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NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
THE CHINESE NAVY.
THE ATTACK ON TSINGTAU. Future Defenders of China in
the Making.
Turkey's Little Game of Bluff.
The Lost Hermes.
(SPECIAL ARTICLE)
JOTTINGS BY THE WAY.
One of the best things we have. heard lately concerns the German Government and a Chinese mer chant, The latter has written to the former, suggesting with a
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As to how long it will be before childlike and frank simplicity China can boast of a Navy pow-that, since the German Empire The Japanese are romantic as erful enough to defend her vast will soon be no more, he should Siberian Mail-Arrived to-day.well as practical, and we need shores, it is not the purpose of the forthwith be allowed to hire some French Mail.-Due to-morrow.
look no further for proof of this present article to auggest. The of its elaborate consular buildings Siberian Mail.-Closes to-morrow than to the official message from object is to take note of the in Hainan as godowns!!!! We Tokyo which states that attacks manner in which young cadets should dearly like to see the an- both by soa and land began at are being fitted to take their ewer that Mineself will send. Tsingtau on the morning of the places among the future officers
The dog-shooting season re- 31st ul, the birthday of the End of the Chinese Navy. It is with peror of Japan. Since they have a view to training these young commenced last Tuesday. We On Saturday the Telegraph pub-commenced the bombardment men along up-to-date lines that understand that sport, so far, has of solid they have kept it going pretty the Kwang Bai was rigged out not been particularly good. The on these, together with the lished 43 calamas immense salary that he earned, reading matter. To-day there fiercely, and the straight shots" as a training ship for naval game is said to be a little sby..
did enormous damage. Most of cadets, and at the moment she is
Our post office, bless it, is still probably thus made him. the will be 36 published.
the forts are already silenced and resting in Hongkong Harbour wealthiest cinematograph artis!
there is further evidence in the hard by the man-of-war anchor-going strong, and is as up-to- in the world. Our readers may remember that M. Pathe also
latest wires that the shelling age. For the past six or seven date as ever. On October 27 it is having terrible effects, A years she has trained and turned informed us, for the benefit of our contradicted a ramour, generally
British cruiser is assisting in the out some forty students annually, readers, that the postal service believed at the time, that the great
suspended. sctor bad died under an opeia-
By means of the confidence bombardment, and the enemy and many of the young men who between Hongkong and Germany Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which tion. Let us hope that the latest trick a Chinese woman has been has become terrified. Ere long received their training on this and Austria is
in the fleet...
Are glad to have heard in their names and addresses with report is no better founded than robbed of a pair of gold bangles. we should hear of the fall of now hold important commissiona Dear me pay, dear us! We
Tsingtay." Clothing Stolen, requires them to forward
A visit to this "school on the time, for wo were planning a let→ communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for its predecessor, for he is a man
whom the world can ill afford to A clerk from Praya East re
water," is interesting in more ter to letGermany known what we publication, but as an evidence of their bona fides.
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ports that some person stole from
ways than one. One striking think about things. The Kaiser his room two pieces of clothing
The German submarines have feature of the vessel is the perhaps doesn't know how near valued $30.
been on the prowl again and have cleanliness which is apparent he was to getting it in the neck. eucceeded in sinking the old It is surprising that there]
familiar with other Chinese-But these are the days of groat cruiser Hermes. One remarkable, everywhere on board. To those should be quite a large number
and perhaps significant, feature of owned and manned oraft, this is discoveries. One of the Sydney of people in the universe who do
the submarine successes brought rather more than one expects to papers has found out, by some realise that the bora
cff by the enemy is that when fad. Her spacious decks are occult means, that a drunken not
they do sink a cruiser it is an old spotless, the quarters for the man is a nuisance in a tramcar. humourist is as great a gift to it as the born painter, poet, or! A Chinese, who fell from a
and Facts such as this deserve all the стото beyond publicity they can get. musician. Perhaps, in the long verandah in Moon Street, has one. It certainly seems strange officers well-farniched,
the German submarines seem to adverse criticism. The accom- run, he will be found to have been sent to the Government Civil-in fact looks like bait that those for the
have no difficulty occasionally in modation ladders are guarded A soldier's letter from the done more good where his fellow Hospital. beinge are concerned than ali
Mr. J. J. Leiria reports that finding an almost obsolete vessel
and about General French, But the three. A life without humour is, at bott, but that of a obrrealis, raincoat was stolen from his pri- belonging to our Navy. The last by sentries who reckon not Front says that there is no side eye the stranger with very Germans won't lose any sleep their over that. What troubles them and, at worst, purgatory. There- vate chair, outside the Hongkong time they did anything in the meanly of their posts, fore the gods have sent us comic Hotel,. The coat is valued at $35 nature of torpedoing they were so little confidence. True
elated that four of their destroyers uniform has not the spick and span most is the fact of there being no
flies on him. writers, artists, singers and
appearance of the "tars" on a actors that those might counteract The total output of the Kailan thought they would sally forth for us the evils which we have Mining Administration's mines and do things which would be British battleship, but it is at any
At the moment of going to inherited or have made for our for the week ending October 17 inscribed on the scrolls of history. rate clean and presentable in its selves, thus enabling us to put a amounted to 48,402.27 tona and All they achieved, however, was drabress. Here and there on the prese we cannot find that that comforting serise of entries on the salea during the period to to be inscribed in the German quarterdeck plants are arranged. Special Service of war telegrame Admiralty ledger for lost ships. and secured to the mast is the from Washington has discovered the credit side of our ledger. For 55,391.63 tons.
Perhaps to morrow or the day ship's pet a monkey--which anything more remarkable lately the man who-like Dickens, Alice Memorial Hospital.
The Hon. Treasurer of the after another tale will be unfolded. amuses by its antics those who, than that "the Germans "have Douglae Jerrold, Artemus Ward,
for the moment, are free from driven off the British craisers Bolving problems of navigation."which have been participating in Alice Memorial and Affiliated or Max Linder (to name only a Hospitala, begs to acknowledge lew, and go no farther back than with thanks the following dona-
It is obviously difficult for The poop deck is canopied by the attack on the German army stretches of substantial canvas, on the Belgian coast," and that the 19th Century)-can make us tion to the funds of the Hospitals:
others to grasp what Turkey is forgot the greyer side of existence, St. John's Cathedral, $34 62.
abont if there is any truth in her and it is here that the students" three of the British ships are "The Colony's Health. if only for five minutes, canoniza tion is hardly too great a reward.
Last week there were four cases denial of being cognisant of the indulge in calisthenica and other said to have been hit by sbots raid by Turkish vessels, because processes of muscular develop from the German artillery:" of enteric and three of diphtheriait would appear that she does not out, leaving the wide main Still, we live in hopes. notified in the Colony, none being
quarter-deck for organised drill.
Meanwhile we can only solace We are War Advertisements.
fatal. One of the former was a quite know herself.
Just under the poop dcok tha We took note the other day of French sufferer and the others inclined to think, however, that officers are quartered-nine well ourselves with the good tidings the change which has come over Chinese, while the diphtheria Turkey doce know, hos known furnished
sent along by another most cabins, each con- the advertisement pagen' of the
for a long time, and has very taining but a single berth, reliable agency-the Ostasiatische occurrences were respectively! Home newspapers in consequence Britiah, Portuguese and Chinese.
foolishly forgotten that her
lead into an elaborate salcon, Lloyd: "The German ambassa of the war, and papers since to
dor in Washington declares, with attempts at cunning are just too in the centre of which Bijou Scenic Theatre. hand show that the bigger pro-
table fitted to seat twelve reference to rumours which have There was again a full house at transparent for Britain and her portion of the announcements the Bijon on Saturday evening, Allica. She must be in a grotes-perace is accommodated. The been spread in the United States, continue to have reference to the to enjoy the excellent programme que state of preparedness for war Baloon is lighted with electricity, that Germany, when victorious, great struggle which is still now being presented, of which if the ships of her Navy can go the lampa being of artistic florai will not attack Canada or establish taking place. Incidentally it the chief items are a very laugh- making promiscuous pirate-like may be observed that the war, so able comedy with our old friend raide without oficial sanction design, and in the centre a colonies there." Now we consider far from proving a gold-mine to Max Linder in the principal role, It is to be hoped that Tarkey powerful and magnificent electrol that uncommon kind on the part A kuoley knut who wandered Economic and financial relationships are nowadays so closely interwoven between nation and nation that war inevitably reacts Popular
quarters having directly opposite entitled, "Hancigan in Clover" the battered remains of her fight- On the main quarter deck
guns, whilst further forward the other night, singing out the on countries which have no part or parcel in actual hostilities. The results. This is partly due to and "The Black Peril," and a ing crew will spring a wiser and there are two 10,5 centimetre p Leehouse Street at 1 a.m. bigger the struggle and the longer it laste, correspondingly greater the scarcity of paper and its con- couple of interesting pictares a less bellicose generation.
there are two 12 centimetre joyous news that it was a long way. peace when: become its effects on the outside world. It goes without saying,sequent greatly enhanced post, showing wonderfully clearly the
gune. These look as though to Tipperary, held bie they are thoroughly well kept, spoken to by a European police- therefore, that the present conflagration in Europe must have but mainly because the advertise-evolution of various plants from mente have fallen off to assed to blossom, and the peculiar
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WHAT THE WAR COSTS AMERICA,
Kailan Output:
Sly Turkey.
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the newspapers-which is the and Pathe's War Gazette. There will be taught the lesson she has fer sends a blaze of light over the of Germany..
View-is in Bome are also two mirth-provoking filme needed for years, and that out of
The Land Operations. Once again the German troope
diners.
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unsettling influences in all corners of the globe. Those countries startling degree; What adver-waye of the "Flying Fox," the have attempted a general offen. with the ammunition necessary exact words, but we fancy that whose revenue is in large part derived from import taxes muat tising is done now is, for the largest member of the bat family.sive movement against the Allies for urgent use. The boat is also they conveyed a bint that it was.
especially feel the pinch, since the supply of Earope's products, or more part, urged solely by the
needs that are arising as the
All Souls' Day..
To-day being All Souls'
Day,
in France and Belgium, and fitted with field guns, quick firing not nearly such a long way to the thinks of the position of the United States, and it is no surprise to throw most interesting side-lights brated in the Cathedral of the in oconpying one or two fresh number of twelve, and they are a big balk thereof, is now cut off. In this connection, one naturally result of the war. Some of these Masses for the dead were cele although they have succeeded guns and salating gone to the Central Police Station. find that already the Administration of that country has deemed it on the general conditions at Immaculate Conception and in all points, they have been dislodged as well protected and care for wire to impose a war tax to make up the loss in the Customs receipts present prevailing at Home. as one result of the European war.
Some Examples,
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The Kaiser's Investments. Whatever fate may await him, the other Catholic churches of the from others and the British and as those on any European man-
it appears that the Kaiser has Calany. At the cathedral, in the French forces have gained of war. Over the sides of the presence of a very large congre- ground in novoral quartors. On vessel are excpended a steam
fatare at any rate. "Ever since This new tax is estimated to yield a sum of about $100,000,000, which, if it were spread out over the whole population, would mean Personal Column" has a war Pozzoni, assisted by
Every announcement in the gation, a Pontifical Requiem was the whole the advantage is launch, a pinnace and four gigs, made financial provision for the sung by the Right Rev. Bishop distinctly in our favour. Thero and every other modern provision Germany began to make pre-
the is deep satisfaction in the fact for safety at sea has been effected.
parations for an attack upon. dollar a head on every tasn, woman and child in the United States. tinge, and it is especially Cathedral Chapter and several that our progress is not confined Amidships the forty students, or
land, and, ultimately upon the In fixing the incidence of the tax, however, the Government is said noticeable that the greater part of the clergy of the diocese, at to one locality-it is general all cadete, are accommodated in Belgium, France, Holland, Eng: to have aimed at limiting it to as few articles as possible, and we represents appeals from people 8,45 a.m. At St. Joseph's Church, along the line. Over the Belgian comfortable, if not imposing United States, the Kaiser bas rend that the Bill enforcing it provides for a levy of 3 per cent, on who want help of some kind Garden Road, Low Moss was frontier the wedge is being driven quarters. For ard," the crew,
"states the Financial Atlantic" railroad freight, from which it is estimated $85,000,000 will be or other that they may go said at o'clock by the Rav. in further every day, and the numbering no less than one been investing immense bums of
to the war. These Vary Faiher Augustine.
enemy is evidently beginning to hundred, are quartered with as money on the other side of the News, "He is one of the largest realised annually; an additional tax of 50 cents a barrel on beer,
from the many young men who
perceive the danger of being much regard for their comfort as Hongkong Boy's Success,
landowners in the Western which will bring in, about $33,000,000; and a tax of 20 cents &
We are pleased to learn, from cut off, for coincident with it is customary to find on ships of gallon co domestic wines, the probable yield of which will be ack for motor-cyoles, as loans or
capacions construction. States-not in his own name, of $9,000,000. This is the price which America has to pay " to see gifts, that they may become a telegram received in the Colony, the news that we ate progressing Captain Fong Fing-chun, isasslat-
course, He owns considerable Europe at war," as one of the New York papers puts it. Press despatch riders, to the trained yesterday, that Mr. Oban Tean-east of Ypres comes the reported by four officers, and the
anxious to serve nin, the eldest son of Mr. Chan that the Germans are withdrawing opinion is somewhat divided as to the real reasons for this new bur-engineer, den of taxation, and one journal goes so far as to remark that the bis country, who wants an aero- Siu-ki, a well-known and highly- from Dixmude. Best of all is the control of the power-generating property in the west of Canada.” paradox that the one great nation which has kept out of this wax plane. One announcement is of respected member of the Ohinese fact that we have gone forward in apparatus is in the hands of four must pay additional taxes for ita exemption is certainly singular, special interest-it is that by community, has passed his final the Centre between Rheims and thoroughly experienced engineers.
Sandow, the physical-culture examination in law and will be Verdun, which seems to imply After the cadets have finished the among the merchantmen which tho bar by the that the Germans are at length course in gunnery etc., at the suffered in the terrible typhoon Admitting, however, that it is the unforeseen upheaval in Enr. expert, whe cffers to take in hand called to ope which has made the imposition of these new taxes necessary, men who are prevented by some Honourable Society of the Middle feeling the effects of the pressure Naval College at Whampoa, they of 1906, and for a time she lay there is surely nothing singular in the step which has been taken, physical deficienoy from offering Temple on Michaelmas "call in the area where they have beshare sont on board the Kwang Hal on a muddy couch at the bottom though at first sight it may seem hard that a neutral nation should for active service in the field. day which, we understand, is making and a sustained and for a year'e training in practical of Hongkong Harbour. She was be hit in the way America is. Bat that is an economic reaction which Thoro are some businesses, how fixed for some date during the stubborn resistance. Farther east navigation before being commie-salved eventually, and was then nothing can obviate. Extremists are arguing that Democratic over, which are making the most present month. Mr. Oban Taun- also the French are moving for- sioned to the more important purchased by the Governmentand extravagances and the cutting down of the tariff are the real reasons of the war, such as those who ain was formerly a papil at St. ward. So everywhere the enemy ships comprising the Chinese converted into the fine training sojourn in Hongkong she will underlying the new taxation, but that surely is ungenerous criticism, deal in maps, war-books, Allies Stephen's College, where the is being forced back on to and Na
he won gave early over the frontier, while the fact The vestel is one of four thou ship she now is. After a short for, with facts and figures available, no Administration would dare age, tin soldiers, eto, These prizes ho to make up its own deficiencies by levies disguised as war taxes. houses realise the value of a well- promise of the distinguished that the Russians continue to push sand tons, with a speed of nine proseed to Whampoa, and there Provians to being taken over by a further contingent of China's The great decrease in taxable importations from Europe must be displayed advertisement, and career which now lies bstore him along on the road to Berlin makes knots, and has a romantic history, no doubt will prepare herself for
they, at any rate, do not complain and in which we wish him every us feel very gratified at the way the Chinese Government, she was fighting seamon of the future. of slackness of trade..
the ohief factor if the onse
spocess.
events are turning out,