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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1916.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

Mrs. E.T. Bunjq and sons beg to thank the numerous friends who have expressed their sympathy with them in their recent bereavement.

The Bank Clerk

We don't know how the bank olerk came originally to be res garded as a sort of undesirable.

DAY BY DAY:

NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

AT THE RACES.

CHEERFULNESS IS LIKE MONEY Perhaps is was his own fault: wELU EXPENDED IN CHARITY. perhaps it was his ill lack in THE MORE WE DISPENSE OF IT, having to cccupy a midway THE GREATER OUR POSSESSIONE

Huro position between the trades and the professions; or perhaps his reputation has been spitefully blackened by other gentlemen of

clear.

The Weather.

the clerk persuasion because he Lower level 8 s.m. Temp. 69; usually is entitled to a pension and clear. they usuallysrenct. Really wa seo no reason why the bank (or any other) clerk should not be sa manly a fellow as persoas in o'ls· | walka in life. Originally the

"A'DASTARDLY ATTEMPI.

Pick-Pocket Caught,

CORRESPONDENCE.

[The opinions expressed by the correspondents are not necesa” arily those of the "Hongkong

Telegraph."]

At the Police Court this morn= |sqyr One Submarine Accounted for.g, a Chinese who was caught taking a watch from" a man at Happy Valley, yesterday, whilst he was watching some jugglers, was brought before Mr. J. B. Wood.

THE

“TOKOMARU."

The German attempt to sink the Folkestone-Boulogne mail- boat, which failed merely because Inspector Gordon prosecuted. At the Peak 8 s.m. Temp. of bad markemanship, will as The prisoner was sent to geol Zealand ship Tokomaru, which,

suredly be regarded as one of the for six montbe. must dastardly designs yet con- ceived by the enemy. The ship, we are told, bad ninety-two par- sensors on board, all civilians, several of whom were neutrale.

Count the Columns, workers in shops and offices were

Yesterday

Telegraph the regarded as belonging to the published 37 columns of solid maly, because they followed reading motif To-day there an indoor callings but early olos will be 32 published. ing and facilities for sport have put an end to that idea. That there is the "real stuff in this

of his life, and rescued the injor

ed man from the firing line. If

this sort of thing be anmanly and "indoor-like," by all means lat us

་ haré sume more of it.

"The Malls.

Up to the Minute-Share

Market News.

"THE FUN.

(To the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph) | Bir-Why do Hongkong news- papers always refer to the Now

laden with New Zealand mutton, was sunk near Havre,a short time ago, an a Japanese ship? Some of them onll her the Toko Maru. and others the Tokio Marn,

Tokomaru' is a Maori word and

Zealand.

There cannot be the least shadow Interesting Lecture Last Night. the name of several places in New

..-

Yours sto

PAKUHA

FOOTBALL.

of doubs that the Germson in- tended sinking the craft, since the Yesterday evening, the Rev. J. torpedo fired at her passed Kirk Maconachie gave an interest-Hongkong, Feb. 24, 1915, some thirty yards ahead of ing lecture to the Union, Church class as ·mnoh as in any French Mail.Arrived per the ship. Evidently

The Telegraph, in reporting Ger- Guild on "The Sun". After re- the disaster, on no occasion re- other is shown by a letter in A lantique to-day.

many, inber desperation, ferring to the work of Sir W. ferred to the Tokomarn arrived in Hongkong this morn- a copy of the Times that Siberian Mail. —Arrived per 8.8.8

abandoned all civilized Hentschell, and his view that the Japanese ship. Ed], Malta to-day.

1otions of warfare and is bent on enn was a very large planet and ing. A bank clerk was wounded by Siberian Mail. Closes per assinking any and every ship which possibly inhabited, the lecturer the bursting of a shell; immediate Atlantique to-day at 4 p.m. comes her way. The excuse was detailed the knowledge that bad ly his corporal-also a bank clerk English Mail:-Closes per smide the other day that it was been attained by scientists up rushed into the road, at the risk Malta at 11 8.m. tc-morrow. known that British ships were to the present with regard voyaging in twos and thress, to the constitution of the some of them armed, and that sun, and its great distance from

Navy

Beat the R.;A. instructions had been given them the earth. For example, the

In the United Services League to ram enemy submarines. In distance between the sun and yesterday evening, the B. G. A. this instance, no such plausible ourselves was 93,000,000 miles, & went down before the Navy by argument of justification can distance that could only be cover- the only three goals scored in the hold. The plain fect of the ed by an express train at the rate match. The result is all the more matter ja that the attempt was a of sixty miles per hour in 175 devilish piece of work, and we years.

astonishing when it is remembered wonder what neutral countries The sun was now known to in the Shield Competition.

that the Artillery beat the Navy will have to say on the matter. consias of glowing gases of In their own interests they cannot elements, all of which, or at any early in the first half, but from The Navy opened their soore condone this sort of thing for ever. rate most of them, are known upon that time on the R.G.A. managed The time has surely now come the earth, all at a temperature to hold them in check, but no far the delivery of a strong protest which could not be produced in more. In the second half the from neutral nations who stand to the laboratory. It was from this sailors had matters pretty much suffer the loss of chips and lives that the photosphere was obtain their own way, and added two from Germany's blackguardly ed, the constant upward rush of goals to their score, methods of warfare on the seas. incandescent maiter being re- sponsible for the maintenance of A submarine in a wide expanse our light. Beyond this was, of

More about German Scholarship,

Talking of to-day's Times; wo notios that it gives some little prominence to a subject that ban recently interested our readers and some of our correspondents; German

versus s English Calture, to wit. Sir Clifford All- batt, the vatorau physicist, writea about Goethe; while, in another part of the paper, there is a short notice of Professor

The Hongkong Telegraph. Ridgway's presidential addreas

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1915.

VAGARIES OF the child mind.

Banke.-$800, buyers, ex. div. Cantons. $352, buyers.. China and Manilas.- $61. Indo-Chinks.$70, buyers. Bhells. 87/6,sales. China Sugure, $108, sales. Shanghai Docks. Tle. 52,

bayers. Hongkong Lands.-$110. Ewoe. Tls, 132, buyers. Shanghai Cottons TIs.

bayers.

Green Islanda-$51.

The Dollar.

90,

The rate of the dollar on demand to-day is 1s 9.3-16d.

Japanese Resident's Lois,

at the meeting of the Classical Association, in which the rival merits of the two countries. are touched upon. Professor Allbutt speaks of the egotism of Goethe, and seems to imply that even in A Japanese living at Ashley him the modern German spirit, Road, Kowloon, hee reported to of placing self-glorification before the police the theft from his re real culture, is traceable. As we ridence of a bat, an umbrella look back upon his life and con- and a small quantity of money, versation," he writes, "can we to the total value of eighteen resist the conviction that the waya dollare. of his life, his discipline, and hia intercourse with men and women were deliberately ordered for one

end, and this the building of his

House-Breaking,

We published, in Wednesday's issue, a list of "bowlers" recent ly sent to a Home educational paper. Such lists appear with own self?" This is not the first Old City has complained to the A woman living at Kowloon conspicuous regularity-after the term-end examinations, presumtime that Goethe has been accused Police that during her absence ably-and one collection is pretty much like another. Analysis of of vanity; indeed we have heard yesterday some one broke into her any list usually shows that, while two or three of the blanders Germans themselves so accuse house by forcing open the front are probably "faked," the rest bear the marke of genuineness, him, and it is worth noticing that door and stole a quantity of They are read and smiled at by the public, bat, as a rule, only persons the quotations from him on which clothing, $250 worth of jewellery interested in obild psychology see anything more in them than food the new German school most ringe and $480 in money. for momentary amusement, or else farther grounds for criticising the changes are those which seem accepted educational methods and abasing the echcol-masters. to encourage the glorious gospel

The schoolmaster, (like the padre and the Government official,) of self-esteem.

One Less,

THE OPERA SEASON.

The win is quite a valuable showed improved form over their one for the Navy, who certainly of sea takes some detection, but course, the chromosphere from we may rest assured that a sharp less condensible elements, the

performance against the same team look out is being kept for these gaps in which were what are com- not sufficient to justify a win by in the Shield Competition, though dangerous marauders. One, in monly called son-spots. 4- fact, has already been sccounted Thespeaker dealt in an interest-

such a margin. fr by the French, as a yesterday's ing manner with the sun-apole, telegram showed. It is interesting which he informed the audience to note, too, that this one was were due to cyclonic disturbances sunk in the same locality in the sun's fi-ry atmosphere in which the attempt was made and which appeared according to on the Folkestone-Boulogne mail-a well-defined oycle of eleven Splendid Production of "Ernani. boat. It could not have been the and a half years. Contrary to same submarine, however, inas- the usual belief, these sun-spots Last night's production of the much as the attack on the mail- had no governing effect on our three-act opera Errani" by the ing, while the successial French there was some connection bet-of the biggest successes sodred boat was made on Tuesday even weather, but it was possible that Italian Opera Company was one operation was carried out in ween their variation and that of by the Company during its season the morning. The wira does the longer meteorological phens here. The opers is based on not say in so many words that the mena on the earth

Victor Hugo's drama "Hernani," submarine was sunk, but from the fact that several shells struck lecturer observed that the only Dan Carlos; King of Spain, M. Dealing with the corona, the and the music is by Verdi. As her and that oil. was seen opportunities of seeing this most Scamuzzi was magnificent. Be floating when she disappeared beautiful sight were on a acted and sang with even greater it may be taken as a certainty total eclipse. The prolonged success than in bis previous ap- that she met her fate. She evidstreamers of silvery lightextended pearances here, his rendering of ently must have been struck in the round the body of the sun and the famous "O de verda being oil-tanks and a submarine while its composition was as exceedingly fine and winning for without oil cannot go far, except doubtful as the comet's tail, its him round after round of beauty was undeniable. There applause. Artino, as the It is well-known that Germanying a total eclipse in the United work his beautiful voice being would be an opportunity of view bandit chief, alto did splendid does not possess a great number Kingdom in 1922, there being an beard to much effect. These two far away from their base, and the last viewed from those islands. evening, though the work of Mile. of submarines capable of going interval of 200 years since it was carried off the honours of the only base she possesses is on her The lecture, which was illus- Manceri and Mile. Morgenti wan own coast, True, she has been trated by many fine slides, was also in every sense noteworthy. The fortnightly whist drive endeavouring to establish another listened to with great attention The other parts were also i arranged by the Naval Dockyard on the Belgian coast, but the by a large audience.

capable bands. A word should Chaplain's room at the Yard last have kept a sharp eye on this Recreation Club was held in the British warships and aerial oraft

bo added concerning the choral work, which, with the frequent THEFT.c-operation of the principale, was

most impressive.

To-night the Company, stages

3

Good for Shipping.

Cinderella Dance. is regarded by Britishere as fair game for baiting and vilifying

The second Cinderella dance occasionally because the baiters and vilifiers themselves do not pause Justice to Both Sides.'

given at the Hongkong Hotel last to consider the difficulties under which he works. No system of education is perfect-indeed we have sometimes been constrained to

If our readers hark back night was a big succees, and was show that certain systems are as far from perfection as it is reasonably to the recollection of the various attended by many leading it be to the bottom of the sea,

residente. Special menua were possible to be; but we often feel that the schoolmaster is still a much- well-read Germans whom they arranged for dinner and at the injured man, for the very simple resson that the people in the street may have known, they will doubt dance, which followed, the band injuret recognise the extent to which (if he is to be succesful) he less see that, to many of those of the 74th Punjabis supplied a must depend on the co-operation of parents. The "howlers" which books were rather trade imple- splendid programme of music. we reprinted are, if the public would but see it, quite as much the mente (things that would give fault of the parent as of the teacher-and possibly a deal more so. them a material advantage and a' In the first pince, the subjects about which the examinees have made better conceit of themselves) than such ludicrous mistakes, happen, in many cases, not to concern companions, and that many of "school" matters essentially; some of them relate rather to the items these highly-instructed that form the family breakfast-table conversation; and the blunders would have been just as happy made are those which the parent is more likely to be able to bad destiny called them to the correct than the schoolmaster. It has always seemed to us (and handling of razor and scissors night and was very largely got and have made things for ALLEGED MONEY

instead of to the tools of some attended. The function was in too hot for the Germans to allow every way a success, and at the the plan to fructify. With these

to the central fact or facts.

of

ones

Whist Drive.

*Belgians Pity Germans,"

there is good backing for the idea among the writings of payobolog scientific or literary occupation.close, the prizes, which were as Points in mind, the successful A Chinese "Boy's" Defence. La Tosca ists) that the bringing out of the power to think directly and to grasp the gist of a statement belongs to the early and pre-school Professor Ridgway, however, stage of the child's existence. If the child mind is not trained to lakes a much wider view than Sir follows, were presented by Mr. accounting for one of the enemy's

Hatcher the Hon. Secretary submersibles is an roxomplish At the Police Court, this morn- seize the main point of an assertion it will assuredly, in most caser, Clifford, and pleads for the giving Ladies 1, Mrs OJ Tacchi 2 ment from which we may deriveing, the boy charged by a woman lay hold of a non-essential. "Charles II, told the people they could honor thom-honde Mrs. F-W. Eager, 8, Mra. Waugh deep satisfaction. It lessons, the at 46, Lyndhurat Terrace with the BANKS CLOSE DOWN get diank and gamble and do what they liked. That was called the girde gently at the sudden booby, Mrs. Alderman; Consola danger to merchant shipping theft of $120, again came before Restoration" is a fair example. The answer was written by some fa segata converything Ger- tion prizes, Mis, Holline and Mrs. Very trially, and, if the Mr. Wood.

"face-about" of so many British- feather witted boy who had paid more attention to his teacher's

Tooker. Gents-1, Mr. G. process is continued, Germany Mr. Davidson, of Messrs. Hast- Awaiting Better Times, rough summary of the licence that obtained at the Restoration ihan man, and urges the desirability Warren; 2, Mr. Jackson; 3, Mr. H. By soon find herself absolutely ings and Hastings, defended.

of giving the devil his due. D. Hallway; booby, Mr. H. impotent at sea, as she is daily witness mid the boy had We are not going to say that a parent should try to answer wants to see people taking Cousine.

becoming increasingly so on land, given $200 as security for his good Eight Chinese firms who carry every question pay by a child; no one who wished to avoid an whatever, when thoroughly

behaviour. He appeared drank on banking businesses or money- antimely end in a lauatic saylum would dream of auch an attempt; tested, seems to them the truth,

Victoria Theatre.

when he came in on the date in ohanging establishments in Hong.. but there is surely a happy medium between the "Don't bother from Germany and everywhere

T

question. The boy said he had kong have closed down since the attitude, and taking upon oneself a lask that would puzzle Solomon, else, and that too with fall"The Midnight Guest", a four- Fathers and mothers who regard their parenthood seriously neu acknowledgment." He would part dramatic film, is being shown It is reported from Bourg been robbed Chinese New Year, obiefly on ally contrive to devote at least an hour out of each day to amusing have every new idea whether the at the Victoria Theatre for the Leopold that the number of Ger Mr. Davidson said the defence account of the depression in trade their children; and we think that a part of that hour might be con product of the greatest German or last time te-night; it portrays a man soldiers returning from the was that the defendant went out that has resulted from the war, verted into a Bort of "question time," A obild who thrusts his the humblest British subjects" fine human interest story and has front is enormous and that thou- and returned to the house with importunate and ill-timed enquiry on otherwise coupled parents submitted to a rigid test of critic-me strongly sensational situs- sands, especially artillerymen, money and afterwards went out been arrived at, not because of or elders, might well be told to save them till question-time and ism, and recommende ellete tions. The war pictures are, who have suffered much have with some, money of his own and inability to carry on then ask hie fill and we believe that the result of this would he keep clear of those who are so by a long way, the finest we have arrived. Even the Belgians pity some other money of the ladies at but from a preference that most of the sheerly silly questions which children ask, for the over violent cr so over ovil that yet seen. Tomorrow night a these then and nurse them as well 46, Lyndhurst Terrace. He went therm

can. The military to the flee Lee Restaurant about take of asking, would alipout of the little one's mind long before the every German with them is either new Wiffles picture will be shown, as they lime was due for hearing them, and that the mental effort necessary God cr Devil" The long and together with a special series authorities have expressed thanks four o'clock, got drunk and when closed up after reeliling/ Abair to retain the subject of enquiry that was really troubling his brain short of the whole business is, of of war pictures. The Victoris to the population for the care he got back to the house at nine accounts, and. would be an excellent gymnastic. The tercel, and more often than course, that no German and no baving now obtained exclusive which they have taken of these o'clock he found he had lost all formed, placed their not inconsequent. Why?" would largely di appear if the young Britisher is quite in the right right in Hongkong for the show soldiers. Notwithstanding the the money on him melading funds with foreign ban afer's mind were bent all day on the fact that there were two or three frame of mind, just now, for fairing of Messrs Pathe's pictures, requisitions continue, and at Bourg his own, and practically the the advent of moro prosperous

times. In some instal or six matters about which he required extra special information: criticism. In a few months' time the Rocambole flms will Leopold, 500 bottles of wine, 40 whole of his property in and we cannot help thinking that if his more rational questions wors we may all ses both sides of shortly be continued at this horses, and 15,000 kilogramas of The prisoner was remanded are likely to fart wisely answered, and Lism re healthy curiosity Encouraged, there the question better than we were theatre, and a now Pathe picture, hay were requisitioned. The until Saturday mor would soon be developed in him much for which bisultimate teachers ever able to do before the The Crime of Love, will be price of flour in forty centimes evidence for the

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