THE HONG KONG TELEGRAP H.
TO-DAY'S
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,
[Heater's Service to the "Telegraph.”]
THE DOMINION GOVERNMENTS.
DISCUSSIONS ON WAR MATTERS.
September 22, 415 p.m. In the House of Commons Mr. Boner Law stated that he was continually communicating with the Dominion, Governments on war matters and if the Premiers of the Dominions were able to visit Great Britain, similar to Sir Robert Borden, the Government would warmly welcome them and would give them an opportunity of similar discussions with them,
Colonial Treasurer,
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1915.
TELEGRAMS,
THE NUNEATON MINE EXPLOSION.
(Reuter's Service To The "Telegraph”).
London. Heceived, Heptember 22.
Fourteen persons perished in the Nuneaton mine explosion.
DAY BY DAY.
Christian Science Lecture,
A lecture on Christian Science will be delivered by Mr. Virgil 0. Strickler at the Chamber of Commerne rooms to-morrow alter noon. Admission is free.
The Motor Fatality.
or
KIPLING AND THE GERMANS.
that civilization means to the simple question of kill or be kill. ed.
Up to the present, as far as
We have
TELEGRAMS.
"MINE DISASTER:
Two Hundred Men Saved.
London Received, September 21. There has been a mine explo- sion at Nuneaton. There were
250 men below, of whom 200 are
AIR FIGHT IN FOG. Zeppelin Destroyed after Raid on
East Coast. · London, August 11, The Secretary of the Admiralty makes the following anaoumos ment :-
A squadron of bestilo airships visited the East Coast last night and this morning between 8.30 p.m. and 12.30 am.
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Some fires were caused by the dropping of incendiary bombs, but these were quickly extingu shed, and only immaterial damage was done.
The following casualties have been reported:
1 Mon 9 Women 4 Children
14
Killed. I Wounded.
1:5 Mon
7 Women 2 Childrán
14
TELEGRAMS.
HOLLAND.
́THE SPEECH FROM THE THRONE.
and strictly to observe neutrali Her relations with foreign powers continue to be friendly, Her Naval and Military Forosa WEID ready to protect her National interests.
tion on the part of the Gover
The extraordinary interven ment was still necessary in connection with the importation of provisions and of raw material, to check the rise in prices and prevent the export of foodajulle and raw materials which cannot be spared.
Proposals for the revision of the Constitution had already ban announced and would soon submitted. Freak caxation would be necessary to meet the deficit and the fresh expenditure. The economic situation in the Indies cases no anxiety. Pending the introduction of the Navy Bill material which is growing obenlete will be gradually replaced, the first consideration being given to the defence of the Indies. H Majesty looks to the fature fall of hope relying on the energy of the people to bear courageously the heavy burdens which are an in- evitable consequence of the dis- tressing situation:
At the end of the speech the badget which was subsequently presented, forecasts the creation.
Oae Zeppelin was slightly of a fund and provided for a large damaged by gunfire of the land number of guns and ammunities. defences, and was reported this in view of the great role that morning being towed into Ostend, heavy artillery had played in this She has since been subjected war, and also for the extension of
we can find out, Germany has GREEK STEAMER AFIRE, suffered some three million If the Basmy should be casualties. She can suffer, an= · Passengers Rescued.
Victorlona ?"
other three million, and, for Reuter's Service To The "Telegraph.")
London Received, September 11. Speaking at Southport before aught we know, another three
Renter'a correspondent at Bali (Benter Service To The Telegraph./
London, Received September 15 | FOURTEEN PERSONS PERISH, an audience of ten thousand per million after that,
Bons on the recruiting question no reason to believe that fax reports that the Greek steamer, Renter's correspondent st the Mr. Kipling sald :-
abe will break ap suddenly Athinai, from New York to the Hague says that Queen Wilhel The Garman has spent quits and dramatically as a few people Piraeus, has been abandoned on mina in a specob from the Thi as much energy in the last forty still expect. Why should she? fire in the Atlantio. There were at the opening of Parliament five years preparing for war as She took two generations to pre 500 passengers on board, but phasised the determination we have in convincing our pare herself in every detail and these and the crew were resoned Holland to maintain her integali solven that wara should through every fiber of her na by two liners. not be prepared for. He has tional being for this war. She is started this war with a magni- playing for the highest stakes in fosat equipment which took him the world the dominion of time and heavy taxation to get the world. It seems to me that together. That equipment we sho must either win or bleed to ve had to face for the last ten death almost where her lines run Up to the Minute.
months. We have had to face to-day. Therefors we and our Closing Price:
more. The Germans went into Allies must continue to pass our mafs. Ten bodies have been Indo-$154, sollers,
this war with a miod which had children through fire to Moloch recovered. Chins Sugurs.$132, buyers. been carefully trained out of the until Moloch perish, This, as I Dooka. $81, bayers,
ides of every moral sense, see it, is where we stand and Providenta -$81, bayers. or obligation private, public, where Germany atands, Cements.- $9.85, buyers. international. Ве does "You need not go far to see LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. therefrom. That was the first mes- Hongkong Trame (Low Level). not recognise the existence of any what a corquering Germany would
Bare they ha i decided upon taking 86.20, buyers.
law, least of all those he has sub- mean to us. In 3elgium at this hour! and since the figures he had
To Consignees,
scribed to himself, in making several million Belgians are mak- A meeting of the Legislative given them were based upon the Consignees of cargo by the s.8.war against combatants or non- ing war-material or fortifications Council was held to-day in the total amount of water in the ro- St. Egbert are warned that all combatants-men, women, and forthoirconquerors. They are given Conseil Chamber H. E. the Gov-servoirs and would entail the aot goods not cleared by Saturday children: He has done from his enough food to support life as the srnor presiding. There were ual emptying of those reservoirs, the 25th inat, will be subject to own point of view very well in- German thinks it should be sup present.
deed. All mankind bears witness ported. By the way, I believe the HE. the General Officer Com-supply, because it was easily to
it was necessary to augment the rent.
to-day that there is no crime, no United States of America supplies manding the Troops, (Major anderstand that it was neither
ornelty, no abomination that the a large part of that food. In General F. Ventris.)
desirable nor was it physically
mind of man can conceive which return, they are compelled to The Hon. Mr. Olauda Savern possible entirely to empty
the German has not perpetrated, work at the point of the bayonet. Colonial Secretary.
# reservoir. therefore the
is not perpetrating, and will not If they object, they are shot. The Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp, vote of $17,000, which they
perpetrate if he is allowed to go Their factories, their houses, Attorney General.
Leltering with Intent. on. These honora and perver- and would presently ba miked to
their public buildinge The Hon. Mr. A. M. Thompson consider in the Finance Oɔm- Six monthe' hard labour was sions were not invented by him have long ago been gutted, and mittee, was for the purpose of theeantente passed on two Chinese on the spur of the moment. They everything in them that was The Hen. Mr. W. Chatham, leading water, by means of tap to commit a felony, at the Police their very ontlines are laid down ed up and sent in'o Germany. charged with loitering with intent ware arranged long beforehand valasble or useful bas been pack- Q.M.G., Director of Public Works. ping water from streams they'
The Hon. Mr. O. S. Boa, Seould tap, into the already formed Court this afternoon. Inspector in the German war-book. They They have no more property and cretary for Chinese Affairs.. bania bohind the dam of the new Gordon who had charge of the are part of the system in which no more rights than cattle; and The Hon. Mr. Mo I. Messer, Ty-Tom-tuk Reservoir. By thess case, told the magistrate that the Germany has been scientifically they can not lift a hand to pro- Captaio Superintendentof Police, means they hoped to impounds were found possessed of trained. It is the essence of that teat the honour of their women. The Hon. Mr. Wei Yuk, O... batween forty and Efty million deggera and carrying wire. ayatem to make such a hell of the And less than a year ago they The Hon. Mr. D. Landale. gallons #nd that Woold
countries where her armies set foot were one of the most civilized and The Hoa. Mr. Lan Can Pak. Form
This afternoon Mr. Lindsell that any terms she may offer will prosperous of the nations of the Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, Clerkable provision. He need only add the death of a Chinese, who was whose bodies she has defiled like the horror of their fate in ent continued the enquiry attending aeem like hasyan, to the people earth. There has been nothing to the Council.
that if their forecasts were belied alleged to have been knocked down and whose minds she has broken all history, and this system is in to contional attacks by aircraft the air service. The estimate of or a friendly typhoon or two an the Shaukiwan Road by a car of set purpoas and intention. full working order within fifty from Daskirk, under heavy fire, the defloit is 22,227,000 guilders passed to the southward, giving driven by Mr. Lauritsen of the Drag- In the face of these feats miles of the English coast. and it is now reported that, after
The Amsterdam Telegraaf saya ja swish of the tail and fill our on Cycle Co. Evidence was given it is falls for any fit man Where I live-I can hear the gune having her back broken and rear that the most striking feature pL reservoirs, then we should be only by Mr. Lauritsen end Me. Baitt to waste one minute in talk that are trying to extend it. The compartments damaged, she was the speech from the Throne is the o glad to close down the foun of the Vacuum Oil Companying about what he would do if our same system exists in such parts completely destroyed by an ex- absence of allusion to any ki tein supply and revert to more as to the rate the car was tra system ofrecruiting were changed, of France sad: Poland as are in plosion. normal methode of distribution..velling and the enquiry was again or to wait on, as some men are has been dealt out to Belgium,
In Committee the vote wAS Speaking with reference_to carried,
odjourned. Finance Minuite No. 44 his Er The following minutes by H‚E. cellency said he would like to give the Governor were referred to the members a little · information. Hinanos Committee and We had at the present time adopted. suficient water in the reser- A. sum of $14,000, in aid of voirs to maintain fall the vote Miscellaneous Services, supply until the middle of Telegraph Services, Telegrama January, and if they were to sent and received by Government.
If these fail the alternative"There are special reasons in “adopt the curtailment which could A sám of $7,750 in aid of the
for us is robbery, rape of the the German mind why we should be effected from the institution of vote Pablic Works, Extraordin
Prizes of $100 each have been women, starvation, ad a prelude to be morally and mentally shamed of the wreckage by Germany the Replying to Col. Charles E. the Ryder main system; they ary, Hongkong, Buildings; Now awarded to the following success miracle to 2379 us. So long as an people-why we should be de retreat possible. There are no said the Raj had not yet furnish. slavery. Nor nood we expect any and dishonored beyond any other Receiver. Bo you see, there is no Yate Hr. Austen Chamberlain might extend that apply Magistracy,
ful candidates at the recent anbroken Germany exists, so long graded till those who survive may terme and no retreat in this war. ad the list of officers and men in until the middle of Fabruary A sum of $245,000 in aid of Matriculation Examination:-
na they had the vote Public Works, Extraor Cheah Toon Siew,
will life on this planst be in scarcely dare to look each other "I admit as freely as any of the Indian Marine who were до doubt observed, was dinary, Hongkong, Baildings, Er. Beck
tolerable not only for us and for in the face. Be perfectly sure, you here the immense unfairness recommended for medals for a very abnormal one owing to the tension of Central Police Station. Him, Sin Ping Fan, (alias, Sin our Allies, but for all humanity. therefore, that if Germany is of our system which has been operations in the Indian Gulf is very early date on which the A cum of 817,000 in aid of the Chenk Man), Lɔ Man His.
And humanity knows it. At pre victorious every refinement of wall called consoription by 1909 and 1914 The question of North East moomoon set in, and vote Pablio Worke, Extraordinary,
sent six European nations are outrage which is within the ojlery, but it is the system we eligibility would be determined ms far as one could humsaly Hongkong, Water Works, Can-
bearing the burden of the war. compass of the German have chosen, and till we have by tho Admiralty after a'onneides foresee, the probabilitieagt having struction of Catchwaters.
There is a fringe of shivering imagination will be inflioted on another we must work it. Those ration of the rolls. any very large rainfall at thin
neutrals almost under the Gerus in every aspect of our lives, who believe in national service late season of the year, before the The Hon. Colonial Secretary.
man guns who look out of their Over and above this, no plodge can take comfort from the thought dry season thoroughly set in, were moved the following resola
front doors and see, as they were we can offer, no guaranty we can that if the Government, has not rather slender, therefore it was tion:-It is hereby resolved
meant to see, what has been done give, will be accepted by Germany yet brought it in, they must be
British Policy to China. desirable to take immediate steps that wom of Dollars Four
MOVEMENT OF STEAMERS. ・・ to Belgium, the German as bioding. She has broken her quicker than the Government (this The E & A EMPIRE from Aut guaranteed neairal.
London. Received September 22, to further economies our supply of hundred and eighty-six thousand left Manila for this port on the 23rd
own most solemn cathe, pledges, isn't difficult) and bring them
Mr. J. King anked Sir Edward water-lest next spring we should one
instant at 1' s. and may be expected to be faced with water famine (8486,144) be advanced out of at daylight,
hundred and forty-four arrive here on Saturday the 25th instant, tends to divide itself, there are fact of her existence she is bound the principles of voluntary toms House had been re-opened "But however the world pre-and obligatione, and by the very asives in. Those who believe in Grey whether the Chinese Cui had therefore decided to adopt the fande in the custody of the Govern Laaro Manila on Monday, September £7. wystem of distribution of water from ment for the construation of the and is expected to arrive at this Port on
only two divisions in the world to trust nothing and to 10 service must realize that now is at Taingtan, whether the passport The PM. MONGOLIA will to-day human beings and cognize nothing except that the one time for them to
introduced by the Japanesa 1 strost fountain". That would en-Kowloon Canton Railway (British Wednesday, morning, September 39.
Garmans. And the German of immediate superior force, what an excellent system it is by Tsingtan requires evidence of th able the supply we had at prevent, Section) during the year 1915.
knows it. Heman beings have backed by her illimitable cruelty. voluntarily shouldering their re-ocial status of British if it was not farther materially The vote was carried...
long ago sickened of him and Bo, you see, there are no terms eponsibilities. In the meantime and whether this affected their augmented, to last only satil the The Hon. Atorney General
everything' connceted with him posible. Realiss, too, if the public opicion is hardening commercial relations, middle of May, and they might moved the second reading of the
of all he doces of all he says Allies are bastan, there will be every day against the cligible
Sir Edward Grey remember that we had had exper-Bill intituled An Ordinancs to
thinks, or believes From the no spot on the globe where a soul men who have
the only information iences of droughtsinating a hire amend the Evidence Ordinance,
ends of the earth to the ends of can escape from the domination which are not reasons for not the statement collection, as late as June 17. 1889, The Hon. Colonial Seare of the Indra Line steamers by more greatly then that this up has been childish talk that the hardening against those parents, tom House was opening
The recent purchase of seven the earth they desire nothing of this enemy of manzind. There enlisting Public opinioni Minister at Pek Therefore it was quite bridest is try seconded and the Bill was Mowers, A. Bolt and Co., or clean thing should be thrust out Western hemisphere would offer river, and relatives, and emir Edward Gro was necessary to take that step. read ʼn oond time. He knew it would antsil peme The Hon. Attorney General Funnel Line, is regarded as memory of the nations. The Ger. Put that thought from your are keeping these men back. You
otherwise known as the Blue from the membership and the a refuge from oppression players who directly or indirectly. Meoreng Haiti rumored the second reading of the preliminary to the extension of its man's answer to the world's mind. If the Allies were asn't expect people who have gear pledger
Bill infitted. An Ordinanos to Oriental fine to the American losthing is I am strong. "IHill, defeated, Germany would not given or lost their own sah and pect British tra Amend the Laod Bistration Atlantic porta, via Panama, taking I shall go on killing by all menu nood to send a single battleship blood in this war to bepatiest or Ordinance, 1844. The Hon. Oo-advantage of the prospective in my power till I have imposed over the Atlantic. She would sympsibetio with people, whose
in Chics lonist Secretary Seconded and the retirement of the P. M. steamers, my will on all human beings, inne an order and it would be families are still untouched
with othe Bill was'read a second time, and also as a demonstration pre- He gives no copies He leaves obeyed. Civilization would be unseparated. That
paratory to applying to join the no middle way. He has res bankrupt and the Western world be reasonable or, trans-Pacific Conference,
dhood
all' would be taken over with the rest bat it is one result of our ar
HIS EXCELLENCY'S CAUTION.
·Proparing for Possibility of Water Famine,
The season,
hardship upon she poores
of the community in ing water to their de but it was better for them that now than hereafter t mnohɛmore'severely famine and from the s › inconvenience that
Railway Finances.
there UNIVERSITY OF
* Council was adjourned sine
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HONGKONG.
Award of Prizes.
Weng,
Phoon Chan Chan
LATEST SHIPPING NEWS.
•
Activity of Blue Fuanal Steamers.
German handa.
But whatever
there being a thick fog in places, [In the event of telegrams amiving tempts on the part of the Dutch The night was extremely dark, Government to promote pesos.er waiting, in the hope that com- pulsion may be introduced. We France, and Poland will be which rendered ficing by nero- shall not be saved by argument. England's fate tenfald if we fail planes very difficult. We shall most certainly not be to subdue the Germans. That saved by hanging on to our we shall be broken, plundered, privata jaba and businesses. robbed, and enslaved like Belgium Our own strength and our own will be but the first part of the
oan gave fas. matter.
will
aloae
It is regretted that Flight-Sub- Lieutenant R. Lord, who was one of the pilots seat up to engage the enemy, was killed in landing in the dark,
how
too late for Insertion on this page they will be found
on the Extra.] EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
INDIAN CAMPAIGN MEDALS. London, Received, Sapi 31.
THE "OPEN DOOR.
tomber la
Intentional!
ment that the door