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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1915.

ALWAYS ASK FOR Ammunition-and Bribery.

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The Weather.

Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 83 overcast.

At the Feak 8.a.m. Temp. 75;

NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

NEWS FROM GALIPOLI,

Air Raids.

Before, we have had time to rejoice over the success of the

Allies' air-raid on Karlsruhe,

arother wire comes, announcing that a Zeppelin bas attacked the north east coast of England,

CORRESPONDENCE.

[The opinions expressed by the correspondents are not necess- arily those of the Hongkong Telegraph."]

HONGKONG GIFTS ACKNOWLEDGED,

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(To the Elitor of the Hongkong

'Telegraphi).

Quite a useful sentence was

BUT THE JINGLING OF THE handed out at the Polioa Court GUINEA HELPS THE HURT THAT this morning" to a wily Chinese HONOUR FEELS--TENNYSON. who was obarged cot only with being in possession of a hundred rounds of ammunition but also with attempting to bribe s police- manto let him go. The policeman was n Chinese and the bribe five dollares point worth acticing fog. in that the offer of a sam equival ent to several days' pay consti- tates something of a serious Yesterday the Telegraph killing fiften persons and wound temptation 10 à Chinese of the published 34 columns of solid ing fifteen. We hope things are much obliged of soz would kind poorer class, That the lakong reading matter. To-day there no worse-by which we mean ly print the enclosed correspond proved incorruptible is something will be 35 published.

that such wires occasionally un-ence in your next issue." deratat the violence or the re- sulta of attroka of this descrip-| tion. This was notably the cass the recent Southend raid, dur ing which at least ninety bombs must have been dropped; a figure

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which him, seeing that he comes of whom equeeze

congratulate "to

a race among

Count the Columns.

dinia:

The Mails,

Up to the Minute-Share Market Newg,

is instinctive. The fius inflicted Siberian Mail-Daspere.s. Malia. in the case of the ammunition English Mail. Due per s.s. For was $100 which makes the bargain a poor one so far as the Siberian Mail.Closed per 8.8. cllender ie.concerned, especially

Yingehow to-day at 3 p.m. ra the ammunition was con- fiscated while, for attempting to bribe, three months' gaol was the reward. This kind of sentence le surely calculated to break down the worst of the persistent it. tempts at bringing arme or am manit on icts the Colony and ot tempting to corrupt the police to bcot; though we cannot pretend

that we shall ever feel completely

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The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1915.

OUR SANITARY BOARD DISCUSSES SANITATION.

A week or so ago.we complain- ed on behalf of the public that a coffin, from which water was dripping and which emitted a frightful steach, was allowed to be taken through the European: business quarter of the Colony in the middle of the morning. One of our readers yesterday afternoon encountered a similar gruesomę, object-not, it is true, in the business quijer,

but in a

Closing prices:

Canton Insurance Office, Li.

$305, buyers. Union Insurance Society of C'ton, L.-$860, buyers. China Fires. $137, buyer.

$395, Hongkong Fires. —

buyera. Hongkong, C. and M. S. S. Co.

L-22 sellers. Shell Transports 0210. Rauba. $3.75, div. buyers. Hongkong and K. W. and G.

Oo. Ld. $681, bayera. Hongkong Hotela. Co. L. $115, buyere $108 sales. Hongkong Tramway Co.-$5,

buyers.

· Laogkats.-Tls. 40, buyers. China Sugara.-$113, buyere. Luzons $30), sellers. Green Islands. 6.90, sales China Minilas—$4.90, buyers.

Government Hugs.

Hongkong

BOXING.

Articles Between Richards and

to be Signed.

Bux Walting to At the office of the Hongkor Telegraph, articles governing fight for the Lightweight Cham pionship of the Orient are draw up and waiting for the signature of Bapper Richards and Iron Bas Fifty dollars has been deposits by Richards as a guaranteed good faith, and we are awai

Dear Sir, I should be varying the decision of Iron Bar so his backers se to their intentions difficulty over the division of th At the moment there is eam

purse, and, qutil the parties har come to soma definite unde! standing in regard to this, ther a little likelihood of the mate being arranged, "

Yours truly.

HELENA MAY.

Hongkong. Jane.17.

St. George's Hospital for War Refugees,

49, St. George's Road,8,"W." This morning Sapper Richard markedly lower than that, given by London, April 29, 1015. came to this office and seked.) Reater. Sometimes the suppres

Dear Macam, Through the thero had been sny develop sion of the true is dangerously good offices of my sister-in-law, menis, but he had to be inform like the suggestion of the false. Mre. O. J. Eyren, this Elostel ia to od that there were none. Th Britishera have been disposed to have the benefit of the consign- title is at present held b pride themselves on the toouracy met of clothes which the Hang. Richards and he is very kee of their wires and to the n'k God kong ladies have to kindly made oa proving his claim to it, eve that they are act as other men for the destitue Belgian Re-gainst so formidable an opponen are where the publication of com- fugees. I would like to thank as Bux. We are also informe muniques is concerned. Long very warmly all who have helped that Bax je anxious to mee may they have reason to bost in the making snl despatching. Richards, and, this being th that the Home messages. BIA

They will all be very useful, the case, it is to be hoped that boxin letter. Aproj 01 of Karlsruhe, for Soldiers returning to the front, shortly be given an opportunit straightforward and true to the helm: ts will have to go to Belgian enthusiasts in the Colony wi once the Garmans appear to have of whom there are a great many of seeing these lady strip for whe made no secret of what happened.

All presents of clothing are will certainly be a very toug The aeroplane fleet, apparently very warmly welcomed, and battle.

It is reported that Bar, wh set out from the Nancy neigh specially valued row when the bourhood; let us hope that the supply (not unnaturally after so was always speedy, has even in bomba dropped on the arme many months) has greatly din creased that quality, and, farther inished, though the demand is he has developed in a surprisin still steady, if not so overwhelm- manner that which he so sadl ing as in the first weeks of the lacked in former daya-a punch Gorman invasion.

Richarda teing a hard bitter to the contest should prove one o the merriest we have had for long time-that is if it is arranged

factory look useful effect,

The Turk's Offensive.

Weakentag.

The Dardanelles despatch is quite encouraging, the more so It has greatly touchel the feel- in that it speaks definitely of the inge of the destitute Belgians to weakening of the Turkish" cffen know that friends in the most sive. The Tark's inborn fataliam distant parts of the world have is a big itand-by, to be sure; thought of their needs and set to but even he is liable to panic and work to apply them. to despair, as we have seen scores The whole of this Rǝfuges work, The rate of the dollar on of times during the present cam in all its branches has, you know, demand to-day is 1s 94.

The Dollar.

To-day's Auniversary. To-day is the 140th anniversary of the Battle of Bunkers Hill.

Oplum on the s.s. Pyrrhus." thoroughfare greatly frequented ing, confiscation was ordered in At the Police Court, this morn- by European pedestriane and the oase of the 280 lbs. of opium motorists; the Pokfulam Road to found on the e.. Pyrrhus contain

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paiga. Manifestly, if trenches grown out of Lady Lugar l'e little are to be taken one at a time, Committee, which had no idea of the Allies' progress is going to the huge organi ation destined to be slow; but previous wires bad grow from the small plant. Again prepare i us for thia. The thanking you all.-I am, sours enemy bise had everything very gistefully in his favour BO far

MARIE EYRES,

and this fact should help us to

Marlborough Mansions, ground advantages are concerned,

West Hampstead, realise that every yard gained by

8th May, 1015, the Allies is, in it elf, something

Dear Lady May:I was much letter of April 1 and hear that you and your friends in Hoog. kong have sent off another box of garments to the Jackasapes Soiaty. All the things for men- tion will very quickly be put into

The articles can be seen by th supporters of either parties o application.

FOR THE BELGIAN RELIEF FUND.

Next Wednesday's Polo Match

Under the patronage of H. T the Governor, H. E. Mejo General Kelly and Commodor Anstruther R.N., a polo mate will be played at Causeway Ba on Wednesday June 23 at 5.3 P.,, weather permitting, in a teams (Ireland against "Th Rest") will be:-ANN

wit By the side of the road layed in twenty tins by Sergeant of a big triumph. Talking of the delighted to receive your kind of the Belgian Orphan Fand. Th

a native coffin, upparently knock-

ad together Laphazard out of

pioking-case wood, and the smell proceeding from it is described

Pincott.

A Shipkeeper's Loss.

Tarke, a newly arrived wire says that the Breslau was most serious ly damaged in the recent Black Sea fight and that some Turkish torpedo boats were sunk.

In Parliament.

Ireland-Major Lowder, Lieu Wyndham Quio, R. N. Cap Thomson 18th: L.I. and Lien Forbes, R.N.

The Heat-Captain Batteral B., David Landsle and

as positively overpowering. The The Police have received a re- cree was not, improved by the port, from Sai Wan Ho to the fact that our informant was accom- effect that a shopkeeper has had The new ministry, with Mr, use except the Balaclava Smith, R.A., Messrs V. Smyth panied by a lady and a delicate stolen $14.40 in money, jewel-Asquith at its head, appears to These are not needed in the tren child. Are the Chinese allowed lery and an opiam pipe be giving general satisfaction. ches now, but I fear they are ture to doposit sich objects of interest valued $12,50.

a public thoroughfare, just

Un

ea they please, and to leave them

the present bucket system." We are not sure that we quite under- The New Derby, stand what Mr. Orms means by better class European houses; but let that pass.

Silk Delivery.

Ammunition and Bribery.

H. EDEN.

David.

The Bind of the 18 int Light Infantry will be tendance. The price of admissio to seats (and tea, provided by th members of the Hongkong Fol Club) will be $2. Admission

of His Majesty's forces and th employees of the Naval Yard wi be 25 cents.

It may be only our fancy but it to be still needed when the cold eeeing to as that one respect in weather returns, and if we have which the new broom is clearing mercifully ceased to fight by then fer an indefinite time with ab It not uncommonly happens that the meetings of our Sanitary solutely no one responsible? And T.K.K. is in rcceipt of wireless left behind by the cld one is as cases sleeping in the open sir.

The Yokohama Office of the up much of the dust unavoidably they will be useful for tubercular Board are characterised by a mixture of sense and nonsense-in are they permitted to construct communication to the effect that regards the question of greater

I have been so much interested which the former does not always preponde:ate. Yesterday's collins on such a principle that the silk despatched hence per ss, frankness. Be that as it may, the by visiting the wounded men in meeting was an averäge ope: The question of the hour was: flash the odour of the dead body can "Shinyo Maru" on the 11th May Coalition has succeeded in get. Hampstead Hospital. Private the Ground, for N.0.0'a und me closets or the bucket system? The President, with a laudable effort be so easily and ammist kably was delivered in New York on the ting itself well spoken of by Wakefield, K. O. Y. L. I. who is aftor fairness to all parties, considered that the Board "should set apparent? Perhajs the Sanitary 12th just. on a strict principle" in dealing with applications for permission Board might be able to spare a

papers of all viewe, and that in mentioned in the report I send to use the now system. If an application were granted in respect few minutes for inquiry into this

itself is something of a score. Mr. you, wes stationed in Hongkong to one house, he urged, it could hardly be refused in other cases. savoury matter.

Asquith's speech is of the sort some little time ago. - Robbed While Shopping.. He thought "it would not be more dangerous to grant the privileges.

that inspires confidence, and He played in the 1st XI at MOTOR PILOT BOAT Mrs. Findlay Smith, of the his reiteration of the national cricket and now at Cedar Lawn)

FOR HONGKONG required for the better class European houses than it would be to

Peak Hotel, had her bag contain policy-that of pursuing the war Hospital playa on the lawns most keep the applicants under the discomforts, and inconveniences of

ing about $13 stolen whilst mek-at any cost to a victorio za tesue" keanly. I naked who ran the runa Messre. WS. Bailey & Co. Lt ing purchases in a Japanese-shows that his former memora- and he replied. We make those have completed, to the order d cario shop in D'Aguilar Street ble statement to the same effect who have lege ran for a!" There Captain Philip Going the we yesterday. The bag was laid on was not uttered in haste. His are a sad number with only one known pilet, a motor pilot boat From the report which we published yesterday one does no? There is a certain amount of the counter for a few seconds and appeal to every citizen of the leg-Youre sincerely and grate the following dimensions Lengt giean what the general opinion on the vexed question is among the tragedy in having to describe one in that stort space it was taken. Empire to take a hand in the fully,

30 ft, beam moulded 6 ft. 9 in mempers of the Board. Light of these, besides the President, were of the oldest sporting institutiona

game will not miss its mark, nor

Doth mouldedit; Extreme Dra present, but apparently only three spoke. One of them diepated as "New," and this has been the

will it fail to increase his personal

London, May 9th, 1815. |3 ft, 5 ins. the discomfort attaching to the backet system, another called it the ease with regard to the Blae

Dear Lady May-So many thank The little vessel is ballaste most hopelessly unpleasant and inconvenient system that was ever Riband of the tarf; the Darby possession of 100 rounds of am on behalf of the Nationaliste have ent parcela which you hare sli sol weather, fitted with cabi

A Chinese who was in uzlawful popularity to an extent unknown balore. Mr. Dillon's assurances

for your kind letter and the differ to give stiffnssa in roug devised, while a third endeavoured to strike a happy middle between There is not a racehorse-owner in munition, made matters worse come at a seasonable time; at kully sent us. The black things and these two extremes of opinion. The line which northwest took 19, any part of the world, belligerent for himself when arrested, by that there was ever room for are specially useful for the poor tion for owner and for a proizzete sleeping accommod we think, bardly likely to find general approval among the Europeans or neutral, that would not give attempting to bribe the lukong doubt as to Irish loyalty except of the Colony.. One man's meat is another's bane, and there is no more than one dare estimate to who had him in charge, with $5. in a few fanatical brains; but all winter lot tone of their little stay outside the harbour in ha mothers who during this trying generally suitable protracte accounting for tastes. Mr. Goldring mentioned the fact that Mr.lead back to the weighing englo- At the Police Court, this morning, these little things aid to the ones; they feel they must have weather to attend on incomin Howelt lived in an hotel-quits, we are well assured, without sure at Epsom a Derby-winner the defendant was fined $100 in any intention of being in sny way personal, but raerely because the as King Edward did with Minoru, connection with the ammunition general good feeling and sense fact happened to fit in with the argument which he was desirous of or as both our noble and cur unti- and he was sent to gaol for three of security. advancing. We, in the same spirit, would ask: Would Mr. Hewettled followers of the sport of kings, months for the attempt to bribe. be as well satisfied with the booket system if the hotel in whion he have done with other beautiful and resides were no better off for sanitary accommodation than the historic animale whose names housea referred to in Kowloon and elsewhere? We have but to adorn the pages of racing history. assume the existence of the old ayatem in aoy hotel or large board-When the minds of people aro There was a gooi house at the ing house to be aware at once of the dangers and discomforts of it. heavy with the weight and worry Victoria Theatre last night, when

Enough has been said of past meetings of the Board to show that of war it appears somewhat flip a fresh programme was presented. Man Alleged to have been held there is no insuperable bar to establishment in Hongkong of the pant to talk of spot and the like; Mr. Albert Morrow, who bae before sanitary system which obtains in all civilised parts. The pros and bat when one refers to our Derby, performed in Hongkong, gave a cons have been weighed, over and over again, and it scarcely leoka oar Grend National, and our Boat clever and amusing little coajar- The Police have received a report as though fuiure discussions would be productive of anything lace, one is touching upon it ing turn: "The Mystery of the from La Pak-fak that whilst on startlingly new against or in favour of either system. The only two merely mattersofepo:t, but institu- Haunted House," and all the his way from Yan L'028 to Tai-pital, of which I am a member of Maurice Hostel. Eo you wee rational argumenta advanced in favour of the bucket arrangement are tions which are as near and dear pictures were of an interesting po, on the 15th, iust,, he was held the Ladies Committee and they and a use for all you and the that the Colony's water supply is a consideration, and that the house to the heart of the true Britisher nature. Special mention should up by two men, one holding a are finding them very useful for dies of Hongkong so coolies do not understand the flushing of pipes and to would soon as any landmark in the nation's be made of The Del" revolver up to him. He was told the women during open air treat us and Mears. Shewan Tome have them stopped or broken. Even if we allow that these two past. To have to call the Derby wonderfully well-arranged to empty his baskets on the ment The Hospital is very good are so kind in repacking the con points are especially weighty ones and we confess that hitherto we by anything but the Derby

and well-acted French Glm story ground or he would be shot. This to any of our 6.8. F.A cases, tents of the cases in small have not been led to that conclusion they seem to us to be more through no matter what cause, in two parts. It is an altogether he did, and the robbers took Any things that do not seem quite so we are able to cope with th than out-balanced by the mass of argument that can be brought will take very much forgiving delightful little droma, which $400 ia Hongkong ten cent pieces suitable to be given direct to the things quite easily. Your against the existing method. Surely the position, when all is said, by the nation.

everyone should see,

and they cleared off over the gap women, we send to a Jumble Sale cerely. in the direction of Taipo,

for the binefit of the work done

is one of at least possible cleanliness and comfort as against certain discomfort and spread of disease.

Victoria Theatre.

SERIOUS CASE.

up by Armed Men.

black and it cuts into their week ships, and

ly money and get them into debt, The Motor is a 26 Hores Powe so we were glad to be able to Kelvin giving a speed on trial help them.

eight knots and the boat ba The men's c'o'hea were much already been some time at wor appreciated by the Soldiers and without the slightest hitch. sailors Help Society as they deal Captain Going'e many friend with the wounded and discharged among shipmasters will be gla men. I sent another parcel to Miss of the greater promptusse in Tucker who is dealing with arch efficiency which his new ente osses in Shoreditch, kdy prize affords them.

I took one of the long white

knitted jackets to the Chest Hos- by the women's branch of th

Troel

LLOYD THOMASH