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is at a standstill, it must be remembered that no imports are going into the United Kingdom from those countries, Consequently, the home manufacturor now has the home market to himself, apart
Nine English and four Chinese members of the crow of the wrecked steamer Benglor have arrived in Mauila.
THE CHINESE MINISTER TO
LONDON.
? ENTERTAINED IN HONGKONG..
His Excellency Alfred Sze, the newly- appouted Chinese Minister to the Court
A proclamation issued at Wuchang on from the competition of the United States, September 29th forbids the boycotting of The fishing and coasting trade on the East Japanese goods, which must be sold as of St. James, arrived in the Colony.
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other ways industry was beginning to revive. The engineering trade at Hone, we learn, is especially brisk. Manufac turers and merchants are constantly being told by the Freas and the Commercial Intelligence Bureau of the Board of Tradehow to make fortunes during the war" by capturing the enemy's trade. One of the London papers for example, says: "Legitimate, honest business 1.60 fortunes in a score of different branches 3.45 are to be made by Englishmen out of this
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war with Germany and Austria, and they are to be made at once. The Christmas 3.46 trade in toys alone offers one set of fortunes, but both manufacturers and buyers still have to do much more than werely make good a 4.00 temporary deficiency due to the war in a few Gornian made articles. We must, like the old English king, be 'stark to traitor
The trade must be taken ous enemies,'
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clean out of German hands in a wholesale manner. With enterprise and courage 455 this can easily be done. The Germans
have advertised and thrust, upon us a
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yesterday by the Mishima Maru en route The Peak Club will be open on Friday, to London to take up the appointment. October 9th, and every following Tuesday His Excellency, who is one of the foremost from 10 nm to 1 p.m. as a distributing of China's young men, is accompanied centre for materials for making comfortsy Mrs. Sze and their two children. The for soldiers and sailors and their families.party were met on board the liner by Mr. |
Ho Tung and other Chinese gentlemen, All wishing to make use of this centre are
and later proceeded to Blake Pier, where vited to attend on Friday.
Captain Bagnall (A.D.C. to H.E. the Governor) received the distinguished
To celebrate the fourth anniversary of
THE WAR.
THE
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visitor. A guard of honour was formed ALLIES RESUME THE OFFENSIVE. by a contingent from the 44th Pathans, with bagpipes.
The Chinese Minister was driven in
the establishment of the Portuguese Republic Mr. J. J. Leiria, the Portuguese Consul, was "At Home" at the Consulate Festerday warning and received a large number of residents. During the day R.L. Sir Henry May's motor-car to Breetings wezo exchanged between the Government House, and afterwards visite theed the Hon. Mr. D. Landale at the offices Comsulate and Lisbon, through Governor of Magna.
Mr. Anderson, the U.S. Consul-General in Hongkong, in an address at a luncheon given in his honour by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, expressed the opinion that the greater part of Europe's trade in the Orient will now be taken over by the United States. There was no doubt of this in his mind. This would follow just as surely as New York became the financial centre of the world following the outbreak of the war
At the Magistracy yesterday, before Mr. J. B. Wood, a Chinese who was formerly in the employ of the Hongkong and China
of Messrs. Jarline, Matheson & Co., and Mr. A. G. Stephen (acting Chief Manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank). He was the guest of Mr. Ho Tung at tiffin, and in the afternoon attended a recaption given in his honour by the
Enese Chamber of Commerce. The Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak presided at the reception, and there were also pre- rent Mr. So Cheung Yo (the Minister's Private Secretary, and
a son . former Chinese Minister London), Messrs. Chau Sau San And Yuen Ying San. (President and Vice-President respectively of the Chamber of Commerce), Ho Fook, Bo Kom Tong, Ng Hon Tez, Chan Kai Ming
of
to
Ho Wing, Yang Hee, Ho Kwong, Sin Tak Fan, Ho Lu, Lo Cheung Shiu, Ma Ying Più, U Hoi Chau, Li Po Kwai, Lai Sui Kam, Un Kam Wa, and Ip Lau Chun (Secretary to the Chamber of Commerce).
Gas Company, Ltd., as a fitter, was charged with the larceny as bailee of several lengths of piping, of the value of $5.75. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, who pro- secuted for the Gas Company, said that on the 18th September Police Sergeant The CHAIRMAN, in the course of a brief known to the general public, as well as Moore visited. No. 11, Sam To Lane, and speech welcoming the Minister, said that hosts of articles-cuaniel tins, scissors and found there the piping produced in Court it was three years since the Republic was razors, all manner of celluloid handles, and various gas fittings. A woman would inaugurated, and His Excellency was the and so on-chiefly known to the trade.be called who would say that the fittings first Minister appointed by the Repub Our people have: the opportunity, now were brought to the house at the direction lican Government to pass through the when this war is in progress, of producing of the defendant. The piping was placed Colony officially, and the first Minister equivalents to these German things. What in the house also by the defendant. On ever entertained by that Chamber. Pre- is not realised is that they may get pront enquiries being made in regard to certain sident Yuan Slii-kai had made no mistake out of the very popularity of the things abs done by the defendant, shortages of in selecting Mr. Alfred Sze for the high they supplant. People who have the habit piping were discovered, and these short-position of Minister to the Court of St. and practice of asking for these German ages were concorned in the charges before James. The international relations be A. S. WATSON & CO.. goods may easily be induced to substitute the Court Evidence was afterwards tween Great Britain and China were hap
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BIRTHS. CLARK-Da October 4th, at 102, The Peak,
to Mr. and Mrs. D. E. CLARK, a son. [1220 LONGHURST,On September 30th, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. J. HERVEY LONGRURST, a daughter.:
MARRIAGES.
BRYSON-MILLER On September 30th,
Shanghai, THOMAS LE BRYSON, to RHODA ISABELLA, only daughter of the Jare ANDREW MILLER and of Mrs. A. MILLER, of Shanghai, Chine GORRIE-MOLLOY. On September 30th, at Shanghai, JOHN EDWARD GORRIE 10 MARGANET ELIZABETH MOLLOY--both of Ballarat, Australia. PRATT-PARKIR On September 30th, at Shanghai, JOHN THOMAS PRATT, H.B.M.'s Consul at Tsinan, to EDT
the habit of asking for their British equivalents. We may change our custom- ary mouth washes or anti-headache drugs or throat antiseptics, just as we can buy a British toy instead of a German. But, first of all it le, in the American phrase, up to the manufacturers to supply the substitute and let it be known." The Board of Trade is taking practical steps to this end in the home market, while the Colonial Office is actively stimulating the trade war in the Colonies. We read of pre- parations being made to establish mann factories for the making of aniline dyes and synthetic drugs, two lines in which German commerce has long led the world; of efforts being made for the transference of the toy industry from South Germany to England, and it goes without saying that purchasers generally are showing patriotic aversion to buying German-made articles of any description. All this,
called, and the case remanded.
HOTEL SHOOTING AFFNAY.
BRITISH BLUEJACKET. WOUNDED.
somewhat mysterious shooting affray as the result of which a Swedish engineer named Almberg and a sailor named Blandford are detained by the police, recurred in Almberg's room in the annexe of the King Edward Hotel about 2.45 yesterday afternoon, the victim being a British sailor named Berry of H.M.B. Tamar, who now lies at the Naval Hospital.
The actual incidents which fed up to the affair are not obtainable at present, but what facts have been gleaned seem to point to the fact that the unfortunate happen- ing was the outcome of a drunken brawl. Almberg was in the public bar of the hotel in the morning, and it seems he eventually fell in with two bluejackets, one of whom
pily of the most cordial nature, and he was sure that His Excellency would do much to cament that friendship and to advance the common interests of the two. peoples
HIS EXCELLENCY, on rising to reply, was warmly received. He said he was grateful for the opportunity afforded him by pass- ing through Hongkong of obtaining first- and information concerning the Chinese in the Colony. They would be glad to know that peace was now prevailing in the country, and that in Peking the machinery of government was ranning smoothly and efficiently. It was a matter for gratification that the Internal Lan was progressing very satisfactorily. The Roman Catholic Mission in Shanghai had largely subscribed, and many foreign capitalists had patronised the loan. The people in the Provinces were also sub- scribing, which showed that they reposed trust in the Central Government. The
VIOLET PARKER, of Luxfield, Great of course, is to the good of British was Berry, and subsequently invited them great war in Europe, however, had
Baddow, Essex.
DEATH.
WARRENER. On September 29th,
Shanghai, DOROTHY MAY, wife of H. L. WARRENER, aged 21. HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, Dxe Veux ROAD C. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, 10.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, OCTOBER 6TH, 1914.
trade, enabling manufacturers not at only to keep their staffs fully em- W.ployed, but in many cases, no doubt, to bleeding from the hip, were discovered
and to assist in all ways in their engaged in a brawl in Almberg's room. give employment to a larger number of It is stated that the employees in power the developinent of the country's
While the war lasts, British neighbouring offices raised the alarm, vast natural resources. bande,
That, he said, manufacturers have an opportunity of and acting upon this a man named
Grant, an employee of the hotel, rushed was his message from the Government. He developing their business both at home into the annexe to the room where the assured his hearers that the Government and abroad such as they have never firing had taken place, and succeeded in were doing their utmost to further the taking the revolver from the user. One had before and may never get again, of the bluejackets, who it eventually interests of those concerned in the two It will be a very long time before transpired was Berry, was found to principal branches of China's export Germany will recover her former trade be bleeding from the hip and after Trado-silk and tea-and that they would in the countries with whom she is rst aid had been rendered by Dr. Fitz encourage development in every way. williams he was conveyed to the Naval now at war. For all the suffering Hospital. Almberg and the other sailor they are undergoing, and will have yet were taken to the Central Police Station. for a long time to undergo, they will hold The niun E. f. Almberg who has been detained, is an assistant in the firm of Germany hereafter to account. As one Nilsson & Co., and the sailor, Blandford, writer has strikingly said: "Germany's is from the Tamar. It has been ascertain power for evil has been accelerated by her ed that Berry was shot in the thigh in fortunately, not being of a dangerous rapid commercial expansion to which, in the region of the thorax, the wound,
nature.
to his room. About 2.45 shots were heard stopped in large measure the inflow of for- and three men, all of them but partially eign capital to China, and be appealed to attired in shorts and vesta, and one
the Chinese to participate in the Loan,
UNTIL sufficient time has elapsed to allow of-a-readjustment to the new trade condi- tions which the wax has suddenly set up, it is inevitable that in the manufacturing and commercial centres thousands of men and women will be thrown out of employment; but in the case of
the United Kingdom we are inclined her misplaced confidence, England has
The police have the matter in hand and
(Applause.)
In the evening His Excellency was entertained at the To Yuen Restaurant.
AN IMPUDENT FRAUD.
A remarkable example of cool check " was revealed in the bearing of a case of
to believe that the longer the war proceeds contributed a substantial share. Eng doubtless more tight will be thrown on the false pretences at the Magistracy yester
SPECIAL POLICE RESERVE ORDINANCE 1914
the more trade will improve and congeland is not likely to make the same affray within a few days, quently the unemployed question will mistake a second time. Germany become less acute. At all events there may depend upon it that by her is much in the Home papers received by ruthless assault upon the tenets of public the latest mails to induce that belief, morality, and the doctrines of interna After the country had been three weeks at tional law, thus bringing about a war war an official survey of unemployment unequalled in its magnitude and sacrifice in the United Ki gdon, as it had been of life in the history of the world, she has affected by the war, was stated to have left dealt to her commerce a blow from which a feeling of optimist in the minds of the she is not 'kely to recover in half a authorities. Apart from the cotton trade century.
“I observe from the above Bill published
An ex #Special Constable'' writes: received in part payment for in the Supplement to the Hongkong Government Gazette of Friday, October 2nd, 1914, that there is no mention of any remuneration to those who join the Special Police Reserve. May I respect fully suggest that before the Bill comes up for ils/sacond reading a clause be added setting forth the remuneration."
As a
day. A Chinese suffered the bereavement of a concubine, and engaged, after the Chinese custom, a number of "musicians' for the funeral ceremonies. Subsequently. a man came to him, aud, representing himself as the leader of the band, music rendered." The two men began to talk, and the bereaved one began to get suspicious. He asked the pseudo band. contractor how much more he owed him, and the latter replied 88.
been made for 87, contract had his suspicious were thus verified, and he promptly blew a whistle for the police. The other man immediately ran towards the stairs, and, being evidently desirous -HEALTH OF HONGKONG
of avoiding detention in Victoria Gaol, There were no cases of plague reported attempted to take them four at a stride, in the Colony last week.
So with the inevitable result. He was picked Department of
During the same week there was one up at the bottom by police, suffering from fatal imported Chinese case of cholera, shock." He received a farther shock at one fatal Chinese case of diphtheria, three the Magistracy when his Worship
of Lancashire, where marked depression was manifest before the war, and the anthracite coal export business of South Long is free from plague. Wales no industry, it was stated,
Wo are officially informed that Hong
3
presented a really black spot. There is Mr. Ralph Odell, Special Commissioner
authority for saying that the opening up for the United Stat visiting the
of
extensive schemes of relief works is not Commerce and Labour,
the policy that is under immediate con-Orient to investigate the opportunities for non-fatal cases of enteric fever (one sentenced him to three months' imprison- sideration: If the British export trade the exportation of cotton textiles to the to Germany: Belgium, France, and Russia Far East.
Indian and the rest Chinese, one beingment and four hours stocks. Two imported), and a non-fatal Chinese case previous convictions for false pretences. of puerperal fover, comma lueurs were proved by the police.
AVITE.
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BATTLE IN FULL PROGRESS ON THE LEFT WING.
LONDON, October 4th
1.20 p.m.
A Paris communiqué. says:--
Having repulsed all the enemy's attacks on our Left Wing, we have taken the offensive at various points. Elsewhere our positions are
maintained.
In the Centre there is no change. The enemy in Argonne has beart
harled back northward.
LONDON, October 5th.
1.30 a.m.
Paris official communiqué issued at 11 p.m. says that on the
Left Wing the battle is in full progress in the Arras region, and no decision has yet been reached...
The fighting has been Jess violent between the upper valley of the Ancre and the Somme, and also between the Somme and the Oise.
The French have progressed in the region of Boissons, where the
enemy's trenches were captured.
The lull continues along almost all the remainder of the front
The French have made some progress in Woenvre Letweeiz
Apremont and the Mouse and also on the Rupt-de-Mad
THE
FAVOURABLE MOMENT/
LONDON, October 4th. ep.m.
A Bordeaux official statement says that President Poincaré,
accompanied by MM. Viviani and Millerand, Premier and War Minister respectively, has started ou a visit to the Arinics in the field to conver the Government's congratulations. The President and Ministers for some time had intended to go, but hitherto the Military authorities deemed that
moment” had not arrived, the favourabl
GERMAN OPERATIONS AGAINST ANTWERP,
· LONDON, October 5th.
3.40 n.m.
An official announcement at Antwerp at 11 o'clock last evening. stated that the artillery battle bad continued all day, but the general situation remained unchanged.
GERMANS NEAR THE DUTCH FRONTIER.
LONDON, October 5th. An Amsterdam message states that the Germans have occupied
Lanneken, near the frontier
COMPLETE DEFEAT OF GERMANS AT AUGUSTOVO.
LONDON, October 5th-
2.33 &. m.
An official Petrograd message states that the battle at Augustovo ended on the 3rd inst. in the complete defeat of the Germans, who are fecing towards the frontier of Eastern Prussia pursued by the Russians.
DUTCH STEAMER SUNK BY A MINE.
Loshow, October 5th.
A Dutch steamer has been sunk by a mine in the North Sea. Tho
crow were saved.
PRAYERS FOR PEACE IN AMERICAN CHURCHES,
LONDON, October 5th.
In accordance with President, Wilson's request, prayers for peace were offered in all churches of the United States, yesterday,
BRITAIN'S LOYAL COLONIES.
LONDON, October 4th.
6.20 p.m.
The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. L. Harcourt) has gratefully accepted a war gift from Bermuda of £3,450 annually for fifteen
years.
DAILY PRESS EXCLUSIVE SERVICE).
JAPAN AND THE KIAOCHOW-RAILWAY.
PERIKO, October 5th. PERING,
It has been arranged that the Japanese shall control the Kinochow- Tsinanfu Railway, and that Chinese shall work the traffic.
China's protest remains, and the fate of the railway will be decided
after the War.