1917-03-07 — Page 4

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1917.

WATSON'S

OLD BROWN

SHERRY,

QUALITY.

A. S.

EE

QUALITY.

An Old Complaint.

One would imagine “that, j by this time, the Polios or Har- | boar authoritise would have moên

DAY BY DAY.

A GOOD MAN DOESN'T OFTEN (

to it that the abominable nuisance BLOW HIS OWN TRUMPET-BE caused by lenoben coeling up CAUSE HE'S TOO POOR TOOWN ONE whilst lying alongside Blake- Pier absted, for their atten-

The Dollar.

tion has been called to it The opening rate of the dollar times without number, Bat, for on

maand to-day

some obscure resson, they have 26. 4.1/ibà.

remained gloriously sloof from

suy action in the matter, and day after day residente and visitors

WATSON & Co., Ltd., waited, a large Govern-

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

HONGKONG.

TELEPHONE NO. G16.

st the

bar

Malakoff Dividend.

COOK-BOY SUES MASTER,

THE EFFEMINATE AMERICAN,

The Tale of a Broken Glass,

Paper.

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

Though Charles James For was optimistic as to the expulsion of the Turks from Earope in his

over

•

Plain. Speaking by a Seattle lifetime, perhaps even he 'naver .. Before the Chiaf Justice, at the

dreamed how the once powerful Summary Court this morning, a

Ottoman Empire would shrink Chinese cook-boy and his master,

ția almost a generation, says the w** Mr. G. W. Keyser, No. 4 Nathan

Road, Kowloon, for the sum of made by Rear Admiral Chauncey Abdal Hamid, and within the In commenting on the assertion Chronicle. During the reign of $36, being balance of wages das Thomas, U.S.N., retired, that memory of middle-aged people, To-morrow's Anniversary..

and $23 for one month's wages America was rapidly becoming Turkey lost approximately To-morrow is the 116th anni-in lieu of notice. slike suffer the penalty. We again (versary of the battle of Aboukir,

Mr. J. H. Gardiner appeared Post Intelligencer says:--

an effeminate astion, the Seattle 200,000 square miles of bar refer to this question because only

European possessions. Fira yearE Engineer's Loss.

for the plaintiff who was, he said, yesterday such an objectionable

Certainly this is an inefficient, $89, the prevent Sultan held

dominion Mr. H. H. Boots, an engineer cogazed on October 2 last your by

some 67,000 instance of this pior-side coaling was experienced is, to make one

Kowloon Docks, bas defendant as his cook-boy. Plain provident nation, made up, în disgusted with the absence of ported to the Police that $300 tiff's wife was also engaged to large part, of a singularly short-square miles of South-Eastern preventive action. Blake Pier money has been stolen from crab floors and do the washing, sighted, fast-going, extravagant Europe, but only about 10,000 people. Nobody can dany quare miles remained to him was crowded with passengers

bis trousers pocket,

the two being paid at the rate that. Ostories against the high after the map of the Balkans had of $23 a mouth. The boy and his about to board a departing steamer,

cost of living 6 the air; been recast just before the present Co. Ltd, tas declared a final when they were summarily dis-ity in the east are indulging in a 100,000 sell as Crete and Cyprus Messrs. Benjamin and Potts wife continued to be employed the scale of living in unsitered. war started. In addition the whole and. whilst the launches were advise us that the Malakoff Rab until January 21 of this year. Beneficiaries of the war prosper- of Turkey's posessions in Africa, ment lauschi este alongside and Rividend of 20 per cent, making missed without receiving any mad, wanton, orgie of money-

square miles, have been later left the pier. And it a 30 per cent for the year 1916.

notice, the resson giran being that this launch which was guilty of

|spending. Throughout the land In Harness Again.

plaintiff had broken s glam. smothering the waiting crowd

luxuries are treated as necessities. Apart from Constantinople, the Many old residents who remem-

Plaintiff, in the box, said that Economics enforced upon people small slice of Europe left to the with smoke. The launch had bar Inspector Diamond, late of he and his wife were paid $23 of other nations and the pinching Turks is hardly worth having; hardly come alongside when the Hongkong Police Force, will month, and they were dismissed dense clouds of black smoke were emitted from its funnel, and be interested to know that at the on January 21 this year. They plight produced by carnage seach bat in Asia their malign is

no lesson to saxy-going millions Blasate still spreade over 680,000 - forward their names and addresses with tbare being scarcely sny wind' present time he is performing did not receive any notios. The on this side of the water, To-day (square miles, though even there

the smoke slowly circled round'at

special police daty in Devon. reason they were dismissed was in to-day; to-morrow, to-morrow. shrinkage is in proses.

because the defendant bad broken at the 'morrow take care of Sheriff of Mecca bas emancipated a low altitude and eventually

Imported Oplum. All communications intended for publication should be addressed enveloped Blake Pier and the ing. a Chinese, who arrived from that he (plaintiff) has broken it typical American goes heedlessly same for Armenia, and the newe At the Police Court this morn glass and defendent's wife said itself! In this care-free spirit the Arabis, the Russiana are doing the Star Ferry pier as well. What Macao yesterday, was charged Defendant had paid him $10 on on his fast pace, while his think from our own forces onay again the departing visitors to the with importing five tasleof opium account on January 21, because The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will Colony thought of such a proceed. The man was searched as he was it was the Chinese New Year soon watching the trend, are filed Sultas will soon have to wipe

ing fellow countrymen, soberly nesting Bagdad suggests that the - be as follows:-Daily ine-$36 per annum. Weekly inne-ing at the the off imagination, coming off the Wing Lok Street after and he wanted soms money with apprehension, and wander Mesopotamia off his map. And

The fact that the offending launch Wharf, and the opiam was found

Defendant said that the facts what the end is to be.

at one time the Turkish Empire Government craft only in amell tine tied round his leg. of the case were that plaintif serves to heighten the scandal. His only statement was that he had come to him and asked him ment comes, will this "effeminate of Visans, from which they were When the world's readjast. 'extended from Persis to the gates The Kowloon "Structure." was bringing the dmg here for a for an advance because of the

Yesterday's discussion at the friend. Mr. J. B. Wood fined Chinese New Year. When he nation," Chauncey Thomas driven by a Polish King! meeting of the Sanitary Board, bim $500, or three months' hard (defendant) came home on the and be sustained by a strong If it were not for the Prinos of

characterised it, reg-in its virility spent the erecting of a coolie labour.

evening of January 21, bis wife manhood? Epigrammatically he Walow's Fund, remarks the told him that the boy and his insisted that "if we are to survive Chronicle: the £6,000,000 which wife had diasppeared.

Plaintiff I did not leave on

sa a people, we Americans must has been collected for the British have- that day.

Red Cross sipon the beginning of Hi Lordship Did anyone Hore leather and less lace,

"More boxing and less bazebill, the war would be the largest sum tell you to gu?

ever subscribed for philanthropio More artillery and less alimony, schiared before. The Cotton Dis- **More drilling and less dancing, purposes. Nothing like it has been

"More Men and few Miss Nancys, triet Belief Fand daring the Patent fact is not to be eff oed American Civil War resched

Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which requires them to communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, but as an evidence of their bona fides.

to the Editor.

Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager.

$13 per annum.

a

The rates per quarter and per mensom, proportional Subscriptions

for any period less than one month wili be charged as for fall month.

►

at

The daily issue it delivered free when the addresses is accessible to

manger. Peak subacribers can have their copies delivered their residences without any extra charge. On copies rent by post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. The postage on the weekly issue to any part of the world is $1.00 Bingle Copies. Daily, ten cents. Weekly, twenty-five cents (for

cash only). Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a fixed

period will be continued until countermanded.

per quarter.

¡(Payable in Advance.)

The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will be delivered te subscribers by, the Dairy Farm Company. Ltd., Shameen, Canten, who have been appolated our agents there.

By Order, "HONGKONG telegraph,”

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1917.

ST. GEORGE'S DAY.

•

The

latrineoutside the railway station, Godown Thieves Sentenced. is exotly typical of Hongkong. The case in which four men An elected member of the Board ware charged, bafors Mr. C. D. rises to express his constituents' Melbourne, with breaking into diamatisfaction with certain Messrs. Dodwell's godown at measure, another slented member Wanchai and stealing goods to supports the first speaker-and the va'ns of $685, was concluded Plaintiff My mistress told immediately two Government at the Police Court this morning. to go on January 21. Plaintiff officials set to work to de- Mr. Eric Smith, engineer to the added that his mistress told him fond that to which the general Company, appeared, and it trane and his wife to isave at once, and public objecte. It in very pired that there was $15,000 he replied that he would rather by manifest hyperbole. B-j-ction nearly two milions, and satisfactory to learn that Mr. worth of goods in the godown, at wait until his master came home, of the picture of a weakened, that W68 surpassed. by Goldring's protest has at least the time of the robbery. One man His mistress then said that be feminined Americs is not do the National Fand daring the resulted in the delaying of the was discharged, and the rest were could not do so, and that he must manded necesarily because of the South African War, when some- obnoxious work till a petition, sentenced to six months hard go away immediately, at the same high colouring applied to the thing like £2,600,000 scored, signed by the residents of Kow- | labour and four hours' stocks čime paying him $5. He had picture. One may be an optimist most of it being collected by the loon, is sent in to His Exostlezey, each.

As to the site chosen for the structure, it was almost a fore- gone conclusion that it would be a ridiculous one. It is not so very long ago that the Sanitary Department expressed a wish to erect a similar ornament jest op. posite the operating theatre at the

men here have never been concerned to bother themselves with the should be as littla in evidence as

JAPANESE BANK PROPOSALS,

"On the

statement

effect:-

to

has sounded

Boever comes.

الي

previously had 35 from her. and yet recognise the neede so Mansion House. It is not un- "I know nothing about the broken strikingly set forth by this officer interesting to recall that the first glass. I did not break it. When and gentleman who has served Mansion House Food was in it was broken I was engaged at his country well,

stituted in 1871 for sufferers by the market."

Nevertheless, heavy-handed, the Siege of Paris. Ever since Defendant:-This is the first virile men outnumber the weak, then until the prosent emergency I have heard of a broken glass, lings on this American earth, and most national funds have revolved Manchuria and Chica in View,

Plaintif:-- While defendant robust manhood continues to round the City residence of the With regard to the Sino-

was drinking some wins he broke abound. How to awaken Ameri. Lord Mayor, In times past we have frequently had occasion to comment on French Hospital at Causeway Bay! Japanese and the Manchurias the glass

casiam-how to rouse it to sense The Worshipfal Company of the fact that Englishmen in Hongkong are not nearly so enthusia: If the new pisos is to be the Baske,the establishment of which His Lordship: For all you of its dalies and its dangers--- tic over the matter of celebrating the Day of their Patron Saint as sanitary success that the other was laid before Parliament in its know, a cat or a dog might have becomes an increasingly urgent Goldsmiths, to whom was spirust- their Scottish brethren are. Indeed, they never oelebrate it at all. outside the Fire Station-hse last session, and was under study broken it. You did not ses him present-day prch'em. Thinkers of the masking of the new Parlis- Year in and year out, April 2a games round and nobody gives a proved, we can hardly expect by the Economic Investigation break it.

and writers of the outspoken mentary msos presented to the thought to St. George of England, the reputed elayer of the dragon. Kowloon residents to wax en-Commission, Mr. Shods, Minister Plaintiff-But defendaat used{type_ of Admiral Thomas Canadisa House of CommonsTM Scalemen may mark the birthday of Robert Barne and take note of thusiastic in their welcoming of of Finance, has made an UB- to drink, and I told my mistress are doing their part. Roosevelt to replace the one destroyed by St. Andrew's Day, Welshmen may remember 8, David, the Chinese it. To the mind of the ordinary equivocal

the that I did not break it.

and is still fire-ranks among the oldest and may keep up the celebration of the birth of Omfacies, but Eaglish-man it is clear that such places following is of the explans-suggest that you were dismissed/and virile souls nowhere are had existed at least two centuries His Lorabip Do you mean to sounding his stimulating slogans, tichest of the City Guilds. It commemoration of St. George's Day. We are glad to see, however, possible, especially when they are tion advanced by the. Okuma because a glass was broken 7-marking time. To Uncle Sam, before the first of its fifteen char........ that some more is at length to be taken to observe the Day, the going to be used by the coolie Ministry, the Teranchi Ministry Yes.

however, is given the opportunity ters was granted by Edward IIL, more so since the idea is to nasist those charities which have a fraternity. special claim on the public parse in these days of war. By the America's Position.

But your mistress could bars and power, beyond all others and in 1187 the Goldsmiths had a looke apon the Manchurian Bank as intended for a financing instita. deducted the amount of the glass combined, to kindle snow the fierce fight with the Merchant convening of the meeting fixed for Monday next, those who are If two or three days ago, tion to advance loans on the from your wages.I saked her to, spirit of Americanism. How? Taylors, for which 13 were hanged. interesting themselves in the movement have followed a worthy President Wilson was the most security of real estate, very much but she refused to do so,

By preparedness-not for war; selection of this company's hall Under the Commonwealth "the lead set by local Bootemen, through whom energy and enthusiasm laughed at man in Christendom, like the branches of the Tokobama Defendant :-- I have never but for the enforcement of peace. "Heather Day" was made the great success that it was. If the to-day he is certainly the most Specis Bank in South Manchuria heard anything about a broken by putting the country in a posi- for dealing with forfeited estate example here set is followed, and a scheme similar to the Scottish pitied. Lats in the day he is and the S. M. H. Co., which latter glass. All I know about the case tion to assert and uphold its rights of Royalists drew sarcastic celebration put into operation on the 23rd of next month, a very prepared to take measures for Company has sabetantial sum should be raised for siding those who, by reason doing what he should have done financing services O

often offered is that plaintiff had disappeared in any emergency and to com- allusions from Cavalier antiristo, similar when I arrived home on January mand the world's respect what. The present hall, become a City of the horrors of war, are in need of all the assistance that can be all along-proteasing the lives conditions. The need for some 21.

landmark since the removal of given them.

of American subjects against auch organisation is not over- His Lordship-It seems to me

"More drilling and loss dano. the old General Post Office, con- Hongkong in the past has been all too prons to ignore ocos murder on the seaand a hand-looked, but the present Ministry that you have had nothing to doing."

The is the paramount

"tains the Assay Offios, many art sions which, in a more public-spirited community, would be marked fal of interested men must needs prefers extending the fanctions with it, and that it is between prescription for eff minste Ams researes, an altar to Diana, and by celebrations on a large and ambitions sosle. We all know how oppose him. Such happenings of the existing institutions, and your wife and the boy. Your ricanism. Compulsory military the finest marble staircase in half-beartedly Empire Day has been observed, how the anniversary make the mere old-fashioned is against founding a new one.

London. wife had no right to turn him out, training will mike Men out of of the outbreak of war has been overlooked as it has come round, Britisher, who has grown up to The question of establishing if his story is tras about breaking Mia Nanore and substitute The Chinese workman is in- and how that, in the whole of cur seventy-five years' possession of see the will of the people prevail, a Sino-Japannee Bark wants a the glass. Of course I do not strength for weakness. And it Hongkong, is has never bocarzed to the authorities to carry out the wonder what the United States more osrtfal sady. A Bank of say it is, but if he did break the should be insagarated universal dustrious, thrifty and temperate least ceremony on the anniversary of the accession of the island to the means British Empire, After all, Hongkong is a Oolony which is looked democratic country. At present who are for improving some cost of it from bis wages.

when it dubs itself a this nature is to finance those glass, she should have taken they in this free bat lethargic land and can adapt himself to all before the twentieth century is gimsmstances, says M. J. P. upon as the bab of British infiaeres in the Far East. Bat, in point we az ese little difference between concessions obtained in Chins, Dafondant:- He left on his own (another year older.

Donovan in the Empire Review. of patriotic demonstratione, Britishers in Canton, Shanghai and many America and Germany or Tarkey, It has no direct interest with the accord.

Owing to the rast population and another Treaty Port can give this Colony a comfortable lead. These as regards the wish of the people Chinese people. It is to da His Lordship (to plaintiff);

the straggle for exisionos, lähour people, of course, live in rather more foreign surroundings than we being ignored. In Turkey, business socording to the regula Tou wanted to go away for

is both cheap and plentifu.. AL do here. Perbape that is why they place a greater value on pride of small ring of man can control the tions laid down by the Japanese Chinese New Year on the pres

though the out of labour he zsoe. Be that as it may, Britishere in Hongkong, as a gen-antions of the general public, and Government, and from the present I suppose 1---No,

risen in China, sa in other The continnans increses in the countrion, during the past twenty eral rule, take their nationality av so much for granted. Indeed, the in America they can apparently state of things în Chins there is]

Faintiff's wile, called, said export of raw hides since the open years, it is still low when compar mole respect in which many of appear British in in our supreme do the same. Whatever may have room for doubt about its favour that she heard the conversation ing of the Haiphong-Yuanan-fu ad with what is paid for the capacity to take our pleasure sadly and to refrain from making suy been the mind of the people at the able reception by the Chinese. If, about the glam. Her mistress Railway would seem in part to same kind in either Europe or undue show of our patriolic feelings. We do not plead for senseless time of the recent Presidential as a natural sequel to the Sino- "poke Chinese.

be the reals of the improved America. flag-waving, nor for inane Hafficking. That would be to go to the election, there is at least no Japanese amity, it assumes the

Mr.Gardiner:She is Chinese, methods of preparing the hides, receive from 12%, to 18, a month, Ordinary Labourses. other extreme. Bat we do most heartily suggest that the various possible doubt to-day that the form of an enterprise under joint Defendant-I beg festivals and the more important anniversaries, as they occur, should bulk of them want to see very international management, the pardon; she in Portuguess.

your The skins brought to the while the wagan of akilled inbonz be fittingly marked. All that is necessary is that some-one should active massures taken against the question may be viewed quite in

damaged, ers and mechanics rarely exosod Plaintif:--I am the holder of than they used to be, and the from £2 to 63 a month. In the take the lead in these matters. That done, the public of the Colony fluna. Then how much longer are another light; bat, otherwise a large number of testimoniais number rejected by the buyer is Hansang steel works, which way would, we are sure, be found ready to do its share.

*We welcome the idee, therefore, of oelebrating St. George's Day, mots way we expect to see danda withheld the peoption the time with whom Thwww. been

they to be kept waiting? How the Gavernment is inclined to moved from previous mastece smaller, Acolher canse of the ma

'expoes in the aœchmoalan becuase in it was see the germ of what we hope in a gradually, giva place to woesia? In view of present. If say work of funda. His Lordship All i increasing tandanay to initiate movements which - shall being that way in which the will of the should arise in connection with we not going to send residents of the Colony, more frequently ingatbar in public enjoy American people is being some fatemational loan dealings Prison yet. ment, and thus help to build up's more permanent solidarity between deliberately ihwarted, one could the old policy of calling on the Mr. Gardiner:-Ha was those who, exiled from home, have all too faw occasions on which to forgive the remaining memi Braking Syndian M. comprisin={ly a boy. meet. But we welcome it most of all as evidence of a farther desire of the Senate if they took

to help waz nbarition, the bulls upon widiol Escanne than other-Invok the half do

[struggle prooseda, 12 or them rensons, we hope all king. obrmation hand dropes hall make a point of attending Monday :

out of the

Hides from Yunaaa,

market sre