doctrine will be worth if we aren't ready town, dating from the days of Alva, with ning every stone of it, and not giving a point now where we can say that aed The directorate consisted of six a Little Square that made me wonder how
agent not in de service of the Company Waan additional chapter in that history for us to wrepare to defend our righta. Company, and three free merchants. An big the Great Square could be if this was dump for the bombardment except as prudent man will see that it's necessary members, three being servants of the indeed the Jittle one. Its façades, made He took me up to a pinnacle and showed For why shouldn't this principle of na
of róws of ornamental gable-ends, were
of the earth. Go flat on your shouldn't it be applied to South and Manager on a fixed salary. In 1773 the Bengal Lottery was opened for the pur- kingdoms unlike anything else in France that I made Ypres beneath me as if it were all the tional aggression be applied to us Why was appointed to act as Secretary and
and though its cathedral was face if anything comes over, he remark Central America and the West Indies pseudo-classical in the Renascence man. In my youth I had learnt, by Here we all are rich, undefended, supine pose of building a hospital for the relief other, the committee of the insitution trife better than the sedulously imitating the pantaloons infair game, for anybody who wants of the Indians, but for some reason or which is пет
declined to revive the sun raised, and eighteenth century or Dublin manner, the harlequinades, to drop flat on my face national evolution.
instinctively, and to produce the illusion *** medieval town hall.
it was accordingly devoted to a fund for there was a
ricked bring altogether charming. As
nestly by the slack of. Ypres, the Flamertinge road and
my trousers and set on my feet again. I emerged from
an Contalmaison. To Puzières" and there teries in support of private charities are saw the Cloth Hall, it was noon of a fine had a wild hope that Brer Boebe would To Contslinaison"; and there was no the relief of insolvent debtors Lot and pleasant delightful rune in a way
and the carillon was send over something and give me ringing out a that would have delighted Couperin excuse for exhibiting this accomplishment was no Pozières. I went to the windmill mentioned, and are interesting as show was Flemish in its gaiety and French into my new friend. But nothing came
ing how sharp men managed to beguile over just ther; and I left Ypres with
an easily galled public.
its brilliancy of tone and elegance of my dignity unimpaired
en- execution I stopped the car and
INTO A DULLER WORLD,
I
up
them
ed, quite enchanted, until it was over.
Ա
of
up
of Pozières, and saw a little mound on which the windmill must have stood. Trones Wood was a cocoanut aby with o cocoanuts on the sticks, our guns had In Caleutta the lottery seems to have scooped all that the other follow's guns
public schemes appear to owe their When the car left the town far behind, had left. On the road to Ypres the trees been very popular and several large
in their lenic, in the Great Square at the east end and I took the collar studs out of my ears had stood, an unbroken Old Guard lining puccess to the funds raised in this way.
the of the Cloth Hall, and had my dejunner, followed by the usual argument with the and exchanged the helmet of Mambrino e Fond with hardly a gap mb shot The Calcutte Town Hall Lottery of 1805.
Then I went to the Hotel do la Châtel-
But here! With every
OF
hostess, who supposed that I was aftur & golfing can, I found the world vegetarian for the sake of economy, and suddenly duller. From this I infer that to bite bebonded. halved, cut off at the is advertised under the sanction and broken jury-masts Council," The lottery was for five lakhs had reduced her table d'hote price accord. Ypres and its orchestra had been rather slins, torn out of the earth and flung patronage if is Excellency the Most
with bare poles or ingly. When I had couy need her that 1 exciting, though I had not noticed it at prostrate these woods seemed to soud Honourable the Governor-General in
the time, e
bofore the wind as our cur passed, all of sicca rupees. There were 1,000 prizes wasapillionaire giving extra trouble
Of Arras, I will say little, except that, their rigging blown and shut away. Of and 4,000 blanks. It is stated in the ad- and prepared to pay on that hasis, we
And I knew from from the present lottery, will be inade parted in high, good humour: and, after in my opinion, it has not been bombarded houses, except in one strangely spared vertisement that as the profits arising
place, not a tract. ay worth a cent: I should have done it secing the cathedral. I made my way
proposed to be constructed a lottery will by Furnes, Dunkirk and Calais to better myself. The cathedral, a copy of what I had seen in Ypres that this meant Boulogne, wiling the last evening stretch a copy, has been treated precisely as 1 that almost every square yard of brick quate for completing the public edifice of the jounity by inventing a play on the should have trend when it was that bad received, & separate smashing hit be offeredt annitally to the public, un- Burgesses of as a min than I did when it was intact to the ground, you cannot find enough der the same sanction and superintendence Rodin theme of “ Caluis," which, like the play about the The Town Hall, like the Cloth Hall of the earth in a square mile to play marbles until the requisite funds shall have been is how only a subject of gentle on. The moon seen through a telescope, provilled Two years later the third Rheins Virgin. I have never written pret, and the houses round it are a or a slice of Gruyère cheese, is as it were lottery is advertised, and at the end of down, and perhaps never will. It was a regrets
sample of what might have happened to very agreeable day, and left ine with whole town if the Boches had thought small pit made by the funny little Stokes 1507 the fourth. The amount to be drawn very pleasant mentory of Ypres.
theth some more ammunition. The theman, to the dew-pond made by amount Rs, 8 lakhs were to go as prizeE,~
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in the latter was Rs. 7 lakhs Of this that spits out ehells as fast as you. fit.
knocked Little Square is very handsomely
drop about; much more so than the Great the medium trench mortar, culminating Rs 15,000 to the charges of the lottery. I have seen Ypres again. This time, though still a superannuated civilian, Square, but their design is still clear, in the incredible crater made by the sub- and the balance of Rs. 75,000 to the fund and most of their gable-ends are intact. ferranean mine, the land is bumped and for the construction of the Town Hall. was in khaki, like everybody else, by way They can be restored without difficulty allowed continously everywhere. Sneh In the Calcutta Gatite of the 2nd Feb of camouflage 1 came, not through Lille Those who have seen the Somme front ploughing and harrowing was never seen 1806, a lottery for the Improvement of
Spinewhere and Vlamertinge, but from
hardly notice the damage A Gas Alert before on earth. Compared to this, Arras the City of Calcutta is announced. 1
but is a knockabout joke, and Ypres a rough Large prizes were offered, the highest be Bnnounced, in France by a more easterly road.
conspicuously was not
not an idle tourist was was
Napoleon, or any large number of small ones. The sur- Government Guest and the Government nothing in that line happened, except and-ready conversion of buildings to inz Rs. 1 lakh, another Rs. 50,000, and 1 who came other condottiero of the piffling past, plas after the payment of expenses, was Correspondent Tomlinson, was not the Belgian, but the British that I talked a great deal to Mr. Special military purposes.
might have done as much to them. But to be devoted to the repair of roads, the I Government. On my way I discarded my cap, and, like Don Quixote, donned the round with Doc. heimet of Mambrino. And I struck into From St. Eloi, Philip Gibbs and I here the British hurricane lus swept away formaation of public squares the conser public is not surprising my ears & pair of seeming black collar surveyed the battlefields of the Vimy and delved up what the German typhoon their which did not present my hearing ridge. It was a landscape like any other had left. The land, caught between the Yacy of the town, and the erection of
fung everything suything, but diel prevent, my, overdoing landscape. The silence of the cold winter pass and fell incensed points of mighty to find that some of these large schonsa
evoning after sunset was threatened opposites," has
was frequently necessary for the authori Everything was diferent. The weather than broken by the booming of the hands burdened it with into their teeth were accompanied with fraud, and 16 ther was again bright, but intensely Gold. The language if the country was English guns that never cease now in this devoted in fragments; taken patiently the print ties to prosecute. In 1800, there is 1 in all its dialects: The farmhouses and countryside. A solitary shell buret in of their elephantine footsteps; and
their COINITION
erament were beginning to look with dis ville's had no roofs, no floors, large holes Neuville St. Vaast Gibbs, a man of a swallowed and made dust of their bravest reference in an order from the Public
and no, inhabitants. The fine Irvingeaque melancholy, seared to by the right of in the wiped and scarred, and here meditate on the Ruins of Empires, but Earth WAWAZOther, the Department which shows that the Gov
Notice is hereby given, it runs. and there broken off short are was probably reflecting on the chances of I spent a week in the survey of all this favour on the system of lotteries
side was not a
a our being frozen during the journey back ruin, with the booming and whizzing of A man lying by the roadside was
state plainly but a gentleman to our quarters. We were. The Poles its unresting progress continually in my that the Right Honourable the Governor- tramp taking a siesta, who had lost his head. There was no have no terrors for me Bow But my eure, And I am bound Belgian carillon, but plenty of German spirits always rise as the thermometer as a simple fact to be exploited by devil General in Council has been pleased to music: an imposing orchestration in fella, below freezing. Snow is beautiful or angels, according to its true nature, prohibit the establishment of lotteries, which all the instruments were instruto me; I hate mud, of which I did not that I enjoyed myself enormously and the prizes in which are to be made pay... single goh; and I am none continuously, in spite of exposures and able in money, without the express per cannot honestly. say I dislike at the big drum always the wurer that mission
it: excites me. I was got vet in the town: The Some front in the snow and brif taste of frostbite. but I was unmistakably in the Ypres liant sunshine was magnificent The I shall recur presently to this diaboli
To cal phenomenon, but not immediately salient; and the Boche was sending Trony of the signposts was immense.
technique of war Daily Chronicle them over" as persistently as the gentle Maurepas and there was no Maurepas, have first to say something about the (Continued at foot of neat column.); man next door to Mrs. Nickleby sent
trees were
In 1830 orders were received from the
Supreme Government abolishing the lottery commuttes in Caleates, and im out the British Empire.Madras Mail. 1944 the system was suppressed through
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