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ARMED CHINESE BOAT'S THE ANNUAL MEETIN American activities in Siberia
ADVENTURE. The opening rate of the dollar have given our Japanese friends on demand so-day was 3a..3.3-big wrinkles. The latter argus
The annual meeting of that that Japan has been outdone is said to have taken place in aiaty was held at the Ca An extraordinary occurrence Canton Medical Missionary by Americs, notwithstanding her Hongkong Harbour a few nights Hospital on January 17th. ence beyond the official communmunicable diseases notified on news,
There were no cases of com- propinquity to Sibaria. The go iques. Elsewhere the message Saturday.
therefore, that the It appears that when the fight-read and approved.
minutes of the last meeting speaks of the resolve to "keep
Washington Government hasjing between the North and the absence of the Secretary, Dr the Press at arm's length and the
established an official Russian South broke out, five launches, M. Wright, Dr. C. A. Hayes public in ignorance." These
Subscribers to the Hongkong the War Trade Board, with a murk in the Canton Delia, re observations, read in conjunction Telegraph who may have occasion capital of $5,000,000 has caused mained loyal to the Northerners the following By-law was ad
trading company as a branch of which had been doing patrol elected Secretary pro tam. with the recent British Foreign to complain of late delivery or some excitement mixed with un-and took refuge within the to the constitution of the Soci Office announcement that there non-arrival of their papers will easiness among those Japanese waters of the Harbour where written notice having bean gi On motion of Rev. J.M. H₫ would be no censorship of British ba serving their own interests, who, regard every sign correspondents' messages from and ours as well, by promptly American activity in Russia with A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD., make us wonder what has happen-
Paris during the Conference, notifying the Manager of any alarm as being threatening to
of they apparently had remained at the annual meeting hald
ever since. ed. British correspondents will such irregularities.
On the evening on the 14th March 20th, 1918-By-law
the Club Theatre, Shame extract small comfort from the
Japan. Americans having been inst., a boat, believed to belong 1.-The Executive Committee fact that the Foreign Office is not
conducting investigations in some to the Canton Government and the Society shall consist of going to censor their messages that entries for the Annual Open ago, and have succeeded in two machine-guns forward, and Senior Vice-President, and Billiard players are reminded Siberian districts since five years which was armed with a 3:5 gun, President, Secretary, Treasu when they know they arenotallow- ed to despatch any beyond official Billiard Championship of the securing
The concession Colony, held under the auspices interests. On the other hand, manned by about seventy man, Directors of the Canton Medi
many rights communiques.
machine-guns aft, and representatives on the Board is a most magnanimous one of the Victoria Recreation Club, Japanese enterprise in Northern stole into the Harbour, put a fissinnary Union". When we read that there have close on Wednesday, the 22nd Asia has been confined to line aboard one of the launches been strong journalistic protests January. All entries, together desire for obtaining immediate and commenced to tow it out of Directors of the Canton Medi Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which ference to perpetuate official be sent to the Hon. Secretary, manent interests. The Japanese went in pursuit and overtook the Rev. J. H. Henry, the Chairmas against this resolve of the Con- with entrance fee of $, should profit to the detriment of per- the Harbour. The Water Folice Missionary Caion was read The report of the Board requires them to forward their names and addresses with communi-control of Press messages, we Victoria Recreation Club on or lack the capacity to lay down a launch, well within the waters of and approved. cations addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, by are not surprised. as an evidence of their bona fides,
All along before that date. the war was being fought, among
gigantic scheme with an eye to the Harbour, but it was then future interests. There is a lack realised that it was a case of the the medical staff and the busine other things, to abolish secret
The present month is a stock-of sufficient Japanese enterprise Police allowing the fugitive to manager were taken as read, t The reparts of the chairman
The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" ismitted to play on international he wanted except a few glase
full light of day should be per-Oue of them was blessed with all economic undertakings in Siberia escape or commencing an action sama to be printed soon. diplomacy and to ensure that the taking period for the Chinese, in the study and carrying out of
$36 per annum. (Payable in Advance)
in which they would have been have pending a gathering, not of at any cost before the Chinese dealings. And yet here
The report of the Hon. Tre hopelessly ontnumbered, so the sorer was read and approved. mixed enemies and friends, but of New Year. After he obtained was
panes. These had to be secured
two bonts escaped.
Voted to approve of the repo terms of peace in the dark. In Allies, who are to arrange the what he wanted, the Police secured German territory to all intents
of the nominating committe other words, a handful of men him, and Mr. Wood has ordered and purposes, though politically panic in Japan to-day. Han-ficers of the Society for
There is a regular commercial naming the following as t are to be given the right of decid- that the man should spend the she was a great Empire. The dreds of firms and brokers in ensuing year-President, Re ing the biggest issues of the age festive period in a Government manufacture of goods, their trans Osaka, Kobe and Yokohama are J. M. Henry; Vice-President
institution.
portation and sale, were all in the on the rocks. The situation has Rev. A. A. Fulton, Rey, Edgi hands of Germans, and it seems given the Japanese furiously to
Dewstee. Hor. Vice-President We learn that the 9.5. Fauinto Germany's shoes after the Land of the Geishas appear to
that America intends to step think. Hundreds of firms in the J. W. Jamieson Esq., C. V. G H.B. M. Consul General? A. Y Sang, belonging to the Indo-war.. The war has so completely have been seriously affected by China Steam Navigation Com-deranged the whole economie the sudden conclusion of the General, Dr. W. G. Reynolds, C Pontius Esq., American Const We have seen the manner in pany Ltd., which has been doing organisation of Russia, that retrace. The outlook in commer- which, during the war, the official Government service in the Gulfstoration to its former state is a cial circles is very gloomy. Not, Mrs. John G. Kerr, Ho D. Festen Esq.-Robert Shewa communique system was abused; of Persia, has been released and task too big for private concerns a few firms and factories have how it kept the people in ignorance has arrived in Hongkong. This in America to undertake success become bankrupt, while many Hon. Auditor, H. C. Shrubsol Treasurer, E., H. Smyth Esq of many things which they ought is the first of the local requisition-fully. to have been told and which theyed steamers to be released, but caused the Washington Govern- Business, so far concluded, is!
Hon, Secretary, Dr. C. A. Hayes This consideration has factories had a right to know. We are told the boat will still be under the ment to set its own band to the daily being cancelled by inden- have been closed. that there
Esq. acate differences" even among the
Mr. E. H. Smyth was elected regulations. task. The American scheme Powers. That may be so, but Other vessels of the fleet are to interpreted by the Japanese iron, chemicals and other articles the Board of Directors of the tors, while dealers and brokers in representative of the Society or nothing is to be gained by seeking (be released scop. to cover them up. Let us know
as having for its object the have petitioned iron foundries
Canton Medical Missionary Bion all about them; let public opinion
bringing of one-seventh of the and factories not to supply stuff to take the place of Rev. C. W be brought to play upon the
America's economic influence. regulate the demand and supply. habitable land of the world ander for the time being in order to change of residence.
Shoop who resigned owing to issues. There is something in
There is a bright future for herently objectionable in secrecy,
Nolice was given by Mr. E. H A thing which needs covering up
America in Siberia, and cordial | the
Symth of proposal to change the must be shady in character. The Chinese New Year: the gods of that region and the Americans cricles is ominous, and many change the membership fee from relations exist between the natives The outlook in shipping constitution (Article 6), 80 89. to nature of our war aims, as will not recognise old rascals in It is the beight of folly for the all shipyards that sprang up $10.00 to $5.00 per year. enunciated by our statesmen in a their new garb. This metamor-Japanese to indulge in malicious like mushrooms daring the war thousand and one utterances, showphosised Chinese was a hawker If an educational history of Hongkong were to be written, we that Britain has no designs which who was released on bail onions of Americans and to regard Japan Chronicle, busy going which the meeting adjourned.. have no doubt that among the institutions singled out for high will not bear the light of day.
conjectures regarding the inten- are, on the statement of the given to the retiring officers, after praise the Diocesan Boys' School would be given a prominent place.
Then wherein lies the need of Saturday for hawking with their actions with suspicious eyes. secrecy? We would like to know out a licence and this morning a weekly American Magazine is ed proceedings with regard to through the necessary complicat- had the advantages of a good training, and
menta! who
and moral. What Mr. Lloyd George and was again arrested by the Police have "made good" in
President Wilson think of the for many spheres activity. The
the School has maintained
applications for attachment to same offence. Mr.
be published at which it "has every right to
a high record of matter.
Melbourne "Tat, tut, tul, tut.”
Vladivostock with the object of ships or for permission to dispose be proud, and establishment of the University here it has obtained most gratifying
since the WORK FOR THE GERMANS, -
After that came the mandate $4. cultivating friendly relations of them by public auction. Such successes in the Matriculation Examinations, which have reflected
Quite simple. Each "tut" was a between the Americans and is the result of the peace slump. By German hands many fair signal to the defendant that it assians, and to acquaint the Now, save the pieces! Gott strafe the thoroughness of the instruction imparted within its walls. and smiling districts of France Schools like these, in fact, act as feeders to the University and so hands they will be restored. The fulfil a most important role in the education of the rising generation French Government has decided have been devastated; by German
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1919.
HONGKONG EDUCATIONAL NEEDS.
From its doors have poured forth a steady stream of lads who have
of
the Colony. It is true, as Mr. Featherstone says, that better housing
military and naval victory pos- while the peoples who have made
of what is occurring. sible are not to be fully informed
WHY THE SECRECY!
them
five
requisition Great local
"My name is changed. My previous name was Li, but I am now Li Lam." A nice method of changing names before
costs a dollar.
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THE ADMIRAL LINE. the German Bolsheviste !!! latter with interesting events occurring in America. An in-
The Admiral Line, of which here. Coupled with sound training, the School has been the means to make use of war-prisoner not be very dear after British Vladivostock, with branches at present. Many deslers find itat Hongkong, have just received
formation burean is also on the of inculcating high principles and ideals and has thus fully labour in this way. Batches of ships are released.
Electric filament lamps will eve of being established at severe monetary stringency at Agent, with Oriental headquarters Shanghai is sullering from a Mr. J. J. Gorman is General: equipped many a lad for the battle of life. What it has accomplish- Huns are to be sent to work in present not very expensive. They places. ed, however, has been largely due to the whole-hearted enthusiasm the despoiled districts and by and steady, plodding work of those directing its energies. March next some 200,000 will have proved every costly to a the
They are at Harbin, Irkutsk, Omsk and other difficult to finance their goods Seattle that the U.S. Shipping advices from their head office at To-day its finds itself harapered because of inadequate buildings and
All these are giving and the tightness of the money Board has turned over to them equipment, to say nothing of playing fields, scholarships and
Japanese the be so employed. This is a
jumps market is being felt in all depart three large Chinese, who strolled off with On the occasion of the despatch ments, and business is greatly operated in the trade between endowments. That is why a special appeal was made to old boys most appropriate decision, and three belonging to the China of Allied troops to Siberia, Am-restricted. December was marked the Pacific Coast and the Far and others interested, by the new Headmaster on Saturday, to start Huns will find the jobs given wanted plenty of light and sup-to Russia would not be confined easily have brought disaster to steamers are the Yukon, Derenof a large Endowment and Building Fund in connection with the
we can only hope that these Steam Navigation Company. He erica declared that her assistance by a financial crisis that might East. The School. That appeal is worthy of a big response, and we can only
of hope that it will not have been made in vain.
& character which shine in his home on Chinese to military aid, but would be tha will work their souls We pen the foregoing remarks because we realise that any. Anyhow, they will be able to see provided by the Government for has indeed, been prompt in carry-ance in the form of loans made deadweight each. Two of these out. New Year, bat these will now be economic and moral also. She system, if it were not for assist capacities of 8,000 to 9,000 tons whole Chinese banking and Western Knight, with freight thing which improves the status and extends the opportunities of with their own eyes what their a period of six weeks. If Ramsaying out her promise. schools in Hongkong is bound to raise the educational standard of possibly, in some instances, will Macdonald heard his complaint, power to her elbow.
countrymen have done, and
More by some of the foreign banksamers sailed from Seattle and better education are demanded and that the one problem is have to repair damage which as he related it to Mr. J. R. Wood
This was the culmination of a and the third will be dispatched for Vladivostock this month, intimately connected with the other. That is especially the case in they themselves have committed, this morning, probably he would
long period of financialstringency early in regard to a large proportion of the non-European population of the There are some things, of course, have ordered the Government
leading up to the usual annual these steamers will be calling
February. All Colony. We cannot, as the Headmaster pointed out, expect boys and which they can never adequately contractor to supply our Chinese produced good food crops last
Taken on the whole, China ber 31st, which involved the Manila
settlement of accounts on Decem-at Yokohama, Kobe, Shanghai, girls to live moral lives under what are often immoral conditions. repair, but for these their Gov-friend with a dozen of such That is where the value of large graded boarding and day schools, indemnity. These German hordes not a Socialist and that made a from severe floods in the late of the
and Hongkong with large playing fields available, would come in. Mr. Feather will go back to the devastated world of difference in the angle ernment must be made to payin the lamps, But Mr. J. R. Wood in
year, the exception being Kwang-than
paying out of more Sycee In addition to the above ships, stone is persuaded that to such schools parents who are affected by regions of France in a greatly of vision.
tung Province, which suffered held in their coffers.
the native institutions the Admiral Line have seven of the housing problem would be encouraged to send their children, who
Some their own vessels now operating would have all the advantages of being disciplined and educated in when they did
in the trade between the Orient Exports have been Chinese took fright and there was steamers Admiral Goodrich, Ad- & good class boarding institution and who could go home say once thinking that they would at any
ignorant and Seattle. These The day was
limited necessarily, tea, silk, egg
the a month. We believe, with him, that such & school would fill a rate win the war, and that what you got?" When a defendant heavily in quantity, although plies of silver in Shanghai in Burrows and Libby Maine, ar
this damage
products, hides, straw braid
some of the large miral Wainwright, Senator, and long-felt need and also attract students from the Treaty Ports and
"How many witnesses have and grain all outlying places. In this way, another forward step would be taken ever they did they could not be
Japanese banks, but this was the motor auxiliary ships Admiral falling off happily tided over. in making Hongkong what it should be a centre of learning Punished for. Now they have to the Magistrate ho hurriedly whatever has been handled. It small and quite insafficient for ports of call in
The sup- Sims, Admiral Mayo, W. F. having an influence over a wide sphere in this part of the globe..
is greeted with such a query by good prices have been paid for stock and sight are dangerously of these ships making the regular rebuild where they have destroy- Developments such as these, however, mean more money, for ed, and we can only hope that comes to the conclusion that the is useless to altempt any compari- the needs of the market. it is indisputable that education is becoming more costly as time they will be kept at the task till Magistrate is desirous of giving sons of the trade done during last goes on. What suited a past generation in buildings, equipment the work is thoroughly completed. him his freedom. He then takes year with that of the previous a mental fight, and tries to re-years. In the first place all gooda
The establishment call some of his friends. There at points of production have been Japanese Exchange at Shanghai opened
a The Admiral Line have already is the tea-shop keeper, there is costing from four to five times as has excited rivalry and the Vladivostock and Hongkong and offices at Mamia, American admirers of the late plays" intan occasionally, and and this fact alone is sufficient establishing s
Lam Kai-ling with whom he much as they did in pre-war days, Chinese have now responded by soon will establish their own Hongkong will in the future have to pay larger salaries to its teachers if it is to secure the best type of men and women for to the Lord Kitchener National who keeps an eating house. One ports from Europe and America Shanghai Exchange Co., Ltd. temporarily located at No. 12, Ice new Shanghai offices at the various other Fa the work. That is what is being done at Home, and we shall have Memorial Fund.
man when he was put this and the enormous increase in the This is the first Chinese stock removed to permanent quarters in of the Colony, as we have many times urged, needs overhauling.
House Street, but will soon be But that is a bigger question which we do not touch at the moment. the famous googly bowler, who services ble straws for his pur-produced a fiue crop of cotton last eigners will be allowed seats on
question this morning by Mr. cousumption of locally made cloth exchange dealing with produce the shipping district. We are gled to see, however, by the observations at the Diocesan played in numerous test matches pose: The names were given to September probably the largest the exchange.
Major Reggie Schwartz, M.C., J. R. Wood thought these were and Japanese productions. China and it is provided that no for Behool prize-day, that the need for improvement in education is felt locally, and if the School succeeds in developing itself along for South Africa and in Ragby the Magistrate, who ordered the she has over. harvested, and the dealt in will be stocks and shares, ball matches are the lines suggested, something at any rate will have been done to football for England, has died in Police to go an swild goose staple showed great improvement cotton and yarn, piece goods, pressure on our space, held over The basiness Our reports of Saturday's foot increase the educational facilities of the Colony,
France of influenza.
chase with the defendant, da previous growths.
and in the type of teacher will not do for the present or the future. That fact is being realised at Home, where the tendency is all the time towards material improvements and the attracting of the best type of teachers into the profession. Apart from the replacing of
chastened mind.
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Further vessels will be added to
this service as soon as conditions warrant.
inadequate and out-of-date buildings by better school premises. Lord Kitchener have sent £7,000 there is Beggar-my-Neighbour, to account for a falling off in im stock exchange to be known as the Eastern ports: The local office is
to follow suit here as well. In fact, the whole educational system
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