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DAY BY DAY.

CHINA AND JAPAN.

SENSATIONAL REPORTS.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH:

NEXT SATURDAY'S CONCERT.

Rubbing lime into the eyes of a

From the Canton Times]

The programme of the third person may smack of the Spanish| Inquisition. Yesterday

Foking, February 4-During concart to be given by M. the New Year holiday well Sklarovski and M. Sykora, on Chinese practised it on his bro-founded reports have bean Saturday evening, next, will ther at Kowloon, and he will circulated to the effect that as a include Schumann's "Carnival" have to wait to see what the law New Year's greeting to China in F. which is one of the com- is going to practise on him, the Japanese Government on poser's most brilliant works. It Thursday informed the Chinese consists of 21 variations on a

Mr. Obata added that Great

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A very serious house collapse Minister at Tokio that Japan thema contained in four notes, sup- pocured yesterday in Yui Hing desired a complete change of Street at Wanchai. The house front on the part of the Chinese posed to represent the name of the was a one storied one, and the Delegates at Paris, and that the village wherein the composer's

wife was born. The work is Far Easteras Chinese Delegates be guided upon Sanitary Board coolies rendered all matters of policy by the considered to be one of the most valuable assistance in extricating Japanese, finally hinting that extraordinary examples of dee the immates from the debris.military measures might be criptive music and leads itself One woman'who happened to be resorted to if other means failed. particularly to individual inter- paying a visit to this place,, was The next move was made as pretation. The pinaist's great | Douglases seriously injured, and was re-Paking on Saturday, when Mr. technical and expressive ability Steamboats

Obata Fisited the Waichiaopu will be exhibited to the fall in this Indos (Prel-) mored to hospital.

and inopportunely insisted upon item. Also, by special request, Mados (Del.) seeing the Foreign Minister, to Sklarerski will play Balakirer's A very daring robbery was

Shells whom he explained that "the committed yesterday at 12. Pattitude of the Chinese Delegation his audience at the first concert, "Skylark" wherein he delighted at Sha Tin village in Kowloon at Paris must be altered, that city when five men, three armed China should give an undertaking when he played the piece as an with choppers and one with a that the secret Sino-Japanese encore. M. Sykora, will play the knife, rushed into a house and, Agreements will not be published Volkmann Concerte, & composi

Kallans threatening the inmates, succeed-or disclosed at the European Con- tion demanding exceptional

Langkets ed in collaring $45 in ten-cent ference; and that the Chinese excutive abilities and also the Ranba pieces. These men were even- Delegates work in the closest Jewish descriptive piece, Kol Trocha tually traced, on Police informs harmony with the Japanese De-Nidrei, to which reference has Urais tion, to

legates in all matters brought already been made. The other houses at separate

DOCKS. WHARVES, Kowlood and arrested.

before the European Conference. items on the programme are

GODOWNS, &C. H. K. Wharves b. and internal troubles that no Britain was so disturbed by strikes equally attractive.

The following is the Kowloon Docks B

Sbai Docks b. definite political or financial programme:~~-

N. Engineerings b. asssistance could be expected from that quarter, and failing to 1.

LANDS, HOTELS receive such assurances Japan

·AND BUILDINGS. Centrals

b would immediately exercise "a effective financial pressure upon China, who was now in a position to choose between retaining the friendship of Japan or meeting the latter's opposition. the tour centa to the Poor

Furthermore, if China did not Box, Was fount yesterday agree to regard the Sino-Japanese gambling, bat the Police Agreements

secret, Japan could

Say distinctly would forestall China by publish- whether he shook the dies, or ing the Shantung Railway Agreu whether there were way stakes. ment of Sept. 24 (containing the In the other ease, two Chinese proviso that the railway was to were burdened with the weight be run on joint lines, which any of the Police evidence of their Peace Conference after the war guilt. One of the gamblers said: Weyld not affect. This agreement wasigned at Tokio by order of "I came from the country and did Tsao Yu-lin, but was never ratifi- not know the law. I thought ited by the Chinese Government). was child's play." A fine of $3

with the will make it an adult's game.

The poor of the land should pray fervently that more Chinese are roped in for gambling. The Poor Box at the Magistracy is rapidly filling up. Four cents went into it this morning si Mr. . E. Lindsell, but £1.10, owing to its bulk, was ordered by Mr. J. R. Wood, to be confiscated The gambler, who contributed

A torch is a valuable asset at

present, especially to those who have to get up very early in the morning and feel their way

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simultaneously Japanese action at Tokio and Peking, Tsao Yu-lin and Tuan Chi-jui brought pressure to bear in Presidential quarters with a of the

view to the adoption Japanese point of view.

PART I.

Carnival,

A. SELARFVSKI,

Schumana : F-op. 9. 2-Volkmann:-Concerto (Cad-H. K. Hotels

enza and final by Klengel)

B. STEORA. PART II.

3-Bruch-Kol Nidrei.

Klengel: Scherzu, op. 6.

4-Balakirer: Skylark, B flat

Liszt

minor.

B. SIKORA.

a Capriccio, B minor. (b) XV Rhapsodie.

A SKLAREYSKI,

A SOCIETY ENTER-

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Hongkong. February 6, 1919.

AMUSING INCIDENT AT A LOCAL CINEMA.

siderable reputation in the Far East, having just had a successful season at Manila. He will remain The Government is thus assail-in the Colony for a short per- through the steps of their house ed within and without, but it is to be at ilappy Valley in time not expected that this gigantic iod and will proceed afterwards to take the timings of the bluff will intimidate the Govern to the Straits Settlements, India ponies A Chinese, who hap-ment to the extent of entailing and Java. His repertoire in- pened to possess one, missed at the desired prejudice of China's clades character studies, music, short talks, etc., one of his together with his jacket. His cause at the Peace Conference. version of his loss was as follows: The military party at Peking is specialities being his phono As soon as I sat the jacke: obviously in a bad way. It sees fiddle, which will surprise his the writing on the wall," and andience considerably asit is a one missing I weat out and saw my foki stopping the thief realises that its best chance is to string instrament, from which he stick to its Japanese masters. In The thief was holding my jacket, this respect it is more subtle than gets a great deal of music.

His method of working tricks in which was my torch, 10 is the Japanese militarists, who hand." The thief admitted refuse to read the signs of the is in a class by itself. As a stealing "the electric torch, bat times, although they are painted cartoonist he has great merits.

An amusing incident occurred accused the owner with giving in glaring colours: Indeed, if the In the handling of cards he is

bdept and ís not the constable the jacket with the matter was not so serions it very

during the screening of some war kind of opponent any one pictures at one of the local vbject of incriminating him, would be merely ludicrous.

The effort regarding the situa- would like come against. Cinemas a few evenings ago, This story did not mitigate the sentence, which

tion in England is considered as As a poker player he has the Part of the picture depicted specially humorous.

various contingents of Allied But that very ancanny knack of know- month's hard labour.

Japan, to whom the hand of ing what kind of cards his troops "marching past and friendship has been effusively

of course, the orchestra played and demonstratively thrust PPonents have.

appropriate music as each nation, His conjuring is very clever.was represented in some cases. forward by the Great Powers, at de very good trick which never The Star Spangled Banner and Tajeblutt

this momentous epoch in the learus that the ex-Kaiser has history of the world should stoop fails to please is a length of rope Yankee Doodle greeted the Am- invested his second sun, Princeto articfices worthy only of the which he slips through solid ericans, the Marseillaise burst Eitel Friedrich, with fall powers Dark Ages and adopt an attitude rings and

round forth when the French came along, but when a contingent of Britishers, who were said to have been at Courtrai, came along, the strains of "rag-time" burst forth.. The audience naturally objected to this, whereupon the orchestra tried

was

EX-KAISER'S DEPUII.

The Berliner

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puta it

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to act in his place in regard to of challenging alike the letter the back of a chair and slips all matters affecting the interests and spirit of the League of them to his coat. He extricates of the house of Hohenzollern. Nations affords abundant materi-himself well.

His short talks It was quite appropriate that al for astonishment and genuine are very original and quite Sir Hermann Weber, who has regret.

If Japan thought that such amusing. His mathod is very

just died at the age of 94, should

different to others. tastics would not be revealed to write a book on longevity, for be the world she is sadly lacking in lived to exemplify it. He was a

Government whose diplomatic perspicacity; or that Japanese great believer in walking, and UP by being revealed they would not bona-fides is beyond question, and to entering his 95th year he managed about 50 miles a week! seriously affect her standing it is no less regrettable for Japan A wonderful old man,

Sir among the nations, then she is than for the peace of the world that this sound element is still Hermann had been a fine moun- woefully wanting in judgment.

That Mr. Obate was chosen as tied to the wheels of the military taineer for many years, and his the instrument of the militarists chariot seeking the destruction of climbing records were quite extra-of Japan to put the screw on, ** | China and is forced to countenance ordinary. An advocate of open-China is quite in accordance with policy it candidly dislikes and air treatment for lung troubles, expectations when his appoint- condemns.

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Should the res¬lution be p 1ised by the required majority, it will be submitted for confirmation as a special resolution to a second Extraordinary Meeting which will be subsequently convened.

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usual in such cases, got worse into the mire, for the next effort was not, as might be expected the British National Anthem but "We'l all get blind drunk when Tommy comes marching home.” The audience gave it up, and joined heartily in the chorus of this soul-stirring melody, inter- spersing their vocal efforts with

It is, therefore, no good humoured banter at the

diplomatic

he was a pioneer in many of his ment was announced, but if the less deplorable that this last and band. ideas,

Japanese Government had not greatest Japanese been shackled by a military des blander is bound to react upon potism his appointment would this sane element as well as upon never have been made.

the militarists, who appear to be determined to force their country outside the League of Nations.-- Reuters's.

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