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The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1917.

A NEW HONGKONG SHIPPING LAW.

|Hongkong's Help,

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never

BEGRAPH, SATURDAY,

DAY BY DAY.

MARCH

1892.

FOR EVERY PERSON THAT IS. WORN OUT THERE ARE HUN DEEDS THAT HATE RUSTED OUT.

The "Dollar.

The opening rate of the dollar

HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.

on demand to-day was | (Compiled from the "Hongkong 28. 4.3/16d.

Telegraph" files for the week ending March 31, 1892.) The Dollar.

Monday's Aanniversary. fnday in the 116th anniver eary of the Battle of Copenhager.

Restricted Use of Term " Anzac." In the Gazette it is notified that

Consul for Spain.

Acting Appointment.

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Marcb 31-The rate of the dollar on demand to-day is 2/04

The s.. Honam.

Sarcastic,

SLOW STARVATION IN GERMANY.

TO-DAY'S MISCELL'ANY.

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There are few songs with a more romantic "life story" than

Deadly Effect of British Navy's the "Star-Spangled Banner

Blockade.

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says the Chronicle." It came into existence during the English and Probably no papercatside Cher- American War of 1814, Francis many has a better ander-tsading Scott Key, young American of what in really happening lawyer, wishing to obtain the within that country than the release of a friend who was a | Daily Guardian, of Berne (Berner prisoner on board an English Tagwacht), the organ of Swiss vessel, rowed out to the ship, and Secial Damocracy.

received the necessary mosnianoe

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March 25." The Stewerd of the Hongkong Cricket Club was fined $10 by Mr. Wise to-day for selling liquore without a licenos on the Racecourse during the school may be taken as impartial, and Bong, and on reaching shore with as expressing pretty well the bis friend, he finished the poem. sports on Wednesday. As a mat- objective truth of the matter. Its The tune to which it is sung, ter of fact he didn't sell any, as theory in one word is "banger" however, is net American, hat the drinks have not been paid for Germany mast win now or periah. Fel, and it is not certain they The Tagwacht rays:- ever will be; but "he never

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that of an old English song com-

posed by John Stafford Smith for

-The statement which Hi Excellency the Governor made at Thursday's meeting of the Legis. lative Council, concerning the Colony's war gifte, will certainly serve to show that Hongkong Las taken a by no means fakewarm interest in the great staggle upon which the Empire's energies Are now being concentrated, The facts which be disclosed may be summarised as follows:~ The Colony har, out of its revenue, given the Imperial Government five million dollars;

By reason of their propinquity, that freedom would be restored to March 25.-"The popular common political faith, and com- him. But Key and his friend the Chinese community is to con- tribute a million mors' sannally so long as the war leste; the Act was psseed in the last Canton river sleamer Bons, man language, the Swiss Socialists were not allowed to go sabore Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Session of Parliament placing Capt. Gieo one before and are in close touch with their immediately, so the English were has taken up well over a million restrictions on the trade use of pndergoing some new repairs and comrades over the frontier. Dur-about to stisek Fort McHenry. a general overhaul at Kowloon ing the war this contact has not Daring the bombardment Key the word "Auzia,” - sterling's worth of War Stock;

Docks, will probably take ber been broken, and the Swim fixed bis eyes on the be-starred Final Dividend. |numerons ather Companies have

berth for Canton on Wednesday Socialist organ has, in fact, been and be-striped flag which flated Messrs. Benjamin and Polts | largely subscribed to the Losu in

next. An expert informs as that the chosen mouthpiece of over the fort, and it was still London; locally, British Lanke advise us that the Ziangbe Rub the 'greyhound of the Gaston Liebknecht and the German flying at nightfall. bave invested close on £100,000 in Co., Ltd., bas declared a final river feet was never in better Socialist Minority. In attitude it War Stock; over £64,000 had dividend of Tis. 25, making Tie, trim than she is now."

ie neither pro-German nor pra- Eatente; rather might it be When dawn came and Key saw been subscribed to war charities 0.50 for year ending 31st Decem-

described as "anti" both. ap to the end of last year; five ber, 1910.

the old flag still flying his jɔy aeroplanes and two motor ambal-

Will Be Struck Off.

Whatever it bas to my, there-gave rise to the sentimente ex- It is notified in the Gasells that

fore on the new U boat campaign pressed in the first verse of the auces have been presented to the Imperial Gaverament; over five at the expiration of three months million cigarettes have been dis- the Tea Tin Hotel, Limited, will, tributed by the local Uig rette unless cause is shown to the con- and Tobacco Fond; and innumer- trary, be struck off the Register able comforte have been made by and the Company will be di- well over a d. 2:a ladies' working solved.

Navy's Tighter Grip.

the Anacreontio Society. It waN parties. All this, of course, re- presents what has been publicly The King's Exequatur em-thought of that. The case was

"Whoever wants to get a clear eung at the meetings of this old dore, and to it must be added the powering Senor Don Jose Taron worked up by the able chief ides of the real motive besied English clab, which usually bild. large measure of private manilic-Espanol to act as Cousal for of linagkong detective force, the proclamation of intensified its revelries at the Crown sad

much put BO becomes Spain Bombay with jurisdic-bo which

ability U-boat wa: fare should not bother Anchor in the Strand. That that this business

be about the diplomatic Notes of the would be about 1780, generally known. It is a very tion in the British Colonies in As record, sad one of which the Asis, has received His Majesty's bad none left for legitimate Bethmson-Hellweg Government, letective work... Will Mr. and still less about the Imperial Colony may feel jasily proud, signature. bat

Quincey's chits be paid out of the Chancellor aperch before the *Return Passages of Soldiers. Hia reiterate

A question which the announced Army Council Instructions and Secret Service fand, or will they

(restrictions on the Eton tuok Excellency's remark that it ja still not enough. At Home Army Orders have been issued in he will repadiated ? Also is this Reichstag M.in Committee.

"The peculiar motive for this shops raises is whether the parist passages to kind of thing to be followed up' ? anmistakable heavy bardens are being borce roger to return

last gambler's ie justified in writing down by our relatives. Here we have places abroad, for officera on re- Are all unlicenced liquor-dealers throw of those in power in Ger- "tuck" as slang. There is much not as yet been at all seriously tirement, demobilistio or fer- to be prosecuted? If Mr. Horspool many is to be seen pretty clearly to be urged against this view, commoded by the war. We can mination of contract, and for die will bring his colossal gennis in the exceedingly threatening and it may have been too hasily

charged soldiers.

to beer on these do very much more to help cur

establish.

economio situatiɔa in which the concluded that it is so called be.. soldiers in the field and to lessen,

mente, instead of trying to catch Central Fowers and themselves cause it means what we tuck intɔ His Excellency the Governor forgers and perjurers who are too placed after 23 years of war by the inner man. For it may to a not inappreciable degree, the bardens which are falling on the

hae appointed Dr. William James emart for him, there may be an

blockade. the British

This | originally have had a more limited Mediori end to a long-standing aud Empire at this mos ent. There Woodmen to act sa

blockade seemed at the meaning. The Roman estiriat Officer of Health, Sanitary Supehamefal monument of Bong-ontaide not quite effective, but Persius uses the word tacceturn, are dozens of noble causes calling rintendent, and Superintendent of kong's greatness. There is ample stage by stage it has become a sort of haggis, the Italian word for assistance. Let Hongkong not Statistics, in addition to his other occasion for a long series of pro- tighter and more rigid, and to-day tocchetti may be Bomewhat Shipowners and sea-faring men will read with mixed feelings weary in well-doing.

duties, during the absence of Dr. seontions to be brought against it is operating with each reality similarly interpreted Ind of the proposed new Shipping Ordinance which was laid before the

Wilfrid William Pearse, or antil few scores of coffee-shop keepers that we pan now speak without "tacker" as a' provincialism for Legislative Council at la Thursday's meeting. It is propose to One for the Public.

Farther notice, with effect from and others (a particular sort of exaggeration of Germany's being steak, is not yet wholly obsolete Enbetirare a third pilot on the river boats for the mete, and, in Although the Kowloon re- March 24, 1917.

others) who without any liorace tarved out.

and was used to signify this by place of a arcond engineer, to appoint a Chinese "holding a certisidents who recently petitioned

of any kind, drive a regular and

“In the official and unofficial old Jeremy Taylor, in conjunction ficate of competency from the Harbour Master." We restare to the Government for the removal

There was a packed house at lucrative trade in liquor end-er publications of the German Press with "condited gobbets of bull's prophesy that the general opinion among unbiased and disinterested of the hill bear the Tacmail the Victoria Theatre last night well, other things." persons will be that the proposed Ordinace is marred by minor de- Theatre, to admit of a very and a most interesting programme Duke of Connaught's Statue. during the last few weeks there filseb,” by which he meant "ez- fects, which should not, however, be irremediable. While an experi- necessary extension of Nathan enged Harbour Master can very epeedily test the ompetency of the pilot Road, have not obtained all bat who is going to replace the mate, to whom does he propose to hand the they asked for, we imagine thes task of examining the Chinese engineere? This may be a minor point, are quite well satisfied with the but it is one on which the skipper and chief engineer of any boat result of their efforte. The carrying a Chinese second engineer will certainly want information. Director

have gone Then there is the main question, of how the new arrangement will appears to affect the older men-mates and engineers-in river service: men the matter most thoroughly, and

in the very next few weeks or declare that the honour falls to who have beent oo long on the river for them to care about deep water he says that to remove the remain-

Presentation.

be filled the work again. Many of these have given long years of faithful and ing portion of the hillside world

The Portagaces staff of the March 26,-"P. C. McEwen monthe the German Government Joseph, when conscientions work to their employers, but, for one reason or an-involve a cost of $44,000, and

which will ando all

its seven years famine. Others are. other, are not holding either a skipper's or a chief engineer's berth. even then the work would iske Hongkong and Shanghai Banking accidentally thot himself in the contracts a peace at any price, granaries of Egypt against the imperialistic sapirations. inclined to favour Caius Gracchus, "What is to become of us?" is a question which these may well two years to accomplish. He Corporation, Hongkong, have hand last night while pleaning a presented Mr. Lewis Newton revolver. The wound is not very

The Last Card,

who distributed corn to Boman. ask. Presumably we may take it that, if the new law becomes an has, however, submitted

"But the German civil and citizens at the time of the civil accomplished fact, the Harbour Master will make it his business to alternative plan whereby the road Murphy, the acting Sub-Account-serious."

A Complaint. see that no such man is ever set aside for a Chinese, or indeed that no can be immediately extended, in ant, with a presmatic field compass

March 26-Bir-Your Office military authorities will have strife in 130 B.C., while others, osptain or shippingcffis abell be allowed to appoints Chinese mete a temporary manner, round the and a beautiful address, as or engineer if a trustworthy Britisher is available. We are quite bass of the bill, the removal token of esteem and respect, and Goat figures so frequently in your nothing to do with such a pesor, again, give first place to Laid certain that no firm of good standing would wish to send its ships of the hill to be continued #ppreciation of his good offices, paper that I wish to inform you at least so long as the soldiers in XIII, when, in his famous Code up the river without a British mate if there were one to be had. along present lines in the mean on the occasion of his departure (perhaps you do not know) that the field have something to est. Michaud he fired the number of

yesterday it broke loose and As they are now quite clear that dishes to be served at table, If such points as the above can be satisfactorily settled we see time. Then, eventually, the full for the front,

created gaile a stumpede in the military resources of the zo reason why the new provision should prove aspopular. And in request of the petitioners will be Oplum Smuggler Fined.

The telephone has become such any case we are face to face with the inevitable. We endeavoured met. This proposai sataile an Before Mr. J. K. Wood, at the the upper reaches of Ice House Central Powers are not great

Lane.

Some ladies who were enough to bring their adversaries

62 indisponeable #djanot of to show in Thursday's leading article that the time is coming when expenditure of $14,500, and we Polios Coat this morning,

paming got a terrible scare. If down in any practicable period keen competition between foreigner and Chinees will become an are glad to see that the eum has Chinese was charged with being you cannot keep it under control of time they are now staking modern life that it is difficult to Bocepted fact. This holds good in the shipping world just as it already been voted, to presumably in possession of 20 taels of pre- does in other directions. Up till now the law bas ordained that the work will be pat in hand pared opium. A revenue officer you had better pawn it. If I had everything on the one card of elapsed since the powers of that' The fact that by so doing pablic. It was on February 12 ships flying the Bed Ensign in these watere must carry a European without any delay. When this stated that the stuff was conceal been there there I should certain-rathless sabmarine war.

ly have done my best to kill it.

they will bring the Gorman name ekipper. Bat there was a time, within the recollection of many of new temporary road is laid on defendant's

→Youre, eto, Lusitano." applies to nativo-owned craft like the China Merchante' line-which the

will be which were need by smugglers,

not appreciate William'a atten- the deepest cantemps throughout perimenting in public, transmitted is not under a foreign asg. But for how loog? The day is abortly realised. Then it will be possible though no opium was found in tone. Ladies in Hongkong often the entire world, matters as little the first telephone message from coming when Chine will have a vast number of qualified officers for residents to take a ricksba or them at the time, a fine of $2,000 make themselves agreeable to far to them as the fact that their Boston to Salem, U.S., & disisnos will of 18 miles. Sach strides did the and engineers of her own, and the foreigner will have to give place motor ran out into the country was imposed.

worse creatures, abo happen to unrestric'ed U-boat war

within the nxt few years, how- to those, even as he has given place to the Japanese on the NY.K. without having to pass through a Smokes for Wounded Soldiers. Le bipede, and as a Society star bring the neatral nations of new science of telephony make boats. The appointment of pilole se matee, and of native engineers smelly Chinese quarter. It is a One osas of tobacco cutting Oar Oaly Goat has few equale. Europe into the direst need. in the place of British is, then, but one of the initial steps towards relief, too, to feel that the public from the La Issalar Cigar Fac-Bat we would like to see Mr. Either the great coup is achieved ever, that by March 1891 tele- the now regime.

Įlatrine adjoining Markat Brest-tory, a Spanish firm in Manila, But for BQ Long as the British mercantile marins officers are to which has been a long-standing and one case of 194 packages of Lusitano try and. ** do his best to with the so-called U boat block phonio communication had been

kill it "it would be a cirons, ade, in which event the game” iu retain their present position on the coast and the riverbich must disgrace to the peninsula-smoking tobacco from the Philip Jast outside our cffice, Mr. Lwon; or the world revolts against needs be for some few years to come yet-there can be no doubt that to be palled down. The whole fias Co., Ltd., (who have already the enggested regulation ought to go far towards cleansing the serv-basiness is distinct score sent 40,000 cigars), have been is a stone kairosas, narrow sad it, or the game goes wrong, in ice here of certain objectionable features. There are black sheep for the ratepayers, showing what received by the War Charities precipitous, about 70 lost high, which event all is lost, and upon in every flock. No man who has had an opportunity of knowing a litue co-operation will do. If Comtaitles: and are being for specially adapted for peripatetie the Rulers of Germany descends In other words, the stakes are them well will wish to meet a more fine-hearted set of men than the the petition had not been got ep, warded in das course to the Com-caisaaces, there is no bolster the Twilight of the Gods. China Coast officers in general-and this we say from a long and what is now to be done would mittes's Landon representatives at the bottom. You ha better

don a big dress-improver.-Ed.) Victory or Revolution. the among alose experienos. But these will be the first to own that they would never have been accomplished, for distribution be glad to see the beschoomber eliminated from their numbers. It and the public would have had to wounded in Hospital.

Receipt Stamp Warning, is not pleasing to a self-respecting captain, deck officer or engineer wait woarily for the disappears000

The Hongkong Government

of

Pablic

Worka

into

$2

Victoria Theatre.

emerges ever more and more soned morsels of steak.” was gone through, including March 25,-"Adricos received

Germany's nakedly

rigantio Pathe's British and American from the French mail report that suffering in the domain of food Gazette, "Despiced "a two- Mr. Wade, the scalptor, has com

supplies. With every day the Who was the first Food Con- part play, "The Ster B arder", plated to the order of the Hon. Cundeniable fact becomes more troller? No, it wasn't Lørd

introducing Charlie Chaplin), P. Chater, a statue of the Duke of

civil Devonport, Economists Germany's The great War", and a four- Conn ught, which it is that gen-population is delivered up to never quite settled the point, part Chaplin picture entitled tleman's intention to present to elow death by starvation unless remarks the Chroniels "Carmen"

the community of Hongkong.

An Accident.

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| realise that only forty years have

instrument were first exhibited in

us, when this rale also applied to most Japanese brat. And it still down, the fall benefits of bandoliers were found on him, (We are torry the ladies did again into the bitter loathing and 1877, that Professor Bell, ex-

improvement

To be won This Year.

The Lord Mayor of London

Prohibition of Emigration. Delhi, March 12.-lä order to:

established between London and

Paris.

In these days the stern ditsP-

elset of Bosocmmon, not to lako mination of Count Plackett, the his vest in Parliament, will pro- bably have no other effect ihan to penalise (if that be the right word) his constituency by dino franchisement. By an Act of Richard II,, sa Erikino"May tella to read (as he could have done at least four times within the last of the obstracting billside. This two of three weeks) that a man of his profession has been sent to little object lesson has a point in Treasurer's attention has ben

# War Loan conserve the man power of India, if any person summoned to Parliament do absent himself, and. Vistoria Gaol for conduct unbecoming an officer of the grestest it for those who profess to be in directed to the fact that the pro-announced at merchant service in the world. Nor is it any the more pleasing for terested in local constitutional visions of the Stamp Ordinance, meeting at the Globe Thesire for the purpows of labour in con- him to reflect that, even after the war broke out, certain gentlemen reform. The public can do many 1901, to affixing and cancel last month that be know nection with the war, the Govern come not at the said summone of the "dead-beat" order, who had once held droent posts aboard things if it only, bas she will ta lingasampeon roosipta for money, from high sathority, which he want of India bays thought it ship, were sotually begging is the streets of Hongkong-usually get bary, for beer, by the way ! - Morozatile marine offiours will be the first to wish to see all posibility of a repetition of these things put of court. And they now Bill may help to accomplish this; for, when once the 'black sheep r800

wholesome truth that, uniom he keepu: sill never again be, employment for him Chinaan is waiting to take the berth

hops of hair mending-

Passed in Cantonese,

arn evaded by many residents and could not disclose, that, with neemssary to prohibit sil- la bon that honorary officials of local proper support, the war would be emigration from the country Boointian are habitual offenders. A won this your. Sir Douglas Haig except to the extent necessary to notice is therefore' issued so that and Adminsi Jallioos had given supply the minimum require. parties concerned may take warn an amouranow that was hardly ments of Ceylon and she FedUTRI- It is notified in the Gasteing and they see reminded that a needed that the men would domil od Malay States. For this purpose that Mr. William James Cerria, penalty of $100 for non-com- and mos than was expected at a new rele has been promeniga,

must be supported under the defanos of India Cedet, passed his Anal gramins: plianos may be inflicted in each

and will some into force să SON IN CARLOUREN on Marsa 1.1917. fondo.

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