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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1917.

Food Prices,

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DAY BY DAY.

QFT EIPTORATION FAILS, AND MOST OFT THERE

WHERE KOST IT PROMINES- All's Well That Ends Well.

Tomorrow's Anniversary, Te-morrow in "Decoration Day" in the United States.

:

The Dollar.

The opening rats of the dollar 00 demand to-day 2a. 4.11/163.

was

The Death Rate. during the week ending May 13, The death rate of the Colony 18218 per thousand per annum,

compared with 19 00 for the corresponding week last year,

236,

After a period of over two years, the Food Committes has summon- ed together anffisiant energy to | make a fresh and general revision of the maximum prices at which food may be sold by retail. The list is too lengthy for reproduc- tion, bat

presume that housewives desirous of obecking their compradores' books by the official figures would be able to secure a copy of the latter by applying to the Secretary of the Committee, at the Sanitary Board offices. Indeed, it would ba quite a good sobeme if the Government were freely to circalate copies of the new list Bolong residents. The expense would not be overwhelming, and, by so doing, the authorities would be performing a u fal and a very necessary publis service. The articles for which A woman living at

"A Wonian's Loss. deficite prices are now laid dowa Queen's Road Central has report comprise flour, tinned milk, ed to the Police that some person sugar, frozen meat, fish, poultry, entered her house on Saturday fraits and vegetables. In regard and stole clothing and jewellery to provisions imported from to the value of $804,00. countries other than Chins, ex- closive of those mentioned, it wAS formerly provided that the A school girl hae reported to the prices could not be raised more Police that whilst she was on ber than 15 per cent, above the rates way to church on Caine Road, on which prevailed prior to the war. Sunday, a small boy and a man Since the last revision, however, came up behind her, the boy the export of certain foodstuffs ostobing her by the throat. Mean- from the United Kingdom has while the man snatched from her been prohibited, and the Com-wriste two rattan bangles meant * Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager. mittee very rightly announces jed with gold, and then made off

that the prices of these commodi.

Business Change. The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will ties can no longer be fixed. Con As will be seen by reference to be as follows:-Daily issue-$36 per annum. Weekly isene-sumers who consider that they are our advertising colomor, Mr. J. $13 per annum.

being overcharged are, however, M. da Rocha has established him The rates per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscriptions invited to communicate with the self as merchant, under the for any period less than one month will be charged as for a Secretary of the Food Committee. atyle of J. M. da Rocha and Com- full month.

In the circumstanosa, the Company. Mr. da Rocha was formerly The daily issue is delivered free when the addressse is accessible to mittee, appears to have done all with the Liverpool, London and messenger. Peak aubscribers can have their copies delivered at that could reasonably be expected Globe Insurance Company, with their residences without any extra charge. O copies seat by of it, but we hope that the whom he was employed for sight. post an additional $1.80 per quarter ia cbarged for postage. authorities will not be content to een years. The postage on the weekly iseus to any part of the world is $1.00 let mattera rest here. They can

Barry things a step further by the meeting of the Sanitary per quarter.

occasionally sending round to Board, this afternoon it was shown the varioua compradores shops from the rat returns that during a plain clothes (fficer

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EMPIRE DAY.

How Shanghai Celebrated It..

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

·President – Wilson's ⠀ssornfü allusion to a Imperialist - Ger- many in his reply to President Poinoarean allusion barbedsbyr All the Settlement at Shanghai contrast with the "noble demo was ablas with Allied flags on cracies" of the Allies-revesla Empire Day, bich was celebrated the danger that list in a word to on a more elaborate scale than which clashing interpretations ever be firs..

may be givan. Is England, mys Uader the suspices of the Over the Daily Chronisks, we bare sas Olab, Indica sald owers and become reconciled to “ampire tiny faga at various points in the sa a useful," harmless definition” Senlement, taking up a collection of a world-wide commonwealth on behalf of the Royal Flying but Americs still makes the Corps Hospital. At noon HM Con-acciation that we find set out sal-General, Sir Everard Fraser, in Green's "Short History" KOM.G., took the salute given "The word carried the implica by the British units of the tions of reactionary "oppression 8.7.0. at the Consulate-General, in Rusia, of government-by having earlier in the day it- massacre in Turkey, of the vesti spected the Boy Scouts, who raised pretensiona and corruptions of the flag. At 12 30 p.m. the Beti the fallen empire of Napoleon,

b. members of the Shangbai and the military rule of that c Clab were "At Home" to their which was rising in Germany." fellow members,” a military „tour»:

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Before the title of

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At the saluting of the flag, the "it had to receive after long effort. British Consul delivered a patrio‘-| §. new interpretation, as yet ic speech, as he did later. at the bidder from the Tory party of Shanghai Club reception, at that day (Berlin Treaty day), and which the Belgian Consul algo almost beyond the hopes of the epoke, and M. Dafaalt sang the Liberals themselves." That new Marseillaise.

interpretation,

be | certain, has now been found, and we may trust President Wilson and his fellow-citizens to dietin Sallors.guish between Imperial Britain

and Imperialist Germany."

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“Equeezing" in Hongkong and one in Kowloon. Aconymous still continues. The knowledge In the following week 1,814 were Additional that surprise visits of this order caught, three of which were in may be expected would do much fected, Hongkong having one and to keep the profiteering compra Kowloon two. dore from glaringly fsecing the

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There is, from the Boche point Our readers will have perused with no little interest the of view, a most distressing an lengthy cable which we published yesterday, samming up the results animity among the people of of the recent conversations between Americs and Britain. It is evid Britain, France and Russia, where ent therefrom that the most sanguine expectations on the part of the untiring prosecution of the those who organized the mission have been fulfilled. One feels that war is concerned. This morning's great wisdom was displayed, in the first place, in choosing Mr. wires relate (1) that there has Fight on the. Stairs.

Two women were asid to have Balfour as the principal mouthpiece of the Empire. As a politicien, been a most successful mass bad a fight over some and also as a literary man sad a deep thinker, he long ago created meeting of the British League of between

go- for himself cirole of keen admirers in the United States, and there Workers, at which a resolution riage of a

money for the mar girl, which had not is no doubt that his teet and eloquence and manifest good breeding was passed, expressing the been paid. It was said the have now very considerably widened that circle. To home-staying fixed determination of all pat-first defendant went up the Americans, who were perhaps prepared for a mixture of cold, bored riotia Britona in the United stairs where she was met by the condescension and quasi-Prussian peremptorinese, Mr. Balluar has Kingdom and in the dominions second, and after an argument been as great a surprise se Mr. Choata was to our own people at beyond the seas to continue the the boat commended. It waxed Home when he first came smong them.

war to a victorious finish; (2) fast and furious, the first defend- Bat, even apart from his natural faculty for diplomatic work, that General Dragomiroff hasant having to contest every ster, there was a special fitness in sending Mr. Balfour as the nation's declared that a separate peace is but at length she had to give ambassador. He has realised, as few living men have realised, the an impossibility; and (3) that ground, the second defendant, desirability of a complete understanding between two peoplea that both the Congress of Russian with a grand rally, rushing her descend, in the main, from the same stock, speak the same langa Officers' Delegates and also that opponent out into the street. Here age and share the same ideals; and it has been, as Beater saye, one of the French Peasant League the two combatanta were of the dreams of his life to see this understanding some into being. have expressed precisely the same engrossed that they headed not The alliance with the United States adds just the necessary finish opinion.. Now determination on the warning of an Indian cou- ing tough to the work which was begun when the Imperial Govern- the part of an enemy is what the stable, who had to use tact and meat displayed its wisdom by calling in the advice of the Ministers Hun most fears, and it is little force to prevail upon the frous His Majesty's Dominions over see. Britsin, by taken counsel calculated to bring him to his first defendant to remove her with the men of the new countries-South Africs, Canada, Austral- bearings more rapidly than any- teeth from the other woman's asia, and now the United State-st one throws overboard the thing elee. At one time he fally arm. Mr. J. B. Wood, at the worst and most dangerous features of her insularity: features believed that his cultored nation Police Court this morning, im-

Mr. Edgar Davidson which, all too often, had been instrumental in making her bary her had a monopoly in resoluteness posed a fine of 13 in each case.

(Monthly sub) head in the sand, cetrich fashion. If British diplomacy possesses and that, on that very account,

Mr. O. E. H. Beavis weight and profundity, a certain amount of long headednear; he was bound to win. He had

The “Yellow Dragoa,” The May number of the

Monthly sub) and much of the wisdom that it has inherited from a line been taught that he would have Queen's College monthly, the Me. E. L. Agaasis of statesmen that stretches back to Alfred the Great, it yet fails in to face men whose distinguishing Yellow Dragen, is a bright one

(Monthly sub) point of practicality, and of readiness to grasp facts immediately, characteristics were vacillation and gives further evidence that Hon. Mr. E. H. Sharp And here is where contact with the younger blood is going to help the and disation; men who could be it enjoyas progressive career. In

(Monthly enb) Mother Country. What her politicians lack in decision, and in cold, bluffed to all eternity and who, addition to its Bahoo! Notes, there Mr. G. G. Alabaster master-of-fact ability to deal with a question immediately instead of even if they met with some is a very well-written description.

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make practical use of that scholar being also responsible for

Victoris School (Mon- Economically and politically we are already the better for our success. He thought and, Heaven the narrating of an ingenious thly sub)..., new alliance; and, when the war is over and we are able to deal with knows, Britain has given him not confidence trick practiced by the Tennessee (Monthly business matters with an undivided attention, we are going to realise a little encouragement to do so thugs of Bengals YM.O.A. work

sub) - that friendship with Amerios means something very profitable to that he would find us gentle and in Mesopotamia described by Staff of Mowers ourselves and probably very disastrons to what is left of the Ger forgiving and easy to persuads, the Secretary of the Association Dodwell and Co. maas. It would be immensely interesting, by the way, to know ex Bat to-day he is not quite so sure. at Caloutts, and stall American (Monthly sub) actly what the Hane think of the dicaces that have taken place To-day, wherever he turns, he story make light reading. The Union Trading Co. in Amerist Even a brief abairnot like that wired to Hongkong Anda powerful enemies whose issue also contain the B-G.P.O.Month yuunday in wirficient to let them me that the United States Govero watchword is No peace till Gerschool matter, and it is interest

lyubscription) maat now has few or no illusions on the subject of them and their many is bestan; no peace fill the ing to note that two of the wohal. Mr. A. R. Lows mad aspirations, and that it is more than onger to put a spoke in Hohenzollerns are wiped out!" ars, who went up country to Anonymous (Monthly thair wheel. For long enough, our endcsson were always congratulat-And, to add to his chagrin and his worship as their family's-snoss- wablets phion) ing themselves than if everything else failed them, if they were increasing terror, these enemies tral tombe during the Tsing Pbi (Monthly sub practically driven out of Europe, there still remained Amerion and have not only the will to carry out Ming holidays, have been China so happy hunting grounds. Perhaps they are now beginning their fixed intention, but they hare napped, and are st⋅ present held tó malims that thin was just as much an idle dream as their original! the men and the money as well.

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{ ́· The death of the aged. Earl

Muncaster- reminds us of; the Lack of Mancaster” which in- spired Longfellow with his poem *The Lack of Eden Hall.” The glass cup so long scisted with The fortunes of the family, which in carefully preserved at ifuncsés ter, way given to Sir John de Pennington by Henry VI. as a token of gratitude for sheltering | kim after the dienstrous Battle of

Herbam in 1463."

Longfellow given “The Luck Eden Hall" a supersatural ori The tale is that the butler ones to draw.water from ßt. Onth be Well in Eden Hall gu 8,028,25 meinad a drinkie

414,138.32 133 game wither, beskon

$422,164.

Amounts remitted eta. 405, 285.35 that if the pup be ki

the faintily shall never leak Balance in hand $16,929.22 heir, bar not been falfile H. J. STABB, there is so ma Hon. Treneurár. Hongkong, 26th May, 1917,

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