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DAY-BY DAY

JANUARY

NO ACTION WHETHER FOUL OR FAIR.

H EVER DONE BUT IT LEAVES BOMAWENRE

LA RECORD-Longfellow.

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The Weather. At the Peak Sam. Temp. 52;

Lower level 8 am. Temp. 61;

The making of the Yaumati ferry launch on Saturday evening serves to being forward the whole question of the unseaworthiness) af many of the launches which regularly ply in the harbour. In this instance there was, happily, no loss of life, but that is due rather to a fortunate grouping of circumstances then to anything fine. else. While we know nothing of the state of the craft which went fine. down on this occasion--whether she was în trim condition or otherwise we do know that wa Siberian should not be over-anxious to trust ourselves on many boats Lof her kind which can be seen moving about the bar- These boats, many of them, have all ite appearances of just being able to hold them selves together, and we should imagine that there is only one plass for which they are suited the `arap-heap. Collisions, of coures, are liable to cause serious?

bour.

The Malls.

Mail Das per Nellore on Wednesday.

The Dollar.

The rate of the dollar demand to-day is 1/11. 5/16.

To-morrow's Anniversary.

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NOTES ON THE CRISIS (JOTTINGS BY THE WAY.[ST.

„ATTHUDE.

Air Activities.

Eyeglasses for Hockeys, sayas Globe heading-As though that were anything now!

annas? distribution prisse in connection with St. Joseph's College took place at the College Hall, on Saturday after The westernisation of Chinamon, His Lordship Bishop D. proceeds space. The enterprising Possoni presiding over a large individual whom Mr. Esseland gathering of parents and friends The principal points of the sent for six months' holiday for of the students. The Boy Scouts week-end wires are the air raids, collecting funds for a hospital were also in attendance, and sated Hr. Balloc's interesting figures in that doesn's exist was merely seguard of honour to His Lordship connection with German lossesying a dodge that has been worn the Bishop, who was accompanied

wards the wat. News as to the and the attitude of America to threadbare at Home.

by the Rev. Fr. Maria, Bev. Fr. Gabardi and several other of the French attack on Freiburg is less

clergy. definite than that concerning the on Tious comment on

German raid on Paris. The o

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To-morrow is the 41st anniver sary of the death of Sir Willa Sterndale Bennett, the musician.

Chinese Calendar.

Messrs. Batterfield and Swire have issued a most effective Chi- nese calendar advertising various

A. S. WATSON & CO. LTD., egg shell craft plying to sad from Insurance Companies for which

HONGKONG.

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The Undesirables.

Voyage Reports.

the Paris affair is that our

enemy is asking for additional trouble. For one sucessful sæsalt on

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"Dard Bursts in California," probably be some in Hong- azys yesterday's l'elegraph. Thare- kong during China New Year

week.

The Report.

The Director of the College Brother Aimer) read the follow- It was so like the Daily Mail to ing rapert:-ify Lord, Esv. Paris there must necessarily be chronicle the fact that the Kaiser Fathers, ladies and gentlemen. scares of failures, having in view kept using his handkerchief Before presenting to you the the distance of the French capital during a recent banquet. Or is report for the school year 1914-15, from the nearest German camp the fact specially mentioned as

bez leave to recall the great lows France, on the other hand, should indication that HLM. is at the College suffered in April 1914 she choose to be nasty, can quite laat adopting at least one of the in the death of my prodecessor, easily make things more than anusages of civilisation? Had the Brother Peter Chrysologus. Al comin:table for enemy territory paragraph related to his august though nearly two years have that, in many cases, lies immedian and beir the betting would slapsed sings trod called him a stely outside her own campe. It is have been that the handkerchief his eternal rest, his happy safely be relied upon to take pro- mere than probable that she can wasn't his own. per reprisals for anything the enemy may have achieved in

German Losses.

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memory is and will be GYER present thanks to the Scholarship That was nasty little dig at tsblished by the Old Boys our Post Office the other day, when to be awarded yearly to the sometne went up to the counter best boy in Class 3. The at- and asked for some Hongkong interrupted educational and as Jubilee stamps. In fact we think ademic successes of the College

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damage to any launch, even the newest and most well-built But we are afraid that some of the

the shores of the island would they are agents. scarcely stand a decent thrust

Export. Notification- with a walking stick. The quea A Gazette Extraordinary pub tion of licensing ruch boats as published on Saturday amends there, demands serious considera-the list of persons to whom ar- tion, or one of these days we may cles to be exported to Chins and Paris. expect to hear of a catastrophe Siam may be consigned. far more serious than that of

Mr. Belloc has done good ser- Saturday,

The 6.8. Shantung, from vice by his painstaking enquiry was rather rubbing it in. for for the past decade or so, are a Shanghai, reports strong monsoon into German iceses. It is easy to we have never known our P. O. powerful incentive for the present throughout the run The xxsee that he is not merely theoris- quite so much as twenty-five years staff to do all in their power to Taksang, from Haiphong and ing and that his reckoning of behind the times.

maintain its efficiency and good A couple of cases which came Hoihow, reporta light zorth-east three and a quarter million Ger-

name. Brother Cornelius went up at the Police Court on Satur-wind and fine but hazy weather man casualties up to two months

The drill instructor who said to on leave in June last year and is day served to illustrate the pre-

Company Meetings,

"Esch of you should still in Ireland. The staff com ago is founded upon very safe his men: To-morrow there are four local deduction. We hope it may be practise forming fours' by you-prises 12 Brothers, six Student sence in the Colony of the made- sirable Chinese element. In one Company meetings taking place. possible for his figures to reach self" has a vivid imagination. We teathers and two Veruscular of these that concerning the un-

That of the West Point Bailding the rank and file of the German would also recommand the solitary student

teachers. The re- lawful possession of a dagger-it Co. is at 11.30 am, the Central papalace, civil and military rehearsing of a Samese race or af gularity and punctuality of messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies delivered was shown that the defendant had Estate at 11.45 am, the Tand and, with the figures, the a pianoforte and trombare dust as the pupils have been remark their residences without any extra charge. Oz copies sent br had also been periodically deport Land Reclamation Co. at 1215 they have been arrived at, With for leisure hour

heen banished from Singapore, Investment Co. at noon, and the processes by means of which a light and profitable recreation ably god except on very wet days. post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage.

We have on roll 105 boya in the The postage on the weakly isane to any part of the world is $1.00ed from this Colong, had return p

Higher Classes, 200 in the Middle ed here, had become mixed up French Admiral Honoured.

One never realises how really Cla ses and 240 in the Lower with a murder, and now had given the police farther trouble sastance in the outer sese is enemy should be so frantically can get till ose reads in the New was 498.

A reminder of French naval difficult to understand why our hard up for a subject a journalist Classes. The monthly attendance by attempting to escape from casaforded by the honour to Bear-anging the Austrians, Balgarians York Ouleak an article beaded been an increase of 50 per cent, in tody. He was fined the nice little Admiral Huguet, whose fiag aand Turks to do her fighting for "Education in Turkey." We the attendance of the higher sum of two hundred dollars and we admiral commanding the Eastern her. The question is, can she should imagine there's rather a classes, so that in point of nam presume that he will once again Squadron flies in the Montcalm have many of her original army boom in that kind of for jest now here, the College has now reached be kicked out of the Colony, only He has received the C.M.G. left? By 1915 abe was to have

normal conditions. It is not min- Beater advises us that the likely that this rise will be still Two, father matches in the bad, according to her own stobartage of paper at Home will more marked next year and that

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HONGKONG, MONDAY, JANUARY 31 1916.

A LESSON FROM THE WAR.

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to return whenever he is able to

Insufficiently Paulshed.

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Bullard Handicap.

Chinese Geese at Home.

three and a quarter million men put out of action it is not

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LANGKAT OUTPUT.

Hearra. Wright and Hornby

The chief feature hsa

La June last year, cur 15 classes were inspected by Mr. Ralpha who reported the equipscent satis- factory the discipline good and the staff adequate. The outstand-?

English Schools states that the ing remark in his report con eers reading. The Inspector of main fault itself responsible for many minor faults is too rapid reading. Throughout the School more deliberate reading should be insisted upon. We are thank- fal to Mr. Ralphs for his criticisms. and

suggestions which shall

find his way back The other Palace Hotel (Kowloon) Billiard of five and a half million men mean a reduction in the size of we shall be obliged to duplicate

somewhere in the neighbourhood case was not so serions, bu; it was sufficient to indicate the growing Handicap are in be played off to ready. But that number would some of the newspapers. Well, it Class 3-a step which would disregard in which a certain class night, each of 250 up. At & have to incinde Landstorm and was time the public got some necessitate the closing of Claas of Chicees hold the law. Because 93) will meet Mr. Townsend (owe ed,

o'clock. Laspector Gerrard (owe Landwehr, the

little advantage out of the waL. superannuat

8. This proves that the papils he was arrested for causing an

and the

and young

realise the necessity of making abetraction, defendant struck a

80), while s: 9:30 p.m. Detective ill-trained. We say "ill-trained"

The North China Daily Mail the beat of local facilities for European constable several blows, Sergt. Wills (owe 50) plays M. advisedly. kicked bis feet from under him,

A nation that has 87 23: A Tintin consumer education before taking up ap- Barn (owes 80).

relied for so long on conscription monthly says there is a great fessional houses here and abroad. of a large quantity of batterpointments in mercantile and pro- and prevented the constable from

cannot do what Britain has done: blowing bis whistle.

Home market report states take untrained men away from difficulty just now in any quantity. Six additional class-200m3 ats This was that geese were fewer in number the counter, the workshop, the not the firs: time he had assaulted his Christmas, bús the market desk and the plough, or from be content to consume lesa.

"He should carb his appetite and badly needed not with a view of & European policeman, and it waa Apart from the effect which it is having on the temper of the stated that he had been in gaol was unexpectedly reinforced by school and college, and convert

providing for iocressed numbers British people, sobering their outlook on life and causing them to

bat for the accommodation of on several occasions.

large consignment of Chinese them, in the course of a few

We find that a paragraph in a classes held in rooms which are look facts squarely in the face, there can be no doubt that the war

birda. They came over in cold months, into pukka fighting men, coast paper, headed The Swing not muitable for school work and is teaching us many very valuable lessons in the political and econo- mic spheres. Opinions long and tenacionaly held are now being)

storage, and were selling fo: 11d. Such a thing is opposed to Gering Festival, merely relates to a which were originally reserved for per lb.quite a good price con-many's traditions, which demand religious ceremony. We had be the Teachers and the Boarders. thrown into the melting pot. Orthodoxy in politics is no longer What made this later case all sidering that English birds could that each man should undergo a gun to fear, in view of modern Plans for an extension of the accounted the right thing. A new order of affairs and a new con- the worse was that the defendant be bought for L. and Is. id. per long and slow training Well journalistic developments, that existing small building along ception of theories are being evolved, suited to the abnormal times had previously been a member of Ib. prevailing, and out of these there must spring into existence devel- the Police Force and therefore he

may Mr. Lloyd George say that, the heading might be a breezy and Robinson Road are under con To-night's Concert. opments which will bring in their train grest and lasting adrant must have been well-acquainted Mr. Denman Fuller's piano re Our readers are reminded of

while we are growing stronger suggestive introduction to sa se sideration. ages to the nation, industrially, politically, morally and socially,

and more war-worthy every day, count of an execation. We made reference the order day to the revision of Colony. Taking all the facts into

with the ordinary laws of the cital which takes place this even

our adversary is growing weaker. political beliefs which

the war

America and the War. laying emphasis on the general approval which has been given he got off with an absurdly light Sonata in B flat minor, and Me in itself, i quite an excellent one

is producing, especially account, we cannot but think that in at 9.15 pm. in the City Hall.

Mr. Robert Lansing's formula, The programme includes Chopin's to the decision to tax imports a decision which, at any other time punishment when he was marely H. Muriel will sing songs in theory and, were we dealing than the present, would have aroused the bittereat opposition. The fined $25 for the assault A from Somervell's setünz of Tenny- motives at the back of this resolve were to check the consumption Chinese who takes it upon him-son's Mand," with Mr. Norman say that it was designed most advise us that the Langkat ont-

with a civilirei en by one could The matter has now been taken a stage further, and our politician beavy sentence of imprison been announced, the proceeds are of acnecessary luxuries, or, alternatively, to yield fresh revenue self to stack 2 European, deserves Peterkin at the piano. As has sply to offer complete protection pas for the current month is as have come to see that by an extension of the same principle it ismert, and when that European entirely in aid of War Charities. 583. But how comes it that Mr. January 1

in fatare to non-combatanta st follows- pcasible to foster industries concerning which in the past we have happens to be a police constable. No more tickets are now available. been content to depend on foreigo help. Indeed, we have been quite the

Lansing does not allow for the punishment should be

Bot dealing willing in some instances utterly to neglect specific industries, giving correspondingly heavier, for the Damping Rubbish in the Harbour fact that WO cur foreign rivals an open field which they might exploit to guardians of the law must be prisonment, was in cled in the contrary, with one who has A fine of $10, or 14 days im-with a civilised foe, bat, on their hearts' content. The disinterested observer might, perhaps, protected at all costs.If the case of a woman charged before frankly told the world that trea wonder that Britain should have been content to rub along in Chinese are allowed to run away Hazeland, at the Police Court ties are but scraps of raper and this impolitic, haphazard way, but it is the same with nations as withwith the idea that they can for this morning, with damping rainsulted and laughed individuals: so long as we can find others to discharge this function cibly resist our

has, time after time, decived and or that for as, the less inclined do we become to do things for our the execution of their duties, and Sallivan remarked that the Police Americans themselves?

polics in bish in the Harbour. Inspector selves.. And we know that in the case of those industries which only land themselves in for the had the almost difficulty in stop considerations would Britain bas unhappily neglected there have been nations not only payment of a relatively light fine, oing the practise. The woman make the proposed formula mere willing, but eager, to step into the breach. It would appear now, there will be a sorry time ahead was paid for collecting the rubate labour. however, that we are beginning to realise the sheer folly of our past for Hongkong. The only consoling hish from houses, and then to get fun's speech is much more to President Wil- attitude in this regard. The war is driving common-sense into the feature about the case is that the rid of it quickly she dumped it the point, Whether he has in 15 heads of our politicians, though the process is tediously slow. constable appears to have admin-in the Harbour.

The latest decision of the Government is to add to the list of istered a considerable degree of

view the near approach of the non-essential goods the imports of which are to be prohibited. The physical punishment on the resia The amalgamation of the pressure has been brougt to beзr next presidential election, whether new probibitions will include paper-making materials, building mater during the struggle. May be, Manuf.cturers Life Insurance Co. upon him by his colleagues in terials, forniture woods, etc. The primary idea is according to Mr. his Worship took that into and the San Life Assuranes Co. the Government or by financiers Ranciman's statement, to economise shipping. But it is clear that account. We hope he did, anyhow. of Canada, which was at one time outside is an affair of our. The other ends will be served also, not the least important of these being the stimulus which will be given to home production. That this point is also kept in mind is evident from the fact that, co-incident with the stopping of foreign supplies of paper making materials, there is to be a prohibition of the export of rags and waste paper. Beview-j ing the whole question, the fact is that there are a thousand and Fair Play remarks that Italy's being a recognition by the that the need for preparedness was one articles which we might easily produce, regarding which we have seizure of German vessels in her Goverment of the excellent not pressing, Waabington jour conceded's monopoly to outsiders. If our fiscal system were only porta brings the total number of what it should be, there is no reason on earth why we should depend vessels seired by the Allies of the financial position of the Company, Lalisa see in all this a direct hint on foreign countries for paper, building materials, furniture and what Hamburg-American, Norddata which continues its progressive in fact a final mingto not else, ne we have hitherto. If that point is being driven home to cher Lloyd, Hares, Deutsche the best in the Company's hist

career. The past your bag. Count von Bernstorf as to the Our politicians, as seems to be the esse, it will be by no rosas one of Australische lines to 305, with an The local agents are the least valuable lessons which the war has taught us as a nation. aggregate tonnage of 542,583.

German Tonnage in Allled Hands.-

Insurance News.

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mented, has not received the ap central point of the whole thing proval of the Canadian Govern is that Dr. Wilson, if correctly re ment. The decision is highly ported, has had the courage complimentary to the Manu- publicly to "take back" his recent facturers Life Insurance Co. statement to Congress to the effect

Bradley and Cori

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be turned to good account. Sixteen per cent of the scholars failed in "

the promotion examination held by me in July and were detained in the same class, i

To encourage emilation and to secure progress, weekly taste in two or three subj: cts are given by the teachers and noted in the papil's weekly report. Three times a year the pupila sre examin- ed on every subject and the IS- sults published with the term Ise port for the information of the parents. I am glad to state that nearly all are ruscinal in the in- spection of their children's wes

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Lanitam May it not also be a

infimation to the byphenat