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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15TE, 1914,
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HONGKONG UNIVERSITY.
trade valued at Tis 28,427,000, Cotton The following extracts are made from goods form the chief line of import from the report on the proceedings of the Japan, and raw cotton may be considered University for the year 1913-1014 presented the principal export to Japan. With to the Court at the meeting held on Grmantrada entirely suspended and October 15th and published in the Uniter
sity Magazine:-
A
RANDOM REFLECTIONS.
MORE KULTUR.”““
Reference has been made in the Daily ENGLISH AND JAPANESE SPAT AT
IN BERLIN. Press on several occasions to the mendacious character of news from longlong relating to the war, which as from time to time found its way into London a small party of Japanese mer-
As
East. the newspapers of the Far
reader in Hongkong, how Buildings. At the beginning of the For the r Season it was foreseen that the Hostel over, this news has frequently not accommodation would become quite inade been without humourous aspects. Emden
has quate within a short period. The Council a recent example, I observe that
more the destruction of the authorized the erection of two
kong correspondent an Hostels on the site immediately in rear of given some will accommodate 04 students cach, and negligible in addition provide quarters for 2 married members of the staff, as Wardens, and for 2 bachelors. The ground floor of one Hostel is already occupied while the builders proecol with the completion of the other.
a little story which has been whispered during the past week in well-informed This is the circles in Hongkong." story :--
WAR NEWS.
LORD KITCHENER AND SOUTH AFRICA.
KEPT IN FILTHY CELLS.
The paper South Africa contains the At the end of October there arrived in text of a telegram sent by Earl Kitchenor to General Botha in connection with the phants and students. They were the first visit of Colonel Sir Aubrey Woolls.
Dod
to Major Pickburn of their nation to reach England from Sampson
England with the object of forming u Germany since the declaration of war, and an interesting story of their treatment by South African Corps for service in the Kaiser's cultured subjects was Europe. The text of the telegram is an Woolls-Sampson has asked me what number, Messrs. S. Kaneko and S.
he can do to help the cause anil tho given to the Daily Graphic by two of their
Miyagawa.
how South Africans can do were travelling through Germany up and how, in my view every man
Follows:
mosì.
German ships laid up in Home or neutral. ports till the end of the war, increased efforts are being made by the Japanese to extend their trade not only in Tsingtao but everywhere in Chica Both the Nippon Yusen Kaisha and the Osaka Shosen Kaisha are preparing to open WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, regular shipping services to Tsingtao
We notice that a Japanese writer refers the present buildings. These now Hostels opportunity to tell in a Manila paper as the representatives of a Japanese mer in the Union ought to go at once for to the Japanese shipping trade with Tsingtao as being quantity, but in point of fact the Japanese ships entering and clearing the port have been almost as numerous as the German and British ships, though in tonnage last year the Japanese total was only $70,315 a5.compared with 1,102,400 German and 834,038 British. It will to noted that the shipping tonunge, so far as Germany is concerned, bears little relation to the value of the trade of that country, and we need hardly mention for the information of Eastern readers that the VERY SUPERIOR OLD PORT WITH explanation of this great preponderages in the shipping tonnage returns is to STYLE AND CHARACTER.
Per Dozen $32.30
WATSON'S
D. PORT
WATSON'S
D. SHERRY
SUPERIOR PALE DRY.
Far Dozen $26.25
These Wines
who have fought there--Afrikander and Briten shall be represented here if the war is still in progress, and I hope that all will serve the Empire loyally. If you care to publish this expression of my opinion as being likely in any way to Om my advice, Woolls- help you--and that is its only object- please do so. Sampson is going back to South Africa
an August 20th, three days before our see that matter through properly. After chant firm," explained Mr. Kaneko," and the Gormans in South-West Africa, and country went do war with the Kaiser, we this is completed I will see that those arrived in Berlin from Leipaie. At Berlin we were politely asked to go to the police station, and when we refused on the ground that we wished to see our Ambas- sader, the police said they only wanted to examine our passports. But their attitude changed as soon as we entered the station. We were completely undressed, every piece of paper was taken from us, and then we were put in a cell about nine fect square There we found a Japanese lady who had condition cannot be described, for the coll alept in the place for three nights. Her was overrun with vermin.
at once-KITCHENER."
BRITISH AND GERMAN SOLDIERS.
A CONTRAST.
An officer commanding an Infantry petion on Brigade thus describes an action ou
six feet. Now the seaman knew the Emden, it was impossible for us to eat the food October 24th: and
We had a great fight were attacked all day-the brigade tid splendidly and inflicted great loss on the enemy. The Queen's made a most gallant
Two platoons Gloucesters (100 strong) charge, and the Gloucesters and Welsh did splendid work from their trenches. fired over 800 rounds per man, lost all their officers and many non-commissioned officers, bad the Germans within 50 yards,
It appears that, but for the know-all spirit on the part of the lieutenant of a British submarine, the Emdea would never have lived to do the damage she did. In point of After much deliberation it was decided fact, her moments were numbered very shortly after she slipped ont of Tsingtan if by the Council that the provision ofnt it is the "if that counts here) the quarters for the staff was a matter for officer in question had had sense enough to prompt action, in view of the scarcity of know that a man under him had had more. suitable houses near the University and experience than he and had taken the well- the high rentals asked. Messrs. Leigh & meant advice of that man Change were accordingly asked to prepare
The submarine in question, in point of
IMPOSSIBLE TO EAT THE FOOD.. plane, and one large single houss and two fact, was within striking distance of the
"We were kept in this prison from blocks of semi-detached houses are in Emden and tras preparing to discharge her course of creation and are expected to be torpedo when the order want forth Down August 20th until September 9th, and as ready for occupation in June, 1915. be found in the fact that Taingine was a A block now being built at the back of knew his own vessel, and knew what to do. they served out, we had to pay 8.60 marks port of call for the big German liners the University main building will accomDown two feet, sir," said he, and was per day for food to be sent in Then on which were running to the East before moito machine, carpenter's and black promptly told (so it is stated on good the oth all the prisoners-English, French, the outbreak of the war.
The war, smith's shops and a drawing office. In authority) to mind his own dd business. Russian and Japanese-were called into no matter how soon it may ead, will addition & small building to contain a That was what he was doing, one shonk the yard, surrounded by a guard of 40
storage
battery was erected during the suppose, but mind your own business soldiers with rifles and fixed bayonets, and with some British officers means give over ordered to march. They compelled us to make a great difference in that respect, year, for there is little probability, we The School of Anatomy was completed thinking. At any rate, down six feet it carry our own luggage, and soon the read
uf imagine,
such
-large
German during the Autumn Term (1913), and has was, and the torpedo went under its mark became strewn with discarded bags and
and not a man retired. Some of their provided much needed facilities for the Four feet higher and there would have heen portmanteaux, which were quickly snatch Tsingtao chips calling at
again
Medical students.
no Emden to figure large in contemporary ed up by the onlookers. I shall nover. for some years to come. The trade o₤i
Equipsical-Throughout the year the history. But that will always happen so forget that five-mile march. The children bayonets were shot off their rifles and performance. The Welsh also sat out an; Japan, liko that of every other commercial University has reo:ived a steady stream of long as men who don't know are too baughty and the women spat at us all the way and they had over 60 casualties a grand never ceased to call us dirty swine.attack by mobs of Germans and downed
Our new prison was near the race them splendidly. country, has suffered by the outbreak of Engineering equipment of the most varied to take a hint from those who do. **
course of Spandau. All the, horses were We may contrast with this a descrip- war, but the employment returns show Gracier nearly all presented by different. This story was presented by the writer
rms in England. The work of installing: that in certain lines of trade steady the machinery has been carried out con- of it as a contrast to another about the gone, so they put us in a stable, with not reenery is thready set although there is a large Kenue, the point of the contrast being piece of straw to place between our tion of the German private soldier, sent about 20 Englishmen, 10 Japanese, and a I have had the opportunity of seeing to increased demands from China for quantity of material due to arrive shortly that "there are officers and offers bodies and the concrete floor. There were M.P
the Engineering Department is in a posi- are specially manufactured articles which formerly then to provide practical instruction in and that some are adored by the crew and few Russians and French. On the second large numbers of German prisoners. The He goes to came from
A refrigerating plant for the school of trast between the two stories is that the horse-cloth, and the quality of the food Bismarck's description.
nicet certain death in the service with the was so vile that those who had any money
simple words, At your orders, but if anatomy has now been erected and is of
for all prisoners. This had to serve both ho has to act on his own responsibility Library. The Library continues to marine never was there
hemel was at Tsingtao, and the sub
for eating and washing, and for knives.dreads the criticism of his superior officer. the import market, at all events not until receive donations of books from many
„propos, many readers will doubtless and forks we had to use our fingers. or of the world more than death, to the sources. A valuable edition of the China New Year.
Buddhist Scriptures was presented by ko reminded of a delightful picture in Twice a week the women and children extent of allowing his energy and correct
came to mock at us,
judgment to be impaired by the four of Mrs. Hardcon of Shanghai, and among
blame and reproof other donors may be mentioned The recent lunch of a burly Jack Tar and ENGLISH LADY'S KINDNESS. Government of India; The Government a pale-faced reporter our specially "Those dark days have two bright They possess wonderful Printing Ofice Washington, USA; Credulous correspondent"-seated in a spots. The American Ambassador, age. But this kind of courage is far numerons Colonial Governments; Messrs. railway carriage. The reporter, with Gerard, often called to talk with the more liable to wholesale demoralization Englishmen, and he also helped the than that in which each individual Constable & Co., Messra. Longmans, Green notebook in hand, is feverishly writing as Japanese in every possible way. And depends on himself. It depends, more- & Co, Mesers. MacMillan & Co., Messrs. Jack, between pulls at his cutty, describes then there was an English lady, Sister over, upon the officers to maintain it. Noronha & Co., Mr. T. K. Dealy and Dr. GP. Jordan. The University has ander how he sayed his vessel from being Ethel Coe, who worked under the protec Germans, without their officers, are like of their officers is boing exhausted, and. taken the custody of the Morrison torpedoed this I see the torpedo tion of the American Embassy, slept in men who have lost their way. The supaly
the prison, and did what she could to Library, for many years housed in the City Hall.
approachin' us; so, without waitin fer make things more comfortable for us, "Undergraduates.—The number of ander any orders, I diven overboard, just gives. We shall never forget the Kness of graduates enrolled during the year was 49, im a flick on is little rudder, an off those two people, the total on the Reg ster for the Session goes to starb'd an' paseos is armlessly 1913-1914 being 121, of whom 35 entered the Faculty of Medicine, 69 the Faculty of by Would it be cruel to suggest that Engineering and 24 the Faculty of Arts some Jack Tar in Hongkong must have These figures include three External pulled the leg of the Manila paper's
tudents.
correspondent in the same way 1
a
recommended, being of Superior Until Chin, ermany and Austria. almost every branch. Mais do some are not.. But I think the chief con night they gave us a straw mattress and a more I see of them the truer seems
trade shows there
export signs: of revival, however,
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A Chinese gren er was crushed to death in some machinery at the Cement works at Kowloon on Saturday.
The Manila Observatory yesterday gave warning of a cyelone or typhoon E. of the Ladrone or Mariana Islands, direction
unknown.
refused to eat it. There was a single bowl
musk-cour-
owing to their undemocratic system, others cannot be found from the ranks to hollowness at the heart of the replace them. For these reasons there
expect surprising results in the ure
which leads me to German resistance
The weakly retura of communicable discasos show that last week two cases of diphtheria and one case of enteric fever
It will be seen that these numbers repre (all Chinese patients) were reported rent the undergraduates of two years only,
and cannot be taken as any indication of One caso of diphtheria ended fatally
the normal complement of the University, Sir John Jordan, K.C.M.G., H. M. Ten students from Chengtu and Yunnaniu Minister in Peking, arrived in Shanghai have entered the University and savera on residents in Hongkong repeatedly prisoners wrote their names in our album the ruses they have employed to deceive
on
Government. The calendar in English
Since the war began the truth of the proverb that one must go abroad to learn of the news at home has been impressed
“' On October 2nd all the prisonera word marched to a place five miles from Span dan, and were ordered to carry back with them iron bedsteads which weighed 100 kilos each. When we reached the prison again there were few of us whose shoulders wore not raw. The next day, through the exertions of the American Ambassador, we were liberated, and made our way from Berlin to London vid Switzerland and France. A NE
Before we left some of the English and gave us letters for delivery to their friends. Most of the Englishinen came from London, and they were hoping to be exchanged when we left. Those who gave
their names were:--
Mr. Cedrio H. Stokes. Mr. AEQuin," Mr. Moreton Phillips Mr. John H. Thorpe Mr. Cyril 8, Curtis. Mr. Ernest J. Thomson. 8. J. Thomas. Alexander Allan James Molloy
THE INDIAN TROOPS.
FIELD-MARSHAL FEENCE'S EULOGY.
Field Marshal Sir John French in a despatch says: Since the arrival of the Jndians I have been much impressed by their initiative and resource. Some of the enemy have been attended with the best results. They have, without doubt, kept superior forces in front of their at bay. The General Officer Commanding the Indians describes their conduct and, bearing in the strange conditions and new surroundings as highly satisfactory. I am able, from my own observation, to fully corroborate this statement."
GERMAN CASUALTIES:
Thirty-eight official German casualty lists for the period from the middle of September to the end of October contain 601,438 nozes. Fifty-eight lists of Saxon, 50 of Bavarian and 61 of Wurtem burger casualtics are not included in the above total.
the 8th inst, from the capital, from Chilli have been sent by their The following from a recent Manila Travelling by the Tito Pukow lina and in Chinese has been widely circulated paper may be cited as the latest illustra His Excellency was accompanied by B's and has provoked inuich interest; it is tion
found that the Chinese edition is being There have been orders issued in Hongus private secretary, Mr. A. H. George.
The kong against the promiscuous discussion of widely read and enquired for. thanks of the University are due to the war, but such orders don't bother Henry The Hongkong Local Centre of the .M.'s Consuls in China who have very D. Woolfe, who is now sojourning in the Institution of Electrical Engineers holds kindly forwarded copies of the calendar Crown Colony, according to tidings brought its first meeting at the Royal Artillery to provincial and local officials.
Friday by the steamer Taming Manila's Financial difficulties arising from the well-known citizen is attempting to free the Theatre, Victoria Barracks, tomorrow
present European War have prevented Madrigal steamer Rio Pasig from the overing, when Col. W. Baker Brown, a svemul men joining the University.
chutches of the British authorities and in member, will deliver a lecture entitled, The University authorities were much the meantime is gaining a wide reputation
Some Military Uses of Electricity gratified on being informed by Mr. Ellis among the Hongkong people as an over-When we crossed the frontier we con Kedoorie that he wished to devote the sum ready debater on all subjects, war or maled the album in the lining of a great The members of the Local Centre extend a of £4,000 a year for four years to further otherwise. If the officers on board the coat, and placed the letters in our boots. cordial invitation to all ladies and gentle-ing the work of the University With Mr. Taming are to ho balioved, Houry already" But freedom did not bring an end to Kadoorie's consent this sum has been knows more people than Hongkong's pioneer our troubles. In Berlin no hotel would
resident. men interested.
allocated to the Lectureship in Physics.
Koude take us; we were not even permitted to At the request of the Government of There's the rubl. Are those officers on the walk in the streets, and the only way of Even in
to conduct. Local Examinations to replace affidavit on the subject How is it that of the people, for girls ran after the and, Hongkong arrangements are being made Taming prepared, I wonder, to swear an getting about was by taxicab,
the cab we were not safe from the insults
the Hongkong newspapers have omitted to jumped on the board, and spat in our and those ranking as officere, of there of the Oxford Delegacy.
tell us about the presence of Henry D., faces. At last we obtained lodgings the German prisoners of war from with an Englishwoman who had married ever-ready debater on all subjects, war
a German, but we could get no food at the or otherwise "? Is the wicked Press restaurants. Twice we were thrown out Censor to blame for this, as for so many and told that the restaurant was no place
for Japanese, pigs. other things i other
HONGKONG, DECRUITO 1518, 1914,
WHATEVER may be the future political status
frequent of Tsingtao, the
From Tsingtau, n Tientsin paper references in the Japanese papers to the learns that there is now a chily train trade possibilities of the territory make plain the fact that no opportunity will service between that port and Tsinantu, be neglected which offers to merchants and the rates both for pass gors and Japan a prospect of the father freight have been reduced from the German scale. There are a number of development of that country's commercial interests there which had already grown foreign visitors to the plac, including to important dimensions before the members of the French Legation from outbreak of war. According to one who Peking and two American military is described as a noted authority on the vilicers, No Germans or Austrians are trade possibilities of Japan, Tsingtao is at present allowed to live there. destined to rank with Hongkong and
almost one-third of the vast Republic of
THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE.
The Hongkong University, not to be out-done by Educational institutions of smaller pretensions in the Colony, has. row its Magazine, whose main purpeas is to galvanise all members of the Union
A little story is floating about in connection with the Reserves field day at Fan ling recently which ought not
that Society which is the only repre to go unrecorded. One of our gallant sentative of University Ffe in the defenders, at the end of a strenuous day,
interesting the general public in the growing usefulness of the University Wo learn from its pages that there are now on the Staff sight full-time profes
On October 7th we were escorted to
can attaché. At Geneva and Lucerne the Switzerland by Mr. Winslow, the Ameri hatred of Germany is intense.
The Germans have kept 5,000 marks of mine, said Mr. Kaneko, in conclusion, but my Government will get it back when Germany is beaten as she must be.
ha be there.
THE SHANGHAI SCOTTISH
JAPAN. GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN
A Tokyo telegram says the officers,
The
Tsingtao number altogether $29. N.C.Os and men number 4,126, making a grand total of 4,343 now in Japan.
THE KAISER'S TITLES.
provided by an order which was found on
opera
At the Magistracy yesterday, an Indian Shanghai in commercial importance was charged with wounding another
If means for facilitating traffic are Indian with a knife. According to the Colony." It will serve many other was wearily wending higit And if the Japanese fight her over here I Warsaw The order says that Belgium provided," be afirms, the products of story for the prosecution, the complainant useful purposes as well, notably by aloped arms, towards the Golf Club, China might be concentrated in that port requested the defendant to repay certain and the prosperity of the place would money which he alleged was due to him There was a quarrel, and the defendant be astounding." The rapid growth of the trade of the port since the German drew a knife and stabbed the other man occupation certainly affords ground for optimism in
petrand of this respect. Ten years age 3,437,000 Hk. Taols in imports and but 345,000 Tuels in exporte; last year the value of the importe Ran
and exports 12,050,000 Taels: Japan,
ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
where, by wise forethought, he had made provision for a change of attire, when he was gonially accosted in Chinese by a patriarch of one of the neighbouring. in the side of the leg, and then took to sors, ten full-time and large number
villages with the inquiry: "Had a his heels. He was shortly afterwards of part-time lecturers. The Total
good day with the birds, sir?" What eaught and taken into custody
number of students now on the rulls is a nice picture could be made out of this 131 and extensions to the buildings are incident for the pages of Punch! Mr. C. M. Bain presided, and there were Wood remanded the case.
already in hand. We suppose," says a suppose it was rustio innocence, but it note in the Magazine," that the many have been rustic wit.
ime is not far distant when the MO
Mr
A FALSE ALARM NAPOLEUN
Further evidence of the Kaiser's mad ness, says a Petrograd dispatch, has been a wounded German after the battle of is a province of Germany, France has heon severely punished, and the tions against Russia a brilliant success.
Notwithstanding this, the Kaiser Found it necessary to exhort his troops to concentrate their energies on the repulso of the Allies in the fear that Germany would become a province of Russia or A very enthusiastic meeting of members France, which is not at all unlikely The of the newly-forsted Shanghai Scottish Kaiser's final words were: Remember. was held at the Town Hall last week not one step backward into our country.” This his troops have observed faith- nearly sixty members present out of a fully, for they have not confined their list of seventy-four. The meeting was retreat before the Russians to one step. bat have extended it for miles, and are called for the purpose of decking officers. One is constantly seeing in the papers of the company. Mr. C. H. Rutherford now being forced to accept battles in A Petrograd paper says that the Kaiser at the front. Our sailors on the ships Campbell second in command, bota United Berdang is offering 220,009 extensions.
which are keeping vigil in the North Sea appointments being unanimous. The is a false alarm Napoleon," whose shares at 36. premium.
The first number of the Magazine runs have theft relaxations also. A letter just proposal that a committee be formed utterances are those of an imbecile. to rearly fifty pages, and we congratulate received in Hongkong from a Middy on composed of the officers, ex-officio, an obsessed with the sole, idea that a word the editors on producing a first number one of these warships refers to a success three members of the company, was left from him can inspire victory. The Kaiser of euch excellent promise. A feature of in which he participated in the Fleet in abeyance, and Mr. F. E. Walker was is not God, as he would have the world the Magazine is a coloured impression of Regatta at the end of October The Fleet unanimously elected hon, secretary believe, nor is God his special patron. At the close of the meeting, Mr. C. M. He is just a miserable weed who has had the good fortune to inherit a throno to "Our Senior Dean (Dr. Francis Regattu! Think of it 19
Bain was heartily thanked for presidings detriment of the German people in RODERICK RANDOM. Clark), done after a long way after the
on the proposition of Hr. Rutherford,
general. **** famous Spy cartoons.
THE RUBBER WORLD
The following London telegram dated football ground at the side of the Profes States papers-
uwing to her advantageous geographical December 1st appears in the MRI or houses will be used for further references to our soldiers playing football was elected captain, and Mr. G. their own country
position, commands the largest share of that trado Last year the value-of- Japan's imports into Tsingtao was Tis, 8,300,000-mors than half the total import trade of the port-while her exports were of the value of Tia. 2,116,000, which is about one-sixth of the total export trade. Gernmoy's chore of the imports was Tls.
Malecon Plantations is fedeeming £40,000 of Debentures.
The following interim dividends have
been declared :—
Kapur Para, 15 per cent. Glenshiel, 5 per cent. Ulu Rantau, 5 per cent