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The Passing of a Hero.
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"Bobe," the idol of the British Army, is no more, To-day he will be mourned by every man who wears the King's uniform. Ho spent a life in fighting the battlee of his country, and even when age called the halt to bis military activities he could not rast without doing some service for the Empire. To the last we find him where his heart was—
DAY BY DAY.
AFTER ALL, IT IS NOT WHAT IS
NOT WHAT WE HAVE, BUT WHAT:
AROUND US, BUT WHAT IS IN US, WE ARE, THAT MAKES US REALLY HAPPY.-Gelke.
The Weather. Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 70;
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NOTES ON THE CRISIS. JOTTINGS BY THE WAY.
EGYPT'S ANSWER TO GERMANY.
The
Role of the Aviator
in the War.
ANNUAL FETE.
We are indebted tyn Siam The Society of St. Vincent de Paul, paper for the information that Fenelon was the author of "P.al and Virginia."
The annual fete in connection One by one Germany's little
|with the Society of St Vincent de schemes for fomenting atrife and
There is no truth in the report Paul was held yesterday evening sedilian among the Bloslem eut- that the local Voluiturs have in the confeand of the Roman
neer bie men who were about to Siberian Mail.-Arrived to-day.jects of Great Britain are coming sent the sindwicher, supplied to Catholic Cathedral. The success onter the fighting line in the Canadian Mail.-Cloze to-mor- naught, High hopes were en- them on a recent march, to the of the fate was above that expect- tertained by the Kaiser and bis Museum as interesting antiques.ed, with so many demands on the advisers of a rising in India, but,
៦ រ so far from events tarning out that The test local howler is of the Olony. Part of the pro- purses of the charitable people Restariu," which a orods will be devoted to the
great straggle which he had for
so long foreseen. It was fitting French Mail. Closes to-morrow
Inst. 'se should
his
that be, associated with our bravo
Indian soldiers, for it was in
if
Count the Columns,
On Starday the Telegraph
The Dollar.
Uniform Optional,
be worn at all Parades."
-A Change,
en
way, "Bach a wave of patriotism
anawer
8 rter
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and loyalty to the King Emperor Hongkong genius bue Englished Prince of Wales Fund. The India that he was born and there pablished 42 columns of solid has passed over the country that as" tailor re-started in busi, mission which the Society of St. it must have been no ness. (No; for a wonder, it Vincent de Paul falls is too that he gained his first laurele: reading matter. To-day theresmiall problem for the military wasn't Queen's College this time.) commonly known to need any la all be epeat 41 years in the will be 50 published.
authorities to satisfy all the
reference her. The Sociedade service of the Army in the Indian The rate of the dollar
Among the people with whom Philharmcn'o, under the con- soldiers anxious to go into the Empire, where his name will ever
fighting line. But if Ger- we should like to shake hands is ductorship of Professor Gonzales, Įdemand to-day is le 8,9–18d. be revered.
set her the Shanghai gentleman who, renderad selections of music. Former French Notable lit
many had
chair the Old but Active.
hopes on solition in India, she when occupying
The ladies and gentlemen who It is
Hongkong. mary years Mr. H. Lastier, & former Gover hoped much more from acrest in at a company meeting the kindly lent their assistance to ago. since Lord Roberte
to her other day, had the pluck to the Bazaar were wis appointed Commander-nor in Indo-Chins, is at present Egypt. The
those présent 08 Reception Committee. Rev, io-Chief in India, the crowning staying at the Hongkong Hotel, schemings in this ocuntry, how-addrage
ever, is found in the remarkable follows: "The Company's printed Father P. de Maria (representing point of many a military leader's From to-day it will be optional proclamation from the Council report and annual accounts were His Lordship the Bishop) Mr. career, and yet his achievements since then would bave sufficed for fir members of the Volunteers to of all the Chiefs of the Ulems, distributed to you on the 7th A. M. O, da Silva, Mr. H. Dixon, a life-time. For it must not be wear uniform when not on duty representing the leading Moslem instant. Without the formality Mr. M. A. dos Remedios, Chev. forgotten that at the age of 67 heat fleadquarters. Uniform will roligious authorities in Egypt, of reading, and with your ap- and Mrs. J. M. Alves, Commenda which will be found among our proval, we will now consider dor and Mme. J. J. Leiria, the undertook the greatest work of
That doca- them before this meeting." Thia Misses Loureiro and Wajr F. J. telegrams to-day. ment is a terrible smack for both is, we believe, the first time on Bowen, A.P.D. Germany and Turkey, and the record that a chairman, under Special Pavilion. - Misses most satisfactory feature of it is such circumstances, bas refrained Carolina Lopes, Angela Alves, that it is inspired by a ricog from saying: "The report and Gardner, Alberta Gonzales, Edith nition of the liberal eympathy accounts having been in your Carvalho, Elfrida Omund, Cam- which Britain has always shown hands, etc., we will take them as illa Castro Remedios Collao, an races, throughout the great The Daily Charmide, Geneva M. Nornaba, E. J Noronha, J. L. to thereligion of the Mohammed Trade
Les. An er do Bopite Hr audi Mara, J. O. V. Ribeir, Measra. J. British Empire.
The King of Modern Battles." correspondent says that the Kaiser S. Alves, Carlos H. Lopes; Since, the war broke out not a is suffering from a eld. We Secundino A, Lopes, P. 0. Roze, great deal has been made of the hope that no evil will befall this J. M. Britto and U. M. §. Alves. part which aviation has played in presumptious scribe who thus Catholic Women's League the straggle-not nearly as much lightly casts a doubt on Mineself's Stall.-Vra. E. L. Rozario, Mme. as is due to this new arm of war- divine immunity from the ills of Leiris, Mra. L. G. Xavier, Mrs. fare, if we are to judge from the the flesh. But there is an ap- Leo d'Almada e Castro, Mrs. Gegg, statement recently made by a palling want of reverence about Mrs. Chariton, Mrs. Teze Yen, French flyer who have served at the younger generation of newε- Misses M. A. Rozario, C. M. the front. This aviator, who took paper men..
Rozario, H. Gardner, J. Gardner, part in derial reconnaissances firat
S. Rozario, E. Xavier, E. Osmund, in Alsace, then in Belgium, and later in the battles of the Marne dulgence towards the young and and the Airne, expresses his opin tender comes to us from Kowloon. Fr. Spada was at Home, has again ion very tereely when he says, A lady lost her kitten. After taken up mission work in the "The aviatoris the king of modern long and fruitless search ehe Refreshment Still, Mrs. batles." According to this at severaly cross-questioned the Maitland, Mrs. P. M. Hodgson, thority, the aerial forces of France cook. My no savvy, my no have Mrs. Tisdall, Mrs. Bishop, Mre. played a decisive role in the battle see," reiterated that gentleman. Bowen, Misses Rowe and Rozario, of the Marns, and are now an indis-"Are you sure you have not the Misses Gordon and Chev, and pensable adjunct to the victorious eaten it?" demanded the lady Mrs. J. M. Alves. A march of the Allied troops. suddenly whereupon the cook
Bar.-Mosgro, A. G. da Rocks, Giving his personal experiences, smiled a deprecating smile. No A. V. Barros, M. V. Leon, M. he saya that on many occasions in belong big enough makes ea tee," Barradas, B. M. Canba, and C. M. making reconnaissancee be was he said reproachfully.
Castro, able, despite the intense fire of
Piotare Stall.-Mr. and Mrs.
his life and the most important Mr. Holland, late of Messra. will campaign in which Britain Lane, Crawford and Company, is,
had been
engaged since we are informed, at present at Waterloo. . And ΠΟ know tached to the British American how he succeeded where others Tobacco Company. failed. His years notwithstand-
Hongkong Hotel Alterations sing, ons did not usually associate
his personality with great age, hand side of the grond staircare The slonk rcoms at the left for up to the end his figure waste at the Hongkong Hotel beve been straight and wiry as that of a man permanently closed. Alterations in his prime, and his public are being carried out there at the activity was untiring. And this moment.
what Tommy Atkins thought of the hero who to-day lies cold and still in France near the men of the Army whom he so deeply loved
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1914.
EARL ROBERTS LAST APPEAL.
is
"E's little but 'e's wise,
'E's a terror for his size, An' 'e does not advertise.
GAMBLER'S HURRIED
ESCAPE.
Got Through the Roof and Left His Trousers Behind.
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A Danger to Pedestrians.
Two dangerous heaps of earth obstructed the footpath in Ghan ville Head, Kowloon, last night, and owing to the darkness of the thoroughfare they were a source of danger to pedestrians.
Priest for the Interior. The Rev. Fr. Voltorta, who was in charge of the Holy Rotary Church, Kowloon, whilst the Rev.
interior.
Volunteer Appointments. The andermentioned members of the Scouts Co. have been appointed Lance Corporals:- Privates R Brown, K. de O. | Longmire, A. R. Sutherland, P. S. Cassidy and C. B. Alport.
No Sports.
A pathetic story of Chinese in-
O. Castro, B.Xavier, A. Remedios,
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G. Carvalho, O. Carvalho, L. Rose, O. J. V. Ribeiro and M. A. Ribeiro.
This morning, in the Police There is probably no man who has served the Empire with Court, before Mr. O. D. Melbourne,
Kailan Output, greater singleness of purpose thap Earl Roberts, whose death is fourteen Chinese were charged
The total output of the Kailan announced by cable from France, where he had gone to greet the with gambling, one of whom, Mining Administration's minee the enemy, to report the situation "Turkey commits Suicide" is J. D. Osmund, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. brave Indian troops who are fighting side by side with their com- defended by Mr. C. F. Mason, for the week ending October 31 of German troops, note their he beading in which a con V. Ribeiro, Mr. and Mrs, L. E. bare of the British Army. It was only last month that the veteran of Messre. D'Almada and Mason: amounted to 51,633.86 tons and movements, and estimets their exporary indulged lately. So dos Remedios, Mr. and Mrs. soldier colebrated bis eighty-serond birthday. Usually he spent his was also charged with keeping the anlee during the period to numbers and importance. All ong as it's only one we shall not E. M. Ozorio, Minées O. Parsira,
A constable deposed to birthday quietly at home with his family, but this year he could rot
this applies to the aeroplane. As car for our Obristmas dinner; M. Barradas, D. Antonio, Esther allow himself this relaxation; he felt that he must again respond to his entering the room where the play. 60,134.67 tone.
Volunteer Rations. to the dirigible airship, the merits but we pray thera may not be an Sequeira, M. Rozario, Messrs. country's call, and so he busied himself at the military hospital which was going on, and eaid that Mr.
Volunteer orders notify that on and demerits of which have so epidemic of this sort of thing to A. O. Baradas, J. Gardner, has been established at the Ascot grand stand, spending his birth-Maron's client was dealing the and after Monday neat the Head-often been discussed, the airman near the end of the year. | J. A. Barradas, J. O. Remedios, day in seeing that everything was ready for the reception of the cards.
In answer to Mr. Mason, how-quarter Guard will make their says it has not proved a success, as
F. Antonio, A. O, Rozaro, V. A¡ wounded there, and in reviewing the staff of the Red Cross workers.
own arrangements, for rations. it is at the mercy of any squadron One of the latest of life's little Rozario, Egas S. L. Alves. I For some weeks before, he had been actively engaged in a scheme ever, the witness said that the Rations from A.S.G. will cease to of aeroplanes, and does not ironies in Hongkong is the theft Costa, H. R.: Sequeira and G. of his own to raise supplies of field-glasses and saddles for the Army. man who was in charge of the be drawn from that date.
appear to have a useful military of an electric fan from the house Jorge, Then, despite his age, he conceived it his duty, old warrior that he commission got away through! The Garden City,
future before it. At the moment of a Special Constable. Mayhap American Prize Stall.—Mr. sod was, to get nearer to the field of action. So it may with truth be the roof, but left his trousera
The excavators engaged on the these views of a man who bas the thief was a relative of the Mrs. à. E and the Misges O behind him. said that he died in barneas.
cutting which will form the Gar-learnt from experience are of the gentleman who once upon a time mand, Messrs. Manag, Baptista, den City site jost near the Yau
greatest possible interest,
pinched
the clepk from the J. D. Barreto, A. U. Botelho, T mati Railway station have, during
Supreme Court
Jorge, D. Baptista and A. M. 0. the last few weeks, made remark- The absence of the sporting
Remedios. able progress and the necessary instinct in Germans has often Germany is willing to call the platean for building is nearing been commented upon since the war a draw, says a Dutch ruper. Arthur Ribeiro, Messra. Fernando Shooting Gallery. Mr. and Mrs.
completion.
war began, but in no instance The Kaiser is most obliging. Ribeiro, V. F. Azevedo, A. A. has it been mexa clearly de- We have heard of nothing so d'Azevedo, J. F. Castro, R. F. According to a telegram receiv, monstrated than in the remarks magnanimous since this ass in Luz, A. A. Loz, F. M. Cruz, F. ed by the local office of the of the leading newapapers in a lion's skin" kindly promised M. Silve, T. A. Carvalho, A. O. V. Messageries Maritimes Co, from Germany on the British attitude not to set any German colonies in Ribeiro, A. A. Botelho, D. A. Saigon, the outward French mail over the Emden's captures. Long Canada.
Carvalho, J. E. Gomes, steamer Amazone, which arrived before that wily cruiser was ad
Bay Boints Stall-Scout- there on the 14th instant, will counted for, Britishers made no "The defendant asks us to master A. J. Edwarde add not continue her voyage to China attempt to conceal their admira state," saye the Rangoon Times," his staff. and Japan.
tion for the skill and daring of the original report that a woman Exchange Tickets. Messrs. N. her commander; nor have they had acmething to do with the D, Botelho and Peter Taui. their praise of his clever work. can say is that the case in ques-Mesers, J. A. O. V. Ribeiro, since been less proacunced in case is incorrect." Then all we Sale of tickets at the gate.
they have said. We see from Tortance and that we are con- and Jose Cupertino da Silva, And they have meant all that tion could have been of no im Arthur Souza, J. O. das Remedios 8th latest mail advices, however, segnently at a loss to understand Souvenir Stalls.Members of
that "one of the Berlin why the helpless defendant got the Society of St. Vincent de Paul
of six months' for his share in the this attitude of ours an critical sentimentality." "How to read, write and debate
As showing, however, that the rice threepence is the litera
mander is widespread among clerklet comforts himself between
THE "BLUE BIRD."
Lord Roberts was one of those of our military leaders who all along The defended man, in the box, was convinced of the inevitability of a slash with Germany, and it said that he only went there to was his belief in this eventuality that led him to so whole-heartedly see a friend; he was not playing take up the campaign for universal service some few years back. In when the police entered the room. view of the fact that his pleading in time of peace met with little His Worship fined them each or no response, it would not have been surprising had he, in the $3. present crisis, girded against his fellow-countrymen for not beeding his advice. But the hero of Kandahar was not built that way; he was not the man to say, "I told you so." So much was revealed by the last public appeal he made to the young men of the country, which took the form of an article contributed to the Hibbert Journal Westmouth. In this article he dismissed his past activities on Another Splendid Performance the platform ond in the Fress with a passing reference, and remark. ed that this was no time for urging the need of universal training; As on the two previous nights what we had to do, he said, was to respond to Lord Kitchener's when the "Blue Bird" was staged appeals for men to be trained now. From this point he led up to at the Theatre Royal, every 'avail- a chance of Britain's democracy, and made an earnest appeal able seat in the cuditorium wae to the working classes of the country to show themselves worthy of taken on Saturday night, the the tower which they held. And as one who had addressed hun- beautiful production fully retain dreds of mass meetings of the working classes in our great centres
of
Flowers and
The French Mall.
Junk's Crew Saved.
Passmore), which arrived from The e.s. Baiching (Capt. W. C.
eaved a jonk's crew during Swatow yesterday, reports having
time.
A
Acting Appointment, We are advised that from to
taken over the management of
papers goes so far as topo-transaction.
the reaalt." Some of his warnings are worthy of emphae-goera. There was a charming inst., outside of Swatow.
anaociated with the the those who said that the end of the present great struggle was to be ence that indicated that the the end of war, and that it was bound to lead to a great reduction artistes were at home in their in armaments, "There is nothing in history," he remarked, "to respective parte. justify any such conclusion." Then he urged the people not to presents were handed over the day's date Mr. G. A. Dunlop has admiration for the Emden's com- ture with which a Incal Chinesa under-estimate the power of the great nation of sixty-six million footlights in profusion; in feot at German subjects who had entered the war in the firm belief that limes there were so many that the Hengkong Branch of the Britishers, whether at Home or his occasional spella of work.women, were crowded into the they were bound to win. "I cannot help thinking," he observed, riistes in the one scene. Baing delsbank (Netherlands India at one of the leading Services on apace and Mr. Sun would be Court on Oct. 22 charged with
they could not be received by the
Nederlandsch Indische Hoa- abroad, it may be mentioned that The younger generation is coming dock at Kuala Lumpur Police that the great task of enbduing that nation will begin when we, with our French, Russian and Belgian Allies, have driven the Ger.an amateur production, it was Commercial Bank) from Mr. Gaba the other day a group of well advised to look to his gambling. Four out of the twelve man sxmies into the heart of their own territory." Finally, he pity that Mrs. Robertson, after her Vermey, who is going on loave. zatized naval officers declared laurels.
of
their liking as well as their respect..
magnificent song, was not brought
Boy and the Duck.j
Parried.
Guilty or Not Gulity. Twelve Chinese, including two
nat
pleaded guilty" and mainder McLean fined the first lour each, ramanding the remainder for a week. One Chineas; then
appealed to our people to abstain from the unsportsmanlike fracti a before the curtain. It appeared There was no lille Preitoment that if Commander von Mueller abusing one's enemies, making that, whether the charges something of an injustice to the in the Harbor this morning, ploss over game to London they would against the Germans be true or untrae, we should keep our own lidly and to the audience alike. by Blake Pier, when a Chinese offer him the beat dinner hover honda clean and fight against our enemies in such a way as to earn In the palms of the evening, Mrs. Path ware for some consider ever had in his life for the clever. She was very much in love with asked to baallowed to plead guilty, This magly appeal was issued when the first half of Lord Kit Robertson, though her contribuable time in order to save a duck and courteous way in which he him and one evening, while they and there was some amusement
had carried out his object, And were alone, she asked: new army of a million men had been raised. Since then tion was a small one, certainly that responded tonituralinstincts. cherer's the fall total has been enrolled, and a fresh million is to be asked ranked among the first three re- After vigorously swimming about we doubt not that there is many Frank, tell me truly; you for some time, the boy landed his men in Hongkong who feels have kissed other girls, haven't for. The appeal, so confidently voiced, has met with a noble
There will be a matinee on prey and so saved the pot, and just the same about the matter. you response. All over the country to-day young men are answering
," replied the young man, popular demands, a. farther performance on Saturday next.
appointment.
ceivers.
Britishers know well enough the
at by flooking to the colonra. So it may with trath be said of the Wednesday and, in response to incidentally, the family, from die" honour due to a worthy foe, even but no one you know",
hero whom the Empire mourns to-day, "Ho, being dead, yet
arenkath.
if the Germans don't.
in the Court as each of the ro
mainder pleaded guilty and contentedly went out to pay a $3 fine. The proprietors of the gambling house were remanded, bail in $100 each being allowed.