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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20,

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Kowloon Lamps,

When the new street lamps were erected in Kowloon recently we said some complimentary things Jaboat. the improvement which

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The Weather.

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they had effected-and the re- TO HAVE FOR HEADS IS TO BUTT marks we made were thoroughly justified. We might have added, too, that somebody was to he praised maybe even the P.W.D. for the expeditious manner in which the work of subalitating the new lamps for the old wAS carried out. This bit of work moet have constituted something of a record for a Hongkong Govern-. ment Department. But the point we now want to make is that early promises have not been altogether fulfilled, so far as the light is con. cerned. Thalamps are apparently of a most modern type, but it is a common sight now to see two coolies employed in the task of lighting them. One mounts ladder, with box of matches in hand-in approved pre-Murdoch fashion while! The other atanda

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NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

GERMAN DISTORTION-AND THE FACTS.

Significant German and Austrian Changes.

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the Yesterday the Telegraph lower rang to see that his com published 37 columns of solid panion is not in danger of falling reading matter. To-day there revealed by the "

will be 38 pablished.

The Dollar.

The raten of Subcription to the "Fongkong Telegraph" will fault is probably not with the Chinese calendar, is the feast

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able to the carelessness of the lamp-lightera. Anyhow, Kowloon ehould get better value from its

Auction.

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Mr. G. P. Lammert is selling now lamps than it enjoys at pre-quality st his sales rooms at 11 numerous suit lengths of exoslont

sent.

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A Dangerous Man,'

a.m. to-morrow.

CONCUBINE ON TRIAL.

Alleged Theft of Blg Sum of

Money.

1014.

THE QUEEN'S THANKS.

Grateful' Appreciation of Hongkong Gifts.

A

(Signod) E. W.WALLINGTON, Private Secretory,

Government House, Hongkong.

A FINE SPIRIT.

The following letter has been At the Criminal Sessions, this received by Lady May from the morning, a woman, named Chan | Private Secretary to the Queen, Sui-i, was arraigned before Sir conveying Her Majesty'e grateful William Roca Davies, (Chief appreciation of the gifts sent by It is only in accordance with Justice), on an indictment the women of Hongkong and expectations that the Germans charging her with unlawfully Macro for our soldiers at the front should exaggerate and magnify converting to her own use the sum and their wives and families at the little check which the French of $1,900, and alep with stealing Home:- forces sustained in the region of the same, the property of Fong Buckingham Palace, Soissons. No doubt the military frat concubine, on December 9, Dear Lady May,

Tin-aan, to whom she was the

14th December, 1914. leaders buvo been telling the public what a magnificent violory

The Queen, has just been in- The jury was composed as formed of the arrival of a parcel. it was, and we may be sure that the reverse is attributed to follows:-Messrs. W. J. Crawford of 507 garments which have been superior atrategy on the part of foreman), U. F. Buoja, A. R. made by the women of Hongkong the Germans and that little or Kinross, A. H. Abbas, A. M. Stark, and Macao, and went to Her nothing has been said of the FF. Shroff, and L. B. Cordeiro. Majesty's Needlework Guild for flooding of the Aisue which ren-

Prisoner, who was undofended, our, soldiers at the front and their

wives and families at Home, " dered the position of the French pisaded not guilty.

The Hon. Attorney General Too Queen has personally troops untenable. The facts, a

oye-witness" (Mr. J. H. Kemp, in opening, inspected these garments and will off. It takes these individuals

with the Franch, are that the rise said. It was a rather ourious be glad if you will kindly conver the best part of an hour to get all

of the river destroyed the bridges case, with several mysterious to the donors Her Majesty'e grate the lamps alight, and even then

and that the Germans, taking features, and it would require, he fal appreciation of their charming the job is often very imperfectly

advantage of the situation, do thought, very careful attention gift. done. The night before last a

The rate of the dollar livered a violent attack and on- from the jury, and he was sure The Queen is much touched by considerable proportion of the demand to-day is la 9.3-168.

deavoured to out the French off they would very carefully sift the the kindly thought which hos lamps gave out the feebleat of

anattempt which ended in failure. evidence. Several possibilities as prompted the women of Hong- illumination after these men had

"Great Cold."

to how the money disappeared kong and Macao to make such a So far from the affair boing

the completed their rounds,

To-morrow, according to the a The

viatory for

might oceir to them, and he pro-ready response to her appeal and enemy, did not posed to refer to them later. But Her Majesty is very grateful, to its main objective succeed, and it is now established on the evidenco as known to you personally for your assistance lampa; most likely it is attribut-Ta-bau, or "Great Cold.""

that the French withdrew primari. the Crown at present, and on the and for all the trouble you have the Germans but mainly by reason but to charge the prisoner with ly not because of pressure by broad features of the case, he taken, an, yours faithfully,

thought there was no alternativo

Their retreat, however, was over a of the Coding of their positions.

straling the money. He thought Lady May, very emall "portion of the line that on the evidenes which would and there seems nothing in the be given and on the broad

tho caso, incident to give cause for such features of

they rapturous rejoicings as the Ger- would be satisfied she was mane have evidently been in-concerned in the abstraction of dulging

t'ie money. Certain witnesses, two in particular, they would have to reasive with a considerable The Allies' Advance: amount of caution. They had not To Fight to a Finish or Die,”.

given a very connected account, The same story by the eye-or a very consistent account, but witness" furnishes most satisfat he was calling them partly be As an instance of the spirit tory proof of the general progress cause they were called for the animating our Colonial conting of the Allies. Along practically prosecution at the Police Court, ents, we have to-day been shown the whole of the front advances and partly because they were laster received by a gentleman ara being made, in spite of the present at the time the money was in the Colony from his son, who fact that rain, snow, wind, fog taken. It was, of course, do is an officer in a Canadian Regi- and mud are impeding operations. sirable that they should have all ment of Militia. He states that electric torch and a formidable of Chinese carios, which Was

Mast gratifying of all is the anthe persons before them who he expects his regiment to leave found that a house in Tai Wong day, baa ben postponed until Yeer and St. Georges the German what happened, but he would ask next month or in March. He adds: nouncement that between the could throw any light at all on Canada for the front either during Street had been broken into, Monday and Tuesday. The col cffensive has been shattered and them to receive the evidence of leave (when I go) with a "When the shine's a-missing, and lection-will-be-on-view from the Allies' the house dog can't look you in Friday.

position further two amals with a considerable firm stand, wearing the King's consolidated. the face, who is the thief? For Theft of Clothing "and Money.dream

Kaiser's amount of gaation and sift it uniform, to fight to a finish or die of bis burglarious not our friend was

penetrating the carefully. The facts on which for my country and flag." In commenting in this column the other day on the likely committed to two months' impri

Lau Cai-u, a stroff of 33, Tung the much-longed-for dash on did not seem to him to be very Allios' lines here and of making they appeared to be consistent attitude of the Allies towards Germany at the end of the war, we sonment only, together with the Street, reports to the police that, Calais must now be abandoned essential made the observation that the British race forgives more readily than stocks, and another month was on January 10, between 1 and 2 once and for all. The Allien have they to the case, though · BRIDGE PARTY. any other. We then, in as many words, advanced the opinion that tacked on to bis sojourn up the p.m., someone entered his room certainly been doing very sound forward the Crown case on cer- seemed to carry when the fighting is all over there will be sections of the British hill for being in possession of a (the door of which was open) and work in this region of late, and it tain essential features, and that Interesting Function in Ald of people who will soon forget the hideous brutality of which Germany dagger "without a permit." But stole some articles of clothing, would appear that they are better was one of the reasons why he has been guilly and who will be willing to clasp the Germans in what was the dagger for? What together with $15.50 in money. able to stand the strain of fighting called them. There were two their arms as friends and brothers. These are the soft-hearted folk use would the gentleman have who are for ever preaching the brotherhood of mankind in a broad made of it had he been interrupt-

under bad conditions than the charges against the prisoner, one To Usol Again, and general way, but who, when it comes to the individual, all too ed or opposed? And can a man!

No fewer than81 ladies attended Germans are. From recent reports of fraudulent conversion of Detective Lanigan arrested a often ostracize the man or woman who has fallen to temptation and walk into one's premises and help man in a pawnshop as the latter mans returning on foot from the bailee of $1,000. There was not yesterday, as a result of which a we see that slightly wounded Ger $1,000 and another of larceny as a bridge party as Kingsclere is ready to admit his or her weakness.

himself to valuables, with the was pledging clothing stolen from We have not had to wait till the end of the war for the trotting comfortable assurance that three 49, Connaught Road West. The fighting area in this locality are very much difference in the two sam of $165 was realised on be out of the brotherhood of humanity doctrine and the plea that we months' Government rice will be man had only just come out of clay and that they complain grea- that she used the money herself, There wers 21 lables. The idea almost invariably covered with charges. It was not suggested half of the Belgian Relief Fund. should love our enemies, for a circular issued by those good a sufficient sot-off against Lia gaol after serving three months folk, the Quakers, has come into our hands, and the whole burden of it achievement? These, we think, for barglary. He was sent backly of having to stay in trenches but that she, having been given of holding this function or is that we should not be harsh in our attitude towards the Germans are one or two points on whic to gaol for a similar period, by

where they stand in mud and the money for safe keeping, used iginated with Mrs. Kent, but should prepare for the day when we can embrace them as good the average British jaryman would the Magistrate, at the Police friends. Speaking of the Germans, the circular says May we have sought enlightenment, hal Court, this morning. be saved from forgetting that they too are the children of our Father, the care gone for trial. May we think of them with love and pity. May we banish thoughts Royalty and the Tommy.

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Beggars sent back to Canton. case in which an armed man, in

It is gratifying to learn that the jewellery was found, was fortunate of the bogging brotherhood out of whose possession a quantity of police liave escorted four members enough to meet with no more the Colony and into Canton. severo Banishmont than three hours' stocks. One wonders what months imprisonment and four

University Lecture. At the University, at 5.30 p.m. view a judge and jury would have to-morrow, Sir Charles Eliot will taken of the matter, had the case deliver a public lecture on The Sessions, A constable arreated War." been sent

for trial at the Causes of the Present European the man, on finding that he was carrying about with him.

Sale Postponed.

"a quantity of jewellery, an Mr. G. F. Lammert's great sale

The Hongkong Telegraph. daggor."" On enquiry it was advertised for Friday and Satur-

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1915.

THE INJUSTICE OF FORGIVENESS:

be wholly exonerated," we fail to comprehend.

Art Productions.

From Measri. Mow Fang and

At the Police Court, this morn-

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The.

she

was away

Belgian Rellet Fund..

Mrs.

it for her own purposes it might and she was assisted in the or have been to sbare it with an ac-ganisation of the tables by the complice. The complainant took following ladies Mra. Mel. Chopping and Changing. $6,000 from the bank, paid a bill Messer, Mrs. Ormiston, Mrs. of bitterness, harsh judgment, the revengeful spirit...... May we We published yesterday a pleas Co. we have received a very

of $4,000 and left $2,000 in the Blanch, Mrs. Waters, Mrs. Baker- prepare ourselves even now for the day when once more we shelling little, story (related by Mr.taalily-produced calendar brarthe ennouncement that a new pay another bill. Four days be/Moberley, Mrs. Martin,

The over-night wires contain prisoner's custody with which to Brown, Mrs. O'Hara, Mrs. stand shoulder to shoulder with those with whom we are now at war.' Farther on the appeal contains these words:"We should have it Wales' having a derelict soldier view of London, as well as a appointed to the German Army. second concubine, was brought Mrs. Evan-Jones, and Mrs. Turner. "Eyewitness") of the Prince of inga beautiful coloured panoramic Quartermaster General has been fore the money was missed a Little, Mrs. Singer, Mrs. Lammert, clearly before our minds from the beginning that we are not going placed in his car and lending him magnificent coloured photograph This, at first sight, may not into the hones, but into it (the war) in order to crash and humiliate any nation."

Mra, Kent kindly presented is all very charitable to be sure, but we are wondering how it can Ba one of our readers can cap Roberts. These art production significance, bat, when taken in robbery, of which prisoner told won by Ist, Mrs. Spielmen; Tuis his own rain-coat for protection, of the late Field Marshall appear to be of any particular in Macao when the alleged armed three handsome prizes which were be reconciled with the observation in the same circular which re- this for ho tells of another have been issued by Mesare, John copjanotion with certain other the police, took place. The 2ad, Mrs. Waters; 3rd, Mrs. cognises that "our Government has made most strenuous efforts to sold who, if he be till Kidd and Cɔ, of London. preserve pasos and has entered into the war andor a grave sense of

changes recently notified, it prisoner first Baid four men Blanch. A "hidden" prize was duty to a smaller state towards which we had moral and treaty present king once beld him in his Alleged Unregistered Society, important we have read much threatening to take her life if ahe Gray of later, the game to be

alive, can boast that our

will be regarded as of some entered the house, armed, also presented by Mrs. Bolles, and obligations." To recognise that fact is surely to pin the whole arms. The King-then Prince

Within the

the past gagged her and robbed her, for this Mrs. Tisdall and Mrs.

float them, and equally it absolves Britain of any responsibility or Thrush. One night, when Elis tendont of Polica, made agtween the Kaiser and his Generals, the house, and that rather indi-Tables were arranged in the responsibility on those who, knowing of those obligations, set out to George-was serving on R. M. S. ing, Mr. King, Assistant Superin-of the unseemly équabbles be called out. Gags were found in played off later. blame in the matter. How therefore it can be argued, ma it is in Royal Highness was on shcra in application for a remand in which have been followed by cated that she ralied on the armed hall, the drawing room and the the same publication, that "no nation, no oburob, no individual can Bermuda, in a dark part of the the case of a nine Chinese numerous changes of commands; robbery story as her explanation billiard room, and during an in- We fully realise, of conres, that the appeal is issued with the of a soldier, who lay fall across alleged unregistered. society. He that the Secretary to the German Later, she said that only one man ticipants adjourned to the dining very beat of intentions and that its whole tenor is in accordance with the way, very comfortably drunk. gaid he had acquainted the Trossury has resigned "ostensibly robbed her, but that was denied room, where an enjoyable tea was the professed beliefs of a body of people who for centuries have lived Humanity asserted itself in the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, but on account of ill-health, and a by the man, and it was inconsist-served. The function want & great citizens of Britain and America, To them all war in abhorrent, but to themselves and have been among the most law-abiding and upright young prince and, lifting the man he was not able to attend. The few days ago the resignation of ent with the evidenoo. Her sug. sucosas, and much credit is dus while wo can admire them for their constancy we do not think their "p, he carried him to the side request was granted, bail in $5 the Austro-Hungarian Foreign gestion was that the man stole to Mrs. Kent, Mrs. Sachse and the attitude at the moment is one which will commend itself to those who any passing

of the road out of danger of each being allowed.

Secretary on similar grounds wa the money against her will and ladies of Kingsclere for the time know and realise to what depths Germany has fallen at this juncture performed this work of vehicleHaving

announced Patting these facts without her connivance. Her and pains they put into in her history.

Postal Map of Kwangtung together, it becomes quite ap-adopted brother wascharged along organisation. A nation which has committed the atrocities which the Germans that he was an officer as well as a tration has just issued a Postal ning at all smoothly with Ger he was discharged. The prisoner mercy, the Frinoa remembered The Chinese Postal Adminis, parent that things are not run with her with conspiring, but have, which has laid in ruins a peaceful country and gloried in the man; and he emphasised the fro: Route Map of Kwangtung, show-many and her Ally-otherwise in admitted that the original story money before sud she had always wrong, which has wilfully shelled hospitals and destroyed houses of by reporting the care at the guard-ing all Chinese Post Offices a crisis like the present the was false in material particulars returned it that was in her prayer, which has over-ridden moral and treaty obligations alike, room, Result: so many days' established np to and including biggest through w deserves all the retribution and all the humiliation which can be cells for Tommy. But loyalty is the 31st October, 1014 Prin- nations have been called upon to the story she told to be false was persons who had become die

which these and the fact that she had admitted favour, but that applied to all heaped upon it. Common justics demands that it should suffer for indestructible in the soul of cipal name places ore given in pass, there would not be theas probably sufficient to indicate that honest: they were honest until its menstrous wrong-doinge, and we know of no law of God or man Mr. Atkins. "It's worth it," both English and Chinese, choppings and changing in high the money had been taken for her the period when they yielded to. which can be invoked to spare it from the punishment it deserves murmured the prisoner, when Unmounted copies are for sale at quarters. The old raw has it own purpose, or it might have temptation. Germany has sinned, and sinned grievously, and she can no more sentence was pronounced. I don't all Chinese Post Offices, price 15that it is dangerous to rightfully hope to escape what is her due than can the man who

swop been that she told the story of an Evidence in support of counsel's fully and in cold blood takes the life of another. "Whatsoever a man say that the fature King of Eng. The map gagnld be found or The application in this instance husband, having lost the money called. soweth, that shall he also reap. And as with individuale, so should land has held me in his arms,tremely useful.

Wilmind going to cliak when I can cents per copy (postal currency) horses when crossing a stream, armed robbery from fear of her opening statement was then

She had been entrusted wis The hearing was adjourned;

were members of an only yesterday it was made known to her husband and the Police. terval in the games the par-

it be with nations,

1. road he stumbled across the body who

its