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Opium t
The question has many times been asked: Has China done away with the practice of opium-amok-
DAY BY DAY.
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The Weather. Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 78;
EVERYONE IS AS GOD MADE ing? Ohinese Government officials HIM, AND OFTENTIMES A GREAT always reply with a glib DEAL WORSE-Cervantes, affirmative, private citizens say "Yes" also, but speak with the tongue in the cheek, while fine. European onlookers say frankly At the Peak 8 n.m. Temp. 68; that the practice, if not as rife as fire. over, is still tolerably general.
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An Englishman who had oocasion Siberian Mail-Olosed to-day at to make somewhat close observa-
3 p.m. tions on the subject informs us Canadian Mail. ·Closed to-day that very extensive use is being
at 2 p.m. made of opium throughout the southern province, including Hai Yesterday the Telegraph pub nan. This opium, he says, is the lished 35 calamos of solid French variety (Indian opiam reading matter. To-day there prepared in Paris considerably will be 35 published. thinned out) which is exported for the use of Chinese in French territory. It has never paid any Chinese duty, for our informant showed some specimens to the The Great Northern Telegraph Customs officials at Holbow who Co., Ltd., announce that telegrams esid they had never seen muy at deferred rates are now also before and that Hoihow was allowed to France, Indo Chins
and French equatorial Africa. officially clear of the drug.
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NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
THE ADVANCE CONTINUES EVERYWHERE.
The Czar's Forces Showing Increasing Activity.
THE ATTACK ON KIAUCHAU.
FOOTBALL IN HONGKONG.
Demand for Capitulation,
to secure a match'worth watching on every Saturday,
| Arranging for the Coming Season,
A meeting of the Hongkong | Football Association was held last A Peking despatch to the Jiji evening, when Mr. F. Browns, states that the foreign residenta vi: e-president, was in the chair. there have a report that, previous The secretary, Mr. F.W. Eager, to the general attack on Tsingtad pointed out that they met under the Japanese will send an envoy unique conditions. Last year the The fighting in France and into the town to advise the gar- Association met with success, Belgium continues to go in rison to surrender and to evacuate some 30 clubs being registered, favour of the Allies, who, accord- | the, fortifications within twenty- but this year everything was un- ing to the latest advices to hand, four hours. This will be their settled. They wanted, if possible," are making very appreciable pro-last chance. gress at practically every point. The Situation at Cheloo. it was good to read yesterday From the time the Japanese The Chairman said the pro- that the French troops had at troops landed at Lang-kou, say position was that they should go length succeeded in forcing the a Chefoo despatch to the Jiji, on se before. The teams would enemy back over the frontier to there was a good deal of ill feeling by weaker, of course, but the the east of Nancy. There has among the Chinese, mostly due alternative was to suspend oper- been bitter fighting in this to the circulation of fictions by ations throughout the season. region for some weeks past. persons ill-disposed towards For himself, he would like to se8 Again and again the Germans Japon charging the Japanese a good match every Saturday. have made frantic attempts to distroops with all sorts of miscon Mr. A. P. Storrie was of the lodge the Frenchmen from their duet. The local Chinese Press opinion that they should run positions, but none of these has published anti-Japanese articles a League. There was not resulted favourably, and day after until the local Chinese were so a player doing Volunteer "pid- day the reports of the operations stirred up that they were ready
who gin!
would not be To-morrow, at 11 a.m., Mr. G. have been summed up in the phrase to believe anything. Threatening able somehow to get his gems in: Be that as it may, further up P. Lammert is selling valuable" no change." No doubt for very lettere were reoaived by the It was found that the following: country it was found that the household furniture at 14, Hum-good reasons, the French have for Chefoe Nippo, the local Japanese teams were available: commodity was being sold freely phrey's Buildinge, Kowloon, some time past been content to newspaper. The Chinese author. United Services League, Div. The publio is reminded of the merely hold their own here, ities, however, having investi:- A., Staff and Departments, The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will by auotion, as many as 140 cares at a time, the last being sold at
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$6,700 per case. Apparently organ recital to be given by Mr. J. assumed the cffensive, with the them baseless, have issued notices Hongkong Football League the opiam is afterwarde packed W. White at St. John's Cathedral result that the enemy has now proclaiming the fact, and also Div. 1-R. A., Staff and Depart- The rates per quarter and per mengem, proportional. Subscriptione ia tiny round tins which are re-to-morrow night in aid of the been forced over the border into promising condign punishment to
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All this should be of interest to
At the Club pavilion last even-
The "eye-witness' story which
protests have been made. After have been given to understanding the annual general meeting we publiebod fast evening shows first referring to the outrageous Hongkong opium dealers who
тов held. Mr. F Maitland, wish to have anything further to do with so iniquitous à matter.ns
the chair. Oce cannot
Moving the adoption of the the opium traffic. blame the French officials; they have enough to do" to preserve report of the committee and order in their own territory and, while the balance was fairly counts, Mr. Maitland said that however assiduous they may bu
more favourable had it not been for writing down the stock of the racquets court. Racquets had years, and with that drawback removed, conditions would be
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1914. LAWLESSNESS IN SOUTH CHINA.
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Div. II-University, Moslems, Confucian Society, St. Joseph's, Chinese Y.M.C.A., Boys' Own. two other Chiness teams.
lab, Victoria Rovers and also
It was decided to subscribe,
Fund.
President of the Club, was in troops have co-operated hero, by armed force, the Peking paper The Japanese suffered no damago..
particularly gratifying being the
says that the entry of a neutral work of the British in making zone in Shantung by Japan, enemy give up big an altogether different case. 1 tract of country and in replying deed, whatever blame there is li with a counter-stroke which for it was & violation of the ne to the German general attack rather on China than on Japa
Immediately ...Lieutenante Yamada and Osaki boarded an aeroplane and flew over Tsingtau, After dropping bombs at several places they safely returned to their base.
that at 11 o'clock on the morning Another official report says
in preventing the smuggling of Batisfactory, it would have been evidently caused big gaps intrality which she had declared than 1,100 dead were found in soldiers, after the outbreak of the enemy's ranke, since no fewer when Chins allowed. German one trench alone. Inside the hostilities, to pass from Peking of the 10th two warships of the a matter for the Chiness author been a loss to the Club for many Belgian frontier the enemy is not and Tientsin to Tsingtan.
second Squadron, briskly bom- barded the Iltis forts, which have. only being held; he is being
ties to handle?
The Cigarette Habit.
were
forced to give ground at more The Protest Bureau at Work.
Warships.
But their increased activity is resulting, so we learn on good author.societies, the cigaretta appeare/rear was elected as follows: the Centre thus weakened there preservation of a correct attitude artillery fired on the warships,
to
A Peking despatch to the Asahi been firing on the Japanese mili. much better in future.
thon one point. Here the advance states that the Chinese Govern-tary positions, and silenced them. Major Robertson reconded, and
While the bombardment waS of the British north of Ypres is ment anbaitted a protest to the In glancing through the most re- cently published Customs returns the report and accounts
worth boticing, for quite a wedge Japanese Minister on Tuesday proceeding the forts at the for the Northern ports of China we adopted.
On the motion of Mr. T. E. is being driven in in this locality, against the arrival of the Japan Hui-obaan point fired on the notice frequent evidences of the
With all the progress that is one troops at Teingtan, near Japanese warships, but the latter
their sustained no damage. fact that the cigarette habit-con-Pearce, Mr.. Maitland was re-
elected President, Returning being recorded on the Left sad Wei-cheng, demanding
Right Winga, the position withdrawal. The Chinese au Japanese Artillery Engages tinues to grow apace. In several instances it is recorded that the thanke, Mr. Maitland remarked of the Germans in the Centre thorities declare that they will
A War Office report states that importation of foreign cigarettes that it was now twenty years since becomes increasingly precarious. continue to protest at each stage on instant an have remarkably increased, this he first joined the committee if this process is carried much of the Japanese advance, but no bath destroyer bombarded Last week we reported that two Standard Oil employees had being particularly so in the Treaty shine had missed half a dozen further, the enemy must take men great importance is attached to
and during that time he did not been robbed and wounded in Kwangel Province. We have since ports. To take a case in point,
the Japanese who were engaged away from the Contre to reinforce this statement, as the protests are been informed that such outrages are becoming more and more it is stated in the Tientsin report committee meetings.
The committee for the coming
the threatened wings, and with believed to be merely for the in work at the north of Si-feng. scarce in Kwangsi; that the local Government officials are waking that, in spite of anti-cigarette
A battery of Japanese heavy. up and dealing with pirates and other offenders with no light hand.
is a strong possibility of our ad- towards Germany.
which were obliged to retire out gain steadily in public Messrs. Maitland (President), R.
The German Balloon. ity, in the pirates' fleeing into the next Province, Kwangtung, and favour, and during last year Robertson, A. R. Linton, T. H. along the line.
Hancock, T. E. Pearce, Major Vantage being pushed home all
Two reports have been received of range.
Railway Traffic Resumed. there making themselves as big a nuisance as ever, A gentleman 300,000 mille more than in 1912
concerning the Garman captive
On the morning of the 11th. balloon which broke from its instant a trial run over the repairs who has recently returned from a long trip through the interior
Matthens, R. P. Thursfield and informe as that parts of Kwangtung are literally overrun with were landed there. We all know, King, Hon. Claud Severn, Capt. The Offensive in East Prussia. of course, that cigarette-smoking
of the wires that fighting has moorings on the 7th instant, one ed track of the Shantung Railway pirates. Evey night, he says, firing may be heard up and down the
is no new thing among the A. O. Hynes,
again begun on the East Prussisa saying that it had drifted south. between Tainan and Ohang-tien rivers, and travellers or the inhabitants of villages are constantly Chinese; they are taught to smoke LATE COMPRADORE'S
frontier indicates that the Rue following its course, and the otlier Trafic to points beyond Chang and that two destroyers were successfully carried out. being attacked and robbed often by men who own frankly that the almost from the time they are
WILL.
sians are bent on making a big eaying that it had gone north tien will be resumed as soon as law has driven them out of their own province of Kwangri.
In commenting on. the recent Weat River Floods, that in the Treaty ports in par
move against German territory.ast, The Navy Department report the necessary repairs are com- we took cccasion to remark that, unless the relief of the ticular, where the Westernised
Advice of the Court Sought, Since the Czar's troops were does not say what direction it
driven out of East Prussis some took, only that it disappeared in Mines Saved from Destruction.
plated. continuous, many hitherto Chinese "aat" ie so much in sufferers WAS thorough and
Tho Chief Justice was saked time back, we have heard nothing alternative but to turn evidence, the habit is spreading for bis advice, this morning, by from this region, and, it is now that it appeared to carry no car. the Pooshan colliery and the iron respectable. 'men would have do
a gale of wind at sunset, and When the Germans evacuated their hands to robbery. This, we understand, has since with consequences which are the executore of the will of the clear that this fresh resumption proved to be the case; and so the original Kwanging pirates have bound to tell on the young late. Yung Hing pong, formerly of hostilities means that fresh Germans Released at Wo-Chor: mine at Kinlien-Chin, they placed been re-inforced from two new sources. The result is that many of manhood of the country, especially
A. Tainan despatch to the Jiji the ordinary trade routes are reported to be impassable, and coolies when it is borne in mind that the compradore to the Chartered Russian troops have been brought states that five Germans who had explosives in the mines with the who are employed in carrying merchandise overland are frequently commonest brands of the weed friendly one, was argued by Mr. coupled with the Russian advance the Japanese troops have been explosives, however, failed to go Bank. The aetion, which was a into the field: This development, been detained at Wei-cheng by object of blowing them up. The obliged to travel scores of miles out of their way, over tracklese
are mostly smoked,
F. C. Jenkin, for the executors, through Polard, is likely to be released after three days. One of off, owing to defective setting. districts, in order to escape with their goods and, upon occasion,
and Mr. C. G. Alabaster and Mr. attended with serious conse-them was a correspondent and with their lives. In one small village in the Sun Yo district of
Eldon Potter for certain of the quences to the Germans, who are the others wero railway Kwangtung, our informant tells us that the population has been
Some Shady Tricks. legátees..
now being assailed at all points. employees. wiped out by some of these marauders. They alleged that the vill
The Liberte of September 10 Mr. Jenkin said that the
On the Way to Berlin.
German Gunboats Silenced." agers had laid information against them, and they avenged them-
able to eat. But there is no doubt
The statement contained in one
and the mines have been saved from destruction.
Japanese Lieutenant Killed. A War Office report states that the enemy still continues to fire on
Issus of Military Notes.
selves by cutting off practically every head in the place. Outside gives details of the fighting in testator died in September of last Reuter put it very aptly yester. A Tinan despatch to the Jithe Japanese position. Lieutenant Tion Pak a well-organised army of pirates was found-at least a north-east France obtained from a year, leaving a personal estate of day in referring to the German states that, according to news Arao and his interpreter, while thousand strong offered apparently by trained men, and the sergeant of a line regiment, twice $680,000. The deceased had story of the battle round Warsaw reaching the Chiness authorities, whole well armed with modern weapona. Meanwhile the soldiers promoted on the battlefield, whose made special provision for an as being intended for "home con- there are two hastily construoted performing certain duty on the who had been sont down to desi with these gentlemen had calmly father, four brothers and eighteen income for his wife and also for sumption." Telegrams since to forts at Si-pong. Three German 9th instant, were killed by the shut themselves up inside Tien Pak, point-blank so wa are told other members of his family are the first and second concabines, hand show that the Kaiser's gun-boats have been assisting the enemy's fire.
Farther investigations made serving in the army. He said: and, to the second, had left a forces are being driven far away Gorman heavy artillery in show that the rolling stock on the refusing to take the chances of a fight.
Then what is the Provincial Government doing? We are not "The Germans de the most harm farther sum of $10,000 on candi- from the city named. Following shelling the Japanese position Shantung Railway taken charge for a moment supposing that it is possible, on short notice, to stamp by variousrases, which our impet-tion that any one of his seven the occupation of Lowicz, the The Japanese Biego guns, out a long-enduring evil like piracy in China: but we were given nosity renders only too successful sons who should agree to be Russians have had no difficulty however, inflicted fatal damage of by the Japanese consists of 37 locomotives and 972 passenger to understand, not so many months ago, that the Central Government For instance, they sound the adopted by the concubine in in taking Lodz in their on to the gun-boats
cars and goods trucks. had taken the matter in hand and that a scheme had been prepared French bugle call for chargo question should have his share ward march towards the German German Position Taken.
with the. share border. They are now only some The enemy's fire having The Finance Department re- for exterminating the offenders. If there be truth in the story that so that we are often caught in a augmented
$10,000 left the 60 miles from the frontier at this slackened, the Japanese-infantry a moderately strong body of troops shut themselves up in a town deadly fire of mitrailleuses, An-of rather than face the pirates, it is surely time that the Tutuh bit other time a force we were press second concubine. With regard point, while the fact that they made several attacks and at last cently issued military notes to the upon some plan whereby these latter could be outnumbered, if there ing hard suddenly retired, leaving to that money, his Lordship was are also advancing from Kutno, succeeded in carrying the German nominations of 10-20 and 50 sen be no other way of bringing them to book. The Kwangtung army a group of apparently. French asked to say what beneficial which is about 33 miles due north position. In this fighting the is a large one and the armed police is or was a very efficient soldiere round a French flag who interest the second concubine had of Lodz, indicates that a consider fire from the German ganbastant and land Y5, for the use of the Japanese army sent to attack body of men: President Yuan has shown that he can put down cried out 'Help! We were in that eum, if the adoption took able sweeping movement is being first troubled the Japanese, but
Tainglan, This amount is con- mutiny and riot and conspiracy with a strong hand; then. why charging to the rescue when we place or if it did not, and two made towards German territory. they were eventually ailenced, aidered insufficient, and another cannol he, throngh his officials, go one step farther and orash were met by a deadly fire from a other questions following on the As this develops, the Germane will Bombardment of Ilus Forts: million yen will be issued in a piracy? Where local Chinese troops are concerned there is always concealed battery." At other answer to the first were also to be find their hands getting faller An Admiralty report issued in few days. These notes will be Plovil of corruption or condonation to fear; therefore would it not times the calls of cease fire or neked. His submission was that and fuller, and instincts of self- Tokyo states that early on the exchanged for silver at the branch be well to have soldiers imported from some other quarter to deal event retiro cause us to abandon the answer to question 1 was that reservation may cause them to morning of the 10th instant a with the matter? We fancy that if some of the Northern regiments the attack, and enable the enemy the money was an absolute gift to pay less attention to France and hostile aeroplane attacked with offices of the Specie Bank at who gut up such a good fight against the revolutionaries last year to withdraw without loss from the concubine more to their own country in the bombs the Japanese engaged in Dairen, Chefoo and other places were sent down South, they might show the Cantonese a wrinkle or almost hopeless positions."
the removal of floating mines. two that would be of permanent use.
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His Lordship, after hearing argument, reserved judginent,
early future.
amount of Y1,000,000 in de
in China