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The Sultan of Egypt

and Tolerance.

DAY BY DAY.

NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

"THIS IS A WORLD OF COMPENSA- TIONS; AND HE WHO WOULD BE NO SLAVE MUST CONSENT TO HAVE NO SLAVE THOSE WHO SERVE IT NOT FOR THEMSELVES, DENY FREEDOM TO OTHERS DE AND, UNDER A JUST GOD, DO NOT LONG RETAIN IT."-Abraham Lincola.

As wastated yesterday, the new ruler of Egypt, Prince Hussein, has made a public statement to the effect that his efforts will be conseorsted to the welfare of his people in general, without distino- tion as to religions. This is an excellent beginning, and worthy of the best and highest traditions of Telsm. Mohammedanism baa tco often been represented to Britishers as synonymous with the fog. tolerance; but historical students bitterest and most ignorant in-

must be well aware that this view! is not, in general, confirmed by

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THE TURNINO TIDE.

Germany and Austria Realising

the Truth,

FOODSTUFFS

AS CONTRABAND.

Some Comments on

Britain's Decision.

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SHELL” TRANSPORT.

Trade Unaffected by War

The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company, Limited, bas issued the following letter to shareholders:

It appears that Great Britain! staffs destined for Germany to be to announce to the abereholdere has now declared grain and food-

The Directors have the pleasure absolute contraband of war, and

Recent indications have been making it abandantly evident in favour of the Allies in both sizing all grain shipped from counts for the year ending 31st hat the balance is slowly tipping has expressed an intention of that although, as usual, the ac theatres of war. The great tide America to Germany.

December, 1914, cannot be com

affected it to such an extent as

al effort is on the turn; soon the This is a very important depleted before Jais, 1015, they ebb will be evident. Both east parture from the principles of Ia-ave every reason to believe that, and wost, the first signs of the ternational Law onunciated both notwithstanding the war having Yesterday the Telegraph urnsra showing. The Russians, by English and foreign writers on reduced the trade of the Company facts. Of souras the Mobam-published Sacalm of here who are not deterred in their efforts the subject within the last half in some directions, it has not medans have had their fanatios, resuing matter. To-day there by the hardness of winter, have century. And it is, moreover, eanse them to anticipate the now got a firm grip of their dual apparently opposed to the provi, final earnings for 1914 will be enemies, while in the west the ions of the recent Declaration of growing strength sud increased London, Art. 24 of which provides orambling along the whole front. artioles, shall be regarded as con- business is spread all over the

less than for the previous year. insistence of the Alliea are causing that foodstuffs, amongst other The foot that the Company's but the signs are apparent to 33 of which provides that condi- portion is conducted in places It is not so yet marked, we admit, ditional contraband only, and Art. world, and that a considerable those who care to me. Everybody tional contraband "in liable to outside the war zone, gives feeling" is now awaiting the great result

and their mad preachers who will be 38 published. stirred up strife, not on account of thair devotion to their own Faith so much as by reason of their

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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1915.

THE SANITARY QUESTION.

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Mr. A. G. Stephen. Mr. A. G. Stopben arrived by the Orental from Shanghai to

Wanted, a St. Patrick's Society. Įday.

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K. C. C. Dianer.

On Leave,

Lawyer Plaintiff.

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which is sure to accrue when capture if it is shown to be of security for the future. the Allies throw their whole forces or of a government depart- destined for the nas of the armed strength into the balance. And ment of the enemy State." It is very severa test which the basi The satisfactory results of the we look to that time with the not, however, expressly provided as has to stand, especially during utmost confidence,-

On the Defensive.

by the Declaration that condi- the first months of the war, bas tional contraband shall not be proved that it is established on liable to captura unless extremely found lines,

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The Ancient Practice of the Hongkong Courts,

In the Summary Court, this

The Kaiser's armies, it is true, destinad; and, although this may are still capable of spasmodic perhaps have been inferred, the Eert, but they surely gain no wording of the first part of Art: advantage from throwing them-24, "The following articles, selves at their foes in merely lccalusceptible for use in war as for aacks which are always met purposes of peace may, without JUDGE ON DISCOVERY. with grim retaliation. Tas Ger- notice (de plein droil), be treated mans, and the Austrians too as contraband of war, under the for that matter, are now essential name of conditional contraband," ly on the defensive. In other seem to show that, if due notice. Reading, in the

words, the first phase of the great to that effect be given, aach Papers, the highly satisfactory annual dinner takes place at the will be the realisation by both the as absolute contraband, and there

The "Kowloon Cricket Club's war is over. The second phase articles may be afterwards trasted report of the Shanghai St. Hongkong Hotel at 8 p.m. to of the hopelessness of their or not destined for the use of the that Hongkong is still without Patrick's Society, reminds us

German and the Austrian peoples fore be liable to seizure whether

have been made, in the past; to such an organisation. Attempts

position. There may be some last armed forces of the susmy. If morning, Mr. Justice Gomperts, great effort by the war partion of this be the correct construc addressing the members of the eact nation to save the situation tion of Art, 24, then the legal profession, asid an applica- ect one going, but Hongkong Inspectors Terret and Keat left and retrievetheir battered prestige, fact that England has proclaimed tion had been made to him-at being Hongkong-these died to-day for home of the s.s. Orien- and that effort may come just at foodstuffs destined for Germany least a representation had been natural death. The St. Andrew's tal. They will bs on leave until the time for which the Allies have to be absolute contraband is not a made to him-on the subject of Society here has done a great November. work, and, though the number of

planned their big move. Ba contravention of the provisions of discovery. It was suggested that it should be on osthm Scots in the Colony is considerably

whatever comes, we can have every the Declaration of London. larger than the number of Irish-

assurance that the Allies will be But, spart from any question every case in the Summary men, there are many persons in

more than prepared for it. as to whether or not the present Court, but he had looked all walks of life here who either morning, the case was mentioned In the Summary Court, this

proclamation of Great Britain into the matter and not for years hail from Ireland or are of in which G. K. Hall Brutton

contravenes the provisions of the within legal memory, certainly Hibernian extraction, and it issues Lan Ngai-po for the sum of second phase-the realisation of remembered that this Declaration Court, there bad never been dis We spoke just now of the Declsration of London, it must be twenty years in the Summary thousand pities that these should $200. not band together for mutaal

the hopelessness of the struggle. has never been ratified by the Paw covery on cath except, poisibly, help as the Scots have done.

Judging from the telegrams of 3; and, although Great Britain in very exceptionally special Conditions at the present moment

the past two days, we have al-has expressed herself ready to net Case. He thought, therefore, he for starting such a society are, of

ready reached it. There are the in accordance with it to a large would be doing right if he At the Police, Court, this morn-mutteringe of dissatisfaction and extent, Germany has not done so,

followed his own couras, unfavourable; but when ing, the Pacifio Mail Steamship dejection in Prussia, while and neither country is therefore, giving informal discovery in the Jasninge, Hongkong becomes normal again Company were fined $10, for gloomy view is taken by the by International Law, bound by usual way and, as bad been we earnestly hope that a few Chasing an obstruction on the Austrian Headquarters. It waste provisions as regards the other done for twenty years, subject influential people will come for- Praga

stated very many weeks ago of them.. ward and have another try at

to the provision that had always that Austria's leading com giving Ht. Andrew a friendly rival

In 1793, during the war with applied, that those wishing dis- in the Colony.

mercial and financial men desired France, it was insisted upon by covery on oath could apply in peace and that her politicians were Eagland that all foodstuffs Chambers. It did not follow Mr. H. Shires, of the Naval mash of a like way of thinking destined for France might pro- they would get it, and it did not Yard, and Mrs. Shires, are leaving That is not surprising. They perly be deemed to be absolute follow they would not. Most of for Home 1 by the Oriental. Mr. have seen the armies of the proud contraband because the fact of the cases were triding, and it Shiran han heen appointed Assist. Dual Monarchy humbled by depriving the inhabitants of that would not make any difference, ant Civil Engineer by the Ad-Russia and Servia, and now the country of food supplies was Otherwise it was the ancient miralty.

military faction is becoming dis ons means of reducing the Practice in that Court. heartened. We can understand enemy

to reasonable farma

Obstruction.

Leaving the Colony.

Jockeys Arrive.

field.

Why Austria is Dejected.

There are so many points of importance in connection with the plea for the adoption of the water carriage system of sanitation in Hongkong that no apology is needed for reverting to the matter. Whatever else may be said, there can, among right-thinking people, be no two opinions about it that Hongkong's present method of sen. ng disposal is not merely antiquated and inconvenient it is also objectionable and dangerous, to the point of menacing the health of the Colony. With that much admitted, it becomes the prime business of the authorities thoroughly to investigate the question and to seek some remedy for a state of affairs which is no credit to A Trältor's Death. 'those whose charge it is to cafeguard the health of the community. Bo far, we bave been given no evidence that this initial obligation has been discharged. The fringe, and only the fringe, of the matter has been touched by the Select Committes recently appointed. History surely offers no batter Special Police Reserve. Neither the practical side nor the financial aspect have been delved example of a traitor's meeting,

that too. The past has shown of peace; And that thin into a they should be.

that the Austrian armies cannot method of distressing the popu "with the death he deserves than All gentlemen who have ap keep back present foea. What, lation was then particularly fairby It is, of course, no use ignoring the physical dificulties which the case of Marits. He had plied to join the Special Police therefore, are the prospects of reason of the fact that Francs aries from the fast that a big proportion of the population of the schemed and lied and betrayed, Reserve sre requested to attend holding their own when in front had armed the whole of the labour-War Are very different from those Colony lives on levels no higher than the sea-front, and, in some in his anxiety to make profit ont at the Magistracy on Friday, of them loome the fresh mensceing class of her people. Never which existed when Great Britain, instances, even lower still. The outfall question is a serious one, of the Empire's troubles; and a February 19th, between 4 p.m. to be found in the possibility theless it was for a very long time disapproved of a declaration by a we admit, but there are other methods of treating sewage than that dog's death was his reward. In and 5 p.m. for the purpose of of several new armies, representing afterwarde regarded in England belligerent that codetoffe be of disobarging it into the harbour, and it is for the authorities to fairness to auch whole-hearted being sworn in, make some definite pronouncement as to the best means of grappling loyalists as General Bothe and his

Balken nations, appearing in the that this doctrine of a right to deemed absolute contraband.

endeavour to reduce the enemy. with the problem in a place with such peculiar gosgraphical features followers, the lens said about

Moreover, if any means can be by famine was untenable, to much devised for bringing this war to as Hongkong passed. Coming to the financis! aupant of the Marita in future, the better. It

No Help From Germany. question, we do not see that the difficulties are by any mesas is idle to seek to make excuses

so that when, in 1885, France her a speady olcas, short of the The following ridera have inenperable. We are told that if the water carriage system were for him, sud just as idle to abase arrived in the Colony for the Rumania and Greece to name China, declared rice, shipped to note, the lives of many thousands Austria must know that itself, during her hostilities with perpetration of utterly inhumane applied to the whole Colony the loss in revenue would be some him now that it has been put out anual races: Mr. Brand, by the only two should join in, she will the Northern parts of China, to be of persons, both British and $62,000 per annum. This, on the basis of 50,000 households for of his power to work further Chausn Mr. Ezra, by the be the suffrer. Germany could absolute contraband, England pro-German, may properly be saved the whole Colony, (the figure mentioned by the Director of Pablie mischief. Works at Tuesday's meeting of the Sanitary Board) means that buried, says the Chinese proverb Vida, by the a.. Kamo Matu.

Let dead dogs bea. Oriental; and Messrs. C. H. not possibly raise a finger to helped that this was contrary to by using such means. It may Burkill, J. Johnstone, and F. R. her, and nothing could stay a the law of nations. And, again, therefore well be that, even something considerably less than a dollar and a quarter per house and it is to be hoped that this hold per annum finds it way into the Government coffers. When, man's name will be blotted

terrible invasion of her territories, he similarly protested when, though the seizure of food sup therefore, we reflect that, on the admission of the Diretor of Pablic out of South African history,

Look where she will, Austrian can during the reosat war between plies destined partly for the use Works, some households are paying as much as $24 to $36 per an- and that men will forget, in their

find no way out of the situation. Rassis and Japan, the former of the civilian population of num for the removal of night soil, it will quickly be seen how large gennine admiration for the bulk the 22nd inst., a Cinderalls dance day when she took the fatal step be absolute contraband.

On the first day of the Ricos, Ere this she must be cursing the declared rice shipped to Japan to Germany causes much distress to profit goes into somebody elas's pocket and how expensive to the of his fellow-countrymen, that will be held at the Hongkong into war which must spell realised that, in former times, the them in addition to the Allien,

the innocent, this will have the public the prozent antiquated and filthy system is. Be that as it such a being ever existed. So Hotel for residents and diners,

which throw the whole of Europe Bat the frot has evidently been result of ultimately benefiting may, the loss of 882,000 which would be caused by sweeping away much that is noble has been Special menus will be served both her own doom as well as that of means of transit from one part of There is a vast difference be the present system could be covered five times over if, on the adoption called forth by the prerent war, in the dining and grill rooms; those who have ranged themselves the country to another were not tween such acts of wanton of the water carriage system, the Government were to impose as many thousands of instances and the band of the 74th Panjabie nominal tax of 50 cents per household. One year's revenue-$300, of conspionons travery or of self-will be in attendance.

they are now. In olden day ernelty and brutality as have 000--wou'd not, of course, meet the expense incurred by the author facing loyalty to our great

it would have taken woek to been reported to have been oom- ities, bat, inasmuch as the tax would be perpetual; it would soon do Empire can be cited, that poaterity The Chinese Theatricals,

convey goods from a seaport to amitted by Germans, and an en- so and from thence onward a big yearly profit would flɔw in," will have plenty by which to a che vedev

distant town which, at the present deavour to starve their country into Sir Richard Dane in Tonkin,time, may be conveyed thither If the modern system were adopted, there would eventually be remember the years 1914 and 1915

The Courier d'Haiphong reports in a few hours. Consequently it may be meant, by inspiring submission. The one, although many directions in which savings could be effected. For example, without referring to what osn

The Committee of the Queen' that Mr. Jardin, in the company it is impossible to say that goads terror, to have a similar. ultimate the inspection and disinfection duties of the Sanitary Department only leave a nasty taste in the College Chinese Amateur Drama of Sir Biohard Dane, killed an consigned to an unfortified place effect, has the same relation to the would be materially curtailed, and tons in time the staff could very mouth. One levirios strengthentic Company has handed over

elephant and a wild bull in the in the enemy country will not other as the physical torture of a well be reduced. Later on, the beneficial effects of the new system od, not weakened, the cause of sum of $1,019.12 to the Honorary district of Ha-tiak (Tonkin). After immediately after arrival, 1 would be revealed in the improved health of the people. It will Ohristianity, and one Maritz Treasurer of the Prince of Wales' the elephant had been shot a herd forwarded to the armed forces of flancing others to do fond

be person for the purp therefore be seen that there are many reasons why this important should only serre to throw into Fund, being the proceeds of the came up and charged the busters,

the enemy, and question should receive serious attention and not be brushed lightly over stronger relief the passionate recent theatrical performance at who had to ran for shelter. The the civilian populatio wide, se some of the Colony officials deem it should be. It is a loyalty to Throne and Empire Queen's College on February 4th, next day they were able to retorn those forces, with the remalt of very big question, we agree. That is all the more reason why it should that marks the other subjects of 5th and 6th. All who assisted with coolies and approach the car-prolonging the war. The condis to another son and must be closely investigated before any desision is come to. King George,

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