ANY ONE OF
WATSON'S
FRUIT SYRUPS
MIXED WITA EITHER PLAIN OR RATED WATER MAKES A MOST DELICIOUS AND REFRESHING
SUMMER DRINK.
THEY ARE MADE FROM THE RIPE FRUIT AND PURE SUCAR ONLY, AND CAN BE OBTAINED IN A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT FLAVOURS. We are Sole Agests For
MONTSERRAT LIME FRUIT
JUICE & CORDIAL
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1915.
A Reward Deserved.
DAY BY DAY.
MODERATION IS THE SILKEN STRING RUNNING THROUGH THE PEARLORAIN OF ALL VIRTUES Bishop Hall
NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
WAR INDEMNITIES,
"AT ANY COST.
No Patched-up Peace!
WILL GERMANY BE ABLE TO PAY THEM?
· HER NATIONAL WEALTH.
The other day a Chinse from | Canton arrived in the Colony having in his possession some valuable jewellery. He engaged s rioksha coolie to take him to an address in Yaumati and, arriving at his destination, absent min dedly left the parcel of valuables
The Weather. in the vehicle. When, later, he discovered bie loss, he communi.
Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 83 cated with the police and ffared ine.
The meeting of the Damo, a reward for the finding of the At the Peak 8 am. Temp. 75 briefly sketched in this morning's jewellery. We wonder if he was fige.
wire, shows whats fine and manly surprised that the coolie even-
spirit is behind the whole of the tually turned up smiling with Count the Columns. Russian undertaking. It is clear "the goods" and affably claimed
that both parliamentarians and Yesterday the reward, or if he regarded it
the Telegraph military authorities are as fully The question is now frequently all as a natural thing. Doubtless published 424 columns of solid determined as our own people as raised: Will Germany be in a the average ricksha puller will reading matter. To-day there Home to dare all, saorifice all, risk position to meet the enormous Bovor dis of the disease will be 341 published.
that children get in Sunday school books", but he is certainly as honest as some of his European neighbours. Indeed the raw
The Mails,
, .
coolie who comes to Hongkong Siberian and American Maile,
Closed por a.a. Persis to-day
from the country is often quite
at 11a.m. guileless where theft is concerned, until he has been under the in-Siberian Mail-Closed per 8.5. fluence of the town dwelling
Yingchow to-day at 3 pm Chinese. One often feels, too, that the dishonesty of the Chinese
A. S. WATSON & Co, Ltd. ervant class is greatly exaggerat
HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
ed in any case. Of course there is a lot in the tradition accepted among the older Europeans here: Your boy "will rob you, but
The object of this paper is to publish correct information, serve to won't allow ther people to do
the truth and print the news without fear or favour.
Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong,
"Telephone: No. 1 A.B.C., 5th edition.
Western Union Office address: 11, Ice House St...
DEATHS.
ANDERSON.-On June 26. at Chepstow, Monmouthshire, William Cochrane Connel Auderson, aged 61, dearly-loved husband of Margaret Crawford Anderson, late of Tientsin.
ANDERSON-June 25, Catharine Campbell, aged 64, daughter of the late Alexander Anderson, M.D., of Hongkong and Jedburgh.
VAUGHAN.—At Broadstairs, on 21st June, 1915. Annie Harrist, widow of the late J. D. Vaughan, of Singapore, aged 83.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1915.
MR. BALFOUR AND COUNT REVENTLOW.
There are few of us who, if we might choose, our adversary in a war of words, would be unwise enough to fix our choice on Mr. Balfour. No Britisher living is more thoroughly, master of that form of scarifying retoit that ia sa mnah more effective because it is so unexceptionably well bred. If Count Reventlow knew his record as well as most of the older members of the House of Commons know it, Mr. Balfour is cathinly the last man in the world whose criticism on his literary efforts he would be likely to invite. The Count, it seems, has distinguished himself by the publication of an article which he calls "A Year of Naval Warfare," and, unless his skin is thicker than that of even the average Prussian, he is now probably wishing that his performance had not been submitted to the merciless judgment of this scrupulously polite British Cabinet Minister,
if
."
ed; yet, if we could have the joint testimony of those who know the Colony bost and have had wide experience of native servante, we should probably glen from it that 'the Chinese employee is as reliable as others and considerably more so than
many.
A British Tradition,
Saya the Pall Mall Gazette: "Following the old tradition, our men still swear in Flanders, but it will relieve many to know; '00 the authority of Professor Morgan that the profanity is poroly subconscious." automatic and
Mr. L'oyd Morgan proceeds to state that the excitement of going into action "released words and seni nents which would in ord. inary circumstances, be kept: severely under control." And per haps it is not only the excitement of going into action! Swearing, it goes without saying, is, like the use of slang, chiefly a question
of habit, sometimes contracted
Up to the MinuteTM-Share Market News.
Closing prices
Unions.$930, buyers. China Firee. $155, buyera. Douglas's. $69, sollers. Iados.-$152, buyers. Star Ferries.-8$36, buyers. China Sugars.$132, buyers. Shanghai Docke$62, buyers
-
I div... Hongkong Lands. $111,
sales and buyers. China Providenta
8:40, buyers. Green Islands.-7.90, bayers. Hongkong Tramways-$5.15,
buyers. Watsons. 61, sellera.
The Dollar.
The rate of the dollar demand to-day is 18 9 1/160.
on
To-day's Anniversary. Today is the 43rd birthday of H. M. King Haakon VII. of Norway.
Another Muzzle-less Dog.
A
The following is a translation of an article published in the te Europeenne of June 11
all, and do all for the sake of a war indemnities which will be final victory over the enemy. imposed on her? To thisqueation Every day this determination on the Finance Minister of the Ger- the part of all-the Allies growe man Empire himself gave a reply stronger, and the German hope for Dr. Helfferich, at one time a of patching up matters with a menager of the Deutsche Bank, haphazard pesca proportionately published in September, 1913, s weaker. There is no doubt that pamphlet on the development of there has been, and probably the national prosperity of Ger- still is, an appreciably large fau many from 1888 to 1913. We tion in Germany given to hugging extract from that expose the most to itself the belief that, if the obaracteristic part. worst came, the Allies, in a mo- For an estimation of the Nat- ment of weakness, might be son-ional Income and the National tent to agree to a posce that, at wealth, the yield of the incom:- bottom, would be no peace at all, tax gives a comparatively reliable but rather an armistice reflecting basis. Thus in 1913, the income anything but credit on those who liable to direct taxation amount- were parties to it; a temporary ed in Prussia alone to M, affair raarked by a tacit under 24,800,000,000 at 20 M. per £1-= standing that war would begin 21,240,000,000. The population again as soon as past wastage was of Prussia being about 41 mil made good. Fortunately this lions, the income per head, there particular party is hardly likely fore, works out at M. 605. Taking to get much of a hearing in any this figure as a basis for the other States of the Empire (the popula quarter.
tion of Germany being over 85 millions), the total annual income of the country would accordingly amount to £2,150,000,000.
Sacrifices.
The Germans can make what arrangements they please; the Allies mean to go on; 29 je em. phasized by the speeches in West- minster and in the Dumast any cost! But the expression "at
Assets Over Liabilities.
According to the latest availa-
LANGKAT OUTPUT.
Mesure. Wright and Hornby advise us that the Langkat output for the month of July follows:-
July 1
Tons 253
285
235
248
249
280
250
258
228
10
228
11
238
12
230
13
#240
: 222
18
249
16
260
·17
275
275
247
262
235
251
230
241
25
229
28
228
229
28
208
29
224
30
239
252
Total to 31st inst. 7,750,
Daily average 243.55 The output for the current" month is as follows:
August 1
2
*... Tona 242
Total to 2nd inst.
238
480
Daily average 240.00
ble figures, the amount of private POLICE RESERVE ORDERS. any cost" does not bear the same fortones in Frassia alone would be
interpretation when used by civil-£8,000,000,000, so that the wealth
t
Guard Duties..........
ised people as when employed by of the Empire as a whole would Polios Reserve Orders, issued the Prussians and their friends. work out at £13,000,000,000. To to-day by Mr. F. O. Jenkin D. 8. With Germany it usually means this amount, however, the pro-P. Reserve slate:--- disgusting exhibitions of savagery party directly owned by the State towards those temporarily in their would have to be added. Thas, power, on the one hand, and, on the capital invested in all the Central Police Station, TueE the other, an absolutely wicked State railways alone represents a day, August 3, British I Sergt. sacrificing of masses of ber om of from £1,000,000,000 to and 8 men, Chinese 2 Sargte. This morning at the Police own. And these are the £1,250,000,00), Furthermore, and 9 men, Portuguese, 2 Sergte. entirely against the user's will Court, before Mr. J. R. Wood, very two) costs which the the reproductive assets of the and 12 men, O. C. Guard, Sergt. but more often almost de- Inspector Gerdon summoned H. Allies consistently bar. They will various other States of the Major Roylance, liberately acquired in youth, J. Stanley of Wood Road, Wan- make anorifices fast enough, bat Empire, as well as of the com Wednesday, August 4, British when anything of the sort seems chai, for allowing his dog abroad these will be of territory (for the manes, have also to be taken into 1 Sergeant and 6 men, Porta- rather "big" and manly. The without having its muzzle on. time being, should need arise) of account, such as State domains, guess 9 Sorgta, and 12 men, British soldier and asilor have, A fine of $5 was imposed. money, personal convenience, forests, mines, and harbour works, Ubinese 1 Sergeant & men, Indisn from time immemorial, been
time eto; but not needlessly of the assets of the Reichsbank, of 1 Sergeant and 6 men, O. C... especially gifted in this manner, For the Flood Sufferers. their own men's lives, and still the State banke and private Guard, Inspector D'Almada. and, in their case as in that of To-night and to-morrow night less of those of the women and issuing banke; also the assets of backwoodsmen and dwellers in there will be special Benefit per- ohildren of the enemy Matters the insurance companies, repre- the jungle, the continuance in the formances at the Biju Theatre like this excepted, the Allies will senting, according to the balance Tuesday, August 3, Nos. 2, practice "automatically" is main- on behalf of the sufferers by the never grumble at the outlay which sheets for 1911, a sum of about and 4 Pietrons and Recruits ly due to the greater part of their recent floods. A new programme circumstances may call upon | £125,000,000, ***
Chinese Company, as detailed, time being spent away from the will be arranged for each night, them to make for the sake of right. Finally, there are the unpro company of women and children, and the prices of admission will be and honour. whose influence is not only refin- $2 and $1, soldiers and sailore ing but restraining as well. The half-price, old idea that swearing was con- fined to ignorant people has, we believe, died a natural desth perhaps because so many people have become gradually convinced that many of the most able blas, phemera are men of very consider
able education... "The Wandering Jew,
"
The Anniversary of the War,
Parades,
Movable and im- movable pro party insured
16,000,000,060
300,000,000
against fire Urban sud agris
cultural ground 3,500,000,000 Value of minee, about,M Seagoing vessels, goods in course of shipment, andmetallio stook......
Pablio properly
300,000,000)
duotive assets, such as school and other buildinge, property owned Hoax or Fact ? -
by religious communities, parke and public establishments, and all It seems a little late in the day now for Count Reventlow to be
We wonder where the semi-property belonging to the Army at the trouble of making Britain responsible for the war. There was
Service in St John's Cathedral. official message came from which and the Navy. The total amount As already announced there announces the despatch of German of this property is estimated at a time when sush doings formed an amiable pastime for Germans whose hands were not sufficiently full, but we had quite thought
will be a special service at St. troops from the Western front to fom £1,250,000,000 to £1,500
Osthedral to morrow the East. If the Germans do not 000,000. Therefore, the assets of that the amusement was now out of fashion-except of course, as
Joba’e far as the Emperor Williams, in his hours of religious exaltation, is
(Wednesday) at 6.30 p.m., to shine in anything else they are the Empire, of the Federal States, concerned. Mr. Balfour tells the Count, ever so sweetly, that be
mark the anniversary of the quite good at telling and ciron'a and the Communes represent a would really so much rather not disonss this threadbare question;
declaration of war by great ing lies, and they are fully cap-value of about 22,500,000,000, and then proceeds to put a gentle extinguisher on our German Among to day's interesting an- Britain against Germany. The able of deliberately osusingsstory against liabilities of £1,250,000, friend's talk about Britain's having failed to induce the enemy's piversaries is the death of Eugene service will consist chiefly of like this to be spread, in the hope 000, in respect of public debt, fleet to come out of its akulking hole and enter upon a fair, stand-Sue (1857), author-among other intercession, with commemoration of it enabling them to take the leaving a surplus of sesats over up fight for once in its life, by the observation that this "German things of that extraordinary work of those who have fallen. The French and British off their guard. liabilities of £1,250,000,000. Ia triumph" could have been effected by any fool. Before his adver-voluminous performance has been Lord God, Thon Strength of my many's troops cannot last forever fortunes - Eis,000,000,000 ad "The Wandering Jew." This Choir will sing the anthem "O, One knows, of course, that Ger cluding the amount of private sary has time to recover from such as unpleasant little threat, this far more widely read than han- hes th" (Goss.) A number of and that her losses must have mentioned above-the total na- uncultured Britisher throws out a few anpalatable facts as to what dreda of far beiter Fretch rom troops will attend the service, been stupendons; but unless tional wealth of Germany would actually has happened in the sea.conflicts--such se they were between the two countries, and a contemptuous reminder as to how ances, though the effect which its There will be no collection and no General von Mackensen's muddle therefore amount to 214,250,-
author seems to have intended it Bermon.
has been far more serious them | 000,000, men of honour regard such feate as the bombardment of peaceful
the Russians at first thought, we
Total £18,850,000,000 and undefended coast towns at Home. Then, by way of a Goal to have that of stamping out
|flað it just a little difficult to Foreign Investments. atab, he observes that there is nothing essentially German about capital, aristocracy and religion
A fas story of honesty reward-
Thus the firit method, based on believe that this drafting of submarines except the employment of them against harmless and has never been realised. Ita
the taxation figures, shows the undefended trading and fishing vessele." This use, he admits who were engrossed: by the pears that a Chinese from Canton, forces has yet become absolutely The figures pablishot by the value of the total German national
readers have usually been boys, ed comes from Yaumati, It ap-
necessary. Manifestly the time insurance companies would wealth, in round figures, et more adventurous pertions of carrying in his hand a parcel cob coming when it will be necess-seem to show that this estimate 14 250,000,000, while by means But if, în Mr. Bilfour's scornful dandling and dropping of this the story and carefally" ekip: $700, engaged a ricksbs to take ary; when the enemy, hurried is rather below the actual value of the second methods, based on
taining jewellery to the value of ped" all the moralising and
wite end to know how best to published by these companies companies, an amount of $16,750,
certainly is German-" purely German."
whole, there is also one to Britishers. He bar, as even his greatest Wandering Jew it seems
regarding every telegram, no matter what its source, as a transpar-
An. Honest Coolle.
There he dismounted but, by an
is
not insured: againet fire including rail-
ways, about 1,750,000,000
Investments abroad 1,000,000,000
dunderheaded German pereon, there is a message to the enemy as a didactic passages. From The him to Shanghai Street, Yanmati. South, east and west, will be at his As a matter of fact the statistics the statistics of the fire insurance enemies admit, never been a member of the ready-lying, glib-promis-obvious that Sne could conceive oversight, left the parcel in the dispose his forces, and will have show that, in 1911, the movable 000,000 is arrived at. The actual ing school of politicians; and that fact, in face of what he has said a plot-sometimes an exceeding Vehicle, and the coolie,ignorant of to devote himself assiddously and immovable property insured value of the German national reply to Count Reventlon's lumbering argumente, atoald bring no plaves and intrione seding the fact, went on with his work, totheryna manera ire opera against fire represented a value of wealth may therefore be estimated hist either in taking a gloomy view of the Allies' position or else in course, outlining charnoters that jewellery and reported the matter pay Paul" But we fear, that that figure does not include the value extreme limita,, say, at approzim. amall comfort, at the present moment, to those Britishers who per could do little more, beyond, of Later the Chinese missed higion known as “robbing Péter to more than £10,000,000,000. That a figure between the above two ent lie. Mr. Balfour does not deal in lies, and therefore we should were forceful but in no way true to the Police who set the usual good day has not yet dawned, lof urban and rural ground, as the ately $15,500,000,000
companies only insure the build-According to the etstemen ings erected thereon. The value take his statement as to the position of our fleet and the doing of its to life. He was the traditional machinery in motion for the
of this ground is estimated at the German Empire
made by the Finance units since war broke out as being the literal and inornemented man with a tes in his bonnet, and recovery of the valuables. They truth. It is well, too, that all of us should be reminded of what the to what sort of a being a Jesuit who in the meantime had been a his extraordinary conceptions as were not successful, but the coolie,
Thought He'd Biruok a Mor- £3,600,000,000. Lastly, the in- income of the fleet is doing at the present moment. We in Hongkong are so used is, have, we fear, created more of long distance out in the country mơn, A boy took a position in anvestment of German capital to finding the merchandise ordered from Home, the maile etc., arriving as safely as ever, that we ste more that ammeement than of any other with a fare, turned up at the office where two different tele- abroad, in the shape of Govern the nailonst likely to forget by whose agency this afety is guaranteed. for that matter, has his implied oel which he had discovered in wife would like to speak to you turen of Foreign Companies, debts will
impression or emotion and so folice station to hand in the par- phones were installed. Your ment Bonde, Shares, and Deben 000,000, Mr. Balfour finishes on the note that is the prevailing one in all the public speeches at Home "There will be no relaxs contention that virtue is the sole his rickaha. It was found to be on the phone, sir" he said, to owing to Germany from abroad, tion of Britain's efforts. Not only at Home, but all over the property of the humble and poor. complete and the owner, falfi- his employer. Which que?" has to be taken into account; their Empire is this the first and last word to-day. Britain has entered Though the book has certain an- ling a promise previously made enquired the employer, starting value is estimated at £1,000,000 upon a task which her national honour inexorably forced upon her questioned merile, it is doubtful to the police, the next day handed up from his desk Please, sir, 000, The following: table give and she has no more intention of abandoning it till justice is done if the world would have lost any, the coolie notes for one hundred she didn't say and I did't know recapitulation" of Germany?
that you had more than one national wealth and right established than she has of turning treaty-breaker herself thing had it never been written.
dollars.
amounts toTM £2.