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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1915.

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NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

OLD HONGKONG.

ALL WHO JOY' WOULD WIN

· MUST SHARE IT —. HAPPINESS WAS BORN A TWIN--Byron.

The Weather.

A San Francisco paper cradita, Mr. N. W. Gilbert (whom many Hongkong people remember xa, Vice-Governor of the Philippines) with some shrewd remarks on the discontent evinced from time to time by the natives of the Islands. The gentlemen in obargs there," Baays, are excellent men, who unfortunately, when appointed to their positions, were utterly overcast. ignorant of the iuation. At the Foak 8 a.m. Tem p. 51

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comes from a man who knows Yesterday the Telegraph far more about the requirements Published 33 columns of solid and peculiarities of the Far East reading matter. Today there than President Wilson's Govern- will be 33 published. met will ever know. To our way of thinking, Mr. Gilbert hits the nail fall and squarely, partic ularly in his observation as to | responsibility, and power. Mon |likā himself, or like `ax-Governor Forbes, know well that, if a nation is to be a successful

coloniser, it must be prepared and not to rush. The to creep

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unfortunate Filipinos were be just beginning to realise that their best policy wRS] to bow to a kindly firmness when, with by a change of Administration at Washington, all the firmness was removed, leaving nothing bat the kindliness, We believe that every American who

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BEVAN On the 14th February, at Perth, W. A. Mabel, the dearly boloved wife of W. S. Bevan, E. E. Telegraph Co., deeply regretted. Manila and Singapore papers please copy.

a policy of sentimentaliam, shilly- shallying and hali-and-balfoss can bring nothing but trouble

TWO GREAT SPEECHES.,

How We Are Dealing with Extraordinary, Conditions,

and trial -- the

Land Tenure and Overcrowding.

(Continued from faturday)

TRAINING NOTES.

This Morning's Gallops.

The rain literally poured down It was in 1886 that the start wa given to the scheme which for nearly an hour after daylight at 4.30 this morning, and though eventually saw the barbour front it cleared, it returned again

improved to its present condition.

The times recorded were:

37, 1-11, 1-42.2/5.

Coandian Obief (Moller) 3/4m.

Gamester (Exra) 1.1/4m, 34, 1-08, 1-46, 2-17 2/5, 2-50 2/5.

Ideal Dahlia (Boy) 1m. 37, 1-14.1/5, 1.49.2/5, 2-22.1/5.

Mascotte (Boy) 1km. 34, 1-08, 1-44, 2-19.4/5, 2-50 4/5.

Ampfield (Johnstons) Im. 44.4/5, 1.25, 2.06.2/5, 241.1/5, Aldwych (Vida) 1m. 35.2/5, 1-10.4/5, 1-44, 2-14.1/5.

Moffat (Boy) im. 41, 1-20.4/5 1-59.1/5, 2-32,

Briti bers and the Allies It started with the appointment when many gallops were ex- generally will assuredly find much of a Commission to enquire into Pected. At first the going was food for comfort and assurance and report apon the system of good, but later in the morning in the great speeches delivered lessing or otherwise disposing of the turf was more holding. in the House of Commons by Mr. Crown lands, and apoo means that Churchill and Mr. Lloyd George, could be adopted to check over- The one shows to what a high crowding in more thickly popa- state of efficiency our Navy baslated parts of the City. There is stioined and reveals the magnifi.much of irony in the statement of cent work it has done and is the third task of the Commission, doing, while the other indicates for, if it did discuss means of American and Siberian Mail the wonderful manner in which stopping overcrowding, the flower Closed per s... Mongolia to the Allies are co-operating so far of its braian, was born to blush sa financial and other matters are unseen," for if anything was done day at noon. Siberian Mail. Oloses per ss. concerned. In this hour of towards the prevention of con-

Yingohow to-morrow at 3 strana

most gestion in some of the portions of critical through which the the City which are notorious for respective nations have been overcrowding, the reform was as called to pass-we find osch and transient as many another that ba all dove-tailing their schemes for been evolved on this island. the successful pursuit of the war The following year the Commiez- [in such a way that there shall be on presented a isport and

no waste or overlapping and, that most elaborate account of land the maximum results shall be tenure in the Colony. To meet secured from the fusion of their the burning question of the day. Wild Cat, (Boy) lim. 40,

Of narrow minded, it was suggested to increase the nes, jealousy or misunderstand. amount of land at the disposal of 1-13.2/5, 1-48.3/5, 34.1/5. ing there is none-all are united the Crown by reclamations along

3.33.3/5. in a common cause which makes the Praya and by the removal of

President (Boy) Im. 40, 1-19,4 ̧ ite appeal as much to one nation the Military and Naval autablish- 2/5, 1-55 3/5, 2-27, as to another. That is the epirit mente and aertain public build-36.1/5, 1-12 2/5,1-46 4/5, 2-16.3/5. on which is to win the war for the

Allies.

Loon Mab-n (Johnstone) 1m.

p.m.

Up to the Minute-Share

Market NewS. Closing prios:****

Shelix-85)-. China Sagare.-$110. bayers. Raube.-$3.40, sale. Kowloon Lande.—$41.

Shangbai Cottons, Tls. 84:1-2,

bnyera.

الزبيدي

The Dollar.

The rate of the dollar

in the Islands, both to 'rulers and demand to-day is la 9.3-16d. to caled.

H, G. Wells and "G.B.5."

It is always diverting to watch the breaking away of disciple

from taucher. H.G. Wells has been

expressing hisopinion of Mr. Shaw, and those who remember the day

Returaed.

ni

Mr. Henry Humphreys returned, yesterday by the Shinyo Maru,

Dr. Wu Ting-fang.

Macao Excursion..

Overcoat Stolen.

resources.

Hope for the Future. The statement made by Mr. Churchill is fall of fact and figure praising the work so far accom plished by our great and virilo Fleet and providing ground for mach hope in the future. For others namely, that our naval 1000 fact stands out above al

strength is growing rather than diminishing; hence it may be assumed that the record of the

gava

3-17.

Perhaps (Ezre) 1.1/4m. 40, 1-13.1/5 1-48.3/5, 2-24.1/5, 3 32.2/5.

Majestic Dablis (Borkill) 1m.

*3.10.

lugs from the centre of the town. The reclamation is now an accom plished fact. A large ares of land 421-22.2/7, 200.4/6, 2-38, was opened for disposal, and some.

Sir Galahad (Knoll) Im. 35, fine buildings have baen eracted on it, but whether overcrowding 1-09 2/5, 1-44 1/5, 2-16 2/5. has been relieved by this maana

Sunstar Dahlia (Vida) Im. 36, is a question for which there is 1-09.3/5, 1-42.3/5, 2-13. only one answer, and that in the

Tailor 1/2m, 35, 1-10.4/5. negative. However, the

Flame Dahlia (Boy) Im. 38.3/5, appear. improved since she land Commis ance of the city has somewhat

sion suggested the provision of

doorstep for the Colony.

Squeeze."

46

1-13, 1-48.1/5; 2-22.1/5.

Scottish Chief (Moller) 1m.

39 2/5, 1-15.3/6, 1-50, 2-22,

Neptune im. |1-06.4/5. "

- 34,

Bayard (Heard), 1m. 38.2/5,

1-17.3/5, 1-53.1/5, 2-25.4/5.

Dreadnought Dablia (Burkill),

1m. 30.1/5, 1–10.2/5, 1-44, 2-16.. Coronet (Bay), 1m. 35.315,

1-10, 1-40, 2-18.4/5.

English Chief (Boy), Im. 37, 1-15.1/5, 1-49, 2-20,

Annan (Johnstone), 14m. 42, 1-21, 1-59, 2-34.4/5, 3-05.1/5. 1-17.2/5, 1-50.

Ploughboy (Boy), Im. —, 40,

The Hongkong Telegraph.mising kurck of funtinexscii. Cauton Railway, has reported to the war. But one cannot help over cultivated when fifty-three 1-51, 2.27.

tude, which gives him his advant- age in an irresponsible attack...

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1915.

A Clear Delineation.

THE US SHIPPING PROBLEM.

4.

Sarious Robbery.

Whampbray (Johnstone) Im. 40, 1-17, 1-52, 2.24.

Sailor joined above for last half, Black Jem (Enoll) Im. 37, 1-14.2/5, 1-52.1/5, 2.25.|||

Tinker 34m. 35, 1-09.2/5, Irish Chief (Moller) Im. 36.3/5, 1-13.2/5, 1.50.1/5, 2.21. 1-13 2/5, 150, 15, 2.21.

Saxon Chief (Boy) Im. 36.3/5,

1-11.2/5. 1-43.2/6

Welsh Chist (Boy) 3/4m. 36.3/5,

1-11.3/5, 1.46 1/5, 2-10 3/5.

Dake Dahlia (Vida) Im. 36.4/5, Boattook (Johnatons) 1m. 88, 1-15, 1-51, 225, NAT

Liberty Dahlia (Burkill) 1m.

whan Wells was a loving pupil the passengers arriving by the Dr. Wa Ting-fang was among of G B.S., and the curly-headed boy of the older Fabians, will Shinyo Mara yesterday. read with some enjoyment his Saya Mr. Wells:-"He is an act- summing up of bis old master.

past six months will be more It is to be supposed that if all ivity, with a restless passion for shan makes an excursion run to another way, the tank which lies Hongkong were dirolored it would On Sunday, next the ... Tai- than maintained. To put it in the wrong doing that took place in attention. Behind that is a kind Macao, returning from the before ne on the seas is not nearly make interesting if unpleasant of jackdaw's board of other Portuguese Colony at 2 p.m. great as it was when war first reading. Hongkong at one tire people's 'notions. There is much from Samuel Butler, scraps of!

broke out, whereas we are now in wan notorious for "graft," and in a better position than ever we have 1888 a systematised extortion from pseudo-philosophical phraseology Mr. A. A. Claxton, of 3, Dud- been to meet all demands that Rambling joints, was unearthed. BEVAN-On the 12th February. at Perth, W. A., to Mr. and from the old Hammersmith doll Street, has complained to are made upon us. It is true that The active lukong during his Mrs. W. S. Bovan a daughter (premature.)

economics, word fragments of the police that some person stole, there are new phases of enemy periods on duty, when propping shreds of theosophy and current valued at $55; from the anner will call for great vigilance on the hours away, conceived the Herbert Spencer, some Nitzvahs, an overcoat belonging to him, sotivity to be encountered which up the street corner and dozing superstitions, colton-sweepings of of the Hongkong Club. the part of our Navy methods of opening up of fruitfal ground for8r Calidors (Knoll), Im. all sorts and some advarcad rub

warfare which, sa Mr. Churchill squeeze and the gambling brother. 30.4/5, 1-14.25, 1-48.1/5, 2-22,115, binh. It is just this incoherent

Pointsman Assaulted, ways, would have been universally hood became the object of much 2-55.1/5. emptiness, combined with an

Mr. Hamleti, of the Kowloon-reprobated and repudiated before cultural attention. It brome

Mad Eve (Boy), 1m. 37, —, the police that a pointemen en-noliciog the under-current of lakonge had raised the brother-Triumphant Dehlia (Vida) im. gaged on the railway has been confiteace which characterises hand to the elevation of a weekly 34.2/5, 1-08 2/5, 1.41, 2-12.4/5. asaulted, receiving injuries Mr. Caurobill's declarations on pay-day, and one of them, who

Perfection Dahlia (Burkill) which necessitated medical treat-this aspect of the crisis.

found the burden more than he 1.1/2m, 38 3/5, 1-14.4/5. 1-49; ment. An arrest in connection

could bear, reported to the Police, 2.24.1/5, 2.67.1/5, 3.30.1/5. And so on. Readers who have with the mätter has been made.

Our Adaptability.

and, as a result, the force was followed Mr. Shaw-not in his

purged of over fifty men who had The First Lord of the Admiral-roduced squeeza to a finer ort play-writing moode so much as when he is bent on “philosophic- A case of alleged robbery with makes a good point when he than is usual with the Chinese. It is an anomaly which has been frequently commented upon mot-will feel that, if his former Kak Hang village. According because the attack in

al, sociological or political argu-violence has been reported from it at nos be supposed that Not Enough Pork

FITIS- Talking of the Police, leade that, in spite of the fact that she has enormous stretches of cost-disciple has been a little unmeroi to the statement of a fisherman ordinary a gond defence canno: our thoughts again to the gaol.1-42.3/5. line and that she claim a big share of the world's trade, America ful and brotally frank," he has living there, three man entered be made. Our Navy line shown I would have done the heart of Posezers so small & mercantile marine that it is, to all intents and at least not strayed so very far his house early in the morning that, above all else, it can adapt Charira Lamb good to have been purposes, of no account whatever. This fact in all the more striking of this extraordinary character, aephew. They went away, bat already been given a very good were, and sro, subjects that can from the truth is his delineation and assaulted himself and his self to conditions, and we have alive in Hongkong at times. There when it is borne in mind that commercially and industrially the The hardest thing, surely, for a two hours later returned; and, ides of the way in which we in only be dealt with by such a pen sation is keen, alert and enterprising to a degree such as few other man to bear, who plumes himself after beating the complainant's end to apply extraordinary re- his, and one chuckies at the countries are. The zeal and energy of her business men have not, how-on his originality, in the charge of wife with pieces of wood, stole medies to extraordinary problems. imagination of Charles Lamb ever, spread into shipping circles. That pins is being brought for oribbing; and this is not the first twenty dollars in subsidiary coin. In the first place, our Navy is dealing with a strike in Hongkong dibly home just now, and, jua as Britain sees the opportunity which time, either, that such a disaster Three arrests have been made.

being entrusted with the work of Prison brosuse there had been a the war in providing for new openings in world trade, so in the United has fallen to the lot of G.B.S. If we

seeing to it that our enemies decrease in the ration of pork. That States a strong movement has been set on foot to profit by the die remember rightly, the Daily remarkable film showing this supply of foodatns from neutral seems strange enough in all con- 35,1/5, -11, 1-45.2/6; 2-16.3/5.

The Victoria Theatre has shall not anjy the uninterrupted the convicts over received pork appearance of German shipping and make a beginning with the Telegraph's dramatic critic once building up of an America arosatile fest.

ventured so far as to question week: "The Pride of the Circus," Tesels which they have in science, but that it should ever The recent introduction into the Senate of the Ship Parchass the originality of some of the which depicts anfaked wonders the past. And the restrictions have been large enough to have Bill was part and peroy of this movement, for we note that it has ideas in a Shavian play; but that without end. The MeCiem-which we are thus imposing are called for a decrease throws an been officially described as a measure to meet "a critical emergency.' in meither here nor there. It bán ente finished "their" In the course of the discussions on this Bill, it was objected in some often seemed to us that if Mr.

already being keenly felt in interesting light on the benefits last night, and we Germany, witness the anger on accorded criminals in Hongkong. FOR BELGIAN REFUGEES, quarters that the necessary ships could not be purchased, but the Shaw could or would write an understand that the next bated displayed towards un and "It is possible, though it doen spokesman for the Administration, Mr. MoAdoo, has replied absolutely candid autobiography, artistes expected are the celebrat- the francio steps which are being not appear to have been officially thie point....by remarking that they conld bs it would have to contain theed Romina Lilliputian Troupe, taken to endeavour to stir up bad| 20ted, that the decrease in crims built, and that the Suipping Board would "give admission that his thonght-life, who are due to arrive in the blood between us and certain corresponded with the deerenss in

f+ the shipyards to *ancourage" them instead of having any cantianity Colony soon. The Victoris bas, neutral nations. Then, too, the the ratione of pork, though the Another Successful Concert at The problem, however, is one which is not hy Buy means say of about it, has been a succession of we are informed, secured, from recent attack by our seaplanes immediate effect of the latter was solution. It is admitted that it is an emergency which has to he jumps and patobes; so that March 1, the sole rights in the and airships on the enemy's the administration of flogging met, and, that being the case, swift action is called for. Mr. Moto-day his brain Adco's plan, however, involves considerable delay. To pass she dangeronely near to being one

Colony for Mesare. Pathe's pio-submarine bases along the Belgian with the raitan for some fifty-four

cosst abowe that we do not intend prisoners. Bill to organise the shipping corporation, to find the people who grand muddle, as described above. A notion in extended to matters all his own way. Look

· A Coming Lecture, " allowing the enemy to have will take up the stock which the Government will not subscribe for If he were capable of detachment

(To be continued). 40 per cent., apparently to decide on the type of vessels to be (but we fear he is too set and old those of our readers who are at matters sa we may, there is constructed, and then to get them built, would mean the lapse of a now) and could rivet his mind interested in scientific experiments every reason why we should con very considerable period. It would very probably be eighteen for seven consecutive dayson one to attend a lenture at the Bong- template the future with high mouths or two years before the new Government ships would ue at theme alone-be is politics, the ong University on Tuesday next. hope and confidence.

Ju-Jitsit in London. the service of American exporters. But by that time who can say drams or no matter what, we

A meeting to inaugurata a pressed their appreciation of the February 23, when Prof. A. G that the added ships would be needed? The emergency" might behave that he has it in him to Warren, B. So, will demonstrate

Ju-Jitsu Corps, to be affiliated to splendid efforts of those who took then have disappeared entirely.

the Central Association of the part. As on Monday, the Children's leave behind greater work than ad explain various phenomena Japanese Official in London. Volunteer Training Corps, was Band proved an The difficulties in the way are added to, also, by political wells can ever hope to do. But concerning "Colours. Ladies

exceedingly Mr. Okabe, Secretary of the held at Sulisbury House, E.C., on popular number. Every Rem on factors, the chief of these being the danger of creating international unhappily it is far more likely should be especially interested Japanese Embassy, and Mime. January 9. Lord Desborough, the lengthy programme appealed friction if purchase of Gorman vessels is contemplated, for, however that his brain will remains ju how two colours, when combined, daughter of Baron Kato, formerly tion, wrote and apologised for his to feel that the very greatent in the experiments, which show Okabe, the son-in-law and president of the Central, Associs to the audience, and one is bount 'fair and square America may desire to act on the matter, the problem ble-sale to the end, and that, in bristles with thorny points. So it will be seen that it is hard mat fifty years time, his name will be form a third and also how white Japanese Ambassador in London, absence. A number of letters credit indza to the performers and ter for Americs to make up losway. And she will probably ase be forgotten which, having regard is combination of various colours. nave returned to town from from men desirous of joining the to those who organi fore very long that it is of little use to apply jerky and impetacus to the underlying power that is The lecture will commenos at Bournemouth, where they spent organisation was road, methods to conditions which require long and careful study and the many weems somewhat of a 830 p.m. and is to be given in the Christmas and New Year obimately the me

the great hall,⠀

large orders"

sustained effort,

mnit

taren.

Victoria Theatre.

engage

Txostion.

adjourned.

meeting

the Italian Convent.

A second concert in aid of the Belgian refugees was given yen terday avening at the Italian Convent. There was a large attendance and all present ex-

who organised so entirely and succesfal an afisir...

of those who took part

our Extra of yests