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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1918,

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DAY BY DAY.

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Complaint has reached us oon- cerning a dangerous bit of foot- path in Des Voeux Road Central, and wo ventilate the matter in the hope that the matter will soon be attended to. It appears that quite verrary of Germany's declaration recently some drainage improve-of War on Russis.

menta were effected in the passage-

| way oloss to Mamers. Wm. Powell's

establishment and; in order to

To-morrow's Anniversary. " Tomorrow is the fourth anni.

The Dollar.

The opening rats of the dollar carry these out, it became on demand to-day was 3a. 44d. necessary to make some exaYE- tions beneath the pavement and

A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD., authorities concerned will of nee

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

HONGKONG. Telephone 616.

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U.S. WAY WITH GERMANS.

The Choice for the "Hyphenated."

AUCTION OF WAR RELICS.

Big Prices Fetched.

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY,

The opposition declared in the Lower House of Convocation of Canterbury recently to the admis- sion of woman to the consultativė An auction of war souvenirs assemblies of the Church serves to A correspondent to the Times was the most interesting feature show how civilisation progressed of the matinee at the Palladium backwards—in England, says the writes as follows :——

on Máy 30 in sid of the Walsh Manchester Guardian. It is a In a little country town in Starving Prisoners of War Fund, matter of history that some of the Pennsylvania a small boy jamped The som realised by the sale was moet sacred religious offices were on the train and offered the even over $1,300, while the total given to Egyptian women in the The Colony's Health.

ing paper. They were freely proceeds of the performance days of the Pharaohs. In the Daring yesterday there were

bought, and two men sitting amounted to mesely £7,000, primitive Christian Church too, out on to the road. The work notified two fatal cases of plague fogether mada soma guttural noise] seems to have been satisfactorily and one fatal occurrence of

Au autographed photograph of women's share both in the mir- 40 they saw the headlines Mr. Lloyd George realised £100, istry and 'in charch administra- done, save that the granite slabe diphtheria, all the anfferers being It sounded like "Ach gut," but I 171b, hem $25, Tank model it is here today. For the first announcing a German advance. Two carrier pigeons fetobed £55, tion was for more responsible than of the pavement have been very Chiness. [carelessly replaced. Several of

osnnot be sure. Whatever the 30 guineas, and a walking-stick 350 yours women were ordained them project above the general Chinese ML. P.'s for Canton. words, no “Open Bessme" ever made from the propeller of the priests, and for 800 years they level of the causeway, and we are By the China Mail steamer wrought quicker magic. Within au first Goths brought down in served at the altar and administer- informed that quite a number of Nanking, over 30 members of the instant a little tornado stose; and England £50.

ed communion. people have been made painfully old Parliament took passge at before there was time to analyse But the most spirited bidding conscious of the fact. The danger Shangbai for Canton: Mesars. the commotion or share in it two was for a backle off a German arising from such careless work- C. T. Wang and Ohu Fa-chen persons were lifted clean up and belt and a blade from a German Dr. Dearmer has told how two manship is bad enough in the are reported to be among the heated into the street. The con-propeller. The former fetched years ago in France he was in a daytime; at night, it is doubly number.

dactor did not attempt to interfere £5, but was put up again by church where s WOMEN WEE.. emphasised. hope the A Returned Banshee. or stop the pace of the car, One successive buyers as many as taking the Bosary, kneeling before returned banishes was man fell on his face, the other eight timer, and altogether made! chapel altar and saying the first the matter to be looked into with charged at the Police Court this went spinning round and was £41. Bidding for the propeller balf of the prayers; and how out delay,

morning with being in anlawful nearly koocked over by passing started at 250 and went up in three years ago in the hill chapel possession of a quality of old motor. Within the train three 50's to 8500, at which figure it at Messins the congregation was Deserved Punishment.

iron pipe in Saiwan and with lithe American laughed and went to Mr. Charles Gulliver, the joining in the responses to a assaulting and bribing an Indisa resumed their seats, and the managing director of the Palla- Litany which was sang by s It was extremely gratifying to constable who arrested him. incident was closed.

diam. Five times the propeller woman. How is it, then, that in observe that yesterday Mr. J. B. Defendant denied the assault and Later I recounted the experi- blade was put up again, the final modern England, in a body whose Sorrespondents are requested to observe the rule which

Wood did not mince matters bribery and said he claimed the ence to my host. A dry little result being £850. A wind congregations cocrist largely of requires them to forward their Dames and addresses with communications Addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for when dealing with a contractor iron thinking it was without sa smile wrinkled his math and screen from an aeroplane, pierced women, and where women do the Subilcation, but as an evidence of their bona fides.

obarged before bim with contra-OWDE These charges were vanished, as his daughter broke by a ballet, was sold three times icrgest share of church, parish, Tening the regulations of the withdrawn and defendant was in:-"Now, Papa, I'll never for a total of £52.

and reformative work, they have Pablic Works Department. The charged with returning from forgive you; if you tell." Bat hei Mr. Lloyd George was expect no official representation ?" cffence which the contractor wse banishment, he having been told as the story nevertheleened to attend, but important bus- guilty of, shat of using old bricks banished for 10 years. He pleaded An elderly Austrian body, who iness prevented him. He sent a and lime moriar, instead of that it was hard to eard his living had been an old acquaintance of message, in which he said: "We

There has been a good deal of cement mortar in the srection of in the country. Hie Worship the family, had ventured to say who in this country enjoy com- comment on the excellent way in pillars, is 8 Tory arions passed sentence of a year'a im that Germany would never be parative safety and comfort owe which WOMEN **** Waace and Dae, but one which is comprisonment and four hours' stocks. beaten. Though the occasion it to these brave fellows in the Wreas and Penguins-havS mitted all too frequently An Interesting Point.

a party at ber Own enemy's hands to do all that lies adapted themselves to military and would be even more common A young married woman was home, the daughter had in our power to make their lot training, but very little on the still were it not for the viligance charged on remand before Mr. tarned on the old lady, lectured more bearable.” exercised by the P.W.D. Similar J. R. Wood, the morning, with her on her sin against America, cases to these are continually being in unlawful possession of and insisted on her immediate coming before our Magistrates 18 teels of opium valued at about ejection from the house. There and the parishment meted out $200. Some weeks ago Sergeant after all communication between osunot be too strict. These con- Willa raided a house in Lyndhurst the two families had cessad tractors who will not observe the Terrace and discovered a pot coa- It seemed to me that the res]} regulations laid down by the P.W. teising the opiam underneath feelings of a people are more for wearing the insignis of the D., which makes them so that the defendant's bed. She was arrested easily and truly diagnosed in Order of the Crown of Siam, safety of the public shall be assur- for being the possessor of the small pieces then in large; and Class 4, to Hr. Thomas Jadge; ed so far as is possible, must be opiam. Defendant was represent-such a pair of incidente, though headmaster of Wat Dabsirindr made to see that they cannot line ed by Mr. W. B., Bind, who said slight enough, more impressed me School, Bangkok. their own pockets by using old the opiam belonged to his client's than all the police-court incidente material, without having to pay husband. She was totally ignorant of New York.

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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1918.

IDLE DREAMS.

Was

qut in another, direction. Mr. that the opiam was in the house. I left this little town to journey

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APPEAL TRIBUNAL,

Bangkok Schoolmaster

Honoured.

The King has given permission

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curiously subtle, individuality which no amount of communal life seema able to subordinata. A troop of marching soldiers is just a long khaki line, s complete impersonal whole made up, like a centipede or a chrysanthemum tinguished parts. A battalion of flower, of a number of andis. Waacs, uniformed and with the same military precision, is a very diferent thing. It divides itself into a thousand units, superfici ally out from the same pattern but each ons obtrusively individa-

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Wood inflicted a fine of $200, His client was arrested merely to Virginia. In the smoking rosa A few cases of lynching, ofal. One is ecnicions all the time and it is to be hoped that this because she was the sole cccnpant of the Pullman only the war was tarring and feathering, and each of separate personalities, with will serve as a rechinder to other of the house when the Police being diecused; and I asked a delicate reminders of patriotic buzzing little thoughts and vary. contractors, who are tempted to arrived. Mr. Wood recently re- citizen from the Middle West daty occur almost daily in the ing shades of fealing. It is a The calm and presumptaona manner in which the Germans are do the same thing, that they will served bie decision for what he thought the effect would West and Middle West; but these procession rather than a set piece. setting about dealing with post war problems, obviously with the have to pay dearly for it.

ід order that

be if there were news of heavy excesses. Mr. ides in mind that they are to have things entirely their own way

Hind ebould consult legal caualties among the American thoroughgoing signs of popular Political amenities of a rather sfter the cessation of hostilities, must strike most level headed people The Irish Puzzle.

authorities. This morning Mr. troope. "In my city," he said, feeling. Bigger movements are unusual sort are being recalled as being tragically comical. The other day we were regaled with

Wood informed Mr. Hind that he naming some Wisconsin township, on foot. Instruction in the Ger- by the death of Charles W. Fair. fall details of the German programme in Africa, whereby a great Once again the Irish problem had decided to fine defendant, zeit will mesu desh to the man tongue has been absolutely banke, says a New York paper, Central African Empire was to be built up, and now we have has been raised in the House of it seemed to him that he was the byphens." He meant, of course, prohibited in the elementary In Indians political lines aze reported the formation of a German Economic Council concerning Commons on the motion brought on'y person having the custody of people (and they were 50 per cent. schools of several States, including sharp, but when Fairbanks was which the Hans evidently have much faith as to its post-war atility forward by the Nationalist leader the opium as her husband was of his neighbourhood) who wrote New York. Teachere are forced nominated for Vice-President in When one reads of all these pretty sobemings, the idea astarally condemning the Government's absent at the time and, had been themselves down as German- to take the oath of loyalty. School, 1904, one of the chief peracia to obtrudes itself that the Has most either be the biggest blaff on policy. The difficulty of hand-abeent for several houre. She Americans. Heavy Ausziesn books are being rapidly revised, welcome him home from Chicago earth the most wilfully blind individual imaginable. If the ling the question in a manner could not claim that she was casualties have not yet been with a view to cat cat all com- was John W. Ksta, dyed-in-the- Germane did not realise the fast before, they must assuredly be satisfactors to all parties is well unaware of the presence of the reported; but every single day plimentary references to Bismarck wool Democrat. The Republican convinced through the latest developments on the battlefield in illustrated by the respective at opium or deny being in custody signa multiply of an accumulated and the Raiders, as well as some had the opportunity to return France that defeat for them is a matter of shealate certainty, and titudes of the Nationalists and of it. He fined her $500. hatred of all things and persons unfortunate references to British the courtesy four yeara İster, that with defest must come the vanishing into thin air of all their the Government, as revealed by

named German. Every day in Kings and rulere. Cluba bere, meeting Mr. Kern at the train and fanciful dreams.

the speeches of Mr. Dillon and

the bigger cities men are arrested there, and everywhere have even presiding at the mass meet- Some of the statements made by the leading lights of the new Mr. Shorit. For ourselves, we

and receive penalties of three passed a short and sharp rale ing of congratulation over hie German Economic Council, at its inaugural meeting, are worth caDO accept the view of

months and upward for pro which renders every member being named with Brysn. Another. noticing, it only because they reveal a distinct undertone of the Nationalist leader

German or pro Austrian opinions. liable to be called upon to take Democrat, destined not only to anxiety concerning the fatore. The Germans have evidently lost the Government Две

Most of the cffenders are reported the oath of loyalty. The boycott be nominated for the office that no time in realising what the new British fiscal policy will mean ceived Conecription with "the to enemy countries, for yesterday's mea79

and in many estes arrested then movement against German goods Fairbanks occupied for four years, mede mention express intention of " torpedcing"

and there by private citizens who is spreading very rapidly, but to be elected and re-elected, of one of the speakers dwelling on the world-wide importance Home Rale, for there has been

now-88 88 adjudged in the especially among women, and is bad the leading part in another of Britain'e adoption of Imperial Preference. That scheme ample evidence to show that Mr.

Court the other day-biva the to be methodically organised. greeting to him, whan Gov. will most decidedly be universal in its effects, and Germany Lloyd. George and his colleagues

right of each sommary sction. My impression is that if the Marshall welcomed him on his probably more than any other country will bemoan the have made every possible His Excellency the Governor. "Are you 100 percent. American?" was continues mach longer, or il return from a tour of the world. disadvantageous position in which ite adoption will place endeavour to arrive at a just and in-Council will eit at 9.30 a.. on asks one of the most aggressive the American troops are heavily For a while Vice-Presidential her, for in the past Britain bas been a most conveniant rquitable solution of the problem. Thursday, the 8th August, to bear advertisements; and it will very engaged, the problem of protect. candidates, successful and an- dumping-ground for cheap and asety German products. The They have, however, been the following appeals from soon be dangerous to be only 8 ing the persons and properties of successful, were so thick in India. members of the new Council are also obviously perturbed at the bampered both by the Sion decisions of the General Military percent, American, to say nothing avowed Germans will strain law napolis sa to have given it the possible restriction of German enterprise in the Near and Far Easta, Feinera and the Nationalists, Service Tribunal →

of "50 50," which is the and order to the utmost. Esat title, "Mother of Vice-Presidente," since the President bas emphasized the necessity of the "economic though we are glad to see (1). Adjourned appeal by the vernacular for 60 per cent. and West, Americans are growing if it had cared for it. Bal s oily cultivation " of these regions against Augic-American competition. that the seditions movement Mercantile Bank against enrol- Indeed, it is already dangerone. angry. The influence of this that boasted a President could The same individual dilated on the need of enforcing "economichae appreciably diminished ment of Mr. R. Kennedy.

Not more than a week or two growing soimosity in the German hardly be expected to be fisitered pesce" in Europe-another indication that the Germans are the since the ringleaders of the former (2), Appeal by the Asiatic ago it was the babit of German American communities them by such a phrase--to say nothing firat to squeal when faced with tariff ware-though in what manner bave been placed beyond the Petroleum Co. against enrolment sympathisers, when the sows selves is already apparent. Ger of the best-selling post between this is to be attained, nothing is said. But perhaps the most power of doing further harm, Mr. of Mr. M. M. Mass.

pleased them, to assemble in mens are a logical people. Many the Alleghanies and the Sierras, important issue of all rained at the inaugural meeting of this Dillon's fanciful proposal that the (3). Appaal by the Proper cartsin restaurants to drink-and emigrants came over to avoid the Economic Council was the question of secaring raw materiale after whole question should be left to a Military Authority against the est to the glory of the excesses of the "Blave State" of This is an American story. the war. The President says the new body maat re-establish soch jaty of Americsus chosen by Pro-exemption of Mr. G, G. Wood. supplies from overseas. But that is for easier said than done. Tas, eideat Wilson smacks somewhat point has many times been reiterated of late that after the war the of the gro e que: is would be balk of the world's supply of raw materials will be in Allied hande, jost as absurd to ask a jury of and the longer the enemy prolonge the war, the longer will she Irishmen to decide whether the THAT TIRED FEELING have to wait before participating even partially in its distribution. United States shall go "dry. The Allies have in this regard the biggest economic weapon of all British politicians have tried for

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Three Cases at the Next. Sitting,

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Fatherland. Those resaria nd Germany, but have allowed Two dealers in tombstonee" and these habita soon became known, themselves a strong entimental, oronuments happening to meet in } and at least as many 100 per cent, affection for the Fatherland. They a train were soon talking sho

Americans as Germans began are now directly face to face with with great animation. After they to foregather to the festival. The the fact that byphens ere sa un had discussed designs and result was that every one watched popular and, indeed, a dangerous inscriptions for some minutes, every one-one party seeking to appendage, Compromise is one of the dealers happened to observe, the other to make sure difficult. A plain choice is offer-notice that a negro paesenger was that it was apt observed thated: Shall they be German or listening to the conversation with Brestaurant, though crowded to American? People say, "Once a spparent interest. Turning to orfwing with a company German." I do not believe it. It him, one of the dealers said, | assembled" to celebrate, was is daily disproved and the best You seem to be interested in

in their hands, and we may count with certainty upon their asing many years to remedy the Irish these mornings is most likely "it with the greatest effect possible.

grievances, and Irishmen them- to "liver." The remedy is All these soont mio and territorial ambitions of the Hocs are selves baye been givenTM an just so much empty dreaming, and all the energy they are opportunity to solve the problem. displaying is more wanted effort. Germany will soon find that the Neither have succeeded. How har enough on hand in the war zones to keep herself fully occupied then can we expect our American the little laxatives which aid nevertheless enveloped in an obesivers hold that thousands of in tombstones; what do you want for some time to come, She will, indeed, soon learn that the black cousins to unravel the tangle? digestion care Constipation, atmosphere of preternatural Germans will in the next few on your grave?" "Say, bow," days of defeat are looming up on the horizon, and that, whatever Only by matual trust can the livarishness, dizziness, biliona gloom. A moment's rashness monthe deliberately and thorough replied the negro, "I don't want she does, she will not be able to escape the great bumiliation which issnes, be straightened out, and headacher, foul smelling breath. would precipitate a catasimphe, ly accept the country of their none of them stone markers. is in store for her. We can therefore afford to smile at her idle the first requirement in that the Of all obemists, and post free as every one knew; and now even adoption, now the alternatives are When I die I want 'em to plant a Bohemings, knowing that the power to carry out her designs will various sections of Irish thought 60 cents the phial, from Dr. the German restaurants are little so clear-cnt. It is safer to be watermelon vine on my grave and assuredly be wrested from her. To Cermany the saying may will shall learn to have faith one in the Williams Medicine Co., 86 8zs more popalone on one night than American than German; and fear then let the glorious jaise sosk be applied to-day that Nero fiddles while Bome meantime barns, other.

ohuen Road, Shanghai.

is a powerful agent.

through."

on another.