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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1918.

A GLORIOUS SPECTACLE.

"Victory" Bonus ?

DAY BY DAY.

HE THẤT DILIGENTLY SEEKETH GOOD PROCURETH FAVOUR.

To-morrow's" Anniversary». "To-morrow is the third anniver

We are sure that the majority of business employees in Hong kong will be aaited in the hope that there is something in the report printed by a native paper, and reproduced in our correspond- ence column today, that loosl f-ms intend marking the Allied victory by granting specia hocures to members of their staffs. The statement does not require proving that since the war the ot of living in this Dolony has The opening rate of the doller risen tremendously, while, gen. on demand to day was 36 Lerally speaking, there has been 3. 3/16d.

no corresponding increase in salarice, due largely to the fact

on

ENTERTAINING · NAVAL MEN,

Happy Gathering at Naval Canteen.

There was a very happy

CORRESPONDENCE.

[The opinions expressed by corres- pondente are not worssarily those of the Hongkong Telegraph. T

VICTORY BONUS.

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

Discussing the hereafter in landing artiole entitled ““What's Orer Yonder ? the Los Angeles

To the Editor of the Hong suns

Talograph."]....... Sir,-The following is a transla-Tamse informe its readers that sary of the great battle at gathering in the theatre of the

Royal Naval Canteen last night, tion from the Taus Wan Fat Poof among other jays there is "the Ctesiphon.

when over two hundred petty | Wednesday, 20th Nɔvember :--

fascination of the thought: eficers sad men of the Navy "The expected Allied victory shall behold the great figy

being reported, the people of the nations concerned are in history when awake in

The Dollar,

Another Black Sheet.

that most employees are There were no cases of com-

with agreement

stipulated manicable disease notified yester emolamente. The other factorį day.

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great happiness. The Managers the Shadow Land-Foerstes, of the leading firms in this Shakespeare. Noah, Mose, Dante, Colony are giving a demonstra and Don Quixote riding an tion of their appreciation and

rejoicing by granting 3 months' faith fulcharger. " (The italios are salary to their employees, both cura)---Manchester Guardian. Europeans and Chinese, as a war bonus. The Government 'servants are treated in the same

manner."

werk entertained to diarer and a smoking convert by a number of local gentlemen: The chair was oocapied by the Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak and supporting him were the Rev. G B Hastings, R. N., Mestre Young. Rose Thomson, N. 8. Brows, C. EP. Hay, B. Satherland, Keigwin, H:" Parov Smith, L E. 8. Hodge, W. A. Dowley, A. B. Lowe, A. 0. firma bers have made big "A Patient, R. N."-You mastLsng and W. Hannibal. The was most admirably | money during the war, and obeerve the role requiring anony catering they have made it, too, with great move correspondents to forward done by Wiseman's Cafe, ly reduced staff, on whom their names, before your letter can At the conclusion of the dinner is generally true. I certainly how to tell an officer. "First look. larger burden of work hse inevit be published.

a.number of toasts were honoured. hare heard of a few firms, British at his right shoulder. If you find ably fallen. After all, the em.

The Obairman, in proposing and French, who are giving nothing there, look at the lower ployees of Boy firm are

"The Navy" aid that gathering Victory Bonus of three or six part of the upper right arm. If essential men, without whose

The temporary terminal stations represented the desire of all pre- months' pay, axolusive of BDY la chevrons are seen ba is a labours the directive ability of

sent, and many more becides who ordinary sanual bouus. could not be accommodated in

The Peak Tramway,

those in obarge would be of no on the Peak Tramway are to come into use on Sunday, December 1, avail. At Bome, there is talk of a fixed samber of working hours and no on the 28th inst, se and a minimum wage; here in Peviously sunganced. Hongkong, hoars have indrebred daring the war, and, as we say, despite higher cost of living, the capsid of salaries has not been HONGKONG WEDDING. materially altered. These are

the reasons which warrant the

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A French soldiers' paper, The translation may interest Nesf Temps, prints some hinte on your readers. I hope the report

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do bucour to the men of the Hongkong, Nov. 20îb, 1918. Navy wbo bad preserved

the chores af England introt

general, for generals wear their {insignis on their hate. If he bas (no insignia on his bat he is a private, unless he has wings, in

from invasion by the enemy (A matter up and it was through which case he is an aviator. voice: "And we will do it again their efforts that they had got Then pase to the left, arm, and boys") for four long long years of what they had. It was a small count chevrons there, omitting terrible warfare. The cantorship, concession, yet it was very the first, which goes with the rightly or wrongly, had prevented acceptable (applanes) and they uniform. Next subtract nämber

marking of victory in the manner Mr. W. R. P. Thursfield-Miss the people of Hongkong from hoped to get a farther concession of obeyrons on his right arm, sni indicated, and we trust that basi-

news firms here will sympatheti

aslly consider the suggestion pui for werd,

Still At It.

O. S. Ritchie.

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knowing much of what the Navy later on. (Benewed applaner). multiply by number of stripes had done, but they had heard s The speaker concluded by er around his hat. If result is under great deal in the early days of pressing the hope that that even 36 he is a Portuguess third ibe war about" der Tag" and ing spent with the boys in blue lieutenant. When the total is Much interest was yesterday Hongkong, which know something would be ópe of plesesnt over 36, try again, count chevrons centred in the wedding of Mr. about the Germans and something memories to all prefect.

o'a both arms and multiply by. Two days ago we spoke of the W. R. P. Thursfeld (eldest son of about what "der Tag" meant, feli The Rev. G. B. Hastings also two. If total is between 50 and probability of some organised the late Dr. William Thurefeld, fully confident that if "der Tag" rasponded. He compared the 50, then the object of your attempt by the Germans to secure of Bridgenorth, Salop, and Stone's

they gave

an dinner of that evening with the interest is a captain, unless in softening of the Armietice and Hope, Jamaica) and Mies Georgins opportunity to Great Britain's dinners they sometimes bad with conversation he tells you he is a peace terme, sad now comes news Shearer Ritchie (only daughter Navy they would have all they the Grand Fleet on the North Ser, sjor. The top of the hat has that even at this late hour of the of Mr. and Mrs. Archibald asked for. ("Hear, hear" and consisting very often of "Fanny important msaning. Red signifies day, at the very moment of her Bitchie, of Abergeldie, The Peak, "They've got it.") r. Holyoak Adame sad spade" and euch like infantry, and blue with gold braid humiliation, Germany has her Hongkong), which took place then referred to the Battle of fare. (Land laughter). He also cavalry. If he were no hat, agents working in the United at St. John's Cathedral, There Jatisad as the only occasion paid a tributs to the hospitality he may be a Berbian colonel with States with that end in view was very large gathering of well. on which the German High Sea of Hongkong and the work out his hat.'" More than that, she is endeavour known residents, including H. E. Flest had put to sas, except under the

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and Women of ing to sreste strife once more the Officer Administering the the revolutionary flag. (Laughter), the Colony had done for the between America and Mexico. Government, who WBS accom- There was no longer any Garman war. It was not; he said, only Thus it bec mes evident that the panied by Mr. P.P.J. Woodhouse, Fleet and, it would be our own the men at the front who helped The deathe in such quick German, wherever he is and AD.C. The service was fally fault and the fault of our Allies to make the Empire, but the men succession of Lord Robson and under whatsoever conditions,

great many years who carried on the business of Sir Samuel Evans remove two of cannot refrain from his favourite oboral, Mr. Denman Faller being fo

at the orgen, while the Rev. V. to dome thera 評語 any the Empire sad kept trads going. the darling children of modern paatime cf intrigue and plotting Copley Hoyle cfficiated." such question 88 8 German There were a number of residents Liberalism. Both of them pró- Simultaneously, the Gezmen The bride, who was given Fleet. (Applause). It was, said in the Colony, who had all along mised to come to real eminence Government sets forth a tabulated

away by her father, was daintily Mr. Holyoak, their delight to tried to go to the Front, but were in politics; both of them became list of its requirements so far sa

attired in a dream of white honour that small portion of the unable to do so. It was not only Law Officers, and then rather a modification of the Armistice charmense satin, trimmed with greatest Navy the world had ever the man at the front who helped unexpectedly subsided on to the conditions is concerned. There lace and embroidered with pearls known or, in all probability, to make the Empire, but also the legal bench, and, in so far ea one is, in this latter mesenge; a man representing white heather. would ever know. (Cheers). It men who stuck to basiness and represented Liberal Imperialism of hipocritical pleading in en The krain пад of lace was combined to defend the Right kept trade going. (Applause) and the other what used to be If we glance down the pages of history, past and present, we obvious attempt to gain sympathy and charmeuse lined with the against Hight (Hoar, bese) sud He wished that fact to be known called Little Englandism, they

there were were the complement will discover no more stirring or spectacular event that that which by picturing the German people palest pink chiff and the all that was involved in the thoroughly, as

another, Kost TAY is to take place in the North Sea to-day. We will find many as likely to die of alter starvation wedding veil was of talle ever remorseless conduct of the war certain number of people, whom ons

.88 | Ofilcers in modern times have bien stories of conquests and defeate, conquerors and vanquished, eur- if the terms are not materially wreath of orange blossoms and by the enemy, and in defence of he would best describe rounded by all the glamour and romance of past ages, and coloured softened. Bat the trickery and white heather. The bride carried the principles socepted by every ignorant, who asid most ili- men who studied appearances, by the glory sad splendour which have passed away for ever. We lying are apparent, for another charming bouquet of white civilized Power up to the present advised things in that regard.men who parted their hair rather read the stirring stories of Kings and Emperors, their triomphs and message shows that the Berlin chrysanthemums and antigon time. (Applause). It would fake He concluded by proposing Our carefully and wore white gaiters defests, told to fatore generatione by the greatest writers that the Government he refused cffare of

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on summer days Both Lord MBNY VÉRIS to Hoats," world could ever know. We tore the pages of Homer, Virgil, corn from Russia "in view of the cock was in attendance "ae live down the reputation she Musical honoure being accord-Robson and Sir Samuel Evans Osener, all the great bistorians of the dim past, the middle ages and Alliea".

to expply chief bridesmaid; she wore a had earned by her practices on ed the toast, Mr. R. Satherland conformed with recent times, but we can fad no period to compare with the Germany." In one breath the becoming dress of powder blue sea and on land. There were replied. Be related how in the though Sir Samuel Evans could Plapendous days in which we live. There hava been times before Germans profess to regard the georget e crepe with a hat of black occasions when no words could days of pesce residents of Chins only conform with it up to s when Empires have crambled to the dust, when astione have been Allied conditions as starvation salle, and carried pink give fall utterance to all that the ports had often regarded the point, time and the wearing of a destroyed, then the world was filled with bloodshed and the conditions: in the next, they turn bouquet. The two other ocession demanded. In proposing arrival of a Britieb warship as a wig having deprived him of sny. pandemonium of battle, but never to the same extent or under the down the Russian fer of food bridesmaids, Misses Ann and the Health of the Navy" he felt God-send, and how in the days of hair to part and transformed him same conditions as bave obtained in Europe for the last four yeare, because its acceptance is not Diana Dodwell, were charm he could not do justice to all that the Boxer rebellion the arrival of into a very likely Franciscan Never before has the world looked on while all the great nations necessary in view of the Allied ingly dressed in white, aarry the Navy had done. A voice: the Waterwitch (Laughter) was brother or a friar. have airazgled for eapremacy, while Europa has been drenched insistance!

ing buskete of pink flowers. The "The Silent Navy" and laughter). bailed with cheers by anrions blood, when all the death-dealing devices of an advanced civilisa. Typical Effrontery.

bride's mother wes gowned in Is proposing the tosst be include residents assembled on the Band. tion have employed, so that war has become mere slaughter.

Bat we can turn aside from the grey silk poplin inset with emed the Auxiliary Navy-(applause) It was not her guns they cheered, Never before bae the issue been so memenious, 80 pregnant obvions bleff which the Gerbossed panels, petamis ehades, which meant every fishing best for she had nons; it was ber The Gold Coast possess & with great possibilities, for it is, in truth, the Liberty of the World maps are trying to work and lock worn with a bat of black panne which in this war had put to ses men. (A voice: "Hooray" and puguacions little journal called. that we have been fighting for, and for which we have sacrificed at, the matter f.om the point of velvet, the bouquet being of pet to retrieve mines and combat the laughter). He took it upon him the Independent, It hundreds of thousands of cur manhood. Just as this war has been view of the justice of the enemy unis coloured chrysanthemume, aubmarice. (Loud applause). self to say that so long 6 that the municipal authorities the greatest in the sanals of all times, so, in proportion, is the defeat request. The Hons, absolutely Mr. R E. Sedgwick acted as best The toast having been or the Navy come to Hongkong there are wanting in the go-ahead and homiliation of the varquisbed, We behold one of the grestess defeated, here the frontery to man. A pretty feature was in-thusiastically bonoured, Obief and Chins waters the British qualities of an up-to-date, town, Empires in the world built up and welded together by hundreds of ask for more merciful terms while troduced by Miss Angel Ormiston Petty Officer Smith replied, say residente would be proud to have and the Independent is critic years of kiruggle and proeperity, utterly shattered and at the same moment revelations and the Misses. Halyoak, who ing how proud he was to belong them as their guests. (Applane si "We hope our readers will humbled to the dust. Though the details of this most are being made of the disgusting strewed rose petals in the path of to the Navy. In peace times they and Three cheers for bear patiently with us while we magnificent spectacle in the North Sea are not to band, it requires ly icbumane manger in which the newly married couple. thought the Navy was just for Sutherland, Commodore of the recount the dry bodes of official very little imagination to picture it to ourselves. On the one band Allied prisoners of war have been After the ceremony, a largely show. There were some cruisers Yacht Clab.)

red tepe sud ineficiszny in mat we have the feels of the Allies in all their victorious pomp and treated. When we read of some attended reception was held at that went from place to place,

Mr. Peroy Smith proposed the tare which they (the ratepayers) triamnb, formed in battle array to await the German qasdron. of the frote disclosed in this the Hongkong Hotel, at which sometimes well inland, just to health of the subscribers to the know and feel in reality. Not even e Caeser at the head of his gorgeous triumph, entering a connection, how can we feel the the health of the bride and bride show the fig. Since then the Tobacco Fand who had sent no Acorain: 1918! conquered town, could vie with the magnificence of this sight, least measure of sympathy for groom was proposed by the Ofiger Ney had not only shown the less than four million cigarettes Whats spectacle its aizcels Line on line of brave abipe, dreadnoughts, battle craisers and smaller the bratal Germana? British Administering the Government, flag but it had shown its guns, to the Army and Nary. He present! The traffic in them Graft, drawn up with figs flying, proad in the knowledge of con prisoners who have dropped down Hon. Mr. Cland Severn, O.LLG. very much to its own advantage, coupled the toast with the name now is se incongruous a blending quest and victory,

with hanger and dysentery bave To this the bridegroom responded (Applause). The speaker thank of Mr. Dowley, the Hon. Secretary as can be found in any other It must have been indeed a glorious sight. What must have been beaten with rifles until they and then the Hos. Mr. S. Hod the Entertainment Fund for of the Fund, who also spoke, place on the face of the earth. been, the feelinge of the Germans as they set eyes on this imposing gat up, went on with their labour Dodwell gave the toast of the the fiue trips they had afforded eulogising the work of the ladies What a clash of medize ralism and spectsole ? Let us look back, for the sake of comparision, to the first and died over their work. The brideemside, which was responded during the afternoons and for in this matter, especially Mrs. of the twentieth century! Fowle days of the war when the mighty German armies were advancing devilish Hune have also laughed to by the best man. The health some trips over to Macao Arthur.

and peripatetic sheep and goats Wave on Wave Cyer the territories of Belgiam and France, and when at dying Britishers who have been of Mr. and Mrs. Ritchie was which had been very much ap- The tosets concluded,s smoking lord it over the busiest thorough- their great fleets rode at anchor at Kiel, with steam up ready to give refused admission to hospitel.propoead by the Hon. Mr. P. H precisted. He also took the op concert was held. An orchestra fares, whilst six-cylinder caES, battle. Think of their slogan "On to Paris" and all theic bopes of On the release of those who have Holyoak and replied to by Mrs. portunity to express thanks on from one of HM ships con- world domination. And now the beet of their fleet, unarmed and survived, the Garmans, instead of Bitchie

bahalf of the Nery for the great tributed admirable selections Baby Triumphs stresi aseless, are forced to give themselves ap: their armies, shamed and repatriating them in a humsre After the reception, the bridal efforts made with regard to this while other items were disheartened, are evacuating the country over which they once manner, have turned them adrift, pair left for Ealing where the dollar." (Land applauss). Yon by Mossza. Keig marched so triumphantly. “85" bars, the the mighty failed.” We starring and ragged, and many honaymaan is being spent, know better, he said, "than I do Bay Satherias also remember, the great hopes they placed in their submarines, hava died by the roadside. Yet The bride's going away drws what the do uns la ux. -The Clemente, §. which were to serve England and bring ber to her knees and now the people who have been to WAS

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