THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1915,
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The Weather.
At the Peak 8 am. Temp. 60 Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 70;
NOTES ON THE CRISIS. THE LICENSING BOARD. JOTTINGS BY THE WAY. MORE GERMAN' ENTER-
We notice an allusion to "whale PRISE."
To-day's Meeting-Postponed for meal" in this week's Government
Pa Week,
Gazette. We are inclined to think
The Munition Workers;
in
The meeting of the Licensing it must be a misprint for sharks Board which is to bave been fas. held to-day has been postponed until Monday next.
We understand that the mem-
en bloc.
bere of the Biard have resigned
There is considerably more the remarks of Lord Murray con then may seem at first glance, cerning the munitions factories Months ago Admiral Jellicoe, Sir John French and the politi- dians at Home were prepared to atake everything on this one
· LANGKAT OUTPUT. point. Indeed it was definitely stated, at the time, that, bad
Mesere, Wright and Hornby European Mail.-Closes on Wed-Britain not been bandicaped
nesday, 3.p.m. per 9.8. Ting-in respect of shells etc., the advise us that the Langkat out-
Germans would long have been put for the current month is obow.
The Mails.
Despite the heavy penalties, the traffic in opium still proceede right merrily in this port. Mr. Hazeland has usually a very pret ty way of dealing with offenders of all sorts, and on Saturday ho certainly levied some fines which will take at least some of the pro-fus. fit off the enterprises of those con- cerned. In the Elas Funnel boat fine. case the fine was $5,000 or twelve months' imprisonment for each of the smugglers. This quite well bave been improved, on by making the fine heavier etill, Mr. Hazeland observed: "It seems rather absurd to fine the men $15,000 sack." We are not so sure about that. Everybody' knows that these fines are paid by the "big" men, to whom the smugglers are mere understrap pere. The real importera are
To-morrow's Anniversaries. wealthy Chinese and Eurasians
To-morrow is the 25th anni- and a few white men. Since
versary of the accession of H. M. there seems little hope, at Queen Wilhelmina of the Nether- present, of getting hold of the lands, and the 330th of the death actual offenders and sending them of Thomas Tallis the composar. where they ought to be, why
"Slight Snow."
could English Mail. Dus to-day pers.s.
Nankin.
Australian Mail Dae per es, driven out of Belgium. The a follows:-
St. Albana Nov. 27.
The Dollar. The rate of the dollar demand to-day is 1/10 7/16.
Gambling.
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moment has arrived for putting that assertion to the test. If, months agc, we could have a or complished great things, given sufficient ammunition, there is surely no reason why we should not do the same now'; or, rather, there is all the more reason why we should do it, in view of the fact that Germany is markedly weaker, as well as less bountifully supplied with ammunition, than was the care half a year ago. According to "Blight Lord Murray, our factories are Ichurning out munitione in an ever-increasing stream. Wiren of a week or so ago described the very competent help that Japan is giving to Russia in this respect, and we have no right to assume that either Italy or France is un- duly backward in its own outpat; then all that remains is for the Entente to go in and win, it
not make the way as hard for To-morrow, acording to the them as is reasonably possible? Chiness calendar, is the Festival We don't care whether it is moral of Hsiao-heuch, or or immoral to use opium; that is now." Lot the question. The simple fact is that the Government has
For gambling with curde, made a perfectly straightforward a Chinese was fined $3 by Me.
Colony of a certain commodity. Because the smuggling of it is an exceedingly lucrative occupation,
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BIRTH.
We have been informed that there is such a thing in the Colony as a Food Committee, and we should therefore like to see it at work. Is it aware that there are
morning.
Voyage Report. The a.. Taming, which arrived from Iloilo yesterday, reported moderate monsoon, rough sea and overcast weather.
Oplum Possession. The case of a Chinese who was charged with having a large quantity of opium in his posses sion was to-day remanded antil Wednesday.
Lottery Tickets. For being in possession of a number of lottery tickets for dis- posel, a Chinese was fined $50, at the Police Court, by Mr. Lind- sell this morning.
A Recent Bazaar.
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LEADING EVENTS IN THE GREAT WAR.
Says the Globe: "You cannot hide an advertisement in the Globe," If you ons, it doesn't
Fay much for the advertisement stoff. paper that knows pidgin taken thundering o care not to hide anything much less its own light.
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Kowloon Katakist:-"Georgie, where will you go when you die -if you're good ?"
Georgie:"To Heaven."
K. K." And where will you
go if your're not good ?"
G.(afterrassons ble hesitation):
"To London.”
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Quoth an American paper: {"Bas at all events Mr. Kipling, as a latter day reporter, is out- done by Irvin B. Cobb, Will Irwin, Sam Blyth and a dozen other American correspondents." He anre is. There's many a irne word spoken in a United State paper.
Heard on the Kowloon Ferry,-- Fronel Sailor, to English Ao- quaintancs :- Englesch-tres difficile. Me--I learn lestle-only lostle-four months → Janvier, Fevrier, Mars, Avril, Four months unly. Qu'estros que ca vaut dire, Bon Jour?".
English Friend. "Wee-wea" F.S.:-"Mais non, mon ami. Je veux diro: What means in
E.F. "Ah! Bong joor; that's "Good Day'."
all is as it is said to be. But abundance of munitions for the Allies is only one half of the battle; the other half consists A YEAR AGO TO-DAY. Engleoah Bon Jour in seeing that Germany does not procure the mastorial for shell- making from neutral countries. Is the blookade doing all that it might do, and are the naval authorities as freo from civilian sentimental interference as they might be?
The Greeks
Retracte from the war news son tained in the "Hongkong Telegraph" of November 22,· 1914.
British Plack
F.8. (delighted.) "Boa! Bon! And L'apreamidi-that meana?"
E.F. (airily and at his sare) "That means 'Good Night.
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"The Bath a great Drawback The following episode shows in a House" says a Straits Times British plack and skill-Thee..headline. We have met people- Talking of blockades, what is Ortega, bound from Valparaiso to not all of them Germans who We are asked by the Society of Greece going to do in face of the Rio with 300 French reservists found it no drawback, for they many compradores on both sides St. Vincent de Paul to apologise fallment of the threat of a com- was chased by a German Cruiser carefully kept out of its way of the Harbour who still seem to for the inadvertent omission of mercial blockade? However weak of the Dreaden class. The normal think that they can put what the names of the Club Lasitaso
"A Judge of the Fall Court". prices they like on their wares ? and Messre, Gract & Co., for their in the knees her King may be, her speed of the Ortega is 14 knots
inability to do the Entente The captain called Volunteers as the best judges of the Fall Court raya & Telegraph heeding. One of WESTCOTT-On Wednesday, November 17, 1915, at No. 9a. Of course it is easy to suggest valuable assistance given on the people must surely recognise their and that of the cruiser 31 st least. Hankow Road, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Westcott, a son, that the victime should bring the occasion of the late băziar.
Powers ten cents' worth of harm atokere, and made a full speed, MARRIAGE.
matter into court; but that kind
without their inflicting at least a under fire, of 18 knots, for Neleon abould be the individual who got PAUL-DANIELS-On Wednesday, November 17, 1915, at H.M. of thing is expensive from a time
long since... Consulate-General, Shanghai, before Sir Everard Fraser, K.C.M.G.,
captain, with great and afterwards at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, by the Rev. W. H. point of view; moreover many of ing, before Mr. Lindsell, Myrtle dollar's worth in return. Greece, Strait, which is quite uncharted. put away by it for ten years, not bringing Our educated comp. informs us Price, Rinald Bowring Paul, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. William the said victims are Chinese, who Nicholas, of 33, Wyndham Street, it is not denied, could make The
Vessel, which je of that the Bulgariane bave made a Fowierul, of Button, Surrey, to Claire, Rosamund, daughter of dare not, for one reason or an- was charged with being drank things uncommonly awkward for skill, succeeded in
other, get into the bad graces and dieorderly at the Canton the Allies for a spell, but
movement. *Evil Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Daniels, of Cambridge, England.
of the offending compradore. Wharf last evening. A fine of $10 the Allies could and would 7,000 tons, through; escaped the asking
make them 8
deal more craiser and reached Rio safely communications corrupt: good Why is the Food Committee was imposed.
awkward for her. This sug: Tarkish forces on Shat-el-Arab,
manzerg. Evidently their, Ger- not sending round inspectors
A very enjoyable evening was gestion that the Greeks should of 4,500, with 12 guns, in a strong man friends have taught them or plain-clothes police to pay
N. Patte either get on or get out-should position, were attacked by car that bravery consists in going on eurprise visits to the shops ? spent at Or bas it suck blind. faith on Saturday evening, the occasion join the Allies or also demobilise troops and routed, losing two
guns and meny prisoners. in the Chinees as to suppose that being a dance. About 100 took is especially interesting in view
To be no Revival of the they always obey, unmurmuring part, and everything went of of the prevailing ignorance as to
German Menace. ly and to the foot of the letter, with its usual awing. Mr. A. B. how many men Greece can really
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1915.
THE TEMPER OF THE NATION.
Dancing.
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to the battlefield well primed.
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It wae announced the other day that the Telegraph is the Next to the question of the internal condition of enemy coun- every Ordinance passed by the Allan acted in the capacity of muster. It would be interesting Aleiter to the papers signed John Bull of the Far East-and exista on paper only. For more Mr. Balfour and others, on we are still wondering whether tries there is probably no aspect of the war concerning which British Colonial Government? We wonder and the dancing concluded at to cow how much of her army by Mr. Asquith, Lord Rosebery,
Stole an Oplum Pipe.
than half a century her people behalf of the Central Com- ought to take the remark as exiles in the Far East are more anxions for information than the when the Committee held its last 11.30, p.m.
meeting.
Before Mr. Hazeland, at the bave been seized with the emigra- mittee of National, Patriotic compliment or not.” Police Court this morning, a tion fever. England, Egypt, the Opinion, which is distribating Chinese was charged with steal- United States and parts of the literature to neutral countries HONGKONG SUNDAY
· SCHOOL UNION, ing sú op ́um pipe valued at $7. Mid and Far East ars fall of them, on the justice of the British cause, xays: "Given steadfast, unwavər-
Annual Demonstration at the Inspector Gordon said the man snd, in every case, in the event of
City Hall. The annual demonstration of
actual state of popular feeling in the Old Country. It is, of course, ponible in some measure to gauge the situation by taking note of the tons of the Press, but in these days at Home when, unfortunate-
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of
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utmost.
ly, many of the most widely read newspapers follow an axe-grinding George Ellot. policy and are out for sell-advertisement at all ceste, the Press is not the sure guide to the nature of public opinion that it should be. It is ninety-six years to-day had been to a divan to smoke Greece turning against us, a verying fortitude on the part of the Add to this the existence of a censorship whose workings are con- since the birth of one of England's opium and had taken the pipe effective stopper can be put on whole British people, we beli ve fusing and mysterious, and it will readily be seen that it is an almost few great women novelists: Marian away with him. He had been in the possibility of quite the major that victory will be our Bat the Hongkong Sanday Sohool hopeless task for Far Easterners correctly to appreciate the trend Evane. It is perhaps significant trouble before. He was sent to ity of these wanderers joining there must be no weakening, 30 Union RS held on Saturday wavering, po patobed-up- trace afterncon at the City Hall, the of the public mind at Home in this time of.orisis. The circulation that, with all the attempted prison for six weeks and was the colours.
."' Strategy.** women ordered to be placed in the stocks
that will expose our children to s of wild and sogastions! rumours, which quickly find an echo in all higher education
* Germany's position as a fight revival of the German menace," attendance testing the holding parts of the globe, only serves to confound the issue, with the result that has characterised the last for four hours.
No Ownership For Coal.
ing nation certainly does not im- Admiralty Mide Defence, capacity of the building to its that, try as he may, the most critical follower of current happenings fifty years, no woman writer bas arison since her time whose
The Admiralty snnounoss the finda it on impossibility to get down to bare oart-inties.
A Chinese was charged, before prove as events continue to unfold
The Bishop of Vistoria presided of Mr. Hazeland at the Police Court themselves. We have been taught, existence of an elaborate From the lips of those who have recently returned from Home, work could approach that however, it is possible to form a fairly accurate idea of the present "George Elios" whether in this morning, with having anlaw for years past, that she was the system of mine defence outside over the large gathering, and re- Churches and Missions in the temper of the nation, and it is worth while at the present time to shrewd insight into feminine fally in his possession two sacks fighting country of the world; the Hamber, the River Tyne, the presentatives of many of the
that her battle machine was per- Firth of Forth, Moray Forth and forget for a moment the actual war operations and to endeavour to character, in real humour, or even of cool on the Praya wall,
The Bishop, in a sympathetic ploos together all that one hesra from there sources with the object in thcor ability to construct a Chinese constable stated that feet, her soldiers and sailors regions, necessitating the use of Colony were present. of gaining some real insight into the mood of the British public story. We say insight into thers were three others with the brave and disciplined and educat-pilotage.
Heavy German Casualties,
address, referred to the fact that For rome defendant, but they cleared off, ed and practical beyond reproach. after so many months of hard and still indecisive fighting. Proceel-feminine character."
From information, it appears the Union had been in existence ing on these lines it can be said that a quiet, serious deter- strange reason, Georgo Eliot's He (witness) did not think the And what is the end of all this mination is the predominant feeling of the nation to-day. Mr. genius deserts her over her male coal had been in the water, as it talk? Germany carries on a war that the 17th was peculiarly for five years, and several differ» for the Garant Churches and Missions were Masterman seems to have epitomised the trath
in characters as soon as she begins to was quite dry. Sentence of two by disappearing from the seas slaughterons
of Ypres, united in this children's mores was altogether, save when there is a mane, who, East few worda when
is dig below the surface, recently wrote:-"ItTM
imprisonment
fishing boat or an unprotected were obliged to abandon 1,200 ment. The Union afforded scope. people awake-thinking of war and nothing else by daylight, whom she is content to touch passed,
e.g. Mr. Tulliver
Gambling Rald,
cargo or passenger ship to be killed on an area of less than 600 for the Church members to take dreaming of war in the darkness; oooh only desirous of doing his lightly bit'; none, indeed imagining for a moment the possibility of defeat; and the uncles" in "The Six Chinese were charged, tunk, while on land she dodgen metres. The Allies took namerons ap definite Christian work, and it the before Mr. Lindsell at the Police as much fighting as possible, prisoners in the wood located helped to win the children for a people resolute and unafraid." "Nine, or even six months ago the Mill on the Floss,"
Her handy and scientific fight south of Ypres, Operations round Christ. The Union of the fature spirit of the people was one of cocksurenses and over confidence rector and Bartle Massey the vill-Court this morning, with gem
what was being done for the the task before us was terribly under-estimated; a rapid overthrow age suboolmaster in "Adam bling at 81-Kowloon City Road, ing forces contrive to sink their Tracy-le-val were concluded to depended to a large extent upon children, and it would be the of the enemy was generally anticipated. To-day there is no longer Bode, are undeniably perfect; The evidence was to the effect own vessels upon occasion, her the benefit of the Allies. any inclination to forecast the duration of the struggle the people bat when she attempts to make that Bergt. Wills with six Chinese marines have just succeeded in The Situation in India.
The following is a copy of a bɔys and girla in the Sunday have no time to waste on abstract matters of that kind; they are not hero, or to depict a man constables, raided the premises en blowing up one of their own
the schools who would help to through, ahe Saturday last and found over 30 Zeppeline, her artillery fire on telegram from Chief of Oyen seriously exercised over questions of that order. It is not that through and they do not desire to see the war finished. They do. Bat they now may be said to fail almost as men sitting on the floor playing their own comrados and her General Staff, of India, to the liberate China from the supersti- know and realise that they are face to face with a grim, tremendous dismally as the average man" Po Tsz. A stampede then officers shoot down their own General Officer Commanding tion which now bound her. He
Hongkong :---
He will wished the Sunday school mo a task which, however, they are fully prepared to take in novelies has failed in depicting a took place, all the men except the men
Meanwhile the warlikeand diplo Situation in India remains ment every success, hand and see through to the bitter end. The length of time which real woman. Or is it merely that six defendante getting away. The it will require to see the task fulfilled does not concern them; their her portraitures of women are no gambling materials were seized matic leaders tory their attention astisfactory. Great satisfaction ex The Bev. H. R. Wells also gav only determination is to see it through. The change in mood has amazingly life-like that her men by the Polios. The men who not to war, as other nations pressed at destruction of Emden," an interesting address, been brought about by the hard facts which the war has laid bare; necessarily pale Lifore them? jumped out on to the verandab understand the term, but to the sapsmally in commercial circles. Later an attractive programme bat in the change there has been no kind of depression spreading Perhaps, too, she had not a very broke the telegraph wires Menspreading of lies that would not Expressions of loyally from consisting of varied ite among the people. The nation has been sobered, it is sericus-mind, high opinion of men which escaped in all directione. All deceive a rickeha coolis and to the Mohammedans continue, Frontier submitted by the children ed and grave; and, above all else, it is decidedly willing to be pati- might account for the fact that the men declared that they were manufacturing of plote in neutral quiet. Accounts of good work of Bfteen of the different
cor loon, and much pleasure Toy ent, confidant in the ultimate result of the struggle. The present Tom Tolliver and Adam Bede are not gambling but looking on. A countries. Truly a dignified post-Indian troops in France give great schools in Hongkong and
present was give asuredly a time of sudden test and challenges, but in all that is both prigs who stand in soro need fine of 84, or len days esob, was tion for the land that was suppos- satisfaction Beorniting
of kicking.
ed to be the chosen of the Lord ! tinues very good. happening the mettle and the temper of our people ring true...
imposed in each case.
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