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The Weather." fac.
Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 79:
No news has been received') from Konigsberg of late, but it is interesting to turn from the war for a moment in order to remark the fact that not the least claim to that it was the birth-place of fame on the part of the town is
Immanuel Kant, the great Gorman philosopher. Kant bas never been popular in B.itain, though it is difficult to say why. Macaulay, to be sure, admitted that he could not understand him, but that was probably only Macaulay's impatient way of Australian Mail.-Closed to-day putting it. What other men could understand, Macaulay could Siberian Mail.-Closes to-morrow fathom more easily than most men, and the probability is that Canadian Mail.-Closes to-morrow he had not patience to sit down and study the great philosopher. Recently we noticed that Mr. Houston Chamberlain's book on
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NOTES ON THE CRISIS. THE BATTLE OF
THE BRITISH HEAD- QUARTERS' STATEMENT,
Jerman Infantry Blunder Badly.
TAI HANG RANGE..
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Lieutenant Colonel Chapman By all his Goda he swore :---- The twenty-fifth Punjabis Shall rule the roost no more, "And named a sham-fight day,
By all his Gods he swore it Esat and West and South and
Reserves and Volunteers poured
All shouting." Hip Hooray."
quished
Ere you the dawn had
The rearguard of the night. The Hongkong Cricket Ground received
Tho descriptive statement of the battle of the Aisne which is At the Peak 8 s.m. Temp. 72;issued by the British Head-North
quarters is not greatly helpful. It deals with the fighting of a forth, to know what happened yesterday week ago, whereas averyone wants
warfare, however, where one big or the day before. In modern
would have been regarded as of battle includes six or eight which Gret magnitude thirty. years ago, prompt information regarding the former days. Still, the statement fighting cannot be expected an in is not without interest. For ons thing, the tone of it is distinctly ohcorful. If Beadquarters on find time to inform us that the known as "Jack Johnsons" it is German siege howitzers are clear that Headquarters is not seriously disturbed in its mind. And that is always something to be going on with.
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Yesterday the Telegraph pub Kant has been translated into lished 37 columns of solid English, and that book eeems to reading matter. Today there go a long way towards making will be 36 published. Kant's philosophy clearer to English readers. Mr. Chamber
& Co., Ltd. philosopher. He is an English-
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Someone Had Blundered." Another matter of interest is that ten days ago the German infantry fired into each other whon miking a converging ad- vance in the dark. Something of the kind has happened, or is reported to have happened, in nearly every war (though reportel is hardly The Shanghai hrarch of the
the word to use seeing that, more Society for the Prevention" of
often than not, the statement is Cruelty to Animals is, unlike that
merely whispered and no doubt in Hongkong, a very active and
To Consignees,
many of the alleged instances are Consignees of cargo by the a.a. based on very flimsy evidence.) In wide-awake body. In glancing Shinyo Maru and the s.8. Seiyo this case there need be little through its report for the month Marn are reminded that goods hesitation in accepting it as true, of August we notice that it remaining undelivered after to- It is hardly likely to bave receiv- instituted prosecutions for cruelty morrow will be subject to rent. to ducks by evercrowding them
ed ficisl Banction if it had not in crates, ill-treatment of pigs by Railway Alteration.
been established beyond, ques- tying them on a wheelbarrow in timed to leave Kowloon for Shum has been a blunder made; but, train tion. Somewhere, evidently, there such a way as to cause unneces-Chun st.8 p.m. will leave at 7.30 then, the German army has made treatment of a pony by working at 1.45 p.m. and arriving at Kow-than had been believed possible. sary pain and suffering, and ill-p.m., returning from Shum Chun many more blanders in this war it whilst in an unfit condition loon at 9.30 and while suffering from harn
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By the way, we read only Inst sores. The fines imposed in each
Now Insurance Office. night some comments on that case were banded over to the kong to-morrow a branch office The famous war correspondent There is to be opened in Hong-army by the late G. W. Steevens. Society, while the pony ill-treated of the Liverpool and London and witnessed. was ordered to be destroyed. Globe Insurance Co., Ltd., and in Cases of cruelty on all fours with connection therewith Mr. H. S. those mentioned can be seen in Playfair is to be at home at the
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and 1 p.m.
MOORE.-On September 1st. at Sydney, Australia, William . Hongkong almost any day; yet Moore, late of the Canton-Kowloon Railway.
The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1914.
MEDICAL WORK IN THE TROPICS.
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prosecution is never heard of, When will the local branch wake up to a sense of ita responsibil ities?
From to-morrow the
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The halt, the maimed, the tight. Some slept in marching order, While others caught with "En bivouac," so to speak. muttered "D-s
The smoothly driven speci trams
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Descending from the Peak. They packed us into tramcars, To take us to the front; The Noble Company of Scouts, as canal, bore the brant.
And when we were manouvred. Into a sbady lane, They fell ne in, and fell us out, Then fell us in again, no doubt, To fall us out again."
In single file extended. We Bosled Mount Caroline. The ground was soft anyone).
(ask
The day extremely fins. We passed the clustering tomb stones.
And wondered, as we passed, soul,
How many & gay and gallant
goals
Climbing towards an unknown
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Would moulder there at last. Below as lies the gully, Before us, rise the heights
Of Tei-Hang range, majestic, Unused to Sabbath fights. Behind us all the roadway Is lined by the Reserves. Disdaining cover, there they
stand,
THE ORGAN RECITAL.
An Excellent Programme at the Cathedral.
A crowded congregation an sembled at St. John's Cathedral organ roital arranged by Mr. last night, on the cocasion of the George Orimble in aid of the Prince of Wales' Fund. His Ex- cellency the Governor, Lady May and Misa May were among those present. The programme way admirably choren, and the or- ganist had the assistance of the full choir of the Cathedral, both in concerted and individual work. Mr. Grimble's organ numbers were played with taste and feel Grand Offertoire, No. 4 (Lefebare ing, his best efforts being the Wely), which was given with much freshness and vigour, and Major. One of his own compoai- Batisto's taneful Andante in G tions, "Angela Lullaby," was very delicately interprated.
A ballet in his belly-band Each one of them deserves.
Bat hark! the whistles call 118 And down the slopes we go To where the bland Celestials Are washing clothes below. They shed no fears of pity
BOAP,
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Up! Up! and over-Up! With many a curse and atomble. With many a loud hiccough. Where ja our peerless section?
Of the vocal items, the anthem, the soloists were Mrs. Goldsmith "I waited for the Lord," in which
ably sung, the solo parts being and Master T. Martin, was admir-
Brown sang the recitative, And very sweetly rendered. Mr. E his companions," from "St. Paul," the basaaria in which ("O God, have maroy") was magnificently given by Mr. A. J. England: Miss L. White gave a very sweet rendering of the aria, "Uoms upto Him," from "The Messiah," while re. Francia Clark imparted mach feeling into the aula of the well- known anthem, "There is a green hill,"
Previous to the taking of the
ffertory, the Rev. V. H. Copley Moyle read the Prince of Walos appeal to the nation, and at the close of the service the congrega National Anthem. tion joined in the singing of the
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The collection realised over $420.
VOLUNTEER ORDERS.
Corps orders issued yesterday hy Lieut Col. A. Chapman, V.D., were as follows:-
Pull-throughs. Men applying to store for new pull throughs must invariably produce the weight from the old one which is being replaced.
Musketry (Part 1.)-All trained men of the andermentioned Sec tians will parade at the 600 yards firing point of King's Park Range at the times and dates mentioned
Oblivious to fear and hope, To everything, in fact, save
It grieves me to relate. Bat Oal Oul through the below:-No. 2 Cection Artillery village!
Battery, Saturday, 3rd October, at 2.30 p.m; Left Seation M. G. Co., Sunday, 4th October, at 9 sm. Both Infantry Instructora will attend. Note:The mem- bere of No. 1 Section "Artillery Battery who did not fire on San- day last will fire on Sunday, 4th October, with Left Section M. G. Co. No man is to fire any portion of these tests with any rifle other than that allotted to him.
batts,
fifteen years ago, and he wrote 'Bome manoeuvres most glowingly of the well-oiled machine which ran so smoothly. But, unfortunately, even a well- oiled machine has a way of runn- Hongkong Boys and the War. We understand that Mr. Ken-into its vital parts, and something
ing badly when some grit getsAt our untimely fate, neth Jones Hughes, son of the of the kind has happened at this late Mr. E. Jones Hughes, of time. It was supposed to be so The Kaiser's Horoscope.
Mesera. Hughes and Hough, has well oiled that it would ruD Kaiser Wilhelm is much in the gone to the front; while Mr. Noel smoothly and swiftly into Paris. public mind just now, and if he Mitchell, second son of the late It has not quite worked out like fakes any note of what the world Mr. E. W. Mitchell, of Messrs. that. is saying of him, he must be a Caldbeck, MacGregor and Co.,
At Tsingtau. most unhappy man.
bas catered Sandhurst College. Whether
Around Tsingtau the Japanese In the monthly proceedings of the Journal of Tropical Medicine ing a speculation as to what his
he does or not is not so interest-Both are old Hongkong boya,
appear to be settling down to and Hygiene for Angust, Professor W. J. Simpson, C.MG.. enters ultimate fate will be. That lies W, G. Moore, formerly on the troope, bat the Japanese are a Death of Mr. W. G. Moore. serious business. Floods have a well-considered plea for a wider and more organised application in the lap of the gods, but to staff of the Chinese section of the people who ate not upset if their creep,
By the death in Australia of Mr. retarded the work of landing the I see no remuent, save of sanitary measures in the Tropics, and, in view of the importance orratal-gazers and the like, a
Two wise old soldiers, who did of the subject to a Colony such as cars, it will be profitable to take horoscope of His Majesty which Canton Kowloon Railway, many plane do not quite work out as note of some of the observations which a man of his wide knowledge was cast sixteen years ago by Mr. residents of Hongkong and Can- expected. They promptly adapt asleep
And, nothing daunted, fell sees fit to make. Professor Simpson is Professor of Hygiene at V. Old will be recalled with too lose a valued friend. The late the plans to new ciroumetet vs. King's College and a member of the Advisory Committee to the interest. Space does not permits. Moore had been ill for some They are a patient people who,
Within a Chinese grave, Secretary of State for the Colonies on medical and sanitary matters the whole of it being quoted, but lime, and death resulted from having made up their mind, go
Now call for reinforcements. in Tropical Africa. He it was, ulso, who in 1902 came to Hongkong BB Gevornment Commissionar to enquire into the causes and con- ing on present happenings may last year, prior to which he was respect the Japanese commanders a few extraota which have a bear Australia, pa a new appointment, they get what they want. In that heart failure. lie left for the right way about seeing that
To save the hard-fought day, tinuance of plague in this Colony.
For must we die anaided, be noticed. In the course of his omments, Professor Simpson pays a well-Old, the Emperor has a most engaged in construction work on resemble General Jeffre; they are
According to Mr.
Who keep the foe at bay? deserved tribute to the magnificent work which has been done in fateful horoscope, and during his the Canton-Kowloon Railway, at not to be turned from their
No. While the deadly rifles. the sphere of tropical medicine by Sir Patrick Manson and Sir reign the German Empire will one time acting as chief resident purpose. The official atatement
And Maxims take their tolls, Ronald Ross, whose researches have, he says, placed a powerful offer reversals of which it engineer during the absence on announces that the enemy have and rate,
Lo! On the right; o'er stones weapon in the hands of sanitarione, such as Colonel Gorgea and has hitherto had no shadow of leave of Mr. Frank Grovez others, in the Tropics to deal with diseases established to be insect experience. If we read the signe
been hemmed in within five milea
Towards the Tai Hang rifle barne. The world, without a doubt, owes these two pioneers a big of the times aright, the prophet New York, Copenhagen and any day now. It is interesting, Honoured by King of Greece. of Tsingtau," so that news of debt of gratitude. There are, in the article, other acknowledg-will not be far out, so far as this Shanghai, has recently added a by the way, to note that Japanese Dr. Frits V. Holm, MRA.S., of serious fighting may be expected ments of brilliant work done in the tropical regions, but the main deduction is concerned, by the new honour to those already con- airships have been playing a big point of the Professor's remarks is that there should be a wider and time the war ends. more continuous applicatica of existing kaowledge to improve the
ferred health conditions of communities in the tropica and a more scientific
upon him for his part up north. Who would have work in the interior of China in dreamt, at the time of the last and organised service than we now possess to prevent, control and
connection with the Nestorian war in which Japan was engaged, soppress disease. In paasing, Professor Simpson admits that good.
Thus far, the maker of the Monument, the King of Greece that Aeroplanes would so have resulte have been attained in the stamping out of such diseases, as horoscope cocfides himself to having knighted him for his sor-advanced sa to become a strong yellow fever, the abolition of malaria, and its reduction and impro- generalitice, but further on ho vioes to archaeology. Dr. Lolm's arm of the fighting force in the vement in Panama, Hongkong and other places; but he makes the comes to particularities, as when expedition to Sian-fu was desorib course of a few years?" The point that tuberculosis, cholera, dysoutery, and other tropical dishe observes that the Kaiser's led in telegraph early in 1908, ringing grooves of change" are eases, over which so much time and labour have been expended in deating is such that he will lose when Dr. Holm paid his second ringing more than ever in these discovering their causation and method of transmission, prevail at nearly the whole of his posses-visit to Hongkong, bringing with days. one time or another, according to the situation of the locality. It sions. Many of them have been him his two ton replica in stone is not that these diseases exist because of a want of knowledge as to lost already, and the war has of the their prevention, but because preventive measures which are well- barely lasted a couple of months, Monument-now. se a loan in the aforesaid Christian known have not been taken to prevent their spread.
"Mara in the meridian," saye Mr. late Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan's This enmmary of an expert's opinions on a question of vital Old," will cause him to engage Museum of Art in Now York, importance to public health in many of our Colonies will be most in continual quarrels, and the fully appreciated fu medical circles, but the points made are Sna in opposition to Saturn will aufficiently broad to be easily grasped and understood by the lay denade him of his power amoog mind. The causos lying at the biok of plague malaria and the nations... It is not im. tuberculosis to take only three of the commonest diseases in the probable that bia termitories wi'l trupica have long since bien known, and with that knowledge dra in'o the lisnite of Fracca obtained, the means of combatting them have bron, Land. Yer and Rawin.". Again, thiagavató, we know too well what have those complainte play in or midez, aug pretty much that way The telegram quoted below was year to do anything for my asan especially among the Asiatic community., Thera cau te only one inet now. As to the end, it 18 received by the Americia Conry, and only make an additional deduction from this namely, that existing knowledge is not utilized predicted that the Kaiser wil salate General, Hongkong, from mouth to feed. Therefore I had on organised lince to the full extent necessary. Ucusing reform, dis fuddenly, and the heart the Manila Observatory, at 059 batter go at once Colonel tab. thorough sna drastic is one of the prime needs in Hongkong to day, will be the seat of the fatal pm yesterday
son commanded the Gordon High and if it were carried out as it elo: 11,be, we venture to suggest that lotion. But we can very well the result would be an appreciable inroad on the virulence ¿f the leave that part of the programme near Meiscosimo, recurving North suicide during temporary L
Cyclone or Typhoon-Over or landers in India. A verdict of dises.es mentioned above.
Eastward,
Esnity was reinraed,
Other Predictions.
to the future.
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TYPHOON WARNING.
́Old. Colonel's 'Orief.", Jolonel Alfred Tufneli Kobzon, who was found hanged at his home at Gorleston, Jeft a latter to the corner which was read st the foquest Jast month. It TAN: "The strain of this ter rible crisia is too much for mo, L. feel I am too old in my seventieth
The Breathless Army" rolls. With faces set and lowering, With steady step and slow, We scaled the heights and
scattered
The gallant Indian foe, The Umpires (both Punjabis), Declared it was a draw, Ab well, of outes it may be so, But there's a difference, you know,
Twixt justice and the law. For down the hill we drove them,
They fie; we followed fast Till, dim with sweat, we spotted The Polo Club at last. Dry inwardly and outwardly, As the proverbial bone, The Sergeant-Major of the Corps,
Unsullied by ons spot of gore, Was waiting therefore,
Assembly.All Volunteers and Reserves living in hoteles similar to Hongkong Hotel, et, must arrange with the management with regard to their warning on receipt of an alarm message by the hotel exchange. Officers and Benior N.C.Os. should see that this is carried out, d
tion will parade every weekday Parades The Signalling See,
cepted) on Murray Parade Ground (Wednesdays and Saturdays CX- at 7 a.m. until further orders. Any evening parades that may be ordered will be notified daily. for Wednesday 30.h instant, Nil in the ordinary way, Parades
officers on duty, Lieut, Hutchison, Detail-On duty, Group 3; 2nd Lieut. Wright and 2nd Lieut. Swire; orderly officer, 2ad Liont. Bwire. To furnish Guard on Co.; orderly Sergeant on Wed- Wednesday, Right Section M. G. pesday, Corpl. Raymond.
Nay even water soon gave out Before our raging thirst..
And, when the war is over And History shall complai Of how the Cossacks mrazul, How Germans anke: Louzain Still shall our obil Iren clamour To hear the tale off-told-t Of bow we climbed up to the
and drank the Polo Club bar
Is the brave days of old.”
All thoughts of vengear.cat vani-bed
And, like good troops, proceeded sky We ceased from the pursuit
Torillage and to loot, Into the Palo Club bar With one accord we burst. Tonto and lemonade and stout,
1.8.0.