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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1917.

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To-morrow's Anniversary,

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To-morrow in the 68th anniver sary of the capture of Gezirat by Lord Gough,

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STAGE REFORM.

What is Wrong with the Theatre ?

CONCEALING SMALL-POX.| TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

Two Chiness Women Fined.

only

Ruskin tried to stimulate the

The lot of the schoolmaster who sota bimself, to the task of pre- serving strict discipline în his echool is none too happy a one în

An excellent story is told by s place like Hongkong, where

ག Major Ri Lloyd Gearge in the children are apt to be given

"A Chinese woman was charged | magasins of the Fourth London rather more latitude by their

before Mr. O. D. Melbourne, at the General Hospital,' raya a report parents than is good for them.

The present condition of the Police Court this morning, with from London.Mafor Lloyd George We are prompted to make this on

English stage, if unsatisfactory, concealing a case of small-pɔx, recounts how he was called upon. remark because of an observation Zs, 4.7/181.

Defendant said that she had to censor some. soldiers' letkørs is not unpopular with the masse in the Headmaster's report, of the

been in because they have no opportunity

Bongkang bom and in one of those a pri- Victoria British School to the ffect!

of knowing how much interesting for about a month, having rate wrote: "Our company com- that corporal punishment had to

and amusing drama exists which come from the country and did mander is a son of Lloyd George, be resorted to on three occasions

not know the lawa,

but the other officers are perfect never reaches the footlights. during the year, with the result

"Hitherto," says Mr. W. Poel, in A Sanitary Inspector said he gentlemes," No doubt he earned: that two boys were withdrawD.

the Contemporary Review, English-aon daty at 15, Bridges Street it, but the private is a corporal The same school, we believe, lost

Alice Memorial Hospital.

men have cared very little about when he saw a woman hiding, now, the major added. other pupils becsuss. of certain The Hon. Treasurer of the an ideal theatre having only with child on her back, disciplinary measures which were Alice Kemorial and Affiliated concerned themselves seriously The child was enffering from taken, the parents in each case Hospitals bege to acknowledge with politica. Moreover, the re-small-poz. Ha bad the supporting their children. We with thanks the following dona-form of the stage has no interes! | woman and the child removed to consumption of tea by opening & know nothing of the merits of tion to the funds of the Hospitals: for educated people, who have the Tang Wab Hospiral, and shop in Paddington Street, Not- the individual instaccae,-0. Shin Ting, $10. „

when he returned to the house he ting Hill, saya the Chronisle. The practically forgotten its very though are prepared to

existence through having for so found the defendant.

shop was intended, he announced believe that the master, id Shanghai Wharf Dividend,

His Worship indicted a fine of" to supply the poor with pure long ceased to be playgoers. The acting as he did, was merely Mesare. Benjamin and Potts attitude of managers also is an

$25.

|tes ia psoksts as small as they taking ordinary precautions for advise us that the Shanghai and irresponsible one, for they con

The case was also heard in ohoore to buy, without making a the maintensoce of discipline Bloogkew Wharf Co., Ltd, has tend that the public decides which the other woman was proft on the subdivision. Elis among the children under his declared a dividend of Tla. 5.00 which plays it likes; but it charged. She also said she had enterprice was not rewarded. control. The same tale, we for the year ending December 31, is not so easy to explain where been in Hongkong only a month."The poor only like to buy their. which imagine, could be told of many 1916.

playgoers have sequired their Ber child had been vaccinated tes," he complained after si Correspondents are requested to observe the rule requires them to forward their games and addresses with another school in Bongkung

standard of lasts except by re- prior to it contracting small-por, months shop-keeping, "where A Fatal Fail. communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily fer European children in the Far

cognising that while demand A fine of $25 was imposed in it is brilliantly lighted and Est are precocious enough in all publication, but as an evidence of their bona fides.

The death has been reported creates supply, supply BIBO

eloquently ticketed; and as I conscience, and we do not enry to the Police of a Chinese who fell creates demand. What is needed

revolutely declined to compete the teacher who has charge of between decka- oa Datoh is opportunity to provide whole-

with my neighbours either in gas some of these youngsters. Bat steamer in Harbour. The man some playa, and this can only be POLICE RESERVE ORDERS. on of my parcels passes little or rhetoric, the patient eubdivis- there are parents who will always sustained such booking injories brought about by the help of take the part of their children to his head that he died rery intelligent and candid criticism. when the latter come into couf at shortly after the accident.

Unfortunately, with their teachers, no matter

courage, such criticism because where the fault lies. · Such a

they insist that the public shall At the Palics Court, this morr-be allowed to form its own work of the tescher all the herder; ing, a Chinese was charged with opinion. The daily issue is delivered free when the addresses is accessible to it is bound, in the long ran, stealing 22 lengthe of 3-inch pip- Again, in leaving the theatre messenger. Paak subscribers can have their copies delivered at to recoil on the heads of the ing, valun about $100, the pro- to take care of itself, the com their residences without any extra charge. Os copies rent by parents. Discipline is very neces-perty of the Hongkong Univer-munity is not only neglecting poet an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. The portage on the weekly isene to any part of the world is $1.00y for growing bore in a place sily. Mr. W. R. Noble, sa Ic-what it rught to do, but it in like Hongkong. Many of them structor at the University, stated enccucaging individuals to be get all too little of it in their that the pipes belonged to the doing a good deal of work of bomer, That is why they need University and were used for osa kind which would be better left it applied with a firm hand durveying water. It was alleged that undone. By all means let the ing school hours.

the pipes were being osried away da a track to the Wing Lok Wharf. Defendant, who denied the theft, was remanded until to-morrow.

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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1917.

CROWN COLONY COMPULSION.

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not only makes the

Our Telegraphists.

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Piping from the University,

this case also.

The

Orders issed to-day by Mr.cognised ar su advantage by

my ancalculating public." managers die F. O. Jenkin D. S. P. (Reserve) shop soon closed down, and the

public have gay and aven trivial plays if it likes, so long as they While fully recognising that

are not senseless and empty im- the Eastern Extension Telegraph

postures, and the only remedy Company works under certsia

Deserter and Stowaway.

against impositions in art is the disabilities here, and that ite At the Police Court this morn-constant production before the employees get through an en-ing, a Japanese was charged, public of compositions of a trae ormous amount of good work before Mr. J. B. Wood, with and high standard. during the year, we yat feel ibat, stowing himself away on the After all, for whom do the for the benefit of the newspapers Sibaria Mara. Srgesat Pincott publio theatres exist? Are they and of those comercial houses said the man was a deserter from for those who wish to frequent which receiva a considerable the Korea Maro, which left them, or for those whose com number of cables weekly, greater Manila, and the Company charged mercial advantage it is to run. care might be exercised in the him with being a stowaway in them? A eimilar question, transcribing and typing of wires, order that he could be taken to perhaps, can be asked of the Ic in Do exaggeration to Japan and charged with being a shopman, but with this difference: say that hardly a day passes with- | deserter. Defendant asid be had that while the shopman bas some. cat our receiving a telegram concealed himself on the ship be whose meaning is more or less case he bad not sufficient money obrcare, either through wrong to pay his passage. His Worship the line, or else because the typing Horseing at one end or other of sent him to prison for a month.

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of Feb. 17-19. The list therein this Company is drawn tɔ Orders referred to will close on Wednes- day. February 21 at 5 30 p.m.

Musketry Course, Part II. Nos. 3 and 4 Companies eligible to Members of No. 2 Platoon, and fire Part II will attend the Range on Sunday next February 25.

Musketry Instruction, Central Station Armoury, 5.30 p.ta.

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Thursday, February 22.-No. Platoon (No. 4 Company). Friday, February 23.—No. 6 Platoon (No 3 Company).

Only those are to nitend who have been warned to fire Part II of this year's Course.

Strength, Joiced. No. 2 Platoon, J. Dio. Invalided Oat.-P. C 524 D'Almeda Remedios,

grocery

trade lost the mort distinguished representative it is over likely to possESE,

For some time past the Ameri- can Puck has been advertising a

appeared. The following is a great German number. This has

sample:---

who soothes the infant in his cot

And feeds the starving orphan'tot (Whose parents he has hanged

or shot)?

The Kaiser. Who cries: "Penos is my heart's

desira;

I weep to see this carnage dire" (Who firat aned “gan" and

"liquid fire) ?

· The Kaiser. Who when the fight is raging bot Lends on Lis men, through shell

and shot? (Whoever it may be it's not) The Kaiser.

War loans now offer no greater thing definits to sell, the manabis name in the play-bill; he ger has not. The public wao offers to supply the necessary opportunity of proft to membere connter capital, and gires the manager, of Parliament than to other folk, purchases from receive what is tangible in return in addition, a producer's fee of a bat it was not so century ago. for their money, also the value of thousand pounds; as conse- During the Napoleonic War the article can afterwards be quence the young author's play British credit was no low that

1 chosen.

losn stock had to be issued at a tested.

"The people of this country do

**Here it is obvious that public heavy disccant, and this gave far- not know how subtly they are taste has not influenced the ourable opportunity for jobbery. being dealt with in regard to manager's decision, nor have the Thus, when Three per Conte. stood their theatres. It is not that any playgoer's interests been considerat 70 part of a new issned would eiogle manager is responsible for ed at all. Yet this is but one of be allotted to supporters at 65 or the theatrical system, or that the drawback. The new play is even 60, soabling them to realise malevolent combination existe in-not well received on the first sa immediste profit of 5 or 10 per tentionally to deprave public night and only moderately prais- cent.

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The telegram received to-day giving the considered opinion of the Secretary of State for the Colonies on the question of compel sary local military service in those Crown Colonies where it does

has been carelessly done. In one not at presentexist, raises some important considerations regarding of last night's wires, as an ex- the part which the outlying possesions of the British Empire is playing in the war. Mr. Walter Long says this matter of impressing ample, me get "taddy epoline" A WOMAN'S EARNINGS. European British sobjects into war service has received his anxious for "muddy incline," and yest

were treated to consideration, but that he is not prepared for the present to adopt erday,we

atore for stone." The any farther change. Hongkong, of course, is one of those Crown Colonies to which compulsory service does not at present younger generation of newspaper apply, though a form of moral persuasion has been brought men usually know enough aboat into play, as a result of which the individas! who does not jain one the Morse code to enable them to or other of the local auxiliary forces is more or less a marked man, errors, but this is not the case in remedy a fair proportion of the and it is clear now that in this respect there will be no alteration business houses. The hardships Court this morning, in a case in processes not generaly knowa, and provided that the play may be It was stated in the Sammary taste. It is because by certained by the Press. More capital in in the system which at present prevails. Whatever may be done

"Dandy French officers came woman consented to a not natural in themselves, there extensively advertised se a bril- in the future, for the moment voluntary service is to continue in arising out of such errors are which a

greatest of all in the case of the judgment of $100 against her, has come about a sinister concen- liant soosse; for two weeks the in, conscious of their medals," Vogue bere,

No reasons are given in the telegram as to why what would Chinese, and of Continentale who that she was a widow with six tration in the control of theatrical house is filled with 'deadheads writes Mr. Philip Gibbs, in an snd the town led to believe that article describing the soldiers' appear to be a very wise and beneficial change in the conditions of ere not entirely familiar with children and only earned $5 a mira. local military service in not to be pat into effect. There may possibly English. Can nothing be done to month. The woman and her "The relations between a man- the piece is worth seeing! And Christmas. This particularly well ohildren were in Court, and, on ager and his public are at present 178t the absence of good plays is portrays & Continental custom. be special circumstances standing in the way of a general applica tion of compulsory service to all parts of the Empire, though we Why the German Consul? the Paine Jadge (Mr. Justice in a most unsatisfactory mats, and put down by managers to a want la the British Army medals s.ru never worn by officers can think of none that are insurmountable. At any rate, we see not In the Report of the Canton Gompertz) being informed mainly because the latter does of good taste on the part of the

men except on fall the slightest reason why, from the very moment at which opuscrip- Medical Missionary Society it is by Mr. Grist, who deleaded, of the not share any pecuniary republic, and is used as a ples to

Ramian and tion was applied at Home, it should not have been enforced for local rather startling to read, at this state of the woman's financer, be sponsibility in the choice and pro-justify them in providing their dress cocasions, whereas French, Belgian sol purposes in the Crown Colonise. Had that been done, a deal of the stage of the war, that, among those asid "She looks very well nourish duction of a play. Everyone adience with bad plays. We diers once they have was a medal. bitter feeling which has manifested itself in Hongkong, for vice-presidents of the Society who ed and I can hardly believe that knows that the test of the possese are told that out of some hundreds example, concerning elsakers' dodging their obligations would were "elected by acclamation" Isat she keeps herself and children on ion of power is the control of the of new plays which yourly are never seen without it. Or pares-strings, and the public at through a manager's bands not men wear only the ribbon of the never have been provoked. That feeling, indeed, has not entire Friday, is the Canton Coneal Ger- $5 month."

Mr. Agganis (who represented present does not realise that not one is found to be of any use for decoration on their left breast, ly died down yet, for it is said that there are still men hare who are, oral for Germany. This gentleman not attached to any of the Colony's defence forces. We should have is one of many who have been by plaintifI think that is ans farthing of the money the the stage, or, in other words, mack to the smasement of our thought that by this time every man would have been shamed into 10 means insotive in lyingsbeurd offer. I suggest abe manager needs in order to rent there is no capital forthcoming Allies, who cannot understand

the Chinees | Las doing his bit, even if he had the inclination to shirk his duty. But #ystematically to

better income than his theatre, produse his play, and with which to produce them. This Tommy's pride in a "little bit of what many people will now be asking is why it is that certain of the about the progress of the war and that stated. She doesn't look run it for at least five weeks is is why the doors of our theatres ribbon." Germany follows the supplied by those for whose hens are shut against Shakespeare, example of other Continental Crown Colonies such se Singapore and Ceylon should have been the iniquilion of the British as if she lived on $5. able to enforce compulsion, while others, Hongkong included, should Government; and in any case ho His Lordship-It is impost the play is given. So that it Sheridan, and all olamice, nu well rub along on voluntary lines. Sauos for the goose should saraly be is a German-and one can't touch sible for me to adjust ersatly what follows of necessity that the mans as against plays written by

Nothing could well be more sauce for the gander too. And we know that by far the bigger pro- pitch without being defiled. The she should pay.. They know their ger's choice of a play depends modern men of talent. For the

more on the demands of those capitalist will not speculate except depressing, says the Observer, portion of Hongkong's young manhood would prefer compulsory name of the British Consul General | own circumstances best, Dervice under war conditions to the unsatisfentory system which has also appeare in the list, but, so we Mr. Agganis pointed out that who provide the working capital on the chance of obtaining very than He. Balter's story of the given rise to so much avoidable discontent and heartburning within do not read that he was present at when defendent was served with for it than on the wishes of the large profis and these can only parent who wrote regretting his the meeting, it may well be that s warrant for being an absconding public which is expected to be obtained out of plays which boy's interest in the ** repulsive", recent times.

As we see the question; there would have been everything to be was answare that he was to debtor she immediately paid $200 refund that ospital. And it must are suitable to be noted before any topio of entomology and request. gain and nothing to lose by general enforcement of compulsory figure on the same committee on security. Five dollars a month be remembered that the object of andisuose, no matter how illitering that it should be diverted to and producing a play does not always ate, throughout English-speaking" higher and more refined loos! military service throughout the Crown Colonies. Had that with a German. Now that the was a vary small sum

besnah" of "the › subject-hirdaj line been followed from the very oummencement, and our young list has appeared in the public even then it would take nearly spring from the desire to give countries. manhood trained so far as possible on war lines, including press, we trust that he will see two years to pay off the debt. He the public what it wants.

· barracks duty at stated intervals, not only would ssok Colony the advisability of declining to thought $10 a month should be bawa pomssened its own little army which would have been not an a, vion-president aulem the paid. invaluable for defensive purposes, but, had the mail for men han comenl's name is removed,

armies.

*It is thus diaadvantages, of trees, or flowers." The idea A manager's aboios may lie an economic nature, which hom- one branch of natural ma batwaan, may, khrse playa. He per the drums in this country, being mora “ raf

His Lordship: - It is an old knows which in the ons heen and merely to decisim nauinst other 50 rath

for active service at the front bean made, each, and ovary And why the Americans connected rule of the Summary Court never written and constructed, and them without waggesting ons of these Colonies would have been able to relasee men praction with the Boxinty" tolerated" the "to give instalments unless one is which one be considers ly fit for nervios right away. But the power-that-be have decided inclusion of a Gerzaun we cannot quite sure that the person is get for his paklia. otherwise, and the existing haphazard system în to be continued understan), seeing that the | linga fixed ulary. It is impos- Sosnose? - Suppo till farther. In the recent discussions which have taken place em Canton Garmana held a jaza-zible for this woman to live with third play the

the local man-powne question the point ham otin been put forward bores in honour of the sinking of her six children on $5 a month. bawb that Hongkong's young man might soon be compiled to go to the the Lusitania and the murder She must have your other incon Front. So far from that being likuly, howeran, it is now aridami of American women and child, I had bette that compulsion is not to be applied svan for purely

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