TO-DAY'S
THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,
[Renter's Service to the "Telegraph.”].
THE GERMAN APPROACH TO WARSAW.
INTENSE FEBLING IN RUSSIA.
July 22, 1.00 p.m. The enemy's approach to Warsaw and Riga has aroused intense feeling in Russia. At six o'clock on Tuesday evening the belle in the churches throughout the country clanged the call to prayer, which was the beginning of twenty four hours intercession services. The churches were packed on Wednesday, despite the heat the people were standing wedged in while the priests and the choir were chanting interminable litasies. Open air mass was euid out
EXTRA
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1915.
THR KWANGTUNG FLOODS.
A Horrible Aftermath.
As will be seen from the sab scription list furnished by the Tuog Wah which we print below, efforts are still being made to raise sums for the purchase of rice for the flood sufferers and the appeals made are certainly. not meeting with refusala. It is understood that Mr. A. E. Wood, on behalf of the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs will shortly visit 8.0.A. himself, Bocompanied by the Hon. Mr. Lau Chu-psk, will Last night a rumour was spread about the Colony that cholers, of a very viralent type, had broken out in Canton. The Chineas ac-
AUSTRALASIA,
T. T. From Saigon 3,000.00. THE HEROES OF The following subscribed 2,- 000.00. :-Mebars, Mitsui Bussan 1 Kajahs, Mesare. Nippon Yusen
Ka18,
The following subscribed 1- 500.00.:-Mesara. Mitau Bishi Goshi Kaisha, Messrs. Osaka Sho sen Kaisha, Mesars, Toyo Kisen Kaishs.
Per Messrs. Chan Shan Hing's subscription book 1005:00.
Members of the Compradore Dept. of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and Friends
818.00.
· Improvstvá Service at
Paul's.
But in this great gathering to-night we want another note besides that. We must have the triumph-note for those whose self- sacrifice has meant so much to their country and to us who honour them. Among the lives Isid down could be found, s always, bright examples of the
in St. Paul's Cathedral on Jane looked for upholding among their An impressive service was held young leadership to which we had
"MR. PUNCH” WAR-TIME.
The Watch Dogs The Gas Perit,
The most important feature in
side the Kazan cathedral at Petrograd, in the presence of a huge the flooded districts and that the 00 Messrs, Wong Choung Wa, presenting the King), Colonel stainless purity, or of the saint Sa" much for that. "Of the ge
throng.
GENERAL FRENCH PRAISES THE FOURTH DIVISION. follow later.
ENDURANCE and couraGE.
Jaly 23, 1.00 p.m.
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Reuter's correspondent at Headquarters says that Field Marshal Count was that men were "dying '8200. Drs. Stedman Harston and Sir John French, inspected the fourth division and thanked them for their splendid work and especially their endurance and courage at the second battle of Ypres. He visited all the units and address ing the divisional artillery the Field Marshal mentioned that it had been with the division since it landed last August and had shared its fortunes in every engagement since Lecateau,
PRINCE OF WALES' FUND.
(Subscription List No. 42.) Hongkong Tramway Co., collected in the boxes in the tram cara from
1 to 15 July
Mr. G. W. Kew
Hoihow Subscriptions: Mrs. G. E. Bell
Mr. T. 8. Yeung (May/
June)
THE ARSON CASE.
like to dospitality eros were taken to hospital yesterday morning. On enquiry we learn that there is rather or data. the report than we could wish. It was all too certain that a none too healthy populace which had been drinking the foal flood water and breathing the ghastly poison issuing from the decayed matter that lay or floated on all sides, must expect fo Astonishing Evidence by a Foki, be a prey, in some measure, to auch scourges as fever sad cho lera. At the moment of writing, beyond the bare fact that there no further news is to have been cholera seizures within the city.
Fat-cheung.
!
Wong Chik Yae Tong of Heungaban,"$120.70.
Lord and Lady Brassey, Admiral Admiral Sir Lewis Beaumont, For never shall their sareoled
presence lack: ..
Sir George and Lady King-Hall, I see them muster in a gleaming General Sir Edward and Lady
row, Hatton, Lord and Lady Lindsey, With ever-youthful brows that Lady Birdwood, Lady Patey, We find in our dull road their
*y nobler show; Admiral the Hon. Sir Edmund
shining treok;
In every nobler mood
15 in memory of the men of fellows the spirit which sets man- our daily routine, next to the Australia and New Zealand who liness upon the surest basis of per-
tinned meat and vegetable nation, have fallen in the lan The sonal loyalty to Christ. For those in the possibility of poisonous gas. Archbishop of Canterbury de lives and for the footprints which You have already heard from me livered the address; the Bishop they have left upon the hands as to the ration, a choice mixtare Messrs. Ming Toe Tai's sub of London pronounced the Blens of time we give praise to God of cooked meat, vegetable, and scription book 634.00,
ing, and the Dean of St. Paul's to-day. But it would be un- gravy, which is eaten cold by the tion No. 0 $624.10.
Per Kwong Wa Hospital Collec- read the lesson. The great Church natural, untrue, to claim for all lazy soldier, kot by the industri was crowded; and among those who thus gave their lives in their quely luxurious, but without the The following subscribed 500-present were Lord Kintore (recountry's cause the character of gravy by the cautious dyspeptic. Furakows and Co
Streatfeild (representing Queen linees which we sing of in our you have heard much, but you Members of the Compradore Alexandra), Colonel Dalrymple hymus. Some of them, perhaps cannot have beard as much as Dept. of Messrs. Jardine Matheson White (Grenadier Guards), the many of them, were not saints at we have. Ever since it first and Co.. La, 209.00: Co., Lda. 225,80.
Lord Mayor, who attended in all. They were manly sons of spread itself, our life has been Per Masers. A. & Watson and state, and many distinguished the greatest Empire in the world. one long lesson, theoretical and The following subscribed, including :-
Australians and New Zealanders, They were brave and buoyant practical, as to how to be prepared- with plenty of the faults and for, to avoid, to neutralise, to cure, Marriott, Mr. F. Messen Foo Yiu- Australia, New Zealand, Canada, high spirit. They need, as we again the revolting vapour. We The High Commissioners for failures which go so often with or, failing all else, to cough up keo, Mesars Ming Kee (a firm and South Africa, the Agents shall need, forgiveness and cleans have lectured and bean lectured Mesars San Kwong Hop, Mesars Lord Lincolnshire, Sir Edround they are in their Father's keeping on the subject that every member trading with San Francisco), General of the Australian States, ing sad new opportunity, and so incessantly and remorselessly Man Cheung-yuen, Mesra Man and Lady Barton, Brigadier and He knows and cares.
of the audience always know Scholars of the Queen's College Lady Sydenham, Mrs. Parker, tions blow!
Generel J. M. Gordon, Lord and Blow, trumpeta, all your exults, what word to expect next and is never disappointed. We have (1st contribution), $156.09.
Mesara Fong Fang Cheong
bad Chlorine Parades and Bro- mine Drill ad infinitum. We Shun, $150,
wear respiratora attached to all Messrs Man Ui tung and others,
parts of our person and equip $130.
meat, and are suddenly ordered and uncomfortable moment. S to fit them on at the most unusual
beyond number are said to have rigorous is the discipline in the matter that Lieutenant Colonela been reduced to the rank of a b Sir William and Lady MacGregor, Part of our life's unalterable paid Lance Corporals (at their In the nave there were several The Landing on St. Mark's Day. these respirators while perform- and Sir Robert Nevinson,"
good.
own request") in consequence of their being discovered not wearing whole, of the Australian and New what we are remembering? The officer, of rank so high that I dare hundred soldiers, wounded or Do these words seem too high for ing their morning ablutions. Oas in the ninth moon of last year ho
Yee Hing, Mesers, Kam Wing nurses, and over the choir hung grown cliffs of the Gallipoli tachment, like "The Girl Who Messre. Yue Shing Loong, Mesars sprinkling of, their Bed Croes on the rocky beach and scrub-enclosed in his black muslin at- Fang, Tai Laing Company, Zealand contingents, besides a feat of arms which was achieved suggested to witness the pos
Loong, Mesars, Tak Hing Wo large banners with the Union Peninsula in the grey dawn of Took the Wrong Tarning," but sibility of starting a shop in
Messre, Yes Shun Yaon, Mr. Tam Jack and the stars of Australia St. Mark's Day, April 25, was a Hongkong. They opened one at
Pik Shan, Mir. Chiu Kan: Shan, and New Zealand. Round the font, we are assured, whose pro- With all this, and more, what 86 Queen's Road East in the
even so he has no dispensation. tenth moon, September of last year. It was a tailor's shop that
Messre. Yue Kerong Cheong, Mr base of the pulpit was grouped wess bas never been outshone, wonder that the mere thought of Oboy Yat Ho. they opened, but they also did a
the band of the Grenadier Guarde, has scarcely ever been rivalled, gas lies as heavily on our minds The following subscribed 50.00 splendid in the now so rare in military annals. As the open na the gas itself is said to lie on business in piece goods, and all
Mesere Sazuki & Co., Menara carlo This band and the organ boats under a hail from hidden its victim's chest or as the meat A stated on Tuesday, the Yanes & Co., Mr. S. Imsi. 279 the defendants, with the exception Queen's College Dramatic Society
of the esbond, were engaged in it will give a performanse at the Messra K. Majima, The Tokyo doors the first appearance of perpendicular cliffs of tangled
The following subscribed 10.00sed between the opening of the thousands on the besch, below with gravy) lies on the con- played during the time that elap-guns poured out their men in and vegetable ration (if eaten hot 100 The witness and the first defen Tai ring Theatre, Connaught Hotel, Mrs, Mayhew.
dant were in charge of the account Road West, at 8 o'clock on the ing. At the Chinese New Year eveninge of next Sunday, Monday, $5.00:-Messrs. Cherry and Co.; The no processional eyes, a sheer impossibility of
The following
the long procession of choir and scrab, the taak of breasting those eamer's?-From "Panch." Jan subscribed olergre the books were closed and witness Tuesday and Wednesday, under Messrs Arakawa and Co., Mesare hymn but the service opened by the dauntless gallantry at heights looked, to many expert $4.60 firet defendant conversed with the three plays: The Kind Mother da and Co., Messus. Matsumoto typical of much in the musical of those hours and of the days Bishop of Australia. -
was of opinion that no profit had the patronage of H.E.the Governor. Gohara and Co., Mr. K. Yohoss, with Brief life is here our por. brave men the impossible feat This memorable set of atontast been made. About this time the The programme" consists of witness about fire insurance and and her Dutiful Sop," "A Qaar- and Oo., Mesara, Marnichi, Messrs. Tortion of the ceremony. In the which followed is now a portion By all that have died for men,
Messrs; Aoi and Co., Mesers, Hen- tion" and this ohoice was was accomplished, and the record the rallying call of the Post- service gives response already to fize to a shop... Witness told him Family," and a topical drama Miars and Co., Mesars, Nakazawa, the occasion, there were only 6 And who did it? It was not the Count nothing but honour gained rel among the Members of the Foji and Co., Mr. Y. Yera, Mesure, short special service arranged for of our Empire's heritage for ever: no good in doing that. Shortly after the the flood and fire in Canton last and Co., Messrs. Dobashi and Co low prayers and responses, all product of the long discipline of
dealing with the tragic events of
By Christ whoendured the Cross, New Year, a foki of a pawnshop, week. The first play is well Messrs. Matsubara Hotel, Miss H. directed tothe pactionlar intention. same veteran corps of soldiers. It Take up with a loyal heart next door, came in and made a
Count all that is selfish loss. statement to witness.
known to Hongkong audiences
A. Schmidt.. He re- and a favourite with the Queen's
The Sermon, he was mainly the achievement of The following subsoribed $3,00 pealed it to the first defendant, College boys, "The Quarrel," Mr. R. Ohashi, Mr. 8. Imamura, who took for his text St. John xv. Australian bush or from the Who fights on the side of God
The Archbishop of Canterbury, man from sheep-stations in the
The burden upon you laid; 8aying that the foki from next the second play, relates the ad. The Hinode Hotel, Mr. D, Shirai, 13, * Greater love. hath no man fields or townships of New Zea Be true to the great good land,"
Needs never to be afraid,
This afternoon in the Police $86.29
25.00 Court; before Mr. R. Lindsell, the case was continued in which fire 33.25 Chinese stand charged with areon at 158 Queen's Road East.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilding
10. 15.
Mr. K. R. Cuthbert *
10,
Gorold Stark · Toller
(June)
Aribur Lawrence. Tol-
*ler (Jone)
Mr. and Mrs. W. Stark
Toller (June)
10
10
Mr. H. O. Jones (June)
Kowloon Dook Staff
(June)
Members of the "Centi-
pede" Society
"Hinemoa"
Mr. R. D. Earvey's Fund.
3.
93.25
50
Collected by Mr. G. B. Worby,
Anay
Mr. W. H. Barley (Jane)
Mr. J. A. Grandon (May)
'June) ...* Mr.A, P. C. Hicks (Jane) Mr. W. Greenbill (April) :
May)
Mr. F. E. Joseland (May)
Jane).. Mr. G. B. Worby (June).
HA
0.20 4.60
0.20
0.05 9.64
$46.89
10
„, A. Lamberton
10
L. Corrner
6
J. B, BackhouSS ...
5
Miss Baylis
J. Stalker...
Collected by Mra, R. D. Harvey:
Mr. & Mrs. J. Witchell
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Mr. A. H. Roberte
N. L. Railton
Already acknowledg
Monthly Subscriptions Already acknowledg ed Lists 1/412
2
44
A foki, who has turned King's evidence, deposed that the first defendant originally had business in Canton,
and
said he intended ta
that there Was
get
Falcher, Fu Pak-ping, Lo Wan
Sale of flags per Mesars O. W. and Lady Fremantle, Admiral hand
man and Taui Wai U, $105.79.
The following subscribed $100.00 Mr. Choy Wing Luk, Heasta. Tang Hing Leong, Meaars Mesere. Kwong Hip Loong Hyson, Messra, Seung: Tak Man Shan Wing, Mr. Les
Sir Cyprian Bridge, Lady Darnley, We feel the orient of their spirit Wilmot Fawkes, Lord Tennyson; glow, Lord Harrowby, Admiral Sir
Canton, a word of warn-
In view of this, and even as- suming that things become m ing to our readers will not be out of place. At such a time there is strictest precantions are observed, serious likelihood, unless the very of infested frait, fish. etc. heiug brought into the Colony; and it behoves all to be on their guard.
Queen's College Theatricals on Behalf of the Distressed.
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not mention it, looke, when
June 9.
Mesere. Nikko & Co. Mr. Y. Kuchiba, Megare. Mat- the course of his sermon fare as, like other civiliana, than this, that a man lay down land, who a few short months. aunaga & Co.:
The following subscribed $2.00 bis lile for his friends," said in ago had no
dream of war-A race that shall hold its own,
And rear neath the southern sun Already acknowledged $203, finite and a very sacred purpose. work. But the call rang out and We are met to-night for a de- they went about their ordinary Here at the centre and hub of the the response was ready, and the Total $223,812.43.
092.15.
Telegrams to Amerca, Honolulu. &c.
Then came the And last till the world be done, The Simplicity of Grandour.
o'or":
door had remarked that the de- ventures of a family whose mem- fendant had insured the premises here cannot agree; and is more or heavily and had asked them to be less tragic throughout. It is the very careful of their lamps and old story of the father who has lights.
one son a studions and respectable member of squiety, and another Witness went to the country for a apendthrift. There are plate the Teing Ming festival, and on and jealousies and murders and
Empire's life we desire to thank result is before us all. Thoss the labourer's task Now! his return found the shop had attempted murders, and the story
God together for the splendid de Anetralians and New Zealanders sud the Blessing brought the been removed to 158 Queen's ends dramatically with the suicide
votion of our brothers from Aus- are enrolled among the champions Bervice proper to a close. Then 8724.43 Road East. He was somewhat of the bad brother and triumph
tralia and New Zealand who in whom the Empire, for generations the drums of the Grenadier surpised at this but the first of virtue se personified in the
the cause whereto we, as a people, to come, will delight to honour. Gaarde broke into the thrilling ed Liste 1/41...$258,758.11
defendant gave slackness of bui- good one.
have set our hand regarded not One of the best traits of all is the prelude to the Dead March "in nees as his reason. Lster witness
their lives unto the death, Just generous tribute given by each Saul, and when at length the last $259,482 64 wentto the country again and being witnessed the excellent acting of Ltd. state that Normal Commun singularly clest thinker, was private letter of a young Now trend of the Cathedral shrilled Those of our readers who esia and China Telegraph Co., philosopher George Berkeley, a of the rest. To quote from the had died away, from the far wes- The Eastern Extension Austral- two centuries ago the Christian group to the indomitable valour, sound of the drums and trumpets 283.01 summoned to return by his mae the Queen's College boys a few ication was restored this morning, standing, as he tells us, in Zealander, "the Australians were call of the bugler oying the
ter, arrived back in the Colony months back, and who remember with Amerios, Honolula, etc. 62,113.70 on June 22, while in the country how well the staging and stage. on this occasion be received a managing was done, will look for
St. Paul's Cathedral, where he magnificent, and deserve every Last Post List of all came letter from the first defendant ward with pleasure to seeing them Before Mr. R. Lindsell, at the he thought, is the licences of each midshipmen, and men who with theving, mas simple, but noticed a little fly orawling on good word that is said of them. then the National Anthem, played Banishees Punished. referring to a plan for setting on the boards of a roal theatre. Police Court this morning a Chip-human being as he creeps along. formed the beach parties in that with the simplicity of grandeur.
one of those great pillars. Here, And all unite to praise the officers, and sung in full, $311,894.85 the second defendant had joined on Monday night. The perform were sentenced to one years hard dreadful precipice, interrupts our are reminded, in ebarge of common feeling. The brave men By this time B. E. the Governor will be present ese blind woman and her mother The Borrow which, like rome eventful landing, each boat, we It was the expression of deep and arces are for an excellent objsos labour each for unlawfully return life may turn out to be nothing young midshipman, many of whom it commemorated had Business was better in the new they should be generously Cable Traffic for America,
which is all the more reason why ing from banishment. than in the old shop, but the first patronised by the public, Euro The Great Northern Telegraph the greater life into one beautiful terms." But of necessity it was wheel point of the Empire for but the joining or cement which whom have come straight from come from far off to die for off defendant asked him to copy out pean and Chinese alike...
binde the portions and sections of Dartmouth after only a couple of both from
me and from this being produced in court. The
Americs by the normal route via which in the full daylight of a cull of drams under this dome night St. Paul's Cathedral seame some books, the copy of one book
that Cable Communication with dark path may be bat, the oneve deeda were done, and the great have given their lives; and last Co., Limited, of Denmark slates and harmonious whole: The st fearful cost that these gallant whose idea and arpose they book no made and produced in
Pacifio is restored and telegrams brighter world will be seen to be to-night will reverberate youred to with Court was a false book.
The case was again adjourned,
in the authorised Codes are again the inevitable span of some reverent and gratafal
mpathy of the empire in love and honour
Remitted to London:-
$52,412.31
22/12/14 £17.000 at 1/9. 5/16 29/8/15 57.000 at 1/93 and 21/10 28/5/15732.000
at 1/87 $290.117.47 Balance in hand...$ 21,777.38
SELF. J. STABB,
Hou. Treasurer. Hongkong, 22nd July, 1015
tre to the shop.
the shop.
The Tang W Hospital bege to
Subscription List No. 7. saknowledge with thanks the fol- tung Flood Relief Fand. lowing donations to the Kwang
sopepted.
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to the Empire furthest bound of Its heroio child