WAR NOTES.
THE EMPRESS "STEAMERS..
The Empress of Japan, which was not due to arrive until to-morrow, came into port yesterday. She is required by the
GUN-PRACTICE.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13гH, 1914.
In order to obviate any chance of alarm or misunderstanding, we are asked by Major H. G. Bergeant, R. A. instructor in gunnery, to publish the following item
of news.
Gun practice will be carried out by the
NOTES FROM PEKING,
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
QURDIT SINGH COMPARED WITH JOHN HAMPDEN.
soon disappear from the administration. | THE “KOMAGATA MARU" AFFAIR. But it seems to be hardly quite fair to the firm in question. It is well-known in the commercial world that if certain results are to be obtained it is necessary to make presents to men in a position to assist, and this firm have only
In connection with the refusal of the Canadian Government to allow the
Naval authorities and her departure for Royal Garrison Artillery from the follow-anxiously turned towards Europe, but in accordance with time-honoured custom Canada, and the subsequent developments,
Vancouver advertised for the 18th insting works and on the following dates : has been cancelled. So also has the next voyage of the Empress of Hussin, whose departure from Hongkong was scheduled for September 2nd.
MISCHIEVOUS RUMOURS IN
HONGKONG.
Many alarming rumours have been circulated among the Chinese of the Colony by some mischievous persona, as a result of which there has been a 'large exodus of Chinese from the Colony during the past week. The Chinese have been told that the British Fleet in the North Sou has suffered a bad deleat at the hands
PERING, August 2nd." THE WAB CLOUD. During the past week all eyes have been
now that continental countries are engaged in war great changes have taken place in the Legation Quarter. The German garrison and arms and ammunt tion have left for Tsingtau, the Legation Should the weather conditions be staff is reduced to two, and Germans unfavourable the practices will be post-employed in the various business houses poned until the following days, Sundays excepted.
Mount Davis, Tuesday 18th August at 8.m. in S.W. direction.
Stonecutters, Wednesday 18th August at 9 a.m. in a 8.W, direction.
Pakshawan, Saturday 22nd August at 10 a.m. in a N.E. direction.
JAPANESE VESSEL FIRED UPON
AT HONGKONG.
We learn that last night the forts at upon and struck a Japanese collier which did not stop for the examination which at
An
present all vessels are required to undergo before
the entering
harbour. Admiralty Lug went out to the vessel's assistance after she had been struck.
who are liable for military service: are being called up, though discrimination ist exercised with a view to reducing the strain as much as possible upon each firin. French subjects have also been brought in from they will be sent to Saigon. No move ments of any kind are taking place in the British Legation, where everything pro coeds as calmly as if there were no war pending.
and it therefore seems unfair that they should be held up to obloquy for a pro ceeding which is quite ordinary. Presum ably there was no intention to tempt the Admiral from the straight path, and the publicity with which he has called attention to his own honesty and incorruptibility is likely to produce other comments than the Admiral perhaps
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MUZZLING, THE PRESS.
The interference of the War Department with the Press continues, and other papers
The latest exploit of the Wa Department is to prohibit the papers from commenting on the war in Europe.
A SINISTER RUMOUR.
of the Germans and that the German the Lyernum entrance to the harbour fired the interior, and it is understood that have had visite from the military men, Eastero fleet is going to bombard Hong- kong. Another rumour current is that an attoopt has been made to assassinate the Governor of Hongkong, who is now sup posed to be lying in a precarious condi- tion in the Government Civil Hospital. These rumours are utterly devoid of foundation. The latest telegrams from Europe show the British Fleet to have the control of the North Sea, and that British shipping is in little danger of attack. As to the rumoured attempt on the life of the Governor. Sir Heary May is much in evidence in these exciting times, and a denial of the rumour scarcely seems necessary. Who are responsible for the spreading of these mischievous stories we do not know. Some ascribe to them a
German origin, while others say it is a
ruse of the Chinese rolber gangs to get people to remove their valuables from Hongkong-in order that the robbers may plander them the more easily,
THE GERMAN NAVY'S OBJECTIVE.
It appears that the usual signals wore given and warning shots fired. These were ignored by the vessel with the result mentioned above.
TYPHOON WARNINGS.
The telegrams quoted below were received the American Consulate General, Hongkong, from the Manila Observatory
a.t
yesterday :----
12.25 p.m.
When the first news was received it was interesting to see its effect in club life. The respective nationalities by one accord seem to gather into national coteries, and the gravity of the situation was reflected The in their manner and conversation. only people who seemed comfortable were. However, it Britishers and Americans.
is pleasant to see that the spirit of international concord has not suffered here yet, and friends have agreed not to let differences between their respective Cyclone or typhoon, E.N.E. of Aparri, countries sever agreeable associations,
The Chinese- Press are intensely interested over ovents in Europe and Typhoon S.. of Formosa, moving realise what war means to China. No money will be available from Europe and it will need much wisdom and diplomacy to overcome the difficulties which threaten
moving W.N.W. or N.W.
With referenes" to a point incidentally | N.W. mentioned in our leading article yester
day, a correspondent draws our attention
to an article in the Naval and Molitary
7.10 p.m.
Record, of July 8th last, from which we JAPAN'S PURCHASE OF FOREIGN the country in the immediate future, take the following extracte-/
VESSELS.
The French steamer Cambodia, 3,984 tons, has been purchased by Mr. Caki of Tokyo for Y.250,000. The vessel will be employed in trading with the South Sea Islands.
The question of raising a volunteer force to net as Legation Guards should necessity arise has been discussed in view. of the departure of the German and other guards from, the Legation Quarter, but the project is not likely to materialise, as as it is understood that if the British Guards be transferred from here the
It has been reported that another batch of soldiers said to have been concerned in the Kalgan mutiny have been massacred. Of course it has been officially denied, but what happened, so I am told, is this:- The soldiers were invited to a lecture, and of course had to leave their arms outside. These were then speaked. When the men camo out they suspected that they were
and they refused to take the train which intended to share the fate of the others, was to convey them homewards unless the Vice-Minister for War got if with them, This he did, but at one of the stations he casually wandered into another carriage which was subsequently disconnected, Then pu reaching the given spot the troops posted on the hills shot into the carriages, picking off the men as they jumped out and tried to escape, killing them all to a man.:
WHERE WOMEN RULE.
MATRIMONIAL PECULIARITIES IN MALABAR.
a recent issue of the Englishman con- tained the following report of a meeting of Indian held to consider the
question:
Under the auspices of the Indian Association a public meeting was held on Friday afternoon at College Square to consider the situation created by the decision on the question of Indians going to Canada and the rejection of the Indin Council Bill by the House of Lords. The attendance was small. Dr. 8. K. Mullick took the chair. This was the fist of a series of meetings to be held in Calcutta and elsewhere to consider the steps to be taken for asserting the rights of the Indians as subjects of the British Empire. facts and the circumstances which led to Mr. L. B. Sen in Bengalee explained the the decision of the Canadian Court to exclude Indians from that Colony. The grounds on which the Indians were excluded were baseless, for Professor William Lawson Grant of Canada said as follows about Indians: They are as a rule frugal, industrious and law abiding. but they are feared rather for their virtues than for their vices." The real reason was that if the Indians were allowed to go there the Canadians would It not be able to compete with them. had been said that the Indians had equal rights with the other citizens of the British Empire and they should try their best to
the Chinese and the Japanese were not excluded because they were independent assert that right. Among the Asiatics and manly, but the Indians, who were citizens of the same British Empire, were excluded because they were weak. If the 350 Indians who went there were backed by the people of India the Canadians would not have been able to ask them to go back.
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Mr. Gurdit Singh was a true patriot and CHS. J. GAUPP
Babu Gayan Chunder Roy said that
his heroism surpassed that of oven now the duty of Humpden. It was Indians to help Gurdit Singh. His failure ought not to deter them from making further attempts in the direction of their asserting their rights- As regards, the
& CO.,
India Council Bill the speaker said that WATCHMAKERS
Why is it that Germany, who possesses a relative, reserve strength fnr birger than that possessed by this country, is expand- ing her regular personnel at such a rapid In-far more rapid, indeed, than wear doing? She is practically ignoring what over value her reserves may possess. Year by year efforts have been mack and made successfully to add to the number of naval ratings always available, and there is every indication that this movement is importations will be made this year. The Japanese would strengthen their garrison. Where Women Rule the Matriarchal citizens of the Empire and if that was
Sea-power
·
According to the sake, six steamers purchased abroad will arrive in Japan in August and September and no further
following particulars are given :--
Price
Name.. Tons. Yen. Purchaser
4,338 150,000 Tatsuma & Co. 17 putacion Matt. 2,608 140,000) Yanshita & Co. 3,069 116,000 Fujinagata & Co. 3.080 130.000 Mr: Nakamura.
Moji-B.S: C.- Alr. Murno.
It is being said that the Kaiser selected the name of Bismarck for the big new Bamburg-Amerika liner as the only name worthy to make a third with Vaterland, and Imperator, a story which, if true, is
a
!
AND
JEWELLERS.
INSTRUMENTS. ·
after making necessary alterations it ought to be reintroduced and would ask the Government for its reintroduction.
Babu Sasanka Jibon Roy said that the. issue involved in the question was the At the London School of Economics, status of Indians in the Empire.
The Clare Market, W.C., Sir Chettur Bankaran Nair, of the Madras High Queen's Proclamation had given the Court of Justice, gave an address on Indians equal rights with the other System of the Nairs in Malabar." Sir denied they ought to try to establish that SURVEYING "AND NAUTICAL
was to take Chettur Sankaran Nair said that among right. Their duty now
They should the Nairs family property was inalien recourse to retaliation. able and impartible. There were social press the Government not to allow the In common marriages among the middle and lower- Canadians to come to India class Naire, but not among the Royal or justice they were entitled to retaliation.
Babu Jitendra Nath Banerjee said that ZEISS PRISM BINOCULARS. ruling families. Practice under which 2 bridegroom was the keynote of the meeting was no pence given permission to visit his bride for but war, because war had already heon six months though the unien was declared by the people of the colonies intended to be permanent. There was no against the Indians. He next referred to religious ceremony, but astrologers com the speech of Dr. Holland delivered the sulted the horoscopes of the parties. other day before the Governor of Bengal. Buy unions, though not sanctioned by Dr. Holland had said, addressing Bengali law or religion were generally permanent statients, first try to be patriotic SILVER-AND-PRINCE'S PLATE. The husband would do everything in his Bengalees, then try to be patriotic Indians wife's name and the property wie under and lastly try to be patriotic citizens of her control. The speaker then described three types of matrimony in Malabar; the Briatrique citizens of the British the Empire. But how could they
to approve of every estimate before it is of ancient rajahs and had nothing like other parts of the Empire-owned by the passed.
BRITISH RAILWAY HOCCESS, After protracted negotiations the con- tract for the Shari-Changteh Kweiyang Shingyifa Railway has been signed between the Chinese Government and the British firm of Tauling & Company, This line, with its contemplated connee tions, will give through traffic from the coast to the capitals of four provinces, and the whole will be under British auspices, a fact which should do much to encourage British trade. The construc. on will be carried out by contract, and a Chinese Director General in conjunction
He referred to a
is being unduly tested, and their nerves Difful anrende for the "dropping the with the consulting engineers will have the first was followed by representatives Empire if they were not allowed to go to
to
NEW MINISTER TO LANDON.
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Representatives
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LONDON.
BUILDINGS.
a marriage about it. The husband lived in the lady's house and was fed and British?
The Komagata Mara incident was certainly not an incentive to make MAPPIN & WEBB. maintained there, only visiting his own home occasionally. That prevailed them patriotic citizens of the British
Empire among the higher classes, and there was no marriage. The second type was Personally he had very little sympathy system under which there were really two with the India Council Bill, for he families. The wife had the home of her believed that the salvation of India must maternal family that of her mother, comic from India and not from outside. There her property was, and it belonged Bat good or bad, he thought the proposal to her along with others. She generally to include 2 or 3 Indians is the Council. lived there but she also went to her of the Secretary of State was an eyesore husband's home.. There she lived with
to the English people and the Lords The rejected it without considering its merits. her husband's maternal relatives.
The Chairman in conclusion made a few third type was that in which the husband found a home for his wife in his own
remarks supporting the views expressed That was the practice in cases by the speakers, house. where the husband was a man who could
The sting then separated. ~acquire-property himself. These three kystens had gone on for the past 3,000 years. All three were necessary to under- stand the family life of the race.
about to be accelerated. If we would read aright the naval conditions which are now being created, we shall do well not to attach too great importance to the Puritan maximum effort which forward after due notice. In Messrs. Cornelio. Hurd and Castle's study of German Coronde!
this aspect of the new van 2407 movement hus already received ficution.
Assyria 2,205. It is pointed out that the Germ Navy 1 recognized as a vat, complicated machine which has to be worked at the highest pressure, and, therefore, no sand STATESMEN AND SHIPS NAMES. must impede the engine or salt water. get into the boiler, everything must be made to go smoothly and quickly; so far as it can be eliminated, there must be no distraction. It may be, it is admitted, that the officers and new are being sub mitted to a regime which is inirical to tir staying power, that their owdurance
incident. Britons are very shy kept too continuously on the strain. This of giving the names of statesruen to tho irty be so, but the German naval authori. really big ships. Of course there might fies have in view a kind of war different be difficulties if statesmen still in the from any which has hitherto been knoWD, Arona wore selected if the str. Asquith
Mr. Alfred Sze, the Minister designate No one can doubt that the German were to rum the str. Bonar Law, all Admiralty bases its calculations. not on sorts of sinister suggestions might arise. to London; has been entertained largely a long-drawn-out contest, in which But even taking statesmen of the past during the week. The British community patient courage, sturdy tenacity of this neglect is noticeable, purpose, and incapacity to recognize Looking through a list a few years old invited him to dinner at the Hotel Des defent will triumph after months or years of the mercantile marine, one finds only Wagons Lits on Thursday night, Sir John of hostilities; but OTE the ability one minor ship named Sir Robert Peel,
use the German flert-if it be used at and the two. Palmerstones were both Jordan presiding over the gathering, and all like a thunderbolt. The whole insignificent vessels. There were a goud the following night he was the guest of history of the evolution of the German many Melbournes, but most if not all, fe and the character of the training to were associated with the city rather than the Returned Students under the chair which offers and men have to submil with the Prime Minister. Gladstone manship of Admiral Tsai Ting Kan, who confirms this impression. It is contended accounted only for a sixty-tonner in thy paid a high tribute to the ability of and who can doubt the conclusion that far North of Scotland, and there was but Mr. Sze as a diplomát. The new Minister in the first place the German Navy is om Burschl in the fist and one John | regarded as a great diplomatic instru- Bright. There was no Lord Salisbury, leaves on the 18th inst. ment, which may be able to achieve its no Disraeli, and only one Beaconsfield, end at a given nwment without firing a There was one ('. S. Parnell, and one Earl
As the Chinese have shown no inclina-1 gun or discharging a torpedo, This oa of Rosebery. the on hand. On the other it is being
tian to colonise the outlying parts of the organized for use as a bolt from the blu
country, it is determined that some Two Spanish officers, who had opportuni-
method must be tried to settle these areas. ties of studying very carefully the paval organization on the other side of the
The experiment to be attempted is the North Sea, have given us their conception of German sea-power-
According to a recent issue of the sending of prisoners, who have committed The German Navy has a definite and Statist (London), British capital invested serious offences, to Sinkiang. Kansu, the immediate objective; everything must in Mexico at the end of 1915, exclusive borders of Yunnan end Szechuan, Kirin be prepared for a rapid, energetic, and of a large amount of private capital, and Heilungkiang, and arrangements are decisive action. Her ships, equipped
$191,875,930. aggregated
distributed by her national industry, rich in
among various classes of securities as to be made for enabling the prisoners to resources of every kind, provided with follows: Government stocks, $30,151,000; settle down fairly comfortably in the war material of the highest efficiency, municipal stocks, 87,903,200 railways, must be ready to dart at a given 2274,605,250; banks, 82,650,400; commer- new country. There is no reason why this ment against an enemy whose fleet cial, industrial, etc.. $12.656,075; electric plan should not succeed as well as Russia's awaits them almost at the mouth of the light and power, 18,723,650; financial, policy with regard to Siberia. German ports. The first encounter, land and investment, $36,059,250: mines, Force and terrible, will decide the 849,610,275; pil, $17,042,475: rubber. campaign, and will influence the future $8,190,325 and tramways $80,119,250. A memorial, to which forty-eight friends of both nations. The partial actions. Compared with British, investments in of the deceased subscribed, has been the long blockades, the prolonged Mexico in 1912, as presented by Consul maneuvres of fleets, which require such Marion Latchor of Chihuahua, in Daily erected in position over the grave of the seamanship, such skill in the personnel, Consular and. Trade Reports for July late Mr. George Alexander Grant in the will necessarily be eliminated in the 17th of that year, the Statist's total for British Cemetery outside the West Wall future war. All that is required is 1913 shows an increase of $160,573,150.
of the Tartar City. It consists of a huge men of action, with the deterinination
It should be noted, however, that the two. to win in one day of supreme and feree sets of figures are derived from different granite boulder from the Western Hills, had described en waning as the result struggle.
sources, and are made up of somewhat wholly comparable. different categories; hence they are not weighing over three toas, and is inscribed, of Western influence.
BRITISH INVESTMENTS IN MEXICO.
of the meaning of the new German naval It will be seen that this interpretation organization supplies an adequate explanation of the unprecedented expan sion of the naval personnel which is now taking place. Every effective ship under P. & O. MAIL CONTRACT. the German ensign is in future, to be kept on a war footing all the time: the
Mr. Hicks-Beach asked in the House of reservists are regarded as of little importance The First Lord of the Commons, last month, when the contract Admiralty has stated that the proportion with the P. & O. Steamship Company for of the German Fleet which wil be held the earriage of the Indian mails expired. always ready to go into action is nearly Mr. Hobhouse said the contract war four-fifths. Never before has any country now, terminable at any time by either attempted to keep alwavs on a war foot-party on twenty-four calendar months' ing so large proportion of its naval notice.. It had been arranged that such strength. and it is equalle tras that na notice should not be given before January counter before has ever created so vist 31st, 1015. a naval organization,
CHINESE BOTANY BAYS.
A BRAVE BRITLEHÉR.
George Alexander Grant. Born at Skelmorlic September 10th, 1876. Killed on duty in Mongolia. This is erected by his friends."
AN ADMIRAL AND SQUEKZE. Admiral Tsai Ting Kan is not to be bribed. Having received an offer from a British firm of £5,000 if he would assist
Agitation, he continued. was now going on in this country for a good deal that had already been recognized in his own country and which the British Courts of
WIRELESS IN SHANGHAI.
THE NEW FRENCH STATION. Our neighbours across the Yangking-
ALEXANDRA
CHATER FOAD.
CALDBECK,
Justice had always taken into considera- pang deserve our especial thanks for the MACGREGOR&C.
In a
The
(ESTABLISHED 1464).
SOLE AGENTS FOR
BL WHISKIES.
tion. The Hindu law secured for woman splendid new station they have erected her maintenance-first by her father, next just opposite the French Club on Route by her husband, and then by her sen, and, Voyron: Of the total of fire stations failing these sources of support, by the doing service in Shanghai-with the State, but this last resort was not now exception, of course, of the warships accessible. There was no divores law. that in French Town is by far the finest The wife shared her husband's property, and most powerful instrument. and on marriage her Qwn property crisis such as the present the messages continued to be hers. By English law received are, of course, for offcial eyes were regarded as only, and in addition to that the opera- husband and wife having but one will, that of the husband. tors are both French military officers so (Laughter.) A far more advantageous that complete secrecy is assured. nosition was given to women by his native other four stations are the Chinese law. If the husband had no property Telegraph Co's station, a machine (also the wife left him. In olden days she was fairly powerful) at St. Xavier's not obliged to live alone with him and School, which is under the joint control when she did do so it was only if she of the French and Chinese authoritica, more comfortable in so doing, and two small private stations in the were Otherwise she would return to her own Western district, scarcely of importance home, which she could look on as just now. One is owned by a. Britisher refure from him. Property was vested for business purposes and the other is in the woman. In conclusion, the only in the experimental stage. A fifth
is in course of construction at Woosung GOLD. for the Chinese Government, and a sixth by the Japanese Government in Hongkew
spraker painted out that, the sectems be
TUNG WA HOSPITAL. FLOOD RELIEF FUND.
The French Town station is the property of the Societe Radioelectrique de Paris and works under the protection of the French Government In charge is Monsieur Max Broeleman, an ex-officer of the French army and an ingenieur of the above-named Society. The station is one of the most powerful stations in the Far East, with the exception of Hanoi $134.904.99 in Tonkin, where the same Society has
5,600.00 till & stronger station.
The Tune Wa Hrispital herrs to acknow Tedre with thanks the following donations to the Flood Relief Fund; --
Alrondy acknowledged. Cohle from Penano ..... in putting a certain transaction through, Collected by Mr. Ng Fuk King he has sent the communication to the at Ann Press, and the papers are lauding him for Mr. Li Hin Fan his action; saying that if other, officials would do likewise squeeze
would
The new
wireless station has been 63.90 erected in the compound of the French
2.00 Camp-of Koukaza and has for some time
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