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DEC¿MBER 9, 1914.
NOTES ON THE CRISIS:
THE GERMANS HELD..
How the Enemy Has Falled in Belgium.
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THE R.N.R. BLUEJACKET.
Some Remarks on "Jack"
the Naval Reserve.
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come
SUBMARINE BATTERY DAMAGED
Naval Yard Worker Convicted for
Theft of Metal."
VICTORIA THEATRE.
to subscribers by, the Dairy Farm Company, Ltd., Shameen chosen, If the clergy and the continue to publish allegations of fashion of the baildings there, quite the same as those that pictures are well worth seeing.
Canton, who have been appolated our agents there.
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The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1914.
the war.
PAKHOI NEWS.
(SPECIAL ARTICLE) Most of us in Hongkong know the Royal Naval Reserve offior fairly well, though perhaps we never saw him in his Government News which we have been uniform till the outbreak of the Court, before Mr. F. A. Hassland, This morning, at the Police has oume through in the a- donning it. He is to be found theft of a quantity of metal from anticipating for some time past present war necessitated bia
Chinese was ebarged with the nouncement that the exemy in in every port along the Coast, and the Royal Naval Yard. Flen lere hae teen pensed in on almost every British liner on 1 Closed to-day with little hope left of for-onrgo lost that enters Elongkrag. Cooper, of the Dockyard Police
While we have been keeping the usually enj wying
Evidence was given by Sargi. ward movements in the future. He is
rra good fellow,
to the effect that a report whe have been busy in other dire in body; hospitable, careless of wilfully damaged and that parts of Gems in their trenches, we of hoalth, both in mind and battery for a submarine had been the best made to the main gate that a Lions as well, filling up gips here his money, and quite a good it were missing. When the roal charm of Stone Ginger Beer is the flavour produced by partial has resulted in the only tarred/lisbei 35 colamas of solid there, so that when the enemy shore, oven though he may live the yard, the metal was found in
The only formented Stone Ginger Beer in the Far East. The
pab
and strengthening positions hand at enjoying himself when on coolies were searched on leaving fermentation; without this no Stone Ginger Boor can be said to portion of the thoroughfare being reading matter. To-day there ventures out again, if he does, he life of monastio regularity and
mate impossible of ase,
will find himself up against a self-discipline when aboard hia
a basket which defendant was only the centre of the road has
alid wall of opposition. Some ship.
carrying. been macadamised, and traffic is
few weeks ago this Germans werd
It also transpired that the But, since sailing vessela cow diverted to the sides, which
perilously near the Channel ports, vanished from this port, it is tut banishment, and the punishment defendant had returned from but the situation wears a vastly rarely that we meet, in Hongkong, meted out to him for both changed aspect just now, fuch by the type of man who is now We quoted, yesterday, one or
inch the Allies are creeping for acting as a bluejacket of the months' imprisonment and four offences amonated to eight Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which by officials. Of course the gentle
may now very well parody our a few quartermasters from the big two examples of the use of slang
ward, and the Kaiser's soldiere Reserves for, save in the case of
houra' stocks. 4 requires them to forward their names and addresses with men in-tauced-Admiral Beaty, communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for Lord Buxton and Commod re
|own Tommies'
war song and liners, there is seldom any reason a similar offence, was sent to Auother Chinese, ob rged with sing, "It's a long, long way to for his coming here. ". publication, but as an evidence of their bona fides.
Tyrwhittare a long way from A brass pipe, valued $40, the coveted Calais."
Now the difference between the prison for two months and four standing alone in this offence; if property of the P. W. D,, has
A Difficult Country, Naval Reserva Jack and the
hours' stocks. fence it be. The question is: been stolen from Wong-nei-
The Allies' progress in Flanders Service Bluejacket is by no means may not have been, marked by the same as that which exists be- Hongkong Telegraph" wilian slang be avoided nowadaya? oheong Road.
Its use is begun in boyhood and
Rough Weather.
rapid advances, but when one tween the volunteer soldier end the odds are about a thousand to arrived to-day from Shanghai, country, that need not be alto R. N. R. men bas had infinitely The er. Shooshing, which considers the nature of the Tommy of the Regulars. The one against one's ever losing the babit thereof. The British reports having experienced strong gether wondered at.
A thickly better opportunities, in most schoolboy would promptly be monsoon and heavy seas on the populated territory offera con- cases, of making himse'f ellivient
Two highly anastional long hammered by the other fellows" run down.
siderable hindrance to the scien- than the Territorial; for, more films were screened for the first if he dared to call things by
tific movement of great armies, often than not, he has been at sea time at the Victoria Theatre last their accepted dictionary names;
The countryside in Flanders is from boyhood and has usually right. The first, The Judg and quite right too, for the cer
crowded with cities, which, either began on a training mont of the Jungle, contains recl-speaking boy is invariably a
as a correspondeat to one of the ship or else has. young prig who stands sorely in
some beautiful tropical views, and leading Home papere has pointed generations of sea-farers and deals with the exploits of a young need of kicking crlicking. Once
out, are tied together by populous has worked, almost from child lady who lives in the jungle and the boy leaves school, whether
villagan, criss-crossed with canale, hood, on fishing boats or colliere eventually has a long life struggle he goes into business, to the uni-
railway embankments and ir In the latter case, the fear of with a leopard; while the second, versity, into the army or where-
rigation ditches; cut up by quar: God-by means of a ropes-end-
At the Mercy of the Waves," is not, he finds himself faced with
ries and cost-pita; chequered has been instilled into him at an a pretty and pathetic story, ad. more slang: the recognised ex-
with hedges and park walls; and early age; and, even though the mirably staged by the Gaumont pressions relating to the parti-
thickly strewn with human habit- notions of discipline with which Company, of a tiny girl's adven cular walk in life which he has
While most German papers
ations, which, after the solid he has grown up may not be tures in a drifting boat. "Both schoolmasters and lawyers have revolting oruelty against the makes of every peasant's cottage obtain in the Navy, he still never another great a traction is the their accepted argot, why sould Allies, the Vorwaerts writes as
a miniature fortress. Thus it loses the instincts of swift obed-latest Graphic out from Home, not the same latitade be extended follows:
comes about that, the fighting ience.
containing some good pictures to every other branch of society.
We have frequently proved armies than a bage melee the bluejacket he often seems, 10
has been less a movement of including the sports field, the the untruthfulness of a great
Compared with the ordinary illustrative of the beginning of prize ring and the race-course?
number of reports regarding the fighting has been from street to the outsider, something of A Useful Made of Expression.
alleged oruelties practised on Ger- street, from house to house:
B greenhorn. This 18 be- sheer habit and because it saves day we are in a position to dis scale. That explains such as is not a deep water man and has
Obviously we use elang from man civilians and soldiers. To barricade warfare on a huge cause.
in many caJ6Y, be time, trouble and circumlocution. prove more of auch allegations." incident as the protracted strug but little familiarity with large A Hongkong man says "maekce,"
The Vorwasria then proceede gle for the possession of a point towna (unless, of course, be hap or & Singaporesa 1
to obaracterise as a figment of of vantage such as the ferrypene to hail from Liverpool, Car- tid'apa," a We have already on more than one occasion referred to the matter"; of course, because he the Berliner Tageblatt
thousand times to one "it doesn't imagination a story published by telegrams a few days ago. In his longest journey has been to man's house mentioned in the diff, Bristol or Nowcastle). Often Government scheme for the acquisition of all private moorings and has formed the habit and in German soldiers had been sold spite of these factors, however, Antwerp or Havre or Hamburg is true that the Chinese desire for buoys in Hongkong harbour, their re-arrangement, and the bileting for." time saving. Again, there had given to them cigarettes and the Allies are gaining ground in or perbate up the Rhine, in a the total abolition of opium is of vessels thereto. In doing so, we have endeavoured to show that are occasions whereon alang is cigare filled with powder. the opposition raised to the scheme in certain quarters is without infinitely more expressive than cor
such a way as to emphasise in a light schooner. His pay most pointed manner the failure the mast is so trifling that, when mach indignation over the dia The Vorwaerts goes on to justification, resting, as it does, on what looks very like a policy rect English, When, for instance, say that not a single case had of the great scheme on which the in Port, after one joyous bust-
ganaine. Lately there has been of making mountains out of mole-hille. The objectors, in fact, Admiral Beatty talks of appear to have gone out of their way to discover possible weaknesses ting," he is employing the one Among the many reporte was one
been officially established. Kaisor had ret his heart.
he finds it more econc dovery that French- prepared in the scheme rather than to have sought to see the good that is in word which exactly fits hia mean- that the eyes of German soldiers
We return to the question in order to examine one of the chief ing. One of the most interesting were being gouged out by france-Belgiam? The prime object an oyster-dredger, or a deep-ses of October had esized a Chinese
mical to remain on
opium was being emuggled isto purpose now is and so he sees little of shore life. by the news leaking out that s board: Hainau. But this bas besneclipsed grounds of opposition and to show how great an improvement the points about the use of slange Vorwäerts, which was damag the country was, of course, never have seen any plase but found on board eighty cases of the German "occupation of Or perhaps he is a herring-fisher, Chinese gunboat in the beginning new proposals will be on oxisting conditions.
tiraura. "Every eye," aid the This scheme, it is well to recall, is no new-fangled idea pushed divide it from vulgarity. One ed or destroyed has been im to facilitate the advance on Paris. his native town or village and Yonnan opium. It is stated that ia floating the neutrality of trawler; in which case he may owned launch off Tung Hing and forward on the spar of the moment. It springs from definite pro-word or expression is quite per. mediately transformed into an eye When that plan failed, the ides the port at which he spends the seizure has been forwarded to posals advanced so far back as 1902 by the present Harbour Master missible in the drawing room, gouged out by francs-tireurs. -proposals which form the back-bone of the plane now adopted while another-just as harmless by the authorities. Those proposals were made solely in the in itself becomes bad form when
Socialist Leader's Enquiry.
was changed to a contemplated annually a month, "putting in bis intorests of Hongkong na a shipping centre" with a view to need in a mixed company. Why
The Vorwaerts continues:-
dash on Calais and Dunkirk. Now drill."
Canton. providing more accommodation for the ever-increasing shipping should it be allowable to talk of Berlia newspaper published in and the enemy may now very trained in a rough school-and owing to the absence of German
"The other day a well-known that intention has been frustrated,
All told, Jok R.NR. has been at a low ebb for some years, has, The indigo industry, which was using the port." In putting them forward, the Harbour Master indulging in foresaw considerable opposition to the scheme from old-established valgar to
Booze, and large print a statement that in the wear wishing that he were herein oomes his value to the artificial dyes, revived consider shipping firms who might consider that they had a vested right to "doss"? Why should "elevated there were ten slightly wounded of course, is still occupied, as well the present.
talk of having a hospital at Grosslichterfelde alore nearer home than he is. Ostend, contry at such the positions occupied by the buoye, although from the fact that the be polite and
a time as ably, and large quantities are moorings are only laid in the harbour ou sufferance, the existence," canned" be pare?. An early heen gouged out by nefarious to Bagian at
German soldiers whose eyes had as one or two other points along of thinking, the Navy man "boozed "
bis way just now being shipped to Hong- legally, of such a right, is more than doubtful. It was predio ed answer will oblige.
But what is too much looked after, "-100
kong. by the Harbour Master, when he advanced his scheme, that the Hybrid Costumes.
hands. Our comrade, Dr. Lieb
advantage thst is to the pampered, has too little to do and
In the beginning chief grievance would centre round the uncertainty as to what part
Germans, one knecht, on enquiry from a medical best time when the director of the above hospital re- that the British naval forces can drill he is full of the praises of and landed at Boihow. News
failą to see, leads
November of the harbour an incoming ship would be required to go to, and his artist in the Asiatic was strong;
s Major of the a gentleman's life." especially since it has been shown When be returns from his month's from Bangkok by the authorities Turkish Army was deported sasumption has proved to be well-founded. But why there should otherwise the native costumes
ceived from Professor Rautenborg play bavoc with the enemy when Service chow, which he admits is has been received here that the be any uncertainty, confusion or delay we fail to see, as the scheme found in various parts of this big in these rero ta."
the following reply: has been so well drawn up as to reduce such contingencies to a continent could not be so beauti
There is, fortunately, no truth he exposes himself to attack by miles ahead of what he is used to. gentleman has grown tired of. minimom. By the new srrangement, the moorings will be classified fal as many of them undoubtedly
ses. Some little time ago we read He regards life on a battleship as Hainan and has left by native in three groups, the buoys of each group will be of a distinctive are. European influence bas, recently published the following ing the coast in a state of defence of course, it is to a fiaberman
Tagliche Rundschau colour, and every buoy, will be numbered. Shipping companies however, fallen like a blight on letter from a German prisoner of Ostend harbour. These are very to work double tides on sant since the beginning of the war, of plans by the Germans for pat something like a holiday which, jank for this port and is hourly will be furnished with small charts of the harbour, showing the the luckless natives' sense of what war:
and for mining the entrance of who is often called upon
expected. arrangement of the moorings, and it will be to the companies' is comely and dignified where
A German missionary, who, interests to see that all their vessels are supplied with those charts. dress is concerned, and the September I was shot through the the enemy wishes to hold the a "Geordie" whose skipper re-
Dear Parents-On the 7th of necessary precautionary steps if r.tions, or to a 'furemastman on hae, through the issue of a sheet Island or Cape Collinson the number of the buoy to which she is and the Indictus. Yesterday which was undefended by troops, into relief the plight in which the toil sixteen honra at a stretch, sinking of the British fleet, the A vessel entering the harbour will ascertain either from Green result is a mixture of the pathetic lung. Our field hospital No. 7, points he now possesses, but such quires four men to do the work of Printed in Chinese, bsen educat allotted, and thus there can be no question of delay in foggy we saw two sights to make fell into French hands.
activities only once again throw nine and who mast sometimes "Kultur" by announcing the ing his flockin German weather, which the objectors to the scheme prophesy, for if the angels weep-or laugh. In now French prisoners of war. The Germans find themselves; they through a North Sea winter gale. taking of Hongkong, and other weather is clear enough for a ship to come into harbour at all, it Qaren's Road we passed & Japan: French treat us like comrades, so pose as invaders, but they are But the hardships endured by little pleassatries, has in his will be clear enough to enable that vessel to communicate with ese gentleman in howri, balsams we may look calmly on the pro-chiefly concerned to establish such mon have been far from im- latest issue announced that "the So far as ocean-going vessels, as opposed to coasters, are con-boote and Pair of thick leather spect of rather a long imprison.sound defensive positions. Pro pairing their vigour, anyone who English pirates have stolen oll cerned, the new scheme will work with the utmost smoothness. little farther on, we encountered The Vorwaerts, commenting
a "bowler" hat; and, a ment.
gross does not lie that way, it is knows the Scots, Irish, West- the goad German Colonies!" These big ships all take on pilots and it will be an easy Malay women wearing over on the above, says that the most
certain. matter for the pilots, before going ont to from the Harbour Office, instead of,
aacertain her white baja and multi-colour-characteristio feature of the the Agents, where they are to be billete. Tae Harboured ulater, with velvet collar and writer received news that the 7th now, from ed sarong, a shabby, fawn-colour-doonment is that the father of the
compare not unfavourably with Guilty Freed by Humour. that of the Navy man, as will also Department, too, being in telephonic communication with the signal-outs. These instances are terrible field hospital in which hiason was, Dickens, K.O., speaking at a Red sea bas strengthened and die Look at the lost ball I found
"Without humour you cannot that of the foremastman on the ling stations, naturally possesses better facilities than the shipping enough, but we recall having had been surprised by franos Cress meeting at Peterborough ciplined him na nothing else on the links, pa," he said.
Tommy arrived home one day do anything," said Mr. H. Fooal brigs and schooners. The with a nice new golf ball. companies for getting into touch with incoming boat. The fore-seen, in Colombo, something to tireurs, and that all the wounded I know one thing, you cannot could; he is happier and more at Bat are you sure, Tommy going observations show clearly that the difficulties which may arise cap either: a Sinhalese gentleman had been massacred. This is an are by no manner of means insurmountable; they will, in fact, be in a "Muller's-ant-me-down" hat, other example, says the Tor- get verdicts without it. Believe home on it than anywhere eles; asked his father," that it was a to the larger benefits which the scheme will confer, the great point over the greater portion of the cansing anxiety and uneasiness making things pleasant for the little new to learn, for he has saw the man and his caddy lonks easily overcome. Patting them, therefore, on one side, and looking frock cost and grey trousers and, waerts, of how such rumoura, me, I got many men off who should and, when it comes to facing lost ball? is that no vessel will get a worse billet than it has at present, while trousers, a blue, green and red among the people, are spread.-
be undergoing durance vile by danger or death, he will have "Oh, yes," said the boy. "I many will secure positions which will be much better.
faced both times out of numbering for it.
SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED.
either of the stations mentioned.
a8
spot-
cerns the unwritten laws which
ets.plus a
checked sarong!
or
The
Henter.
that
or
We are
What Now?
To what
Jary.
To
before
coast or East-coast fisherman knows that his physique will
&
(From our
own Correspondent), Pakhoi, Dao. 7, 1014. We are wondering whether it
How He Kasw..
of