THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH.
EXTRA
HONGKONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1915.
FROM THE PUlpit: Notes of a sermon preached by the Rev. J. Kirk Maconaohio at the Union Church yesterday morning.
Text: Isaiah 10. 5
THE WAR LOAN.
"IF GERMANY COULD HAVE FORESEEN.”
NOT GREEDY, BUT—
MR. ROBERT LANSING,
in the case of millions went into. sport and other pleasure taking. The plodding German clerk got.
Mr. Bonar Law's Confidence the situations not so much be
of Victory. cause he was cheap but because he gave his mind to his work.
Mr. Bonar Law June 24 pre- HoThe very children went to school we propose, A, Committee presented a sword to Lieutenant-
Assyrian, the rod of Mine anger,
the staff in whose hand is Mine
like a destroying wave, and with
as little compunction, making
his name a byeword for ruthless
ness in the ancient world. He
*A Chance for the Poorest. (Continued from Saturday.) Thare in a third issue which
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Modest German Territorial Demands.
Laugh.
!
We print the poster which was displayed in the Barrow Works of Mesere. Vickers, Limited, on the occasion of the Royal visit:
Blast the Germans not by Words but by work.
Sir John French, writing on Neave Chapelle, states:
a
KWANGTUNG RELIEF
FUND.
Subscription List No. 21.
The Tung Wa Hospital begs to
the
following donations to Kwangtung Flood Relief Fund. T. T. from the Chinese Consul of Penang $15,000.00.
T.T. from Semarang 84,000.00. T. T. from Kuala Lumpar $3,000.00.
Mr. Tee Mong Chi $1,000.00. Per Mr. Lau, Ying Wai of the Kwan Tak Girls School of Tain Shan in Henngahan District $834.20.
Chinese staff, relatives and friends of the Asiatic Petroleum Co. Id. $417.20. S
Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Quinhon $300.00.
20 Subscribers of $10 each.
Kongmoon Customs Standard Oil $200.00.
Co. of New York $100.00.
Per Mr. Frank Smith of the
Asistio Petroleum Co. $100.00. 28 8ubscribers of $3 each $84.00
The following subscribed, $50.00--Cheong Les Company, Kongmoon Customs Club, Mr. Frank Smith.
(Continued from Saturday.) My first momentary impression Paris, June 26,-The Berne of an elderly man disappeared in the morning nervous and sided over by the Financial Colonel Fred Hall, B.F.A., M.P., correspondent of the Humanite completely before I had been heavy-eyed from last night's Secretary has devised a very as a token of appreciation of his telegraphs that the chief indus with him ten minutes. A man indignation." The Assyrian who picture palaces, multitudes. of ingenious and practical scheme for meritorious and valuable services trisi sad agrarian leagues in Ger with white hair, white clothes, is thus apostrophised was threat parents exercised little or no con- giving to everybody, however na commanding officer of the 33rd many have addressed a petition white shoes and a black necktie ening Jerusalem after having trol and, dared the teachers to do poor, an opportunity of taking a (Camberwell) Division, R. F. Ato Herr Bethmann-Hollweg, in starts by looking elderly. B
a law did not suit in loan on at least as acknowledge with thanks the some class of the community good terms as are given to the drill ground of the brigade, Dog of a Colonist Empire, the annexe of watching a pair of large, its members bound themselves millionaire. It is proposed that Kennd Eill, East Dalwich,
tion of Belgium, and annexation bright blue eyes gathering together to set it at, naught. If War Loan vouchere for 68,, or any
Mr. Bonar Law said that per- of territory in France and Russia in everything in sight and any class desire a privilege they multiple of ba, should be on sale hape at the present moment there as follows
disclosing nothing, when you have olaimed to be God's instrument set about making life intolerable at the Post Offices or through
was a tendency to be discouraged. French territory as far as the noted firm, straight-lipped in chastising our own diffi- Somme, comprising the basins of mouth above a square chin which the claim is admitted, though Dot wholly without excusa in and works offices. These 58. culties," he said, "We don't Brisy and the Pas de Calsie, the does not bag at the knees if I not in the way he regarded it taking us for a people on the vouchers will carry interest at the see those of our enemies; and line of the Meuse, and the for- may use an indefensible expres TT. from the Chinese mer- in his vainglorious self-esteem. verge of naarchy, and had they rate of 6 per cent. per annum for when we remember that this war treases of Belfort and Verdun, the sion which every one will under-phants of Lumpur 82,044.38.
which waited another dozen years who every complete calendar month, was made by them when prepara- French cosat comprised in the stand-you get the true vision of There is nothing requires more humanity from any knows but that their expectations The vouchers when they have pation than the belief that it has might have been realised? But accumulated to the amount of £5 ting extending over many years Pas de Calais Department, and man young, vigorous, alert.
In manner Mr. Lansing is com. been selected by God for some the scourge fell upon us in time, may be exchanged at the Post were completed was made by the mining area of Northern
them when they thought the right France.
posure itself. He speaks without task in relation to others. When and it is being continued, long Office for a $5 bond, which will
moment had come, and when they In Russia, annexation of the gesture, slmost without moving anation becomes highly convinced enough to be effective. A new carry all the rights of any other felt sure of victory; and when we Baltic Provinces and certain ter bis lips. I should describe him
"Mil-tock-holder. As to the holder realise that though they have not ritoryent of Silesis. of its excellence and its mission epirit is being awakened.
as impassive were it not that his writes a private corre of the voucher who finds a diffi- been defeated yet they are very to inferior mankind it is on the lions,"
Both France and Russis must smile discloses too much kind. likely road to severe humiliation, spondent from Home, who ad- culty in saving up to the amount far from victory, we have reason also pay large indemnities. ness, too much humour than ever and to becoming anft to serve dresses recruiting meetings by the of £5, or for some other reason to take courage for the future.
went to the make-up of a man God's purposes in any higher score, are finding their souls finds he requires the money, we (Cheers.)
who was not humane and sensitive. sense that that of being a mere through the appeal for voluntary propose to give him the right to
The peril to the coun- pay in his voucher to the Post the mechanical appliances of war, The Poster that made the King said the Secretary when he had "Up till now the superiority in "BLAST THE GERMANS" Wants to See Ty Cobb Play Ball, instrument in Hia banda, He service."
"I do feel the need of exercise," who makes too sure of his position try is revealing the value of Office as a deposit on a Post Office the superiority in munitions the British account. They can thus convert above everything else, has been as a light to lighten the Gentiles citizenship in
signed the last paper, "but I is likely to degenerate at best into empire. The difficulty of over- it immediately into cash, but if on the side of our enemies. That
simply can't get any. I used to a rod to chastise them. To-day we coming an enemy, so thoroughly the voucher is so treated it will is due to the fact that they know
play golf every day-except San- are in the midst of events which disciplined and organised is bring not carry interest. We hope by what was coming and we did not.
day, of course but since the war are widely recognised as repre-ing home our own shortcoming, these means to induce all sections Bat they have no capacity which
began I haven't had six games, Denting on one side of them in the matter of subordinating of the public to retrench their
and not one since last October. chastisements from God. Their private interest and opinion in expenditure and subscribe to the gives them the right to continus that superiority, and we may be
I can't even spare the time to We shall War Loan-(hear, hear).
walk to the office, immediate source may lie in the common cause.
sure of this, that every week and. The liste for application will be every month that superiority on human perversity and ambition never imitate our enemy'emethode but that is not to say that the or part with our cherished liberty, closed on or before the 10th July. the part of our enemies will tend great Ruler of nations has nothing › But our country will come out of Allotments will be made on apto diminish until the time comes to do with them or leaves them to its fiery trial with its auraliness plication, and the lists will not be when the scale is on the other but an almost unlimited supply
subdued and its distracted closed earlier than the date named side. (Cheers.)
of ammunition is necessary. work out their wild consequences
year at Henderson Harbour on. But, after all, applications have though mechanical appliances
I am confident that this is the Lake Ontario, where I have a as they may. We ourselves stand, olemonta hammered into anity unless the as we believe in a just cause, yet beneath the rod which God does reached a point which we coo; and munitions have counted most
only means,
cottage, black bass fishing. Bafore who does not admit that our/not apare from those He cares sider sufficient to meet our reso far, man count, too. The losses
Work and make Ammunition to I took to golf and fishing my nation stood in need of some fiery about and whom He would shape quirements. But oar, require of our enemies have been colossal, Blast the Germans out of favourite outdoor games were foot-33.16. trial to brace and cleanse it from to His asss. That is compensation ments are great, and nothing but and when there is an equality in trenches and so save your pal's ball and lawn tennia.
4 enbacribers of $8 28 manh evile which were growing raak? for the losses and sorrow which a great appeal to our financial the mechanical appliances of wat
"There is one thing I'm looking 33.12. have fallen on our generation, and resources, stimulated by the most the superiority in men will tell, is freely admitted
forward to, and that is to son Ty Subscribers of $19.70 and $11.16 amongst our great continental future centuries will show that earnest sense of patriotism, will and then will come victory.
Cobb play with the Detroits when 30.85. the price was not too high for the enable na to obtain the money. Of this at least I am certain, Allies. A French publicist
they come to Washington, for a 10 subscribers of $3.00 each of standing. M.Wilfrid blessing received. In the light of would have those who have the that if the men who control the
real baseball game makes up for 30.60. these principles what of the claim means to subscribe, and theas who German Government and who
a good deal.
Kowloon Customs outstatione shortly after the outbreak of the of our enemy that he is the chosen can obtain the means to subscribe caused this terrible war nearly
28.00 war; "Our nation offered some instrument of God? This appeare by curtailing part of their custom eleven months ago could have alarming symptoms, of anaemia, to be a dominant ides in Germany ary oxpenditure, to remember that foreseen the position in which and even of degeneracy. Philoso itself, from which country, unhap every effort they make now is an they stand to-day the decision phers, educationists, statesmen.pily, we hear no confessions of effort which is not only necessary would have been different, and Seven thousand Territorials of has been chiefly along the lines of noted with alarm, the distressing shortcoming, no admission that to enable us to carry on the war, the world would have had peace the various Battalions of the Lon- political history, political science progress of tuberculosis, alcohol ism, gambling and debauchery, and lawless individualism impati- ent of all discipline, social or re- ligions. Moreover the French peo- pleappeared resigned to their own declension in numbers: They gave more work to the makers of coins than to manufacturers of cradles." The speaker affirmed that the outbreak of war had wrought a radical revolution, arresting in temperance, gambling and crime, and causing an awakening of
The same
Morod, said in an address
the religious sentiment the
thoughtful silence of militant
freethought." In the case of
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but will bear very great frait in enabling us to maintain our financial position when the war is over(cheers).
Loss and waste of life can be shortened and lessened.
life.
KITCHENER'S BIRTHDAY
* PRESENT.
Happy Returas for Me Happy Recruits.edrag
1
A special recruiting procesion in honour of Earl Kitchener's birthday took place on June 24.
+
"I have almost forgotten what the word vacation means, bas when I did take them I used to
spend a mouth or six weeks every
"Bat as a matter of fact, apart from dining out and going to the theatre once in a while, I get most of my racreation from reading. For many years my serious reading
and government, air is
12 subscribers of $4.14, each
49.68.
9 aubsoribers of $5.00 each 45.00.
Kang Shan Tong $41.42 4 subscribers of $10 each 40.00. 9 subscribers of 84 esc5 36 00, 4 subscribers of 88.29 sach
$10.50.
1 subscriber of $8 29. 2 subscribers of 3.50 each, 8 sabeoribers of 83 cents esch $6.64.
5 subscribers of 1,00 each 5.00.
I subscriber of 3.31.
1 subscriber of 4 cents.
Already acknowledged
$393,042.24
Total $420671.59
The following eabsoribed $25: Mr. Frank Smith, Mr. W. B Makay, J. E. martshorn, G. Witt- sack.
Chung Hsing Tong, $24 86. the war is in any sense a calamity
"Viotory will come, but it will
12 subscribers of 1.66 osob, which the nation has even pare
not come of itself. We have got to doa Regimen marched from out
$19.92, tially deserved or brought upon
win it,and the whole nation has side the Houses of Parliament "My hobby, however, is the The following subscribed #15: itself. So far as we have materiale
That is an aspect of the question
got to win it."
around the South-Western ares etymological study of the English Mr. J.A.M.Donald, Wong Hin for judging it is believed that the
and returned to Trafalgar aquare, language. I have read the whole We imighty Ruler of nations is en- which we must not overlook-
where a big meeting was held. of Chaucer four times, not so much
5 subscribers of 2.48 each, tirely satisfied with Germany, (bear, hear). However long the tage of the facilities offered for
Three bands supplied the music for the matter as for the words, and $12.40. 80es nothing in her which needs war may last, there is a future, subscribing to the Loan.
for the procession, two marching I find an endless interest in going.
Subscribers of 6.00 and 4,50, correction, and has charged her and we do not want to see our Mr. Chaplin wished every suo in front and one behind. Scores through Skeat's Etymological with the chastisement of the other selves crippled in that future by ceas to the Chancellor's great of men walked along the pave Dictionary. I don't mean to say inferior peoples. Among all the our own neglect of the rules of patriotic appeal.
ments handing out bills, and in that a knowledge of the derivation nations of the earth," says one of prudence and economy while the Sir Thomas Whittaker said one many cases capturing recruite of words is so very important in their newspapers, and the utter-war is being carried on (cheers). result of the new Loan would be The bills appealed for five thou- itself, but it has the most intimate ance is typical," the Germans are He who subscribe to the country's to send down all other securi-sand men for London Territorial relation, in my opinion, to the 3 subscribers of 2.00 each 6.00. always, relatively, the best. God need at the present time is in ties, which would be a serious Regiments to fill up the gaps at writing of good English, and by haschosen Germany and Austrie as truth doing an act of mercy, and thing for the country and for the the front. Every recruit who good English I mean clear, simple His instrument, in a way as His his act benefits both himself and banks,
* joined and there was a large English written with a due regard Russia we find a people who had police, to correct other peoples the country to whom he gives it. Afr. Lough urged the Govern- number at once fell into his place to the precise meaning of every begun to prosper socially and placed on a lower plane." It He who subscribes now and saves ment to meet a larger proportion in the ranks and wore a paper word you employ." industrially because before going the name of God, so sure of one's hear)will be able to bear the created taxation.
seems a pity to make so free with in order to subscribe-(hear, of the expense of the war by in-armlet on which were the words "And if you ever find time to forth to meet the enemy abroad
in red letters; "Kitchener's read, apart from your nightly they had had the courage to acceptance with Him, and one's strain when the war is over, and Mr. Montagu, Secretary to the Birthday Bearuit,"
soporifio," I asked," to whom do tackle weaknesses at home. That saperiority to other people. But, he will be thankful for the efforts Treasury, said it was intended to
With the troops lined up and you go just for mere pleasure?" Russia is on the way to social, that apart, let the nation which he has made in this struggle to take powers to limit the sabsorip listening to the speeches, Tra- Enjoys Reading Colonial moral and political reform is s
claims a God-given charge to help himself, but still, dearer to tions through" vouchers.
falgar square presented and A Documents. certain as any such thing oвm
chastise the other nations look to him must be the knowledge that Mr. McKenna, replying later on animated scene.
Well, I like Parkman and be, and the work will be deep itself, lest it become nothing more every aid that he gives to him- the debate, said as to the limit of
Macaulay and Thackeray and oned and confirmed by the severe than at the best the more rod of self he is multiplying for his the loan; the only figure he could
Gibbon, and some of Carlyle; but vicissitudes of that Eastern cam. His anger, to be broken in the country, and that his country will put in was the maximum which
I can't say that I get more genuine paign which we all watch so an- using. Some of us believe that bless him for his providence and would cover everything, and that
enjoyment anywhere than I do in shortness," I continued. riously. A nation sobered and the Ruler of nations has better for his generosity (loud cheers), would be not far short of 1,000
the Colonial Documents of New certain man, was naked why he self-controlled as Russia is to-day work for Germany than that of Some Criticism, millions. He did not expect to
York, specially when they deal had such a profound contempi will not be panic striken aortara, policemen and superior persone, Mr. McKenna, replying to Sir get that amount, and he really did ed from its purpose by temporary and that the chastisement of the F, Banbury, said be believed the not want se much as that. As to Austrian officers have displayed the greatest interest." get man waa undoubtedly a man of Verona, Jana 21 ---While some whose history I have always felt that eminent orator and states- with the Iroquois Indians, in for Mr. Gladstone, seeing that
land our eneniss bad believed us /500 in any osso" that we make our by the terms of the resolution to tion, it was far better to take one Italian wounded, many examples nothing but the extreme courier trouble with him e replied: the reveries. Looking to our own war will fit her for it. Bat lat us) amount of the Loan was limited the suggestion for increased taxa ohivalrong generosity towards It was getting late. I felt that consolence, Phis-jun the wholly decadent, holding only the own calling and election care. the amount ected in supply. He step at a time. The present of disloyalty and deception are tradition and semblance of real What these are one would like to believed the total was 910 millions, generation were contributing & also reported. On optral one of my companion prevented him man, for his conscience instead power. They were mistaken, but believe are not misstated in the bat he was not asking for any good deal, and they all realised if casions the white flag has been
from showing how bored he w68. of being his guide is his accom- there had been ominous signs and greeting which came from Italy specific amount, was for the war continued freeh taxation hoisted, only to Indune the afore putting my last question. gathered my notes together
I would try a humorous story plico. unhealthy symptoms. Our pride on the anniversary of the Sir F. Banbury thought it a must be imposed. of liberty had been growing declaration of war: To Eng mistake for the Chancellor to have The resolution having, on the when they are Ared on Red Did you ever meet Mr. Glad
ME People, were growing land, wise mother and instructress promised what he did in the motion of Mr. Mokence, bean Cross ambulances have also be 7: Stone Pate inquired. A more and more impatient of of the savage and lesser peoples, event of a further loan being re-amended so as to permit the can repeatedly frred on.
Never, said Mr. Lansing 8 NOW collation, iz necessary of Treasury By means of this treacherous restraint or discipline of any That is better than beings police quired. It introduced
"Perhaps you will allow me to kind. Work, which to correct one's inferiors; let us principle of business which would bills that have been issued, was system of warfare two Italian tell you rather a good story about the lot of man, was widely regard-seek to be worthy of the high and be unfair to the taxpayer, who, if agreed to and passed throughore oldiers were killed; and one soterisation, though I can't think of papers each wi
him, it is olever piece of char ed as only an impediment, to be happy work of mothering and this Loan were a failure, would port stage. got out of the way as lightly as training others who have not had have to recompense on beeri bere: The Chancellor then brought in possible. The real energy of life our advantages in the reoe of life. Mr. Goldstone believed the the War Loen Bill, and
by by working men would take advan- read a ürst timed ry
RED CROSS FIRED ON.
Austrian Treachery Against
· Italy.
Italians to advance without cover,
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offer, and everal soldiers werehat brings it to my mind at this
wounded" yi sterdßy, while ad-
nging on Rovereto;
ɑmoment.
Mr
Lansing bowed permis.
has at least the merit of
thanked the Secretary of Erate for his patience, shook hands with that smiling and imp bable official, and m
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tig at
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