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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1948,

OLD BROWN BRANDY

THE

PEG O`MY HEART

The Food Prices.

A correspondent, in the course of a letter which we published an

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DAY BY DAY

NOTES ON THE CRISIS FA YEAR AGO ~ TO-DAY.

COMING EVENTS

CAST THEIR

AUSTRIA'S PRAISEWORTHY

ANXIETY.

LEADING EVENTS IN THE GREAT WAR-

Saturday, pointedly enquired, for SHADOWS BEFORE-Scott the guidance of the public, which Isnt of prices is correct that con- tained in the official Market List,. or that enforced by the dealers in fine. the market. Presumably thể former charges, since they are fine. officially fired, are the correct ones, but everybody knows that

they

iately

The Werther.

(1915. 59 fixe). At the Peak Sam:Temp. 47;

Lower level Sam. Temp. 66;

(1915, 65 fire).

Franch

The Malls.

to-day

at 4 pm. per za Athos.

The Dollar.

The rate of the dollar desed to-day is 111, 5/16.

ignored by the Chinese seller. Siberian Mail-Closes to-morrow In the early days of the per a Sinking.

Mail-Closed war not only was the hat periodi cally revised but quits a number af prosecutions were undertaken by the Food Committee in in- stances where over-charging was practised. Now neither one step nor the other is takas. Heuss- holders are being fleeced with impunity; yet the official eye in To-morrow is the 67th anniver- turned from the compradors. Not sary of the battle between the only so, but no assistance is given Sikhs and the British at Chillian the buyer to take matters into his wallah....... or her own hands, since the

To-morrow's Anniversary.

East West and South-

Bestrasts from the wat neer com tained in the **Hongkong Tdegraph" of January 12, 1925.

Patile Attacks in Poland.

ALLEGED UNLAWFUL

SOCIETY.

Magistrate Asked, to Stata a Cess.

The esse in which several Chinese are charged with belong- ing to an unregistered Society was again before Mr. J. B. Wood, The Germans, night and day, at the Police Court this morning, attempted to xitack our first line

Mr. G. N. Orms again appearad on the left bank of the Fistula, to prosecute, and defendants were but were repulsed. The Germans represented by Mr. Oto Kang attacked and resched our entan- Sing, Mr. A. M. Preston, and M. glements eastward of Skairnevics. J. H. Gardiner,

Mr. Orme called evidence to

pour-

There are signs of increasing both sides in the motivity on various fields. There seems no kungar say doubt that Russis scored enormously in the recant battle round about Casinowitz, and the subsequent comparative silence of the majority of the enemy's forces in thas direction on may be taken as an indication of They began shouting "Don't fre

how badly he has been manled. In on your own men,” but the Ras show that the Socisty was not the West British and French mee- Įsians were not deceived and registered... sages contar su to the violence offed a murderous fire on the at- This closed the case for the the fighting. The German offen-tackers and then counter-attacked prosecution.

Mr. Otto Kong Sing submitted Live, ench as it was, has again driving the Germans back with been a complete failure and seems great lossee. We maintained con- that there was no evidence to lead to have ended like its predeces-trot with the enemy in Galicia, his Worship to assume that this sors, in a senseless and objectless Mr. Bryan on Britain's Reply

was a Society, company, club, a prices set out in the official The ax Phranang, which arri-scrifice of German lives by Ger

Mr. W. J. Bryan, Secretary of partnership.or sssociation, within Bow-State; says he desiree to postpone the meaning of the Ordinance, Soo- list are never revised and are.ined from Bangkok to-day, reports man military authorities. consequence of no use whatever, having encountered strong head ever, if Germany is satisfied to car comment upon Sir Edward Grey tion provided that there should be ry on operations upon those Enea, reply until the fall documents are at least 10 persons concerned be we certainly ought not to grumble. received. High government fore it could be assumed that z A. S. WATSON & CO. LTD., We had dim ides that there wind and ses

was a Food Committes appointed | in the early days of the war. Is it

Messrs. Thoresen and Co. send The Montenegrin communiques officials, however, regard the tone Society existed.

His Worship bere called for the still in existenc? If so, it might as a useful office block-calendar suggest that those who compile as entirely friendly, and believa display some evidence of the fact issued by the Norwegian Africa them are infected by the popular that the discussions in the future rent receipts, which showed that tandency to minimias difficulties will be carried on in the same the premises were rented by one Very soon, March 12, 1918, will and Australia Live.

and set-backs. The Montenegrina vain. The controversy will now löf the defendants, - be here then the present list will be exactly one year old.

Mr. Otto Kong Sing rephed have fought desperately and have resolve itself into, cot so much a heavily punished their opponents matter of principle, as the actual that it could not be proved that -but they have been obliged to necessities of the cam. They sug- the persons who rented the pres withdraw to one place and to gest, regarding copper that Great misas comprised a Society unlean abandon others!

Britain might make more effec- there were 10 or more people con- contigonus to the belligerents. tive arrangement with neutrals cerned. Nothing had been given în evidence to prove that a Society existed.

HONGKONG.

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

the truth and print the news without fear or favour.

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A Sound Suggestion.

p.m.

Voyage Report.

Calendar.

To-morrow's Parades.

At Home.

Volunteer Reserve. Becruits pa the Cricket Ground at 515]

Volunteers-No. 2 Section st On the presentation of the re- Headquarters at 5.15 p.m. Sig sults of a quarter's examinations nalling Section at Headquarters. Affairs in Parliament cannot be made under the Sale of Food and 7 sm and 5.15 p.m. Recruits of

said to have got."much foftarder”. Turkish Transports Sank Drugs Ordinance, at rester all units at Headquarters, 5.15 The Bill is still being "discussed" On January 2nd a large Turkish His Worship raid he thought day's meeting of the Sanitary p.m.

and apparently the trade unionists transport was sunk by striking a be must decide that » Clab did Board, a good point was made by: Police Reserve No. 3 Co., at are still solemnly debating as to mine at the entrance to the exist Dr. Fitzwillisis. The custom 5.30 p.m.

whether or no they shall silow Bosphorus, and another transport Mr. Otto Kong SingWe must followed is merely to circulate a

Burglar Sentenced. the King and his Ministers was sunk on the 5th between ask you to state a case, if you Before atatement giving the number of

Mr Hazeland, this

ta govern the Empire. A sub- Sinops and Trebizand. An official decide that. He asked, how his acalyses made and indicating morning, a Chinese wasar-stitute has been found at the message from Constanticople re-worship could assume that a Club how many samples were found to raigned on a charge of burglary Home Office for Sir John Simon ports that Russian warships bom existed when it had never been be genuine and how many adalat 14, Arthur Street, Yaamat, in the person of Mr. Herbert barded Sinope and sunk all the prored. There had been abso- terated. Dr. Fitzwilliams urges having stolen/various__ articles Sampel another Radical and vesels in the harbour..

lutely no proof of it. The one that in these cases the name off valued about $3. Detective essentially one of a school. It is German Airmen at Dunkirk. fact that the men used the the vendor should appear in the Sergeant Wills prosecuted and with far more satisfaction that A Gozen German aviators premises

not evidence report, and, unless he can free the defendant was sentenced to shear of Sir George Reid's return visited the town of Dunkirk and that a club cxisted. himself from ail blame, that one month's hard labour.

to Parliament unopposed. It is the neighbouring communes ou His Worship:-I am not pre- his name should be published "A Disbelieved Story.

pity that a few more men of his Sonday. They dropped some 30 pared to take your view of the in the Prese 8.3 widely as Charged with stealing a red calibre cannot be run into the bombs, but, owing to the preca-case at the present stage. possible."

In cases which comel jersey coat and 's pair of trousers House jues now; grit and back- tions taken, the casualties were Mr. Gardiner : Will your into Court, the names are, of from off bamboo pole at 172. bare such as his were never few and the damage done was pot Worship state a case 2 course, always made public by Temple Street, a Chinese youth, more needed the at this mo- very important. the newspapers, but we imagine before Mr. Hazeland this morning. ment, We are glad, too, to Enemy Aeroplanes over the there are instances in which declared that the clothing was learn that the nation's time is By the side of the events that are taking place in the Europeanadulteration is detected, and, his, in epita of the fact that the war theatres, any happening in China, however important it might, seem in normal times, must needs seem trifling to the British mind. perhaps because the adulteration complainant swore it was bis. He Eren the Chinese themselves, so far as Hongkong is concerned, are not serious or harmful, in which was sent to prison for one month

Ball Estreated. more cager for news of the great war than for anything their own journ.no action is taken. All the same, since the quality of the article of

Before Commander C.W. Beck-

HONGKONG. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1916.

A PERTURBED CHINA

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Channel.

Sirisen German aeroplanes not to be wasted in fruitless discussion of the Dardanelles were seen over the Channel yes disaster. All the talk cannot terday morning, evidently intend- ando what is done. To our waying to raid England, but owing remarks about "the imperishable turned towards Dunkirk,

"A Good Bit Longer.” place in our history" could well have been dispensed with. Us- Mrs. Parker, sister of Earl Kit chener, opening the Soldiers'

Mr. Otto Koog Sing said that be would like his Worship to give his decision on that point,

His Worship: If you will call your evidence, I can then decide. Mr. Otto Kong Sing:-I don't think that you ought to suggest

I only want you to gives decision consider these men are members on the point now – whether you

of a socisty which ought to be

als can or cannot tell them as to political disturbances in their ow diet is affected, the public should | with, R.N., at the Marine Court/of thinking, even Mr. Asquith to the weather conditions they we should call certain evidence.

country. Certain sections of the Chineas pablic are interested, and certain sections of the European, as must necessarily be the case at the fact. The conversa this morning, P.C. Brotherton say time when political treables thresten even a small portion of should hold good also, of course charged Li Chan-shing, bostman,

the.commercial wellbeing of a commu.it; bat there, practically Insmely, that when an examing-† with unlawfully failing to licensedoubtedly the retirement was COD- Wives' Clab, London, «id that registered and is not. When we the maiter ads so far as this Colony is concerned. As to how far tion reveals the genuineness of his boat in the Harbour on the ducted with an paralleled coolness from what she could gather from know what course to purane.. that commercial wellbeing is liable to be affected by any vents/ the article the vendor should be 10th inst. Defendant having failed and judgment, but we are to her brother in occasional chats, will your Worship decida that that may take place in China in the moderately near fatare, it is entitled to the advertisement to appear, the bail of $10 was rably certain that the brave only possible to deduce roughly from what happened during the which such a report constitutes. winter of 1911-12 and again during July and August of 1913. While there was never any question of the lives of foreigners being ́in danger, a certain amount of looting or destruction of their pro-

perts occurred in some parts, and business was what is popularly

termed as a standstill; and that was all

Simpler Indictments,

estrested.

1

an old and useless one; and, if s warship is sunk, it is generally (in

ia the minds of some of our friends) a crazy old tab that wasn't

Austria's Latest.

SINCERE'S NEW PREMISES.

Yesterday's "At Home.

point?

His Worship—-As soon as you have closed your case, then I will give my decision.

Mr. Otto Kong Sing wid he mmit ask for a date to be fixed. for he could not commit his clients to any course till he had con“ sidered the matter, “

The case was again remanded until Monday next.

LEAVE TO APPEAL REFUSED.

Echo of the Perjury Case.

he thought the war would last a fellows concerned would far Alleged Forgery.

rather the Premier found some good bit longer and that more men A Chinese was brought before other sabject for his eloquence.

were needed. Mr. J. B. Wood this morning, Also, by the way, is it not almost simplify legal proceedings is most a promissory note for $300, the contemptuous terms of losses and Any messure which tends to charged wit forging a chop, on time that we stopped speaking in heartily to be welcomed. That property of the Shu Ka Company. is why we can look with favour on Mr. H. K. Woo, of Mr. Han abandonments? So sarely 25 a Probably the better or worse could happen in the event of the the Indictments Bill which has Brutton's cffice appeared to pro. gun is left behind, so surely is it present scares' developing into something actual Up till now, in spite of rumours, thrests and foreboding, nothing really worth Briefly expressed, this enactment day morning was granted.

A remand antil Satur. recently been before Parliament, secate. recording has taken place at all. There has been scrapping" is intended to simplify the forms Dock Employees Charged. Fone or two places in Kwangtung, a silly attempt has been made of indictment in criminal prosecu

seizing a gunboat near Bocca Tigris, and four (possibly more)tions for the double purpose of employed at the Hongkong and system to a logical conclusion w

A coolie and a › boiler-maker worth keeping. If we follow that customs stations have been raided by men who may or may not have rendering them more

Thousands of residents, Euro- any direct connection with those who are trying to bring about

readily Whampos Dock Company were shall soon be speaking of all the pean and Chinese, paid a visit of something in the shape of rebellion. It is well known that practic intelligible by those against charged before Hr. Hazeland, Britishers who are killed as more inspection to the Sincere. Com-

whom they Bre ally every province of China has its more or less well-organised (and others too, for that matter) rotary blower, vained $25 the only awaiting a merciful punti: gmises yesterday afternoon, when directed this morning, with stealing ore or less useless Crocks who were any's new and commodious pre- bands of briganda--bands that could not exist but for the past weRİC- ness and corruption of China's raling powers; and these naturally and, further, to effect economics property of the Dock Company at cut of the way.

the management was 'st home to Construct their programme of operations according to the strength justice. Those who are familiar Wednesday nett was ordered.

in the cost of administration of Yaumati. Aremand until

the general public. The band of for weakness of the Government at such and such a moment. There with the yards of parchment no-

The enemy, when not otherwise the 74th Panjabis, under. Band- fore it would seem to be waste of time to seek to know how far such rolled in the Assize Courts will

A Coming Attraction... onl employed, has certainly supplied master J. W. Christian, was în raids as those recently reported in our columns have any political know what a tremendour saving ilusionist has razed in the during the past year or so. One of the prettily arranged most De Villiers, the well-known as with a good deal of real comedy attendance, occupying a position bearing?

in words, labour, misunderstand- Colony with his portable theatre of the most amusing episodes in garden, from whence a really Behind it all is the doubtfully comforting refaction: is it any elected without loss to the off-a good reason, and hopes to open from Austris that Great Britain and the Colony generally can be Before be Fall Court at the

ing and cost can be legitimately from Haiphong, where he has had the war is this solemn request magnificent view of the harbour good for Britishers to protest (even though the lives of British sub ciecay of the courts and of justice on a site near the Kowloca Post will have a care how she allows obtained. The officials of the Supreme Court, this morning, icts in Chiness employ should be at stake) so long as no intentional to accused persons. damage is done to British property or interests? Our Government are goes through at Home, we with him an entirely new com to torpedo one of her own ships hospitality, and every facility was to appeal to the Privy Counc

If the mea- Office on Friday next. He has Austrian or German submarines Company were lavish in their Hing Hon Chiapplied for leave cannot force Chins to keep tight hold over her subjects. Sach hope Hongkong will quickly follow pany of entertainers, and those which is carrying Austrian women given the visitors to see over and, in the event of this Court hints as might be effective have doubtless long ago been given by the lead. For we are convinced who remember his visit some two and children. We are, moreover, the extensive and thoroughly up not having power to grant wach the Minister in Peking and by some of the consular authorities that the form of indictment now and a half years ago will look to be extra careial because these to date eetablishment. The new application, that bail may be Beyond that, China must go her own way and learn wisdom by ex-in are ia almost entirely meaning forward with delight to the oped women and children are mostly building is one of the finest, if granted pending an application to perience. Her past sufferings should have taught her that the two lean to the average juryman, to ing night. De Villiers has no better-class people" !! We are not the finest, store in the Colony, the Privy Council for leane to qualities which her rulers have usually meat lacked firmness and say nothing of the certain con- less than 71 tons of baggage irresistibly reminded of the lady and the Company's huge stock, appeal. Appellant was sentenced straight dealing are those most needed for the stamping out of the fusion it creates in the winds of with him tons of be elements that are threatening to disturb her peace and it is not too the generality of prisoners:

who esid: “God would never comprising almost everything to one year's imprisonment on Slate in the day for the Central Government to exercises those qualities,

An Exemplary Seotecce, andemu a per-on of my quality. that one can imagine, is so well November 15 last, arising out of Mr. Hazeland made an example We don't wish these Austrian ladies classified that one can rely on perjury in connection with a Afïsize, even in Yunnan, have, up to the present got little bayond the farcical; and a reasonable amount of determination would eatsh-

of a "snatcher" at the Police of the better class any harm, but, being able to do one's shopping parmetabip case. Court to-day when a man was were the Golconda torpedoed, it with the minimum of “time and

The Chief Justice, in delivering Burglary. ligh order there and would prevent say possible ecquetting between. ibat provines and those with which Hongkong interests are more Between 3 am and 6a.m. Tesought ap and charged with would be difficult to refrain from trouble. Yesterday, it is interest judgment, said that with regard bacerced-Kangtang and Kwangsi-with a view to any malicious terday, burglar enter the matching a gold ear-pick, valued suggesting that the event was sing to note, was the fifteenth to the ficat application, the opinion combination of forces. It was surely foreseen by Peking that men room of Mr. Morris, of Mear $15, from an old Chinese woman, judgment on a cowardly nation anniversary of the Sincere Com- of the Court was that they had appeal of the San Tan and Hwang Hsin type would lose no opportunity Bradley and Co., who resides at whilst she was walking in Des that permits the sabmarining of pany's commencement of business no power to great lesre of of making siters awkward for the Government; and, even though "Lauriston," 1, Bowen Road, and Voeux Road Central The man incffensive passenger ships. Mean in the Colony a coincidence on a criminal conviction, and, as it was not possible to keep the exiled leaders in check, chances have stole various articles, of the total was also charged with returning while, is not that "better-class" which was only discovered a few regarded the second, the court not been wanting to forestall any local-harra that they might do by value of £150. Az entrance of aile bad expired. He was the little thought that these business to-day, and, housed in rant bail. It was

fram banishment before his time a very significant admission of days since. The store opened to did not think they had their influence. If Tozu Shih-k'ai will abandon his “patting-off" affected through an open window. policy and act once and for all, we see no reason why the mach All the property has since been sentenced to 12 monthe hard would-be world conquerors have such magnificent premises, the eren probable that the

Fimprisonment would have, talked-of trouble" should not be persuaded to evaporate without recovered, with the exception of labour, 24 strckes with the birch, for the lives of their poorer continued success of the Company

and four hours, stocks. a clock vained at $38.

„before the appeal could be

more ado:

peopia.

Beetan 288xed.

ower to