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as one of peaceful and cultured co-opera- tion between rations who have no hatred for each other; for Germany's ominous personality will have been changed by the circumstances of war, and the reason for the continuance of anything approaching
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Humphreys wo TELEGRAMS.
among the passengers who arrived by P.M. steamer Korea yesterday,
The Appropriation Bill for 1915 pr sented in the Philippino Assembly In
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THE HARBIN MUNICIPALITY.
PEKING, December 14th.
An agreement between British and Russians at Harbin has been signed, whereby the Municipal Council will include one British and one non-Russian. British subjects will pay duos
and
censed. A writer, looking ahead to the P. 20,471,523.83 time when the danger of another great war P. 24,703,223.72 for last year. will have been removed, draws attention to
Captain Owen Jones, F.D., R.NE, what is nothing more nor less than an armament farce, and suggests a by nonfly in command of the P. & O. lis means illogical solution. His chief bomb Nankin, has been selected to fill te is The big armament firms, of which highly important position of an Elar taxes for Municipal purposes.
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. the colossal manufacturing firm of Krupps is the centre, must (when this all-deciding war is ended) be abolished as private war ruatorial mongers. Then comes the following Ineid explanation: When one
HIGH-CLASS
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Brother of Trinity House, which s
rendered vacant by the death of Captan Flint, R.NR.
Sir John Anderson, Permanent Undr
CHINA'S FIRST AGRICULTURAL
EXHIBITION.
PEKING, Desember 14th.
THE TROUBLE IN MEXICO,
ENSURING THE SAFETY OF AMERICANS.
WASHINGTON, December 8th. Preparing to meet the crisis on the border of Mexico, where it is alleged that for the past two months or more wholesale ortrages have been committed, Becrotary of War Lindley M. Garrison, to-day, acting under instruedio s from President Woodrow Wilson, ordered General Tasker Bliss to proceed from El Paso to Naco with three hatteries of the Sixth Field Artillery
The Artillery will leave El Paso at day break to-morrow and orders have been given to the commander of the Ninth) Cavalry now on border patrol to retire. to one mile from the border. "Mam
In official circles here it is admitted that the Mexican situation is exceedingly critical and in some quarters it is believed that such an acute state has been reached United States may be fome
Secretary of State for the Colonies, as The first Agricultural Exhibition in that intervention of some sort by the
WAR NEWS.
LATE TELEGRAMS.
[FROM SOUTHERN PAPERS.]
FOOTBALL AND RECRUITINGL
LONDON, December 5th. At a conference of the National Football-
Association it was resolved that there was no evidence that football hindered recruit ing. It recommends, however, the abandonment of International matches.
PORT SAID IMMUNE.
LONDON, December the Cairo: British neroplanes are constantly reconnoitring over the Sinai Peninsula. There is no sign of the enemy. Hostile camps at Katia and Bitralnuss have been destroyed and the enemy have retreated to the east.It is probable that the Bedouins British expedition to the Gulf of Aden, reported on November 20th
considers the position of such a firm as appointed Mr. J. R. W.. Robinson, China will be opened on the 26th inst. at It is believed that President Wilson received a lesson not to be forgotten by the
Krupps, the whole affair becomes farcical, Here we have a private frm which practically owia and certainly dominates the whole town of Essen, As Essen is an unfortified town, six other towns around are fortified to protzet it. The German people have had to pay taxes to guard the Krupp interest from the very things the Krupp owners lived upon. That state of VERY SUPERIOR OLD PORT WITH things cannot be allowed to continue
STYLE AND CHARACTER.
WATSON'S
SHERRY
SUPERIOR PALE DRY
What we shall want when Germany has been beaton will be a general confederation of the Powers to see that peace is kept, Per Dozen $32.30 | and for that purpose an international military and naval police force must bo formed. That is plain. We have suffered enough from accouncil crazes and scares;" wo have allowed the German War Lords too much latitude in the past; when we have crushed them wo mast see to it that no others of a like nature can take their place." International strife is as the breath of life to these private manufac Per Dozen $26.25 | turers of destructive material, and the fact that Krupps worked in Germany and at the same time, in the usual innocent These Wines Are specially course of business, supplied munitions to other countries, we of which are now recommended, being of Superior at war with Germany, only enhances the tragic nature of the fact explained Vintage, Old, and thoroughly above. The story of the naval race between Great Britain and Germany, and matured and in line condition.
its enormous financial burden to each country, is now an ancient one, and the results up to date show that Great Britain was acting fully in nccurd with
the Colonial Office, to be privesc secretary, in place of Mr. A. B. Keith,. appointed Professor of Sanskrit had Comparative Philology in the University. of Edinburgh,
in the Ipoh Police Court on the Eh inst., Behn, Meyer & Co. were fined for failing to file a list of director in conformity with the Companies Acil. It was stated in defence that the frm did not know this had to be done till last September when, owing to the war, there was much difficulty.
Peking
THE CHINESE CALENDAR. -
PERING, December 14th. The Metropolitan Police will compel
has been spurred to action by Governar Hunt of Arizona who has forwarded to Washington the many appeals for protec tion that he has received following the shooting down of Americans on the Arizona side of the border by Mexicans.
Last Friday & more serious outbreak
publishers of calendars to conform to the occurred in the vicinity of Naco, and authorised system.
CHINA AND TSINGTAU
PERING, December 15th. Mr. F. A. Aglen, Inspector General of China's Imperial Maritime Customs, Five Chinese were ined $10 each or a protests against Japanese Customs officers month's imprisonment yesterday for sciog taking charge of Tsingtan, as such on Military property at Whitfield Bar- racks, Austin Road, without permission.ppointments are vested in the Inspector They said they had gone them to beg Inspector Gordon said that during last been entered and brass and bolts stolen month a number of empty houses had
General.
CHINA AND THE MONGOLIAN
RAILWAY AGREEMENT.
PERING, December 15th. Russia lias replied to the Chinese protest against the Mongolian railway sgreement that the matter was done with tho
The Fire Brigade carly yesterday morning were called to a fire at 1, Sni Street. A four-storied building was com- pletely gufted. The ground floor was used as a roast pork shop, the second and third floors as deelings, and the top floor u onomous competence of the Urge
The fire is sup-authorities as a tailor's workship. posed to have originated in the chimney. The roofs of the two adjoining housca were damaged by fire
CHINESE WOMAN RUN DOWN
BY MOTOR TENDER
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
CAPTURING. THE GERMAN TRADE,
LONDON, December 15th.
Governor Hunt immediately sent a request to the State Department here asking that steps he taken to protect the American citizens residing on the border.
In the protest which Governor Hunt sent here last Friday, he said that duris the past month or more 47 Americans have been hit by bullets coming from the Mexican side. Of this number he declares 14 have died. Five American soldiers are reported among the dead.
WASHINGTON, December 10th. General Tasker W. Bliss who has been ordered by the Secretary of War, abier under instructions from President Wilson, to proceed to Naco to take command there has been given specific instructions to return with artillery any shots which Hostile Mexicans may fire across the border.
The War Department in its order advises General Bliss aggressively,
not to act
HONGKONG SANITARY
BOARD.
The usual fortnightly meeting of this Authority was held yesterday, tho JAPAN'S TRADE WITH AUSTRALIA. President of the Department (Mr. G. N. Orme) presiding. There were also pre sent:-Hon Mr. E. A Hewett, C.M.G., Lieut-Colonel Gordon-Hall, Messrs, A telegram from Sydney says the tradeF. B. L. Bowley, Chan Kai Ming, and A.S. WATSON & CO.. the signs and portents in always going
Ng Hon Tsz, with the Medical Officer of Mr. F. A. Hazeland (Coroner) and a of New South Wales with Japan Health (Dr. Francis Clark) and the a few better than Germany each time a jury composed of Meurs T. X. C. da displaying satisfactory progress. Japan Secretary to the Board (Mr. W. Bowen- LIMITED,
naval programme was launched. “But Rozarin, A. H. Ferguson and A. Joanitho is showing an active interest in goods
Rowlands) perhaps the browning complaint of all, held an ingungen beste agotad--by Germany to New adds the same writer, in the present circumstances attending the death South Wales. Already the Japanese system, is that the firms which now arm of a Chinese woman named Ho exports show a marked increase. the nations are not very much concerned | Tai, - who
was knocked down by
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us to which nations they arm. Austrian the motor tender of the Hougkong FireFROM THE MANILA "CARLENEW-AMERICAN," soldiers are fighting Russians with guns Brigade on the 3rd December in Queen's GREAT STORM IN THE ATLANTIC made in France-Russia's ally-by firms 2d, at the bottom of Garden Road. capitalised by Russian armament manne woman was sent to the Government facturers. And so it is all round. The Civil Hospital, add succumbed to her
wir material manufacturers are so linked up in companies and syndicates that nearly every shareholder in armament works has, at some time, drawn dividonda from weapons supplied to the enemy of his own country." Comment on this state of things is unnecessary, and the only remedy, of course, is that privat exploitation of war must cease, and
lajuries,
Dr. Monte (Assistant Medical Super- intendent of the Civil Hospital) said the vonian diel ou the evening of the 3rd intt, the cause of death being shock and hemorrhagova
Station Officer Arthur Lane depo ed that the tender was proceeding alang Queen's Road about 5.15 p.m. on the
INSPECTION OF FOODSTUFFS.
On the motion of the PRESIDENT, second- ed by the Hon. Mr. HEWEIT, Sanitary Inspectors Ward, Elliott, Davies, and Wood were authorised to enter premises with Section 83 of the Public Health and and inspect and seizo food in accordance
Buildings Ordinance No. 1 of 1903.
INSANITARY LANES.
The military authorities have inundated many square miles of desert cast of Port Said, rendering Port Said immune.
NEW GERMAN AMBASSADOR TO
ROME.
LONDON, December 6th. Home: Ex-Chancellor Buelow is Appointed Ambassador at Rome. His wito belongs to a distinguished Italian fantily. It is thought that this means that Berlin is about to exercize the utmost pressure to prevent Italy joining the
endente..
SCOTTISH SOLDIER'S AMAZING HEROISM.
LONDON, December 6th, The Gazette announces that the Victoria. Cross has been given to Private George Wilson, Highland Light Infantry, for most conspicuous gallantry at Verneuil on September 14th, by attacking a hostilo
machine gun accompanied by only one mam..
When the latter was killed, he vent op alone, shot an officer and six men work- ing the gun and captured it.
GERMAN DECEPTION.
LONDON, December 7th. Eye-Witness, writing from headquarters, says many a German soldier is convinced that Calais and Paris are under German It is noteworthy that the Occupation. Germans placarded a station at Ostend with the name Kales, doubtless aiding the deception. The Gormans wantonly destroyed the historic Cloth Hall and Cathedral at Ypres with heavy batteries directed by captive balloon.
SWEDEN AND DENMARK.
منست
LONDON, December 7th, Stockholm Sweden and Denmark have prohibited the export of materials for the manufacture of war material.
KAISER'S IMPERIAL HOMAGE"
TO FRENCH VALOUR,
The Patrie learns that the Kaiser
hospital and said :— I give my imperial homage, gentlemen, to your valeur. Not- withstanding the present cruel circum staners, I do not despair of seeing France friendship, and Germany united in ties of sincere
addressed the French wounded in Metz
NEW YORK, December 8th. An unprecedented storm has swept over to Atlantic coast destroying whole vil The report was presented of the Com lages and towns and doing "rreparable mities (composed of the President, the damage in the larger cities and ports.
The whole of lower New York is flooded and Chan Kai Aling) appointed to con- Medical Officer, Messra. P. W. Goldring and the gay amusement parks at Coney sider the best means of dealing with the Island and Brighton beach have been present insanitary condition of certain * EYE-WITNESS" REPLACED.
tactically effaced by the force of the lanes and passages which are used in Stone sweeping in from the open real common by two or more tenants. The
Colonel Swinton, the Eye Witness” Reports coming from all along the coast.
present with the General Headquarters of iidicate that hundreds of mips at report stated
The British Expeditionary Force, whose undered and even in the most secure. We have inspected on several occasions descriptive accounts have been read with harbours the shipping has suffered the condition of the alleyways, lanes, and much interest, has, according to the heavily
sards abutting on blocks of offices and every nation must own its own armament 3rd, when, on approaching the City Hall, and the fores of the wiad has been in but one tenant, and find that most of the Percy. The change is due to the fact that The storm is the worst in the memory dwellings which are occupied by more than eng News, been suceeded by Lord works. This matter of the nationalisa near Garden Road a Chiness woman came few instances equalled. tion of armaments in much more along, carrying baskets on a pole. The
misaares complained of are caused by Colonel Swinton has many other duties to The force of the storm has been felt servants throwing refuse of all kinds from
perform important than is generally understood, front wheel of the car passed the woman,
wurst along the coast of the New England the windows and balconies of upper floors OUR CONTEMPTIBLE ARMY.” and the scheme suggested is included in but one of her baskets struck the cap of Jersey coast suffered heavily, the small present law is inadequate to deal with such and Middle Atlantic States The New into these areas. We consider that the the following:-" Thus we come to an the wheel and she was knocked down. The vilinges being exposed to the direct sweep occurrences, as it is in most cases impossible an article from a correspondent who was The Giornale d'Italia (Rome) publishes inornational force, the units of which string of the basket fouled the wheel cap, of both the wind and water relling from to ascertain which tenant is responsible, and present at the fall of Antwerp. Writing are armed, not by profit-making firms, and as the string became taut the motor
the Atlantic but by their respectivo Governments. der dragged her along for a short proportions of a small tidal wave. The of the following sub-section: ()-Where two great moral forces, pride of race and In New York city the storm assume Health Ordinance he amended by the addition of the British forces he says For them WESTALL-On November 4h, at Fre-Obviously this fores cannot act without distence, and the rear wheel of the tender Battery for several blocks north way landing, stairway, closet, or urinal which is wonderful as the soldiers. Also one never war is essentially sport. They fight with mantle, Australia, Lieut.
whole lower part of the city from the CAMERON WESTALL, H.M.S. Pyramus,
some moral power boing behind it to
annisance arises in any lane, yard, passage, indifference to danger. The officers are as went over her before the machine could be flooded son of A. C. Westall, Shanghai, govern its activities: an international
stopped. They were going very slow at tribunal will therefore be necessary. the time, and stopped immediately, flimsy structures housing the amusement workshops, or stores, notice under this What matters to them is to preserve their At Coney island and Brighton beach themises which are occupied as dwellings, offices, they follow the enemy or when they retire. common to two or more tenants of any pre-seas any difference in their bearing when A code of international galations will.
believe that owners of such premises could ordinary moral value in keeping up the DEATH OF CARDINAL PIETRO,
best meet this obligation by engaging spirits, sometimes lowered, of the Allies. suitable carotaker, whoso duty it will be to Their wounded never complain. I have Barcelona December, 8th. supervise the cleansing of all places used in never seen any wounded so silent and The death is reported in Rom of Car common by the tenants. An additional resigned. With the enemy they are in 1893 by Leo XI11 Cardinal Di Pietro balconies abatting on such lanes and yards I have personally seen English sailors dical Angelo Di Pietro, created cardinalafeguard would be the enclosure of all chivalrous, even absurdly so. At Antwerp
was Nuncio to Madrid and a member of with wire netting."
leave the trenches and go under fire to the most important consistorel congreg.-
bring in wounded Germans." tions.
"ANNIHILATE THE ENGLISH:"
- DEATH.
NIDEL
HONGKONG OFzios: 101, Dre Vœux Roán C.
we recommend that Section 20 of the Public
LONDON. OPPIOS: 131, FLEET STRIKT, EC. be drawn up to which each nation must Witness had the woman acht to places were completely desroved by the section shall be served on the owner. We dignity and calm. They have an extra
The Daily Press
HONGKONG, DECEMBER 16TH, 1914.
hospital
The driver of the tender, P.C. Cecil Alexander, gave corroborativo evidence,
His Worship, addressing the jury, said it seemed quite clear that he affair was a pure accident.
The jury occurred, and returned a verdiot of Death by Misadventure.
keep. If any nation break this code, if it attempts any schemes of aggression or territorial expansion, it will have to reckon with all the other wers In other words, in place of ur present Alliances and Ententes, thee will be one Alliance in which all the nations will be. MANY morals will evolve from the Brent banded together. Any nation which war, and there alittle doubt that one of strives to act in any way inimically to the chief things to be emphatically insisted the rest will do so at its peril; it will upon when Germany's bareful influence have to face the rest of the world and
ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL Las been exterminated will be that the suffer the just punishment which will be O).CEONG F.C. V. STAFF AND DEPARTMENTS, need for a furious armament policy bas meted out to it. This is the only sanc coased. No one will say in the face of way out of the morass in which the The following will represent the Club recent happenings that Great Britain was nations now find themselves. The idea again the Staff and Departments at not acting wisely in keeping not only at conceived is full of good intent. It is Happy Valley this afternoon, the kick-off equals but ahead of Germany in her rush nothing more nor less than the national being at 4.45 sharp:-J Stalker; A. zor sea power sufficient to materialise isation of nations, when the viper in the Hamilton and N. V. Croucher; W. C. dreams of world supremacy. Had we not scheme of things has beca eliminated, Bond, J. Stewart, and R. F. Long; N. L. boon the superior naval Power much might with one common aim. Many thoughtful Railton, W. Fraser, P. Tod, C. Mycock, have happened during the past few months men have pondered over such a novel and W. V. Pennell.
state of things; and it must be conosded that from the final overthrow of a great nation like Germany a general revolution
to dispel the bomfortable security of an island people, and thus any financial burdens which a great and growing naval
RAUB GOLD MINE. programme, really a naval race, imposed, of rational status and the relationship must now be looked upon as a wise and of nations must follow. Whethering operatimus at Raub for the four weeks The following are the results of crush raitful expenditure to meet a carefully international police force will emerge
templated scheme for expressing a from the crucible can only be a master of ended bth inst.
conjecture,
Bukit Koman Stone crushed 4,559 tone; Gold obtained 803 s.; Average per fon 3.523 dwte A
Bukit Malacca Stone crushed 3,865 tons; Gold cotained 349 ozs.; Average
nation's hatred and jealousy. But when Germany has been made impotent as a fig ting force, the spectre which created The oyelone or typhoon near or over big navies will have been laid " and
the northern Ladrone ot Marianna Islands was reported by the Manila per ton 1.806 dats. rew era of progress will dawn. We Observatory yesterday to be moving collantly look forward to this new ers WN.W, or N.W.
storm.
PEACE OFFER TO POWERS.
WASHINGTON, December 9th. The United States Government has made an offer to the belligerents in the European war to intervene as a purely disinterested party in the interests of
perco.
THE
PHILIPPINES AND SELF-
GOVERNMENT.
WASHINGTON, December 9th Fresident Wilson in his Message to Congress, read at a joint session of both
The PRESIDENT-The Committee has gone into this matter and endeavoured to find the most expeditious way of obtain ing the closing of these buildings and lanes, and with that object in view it has be added to the Ordinance. If that sub- been suggested that this sub-section should section were added the objects sought by the Board would be complete, and the owners would be held responsible if those premises were dirty. It is with the object of assisting the owners to the best incans of securing this end that the other additional provisions have been suggested. One, that a caretaker should be selected by them, ought to be of great assistance to them in seeing that these premises are
ANOTHER ROYAL GEENAN ORDER..
We reproduce from the Frankfurter Zeitung of Thursday, October 29th, the Army Order of the Day against the English," issued by the Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. The rews is com municated to the Frankfurter Zeitung (and to other German papers of the same date) in a telegram from Munich, where the Army Order was published in the Munchen Augsburger Abendzeitung, w newspaper, which enjoys semi-official oun the members of the House of Represent properly kept clean. In that case owners Rection with the Bavarian Government.
Soldiers of the Sixth Army UMA tives and Senate at the opening of the would have promises kept in better condWe have now the good fortune to session just convened, urged that the tion, and they would be saved the have the Englishmen cu our front, the Philippines be given a larger measure of trouble of being continually called upon troops of that country whose envy for self-government. The President seemed by notics from the Board to see to the pre years has been at work encircling us with to speak particularly to the Senators be mises which they cannot properly ring of foes, In order to throttle us. for whom the Jones bill is to come up supervise themselves. In addition, the It is that country which we have, above for immediate consideration.
wire netting erected by them would all else, to thank for this gigantic, bloody probably result in large measure in the war! Therefore, when we have to do dirt and garbage now being thrown down with this foc, take revenge against his being placed in the dustbins, If this hostile intriguing for the many heavy section is added it is left to the owners sacrifices we have to make. Show him themselves to choose the way they prefer. that the Germans are not so easily to be The President, then proposed that the erased from the world's history be Show report be adopted and forwarded to the him this by inflicting German blows of Government for considerations very special sort! Here is the enemy
Mr. No HoN Tsz seconded, and it was which chiefly blocks the way in the dinco agreed.
tion of restoration of peace!
DESAt himt
EDISON PLANT BURNT.
ONE NEW YORK, December 10th,
The West Orange plant of the Edison Company was last night destroyed by fire. It is estimated that the loss A spproximately F.14,000,000
This makes a total of 1,152 os from 18,424 tons of stone crushed.
West Orange, N.J., Thomas Edison also In adition to the large workshops
had large experimental laboratories there.
to
RUPPRECHT.