JOTTINGS BY THE WAY,
"Stolen by auction," said an Indian witness at the Police Court on Friday. There's many a true word spoken in the witness box, no matter what the world meg for
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Reuter told us yesterday that the news of the French landing in Egypt came upon the Germans *like a bolt from the blue,"an| expression so entirely and startl- ingly novel that we think of col-| laring it and patenting it as our own, before anyone else can get hold of it.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIE 12, 1915.
WAR TELEGRAMS,
(Continued from Page 1.)
French Confirmation of Recent Wires.
(Havas Telegram.)
April 9. Yesterday we progressed along the whole front, inflicting every- where enormons larges on the Germans. Since April 4, we have "Bismarck taught us to fear gained, between the Mouse and Woevre, a very considerable front. God, to feel wrath against our Today we accentuated our success on the same front. enemise and to believe in our Petrograd: In the Carpathians we continued the offensive in nation," said the German Chan- the direction of Onjok, occupying all the summits of the principal cellor during the Bismarck fas-chain of Mount Derkib and the spurs of the southern slopes. Oo tivites in Berlia. The second and April 5 we took 2,900 prisonere, three gans and numerous machine third precepts have been most guns. In the Caucasus we drove back the Turks between Ouly and scrupulously obeyed but, in Artvino.
British Casualties.
the case of the first, it would President Wilson sent a telegram of congratulations to King appear that all the Prussian fear Albert on his birthday. has diverted itself towards British warships and French and Rasein bullets, with the result that the Deity has had to go short.
Our educated compositor has done nothing special this week beyond doctoring a remark of
be the
April 0, 5.20 p.m. To-night's Casualty Lists contain 1,013 osmes, of which 344 Bro entered ander" killed," They exist chiefly among the Suffolke, Cornwalla, Manchesters, Irish Fusiliera, London: Regiment, Leicestershire, Sherwoods, and the Rifs Brigade.
British Tug v. German Submarine.
April 9, 5.40 a.m.
The South Shields tag Homer has had a gallant encounter with
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She was towing a French barque laden with grain when the submarine appeared and ordered the ing to abandon the barque, firing
warning shot. The master of the Homer Captain Gibsote, waited THE
ours on a speech by a certain ex-submarine off the Isle of Wight. alted personage. We wrote "His Temarks are worth noting; thought to improve on observation by patting in an after the T in "noting". sometimes wish that youth would ba a little less brutally truthful.
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We
nutil the submarine was abeam before he cast off the hawser, and then attempted to ram ber. hut, owing to the roughness of the sen, miRs- ed by three feer. The submarine then attroked the Homer, firing a bail of shots, which damaged the woodwork, and discharging a torpedo, which missed ita mark.
The chance is still open to some
After another ten minutes the gabmarine abandoned the par- of our local pansters to point out suit of the barque, and, when last soen, was enveloped in a cloud of
that now is the time to talk about the Houses of (Mis) Hapsburg.
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The Deutsche Tagezeitung waras its readers that collars and shirts will have to be word limp, as there is now necessarily a shortage of starch in Berlin. There are one or
smoke.
France and "Anti-Alcehoi,"
April 10, 2.15 8.my
in the acti-alcohol war.
Frapes is vigorously following the example of the other Allies Spirits are unknown at the front, and the officers and medical men unanimously testify to the excellent physical moral reunits of this.
to withdraw the allowances of soldiers' wives who are found to be The Government has granted the prefects discretionary powers
French Appreciation of Russians....
two people (whom Hongkong frequenting drink-shopa. could spare) who, so far as super- abundance of the commodity in question is concerned, would be a godsend to Berlin. Why don': they go there, if only to see what it feels like to be of some little uss in the world,
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mortality, and in particular reet of mankind, and destined to Christian morality, which are lead and dominats. But at any said to have been devised by the rate the superman, speaking The offici. French review of the Russian operations emphasises weak and cowardly in order to cationally, turns out for practical the great value of the Russian efforts and success. It points out keep the ablo and superior out porpoees to be the Prussian drill. that, from the outset, the Russians have loyally fulfilled their under- of their due. Life, it is said, is sergeant, and the astounding. takinge towards their Allies by holding the largest possible forces not for man, hut for the super-pretensione made in his name re of Germans on the eastern front and forcing them to go to the man. Egomania is exalted into solve themselves into nothing more assistance of the sorely pressed Austrians. The unceasing activity a religion, and thus is presented than a super-organised furay of the Russians has compelled the German staff several times to to us what the late Professor upon his neighboura, differing withdraw troops from the western front, though unavailingly, and Cramb, in his book, "England in nothing but cold-bloodedness has finally led to the collapse of the German plane to capture War and Germany, called the most from the buccaneering expeditions saw, where the Kaiser was to proclaim Polish satonomy under a significant spritual phenomenon of the Middle Ages, when the German hegemony.
of the 20th century. That is the lawless baron was the supermau
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Continued on page 8).
TELEGRAMS.
A GREAT FIRE
THE CHRIST,"
nearly time the poor Chinese had Interesting Sermon at the Union a rest from this sort of thing. Let
the Germans have their share of
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of the smoker's stomacb.
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Church,
The
the
powerful and coming nations. Too oals of me. The sup rman in long have the wilt and streng individual life turns out to be the been kept out of their own by timor selfish egoist, meaner than the
The review sums up by saying that the balance of the operations, conflict between the ideals re of his das, against whom no is incontestibly in favour of the Russians, who have constantly foiled presented by Napoleon Bonaparte one bad right save such as General von Hindenburg and shattered the German power of advance and by Jesus Christ, the Pro- would be maintained by the sword. There is no more honourable for a long time to come. The Russians have pot withdrawn a single festo's own conclusion being But for our individual Eves it is profession than that of a police-man from the main front in order to face the Tarks, the Russians in summed ap in his famous tragic when the cares of youth
"said H. E. "ba Thursday the Caucasus being mostly second-line men.
epigram: "Corsica bas con- are seduced by specious talk about. From lengthy observation of the
quered Galilee."
Pro-Yea-saying to nature," seeking fessor has passed to the other self-development by getting rid world, and possibly scen history (of moral restraints. Taken out tarocain a different perspective, of pseu lophilosophi al jirgon, it in the light of the outbreak of the means the nachsining of the nation of supermen whose creed beast, giving place to be devil. be admired, and whose ethics to The ples of every rake and rageal declared to be the faith of for his evil life is that he followe Fung Germany in 1913, and the impulses of his nature, lị Leld up for the imitation ofyoung has bien so alwaye, but the taro. DOCK BLAZE AT LIVERPOOL. | Britain. That such ideas having of it i, t'ia philosophy of it. Their backs ere broader and
been popular amongst prominent superhumanly and if devel their sins greater.
At the Union Churob, on Sun-Reuter's Service To The "Telegraph." and illacutia classes in Ger. apment is a later invention, day morning, the Rev. J. Kirk
London. Received April 12.
many is, apparently, but too cer- und so bingo impudent Bays a Northern paper: "Sham Maconachie gave the first of Damage to the extent of a qusr- rain. Christianity has been poob- and pretentiühis +Ver opium is being made from pig- several sermons under the above ter of a million sterling has been poobed as the religion of wesk- lequed from whatever infer skin and, so oleverly done that general title, to be delivered on done by a fire at the Stanley D ckfinge. Its ideals of altruism and bal source does riginate the only in the smoking is the fraud successive Sundays. The text warehouse, Liverpool-the Em-humility are not, it is held, för deceptions which mieleed discovered." That is something was from 1, John 3-1-"Behold pire's largest tobacco store like a severe test-both of the what manner of love the Father "dope" and also of the strength hath bestowed on us, that we should be onlled children of God." Reference was also given to Gen. Lord Jesus Chries, that progress. ous ecruples about truth just.ce mensest of the commen herd" ive likeness in character and consideration for the weak.whom he despites. The soare în Since the Bishop of Victoria so 3-4: Ye shall be aa goda." which the New Testament speaks The way to make the most as old as Eden Ye shall be sa kindly went out of bis way to Christianity, said the preacher, of as a iransformation from glory of oneself is to give play to gode" says the tempter, if you prove that only thirty-six cents points forward to ideas which are unto glory. The aspiration to our impulses of self-assertion, uc- but pluck up courage to overstep per diem is spent on drink by placed in primeval times by the rise out of itself is characteristic feltered by any sense of sin, which the restrictions by which you are each Club member, there has been dim traditions of the race." There
rare flattering among the wo-were giants in the earth in those of human nature. Man is the only is an invention of priests and wrongfully hemmed in:" Againet men-folk, who had always believed days, mighty men which were of creature with enough mind to be grandmothers. In this way life that stands the offer not of arr hitherto that "that Club is such old, men of renown," rans the He-conscious of his limitations, and will become rich and full, and that gent power bat of winsome love, in expensive place.”
brew Scriptore, and the "heroes" to have any ambition to overpass it should be rich and full for one- of classic tradition were children of them. Everything depends upon self is its proper object. All this, dren of God." data the Gods. It is natural to ideal the direction which the ambition of course, is Nietazobe's "Yea-say- ice that which has passed out of takes, and when it looke toward ing nature." The national applica
For stealing a metal flange, the SPECIAL POLICE RESERVE reach, and certainly easier to see and destins, it follows the idest has been published brondesst in property of the Water Authority,
Obrist-likeness in character, life tion of the principles involved the heroio in past perspectivo : than to discern it close at hand. which has always held the heart books and articles informing in MacDonnell Road, a. Chinese But there is no real ground for of the saints, and which is every monkind that a certain great was sent to prison for six weeks supposing that in the ages called where conventionally accepted as nation was dissatisfied with its and four houra stroka, at the Parades.(Central Police Stat- heruio there was greater heroism the common aim of Christians. position in the world as incom Police Court, this morning. ion 5,30 p.m.)-To-day, April, than in the later times, or that the But great ideals cannot beretained mensurate with its power and
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