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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MAY 10, 1915,

An Old Friend Qons.

DAY BY DAY

Thoss of our readers who have known Liverpool well, any timeA WOMAN CAN DEFEND HER during the past eight years, will VIRTUES FROM MEN, MUCH MORE indeed feel that the Merasy will EASILY THAN SHE CAN PROTECT not seem the same without the HER REPUTATION FROM WOMEN.

-ELBERT HUBBARD.) Lantsnis-or the "Lucy," as she was to the people of Liverpool and New Brighton. In spite of har enormous size she was always fine, smart and dainty, and, gliding

The Weather. Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 78;

At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp. 71;

"AND LEARN HOW TO into the river at nightfall, with for.

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"NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS,

every port lighted up, she fally deserved the title which has so

often been bestowed on her

Count the Columas,

The Mails. Siberian and American Mail.

Closes per e.e. Shinyo Mara *to-morrow

11 a.m..

NOTES ON THE CRISIS: JOTTINGS BY THE WAY. THE SHROPSHIRES

MR. LLOYD GEORGE AND THE WAR.

The Lusitania Tragedy,

That Manila typhoon, which was prophesied for last week, did not și eventuate." It would, we understand, bave been the biggest in the world. Manila thinge always

are.

ENTERTAINED.

Bad Weather Prevents Open Air Concert.

The most elaborate open air arrangements had been made, at If we are to credit a contem- the Volunteer Headquarters on porary, a child was charged at Saturday evening, for the enter- Since our last Notes on the the police court laat week with tainment for the men of the Crisis the terrible tidings of the having kidnapped a man and two Shropshire regiment, but un- On Saturday the Telegraph eclipsing all other war intelli- spect for age would appear to be its seasonable visits of rain, and Binking of the Lusitania has come. women. Even in the East, re-fortunately Hongkong had one of the floating palace. On board pablished 48 columne of solid of her, it was difficult to realise reading matter. To-day there gence. The news is paralysing on the wave...

the concert had to be given in the not because it is astonishing, for that one was on a ship at all (we will be 38 published.

drill hall. The programme WAS the only thing that could surprise are speaking of the last decade, before the days of the Vater- land, Aquitania etc); the whole thing was so vast and aɔ elaborate- ly appointed that one seemed to bo moving about in a monster hotel, with its lifts, cigar stall, post office and so forth. From end to end of her was quite a journey; indeed she was over two hundred and fifty yards long, ¡Her curious flittened fannels were na big round as a fair-sized room; twenty four feet at their greatest width. It often happens that buge ventures like the big Cunard- ers become white elephants, no one caring to have anything to do with them. So far from this being the

case

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To-day's Anniversaries. To-day ie the 77th birthday of Viscount Brice and also the 119th anniversary of Napoleon's total defest of the Austrians at the Battle of Lodi,

Boy as Booty.

The programme was as follows: 2-At the Pisno, Mr. G. Grim="

ble.

We are now almost certain that just the thing for a concert of the us to-day in connection with the some of Renter's men have been kind, and the consequence was Germans would be their attemptsfinted from the ranks of the that there was not a single item ing to play a clean game for five Daily Mail Who could fail to de presented that did not meet with consecutive minutes but on ao test the mighty Baimswortheeque the fivour of the vast audience. count of the heart-randing loss of descriptive powers in "gliding oivilian lives. Even the shelling soakes, Lolts from the blus" and bombing of unfortified Eng. grim bille, shapeless yet menac lieb towns falle back, in point of ing," a ".forbidding" coast, eld., horror, in presence of this whole as well as in all that piffs about sale murder. There were many the men standing with bowed women in the second class, and heads etc. It's all very nice, Mr. Mr. W. A. Hannibal. about forty boys under a year Reater, but we have to pay-and old." That is the kind of triumph pay stifly for these flowers Allan. Corpl. Brown, Pie. Gray that the German boys of the future and flourishes; and, if it's all the and Carpl. Smilt will have to read about in their asme to you we'd rather have history books.

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The Facts of the Case.

news

2. Song. Selected. Pie. P. W. Golding.

3Humorous song. Selected:

4.-Quartette. Selected Pie

5-At the Piano. Mr. R.

Castead of the " pen Sutherland, pictures which your soul has come to love sincs we took the increased service.

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The subject is not one on which it is either easy or desirable to There is no truth in the report enlarge; practically all that we that we intend figuring as the know is that this beautiful ship Telegraaf in future, though had one of the glories of our mer our Datoh namesake followed, cantile navy has been ruthlessly throughout, the sensible policy it sank, and that over fourteen has recently gone in for, we might hundred innoont people have have considered the matter,

one to their death. The resti, at

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present, only speculative matter. We hope that, when that Black If civilisation wanted farther List comes out, the first name on We sincerely hope that con-

proof of the fact that Germany is it will be the houseboy who, when tradictions will arrivo as to the

Do more fit to be trusted with he was getting his master's gear rumoured death of Justas Milea A robbery is reported from armaments than a child or an out of the wardrobe, enquired Forman, Elbert Hubbard and Shantakok where the miscreants orang utan with a box of matches sweetly: You wantohee ploper Charles Frohman. Mr. Hubbard stole a small quantity of clothes and a tin of gunpowder, the proof clothes this morning, or wantches was not so well known as the and a little boy.

is there. There is a scrap of fcol-pidgin soldier man clothes?" other two whose names are men-

comfort in the increasing readi

Wisdom.

Tonnis Leaguç."

Mr. Lloyd George's Views.

6-Song. "The little Irish girl." L Corpi R. Brown.

7-Humorons song. Saleated. Pto. G. W. O. Burnett.

Intirval,

8.- Quartette. Selec'ed. Pte. Allen. Cap. Brown, Pte. Gray and Corp. Smith. 9.-Recitation, Saleated." Pte.

J. M. Walker. 10.-Song.

"There's a land

(by request). Pie. O, Edg- combe, 11.-Humorous song. Selected.

Gunner H. Relph. 12.-Song. "King Charles."

Pte. H. I. Jones.

13. Humorous song. Selected,

P. G. W. C. Barneti, 14.-Song. "My love iscome.” Larceny of Clothes,

Pie. P. W. Goldring. tioned as probably being among A Chinese shop-runner has re-ness of neutral nations to see and The educated compositor has 15-Humorous song. Selected the dead; not so well, it it comes to ported to the police that someone acknowledge this fact, and to had one or two more field days

Mr. W. A. Hannibal.and that, as he deserved to be. He was entered his room and stole a realise that Germany must, in daring the past week: "Jun- Accompaniste: Mr. Geo, Grim- in his fifty-sixth year and seems to quantity of clothing and $23 fature, be regarded as a danger whale wants some "bea ing;

ble, Capt. Lammert and Pte. have been practically self-educat in money.

ons beast that has to be despoiled" Eyewetness" may be attribut

EJ. Chapman. ed. He was successively a teacher

of its power to harm, and to be able to the fact that he has just Addressing the gathering and a lecturer. During a visit to mersing Mr. Faithfall: Why in a school, a printer, a jurnalist In the Summary Court, this kept in perpetual subjection......! returned from burying his sixth Colonel Chapman expressed his London in 1890 he came under did'at you deliver these goods?

mother (or he may have been regret that the weather should expecting that lift behind the ear bave prevented a promenade con- the notice of William Morris, and Witness: Because they did not

that we've promised him for so oer, but the unfavourable nature it was doubtless from that artist arrive (laughter.)

long.) But what was he thinking of the weather had not interfered that he acquired many of his ideas

In Mr. Lloyd George's speech at about to set up, in connection with with their enjoyment. He then on the subject of elaborate priot- The Club de Recreio plays Preas dinner the same feeling is a local bank report: "The war expressed the gratitude he owed ing and binding; indeed bised the Y.M.D.A. on the latter's reflected. The war is to go on brought with it an amount of an- to those who had assisted to make ultimate founding of the Roy ground on Saturday last, and won "till the object is attained." ¡xiety to your disɛectors" ? the evening such a success and Most people are agreed that, after peace is declared, a new era ed directly to Morris' influence. Recreio-66

croft Art Press is usually attribut by 33 games. Boore-Club de Tae Chancellor hoped, under Answers must be received at this hoped that there would be many

Y.M.C.A.-33 God, games for the British Empire will begin. The least tribute that all of us

that it would' not office not later than midnight next more concerts of the kind, en Дів own

end before then." publications were games.

How Saturday.

Captain Litt of the Shropshires can pay to the memory of the thousands of heroes who have died for the nation is to prove that they have not died in vain. Months ago two novels, twenty-five volumes

numerous, and included one or Barber Misses Bangles. deeply Germany's iniquities have

replied, speaking of his apprecis- A barber has complained to cut into the soul of the Empire When the Kaiser's benehmen tion of the kindness extended to Britishers began to lose their conceit and self-sufficiency, and to of "Little Journeys" and "about the Police of the theft from his we only know when we reflect and led captains are brought up his corps, and said that they bad realise that it is one thing for a country to be great, and another for ten thousand magazine articles," premises in Irvin Street of that this language comes from a for execution at the end of the war been better treated in Hongkong it to remain so. Since August, combatants and non-dombatants There was something startling in Fair of gold mounted rattan ban- whilom leader of the parce party; we hope someone will throw in, as than in any other place in the Blike have had abundant opportunity to reflect on the bitter penalty his epigrammatic

the party that believed it to be its makeweight, some of the men who East. He did not think they daty to swallow insult from write such songs as "Get out and would be going to France, but he foreign powers and to offer the get under." Drastic steps are could assure them that they did the Hongkong Volunteers. (Ap- plause).

HONGKONG, MONDAY, MAY 10, 1915. EDUCATION AFTER THE WAR.

that has to be paid for unpreparedness and over-confidence, and to might be termed a glorified, of $85.

atyle; he gles and money to the total value

make good resolutions for the falare. Few of us are sanguine refined sod enough to suppose that the Empire is going to be filled with perfect Sunday".

Boured "Billy

Snatcher at Work,

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beings after the war, but equally few level-headed people propose telling sentences have been re-plaint to the police that while bonour to Mr. Lloyd George for output of these ragtime ditties.

Many of his most Maria Maya, has made a com- other obeek to the emiter. All necessary to prevent the further not wish for better comrades then

to go to the other extreme and to see no betterment forthcoming.

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printed in "A Thousand and One walking near the Dairy Farm the hard work which he has done, offices, a Chinese derted up with pen and tongue and brain,

Bijou Theatre.

General Progress of the War."

SAMSHUIPO PUBLIC

DISPENSARY.

The Honorary Treasurer of the bege to acknowledge with thanks Samahaipo Public Dispensary the receipt of the following sub

scriptions in aid of the above Institation, namely:- A case occurred in the Hong- H. E. Sir Henry May kong courts the other day where- Li Ping Esq................. in it was shown that a man O Little Egg had $2,000 snug in his safe yet Yen Sui Chi Eg............ borrowed $500 to pay his debts Messrs. Yeun Kee with. "This," said a local counsel, Ip Kam Kong Esq " is what American writers would Wong Lan Sang Beg

in the Homeland, who, being unable to proceed to the Front, have thought in every one of them. her bag. He got olear without will always have to be set well formulated the rale that Boy Mach of the improvement will come from within; our friends Epigrams," and there is food for behind her and snatched away since the war broke ont. When Sir Robert Baden Po been condemned to sit by and watoh the wearisome unfolding of "No man should be pitied except events, will certainly have improved the occasion to detect thousands

to his credit that he use every Scouts should whistle, on every of points in which the Britain of the future may correct herself, the one who wears his future for being caught. We in the Colonies have had similar leisure in which to repent of think of God does not make much a bat'e." "What we miorobea

ounce of his great influence with possible occasion, we take it that Mine May Clarke made her a certain section of society to he had no youngsters of his own our old follies, and if such leisure has not been vouchsafed to the difference to God." "We should final appearance at the Bijou further the Empire's aime and or any Boy Scouts for near neigh- army and navy chiefs at Homs, they have had other means of be judged, not by our acts but by departure will cause great regret menthe. It will be noticed, too, opinions on little matters like grasping the fact that, at the outbreak of war, all was not well our temptations. These examples,

Theatre on Saturday night; her ambitions during all these trying hours. It is satonishing how men's with the Empire. But many of the opportunities for improvement will strike the men at the Front and in the wazahipa long before taken at random, will show our to thy patrons of the Bijou, that he rounds off his speech with this change with the march of they coar to the stay-at-homes. Men cannot travel and come into readers something of the type of among whom her fine singing had the cheering reminder that we seara and circumstances, daily contact with those of another race without learning. And,

thought that was in the man..

become very popular, The two have another couple of million principal pictures were Themen ready to do their share to in this connection, the Journal of the Royal Colonial Institute for

Sinews of the Dead" and "The wards bringing the enemy to the last month opens up a most interesting and practical view of the

Mystery of the Blue Lako"-both ground. case. It points out that the universities and the schools of all Justus Miles Forman:

of a highly sensational character. grades have contributed thousands of rearuits to Earl Kitchener's new

The Forthcoming Organ Recital. army, and that the training through which they have had to pass, Mr. Forman was a man of As will be seen from our both at Home and in the field, must have an enormous effect, not totally different stamp out advertisement columns, Mr. only on their characters but also on the kind of influence they will lock, upbringing and ambitions. Denman Faller is giving another At any other time, more atten- call frenzied finance, Was the Fu Yik Pang Esq...... be able to exert in the problem of national defence."

He was born in 1875, and, after organ recital on Monday next at tion would have been paid by the allusion to the borrowing or to Yau Ming Si******* In speaking of the question of consoription recently, we sug- taking his degree at Yale, pro- 5.30 p.m. Owing to the excessive public to the sinking of the Maori, the paying of the debta? gested that what Britain needs is not compulsory service but com-seeded to Paris to complete his dampness of the last few weeks, which struck a mine along the mayhap it was a side slap at pulsory military education in schools and colleges. To this we might ednostion. Like many other au- it has boon found impossible to Belgian coast. The Maori and man who lent the money. add that military education of the right sort implies general pro- thots, he had at first little faith in proceed with the repairs to the the Crusader (which sought to paration for such a situation as the present one, not only in musket his own power to write; sid, like organ and it has been decided to rescue the crew of the mined vas y exercises and artillery instruction but in everything that will Thackeray, he believed himself to give this further recital, before sel), both destroyers, of the "P" make the soldier of the fature intelligent and physically "fit". The have far more gift for art than for proceeding with the repaire class, were built in 1908-1909, of out of school life of the British boy is ideal as part of this prepara literature. For two years he during which time the organ will about a thousand tons displace- tion, and we would not have the attention that is paid to sport les studied painting under the best be out of use.

ment and having a speed of 33 sened by half an inch, though more time might well be devoted to masters in Paris; then suddenly Victoria Theatre, kuots. Both were oil fuel boats, advise us that the Langkatoutput Mesere. Wright and Hornby tuition in gymnasium work, and it should be as much an understood throw up what he had at one time. There was a very packed house Stout contradiction of Austro- for the current month is as thing that a boy can swim, run well and shoot straight s that he thought would be his life's work, at the Victoria Theatre on Satur German fables comes from the follows: can read and write. Within school, theory will certainly have to and devoted himself to writing day night, and a good programme, Russian Headquarters, whose re fall back a little more and make way for practice. Hygiene, physics, magazine stories. English and the chief item of which was the port shows that Rossis has been chemistry and geography, if they are to fulfil their mission, will have American magazine editors soon clever shooting act of The Thres putting up not only a placky but to be taught practically and not, as has been more often than not recognised his power to entertain, Carsons." These artistea continue a excosesful fight in the Cat the case in the past, as mere took subjects. Modern languages, and he became a quick seller, to be a very successful draw at pathiana and on the Vistula, egain, will require very different treatment from that which they "The Garden of Lisa and The the Victoria, and their form The enemy appears to have re- have hitherto received, and the same may be said cfdrawing. Hap Unknown Lady" are perhaps his ance is one that all should see ceived numerous useful checke pily most people are getting of one mind on all these matters, and best known booke, but it is Another interesting feature of the all along the French and Flemish so one has not to look forward apprehensively to needless misunder- doubtful if he had by any means atandings, aquabbles and general waste of time when things are once come to his own, man more happily brought back to normal. When our ne

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