THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
SECOND EXTRA
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, AUGUST, 3 1916.
TO-DAY'S
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,
[Beuter's Service to the "Telegraph:"].
GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT SUNK.
BRITISH SUBMar.ne's exploIT.
August 2, 10.50 p.m. A German torpedo-bost, apparently of the G.198 class, has been
ausk:
OUR SAILORS AND SOLDIERS.
Singapore's Thanks to the Mon.
On July 23, a most plassant function at the T.M.C.A., Sings- pore, when the recreation room for soldiers and sailors was open- ed by his Excellency the Gov. ernor, should leave no doubs in the minds of the men of both services whose duty keeps them in Singapore as to the light in which they are regarded by the residents, says the Straits Times. It might almost be said the añade tion in which they are hold, for the men of the Shropshiree who were
present WODO
subotarine in the Sea of Marmora reveals a splendid performance, tertained and waited upon and A laconic Admiralty announ ement of the exploit of a British made to feel that they were honoured guests. They were on- since all the plaoss mentioned are in the vicinity of Constantinople. generally made to feel that the Her bombardment of the railway blocked a troop train which she ladies who brought them tea and shelled as she retired. Powder mills on the outskirts of Constanti-cakes were proud to do so. nople were likewise shelled:
THE BONDS THAT
HELD JAPAN:
China's Salvation from War's Horrors.
The following was written for the Chronicle by Jeremiah, W, Jenks, Ph. D. LL. D., Director of the Division of Public Affairs, New York University and the
Far Eastern Bureau.
Not
that there was any suggestion of trying to win their favour with drink and some sort of pink and
be called "a feminine embodi-white confection, but rather was mont of· jingoism.” Japanese there the feeling that this was patriotism has been largely something done to express militarist from early days. And a spirit of friendly gratitude. It this foot should rather enhance might be remarked in pass than weaken the credit due to ing, however, that the ladies of Japan for successfully overcom- Singapore are doing something |ing jingoism within her island which will place the soldiers in
ahores:
their debt. They are doing all the mending and darning for the men at Tanglin and many a lone bachelor in Singapore may be excused if he thinks of them with envy as he surveys a pair of socks that ho has only worn once but which are nevertheless already unfit for service.
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Civilians had to squeeze into the room as best they could for about 120 men and N.0.0.'nof the Shrop shire Light Infantry had march- ed down from Tanglin and they occupied all the chairs; The room itself is bright and cheerful, and should prove a most walcoms retreat for the men, for it an doubtedly will servo a most nee- ful purpose.
Yat is it also true that the noble peace Premier, Okuma, and his wise confreres of the Genro could hardly have succeeded in successfully preaching the gospel of peace but for the fact that During the darkest hour of the Japan's financial condition makse Chino-Japanese crisis, while the it incumbent upon her to cultivate war party in Japan was ansocess the good wishes of great foreign fully labouring night and day to financial houses. Throughout force the hand of the great peace Japan there is a general belief Premier, Count Obama while that taxation han reached China sosmed to be driven with the highest possible point. It is her back pressed closely against fact that Japan has pledged prao- the wall, a brief three-line para- tically all her available resources graph was given to the Chine in order to attain her present coast newspapers. If stated simply position in the world. She must that the Hongkong and Shanghai have time in which to recuperate. Banking Corporation had de-She must protect her credit. It
Bis Excellency, upon arrival at oided to head an association of im-is estimated that 40 per cent of the T.MO.A., was greeted with portant British and Chinese finan- business incomes in Japan go to the National Anthem, played by vial institutions as underwriters of maintain imperial governmental the regimental band, which was China's domestic loan. This little expenditures. It is asserted that repeated by the soldiers za ka paragraph marked the end of the even the municipal debta of Osaks, entered the room with Mm, P. Chino-Japanese crisis. Was it, Tokio and Kobe have been pledged Fowlie, who, as hon. souretary, perhaps, this brief announcement for imperial cecessities. There has done a great deal to make this that suspended the orders which fore, during the Chino-Japanese recreation fund popular. The Lady had been given to the Generala oriain the wise men of Japan Evelyn Young sccompanied Sir and Admirals of Nippon? Gold thought it right to impress upon Arthur Young, their Excellencios had been not in the balance for their more hot-headed juniors the the Admiral, Sir Martyn Jerram, peace and against war. Gold, the danger for Japan which lurked .C.B., and the General Officer pesos maker, may well have saved within the question, "What will be Commanding, Brig. General Kid- both Chins and Japan from dup the probable attitude and action of out, C.M.G., also being in at- lichting snow the "norzom daily the great foreign banking houses?" tendance. witnemed from end to end of Europe,
The paragraph which appeared
in the China coast newspapers to-
AUGUST BAINFALL.
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212
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1.84
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• “It' murt, not be supposed that ward the close of April very pro- The Rain-fall Report for July this little vote of confidence on bably answered that question as registered at the Botanic Gar the part of British and other The Hongkong and Shanghai dens, is as follows bankers in a twelve-million dollar Banking Corporation, unrivalled proposition, in itself, and by itself, among the financial houses of the prevented Japan from making Orient, the recognised leader in war on China. It must not be the Oriental money market, was supposed that Japan sa a nation determined to support the credit deared to make war upon Chins of the Chinese republic. It is not or to commit aggression in any too much to say that, reading manner, shape or form upon between the lines of this little China. It certainly would be most paragraph, and remembering unfair and unjust-in view of the statement made publicly information which we are now by the ohsirmati of the getting from Poking and from Hongkong Tokio to say that Chins was Banking Corporation in Febra- and Shanghai without friends in the highest ry, testifying to the growing councils of Japan. Quite the strength and credit of China's contrary. Indeed, there is reason national administration, the peace to believe that China's best friend party among the peerage and in her hour of need was Count people of Japan was able to cast Okuma, the constitutional right the necessary oil upon sorely hand of the Emperor Yoshihito troubled waters. Japan's wiss Also the elder stateamen, visualize men pointed, no doubt, to this ing more accurately than the gold which was being put into younger parliamentarians, Japan's the scale in favour of Chins and actual situation and her needs, of penos. And the decision was resisted to the utmost the pressure реасе. put upon them by the military
olans, the force of what we call There is a lesson in this little jingoism. The term "jingoism" incident for thom, who sometimes in English. It came into common will not, or cannot, see that bank- nas less than fifty years ago. Yeters have hearts and consciences it is a historical, fact that the Em- and high ideals; and that gold pross Jingo of Japan, who can, and does, often enter the invaded Korea about 145 or balance on the side of peace, of 147 A. D., ya what might humanity and of justice.
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Total, 16.13 inches