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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1916.

{An Obstruction,

Chinees are often brought before the local magistrates, înd fined for causing an obstruction, though sometimes the offence complained of is merely a technis-

ons. But, whatever the abstraction is, we hold that it is the duty of our police to see that the streets are kept free from all hindrance to traße. There is one instance, however and one that obtrudes itself so persistent- Ir as to become a daily nuisance that is allowed to go un checked, and, so far as wa know, no efforts have been made to put a stop to it. We refer to the groap of Chinese commercial men who gather in the banking portion of Queen's Road and who, right in the middle of thercadway, assemble at about mid-day in large numbers, apparently to dia- cass business matters. Tosay that practically the whole road is block- ed by them is but to state the

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BUTMAN, PROUD MANA *DREST IN A LITTLE BRIEF AU- IBORITI.

LIKE AN ANGRY APE PLAYS SUCH FANTASTIC TRICKS BEFORE HIGH HEAVEN

AS MAKE THE ANGELS WEER-

Mosaure for Menmars.

The Weather.

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FROM THE FULPIT.

God's Tolerance of Evil.

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and JUTTINGS BY THE WAY.

In view of the reports from the

it said the prescher,

almost physical nacimen the accompanies

barrible duty.* Here in the awful perilous arcntity of this remote island Colony we dare not over Western front during the past fook what Europe has really to face weak or so, the Hamis Baklekke's Notes of a sermon presahed by from the calculated non-murality headline: German Lowes in the Res. J. Krk Maconachie of Prussian militariam. We can- Battle of Verdun. Unusually at the Union Church yesterday not for our souls sake afford to be Light strikes quite a refreshing morning ****

distant lookare-on at what is al-note of variety. Text Hab. 1/13. Then that most certainly the most critical art of purez eyes than to behold struggle in the moral ovulation of Among the foregone conelu- verseness, wherefore baldest Thot of nations expresses test. The persist in indulging, is the Sing.. evil, and canst not Icek pon per the human race so far the life ions in which newspaper men Thy peace when the wicked swal broad isens is whether the in-apore Free Press' statement- lowath up the man that is more hammities which we had thought "Scotland evades the No Treating righteous than he, and makest belonged to the barbarocs past Order." Wskan'd fine she would.

Scotland forever! Nagamen as the fishes of the sea, and are to be the deliberate policy

At the Peak Sam. Tezap. 58; heavy fog. (1915, 56 clear.)

Lower level 8 sm. Temp. 64; dall (1915, 65 clear.)

The Malls.

European Mail (Via

patam) Due per sa Fu- shimi Mara to-day. Australian Mail-Doe per as

Empire to-morrow. America, Canadian and Siberian Halle-Closs per 2.8. Shin

yo Maru to-morrow at 11

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Our only objection to the recent farture

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**All the smbaidiary word, gold coin should be of nickel ” ir burneth incanse unto his drag, be frightfulness-frightful canse by them is his portion made which could only have been that it is a little too much in the fat, and his mest plentecus.coined in a country whose might line of "the next song will be s

The existing circumstances of is its god. Juggernaust, Welock, dance," the world have made the Bible Kali, the worst of heather

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truth, and passing rickshashave,sa Australian Mall-Closes per sacmething like a new book to abominations are rammed up in To-day's Anniversary. —A

result, to drop to a walking pace

Tango Maru to-morrow at 3 many. Parts which had seemed it. It is quite literally anti-reader with a grievance and in order to get through. Chinese P

to belong to a mouldy past, of Christ, for the Christian revela-memory points out that it is just business me

mast do their Siberian Mail-Closes per 89. which we had lost the key, isshion, fired and written, reads twelve months ago to-day since business

ary alteration was made in the Famebere, it is

Liban to-morrow at 3 p.

out in vivid bearing upon condi- "God is love". (admitted, but why they should be allowed to turn this somewhat carrow thoroughfare into some- thing approachings crowded and tion room, we fail to understand

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BURGOYNE-On January 23, 1916, in Edward Burgogne, late of Shanghai.

HONGKONG, MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1916.

THE WAR AND IMPERIAL PROBLEMS.

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

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tions which fill our minds night| God is love-had the great Hongkong market prices! and day. We can fully share the words grown easy to us? Had intense feeling of this unknown the tremendous assertion they prophet bewildered in the midst enshrine came to be lightly held, the North Sea."-How smooth the ssumed, path of the newspaper-render is indifferently of a world given over to spoiling and violence, perplexed that rather than held or holding us ? made for him nowadays! the Holy One of Israel can look Not to Bre we permitted to on while treachery and bratality retain possession of great wratha! The Telegraaf learns that lay waste the earth at the To-day as of old, the evil happen- this week, sll the ham and beef behest of the man whose inge which wring our hearts also shape in Brussels will be shut, might is his god." That is the try our faith. It presses the more owing to the difficulty in obtain- of stocks and shares or anything Last week there were twelve description applied here to the the finer is the conception of God. piga"This is the very first else they choose, and for any cases of Emall-pox (pine Chsidears" that bitter and hasty The brutal nature is exempt from intimation that Hongkong has length of time, without being the fatal), five of enteric (four fatal), nation, who march through the trials of spirit which press upon had of the German evacuation of nuisance they unquestionably are and three of diphtheria (two fatal) breadth of the earth to possess thoes of finer mould. He has Belgium at present. It is up to the police notified in the Colony. All were dwelling places which are not eliminated moral ruples from

and with them "Disabled soldier wanted for to sea that the obstruction is re- Chinese are one Indian enfierer theirs. Force is his deity and his life,

only law. By in means he takes moral problems from his mind. Rhodesian mine; essential he be a All the Chaldean is concerned gentleman, well educated; salary up nations for a prey sa the All readers capable of looking

The Bishop of Victoria will Saberman uses his drag net about, is hacking his way through, 240. Duties: stenographer, the war situation, as it concerns conduct the fortnightly united Therefore,"

Habbar but the Hebrew prophet, acknow-typist, private secretarial work.

moved.

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The East Herts Election.

that Mr. Pemberton Billing has

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the Homeland, with a practical meeting for Intercession to be suk he sacrificeth an-ledging a holy God wonders how State complete life record and and unprejudiced eye, will rejice held at St. Paul's College to to his set, and barneth incense that God can bear as He does give reference Apply Bi been victorious at the bye-election morrow, Tuesday, at 6p.m. On unto his drag." We bave here with impunity. for the East Herts dimonton Wednesday, March 15, the Bi- the crude worship of materialism, doubt God if you have no God to dollars. Mer a month! Who triumph of this well-known air-shop will give his Lent Lecture and the whole passage is an ex-doubt. The spiritual struggle is wouldn't be a disabled soldier man is rot just a party score. On the private Chapel, St. Paul's traordinarily close representation not the reverse of faith, but the with a life record 7

College, at 10.45 am, the subject of the notion which has plunged obverse of it, notits negation, bat

An enthusiastic but tired Police thecontrary, thenew Member isap being, Definite conviction the world into war to-day. It has the effort by which it attains a parently a non-party man and the Christian Truths"

set militarism upon the altar, as larger growth. Nothing in my Reservist is keen to do any work score is one in favour of common

the instrument of its desires, age has tried the faith of good on behalf of his corps that can be sense against faddism. Mr. Pem-

"All the other branches of men more than God's tolerance done, riding in a rickahs. Also berton Billing "got in" on, pre-ing, Lam Kan sad two others the life' of the people," of orl in the world which he has should a chair corpe be meditat. sumably, two points: His objcware charged with stealing 120 writes Professer

Sombart made and cannot intend to be ed he has no objection to joiningit tion to the wirepullers' over-doing catties of seaweed valced at $4, in his book Hucksters and the happy hunting ground of sin.

Bat we know that it is God's toler "Greek boys are being paid one England-George temperance legislation, and his the property of Lam Ngan-wan Heroes"

advocacy of reprisals for the A sergesat stated that the com- military interests.. - a spiritance and must be the vehicle of franc a day by the authorities,” Zeppelin outrages and of plainant had collected and bought before which the foreigner etands good, though not upon the sur says the Manchester Guardian, zenerally more efficient air-sex-the seaweed, and placed it out to as before a miracle. By means face. One thing the prophet here "for collecting stones which are vice. Hertfordshire may be taken dry. His wife saw the three of it," he continues,

we "Ger did see, which was that the op- used in road-making. They are in The Hongkong Telegraph. aby zee of Bagland, for defendants go up and steal the mass and the earth as we lustrement of Chastisment. But thonis his orders in English and as very fairly representative of the will as much of Pression was permitted as the charge of a British private who

the rarious parties of voters :|

discharged seems to have no difficulty in (He specifies Dover and that function was agricultural, industrial, etc. A concert under the kind Malta). "Our Kingdom is of this with such an overpina of making himself understood, are remarkably well balanced; patronage of Rear-Admiral An-world. When the German stande wickedness as to raise in itself a This last statement we can well and We may take the atrather, OMG., will be given leaning on his mighty sword, clad farther problem. Sinful nations believe. Tommy's vocabulary is election to mean that there on Wednesday evening, March in steel from his sole to his head, might need correction, but the not infrequently of the sort that is strong feeling against the 15, in the Sailors' and Soldiers' whatsoever will, may, down below, Caldean was himself worse than is understood the wide world Coalition's allowing itself to be Home, commencing at 8:30 p.m. dance around his feet, he will not they. Well, all ein is not equally ever. fooled by the supporters of the A good programme has been allow himself to be disturbed."hams, but we are on very assure temperance craze, sa also against arranged and an enjoyable ever! Talk of universal peace, he mye ground when we begin to assess the Government's calm raadiness ing is assured. A very hearty is "blasphemy against the Holyi difering degress. And it is morning's wires to the effect that the Imperial Government and the Dominions have clearly grasped attacks by Zeppelins. The said is hoped that a large audience my each language is, and any that is going too far in the case of we infer that he is sa much a So far as the adjustment of after-the-war problems is concerned, to sit down under the dastardly general invitation is given and Ghost of Germanism Blaspbe not for men, themselves in need Mr. Winston Churchill has re the desirability of taking time by the forelock. Although we do not attacks, according

of God's forbearance, to say when turned to the House of Commons, definitely know the extent to which the Governments of our great Asquith's statement on Saturday, thorough success.

Mr. will help to make the evening & where else would be counted the other men.

prophet without honour in France Self-Governing Colonies have been sounded on the great issues have caused the deaths of 127 evening a collection will be made however, it is not abnormal, Daring the talk of a madman. In, Germany,

: before us, sufficient has been made public to reveal the fact that the non-combatant men, 92 women in aid of the Renovation Fand of and, whilst we

When God's time comes Hia as he is in his own country, and statesmen of the Motherland and of the Dominions are in close toach and 57 children-a pleasing total the Bome.

bare been rod will not fail to smite, and is wanted a little in the one a

in the other. one with the other, and that there is to be a very real union of all of 276. We sincerely hope that

setting it aside with a laugh, quite likely when that time does interested when it comes to settling the many questions which spring the Premier and his colleagues

young Germany has been indoc-arrive, and it je seen how fearful

Reuter day by day out of the war, That much is, to quote only one circumstance, very will ponder the matter of the East houses at the Bijod Theatre when decades. Before that spirit the the very voices which saw com sidered imminent.

There were good weak-and trinated with the like of it for a thing it is to fall into His hand, y plainly show from the fact that the Australian Premier is now in Herts election. England on the express invitation of the Home Government for the House-rents. specific purpose of discussing war matters. As was previously the

Outlaw's Bride" were presented. before a miracle," a miracls of be charging Him with harshness It isn't often that Truth is case on the occanon of the visit of another Dominion statesman, the the war has had the effect cl send exhibitions of their juggling skill, the thing proved true, compelled ways is just that they are not ours, about "Because such a committee As we recently pointed out, The Three Delroya gave further iniquity and folly, increduloss of Our root difficulty with God's caught off its guard, but what meetings of the Cabinet have been thrown open to him, that furthering up rentals in certain districts which met with aniversal ap to accept the unbelievable as the either in their goodness or their would upset the scratchbackers' demonstrating the point that the Home Government is prepared to at Home, bat quite recently an plause. The management of the reality. It has been proved, not severity. What we do know, and take the daughter States of the Empire into fall and complete Act was passed for the purpose Bijou Theatre has secured the by the words of one man or a han-are sure of, is that His goodness

apple carta"? confdence.

of restoring the pre-war standard. celebrated film: "The Extaor- dred, but by the deeds of thou-is meant to lead sinnera to Though none of the Domitions had a word to my as-to the That Act, we are glad to see, is dinary Adventures of Saturnin sanda. Words we might set aside repentance,

Profesor Boothroyd express- origin of the straggle, they have, without exception, railled to the now being enforced. An aged Farandoul," which is founded on as vapour, but the vapour has fill we to limit His day of grace in live in Mare, the planet nearest ed pity for the fate of those who Mother Country in the hour of supreme crisis, and it has long since man was brought up at the novel by A. Robida. The film is ed Zeppelin hage and gas cylin-the case of other men, however the earth-Because of its near- been admitted that they have an undeniable right to be consulted Marylebone Police Ceart on a 20,000 feet in length and runs ders. There is joy amongst mi-revolting their offences in our as to the settlement, as well as in regard to the future conduct of summons by a firm of property into four series, the first of which Lions when arether passenger eyes? In Christ we can go beyond nesa to the earth ? Imperial policy. The great trial through which the Empire is owners to show cause why the will be shown at the Bijon next ship is sank in the sea or snother this point sad see in Hia Cross passing has shown the strength of the bond that unites us. Before magistrate should not grant an Saturday. The picture is aa innccent home has its inmates the final proof that the Holy One the war, there were those who believed that that bond would not ejectment order against him. The inil as it can be of exciting barat in their beds at midnight, is not to be charged with indiffer- bear the strain of a great emergency, but, if the war has proved old man, it appears, rented a room situations, and is likely to prove That some can be found to order ence to wrong even by a hair'e anything, it is that what has been well termed "the spiritual bondat 3. 6d. a week, and because an immense attraction.

and execate such deeds, is miracle breadth. For there we behold are giving a dinner in honour of of common liberty" is an instrument of union far stronger than any he would not also rent a second Opium Covered with Pig Skins. enough, but thats nation should the very mystery of love in that its president, Mr. Louis Getz, of commercial or political treaty ever yet drawn up. Thus it is that room, the landlords told him that Australis, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, and Indis bare he must clear out. The magis ioz, before Mr. Hazeland, a portent, and that is the faer we for us, yea, baze our sins Chinese friends and enstomers At the Police Cours this morn-rejoice in them is indeed a He Who did no ein, became sin San Francisco, and its many gladly shown their willingness to throw their all trate, however, declined to grant Chinese woman was charged with have to face. In the devastated in His own body up to the tree." into the common stock in their determination to crash the fos of the ejectment order. Circam- being in possession of opiam counties things have been There stands in

the midst Hotel, West Point, to-night.

in Hongkong, at the Tang Tin liberty and freedom."

stances of this kind do not, of valued at $306. Revenue Officer done by the thousands which it of our wayward world the man of We need not wait till the end of the struggle to realise that course, obtain in Hongkong, but wildin said the woman was carry-defiles the mind to read about, God's choice, Who is destined to there are large problems of Empire, both political and commercial, house-rents have been notoriously ing a large tin of vaseline, and and mercifully, exceeds its be the guide and lodestar of the which await eolution. With those problems we shall have to come high in the part so high, in also a basket containing several capacity to imagine. Neither are fature not a milclad warrior to close gripa, Momentous issues will be raised, for its is truer of fact, that the evil has deserved things, including opiam, which these things done in ignorance. leaning on His mighty sword with and idolatry of right made vis the relations of the Mother Country and the Dominions than of any legislative attention. "From what was covered over with pig skins. They are done in deliberate conquered inferiors below at his time of yonder slaughters thing else that things cannot be the same again as they have been we can now hear, however, there A Chinese officer said that when arrogance of race, in a studied feet, but One Who, lifted up from nocents? Ob. the unfithoen in the past. But though the task be a delicate one, calling for the is a tendency for rates to fall, he challenged the woman she ran exuberance of contempt for what the earth in shame, will yet draw shame, the self loathing and beat statesmanship of the Empire, it will be undertaken and carried and, with the cost of living in away, bat he caught her. Deien-ever is not German. The case all men unto Himself. Andes they demnation of the man who, in the through on large and comprehensive lines to the satisfaction, we other respecta decidedly on the dant said a man whom she did is founded on sifted evidence and look on Him Whom they have course of time, cover in eternity, have no doubt, of all who en claira a voice in the vital matters the increase, we hope they will not know had given the opiam to scrupulous investigations. No pierced, may it not be in His in comes to understand that, inas- raised. But there must be no delay in adjusting ourselves to the continue to decline even further her. A fine of $3,000, or siz man who goes through it can fante mercy that the blessing of a much as he did wrong unto the new conditions. That is why the exchange of viewpoints has already still. There is plenty of margin months' imprisonment, was impossibly express his feelings broken heart may come even to least of Christ's brethren, he did begun, though the end of the aruggle on land and sea is not yet to work on yet, as every house-posed.

aboutit. “I have been re-reading those Who in ruthless arogance it unto Him! quite insight.

holder knows to

cost.

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