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NOTES ON THE CRISIS

FRANCE THOROUGHLY

Further Polaters of Germ

Defeat.

is one to which more and more THE INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS PREPARED FOR EMERGENCY. attention is being drawn in the Home press, and we observe that LOVE HAS NOT THE SPIRITUAL “MESEdwin Pugh has been quite VISION, THAT IS A PASSPORT TO

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'HONGKONG TELEGRAPH."

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1915,

The Aircraft FUND.

At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp, 55;

· Count the Columas, Yealerday the Telegraph

48-90-

HUNGKONG TWENTY-FIVE

·YEARS: AGO:

(Compiled from the "Honghong.

Telegraph files for the week anding March 27, 18803

The Dollar March 27, The rate of the

Just when the "important" - German assistant-Austria, is realising that her figblingstrength is absu; ended, it is good to read dollar on demand to-day is 9/1'

Prince Bismarck's Resignation.

CHARGE DISMISSED.

Woman Knocked Down by Motor,

At the Police Court, this morn- ing, before Mr. Hazeland, a motor driver employed by a local Garage was charged with manslaughter. Inspector Gordon said that the knocked down a women near car the defendant was driving Bowrington canal. The woman Was pulling a truck. As a tram

1he dcor of the County Council published 32 columns of Bolia the official report from FranceMarch 21 It is positively or pissed the women ran towarda schools 1 Wholesale charges are reading mater. To-day there that the French Army is now stated that Prizca Bismarck has the right hand side of the road

often unfair and not infrequent will be 42 published.

ly denote the presence of spite or of snobbery in the disposition of

H. G. Wells gives such a ghastly picture in more than one of his novels, It seems to stand to reason that there is leas likelihood of a olerk's being what he ought not to be if he has roughed it with the poorest and

lowliest than if he has been schooled in the cheap enobbery of some self-styled college or

academy.'

M

The Malls.

pire to-morrow at 9 pm,

Up to the Minute-Share

Market News.

markedly superior to what it was resigned all, his offices. at the beginning of the war, and

pas

LANGKAT OUTFUT,

and was knocked down and run Fin more sense than one. After Payment of Mercantile Marine over by the motor car,

25 The agitation for

A fireman of the U. S. 8. Wil Lone who advance them. From Japan Mail Oloces per s.9, Ewhat has happened during the

few days on the whole fight more pay among the engineersington, named Gibbs, who was what we have seen, the typical | London olerk is less often the Philippines Mail-Olorea per s.8. ing front, this information can and officers of the various steam in the car, spoke to the woman

Minnesota to-morrow at 140 becf the kind preferred by the ship lines running out of Hong road int

running to the wrong aide of the product of the Board schools than

Kaiser and if it once reaches the kong ia progressing. Yesterday: of the twopenny-halfpenny pri-

men who were going to celebrate the four deck officers on the

His Worship beld that there vate schools, of whose morality Haiphong" Mail.-Oloees per Blast Christmas in Paris and O. P.S. 8. Co's vessel Bolavis Was no iminal negligence and

Sangkiang to-morrow 4 at

London, it will put an and applied for an all-round, increase

dismissed the charge. p.m.

entirely to whatever dreams of $10, and as they had all they may have had of permanent packed their chests ready to go ly influencing the ospitaloffrance ashore the agente at once met And added to this there is the their demande, But the alaority Unions.$800, buyers. news that the Tarks have enffered with which this was done was Steamboats.-$22, asles and enormous losses during the play due, probably, to the courteous

buyers.

ful little excursion of the Allied and tempera e manner in which Fleets to the Dardanelles and Captain Williamson acted to have left, their mark of all by

both B wards

sides

8 in

Mesere Wright and Horaby reducing the greater part of the

advise as that the Langkat output Were all skippers matter. forts to rains. It must now be inclined to imitate him there to date for the current month is felt by the most hopeful of Ger would be a good deal less fricas follows: mans that the net of defeat lation among the Europeans 01

March 1

Tana: 231 drawing closely around their many local steamers, and those nation, and that "great machines” anavoidable *idaurrectiona are not so useful in time of war would readily be quelled." as men. It was the man and not the automaton that stopped the progress of the would-be world March 25. Every body will conqueror, and compelled him to be sorry to hear that Mr. Wode- see the folly of such criticism as house, the senior Stipendiary, is contemptible little army and ill-fortunately not very seriously. other gatter abuse. Even Bis place on the Bench way oc his raid on merchantmen cupied by Capt. Rumsey, the has not bren a euccess, Harbour Master, this morning. though he has sunk some ships. We are not informed who did the His recent effort has been to sink latter gentleman's" pidgin.""

*

The Private School,

ment under the School Board.

Tronohs, — 31/- sales. Godowns:-$06, buyers. Dairy Farms.—734, buyere, Green Islands. $6.80, buyers. Langkate-Te, 37, buyers. Watsons. $7, esles.

The Dollar,

The rate of the dollar on demand to day is Is 9.15-168.

To-day's Anniversary. To-day in the twenty-sixth anniversary of the death of John Bright, the politician and reform

Providence bas, la wisdom and merer, largely done way with the private skool, and probably in another twenty years the place thereof will know it no more, The newer Education Bille have hit these establishments so hard that to keep open doors is coming to be almost an impossibility. They were not schools but shops, carried on purely for profit, in er.

Mr. L. A, Byworth. many cases by men who were far

Mr. L. A. Byworth loves by too ignorant to obtain employ the French Mail on Monday for They and our "genteel" lower Hankow, via Shanghai, to take middle class made each other; up his new appciatment there. they provided that class with the "education" that it hankered after, and it, in return; fed and kept alive these miserable franda, dignified with the name of school or college. For about twoply pounds a year they "boarded, lodged, washed and educated" the sons of small tradesmen, often on a system that would not have an organ recital at St. Andrew's Mr. George Grimble will give discredited the notorious Mr. Charoh, Kowloon, on Easter Squeere, They might be seen at Tuesday, at 9.15 p.m., and will their best or weret in each be assisted by the choir. The towns as Brighton or Margate, recital is in aid of the Belgian and the pupils were usually War Relief Fund. brought ap to regard public school boys as snobbish and uppish and Board School boys us something lower than dirt. They learned little else but what they should

Hongkong Christian Union. will meet on Monday next at 5.30 The Hongkong Christian Union

67 Caine Road, and will be ad- p.m, at the Ying Wah College, dressed by the Rer, W. W. Rogers.

Organ Recital.

Price of Tinned Milk.

By order of the Governor, Pro- clamation No. 10 of the 12th

March 19.5

Licence.

the

Well Known Official's Illness,

On Taxation. March 27-"The remarke made at the meeting of the

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share, sellere.

China and Manila Steamship $105 per share, er

Dutch steamer, but another "A Josshouse Out for an Airing." wire informs us that the U29 is

March 26. — 'Anybody whɔ is believed to be suck, so that des fond of "high" art should go for attach to the sinking of a few There are between four thousand troys any little gain that might a ta-ta along Queen's Road

of the Medea was her last kick, feareome style, stretched across, merchant vessels. The sit king festcons of oil-cloth, painted in and inasmuch as one bee not, and the Rialt bears a striking happily, to take into consideration similitude to a jogahouse out for the question of loss of life where on airing. The decorator ought the exchange may not be regard hood. The Order of the Kneght- the Datch vessel is concerned, to get seven years or knight- ed as a particularly bad one.

mare, say "album"

The Cause of Temperance, Cracow and Hoboken,

March 27.- Brother sinners, The order to the civiliana of

Canton Insurance Company, Cracow to leave their city will there are sad times inatore for us.

Ltd.-$125 per share. surprise no one. Even the Gar The cause of Temperance gaing Yangtze Insurance Association mans and Austriops had little space, and where the cheery Tls. 96 per share new to learn as to the probabili- query of "What brew was Hongkong Fire Insurance Com- ties in store in this regard, from once heard, it is now Liebegi pans-$350 per share, collers Our readers will have seen in our issne of yesterday come con-

At paragraph 2 the moment that the troops in- hot or cold P" Alas the good old

China Fire Insurance Company siderations which we were asked by the Government to lay before have learned; they discovered, Tinned Milk (e) Eagle Brand per vesting Przemyal were free to British spirit will soon be out of

-884 per share, sollers."" them in regard to a proposed Aircrsit Fund. The Telegraph bas among other things, that it is 11b tin $0.30 is bereby revoked proceed Cracowards, That Russia date.

Hongkong and Whampes Dock peculiar interest and pleasure in publishing this suggestion of the quite right and honourable to and the following substituted already had forces in the immedi Oversease Club's, for it was in its columns that this very suggestion left school at fourteen or fifteen Begts Brand, per lb tin, 38 cente, seeme a safe assumption and any Legislative resterday, reported Hongkong, Canton and Macao socak" of other fellows, and they therefor-2. Tinned Milkate neighbourhood of Cracow

Company-51 per cent. premium, sellers des plu was forestalled, over two years ago. We pointed out then that not with the thinnest amattering of only had the Dominions made valuable contributions to the Empire's English, French (that of "Stat New Territory Money Changers' their bombardment of the city

time during the last six months in another part of this issue, by Steamboat Company $55 per fleet but that a small Colony the F.M.8, to wit-sparsely populated ford-atte-Bone") by Europeane and still in its infanes from a productive and book-keeping and shorths:d- arithmeti,

would have ocossioned little Mr. Lister, Colonial Treasurer, in financial point of view, had also contrived to present a warebip to ready, in their own, their parents'

comparing the rate, per head of surprize. the Mother Country. That being the case, it was, we arged, surely add their pedagogao's estimation, in-Council under section 6 (2) of Amsterdam newspapers sccount rate here, won't bear a mumenie Hongkong Gas Company-

By a rule made by the Governor- There is significance in the taxation in England with the Company

sellers the duty of Hongkong to make some corresponding offering. A to take a post in the city. This, the New Territories Regulation of, and comment on, the attack by deuotions, are wholly unreliable, $135 per share, seller... warship soomed hardly within the compass of the Colony's purse, Mr. Pugh, is the material from Ordinance, 1910, (Ordinance Nooar airmen on the German eub his references to what he termed inspection. His figures, like his wherefore the Telegraph confined itself to recommending the par- which your clerk is as often 34 of 1910), this 25th day of marine works. Praise from a neuter glass working people" $185 per share, sellers. Six o Hongkong Hotel Company chase, by public subscription, of an aeroplane for military usos.

as not made.

March, 1915, Money Changers ral press, that began by being any- But it is ill stirring up a kettle of sour broth. Those were the An Old Story,

shall pay a fee of ton dollars per The Dutch papers, it will be seen, namely that the rate of tax 25 per cent. dia, buyers.or licensed in the Now Territories thing batzentral, is praise indeed, are offensive and ignorant; and Hongkong Hotel Co, a Six per

the final conclusion he arrives at cont. Debentures-$501...

Indo-Chins 8.N. Company- Hongkong people's unregenerate days. Since then they haya come Tery much to the fore in point of enthusiasm, and open-handedness, Our readers should note care-

lay stress on the fact that the airmen did no harm to the town itation in Eugland is virtually

Douglas Steamship Company-- and we feel quits comfortably sure that a pablic which ignored the fally a paragraph in our General The photographs of Old Hong, salf. We zes Dutch from 15 to 20/-, instead of Blu aircraft subscription list which we started a ocuple of years ago will News column to-day, which gives kong which have been furnished me an almost see the ideas olaimed by Lord Knutsford, is now be more than ready to make amends by drawing upon their theview expressed by Robert Barns to Messrs. Line, Crawford and

China Refining Com parses forthwith. The war has done nothing if it has not widened nearly a century and a half ago as Company, by Mr. L. Brworth, Belgians in Antwerp smile weari- simply idiotic. Mr. Ligjor says pany Ltd. 8213 per share, human sympathies and, at the same time, increased men's patriotiem. this German contemporaries. for sale in aid of the Prince of the enemy's shells having proof work-houses, gnols, reform Luzon Sugar Refining Com

oladed in his estimate the inmates Hellera,&: Soft-souping Hongkong is aeauredly not one of our sins, but we are Ignorance, superstition, bigotry, Wales Fund, have not quite beea ceeded from British aircraft. One atories and all the pauper popu pany, Limited-874 per share, bound in common fairness to say that this Colony's generosity, since stupidity, malevolence, Golf sold out. There are still a few would have thought that even the the war broke out, is something on which it has every right to plame conceit and envy," are, according more copies left and we call the at-Germans themad veo must, by this lation, but the honorable gentle-buyer itself. Contributions for worthy objects bave come in with a ready to him, the distinguishing marks tention of our readers to the fact. time, be tired of spreading lies man omitted to give his authority maro, vellocompany frequency that is partionlarly deserving of remark when the pre-of our Teutonio friend. We did ata

for such a statement. It is not $102 per share, vailing bad business of to-day is taken into account. The Prince of not need, in view of what haa · Ordinances not Disallowed, Wales' and Tobacco Funda have been kept going, often by men who happened in the past few months, His Majesty the King has not had a thousand other calle on their pockets; Lady May's warm to refer to Bab for a summing up been advised to exercise his power hearted efforts to recare clothing for the troops and those dependent of the Prassion character; but of disallowands with respect to on them have met with all possible support from the ladies of his statement of the case is none the following Ordinances: Or Hongkong, and when, a couple of months ago, we asked car long-the less valuable in that it shows dinance No. 32 of 1914. —An Oc mullering readers to pass round the hat on behalf of some invalid ((s), that thecontemptiblequalities | dinance to amend the Defences eoldiers from Tsingtau, not only was this done without a murmur which we associate with our (Skotobing Prevention) Ordia- Corps Orders issued by Lieut- but we were offered considerably more money than the sum for enemies to-day are no new thing ance, 1805. Ordinance No. 33 Col. A. Chapman to-day state. which we had asked.

to them, and (b), that the Bri of 1914. An Ordinance to amend Parades-Parades for Monday, tisher is alower than the slowest the Recreation Grounde. Ordin- 29th instant. 5.15 p.m. Recruits Bearing all this in mind we may well feel sanguins over the variety of tortoise in realising sauce, 1909,

of all units, drill at Headquarters prospects of a full subscription-list for the Aircraft Fund. The more or less self-evident fact,

under Sergeant Bullock, Remain- Secretary of State remarks in his letter that the publio generosity There is not a charge in the list Unlawful Netting in the Harbour, der Nil has been so strained already that he besitates to take part in the that So s'and's poet has compiled Before Uommander Basil Tag Detail Fer duty at Volunteer The quotations which follos appeal of the Overseas Club. We have les diffidence, for the good which the Germans in Belginn lear, E. N., at the Marine Court Headquarters and Mount Austin are from the Hongleng Telegraph folk here who have given so readily to charity will, we are well have not now amply substantiated, this morning, P. O. Teat Yung Barracks 3rd to 10th April-No. for March 27, 1800, satisfied, be no less ready when patriotism is the plea. After all, if from the superstition that charged Fang Kam Fuk, broker 1 Eection Artillery Battery Left Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Hongkong have suffered pecuniarily by the war so have the other prompts them to carry mumbo- 12 Battery Street Yaamati, with Section M.G.Oo.Boouts Company. 192 per cent, premium, sellers, partions of the Empire-in many cases to a far greater extent. The jumbo charms against ballet anlawfully using nets within the Officers on duty. At Volunteer Union Insurance, Society vigilance of our fleet has been anch that this Colony a trade by sea wounds, to the bigotry and male- harbour limits for the purpose of Headquarters 2/ Lieute. Marphy Canton 8100 per share,seliers, has been comparatively little interfered with Hongkong bas known volerce that has made them de- lifting articles from the bed and Canaingham, A Mount China Tradera. Insu neither invasion nor bombardment nor riot nor disaffection. The troy some of the most glorionaly thereof, without the written per Austin Barraoke Leaty Rose, pany870 par ahare Old Country has done much for us, and now is our chanos to do beautiful church architectuurg

of the Harbour Master, Orderly Offoar 2/ Lieut. Muruby, v North Chir momsthing for her.

on the 26th inst. Defendant was Orderly Borgeant, Bergt. Ramsay, 355 per share,

annum.

Old Hongkong

ly at the ready German lie ne to

that would'nt deosive a child.

VOLUNTEER ORDERS.

that, the Secretary of State în-

tion

too late to do so for the satisfac

Bagar Refin

Hongkong Rope Manufactur

of the public, who have ing Company, Ltd.-8100 per arrived at quite a different share, sellers. opinion..

1890.

SHÄRE REPORT.

Com

Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf. and Godown Company —# 88 g ) share, sellers.KONTRO

Hongkong Dairy Farm Co, Ltd. $14 per share, sellera

t

A. 8. Watson and Co., Ltd.--

#21 per share, bayars.

Hongkong High Level Tram way Co. Ltd 40 per cont prem,, sellers.H

*** Hongkong Steam Laundry Co“ Ltd. $25 per share.

Green Island Cement Co. (old 16806)$43 per share, nominal,

Green Taland Cement Co. (now issue) $3 per share, nominal,

Hongkong Land' [Co. Edi- $955

Hongkong Electrio 18 per

West Point

40 pe