WATSON'S
FINE OLD
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1915.
E BROWN BRANDY
Admitted by connoisseurs
to
be the best in the market.
PER CASE
PER BOTTLE
A. S. WATSON &
$53.50
Garibaldi,
Giuseppe Garibaldi, whose death took place thirty-three years ago to-day, is generally re- membered solely as the great Italian patriot, his tireless efforts after the unifying and strengt ening of his fatherland having been allowed to eclipse in the popular mind all the marvellous Disivy of his early and middl
DAY BY DAY.
"YOU SHOULD ALWAYS HAVE SOMEONE TO HELP YOU KEEP A
SECRET." -
The Weather.
Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 50
1 fe. Yet, adventurous though his fine. career was from the time when
"At the Peak 8 s.n. Temp, 73;
NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
-WAR CONDITIONS IN SHANGHAI.
RUSSIA'S FURTHER
SUCCESSES.
The Advance in the Tyrol.
Letter from German Consul.
CONTEMPORARY OPINION.
-This: Fosling."
The "severe arousationi" made: The following leading article "Last night'e and this morning'e Italian wires are as full of en- against Germans in the Sattle was taken from the Gloto of 1840) be first enterød | rain,
couragement as those preceding ment by the "local press" are April 21. into Italian politica, it wa
It is not possible to regard the them, and there reams little doubt made the subject of a letter to the peaceful in comparison with the
as to the likelihood of the Italians Council by Dr. Knipping, Consul-speech of the Prime Minister at days when he had no other ! Count the Columns,
being able to show, by the end General for Germany. The letter Newcastle as reconcilable with calling than that of a "uldier of
this month, a goodly statement of and the reply thereto appear in the pronoureements of bis collea Yesterday the fortune." Many people do not
Telegraph realias that he was forty-two years published 37 columns of solid progress with gat serious reverses the Municipal Gazette this, mora- goes. It is a very serious matter From Dr. Koipping to Mr. E. thus be confused and perturbed. of age, with a very crowded life reading matter. To-day there to disent its value. The port of ing. The letters are as follow that the mind of the publé shoul I
*.] P.'a would naturally be a tempt- behind him, when he entered the will be 34 published.
ing obj oft Italian aeroplaniats, Pestca as Chairman of the Less than a moath ago Mr. L'öyd
Council:-
George dilated on "The grest in Sardinien Chamber of Deputies
for it is a town of closs on fifty
'German ratepayers of this jury which is being in flioled on thousand inhabitants, and a mili- tary and naval station, possessing international Settlement have the o:untry in consequence of the 8.8. an important arsenal, Atleast it recently become the object of excessive drinking that takes
did possess an arstil, before severe accusations on behalf of place among
$4.55 and began the historically more
importast period of his career. Prior to that, his life was full of ups and downe, most of them-itis
Co, Ltd. treiting to remember-tinged
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
with politics; the politics of other oountries. Up to the age of seven and twenty he was a sailor, bis work keeping him more or less in the Mediterranean, where he wES a liberty to observe and to reflect
The object of this paper is to publish correct information, to serve on the miseries of his countrymen,
the truth and print the news without fear or favour.,
Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.
Telophore: No. 1
Western Union A.B.C., 5th edition. Office address: 11, Ice House St.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1915.
NATIONAL SERVICE AGAIN.
A Soldier of Fortune.
He entered into conspiracy , for which he was exiled, at Cha
! Kurteen year®, and, for the
ceril and bis days were fai adventure. For two yea... took service under the Bey ot: Tanis bat in 1830, two years later, his adventarcus spirit carri led him farther afield and he went out to Rio, intending to trade. His venture was a failure and he joined with, other Italiane
The Mails.
par
to-
8.5.
Siberian Mails-Due
Kwonglee and Chepan day European Mail-Closes per
Fushimi Mara ic-morrow at
.0 8.0.
Up to the Minute-Share Market News.
Closing, prices :~~
Shell Transporta 03- buyers. Langkats. Tls, 42, sales.
Raaba $3.70, buyers. Green Islands $0.85, sellers. Steam Laundry, -Co.. L.
$3.30, sellers.
The Dollar.
The rate of the dollar
ou
in seeking to establish the demand to-day is a 9.9/16d. republic of Rio Grande. Imprison ment and torture followed, and,
To-day's Anniversaries, when at last he escaped from his gaolers, it was to take land service To-day ie the 7th anniversary against the Brazilians under Pre-of General Buller's death and the aident Gonzalez, He next 32nd of Garibaldi'e, commanded the naval forces' of Uruguay in a conflict with the Argentine, and also organised an Italian Legion for the defence of Monte Video; and thus it was not till 1918 that he saw Italy again and began to be the Garibaldi of European history. Those Chinese Daggers.
Theft from Hotel.
The police bare received a re- port from the Nomura Hotel to the effect that some person has stolen
135 Yen in notes from the hotel.
chai.
Serious Allegation.
very
the aircraft bombe paid a tentions the local daily Press as well impo tart section of workmen to it. The exploite of the deas of individuals on acecuat of the who are engaged on the produc- stroyer flotilla are no less important einking of the Lusitania. The tion of munitions of war. Nor in their way, for Aastra could German community is blamed words could be more emphatic, never less aford to lose cargoes of with demonstrations of joy, and and their gravity was increr sed grain than at the present moment, reports are current such as: 'The by the fact that they flowed Meanwhile the land forces are Germin School had a jubilation upon a statement made by Lord continuing their victor ons north-day, the Club Concordia held a Kitchener in the House of Lords Well festivity over the ill-fate of the t' at the output is not only nos ward march and have established themselves beyond sbore named 'ship. The N. Cequal to our necessities, but does
fulfil our expecta
at
Douglas Steamship Co. Ld.-Ala. On Monday we assumed Daily News in an article beaded not
the existence of a second Italian Shanghai Club and German tions." Sime part, at any rate, $51,00m.
division, with Villach as its Member'speaking of the old dis of this falure he attributed to objective; and confirmation seems tinction between German military drink, and the anxiety he declared to exist in this morning's tslegram and civilian' said on May 15 that he felt as to te supply of which speaks of an engagement that when it became known that munitions as powerfully affected between the Austrians and their Germans in Shanghai were re-us all that the nation was ready enemy in the Carnie Alps. pising over the Lusitania in- to submit to any sacrifice of con adde the game cident it was felt that the effort fort or convenience if it would "Everywhere,"
to retain the distinction must be help is overcome the difficulty." "the Italians wire,
The King came forward to set the magnificent dash and confidence." given up.
Amongat Germans nothing is oxample of abstinence, and the Exactly; fresh troops, ten months' valuable experi at second known of such rejoicings, 1Government began to give serious band, a cleat conscience and a have been going into this matter consideration to schemes for good cause as contrasted with and have to state that these regulating or suppressing the sale not only nere of alcohol more drastic than any an enfeebled and half-starved reporte are
afraid responsible state men have ever army, ten months of the sort of inventions but I am experience that is but another malicious ones made. by irres- ventured to suggest to Parliament. a view In a word, everthing has been name for rain, a guilty conscience ponsible people with and a rotten cause! Sure no to creating loual disturbace and said and done to impress the nation ever entered into battle making difficulties for Groan nation with the gravity of the Yet the Prime Minister, under more promising e'roum-residen's. In Fresent times it is position as regarde munitions of
not likely that mischievous war. efforts of that kn1'might prova speaking yesterday, told the men stances than those of Italy.
to a certain extent Euccessful of Newcastle that there is not a In Galicia. No one supposed that the question of national service would be
There is ill now for the even in so stera tonal place werd of truth" in the statement that our armies or those of our allowed to die down in the public mind at a time like this; and
Kaiser in the telegrams from like Shanghai.
Round about the "I therofcrs, have the honour to Allies are being crippled, or even Galicia. though it was not raised during the leat week or two of the Estr
Yesterday, a Chinese was fined Stolen from a Jacket. Bession of Parliament, the newspapers are persistently keeping it fifty dollera for being in unlawful A Chinese reporta that some alive, if we are to judge from yesterday's wire on the subject, it possession of two daggers; a person has stolen from his jacket Upper Vistula, within twelve draw your attention to this stats hampered, by the failure to sentence of which all those who in Queen's Road Central, a gold days, the Russians captured of affaire and I beg to express provide neces ay ammasition; command appears that the Conservative press is practically unanimous value.the peace and order of the watch and a gold washed silver/close upon nine thousand officers the hope that you will ae cvery and denied the
and men; and a later message endevour for the maintenance emphasis in favour of conscription or something corresponding thereto; and Colony will bighly approve. But chain valued at $90.
apraks of General Irminoff as of public order to cope with a the suggestion that there has that a section of the Liberal press is like-minded, though the Daily just a word about those daggera.
having taken a further thousand, possible outbreak of passion been any general lackness in the News, the Daily Cromile, the Ecaminer and the Star "continue to They were not, in a literal sense, oppose." Io addition to newspaper opinion the telegram devotes stamped "Made in Germany," but "A Chinese has been sent to the with supplies, eto. On the San against German life and property armament industry. In this mass hospital suffering from the effects the great battle seems definitely in this Saltlement. On the other of cca'radiction we do not know a line or two to the views of three public men who may, however, the cheap and nasty appearance of oisoning alleged to have been to be taking a turn in favour of band I should be thankful for whom to believe. The speech of for present purposes, be regarded as speaking only for themselves, of them gave them away al
completely as though the mystic administered by his wife. The Russia now, and "all hotile immediate information if any case the Prime Minister is directly at and therefore as private individuale.
worde had been branded on them, incident is reported. from Wan-attacke beyond the Daiester have should happen where people fall-ariance with the utterances of been repulsed with beavy losses."ing under my consular jurisdic- the Chancellor of the Exchequer One would bave thought that it tion behave in a disorderly man and the Secretary fo: War, and it While Lord Deoman, the ex-Governor General of Australia, The blades were as much like cast
would be evident to the German per es that I call deal with it cuts the ground away from the Alice Memorial Hospital.
and correct matters at once. advocates the measure and points out that the Commonwealth form iron as anything we have seen
feet of the Government if and War Department that Russia can!
when they ask the nation to sub- a good precedent, Sir West Ridgeway suggests a modification which lately, while the hills and sheaths
The Hon. Treasurer of the afford, if necessary, a long series will, we think, appeal forcibly to many poople; namely: that com were suspiciously like pieces of
The Reply
mit to a great blow at individual freedom in order totemove a slack- pulsory service should be limited to Home defence. Mr. Tarold sugar box wood daubed with black Alice Memorial and Affiliated of logace in this neighbourhood, Cox, to whom everyone listens with respect whether he speaks on paint. The weapone were shaped, Hospitals bega to acknowledge and can yet quite easily, with her.
From Mr. E. C. Pearce to Dr. Dogs which, according to Mr. As quitb, does not exist. Were the sociological or on national matters, expresses a view that is the as nearly as possible, like the with thanks the following dona-resources, come out a winner in more interesting in that it comes from a man who was formerly modern shot bayonet, and if the tions to the funds of the Hospitals; the end. Allowing that there may Knipping:
have been exaggeration in the re- "I have the honour to acknow. King in the nation deceived opposed to national service. He argues that the conditions metal ornaments and bioding A Rose & Co. (special) $50.
porte from both combatante, there ledge the receipt of your, letter of when Ministers to importint as which obtained before the war no longer exist, and therefore urges were not cut out of a salmon tin Parliament to endow the Government with powers of compulsion we are mightily mistakin. Those
can be no question as to which May 17, on the subject of the the two we have named annre Mr. Cox's contention will probably carry the bulk of public of our readers who were out East Two weeks age a Uh nese who side can "stay" the longer. Each state of feeling aroused in the them of the peril, or bas Mr charges are dangerously antagon opinion with it. The war has turned the world upside down, at the sine of the 911 Revolution keepe a shop on the ground floor is almost daily, called upon, we stilement by recent incidents of Asquith now discovered that thait and nothing that happened previous to it is any criterion for the will remember that certain enter- of 22, Bai 8:reet, was fined $10 take it, to supply huge re-inforce the War.
"In reply (berato I have the sing the working-men, and mait be withdrawn? Yet he, too, present moment. The very existence of the new Ministry is a stand-prising firms were then supplying for selling fresh pork without a ments to make good ita casualties; ing proof of this assertion. Of the opponents to the measure, the the Chinese with cartridges licence. At the Police Court, and at that work there is ro honour to say th t the Council while denying slackness, pleaje wat again question as to Russia's ability to has, since the outbreak in August, for granter enthusiasm, and in Daily News and the Star may soarcely be said to count, the whose balicts were merely bile of this morning, he
Germany and sought to check all ballitions ferentially admits that the supply more so that either would object.cn principle to any measure that wood smeared with blacklead. charged with a similar offence by outlast both
calcalated, o provoke disorder of of munitions is not what it migh was supported by Unionists; while the other two papers quoted are, The same large-mindedness seems Sanitary Inspector Davies, and Austria.
General Matters. any description, and will coatings be if output was "organiced and in all likeliked, objecting to a word rather than to an idea; and in to have inspired the gentlemen fined $25.
The other wirea cover an in- to do so. this they will have the sympathy of a good many thinking people who manufactured or imported And yet the
terasting amount of ground, from "The assurances 101 give re- mobilised." And this after nine For is it not always the name, more than the thing, that influences these daggers.
At the Police Court, this morn the Daid inelles to the national garding reported demonstrations months of war! We may well use the Britisher? Most of us bato, for instance, the term "democratie," Chinese Government continues to
of this fooling." yat, taking the word in a literal sense, we are the most democratic trade with, and ap.arently to ing a child stealer told the Beach service dispute, and from pro- ameng German residents with a now historic phrase "Enough
that he sold a child that had been Italian demonstrations in Bul- the undertaking implied in the people in the world and our government is far more ep than that of trust, the makers of such toys!
stelen in the Country, for the sum garia to very decided anti-German concluding paragraph of your most republice." But the moment the word itself is insisted upon, we A Practical Sociologist.
Mertion of Mr. Ha o'd Cox, the of $70, but added that he only sent moats in the United States. despatch, will, I do not doubt, ba get tyranny instead of democracy as in the ouse of the trade unions, editor of the Edinburgh Review, got $14 out of the transaction Adengagement batween the Turks apprciated by the Foreign Com- Similarly it is the name "conscription" which we all abczninst. in yesterday's wire coscerning which he spent on clothes. He and the Allies in Gallipoli resulted munity." Call it national service, call it compulsory military tuition, and we the ratinal service question may said that he was asked to take is the fo mere losing at least [The Shanghai Times has'strong- Counsel (to a prisoner charged accept it; y, even hail it.
remind some of ourr a lera that the child to a friend. He was two thousand men se against ly urged that the peace of the at the Manchester Assizis with The Settlements be preserved. We manslaughter, and giving evid Setting aside
come and regarding only the he was the energetic young man sentenced to twelve month's im three hundred of ours. notion, the position is now as it has ever been if the who, in the early eighties, fave prisonment.
attemptel raid on Ramsgate and have no fear that Britone will ence in his own defence): Wha the suburbs of London serves once disturb it, but if the German are you doing at present? Government cannot get aufficient volunteers it must order men to upa Cambridge profesorship to
mora to show what a pror reed Consul is so solicitons as to the Mr. Justice Bankes: "I tha Borve. Bat such a contingency bas never yet arisen, and, judging gold work an agricaltonl
The Victoria Theatre put up the Germana have to lean upon welfare of "German Life and quite the right way to put it? A from Earl Kitchener's repeated expressions of approval at the labourer in the Sath of Eng'a id.
One fact which there in order to discover how the an exceptionally good programme in their much vaunted Zeppelins. property" he would be well present he is rather uncomfo progress of recruit'ny, is not likely to arise. in no dodging still, faces us, however. It is that so many handreds poor live. It was a bold and a last night, containing, among The Zeppelins, in theory, were to advised if he would restrain the table. Suppose you ask him whe or thousands of men of military age, who are not prevented by placky thing to do all the pluck other things, two Pathe Gz.t'es conquer the world; in practius ebullitions of Germans who have he was working at before thi physical defect, have nct enlisted. It is charitable and well within ier in that he had plenty of kind with it treating war pictures. they have done next to nothing done sufficient in China to incident." the bounds of common sense to assume that, of the number who have friends ready to write him down" The Kangaroo at Home" was a We do not see why Washington warrent the strongest retaliatory failed to enrol themselves, many have been deterred solely by their an eccentric or even a madman. wonderfully vivid picture of a should be "disappointed" over measures. We do not advocate own conscion 1388 of want of training. Enlistment, they argue, What sort of success he met with day in the life of that marsupial, Germany's Reply. What, pray, that theee measures should means months of humdrum work in an English oamp and posibly as a labourer is not generally giving one a fair general idea of did Washington expect? The be taken; we hope the never seeing the enemy at all. If, from boyhood, they had been known, but he certainly "stuck his habits, family, surroundings American press speaks its mind peace of the Settlement will accustomed to the age of the rifle and to general army drill illsy it out for nearly a year, end we and enemies. The two long pic, plainly enough on the subjzor, not be disturbed. And while would have known none of this diffidente: Consequently, if com- may well believe that the experi- turen were Absinthema mat, and the New York Journal not wishing to appear discourte withoal De Kuipping
gained proved sensationally dramatic prezent-euggestion thar the Lusitania was dus to the Consul General for pultory education in these subjects be now introduced we at once put valuable to him when, in later ment of the havoo wrought by as much awer ship as Louvain Germany in Shanghai, we feel we
to anticipate trouble aside this particular obettole where the fature generation of soldiers
ly fixing the blame Saoh" art cipations. is concerned. Leaving out this class we probably find few men life, he took up journalistic and this pernicious beverage and a University and Rheims Cathedral matesy that the information remaining: those who are frankly afraid, and those who hide their political work, It is noticeable, delightfully funny "Wills" Alm, were fortresses has a neatness contained is his letter is not in
Aotions following their cowardice behind that useful shelter-conscientious objection. If too, that many of the persone who in two part, which everyone who about it which we fear will be etrist nccord with the truth. Far ford eloquent tribute such men were forced to enlist they would be worse than useless in pooh-poohed him as a crank are inspoiling for a good laugh should somewhat thrown away on thick ther, British subjects in Shanghai E., ST 1-Shanghai Tiles the field, and the only way to deal with them is by means of heavy to-day among his most ardent certainly go to are.. £nes and disenfranchisement.
the
ence which he
admirers.
Leniency Abused.
Child Stealer's Admission.
Victoria Theatre..
Tenten'o skulls,
;
argi tempera, and preserve the
(know well how to restrain their