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not been a mere expressed unity- it has gone further than words; members of preetically all the parties in the state have joined together on a campaign to put fine, before the county, at public mealings up and down the land, the facts of the war. So much is Siberian Mail.Uloses to-day revealed by Home papers to hand by the latest mail, and it is apparent that the speakers havo been doing a very real corvice to their country in this way. Thoy have been giving the mnenes clear understanding of the justice of our cause and of the supreme issues at stake.
No Jingoism,
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great Imperialist, Lord Curzon, in
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1914.
A SCOTT CENTENARY.
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1914.
NOTES ON THE CRISIS."
JAPANESE STILL AT WORK
ON TSINOTAU.
Another German Fallure
1889.
HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE
YEARS AGO.
Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the week"
ending Oct. 3. 1880.)
The Dollar The rate of the del'ar on demand on October 3, 1880 was 3/01
BOXING.
The Coming Tournament
A week to-night, the Amateur Boxing Tournament in aid of the Prince of Wales Fand, is at Antwerp.
announced to take place, and Messrs. Montrio & Co. are doing. The local war excitement in
the booking free of charge, us gradually getting itself within
most of the other arrangementa bounds, and Hoogkong is settling
in connection with the event itself down to a condition, if not
have been dose. The entries. Jef contentment, at least of 'rea-
for the events close to night; and eonable patience, and readiness to
those who intend trying their be,thankful for small mercies in
fictio ability are asked to consult 9.8. the way of news from the front. It The Unread “Leader,” 6.m. has taken some of us a couple of
{either Mr. W. Lagan, or Mr. A. September 27. The other Ridger immediately. We are mouths to learn that even a big libelled a civil servant, and the the present include three heavy day the Fydney Morning Herald informed that the entries up to battle, leave alone a big war, cannot be decided in a day and a Bagry official demanded an weights; five middle-weights, the half; and so we are all growing cffered an apology, but insisted and no less than half a dozen apology. The paper at once laeme number of light-weights philosophiost; trusting a little that it should be inserted in the feathers." The boute are more every day in the plucky least-read portion of the print, announced to follow each other fellows who are doing the hard
Yesterday the Telegraph pub liebed 30 colamos
of solid will be 42 published. reading matter. To-day there
The Dollar.
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Turkish Baths, Hongkong's New Turkish baths open on Monday.
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Technical School.
War News.
In place of our customary short story, we are giving a whole page of war articles to-day.
Sunday Morning Train to Sheung Shut.
We are caked to state for the ipformation of the public that there will be an 8.45 a.m, train Sheung Shui on Sanday.
to
at some pains to point out that the idea was not, or should not be, that jingo speeches should be shouted from public platforms, or that any attempt should be made to inflime orade or unworthy pasions. But, as he says, the man who, when his country is engaged in a righteous war and is fighting for her existence, preaches jinga. Further, the passions to which such a man spperle are not unworthy, but are the noblest of which Laman nature is capable. Ae to himself, he wrote: I have steamers Middlehem Csstie and Consignees of cargo by the
would be proud to appear on a goods remaining undelivered told the Prime Minister that I Benrinnes are reminded that public platform with any member after Monday will be subject to of the Government to state or rent. defend a case ia which party is dead, and where all are naited." That sentence breathes the true! spirit, and we know that political unity is now a very real thing,
The Gift of Prophecy.
To Consignees,
Danger to Navigation.
amateur
fighting work, at the front andOb, very well, and the civil without delay, and if this arrange to the air ng man who is doing servant; you may sick it in as ment is carried out it will be very the equally hard thinking work
a leader. Firk Wrapper, please much appreciated. st the War Office. We all know
note."
Apart from the The Defence of Antwerp. that we are going to win, but are
The following, from the Telecontests, there are to be a the how and the when. gradually becoming satisfied that
graph of September 28, five and Corporal Scott, R.E, will spar couple of professionalexhibitions. It is not for us to decide as to twenty years ago is decidedly with Pte. Garling, R.M.LI appropriate. For the defence and Sapper Riobards will pat The Japanese still pursue their of Antwerp the Belgian Govern- the gloves on to ex-Sapper Miles. original policy of playing wait, mantis ant to spend 30,000,000 Both these exhibitions should be
france. The best defence of interesting. ing game, and, without putting Antwerp is in the mutual themselves about, are replying jalousies of the Great Powers of boxing promoter, has been for Mr. F. E. Hall, the well-known to the attacks of the besieged in
Europe. thoroughly seat and business-
Tsingtau.
Arbathnet Road, at ton minutes
lunate enough to obtain the. like fashion. Judging from the Death of the Colonial Secretary services of Commander Beckwith, Consul General's report, which days' illness the Hon, Frederick Blackwodd, R. N., and Mr. A September 30-After a few R. N., as referee and Commander we published last night, the tior-Stewart, LL.D., Colonial Secret Murdoch, an judges. man ships inside the harbour are watch, even though they are not past one yesterday afternoon, splendid opportunity to loval not prepared to lie quiet and died at his residence, This tournamsat presents a
open; their firing is described allowed to come out into the death reapiting from an attack of sportsmen to prove that they a incessant, indeed; moreover, been confined to his bed for sportsmen the world over are paeumonia. Although he had possess the generosity for which it appears to be moderately effec several days po serious reault was acked. tire, The mines are still doing expected until Saturday afternooD, their ghastly, work, and have when dans erous symptoms set in,
Our Polite Police. The master of the British 8.8. succeeded in blowing up two and, notwithstanding the unre ap bis right hand and stand in
When I saw a policeman put. Troiluar parts having passed a Japanese craft outside Lao mitting attenticns of De Atkinson the middle of the street, to stop large junk sating bottom up in Shan harbour. One wondere and Jordan, he gradually got the rushing crowds of vehicles, Latitude 26 degrees 50ft. North if the warfare of the future worse until the end came, pissing my admiration for that limb of and Longitude 121 degrees 8ft.apposing that there are going gaietly away in the presence of law and order was unbounded. East a danger to navigation. to be any ware between civilized Mr A. Seth, Clerk of Councils, Ever since, I bave loved London peoples after this one is finished and Mr F. H. Mey, Private policemen. They are so dne and contrivances. It may be argued who had will dispense with these horrible Secretary to the Governor, fat and polite. All Chine that desperate diseases call for throughout Eunday afternoon." sign of prosperity and content- been with him admire fat people, for fat is a desperate remedies, or, as Charles
if every policeman is happy ? ment and happiness. I wonder
It is said that the only way to be happy in this world is to make
"
Consular" At Home,"
We re printed, last night, a war forecast sent to an Indian paper by a gentleman who was Monday is the fourth anniver- staying in Hongkong for some sary of the Republic of Portugal, weeks during last year" Pro and the Consul, Mr. J. J. Leiria, fessor Leon Kendal. We will be "at Home" from 11.30
Union Church From to morrow
rather fancy our contemporary-a.m. to 1 p... it was the Bombay Chronicle must have published the valuable
onward dosament with its tongue in its the hour of morning service at cheek, It seeras Mr. Kendal the Union Ohurch will revert to arranged all about this war tan 11, instead of 10 30. The earlier months ago, and therefore should hour has been tried during the be able to speak with authority, summer, but has proved some "The raling planetary aspects what inconvenient. have decided that the war should
A Forged Order.
"
The Thistle.
Reade's Denys juts i "la war, The following poero is signed D. one fights with the hittingest arm And the killingest." Perhaps
K. Grißih, Hongkong, October when gunpowder first found a
2,1830; place on the battlefield the old in Koolangsoo, where my pidgin bwmen regarded it as dangerous I find the Thistle grows ly near dirty figh ing-antil they reflected that sauce for the goose Here, gentlost reader, down
digenous; was sauce for the other fellow.
is,
"Bct"
others happy, and policemen happy every day; therefore they must make a great many peop'e
in
must be the happiest body of
I
men in England! And yet I
Yet, in setiti mental moments, ore On pleasant bank to wet my feals that Nelson and Jervis and Collingwood and those other
whistle.
fanoy I have heard a song or quotation which asys ** A police man's lot is not a happy one."
Rela question and latterly with the European War, to have much ditione ruling the horoscope" of Yuen Street, reports that on heroes whose notion of aaaa fi With exclamation load I cried/At any rate they seem to be
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Body Found in Stream.
A Women's Story.
looked ankant at the mines. After
At Antwerp.
“Great tooti !!?
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Most of the pap re have been too busy, firet with the Home be a short one, for "the con space left in their columns for literary matters; and so it comes about the Kaiser are
A Chinese shopkeeper, of 23, malefic" (that's that only one or two found time or place to remind the public that a good word; we're glad they're the 24th. ult., & Chinese named "blazing sway" would have For I went plump upon a thistle, July 7 was the hundredth anniversary of the publication of not benefic) in the extreme. Yak Sing obtained from him, by. "Waverley." The question is often askal: Is Scott ever read Germany, it appears, is in for moans of a forged o der, brass all, though, bistory only repeats From native heath and mountain now? Probably Hongkong Scotsmen will bear us witness that their riots and mutiniesafe pro- great novelist, even if he has not become a propbet without honour phroy that and it is "an ill-$115, and absconded.
rode and hass piping valued itself; cur ancestors didn't draw blast
the line at throwing quick-lime What brought it here? Who tooksellers. in his own country, in at least still denied the popularity there that starred conjuretion that he deserves. But perhaps the explanation of that is that the Scots Ruencas now for him (the Kaiser) been found in a streata in the cavalry...
or digging pits and covering them
it 'round mind does not readily give itself up to the reading of fiction-even and the continuance of his
The body of a Chinese male has with turf for the reception of The world to land spon this such fiction as Sir Walter wrote. The Seat is so rigidly practical country under
ground monarchical Au Tau district. The deceased, that he has but few thoughts to bestow on anything but matters of sway" which last is remarkably a married min, was supposed to
There is no mistaking the Bel. And place it here at last ? fact, and usually his only concession to the enemy is his angrudg: lucid and convincing. Meanwhile, be demented. The case is either ins' determination to keep their Though humble be its pedigree, ing a precision of the poetry of Robert Baths. Maghap three and after a few reveres, France is to us of suicide or of accidentally own end up, and the Germans Yet by tradition fondly prized. o half centuries of kirk domination have not yet lost their Fact on do well, though not so well as him, and be still, at bottom, regards novels, of no matter what sor, ass.
falling into the stream. There must be finding the bombarda camp and ball-room utilised, ne smewhat sinful.
are no suspicious cironmatano:s.ment of Antwerp tedious and symbol of the free...
expensive. For a besieged forca Ay, here grows Scotland's pride In England the case is very different. There, too, Scott is act England's Lucky Star.
to take advantage of the too rash and glory, read largely; but it is because the Southern intellect is unable, as
A Chinese woman living at approao's of batteries of artillery The emblem of historic story, often as not, to comprehend him, save when, as in "Ivanhoe", he pitiona planetary combination that she went with two men to a mott be regarded by Germany as fen,
As for England, it is "a prc. 376, Queen's Road West reports rotat be regarded by &empings That springs from
from every hill and is at bis most romantic.. The average boy or finds him "dry" and long-winded; and, having failed to read him "The aspects entour. her in them caught her by the throat But, bravo Antwerp! carry on
girl almost invariably that rules her destiny now boarding house, and there one of the height of check and incivility. In every old, historic glen during their youth, it ia to be feared that boy and girl do not significat bauses of the horr- and the other rubbed her of two
Of hame sweet hame, return to the attempt in after life. It would be ja iacere to pretenul scope with friendly influences;
Dum-dums. that there is not quite a reasonable amount of excuse for those which seem quite a pretty way out for help and the men decamp. France it woul I appear that the From banks on' braes" sad fir Frn the report reeved seater [Dedicated to Ecotemen great "bangles valued $150 She called
day from the onsul General for. whether children or grown-ups-who lay the charge of dryness to of saying that all is well: Scientific ed. -Scott's account. First comes a lengthy historical intro phraseology is apt to be a trifle in connection with the affair.
A man has been arrested Berlin Tag-like a good many duction to a novel, and етед that is generally followed obscure to the plain layman'; thus
other nonspapers-had better by a firat chapter which is little more than a pref. 08 we may be excused for craving a
have minded iä own business and the youthful soul abhors prefaces. But" the play's the thing." little light on the following: The proprietors of the Kohen it came to the question of You cannot obtain precious metale without breaking the earth to "What is most apparent is that Shing Theatre set apart the gross bad a sub even from its own get at then; and those who will not be at this trouble are woll setting aside any support she is receipts of the performance yet. Core:ement and has been request- dam-dacas, Apparently it has Borved by being denied the hours. (or years, for one can always likely to receive from pataral,terday-which e ntinued all night return to a Waverley favourite even when too tired to read anything partnera, the gravitation that a well-to the Prince of Waleed to destroy the issue containing elre) çf keen pleasure which they might otherwise izvo had.
€ Dep' towards her from Fund. His Excellence, Lady theobnoxious photograph. Is Gar- Many people among those entitled to express an opinion on the peoples th whom she." ie May, Mina May, H. E. M `jr many at last beginning to hare a The quotations which follow subject have found Scott cold, and looking in "glow." Taat, unattached." What thing? General Kolly, Alca. Kelly and sense of humour, and to ree guise are from the lengkong Telegraph probably, is beatuse they involuntarily contrast him wih Dumas Dubless all this is extremely Miss Gely attended the evening the fact that in this world it is for Oot. 3, 1880. the elder, who is all fire and rush and at times not much else. valuable, and thould it come to performance. There was a full better to be killed than to make Certainly in some directions ha cerar quite got away from his aurul Kichener's ears it may house. roundings and ancastry; bat underneath the staid calcanese (f the But plas; those prophets are Pawned His Friend's Umbrelle.
secure the prophet a good job. Writer to the Signet was a passionate loyalty to his country's story sometimes out in their reckoning A Chinese, who was charged of romance and glory, in which no French patriot could have excelled him. This, of course, shines forth more unreservedly in A gentleman of Professor Ken-with stealing an umbrella, ex his verse than in his fiction. It is sometimes said that his day is dal's per union once told as that plained to Mr. Wood, at the get to coine. If, by that, is meant that the Kailyard nonsense is we should secure a high place Pulice Court, this morning, that played our, and that those who want Costa literature will look higher in the world on recount of bar be had borrowed it from a friend
Women Special Constables. for it than to Messra. Urookelt and Maclaren, we will agree. The oumal mathematical ability. because it was, raining and be only question is as to whether the increasing pressure of modern Seeing that we could never work wanted to go home. The next earel women as special constables. Eandgate is the first town to He will not end in driving out, or placing on to the apper shelves, out a simple equation, correctly morning he discovered that he Mrs. Burke and Miss Mumford any novelist, new or old, who does not follow that sterling piece of and are not too much at home had not enough money to continue have been duly sworn, and take advide to writers; "Have a story to tell, tell it; leave off. Scott with the common or garden mut- bis dealings in angar cane, and, their turn with the male members will always rema a classic, but, judging from the average Eage tiplication table, we have become to make good the deficiency, he of the special forces in patrolling lishman's knowledge of Chaucer, the Elizabethan peta or the Bible, litle sceptical of people who pawned the umbrella. He was the town and guarding telegraph that will merely mean that he will not be read.
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promised not to do it again." while Russia is " developing bril- liantly and so all's well. o
1889
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