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The latest German air raid' on England has proved to be a most disappointing venture for the enemy, who evidently set out with BEAR MAGNIFIORNT MEN CALLED a big scheme of aerial invasion in BOYS: THEY ARE THE FINEST mind. Twenty-five machines | MEN - THE WORLD HAS EVER
FRODUCED Bir Francis Lloyd. were employed in it, and these were split op into five grampe, with the idea of usking a series jol, simultaneous attacks on the
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When Dr. Wa Ting-fang left Shanghai recently for Canton he
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The Dollar. "Dec. 8-The rate of the dollar on demand to-day is 2/81.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLİY.
In Troy in Asia Minor Esst Anglis Theophile Caille (who has just died in Paris,) il the | latter view—to the soundof his ¿follow savanta and clagiate- and produced a troalth (grudi. tion to prove it. The of of the ton yökre, siege by theGreeks has been identified by Meilleux. with the rains of the adel on Gogmegog, ontsida Ombridge f According to him, theJam and Ouse are Homerio rive, which tumble into the Wasbran called,
Monday's Anniversary. Monday is the spniversary of Metropolie, There was a slight the institution of the Royal accompanied by his son, Mr.
Wa Ohno-oba, and Mr. C. T.], variation in the enemy's custom- Academy (1788).
Wanz. The younger Mr. Wa fary plans, sicos be first indulged
and Mr. Wang had both come up: in a number of "preliminary al.
The opening rate of the dollar from Capion since the develop toka with a view to exhausting
demand DR.
so-day was car defences. But by the time 2 11.6/8d. The closing rate Peking.
The Volunteer Scheme. the German seroplanes reached will be found on Page 1
· Dec. 8.-Ia reply to "H.V.A," Dr. Wa, says the China Press we have only to any that the cor- because in was requird to cleanse- London we were quite ready to
strenuously insisted that he was respondence on the Volunteer the Greeks for their slution sad give the baby-killers a warm re
going won'h, only on personal question was not published in the pillage of Apollo's tople, Even ception. Not a great deal of Pasaport regulations procisim business and also for his health, Hongkong Telegraph borane it Fleam Deko lasciated with damage appears to have beened by the Governments of Ceylon but it can be authoritatively was not sent to this journal. The Hector fight, an the Devil's done, while the assualty list is are pablished in the Hongkong stated that he is going down to nambs-pamby promoters of the Dyke in Homera Esh Wall, the I Bot. Kilty Liqueur Whisky (Quar-warninga continued for well over information.
remarkably small, seeing that the Government Gazette for general teke a leading and sesive part in ridiculous scheme lately abode of spirits, Janderising ia the Southern government... mitted to the Government have clearly where the Freela defend- three hours. Seven people were
Dr. Wa has been on the point of niether plack nor independanced their feet wit forte Works killed and twenty-one injaied. Best of all, we succeeded in
going to Canton for two months, enough to submit their childish bringing down two of the raiders past month show that the average best positively on the side of the might sly more, but the subject tion still speaked a town baried.
Observing returns for the His sympathies have at all times fade jo, sansible criticism. We destroyed by the rods, who had not been consultd. Local tradi and captored the crews alivem sa temperature was 68.2, the South but he has been nowilling in north wasting time over, in the Wash, feator's body lies. But if Ladoosre hed their way highest being 82 9, on the 2ad, to go until soma-samblance of and the persons above referred to at Bary St. Eirunde, according A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., the earth with their existence There were 189 2 hours of sun- And it has been obvious even on
these murder rs would not barden and the lowest 67.1, on the 2let anity was achieved in Canton, are abaldtels beneath ountempt to a Breton adition, and the much longer, and, since they took shine, and only 0.095 inch of on the surface that the Southern
Deo. 39-There was a full chains are amply early Calfs an active part in the slaying of rain. foncoent people, we cannot ge6 80.
Tan average bumidity ass party was not united, that the Sun, master of the legal fraternity at why they should not be made to
one direction, the moderates in to welcome Mr. E. J. Ackroyd, not to the Heitersaces, but to Yat een element was pulling in the Supreme Court this morning,
Thus we ore our civilisation Sorrespondents are requested to abserve the rule
pay the fall penalty for their which
newly-appointed. Paisne equires them
It is notified, with regard to another, direction and the military forward their
crime. names and addresses with
Judge.
the Atlantio, whereon Ulymes communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for An Outspoken German,,
the reatrioticns placed upon the st tîmes in still another.......
A Balloon Fight... sailed and the Druidi were our publication, but as an ovidence of their bona fides.
The doleful speech recently the United Kingdom, that bona jai government and the crumbl- bis balloon to soar up towards was an Andalusian, and his importation of certain articles ints| The collapse of the Tasa Chi- Dec. 13.-"Mexican Bull" got spiritual fathers. Homer himself delivered by the notorious von Tirpi's at Easenmaat de gifts of tea, up to the weighting of the Aphwei faction of Cloudland this afternoon, but as heroes were Ilerians. Mencians have
somewhat opeet those silowed by the poral regulations, milita y chiefs has now brought there was a strong north-east came to Paris the Ile of Pharpe in the Fatherland whose business and of sugar in perol or the Canton leaders to see the breeze blowing across the Polo seys the leoprer who enuncist- it is to perenade the German exording one cound in weight necessity of working together. Ground st the time, the daring ed these theares in 1885, jest a people that all is going well and are admitted, if sent through the Compromise offers have already seronaut, who was hanging on to few years after Dr. Schliemann's that the winning of the war is parcë) postila only a matter of time.. The
Albert and Edward Medals, will be made. And it is to decide a trapezs, below the persahute, szuavations had established the The Hongkong Government what compromies shall be antall tree that skirt the ground (Asia Minor) the city of Priam. was blown rapidly against the mound of Hinarlik inthe Trond ponsor of the U-boat cam Gazells contains copies of Royal espied, if say, that a conference and he was torn from his swing and in any case, there has died with paige told to bis, sudience, Warrants mending the rule of all the Southern leaders will dropped heavily on the ground. the old savazi an alluring piece that Britain had taken away governing the award of the Albert shortly be held. It is to take part Meanwils the balloon their Colonics, had anchored Medal and the Edward, Medal in this conference that Dr. Wa gracefully on its way and drop. and Gallic culture.
went of reasoning, dattering to British deeper her maritime and colonial he brorsa medals in each case, has gone to Canton. It is possible ped at the suthern and of Happy supremacy and had abolished
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and Hungary, have on more than one occasion fairly well qustified | Allied cause would have collar spector Sim said the man made a emerging as one of the strongest common-sense and the universal-à fine painter of historical sub-
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Garman competition in the world's which are those usually awarded, also that the Provisional Govern Valley, whither the placky When the Allies come to the markets. All of which is true, of will in future be called the "Albert ment will be entirely re-organised, Mexican, who picked himself up final stage of insisting upon the course, however unacceptable in Medal" and the "Edward Medal" with a wider representation, in a moment or two, spad în restoration of Alatos-Lorraine- MODERN RUNS AND VANDALS.
may be to enemy ears. Qoe of! respectively and that the higher The chance for peace depends pursuit of his "all in all.” Bismarck himself, may be cited
degras of each decoration, which on what terms the Chibli faction the statements made by von will be given only for Lots of the element bended by Presid-
A "Mud-headed Committee,” with effect. That statesman did There is small, if any, profit to be derived from the practice decided until British ses-power is known in the one cars as the to make to the South. The Oan- past boycotted by the mud-headed became a convert to annexation.
Tirpitz ie that nothing can be
Dec. 13.-"Uricketer,” "The not foresee Mr. Sydney: Brooka's not uncommon in these strenuous times of labelling one's advers- broken.
exreme and heroic daring, will be eat Feng Kwa-chang is willing Telegraph has been for months metallurgical arguments, but he He probably speska sry by some opprobrious epithet. It must be admitted that in most feelingly on that subject, frit Albert Medal in Gold" and in the ton party is in independent mood: Committee of the Hongkong like a good German because, cases the epithet if not exactly veracions is generally not lacking in was his isilure to secure a verdick other as the "Edward Medal in it is none too eager for sa im Cricket Club, for reasons with his monarch willed it. And this significance. Sach opdoubtedly is the case when to the Germans, by means of submarinism which core particularly to the German troope, the name of the Modern led to his dismissal from office.
mediate peace with Tuan and which we are not acquainted, was the ground he found for that getting good out of evil: "In the Han is applied. Is the opinion of moet pereɔns, to more appropri-And be knows as well as anybody, Tamar, appeared bafore Mr. J. of power now and it knows it, account that 80 ate designation could be given to our chief enemy and sone more and probably better than mo,
A Chinese Failor, sboard H.M.S. Feng at odda. It holds the balance and it mainly on
little of intereer of Germany as well as of richly deserved than that of Han, for through the centuries since that so long as the British Navy Wood, at the Police Court this And, farther, it has more strength our space bsa lately been devos all Earopé, our policy must aim the barbarous Attila and his followers descended upon civilisation is on the sess, U boats will never an Indian constable. Isappeared instance, whose yemen in Nauk. There are other reasons, of course, ospable for a long time of break- even in the North than would ap-led to reporting the progress of et enfeebling France as much as and by their many actions of wholesale cruelty, plander, murder, win the war for the Germans. At that a number of men were stand-ing has been the political centre the principle oss being the long ing the general peace.'" Sub- pear on the surface. Li Shon, for the manly game in this Colony, possible, and readering her in- rapine, terror and tyranny, earned for themselves the name of theses, we hold the situation în abeo- "Scourge of Europe," nane has deserved it more thoroughly, as none late control. In contrast, the great defendant, and they were making ing towards the South, partly reporter. However we intend you have it in a nutshell, has had it applied to them more universally and with so much mis-named German High 888s disturbance. The constable because be is scling with Feng shortly joining issue with the
ing on the footpath, including for more than a fortnight, is lean continued illness of our cricket stitute Germany for France, and general acclaim, than the German troops-chsera and men alike. Fleet iemains tucked away in the went up to move them on, and Kwo chang and parily because Cricket Club Committee, and if There is no more suitable term to be applied to soldiers devoid, not security of the Kiel Canal, afraid defendant said he could stand he has an eye to his own fature, the distinguished members of the of chivalry for a vanquished foe-for that is not in question at to venture out and dispute our there as long as he liked. Hei Shun is not only solidifying nobility who form that august at the age of 70, we have lost one present-bat of the ordinary feelings of bumanity which are known:
By the death of William Bole, to be abundantly prevalent among the soldiere except those of the has been the biggest factor of his cost, which was t
supremacy. British sea-power caught bold of the constable by himself with the South but is body are not amenable to resson, of our greatest etchere, as will se "altared Fatherland. Their Teutonic brethren, both of Austris any in this war.
tord. In for the title, but on the whole, bad as they are, they do not yet fully sed long ago. And today it
ly recognised principles of fair jeots. Hisillustrations to Barrie's nise in the station. He had bean
men in China, deserve it. It is a term reserved for the worst of their kind and remains invincible still.
drinking. Bis Worship said be
The peace negotiations will in playwe shall give them more Window in Thrums," Steven therefore it is applicable only to the Germans. It is well that we A Just Decision.
could not have the Folice assault all probability be made thronghole than they have any notion. son's "Kidnapped," and W. E. should bear in mind for what reason the term Han is so frequently
Li Shan. Sang Hang-yi, who For "Cricketer's opinion that Henley's editions of Burns'e. applied to German soldiers, and an occasional turning over in one's Commons to deny conscientions
The decision of the House of ed, and fined defendant $15.
The Late Major Thicknesse.
has been acting as agent for the the Telegraph, is the only paper posms are familiar to most of us.. The death is announced of South has had several meetings in the Colony that knows how to Robert Lonie Stevenson esid of will not be amies. In ordinary times, it is well-known that the for a period of five years after the p.80. The deceased officers. C. T. Wang saw him early last match we are much obliged.
Mejor F. W. Thicknesse, B.A., kes him, "Mr. Hole will imagine public mind is very short, and that even the most heinous action war is one with which all eensibly who died of wounds on October week. At the latter meeting
methods of alching fitted to Causes little more than the proverbial
The Masher Brigade." render the most different styles of nine days' wonder." minded people will agree. The, 19, was attached to the General terms were definitely discussed
Dec. 15, lending article on painting, and all these inventions It is therefore not surprising that, in these days when it is more franchise has always been con su in Hongkong for some con- and Mr.. Wang in returning to the Volantser scheme contains the will be wonderful and besatifal often the asse then not that dramatic events of great magnitude sidered as carrying responsibili aiders ble time before be left for Canton to report. and of far-reaching consequence follow upon the heels of one an- ties with it, and the chief of these the Front in May, 1915. Before There are different versions of agement be given to those who
following: "If volunteering is in themselves." other with astounding rapidity, we should fail to bear in mind is an obligation to respect the leaving the Colony he
to be encouraged, let the encour the phrase "Lest we forget" in connection with the terrible eventa demands of the State, especially promoted to the rank of Captair, is willing to give. This moob and on lines that are likely to plaining of lack of method in
was what Canton wants and Peking have striven hard in the past modern Bons." Ever recurring in our minds should we have the against enemy aggression is of bears xans for about fifteen yield antil another Parliament is forms, coplies to do all the hard many as she la so doubt terrible and barbarous deeds of the Germans as they trampled their involved. But these so-called month. He was twice mentioned called. Some want the old Far- work for the proposed Macher organisation, will criticism of
and extolling Ger way, in the manory of the assassin, through Belgium. The hideous conscientious objectors decline in dispatches and last May was linment restored, others want an Brigade, social aliques, and pleased to learn that criticise of crimes pot ordinary acts of warfare, it should be remembered absolutely to help the land of awarded
that were committed by them at Laige, Aarschot, Louvain their birth, and some of them even Thickneses while in Hongkong settlement the South makes will the sax-payers, may forma glit the land articularly is this no with the D.S.O. Major entirely new one elected, bukany jally good time at the expense of suthorities is more rampant in and elsewhere, are unparalleled in modern warfare. So also is their boast that they would not lift wagin keen polo player and took be conditional on the summoning tering programme, but eus bono? here. Particularly to this with orael murder of Nurse Cavell and of Captain Robert Fryatt. In their hands in defence of their an active part in the gymkhanae, of some legislative body, Northern France their barbarities have been no less hideous, and own wiver, sisters or mothers Be was the elder sua of Pre- through the ages will be pointed at, sa a mark of peculiar savagery, should the Germans ever set foot pendary Thickarese, rector of St will be some sort of military foot and rotten programme?
and will the pablio quietly regard to food control, although the compaleofy departure of the vast majority of the population of on English soil and attempt George's, Hanover Square, and ing in Central Chias
Another demand by the South acquiesce in such a transparent decrees, and ordere relating to the number of general statutes, Lille and other towns, These are the actions for which the Ger- to repeat the strccities com was thirty-one years old,
Wa mans have received the foulest epithet that can be applied to the mitted
foods smounts to about 900, aparty What don't think so, and, as our mor from provincial, district, and soldiers of to-day and it is well that we should keep them in mind. are these individual, therefore, in Belgium. Who
form this will take cannot now being contemporary is ansble to sеB | That the Germans have long since almost equally deserved the that they should have any voice!
said, but it will insist on some why a body of two hundred men is complaint heard from public cominunal regulations. Not only way of making ita voice effective should not be enrolled and kept and Frea, but different organis- epithet "vandal" 18 equally certain. No army engaged in the war in the affairs of a nation which has been anything like so destructive or rapacious as has been that they despise to help in its hour
in the future. It bsa learned its up to that number for the samtions and authorities are at logger- lesson from the past. Again and promised by Governor Robinson, of Germany. Works of art" or "the" achievements of waience) of trouble? Among them are smount of bank notes in circula-land disarmed, only to have that that there are not 200 British one of the most popular words in have fallen to its hande merely, for the most part, to be wantonly des strong, able-bodied men who re-mount of specie in reserve in settlemens nullified in few subjects in Hongkongand aliene mer heational
The returns of the average again it has made a settlement we have only to simply explain heads. It is significant, too, that troyed or to be filched in the manner of a removal to Germany. Since the beginning of the war very large whatever, preferring to take ap ended 30th November, 1917, as of
common burglar for fuse even do sny kind of war work Hongkong, during the month months by the military chieftains | are in eligible-who would sold is evidently, the national synonym quantition of artistic treasures, both in Belgium and France, the life of a convict and to be certified by the manager of the looked
been treated by the apostles of the most kept in food and clothing by the- modern sad the so-called bigbest form of culture, and the State, There are others with respective Banks, are na follows: one question therefore arises whether or not one of the pesos conditions better balanced winde who mere- Banke will involve a return of these treasures to their rightful owners. Erily object to combstant service Chartered Bank 5,959,877, $5,000.00* effective protests in the fature, is stated that the museums of Brassola and Antwerp, have been but who are willing to do all they Hongkong thang emptied for the benefit of Berlin. It is mibinkabs that such oɔn in other directions, With hai Bank-*****-120,868,100. 17,900,000 action will pare unheeded. It is not enough that the despoilers these we can feels mesenre of Mercantile Bank....4 1:168,157. should be termed "Vandala. Bach an epithet doubtless carries sympathy, and it is only right with it a most unenviable stigma, but more must fall spon the that such of them as are render-Sterling Securities deposited Banthera representation is is too Dowlais to shoulders of suck rapacious soldiery, and it is therefore sincerely to ing valuable wax services should, with the Crown Agents valued early to say anything. Many of sighty miles an hou be hoped that when the time comes for the discussion of peace se in intended, secape the ban at £160,000,00 these vandalistic actions will be kept in mind just as much as the which has been placed on the Securities with the Crown many more want to be but there are
men are being suggested—and iTas Timen on the notions for which the German Army has been aniversally cursed out-and-out fanatios, under the name of the “ modern Hung".
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