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DAY BY DAY.
NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
We have twice complained that Battery Path was made use of a
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The Weather. Lower level 8 á.m. Temp. 85;
a short cut by coolies laden with WORLDLY WISE-Francis Quarter, THE CHIVALROUS GERMAN. brioks, sand sto., greatly to the discomfort of European pedestria sns. It is only fair to say that on each occasion, the complaint was bleat. taken notice of by the authorities immediately and the nuisance clear, E SHERRY immediately put an end to.. Bat
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HONGKONG, "MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1915.
HONGKONG AND EDUCATION..
At the Peak 8 am, Temp. 75;
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building material is not the only burden with which the coolie On Saturday the Telegraph fraternity elects to block the published 423 columns of eclid way, where this thoroughfare is reading matter. To-day there concerned. This morning a man, will be 381 published. heavily laden with chairs (of the Austrian bentwood variety) saun» |
The Mails.
Russia Holdlog her End up,.
A YEAR AGO TO-DAY.
LEADING EVENTS IN THE'
GREAT WAR:
Extracts from the war news con- tamed in the "Hongkong Telegraph" of August 10,
1914.
JOTTINGS BY THE WAY
The Globe remarked, some time [ngo: "When a censor solomnly bolds up a telegram to enquire the meaning of f.o.b.". has otually occurred, it is time to ask that the most blatant ignar- ance should no longer be a pass port to employment as a censor.” If that's the worst the Globe man has against the censorate, he'd better hold his peace, and be thankful for small mercios,
tered down the path, monopolis-Siberian, U.S. aad U.K. Maila. The present situation which even Army brings you solemn news of of the enemy to extend the sɔNG.
Close per s.. Siberia to
Up to the Minute-Share Market NowS.
Closing prices:
Hongkong Banks, buyers ex div. Union. $955, buyers. Hongkong, C. and M. S.
L.-22, buyers.
$825,
S. Co.
ing practically the whole of it and charging into an English
"morrow at noon. lady who was passing and who Siberian Mail. — Closes per... sought in vain to escape. What Yingchow to-morrow at 3
p.m. can the police be about to allow this kind of thing? On Bandays there is a constable on point at the Garden Road entrance to the Cathedral precincts, and usually another at the top of Battery Path, but on other days there seems to be no representative of the law in the neighbourhood. What we would like to know is: Suppose any of the lady's male belorgings had been following and had inflicted chastisement on the coalie, what view would the law take of the action of the Baid "belonginge"? Since there is a notice prohibiting the riding jof bicycles on this thoroughfare o the carrying of chairs two- abreast, why is there none forbid. ding the coolic element to render. the way impassable . to`
pede etriade?
President Yuan's car of a Hongkong University sobolarship Judicial Officials in China. betokens not only his own generosity but his readiness, as representa tive of the Chinese Government, to recognise our little local seat of
The Chinese Government is learning officially. In the early days of the university we ventured upon the remark that luck bad placed all the best cards in the hands making a very practical forward of this Colony as regards its opportunity of securing a strong and Hep by drawing up regulations for the examination of judicis! abiding influence over young Obius. Before this establishment was opened, the higher western education of the Chinese was mainly in officials, as stated in our issue of the hands of missionary bodies few of them British and there officials will be obliged to submit Saturday. In fature all such was a tendency towards training the new generation in a manner that, if it was not actually hostile to Great Britain, could at least a fest of their knowledge of hardly be termed sympathetic. Thus, for our own people to obtain this new chance of familiarising the young Chinese mind with British traditions, educational and political, was (or should have been for them to succeed in strengthening our national prestige in China. We should be unworthy of the great Empire whose subjects we are if we did not believe that our methode, our traditione, our views in general were superior to those of other foreignere, and are therefore most calculated to benefit China permanently. In theory, the young Chinese who receives his elementary education in one or other of the Hongkong schools and then proceeds to the university should, after farge share which Britain tacitly claims in China's fortunes. He graduating, be a living, moving argument in justification of the should be able to return to his own people as a splendid specimen
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Germany is continuing to learn Home Rule For Poland, • things about the Russians, and The Grand Dake Nicholas has that crippledom which the Kaiser issued a stirring manifesto fore- was so keen on counting before it shadowing Home Rule for Pol was hatched is es far away so ever. and. He says: "the hour has There are certain outstanding sounded when the sacred dream
Our Contemporaries (or one of definite facts in connection with of the Poles may be realised. The them): "The fruitless attempte
lying
Berlin communiques cannot reconciliation with Russia under of occupation were only continued mother up; and one of these is the Czar's sceptre Poland will in his ojDatah Dmurd lan that the mobilisation of workmen be reborn free in religion and ducar lash. We don't attempt to in beginning to tell where Russia's language."
blame our neighbour for getting munition supply is concerned. 100,000. Austrians Repulsed. back on the contor, but we are Another is that our patient ally It is officially announced just a little curious to know ill is standing by while the enemy from Nish that on Thursday renders have been provided with
mado A damages himself and exhausts 400,000 Austrians,
all what remains of his supplies, concerted night" attack To-day is not the time for along the Servian frontier, but
Local journalism is getting into judging of the results of the were repulsed after the fiercest Russo-German elruggle. The fighting and considerable losses. A poor way. In describing the re- What will be the relative positions in croes'ng the Bave and captured lected to mention that the airmsa question that really counts is: The snemy, however, succeeded ant aviation stunt at Shatin, at least two Hongkong papers nèg- six weeks or two months hence? Shabatz. They also crossed the
Ohina Fires.$159, buyers.Or does Germany really think D. ias, after sanguinary fighting. landed on terra firms. Douglas's $66, buyers. that she can succeed where Servians Concentrating for Big
Battle.
Still, the Colony's latin is in Shell Transports-88/ buyers. Napoleon's armies failed?) As Star Ferries-8381, buyers. far as the coast is concerned
The Sarvians are concentrating safe hands while our educated Kailans.-31 buyera.
Germany's chances appear to be for a big battle, which is expected comp. retains bis job. It's a eure Shanghai Cottons in 8'bai-
thing he isn't a local graduate to night. no better than they ever wore, Tls. 100, bayers.
German Armed Steamer Selzed. for nothing. The other day he- and the naval scrap mentioned in Chin Providenta
The Nyassaland Government informed our long suffering yesterday's wires merely leaves her minus another craiser and armed steamer Gwendolen com readers that: ", ceteram con- with several other warships badly pletely surprised the German see Carthaginem ease dolendan.” damaged. We should recommend Government armed steamer Wiss-
And by the way, we would fain mann on the eastern skoro of the her. to get back to the only type lake. The engines and guns were know how a contemporary would (Combined 152 n. that of attacking" merchant sad removed and the captain, construe: Eques commendator Indos. Preferred 57 . fishing craft and shelling engineers and mechanice made ordinis Sanctorum Michaelis of
Georgii," 95 a.seaside torns that have ́ ́ no prisonera.
sales and buyera. Green Islands-$81, sellers." Peak Tramwaye (old).
buyers W. Powells-$7, buyera.
$0,
of sea warfare she understands:
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Deferred China Sugars. $1271, buyers, fortifications. These are the dir. Germany's Time-Table Likely.
"Oar Soldiers' Needs. Will Luzona.- $41, sellers.
actions in which her "naval The Russian mobilisation has anyone provide gramophone, Hongkong and K. W. and G. strength counts. When the been unexpectedly expeditions. piano or concertina?" Daily Co. Ld. $775 sellers and 77 history of the war is drawn up in Naturally the movements are News.) We had our reasons when sales.
dae order it will have to be placed carefully veiled, but there are we awore that nothing should in- Shanghai Docka61, buyers. on record that about the only re indications that masses of Rus- duse us to volunteer for the Kang Yiks. Tls. 15.10, buyers, putable features of Germany's sians are beginning to move; and trenches. We've enough mario, Electrica. $44, sellers. Bea-fighting were some of the this, combined with the checks and to spare, where we are-thank Watsons. $8), sales. exploits of the Emden-and even in Belgium, is likely to complete you.
she was skippered by a man who ly upset the Germans' time-table. on was half a Britisher.
The Goeben and Breslau, The Daily Mail: informs ite The fact that the Gosben and readers that the price of cate' meat Our Cultured Friends. the Brealan are rot yet diearmed has riasa. We always did say And still the more genial and is regarded as a grave violation that the Harmsworthian press had refined aspects of the German of Turkey's neutrality, and the no rival when it comes to chronis character continue to unfold them allies, and also Italy, are consider ting the things that matter. selves. The German military au- ing what stops are necessary to thorities are threatening to put secure Turkey's striot neutrality. yet more French prisonera on to
The Dollar.
The rate of the dollar demand to-day is le 9 3/81.
the law before they can "hold office. Under the old system
To-day's Anniversary. there were, of course, a good
Today is the 90th anniversary many quite grant memo of Paterloo"-the eplebrated held such offices by the simple Manchester reform meeting which operation of having probed was broken up by the yeomanry, them; bot of the officials were men 11 people being killed and 800
bat equally quite a m learned in the law and in the wounded. classics of their country. The Mr. Belillos Returns, Revolution brought into promin- the Colony by the P. and
Mr. R. E. Balilios arrived in ence all too many men who know Novara on Sunday, and is staying neither the new nor the old; who
at the Hoogkang Hotel. were superficially westernized, Bellevue Band Concert.
Chinese Stabbed.
Bijou Theatre
O
the pleasing work of marsh-drain- limit of their courtesy. A couple THE LATE MRS. GIDLEY. ing; nor is this by any means the
of girls at Colmar, in Alsace, have Funeral on Saturday Afternoon.
been sentenced to s month's im prisonment for "anti-German
General Liman von Sanders has evidently been venturing too near the Kaiser, without realising that "that kind of thing" ja catching.
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The author of the Hymn of
At Happy Valley, on Saturday Hate" has put it upon record that
of what Britain can do for them, "intellectually, physically and albeit they had travelled no far Avery successful band concert manifestations and illicit approach the funeral took place of Mr his gleesome little ode was not
Chinese are less slow than with Mr. written for one. He baing to recognise the rcade that lead to their own final advantage; and such an apostle, going forth from Hongkong, would be the and bad but a dimay acquaint levue Hotel. Though the weather previously supplied German Hubert Gidley, formerly of the We should hope not. We have of opinion means of drawing his young compatriots by the thousand to sit at ance with English and none at all was bad there was quite a large soldiers with food in the face of Hongkong Police. The Rev. always been
with legal matters. True, these attendance.
penned for the feet of those who lectare in our university,
were slightly seasoned with a
the French fire, but that did not Copley Moyle' conducted the that it sprinkling of better-class Chinese
matter; they had been caught burial service. The deceased was the inhabitants of the Berlin This is the idyllic, aspect, Let us get down to solualities. We who had taken a law degree in Government Civil Hospital suffer-soldiore; hence the punishment, member of the Hongkong com-occurred to induce us to waverin A Chinees has been sent to the blowing kisses to some French a old and highly respected madhouses and nothing has yet least old enough to have amended, and profited by, its initial errore; stitute the leavening of the whole alleged to have been caused by a peace settlement should certainly years. Among those present were
of a movement till it is at our conviction. and therefore we have no wish to criticise unduly the university as lump. Now that China is going stab inflicted by a man now in be that Germany be deprived of Mrs. E. Jacobs (daughter). Mr. We understand that, at the inst it stands. Its Vice Chancellor is a man of remarkable attainments to insist on her judges being custody, and of wide colonial experience; and, it sufficient authority is left
men with some pretensions to in his hands, the affairs of the university will, without doubt, flourish. There is perhaps no harm in remarking that there are members of the Council and of the Senate who have yet a deal to learn where educational matters are concerned; but, as man is never too old to be tanchable, we cherish the hope that they will improve with time. Nor is it fair to expect that the first crop of graduates -due some year or so hence will be fair samples by which to judge the university, for a thousand accidents have blocked the education. al path. But, as each succeeding year-after the lapas of the first five-produces its group of graduates, we shall look to find among them men who will be in all respects worthy of the great commission with which they have been entrusted that of proving to China that the British Colony of Hongkong can do more for her children than other foreiga organisations, or than she herself at present, can do.
An Excellent Publication.
Feast of the Assumption.
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Those Peace Rumours.
ber eagle coat of arma and be Richards (son in law,) Mr. T. Bolt meeting of our Sanitary Board, education there is at least a hops The Bijou Theatre entered Side by side with our friend's Jacobs (grandsons), Master Court-sion as to whether the St Bunch obliged to use a hog instead. (nephew), M. A. Jacobs and Mr. N. time did not permit of a discus. that the worst of the buying and upon a programme on Saturday ideas selling of justice may disappear, night. The chief features being a chivalry oлmes
on the subject of onay Richarda, grandson, Mrs. and the very necessary but un- an excellent Henry Pollock, Mrs. King, Mem-evoury barges which tie up nesr cleverly produced two-part film example of his hypocrisy. The bera of the Hongkong Police the Harbour Office can be class The Female Detective" and a Poles must not forget that it was Force, Sergt. Pattison, Hongkong ined under the head of pleasure bighly sensational jungle pictare: the German army which liberated Police, Sergt. Mjor and Mra. craft or Lo
To a Correspondent. No: Amid Raging Beasts.'
Poland." (That is worth at least Jenkins, Royal Engineers, Mr. Theft from the Mexico City. bad in the newspaper world at of the 8. Mexico City, has re of Prussian loving kindness,
Things cannot be altogether
three marke of exolamation) Ask and Mre. Tollas, Mr. and Mre. J. there is no trath in the statement Mr. Murphy, wireless operator any luckless Fole what he thinks Ballen, Mr. R. C. Witchel, Mr. that a job will be found for Bir Home, for not only are the public ported to the Police by letter that
and Mra, Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Bowell, Roger Casement at Home to ations all going strong, but one or some person stole from his cabin,
Mr. and Mrs. Calliford, Mrs, minister to the non-interned two new ones have come to stay while the ship was in the harbour
Tatam and family Mr. J. Saun-Germans. We have it on good" Among the new weeklies which a rolled gold Elgin watch and down.
The peace talk does not die dera, Mr. Alfred Young, Mr. and authority that he will sucosed Indeed an interesting Mrs. Charlton. Mr. and Mre. General von Sandera ia Tarksy, we osn cordially recommend to 811 in money...
little supplement thereto appeared Figby, Mr. and Mrs. Eldridge, where there is more room for our readers is The Passing Bhow, on his The university's power to send forth such messengera depende which is now some four or five The Feast of the Assumption wires which we published yester and Mrs. J. Oxberry, and Mre. tressing complaint, ani on thie fact it is impossible to insist too strongly on the months old and has evidently made was duly kept in all the Catholio day. From this it would seem Goldenbarg. manner in which it is fed by the local schools. Owing to the a big bid for universal success. It churches of the Colony yesterday, that Germany isstill credited with
A Tientsin paper advertises a deplorable condition of these in the past, the university has obviously has secared the services of Mr. E. At St. Joseph's the church most a desire to ocquet with Rome and
| musical performance by Kademe been obliged to make the pass standard of its matriculation ex-T. Rood se cartoonist and is run- frequented by the British com. to obtain the Pope's intervention.
LANGKAT OUTPUT.
|D'Argeneff With Her Famous amination lower than is altogether desirable with, we regret to niag seriale by Barry Pain and manity, the 10 o'clock Masa was If this is the best that she con have to say it, somethat grotesque results. Not long ago we personally J. J. Bill. The latter, by fally choral, and was exceedingly do, her
Meaars. Wright and Horaby Savish "Chorus Of 35 People." performances are not advise us that the Langkat outpat Shades of Harriet B. Stowe ! came coross on instance of this. A young Chinese, by no means the wanting in natural ability, who looked forward to taking his degree of how Woo MacGregor
way, tells the story well sung.
likely to carry her far. Any sug-for the current month is as › are the Abolitionists ? in Arts and, who had spent seven or eight years at a well-known hcm Mr. Bell taught us all to
Large Theft of Brass. gestion from His Holiness to the follows:- A abopkeeper of 418 Shanghai Allies will undoubtedly be lia August 1 1cal school, plus nearly two at the university, made it very evident love some fifteen years ago-en-Street has complained to the tened to with all becoming res to us that he had not the least notion of how to set about analysing lists and goes to the Front, By polios that someone broke into pect; but ita being acted upon and parsing a simple English sentence. Moreover, though he was way of illustration The Passing No. 422, by breaking a hole in must be quite another matter. To taking a course in "higher literature," he had a deep-seated im- Shot is re-printing a number of the wall between that building all intents the Allies have long pression that Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton and Edmund Barke were foreign cartoons (both friendly and and No. 424, and succeeded in ago made up their minds as to the contemporaries. It is quite easy to over-blame the university hostile)and it is also publishing a getting away with three hundred terms upon which they will conse authorities in such a case. Sarely its professore are justified number of well-drawn ekite the sheets of brass valued at $50, fighting and undoubtedly the in assuming that the lads who come to them for higher tuitea have work of men whom one would be Civil Servant Robbed foremost of these will be the with been taught the parts of speech and their value. Does a mathematical justified in describing as "com A Caiuene clerk employed at drawal of every German boor from professor expect to have to take his pupils back to the multiplica ing" The most recent issue to hand the General Post Office, has re Belgium and France, and a suffi- tion table or to the beginnings of algebra ? The fault, clearly, is farther contains a remarkably ported to the police that his house, cient indemnity to those two with the schools. Until these can systematise and enlarge their elever little drawing (embodying 13 D'Aguilar Street, was recently countries for the expenditure that teaching, the university must either close its doors to local hoya or a neat hit at the Barmeworthisa broken into and jewellery valued Germany's rufianism forced upon elee keep ita matrionlation pase standard down to a ludicrously low self-advertising campaign) by at 8409, an amber smoking pipe them. And that is only the first level. The education department in Hongkong has a very grave Paul Verres a wounded Belgian valued at $40 and thirty eight clause. There is always a possi- responsibility and unless it realises this, and acta, apon the resoldier-artist, Altogether one dollars is money were afolen, bility that Russia and Britain alisation, the Chiness will most sasuredly feel that they are being would be hard put 6 to find a The thief ontored through a mi elso want one or twoodds and humbagged, and are paying money for which they are in nowise botter pennyworth.
skylight left open on the roof, ends by way of indemnity, getting an adequate return,
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Gold Hidden In Heels," Big The discovery of a considerable quantity of Eglish gold being | taken to Germany by repatriated slien women has been made by Scotland Yard, detéotiven «at. Tilbury The money cunning concealed in their baggate led to |the arrest of three women, who were fined £25 each at Grays yesterday for breach of the re- gulations. One bad B152, another £110, and a third £44 hidden away, in one instance in speci
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Total to 15th inst. 3,390
Daily average
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