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The Late Mr. Tom Gallen.

We see from American papers that another writer of fiction who

DAY BY DAY

had an immense following among HAPPINESS IS NOT LIKE A LARGE

11 1914.

NOTES ON THE CRISIS

SMALL CASES.

A Separate Court List Proposed.

In certain class of readers-Mr. AND BEAUTIFUL GEM, BO UNCOM A HARD BLOW TO GERMANY.

Tom Geilen has died, at the MON

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Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 62; At the Peak & s.m. Temp. 53;

SAVED BY A PIPE.

GRAPHIC STORY OF SOLDIER'S BRAVERY.

Hongkong Men Always to the Fors. In connection with the small cuses that often come before the I write under, data November

RARE, THAT ALL SEARCH FOR IT IS IN VAIN, ALL comparatively early age of forty-EFFORTS TO OBTAIN IT HOPELESS eight. It is often thrown up BUT IT CONSISTS OF A SERIES OF against Mr.Gallon that his novele SMALLER AND COMMONER GEM How She Is Swept from the Seas. Paisae Judge in the Summary 2, having witnessed an attack

GROUPED AND SET TOGETHER, were but a thin and well watered FORMING A PLEASING AND GRACE- imitation of Diokens plus Wilkie FUL WHOLE. Smiles.

never laid claim to anything in

The Weather." the way of originality; he was an exceedingly modest man, painful. fine. ly conscious of his somewhat' limited education; but he could fine. write brightly, had a quick senzo of what is humorous; knew the American Mail. Dus to arrive sort of stuff that Euglinho-day readers or many of them want, Siberian Mail.Arrive to-day. and gave it them. What one most admired in him was his Siberian Mail.-Closes to-morrow plack, in the face of adversity and delicate health. He began life as a beard school teacher and later! entered upon not wall-paid Beoretarial work. Then came an

attack of rheumatic fever which practically crippled him for life so that he was obliged to keep his bed thenceforth for a number of

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"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH."

The Silver Question.

His Excellency. His Excellency the Governor, Lady May and family moved into Government House from Mountain Lodge to day.

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When people in Hongkong are

Phoenix Club "Smoker." not discussing the war they fall

We call at:ection to the fact back on the price of silver. This that a smoking concert will be is not to be wondered at, seeing held at the Phoenix Clab to that every 6. in the Colony morrow night, commencing at whose business dealings entail nine o'clock. the handling of any quantity of eabsidiary coinage is losing no innsiderable eum every day. To lay the discount on such coins

Alleged Absconding Foki.

Crait, 'Mr. Justice Gomperta that will adorn the pages of made en important announce history- chapter that will The cheerieat piecs of news ment this morning. He pointed immortalise the mon of Hong received for many a day past out that representations had been kong. For seven days we lay it came to hand yesterday in the made to him thas it would be the sodden trenches, chilled to announcement that the remnant more satisfactory in the interests the very marrow by the bitter of Germany's active Fleet had of litigants in the Court if the easterly wind that blow with been destroyed by a British solicitors who were engaged barricane foros over our heads. squadron. Ever since their would candidly come to him and Three miles away the enemy, escape from Esstora waters, the admit they had no defence, le we were told, were strongly Sobarnboret and the Gneisenau had been put to him that in these entrenched at well cover had proved quite se elusive as the cases he could put them inned by artillery of the heavy order wily Emden, and though they Summary List which he could from which our men had suffered established no such reotid as the ran through rapidly. He did so seriously at... Hera and last-damed oruiser in muking not know how it would work, but there men were catching fow merchant vessels, the fact that he was quite prepared to give it momente aleep, the first fer they went so long unaccounted trial. He thought, by doing forty-eight hours, whilst others for caused a deal of cancera to this, matters might be expedited carried on whispered conversation of inflicting actual damage to would cecond his efforts. shipping people. In the matter and he was sure the profession based for the most part on the Britain's dance, however, these two warahips, with the assistance

The Only Safe Place.

notes We

prospects of the morrow.AN thoughts.of comfort were dead. How could they be otherwiso

Were

of the other three German boats THE YELLOW DRAGON. in such circumstances? Dawn, |loog waited for, came at last, with which they succeeded in

and the brilliant stars linking up, did far more valuable work than the Emden, for it We have to acknowledge the bidden under the now-white was these vessels which sent receipt of the current copy of the clouds of the early morn. the Good Hope and the Mon- Queen's College monthly maga Barely had the sun's rays mouth to the bottom of the aca.zine-The Yellow Dragon. To shed their light ov

over the. That was their last bit of work, the editorial

find land when shells in number bürst though, and it is somewhat eatie-many interesting details concern high over our heads. We were tying to know that so soon after ing masters and bore, paat and ordered to lie tight and to make the fight off Valparaiso nur war-present; a great deal about one no move that would indicate our ships should be able to mete out William Gallows (whose name, location. Hour after hour the to the Scharnhorst, the Gneisenau let us trust, is not prophetic) and abelle cortinued to whistle and the Leipzig the same fate the statement that the Sydney through the air and to burst in which fell to the Good Hope and Bulletin is the Yellow Dragon of and about the trenches we had the Monmouth,

Australia," from which we gather deserted the night before. No that journalism in the Au'ipodes aeroplanes were brought into Germany's strength at sea is is beginning to lock up at last. operation, however, and we were A Chinese, of 64, Bonham now represented by three smallTravel in time of stress' is not easy to find. Thus the day Strand, reports to the police that craisers the Dresden, the Nurn continued in a chatty and breezy passed on, every man with nerves his foki, Lan Shik-chi, stole berg and the Karlsruhe. Two manner, while the list of sports strained, every heart violently is 19 per cent, and it ia, of course, $11,400, morey which he had of these are steaming hard to items shows that the school does beating under the restraint of with a chuckle of satisfaction that collected for the firm, and have their skins, if they are not not mean to be "left". A native the order which prohibited at- the private individua' receives absconded.

already acounted for, and it poet essays a translation into tack. Night again spread its ninety-five cents when he changes

For the Office.

may be token for granted Chinese with what success we soft mantle across the earth and a five dollar bill. But that is From the Hongkong Parcel that the Karlsruhe is some are, unfortunately, not qualified the boys expected a period of only

of looking Expresa and Storage Co., agents where in hiding, afraid to show to say-of the old “Animuls relief from the strain of the day. at the matter. What about the in Hongkong for the Caldwell herself for fear of encountering a ragula" etc., and a letter, signed But this was not to be. The or- business man or the company Shipping Co., of Chicago, we deadly British shell. It is true "Small Fry," discusses the shark der came to advance and penetrate whose takings (as in the case of have received an extremely dainty that there are two other German story related in a previous issue. the barbed wire entanglemente the Tramwaye Company, for in and useful paper-weight issued by boats which have not suffered the An article on the ornithorhyncus whioli treacherously lay ahead atance) are mainly in ten-cent the former firm.

extreme fate of the Scharnhorst, is amusingly written, albeit of us about a mile away With the Emden and the other two," bibernates" is spelt with a y the stenith of panthers the men wholesale supply people, the rent The shop window of Mesare, but one of these is safely bottled (way, way ?), and there are some orept forward, moving slowly and cr rate collector etc., take their Ullmann, the well-known jewel-up in an African river and the good notes descriptive of Port cautiously over the broken ground payment in this silver? Will lers, in Queen's Road, shows a other is a compulsory guest at Said. All told, a very entertain- the banke accépt" it ? Every seasonable dieplay of goods that Honolulu. Thus we find Gering number. businers man knows to his cost might very well serve for presents many, the great and mighty that the banks certainly will for the artistically-inclined. In naval Power, represented on the Bccept it provided he is willing to pay down 119 cents to the dollar!

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The Hongkong Telegraph. pieces? Will the office staff, the Attractive Window Display,

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1914. -

P. W. D. PUZZLES.

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"Business as Usual.".

Of course there are

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prepared

SATURDAY'S BOXING.

All the Men fit for the Contests.

Perhaps Natural after all,

until their goal was resched. Then out rang the shot of an out post and in a few minutes the fiercest encounter in the experi- addition to the usual oddments seven seas by three little boste he wo`ld leave the handling ence of the man took place. The We have on many occasions been presented with puzzles, by

inseparable from a store of this whose combined toonage is not of the last to the cobbler. ground was torn by shells, rifle mature, the firm is exhibiting more than that of one first- that hallowed institution known as the Public Works Department,

fire mowed down our gallant men some fire models to be lit up with class British cruiser! Britain can' and with tolerable frequency we have asked for possible solutions.

Of course we recognise that in like sheaves of corn before a Ir some cases we bave succeeded in having matters straightened!

circum. electric light. The beauty of the now claim absolute and unhappy moments it is very easy to soythe. Our heavy guns then out somewhat, even if the problem set was not altogether answered. stances over which no one has modelling can be seen by day but challenged supremacy at sea, for parade logic, and to say how got the range and, after seven

control, No We are again anxious as to the intricacies of 10ad-making, but that y

one the models are at their best when not only are all the straying enemy people should and should not hours of the most desperate ex- in Hongkong which is so problematic to the untrained mind is how the roadmakers

help night falls and they are lit up in warships now roped in, but the act, but we must not forget changes, succeeded in silencing contrive to be always in the middle of an undertaking. We feel the fact that the war has put the fashion that the designers great German Battle Fleet still that the British people, along the enemy's life-destroying arms. A smith working at his skulks in the Kiel Ornal, the only with those of the Allied Jast as success was gained the sure that we have the opinion of those who pay attention to the deve an end to Canton's export trade meant. lopment of our Colony when we say that very few have ever seen the and has consequently since forge and a little boy kindling a safe spot left for German war-nations, are passing through a Colonel was hit with a fragment road-workers either comincing or finishing a road-making job. Canton must still continue to bay fire are both reproduced with fine chips in the wide world.

period that has never ueen equal of a shell and so badly injured Whenever one doas see anything in this line being undertaken the Hongkong commodities and to effect.

The Admiruity.

Ted in history for its nerve-rack-that his life was despaired of. coolies, contrive somehow to be just in the middle of the business. pay for them in small silver-

When we met with the little ing effects. For years they have In delirium be rolled about for It is certainly one of the unsolved problems that we find before us, flooded this Colony with subsid

misfortune off the coast of Chili realised the menace to peace which an hour, and the surgeon) looked: In Des Voeux Road and the approach to the ferry on the Kowloon isry money. The question of blame

a few weeks ago, there was cer- the bragging Kaiser and his grave. At length the deliriam side it appears to be part of the routine of the Department to make or responsibility does not arise

tainly como delay in getting shadow-fighting senior son have passed away and he lay as till we come to considering the a hole somewhere daily.

official information through, and, been. They have read time after peacefully as though his roul Then along Nathaa Rord we are going to have light at night-fact that the banks will not accept

when it did come, it was not of a time the speeches which contain-Lad departed. "Give him what When, we give no guarantee for, but seeing that the men have been these coins other than at a

very enlightening character.ed anbile insults to Britain and ever he will take, nurse," aid one at it for a fortnight ve en, without hurrying the overworked ruinous discount, and that, even

People were asking for faller have heard the toas: "Am Tag. "of the surgeons as he looked with P.W.D. officials, hazard the opinion that all should be in order for on hard dollars, the man who

details, without any regard for the So much have they experienced pity on the seemingly dying "banks" must be Easter. For several days the poles and tackle obstructed the roade,

effect of that information on of this impudence that it is not form. Many attempts were made to lose somewhere. about no that was evidence that some job was being undertaken by the

The boxing fixture for Saturday future events. What the public to be wondered at now, when to give "bim nourishment, but in ten per cent. When "the

wanted was P.W.D. Had it been a privato firm there would have been prosecn Chinese took fright at the begin a welcome change in the sporting Admiralty, and the unfortunateiate with the blood of its oon-revailed, not a sound could be news, and the their country is "answering those vain. The silence of a graveyard evening, at the City Hall, will be tions for the offence. Another puzzle is why there are no light on the lamplese poles at night to indicate to those people who are not ning of the war and withdrew functions of the Colony. There newapapers as well, were blamed stituents, people should get just heard near his tent. Anxiously blessed with the best of sight that there is something in the middle their money, the banks paid out in is nothing the Hongkong sports at every street corner for their a little hasty and beyond them the nurse waited by her patient's side, ready to do all that was in of the road. In every civilised town in the world one will find hard dollars-at par; yet, to-day, man likes better than to see some dilatoriness and for other things selves batimes,

human power to save a life sa amall lamps on such poles, about six feet from the ground. Prob they will not take these back an- well-fought contests, and, thanks as well. After the announcement

It is a matter for gratification dear to his regiment. For hours ably when there is a claim brought before the Courts for damage less at a discount, nor is a trades to the promoter of the events here, yesterday which, in an unvarnish sustained in collision with one of them, the necessary warning light man content to take his little Mr. F. E. Hall, the best of the ed manner, told of the magni- that two of our brave Indian there was not a move from the monotony will be supplied. Another thing which our mind fails to grasp is bill in hard dollars. Has the fighting men in, and visiting, the ficent victory of the British Navy soldiers have been awarded the patient, and in

watch she closed the ornamentation derived by a footpath from a road roller. Yet Government no power to deal

of our dusky warriors to be so her eyes. She heard a voice, she we have seen a roller left overnight in a street that does not contain with these things? Sarely this Colony are given an opportunity off the Falklands, no doubt Victoria Cross. They are the first of her

is not "Basiness Da nanal.” of stepping in the ring and enter people will be more rational. a single lamp. We perceive the danger of such a practice as

taining those who are enthusiastic Why the News Lacked Detall. honoured, for it was only on the was sure. It was the voice of The level-headed man, thongh King's visit to India at the time the Colonel, too. Oh! how long leaving it there, but we hopelessly fail to see any virtue in it. The Government knows well enough in the direction of fistic displaye. he is apt, like all mortals, to be of the Delhi Darbar that tho had she slept? What was he ask- drains, too, on the peninsula, particularly in the neighbourhood of that most firms are just now Not only have the names of the Carnarvon Road, puzzle one as to the success of their mission, if labouring under heavy handicaps. men and the bouts been well carried away occasionally in these officers and men of the native ing for? A pipe? Yes, ■ pipe. olfactory provision can stand. There should surely be do resson should be made harder to bear by selves, in many instances, have in the Chilian battle might very nouncement then made to that a smoke to be had. Then a maa amell is anything to go by. At times the stench is more than one's Is it right that the unavoidable advertised, but the men them stressful times, will now perceive Indian Army were made eligible He wanted a smoke. How could she that a raport on what happened for the distinction. The an- gratify the wish? There was'nt for the continuation of the state of affairs to which we call attention, difficulties?

avoidable been doing their training at the and whatever the duties are of those who are in charge of these

City Hall, and those who intend Beriously have prejudiced the effect in His Majesty's speech was from Hongkong named... ma'ters that is to say duties outside those of the Department which

investing in a ticket for the accomplishment of the wipe-out received with the utmost satisfac-tendered his ponch--the only to- of the commercs menacers. The tion throughout the Empire, for it basco left with the men; a supply at the moment the staff might be called upon to perform-there

tournament have been able to see! should be sufficient time left to see that the drains are always kept

Admiralty was just as upset as was a regrettable anomaly, quite sent out in response to the local for themselves what kind of the people that we should have out of keeping with British tra fond to supply the boys at the in proper order. If there is not, it is time that matters were so

a show they are about to patronise. arranged that there will be time.

A prison without cells and with Tho new men have impressed lost ships on the former occasion, ditions, that, however great an aot front. The Colonel smoked. He The Sanitary Board some time ago pointed out that the health no silence rule is to be built near those who have seen them at work but where the Admiralty saw the of valour an Indian soldier might recovered and to-day he ja fight of the citizens was as important as anything else, and they had Washington for the District pris and those men we know need no only affcativa way of giving back perform, he was precluded from ing again. Yes, saved. Thanks

more than we took, by a game receiving the greatest honour to a pipe. time arranged for the performance of the superintendence of the soners now sent to Federal pri- recommendation to the fans of that has won the contest, the which the King-Emperor could work allocated to that Department, and what is possible in the case sons. In this prizon the dreams of Hongkong,

the addition of

Prison Without Calls. Washington, October 28.

The

V. C.'s for Indians.

people could see nothing, and in bestow on his troops. And it is [The only fault with this story

of the Sanitary Board abould be possible in the case of the P. W.D. social workers will be realised. Of the fit men who impressed their blindness oried out for all the more gratifying still to fool is that it is not true. But it is a The convenience of the citizen truly comes next to the health of the The aim will be to send the social as most Richards comes out on top manner of incredible and impe that the great life and death fact, nevertheless, that a smoke to citizen, and since it is he who pays for the convenience, and for derelicts forth after their term as with Colquitt a good second.ible retaliation. We have no struggle between England and the boys in the tronches is like life those institutions to whom that work is relegated, he has a right to wage earners and reformed citi Richards should by ecen to expect that the work will be as efficiently done as the work he does zene. The prison or reformátory,as advantage, as should Colquitt doubt that the leyman will now Germany, in which India has been itself. The Telegraph Fand for for his employer, and, incidentally, that, which the employer inainte its sponsors call it, will be loonted Booking has opened at Moutrie's realise his limitations as to the so proud to take a part, should be the purpose of providing the men on being done efficiently. It is in no carping spirit that we deal on s 15,000-acre site near Oon and we have every reason to believe condues of naval warfare and the frat occasion on which the at the front with tobacco and with this matter, yet at the same time it is in no half-hearted or quan, the present Distriot work that the house will be a good leave to those who are sailors the honour should fall to so worthy oigarettes is now open and awaite

conduct of their affaire just as recipients.

your contribution Ed.] apologetic spirit that we call for the rights of the citizen whose house, interests we are so anxious for!

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