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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY - JANUARY 19, 1915,

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

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PRICES ON APPLICATION,

The U.S. Exclusion Act and Japan. We stated last night that Mr. Bryan has promised the Japanese. Ambassador to Washington that steps will be taken for an amend ment of the Immigrante E clusion Act. It was almost time. that a more logical attitude was adopted by the United States over the immigration of non- Europeans. The line taken by Australia, though it is one with which many Britishers do not sympathise, is at least consistent

DAY BY DAY.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MAKES 4-MAN CONCEITED ABOUT HIS WISDOM IS THE LACK OF IT.

The Weather. Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 56; clear.

At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp, 40; olear.

The Mails,

NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

WHAT ROUMANIA'S ENTRY WILL" MEAN,

BE BRITISH

Appeal to Hongkong to Helt Wounded Soldiers.

ALARMING HARBOUR

MISHAP

MANCHURIA'S GANGWAY.

BREAKS

The Dual Monarchy Faced With Now Dangers. The Allies oircle of friendship- grows rather than diminishes as the days go by.... In other words, the jaslice of our cause is be- coming more widely recognised Borderers who were wounded at

Five men of the South Wales Pasengers Precipitated into the with every passing week. For

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some time past it has been known Taingiau are now in hospital in that Roumanian sympathies have Hongkong. Their injuries, wo suil comprehensible. Australia/Siberian Mail.-Due to-morrow,' been on the side of the Allies, unfit for farther, service, and in last evening when the as Man- understand, will render them Ar aleming accident occurred absolutely barą“. colour," and pore.e. Arcadia..

and now we have the announce-

'0 the same liberties and privileges as themselves, and, with the next, warn Chinese and

Australien Mail. Closes per s.8. Changsha to morrow at 11

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Australian Mail-Closes per

Nikko Maru to-morrow

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that is her final word on the Siberian il-Closed per s..ment that, even shonld Italy re- that event they will of course, bohuria com into port Arriving subject. But why the Americans Luchow to day at 3 p.m. main neutral, the Roumanians given a pension: It is felt, how at her anchờ, the gangway was should, with one breath toll

have decided to soon join hande ever, that, in addition, some form let down and number of people negroes and Filipinos that they

with the forces fighting the battle of presentation from the people commenced to descend it, when are their brothers and are entitled

of civilisation. What this will of Hongkong would not be inap-it broke in be middle and mean to the Dual Monsreby can propriate, since the success of the precipitated then into the water. readily be seen by taking a glance operations at Tsingtau went far They clung to a sumpan that had at the map of Europe.

towards averting the possibility been drawn up alongside bat of a hostile attack on this Colony, their weight; allom one side of The Telegraph has been asked the craft, osused it to capsize, east by Russia, on the west by to undertake a collection on behalf with the result that those who Hungary and on the south-west of the wounded soldiers, and it is bad already been immersed by Servis, while to the south hoped that a sufficient sum of were again plunged beneath the Bulgaria ia sandwiched in be-money may be raised to provide a surface, as also wee the clew of tween Turkish and Roumanian civilian cutit for each. The the sampan

A S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., Japanese that they must keep out

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

MARRIAGES.

Smith, A. S. C., to Katie B. Wood, daughter of the late hus. Wood SMITH-Wood-Nov. 26, at Enfield, Lieut. A. Tertiough and Mrs. Wood, of Shanghai. A

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of the States, we have never understood. The Japanese are'

the cleanest, healthiest and one

Couar the Columns.”

Yesterday the Telegraph of the most industrious folk in published 38 columns of solid the world, and their educational reading matter. To-day there

Stater. All told, we do not quite system is better than that of will be 39 published. either Britain or the United

00 why America should regard chem as more undesirable shan could

"DEATHS "SMITH-Nov, 29, at Purley, F. Burgoss Smith, late Canton, various nationalities wa in his 74th year.

name. England has been open

WOOD.-On Nov. 30, at his residence, Radcliffe Houro, Silver Hill, St Leonards-on-Sea, Henry William Wood, in his 84th year, cne of the senior partners of Adamson, Chilfillan and Co., of London

and the Straits Settlements.

The object of this paper is to publish correct information, to servi the truth and print the news without fear or favour.

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The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1915.

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“GOD! HOW WE HATE ENGLAND AND THE ENGLISH!'

The Dollar.

Russia No Longer Blocked. Roumania is flanked on the

territory. It is easy to see, there-amount required is about $1,000, According to the report mado fore, that the entry of Roumania and already a good sum has been to the Police by the master of the The rate of the dollar on into the war would greatly subscribed, as will be seen by the sampan, he was tied up to the demand today is Is 9.3-10d. facilitate operations against Auglist below. As the men will soon gongway when it broke, and those iris-Hongary. Not only would a be leaving for Home, the time is walking down it were thrown into Alleged Larceny of Pigeons. way be opened up for Russia to short in which to raise the balance, the water, saving themselves by to all races at all times, and the At the Police Court, this morn-come through Roumania and at- but we can confidently appeal to clutching the sides of the compan, only aliens whose admissioning, a Chinese was remanded on tack southern Hungary, bat she our readers to help in this deserve which, however, capsized. He to the country we have ever had a charge of larceny by bailee of would have the joint aid of both ing cause on behalf of brave reports that all his crew were serious reason to regret are the four hundred odd pigeons. the Servisa "aud Roumanian Britishers who have done fine saved, though he is unable to say. Armies in carrying out the task, work in the Far East, and who whether any of the people who The plight of the Daal Monarchy is will, we are sure, ever remember were, endeavouring to leave the His Excellency, the Governor already bad enough, and it takes this kindly act on the part of the ship were drowned or not and Lady May are giving a reno great amount of, imagination people of Hongkong. The sub- ception at Government House tc to see that, with the added pressure soribers to date are as follow:- night, from 9 to 11 p.m. There which such a move would imply, will be music,

gentry who were somewhat mix.

d in their minda na to the die- tinction that should exist ba-

ween bases for big guns and mineral water factories, and who made & fiue art of the spy pidgin,

A Question of Principle,

pro-

Reception,

5.00

5.00

APPEAL DISMISSED.

10,00 Appellant Who Would not put

up Security,

5.00

5.00

10.00

Germany's ally would soon ba Already acknowledged... $312.00 forced to throw up the sponge. Mr. G. S. Arahbatt... The Housekeeper's Claim. She could not possibly stand up M. F. and 8. S. The case in which Mr. Mulder againet this array of military Mr. J. F. Wright is sued by a housekeeper, comes strength. For it must not be Mr. Un Kamwa on again for hearing in the Sam-forgotten that the Roumanian Mr. W. Logan... mary Court, on Wednerday after-Army is now believed to be more Mr. F. Reichmann...

advanced in organisation and Mr. H. H. Tayler on next.

training "than any other Army of Mr. Joseph Gould the Balkan States. Her strength Mr. Ellis Kadoorie... is very considerable, too, since Mr. F. A. Mackintosh the, can put into the field in time Mr. F. O. Chapple

Alteration in Train Service.

The New Police Courts.

Incidentally it may be mentioned Mre. E. F. Scall that Ramania has a small but P. A. C..... efficient Navy in the Black Sea Mr. H. Peroy Smith and the Danube-a little factor Mr. H. 8. Playfair not to be lost sight of in consider- ing the general situation.

Vienna's Intolerable Condition.

All the "fighting speeches" of the Kaiser, all the guns in and] out of Krappe, all the air mach-{

Total

FOOTBALL

In the Full Court, this morning

5:00 10.00 before Sir William Rees Davies 16.00 (Chief Justice) and Mr. Justice 10.00 H H. J. Gompertz (Paisne ...10.00 Judge), in the action of Teng A

10.00 Yau, administratrix of the estate 10.00 of Lam Ping-woon, deceased, 5.00 verine Wong Sin-tong, a motion 10.00 in which the defendant, repre- 6.00 rented by Mr. Eldon Potter, asked 10.00 that plaintiff give security for the

defendant's costs of the appesto $452.00 the Fall Court from the Chief Justice's order dated November 20, in the sum $1,000, to the satisfaction of the Registrar, and that in the meantime all further proceedings be stayed, was heard.

rday's League Matches.

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Mr. C. A. 8. Bass (Mr. J. B. Gardiner), instructed Mr. Polter and originally Mr. F. C. Jenkin, instructed by Mr. L. D'Almada, represented

the plaintiff appellant,

We are bound to respect the. mctive which guided the reverend

gentleman vho, yesterday, pleaded for leniency for his "boy," when thût Less Dangerous Cycling. interesting youth was charged The prosecutions which were with stealing a matter of six-and-successfully taken againstcareless forty, dollara' worth of goods. At and dangerous bicycle riders in of war no fewer than half a X, Y, Z, the same time, ministers of re-Kowloon have brought about a million men, and probably more. Mr. E. F. Scall igion cannot be raid, in a general distinct improvement. vay, to make the servant question any easier for masters and mia-

138698. In expressing his will. The train!!that used to leave oguess to sign a bond for the Kowlcon for stations beyond at boy's good behaviour,. the 9.40 .m., now leaves at 0.35 a.m., One of the annest, the most soathing and the most genuinely ecutor wanted to do a really according to a railway announce

porting thing, but we think that it ment. patriotic defences of Britain's position in regard to the war, has been the matter were debated by a jury put forth by a Sicialis:-Mr. Robert Blatchford-in an open letter demned for their sins to employ Police Courts will be ready for Zeppelin could devise, and the of any dozen persons who are con- to a German banker, who recently treated an American newspaper man Jhinese boys, the verdict would go opening in March. The opening reatest army of bomb throwers in It is expected that the rewines that the fertile brain of af to a diatribe on the Homeland, beginning with the delectable ex. very much against such an idea. will be welcomed by those who the world, cannot combat the clamation quoted above. The banker's charges are, as usual, that it must not be forgotten that have to eit in the present building. enemy which has now got Aue- Britain brought on the war out of greed and envy, and "because she ministers of religion are regarded found barself decadent and felt her dominance and domineering in as fair game by dishonest em-

Municipal Official's Visit. tria literally by the throat. We Mr. Wm. McLeish, secretary are informed from Venetian the world endangered." To all this Mr. Blatchford mildly replies that ployees, of every race and colour, of the Municipal Council of sources that the conditions in it was not a Britisher who murdered the Austrian Archduke, or who as being over charitable and Tientsin, is passing through the Vienna are intolerable. Small-pox, and the Suff and Departments molions before their Lordships

The Hongkong Football Club, Mr. Potter said there were twb. dictated the Austrian Note to Servia, or who asked Germany to de- easy to humbug. So much is this Colony and has registered at the cholers and typhoid fever are met for the third time yesterday the first being a motion on behalf clare war against Russia and France. "Neither had our people," the Caze be continues," any motives of greed or envy in the matter...... The employer at Home ever dreams of

that no practical Hongkong Hotel

raging, and numerous cases have afternoon at the Happy Valley, of the defendant for whom he British people were content to jog along in their own easy way." They taking a servant who has no better

been reported from all parts of and as the result of the game appeared, that the plaintiff. were what you call" decadent. They had no love for the howitzer reference to show than one obby auction to-morrow afternoon fire in their advance. But this is having ehared the honours in three the costs of appeal, and Geofher Mr. G. P. Lammert is selling Austria-onemica as relentless as they stand in the position of appellant should give security for or for the goose-step, and no desire to domineer over anyone; just a tained from a padre. decadent people, hating awank and bloodebed, and loving beat their

valuable household furniture; but one wing of the new enemy, matches, each winning one, and was a motion by way of appeši football and their races and their music-halls and their creature ccm-

collection of ebina and curios, and Along with sickness and disease drawing the third. The field was from the decision of the learned forts. Envy? The country was full of Germans.. ...and though The Kowtow.

35 dozen Blazerger's 1014 tennis there is famine. The price of in certainly a better condition Chief Justice. They had received most of these Germane were the meanest kind of spies, our people

flour, the necessity to the work than it was on Saturday, and good a communiostion from the sol- never suspected and, in fact, would not believe it. Talk of greed !' Inoar yesterday's General News

Passing Through.

man and soldier alike, has trebl-football, was seen throughout the iciter of the plaintif-appellant We allowed all your goods to come into Britain duty free, although we quoted the case of a certain Mr. B. Benjamin, pasteogered, butter has advanced to double encounter. Shortly after the com- who had acted throughout and you put up teriffa against ours. We did not envy you or cavet your Peking official who has been agent in Canada for the Canadian the price, while delicacies are mencement of the game the Club who appeared in Chambers on the possessions. We have great Colonies, great dependencies, a great rather badly turned down by Pres Pacific Railway, is passing unobtainable. What a terrible scored, a penalty taken by Stalker application, from which an appeal Empire. We only naked to be left alone. You had no Colonies, ident Yuan. This gentleman through the Colony on his way mental vista for the Emperor-giving that redoubtable shot a was now taken by the appellant, and no Empire worth mentioning. Why should we envy yo it " submitted a petition, in which be Home after a visit to Manila on the dupe of the Kaiser! How chance of beating the soldiers that he had no further instrac

There is more to the same effect, but we have quoted asked for the restoration of the businGES.

terrible a burden for a monarch custodian, which he easily did. tions. Counsel would suggest that enough to show that Mr. Blatchford knows quite well how to tackle "advised him to find out what

kowtow. In reply the President Shopkeeper's Complaint. to bear in the evening of lifel This was the only point scored in their Lordships call the appeal these wild. and baseleys obarges. That this

A complaint has been made to

the first half, though the Club's on now, and if the plaintiff did banker has been answered out of the mouth of one who would by ne would be helpful and good for the Police by a shopkeeper in This great country with string of forwards, putting in some not appear, the appeal would, sa meane commit himself to the stock and stereotyped opinions of the the Government, and not to bother Pottinger Street that his foki has a bright future marred good work, tried hard to increase a matter of course, be dismissed traditional conservative Britisher, is as valuable as it is significant too much about ceremony." So obtained provisions to the value by an accursed alliance their lead, but were met by an with coats and those costs, the It is Britain as a whole, and not just an aristocratio or a monied we should think. The days of of $14 from a compradora by with a country governed by a man equally good defence, submitted, "should include the minority, that is demanding that Germany should pay the penalty owowing ought to be long past, Kowloon Improvement, and might, is now literally a fortunate position, received a which was incidentallatheappool.

means of false pretences.

whose characteristic is bloodlust After the resumption, Royle, in costs of the motion for acuity and the only man we know of

The footpaths under the veran devastated. Her people are zot finely placed contre from the The Paisee Judge (1), is

foolish

them perhaps a little too content for their own scals' health, and would never have sought a quarrel with any nation; and it is Ger many's overbeating, followed later by her ruffianism towards the people of Belgiam, that is responsible for the anger which avery Britisher, from King George down to the errand boy in the street

the hind at the plough, Dow feels against her.

and

witted appliant fo -Yuan

balls;

Auction.

Poor Austria |

Mr. Fetter said that they had written them according to law, that if they could not put up security through poverty, they

for her ruffling and her "swank," (We thank thee, Mr. Blatchford who thinks otherwise (apart dahs, in Nathan Rad, Kowloon, ting, her monarch is but a power fight wing and equalised with a occasioned by the other one Pro it is the word.) Britishers were content with what the goda had given from this somewhat woolly are now lighted by night by historic, her education and her shot that would have been hardMr. Potter Entirely, and in- Shih-k'ai) is Kaiser Wilhelm. In powerful lamps, and the improve efforts to Sguzo on the world's to stop. In the last stages of the cidental to, and it will save time. ambassador to the Berlin Containted by the people residing on have been swept aside, lost for Departments, pat in a hard shot point to the law of security for fact, from what an ex-Chiness ment is one that will be appre stage in a prominent part, game, Davies, for the Staff and It is entirely unnecessary row, fo

that side of the water, once told the Telegraph, Hia

years, perhaps centuries, by the to the Hongkong goal which costs because the appellant is not Imperial Majesty "demanded"

Big Theft.

heavy hand of justice, the justice looked like giving his side the appealing. Kipling makes one of his characters hate another "with the bate that the members of the Chinese Li Chiu, a shopkeeper, of 9, not conceived in mortal mind and lead, but the shot was well saved The Chief Justice :-Did you can only be borne towards ons from whom a man has received Embassy should kowtow in his Bonham Strand, has complained not to be controlled or perverted and a similar attempt shortly give notice? nothing but benefits." It is a cynical idea, but most of as have come presence, and was quite hurt when to the Police, that, on January 14, by mortal. And as surely as after by Wilkie, on the opposing across something of the kind, and so can vouch for the existence of he was told gently but firmly, some person stole from a wardrobe Austria has been visited with the citadel, met with a like result. this particular species of hatred. Is there not something of it in the that the said membera had no in his room a caah-box containing punishment she has wrought, so feeling of Germany towards England? The Germans have met with intention of treating him to jewellery valued at $2,000, and will the country and the people Second Division: nothing hat good will, kindness and consideration at British hande, that luxury. We would be the $60 in money.

who tempted her along the road. In the second division of the were given warning that they Their goods, as Mr. Blatchford remarks, came into Britain free of Isat to wish to see the Chinese Hongkong Germans not doing which high-souled people shub Hongkong League, the Hongkong were entitled to apply to procied daty, and farthermore, though her people were always disposed to be abandon their old world courts Coolle Pidgin Payned, only their punishment will University was well besten by the in forma pauperis, and ensure domineering in their attitude and manner, they were rarely denirdies; in fact the younger gener-London; Deo 21. The German be greater, since the sin of scandal Confucian Society on the Naval justice being done to the Courtesy and hospitality at Britain's hands. Had our people been stion of Hongkong Chinese would Government; having stated that and bad example is off limes Ground at the Happy Valley, by ant. They wrote backy saying as jealous as they are represented, would German firms have been to well, in many cases, model German civil prisoners at Hong greater than the committing of the only three goale scored. The that they had no intention of allowed to enjoy the ascendancy which was allowed to them, no hemselves a little macro on their kong were compelled to work like murder. The hand of the God so winnera played a decidedly better giving scourity. mly, in Britain, but even in small places like Hongkong and Sings fathers; but there is a reasonable coolies, the American Consul blasphemously referred to by game than their opponents and The appellants were then called, pore? Have Britishers in Germany ever been accorded anoh complemedium to be observed in such General, at the instance of Mr. Germans, and practically showed better combination, and there being no reply, the liberty as the Germans enjoyed in our territory? If the bankees, and the kowtow is as little Lewis Harcourt, Secretary of carioitured in their journals, will which naturally brought with it Chief Justice made an order that aforesaid would but trouble to analyse his gentiments, is it not think uited to the ways of twentieth State for the Colonies, has invest curry its own punishment the fine effects of a good win the appeal be dismissed with able that he might find that he and his compatriota hate Britain were century life as the etiquette of igated the charge and found it punishment which even to contem which they certainly deserved on costs, those costs to include the ly because she is his country's superior above all in magnanimity ? the Court of Louis XIV would be, to be dairue.

their form

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plate males oné shudder.

costs of the motion to secur