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TAE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

Once Again.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH

DAY BY DAY.

LET THIS BE ONE OF OUR CHIEF DUTIES PROMOTING THE HAFPI- NESS OF OUR NEIGHBOURS-Anok.

* The Weather. Lower level 8 am, Temp. 64;| clear.

Itin again necessary to refer to the misdeeds of the gentleman whom, for want of a better name (which we think we could supply), Hongkong has agreed to call "the compradore." When the Government fixed a definite rate of prices for house hold commodities ons thought that this individual would thence-clear. forth be fenced ofl from the sin of over-chargiog. The ones which our 1eaders have, from time Yesterday the Telegraph to time, asked us to ventilate, published 34 columns of solid show that the rails of the fence reading matter. To-day there were not placed closely enough, will be 34 published. together, and that, where our

GERMICIDE, Chinese friend could not climb

`DISINFECTANT & DEODORANT.

PER PINT

PER CALLON

50 CENTS. $2.00

in Kowloon, teems, to have bit upon a very special method of extracting squeeze. A lady reader

complained that his charge for certain articles was ons cent per unit above the Government

that the articles sold by him were

At the Feak 8 a.m. Temp. E0;

Count the Columns,

The Malls,

Deucalion to-BY.

11.3.m.

Siberian Mail-Oloses por e.e. Shidzuoka Maru to-morrow at 11 am.

Up to the Minute-Sharë

Market News.

NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

THE RUSSIAN, RECOVERY..

The Allies' Policy Regarding

Neutral Ships,

1915.

OLD HONGKONG.

The Namoa Piracy Recalled: (Concluded).

HONGKONG AS IT WAS.

SOME FINE PHOTOGRAPHS,

A Publication to Swell the Prince of Wales' Fund,

No mention of the history of Every time the Garmans pursue Hongkong would be complete the Ruesisus they seem to meet without dealing with the many with a defeat. The last time piracies which have taken place the singular phenomenon to be in these waters. The very fact

One of the most interesting noticed was when the Germans, that the islanda surrounding gifts to the Prince of Wales Fund loudly ecclaiming victory, found Hongkong were loosely spoken of that has been given locally in the themselven in the unfortunate as the "Ladrones," only a master Presentation of a limited edition position of having to break out of a century or so ago, shows that, of photographic views of old of an almost completed enclosure. even in the time of the clipper, Hongkong which will be on sale over, lie would make a sturdy effort Siberian Mail-Arived per s.s. victories will cost them more than frequent on the coasts of the and Co

Indeed, it really seems as if their piracy was more than ususlly shortly at Mesira. Lane, Crawford pradore, who has his habitation Canadian and F.K. Maile. Close they seem to win they are merely keng became an important com of the Chinese Maritime Custome, at creeping through. One com.

their defeats, and that every time Pacific From the time Hoog.

The donor is Mr. L. A. Byworth, per 8.8. Awa Maru to-day at providing means for their submercial centre it would seem that who is shortly leaving the Colony signent worsting. The lesson of the small percentage of bad on transfer. He is the fortunate the last two weeks, as taught in characters that already inhabited possessor of a book containing the eastern theatre of war, is that the islands on the arrival of the large number of fair-sized views of no defeat up to the present has British was considerably ang. Hongkong aadi was as far back been anything like declaive. Un mented by maritime thieves who as the year 1868. It is from thems doubtedly the Russians were in came into the Colony from ad. that he has made a selection of a tight corner before their re-jacent parts of the mainland. views showing the Colony as it treat acros the frontier-the There are, on the north side wae, Kowloon in all its barenesa acuteness of their pcaition of the harbour, several local and the harbour filled with sail- may well be gauged by the ities which aro spoken of ing vessels and without a single sacrifices they made to get as former hotbeds of pirates, steam launch. The photographs China Sugars.$113, buyere, recovery, and the saddenness of notes of the history of Hongkong Bad are some of his best work. clear. But the quickness of their and in order to make these sketchy have been copied by Mes Cheung Kowloon Docks-$57, barere, their forceful blow, while the cover the more important features They are put together in a highly Hongkong Hotele. $120, enemy bad still over reached him of the Colony's story, mention artistio matt-paper book and make self in his endeavour to attain a must be made of the famous a fine souvenir of old Hongkong. $63, lasting decision, is another Namoa piracy.

The first edition, the proceeds triumph for the Russian tacticiau.

A Terrible Affair.

from which will be given to the Possibilities.

In quite a number of the piclare Prices of Wales' Fund, consiale The question which none of postcards of the Colony may be of a very limited number of the telegrams cattle is whether found photographs of an execu- copies, of which a quarter have the Germans were using their tion on Kowloon beach. Taere already been Bold, a faot sbook tactics to secure the initial are generally two of them-one which is indicative of the interest success in this directio's. Il eo, with four Chinese in the fore- which this novel publication bas there might be some explanation ground, backed by a crowd of aroused. Subsequently, should for their eventual failure against officials and ecolis onlookers, there be farther requests for the their opponente. Undoubtedly and the second of a number of views, there will be further print- the weight which achargeenntasso headless torsos with European ings.

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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1915.

THE PHILIPPINES QUESTION..

When, presently, we come to look back upon, the war and its attendant circumstances wo-ahall surely have to enumerate among ite incidental blessings the cessation of the sale of absinthe France is pct essentially a "drinking"

country. For one intoxicated man to be found within her borders, prob- ably three or four could be! seen in any Northern country. Yet, if we come to consider the percentage of irreclaimable druok ards in each country, we shall perhaps find it higher in France than elsewhere. By nature the

Closing prices

Ucions.-$830. Yangtzoe.-$230, buyers. Obina and Manilas-86)

buyers."

gales:

Bongkoog Cultons. -

buyers.

Lagu Kung Mowe.-Tls. 86,

buyers.

China Providente..

buyers,

$73,

Green Islande. $5.40, sellers. Iodc-Chinas.$77, buyers.

The Dollar.

The rate of the dollar on demand to-day in 19 9.7-16d.

President Wilson,

Tc-morrow is the anniversary of the inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson (1913.)

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osrries with it may mean come witnesses behind. The Names A glance at the plotures con fair amount of ground won, but piracy, to which these photo-veys in the shortest possible time once the charge is stopped the graphs have reference, took place what recent articles in the Hong- momentum of the large bodies of in December 1890. It was one kong Telegraph have sought to men has disappeared, the ground of the most awful affairs that tell of Hongkong as it was. The covered has to be consolidated bad ever taken place in the harbour front is to be sean right The meeting of shareholders in time before the huge machine which is even maintained to-day, Hotel, not a ricksha is to be found Company Meeting, and it must be more than a little Colony. Following a practice up to the foot of the Hongkong Frenchman is not a "drinking" the Hongkong and Kowloon can be got moving again. It a number of pirates concealed in the streets, where the chair He is, it is true, rarely a Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., is is therefore onceivable that themselves among the passengers coolies seem to have bad it all total abstainer, bat very mild to be held to-morrow at 11,30b.m.retreat befors suck formations on the s.s. Namon which departed their own way, while sloug the wines and the smallest quantities

my no; be no difficult as before for Swatow. Passing the island sea front are sto be seen of brandy or of some liqueur

Stole $100.

a more open method of procedure, of Pingloi, hetween forty and the davits from which swung the asually entisfy him, When,

A Chinese who stole $160 from and that the very tactics stopted fifty pirates appeared on the deck gige of the various honge. Views however, he takes serionely to a shop in Queen's Road West was by their paraners gave the Rut of the ship, and, before the officers of the Peak are to be seen when brandy, or, worse still, to absinthe, sent to gaol for six months at the sins the opportunity they wanted had time to grasp the situation, not a house was built on that it seems as though nothing could Police Court, this morning" to take their stand and face about, divided into parties and made altitude, when the Peak Tramway stop bim from going downhill

concerted attack on the various was not built and when a farizi If the Government of the United parts of the ship. The captain gocopied the site of the lower

map.

I

Did not Limewash.

A Concise Statement

at fall speed. We have always been opposed to "prohibition' A number of Chinese, prosecnt-States had any doubts as to Bri was brutally murdered, as well as tramway station, wh in a general way, for we maintained by Inspector Davies, were fined tain's position on the question of two others, one of the pirates also Those who are interested in that it is impossible to hold men $5 each, at the Police Court, this the alleged blockade by Germany meeting with his death. That Hongkong's history, and there back from evil by force as the morning, for failing to limewash of the British Isles, they ought some of the participants wore cap appear to be quite a number, will revelations of those who have their property.. passed a Sunday in Scotland, or who have travelled through a

Harbouring. "dry" State in America, show Nine months' hard labour was plainly enough. Absinthe, how the sentence passed on a woman ever, is something beyond the at the Police Court, this morning, pale; it is not what could be found guilty of harbouring a girl termed a natural beverage; it is, under the age of 18 years. in any quantity, rack poison, and,

Flower Show,

all to be dispersed by now. A tured was due to the vigilance find the book quite well worth more definite and clear statement of the European police and the baying, and the fact that the of what England and France in-sudden awakening of the Chinese proceeds are to be devoted to the tend to do, than that of Mr. authorities to their duties. At any most important fund in the Asquith, cannot be well conceived. rate, a number of men convicted Empire should aot an an addition The British and French Govern of the offence met their deaths by al indacement to those who wish ments hold themselves free to decapitation on Kowloon beach. to lay cut $5 in the beat way take into port any ships carrying

Gid Kowloon,

possible. goods of presumed enemy destina. At this time the walled city of tion, ownership or origin, but it is old Kowloon was a place of im-

to our bumble way of thisking, the French Government has cor- The flower show arranged by not intended to confiscate such pcrtance in this part of Chins time that the Chinese officials in ferred an inestimable benefit on the Hongkong Horticultural 3-vessels or cargoes unless they, for In addition to its being subatan Konicon should continue, to ex-

its subjects by following in the "ciety will be held in the Botanic other reasons, be liable to tially wailed and armed with the ercise jurisdiction, with the only wake of Holland, Belgium and Gardene to-morrow and Friday, confiscation. There is no quibbling huge guns that at present lie in limitation already mentioned. Switzerland, and banning it, It remains open from 2 p.m. to about that. It is a perfectly fair, the various doorways of the old That proviso has also passed p.m. on Tauraday and from 10.30 and, at the same time, in labitably city, there were a number of offi- away, and Kowloon is now 18 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday. clear statement to the whole world oials, including a heptai, or mili- much a part of the Crown Colony that ships carrying goods to tary commander, while a weird of Hongkong as any other enemy destination will get to Chinese roadway, like an irrega-district,

Golf and Profanity,»

We published an interesting]

A Mean Snatcher.

laying down of the Allied position Chinese authorities sdmitted that died off with appalling quickness, in the way Mr. Asquith has done the request was a reasonable one, a locality inhabited by Chinese should not allow of any further and in June, 1898, it was an whose characteristica were nons misunderstanding. It also renounced in the Colony that China of the beat, and generally a

Judging from the latest American newspapers, the Philippines question is still actively engaging the attention of legislators in Washington. The Jones Bill, which, as is well known, contemplates the early granting of independence to the Filipinos, has been before little paragraphyesterday in which Committee of the Senate for some time, and so marked is the oleavex-President Taft has a word or age of opinion on the measure that quite a battle royal bas taken two to say about golf and the the cap from a Chicese baby, ship that happens to cross iteir over the mountaine through

A man charged with snatching farther than the first Allied war-lor flight of granite steps, ran up Then and Now." place in regard to the wording of its preamble. One point which profanity that is popularly sup which contained a gold ornament, path. After that their own wishes Smugglers' Pass. Kowloon's time the story of Hongkong's growth, There is much to be learned from appeels forcibly to the disinterested observer is that the principal pored to arise from the playing was sentenced to six months' and as to destination will have to give as a big centre pased in 1898, and to deal with it efficiently opponents of the Bill are men in high positions who have served in an cfficial capacity in the islands and who are thus able to speak that he has no ambition to be the birch, by Mr. Hazeland, at veel,

ihercof. Mr. Taft has decided ordered to receive ten strokes of way to the orders of the capturing when it came into British hands, would require the oreful atten with authority on the matter, while the supporters of the measure

The principle of extending the tion of a balanced bistorian. The are, in the msin, men who have nothing but sentiment and fanciful comeen expert in the vocal branch the Police Court, this raing. Clearing Away Misunderstanding. Colony on the mainland bad been great, lesson is as to what the viswa on "emancipation" with which to back up their arguments. the matter somewhat neatly. It of the game," which is putting

When Germany actually sinks a matter which had been engag- colonising power of the British is That is a foot which is certainly of much significance,

Alice Memorial Hospital.

vessels without any sort of enquiry, ing the attention of the British really capable of Hongkong seems, however, bordly fair to The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice so long as they are in the vicinity authorities for some time, and came into our possession, an asy of the game that "at the Memorial and Affiliated Hospitale of England, it is a matter of grace, certain political reasons made island of ill-repute, so bad We know, for example, how such able servants of their country outset it may tempt to profanity" begs to acknowledge with thanks more or less certainly snevidence it desirable as Mr. Newton Gilbert and Mr. Dean Worcester view with the utmost for the man who curses his luck the following donations to the of good faith--that Britain doas directly

that the hills that its addition to the Empire alarm the idea of an early granting of independence, and they have at golf will usually do the same funds of the Hospitals:-Oyagar not intend to follow the example city should

commanding the was looked upon with outspoken on their side no less a personage than Mr. Taft, who, with them, over billiards, tennis, cricket cr Singh, $10; General Electrio Uo., of the apostles of" Kaltar." The the control of Great Britain. The where the population of Europeans pasa under disfavour. An unhealthy spot Then played no small part in the history of American occupation of bridge. We should say that far of China, Ltd., $10; Hoo. W. Oh it the islands. The preamble to the Bill affirms the intention of the more words" are used over the ham, $10; C. E. Richardeon, $10. United States to relinquish the islands upon the establishment of a billiard table than on the links, stable native Government, and, in the opinion of Mr. Taft, no recital if only for the reason that the can be better calculated to start up insurrection in the Philippines. billard room (the public variety, This morning, at the Police moves any impressionor should had lessed two hundred square malarious and unsavoury spot, has And one can clearly perceive his line of reasoning, since it may be at least) is essentially the malee Court, a Chinese master of a de-from the American mind miles of territory, around Hong been turned into the third port in taken as a certainty that not many years would elapse before the domain, whereas in golf, as in water boat was charged with be that we are willing and anxious kong, though even then Kowloon the Empire and a moat up-to-date Filipinos would be accusing the United States of not making good tennis, the frequent presence of ing in nolawful possession of to play any more games of maintained some of its indepen-possession of which Britain might the promise if the preamble were approved. Self-government may ladies acts as a very wholesome thirty taels of opium. The case diplomatic checkers than we aan dence as long as that did not con- well be proud. There have been come in time, but, as Mr. Taft takes pains to point out, it is the first check on tongues that would fain duty of America to prepare the Filipinos for it, not to give it to them go astray. Be s man good or morning in bail of $2,600, Mr.

was remanded until Monday possibly help.

flict with the military require-scandals in the administration of because the politicians among them aek for it.

an indifferent sportsman there Otto Kong-sing being for the

ments of the Colony,

the Colony and there have been are times when ill luck, will defence.

How We Secured Kowloon, | many maltera that viewed in the As to the readiness of the people for self-government at the cause him to lose his temper for

Consular Change,

The position may be shortly light of after experience may be moment, there can be no two opinions. The bulk of the Filipinos the moment; but not, necessarily,

Malta's Cargo.

It is announced that Mr. J. T. stated. In 1842, Hongkong occasions for regret, but the fact are woefully ignorant and out of touch with modern civilitation, and, we think, over one game more Malta from Hongkong on Feb. 28 Chemulpo, has been transferred Naoking, by the Peking Conven- promising material, the British The cargo shipped by the a.. Wawa, the British Consul at became British by the Treaty of remains that, with most-un- if we except the agitators, it may be added that they are not in favour than another. We once knew a included 300 bales of silk encoons to Nagasaki. It is also atsted, tion of 1860 British Kowloon was race in seventy years made of autonomy and probably do not understand the meaning of it. The pious old gentleman who boasted and 513 half-chests of tea for says the Japan Chronicle, that a added to the territory acquired in adother green and flourishing art of self-government cannot be given to others it must come as a that the only "demo" he had London, 100 bales of waste silk British Vice-Consulate is to be 1842, and in 1898 that portion on spot on the globe, and in doing reault of long social discipline in eali-mastery. It is on that fact that ever perpetrated was over a game for Manchester, 354 rolls of mats opened in Tokyo shortly, of which the mainland was extended to eo redeemed an island that one those who oppose the Jones Bill take their stond. And for the same of croquet--and then his hearers and matting for Amsterdam, 288 Mr. G. H. Phipps will be in two hundred square miles by a famous journal reason it is to be hoped that, for the sake of the Filipinos themselves, were a clergyman, an elderly packages of ten for Havre and charge when he returns to Japan lease to extend for ninety-nine to have coen g

Dal would haya liked no lees than for the United States, the messure will undergo con- lady and a little girl.

go back to the sea siderable modification if it ever comen to be passed into law.

442 packages of tea for Marseilles, from England.

years, It was agreed at that from whence it came

An Oplum Case.