LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
A meeting of the Legislative Councik was held in the Ocuncil Chamber this afternoon.
There wero prosout:-H. E. the Governor, Sir Leary May,
K.O.M.G.
His Excellency Major-General F. H. Kelly, C.B.
The Hon. Colonial Secretary, Mr. O. Severn.
THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH.
JAPAN GOLD BRONZE.
Mr. Nogawn's Remarkable Exhibition at Mesars Komor's Gallery.
EXTRA
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1914,
FOR THE FIGHTING MEN.
Meeting of the Committee of the Cigarette and Tobacco Fund,
At a meeting of the cam- mittee of the Cigarette and Tobacco Fund for the Allied Forces at the Front, held last evening, it was resolved that the following gentlemen form the Committee (with power to add to their number) for proper disbursement
PITIFU TYPES OF
BELGIAN REFUGEES
People Ruined by War Relate
Harrowing Tales of
Suffering.
VICTORIA THEATRE.
An Exceptionally Amusing Film.
Mésars, Konorand Komor have
Those readers who have not the happy gift of always being
yet paid a visit to the Victoria firat in the field where the dis-
London, Nov 12.-"I had a Theatre to use the "Consul's covery, or the introduction, of
cow," said the old woman.
Uniform" film, should do so rare, works of art is concerned.
Sho was one of the Belgian to-night-the last occasion on This Obristmas a considerable
of the funde refugees on board Mr. Henry W. which it will be shown. It is section of their art gallery subscribed and as far as possible Thornton's boat from Antwerp sheer far from beginning to end, The fion. Socrotary for Chinose is taken up with an exhibition to make strangements that the Technically, of course, the boit andie (which many cinematograph Affairs, Mr. E. R. Hallifax.
by Mr. Nogawa-opresenting the cigarettes and tobacco sent to the belongs to the Great Eastern films are not) conceivable. An The Hon. Attorney General, Mr. | celebrated" Kyoto firm, Allied forces at the front shall railroad. Practically all Amari official finds himself moved to J. H. Kemp.
Nogawa-of objeole of The Hon. Colonial Treasurer,ia gold
art reach the men who are in the onus regard these boats as the pay a visit to Paris and, in his and silver bronze, trenches:-Messre. Gaston Lie property of the former Long absence, the royal prinos whom Mr. E, D. O. Wolfe.
cloisonne and damascene. Any
bert, Trenoa Consul; P. island railroad man. Mr. he serves turns up in his district thing more artistio, ia their own Verstraeten, Belgian Consul: Thornton was on board, too.
and announces his intention of special line, we have never seen. 1). W. Craddock, W. A. Dawley, "I had a cow," said the old calling upon him. The official's The material from which his G. T. Lloyd, J. A. Tarrant, woman.
wife, terriñod lest her husband curios oro' made is Mr. G.W. O. Barnett, J. H. Gardiner. She was a smiling, dumpy, should get into trouble for Nogawa has explained to us. Petrie, W. Barker, Gao, J. Brather dirty old woman. Ap absenting himself without leave, shakudo (gold branza) laid on a Sayer, F. T. Chapple and F. Hicks, parently she had been taking instructs her man-servant to don Burface of shibuicht (silver bron- Mr D. W. Craddock was elected very pleasantly the disaster that his master's uniform and imper- za), and the effect is startlingly Chairman of the Committee and had befallen ber country. From sonate him-with, of course, beautiful in the finished article. Mr. Geo. J. B. Sayer Hon. Sec- time to time ebe pointed over the curious and amusing results. There are boxes of all noris, made
rail at the wonders that passed-Other good pictures are also being from this carious material, vanity After routine business had been a warship a submarine and a show, and Mr. Flatt and Miss cases, cigaretts-cases, and 71989, discussed, it was unanimously steamer and only esemod worried Flo Brooks are still giving their of all sizes and exquisite eh apes. voted that a supply of two when an airship camo in sight at entertaining comedy turas,
cases of 50,000 cigarettes each its post of duty over the Thames. S'is bid seon airshipa and two cases of 144 lbs. of month,
The Hon. Director of Public Works, Mr. A/F. Churchill;
The Hon. Capt, Supt. of Palios, Mr. O. Mellvaine Messer.
The Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett, O.M.G.
-The Hon, Mr. E. Shəllim.
The Hon. Mr. Lau chu-pik. The Hon. Mc. Wei Yuk, O.M.G.
Mr. M. J. Braap, Clerk of Councile.
Financial,
The following financial minutes, recommended by His Excellency the Governor, were referred to the Finance Committee:-
A sum of $2,800 in aid of the vote Public Works, Extraord inary, New Territories, com- manications, conds, extousion at Castle Pouk Bay, including con- struction of pier.
Some Beautiful Christmas Presents. Bat the various ornaments are
retary and Treasurer.
NAVAL LOSSES.
British and German:~Interesting |..
Comparison."
London, November 18.-The following comparison is published of British and German naval losses since the war began, the comparison, except as regards armoured craisers, being in the favour of Britain:
Armoured oralaers: Great Bri. tain 6, Germany 1.
Light cruisers: Great Britain' 5, Germany 9.
Gunboats: Great Britain 2, Germany 8.
1,
Armed liners: Great Britain Germany 3. Germany 5.
Submarines: Great Britain 2,
The Garmans have also lost
MEXICAN UNREST. Rival Armies Prepare for Big Fight.
Mexico City, Nov. 12.-General Francisco Villa is converging his entire army at Lagos, midway. between Aguas Calientes and Queretaro, according to General Pablo Gonzales, commanding she Mexican forces at Queretaro, who still affirma loyalty to "General Venustiso Carranza.
Gonzales today notified War Department here, and General Carranza, of Villa's movements.
Gonzales said that his own forsa numbers 40,000 men, while re- inforcements were arriving from other places.
It is believed that a decisive two mine-layers, eight destroyera,ity of Queretaro within a few
battle will be fought in the vioin and one torpedo boat, according to the German official list.
Britain, 15 vessels. Germany, 37 vessels.
The totale are ;
The British Losses.
The armed cruisers lost by Great Britain were the Cressy Aboukir, and Hogue, 12,000 tone each, which were sunk by a aubmarine in the North Sea; and the Good Hope, 14,100 tons, and Monmouth, 9,800 tons, respective-
not limited to the gold and silver tobacco be despatched by the before. The Germans have them. Each year they put a few guildersly sunk and wrecked, after ao
P. and Q.
eleamer leaving
on Saturday, which, through the courtesy of the Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett, Q.M.C., n.e being sent
freight free.
I was also decided that ne
Capacity for Suffering Differed.
There were others on board who in the savings bank. had come to certain conclusions from the manner of the old woman
"In another year," said the
and the other refugees.
79.
engagement off the coast of Chili, The light cruisers were the
days, as the concentration of Villa's troops at Lagos is said to be the reply to Gonzales" recent ultimatum to Villa that other anti-Carnas he, and generals resign their commode and leave the country immedi tely. command of use of the no pla General Candido Aguilr •, in the immediate vicinity of Vera Cruz, is believed to be loyal to General Carranza, who is in opea conflict with the National Con vention, which declared General Ealalio Gutierrez provisional president of Mexico.
U. S. Troops to Stay." President Wilson and Secretary Washington, November 12.
light date for the evacuation of Vera
A sum of $310,000 in aid of cheap articles suitable for presents, funds become available further said these others. "They have war, of course. But it seemed 7,350 tons. Strictly speaking, the Bryan bave decided not to fix a
"They do not foal as we do,
The old woman smiled as she not our capacity for suffering." toked up at the priest who noted
as interpr ter
"I had a cow," she said.
or woman, "I should have had Hermes, 6,800 tons, Amphion, two cows."
3,366 tons, Pathfinder, 2,940 tons, They bad heard rumours of the Pegasas, 2,135 tons, and Hawke, far raway. They lang ed at the last named was not a stories people told them of craiser, nor was she olassed as strangers who came into little such in the "Naval Pooket Book," Oruz by the American troops. Belgina commanities and burned but she was evidently included in tion can dominate that section of until it is determined which fac- down bouses. They were quite that class in the message, the five Mexico suffici..ly to carry out certain the hurgomasters would armoured cruisere having been the guarantees asked by the deal with sach barbarians. Even accounted for.
United States na a pre-requisite to when they heard guns they were
ite withdrawal.
bronze amalgam. In the case of many, gold or silver has further been inlaid, with a delicay of workmanship never seen out of Japan, every design being perfect of its kind. Among the small and the vote Miscellaneous Services, are tie-pias, hat-pins, and sleeve loss on subsidiary coins. links, all untarnishable and, A sum of Seventy-eight thou it may be added, indestructible. sand two hundred Dollars ($78 The firm of Nagawa is, of course, 200) in aid of the following vote: known to every British tourist -War Department Expenditure: who has visited Kyoto. Ita works notified their intention tɔ Personal Emoluments: Cable of art have been admired all over Censorship, $11.506.97; Postal the world; and it bas received the teer, $30,417.73; Miscellaneous, exhibitions of Europe and Amer. the trenches that Hongkong the instep. His flapping trousers very far away. No one had-over 3,500 tone. The armed liner lost withdraw the troops until the Censcrebi, 55,169.96; Voluo- highest awards in all the leading $5,710.81. Other charges: Uable in. The display at Messrs. Censorship, $670.39, Volunteers, Komer's galiery will last until $2,025.54; Muscellaneous, $10, December 29, and intending pur- chasers of Christmas gifts should pay it an early visit, before the best of the exhibits are disposed of.
602.55.
A sum of $3,000 in aid of the voto Military Expenditure, B.- Volunteers, other charges, Volua- teor luserve, camp of instruction.
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Defence Precautions. The Hon. Attorney General moved the second reading of the Bill entitled Au Ordinance to amend the Defences (Sketching Prevention) Ordinance, 1895.
consignments be sent so as to keep the supply going during the period of the war. The South China Morning Post and th Hongkong Telegraph, bave kind.
A very sulky, dirty, angry old advise Home papers that such man sat at her side. He wore the presents are sent, so as to assure graat wooden shoes of the Belgian the Allied forces at the front and passant, with a broad strap over friends are thinking of them and had been patched and repatched little in varied faded colours. A loose conduri tais time of stress. cap was pulled down over his sending them some The shipping documents, are care. His hairy, shrunken old the Commis- chest might be seen through sont through'
ariat here at Hongkong to the gaps in his tro sbirt.
Toiled Hard to Pay Off Debts.
"He owned the dog and car,
Commissarist' at the bago, and tho officials inform us that they will
Application' for Rehearing
of the Charge.
This afternoon" in the Police
In doing so, the Hop. Attorney Court, Mr. P. M. Hodgson, the General eaid that the object of Crown Solicitor, applist for B
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The gunboats lost ware the
The President is nawilling to
president. NEVER HAVE
tot frightened. The noises were Speedy, 3,500 tons, and Niger, broken the law in their village, was the Oceanic, 1,214 tons, a The worst that ever happened White Star steamer which was be enforced and there is no danger various guarantees asked for aan was when Jan Hooven and his wrecked in a fog on the north that some other faction on becom brother got drunk and fought-coast of Scotland, but then, every one knew the
ing dominant will disolaim re- The submarines lost were the sponsibility for HOOYOB.
Australian vessel HM.A.S. AE1 hitherto conducted with General negotiations The old women caught the and the D5. repetition of the name Hooven,
Carranza, Nameless Germans,
A suza of $53,73-in aid of the Dapendency of the Crown doing cigarettes and tobacco despatched the old man with a jerk of her Obviously, she could tell things names of the German vessels lost, way in the controversy; which has The Washington „Government use every endeavour to have the said the old woman, indicating She nodded her head and smiled. It is impossible to give the dose not desire to interfere in any following votes:-Education, A.
what it could to relieve the ab, once on arrival to the front, thumb," but the cow was mine." One night they were awakened as id several instances no names way in the controversy, which hits -Department of Director of
The priest said they had lived by the sound of voices outaide were given in the cables. The Education, other charges, Peak British taxpayers in the enormous and will notify the Committee of in a little village near. Landen, their door. The Germans were Undaunted, for instance, recently ary chieftains, but administration
burdena which had fallen upon the arrival. School,-booke, $14.00; incident-
which is a little town not far from there, but at first these Germans sank four destroyers off the Dutch officials showed plainly to-day them. al expenses, $39.73.
THE MOTOR CAR CASE. Liege. The old man had in- were disposed to be agreeable. coast, not one of which was ident their chagrin at the fact that The War Votes,
herited a little house and a little They came in with their dirty tified.
several generals, who wrote their His Excellency, referring to the
plot of ground from his father, feet upon the old woman's clean
Among vessels identified, how cently, kissing it as a pledge thas item of $78,200 for the expenses
names on the Mexican flag re- who had inherited it from his fox, and the scolded, and they ever, may be mentioned the they would abide by the sets of in connection with the war, sail
father, who had had it from his called ber "Mutter," and laughed. protected orniser Magdeburg, the convention at Aguas Calientes, he would like to remind them that
father. It was a good plot, but The old man was sulky and 4,550 tons, wrecked and blown up hare repudiated their oathe, re two votes had been passed by that
small. There was a debt of $200 quatrelcome. „Council of $50,000 each for ex
in the Baltic; the famone marande fusing to support General Eulalio on it when they got married,
"Not with me," said the old ing orniser Emden, destroyed by Gutierrez, selected as provisional penses in connection with the war the bill was to extend the provis rahearing in the case in whichIt is hard," the priert said, old man knew better than to Islands; the Konigsberg, "bottled The United States will continus
forty years ago.
woman. One gathered that the H.M.A.8. Bydney at Cocos and it was proposed now, if they one of the principal ordiasace. N. U. Ferie was discharged apologetically for pople of this quarrel with her. But he growl-up" by H.M.8. Chatham, on ita custom of dealing with each approved of that vote, to cancel Its objects were congrate with the those two votes in fact the second
00 8 summons for behaving
the Gormans, Then the East Alican coast; the U15, element that is in de facto control intention of the principal ordin-
sort to pay off thei: debts. They ed at one had already been cancelleit
in
disorderly manner
the nice Germans went away and sunk in the North Sea by the of a certain territory. Spacial ance which prohibited sketch- --and
are so very poor." substitute this one.
whereby a breach of the peace Youngsters had kept coming. other Germans came, in a mad- Birmingham's brilliant gunnery; agents are accompanying General certain ing of Now this role involved the pay.
defences,
might have been occasioned, and too. They had been a constant dening succession. The temper the big armed liner Kaiser Gutierrez, General Villa and batteries, "field worke and ment by the Colony of all the ex-
with assaulting Havildar Índru
expense. Tuen, just as they had of the newcomers was progres- Wilhelm der Grosse, sunk in the pensos that had been incurred this fortificatione, and there was Singh of the 40th Pathans.
no provision against sketching of
reached an age at which some sively bad. They drank all her Atlantie by the Highflyer; and
General Úarranza, In making the application, Mr. slight hope of profit might have milk, slept in her bed with their several craft of various descrip- anchorages and ships. The bill Hodgson said he could, pi- been entertained from them they boots on, and swore at her,tions eank in the harbour of Kist proposed to add those things duce direct evidence that the de- died. The old woman related this they seem to have been given British Superiority Enhanced. which may not be sketched with fendant had admitted having quite simply. No doubt she had
At last, asid the priest, obandar and also the expenses in connection/out permission of the Government, knocked the paper out of the Ha-loved them and had wept when orders. For they went through Most of the damage done to the of plots and counter plote between with cable and poetal censor offence which is not so under the while there was a presumption blinked at. They had been a bad house." They struck the old man | by floating mines or submarina the two elements, in their contest- and also makes sketching an vildar's hand. He pointed out that they died. Still, facts are not to be the village and burned every British Beet has been done either ship and various miscellaneous items payment of police and
fendant, it was for the defendant sentimentalists, The priest kept that he still carries the mark—” payment of the passages of the
of innocence in favour of the de investment. Peasante cannot be over the head with a musket, so attack, and the only German to win the support of the more crews of prize vessels, sent home
set up for the Crown, and through to rebut the case which had been
success actually "in action" has important military chiefs, questioning.
He lifted the old man's cap as been the destruction of the Good
Official, advices showed that to their native places, and various
"At last, he reported, "they one would lift the collar of a Hope and Monmouth. On the General Carranza had moved" hi minor expenses, all included
out the whole of his defence, Mr. got their debts paid off. Both horse to show a sore shoulder, other hand, the Heligoland fight, archives, cabinet and clerical mader the hoad of miscellaneous.
The Hon. Attorney General that the Crown had not mude nat tilled their own field between scar
D'Almada had never suggested worked hard in others' fields and and there was the half-healed the defeat of the Emden, and the forces to Cordoba for a lengthy He hoped members would agree moved the second reading of the
Undaunted a feat seem to indicate stay. with him that it was fitting that Bill entitled An Ordinance to
timps. It was the old woman who "And they killed the old British personal ascendancy. In He is understood to have left the Colony should bear that ex-amend the Recreation Grounds is Worship granted a rehear-was financially venturesome. She woman's cow and ate it, and point of numbers, the British Mexico City because bo doubted penditure that was to say, should Ordinance, 1909.
ing and provisionally fixed it for bought the cow."
drove all the villagers along the fleet has a bigger margin of the sincerity of the troops guard- itself bear the cost of the mobili-
to-morrow alternoon, In moving the second reading
The old woman nodded brightly, road toward Antwerp. These superiority thau at the commence- ing the ospital. nation of the Volunteers and should the Bar, Attorney General said, incur the other expenses. If they that the object of the bill was authority but this particular space the dog and the set of war begging their bread. It was only for ship, Britain's superiority Pablo Gonzales, who hitherto had "Yes," said che, still smiling, poor people have been walking ment of the war. Having the When General Blanco started open spaces under legislative "it was my cow. He only owned for a fortnight, sleeping by the larger feat to begin with, had from Aguas Calientes for Mexico approved of that vote they rould to place upon a regular footing had not been dealt with in that
roadside for the most part, and Gerraany and Britain lost chip City to take command there, he in fact accept the principle and the tenure and appropriation was The effect of this Bill would They sold the milk to the a little time ago that they were would have increased. As it is,
was arrested at Silao by General prove it, of the continued payment and also power to regulate of those charges and similar cher-and control the Chinese be to place this open space factory in Landen, who in turn happy and prosperous. Now they Germany has lost, 37 to Britain's been regarded as a supporter of ges throughout the duration of the recreation ground,
on the same footing as the other sold it to Liege, Between times have nothing. which
15, and the recent remarks of Mr. Carranza.ftl" war. Other Colonies, as they knew, as no doubt hon. members places.
they tilled their little field. The The old woman was struck by Winston Churchill on Britain's Despatches from Aguas Calientes they had read in the newspapers, knew, was an open space near the
The Bill passed through the old woman milked her cow, and something in the priest's tone naval superiority seem amply zales would stand by the conven to-night saying that General Gon had made substantial contribu went end of Hollywood Road. It committee stage and on emerging the old man and the dog osrted and asked him to translate his justified. Is is worthy of note tion were taken to mean that tione towards the Imperial Ex was used by the poorer classes of therefrom, was read a third time the milk to Landed. They bad words. He did so, and for a that few of the British ships los blanco would be released, and that obequer in that matter, and he Chinese for recreation, cale of and: passed.
become persons of mark in their moment she was silent. Then were new. Some, indeed, includ was sure that Honourable Mem food and so on. Other places had Connail then adjourned until little community. They were she looked up
and smiled. bera would like to see this small been set apart and recognised dea
ing the Speedy and the Nigor the two men might work in har prosperous and independent, But, asid she, I had a cow," were over 20 years old.
mony in the control of Mezid City and surrounding terrikerig
your in connection with the mob-
llization of the Volunteers, and in
the Volanteers, of course, W705 included the Volunteer Reservo,
ordinance.
The bill went through the committee slage, on from which it was read a third emerging time and passed."
Recreation Grounds.
a case to answer.
next Thuraday.
Scouted Stories War.
It will take several days for the situation to shape itself definitely. however, and Mexico, accord ing to official reports, ia wrapped in angle