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Pagama Canal Tolls,
NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 25. 1915.
MOUTRIE'S PIANOS
Washington, April 3.-Ninety- two vessels, carrying 424,608 tons. of freight, passed through the Panama Canal during February are maintaining a daily aver go of more than 16,000 tons wich had been handled during the three) preceding monthe. Tolla collect ed for the month amounted to $403,210, bringing the total of dues collected up to canul
$2,396 258,
Coast wise cargoes have amount. ed to 41 per cent, of the total tradio, er 1,072 937 tons since the oanal was opened; while the Pacific coast has shipped 572,780 tons directly to Europe by the waterway route,
Wilhelmina Case Settled.
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H.M.S. Cadmus.
The authority of the power of the State having passed into the The gunboat Cadmus, the ore hands of the occupant, the latter of which rendered such very vala-hall do all in his power to restore able assistance in the stamping public order and, safety, respect out of the mutineers of the 5.h Light Infantry at Singapore.ing, unless s beolately prevented,
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a succession of orders dealing with specific matters The general trend of them may be summed up in the statement that the Bel- gian codes and laws remain in force except where they are in- consistent with existing condi. tions or are abrogated by order. Thus there are enactments as to quered territory. On November to the hostile Power,...
Family bonour and rights, 19 it is declared that the German individual life, private property Empire, autria-Hungary and TO LET "La Hacienda" E., and religious convictions and Turkey, are not to be considered
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If the occupant collects the tares, etc., payable to the State, he shall do so as far as possible Oasting the Germans at Hankow. in accordance with the legal basie Oar correspondent writes:-As and assessment in force at the an informal meeting held at a certain club at Hankow on the time, and defray the expenses of 15th inst, in consequence of the the occupied territory to the same intense indignation occasioned by
the publication of a letter in ono If in addition to these taxes, vested in the King are transfer-
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For the purpose of discovering though the German military post. of the local newspapere, a propos- other money contributions shall red to the Governo General, who how Belgium is provided with They may not rival by rail. If al advocating the expulsion of all be levied, they shall only be ap- must a-retion all legislation means of subsistence it is ordered they walk in the fields they will German members wasunanimou- plied to the nerds of the army or enacted by the Belgian Deputies that every person engaged in be hailed by e German guard ly adopted, the action to go in othe administration of the territory and provincial and communal agricultural or industrial under and asked to explain. Is this pre- Where
• For overy contribution councile. It is stated, in the first takings (jeder landwirtschaftliche serving as far as possible the laws proclamation given out after that oder gewerbliche Unternehmer), in force in the country, as & receipt must be given.. Honkow Race Club and R. O. An army of occupation shell of September 6, already quoted, who produces by his labour or his The Hague Convention directe? action on their past was taken, unly take possession of cash, that all the law and orders of the enterprise, cheese, rye, barley, Th excuse for anoh a regime is funds and realizable securities Governor General are to be given oats, maize, pulse, vegetables obvious, of course. The Belgiana the members of the club in quse-which are strictly she property of out in German, and are to become and potoes, is ordered to make are consumed with such a burn- tion would resign their member the State, depots of arms, sap-effective, unless the contrary is known within 10 days from the ing hatred of the Germans that! ship of the HR.C. and R.G..nies and generally property expressly indicated, at the end of publication of this notice, his ex- they are not to be trusted out of bloo. Shanghai Times.
which may be used for military the day on which the bulletin is act stock of these provisions, sight,
It is impossible not to admira dated.
In the circumstances listing each item separately, giving occupations. Death of Shanghai Volunteer.
Except in cases governed by ignorance of the law must be eary, his name, place of residence and the efficiency of "Kultur" even in OUR arondissement. It makes no dif-s conquered country. The Ger- THE We regret to learn of the death
There is much regulation of ference whether they belong to man passion for regulation is io at the front of one of Shanghai's aval law, all appliances for the tough there is no excuse for it.
One him personally or has them in evidence everywhere. There 18, THE volant:ore, Mr. A. E. Katole, ranemission of news,
for example, a long list of rules P.W.Wi
Wilson of the First Battalion, Royal transport of persons and all kinds Bioances in these orders.
of war materials may be seized, withdraws the note-issuing powers charge.---
This proclamation must have relating to the labour of women West Kent Regiment. Accord\pran if they belong to private of the National Bank of Belgium ing to a telegram received individuals, but they must be to confer them on the General had an ironic meaning for people and children. This grim human- Shangbai to-day Mr. Rateliffe was killed in action a few days restored at the conclusion of Society of Belgium." There is on the verge of starvation. Do itarianism may be eslutary, but ago. He left here in Ostaver peace, and indemnities must be to be strict supervision of business the "German officials keep an it probably is not se deeply perations where there is any equally strict account of the food appreciated as it abould be. All paid for them. with the Atita Maru contingent."
The proclamation of the Ger possibility of their being inimical which Americans have been send- forms of occupation are covered. -Shanghai Mercury.
to German interests and no pay into the country, and would it be Establishments where "the em man occupation of Belgium war ided on September 5 by Broments to Great Britain, France or seized for military purposes if the ployees are members of a family, under the authority of father or vinder Goliz, After announcing tassia are to be made. The rate occasion arose?
mother and not engaged in dan- Every kind of banking or com- bis appointment as Governo. of exchange for German monoy
meroial interest is placed under gezeus occaps ions," are excepted General and that of Dr. von Sands is also fixed. as head of the civil administra One order after another draws the direction of the Commissioner from the rules. The order, on the the lines more closely about the General for the Banke of Belgium. whole, makes an excellent woman tion, he goes on to say:
and obild labour law. All the details of the basiness The German army is march Belgians: ing victoriously into France. Here The export of horses, cattle, must be known to him or his children under 14 cannot be em-
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in Belgian territory it is the duty swine, abeep and every kind of "commissaires. Ce surveillance" played at all, and those under 16 - SEND FOR LIST OF SOILED & DAMAGED BOOKS'ATGREATLY REDUCED PRICES
of the Government to preserve food product over the Belgian These are authorised to try into must not, work after 9 in the peace and order, Every act of frontier is forbidden. Any breach every one's private affairs, to evening or before 5 in the morn- the inhabitants against the Ger of the ordinance will involve the examine his goods and bis cor- ing Dangercus employments are forbidden to this class of respondence, to make an inventory workers. Some of these rules, to How shall enemy territory an- man troops, every attempt to seizure of the goods. dor military occupation be go- embarrase their communicatione All printed matter, all repro- of all his effects Any refusal or be sure, are taken from the Bel- verned? The question is one with Germany, to hinder or inter-ductions of manuscriptor pictures, evasion is punishable with fire or which Germany is trying to on-rupt the railway, telegraph and with or without a title, all music imprisonment, and his business gian law. swer in her own way in Belgium, telephone services will be severely al compositions with text or com- may be taken over and administer A considerable portion of the For more than five months the punished. All resistance to, or ment produced by meebanical or ed by the Commissioner Gromered, official texts published in the collection from which the pre- German forces have been in revolt against, the German ad- chemical process and intended Certain concessions to popular ceding extracte, have been taken full control of the greater portion ministration, will be ruthlessly for distribution, must be sub- of the country, and proclama dealt with (baben-ruecksichtloss mit:ed to the censure of the feeling are made by the continus are concerned with minute mat- tione, orders and regulations of Niederwerfang za gewaertigen). Imperial German Government, tion of some of the familier forme tora of administration which have of government, The Belgium no particular interest outside of warious kinda have been issued by It is one of the hard necessities Any one who makes or publishes
of war that in punishing the these without the permission of courts go on under restrictions Belgium. But the general na- These, 'up to the close of 1914. bostile nota of the guilty the the censor will be punished in minutely laid down, and; Belgian turs of the stern and empipres have been published at The Hainnccent are often involved. It is accordance with martial law. The policemen direct the street traffic. German, rule of the country so gue by Martinas Nijhof in the duty of all intelligent citizens books shall be confiscated and the Bat all the national functions pro ruthlessly invaded may
in German bands. The recent gathered without going into this volume of a little over 100 pages (citoyennes raisonnables, the plates or forms intended for to order warning all Belgien re matter farther. It is no wonder the official texts being given in French version has it) to exercise production shall be made useless. fugees to return within a fixed that the people who suffer under German, French and Flemish, pressure upon the disorderly ele-It is equally reprehensible, and period will be better understood the burden are looking eagerly There is a brief introduction in ments and restrain every ao contrary to the spirit of this or if it is borne in mind that the for deliverance Public Ledger.
remained are English. Many of the documente injurious to the public order. No dinance, to exhibit such things in Belgians who necessarily deal with matters of Belgian citizen who gosa abonny place where the public can prisoners of war within their own only local consequence, Bat his business peaceably has any have access to them. others have a measure of interest thing to fear from the Germer
Now theatrical representations, country. Every not of their lives TF you have lost your appetite is strictly regulated. They may Ice of the big wartons of for the world at large, Their troops or officials,
recitations, sung or spoken, or authenticity cannot be disputed. Belgian ciltizons! I do not de-moving pictures can be given be not go from one town to another. dainty dishes at the ALEXAN They may not use the telephone DRA CAFE is sure to tempt
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