THE, HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1915.
Things in Canton.
DAY BY DAY.
NOTES ON THE CRISIS
A YEAR AGO TO-DAY.
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BARAM A BETTER UNDERSTANDING, LEADING EVENTS IN THE LITTLE SAID IS SOONEST MEND ED-Wither
Is poor unfortunate Canton aver going to be settled, and allowed ED to indulge in five minutes' re- pase? It may be scen from our correspondent's notes, published yesterday, the the sonomic pressure, which was bound to come as a result of the fog. floods, bas already started and At the Peak 8 sm. Temp. 76; that atrikes have been the order fog. of the day. Farther, that come
of the monopolists are pleating to be freed from taxation. Later
The Weather.. Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 85;
Is no News good News ?-
Extracts from the war heter con- tanned in the "Hongkong Telegraph" of August 10,
1914.
Germany and
Interesting Con The following table of naval losses German, is taken from source. It will be noen from German looses are far mor than the average: imagined,
ENGLAND. Battleships,
Another curions little fall fas -befallen the war news, en 1, even though friend Renter rains him. "Preserve the Great Fabric of Count the Columns, self to the uttermost, the only British Freedom " Yesterday the Telegraph things he can find to talk about news in to the effect that the ex- published 35) colamne of solid are some apparently trifling Premier of the Commonwealth, in 15.000, Irresistible 15.000
The Rt. Hon Joseph Cook, P.0. Bulwark 15.000, Formidable tent of the various fires in and reading matter. To-day there Italian successes, some generalis a statement addressed to the Majestio 14,900. Oosan 12.950 sout the city is by no will be 34 published. means known in Hongkong, and
ing over the Russian situation people of Australis, says: "We Goliath 12 950, Triumph 11.085 and rome speculation of the must see this through. Whatever that, in many parte, people are
very haziest variety touching the difficulty, whatever the cost, sleeping out of doors, on the
the state of affaire down in the we must preserve the great fabric ground floors or on the roofs for fear of fresh outbreaks. It looks to us as though the new Civil Governor is going to have bie work cut out to administer affairs successfully in face of coming bardship and prevailing suggee
tions of unrest of one sort or another, Bat the Cantonese are really a moat enviable people, for not even the inhabitants of South
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The Wily Money-Changer..
gentleman whose delinquencies The local money-changer is a we have often been moved to
The" Malls.
French Back in Alsace.
GERMANY. French Mail.Das per 8,8. Ams
Battleshipa Pommern 18.000. Balkans. There is no definite of British freedom and remember Canadisa and U.K. Mail-Olosed rale observable in the matter, but we are Britons."
zone to-day.
ENGLAND. Craimare. today at 3 pm, per a.a. Awa 6 certainly have noticed, upon Siberian Mail.
Good Hope 14.100, Aboukir Maru.
occasion, that such lulle bave The French troons have arossed 12,000, Hogue 12.000, Cress followed by striking news-good the frontier of Alsace and seized 12 000, Monmouth 9.800, HASI Closed "per or bad. If the Home authori. Altkirch after a fierce battle. They 7.350, Hermen 5.600, Amphion 6.6. Amazone to-day at 4 p.m. Siberian, Canadian, U. S. and ties are withholding bad news, pursued the retreating Germans 3,440, Pathfinder 2.940, Pegasus
U. K. maila. - Olose per
the fact must be regarded as and continued a movement in the 2.135, 8.5. Korea to-morrow at nɔon, extremely regrettable in more direction of Malbeuren. The
GERMANY. ways than one. It is a preoceding success of the troops was ex-
Cininara. Up to the Minute-Share
that can caly be termed childish tremely brilliant. and un-British, and one for which
Blucher 15,550, Scharnhorst Closing prices
Market News.
Freach Eagerly Welcomed by 11.420, Greisenau 11,420, Yoro the Government may have to pay
A'satlaas. Hongkong Banke.
The French troops have entered Karlernho 4820, Magdeburg 9.060, Friedrich Karl 8850, $840, a abarp price when the war is buyera.
over and Parliamentary elections Malhausen. The people of Aleace 4.600, Koln 4 350, Mamma 4350, Docks.- $75, buyers.
again become the question of the Lorraine were overjoyed at the Emden 3,650, Dresden 3644, arrival of the French and tore up Nars nberg 3.390, Kanigaberg Combined 150 hour. Preferred
the boundary marke, Deferred Luzona.- $46, sellers.. Shanghai Docke-$57,buyers. Ewos.-Cls. $171, buyera. Light and Powers, $4.16,
bugera, Watsons $6.30, buyera.
Indos.
The Dollar
The rate of the dollar demand to-day is 10 9 1/8d.
54 .96
on
Sent to the Hospital. hospital suffering from injuries A Chinese has been sent to the caused by a man now in prison.
How to Brace up the Nation.
Germans Flee from French Cavalry,
It is officially announced that the French troops have entered Malhausen, The French advance.
9.400, Leipzig 3.200, Ariadne
2 650, Hela 2,040, Geier 1.600, Cormoran 1 680.
ENGLAND. Gunbouts.
Speedy, Niger
GERMANY. Gunboate,
Vaterland, Tringlan, Hedwig, li, Mowe, Soden, Lugha, Comet, A
Jaguar,
GERMANY.
Minolayers,
Koenigin, Laise, Uching, Al
batres.
ENGLAND.
Trainingship.
Fisguard II.
ENGLAND. Auxiliary Craisers,
Clan Macnaaghton, Oceanio, Viknor, Bayano, Robills, Colum bis Prinoces Irene,
A
GERMANY
Germany, we know, has hum- bugged her people right and left guard arrived on Friday at night- fall. The town was defended by with lying communiques and
**mu * German brigado in earthworks florid accounts of battles which which the French carried after a never took place; and the German people, when they discover the flerce bayonet fight. The Gerger, truth, will never forgive their heavily by a cavalry pursuit.
mans fied in disorder and lost rulers as long as this genera To-day's Anniversary.
tion Iaste. Britain has
"After Forty-four Borrowful not discuss, and though, like his of the Battle of Chevy Chase.
To-day z the 527th anniversary stooped could not stoop-to
* Years."a General Juffre, the French noh infamy; but pradore, he has considerably friend the over-charging com-
there Commander-in-Chief has issued have been times when a straight a proclamation in which be says: admission of facta would have "Children of Ale ce: After past year, there are still cortiin
bracing up the ustion and forcing waiting, French soldiers again mended his manners during the
done all the good in the world, by forty-four years of sorrowful stagee intervening between him
it to see the directions in which tread the soil of your poble and perfection. His latest excur
possible danger lurks. Our country. They are the pioneers sion out of the paths of right
Mercantile Bank of India..
readers are well aware that we in a great work of revenge. dealing is reported to me from office of the Mercantile Bank of grumblers and the pessimiste, We are advised by the local have but little patience with the Kowloon. A lady residing in that India that a branch of this bank and less with the bar-room seges
Prince of Wales' Relief Fund salabrione suburb sent her boy to has been opened in Shanghai..
Increasing The Prince of Wales' relief the money-changer's with a tea
who want to teach Earl Kitobenar fend now amounts to £400,000 dollar bill, instructing him to
how to run the war, but there is, sterling bring back five dollars in single Some flood Aviation Photographs, after all, a happy mean.
People dollar rotes and the rest in small We have received from A Fong in the Colonies do not like to feel
Reprisals Threatened. money. The boy returned with exceedingly good photo- that they are being treated like telegram to Belgiom, in which Germany has sent an urgent the notes, the small money and graphs of the flying exhibition children in having disquieting she threatens reprisala in the the commission--minus five cents,
given by Captain Tom Gunn at nowe kept from them. Nor future, which our extortionate friend had Shatia on Saturday and Sunday, do they like to see the Empire, French Enter North Togoland. dedacted "as commission on the MORE PEACE PROPOSALS.
of which they are BOIS in officially antounced that five one-dollar notes," Threats
Alleged Embezzlement, genuinely proud, in danger of the French have entered North Readers who have watched the progress of the war, as told in matters, and the money-changer accountant of a shop-keeper, 64. ridicule is bound to come;" for
of the police eventually adjusted report to the effect that the small amount of ridicule. Some Luxemburg Evacuated.**
The police have received a being subsequently held up to no Togoland, ***- the telegrams from Europe, will see nothing to astonish them in the disgorged. Needless to say, the Stanley Street has collected 3577 what are foreigners, what are Luxemburg owing to the French story that is going the rounds as to Germany's having approached actual five cents did not matter in the name of the firm, and it is Britishers themselves, to think of advance
The Germans have evacuated Russia with a view to arranging & Reparate peace. A nation that has either way, but what about the alleged, he has absconded. fallen as low, morally, as Germany, is apt to think that other people's principle of the thing? We may corn is measurable by her own bushel. Nothing, it has been proved, take it that for one European on
a policy that, on the one hand, Japanese Ultimatumto Germany. is too mis rably contemptible for our enemy to sink to, and whom our friend practions hie
overatrains the censoring of war Japan has issued an alumsin Consequently she is prepared to find others holding their honour as dodges, he victimises at least fifty giving a splendid programme antold number of Germans to be The Victoria Theatre has been did, for many months, allow) on
news and, on the other, allows (or to Germany, zyn ANSWERE
Austrians Fleeing Before & condemn her latest essay in diplomacy, but ought rather to pass very pour class who cannot afford pictures, a Sherlock Holmes at large at Home. Need things trian territory, by the Valley of to-day by My F. O Jankin DBP lightly as she... Thus we ought cot, perhaps, to be too ready to Chinese and those usually of the over the week-end, including war
Russland, Happy B The Russian troops are in Aus Styr, and are driving the enemy advance guards before them,
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1915.
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Victoria Theatre.
over the foot with the mere reflection that she is bat acting, accord- to lose one cent, let alone five. In episode and a magnificantly ing to her lighte. Her own treatment of the agreement that bound fatore we hope that people who produced Paths drams: "A her to regard Belgium's neutrality opened the world's eyes tolerably detect him in these little a nosa Casen's Love. Tonight's pro- self to be not one inch removed, in point of real divification and proceedings for the benefit of the sense of honour, above the lowest type of savage to be found in public.
become any worse?
Auxiliary Cruisers. Itolo, Rhice, Berlin, Preassen, Sudmark, Kormoran Navar Max Brook, Holger; Gimoi Greisenau, Worrmann, Prince Kaiser Wilhelm, K. P. Cecilie Adalbert, Bethanin. Spreewald, Cap Trafalgar, Prinz Eitel Fried riob, K, P. Wilhelmsent
GERMANY Destroyers.
GERMANY. Babmarines,
Sixteen.
Sixteen, Total 83.
ENGLAND Sabmarines,
Four.
Total: 37,
wide to her moral standards, and she has since amply, provad her-ments will take police court gramme incindes a new Wiffles The Russian Government and PARTIES CANNOT AGREEAÏ Sergt. and 4 men, Portuguese 2
Central Africa,
Thus we must fully expect that Russia's quiet rebuke, to the
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picture and the three-part drems
Everyone his own destiny."
People.
POLICE RESERVE ORDERS. Police Reserve Orders issued (Reserva} state :---{{ AGGuards,
Wednesday, August 11th, British Bergte and 13 men, Chin Important Decision Pending.
This morning it was announo-Sergis, and 14 men, Indian 3 me effect that she at least does not regard treaties as scraps of paper, Consuls and Literature,
Driven up against the wall and that there had been a failure 0. U. Guard, Sergeant-Ma The only see which came he is, Reuter, as we have said, to come to a settlement in the Roylance, will be nothing but the pelting of a bog with pepper-corns; and the
bafore the Fall Court of Appeal discusses briefly what some any case brought by Tong Shan, of Thursday, August 12th British only part of the reply comprehensible to the enemy will be our ally's
which held its session during and what others think about the Breezy Terrace, against Fung 1 Sergea declaration that she wants victory and not peace. That, at least, is A paragraph in oar General deceased Chinese gentleman's thesia Russian statesman has told which he claims a declaration Chief Inspector Matoo
July concerned the question as to political situation in the Halkan Pia Shan and Fang Yee Chi, Bergia, and 14 men, Portaguses
and 7 men, Chinese 2 plain and deficite, and may be expected, if only for the time being, to News yesterday remarked on the estate was to be according to Dr. Dillon, who has told the thit certain premises are free from Friday Angust
whether the administration of a countries, and, further, telle ne merchants of Bonham Strand, in Sergte, and 13 men, O.C. Guard, dash Germany's hopes. That she will ultimately make other attempts fact that not many trishmen are English law or Chinese custom: Daily Telegraph, that the fall of encumbrances, and delivery of details for Friday' we do not doubt; any more than we doutt that Russia's answer will aware that Charles Lever was Judgment in this appeal, which Warsaw has permanently des- possession of those premises. The altered and stand se always be the same, no matter how many times the Kaiserad his once a British Consul at Trieste engaged the attention of practi-troyed the barriers separating the cause was to have come on for a British Sergeant and familiars may seek to beguile her. If Germany were not as dead to This is highly probable; but wally the whole of the barristers people and the Government continuation of the hearing, yes Portuguese 2 Sergeants and all sense of shame as she is thick-witted, she would know, without might add that, in all likelihood, of the Colony, will be delivered We should scarcely have thought terday, but was postponed until men, Chinese 2 Sergeants and 19 being told, that Russia cannot think of a separate peace without not many Americans are aware thereby owning herself to have been in the wrong throughout. The that Bret Harte was once United on Thursday, Allies are not fighting because of any grudge against, or jaloney States Consulin-was- it of, Germany; they are fighting because Germany's orimes have Einburgh or was it Glasgow?—
that it was necessary to wait for today in the hope that a settlemen, O. C. Guard, Urown-Serv wearied Europe, and because she has given definite proof that, unless st soy rate, somewhere in
the Warsaw incident. It seems ment would be arrived at bet Watt, to us that this good understand wean the parties. This not trane Saturday, August 14th Bri all power is taken from her, she will go on constituting an unspeak- Scotland,
ing began long ago, in fact before piring the case is to proceed and able danger to the peace of the world. Has anything happened further remark that not every THIRTY-THREE BOMB CASES an officiale uniqas opportunities
And we might| during the war to convince Rassis that she has been misled and Britisher knows that Sir Richard
the war. The war gave the Ras will probably take two days to
finiabl that, after all, the Kaiser and his people are a much misjudged set Barton, most intrepid of explorers
of starting to straighten-out of people? Only an hour before the arrival of the telegram an- and most brilliant of writers, was At the Police Court this morn it would sem that Russian nouncing these pesce proposals we had received a message which also a consul; was, in fact, one of 17g a Chinese, who is said to have subjects as a whole have been adviss us that the Langkat ontpat
matters and, for the past year,
LANGKAT OUTPUT. stated that Germany was using poison gas-against Rasaia! And, Lever
Meears. Wight and Hornby leaving the Colony only three days ago, the French Foreign Office pablished a list of Barton was one of the all-around to Canton, was charged before respecting people, more ready to successors at Trieste, been on his way from Singapore steadily becoming a more self- loathsome, cold-blooded crimes committed by German soldiers, If punishment was necessary for this race of cowardly bullies twelve any walk in life, and may be pession of 81 bomb cases and their raters increasing readiness men, who would have shone i Mr. Lindsell with being in pos- trust their rulers in proportion to months ago, how much more so is it now? Then again what of tho?
|regarded as quite an exceptional ohemicals, pro more practical side case, but the fact that Lover, and Mr. W. B. Hind of Mr. a good thing for Britain and to trust them. If the war has been Why should Russia want -- about peace-making when the Allies are ro near to victory auccessfull is consular
listen to nonsense Bras Baste were both unusually GK Hall Bratton & Office France it has been i What oan Germany offer that the Russians cannot claim for them-which is not the simplest T
rgdelanded and the case was re- better for Barin and selves, half a dozen times over in a few months time? If Germany ander the gun, though it may
mended for analysis of the though the olde were so certain of victory, would she be seeking peace, even with one sometimes seem to be
ohemicals member of the Entente? The whole thing is laughable; unthink
change, yielding place to a The defendant was ested on that will give the
the
able; and, if the Germans had one twentieth part of the sense withden that the man who which the world used to credit them, they would not put their names to such med proposals. The only pesos talk that Russia and her Allies will ever listen to is the enemy's abject submission.
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