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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8. 1916.

DAY BY DAY.

NOTES ON THE CRISIS

-PEAK SCHOOL.

"ALL WHO JOT WOULD WIN

MUST SHARE

HAPPINESS

The Weather.

After what has been one of the dallest saasons in the Colony's history, so far an amusements and concerned, it would seem that we WAS BORN A TWIN-Byru are to have quite a lot of enter- tainment provided next month. It is announced that the Amateur Dramatic Club is to stage the well-known play, “The Angel in the House, and that the Band- fog. man Opers Company, at present dall Jan tour in the East, is shortly to favour us with a visit. The

At the Peak Sam. Temp. 54;

(1915, 65 heary fog.) Lower level Sam. Temp. 6;

(1915, 72 fog.)

The Malls.

Siberian Mail Closed per &

Anhui a: 3 pm. to-day. Siberian Mail-Closes per

MOLDW.

news has no doubt been received with real pleasure, for it has long circa bean patent that some thing was needed to relieve the monotony which has weighed so heavily on most of us. We know that the war bsa been quoted as the cause of this dearth of plesa urable relaxation from the osres

The Dollar. of everyday life, and that it is

The rate of the dollar thought the proper thing, in some demand to day is 1L 3/8

circles, to forego such relaxation jat a îmê thên the Empire i

fighting for its vary existenda. Į But surely, on second thoughta,

Atlantique at 5 pm European Mail.-Due per

Atlantique to-morrow Negapatam)

To-morrow's Anniversary,

a

(via

Armed Robbery Remand. A Chinese, charged before Mr. Wood, at the Palics Court this morning, with an armed robbery at Ping Chat, on the 4th inst,

was remanded for a week:

Prize Distribution by Lady May.

HONGKONG TRAMWAY

COMPANY LIMITED.

THE ENEMY'S "MORALE.”

Those Commerce Destroyers.

The following is the approxi Yesterday's wiren were, for the

mate statement of Traffic Receipts The annual prise distribution for the week ending February greater part, imitatingly non- informative, and during the night in connection with the Pear 1916 Banter maintained almost com- School took place last evening, plete silence. We do not feel that when, despite the none too con we can work up a great deal of genial atmosphere in which the Thia Year excitement over the recent talk of Peak was enshreaded, there was Ch. New Year $15,982 $60,210 Germany's ommerce destroy-a good attendance of parents and Last Year....

47,894 sternally sick of the enemy's bated by Lady May, accompany Decreaser "Most of us have grown so friends. The prizes were distri-Lacrasse:

we may be forgiven if we turn a Among those also present ware boasting and empty "blur" that ing whom were the Misses May:

deaf ear to the ory of "Wollthe Bishop of Victoria (Dr.

Receipts Aggregata for week. Becsipts

for 5 waska

9,941 6,041 12,216

more mines we fally beliers, but of Schools), and Mrs. Main (besd-much more regularly, and few That Germany can and will sow Lander), Mr. E. Ealphs (Inspector ance mark the children, sitand

the ships of the Allies are mistress.)

The

Constant Harassing.”

have to be marked late. The best

on several

not idle, or likely to be so; and The scholars having contribut-months of attendance were Jana- they may be trusted to look welled several very excellent and ary, February, November, and 00 after their task of mine-sweeping, enjoyable items to the programme, December, when the numbers As to active attacks by German the annual report of the school present daily ranged between sucizce craft, these, in ninety-nine was read by Mr. Ralphs, this 30 and 35. In June, July, cases out of a hundred, are out off being as follows ******

and September the attendance To-marrow is the 78th anni- the question, and Germany knows The school has now been in fell so much that it must be admitted that, seversary of the birth of Field Marit as well as we. Eres her sub-existence two full years. Work cessions there were caly 13, 14, the strain of life has increased shal Sir Evelyn Wood.

marine assaults are becoming for the greater part of the second and 15 children present at moza- with the burdens of waz, there

fewer and farther between, partly year was carried on in temporary ing school. I should like to men- Correspondents are requested to observe rule which the should be given something which

through sheer fear, and partly premises at the Peak Hotel. Intion here that one papil, Anais because she has neither boats nar September, however, the per-Mer, has not been absent or names and addresses shall counteract the depressingis-

en nor torpedoes to any very manent building which had been late sines the opening of the flaences which are common to this

alarming extent. But doubtless prepared was completed. and the School, two time of anxiety. It will be remem

she still thinks, and will think to school moved into the new quarters example, years ago. Her bered that, when the war first

of regularity and the end, that t'e world is in at the end of the month. In all punctuality is one that we hope broke cat, at Home there wES & Hongking Telegraph" will wholesale lessening of the facili- The Australian Transport" pressed, whereas, in reality; the 6S papile have passed through all our scholars will try to ties for plessare, but that within Most probably the as. Aus-world is just bored, to tears by the school since it was opened two follow. Now that the school years ago. Many of these wers is housed in such pleasant quaz. s very short period the theatree tralian Transport, which has been her hollow ta1E

visitors making a short stay at tars it is to be hoped that parents were finding business better than exccessfully salved by the Hong-

Whampoa Dock Renter anggeats as a possible the Peak and who left the Colony will make an effort to send their The ace per quarter and per mensa, proportional Subscriptions ever before. The obvious ex- kong and

for any period less than one month will be charged as for aplanation was that people were Co., will be towed-from Formosa explanation of Germany's gather at the end of two or perhaps three shildren even in the hot season of

seeking to get away, for the time on or about the 10th inst, arriving together of her forces on the months. Of the 19 papils who the year.

Western front, her anxiety to were admitted on the first day *The Staff -This ́at first con- The daily issue is delivered free when the address is accessible to being, from the distracting and ing here some six days later.

A Candid Admission. make "more than a purely de- that the school was opened, 12 aisted of a Head-mistress and one messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies delivered at enervating infidences of war and their residences without any extra charge. On copies sent by all that is associated with war. *I was here & year ago, and do fensive reply to the constant are still attending. The number Assistsat Mistress. In the middle not recognise any Court," said harassing to which her troops of children amitted in 1915 was of February, however, owing to post an additional 31:80 per quarter in charged for postage.

& candid Chinese to Mr. Hazeland are being treated and which is 24, and the number who have left the difficulty of classifying The portage on the weekly issue to any part of the world is $1.00 Relaxation Necessary.

at the Police Court this morning affecting their morale. Yesterday the school is. 25. Of these latter, children raaging from 4 per quarter.

And it must be admitted that when charged with causing an some interesting examples of that 20 children have left the Colony to 12 Single Cope Daily, ten canta Weekly, twenty-five cents (for the desire for pleasure in no way obstruction in Eastern Street by harassing were cffered. Trenches altogether, the rest have either teachers, a third was appointed,

cah only)

indicated that the people did not leaving salt fish on the pavement were levelled, munition depots ved to another part of the Co and Misa Robean was moved, Adressements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a fixed realize the fall gravity of the Notwithstanding his atter dis- blown

reservoirs lasy or had to leave on account from Kowloon School to help up and gas period will be continued until countermanded.

sination. Normaat it be imagin- regard of the law, he was ordered destroyed some of the gas, by of illness

with the kindergarten wurk. (Payable in Advance.)

ed that they were seeking to es-to pay a fine of $5.

one of Fate's plessant little *The Headmistress went on After Hidrammer Miss Robson cape their responsibilities. The An Injunction to Walk Slowly." touches of satire, being

leave at the end of February, and was transfered to Victoria School fact they felt that, with a It was alleged by a Chinese, wafted into the enemy's Misa Stevenson came temporarily and Miss Rodger took her place relaxed and brightened mind, charged before Mr. Hazeland at camp. These incidents, 29 Assistant Mistress, Mise Skin at the Peak School they would be all the better fitted the Police Court this morning particularly when coupled with per taking charge of the school *On ons of his visits to the to perform those great services with hawking turnips in a pro- the destruction of yet more of in the meantime

School laat year, the LES. re- which have since been discharged hibited part of the Colony, that an their aircraft, can hardly help to

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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, FÉBRUARY 8, 1916-

THE WAR OFFICE AND THE RAIDS.

However impatient one may be inclined to wax at times at the ineffectual doings of the Govement at Home, one is bound to admit that the authorities have made out a tolerably good came for themselves in the statement from the War Office, concerning the

been kore

Traffic Trifles.

breaks

A Shopkeeper's Obstruction.

Highway Robbery.

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The Bulgarians.

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to the fall. No-one would say that Indias constable saw him walking put heart into our enemies. And, ties of clam.fication wers in in which certain children address- if Hongkong had enjoyed a down the street, and shouted by the way, Rentas adds that the great part evercome by the ad their elders, but this has in dermal sesson its power to help him, "Walk slowly." Then thew of desertions among them is appointment of a third teacher to great messare now been oor- the Empire would have been pre-constable went up to him and "appreciably increasing- belp with the babies and with rected. These are, without doubt, judicially affected. We are in-arrested him. A fine of $3 was would take more than that to kindergarten work generally such small faults to which sll clined to go further and say that imposed.

surprise us. And if the German The third classroom, which was young children are prone, but as if we had had normal facilities.

army can put up no better fight acquired by moving into the new they mark the difference between for pleasure, and if there had At the Police Coart. this than this when it is being quarters, is proving a great boon, a well-mannered child and a bad- in the morning, before Mr. Hazeland, a systematically bolstered up with as it enables the babies and very mannered one, every effort will be monotony of life, the minds and Chinese shopkeeper was fined $10 lying stories of successed at a young children whose occupations made in the new year upon which anticok of many people would for causing an obstraction in the sad in other parts of the field, are moxe in the nature of play to we have now entered to correct have been far more optimistic, street with some goods, including what kind of resalta is it going to be kept separate from children in these faults.

the present time,

thea basket of salt. Defendant denied achieve when it learns the is of a more serious kind. There staff and the children wish to the transition class whose work "Before closing this report, the amusement houses at Home that the salt was his, saying that harsh and unclothed truth? latest air raid, which we pablished on Sunday. Even Reuter's digest fare enjoying very Iarge a coolie had left it there and he

are only two pupils in the school thank Lady May for coming to of that statement shows that the analytical part of it has been carried

One feels inclined to begin the who are doing work above Form the School to-day to distribute the cut with care, and, as it is not the habit of sny British Government, parage. It is only in the pro-was not responsible for the

next Note in the style of G. P. R., so that even in the highest prizas, sad they with also to ex- however weak or an practical, to publish deliberate lies, we are bound order of things that that obstruction.

should be so. With serious work to accept what we are told as truth. If Germany hoped to inflict in hand, man needs a mind which

James or Harrison Ainsworth: alasses the work is of necessity press to her their deep apprecia wholesale slanghter and serious material damage by thess raids, it is in a fit state to accomplish it, Peak, has reported to the Police the Bulgarians?"

An aman living at 506, The "But where, all this time, were still of a very elementary tion for all the interest which she is clear that disappointment is to be her portion for, after 29 of and not one which I as been dall-that yesterday she was returning cartainly almost allowed us to and

Renier has character. Nature study, French has shown in the ashool in the two.

singing 220 tanght, such unwelcome visite, the full death-roll is but 266, and only 17ed into inertia by a never-broken from a school with her master's forget them, but now they are but by far the greater part of the

| years that it has been in existence. * Prize List. of that number were soldiers, while 90 were women and 43 children. circle of morbid circumstances son, when she was stopped by ance more brought into promin- time has to be devoted to reading, Lady May, then distributed the Seeing that, as the Report points out, twelve hundred persons

a Chinese, who asked her where ence. Yesterday we learned that writing and number, subjects in prizes, the acholars receivi perished in the sinking of the Lasitania alone, Germany's score" iz

Nos. 11 and 12 were. She told thirteen of their Deputies were to which the children are still awards being: the raids becomes at once negligible by comparison..

There are some instructive him, and then he snatched from be arrested for accepting bribes good deal behind the standard The prize list was as follows: Damage to property, again, has been very unprofitable from the

Cla L-Eleen Stubbings enemy point of view. Knowing what we do of the Germans and points to be found in the traffic ber some gold car-rings and some from the enemy: & useful kind reached by children in other their methods and ambitions, we are, of course, aware that these regulations which are notified in idestone, to the total value of of thing to do especially when schools. This is particularly the (arithmetic and composition); undertakings were entered upon with no very definite plan behind connection with the forthcoming $18. He then pashed her down one's country is at war. Farther, case with the spelling of Forms Veronica Bosterfield (reading)

we are informed that the French and IL; indeed, it is remark Annie Miller (drawing, brush- them. The savage element in the Germans which, all along, lay Race Meeting, and which we the hill and ran away.

pablished in our issue of last

sirmen have inflicted more or less able that children who in most work and recitation). so very much nearer to the skin than the world used to believe, night. For example, it is stated

severe punishment on Petritch, cases read fairly well and whose Class IL-Jim Bonner (general has been prompting them, from the moment that they realised

CLUB COOLIE'S OFFENCE. and that, by the Bulgarians' own above rather than below the Grant Smith (drawing and grain- general intelligence is certainly knowledge and arithmetic); Ian the impossibility of their winning in the struggle which they forced that all traffic going to and from CI on the Allies, to fly in the face of civilisation's law on every possible ordinary rule of the road." For the Races "will keep to the

showing, "their casualties were Occation and to do damage without rhyme or reason or plan. Doub the sake of public comfort

about a thousand. A newer wire average, should make such errors mar); Charlie Bonnar (scripture) lees at the back of their bemused brains there was a lumbering and safety, it is, however,

adds that a brush bas taken place in spelling as were shown at the Barbara James (general pro- notion that their airmen might contrive to injure War Office and most sincerely to be hoped thas

between French and Bulgarian ramination at Christmas,

ficiency and handwork); Jim "Den and Games-The new Messer (general progress and Admiralty property with special reference

"the frontier-two! avalry on * war ships, this is precisely what it will not munitions factories and army stores; bat the main ides was general do, since the ordinary rule of

Frenchmen being wounded and play-ground, consisting of the handwork); Alfred Lammert damage; damage of any and every sort. Even then it cannot be said the road"

A coolie employed at the Hong- enemy losses unknown. But far apace in front of the school, is (good conduct); John Lander that the Official Statement shows them to have been very success-Hongkong is one which permits mand, before Mr. J. R. Wood at statement that "there is consider allow of games being played very

as exemplified in kong Clab was charged on re-more important than this is the unfortunately much too small to general progress),

Class -Hilda Butterfield ful. We have but little patience with those who would seek to of everybody doing just as Le or the Police Court this morning, able Tento Balgar friction" oon freely. The covered space-sriginal. (writing); Jack Miller (scriptare); cheapen and minimise the losses to our own people; those losses are she pleases, with as atom of with wounding a fellow coolie cerning Salonics matters. It seems ly intended as a drilling ground, David Ellis (general proficiency), terribly great to us both in property and in human life. Bat just thought for anybody elee. If, with a chopper. now we are seeking to examine the matter from our enemy's point of therefore, the "ordinary" rale is

at last to have dawned on the sad wet weather shelter, has been Eileen Bounar (reading). A witness said they had been intelligence of the Bulgarian tarned into a most useful Clas IV-Violet Martin (wri❤ Tiew; and, from that point of view, it is doubtful if the amount of observed, we fear things will be gambling and defendant lost, so people that Germany is

bat were ing, May Autîn (drawing); material havoc created is not cutbalanced by the rers expenditure of come slightly mixed up in these got up and said he would not making a calspaw of them; anfortunately thereby depriv-Willism Kien (letters and sound); building sirahips (and losing some of them) and fitting them out eastern part of the city during Bace psy but would fight them for it. that she, instead of fighting ed of a much-needed sheltered Charlie Bitterfield (steady work).

Week. Another of the regulation. | His (witanas)then went to beat him her own barties, has been co for physical

In addressing" the children, The War Office obligingly tells us that, in future, such detailed lays it down that persons who ride and defendant ran into the kit making them do the work, ahe cise, and for organised play in bad Lady May said that it had given sccounts as the one in question will not be immed; but, regrettably or drive in a

which chea and returned with a chopper taking the credit. Moreover, weather. An open space near the her a great deal of pleasure to enough, it still says nothing about reprisals. Even supposing that shall endanger the life or limb of with which be woarded the com- Bulgaria can now see shead school is much needed where the attend that distribution in these the war is ficiabed within six months from now, our friends at Home any person," will be liable to a plainant. have still six months of anxiety and nerve-strain to look forward to penalty. We hope nobody will

"heavy losses which would com- boys could be asut to play their new buildings. Whilst con needless addition to the strain to which they are already condemned raise any serious objection to this were five of them playing and s And how much military strength, of the school is again only not won prizes this year to try Another witness said there promise her military strength." own games away from the girls, gratulating the winners of prizes "Discipline.The general tone she suggested to those who had by the fact that every other family has one or more of its members announced intention to apply the quarrel earned. A fight took place one may ask, don Bulgaria con- serving at the Front. We do not doubt for a second that the anti- ordinary laws of the Colony, between the complainant and sider that she has left? She fairly satisfactory. The boys and get one next year. She aircraft service at Home has been doing, and will continue to do, though we admit that some art defendant. During the course of started with an army of less than and girls are not always-a-thought that they had all enjoyed everything possible to avert these visitations; we do not doubt that, of case might be made out along the fight, the complainant bit the half a million, and her conflicts solutely obedient, needing to be the programme which had been far ons "successial" German raid, a score of attempts have been these lines in view of the recent defendant and it was then that he with Serbia and Montenegro, to told the same thing over and given and that they had spent a frustrated by our men. Bat is that enough? Can our rulers thick attitude of one of our magistrates ran into the kitchen for the chop say nothing of some little affairs over again. Forgetfulness, rather very pleasant afternoon. of no scheme whereby the enemy might be warned off further attempts who refused to convict admitted per. They were separated. with the Entente armies, were

than wilfulness, in the cause of the Little Miss Wendy Jenkins and. and might also be severely punished for those of the past? Are we ofenders on the ground that a going to be forever satisfied with milk-and-water methods? Even the week's notice should be given of that a chopper was not to use for could provide us with a few

His Worship told defendant very expensive. If some one trouble in nearly every instance. *Baster" Churchill then presented ***The Attendance.Daring the Lady May with a beautiful bou- take reprisals, and it is tolerably certain that the great mass of the secute transgressors against the he wond to prison for three months form interesting reading, we have factory, and since the introd moderate-minded Lord Bosebery now demands that Britain shall the resolve of the police to pro- that kind of thing, and he would igures on the subject they would winter months this is fairly satisquet, after hich the programme British people is with him. What is the Government going to do particular Ordinance.

with the bombs that were to create the destruction,”

about it?

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Lost at Gambling: Wanted

to Fight,

for common assault.

so doubt.

class room,

of the ** late" and "es zly” attend-