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| 1914, our first feeling is one of thankfu ein that man is deprived

of the power of seeing into the future. Had it been possible, a ysse sgo, to know that twelve months" tims would find the world still at war, with new features and fresh nations drawn into that war, -cad with practically every other house in the belligerent countries in mearning, would Britain and har Allies have had the courage to face the ordeal that lay before them? Would they not, rather, hara been tempted to accept an ignominious and perilous pesce rather shan contribute towards bringing such an amount of devastation, and death upon the world ? Germany, giren the game Zopportunity of] foreseeing, right—and probably would--not hars tamen her pro- graïmme greatly, for it is more than twelve months since she realised i that she could not win, and so decided to give full vent to the evil) spirit of mischief that is in her, hoping to dng down others in her demand to-daris 1/10 7/S

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German Advance- on through for precisely the sEYNƏ Router in affinis l resson that its predecessors have that the GeqRADE

on also sted. The German mind West Africa – wra

| CEA DATER, it seems, undecatand) against Angola in foros

that its workings and perform- Bombs, Dropped at 3 In the year that has gone we have learned many things shout

ancse sre capable of being forescen An siemen deng curselves, our allies and our enemies; and the day will some when say of the rubbing of the Britishead guarded against in other in a suburb of Ste we shall look back on it all and feel conscientiously that the newly-camp at Tweedatein by De Wete rony, monkey-like conning for

words il mistakes a certain India- some damage acquired knowledge, bitter though much of Ti kita bosn, has some us

Cancisne Battle all a world of good. It is not a sumili, matter that, after a year that

male podify The result of its latest The CancseLE Intercessfed.” bas no parallel in history the Entente countries are more than ever

boliant achievement in that the Russian átny determined to carry on their fighting till the goal is reached sad of intercession will be held at St. bh and that the only good Tacks in ther

The quartady united meating

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"was smothered (ment with: the best care for the depression caused by the knowledge that there Paul's College on Tuesday: ders which the Germans got out of it all is developing are curtain, abirkers at Home who do not seem to are whether Ger-December 28, st 6. many is voter or vanquished; is to reflect that only really great na

was a useful reminder to the affect scemy made tions can be as insurably determined to "win-and to win miterly

that the individual superiority the-village and sivolately-za are the Allies, at the present moment, despite all The Le Heargahan, will leave teriorating enemy is daily of the enemy.

Fat cur men over the steadily de- was regaalsed they have gone through.

for Cacion To-morrow, (Satur marked," If that lesson is of Askeld Accounts for they day), at 10 pm, returning from any use to the Kaiser he is wel- Last year, in wishing our readers as we again do now-the Canton on Sunday, at £30 p.m..come enough to it. He will want grad announce that the

Nasal Headquarters at- happiest Christmas possible to them under prevailing circumstances, Correspondents are requested to observe rule which the we touched upon the need for remembering those at Home to whom

The Salamis Artives.

*mething to cheer him up, this Askeld has capture #aquires them, to forward their names and addresses with war had brought distress and rain. Subsequent events have can-

Being esveral days overine, Coatzusa, unless we are mightily vessel near Haifa and ha Estonian Ications, addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for tained much pleasurable disappointment for those of us who allowing to engine trouble, the mistaken.

up.two Tarkiste ticipated distress in Britain. Cirmumstances bars been such that Salamis arrived in port this morn- up to the present, the war has brought na terrors of poverty in sing from the Cape via Mauritius. wake; on the contrary, the working classes at Home are less poorly St. Andrew's Church. off than they have ever been before. Distress, of course, will come

The Bishop of Victoria will-be fical victory, for Britain alone is spending s nation's remous ev (Christmas Day) at the II am *minis come sooner or Istery perhaps on the very heels of the the preacher at St. Andrew

Church, Kowloom, to-morrow day of the week. But troubles are not lightened by going balfway and one feels that the mea who is about to prove that they have to miser them; just now it is a question of "sufficient unto the day,

An Absconding Coolià. in them to crush forever the vilest and greatest plot against the

A shopkeeper, of Queen's Rad Central, bas reported to the Police pace and freedom of rope which was ever half-batched will also that his coolie, sio was entrusted know how to face subsequent economic difficulties. Pesos-the pace which all of us have grown up to connect with the Christmas with $270, has made off with the ide-is not hara yet, but it is very much on the way; and if there money -To-night's Dances. be some ha conscientionaly feel that Britain is approaching the present solemn festival in what is very far from's right or suitable the first of its Christmas dances The Hongkong Hotel is bolding spitit, they would do well to reflect also that there can be no peace tonight, when special menus will for the world till the Allies have proved themselves strong enough to be served for dinner. The Palace enforce it.

Hotel, Kowloon, is also giving a private dance.

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"HONGKONG. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1915.

COLD COMFORT.

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Bafora Mr. Wood, as the Palice

Kowloon Theft:

guested to book their seats early by telephoning to No. 907.

* Germany Must Starve.” Talking of the German in- tellect, we notios, that it has st last began to grasp what every

- BECENT CANTON RECITAE.

-Over $500 for,

The recent

German has suspected or known in the case may be, for nestly a year past; namely - that Germany is a bankrupt nation That "terzible infant” of the enemy press Forwaerie-har been on the warpath again, and bas, laid some very useful cinevital, given in, Canton, by lif siderations before the minds of its Desman Fuller prodused the readers. Already the Germans amount of $55415 which wace depressed by the financial dis been allocated as follows: 20, by way of adding-to closures made in the Reichstag and British Women's Work

Association that depression, along cames Blind Soldiers and Sail- Formuerta with the news that, even if Germany were indemnified Bassian, Bed Cross she would still have to starTE. By way of "rabbing it in”, our friend further points out that fe elastich himself ha in

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CHRISTMAS DAY SERVICES

Apparently all the cases of outrage against civilisation. The Court this morning, a Cuisse abstraction of footpaths do not sinking of passenger ships has was charged with being in poses abandoned the prospect of an fable owing to the em

bad weather prevailing- engage the attention of the Palica besa the diabolical joy of Gersion of 24 rounds of revolver indemnity. All this shows pro- If a visit is paid to Arsenal Streetmay many times since the ammonition which he had on found insight on our plain-time. The following is the and to Marray Road, the thorough began, but one cannot board the 2.9. Nin Hoi A fine spoken contemporary part; gramme of the piano recit The Hongkong Telegraph fare which ran along the assters help thinking that her time of $50 was imposed. gradualle, if it goes on learning Sonata in E minor-

end of the Bongkong Cricket to play such havoc with

and realizing, it will come to see 2-3). A Deere Tales (No Clab ground, it will be seen common laws of hatnanity is get- Mrs. C. Humphreys, of that, not only is Germany, ging

1)...Norman Paterkin. that the footpath in both places ting short. The very fact that Humphrey's Buildings, Kowloos, to get no indemnity, but that abe

́(6). Prafud-Eshel Barnea she indulges in these sets of has reported to the Police, that is going to pay one of auch is absolutely blocked by some barbarity is proof of it, for, reslis yesterday some person entered magnitude that it will leave her ecors or mors huge cable draming her approaching Goom, she her bedroom and from the dress a great deal worse than peoniles As was to be exrecie, the Hon. Mr. Pollock, in his implied diameter. The result is, of seeks to defer the time of it ing table drawer stole a cigarette For Germany's own sake the plea at the meeting of the Legislative Council yesterday for the course, that the pavements car coming by the creation of s moral case valued at $200, ons Swiss sooner this latter ides is grasped 3-a). infusion of a larger elective element into the ruling bodies of the nos be used at all. We do not disarray mong the peoples who franc piece valued $10, and one by the whole country the better, Colony, received scant sympathy from official quarters. Usual pro kow to whom these drums be ace her enemies. That she ing valued $10.

Tommy in the Trenches. cedure was departed from in the respect thas His Excellency the lang, neither do we know who is has failed to accomplish her The Belle View Hotel.

Amerry Christmas; to... Men Governor thought it advisable to answer the hon member's queries to blame for pamitting them to object has been demonstrated by This popular hotel has arranged Thomas Atkins-* may his tribe peracnally, but, save to observe that the suggestions made did nos remain where they are, bias this the impetus in recruiting which special menus for the dinners on increase and good luck to him commend themselves to his judgment, Sir Henry had nothing to say much we do know that if has followed similar happenings Ohristmas night, Sunday, and inrerything he undertaken. on their merits or demerita. The main point of His Excelleney's humble Chinese hawker were to at Home. It is now Japan's tarn Monday. There will be masic Perhaps one of the m et sadden reply was that the war, and all that is has brought with it, in de taks up his permanent stand in to feel righteously enraged, and supplied, and private dinnering reflicious connected with the 5-Intermezzo in ocistes mending the attention of both the Imperial and Colonial Govern either of these localities he would there is not the slightest doubt parties can be arranged. The position in the trenches at the ment to such an extent that, even if the inclination ware present, vary soon be hailed before the that, far from being discaayed; charge will be $150 per head, time is too precious to waste on the discussion of the suggested lagistrate for creating an ob she will be re fired with and intending patrons are To reform in the Constitation of the Colony. Or, to use His Excellenstraction. This sexy to be thusiasm to assist, if necessary, cy's own words," the season is strangely out of joint for even the another instance of the willing-more than ever in the crushing of discussion of such questions.” 39

neas of the anthocities to sirain at this ruthlessly brutal nation. We can, of course, quite appreciate the point that the war is gos: and swallow & camel. [Since writing the above, de increasing tremendously the work and the responsiblities of the May we suggest that what is faite information has been Government both here and at Homs, and we admit that, along these sauce for the goose should be cared that the vessel lines, a fair case can be made out why definite action on the matter sauce for the gander too?

torpedoed- should for the moment be deferred. Bat we think the suggestions The Yasaka Marta put forward in good faith, and with the decided backing of the great The news that was received bulk of the Colony's ratepayere, might at any rate have been receivesterday of the sinking of the ed in a somewhat more sympathetic spirit than they wars. As we Nippon Insen Kaisha's premier Hemra Wright and Hornby see the matter, there was no occssion to administer a cold douche boat, the Tasks Mara, in the advise us that the Langhat output to those who are of the same way of thinking as Mr. Pollock. The Mediterranean, not only caused a for the current month is of the management deservers were times when men could fox- whole point in that the hon, member was voicing a public demand sensation in the Colony, but cast follows: which is growing in strength and serionades, and ena which, sooner quite a gloom over a large section or later, will have to be listened to. That demand is a purely un- of its inhabitants. Although the selfish and quite commendable one-namely, that the public telf, fall passenger fist for Hongkong through its representatives, aball play a more active part in the life is not yet know, there were of the Colony than is posible under conditions as they are. In many people who tad relatives} other words, they ask not only for a larger measure of power, but and friends coming from Eome, a point which is too often overlooked a greater measure of respon- and it was with great joy that ability in the running of the affairs of the Colony. Or, put it telegrams were received, sumirzag in yet another form, they ask for a system of government based on that all were safe. The official the principles of true citizenship. In such a demand there is surely meage only states that the vessel nothing that is either revolutionary or inherently objectionabla. On was" sunk," whether her and was| the contrary, such a spirit deserves encouragement rather than caused by an suamy submarine or suppression.”

not, bing uzstated, but there in In his cart reply, His Excellency did not even promise that the every reason to believe that sa Tatter would receive the comideration which its importance surely was the case, for not only is this justifies ho merely expressed the disfavour with which he viewed part of the money free from she question, giving not the slightest reason for the attituds he urdinary navigation perils," but took up. That, as we say, was disappointing, though the destes submarines have been very active which Me Pullock voiced will, we suppose, come in due course to in this quarter of Ista the notios of the Colonial Office. It is still to be hoped that the

ms of His Excellancy's reply do not imply that the subject in good god al. Public sentiment claims that it

wa sicoaraby trust that the Unotheist members will

by the cold reception which has been given to

of affairs which, to use

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LANGKAT OUTPUT.

present moment is that it should have been necessary for the army authorities to warn Tommy this there will certainly be no amen inee nothing in the nature of a Special Christmas Menu. -

truse. All British ranks are revertising columns, the Alexandrs war and that the Germans snoori St. John's Cathedral-6.45

As will be seen from our #dbidden to remember that war is Cafe is putting up a special mean ally have a sinister native in ali for Christmas Day, the fall that they do, especialy under details of which appear in the the gase of friendly senti advertisement. A glance at this In the Peninsulaz and most remarkable one at the price American Civil War and even will show that the bill of fare is a Crissa campaign In the (one dolls), and the enterprise dating the Bper troubles, there large measure of publionatronage. get that they were, enemies, one

Lakong Seat to Prison.

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