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DAY BY DAY.
1915.
NOTES ON THE ORISIS. A YEAR AGO TO-DAY. JOTTINGS BY THE WAY
CORRUPTED FREEMEN ARE THE) The GERMAN AMERİCANS. WORK OF BLAVES-Garrick.
The Weather.
At the Peak 8 am. Temp. 71;
The Malls.
to-day pər e.s. Sardinis, Siberian Mail.Closes at 11.8.m. to-morrow per 8.8. Ohiyo
Mera.
Earl Kitchener.
LEADING BVENTS IN THE
GREAT WAR..
Extraste from the war news con- tained in the "Hongkong Telegraph" of November 8,
1914.
11. "Hoog up
Gr ·** delayed?”- what's in a nams ? It is in the requirements of rational sanita, tion, and not in the elements of correct English, that our Sanitary Board most standa in "need lessons.
We are glad to sea that at least ote division of the Nobel Bequest has gone this year to 6 member of the Allied nations: M. Romain Rolland, the| great French dramatist, novelist, musical aritio and biographer. The other prizes, it will be seen fog, from the cable, go to men from Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 77; neutral countries. There is a overcast. curious irony. about 'aby announcement relating to this Biberian Mail.-Das to-day per Bequest just now, for one branch as, Chenan. of writers whom the late Dr. Siberien Mail.-Closed at 8 am Alfred Nobel wished to reward WOB the pacifists; prize was to go to the man who had done most" for the cause of international brotherhood, in the suppression or reduction of atand. ing armies or in the founding of Peace congresso."
"That branch will certainly have to stand, over | for a while. ~_Another interesting point about the Nobel Bequest is that it was not till about 1902
to that Britishers began bo recommended for the prize. One of the first Britishers to
To-morrow is the 74th anniver-eaty, or that he contemplated belonging to the Middle Corps, ment, yesterday, that the member win-and in this Case the
visiting the Near Est, They commenced the attack at of the old Greek Cabinet will Peace priza was the late Mr. Weary of the birth of the late King
Edward.
should at 0008 jump to 1.40 a.m., to-day, upon the centre retain their offices, with the ex to R. Cremer, M.P., while, in 1907, Kallas Mining Administration. conclusions is quite likely. But battery of the enemy's line of caption of the Ministers of Justice
We are informed that the total what about the men-particularly defence on the left bank of the and Public Worship. antput of the Administration's the men whose duty and business Hai Po river. Our Left Wing
After all is said, the true teal
The mystery of the moment is
Tsingtau Surrenders. how the story became current---
Apropos, when the-h that- and found believera that Earl Taingtan sa rendered after the water carriage system coming. Kitchener had resigned his post Central Fort had been captured along? We've waited a night too at the War Office. Of course idle by two companies of infantry, long for the thing already. torgues will work, whether in taking 200 prisoners. Our air Hongkong might be a—fine place London or in Hongkong, but how abips, Bring over thecity of Taing- if it weren't for the present-in- comes it that such idle tongues get tau, scattered a warning notice sanitary arrangements. a serious hearing in influential relative to the preservation of
A.
AGLEN-On October 28, 1915, at Peking, the wife of F. Aglon, Inspector General of Customs, of a daughter.
BERENTS.-On October 28, 1915, at their home, Nanking, to Mr. and Mrs. H, Borente, a son.
KNOX.-On the 29th October 1915 at the Foochow Hospital, to Mr. & Mrs, T. Knox, Pagoda Anchorage a Son.
MARRIAGE.
CHARLETON-HOLT-On October 30, 1915, at Nanking, at Ting Chia Ch'iao Church, by the Rev. J.H. Mages and the Rev. G.H. Malone, and afterwards at H. B. M. Consulate before Mr. Bertram Giles, H.M. Consul, George Honry Charleton, son of George Thomas Charleton, of the Bank of England, to Kathleen Mary Holt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H, H. Holt, of Twickenham, England.
DEATHS,
KELL-On October 18, 1915, at Amoy, Fergus Graham Kell, partner of Boyd and Co., Amoy and Formosa.
KING. On November 1, 1915, at the Shanghai General Hospit- al, George Norman King, only son of Chas. H. King, formerly of Shanghai, aged 26 years.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1915.
THE "NEW SPIRIT" IN THE TRENCHES.
the winner of the prize for Liter- ature ($7,700) was no less a pre- son than Rudyard Kipling
Protection.
American Mail-Olosssati o m.
per se. Chiyo Mara. Siberian Mail.— Closes at 3 p.m. tc-morrow por B.a. Yingehow.
Up to the Minute, No change.
The Dollar.
The rate of the dollar demand to-day is 1/10 1/18.
To-morrow's Anniversary.
quartera? After all that Earl buildings. Bomba were also drop- "Newspaper man back from Kitchener has done for the Em-ped upon the enemy's principal Mexico tells of conditions there, pire one would as readily believe defensive lines. The casualties says an American paper. There that he had gone over to the Ger- from the beginning of the will always be at least one want mans as that be had deserted or blookade till November 5 number:in our life till we have seen that wished to desert the post of diff-Japanese 200 killed and 878 newspaper man's story, pa culty and responsiblity at a wounded; British 2 killed and 8
There has been no more thrill. on oritical moment. That the old wounded. The final assault was
women in London on bearing made by two Companion of in- ing nowe item through Reuter that be bad called on His Maj-fantry and a squad of engineere sinos war began, than the state
miaes for the week ending it is to examine, down to the last cecupied the battery on Shiao
Volunteer Reserves.
Colld Protection-and Over
We stated in Saturday's issue that the War Emergency Workers' National Council has
Members of "A" "B" and passed a resolution "viewing with
"O" companies are reminded that alarm" certain suggestions there is a parade on the Cricket
of for the lowering
the Ground to-morrow at 5.15 p.m. of leaving school, in вge order to enable children to enter industrial or agricultural work at
for
Dress: drill order.
Police Reserves
Already there has been far too also for recruite, including those street's concluding
had given up bis
Extra Ferrics.
ia that
of which we both are now (4
23rd October amounted to 51565 millimetre every atory and ra. Chan Shan at 5.10a.m., and the of a man's loyalty is his willing- tone and the sales during the mour silost- how came any of battery at Tai Tan Oban at 5.35 nea to da the now pants that theas to repeat such a story? a.m., and afterwards we took the H.K.P.R. are being served Sir Edward Grey and the possession of the foits, and cap-out with. period, to 50369 tons.
Premier have both been fured two heavy gune, at Chung absent from duty for a short spell, Chea-wo, went of the middlo It is regrettable that Renter" At 7 a.m., a part of descriptive genius can still carry and doubtless all sorts of silly battery. stories went from mouth to month our advance guard cooupied him no farther than trenches Iltio, Bismarck and plastered with shells " and " girl. anent their possible resignations; the
At forts: but the Press seems to have Moltke
about roasted to death.”... · ignored these. Why then could 7 a.m., the white flag was hoisted
That remark of Lord Morley's Parades for to-morrow at 5.80 not the War Secretary be able at the Astronomical Observatory an earlier age. We certainly see p.m.; service rifle instractions to leave London tempotarily and at 7.30 a.m., at the battery by the way-about "the stupidity
man the no special cause
the on the sea shore. Sending as a of the censors”—we wonder wha alarm. for those firing on November 10, without
be military envoy the German Army was behind it, and why no one in post? at Teingtan offered to surrender the Lords seems to have challeng maoh State control of the child of No. 3 Company.
at 9,20 this morning, as a resulted it. in England, and, if the faddists have their way, the day will come The Star Ferry Company will The Rumours and the "Globe," when the parent will have no con-ran extra forries on Wednesday trol over his own child whateves and Thursday night at 12.45 and
It is all the more puzzling that and will therefore, in all too many 1a.m. in connection with the local these rumours should have been asses, dealine to accept responsi- celebrations on the occasion of taken seriously in view of all that
has been said in the Lords of late: Earl Roberts Congratulates bility for the latter's doings. the Mikado's coronation.
British and Indian. regarding the alleged "mistake The compulsory education system
Regiments. was, from the start, a ridiculous David Mason, an European, was at Gallipoli. Assuming, for the
Earl Roberts has sent telegrams interference with the liberty of the charged before Mr. Lindsell at the sake of argument, that a mistake sabject, and has since been re- Police Court, this morning, with was made in this direction, of congratulation to Field Marshal sponsible for half the loafing and being drank and incapable in and that the War Office was Sir John French on Lieut. discontent among the lads and Pedder Street. Defendant failed disposed to take the advice of some General Sir James Willcocks wit young men at Home. So long as to appear and the $25 he had of the civilians and to withdraw .OS.I., on the magnificent brav Families." A pair of quotation due care is taken to see that no paid for bail was forfeited. the troops from Gailipoli, ie ery of all ranks of the British and marks would have saved us from obild is allowed to work beyond Theft on Largo Scalo. it thinkable that this would ladian regiments. He welcomes falling into the very natural erro his physioal strength, there is no Before Mr. Lindsell at the Police be done till the most minate the Indians who have come to that this was yet another instance sane reason why his parents Court, this morning, a Chinese inquiries had been made, not only fight for the cause of liberty and of an eccentrio will left by should not, if they choose, send employed by a Chinese furniture in London but on the spot ? truth, and the upholding of the spinster with a soft place in her him to work at the age of twelve dealer was charged with stealing And is it extraordinary that the great Empire.
heart for the lower animalezie or thirteen. Moreover Britiebera $460 the property of his sater. head of the army should wish to were certainly a finer race of men-Defendant who pleaded guilty make these himself? To the and when this was the universal was sentenced to aix weeks' hard of time there will always be fools custom than they are to-day, labour.
Recruiting at Home.
European Forfelts Ball.
TYPHOON WARNING. We are indebted to the Ameri-
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be "sold" in this matter is past our imagining. Farther inform- ation will be welcome, for at pre-
o'clock on Saturday afternoon) We have no heart to talk about negotiating at the Molke bar the educated comp. this week raoke about the conditions of Three times on Saturday we im surrender.
Majority of Turks Condema Government's Action.
LANGKAT OUTPUT,
plored him not to include the cinematograph shows under th head of "Sunday Services"-bu he's been and gone and done it al the rame.
The Advocate of India heads
"Pensions to Torriers
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sion that the same sort of announcement at Home migh often sare M. P's the trouble o
going down to the House, whe
we discovered that "dry"; American for " teetotal
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Herr Munsterberg, Harvard German American professor say that "the hyphen is the symbo of honour." "We know now why
there are so many double-barrelled names in well-the Far East.
The great majority of the Turks Two temperance oratore are the who will persist in sseing mystery Government. It appears that the Policg billed for dry speeches, are condemning the action of the heralded by the Philadelphif North American:-" Hobson and There is much that is really dramatic and much that is need-
or significance in the most open Grand Visier, who thrice threat We were arriving at the conclu lessly gruesome in the account of the trench warfare in Argonne
and most obvious acts, Had the which Reuter wired us yesterday. The story is given as coming
The concessions to recruits,
ened to resign, was threatened public used its common sense a from a German, but it happens that there is nothing whatever in mentioned in this morning's wire, it that is difficult of belief. Indeed we do not need that he should will undoubtedly have the effect
little, none of the Kitchener with court martial by the military ramours, it seems to us, need bave party. The beet Turkish opinion enlarge upon what everyone must know already. We notice that of popularising the new system en Consul General for the fol- arisen at all. Mystery Number 2 views the situation with the utmost be fixes the enormone reverse suffered by the Germans in the and of attracting more men to lowing: The telegram quoted concerns the Globe and its an- alarm. Western field some five or six weeks ago as the date at which "the the colours, and the committee below was received from the councement. The Globe hos Argonne type" of fighting began; but possibly he is not in na fall is certainly to be congratulated Manila Observatory at 10 a.m. hitherto been one of the most possession of facts as the British reader. The latter known right on its wisdom. By the new ar November 3, 1915.
cautious papers in existence, and well that, from the very fret, the German fighting was noted for
rangement, young men who have Cyclone or Typhoon E. of the how it can have allowed itself to its lack of anything like manliness, chivalry or common fairness and enlisted will still be able to Visayas felande filling up. decency. It is considerably more than a year since the noble
go about their ordinary work Prussian went into battle with women in front of him as a shield.
and will be protected from STONEHENGE SOLD. The German correspondent says that this "picture of the torn she charge of abicking by and grimy fighter is reminiscent of primeval days;" and here comes the wearing of the cfficial Relic of the Druids Fetches£6,600, in the dash of sentiment that we should expect from such a source. armlet; and the married men will Stonehenge was sold on Sep- America Waking Up. Is not all fighting reminiscent of primeval days? You have but to be the last called op. We are tember 21st for $6,600, the par- scratch the skin of the most coltivated product of the twentieth intereated too, in rend of the sen ohsser being Mr. Chubb, of ing auma for defence, telling If America is waking up, vot- century in order to reach a certain amount of asvage. When killing sible move adopted by the Oun Bemerton Lodge, Salisbury. from a long distance with rifle or artillery fire, men can still retain ard Company in refusing to book
the byphenated ones what she their coolness and powers of calculation; bat are not all hand to men who are eligible for military the public, for it was, como years of reason thereto. The more deep- Stonehenge will not be lost to thinke of them eto, she has plenty hand fights-cavalry charges, bayonet work or even streat riots at service.
This is no time ago, scheduled to the Ancient Mon-ly the latest bomb basiness is in- close quarters-pretty much alike? They rouss the same blood-last, for the
Jongg and strong oments' Protection Act of 1882,quired into, the greater sad plain. the same comparative indifference to pain and the same longing to to be emigrating, and we are and therefore, could only be sold er becomes the hopeless black- inflict the maximum of pain on others. As a rale, of course, there certain that the sympathies of all subjeo: to the following stipula guardiem of the Germans in is a certain limit in all this: a line which the average man who loyal Britishers will be with the time: nomes of an honourable race would not pass indeed would never dunord and with the firemen who
America, That they and the (1) That the publio shall always Austrians have be tempted to pass. The men of such a raca do not, for instance, refused to sail if ehirkere were be allowed to bave free access to based hospitality is a mere de fire on women or children, nor do they introduce biting into the allowed on board their ship; conflict. They rarely kill an entirely helpless man; în a word, they follow as far as possible, and even despite blood-madness, the hereditary instinct of chivalry,
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FORD CARS AND THE BUDGET.
sent ons is hopelessly in the dark.
Bhamelessly.
it on payment of such ressonable tail; they are too innately churl- anm per head not exceeding 1s. ish to know what that means. for each visit.
Menere, Wright and Hornby advise us that the Langkat ont put for the current month is as follows:-: Nov.
#
Tona 185
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The March of Discovery. "Notes have been going from Washington with more or less frequency of late." (Philadelphia Public Ledger). There is really nothing hidden from these new papero.
182
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176
J
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5
168
14
+4
157
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31
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180
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404
175
Total to. 7th inst.
Daily average · 168.15
1163
POPE'S ESCAPE.
Museum.
Alarming Incident in the
Gardens.
The Americane, to do them justice, PRIZES FOR THE NATION. (2) That it shall, so far as posare among the most open-hearted Now as Germany has no hereditary instinct of chivalry_to_fol-
sible, be maintained in ite present folk in the world-and the most low, and as the expression "foul play " has no mesning in the Ger·|
condition, and man mind, why is this correspondent exercieing himself about all
(3) That the purchaser shall gullible; therefore if they, of all valuable Additions to the British this trench-fighting? You can't make a silk purse out of a com's
people, round on their guests and not crest any buildings within a demand that they shall bs "fired lag, then why expect ohivalry from a German? Those who have British Industry, to Benefit by certain prescribed distance of the out" of the country, we may rest made a serious study of the character of this 1000 know perfectly
New Tax.
M. Chavannes, President of the Rome, September 22. While they Circle. well that its leading obaracteristio is an almost impossible mixture:
well satisfied that there is plenty Academy of Inscriptions and Pops was taking his usual drive of the sentimental and the hog-like. The same German who can in Now York on September 23, esle 18:
Mr. Henry Ford, who arrived The auctioneers announced the of real grievance in the back-Literature, has received a letter in the Valioan gardens yesterday
Lot 15. weep over "The Sorrows of Werther" can laugh himself into
ground. Apart from the main from Sir Aurel Stein, the British and visiting the new road bein (Coloured green on the plan.) plot, if the Americans are going explorer, dated August 8, and made after his designs, his ca hysterics over the torturing of a cat or dog, and can pass quite says the New York correspondent
"STONEHENGE," to allow Germans to have any written in the midst of the Karshol age WAS suddenly violent. cheerfully and naturally from writing an ode on childhcol to bash of the Express declares that Grest Britain's motor-car duty will pro Ing a baby's brains out. Thus the chances are quite five to one that bably compel his company to build 37p. of the adjoining Downland, ships they can only expect Sie Aurel Stein announces the The coachman and foot Together with about 30a. 25. thing to do with the loading of mountains in the Pamir shaken, and both horses fell this very correspondent who bemoans the fact that " gone are the chivalrous days" would be as ready as the other flankies, hairdressers its car completely in England, A charge is made for seeing trouble. Now is the time for the archeological results of his last jumped down, and found that and butchers of his raco at booting a woman or obowing the ear parts here," he said, "and send average about £360 per annum. the worst of the plotting by seis-an and Neoucas. The explorer without assistance. Da "We now make some of the Stonehenge, and the net receipts Washington Government to nip researches in the region of Fourf-Pape had already left the of an enemy. Really we fail to see where the “now spirit "comes in. Is the fighting of the moment any more barbarous, where the them to our English plant, where Note The Purchaser of this ing on as many se possible of the proposes to proceed to Persia via tion it was found that one cli Germans are concerned than the poisoning of our armies, the for- they are assembled with other Lot will be required to erect to aliena' assete. This story of the Ackabad and Nestrat. He has horses had fallen down dead. turing of prisoners, and the barbaric plundering and destroying of parts made in England. Here the satisfaction of the Vendor's fortyfive million dollars backed sent to England numerous boxes Pontiff wasexesadingly art treasures? The Germen of to-day is the German of yesterday, after, I suppose, we must build surveyore and maintain a fence up by the demands of the Now with frescoes and manuscripts, as the horses (a fine pair no better no wores; and it is for the Allied nations to see that be the oara exclusively in England. on the western boundary of this York press that "something the which will enrich the collection ones) were a present got no opportunity of becoming wares by taking away all his power thing for England.*******
“The new tax will be a good Lot so far as no fence exists at done will have the effect desired, at the Britisk Museum.
al Bauer and foreing him henceforth to be just a pariah,
present