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HUMBLED GERMANY.
A New Frame of Mind Revealed. How are the mighty fallen! Big, blu tering, bra ifal Ger- 71;miny, who a low.mosths bick would have us believe t'at. sho
The piece of vacant land in Iront of Victoria View, Kowloon,THE CLOUDS OF MISFORTUNE Banking one of the main roade of ARE ONLY A TEMPORARY ATMO. the peninsula, was many months SPHERIC DISTURBANCE IN THE ago disfigured by the crection of BLUE SKY OF HAPPINESS. a builders yard with the astil group of ramshackle shade, etc. At the time there were loud com- plaints from the occupante of adjacent European houses, both at the fact that the erection con-
stituted an eyesore to the locality, and that the presence of Chinese workmen, why both worked on the premises during the day, sad alopt thers at night was anything but desirable. Some weeks back i was observed with feelings of satisfaction,that the buildinga were being demolished and that! tho erstwhile occupauta bis die- appears. But the work has only been la'f donn. Portions of the shede and outhouses are still standing, and nobody seems in a hurry to clear the apet. At the moment, indeed, the place presents a more unkempt appearance than ever it did. What near-by house holders are now wondering is when the job will be finally com pleted. It is somebody's work- whose, we do not know. But the authorities might do worse than
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THE LATE CAPT. S. SMITH.
The Funeral Yesterday Afternoon.
There was a particularly large
the le rad neither God nor man, has gathering ut Protestant apologised to peace-loving little Cemetery yesterday afternoon, Portugal for having invaded the when
TIPPERARY"
Russian Soldiers' Version of the Chorus.
A correspondent sonde us the following Russian soldiera' version of the "Tipperary" okoras
We are nearing that Berlin City
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the mortal remains. We shall get there right latter'd territory in Africa. She of the lata Capt. Samuel must surely be a very humbled Smith were laid to
Then we'll eat the German Ваивае
rest.
Germany to climb down off the The deceased was very popular pedestal like that. Cming so hard in the Colony and was favourite on the announcement that Port-in the local sporting world. Be ugul was only waiting for a had been in the Colony for almost Australian and European Mail.-suitable moment at which to on-twenty years, at one time as
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ter the lists on the side of the skipper of the Edith, and latterly Count the Columns,
Al'ios, the apology seems to a captain of the Admiralty tug Yesterday the Telegraph pub-indicate that the Kaiser realises Cherub. For come considerable lished 35 reading matter. To-day there more
colamus of solid that he has foes enough already time deceased had not enjɔyed then he. can the best of health, suffering handle, in fact. Thus internally. will be 36 pablished.
"The Dollar.
The rate of the dollar
demand to-day is 1s 9,7-16d.
on
Left by Mongolia, by the s.P. Mongolis was Mr. A Among the passengers who left Shelton Пlooper.
Arrived.
Among the arrivals from Home hy the Hirano Maru were Mr. and Mrs. Bowley and Mrs. Patienden. "The Scorpions."
The first dance of the season arranged by the "Scorpion" Dancing Club has been fixed for Wednesday next. --
And drink the Kaiser's beer. Forewell Kaiserias, Good-bye Kaiser Bill, We are making haste for Berlin City
We'll soon get there.
By ELIE NAFTALY,
ENEMY SHIPS IN SUEZ CANAL.
he comes to Portugal, cap" in The graveside was a mass of band, full of expressions of ear-flowers, the number of wreathe) row, juat nj A bally would being unusually great. They Action by Egyptian Government. to a small boy whom he has represented all classes of society
Then and Now.
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Since the outbreak of war
having the comforting knowledge ons from the Kowloon CO., with issued a notification in the follow- insulted, when the small boy, in Hongkong, among them being His Majesty's Government have that he has big, strong chums the club colours; the officers of ing terms to the representatives ready to take his part, is prepar His Majesty's Dockyard and of foreign maritime Powers in ing to get a little of his own back. Naval establishment; Kowloon London, and have asked them to Dock Suff; the Commander, and communicate it to their Gavern. And what has Germany's ein Staff; the crew of .s. Edith; monts, says the Times of Oc, 23. against Portugal been that she members of the Royal Naval she should come and ask parlou? Police; the Sanitary Department, certain ships of enemy countries As we recall it, a handful of R.N. Yard, Kowloor; the Victoris have remained in the Suez Canal. German soldiers crossed, the Gaol Stuff; the Revenue Depart- Some of these vessels were Portuguese border, and the very ment and the Civil Service detained by the Egyptian Go- By the death of Mrs. Toulmin- Two Sons Lost la One Day, smallest of "incidents" ensued. Recreation Club.
* verament on account of hostile Smith, better known as "L. T. The many frienda of Mr. Tonie, For that she now goes on banded The coin was borns to the acts committed in the Canal; some The daily issue is delivered free when the address is accessible Meade, which we reported yester formerly of Shanghai, will have knee to Portugal. That was not grave by six members of the because there was reason to ap- nesanger. Peak subscribers can have their copies delivered at day, the girls of England will learned with much regret of the her mood at the outbreak of war. Dockyard Police, and the Rav prehend that they contemplated. their residences without any oxtra charge. On copios sent by lose a very old friend, for her severe losses ho has been called Did she not begin by invading D. B. Reynolds performed the hostile acte, others, though per- post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. books have been before the ou to beer by the war. On the the territory of independent burial service. The chief moura fectly free, have refused to leave The postage on the weekly issne to any part of the world is $1.00 public any time this last five-and- same day as he lost one
son Luxemburg? And was
an era wers Captain Watson, of the Canal in spite of the offer of a per quarter.
thirty years. If her work had a drowned, when H. M. S. Aboukir apology offered in that in Kowloon Dock; Captain Crusins, free pass, thus disclosing their Single Copies, Daily, ton conte. Weekly, twenty-five canta (for tinge of the "goody-goody," and was torpedoed, in the North S0, atauce? None whatever. Then II.M.S. Atlas; and Dr. Hunt. The intention to use the ports of the rather more than a tinge of the be also lost another son fighting came her greatest of all various clubs with which the Canal merely as ports of refuge, Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a fixed sentimental, it was at least cloan at the front in France. Londen sins the violation of Belgian deceased was connected were a measure which is not con
period will be continued until countermanded.
and wholesome. Of course, all and Ching Express.
neutrality. Did aho express her re resented at the graveside. palatos are not alike, and the very (Payable In Advance.)
regrets to Belgium? We know The vacant majority in the that, far from doing so, when the clements in Mrs. Toulmin Smith's
South Wales Bordorers has been gallant Belgians resented the ary girl, would iritate or repol filled by the promotion of Captain intrusion, she turned all her power one whose tastes happened to be R. W. Bradley, who was latiorly of men and arms on to the ico- more pronouncedly intellectual, serving at the Royal Military Aca cert, laid waste the land, slew It is sometimes said that writers demy. Tas adjutancy of the 8th men, women and children by the of the stamp of this lady are Service Battalion of the Borderers thousand, and exacted staggering by Lieut-0.1. A. Chapman, V. D., Corps Orders issued yesterday going out," austad from their has been given to Lieut. R. G. indemnities into the bargain. old popularity by persons of the Lochner, Ist Battalion, who has That was the Germany, of four state:-
escape capture, since the obvious Miss Coralli order. We sincerely been four years in the regiment. months,
Musketry.The Recruits of all result of permitting any such three mantha, two hapo not; nor can we altogether Major G. C. Palmer, D.S.O., late months, and even one month ago. M. G. Co.) who have not fired made and even to block the use of Sections (except Right Section course must be greatly to incom- believe the statement; for, if South Wales Borderers, who ba But it is not the Germany of Part 1 of the Musketry Course the ports and Canal by other re-printe and publishers' been appointed to the lines of to-day. She has known now will attend King's Park Range ships, and they are consequently advertisement columns be any communication, served for 27 years what it means to challenge then one of the undermentioned of opinion that the Egyptian criterion, the class of volumes in the South Wales Borderers, and whole world to arm. Sho is popularly known na "books for went oa pension in 1902. He saw beginning to lose confidence in dates:Saturday, 6th inst., 2.30 Government are fully justified in girls" is as well to the fore as over. service in the Kaffir compaign herself. The over-hearing, brutal p.m. Sunday, 6th inst., 9.30 am. the steps which they are taking 1877-79, and got the D.S.O. for nation of yesterday is the craven will detail sufficient N. O. O.'s. to enemy ships, which have been Officers Commanding Sactions to remove from the Canal all the Boer War.
coward of to-day. Yesterday assist the Instructor.
long enough in the Cana! Germany said, "Small states must be forced to follow us or be is permitted to resign dated they have no inter tion of depart- Resignation.-Pte. J. K. Jolly ports to show clearly that cowed." To-day she is abjectly 5.12. 14.
ing in the ordinary way, and that apologising to Pärtagal,
they are putting the Canal and its
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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1914.
OUR HEROES' FUTURE.
Youthful Novelists.
"L. T. Meado" Eat this in common with a for greater and better known writere that she began her literary career early;
S. W. Borderers' Officers.
A HANKOW CASE.
On October 19 Mr. Justice
One Explanation.
VOLUNTEER ORDERS.
Parades. Parades for
to-
TO-MORROW'S:
GYMKHANA.
templated by the Suez Canal Convention.
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His Majesty's Government do nof admit that the conventional right of free access to and use of be Canal enjoyed by merchant vessels implies say right to make access for an indefinito time to use of the Canal and its ports of
ent with the use of the Canal in the ordinary way by other shipping.
The Sheltering Vessels. It had previously been reported. that the enemy vessels which were sheltering at Port Said and Suez bad been escorted to Alexandria. According to information receiv ed by the Liverpool Underwriters" Association the following twelve enemy vessels were at Port Said:
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Lloyd
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for we believe she was bat soven- Joyce heard the action of Frank
Bat cowards are generally morrow, Friday 4th instant, Nil, porte to a are which is inconsist- tean when she wrote her firat. the Haakow Light and Power endowed with cuteness. And book. This was exceptional, for dompany. Mr. Stone said that Germany plainly sees that it will the majority of successful lady plaintiff and debentare holders be to her advantage if she can The man fighting for the Empire is our hero at the moment, and novelists have got near--or to the and holders of deferred shares keep in the good graces of even so every other word is in his praise. We familiarly call him" Tommy," wrong side of thirty before bz-were asking for a declaremall a nation as Portugal. For or perhaps it may be "Jack," whilst his company is even sought for ginning. An exception that ation that the ordinary shares Portugal has big cvorson posses- by those who would, but a few weeks ago, have rather objected to occurs to us, however, is the case were non-accumulative. The sions, both in Eset and Weat his being permitted the same smoke-room. But when wo have of Mrs. Orauright, who wrote company was registered in 1936, Africa, which adjoin German ter- The fifth meeting under the finished crashing the drums and cymbals of praise, when we have first as "Ralph Iron" and, later, and for some time, apparently, ritory. With Portagal on our side suspices of the Hoogkong Gym exhausted ourselves in corneting his heroism on deck and in the under her maiden name, Olive made little or no profit; bat in the task of reducing Germany's khaca Club takes place at Happy trench, what remains in evidence of the cheaply-endowed glory in Schreiner. She was bat seven-1913 considerable profits were only remaining Colonies would Valley to-morrow afternoon, the Gutenfele 5,528 Hansa which he for a time basked? To the tune of millions, pounds are teen when she planned, and made, and the directors wanted be materially facilitated. Ger-first race being at 2.45 o'clock. Werdenfels 4,504 Hanga rolling into the coffers of the Prince of Wales' Fund, which has for practically finished, one of the to pay interest on the ordinary many sees that, and that, may be, A splendid programme has besa Helgoland...5,666 Norddeutscher its object the provision of necessities for the dependents on our greatest novels ever written by a shares on a cumulative basie. It is one of the reasons which has arranged and an afternoon of ex- hero whilst be is fighting his country's_battles and 'righting a woman : "The Story of an appeared that when the appli-induced her to go the length of cellent sport should result, Be- Concadors 1,793 A. Ginacovich mation's wrong. But when he returns. What? Perhaps maimed African Farm. How a mere slip estions for shares did not come in imploring Portugal to remain sides the customary events, there and lamed, his health impaired and his hopes of a return to the of a girl, brought up within the nar- very quickly the offer of cumulat- good friends. But we imagine will be a mule race, as well as Rabenfels... 4,678 Hanea comforts he enjoyed when strong and untattered, shattered beyond roweat imaginable limits(for she ive interest had been made. that neither Portagal nor any foot races for Indian troops. The Aeane all repair. What is there in being a hero if that is the reward? was the daughter of a Calvinistic The plaintiff's argument was that body else will take the least band of the 25th Punjabis, under Rickmers 4,083 Rickmers It is then that dreams of valoar become nightmares of madness, and prescher and passed her child-the board had not the power to notice of this belated and trans- Bandmaster Newman, will be in Rostock......4,957 Deatsch- every mile trod in quest of the foe transforme itself into a period in the hood on an out-of-the-way Ber make that alteration. Eventually parent apology. All along the attendance..
Australische march to the limits of social disaster. Such is the hallucination of farm) could have conceived a his Lordship declared that the Kaiser has been asking for It is hoped there will be a largo Barentels...5,398 Hanes national hersism. From Balaclava our heroes, at least many of work of such remarkable strength whole of the ordinary shares of trouble. Ile is getting it. And he attendance, as the proceeds are to Derfflinger 9,144 Norddeutscher them-far more than we should have to acknowledge-carved their and breadth is something of the Ocmpany would beer interest will get it more still before he is be devoted to the Prince of Wales'
Kw Lloyd way to the miserable precincts of the workhouse en route to the mystery. What is perhaps even on the cumulative basis.
Fund, without any deductions for Pindos......2,933 Deutsche grave they were unfortunate enough to avoid in the fight for a greater mystery still, ia the
exponses Members of the Club
Levante. England's glory.
: ‛ 4 fast that, since the publication of
Singapore Tramcar Smash, A message to hand this morn- have been requested to forego the Lanterfels 5,811 Hansa Such a state of affairs should never be permitted again, and this extraordinary achievement, An alarming trimoir smashing shows that Gorman aviators privilege of free admission so as Kooter...5,440 Lloyd in order to prevent a recurrence of this reward for heroism, it is its author has written nothing occurred on the Serangoon Road are not the only folk who can to swell the proceeds. time now-not in a few years to come, when remembrance takes eles nothing, that is to say, near the bridge over the Kallang drop bombs from overhead. flight on wings that beat faster than those of time to take above the ommon ruok of River, Singapore, last week. Berlin, wo read, has been thrown stops which will insure our fighting cons to-day against poverty feminine fiction. Is this the It appears, mayathe Straits Times, into a slate of excitement by a to-morrow, when our victory is won, and when those who stayed at penalty of e rly success, or is that two cars were proceed report to the effect that an airman home are enjoying the freedom that these gallant ones have main-it merely that all the eggs went ing in opposite directions and has dropped bombron the cannon tained for them a logacy of our warriors who have gone before. into one basket?”
entered a cop where they pass hall at Krupp's factory at Essen. We shall be told by the wise that it is a State mattor, but a State
each other. One of the cars en-Essen is altuated in Rhenish matter is usually no-one's matter when it comes to be performed,
deavoured to pais ont un to the Prussia, relatively close to the The South Wales Borderere Annaberg 4,463 Deutsch-Aust- and wordy batiles across the floor of the House, waged for years and
ralische straight line before the other Belgian frontier, and it is pro and the men of H.M.S. Triumph years, compensate not for empty stomachs and fireless hearthe. Suicide of a P. and 0. Agent. vehicle was clear, with the result bable that the flight was made seem to have struck up a rare Seven enemy vesnela were al- Some of the Nation's influential men not on active service should see Bombay, Nov. 8-Mr. A.B. that there was a crash and a from France. In that case it was friendship, which was most appar-ready at Alexandria, as follows -- to a Commission being formed that will undertake to demand that Burney, Superintendent, local general amash-up. A car was a fine fe.t. But the chief point ent on Wednesday when the two Andros..... 2,991 Levante Kontor some scheme of rewarding those who have fought, beyond medale offics, P. and O., jumped into the struck near the second bench from is that in their aerial attacks the badies of men got together at the Emil......... 2,991 "Union" and ribbons, be put into operation and carried out in the man- street from a high office window the front, some seven standards Allies generally have some very City Hall. The reason for this ap- Achais...... 2,733 Deutsche Lo- no that is should, and in a way which, even at its best, could this afternoon. Death was in- being broken and the roof col- definits and useful end in view at Tsingtan the naval men learnt Istris 4,221 Hamburg-
pears to be that during the fighting only pay the debt we owe to those who will benefit by it. stantaneous: The Coroner's in- lapsing. Although there were witness the raid on the Zeppelin that the Borderers were without
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Bomb-Dropping.
We await the advent of some such asheme and we are firmly questresulted in a verdict ofsuicide a dozen passengers travelling in sheds at Friedrichshafen ond
FIGHTING FRIENDS.
Austriaco, And the three German vessela named below were at Suez Lutzow... 8,826 Norddeutscher
Lloyd Gostar......
4,331 Deutsch-Aust-
ralische
vante
Amerika
of the opinion that when such a plan is put on foot, the nation will when temporarily inauno. Mr. the damaged car they all appear to now the attack on the Krapp tobacco in the trenches, and, Darom...... rally to it just as the nation has rallied to the call to arms. Barely Barney was a good sportsman have escaped without injury, hut Works. Operations such as those in order to supply their com- Suedmark 5,12] Hamburg- if we can find millions so easily for shot and shell, we can and very popular, but was of a it is understood that one of the are much more damaging than rades with a share of the weed, LMC Amerika bail an odd one or two for the men who used them for us. If we nervous disposition and his work conductors was seriously hurt the dropping of bombs on say they went without themselves for Haidar pannot, then it is a sad thing for Britons to acknowledge.
lately evidently worried him and had to be removed to bos- Paris or even London. Good a week and sent it sahore to the Parcha 8,424 Deutsche andnly.
pital,
Inok to our airmen.se
Boldiers.
vante.