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CORRESPONDENCE.

The opinions expressed by corree- pondents are not necessarily those of the * Hongkong Talegraph."] EXCLUSION OF GERMANS. [To the Editor of the "Hongkong Telegraph."}

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1917.

THE HUSBANDMAN,

LIEUT. COL. WARD.

The National Type.

A Home Paper's Comment.

EMPIRE DAY.

LAWN TENNIS.

THE LADY CLERK,

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The war has filled Landon with

POLICE BRUTALITY“

European's Story of lädr

Conduct.

Last Night's Tournament Game. A Day's Shooting and Boxing. The semi-final of the Profes News as follows

The following in the complete sional Pairs competition in con- The British farmer, like the

It was inevitable, asya' fàs list of units and competitor section with the Hongkong girl clerks, and Government ouk, is difficult to bend. But Cricket Club salting from the Referee (a publi, jfashioned after this style-wary, known that the commanding | Commencing at 9.30 am. on Toning, when S. E Green and frisk down the corridors of the some time ago a cass was before

Sir, I commend the snclosed agriculturists the narld over are or later the fact should become individual contest at King's Park, played on the cricket ground last They swarm in the doorways and

and independent; officer who displayed such, gal Thursday (Empire Day), The & H. Dodwell met and defasted | War Uffice and Admiralty, until Mr. J. E. Wood, at the Polices exaggerated viewe) to three who conservative, too, to their hearts' | lantry in the mining of the trans. / first twelve names compose the 80stars and H. J. Vermey those august, institutions fail to ¡Court, in which a hawker wo

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cation not given to bareh and tenacious,

port Tyndareas off the coast of | 1st. squad :-- still babble of the wickedness ocre. (plus the eco.omic shortsighted. This is often spoken of as if it Cape Colony was Colonel John mass) of exclusion.

were a canseless phenomenon, or Ward, the Labour M.P. for Stoke

Hongkong Police.Mr. P. Wodehouse, (D.S.P.), Inspector

It will be remembered that

There was quite a good attendance recognise themselves. But what charged with causing an obetrans of spectators, but the display they lose in dignity they gain in tion in Des Voeux Boad Central, seen was not of a very high colour! Visitors gase greedily when it transpired that the lakong

of one or two of the less bigoted and it le largely due to the very ) was admitted that the Middleear W. Avenell and Loe, Sergt. A } Dodwell were not playing óp to \。f beauty, pen in hand (some" took the man to the station ware, It might effect the conversion merely foolish. But it is not so, on-Trent. In the earlier reports it Grant, Bergt. W. Pitt, Sergt. G. /standard. Although Green and through open doorways at visions and two Indian Sergeants to

among them.

PRO FATRIA.

Youre plc,

Hongkong, May 10, 1917.

Grimmitt.

their form, they defeated their times), and finger astonishingly thought by some European, on- 8.K Volonteer Reserve.-Qopponents by 6/3, 6/3. Soeters over their business.

look re to have assaulted the haw- played a sound game, and whilst There have been rumours of ker in their duty of arrest. This Bannerman, Corp. E. V. Carp when driving hard, this pair sparisons of beauty between the Sergeants, B194, was summoned

B. K. Volunteer Corps-Cap- tain Scott, Sergt. Bradbury, Sergt. Manak, Corp. Heath and Ganner Eldridge.

18th Infantry:-Lieut. E. B. Kennedy, Subsdar Naiz Ahmed, Havildar Mir Aulad Ali, Havil

final of the Mixed Doubles Handicap.

great ignorance in farming mat- Battalion was commanded by a ters which prevails outside rural member of Parliament, then arose that any mutual suspicions somebody stated that the man M. S. Miakay, Sergt. G. H. Varmey was seen in good firm interdepartmental rivalry; com-afternoon one of the Indisa. which exist are current. Agrical-w13 6 "well-known Labour man,' tore is an art which relies so much and if one put two and twoman), Corpl. J. A. Lyon, Pte. Ano match for their experienced Air Department and the Ministry by the hawker for assault

Jenkins. cu and suffere so freely from the together and consulted an Army.

Dockyard Defence Corps.- opponents, who were never really of Munitions, and secret stories (Englorures)TM

Inspector Garrod stated that extended.

of romance surpassing Garvice. the Chinese constable was absent, The Gadarese Swine.-Tie stern forces of nature that the Tast the identity became obvious,

Measts. Brook, Wright, Seara,

The final of this competition Certain it is that the newer but there was a warrant out for Cousins and Goodman. Prussians cannot change their husbandm is almost proessarily Manchester bas some little interest

takes place to-night, Green and departments have so red over the his arrest. H.M B. "-"-Petty Officer waye. They must either bally a solitary figure, strongly stamp-in the fact because Colonel одое worked on the

The hawker explained how hea and intimidate or grovel, aded with the temperment which Ward

abd Fletcher, land, Leading Seamar Harwood,

a higher stratam, and most off their time for whining ba nat his environment eslls forth; but construction of the Manchester Parmenter, Petty Officer MoUlel- Dodwell having to meet Nisbet old ones, because they have topped

There should be a large crowd their female employers have never arrested for an alleged yet come. Ye: though their this makes the farmer individua... { Ship Canal, and it. is interesting Sergt... Fletober and Private]

at the War Charities Court worked before, anywhere. Far betraption, and stated that when French.

be told the lakong he had no loathsome bestialities afe rothing listic and self-contained. The to note that but for his mother,

to-morrow night, for Mr. and

costa abound; and the level of: new, the deeds of "wantco independence of his calling is who died six years ago, and savagery the Germans have com- inseparably associated with that to whom he was passionately

Mrs. Nisbet play the Rev. Cooper dress generally leaves nothing to monoy, he was struck with s

truncheon and knocked unoon DIE mitted during their retreat quality which connecton with attached, he might now have been

The effect of this influx iecious. He did not know how hair from the Somine would wake us the land alone can give, and this a sailor instead of a soldier M.P.

Hunt and Mrs. Armstrong in the be desired.

immense and subtle; it is as taken to the station.

Hr. R. H. B. Hancock said he b imagine that a new set of perhaps makee him andaly im-Colonel Ward fought in the ranke

treveable in athonsand ways devile had entered into them and patient of criticism and reform. in the Sudan (where he took part

from the change in male habita was passing in his rioksha when he esw the hawker in the charge were driving them beadlong Possibly, also, it is responsible in the railway constraction), and downhill to national destruction, for that batred of change with on his return to England be

of seats at the ropes will be sold There is less red-tape, because

n'able. There was a little 74th Panjabis,-LIN Dalip to patrone at $10 escb. Ap- the feminine abhors it; and the from the buman family. They characteristic, ingrained and in-which he became General Secret. Naik Imamuddin Khao, are not fit company for the losest bred through the centuries, is ary. He entered the House of type of human beings. For two more difficult to understand, and Commons, and in February. 1915, Singh, Naik Naranjan Singh, plication for these should be made

accepted a captaincy in the Public Shab Nawaz, Sepoy Parsot- at once to Mr. F. O. Jenkin.

His Excellency Major General years the wretched old people lie in the nature of self-defence.

children inhabiting the

History above it continually, Warka Pioneera Battalion, and in tam, and Sepoy Alam Din.

Boys! Engineers. - Lieut Ventris and the Bight Reverend redeemed terntory have lived and it is only fair to the farmer to May, 1915, was given a command Fahl, S. M. Richmond, S. . the Bishop of Victoris have 10 an infernc. The blessings bear the causes in mind when we as lieutenant colonel..

The Middlesex Regiment, whose Bryant, Q. M. S. Wilson and intimated their intention of being ul

Kalto:

have ask him to depart suddenly from been meted out to the i with an the ways of his ancestors. These battalion behaved so splendidly. MS. Black. uneparing hand. The women ways, moreover, are not mere on board the Tyndarens, is one bave been carried into captivity adhesions to a past "hosty grey with a remarkable record, as it and forced to make munitions with eld," like those of his brother has generally managed to get for the destruction of their agriculturist in the changeless into the thick of any fighting in countrymen; the maidene bave East, who farms as Cain farmed, which it has been engaged. Ite which battle honours include Mysore, suffered anspeakable outrage but they and have been con-igned to a time has very slowly and deliber. Seringa patam, Albuera, Ciudad fate worse than death. During ately sanctioned as being safe Rodrigo, Badajos, Vittoria, Pr- sheir occupation the invadere and sure, after prolonged ex-renees, Alma, Inkerman, Sevas-

They are cutting themselves off which he is credited; but this founded the Navvies' Union, of dar,Nabi Bakhah Khan and Ladmission, a very limited number to the revolution in routine of a lukong aud" an Indian conve

and

Prussian

are those

and Mr. Lockhart.

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present.

OTHER OBSERVANCES.

evi times in the face and si30. Pu: chad his body. The defend- ant pulled the hawker along an Los House Sreet, striking him. the whole way. When opposite Mesars, Logan and Base defendant kicked the hawker a severe kick in the back. The bawker was then seemingly and

chair.

bave not only takes from perience of a few slowly introduced topol, New Zealand, South Franka (A.S.P.), Chief Inspector The service is intended primarily boys and mon before the conscious and was put into a

machines, well described in "Old bullets. Mortality," called forth mach bucolic wrath: "A new-fangled

was a likelihood anticipated by the British command. The par pose was baffled, as it has been machine impiously thwarting

will

Pro- bailed before, Bat all this was the

of Divine nos enough for the Hana They vidence by raising wind instead of robbed the people of everything by human sirt,"

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Africa

OBSTRUCTING THE

BAILIFF.

The Assault-at-Arms,

the

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become a sort of home from home. came up and tried to move the office (especially at tea-time) has struggling, and then the defendant Tes is the institution. 1 don't hawker on. The hawker refused to refer to the occasional oupa at 110 and one of the Indians struck a.m, or after lunch, but the real him in the side of the face. He still then began to knock him about festival that fills the feminine refused to more, and the defendant soal with sacred fire.

Be strook him · U s. 8. "-"-W. M. Caent-

But it is the practical side that rather badly. counts, after all. What does the evene, O. H. Milburn, G. C.

Mr. E Ralphe, Inspector of change portray? Is it satis Wiser, E. G. Dunlap and C. R: Darrant.

English Schoole, informs us that factory ? Will it continue? Will Royal Navy, Chief Petty a short commemoration service women supplant men? Women, Officer Oree, Leading Signalman will be held at St. John's Cath-to-day, command a dispropor

market, Botley, Pte. Kelly, Sergt. Allan edral on Empire Day at 9 am. tionate wage on the

when a sermon will be preached owing to the disappearance of H. K. Police Reserve.-Mr. by the Lord Bishop of Victoris, men. In relation to the price of Sirdar Khan, Chief Inspector for

British children they are vastly overpaid. And a short training their hapless victime all that modifications of an older system. Africa (1872). South

Lammert, Sergt. Major Roylance of the Colony, for whom the girle, with

Urown Sergeant Bassck, of the The British farmer learnt the (1900-2), and the Relief of Lady- and Sergt. Relph. their toil produced, they have

pare and both transepts will can command something like Royal Garrison robbed them of the food sent laws of average long before the smith. The first battalion is

Artillery.be reserved. The general public 404. a week; and the demand Police Reserve, said he also saw the affair, He first saw the them by "kidearted uenirals, actuary did, and it is this that known as the "Die-barde, Lieut. Barrie, 2ad. Lieat. Wil-will be accommodated in the nave for shorthand typists greatly Many thousands of the unoff and makes bi long beaded and name earned at Albuera during kisson (Captain), Mr. Hartree, sisies. Government launch, exceeds the supply. To those akong holding the hawker, whos,

was crying bitterly. He advised and dis-as euiting from their help from Government if it is eagagement the battalion resisted Mr. Martin, Co. Sergt. Major available for Kowloon children, who employed labaar three year the hawker to go quietly, but so :- ing civi.su-hre die from want sceptical of the advantage of any the Penineular War. In that

Heath and Corpl. Martin.

ill leave the Kowloon Pier at ago the difference is starting. he would not go, an indisn. Serg Considerable freshness will be 8.20 a.m. sharp, and will leave True, living is dester; but the

ent, B398, came up and assisted, ill-treatment; the survivors, old cncfined to ade year; so we must every attempt of the enemy to and young, are cmaciated wrecks, not be surprised if compulsion is dislodge it from its position, and

I would not depreciate women scarcely retaining spirit enough resented. But the haabandman at the end of a hard-fought day introduced into those periodical Bike Pier on the return journey disproportion is so much greater wiring the hawkera fose slank

"Bisleye" by the appearance on immediately after the service."

Tasdefendan: then appeared, and teams from s this occasion of

There will also be a service at or their potentialities; but the to welcome their deliverers. That cannot be altogether absolved on still belt the ridge, although

facts cannot be denied. They are pushed the hawker along, strik the Germans aliould destroy this score, and some of the record-mustering poly one officer out of

At the Hongkong Club. and from the latest addition to

new to work; they fail to give it og him the while, Eventually the everything that could be of use to fed instances of bia obstinate dis- the original 24, and 168 men cat British and an American warship the Roman Catholic Cathedral.

defendant administered what Ita colours on that

It is estisfactory to note that earnest attention, and, as yet, do the Colony's armed forces the their pureuers was to be expected. like of obange are very amuting. of 584.

must have been a severe kick, were riddled with That their bestial instincts would The introduction of winnowing cocasion

Bockyard Defence Corps, for Empire Day this year is not to be not seem capable of a mans for it lifted the hawker three fest prompt them to poison the wells

whom Goodman, well known as allowed to pass without some intensity of effort. When they one of the Volunteer Reserve tangible observance by the repre- have been longer in the field of the ground. Witness made.

hold their their the Indian get the man soms leading shots, will appear. The sentative British Clab, the Hong- they will

in water, 88 he was senseless. For years past it own, as they do nee of the sperture sight is also kong Club.

Defendant gara evidence and being allowed for the first time, has been the castom for the teaching or nursing; but in the said he was sent to the scene of The ELK.P.E. will entertain all Chairman to be "At Home" to the clerical world they have not the trouble by a European. He competitors to tifin.

members and subscribers, but tained the male standard. Aš

found the hawker lying on the of value, and what they could not patiently awaiting nature,

it is thought, and wisely so too, personal assistants and secret. carry away they destroyed. The soliciting it by prayer. Sermons A Lively Scene at Shaukiwao. At 8.30 p.m. the open-air ring that the present circumstances aries, when carefully chosen and ground. He seested the other are invaluable. two men, but did not strike him farniebings of the poorest co-were preached against the vile

at the Volunteer Headquarters call for the co-operation of the rained, they

or kick him. tagea were zmashed to atoma, the innovation, and EO Laturally

He called the other Indian Three Chinese were charged Parade Ground will be the scene local representatives of the na- Quicker, defter and more recep fruit trees were backed down, estarated by the elemente le before Mr. J. B. Wood, at the of Police Reserve. Sports Night tions who are hand in hand tive than the male, they are

defendant did not” strike... the nothing that the devils of destrac- Agricola that his morals are Police Court this morning, with to some 2,000 officers and men of with Britain in the present crisis. altogether to be praised whilst Sergeant, who also said the tion could suggest was left andoue confused as well as his judgment, obstructing P. O'Sullivan, the the Colony's and Allied Forces. The word "Edtente" has a wide under the immediate eye of

ohief. But SA a body, man. "Friends Agais, lon't It, and this less than two centuries

Supreme Court bailiff, in the About 1,700 invitation tickets meaning, bat in no place is a the

Inspector Davitt, who was on Yeaa?"-Yet those men expect age!

have been issued proportionately gathering such as at present they lack that esprit de cor duty in the charge room at the course of his duty. to mingle again with their neigh- There was more ground for

Mr. O'Ballivan said he went to the men of all the Services, and stranged more opportune than in that the boy acquires ils of time the hawker was brought in, bours on Ballin and his Hamburg friends folding of sheep „#88 esntionsfy out in & sampan to a junk, taking more will be issued on request to this Colony, the outer fringe of teens. A room fall of girls orasid he could fad no marks on

the old terme. Herr complaint, passibly, when the

been are hurrying forward new ships introduced. The lambe would fokiof the plaintiff firm with him. those who are willing to accept the Empire. Aesanounced in our women who have not

advertising column, the Hong-accustomed to working apella was thought the “wanted" man to be ready for the rush of peace certainly break their legs. Yet The foki boarded a junk where it standing room only.

The officers of His Majesty's Kong Club will be thrown open trouble, mo

The economic situation plays a Trade. Ostracism as the result of the farmer's deep-rooted suspicion was, but he was not there, and Forces and of the American and to the lady friends of the members their crimes never enters their of change has much to justify when the foki tried to get back Russian ships, and all Super and subsoribeza from 11.30 to 4 great part at present, for women minds. They expect to find itself, far more than is commonly on to the sampan, the defendants intendents and Inspectors of p.m. The King's health will and girls with no one dependent our doors, ut least, open believed. A mistake is made, threw him down and beat him. Police, have been, and are again, be proposed shortly after noon, on their efforts are earning and to them, and that our good, say, in deep cultivation, and may Witness endeavoured to get away invited to attend. No tickets and the official representatives of saving considerable sums; and as easy traders will take their be felt in impoverished crops for in his sampan, but the vessel have been sent to them. They the Allies will alec speak. The they often are careless whether blood-swined hands again and many years.-Times:

was lied to the junk. The will be admitted without ticket formal celebration will be con- they keep any post or not, a let bygones be bygones. The idea

first defendant shouted out that to the $10" ringside seats, cluded at 1.15 pm.. when lunch difficulty arises. From one aspect Probibition of a Tokyo Magazine,

aside will be served for the convenience it is good that an employer or an he would kill them and which have been set

The sale of a special number a drown them. There was a big entirely for their use. These of those members, subscribers official should not wield the whip

mob there and defendanta, were seats will not, however, be kept and lady friends who wish to of starvation; but this freedom of the Shin Koron, & well-known attend the specially arranged must be accompanied by some Tokyo monthly, issued on May sa eye to business, snaffle over b-Isot my position sufficient endeavouring to incite them to vacsot after 9.15 pm.

Staff Inspectors Wildin and matinee at the Theatre Royal at 4 independence and strength of 1, has been prohibited and all the Obristian duiz of forgiveness, ly assured to permit of paying for stack. The noise was great Clarke have the programme in p.m. By kind permission of Lieut, mind, and some personal pride in the copies have been seized by the

any book I may loss? Beings that he could not make himself

heard. The second defendant hand. The American Navy in Col. John Ward, M.P..and officers one's work, or the minimum of police. The prohibition is believ book lover, such a thing as losing drove his sam pan woman away. coming forward in sporting style of the 25th Middlesex Begiment, discipline that is essential in any ed to be due to the publicsson in à book appears absurd.

Mr. Preston appeared for the to help" see the thing through". the string band will render organisation cannot be achieved the number of an artiale entitled Sir,-On Saturday I want to Is the Colony so poor that recond defendant, having been Saltsmen, of the US. Navy, will selections at the Club from noon All who have managed voluntary the Pagehology of Democracy the City Hill Library and asked it can neither afford an educated instructed by the man's em-wreetla Pardy, of the British to 4 p.m. By special arrange helpers will recognise this. Men in which the densor seems to have for the rules. A eleepy old Chin-man as hell porter nors printed ployer.

Navy. Simes and Smith, whose ment with the Bandman Opera by long and bitter struggle and detected the existence of dangerous ese, apparently opium-dragged, book of ralee?

Defendants were fined $20 each fight on Saturday was the only Company, the matises will consist sacrifice have attained, by union, thoughts. or in default six weeks' imprison- one which caused some difference of an attractive and continuous some degree of independence; of opinion, will again occupy the vendeville entertainment combat these girls fresh from school ring. The Americans will put prising selected items from the have reached it at's bound. The up a battle royal after their own Company's repertoire. A pro-result is too often unsatisfactory. enclosed. I filled in "A" form, and [The enclosures referred to by

hearts,

These Two nippers of nine portion of the eesta is being

objections, however, sent it round, and I suppose the correspondent are ;~~" A, Election Postponed.

years, with apparently many reserved for the members and arise mainly from the fact that they must have again disturbed sa application for the privilege Yesterday there was to have more years experience of the subscribers of the Hongkong women are inexperienced as the comatose one, and guided his of borrowing books; "B," a form been an election by the Justices gloves, will contest the "Los Club. Almost the entire worker. Like raw schoolboys, trembling head while he scrawl to be signed by a ratepayer of the Peace of one of their quito weight" Championship of amphitheatre will be occupied by they have not recognised the ed the legend on form 'B," and affirming that the applicant is a number to serve on the Licensing the Colony.

members of the Navy and the meaning of a team! But they will. returned both to me.'

person to whom Library books Board during the absence of the In order to help meet the Garrison, to whom invitations are These fanles will disappear in a

WA Now what I am trying to get rasy be safely entrusted. This Hon. Mr. E. Shellim. No nomine expences of the show, which being pent. A few seats are generation or so, and stay will ** CER, Manila, $250 Philip latter bears the written words tiona, however, were sent in, and is extirely free, and in re available for the general public, take their place boeide mer, pine Currency Apply Germinal How am I, a stranger in This form must be filled up." the election has had to be post-sponse to numerous applications and these can be booked at filling the posts best adapted for Cigar Store, 18, Nathan

Kowloon Hongkong, to go round saking Ed. H‚KT.).

poned.

the general public for Montrie and Goyat undal" príone,” them.

is revolting, but apparently there] ***

Are

among us who can contemplate bill for me for $25?

many anco gaid people unknown ratepayers to back

the return of the Hun, and, with

OUR LIBRARY.

headed me the catalogue, and, after, about 15 minutes, the old

image roused himself from his

Yours etc.,

LIBLE

torpor long enough to give me the Hongkong, May 22, 1917.

ment.

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the man.

Mr. T. H. King, A.S.P., who watched the esse for the Polios, gated that the men's uns consciousness was feigned,

His-Worship imposed a fine of $10.

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