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SPECIAL POLICE RESERVE.

How Promotions will be Made."

The Special Police Reserve orders, issued today," are aa follows:-

Officers and

for

THE

HONG KONG

LONDON FINANCE.

"The Problóm of the Minimum

Price,

Exchange ragarda a security

TELEGRAPH.

EXTRA

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1915,

VOLUNTEER ORDERS,

Corps Orders issued to-day by Lient-Col. A. Chapman, V. D., atate':―

Joined.-Pto. A. H. G. Jackson

joined the Corps on 16th April, allotted Corpe No. 1801 and posted to Stouts Company.

the day time until further notice. Parades. Parades for Siter- day, 17th instant, nil.

1URF CHATTER.

A Serious Crisis Reached.

in

YACHTING.

Royal Hongkong Yacht Club.

The Cruiser Race for the

Scotengden Cap, which was sailed off last Sunday, round Damb-bell Island (8.), a distance of 24 miles, resulted as follows:-

Name

Oenonǝ

Flora

GERMAN ANTIPATHY TO U.S.

America Opealy Dorided as British Sympathiser.

CONTEMPORARY OPINION.

THE OTHER ENEMY.

ITER" GLOBE." The following leading article is from the Globe of. March 1- We believe that the nation in

Recently there appeared in one of the best known Cretman comic general, and the working-classes weeklies a series of cartoons re-dorse the attitude taken up by ia particular, will thoroughly en- presenting Uncle Sam sa a victim Mr. Lloyd George in regard to of the British. Bighwaymen the sale of alcohol. So long as the were emptying his pockets with Government will sot firmly in M. S. H.M.S. H.M.S. the remark, Everything we this, and in other matters, the

EH'cap on

Course.

Finishing

Time.

Corrected

Time:

104.00 D.N.F. "Miranda Winner.

THEATRE ROYAL.

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fake neutrality

This week (writes the Straits

(From our Special Correspondent)

London, March 19. ..... Since writing last, a serious Times London Correspondent un. der date of March 5) there has

10 pounder Gun Practice, 24-erisis (our racing correspondent Centaur" writes) has arisen in been a repetition of the amazing Parades. (Central Police spectacle of the price of a stock 15-Noa, 1 and 2 Sections Station):-Tu-day, April 18:h-remsining at the same official Artillery Bittery and Left Section connection with the affairs of the 1st British Company and Nos. 1 minimum price after the divid. M. G. Co. parade at Headquarters Turf. OaTaesday next a special 1. p.m. Dress-Helmets meeting of the Jockey Club is to and 2 Platoons of lat Chinese end has been deducted. Is the Company, at 5.30 p.m. All with case of Consol, the dividend khaki shirts and shorts will be consider the question of continn- arms. Saturday, April 17th- being paid quarterly the differ-ora. Arrangements will be made ing racing during the war. "Great Indian Platoon 3.m. Monday anca is only per cent, but on for carrying jackets. Waterbottles things from little causes spring:"iranda Scratch, 3.44.52 3.44.62 need is contraband,

After the robbers made off with people will not be disposed to and people little thought when (filled) to be carried.

cavil at their measures, even if 4.00:4.24.34 4.20.34 Uniform.-Helmste will be discussing the subject of the Red

"Thank April 19th and Tuesday, April maay Colonial stocks which pay

worn at all parades and duties in Cross Hospital ni the Epsom Queen Bee 16.00 4.51.34 4,35.13 the booty, Uncle Sam is pictured they be of a sort which, in ordin- 20tb.-Instructional Parade fur interest half-yearly the amount

Irene 32.00 4.35.43 4.03.43 as exolaiming piteously,

ary time, would excite criticism gaaduees, they forgot to take my

or arouse resentment. The task all N. O. Opera and for all mem may be as much as 1 to 2 per

Grand Stand that this was going Dorothy If 32.00 D.N.F.

fountain pen now I can im-

before us is to beat the enemy, to be the root of a greater agita- bore wishing to compete for non-cout. In other words if you buy

tion for the suppression of racing

mediately issue a protest. commissioned rank. Fali-in at one of these stocks at a particular

Yet so it is; and rapment it may include 2 per cent 5.15 pm. sharp.

These pictures are characteris. and to anything which cun 000- Detail-Oa duty as Voluuleer during the war.

tie of the must moderate variaty tribute to its fulfilment the ocon

try will cheerfully submit.

We Promotions. Now that the frat interest and a minute afterwards

Times the

and the Daily

of sentiment expressed toward do not think the sale of alcohol diffenltice of organising the 250 you are asked to pay exactly the leadquarterera until 7. p.m. to the present controversy raging in

the United States in Germany in England is quite on the same men who have joined the Police same price for the stook minue morrow, E. K. V. R. Oa duty

from.7 a.m. to-morrow till a.m. Telegraph all siems to be due 10

to-day, wires a correspondent of footing with the sale of vodka in Reserve ara pist, all futura sp- the 2 per cent! Nothing more

Successful Production of

the New York World from Russia or of absinthe in France. pointments and promotions, and foolish can well be imagined, 24th inst. Nay, 1 and Sections An apparent misunderstanding.

"Raffles."

Cologne. The range of German In both these countries a social the retention of appointments and its restrictive effect on deal Artillery Battery, Right & Contre between the Grand Stand. 4960-

mental attitude toward the evil far transcending anything already made, will depend upon iaga can well be imagined. The Sections M. G. Co. and Civil Sar-ciation and the War Office as to pageing an

we have to fight in England bad examination on average genera! investor does not vice Company. Officers on duty, the hospital arrangement during

Yesterday evening, to a fair American people extends from negotiations were the Parade Ground. Lastruc-know precisely when the Stack Capt. W. M. Scott and Liont. the race week at Epsom. While

A. E. Wright, Orderly Officer, those tional Paradea for N. C.

Lieut. A. B. Wright, Orderly progress, a question was asked in house, Messrs. Charles Howitt and scorn of our candidstea

"ezdiv." but he knowa perfectly

mirable opportunity of effecting the House of Commons the effect A. Puillips' Company presented to hatred for everything Ameri-to be considered, and the war Sargeant, Corpl. W. Brown.

Rafflee," in a

most pleasing can, which in its most radical gave their Governments na ad. promotion will from this date be well that it cannot be worth theTo furnish Guard: -7 a., to of which was to leave an impres

manner. Mr. Howitt was excellent form actually clamours for cessa-reforms, which they would have frequently held. These parades same immediately after interest

p.m. 17th inst., Civil Service sion that wounded soldiers were

of in the title role and portrayed tion of all friendly relations even been very glad to carry out, quite.-

apart from military considerations. are open to day member of any is deducted as it was before. Un-

bospital in order

the amateur craftsman to perfec- at the cost of a declaration of war. The American Ambassador to Company who considers be will fortunately with the divided res- Company; 7 p.m. 17th to 7 a.m. about to be turned be able to daly qualify. On the ponsibility at present existing it 18th inst., Nos. 1 and 2 Section the

luncheons Edney in the second act being one of the belligerent Powere said With us it is, for the time baing present constitution of the Foliosis impossible definitely to allocate Arty. Balty: 7 a.m, to 7 pm. that people attending the races tion, his passage with Mias Ado

18th inst., Right Section M. G. might have Reserve, there should be the the blame for this grotesque"state Co.; 7 p.n. 18th to 7 s.m. 19th in comfort. Then the Duke of extremely well done. Mr. Orvil in conversation with the World at any rate, a purely military. following appointments made of affairs. Tas Stock Exchange inst., Centre Section M. G. Co. Portland, a man whose borges Rawdon, as Mr. Curtis Bedford. Correspondent who had just com- question. We have only to con- 3 Laspectors, 10 Crown Sergeants Committee accuse the Treasury No late leave (to return to Head;

baaks, bat and 2) Sargeants. Candidates and

quarters after 10.15 p.m) can be good will, bear

mind in

that there are

many not the laist among the people in Torogmorton Street granted to members of units on qualification of a good N. C. who think that the Committee daty except for very urgent rea- Officer is popularity. de must might have got the anomaly re- be himself smart in everything

moved if proper representations he does and must be capable of had been made. On the other

question was asked in Parliament, to perfection, while. Misa Ada already in full bloom. It" is no \ material of war from givlag the performing his duties with taut, band is is several weeks since DENTISTS AT THE FRONT in producing is reply to which the Under. Edney made a most sympathetic close to the surface that it drops country the full value of their and of treating his subordinates everyone believed that

Secretary for War announced that a gentlemens "Candidates will would be a thorough revision of

To-night "Nobody's Daughter" kindly send their names direct to minimum prices but nothing has Dental Journal has given the the little difficulty had been

with complete is being presented, and to-morrow Inspector C. F. Mason, at 33, yet been done and we seem to be names of 172 dental surgeons emoothed over

as far from a solation of the kast and about 300 denial stadents ratiafaction both to the War Office the farce"What the Butler Saw." Queen's Road Central.

ty problem as over. There are and pupile serving in the Forces and the Grand Stand Association. doubtless good arguments for at the front. Of the dental practi- Most poople thought that the in preventing sales of Congole below tioners, 40 hold commissions incident, regarded at the time as 681 Ought they to weigh against the R.A.M.C., and 65 are officers being so unnecessary and an- the discreditable fact that what in other capacities. Of the fortunate, was over, but once more ased to be the premier security of students, 45 are serving in the the Duke of Portland was to enter the world is now absolutely un-R.A.M.C., and 46 are officers. In the field; realisable? Nobody will buy at addition, up to the present, This time the Duke announced twenty and thirty that he had received a letter from 68) when there are "shops" out between side dealing at 834-64, and of the army dentists have been appoint-a bigh authority in France two evils I am inclined to think od with the temporary rank of saying that the French could not

(91). F. U. JENKIN,

A. S, P. (ssorva).

Promotions.

General Order No. 5, is as

"followa.-

Orowa Sargeant C. F. Maton to be Inspector.

Sergeant C. E, Roylane to be Crown Sergeant.

Sirgeant E. H. Evin to be Crown Sergeant.

Loo D'Almada e Cistro to be Crown Sergeant.

A. F. B. Silva Netto to be Sargeant.

A. E. de S. Alves to be Sergeant.

U. M. de S. Alves E. P. Eca de Silva

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have non tens of thousands of the detective, gave a most con- poands at Epsom, wrote his cale-vincing performance and acted brated letter to the Times. Ha throughout with a fine consistency could allow racing to come before Miss Gertrude F. Godart, as Mrs. condemned these people who which did him the greatest credit. their consideration of wounded Vidal, disappointed in her dove Holdiers, and at once a torrent of for Raffles was always in the

Gwendoline Conran, Up to the present, the British

LATEST. SHIPPING NEWS.

that the lesser would be to allow lieutenant. the price to sink to somewhere near its natural level.' It would not affect Government "credit, which is fixed by the Wer Loan, and it might have compensating. advantages in other directions. Meantime the progress of the war continues very satisfactory and I should not be surprised to find

that

the reluctance of the authorities to modify minimum prices is based on a well-founded hope that in the course of a few weeks action in thaLdirection

any

is

MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.

For Japan.

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sider whether the unrestricted pleted a tour of Germany:

sale of alcohol, or the sale under We are going to be cordially euch restrictions as have so far detested by the whole world been imposed, militates against our efficiency in the field, and we So far as the Fatherland is con- when this war is over.

is preventing a portion of the cerned, any observant traveller are afraid that we are bound to through the Kaiser's domainsay it does. The "lare of drink"

the sale of alcohol. That is to run

out constantly wherever an Amer-

at any cost destroy, ioan talks with a German of what-energies, and that evil we must ΟΤΟΣ class.

We trust to the Government A Walter's Sneer.

not to make the present emer- A waiter who served me my firet meal on Crerman soil re-gency an excuse for yielding to extremists. There are already marked with a smile that wag U. S. Officer's Suicide.

signs that the fanatical testotallers Philadelphia, February 24.almost a sneer: Captain A. E. Harding of the "America is making a good are endeavoaring to turn the United States Marine Corps killed thing out of the war, ins't sho? present opportunity to their own advantage, and hope to make himself at the Racquet Olab. He But why does she pretend to Great Britain abandon altogether. was an aid to President Taft and want peace?"

In Berlin the cashier of the far ahead of public opinion. We was appointed to the marine corps from illinois in 1889,

Deutsche Bank, who changed my are ready to discuss the question American gold into German paper in all its bearings-and it is one said: "I suppose there's plenty of

of the most complicated in understand Epsom and Ascot, the great industry of horse breed- English gold in America now. the world-when peace has re- That did it. The Timca now joined ing behind it; (2) the poverty The Eagliah always pay well for turned, and the normal conres of in. First they based their argu-which would becs used through un services rendered.

national life has been resumed." The heated atrerances of Dr. Bat for the present we are con ment for a suspension of racing employment if breeding and racing en the Epsom incident, overlook were checked; and (3) because of Tonio kiedeman, head of the cerned only with the war. The ing the fact that it had been the absence of a single argument German Standard Oil Company Bishop of London and other well- settled to the complete satisfaction to show that the continuance of in an interview in Hamburg have messing persons have demanded The T.K.K... NIPPON MARU which of the War Oflice. Then they racing was opposed to the nation's already been quoted in the World. the total prohibition of the sale These remarke were supple of spirits at least during the led from Ban Francisco on the 20th Mar. olulu, Japan Forts & Shaughal on Sunday because it scandalised bar Allies Lonsdale and Mr. Heary Chaplin, mented in Dresden by those of period of the war. This is an

expected to arrive at this port via Hon-contended that racing should stop interests in the war. The Earl of the 18th inst. at 8 in.

led them to think that we M.P., both members of the Jockey Privy Councillor von Klemperer, extreme suggestion, bat just as could not be in earnest while we Club, shared these opinions, director of the main office of the the country contentedly acquiesos continued to amuse ourselves with and it was further made known Dresdener Bank of that city, who ed in the temporary abrogation racing!

This brought Lord that the Earl of Derby, the Earl of added, indignantly. "Of course, of trial by jury, so will it readily Rosebery on to the stage. In a Coventry, the Earl of Harewood, you Americans are privileged to assent to any measures the Gov- letter of much grace and clever. Sir Robert Jardine, (all members assume any attitude toward us ernment may deem necessary for nese, he told the Times that he of the Jockey Club), and Lord you wish, but we reserve the restricting the sale of alcohol. was unable to follow their reasor Marous Beresford (Manager of she right to regard you as an enemy. There has been no complaint of

King's racehorses) were in favour only second to and the immense practical results that financial experts are trying ing. He reminded that

those the restrictions already imposed; paper

will be none if are either misunderstood or en-hud to weigh up the effects of that we are spending two millions of continuing. There the matter actually in arms against us.

The proprietor of cigar store there when no more strugent, tirely neglected. Bat if there this outlay "after peace is re- a day on the war and that's

auch atands as the time of writing, bat were any decisive could unquestionably it will be settled in Munich, where I happened to provided only it is clear to all Allies in the main theatres of war extremely difficult one, and 1 soaroely expect us to add the on Tuesday next when the special be talking English with a friend, that they are intended to pro it is scarcely probable that Console cannot pretend to have found saorifice of our thoroughbred meeting of the Jockey Club con- abruptly demanded that we talk mote the one great purpose. Mr. German. On my remonstrating Lloyd George has promised stat In the early hours of this would be going a begging at 683. so ution where others have la breeding industry to that huge siders the question.

I venture to predict that a that English was the nativespeech the Government will use the morning, the Colony was visited If the weather only proves suffici mentably failed. It is certain total. For it was quite true

exclaimed great powers placed in their hands by a thunderstorm of a very violent ently kind something of the sort you cannot sacrifice millions of that without raping car race decision will be arrived at to of Americans, he

thoroughbreds nature, and the lightning accom- may be expected in the course of men and thousands of millions of of

would continue racing-dot in the in- angrily "In Americs you can talk in a spirit of moderation, but panying the thunder was most the next few weeks and there may money without creating a very disappear. Thus was the cam-terests of sport, for such interests and act as much like the English "quite fearlessly. The nation do not exist in these days, but in as youplease, but not in my store. saks no more of them, and for zivid

and frequent in ite be good reason for leaving the great economic dietarbance, Pro-piga well started.

Gibes Against United States. moderate, but fearless action will flashes. The streats were at times revision of fixed prices in abeyance bably the rebuilding of the devar- The Times replied to Lord the vital interests of the breed

The contrast between the public give them ungradging support. lighted as though by day, and meantime. The piratical blockade tated portions of France and Rosebery, and subsequently they and of the question of employ- the Peak was a sight to behold threat of Germany has proved an Belgiam will give a sufficient draw forth correspondence in ment involved. It is worth nothing expressions of opinion about the as the lightning flashed in sheets absolute fiasco and I am quite in stimulus to trade to prevent the favour of their point of view from that the King owns in Frier United States and other neatrals agreement with the decision of actual effects being immediately the Dake of tatland and the Earl Marous the favourite for the is striking. Privately, Germans Local property did not go un- the Admiralty to announce ship discernable, but in a year or two of Dunraven, while an ex-Chief Derby. In spite of the anti-racing dislike and distrast their Datch burt, and according to information ping losses by mines and sub- they are bound to appear and Steward of the Jockey Club, the feeling, there unquestionably er- and Danish neighbours and have marines only weekly along with making every allowance for the Hon. F. W. Lambton, took theists & profound hope, shared, we only bitterness for Italy and

war against Germany she could the statistics of arrivals and increased rate at which the world side of racing in a letter of singular have no doubt, by our soldiers in Roumania, but they keep these Chief Justice), at the Peak, was sailinge for the same period. If now moves it will take perhaps a dignity. Be it remembered that the trenches, that the King may feelings very much to themselves do no harm because her army is a negligible factor and ber navy. truck by the lightning. The tonnage figures also were given decade at least to replace oɔndi Mr. Lambion has lost & con in the Derby with that horse. becsues they have a wholesome damage done was to a chimney, the contrast would be still more tions on a normal basis. For the and a brother in the war, both We all know how our troops in dread of those nations intervening could do no more than the British which collapsed, but, fortunately, effective.

present investors are wise to stick killed in action. The Daily South Africa cheered the news of on the side of the Allies. T no-one was hurt. After it had But the cost of the war is apte sound securities; there will not Telegraph took exactly, the op- King Edward's victory in the With regard to the United navy has already done and her ability to supply Germany with been struck, we are informed, a palling not far short of $2,000,- be much soope for speculative posito view. It argued the im- Derby when the news was oom-States, however, they argue she is curious odour, as though of ex 000 per day for Great Britain enthusiasm (except in isolated portance of keeping racing going minninated to them on the veldt the least likely of all the great the necessities of war has been

for turse reasons (1) because of by Lord Roberta,

Powers to enter the war arena, curtailed by Gront Britsin, 3 ploded gun-powder, was apparent, alone and it is not surprising cases) for a long time to come,

Sir William Rees Davies'

Residence Damaged..

across it.

we have received, the residence

of Sir William Rees Davies (the

Mr. and Mrs. T. H. King left will be quite unnecessary. Certain by the Yokohama Maru for Japan phagee of the campsiga are re-vesterday. garded as mainly gentimental,

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and that even should she declare