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NOTES ON THE CRISIS
THE SUBMARINES.
Germany's Efforts In Polan1.”
FULL COURT.
QUESTION OF A WILL AND FAMILY TREE,
OVER $250,000 INVOLVED.,
WEDDING
Storrie-Browa.
Nowe basant reiched the Colony, we are informed by Mr. Wilkos, of the marriage of Second Lieutenant A. P. Etorrie, of Hong- kong, to Jeavle Annie the fifth A Fall Court of Appellats deughter of Major A. J. and Mr. jurisdiction composed of Sir Brown, at Colchester, on June 18. From the wording of Renter's Haviland de Sauemirez (Chief Both the bride and the bride. lengthy wire aa to Germany Justice H. B M. Supreme Court groom, as well as the bride's plans in the Eastern field, we are of Chn), President, Sir William parents, sro well known in Hong- not very olear as to how much R Davies (Chief Justice, song. The bridegroom went Home belongs to the Badepest despatch Hongkong) and Mr. Justice with the Hongkong contingent and recently received B commis- and how much of it is a general Easeland (Puiano Judge). statement of the relative positions
In the matter of the appeal in sion in the Middlesex Regiment. of the two armies. Even if we connection with the Yua Hing The father of the bride when in take the whole, as being of enemy Company. Mr. Alabaster inform Hongkong, was a Captain in the Amerion Mail-Dus per ..origin it canro be said to make ed the Court shat this was on Army Service Corps He was out to good a case for the appeal made from an order of the here for about three years and Empire to-day.
Austro German outlook.
Hongkong has follright to con gratulate itself on the promptnena of its aid to the lol sufferere. We sometimes have occasion to remark that the Colony is given to the amiable vice of allowing the grass to grow under its fest but that can never be said when charity is the question of the tour. Both Chinese and British have, as usual put their backs in- to it and the result is going to be splassant surprise to the poor peo
On Saturday the Telegraph ple who have lost their all. Help has come, and is coming, from all pablished 434 columns of solid classes of teth communities. One reading matter. To-day there dislikes, when all are doing their will be 37 published. best, to single out any one parti- calar effort for special mention; but we think that all our readers will agree that the decision of the owner of the rival theatre to close bis house while the Koh Shing charity performances are in pro- greɛs is as graceful and
sa
A. S. WATSON & Co, Ltd. generous an act as they have heard
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS-
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, MONDAY, JULY 19, 1915.
IS THE BLOCKADE FAIR TO NEUTRALS.
to
Count the Columns.
The Malls.
to-morrow at noon,
of lately. When times are good, everyone can afford be Siberian Mail-Oloses per s.s.
Anhui to day at 3, p.m. generous; but, since the wes broke out, money has become abro mally tight and therefore every gift and every sacrifice seems o be of double value just now,
The. Attempt on Lung
Chal-kwong.
It is extremely regraitable that an attempt on the life of General Long Chai-kwong should have to We commented briefly, on Saturday, on the to conciliatory be recorded as one of the featorea attitude of the Marquis of Urewe towards those Neutrals who are of the fl.od season. It is not the affected, or who claim to be affected, by the British blockade. Since first time in the history of the then we have received a Washington wire which speaks of the world that a person in authority growing agitation among the Americans by reason of the cotton has been made an assassin's target restrictions. The export figures given in the telegram are coarcely at the very moment when he worth taking veriously; rois Count Bernstorff's lamentation to the was cooking to benefit the American Secretary of State; albeit, with respect to the latter, it is people. General Lang has done almost amusing that even a Prassian ambassador should be able to very wisely in informing the sammon up impudence enough to ask a favour of a Neutral govern- Press frankly of what occurred. ment whose subjects have been murdered in cold blood by the country which he represents. But that is merely a matter of senti- ment, and it is the pa tical and legal aspects of the situation that it most behoves us to dwell upon.
Fortunately the legal view is not difficult to arrive at; for it
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Since he took over the Tatuhship, two years ago, his life has rot been altogether a roay one. Those of our readers who were in Hong. kong at the time of his elevation
to the post, will remember in what condition, he found the city
Bir Travers Twies, author of "The Law of Nations," has laid it The Women's Deputation. down that "any attempt on the part of a Neutral merchent to intro- duce supplies into the invested port ia inconsistent with centrality;"
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Up to the Minute-Share Market News.
losing prices:
North Chines Tls, 165, Hongkong Firas.
bayers.
buyers, $396,
Von
immediately, but rather at the AUSTRALIAN APPRECIA- next sitting of the Court,
This was agreed to.
The Will Case,
TION OF JAPAN.
A Melbourne telegram dated | Juns 15 states that at a reception The Court was then concerned to the officers of the Japanese
United Kingdom and Canadian
and it was the desire of all parties, von Mackennan hopes "not mere he understood, that the appeal Mails. Closed per s.s. Pana Hiz denberg, by co-operation with Chief Justice da ed May 11, 1915, went Home about two years ago ma Maru at 1, p.m. to-day, Siberian and American Mailsly to capture Warsaw but to should not come on for hearing
Close per es. Mongolia destroy the Russia army. That is the sort of cheap talk that the enemy has been indulging in all the way through, and it will no more frighten Raasia than it will surprise Britishers, Of course, like so many of the German with the estate of Ho Chun, de Training Squadron now aising schemes, the thing looks big and ceased, in which Bo Au Shi and Melbourne Mr. Fisher, the Prime another were cited as plaintiffs Minister, said: We must abide splendid on paper. The capture and To Toe Cann and others together either in pesos and of Brest Litovak by General von Hindenberg would be a currying defendante Tae appellant amity or in strife and struggle. of the war. into the enemy's was Ho Tee Tean and the re-To-day we are at peace, and are
pondeats were Ho An Bhi, Yeung joining hands in a struggle that: country and would effectually but off the bulk of the aid that Sai Chi Ho Hong Chang, He will mean pesos and happiness to Russia could send to Warsaw. Chang-shi and Chan Ho Bhi, re- the subjects of Japan, Aunt ális, and other nations." Mr. Pearce, Mr. E. H. Sharpe K. C. and Mr. the Minister of Defence remarked la the same way the capture "pondents. of Jover would materially sasiet
Gorman march on London; but Eldon Putter, instructed by Mr. that he know how admirably the was said by them of old time Balmer Johnson, of Messrs. Japanese bad carried out the Dannye and Bowley, appeared for alliance with Great Britain and "First catch your hare." We may take it that the Russians will fool Ho Tez Tour, the appellant that the Japanese had rendered a that they too have a voice in this who was the first defend greater service than the people of ant, and Mr. H. E Pollock K.C. in the Commonwealth realised. A master and that their army my structed by Mr. Stenverson of Japanese warship, he said amitt- Kung Yiks. Tis. 14,50 buyers. have grave objicit as to being Messrs. Deacon, Looker, Dean ed inconveying Australian troops, Shangbai Cottons in S'haid sroyed out of hand.
Tia, 887, bayera.
Douglas's. $56, con.. Indo-Chinas $119, buyers, Hongkong and W'poa D.
Ld.-$70, sales. Shanghai and Hongkow
Co. Ld. 931, sales, China and Alanilao
Oo,
W.
$5,
return
it
40 cents buyera x the of $4.50 per alere. Shell Thausports 87/8 buyers. Luzons-844, sellers. Ewo's. Tle. 176, bayers.
The Dollar,
The rate of the dollar on
demand to-day is le 9 1/8d. ·
Peak.
"La Journee du 75,"
Dr. Labb's Departure.
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and: Haraton, appeared for the and took an important part in the plaintiff, respondent to the appeal, sweeping movement which clear Mr. C. J. Alabatir, instructed ed German warships from the Approaching the Anniversary. by Mr. Agassiz, of Mere. Hard Pacifio. All the undertakings had ing and Ags8812, appeared for been kept, both in the spirit and the second and third defendants, she letter, which were in the scrap We are getting very near to the also respondents and Mr. F. O. of paper which formed the basis first anniverary of the declaration Jenkin, instructed by Mr. Crew, of the friendship between Great of war, and it appears that a of Monere. Hastinge and Hastings, Britain and Japen, movement ie cu foot for celebrat: appeared for the fourth defend-
ing it by patriotic meetings aut, also respondently
throughout the Empire. It is Mr.Sbare pointed out that there
Today's Anniversary, To-day is the 101st anniversary a negative, go-as-you-please one, marked, it is true, by one or two moderately definito restrictions and precedents, bat, in the main, a and Province, and know that it of the birth of Samuel Colt, of question of common sense and of individual circumstances. The was more than a labour of Her-revolvar fame. two obief gaiding lines would appear to be the Treaty of Paris of cules to develop even the begin. Suspected Murder on the 1850 and the Treaty of Washington of 1871. To the former, most nings of order out of the general
If he has made mis- The body of a small Chinese good that the children of the was only one appellant and all son. Mr. Pollock said there was of the European nations subscribed, and, later, (in 1898) the United chaos. States signified a partial agreement thereto. It declares that takes he has only done what any boy, age about fourteen years, Empire should once more publicly the others were respondents. This mention of a second son being "blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective; that is to say, other mortal would have done; who was found upth the Peak testify to the fact that the war was an appeal to which reference adopted. maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast but the net result of his efforts, Rond near Mt. Austin Barracke has bren undertaken on grounds was made at the last sitting of Mr. Sharpe: If I put this list of the enemy." ("Coast," here, may surely be taken to bear a after proper goverament has been at a quarter to one o'clock this of conscience and honour, and the Court, from an orfer made in as mine, there is no queation. somewhat elastic interpretation.) The Washington Treaty defines good. Disorder has never been morning. has been sent to the even better that they should by the Chief Justice on Septem- Mr. Folloals eaid the second son what Britain and America were agreed was anderstood by neutrality, eliminated from the outlying dis- Pablis Mortuary. The body has again impress on the world that, ber 2, 1913 a explained by had two daughters, the one he and it ostablishes the fact that a Neutral government is bound not tricts, but quiet has been main-a wound in the chest and it is post what it may, they are going subsequent written judgment appeared for and another to permit either belligerent to make aee of its ports or waters for tained in the city itself and as a thought that the youngster came to see the thing through, scorning under circumstances which he Mr. Sharpe: Is she represented
all thought of laying down the would now lay before their Lord here? the purpose of the renewal or augmentation of military supplies or general whole, Canton bes known by his death through foul play sword till their abject in ships. The facts were simple sud Mr. Pollock said she was not, arme." A further role was laid down by the Alabama Claims more respectability since Long
Enquiry from M, Gas 03 Lie- drawing it is accomplished he thought exbstantially andis but, nevertheless, whatever right tribunal to the effect that: "Das diligence abould be exercised Chai-kwong's appointment than by Neutral governments in exact proportion to the riske to which at any other time within the bert, Consul General for France, till, in fact, the utter downfall of pated. In 1894 the testator, whose she had, had to be protected. either
of the belligerents may be exposed by memory of the present generation, elicited the information that the Germany has been brought about, estats they had to consider, H. Mr. Sharp said the question of fall amount of the subscriptions But best of all would it be if the Tean San, died being a domiciled adoption did not effect his arga- failure to fala! the obligations of neutrality on their part.
given by the public of Hongkong anniversary could be made the Chinese, He thought it would ment. He was born in one family. on "La Jouruce da 76" will occasion of a gigantic increpse in be ojaveniet, in passing, to and adopted into another, The For the first time we are able amount to somewhere about $3,-recruiting, both for active service refer to paragraph in the affids-importance of that table was to but the same writer continually lays stress on the fact that to speak with respect and admira- 500, though the precise amount and for munition work. If the vit which established the will. If show that there were persons who "there is not any uniform practice among the nations." If we are to tion of a women's mass meeting will not be known until some main attention of those celebrat they would refer to the second represented all the ordinary Chin- ing the Fourth of August be affidavit, numbered 48 on the ese relationships of the testator take loose general custom, we have to assume that at practically any and procession. The demand which outstanding amounts come
directed to this, and to the aboli-file, their Lordships would and when he died be left a widow, period of history (we quote Mr. William Charles Smith's article in tens of thousands of women, band.
tion of industrial dieamtent st see in paragraph 2 all the an elder son who had since died, the Encyclopaedia Britannica) "the private right of Neutral merchants breugh their delegates, made on
Dr. and Mrs. Martyn Lobb Home, there will have been some arties to those proceedings who and he (counsel) represented his to free trade must yield to the public right of the belligerent to pat Saturday for permission to help such limits on Neutral trade as were reasonably necessary in the in the munitions factories is a left for home to-day by the se. practical and served by its obser- were domiciled Chinese. The eldest son, and he left a grandson deceased was himself, as far as snd a grand-daughter- as Mr. conduct of the war-that right being exercised in a public and legal score to them which it would take Pyrrhae. Dr. Lobb's departure
this Colony was concerned, left Pollock had just mentioned, by a good many irresponsible suffrage will be regretted, inasmuch as
an estate composed entirely of another son and he left an adopt meetings to wipe out, and we by his departure the Colony Olearly, then, the question remains rather one of common sense dell bonnet to them, con loses a first class nurgeon, the The Orduna and the Lusitania.leaseholde, the present values of ed grandson and married which was something over a daughter, so all the relationships of give and take, and of playing the game than of established rule gratulating them on having Hongkong University loses the
quarter of a million dollars. The happened in this case to be re- or law, until such a lime as the nations shall draw up a final and e
who something that will first occupant of the chair for exhaustive statement of the case. We can only, therefore, approach shame many a skalker at Home. 'Clinics Surgery, which wu Side by side with Lord Mersey's tentator left that according to the presented by all the persons
case of the will and if his friend would not survived the testator. the situation in a rough and ready manner, and ask: Has America Undisciplined women can do more founded by Sir Robust Ho Tung, finding in the conducted herself, with regard to the war, with such strict im-harm in five minutes than can be and in him the Government Civil Lusitanis comes news of another object he would hand to their Lord His client was the sole surviv partiality as to deserve special consideration? Perhaps against the undone in a year, but it is very Hospital also loses its first Honor dastardly at emptin a linernship, for their assistance, a tree ing execu or. He would read essen Washington Government itself one can bring no mere severe a evident that these latent volunteers ary Visiting Surgeon. Dr. Lobb oher Cunarder, by the way. As which was a combination of all which would have a bearing on charge than acting in a generally backboneless manner and not are on the side of discipline and had only a brief stay of three we remarked in connection with the trees. Their Lordships would his case although this particolar fa'filling the expectations that the world entertaited towards her, order and right. Another dires-years in the Colony during which the sinking of the Lusitanis, understand in a moment the application was in respect to a2 previous to the war, as a strong nation. But what of her subjects?tion in which the women have time he acquired a considerable everyone--the Germans se well various trees lad been filed ac-intestacy. It would be seen By the showing of their own Press, thousands of them have seen in shamed the stronger sex is in the local reputation,
as other people knows perfectly cording to the various parties, and that only for the purposes grandsone, the awful convulsion in Europe nothing but a means of increasing restraint which their loyalty bas
well that not one Canard boat in they now had a proper tree for of successioa sone sud your dollars, and the reason why they are now urging instead online since war began.
a lifetime ever makes a trip from the convenienos of the Court, male survivors were mentioned. New York to Liverpool without which pat them all in, He-His client was the sole surviving their officials to protest against the blockade is that
at it got Themoment that hostilities opened near to putting an extinguisher on their means of still all talk of suffrage cessed. This
there being at leasts low American believed it contained all and if executor, the eldest son of the farther adding to that supply. Germany is getting cotton- deserves to be remembered for all We are informed by Mesara subjects on board; to that it was there was anybody it did not eldest son, Nothing was left tɔ American cotton-in spite of the fact that American exports to time: that British women thought Jardine Matheson & Co, Ltd, the safe betting that, in attacking a contain, he was quite willing to the widow cr to any femsle Germany during June were only eighty pounds worth ausmont more of their country than many General Managers of the above vesel belonging to this company, have him, included or added. descendant, sud that was in that one could stow in a campan! Britain has taken good care thousands of the mengome of Company that they have received the Germans were, with their eyes It was intended to contain accordance, as their Lo dahi pa that direct exports to Germany alicnid cease, but, in her extreme whom were not deterred by a stegram irms foot that the lives of United Sintes citizens. No through the list then because until would put forward, with the views
from the Head Office open, making attempts on the all. He did not intend to go would ess by the argument, he (one had almost said "suicidal") tolerance, she has not taken Britain's extremities from how Annual General Meeting of Share warning, we observe, was given, their Lordships were acquainted of Chinese law and custom which adequate steps to prevent a very large supply of cotton from reach about their
manner."
grievances" and
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO. LTD.
Vapor.
he would lay before the Court Others had how come into the
ing the enemy indirectly. If our Ministers are wise they will give going on strike, while others, helders will take place on the and, but for German blunder with the dramatis personas "no ear to what can only be described as "bluff America pro- scarcely less contemptible, clong 23rd inst that the Underwriting ing and the cool-headedness would be perfectly acintelligibl femmes and we have no right to doubt that she is perfectly to their snug occupations at Home Account stands at 288,598 0.0. of the Ordana's stoper, another Persone left, surviving the lasta-action sinos the chief justice held conscientious in that profession to wish to see the war ended without ever dreaming of volante, and that 1480.0.0. has been liner (with twenty-on Americans for, were practically repreanta the bequest bad. speedily. Then let her see to it that her people do not contribute ering for active service.
written off the expenses of the board !) might have hated the tive of Chinese relationships and Mr. Sharps, went on targuG Debenture issue. After allowing fate of the Lusitanis. It gratify that is all they had to deal with that the law could not bereid
toinclude wives as On £39,545 for depreciation and pro-ing to note that the Gerd na arB DOW viding for all expenses the avail- either ranning outof torpedoes or Mr. Pollock said that the tree to the inclusion of in Hongkong Jockey Club
able balance is £29,539.0.0, but elas are growing more aphandy was incomplete from their point on that depe Jockey Club, are reminded of the
Members of the Hongkong of which the Board of Directors in the managing of
of view. There was a statement age whether recogni
adoption and they held that it not Extraordinary General Meeting dividend to the holders of Pre of 1,380 vessel
recommend the payment of a Foreign Office wire shows
only su ulleged adoption, called for to-morrow :;(Lassday)
You do not admit Sharpe aid of the the 20th July inst, at 12 o'clock rate of 8 per cent
from inary Shares at the
the week, only. rst the Offices of the Jockey.
of Defer theate
to its prolongation. Apart from the fact that her non-German sub- jects are now convinced that Germany has been in the wrong throughout (and that therefore, sentimentally speaking, she should be in a hurry to see the triumph of right), Amerios krows perfectly. Well that the Allies are going to triumph in the end. Then why does not self-interest remind her that the sooner the war ends the bester is will be for her own peoket? In the history of every race and of every individual family, there comes a time when, for the common good, firmness must be allowed to take precedence of every other consideration. A blockade is a recognised me war, and surely our military and navali
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