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Word Strike"; A Now,
Meaning.
Mr. Ben Tillatt visited the front last month, and when
when interviewed
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUJUST 10, 1915.
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ild he had learned the meaning the word "strike.” “We have got to strike now," he said, "with are every ounos of British grit, energy, gold, and brain behind the blow. When the workers of England realise the situation they will get their costs of and give the poldiers the proper backing. We want shells, gas, and every desih-dealing 'device conosiv- able.".
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Huns Cost Maynooth College. $1,000 a Year,
sena in safety. What we contend T No. 74 Mount Kellett Road. WANTED.-A The occupation of B-lzium by The question is this: Has the is that you are not entitled by Apply to UHATER and MODY, the inva ling Hans has cost May-invention of the submarine so sailing in an enemy ship, to de- 5 Queen a Road Central. nooth College the loss of over altered the conditions of maritime prive us of our admitted right to 61,000 a year of its revenue. In warfare as to exempt belligerents destroy her. By so doing you are TO LET From lat September Apply to Polo Hongkong the Penal days many Irish refugees using that arm from the obliga shielding the enemy from our just
next; desirable six and Telegraph. found hospitable home in Bel-tion to secure the safety of those and lawful worlike operations. It light roomed Residences in giam, and they attained to high on board a merchant veespl of the after fair warning, you deliberate Road, the latter commanding a Broadwood and Wong nei Chong positions both in Church and State: When dying, they left rich my before sending her to the ly entrust your safety to such a fine view of the Race Course. WANTED at once two
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ize court had already been down to this: Has Germany the Kowloon. prize modified by permitting her des right, as an incident of her war- staction under exceptional circum-like operations, to interfere with TO LET.-Houses in Lyee- in September desires. the services THE BILLY SUNDAY BOOK, ELS 3.50 THE SOURCE OF WICOLIMAN
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HÁRPER'S QASOLINE ENGINE: an Among these circum- the freedom of action of neutrale,
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Hongkong Telegraph. offertorion at the churobes, there the military operations of the under a friendly flag?
THE YOUNG MOTHER'S 'HAND- HOT BOOK; Wheeler were a number of voluntary col captor and the like. lectors in the streets. The King
Obviously, a German submarine ander recognized principles of the Lusitania with her passengere UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS. BEFORE THE BABY COMES, gave the Fund a donation of 5 100. Sir F. Ponsonby, in forwarding taking a prize could not safely international law, a belligerent has been properly regarded by His Majesty's cheque to the Lord undertake to convey her to a Gar has no such right and that the Americans as an indefensible Mayor, wrote: I am com- man port. She may, therefore, Americans and citizens of other outrage, equally repugnant to in- mended by the King to send you awfully destroy her. But this neutral states who sailed on the ternational law end to the prin. Eastern Extension Vustralasia HOW TO TWIN, E. Rusti the enclosed obeque for £100 for right to destroy has always been Lusitania were justified in relying ciples of humanity and decency. the Hospital Sunday Fand, on The crew and passengers, as non- of their safety from capture or themselves, the question is not of limited to the ship and cargo on those principles as a guarantee But, sa events, have shaped behalf of which His Majesty combatants, are not only entitled destruction. Bat this answer does the past but of the future. What notices you are making a special appeal on account of the unusual to safety of life and limb; they cot satisfy Germany, nor wholly principles are to govern mari- strain upon all the London hos may not even be made prisoners meet the German case, These time warfars from this time on? Macao. pitals ocosaloned by the war." of war. On this point there has recognized principles" of inter- Obviously, that is a question heretofore been no difference of national law, on which we so con- which the Government of the opinion. The rule that "before a fideatly rely, valid enough under United States, soling alone, can The summary of the Indian prize is burned or sank the captdr former conditions, she asserts to be no more decide authoritively Orop Report for the week ending is bound to provide for the safety outworn and rendered obsolete by than can Germany. Only the July 3, 1915, states: Daring of all persons on board" is laid the submarine and the necessary family of nations, acting in the week heavy rainfalls were down by ell authorities on inter conditions of submarine warfare, concert, registered in the wet zone, Fallsational law, and has long been Accordingly, she lays down a new question, and it would seem of over 42 inches were recorded accepted in the practice of all principle of international law, viz: that no time should be lost in in Akyab and Sandoway. In civilised nations. Nor does it that citizens of neutral states shall securing a deliberate expression the dry zone, the distribution was make any difference that the prize to be permitted, by taking pas of the views of all the nations scanty and irregular and no dis- was carrying contraband of war. sage in an enemy vessel, to protect concerned in ita determinatio 1.
Whatever the nature of the cargo, that yessel from the chances of For this purpose a
e an immediste trio registered an inch of rain
the ship, being an enemy vessel, naval warlate.
conference of the powers should while Kysakee and Pakokku re-
be convoked, at the call of the was liable to capture or destruc port no ramfall at all. Plough- ing, sowing and transplanting are
Germany cannot at her own in- President, in Washington, and progressing normally in rice grow-
The Crop Reports.
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tion, and the persone aboard,
aandetermine the
ing areas, In Upper Burma emgaubjects or stance alter to the detriment of the belligerents requested to
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J.M, BLOK, Superintendent. Hongkong, 5th August, 1915.
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Chinguen, Amoy. Focktaihin, Amoy. Kwangziangsang, Shanghai. Jleyuenhong 87 West, of Kannodo, Shanghai.
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Lorchongwoo Yonchonglon Seefongkai, Shanghai.
Ngiankes Bonham Strand West,
Swatow.
Shinchungsang, Haukow. Bon, Chinklang,
were entitled to be pro- others the rules of international suspend in the meantime all
Teishun Tuekfoodoh, Shanghai. the irrigated tracts, ploughing tected from injury by the captor, law. International law is common forme of naval warfare which are
Wongparlin Mingles Hotel, Has this right of the officers, law, the common law of the family in violation of existing interna Shanghai, and sowing of winter rice on the crew and the passengers of a of nations. For one power, however tional law. We must not go to Wongsingteze e/o Haiyuetai 31 tinue, and in some cases. trans- planting bae commenced, while merchant vessel to immunity great, to arrogate to herself the war over a point of law; neither Cunningham Road, Shanghai.
from destruction-been abrogated
Liugishu oo Weibing Bank, the reaping of Spring rice is pro
right to alter the existing law is mast we, by insistence on neutra! Coeding normally. In the Fa by the, conditions of submarine in effect to saert a hegemony, a rights as heretofore defined in Hankow.
warfare? Saoh a claim ounnot. country sowing of early eeesamum) ha ocncoded. The argament inpreme legislative sathority, international law, get ourselves Julkhengles Taitung Hotel, jower cotton, and groundnut con-
over the rest of the civilized world in'o s position which will make Swatow. tinges. The Irrawaddy river level is favour is the same plea of a pretension which no self- & pescafal settlement of the ques
military necessity which was in 1 normal but rising rapidly. The voked to justify the violation of respecting ustion could for a motion difficult, if not impossible. It is not enough to protast, to Chindwin" "lovelle reported as
demand reparation, to insist on below normal. Cattle Belgian neutrality. Bat the rules
It follows then, the series of guarantees against farther pots of rally are healthy and pastor. of international law governing
ufficient The price of warfare whether on land or on attacks which Germany has re- oggression. Let America lead
sea have been adopted for the cent committed on American way in constructive work husked rice in Rangoon shows. Tendehow to weaken. Daurici Tory purpose of checking the ex sad other neutral citizens, calvindication of internation
ig in the destruction: be, and the pro
ment tolerate.
the
DR. BLACK, Superintendent. Hongkong, 5th: August, 1915
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