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HONGKONG

The object of this paper is to publish correct information, to serve the truth and print the news without fear or favour.

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The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1915.

THE STRAITS REGISTRATION BILL

will be pretty much what it row is in Hongkong-with the difference that what is voluntary here becomes compulsory at the Straits when the Bill is made law. All the mer of British bleo, under the age of five-and-fifty, must serve in the Volunteers, Volunteer Reserve or Civil Guard (the latter corresponding to our Special Police Reserve.) It will be noticed, too, that no time must be lost in registering, this having to be done upon arrival in the Colony. The measure is surely one which all right-thinking Britishers will applaud-if they can once rid their minds of notions about the thin end of the wedg., of conécription.

THE HONGKONS TELEGRAPH, WEDNSDAY, JUNE 30, 1915.

The Late Alexander Kenesly,

PEKING OFFICIALS.

DAY BY DAY.

ABSENCE OF OCCUPATION IS NOT REST.

NOTES ON THE CRISIS. CHARGES AGAINST

A MIND QUITE VACANT IS A MIND DISTRESS D-Cowper.

British journāliēm, bas loat a very capable man by the death of Mr. "Aleo" Kenealy, Those who knew him best are of opinion that he deserved to be olessed among

Count the Columns, the big "Might Have Beens". At

Yesterday the Telegraph the age of thirty-seven when he published 33) columns of solid should have been doing something reading matter. To-day" there to justify his education and his will be 334 published. wide travel experience, he settled

The Malls. '

Ville de la Ciotat, to-morrow.

Reports in the Chinese Press.

MUNITIONS AGAIN.

Russian Progress.

CAUSED INCONVENIENCE.

"European and His Dog.

"As the Police Court this morn- Following upon our Shanghai permitting his dog to wander ing Mr, Overy, was prossented for correspondent's wire of last week abroad without a muzzle, at the following, from the Kowloon, Daily News is of interest.

Several days agr, Chou Laugh- ant should have appeared yester- It transpired that the defend- hei, Minister of Finance, day to answer the summon, but denounced Chang Hu, for having he sent his servant,

Reading the German and the acted in a high-bauded way with Siberian Mail. Closes to-mor-latest Russian commaniques' side regard to the falt revenue, and

TOW. per BB. Ville de le 5. Ciotat at 9 a...

Up to the Minute-Sharo

"Market News.

down to halfpenny-newspaper] Siberian Mail. Due por 8.0. work in London and, from that

Monteagle to-day. time forth, became one of the French Mail-Olossa per e8| anonymous multitude. He acted ae newe-editor on- the Daily Deprean for three years" and then took over the editorship of | the Daily Mirror, which poɛt he was, we believe, holding at the time of his death. He was a member of an exceedingly clever family (his father was the late Edward Vaughan Kensaly, Q,0.,| M.P, while his sister, Dz. Ara- bella Kenesly, has written books that have placed her not very far from the front rank of modern

novelists) and was himself a very cultivated man, though he left school at eighteen to join the steff of the New York Herald. His closest friends spoke of him as a man who was built to do big things; that, with his abilities, be never did them is something of a tragedy.

Yet Another Saditary Matter. "Still they come--"they" maan- ing complaints against the magni- ficent methods of our Sanitary Board, The latest refers to the night-soil barges and the spot ohosen as a resting-place for them daring their hours of inactivity.

take a hint,

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Closing prices:

Hongkong and Shanghai

ing Corp. 88121, sellers. Star Ferry,836, ex div.

Dellers.

Bongkeng and Wpoa. D. Co.

LA-$64, buyers, Ewo's. Tls 167, buyers.

His Worship: Why did you not attend yesterday P

Dafendant:-I did not know

by side, and allowing for possi-having defied the authority of ble exaggeration en both parts, superiore, relying upon foreign it was necessary for me to attend it is still most difficult to extract support. The original document and I cent my servant, who knew any definite news as to the pro- other charges, ste principal ones His Worship:You caused the

was a longtby one, and amongst more about it than I did.

weres

admit the offence? Yee. Court inconvenience. Do you

A fine of $10 was imposed,

Bank-gress of the Russiens in Galicia.

News of any sort has been scarce (1) In the salt basiassa of the from that quarter during the last Changin district, he has obtained day or two, and all that it seems the magistence of influential per safe to zocept is that the Germans

eons in opening the Tung Chun have again crossed the Dniester arm for the purpose of making munications, is mainly concerned and that very heavy fighting profit at the expense of legitimate in the establishment of the Hai- rezali still unknown-in proceed.. China Providents, 3 sellering in the Lemberg neighbour business and to the detriment of tang Transport Company in which Langkats.→→Tls, 40, buyers.

several other persons in high Union Insurance Society of hood, with Eat inconsiderable the revenue...

loseen

(2) Fa Northern Aubai, he has positions are interested. Although on both Bideo. If the see-saw business is proving abolished the rights of old salt Yih advertised in the newspapers wearisome to the Rassione" i merchante, and, upon the pretence at the beginning of this month must be ten times more so to the of free trading, granted the same that he was not at all connected Auto-Germane, and it must be one merchat He has deceit with this enterprise, yet, judging almost time for the latter to be fully requested the issue of by the strenuous opposition of his saking themselves if the game is $400,000 as return of capital to Ministry to the introduction of the

the merchants.

likin system on that line by the really worth the candle; if a mere temporary repulse of the Russians' ie worth all the bloodshed and expenditure of ammunition.

O'ton, L.-$895, sales. Indo-China.-$105, sales. Hongkong and K. W. and G.

Co. Ld: $711, enles."

$5,

China and Manilas

buyere. Douglas's.-$54, buyers. Humphrey's Estates.- $6.60,

sellers.

Luzona.- $36, sellers.

The Dollar.

..

The rate of the dollar. on demand to-day is 18 9.5/16d.

To-day's Analversary,

The Labour Party and the Munitions.

(3) He has guaranteed a loan Ministry of Finance, the public of $100,000 from a bank to the does not believe that Tib is as producing merchants as capital disinterested as he asserts he is. drying salt.

The China Tines regards the

(4) He has recklessly permitted removal of the two Vice Ministera the opening of new walls in the as a great triumph for the Anhui North Husi District. He has party.. It recollects that when without authority, granted per- Kang Heing-chan was appointed. mission to the Husi District mer. Director of the Gold Mining We canrot work up as much chants to borrow the exit of Bureau, he declared that he would enthusiasm as we could wish over Shantang for sale while neglect proceed to Canton first; so it wee the remarks of Mr. Hodges,. the new representative of the Labouring to define or restrict the area thought at the time that there Party Chance placed in that of consumption for the salt of would be a lall in the struggle

Hasi District.

between the Anhai and Danton, Party's hands quite a useful

(5) He has changed the price fections. It now regards this as weapon in the fact that greater of salt in the Changla "District a stratagem to deceive the Canton franknees as to the situation from a cash basis into a dollar party and to make a coup d'etat had rot been- employed

It seems that some of these recor- To-day is the 130th anniversary sary but act essentially sightly of the death of General Ogle- craft, when not. at work; are thorpe, founder of the State of moored alongside the Prays, in Georgia. the neighbourhood of the Harbour

1. Candeur. Office. They are, it should be raid,

"I bave never been caught battened down and empty, but stealing anything before" said a this does not prevent a decidedly prisoner at the Police Court this unwholesome smell from arising morning. from them and being wafted to-

Woman Sentenced. warda some of the" river steamers Before Mr. J. R. Wood, at the ¡lying at adjacent wharvas. We Police Court, this morning, a by the Government in the past. basis, thus enhancing cost of salt possible.

Then it sums up the strength. shoold think that it ought not Chinese woman was sentenced to "If the workers had been told amongst the populace.

nd four month's imprisonment for the seriousness of the position done various other things to the thus: "It grasps the Ministry Besides, it is alleged, he be possessed by the Cantonese party to be difficult To some better habitation for such larceny in a brothel.

months ago... Farbe it detriment of the people and the of Communications and the Salt vesele. Can they not lie a gcod.

The European Forgery Case. from us to defend the hushing We understand that the man up of truths which should have he had nothing to gain how tions!

country. The Minister asked Bareðu. It has Interna distance down the Harbour, out

Loans 10 fall Yesterday we printed the main points of the new Registration of the way of ordinary craft, till Blair convicted of forgery in been made public without delay; was it possible that he should upon for support at convenient. Bill to which our correspondent in Singapore referred in his wire they are needed? Hongkong is Shanghai, arrived in Hongkong at the same time we cannot see have acted so improperly and moments. It possesseя special of last Tharaday. It will be seen that, substantially, the position (not a city of so sweet a BBYOur Yesterday, under escort, in order that the Labour men's excuse is irregularly?" The Minister em aancial advantages in the rail- that we can afford, additional to serve his sentence in Victoriaa valid one. It is one which was

Gaol. laxuries of this description. We

put into their mouths by sab although it was usually difficult the Bank of Communications, en- phatically pointed. out that waye and telegrapha. It werke wonder if the authorities will Alice Memorial Hospital. e sequent Government admissions.

The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Their own sense and their own and crooked practice, yet every. When Choo Teze-chi was Minia- to find proof in such cases of dark joying the elasticity of exchange. Chase and the Police. Reserve. Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals loyalty should have told them body knew that the said Direct.rter of Finance, he simply approved The Chinese membership of the begs to acknowledge with thanks that this is not a time for worry indulged in gambling for large everything and signed everything Special Police Reserve now num the following donation to the ing either the Government or stocks and often staked tens of this faction presented before him. bere somewhere about 120, we funds of the Hospitals:-Logan themselves about their pretent shousands of dollars on a single But now, not only its two. Gonor privileges," and we feel bound to throw, causing the greatest als, the dragon and the tiger understand figure which does and Basto

deplore the sanctimonious charac scandal among the officials. credit to our young friends. Those

ter of their line of argument-if

(Lang Chien kaang and Yib who have joined are keen to a man, and are becoming daily

Chang Ho, in reply, memra-Kung cho) have left the Ministry, argument it can be called.

lized the President stating that but the money gods of the five keener; but many of them are of

the Minister bad assumed office divisione (meaning the five large opinion that they ought to

ecarcely two months when four railways) are mostly in an un- have more backing from the

oat of the ten salt commissionera stable position. Even the inde- young man of their own race

were superseded, that these latter pendent and newly, bora brauch and that the total ought by

For being in anlawful posses- tribute which Le Temps pays to in audience by the President or Salt Bureau, has been relegated It is a very warm and generous had either not yet been received of the faction, the Director of the this time to have resched

sicn of a quantity of rope valued at least a couple of hundred. $80, & Chinese charged by Ser-the army and the munitions concluded the handing over, and of corruption. It would thas our navy, and, for that matter to were still on their way, or had not to the west frontier ons charge The fact that these young Chinese are 2 anxious to see their this morning, was fined $50 or ticularly good that the remarks festly impossible for him to urge the root of the Centon tree."

geant Caygill, at the Palics Court, arrangements also. It is par- that it would therefore te men appear that danger is threatening friende bearing their share is in defau't fourteen daya. itself a good sign. It ought not

Es to the safety of the seas should and hasten them to remit the In conclusion, it considere that to be difficult tiraise two hundred An Indian sa obmer, standing from Britishers themselves. The painted out that salt merchants one or two persons belonging to have come from an ally and rot fands of the revenue. He also the transfer or even dismissal of athletio and ensible men from about six feet high and weighing public, as Le Temps aaye, has hesitated or suspended transpor- either side does not necessarily our large population of British-about fifteen stone, told the barn Chinese. The Civil Service employs a numb:z of these and Magistrats at the Police Court, got into the habit of find-tation of salt on account of the mean that that side has been or

this morning that a Chinose thief ing

pretty much "contributions" demanded" of even will be defeated. It may there are a few more at the Ua tried to run away from him "but in concerned, that it takes the them, and some of them had been that the building up of the”: iveralty. Cannot they summon am stronger than bim, so he safety of the maritime highways as a result of having too much too complicated to admit of any

... where abipping

encountering financial difficulties strength of a faction is an affair up the necessary energy? To wear did'at." the King's uniform and to fake,

as a matter of course and as our capital into the business. He easy downfall or even being in- when necessary, an aptive share

from adding is not half grateful causes of the ebrinkage of the by a man or two or by an' in- contemporary generously refrains thought these were the main fluenced to a large extent either enough. Such a hearty expression salt income. Lastly, he said, oident or two.

great taper will go still farther towards strengthening the friend- shipbeteen the two nations.

Remanded. At the Police Court, thia morning, s ricksha coolie from Kowloon, was defended by Mr. W. Goldring when charged with soliciting passengers. The care was remanded.

Unlawful Possession.

A Good Reason.

Good Opinion of the French.

basinoes

We have to look at the thing in a common-sense light. In Colonies like the Straite or Hongkong the European element is but tiny in comparison with the native population. Britsin is renowned for fair and just government, and her handling of millions of natives, of all races and religions, is the admiration of the rest of the world. But were our officials angels there would still be the risk of occasional outburate of discontent, which, if the rein were not. held with sufficient firmness, might blossom into something serious. Many of the native subjects of the Empire are bat children as far as judgment, self-help and ability to see the reasons for a new messute are concerned. Was it the fault of the British Gov. eroment that thousands of Asiatics (following, by the way, the example of other thousands of enlightened persons at Home) resisted vaccination ordinances that had been passed for their good? Is it Vault of the British Government in Hongkong if nothing, short of fines or imprisonment, will persuade many of the Chinese here to conform to the simplest lawe in regard to health? These instances are quoted at random, but they will serve to illustrate the general statement that, however good and careful the system of government, discontent is always liable to arise among an ignorant or supereby them as a very great privilege. before Mr. Wood as the Police of appreciation, and good will from However unworthy Chang Ha The Shunpão calls all officials tions populace. If, then, matters were normal, if the great war bad never broken out, there was still the need for having, at the back of the regular soldiers and police whose duty it is to maintain order in each places as Hongkong or Singapore, asme reserve force that could be relied upon, at need, to bear a share either in keeping ont intrudere or in preserving due order among those already living in the Colony,

From the very fast that the movement is a patriotic one it should appeal strongly to our British readers. The war has taken from colonies like oare many of the regular troops whose province it would. be, nader ordinary, circumstances, to guard it. To be called upon by the Government to assist, if necessary, in filling the gaps left by these men, should surely be regarded by civiliana as an honour. To those who know both Colonies it may seem a little strange, at first sight, that compulsion should be exercised or required-in Singa- pore rather than in Hongkong. The men of the Straits are usually of a more robust type then those of this Colony, for hundreds of the youths who come to Hongkong would either never risk life in Singa. pore, or else would find that there was no opening for them there, If there be any explanation of the compulsion other than such as the man in the street is not allowed to know-it is that governmental stringe, in relation bath to native and to Britisher, have always been held more tightly in the South than here; and thus an order that might arouse all manner of weeping and wailing in Hongkong 1a received de a najpral thing at the Straite. The question that concerns us, however, is not that but; If compaltion be necessary in Singapore, what about Hongkong? Has every able-bodied men here enrolled himself in the Volunteers or either of the Reserves ? And is every man who is already enrolled quite as keen on the work which he has offered to do as he might be?

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A Lucky Prisoner.

03 usual

Front..

A Chinese charged with the in maintaining the peace of the larceny of a bangle from the per- Oclony should surely be regarded son at Yaumati, was brought Not only so, but the benefits Court, this morning, by Detective

may be, he will certainly not exalt charged with corrupt practices derivable frem membership Sergeant Wille and being found

himself by means of foreignere." "officials that disregard their drill, discipline and opportunities guilty of assault only was fined

Es requested that he be instantly nation. It mentions the names for target practice are anoh as 20 er in default one month.

dismissed, for he was aure that Sir of Lia Yang-tee, acting Goverror should appeal to all sensible

Major Lawder.

Riobard Dane would rat object. minds. We hoje sood to hear

of Szechuan, Chao Ching-has, Saya the London and China The Dardanelles and the French a official circles, it is believed Director of the that the required figure bas boon Express-Captain (local myjor)

Tientsin- that Chang Hu's dismis al was Pakow Railway, Chang Hu, roached.

C. E. Lawder, Hongkong Volun

accelerated by his braggadocio, Director of Salt Barega, and teers, bas been given the tem Both from the Franco-Belgian implying that he had the support Haa bu-tsong, Vice-Minister of porary rank of captain in the front and also from the Dardan of foreigners and by the defiant War A remarkable fact, is that army, Major Lawder has elles the news is bright tone generally permeating his these men were all exposed with-

erved in the Hongkong and encouraging. The narrative reply.

in a few daje? It hears of many Volunteers for one time, and of a warrant officer which came The Chinotungpu's Case other cfficials who have been sinde August last has been borne through last night is useful na The impeachment of officiale of denounced and whose names may on the supernumerary list of the being indicative of the spirit of and under the control of the Min be published later. It says that the men. They are cn excellent istry of Communications consiste where there is profite there is aleigh Victoria" Theatre,

terme with themselves and each of over forty charges. The five corruption. The best earning Aga ticularly good programme cther, and, while they are ont for biggest railways ere all alleged to departments of China include the was put on at the Victoria Theatre victory, it is yet clear that they be implicated. The officials on railways and the Balt ACHSTE and Swire's ss. Linten (Captain last night and will be followed are prepared to exercise to the the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, it is tion, but there has been 007 Legge) was leaving Somahni for till. Friday, when fresh instal, fall the typical British patience alleged, being the most notori-

DROPPED HER

PROPELLER

Mishap to s.s. Lintan.

We are informed thet i on Monday as Mesare. Batterfield

oorpe,

Pan and endurance; that they do not our offenders have been th chief look for victory all in five minutes, first called CIL to answe some That same falienos is apparent the charges. Chro“ Chio

Even in the Min!!

Wochow, the dropped her pro- ments of the ever-po peller". "As the mishap took place line " will be put on. ||with almost the first movement of features, in addition

the boat, it was possible to locate good war pictures of the present enough, too, in the wonderful hus, the Director, was, how the spot at which the propeller program s are another delightful mining operations near Armenti- released upon security giv bad sunk, and it was quickly Win picture and a four-part eres, and in the fighting at Shih Shao-tseng, and his case picked up, though the river, was Scandinavian film: "The Ways Givenchy, where the Canadians to be tried by the Boound" Court rising - rapidly and a strong of Life, good story, magai, hava once more given to fire an in the Administrative Court, 7th worded- current running.

atly acted.

secount of themselves.

Kung-cho, Vice Minister of Com- been going on

caue

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