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EARTHQUAKES

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1918,

There appears lately to have been a lot of loose hair found floating around in different parts of the Colony."

"WATSON RESORCIN HAIR WASH."

will not only quickly restore those lost locks, but will so invigorate the scalp, as to render them immune from all other shocks.

in bottles at $1.00 and $1.50.

Prepared only by

The Splug Offensive.

The news to hand se to the preparations that are proceeding in connection with the forth. ooming German "offensiva is- dicates that the Spring of 1918 is going to witners the decisivo phase of the war. The detaile sa to the enemy's preliminaries

DAY BY DAY.

WAR BOND DRAWING.

passed between his Excellency the Governor and the clergy of Hongkong on the sujet of War Bond Drawing:-

To His Excellence Sir Henry May, K.C.M.G, LLD

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1893

HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.

(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph files for the week ending February 28, 1893.)

The Dollar.

February 23.-The rate of the dollar on demand to-day is 2/8)

Robberies at Roman Catholic Cathedral.

EDIZON TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY--

There is a vivid little sketch of Rodin in that extraordinarily id- teresting bookmar.rather quarry, for its six volumes are sather appalling the ** Journal, dee Gencourt." It is Edmond de Goncouri's Boocvat of his first

written in 1885. " He is a man wheen fase shows that be- comes of the people, with alene eyes that wink under siskly red lide, with:

visit to Bodin's studio, and was

long fellow beard, chair out short, and a round bend-la head which indicaise" a "fine" and

A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., less prove a truism, for it is easy cecurred." Esok was fined afty the object of raising funds for var up a fixed iron ladder (put up for with an interval for lauch, unfil

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·HONGKONG, BATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1918.

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Creston Street Tragedy.

Appointment

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With reference to Lord North-

Pannosisted

WITHOUT CONTENT, WE SHALL Protest Agalust St. George's Day

Event. FIND IT ALMOST AS DIFFICULT TO PLEASE OTHERS AS OURSELVES.

Wo bay recieved from the Bishop of Victoris and the Rs. Monday's Anniversary, Monday is the second suniverT. W. Pearos, the following copy are interesting in so far as they sary of the rinking of the P. and of correspondence which bas reveal that is the will of the O. 8.9. Malrji. German Higher Command that)-

The Dollar come, what will it is to be all or

The opening rate of the dollar nothing in the orming clash. We are told that after week of on demand to-day was 2, 11.3/31. laboriors training magred divis-

The Bishop's Engagements. ions are ready to make a last

The Bishop of Victoria will Sir,-We, the andersigned, beg

such se I imagine were the dis supreme effort to falfil the will presch on b.ard H.MS. Tamar very respectfully to express to

A yea and hopes of Generals Bindenburg on Sunday at 10a.m. sad at your Exosilanoy our regret that

you are reported to have sanction- February 24.-The Roman ciples of Jesus Christ and Ludendorf. Mr. Percival Andrew's Kowloon 816 pm.

ad the proposed drawing of War Cathedral, which has been robbed later Goncourt wrileg Rodin has been telling us about his Firewood.. well known war Paillips, the

were Bende in connection with the twice in six weeks, was again eu- Three Chinese women corresponders, makes grim ham- our when be says that "they charged at the Police Court this fwthcoming celebration of Stered on the 18th instant by sa working life. He gets up et seren. (German soldiers) have been morning, with stealing firewood George's Day and to have wished Australian beach-comber named o'clock, he enters hin studio, at trained and fattened for whole from the billride at Yaamat, the drawing all possible success, Young, who with a coolie climbed eight, and he goes on working

We are in sympathy with ssle slaughter". This will docb near where a recsut bill-fire had

the window cleaner's use) and got sight, standing upright perah- purposes, but cannot escape the to recollect that grey masses were | bents.

ocaviction that whatever the fin- through the top windows. The ad on a ladder, which tires him watchman aleeping inside heard out for the ayening and maker awept down before the defences of

The hearing of the dence in snoial success of the proposed them moving, raised an alarm, him want to go to bed after he has Verdun, and that mass attacks, sach as thoas now foreshadowed, the case in which a Chinees is Drawing, it must result in a loss and caught the axolie, through read for an hour. have always bsen attended charged with murder in conneo of moral authority and strength whose statements the other man wae saberquently arrested. They with collosal casualties for the tion with the Gresson Street and a diminished respect for low.

We especially regret that the were both brought before the cliffe's recently proposed ap There is a significant tragedy was again adjsarned, no eusmy.

proposal is pat forward in a Magistrate to day and remanded pointment to the charge of the Dew. Aic Ministry, Colony where large number of antil-the 27th instant.

it is interesting ito mole Dangerous Weapons, tary experts, and the dearth of

A Diary. forciet on the part of Allied mili-statement being made.

that this is the second öcussion Three Shanghai ten who live persone-of non-British race ome

February 25-The following on which a Prime Minister bas news as to the precise steps which ars, to be taken to counter this at 73 Praga East were charged within the sphere of British ad- promised stroke is essentially at the Police Court, this morning, ministration.

High-minded citizens of the is taken from what is supposed cared Ministerial office to the and having $80!?

personality encouraging. The reports of with

occasion was in 1881, when Lord The rates of Subscription to the "Bongkong Telegraph" will raids during the past few days dangerous weapons in their pos- adjoining Province of Kwangtung to be the dairy of a distinguished leading

Jan. 26-Believe the auditor Palmerston suggested

that: be as followeDaily issue-$36 per annum. Weekly issue-show that each side is trying to session at Queen's Road Est on deplore and actively oppose the Hongkong resident, found at with the Times The last

discover the exact forces at 18th alt. First and third defend revival of licensed gambling there Kowloon lately :-

eentenced to one for purposes of revenue, add we $13 per song.

Mr.. The rates per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscriptions various points along the Line, ants were

Lloyd George must have realised for any period lasa then one month will be charged as for a and one can rest easy that on the months' hard labour, and second believe that their efforts will be smells a rat; I see it hovering in Delane should take the Under

altimately viatorions side-for we defendant was fined $10 with the bindered now that the Hongkong the air over my bead; but I will Secretaryship for War.

Jan. 27.-The small of that rat that since then there has been a -fall moalb.

the plea of public requirement sa The daily issue in delivered free when the address is accessible to are going to win, despite the alternative of seven days' im- Government apparantly admita nip it in the bud!

jartifestion for an intermitentia growing too strong to be big advance in the status of the Burial Ordinance (gaorèd.

press, for the new Air Minister messenger. Peak subscribers cat buve their copies delivered at odds-checkmating preparations prisonment

Jan 28-0aear burned. bis will doubtless raak with hie Last night at 9.30 pm the end uneven administration of its plearast. their residences without any extra chargs. espias sent by are being pursued with poes an additional $180 per quarter in charged for postage,

We are of the opinion that the boate; Pernell had no boats to jety's Principal Secretarion of It is instrmative, 100, to The postage on the weekly issue to any part of the world is $1.00 speaks real effectiveness. The body of a dead child, two years laws upon this subjzol

German was 878t a braggart, but of age, was brought to the Police!

given sixty cente to yst rid of the oares of law in this matter, and paper-thanks to the kind note that while, the public hip- boasting doen not win battles. 8ation. A Chinees had been virtual suspension of the normal bars; but I have burned the book Bate

body. The father of the child besides creating a fales impres friend who gave me the chance. learnt of the proposed, appoint. told Mr. Dyer Ball, that he had sion that our country must be in Jio. 29 (Sunday)-Went to meat of Lord Northeliffe and bie Guarding the Railway.

After reading the details given told the man to take the child to great financial necessity, involves, church six times, a wording to the refusal within a few days of the - by our Canton correspondent of the Tanz Wo Hospital. The a lowering of our National stand-precepts of that exosllent book occurrence, Palmerston offer to all in the latter's lifetime, the sole the manner in which bandite had child had died of smallpox and ards in the eyes of other races, The Vanisher'e Gaide; or how Delane was not made public at Jan. 30-Tom boas ge'ting very repository of the secret being planned to rob passengers traine the body was ultimately removed which is to be deplored, and to get rich in one Bot. by removing certain lengths of to the Hospital. The case we seems to be iro ngrucos with our

Want to know John Walter, the Times pro- rails, we feel constrained to.apcej uraed till Tuesday.

recent observace of a day of inquisitive, special intercession for the bless- something about the work of this pries, whom Dalane com again refer to the subject of better protection of that part of the line His Excellency the Governoring of God upon sur arms and department, Never knew him manicated it. Delane, too, that way before. He may actually modertly remarked that the operated from the Canton end. It has been pleased to appoint Mr cause.

If Under Secretaryship for War is by no means common thing Edward Dadley Corecaden Wolfe For these reasons we find our get to know something soon.

was a place which, without for reports of this nature to come to set as Custodian of enemy pro asives under the unwelcome nec-we are discovered, we are lost !-

Jan. 31.-Discovered! vanity, I believe I'm competent that the revealing through,

10 8" In refusing the position perly, for the purpose of reasir.essity of protesting against the

Feb. 1-Log! Ohinese have bat a very impering, holding, preserving sad projected scheme, but before

Feb. 2.-Police trying to find red to him. Lord Northolife Faye nothing about his fitness, The elartling report which was launched upon the public by fact ides of keeping law and dealing with such properly as doing so is any pablis manner

Feb. 3. Nearly Oaughs! De-unises something may be inferred Mr. Gale at the meeting of the Sanitary Board on Tuesday, that order, even in connee ion with so may be paid to or wasted in him we have thought it datifal and me. Safe in the coil asilar

teative essrebed the house. "Ead from the statement that bis there were many cases of carebo-spinal meningitis, or to give it a important an undertaking as the in paraszos of the Trading with courteous to lay our views before better known name, spotted fever, must be regarded in a somewhat railway. Pirate and bandite have the Enemy. Scond Amendment your Excellency.

We Beenre your Excellency of to dodge them pretty lively reasone for declining" are in no way concerned with the office serious light. We do not wish to be thought fearemongers, barsa almost blissful freedom in the Ordinsuce, 1915, with foot from

Feb. 4.-Brilliant idea! Gave which is rightly to be set up.” nevertheless we are strongly of opinion that precautionary meseares neighbouring Province, but it is, the Sud Febuary, 1918, and our beart-felt desire to eapport Must put them of the track.

in all the efforts

leave some coolies a dollar each to #k We are very Decensary to stem the progress of the disesse in its initial high time that something like an optil forber nosida.

make, which

The story compositor's etages. We understand that this is the first epidemic of this nature organised campaigo against there!

acknowledge inform the police they bad scen

worries with Thomas Carlyle's which the Colony has experienced on such a scale. There possibly parasites was carried on Surely Wenes stom-eure, Dennys appreciatively to bave been a few isolated cases at different times, but we do not pre-in the matter of the railway, where, and Bowley the following com for the true well-being of the me miles away.

success! Polios all over Chica the Daily Chronicle the somewhat vinely remember having beard of so many as 77, which the Medic- British interente are partly con- manication" In your report on Colony and ise good name and Feb. 5-Nothing succeeda like MS reculla to s correspondent of looking for me, and not a soul kindred experience that, befell a al Officer of Health asserts have been treated, at any one time. In cerned, premore could bs brought Thursday of a case in the Summ-influence in the Far East.

saspects I'm hera.

typesetter intheto office of a view of this disturbing fast, one feels a certain amount of pleasure to bear upon the Canton sathari ary Court between the Fook Chan

A Race Course Accident. Dandes dewipaper 15 whose on learning that the Sanitary Authorities are fully alive to the den ties to take the necessary sepe to firm and Mesare, Loxley and Co.,

February 27-We regret that, odlampe George Gilfillan fre ger, and are adopting means to irradicate the scourge by conduoting guard the live from barm, concerning a shipment of ganny

lowing to the deplorable socident quently contributed Being s a bigger bones cleansing campaign than they normally do. The attended as each outrages are with bags from Cleats, you represent grave nature of the outbreak demands that ways and means should possibilities of se ious loss of life the plain iffe' solicitore as stating

Kenry E. Anderson, British & which occurred to Mr. W. P. member of Gilfillan'i congregs- be found to prevent a spreading of the sickness, and in this respect and property? The public should, that the defendants (Lxlay and it is pleasing to learn that the Ssaitary Authorities have not been at least be able to travel in safety. Co.) sake the Fuck Ohan firm to Foreign Bible Society: Eras E. Holean, s prominent member of tion this compositar LaTour We Bryant, London Missionary our stiff, in the Steeplechase si edwith-s large amount of his

the race ourse this aftenoon, we minister's',

written idle and are already having constructed stream stomizers at the for if they cannot, other routes, pay, 10 per cent war riek. Kowloon Dooks. There is not a shadow of doubt that if the infec- from Hongkong to Canton will be are instructed to point out that Society; W. T. Featherstone,

the rate mentioned was one per Mission to Seamen; W. H Hewitt, are compelled to bold over antil copy. One day when the, MS. tion is to be kept from developing, an active campaign must be set the better patronised.

Warden of St. Stephen's College; to-morrow our fully detailed re- was even more andecipherable in mation.

A Grievance.

Lottery Tickets.

William E. Hipzell, Chorch port of the four days' reces, than neost the man banged it The points raised by Mr. Pollock at the Legislative Council

We feel bound to air a litle A Chinees was charged this Missionary Boiety; A. Hughes, Mr. Maclean was unlucky enough down on hie frame with the meeting on Thursday, with regard to the inefficient mencer in which the streets of the Colony are cleansed, will be heartily endor- grievance felt by certain membera morning, befors Mr. Dyer Ball with London Mission: Arthur D. to have ha aboulder dislocated remark: Ae a Christian I sed by the public. Soficient attention is not paid by those reapde-of the Defence Corps, who were the anlawful possession of 1799 Stewart, Principal of St. Paul's by Esha failing and rolling over boscar and admire Mr. Gilfillan, sible so this very of ceasary work. For over two months Hongkong warned at short noties that they lottery ticket. An Indian watch-3. College, J. Kirk Micor- him, and under the circumstances but as a compositor I'll never be

serious injury. We are also clape of the epaile has seen no rain, and, an everyone knows, nothing is more conducive would have to carry cut fring man on board the .8. Sa Un sobie, Minister of the Union fortunate to escape far more happy till his body gets three To Palmerston thers seemed m- Bee & Lelf-hearted attempt to do what is required, but the balk of Range, yesterday. To tendez on the bati, tying up & parcel. Secretary of the Y.M.C.A.; B.

shaken by Solace coming to grieflikelihood of Germany's laying the labour is left to a batch of coolies who do as little so they can, vous appointed was Headquarters, This attracted his sttention and he Copley Moyle, Chaplain of S. shat Mr. Lindale was severely and that in a slovenly style. We suppose they always will while ad punctual to the minute a weat close up to him. Defendant John's Cathedral; J. L. Robinson, supervision over them in so inadequate. To put it mildly the band of membere gathered, were ran away as soon as he came by: Minister of the Wesleyan Obarch; in the same event, and at a time hands on all Danmark, in the to chass was given and he was T. W. Scholes, Wesleyan Mission; when be appeared to have the very manner which the present Keiser propówed in the (Willy- way in which our streeta are clespeed is nothing short of disgrace formed up, and marched

Wild Objects.

Nicky" correspondence. It is fal. Both Mr. Pollook and Mr. Holyoak called the attention of the Kennedy Bad. So far so good. eventually caught. Defendent C. B. Shang, Church Missionary race in hand.

Society.

February 27.-The Colony has not unlikely," he said,» Cancil to the fact that often streets were swept when dry with the Bat it was, to say the least, not a pleaded not guilty and said he

Hongkong, February 8. " 7 dust thick upon them. This is a state of affairs which ought not to little disconcerting to learn when we paid by a misa to bring this

lately been overrun by a number Germany and Austria, reckoning exist in a Colony which prides itself on its up-to dateness, We there, "in the excitement of parcel from the Wing Lok Wharf

the moment" the custodian without knowing that they were My Lord Bishop and Gentle of wild-looking objecta number upon our passive Buit ould suggest that sufficient nes is not made of the gear of the ammonition "wae minca. lottery tickets. He also added man-I have the honour

ing nearly 100, who, it is said, template Freeh water need not of necessity be used for the purpose. Why This being the should not the Government follow the example set by the Singapore authorities? We believe than in the dry season in the southern was nothing

Very hearing the cas) fined defendant regard to the drawing of war got terribly drank last night, and Denmark we would send port there are means by which the water carts can obtain supplies but dismiss. It was

bonds on the occasion of the was run in, bat mersifully reless stronger. "I would not, sland such a thing," he told the Aur of as water for the spraying of the roads. We do not know of any annoying for the members of the $10 or 14 days hard labour.

forth-coming calabration of St. ed on showing his badge.

trian Ambasador). Bay for Fam argument which could be brought against a similar practise being party, many of whom sould ili af-

A Petty Nalanes. George's Day and in reply to: adopted here. Such a scheme would effectually solve any problem ford time for a before dinner stroll.

"No-Dividend " Patriotism. inform you that in this particular February 28-Toe petty nuis and his leading Copenhagen that might exist as regards the wasting of fresh water, and would Apparently the military funeral which was taking place had

Ton gentlemen who wrote case and in other cases when the soos of officers requiring to be might to day be a German port. be just as effective,

We cannot think that Mr. Pollock was altogether serious when something to do with the up- he hinted in his remarks, that in enerquence of the sickness Betting of the arrangements, but recently to the Treasury surrend- drawing of war boule has not calated when in plain clothes Turkey was not the Arst wrong prevailing in the Colony, the race meeting might be postponed it is unfortunate that mistakes ering, for the duration of the war, been interfered with, I am of sometimes leads to ridiculous home upon which we put our We agres with him, entirely in his suggestion, thas, all, the roads of this nature cannot be pre- the interest on his holding of opinion that the object justifies realte in Hongkong. Recently monay,

ventedă în Bones Way is ESC Fire Dr Cent War the mesme, vi londong to Happy Vallingi minores (CF. Kins wedli rendiment, but it in the Brat tints but on Block is We. Arttine Bock- zatban line in tank for a moment think gatherings of people shoold

Your oberhent not the pieces. If this idian, wer kay be followed, we might as well who un time is valuable, have had with, of Mow Park Crickhowell, My Lord Bashing and Gentlemmer Laving no matte

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Cent." War Loan campaign be that business should be raspended. If one precautions are it wasted because someone has Frush Wales. During the Five ved, by the public as well so the Ssnitary Authorities there is forgotten to do something no reason why the disesse should not be well in hand it on early ought to have been done. Bat offsed to surrender to the Blate, the wrotime of the bangling are for the duration of the war, the moges Like Mr. Pollock we hope to hear soon that the Government pected to complais at the interest on his holding of 60,000

par Cent-French War kut decided to adopt soms dénnite Time of policy with regard to the per

niense to which they have in the Five Exffary melauter in be taken:

THE SPOTTED FEVER EPIDEMIC.

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A Correction. --"

you

We ara, Sir,

Your obedient servants,

(Signed) G. E. VICTORIA, THOMAS W, PEARCE, L.M.E

on behalf of themselves and

you

to the spread of disesse then dry, dusty thoroughfares. One does Freonse at the Kennedy Riad stated that he saw defendantsitting, Charob; J. L. MacPherson, extremely sorry to have to report];

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case there that two watchmen had hit him acknowledge the receipt of your form & firing detachment of the Copenhagen rea $138 for. it on his eyes. His Worship after letter of the 8th. February with Salvation Army. One of them hostile floot were ment

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severaly rep (Signed)

bobby for not Bight Bar.

being newly ord Bishop of Victoris sza

February 18 1918.

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