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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, BATURDAY, JULY 10, 1915.
Another Local Burglary,
It seems we were not far out
last week in assuming that the
burglary season has got into fall
DAY BY DAY.
NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
OENSURE IS THE TAX A MAN
THE RUSSIAN RECOIL.
swing and that the reign of com: PATS TO THE PUBLIC FOR BEING parative freedom from crime EMINENT.-Swift.
vary
The Weather.
Lower level 8 am. Temp. 84; overcast.
At the Peak 8 a m. Temp. slight fog.
Count the Columns. Yesterday the
The Mails.
78;
No More German South West Africa.
SOME MORE FIGURES USE OF BURNING LIQUID,
Statistics as to Britain's Supplies.
Reprisals on Germans by the "French.
The text of a Memorandum
which the Colony has known
Britain has good reason to be Many living to-day may be able aince war broke out has come to an end. The latest feat-
proud to day of her Union forces to recall the gepi old days when ammunicated by the French again in Kowloon-has been with
and of the brave and brainy leader Britain grew sufficient wheat for Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the getting BWAY
whose months of patient work in her population. In 1841 only 74 foreign Powers on the subject of Bomewhere about three hundred
the face of difficulties which very years ago encugh wheat was the use by the Germans of infism- dollars' worth of property from a
lew of ne can justly appreciate, grown in Britain to feed 24,000,000 mable liquida in trench warfare dwelling-house. The thief seems
have now been rewarded by the of people. Not all the available is published in the Tempa. The to have made his entrance, and
capture of what was once German land was in use nor were the best Memorandum quotes in full the exit by the usual means-via the
South West Afrion. The feat per methods of farming employed to Order issued from the Headquar at St. Quentin. From this Order, water pipe that runs up the wall
Telegraph formed by General Botha's army obtain this resul. Since that tere of the Second German Army
B great between each pair of houses. In published 351 columns of solid adds some eight hundred miles day there has been
the Times, it appears that the some neighbourhoode of the reading matter. To-day there to British coast-line in Africa diminution of the quantity of aye the Parie correspondent of
and tikes from Germany awheat grown until to-day we pro- "Colony the passage of a person will be 45. published. “
which possession from verandah to verandah is
she had bably produces less than one fifth fire-squirts ejecting inflammable. made impossible by some
occupied since 1884 and on which of our whist supply. During the liquid on October 18 had just wholesome-looking iren
a special Corps of olasively by she had spent vast some of money. years 1853-1880 only three fourths been introduced into the army at project apikes that
The seizure of this important co- of the wheat consumed wasof home as a new weapon handled ex- lony will form a special and most growth. Twenty-five years later Pioneers, who were attachable to variety of angles. Could not
ang unit which might need them. the same system' be made to ap.
engrossing chapter in itself when we imported two thirds of our the history of the war comes to be supply from abroad. We need go The Order gives directions for ply, on a smaller scale, to thesa
thair use. It explains that they rain-pipes? If property owners
written, and we shall then know no further than the food supply of t.what a price Sir Louis Botha Great Britain to be able to sp will squirt a distance of 20 metres were obliged to protect the pipes,
bas realised bis ambition. That preciate the excellent work which with barbed wire, the lithe-limbed gentry who at prosent, get into,
price, happily, has not been paid our Navy is doing. The following jary, and which, owing to the in British blood-at any rate to facts and figures compiled by Mr. and out of, a house with perfect
enemy to a considerable distance. 088e might suffer a useful check.
$5,8 very alarming exten; but the Holt Schooting bear eloquent heat generated, will drive the If the property-owners cannot be
weary marohes over mountain testimony to the efficiency of our The liquid will bara from a forced to do this perhaps house-
and Band waste, the poisoned Navy. One part of the report of holders themselves would make it
wells, the cruel heat of the Ka- the Royal Commission on "Sapply minute and a half to two minutes their business.to undertake the
lahari desert and the ever present of food and raw material in time contionally, or can be ejected in particularly for job. After all, the police have a
danger of German treacherous of war pablished in 1905 deals short jets. The instruments are practices have totalled up into a with the sticks of wheat and doar remmended amount of co-operation from the
quits formidable bill of coats. public.
The object of this paper is to publish correct information, to serve. right to look for a reasonable
the truth and print the news without fear or favour. 50* * * * * * *
Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.
Telephone: No. 1
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Western Union A.B.C., 5th edition. Offico addroes: 11, Ice House St.
·DEATH...
Captain Marryat.
Lie 123 years since the birth of Captain Marryat and very nearly 67 since his death; and if we spoke of bim as one of the "nearly forgoltena" we should brobably not stray far from the truth, Marryat was great in his be remembered for an indefinite time. He was relatively great, for he was one of the few in the first quarter of the nineteenth century
SAYLE-On July 1; 1915, at No 24 Kungping Road, Shanghai,way but not great enough to t Mr. and Mrs. T. Sayle, a son
..
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-DEATHS.
HOOPER-On July 1, 1915, at the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, Elsie Hunter, beloved wife of Gilbert Hooper, aged 20
years.
י
COOPER.-On June 4, at Horsham, Professor F. C. Cooper, M.Sc., of Bhanghai, aged 50.
FISHER-On June 2, at Croydon, W. W. Fisher, late of Straits Settlements, aged 60.
The Hongkong Telegraph
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1915.
THE CHINA ASSOCIATION.
Siberian Mail. Closes to-day
per 8.8. Luchow at 5 p.m.
Up to the Minite-Sharo Market News.. Closing prices:
Canton Insurance.
buyers.
Hongkong, C. and H.
L-204 sellers. Ohina and Manilas
S.
31
$368,
S. Co.
return
40 cents buyera x the of $4.50 per share. Dooke. $73, buyers. Shanghai Dock and Eag. Co.
LA.-$51 buyers. Shell Transporta 84 middle. Indo-Chiny-$111, buyers. China Sugers.-$125, buyers. Lazona.- $41, buyers. Kung Yiks-14, sales. Shanghai Cottons in Shanghai,
-Tle. 97 bayers. Langkate.Tle. 38), buyers. Ewod.-Tla. 170, buyers.
The Dollar.'
J
The rate of the dollar demand to-day is le 9 3/10d.
To-day's Anniversary,
#Sate of Crown Land.
on
4 sale of Crown land by public Auction will be held at the police station, Au Ten, at 12 noon, on Thursday the 22od inst.
Forthcoming Gymkhana.
To-day is the 123rd saniversary to whom it occarred to follow of the birth of Captain Marryat Smollett's magnificent'example of the novelist. mating use of a practical know- ledge of sea matters in his fiction. When he writes purely of the sea he is giving us what will always be valuable: Brecord of what naval life was like in the days of the French War. Apart from this, and apart from the frot
We have been supplied with that, at any rate in "Peter Simple", he gives as rome strik-the programme of events for the ing character studies, his work third Gymkhana Meeting to be can hardly be said to deserve any held at the Race course on Satar more enthusiastic term than day August 7, commencing at "entertaining"; and his plots are 3.30 p.m. (weather permitting). 20 unoriginal, in a general There are seven evente down for way, to make it likely that his decision. books will live.
Already the names of most of them are forgot. ten and there is little to dietin guish even" Peter Simple" from
Russia. Makes the Enemy
"Withdraw."
held in the United Kingdom.
The stocks are divided into For 0308 what the Russian three classes:→→→ communiques say is also what those of the enemy pretty much
own to. The Bussians bave done ie., stocks held in warehouses at what will surprise none of our the Principal Porte of the United readers who have watched their Kingdom.
a fme which causes mortal in-
street fighting.
The Memorandum remarks that the Government could allow its troops to remain without proteo tion against such refinements of barbarity, and that, consequntly,
1. First-hand or port stocks: the French Government intends using whatsover means seem fit to prevent the German soldiers, and authorities from committing fur- ther murders,
:
2. Second-band stocks:-i.c., stocks held by millers and bakers,
3. Farmer stocks.
form as closely as Renter's rasagre message permit, and who have exercised a decent amount of
VOLUNTEER ORDERS common sense over their deduc- tions. For days past, the fight-
Corps Ordera 1aaed by Inpat ing has lain round about the Lablia ares of Poland and the important as practically all cur Col. A. Chapman V.D. yesterday extreme north of the Galician ter- supply of wheat comes from over-pre sa under :--- ritory, and little as it is possible to meas.
Firat hand stocks are the most
know of what has actually taken The following table will serve
Joined.
The undermentioned having
Section) No. 1872 Bapper J. E. Anderson to Engineer Company, Masketry Part I
No. 3. Section Scouts Co., Bun- Park Range-Uniform, must be day 11th July at 9am.at King's om. Corp. Grimes B.E. will attend.
place, it is clear that, once more, to show that in seven out of joined the Corps, are allotted the Austro-German forces have eleven years there were many orps numbers and posted as had to learn tha: Russia is not to occasions when the amount of follows:-No. 1871 Private G. E. be bullied and bluffed cff the face wheat was less than a 23 weeks' Davis to Scouts Company. (No. 4 of the earth by sheer numbers supply. and cheek." In spite of another Number of weeks when First terrifio enemy stack with poison Class stocko of wheat and flour ed gas, our Ally has, it seems, fell below a 2 weeks' supply.
in 5 weeks during 18:16-1897 captured another eleven thousand Ia 4 weeks during 1895-1896. do a little running.
Io 40 weeks during 1897-16 98. prisoners and bes made the enemy -Other Matters,
In 36 weeks during 1898-1699,
Medical Certificates. Sta wires are The remaining
In 1 week during 1809 1900.;
Members of the Corps are re- In 3 weeks during 1901-1902. minded that only those issued by significance. And first that which
Ia 13 weeks daring 1902-1903. the Medical Officers of the Corps devoid neither of interest nor
Corn is not the only item for (Sarg. Major Black and Berg, telle of an explosion at the pow der factory at Hounslow. Are all which we are dependent upon Lient. MoKenny) will be accepted. the Germans at Home interned outside sources and the following It is notified, with reference to
yat? Did we, in times of peace, comparative table shows the Parades for Saturday. 10:b a ecore of other, glories of the Government Notification No. S. suffer from such visitations" as amount of imported food main- instant. 7 a.m. Signalling Section April 24 1014 that the blowing up of the Princese ained in the Country for conSignalling Instruction at Head- same period. In "The Flying 122 of
ha attempted information has been received Irene and the Balwark? Are samption, in the year 1894-1903.
quarters. Remainder, Nil Quantity in Datokman" something more striking, but from H.B.M.'s Consul General British powder-factory employessArticle
millions of Oun Club Hill, Kowloon, On asid to cannot ba
have at Tientsin to the "effect that the the brewe of British warships:
Ibat. duty until to-morrow morning- Aucceeded. At his best he was ro- quarantine restrictions imposed a careless, in a general way, LA
1894 1908 H. K, V. B. On daty from to häst, if rugged; at his worst he on arrivals from Hongkong on to permit accidental explosions?
...:10,762 12,121 morrow to 17th instant Civil became coarse; while, at hie med- account of plague have been with- We may well feel a little in Corn
2,988 3,400 Service Company. Officer on duty
913 Capt. Churchill.
Quarantine Restrictions Withdrawn.
The China Association'e annual meeting, a report of which we print on another pago, has, needless to say, a quite exceptional interest this year. To each man his own honour. The Association has done great things for the interests of Britishers in Hongkong and China and its indefatigable efforts to persuade the Government at Home to make a definite proacqucement on the trade with the enemy question have won for it the respect and admiration of all whose int rests lie in the Far East! At the time when the meeting was held, the all vitil subject was still in the balance; the Asocia tion was working as hard as ever to gain its end, but the battle bad not yet been won. The fact that we look back on the statements made at the meeting from the new ground secured to as should not diminish our interest in the statements made on that occasion; indeed the reverse should be the case... The Chairman's speechium, he had a most unfortunate drawn. shows how very anxions the Association was to deal fairly by all partien. The arguments that might be considered in favour of a continuance of the go-as-you-please attitude with regard to alien enemies in China till the Bill was preand are daly set forth and given their due weight; while those contrary thereto are not unjustly pasted. All is fair and above board.
How the matter was to end we now know. Fortunately the question is settled, at least for the duration of the war, and as to how much the Germans will have to say in the world's commerce in the East after peace is declared will be for other nations to decide. And here there is a little point in the Chairman's speech which is by no means without ite interest for Hongkong business men From the strong representations made by all our branches in China, we are quite satisfied that, there is no foundation for the statement that British firms are not ospable of overtaking the whole British trade with China without the participation in it of German firms." That they are capable we do not deny or doubt. But do they and will they make the best use of their abilities and opport unities? Germany was by no means the cole trade rival that Britain bad to fear in this part of the world. A glance down the. advertisement columns of any Far Eastern Bewspaper should show that.
proneness to the namby-pamby.
or
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624.
516 282
780
Parades.
Detail,
Dotention. Camp, Kowloor; On 435 daty to-night H.KVR. On duty 232 430 to-morrow night Scouts Company, 288 495 Officer on daty Capt, Stewart. On 774 daty 11th inetant Boonts Company, 252 Officer on duty Capt. Hutchison. 275 Orderly Officer 10 to 17th inst. 204 Lieut. Rees, Orderly Sergeant
quisitive and not a little troubled, Sugar when we read of one such oc- Beef carronce following on another in Bacon and Ham ... It has been pretty wellestablished Shanghai Professor Dies In
England.
this manner. One bit of news Bico by his modern biographere that
The London and China Express which it does as all grol to hear Butter. this last quality was a deliberate concession, on his part, to the announces the death on 4th ult, is as to the coal situation in Matton publishers and the public; that at the residence of Mr. Charles Constantinople. The Russians Potatoes he avowedly wrote for money and E. Browne, Christ's Hospital, have just suak zine colliers, at a Chesss was quite willing to give a foolish Horsham, of Prof. F. C. Cooper time when already the Tarka Tes generation of readers the rabbish MS., Frof. of Natural Science, were out of coil. This, as might Currants and Raisine 199 that it clamoured for. Unhappily St. John's University, Shanghai. have been supposed, has added Margarine there is a little too much of the Prof. Cooper was the second son to the general lowness of spirits Tobacco same spirit wandering about to day in British fiction.
come
to
of the late Clement Ocoper, of of the people of Constantinople Preserved Ment Chiswick, and was 50 years of who must dow, more than ever, Pork sge. The funeral took place on feel that the Germans have Cocoa & Chocolate 6th alt. at Itchinfield Church, bidden them take their pigs to a Coffee near Horsham.
queer market. Nor is the enemy
having thinga quite all his own
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90 10th to 17th inst. Sergt Longmire.
King's Park Range
123
64
Co
90
58
43
25
26
.46 The Range la allotted to the 93 Hongkong Polica Reserve on 57 Saturday, 10th inst.," from 2.30 29 pm, to dusk.
17,029 20,505
1,422 2,187
The Death of a Labour Paper,
We cannot grieve for the death of the Daily Citizen, which,, as we reported yesterday, bas Well Known in flöngkong. way where submarine warfare is
Major A. G. Cowan, 74th Pan- concerned. British submarines Eggs an end "at least
want jabis, attached 53rd Sikhs, Indian in the Sea of Marmora, while This table will illustrate at a for the present" from of fande. When it was started, Expeditionary Force, died on leaving passenger ships alone (a glance the comparative figures ago we active service at Saez on June 1, consideration, by the way, which fast given. The thin lines repre- nearly three years ventured to predict that it aged 38. At the outbreak of would meet with the same fate hostilities he was in command of the Germans are incapable of aents the year 1894, the thick
uncomfortable for the enemy What many British business houses do not realise is that the
appreciating) are making things old lackadaisical methods of carrying on trade-three days a week ventures in the newspaper line.jabis at Hongkong. In December transporte. Also we read-and work and four days to get over the effort was all very well when True, the trade unions have been he was at ached to the 53rd Bikba, without a great deal of surpriss- there were no rivale in the field. There was a time when, whether extremely generous and loyal to it, and while with them at Sarz was that it was a British submarine but newspaper atation is a rieky gazetted major. At a parade of which sank the German battle- our firme did well or did ill, they were still sore of the trade in the
game, as many of the big London trcops there on April 12 Maj ship laat week. Treaty Forte, Are they so sure now? Our leading article of Thurs-
companies know to their cost. If Cowan was presented with the day spoke of the need for a stronger business element in the con sular service. Assuming that, in coures of time, we get that, will an arowedly democratio paper is bronze medal of the Royal it profit as unless the British firms are going to be more enterpris." mild and moderate in its articles Humane Society. This medal aud news it is pooh-poohed says the London and China Ex
His Excellency the Governot ing? We are well aware that the men at the China Association
by the more violent of the Lab-press, had been voted to him in has been planeed to promote Sar meeting were, at any rate in most cases, old stagers in Eastern trade and that such a meeting is not a mere case of a number of people ourites as lacking in spirit; while. recognition of his gallantry in geon-Captain G. D. R. Bleck, if it becomes viralent and vitriolio going to the assistance of a native Hongkong Volunteer Corps, to be getting up to speak about thoy know not what. At the same time it must not be forgotten that many of them have not seen the East and sends the Throne and the officer of his regiment at great Surgeon-Major, with effect from under molera conditions and that the post-Revolution China is a House of Lordato perdition, it mere-risk to his own life daring the 7th July, 1915.
His Excellency the Governor place as strange to them as though they had never been out of Engly serves to disgust or to amuse, bathing parade in Hongkong
so far as the general public is harbour on July 10, 1914. He has been pleared to appoint Mr. land. What they and what some of our local business mon have to realise in that" foreigner" no longer means exclusively "English concerned. Britishers have heard married in 1903 Rosslind, Roland Arthur Charlie North an men" to the Chinese, that other nationalities are trading in China a deal too much of trade unions daughter of Mr. Justica Moore, Assistant Superintendent of police, ed for consumption in the United of late and can hardly be expect LOS., by whom and two children with effect from the 12th July, Kingdom per head of the popula and have come to stay and that, unless our own people "get a move on",
those nationalities will take the trade from under their veryed to give their support tos pape, he is survived.
that advocates strikes“and sich.” noses and small blame to the takers.
-
1915,
APPOINTMENTS:
影
and Hami
Bacon
Potatoes
The ohisf items of food import
tion.
Article.
Corn
Sagar Beef
Bacon and Eam
Rice
Batter
Quantities per
head of population in
189 1908
Ibs
276.9 272.1
lbs
76.0 78.4
18.1 206
18 3171
7.217.8 7.2 10.4 7.4 31.1 77017249
6.4 6.6
5.5 8,2
3,2 20
Matton Potatoes Свеве
Ten...
Margarino
Currents and Baisins 4.0 $4,69
1.70 20
Preserved Mcstu $15 LO
Cocoa and Chocolate 01430,2 0.7 0.7
Tobacco
Pork
1121
Coffee
Total:
437 8 407.2