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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1918,

BROWN BRANDY

251 YEARS IN WOOD.

Better New

There is exceedingly plessing! news contained in a Benter's) meenage to hand this morning re- lative to the tonnage output of the United States, for it would Beem by the figures given that" our western Ally is not going to

DAY BY DAY.

LUCKY STONES ARE FOUND IN PLUCKY PATHS..

To-morrow's AnniversaTY, To morrow is the 70th anni be so very much behind bar pro-versary of the death of Lieut. mised contribution in this Gen. H. Shrapnel, the inventor

The recent of the shell of that nemo. respect after all

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SERVICES

ENTERTAIN- MENT FUND.

A Glance at its Work for the Past Three Months.

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REQUIEM MASS,

Canton's Sympathy with Hongkong.

IN MEMORIAM.

Ye who linger on the shore

Midst such stress and storm

and strife,

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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

Mr. Justice Darling has been 'made a member of the Privy Council-hich is not what it

Lord Chesterfield once asked George IL to sign a còmmision- fer some grest noble. "I would su BOOD Fign's commision for the devil," said the grim little King.

A Pontifical Requiem Hess for was nothing in. Sir Charlen the repose of the souls of those Darling weare so spruce and The Rep. C. L Cooper Hant who perished in the recent disse found an air, and still writes writes as as followe:-

ter at the Happy Valley, Hong each lively verses, that it is Subscribers to the above fund kong, was held at the Roman difficult to realise that he ie the specch of Sir Erio. Geddes

may be interested to know some Catholic Chapel, Shamees, on senior paisns jadge, which does was the reveres of encourag-

The Dollar.

thing of its doings since the last Monday morning at 8 o'clock, pot mean that he is the oldest. jog, for it not only made public

The opening rate of the dollar report was published at the end His Lordship Bishop de Gus. Certainly there is no DDS on the fact that British shipbuilding on demand to-day was 3.. CH1.

of November. Lack of space briant officiated and was assisted the Beach whom the Sovereign more appropriately ad- had been slower than wae vitally ·

Cable Restrictions...

prevents the ino'asion of every by the Beverend Father Floquet. can

** "right trusty sad necessary but also told of how

Tos Estera Extension Tel-detail of expense, but the general Almost every member of the dreea

trust him the America's help in new shipa had egraph Ca, has received advice activity is recorded under the Portuguese community of Canton well beloved been disappointing, owing to from San Francisco that the Un- following heads:-

attended the impressive religions King must on account of the eircumstances which reflected ited States Cantor will refase to Odtinge. Four oatings were service. Wreaths were pissed at soundness and impartiality of his that the organisation of the United pass, for the present, all telegrama arranged in December. As the the foot of the catsfalque on the judgment; and he must be loved States' abipping industry had not of a social, personal, or unimport weather became colder this form nave of the Chapel. One floral for bie wit though Royalty does yet been brought to that pitch of ant character.

of re eation was replaced hy tribute bore the following lines not always appreciate that gift..

Whist Drives. Ten bigblyaco by "a Shameenite ":- early days after America's entry. A telegram has ben received cessful driver have been erjiyed The statement that labour troubles from Major-General J. O Dsiton, by the men. Pris, smokes, and bave been responsible for the de Chief Commission of the St. John light refreshments were provided oreased British output looks like Ambulance Brigade, expressing by the fand on each occasion. causing a litt e trouble from both the sympathy of the Brigade with. Travelling.-A very Jarge mastere and men, but seeing that the sufferere in the recent Rucsanmber of men (over 2,000) have the maintenance of adequate cours disaster.

been assisted in the matter of travelling during the past three which shipping is a prime factor in the

This expenditure is with himate success of the Allied A wormsy was charged before monthe.

for cause, it is be hoped that nothing Mr. J. R. Woud, at the Pulias carefully regulated and is a great will eventuste that will learen, Court this morning, with being help to those who are stationed even for an hour, the concentrated in possession of 20 taels of opium, in the outlying parts of the work of shipbuilders. Tas posi which it was stated was discover Garrison.

Al-Homer."-2,298 men of tion of Allied tonnage has now ed tied round her waist. His been made much brighter by the Worship inflicted a fine of $500. both services bava been present Da fact that in the month of February Forthcoming Marriage. at the Sunday afternoon "st baildere launched A marriage has been arranged homes" held weekly from 4 to The rates per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscriptions American

for any period less than one month wili be charged as for a seventeen new ships and in Marchỉ between Mr. Martin T. H. Blake,5 30 p.m. at the Bailors' and Basto, the Portuguese Vice Oon" bred by the late Mr. W.R. Wileon. anticipates the completion of son of the late Mr. W. G. Blake Soldiers' Home during December aal, who had charge of the Asa racehoree Wallace was a

Anca (Nan) Patterson, January, and February. วิ arrangements in connection with twenty-three more, making a total and

Writing Materiala, Paper and the Requiem Mase, the Reverend important events won by bim pronounced succena. Amongst the new tonnage of 309,100 tons for daughter of the late Mr. B. J. the two months, a figure encoure Patterson, solicitor, Glasgow, and envelopes for 26,200 letters have Father Netio of Shin Hing de-were-Tos V.B.C. Derby, the agingly high. Estimates show Hra. Ogilvie Darbar Villas, been supplied to the different livered & most tagching sermon Caulfeld

Goize; anite including the Navy. This after the Mass. His allasin to dead boat with Quiver. that by January next there will Kowloon, have been four and a half million

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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1918,

NOT TO BE trusted.

The world has been sarfeited with stories of the manner in which the people of Germany are coming into their own, and of the concession which the ralers of the Fatherland have made to the

tous of new shipping contributed by America during 1918.

The Future.

• Opium-Round Her. Waist,

Weep not, mourn not any more

For the loved ones gone from

life.

Cruel fate had torn away

Young and old from many a

bome.

Though they affered, yet we say

Oat of evil good had.come. Theire is now the Better Land.

Theirs is prace for evermore.. as mourn, ye little band, Ye, who linger on the shore. On the invitation of Mr. Abilia

With all my heart sir,” said Chesterfield, "but the Commie- ion is made out to our right trusty and well-beloved Cousin.”. Evan George laughed.

Wallace the famous .son of

Carbine was cat out of his misery by a merciful dose of obloroform, administered by Mr. S. O. Wood, the well known veterinary sur geon at Melbourne. Wallace, who way in 26th year, waɛ gat by Carbine from Melodious, and was

Sydney Cup as a three year old,

Harmston's Circus. The public is reminded that to night will be the last opportunity of enjoying the privilege of wit-tute) whers an average of 50" The desire of the moth for with 8 st 12. be, and many other

letters are written each evening on paper kindly supplied by the Mission to Sesmen.

nessing the may attractions pro vided by Harmston's Circus. We undere and that an especially good

programma

has been

the star,

evente, When Wallace was Of the night for the morrow, submitted to auction at the late With British and French yarde

The devotion to something after Mr. W. R. Wilson's dispersal ente working at the high preesare they have been since Germany started

Granta-8,venteen Special

From the phere of cut sorrow." in December, 1900, Mr. J. V. her cat sign of ruthless sab arranged, quite up to the high special grants have been made by

The clergy then left the Smith sscared him for 760% marinians, there should be each standard which has be a main the fand for various parcees of Sanetary and went in proguiness, and made a remarkably an enormous output that the ships tained for many years by this entertainment and

recreation. cession to the catafa'que, where good purchase. Mr. Smith could being constructed should easily deservedly popular body of enter. This figura includes the Christmas the Last Benediction was probave re sold Wallace immediately outstrip those being sunk until tainers. It is to be hoped that festivities in which the whole nounced by His Lordship at a much higher figure. At the the pre-war total is not only large attendence will gather to Garrison (Naval and Military) and the Requiem Eternam and stad, the son of Carbine proved if reached but passed. For the mo. give the Cirona a bearty send-off. participated. Also at Christmas, the Requiescat in Pace were anog anything a greater success than

with the kind saistance of the by the clergy. ment, of coarse, all thoughts are

At Mr. G. P. Limmerte ale whole Staff of the E-tern Exten- board to dwell on war needs, and

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rivism will be turned from a triumph for inhaassity into a ccatly disaater.

Rationing at Home.

Not Sold.

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TRAMWAY RETURNS.

The following is the approxi Bearing a close relation to mate statement of the Hong- masses. The Jankers have even attempted to pereasde the lower adequate shipping facilities in the kong Tramway Company's traffic classes that they are in reality waging a war of self-defence, with question of fond supplies at Home, receipts for the week ending not the slightest intention of seeking aggrandisement or conquest, and in the connection it is March 9th, 1918:- and there are been those among the Allies who have been misguided satisfactory to learn that the first and simple minded enough to swallow this kind of fiction and who fortnight of retidning in England

he was on the turf Up to the The eolama piety and devotion end of the season.ending last the congregation gave us the July progeny won on fewer them đư impression that the service was 780 races and £218,586 in stakes. more than a conventional exprea

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when ships are the topia they are room this morning, the 8.8. Mansion Telegraph Co. bronza Mr. of automatically assigned to the task Shan was offered for sale by Jennings, and that of the British of supplying essentials to fighting public saotion. The boat, which American Tobacco Co through

and nations. Bat it is is under the Chinese g, has a Mr. Fairley, the S E. F. was able ion of sympathy. It was, indeed. ·Conacription for Hollanders r0- well to have at the length of 118 fret, a breadth of 19 to add a gift of a tin of 50

outward manifestation of siding in Netherlands Indis is the Lord Robert Cecil, in his very lucid exposure of the German back of one's mind a due regard feet and her registered tonnage oigarettes to each soldier in the genuine sorrow, not only for the subject of a Sectional Report: relatives and friends so tragically from the Second Chamber. The menace in the Near Eset, has introduced as to a very happy and for after-war conditions when s being 115 tour. Her speed was Garrison.

Tennis. Much encouragement spatebed away from life, but also Government put forward supple telling phrase when he speaks of the talk of the progress of intern-revival of trade is bound to ensue, given as 10-knots per hour. There al Liberalism in Germany as "so mach democratic camoodige." There is no denying the fact that is not a large attendance of was given through the food to for the hundreds of fellow-beings mentary estimates for 8,300,000 The war has produced some very spl expressions, but this one must submarines have been very near bidders the first offer being the tennis players who entered for who have been the victims of ad to meet the preliminary cost of this important development. Barely be ranked among the best that have yet been altered. It is to bringing disaster, and it will $30,000. From this the price rose the Bradley Cap Competition appalling catastrophe.

In moaming the loss which According to the report of the not only a very pretty use of words, but its use is thorongbly justi-only be by the continged and in-to $42,000, when there was no Balls were provided and 4 out of

the Sections fied by facts, for if the Germone have shone in any direction it is creased vigilance of our sea fight farther competition, and the the 5 prizes, the 1st prize being their community in Hongkong proceedings in in the freedom with which they employ the ordinary channels of ere, together with the enthusiastic auctioneer, Mr. B. A. Lammert, the gift of an anonymous donor. had sustained the Portuguese of the Chamber, very many international conduct by deceptive means. They talk, on the one work of all the ship-builders of announce that as that figure the A Novices" Competition in residents of Canton extend to the deputies greeted the ecteme which the fand is seeisting in the Cainese, Japanese, Iadian and with approval. Others regretted hand, of internal "reforme" on democratic lines, but in actuality the Allies, that Germany's sub. ship would be withdrawn.

matter of balls and prizes, bas other communities their deep that the Government had not gone they show by their conduct that they are permeated through and

jast been started. Racqueta bave ayopathy in a common sorrow the whole way and introduced at through by that spirit of satceratic militariem which it is the chief aim and hope of the Allies to destroy once and for all.

been reetrang and in one instance They avail themselves of this the same time a scheme for con s tennis get supplied and a court opportunity to record, as well,scription for nativae. Others were eet in order.

their deep seces of gratitude to pafraid that this development Biliard. Good entries bave Moogseigneur de Guebriant, the would lead to forer young men been recorded in the competitiona Roman Catholic B shop of Can- going out to the Colonies. A third for the possession of the silver ton, not only for efficiating line which criticism adopted was cap kindly presented by the Hon.st the R-quiem Mase, which that the present was not the time Mr. Oland Severa, O. H.G. The was such Aggregate

a tangible mark of to extend conscription to the Receipts Receipts for fond bss found table fees in sympathy with them, but also for ladies seeing that at the con- for week: 10 weeks. connection with the playing off the great interest invariably man-clusion of the pre-ent war the all along have had hopes of effecting a "peace by arrangement" has worked to the general advan This Year:

$12.931 141 309 of the different matches at the ifested in promoting the welfare whole question of disarmament through the spread of the democratic idea in Germany. tase of the public. We are told Last Year:

12,280

139 022 Men's Club,

of their small community. To must come up. But facts like those which Lord Robert Cecil has now laid that margarine and mest quenes Increase

702- 2377

Concerte and TosFive con the Reverend Father Pradel, of bare eurely Encek the bottom out of the arguments of these have practically disappeared, Decres:

certa have been arranged for the the Roman Ostholic Chapel, The Island or Heliogóland,” saeily-galled individasle Germany's conduct towards Basia which in itself is a sigu that the

with refreshments and Semeen, as well as to the River writes Charles Olford Gill, has not shown a07 cf the spirit of innocence and sweet new order is a decided improve POLICE BESERVE ORDERS. men

smokes, and one tea has been end Fathers Floquet and Netto, lieutentant commander, U.S.N reasonableness which the pacifists would bare as believe ment on the old. We in Hoogkong

Orders issued today by Mr. F. given to the children of the Garand the French clergy, they are in his new book. "Naval Power in some animates our enemies. Her treatment of a helpless fos makes it are, fortunately, in a far happier qaite clear that the spirit of aggression, inherent in all Germans has position than the folk at Home. Jenkin, D. S. P. (8.), atate:rison Schoole. On this occasion also greatly indebted for sesial-the Great War," had been ad s free picture show at the Victoris ing at the Salem Requiem Mass: British possession from 1807, but losing not yet been laid law, and, as a result of her bullying impositions, in regard to food supplies,

Abilia Beto worked in-in the late eighties was ceded to markir ahe has, as Lord Robert taken pains to point out, acquired practical and for that reason we like to be All ranks will parade at Head-Theatre was very kindly given Mr. I the whole of what were formerly the Russian shores of the Baltic, assured that the situation in the quarters Club sa set out below, by Mr. Blake and much appreci- defatigably and Mesra, Fern Germany in exchange for con

andes, Noronha and Co. very cessions in Africa. In times of But her schemes of domination do not end there, for by hor opera Old Country is being fairly Rs, ammunition, armlate, ated by the children:

Rowing-Encouragement has kindly undertook the printing prace the African explorer Stanley tions and designs in other regions it is obvious that she sime at handled so that everyone may whistles and chaise and tran

is paid to have called this transfer seoaring a substitute for the Bagdad Railway to the East. The get their just does. With the oheone to be produced by those been given to various unita in this free of charge.Ommunicated.

of Heligoland for concessione in landing of a strong paral force at the Aalsada is another indication oircumstances se they are, it is in possession cf-same. Uaiform, direction by the fand, which has found certain necessary gear sad

Afrios, The exchange of a tronser. of the German desire for expansion and territorial aggraadirement, obviously better that a sensible Caps with covere.

Thursday, March 14.-No. 5 travelling expences etc. and one which the Scandinavian ostions would do well to keep an rationing scheme should be in

Ober Expenses. Under this the Men's Club at the Seamen's button for a whole suit, & Gor eye upon. The excues of helping Finland is the veriest bla, and operation than that people should Platoon at 530 p.m. No. 6

bead is inoladed the provision of Instiinte will be pleased to know mau interviewer now reports that we shall be rather surprised if the Finne do not before long resline be given a relatively free hand Platoon at 5 43 pm.

Friday, March 15-ai 5.30 indoor games, boxing gloves, that a large number of soldiers the Kaiser, with joy and pride, that they are being helped "at a very easily price. If we turn in asing up the available stocks to the German attitude towards poor, war-stricken Rumania we see of foodstuffs. For the danger p.m. all men of Platoons 1 to 8 footballs, mending of cricket bate, are to be seen nightly patronising spoke of a recent visit to Heligo figure to present conditions by the same process in operation, and so it is wherever Germany sets of this latter course is that who have not previously attended, theatrical costumes and make up, that institution, which with the land; and adapled the above

classen will

Monday, M rob 18.-Steff, photograpba taken on sn on ing Sailors and Boldiers' Bome pro saying, To-day this trouser batton In view of plain, unvarnished facts of this order, how any body to secure more than their fair Mounted Pulcs, and Ambalance into the New Territory, carriage vides an odditional pleasant, pe holds our whole suit together

of a pieno kindly lent by the of resort for the men in the even of people can believe in the sincerity of the alleged German move proportion of the necessities of Plat sou

life. Tue Germans have long Tuesday, Marob 19-Bind and Robinson Piano Co. to the men inga

A story of Taung America; An ment towarde Demoorsoy we cannot understand. We should any

of Devil's Pesk. The above will In conclusion, vary hearty that Democracy was never at a lower ebb in the Fatherland than it since perceived the benefits of an Buglers and Dammere,

show that the fand is not in any thanks are extended to those who eminent American send is to-day. As Lord Robert Ceoil says, the military control, of Ger equitable spportioning of food,

aged 13. The boy, many is as yet unabskén. "Blood and iron is still the policy of and we do not doubt that had we Company Sergeant Major way etsgownt The income is being have given donations or lent incident relating to initiative, went to K. the 86 regular the Kaiser and bis helpmastes, and we pity the nation which comes adopted a general rationing Wilks has been granten 3 month's fally and carefully spent, and it assistangs in other ways, and under the German heel these days. The wores of it is that the scheme before, the situation leave from the Colony. Inspect is being very greally appreciated especially

hours and on Sstardas Counting out of Russis and Romanis can only encourage German would not have been so soute as of Eustice will act as Equipment by those who are enjoying its monthly rubscribers who for Forged to work militarism and even yet further mislead the German people into it has since become. However, Officer and Orown Sergeant Good benefite, The Secretaries are long have provided the income of dollars week. When it belief in the effectiveness of the Prussian doctrines. Bat it is for we are on the right path now, and win se Warning Officer (Tele constantly hearing testimonise to the fand. Without this regularly his parents knowledge the Allies to stand firm and not waver in their determination to keep we can rest content that there will phone:-Day K L Night K. 28) the good which is being done sustained and most gererons I am doing it to get mo VitaJoined through the fand in all parts of support the fand could not have have already bezus payin on fighting till the evils which they have sworn to eradicate are for henceforth be a better sharing of

foodstuks in the Homeland; to the No. 5 Platoon, Section 10-P, the Garrison. Those who ware been the success which it has Band on to dother ever laid in the dust.

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