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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY,

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NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

WHERE LAX ENDS, TIRANNY REGINA - Waar Pist.

The Weather.

At the Peak Sam. Temp. 50;|

Lower level S sim Temp. 60;

overcast.

Jadging from the fact that the Treasury brought seven' sctiona in the Summary Court yesterday for the recovery of the "fabulous

ggregate sum of $145, there appears to be at least ons Depart- ment of the GoYatmment which is determined not to be saddled with bad or doubtfel debts. The claims varied in amount from fog. fifty-six cents to five cants, the sort of the writ in each case being thirty times the latter sam! In such cases, however, there is no loss to the Treasury, except | where the amount cannot be re- covered, inasmuch as the defen- dant has to meet the writ charges. At the same time, one may be pardoned for wandering whether or not it pays for a Government recovery of so small an amount as servant to appear in Court for the five cents; his time 18surely würth

more than that, or at least should

be. There are instances which we can conceive which would make is advisable for such ani sction to be brought, but when, as in one of yesterday's cases, the de fendant happens to be in London, ten thousand miles away, is it really worth while to waste the time of the Court and of the Crowa Solicitor aver so trivial a sum?

The Malls

Siberian Mail.

Closed to-day ̈per ax. Chenan 5 pm. American and Canadian Mails.

Closed to-day per sa Shinyo Marn at 11 am.

Closed today French Mail

par as Folynesian at 4 pm Australian Mail-Closed to-day

persa. Taiyuan at fp.m---

Australian Mail Dae to-day

per am. Nikko Maru Siberian Mail — Doe to-morow

per se. Sicking.

The Dollar.

THAT TRUTHFUL CHANCELLOR.

An Interesting Mixture.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEETING

Election of Legislative Council Member.

FULL REPORT OF THE SPEECHES.

The Chairman mid -Gentles men, it is now past the hour for which the meeting was fixed, and I will ask the Secretary to read the notice convening the meeting.

After the Secretary had com plied with this request, the Chair- man said-Bafore we proceed with the ordinary business of the meeting I wish to express to the members of the Chamber that re- gret which I am aurowe all feel [st the ur timely death of the Inte Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. E. A. Hewett

Having read the resolution

As was reported in our issue which was passed at the last.. of last evening, a general meeting meeting of the Committee, Mr. of members of the Hongkong Landale proceeded to say--Mr. General Chamber of Commerce Hewett was a bard and conscien- was held yesterday afternoon for tious worker and always had the the purpose of nominating a interests of the Chamber at heart.

censor to the late Mr. E. A Though I did not always agree. Hewett to represent the Chamber with his views, I appreciate the on the Legislative Council -The untiring -energy which be

Yon Bethmann Hollwege | shrieku apart, Beater gives us an interesting little handle of wires this morning. It is characteristic of the hustle and energy and businesslikeness of the Cabinet that at last after sixteen months of war-the idea has setually ce curred to it that it is not impos able to publish a daily bulletin as to the progress in the West The news from that theatre, Jase, ia cf a decidedly varied order, covering loses and gains Hon. Mr. D. Landale (Chairman bestowed upon any matter which in air fighting, the blowing of the Chamber) presided. The he represented. Es represented

of another German up ammunition depot, minor French following is a list of those us with great ability on the

Council, present and of firms represented Legislative

whare successes in Argonne, and so at the meeting:Mr. G. K. Hall his honesty of purpose, I forth. Other wires relate see Bratten, Sir C. P. Chater, CG, feel Surs, impressed the sawing in the Balkans and des ours. A. G. Gordon, Geo. Grim-Tomcials of the Government of The rate of the dollar os cribe, with a certain amount of Fe, R. Hancock, Ho Fook, Alrea, Hongkong eren though he found Renterian trimming, the retire. M. and Co., AB. The Swedish, himself right to oppose their demand to-day is 1/13/5.

ment of the British and French Trading Co., in China, Ltd., policy. His place in Hongkong troops to new positions. The

V. and Cc., Arcalli Bros, will be difficult to fill, and we Apear, Persian and Italian aituations are Asiatic Petroleum Co. Lit of deplore his death and mourn the touched upon, and American London. "Bank" Lise, Ltd., loss of a public-spirited geatle- affairs are once more to the fort Bank of Taiwan, Ltd., Banker and man.-(Applause). Concerning the latter, we read Co., Basque de L'Indo Chine, The Chairman went on to rand. that, at President Wilson's sag Botelho Bros, Bradley and Co., the letter he had received from. gestion, the Washington Cabinet Ltd, British American Tobacco the Colonial Secretary requesting has held a preliminary discus Co, Ltd., Batterfield and Swire, that a successor is the late Mr. sion of the plane of the Adminis-Canadian Pacifi-Railway Co Car Hewett be nominated by the tration to prevent and punish to Lowrance Office. Ltd. Cawas Chamber. He said:-As two violations of neutrality." Now, Pallanjee and Co., Chartered candidates have been nominated Chamber of Commerce "elec

On and after January 1 cert, that is not at all a bad idea, Bank of India, Australis and it is therefore necessary for us to tinn." Electionsering in this official-beridden Coloty of ours the rate of postage to be collected and at the rate at which Washing Chine, Chirs and Japan Tale- vote by ballet and in order to ob is a rare experience for its inhsb-on parcals to the Commonwealth ton is proceeding, the prevention phone znalectric Co., Led., G. viate any misundertandings which itants, and yesterday's little event of Australia will be 80-cants for and punishment should be due at P. Lammert, H.MH. Nemzee, might arise I will read to you the certainly whetted the appetite of the first Ib. or fraction thereof no lato period of the treaty first Hon. Mr. HE. Pollock, KC., few rules which bear on the the public for more of it and re- and 30 cents for each succeeding century. While the "pralimin Mears. M. S. Sassoon, F. Smyth, eadars, we have to follow in

ary discussion" is proceeding, it F. P. Talati, China Borneo Co., selecting a candidate. vivified the very general desire lb. or fraction thereof.

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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1915.

CRIME DIMINISHED AT HOME.

To-morrow's Anniversary. To-morrow is the scniversary of the battle of Fleros (1577).

The Lost Found... That Hongkong can, i the

It has been reported to the cccssion is given, stir itself up into something at least akin to police that the $1,000 paying enthusiasm was demonstrated voucher which was reported lost yesterday by the amount of public has now been found.

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Proclamations.

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is interesting to remark that a Tid, China Fire Insurance Co... Having read the rules, he said for

whole town in America has been Led China Herchants Seam that the first business we to The Medical Board. representative government. His Excellency the Governor destroyed, presumably by Ger- Navigation Co, China Sugar select scrutineers, and be had the to the "election" itself, the most

Refining Co, Ltd., Chan On Fire pleasure to propose that Mr. surprising festare

the has been pleased to appočut, under man gents!

Bethimane and Blether. Insurance Co., Ltd., Compagnis William Dinkson, manager of the ambatantial majority by which the provisions of Section 10 of the

We have always maintained

Maritimes, Chartered Bank of India, Austra Doa Messageries Mr. Holyoak

appoin-Medical Registration Ordinance,

Bros. and Colia and China, and Mr. N.S. Mar- to the view that the candidates Mr. Herbert William Looker to don't get into the comic papers at David Sasscon and Co., Ltd. shall, manager of the Internation- ted, for general opinion inclined 1884. (Ordinance No. 1 of 1884), that the really funniest things Connell would run each other very much be a Member of the Medical Board all. Dr. Tos Bethmann-Hollweg's

Looker, Descon and closer than they did, especially as vice the Honours ble Mr. Edbert oration would have been paid for David, S. J. and Co, Demoon, al Banking Corporation-ba

The Hon. Mr. Pallack seconded. they are both good strong men. Ansgar Hewett, OMG., deceased by Punch 1, st least, ter games too. Dzzys and Bowley, Dodwell

a column; and, if Sir Arthar The Colony's Flannces.

This was agreed to. and Co., Ltd., Donnelly and The successful candidate took a The financial statement for the Salliyan had still been alive, he Whyte, Douglas 3.S. C. Esatera

The Chairman, continuing, placky stand when he nailed to the commler the malicious mouth of September shows that would have appointed the Chan- ramsura which had been circala the balance of assets and liabilities cellar his librettist, vice W. 8. Extension Australia and China read the names of the candidate

Needham, Fire Insurance Associs these being as follows:-M2, J. ed regarding the nationality of on August 31 amounted to $2 Gilbert, outclassed and sacked. Telegraph Co. Ltd., Ewens and with the proposers and seconda the firm to which he belongs, and 488 168.46, the revenus for Sep-Only in Germany could such ation of Hongkong. Gaede, Price W. C. Bonnar, of Mestry Gibb, and Co Gibb, Livingston Livingston and Co. (Vice-Chair- no doubt he carried with him the tomber was $971,551.41 and the speech have been made? If we sympathy of many of the voters, expenditure $937,807,22. The examine it, even superficially, w*\and Co., Gilman and Co, God-man of the Chamber), and Mr.

at once find the traces of anxiety and fear. Of course the Cement Co., Ltd, Haskell, D.sad and Co. (a member of the Cam- heartily congrato $2,592,016.65. The Prison Commissioners at Homs have issued their Annual

nenal hack expressions-Logic Co., Halland Chins Trading Co., mittee of the Chambar). Before Mr. Hazeland this marn- of facta" etc.-are-dragged in Hongkong. Canton and Macao He asid---I have much plea- Report for 1914 and, as all of us were well prepared to learn, it choice it has made and,

though it asema to us that

Steamboat Co.Ltd, Hongkong and sure in proposing that Mr. Bonnar abows a very decided falling off in the number of convicted crimin- at the same time, felicitate Mring Inspector Kent. charged s

"logic"

which the China Gas Co., Ltd., Yongkong be elected as representative of the ala during the war months of that year. Altogether 114,283 persons, Holyoak on his success. In its Chiasse with possessing 4 taals the including debtors and those committed by courts martial, were new nominee the Chamber will of opium. The defendant was tirade is built up is all 500 ectric Co., Ltd, Hongkong Fire Chamber of Commerce on the sentenced a decrease of 37,320 on the previous year's figures. It have a representative who, we are fined $400 or two months' hard obviously that of lies. But the Insurance Co.,Ltd., Hongkong and Legislative Council. I will try seems to us that very little explanation is called for here; indeed the are, will not hesitate to speak labour. The Police Reserve con- thing is not worth examination Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., and make it cless to you that I deductions are quite obvious. During the early days of the wara wis mind when coccasion arises stable who was on daty in Court Even the statement that the Ger Lid, Hongkong Land Tavesti propose Me Bonner in my Et of seriousness seized upon the Home population, and all but the admirably fsted for the acted as interpreter in the Shang-man rous ways in Basis are ment and Ageccy Co., Ltd., capacity as representative of ready for a further advance" fails Hangkang Bere Manufacturing Mesara Jardine, Matheson and very lowest type of criminal felt that it was incumbent on them to position to which he has been

to excite na We have seen too Live honestly and respectably at a time when their country a choman and may be relied upon to involved in a life-and-death struggle. Many persons in all classes keep the Uncficial point of view

The Government Gazette con- many of those "advances" dar Co, Ltd, Hongkong and Shang Co., and not in my capacity as hai Banking Corporation, Hong- Chairman of this Chamber. I kong and Wham pao Dock Co., think it is only fair to the other of society voluntarily gave up the use of alcoholic drinks and many prominently before the Govern-tains the full texts of Proclamsing the last couple of months.

The Answer, tions extending to the war with others to use a vulgarism—"got religion." The recruiting boom

Ltd., Hughes and Hoogh, candidate that I make this Nor is there any need for # wherewith the war opened necessarily swept up a large number of

Balgaris the Proclamations and the men who, in the ordinary coures of adairs, might have come up

Orders in Council now in force reply from the Imperial Govern Humphreys, J. D. and Son, statement, and I do so with the for judgment on one offence or another, and the gravity observable

relating to the war, and providing ment tosuck twaddle. The reply Humphreys, W. G. and C., Hut fall consentand concurrence of Mr. for a Further Amendment of has already come from Garman chison, J. D. and Co, Istersa-Bonner. Ishould also mention that among the newly-anliated men precluded the general drankenness

the

tional Banking Corper tim, Mr. Bonnar has no desire to take frat and rowdyism that most of us are wont to associate with the verions penAnother Opiem Case. Proclamation No. 28 prohibiting mouths in stages of the Boer War

Before Mr. Hazeland this morn- the exportation of certain good place from the Socialist membera Ismail and Co., Ltd., Jardine, any advantage-if advantage. Matheson and Co., Ltd., Java there beof this fset. I must sat af the Reichstag, and, in Hany minor causes of the diminution could be mentioned, but Chinese with possessing 4 tsels of

ing Inspector Kent charged a Criminal Sessions.

It is notified for general in the second, from the starving China Japan-Lijn, Kailan Min-you not to be carried away by the probably the only other main cans beyond the above quoted is opium. The defendant was fined formation that, pursuant to Sec- people of Berlin, as described in ing Administration, Lane Craw silver eloquence of the King's the greater plentifulness of money and the consequent lessening of $400 or two months hard labour tion 5 of the Criminal Procedure the excerpt from die Morgenpost ford and Co., Lowe, Bingham Counsel who is going to propose

temptation to

Hi which appears in a subsequent and Matthews, Loxley. W. B. and the opponent of Mr. Bonnar. 1 rob. It is temptation, The Police Reserve.constable who

Ordinances, rather than opportunity, that makes the thief, and the two was on duty in Coort acted as in Honcar the Chief Justice has wire. This German paper says Co. Macdonald and Co., Marine rust remind you that Mr. Bonnar great spare to that temptation are (1) poverty and (2) a hankering terpreter in the Shanghai dialect ordered that the cert Criminal frankly (and, by the way, it is not Insurance Association of Hong- has represented the Chamber on after a more luxurious life than one's normal wage will permit.

Sessions for the despatch of the a Socialist organ-or need not kong, Marcantile Bank of India, the Legislative Council, and that the discontent Ltd Michael and Co., J. R. Hing he has been for the past three War, for England, meant higher wages and a greater number of

business of the Court shall be to be) that

the population at the Kee Houg, Misai Bussan Kaisha, yeara Vice-Chairman of the Cham vacancies in the varions directions of employment, and so a large

held on Monday, the 20th day of of

in Ltd., Mody, N. and Co., Maxon ber. He is the senior represent- percentage of the most abject poverty-the poverty that

Desember, 1915, at 10 o'clock in scarcity of food is

Creasing that friends of the and Taylor, Nederlandsh Handel stive of Mass. Gibb, Lavingston the forencon. prompts a man to steal rather than be hungry or go to the workhouse

Opium Prices. at once disappeared. The prevailing seriousness of the p:ople at

country cannot cances! their deep Maatschappij (Netherlands Trad- and Co, & firm which has been long It is notified that the regula anxiety." And this is no sewing Society), Nederlandsh In and honourably connected with Iargs blotted out, to a large extent, the general appetite for luxurias and display; thus money lost much of its valus in the eyes of those

tions made by the Governor-in-thing. Nearly two months ago dische Handelsbank (Nather- British trade in Hongkong and Commercial China, I feel confident that we who had once 30 ardently desired it. So, between one factor and Closing Prices :-

Courel under Section 69 (c) and the more candid of the Berlin lands India another, the normally dishonest became the spasmodically honest. Messrs. Wright and Hornby (7) of the Opium Ordinance, 1914, papers described the pitiable rush Bank), Nestle's Angle Swim on rely upon Mr. Bonnar giving advise us of the following altera on the 22nd day of July, 1915, and struggle taking place daily, Condensed Milk Co., Londos, a wall-considered opinion in the That the influence is there it would be foolish to doubt; but it is in their stare report on page Regulation No.

Thus far we have said little of the influence of alcohol on crime-tions of the quotations appearing are amended as follows (a): In among the women of the poorer/ippon- Tusen Ksisha, Osaka best:înterests of the Chamber on the hashs, Fabaney and Co. E, any point on which he might vote 2 the figures classes, to obtain ren more than easy to exaggerate the good results obtained by catting g

$35.00 are substituted for the smallset quantities of household Feniniar and Oriental Steam in the Legislativy Council. Mz. figures30.75 (6.) In Regulation necessar.ee. Of what use is Navigation Co., Percy Smith Seth Bonnar will be a No. 3 the figures $11,00 are sub it for this Ministerial liar to and Fleming, Beiss and Co., Boss, worker in the interests of this in the Berlin Alex. Co., Bass-Asiatic Bank, Chamber and for the pablis stituted for the figures $10.00. stand Kup

and tell the Sassoon, and Co., E. D., Shewan, generally. He will not support- parliament Oplam Cleverly Concealed. Cleverly concealed in biscuits nation that all's well when people Tomes and Co., Shiu On any injadicions proposition Co. Lid., Soaren and against the Government which and in long lars of common siap, are clamoring for food? How S.S

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UP TO THE MINUTE.

off the liquor supply. If drunkenness smong men has bean greatly Banka.- $800, sellers.“ .-

Yangtez.-$230, bayars. Douglas's $92, sales. Indo Chines (Deferred)-$93,

bayers.

Indo China's (Preferred).

$61. buyers.

on the decrease since war broke out, it has infinitely increased among women: Early closing and the withdrawal of licences and, latterly, the abolition of the "treating" system may have reduced the ex- cess among certain classes of men, but other classes, and women as a whole, are in noway affected by any of these things. When we come down to the real substance" of the matter, the drink question, the better distribution of money etc, all fall back in importance before

China Sugars.$127, bayers. the one great causes the greater seriousness of the public outlook on

Ural Caspians-36). sallers. life. So long as that continues crime will go on diminishing. Bat will it continne? We do not wish to throw a needless amount of Kowloon Wharves

buyers. cold water on the optimists but equally we do not feel over sanguine.

Kowloon We have yet to

Docka The devil got wall the devil a monk was he.”

buyers. face the joys and general excitement contingent on the ending on the warscând, after that, the years of leanness and close competition that Hangkew Wharren-Tis. 80,

bayers. follow era comparatively small campaigns, and it will need all that is strong sad honest and conscientions in the British nature to keep URLAU SÍ 2 minimum than.

1899-1913.

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no less than 23 tsels of opium much longer are they going to Co, de Souss and Co. Standard will only lead to legal strife. H Bethmann-Hollweg Oil Co. of New York, Stewart is gentleman well-known to you, wsze found on a Chinese yester stand it? day, in consequence of which he talks about the logic of facts Bro, Tai Shing Paper Mano- and well worthy of your treat. $77, was fined $1,000 or two months Heaven knows there is enough of facturing Co. Ltd., Thomas Cook leave him in your hande

hard labour by Mr. Hazeland this it when more than half the women and Sons, Thoresen and Co., Toyo Mr. Stabb, in ssconding the $84, morning. “It was stated by In of Berlin are widows, and when Kisen Kaisha, Union Insurance proposition, said Mr. Bonnar in spector Kent that when charged the poor cannot get sufficient Society of Canton, Ltd., Vaccum a very old resident in the Colony, the man said that he had brought food. Our friend may yet find Oil Co., Wilkinson, Herwood and and has been connected with it back from Annam. The value that there is a convincingness in Olarke, Lad Wicking, Harry and shipping for many years. He has of the opium was $255, having such logic that he had scarcely Co., Zokohams Specis Bank, Lid, been serving on the Chamber of increased in value by $1 per taeli

Chins Lights, -$4, bayars, Langkats --Tie. 38, bayern.

Yuen Hop Long.”

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