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WATSON'S EUMINTOL
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER'2, 1915,
A Liquid Dentifrice having all the Characteristics of Odol Appiled directly on the brush it cleanses the teeth and prevents their decay.
When mixed with Water il forms a pleasant antiseptic Mouth Wash, which purifles and refreshes the whole Mouth,
Price: $1.00 Per Bottle.
PREPARED ONLY BY
DAY BY DAY.
COWARDS DIE MANY
NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
1890
TIMES DOINGS IN ASIATIC TURKEY HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE
BEFORE THEIR DEATHS;
THE VALIANT NEVER TASTE OF DEATH BUT ONCE.--Julius Caesar.
Count the Columns. Yesterday the
The Success in the West
Continues.
YEARS AGO.
(Compiled from the " Hongkong Telegraph" files for the week enting October 2, 1890.)
The Dollar, October 2. The rate of the dollar on demand to-day in 3/71⁄2”
Examination of Rickaha Coolies.
We would commend to the fatherly notice of the Government a paragraph which we reprinted from a Japanese paper yesterday on the subject of the rickeha cooliea now employed at Taingtao. The Japanese have overhauled various matters in this one-time German
The Weather. colony; among others, the rick. Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 70; sha system. In fature the coolies Clear.
At the Peak 8 am. Temp. 72;; Binco the cables are still speak. engaged in drawing these very
"in NEOCBHRTY vehicles
ing of "notable progress to elight fog. bave attend a little more closely to
the West we may assume that |their personal appearance. Their
that there are yet more good
Our Model Bar. cloth ng has to be kept "clean
Telegraph things to come from this quarter
September 26." Mr. A.G. and in good condition, and the published 324 oclumns of solid in the way of successes of the To-day there permanent and far-reaching
Wise who, during the absence of Chief Juelica Russel, has been order. French aviatora of will be 42. published. licence number conspicuously reading matter. displayed оп
picco oloth fastened
The Mails. the baok
working very satisfactorily, with dispensing equity at the Supreme of the oost."
Some similar Shanghai Mails. Due per 5.9. special eye to the lines of com- Court as Acting Paisae Judge,
Hongkong
munication of the army of that resumed his seat on the Magie- arrangement would not be a bad idea. It bas
quite nice young man the Crown terial Bench this morning, thus to be admitted that the risksba
Prince. Since, presumably, it swapping the "lordship" grovel service, at any rate on this side of
was from Besancourt that more for the plain and unsophisticated 'your Worship." He started off than a big share of the bombard- the Harbour, has immensely imnt- proved in many ways during the
ment of Rheims hailed, ono hopes at fall speed and ran through a work in the that eomething more than the tough morning's last for years, but even now it is
quickest time on record, much to railway was hurt.
the joy of the police generally oleaner and mcrsccmfortable than was aforetime the case; but we a:ill have no distinction between first and second class rickshas, and the. filthy clothing of the offioiat-! ing ocolies is as scra a point as
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A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., at perfect. The vehicles are
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Kidnapping.
Our correspondent in Canton informs ua that the lucrative profession of kidnapping is still Koing strong in South China, and that its exponente have grown more enterprising then ever since the floods. This form of lawless- Dess, like piracy, has hitherto shown itself to rise superior to the law; the Chinese Government he asually tried in vain to combat it and the result is that the: people of all classes als continual-
Sinkiang to-morrow, Australian Mail.-Closed por 8.
St. Albans today at 10 a.m. Siberian Mail.-Closes per 9.9.
Anhui to-morrow at 5 p.m.
Share Market News-Opening Official Quotations, North Chinus Insurance.-Tls,
171, Layers. Douglas's 89, sales Hongkong and K. W. and G.
$79, Bales. Green Islands.--$101, buyers. China Sugars.- $130), buyers. Watsons. -
$61, vellere.
Up to the Minute.
Closing Prices:-
Iodos →→ $154, buyere. China Sugars. $131, barers. Langkats. Tle, 38, buyers. Shanghai Decke. Tie. $60.
buyers. Hongkong
Docke.
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a
German Dolefülness.
aro
Later wires point plainly enough to the beginnings of a period of frank downheartedness in Ger many. The Berlin communique. even though they still seek to ure
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to the
1890.
SHARE REPORT.
The quotations which follow are from the Hongkong Telegraph for October 2nd 1890.
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank New Teans-$100 per share, hayera.
Union Insurance Society of Canton-$100 per share, buyers. China Traders' Insurance Corn- pany-62 per share, buyere,
North China Insurance-Tla 340 per share, sellers,
Canton Insurance Company,
Yangtese Insurance Association Ltd.-$117 per share, esles. Tla. 70 per share høyere, Hongkong Fire Insurance Com
China Fire Insurance Company pany $300 per share, sellers.
-888 per share, buyers,
Hongkong and Whampoa Dook Company-$12 per cent, pre mium, ssles. Stoam boat Company-$34 per Hongkong, Canton and Macao
China and Manila Steamship
Mr. E. Robinson, who was Acting Police-acart Magistrate during share, bayerg,
exaltation Mr. Wise'u
wool-aack," retired from the Company-$115 per share, buyers. Bench yesterday
Hongkong Gas Company and to-day resumed the practice of his learn- $136 por share, sellera
Hoogkong Hotel Company- $165 per share, callers.
Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per cent. Debentures-8501.
a few not-too-well-devized lica ag
ed profession at our model bar." jam for the pill, are making some
The Detective. dolefal and ominons admissions,
September 20-Ospital! Msa while the Lokalanzeiger and the Ki, an old geol-bird," was prow. Vossische Zeitung are preparing
to take a positively lugubriousing about China Sirre: in the view of the situation, "It cannot early hours of this morning with a bull's-eye lantern and a atout! ba deuied that the new enemy police truncheon cone alert under cffensive is of the greatest import his coat, when Lakong No. 167: ance." Well; rather! What else
suddenly grabbed him and asked $85, do they suppose the Allies are what he was about, and where bis
buyers. Cemente, $10.50 buyers. Providents $0.30, bayers,
The Dellar.
The rate of the dollar on demand to-day ie Le 0 13/161.
To-morrow's Anniversary To-morrow is the 15th anniver
St. Andrew's Society.
there for? The German civilian
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Indo-China 8.N." Company-
Douglas Steamahip Company 27 per cent. dis., Fellers, $47 per share, sellers.
China Sugar Refining Company, Ltd.-$171 per share sellers.
Luzon Sugar Refining Com pass" was. "Ob!" aid the pany, Limited-$108 per share,
"I buyers. and feminine element has got light-fingered "Johnnie," almost enough to think about am a special detective, put on to Hoogkong Ice Company nowadays. Weeks ago it was Atated that every other woman in waylay a notorious kidnapper. $95 per share, sellers.
Hongkong Rope Manufactur Loi me alone! You'il spoil the] Berlin was a widow; and the whole thing. I'm se straight esa ing Company, Ltd.-$120 per situation will bardly be bettered
"Not share, bayers. alraight-edged plank." by the thousands of casualties mob" rejoined the constable, Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf
that have taken place since.
Siation, where, if I'm wrong, I'll share, sellers, bashed up as long as possible, beg your pardon and stand the Hongkong Dairy Farm Co. Ltd.
the$10 per share, sellers, by having very real tragedy thrust sary of the occupation of the Pek. Many of these will doubtless be you've got to come up to the and Godown Company,--$78 per upon them. The Chinese, more ing Summer Palace by the British but "unaccountably missing" drink." Upon arrival at often than not, are affctionate and Italian troops,
and train loads of wounded will Central Sation Detro1ive Ser- A. S. Watson and Co., Ltd.- parents and the loss of a child in
tell their own tale. Nor can it be
Hadden identified the $23 per share, sellers. this manner is a far deeper grief
Hongkong High Level Tram- The annual general meeting of comforting to the German mind ant
"special" as a department "boss" to them than many Europeana the St. Andrew's Society will be to learn that there are now of the Amalgamated Association way Co., Ltd.-$105 per share The object of this paper is to publish correct information, serve to seem to realise. Of course the held in the City Hall on Monday million British troops on the of Thieves and Cut parses, gave buyers.
prevalence of the offence is at 5.30 p.m.
Western Front and that before evidence against him before Mr. the truth and print the news without fear or favour.
judgment on the Government
the end of the year, there will be: (and indirectly on the people Mr. G. P. Lammert will sell by *********BERAERIYAR*
themselves) for having failed suction at bis sale rooms on Mou to stamp it out. Kidnapping, day, at 11 am, a quantity of piracy, brackmail and squeeze all ladies' dress material; also a trace back to the central idea: quantity of lace insertion. that it is perfectly legitimate for
Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.
Telephone: No. 1 A.B.C., 5th edition.
Western Union Office address: 11, Ice House St.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1915.
Auction Sale.
Crown Land Sale.
a man to add to bie income" by Two lots of Crown land above dishonest means, and that he is May Road and Ship Street, wil, justified in exercising terrorism be lat by public auction at the where milder methode prove offices of the Public Works De fruitlena.
partment on Monday at 3 p.m.
Woman's Alleged Cruelly,
pink
The Marina.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
Societies that have Ceased to Exlet,
with reference to Government
Hongkong Steam Laundry Co.,
Green Island Cement Co. (old a million and a balf. Nor will Wise at the Police Court this Ltd.-$25 per share, nominal:
morning, and had the satisfaction the extra balf million be the rag of seeing him gaoled for three ieue).$28 per share, sellers.
Green Island Cement Co. (new tag and bobtail, as is the 0280 months with hard labour." with so many of the German
|issue).---$8 per share, ‘nominal. reserve troops; but good bard September 30,-"The Directora Hongkong Land Investment stuff ia the
of of the Hongkong Marina Ld., have Co., Ld.-$92 per share, buyers, training, and keenly anxious for exercised wise discretion in caus- Hongkong Electric Light Co., a chance to have a smack at the ing their flating hotel to be tow-Ltd.- $6 per share, sellers.
ed away from Wanchai Bay to West Point Buildings Co, Ltd." Germans.
The Mesopotamian Affair. safe and healthfal acoborage -832 per share, sellers. It is evidently not meant that near where it formerly was. The Squeeze System.
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club. we should be allowed to under- What on earth possessed the Thonga the Uhinese do not Members of the Royal Hongrats the success which has fallen" powers that be" in the floating say all this in so many words, kong Yacht Club are reminded to the 6th Division operating on hotel concern to moor their ship THE GERMANS AND THEIR PRISONERS. that is really the position; and that an extraordinary general the Tigrie. The last definite in- in the vicinity of Wanchai is an the only difference between meeting will be held at the club formation as to the progress of affair which they will probably Melancholy stories continue to come from all quarters as to the the squeezing compradore and house on Monday at 5.30 p.m. events in this small theatre was have an opportunity of explain- conditions of thous Inokless soldiers of the Allies who have been the gang-robber or the kid-
More Petty Larceny. that the British had reached ing at the next general meeting of
It is notified in the Gazetta, taken prisoner by our cultured foe. One of the most recent is that napper is one of method; the A shopkeeper, living as No. 23 Amara. Kut-el-Amira, which is anxioue shareholders.”
under the provisions of section 6 published in the New York World by Mr. John Burke, an American spirit is the same. The cumshaw Bird Street, has reported to the mentioned this morning as having A Chinese Cycllat. subject who was himself incarcerated for several weeks at Langen- which we give and the squeeze to Police the theft from his residence been hitherto the enemy's camp, September 30: It may in of the Societies Ordinance, 1911, Balzs. This gentleman tells much the somas story as others, regard-which wo obat our eyes in eutire of a box containing clothing and is some hundred miles northwest terest Western readers to know (Ordinance No. 47 of 1911), and ward of this; on the routs that John Chinaman takes quite Notification No. 288 of June 24, ing the Germans' singling out the Britishers among their prisoners ly of a piece with the sums paid jawellery to the value of $111. for special ill treatment. "The especial objects of Germen hatred to pirates by Chinese river-boat
to Bagdad. The district is ono kindly to epeling, Yesterday A Chicces led aged about ten which, before the war, was assum-eroning a middle-aged Celestial, 1915, that the Governor-in-Council and brutality were necessarily the British; at all times they were owners on condition that their kicked and maltreated," is one of his statements; and he proceeds properly is not attacked. The years has been admitted to the ing not a little importance in the with the end of his queue tucked is satisfied that the following to instance the case of a Lifeguardeman, a well known heavy-weight employer who is fool enough Government Civil Hospital anffer-
Social Club (Non-Chinese).. boxer, who was thrashed by German soldiers with the stocks of to stand in the way of his Chinese ing from injuries alleged to have eyes of business men, by reason into his belt, wabbled along focieties have cossed to exist:--
of the schemes for extending the Queen's Road Central on a wood- their rifles, for no other reason than one of spits. Other cases are underlinge making their squeeze been caused by being thrown German railway line in Anatolia en-wheeled tricycle of the "hone Kapitans verein. Miscellaneous. quoted wherein men have been literally kicked to death by these is, of course, the man who is the from a first for window in Bat down to Bagdad (und, eventually, shaker" type. His erratic steer- Society for Arts and Science, non- children of world-culture, Even the solace of tobacco has been most robbed, and, conversely, the tory Street. A woman has been denied to prisoners. "If an offender was onaght smoking he was man who comes off the easiest in arrested in connection with the to the coast) and for reclaiming ing caused many a narrow shave political, (Verein for Kunst und
much of the desert land by moans with rickshas, and at times he Wissenschaft in Hongkong). punched or struck across the f. 03 and body, and then made either the long ran is he who shuts his matter.
of irrigation. The steady drive had the far-away yearning look to stand outside the door or was tied to a post for two hours. eyes and so compounds black:
of the enemy 10 th-westwards that we have seen on the face of Punishment by tying men to poate is the open, with the thermome-mail. To the European, living in
looks, then, as though it had the Western wheelman when be ter near zero, was practised for asveral trifling offences."
a British Colony, all this is of BRITISH OWNED CARGO ample method about it. We would like to get off and walk." Such treatment of men temporarily but all too ompletely in less moment than to the Chinese ON AUSTRIAN VESSELS.uggested some weeks ago that a The "Shoddy Gentility" of
It is bereby noufied that sealed Hongkong. Jorge Russian force south of the their power shows at once the notions of honour among which the himself, living in his own torri- German soldiers must have grown up. Malevolence, we know, tory; and for
October 2. We have had a tenders in duplicats, which should bis
Cincasus was not there merely for to 860 tho exists among every olass and in every race, and if these were isolated should like
the fun of living on the sand celebrity in our midst for some he clearly marked "Tender for eases it would be childish to draw attention to them. But hundreds Central and Provincial Govern-
and making thinga uncomfortable days past, and an usual in Hong-Repairs to No. 3 Police Launch, of statements have gone to show that the British prisonera bave ments bestirring themselves in the
for half-wild desert people; it kong, unless it is the case of some will be rrosived at the Colonial been picked out for particular ill treatment, and that these horrible direction of rocting ont the
Foreign Office,
wes more likely, we ventured to pioua religious or mining fraud, Secretary's Office until Noon of practices have been widespread. From the Germans' conduct ia aqueeze business. The rooting
think, that it had very defaite or some bird class tioker and Friday, 15th instant. the battlefield or in towns and villages which they have captured, it out will not come in this centary
August 9, 1915.
Specifications can be obtained. intentions where this Anatolian moantebank, he has been totally is easy to gather what their bobaviour would be when they saw probably, but there must be a be The following is published in railway (which ends at Scatari) ignored by our self constituted at the Government Marine Sur Britishore in their own prisons or camps in Germany.
ginning of every good thing, The the
was concerned. As things are Rociety-Phew! Probably be pre-vayor's Office.
Repairs to be executed to the Of course a great deal a very great deal has been said in the present system is, as goes without general information.
moving now, it looks more than ferred to be ignored, but that is Home press on the subject, hat even now one doubts if it has been saying, China's greatest caomy, sufficiently insisted upon. If so, why are there men at Home who and in theory many of unr people Rome is informed by the Italian ever as if the facing German- no excuse for the blatant osddiem satisfaction of the Government
Tutkiah Ir. ops might be caught and shocking lack of maduere for Marino Surveyor. etill refuse to volunteer? There must surely be some in England recognise this. When are they Government that in order to between the British and Russians, which the shoddy gentility of who do not yet know that their brothers, cousins, fathers, or friends going to put their theories into Obtain release of British owned this defeat being followed by a Bongbong ia so justly famed."
goods on Austrian vessels detain-
Dairies Must be Licensed. are being subjected to the vilest tortures that these German cars can practice?
very determined advance of the ed in Italy the interested partios Allies in the direction of Angora
October 2.-"At the Police devise. At the end of May it was officially estimated that the Ger- mans held 180,000 French prisoners, 90 G00 British, 15,000 Belgian
should present their applications and the very useful railway track Court this morning, Mr. A.G. Excursion To Macao. and (the Germans and Austrians between them) 850,000 Russian. The Hongkong, Dunton and for release of such goods direct which leads to the Bosphorus. Wias gave his decision in the case
orising out of Mr. V. Dansen- the roxer of the Government to Sines then the numbers have, of cour e, very materially increased. Mooao Steamboat Company's New to the Italian Minister of Merino,
berg's refusal to take a piary isaia the interests of the general. enforce regulations considered And these men (including 90,000 of our own coautrymen !) havo no Steamship Tai Shap, will depart together with all documents
Board licence for the keeping of hope of being released till we end the war. Some will never be seen from the Company's Wing Lok available in support of their claim again, for they have died of the bratslities accorded to them. More Street Wharf at 0a.m. and return to ownership. The Minister of Kallan Mining Administration, cattle at his farm at Wang-nei- public. This was, he recognised, ever, the nearer we come to final vistory the harder the lot of these from Macao at 3.p.m. The Com- Marine will then determine which We are informed that the total cheong. Mr.D.E. Caldwell appear only a test cation, so he would do prisoners, for, as food applica run short among the Germans, it will pany will also ron a ateamer from goods can be released without entput of the Administration's ed for the defendant. His Wor. no more than confirm the decision farther formalities, and which it mines for the week ending 18th ship held that there was no doubt arrived at by his predecessor on naturally be their enemies who will have to suffer hunger fret. The Macao on Sunday morning at will be necessary to submit to September amounted to 49567 about the defendant having the the bench, Mr. Robertson, and and, next to it, ought to be the resolation that they shall be liberated 1 pm from the Company's Wing the decision of the Italian Frize tous and the sales during the right to graze cattle under his lease, ne the defendant the sum of five
sake we
condition of these hapless ones ought never to be out of our minda; 7,30 a.m. and from Hongkong at
withoat farther delay and that their wrongs shall be avenged as Lok Street Wharf. thoroughly.az,1possible.
Detained in italy.
Goternment Garetts for
His Majesty's ́Ambassador at.
period, to 45,837 tons.
bat that lease did not do away with
TENDERS FOR
GOVERNMENT. WORK.
The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.
dollora."