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states: received HUMPHREYS.-"Cable William Griffiths Humphreys of Hongkong passed away suddenly, at Ses, on board the Empress of Asia, on Tuesday 19th June,"

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1917.

NEUTRAL NATIONS AND THE WAR..

The Mesopotamia Report,

While it is good that our short- comings should be confessed land those responsible for them

"THURSDAY, JUNE

1917.

DAY BY DAY.

U. S. TENNIS PLAYERS' BIVAL CHAIR COOLIES.

VISIT.

IF YOU HAVE NOT THE FORCE

An American Accoust of a Hongkong Match.

The Dispute Over a Street Strad.

At the Police Court this worn.

brought to task, we think there oF CHARACTER TO MAKE AN will be general agreement with ENEMY YOU WILL NEVER MAKE t when we say that the A FRIEND appearance of the Mesopotamis Commission's Report the present moment is rather inoppor- suse. These are days when the public wants encouragement and

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Fears Anglo-Saxon World Domination.

TO-DAY'S

Time flier, even in Old Ma The boy King of Spain a

still our habit to term hins,. the father of six hopeful junior. royalties," "wan "31"-fast- Twenty-one years" youngst

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We take the following from ing, Me: J. B. Wood dealt with point of age, then King George,3 that Tuan Shib-k'si, 1sts Presid-American Lawn Tennis of May the ouse in which three chair he is by 24 years his conios as a eat of China, summoned the old 15-This issue of Amariess coolies were charged with fight sovereign. In that respect. ba is, tom

Lawn Tennis would scarcely con-ing over the right of using the indeed, the doyen of rulers, fo

he is the only man in the world: onfidence rather than depres-

The Dollar,

|tain all the things told by George public stand-in Chitar Road,

Mr. Wood informed who was born a King. His birth sion and no-one can read the

The opening rate of the dollar M. Church and Harold A. Throck

men that the stands was immediately preceded by the conclusions of the Commission

demand w-ray was morton, the two American players the refeited to without experienc. on

The c'oving rate who went to Manila last fall and, at Blake Pier and Wyndham death of his father. The Down fing В tinga of regret 2 5.7/161,

after winning the Championship streets were for Hoklos, and those ger Queen is German by birth that, in the midst of the will be found on Page 1.

of the Orient, stopped off in in Chater Road, Pedder Street, breeding, and present sympaths war, past failurea -should be

The next of the series of "At China, Japan, Hawaii and South- the Post Office, outside the lies, but El Rey is the steadfast brought prominently into the limelight. That mistakes-terrib- Homes "in connection with the ern California on their way home. Hongkong Hotel, and the Star friend of England, ly costly mistakes, too-- ware made Wigwam Lawn Tennis Club takes Besos this account of their wao-Ferry, for Pantis. Toe factions derings can only tonali on some must not trespass on the others' in the Mesopotamian operations place on Saturday, July 7.

of the things they saw and did, stande, but, if engaged, might Armada when he carried off as hi The V. A. D.

bride one of our most charming: Bat we do not seek to deny.

Owing to a sudden illness, the And while the Taisa of Travellers | wait at any stand. when we know, as even the Com- missioners themselves admit, that lecture and drill arranged to be have, from the time of Marco Polo Two of the defendants were Princesses. Days among the the success of the campaign as a given at the Military Hospital to been received with some scepti- Horlos and they protested that happices in the lives of the off passed in her Motherland. - A whole has been remarkable, the morrow (Friday), in connection pism, the Editor is able to vouch they had always need the alleged menaced young souple have been l

Mr. Wood fined the two Hoklos fonso is pround of his English, investigation of these blanders with the St. Joba'a Ambulance for this narrative, having. taken Panti stands.

Hongkong special pains to interrogate the and the firing of the Brigade (S. 1

paxxled as the Irish- and the responsibility therefor, might V. A. D), has been indefinitely young men sad delete from the $5 ch and discharged. the which is fluent. But he i

Americans over **abull” and 1. surely have been left over watil postponed-(S.) W. Wilkinson, story anything that savoured of Panti.

or stories for the

|" will.” · English friends of the after the war. Or, if that were Acting Adjutant and Hon. Seore romance

credulous.

present writer, toiling, up-the-u impracticabe, the announcement tary.

Engilsh-made Nails.

To invitations to play were

snowy Pyrenees met him flying: of the Commissioners' conclusions

The case was again before the received at Hongkong, one from a

down on his toboggan. He could's sne rate have been so

recognised them with a joyous- deferred. The prime business of Court to-day in which a man was local Chinese club which is said

view-helloo, You aball enjoy the moment should be a vigorous charged, before Mr. J. R. Wood, to contain some very good players.

it,” he roared se he whirled by.. the struggle.with attempting to export a quan The other invitation was from the The time calls for concentration tity of brass nails. Inspector Hongkong Cricket Olab, an officer prosecation of

Among all the stories of Me on the problems of the present Brasil said he had seen Mr. of which called the boys up at

Choate chronicled in hisobituariery rather than a dwelling on the Lloyd, Assistant Superintendent their hotel and asked them to errors of the peat, and we cannot uf Imports and Exporte, sud the play an exhibition with two of

London, May 18-The German there was no mention made of one help thinking that the Commis latter said he would not grant a the club's men, the proceeds to sioners' time and energy would permit to export these nails, a go to a war charity. As their authorities are showing appre- that deserves to be recalled at the have been better spent along they were English-made. If they stay in the city was short, only hension of the post-war organisa-present moment. It was in the⠀

mises to be fulfilled in an inverted these lines than in raking ap the were Japanese, he would grant a one invitation could be accepted, tion for trade purposes by the nature of a prophecy that pro-

which permit. Mr. Wood asked what the and it proved to be that of the Allies.

form. Ata Pilgrima" dinner, masy. « applesesnt muddies

The big industrial newspaper, characterised the early days of a reason was, and Inspector Brasil Cricket Club.

was Irish George Wyndham campaign which has since been replied that he had no idea, In-

Upon arriving at the club it Rheinisch Westfaliach Zeitung ago, when the late Mr. o fruittal of good results. We spector Brazil asked that the developed that one of the local published an article showing far-Secretary, Mr. Obante spcke, and do not, of course, approve of any neile should be confirested. His

player who made lawn tennis the after-war trade, which started directed at Mr. Wyndham, said condoning of past negligence, no Worship decided to do this and men. Niabet, en English the spread of the ecare regarding in the course of his, and twenty in the German banking press that Ireland would besome the matter who may be to blame, but alea inflicted a fine of $1.

The New Storm Signals. what vitally

The new system of local storm Jears ago. A player of high including the Berliner, Tageblatt.mediator between Eagland and

the America. To-day we are wondór z It would appear from the telegram which we printed in yester- useful purpose has been served by signals which is to come into a class, he was ranked in the fifth the Lokal Anteiger, and day's inene, with reference to the position of neutral natione, that issuing broadcast, at the present on July 1 will, to those who have group in 1896 in a lies pablished Frankfurter Zeitung, and seems a ing with high hopes whaiken their lot is in many respects not at all a happy one. It is never a moment, easy matter saccesfully to please two misters, while on the con-those who are deemed to have not studied the alterations, make the "Lawn Tennis Handbook" deliberate intention to prepare Amerios-will not be a-madiator

1896; this was the class below W. render of all political claims, if

A highly interesting situation. trary, it is extremely difficult to do exactly the" right thing" by both. been at fault. The festure of the the reading of the signale a matter of. 1897, covering the season of the German nation for the sut between England and Ireland.. has been brought - shout; i According to the telegram, the state of affairs in regard to most of Report is the severe censures of great difficulty, but this is a

The article is especially appreGreenock owing to the forward the neatral nations at the present moment is that their position is which have been passed on prac point that can be obriated by the A. Larned, who played in Eng only peace is obtainable on pre- becoming daily more difficult. That sach is the case will readily tically every body concerned in possession of the well-printed land that year and was bracket war trade conditions.

published by Mesere. Doherty. In 1897 Nisbet was in bensive regarding the of movement in shipbuilding.. kIn- be understood when consideration is taken of the reasons to which the operations, and it is certainly copy of the code which has jasted with E. Baddeley and R. F. we have already referred, particularly when one of the "masters" not inspiring to read of this

the B. F. dreads far more than the Pazia

builders, bat right in the way In Doherty sad W. V. Esvea baing Conference, and say that the needed by a large firms of ships to be satisfied is of such an unscrupulons disposition as is Germany, criticism of men who are still Noronha, and Company, and oeiving 3-6, W. Baddeley, R. Fre perial Conference, which it ereseed yard space is urgently

vents. tan whose ides of a ration's neutrality appears to be that it should be serving the Empire in high which is Demiral only to those opposing Germany, and not to Germany places. Let me get on with the price

defeating of the Germans. These addition to this, the same firmat scratch. It was in the latter establishment of an Imperial this extension is the Old Wi has issued a booklet of the non-year that Nisbet made his famous Customs' Union would be a mat

rearly to the Reformation. I. herself.

It is not, however, the difficolty of observing strict seatrality other thinga can well be left over ccal storm signal code, showing visit to Americs, in company with tér of extrame gravity for Gar. Kirk, with a history dating back how to read the approximate the Iste Harold 8. Mabony (then many. It is feared that such a the churchyard are the tombs of that is the chief verstion of the Allies. That is, a serious enough for future days.

velocity of the storm centre, the champion of England) and Dr. anion, by its weight, would draw Barns Highland Mary, the problem, doubtless, but it is not fraught with so much danger se Britain and the Metric System.

both ita orbit. That the new ers which is to direction of motion, the latitude WV Eeres. In the 1886 chama number of smaller States into father and grandfather of Famen Watt, and John Galt, and other is the internal perturbation that has been caused in neutral coun-

Larned and Whitman out of The article further points out notablas. tries in consequence of Germany's ruthless submarine campaign, Many of them are submitting to the inevitable hardships simply the resumption of normal econ" the time, and which shift the running, each in a five-set that after the war the effeck wou'd which has gone far towards impoverishing most of the neutrals, dawn on the arrival of peace and and longtitude of the atorm and pionship, Nisbet put

A generous offer has been made because they have no remedy by which to put matters aright. Bach mic conditions will bring many was received. There is aleo a appears to be the attitude of auch nations as Norway, Denmark and changes is a fact which is gen-good lithographed map of the match; he then succumbed to be intensified thousand fold if perhaps Switzerland, while, on the other hand, Spain, Holland, and erally accepted. Many and far typhoon area; and the book, for Eaves in the final round, and the Ameries joins in with the view of by the firm to the frustees of she standing-out champion, E. Dmacy, and establishing an Anglo-time being to accept it, being perhaps Sweden, are adopting quite different tactics. In other reaching reforms are believed to the price of fifty cents, should latter in tara was besten by the defeating Garmsa trade supre church, who have refused for the

Wrenn, five sets being again Saxon world domination.

supported in their refusal I required.

"We have shortly to face most Baras clubs and other interested words, they appear to be endeavouring to allow their affairs to be be inevitable, and it now appears command a large sale.

of that among those likely to Le influenced by the machinations of Germany. It is,

realised in the acceptance by

There was a good gallery disagreeable facta," concluded the parties. There is no doubt that strict Dentrality to difficult for course,

swayed Great Britain of the metric POLICE RESERVE ORDERS.sembled to see the visiting Westfalirch article, "that we the forward morement would one's inclinatione abeerved,

Americans, although the day was can only gradually repair our greatly benefit the town, and the i by one's beliefs. In Norway, Denmark and Switzerland, it would aystem. in the parenit of her

cold, yet it was seasonable for pre-war position in the world's trustees have a delicate piece of ocossions. much appear that the objects and the sima of the Germans are 6 detest-worldwide commerce. On very

Order issued today by Mr. January, being 50 degrees or a market. Unlese, however, we business before them to deside able to the vast majority of the people as they are to the Allies, many

system J. W. Franke, Acting D. S. P. little lower; the sun was shining, succeed in extorting from England between the claims of the past

which helped a little. A court absolutely unrestricted and most and the needs of the present, while, on the other band, in Spain, Sweden and perhaps in Holland been said both for and against -ir the last-mentioned country owing perbape to close proximity the adoption of this

Handel's will, which is to be to Germany there appears to be a certain amount of admiration for by the British, who have for (Renerte) states-

A member submitting a pro- crease, and on this Church and aghout the British Empire, we

can see our banda forcibly tied in sold at public auction, is a dull the methods of the Boche and particularly for his Army. That each generations remained true to their Provisional Medical Certificate. had been laid out on the cricket favoured nation treatment thro-

Its disadvantagea visional medical certificate mast Thrcekmorton had a "knock-up,'" ia the cane aeems to be almost certain in regard to Spain, where'st present dao-decimal method of present the military are becoming every day more and more difloral calculation.

mercial cue from her, sad our has a number of "Itome" for lega to the Court. Various reasons are assigned for this state of affairs, have been realised butite rejection see that the certificate covers the after which the local men practic other directions by those who affair, revealing little of the test but the most likely is that some of the Army's chief oficers are in favour, of the purely decimal date of env patrol or other daty, ed. Nisbet's partner was a young take their political and com-ator's personality-gave that it

view system have not been so apparent from which he has been absent er man named Hancock.

The Americans won in straight foreign trade will inevitably lag tees in the Saxon Fatherland. allowing themselves to be influenced by Germany with a doubtless to a less pronounced neutrality being maintained against a to cause many in Great Britain by reason of the illness in respect

Englishmen played the game are now preparing, by drawing the Paritan disine, was greatly them. From whatever cause, and probably there are many canses favourably disposed towards re- of which the certificate is obtaia-sets in an interesting match. The behind that of the Powers, who Some wills are famous. Bazlar, which we have come to regard as closer the bonds uniting them, to concerned in his last testament -Bome of them perbape having nothing whatever to do with Ger- commending the metric system ed.

P. O. 760 B-lan is dismissed, typical of their constry game coquer us in the coming trade over the proper distribution of his fanel waistosta. Rabelais dec- many-there can be no doubt that the situation at present in Spain to go farther than to say that its

which has backcourt play as the war,

lared in his will: "I have no is very unsatisfactory to those who would wish to see her observe adoption should be optional.

The Band Committes will meet basis, with occasional advances!

available property; Iowas great nentrality as it ought to be observed. The same observations are An Anomaly.

Tais Babject, which has now at Headquarters Club on Taesto jost inside the service line.

deal; the rest I give to the poor." even more applicable in the case of the neutrality of Holland' and.

that Femi-danger Sweden. Regarding the trouble in the former country, ref-rance has stained the right of being con- day, July 3, st 6 pm.

bali rollied pany with the resident of the And Br Thomas Lacy, of Chitle tbey

club and other members.

foote, took particular paina to will already been made in this column, and all that need be added is that aidered one the most hoary of been

with remarkable skill, the ang.. Holland's neutrality of late has not been such se can commend itself controversies, has again

ling of their shots being very Before leaving Hongkong en his "second best horse" to his favourably to the Allied nations. In Sweden, the Army appears to brought into prominence by the Assembly of the

good indeed. They were ex appreciative letter was received son, similarly as his old enemy have's preponderating weight upon the Government's policy and General

tremely steady, keeping the ball, by Captain Church from the Shakespeare willed his "ascond there has never been say doubt that, while the bulk of the Swedish Franch Chambers of Commerce

in court under even the severest clab. It is so interesting that it best bed" to his wife. nation may be--and we believe is inclined to enforce striot neu- which, according to a telegram

shote. They took advantage of is published in its entirety:** trality, the Army has beer pro-German, To Switzerland's position in yesterday's issue, has been

every error of their opponents, Hangkong Cricket Club. little attention need be paid, and doubtless her attitude would not meeting in Paris, requesting the

and it was only the greatest speed Hongkong, 15th January, 1917. have been considered bad it not been for the particularly flagrant British to adopt the metric Lighters Destroyed; Shipplag

that beat them. Their service

Secretary's Office, Botion recently by M. HEman, the Foreign Minister, who appeare to eyetem. In doing so, the Assem he sympathetic towards the Bass. Of the neutrality of Denmark bly probably, picted on that

We learn from a skipper just was well placed but lacked pace: The Cricket Club Pavilion,

Phone No. 497, and Norway, there is little if any complaint to be made, except by were Great Britain to acquiesce Germany, who is doing her utmost to intimidate the latter country in the sequeas she would be arrived in port from Bangkok And they both had trouble in

Dear Sir: I am directed by my Denmark, so far, has been able to stand strictly neutral and it is falling into line with practically that on the night of the 13th handling the deliveries of their G. M. Church:

After the match, the visitors' Committee to express their thanks sincerely to be hoped that both she and Norway will continue to do the whole commercial world. It instant and the morning of the opponents.

does, indeedeem an anomaly 14th, the heaviest gale experieno Until recently the greatest of all the then non-belligerent that the British the greatest of all ed for very many years occurred were taken to the club house and

A result their wants attended to. Throck to you and Mr. Throckmorton foc nations the United States maintained her neutrality admirably commercial nations-ehould was at Kohsiebeng

I am pleased to inform yan|| and now, baving renounced it, she is, necessarily, in the interests of system of coinage, weights and many of the lighters broke from morton preferred the tab to the the very fine exhibition of tennis of them with the latter gare forth only cold that we are thereby able to send humanity, of herself and of her Allies, making the position increas measures anfa&iliar to practically their moorings and were washed shower, having discovered that you kindly gave us this afternoon.

water, while both hot and cold

to war charities no less s kam ingly difficult for those nations, setasted by commercial rapacity or all the nations with whom she ashore, some by some other motive, who have been indirectly assisting Germany, does business. Difficulties, more cargoes of rice sboerd.

must fre- The consequent shortage of flowed into the tob; his team-mate than $300.**** Unless neutral natione strictly observe their obligations,.scoept or less seriona,

Iam, dear Sir, the inevitable with regard to the hardships caused by the quently arise, and the marvel is lighters delayed several vesele was content with the shower,

#Yours faithfails,: rabmarine campaign, and withstand the plausible tricks of German that the- aystem has in the past visiting the port, and some of Alter that, tea and ginger ale wern

(Bigned PAUL M. HODGSON. the visitors wanted), in com- diplomatic koavery, they will not only dispicase all the belligerants worked so bensinially for the these had to come sway with partaken of (thaf being all

*short cargoes as a result, alike, but will go star towards earning a more deleatable name for British. themselves than that of “Nurd,"

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The spring poet of 1917 is here, remarks the London Daily News, Here is a spasm called haphamard from an effort of over 400 stanzas: Te self-same enn that ope'd

the badstory Of my Jane roses one by one, Speed my shallots and seedling

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My beans, my tacaipe, ton by

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Wild men