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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1914.
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FAR EASTERN NAVAL SQUADRONS.
Name
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Kinsha Merlin Minotaur ❤
A Smiles, Hero. It will be seen that his character Monmouth
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thought and motive. If you do is one of rare simplicity of
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HIS B. TANNIC MAJESTY'S SHIPS ON THE CHINA STATION.
aut like the Smiles ideal, which Nightingale certainly has its limitations and Ribble
Robin has fallen into some disrepute in these days, your admiration for this Grand Old Man of Canada Rosario will be qualified. For he is the Sandpiper. sublimation of the industrious Snipe apprentice, and he remains to-day. with his vast wealth, his palaces Tamar or both sides of the Atlantic, his pictures and bis great reputation, unchanged in intellect and moral sk outlook from the honest lad who Virago.
Welland sailed westward to make his for
Whiting tune long before you and I were
Widgeon born. His moral philosophy it
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Commander
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900 Lt.-Com. B. E. Prichard
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7,000 Capt.0. F. Corbett M.V.O. Weihaise"
20,500 Capt. M. R. Hill
1,200 Lt-Com. H. Marryatt
R00 Lt.-Jon. Alan Dixon
Capt. Frederick A. Powlett Shanguni 240 Lt.-Comdr, M. Mursy Yangtze
Toas Guas, I.H.P. 1,700 12 2,000
Reported at
Hongkong
Hongkong
710 2
Yangisze
710 2
900 Lt.-Com. W. H. Darwell.
Hongkong
1,070 6
390 1,070. 8
1,400 Comdr, E. Williams
Shanghai
300 Master . Smith
Hongkong
1,400 Comdr. Mackenzie, D.S.O.
Penang
360 t
5,700 Lt.-Com. Wilkinson
Hongkong
4,350 10
10,850 10
Weibaiwei
616
Yangleze
Capt. F. O. O. Pasco
Labaan
14,600
27,000 Capt. E. B. Kiddle
Weihaiwei
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22,000
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180 2
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240 Lt-Comdr. Nash 1,400 Lt.-Condr. N.E. Archdale Canton
240 Lt.-Com. I. S. Hutton
"West River
85 2
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350
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Receiving ship
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6
180 2
Gunboat
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590 Torpedo-boat destroyer Torpeic-bost destroyer 360
600
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800 Lt.-Domdr. J. C. Borrett
Yangisza
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500 Lt-Com. M. B. Blackwood
Yonglaze
Gunboat
150
500 Lt-Comfr. Lloyd
Yangiszo
C. 36,
Lt.-Com. McGillwie
Hongkong
Lt.-Com. J. Gaimes
C. 37,
Hongkong
Lt.-Com. Pope
Hongkong
Lt.-Com. Handley
West River
Lt.-Com. Stilemaa
Hongkong
Lt.-Com. Nicol,
Hongkong
L-Com. H. W. Seymour, Hongkong
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8,000 Capt. Dauta
Shanghai
River gunboat
River gunboat
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West River
240 Lt.-Com. Maurice Leslie Yangtsze 6,000 Gunner W. H. Ryder" Hongkong
Com. R. H. Anstruther C.M.G Hongkong 800 Lt.-C. Hon. Guy Stopford Yanglaze 900 L.-0.B.R.N. Cotrell Dormer Yangteze 7,500 Lt.-Comdr. Maxwell Weihaiwei 6,300 Lt.-Com. H. D. Adair-Hall Weihaiwei 7,500 Com. Seymour
Weiheiwei
grim, hard years he spent on the ides than the Cape to Cairo rail journeyed, mostly by dog-aled, const of Labrador, where he laid way which united two great two thousand miles away from the foundation of his fame as one contres of world netivity. the Montreal to Fort Garry which (Continued from page .I.)
of the best fur dealers in the | Canadian Pacific was a plange tiel with his half-breeds bad ment. He is neither a man of company's service and acquired through nothing to nothing. It captured, how he was genius, nor an idealiat. He is that intimacy with the Indians was a stupendous guess at the prisoner for two months, how he' just an ordinary man in an extra- which served bim
refused to yield his papers and 60 well future. the chief ordinary degree-simple, honest, when he became
"Stand Fast."
finally, through the well-affected olearsighted, practical as a plom-administrator
the com
But Donald Smith never falter- French, forced the holding of a bar, stable as the hills. He him- pany in Rupertsland. Being ed for a moment. He had reached meeting of the people, how in the self would be the last to claim threatened with snow-blindness, middle life and an affluence that open-air, with the thermometer uny kinship with the superman. Donald Smith, with three Indians, would have turned most men's twenty degrees below zero, and What he has done has been done niade a journey of 560 miles by thoughts to reposs. Thirty years
circumstances where one rash Alacrity with weapone within the reach of dogsled to Montreal, where an of work and thrift had brought word would have ect the country Atlas all honoaty, frugality aud per-poration on his eyes was success him out of the wilderness and in a flame, he won the people from Bramble severance," the loss of that fully parformed. It was the depth made him the financial King of the rebel leader so that when la- Britomart frugal home where eighty years of a winter of exceptional severity Canada. He was supreme in the ter Sir Garnet Wolsey appeared Cadmus ago he sat reading bis Horace by even for those latitudes, and his great company that had held half at the head of a military expadi- Cherub rushlight. A mother's early friends tried to dissuade him Canada in fee but had now sur. tion the first Riel retellion was training", he will tell you," has from returning to his post, for the rendered its sovereignty to the at an end-all this stands as a everything to do with a man's journey almost certainly meant Stato and through the Bank of witness not only to bis practical Flora career, I know mine had with death. But young Smith had a Montreal he controlled with Land wisdom but also to his persona! Hampshire
and unaffected courage. me. She taught me to work when guiding principle which admitted Mount Stephen the only resources I was young and to save money of no exceptiona.
at all adequate to the enterpriso. two very important things in a "I had my duty to perform" be a staked everything upon the man's life,"
says in talling the story. "Every venture with a quiet forthude Thero. are other important thing must give pines to one's duts that has few parallels. At every -things, which were not forgotten you know. The Indians insisted crisis, as won said of a greater in that humble school. Ha tern that they could never reach the man in a greater connection, ed the lesson of generosi y. It is post alive, the anow was so deep.hope shone in him like a pillar not difficult for a man whose They were right, pcor fellows of fire when it had gone out of all riches are tayon calculation to two died from the cold and the the others." There was one such be a public bonef cor. In this rdships we wore forced to endure occasion when it seemed that the
might Dountry om
think before we had gone half ways; difficulties were finally insur it was, "for our men bare, the other succumbed when we mountable. Donald Smith, then in loat the lice Traditiou of were over one hundred miles from Englond engaged in communicat- public mgmficepes With all the post
ing his own confidence to Enan their faults the Age Tamil alone. I don't like to think of ciers, received a long letter from lionaires have that trait and Lord that time: it was too horrible. the company couched in terms of Strathcona alınca. It. But it is However my ris3 in the Hudson despair. He cabled Back one word. not his "great hosetactions the Bay Company was very rapid after. It was a Highland clan cr", gift and oudowaniut of the that. I am glad I took the trip. Craigol-lachie," its meaning Victoria Hospital at Montreal, the There is a naivote in that frank Stand Fast." And when finally equipment of Stratie.au's Horse confession which is very illumina- the victory was won and the two for the Boer War, McGill Universing. Perhaps another use of sots of constractors met in the still that of the frugal home Woodlark
Every sity and other institutions that duty would have suggested a Eagle Valley in the heart of the and the frugal mother. are the true witness to his gen- doubt as to the right of risking second of the great ranges which other should teach her children erosity but the habits of a life- the lives of others ia one's own had made construction so difficult to honest and work and save
their money," he says. time. When he was a poor man' affairs, but the iugident shows the the place was named "Craigel: I was earning, only fifty cents said one who know him well to me,, úaflinching, loyalty of the man lachie," and it was here that "he had the same generous in to an unalterable though narrow Stand Fast Smith drove in the day I saved half of it." And bis atjacts. If he had only two rooms vodo of duty.
last spike that bridged acontinent. respect for man is governed by 1beso considerations-Carnegie there was always one room for a guest. And there is an incidont
Flagahip of Admiral Jerram, K.C.B., C.V.O., O.M.G. Commander-in-Chief. working and saving as a tele- This constancy extends to bis aph of erator, J.J. Bill, as Kaiser Franz on record from hischildhood which
But after all it is his steadfast personal_associations, When
JosephI Armoured cruiser mud clerk in the loves at St. shows that though. his motherness that has tien his chief con John J. Hill, who is now one of Paul, with fifty csuti a day, taught him to save money, she tribution to anda. And the the great railroad kings of saving on his clothes in order to taught him also something even supreme memorial of that stead America, made his coap of the buy books and,. "prepare him- better. When he was a boy of fastness is the Canadian Pacific St, Paul and Pacific Railroad, it" these are the heroes of his nine the Findhorn and the Spey Railway. The late Sir Charles was Donald Smith's financial itupla cread, and with there broke their boundaries and food-Tupper once publicly declared backing and loyalty that saved admonitions to a industrious ed the country. Many of the that but for Lord Strathcons that him. He wanted a railway to and frogal he mingles warnings Dupbeix ** peasants, with their families, railway would not have been coir Winnipeg to open up the Hudson against the pursuit of wealth for Kleier > came into Forres to seak relief, atructed then and schaps, Bay country, and he believed in telf, "Great wealth
cannot dea and amongst them the parents of ultimately, it would have one cchemes as well no one of Donald's playmates who we for Canada if it had not been bonesty,
bring happine be No temptation would Real happines3 mnst come vigilante.
rgus had been drowned in the floods, constructed then. The se render induce him to desert him. The from a contented mind and After school Donnid called upon of vast tracts of the richest and American meguates determined hard them, and with a gravity far be-in Canadaasa bait to the financial to capture the undertaking at all is a burden, for que hae to think
"work. 'Great wealth Dondard de Lagreo, Gunboat yond his years loled with interests to carry out the work was cust. Up bounded the shares very hard how to make the best them, and on leaving handed ton concession which the future will higher and higher. Hill's fate use of his money. I would not L them his riches, amounting to one doplore and the political influence hung on Donald Smith. A huge advise any man to strive after
rolee shilling and some odd coppers which this great corporation has fortune was in his grasp if he great wealth. I would rather bety "That is as convincing a witness to brought to beer uran the life chose to sell, but he had placed a very good man than a very
Fronde. this pleasant phase of his charae of Canada is a fact of great and his confidence in Hill, and would rich man."
J'lberville ter as the McGill University. sinister import: The truth is st3 him through, Bnd not!
And
addition to that the railway should have a share could be wrung from him, Franklin and the hagiology of Monsquet
It is all in the style of Beajamin Pistolet work and thrift
bie been made by the State and that so matter what monstrous price miles. And, after all, a philo Manche career has been founded on two I believe was the view of Lord was offered. Indeed, no buro sophy that produces a life like other homely virtues-Iny and Strathcona himself. But, con-ever is wrung from him. He is this, though it may 'a inadequate, constancy. He is never tired of ceding, the necessity of the under one of the men who never sail," cannot be wrong. When I see incalcating duty. Don't go to taking, his claim to gratitude towever black the sky. In the him with his horden of nearly a Canada to have an eny time." cannot be overstated. The idea duys when Canadian' Pacific bundred he says. You will not find any of driving a railway through shares slumped to 50, and there of its streets paved with gold, thousands of miles of pathless was almost universal wouve qui But work hard and do your duty forosis and mountain ranges to peut," Stand Fast Donald was
Be a desolate shore-for where Van immovable as ever. and you must Aucred" himself would put bis sucress on couver with its noble streets
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Constancy and Courage.
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