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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1916.

WATSON'S

FINEST OLD

BROWN BRANDY

E

QUALITY,

25 Years

Brown Brandy

IN WOOD.

P. S. WATSON & CO.,

LTD.

WINE AND SPÍRIT MERCHANTS

HONGKONG.

· Telephone 016.

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As Indemulty of Labour,

On the question of the ultimate DAY BY DAY."

peace terms to be exsoted from Germany, shout "which we had something to my in a leading

WOMAN TALIS LEAST IN

TWENTY-EIGHT DAYS.

CORRESPONDENCE.

1891.

article yesterday, various suggee. FEBRUARY WHICH HAS ONLY correspondents are not neces- HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE

"The Weather.

tions of a practical character havo already been put forward by writers to the Home press. One At the Peak 8 s.m. Temp. 75; of the most sensible of these is sunchine. (1915, 75 rain.) that Germany should be made to pay on a "two keels for ons" basis for ovary. Allied merchant) steamer which her submarines

Lower level 8 am. Temp. 80; sunshine. (1915, 80 rain.)

The Malls.

English Mail-Oloses per ar. Namur it 5 p.m. to-day.

[The opinions expressed by the i

arily those of the Hongkong Telegraph"]

THE SAILORS" DAY."

(To the Editor of the Hongkong

Telegraph.)

YEARS AGO.

(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph Ales for the wesh endang September 23, 1891)

The Dollar.

Sir,-Will you kindly permit me to make an appeal to the September 23"The rate of people of our Empire for their the dollar on demand to-day in generons practical recognition of 3/13. the invaluable services performed during the present war by the

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Club Fashion. Septembar 17-"Wong Pai, &

681

SHARE REPORT.

The quotations which follow are from the Howtong Telegraph for September 25, 1891.

far as immediate returns are cou-1Siberian Mail.-Clossa per officers and men of every branch cook, was up before Mr. Wine thie"/ 255 per share, sellerà,--

have suak. That idea, we hope, will not be lost sight of by those who will bare voice in deter French Mail, Uloses per ss. mining the final est·lement. 80

Pottbon at 5 p.m. on Monday, cerned, Germany will burdly be

Novars at 5 pm.on Monday. ins position, at the end of the English Mail.-Due per war, to pay out large indemnities,

Novara on Monday. but there is one way in which she can be made to make come recom-i pense for her sins, and ibat ir by the utilisation of German labour

The Dollar.

The opening rate of the dollar ou demand to-day was 2s. 2.5/16d.

Ta-morrow's Anniversary.

in the work of reconstrastion. which will have to take place in the countries which ste has

To morrow is the anniversary devastated. On that point we of the birthday of Confucius. notice that a Colonial has written to one of the London papers suggesting that, under the control

Lawn Tennis.

of the British Mercantile Marine? morning, charged with taking a It seems to me that the seal, fancy to an umbrells, the property loyalty and devotion to duty of of a gentleman_rejucing in the the personnel of our Merchant Ser-same name. Wong, of course, Tice are eminently worthy of the explained that it was all a mistake, Highest tribute of our admiration just as any gentleman might do and gratitude. Those gallant in the Hongkong Club; but bie men who, face to face with every Worship thought otherwise and phase of enemy frightfainum, sent Wong where he will not have, day after day, gone down to require so umbrella for the next mes in ships, so that our ocean | 10 days," commerce might be maintained, Heard in the Hongkong Club.

Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. -173 per cent, premium buyers. Jantan-895 per share, buyers. Union Insurance Society of

China Traders” Ensurance Com- |pany-$68) pár share, sellora.

North China Insurance --T.

Canton Insurance Company, LM.-$107

per share, sellers. Yangtase Insurance Association -Tla, 70 per share, buyers.

Hongkong Fire Insurance Com- pany $320 per share, buyers.

Ohina Fire Insurance Company 887 per share, sales and bayers. Hongkong and Whampos Dock Company $88 per cent, pre- mium, sellers.

Hongkong, Canton and Macso share, sales and buyers:

Hongkong Gas Company- $131 per share, sellers, "

Hongkong Hotal Company $5 per share, buyers,

of the Allies, such portions of the

The final in the Men's Handi.our supplies of food and raw September 17,--"German boor | Blosmbost Company--833 · per German Army & sie required cap of the H.K.0.0. lawn tennis material forthcoming, and the to Highland gentleman-Vy, you should be compelled to rebuild competition takes place at 4.30 transport demands of our NATY van fos old now, mien frient, to

and Army fulfilled, have die conciter dese tings. The object of this paper is to publish correct information, serve to the battered villages and put into P.m. on Monday,

charged duties of incalculable order the the truth and print the news without fear or favour.

H. G.-You Sweinhund, I was small bolders' wrecked fields. That, he saYE,

For The Troops,

value to the ultimate achievement born a man, and a men I will die; We have received parcels of of victory.

Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six par would be simple jastice, books and magazines for the

you and your kind to the bounds I cannot conceive any more of blazes notwithstanding.

cent. Debentures-8501. not revenge. What would be troops from Mr. C. E. Frith, chivalry and courage of our Marinataral: consequence holds his $30 per cent, dis., sales and A

eppropriate testimony to the The Highland Chieftain as a Indo-China 8. N. Company-

****A***NEDRAENSY***

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

Telerhone: No. 1 - A.B.C., 8th edition.

Western Union Office address: 11, Ice House St.

DEATH

E. W. Tisdall, of Shanghai, aged 73.

injustice would be to see the "C.W.W." and "R.E.B.” German farmers, with fields intact | and machinery unbroken,compet-

Withdrawn.

ohildren of those brave sailors?

buyers.

chant Service than the organisa-ground, and the other slinks off | tion of the most ample facilities like a car with his tail at an angle ing, immediately after peace I Before Mr. F. A. Hazeland, st possible for the education-pre of 45 degrees.-This is a tras $40 per share, sellers.

Douglas Steamship Company declared, with the ruined peasants the Police Court this morning.\ferably for a sea career of the tale. of Northern France, Serbia and the charge against a Chiness, of

China Sugar Refining Company Belgium. This idea of an indemn-attempting to export $68 is who have lost their lives or who Hongkong's Need.

Ltd.-$165 per share, sellars. Chinese 20-cent pieces, was with.

September 18.-"An Australian | » Lason Sugar Refining Company, TISDALL-August 11, at a Nursing Home in London, Capt. sensible one, and the faith which Wills and defendant was accord- daring the process of the war that a certain Chinese draggist

ity of labour is a most sound and drawn on the application of Sergt. have sustained permanent injury paper gravely informs its readers Limited 62 per share, sellers. the correspondent mentioned hae

Hongkong Los Company→→ It will equally be in it is demonstrated by the fact ingly discharged.

■ fitting advertises “pills that will change $80 per share, sellers. that be is willing to pay over a

mark of our appreciation of the girls into fine healthy boyn." Now Hongkong Rope Manufactur sum of £100 if it is made a plank

scheme can be extended so equally eficacions in changing share, sellers. British Mercantile Marine if such if these wonderful pills would be ing Company, Ltd.-$107 : pos in the Allied peace coheme. Postal Matters.

for the sea training of British boys their inventor has before him if as to enlarge the opportunities (moakeys into men, what a mission generally, with the object of be will only come to practice in eliminating at the earliest: con- Hongkong." the Merabant Burrice of the Empire.

The Hongkong Telegraph-

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1916.

GETTING HOLD OF THE SHIRKERS.

since the

Possession of Opium.

A Chinese, who was found in possession of 12 taels of opium valued at $140, ran foal of ship's watchman on the Pal Beau, yesterday morning. The latter, at the Police Court this morning, before Mr. Haseland, aid the man had the drug tied and his waist. His Worship inflicted a fine of $1,100.

Served in Hongkong.

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venient moment all aliens from

A hun la Trouble. Beptember 19.-"A Gorman named Joseph von Ulrich was

Underband Work.

and Godown Company.-$70 per Hongkong and Kowloon. Wharf share, sales and sellers.

Hongkong Dairy Farm Co. Ltd. -$7 per share, sellers.

YARN AND INDIAN SUNDRIES.

Messrs. Setoa and Company's Report.

We are very pleased to notice ecmething in the way of a new departure by the Hongkong Post Office in the annout dement of the safe arrival in London of Siberian

A. 8. Watson and Co., Ltd.----- $194 per share, ex. div., males maile of specified dates. As we pointed out a day or so since,

It is accordingly proposed by charged at the Police Court to and buyers. there have been considerable

means of Flag Days, and through | day at the instance of Mr. O, J. L. Hongkong High Level Tram- delays ід the

the generous support of thoen who Stewart, Secretary of the Hong-way Co., Ltd.-$65 per share arrival of Brigadier-General Finch Hat can afford to subscribe amounts kong Trading Company, with buyers. maile during the war, and, ton, O.M.G., who has just been large or small, to organise a Fund having obtained goods from that

capture of some given a brigade command, ser having this definite object in view. establishment by means of false Ltd.---$25 per share, nominal.

Hongkong Steam Laundry Co., In view of the need for keeping our military strength at & prop of others, a measure of abessiness kong and Singapore a short time under the auspices of the Navy arrest was effected last night by

by the Germans, and the sinking ved with "The Boffa" at Hong-

The Scheme is being promoted pretences. The prisoner, whose Green Island Cement Co. Ltd. er pitch, the War Office, acecrding to Reuter, is ounsidering the has naturally been felt as to the before the war started. He has League and the British and Inspector Haddon, was formally

-$10 per share, sollera. withdrawal of certain men from "certified service" and the prepar-arrival at their destination of won much credit as a regimental Foreign Slore Society and remanded for a week, when, it is ing of them for something a little more practical than any of them letters posted from here: The officer in the present war, and seFlag Day has been proposed to siated, other charges will be pre- have yet done. The plan will meet with the fallest approval on all recent Post Office notification of well went through the South take place in London on the 4th ferred against him." sides were that of certain of the "eligible" who seem to bare due arrival in London is, for that African War with "The Buffs." October next. The Lord Mayor preferred any form of work to setiva service. That the need for the postal authorities will con- reason, reaɛsuring, and we hope

**At Home."

of London has given his warm September 19.--"A well-known such a step should be admitted so late in the day is in itself a tinus.

A very pleasant evening was approval to the project, and has local busy body has been dis- toisene these advices spent yesterday at the Police very kindly placed the Mansion tinguishing himself thace last reproach to the Government's knes-weakness and want of backbone, periodically. They are of the Reserve Headquarters Club on House at the disposal of the few days by "carting" round a The Cabinet was s> dreadfully afraid of giving offence to anyone atmost value both to business the occasion of an "At Home" Committee for the purposes of the circular to the shareholders of a who had a vote that, long after compulsory service had been decreed, While on this matter, there is a large attendance of ladies and

people and residents generally, held by the members. There was Flag Day.

minor loost Bank, with the object it was afill almost strangling itself in a wild effort to offer as many one other point which might friends of members, and the slab ranged in other large centres in his position on the Bard. We Fing Days are also, being ar- of casting sa absent Director from loopholes of esos pe as possible to the men who preferred to enjoy be mentioned. Occasionally an premises had been most profusely Great Britain, and the scheme have not been made acquainted the comforts of Home while honest volunteers did the fighting and incoming Siberian mail is only decorated with palms and ferns, will be extended throughout the with the serions immorality in took all the blows. Something we don't care what has brought notified the day before arrival The arrangements made for the Dominions and Dependencies which the absent gentleman has 23, Mosers. 8. D. Seins & Co. the Cabinet to its senses now, and it is apparently beginning to grasp presumably on the receipt of a pleasure of the guests we in during the Autumn and Winter, been accused, nor why be should state- the fact that there is such a thing as fairness, and that, unless it can wireless advice from the ship every respect admirable, and all be proved beyond all doubt that a young man by staying at Home surely be possible for Hongkong Police

It has been agreed that a be attacked behind his back and carrying the maile. It should fally enjoyed themselves. The portion of the fands raised should in his abesnos; but deabiless in

Cotton-Market ruled steady. is rendering a more real service to the Empire than by enlisting, to be notified by cable

Reserve Orchestra be devoted to the education of the day or two we shall know all Sales are reported of about 80 that young man has no businose out of khaki,"

from (ander Bandmaster I. da Costa) children of the men of the Fleet, about it. Mesa while, the abiq packages at 829 to $80 per pical. Shanghai when a Siberian mail rendered a pleasing selection The Times military correspondent states that there are no fewer

The Committee will be grate aitous person who is working Unsold stock is estimated at about leaves that port.

of music and a very enjoyable fal for organisers and helpers is up this sensation will exercise 100 packages. Reported closing than from three to four million young men following civil occupa

A German Wall, ticas. The official. zeturn more guardedly confines itself to the German friends sending up Castro, Mr. F. Conssies, Sergeant relating to the Flag Days should in enda taking a hand in thre

It is illuminating to find our the following:- Mise Camilla country, and all communications slow The Hongkong Telegraph pical,

programme was contributed to by every Borough and Town in the a very wise discretion by "going quotations.:-829 to $32 per assertion that 51,232 eligible men were in varions (Government?) lamentations on the subject of the F. X. Botelho, Mr. E. H. Aquino, be addressed The Bonorary little game." "officem sa April. We are a mach alive to the fast as our neigh-British "now engines of war-Mina Elfreda Ommand and P. C. Becretaries, "The Sailors' Day",

Indian Yarn:-Owing to the boure that certain men are indispensable at Home, and we also realias equally orast and effective", and (B) 49.

An Honourable Discharge.

advance rates of exchange buyers that many of those who have gone to the Front would have been of branding the" tanka" as" mons were played by Mins Elfreda 8.W.

The accompanimenta 11, Victoria Street, Westminster, Beptember 23. -**In the

showed their willinguses to quit more use in England, while certain men who are more or less useless trons. Will our Government at Osmund,

Supreme Court befors his Honour their holdings, and prices show away from the Front might be of the greatest use there. Of course any Home take the hint? These cars Government but our own would have foreseen all this long ago; (the Germans; not the Govern

s decline of $1 to $3 per bale, Subscriptions and Donations to Mr. J. Ackroyd, this morning, Hidden Optum.

the Find should be addressed to Mr. W. H. Forbes, Iste of Mesers, Sales are reported of about 2,100 it is, our troops have been left to the cheery determination to win mont) have, for two years, employ. Mr. F. A. Haseland, at the Palice Frederick Green and M. V. Biscoe Haal discharge. Not single 120, 250 bales of No. 18, and Two men were charged before the Honorary Treasurere, Sir Russell & Co., came up for his bales of No. 10, 900 bales of No. the war in spite of the politiciana. A Cabinet with ten cents' worth ad the vilest method known to Court this morning, with being Tritton, "Sailors' Day", 11, Vio- Jereditar apposed Mr. Forbes, and 4100 bales of No. 20; in all of resoluteness and single-mindedness about it would have decided, them for combating enemies in possession of 12 taels of opium toris Street, Westminster, B.W. from the day on which the Compulsion Bill was passed, that con-whom they feared to meet in a drosa, and 12 taele of prepared scription maart consoription, and that neither "conscience favouritiam nor private business could be allowed for one moment that the Allies turn round and the two

nor square fight; and yet the moment opium. Inspector Gordan zaid to stand; is the way of our gaining a speedy victory.

J

帽

TEREX

I am Sir, Your obedient servant, (83.) BERESFORD.

*** Admifal. President of "The Sailors' Day" Food. 11, Victoris Street, S. W.

Angust 16, 1916.

#

In their report, dated September

most about 4,350 bales:

the Court granted him a honourable" discharge. Lack of

| space prevents us from fully ra: Unsold stock is estimated at porting and commenting on this about 41,000 bales. Bold but onse in to-night's jasna,'

uncleared stook is about. 8,500 "Soquah" and the "Telegraph,"| balss, Market closes steady,

September 23.-*! Beqosh” is

no doubt very obliging and means Bandry Artioles. :--Nothin well; but if he thinks he can get | frank to report. In imports salow the Hongkong Telegraph yo ad- are reported in angoor at $30 vortion his show" until we (per picul), apricots at $34 to know exactly what it is worth, he $38 (per pioul), Beroar stone at bas struck en iosberg, for our $160 to $200 (per catty), oloves says be belongs to Aberdeen, fins ás $45 to 280 (par pioni). After such a confession we my gum olibanum ut $10 to $20 (per pical), horns at $150 (per catty), ivory at $300 to $650

Wore found give them a taste of their own at the Kowloon

Railway Probably even the Government itself would be willing to admit and call upon high Heaven to a basket. The second defendant medicine, they squeal and yelp Station with the stuff in now that, before the war, its service was largely overatooked, and pnnish their tormentors. that there were more men than sufficient work could be found for. Rabaul thay flogged a harmless when the drag was found, he At was carrying the luggage, and, With reduced staffs the varions Government offices appear to have missionary in public; yet when turned to the Arst defendant and worked at leant as estisfactorily as they did in the old slack days of British officers decreed pesos. It is then too much to hope that, when the war is over, the the offenders should likewise be The first defendant admitted that said he was carrying it for him. rednotion of expenditure and the incream of work will become fogged, the German papers had that that was so. They were both} MORE WAR COMFORTS. (space is too valuable." Bequah” at $33 (per pioul), fish mah permanent? The tax payers have been finding money for the main no sype large enough wherein to arrested and the people of tenance of idle men, and, now that several of these have besu elronicle British savagery. They boarding house visited the Police weeded out, would it not be as well to keep the number of well- have raided, on scores of 000- Station and said the second de- Working party has this month nothing." paid loafers an low, an posible and to strengthen some of the undersions, peaceful and unfortified fendant was a foki employed

The Union Church Ladies' stated departments? We have to economise, not only for the general places on our East Coss; bat, with them and only carried sent a case to the Argyle and welfare and in order to help the nation to meet an inexpresibly when Karlarabe received a gentle the luggags, heavy way bill, but also in order that those brave fellows whose reminder or two, the Kaiser lifted Gorden, would boring the following articles :—168-06-

He (Laspecter Satberland Highlander contain- worries dates back to the voluntary days of the campaign shall be up his rojos and wept publicly, like the case to be withdrawn shirts, 14 molilsen, Dales of eliably rewarded. Surely we are going to draw some distinction and made anus of himself against hima. Defendant aid he mittens 8. Paim of a cape down for decision in the P hat when the men who, from the beginning, obsyed Kitchener's call, generally. Such ramians good was not living at the boarding Balaclava cape, 130 pairs of socks, Hotel- billiards tournament to and the contemptible objects who had to be forced into the army, the whip, and if only we had bonse at all and a mistake had, 48 handkerchiefs and 60 towels, night. As 7 pm., Mr. Jackson or who, like these three or four million nice young men of whom treated them to a little more been made in identification. Bis the Times correspondant speaks, are still le fog. It needless ex rough handling in the past, there Worship imposed as $200 on party are due to the Hongkong (owes 70) and at p.m. Mr Coles The thanks of the working (owes 8′1) will roest Mr. W. Breels #editare on the public service is reduced to proper limits there is not a doubt bat that they the first charge, sad $1,250 on! will be anough money mayed for a suitable reward for all the men would have collapsed long ago, mooni.

St. Andrew's Boxiety for the gifs ash (ower 70) mesta Mr, Jadah | 4220 who went to the beltlefield from aboice and not on compulsion.

of $34 sowards this consignment." (part van 20).

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Billards,

There are two further "kuste

$38 10.843.