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THE NATION'S PLEDGE. HISTORIC SERVICE AT ST. PAUL'S.
LONDON GREETS THE KING.
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM. There remained but one thing more, and. of that which the great concourse had it was the climax; the final embodiment
come to express. The drams rolled and the brass crashed out the first chords of the National Anthem. The first verse was The Pall Mail Gazette of August 4th hardly taken up fully; the people seemed published - following
in some doubt if they wore mount to sing descriptive But we had the second--we were not account of the historic servien at Stafraid of it to-day- Paul's to mark the anniversary of the
war!--
Very solemnly and reverently The King and Quen, the rulers of the antion, and housands of London's citizens to-day dedicated thesolves afresh to God and to the Right in the great Church of St. Parul.
NOTE OF AWE.
Tard our God arise, Scatter his carmies.
And make them fall! Confound their polities. Frustrate their knavish trichs!“ On Thee our hearts er pr.
God save we olt!
So the King and Queen passed out to the music of gar's Imperial March, and the linges followed, their souls uplifted, their hearts cheered, full of faith and rong confidence that indeed The Lori of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is
Refuge,"
THE PACIFIC MAIL SHIPS.
Discussing the withelanwal of the Pacific Minil fleet from the trone Pacific trade, the San Francisco Chrajele says?--
SHIPPING EARNINGS AND EXPENSES.
these
The increase, announced in columns yesterday (says the Times of Aug.
th) in the passenger fares to certain of the Australian ports-the first which has taken place. since the war began--is a re minder that the liner companies have not bsen earning the exceptional profits which have fallen to some of the cargo steam ships.
مجھے
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.
ORDEES BY LIEUT-COL. A. CHAPMAN, V.D.
PARADES.
Parades for Tuesday, 7th instant: 5.00 p.m.-Centre Section M. G. Co.-Rifle competition at King's Park Range (600) yards).
3. pan-Recruits of all units (except Right Section M. G. Co. and Signalling Section) who have never tirel a Musketry Course-Musketry Instruction on Kon- nedy Itoad Range. Service Rides to be carried. Corpk Grimes, R. F, will attend. 5.30 pm-Recruits of Engineer Co. (except Quarry Ray Section) and Nos. 1 and 2 Sections Arty, Paty Squad drill and Rifle exercises on Cricket Ground under Sergt. Major flighy and Sergt. Sorby Recruits of Right Sution M. G. Co.- Sequel deiff at Hondquarters, Sconts Ca.
Company drill and Skimmishing at Happy Valley Fall in at 5.45 pan, un road between Courts of Justice and City Half hd procal by speñal tramn. Civit Service-Lactive at Headquarters Stretcher Beaver Section Instruction at Boulquarters.
DETAIL.
Gun Club Hill, Kowloon :--- Detention Camp, Kowloon Nest for duty B‚KV.R. Nest for duty-H.K.V.R.
A few of those cargo steamship owners, who have so far ben fortaunté, may in future years link back to 1915 s a year of great prosperity; the passenger Some of us have been yearning to sing
liner, companie will certainly regard t The new spirit of the nation was awake that verse every Sunday, and feared that steamship owner has been well able 19
as a period of grave anxioty.
The cargo and manifes in the crowded Cathedral, our clergy had become too mealy-mouthed Novel has a service of Intercession or of to have it,
cover the large increase in working costa Memory or of Thanksgiving been held at St. Paul's and we may trust it will finer companies have not the same margis But the example was by the still higher rise in freights; the there with such absence of pageantry or followed, for why shuold we not pray to draw upon, because the passenger traf- with such reverence and such a grave and that the politics of the Devil and his fe has fallen away and their carga saleun courtesy displayed by all alike.ngols may in confounded? Nave, transepis, aisles, ad were thronged,
freights are governed by tariffs which are and the people had come there not to sep
only changed cautiously and after joint hot to her, but to pray.
consideration with the merchants,
In By cleven o'clock the have was full to
creased working costs are really a very overflowing. There was little colour in
considerable factor in profit, quil loss. On The crowd. Bluck or black and white for
great passenger company has just found civilinas, khaki for the numerous soldiers
that the total cost of ships' stores has ad mingled with the hospital blue of the
vanced by 30 per cent. within the year,
G. E. STEWART, Captain, sourced. Only the crimson of the Chil
while wages have in many cases doublert.
Adjutaut, H.K.V: Corps. dren of the Chapel Royal nud the scarlet
The rise in coal has been enormous. De- tippets of the nursing sisters
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER RESERVE. threw
Jugs in port still continue, which involves warm gule here and there and thes
far loss of earning power wheli is little api
——OEDERS" TIY”MAJOR WAKEMAS, O.C.H.K.V.R. bine and gold of the Royal Artillery band
preciated by the public. lent a little of the military pony which |
OUTLOOK FOR LINER COMPANIES.
PRISONERS OF WAR CAP GUARD AND JUN we associate with a military service a
CLER HILL PIQUET. St. Paul's.
On the other hand, the maungements of Tuesday, the 7th inst.
The H.K.V.C. will relieve the H. K.V.R. on No American unsubsidized company will the liner companies, are more favourably
DETAR I was, perliaps, the hospital blue more
disposed towards the Government terms of operate ships in the Pacific trade under hire than the cargo steamship lings. Ta
Al Prisimers of War Camp. At Can Chb HIL the anything which case the of the provisions - I un scamos bill."
Sept, Beeg--- nity and awe. The wounded came in
expect trem all to say that they are entice Tues, 7th- 1 4 2 of A Co, 3 & 4 of A Vo. a seemingly enkas steam. Here was
The most desirable change would be toy satisfied would, perhaps, he asking to Wed, 8th- and B an officer, is sightless eyes protzeted by the Chinese Ang
much of human nature.
3 & 4 of R. But the sende at Thur, oth. Fof C black glasses; here another with an
The trouble is that rates for the fast and furge passenger lines Fri., 10th of empty steve. Here was a sergeant with capital for the purpose is hard to get in never aroused any serious protest, while Sat, 11th-- 364 af 14 bandaged head, there private o China, and Americans do not like to the management know that if their pay. Sun, 19th-284 of 0% crutches. Their number ran into him-
RECRUITS drits, and yet they were but a small
vest money in ships under a flag which hanger ships were still at their service! no sea power behind it,
Recruits will parade on the Cricket Ground It is probable icy could not unlike the cargo versols, be proportion of those who are being traded that Americans would furnish some part of profitably employed in their pormal trades.
on Tuesday, the 7th inst., Wednesday, the 8th in London and all of them are but a the capital of a Chinese company, but still, owners always regard the deploy-Dess: Drill Order, Shirt Sleeves.
inst, and Thursday, the 9th iust., at 5.15 p.m. small propertion, of the whole Onc
most of their liners us auxiliary cruisers Caduted Chen and one thought of the might require the investoient of more with some wiensinoss, for the. war and
tear may be expected to be far heavier H.K.V.C. to the H.K.VJE
Pte. W. A. Morgan is transferred from the It is, of course, possible that the objecthan would normally result, while in the tiouable features of the seaman's bill may event of loas the monetary payment would Pte. W. A. Morgan having joined be repealed.
probably not represent the real loss to the make use of the Chicago disaster to offset trades.
Just now the radicals are seeking to companies of ships built for particular This, however, is a risk which is the protest against the seaman's bill by · gladly faced in tlo country's interest, and pretending that the real opposition to the Government requisitioning has Soldiers and statesmen stream in tobill is in its provisions for insuring safety doubtedly solved the problem of the re their places while the band and better Recomniodation for the crew. [ munerative employment of their large and plays Sullivan and Telikovsky;
There is no known opposition to the powerful vessels. The dislocation caused turbaned subahdar of the 6th Jats, anfety provisions of the bill, or is there at first has long passed, and believe Tuesday, the 7th inst.
anything whatever in the bill which would that the worst, even for those lines which
The were most heavily hit, is now over. have prevented the Chicago horror. Fastland turned turtle because it was topparnings generally are now considered to heavy, a matter which is not dealt with be ba a satisfactory basis, and the pros
pects have improved." at all in the seaman's bill
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mighty who skep beneath of Nelson, Wallington and Roberts, and the mean- ing of it all came over one with poignant föree. Britain was dedicating herself new to fight the fight which she has fough of old-the fight for liberty and the right of the woal and oppressed,
SOLDIERS AND STATERMEN,,
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PLANS OF INSTRUCTION. There will be no class of instruction on
PARADE
There will be no Parade on Friday, the 10th inst
ORDERLY. OFFICER Orderly Ollicer from the morning of the 7th inst. to the morning of the 13th inst. --
-Lieut. Mason.
ORDERLY SER EANT.
Orderly Sergeant from the morning of the Sorgt. J. C. Mackay..
Jemadar of a Ghurka regiment, and clean-limbed, clear-skinned young British officers with the long jaw which and its meaning the Germans are beginning to recognise as a national characteristic. The silver head of the Prime Minister is seen in the front row of the North The objections to the seaman's bill are Transept; Lord Lansdowne is near him; the inducements which it holds out to de Lord Selborne, Mr. Birrell, Mr. Austed sort, the requirement that crews for boats THE WILY TEUTON IN THE 7th instant to the morning of the 13th inst.-- Chamberlain, Mr. Winston Churchill. shall "able segmen when men per
DARDANELLES. pass quietly in Mra Cloyd George feetly competent to handle boats may be her basband". Afid aignorant of much that an able seaman has tall forni ire khaki, ∙rnady nad to know, and especially the clause re- burly, abbracts all eyes. The whisperquiring 75 per cent of the crew to be passes Kitchener and the makes able to understand not merely any order of the New Armies takes his place. He
relating to their duties, but "any order bears well, and, seemingly, lightly, the which may be given by an officer. heavy burden which is upon bis shoulders.
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HONGKONG.
THE KING'S ARRIVAL.. Then, just before the clock struck twelve, the Archbishop, the Bishop of London, and the clergy escorted the King and Queen and Queen Alexandra to their places. Never, surely, did Monarch of these Islands receive 1 more fervent, though silent, homages than did tha: slight bearded figure in khaki, the em bodiment of an Empire's love, unity, and hope.
That provision can easily be complied with by the Chinere, and, as the members of the Chinese crews will not be allowed to come ashore, the United States authorities themselves will go to it that there is no duertio.
the Throne of Heaven. Then followed It may be considered certain that no the fifty-first Psalm, the Miserere, glori-American ship will remain in the trade on ously sung antiphonally, the deep, rich the Pacific between this country and bass of the Vicar choral alternating with Asia after the seaman's bill, as it now the harmonies of the choir.
GERMAN PROCLAMATION TO THE
ANGLO-FRENCH FORCES.
A soldier at the Dardanelles sends to brother in Japan the following copy of a Proclamation by the enemy to the Angle-French Expeditionary Forces in Gallipoli:-
Proteeled by a heavy fire of a power- fil fleet you have been able to land on the Gallipoli Peninsule on and since this 25th April
you could establish yourself a two points Backed up by these same men-of-war
G. K. H. BUTTON, Capt.,
Adjutant, H.K.V.R.
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.
PARADES (CENTRAL POLICE STATION-B P.M.) Tuesday, Sept. 7th-Chinese Company and
Recruits.
Wednesday, Sept. 8th-British and Portuguese
Companies
Thursday, Sept. 9th-Baud Recruits and Indian Recruits. Also all Recruits of Chinese Company and Ambulance under Chief Inspector.
Friday
Sept 10th-Combined Parade, in uniformi, Fall in at Central Police Station at 5,50 pm sharp. Only men on patrol or medically unfit are exempt.
PATROL...
Whoever has been in the forecastle of a then se ship will recognize the desirable of the Peninsulo lity of better quarters for human being,
All your attempts to advance into the while many shipowners would refuse to even if it does raise freight rates, an, inner parts of the Peninsula have come to failure under your heavy losses, The service opened upon the note of
munke any improvement whatever unloss although your ships have done their trust, humility, and supplication. The compelled by law, one of them are fight- utmost to assist you by a tremendous con- For Monday to Wednesday, September oth solemin music of Rock of Ages, eft foting the hill by reason of those provisions nonade implying enormous waste of to 8th, as published in orders of September.
ย me. sung by thousands of voices, soarel or of the requirements which really make ammunition. The two fino British battle | 4th-6th. aloft to the roof of the great church and for safely at sea.
[ships Triumph and Majestic have been Thursday Sept. pth :--
sak before your own eyes by sabmarine 3.60 p.m. Inspector Wait, P. Cs. Bailey, being found utterly insuficient. boats, all protective moans against theta
Gaskell, Fothergill, Henderson, Packham, these heavy losses to the British Navy. Since
Weser and Rosser. 8.50 p.m. One N. C. Officer and 7 2. Cs, tu men-of-war had to take refuge and have
bo detailed by Inspector D'Almadu staade, takes effect. It is for-the-interest abandoned you to your own fate, Your NC). C. Companies must warn their of everybody in this country who produces ships cannot possibly be of any help to men without delay and send the names to the or does work upon anything which we sell you in future, since a great number of Orderly Room Clerk. When warned mon in Asia or who is employed in ships now in submarines are prepared to suppress should be told which Section they are going that trade that the seamann's bill shall be so them,
to patrol, so that they may study the modified as to attract shipping to that Your forces have to rely on sea-trans-
Boundaries. ronte instead of driving it from it. port for reinforcement and supply of good water and every kind of war sink several steamers carrying supplies Already the submarines did for your destination. Soon, all supplies from the first "Peak Road" in line 10 down will be cut off from your landed forces. to "by Robinson Road" in lines 12-13, and
"You are exposed to certain perdition insert the following:- from starvation and thirst.
"O be favourable and gracious untu Zion build then the walls of Jerusalem!" What a meaning had the familiar words to-day!
THE ADDRESS.
The Archbishop's address, from 1. Corinthians xvi. 13, "Watch ye, stand There is, of course, one way that the fast in the faith, quit you like men, be Pacific Mail and other American ships now strong" followed. It was a simple and in the Oriental trade can remain ther? carnest appeal to the nation to put aside The ships can be transferred to the British, divisions, sloth, and selfishness, and to flag and sail from Vancouver, fight and work for the highest prin-
But-that-wili-not-help-San-Francisco ciples of conduct, the simplest issues of Puget Sound or any American sailor. right and wrong.
"We watch and pray and strive with unshakable resolve to b worthy of such an hour," The Arch- bishop put into eloquent words what was THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE in the heart of each one of his hearers.
Then came the Lord's Prayer; a prayer for the King and Royal Family; s prayer for the men who through parils
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P. M. STEAMERS.
T.K.K. CONSIDERING THE NEW- OPPORTUNITY.
materials.
"Your could only escape useless saorifice of life by surrendering. We are assured you did not take up arms against us by hatred Greedy England has made you fight under a contract. You may confide in us for excellent treatment Our coun try disposes of ample provisions: ther are enough for you to feed upon well and make you feel quite at your comfort.
Don't hesitate further.. Come and surrender.
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prayer that God would proper the forces of our King and his Allies and decide the issues of the war according unto righte ousness. Then followed two collects from Kaisha is now considering the question hopeless as on this Peninsula.
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the Burial Service for the Fallen, and the General Thanksgiving.
On all other points of this war, your The Asahi says that the Toyo Kisen people and your Allies situation is as whether to purchaay steamors or charter
All news spread amongst you concern them in order to place them on ite Saning the Gorman and Austrian armies aro Francisco Lino to cope with the situation more lies. Thus the service was lifted to the plane after the withdrawal of the P.M. liners of thankfulness and joyful confidence. from the Pacific. It is very probable, The congregation arose and sang, to Bit says the paper, the Company will decide George Martin's tune, "Praise, my soul. to take the latter course.
JOYFUL CONFIDENCE.
the King of Heaven," There was a verse which was unfamiliar to most, but which ought never to be omitted again: --.
"Frail as summer flowers we flourish,
Blores the wind and it is gone, But white mortals rise and perish,
God endures, unchanging, on Alleluia! Alleluia!
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION.
DIRECTORS DENY RUMOURS OF
AN ABSORPTION.
"There stands neither one English and one Frenchman nor one Russian on Ger- mas soil.
BOUNDARIES OF SECTIONS.
The following alterations must be vaade on the printed slip issued:-
No. 8 Section-Delete the instructions.
"Junction of Peak Road and Queen's
Garden.
"Along Queen's Gardens to Conduit Rd. "Along Conduit Road to Robinson Road Along Robinson Road to Park Road. "Down Park Road."
Also delete the words "Feak Road" at the end of the instructions, and insert Junction of Peak Road and Albany Road.
POLICE RESERVE BAND AND ORCHESTRA,
Hand Practice-Wed, Sept. 8th, at 6 p.m. Orchestra Practice-Fri, Sept., 10th at p.. Members of the Police Reserve Band and Orchestra are exempt from al: Parades on days arranged for Practice.
F. C. JENKIN,
D. 8. P. (Reserve).
JAPAN'S CONFIDENCE.
зали
IN COMPLETE VICTORY OF ALLIES.
On the contrary, the Germans are keeping a strong hold on Belgium and on conspicuous parts of France aines many a month. A considerable part of Russian Baron Ecto, the late Minister for For- Poland is also in the hands of the Ger- eign Affairs, says a despatch to the W.-C. mans, who advance there every day. Daily News, speaking at a mass-meeting Early in May strong Gorman and Aus of the Doshikai party in Kobe said that trian forces have broken through the few weak-kneed Japanece expressed Russians' centre in Galicia Przemysl doubts concerning the issus of the conflict has fallen back into their hands lately in Europe and fears regarding Japan's They are not in the least way handicap position in the event of Germany's succes. ped by Italy's joining your coalition, but are successfully engaged in driving the These, however, were happily few who With regard to the rumours which have Russians out of Galicia.
wore easily influenced, but Baron Kato whole heart, the congregation sang recently been current that the Indo-China Those Russian troops whose coöpera. said that he was voicing the mass of the "Through the Night of Doubt and Sor Steam Navigation Co., Ltd, was about tion one moment you are looking forward Japanese people in not doubting that the Tow the prayer of unity, and the to be absorbed or amalgamated with one to ane surrendering by hundreds and ultimate result of the conflict would be a jubilant musio rolled through nave and of the large steamship lines, the secretary thousands,
complete victory for the Allies. "IE aisles. Never sang congregration as this has been directed to say that the board "Do as they do. Your honour is safe afterwards Germeny should attack Japan sang, with such a full fervour of trust of directors have no knowledge of any Further fighting is mere stupid blood-this country is prepared to meet her guns, and purpose.
Buch scheme.-Financial News
and ships and men.
Praise the High Eternal One. Next the Bishop of London offered a prayer for unity and earnestness and pronounced the Blessing Then, with
shod.'