THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1914,
WAR ITEMS.
THE FOLLY OF BERLIN.
TELEGRAMS.
'Truth' on the War.
CANADIAN POLITICS.
Gallant Letter of a Young Territorial.
Borutator" writes in Truth of NEW PREMIER OF ONTARIO.
A lad agad. 18, who on com-August 12 as follows: pleting his studies at Colchester
London Regelved Oct. 3. The Hon. William Howard |
It was said of the Inst war in Rontor's Service To "The Telegraph."} Grammar School joined the 5th which we engaged that it "could Essex Territoriale, has sent the and ought to have been avoided " following letter to his mother-So far as this country is concerned,
I am writing to you to-day on that cannot be said of the present dearat, K.O., succeeds the Hun terms. rar, and it has hardly been sug-Sir James Pliny Whitney (whose absolutely business Eighty per cent, of our battalions gested from any quarter. This is death was announced in our issue have answered their country'e significant fact, for since public of September 28) as premier of [the Hon. William Howard, call to foreign service. Now, opinion becamo articulate in this Ontario, why should not I? Surely it is country there have been few better to fight the Germans in foreign wars in regard to which Hearst, KC., has been Minister their land the on our own shores. it has not been divided. It may of Lands, Forests and Mines for Now, as I am the eldest son, be aid of every breach of the the Province of Ontario since since the days of 1911. He was admitted to the I want to fight for our country. pence All our officers have volunteered Cain and Abel that it could Bar iu 1888, and commenced the and I want to follow suit. Mother and ought to have been avoided, practice of the law at Sault Ste. dear, I am culy seking you be but the question always arises, by Marie in the same year; Bencher cause I know that an Englishman whom? In the present instance of the Law Society, 1913; Mem like father would wish me to de- certainly not by us. How far we ber of Ontario Legislature 1908 fond the old flag abroad. If we may have contributed to the Member for Electoral District of youngsters don't volunteer it catastrophe by errore of commis- Sault Ste. Marie 1911.3 seems that old men and perhaps sion or omission in days gone by
may be open to argument, the women will have to fight.
Don't let sister Olive persuade you. Tell her I shall be back all
But
that neither our honour mor our
law had not yet been reaped safely left us any alternative but results of the three years' service right and take her to dances, to declare war last week is proved England apparently bad
beyond possibility of dispute by
Reply at once, dear mother.
Dreadnought Destruction at ..Ten Miles,
Paris, Aug, 25.
A new projectile, something between a torpedo and a shell,
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Dasurance, as Sir Edward Grey has pointed on:, from a Govern. violating its own treaty obliga ment which in making it was tions we were expected to die- and consent to Belgium being the Acqumenis that the Govern hands full with the prospect of regard our own treaty obligations, ment has published. All that civil war in Ireland,
disconnect the occupied by German troops as a could be done, consistently with impossible
ball from matter of military convenience so long as Germany was at war the national honour and safety, to opening of the
with France, The Belgiana rep this country out of the battle the conference at Backingham has been submitted for considera-of he continental nations Sir Palace, on the breaking down of
which the Austrian ultimatum themselves were expected to con- It is cus
sent to the same thing, and when tion to the Admiralty. It giides Edward Grey did.
the cool request for their consent and skims the surface of the tomary among all nations when we presented to Sarvia, water like a flat pebble, and has they go to war to proclaim voci- no doubt thought at that mo
ferously that right and justice ment that England's neutrality was declined they were met with a declaration of war, followed could easily be obtained a range of nearly ten miles..
are on their side, and to invoke
instantly by the invasion of" It can be fired from, either a
No doubt to with confidence the aid of the God necessary, and the attempt to
their country. gan,
of torpedo ta bear a twelve-inch
great sarp iss days later, and contains a charge sufficient of Battles on that ground. The obtain it was actually made a for Boom did this as pionaly as we to destroy Drandnoughts or breakwater. The method of firing is particularly simple and can be effzcied from a cooning tower without the use of the telemeter.
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The Journal, which reports the invention, says it is not a mere freak idea, though, as yet, ita
It was
the
the
At every point the Garman their unceremonious neighbour in 1899. The Germans are, no Government miscalculated. Nei. they too have upset all calcala: doubi, doing it to-day, for they ther Rassia nor Francs besitated tions by resisting this proceeding with extraordinary vigour and so determination. They are are quite as religious a people se
challenge thrown to them. The either the Boers or the British, a moment in taking up Probably the God of Battles does frish difficulty vanished like
strangely constituted that they not. look upon battlefields with
awoke to the presence of dangu
Bian out of your country if you quite the same eye as the combat- bad dream the instant Parliament think it is safer to keep a Prus ants. In human disputes right and abroad. The supreme folly he can, than to let him in on the understanding that he will go out
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS,
SURCHARGED ́ ́STAMPS- WAR SOUVENIRS. IMPERIAL INDIAN RELIEF MYSORE & COORG BRANCH. President Lt. Col. Sir H. DALY,
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The stamps adopted are, by permission of H. H. The Ma- barajah, the Mysore General stamps surcharged with the words "Imperial Indian Relief Fund."
They are of no valus beyond that of serving as a Souvenir of the Great War now raging in Europe and as receipts for con- as all stamps issued have to be tributions of small amount, and, accounted for, purchasers of them can rest assured that every anne Its proper destination.
Apply to
military value remains to be wrong are usually so interwoven also been committed of actinglaatarily when he has got what subscribed in this way will reach}
established.-Renter.
Candour Punished."
Paris, Aug. 26. The Copenhagen newspapers, the offices of the Forwaerts in says the Humanito, report that
on woh side that it is more than without reference to Italy, whe man can do to unravel them. In detached herself from the Triple he professes to wint,
An idea has existed in this the presence of Divine justice we Alliance as soon as it became
Berlin Foreign Office is a marvel must all be miserable sinners. thisk, than when we set about tude. No account had apparently of astute preseisace and, subtle and rever more so, I should necessary for her to declare berati country for raany years that the been taken till this moment of the
ounning. That idea has often
But for the pur-
Berlin have bbon pillaged by the killing one another on behalf of fact that the British Fleet happen been combated in these pages. militarista, who destroyed the what we conceive to be our rights ed to be fully mobilised after Prussian diplomacy may be poses of this life it is worth some- many weeks' elaborate prepa unscrupulous, dogged, brutal, tion, and that a declaration of but it has no prescience except Germany at a hopeleas disadvant
B. O. REYNOLDS, Residency Road, Bangalore. Bangalore, 31st August 1914.
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MAGISTRACY.
No. S. 306. Notice is hereby
Those acts of violence were thing to know that in a given war at this juncture would place that of greed; and no cunning given "that a meeting of the
printing mohinery and broke or our duty. everything in the placs. committed in consequence of the emergency, when we have had. publication in the Vorwaarts of only two evil alternatives to articles in which it was said in a choose between, we have chosen gaarded, but sufficiently explicit what, to the best of our judgment manner, that the responsibility and conscience, is the lex evil. not only for the present events, So far as that is a comfort and may support in the unpleasant task for those which aupervene later with disastrous before us we are certainly entitled results for the unity of Germany, toit this time. lay at the door of the Emperor.ne Reater.
bat
The Loyalty of Gambia,
Peking, Fopt. 26. The following official telegram from the Foreign Office has been handed to Reator's agent in Poking.
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to nothing bat present moment against Germany. Bat it seems more useful to dweli was made with characteristic Germany
ignominious diplomatic defeats Prussian cynicism. Mr. Asquith upon the stupidity than the wick edness of our enemy, for in a case has sufliciently denounced the in the course of the last ten orwarded to the Magistracy on or
"infamy
"of the terms on which twelve years. The most con- like this it is some encouragement we were to stand out-or shall spicuous exhibition of its fatuity to know that the party you havo
"stand in?". Let hitherto has been the Agadir to deal with is a fool as well as a London, Sept. 25.
us hero look rather at business. But Germany's false and miscalculations on that steps The Colonial Secratary reports kaave. The folly of Germany on
(Continued on Paga 10.)'' that the Legislative Council of this occation has been almost stupidity of them.
Berlin thet, Gambia, on behalf of all inhab. beyond belief, There cannot be to rent satisfied with a verbal itants of the Colony, European the slightest doubt that she was and native, including chiefe and a party to the springing of this France having been beaten, no the population of different tribes trouble upon Europe, if not the territory would be taken from her In the first in Europe, but we were expected
Englishman Arrested at Moji. and districts of the Proteolorate, ectual instigator.
An Englishman, aged 36, was have presented an address of place, her Government must have to acquiesce in the transfer to
FROM SAN FRANCISCO, allegiance to the Throne and been privy to the presentation of Germany of any of France's arrested at Moji on the 19th in- have undertaken to contribute the Austrian ultimatum to Servis; colonial possessions for which sie stant and charged with photo- £10,000 to the National lelief in the second, it was certainly had a fancy. Possibly, had we graphing the Shimonoseki forti- JAPAN PORTS AND MANILA.
disposition to deal on fications. It is stated that he took
6.0. "SIBERIA" not without their approval that
The above mentioned vessel Anatria declared war After Servia this basie we might have had, piotures while passing through Flag Day" Receipts.
had conceded three-fourths of for what it was worth, a verbal the Inland Sea on the Kasuga having arrived consignees of St. Petersburg, Sept. 27. Scores of German prisoners are the Austrian demande. On the promise of a few crumbs for our-Marn to Kobe and also on the sargo are hereby notified to send selves. But whatever the predea rolura voyage on the Shidzubka. in their bills of lading for coun- rofusing to accept food for fear of other being poisoned, owing to the ceivable that in allowing the terms, considered as a bargin Maru. A Moji correspondent of tersignature and take immediate between two thieves, what was the Nagasaki Press learns that delivery of cargo from alongside. libela systematically spread train to be fired in this way the the offer worth to us? At the the sccused admitted that he had Cargo impeding discharge will be
Landed immediately at consigne THIS RARE OLD SCOTCH BLEND Berlin wirepullers. foresaw the
mere price of the maintenance of taken a photograph in the Straits, risk and expense. among them.
was raised in St. position in which their country the territorial status quo in West- but excused himself on the plea $20,000
Cargo remaining
TOO DISTINGUISHED BY HAVING A BOUQUET Petersburg by the sale of fage on was to find itself within a couper ern Europe; we were to coment that he had taken pictures in October 7th, 1914, at "flag day." The sums paid of weeks. What, then, did they varied, apart from minor sume, expect? It must have been one to Germany annexing all the other parts of Japan and know will be subject.
MATURED WINES. from notes for 8100 to a couple of two things: either that Russia places in the eun" that France nothing of the probibition or the charges of roubles. The money is to would take the attack on Servis now holde on the Mediterranean fortification zone. The negatives be given to the first Russian lying down, as she had taken the and throughout Afripa and Ais, were confiscated and the man spnexation of Bosnia and Her and all her coaling atations and released, the authorities being soldier entering Berlin.
Gerinin proclamations of the zegovina; or that, if Russia took aval bissa, sotnal and, potential, satisfied that he committed the advent of liberty continue to be up arins, she and France could throughout the world! This offence in iguorange of the law.
By the proposal is not only an inult to distributed in Poland from aero-be easily disposed of. planes. Among other absurdities, light of all that, we know now our honour, but an insult to business na- reputation as it is alleged that Japan has there can be little doubt that the our understanding and our declared war on Russia and that second alternative was deliberale- tion. In making it the Berlin Sweden has occupied Finland.ly courted, It was thought at
Berlin that the moment was people showed a misconception Renter
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Bat that is not all. Look at Any members of the above summer an acrimonious press due the CaEO of Belgium. O, she wishing to form a branch in before Nov. 4th, 1914. other- between Germany and Russia, and German feeling was hot strength of a verbal assurance Hongkong are requested to send wise they will not be recognized. R. O. MOLLTON, against the Russians. Francs that the independence and orri- their names and addressos to
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