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To-day in Primrose Day, and the 34th anniversary of the death of Lord Beaconsfield, We had cccasion, a week or two ago, in epeaking of Prince Biamarok to question whether the present war would have taken place if he were alive and at his best now. We may do the same concerning Disraeli. There were giants in, the earth in those days, and a heavy fog. British Prime Minister-when that Prime Minister bappened to be Lord Beaconsfield--was a power that made itself felt no only in Britain and the Colonies bat throughout Europe as well. One is safe in saying that, with him as the head of the Govern- ment, Germany would never have been allowed to add, boldly and in the sight of the sau; fo.her menna of attempting world-con-|: war-ship building would have re- ceived a check, and she would have been asked to explain certain military preparations as well.. At

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very different too; for, the various points that have troubled domestic peace of recent years, bardly one could have existed but for succes- 've neak and flabby governments,

Lord Byron,»

Another interesting anniver Bary is that of the death of Lord Byron Byron is one of the English

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The Malls.

NOTES ON THE CRISIS. JOTTINGS BY THE WAY

OUR ENEMIES MAKING FRESH ENEMIES.

Some Comments on Aerial Warfare.

CORRESPONDENCE.

[The opinions expressed by the

The following lucid anncures. correspondents are not necess ment is ornamenting the Peak ally those of the "Hongkong

Telegraph."] Tramway just now: A peecial car will ran 16 minates each per- formazoo," A correspondent aug- gest that the artist who designad this masterpiece has" been meditating overmooh on

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words as Przemysl. W Sir-Noting the letter in

Saturday's issue I think it is only

this might account for the fair to place Marriott's local record Gormany seems determined to "precial" but it doesn't seem to before your readers and the add to the number of her enemies, touch the rest. We are wondering bisssed critic contributing to your Marriott won the as though she were blessed with if there is some cryptic allusion colomas,

a superfluity of friends. There to the recent incrente in the fare, bantam championship in 1896 was a time when she was partic or if the notice is merely at Nottingham and has fought in alarly sazione to be in the good expressed in a language not un-England, South Africa and Malta.

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To-day's Anniversary. To-day is the anniversary of the death of Lord Byron (1824) and Lord Beaconsfield (18811.

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A workman employed in the Royal Naval Yard stole $1.50 worth of lead. He is now doing a month's hard labour.

·SPORT.

Kid Marriott's Record In Hongkong. 1906. Drew with Leyton, H. M. S. Ocean" 6 rds, City Hall

Beat Mears, Derbyshire Regi: ment 8 rde. City Ball.

Beat L Jones, Derbyshire

Beat Chester, R. M. Staff, 6 rde. City Hall,

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clumsiness, in coraging those "Nairobi, British East Africa who have hitherto remained out-the place made famous by Col· side the fighting ring. Not con- Roosevelt's celebrated African tent with arousing the hostility hunt," says the New York of the United States and Holland, Evening Post. We respect by sins of omission and com- our American contemporary's. mission she manages to estrange modesty in refraining from Swies and Bulgarian opinion. la adding that Cambridge Uni- the one case her airmen drop versity also owes its fame to Regiment, 6 rds. City Hall, bombe on neutral territory, and the fact that Mr. Roosevelt once in the other the Germans' char paid it a visit, that the Pyramids Botoristio disregard of obligations are celebrated for having been in regard to the supply of am-mentioned by Mark Twain, and munitions and funds is once again that the Bible is chiefly known demonstrated. The result is that through. its baving been expound Switzerland has issued a protested by Billy Sunday. and Balgaria has almost decided to join in with the Allies. Ger- many's friends grow less in number every day.

Austria Follows Sult.

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Drow with Coyne, Naval Yard, 8 rds., Olly Hall.

Drew with Fineb, Hongkong 6 rde. Belle Visw.

Beat E. Coyne, featherweight

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A Manila paper is unusually championship of Hongkong, 10 peria bed at the presence in the rds., Harmaton Circas..

1907-8. Philippines of a real Baroness''

Best Blacksmith, Tamar, Cham- Our contemporary's excitemen Austria, too, is evidently asking reached boiling point when it dispion of Fleet, & zde. City Hall. The Gymkbana.

for trouble. Ose would have covered that "the Baroness talks Best Freeman, Champion of Middlesex Regiment, in 1 1/2 The Gymkhana which should thought that she had enough on English like an American." Why have been held on Saturday, but hand already without goading not talks American"? rounds, City Hall.

A police report says that o B÷at Griffiths, A.0.0, for bantam disappear speedily, if only for which the weather caused to be Italy into anger. Following entry the reason that the modern Eng. lish lady noveliet is putting out postponed, will be held on Wed-into Italian territory on Thursday Chinese burglar has been sent to championship in 3 1/2 rds, Oity. an Italian regiment on the frontier, entering a house for an unlawful Beat Fletcher, U.S.S. "Callao," fiction which would have out day afternoon, next, commence last, her troops lave now attacked prison for being caught forcibly Hall. Jeanned Juan and would probing at 3.45 o'clock.

Auction.

with the result that considerable purpose. Tuis Dewaccesa's in 8 rda. City Hall. To-morrow, at his sales rooie, losses have been sustained on both worry us, but we would spend all

Drow with Pjo, H. M, S. Bingle Copies, Daily, ten cents. Weekly, twenty-five cents (fortably have raised a blush, on the

cheek of Lord Byron himself. Mr. G. P. Lammert has two sides. cash only).

What earthly object the morning up at the Court for "Tamar," 6 rds. City Hall. This, however, is by the way auctions. At 11 a.m. a quantity Austria can have in committing the sake of seeing a burglar sent- Bent Taff Thomas, King Alfred, Byron is going to have his change of Swatow drawn work, etc, will acts each as these it is difficult enced for having forcibly entered for bantam weight championship, with the British public again, be sold, while at noon Japanese to see, but there is this much for a purpose ilat was not un- in 8 rds. City Hall. not so much for this interesting curios will be put up for sale.

about it-that if Italy is seeking lawful.. reason as because people are

an opportunity to join in the war, bound to discover presently that

one is certainly unw provided. "Monuments for Atrocities!! Don Juan" and, indeed most

facidents of this kind should anye a Glebe bralline. We should of his other work, contains

terve to hasten the taking of the have thought that even German much that no British poet could

important decisions which were bombast would have been satisfied bave done batter, or so well.

referred to a few days since. All with the actione themselves and the circumstances seem to point to would have regarded their per- the probability of not only Italy, petuation in stone or iron as bat Greece and Bulgaria as well, super fluons. Besides, the per. taking their stand by the side of petrators bave all of them got is again on the sick-list. Mrbe Allies in the near future. the Iron Cross; what more do Braga had but recently recovered

We and They, ⠀ from a long and serious illness, and Tho pasential difference in

Allies' and the Gurmana' use of The nsstirat thing the airships for the purposes of drop-Dalasiatische Lloyd

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HONGKONG, MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1915.

ANOTHER REVOLUTIONARY SCHEME.

The Rockefeller Foundation,

The Rockefeller Foundation has, as we stated on Saturday, now established a Board with a view to developing medical education in Chine. Some ten months ago

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Last Judgment.

After himself, paying the ex pences of the rendering of "The Last Judgment," on Good Friday, Mr. Denman is handing over $850 to the Prince of Wales' Fund as the proceeds of the per- formance.

Illness of Mr. J. P. Braga. We learn that Mr. J. P. Braga

Watch and Chala Stole,

they want ?

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Brat Mo Hing in one round, Chinese Theatre, West Point,

1909.

Beat O. Gardener, Kent, for bantam weight of China în 8 rounds, City Hall.

Drew with Stevens, ""Cadmus" rds., City Hall,

Boat Pye of "Tamar" in 6rde. V. R. O.

Loet on foul with Willisme, 5 rde." City Hall.

"Lost on a foul with Gardner, 1 rd, City Hall, ⠀⠀

Beat Sloker Johnson of the Merlin" 8 rds. City Hall.

1910-1914. Beat F. Heaps, rds, City Hall.

Tamar"

Drew with Sto. Harwood of the "Minatour" 8rds. City Hall. Baat Heaps, of the Tamar" in 4 rde. V. R. C.

Beat Moyall Brda, City Hall, K. O. Y. L. L.

Baat Sto. Harwood of the “ Minstaur” 8 rds, Old Cinemato- graph,"

a committee chosen by the Found-the news of his relapse will cause ation passed through Hongkong, profound regret among his many

cau find and, in a Telegraph interview, the friends in the Colony.

ping bomba ia well illustrated by to asy this week is that! intentions of the trustees were

messages to hand over the week the Russian Government, at discussed. Briefly it has been

Captain Lewingdon, S. Tai end. In the one case the Zeppe French instigation, has again decided to finance medical educa- Ming, reports to the police that line which visitet England did permitted the sale of wine and tion among the Chinese, to estat roms person stole from his cabin nothing more terrible than to beer. This is poor sort of staff lish valuable scholarships and on the night of the 18th inat, slightly injure a woman, kill to wire. What we want to get at is t help in building hospitals. The when the ship was at the wharf, three horsen, set fire to a hay- the German or hyphenated Ameri- echeme is what nine-tenths of the a metal watch and a "gold chain stack and smash up a bicycle, can version of the raised fares on lechemea for the redemption | valued: $85,

while in the other French aviators the Peak Tramway. That will be are Chinese friends of our

Attempted Marder.

successfully dropped missiles on "some" story. not-praotical; and

According to the police report, the electric station which suppl hoping great things from it. an unemployed Chinese stated

A Peking paper says that pat Nowhere has the innate conserv- that he was invited out for a walk ies the fcriress town of Metz with atiem-that ccnservatism which by two other Chinese at Yaumati, power and lighting, on a powder riotic songs are being written Beat Iron Box 6 rds, City Hall.

magazine elsewhere and on a "rebuking those rebels who do

Lost to Iron Bax on points & Trom some facts recently made public in a Mandate issued by is another name for backwardness and when near Mong-kok, the two railway works in Baden where not care about the welfare of their rde. Skating Rinki President Yuan Shib-kei, it is pretty clear that Sun Yat-sen and his of the Chinese shown itself men set upon him with a kafe shells are being manufactured. mother country. The songs Lost to Iron Bar in the 11th fellow-rebels have not na yet by any means given up their activities. more than where hygienic and and attempted to murder him, for We will leave it to our readers to appear to tell Sun Yat-sen and round, Skating Rink. They are, indeed, seeking to take advantage of the Sino-Japanese clinical matters are concerned, some unknown reason. The man decide which of the two raids in and company as nearly as poss Beat N, Hall, 11,M.8." Kent negotiations to stir up insurrections in certain of the Provinces, Disease is rife in China mainly be now lies in hospital, suffering likely to have served the purposes ible what the patriots think o in 6 zds. City Hall. their method of procedure, according to Peking advicos, being to cause the people have been opposed from a stab wound in the ab of warfare best.

them. "On the other hand," adde

Loat to Smith, D.C.L.. on pick quarrels with the Japanese in the name of publio indignation, to western science and have clang domen, and the two men alleged German Aerial Losses. the narrator," Sun's follower points, 8 rds, Skating Rink. Thns to create a crisis and, in the turmoil which follows, to begin obstinately, to native remedies to have attacked him have clear- While on the subject of aerial have likewise written a numbe Knocked out by Sullivan in 2 their mischievous operations in real earnest.

which, in most cases, only sggra ed away,

activities it is worth noticing that of songs abusing the responsible rds, City Hall. In order that it may be seen that these allegations are rot merely vate the ills which they pretend to H. M. S. Triumph. the Germans are continually officials in Peking, calling them Beat G. Wilks, R. G. A. 8 rds. based on presumption, ono or two of the facts which have been care; and there is no hope of real Says the London and China offering the loan of aircraft just all kinds of ugly names. We are City Hall. brought to light may be mentioned. The discovery of the plot reform until the country has a Express of March 10.-B. M. S. now. On Saturday it was re-anxious to learn some of those Beat Nigger Jackson in 6 rds. is attributed to one General Ohu Jai, who has succeeded in having proper medical service. Triumph is having a full share of ported that an enemy airship was names, since we have exhausted City Hall, arrested s. number of these rebels, the documents found on whom The German Officer,

the bombardment work in this brought down opposite the British cur own vocabulary on the fore

revealed the whole plan. It appears that Sap Yat sea has carefully We really don't know whywer, and her officers and orow lines, sit Ypres and that a Zipman printer and the Namb mapped out his scheme, and bas already appointed a number of Reuter should make a song about will be past masters of the art of pelin was compelled to descend Two office boy. paid officials to assist him in putting it into cuteot. The certificates the ill-treatment of German handling forts before the war is into trees at Aalterburg. To-day's mano

of appointment which have been found bear the titles of these men, soldiers by their officere. Yeater concluded. After Tsingtao oame wires continue the same tale. A He was staying in his town

as well as Dr. Sun's portrait, a picture of a new national flag and day we received wires reporting the forts at the Dardanelles, and British aeroplane has brought residence in High Street," observ

LANGKAT OUTPUT.

Mesare, Wright and Hornby

the seal of the "Party Affairs Department of the Revolutionary enemy-pritozera statements as now she has been having a turn down one of the enemy's at Boe-ed Counsel the other day. Whether advise us that the Langkat oni Army. The documenta unearthed also include circulers containing to cruelty from officer to mau, as at Smyrna. She has been hit at singhe, and Belgian aviators have or no "he" exchanged that aristo for the current month is as articles of the regulations issued by the Revolutionary Army, stating though this were something new. all three places, some fifteen succeeded in wrecking another eratio locality for a hill residence follows:- that a Chial Commandant is to be appointed to each Province, We had thought that all the times in all, but nothing vital has near Boulers. In fact, acarooly a day ap the Old Bailey, deponent April which is to be divided into so many districts, and that to each crid knew of the cultured yet been touched, and her loss of Lasses now without the report of sayeth not. district, commanders, staff officers and adjutants shall be appointed, methods in vogue in the German life has fortunately been only a German aerial loss. Before the

There on thus be no getting away from the fact that the notorious aimy as regards this sort of small. She has been in action

war, Germany was apt to loudly The same loading local legal Dr. Sun is still barbouring plane for the initiation of another thing. For a young lieutenant to about 20 times and has fired well boset of her prowess in aero-light (we make no extra charge rebellion, and he and his followers stand to-day as a distinctly kick a private in the atomich or to over 2,000 rounds. A correr nautica, but actual warfare has for the alliteration, for we believe dangerous element in the distressed Republic.

threaten an old and experienced pondent who had the fortune to clearly established the superiority we've used it before) remarked: The one point which strikes the dieinterested observer of affaire non-commissioned officer on board her when coaling some of the Allies in this sphere of "You are domestic gentlemen in China is that Dr. Son and his puppets, who have all along posed parade is nothing extraordinary: whers outside the Dardaneller, nativity.

Be the would-be saviours of the nation, should at this moment, when in fact it is a recognised part of says her gunnery lieutenant

the Republic is beset with difficulties on all hands, once again seek the system. Of course there was whom the Triumphis crew olsin

to raise the banner of revolt and plunge the country into the throes method bebiad it all. Aa Reuter to be one of the most accomplish-

of another Revolution. President Yuan roundly denounces them says: The system of bullying ed masters of his craft in tho Madamo Melba'a Denial, in his Mandate, pointing ont that to piok quarrels with a foreign and the exercise of brute force has Navy, had never remarked so Melbourne, March 18-Ma- nation is one way of destroying the integrity of the Republic, and tended to fill all ranks with an vividly before the terrifio force of dame Melb indignantly denies he saks what the people have done that these rebelio gange should overmastering sense of the power modern heavy projectiles. The the statement published in New not so perverzaly We know, of courte, that all the so-called patriot and invincibility of the army ... power pertaining to heavy artil-York that she would appear on 10 talk of Dr. Bun and his followers in to much mogasbite. They all of which, being interpreted lery on land in shown to be the the music-hall stage in Amerion. do not want to help their country; a

all they want is to help them into plain English, means that the same at sea, where of urse, the She says she has never been ape es and to bleed their nation for their own material ends, And Germanprivateroldiers.

rges, protobed in the matter and that The would never dream of accept ing such an engagement

it is at any rate something of a comfort to know and believe that the dignified level of

grest bolk of Chinese opinion has long since come to assess coolies.

ed plotters at their true worth,

heavier, Brid

Ceas 000ationally an observa- tion which convinces na that the L.L.LL was not addressing the bunch of wayfarers who occupied the brat seat on Blake Pier yester day morning

Hongkong still awaite with a certain amount of impatience the publication of that blook list

was promised by an en which was thusiastic looal volunteer offioer

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