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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1916.

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Pyeris

Cricketers at the Froat.

DAY BY DAY.

NOTES ON THE CRISIS

HONGKONG CURRENCY.

THE SUN

"A NORMAL IMPULSE IS A BET TER GUIDE THAN A FOOL SENSE AUSTRIA DOING SOMETHING. OF DUTY"

We re-printed from a Home. paper, yesterday, some facta relat- ing to the doings of cricketers at the Front. It would be highly interesting to disonss, with some moderately conversible German, the enemy's opinion, at the pre- sent moment, of the influence of fine. aport on our national character when warfare is the order of the clear.

AND LEARN HOW TO day. For years now, the Germans

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all these things having been offered up og the altar of sport. The German caricaturaa

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The Weather.

Lower level 8.8.1.1

Temp. 75; At the Peak 8 s.m. Temp. 69

The Malls.

Laohow to-day.

are rarely without some reference Siberian Mail. Das per 9.8 to this national "failing," moderately recent one represent American Mail.Dae per ing the typical English officer as

Sbingo Maru to-day.. olad in kilts (!) and a glengarry, Sibstian Mail. Due per as. sad eo loaded up with cricket- bate, golf-clube, tenaie-racquets etc., that he cannot find an inch of himself on which to hang a rif Many Continentals and Ameriosus, who are far from

Simons.to-morrow.

Siberian Mail-Olesen per

6.9.

The Sequel to yesterday's Air Rald.

Professor Hinton's Lectura.

tricks that have rendered their any.

Interesting Lecture by the Ray. J. Kirk Maconachie,

The first of a series of lectures on Chinese Currency was deliver- ed by Professor W. J. Hinton et Yesterday evening the Rev. J. the University on Wednesday Kirk Maconachie delivered an last-

interesting lecture on the San il- While one griovea for the brave After a brief introduction the lustrated by a fae set of lantern Frenchmen who have apparently lecturer defined currency as any slides. Professor C. A. M. Smith Count the Columns. have been telling us that we are

lost their lives by the sinking of commodity which served as a presided over a large attendance Many and, in introducing the lecturer, the Telegraph the Leon Gambetis, ons has to medium of exchange, Yoolerday good for nothing but cricket Lad football; that we have no brains,

published 37 columns of solid note with something like relief different things had been used remarked on the spesial interest no education, no business cap reading matter, To-day there that as lust an enemy submarine for that purpose, salt, shells, the sun had for engineers and adityand no fighting qualities, will be 39 published.

has attacked some other craft cattle, tobacco, and various metale crew attention to the fact that the than a merchant vessel or fishing were a few of these. There were sun was the earliest thing wor boat. True, the aabmarine was also various forms of evidence of shipped by mankind. Indeed, he not manned by Germans; and property rights which circulated remarked, when they learned bere, perhaps, it is fair to remark as currency in a modern state, at there was already known Carrency consisted of primary about the sun it was something that hitherto the world has heard but little of the Austrians de money, feduciary money, and of a wonder that they had ever commodity which was The Rev. Maconsobie refused

drawn into dis Escending to any of the miserable Bank Deposits. The first fooladed ceased from worshipping it.

or infamous, rather.The French, but it was usually metallic. It cussing that point and said that re cultured neighbours famous generally accepted in exchange, to be Monteagle to-morrow at 11 whose practice it in to carry on need not be coined, but its alility it would require considerably their warfare in a manner that in non-monetary uses must be as more time than he had at his French Mail.-Closes per s.a. E does not outrage the law of great as when it served as our diaposal to go into the mythology Simons to-morrow at 4 p..pations, will hear of their navy's renoy. The value of fedacisty of the sna. His intention that Siberian Mail.-Closes per 9.8. Inag with natural regret, but money, on the other hand was evening was to discuss it from a without that mixture of contempt greater as money than as ballion. paraly scientific point of view. In and bitterness with which all Subsidiary coinage and bank the course of his lecture, the were examples of speaker dealt with the various civilised people read of the notes

German submarine feduciary money,

conceptions formerly held of the average

As to token coins, they were working of the solar system and triumph.

used to represent fractional parts showed a fine slide of the nebula. of Primary Money, and sometimes, of Orion as an example of the The Allies in Gallipoli. Yesterday we spoke of the as in the case of the yen, the peso nebula from which it was believed landing of troops in Gallipoli as and the Straits dollar, as the sym- this solar ayatem commenced. being of the nature of an achieve bol of a gold coin which was not in After giving interesting examples ment. A more recent wire gives actual circulation. Souh tokens of the distance of the earth from the additional details as to how it was owed their value in exchange, to sun, the lecturer gave a good accomplished. It was known that their soarcity. The value of the description of the spots on the the invading ships had to face material which they contained, aan which he pointed out were heavy fire, both from enemy vee only fixed a lower limit beyond believed

our

being bostile to us as a race, are with also of opinion that the Empire grave because the cricket and is goirg near to digging its own football field plays so large

in

national 3 part

of Ia times life.

peace our auswer would be "Go and live in some part of Britain for a year or two, and judge for your- self." To-day we can only say

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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1915.

We

H. E. The Governor.

by some of the old Be's and also from land batteries; which they could not be discount astronomers to have been inhabit- bat is was not known that the sced. They were implements by led. He pointed out that at one taal landing was rendered more which transfers of goods were time every satronomer seemed difficult by the erection of wire effected. A definite number was unable to believe that any planet. entanglements under water. This, required to do this work, and if could exist save for the purpose we believe, is something new in more were provided they tended of being inhabited.

Even to be dieacuated. The normal the way of coast defence. when the troops succeeded in price of any goods freely pro getting ashore their troubles were duced, was the cost of their pro- nct at an end for, apart from duction. To keep any implements desperate assaults with bullet and at a higher price it was necessary shell, they had to encounter the to restrict the supply. The Hong- ancient Bannock bara dodge-or kong subsidiary coinage win at a something like it: that of pite, diecount because the tiongkong with spikes at the bottom, design- Government has issued about. We are asked to announce thated to trap the unwary. All the fifteen times as much subsidiary that very popular vocalist, Misa enemy's efforts seem, however, to coins as the Colony required. The May Clarke, has decided to extend have been of no avail; the allied greater part of this issue had gone

His Excellency the Governor took up his residence at Mountain Lodge, for the summer months, on Wednesday.

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Bijou Theatre.

$1,000 CLAIMED.

chitect and Contractor at Law.

In the Summary Court, this her stay at the Bijou Theatre by troops are spoken of as having into Kwangtang and when that morning, before Mr. Justion an additional four nights,

"established themselves"-a term Province had added its own sub- Hazeland, Joba Lomm, sued Ka The British Church Macho, which the authorities would hard-sidiary coinage the Colony and Rim Dia, for the sum of $1,000.

Mr. Gardiner appeard for the' The Rev. NO. Pope will con- ductaserviceon Sunday next at they allow to be used other than in Province bad more subsidiary

ite strict sense and are "steadily coin than they jointly needed. plaintiff and Mr. Haywood, (Mr. When trade was better more L, d'Almada) appeared for the British Chureb, Macao, commen-advancing."

subsidiary coins were needed and defendant. cing at 5.30 p.m. Visitors and residents are dortially invited.

It takes all sorts of people to make up a world, and one country's mest is another's poison. We are not seeking to lay bat we know what suits our own Countrymen. Tae British boy... during his school days, learns the very lessons, and builds up with in him the very qualities, that are going to be of use to him, whether in commerce or in war; and he learns them in the playing- feld far more than in the class. room. No professor or form mater con, by the incalcating of any theories that

ever heard of, teach boys and young men the value of loyalty, "of combination, of acting for the common good, of endurance and of duly mingling self-reliance with wholesome self-dierast as In a wire received yesterday, Earl Kitchener acknowledged the the football or cricket field can. nation's indebtedness to the United States Ambassador in Germany All these, as well as the fact that fair play's a jewel, are wast for his timely intervention in the matter of the galling ill treatment to which tome of our officers, who are prisoners of war, had been our boye at Home are learning subjected. In the previous day's issue of the Telegraph, was out of school hours. What won published some of the official correspondence. between Sir Edwerd der then that, in general, (the Grey and Dr. Page, the American Ambassador to the Court of St. world would not be the world if James', who had been instructed to satisfy himself as to the humane there were no exceptions to rules) May 15 to December 31, 1915. nees or non-humaneness of the treatment accorded to Germana now the adult life of such youngsters held as prisoners in the Homeland, Those who have read the should be dominated by what has correspondence will see that Dr. Page has been spared, the unpleas been so thoroughly hammered ant duty, which has bafallen bis brother ambassador in Berlin. into them, and that we get such Wirra, Thich we received a few weeks ago not only told the stories from the Front as that of beginnings of the sordid story of British prisoners' sufferings, but the old Merchant Taylore' boy at recorded the fact that the United States ambassador had himself Ygres? been insulted when he pleaded for blankets for the captives. As against each a condition of things it is not uninteresting to glance at what has been done for German prisoners in Britain.

A STUDY IN CONTRASTS.

In Britain, quartors are comfortably furnished for enemy officers, and gervante are provided from among the subordinate prisonere. For officers and men both, the rations are good and ample, books arə

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Mixed News,

Old Post Office Building Lease.

The Arras Battle.

from airoraft.

the discount diminished; when The bearing was fixed for Yesterday'a message showed trade was slack, other things Tuesday next at 10 am. In our auveriisament columns that the British and French air being equal, the discount increas will be found an invitation ieaned men were busy dropping bombs ed. The two coinsges had been by the Director of Public Works on the railway line. The report mixed and the recent Ordinance for the lease of certain portions of was that half a dozen stations had merely re-distributed them, the Old Post Office Building from had been successfully bombed bringing Hongkong coins over Government might is us Treasury For those who from Canton to take the place of note against the reserve of silver Alice Memorial Hospital. did not realise the fall sign the Kwangtung coins displaced, bullion, resulting from a bold The Hon. Treasurer of the fosnce of that statement, further Yet much Hongkong coin policy of demonetizing subsidiary Alice Memorial and Affiliated enlightenment lies in the wire remained in Ohins; and the coin. In times of peace an in- Edapitale begs to acknowledge received this morning, which subsidiary cuin must remain at a convertible paper currency, con- with thanks the following dona- Gunounces the beginnings of a discount here until both Hong-servatively, administered, might There seemed to be some mia tions to the funds of the Flos- great battle at Arras Auss lies kong and Kwangtung subsidiary possibly succeed, pitala-J. D. Hutchison & some forty or fifty miles south of coins were at par in Canton, $50; J. D. Hutchison & Co. Ypres, and it is due to the skill Then if no farther coinage took understanding as to the law of (Special). 845,

and pluck of the airmen that place in Canton there should be legal tender in this connection. Lawyer's "Caution.” In the Summary Court, this fighting is taking place there.no discount which could not be Dollars were only legal tender in Practically the outcome of their remedied by the banks. But if the absence of specifio agreement morning, Mr. R. C. Faithfull said feat is that once more the front is the Kwangtung Government to the contrary The Star Ferry that he know a certain Japanese extended, and the Germans efforts went on coinicg, their new sub- Company could refues to accept The Straits Times comments, in could speak English because be to congest the fighting have come sidiary coins must dieplace the anything but brass buttone in provided, as is also ample opportunity for recreation; correspondence quite kindly fashion, on the had been shaved by him that to nothing, inasmuch as they can Hongkong coinage and sand it to payment of its fares if it chose, so with friends is allowed and tobacco and other small laxaries are strange version of a recent occur morning. He did not tell the no longer bring their reinforce- Hongkong, where it would create long as it gave prominent notice obtainable at a small cost. Furthermore, anitary conditions are rence in Singapore which has been barber he was appearing against ments northwards. It is seldom discount, until it was taken out of this condition to its customers, As bim to Court later (laughter). that so immediate a result arises of circalation. There was nothing Their only remedy was to find all that can be wished. It is hardly necessary to point to the grim spread in New Zealand. contrast that exists between all this on the one hand, and the facts usual, it seems to be our old The Howitt Philips Company

out of what at first appears to be for it bat to withdraw the surplus other means of transport.

coin and demonetize it, and this The third item of purrency con recently supplied by the Ambassador (and those mentioned yester friend the eyewitness who is at and the Tobacco Fund, quite a minor success. day by Ea 1 Kitchener) on the other.

could be done gradually if the sieted namely of credits entered fault. Apropos, we are reminded We would again remied our Measuring British corn by their own bushels, the Germans have that the public as a whole seems readers that the Howitt Phillips Praise for the Territorials,

It is desperately near to the coinage at Canton was restricted, under the head of deposits, by doubtless long ago decided that their friends new in England are to have but very little idea of the compan, is giving filty per cent, of being handled with the same ruffi.niem se that dealt out to our men difficulties under which suy self the proceeds as the Theatre Royal invidiona for the news agencies. As to Bank Notes, which were bankers, as a result of financing in Germany. The internment regulationsin Hongkong were barely respecting newspaper labours in to the Tobacco Fand. We under to single out one partical r regi- just an elaborate form of chit the movement of goods. The half an hour old when it was seriously given out that the prisonera getting accurate news. NAWA stand that H. E Major General ment for over frequent praise, and signed by a banker, their value banker took rights over slowly were being set to do coolie work on the roads of the Oslony. Minds of a sort is always to be bad; Kelly who has lout his patronage there are times when our brave was due to the fact that the bank exchangeable wealth, such as ma reserva of specie and securities, state, in return for sights over that will invent in this artistio fashion are not likely to stick at bat mach of it, by the time it has will be present at to-night's per fallows at the Front may piously was known to have an adequate chinery, general cargo, or real The customer, got the pray Sve me from my friends." trifles whers febles about German prisoners at Bome are concerned. been sifted by the pressman who formance.

Oae is conscious of being on thin But such notes might have 6 BOBI- We who know our countrymen and their views on the aujot of obtains it, is found to be one half "the game" are well satisfied that, should the war last for another false and the other of the very Arrangements have been made ice in oivilling, or appearing to city value just as a token coin, right to draw cheques up to a fifty years, the prisoners in England will remain free from indignity stalest; sometimes deliberate or with the Hongkong Tramway cavil, at Renter's aingling out This was shown by the fact that certain amount. That amonat and hardship. It is not the custom of Britishora to oppress the idle invention, sometimes a new Company to run cara for the con- certain regiments for commenda- the need for some sort of currency of currency had been created by defeticeless. Germany has taken exception to the Home Govern dressing up of an old tale. A venience of those attending the tion. The difficulty is often kept a certain amount of the banker, who was only obliged ment's decision not to put her naval officers, who have been guilty newspaper e critics are many,-nd Taikoo Rifle Club concert and that we, as a nation, are inconvertible paper in circulation to keep part of the cash de of sots of piracy, on the same footing with those who have been of that number, not half recog presentation of prizes on Saturn little apt to overdo things, at par. Herein lay the secrets of pented with him as a reserve captured in fair fight, or have been merely interned. She has sought nisse that the verifying of news day night next. Special oary, will First the London Scottish the premium on bank notes which against contingencies. On money to make this an excuse for offering anprovoked insult to several of takes longer than the obtaining leave for Hongkong at the con- admittedly a magnifoient body of had recently oxoited comment, and on other goods, a angerstrug- our officers who are in her power. But this is mere wolf and lamb thereof. Wo speak, of course, of olusion of the concert, 11 15 p.m. men came in for paean after Noten were needed for certain ture of oredit currency was thus

ACRO, paeku. Then the Indians, then transactions where silver was an erected.

Professor Hinton then explainsd payment. business. If a palace had been provided for every our who has the average British paper, that Excursion to Macao. ordered his blue-jiokete to sink harmless fishing boats and their has strong objections to printing The Hongkong Canton and Ma- the Australians, then the Cana- inconvenient means of orews, we have an idea that our enemy would still have found some what is false. Eyewitness stories 680 Steamboat Company are ran dians; and now the Territorials There were not enough notes for the development of Bimetallim, other excuse for annoying the luckless captives whom ill fortune has placed in German prole. We do not wish to see things made are at best, second-hand stuff, and ningaspécialexcursion tollendon are, it seems, going to have their requiremente. Hence notes were Lumping Standard, the Gold unless the reporter knows his Sunday by the e.. Taishan which share. We would be the last to at a premium. The reason of Standard, and the Gold Exchange

will leave the

eWharf wish to see them despoiled of it, the shortage was a matt man, he must have ove one of harder, by the wrong of feather, for the German prisoners in le

hard

Macao bar there is always the chance enquiry and here, the business England; trus, theft lot is an easier one than that of many

The at 3 p:m..

han will that other regiments that have man was the best authority. As the banks ling a truthful narrati working, bonest Britisher: but that cannot be helped just now his wits about him to ensure got at 95.m. retur

we certainly hope that either wonder then

leave Hong

row at 10 borne the barden and heat of the to the remedy regards the submarine cficers however,

ning frond day may feeldhat less than justice did not find it profitable to imme

notes to meet the Lord Charles Bereaford a suggestion ne to the yard arm will be acted |

has been done to them? upon, or else that they will be awarded senteness of imprisonment

uch as will by no means termin

oumparatively published in British

Talkoo Rifle Club,

currency.

andard, out of an unregulated carrenoy of two me

He used iginary: alterations O

fillentrate

operation