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NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

THE AIRSHIP RAID.

An Affair of No Military Significance.

THE TRIAL OF CONCUBINE.

Remarkable Evidence at the

Sessions To-day,

CORRESPONDENCE.

The opinions expressed by the correspondents are not neces8– arly those of the "Hongkong Telegraph."1

THE BISHOP'S SERMON,

At the Criminal Sessions, (To the Editor of the Hongkong The Germans have once again this morning, a woman, named

Telegraph.) been indulging in what Earl Chan Suisi, was again before Sir-In the very excellent ser- Kitchener the other day happily Sir William Rees Davies, (Chief mon by the Bishop of Victoria, described as "pectacular by Justice), on

indictment which appears in your columns play." Their airshipa have paid charging her with unlawfully to-day, the following sentenss a visit to certain East Coast towns, converting to her own use the sum occurs:It was impossible to and though their stay dow not of $1,900, and also with stealing over-emphasise the importanos of appear to have been of long the same, the property of Fong their characters, for by their char duration they have managed Tin-nan, to whom she was the clors, they would be judged.” to do some damage. The first concubine, on December 9, The sentenes bears the stamp of towns of Yarmouth and King's 1914.

Truth, and it is impossible to Lynn have suffered mout, Bat The jury was composed as refute its sound and healthy the total casualties, so far as is follows:-Mesars. W. J. Crawford morality; but, nevertheless, there revealed by the messages to hand (foreman), H. F. Banje A. R. are some questions which it gives at the time of writing at two Kinross, A.H. Abbas, A. M. Slark, rise to, upon which I think women and two men killed and a F. P. Shroff, sud. L. B. Cordeiro. the majority of us would li certain number injured. There Complainant gave evidence to little guidance. For instance, is apparently not an armed man the effect that he saw Wong Mai what is obaracter? Is it a spirite amongst them. The raid, there standing beside the amah orging asl or a mental quality? Is it a fore, has no military significance out "thief." She told him rob- thing of the mind or of the soul? whatever. It certainly represents bers, armed with firearms, had How and by what is it formed? no positive gain to the Germans come in and stolen things. He Farther, how should we account and has in no degree caund any would swear that he never saw for the fact that some people have real barm to Britain. Its object Wong Ngau (the prisoner's adopt-atrong characters and othere weak was no doubt two-fold. In the ad brother) inside his premises, ones? first place it was intended to Prisoner had never socused Wong Again, in the sentence, "The greate a panic in England. Ngan to him. The first occasion reason that the Holy Spirit was Bat past experiences of a on which he heard Wong Ngan given to the Church was that it similar kind have shown that sccused was the next day, when might bear witness of the Christ to the British people are not just at prisoner accused him to the To- all mankind.

1." What is the Holy present subject to attacks of spector at the police station. Spirit? Farther, would it not be nerves. They are keeping their Ah Sam said she showed the equally in accordance with the of the Sanitary Board takes place wits about them and are in no robber out. He did not know to Biblical teaching, if the sentence Voting is at the danger of being asazad by visits whom he was referring when she were to read, "Bear tritness of the

of this character.

said "robber."

Christ in all mankind?” Lastly, Supreme Court from 4 to 6 p.m.

il St. Paul had not been”, so Abaconding Coolle.

The Dollar.

The rate of the dollar on demand to-day is la 9.3-16d.

Re-naming Prize Ship. The ceremony of re-naming the prize ship Tannenfels to take place at the Naval Dook lo-mor row afternoon.

To-morrow's Election. The election of two mambere

to-morrow.

Kallan Output,

Hunstanton by the way, the Norfolk people call it " Hanst'n

is not the sets of place which one connects with air raide. It must be in the neighbourhood of thirty years since. He built and castle on its beach and delved for bait in its mad. In late years we believe the place bas "come on' considerably as a seaside resort. There used to be "Old Hanat'a and New Bunst'." Perhaps the two have joined hands by now. The chief thing one remembers about the the extraordinary distance to which the tide retires, and the rapidity with which it comes in. to beat, though Morecambe Bay Irans it close. In a sense we

Notes Lost. would rather any other watering- Mrs. Abraham, of Aston Road, place than Hunstanton had Kowloon, informs the police that, suffered by the raid, for we have on January 19, between 7 and dismal forebodings that those 7.15 p.m., she lost, or left in a joke makers who love the obvious public riekaba, a brown leather will be unable to resist the photo case which ccntained one temptation to point out to the five dollar note and three one rest of the world the stupendous dollar notes. appropriateness of the Germans' gravitating towards a town bless- ed with such a name,

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is The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines far the week ending January amounted to 67,083.12 tons and the sales during the period to 61117.88 tons. ***

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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1915.

"A-BOAT-LOAD OF THIEVES."

Chinese Classics or English ?

Arcadia's Cargo.

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To Cheer Berlin.

Most of all, the Germans were Wong Fat-kes, a hawker, of insistent in season and out of

Our Way,

Youra ela,

INQUIRER:"

open

The

It is reported to the Police that one, Yang Tang, a rickeha no doubt spurred on to make the Queen's Read West, paid that on coolie of Kowloon who was told raid so that the Berlin public December 9, in the evening heen," in fact, if bis obaracter partion where his Master's to collect money from other might be cheered up by fanciful heard a "blast of a whistle. A had not been a little out of pro- message was concerned, would land by aircraft. And we may plainant's house, but no one came Christianity have now stood where with the takings. risksha cooliea, has absconded stories of an "invasion of Eag-man walked alowly out of com-

Fell Into the Hold. depend upon it that the most is out after. He did not recognise it does? Wan Ching, a cook employed being made of the affair along the man. The latter was not only sak these questions since on the s.s. Henngaban, has been these lines. But, as we have said, carrying anything as far as he I had occasion's short time back taken to the Government Civil the raid means no real advantage noticed. The man must have got to venture the opinion that the Hospital, suffering from injuries to the enemy and the only effect into the middle of the street before ethical beauty of Christian ser- sustained through falling down it will have in England will be to the whistle blow. There were no mone was frequently marred by

give a further fillip to recruiting strangers about the place.

the inability of the preacher to the hold.

The German aviators would not Sam, an amah employed by defend logically the troths which appear to be content with siming the prisoner, said she had been in be preached intuitionally; and it at ordinary game, since they her employ for two years. On would be very pleasant to find evidently had it in their minda to the date in question, in the that I was mistaken. include Royalty in their "bag." evening, the prisoner's godmother That is what the dropping of cams in with Ae Kau's mother.

His Lordship-Ae Kau's Hongkong, Jan. 19, 1915. bombs near Sandringhamimplies, but, happily, Their Majesties had mother?

The Hon. Attorney Generál :--- been in London for some hours

That is the mother of prisoner's before the appearance of the

THE GROTESQUES." enemy's aircraft in the neighbour-adopted brother.-(Laughter).

His Lordship-Mr. Altorney hood of the Royal residence.

General, I will leave it to you to There is sure to be a full house One cannot help comparing a get us out of the difficulty.st the Theatre Royal on Friday, the 29th inst. when Messrs. typical German raid like this (laughter) with the efforts of the British and Wong Ngan was called into Braham and Campbell's Com

"The Grotesques," French airmen. When the Allies Court and witness said this was pany, Found Hanging. The body of a Chinese brick carry out work of this order they the man she called As Kau. Later their season heie under the direc Tayer, Ma Shing, aged about 32, see to it that the blow is directed in the evening, Wong Ngau came tion of Mr. Maurice E. Bandman. has been taken to the public mort against airship sheds, military in. That was between six and The success which has attended asry. He was found by a friend, works or at masses of armed men seven. He tied up the prisoner's this clever combination since 1909, hanging from the scaffolding of actually in the fighting line. mouth with some sugar cane when they (then quite unknown some new buildings on Praya When w" get home," therefore, She saw him do it. It took place in London) engaged the Queen's We have often spoken of the East. The police believe the we do real damage and impair in the front cubicle. The prisoner Hall, has been really remarkable. scarcely satisfact.ry education in ose to be one of suicide, the effectiveness of the enemy. In resisted and would not allow him so marked was their popularity in written and spoken English that

other words, our, sirabips play a to do so. Witness was in the town that the Queen's Hall season A boatload of thieres is the epithet which, the Crown Solicitor is given in our local schools. The cargo shipped by the e.s, vital part in the war operations. front sitting-room. She did not lasted three months. applied to fire men and a woman, who recently profited by their Practically every business man in Arosdis on the 18th inst. included The enemy, on the other hand, go into the cubicle herself. She Grotesques" followed this up by Occupation as lighter-workers to steal part of the cargo of which they the Colony has, at one time or 136 bales of cocoon, 185 bales of finds a peculiar satisfaction in heard the prisoner call out" don't playing another three months at the London Hippodrome, then had the handling; and the judge who heard the case was so far in another, found that, on engaging raw silk and 117 packages of tea dropping bombs on unfortified tie me ap. agreement with the sentiment that he sentenced four of the accused a lad fresh from school, he was for London; 172 bales of raw silk towns and in killing women and The Attorney General-You finally establishing themselves at

the Savoy Theatre. with the to lengthy terms of imprisonment with hard labour. Such a case faced

language for Lyons; and 127 bales of raw children and unarmed civilians. said you saw him do it.

Cowardly Blackguardism.” Witness:—No, I did not see During the Company's short is of particular importance in a Colony like Hongkong where thous difficulty. The boy could neither eilk and 15 cases of human hair ands of tons of cargo are shipped or unshipped every day in the express himself readily nor under-fer Marseilles.

These latter practices are, as him do it; I saw him go into the tour in the East, Mr. Fred Winn, year, Sundays excepted; and the offence is one which we have had stand readily what was said to A, D. C. Dance at the Hongkong is well known, in contravention cubicle. the leader of the little party, has The Attorney General Don't shown himself to be a humorist. reason to discuss before in these columne. Apart from the loss in him, and his writing a lengthy

of the Hague Declaration, and it value, thefts such as this, as the Crown Balioitor pointed out, entail letter in tolerably correct English Last night the members of the is worth noticing that quite re- say you saw anything you didn't of the best class, the press and pub. lio both of Bombay and Calcutta endless trouble on the steamship companies and the consignees. was a thing out of the question. local Amateur Dramatic Company conlly President Wilson formally see:

That the practice of cargo-pilfering is a common one we all We fully appreciate the draw who recently performed in "Bnow- protested to the belligerents Witness: Sho called out" don't declaring that there has never know and that it is a lucrative occupation is proved from the fact backsunder which school-masters white," hold a dance at the against such practices, Though tie up my mouth," and I heard a been a comedian in India to com that the woman concerned in the case could afford to offer a bribe are working, in having to deal Hongkong Hotel. The Band of he" named no names," as Truth noise as if the drawers were being pare with him. From all accounts, of $200 to the Chinese sergeant if he would pass the matter by. with boys who, the moment the 74th Panjabis was in at the other day remarked, the world pulled out. I became alarmed and The Grotesques" deserve all Bake at the tributes that have been paid Much of the stealing which occurs in connection with the transfer school is over, fall back tondance, and a thoroughly knows well enough at whom the afraid.

protest was directed-not at legit The Attorney General You them and fully justify the re of cargoes could, with tolerable ease, be prevented. Many light on their own language and never enjoyable evening was passed.

imate operations like our destruc. Bra not afraid now, areyou?-am putation that precedes them. It articles and many old picals of rice or coal, or armfuls of cotton, by any chance speak a word Mrs. Anstruther's New Year

Take Trophy ASN

tion of Zeppeline at Dusseldorf Witness then said the man was is no straining of facte to say that are taken by the sampan people, almost under the very noses of the of English in their home life.

The final of the competition and Friedrichshafen, but at the not in the rock long and when he they are the best of their class**** Chinese police. This is particularly the case with goods that are This latter fact, however, seems to dumped down on the Prays and which, from what we have occasion- us all the more reason why addi arranged by the members of the cowardly blackguardism of Gor- came out she saw he had the they are, as the Daily Express put ally seen, seem to be regarded more or less as common property by tional stress should be laid on the Dockyard Rifs Club for Mreman airmen at Peria, Daver, Yar oral-box wrapped up in a hand-it, the Goode. the Connaught Road loafers and their children. We have suggested thorough teaching of English Anstruther's New Year Cup will mouth and half a dozen other kerchief, ander his coat. before that much lose might be avoided, in this direction, if a during school hours. We know take place on Tai Hang Range places. The British and French pushed witness back into the room. reasonable margin of the Praya West were railed off, and none but that the education authorities on Saturday, the 23rd inst., om-airmen have become something of Wong-mai was standing by the Far her advices from Savarelat persons having the right to be there allowed within it. Sache attich special importance to the mencing at 2 p.m. It is expected a real terror to the Germans in the sofa all the time. After Wong live to the Fijian contingent state. barrier would also prevent much unsightliness, untidiness and teaching of the Chinese classics; there will be over 30 competitors. field. On the other hand, save that Ngau had left, prisoner ran out that the Ba province in Tiji will poor women and children occa.on to the verandah and blew a provide £500 sterling to the War danger to traffic. At times we have seen bricks, sand, oment or but, from our non-professional Victoria timber straggling more than half way across the road a thing point of view, this seems to be, in There was a good attendance at sionally fall s prey to the enemy's whistle. Fund and offer a contingent of particularly

pleasing to motorista or to persons riding in rickshas a large number of oases, waste the Victoria Theatre last night, attacks, we can afford to laugh at The Attorney General: 1,000 men. The natives of the Ba labour, Boeing that the majority of and Tuesday night, when the the aerial activities of the enemy. don't suppose she had the gag in province contribute £00 and 500

her mouth then?-(laughter)-men. Tor the thieving that goes on in the Harbour itself, from ships the boys in the Hongkong schools melodramatic and highly enter

No, or from lighters, it is by no means so easy to suggest a remedy, for it will eventually become clerks, and taining film "Thereas the Adven- Amateur Boxing in Shanghai, is evident, from the care ander discussion and from the numerous thus will have considerably more taress" was screened. This is s

Amateur boxing is to reosive Witness went on to say that smaller charges at the Polios Court from time to time, that the need for English than for theirown well-arranged Scandinavian play, another fillip in Shanghai, Messrs. the monster (complainant) came robbers," because her mouth was water police are not wanting in dao vigilance. But even if the literature. We cannot believe that splendidly presented and full of R. Llewellyn Jones and Olias. E. downstaire after the whistle was tied up. water polics-force were thrice as great, it would have more than ite the schoolmasters of (e. g) Rome exciting episode, Two good Shepherd having decided to pro-blown. When he came down, Before all the evidence for the work out out to keep an eye on the hundreds or thousands of coolies, devote more time to teaching tomics, "The Lost Husband" and mote a further series of special prisoner told him that a robber Crown had been called, the Chief male and female, who are employed in loading and noloading-by Horace and Livy than to impart Bloomer and the Hobble, were contests at the Town Hall on had taken her thinga. She did Just as neked the jury whether which we do not, of course, mean to deny that this branch of ings sound knowledge of modern also shown, together with three Saturdayevening, the 30th instant. not hear her say how many rob. they desired the case to continue. the Force could with advantage be enlarged Practically the only Italian to boys who are destined stories of a more domestic charac-As before, the raceeds will be bere there were. Witness saw After brief consultation, the fore- measures that would be lastingly elfestive, lo our way of thinking, to become bank olarke; or that far. An amusing cong and patter devoted to the War Relief Fund, only one robber. There were man snucunced that they wished would be a system of warpnes visits by the police to sampons, junke the schools in Ireland allow more turn was contributed by Mr. whilat, on the other hand, any no cries raised. The only noise the case stopped

literature than for Billie Graham, a comedian who is leas will be borne by the pro was the blowing of the whistle.Prisoner was accordingly found and lighters. If more frequent and unexpected searches were made, tims for Irish

Prisoner did not call out thieves, not guilty and discharged it is likely that quite a far amount of unaccountably missing eargo English grammar.

passing through the Colony. might be brought to light from time to time.

at night.

Hotel,

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Fill's Generosity.