THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1915.
What's In A Name.
DAY BY DAY.
NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
A YEAR AGO TO-DAY.
JOTTINGS BY THE WAY.
A good deal of sympathy will the Chinese herbalist
GARDEN MADE.
FOR THE MORNING AFTER THEs been deprived of his AMD, THE FIRST ORY, CAIN-
.
NIGHT BEFORE TAKE WATSON'S
Efferlescing LIVER SALT
DE THE STOMACHI
SOLD ONLY BY
*The Weather. Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 84; dall.
At the Peak 8 a m. Temp. 78;
"Doctorats". From the evidence | Cowley, and the wording of the judgment it is clear that the magistrate could not well have taken any! other stop. The Ordinance, we imagine, was framed with the sole view of exolading really incom-dull, petent men from practice; but i has not been proved that the defendant in this particular case either was incompetent or was the intention to deceive the public, and so one is very glad to see that the case was dismissed. As a matter of fact, there is room
Count the Columns.
Oa Saturday the Telegraph published 434 columna of solid will be 371⁄2 pablished.
TURKEY AND ITALY,
What Neutrals are Thinking.
Daring the last eight and forty hours or so, soms of the neutral nations have had their eyes n little farther opened by Germany. mails stolen, have sicce expressed themselves in no uncertain terms on the subject; the Danes have
LEADING EVENTS IN THE
'ORBAT WAR.
Extracts from the war news con tamed in the "Hongkong Telegraph" of August 25,
1914,
Will one of our contemporaries be to good as to inform us what Banter could possibly have maint by the mobilisation industry":
**
"Deceased had lived in Hong- kong thirty-four years and was highly respected." Don't that 60 without saying? We should repeat anyone who could tolerate
(using his self-bestowed title with reading master. To-day thereThe Norwegians, having had their 18 officers and 482 men have left Hongkong for half that time, :
German Prisoners for England.
German prisoners numbering Bruges (a Belgian city 14 miles east of Oatend) for Dunkirk (the moit northerly seaport of France,
"Doctors and motor ambul ancas harried to the spert," says
for greater activity all over the Australian Mail.-Due per 8.8. St. felt called upon to intervene to on the Strait of Daver). They the Telegraph in describing the
| Empire where the checking of the
The Malls.
Albana
dillere,
qualifications of professional men/French Mail-Das par #a. Cor.prevent German heroes from fir- are escorted by Gendarmerie with Irish mail accident. This must
Closed per
8.9.
are concerned. If the various French Mail, Governments would decide to draw a hard and fast line as to Nova to-day at 4 p.m. what "letters" might or might Siberian, U. K. and U.S. maile
Close per e.s. Chiyo Mara to-morrow at 11 a.m.'
A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd, hope to see the day when it will
HONGKONG AND CHINA.
nct be used before or after a man's name, the general public would be infinitely better protected against shame and fraude. We
be a criminal sot for any doctor, clergyman, schoolmaster etc. to make use, for business purposes of anything in the shape of a "sabsorption degree. Pasple
The object of this paper is to publish correct information, serne to who pay a guinea a year for the
the truth and print the news without fear or favour.
* 50 MĦI MUNDE DWAEBRAN*
Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.
Phone: No. 1
A.B.C., 5th edition. Western Union Office address: 11, Ice House St.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, 'MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1915.
THE WAR AND THE CRANKS.
doubifal privilege of being able to term themselves Fellows of societies that dispense with the formality of enquiring into their members' educational standing are far greater impositions than any experienced bei balist can be.
Afforestation.
Siberian MailCloser per 89
Liang Chow to-morrow at p.m...
Up to the Minute-Share Market News.
3
Closing prices"
Douglas's. $69, sellers. Hongkong, C. and M. S. S. Co.
Ld. 221, sellers,
Combined 148 n. Preferred "55 b. Daferred Transports,
Indos.
Shell
sales.
92 8.
91/
China Sugars.-$129, buyers. Luzone. $40, sellers.
Shanghai Docke $61, bayers, EwoTla, $178, buyers. Shangbai Coltona in S'hai
Tis, 1024, buyera.
China Borneos-$11, nom. Watsons.-- $700, buyers.. Raube. $4,dellers.
Star Ferries,-$36), nollers. China Providente
sellers.
Peak Tramways (old).
buyers
The Dollar, The rate of the dollar demand to-day is Įn 0 3/84.
To-day's Anniversary.
The Arson Case.
-
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ing on defenceless men in neutral fixed bayonets. Their destination waters; the Dutch press has been is said to be England. speaking its mind freely on the hypocrisy of the members of the Reichstag, and has openly jsered
to
have been the fault of one of our
more aneducated compositors.
Our own special educated one took his degree in the three "Ra the enterprise to fake ups fourth. only, and would never have had
*
...
Big Victory for Servians... at the Prussian Chancellor for his plete victory for the Servisne, in Headquartere announces a com- lies se to his country's altitude a battle lasting four days, near towards small natione; and Lozaitza. Each side of the Aus America is making enquiries in trian army, which had crossed
A captions correspondent sug- regard to the sinking of the Acabio. the Drina, was over thrown. The Besta that we should give him his losses on both sides were enortok a telegram under the head ton centa back because he' mis-- The victors took several of "A Year Ago To-day" for # thousand prisoners.
brand-new one. We refuse to accept resposibility for the-ar-
America and Germany.
DOUB
Ghent and Ostend.
It really begins to look as though the Americans would quarrel with Germany after all. This is, of
It is reported that the Germans preoccupation that could allow course, what our enemy has long have occupied Ghent and Ostend. Nor are we dier beed to withdraw our friend to make this blunder.
wanted. Indeed Germany's frank refusal to consider the rights of
| the "Year Ago Te-day " column; War Contribution, nentral nations and her perfect The Germans have imposed a
if it were not for that, some of readiness to provoke them has been war contribution of two million our local pessimists would be all along, the surest sign that she sterling upon the Province of making out that the Allies have knows herself beaten. For many Liege. Also a war contribution since war broke ont.:
never scored a Bingle success monthe past she has been keen en-of eight millione sterling on the ough on assing the United States city of Brussels.
jain the Allies, and her appareat
anger with Italy for doing the'
*1
Canadian War Appropriation.
•
"We are told that Delilah punctured the head of Samson
*
The F.M.S. Government, as we stated on Saturday, has baen
esme thing was merely a part of The Canadian House of Com-with a nail." Precisely, but only wisely busying itself in establish-
her engrained hypocrisy. She mons has passed a war appropria. on the authority of a local con- ing complete systems of forest
wanted, and still wants, to have tion of 50 million dolara, Mr.temporary with a leaning towards belts in the various States under |
as many opponente as posible Borden, the Premier, has promised the higher criticism. Old fashion- ita control, for the protection of
for the saving of her own face to consider the suggestion that od folk incline to the idea that crops against the spread of pests.
$8.90, so that, in the end, she may be Canada should recognise the the hammer expert was Jael, the "In many cases forest reservON'
able to say that she lost to the Belgians' heroism by giving a wife of Heber the Kenits and that $91, world and not to the Estente. hospital.
the punctured was one Sisera. form portions of these belts, and Before the war was a month old most thinking people at Home elsewhere they consist of strips
Probably moet Britishers will ¦ Press Bureau on the Situation.
(Directions to the educated comp: and in the Colonies became alive to the fact that, whatever might forty chaina to one mile in width:'
continue to hope that America The Press Bureau desires the Not spelt 0-1-0-0-ro!) be its issue, it could not fail to bring a vast amount of good in its The Straits Settlements and
need not be dragged actively in-public to remember that almost
"Reuter remarks that the Sultan's wake where the Empire as a whole was concerned. The condition Hongkong have both placed a
on to the fray. There is no real re-all of the news comes from our of the British people at the time of the declaration hardly reeds worthy example before the eyes of
sson why she should be, even if own side. The enemy, however, weakness is increasing. Hia recalling; all know that it was as bad-where irresponsibility, the Chinese where afforestation is
common self-respect should force from meagre news which is filter weakness for what? Surely not weakness, disunion and faddiem are concerned as it could well be. concerned, but hitherto that
her to break off diplomatio Lala-ing through, claims suocesses in for Teutonism. We take it that, The Empire had been surfeited with peace; ite sons had come to example has been persistently To-day in the 19th anniversary tions with Germany. Washington the eastern and western theatres in that direction, he reached sur- think of themselves as immune from any kind of political or finan- ignored. The Straits and the of the Treaty of Prague between is probably as fully conscious as of war. As the campaign is being feit-point long ago, cial trouble great enough to threaten their prosperity, and each man F.M.S. had a better opportunity Austria and Prussia,
any outsiders oзn be that its army condnoted on an enormous saale,
We understand that the Reich- was becoming a law to bimself.
than Hongkong, for they had, to
and navy, as at present con- anything that ban already hap start with, many thousands of
Shed Collapses.
stitued, are not built for serious pened can only be of minor im slag meditates a vote of censure It is such a situation as this that gives rise to and that keeps acres of both virgin and secondary Part of a shed near the Sailors' warfare. But there are other portance. The Prese Barean says against the French for warning alive the crank. The man or woman with a craze can only exist as jungle, by no means all of which Home, used by Chinese as a shel- ways in which the Allies would nothing which has happened so the civilian inhabitants of Jaffe such when a ration is sunk in the apathy that comes of overmuch ease, was required for agricultural ter, collapsed at 3 p.m. yesterday, doubtless welcome intervention fat deserves to be called a victory, that a bombardment was about to overmuch wealth and the consequent breaking away from realities.
from this quarter.
Hitherto France has had gratifying succes-begin. Willie thinks that a na- Britain had much goods laid up to herself, her position by land and purposes, and of which it was but no one was hurt.
America has dose what she could, sea in Alence, the German have tion that can throw away ruthless- by sea was unchallenged, and so she was free to withdraw her comparatively easy to set aside a portion which must not be fellød.
to thwart the blockading of Ger obliged the Belgian A my toy an opportunity to kill women energias from the big things of life and fasten them upon what was Hongkong did better still, for The three Chinese who have many. There is much that she retire to Antwerp, while the and children is not an enemy petty. The result was the feverishly rapid spread of one-sided those who founded and made the been befors the Police Court on can do to assist it, and she can Russians to the eastward have worthy the steel of the Fatherland, socialiem, suffragiam," higher thought," spiritualism, "humanitari Colony found it a mere barren rock. charges of arson, were on Saturday further help by preventing Ger- gained ground, but the campaign anism," faith healing, anti-vivisection, vegetarianism and every Why the Governments of the two committed for trial at the Sessions. mans and pro Germans within there can scarcely be said to have Talking of our Potsdam friend other conceivable craze upon which the human tongue and pen Kwang have not profited by what could exercise themselves. The old, simple practicality of the they know to have been achieved in
her own territory from sending commenced. To exaggerate minor. we always dontrive to do Bijou Theatre British mind was being jettisoned as quickly as possible, in order Hongkong is more than we can
secrst help to the enemy. Again, episodea into triumphs for the when possible, because we love. The "Monte Christo" film is the magnificent results obtained Allies is misleading. It may be him so we note that he sent a to leave more space for high-aounding rabbish which our fathers understand. Experts have shown attracting big houses to the Bijou in Canada and Australia where said, however, that there has telegram of congratulation to would have scorned to be burdened with. There was, it is true, one that even the floods are in great Theatre. The picture is splendid volunteering is concerned may been one real, noteworthy auccess Osunt Zeppelin on the latter's excuse for this readiness on the part of the public to seize upon fade and ride them to death. The prosperity of one half of a community measure due to the absence of 17 mounted and the acting is be taken 88 not infrequently implies the hardship of the other half. And it was so fa: from embarking of system-
trees along the river banks. Yet, most realistic.
of indication of what America ead of three weeke, had not yet the Kaiser laid emphasis on the the other half that, for the more part, gave itself up to the newest stip frestation, the Chinese
could do twarde raising a strong attempted to attack France. fact that but for the oɔunt's in whim of the hour-because a mind that is bent upon some Government seemingly permits
expeditionary force if it were Even a partially successful attack vention the only babies that the "cause" thereby find relaxation from the sordid and eternal the catting down of the few
needed. Her army as it stands a week ago might have interfered Germans would have contrived to The lightning last night struck to-day may not entirely come up with the concentration of the kill would have been the Belgian struggle to make financial ends meet. Ia justice to the fomenters miserable surviving trees. If the the Peak Hospital flagstaff on the to the modern idea of what a fight. French armies and proved pre- and American varieties. and followers of crazes this excuse should be given its full weight. Chinese would make it a criminal roof, dislodging some bricks and ing force should be, but it is well judicial to subsequent operations. If the overworked and the underpaid found relief from the offence to fell another tree in cor. wooden grating in the ceiling to recollect that her finest men The apprehension that the enemy commonplace and earthy side of existenes in ruaning after some tain areas and would lay them- of a room.
have never enlisted. We are con- would be ready first is incorrect, ideal, they had every right to do so provided they did not seek to inconvenience others who lacked their enthusiasm. If it made where and everywhere, the coun- selves out to plant saplings anv-
vinced that from the districts and the situation of the Allies to Victoria Theatre. away from the great cities ahe day is, in a military sense, the unhealthy and ill-fed shop girl or the lonely spinster any happier try would not know itself in fifty lated on another most excellent man, would be equal to
The Victoria is to be congrata could recruit a force that, man for satisfactory. to dream of a state of society in which woman would have equal
years' time. rights with man, if the unlucky "out of work" could forget his
week end programme, the leading anything that even our own worries for five minutes while he pictured a blissful world in which
feature of which is an adaptation Dominions could raise men the equalisation of property was the first law, who could grudge
of a well-known French comedy, of British or French extraction them thesa distractions? The mischief of the position was that the
Next to the fact that so few wife." The characters are well-naexceptionable.
under the title of " Lend me your whose physigas and nerve are POLICE RESERVE ORDERS distractions did not stop at this; in fact they ceased to give pleasure lives were loat in the sinking of known French artists, and both gach levies may not be necessary. unless those delighting in them could force their views on the rest the Arabic, the feature on which plot and soting are of the high at
But perhaps
the captain has most reason order. The war pictures are But the war came, and the faddist was fain to pause and reckon to congratulate himself is the fine again most interesting and there
Italy's New Declaration. with himself. In less than a week all talk of (e.g.) votes for women heroism of his officers and crew. are two more Sherlock Holmes stopped, and with it the beginnings of an insane" stop the war." This is testified to by the pas episodes. propaganda. The cranks realised that business was the order of engers se well as by the skipper the hour and that their pet theorice would not stand in rough himself, who pithily observed that weather. Bigher thought went by the board; talk about humani- "the engine room was worth tarianism gave place to the easy and airy discussion of the number twenty Victoria Crosses." There
of mankind.
The Mercantile Marine.
Peak Hospital Flagstaff Struck by Lightning.
some scrt-namely, that Germany, at the birthday. We understand that
Police Reserve Orders issued to-day by Mr. F. C. Jenkin Italy's long-meditated fui ber D. 8. P. (Reserve) alate step is said to have created "the deepest impression in Berlin."
Parades. This we can well believe, if by (Central Police Station 8 p.m.) "Berlin" is meant the people who Beoraits of Indian Company un are paying the piper and not the der the Sergeant-Major on Tues arrogant officials who have deday, August 24th, and Thursday, manded the right to call the tune. August 28th. Italy's reasons for deolaxing war Details from Portuguese Com We are indebted to the Amerion Turkey hardly matter. What pany under Crown-Borgt. O. M.
of the enemy killed in such and such an engagement, or the ad- were no signs of panic, Indeed TYPHOON WARNING, vicability of shooting a few German spies out of hand. The old there never are where British healthy, practical views of the Britisher built up on a certain amount saamon are concerned, and the fact of wholesome and necessary animalism-came back, and society began is the wonder and admiration of to right itself. Women who had been so morbidly ready to thrust the world. This is where discipline themselves forward and to settle summarily mattere of which they tells; a discipline that depends, can Oonaul General for the fol- concerze us far more is how her 8. Alves on Wednesday, August had but the most slender comprehension forthwith retired into the not an with the Germans, on the fowing :-
extra freedom in affaire will help 25th, Beoraits of Chinese Co. on background, for they were honest enough to recognise that this was a number of times one man can The telegram quoted below was the Allies' prospects in the Dar- same date, venda man's war, and that no amount of theory could have averted it or salute another per minute, or on received from the Manila Obser- danelles. She is credited with No. 1 and 2 Platoons, Porta- could stop it." All the cranks followed suit, till finally none were left the chief officer's predilection for vatory at 12.30. p.m. Angust 21, having a reap ctable fleet, by no guese Oo, on Thursday, August save the labour agitators. Naturally these were the last to withdraw, Lioking the quarter masters in 1915. Cyclone or typhoon E. of means the whole of which will 20th; and Nos. 1 and 2 Platoons, because their oraxe suffered from an infinitely greater admixture of the stomach, but on the old, in- Bashi Channel moving N. N. W ever be needed in her Austrian Chinese Co. on Friday, August selfishness than any of the others. The result was that, while the born habit of obedience to proper or N. 9.20 p.m. August 21, 1915. campaign; and it is well known 27th. others surrendered voluntarily, the labour strife-makers needed a suthority coupled with each man's Cyclone or typhoon E. of Baahi that the fighting in the Alps and few hints of coercion from a quarter which would soon hats been power to use his own wits which Channel moving N. W. or N. N the Tyrol still leaves her as good as its word. Happily even these have come to see reason has helped to make the British W. 2.10 p.m. August 22, 1015, with a useful reserve of troopa now, and, at the present moment, the British Empire is saner, and feet, whether naval or mercantile, Cyclone or typhoon of Nor which should be available at any ponsequently safer, than it has been for the past fifty years.
what it is,
:thern Formons moving N. N. W moment for work in Gallipoli.
Leave.
P.C. W. Tinson Lee is granted twelve months leave from August 24th, 1915;
LANGKAT OUTPUT.
Meaare, Wright, and Hornby advise us that the Langkat output for the current month is Ar follows:
235
August 1
Top 242
238
11
214
243
J
01.
ま
211
221
1+
229
226
225
215
240
232
214
204
16
214
216
215
213
208
213
Total to
Daily average.
221.40