GENERAL NEWS.
MR. BIRCH CRISP.
The Man Behind. the Chinese' Loan
THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1912.
A few daya ngo the public, which knows nothing of its greatest men, had never heard of Charlos Birch Crisp. Now it knows him as the financial Atha- nasius who is fighting against the world. It is a battle of giants,
ment is satisfied he allows nothing to deflcot him from his course. He is, above all things, decisive in his decisions, irrevGO- able in his resolves. When his mind is made up ho allow nothing to worry him. The thing is settled and done with finally, He looks the door upon it, and goes ahead. :
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Death of a Dutch Admiral The death lids taken place at The Hague, of Vico-Admiral A. H. Hookwater, at the age of 58 years ho 1885, he was a first lieutenant of the Dutch Navy, attached to the tropedo service, and ronitored valuable services to the Department of Naval nad
in English, Solenos. Mathumstles' Military Hydrography. In 1005
himself completely from cares do, to Chines and Indian Pupils, Jio was nominated Commander of for behind the six Powers there is which would rob another man of Chinesd and Hindustani jokeu the Squadron in the Colonies, groat banking monopoly which sleep. Probably the one man in Apply "Graduate," Office of this and was, temporarily charged has hitherto been unchallenged, London who was least porturbed Hongkong. 28th Oct., 1912. (197
Paper. with the functions of Commander and behind this monopoly there by the storm raging round the of the Navy and Chief of the is a complicated network of inter-Crisp loan was Carlos Birch NO 118HMAN, gradunto, ¿bx- Naval Department in Netherlands national intriguo.
Crisp. When the storm was at E East Indin. Aftor participating
∙ceptional knowledge of Chinese, Apparently it is an unequal ite height he calmly walked out undertakes nus)ations: From and into in the war oporations in Colebes duel botworn one strong man in of his office for a day in the Chinare. Fotition, addreses do.. pre- in 1905-1900, the deceased was Angel-court and a host of irresis country. The Six Powera would parod in or English or Chins o nominated a Knight in the Milit.tible antagonists. It is strange have been astonished to see him moderate tons. Amy X. "Hong- ary Willemsorder 4th Class. Ad-that this giant of finance should in his oapacity as Field President kong Telegraph" miral lookwater retired from bo unknown to the public. And of the Royal Forest Agricultural Hongkong, 29th Oct., 1912.796 yet it is not strange, for he is a Association, ohourfully entertain: plain, modest, reticent man, who ing Berkshire country gentle
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does not relish bissudden plunge mon and farmers at luncheon in TO. DE SOLD.-A House an made in Shanghai to calebrate the
a marquee orected on his own Barker Road, nor Tram Station. anniversary of the local outbreak
To those who know him he is farm near Ascot. Instead of fret-Denison, Ram & Gibby, of the revolution which occured torly unlike the financier de ting over the ruses of diplomacy, Hongkong. 28th Oct. 1912. on the 13th day of the Oth moon pitced by the novelist and the he was jesting merrily about the or the 3rd day of Novelber, character on his sleeve. You its value as a counter-irritant to TO LET MODEENAGH" dramalist. Hedioes not wear his vicissitudes of forming and about district assembly of Shanghai, had passed the resolution that might weet him at dinner with the worries of his finance,
the Peak from 1st May, 1918, If the truth were told, his hoart on long laste. October, 22, should be obervod as out guessing at his genius.
Eadier occupation the anniversary date. But owing Ilo is a man of medium hoight, is in his Berkshire estate and in might be arranged led-roo n. to lack of time for the nessary bust, with a simple quiot air of he has designed and built to
spare and wiry rather than ro the beautiful country house which trations will be made to suit tanuls proparation the colobration will be
if desired. Apply to:-Linstead postponed till the 3rd of Novemud brooding rather than a mas. please himself. He is his own
Davis. ber. The progrogram will be very not large. It is, in fact, an orin Angel-court. Hie house is on torful dominance. His head is architect at Moor Close as well as
Hongkong, 25th Ook. 1012 [808 niversary on the 10th of October hair which is regularly streaked windows gratify his love of broad siry, on First, Second and Third Floor, There will be memorial services wish straight grey lines, and views to every point of the com-is new building being greeted for Mossrs. for those martyrs killed at the paried plainly on the left-hand pass. From the roof he can see WHITEAWAY LAIDLAW & CO., capture of the Asonal.
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remarkable. They are the features nature of the man-free, unfot-leido Lift to all doors.! Electrio A means of profiting by the of a business man who knows his tered, far-ranging, yet homely Light throughout. spy mania has been discovered own mind. But the mouth is rory and healthy. by & Garman, whose numerosolute, with its ascetic firm lips, Glitch, which in the voraacular tightly closed and clenched in a country gentleman, happy in his At bottom he is an English suggests a cortain slipperinoss-fixed decisiveness that marks the acres, his Suffolk Punchies, and deserves to go down to pusterity habit of self-reliance and trained his cattle. It was a piquant with that of the Captain of will-power. The loug, stiff upper contrast to watch the man who Koponick. The modus operandi lip is like a piece of carved mar-thinks in millions standing up adopted by this ingenious gentle-blo, with that deep central inden great farm wagon to distribute was simplicity itaulf. Hetion which is nearly always found certificates and half-sovereigns to merely concocted bogus mobiliss-in strong men. tion plans and bogus ciphers,
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Ho is a typical Englishman, which he sold to foreign Cavern After the strong mouth the and anybody who knows him can- ment officials for high prices, most anlient characteristic of the not doubt that his career is only obtaining as much as £800 in one face in the eyes. They are small beginning. He is in the prime
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His Grace the Archbishop of
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fight was proceeding in deadly earnest. Knives were drawn and the combat was unly stoppail by the arrival of the police. During the fight two badly out.
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