THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1915.
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Food Prices.
DAY BY DAY.
WHAT RAGE FOR FAME ATTENDS noTH GREAT AND SMALLI
BETTER BE D-D THAN MENTION-
ED NOT ATALL-John Wolcot
The Weather.
At the Pork 8 s m. Temp. 00;
It is some time now since there have been any prosecutions of Chinese for selling food or house- hold requirements above the legal prices Bzed by the Government, We sincerely hope, however, that | the authorities are not labouring under the misapprehension that the evil has been swept away, be cause, from all that we hear, decid-light log. edly it has not, A complaint | Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 70; reach i us to-day from a lady that slight fóg, the official prices are absolutely ignored by shopkeepers, who, on being tackled on the matter, in-European Meil. variably burst into laughter and blandly profess that they "no savvy," So far os “savrying” goes, we should say that these com pradors gentry have nothing to learn -- their lack of know- ledge never causes them to under- charge at any rate. What we | should like to seo, in the interents | of housewives, is a fresh campaign started against these profit-muk- ing sharks, and, as a firat stap towards that end, we recommend
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NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
A YEAR AGO TO-DAY.
IN PERSIA,
The Politicians.
LEADING EVENTS IN THE
GREAT WAR.
ཏས་ Rxtracts from the war news con-į tained in the "Hongkong Telegraph" of November 18,
1914.
Germana Crulsor Interned. Router's
correspondent
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There is a healthily increasing tendency on the part of the poli- tical authorities at Home to Christiania states that the Ger- ebare confidences and counsels man auxiliary cruiser Berlio with the politicians of the Allied arrived at Trondtbjem on Monday countries. This is as it should be, and has been interned. In the past there has been rather
Russian Fleet Preparing for Battle. too great a disposition on the part of John Ball to think that he and According to Reuter's corre he alone should do all the talk-spondent at Amsterdam Swedish ing. This idea was based part-telegrams say the Russian Fleet ly on oor elernal British has left Helsingfors in a south conceit and our contempt for westerly course, to give battle to "foreigners", end partly on the the Germans.
feeling that Mr. Bull, as the man. Russians Defeat Turks. on who was paying the piper, bad
To-morrow's Anniversay. To-morrow is the 110th versary of the birth of the late Ferdinand de Lesseps.
To-morrow's Parades.
LOCAL SPORT.
Yesterday's Football Matchos.
Several matches were played" yesterday in connection with the Second Division of the Hongkong. League. The 88th. Company B.G.A. were drawn against the 87th, Company and an interesting game was witnessed by a good gathering,
The teams were :----
88th. Oo.-Faulkner; Gibson and Austin'; Halls, Edgeler and Townsend, Desborough Corbyn
87th. Jo-Coulter; Delaney Watson, Youngman Draper. and Weeks; Hanson, Lovelook and Light: Shakespear, Fisher, Bristow, Watson and Harper.
The game opened in interesting
Police Reserve.-Recruits of all / with them to the fall should be near Khamur, where the enemy into oven exchanges, and the 88th.
Companies.
British War Loan.
According to Reuter's corres fashion, the 87th. being the first to the prior right to say what the pondent et Petrograd a communi- press. Harper had the misfortune tone should be. This is all very que says:-Our advance guards to put a hard drive just past the anni.well, but, since there happen to have reached the region of post when oloss in. A few mg• be some remarkably shrewd poli- Erzerum, there they repnised the ments later, the 87th: men were ticians among
Another again swarming around their op the other parties to Turkish Left Wing. the Entente, it is ridiculous that & Russian column defeated the ponente' goal, Bristow ending in single opportunity of conferring Turks near Euzveren ard also hot shot which passed over the bar. Play began to settle down thrown away. Talking of poli-was completely defeated.
were able to hold their own. Great ticians, some interesting remarks have just been made in the House The Daily News and Leader keenness was displayed by both of Lords. Lord Haldine's observa says that a war loan of $500,000-sides, and a lengthy period of even tions would have found more ready 000 will be raised in two instal-play followed. Towards the in forval, the 88 h pressed on the listeners and would have carried mente.
right and Desborough sent across. more weight had they come from
It is reported from Venice that nice centre which Draper re- someone eles. In plain English, he has never enjoyed the confl-part of Cracow is-burning. The caired and made no mistake with. dence of one per cent, of the city is invested on the north and Half-time arrived with this load British public since war broke out, is expected to fall immediately, maintained. and the result is that a defence The inhabitants are fleeing. of the Ministry from his lips is liable to ba pooh-poohed where the same rentiments coming from any other peer would instantly command attention and help to inspire confidence.
The Christmas Parcel Mall. The Christmas and New Year's parcal mail closes at 5 p.m. to
Returged.
Cracow in Flames:
LANGKAT OUTPUT.
Soon after the resumption, the 88th were again presiog hard and after a corner had been nicely placed, a scramble took place in front of goal, Watson doing the needful in bustling style. The game continued to be exciting, the 88th by no means having mat. ters all their own way. A few minates before the clue Watson
The crying of wares by bank-day, ers in prohibited areas is an evil | which has been tolerated far too
The Hon. Mr. D. Landale, Mre long in Hongkong, and it is high time that some action were taken Landale and Mise Landale retura- to deal with the matter. Honse-ed from Shenghai by the .. holders as well as business people Nellore to day,
Theft of Wood. are constantly being subjected to
For stealing a quautify of wood annoyance from these street traders, who do more than from West Point, a Chinese was other class. in dis sentenced to a month's hard labour any turbing the tranquility of our and four hours stocks to-day. daily life. Yet the matter still goes on and no serious attempt
No Photograph. Owing to the shortage of
These are the days whon the advise us that the Langkat out-added another goal, the final appears to be made to deal with the offenders. The reason is not photographic paper, we shall be
very plainest speaking is called pat for the current month is as whistle sounding with the 88th hard to find. In a vague and unable to 1860s our
for. Hoppily Britain with all her follows:-
viotora by thres goals to love, Nor. 1
Other Games, general way the public knowe photograph with our
many follies, has never earned s character for "bluff" and for that there are certain streets in weekly issue. which the crying of wares is sup- posed to be unlawful, the nomi- To-morrow at 11 am., at No. putting forth idle and boastful nation of these areas being in the 9L. Praya East, Mr. G. P. Lam-threats. If she takes upon herself hands of the authorities. But it mort la selling by anotion a large to warn another nation, there is is utterly unreasonable to ex quantity of ship chandlery, etores, Note exchange hanging to the usually something more than mere
ALstion Safe.
their heads a mental list of theso FORSYTH-At Tientsin on 17th November the wife of Mr. pect the public to carry about in electric goods, eto.
localities. The obvious solution of Edward Forsyth, of a son.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1915.
MR. CHURCHILL SPEAKS.
Serious Charze.
No Permit.
usual
Current
The Position in Persia.
warning. It is clear that some candid representations Vory the question is to follow the ex- A woman charged at the Police have been made to the Shab, that gentleman's ample of the Metropolitan author-Court, this morning, with attemp-reaulting in ities at Home, who erect signs ting to procate a girl for the par- walking warily and circumspectly. which read somewhat as fol- poses of prostitution, was remand. His own common sense must have told him all along that there wIE lows:-"Hawkers' cries are pro-ed in bail of $500.
but slight wisdom in going con. hibited in this thoroughfares
trary to the wishes of the Allies; offenders will be prosecuted.'" It this plan were followed in Hong- At the Marine Court, this yet so indisputably great has been kong, the signs being in both morning, the master of a licensed Germany's power to terrorise, that English and Chinese, a useful cue boat was fined $50 for being half the neutral nations whose real sympathies have been pro- would be given the public, and in unlawfully found on board the 8.8. couras of time it would be possible Hitachi Mara without the permis- Ally have yet not dared to ques sion of the master or officer intion the bullying demands of the turnip-ghost of Potsdam. Turkey to suppress the evil entirely.
charge, in Victoria Harbour, on
wasparalysed by the hold that our the 16th. inst.
enemy had over her; ao too was Commissions for Former Hour-never know the extent to which Balgaria, and perhaps we shall!
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SCATTERING RUBBISH.
Special Police Reserve Prosecution.
A rather mediocre game was witnessed in the match between the 83rd. R.G.A. and Bolchers. The teams were:-
Belobera:-Rogers; Caple and Carrol; Jones, Hall and Wilby, Wood, Maxwell, Cooper Swan, and Coventry,
83rd :-Dowsell, Walker and Dee, Tyrell, Smith, and Hills, Smail, Morao, Graham, Garrard, and MoEvoy.
All the scoring was done in the first hell, Maxwell netting for Belohere and Garrard for the (83rd, The somewhat heavy going seemed to affect the playera con siderably and matters never came to be really interesting.
A match was also played in the same competition between the Hongkong University and the Shropshire Light Infantry Rezerve team, the result being a draw of one goal esoh.
CRICKET.
One's chief feeling on coming to the end of Mr. Churchill's speech, which was reported in our wire of yesterday, is that it is one of those laboured, pompons and ill-tempered utterances that do nobody any good and to which it is more or less a waste of time to listen. To such sa extent does the eternal "I" predominate in it, Kipling Taken to Task,
Saturday's Match. that one quite easily loses sight of the fact that, as the
The following will represent immortal carate observed, pa of it are excellent. Mr. Churchill It in written in the Literary
We understand that Sergeant the same kind of thing has been
the Hongkong Football Club in will not allow the world to do him justice for he refuses to do Digeat of New York how that
their match with the B. E, on Sa justice to himself. The possibility that he could make a mistake never the St. Louis Mirror and the Los Major Ware ick, at one time chief happening in Persia. The Shah,
turday, on the Navy Ground, kick- seems to coour to him. Our allies, Earl Kitchener, Lord Fisher-Angeles Times have been taking clerk in the Chief Engineer's however, would seem to have
off 4 p.m. A. N." Other; J. Stal- anyone can be blamed; but not Mr. Winston Leonard Spencer Kipling to task for that he did office al Hongkong, has been been wise in time.
The Wily Greek.
Sergeant McEwen (S. P. R.)ker, F. W. Black; P. Tod, P. 1. R. Ohurohill. If he were as worldly-wise as he is wordy he would knowingly and wilfully write in made Lieutenant and Quarter- surely know that the present is not the time for him to drag his no uncertain manner on the sin master. A commission has also
And if plain speaking has been obarged two Chinese at the Police Chassels, M. L. Railton; G. A. Antwerp experiences in by the ears; if the Empire can wait for of the Germans. The editor of the been given to Sergeant Major further information about more important matters, there is no St. Louis paper, in an oracular Harman, A.O.D., formerly of necessary towards Perais, how Court, this morning, with deposit Robinson, J. Stewart, J. Walker, much more so has it been in the ing rubbish in Daddell Strest: H. McTavish and W. V. Pennell. aaee of Greece! It looks as though He told the Bench that the rubbish unlairness in the Government's asking it to possess its soul in moment, arrives at the conclusion Hongkong.
that Kipling is not "in it" with Sunday School Union. patience concerning this.
The annual demonstration of the Allies' atern hint as to the as- had been deposited by someone Everyone is satisfied that the Government should have employed American journaliste, while the the Hongkong Sunday School sembling of the warships at from the neighbouring houses. His Worship (Mr. Lindwell) more plain speaking throughout; bat one-sided, petalant plain gentleman from Los Angeles, who Union is to be held on Saturday Malta had not come too soon. Of speaking, snob as Mr. Churchill's, in certainly not called for. Having is very frankly pro-German, opines,
Bergeant McEwen. They were advised naval and military men to the top of his beat, he teems to that Kipling's statements with next in the City Hall at 2 p.m. course it is quite easy to over- They were doing what with it?
The Bishop of Victoria will be in estimate the serioneness of the think it incumbent on him to lay his counsel at the foot of the regard to the enemy "do him no the chair and a short address will position. We do not doabt the raking and picking it, and they Hongkong Cricket Club Match. The following will represent Oabinet (of which he is no longer a member) and of Parliament oraedit and the English cause be given by the Rev. H. B. Wells Greeke' willingness to play into scattered it all over the place:
His Worship:-Then they oan Hongkong "B" v. Kowloon "A" generally. It is just possible that the Premier, Esrl Kitchener and good." Fortunately public opicion An attractive programme has German hands, but we do doubt
at Kowloon, on Saturday, Novem- Mr. Balfour may know, as well as Mr. Churchill can tell them, what is not ruled either from Los An; been arranged, and almost every their readiness to commit suicide not be charged with depositing.
Sergeant McEwen :-Yee, beber 20, at 215 pm.:-G. E. should be the Government's course in connection with the Bulgariangeles or from St. Louis, sad
Nor is there any denying the cause they were causing it to be Aubrey. F. H. Baker, Mejor H. P. episode in the war. But what will an angry man not say or think? neither Kipling nor bis fellow- Sunday Sebo 1 in Hongkong and to please the Kaiser and his sister.
Kowloon will be represented.
immense likelihood of a revolu- deposited elsewhere. They scatter Harris Edge, R. Kennedy, 8.8 The ex-First Lord is piqued at finding that it is quite possible to countrymen will care twopence
tion's arising out of any attempted ed the refuse all over the footpath Moore, Major Morgan, E. B. Reed, "run" the Cabinet and the country without his active assistance; what these wiseacres think of
joining up with Germany. King and the side-channel.
F. Syme Thomson, H. H. Taylor, hence, no word that he can say against the power that be is bad him. Nor, for that matter, will
Constantine himself will probably A fine of $5 sich was imposed. R. P. Thurnfield, A. Whitmarab, enough in his eyes. He is exasperated at finding that what veteran the American public as a whole. Bailors will endars from Mr. Balfour they will not submit to when His practical patriotiem and
abillyahally to the very end, blown hie immense belief in the it comes from him.
about by every wind of doctine; From his point of view the men in whoss bands lies the real Britiaber may be irritating to
but the discussions in the Athens Chamber daring the past balf control of the war have done him a wicked injustice, in that they American nerves at whiles, bat
year have shown very clearly that are willing to listen respectfully to the present First Lord's opinions the thinking and educated claeres
the people as a whole do not while they resent his own. If they bear with one civilian why in the United States are realising:
want war and that, if they hava should they not bear with another who is himself almost a soldier more and more every year that
no love for Serbia, they have -be probably asks. In this he doubtless forgets that what Mr. Radyard Kipling, whether se
decidedly less for Turkey. Balfour lacks in practical knowledge of naval affairs he stones for post, novelist, descriptive writer by his all-round brain power and vaat education, in his inborn and or public speaker is not just long-trained faculty for world politics, and in his marvellous abilitymers Britisher but a world
At the Police : Court, - this| 2. to grasp a number of facts simultaneously and to keep them all in power, and that it is his very orderly arrangement under his eye. By the side of such a man, Mr. Brealnem that is the cause of fall morning, P.o arnold, 8.P.R., Churchill in just an amateur, seeking by talkativenesa, strogance recognition's coming only by charged a Chineas with hawking suving bae again become vio-having joined":Kitchener's Army" London, Clause 18, neutral har and general noise-making to bloff the British public into the degrees. But perhaps even there without a licence. A fine of $2 belief that he is a great statesman. From the ontest of his career fountains of wisdom in St. Louis was imposed. his one bankering has been after publicity; and, from his Boer War and Los Angeles have realiead, He also charged three Chinese and Daily Mail days down to last Monday, when he stood baing in the light of subsequent events with causing an obstruction in
own country, that Connaught Road Central, before the House of Commons, self-advertising has been first in their and last article of his orced-and practice. The time has come Kipling's denunciations of the when the Government objects to his doing this self-advertising at Germans may have been justified each,
afterall. the country's expense. Hence, it would seem, these tours!
SPECIAL POLICEMAN BUSY.
Clearing the Streets of Obstruction,
FOR THE FRONT.
Dlauer to Hongkong Police Officers.
Germind Mines in the Baltic. Stockholm, September 24, Commenting upon the Germans' At the Astor House Hotel, this mining of the Baltic, the Handel: stidning, of Gothenburg," says. evening, the twenty-seven mem-
that according to the Hague Con bers of the Hongkong Police vention and the declaration of Vesuvius Active. Rome, October 6.Mount Ve Force, who are proceeding Home, lently active, and airong earth-are being entertained to dinner, mining against an enemy. quake shocks bare been ex by their fallow members. We furthermore according to Clause perienced in Naples and the vil understand that Mr. King, Asif it is prohibited to blockade lages in the vicinity of the tant Superintendent of Police, waters like (name suppressed by The defendants were fined 89/Tolonno. Panio broke out in and Mr. F. B. Jenkin, Deputy Centor) Sound between Denmark
several places, but no damage Superintendent (Reserve) are as-
tending, has been done.
bours and conste must not suffer
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