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THE HONGKONG TELEGEATH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER

TSON'S SULFOCREME

BAS THE WONDERFUL PROPERTY OF GIVING TO THE SKIN INGUMPARABLE SOFTNESS, PREVENTING REDNESS AND IRRITATION, AND OF TAKING AWAY WRINKLES AND FRECKLES.

IT IS ADMIRABLY SUITED TO THE USE OF GENTLEMEN AFTER SHAVING, AS IT PREVENTS THE ROUGHNESS AND SORENESS OF THE SKIN, MAKES SHAVING A TRIAL TO MANY MEN. -

IN BOTTLES 60 cents & $100 each

PREPARED ONLY BY

WHICH

The Truck Tragedy.

It is a thousand pitïas that, at the Criminal Sossioon yesterday, no case could be found against the ecole who was arraigned on a charge of manslaughter in con-

rection with the recent fatal

rock scadent in Kowloon. Apparently there was no abeolute

DAY BY DAY

AS IT WAS IN THE BEGLINING ISTO DAT OFFICIAL SINKING. ANDSHALL BE FOREVERMORE, Kipling.

The Weather.

At the Peak Sam Temp. 53;

ly direct evidence of neglig fine. ence that is to be explain Lower level 8 am Temp. 63; ed from the fact that there fine. was no actual eye-witness of the happening-hat there was surely

The Malls.

1915

NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

THE RUSSIANS.

{The *Westminster's » Statarent.

What Mr. Asquith refraine from teling as, concerning the wamber of single men whom, apparently, nothing but fares will affect, is now told na by the

A YEAR AGO TO-DAY. FILFERING OF DYNAMITE.

LEADING EVENTS IN THE GREAT WAR.

Bziraate from the mạt nima son- Saimed in the “ Hongkong Telegraph" of December 30, 1914

Me Maraland on How to Prevent. It

The case, which wa yesterday, in which, twa were charged with stealing, "two leading Radical paper-the West-

sticks of dynamite from minster Gazette According to American Protest to Britain, On, who is carrying out the that journal " the number of an- Renter's correspondent as Was- of building the noW TO attested single men is much greater hington statee that the U. 8. Go-Pokfulam, was concfailed before than was anticipated, amounting Ternment has sent a long Note to Mr. Heseland this morning. to six hundred and fifty thousand, Britain insisting on an early im- The first defendant, sworn, asid. Tery few of whom are in Govern provement in the treatment of that five sticks of dynamite wEER ment, starred or indispensable American commerce by the Bri- supplied him to fill up boles made for blasting. He had used fourjand The Note warns Britain that was guing to use the other whos amusing comment on Mr. As quith's recent statement that the much feeling has been aroused he was arrested. Derby recruiting scheme had been by unwarranted interference with His Worship pointed out that kan unqualified success. Have we legitimate trade, and the United the witnesses for the prosed

Dos almost had enough of the Statee Government feels com-aid the prisoners were going Premier's methods of letting aspelled to ask for definite-informs-down the hill to fill up botan. D. 8. Clark said the wakos

ficient circumstantis testberian Hail-Closed to-day mony to justify a vardict of per sa. Singking 3 p.m. guilty. The medical evidence was Siberian Mail Das to-morrow to the affect that, from the nature per ss Yingebow. of deceased's injuries, the truck English Mail-Clowed today

most have been travelling at an

per 8.a. Nankin ?p.. ETCSESİTƏ speed, and, in-European Mail-Due to-morrow

您 the prisoner

a much was one of the men in charge

of the vehicle, one would have

thought the jury would have had

no difficulty in finding that a degree of responsibility for the

A: S. WATSON & Co., Ltd. tragedy rested on him.

HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

The object of this paper is to publish correct information, serve

the truth and print the news without fear or favour.

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Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

Talephone: No. 1 A.B.C.; 5th edition.

Western Union Office address: 11, Ice House St.

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There

was nothing in the case to show that the decessed lady was at fault, and, as the incident occur. red in broad daylight, it is aurely a wale assumption that the to negligence of the coalies was the

cause of the tragedy.

Fears for the Future.

BIRTHS. BRAGA.-0 29th December at 5 Observatory Villas Kowloon, to Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Braga; a daughter.

FRISEN ETTE-On December 22, 1915, at the Victoria Nursing Edme. Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. A. Frisenette, a son.

MARRIAGE.

THOMAS-SELIGER-On December 23, 1915, at HEK. Consulate General, and at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, before the Bev. W. Price. Herbert Thomas, son of the late John L-Thomas, of Liverpool, to Marie Chrystal Luise Seliger, younger daughter of Friedrick W. C. Seliger, of Berlin..

DEATH.

*

persa. Atauta Maru

Tomorrow's Anniversary.

Haiching

Chinese Return Home. The as. Glenfalloch, arrived in Port this morning from Sings- pore, having on board 235 Chinese

passengers.

Departed.

industries; all of which is an fiah Fleet.

His Worship exid it seemed

The Dollar. " The rate of the dollar on down geady? As a precursor ion of Britain's attitude in or-

of the Westminster's "amortion | der to, take messures to protect were hostile as they were fall in demand to-day in 1/10 15/16.

(which, by the way, has the the rights of American citizens. the swim," including the Chinsto To-morrow is the 315th annirons of Government inspiration Numerous specific cases of deten foreman. Mr Wings Clo Teary of the granting of the about it) comes Mr. Asquith's tions and seisures of cargosa are much as a case a mor Charter to the East India Company announcement to his colleagues cited The Note declares that was 400 sticks.

that "a measure of compalion" the representations are made în a His Worship said, the only way Seizure of Opium.

Will the friendly spirit, but the United for the sticks to be checked WEE Revenue officer Wilden this would be necessaTY. morning made a seizure of 254 man of his school ever learn to States considers best to speak in for the head man to go round and be. of prepared opium off the .. call a spade a spade? In the past terms of frankness, lest silence ses for himself whether there were

they have certainly shown them should be considered acquiescence holes or now

Wize second defendant'said that selves masters in the suppression in a policy which has infringed

he was given the stick by the of the true and the suggestion of the rights of American citizens,

The chief difficulty is the moral | foreman. the false; but that sort of policy does not carry a country very effects of the practice on American It is a somewhat remarkable

far. As present Mr. Asquith is very exporters, who are restrained quite clear that the printe fact, too, that of the gir truck

hard at work proving to the world from taking risks which should were given the sticks by the deu- coolies only one could be traced. Mr. W. T. Harbord, of the that he is not the man for his job; not surround legitimate tra le tractor and could not be found These vehicles are licensed, and Royal Naval Dockyard, departed the pity is that the nation ever between the United States and guilty of stealing, but only if

The cerving He proposed to convict there certainly should be some by the Home-going P. and O-allowed itself to be falled into the other neutral countries. means of keeping a check on theị steamer Nenkin to-day.

belief that he was. The men Note is practically intended for them of receiving but, taking in- men into whose charge they are

Kalian Outpat.

whom one pities most in all this all the nations of the Triple to consideration all the cream- stances, he would hînd then avER. given. One of the statements The total output of the Esilan are the army and navy chiefs; and Entente.

Kenter's correspondent at in the sum of $100 moh to damg the by made

prisoner Mining Administration's mizer we are inclined to think that if, appeared to land colour for the week ending December, at the present moment, Ear Washington reports that the Note ap for judgment if called upon to the probability that the 18, 1915 amounted to 62,315 tons Kitchener were to walk into the adds, with reference to the deten in regard to that sort of testing. brakes of the truck were not and the sales during the period, House, Cromwell-like, with a few tion of American ships at sea, he thought the only way tocyn effective. He stated that the to 57 704 tons.

soldiers behind him, and clear that the Government cannot vent it was for an absolutały to- A Passenger's Heavy Loss. the whole place out, determining tolerate undue delays in examin-fiable man to go round and count master abould have been in the dock, since it was his duty to see It has been reported to the to run the country himself for aling or convoying to British the holes and dôle on the non- for detailed examina- bar of sticks required. If that that the brakes were is ardar. Police by a Chinese passenger on while, he would find plenty of porta And, if it were the case that the the Kiyo Maru that between the sympathiser.

tion, and argues that proof of the were not done, the stealing would The Gallant 650,000. hostile "destination of the cargo go on for ever and a day, brakes were defective, the wonder 22nd and the 24th, while in Moji

not harbour or at yes, some person As for these six hundred and mast be evidenced at the time of charged, not in place of the pristale from his boxes in the cabin fifty thousand nice young men the searchment on the sea. The soner, but along with him. The $2,500 in money.

who are willing to loaf at home presumption of guilt cannot rest case was brought not only to secure Very Strong Monsoon Reported in safety while other men are with neutral shippers, but the the punishment of the guilty, The sa. Glenfallock, which has fi hting. for them what sort | burden of proof must be imposed bat also

they going on any belligerent interfering 20 object amived in port to-day from Singa- of soldiers are

maka" whe ** lesson to track coolies that they pore, having taken nire daya to to

measure therewith should exercise a larger measure do the run, reports that she en of compulsion" is applied to them? of care when on the streets. The countered very strong monsoons We Britishers know that they are public does not require to be told from Singapore to the Paracels not fair specimens, by which to that the atmost carelessness and with very bigh seas, From thence judge; but the enemy and the recklessness are displayed by to Eoogtoog it gradually get sentral nations, and perhaps some these coolise; we have had ample finer. evidence of thakin the past. And our only fear is that, after the leniant view taken by the jury in the Hongkong Hotel, has reported hertiem of our men in the trenches follows this tragic case, the dangers will to the police that between the is being liberally discounted by increase rather than diminish in 22nd ult, and the 29th inst. some the story of these hundreds of the future.

BLISS-On December 23, 1915, at the General Hospital, Shang- is that the hai, Venetia May, the beloved wife of Leonard Eliss.

The Hongkong Telegraph

BONGKONG, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1915.

**OH, WHAT A FALLING OFF WAS THERE!”

On the Trail.

B3

passier

Rifled Luggage.

of our alles, do not know this; ard

LANGKAT OUTPUT.

Mesara. Wright and Hornby we have the immense satisfaction advise us that the Langkat output Mr. F. K. Keith, & visitar staf feeling that the magnificent for the current mouth is

A Dangerous Practice.

Calendars.

Dec

1

2

Tona 152

150-

138

149

147

INDIAN CONSTABLE, CHARGED.

A Serious Allegation«! Indian Constable. B630- charged before Mr. Hazeland, st the Police Court this morning, with misconduct while on day

In asking for a remiod for%2 that the complainants reported week, Inspector: O'Sollitag: zame

that on the 25th instant they were walking along Lyttleton Road to wards Babbington. Path when the constable stopped them and asked. where they weregoing. Theyrepli- ed that they were going for a walk, and the constable ssid they could not walk there, but must go. to the station with him. They sccompanied him part of the way, when the constable said that it. they came before the magistrats. the man would be fined $20 and| the lady 810, but he would lat them go

if they gave him $10. Thus, the man did, basistar z6- ported the matter to the Police,

138

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10

148

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168

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16

143

17

146

18

144

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145

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142 138

128

125

130.

151

The remand was granted,

142

being allowed in the sum of

AN IMPUDENT-

29

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n

when the CS.P. decided to charge

the constable.

Inspector O'Sullirsa end it www impossible to go on with the case now, as the lady had gone away into the country sad would not be back, until sometime next week.

person stole from his luggage thousands of young men at Home either during the journey from who are afraid to fight. There Nagasaki to Hongkong or as the has never been a more galling A newly arrived Home paper gives some somewhat startling

T.K. K.'s Godown at West Point, moment in the history of the Szares in connection with the Daily Med's circulation, which show that, in the course of the five months May to September, that circula- We made reference the other tortoiseshell toilet set and ciga- Empire. Moraliste may tell us that it is good that some of the tion fell from 1,227,504 copies a day to 1069,359-a drop of over day in this column to the esse with rette care value $280.

conceit should be taken out of or, 158.000. The same paper inforins us that the Daily News, which which Chiness obtain possession

At the Marine Court, this morn- and doubtless they would be may be regarded se, in all respects, the opposition paper, contrived to of dangerous explosives such as raise its daily sales during the same period from 680,032 to 800,000. dynamite. Yesterday s case came ing Commander Beckwith, in the right; but it is a bitter pill for us Vader ordinary circumstances there might be little in these com- before the Bench which threw some case of three Chinese who ware of an older generation to swallow. parative statements to interest readers whose life and basinses are light on the subject. The leakage, charged with boarding a vessel The Radicals, grand motherly bound up with the Far East; but it happens that, in this particular judging from the facts brought while she was under way, said legislators, peace zazzisce, bu that this was a revival of amanitarians, trade-unionista and case, the whole point of the matter turns on the war and the attitude out in this instance, occurs dangerons practice which he had anti-this-that-and-the- other taken thereon by certain sections of the prees.

in connection with blasting operations, the men whose duty it thought he had put a stop to in cranks ought to be proud of their When, some les months ago, Reuter stated that the North is to fill the holes being in the the Colony. The defendants would work. Everyone with any sease cliffiac press had gained an undesirable notoriety by Tilifying Earl habit of smuggling as many sticks be sent to prison for two months. always knew what was bound, to

Opium Possession.

happen (if ever the Empire was de Kitchener, we made bold to suggest that the effect of such a of dynamite as they can gain

À quaitermaster on board the faced with a big war) as a result of policy wooll declare itself before very long in the sales of those possession of. If the master were Japanese boat Zigo Maru at Tana generation of crank teaching. papers that followed it. At the time, it will be remembered, Buck probed into, it would most likely mati was charged, before Mr Exchange men in London showed what they felt in the matter by be found that there men sa Eazeland this morning, with the people who could find time to It was only to be supposed that publicly burning the Daily Mail. Lord Northelife is known to c quite a business with the be one of the cleverest exponents i the fize art of advertising in explosives which they are able unlawful possession of 7h taels of linen to and to encourage, every CHEZO from anti-vivisection to irretrievable--mistake. His special genins lay in seeing what this way. Be that as the defendant, who admitted the in schools, to anti capital punish- the world, but for arce he has made an enormous perhape an to get into their hands in opium, vained $60. The informa

tion was laid by F. S Grant, and suffragism and from anti-flogging very large proportion of the public wanted, and giving it to them; we quite appreciate the difficulty charge, was fined $200, or two ment-everything, in fact, that which perhape, is but another way of saying that he was shrewd of getting at the root of the

would rub the rising generation encash to turn the people's amiable weaknesses against themselver, matter, and we can only add that months bard labour.

of its accessary animalism and With the poor system of education that obtains there, England is es the police are to be commended

We Lave to acknowledge the moral viscera-would hardly sentially the home of the small-minded; of those who love the super-for having got so far on the right firial and the obvious; and the Harmeworth ability to supply both in track in their endeavours to receipt of extremely dainty prod are soldiers; but, what has calendars from Mesars W. G. happened is even worse than

A Trick Which "Did Not✩W» Tast quantities has never been denied. To exploit small-mindedness prevent these dangerous sub-

oDe azticipated.

Before Mr. Hazeland, at is a fre thing while it lasta; but Britain, of late, has been passing stances from getting into the amphreys and Co. (the State

Assurance Co.) the Vacuum 01) The Russians and Varaa

Police Court & Chinese was chi through a period of its existence which left it bat little leisure or hands of those who could be

Co., Messrs. Lozley and Co. Let us hope that the statement

ed with stealing a bag and- 2t for Daily Mail journalism; and when, to the known abaurdities depended upon to use them for

("Izal"), Messrs. Shewan, Tomes about the bombardment of Varna of that periodical, wholesale libela of the greatest soldier of modern their own dastardly purposes.

and Co. (the Hongkong Rope is a true one. A week ago we

contents, vained $17L times were added, is it sny wonder that the public cried: "Hold;

The facts as stated by Insp Manufacturing Co.), and a neat were told that this port had been 93.ugh!"?

little pocket diary from Messrs. practically blown off the earth Court, this morning, before Mr. tor Macdonald, were Dodwell and Co., the local agents and that the Russians had landed Wood, in which it transpired that complainant intended 016 men's loss is usually another's gain, and even those who

of the Phœrix Assurance Co. there. A few days later Benter a Chinese, representing to be Taipo by train and dissent most strongly from the past policy of the Daily News will not

informed as that there was DO employed at the Gas Works, went his brother at the grudge it itë res in life at the expense of its adversary. It is true

A Chinees was charged this oth in the statement that our into a shop in Gough Street armed Wharf. He wen that, when war first brake out, our Radical friend was publishing

morning, before Mr. Wood, with allies had effected a landing, with a large pair of pincers and leaving his huge "Stop-the-War" advertisements; but it speedily saw the error It has since transpired tht the attempting to steal a wallet con- Now, we learn that Varna has began to remove some gas pipes complainant of its ways and is, at the present moment, lese near to being objection- two jolly tars who taade a tour taining $320 from the Secretary been again bombarded." Is

and unscrew the connections. the bag by sule from a political point of view than it has ever been before. of the hotels and other places, on of a Chinese firm in Wing Lo contradiction to follow? Seeing and took ibe, man to the policed with the

The shopkeeper became muspicions dant came up Paluckily when the Daily News became a halfpenny paper it speedily Christmas Day, where the made Street. The complainant stated how very obvious a thing it was began to loas its old journalistic value. It was always rahid, more a collection for the Soldiers' and that the wallet was in bin, breast the Russians should attack station where he admitted that he dirt on his ar less, even as a penny publication, but its reporte, criticisms and Sailors Cigarette Fund, were pocket and suddenly he felt a Bulgaria on her Black Sea cuast, was an employed blacksmith round literary articles were many miles aheed of anything that the halfpenny Mears, MeMillan and Head, hand there. He seized hold of one would have thought that at

A representative of the Gas picked papers, no matter what their politics, have ever been able to give and they were successful in col the hand and Ister gave the pri- least some ontline of her reasons Company stated that theft of Bo us. Will it make use of its new popularity to try and feel its way lecting the ceedingly nice little soner over to the district watch-for refestning therefrom would this kind were getting very come back to its old influential days the days of James Fayn or of B. W. sum of $37.32, which amount man. There was a previous con-havo boss sirao us. It is simoet mon of late, Indy and "07 Feople would pat ap with its politics if it would set will be forwarded to the Secs viction against the man and he time that some steps were taken Mr. Wood sentenced the pri out to gave the be to the generally accepted belief at Home that it is, tary of the pumpal Fond in das was sent to prison for six months to remedy the disman of the toner to three zim possible talizma” a halfpenny paper that thall containnojournalism content.

TWO JOLLY TARS.

€ Pick Pocket Caught

with hard labour

Balkın campsión.

166 148

Total to 29th inst. 4,100.

Delly avange

A BOLD THIEF.

Posed as the Gas-man,

A case was heard at the Police

labour.