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The Weather.
26, 1915.
NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
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Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 84; More Enemy Disappointments. sunthine,
The Hongkong post men certain" [ly how his own ways of going to work, and those ways are such that the sooner he loses them the batter it will be for the peace of mind of the lastar-receiving public. Oas day last week a proket, addressed in the clearest type to E. the Governor, was delivered at this office an1, the following day, we received no less than three lettere, all having a "personal" look about them, which wera meint for other people. With these facta
On Saturday the Telegraph before us we feel that we are justi-published 42 columns of solid fied in a guing that some of our reading mailer. To-day there own mail is likewise wandering will be 37 published. hither and thither, and that when
At the Peak 8 a m. Temp. 78; sunshine..
Count the Columns,
Yesterday's and to-day's wires represent America as being in something like a belligerent mood. Mr. Roosevelt is damning the mollycoddles and in telling his fellow countrymen what one feels is all-too true that if Belgiam's fate overtook America the world would have little sympathy to spare for her; D.. Wilson is pre- paring a national defence scheme, and Washington has been talking per me. Chinyo Mara to-mor-straight to Germany. While rowat 11 s.in./e
the Note certainly shows the Canadian, U. K. and U.S. Msile, right spirit, it may well be doubt- Close per no. Sado Maruled it Washington was wise to de- to-morrow at 3 p.m.
rote so much trouble to it. Surely
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we blame other post offices for our
The Malls. missing correspondence we should Siberian Mail.- be neater the mark if we blamed
Oriental to-day. our own. We have never supposed (Siberian and U. K. Mails.-Close that the Chinesa lottar-carrier ia particularly proficient in reading, but we should imagine that someone at the Put Offies is responsible for seeing that the men to whom the mails are trust- led at least know the difference |between Icehouse Street and Des Voeux Road-or Mountain Lodge. Seing that there are times when correspondenos is almost a life and death matter, it is rather more than a joke that one's lettere should be allowed to. go astray, through official onreless-
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The other day-and on many previous occasions, for that matter ~we alluded to the advisability of the Hongkong Government's in- sisting on every wandering natiye'e carrying a light at night, as is the cus on of Shameen and in many British possessions. We have since been informed that the Government of Canton has lately been obliged to insist on this very salutary practice on ac- count of the prevalence of rob beries of night. If the Chi-] nesa
in 030 of their own biggest cities are compelled
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To-day's Anniversaries.
To-day is the 40th anniverary
it would have been more plac tical and more likely to demand rospect if the United States Gov. ernment had contexted itself with a message that could have ex- pressed in a couple of lines- refusing to be fooled by Germany or to listen to the humbug con |*ined in her various Notes,
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Austro-Germans Checked.
LANGKAT OUTPUT.
Moeste. Wright and. Bornby advies us that the Langkas output for the current month, is follows:-
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We were desperately tempted for the sole benefit of a local, contemporary that consistently "auto" from the Telegraph without the formality of an acknowledg ment to print that story about. 235a live fish having been found in a locked drawer on Shameen when the floods absted.
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The Telegraph long ago established its right to talk "Oar about Oar Burglar," Legislative Council," "Our Grol" 241eto, but it has been left for 229 a local school magazine to go one
better and talk of "Our Weather.
Total to 25th, inst, 0479.
"Daily average 259,18
"French soldier ahco's his Ger man wife," says a Singapore Free Press headline. It is conceivable that there may be other husbands wishing they had as good a pretext for getting rid of an encumbrance.
America'saffairs, however, have POLICE RESERVE ORDERS Our contemporary doesn't say how
slipped into the background to- day, there is more exaiting matter toward. Austrians are suffering |",
worse than ever on the Isonzo Hongkong Palice Reserve front and the Austro-Germans orders inaned to-day by Mr. F. O. have sot fulfilled their sympathie Jenkin D.S.P ([toserve) state :--- ers' expectations by taking Waraw. The stavement of so im
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many years the poor fellow bad watched and waited for such a golden excuse for returning to blissful bachelorhood.
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If our Post Office elects to (Central Police Station deliver any more packages at this
office directed to Government: portant an cficial as the Russian Monday, July 26th, Recruits of Minister for War may surely be Obineae Company 5.30 p.m. House, there'll be no holding us, laken as unexceptionable and Taesday, July 27th, NC, Officers and we shall, without fail, proceed to tarn down all our plebeian on fipal. According to him the Parade under D.S.P.6 p.m.
hostile forces have been "stopped" Wednesday, July 28th, Reornite acquaintances. along the entire front, represented of Portuguese Company under Washington Note No. 99 says: by the lengthy curved line from Crown Sargeant O. M. E. Alves,Any further lo's of American the Vistula down into Bakhovina, 5.30 p.m. Thursday, July 29th, lives thro agh German submarines to carry a light at night, they of the disestablishment of the and a fresh battle is beginning Recruits of Chinese Company will be regarded as an unfriend- can scarcely grumble at friah Church, an 1 the 59th birth nearer the Bug. The fact that 5.30 pm, Friday, July 30th,
ly act,"
It was really quite nice being asked to do the same in a day of Mr. George Bernard Shaw. the most notable Russian success Combined Uniform Parale, of the United States Government British Colony. There was a deat
is described as having been at British Company at Volunteer to regard the murder of a'l those Notice to Consignees. of philosophy about the old
Consignees, Bre informed that Uho'm (or Chelm cr Holm, or Head Qatare 6 p.m. Portuguese Americans on the Lusitania as an farmer's wife who insisted that all goods remaining andelivered whatever it may be) which is a and Chinese Companies at Cen-evidence of amiability and brother ex e.s. Benalder after tomorrow good hundred miles south-east of tral Police Station 5.40 p.m. ly love. We doubt if a like will be subject to rent.
Warsaw, seemasignificant enough. Warta might almo: t'as well be Members of the Police Reserve magnanimity would hare ben Returned to the Colony,
far as the Germere chance of of men are about to be called on Tipperary, and done with it, as are warned that a certain number shown by many other bations, retching it is concerned.
The continued lull in police
HYNES. On July 24th, at Mayfield, The Peak, the wife of time he was clearing up the jam A. C. Hynes, of a daughter "
The Hongkong Telegraph:
HONGKONG, MONDAY, JULY 26, 1915,
"NO MORE TRADE WITH THE ENEMY IN CHINA.
lighting frequentou
Other Enemy Failures.
Police Durtles,
A contemporary quotes the Echo de "Pari"-evidently under [the impression that that, staid
periodical is a sporting paper.
her grandson abould "keep on whistling" during the whole
puntry. While he was whistling, The jim was safe; 'and whilo s Captain U. A. Lakhmanelf, the Chinese would-be burglar or Russian Volunteer Fleet's agent
to perform police duties, taking highway robber is carrying » in Hongkong, has returned to
the place of the members of the court buainees convinces na that lautern his neighbours' property the Colony after two months'
regalar Police who have proceeded most of the local thieves have gone will be if not safe, at least safer leave in the North.
to the Front. The hours of duty up into the flooded diatriots to mee
what they can borrow. than if he were going about Canton British Consulate to be The failures of the enemy infoa week-days will be from Bp.m. without one. With oar lccal
Rebuilt.
other directions are equally atrik to 9 p.m. and 9 pm to midnight. system of street
It is understood that the Britishing. Tarks are turned back in a roufication will be issued. even the mcst
Consulate on Shameen will short Gallipoli, Austrians on the Carao parts of the city are liable to belly be rebuilt, and that the work hille and Germans in the Vosgee, selected as snatching grounds at will be mainly carried out under in each case with loss of life. The From to-day trade with the enemy in China becomes what it night, for the wisesores who are the direction of the Board of patient Italiana are getting their should have been months ago-anlawful. How great was the need, responsible for the lighting never Trade officials in Shangbai.
own way more and continue in this respect, for Great Britain to make a firm stund has been asem to have dreamed that the The Hongkong and China Gas
steadily to resist the obviously frequently mentioned in our columns, and the history pavements needed any illumina-
Company. The Hongkong and China Gas Stic dash for Trieste, The Aus- great temptation to make a dram. of the whole movement is now BO well known that tiou. With the sidewalks shut it calls for little recapitulation. As we have said before, in by broad verandahs and Company will send a thoroughly trian failures here are all the more Important Letter Case in Court. the Under Secretary mentally in it was largely, if not mainly, due to the energies of the pillars, the lamps in the middle experienced lady canvasser to marked in that captured army Obina Asscelation that the Government at Home was given no peace of the road are powerless to throw demonstrate to those desiring orders show that operations are till the matter we settled once and for all. Everyone, of course, more than the faintest glimmers such information, the proper being conducted by the enemy's realised that the fah was not an absolately smooth one; indeed it of light on to the footway, and somthods of aig gas cookers, atur generals who, farther, is not till some great Gnancial or political upheaval comes that we the thieves have, comparatively water heaters, eto." know how deeply and intricately the affairs of one nation's tradera speaking, a clear pitch, may be involved with those of another..
Bijou Theatre.
Home Matters.
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The case was remanded.
The Government would be mindful of the bravery of those in Singapore-"andother Colonies," said Mr. Steel-Maitland-in the House, che day last week. If
cluded Hongkong in ther Colonica" it's a sure thing he doesn't know about she continued existenca of that cost of arme.
Lal barrister: "My Lord, a Scowman-in this case a Chin maq-" (Toisa cheers for the liste difference-Ed. «Comp, H.K.T.)
Reute
A coolis employed by Messrs. are supposed 'to be in Jardine, Matheson & Co., was The racing fim-drama, "Master
possession of huge reinforce-prosecuted at the Police Court, The Germans had been steadily increasing in commercial Mr. Shaw's Birthday:
Bob," has been attracting largements. The French emocess in this morning, for attempting to te Alsace-Lorraine district is of send letters cat of the Colony un- infaenes in this part of the world for many years past-due, ned.
and appresistive houses to the II Mr. George Bernard Shaw lees to say, to the slackness of British firms as much as to anything has done talking about the war Bijou Theatre. This picture play a type well calculated to dem-stamped and contrary to law. elee. They worked amicably with the British firme and, in many from a point of view more or less concerns the Grand National, and oralise Germany's forces-who, It was alleged that the defend- on sentimental groun le, would ant, on July 13, tok two lettere instances, the interests of both nations ran side by side. Then came hostile to the British-we shall is remarkably well acted and pro-rather lose in soy other diatrics fer despatch to Unlcutta addressed the
By the way, the said Ely Compa the war, and, with it, the discovery that the commercial affairs of be very pleased to wish him duced. Other interesting items
than this
Menere, Jardins Skinner & Co., Britisher and German were very much inter-laced, together with the many happy returns," as to-day in the current programme are 6
marked per 8.8. Lisang and also B... perpetrated "British Tor- very beautiful scenic film: "The difficulty of proving that foreigners domiciled in a neutral country, is bis 59th birthday, Bee Valley of Val Furva," two sets of
pedo's gallant sotion," the other inoribed with a stamp
on Com- China to wit, were hound by the same laws that would have.restrict-born in Dublin 'and, at the age war pictures and a comic picture: mora plessing naturo to-day. The was arrested on board the steamer, fellow, and believes there's more The news from Home is of ray'e Service." The defendent day. He's loyal to the core, that ed them had they lived in their own country or colonies. Precedent of twenty settled down in London The Bisok Hand." is our national fetish where the law is concerned; but, as Britain to write for his bread. For nearly Gamblors Disturbed,
King's words to the men of The letters were found in a box gallantry in asingle and isanimate was very much out' of praatios "as regarde warfare with European five and twenty years now, his nations, where was a precedent to be looked for that would fit the name has been a household word whilet gambling at No. 4, Hung all learned to expect his cute, and Mr. Crew of Messrs and such.
Twelve buoltes were disturbed Birmingham are what we have containing the ship's papers. torpedo then in a couple of thousand humans'rikers, ahirkers. case? Finally the advocates of abolishing trade with the enemy at Home, in America and in some Yaen Street, East, last night, by him grosful and so is most Hastings and Hastings appeared of "Mr. Wolfe, appeared to praxe- were in a position to quote a judgment delivered at Alexandrie, of the Continental countries, and the police, who took possession of wherein the Prize Court in that port, adjudicating in the matter of the class of work put out by him them for a time. They were welcome and forms a fitting tag for the defence. some merobandise shipped by a Shanghai German, found that the proclaims him, even to his bitter brought before Mr. J. R. Wood at to the splendid efforts of the shipper was "an alien (nemy."
"This finding has since boen esteem-est opponents, to be a man of un- the Potica Curt, this morning, cotton metropolis after recruiting ed by the best legal authorities to be correct; but it still did not doubted genius. Thot onbleia that and fined $2, or in default five ever since the war began. Monthe clear matters up, though the Government at Home went the length like Nietzsche, Oscar Wilde and day's imprisonment each. The go Manobeater had tent its of owning that trade with the enemy in China wag !! az losicable." Whistler-and, on a lower plano;;
The Far Eat wanted something stronger than that, for, is the like. Mr. Hall Caine and Mies $5 bail of one man, who failed war proceeded, it was found that the Germans were profiting im Corelii-he is a wrong-headed "ppear, was estreated, mencely and unduly by bring ab'e to do business in British ataple genius and therefore even hia goods. How the various difficulties that stood in the way have gradu- finest work is discounted in the ally bren removed we all know now, and it only remains to be said eyes of level-headed people. Like that Britishers have, a right to demand that the decree which has Wilde and like Whistler he was gone forth shall be absolutely binding. Our Shanghai correspond. Beized at an early age with the ent wired, last week, that there were atories of a movement for idea that god literature or art We are indebted to the Ameri-serve the King readers all the The Golf Bag "B" won by granting "special licences" up north, to ørable: stock will not "go" unleas it is "boost-can Consal General for the follow-blacker the treacherous conduct No. 23, and the Filver Big won procored before a certain date to be got rid of. ed;" therefore he and his class ing. The telegram quited below of the strikers that have been by No. 63 at the Raffles on July stated that the total amount of the Compromise may be dear enough to the soul of a cortines out to bawl in the market- was received from the Manila" doing their bio con 9th have not been claimed by the Bill submitted to the Dutch Cham- type of Home politician, but we want none of it out here. A place in advertisement of their Observatory at 2.20.; p.m. July 24, scientiously and thoroughly winners. It is intended to rail, ber for the extension of the of month was allowed in which the various firms could find opportunity warea; and, though the result 1915. Typhoon east of Balintang towerda encompassing the desh these artioles again at the Minia, is 22,088 333. Two cruisers, for setting their houses in order, and, long before the Bill was pass has been profitable from a cash Channel. Moving west-north-west of so many of their brave fellow toring Children e Bazsar unless each costing £750,000. snd lour ed, it had been ovident enough to people of average soumen that an and notoriety point of view, they or northwest, 11 s.m. July 25, workmen who, without counting claimed in the meantime, antmarines, each costing £145, end must shortly come to the laxity that had been permitted. Now have lost the respect and conse. 1015. - Typheon routheast of the cost, have thrown all personal A further sum of $102.25 has 000, will be constructed. A far- that the Bill has come into fores, a chapter in our history of which quently the power to do some Naha recurving north-ssal-ward, and selfish considerations on one bean paid to the Siɔwhall Bag ther increase in the Naval Badget not one of us can feel particularly proud is closed, and any attempt good in the world that they Typhoon west of Balingtang side dgone to fight in their Erla Food at the Hongkong and will be demanded for the con- at establishing exceptions and loopholes can only be regarded by might otherwise have had. Channel direotion unknown;/
Shanghai Bank.
straction of 112 scupianes, able people as tampering with law and justice.
TYPHOON WARNING:
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Reuter says that the French were thunderstruck at hearing the 40th Pathane play ""La Marseillaies" on the bagpipes, When they've heard it on our.. neighbour's piano) (as Levent
and with a dost-cart bell obbligato) they'll know that there are trou- blee worse than bagpipes. TO
thousande, if not its tons of BELGIAN RELIEF FUNDS o'clock on the Sunday morning
thousands to the Front and now
wo learn that inoressing enlist ments from that neighbourhood | have occasioned a marked and serion's labour shortage. I The con- tinged readiness of these men of Manchester to come forward to
battles.
Snowball Bag Sale.
DUTCH NAVAL OWL EXPANSION
The Hague, June 11—It is