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hope to learn later that the sohéme will have their active support. We have rointed cu: many times that the foods nover need have been so seriozis if the Cantonese had stablished an efficient forestry department. So far as we can gather, it has seldom entered the heads of the native authorities to plant trees systematically or to guard against the ratbless falling of other trees, If, as we have said before, the river banke had, years ago, been plaated at regular in- tervale, the floods of these days would be next to an impossibility, for, between absorption by the rising of the ground about the roote, the water would but rarely be able to reach within a con aiderable distinge of the land level.
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Share Market News-Opening Official Quotations. Douglas's 880, buyera.
(Combined $149 b. 92 b. 57 b.
Indo Deferred
Obicas. Preferred
Star Ferries, $36, cales and
buyere.
Tronohe 31/8, buyare.
Ural Caspiane.-40/3 sellers. Shanghai Landa.
buyers.
ANOTHER MOTOR
AMBULANCE..
A GIFT FROM A CHINESE
GENTLEMAN..
EQUIPMENT TO BE SUBSCRIBED BY CHINESE.
NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
A YEAR AGO TO-DAY.
RUSSIANS AND THE GERMAN OFFENSIVE.
LEADING EVENTS IN THE GREAT WAR.
Front.
Getting Busy on the Western Retracts from the war naza con-
tassed in the Hongkong Telegraph" of September 9,
1014
Germans Checked, The following is a cablegram
sent by the Secretary of State for War to B.E. the Governor and
The Germans are showing them- solves less and less happy at the turn which events have elcoted to take. It is commonly understood We understood that en hearing that the persistent and habitual of the very fine effort being made liar ends by believing his own forwarded to us for publication: by the ladies of Hongkong to pro-lies, The Germans have been so General Joffre's plana ure being vide a mo'or ambulance, sangge long accustomed to their cheerful steadily carried out. The allied tion was made to the Hon. Ar. La practice of mendacity that they forces are soling on the offensive Cha-pak that the Chinese might came, in the long ran, to think and have been succesful in check- do likewise, Trade not being of that the tales of victory which ing and forcing back in a northe the beat just now, the Hon. Mr. they were selling to their sym-easterly direction the German Lau Chu-pak decided, we are in-pathizers were true as Gospel, forces opposed to them, formed, personally to present one, Bat something or other seems to Further German Losses In the Chinese of the Colony promie hive happened to shake them UP The dykes to the south-east of ing to provide the equipment by little; and now instead of sink- subscription.
three-fourths of the British flset, Antwerp have been opened, cans The ambulance to be provided as they were doing not so many ing tremendous flooding at high will cost about £100, and the months ago, they are ruefully tide beyond Termonde, many amount of the subscription for owning that our sailoreare Germans were drowned and others theequipment cannot be ascertain hard nats to
Brack and stranded on trees and housstops.
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ed at the moment as it has not that Kitebener's contemptible The Germans lost several guns. been completed.
little army is possessed of that The Belgians inflicted gene hitherto unheard of quality in mounting to5,000 in the fighting Britain: reckless courage! Un-on Friday and Saturday.
British Casualty List. NEWS FROM THE NORTH. fortunately their good resolutions
The British manualties amount as to truth and other virtues have altogether to 15,141 made up as come too late. They should have made them before. The French follows: Officers 68 killed, 162 wounded and 230 missing; Mạn artillery and aeroplanes bave con- 212 killed, 1,061 wounded and tributed not a little towerde bring 18 413 missing.
$104,
The Failure of the Proposed Sino-Japaness Bank, '
Green Islands-88, bayers. Electrice $43, bayera.
Steam Laundrier.
Ropes- $271, buyere.
$3.20
$10,
boyera.
Union Waterboats.
buyers.
China Sugara.-$127, buyers, Luzons.$38, buyers.
The Dollar.
The rate of the dollar demand to-day is 1 9 9/16d.
on
To-day's Anniversary. To-day in the 45th anniversary of the surrender of Laon to the Garmand,
Chartered Bank of India. The Directors of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China have declared an Interim Dividend for the past half year at the rate of 14 per cent, per antum free of Tacome Tax.
Chinese Woman Admitted to Hospital.
Suffering from injuries to her head, caused from falling in the foundation of a houce, under the conrie of construction, a Chinees woman has been admitted to the
ing them to this humble frame of
mind. And they have such a lot .M.S. Pathfinder's Casualties.
The casualties among the men to learn, even yet. They are at of E.M.S. Pathfinder are 4 killed
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Peking, Aug. 29. According to Semi-official advi-present showing suxiety over 18 wounded and 243 missing. the inward meaning of the French
More Waaton Destruction, eta from Tukio, the formation of bombardment." Is the meaning
A message from Ostend saya the proposed Sino-Japanese Bank so inward ?
We should bave that the Germans have destroyed will probably be femporarily thought that it stood out palpably Dinaat by shell fire and incendi shelved for the following reasonE-
The reduction of the capital/on the surface of things; but we ariam, alleging that shota were are not going to wrangle over fired on them from the heights names. If the Germans cannot million dollars by the Japanese guess what the French ere after,
from fifty million dollars to twenty
Government.
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overlooking the town.
SHANGHAI LOYALTY, Britishers for the Front.
Britiabers in Shanghai propose
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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
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Business.
A meeting of the Legislative September 10, 1916 at 2.30 p.m., Council will be held on Friday, when the following will be laid
The separation of Manchuris they had better bide a while and allow matters to unfold them. and Mongolis from the activities selves.
to raise and equip three hundred of the proposed bank.
The Tear and his Forces,
mounted men for service in The establishment of a separatel There is a happy combination Franos, and sixty-four bave already Menchuria Mongolia Bank for the of medisevalism and democratic volunteered. It is proposed to exploitation of these two Provin-up-to-datoness about the Tear's enlist men throughout China and Los by Japan.
keenness to take over the com- the Malay States and ship them The Japanese merchants and mand of bis forces. Many things to Calcatta, where they will be othera desire that the capital of at His Majesty has done during equipped and horses parolased if the proposed Biro-Japanese Bank thie war have lain in the direction the meu are forthcoming. Finan should be fifty million dollare to of establishing, or rather of re-cial becking will not be wanting. be equally satsxibed by the storing, simplicity of relationship Taela 25,000 have been condition- Japanese and the Governmente between ruler and raled. He is to ally promised towards the 100,- and their respective peoples, be congratulated on the fact that 000 required.
The sphere of activity of the le is commanding what his an- proposed bank should be the cestors only dreamed of ever whole of Chica including Man being able to command: a united charia and Mongolia.
Russia; o Russia ihst has, o The proposed bank should be a thousand times over, turned the back of the water must necessarily
Fecial Sino-Japaze e tacking Keiser's "crippledom" L'e irsida corporation with its bead cffice out. Just now interest centres be slow sad gradual ones. The Government Civil Hospital.
in Peking for the development of in her proceedings main point is that nothing in the
Armed Robbery.
the financial resources of China front
Cast and Bouth-988 HONGKONG. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1915.
way of damming etc. can be An armed robbery took place and Japan to sa to pave the way of Grodno, but is there no romi thought of antil money is raised; at a shop in San Bui village in for a fature economical alliance bility that these may be time THE WORKING MAN AND CONSCRIPTION.
gaining mancaavres on our ally's port, the promoters of this scheme 7th inst. -Four men armed with The majority of The Trade Union Cngress has this year, an interest for the for checking the floods do not revolvers, entered the shop and likely to have again. The necessary sorappiness of telegraphic In England, in fact in all civilised value of 887. On leaving they ese Bank, whose promoters and for the sake of herrring a few of general public which it has certainly never had before, and is un- despair of being able to obtain it, stole money and clothing to the papers do not favour the establish she is not keeping a powerful ment of the so-called Sino-Japan- army down in the Caucasus just information on such a subject an a big meeting, at which many long countries, the citizen has to make took five men from varions other supporters are imbued with poli-half-wild tribes led by Germaze, speeches are made, leaves us rather barren of definite information; himself responsible for his own shops, and held them for ransom.tical ambitions in Ohins, and not and that some startling develop but it is clear that, however high foolish olsus prejudices may have comfort and well-being to a greater been allowed to run at the Congress, the real heart of the delegates or less extent.. The cu e-owner A Chinage contracter named merely for commercial purposes. ments in Asia Minor may yet be
The failure of the scheme is looked for. was in the right place as regarde genuine patriotism. It maters is required to contribule so much Sui Un, who is living at No. 8. rather viewed with favont among little to as out here that Mr. Somebody-or-Other, Labour Member towards the upkeep of the road in St. Francis Street, has been ad- the Chinese, especially as the tro The news wired through this for 85-and-So, improved the occasion to abase the lackless employers: front of his property; the ordinary mitted to, the Government Civil if that kind of thing pats him and his friends on better terms with man in the street has to pay for Hospital, suffering from two posed Sino-American Bank which morning as to the interview be The is organised by pate Chinese and tween the Sultan and the Hohen- themselves, by all means let them work off their extra supply of lighting, for police protection sto. wounds in the abdomen. energy in that manner. What does concern us is that the leaders and rightly. And why should wounds, it is alleged, were inflict perican business people, with lobe prince is a month old, and whom the men have appointel realise the need for the continuance not the property-ownere on the ed by two men, who ran past him, the sole object of developing the one feels odricus to know if Gor the Trading with the Enemy of the war and the crushing of German militarism. Having recog- banks of the Canton River pay while walking in the vicinity of a Chinese commercial enter many bas "done anything about Ordinance, 1914, and to elect prizes and natural resources, will it' " since. It is characteristic certain purposes connected there- nised this, they will naturally let nothing-absolutely nothing, not the expenses of holding back St. Francis Street and Queen's make its appearance in the not of a Turkish ruler that he ekould with. even coal disputes stand in the way of their brethren's winning a floods which devastata their lands Road East.
distant future.
parr and skuffis and kowtow and drown themselves or their
First reading of a Bill intituled speedy victory.
The Withdraw-1 of the War till he finds that that sort An Ordina co to amend and It happens that one of the resolutions pastelat the meeting is of tenants? A reasonable tax on each
Zone In Shantung. ----
of bearing will. nct Empire-wide interest, for it touches a question that is in no sense one of the thousands of persons whose
The Government has wired to him "any", and then that he Chinese Passenger Ships'
help consolidate the law relating to of class, of labour or of political creed: the all-engrossing one of con- property is in the neighbourhood
the Chiangchun and Governor of should wheel round and was defined by the Cuiness Passen saription. The representatives of no less than three million men have of the river would provide s're-
Shantung to the effect that by abusive, Oa this cocasion, we are gra Act, 1855, and concerning now said, publicly and formally, that they object to compulsory mili-gular income for conservancy
agreement with the Japanese told, he launched "a string of Asiatic Emigrants generally. tary service. That the men are working man has nothing whatever to do work, and, in a few years, there
Government, the war zine of complaints and reproaches," and with the case; the point is that a number of Britishers, most, if not all would be no more floods to dread.
Kiaochou-Leichou-Langkou will told the Kaiser's representative of them, with a right to a vote, have signified their attitude towards The wonder is that the Chinese the question which is exercising the minds of people all over the can have been co short-sighted- Empire at this moment. If a ballat were taken throughout Great considering their characteriɛtio Britain and Ireland, many more millions would doubtless be added prudence in so many direo- to the already recorded three; and probably not a million votes tions as not to have arranged for would be cast in favour of the much-disonssed measure. Before the all this years ago. Government attempts to take definite steps towards compulsory service, then, would it not be well to institute such a ballot fo:ihwith,
jand, as will be seen from our re-the Tia Sban district, on the of the two power the Chinese part?, She still has a feeling that on the table:-
and so avoid much subsequent waste of time.
LANGKAT OUTPUT,
Of the thousands or rather millions, of men who have volunteer- ed for active service during the past year, at least half are of the working class; thus that class aan no more. be accused of slacking and sbirking than any other. Indeed shirking never was a question September1 of class. Every social grade in Britain is represented on the Franco- Belgian battle front at the present moment, from the Prince of Wales to the ex-errand boy: a sure sign that Britain is, as she was a thousand years ago, a nation of fighting men, While she remaine this there will never be any need to talk of consoription ; and when | the osases to be this, all the conscription in the world will not saTS her from going under. The pressed man is no good to himself or anyone eles. It by some means the shirker can be made ashamed of his shirking, and thereby cured, well and good; but sots of Parliament will not do this What they will do, and should be made to do, is to put the public disgrsos of disenfranchisement on my man who objects, at a time like this, to serve his country in
Fasanner in which he esh be of most vise to her,
Chinese Contractor Stabbed,
KWANGTUNG FLOOD
RELIEF FUND.
Subscription List No. 41
to
The Tung Wa Hospital bega acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the Kwang
Turk ard Prussian.
be formally abolished on Sep-some very raw trathe, the some
1. Financial Minutes. (Nov. 81
to 38),
2. Resolution under Section 81
the Rating Ordinance, 1901.
Orders of the Day,
An
First reading of a Bili istituled
Ordinance to amend the Evid-
First reading of a Bill intituled
ence Ordinance, 1899,
An Ordinance to amend the Lend Registration Ordinance, 1814.
First reading of a Bill intituled An Ordinance to amnd farther
HARBOUR OFFENCES-
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tomber 10, and that, after the what hesitating reply to which withdrawal of the Japanese seems to have been that "German troops from Langton to Kaomi; action in the Ba'kins lad been and the dismantlement of the delayed because, the Central P. C. Edward Wills, charged Japanese military telegraphe and Towers had to devote their main Chan Ta-ho, before Commander tung Flood, Relief Fund.
The late Mr. N. M. Wadia posts; the Chiangcha sad strength to the Eastern Front," O. W. Beckwith BN., at the Chority Fund, Bombay $1000.00, Governor are ordered to make It is up to the Sultan to square Marine Court this morning, with The Ohinese Chamber of Com preparations to restore the dis- this statement with the Kaiser's unlawfully moving about the merce, Victoria, B.O. 80.5.00.
tricts to their former status quo own particuler to the. Qasen of Barbour during prohibited hours Per Netherlands Confulate, so
and preserve order without delay. Greece. If the Sultan was feeling on the 9th inst., and with unlaw A Presidential Mandate will be poorish month ago, be la probably fully failing to renew the licence count Malay daily newspaper sued announcing the cancella- more so than ever by this time; of her boat. Defendant was fined "Sinar Sumaira" Netherlands tion aborily. India $100,00
Wing Lok Hong, Honolula $260.00.
Compradore staff of e.","Tili- wong" $44,50.
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204.50
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Ming To Girls Bobool 50.00. Hon Ting Sohool 5.00.
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Official History of the War
indeed the situation get be about $5 for the first off-nes and 62 sa serious, between Germany and for the other. Two other boat Turkey, as it can well be, and a people who were charged with surrender by the Turks, enlivened, the latter offence were fined $5 perhaps, by a little masssore of eacb, while Li So bostmaster, who Germans in the neighbourhood, was charged by P.O. Lai Fok, It is stated that Bir Arthur weald surprise, no one. Even the with moving about the harbour Conso Doyle is to be entrusted Kaiser is not immune from the during prohibited hours, sad with with the herculean task of writing good old rule that man must using nets within the Harbour the official history of the military reap according to what his limits," was fined $5 for both campaign in France and Flanders, sowing has been.
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