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Kowloon Club Matters

After a full ducassion of the shree schemes sabenitted to them for improving the sparting fisik- ties which the Club controls, the

DAY-DECEMBER 17.

DAY BY DAY.

KOIES ON THE CRISIS.

A YEAR AGO TO-DAY. | YANGIZE WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY LD

MAN MANKSA DEATH WEHIĆA

WHAT ABOUT EGYPT.

The Weather.

At the Peat 8 am. Temp. 53;

4 Lower level 8 km. Tamp 60;

Visconat Freach.

Except among those civilians who look upon themselves as fully competent to take sir John The Malia.

French's job and there are many Mail. — Closes

touch in Hongkong and elsewhere morrow per sa. Lachow 5the Frald Marshal's retirement

members of the Kowloon Cricket | NATUKENEVER MADE-Young Clab-bave very wisely we think, deaded upon that which involve the least expenditure. The new fine. scheme will, when it is put into aficos, very materially increase the popularity of the Club, especialy mace it will permit the taanis member to have their game jonn when a cricket match is in progrew. It would, of course, have been stenbetter still if either of the more elaborate pro- posals could have besa adapted, bat the meeting kept the financial position always în mind, and, in

w of furiber possible develop- ments in the future, it was thought the wiser plan to conserve the

Siberian

Siberian Mail.—Due to-day per

23. Yingehow, European Mail.

per s.s. Athos.

LEADING EVENTS IN THE GREAT WAR.

Betrands from the wet mixe con- tained in the "Hongkong Telegraph of December 17,

1914

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Indeed

The extraordinary meeting of this Company holid recently in Shanghai may vertsin- |ly be termed "extraordinary " in

the popular sense of the word.

Although the majority of its

from the scene of action will cause German Warships la North Soz. members may be ahen enemie

the Company itself is a British very wide regret, At the same The Admiralty sanouaces that Company incorporated and times he will have the full German movements of some igistered as such in the British Co- Das to-day sympathy of all fair-minded peoportance are taking place they of Hongkong. It is therefore ple. He has worked for six morning in the Norb Sos subject to British laws, and ita teen months without a break, Scarborough and Har lepool have and the

The Dollar.

Up to the Minate.

Club funda. In fact, there demand to-day is 1/1015/16. has long been a feeling across the barbear that Kowloon should hare its own social Club, some-į thmg on the lines of the Hong king Clob, and if the idea ever comes to anything we should say

To-morrow in the 53rd anniver- that it might easily be developed from the existing

Kowloon sary of the abolition of slavery Cricket Club Koko's Bar-in the United States. opean popolation is growing in BIZS every month, and, for that reason alone, then tural inclins-

fhe rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph 1tion for residents of the Peninsula

be as follows ——

"Daily issue-$36 per annum.

Tolly issue-$13 per annum.

4all month.

=r quarter.

a

is to gather together in closer social intercourse. Besides, it would be a distinet az n'venience

Tomorrow's Anniversary.

Departed.

Mr. G. R. Sayer among the pasengers who departed by the Bome-going saamer Kamo fare yesterday.

Chinese Woman's Suicide.

Valuable Silk Stolen.

mature

of

bis

ben abelled. Our fosillas have reen engaged at 7-11003 poznis. The situation is developing,

operty as a whole must be cons sidered to be British.

The rate of the dollar on labours his been sech that

The extraordinary proposal now we outsiders can bat fiintly con

is that the property of this British ceive of it. And do we always

Company shall be sold and trans- realise that be is a mån turned

Scarborough Bombarded.

ferred to an alien scemyCompany, sixty-there years of age and that,

to be incorporate? under the laws Closing Prices --

Indo-$163, sales and buyers. after more than forty year's sold.

A message from Scarborough of an alien enemy country! iering, he may be entitled to at

In order to carry out this pro- least an occamanal rest? A reports that four German Cruhera commander-in-Chief at Home be bombarded the town in the more posal a meeting was convened will inspire more confidence in ing. The shelling of Scarborough (by whom we do not know, at those who are obliged to remain began at eight in the morning which, with one exception appar in England than any other People.rashed into homes. There ently, only alien enemy ahaste asosi terable excitement holders attended, all of whom man could, but most of us will be prepared to hear, at any Some entrained for Hall. These voted in favour of resolutions to been done to property by the bom point an alien, enemy liquidator, to return to France to take a bardment, which was very heary and to authorise such liquide- time, that he has again been saked people declare much damage has wind up the Company, to ap his former work. Meanwhile we

to Bell the under. abelle as falling thickly around. taking and sets of the Company A Chinese woman, 19 years of all with the best of luck to his An engine driver described the

Fog pruvailed and it appears that to another, an alien, Company. Germany's Varied Tactics. The sees per quarter and per menem, proportional. Sabecsiptions for Kowloon residents to be able age, of Cha Hang committed sui- successor.

We once beard it said tha. the German wiser was lying off Doubtless the one disrentient wa for any period laws than one month will be charged as for drop into Clab witheat Deed-cade on Wednesday by cutting her

ing to cross the barbour. The throat with a razor.

special genius of the Chinese fes Castle Chi. The roof of St. Mar- of neutral nationality, for no in making other Chines work. tia's Church was struck and Brith subject would have beau The daily issue is delivered free when the address is accessible sc Feak bas its Club. Then why

Is has been reported to the In much the same manner, of great bois was made in another permitted to attend, and ac engage zessenger. Pesk subscribers can have their copies delivered at abould not Kowloon also? We sherr residences without any extra charge. On copise sent by don't know whether considers Foboe, by the occupier of 24, the Germans it might be said church. Some women and children in intercourse, and commercial tions of this kind influenced the Mercer Street, that he entrusted that where they most shine is in were running in nightclothes transactions, with alien enemies.

Several houses had their roofs

This Company being subject to post an additional $180 per quarter is charged for postage. The age on the weekly issue to any part of the world is $1.00 | K.C.C. members in coming to the coolie with two-rolls of silk, wirring up the spirit of fighting Klown of by abells. About fifty British laws, one of such now be

decision to embark on the least valged at $1,224, with which the sad antes not it is true, hells were fired.

‚ing that “during a state of war En in other Germans but in

alien enemy is not entitled to ex- Single Copies, Daily, wo Weekly, twenty-five cents (for expensive of the three schemes, ouulis has abeconded,

bas th question-it is a big me

Christmas Toys.

other nations. They bave worked

Soldiers and Civilians Killed. ercise a right of voting in respect en only). Adversements and Bubscriptions which are not ordered for a fixed deserves to be kept prominent It will be seen by an advartist"| Austria almost literally to death |

Iv in mind.

ment elsewhere that tomorrow, and have been parning the same

It is officially sisted that seven of shares in an Eglish trading (Bobo T. Premier pwind will be continned until counsezmanded

Lord Alverstone.

[as 2.30 pim, Messrs. Hughes and generom policy with Tarkey; soldiers have been killed and four- Company The death of Lord Alverstone, Hough are selling by auction a they have dragged Bulgaris into bean wonded and trauto Oil & Pipe Line Co. L. (1915) to subscribers by, the Dairy Farm Company, Ltd., Shameen, at the age of 12 years, has removed large and varied asortment of the scrimmage to such substantial cavalane and fity wonsued at 2 Ch 124), the resolutions passed

Tuera hava This giros afect that she will soon have no Hartlepool. a great man, and the news of his Christmas toys. demise will be read with regret parents an excellent opportunity army to call her own, and, in shirteen casuales at Scarboronga valid, they having been passed by in legal circles in all parts of the of making some cheap purchases. their of time, they have devoted and tour at Wauby. There has mansof the role ofalian scemies What has taken place would world. Fra period of thirteen

doubtless entitie shareholders Au sms, employed at84, The much energy to a would-be-mia- been no panse anywhere.

chief-making campaign among

other than those of alien enemy. distinction the high cffe of Lord Peak, reports to the police that the Arabe, Persians, Indians, German Vessels Blown Up. Chief Just ce and his retirement she had just got out at Bowen Chinese, etc. Any spare

The Exexing Standard te ationality to apply to the jast over two years ago W18 207 Boad mamway station, and was time that remained has been that the capimia of a Kotea, of dupreme Court of Hongkong for compat.ied by gen ral expressions proseeding to the gardener's of regret.

The late Lord Aiver-quarters when she was seized by Greece, Boumania, Switzerland, dron engage

given up to attempts at c joling album w the Bruen qua an order to wind up the Company three German compulsorily; and to appoint a as Sir B-chard a man who took away bez gold Holland and the Scandinavian | ships. Ons of those was bwwn liquidator who is not an alien Webster, thrice Attorney eat rings and gold finger rings, countries, to the dirtiest kind of up, another boited and the third enemy; he could sell the property General, and was at that die valued at $20.

plotting in the United States and, was last seen engaged. univetially regarded as one of Shipplag Dates Altered. the most fr.minent leaders of The Java-Pacific Laja advise Mexico, and to laughable efforts an the Bar. It may be recalled hats of the following alterations in converting the Irish Alto ATKINSON.-On December 17, at Kowloon, Robert Clare he was chief concsel for the Times their time-table, the information gather a very respectable record Atkinson; aged eight days.

before the Parnell C maiion. arriving two late for correction of for a refined and cultivated nation. Apart from his legal activities, he their advertisemen: Expected Cretmany has been telling as that made a considerable name for Arakan, January 5, Karimoen, the is a naval and military himself in political circles, while March 9. Departures-Tisondari, Power, bat we are as much at 865 in his early days at Cambridge February 1; Krivonen, March 25 ever sa to where all that comes be was noted as a runner. All 13; Tjikembang, April II.

A Fatal Collision. his life he has been a keen sporte-.

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HONGKONG. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1915.

THE BEGGING ́NUISANCE,

The case which came before Mr. J. R. Wood at the Magistracy. yesterday, in which it was revealed that à mendicant has been sham- ming that he was minus half of an arm, and, no doubt, had traded largely on the ruse, raises an old question. In this instance it was

stone

WKB,

Amak Robbed.

been

Servizos Taks 60,000 Prisoners, soners totalling 80,000.

The Servians have taken pki-

West Hartlepool Fortress

Drives Enemy Off. Jude

at the meeting were utterly in-

of the Company ether to other British subjects or to neutrals, but not to slien enemies. As regards the proceeds of such a male, no part of these could be paid over to alien enemy shareholders until the and of the wat.

stated that the defendant had been sent out of the Colony on previon? | Beckwith, EN at the Marine body has not yet been recovered- that, for many years, Germany | coast in the course of which they "to conform with the British laws

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But it in hopelessly impossible The War Offer onnances that for the scheme proposed at the in. In making others fight she the commander of the fortress recent mesting to be ascried out, has succeeded admirably, but beat West Hartlepool reports that No title could be given to the man, taking an especially deep A collusion, which resulted in rond her oftmentioned submarine German warships engaged the property of the Company by the interest in cricket, and for very the drowning of a girl aged 13, ploits and her breaking buster- farizes between eight and nine German liquidator purported to many years he was President of took place in the typhoon refuge fee on the wheel in Belgium and o'clock and the enemy was driven have been appointed, and the in- the Barrey Cricket Club. at Shaukisan on Wednesday. It calling it bravery, we have seen cit. A amali German wa-ship valid resolutions passed cannot be

the Registrar of Companies. has been reported by the mistress nothing of her own battling yet, also opened fire on Scarborough accepted, and registered here, by of a licensed bost that a launch. Is she ever going to put up a real and Whitby.

Why these when enemy share- HARBOUR OFFENCES.

ran into several bosta, expeixing fight of her own? What abous

The Official Story. bolders should have taken the her boat. Har daughter was Egypt, for instance? A

A German cruiser force made trenble to hold the abortive mest- Beltre Commander C. W thrown out, and drowned. The

Egyptian Rumours. Rveryone, of course, knows a demonstration on the Yorkshire ing, and so to vainly endeavour Occasions but had lost no time in retarzing. He was fined three

Rum Under Strength, dollars, with the alternative of a week in goal, and we do not doubt! Court yesterday morning, Lance

Before Mr. J. H. Wood this has dreamt of a big eastern move shelled West Hartlepool, Whitby under which the Company was that he will, with the conditions as they now are, soon be seen Sergeant Wadawa Singh charged about the streets again. With individual cases, however, we are not Leang Ming, barber, 3 Holland morning, a Chinese shopkeeper meat-overyone, that is, ezept and Scarborough. A number of incorporated, it is difficit, to concerned so much as with the general public nuisance which is rest with anlawfully being on named Ty Sing, of 108, Quon the British, who always trasted their fastest ships were employed. Conceive. I would bare been board the ax. Suwa Maru, without Road Central, was charged with her sublimely, being too buty They remained about an hour off last as effective had they acted caused by the presence of these professional beggam in our midat

As first sight, the natural inclination of those who complain at the permission of the master at alling rum not up to the stands pecting Roseis to have time or the coast. They were engaged by without these formalities, and m the prevalence and extent of the naisence is to lay the blame on the officer in charge thereof, on the and required. It transpired that energy to enquire into the mad patrol tassels on the spot. As soon had simply piratically taken pos- Iste in the as the presence of the enemy was session of the property of this Police. But that is doing a distinct injustice to the Force, the mem- 15th inst. Defendant was sent the rum sold was of 53 standard. Kaiser's ambitions, bere of which have of late been doing admirable work in attempting to gaol for 10 days' hard labour whereas it was required to be 100 day though it is, it would be reported, the British patrolling British Company; mod refused to to free the Colony of these pests. We are given to understand that in default of paying a fine of $10. Defendant, who stated that he silly to regard the idea of squadron endes roured to cat give up. Whether the Bene Cergeant A Fothergill (Re only had the one bottle in the German move against Egypt them cff. On sighting the British, and neutral shareholders (if there since March 17 last a -ystem of weekly raids has besa in operation, being carried out by a European constable and several Chinese) charged Wong Ming, bost-shop and was selling no other as nothing but a scare. The the Germans returned at full be any) will temkin, quiescent, insistent dragging in of Tarkry speed, and, favoured by the mist, and will be-content/to wait mutil constables who go out in plain clothes and arrest all the beggars they mistress, with unlawfully moving rom, wha hard $5.

about the Harbour during pre-

Theit of Government Opium showed, or should have shown, succeeded in escaping. The losses the time arrives when they can, can lay hands on. As a consequence, since the date named, ovez 300 mendicants have been arrested, while, adding the ordinary hibited hours on the 14th inst. A Chinese was charged by In- that our enemy had very definits, on both sides were small, but fall without trouble, demand an so- arrests to this total, over 500 such individuals have passed through The case was dismissed with a spector Gordon this morning with designs in that direction. if only reports have not yet been receive cunt from those now respons

stealing five tale of opium, the they could be pulled off. Ger-ed The Admiralty points out for the illegal acte intended to be the hands of the Polios. Every endeavour, in fact, is made by the caution.

Lance Sergeant A. J. Moody property of the Government. Mr. many has worked the soul (if she that sucks demonstration, though committed, remains to be seen. It may suit them to wait, or it diffionis to accomplish. Police authorities to keep the Central part of the Colony free of beggars; that is shown by the fact that lası year only about 180 charged the masters of steam Hassland sentenced the man to ever had a soul) out of her body not beggars were caught, or, roughly speaking, one-third of the total launches Make and Chang Hing two months hard labour. It was to keep the pot boiling among provided a certain amount of may suit the British Authorities with unlawfully being under way stated by Sergeant Sation that the Persians and Arabs; in fact, risk is accepted, is devoid of that they should do ex. With for the past nine months.

But, with the law ss it is to-day, all this would seem to be so in the Harbour during prohibited the defendant was one of foar i pacible, to stir up the whole military significance. It may that we are not much wasted energy. Under existing conditions, there is no power hours on the 12th inst. Defen- coolies engaged to carry opium of Islam againe Britain. Any cause some loss of civilians and in the case of lams or crippled beggars to send them to gaol, and thus dants were dismissed with a from the Water Police Station to other nation would have been some damage of property, which a patrol Isuneb. He was ben to discouraged and absolutely chok-is much to be regretted, bat it -all that the Police can do is to send them out of the Colony. This csation.

P. C. Edward Wills charged para tim containing fire taels of ed off by the repeated proofs of must not in any circumstances be is regularly done, but no sooner are these pasta, went away than they

loyalty to the Empire which the allowed to modify the general reappear on our shores again, only for the process to be repeated. thres host people with unlawfully opium into his pocket.

Mohammedans have given; but a naval policy which is being thick-hes ed mos like the Ger- pursued In the case of the able-bodied, imp Autamment can be imposed, but being the outside bosts of mora the sentences are invariably so light that no notice whatever is than five other boats lying along. taken of the temporary incarceration. Of course, there is soother side the Hanapcun on the stand point from which this evil may be considered, and that is that 15th inst. The second defendant these members of the begging fraternity are greatly encouraged by was fined $15, while the others the public, for, if there were no girors, there would be no beggara, were fined $5 each,- We are dealing, of course, with the purely professional class of beggars. There are thus two points which emerge from & con- sideration of this question firstly, that the existing law is madly

sling with the problem and needs radical revision

should do its part by refusing to

“Basi these dhe

Lo Tai boatwoman, was charg-

before Commanda

Court this morni Beakwith, RN, at the

fully fading to fof her bost i

The "Taiwan Conspiracy,

The Japannes Home Office ia man would naturally go on t

HM.S. Bulwarka

concerned.

FINED $1,000

Inspector

Chinese, bef

in receipt of a message from the the end, haing, such blind faith Finding of the Court of Enquiry mora Taiwan Government to the effects own invcibility in the that the ex-instion of the men ing line. The Balkan fighting The Court of Boquiry into the

and the Iall in Roezian khairs loss of B.M.S, Bulwark finds the implicated in the late conspira

have enabled Germany to make the explosion was dus to the mpt at collecting herself joidental ignition of

the supe for bar long

support the an

has been brong In 11887 enced to death