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A. S. WATSON & CO. LTD.
That Coat of Arms.
Things are coming to au nu- desirable pass when the Chinese
of Hongkong make remarks, fa
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The Weather. Lower level 8's.m. Temp. 84; veronate
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Count the Columns, · Yesterday the
1918
NOTES ON THE CRISIS NEWS FROM THE NORTH A YEAR AGO TO DAY
ON THE BASTERN FRONT,
Better News.
LEADINO EVENTS IN THE GREAT WAR
Extracts from the war nawe con tassed in the Hongkong Telegraph of August 11,
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Rupture in France-Austrias Relations.
The Montenegrin Advance,
cations or serious as the case may ERS: THEY DO BUT RECKON BY WORDS ARE WISE MEN'S COUNT- be, in connection with the Col- THEM, BUT THEY ARE THE MONEY
(From Our Own Correspondent.) ony's indifference to the existence | OF FOOLS, -Hübbeer
The Government Rallways. of the German cost charms that
Faking, July, 28 1015. till deonrates the Deutsch Asia.
During the course of the last tirohe Bank in Queen's Road,
several weeks, the Cenors have Not long go some of the better
impeached all the directors of the clasa Chinese were openly jearing
This morning there is a com- even Government railways, vin: the British for tolerating this
fortable " All's Well" air about the Peking Bankou, the Tientsin- standing insult, hat it has been
the wires from the various
Paton, the Peking-Mukden, the left for a coolie in the employ of
quart- Telegraphers, as there was about those re Peking-Kalgen, the Shanghai the Exstera Extension Telegraph published 34 columns of solid ceived yesterday afternoon. Twoof Nanking, the Llea-Lo and the
A rupture in the Company to provide the real gem rending matter. To-day there yesterday's wire, by the way directors of the first two lines
Tao-ching. The managing bounced. The Ambassadors are
Austrian relations is officially of criticism. Laat night the will be 334 published.
show the Prussiana in their usual Chinese who is responsible for
amiable light. In Belgium they Peking Magistracy, while the The Montonegrins have ocenple
are now under oustody in the leaving the respective capite taking in, and sigzing for, the Siberian, Canadian, U. S. and refuse to work to enable these charges brought against the directed Spizza, on the Adriatio,
The Malls,
are shooting loyal miners who Reuter wires that come to our. office held out a telegram ed-
UK, Msile. Olosed per ruffians to do farther mischief, tors of the other five railways are well as two neighbouring towns. velope to us and remarked aggri-Siberian Mail.
.. Keres to-day at nɔon. and in Westphalia they have to be investigated by the Ministry British Force In France. evedly:"That telegram coolie,
Olones per picked out those French prisoners
of Communications especially A Feking message states that be talkee me this b'long Gor
a. Sing Kiang to-morrow who come of the aleas that would the directors of the Peking the first portion of the British at 3 pm. man stamp now" and he pointed
feel indignity the most keenly, the Shanghai-Nanking Lines. landed in France.
Mukden, the Peking-Kelgan and Expeditionary Force has already to the Company's arms which are
and have ased them like con engraved on the envelopes that
vibis," It is conforting to Special officials have been dear German Sples Activo. have recently come into use. The
feel that Franos will patobed to Tientsin, Kalgan There are numerona- sccounts arms in question are a couple of
know how to avenge these and Shanghai to make thorough of the proceedings of German horses' heads with a globe and a
disgusting and gratuitons insults investigatione for the purpose of spies in England-attempting to aun between them, but to the
to her citizens. Every day the introducing all necessary reforms poison the water supply, etc. Chinese eye there is not much
cherming character, of the Ger in the immediate future, Both Several Germans are in onetody mane unfolde itself more and the Pien-Lo and the Tao-ching charged with attempting to blow more; and, happily, every day the Lines are losing money every up railway bridgen, da determination of the Allies to de- year, especially the Tro-ching The Australian Forces. nationaline this race of pharle administration, and the Govefu- Brigadier General Bridges will becomes proportionately stronger. Pekin Syndicate about it as the Expeditionary Force. It has been ment will shortly consult with the command the Commonwealth As we had feared, the Warsaw line is chiefly used for the trans- decided to organise a small mixed
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New Territory were telling the Chinese that the Germane had already got Singapore and would
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To-day's Anniversary. To-day is the 25th anniversary
dias! Nowmena.
library has fallen into the hands
of the Germans whose scholarly portation of the products of the naval and military force to serve characteristics will doubtless as Syndicate's mines in Honan Pro-within or without Australia, sert themselves by prompting the vince.
This will be distinct from the new possessors to destroy the Mr. Yen Kang-obo, Vice, expeditionary forces which will be Minister of the Ministry of Bent to England. The Hon. Mr.
The ate of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will soon have Hongkong, it seems
almost time that means (which lie of the death of John Henry Car- ok just as they destroyed Communications, (who has been D. Millen, Minister of Defence, Louvain library and Kheime Cathedral.
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enspended from duty on socount states that the mobilisation and Acknowledgment of Periodicals: from the Honorary Secretary of Army Ordnance Corps wish to A letter to H. E. the Governor and men of the Detachment, The Non-Commissioned Officera
of his alleged compli- concentration of the citizen forces cations with the Peking Bankon has been oirried out satisfactorily. The daily issue is delivered free when the address is noceable to published yesterday, annonces le gift of periodicals and mage clearest to the more civilian Judges and he returned to his of the Red Cross Society.
Round about Riga,
and the Tientain-Pakou Lines) Lady Munro Herguson, wife of the Overseas Club, which we express their sincere thanks for
attended the Administrative Court the Governo General, has initiat asenger Peak subscribers can have their copies delivered at
For reasons that are not of the questions pat to him by the formation of an Australian branch yesterday afternoon to answer ed a successful movement for the their residences without any extra charge. On copies sent by that the three aeroplanes supplied zines received on Saturday last, past an additional $1.80 per quartor is charged for postage. by the people of Hongkong have The postage on the weakly issue to any part of the world is $1.00 Queen Alexandra, who performed was the Right Rav. Bishop de Riga and to be concentrating her about five hours.
heen exhibited to Her Majesty
The Late Bishop of Amoy, Germany appears to bava aban- residence in the evening. The Germans Marching on France. We are asked to state that it doned her overland designs on preliminary examinatio occupied Single opics, Daily, ton cents. Weekly, twenty-five cents (for the presentation ceremony. It is Raysao of Swatow, and not the energies on Kovto, some seventy
carb only).
gratifying to know that Hong-Bishop of Amoy (whose death we or eighty miles farther south. If of the so-called "Kuang ang Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a fixed kong has had a share in helping announced yesterday) who took she is relying on her feet to do Olique," in the Ministry of Com On account of the downfall in the prosecution of the great part in the recent Corpus Christi what it is not expedient for her manications, and on the various war, but some of us may feel that celebrations in Hongkong. that share ought to have been af
army to attempt, it looks as railways, a large number of Can bigger one. At a time, long before P. C. Charles Aitken, charged big disappointment, for the which are chiefly filled by natives Squadrons have put to een under
though she is booked for rather ton officials have lost their posts the war, when cther colonies were Fan Mai master of steam launch Russian flet is by no means of North China. This is done, of the command of Admiral Dowa. doing their beat to help the Bank Line with unlawfully extinct and Rasslan seaplanes ocuras, to facilitate investigations There is reason to believe that Empire in preparing against remaining alongside the Tuinm to be particularly alert by the Government into the Japan will adhers not only to the foreign aggression, Hongkong Sha Tin Wharf in such a positionist now. Also there are auch alleged corruption and other vices letter but to the spirit of the was doing nothing-even though as to prevent the free access of things se mines."
comparatively "new and other vessale thereto at 8.40 a.m., fact that three successive attempts Olique" members, tel
The of the so-called “Kaangtung Anglo-Japanese. Alliance, to the
moat extreme limit.
Japan May Occupy Tsingtaŭ.
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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1915.
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Subscription List No: 23.
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Those Rifles.
to:
Chloere Politics,
A Brussels, dispatch says the
s'etle. The forward movement Germans are marching towarde
at Ourths has ceased and the France, chiefly through Esobsur
Germans are entrenching.
Japanese Squadrons go to 3ea.
The First and Second Japanese
midst of peace? What a sickening been re-impeached by Oensors who bambug the man is.. This story also charged Judge Cha Hsieh MONEY LENDERS ACTION.
of the rifles happens to tan teeng of the Supreme Court of
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Rosettled possesšion like then the 8th inst, not being engag at forsing these mines were to Federated Malay States could ed in taking or landing passengers easily repulsed is significant contrive to present a battleship! for
Feking, July 28 The whereabouts of the Ger though the Germans will have
In addition to the various imman Squadron is not disclosed, very hard to start a local airship Forthcoming Lecture by Well-attack Rigs by land if they want managing directora and traffic British shipping. The protection peschments brought against the but it is reported to be managing SHANGHAI AND THE WAR.
fund, and offered a nest-egg of ~~ Known Jesult Scientist... to get a look in at all. five hundred dollara; but no The Rav, Robert E. Brown
managers of the Peking-Flankou, of British interests may necess- Tientsin Pakou, Peking-Makden, itate a step enabling Japan to Shanghai papers to hand give lengthy accounts of the enthusiontributions were forthcoming. 8. J., of the Manila Observatory, aatic manner in which the anniversary of the war was observed in the The Colony has apparently seen Hongkong
However, better late than never. Scientist, who is passing through
Paking Kalgin, Shanghai Nen-occupy Tsingtand hig northern port. We dislike to mention the matter bat it may be as
on his way to
king, Pien-lo and Tae-ching Rail-Vessels Advised to Give Taingtais well to hint that this is not by any means the first occasion on which the error of its paat remiseness, the Froat, will deliver a lecture. It is authoritatively stated, says ways for alleged corruption and A Wide Bertli the British community of an international settlement in China has down handsomely if further con- Fall, Garden Road, on Friday, cases, were landed in South Teh-chaan and Civil Governor that vesela may mail to Hongkong and we have no doubt it will come at the Catholic Women's League seven thousand rifles, packed in fands, the former Tatuh Cheng companies have been informed
one of the new wires, that twenty embezzlement of Government
British and French shipping by far outdone the British Colony of Hongkong in point of public tributions should be asked for, spiritedness. Hongkong confined itself, in this case, to one Anglican Madame Janotha.
the 13th instant. at 6 p.m. The Africs few weeks before war Yin Teh heng of Kiangen, in and the North. The ships going and one nonconformist religious service, and would not be even at the bother of ronning up an extra flag or two. Shanghai's principal plecsure of hearing Madame No invitations will be issued.
Those who have bad the bers of the League and the public. car senemies disturbed him "in the cent. Treasury Bond case, have give a wide berth to Taingtau.
Lecture will be open to the Membroke out! Is this how the Kai- connection with the Nanking & per North, however, are advised to religions service was made a civio ffair, with volunteers, police, fire Janoths play, brigade, boy scouts etc. marching to it in procession. It was followed, those
as well as moreover, by a pablic meeting, at which the British, Belgian, with some
who
emiliar Bassion and French consuls made appropriate speeches that were and exquisitely finished com- of her dainty listened to by practically the entire European and Japanese positions, will regret that she
well with General Botha's Justice for sccepting bribes in Queation of Service Decided... population.
statement of a few days ago, to setting the accused free some time t The speech delivered by Sir Everard Fraser, the British Consul to confine herself to her wonder. The Tung Wa Hospital bege to Germany had wired instructions ant case. Both Cheng and Yin will F. A. Hessland, delivered judg
has apparently not been content
the effect that the Emperor of ago, and for dismissing an import
In the summary: Court this General, which we re-print in another column, was, like those of his ful art but has been mizing her sokn wleage with thanks the to getting up a revolution shortly be re-called from Shangment in the case in which, Hous
morning, confreres, forceful, dignified and to the point, sad contained not a self up with politica. No Govern- following donations to the Kwang- sufficient to equip a fair-sized Administrative Court and the Singh, watchman at the Sith the Poisne Judge, Mr. little that may be regarded as in some sort a reproach to the more ment in the world could have tang Flood Relief Faud.d
within the Union:" When rifles hai to Peking for trial before the Singh, by his attorney Sandan atsgnant-blooded people of our own luckless Colony. He pointed been more tolerant towarda aliens. T. from the Chinese Chamber territory at a time when the Further, the Civil Governors of Oasis of Yaumati, for out that, after a year of war, Shanghai could claim to bave been not than ours, and if the authorities of Commerce of Ipoh $2200.00.
army are landed in British Supreme Court of Justice Temple, Wanchai, ned Chan Foo backward in ita contributions of money and men for the farthering at Home arrest and depart a for- TT from MrQoong Ki HiЯorld is at peace, what about the Szachuen, Fokien and Fengtien alleged to be due on a promissory of the war. "I suppose," he said, "there are few who, during the signer-particularly one of such of New York $1000.00. Inat twelve months, have had better opportunities than I of seeing distication as Madame Janotha and appreciating how wide and how keen is that love of country the inference is that that foreigner among us bere; also how unobtrusive, how content to labour without ban made bimself or herself very reward or recognition ............To-day we meet to vow, publicly undesirable indeed. and in unison, to do all we can for our country." Why should that artist is the world's property, and A great love of country of which Sir Everard speaks be so much more pro- thas one particularly regrets that nounced in Shanghai than in Hongkong? There are, we know, this marvellous pianist should Li Tai Shing $259.10. reasons why it was inadvisable that many young men here who wore have given the authorities cause willing to go to the Front should remain behind, snd it is due to to ask her to leave a country them to say that their absence from the seat of war is a keen dis- which she had made practically appointment to them. But are there no men in the Colony who her home and where her art wea would feel uncomfortable when mention was made of "labouring so widely appreciated. without reward and without recognition "?
A Tax on Bachelors.
honour of the nation that sent them ? D
have been impeached by Censors note,
8300
for various charges and the late Mr. J. H. Gardiner appeared Governor of Szechuan, Cheng for the plaintiff, and Mr. Dixon, Ting-chieb, is now under custody of Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, in the Peking Magistrate's Yamon. defended.
tarved on him,
Flood Relief Society of Hewan and: Wanchai f83:42,
T. T. from Yes Kung Ton of
Still More Peace Talk- New York $350,00 Yuan Fai, Ling Shin Chung, and Rotterdam paper as to further Lin Yin-tee, of Szechuan, will be the writ set aside, on the ground New Territory per Messra L in a different form, comes from a and officiating Civil Governor, plication by the defendant to have The same old story, dished up The late Financial Commissioner The point at issue win an ap Per Kwong Wa Hospital colleo-peace tall this time the German sent up to the Capital for trial that it had never been properly tion No. 14 160.00.
press is stated to have began a shortly. Ohan Shi Private school 73.50. Rotterdamsche Courant gives Desciplinery of the Censorata held that the defendant had ben deluita peice campaign and the Thess eo called Sa-ohen shih or Io his judgment, his Lordahip Chinese Shing Kang Society prominence to an article, said to have been very busy in fading properly served and that he was School 43,80
and have been received from "a dipto faults with high authorities, most the person who had signed the 95 subscribers of 100 each matio Boarce, which abuses Bir of whom are considering their $95.00
Germans always abuse him? He cause they may be impeached by costs. Edward Grey (why do those posts as unsafe and insecure, be- was accordingly dismissed with promissory note. The application had nothing to gain by our going the Censors at any time with one
19 subsoribera of 50 cents each
to war); and which says that, in or more charges regardless whe
that she will listen to re of the generally indecisive resulte handed over to the Administrative for redress, but after over twelve view of Britain's heavy losses and ther there is anfficient proof, and official in Hanan, and appealed of the fighting, it is to be hoped Court for trial. The Su-Chen months delay he heard nothing
to reason, Ting or Censorats is part of the
To pass on, and drop a delicate subject, we notice that Sir Everard, Frear made a telling reference to the gradual tightening of the link between Britishers and their allies, and to the happy atate
1 subsoriber of 20.00 and 2 of of things to which it should lead in the future. "We are cheered by country for a tax on bachelors ca
There is a precedent in this 10.00 each $40.00 the hope that the existing anion in erme, now cemented by blood the lines of that to be imposed by $28.50.
Subscribers of 15.10 & 13.40 shed in a common cause, will in time to come produce such a anion some German and Austrian muni- of hearts that national prejudice and racial jealousy shall disappear cipalities. Such star existed in $9.50. in the warm fellowship of a new United States; united, it may be, England from May 1, 169 to I subscriber of 2.00 and 2 of not by formal ties, but in the parenit of true culture and of August 1, 1706, during which 1.25 each $4.50, moral progress. To this all will sabsoribe. It the world is to get period every unmarried man had to subscriber of 1.21 and 1 of "international: hatreds are desident Mr. Chou Shu-mon is also oralusion, the positions the best out of all the suffering and bloodshed that our enemies pay an impost according to his 1.10 $2.31.
having regard to the fact that Administrative Court whose Pro from the Censorater about his have forced upon it, there must be, when all is over, such an under station in life, ranging from 6 subscribers of 20 vents each why in Germ ny going out of her It is interesting to note that standing existing between the civilised cacen as has never bereto 12 11. a year in the case of $1.20
What creasing If they are decreasing President of the Censorate, or strong inded the Censɔre fore existed. We all want this to be the last war; and this it can dukes and archbishops, down to 2 aubscribers of 30 cents each Why is the "Im al-Ate a easily be if society in prepared to profit fully by its lesson. When le in the case of those scheduled 60 ct pa
way to insult French prisoners ? tome days ago the Censorst? Who: Er Germany is onos disarmed and given the debased position which as Other Persons. Gantlemen Already acknowledged $425, lustily as ever? That diplo over a year ago, he petition- received a petition from a native har iniquities have earned for her it should be possible for the rest paid Os., eaquires and doctors of 974.17.
Tommy called it, still song as of Honan who complained that immedi of the world to live in perfect amity and without any fear of serious law, divinity, and physio £1.62., misunderstanding...
matic source had better draw ed the Censors about his ill-treat and serjeante-at-law 83 18,,
and ther card and tryitsluckagain, ment by cerisin infidential. the
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