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Arms of Germany In Hongkong,
It is devoutly to be hoped that? the suggestion of a correspondent, which we published yesterday, in connection with the Imperial Arms of Germany, will be acted upon by the local authorities without further delay. The Ger- man bank, as the writer of the letter points out, was erected by the enemy's government, ond Dow that the two countries are at
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why the public eye should be perpetually offended by the sight of an escutcheon that has come to be regarded by the whole civilised world 'na the sign-board. of rullianism, falsehood and foul! play. Had Germany met de in fair fold, as Franos did during
Yesterday the Telegraph our many wars with her, the mat-published 37 columns of solid ter would have been different; for reading matter. To-day there olean warfare does not necessarily will be 37 pablished. put an end to all international courtosies; and if the present
MAY 15, 1915
NOTES ON THE CRISIS.”
ENEMY
PROGRESS,"
PRESENTATION.
Fifty Years Falthful Service,"
FOR THE BELGIAN RELIEF FUND,
Yesterday's Fine Concert.
*** gramme was a most excellent öne
The Big Battle.
There is a remarkably healthy series of wires from the Franco-
From 1881 to 1914 Mr. Eneobio
In spite of the heavy rain there Belgian front to-day. Indeed the Honorato d'Aquino, I. S. O.. bas two Paris communiques and Sir faithfully served His Majesty's was splendid attendance at the John French's brief report are just Government in Hongkong, and concert given yesterday afternoon a chronicle of German repulses, so appreciated were his services by the Catholic Women's League One of the happiest of the news that long ago he was honoured in aid of the Belgian relief Fand items is that which tells of the with the Imperial Service Order, Among those present. were the failure of the enemy's infantry and now the Hongkong Govern Right Rev. Bishop Peazoni and the French, Belgian and advance near Ypres, in spite of its ment thought it fitting that he being supported by poisonous should receive a memente of his Portuguese Consale. The pra gas. Apparently it did not occur fiftieth anniversary. to the Germans that their sioken- In the Logielative. Council and the performers are to ha ing foul play must, sooner or later, Chamber, this morning, the pre-Congratulated on having provided cease to work." Their scientists sentation of a marble clock with what Hongkong does not too often willasw don btless buay themselves bronze plaque and pillars, was gei-a real musical treat. The on some fresh dirty business. But presented to Mr. d'Aquino, along various items were fally sp meanwhile their own losses, in with the sum of $500, by Hie praciated and it was to be re- gretted that time was too short to this part of the battle-field alone, Excellency the Governor. Among enable most of the performers to continue to be so great as to con- those pressat were Sir C. P. stitute a drain which no country Chater, C. M. G., the Elon. accept the very hearty recalls im can afford; least of all, doplated Mr. Hewett, Colonel Chapman, led by the prolonged applause. The Misses Alves, Gutierrez enemy, we think few Britishers American Mail. Dus per se. Germany. A Power that, months the Hon Mr. A. Thompson, Ma would have murmured at the coat of arms" being allowed to remain.
ago, was beginning to find it for General Kelly, the Hon. Mr. and Ribeiro gave two exceedingly necessary to send old men and Kemp, the Hon. Mr. Chatham, pretty trios for mandoline, guitar- and Gaish. Pianoforte soloa to no preparation-to the Front, Hodgson and Mr. Nesbitt, can scarcely regard with equan- The clock bore the following were given by Miss Bertho Xavier (List's Riguletta), and Mise Elfrida Osmund (Liszt's 13th s..imity the putting out of sction of inscription on a gold slab: Pres-
hostilities had been conducted on
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Bat the matter is otherwise; from Australian Mail-Dae per 8.8,sohool-boya-the latter with next the Hon. Mr. O. Svern, Mr. P. Mra and viola, playing with taste
the Belgian atrocities, during the first days of the war, down to the usilania affair and the use of gasee, the Germans have been steadily occupied in bringing
discredit on their Imperial Arme;
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should be removed and flung on to the nearest subbish heap with out delay.
The Alien Enemies.
ló view of what we said in this
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It is bad enough when success Aquino, I.S.O., by the Govern is costly in point of losses; how ment of Hongkong in recognition much worse when "Failure" has of fifty years faithful service from to be written at the foot 1804 to 1914.
His Excellency, in making the of the terribly long list of killed,
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Rhapsodie), both in gold style- and with genuine musical feeling. Brahms' Duet No. 1 was played
well by Miseos Barths and Aurea Xavier. Special mention should be made of Miss Esther Xavier's
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wounded and prisoners, Truly presentation said in October '84, Germany is having a glorious he thought it was, Mr. d'Aquino quite brilliant execution. She the Pablic Serviceaccompanied the various vocal time, and is paying for her fun. entered
iteme and gave, as a solo, sa the Post Etude of Rubenstein's in a manner A Modil Communique,
...clerk ia That long statement" from Office, and not long after that
that aroused the most enthusiastic тав transferred to the the German headquarters, of he
Miss Xavier is which Reuter speaks, must be Treasury and he was working in applause. diverting reading. When the that department ever since. Hispanias who should "have a futuro
before her. terlin romanciers have put the Excellency, himself, had charge
The vocal portions were. 89 final artistic touches to their of that department at one time 1030ant of the sicking of two of snd he could testify to Mr. d'interesting and as well given
the intrumental. Miss M. Loureiro our warehips and the damaging Aquino's loyal, in lustrious and
Bang Maanenet's "Ouvre les yeux of a third, they might give them devoted service. La 1911 bis ex bleus" with great sweetness, and aclves a welcome rest by sitting ceptional services were brought Mrs Charlton and Misa Carvalho down to write the truth. Then to the notice of the Secretary of the hitherto gallible and guiled Siate for the Colonies, and he gare, repectively, "Come, for it Prassian bouzebolde would was honoured by the distinction of June," and "Vo Danzar" in very pleasing fashion. Miss Car- have something over, which being made a Member of the valho also took part in the dust to rub their eyes and gaps. Im- Imperial Service Order, the Order "La Gioconda" with Mre. agine the relish that would be which he was now wearing. In Fyndman. Mrs. Hyndman's given to Berlin breakfast-ta bila October last, be completed fifty splendid voica $164, dishes by such a communique as: years service and that was the beard to good effect in Verdi'e We have lost a considerable longest service that any individual "La Forza del Destino," for amount of ground in France and member had completed in the ser- which the audience insisted on an Belgium; Oarency has been vice of this Colony. With the invested by the French; all our Secretary of Ste'a approval, and noore; and Miss Camilla Castro was likewise recalled for a most stacks in the Ypres region have the unanimous approval of the beautiful rendering of the "Kush- failed, our beroic attempts to Ciril Service, an i, he had no miri Song." Artists such as those. make the fullest possible use of doubt, of the whole of the com- who performed yesterday should
the Hongkong Govern
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The Dollar.
To-day's Anniversary,
of our officers were captured at mont would like to re coguise his
one point; three more of our flieth" saniversary "of public
な
Way
further
aeroplanes have been brought service here, by giving him the OUTRAGE ON THE PRAYA down; Sir John French's men small donation of $500 and, also mowed down our fellows asking him to accept this slight European Assaulted and Robbed
with shrapnel;
! near
Dix-memento (the marble clock) of the
column yesterday of the licence hitherto allowed to Germans in Britain, it is comforting to read in to-day's telegrama that the business man of the City of Lon- don have left no room for doubt as to their own attitude in the matter. The fact that the brok- ers' procession was stopped soon after it left the City cannot bet taken se an expression of diasp- proval by the authorities, for a de- putation was allowed to proceed to Westminster and was received by the Attorney General himself; and, moreover, the Lord Mayor has offered the use of the Mansion Elouse for a meeting at which the anti-alien movement can organise itself. The reproof to Mr. McKenna and his former supporters is tolerably obvious. And, be it re- membered, the men who arranged this procession of protest are not merely hot-blcoded youngsters.
The rate of the dollar on The young fellows of the City demand to-day is 18 9.13/168. The annual prison report, which the Hon, the Captain Superin have enlisted, and those responsi- tendent of Police presented last week afords some figures which must ble for this demonstration are, be regarded as encouraging by well-wishers of the Colony. To for the most part, elderly and hegin with, the total number of prisoners confined in the gaol very level-headed basines? men, (including debtore, persons on remand, etc.) during last year was in a settled position, who are 4,050, as against the previous year's total of 6,885. We have not determined that a foolish and space for a close analysis, but our readers will bainterested to know purblind minority shall not be is also the 245th anniversary of ed by machine-gun fire and that little clock would strike miny
Today is Ascension Day. It made our troops were annibilat occasion. His Excellency hoped Six Arrests Made In Quick Time. A singalar outrage and one that, in cases of larceny alone, the returns were 595 as against 726 permitted to have its own way the founding of the Endson so forth. To this the bearers of ill more hours for many more years for the year 1913. Sixty-five per cent, of the total admissions to where the alien enemise. in
Bay Company.
news might add that the French during which Mr. d'Aquino would fortunately rare in Hongkong prison were, we notice, for offences that are not of a strictly criminal Britain are concorned.
and British in the Dardanelles be a member of the Hongkong took place in the early hours of nature, and, among these, the big figures are to be found-se natural-
have inflicted frightful losses on Pablic Service. In spite of his this morning when a European ly they would be in this part of the world-appended to breaches The Socialists.
Steam Launches Collide.
the Turke, that the much-raunted Afty years labour he was still go was waylaid and robbed of a con- of the law in regard to opium, arme, the Harbour and gambling: Another wire which is of an
eiderable sum of money, Goeben is running away, with all ing very strong and he looked as
Mr. G. Hutchison, chief en. the only other heavy item being bawking without a licence. oocouraging Datore is that which regards the use of corporal punishment, twenty-eight juvenile tella of the British Socialists' launch Hot News has reported to and that Russian roserves have Arst saw him (applause).
The coxewain of the steam her might, from Russian ships, young as when His Excellency
gineer of the s.. Ching King offenders were whipped, and seventy-two adalte. The C.S.P.reports minilee'; and one is all the more the Police, that while be was very neatly circumvented the
M. d'Aquino then returned left the Hongkong Hotel at midnight and after that there have been no esespas or attempts at easpo, that the gaol glad to be able to record this in eterming in the bartour he was enemy between the Vistula" and thanks to His Excellency for the fabout buildings are in good repair, and that the conduct of the European face of the serious situation re-overtaken by the "steam launch the Carpathiana,
This is how very kind expressions of goodwill walking to Blake rier took a officers generally has been excellent and that of the Indians parted last week at the Glasgow Lee Yuen Which collided in communiques should be written sad also thanked him for the rise to go as far as Whitty Sreet Pier where he hoped to get Batisfactory.
shell-making werke. As we asid "So large a rodantion in the number of persone committed to at the time, the attitude of a few him and did damage to the ex-but maybe the German lie-souvenir.
His Excellency said he would a empan to take him off to his Ele did not take the num- prison is accountable for in a variety of ways, and it should be said trades union cranks is not to be
like to add that it gave him ship. forthwith that most of those ways are euch as reflict very great taken as indicative of what the
What Australia thinks about special pleasure to have spoken br of the rickeha which has not credit on the courts and the police. Probably there is no place in workora at Home feel as a whole.
the torpedoing of the Lusitania-ia as he had done concerning a yet been ascertained, and when the whole of flis Majesty's dominions in which it is more difficult The purpose served by anoh a The Green-Nesbit Tennis Match shown by the resolution of the member of the Portuguese com- he got near the Pier, he was aud- to keep perfect order than in Hongkong. The Colony is British, manifesto is not so trivial an one
various premiere "to uss all the munity. That community had denly attacked by air coolies who yet is but a stone's throw from Chinese territory on the one Land as might appear at firat thought,
Common wealth's resources in contributed to the ranks of the overturned the vehicle, threw Mr. and Portuguese on the other; and it has been--we may us well for it at least spares the Ministry
Owing to the inclement weather in the war."
order to increase its participation service many very able members. Batchison on the ground with elate the matter plainly so hopelessly mismanaged in pat days much extra anxiety and nerve-
What America We never forgot that here in, sufficient force to bruise hie that it is going to be raore than a labour of Hercules for present and waste that must fall to their lot if the tennis match, which was thinks is not to be ganged so Hongkong, we owed a good deal side and robbed him of money folare officials 10 put maiters at all as they should be. they had to admit that even a arranged to be played to-morrow, easily by the British mind; for to the help and loyalty of the to the amount of $305 in noter Nothing aide the sprea 1 of crime and lawbreaking more effectively small section of the community has been postioned until Wednes- there would appear to be a certain members of the Portuguese come sad small coin and a gold watch
We understand that went of adanimity about the opin munity. (Applause), than police laxity and light sentences, and there has been more than was opposed to the war. In this day next. a suficiency of both in bygone years. Gradually Hongkong came respect the statement of the there has been a great demand ions of her press, politicians and to be known set safe refuge for all the soum and sweepings of South Socialists is a very welcome one.
for tickets and that two further people. Of one thing, however, China. It was spread abroad among these that offences that
stands will be erected. Seats can we are very certain: there will Quick Work, were capital in China were allowed to pass unnoticed here, or were,
be booked at Moutrie's..
be no good purpose serveil by Our leading article to-day deals at most, met with a short sentence in a type of gaol that, whatever with the decrease of crime and
foolish Britishers at Homs-and in may have been its shortcomings, sanitary and otherwise, was at the more ready apprehension of
this Colony-who elect to let their least a palace in comparish with Chinese prisons. Happily for the criminals within the Colony.
Mesara, Wright and Horuby tongues ran on quite regardless of Colony the judges, magistrates and police by mutual consent at last, Since it was written a case has
common sense or of any real advise us that the Langkat output arrived at the conclusion that everything was not quito as it should come to our notice which, in
knowledge, on their own part, of for the current month is as be, and a great change begen to work, Sharper sentences were justice to the police, should be
the situation. If Dr. Wilson is, given, the lash was laid on more liberally, inefficient police were mentioned. At twelve o'clock fame as an artist, a Chinese psin-anfortunately, a sentimentalist, be May 1 weeded out and Chinese low-breakers paused to think. The result last night a ship's officer got into ter was accused this morning of is also an honest and brainy man. of their thinking is the report of which we ape k.
But while that report is one on which we can conscientiously Hotel, intending to ride
s ricksha at the Hongkong being found wandering up a who is conscientiously trying to to staircase in Das Vosur Road Weat, do what he believes to be best for congratulate those responsible for the change, we are not blind to the Whitty Street. On the way he When charged this morning the the Republicof which he is Presid- fact that it lies in the power of the Government to enable the Captain was attacked by a gang of Chin-prisoner called a fellow villager ent. Then why do not the chat- Superintendent to show even a better record next year. The ese who overturned the vehicle to prove his respectability and to terers leave him alone and look magistrates should have wider powers than they possess and many of and got away with the passen- prove that he made a living by after their own affairs for five the Colony's laws should be overhauled and amended. The readiness ger's watch and chain and a the pictures he sold, but on no minutes?
"For the byword it with which banishees coolly return to Hongkong in a public dis- considerable sum of money. The count of a slackness in the de-esith: "Never show bairns or fools grace, while often the sentences passed in such as commit this matter was reported to the police mand for his professional output unfaished work." It may be that particular offence are laughable. Nor are the banishments anything as soon as possible and, long he came to Hongkong in search of Dr. Wilson will yet hit upon some like frequent enough. Too often the Government appears to think before noon to-day, six arrests work. On condition that the wit plans whereby the situation-and it has done its daty by turning out a few pick-pockets, ignoring what had been made and a portion of nese saw his artist friend out of the America's "face"will be saved; it must be well aware of: that there are other Uhinese here who the stolen property recovered. Colony, the latter was discharged therefore it might not be amiss to rught to be either in gaol or else out of the Colony. We trust that Congratulations!
by Mr. Lindsell;
wait a while before we condemn. next year's report may have a little more to say about banishment.
|tant of $150 ·
Postponed.
An Artists Adversity.
Taable to climb the ladder o
brokers know this as well as we.
J1
The Lusitania,
LANGKAT OUTPUT.
follows:-
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and chain with two halves of a sixpence as a pendant worth about $108: They sucoseded in making good their escape.
The matter was reported to the Police who at once took the mat ter in hand, with the result that six arrests have been made in connection with the affair and a portion of the property recovered.
T
RIFLE SHOOTING.
Tone 342
2...
379
3
324
4
20
4
360.
醫 330
889
Taikoo R.O. v. Shropshires,
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382
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356
가
419
A
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306
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332
Total to 12th inst. 4.325
Daily average 360,42
The following will represent
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