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Blackwater,

Hants, England.

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Mrs.

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(of to her son Captain——— the, Buffs) who is at the Front and finds the tablets excellent for stopping colds.

January 31st, 1915.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

About Education.

ONDAY, MARCH 15, 1915,

DAY BY DAY

1P DRUNK WITH SIGHT OF POWER. WE LOOSE

WILD TONGUESTHAT HAVE NOT

THEE IN AWR

SUCH BOASTINGS AS THE GEN-

TILES USE

OR LESSER BREEDS WITHOUT

THE LAW.

LORD GOD OF HOSTS, PE WITH

US YER

LEST WE FORGET, LEST WE FOR-

GET-Kipling.

The Weather,

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NOTES ON THE CRISIS. JOTTINGS BY THE WAY. PAYMENT BY

GERMAN SUBMARINE ACTIVITY.

A Glance at the Russian Operations.

Week-end reports of the doings of enemy sea-going vessela make tliem responsible for the sinking of ten ships, while the addition

"I am proud of Bermondsey," said a V. Obero recently. One only think that he had allow- ed his feelioge to get the better of him for a moment.

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INSTALMENTS.

The Puline Judge Mentions = Difficulty.

In the Summary Court, this

Quite an interesting little newspaper correspondence is in progrese in Shanghai, anent loos) education. Some of the letters. make one feel that the Shanghai people carosly know when they ars well off, for, in education, thei Settlement is proverbially very

The exhibition of the dead much ahead of Hongkong. In

tiger at the Oty Hall last week morning, Mr. Justios Gompertz |Shanghai it is at least possible to

WAS a god-send in its way, said that when he first came to give a European boy much the

Hongkong has not been so stirred that Court, six or seven years same class of schooling as he could look to get at Home; wherase in

out of its habitual lethargy sinos ago, he was fall of solicitude for Hongkong. But it's idle to

the 1906 typhoon. The war has poor suitors, and when he tried to make small instalment orders, alk. It will take something

be found he could not do it, than A few protests

where there was no fixed salary. from a mero newspaper to show

Where there was a fixed salary he the Education Authorities in this Colony that they have left undone

there there are two that should good to take up their practice in could make some sort of order, those things which they ought to

lead to a little international dif- Hongkong, where, it is stated, but thes people know how much have done, and vice versa." "Any- where but in Hongkong those

calty with neutral states, viz. the there is a large demand for first they could pay batter who have the controlling of reading matier, To-day there American and 8 redith boite. But clasa men, owing to the absence he did. Therefore, for

it is not in the province of this of the German preotitioners." last three years, he had never note to dwell upon the tangle that Our contemporars is in error made an iustalment order againet The medical servico is all right either Chinose or Europeans or the Germans appear to be getting themselves into indead the dc here; iva the Sanitary Board that Indiana unless they had a fixed vious ways of their diplomaoy wants seeing into a witness the salary. That was his difficulty.. sons Homs to be taught, for the Siberian Mail, Due per .. sad the apparent inclination of condition of the alleya Tanning Perhaps the plaintiff in this case

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educational matters would have realised that it is a standing reproach to their mismanagement that five-sixths of the middle class parents in the Colony send their

reason that Hongkong possesses

no efficient school for EaropeADN that is above the grade of the British Board Schools..

Trade Prospects after the War.

There are some sentiments ex- pressed in a letter which wo published on Saturday, entitled

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A Candid Swiss Friend," which are worth pondering. The writer observer:"Unless great efforts! are made.... it will be difficult to keep the Germans down,... for they have proved their and efficiency organisation, energy." This, of course, is said a8 1egarda the possibilities of the We have always Germans' re-capturing general opposed to those trade. been who would fain pat Germany at the top and Britain nowhere, where general intellectuality is concerned; but when it comes to

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matter of energy sad business capacity we have regretfully to admit that the Germans are indeed a long way ahead of us-even se the Japanere sra. There nation- Shameen,alities leave a comfortably behind, partly because it is character stic

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BIRTHS.

HORNELL-On March 6, 1915, at the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. E. B. C. Hornell, a daughter.

HAYS-On Sunday, March 7, 1915, at 66 Route Doumor, Shanghai, the wife of John Hays, solicitor, of a daughter.

The Hongkong Telegraph..

HONGKONG, MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1915.

TWO IMPORTANT BILLS.

overcast.

Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 65; At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp. 50; Overcast.

Count the Columns..

Od Saturday the Telegraph published 37 dolumns of solid will be 33 published.

The Malls.

Linen to-day.

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Up to the Minute-Share

Market News.

Closing prices:**

North Ching-Tis. 175, sales

and bayers. Douglas08.-$29, buyers. Steamboate.-$22, sales.. Iado Chinar. $78, basera. China Sugera.-$107, tellers. Rauba.-$4, buyers." Hongkong Hotels.

sollers.

of the eight reported sunk by the been nothing to it. Prinz Eitel Friedrich gives the "These gentlemen (me Germine a total big of eighteen Datch doctors) "leave Java for reported for the week. Among

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and practical people and perhaps something would be arranged.

some mentrale to let them down between Des Voeux Road and the were worthy of commiseration, easily should prevent any situa- Praya, or those between Queen's but the other side were reasonable tion that might arise getting Road and Des Vax Road. completely out of hand. The feature that is uppermost in the minds of maay, however, is the fact that, even now, so few British merchantmen bave been counted for.

The Inevitable Margio.

BO-

A local Intiust, who has not

The case was one in which Mr. Dixon (for the defence) consented to judgment and said his clients the advantage of having been educated in Hongkong, has been were prepared to pay $1 a month good enough to suggest and Mr. L. D' Almada said it translation of the well-known would take twenty-five years to

off the debt. get

motto: fluctuat nec mergitur,

They flactasia, but they'l it in the neck."

.

Germany, even in fields of her own choosing, is not making the $118, hay she should, and the cost of sinking a few merchant.

China's population," baye a Tie, 84, web-and generally the smaller contemporary,is 4,000,000,000 ones at that combined with the millions." But may be, sa Houkle. fact that the submarines have to berry Finn observed, "that was go such long distances from their stretolin' it a bit."- bases, increasing the chances of their never returning, all tend to

Shanghai Cuttons.

buyers. Cements-$5 buyers,

The Dollar.

The rate of the dollar on demand to-day is 1s 10.1-16d.

Strong Monsoon.

The s.e. Haitan, which arrived from Fonchow yesterday, reports strong N. E. monsoon and rough

cea,

Langkat Output.

Mesare. Wright and Hornby of the Britisher that he should advico us that the Langkat our "take things easy," and partly on puts for the past two days have account of our not attaching suffici-been 234 and 227 tone respect ent importance to training, where ively.

8 commercial career is concerned. In London a Board School isd goes,

in his early 'teens, into a merchant's office and from then

The Chief Justice.

Despite the fact that Sir Wil- to the day of his death unless he lism Rers Davies's health daring happens to be ambitious enough the week-end was far from what to attend classes and to study it could te, his Lordship presided privately-remaine merely ain the Supreme Court, this morn back: an adding and subtracting ing. and copying machine, that is worth a few shillings a week

and that could, at need, be re-

placed a thousand times over, at

Colony's Health.

Last week there were seven

pay

'A' PICK-POCKET.

Theft of Six S5 Bills.

#Mr. F. Ellie, this morning, at the Police Court, charged a Chinese with the theft from his person of six five-dollar bills,

show that the game she is playing We were hoping that our fear- is not worth the candle. The less attack on the iniquities of submarines accounted for by the Chinese compositore who hold Alliea, on the other hand, prove (xford Local Certificates was that the naval authorities are wall bearing fruit; bat our Eduoited

The prosecutor said that he went up to their work in looking for One has been getting back to his the enemy, and, at the same time, old vices again. On Thursday to change a five-dollar bill at a clearly demonstrate that the losses we found him setting up type to money charger's in Connaught may be looked upon as the the effect that the Russian Black Rood, when he was hustled by inevitable margin that must be Sos fleet had bombarded Kowloon, some men in a suspicious manner. expected in war.

No one else could so bave miarend Later he stood examining the con our carefully typed "Kozlon." tents of a stationer's shop in Des The Russian Successes. What a treat the Manila papers Voux Road, opposite the Victoris, when he felt someone at his Remarking the other day on

just missed. the sudden absence of Russian

pocket. Examining the pocket, communiques from the prea, a We received the following he found that is bille had die reader said that probably the pathetic little notice from our Fest appeared, and, looking round, Russians were experiencing a bad Office the other day: "The Singa- noticed a Chinese concealed be- time. His anticipations, were pore to Hongkong date-stamp on bind a pillar. He chased the maz wrong, pa recent messages correspondence received per se. who ran off, throwing the bills to showing. They have certainly Nubia should read the 6th of the ground, where they were had their hande fall-too full to March and not the 8th of Decem- picked up by a young Portuguese worry about more or less anin her. But Lord! What's three lady, whose brother, continuing teresting announcements and months? Moreover it would sp the chase, caught the man near how successful they have been

are

will not be fully known for some pear that for once (emphasise that the Tokyo Hotel, and handed him

Mr. Elucstad One, øver. once, days to come. At any rate, please); the fault was not with The prisoner was sent to gaok there is news of a severo defeat of the Tarks and some con- siderable nascess in the Car

our own Post Office,

One of the Manila papera has tiger incident,

for six months with four hours" stocks.

OUR WEEKLY EDITION.

a moment's notice. He is a clerk cases of enteric notified in the pathians. In the north they printed a correct report, of the

and God help him! Meanwhile Colony (three British, one Italian, have the enemy's ffensivo along the German or Japanese youth one Japanese and the remainder the Ormuloff-Orjiz-Prasnysz line has beoa kept at school Chicow). Three of the cases well in hand. It is the last sent

"Bittle stopped by Mud," says longer, has been encouraged to were imported and one terminat-epos which should contain most Among the Ordinances which have come before the Legislative specialise in g. insurance, ed fatally. There were also two significance for the average reader. Times headline. This is the what not, and, at fatal occurrences of small-pox It must be remembered that the first time, we believe, that any Council of this Colony during the past few weeks are two which broking or

head of the Gorman battering ram material success has attended the ahould have most important and beneficial results, Both have been twenty-one, is far nearer being an (both Uhinese).

is on the line indicated, and so energies of the Ostasiatische brought into being on a result of the war. The one aims at pre-expert than a mere quill-driver.

long as the Russians keep it in Lloyd and the Wolff Agency. hand so much more time will they venting the importation into the Colony of goods from countries What wonder that men whose with which we are at war, and the other seeks to prevent the or training has been all that it should portation, to destinations in neutral countries in Europe, of goods be, succeed in driving out of the intended to be forwarded to enemy territory. The former of these field men who have had no train-Mc. J. R. Wood, this morning. Mr. in sufficient strength to throw Billa has already received the assent of the Council, while the othering at all? **

bag passed its first reading and will no doubt soon also become law.

"The Pearl Case,"

At the Police Court, before have to accumulate their forces

свае,

The Luck of Bisth,

Holding the Enemy. In all this there is a comforting deduction to be made. If a chain

QUICK DISCHARGING

There has been ench a big demand for copies of the Weekly Telegraph containing the story of the tiger's exploits and bearing a photograph of the beast, that, in spite of extra copies having been When wars shall be no more, printed, the issue has been com- J.H. Gardiner asked his Wor them back. It is true that the when the lion shall lie down with pletely sold and we are unable at ship for a remand in the pearl Germans may not wait for that, the lamb, when the tar-boiler present to meat fresh orders.

until tomorrow afternoon, but the capture of Praunysz would ceases from troubling, and when

We have therefore decided to Both, we may assume, are required to bring the Colony into line Carlyle and German Lies.

when he hoped to be in a position mean a substantial anccess for honest men get their own, the with other parts of the Empire, and both will surely receive the

The NO. Daily News quotes a to say something. Mr. Hind (for Germen arms and would have the Havas Agency will get a reward reprint the story in this week's approbation of the British community in our midst.

Hongkong is one of the leading ports of the world, reckoned remark of Carlyle's, made to the prosecution) did not object effect of greatly modifying the fcr sta ing that a gun had to be ieaus and to issue the same "forwarded to the rear" for re-photograph. Orders for addition piirat

al copies should be sent in not by the volume of trade which passes in and out of the Colony, and friend after the completion of to a remand, and the request was situation.

hie ten years work on his granted.

later than Thursday evening. that is one of the reasons why a strict watch becomes necessary to Frederick the Great," which is

Says a contemporary: "The see, on the otie hand; that enemy goode do not find a market here and, on the other, that our enemies do not benefit through goods very much to the point to-day.

is no stronger than its weakest prices of food in Hongkong have A Chinese charged with the lar link, the same could be said of an again been revised, and several shipped here eventually finding their way to enemy territory. The "It was good hard drudgery

Bless law already renders trading with the enemy illegal; but circumstances sifting mostly a monstrons acon- exist hers which make it desirable that existing law should be mulation of lies; and, of the

was proved to Mr. Hazeland to they considered the weakest spot you, we noticed those increases strengthened. It is not sufficient that such trading should be pations, the German lies with the ceny of some pigs at Hanghem army. The Germans chose what increases are noticed." deolated illegal-what is needed is that power should be given the most scrupulosity and detail." have undergone imprisonment on the Russian line, But the long before the revision. So did authorities to examine incoming and outgoing cargoes and thus keep This, once more, is from a man for terms amounting to seven Russians have held their own, and the compradore who was fined a check on shipments to and from the Colony. That end will be who, in thought and training, years in all. He was sentenced the conclusion would seem to be fifty dollars the other day. served by the new Ordinances, for under their provisions the was more German than Scots; to serve another six months, that the Russian line will take an

and export manifests, becomes necessary. In man who idealised Goethe and it not being possible to banish immense amount of bresking nishing of import a a hold sway it would be a relatively easy was even at the trouble of him, as he is a Hongkong-born what the Germans consider the

translating his three volumes Chinese.

weskeat point is able to hold them matter to check shipments, but here in Hongkong the task is some- of monumental nonsense known

well in hand. what more difficult, The duty will now fall on the Importe and Exports Department, and the question naturally arises whether the 38 Wilhelm Meistar" who existing staff of Revenue Officers is large enough to carry out the iccluded Lather in his "Heroes American Consulate General, new duties required of them. That is a point concerning which it and Bero Worship, and who Hongkong, shows that American would be well to have some official assurance. For it is essential, if lovingly gave up ton good years exporters are seeking Hongkong the objects sought are to be attained, that the closest seruling should of his life to writing sympathetic connections as follows-Dried be made of all shipments arriving in and departing from the Colony, ally the biography of a German shrimps and prawns; printing in shipping roles, but that cannot be avoided. British companies many even of the up-to-date Cer. Imperial automobiles gas on- of the General Affairs Section of destroyed. The building, but not 900 tons of oil into the 1.8

**The now requirements may for a time cause slight inconvenience monarch; moreover a man by whom presses and printing machines; engines, will assuredly not grumble at the obligations which they will be on scholars still swear. Carlyle ginea; compressors, called upon to discharge in the int rests of the Empire, while firms had nothing to gain by alandering steam and air hoisto; metal so the Tokyo fu, one Hidesburo Ots the stock, le covered by insurance. Bibine Rickmers; then proceeded of other nationalities who enjoy the privilegs of doing business in his friends, and the conclusion vertising novelties and patent and four others were prosecuted The loss in several thousand pesos, to Tai Kok Sai, where she dis-

the part of the fre our midst will no doubt realise the necessity of the precautions that we are all forced to is that sticles in brase, aluminium, Ger by Procurator Takeuchi, of the Only the most strenuous work on charged 2,500 tons, and from

man silver and other metals; ait Tokyo Chiho Saibansho, on Feb- institated by the Bills under notice. And both may rest assured the lying campaign of to-day is mo

no new thing but just second anderwear; egg carriera; import that the new measures will be enforced in such a way as to cause the nature to the Kaiser, and his

Bad export Philippine manu. least possible inconvenience or annoyance.

factured American shoes,

associates.

Trade Openings."

List No 36 issued by the

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Smart Work at Hongkong by Asiatic Petroleum

Co's. Steamer.

Destructive Fire at Hollo. Iloilo, Meroh 8-A fire of

The Asiatic Petroleum Com supposed incendiary origin des- troyed the building cooupied by pany's s.8. Eburns, which left for Mr. Wilson G. Smith's vulcaniz- Borneo to-day, sobieved some- ing plant just before midnight thing in the way of a record in More Arrests for Bribery in last night. Several automobiles delivering her oil, while in port

Tokyo,

and a number of motorcycles at Hongkong. She arrived at In connection with the arrest were consumed by the flames and her moorings at nine d'elook on of Tokutaro Takahashi, ex-Obief the entire stook of accessories was Saturday morning and discharged

bribe

apan and volunteers prey giving from

building

there returned to her

North Point. Here she

another 14,000 tons before noor

ican: yesterday.