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NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
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A WAR TO A FINISH.
American Sympathies.
AND SWEETIST DAYS WERE BORN. Some Reflections on the Fighting sent by cable to the Times
Yesterday, November the Ninth, was the 451st anniversary of the birth of one who may be termed, justly enough, one of the greatest of Garmare-Mactin Luther to wit. Hackneyed nick- names are, as a rule, both irritat-THE CARES OF LIFE WERE MADE ing and misleading, but "the monk that shook the world" is, in this caso, an apt onougb sabriquot. Luther did shake the world, though whether for the world's good or not is a matter that no individual is able to decide. The modern historian is not quite so charitable to the renegade Augustinian as most of English Mail-Arrived to-day. his forc-runners were.' We say Siberian Mail-Oloses today at
most" becnase (to quote only one case) Hallam, in his History of European Literature, more than half a century ago destroyed with ruthless hand many of the beautiful qualities which partial
The Mails.
In France.
AN INSOLENT TALLYMAN.
Attack on a Revenue Officer.
The following letter has been
Sir.-Ollicially and legally the At the Police Court, this morn-, The Weather..
United States is neutral, and ashing, before Mr. C. D. Melbourne, Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 72;
law-abiding people we wil the chief Chinese tallyman of the fine.
Every day is making it plainer observe every obligation putnio blue funnel steamer Agapenor, At the Pook, Sa.m. Temp. 61; and platar that the Russians us by international law. Spl was charged with assaulting a find.
have now definitely turned the imentally and morally we know Chinese revenue officer: corner and are keeping their dun it is no time for neutrality, but, opponents "on the rep." Yest rr the most feroeful expressioa defendant struck the complainant According to the ovidence, the day's i telegrams contained the of indignation that is within us. across the face and objected to glad tidings that they have been Car bose and our faith is with having his cabin searched, saying moeting with markod success in England. We know that if, hy that he would Lot have it their invasion of Eut Prussia, ay unhappy chance, England searabed by Hongkong Chinese. while more important still is the should be defeated, then instantly Ha told Revenue Officer Wilden news that they have succeeded in we should have to quadruple or that be (defendant) was 8 entering Geraan territory from Navy and maintain a large stand up ri and a gentleman, and if he Yesterday the Telegraph pul- Poland. This latter advance is ing Army and step into the 10 would draw out two of big best biographer had attributed to lished 37 coluinns of solid obviously a continution of the sition of guardian and defender men, he (defendant) would show him. At that time England pre-reading matter. To-day there progress from Warsaw via Lodz, of democr to ideals which Eag him how he could kill them. ferred to listen to what Carlyle will be 37 published.
se the point at which the frontier land has filled so long and so Defendant said that complain in bie" Heroes" had to say about
has been orosted is almost dir;otwell,
ant was cot in uniform and when Luther, and turned a desf our LO tho manifestly unprejudiced views of Hallam.
communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for, The Real Man, publication, but as an evidence of their bona fides.
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Tomorrow is the birthday of Atheistic France and philos is Majesty the King of Italy ophical Germany, however, found and the Italian Consul General, much in Hallam that tallied with mm. Volpicelli, will be in his what their own more impartial office to receive visilcra from 11 The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will critics had to say about Dr.sm, to zoon.
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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1914.
HOW DO AMERICA'S SYMPATHIES LIE?
of America's
No Great Catch."
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Then and Now,
wet from the Int`r p'ac, and, I hope that England will not defendant asked him who he incidentally, is on a line pointing consider any offer of peace now was, ho Brack defondant, to Berlin. The significance unless the offer is accompanied by Another officer showed a of these sucesses can be readily completa willingness on the part black eye, which he alleged the perceived, and that they are of Germany to submit to what defendant was responsible for. of immense importance is ever punitiva conditions and safe- proved by the circumstance that guards for the future may be he saw the defendant in his room
Revenue Officer Wilden said. the British military authorities dictated by English justice. For and he asked him what the have seen fit at this juncture to Germany to have attempted this trouble was. Defendant said he Convoy congratulations to the crime, to have failed, and then to objected to his cabin being sear Russian Army and to express the escape without punishment would oked by a Hongkong Chinese.. by any stretch of imagination, be The Vice Consul of the Nether-conviction that the joint efforts of be a perversion of every moral Defendant was spoiling for a fight. suspected of sympathy with bislanda reports that some person the Allies will result in the foal law of civilization. I hope Eug At the office of Imports and avowed religious opponents, they stolen from the cabin of the chief crushing defeat of the enemy. land will fight just as long as it is Exports, defendant apologised made no bones about challenging officer of the s.a. Tjikambang, a
Decessary to fight, and willend the and asked to be let off. his right to the species of pewter box containing papers and
If we recall the recent past we fight only in one way-by mec- canonization that his more ex certificates of practically no value. shall see what a change hus come suring out justice to the German to Revenue Officer Wilden that Defendant said be had reported, travagant worshippers considered.
Fokl Suspected.
over the situation so far as the Emperer as a criminal among he had been assaulted by his his due. We prefer to look at Anaccountant of the Wah Ring Russian operations are concerned. men, and the Gormar ration, man. the man himself, independently printing shop, of 304, Dea Vaux In the early days of the war, when misguided and badly led though of the views with which he has Road West, reports that some become identified. "Lather was person stole, from his house, one of the world's strong men, clothing valued $5 and $40 in
Defendant:-You are not an Ste George W. Steevens on the borest man; before the magistrate and, as such, is entitled to un- money. He suspects a foki.
sive consisted in a simaltoncons funeral of Gordon: With Kit- iversal respect. Taw people in
Sent to Hospital,
drive from the western part of choner to Khartoum," ohapter 25, fendant then alleged that he bad: you should speak the truth. Den England to-day believe half the A woman nimed Can Yung, East Prussia southward against page 307. good thinge said about him in the residing at 101, Temple Street, Warsaw, and an Austrian drive story books. Men who "shake Yaumati, has been sent to hos northward from western Galicia the world" Juliae Caesar, pital suffering from wounds towarde the same objective. Mahomet, Cromwell, Bonaparte, to the head and banda, alleged The German
met otsare apt to perform one to have been inflicted by a man with success, for the Kaiser's) The passage in G. W. Steevens's) "shake" for humanity to every in custody.
troopa succeeded in getting book to which Mr. Mark Sullivan. three for their own advancement
into close touch with Warsaw. the distinguished editar of
A Street Nuisance,
It is about time the police paid some attention to the hordes of Chinese hawkers who, with portable stalls, take up their stand along pavements in some
House Entered.
Acknowledged.
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the Russians were threatening is is, still a criminal among thie..
Revenue Officer Wilden denied
both, Prussian and Austrian ter- nations. ritory, the enemies' counter-offer-
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I am, Sir, &o.,
MARK SULLIVAN.. New York, Sapt, 21,
been kicked, struck, and, hit by hammers and pieces of wood.
The defendant was fined $10, and Lound over for six months.
CRICKET.
Hongkong defeat Kowloon,
Kowloon C.C.
or glorification. Perbapa Hallam A Chinese married woman, of But the success was only a tem-Collier's Weekly, refers, is ne was not far out in denying that 9, Wellington Street, reports to porary one, while the Austrian follows :— Luther was any exception to this the police that some person en-drive completely failed. The "Fourteen yeara next January rale.
tered her houso by a trap-door on Russians were not to be caught set even through that humiliat- the roof, which was open, and in this way; and to-day we finding thought there ran a whisper 'stole jewellery valued $13 and them doing the driving and both of triumph. We may be slow; clothing valued $3.
the Germans and Austriass flee-but in that very slowness We Robbed While Sleeping. ing before them. If present pro-show that we do not forget. Soon Reubon Thomas Salt, U.E.R.A., grese continues,, the Russian or late, we give our own their Cricket Club, yesterday afternoon, On the ground of the Kowloon .M.S. Ribblo, reports to the activities should completely troue due. Here were men that fought the Hongkong 00, were eater- of the main etreets of the Colony police that between the 7th and form the whole outlook in the for Ger lon's life while ho lived tained, and they succeeded in and there do a roaring trade in 8th inst, while sleeping in the war.
-Kitchener, who went disguised defeating the home club by 86 sweetmesta, peanuts, and fear-Naval Canteen, he bad stolen from
Slow but Sure.
and alone among farious enemies runs. fully and wonderfully made Chin- under his pillow a silver watch For the moment, however, the to get nowa of him; Wauchope, noon fell to H. G. Bagnall by a The top score of the after- ese comestibles. Not only do these and chain valued $115. main theatre of hostilities is still who poured out his blond like clever compilation of 72. This folk obstruct pedestrians, bat Probably Sulcide.
ia the west, whore bitter fighting water at Tamsi and Kirbekan; score in itself totalled six more the points at which they stand This morning a case, apparent continues to take place. Here the Stuart Wortley, who missed by than the score of the combined are soon turned into a picture of 15 one of suicide, was discovered Allies are giving ample proof of but two days the chance of dying Kowloon men. In his brilliant filthiness and disorder. This on Morrison Hill, when a Chinese their mettle in facing & foo at Gordon's side.. And here, too, innings wore recorded thres 6's. morning in Queen's Road Central man was found hanging from a brought to the point of despera-were boys who could hardly lisp and seven d'e, four of the latter, we saw one of these gentry with tree. He had been dead for tion by a knowledge of the fact when their mothers told them being successive drives. Scores In to-day's issue we print a letter which ono
hie peanut stand on the pave aboat eighteen hours. The body that the foal issue will seal his that Gordon was dead, grown up best-krown journalists, Mr. Mark Sullivan, has addressed to the distant was an Indinu constable Hardy and rent to the public progress wo.cra making is slow, of time to exact 11,000 lives for A. A. Claxton, b Anderson
ment, while not a hundred yards was cut down by Inspector Me fate one way or the other. The now and appearing in the fullness Timca, on the subject of the present war. It will be seen that, who was doing nothing more mortuary,
but it is n na the less real on that one. Gordon may die-other E. H. Gray, ran out... throughout, Mr. Sullivan's letter shows him to be in entire and strenuous thau killing time.
account. The critical spectator-Gordons may die in the future. R. Mann, b Bagnall undisguised sympathy with the action of Britain on her allies, and Probably had a Telegraph news- In the list of contributora to and Hongkong harbours as many but the came clean-limbed brood Major Robertson, b Anderson since, from his position as a front-tank newspaper man, he should boy appeared on the scene be the Ministering Children's League of these individuals as any other will grow up and avenge them." F. J. de Rome, lbw b Donnelly
would have been roused into
Bazaar on the 3rd October in the place is always impatient when know the trend of contemporary thought in his own country, we activity. As it was, he appeared grounds of Government House, operatione are gradual. Some
F. Sutton, b Andoraon. are bound to regard his expressions as being to a reasonable extent to be doing a little day-dreaming Co:, who lent the piano for the the time to satisfy him. He, of
J. Stalker, o Pearce, b Mass... 7 the name of Messrs. Moutrie and body must be in rapid retreat all; authoritative; as an echo, in fact, of American public opinion.
E. B. Reed, o Bagnall, b Maas 12 "The Suffragettes of Europe."W. L. Wasser, b Donnelly
At Melbouras Sir Arthur theatricals, was omitted. To them course, follows the fighting only Lyulph Stanley He speaks, among other things, of "the position of guardian
called
H.S. Moberly, b Donnelly the and defender of democratio ideals which England has filled so long
Lady May (President of the in thought; he does not feel the Germans "the Suffragettee of
W, Kay, not out League) returns her best thanks. overpowering fatigue, the many Europe" As our readers are well and so well." For the sake of England's credit in the States it
The Government's Duty. exciting and troublous doubts of might be well if Mr. Sullivan would re-publish his latter there, for
"Tao Government should have the officers in the field. The wise aware, saya the Globe we were never enamoured of the female which he lays down so neally here. Many are of opinion that there first series of war pictures special- of Wood at the Polica false stop there, would, in a fight never said anything as unkind Baguall many of his compatriots have not grasped the important truth Readers are reminded that the made provision against that fort man, on the other hand, knows faries who burned churches and of thing long ago," remarked that precipitate action bera, or mutilated masterpieces, but we is no such thing as a wholesome democracy in Britain; many ly sent out from Home to the Vic Court this morning, when foing like the present, mean the unde- believe that Britain hurrealf deliberately stirred up this war in order toris Theatre will be shown to a Chinese $1 for committing a ing of very many weeks of stera to gain for herself more territory; while many others, who do not night. The series is known as naisance near Belchera Fost battling; he sees that onation, a
as this. allow their imagination to run away with them quite to that extent,
"The Outbreak of Wer," and it still feel it incumbent on them to say that there is nothing to choose, gives, realistically enough, the Laspector. P. O'Sullivan said the tactful disposition of forces, and between the Allies and the Germans; that both parties are oat for movements of troops and ships complaining of this fort of thing, sibilities must mark the success commanding officer had written a consideration of strategical pos plunder and care nothing how much innocent blood. may be shed that marked the early stages of meanwhile, Another party still, is telling us that the European Powers the present campaign. To people and notices had been posted up fal pursuit of the campaign, are in a conspiracy to crash democracy and to establieb militariam who are ten thousand miles away everywhere. and absolute monarchism in its stead. They do not seem to detect from the stirring scenes depicted; the alight flaw in their own logic where Franco is concerned., this films should be a rare treat, France in every whit as anxious to carry on the war as England or and we can safely look forward to Russia. And yet France is republican! We can see the French hearing of some full houses at enjoying a quiet smile at being accused, by uncorrupt America, of the Victoria on tuose evenings on wishing to establish not only militarism but monereby,
which they are soreened.
VICTORIA THEATRE,
Chinese Officer's Suicide.
THE "BLUE BIRD.”
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"No Side about John French."Donnelly
A soldier'a letter from the front Mang states: "There's no side about¦ » et along the linea he was just as B. 8. Leigh Bennett e Gray, John French. When he pass T. E. Pearce, lbw b Moberly ready to smile at the ordinary, Tommy as he was to the highest W. Manning, a Gray, b Reed
b Moberly With these points in mind, officer. He takes 's keen interest therefore, we can well afford to in our life in the trenches. He's E. S. Moore, e Kay, b'Moberly await developments in the assur~
a hard fighter, from head to toe, M. M. Maas, b Moberly
EJ. R. Mitchell, b Reed ance that we have good men and and expects everyone under him H. G. Bagnall, b Gray. true directing the operations to be the asms. He stops, when men who, when the favourable there's time, to chat with us for R. N. Anderson, st, Claxton b moment arrives, may be trusted the sake of finding out whether R. Kennedy, b Moberly
Beed B to strike while the iron is hot, we are being properly looked D. E. Donnelly, not out Taking the long view of matters, after."
N. L. Railton, o Mann b Reed again, there is every cause for Batisfaction at the way events
It is to folk who think, or profess to think, along auch foliah lines as these that their countryman's letter should come as some- thing new; something worth grave thought and-westrast--some- thing convincing. Not only does Mr. Sullivan outline in a word or
In addition to the second per two what Germany has done, but he tells his readers, in quite an- had been impeached for falsely on Saturday 14th, it has been are turning out. It was not
Major General Ma Chung-heiaoformance to-night and the third varnished fashion what ought to happen to her. I hope England accusing the innocent and illegal-decided to have a matinee on so very long ago, let it be day the situation is for different. will fight just se long as it is necessary to fight, and will end the ly putting people to death and Wednesday 18th inst, at 4 p.m. remembered, that the Allies Left Wo have tasted, the joys of pur fight only in one way by measuring out justice to the German, Eid had been recalled by the Chao-wa to which children will be admitted Wing had been driven in hot auit as well as the galling ex- peror as a criminal among men." This is a time for plain words and General of Kansu to the provin- at half-price and grown-ups at the porauit by von Kluck's forces perience of retreat, and to-day plain deeds, and by no means one for maudlin talk about the use- cial capital for investigation, usual theatre prices. Booking from the Belgian border for a we have driven tho invaders back Moberly, Leamoes of kings and the beatifie condition of republica; time en-Being afraid of punishment, the for the same has now commenced, distance of more than 120 miles. over the border which they had Reed ough to thrash out questions like that later. The Americans are Major-General committed suicide Special reduced rates can be Paris was threatened. The previously orossed: What is Kay oredited with being a practical people; we hope that they will prove by throwing himself into the arranged for large parties by Government had fled. The hope more, we are presenting to the de Rome their claim to the virtue of practicality by listening to what one of river a few days ago. Peking applying early at Messrs. Moutrie of making a stand against the enemy all along the front an Gray... their number has to say as to the rights and wrongs of the European Daily News.
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