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THE HONGKONG-

DEWAR'S

"IMPERIAL"

AND

EXTRA SPECIAL"

SCOTCH WHISKY.

AGENTS:

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The German and Carrda.

Canada is nocomarily { "vary prominent in the public mind now that there is serious, talk af

RAPH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY

DAY BY DAY..

DISEASES DESPERATE GROWN.

The Dollar.

the United States' declaring war | BY DESPERATE APPLIANCES ARE on Germany. As we have already | BELIEVED, OR NOT AT ALL- suggested—and as some of yester- Hamlet. day's wires proved-America's prime difficulty, in the event of war, in that of dealing with the enormous numbers of trained on German soldiers in her territory, |24. 4.5/168. to say nothing of other enormone cumbers of hyphenatee" and ermpathieers. It seems

to as

The opening rate of the dollar

stemand to-day

To-morrow's Anniversary,

Was

Te-morrow is the 105th anni- that this is where Oanada versary of the birth of Charles

in. Diokens. bo likely to come B8', The Canadian population is auder rather than over eight:

For the Troops.

a

millions, but the census of 1911 We acknowledge with thanks shows her to be in possession of parcel of reading matter from a potential army of over two | Mis. Gardiner for the troops. millionr, and, generous though

she has been in the matter of sending men to the Front, we

Benefit Concert.

A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., may be sure that her practically benefit concert is being bold

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

Telephone No. 616.

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Readers are reminded that minded politicians have never the Victoria Theatre to-night at lost sight of the fact that the 9.15, in behalf of the relativee of country might at any time be the late Mr. Batton. obliged to deal with attacke

At Home.

CHINA'S AFFAIRS.

YOUNG MEN CAN SAVE THE COUNTRY.

Liang Shih-yl's Views On Accepting Office Again.

VIOLENT CHINESE.

Attempt to Expert Dollars.

TO-DAYS-1

So much has happened vinee the annual reference books for | 1917 went to prasa, saya a Rome

The story of a man's determin- paper, that the majority of them ed attempt to get aboard a when published will be already a Douglas beat with over $800 little out of date, The Cabinet which he was desirous of export changes were the biggest blow to ing was told to Mr. J. R. Wood the maksts of reference books at the Polios Court this morning far issued containing the names end dïazine, not one of those NO. Defendant asid he was not any of Mr. Lloyd George's Ministry. where near the Douglas wharf,

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It has been repeatedly stated in the local vernsonlar papers that Liang Shib-yi, the late Yoan Shih kui's former financial adviser, is but was on the Prays, where he A similar state of affairs occurred being pressed by the Central was going to get the money in 1911. Daring the previous | year there were two Parliamentary Gorerament to return to Peking and to resume his old offics. dr. changed at a money changer's.

P. C. Fallon said he was sit elections. The members chosen Liang, most of our readers are ting on the Douglas what in Jannery were not included in the 1910 Your Books, although axare, has been etaying in Hong-when defendant entered, and kang for some months, having soon as defendant caw bim he they figured in the 1911 ones left Peking soon after the death turned and walked quickly of while as a matter of fact they had of President Yuan. In Tele-Defendant went up the ctrest and gone out of office in Desember.

1910. graph interview yesterday he witness followed him and canges explained the situation at some him. Witness told him he was

policeman and was going to length.

We are not often in a position "It is true;" he said, “that search him. He took hold soms people in the Government, of him, and defendant to judge of the mental outlook of and also soms of the public, have struggled so much that they both our publin men in privats life, from the Germans of America. The Committee of the Oatholic repeatedly implied their wish for fell to the ground. Capt. Crisp observes the Globe. The late Mr. It i rather the Germans Women's League will be At me to return to Peking; but at was passag and assisted him; Chamberlain was known to be s. themselves who STO likely Hom to members and their friends present their representations are otherwise, he would not have been great reader, and was reported when at Highbury to sit up for Correspondents are requested to observe the rule

forward their names and addresses with to have forgotten that there requires them ta

ing me as to my willingness. round defendant's waist in a had retired. He is said to have communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for is still a large and ficient on the 16th inet. There will be a little vague. You might rather able to hold the man, he wo

army in Canada, ready, st need. /an entertainment at 5 p.m. and @sy that they have boon "sound-¦ etrang. The moday was" tied that purpose after his household danging from 6 to 7.30 p.m. I had eacrificed my comfort before waistcoat meant to be used for favoured light novels, such sa publization, but as an evidence of their bona fides.

The Colony's Health. All communications intended for publication should be addressed | to talk to the ruffians who, having been allowed to make the United

Last wask there were 63 cases to work for the nation and my the purpose, and tied round the those of Henry Harland, among to the Editor.

States their home, bave thought of small-pon notified in the Colony fellow-countrymen, and I do not whole was a length of lamp wick. books of quite another obaraster. well to use it as a base for their (all Chinese), of which 53 ended grudge doing so again, but I He was taken to the Police Arrespondent given us a abominable plots. But before fatally. There was also two non- am afraid I may not be able to Station with the assistance of an glimpse into what we may seeme venturing farther in discussing fatal occurrences of enteric fever do much good. Why? There Iadinu, and when the lakong was to be the altitude of Mr. Lloyd this interesting point, one rather (one English and one Chinese) are two BRON:-(1) There searching him in the charge room George, whom he observed cross-

• piece of ing8. James's Park the other day feels that one would like to know and ons fatal case of plagas, must be implicit trust. Only be pulled oa:

an avowed ally of Chiness being the victim. those who

trusted and paper and swallowed it in front) with two books in his pondeation. no gainst whom

suspicion of them all. At the time of the One was" Degenerate Germany.” When three Chinese were is entertained can achieve any arrest there was a ship at the the other "The Pilgrim's Pro- charged before Mr. J. B. Wood, good for their country. I was in wharf, which was leaving 13-day gross," a sufficiently wide choice at the Police Court this morning, charge of finance and I may tell for Swatow, and the defendant of entject. with importing opium, Mr. you something about the Bink of spoke the Swatow dialect. D'Almada mentioned that the case Communications. The balance

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Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager,

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

Teisphome: No. 1 A.B.C., 5th edition,··

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Wastern Union Office address: 11, Ice House St.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.

Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell wish to thank their many friends for their kind expressions of sympathy and floral tributes in their sad] bereavement.

DEATH.

WICKING. On the 1st instant, at her residence Milton Road Bournemouth, Mrs. Hannah Wicking, widow of the late Mr. Harry

Wicking.

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1917.

DEUTSCHLAND UEBER ALLES!

If it was Germany's wish to create for herself as many enemies as possible and it was that wish is certainly gratified, for har name stinks in the nostrils of civilisation, and country after country is coming to the limits of its endurance, Germany is tired of the

if it in an Britain's that America is entering the field, or merely as a quite icdependent Power-or, for that matter, if she really is going to enter it at all. Our Beggars,

and the Charitable Institutions. with a Tiew to having the women, the old men and the crippled lodged permanently in some kind of poor-house in Osaton?

A Calcutta Inducement."

ELECTIONS.

Results of the Poll.

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than four hundred

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If we are to believe the latest · ·

Marcel prognostication of M. Hatin, says the Globe, the Crown

Defendant said he bad |

A distinguished correspondent, the money by collect- Yesterday an old man was fined was similar to many others which sheet of this Bank st the end of got four dollars (with the alterns came before the Court. People at 1915 shows that both the assetsing various drafe and he wanted says the Chronide, hastens to tive of a week's hard labour) for Caleatis induced the men, who and liabilities were respectively to remit the money somewhere delend Punch in its delineation persistent begging. He had al-were employed on a ship, to bring about $128,000,000, and the so- elee. He was aking from the of Nelson without the familiar. ready been sent to Centon four the drag to Hongkong. Defend-oals of the said Bank were shopkeepers how much discount patch which denoted the low of times. To-day a similar case ants were fined $200, $250 and audited by the Ministry of Fisance, they would allow him if he placed an eye before the glass nubetitute the Ministry of Communications it in their hands and let them send was invented.” In that sense, be arcee and, apropos, the inspector $150 respectively. in charge of it observed, that Pests of the Colony, and the Audit Department-it. When he was outside the door of ways, Nelson never lost an eye. At six or seven hundred of these In a case in which an old man respectively and independently a shop a policeman went up to him the siege of Galsi a shell or shot to September last and asked him to go to the whirf. falling near him drove a lot of quinanoes were sent out of the was charged before Mr. C. D. {in `~Jane Colony last year, but that they Melboatns at the Police Court your.. They found that all the Before that he had been nowhere sand into one of Nelson's eyes, all came back-some no less this morning, with begging. In accounts were correct and that near the wharf, He did not know causing the permanezt loss of than fourteen times. The beggar sector Kent raid the defendant neither I nor any of my staff had the name of the shop. He brought eight. But the eye was not die- difficulty here is no slight one was soliciting alms from Euro- misappropriated say money, the money into Hongkong from gured, and does not appear dis and the police have had their peans in D'Aguilar Street yeater These three Departments should, Canton laat night and was as figured in any portrait of him I H hid plenty have seen. If be ever more a hande more than fail. In fair-day. These people were perfect therefore have given these factassulted. Dees, too, it must be owned that pests. He sent away ball-a-dozin the widest publicity in order to of witnesses in Canton, but black patch it can only, I think, have been, for a short time im. they have made big strides in last night, but he know fall well show beyond doubt my financial none here.

His Worship ordered that the mediately after the wound was keeping down the trouble. Un-that they would be back again integrity. Their silence, however,

Bat is there ́any fortunately, however, the state shortly. Last year six or seven tende only to give carrency to dollars should be confiscated, inflicted. Germany may now be said to be nearer than ever in silaining fent from one of their number to hundred were sent to Canton, bat ramoors against my character, and, in addition, inflicted a fias evidence that he ever wore a black her long cherished desire; that of finding the whole world opposed

patch? PET. to her. From the moment (and that was quite early in the war) the ffset that, when the mendic- they all returned. Some of them which will impair any trust that of $500, or, in default of

"Again, take the case of the ment. when her Kaiser and his eril counsellors realised that they could als are sent away, they just come bad came back no less than four-may be pisced in me.

accounts. published not possibly win-could not, in fact, fail to lose hudly they determ back again, is sufficient proof teen times. His Worship saked ined that the Allies' victory should cost the latter dear, and that that the means employed it pre defendant if he had been sent absurd

to the late president's they themselves must be prepared, sooner or later, to sewer some sent are ineufficient. Of course away and had come back. Ho questions which the public of Germany, as well as Germany's part- such people cannot be treated admitted that he had, but added. expenditure in furthering the

like dangerous criminals, "Not this year." A fine of $5 monarchy idea. Wa are seriously my outlook is a comparatively Prince has been given an import- ners in crime, would be desirous of putting. The only answer which they could think of, as being likely to save their face in though we see no reason why we inflicted, Inspector Kent exy- told that Yaan spent "millions of short one, and I cannot work with ant command on the Western presence of a tribunal of the general public, was:

banishment orders should not be ing he would send the man away dollara" in the scheme. I was an eye on the fata ́s, as younger Front in order that he may gain "We were not

not in charge of the fasacs of men can. For the last two years his field-marshalship, an opport beaten by the Allies. They had to get the neutral world to help not possible for the Government

made out against them. But is it again.

this movement at the time, but I of Yuan Shih-ksi's life I was unity gravely compromised by the them." "As we have tried to point out a score of times during the

happen to know positively that always trying to persuade him Vardan episode. The gladiators that appointments should be of old, "butchered to make a past two years, if the Kainer and his friends had to lose, it could or the Tang Wah Committee to matter little to them how many antagonists were going to win. If approach the Canton Government SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL the sum spent on it was not more

thousand given only to men ander fire- Roman holiday,” are in rivalry man owes a handred dollars, it can hardly make much differends to

dollars. The fascial authorities and-forty. A Minister must always altogether trivial to this appoint be looking ahead, and there ment of an incompetent, - vain- him whether be pays it to one creditor or to fifty.

should have investigated thĩn matter and should not have given should be sufficient margin of glorious Hohenzollern for the years in front of him for him to prestige of the dynasty." What Tague answers when questioned able to see at least some of the prestige can be worth half a on the point. This suppression

Tas fantastio length of the Divine The election of the Municipal of facte maturally has had a most good results of his work within million lives of its supporters ?? war and is taking a short cut to the end of it. More than one class "sturdy beggars ", the good | Council came to a close last Tues- | mischievous effeot on the nation his own lifetime. the neutral nations has for long enough wanted a reasonable

"The only thing that will save right theory in Germany could China is for her to "work ahead" not be more forcibly exemplified. excuse for "ooming io," but the fate of Romania, to say nothing of that old Eaglish law of whipping has day afternoon at 3 o'clock after a generally.

(2) My second reason is on I do not say that a man should gamble in slaughter is nothing of Poland, Belgium and Serbia, carried an awful warning smell to ever yet been improved upon; brisk day's polling. Both at the countries. There is probably little doubt that, six month ago, could and, if it became known that a Tax Office and at the Hongkong 100ount of the present party necessarily retire at forty-Eva. to this princelet. He must bare

his revenge" for Verdun. It in ̈ ́. Americe, Spain, Holland, Switserland and the Scandinavian countries sound flogging was the recognis-and Shanghai Bank, Hongke feeling. As you know, there are What we really need to do is to hare reached a proper understanding, the whole world would haveed punishment in Hongkong Branch, there were goodly cum-two principal parties in China at

get hold of the young fellows and enough to turn all monarchiste

being able to end a war whose tension has become intolerable to

"As a postscript to examples of everyone but the capitaliste. To-day Germany has gone as near as for the child beggars, why are of papers handed in was 139 short or Progressives. Suppose I wore that they are ready to take over posible to bidding open defiance to them all, sed surely the only they not arrested on sight and of that of last year, says the N to return to Poking ts-morrow: the work at a minute's notice, and unconscious humour is the pulpit reasonable interpretation thereof is that she wants to be put out of handed over to the custody of in- C. Daily News. The numbers the Kaomising people would

may possibly be able to keep and out of it the Chronisie in re- year word 991 volée immediately suspect that I was her misery. Everyone who takes the trouble to indulge in a little dustrial schools? Surely the Gov. this

and going to side with the Chicon working till afty, or even minded of the case of that anper ocossional thinking know the value of the resent "peace proposal" orament oss afford to subsidies and 16 irregolar roles the variset sobaol child knew that tasy denoted panic, and that this the French Sieters, on the under- last year 1,135 votes and 11 potang, while the Obingatang sixty. Our young men are some intendent of a Sunday-school times a difficult problem to whose enthusisem ran towards nation of bailies cherished just a last hope that "blod" would etill standing that they look after irregular votes. All the old would doubtless ssy that I had handle. If they are not given regular attendances. Oss Ban all auob waifs, To Lake away councillors standing were re- come to take sides with the carry it to a point at which “terms" could be arranged.

By making a united enemy of every country in the world but the children from the ad elected in addition to the conseil's Kaominiang. As a matter of fact positions of some amount of re: day he bubbled over: her own three allice, Germany virtually reached the last page in the alt beggare in usually to nominee, Mr. White. Me. E. O. I worked my very bardest to responsibility they will have no fellow workers and children," he story of the war. She cats her people of from all further hope of rob these of their main capital, Peares heads the poll with 880 concile the one to the other daring opportunity for being trained, annosced, "out of the entire outside help and sympathy and the places under the poses of Ace- and so to break up their little vales and Baron Fajimars cams the first and second years of the and so, when the present genera school only one person is abwent tria, Bulgaria and Turkey the temptation to out themselves off from As often as not the youngsters H. B. Girardot and R. McE. earostly wish to dispel all away, there will be no sait-hope that sha in ill,”

establishments very satisfactorily. second 73 vots behind. Kouera, Republic, I may mention that I tion of experienced men preses 10-day-little Maggie. Let us her rather than share in her complute destination. No one knowa

unsuccessfel caspicions. I have, however, al-able men to succeed them. In beiter than these three countries that any hope which they formerly probably do not belong to them Dalgleish, the held of benefiting by the conflict was long ago put out of court. For at all, but have been stolen, candidatos, secured 345 and 299 ways concentrated my attention on that oase, who will manage the them, further fighting only means a newer approach to absolute Left in the hands of the wretched roles respectively. Hesers, Cecil my own work and never devoted affairs of China? To come back 10 ruin and loss of independence. A surrender now would enable old harzidans who exploit them, Holliday and C. W. Wrightson much time to fraternising with our original topic, as there are them to save si last something from the wreck; another three or six it is not difficult to foretell their acted as scrutineers. months fighting against food shortage, internal discontent and fature, whereas if they are handed external and extremely activa military and naval forces, may leave over to the nune there is ovary them without a thirs to cover them, As for Germany, if she still reasonable prospect of their huga to herself the idas that she presents to the world a noble developing into decent and self- picture of a great nation with its back to the wall, fighting for its respecting people. Whether they honour to the last, she is mightily mistaken. Germany, as the world actually belong to the adult beg. sees her to-day, is nothing of the sort: she is just a sewer rat, gars or not, there is surely nothing for the Government to apologise dasking frantically, from side to side of an ever-contracting cage, maddened with fear for the future and tortured by recollections of for, in taking them away from a the unspeakable folly which, in the past, prompted her to think career whose and is the gao), and that a'rut could the map and develop into a lion. An edifying ploture, truly, patting them on the road to

useful' citinovskij

The Sturdy and the Young.

For those who come under the

combined to come in on one side or the other, in the hope of thus for each people, we should bera of votes polled, but though present: the Kuomintang or train them, by letting them ander into repablicans.

ba rid of them. As this was the case the total sumber Republicans, and the Chinpatang study their superiors in office, sa

var to dominats earth and bonvORİ

The Totes obtained by the now councillors are as follow:

Mr. O, E. Paaroo ...850 Baron Fujimura ...787 Mr. J. Johnstons .....747 · Mr. E. C. Richarda:781 Mr. E. L. Lara Count L. Jezierski.....693° Mr.W.IA. Marriman,.667. Mr. A. B; T. White-

** Cooner 650

Ir. E. White

"DAK

TRAMWAY RETURNS.

the different parties. This has very many men of remarkable

The following in the approxi- been one of my shortcomings, ability in the diffrent politiosi Lonsider that in a wasic country Farties, the prosent is not an ap like Chins, we musi get the young propriate time for me to set out mate statement of the Hongkong

Tramway -- Company # members of these parties to come to sodeps offios again.”

"In a word, then, you do not receipts for she was bine their energies, in order toț ronse the people with a view to see your way to apoapting office February 8, 1917. the salvation of the nation, Is again 7”

has always been my policy, to | “Baspicions and remours are

Beouf pin

train up young man-Chins rampant in the country, and I This Tose:.... 813 428 is the young man ang country, must wait till these are cleared

and not "old the was sie van