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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1917.
TELEGRAMS.
[Continued from Poga 1.)
AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA......”.
RUSSIAN CABINET FORMED.
.
Permanan, Öet, A.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS,
The Minister of War, "General von' Stein, declared that the propaganda! → Service was covered from general funds,
THE CHINA MATI
ENORMOUS FLOODS IN
NORTH CHINA.
REMOVAL OF CAPITAL LIKELY.
(Beuter's Service to the China Mail.)}
SANORAL, Oct. 9.
CHINA.
SCOTTISH LETTER.
From our Cew Correspondent.)
Edinburgh, "Ang, 15.
SOUTH AMERICA, AND THE WAIL.
intorted him, and that perhaps thia
was because in early life he was beoeght WAR
in contact with the insane his father being in medical charge of the Crichton Royal Institution in Dumfries. On one occasion he tells us that "at a politicul meeting in the county a heckler who. had klawn something of my history naked if it were not the fact that I had
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THE REICHSTAG DEBATE.
A SOCIALIST'S SUGGESTION.
AMSTERDAM, Clet, D.. A message from, Berlin states that the
That picturesque literatour and So been born in a lunatio asylum. That, Keichstag has postponed the debate on The encrumus foods in Northcialist, Mr. R. B. Cunninghame Grahar, I think, was rognerled as very much of the Fatherland Party interpellation, and China, in a densely populated area has just returns from Government opponents, bus I was able to answer, home-thrust by my political instead of phasing the third rearling of the supplementary Budget sent it hask of 20,000 square, tiles, have become mission to South America, of which heYes, it is true that I was born in a A new Coalition Cabinet Tas been to the Main Committee, dospite the pro-au immense, deep lake..
has a particularly intimate knowledge. lunatic syna, bait was discharged cared. If you had bean born there, There is a selihood of Tientsin During the past two years, this far you would have been thats yet r formed. It comprises six Socialists tests of the Courervatives.
"Herr Ebert, Socialist, said that after: with. 31. Kurehwky (Premier and Coin-Saturday's debate it was most interest-becoming ice bound and uninhabit-travelled Scot has added considerably Browne's earliest recollections of note. mandarinety and eleven Dyuning to ascertain how the Imperial fiudsable, and who the removal of the to his mileage. For nine months berefer to the days when be was at Edin cratie and bent groß <representatives, retked for the Fatherlind Parts Capital from: Peking will be neces was engaged in the purchase of horses under Professer Blacking. He reallas burgh University aml was a student izchaling M. Treschenko as Minis the budget, which authorised another way, owing to the instability of in the Argentine and Uruguay, and College Magazine earlier than the one
propaganda in the Army. Therefore, tor of Foreign Affairs." Gegetal two hundred millions sterling worth of corrunications..
afterwards he spent nine months in the of which R L S. speaks. I am to some extent responsible for the death of Republic of Colombia inquiring into the that innocent little magazine in grey, Verkhovsky Minister of War, and Treasury Bonda, must be reconsidered, after which the Reichstag might insist Admiral Verderevsky Minister
cattle resources of the country. In for I contributed a story which was be upon the reorganisation of the Govera Marine.
ment offices."
THE CAUSE OF FLOODS IN characteristic racy fashion he ridicules gun in the first number and was to be LATKE
finished in the secund. But the second, the idea that Brazil is in any danger has never saw the light. Still, it is The ew Cabinet includes M.
from the 300,000 Germans settled in the quite possible that the anpulihahedi part THE NEED OF AFFORESTATION. Rio Grande de Sul. They have been of Charlie Sulley had as much yogas Nikitin, a Minister of the Interior and of Postanud Telegraphs: MK
Dr. Helferich defends his be
there for some "dity years are all the chapters which were printed In the days of the Chou dynasty, Swabians, "honest, unprogressive people, known; some are quite frah and lively; Some of the stories are too well- 'Aakseftief; Minister of Agriculture : | häviour on Saturday.
between two and three thousand years M. Gavozdev. Minister of Labour
Dr. Michaelis again spoke and pro- ago, when this quarter of China was who have practically become white sad others are half and be seen. Among and M.
Bernitzky, Minister of mine action in the cases which Inid kaown 13 the kingdom of Yen, it was negroes. They cultivate a little patch the old ones retold is the gibe of De bein exposed where the bigher off-described as a pleasant sylyan country, of yums and bananas, and are "perfectly Quincey at Hogg & Co. when he Finance.
cials, on balmalf of the Fatherland wooded and wild and fall of big game content to vegetates neither a danger has got into these swine? And wa quarrelled with them, "The devil must Party, had unduly influenced this In the intervening couturies the Chinese STRIKE IN THE BAKU OIL FIELDS.ower officials. He dwelt on the who have succeeded to the Tartar horse or an advantage to the country." sre glad to be reminded of Professor
necessity for a propaganda as the men of those days have contrived to
The same cannot be said of the Ger Ferrier adefinition of facility, milking Baat, Oct. 9. Fret, though, he said, sometimes make all of Chibli which they have man basiness houses in the towns, in A general strike has been dechred it was difficult to distinguish profound worth farming us bare and Mr. Canninghame Graham's opinion
n-puganda from politics He exelupli- desolate, as ugly and dusty. ployers are refuscil not to disais fit the criticism on the reply to the primeval Shenai in which they deve and the (ferman question in Brazil is workinen except with the consent of Paul Note and denied that proloped their culture and later their hiring one. Much of the coffee pagunda was working for the support faculty for making landscape industry in the province of San Paulo of the Fatherland Party...
hideous and untenable. The "Yellow
is in the hands of Germans. Shortly River is described as China's
The Hun Bo is the before the war" school map was GERMAN CHANCELLOR RETURNS Sorrow.
little, sorrow of Chills, and yet three published in Germany in which portions TO BERLIN.
thousand years ago the Fun Ho was of San Paulo and the whole of the Rio undanbtedly a pleasant, clear stream, Grande were shown as belonging to the running in an even tenor throughout the the year, enriching but never devasta German Empire." This so thoroughly
in the oil-fields because the
the Tride Unions.
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INCREASED WAGES FOR RUSSIAN RAILWAYMEN.
AMSTERDAM, Oct." 9.
the
PETROGRAD, Cut. The foverativent "has decided to A message from Berlin states:- giant incrinses on the wages of the
Dr. Michaels bas returned to Berlinting the country through which it alarmed the Brazilians that is speedily from a" hurried visit to the Kaiser at Howed. There is no need in this age railway striker, which will news-Hench parters, the Onject of which is sitate an annual expenditure of seven much commented upon. hundra, and ity willing routes.
The Government will also provide
for special supplies for the railway-
THE SILVER MARKET......
LONDON, Oct.
men who will reive their food Silver is quoted 434. The market before the other supplies, are disis dull. tribute
THE SULTAN OF EGYPT..
Paris, Cut, 9. It is reported at the Sultan of Egypt is dying.
[His Highness Húserin Kand!, G4',, was create Soltan of gypt in Deh ber 1914.
f in 64 yos at "agrej
COUNT LUXBURG STILL IN
ARGENTINE" -
Bersos Ames, Oct. 9,
it appens that Count Lushurg bus mot afled but has tempónrily withdrawn to a place, not named, in the interior, as he is unhle to embark without a male conduct und.
his presence in Buenos Aires was dangerpudly exciting the population, The neighbouring Governments have objected to his crossing the frontier.
THE RAILWAY STRIKE IN ARGENTINE.
BUENDS AIRES, Oct. D.
|
AMERICAN EMBARGO ON DUTCH
SHIPS.
to point out to any foreigner that defors possible, they passed a law through estation of the hills in which the rivers their Congress enforcing the study of China rise is the true root of all these of Portuguese, and enacting that no watery sorrows, but it is a simple fact contracts should be valid unless written which has yet to be forced upon the in the language of the country.
"This Chinese, whose blind ignorance of causes together with various other enactmeats, and superstitious interpretation of bas pretty well got the German question effects is a still greater sorrow than in order in Brazil." The occasional foods. We do not adre In Colombia, in ther Panama vone, Mr. cate the substitution of tree worship for Cunninghame Grahani reperta a com the various national Chinese faiths, but plete transformation in the feeling if tree worship could give the Chinese towards Great Britain. "A common an appreciation of the material and danger makes us wondrous kind," he aesthetic damage done their land by the says; and “I heard admiration for the Washington, Oct. 12.
removal of the forests, we should cheer-immense work Great Britain has done, The Government bas refused to grant fully undertake to write bymus to the and a determination to stand by her to licence for bunker coal for the liner hamedyads and set the example of the very utmost." Great Britain is the Vienre Amsterdam, because Holland solemnly kotoing to everything that most popular of all foreign countries in would not give assurances that the med bark and put out leaves. The Colombia. This is owing to two cir- ship would return to the United States government haa.it in its power bowever cumstances,--"the aid that we gave after discharging her Belgian Relief to bring the importance of trees home them at the time of their independence, so the very shrewd and practical Chin- and the great fear that they are in of It is stated that this netion, for consti
ese people in a hundred ways more the United States after their Panama a complete embargo on the large fleet logical and effective, and at such a sea exploit." unless Holland permits her ships to carry cargoes for the Cnited States.
cargo.
of Dutch ships row in New York barbursed as this, when millions of Chinese Indeed throughout Spanish America,
ECUADOR AND GERMANY.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.. The Ecuador Minister to the United States states that his Government has
decided not to receive the German ex Minister to Peru, who has left Lima for Quito,
"This is regarded here as equivalent to a rupture with Germany.
throughout six or eight provinces are paying with their lives or with the loan of everything they have in the world for the sins of their ancestors against China's putraged forcats anil bills, every conceiveable medium of publicity, every government department and every
official organizations which the govern ment can press into the service should be utilized to impress upon the massca the real canses of the Roods which are bringing so much misery into the land, anil the pressing need of trees wherever
in Mr. Cunninghaune Graham's opinion, the feeling is rapidly hardening in favour of the Allies, whereas at the beginning of the war opinies was "in a fluid state
SCOTS MEDICALS,
be goat into a vieva. There is also to a storm while he was praying for the story of the minister who, listening good weather, Weel, weel, bicker a way good Lord, au' spail a the puir bodies crap as Ye did last year: Ye hue muckle credit of Yer wark," And.to conclude, the authentic payer of the clergyman who deputised thus, "0. Lord, in the unavoidable absence of the deplorable state of the weather, we do Lord Bishop of Brechin, and in the not propose to address Thee at any very great length."
JAPANESE SHIPPING AND THE WAR
N.Y.K. LINERS TRANSFERRED.
The Department of Communications steamers from the Nippon. Yusen Kaisha's in Japan" announces the transfer of Europena service to the Seattle service. and vice versa, with
view to adjusting trade requirements and the protection of superior vessels. The Fuskini-me: and the Af-mart are taken off the European line and replaced by the Shizuoka-maru and Tokahoma-mera of the Seattle line.
It i aspeated that the other Targé European liners, the Sunnars and the Karina-mars, will also be transferred to the American line, although no announce. ment has yet been made.
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CHEQUE FOR $9,811,111.1101
The largest cheque ever passed through, the New York Clearing Housh was paid recently It was signed by Messrs. J P. Morgan and Co. and amounted to *0,611,111,110. It was credited to the
of Canada.
than is sometimes realised, to the Scot
The British Empire.owes a bigger debt Minister of Finance and Receiver-General tiah schools of medicine and surgery, particularly those of Edinburgh. How important is the part they are playing a tree can be coaxed to take root. It tions in our tropical dependencies in in the amelioration of the health condi
A TORTURE OF TANTALUS
1/
omission is being
FORT WILLIAM STRIKE SETTLED is roughly estimated that the damage brought out very strongly in the Gold imposed on most things-broad, meat, In Germany restrictions have bem done in Tientsin already aggregates a Const, Ashanti, and the Northern Ter coffee, butter, ail, sugar, leather, cotton OTTAWA, Oct Ghundred million dollars. This sum
William has been settled on the inter There is no prospect of a settle-vention of the Government. ment of the railway strike The Grain will now those rapidly from the strikers are attacking the railroad head of the lake navigation to the sea repairera.
BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S PURCHASE OF BUTTER.
"AfELPOURSE, Oct. 9.1 It is mounted that the Ioperial
board.
WHAT IS RELIGION?
DEAN HENSON ON THE
schools,
The strike of longshoreman at Fort would plant a great many trees. No ritories, which has just been published wool. Hitherto no serious attempt had one would think of putting so much in the Gold Coast Government Gazette. been marie to restrict mourning for the monofint alorstation at the I have had the curiosity to analyse the thanks to the vigilant patriotists of the lack of it had caused losses which list in respect to the qualifications of Crefeld General Aneiger-a newspaper, will total vastly more than that, those whose names appear on it Out not an army officer. It has called atten
of a total of 115 practitioners, no fewer tion to the scradalogs number of widows and which are probably costing many than 45, or almost exactly 40 per cent, who persist in remaining widows instead thousands of lives in the districts which are now merged in a great in and hold diplomas from Edinburgh, Glasgow, of remarrying in order to repopulate the lake. If the Chinese people were made or Aberdeen. Of these 15, all but. 12 country. This scandal must cease, cries fully aware of the need, if the Chinese qualified wholly or in part in Edinburgh, tas dreiger. If these war widows will not voluntarily, do their duty, the Government had suficient, interest in so that close on 30 per cent, of the Government must make them do it. remarrial at once, pre- the welfare of the people (which it has medical practitioners on the Gold Coast They must CHRISTIAN'S CREED.
not) to instill into them a horror of have passed through the Edinburgh ferably to wounded soldiers "unfit for active service.” Unfit for active service! Yet the niger, would marry them to Preaching at St. Andrew's Church, dentided bills and treeless plains, and to
recalcitrant widowsi Urael, cruel Wells Street, Lunden, the Dean of Dur inspire them with a fervour for seeing
Anzeiger. Now, York Herald. ham (Ur Hensley Henson) aaid no ques- trees grow over something else than the tion was more asked to-day than What ashes of their defunct forerunners, who is religion1"
No religious man doubted are responsible for the hideousness and Sir W. Watson Cheyne, Bart, Pro that he had a direct and immediate relu misery of nearly all of China that is fessor of Clinical Surgery in King's ting to Gud. In spite of superstitions under sultivation, there might be College London, presently Surgeon "Losos, Oct. 9.
and aberrations, the conviction or in personal relation with God was the movement afoot in a very few years General attached to the Royal Navy, which would restore to the Chineas of was returned without opposition, mem- The Press Bureau announces that indispensable foundation of religiço. there were ten deaths and two people Breh & conviction would sink into grotes this generation something of the beauty ber of Parliament for the Universities
que fanaticism if it stood alone. But it and elimatic charm of the Chine that of Edinburgh and St. Andrew. He The following table shows the Stan were injured in the fire, which did not. The spitit of man included the the ancients enjoyed, and would render comes of a Shetland family is laird of dard Time at which Official Night ends follower upon un explosion in a intelligence as well as the conscience superfluous the annual drudgery and one of the Islands; and is a graduate and begins during the month of Oct. munitions factory, in the north of Every man carried within himself the expense of dyke building and drain of Edinburgh University, where he was 1917
corrective of false doctrines about God. England, on October 2.
The law of nature mast mean the supre digging without which the plains about one of Lister's most ancient followers,
ne, would be a marah half the year and macy of the highest in nature.
a desert the other half.
Government butter purchase involves 30,000 tons valued at £1,700,000.
RECENT EXPLOSION AT A -MUNITIONS FACTORY"
-L
נן
COTTON. IN EGYPT."'
Camo, Oct. 9.
The cotton condition in lower Egy Is 94 per cert, and in upper Egypt 9 per cent. The final result
EDINBURGH AND ST. ANDREWS.
THE CLANNISH MACLEANS : In the circumstances of their time per sonal knowledge was wanted. The fear. Beside the need of trees the need of ful experiences of the last three years dykes and ditches ie nothing more than A Highland friend tells me a remark- had basettled many beliefs, and on many the need of a temporary expedientable story about a notable member of derput minds the dark shadow of doubt Deforcuation is the origins! cause of all the Clan Maclean, British officer who had fallen. Whu could wonder - Chris the sorrows which Chins suffers from was taken prisoner by the Germans at tian principles seemed to have broken down the whole view of bunun duty drought and food, and afforestation is, Mons appears that there is a branch which the Gospel presented had been without exaggeration, the one and only of the clan in the land of the Foches, is not expected to be favourable challenged and the nations called Chris permanent form of relist Eetide. the and that some years ago they sent tian were locked inonfict which car work which the Government should representatives to the Dunst celebrations. as was anticipated but the quality of fried them from one extreme of cruelty undertake both on its own account When they discovered that a MacLean the fibre for the ginuing outturn is to another as though there were no and through the enlightenment of the was among them, they remembered
longer any power left in the Sacred urly good
Name. But if they would be true to their inner knowledge of God there would come to them a bigger lenowledge and a longer vision.
massive, wellbound Biblo (revised version) has just been received for uso in St. John's Cathedral The donor is Captain Carr, who is a keen atudent of the Bible and offered to provide a
nimbio
book when it was decided to me the revised in the plaza
f the anthorised version. It is genor |
admittet, says Church Noles, that the anguage of the revit
version Anffers
tradiation
in comparison with the
hat the form
puta
HONGKONG GRICKET LEAGUE,
HONGKONG CHICKET CLUB
The following will represent the Club inst the Navy on the Chih grond
OFFICIAL HIGHTS FOR OCTOBER.
Enda
Oct. 10th, 6.6. #
Begins." 8.15 p.
-0.14-
12th, 9.6
6.13-
13th,
影響
18th,
€7
$11
0.10
10th, 6.8
10th 6.0 17th, 8.0 18th, 9.9 10th 6.0 20th 6.3
216.10 22nd,SG:11: 23rd, 1.11 Sath, 11 26th, 16.12 20th, 27th 6.12. 28th 6.13
19
Bite
Toth 6.147
5.59
people for the reforestation of China, their old blood ties, securing for him the various reclamation works, the the best of treatment and all sorts of draining and digging, the erection of vast special privileges An these MacLeans and exponsive ambankinent, seem like went Germany in the time of children's devices for clading resi re- Frederick the Great this vid is great sponsibility. The dykes and ditches testimony to the enduring character of 30th $14 are needed hadly enough for this and the clan spirit, and it le a pretty some, generations to come, but for the story but it will be better to waiti future Chinh it is silly to plan sschnud hear the account of the MacLean temporary makeshifts, while the essential officer at the end of the war. work of food prevention, the work of
afforestation, is left to a little poverty: BALTOUR BROWNE'S REMINISCENCES. CHA stricken bures in a poverty-stricken ministry and to the personal efforts of a terrimin few enthusiastar ssil un acre of bill land **Donnellyag wage planted in trees for every ánnés
tere would
generation
2115
VER FAILSUS
CHARITIES.
OUR DAY" +
THURSDAY, 18th OCTOBER, 1917. MORNING :
Collection for LADY MAY'S ROSE, FUND”
Or cheques rany he sent NOW addressed to LADY MAT Government Flouse (envelopes being marked Rose Fund AFTERNOON at 3 o'clock.
Parade Ground..
OREAT DRAWING" OF WAR BONDS at the
St. Wohn Ambulance · Brigala competitions. Refreshments in English and Chiness style, and various attractions EVENING at 9 o'clock.
WA
FETE at the Public Gardens New OFFICIAL WAR FILMS shown for the first time in Hongkong. Illuminations and Music,
THE BANDS OF THE 25th MIDDLESEX REGIMENT; 18th
the Afternoon and Evening. INFANTRY, 74th PUNJABIS and POLICE RESERVE will play during
GRAND CHINESE THEATRICAL ENTERTAINMENT From 5th till 12th October, at the Taiping Theatre Tickets for the War Bond Drawing are obtainable at all the principal Banks, Admission to Parada Ground, 50 Cents Admission to Gardens 31; Seats, $3 enclosure and 31 enclosure. Sailors and Soldiers in uniform (not including the Hongkong Delenco Corpa) admitted free; Children half price for schmission and rosta.
Tickets for admissions and seats, obtainable at Montrics, Robinson's, Anderson's and from members of the War Charities General Committee.
"OUR DAY":
+
OUR DAY".
18TH OCTOBER
DRAWING OF WAR BONDS
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.
WILL PRESENT FREE
ONE
FOR EVERY $20-
TICKET
WORTH OF GOODS PURCHASED
IN THEIR STORE FOR CASH ONLY (SHIPCHANDLERY DEPARTMENT EXCEPTED),
Tickets will be issued to October 16th.
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.
THEATRE ROYAL
At 9.15 p.m. TO-NIGHT At 9.15 p.m.
FREDERIC SHIPMAN PRESENTS
THE
FANTASTICS
12 STAR ARTISTS
HEADED BY MISS BILLIE SEATON,
MR. LEONARD NELSON A FANTASTIC COMEDIAN.
No.1 PROGRAMTID tober 10th & 11th No. 2 PROGRAMME October 12th 18th No PROGRAMME October 15th & 16
Booking af MOUTRIES.
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