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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURNDAY, MAY 20, 1915,

Vet" Another Light Sentenco,

DAY BY DAY

NOTES ON THE CRISIS

MOST MEN WHEN IN ROME NOT EARL KITCHENER'S SPEECH, ONLY DO AS THE ROMANS DO BUT SEE THEM, AND GO ONE BETTER

We regret to have again to draw attention to a light sentence on a man of a dangerous class. Yeater day a Chinese was charged at the Magistracy with being in possese ion of pepper, wire and stripped bamboo-materials which he was certainly not harboring for any fine. purpose likely to benefit society. We pass over the fact that lie

The Weather. Lower level 8 a.m. Temp: 80

At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp. 74;

LEARN HOW TO made the usual excess: be was fog.

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minding them for someone else. Batwe are justified in asking why howas rot either discharged or else

Count the Columns.

Yesterday the Telegraph given an exemplary sentence, published 37 solumns of solid It either could or could not be reading matter. To-day there proved that he was keeping these will be 35 published. things for a criminal purpose,

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The Ministry and the War.

CORRESPONDENCE.

[The opinions expressed by the correspondents are not necess arily those of the "Hongkona

Telegraph

(To the Editor of the Hongkong

Telegraph).

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Mr. O. Wookey Harbour Dept. per Commander Book- with R. N. Mr. H. O. Sandford

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Bir At a time like the present The news that there is die-when adjustments in various lines. agreement among the members of of business must be exercising the the Cabinet will canes compara-minde of many of us, and in- tively little surprise to those who crease in the cost of living attracte have been endeavouring to read more than usual attention, coase the events of the past ninex o the quently the report of a Comptay Mr. A. Ritchie in the light of hit to which which has increased its charges Mesare. Joseph Bros. proverbially repeats itself. About to theextent of some ten per cent, Mr. F. A.Biden The Malls, If there was no proof forthcoming Siberian Mail-Olosed per every Liberal Government that has probably been looked forward Mr. Chan Sin Kl***

the country has ever known there to, and since its publication been Messrs. John D. that he was a suspicious charac Oriental-to-day at 10 s.m

Humphreys & Con ter we do not understand why be English Mail. Closed per .. has been, at one time or another, a subjected to toe careful sorat:ny was not discharged. If, on the Nahin to-day at U s.m. touch of experimentalism; and than would have been the case in Mr. Ip Lan Uncen

..this is a luxury that ourot be an ordinary year to Mr. Ho. Kwong other hand, the police had evid-Siberian Mail.-- Closed per afforded in time of war. At such a It may possibly therefore be Mr. Ha lu ence to offer against him, why **Ying Chow to-day at 3 p.m. time, common sense demands that voicing the thoughts of miny was he rot treated as this most

Up to the Minute--Share there shall be as little theory as readers of the report of the Peak dangerous class of oriminal de

Market News, G

poss.ble in the general atmo Tramway Co., if the following Borves? The materials found in

sphere; and this the country re points are brought forward: his keeping were such as only

Douglades. $474, buyers. cognised when, at the outbreak Under the profit and lose account, those who meditate thefs--if need Iados, $99, sales and sellers of war, it asked Earl Kitchener it might be interesting to the Co. Ltd be with violence-are likely to

Star Ferries. $30, sellera own. If, as has since been stated,

Kailans. 33/6, sellers, ex dir the punishment administered is

Hongkong Cottons. $7 with the maximum allowed by the ord

buyers. Kung Yiks-$141, sellers. Shanghai Cottons.Tls. 993,

buyers in. Shanghai. Laous 89),

Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which

their names', and addresses requires them to forward

communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for

publication, but as an evidence of their bona fides.

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The Cost of Living,

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One of the Straits papers makes very forcible complaint of the increased coat of living in Singa

pore and Penang, Up till three

or four years ago Singapore was

certainly a cheaper place in which

Closing prices:

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Kowloon Wharves. -

sales. Hongkong Docks $81, bayers.

The Dollar.

The rate of the dollar on demand today is la 0.13/101.

of

To-day's Analversary, To-day is the 108th anniversary the birth of John Stuart Mill Boy Drowned, Whilst bathing is a road at this was still the case. There the junction of Nathan Road and was no comparison between the Jordan Roads, Yaumati, a. Chinese two rates of house-rent; at the boy was drowned. Straits one could get a fair-sized Taken to the Hospital. bungalow, with ground attached,

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a Concorvative and a soldier to users of the tramway as to the Mr. and Mrs. Bowley. take a big land in controlling shareholders if more details were Messrs. Lowe Bingham public affairs, albeit a Radical forthcoming in the third item and Matthews Ministry was in power. One viz. to charges $4,116 60. N. C. UNA wan's to say as little asosible Whilst still more per inent ques Mr. D. W. Oraddock. about old grievances, butations might be asked as to the Mr. T. Arnott thought which still rankles in item, to office rent and clerks Mr. W. Armatrong... the British mind is tha the exit Salary, $8,000.00. Granted AS.... ing Ministry is drawn from a neng certain number of olerke are re-

Anonymous the class of politicians that quired it suggests that consider avowedly opposed the increare able saving might be made in of armainente: There would ap- offices which few probably of Fear to be, then, ample excuse for those who use the tramway have asking (to queta tao typical ever entered. The rent resme to cases) Lord Haldane and Mr. indicate that they are either ex- Augustine Birrell to make way travagant or palatial, though the Hongkong, 19th May, 1015.4 for men of harder grain. The latter possibility is somewhat really regrett ble part of the negatived by the statement that business is that such men should office faniture is valued at $500, over have been in power at all.

thit

Earl Kitchener and the.

Poisonous Cases,

Previouslysoknoy-

ledged...

2:118.68

18,046.00

$20,163.68

NJ STABB Hon. Treasurer, Note. Amount required to

Could not existing buildinge at supply the latest type of Vicker's one or other terminus be employ-Gun-plane, complete with gun, ed, or an additional room at the is approximately $25,000. lower station be built to harve the purpose.K

The next item remuneration to

No lesa interest attaches to The body of a Chinese female

BADEN POWELL BOY for the same amount as would ohild, which fell from a boat into Earl Kitohener's speech in the directors is no doubt earned, bat be paid for the half of a very the Harbour at Shaukiwan, has Lorde,with special reference to why re-duplicate the payment for SCOUTS BUILDING FUND. tiny house in Kowloon. Clothing been taken to the hospital. the quest on of reprisals where the same work by remuneration for men is also a fairly serions

the use of gas by the enemy is]| item in Hongkong, for both

Particulars are being published concerned. While all of us will to general managers at 5 per cent. on gross esIninge, osnuot the summer and winter outfits are in our advertisement columns of heartily wish that such scoures a direotor board with the engineer

Subscription List No.2, required; whereas, in Singapore, a golf competition to be held on the adoption of gas by our own staff do this work with equal

could be avoided, one wears the same type of cloth- Wht Monday in connection with troops

eliciency and to the saving of Mr. M. J. D.Stephens $100.00 ing throughout the year, and the the Royal Hongkong Golf Club the position

Sir William Rees- on is very much $4713.11.2 BYRDE.— Os April 19th at the Siang-Ya Hospital, Changsha, simple patrol-jacket which at Fanling.

choice between It being supposed that the in- Davies, K.C. S to Archdeacon and Mrs. Louis Byrde, a daughter (Beryl Constance.) aristocratic Hongkong taboos

Kallan Mioing.

evil do not, on the one crease of 10 per cent. will not Mr. G. O. Moxon 74.. We are informed that the total hand, want to descend to German affect the number of persons de Mr. G. M. Young ... WATEON-Miss Watson of the Wesleyan Methodist Mission, is worn by all dates of mon,

that shirts, collare and output of the Administration's methods; but, on the other, coming the tramway the increase on Anonymous.......... Changsha, on Friday May, 7th,

are only needed for more mines for the week ending 8th mon consideration for the lives of trafio receipts by the new fites Mr. Lo Cheung-ahui.. ties dressy occasions, Foodstuffs May 1915 amounted to 68 868 British troops demands that the will be Bome $8,701, It] Mr. E. Ormiston · would probably be a little dearer tone and the sales during the Government should not calmly a

fair

queation Dr. Gomez in the South thau here, nor can period, to 74,036 tons.

submit to the enemy's having such one get anything like the amount of variety in diet for one's money that is possible in Hongkong.

Labour.

`DEATH.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1915.

"LOVE YOUR ENEMIES"

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Boy's Loss.

25,00

$10,00

$20.00

10.00

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16.00

50.00

a fearful advantage (aa that perhaps to ask if the abolition of Well Wisher

the takings of the general Mr. Chan 8ui Ki A report has been made to the given by the following of police by a boy employed as a "Scientifio" methods. Practically managers in a reduction of a Lt. Col. A. Chapman, V.D. 15.00

possible $4,000. on office rent N. J. & W. W. Stabb servant to the Rev. Fr. Spada, at the situation is this; if the most would not have met the deficit Mr. Houry Houphreys Kowloon, to the effect that some law-abiding of citizens, who is, at and still have paid the shore-Mesare, De Sousa & Co. person entered his quarters and the tame time," an ardent stickler holders the same dividend, Mesars. Botaito Bros stole two blocks valued at $10 and | for humane methods and for re- clothing valued $350.

ligious observance of the Qisens of this does not bring forward hie It may be asked why the writer

Tools Stolen.

dbury rules, is attacked by a street

ledged

From the Home papers we notice that the ill-judged remarks The other item of importance- by the Headmaster of Eton on our duty towards our enemies are still household servants was no part very much under discussion. Canon Lyttelton is a sportsman and icularly expensive matter. Wages a scholar, and the only thing that people have against him is that he may have been a little more or a The police have received a rough with anexe or a half-brick, questions publicly at the meeting Previously acknow has made a pablic exhibition of himself by his sermon on Britain's little less than bers (more, rather report from the Kwong San Lung he is going to save his own life to be held on Tuesday next, ops the criticisms offered perhaps attitude towards Germany. There are bat two possible explanations than less, after the rubber boom); engineering shop, Mong-kok, to by the readiest and most how why many people in the of the sermon at St. Margaret's Westminster. One is that the and the only difficulty in the the effect that some person has effective means that lie to hand; preacher, feeling that his cloth committed him to certain itereotyped matter was that servants had to stolen from the Sam Vick coil for If he should decide to confins Colony do not 908 sufficient in- views on the subject of peace, treated his audience to these, regard-be imported from Hainan and yard, two boxes containing ham- himself to Bolentific boxing, the ducement to invest money under existing circumstances and why that, Canon Lyttelse is seriously deficient in logic. We would Malaye and the Straite-born at $120

your correspondent therefore rather accept the letter explanation; would rather believe that he is Chinese, as a whole, disliked League Tennis.

single blow. He regrets the need siges bimself,

ANON SHAREHOLDER. an intensely console. tious man with a strong vein of centiment in domestic work. But it is on this "The following will represent for fighting with the rough's own Hongkong, May 20, 1915. him, whe has read his Bible a trifle too literally for once. V point of service that our southern Club de Recreio in the Tennis weapons but what other course

disabled before he can get in a

HONGKONG TENNIS LEAGUE.

$20,00

25.00

100,00

100,00

$550.00

$2.270.00

$2.829.00

Hongkong, 19th May, 1915.

N. J. STABB Hon. Treasurer.

VICTORIA THEATRE.

Last Night's Patriotic Concert.

Another very successful patrio-

It is not so long ago that this very headmaster sentenced a boy contemporary expresses itself, ro League Match against the Hong- is there open to him? Weste to expulsion for an offence which, in public opinion, did not merit forcibly. Servants have screwed kong Oricket Club this Saturday obliged, fo, to see significance such severe punishment. Had the boy's parents reminded him of wages up to a point undreamed of on the ground of the latter club. in the alternative which Earl the Gospel precepts as to forgiveness, he would doubtless have said: a few years ago it is stated, Mesne. P. Roza sad J. Lopes, A Kitchener offers, and to accept, I forgive him, but I owe a duty to the school, "which I must carry and the blame is laid to the Lopes and F. Remedios, V. forthwith his hint that the nn- 'out." Again, if to-morrow some youthful scant o grave who has supineness and laister faire of Yvarovioh and M. Pinna, reserve adoption of the use of gas will The following will represent been told that he is to be flogged for the good of bis coul should tell the victims. That the fault lies D. J. Marques d

mean the neodices rasrifice of Brit the Hongkong Cricket Club the Hend that it is his duty to love his enemies, Dr. Lyttelton will with the residents themselves wê High School Plans Invited. teh life, to the extent of some against the Club de Recreio on gay (as thousands of schoolmasters have said before him) "I am can well believe, for Hongkong, Plans are invited by the Macao thoande, if not of hundreds of the former's ground on Saturday all ranke. The Band of the 4th

thousands.

22nd inst. Play to commence 4 5 p.m. N. E. Kent, O. J. Hewill The Pos

L N. Murphy, A. R. Linton, E. Hell, M. M. Mass,

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TYPHOON WARNING.

H.K.C.C. TENNIS. TOURNAMENT.

the general position. Thought

going to punish you for your own good; not because I have any even in its most "maskes" spirit, Government for the erection of a grudge against you." The boy who was points and the one bo cannot come near Singapore for High School. The plonely

The Position at the Moment, was caned or birched, may be excused if they arrive at the conclusion letting things slide. What is have to be sont in before July 15 that the. Doctor's expression of daty and love hurts just as much as wanted, both there and in our own 1815 together with specifications,

From the rest of the War Lord's if he had la belled it virulent enmity,

Colony, is a rate of wage fixed by will compete for prizes, $1,000

speech it would, ä appear that he Had the sermon taken the form of a warning against our allow Government BO much for being given to the best and 3500 who (like Sir John French) can ing primitive passions to get the better of as, it might have achieved soolies, so much for house-boys to the second, while certificate never be said to err on the side, of a end. But it went farther than that; indeed it asked people ete. It is only to be expected that of tonourable ment on will also Bauguineness, issatisfied with so good to be human, and to fly in the fans of justice as well. Ohinese employees, like any diber be handed. Further particulars The altitude of Britain towards the Germans is not a personal one; will tyrannise where they are will be found in our advertise though, if it were, she would have ample excuse to offer. It is that of allowed to do so; and the opport.ment columus. the guardian and upholder of the lawe towards the unity should be removed by those man who has broken them. And, w

when the war is over, who have the power, she

will have a duty to perform towards society, just to Dr. Lyttelton or his assistant mastors have a duty to per form towards Eton when any one of them caces a boy. But cases arize in a school wherein that daty is act entirely completed when the culprit has been thrashed; wherein the boys themselves feel called upon të express their sense of the offender's guilt, either by making him "run the gauntlet or else by boycotting him sending him to Coventry. Similarly, the British public has its duty to perform To-day a petition was sent to towkide a nation whose soldiers and sailors have the British residents for signature, brought auch

such indelible shame upon it. When the requesting the British Minister Goverment has had ila ay and, in collaboration will, France, at Peking to iostract the Consul Ruson and Belgium, has decided what price Germany shall pay for General here to have the Ger Merknavery twill still be incumbent on the general public to a mans removed from the Shameen

ay soonduct; sad this will best be manifested The petition is the outcome of ayale abhorrenos of the enemy.

dotti AK to forgiveness oes it really matter moet of the Hunicipal Council. employ, whether forgiveness or the reverse, if our held last night, titude is one of punishment!

CANTON NEWS.

Canton, May 19,

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tio concert was given last night at the Victoria Theatre to a orowded house, which included a large number of Serviss men of

Panjabie, under, Bandmaster Christian, played some splendid selections, and one of the bande men, Allah Dab, gavo s most ex- cellent piccolo solo

Miss May Clarke sang King and Country need yo yery dramatically, and rece anencore. The Carsons. their popular caharp,

gave a olever and intric

A notable feature o ing a entertainment

tolog

we still hear nothing farther from Last evening in the pepuli-turn; while Mr. Har the neighbourhood of the Darat stage of the Professional contributions were his illuminat danelles, Earl Kitchener speaks Pair, Messrs. H. and R. Hancooked club-swinging and a fine of the news from Gallipoli as defeated Mesara Nesbit and Philoitation, Professor Gonzal

thoroughly antisfactory and lips, the soures being 634 Mr. George Grimble this should along for Renter's 0-2. The win re

will meet ment, played a violi We are indebted to the Ameri- silence 0 the subject. The Mesars, Taichnis aud Hattersley anal good style and Me

Coreulate General, Hongkong Russian successes cont nue, and Smith in the final. the following Typhoon Warn Austria is paying dearly for that telegram quoted below temporary gain of which we still

HARBOUR OFFENCES. repeived from the Manila hear cothing. The Garmens and

vatory at 4 pm, May 19, Austrians are represented as mak Before Commander O. W. Booking sketch 1915.

ing most desperats efforts to keep with B. N. at the Marine Court the following col Cyclone or Typhoon 8, E. of the pease with Italy and With this morning, Assistant Jank Chapman, Lie Meiscomma Direction unknown. Amerion; but the enemy's cod-Inspector O. Mathies, Harbour McGreg

The tele am quoted below was duet has taught us to regard this Department, charged Chan Tso, Bursord on received from the Manila ser 88 mera test-throwing Germany master of a cargo bost, with un- tot likely to care cow how many lawfully failing to renew the Saverseries she has to face and licence of his bost, in the harbour, i

adst excellent reason on the 19th inet. Fined

moving

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