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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1917.

DEWAR'S

65

"IMPERIAL"

AND

EXTRA SPECIAL

War Savings.

DAY BY DAY.

WHATS DONE WE PARTLY MAY COMPUTE

BUT KNOW NOT WHATS RESIST-

ED.-Baras,

011

The Dollar.

Yesterday we received, too late'} for publication, a letter from the Union Icsurance Bocisty of Canton, Ltd., which Company is undertaking the secretarial work! in cornration with the Hongkong, and South China War Savinga Association. The gist of the communication is that all money deposited with the Association will be icreated în sterling or in, Straite cartenoy at the rate of exchange raling at the time of investment, and repayment will be made in like manner or in Hongkong dollars ai, the rate prevailing when such | repayment is made. This oleste Sic Matthew Nathan has been apa point concerning which appointed Permanent Secretary there appears to have been some to the Ministry of Pensions, messure of doubt, and, inci- ·

To-morrow's Anniversary,

To-morrow in the 87th anniver- eary of the birth of the late Lord Salisbury.

REVIEW.

THE RULES OF PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW DE TERMINING CAPACITY TO CONTRACT, by T. T. Cheng... London: Størens and Sons, Ltd. *a. 6d.

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RACE SWEEPS.

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY,

The late. Sir Roland Vaughan Williama was one of the few sur- vivor of the old school of English jadges, says the Daily News. He To the Editor of the "Horgeng

Teingraph.")

combined in a rare degree legal The author of this little treatise, The opening rate of the dollar

Bir-The Police Reserve is sradition and a fine grasp of legal danand

was who, we understand, is shortly to-day 21. 4.5/163.

returning to the Olony, may be sending out invitations to the principles. He was at his boat în congratulated on well-reasoned public generally to attend at its unravelling the tangled skeins of and conscientious attempt to Beadquarters Club for Selling a shady commercial or financial reduce to something like prco sion Sweeps for the forthcoming Race transaction, and his success in the main principles of a subject Meeting. I wonder if it has this direction may be ganged by which is, and perhaps must always occurred to the Police Reserve the fear and dislike with which a

that Authorities

it is certain type of financiera re- him. Unlike moet state of flax. The rules of hardly the correct thing to garded

Private International Law" (eo. run these sweeps when part of julges, who are depper men, he called) are difficult to analyse and their duties is to stop gambling rallivsted a fine sarelessness of more difficult still to formulate,mongst the Chinees, and apart attire, and nonelly walked shout Long Service Medal. and the writer at the beginning from laying themselves open to is a loose shooting cost, with dentally, it illustrates the great His Excellency the Governor is at great pains to find a defin-oriticism, it does not appear to bs boote which suggested a not too advantages which the Association has been pleased to award to ition of legal" capacity," which the proper example to be ex- prosperous farmer rather than a A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd.,afe and remunerative investment Company Sergeant Major life (be sather's own) may be stated point worthy of attention is that in those daye was not fashionable. offers to those who are seeking a Alfred (asing rather shorter terms than pected from this foros. Another man of law, and a felt hat, which

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DEATH.

MATHER-At Brondesbury, London on 1st February, 1917, Kate Huddleston Mather, age 62. Late of Hongkong.

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1917.

IMPERIAL SOCIALISM.

Sir Matthew Nathan.

to a certain extent remain, in s

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for any spare funde which they Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long sa a qualification conferred by these sweeps may be the means No-one, I believe, over saw him may possein, while being at the Service Medal,

law on the average oitizen to of placing temptation in the way carry a walking-stick or Fame time anxious to render

Fell Down Ship's Hold.

bind himself in his relations with of the young men of email means, umbrella. It would not hare.

of which the Police Reserve is been easy for him, for he general. practical assistance to the State It has been reported to the others, for the successful prosecution of Police that a coolis has been sent This involves an extremely even lead to distress,

largely composed, and it may ly had his left hand deep in a waistcoat pocket. His likeness the war. The War Savings As to the Goverment Civil Hospital academio discussion of terms sa

well-known picture of has been

In one Club at least, pressure to sccistion

formed sufering from injuries received well se of authorities, but a large was brought to bear on the Com-Beynolde wes often remarked. At for the benefit of people of through falling down the hold of portion of the book is devoted to miltre to abandon similar selling the Bar he was affectionately ordinary mesoe, who, if they para a ship in the harbour.

the more particular, and, to the

worps, after having actually known as Roly Poly. on to it any eum they wish to

Factory Fire.

lay reader (if saoh should care to held a few drawings, on the con- invest, will be relieved of the

At 11.30 yesterday morning, spproach the subject), rather mers tention that it was injurious to arrangement of all annoying small fire broke out at the Wai interesting consideration of details when it comes to seeking Knitting Factory, Causeway Bay, "capacity to marry", and, incident bere. Would not the bolding of the morals of the younger mem- beneficial outlet for money owned by Mesara. Shewau, Tomes ally, to the question whether mar which would otherwise remain in and Co. The fire was extinguithriage is or is not in ite essence the bank. All the work in con- ed by the employees, the damage contrect; with the result that, section with the scheme is being estimated at $900.

though the author himself evid gratuitously discharged, and if;

eatly irolines to the view that it the public of Hongkong does not Last night, for one night only, a "tatus" rather than a "con- utilise the Association to the the Victoria Theatre ectcened a tract," he beds it impossible to extent which it should, then we fire-part film which has made

ignore the fact that in English may be pardoned for wonder- great sensation in America: "As it is looked at very much in ing what has become of its Daughter of the People." To the light of a contract. shrewdness or la patriotism. night there is a complete change of progamme, and farther episodes The of the popular picture: Icon Claw" will be shown.

More Threats.

Bge

18.11,

threat læet

is

Victoria Theatre.

Alice Memorial Hospital.

Theft of Needles.

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selling sweeps under the auspices of worship does not always come Unconscions humour in places of the Police Reserve be just as from the palpit, says the Daily likely to have the same effect on Chronicle. At a church where the

their

younger members ?.

Yours etc. A FATHER.

Bongkong, Feb 2, 1917.

MEN'S CLUB,

selection of the hymns formed

part of the organist's daty, the feelings of the minister who had just delivered a fiery sermon apon “ Hell” may be better.ims- gined than described when,'on ita conclusion, the organist began to play the hymn tune“ What mast it be to be there ?" Equally in appropriate to the occasion was the musical number selected to-

An Enjoyable Entertainment.

Two hundred military men thoroughly erjoyed a splendid follow a tediously long sermon by entertainment, which had been the pastor (who was no orator), nanged for them at another the sathem "Now it is high time social evening at the Men's Club to swake out of sleep.' on Waneeday. The programme, kindly provided by men from

mechanical and scientific knoW-

diameter and not circumference.

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We get an amusing glimpse of

One of the chief principles ex- phasised by the writer, and it is s principle which there is a ten- Germany still peraints in

dency sometimen to overlook, is thinking to the very last that,!

That eich country is entitled to by breathing forth threateninga and laughter, she can intimidate The Hor. Tresearer of the regard or to disregard, at its the Allies. She forgets that it is Alice Memorial and Affiliated absolute pleasure, the laws of only ench people as her own that Hospitale bege to acknowledge creign states (onless specifically with tbacke fle following

bound by treatise) and if it can be frightened out of, or into, a a certain coarre. With the aver- donations to the funds of the chooses to adopt or to counten

Hospitals:-Mat Bags Guild, ance, for any particular purpose, Mount Davis and Lyeeman, wea: One does not lightly criticise dates $75; Wesleyan Chinese Church, or for any particular occasion, with its usual hearty swing from Mr. H. G. Wells, especially on his Positively the

a foreign rent in the world. Ask him nicely $23.13; Rhenish Mission Church, the provision of

code, it is not, in doing so, start to finish, and there was not a and politely to desist from a cer-, $10.

to be considered as holding itself dull moment throughout. A very ledge, remarks the same paper. tain line of action, and it is quite New Fellows of the R.C.I

attractive tara was given by Sap- There was however one amasing possible that Le may oblige; The following geatlemen have bound by such foreign law, thralen bin, and you merely been elected non-resident Fellows but rather as making such law its per Cooke, K.V.C., who mysti mistake or perhaps a printer's put him on his mettle, and be of the Royal Colonial Institute: for that purpose or for that fied and amused bis sadierce by a error!-in his most enlightening hand and esrd tricks. Other items the possibility of the monster ecornfully asks you to make good Mr. Joseph Gould, Hongkong: occasion. The old theory of the series of very clever sleight-of-article on "Tanks," Talking of "abiquity of law"-meaning a your menaces. With the German Mr. John E. Hali and Mr. David it is the reverse.

He is a bora Jephson, Shanghai; Mr. Colin personal status (a sort of “sim. of high merit were given by Graving to retire, Mr. Wells states: In the course of an interview, of which Renter cabled through]"bloff" and therefore can bimaalf B. Miller, Federated Malay bus") that accompanied each McQuade (violin), Gr. E. Jones. It will theo halt and spin alow. a summary a couple of days ago, Sir Starr Jameson is quoted as

Now, having expressed himself as being aghast to think how sil pas easily be bloed-and, as ie States; Mr. Edward Taswell person wherever be chose to wan. (tenor), Bir. Wainwright (comic), ly round, grinding out an areas

he might elect to settle himself, Bdr. Cooper (comic), each of whom equal to its length." Governments had neglected to assist in the development of the customszy with him, he measures Cempbell, Java, Mre B. A. Gould, der, and in whatever community Set. MeGregor, B.E (comic), and of desolation with a circumference Empire's vast wealth. The remark was made in connection with other folk's carn by bisown buehel. of Hongkong, has been elected an whether as a transient or a per: appeared twice during the even body revolving on a pivot would manent member-bas in moderning end received an enthusiastic decoribs a circumference equal to Bome considerations of the task which lies before the Empire Re-Side by side with Germany's Associate of the Institute.

threats, too, comes her contempt Hources Development Commities, and it is one which re-echoes &ible whining to the United States Before Mr. J. H. Wood, at the times been entirely discredited, encore on each occasion. Where just over three times its length- feeling which many an Imperialist mast have harboured for long about Britain's "misuse" of Boa Magistracy this morning, Chin. and the State is deemed free to all were so good, it is impossible 3.1417, times to be more exact, yours past. When we refect on the great expanses of territory

ils Rates mention. Arcompanimsate were which have come nader British control and deminion, in all quar-power, and the consequent bun- ess was charged with stealing 21 deal with the stain of sich to pick out individuals for spreis! Presumably Mr. Wells meant tars of the globe, the point inevitably ssserts itself that, had we but ger among German women and tine of needles, each tin contain foreigner within willed it, we could have so utilised our inexhaustible resources as to children. There was a time when ing 10,000 needles, and valued at rather from the print of view of ably plaved by Gr. Bilcocks, from from Lyeemun, A gramopbens have placed the Empire on an absolutely self-supporting basis, this pretty little story would have $32 each tin. Defendant stole protecting its own subjects than Mount Davie, and Cpl. Smith, Bat, so far from following a policy of co-ordination and true co./loand Americs ready to swallow the tins from his master's shop at from that of consideration of th and some excellent records, kind. life at Spencer Houss-the latent it but is it wise row to 121, Queen's Lord West, and rights of the foreigner himself. partnership between the various units conslitating our overseas

Co. and Mr. Mitobelmore, took the Government-in the letters of dominione, we have been sil too content to allow foreign interests talk of the sofferings of women sold them very much under price. attributed to him by his lay lent by the Robinson Piano ansion placed at the disposal of

and children to neutrals He was sentebord to six monthe' patria.

the place of an orchestre, and the Lady Sarah Spencer, daughter of to step in and reap the rewards which rightfully ara CUF OWN. 010: whose own women and children herd Jabour. Foar other men, The book, perhaps, suffers from General Secretary of the Club, the coad earl In May 1808 may be pardoned for wondering if Germany, had she been in have been pitilessly drowned by charged with receiving, were the attempt to compress withia Cpl. B.A. Morrie, acted as M.O. Lady Sash writes from spencer possession of our enormous advantages, would have remained will- German "asilors"?

remanded until Monday. Mr. some 130 email pages the chief and received much valuable House to her brother: "The event ing to rub along on sach haphesard liner.

Agasis appears to prosecute, bearings of a subject which has assistance from many efficient of the greatest importance I know Batin this regard, as in the case of many snother short-coming The Answer.

The Late Mrs. Mather. been dealt with at much greater helpers, including Cpl. Holland, of today is the arrival and down- which the war has revealed, we can afford to forget the pest, It strikes us very forcibly that We regret to record the death, length by a considerable number Cpl. Armstrong, Opi. Jones, Pe. laying of a beautiful new carpet provided we are prepared to stone for its mistaken. And that (if von Bothmann-Hollweg will not at Home, of Mre. Mather, widow of writers of eminence (Dicey, Callis and others. The National in the drawing room. It afforda the scheme foreshadowed in the interview to which we have referred have to wait long for an answer of the late Mr. B. L. Mather, at Foote, Mains, Phillimore, Story, Anthem and three cheers for the conversation to all the visitors, is put into effect) we are apparently resolved to do. The cent al to his asshbackier talk. The ons time in the Government Westlake and Wherton among performers brought on enjoyable and sfforded Mama an exonse for ides of the new scheme, we are told, is the development of the State, by Allies know their own power Service in Fongkong.

turning out Lord Balkeley's great The modern writers); but criticism evening to an end. the State, for the State. To achieve that end, it is realised that finan-sad resources; they know that deceased, who was about 62 years on this side is disarmed by the

As it has been found necessary dog, whom he had brought with eis! considerations are bound to play a large and important part, for they have the whip hand of of age, was very well-known in author'e ona dialaimer of any to wind up this series of winter him, two very good elfeels to be without money and an almost unlimited supply of it-there can this yelping cur; and, the more Hongkong and the China coast pretension that his treatment of sociale, a special concert, to mark produced by a new carpet. Alas, be small hope of developing the sow onexploited potentialities of he yelps, the more rigorously generally, having res ded for the subject is exhaustive, and their close, has been arranged for poor carpet! In how short a time

£ Our about 35 years in the Colony. [one of our far flung Empire. One cannot have read the sammary of are they likely to lay on.

icolined next Wednesday, February 7, will it be trod and spit upon by the interview noted without having brea struck by the thought that manition-makere and our mine- About ten years ago she left to applaud the courage of his The programme will begin at dog and men, without scruple. what is contemplated in an even greater extension of the principles layers are at this very moment Hongkong for Home, and, with attempt then to quarrel with say 7.30 with a Chinees acrobatic and never thought of from week's

end to week's end!” of socialism that has already been applied to internal and industrial preparing the answer. Had some the exception of one trip out East, condensation of his argument, display, to be followed by star conditions in the Mother Country. We see that idea_plaialy out of the foolish pareone who figured has lived thers ever since. She has especially as ona may arzume turns from start to finish. H.E. lined in the statement that, for the present, the Committes is in the late Government at Home's son at the present time a chief that Mr. Cheng in writing in the Governor and HE. Major- avoiding the antagonising of vested intereste, “bat it is believed to listened to the voice of reseon, Lord engineer in Masers. Batterfield language, and quoting from and General F. Ventris have intimated Mr. Lloyd Georgs'a oratory, wa be frasible that existing individual enterprises, where involved, Robert Cecil would not have been and Swire's shipping service, criticising works written in their intention to be present, and may be sure, difers from that of could participate as co-partner with the State upon an increased saying, a couple of days ago, that Barrack-stors Theft.

lengarge, that is not his native it is hoped that the many friends the elder Pitt, with whose posi profits basis." Beading between the lines, one can delect a suggest the blockade "was nearly com A lamp trimmer, formerly ex- tongue.

of the Men's Clab will honour tion our new Prime Minister' is ion that the State is willing to co-operate with individual interests plote." Noarly complete after played at Wellington Barracks, Having paid bim this tribats, the occasion by their presence.

now comparable, observes the Chronicle, Pitt's prepared so long as such co-operation tenda to the common good, but that, if exscily two and a half years of was charged before Mr. J. R. one may be pardoned for question-

#peedben were • lamentable neoscary, and if it can secure the practical nexistence of the people, was! Let as admit frankly that, Wood, at the Police Coort this ing the wisdom of his method in

failure. Es wa *. brilliant it will not hesitate to put its foot down on profiteering combinations the British Ministry's own morning, with breaking into the introducing into the body of hin

But sometimes. whiob exist solely for the benefit of those whose one sim in exploit-stapendons folly is mainly re stores there. It was stated by text quotations and references reference, and is not intended extemporiser, ation of the Empire's wealth is individual gain.

sponsille for

the fact that Inspector Sim that in December which, in a work of this kind, (presumably) for readers outside his desire to reveal secreta got the better of him, mo Already in and develorment, fi-beries and the palm oil trade the conflict has endured for so last the stores were broken into, are anally relegated to the the legal profession.

Had wo armed our and on December 81, the asme foot of each the Committee has prepared an excellent prima facis case favouring long.

peg". They The Table of Contents which that he was in dreadfal nazisty State development of those industries, and we may take it for grant-merchant ships from the begin thing occurred. This time de-form, sometimes, inconvenient prefaces the text, and the sam- least some important thing, might ei that the privbiples upon which this conclusion is founded will, if ning, and had we troubled our fondant was seen ranging away, parentheses, which brouk in mary of the author's copolusions sscape that it was not desirable found practicable, be applied in other industrial spheres as well. selves a little lers about the and, although he got away, he awkwardly upon the sequenos of which forms the final chapter, to reveal. One of his admirars One point which we are particularly pleased to observa is that the "poonvanienos" to which our dropped a key of the atores. Yes the argument, na will be gathered are excellent features, and the mid about his style: "He w probability is mentioned of arrangements being made for public blockade was likely to subject' terday the defendant was seen in from the fact that in one case a book may be commended to all prolix in the whole texture of his investment in these Btate-aided industries on lines similar to the neutrals that have bean too proud, Wing Fang Street and was sentence is interrapted by a par- who masy desire an up-to-date discourse, and he was certainly facilition available in connection with the War Loans. In this way, to fight, but by no means too proud arrested. A gasstity of stores enthesis which starts in the statement of the rales now con- the first to introduos into our Britishers can secure a personal stake in the Empire's wealth, and, to coin billions of dollars out of was missing. Defendant admitted middle of one page and continues siderad sa governing private Senate the practice adopted in " with the security provided by Government backing, they need have the war, Germany would have the offence and said the key was half-way down the next. However, relations between persons of the American War by Mr. Barks, no fears that their investments will be in jeopardy. The whole been starved into enbmission are given him. His Worship senten- this is not a serious blemish on a different nationalties presented and continued by others, of long scheme appears to foreshadow a practical application of the best this. Heaven be thanked we have cod him to six months' hard work which sets out to be alinacompendious form.Spraially speeches, by which orstory has

·labour... Come to our senose at last,

** treation”? rather than a book of contributed,

guined little and business loss:“ features of what is commonly termed scoialism.

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