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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1915,

DEWAR'S

SCOTCH WHISKY.

THE WHISKY OF OUR FOREFATHERS

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THE WHISKY OF TO-DAY

SOLE AGENTS

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A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

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A.B.C., 5th edition. Western Union Office address: 11, Ice House St.

BIRTH, HUMMEL.-On November 16. 1915, at 58 Avenue du Roi Albert, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. R. Ure Hummel, a daughter,

MARRIAGES. PARRY-EASTON.-On Tuesday, November 16, 1915, at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai by the Rev. W. H. Price, Frank Best, son of Dr. H. L. and Mrs. Parry, of the China Inland Mission, Catherine Edith, daughter of G. F. and Mrs. Easton, also of the

China Inland Mission,

The Children's Playground....

DAY BY DAY.

The Weather.

CONSCIENCE HAS NO MORE TO DO WITH GALLANTRY THAN IT HAB Boms few years ago we had oo-WITH OLITICS.-Sheridan. casion frequently to comment on the lack of facilities in Kowloon for children who deserved some baller place in which to romp and play then the public thorough- farte. As a result of some prac-sanebine. tical anggeations which we throw out, the Government gave the

At the Peak 8 am, Temp. 57; sanabins.

Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 68;

The Malls.

St. Albana Nov. 27.

per se. Anbui.

NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

THE GOSSIPS.

And the Liars.

THE LICENSING BOARD.

The Recent Resignations Analysed.

"SCENE" IN PEDDER STREET.

Chair Coolles Fight Over a Fare.

With regard to the Lotion taken A sequel to a disturbance be- by the majority of the Licensing twee chairmen in Pedder Street, Quite a reasonable amount of renewal of their licences to Mr. number of Chinees who were tak Board, firet in refusing to grant a which, by reason of the large ground in covered in the over- Reichmann. of the Grand Hotel, ing part, created quite a scene, metter its consideration and laid Australian Mail- Dae per .a. night and morning wires. Many and Mr. Pauster, of the Peak was forthcoming at the Police oat quite an attractive little!

of these have perforee to relate to Hotel, and, secondly, in resiga Court this morning when two playing ground along the seafront. Siberian Mail. Dus to-day German lies."

If the Neutral It was nicely tarfed, provided

Dations would decide once and for Council reversing their decision Lindsell with disorderly conduct, ing in a body upon the Executive Chinese were charged before Mr. with garden seats and a matshed

all to regard every German story and granting these licences, it is shelter, while a number of trees

cu atory, a lot of time and space the powers and duties of the begin to fight with the men whose concerning the war as a German necessary to consider what are whose chair was first in the stand It appears that the two men were planted in the hope that one day they would grow to such

might be saved. The German members of the Licensing Board chair was second, because the dimensions as to provide shady

woe, at the best of times, 18 apots during the heat and glare

handy a liar as could be found appointed under our Intoxicating second pair took a fare to which of summer. That the provision versary of the death of General Manila; but, sicce the tide of war that the powers of the Licensing the men on the stand joined in the anywhere in the world-even in

Liquors Ordinance.

the other men thought they wars It cannot possibly be contended entitled. Practically the whole of

The Dollar.

The rate of the dollar demand to-day is 10 11/16.

To-morrow's Anniversary. To-morrow is the 58th anni.

of this endlosed plot was appro-Sir Henry Havelock. oiated was amply shown by the promptness and regularity with which it war, and still is, pa- troaieed by the little ones. It was a god-send to parents who fearad for the safety of their children in allowing them to play in the streets, where they were largely at the meroy of trick oyalists, reckless rickshamed and caroloss track coolies,

To-morrow's Parades.

Police Reserve. All N.C.O's, with rifles; 5.30 p.m.

Volunteer Reserve,-Recruits; 5.15 p.m.

A Wilderness.

Another Letter Carrier Fined.

ing a file of $10 was imposed by At the Police Court, this mora Mr. Lindeell ова brought eleven unstsmped letters men who into The Colony.

Twenty-five Camblers Arrested, A party of 25 gamblers who were arrested at 7, St. George's Lane on the previous day, were each fined $3 by Mr. Lindsell at the Police Court this morning.

The N.Y.K:

The place is, as we say, still in con'lant use, but it is very far from what it might be as an ideal playing-field. The ground is pro- vided, but so far as we can learn taken the fine premises on the there is no ene in charge of it, and Praya formerly occupied by the The Nippon Yusen Kaisha bave the reault is that it is fast begin-Pacifio Hall s.s. Co., and will be tarf is badly in need of attention, alterations are completed.

an

has shown such a definite tarn Board are any greater than those dispate and quite a free fight was against him, he has abandoned all of the Licensing Justices in Eng-in progress when several con- inventions bear even the rempleat in any material way. Statutes in and arrested the two defendants. altempts at trying to make his land, nor that their duties diller etables came horrying to the scene, day, for example, we find in the likelihood to truth. Thus to force in England purport to give

One of the two defendants said wirea contradictions of stories Licensing Justices to grant or in the stand another chair won absolute discretion to the that although his chair was first relating to our hospital ships, refuse licensea, or the renewal of rushed to the front when a fare to Sir John French's estimate operations in the West, and so vested in a Judge to do certain was not fighting bat trying to of the enemy's losses, to mining any licence; bat just as an, sp came along.

parent, absolute discretion The other defendant said he with the poor care who spread ercise his discretion judicially, to forth. It is no use feeling angry things only entitles him to ex-separate the men who were.

One defendant was fined $2

these garns; they are out of heart, also must the disoration given to and the other $5, and both were to win, they have become dead to led. This was most distinctly laid they know that they cannot hope the Licensing Justices be exercis-bound over.

all sense of shame, so much so down in the House of Lords in that they no longer feel hurt the case of Sharp v. Wakefield

PLEA.

NORMAN-HOWELL-On November 12, at Christ Church Ding to resemble a wilderness. The moving in as soon as the necessary that the Allies are the most that something is to be done acthe Pulice Court this morning;

Malacca, Honry Norman; Colonial Civil Service; to Nellis, daughter

of Mr. and Mrs. J. Howell, of Malacca.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1915.

WAR PROFITS.

Taught a Lesson,

Bijoo Theatre.

when the obviousness of their (1891), A.0. 173, in which Lord JAPANESE STOWAWAYS' lies is pointed out to them Halsbury, L.C., said :-" An ex- by neutral people; every day tensive power is confided to the they lose a few more men Justices in their capacity as occupation of endeavouring to when it is said that some and a little more hope, and their Justices to be exercised judicial- persuade themselves that they thing is to be done within the Two Japanese only refuge lies in the childish ly really are making progress and discretion of the authorities, that obarged before Mr. Hazeland at

and discretion?

means, Wanted for the Japanese Army, defendante righteous persons on the face of cording to the rules of reason sad with stowing away on the Hakata justice, not according to fivate Maru from Singapore to Hong- opinion; according to law, and kong, stated that they were re- not humour. It is to be not ar-quired for the Japanese Army. bitrary, vague, and fanciful, butMr. Bazeland decided that the legal and regular. And it must two men should be sent to the be, exercised within the limit, to Japanese Consal in order that. which an honest man competent enquiries could be made into the to the ditcharge of his office truth of their statement. ought to confine bimeelf."

the earth,

In Serbia,

that

There are numeroge kinde` of

many of the seats are out of place and overthrown, while as for the trees-which were originally de-

A Constable in the Police Re- Foribed as quick-growing shade arve gave evidenca before Mr. trees it is something of a pazzle Hazeland at the Police Court to discover them at all. Of the this morning against a Chinese fouror five which have been plant-obarged with shooting outside a the

But lies don't win battles. All ed only one has flourished suffic-brothel.

fabrications-epecious or iently to peep over the top of the imposed:

A fine of $10 was blundering, as the case may be

ill not alter the fact etout railings which have been placed round them. It is just pos-

Bulgaria, for instance, is meeting sible that the wrong type of tree

with more and more of the has been placed in the ground, in the Bijou Theatre contains two and greed have drawn down upon licence, such sa that a licence is solely, that both applicants are The programme for to-night at punishment which her cowardice objections which may properly be in fact, given at the time, and as which case we may wait until very striking filme: "Bie Phez her. The Serbians are not out of

made to the grant or renewal of a such reasons were stated to be, Doomeday if we expect them to tom Friend" and "Her Lost Son." the wood yet, bas all secousie, pot needed in the district, or that of German birth, and that both fulfil the purpose for which they Miss Glory Taft, who has already even those from Austrian sources, were intended and even then be made a bid for saccess at the show that the Bulgarian retreatised, or is of a disorderly character, naturalized British subject) are

the house has been badly conduct of them (although one is disappointed. Perhaps the Botan- Bijon, is introducing some more tecoming a very pronounced cas, ical Department might see what new songs at to-night's perform-and that the problem for the Allies tions must be just and reasonable the Executive Council had elther and many others, but the objec- amenable to the laws of Germany, Nearly sixteen months of war have gose by and, in spite of the There is no reason that we know

can be done to improve matters, anes. hundreds of new regulations as to prices etc. that have come into of why the grounds should not be To an Anonymous Correspondent. in many quarters. Some of as may

to solve is going to be a lese dif-in order to be sustained. It is to do what has been done, or to forme during that time we still find among men of all classes a very the introduction of a few new communication in

Sealt one than was anticipated not for the Licensing Justices in aot entirely unconstitutionally made additionally attractive by We have received a typewritten feel that it is pretty

or England, the Licensing and so to disregard altogether the decided disposition to profit financially as much as possible by ex features, such as are oummon to with the Licensing Bourd. As it sion and gave Serbia the helping particular class of persons to set at nanght the grant to the one well Board here, to allow their existing British law with respect connection time that they set about the sola-political or private opinions as to to naturalised persons, and also to isting circumstances. If the only offenders were people of the such places at Home. At an in- in unaccompanied by any covering band she has waited for to influence them upon the applics- applicant of a licence to trade Chinese compradore stamp one would feel that there was little to finitesimal expense a few loads of letter or similar guarantee of good patiently and bravely. When is tion of one member of that class. bere, This being so, it is obvious be said on the subject. Those Chiness of Hongkong who are not send could be dumped on to the faith, and therefore does not con- the invesion of Bulgaria coming They have to consider the indivi- that the resignation, en blos, of the British subjects not unnaturally regard the war as a godsend, in for the youngsters to play in, and, office, we regret that we are un-afternoon relating to the Tasr's past record is such that he cannot ing Board, as a result of their ground and made into a sand-pit form to the rule obeerved in our off? The wire received yesterday daal applicant-whether his own ancffisial members of the Licens that it offers opportunities for unusual profits; and, inasmuch se they would regard their own country's troubles as lightly as they similarly, a couple of see-saws able to publish it. regard ours, and would be jast as ready sa nor to make money might very well bo added. In

visit to Odessa see me to contain a duet the business of bis house; be justified.

be relied upon to properly con- having acted ultra vires, cannot therefrom, there is nothing farther that can well be said on that Shanghai, the children's play.

hint. If troops and warships arð head. The sorrowful part of the story is, however, that each & Rrounds, under the control of the maltitude of Britishers should be more than ready to out-do even Municipal Council, are models of ing, before Mr. Haz-iand, a Obia-are intended for work on the and reasonably to be granted to with the Huns, or that we con being inspected a Odesss the whether or not the licence, or stood for one moment that wo antisfied as At the Police Court, this morn-assumption surely is that they renewal, applied for, ought fairly have any sympathy whatsoever

and, if

to this, We do not wish it to to under theae harpies in anxiety to gather in every possible extra shilling their kind. Why should not the eco"

same be enid of the little spot & a quantity of opium unlawfully in

was obarged with having Black Sea const of Bulgaria. Kowloon? It only requires & will his roasession.

anyone at all, irrespective of c'a s. sider that a That the British public as a whole has been self-denying and togness on the part of the author or a month, was imposed, An- A fine of $20,

They must exercise their dicere birth should not be regarded

person of German. generous there is no disputing. In evory part of the Empire, aparties to ready the existing other Obiness, charged with a

tion, judicially, in each case as it otherwise than jealously, whether from the men who have given or have off rod their very lives for Bri. defects and shortcomings and, similar offence, was fined $10, or one or two flashes of activity; by persons of any particular jrot. Bot what we do wish under tain, countless instances can be found of men and women-and even thua to gladden the hearts of the six weeks' imprisonment.

In the Dardanelles there are resolve to refuse all applications Naturalisation as a British sub comes before them, and may not or not he hae obtained Letters of children who have been more than ready to give money which they white childrou across the barbour. could ill afford, or to give their labour in one form or another, in

just enough to show us that our nationality or descent. mon and abips are still in the

atood is that, while the law exists. order that the Empire might benefit. The enormous figures resched

Nine Chinese were charged at vicinity. We wish we could hear Colony doubtless sympathise to a obtained such Letters of Natura

Moat British subjects in the as at present, an alien who bas the Police Court this morning, of something big down there, if very large extent with the views lisation may no longer be looked before Mr. Eazeland, with being only because it would shut the held and expressed by the Licens upon sa an alien. concerned in a gambling den. mouths of some of the grumblersing Board as to the granting of a perron of alien enemy birth is And, if Sergeant Wills stated that when and amateur strategists who bave licences to persons of alien enemy expressly licensed by competent the raid was made cards were long ago come found and also money.

to a decision nationality or birth, but so long authority to reside and carry on: keeper was fined $150, and the even Kitchener himself has not, exempted, by lawful authority, Justice of the Peace is no more The about a subject concerning which as auch "percops are expressly his trade in a British Dominion, a ther defendants were fined $3 apparently, yot made up his from the disabilities of an alien able to, in effect, cancel that mind. There are people who have enemy, sad are allowed to licence than is a County Court not the faintest idea as to the geo-trade here, they cannot be con- judge to reverse the decision of graphical position of the Dur-sidered to be enemies. They the Court of Appeal. Whether s

at such a time.

by the Prince of Walea' Fund and kindred subscription liste, and

the vast number of persons throughout the King's Dominions An Old Nutsance.

who are eagerly working without pay, are quite sufficient to show

each.

More Oplum Cases.

Raid on a Gambling Dea.

Other Matters.

that the beart of the nation is right. But every ok contains its black ebeep, and the number of these to be found among Britishera is quite large enough to make their compatriots Is there no law of the Colony feel the reverse of comfortable. This unwholesome zest for what to deal with the miserable, filthy, one might almost call blood money is not confined to any one partic-aimed specimens of humanity alar grade of society; it is to be found everywhere, from the which one meeta at almost every manufacturer who places prohibitive prices on the war atores which whip and turn begging for aline? be sella to the Government, down to the working woman who opined There probably is, but of oce thing

A Striking War Drama. that the mar

was too good to lost and that "thirty shillings a

we are quito certain-it is seldom

A feature of the current pro-danolles, who hardly know a possess as much right as do certificate of Naturalisation should week and no husband was like heaven;" or from the miner who pat iaio forco. Yesterday, in gramm at the Victoris Theatre strait from an isthmaaor a marine any other je eons here tearry on ever have been granted to one refuses to go back to work unless his employer pays him excess the height of the day, during the tion", one of Messrs. Pathe Freres possible means of ascertaining the Linansing Board to make a distinc- etc., to another, is a matter which ie the three-part drama "Fasoina. from a Lio-guard, who have no their lawful trade; and for the German, and a licence to trade, wagon up to the civil earvant who neglects one well-paid poat under tiffin-hour, anyone passing along big achievements. The story is considerations which prompted tion between them and other it is quite outside the scope of the Government in order to earn a second comfortable salary at work Queen's Road Central could have prettily and cleverly conceived the Imperial Government to enter persons in the Colony, and to powers of the Licensing Board to for which he has no special gift.

Been-they could hardly help and the acting is m gnificent upon the Gallipoli campaign and decide to prevent them from carry deal with, but one in respect of Can Parliament do nothing to end all this? A few days ago the individuala equatting down on round the war. The film is one day that the Dardanelles business offoot, to reverse the decision of made. All that the members of

doing so one of those repal-ive throughout. The interest circles yet who are telling Secretary of State for the Colonies spoke of the need for all-round the parement begging of passere- that all should see.

cs every ing on their lawful trade, is, in which comments only, could be economy. Might it not be well if the Government would begin by by. He was busy displaying a putting its own house in order by a little additional overhauling of Portion of an arm and a leg

is "all a mistake." In other words, higher authorities whereby such that Board had to consider at A Regular Fowl Thief. war contraata, by seeing that its servants are not allowed to earn

while the Cabinet itself is still persons are expressly permitted to their last meeting with regard to A Chinese was described as "s undecided as to the position, these trade. It is, in fact, to exercise a the applicante personally, was double salarios and by fixing forthwith a rate of wage throughout and bandages. The sight regular fowl thief" by Inspector wisecores have dottled the whole discretion arbitratily and illegally, whether or not they, and the Great Britain? Might it not see to it that extra heavy taxation shall was a perfectly sickening one, Sullivan to Mr. Hazeland at the thing. It's all very intereating fall on every man who can be proved to have profited Guancially by Cannot a campaign be started to Police court this morning. I but fast a tiny bit tiring. Perhaps would seem that the Executive of good character, so far as this, Under these circumstances it houses conducted by them, were the war? Might it not deal, too, with the enormous number of in- rope some of these gentry in and appears that the defendant makes they can also tell us what Greece Council (that is to say, the Gov- was then ascertained. Any other stances wherein men, by steadily refusing to volunteer for active to place them out of the sight of Barvice, have stopped into the shoes of those who bare so volunteered the public? Here is a very good his pocket rice which he throws more grateful to them, in that native but to overrule the refusal cants, or either of them, at any regalar practice of carrying in is going to do. No one would be ernor-in-Council) had no alter questions relative to these appli and are thus earning a much bigher wage than before? It is a ter-johance for some of our Police down for fowls, then he picks event, than the Greeks themselves, of the Licensing Board to renew time cropping up, should be left rible blot on our national shield that one single undue profit should Reserve members to distinguish them up and takes them off. Sen for we are very well peranaded the two licences in question. The to be considered by other authori have been made at such a sims an this. Surely the Government might themselves and, at the same time, tence of six weeks' hard labour that Grance is hopelessly at sea reasons for such refues! need not ties, to whom, if desired, repre- wes this sad siop in, without delay, to prevent the scandal's growing. to remove a public nuisance, and four hours' stockɛ was passed, as to her own intentions.

necessarily have tean, but were, sentations may be made.

which was covered in gores