THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 29,
BY APPOINTMENT.
WATSON'S
GOUT
WATER
The Armada,
On the Twenty-Ninth of July. 1588 our British sailors firally put to flight "the great fleet which Philip II of Spain sent to conquer the Homeland, and one is natural" ly tempted to ask:"Could we do the same again to-day? There is, of course, no possible comparison between modern and Sixteenth Century methode of sea-fighting, and so one has to forget method
DAY BY DAY.
NOTES ON THE CRISIS,
FRINCES ANE LIKE TO HEAVEN- LY BODIES, WHICH CAUSE GOOD OR EVIL TIMES AND WHICH HAVE MUCH VENERATION, BUTNOREST. -Bacon
The Weather.
Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. At the Peak 8 a m. Temp.
AN EFFERVESCENT WATER THAT IS A SOLVENT AND and circumstance and to regard slight fog.
ELIMINANT OF URIC ACID,
The following prescription shows the exact constituents of each bottle :-
Lithium Bicarbonate 12 Gruins į MagnesiumBicarbonate Potassium
8 Grains 12
Sodium Chloride;" ........ B.** Carbonated Water ... 12 Ounces.
"
2
ASK YOUR MEDICAL PRACTITIONER FOR HIS OPINION ON THE ABOVE AND SEE IF HE DOES NOT THINK IT. AN. EXCELLENT WATER FOR THIS COMPLAINT
THEN CONSIDER
WHY SHOULD YOU PAY EXORBITANT PRICES FOR IMPORTED GOUT WATERS WHEN YOU CAN OBTAIN A SIMILAR ARTICLE FRESHLY PREPARED DIRECT FROM OUR OWN. FACTORY IN HONGKONG AT A FRACTIONAL COST.
only the mer. Since the prest
war began, it has bien sownaunchine.
plainly enough that our blue- jickets are far nearer being the equale of their fathers than Europe
Count the Columns,
85;
80;
generally would have been dispos Yesterday the Telegraph ed to believe twelve months ago published 34 columns of solid At heart the British sailor-and resaing matter. To-day there bia military brother-ie what he will be 344 published. always was; as good as gold and always ready for a scrap. It is the civilian population that bas obanged and, as recruiting figares have shown, cannot be universally relied upon to help the country when she is in difficulties.
A Contrast in Civilians,
A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd. element would have been ashamed
ÆRATED WATER MANUFACTURERS. HONGKONG AND CHINA.
The object of this paper is to publish correct information, to serve the truth and print the news without fear or favour.
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Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.
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Office addresa: 11, Ice House St.
In Elizabeth's time the civilian
to acknowledge unfitness for more or less immediate war service; There was no distinction in point of ficiency and boldness between the man-of-warsman and the fisherman cr merchant sailor; and every landaman knew the use of the bow or the sword. It is true that the shopkeeping olaen were largely looked down upon by the warlike not len and their military retainers as "base mechanical per Bons"; but any one of the said persons would have been ashamed to sckcowledge that he could not ride, ehcor and handle the broad-
hanging back if his services were Al. needed to repel an enemy. together, we are afraid that the modern Britiah civilian does not shine when compared with his Elizabethan ancestor. But there is comfort in the undisputed fact that he is improving, and that gradually even the worst of the hangers-back will be shamed into setting aside. their personal con
The Hongkong Telegraph word and still more ashamed of
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1915.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH.
"It appears incontrovertible," saye Renter, in a wire received yesterday, that, if the nation is to advance or even to maintain its
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A Splendid Spirit of Comrade-
ship and Unity"
The Malls.
GOOD NEWS ALL ROUND.
MP. LLOYD GEORGE,
Important Visit to France.
CASE ADJOURNED.
Solleitor Sick,
This morning in the Summary Court, before the Pasine Judge, Mr. Justice Raseland, the case
The Russian Fight- Reuter gives us our full money's! worth this morning, and, while
The Press Bureau issued the was mentioned in which Lo Par we write, new and interesting! wires continue to arrive. Natur following elatement on June 21- She, of 88 Connaught Road
The Minister of Munitions Central, med Bin Ia Esi of Gili ally enough, Russian affaire still stand out se of foremost im travelled to Balogne on Saturday, men'e Bassar, to recoter the sum Fortance. Reuter's Petrograd June 19th, and had the pleasure of $221.88 being the amount of man is a little more up-to-of meeting there M. Thomas, the principal and interest due unders
Frexob Under-Secretary of State a Chinese borrowing note dated date than the communiques, for War. The conference was August 9.1914. and forwarda the pignificant
arranged so that a number of Mr. G. R. Haywoal of Mr Løbs intelligence that already, Ministers could exchange views D. A. Almada Castro'doffice, who owing to one strategio move or
another, that long thousand-mile on the question of antput of appeared for the defence, explain- front has been reduced to about monitions of war, and meetings ed that Mr. B. C. Faithfall, who seven hundred miles. The move were held on Saturday evening was for the plaintiff, was sick. ments of Germane are seemingly
The case was put into to-mor and Sunday.
row's list, the plaintiff paying the marked by a desperate and frantic anxiety to do what they can while Mr. Thomas was accompanied costs of the day. time remains to them, and ea they by experts from the French War Office and Colonel Leroy are proportionately impatient at the slow march of General von Attache in Paris, while Mr. Lewis, the British Military Maskeneen. If they were making Kashgar to-day..
appreciable progress, however, Lloyd George had with him Siberian Mail Closed per 8.8. their communique would not be General Ivor Philipps, M.P., Bir
Mesars. Wright and Hornby Sinklang to-day at 3 p.m. slow to inform the world of Robert Llewellyn Smith, Mr. English Mail-Closes per s.s. the fact seeing that both West, and Mr. J. T. Davies. The advise as that the Langkat output
Kashgar to-morrow at 9.30 Austrian and German official party returned to London on Sun- for the current month
followe maaaages announced the second day evening.
July
Siberian Mail. Dae per s..
B.M.
Up to the Minute-Share »
Market News,
Closing prices:
Hongkong ard Shanghai
Banke-8817, Douglas's 809, buyers. Jado-Chinae. $149, buyers. China and Manilas
fall of Przemysl some time before
that event took place! The latest
The following official statement
Berlin communique certainly is issued from the Ministry of olaims that the enemy has taken Munitions:- some thousands of prisoners
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"The Minister of Munitions had the Nirew front, but Renter's Amsterdam correspond the pleasure of meeting on June ent thoughtfully adde that "the 15, at Whitehall Gardens, an in- very nature of the fighting cats fluential and representative body, the gravest doubts on sunh" which has been formed to further. $5, claims, If Germany could fight the output of war material in Lon as well as she can lie, the Allies don and the surrounding districts. would have been in the back-:
"The Minister confirmed the ground long ago.
proposals presented to him at that The Tarks are reported as meeting, and has authorised this "feverishly" fortifying the Syrian body to be called the Metro- politan Munitions Committee. coast, from the Dardanelles to the The Committee comprises this pre Gulf of Adramýti, as though insidents of the Institutions of Civil, expectation of an attack from the Mechanical, and Electrical Ea- Allies in that direction. We
40 cents buyers the return of 84.50 per abere. - Hongkong and K. W. and G.
Co. Ld. $79), buyers. Docks.- $78, buyers. Green Islande.$7.10 bayers. China Sugars.-$130, buyers, Langkate. Tie, 38, sellers. Unions. $925, bayers.
The Dollar. The rate of the dollar demand to-day is la û 1/168.
To-day's Anniversariés.
on
From the Dardanelles.
LANGKAT OUTPUT
Tone 253
265
235
248
249
280
250
266.
9
226
10
228
11
238
12
19
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13
240
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222
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249
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- 17.0
#1256
275
18
275
19.
247.
20
262
21
21.
235.
22
251
23
230
24
241
229
28
223
27
229****
28
208
8835
Total to 28th. inat.
Daily average 244.11
should have thought that "adding glasers, other prominent membera to existing fortifications" would of the engineering profession have been nearer the mark. The trades and manufactures, and French attack on Tenedos soma
representatives of the public two or three months ago showed utility services in London. that that coast was already say. "It also included representa- thing but defenceless; moreover tives of the London County Coun the fact that the troops of the oil and of the London Chamber industrial position, we must make such research as will enable us cerne for the sake of maintaining To-day in the 827th anniversary Allies have never, BO far of Commerce.... to expand and strengthen our industries, and so compete success the greatness of an empire more of the putting to fight of the as one knows, attempted "The Metropolitan Munitions fally with our most highly organised rivals. We must make a sub-vest and more powerful than Spanish Armada, and the 15th any landing there (though the Committee has appointed, with stantial advance now, and not wait for the difficult period after the anything which even the am- of the assassination of King invasion of this territory by a the approval of the Minister, a war." While it is distinctly cheering to see that the Home people bitions Elizabeth could ever have Humbert of Italy. can find any subject beyond the war to war enthusiastic over, one dreamt of, is bound to see in the alove a lamentable confession of past national incompetence. We would be the last to wish to see "reform
Yokohama Specie Bank. "We are infirmed by the local crammed down the throats of the public when the observance of a
manager of the Yokohams Specie rational moderation would be infinitely preferable; and we are as
While on the subject of our Bank that an Agency of this Bank ready as our most Tory neighbours oan be to own that much, if not most, of Britain's greatness is due to her refutal to be harried into fighting forces it in interesting to will be opened in Sydney on the new before she has exhausted the possibilities of the old. Anot os the remarks of the Arch- August 3 under the charge of good deal of the progress which is so much vaunted, the world bishop of York concerning our Mr. Tan Aizawa would be much better off without as witness the performances of sailors which appear in one of to- Germany, the highest product of our modera civilisation. But, all day's wires. What seems to have this not withstanding, there is a limit at which healthy conservatiem impressed His Grace the most is becomes no longer conservatism but a shameful lethargy, calculated the good feeling existing between to drag its possessor into a muddy backwater and leave hire there, the navy men and the trawlers, output of the Administration's by while his competitora glide gaily aboad and coon forget that he ever and the admiration that all hands mines for the Week ending 17th the whole thing my be mers have for Sir John Jellicoe. This July amounted to 57,889 tone hearsay or just an exaggerated To this lethargy England (Scotland is quite another matter) has war has wiped out the old jealousy and the Sales during the period, account of a meaningless barrack been in the habit of yielding where education is concerned, and the between the mercantile marine to 42,298 tons. result of it is all too apparent to-day when competition between and the King's Navy more com- nations is in question. In Germany, Belgium or Sweden, in Japan, pletely than anything else could and to some extent even in America, the proposals of the Board of ever bave done. At one time, to the bardworked quartermaster of Education contained in the above-mentioned wire. would create the molt profound wonderment, for in all these liner, the foremastmen of vesals. and the countries, and“ in others de well, it
sailing 80 deck hands of tramps, the blue- accepted idea for a century past that the commercial success of the nation depended on the thoroughly practical instruction of its jacket was a useless, dandified
44 young man who had everything
strong force might materially trustee and a finance board, and an ahorten the Dardanelles agony) inquiry and a census board, SENTENCE ON DE WET. may be taken as proof that the and also a management board.. coast is not badly off for defences.The Committee is at present
Six Years' imprisonment and Another wire reports "some pro- engaged with the help of the
Fins of £2,000, MAI 200 gress" on the right wing-pos- Ministry of Munitions in dividing sibly somewhere in the direction London into various districts, with Bloemfontein, June 22. De of Kilid Bakr and the bombing small local committees and mana-Wet has been sentenced to six of an aviation camp at Chank, on gere, in order to collect informa-yeare' imprisonment and a fine of the other side of the Straits, by tion of the possibilities of the £2,000, French airmen. With regard districts, so that the Committee Judge Lange, in imposing sent- Kallan Mining Administration, to the squabbling between may report to the Ministry in ence, emphasized De Wes's pro->
We are intormed that the total Tarka and Germans reported what way London can help.”.
existed.
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hae been
YARN REPORT.
Mesars Polishwalls and Kotwall children and young men. The founding of the University of London, done for him", who was dry in their yarn report dated July some sighty years ago, gave the impression that the British intended nursed by the Government, and 20, state- to move with the times a little more; and, in recent years, it must be had no need for initiative or in- admitted that this and other new 'universities have done wonders in vantive capacity, At the same
Since the departure of the Mail producing a number of men whose up-to-date knowledge, particular time, to the blucjacket, peor "Sardinia on the 26th inst, when ly in the matter of the sciences, does the country credit.
But what are they among so many? What is up to-date with Merchant Jack was a lubberly, we wrote that the appalling floods
elovenly unprofessional, an is almost ancient history with the Germans, the Swedes, the Swiss sailarly individual, ten degrees of busines, our market ass und un- had caused an entire suspension or the Belgians. All these bave realised that class subjects as altes worse than a marine. A not dergone no change. subjects are so much useless men talluggage, and that the knowledge dissimilar hostility existed be apquired in the school room and lecture hall must be such as can between the B.N. officere and those turned to practical account. Therefore they take as much trouble of the merchant service, Now under our notice being a few The only business which came
returned Dane, while
вогар there is nothing sor" prising in the elatement that the Turka are hostile to the Germane. There was never any real love lost
VOLUNTEER ORDERS.
Leave.
"Parades.
minent position as leader of the people, and declared: Had it r not been for you and some others! associated with you, we should have heard nothing about rebel- lion."
Referring to the allegation that the Government's policy in connection with the German Bonth West African campaign between the two, though each Corps Orders issued yesterday was contrary to the Defense found it necessary to make use of by Lient-Col. A. Chapman V. D. Act, the Judge pointed out that the other. While the Tark re
even if this policy were illegal mained in Constantinople and atate the German in Berlin, distance
this did not justify the stirring. ap of rebellion. Dealing with the tent rome enchantment to the
statement that De Wet felt friendship, possibly; but your Ger Pte. J Danoan is granted leave
about the campaign man does not improve on closer ace of absence from 26. 7. 15 to 30 because a number of the Caps
strongly quaintance in foot his manners are II. 15.
rabets who had fed to German really deplorable; and so, when
territory after the Boer war were he comes to take up his abode in
still there, Judge Lange, who wÁS, ‹ne of the members of the Special Constantinople itself, it is not
Parades for Thoraday, 29th Court which dealt with the Gape besome gradually, aware of his instant. 5.80 p.m. Recruits of rebele, declared that not one of surprising that the Turks should less excellent qualities and so be Engineer Co. (except Quarry Bay those cases was anything like so gin to resent his presence entirely Section), Centre Section M.G.Co. norious as that of De Welt-
Other Wires and Boots Co. who have not been The Judge pointed out that Da Again the French have put up
exercises at Headquarters under his own people against a Govern- region, sobieving the sort of
ment which he had misted to triumph more maddening to the Germans than anything short of
put into power, and that a time when the Governme a wholesale rush into Prussian
and the Sovereign were at w! Unsold and undelivered in the territory could be for the enemy Gun Club Hill, Konfcon. Ou with a foreign enemy. godowns 57,000 bales, brute obstinacy and romanticism Company. Officer on duty Lieut go to the assistance of that enemy with their quaint mixture of duty until 30th instant Scouts De Wet had not he sted y Arrivals -- The - Extra: Str. "Kamakura Marn from Bom-
willcling more fiercely 10 Murphy Detention Camp, Kot by endeavouring tore Alsace-Lorraine than to any loon. On daty to-night. No. 2 Thof Court did not Looppithel part, In the Camerooms the Bed. Art. Betty, and the following conception that the French seem to have, determined embere of Hight Soo, MG. Co. armed protest, holdi to soore relatively as big Pior. C A Goldenberg, IL sucosse as that of General, Botha Goldenberg Machado and Mirze, and that it wan in the south-west. This is not the Officer on duty. Liebt. Danby first time that we have beard of
On duty tomo molinies by German troops.
over the educating of a lad for stock-broking or insurance work as that the two have shed their blood hundred bales for shipment to the 8 magnificent fight in the Alsace passed out-Squad Drill and Rifle Wet stirred up rebellion among
TYPHOON WARNING.
Deliveries remain poor. Total sales 900 bales,
bay, has brought in 2,500 bales for Hongkong, and 12,100 balen for Shanghai Shipment from Hengkong to Shanghai, cosat ports &012,000 bales,
we at home should for the learned professions. To the mind of the together and have learned each coast ports. average Englishman, the boy who is not going to enter one of the other's worth in a score of ways recognised professions, but is "going into business," might as well this jealousy may be regarded as leave gohool at thirteen or fourteen as not. It is assumed that any dead, and buried so deeply that it fool can add ap a column of figures, address envelopes eni copy cannot be resurrested-which is letters, and go the English, boy becomes a clerk, without anyag it should be. definite, commercial preparation, and, if ever he rises Above that position, it is either becausa his friends have i. fluence or blee because he is one of the gifted exceptions whom no amount of bad start can keep in & subordinate position. The same boy in Gar- meny-and even in Scotland-would remain at school till at least sixteen or seventeen, and then either proceed to a university or else continue his studies at evening classes till he was proficient in some branch of knowledge-essential to the successful prosecution of
Through the courtesy of the merican Capeal General we business, If the Board of Education is in earnest, much of our old
are, able ublish the following: useless system can be altered within a comparatively short time. Oft course there will be difficultige, for, saa race, we do cos toks kindly to
telegram quoted below was innovations. The most promising fact in connection Wah the whole reopired from the Manila, Obser- thing is that we baye undoubtedly had a fright whers our commerce,
vatory at 10.45. a.m....
July 29, is concerned; and no one is more conscious of this than Hong-
1915 Warning Low-pressure kong business men who have seen something of Germany's elaborate Ses to the Pacifo across northern area extending from the Chins preparations for capturing the trade of the Far East So long as the Lez, and the Balinang Cheng holesome effects of that fright last all will be well. When they distA real 17phoon may develop Gidappear it remains to be seen whether we shall grow weary in well
doing or
8. M. Higby. Remainder nil.
Shanghat This market is ad vised as steady with business. passingende et à den
Japanese Tarn. -So far as we only wonder is that we have not righ
know no sales from first hande have bean éffected. Just S
Raw Cotton -No - Bales for Bengal and Chinese land Quotation Bengal at 817 to 821 Chinese at $22 to 27
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