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Blackwater,

Hants, England.

Mrs.

will be much

obliged by Mesars. Watson

sending to her by post 10 BOT-

TLES of their "COLD CURE."

She will be glad to have them

as soon as possible, as she is

to-day sending her last bottle to her son Captain-

(of

the Buffs) who is at the Front

ין

and finds the tablets excellent

for stopping colds.

January 31st, 1915.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH

Bands for the Troops."

Kipling has added to the many services that he has done the Empire, by his appeal for bands for the new army. His rare com- bination of rigid practicality and extensive paychological insight usually shows him what is wrong in a system or a movement before the majority of people have even jarted to think about the matter; so it is nothing surprising that he should have taken up this vOKY far from animportant question, Music and particularly martial musio-could almost be styled a primitive înatinos; and, at time lik) this, it is not well that sach an instinct should go un- Batisfied. If Britishers are not a musical race in the highest sense of the term, they at least like melody-be it good indifferent or idiotic; and they can barely conceive of its absence from their overy-day life. It is associated in their minds with churob, the theatre and almost everything else; even a cinematograph show that endeavoured to exist withoat a piano would fail. The secret of the major part of the Salvation Army's success, where so many seota have failed, lies in its band; | and, in the old days, the presence of a military band in a village or guarantee that the recruiting eorgeant would find plenty of young men willing to join the colours then and there. By all manna let Tummy have his music, and plenty of it. German and British Conceit.

The object of this paper is to publish correct information, to serve country town at Home was a safe

the truth and print the news without fear or favour.

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Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

Telephone: No. 1 A.B.C., 5th edition.

Western Union Office address: 11, Ice House St.

BIRTH.

KERFOOT-On March 3, 1915, at Ewo House, Yangtaze Road."A conceited German is the worst Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. James Kerfoot, a son.)

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1915,

HONGKONG AND CLEVERNESS.

DAY BY DAY.

BIGHTLY TO BE GREAT, IS, NOT TO STIE WITHOUT GREAT ARGU

ENT, BUT GREATLY TO FIND QUARREL IN ASTRAW, WHEN HON OUR'S AT THE STAKE-Hamlet.

The Weather. Lower level 8 am. Temp. 69;| dull. 8.

At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp 60; fog.

Count the Columns.

The Malis.

NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

OBRMAN SUBMARINE ACTIVITY.

And Dür Reply Thereto.

The German submarines aro

KOWLOON RAILWAY

STATION.

No Clock to be Provided at Present:

The Pablio Works Committee Me

YOUNG SOLDIER'S

LETTER.

Shivered with Pride" of

My Regiroat,

Lymings,

bad before it at its last meeting The following letter, received the question of the provision of a by a resident of Hongkong from Yesterday the Telegraph still on the warpath. Three more taizat clock for the Kowloon ber son who has volunteered for published: 33 columns of said British merchantmen have been Bailway Station, and reported service in the new Army, showe reading matter. To-day there accounted for, and the circum-as follows at this afternoon's the feeling which animates the

stances make it clear that the meeting of the Legislative Chan-young British soldier will be 34 published.

work of destruction was carried cil---

The Chairman laid before the Siberian Mail.Arrived per s.s. out by three separate submarines Committee an indent which had

Sardinia to-day

one on the routh coast, another

been submitted by the manager English Mail:- Due per s. on the eut sad yet a third on the for a turret clock for the new for

west. All the vessels were sunkinal station at Kowloon Point. Nubia to-morrow. Siberian Mail-Closed per B.. on Tuesday morning. There may. The clock was estimated to cost, nit be any connection between exclusive of freight, insurance, the facts, but it is worth noticing etc.; and without chimes, £499. 18 4d. If Westminster chimer Sardinia to-morrow at 11that this fresh display of "fright" fulness" follows immediately or

Luchow at 3 p.m. to-day. English Mail, Olores per 8.6.

8.00.

Up to the Minuta-Share

Market News.

Closing prices:-

China Fires.-$145, rollers. Douglaces.-3281, buyers, Steamboats. $91, sales.. Rauba.-$3.40, sales. China Providedte.

buyere.

$7.35

Green Islands.-$5.30, sales. Ropes.-$26, sales and buyers.

The Dollar,

the announcement that the were added, the additional cost Admiralty will not extend hon would be about £210, bringing curable treatment to the captured the total cost up to £709. Is. 4d. officers and men of the sunken submarine U8. It may be nothing more than a mere coincidence, of

coutée.

Pirates.

The Chairman read a minute by His Excellency the Governor suggesting that, as the railway was still far from being a paying concern and as the clock would have to be paid for out of bcx- Be that as it may, the rowed money, the matter should latest raid atill further justifies be deferred for the present. the Admiralty in the stand it has

The Committee endorsed His taken. It would even warrant the Excelleney's suggestion that the treatment suggested by Lord question of providing a clock Obaries Beresford, whb advocates, should be deferred meanwhile.

[that] with characteristic bluntnear, out Germans captured, from sub- marines abould be dealt with as

The rate of the dollar on demand to-day is Is 9.13-18.

P. C. Goucher. We are informed that P. C. Goucher's condition is just the same.

After the Fight. A Chinese coolie injured in fighting has been admitted to the Government. Civil Hospital.

f

Coming Marriage.

a

pirates and strung from the yard- THE TYPHOON REFUGE. arm by the neck. For pirates they undoubtedly are. That much

has long since been established, The Coping of the Outer Slope

of the Breakwater. and it is strengthened by the facts o acerning the sinking of the at amer Tangisman, which was Jobviously torpedoed without At this afternoon's meeting of netice, since only cne man was the Legislative Council, the saved out of a crew of 38. Not Pablio Works Committee, sub- only is such an aot as this in con-mitted the following report con- flict with the dictates of humanity, cerning the Mongkoktai typhoon but it runs counter to all con refuge, considered at its meeting ceptions of warfare an observed by on February 26 :- civilised Powers...

Getting Our Own Back.

"I bare often wondered what does constitute oleverness in is the correct thing to do, and the late H. Timbrell Bulstrode, fubmarines. In this instance the tend to deflect and break up any

man who can hit Britishers off

"

Kent.

Just a few linea to let you know how yesterday, passed off, Weparaded at 10a.m., and reached Canterbury about 12 o'clock and we were met by the Band of the 3rd Buffs, who played us into Barrsokuto the lime of the Buffs' Regimental March. My word it was stirring! We fell out for 20 minutes and then we, ""C" Ooy., facorted the Colours of the 2nd Batin. to Canterbury Cathedral, followed by other Companies, Our Company, of course, bad fixed bayonets, and with colours in our midat, and bands playing all the way we made a fine sight. I tell you I would not have missed it for worlds, and although it was boiling hot, I shiver "ed all the way with the pride of my regiment. I think it was the proudest and grandest time of my life.

My dear Mother,

Yon, dear Mother,"cannot understand the wonderful feeling one has when you are escorting your regiment's colours. It was simply great.

I am just writing this to let 'you know what I feel like,

I cannot describe my feelings. coherently, I would willing. ly give all I possess to have it over again, Well, thero is no nowa bere other than what I have detailed.

My love to all, Your affectionate son.

P. B.—I think I shall have to order a uniform with 99. inch chest, as I am too full ap with pride. I swank!!^

NEW STEAMER.

Interesting Launch at Kowloon Dock,

Nearly fifty years ago. Tolstoi wrote (after having summed up the several wage in which various antionalities show their vinity):

Lane kät Output. of all, and the most hardened of Mesura, Wright and Hornby ail, and the most repulsive of all; advise us that the Langkat output for he imagines that he possesses for yesterday was 250 tons. the trath in a goience of his own"; Lost Promissory Note. invention which is to him'absolute Chan Yuk-ming, manager of truth," Those of our readers shop in Des Voeux Read, has re who, in the past, have mixed ported to the Police that he has intimately among Germans, will lost a promissory note valued at

The Chirinan submitted a scarcely want to deny that Tolstoi $5,000.

..Tha Tiger. knew what he was talking about.

proposal to substitute a coping Mee Choang sends us an ex- If they are inclined to doubt the

of mass cono ete, which would form a low parapet along the top accuracy of his insight, let them cellent photograph of the tiger, further read what he bas trussed to a bamboo pole, as the

As we write, news comes to of the outer slope of the break to say of their own nationality, beast was untracked at the rail-

band which more than counter water, for the coping shown on "An Englishman is coposited on way station.

balances the lose of the three the contract drawings. The pro- the ground of being a citizen of}' the best constituted State in the The marriagearranged between little merchant ships namely, posed coping would, if adopted, world, and also because be, as an Mr. Edward Minco Gull, of the announcement of the sinking add 2 feet to the effective height Englishman, always knows what Shanghai, and Beatrix, widow of of yet another of the enemy's of the breakwater and would M.A., MD., of HM, Local Gov- happy stroke has been accom-waves which might run up the Hongkong," says the writer of a letter which we published on Tues-knows that everything that he, ss

fact which proves that our Navy estimated additional cost of the day. At a rough guess, we should say that cleverness in Hongkong an, Englishman, does do is indis-ernment Board, will take place in plished by a British destroyer outer fece during typhoons. The Received by the King. 19 keenly alive to the situation proposal was $0,500. Funds is pretty much what it is in other parts of the world: not by any potably the correct thing." The Chios about the end of March. means ton plentiful, yet not so lacking as the cynic and the Superior with epoh delightful exactitude Palace, Captain the Hon. Hubert Arce in keeping a sharp look-out ditional cost.

Oo the 8th ult, at Buckingham and is showing the utmost vigil were available to cover the ad-

The Person would have us believe. Newspaper work brings one into te scarcely likely to be far wrong

The Committee unanimously touch with a larger number of grades of human society than do most in his diagnosis of a people whom Brand, R.N., had the herour of for these elusive U.20. Occupations, and, so for an we have been able to observe, the number he knew infinitely better than he being received by His Majesty possibility is that the U.20, which agreed to recommend that the of non-elever people in this Colony is far smaller than would be know the British.

upon relinquishing his appoint has now been accounted for, is proposal be adopted, found in the average town at Home whose population was approxim

ment as His Majesty'e Naval one of the submarines which sant Attache at Tokyo, ku ka

one of the three merchant abips ately equal to the European population here. Hongkong, we should The Infallibles.

Watch and Chain Stolen..'- on Tuesday In which gase we Bay, is remarkable rather frits amount of unused and misused cleverness than for the absence of that valuable commodity, "Tue enough it is that the W.J. Liarsey, of the Wyndham have quickly got our own back,

average German is his own in- Hotel, bas complained to the At the risk of being charged with undue pessimism, we would fallible Pope. "I say it; therefore police that between one and five venture to doubt if the present state of things will ever be altered. it must be right," is his doctrine o'clock yesterday morning some The climate and the nature of the average occupation are, as most over nine-tenths of the affairs of person entered his room and stole men here know to their coat, more or less hostile to serious reading, daily lile. Pride, according to a gold watch, chain and append

These show that since February The report of the proceedings serious thought, or serious persevering in any hobby that calle clever the old saw, goes before a fall; age, to the total value of $105.

25 (including the three sunk on of the Fablie Works Committee ness into play or prevents it from becoming rusty. Among all walks and the punishment for this spirit of European life here olever musicians, actors, painters, lecturers, is, and is going to be, a terrible Lieutenant Frederick William Tuesday) only four of our mer-beld on February 26, which was writers and talkera have been discovered, at one time or another. one. The greater number of the Des Voeux, aged 24, 2nd Grenobant steamers have been sank, laid before the Legislative Council We have seen amateur acting in this Colony, that was far superior Prussians, their omniscient, but adier Guards, who was killed in while within the same period at this afternoon, contained the fol- to that often witnessed in reputable thestres at Home; and both apparently not quite omnipotent, action et Soupir, France, on Sept least four, and possibly five, lowing with regard to the paving vocal and instrumental music, that would not disgrace a London Rater included, honestly did not 14 last, younger son of the late German submarines have been of main roads in Hongkong:

The Chairman submitted a pro- concert hall, has been heard here on sundry occasions. That such believe it possible for any count- Sir William Dea Vœux, G.O.M.G., despatched. When we remember evidences of cleverness are common, we will not pretend; and ry to defeat them. Their confid- (former Governor of Hongkong) the small number of submarines pagal to substituto asphaltic knocking about and then take concrete surfacing for the com if it be remembered that the Hongkong community is, before all else, ence in themselves had become left unsettled property £7,011.

into account the constant stresm pressed asphalte surfacing a business one, we shall not expect too much in art or literature or so ingrained that it was an actoal deep thought from it. For commerce is an exacting mistress, who, physical impossibility for them to The Chinese Minister and Mme of shipping to and from the originally proposed to be laid When a man has once given his soul into her keeping, will hardly conceive of any other nation's Se on tee in re paid a visit to British Isles, it will be acknow-on certain main roads in the City with a stroke of 30" and three ledged that the relative losses where paving of a high-class multitabular marine boilera-two let him out of her sight. The person whose mind is bent on money having the power to drab them. the Ladies Emergency Committee transactions would be more than human if be could still devote The amiable, and before all things of the Navy League, at 47, reveal a proportion which is description was considered desir 15' 0" diameter x 10' 6" long, and several hours of his evening to detached thinking or to some artistic them to believe - not in, the in-pressed great interest in the work/absurdly in our favour. It is acaso able.

modest, Nietzsche had taught Grosvenor aquare: They K

He mentioned that the one 11' 0" diameter x 10' 6" long. or scientific pursuit. It is well that, in a number of instances, he vincibility of Germany (that and in the hundreds of parcels ont distinction that the craft we dered to lay asphallis concrete handsomest way as to upholstery. oforaft per craft, with this import Standard Oil Company had ten. The vessel will be fitted out in the would have been bad enough) but waiting to be despatched to the sink are units of the German surfacing and to maintain it fore. She will have ample accommoda

Fleet. that they personally could not go

Navy while the enemy can only period of three years and that, as tion for passengers, for whom To sport, after business, most of the latent Hongkong oleverness wrong or be bas directed itself; and the result is not so very regrettable an one. judgment," even if they tried.

The Volonter Reserve order, wreak his vengeance on harmit appeared to be a very durable every comfort will be provided.

less merchant steamers,,

material and as the cost of it The launch, in view of the ex- The people who are disappointed in this Colony sro those who have From him they learned that, if dealing with the main guard,

would amount to about 84.55 iating conditions, was quite of i asked too much of it. They have come out from Home full of they followed his gospel religi which we pablished yesterday,

per sq. yard compared with $8 25 private nature and there was no energy, and of interest in bigger things than those which make up ously, they would be the Elect, should read as follows: -2 our daily life here; but the spirit within them is soon quenobed by for whom neither error oor sin officers and 100 rank and file of their encountering on indifference and by apps the climate and the lity, reasonable self-distrust guard at 10 p.m. 31 main on and that modesty, bumi- the Reserve will relieve this general atmosphere of maskesdom take a hold on them, and, within wore vices-good enough meat March 13th, and will remain on year or so, there is nothing to distinguish them from the lukewarm for the vulgar herd, but to be ab- duty until 7 s.m. on Saturday,

can still devote himself to sport.

which they do not feel strong enough to combat;

mistook in their

Lieut. Des Voeux's Will.

Chinese Minister's Visit.

Reserve Guard.

and somewhat self-satisfied beinger who chilled them on their first horred of all faithful Supermen. March 20th.

Victoria Theatre,

Ship for Ship.

HONGKONG ROADS,

Surfacing.

A most successful launch was made at Kowloon Dook this after noon of a very smart cargo and pasaenger steamer, constructed to the order of the Straits Steam- ship Co., Ltd., Singapore. Her

Taking the figures given out Adoption of a New Scheme for dimensiona are by the Admiralty, there is nos the least ground for complaint.

PHOTOGRAPH

OF THE TI GER.

10 111

Length between perpen-

dionlara

250 0 Breadth, moulded ........ 38' 0" Depth, moulded to op

per deck. She is fitted with two sets of inverted, direct acting, surface condensing, triple engines with cylinders:

HP. 17 L P. 27" L. P. 44

for compressed sephalie, great ceremony of any Bort. economy would result from its use. For the preparation and usa of the material, which, like com- pressed asphalte, had to be laid hot, certain plant, including s

An excellent opportunity of motor wagon to ensure rapid

ANOTHER TIGER?

ansion

coming to this fair Colony. Of course there are stupid people here, What could one expect from a

There was a fairly good house securing a splendid photograph delivery at the point where it Injured Farmer Sent to Hospital. solowhere; men whom sheer chance or sheer influence has generation fed on such doctrines? foisted into posts where their monthly salary is just five times as The essential conceit was there at the Victoria Theatre last night. of the tiger which was killed near was to be laid, would be required. much no any employer in his right mind at Home would pay them; already; had existed for hundreds The war pictures were again Fanling on Monday will be given The estimated outlay on anch

A farmer of San Yuk but these are very decidedly in the minority. There are, too, men of years before their modern good, and very full of interest, the, public, inasmuch sa s fine plant was $10,000.

village, Lan Pak Tao, has who are not a unccess at their own particular work, who would prophet was ever heard of; and, The song and dauce torn of Mias bromide picture of the beast After full discussion, the Com- Jet eline in some other walk in life; a man-vens Gover-after he had come to till and Emilia Socolska, a Russian artiste will be attached to the cover of mittes unanimously agreed to admitted to the ment official is not necessarily a dolt because he performs baily water and foster it with out who has been fulfilling a two the Weeldy Telegraph, ready on recommend that that portion of Civil Hospital dufter

Des Voeux Road, extending from injuries, the results of one particular task. There is, we reiterate, abundance of cleverness rageous nonsense which could nights'engagement at the Victoris, Saturday, t here, but it will never manifest itself in the right way no long as never have got a hearing in any was received with great applause, The edition will also contain Pedder Street to Jabiles Street uled by a tiger.

and the two dramatic filme White the full story of the tiger sex should be laid with sepbaltio trumpery butcher-and-b-ker social distinctions and hopeless lack other country then Germany Hawk" and "A Desperate Stratasploite, and the whole, including concrete anrlasing wed that the re of organiĝation remain in the saten-lant; so long, in other words, their last state became very much an

he photograph, sells at 25 con to, quiaite plant should be purchased. has refused to go into Hospital a Hongkong continues to be Hongkong,

naturally worse than their first, gem" were fully appreciated.

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