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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1915.
The Criminal Fessions.
GAY KANDES A KIV
DAY BY DAY.
There seems nothing very
remarkable about the present
criminal sessions; a murdercharge,
a returned banishes onse, one ca88 ARE WITH MORE SPIRIT CHASED
of receiving, and a few of robbery. THAN in various forme, making up the Venice. bill. It saya a good deal for the discipline maintained in the Colony that the number of law.
ALL THINGS THAT ARE, ENJOYED, Merohane
The Weather. Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 82; sunshine.
NOTES ON THE CRISIS
ITALY'S PROGRAMME.
The Greek and Balken Situations.
As before, the Greeks have
view the matter of their country's
E SHERRY breakers whom magistrates have At the Peak 8 am. Temp. 77; again told their King, how they
E PORT
E BRANDY
Es
ALWAYS AT THE FRONT
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comparatively ao amall, and this also seems the place to remark that the number of orimes in which no satisfactory arrest has
sunshine."
Count the Columas, Yesterday the
Telegraph been made appears to be decidedly published 33 columns of solid on the decrease. In view of reading matter. To-day there the atrainedness of the times will be 35 published,
certain congratulations are
vigilance, magistrates should also be con-
The Maita.
per ... Shidzgoka Meru to-day at 3 p.m. ⠀⠀
MailClosed per vs. Chenau to-day at 5 p.m.
Up to the Minute-Share Market News.
deney on their part to inflict more severe punishments than was sometimes the wont of their pre-Siberian decessore. Mr, Justice Hazeland, always a good friend to the public in this respect and a terror to evildoers, gave further exhibit ions yesterday of his ability to bundle the Chinese thief; and as least five individuals will have no. very pleasant memories to asso»; oiste with their introduction to bira.
Still the Deportation Questión.
But whatabout that deportation case? A man who was banished for twenty years as recently as last February turned up smiling very soon after. Yes- terday he was awarded three will yours
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A YEAR AGO TO-DAY.
LEADING EVENTS IN THE GREAT WAR.
Extracts from the war nowa co- tarned in the Hongkong Telegraph" of August 18,
1914.
Russlana Occupy German. Territory.
MER
CONCESSIONS TO
CHANT SERVICE OFFI- CERS IN ADMIRALTY
SERVICE
Some time ago the Merchant Servios Guild presentations to the Trade concerning thon Off of the Merchant Service who been detained through
rent themselves for
duty in regard to the war. at the The Russians have acoupied on transporte, store ship insist, whatever happens, that Venizeligt party shall have the are points on Gorman territory ato, and whose services could largest volce in the discussion, with the greatest success, taking be spared to 00000000 well knowing that that party hundreds of prisoners. means to have war if possible. And General Smith-Dorrien, to Trade Daminations higher surely this cannot be regarded as | Succeed General Criorson,
grade certificates, In resp mere greed for new territory or s It is officially announced that these representations the follow importance to hundreds of officers
Board of Trade
(Marine Department)
London, SW
18th July 1915. Bir-With reference to your
due to the police, on their
Todd Siberian. Mail. Dae per 0.9. mare wish to spite their King and General Smith Dorienting letter which is of considerable
Liangchow to-morrow. his Hohenzollern Consort. The mande an army corps of the Ex gratulated on the growing ten. Canadian and U.K. Maile.-Closed: Greeks would not be human if they | peditionary Force, in succession concerned has been received 100
did not feel that they have a long to General Grierson.⠀⠀ soors to settle with Turkey, and Expeditionary Force Lands,
The Press Barenu states that the wonder is that the Royaliat Party has been able to keep the the British Expeditionary Force army within bounda so long. bas safely landed on French soil. Every right thinking person The embarkation, transportation will, of course, feel some amount and disembarkation of man and letter of May 27th suggesting tha of sympathy with King Constan- stores were slike, carried the arrangements for antedatin tine, realising that his position at through with the greatest precau certificates issued to Officers of the present moment is, indivi- tion and withouta single casualty. the Royal Naval Reserva, dually, one of the most difficult Tribute to the Press, have been prevented by the end that can be conceived of. Hia Lord Kitchener, Secretary of igencies of the Servios from pre- family and his people have always Stets for War, desires to state senting themselves for examina been well affected towards Great that he and the country are under tion on completion of the par Britain, while they have no par- the greatest obligation to the Frees of qualifying service should be ticular oause for evincing great for the loyalty with which all re- extended to all officers on shira affection towards the Prussi-ferences to the movements of the employed on Admiralty service, ans. 57 R.
So far as we have any Expeditionary Force had been I am directed by the Board to state that they are unable to make right to venture an opinion, suppressed.
Manoeuvring in Secret. a general rule extending this it seems to us that he is in for a
It is officially posifed that no arrangement in the manner aug. losing game as far as opposition
The Board will, however, be to his subjects is concerned. They information whatever regarding gested. Want war, and it looks very much the movements or destination of as though they mean to have it. the Expeditionary Fores must be prepared to consider sympatheti. Italy To-day and To-morrow, published subsequent to disem- cally on its merits, any particular Nor is Greece the only new
barkation. English new paper case that may arise in which it assailant that Turkey has to dread, correspondents are requested to may appear that an officer of a Italy, according to one of the now quit Belgium and no correspond-ship employed on Admiralty wires, has a fresh grievance snts will be allowed with the Bri-service would suffer undus hard- ship by a strict adherence to the against these slippery gentlemen, tish Foros for some time. whose latest dodge is to seek to Poland's Loyal Message.
Board's Regulations. stir ap a rising against the A Warew message says that Italians in Libys. Such a trick the political representatives have savours of the Germansa thousand sent to the Grand Dake Nicholas, miles away. It is their notion of the commander-in-chief of the The Secretary, diplomacy. Unluckily for them Russian army, a telegram express they are up against a people that ing loyalty and longing for has forgotten more in the Rassion violar in the fight diplomatic line than the rest of the against the common enemy, world ever knew. For such Austrians Ropted.
The Servians bave routed the⠀⠀⠀ bunglers to set themselves against
hard labour. When is the Government going to frame a Bill that will empower the jadges to inflict life sentences in these caso? We notice that the
Crown, Solicitor himself admitted yesterday that "a year's sentence. did not seem to have much effect upon people of this kind; they seemed to like it." Of course they like it; and therefore the thing to do is to provide them with something which they will probably dislike, and which thus will have the effect of keeping hinese will face a good deal; them out of the Colony altogether. he will even-as was the case yesterday-occasionally ask the judge, as a personal favour, to sentence him to be hanged. But he does hate the "cat and he
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buyers.
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The Dollar.
The rate of the dollar demand to-day is Is 0 5/162.
on
To-day's Anniversary. To-day is the 65th anniversary
the novelist.
of the death of Honore de Balzao, the Italians, of all people in the Anatrians near Schabatz. They world, is for them sad their annihilated three Austrian regi Turkish disciples to court disments, and captured fourteen comfiture. From Italy's steady guns and great quantities of war stand against the Austrians and material. The Servians are pow the comparative ease with which puraning the enemy. she filches a line of trenches here or a mountain stronghold there, it looks as though she can easily spare a respectable force for the farther barassing of the enemy in Gallipoli and elsewhere.
jast can't abide a life sentence. If it is made clear to him that these undesire ble happenings Fell from a Moving Tráink:
A Chinese hawker has been await him on his return, anasked, from banishment he will not re-sent to the Government Civil tarn at all. A sensible plan would Hospital suffering from injuries be, on a first return from banish received through falling from a ment, to inflict a generous number moving train at Sheung Shui, of lashes, without imprisonment (there is no need for the Colony to
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Fishing Junks Collide.
The Situation in Russia,
burg
German Crown Prince
Reported "Wounded."".
IBM, SIT,
Your obedient servant (84) ERNEST G. MOGGRIDGE
Imperial Merchant Service Guild
FUTILE GERMAN DEVICE TO END THE WAR.
Letter to Frighten Society Leaders.
doing violence to their neutrality, what objection can there be to standing that he will go to gaol damage to his craft to the extent not realise at starting what every attached to the let Cavalry Divis weary of the war and that it i
his cost.
The French Gaining Ground. HONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1915.
France is making methodion! progress in Alsace-Loraine, hay- AMERICA AND THE AUSTRO-GERMANS.
ing gained a distance of ten tot wen- ty kilometres all along the fron- The Americans, during the past few days, have been showing
tier from Chambroy to Belfort and advancing strongly in some of the D. News writing under date of
The Correspondent, of the NG themselves in quite a new light. In the first place, they have done go out of its way to keep such Lau 8 Tai, of fishing jank
All the change that, the Gervalleys, particularly on Strass-Jaly 10, says: The Germans with Austria what they failed to do with Germany: have given a people) and to send him out No. 7,210, has reported to the straightforward and final reply, precluding all subsequent palaver, of the Colony, taking par police that at 9 a.m. on the 15th. mans are going to get out of the
have adopted a new device. They to hand um while being towed by an examina Russians, retreat or no retreat, regarding their supplying the members of the Entente with muni- ticular
are sending influential Parisian: tions. I," says Washington, Austrian and German firms supplied over to the authorities of his own tion launch, he was run into hy is not going to amount Great Britain with war material during the Boer campaign without country, on the definits under another fishing jonk, which did to much. Of course Germany did the German Crown Prince, who is
A report has reached Paris that ladieslettera which the recipient will consider oa aldressed to her in error asying that, everyone American firma' doing the same to-day"? This question disposes of for life if ever he returns. The of $50.
other nation under heaven knew: tion, has been wounded and is in that no country will ever defeat bospital at Aix-la-Chapelle. The These effusions are of course in the whole matter, for it is unanswerable eave in a manner entirely betting is that he will not return
useless to go on shedding blood. --which is, after all, the end that Accident on the Shizuoka Maru. Russia on her own soil. It may Kaiser has proceeded thither.. favourable to the transactions between Britain and the States.
Lani Shup, 70-Canton Road, be quite useful for the more oul Brazil Complains to Germany. enemy has not discovered any From the tone of govoral of the American newspapers quoted the Colony is seeking to achieve.
French, but apparently the has made a report to the Police, tivated Prussisa to speak of.the by Reater, it would seem that the more influential section of the Balzac.
Exactly sixty-five years have to the effect that yesterday while Muscovite now and then as a semi-says that Brazil has asked for
A telegram from Rio de Janeiro Frenchman willing to write press is very much in favour of the Government's taking just as uncompromising a stand where the eternal plotting of Germany in passed since the death of Honore working cargo, on board the 9.9, savage: but he is a healthy sort explanations and the punishment them, as they contain variout America is concerned. Our wires of Tuesday gave some indication de Balzse, and it is perhaps only Shidzacka Maru in the Harbour of semi-savage, who has an un- of the guilty perrons responsible Germanisms that betray them as to the position, if the New York World is correctly informed during the last fifteen of those two of his fokis, who, were lower-commonly good notion of defend for the treatment of Senhor once to the experienced eye. It and a supplementary telegram published in our issue of yesterday that Northern Europe and Am- ing cargo into the No. 1 hold, acting his own home and keeping an Campos, ex President of San seems a rather futile espedient shows that that periodical is not greatly wide of the mark. Even the erica have come to realise that with an accident causing the enemy out of his territory as Paulo, who, with his wife, is and, from our point of view, augs New York Evening Post, which atands alone among the United there was snything especially death of one and alightly injuring Napoleon know to States papers in the exercise of caution as to the news and opinione remarkable about him. Happily another. It appeared that they Renter Bays that wherever the alleged to have been brutally geste the desperation that clatolies
beaten with the butt-ends of rifles at straws. which it publishes, goes so far as to say that "the World has proved he is now steadily becoming more were working on a staging which enemy goes he finds the towns by German soldiers and then. The object of these leters, pre- that large sums of Gorman gold have been spent in the United and more appreciated, as the many was carried away precipitating stripped of everything; and, thrown ever the Swiss frontier sumably, is to cause distress new editions of his work, both in both of them into the hold in order to be on the safe side Anglo-German Naval Fighting, amongst influential women and Sistea."
And is not this admission the kernel of the whole situation? the original and also in transla
of the hedge, the Russians are The Press Bureau announces get them to bring their infinence To na Britishers it is a matter of small moment whether German tion, would seem to Balzsc
prove.
following up this stripping pro- that there has been desultory to bear on the authorities. A more money has been laid out in aeroplanes, in fomenting labour troubles is a novelist whom it is not dif- Band at North Point.,
Laet evening there was another ceas even at Biga and Bialystock, fighting during the day between fatile manoeuvre it is scarcely posi or in the poisoning of livestock. What ocncerns us is that it has been ficult to place." Though of very successful band night at From German war correspon- British patrolling aquadron ble to imagine. All classes, high laid out. One direction in which it must have been spent with course there are dissentiente North Point when the band of the dents admissions the crippling flotillas and German reconnoitr and low are ananimons in their some lavishness was over the fraudulent advertisement alluded to among them some very high 74th. Panjabis again delighted a has still had to be deferred and ing cruisers. No losses are re determination to fight the wa
suthorities-it is by Reuter some few weeks since, wherein it was cleverly hinted literary
that most people who large attendance of between eleven the Russian resistance is in- ported or claimed. A certain through to the end, cost what it
and twelve hundred persons. The creasing in violence. A Berliner liveliness is apparent in the may just such base methods of warfare as have rendered Germany: have followed closely the work of band was quite up to its usual Tageblatt orrespondent goes even southern area of the North Sea. Workers are busier than ever, infamous to all eternity. It has to be remembered that, after all, the world's greatest novelists form and did woll under theft theras far, in feos, as the
The War Minister's overwhelming America is a far greater sufferer than the Allies by all this behind would esteem him as at least the baton of Baudmaster Christian, soft sopp limit-observing that
duties are now lightened by three door work: If American labourers go on strike, if zioting occurs equal of our own greatest writer Daring the evening the Misson the retreat may be characterised
ander-secretaries instead of one, in which tath rioters and police are killed or injured, it is not of Botion, Thackeray, and as not Haines, Angus and Sternberg 88 irreproachable. With rail-
a register of mechanigr and others ogr. look-out, but hera. The special value of the exposure far below the eccentric genius made a collection on behalf of the ways, tunnels, , viadnote eto, blown
who are not liable to militar where the Allies are concerned is that it shows the more lokewarm who disguised his identity under Prince of Wales Fard, 839.13 up, and the towns denuded of
servios and are available among the Americans what sort of blacklegs they have been the pseudonym of "de Stendhal,"
A Lancashire naval other just ing munitions is being draw to some extent bympathising with, and so may incline them and the and who has come to be recognis being the result of their praise- everything that could be of any
worthy efforts.
Fossible use, we look to see Ger returned home after naval opera- and partionlara of all fact Washington Government to have a care how they encourage or ed as the greatest novelist of
many making some truly magni- tions off the German East African and workshops pontersink assist ancha nation. If the laying bare of Germany's hopelessly France. Bilzno gave the world
ficent progress in Russian ter- coast states (according to the machinery, that can be turn mean taction should incline the people of the United States to take what Thackeray gave it: human
ritory.
FETTO) that the Konigsberg account are a somewhat more rational view of the blookade which Britain has life and character as they really
wearettacked an bantly The Government thought well to establish, much good will have been achieved. It are and he also painted, as
seaplanes from 1
to see whether has always been patent enough that, if given an adequate length of Diokens painted, the fantastio
were dropped, but she was rope, Germany would hang herself, in the long run. Now that her but his knowledge of mankind in
Madrid, July 18- telegram sank. The captain of a Brit trickery is discovered there is no telling where her punishment may general was greater than Checke
from La Palmas stalen that the warship waiting at the monti end. Had she played the game by America, there would always have ray's, his insight, powers of
The telegram quoted below Argentine steamer Patagonia, the river sent greetings to the haps this been a home for her people in that country when her own boundaries observation and imagination im was received from the Manila from Cadiz, has reported to the nander of the Konigsberg by of the come to be pared down to uncomfortable limite by the settlement measurably keener, and finer than Observatory at the U.S. Consulate maritime authorites that she met which the Allies are going to have with her. The present dia. those of Dickens, while in startling General at 19.30 p.m. to-day. a floating mine in latituds 4.50 olosures, however, make it quite possible that Americs may decline boldness and clearness of outline
Oyelone or typhoon
longitude BLS travelling to barden herself any further with the members of a race that seems it would be no exaggeration thern Luzon, more than 600) south-west direction of the rate physically unable to do anything that has not some background say that he left every competitor a distant, moving N. AL WE smile au bour. of meantiess and vilences.
vary long way
"
behind
TYPHOON WARNING.
1
A:Floating Mine Met in the
Comic Message from Captain of the Konigsberg
front, and espe
men, cannot be leave of ab
saying, I hope to see all that
The German com of the lied: "Thanks you and
to see me am always at