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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND, 1918.
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THE WAR.
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Genèral.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.} AMERICAN WAR PROFITS TAX
THE SHANGHAI BABEBALL
SCANDAL
MR J. 1. EZRA'S CHALLENGE TO
MR. MERRIMAN. ·
GERMAN SPY DEPORTED
FROM JAPAN, ALLEGED ROUMÁNIAN MAJOR.
A Roumanian Major," named Jean There was now development in the Calarou, aged 30, has been ordered by the baseball scandal 'on August 24th (says the Minister of Home Affairs to leave Japan Y.-C. Daily News), when Mr. J. I. Ezra, on the ground that his actions are not who by a resolution passed by the mem-compatible with the interests of this coun- The House of Representatives Combers on "Monday last, was expelled mem-try and her Allies (says the depan Gazette mittee has approved of the 5,000,000 bership of the Race Club, sent a letter of August 9th). Revenue Bilt, imposing an 80 per cent.
tb Messrs "R. D. Bann, president of the war profits tax and heavy artaxes on big
incomes.
WASHINGTON, August 31st.
Shanghai Amateur Baseball Club, nad Mr. W. L Merriman, suggesting that the charge of bribery should be brought to a VALUABLE DISCOVERY OF fair trial, Mr. Ezra claiming that up to POTASH DEPOSIT. the present he had had no fair trial, and
LONDON, August 31st.
offering if the charge is proved against The Times Correspondent at Toronto him to pay any sum up to $100,000 to states that there, is an immense deposit of Allied War Fands on condition that if potash, and sodium sulphate, amounting the charge is disproved the recipients of to many millions of tons, has been is the letter and their friends shall pay covered in Saskatchewan. This discovery like amount to the same funds is important in view of the boastings by Germany that we could never do without her potash.
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M. LENIN WOUNDED."
LONDON, August 31st.
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than Lenin was his twice by a bullet in each shoulder, in one case a lung being affected FINLAND'S MONARCHY.
THE STORY OUTLINED
A CONFESSION OF FAITH
SIH A CONAN DOYLE'S BOOK
SPIRITISMг.
[by'н. a. ManRIOTT WATSON,}
in recent years given their adhesion
Among the men of distinction who ha
"spiritism, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle a notable recruit. This little book, is confession of faith, very frank, vro
courageous, and very resolute.
For Calarou; who proves to be an out-and-years Sir Arthur has studied the phe out German spy, arrived in Tokie on mena which (to my mind unfortunate April 12th, from Vladivostock, rid are associated with the word spiritualis Tsuruga, and 2 week later arrived in In these pages he gives an interesti Yokohama, where he has since been re-history of his gradual conversion. gistered at the International Building experimented a good deal himself, a and at a local bótel.
be read countless: books. Perhaps it" During his stay in Japan he declared not inappropriate that one who also b that he was at the head of a Roumanian studied the subject carefully, expe Military Mission, but he has since been mented conducting some very shady transactions should testify to his complete agreeme with local Germans, Rounarians, and with the results of Sir Arthur's investig Russians. "
tions. There is no room in this book mach evidence.
For that the inqui must go to the thousand and one publi tions in which it is set forth..
Some time ago he attempted to proceed to China, Egypt and India by forging his passport, but his game was spotted.
According to the official statement i
and readi countless bod
The New Revelation" is rather
t
It will be remembered that following two remarkably poor displays given by the 9th Cavalry to matches with Meiji and the Navy, on both of which occasions the Cavalry lost though an easy victory was commonly expected for them, Mr. W. 1. Merriman and some others made in-issued, the spy was born in Bukovina. He exposition of a religious philosophy. vestigations which led to a formal com plaint being laid against Mr. J. L. Ezra, er for many years one of the leading Arthur began with the ordinary scient who was a member of the Shanghai Race German agents in the Balkans. He was belief that mind is a function of Club. The matter was consequently taken the author of a bomb outrage in the brain, but he came to doubt that when up by the Stewards and in the course of Dobrudja, and in the Parliament at had proof of telepathy. which is The commnaiqué does not give further. S. Elias and T. Gensburger were Budapest, after which he fed to Austria.munication between distant minds.
their investigations the names of Messrs.
brought in. The charge laid by Mr.
At the cutbreak of the present war he was Professor William James, a Merriman was that Mr. J. "I. Eru bad; paid $2,000 to the Cavalry team to lost returned to Rumanin, and entered the psychology, who arst suggested that
earnest and even conservative student matches upon which they had wagered service of the secret police, but in reality mind might be a transmissive function considerable sums, the winnings of those Assisted the Germans by carrying on the brain. In other words, as Berg three young men amounting to" $15,000,
after the investigation had com- spionage work in Roumania.
has it, the brain is the organ of att Baseball Club to be dealt with as they volation, he became one of the principal
ced the $15,000 had been sent to the]
tion to earth. To put it simply, the mi After the outbreak of the Russian reoperates through the brain ins physic thought ft.
life. The Stewards of the Race Club, as the German Agents engaged in corrupting the result of their inquiries and deliberations, decided to place the whole matter before Russian troops and was exceedingly active the members of the Race Club and for in promoting Bolshevismu meeting was held on Monday, fast, when Russian troops en the Roumanian front that purpose au extraordinary general: the charge of bribery was dropped. The in May, 1917. He then endeavoured, with his exposition the New Revelan. I. Ezra-whose conduct alone was before the aid of corrup: Russian troops to bring Club, however, proceeded to expel Mr. J. the meeting on the ground that he had about a revolution in "Roumanin which Hostility has come to it from two sourc been guilty of conduct unbecoming to would be favourable to Germany by plot meraber of the Race Club by having asso- ciated freely, with the Cavalry team, and ting to take the King of Roumania, the by giving them money without the know- Crown Prince, and leading members of ledge of their superior officer, contribut- disgrace upon their regiment ing to get them into trouble and to bring
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A Royal Commission has been been appointed under the Chairmanship of Lord Emmott to investigate the advis ability of adopting a decimal- coinage in the United Kingdom."
GERMAN STATES REBUKED.
AMSTERDAM August 31st. The manifestation of the intention of the German states, notably Bavaria and Saxony, to assert themselves by appoint ing their own diplomatic representatives at Sofa and elsewhere has evoked a strong rebuke from the Fossische Zeitung. AMERICA'S 'MAN-POWER BILL
WASHINGTON, August 31st. Congress has passed the Man Power Bill extending the draft age limits from eighteen to forty-five...
ALLIED AND ENEMY CREDIT IN SCANDINAVIA
STOCKHOLM, August 31st, A striking testimony to the difference between the Allied and enemy credit in Scandinavia is afforded by the fact that the pound sterling is now quoted. at 73 per cent. of its normal value, the dollar 77 per cent, and the franc 70, while the Austriag kroner is only 35 per cent. and the German mark is.50.
GERMANISING ESTHONIA.
the
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for
LONDON, August 31st. Germany is already adopting familar method of colonisation Esthonia.
The schools are being. Ger manised and Eathonian music bidden.
CANADA'S MAN-POWER
REGISTERED.
OTTAWA, August 30th.
the Government.
among
"
THE NEW REVELATION. monist view that life dissolves in the nat This explanation would end the par the of the bodily structure, and is to ma facts of the phenomena Sir Arthur ca distinguished inquirers justified by
fed to Kishineff from Jassy,
He was about to be arrested when he
In Bessarabia he continued to carry on the Bolshevik propagenda by means of large sums of money supplied him by the German Government..
to the Cavalry team on three diferent In this connection the giving of 82,070 ocensions the 870 in the early part of the werk, $1,000 after the match with Meiji, and the remaining
$1,000
after the match with the Navy was admitted, but Mr. of any agreement with Ezra denied that it was paid as the result
the
negroes that they should lose the matches, but said that the money was given spontaneously. because the negroes had said they were until they reached Manila, and the addi- short of money and would get no more tional reason was also given that fr.
A “Second Lichnowsky," the Paris Eera and his friends were sorry for the Tempe.calls General Count. Max Montge
A SECOND LICHNOWSKY."
Cavalry team because they had lost.
JI. Erra having been expelled, las, who has written an article in the
tant event since the birth of Chri enuse he regards it as the most impo
refuses the new phenomena credend religious and scientiae. Orthodox scien claiming that they are the product eith have been so carefully and so consistent trickery or of self-delusion. But th studied by people of repute and positi that it is impossible that this er cathed statement should dismiss them, Ev those investigators who are reluctant that the phenomena are real. accept a spiritistic explanation adm
usually referred the phenomena to satan As for the orthodox religions, they ba influence, quito oblivious of the fact the as Sir Arthar points out, manifestatio allied to the spiritualistic arc gắnọng ti fundamental events
recorded
Gospels.
new
in
Sir Arthur considers that t truth will considerably modern Christianity. Myers said of t modi
years that they proved the preamble phenomena he had investigated for thir all religions," and I believe this to
profound truth. Death is only bir
ment. The hunian, being passix out of
to another life, had there is no quel tion of a last trump or a day of judg body into the new conditions, not us
thin fam
or, as the author phras is, a wisp of
guscous
happiness floatin about in the air" body" which is the counterpart of the He passes out clothed trens the in St. Paul's words. with a spicitur physical body at its hest. All fears an imperfections disappear, being the pro duct of the grosser matter of which wi are built in this life...
the Stewards then took up the case of Berliner Tageblatt protesting against had been allowed to wait, peading the un indignant witness. Count Montgelas A. F. S. Elias, which in the meantime practices of war of which he had been result of last Monday's meeting, and commanded on the French front at the Friday last the Stewards, at a special beginning of the war, and was disgusted meeting, decided to suspend Mr. Elias by the excesses committed by the German for a year. The case of Mr. V. Gensburger Armies in Belgium and the invaded de- did not come before the Stewards, he partments. He sought to not being a member of the Race Club, but civilian populations with justice and we understand that the matter is under humanity, and was retired for this cause. the consideration of the French authori He took refuge in Switzerland, where ties. Mr. Ellia Exra was also interrogat he studied the origin of the war and the ed, but the Stewards found no ground for violation of Belgiam, reaching the same action against him.
conclusion as Dr. Wilhelm Muehlon, former director of the Krupp Works, and Pro!, Friedrich Foerster, of the University of Munich, both of whom have
OUTSPOKEN COMMENT.
ment.
"ON THE OTHER SIDE." Sir Arthur follows the history of the emancipated spirit, as revealed by score!
In a leading article the North-China strongly criticized the German Govern of communications from the other side. Lily News says:-
Count Montgelas in his articles in They all agree in essentials, and vary i "Except for providing a new sensation the Tageblatt was extremely outspoken little in details, as is only natural, it cannot be thought that Mr. J. I. Ezra's for a German General, his charges aceing the diversity of human types and offer to pay to war furds anything up against militarism supporting the ideals intelligences. For one thing established to a hundred thousand dollars, if Mr. of Viscount Grey and President Wilson, on which Sir Arthur insists, and which, Bunn and Mr. Merriman can prove him The Temps adds that it is interesting to guilty of bribery, on condition that they find a professional soldier confirming the and their friends do the like if they fail German Foreign Secretary, von Kuehl does much to improve the situation. And
to those who think that there has been man, on the impossibility of a solution enough sensation already, that safcicatxclusively by arts. publicity has been secured, and that fur
indeed, it the fundamental principle of
this new religious philosophy is that death does not instantly convert a foolish person into a wise, or a bad man into a good. On the contrary, people go over with the same intellectual and ethical equip ent as on earth. Of course, ali that of the body perishes with the side the instantaneous and progressive. Death On does not interrupt, the law of evolution;
ther pursuit of this delectable morsel is merely the raking up of mud in which a certain class of journalist delights, Mr. can afford them permanent satisfaction. body. But life" on the other side is Ezra's letter which we print to-day does
We put altogether on оде not improve matters at all. What it original allegation of bribery. amounts to in plain language is nothing their own admissions and on nothing it is a mere incident in it. Among things A registration of the man-power of more nor less than that he offers to bet Canada was taken on June 22nd. Ac- Mr. Bunn and Mr. Merriman twenty-
else, how do these three men cording to the interim report of the Reve, fifty or a hundred thousand dollars having too much money and to let ever the seeming solidity and substantiality of pre that may astonish and appear to astonish sent themselves to the public? As gistration Board it appears that several that they cannot make good their words do; as greedy of excitement and not over their new bodies. This is remarked over people who arrive in this other world is hundred thousands of men are trained in agriculture, but are otherwise engaged. ting.
There has already been quite enough bet-vast sums in gumbling with the in- and over again.
particular how they get it: of risking That Mr. Judah Ezra wishes to
I think Sir Arthur: The registration demonstrated beyond clear himself is easily understood. But evitable result of not appearing to mind writes admirably on this point. question that we have in Canada an be appears abundant supply of labour experienced simpler and more satisfactory way of recoup themselves when they lose. It may times denser, heavier and duller than
to forget that there is mach sailing close to the wind in order to
If we could conceive a world a thousand in farming, but at present employed in doing so than by making expensive chal- be said that the same charges could be this world, we can clearly see that t lenges through newpapers. The Stewards brought against huddreds and thousands having dropped the charge of bribery, and of others. That is perfectly true, but its inmates it would seen much the same
On this analogy it is easy to see that more ethereal world than ours might
other occupations.
The Board secured and placed in the hands of the County Committees the the members of the Race Club having the others have had the ill-deserved good as this, since their strength and texture. names of aver 140,000 men, all of whom vened their displeasure on quite differ fortune not to be found out. The sugges. would be in proportion. If, however, are being trained in agriculture, whose eat grounds, the statement attributed to tion in that sentence is not, perhaps, the these inmates came in contact with us, services are "available as harvest hands affair and the obvious way to make him tical issue to-day which Mr Ezra, Mr. narily airy beings, living in a strange,
Mr. Merriman becomes A purely personal
bighest morality, but it expresses the prac. they would look upon us as extraordi should they be required.
If the cards from all parts of Canada court of law, where the matter could be What prospect awaits them if they linger being and our surroundings are in prove it would be to have recourse to sider. They have to make a new start.
Elias and Mr. Gensburger have to conlight, spiritual atmosphere; they puld are thoroughly scrutinised for farmi pros threshed out and the ampleet vindication
not rémember, that we also, since our pects, labour for which is shown to be afforded to Mr. Ezra in an atmosphere on in Shanghai All sport will he closed harmony and in proportion to each other, available, it will probably prove COD- remote from all suspicion of sentiment clusively that, despite the large number and personal bias.
to them,
decent society will shut its doors feel and act exactly as they do. of men who left the "Tarms for overseas
Further than this, on them and the only associates and re- it can hardly fail to be remarked that sorts available for them will be the riff- service, we still have a force with which Mr. Ezra's challenge argues complete raff of the town and its less reputable we can maintain production at the pre-obliviousness to the real offence for which bars. But for an alternative the war exist, as real and as substantial to the sent level or even "increase it, if neces- his name was removed from the member pens a splendid, a heaven-sent opportun.inmates as our own is to e
ship of the Race Club. The letter cannot ity. Assuming that they are physically be thought well advised from any point and there cannot be much-amiss with this book deserve cordial recognition
The courage and large-mindedness of men who ride boldly and skifully across Sir Arthur was never a dogmatist, but of view, and except they choose to do so for their own satisfaction, there is not country and in steeplechases-there is Karing come to certain conclusions after the slightest need, for Mr. Bunn and Mr. Work for these men at the Front in which 30 years of experiment, he honestly and LONDON, August 20th.
Merriman to take any notice of it. bygones will truly become bygones. The Press Burcau states:-Mis Majesty There remains, however, a better way hered: if they live to come back to the public. The prejudice against thasc
they
die, the best of them will be remem- freely states them unflinching the King has degraded Sir Joseph Joans for Mr. Judah Ezra, Mr. F. S. Elins and Far East, they can be sure that they will phenoniena is still enormous, but work (the ex-Sheriff of Sheffald, who was re
Mr. Victor Gensburger to rehabilitats formation to the enemy) from the degree actions. It is indeed the only way that believe it is in their interests that we de The New Revelation will be accepted. cently charged with communicating in themselves than either by bets or libel and this unhappy chapter closed for ever. like this is sapping it slowly. In a
We have spolsen plainly, because we other generation, the truths. embodied in of Knight Bachelor.
(Continued at four of next Golumn.) so and that the community supports us." as a matter of course-Daily Chronicle.
sary.
The registration totalled 5,014,34.
JOSEPH JONAS,