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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, APRIL 10. 1919.

"NOTES AND COMMENTS.

DAYLIGHT-USING.

We are glad to see that the de- sirability of introducing the day- ligh: saning system is to be put so the opinion of Hongkong business men at a special meeting of the

Chamber of Commerce called for the 15th instant. The idea to be

discussed is that the system be

|formly followed the Government

DAY BY DAY.

THE MAN WHO CONSIDERS HIS OWN FAULIS HAS BUT LITTLE TO SAY THE

VONCERNING

OTHERS.

FAELTS

Yesterday's health

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MUSICAL JOTTINGS.

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I learned with mane surprise

HONGKONG - MEN · IN

BULGARIA.

ARRIVAL AT SILISTRIA.

and no little gratification, the la the course of a letter just other day, that some of our local received, Mr. A. Morley, one of the shows two fatal cases of plague, amateurs have been seriously Hongkong contingent who went and one case each of diphtheria,uusidering the question of to Bulgaria from Kirker, India,

enteria fever, puerperal fever and producing Plancquette's opera says

Les Cloches de Corneville.”

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Silistris, February 2nd, 1918.

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

Mr. Athelstan Riley, of whom old members of the London School Board, as well as mare recent members of the House of Laymen, have vivid memories, will carry into Parliament, an in Seigneur de la Manoir de la Trinite (Jersey), the estate he owns lying near Bouley Bay, nos far from which the Trinity Races, familiar to tourists, are held.

interesting old Norman title. Ho

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adopted to the extent of one hour from May 1st to September 30th, small-par, the diphtheris case and that in order that it be ani-being fatal. All were Chineseed it is more than probable that this gem of the lighter French school will be staged in Hong-

You will gather from the date

Why the Senate Agricultural be requested to put the clock for Police Reserve Orders, issued kong. I am not in a position, and place abuse that we have Committee should try to embody ward one hour at midnight on the

arrived at our destination for the: a repeal of the Daylight Saving last day of the present month. by Mr. J. W. Franks, D.S.P. (R.), as yet, to divulge the name

bate that white uniform will be the prime movers in the pro chauk told how we made the mystify most people, says a New present. My letter from Roust-Act in an appropriation bill will Local opinions on ject have been aired in the taken into wear between the but should the possibility

the hours of 6 am. sud 6. p.m. as become acertainty, the promotersant to tell of our travel to this well and was high in popular

journey up country, and now I

York Paper. The law worked Telegraph, showing that idea is warmly supported in some from the 10th instaut.

would deserve every encourage place. On Monday last, we all quarters and opposed in others.

favour. Whether it saved $50,- went aboard some barges, which 600,000 in lighting sud fuel last We may therefore expect an in- teresting discussion at the Yesteniay, the Chief Justice

"Les Cloches" is an opera most

were conveying rations, and in the

summer, as its advocates said it forthcoming meeting. But on gave judgment for plaintiffs, with what really reasonable grounds custs, in the case in which Mesars admirably suited to local talent holds of these large boats made would, no one knows. But every the idea is abjected to.. we P. A. Lapinque and Co. claimed and tuneful with little or no far from blue, as it is generally open for health, recreation, and and taste. The music is light ourselves as comfortable as one knows that it gave town-

could.

The river Danube was dwellers much more time in the In reality, as damages from the Wo Fat-sung recitative and with the exception own to be, for the water was gardening Shanghai paper recently ported for $2,60% for breach of a con-of the part of Gaspard the de

Washington dis- out, the real term in this tract to carry plaintiffs' goods to mands made upon the players coming down a muddy brown, patches say that farmera "claim

Saigon.

and freely covered with fluating the act histrionic abilities are not so

has not been of On the day of our em benefit to their industry." Bet great as to render long rehearsing barkation a regular blizzard set has it essentially injured scheme bas bean worked Last night, at 9.30 p.m., and consequent extra expense in, wind and snow prevailing to body of workers who rise with with marked success. Here small fire broke out on the necessary. There are a dozent in the Far East the object sought steamer Sai Yang as she was ladies in the Colony who would auch an extent that our trip down the sun anyway? Schedules of is two-fold--to allow of the com-lying near the Kowloon wharf. be quite capable of taking the stream was delayed for no fewer milk trains might have to be which mencement of work in the coolest The fire originated in the part parts of either Germaine Dr Ser than four days. The barge I was revised, and special arrangements in was all iron, and the frost in- be made with farm labourers to bunker. The Fire Brigade palette and, as for the male voices, side was as white as the ano begin their work, not at the ear-

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cannot sea.

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case is not “daylight-saring" so much as "daylight-using. Home and in America a similar

part of the day and also to permit more time for outdoor recreation

exercise is decidedly necessary.

THE "BLUFF" ARGUMENT.

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the outbreak had been got under draw upon. Let the good work |

a bag of charcoal and with a dew really dries from the crops: through the efforts of the crew go on!

biscuit tih converted into bat such rearrangements should and the staff of the Godown Co.

8 brazier, In an interview with a repre- avoid freezing.

to managed We believe Hongkong business

not be difficult. Wa'shall expect Such cold Booking is now open at sentative of a Home paper, I have never endured before. other bodies that advocated she the chambers of commerce and men work longer hours than generally prevail in the Orient, Moatrie's for the two recitals to recently, Madame Clara Butt The change is a tremendous law to rally to its defence. and for that reason we could not be given st the Theatre Royal on gave some useful hints to would- approve any scheme which would Tuesday the 15th inst, and be singers. "The art of sing-after India and one's blood has

involve beginning office hours

"Crood English at all times" Thursday, the 17th inst. by theng," said she, "is so big a thing thin after years of hot

to endure the is the stiff demand made upon [climate, that earlier unless there

Arctic-like weather prevailing Harvard undergraduates. The

T equivalent cutting of at the famous Cherniavaky trio. The that it is difficult to speak of it Bo other end of the day. Uniformity public will no doubt remeinber & whole. is the very essence of a successful the musical feast these famous girl with a voice should have it here i little abort of agony Committee on the of English scheme of this kind, and for that Russian artists gave daring their properly trained so as to make Personally, I long for the time by Students explodeas bombshell when I shall feel warm again. requiring that they do not saya reason we approve the suggestion last visit and will give them a the most of it. English people

Wall to get on with my up their good English for the that all clocks should be hearty welcome on Tuesday next. 8:s fast becoming better educated

musically and the way is being narrative, the tug taking us down course in romposition, but have automatically advanced. There

opera streau, did eventually hitch on a supply sufficient for all nses. are, of course, sure to be the old arguments about bluffing our Inspector Angus believes in the prepared for English

to come into its own.

They Whec

I strongly and moved us off on Friday Says the committee: selves that it is eight o'clock curative effect of shame.

any girl take morning, January 31. It was should apply to every piece of when it is really only seven, but the Magistrate (Mr. G. X. Orme) advise the bluff, if it be one, is well worth asked him if he wanted stocks up operatic singing instead of for too unpleassa on deck for written work the knowledge they The committee patting through. It is done when for a Chinese whom he prosecuted concert singing. Genius is go much sight-seeing, but one had have acquired in their composi travelling at sea, and nobody that for stealing 3-lb. of rubber from ing to be far more appreciated occasional glimpses of well tion courses."

hulla sloping down does not say where it got the we know has ever objected to the the Taikoo Docks, he promptly in the future and the musical wooded

it the river, and wasilea that the student should process. Travelling across the

colleges and academies all over Pacific a whole day is "slipped." replied:-"Yes, I want stocks, St England are paving the way."

easy very

to imagine that se

ia good English hi in the summer the

scenery history and chemistry papers, would be splendid. Through nor does it intimate what end it This is good news indeed. pes of ice we swung our way conceives will be served by this referred some weeks ago 10 the down, staying for the night at a etrange policy. Still less does it fact that there has been in the small village. we When called upon to account

Yesterday re explain how oue who has dever should be none the wiser when for the 26 taels of illicit prepared past deplorable wastage of completed the trip and were soon been able to sequire enough good morning dawned, and, if the opium which was found sewed English musical talent owing to marched to the barracks where English to satisfy his instructors on for the rest of our stay in the "P in his waistcoat when he was the financial difficulties placed in our home will be made for some in composition is going to manage secret were kept, we should go

searched at the Kinshan wharf, the way of proper training of boys while, I suppose. Colony oblivious of the change. That is the frame of mind a Chinese said it was presented and girls who possessed genuine.

If in

of

the

the Dock gate." The Magistrate:—

One moath, with four hours'

the middle MARRIAGE. FIELDER-ROOKS. At St John's Cathedral on the 10th inst night, whilst the whole Coloay by the Right Rev. Bishop Lander assisted by the Rev. Copley Moyle lay asleep, every clock in Hong- stocks at the Dock gate."

automatically put Bert Ernest sop of Rear Admiral (E) and Mrs. J. Fielder of South-kong were

hour sea to Mary Maude only daughter of Major and Mrs. T. Rooks of forward Tidworth Camp, Wiltshire.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, APRIL 10. 1919.

of that term.

THE REPATRIATED GERMANS.

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want to take on in con- to him as a gift by a friend. Mabitity. I have no data as to The town of Silistra is a very rest of his teachers. Probably sidering this matter. Let the G. N. Orae is torn asked him to the constitution of the musical sal affair, not boasting this attempt to give a practics! Government order. all clocks Scrape together $5,000 and pre-colleges and arademies referred station, or of any sign of moder-turn to a necessarily theoretical to be put forward, and after-seat it as a gift to the Governo by Madame Clara Batt, but ity. It is only picturesque ia subject will fail with such pro- wards le: us

bluff ourselves meat, or to go to gaol for ninet is to be hoped that geaning the sense that it is rustic, but Imptness as to disillusionise its that the thing has never happened. months.

taleat will be the qualification presume it is quite an important sponsor Eat meanwhile what An hour earlier to office will not

for admittance to such colleges Place, serving the needs of the an anxious time the student will harm any of us, and we shall all

and academies, not a banking surrounding agricultural country have, every moment he is not We take the following from the appreciate release from business

The barracks we are in are roomy doing English composition! || account. Unless that policy is Then in regard London Times of February 6 followed, little or no progress that we have settled down we himself an "integral Anarchist," an hour earlier.

and quite comfortable, and now M. Clemenceau's assailant calls to public engagements at night, "The engagement is announced will be made.

shall have a chance of getting not particularly different from whether theatrical or otherwise, of Captain E. G. N. Grimble, With the departure of the Blue Funnel steamer Antilochus let these start an hour earlier than R. A. F., of Hongkong, to Nelea

If one may assume from the little grime off and a little polish Garnier and his automobile from Hongkong, China sees practically the last of the Germans, we is now customary. By that means Allan, second daughter of Major views expressed by the great on our equipment, which, after bandits, who terrorized Paris hope, for many years to come. Their expulsion cannot exactly be we shall get into the habit of and Mr. W. A. Chapple. The singer that she intends to

our train and barge trip, is in 3 described as a war measure. It was a step necessitated by the retiring to rest earlier also. Then marriage will take place at St.

If one could dations were "protests." Cottin's seven years ago. Their depre take an active interest hopeless condition. conduct of the Germans themselves, right from the beginning of we shall be square all round, and, Margaret's, Westminster,

only feel warm, life would be attack on Clemenceau was like- the war, and it is also, sad to say, in so far as the Chinese authori-after fe mouths, we shall be Tuesday, February 18th, at 2.15 training of talent in the young it, but drifts of frozen sowie darotoss" At the time of

in promoting the proper early "cushy," as the soldier expresses ties are concerned. & measure typical of the slowness of the forgotten that we have ever Peking Government to take a step that was blatantly imperative laboured under any other system.pm.

idea there is splendid prospect of

the Garnier scare Le Siecle went long ago. The repatriated Germans go back to their own country THE MEMORIAL QUESTION. --

something being done, for Madame everywhere are not inspiring.

This morning the Officer Com-Pretty thoroughly to the bottom and leave comparative luxury for an existence which will be for

Four Chinese from Foochow Clara Butt has shown on more

of Anarchism and published what some time to come one of the greatest hardship and trial--an Yesterday we published an ex-who attempted to stow away by than one occasion that she has ading gave us a few words might be termed its anatomy. existence that should be sufficient to make the most heardened of tract from the Telegraph of March the Hai Yang were this morning realised the significance of the quite encouraging, and long There is first group.

as we are destined to be in this increases in membership. But, It scheming Huns repent, if, indeed, the German knows the meaning 31st, 1897, which we are sure will fined $50 each, or in default four financial obstacles in many

of part Europe, have been read with deep interest

as every Anarchist is expected

dope for 08. The long and where, for the greater part of the duration of the war selves in the question of what racy; It was stated that the vide funds for the training of

But the sible

opinions and never give in, they were allowed such freedom as should have prompted a feeling form the proposed War Memorial search on the steamer which re-promising singers.

to the Hongkong men here are keeping! of gratitude, they have openly flouted their insolence. Such doings shall take. Twenty-two years ago, sulted in the arrest of the stow-matter cannot be left

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of us are very naturally looking bring a split. There are now two Shanghai, on the occasion of the sinking of the Lusitania, have thora of suggestions as to the best before its departure for Singapore, individual. brought the general British and Allied populace to the borders of way in which to commemorate was made in accordance with the State-sided, when

forward to the date of our release groups, two, meeting places, two newspapers. Moreover, applied whenever that will be. exasperation and it is not to be wondered at that popular opinion the Queen's reign; to day there is request by the Singapore Authori-and the only possible way

communism leads to squabbles. demanded that their expulsion should be brought about without about an equal number of propasties to the local Police to stop which the problem could be

Silistria is a Bulgarian town One member claims another mem- further delay. There is an instance within our own knowledge als regarding the War Memorial: andesirable emigrants going to adequately tackled is by Govern on the right bank of the Danube, ber's coat or boots or bed. This where one of the German doctors was called to his patient and he Then, as now, opinion appears to that port.

those whose 70 miles north-west of Varna. It breeds rancor. ment grants to

Split follows turned up in a state of semi-intoxication. He had been drinking have been divided between what

natural ability warrants such. was for long a formidable Turkish split. In consequence, no one the health of the Kaiser on the occasion of the latter's birthday and may be termed utilitarian

fortress and was repeatedly group becomes powerful, nor can to "The Day". None but a Hun would so act, and this is typical of projects and those of a purely The juss god, it would seem,

beseiged by the Russians, as in the groups pull together. That their conduct in private matters, to say nothing of the scheming, commemorative character. The was not in a favourable mood to It was suggested, some years 1828-29. On the outbreak of the is why the French are on the more or less openly practised, to create disturances and to poisoneditor of the Telegraph in those receive the attentions of his de-ago, that there should be a faculty Crimean War the Russians laid whole. 80. little afraid of the mind of the Chinese against the British. Absolute distrust is far-off times made a good point votees this morning. As a peace-established at one of the English

If now and then been impossible to believe that any one of them, whatever his ourselves with a Public Library, ground Boor of No. 10, Pokfuinze Guildhall School of Music, and men, but were compelled to refresta crack-brained malefactor like the feeling they have created-distrust to such a degree that it has when he urged that by presenting ofering, some tenants of the colleges of music, preferably the seige to it with 60,000 to 80,000, Anarchists. previous record and whatever his occupation, would not act in a Museum, roads, schools or colleges Road, Buced some jose-sticks and financed by the State, for the after thirty-nine days den 1877 Cottin commits some monstrous treacherous manner should necessity and opportunity arise.

we are not doing any thing appro-

it again successfully defied the crime, Frenchmen believe that The opinion has been expressed that matters have been carried priate to the occasion-we are paper on his altar which was purpose of testing any boy or a little too far in repatriating the Germans of the Blindome and not giving or presenting any located on the staircase. What girl whose parents were of the troops of the Tsar. It has a the same man, would have done population of about 13,000.] the same thing without being the German Foundling Home in Hongkong. Well, there is possibly thing." to use his words. These follows admits of no explans opinion that their children possess

spurred to it by the Anarchist much to be said in their favour, but if injustice has been done, the things. he argued, should be tion except that the joss failed ad sufficient natural gifts to war-

philosophy They look, apon Germans concerned have not the British Government to blame provided by public funds, and as to appear. Ho examed Event sided, or even" gratituous

* politics It is their own nationals who must take the responsibility. In alt all will benefit, all must con- to spread from his altar too by the best masters. The large number of England's most Anarchism such cases those who are innocent have to suffer for the guilty. The tribute: Commemorative schemes, the sirense, and soon the dess based, I believe, upon the prominentmmodcomedy artists, problem than a problems in British Government had taken chances before and has been deceived however, are for "voluntary con-whole plaos was in a fair way to principal followed by the late both male and fade, were re-criminalisty Czim, Foample, so many times that finally it was found that no further loophole tribution or unofficial enterprise." being threatened with disaster. George Edwards who held week-cruited from this source. I see wrote his last will and testament must be left open, even though injustice might result in some cases. That is a standpoint which many And so we see the last of the Germans in this part of the world, and residents now take over the Way Human efforts were then exerted ly trials at the Gaiety Theatre at no reason why something on while the police were besieging we have the satisfaction of knowing that the majority of them are Memorial proposal. It should be to prevent the catastrophe, and the which anybody could attend and these lines should not be done for his stronghold. The document steeped to the "Uhlan's spike" in treachery. We heave a sigh of well thought over by the Ex- josa's anger calmed down, though havetheir talents tested free. Such those who are naturally Hitted to began, not with a profession relief as the Antilochus slowly disappears with its unholy cargo,ecutive Committee now consider. not before damage amounting to applicants as passed the tests enter the higher ranks of into the mists of the exit to Hongkong Harbour.

ing the suggestions put forward. $20 had been caused.

were immediately engaged. A after proper tuition.

In Shanghai, where their residence had been tolerated for so by all who are interesting them weeks' hard labour, at the Magicases, by giving concerts to pro-doahtless have everything pos to Stand br his personal

as the drinking of" bumpers" of lager beer in the German Club a: Hongkong was faced with a pleaways and which was made just generosity of a single privata fit and cheerful, though aliquarrels within the group soon,

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