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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER
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1915.
NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
One of the facts uppermont in the French military mind to-day will doubtless be that it is the anniverary of the Battle of Sedap, EOMAGE THAT VICE PAYS TO The battle was, more properly VIRTUE-Rochefoucauld. speaking, a series of heavy actiona round about the ancient city- which stands, by the way, in the valley of the Mouse on August.
foo. 29, 30 and 31, and September 1, culminating, on September 2, in the written surrender of Napoleon III to the King of Prussis, The Emperor, wrote: "My Brother, Yesterday the Telegraph Not having been able to die published. 343 columns of solid at the head of my troops, reading matter. To-day there I place my sword at the feet will be 35 published... of your Majesty.-Napoleon." There was no shame in the faör that 150,000 Frenchmen were beaten Siberian Mail- Due per e.. warm welcome as leaves 85 85- by 250,000 Prussiaus. Practical Anhui
Count the Columas.
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The Mails.
ly speaking, the battle was won Siberian Mail. Dae per 8.8. sheerly on the strength of the Liangchow to-morrow!tee Prussian artillery being able to Australing Mail. Closed per patrange the French gune, as 8. Changeha to-day at 11 happened a few months back [when the Austro-Germans re:Canadian and U. K. Mails. --- trok Przemysl from the RussiSD?. Clasel per ss. Titan to day Unhappily for Germany, the at 2 p.m... French have long memories. Siberian Mail.-- Closed per .. They have not forgotten Sedan Chenan to-day at 3 p.m. and, before very long, we eball hear that they have amply aveng led it. France has given the onomy come startling surprises already and has others in store. Oplam in Kuelchow,
We slated yesterday that so
A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd. much opium is being gathered in
HONGKONG.
BIRTH
SOATCHARD.-On August 26, 1915, at 13 Kiuklang Road,
Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Scatchard, a son.
MARRIAGE.
HUGHES-ZIMMERMAN-On August 26, 1915, at H. B. M. Consulate-General, Shanghai, before Sir Everard Fraser, K.C.M.G., Consul-General, and afterwarde at St. Joseph's Church, Llewellyn J Hughes, of the P. W. D., Shanghai Municipal Council, to Christine A. Zimmerman, of Gainsborough, Lines.
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the neighbourhood of Kusichow! this year that farmers in Tsungi are paying franklý that they too will grow the poppy next year. So much for the prohibition. How Hongkong C. and M. S. 8. Co. China expected that she was going to abolish opium by force is a standing puzzle to the mere for signer. In a country where the people are as law-biding as, let us ag, in Holland, Scandinavia or, Britain, the forcible abolition of a custom whether viofoan or In the countries named," the Govern=" ment has the cc-operation of the magistrates, police and by far the greater number of the people; yet prohibition of anything that is asnotioned by long usage can only
The Hongkong Telegraph other, is horses work.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1915.
CHINA AND THE STANDARD OIL-COMPANY.
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Shanghai Docks-Tis. 8031,
buyera:
Hongkong Lands. $109,
buyers.
Hongkong Central Estates $100, sales.
Union Waterbosts.
Bollers,
The Dollar.
$17
The rate of the dollar on demand to-day is 1. 9 7/18d.
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INTERESTING ACTION.
A Soldier and His Dehts,
Mr. Shenton: They were notes of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank although irregular and it was all very material, a
A YEAR AGO TO-DAY.
LEADING EVENTS IN THE GREAT WAR.
Extracts from the war nètes son- tanned in the "Hongkong Telegraph" of September 2,
1914.
St. Petersburg's New Name, The Russian capital has been reanmed Petrograd,'
Checked.
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ALLIES' USEFUL SUCCESSES. The Fighting in Galicia. One of Reater's most interesting antoansements this morning is that which relates to serious To the Summary Court this check" inflicted on the Germans morning, before Sir William Ross at Brzezing This is a town Davies (Obief Justice) Sadager some fifty miles south-aset of Singh saed Banta Singh of the Lemberg and a good fifty inside.K SB. for the sum of $450 the Galician territory; from which being the amount lost to the it may be seen that the fighting is defendant. still not entirely confined to Rus-
Mr. J. H. Gardiner appeared sian soil. Meanwhile tho invad- for the plaintiff and Mr. Shenton,
Defence of Paris... ing force under von Hindenburg, of Messrs. Duanen, Looker, Dea in the north, has received, if not a con and Harston, appeared for that the work of putting the on- The French Embassy announces similar obeok, at least such a the defendant,
Mr. Gardiner in bis opening of defence is being completed.
trenched camp of Paria in a siste sential point below Friedricha'adt remarks said the plaintiff Way Advance of Crown Prlace's Army in Russian hands. The Germans employed by the epium farmer are learning something, too, on and the defendant was a gunner The troops operating in the the subject of rearguard actions in the .K.8.B. In marob 1913 region of Spincur and Longu and are finding that Russia is not the defendant approached the yon checked the Crown Prince's quite each a fool as they have plaintiff and saked him whether Army in the neighbourhood of credited her with being when it he would lend him $50 which. Neufchateau and Paliseal, but, on comes to neatness of strategy. Ale wanted for personal use.. A the other hand, some of our troops country that can withdraw the bulk few days after the requbat aufered partial ohsoka which of her army from point to point, was made the loan of the $50 was obliged them to retire on the and completely protect it mean made to the defendant and a Meuse. Daring the last few Canadian, and U. K. Maile-while by skilful rear-guard fight. document was made out by a man days the enemy has beso trying to
Closes per 8.6,
Chicago ing, is a harder not than the who accompained the defendant arose the Means in considerable Maru to-morrow at 1 p.
Prassians ever thought they would at the time. In a notebook a numbers bat, by a vigorous coun- have to crack at any rate in that memo was made of the loan. Inter-attack, they have been thrown part of the world.
that book there was
an back with very heavy losses, Germans in Poland. acknowledgment of the first
Freach Success. We fancy that few of our read-350 which
signed The considerable success of the ora will have any surprise to by the defendant. In July, 1913, Frenchmen. at Guise in osastmed... apare for the news that. Germany: the next loan was made, the do by Paris telegrams which say is pursuing the same respectable fendant asking for a further $50 that the Germans advanced a methods in Poland that have made in exobange for which he would short distance on the Somme. The her name, stink in the world's give him two drafts for the fires Allies left wing subsequently.took Belgium. Only a couple of weeks which were negotiable or purport the left wing offered a strenuous nostrile in connection with and second loans for Rs. 100 each the offensive, the Frenchmen on or so ago the Kaiser was ed. to be at Calou tz. He and successful résistance:
about bleating
loving did not see the notes because they Кінолева and fatherly were retained. lioitade for the luskless WarHAW folk, We know, then what they
The ss. Rajaburi as a Prize. had to expect. When that
Another monition, isaued by- aternal bypocrite gets on his hind
the Registrar of the Prize Court, lege on the subject of doing just Mr. Gardiner said the defen- appears on the notice board at the ly, loving meray and walking dant himself could not read. The Supreme Court, relating to the humbly with his God, one always documents were handed to him German ship Bajsburi, of which knows that he is meditating some and he went and negotiated those E. Gathemen. was the master. thing unusually cruel and dirty. and others with Jemedar Lal According to the document the Poor Poles! One comfort is that Singh in order to get cash. Then goods, wares and merchandise their misery will not last long. A they came to the loan of $200 in laden therein were seized by the Hongkong business men who are not yet convinced that the be undertaken very gradually and
few inches of Germany's tether is March. He wanted a money detention officer in the port of financiers of a foreiga Power have any right to take advantage of with the exercise of the most ex-
taken-in each day and the time order to enable his brother Victoria and a cause has been in- China's straitened circumstances to obtain monopolies at greatly treme care. Then what were the
is not so very far distant when who had been a watchman on the liluted by the Crown Solicitor in she will be hauled up to answer Fat Shan to go to Ameries. Ioor- the office of Admiralty against reduced rates will have read with muok interest a lengthy article chances of a successful prohibi-
for her many wickednesses. It change for the loan the defendant the ship, her tackle, apparel and which we reprinted from the North China Daily News on Taesday, tion of opium in China-the land dealing with some rather unusual proposale which are alleged to of corrupt officialdom; the land To-day's Anniversários.
is to easy to play the inexorable, banded plaintiff three drafts, one furniture and goods; wares and have been made by the Standard Oil Company of New York to the where the public has never had To-day is the 45th anniversary implacable military Power in for R., 200 and the other f.rBs. merchandise, for the condemus- Peking Government. The article points out that, some eighteen the slightest intention of assisting of the surrender of Napoleon III. face of a handful of women, chil- 100 each. In February, this year, tion thereof sa a pris. The mont months ago, an agreement was entered into between the Company the authorities? Of late we bave at Sedan, and the 17th of Earl dren and old men; but in what the defendant borrowed a farther tion calls upon those concerned and the Central Government for the formation of a concern in which heard comparatively little of edicts Kitchener's victory at Omdurman sort of light does she figure when sum of $150, in exchange for to cause so appestance to be made the Standard Oil was to have a controlling interest. The Govern on the subject of growing or im- The Malagult Extensión Placer
faosd with stont armies that take which the defendant handed the within twenty days to show cause ment was going to be an enormous gainer, because it would have porting opiom, and many of the
ber boasting and swagger and plaintiff two more drafta. The why the sessel should not b Company. no outlay or risk; everything was going to be clear prof. All that public burnings have been care- The Pablio is reminded that noise for what they are worth? defendent represented they were condemnad as a prize. Peking had to do was to accord certain privileges to the new com- tally "worked," the real opium applications for shares of Mala-
The Austrians.
all in order. The plaintiff left! pany-chief among which was the exclusive mining right, for a being snugly stored away on guit Extension Placer Co. should he took her pigs to a queer and he presented the doca- Austris must be thinking that the Colony for India ia Marob period of sixty years, over certain oil fields in Shensi and Chibli. the premises of some merchant be sent to International Banking market when she joined forces ments at the Hongkong aid evidence now of a man that it was
The agreement war to be ratified by the Standard Oil Company and a substitute of no value being Corporation to-morrow. within a year of signature, during which time the fields were to be sacrificed instead. It seems to us The Italian Convent Schools. with Germany. If abe can tell Shanghai. Bank
over (birty pounds. India in examined with a view to ascertaining their commercial value." that the Central Government's
His Lordship asid that he did The Italian Convent Schools re. the world exactly what she has and he was informed they were not see that the court had power to The year passed, and so did some months of grace and then (so it only dignified way out of a open on Monday, 6th inst, at 8.30 gained, after thirteen months of irregular. Oa returning, the is alleged) the Standard Oil relased to ratify the agreement, on find- ladicrous situation is to adopt the am. In addition to the asust car this despicable alliance, the world plaintiff, aw the defendant and reotify.
Mr. Gardiner: It merely says ing that the Chibli field" was not anfficiently promising." Further sensible middle way observed by riculum there will be a special will be uncommonly grateful to explained the situation, and de- that the debt shall be thirty negotiations were entered aron between the Vice-President of the the authorities in this Colony Course of Chinese, the Class her, Russia, Italy and even fendant said he would have the Company and the Government, and then the former left Peking" and to shut its eyes to past pro- being in the afternoon. Servia are laughing at her and matter pat right. There was pounds or upwards before notion enddenly as to give rise to the supposition that the negotiations bibitions and to trust to the good
can be started. Germany cannot agree with her! delay and eventually the plaintiff' had been terminated forever."
His Lordabip:-Do you say it sense of the rising generation to
East, weet and south she has been became impatient and threatened a technical error that, there was The North China Daily News points out, reasonably break away from the drug.....
battered unmeroitally and hsa not to expose the defendant to his enough, that "having gone EO far, it "ie hardly Superiluous Phrases.
even such sorry "gains" to ahow superior officer. Later this action FOsible for either party to withdraw. The Standard Oil Company la car General News column
as Germany in the case of Belgium was commenced. cannot be credited with the intention of sacrificing several hundreds yesterday it was mentioned that
and Luxembourg. Italy invades
Mr. Shenton said these proceed of thousands of pounds already spent, while China has already the United States War Depart
her and beats her badly, almost inge were bad ab initio. Tha at every point, just where all the defendant was a gunner in the heen filed to my knowledge. If no affilavit or application has spent heavily and is still in need of assistance to develop her oil ment has effected a saving field." Pending soy Cecision, our contemporary pithily sums up the of money (presumably be.
world thought she was strongest H. K. S. B, which formed part you are going to give judgment, the Tyrol and the Carnic of the regular army of His Majesty I ask for leave to apply for a fresh past and present of it all. "Early in the negotiations it became cause time is money) by the adop clear that the Standard Oil Company aimed at two things of aupreme tion, some three years ago, of a grand display of fireworks will Alps; and now even Montenegro and as such, he was entitled to importance; one, the right to register exclusive mining claims in any system of official correspondence take place on Saturday and Sun. hai given her a pasty little pat. the protection of the Army Act.
Mr Shenton: Wh. ther there is part of Chine, and, the other, to establish a monopoly of cae phase designed to eliminate super day between 8 and 11 p.m. at the What she hopes to gain-what He would read the Army Act to fo gain his Lordship and it would be
judienta ormat isa of oil enterprise, after the manner for which it has been praised in fluous phrases of a complimentary Belle View Hotel, Extra car will she ever hoped
past many countries. In more exnottorms, it was required that the joint character." Officials are instruc- run to the Belle Visw on these " inding out. Eeen, ander the section he would eation of legal argument after- company, which the Standard Oil Company was to rooizol, was to ted to avoid the ordinary polite occasions.
Germany can no more play the quote, that before any Legal pro-wards, I believe, as a matter of have the right to search cat, survey, register and exploit exclusively beginning and ending of letters Ship's Steward Misalog, game by fr.end than by foe, and ceedings could be comraenced interest, that this (the Army Act) nny oilfields throughout China which it might select," There is more and simply to head their corres The Chief Officer of the B..I will leave her to settle her own agaicat a unit of H. M. Pplies to the whole of the civil- ians of this Colony now the Army to this purpose in the criole bat we have quoted sufficient of it to show pondence" From So-sad-So to So-Tungua has reported to the Police indemnity and to the financial Regular Forces, certain pro- Act he been extended every the general drift, and those interested can road or re-read for them-and-So" It one could feel quite that he entrusted the ship's rain that must follow, without a ceeding had to be laken selves in Tuesday's reprint.
sure that this is not the thin end steward with one hundred dollara single qualm of conscience. It is for British firms to make up their minds as to whether there of the wedge that is likely to ter- to purchase provisions. The
The German Army.
affidavit had to be sworn as to His Lordship said this was an is going to be fair field and to favour in China or whether that hap-minate in the banishment of some steward left the ship, but has not
That alteration in the termen the amount of the debt and it had notion admittedly against a less country is to become the land of cornering and monopoly in order of the very necessary courtesies yet returned.
National Service law is signif- to be filed, and an extract of that soldier of the regular fo:coa serT- t3 anita small circle of speculators. Britain and France bore the burden of life, one would say that the During Prohibited Hours. cant enough. Not only does it fidavit had to be endorsed on in this colony for a sum of $450 and beat of the day in the fortier, fifties and 'sixties in foroing. China Americans had struck rather a Before Commander C. W. Beck provide for the extension of the the writ: otherwise the proceed which exceeded the amount for "to open some of her ports to foreign trade. Why should they not have fine idea. Obviously, however, with RN, at the Marine Court military age to Bity-four years, inga were void. The section of which a foldier was liable for oivil their fair share of reward now? Britain sent soldiers and sailors the abolition of ceremony this morning Aoting Police Sorgt. but it calls up men who have the Army Act was section 144, proceedings under section 144. It who el ed their blood for the aggrandisement of their country; and
was laid down in sub-section anmixed Edward Band, charged two bost hitherto been rejected by the It was also dealt with in Halabary 4 of the act that a condition for America Bent missionaries-to open up China to United States trade !goad. It is only a short step from people with unlawfully maving doctors, The Kaiser is determin-The reason of this affidavit having the issuing of a process of the Britain, again, has never sought to exclude other foreigners Heaven a eubcrdinate's ceasing to sign about the harbour daring, pro-ed it would seem, that none of his to be filed, was that ao sum ander. knows it would have been better for her and more to her credit had himself his eaperior officer's bibited hours on the 1st inst. loving subjects shall be denied thirty pounds could be sued for court in a civil eclion, was that she so caught, where the Germans were concerned; and her sons obedient servant, or whatever it The first defendant was fined $10 the honour of dying for him. His and it had to be over thirty pounds, the cause of action be verified by out hore know but little of the fine arts of monopolisng and corner. may be, to his abandoning the while the other was fined $5. readiness to sacrifice other people His Lordship: Both in peace memorandum of which must be an affidavit of the plaintiff a ing." America is no neophyte in these things and it seems to us that practice of saluting. Take away "Attempted Armed Robbery, makes one breathless with ad- and war?- it will be very necessary for the Chins Association to exert its energies the salate and the respectfal An attempted armed robbery mination. We wonder what lies Mr. Shenton-Yes, both in endorsed on the wilt of summons. to prevent her from establishing New York and Chicago.methods in mode of address from the army is reported to have taken place as the Berlin Government is telling peace and war. It only applies Groenediton stated that all
Sub-section 16 China: The foothold which she already has she has gained, in or navy, and you take sway a big No. 1. Larg On Street. About to the people in order to account to the civilians when the A that were vold. He used the great part, through the sleepy headedness of our own people out slice of the discipline. As in most 8.30 pm, yesterday, two men for this remarkable stop Cer- Act is extended, here. We have no business to grudge her what she has attained by departments of life, what is really entered the house under the tainly there is many a man of Mr. Gardiner said his Lord word void because it was absolute; hex commercial wideawakeness; but we have plenty of business to needed is a felicitous middle be pretext that they were electric four and fifty who is going to be ship could remedy that under the i did not say voidable nor see that concerns like the Standard Oil Company do not dazzle the tween abruptness and wordiness. light fitters. One of them armed of more use in a fight than some Summary Jurisdiction Ordinance irregular. But it did not give Chinese mind with glowing visions of Transpacific capital, to the Our British system certainly with a revolver threatened the of the youngsters but what of 1875. They had to be sure the court power to reptify the exclusion of British mercantile houses and syndicates. There is wants overhauling, particularly women, who with her abldren about the medically unfit? We that the claim was over thirty proceedings. He could see nothing enough for all out here, and it is possible for Chinese and foreigers of in regard to proclamations which were the sole inmates of the house all know that a man must be very pounds and in this case it was under motion 18 of the Summary every description to live in perfect amity and to benefit each other, filt a couple of pages and yet con. Theohildrenstarted screaming and very unfit to have been rejected quite clear that it was over that Jurisdiction Act of 1873 which But this will not be the case if one nation is going to creep in behind tain about two lines of essential then raising the alarm forced the by the German doctors any time, sum, and his Lordship could take altered this. Therefore action another to secure more privilege than "the game" allow,
robbers to quit,
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matter!
not
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Woman's Jewellery Stolen.
A Chinese woman living in Connaught Road Central, hae reported to the Police that, doring the last 190 days, jewellery and money to the value of $814.50 bas been stolen from her rom:
Firework Display at the Belle View.
Readers are reminded that
this last six months.
before a writ was issued. Ab
no affidavit 2.
Mr. Grliner: You can take
of cases tried in these courts where it so and there has been dozena.
action.
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