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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1915.
Flight Lieut. Warneford and His
Mother.
DAY BY DAY.
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NOTES ON THE CRISIS. NEW EVERY MORNING.
VESSELS LARGE MAY VENTURE MORE NEUTRAL PROTESTS. Notes of Sermon by Rev. J. Kirk
Maconachie at Union Church- on Sunday Morning,
MORE,
BUTLITTLEBOATSSHOULD KEEP NEAR SHORE-Franklin.
We are very glad to bear that a permanent memorial to Lieut. Werneford is to be established. Men's memories are apt to be
Count the Columns, 14 short, particularly after a war
On Saturday the Telegraph that has produced so vast & published 43 columns of solid number of heroic deeds, both by reading matter. To-day there individuals and by bodies of men. will be 30 published. The whole world's sympathy will) go, out to the poor mother. Apropo, we are forced to believe Candian and U. K. Mail:-Uloed that theenonymous letter received
to-day at 1 pm.
LIQUEUR by this lady" God's curse on
WHISKY
you all!" was sent by a German or else by a raving maniae. In either case, the authorities at Home can hardly be congratulat- ed. If the sender comes under the latter head, it is time he was being "looked after," while, il a Germaa *#1 the offender it only shows that there are still enemies in, the Homeland who ought not to be at large. When CO. LTD., the world is at peace again and
The Premier Scorch
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of the East
A
S. WATSON
MONGKONG:
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The Italians are certainly not Text: Exodus XVI 18-20. doing things by halver, and even "And Moses eaid; Lst no man the most fanguine of the enemy leave of it till the morning. must realise the impossibility of Nevertheless they hearkened not The Accounts show a Profit of Anatrin's making anything like a unto Moses; but some of them £107.952.9.6, and, after providing lasting stand against them. The left of it until the morning, and for Depreciation on Buildings and Rome communiques are, we it bred worms and etank."
Plant, Iccome Tax, Directors" and " notice, always hopeful, yet tinged New every morning, is the Managing Directors' fees, Cam- with a becoming modesty beautiful and constantly needed missions, the payment of the pre- exaggeration is manifestly lack-parable of the desert manta. It ference Dividend to 3lat. Dicem ing. This morning a message implies the general law that bef,1014, and a a Interim Dividend says frankly enough: "Our wherever there is life there is on the Ordinary Sharea to 31st losses are serious, but the resulta change, movement, and thie August, 1914. there is a balance obtained are important." We necessitates an ever freak supply of $37,214.19.11, which the have but to look at the map to re- Stegration bringe o.rruption. Directors recommend atall to Hongkong and Shanghai Bank-alise the difficult programme Manna stands for all that con- appropriated as follows-
ing Corp.-$815, buyers. which the Italian military pom. tinnse to come from the primal. To pay a Final Dividend of 5 Indo-Chinas. $97, buyers. manders have outlined for them-source of life to sustain life per cent, making 10 per cent, par
ia mano Union Insurance Society of selves. Ons of the unpleasant derived, and
annum, free of Tax, on the Ordin O'ton, L.-$880, buyers. surprises for Austria must have thing which will not keep. The ary Sharer.
been the success which has attend. Treelites attempted to lay up To carry to the Reserve Fand. ed their enemy's air efforts. Pre more than the day's supply, and £9,220, making the Reserve sumably we may take it that the in the morning found their pains £100,000. approaches to "Triests are now had been for nothing. Instead of To set aside £1,500 against very satisfactorily out off, that the expected store of sweet fresh contingent loss an Continental the city can look for no help from food, there was a mass of cffensive goods in transit or on enemy the main army, and that con- putrefaction. It is natural to men ships. eequently its days are numbered, to not thus. Probably the man was To pay to the Trustees of the never born who would not like to Employees' Provident Fund Progress of Events in Galicia. The Galician tattle-a whole way to himself; "Soul, thon bast £1,000, and to carry forward the The rate of the dollar on war in itself-seems to have de- much goode laid up for many balance of £11,472. 3. 7. to the demand to-day is 1s 01. veloped into something exactly years; take thine ease." How pro- next yeare' account,
corresponding to the prolonged found are our slumbers when to fight on the France-Belgian front, morrow's manus is safe stored in only on a larger scale. The Lam the pot-breeding worms. Need- berg-Przemyel area still remains less to say this is not meant to tiny, slowly and painfully built the kernel of the fighting, snd en encourage idlenese and improvid-up during these reven contaries, other things, have discussed the Drowned in the Harbour,
Austrisa communique says that ence, The sluggard had to go confirmed and extended wherever adsiaability of making drill a reWhile walking between a cargo Grodek which lies roughly mid- hungry as he always should, cor language is spoken, and of gular part of school work. We boat and a trading junk of Ear-
being stcrmed. We wonder if sun unless it was stored betimes it is not. The American Declara- wish the young Chinese all success tern Street, Coolie fell into the way between the two towns-is for the manna melted in the patent influence in many where in the movement. As our corre- water on Saturday last and was the Austro-Germans yet realise for the day. God's day may be tion of Tndependence is based
Raseis Can afford spondent points out, the average drowned. The body has not that
to twenty-four hours, or it may be upon the Charter's assumption of Chinese, dalass he happens to be- been recovered.
lose millions of men zeven years, as when Pharaoh the right of all men to life and long to the coolie or artisan class,
and yet keep cther millions, the bad to lay up during the time of liberty, and that declaration has is miserably lacking in muscular]
flower of her army, for clearing plenty for the coming period of been the model, ever since, for development. That one can un-
up matters. If the fighting on the want, or it may be a million years every people struggling to be derstand among a race which,
western, southern and Gallipoli as when in ages gone by the coal free. It is because the British flag till quite recent years, looked police of the theft of a pair of fronts is a hopeless business, a measures were slowly accumulat- stands for these things that it has down on soldiering and on say his trousers that were banging losing game, how much more so ed for use in these centuries, But our loyalty and devotion. It is to form of sport-other than fan tan in his room. Together with some is that in Galicia, where a strong whatever the period, it has its defend these ideals, and to and similar healthy recreations. $22 that were in the pocket the slow heavy-weight is taking all term, beyond which we may rol secure themselves in the posses- Those days are now past and complainant estimates his loss at the punishment his more showy seek to provide, and its tomor.sion of them that the many di China is manifestly anxious to $27.
advereary can bestow, and row which will be sufficient for visions of our scattered Em- have united s they range herself alongside other
Coolie Knocked Overboard, 13 yet reserving more itself."Let no man leave of it pire nations where muscálar activity
alrength The body of a coolie has been than enough
to till the morning;" the principle are doingto-day, is concerned. The success which sent to the Public Mortuary. He krok him out when he Las sheds light on many things government by, of and for the bas attended her sons at the was walking on board the s.a. sufficiently exhausted himself. beyond the supply of perishing people should perish from the recent Olympic Gara es is a Panam unloading korosine in Nerway and Sweden Angry. bread for the perishing body. For earth, and be replaced by a proof of this anxiety among at Wanchai Bay between the ship's The long expected pro eals instance when we say a certain military bureaucracy which pro loat some of them. When the side and the batch, when he was from the Scandinavian Press, in battle has been fought, a certain missa great things in the way of Chinese take seriously to. outdoor knocked overboard on to a jank regard to the sinking of Nor moral principle established "once material efficiency, but is really exercise or to gymnasium work itenstaining injuries from which wegian and Swedish skips, has for all, we are spt to find or the negation of free civilisation. does not take them long to score, he died.
come at last; at least the beginn selves mistaken. It is true that To-day's struggle is really the We have some splendid tennis
Collision off Yaumall," " ing of it has come, with a sug-every such victory wins some latest phase of the unending players and cricketers among those The master of a licensed fishing gestion of more to follow. Both lasting advantage, but there is vigilance by which alone human Hongkong, while, in the Special junk has reported to the police countries must be said to have very little 200 for all" in rights and liberties can continue Police Reserve, their company is that on Saturday while he was exercised most laudable patience; Ruman affairs. The ging; "the in this world-the right of small going to be hard to beat where rowing his boat in Yaumati Bay, indeed had they submitted in price of freedom is eternal vigil nations to exist and preserve smartness, keenness and efficiency the stean launch collided with silence to many more attacks on ance" is a way of saying that their own development, the appeti is concerned. We hope to hear and damaged his boat to the extent their shipping, the Allies might yesterday cannot supply tomor to law as against the mere will of that the lads of Canton will take of $30. A foki, who was slight have had to look for a less com row's store. Corruption infallibly the strong. Our whole British example from those of Hongkong, ly injured in the chest, had to be plimentary term than "patience." sets in when men think to live history shows how impossible put their backs into it, and become removed to the hospital for treat Next, probably, we may look upon the past, even on that in the it is in thess great matters to for a formal Government protest. past which may be the pure, live upon the past, simply men who can take their own part ment.
Thefts In a Theatre. Perhaps that is what Germany direct gift of heaven. We speak enjoying what has been bequeath- physically as well as intellectually
This morning at the Police wishes. The Cologne Gazeta of this or the other question aed to us. The ink on the Charter Court & Chinese, who was charged most truthfol
and
most "settled ", but, in their essence, was scarcely dry before John, with the theft of a pair of slippers amiable of publications in a most quest cas of importance re- who had signed it, was in arme was said to have deprived the sudden burst of frankness over car with every generation, It is against it. After him Plantage- owner of them while he was the American Note, suggests that delightful to see that a Society of nets, Tudors and Stuarta had to ssleep" in the Taiping Theatre, Germany has no wish to make a sane persons keeps seriously die be resisted in their enorosch- He aleo relieved another of the ninth or tenth enemy. With all puting the "established factments, several times by armed and fight for the Empire. If there were many men of this stamp A paragraph in our General in the Empire-and thank God there are not we should not deserve News of Saturday should be audience of a silver buttin, and respect, we would submit that that the earth is round. If you rebellion, and we to-day in our viotory; Britain would be better conquered and blotted out. One interesting to parents and achool this morning when he appeared this is just what Germany does argue with them, you will very different fashion have to vindicato would like to feel that there were extenuating circumstances; that masters; for it states that an Am- before Mr. Wood he was sent to what to do, and that we refuse to likely discover that they know for our generation the inheritance Beuter's wire had stated the matter too baldly. Bat how are we erican educationalist has express-prison for six weeks with hard believe in the alleged depth of immore about the matter from the from the past, which, like, all best pression created by the Washing side of error than you do from the things, needs constant renewals
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1915.
WORSE THAN THE ENEMY.
If there be a lower depth of infamy then that to which Germany has sunk, it is the offence for which two Glasgow.merchante have just been sent to prison. When we hear that a Hongkong compradore or a London cheniler, in defiance of ordinances, has taken advantage of the state of war to raise his pricen unduly we are all angry and contemptuous, and ready to appland heartily the magistrate who inflicts a smart sentence on them. What ought we to feel, then, when we discover that these two man, Hetherington and Wilson, have been found guilty of actually aapplying material to a firm of German gan-makers? The impression that will coms to most of us is that. six months' imprisonment and a fine of two thousand pounds is an utterly inadequate sentence.for such baseness.
of
in this twentieth century world.
Truly a man's foes shall be they of his own household. The offence is not merely that of trading with the enemy; it goes deeper than that, for such an exposure advertises to Germany and to the world A Novel Method of Education. generally that there are, among Britishera, men vile enough to help the enemy to kill the brave fellows, who have left everything to go
Theft of Trousers Reported. Mr: T: Gallagher in the Belle View Hotel has complained to the
leet
to get round so damning an announcement as "The evidence ed himself as being in favour of labour,
Armed Robbery on a Junk. ton Note. It Germany could find side of truth, and that you will no man may leave of it till the
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ters of common knowledge and which, in essence, remains unal-
adduced proved that they had delivered iron ore, lying at Rotterdam, allowing a boy to learn "what he
A case of armed robbery is re- America, Norway, Sweden, have to go into it more deeply than morning. The same principle; to Krupp's daring the war."?
likea." A lot of aympathy with this
ported from To Kwo Wan. A Ronmenin and Holland apagainst you thought if you are to have apply to the truths cf revealed There was bitterness enough at Home after the Crimean and will be felt by many of our readers fisherman lying off there reports her she would be perfectly con more than a second-hand hold of it. religion, in which resp:ok also Ecer wars, for there were all too many proofs that dishonest who can look back on the that on Starday night five men tent; for she can only loss, and Far be it from sny who love truth yesterday's manne was for yester- contractors bad swindled the Government over supplies for the troops, wearisome study of some subject, rame alongside hie jank and whether she gives up her dic of any kind to feel aggrieved day's men. There is such remounts etc., etc. That was bad enough; a disgrace, in fact, or subjsota which they have never boarded her, two of them carrying honoared sword to Sir John or vored when somone arises thing as the faith "oncs de that is not even wiped out yet. But neither of those campaigns was required in their adult life. The knives. They told the inhabit French or General Joffre or to who questions all authority, livered to the saints," but every a life and death struggle either was a mere brawl in comparison objection to this simple method is ants to keep quiet and one of them the military representatives of dispates the things most surely generation must make its own with the war in which Britain is now engaged. What, then, are we a very serious, and perhaps struck the fisherman on the arm every civilised country in the received amongst us, maintains stady and gain its own grasp and our children to feel when, in future years, we are reminded that, insurmountable one; that the per with a rowlook and threw him world can coarcely matter very the veriest paradoxes about mat of the body of Christian truth in the greatest conflict that the world has known, waz material was son whose education is to one into the water. He managed to much to her. sold to the enemy by Britishers; that trouble was made in our own sided never gives of his bast,
More German Blunderlag" all bat universal agreement. He tered. We cannot live on the workshops with the result that we lost troops who need not have been and, in most cases, grows up con- wade ashore but in the meantime
Once again the Germans have may be a crank," bat he is at faith of our fathers. We live by lost, through insufficiency of ammunition; and that men had to be tent with a very limited horizon. the robbers ransacked the boat coaxed and flatterad into enlisting? Such slats can never be entirely Not only so, but a brain that has and stole money, jewellery and had to be taught that the massed leset slive, and in the order of faith in the game God as our fa- formation business does not pay. Providence there are wheels for there, but we must make Him our blotted out; but the war is not over yet, and, during the period that not born exercised by e.g. mathe. elcthing to the value of $307.
Indian Seriously Injured, Germauty seems to get out with cranks to turn beneath the car of God and choose Him for our por remains, Britishere have it in their power to make so many sacrifices, matice is less likely to obtain a As a result of a fight between the idea that all she has to do is progress. To take a more serious tion. New every morning" must to perform so many services, on behalf of the Empire as will help most strong grip even of the subjects of the world to forget the ugly reverse side of the picture, and will for which it has the greatest two Indians, one of them now lies to put so many hundreds of thou-illustration than the last, it was be the gift of the Spirit by which apply their children with such a weight of evidence in favour of liking. The plan has been tried in in the Government Civil Hospital eands of men into one small area 703 years ago last Tuesday that the Church, ie led into the things British loyalty that the unforgettable and the indelible will at least a loose sort of way at Home, and in a serious condition. On Fri and the day is here. Time after the Great Charter in which British of Christ, The great questions appear merely as a tiny spot of evil in a whole ocean of good. Prac- the result has not been encourage day evening Jagat Singh, a watch-time she has tried this sort of rights and liberties are legally of religion recur with every gen tically it comes to this now: that it is the duty of every right-thinking. We grieve to say it, but we man employed by Messere. W. C. foolery and, on each occasion, enshrined was signed by the eration. They need horrify no ing Britisher to do penence for the few defaulters who have co sense have met ancoeaefal musicians, Jack and Co. and another named disappointment and discomfiture worst of English Kings. They one, however extreme the form not new rights and they take, For Christ is and re- of loyalty or shame in them. In order to "silence hostile tongues o painters en soientists who, on Nawab Singh employed by have awaited her. In the latest were such subjects as the Glasgow osse, the work-shops dispute etc., our all other mettere but their special Messra. Cooper and Co, are said instance, she brings four hund-liberties which it contained, but mains the Bread of Life which countrymen have to do even more than they were prepared to do,"line" were more ignorant than to have had a quarrel which led red thousand men all the way old ones long enjoyed, and can came down from heaven, and still whether by personal service, by money, or by whatever other means many an agricultural labourer of to a fight, in the course of which from the Eastern front, only to stantly needed reassertion against satisfies overy lies in their power. Then the first man who casta in our teeth the foot to-day. Cannot some happy mean Nawab Singh received injuries find that her plans have been Kings and other mighty men and after righteousness. I we have that there were Britishers as base as Iscariot himself during this war, be followed by which a boy only which led to his removal to the foreseen by the British, France powerful classes, civil and cleric moving world it is under a livi can be at once overwhelmed and out-argued by the weight of evid- begins to specialise and " to learn bospital. His condition was con and Britain will naturally smile al, always seeking to increase God if we lead a changeful. He The Chatter cot. It la under a Guiding Providenius ence with which we shall be able to show that the oases quoted what he likes after he has aidered so seriona yesterday that and suggest that she should send their power. are exceptions that have no standing whatever in face of the received a moderately decent we understand his dying deposi- & few more hundred thousande tains the germ and foundation of it we stand in a
the whole fabric of free institu- there is over- liberality and self denial exhibited by Britain as a whole.
general ednostion ?
tions were taken.