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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1918,

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To-morrow's Anniversary. To-morrow is the 23rd birth- day of HRH Prince Albert,

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The Dollar,

The Health Retura,

Daring yesterday, there were

For the Races,

Convent Bazkar.

Auction of Chloess Curios.

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Improperly Stored. For storing kerosene oil in Ro

must be kept in a well.

False Weights.

Hospital.

Hongkong, 11th Dec, 1948. Dear Alick

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

The most expensive pigeon ple that perhaps has ever been Youthfal Portuguesa Borrowers by members of the allied diplo sarved anywhere – was enjoyed matis oslony in Josey Isst spring One February afternoon, one of the allied ministern received a crate

starry night arose.

герове.

We rise, our

beards demand the barber's

art;

female antere, and performe

the part...

of the past it is the opportunity which it has provided for the bringing together into a aloser understanding the two nations. There was a time when

As the result of money lending Britishers neither · understood Americans nor the latter had

- As I was saying, the actions, two youthful Part of ane pigeons. There was no Uibaret ss a great sucose laat

guess were before Kr. Jastion mark to indiaste the sender. The just ecnosption of the former. For some few yeara

The opening rate of the doller Buurday night. That the Scottish mperts, in the Summary Court pigeons were killed and cooked before

demand

this morning, to spawar write that evening, and a cumber to-day was 33. semest were there was proved faced against them he Mr. R. C. of the minister's colleagues, tbe

however, War, there had been strang movements,

3. 15/16d. "

by the fact that the Gaby Gliders Faithfull on behalf of Galls including the American minister sad the Fox Tottere had to take Singh. There were two claima. Vopicks, had their fill of pigeon guided by leading men in both, countries, for a closer rapproche-

up a position, se you would say one jointly for $712 and one of pin. A week later a delayed ment between the two English-

soon are fine if you want to deat. Both the claima ware who had been hort at the dinner. dightly in the rear. Them kind of $100 against the resond defen- telegram reached the minister speaking nations. That some notified two cases of diphtheria theff shout wi an fisity of admitted and payment by instal. It was from a high military officer thing tangible.would have acma sad one of epiario fever. Al of those movements, we have no ware non-fatal and all the for six heure at a stretch, meets was asked for. doubt, but we are equally con- enderers Britishers.

bus for real sociability give The apparent ease with which as to the disposal af

of bis Government, directing him me the vinoed that nothing like this war

Lancers or

TELY the these young men, one of whom is valuable consignment" of carrier Eightgoma Reel every time. Af- could have so ärmly welded the Twenty even subscription griter two hours dancing of that junior engineer ons local steamer. af er along course of training and bank sistant and the other spigeons which had been want him Anglo-American peoples together fins arrived. bere from Shanghai tind, you get introduced to most were able to obisin ench large which were designed to take as they now are. We have both per .. Sinking. They are to be verybody in the place and for bye loans leads us to think that furth- an important part in certain gone through the crucible of drawn for at 515 pm, to-day at soffering and escrifice, we have the Jockey Club Stables, Cause- don't need to be pried cffer legislation is necessary. learned to apprecists, the best in way Bay.

highly confidential negotiations your partner before you can go each other, and to-day we look to

and see about an ice cream fçr her.

then pending. the fature full of hops in the A bessar is to be held at the myself. It's strenuous, mind ye power to call to account a wicked barber has been hailed as sn Ilike darcing wi' some air epace for those who have the The introduction of the woman. knowledge that American enter St. Francis (Italian) Convent on pias and British tenacity can Sanday in aid of the poor, the but it's real dancing, beel and toe ting and after due conviction to innovation-in this country at which accomplish great things when maimed and the destitate. It sety tire, and besides, it doesna depoes him and put him to death, sa rate. Bet is ? to Guy'e

with working in harmony. On behall opens at 10 x m.

gire ye the appearance o' & Bat all the same, og second "Journey to Exeter," written in for of the Ameriosa people, General

theamatie cripple when ye're at thoughts, killing a king is a poor the early years of the eighteenth right kind of fellowship, Perching offers Britain the A collection of valuable it I've no time for you kind of business · T ke for instance century, cesar the following

Chinese carios was cold, this sacing, even if it is modern. Charles I. If ever there was a line: that our two nations may more afternoon, by auction, in Mr G.

Macpherson was there locking double-dyed raecil he was one; We climbed the hills, when firmly be linked together and P. Lammert's esle rooms. The happy as a lobster that hears the his dispatch aisge-managedi The rates of Subecription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will ensure the future of the world." items included bronz jesen, po boiling but footing it withe in a most orderly mannered with And Axminster afinds s kind

be as follows:-Daily issue--$36 per annum. Weekly issue-Britain clasps the proferred hand lacquered jewel boxes and pottery condition" said be to me when to-day excites admiration. But best of them. "I'm a little out of a frim determination that even $13 per sunum.

with warmth of sympathetic of the Ming Dynasty and varians The rates per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscriptions feeling. The union formed other "geme" beloved by the were having a reet outside, if ye mind bistory aright the "bat-believe me, I was a gcod stroke o' you sxe transformed a daring the war must always exist collector. and, for the good of all,

min at it once. Bat that's always treacherous king into a perfect be yet farther trangthened still

the trouble wi' this world, isn't martyr and he spent the rest of The weighty golden obain adorns Turkey's Day of Reckoalog. improper manner the Police if You're got to be a good man his spiritual life with a made-to-

her neck, Turkey's day of reckoning has yesterday iaoned sommonace, more than once if you're going to measure balo un bis worthless And three gold rings her skilful arrived. The Young Turks, who against four persone and these teep your end up evea at head.

What happened? For

hand badeok; planged the country into the die were to-day fined by Mr. O, Danc

generations after, there wse Smooth o'er our chin her easy bolical war, have now an opport

Melbourne $10 each. The re. Bat, believe me, it was a real friction, and

many devoted

fingers move, i acity of seeing the fruits of their gulations, provide that kerosene good time; zacet impromptu Englishmen and Scotsmen Soft as when Venusstrok'd the labours.

the

thinge are.. I think I only saw lost their lives and fortages Amongst sil belligerents, Tarkey bas soffered

beard of Jove, one pair o' white gloves all the in the case of his sons and the Eevarest defest. She has been "A false weight is abomination evening and I'm not sure but it worthless family. When James The arrest, trial, conviction, sad practically driven from Asia and, to the Lord; but a just weight is was the Bandmaster, that wore II became unbearable he was sentence of a young, sid had the war lested for some time His delight." Four Chinese shop them. I've often noticed managed much more intelligently Syracuse, State of New York, for. more, the "Sick Mas of Europe" keepers, who were not taught when I have made up my mind by simply kicking him out and idling in war time has peculiar would have had no kingdom to this by their parents, were fined to go to a ball that by the time winking at his escape to France, interest as marking the first At the forthcoming by Mr. C. D. Melbourne to-day Janet has changed her tailor The killing of Louis XVI and pronounced and clear-cat esse of Pesos Confereros Turkey will sums ranging from $5 to $20. three times before she gate a dress that of Marie Antoinette were also the kind under the anti-loting" sve do voice in the fate of her loss Now, there will be a run onto her liking, and she's used up stupid blanders. To my way of law in the State named, Es

kaewing the Bible better.

bottle of benzina getting the mold off my dress coat and I've thinking at the moment, an had committed no offence in

exsouled Kaiser would be a an ordinary sense. The first meeting of the Hong- got a new pair o' dancing pumps greater power for harm than a not a vagrant, for be had He was ing regarding these. The land kong District Schools Athletic, that'll lame me for weeks after live one simply booled out of money. The sew statute, however, which has wallowed in Turkish Sports, fixed for to-der, at Happy and the new gloves that burst at decent society for ever. Ridicule had made him an cfinder, despotism, misrule and Valley, hat had to be postponed the seams before I get them right often kille more effectually than subject to penal correction, in security, is to-day basking

the influence of the wing to unitable

weather on, the mood for jillity is often the scaffold, mind I'm telling that he was performing no useful under British aegis

conditions. The meeting will sadly wanting. If it be true, se one of car Peking telegrame of yesterday The Transformation.

labour ata time when the indust. take place on Tuesday, December Talking about pumpa-remiade-

I see from the papers this week risa of the ocuntry, as well as the indicated, that Japan has an ides of permanently occupying Tsina

17. ban His Excellency the me about the last time I bought that Ramsay Macdonald has army and navy, ware in great need tan, there is likely to be a deal of feeling on the go-lion in the Far British

Within

the Offer Administering the Gov-pair. Every pair I tried were far gotten on to his midden besp of man power. This young man East and throughout other portions of the globe alec.

transformed We have to and Bsers into smiling fields of distribute the prizes.

Bagdadernorat bes kindly consented to too tight but Janet would persist again and heen giving bis neck said that be bad never worker; in bear in mind that Tsingtan and the teriitory of which it is part intense cultivation. In the wake

that they looked fine. Afterwards a biter tch. There is cas thing fact, would not work. But be will were leased by Germany from Chins, the latter'e title to it being of the British occupation osme

Great Minds Think Alike.

she got on to me for appeasing so that the war bis demonstrated work, nevertheless, since he was therefore preserved. When war broke out and it was found that prosperity and happiness for the terest in to-day's South China kept on telling me that they were more olexzly them anything else sentenced to six months at hard-

We have read with much in.iguorant before the shop-girl and the Germans were using the place se s centre of bostile activity and inhabitants. Colosest Come Morning Post s reprinted article wearing them arrow and pointed plete inefficiency of the avstem The possession of "visible means and that is the com- labour in she county penitentiary, generally endangering peace in the Far East, Japso, acting in had been spent in irrigating Mr. Linton Andrews entitled the sesson. Who they of party politics at Home. We're of support (comments coppert with the British, reduced Tsingtan to sarmader and then Mesopotemis and that "bless-Eliot of Siberis. We thought sally were I don't know, but I do beard a terrible lot about the American writer) formerly ex- rocapiel it. That was over four years ago, and since that time ed word" is to day yaony- there was a familiar ring about know that I still have last season's Hidden Hand these past four cased this type of idler. He there has been much speculation sa to its eventual fate. Japan mous admittedly played the larger part in the overthrow of German ment and contentment.

with ordered Govern: it. We were right, as a refest and that they were sore after years, but you believs me we've could fritter his time away, while anthority at Taingtan, but British troppe also took part in the ven-is a very important post on the appearing in the China Mail of

Basra forenos to the leading ortiola Saturday night. tare, and Japan has always given the impression, officially, that she Persian Gulfand, before the Earo- the 9th inst. will prove. Both at, was one year at a St. Andrew's

more canse to be afraid of the the peoniless loafer was consient- But the best dance I ever was Hollow Hesd than anything else. ly liable to arrest for vagiandy. never intended to claim the territory as her own,

Let us look back a bit and see what Japan's attitude was when trouble to the Indian Govern articls from the same quarter cardroom till early four in the of a few of them and have them

Min, it's a great pity that the War is a leveller in more senses paan War, was a source of great jumale obviously obtained the Ball when I played poker in the Powera-that-he couldn get hold than one. she declared war on Germany. In her ultimatum, Japan intimated mens owing to the piratical attacks but the Morning Post frankly morning and Janet doing the filled up will cement and Bank Kaiser's sons keep safe to the German Ambassador that abe required the delivery to the on British shipping near Aden. seknowledged its authorship. Japanese Imperial authorities" without condition or compensation, Its retention is beolately re

| Merry Widow Aot upstairs. I mind of the entire lessed territory of Kianohan, with a view to the event quired for the peace of Indis.

somewhere. U.S. Export Licences. it fine, for Macpherson owed me Last week caw the end of the ual restoration of the same to China. The italios are ours. At about The Indian Government has has received instractions from being feared to let on to his wife

The American Conso! General money for months after him "lights" here. It's been a long the same time, the then Premier of Japan, Count Okams, declared taken a very prominent "part in Washington to the effect that for fear he got his pocket money engineer folks and the Kaiser has that in entering the war Japan had no alterior motive, no desire to developing this post after its hereafter export licences issued stopped. Mac's wife, as you made more then a few confirmet weary drag for some of the secure more territory, no thought of depriving Chins or any occupation. The Indian currency to cover the expart of merchan.know, was a widow before he enemies for life through it. Toe other people of anything they then possessed. can therefore be no ambiguity as to what impression Japan and it

There is the medium of exchange, dise from the United States and married her and is one of these gave to the world when, four years ago, whe

quite од the which had not expired before the ladies whose waist measure married ones, are just în sa bigb women folks, particularly the came into oards that it administration 15th of November will thereafter ment is thirty-sight inches on festher at the news. It's funny possesion of this valuable territory in China, have been various statemente by Japanese publicists since ment of Tadis."

There will be entrusted to the Govern- be valid without limit or antil Sundays and forty-two inches how many hitherto unnoticed that time, however, which have caused some misgivings on the remarkable prosperity is now on shall not apply to licences sued, a general appearance of boiler- the men

An ers of revoked. The foregoing, however during the week and has forbye noises there are in a house when question, especially by those who have arged that if occupation by the threshold of Palestine and covering export: tons to Norway, made virtue. Her enief topic of relief. For a while at least it's the Japanese is given up, compensation should be granted in other Mesopotami

BIB out on second apheras, such as Manoburia and Mongolis. An interesting point of snosE

To all appear and Sweden, Denmark Proper, conversation, when it's not the to be hoped that the Powers that

Had answered “here." international law in this connection has recently been raised by go to

tba provinces will Europes Halland, the Fars ookboy, is her late husband, and be will forget to be too regiment

1b4 British, British

According to a naturalist, se1- Peking pager, and it is worthy of note. This is to the effect that blood has besa shed profusely Islands, Ireland and Switzerland. He will never hear the last of sl and no cause the men to take pants, in spite of their reputation antil the declaration of war between Chins and Germany, Japan on these en tan is a fixing that

Our Pictorial Supplement. him till he starts from the Monu-on drill and the “on the right for alertness, are very short and Britain might legally succeed to the latter's right of cocupation, the reward should go to the patronising to-morrow night's Chion, The only esfe widow to hobby. They deserve a rest and see more than a yard or two in Boxing athusiasts who intendment himself-leading the pro form platoon sort of stuff as a sighted. Some of them cannot but with the abrogation of all Sino-Garmin Tresties on such conqueror. The French, we tournament, and others as we'l, many is one whose first husbands proper chance to make up front of them. Oher reptiles declaration, all the lessee's former rights satomatically reverted to arme, will get Beyrout as the will be interested to know, that was hanged. the lessor Properly speaking," says the Faking Leader, Japan French Army bad taken the oar pictorial supplement to ha Janet says I just blether on what's more forbye, what' of vision, and the authority a and England should at once restore the leased territory to Chins, principal part "in its osptare, given away with tom row's and you maybe lying at death's wrong wi dishing out a few sarfe that a procodile cannot see their arrears of sleep. And are similarly deficient in muse but as the transfer was deemed inconvenient aatil the termination Thus comes to sa and a long jame will include photographs of door but she doesna understand there fancy chevrons to them a man at a greater distance than of the war, the set of retroosssion was merely postponed, Accord despotic rule reminiscent of the 8.P.O. Amer, R.N., Stoker Neigh ingly, it is also superfluous to talk about compensations in this Dark Agen.

That seems to be good law and we should much doubt whether there je any adequate anewer that could be used to combat Řík.

seeking to retsia a permanent hold on the territory we do not oare there would be less wealth lost in to say, but obviously there are other interests than those of Japan Chins. A Chinese traste 100

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The Hongkong Telegraph.itories. The Allies seem to

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1918.

THE FUTURE OF TSINGTAU."

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have arrived as a tacit anderɛiand-

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B year

- Bad Memory,

Schools Sports Postponed.

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After the battla was over

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The sergeant called the roll,

Haus, Rudolph and Gotlieb And many a voica was silent. For death had taken soll.

"Had fallen before the Yanke And many plesssaf conscripts Were flittened by the tanks, But when the news reached:

Potsdam Twas greeted with a cheer, For all of the Kaiser's hasky

Bons

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that much wisdora is needed to de? I'm sure they're just as six times I's own length, In bours, B.N., Leading Seamsn del lightly with trivial things. Neighbours, RN and Stoker I notice that the German as some of them that's filled in are even more defoient then in mach entitled to Service cherrons respect of hearing, many reptiler Sanders, RN. The two firm Kaiser has not been patrami

If the Chinese were taught the mad are to fight for the the Almighty so much of lawend their time ailing in hotels drink- sight. Some serpents are desi,

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What basis in trath there may be for the report that Japan is neefulness of keeping diaries | Bantamweight Championship of that there seems to be apsbeoluseng les most of the past four the bos, it is said, being unable

to be taken into sopount in this matter. The situation is somewhat och to his memory and the peculiar, it is trus, for no-one suppose that Germany will over again manis is he pays tomba au ta possomnion of Kispoken: But this is not the time for the intereat for

panaso or any other people to decide the fataze of this erstwhile Chinese

mesan seillement Japan at the moment, as it appears to ar,

s the plaos in trust. As to what will ultima

matter for final decision at the

When China's rights will not be overlooked, we

disinclination

the Colony, while the other psir, were to contest the Middleweight into the spotligh Championship, but through sick be other way nees Beaman Cox will deputise gol mars for Bloker Ssanders, Thìn - at a tirag Isiter ohange was not intimated F before. Wedne

years 1. Activa service, sye faith || to har Scand. T

his part to get The find has said

is MST T tkai mit,

but

that he's believe me there's a los o

eting

red and blue things beat

oat in this Colony

strong on