Page
INTIMATIONS
VICTROLA
TEK HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.
THE IDEAL INSTRUMENT FOR ENTERTAINING.
| THE EXPANSION OF PRUSSIA
on
IV
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST Sc. 1917
NEW ORDERS FOR
MEN
AND WOMEN, KNIGHTS AND DAMES. COMPANIONS OF HONOUR
|
THE ARMENIAN TRAGEDY.
REFUGEES STORIES IN BAGHDAD.
WHOLESALE MASSACRES,
(BY EDMUND CANDLER |
EDUCATION
THE BRITISH AND GERMAN SYSTEMS.
[ E
R
MATO BROWN..
mu's, superes & text
{HY BROW W SABLJ
Whatever may be said about the first
The world is indebted to Herodotus for partition of Poland, the second was pure
of the best things that are being the information that the Persians educat The war has mobilisel the whole British. brigandage. In the interval, Poland had Empire and drawn to it Allies; it has done in Baghdad is the salvage of ed their boys in three particulars to reformed herself; the Quadronnial Dist offered to all sections of the British and Armenia women and children who have ride, to shoot, and to speak the truth. survived the massacrey and who ure now | It is a splendid summary of a manly met n Warsaw in 1789 amid an outburst Allied peoples new avenues of service, and living in Musulman families These are education concise as to us and ideals, of national enthusiasın; a new constitu-women have rendered conspicuous aid in licing gathered into homes financed by the comprehensive in its view of essentials.
munity are looking after them.
being well tion, penelaimed car May 3rd, 1791, made many new fields of activity. His Majesty British Government, and their own com- and eminently practical in the sense of adapted for the sphere of Palang an hereditary limited monarchy has therefore, decided to institute two I visited one of these institutions yes activities in which the yours of manhood. were to be spent. To ride implies train-- ing in the mental qualities of courage -with ministers responsibly to Parliament now Ordurs, both of which may be con-terday. The inmates were all young, ferred on women as on men. The nests many of marriageable age, and there were
of the Pheri win, ultimate source, of
a great number of children under six and tact
in the
of created is to be knoen ny the Order of the British
who have already forgotten their lang. Poland's troubles, was abolished. More Empire; it will consist of five classes, the
beings; and, above all, infuses the sport- uago and their faith. over, in March, 1700, Frederick's successor first two carrying the honour of knight-
*The bald statement of what they have spirit which grows from the sympathy of a a good man with a good benst. To the throne of Prussia, Frederick lood in the case of men, and the right suffered and seen is a damning and shoot implies steadiness, lf-control, and unanswerable arraignment against the resource. To speak the truth "requires | William 11., jealous of Austrian influnce, to preux the title Dame to the names Turkish Government. The first girl courage of even finer calibre the moral had concluded an alliance with Poland of women recipients as is at present the Errut. She and her family had started these needs out of date at present time?
saw was a child of 10 from a village neur
courage of a good "man and true, Are whereby each guaranteed the possessions case with the wives or widows of baronets on donkeys with a few of their belong Modern Germany has mightily_nd- of the other; and when the new Core and knights in offieint deemnents. „
jugs, but in three days the Kurks hadvertised her prowess in the domain of issued a proclamation in all the villages educational science. The Germans, as a stitution was established he congratulated
are characteristically studious,
thorough. the king of Poland on the happy result our will carry no title or precedence, and to a colony that was being prepared for
They have their property was be
an inborni venerationi for the professorial and again declared that he would main will have only one class.
These two and E
under the care of the Government attitude towards life, and Germany hus tain and strengthen the ties uniting the Orders have been instituted in connection during the war and then restored. The striven very successfully to turn these The gen- qualities to Advantage for the attainment two countries. Catherine did not like with the war, although they will probably was more than a year ago.
darmies were very pleasant to them in of what she wrongly conceived be er the new Constitution; she feared a strong survive it, and they are to be conferred their homes, arrd Lold them that they were proper dle in the affairs of the world. in recognition of services, whether ren- to be given, new land to cultivate, and It cannot be denied that Germany owes that their journey would not be long. in large measure to these characteristics The Polish Dict work up the challenge, dered by voluntary and unpaid workers The first assurance, as they guessed, was
of her sons, and to her persistency in and sent a Commissioner to Berlin to or officials, in Great Britain and Allied visionary. In the second the gendarmes their development, the amusing conner- etal progress of the latter half of the For many of them it was all over on nineteenth century and the position sho the third day. Two or three hundred of held in the civilised world before she the men were separated from the women let loose, for the aggrandisement of her- and killed at a distance, shot or self, the horrors of the present war. One down with the sword. After that the cannot help thinking that she would have same sort of thing happened nearly fared better at the last if she had cast hazards there was no system. Some of philosophy and even her art, and content- every day. The guards were very hap kultur"
to the winds, banished women were pushed into the rivered herself with teaching her men to be
Twelve sportsmen and to speak the truth. others thrust over precipices hundred left the two villages near Is it possible to think of the truth and Erzram; 400 only reached Ras-el-Ain, the German as being
Whatever your tastes in entertainment, the Victrola brings you Poland; and in 1799 she declared war,
exactly what you want.
EXCLUSIVE AGENTS:
MOUTRIE'S
KNITTED
[26-3
NECKWEAR
Made with extra thin bands which
obviate the difficulty of sliding the
Tie between folds of Double Collar.
Wear well and permanently retain
their Shape.
MACKINTOSH
& CO., LTD.,
Men's Wear Specialists,
16. DES VŒUX ROAD,
No. 10
SCOTCH
WHY SHOULD
TO, DUNDEE, SCOTLAND
Тасираона 29..
*[10]
ONE DRINK
No. 10 WHISKY ? BECAUSE ‘ONE E OUGHT.
DONNELLY & WHYTE,
BOLE AGENTS,
UNDERWOOD No.
REMINGTON No. 10
ROYAL No. 5...
TELEPHONE No. 636,
...$140
Léoncurrence
The Order of the Companions of Hon-that the Armenians were to be sent away king. And
countries..
obtain the assistancy stipulated for by the treaty of 1790. Erederick William The official announcement is in the
Lollowing terms:- hud, however, privately came to terms
In recognition of the inauiföld services, with Catherine; he declined to defend voluntary and otherwise, that have been Constitution which had never had his vendered both by British subjects and and while thy Polish their Allies in connection with the war army was engaging the Russians, he his Majesty the King has been pleased to suddenly invaded Poland from behind. | institute two Orders, the first lists The war was soon over and Frederick which are now in course of preparation, William secured Dantzig, Thorn, and und will shortly be issued to the Press, other torritory.
The first of these is an Order of Knight Catherine was bad enongas but at least the attacked her hood, to be styled the Order of the prey like an open enemy; the Prussian British Empire," and to be conferred, as stabbed in the back and pillaged the the title indicates, for services rendered friend to whose defence he was, solainly to the Empire, whether at home or abroad. pledged. These events were followe This Order will follow, in most respects, by the Polish national rising under the precedents of other Orders of Knight Kosciuszko; by 1595 it was mastered, and hood; big it will consist of five classes, Prussia, Russia and Austria divided up and will be given to women as well as men. The first two classes will, in the all that was left of Poland.
It is difficult to imagine a Stufe sinkse of men, carry the honour of Knight ing to a lower depth of shume dhood, and, in the case of went, the
privilege of prefixing the tile Dame
their names which will be closely restricted in numbers, will be entitled the Order of the Companions of Honour," and will consist of one class only, to which women, will be eligible equally with men Five Order will carry with it no title or precedence, and will be conferred upon a limited number of persons for whom this spwind distinction seems to be the most.
to
did not lie.
nire.
her
any way aLSSO-
The Maurvivors were all wgenen and ciated. The two are as irreconcilable children; there was not an aniong as oil and water. How can it be other them, or a male child over the age of wise when Germany has suffered her leading statesmen to announce that, in
· 1 met a refugee from the Kara-Hissar comparison with the necessity of Ger- district who with six companions had many as cntimated by herself, her na- been saved by some Armenian women heional honour is not prized by her as bay- found established in a Beduin camping greater value than 4 scrap of Eight hundred families in all had left paper 1 How can it be otherwise when Kara-Hissar. Half of these were cap the statesmen of every neutral nation, sized and drowned in Arab boats on the ever since the war began, have caught Euphrates. The survivors, when thes Germany lying to her advantage and to ccached Deir ez-Zor, were placed in an internment camp. While here they ag- otherwise, which cermany hay nh chase their release. They offered hints, published broadcast, to feel that the roached the Mutesarrif, hoping to parcouraged her officers in written pumph
made a second collection; every piastre ganisation of frightfulness --directed 3,000 hirus. It was not enough. They disregard of truth and the deliberate or they could raise was thrown into the go against the forces of her enemies, but. pool. This time the sun was nearly 5,000 against those who can offer us resistance bran on condition is copied in constitute righteousness and merit in bribe on
that they
waging of a war i
How be
sign tenderful as the scheme of cornércial
thing that is contemptible in servility appropriate form of recognition.con-paper, We, the Armetinnsrkish and technical duention evolved by Ger-
Prussia in te cas of the second parti tion of Poland. Yet Prussia succeeded in achieving this font in March, 1806, Frederick William 111. annexed' Hanover at the order of Napoleon. Herctofer Prussia had at least robber for herself now, as Heinrich, von Buloy said, she stin at another man's bidding the lowest of all degradations? Fes enlled Prassia's conduct a compound of every, with everything that is odious instituting, as it will, an honour dissociated rapneity. Even in Germany she was either from the acceptance of title or the well hated; and any Though it assification of merit,
Both Orders, though created in connec. a righteous retribution when, a ferim with the war, will doubtless survive months ter, Napoleon struck her down at Jon. A short nonth sufficed him ini, inseruch as they will be found to fill destroy the Prassian armies and lay the important in the hierarchy of destroy the Priest, Pran the cast awards of honour for public services, The foundations of that State had always the hands of the Sovereign. hen unsound "nilton sand, Gathering! bad wittily said; they depended absolute- | follows: --- ly on the assumed invincibility of the army, the moment that the army failed the State Loo, collapsed.
ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
The five clitones of the Order are as
MES.
Knights Grand Cross (G. B.E.). Knights Comuninders (K.B.E.), 3.Commanders (C.B.E.).
··4. - Officers (0,1}. E. ). „ð–Member, (M.Ђɂ),
AVOMEN..
1.--Dames Grand Cross "(G.B.E.) ---Dames Commenders. D.B.E.). 3- Commanders (0).B.E.).
4--Officers (O. B. E.). /\
-Members (M.DE).
give this sum willingly to the Army. But it did not save them. The many undoubtedly was--it has all bren hated gendarmes accompanied them on thrown away now, and will take Donny the arch, and nine miles from the city long years, to uild it up again in massacre began. Sticks and stones,reality it missed the simplicity of the and knives and daggers, were employed, esentials. It was permentini by dour- and a few meresa balists, Bus, R ess, a grim determination to make pro- always happens, the assassins tired of their work even the physical part of it was exhausting, and the last at was postponed from day to day. In the end ted dayu gave them the lent in go. The night was dark, and the guard are careless than meal, and the last remnants of the party, 55 in all, made their escape.
gress Virough persistent study, which schoolbeys in England rightly resent us productive of a
It always mig seamed to carry with it a tinge of that strange crued of Kantian doctrine, which implicit, or seemed to imply that all duties were necessarily, an ordeal of weariness, and that there could be no credit in the performance of anything Napoleon tore away Prussia's territory
EEFTGEES PUT TO THE SWORD, which was not performed at the cost of ruthlessly on all sides, and treated her
Another in 1 heard of was the sole positive pain. It had in it little cr precisely as she had treated others. The
survivor of a group of refugees who sequel, was the one period of true' glory
Rasein disappeared between
and th of the element of "sporismani which Prussia has ever known. The
Nisibig. They were taken into the British ventures in the same Aphere, Prussian people shouldered aside the con
desert and formed up in line, as in a with all their faults, imperfections and temptible Hohenzollern and his incom-
Chinese execution, to be dispatched with lack of system, have on the whole been petent ministers, and took their own Ente
the sword. There was no shortage of the more successful of the two. The chief in their own hands, the War of Liber The Badge of the Order, won by the was employed for reasons of economy,
ammunition, I was told, but the sword charge made agains, British education tion followed culminating in 1873mbers of the Int, 2nd and 3rd Classes, While waiting for his turn, it occurred ciently practical." This word "practi in the past has been that, it is at cuff- Leipzig. For a short moment a Prussin takes the shape of a silver gift cross, to the Armenian that a bullet would be cal varies in its meaning in accordance nation looked a possibility; but the moralnamelled pearl grey in the fedtre of an easier death. So he oke from the with the person who uses it. One, for effects of the uprising soon vanished. 1n which, in a circle enumelled crimson, is a line. In the confusion the gendarmes example, who styles himself Employer, some strange way (perhaps partly due representation of Britannia seated. The missed him. It was almost dusk, he hid when he writes his complaints against. to Queen Louisa's courage) the War of circle contains the motto of the Order, in the brushwood by a face he cluention to the newspapers and eries Liberation was made to enure to the For God and the Empire,
escaped, und found hi, way to Baghdad. aloud that it is not practica); only means credit of the dynasty and Scharnhorst, The Star, worn by members of the first The main features of the massacces are that the boys and girls who leave school in Prince Bulow's words, secured it two Classes, is an eight-pointed silverunch the same. The emigrants, if they are not immediately profitable to him as that the nation in arma became the day, the centre of which bears the same are not killed on the road, are taken to money-making factors in his business. A Prussian army with its tradisional re device as the Badge..
some depot, where they are kept a few doctor, writing the same complaint, The treatment of the Badge for the 4th days. Here they fud a large camp ofurans something quite different. It cao culations and rulers." Napoleon had thought to bridle Prussian militivi Class is similar to that for the 166, 2nd,
two or three thousand or more. Shon not be denied that in British education notice comes from. Constantinople that in the past there were many flagrant by limiting the size of that army; but and 3rd Classes, except that it is smaller, Scharnhors had invented the system of 5th Class, the badge is of silver instead been allotted land for cultivation, and tempted to any it was not practical con-
and 18 not enamelled. In the case of the
the refugees of a certain district have weaknesses. But let anyone who is pressing the whole male population of silver gilt. through the army in a reserve, thus keep
A Silver Medal of the Order has been they are told they must start on their template with steady judgment the work ing the letter of the obligation while struck, and will be awarded to those ably the death sentence but they nourish women-aye, and no mean number
journey again. This, they know, is prob that all our young men and all our young defeating Napoleon's plan. Nothing was persona, not being members of tho Order, really changed in Frussia save details whose services to the Empire warrant such are genegrally safe, as murder on a large yesterday, and will continue to do antil a thin hope. For the first half-day they grey-heads, also-are doing to-day, did and was essentially the old Prussia recognition.
scale is deprecated near a town, No- the German has been brought to his senses. that went to the Vienna Conference. As in the case of other Orders, the men body, for instance, saw anyone killed in There she gained in population, comers will have the privilege of placing the Trebizond; but a few days after the education in England was that it was tou The other common complaint against pared with 1808. She lost part of Polsrul, initials (above indicated) after their
Armenians had left the city their bodies. frivolous. Work was not taken seriously hor boundaries in Polish territory being maines.
came floating down the river. The desert enough (nobody ever made that charge settled as they stand today, and the The King has appointed his Royal is a non-conductor. What is done there against the Germans), too much store lost the coast of the North Sea (East Highness the Prince of Wales to be Grand leaves only vague rumour.
was set hy prowess in games, the youth Frisia), which was given to Hanover in Master of the Order, and a King of Arms,
The refugees, though unarmed, some cared more for cricket than for the things times turn on their guard. More than that matter. No one who has ever played other hand, she acquired the Rhine pro Usher of the Purple Rod will be appoint
once the assassins have paid dearly, cricket in a whole-hearted way has ever vinces and mech new land in the West; ed to attend to the service of the Order.
There is a woman in Baghdad who was made that charge. There is
is something Swedish (Eastern) Pomerania and wart The Chancery of the Order will be at
one of a band of two or three hundred about cricket which is of Saxony, which increased her unpo- the Central Chancery of the Orders of Armenian women from the hills who held English nature. It is sporting: it is wr to the indigenous polarity But two things done Knighthood. St. James's Palace
pass near Urfa. Their men had been selfish every one is out to do his best Vienna which were important for her
treacherously killed off earlier, and they for this duck" is probably at least and the best batsman knows failure were these, Prussia's Western
know that obedience to the proclamation that territory was cut off from her by other and a National Assembly met at Frank of exile was as fatal as resistance. They as common as his century." There are States; it was obvious that she would fort. That Assembly worked out a Con held the pass with their rifles nearly a rules of the game, and faithfulness ta serk to join it to herself. And the stitution which was infinitely superior week, and the Turks had to bring up those rules is of far greater importance Germanic Confederation then set up con- to anything seen in Germany before or artillery. Some 50 of them escaped. The than a win. tained two leading States, Austria and since, and would have peacefully united rescued by a Turk of the better school, for early three years. Is that so? No, woman, who is now in Baghdad, was Most of ng have not played cricket now Prussia, members on equal terms it was all Germany as a Federal State; there who respected her honour and on the lotus rather sny that all of us have becik obvious that sooner or later they must would have been no place for Bismarck journey treated her as his own daughter, playing cricket continuously since fight for leadership. It may be added and his wars, The Assembly offered though he failed to convert her to Islam, August 4th, 1914. It was "cricket that, when Prussian Poland was returned the ... Imperial Crown to Frederick Few Armenian women were so for when we decided that we could not keep. to Prussia, Prusan formally engar to William IV. of Prussia. Here the whole tunate, Many were killed with as little out of the war, because honour meant respect the nationality of the inhabitants scheme shattered on the weak obstinacy scruple as the men Plainness or good more to than safety. We are playing and to give the Polish language nal of the Hohenzollern; he would never, he looks were fatal in different ways. The cricket now every day, and, tide what rights with the German. The wild said "accept a crown of shame from a old and ugly died by violence or were ay, no Englishman ever eraves a belter
how that engagement has been revolutionary assembly, he would only starved the vera A traveller now game!!
were taken into the epitaph than this —” he played the kept, DUAE accept i from the German Princes, his families of the
$120 compensation for bus wrongs On the Registrar, and Secretkey, and Gentleman
$120
Mvchines are in first class condition and revly for immediate
delivery.
Apply
WILLEM HEYBLOM,
POWELL'S BUILDING.
PHONE: 187.
1029
*** One chance yet was to come to Prussie peers. (We shall come to a strange com- in Baghdad was given a letter by an before Bismarck restarted her on the ment on this presently. The constitution oficial at Ras-el-Ain to deliver to the course from which we are suffering day thereon fell through; the Diet of 1875 The revolutions of 1848 terrifed the was restored; and the people of Prussis stagnant German States constitutions and of Germany lost the last chance they
up everywhere like mushrooms were
Bismarck (Continued at foot of neat column)
of
At Aleppo and Ras-el-Ain German gendarme in charge on the road.firers, stalked side by side with these,
Choose a pretty one for me, he wrote, pretres of famine and murder and death, and leave her in the village outside and not a finger was raised or a word the town"
said, "It is impolite to interfere !! "the fiormen watch-word- Zimer:
(Continued at foot of next column.)