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NELLEGRAPIE -FRIDAY, AUGUST 7
One of to-day's telegrams states that, on Britain becoming involved in the war, Japan" is
DAY BY DAY."
The Weather. Lower level 8 a.m. Temp 83; ne.
prepared to carry out ber Treaty ALL HELL LET LOOSE-Milion. obligations. It may be of inter- est, therefore, to outline the min. points of the Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and Japan. The objects of the Alliance include the following: -The consolidation and msia-
of India; the maintenance of the
territorial rights of the high|
contracting parties in the regions
of Eastern Asia and of India,
and the defence of their special interests in these regions. "As to |how these objects are to bà carried out, the Treaty is moat | defiulte.
At the Peak 3 a.m, Temp 75;
The Mails.
fine.
Count the Columos, Yesterday" the
Telegraph
BRITISH WAR APPOINTMENTS.
Sketches of the Naval and Milltary, Commanders
NAVAL CONSTABLE CHARGED.
REPORTED NAVAL ENGAGEMENT.
OFFICIAL DENIAL GOVERNMENT,
NO SUCH EVENT REPORTED TO THE AUTHORITIES.
A Scuffle In the Kowloon Depot. Albert G. Graham, a constable following biographical in the Royal Naval Dookyard, concerning Field Marshal was charged before Mr. J. B Admiral Sir John Jellicos, who Court, with misconducting him- ohn French and Vios Wood, this morning, at the Police have been appointed respectively self while on duty in the Kowloon to the commands of the British Depot of the Royal Naval Yard. tenance of the general pesce in Siberian Mail. Dus per 8.9 military and naval services, will The inspector in charge of the
Panama Maru to-morrow. the regions of Eastern Asin sud
be read with interest.—
case said that the matter had been | Field-Marshal Sir John French brought before the Commodore, is one of the most distinguished and he had declined to deal with soldiers of the present day, being is, ordering that the defendant the Colonial Secretary that there We are officially informed by published 29 colame of solid in particulardamous for his ability should be brought before a civil is no foundation for the rumour reading matter. To-day theres a cavalry oflour. He made his magistrate, will be 30 pablished.
which has been freely eironlatedș reputation in the South African
The magistrate pointed out to in the Colony, to the effect that War, when he carried out the the man that the maximus there has been an Anglo-German Beginning of Autumn, fanking movements by means of penalty for the offence with which naval engagement in the North Tomorrow, according to the which the English Army swept ba was charged was a fine of Bou, Chinese calendar, "The northwards, Anally to take Pre-200, or Imprisonment for six Beginning of Autumn.”
toris.
months. The defendant pleaded reported by telegraph to the No asch engagement ban been Clark Robbed. A Chinese clark of 100. Queen's which relieved Kimberley, an The Inspector in charge of the
He also led the fiying column not guilty.
Government: Rosd East has reportel to the event which was one of the first case also said that, so far as he broke a look off his door and stole the war. Sir John French oon on duty at Kowloon and some re- police that yesterday som person signs of the turn of fortune in could make out, the defendant was clothing to, valued 896.
stantly displayed great personal marks passed between the ser Red to his remarkable sang froid and the defendant was alleged bravery, and, eye-witnesses testi-geant there and the defendant; under heavy fire.
to have hucatid the sergeant and Like Earl Roberts and Earl Kit-to have used improper language, chener, he is immensely popular inviting him outside to fight. with the Army and the public. His age is 61, e
Mr. Tom Gunn, the Chinese a witness that the prosection aviator, is expected to arrive in Sir John French, like another wished to call, adjourned the case the Colony next week.
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It prescribes that whenever, in the opinion of either Great Britain or Japie, any of the rights and interest mentioned are in joa communicate with one another pardy, the two Governments will fully and frankly and will consider ¡in common the measures which should be taken to safeguard the
The Tang Wa Hospital Flood mens:ed rights or interests. Ao Relief Fund now totals $133,228. other article lays it down that, if The latest list includes $58 from by 18ason of unprovoked attack the members of the Water Pulice willi
or aggressive action, either Station at Kowloon, contracting party
Happy Way of Putting it. should be involved in war in defence of its "This case has been adjourned
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The mies per quarter sud per mens a, proponimusi. Subscriptions territorial rights or special inter-sins dis and two weeks after that," distinguished field-marshal, Sir until to-morrow and enquired manager, Mr. Mike Newman, for any period less thau ne mouth will be charged as for a eats, the other contracting party asid Mr. Haywood amid laughter Evelyn Wood, began life in the about the custody of the defend-who has already been here for The daily issue is delivered free when the address is accessible to of its ally, and will conduct war endeavouring to have a day fixed loaptain in the Royal Navy, and Commodore declined to have the to the Telegraph the other day, os ubligations have never yet been A chair bearer has been seas footsteps; but after four years' was remanded in police custody should prove of singular interest brought into active operation; to the hospital suffering from service as a cadet and as a mid- until to-morro but they will now, if the occasion injuries to his right arm caused shipman on the Britannia he arises. And they will, in that by accidentally falling and break decided he preferred the Army, Later, by a terribly exhausting event, prove of the utmost value: ing a glass bottle that he was which he entered in 1874, then march, French's division joined Pointing out that it is only
being 22 years of age.
Lord Roberts in his main advance, question of a few years before all More Chinese Rebeliton Rumours, carrying under his arm.
At first he obtained a commis and was constantly in action. In warfare will take place in the air, Reporis whether exaggerated. or not it is impossible to guther
The cargo shipped from Hong. ion in the 8th Hussare, but the battle of Diamond Hill, Jane Mr. Newman proceeded to argue The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will be delivered contine to creep into Hong Kong by the 8.8. Davenha on the shortly afterwards transferred to 11 and 12, 1900, French, by that the aeroplaned to argue to subscribers by, the Dairy Farm Company, Ltd., Shamoon, kong as to the doings of the rebel at. iast, included 150. bales of the 19th. In 1880 he was a cap-¡magnificent stand, held a greatly evitably bring about universal Canton, who have been appointed our agents there,
waste silk for Manchester; 60 tain and in 1884 was promoted superior force for forty-eight pence, for the simple reason that lead ra who brought about so By Order,
much trouble in Caton last year. bales of waste silk, 10 packages to a majority, In the same year he hours.
war will then prove far too ex• During these latter operations ponsive. That these leaders are by 52 chests, of Persian opium for one of the Camel Corps which Sir John French and his men, of tea, 120 bales of raw silk and saw his first active servios, being mesas inactive, but are simply London; waiting for chance opportunito, silk for Lyons; and 210 balas of the Bayada Desert in connection were out off from the commit" has already seroplanes that 114 bales of raw made a desperate dash scross exposed to the wildest weather, "England," he remarked, the better-informed among the The boret of this sugar in &, prablish enraci in ormation, to serue the truth Chinese have never denied; and raw silk and 30 cases of human with the Gordon relief expedi-sariat, and were hard pressed to
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HONGKONG, FRIDAY,"AUGUST 7, 1914.
HONGKONG AND THE WAR.
a
Devanha's Cargo.
is now seeme fairly certain that hair for Marseillea,
ARCHBISHOP HARTY.
tion. He was present at the bat find sufficient food supplies on
carry machine guns, and At least a few of them aro wan-
tles of Abu Kles and Melemmah the high veldt.
making most wonderful strides and arrived in Khartoum to find Finally, although seriously serial warfare. It is only during towards complate fitness for dering about in Canton, seeking ty spread dissension and carrying
that Gordon was dead."
worn in health by his unceasing the last year or so that she and about with them proclamations
Colonel of Huzzars, activities and anxieties, Sir John Germany have really been coming Five years later he was made French undertook the difficult purporting to come from Sun Yat-sen, which urge the sored
commander of his regiment; in task of keeping down the rebels in this way; till than Brance duty of revolt. We should be
1898.4 he served sa A.A.G. of in Cape Colony,
was at the top of the tree. Ať Cavalry on the staff; in 1895 he. Since the war, Sir John has holds the record for amratio
the present moment. Acharysany sarnestly glad to hear that such
was appointed A.A.G. at head-rendered priceless service in while Francs holds the distance agitators had been arrested end
quarters; in 1887 he was appointed raising the standard of the acid and altitude records. dealt with according to low. It
Brigadier to command the 2nd and organization of the Home will be noticed that the eternal Philip O. Whitaker, are made Cavalry Brigade, and two years Forces. Owing to his Initiative
Involved la Lawsuit. Says the Manila Bulletin :---- Archbishop Jeremiah J. Harty, and the attorneys of the diocess, Judge William Kincaid and
Meanwhile, however, England
Sun Yat-sen'e name is still need defendants in a civil suit for the later was transferred to the 1st the doctrine of our leaders and has today the patterns of what as one wherewith to conjare, so recovery of P. 22,000, which was Brigade at Aldershot. thut, although the educated filed late on Monday in the court
staff has been brought into line aviatore, call a self-stabilised Chinese have long lost faith in of first instance by W. Borot, the he was to emerge with the reputa-practice.
Then came the war from which with modern thought and machine, the special advantage of bim, it would appear that he and prominent real estate broker of tion of being one of the world's
which is that any novic the agitators are fairly confident this city.
Sir John commanded the First manipulate it. It can that there is still hope of his being In the complaint it is alleged
cavalry leaders.
Army Corps from 1901 to 1907, st any angle able to "
From his Aldershot command was Inspector-General of the direction, and is easier spoof Hongkong, as as important naval and military centre, has ignorant,
the more that during the months of Sep- he went straight to Natal, being Forces from 1907 to 1911, when driving a horse. Its special concern in the great war which has brought Great Britain Chinese in Hongkong.
tember and October, 1912, the appointed Major-General in com- he became A.D.O. General to the simplicity Wad đeo and Germany into deadly conflict. The might of our armed forces
plaintiff, at the instance and mand of the cavalry there, despite King, and has been Chief of the some It may have been noticed that, request of the defendants, Kincaid opposition on the part of senior Imperial Stam since that year. British Army authorities who pot
time back in the Far West is centred here; hence all eyes will be fastened on has been quite an unusually small their representations that they capacities for leadership, as shown given to him in 1918. He has made a flight of over twent
during the past two days, there and Whitaker, and acting upon officers, who distrusted his The rank of Field-Marshal was a raw recruit to drive one. as to see what those forces can do when it comes to actual warfare, number of police charges against were the duly accredited repre- in manoeuvres. Year by year huge sums have been spent on Hongkong's naval and Chinese in Hongkong, and that sentatives of Archbishop Harty,
been a frequent visitor to eight minutes, and proved that it military detachments, and on the defence works of the Colony; now even thoes few were of a trifling advanced money for the surveying British troops was owing the student of military theory.
To him as commander of the foreign mancavres, and a keen is next to impossible for it to go the time has come to apply the final test of efficiency and readiness, to a sudden sccess of sense of terio del Norte,, and spent his success which was followed up Vice-Admiral Sir John Rusk-England
nature. Whether this feat points of certain lands near the Cemen initial victory of Elandelsagte, a
wrong or to lose its equilibrino The Naval Commandan "I have just said that The periodical mobilisations, of course, provide those at the head of loyalty among local criminals or time in arranging for the trans by the brilliant pursuit of the worth Jellicoe, K.C.B., who has dying Power; but the han comes third By ass the forces with good indiostions of the true state of affairs, but the merely to increased vigilance on for of these lands to Archbishop 6th Lancers, general public naturally knows nothing of there facts, nor does it the part of the police, it is Harty.
her been appointed to the supreme always done her work in so close. expect to. There is, however, one point which has always made a equally satisfactory and we hope Mr. Borek then states that he retreat, but even in that phase of years of age. He has been Second impossible to say with certainty It was not in French's way to Command of the Fleet, is 54 mouthed fashion that it in strong impression so far as the asyal men on the Chins Station are it may continue. It is comfort is not able to allege with certainty warfare he distinguished himself Ses Lord of the Admiralty since what position she wupinu, Cordered that is the foe showing which the Squadron has almost ing to all in the Colony, at a time that Kincaid and Whitaker were in a remarkable way. When 1912. Entering the Navy in What it really comes to is this s invariably made in the gunnery tests, British naval marksmanship of stress like the present, to know the authorized egente of Arch- the Boers were surrounding 1872, he served in the Egyptian that in s tight corner the quick in the Far East is of an exceedingly high standard,
that the Hongkong Chinese are bishop Harty at that time, and in Ladysmith, and White was driven War of 1882, while, a year later, cath thinker wian; bak the At a time like this, people almost anconsciously set themselves that which obtained quite a few alternative that either they were fast arrived at the Cape, sent a ficates in passing for Lieutenant, quick-thinking people and so have under very different control from view of this fast alleges in the to the defensive, Baller, who had he secured three Erst-class certi English are a remarkably wondering whether or not the Colony is safe. They need have no years ago. Looking back at our in reality daly nooredited agents telegram argently commanding and secured a special 880 prize it in them to be the most succes fear on these grounds, for there is ample reason for believing that old files, it is a common thing to and as such conspired with him French to join him, at the Royal Naval College, fal in aviation, Hongkong is ready for every and any emergency. Our military find nut only many cases of to protect the negotiations and Last out of Ladysmith. When Commander, in 1898, Now Germany has an Inves forces are keen and alert; they are also splendidly organised, audacious gang robbery, but any deceive the plainti (Borok), to The last train to come into be was wrecked in Victoria. Hongkong is able to rely on a fine body of British and Indian number of attacks by bamboo- the end that the archbishop might Ladysmith had brought the naval He served in China from tion which, the claims, can bring troops, including a regiment, in Le Dake of Cornwall's Light armed coolies on the police, even purchase the Isnd directly from guns which proved of such 1888 to 1901, and was in com- Infantry, which has a fine record of war service to its credit. And, in the city itself and in broad its owners, thus depriving the inestimable value in that garri-mand of the Naval Brigade that can shoot six and more
down an aeroplane; a field gun if the "Dake's" and the other troops are called on, they may be daylight. depended upon to uphold the glorious traditions of the past. It is are quickly becoming things as broker and of the money ad go out carried with It Sir John the Peking Legations in 1900, has not been demonstrated, there'
That such doings plaintiff of his just compensation son's defence; the last train to during the attempted rollet of thousand feet. At, however, this's generally accepted als that our naval squadron here is now at a of the past reflects the very vanced by him and the service French, reports said, as a passen-acting as Chief of Staff to Vice- not much to say about it. Pa high pitch of efficiency. The men, we know, are of the tough and greatcat credit on the police. hardy type; the ships are modern and thoroughly well snited to the conditions in this part of the world. With these feats before us, therefore, e can look ahead in confilence and in the hippy saurance that all should
of the public of the Colony,
NO, WAR PRICES.
which he rendered and the time ger in a cattle track. Region Admiral Sir Edward Seymour.sonally I believe the British army spent by him, or that they were He wee sent to Colomberg. He was severely wounded at planes are too well armed and not the archbishop's accredited | where his cavalry actions, carried Feitasug; for his services he too well piloted for them to take representatives, and therefore de- on over a front of twenty miles received the C.B. decoration.much harm against an enemy, freaded, the plaintiff by represent for three months, held Solioeman, From 1905 to 1907 he was whether on the ground or in the
themselves as such,
Delarey, and De Wet in chook, Director of Naval Ordnance,
ing
be well. And we believe that this represents the general feeling Dairy Farm will not increase in oculusion, the complaint and afforded the commander and served as Rear Admiral in the Mr. Newman added the
We are informed that The their shop prices on supplies, One cannot help having noticed the undertone of conddanes except with regard to hem and alleges that whether or not Kin his men invaluable experience of Atlantic Fleet in 1907-08 was a England to send out at
caid and Whitaker were the South African conditions of Lord Commissioner of the Ad- sent moment for
commanded the Atlantis Fleet in United States; himsel miralty and Controller of the avistors, at least two
1910-11 and commanded the Gunn among them. Second Squadron of the Home is, we understand, Flot fi 1011-12. For his services Chinese, and
ferred on him University zodi
Bermany the cla
which marke Proclamation No. & by His. Excellency the Governor, moned by the rate of exchange archbishop, the latter did purThen came the relief of Kim Navy from 1908 to 1910, would be read bacon, this advance being 000 socredited representatives of the warltre. V
which we published in extenso on. We Inesday". It states that the and through the company having chase the lenda in question al- borley, sahfered by Sir John Navy will guard the Colony, from an attack by the enemy in force, while the present strength of the defences and garrison of the for- buy obead at a higher rate of rectly from their owners, thus dans tress make unlikely a raid by predatory cruzars. All necessary in the Colony will not affect Datty depriving the plaintiff of his res division through the Boer
exchange. The present situation.
exploit of galloping him measures, however, are being taken to defeat such a raid, should it Farm prices. eventuate, and the Government expresses the hope that the conf-Mesers. Whiteaway Laidlaw &ed by him. dence of the people will be shown by their proceeding with their Co. have also announced that the dadament is sak ordinary business as in time of peace. That fe sound, wholesome advice, which should be heeded by everyode. There is no cause for nation is the Oplow will not of P. 12700 mem pazio; there is every reanʊn low quiet hope and senâdanon,
cause any ingrase in Nasa pricus
sonable profit, commission, and reimbursement of the funds ad-
in the mam
pont with
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