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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1914.

The Strike Habit.

DAY BY DAY.

I LIVE IN A CONSTANT ENDEAV-

The

Sterne.

Telegraph" in Canton.

HIS EXCELLENCY

HONOURED.

Degree of LL.D. Conferred by

Dublin University.

MIDNIGHT REVELS.

German from Kowloon

"Summoned.

Nothing But "A Drunken* Orgle" Says Commander,

THE "TIGER " AGAIN.

Can This Be Our Old Friend ?.

We notice that the Board of Trade, in its annual review of employment, wages, prices, etc., OUR TO FENCE AGAINST THE IN- for last year, has a deal to say FIRMITIES OF ILL-HEATH AND regarding the frequency

Shortly before 10 o'clock last of OTHER EVILS BY MIRTH; I AN PERSUADED THAT EVERY TIME A strikes. The year, it remarks, MAN SMILES-BUT MUOK MORE

night a gentleman descending. The University of Dublin has

MagazineGap Road saw what ap was noteworthy for the pheno- WHEN HE LAUGHS—IT ADDSSOME-

peared to be a large white cat menal number of trade disputes,THING TO HIS FRAGMENT OF LIFE. conferred Honoura Causa the

degree of LL.D.'

croaching at the side of the path upon His which totalled twice the average number of the previous 20 years.

Excellency Sir Francia Henry At the Police Court, this just below May Road. On his " Commenting.on the facts, the

May, K.C.M.G.

morning, before Mr. J. R. Wood, approach it immediately went report says the effect of high The Hongkong Telegraph is His Excellency was educated Franz Otto Hermann Kelling into the scrub at the roadside. prices in producing industrial now on sale at, and will be at Harrow and Trinity College, huson, 3. Aimai Villes, Kimberley He pulled the bushes, aside and Chemically, an exact reproduction of a well-known German funrest, and the genuineness of the delivered to subscribers by, the Dublin. He was first honour Road, Kowloon, was summoned beat about with his stick and sa spring, at half the price. Blonds Perfectly with Spirits, especially demands on the whole, are shown Dairy sarma Company, Limited, man and prizeman in classics for making a noise calculated to the animal' making off through Whisky, Orce try a Whisky Pyoris and you will ask for it again. by the fact that the number of Shameen, Canton, who have been at modern languages and gra- disturb the tranquility of the the undergrowth. It had the

strikes which were successful in appointed our agents there. duated as B.A. în 1881.TM

neighbourhood betwean euneet appearance of a cat-certainly a Prices: $0.95 per doz. Pints. 80.50 per doz. Splits..

procuring better rates of pay was

The latest honour conferred and sunrise on the 31st ult, and large cat, but was not nearly so large as an ordinary chow dog- GINGER BEER.

somewhat greater than that at-

upon His Excellency will give the let inst. the utmost satisfaction in the

its colour in the moonlight seemed tained during any one of the last

colony.

white, but it may have been fawn. five years. In a general sense

If I had had my gun, I should no exception can be taken to this deduction, though it would be

not have tried to shoot it," be quite untrue to infer that all recent strikes have been justified. In many cases tyranny, pure and absolute, has been at the bottom. of the strike-habit. Anyhow, it is. to be hoped that the tone of the Board of Trade remarks will not encourage the strike movement, though "there appears a danger of their so

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Militant Madness.

We are somewhat reluctant to sgain touch upon the suffragist question, but the seriousness of the news contained in today's wires supplies ample reicon for doing so. It is only too obvious

The Weather. Lower level 8 am. Temp 84; clear.

At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp 76; elight fog.

The Mails.

Australian Mail.-Closes per 8.8. Coblenz to-day at 5 p.m. American and Siberian Maila

Arrived per s 8. Nippon Mara yesterday,

Siborian Mail.--Olossa per s.. Kanehow to-morrow at 5 p.m. The German Mail of May 13 was delivered in London on June

11.

Transport Dufferin, · The transport Dufferin is due to arrive here tomorrow and to leave on the 16th inst.

Incoming Cargoes!

The Nippon Maru brought

to

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A WORTHY OBJECT.

St. Vincent de Paul

Society Effort.. -

#!

Hia Worship asked what was the noise complained of?

Inspecton Gordon said singing. shouting, a gramophone going

and a piano playing, all together, says, it seemed too small, and be understood, until two o'clock harmless."

in the morning

His Worship

Have you

received a copy of the summons?

Defendant: Yes.

His Worship said that the

that?

N.

$1,500,000 FOR CANTON,

First instalment of Million Loan Arrives.

The e.. Kanohow arrived from

With a view to augmenting the summons was that, on the dute somewhat depleted exchequer of sunset and sunrise, he made a alleged, between the hours of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, noise and disturboll the tran-Shanghai, yesterday afternoon, the President of the Kowloon quility of the neighbourhood. with specie to the amount of $1, Conference (Mr. J. M. Alves) has He asked defendant if he admitted 500,000 destined for the Kwang- very kindly consented to lend his

tung Government. This sum, grounda at Kowloon for a cinema-

Defendant said he did not. which is, however, spoken of in the tograph entertainment which will

Commander 0...E. Bookwith, Chinese press as Taela 1,500,000, take place on Monday evening at R.N., of Glenthorn, Kimberley in the first instalment of the loan 9 o'clock. Many locally taken pictures among othea have been Road, said an orgie started at the of one million pounde sterling, honse of the defendant-singing, the sum which is being borrowed provided free of charge by the shouting, the piano playing-on by the Central Government in Variety Film Exchange Company Sunday night the 31st and cop- Peking from the QuintupleGroup, small. By this means, weather permitting, the funds of the completely; there were" cheers, present in circulation.

morning Pandemonium reigned Kwangiang provincial notes at Society should be benefited.

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the

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fable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

the 8.8. Mongolia 1,061 tons.

Langkat Output:

No Band Night."

and worse, and the latest outrage the damaging of the historic Coronation Chair-will moot with the strongest condemnation from all sane and right thinking per- Messrs. Wright and Hornby 2008. No amount of specions inform us that the Langkat outpat argument by high-souled indivi- for yesterday was 292 tons. duals will establish the suggest ion that these women are sotust- ed by pare and lofty ideals. Their record of avil deede is against them. We notice that Lord Robert Ceoil has a plan for suppressing the movement- namely, the deportation of the

The a.a. Nippon Marn, which truth guilty ones to some suitable

island." An excellent suggest arrived from San Francisco yes ion, to be sure. Only it is sin-terday, carried 28 first-class, 17 cerely to be hoped that, for the second-class and 16 Asiatic pas purposes of this scheme, Hong-songera.

Telephone: No. 1 A.B.C., 5th edition.

Western Union.

The Hongkong Telegraph

Owing to pressure of traffic last night the band night was not held at the bathing beach, North Point.

Passenger List.

kong won't be considered a Arrived in London.

"suitable" spot!

Campaign Against Opium.

+

BILLIARDS.

DC. L. I. "B" Team Still Leads.

י

A. Mickie of No. 2, Aimai

tigers, lions and the rest of Special precautions against it, and confusion generally all piracy have been taken on board round coming from this very where an armed guard bue been house. This waS not the established, though when the first time this had happened. Kanchow left for Clanton this There had been other cases and morning at seven o'clock she was as this was a respectable neigh-accompanied by no escort. bourhood he believed it his duty The two foreign cashiers who to bring the matter forward. "As have been nominated to carry out for anythir g but a corpse to sleep the scheme of redemption, Mesara, There only remains one game (laughter) it was impossible." H. R. Boyd and D. R. MoEuen to be played in the match between His Worship:-Did you make have come down from "Peking, the D.O.LI. "B" team and the any protest ? 87th R.G.A, in the final for the

travelling to the colony on board Witness: At a quarter past the e.e. Nippon Maru. Their stay challenge oup presented by the two, when they finished, I tole in the colony was quite short, for Hongkong Volunteers for billiards phoned to the police. It was a they left last evening for Osnton at the Soldiers' Club. The dranken orgia abont 2-15;o board the 9.8. Fatshan... penultimate stage of the game nothing else to be said for it. attracted a fair number of specta- His Worship: Do you want CHINA ASSOCIATION. ..tore and" as a result of some in- to ask Mr. Beckwith any ques- Mrs. James. J. Ball-Irving and tereating play the Cornwells lead tions? Mise Marda Bell-Irving have by a margin of eighty-five points Defendant:No. arrived at 28, Cadogan-square, which should accuro for them the

The Annual Meeting, where they will be joined shortly premier position in the compati-Villas said he was disturbed by China Association was held yes- The annual meeting of the by Mr. JJ. Bell-Irving. The authorities in China,

tion. For the Cornwalls, Private the noise at No 3. The noise terday, in the Board-Room of apparently, are

Brown secured a handsome win commenced about ten o'clock and Messrs. Jardine Matheson and to stand no

Kallan Output. Toпenso in the matter of

from Sergt. Heath but the other finished about two o'clock. The Co., Ltd. The total output of the Kailan honour went to the R.G.A., Bam noise wus ehosting all toge.hor, opium. The campaign against Mining Administration's mines bardier Villiams gotting a com.and the piano. He had protested the drug is being carried out as for the week ending May 30 fortable victory over Private before and he had protested to vigorously as ever. Only the other day a report came from the sales during the period to

amounted to 39,143.83 tons and Childs, Wuchang to the effect that 343,131.10 tons. proclamation had been issued Threatening with three years' imprisonment those who plant Civil Service mest Kowloon China, within the past two years especially, has been passing the poppy and six years' impri"B" at Kowloon, at 4.30 p.m. to- The Civil Service team through a very real Ginancial crisis. Time and again she appeared spument those who resist the morrow. to be on the brink of bankruptcy. Her lending men realised the Government authorities in their J. R. Wood, R. E. Lindsell, seriousness of the situation, too, and some of them pictured her investigations or in their attempts E. B. Reed, F. A. Biden, R. E. 0. helpers as impatient and greedy creditors waiting to swoop down on to ruot ont all crops. These are Bird, R. O. Barlow. the only available assets the nation'a natural, though largely stiff penalties, and it is plain undeveloped, resourcos. That was a most unjust and unwarrantable that the authorities are deter attitude to adopt, as subsequent eventshave made quite clear, but it was mined to have a more poppy- A view which found acceptance in very many quarters, and we growing anywhere in the country, doubt if it has yet been totally abandoned, despite the large measure Smoking, too, is being suppress of consideration which has been shown the new Republic by the ed, though it may be taken for foreign financial agencies which have provided China with the granted that a fair amount of it goes on still in secret. It will be wherewithal to keep her head above water.

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1914.

CHINA AND HER FOREIGN HELPERS.

Happily, the situation to-day wears a rosier aspect. Rovorne a long time before the evil is is now freely Rowing into the national coffers. The Quintuple entirely rooted cut. Group has just banded over to the Government Taele 3,100,000

League Tendis.

Aquatic Fete.

The V. R. O. is holding its first aquatic fete of the season at the bathe to-morrow night. A splendidly varied programme has been arranged, and a big crond of patrons is expected.

Latest Advertisements. Consignees notices regarding the s.s. Mongolia and the Nippon Nata are issued.~Page 5.

A Russion lady desires lessons in English-Page 5.

The scores now atand:-

Pte. Shipp Pte. Duffield Corpl. Now Pte. Walker

D.C.L.L. "B"

196

200 200 198 Lce.Cpl. Williams 193 Pte. Brown

200 Pte. Childs

176

#睥咭

1361

Gar. Berry

87th. R.G.A. Gar. Rowe

200 Gar. Bancroft 153 O. 8. M. Tatton ...

189 200

***

Bom. Ward

200

Sergt Heath Bomb. Williams...

***

134.

200

Total...

... 1276

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Amongst those present were

Hon. Mr. D. Laudale (in the chair), Hoo. Mr. H. E. Pollock, Mesars, the defendant,

G. T. Edkins, A. G. Stephen, H. Dofondant on oath, said he w, Bird, S. Dodwell, P. Tester, had been entertaining gueste and W. L. Patienden, A., R. Linton they left exactly at a quarter past and L. N. Leefe (Hon. Secretary).

He looked at his watch at that time.

one.

His Worship: Did you make

much noise?

Defendant: Yes, we were jolly but the noise was not calculated to disturb the tranquility of the surroundings.

The Chairman after addressing the Branch for the past year pro- the meeting on the working of

which were unanimously passed. posed the adoption of the accounts,

The following were elected to serve on the Committee for the ensuing year-Hon. Mr. D. Do you mean the noise Landale (Chairman), Hon. Mr. B. could not be heard outside E. Pollock. Messrs. Stanley the house?yes it could, Dodwell, C. Montague Ede, G. but it was not calculated to dis T. Edkins, P. H. Holyoak, W. G. turb as I understand it. We had Humphreys, A. G. Stephen and no intention to disturb anybody. L. N. Leste (Hon. Secretary.)

The noise at your house was (Contributed).

heard at Mr. Beckwith's house

three hundred yards away isn't it Mr. Bookwith?

could not have been heard in our

Tommander Beckwith: Three house.. bdred yards away on the al- titude.

His WorshipMy view of the caso is you did kick up a noise Defendant said he was not after sunset, and that your neigh- surprised at Mr. Back with lear-bours were reasonably annoyed, tainment is to be given at the OTHER PEOPLE'S AFFAIRS ing the noise three hundred and after a protest you ought not Peak Club on the 17th inat.

A musical and dramatic enter-!

Europeans la the Summary Court.

Among the adjourned cases at|

yards away, because on a quiet to have done it or e'ose at reason night a person could hear a piano able hours to let the neighbours playing one thousand yards away. eleep. I do not intend to imposs His Worship asked defendant a fine or convict, but you are if he meant that the piano could liable to a fine if it occurred, be heard that distance away? again

Defendant said no, he meant Defendant If it occurs again?-

from the surplus of salt revenue, which means that during the past Opium Smuggling. two months the Government has received from this one source no lesa a aum than Taels 8,000,000 over and above the liabilities

So long as there is seoret secured thereon a state of affairs which must be regarded as in']; further food that the Provinces have, during May remitted an gling, and the Chinese Govern: highest degree satisfactory. When we take into account the smoking there will be amug additional six million dela, it will be realised how great the ment will find the problem of wholly preventing smug financial recovery is. The denger is, in circumstances of this kind, gling one of not a little difficulty. Page 5. for the Government to be carried away by andue optimism on this master of smuggling Diamond Broach Stolen. and to fall into the error of attempting too soon to stard

Mrs. V. Chan, of No. 5, Arbuth-] opirm, the National Review on its own lege. That is a tempinion to which the Peking quotes a contemporary to the not Road, has reported to the anthorities appear to be yielding, inasmuch as they are said to look affect that considerable quantities police that some time during the with disfaveur on further arivances from the Quintuple Group, of opium are being smuggled by past week she has either lost or owing to the satisfactory manner in which revenues are coming in. way of the Siberian Railway, had stolen from her room a dis- the Summary Court this morning that on a quiet night a piano His Worship: If it occurs again It must not ce overlooked, however, that China's liabilities are chiefly by Russian Jews. The mond brecen valued at $300, Dur was one in which J. S. Chalmers could be heard a thousand yarde a conviction will be recorded and immense, and it would therefore be the height of folly at the pre-product, it says, comes chiefly ing the past month she has also sued the Hongkong Tramway away, so he was not surprised at a fine imposed this time I do sent juncture to decline further much-needed saistance merely from Pareia, a country which up bad stolen a silver tes eet worth Company Ltd. for the sum of Mr. Beckwith hearing, three neither. because things have taken a better turn. Such a policy is essentially till now has declined to sign the $30. shortsighted.

International Opium Conven

Presenting the Prizes.

Scriven Brothers and Company It is regrettable that the new Repablic has all along shown i tiou. It then ad causti Tio General Officer Command Ltd. were the plaintiffs in another rather bad grace in accepting aid from foreign source. borrower, China ie obviously the gainer in the transactions, and, it cally" would be interesting, at the conclusion of the final action, the defendanta boing

know how far the Persian. ing to is noteworthy that the very stipulatione laid down by the len Pere, Government in cognizant of what game for the Hongkong Volunteer Jorge and Company, and the sam and somewhat resented by the borrowers, have worked much to the is going on; certainly the traffic

billingdallenge cap on Wed-olaimed was 890.8.7. latter's interests. Again we may alto point out that the growing cold be stopped at its point of nesday, the 17th inat., will present H. Hiptools and Company were revenue from the Balt Gabelle is directly attributable to the god origin. The Shanghai Municipal slso the club billiard tournament Mr. and Mrs. Read, the claim Bow long ago is that?-About and. Admiral T. 8. Lee, Com-

cup to the winning team, the plaintiffs in an action against work of foreign officials, whose reorganisation of the large hae Coupoil may congratulate itself cup, the small units cricket being $151.24.

and everything to do with the wonderful improvement registered, Whichever way we look at the mailer, therefore, it will be seen that that it is in the excellent com gue cap, Gasdorps, water polo A. 8. Watson and Company

pany of thees Russian Chips owes a deep debt of gratitude to her foreign belpers. But

cáp, Brown rowing cup and the also cued. A. A. Remedios for Thșt in a distinctly nasty one,

$42.70 equally apparent that she is tardy in scknowledging the fact.

As the

Towa

this

arrison cricket shield.

$1,000.

Defendant was then discharged:

A

Chfuese, Admirals.

hundred yards away. N

His Worship: Were you shout in47-No, sir, singing.

Peking telegram The voice was musical?-Y38. Have your neighbours spoken Admiral Tsang reports the arrival. to you about making a noise? there of Admiral Sir O. P. Sab,

------------ al ta the Generalissimo's Office, Yes, I have had one complaint newly appointed Director-Gener from No. 2. five months ago when we moved mander-in-Chief of the Navy af Shanghai These officers loft into the houses

Have you anything else to say? Shanghai on the 81es plumo on -We have no gramophone so it board the Chinese cruiser Halchi,