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Race.
THE WAR LOAN:
Generous Response from Singaporo,
The period of subscription to the National War Losa terminaten to-morrow at home, and will to all intente and purposes clous i Singapore to-day says the Straits Times of July 9. It is impossible yet, although it would be interest The wires of this "morning are voluminous enough and quite visited Newmarket yesterday, snbeoriptions from this Colony, Evidently many more people ing, to ascertain the eggregate of interesting; if they have a lanit,
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war broke out between France and Prassie. Wat was declared by France on the fifteenth of July and, on the Seventeenth, the Ger mana acospted the challenge, even though the declaration was not formally delivered in Barlin till the Nineteenth, The French, mera fer-seeing than the world clear, gave them credit for being at the t'me, read with exactness what clear- Germany's programme was to be; and, with their tradi
it is that do not tell us what we say the Times of June 16, then That could only be arrived at by tional warm-blcoded gallantry, Yesterday the Telegraph want to know. There is a word had been generally expected; for the favour of the various banks challenged the budding tyrant published 344 columns of solid or two from each front: the tail conveyances at the station werna have been passed. In the mean- when the London tra'n arrived through whose bands applications to a war for which, unhappily, reading matter. To-day there end of Sir Ian Hamilton's report, suficient to take only a small frao-time, however, it osn be stated Fracce us all to ill prepared will be 431 published. making mention of one or two use- tion, and a large number not off that the applications were more Her judgment was sound enough;
fal minor successer;an Italian.com on the long and tedius trudge numeroza and more imposing munique recording a renewal of to the course. After all it was, than was anticipated even by fault. The quick French intell-Siberian Mail-Dae per B.. activity on the Austrian fout, with if not the veritable Derby, much too in a position to estimate. ject had lot no time in realising. Liangchow to-morrow. apparently very decided scores for more than a colourable imitation, that the Power which had beaten English Mail Closed per 8.8. she Italians; the repelling of acou and men will go to see the great we are in s pontion to verily The biggest applications which Denmark in '64, and Austris in '68,
Sardinis at 11 am. to-day.ple of German attack in Argenae, est of races. The usual story has to were several of £20,000 each, and Was Buffering fom" aweled head" French Mail.Closes per 8.8. dmoresse-sawinginthe Russian bo told of the attendance. A large of these the Straits Trading Co. in consequence, and would Brick
Ville de la Ciotat to-day at fild-from which the enemy proportion of those present were and the Singapore Oil Mills are 5 p.
looks to have emerged top-sawyer in khaki, a contingent in the blus two. The Straite Steamship Co., date its witn nge. It is interesting Siberian Mail.Closes per 8.5. Toat a Norwegian tawar has hospital clothing; the cheaper Lad have put in for £10,000 to see that, on this occasion, the
Chenan to day at 5 p.m. been torpedod comes almost as places were much best filled, bat while one of their directors, Mr. Emperor William expressed him
an event after quite a long, and not by many civilians of military Lee Ohoon Guan, applies for a self with charsoteriatic Prussian
as we think somewhat significant age. The Stewards of the Jookey farther £2,000 worth on his own. hypocrisy and in very much the
cessation of submarine attacks. Olab, Captain Greer, Mr. Arthur The responses from all classes and We derive no special excitement James, and Sir John Thursby, conditions of the people, indeed, same terms as his aneluous grand- Bon might have obosen. Live
or satisfaction from the admission who have beer enduring such has been remarkable. There is of Germany that she sank the troublous times of late, were at one individual £20,000, we as- Nebraskan, for we were already their posts, the Club being other derstand, and at least one amount under that impression; and her wise sparsely representıd. of £15,000. The big Ohinées în- and stitutions and the local insurance makes us yawa. We prefer to Before the numbers
were Companies have applied in pro- dwell on the farther proofs of hoisted for the Three-Year-Old portion to their abilities. For China and Manilas $5, Australia's intense loyalty in com- Handicap a notice was displayed example, the Chinese Commercial 40 cents buyers x the returning to the aid of the Imperial Gostating that horses whose places Bink asks for £6,000 and the of 84.50 per share.
vernment yet once more within the draw were over 30 Chinese Chamber of Commeros: Shell Transports 87 buyers.rs of re-inforcements.
“might have start beż as a body is applying for a large Kang Yike. Tis. 14.7 buyers.
hind" Four feet for eschaum. Ose local insurance com- animal is the allowance, and Mr. pany is in the lists for £5,000 and Eneat Willoughby, the starter, another, we understand, for even oslonlated that this would afford more.
Among private applica- room for something like 32. Theretions appear auch well-known But perhaps the best news of were in fact 38, and Mr. W. H. names at Mr. Tan Jaik Kim's all is that Ma. Asquith has Savill's Atom won from Mr. F. O, firm fər $5,000, Mr. J. A. Elías To-day's Anniversary. Today is the 45th anniversary aquared his jaw against all talk of Stern's Sentiment.
for 43,000 and Mr. E. B. Manasseh of the outbreak of the Franco compromise. Same wisesare-the
|£1,000, European merchante Radical Member for Hanley For the New Derby all the 17 appear in surprising bulk and a We shall look forward with Prussian War,
The National Rellet Fund. blandly asked if it was a fact that horses coloured on the card were not inconsiderable totel could be plenty of curiosity to the "special The following new subscrip" both the Belgian people and the saddled, Mr. S. B. Jeel's Pom- made of the applications in the report" which is to be made with tions to the National Relief Fund Government wanted to see the merr maintaining his position as name of ladies. reference to the treatmentofindian are announced:-British subjects Germans negotiated out of their favourite at the least abade over prisoners in Germany. So far, of all races in Siam (5th contri- country." The House, with Mr. even money. Mr. A. Belmont's 1 is understood they have
Full details of the race are a8. been given fall permission to nation), £750; Eastern Telegraph Asquith at its head, did not take Danger Book was in strong de
follows:- Company, Ltd. 103. many seconds to express itself on mand, in spite of the obvious fact, perform their religions duties; Chinese Republle Progress Club. this point. Boplaas "negotiated to which I drew attention yester bat there seems to be no elearį The Chinese Republic Progress out" with "driven out," and the day, that in the ordinary course of information on the subject. There Club has been registered as a House would listen; not other-oventa he ought not to beat Let Fly was a time when we should have company. It is limited by guar-wise. To talk of negotiations to Colonel Hall Walker's preference said that even Germany had too antee with 1000 members. The men who come of a sporting (and i had veered round to this colt much sense to insult gratuitously liability is 10. The object is to a fighting) race, seems too funny, who, his owner maintained, ought the religion of another race; but conduct a accial clab in or near We have seen enough in the past never to hays been boston in any just now we are prepared to Liverpool.
of what comes of negotiations of his races for the reason that believe anything, of her. A
Present for Constable, with a people that cannot rever-Follow Up had been stopped in country that cannot respect the We understand that the coast-ence even the most binding of his work. The trainer of Mr. Faith of some millions of ables and their officers at the treaties, and that would rather lis G. H. Williamson's King Priam its own subjects sufficiently, to Water Police Station, Kowloon, then. not. The Premier's grim was convinced that the son of We quoted, a couple of weeks ago, a statement of Sir James refrain from bombarding Rheims have subscribed $130 aas pre- remark about the terms of peace Your Majesty would, at least, run Crichton Browne's to the effect that the lanatio asylume are going strain itself to respect that of the popular member of the Pulice should be quite sufficient answer Blane's pair, Le Melior and Flo i Cathedral is hardly likely to sent for P. C. Kelly, a very which the enemy world entertain" into a place, but M. Eimond to be unpleasantly fall after the war is over. His remark had, of cours, special reference to the soldiers whose minds have become, Asiatics who happen to be in its Force, who has gone Home to to the world as to how an Empire mond, were little esteemed, in- or will become, unhinged through shocks, physical or mental, power. Nor can we believe that join Kitchenera Army.
that valuse its boncur regards the deed an owner who has horses in sustained in the field. Unfortunately, however, mind disordere are fear of causing dissatisfaction.
substitution of palaver for bard the stable with them told me that It is rotified in the Gazette that knocks. not to be regarded as by any means likely to be confined to men among the Turke would weigh
be could not regard either as a Mr. who have been on active service; for, terrible as the strain on them much with the Germany of the the following Sales of Crown
Darby horse. They led the way hae heen, there are all too many instances at Home where it has been present day, in her readiness to Land by Public Auction will be
in the caster, Pommern bringing Mr. quite se great: principally, of course, in the case of women. Britain gault Mohammedan prisoners, If held at the Police Station, Au
up the rear and evoking mach bas mercifully been spared the horrors of invasion, or of being even she had any hope of coming out Tau, at 12 noon, ca Thursday,
admiration, though in the matter M. of condition there was certainly a temporary battle-ground; the people at Home have seen none of victorious from the war, she Jaly, 22, 1915. the sights that have terrorised and paralysed the divilian inhabitants mighfirain a point and sap press And at District Offi e, Tsi Po. We took the liberty, the other no fault to be found with any of M.
ie, however, it would seem that 28, 1915.
The demeanour of the field at ebe cares little whether she
contraband cotton and not enough the post, a matter for description Yet there must be many thousands of persons in Britain who,
offends or plaasee even her The chief feature of the pro- firm action: Lord Crewe is surely at Epsom, cannot be made a sub- Sir friends. if they have not actually lost their reason, (and many undoubtedly
gramme at the Bijon Theatre etraying from the firm front offer ject for comment on the Suffolk will have done so) have become so weakened in nerve as to be no
Our Deportees.
during the past three nights has ed by his Chief, in the matter Stakes Course, the horses being Mr. H. B. Duryea's Chicka- longer of normal mind. Apart from the many who witnessed the found to be in unlawful possesses-by the Eclair Film Co., of Fey about leaving the door open, race is half over. Watching from Mr. J. B. Jool's Sunfre, 9st.
This morning a Chinese was been a magnificent representation, just alluded to, when he talk out of sight there and until the
mangwa, 9t. (M 10Ɑ96)... bombarding and bombing by German ships and aircraft of the ion of Government property. It dean's bright little extravaganza There spoke the true Radical the stand on the paddock side, various east coast towns and villages, and whose nervous system was was a minor offence and was
(W. Huxley) shattered thereby, even though they escaped without external huit, doubtless well mat with by the night the eight-part film, "The often made a laughing stock of runners are on their way till they
The Duchess of the Folies." To-politician; the type that has too there is no indication that the Mr. J. A. de Rothschild's Apo we have also to take into consideration an enormous number of fourteen days imprisonment Curse of Greed, will be shown Britain, and that helped to render round the turn into the atraight Mr. naturally delicate persons living in areas that have been threatened posed." Bat the thief was a for the first time. It is, we un-war with Germany possible. The and it is announce that "They by aircraft and that may yet be so attacked. Many of these must, returned deported a piany-times-derstand, a drama of great power whole of the Marquis speech, as are coming. As soon as details Mr. of necessity, find their mental constitutions weakened through mere returned deportee, in fact; for, and interest. apprehension. Again, we have to take into account those on the migistrate's asking him
given da by Reuter, is an example could be discerned, Pommern waB
9at (M. Wing)********** who have lost one or husbands, or who know these to how often he had been banished. It is notified in the Gazette that which his school has been treat prominent in the front rank, the
Exempted From Registration, of the wretched half-messures to seen to be, if not actually leading, Mr. W. J. Tutem's The Re be prisoners in the hands of the Germans. The loss of a ho said nonchalantly that it might the following society has been ex ing the country for more years benter of the green and pink Colonel Hall Walker's Follow
venge, 9st. (E. Piper) relative rarely deranges the mind of the bereaved, it is true; but have been twice or might have empted by the Governor-in-Doun- than one cares to count. It stripes having for immediate Up. 9B, Huxley)..... loss at a time like this undoubtedly has a more shocking effect, in been thrice. Here is a handsome oil from registration under the is impossible to institute companions Achtoi, ostrving Mr. G. H. Williamson's King a general way, than one expects it to have in normal times. illustration of how our banishment Societies Ordinance, 1911, (Ordi regular blockade of neutral Mr. Mortimer Singers's light Priam, St. (C. Heckford
We could go on for some while enumerating the various classes many of our readers would like name is hereby added to the List but it is not impossible to take dale, his jokey weiring Major Newmarket.)
and what nence No. 47 of 1911), and ita ports. Every fool knows that; blue, chocolate stare, ani Rossen
(Winner trained by O, Peok, at that must pay the price of war by impaired intellect, but the subject to koow is how com is not a cheerful one upon which to dwell. What we have to keep present arrangement is going to in Government Notification No. keeping out of war material from blas hoop. Colonel Ba'l Walker's mern, 10 to 1 each Danger Rock the of Exempted Societies, published such measures as will ensure the H. B. Roberte's pink, broad dark Betting 11 to 10 eget. Pom- in our thoughts, towever, is the fact that this calamity cannot yet be altered. If it were once known 172 of 1915, under the following Germany. While such people as blue and white check, cerise cap and Let fy, 100 to 7 The V zier, be spoken of as in the past, and that the likelihood of its spreading that a life sentence would be the heading: Social Clubs (Chiness) Lard Crewe are judging every on Let Fly, was is all too great; for the war is not yet over. If, by dwelling upon the unishment for returning from Wan Lam..
was not far off. It 100 to 6 My Ronald, 20 to 1 each article on ita merita" Germany can hardly be said, however, that Gadaboat, Sunfire, King Priam, they have already done towards anding the war, then there will have an end of such offences. If
ie grinning over her further suc the race looked to be between Le Melior, and Chickamauga, have been some purpose served by their keeping it in mind. Nervous a man were still hardy enough to besu advised to exercise his power tory of the things that she very decisively settling any 50 to 1 The Revenge, 100 to 1 weakness and incipient madness mast, like poverty, go on increasing put the law to the test it would of disallowance with respect to most needs; the things that are doubts which had existed as to each aget the others. until the war is brought to a close. Then let the subjects of the not be difficult to find occupation the following Ordinances Or Empire decide that they will close it, as far as they are able, by help for him. We are continually being disance No.: 25 of 1914-An helping to prolong the war. No his ability to get up the hill. He Place batting in proportion. ing with money or time or service to defeat the Germans and to put told that the gaol is not large Ordinance for the more effectual discourtesy, or of the brutil dis and won by two lengths, Bos-lengths separated second and one wants to see Britain guilty of was doing so with little effort, Won by two lengths three it out of their power to inflict so cruel and undeserved a punishment andagh to accommodate these preventing and further punish regard for the convenience, of sandale just keeping Achtoi ont third. Achtoi was fourt on those who are dear to them. And, when the war is over, let the ruffins, and that the Colony ment of the offence of trading others which is one of Germany's of third place, as thought and the sight of all the needless suffering that Germany has ought not to have to support them with the enemy. Ordinance No. distinguishing characteristics Let Fly was going very fast et
Rock fifth. The Vizier sixth caused stand in the way of any bridging over of the gulf between But to impose a life sentence is 13 of 1914 An Ordinance to but there is a line to be drawn. the finish, and perhaps if more her and ourselves: The man who, after peace is made, can shake the quickest way to keep them amend the Medical Hegistration At a time like this we have to ass had been made of him he ent handa with a Jerman and do business with him, well knowing that out of the Colony. As to maintain, Ordinance, 1881. Ordinanca No protect ourselves the more so would at least have been nearer ho and bis have been the cause of so much sorrow, physical auffering ing them, that would be no 0 of 1915. An Ordinanca to and madness to perfectly innocent people, no longer deserves to be difficulty if chain genge, were re amend the law relating to Sediti variable shown themselves theless, that the best hor
that isntral - nations have not The extreme probability is never- called an Englishman or a man at all.
anxious to play the game by us, The violars was well received,
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1915.
WAR NERVES.
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Crown Land Sales,
Lord Crewe and the Cotton..
The New Derby Stakes, a sweepstakes of 100 sove. each, with 1,000 sove, added (given by Lord Darby); the second reosive 200 sova. and the third 100 sove. Suffolk Stakes Course, one mile and a helf.
Ir. S. B. Joel's be Pommern, by Polymelue Merry Agnes, Pat, (S. Donog hae).....
Colonel Hall Walker'a bie Let Fly, by White Esgle
Gondolette,⠀⠀ Dat. (J. Childa).
Major Roberts's ble Rossen-
dale, by St. Fruzquin Menda, 9.t. (J, Clark) A. E. Barton's My Ronald, 9at. (C. Foy) Henvaim
A. Belmont's Danger Rock, 94 (A. Whalley) E. Blano's Florimond, 9st.
(H, Jellies)
E. Blano's Le Melior, 9st. (G. Stern), ** ****** **
of Belgium and parts of France, and, compared with the lot of the her natural boorishness. As ist 10 am., on Monday, Julyday, of observing that there was the lot. Lord Carnarvon's The Vizier,
olbor ocuntries of the Alliance, their burden has been light.
systemworks;
Bijou Theatre.
Ordinance Approved,
a deal too much blether about the
Bat. (F. Ballock)
E. Osasel's Gadabout, 9.4.
(F. O'Neill) ....
thecary, 9t. (B. Cooper)- M. Singer's Achtoi, Bat. (C. Tigg) 1 200
E. Tanner's Rashford,
unhappy fact, Britishera can persuade themagives to do more than banishment we should quickly His Majesty the King has not cessful smuggling into her terri-these horses, for Pommern was 33 to 1 Achtoi, 40 to 1 Rosendale
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