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EQuare dsal; born of such
RUARY-28–1918,
PROBLEM:
[KOWLOON'S EDUCATION oy should be the paramount MEN AND RELIGION.
recommendation. And, following this line, admittance might well Leaders of a Notable Movement: be given in this new experimental |-- in Hongkong school to all boys who have passed
en at just honesty, and The Government's Experimental pars big thividends.
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An analysis of the past three day's racing shows that Mr. Ellis Kadoorie heads the list of winning owners and that Mr. Johnstone has proved, as usual, the most successful jockey. Fijian Chief accounts for half of Mr. Kadoorie's wins and Borneo Chief for two more. Included in the half dozen victories were the Derby, and the Champion Stakes, to say nothing of other useful races, so that Mr. .Kadoorie has had a meeting he will remember, pleasurably for some time to come. Sir Paul and Mr. John Peel, with Ave and four viotories, and fifteen and eleven! placed horses in all, have also had The evening classes in connec quite a good meeting. Mr.tion with the Hongkong Technical Soares failed to win the Derby, Institute re-open on Wednesday but he hoe three good next.. wins to compensate him in some degree.
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The Champlons."
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row. Technical Institute.
Jockeys Leave.
J. Schome.
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a apeoified standard, A Pleä,
There arrived in the colony this morning Mr Fred B. Smith,
with the International quartelic,
With all the effort that has been On the principle that half a leader of the "Men and Iteligion made along educational lines in loaf is better than no bread, the Forward, movement, and Mr the Colony of Hongkong, it is an new schemo is to be welcomed. Raymond Robias, Industrial and admitted fact that relatively little It is an earnest that the Govern-Social Service Expert, together has been done to place facilities ment wants to remedy what is a
most regrettable state of affaire, consisting of Mestre P. S. Gilbert in the way of children of European But in order to minimise. the 1st fenor, F. Fl. Metcalf, 2nd parentage, During the past ten possibility of failure, it is sincere tenor: O. M. Keler, baritone and or dozon years schools galore bave ly to be hoped that consideration. W. Feck, base, on their world bean setablished for the in-will be given to the points out four.
The tour, Mr R bins, informed struction of Oriental youths lined in the foregoing comments. and maidens, but, despite the Above all else, there must be nets, this morning, is the outcome of arying need, the auth files hasty judgment of the success or an important men and religion” have allowed British juveniles otherwise of the venture. Time movement which started in Am
best must be given a chance of playing erica in 1911 and culminated in a to rub along 45
DALLAS COMEDÝ COMPANY.
By the Delta this morning Mr. they might with a mere couple of ita due and proper part, Burkill and Mr. Meilichael, the institutions solely reserved for well-known jookaya, left for them-one in Hongkong taill and the other at Kowloon. The Shanghai.
dietinatly military schools are not being taken into account of course. With the growth of the Successful Appearance. In Lady than women and girls in the
Calendar.
We have to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of a Chinese calendar from the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co...
Bishop Lander.
Chinese Y.M.C.A..
Frederick,"
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young
conference in the Carnegie Hall, Now York, last year. The move ment grew out of a careful survey of the churches in America and the discovery that there were three million lcas man and boys
charches. It was decided that! the Christian appeal must be made bread and vigorous enough: to bring man and boys into the church fellowship.
World Wide Request.
There is no doubt about which was the best pony out at the meeting, Fijian Chief won the Derby with incomparable ease, and he more than confirmed that
Colony's European population, and the increasing difficulty ex form by winning the Ohampion
perienced by parents in their Yesterday evening the Dallas Stakes by twelve lengths from
Bishop Lander left by the Delta endeavours adequately to provide Comedy Co, appeared in tha Capello, last year's winner. He
for the education of their children, very successful comedy, by Som- was easily the best class pony for Shanghai this morning. He the shortcoming has, with the erset Maugham, Lady Fred-
therefore seen ont. Mr. Johnstone rode the goes North to attend two import maroh of years, so emphasised eriok," at the Theatre Royal A campaign was
itself that it has long since be- There was only a fair house, when started in sevenly of the The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will winner in the Derby, the Cham-ant missionary conferences.
pion Stakes, and the Ladies Purse, being follows:
amongst others, and was placed The Chinese TM.O.A. are mov-come a really burning question. the curtain rose on a delicately largest oities in America, The Lack of Facilities. humorous play, which is one of consisting of large evangelionl among the first three in more than ing from their rooms at the corner
The hardship has been keenly the successes of the brilliant meetings for men and boys. The with programme included cvangelical two thirds of the events. If he of Wyndham Street, to new pre-
and work, social service work, com- andoubted that Kowloon has been the love of failed to reach this high standard, mises at Bridges Street, Tai-ping-felt in Hongkong itself, but it is writer. The plot deals year after year, the sensation ahan.
most hardly hit as a consequence wealthy nobleman for a wommunity extension ie. the carry of the situation, This is so be many years his senior, and the ing of the gospel to shop and cause in the one school open to attempts of his mother to bring factory, missionary work, Diblo European children which is a about an entrangement. The study etc. Besides large meet in charge-boys are compelled to dons lever against her, while she, took the form of question and mixed school with a headmistress woman's past is used as a tremenings, small ones were liclil which.. withdraw on reaching the age of in her turn, magnanimously den answer and, at the end of osch- in saccosslut races yesterday was A man who caused an obstruc. 13 years, and then there is only troye documents which would visit, rorommendations were minde after he lifted Sir Bedivers home,tion at West Point, was $7 or in one course open to them to cross have allowed her to square ac depending up in the result of the at a nice remunerative price, you default fourteen days by Mr. F. A. the barbour and attend a school counts with the mother of her campaign and the prculiar Leeds ho appeare immediately after Hazeland at the Police Court, this fully two miles distant. That is, of lover. Lady Frederick herself is of the district based upon reports. course, if they cannot find in monetary difficulties, and the of a survey made before the party and fought out a determined finish morning.
Good Luck.
0000modation at the military young man's uncle, who marries had visited the place. with Mr. Mollor, on Miss-in-Baulk,
We hear that sareu employees school. It will be recalled that her and pays her deble, dissolves with much strength and elever of the Asiatic Petroleum Co. drew this point was well driven home, the mother's anxieties and brings paign a conference was held in On the whole the meeting the lucky sweepstake ticket which at a gathering which took place about an event much desired New York and cibos were re |ceived from Japan, China, "A" passe eff with marked success
won $9,800 in the Champion at the Engineers Lostitution by himself.. ofter a very unpromising stort.
Miss Geraldine Lo Sage, in the stralia, and South Africa ask Stakes Race yesterday.
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GONGKONG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1918.
trade openiNGS. IN CHINA“.
a
Cracker Firing.
would be rearly as great as though A Chinese male and a number the Peak wore to disappear in the course of a night, Of the local of women were fined $2 each at jockeys, Mr. Knoll" shows the Police Court this morning considerable improvement. His for firing crackers. in prohibited riding of Sir Bedivere and Floreal hours.
Obstruction.
a
very clover.
ness.
He seemed tired
It is
;
Dyers Strike Ended.
Left for Home.
Fashions In Jade,
The Scheme.
At the end of the large cam
Ellis Kaddorle Schools. by Mr. W. O, Jack, who title role, gave a very fisieboding that the movement shon!! Opium and the Radicals..
His Excellerby, the Governor, took océasion to impress on His performance indeed, which we be extended to these countries, We are prepared to admit that, is to perform the opening Excellency the Governor, one of worthy of every praise. Her best As a result of those cables the for once in a way, Mr. Asquith's ceremony in connection with the the guests of the evening the work wasin the dressing room present tour was started.
A Successful Four. Government has been misjudged. Ellis Kadoorie New College fact that Kowloon is utterly dee- cede in the last act when she titate of modern educational disillusioned her youthful love
Mr. Robins explained that they Listen to what a Home Opposition Buildings on Tuesday next.
facilities for European boys."laying by bare the secrets of make did not contemplate organising paper has to say, "The Radical Government, which has placed Messrs, Alex and Ross and Co. The University loomed large that up; while her acting in the drama
sations eufficient. They wanted every obstacle to the rational en- inform us that they have received night in the speeches, nad.bir. tic second Act was worthy of they thought the present organi joyment, by the British working advice by cabla from their Shang- Jack, with a keen eye to the oppor- her reputation Mr Dallas es to vitalise then and help them
"Parradino Fonldes" was an man, of a glass of boer, and has hai House to the effect that the tunity, strongly urged as a matter
to get man into the church, cach lone its best to ruin the British Bradford Dyers Association strike deserving of the Government's excellent uncle, and made the mos to work according to his predilec
serious consideration, now that of the many epigrams in which
tiona. brewer, is, in alliance with German is now ended.e
The "Court Cards," financiors, forcing the poisonous,
In Japan, the party had great we had a magnificent University the part abounds. His pourtrayal Foul-destroying opium on the en-
The "Court Cards," who had in our midst, that there should of the uncle who is called in to The awakening of China" is a phrase which, at the present lightened rulers of China-the successful a season on their be established both in Hongkong save the young lover, and who success, in fact it had an er found opportunities to appear: moment, is so commonly, and, we might add, so loosely used, that rulers who are sacrificing huge last appearance here, are to open and Kowloon reasonable facilities gives Indy Frederick much moral raordinary reception, and they sums of money rather than accept at the Theatre Royal on March 8. for the preparation of European support, was decidedly pleasing before missionary bodies, schro's, no surprise need be felt if trade prospects in the new Republic are loan upon the terms the SixOn March 5 and 6 they aro to boys for the higher education now Mr. J W. Austin as Lord Mores colleges, and higher institutions
made available in the Colony. The tone was also good, Miss May
of learning. 1728 painted a trille too rosily. There are, witbont a doubt, enormour Power Group' are seeking to force appear at Canton.
In some respects Mr. Robins her to accept," Now this sort Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Harding perceived by His Excellency, who second only in effectiveness to found the Japanese situation, very
point of theserémarks was readily fallatt's "Lady Morrestone" possibilities for European firms in the days ahead, but trade-people of thing isn't cricket.
polished piece of work, while lire. There was the urban movement, at Home need to realise that the enhanced development will be the sort of juggling with facts travelling Nori by the se. Delta frankly promised, there and then, Miss Le Sage, and was really a much like their own in Americo, Dallas se the dressmaker anxious with folks coming into the Mr. Harding's practice will be ✨ slow and gradual process, and that it will only be by a careful study that first suggested the rhymed travelling North by the s.. Delia to bear the matter in mind.
coupling of "politics" with
for payment of an outstanding cities and leaving in the hand of "Mr C.A.S. Russ
the land; of Far Eastern conditions that a footing can be obtained and a slinre knavish tricks, and that gain- during the former's absence from We now come to a new chapter bill, gavo a vory fiue display of home industrica were passing
The Government is. moving in comedy acting.
into the factories and thero was secured in the bigger business ahead. In some quarters at llomeed for us Britishers the reputat-the Colony.
ion of being humbuga.
the matter. It is, for the moment
To-night "The Woman in the
|a growth of the democratic spirit. there has been far too ready à belief in immense immediate openings,
Jade jewellery is becoming in-at any rate, no big scheme; but Case" is to be stage. It is a There was a developement of and the opinion has been widely held that all that is needed in to
Hypocrisy or Ignorance? creasingly popular in Europe it may solve Kowloon's special played with strong human in sanitary science and the health One party has been no better and the United States, says the difficulty. As was announced to- terest and many dramatic sidepartment was working out a dump Western goods on Chinese shores and they become auto-
at contly in the Telegraph," it is tions.
programme for health legislation. matically absorbed by the now enlightened and emancipated or worse than the other as can-American Consul General populsos,
deny that the Radicals have been but in China the demand is fall across the harbour for schol rs
Apropos of "Baby Mine," which many years ago" said Mr. Robins. Shanghai, they also had But there are difficulties to be encountered in the Far Eastern sordidly hypocritical over the varing off, owing to changes in the above the Kowloon British School
ious licensing bills, or that the style of ceremonial dress, and the age-limit. This is to be an ex- the Dallas Company will repeat In trade as much as—if not more so than--in that of any other part of main supporters of the anti-market is depressed.
periment, and the school will at the Theatro Royal to-morrow splendid meetings and the men's be in charge of a headmaster, night, there is a strange coinci- meeting in the Theatre was the the world. We observe, for instance, that a contributor to one of the brewer campaign were less in
Case Dismissed, the British At the Marine Court, this Temporarily it will be housed dence (related by Mr. Dallbe' largest that had been held leading Home trade journals has been pointing out some of the terested in keepin seeing the morning before, Commander in a matshed, but if the Manager, Mr. Fitzroy Gardner) there. The party are to spend a factors to be considered in such an important.branch on the electrical shares go up which they then-Baisil Taylor, R.N., Po Too, a scheme is supported, an addition connected with the plot of the few days in Hongkong, and then trade in China. He does not deny the ultimate openings for British selves, hell, in various mineral stoersma, a charged with un- will be made to the Kowloon play. The piece was written by proceed with the rest of their Arms in this particular sphere, but what he does point out is that water companies. But why mix lawfully displaying the lawful School building next year. The Margaret Mayo, an American itinerary eventually arriving During their stay in Hongkong there are two great difficulties to be contended with-namely, that up with the opium campaign? orders of the Harbour master by question now is Will the dramatist, three years ago, and back at New York.
The journal that printed the re-anchoring his boat to the east of plan succeed?" That will largely proved a phenomenal success in finance and German competition. He saysan, by the way, he marks above-quoted either has Stanley bu yin Victoria Harbour depend on the length of the trial. New York: Two years ago it was they will put up at the Hongkong writes from Shanghai-that the best terms it is possible to secure fish of its own to fry-in which it on February 26 The case was It cannot be expected that Kow-produced in London by Weedon Hotel, and to-morrow will attend dinner at the European loon parents who have sent their Grossmith. from Home manufacturers are for them to draw on the firm has surpassed in humbug the dismissed.
boys to one of the Hongkong in- The morning after the firal Y.M.C.A. Rooms for the purpose in China at so many days sight, but in many cases cash against ceite that ever brei hed-or else Kai Bijou Theatre. --
Every one should see the new stitutions will, immediately on performance Henry Bence Jones, of meeting members of the documents in London is insisted on. The latter system is very it so deplorably ignorant of " Nick Winter picture at the the opening of this experimental with faste for early Association hird on the importer, especially when is remembered that the the state of affairs in China that Bijou, if only for the reason that school, transfer them thereto, o-enthusiastic playgoer for nearly On Sunday evening a men'a terms of payment obtainable from the Chinese have become so someone should tell it kindly but it describes that hero's adven pecially if the youngsters happen half a century and a well-known meeting will be held in the stringent and the period required by them as long. The result is firmly to confine itself to the dis-tures in connection with horse to be in the midst of their study-man about town," after reading Theatre Royal.
cussion of subjects that it knows racing, and eo is decidedly aping for, say, the Oxford Local, an outline account of the play in that it is very difficult for a firm with moderate capital to accept something about. Opium is not propriate to the grents of this And the possibility of the expari a morning newspaper at his club,
Chongtu, Feb. 18-A fight be contracte at all. In contrast to this, we see Continental manufac-soul-destroying except when used wook. Last night Miss Violet ment not succeeding will always remarked, "I know that play turers realising that the only way to beat down competition is to to excess; and, even then, is it Bouetts, who achieved great po ba a factor when parentaare con- any way I saw one with a similar
more so than whiskey? And as pularity at the Biju, some eigh-sidering the matter. There is plot at the Palais Royal in Paris tween opium smugglera s.n 1 ɛol- give such credit as no agent could possibly grant.
to the enlightened rulers of teen months ago, entered on a another point. While the tu about 68. He thought for a few diers has occurred at Kidlang)- There are many other points which could be touched upon on China" and the huge sums of new ongagement and was re-thorities wero dealing with the minutes, and then elaborated the sien, in which five soldiers, WCIO money they are sacrificingWell ceived with the most rousing question, they might have taken story of the play he had seen wounded, two dangerously, and this very oʻmprehensive and vitally important ghee but one is it necessary to tell our readers applause. She is bright and thought of the desirability of ad- which, it turned out afterwards, fifteen smugglers were captured. thing is certain, and that is that Home firms-by hi we mean anything farther about those picus clever, and should draw big mitting to thisexperimental school was in some of the details as woll A new proclamation has been British firms-will have to realive the lard facts of the situation if souls? We are inclined to think houses during her stay in Hong bays of less age than 13 years, as in the general idea, identical issued, prohibiting the growing are many boys bolow that with that of "Baby Mine, the m of poppy within walled gardens that Hongkong stands in no need kong Miss Cecilo Stephano, the There are mor they wish to make marked headway in the Chinese market. Above information on such points as Australian codiralto maintains age who could best be trained bothered whichi- was not born, and in secret corners, Country all, money, and plenty of it, is needed for pushing ond creating this whether from us or from a well-deserved popularity and headmailer Age, though, when the Paris force was last per elders who fail to report cases azo threatened with punishment. what will be practically a new market to engineering firms. And our super intelligent contem- her songs last night gave intense should be a secondary considera formed. The arm of coincid, where this regulation is disobeyed the credit problem will also have to be cod.
pleasure to all her heaters tion the boy s degree of efficient enos la indeed long,
corns the opium traffic. We don't Hongkong in an official report, proposed to start a boys' school "Baby Mine" Coincidence. It was practically our own story
workman sober than in
rankest nonconformist-conscien-
porary at Home
Oplum in Szechuan.
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