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One of the many greal pro-ARE DETERMINED BY CHANGE OR blems which the Paacs Con-MECESSITT." ference has to face is the future
of the Kiel Canal. Throughout To-morrow is the 65th birth- the war there was only one day of Sir Edward Carson.. sea on which the British mer- chant Fleet was unable to sail : that was the Baltic, and there
The opening rate of the dollar on demand to-day was 38 2-11 18d.
can be no doubt that this exclusion was due mainly to the Kiel Canal. One thing, of course is certain: Germany must not For the past twenty-four hours be allowed to retain unfettered six cases of cerebro spinal fever control of this naval back-door, ware notifial. All the sufferers for there would be no reason why were Chinese. One death took she might no be able to repeat the
place. performance. There have already [been several solutions suggested,
but most of them can be set saïde :
FEBRUARY 8 1918.
THE NEW ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE.
AN ARCHITECTURAL BEAUTY.
[Special to the "Hongkong
Telegraph."]
A well-equipped and com modious School is an asset of Society, and in this category must
1894.
HONGKONG TWENTY- FIVE YEARS AGO.
(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for week anding February 16, 1891.)
THE DOLLAR, February 12-The rate of the
THE COLONY'S FINANCES,
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
Colony.in
There are still some Guelphs. living in Florence, the head- quarters of the League formed. against the Ghibellines, and the over 600 years ago by the Guelphs
tumbling of German thrones. may possibly bring an accession of wealth to these Italian min- bers of the house from which our own Royal Family springs. In be placed the St. Joseph's College | Dollar, où demand, to-day in 1903 they filed a claim in the Italian courts for a share of the It did not enjoy such a reputation 2a, 20.
Guelph property confiscated by six months ago and it is due to the enterprise of the Christian There are a few dollars-nota, but failed to obtain a hearing, as the judges asserted Brothers in parchasing the pro- a fifth part of what there ought they had Do jurisdiction perty. The St. Joseph's College to be still in the
the country where building is AD imposing According to returns in the the property
situated. As an Government Casette, the Hong-Thereupon Signor Rastelli, Ay additional gift from Manila architectural Structure. in advance. There can be no oft cases of pipe tobacco, presented educational institution it is one kong and Shanghai Bank has the distinguished lawyer angaged. of $2,000,000 on their behalf, went to Berlin question of destroying the canal, by ears. Teerkamp & Co., has which the Colony should feel specia reserve an act of vanadalism the affect bean received by the War proud of.
against an average note circula-and interviewed the Imperial The view is magnificent from tion of $5,160,172 and the Chancellor. Prince Bulow told of which must necessarily be only Charities Committee for forward- temporary. Another suggestion, ing to London for distribution the school; on one side there is Chartered Bank of India, Aus him that the German Government would investigate his clients' that it should, be controlled by among the wounded in Hospitals. the harbour and on the other the tralis and Chins $900,000 to claims to a share of the Grueph Denmark, is, we consider, futile,
Peak rises majestically. A very cover $1,531,996. These figures funds if officially asked to do so for Denmark is not strong enough Prof Sklarevaki and Mr. Sykora clear view of all the surrounding suggest a good deal to practical by the Italian Government. to undertake such a responsibility. Like many another present-day are giving a Musical Trest to properties can be obtained. More students of the uncertain times Signor Rastelli could not indec
a in which we live, and ever pre-his Foreign Office to take any problem we think that the only Prof Danenberg's pupils in his healthier surroundings for
and 80 the claim one must be insic Studio on Tuesday next. school cannot be secured. The sent possibility of a commercial action,
until 1908, when the sought from the institution 300 tickets have been sold for the building is of a very elaborate collapee. Of course there is more lapsed
and The bear money than this in the Colonylate Kaiser of a League of Nations. There occasion, their last appearance in architecture, and.
tiful surroundings and probably be
an not a vary great deal more-but ifo Cumberland were formally talk of Hongkong will be on Wednesday
Four-storied imposing but it at a Matinee in the City Hall.
build-most of it, to use a favourite ex-reconciled. Then Signor Rastelli remain talk until the
ing, should satisfy the tastes pression with the dead-broke published an eloquent plea for of the most fastidions educational-division is tied up"
the reopening of the question... League becomes a practical and
There Under the altered circum- ist. We could not afford to are sixty-seven cents still remain- time-proved orgainsation. There
stances," he wrote, "the Ger build a school like this in the ing in our Treasury, which mana, ought to set-and act present times. The fact that the the office barber indignantly promptly without awaiting an Germans had to borrow consider-refused to accept as payment official request. The burying of ably to complete the building on account for his past month's the batsbet between the Hohen- bespeaks its enormous cost. ministrations to the general staff zollerns and the Guelphs affords
It is strange that the German including the Offis Gote.
an opportunity for an honourable Club was utilised into a school TRAFFIC REGULATIONS.
compromise of the claims advano-
solution for this
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DEATH.
MACFARLANE-At his residence in Kowloon on the inst. Dr. Harold Macfarlane, Government Bacteriologist, aged 43,
The funeral will pass the Mounament at 5 p.m. to-day.
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MACFARLANE.
will be many such difficult ques-DEATH OF DR. tions such as this one, and each will demonstrate more fully the nations, for it will be found absolute necessity for a League that most of them are absolutely incapable of solution without it, EUROPEAN ASSISTANTS FOR THE
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With considerable regret we have to record the death of Dr. Harold Macfarlane, L. R. C. P.
the Duke
LR. C. S. Edin., D. H. P., Oxon., without any big alterations. The In the police notification publi-ed by my clients." Needless to D. T. M. and H. Cantab., he ground floor is used by the boys shed in Saturday's Gazette say, this appeal proved fruitless. been expatiating on the prospects scted in the tapacity of Govern- front of that is a big court for interested is likely to see laying The "Singapore Free Press has for some considerable time had as a play ball when it rains. In which nobody in any way
Morris-dancing, now adopted
to
lacrymose on the question. It great shock
who only
says that we have almost arrived people
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very many ties will be organised later the forthcoming races, the motely connected with recovered The Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will be
few, on. There is & lavatory erudite author or editor, or some Ghent. It is supposed to have delivered to subscribers by the Dairy Farm Company, Ltd., at a time when it will, speaking days ago saw him about, when on
the court, which "is other talented galoot who fancies been brought to England during from an economic point of view, he seemed to be in his usual on the automatic flush system, he knows the Chinese language, the reign of Edward III. by John of Gaunt when he returned from be hardly worth the while of the health. On Thursday, however, the water being obtained from a refers to "the Races st Wong, Spain
The alterations, and nai-ch'ung" This is the sort of whether the morris-dance origi- Antiquaries dispute employee at Home to come to the he was taken suddenly ill and alulah. East. Yes, so long the though everything possible was additions
3.9
10 the building rotten affectation that makes taxnated among the Moors or came salaries offered do not enable a done he died last night at his have been carried out under the payers savage to have to gon-from Scotland, as association with man to save. When dollars are residence in Humphrey's Build-supervision of Brother Amer, tribute for Chinese teachers to the .sword would .suggest; reduced to pounds, shillings and ings, Kowloon. He leaves a ably assisted by Mr. J. V. Government officials who, in their | but Handel, до pence the salary may appear widow with whom much sym- Chamatong.
business duties, have about as judge, considered the morris to be tempting, but that is a suicidal
The first floor is used as much use for the native tongue as characteristically English as thing to do. In the Far East the pathy is felt. The funeral takes spending power is the dollar, and place this evening, passing the class rooms. We have here as they have for an intimate the minuet is French and the to put before the prospective manament at 5 p.m. Dr. Mac- the junior classes (3, 4, and 5), knowledge of the cuneiform in-saraband Spanish. Some years ago an attempt was made to employee desirous of coming out farlane, a man of a moat retiring which accomodate about 200 scriptions.
revive morris-dancing, which to the Far East that he gets so disposition but a hard sad con- boys. On the same floor we have VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB. however, has never died out in many pounds per annum is baffing stant worker, came to Hongkong that indispensable adjunct-the February 13:- a special the North of England. Lancashire him with a mirage. Some em on September 23, 1903, as kitchen and also the boarders meeting of the Victoria Recrea- formerly possessed famous ployers, no doubt, resort to this Assistant Medical Officer of dining hall.
tion Club this afternoos, "the new trainers of morris-dancers, one of Europeans on a salary of $150 a ingenious tactic and bring out Health and in October, 1909, The whole building is beauti-rules providing for admission by whom was employed in Brierley to train dancers for a Lancashire play produced at a Manchester theatre. Before the war there were three sets of morris-dancers" Ashton-under-Lyne, who used to around Manchester, notably at visit neighbouring "wakes."
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1919.
TO OBTAIN A TRUE REPARATION.
the direction of fixing the amount of the indemnity which the Allies month or less. Such imported He was Railway Medical Officer dining room
136 appointed Bacteriologist. fully lighted and ventilated. The balloting committee instead of
men will find that it is not all
The view of the British Government; while strongly in favour the Far East. of all just indemnities, considers that immediate demands should not be such as to cripple Germany's ability to make future restorations. THE SHANGHAI CUSTOMS,
AMERICAN APPEAL POR IRELAND.
A PRESENTATION,
Presented to
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We are pleased to note that definite steps have been taken in shall demand of Germany. A message from Paris states that at a
accomodates 70 the whole body of members, were meeting of the inter-Allied Committee on Reparation, it was decided beer and skittles. It is contended during the building of the Kow-bearders. Every square inch of the confirmed. to establish three expert sub-committees to consider the three that the married salaried men loon section of the Kowloon-Can- building is utilised by the following questions: I, the valuation of the damage; 2, the financial brought cut from Home are noton Railway. He was also Medical Brothers, and even in utilising it At a special meeting of the capacity of enemy states, and means of payment: 3, the measures better off than they were at Home. Officer in charge of the Public in this fashion there is not enough members of the British fercantile of control and the question of guarantees. The problem is un-if the climatic conditions,Mortuary at Kowloon and on as-accomodation for all the students Marine Officers Association held doubtedly a big one, and the difficulties are increased by the more isolation from home and friends suming his position as Bacterio- of the College. The Brothers are last night, Mr. D. Shearer, the or less different attitudes taken by the Allies in the matter. There and all the minor disvantages logist he undertook similar duties still obliged to make use of the Secretary presiding, is naturally a strong feeling in France in favour of demanding large which are associated with life in at the Public Mortuary in Victoria. Robinson Road building.
Clothing, writes an R.T.O, to s Captain indemnities. France has herself been made to pay in the past, the East are put in the scale. Last year he was acting Colonial
Harris, master of the s.s. Namoa, Homs paper, is one of the first but even if that fact is lost sight of, it is but natural Many would be inclined to en-Veterinary Surgeon in addition three classes, the senior classes silver flower vase bearing the A great many of them left their On the second floor there are was presented with a very chaste requisites for returning refugees. that she should seek reparation for all the terrible dorse this assertion. The high
homes with only what they were- injuries that she has suffered at the hands of the Germans cost
Oxford Preliminary inscription to his other duties during the and the of living and the almost
wearing at the time and with in this war. Some of her fairest cities and countrysides. have stationary wages bare certainly absence on leave of Mr. A. Gibeon. classes, and these have Captain H. C. A. Harris by his summer coming on. Clothing become mere ashes and waste lands, utterly devastated by the taken the gilt out of the ginger-
120 boya. The same floor also friends, members of the B. M. M. now is, of course, being given in German vandals. And it is but justice. As Mr, Lloyd George head, and people coming out from
holds o chapel which was 0. A. in recognition of his past the first instance to people who stated in one of his election speeches; "By the jurisprudence of Home could not do better than
have been through the German every civilised country in the world, in any lawsuit the loser pays. get into touch with some one
A meeting at Madison Square previously the board room of the services to the Association.
TRADERS AND GENTLEMEN, Germans. The wood carving
occupation and have been reduced It is not a question of vengrance; it is a question of justice.... the who is thoroughly conversant Garden sent. the following party who is guilty of the wrong pays the cost.
February 15-Chief Justice to an absolute minimum or less. with the conditions of living in wireless message to President in this part of the building is
Wilson on his steamer as he was quite in keeping with the sacred Sir Fielding Clarke said in the But in many cases there is not proceeding to Europe. "Twenty- place. The floor is of beautiful Supreme Court yesterday that the much to choose between them and the refugees. Curious garments of five thousand American citizens, teak and extremely strong. The term "trader" was at vague and all sorts and kinds are eagerly At least that is the impression left in one's mind, and though the The news received from Shang-assembled in and ground Madison mirror aideboard has been con- indefinite (he meant in Hong- welcomed and proudly worn. same uncertainty holds good in the case of America, there seems, hai yesterday that the members Square Garden, with Cardinal verted into a niche for statues, kong, of course) as the term A good many khaki garments have latter is concerned. It will be seen. therefore, that the difficulties had decided at a mass meeting, toernor Whitman, of New York, as we think, a tendency rather adverse to indemnities as far as the of the outdoor staff of the Customs O'Connell, of Boston, and Gov-and the carving is so exquisite gentleman." His Honour was found their way mysteriously to that no change was needed to about right, especially if the refugees, and these are most in guaging the amount that Germany must pay, and the manner demand a general overhauling of
make the board in which it must be paid. are not lessened by the delicacy which the conditions of service will not principal speakers, wish you beautiful sanctuary.
room into a he had in his mind's eye welcome of all, but a hat with an
"in re & surrounds the whole matter. Nevertheless there is no reason to
gent one," etc. ostrich feather created more of come as a surprise to those who Godspeed and a safe return, and
a sensation. One woman was believe that the Allies will not come to an agreement on the subject, have a knowledge of what the arge you to demand at the Peace incased in cement.
The girders are 18 inches The parti-
wearing in great comfort & a fact which is borne out by the formation of the three committes existing conditions really are, and Conference selfdetermination for tions separating the classes are
WHY TAKE OIL OR SALTS?
Tommy's cost, while a very small the other day. But it is going to be a big task to decide the in- we cannot but agree that it is high the people of Ireland." A similar
boy, to his infinite content, had a demnities, and much harder still to determine the best way that they time the matter was taken in appeal was made by unanimous painted in chocolate. They are ensured by the occasional use of buttons. In this part of the world folding, made of cardboard and when perfect regularity can be Fusilier tunic with badges and should be exacted. It seems impossible that Germany can pay the hand and many real and genuine resolution to the Foreign Relat- huge cost of the war in hard cash. The figure has been quoted as grievances remedied. In the firstions Committee of the Senate. Easily changed about and
clothes have touched bottom, so £24,000,000,000, and though there is a certain amount of gold now in place, a tide waiter, as the new The President was enthusiastical
the appearance of
to speak, and fashions remain to Germany much of which could no doubt be got, it is in-recruit to the outdoor staff is ly cheered for several minutes at
teak doors. The doors
be set anew. Rivalry is neverthe appreciable compared with the Vast
involved intermed, has to sign on for ten
all spring and glazed the dainty little liver and bowel less as rife as ever in the Rue de a true reparation. The first thing to be done is to find out Ger- years, at the end of which period many's capacity for payment; then, and not till then can the he gets twelve months boliday,
Entering this floor floor, there regulators which act as gently as la Paix. indemnity be fixed. As Mr. Lloyd George said a few weeks ago "I's year's wages and
is the statue of the Father of the a second have always said we will exact the last penny out of Germany up class passage home. His salary said, to the credit of the men. His Majesty the King and Mar- liver, sick headaches, pimples ses have been seriously strained
Christian Brothers, the photos of fection; cure biliousness, torpid Pinkettes are laxative per-
During the war our vocabular- to the limit of her capacity, but I am not going to mislead the is Haikwan Taels 80 public on the question of the capacity until I know more about it." "month
per there have been few if any cases, shal Foch. Op the
western and skin blemishes. Of chemists, in our efforts to compass its size start, and, if he' although the temptation must, It will be admitted, we think, that it is fatuous to hope that is lucky, at the end of ten years, have been great considering the corner is the Brothers' dining or send 60 cents for a vial to the and intensity. It is something Germany can pay in full in cash, so the only thing that remains is he may be drawing $200 a month. poor remuneration. It should hall, which is connected with Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 96 to find, with the approach of that she must pay in goods. Sir Eric Geddes has said than an Free quarters are provided which be remembered that before the the kitchen.
peace, & recovery of a sense of indemnity in goods would stagnate our Labour market. If a larger consist of one room in the war. most
proportion. A conversation I had" of the outdoor The western end of the whole indemnity to be paid over a term of years, the question is whether vicinity of Boone Road. Food staff then • were
3 brought building is piricalarly strong, There is spacious bath last night with a grocer's vanman, there is the capacity in the German Empire to meet this save by is not provided but ratione "out from home where they being constructal of concrete, room supplied by
which had exhausted all the five big the production of goods which would compete with the products of can
platitudinous comment, ended on be purchased, from the occupied decent social and fin- throughout. There are labor- tanks with a total of twelve this reflection of his, that seemed Allied countries. There is, however, always the chance that Customs Club, of a quality such ancial positions. It is not suratories on the second sad top cubic metres. The bath room to me as far from all suggestions Germany, in this case, might be better able to pay Ludemnities and as any man who has been in the prising therefore, that the large floors. so relieve taxation in Allied countries. A shipping indemnity has, habit of living decently would majority of such men preferred
is a combination--for washing of a new spirit, & purified people, also been advocated, but this so-called "ton for ton" policy is destined consider dear at any price. The to refund their passage money ball or reception room of the of the water supply is very tiveness
The third floor was either the and bathing and the pressure and the like as from. Köser vindic to fail because there are not enough German ships to make good men's work as tide waiters con- and quit the service for the better
he said, our losses. Neither does there seem much to be hoped for from the mists of going up and down the positions they were able to secure
Germans, The St. Joseph's strong.
thoughtfully, it's been an suggested shipping pool by the Allied and the Central Fowers, for river, with night spells, in all commercial life and some of College Brothers have converted The top floor is occupied entire awkward affair, and no mistake, it must be remembered that the matter may be viewed from differ weathers, and after about them are, at the present time it into a dormitory, which ac- ly by the Brothers as private Good night,"
ent angles by ourselves and the United States. The task of the twelve
to
stretch.
have
are
nature.
PINKETTES
Szecbuen Road, Shanghai.
committees is a big one, for the biggest problem is not the amount be put into
into she may holding positions and drawing comodates seventy boarders rooms, with accomodation for
the
of the indemnity but the best way by which full payment may be party with possible opportunities have hoped to secure, even after principal hall on this floor, and on this floor the Director's office exacted. In a word they have to obtain a real reparation.
squeeze,” which, it must be lifelong service in the Customs, there are additional dormitories, and the Brothers' library,
to
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