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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1916.
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In his letter yesterday one Can-
ton correspondent mentions that] Oban Kwing-ming, ⋅ one-time li
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satuh of Kwangtung and recently BETTER TO BE A BIG MAN IN A in command of the rebel forces at IN A BIG JOB. Weichow, has been given the rank of admiral; and he drawa sttention to the fact that this At the Peak 8 s.m. Temp. 73; gentleman's claim to such fog. (1915, 63 alear.) [dignity is Got stated. Ifj. Lower level 8 am, Temp. 80;
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The Flas! Siege of the Hans.
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Lecture to a Conscientious Objector.
HOWITT PRILLIPS COMPANY.
Splendid Performance "Per e* My Heart.
Govern- French - M«il-Closed per Fields to view once again the clamed sua conscientious objector. son bare with the popular comedy.
ment should not confer hocours
Porthos at 31
3 p.m. to-day.
on its subjects if it sees fit. Siberian Mail.Das. per Unfortunately, however, China
Anbui on Friday.
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come painfully rear to mak ing a laughing-stock of herself
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To-morrow's Anniversary.
had no experience whatever in the class of work demanded of them. Clerke, school masters and even sary of the capitulation school-boys have suddenly blows-Strasburg. omed out into generals'; and more then once the attack or
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Smoking Concert.
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predict full There is nothing complicated or involved in "Pego' My Heart."* It is a simple yet most fascinating comedy of youth, fall of humour, The porneming many effective touches of pathos, and satisfying because
Addroming George JameR Mr. E. Ashmead-Bartlett writes Henry Base, aged twenty-one. in Join Bull -***
olark, of Malvern road, Heekney, We have seldom sesa mach an We are at the turn of the tides notice requiring him to raport kong as that at the Theatre Royal who had neglected to comply with enthusiastic andianes in Hong- bat little time must elapse for military service, the Tribunals Isat night, when the Howitt before the receding torrent slowly baving rejected bin claim to be Phillipe Company opened its ren- blood-sodden, devaslated soil of Mr. Hedderwick at the North "Fego My Heart," which han Certain broad facts stand out. The France, Belgium and Poland. London police-court asid
made such a hit at the Globe Buitely passed to the Allies Ger- objectors that there are men in hundred performances. Thèce was fensive and initiative have de for your fellow consolections still running after close on sight "It is very lucky for you and Theatre in London, where it is mang has expanded herself almost this country who me willing to hardly a vacant seat in the house, to barsting-point like some hageght for their King, their custry and the rounds of applause which The opening rate of the dollar Zeppelin setting forth on a raid their homes, and you, because if were accorded the Company at ealary and serioas responsibilities | on demand to-day was 20.2.7/16d, (from which there may be no the Germane. were here they the close of each of the nota
return. For the first time in two would make short work of you clearly years the Allies are able to com- and others who hold your views. satisfaction and enjoyment felt testified to the Tc-morrow is the 46th anniver.mence a joint effensive on all You must do something. Maybe by all present at the excellence
their fronts, than allowing the Central Powers little choice of of meading roads, where you will has certainly made a moet sad- you will have the inglorious duty of the production. The Company. exploiting their interior lines and be perfectly safe from all chance mirable initial, impression," and vaat system of strategic railways, of your blood being spilled or of if the standard not last night in as they have invariably been able spilling that of any other person. maintained, to do in the past. The interior Pay 408, to be deducted from house for the rest of the se, for lines remain; so also do the railways, and the organisation over to a military escort."
your pay, and you will be handed which rane them is as perfect as ever. Only now the bumin freight is lacking. The endless lines of trucks still roll from east to creator from west to eset, but they carry importance of the results which few except the maimed. The East have followed cannot be over- of its freshness and sparkling can no longer lend, at oritical estimated. We are, in fact, about dialogus. Peg is a humbly-bred, memente, whole army corps to to reap the full benefit of them. sweet, Irish girl, with all the the West; while the West can no At the present bour we must impetuosity of her races rough The Great Northern Telegraph longer send her tried veterans to look to the Near East for decisive diamond so far as the ontwar Company anncances that the rate that terrible dates of death results, rather than to the went, conventionalities of life are cun- for ordinary and "deferred" tele. through Poland, Galicis and where the enemy is at his cerned, but a most lovable indiv The case which came before greme from Hongkong to Japan Russia, expanding the frontiers of strongest. Our hammer blows on idual all the same high- Mr. Wood yesterday, wherein a
will frem October 1. be reduced to orime for the delighted gaze of the Somme will make possible spirited, uncultared girl, with a Europesa was fired for thrashing $0.65 and $0 30 per word (German school children, and he spprosobing dramatic heart of gold. She is, under the TAYLOR-On 26th September, at the Royal Naval Hospital, purpose of proving to the Chinese
his houseboy, at least serves the respectively.
causing wooden gods, stiff with changes in the Near East. We provisions of a rich awole will, Billards.
patriotic nails, to rise like mash-are nailing the enemy to his sn-dropped into an aristocratie bome, Hongkong, to Surgeon and Mrs. Basil Taylor, a son.
to In connection with the Palace room that British justice is for all, and
Hindenburg
and trenchments in the west, and to be transformed into a society Hotel billiarde tournament, an
meanwhile his dream of a Ger lady, and daring her short stay that no man, whatever his nɛ-
Macksheen. MCNEIL-At the Victoria Hospital, Barker Road, on the 26th tionality or standing, may break interesting match was witnessed September at 9.15 p.m. after a serious illness, Annie, the beloved, the law with impunity. With the last evening when Mr. Bond ontrated on our offensive on the from the Rhine to the Persian of marriage but brorquely sparne The eyes of England are conmanic-Islamic Empire stretching there she gets besieged with cffers wife of Duncan MéNeil, of Quarry Bay; aged 53 years.
oase as it stande we have nothing (owee 110) met and defeated Mr. Somme; but to maintain a proper Gali is slowly fading into thin all save the hero of the piece, to do; to tie a patite boy ap May (owes 60). The game was perspective, the battle of the air. The Huns reached their high "Jerry." Incidentally, she is in- and then hammer him was not only fairly close one, the foal acores Somme must be considered only water mark in the late autumn strumental in saving the daughter bratal, bat da-British and idiotic reading Mr. Bond 250, Mr. May
In conjunction with
of 1815.
of the honse from being enmeet- to boot; sad the defendant could 220. At 8,45 this evening, Mr. elsewhere.
A solid mass of balf-a-millioned in a net spread for her by scarcely be sarprised if Mr. Wood Johnstone, (owes 130), will meet
Brasiloff is threstening Hang road from Belgrade to Constan- the piece. It will be seen, there- Turks and Bulgarians held the a dialoysl busband, the villain of took so serious a view of the Mr. D. Murphy (owes, 40).
ary: Kouropatkin is a caring tinople. On this bage concentra-fore, that there is very little in matter as to ask him to pay very
sgainst Hindenburg's "thin, tion the plans of the German the way of a plot about the play, nearly as much as be fined & A Dangerous Weapon. woman rcoently for hecking &
When the passengers off the been obliged to reaal General Sist for 1918 entirely the attractiveness of which lies in little girl with a knife. Of cores 8.8. Tai Lee were being searched divisions from Serbia, leaving has changed all this. The Turks rides between the severe social depended: The fall of Erserum the sharp conflict which it pro- most of the trouble may be traced | Festerday, a man was found to the care of the Near East have been obliged to recall theirƑdreed of the idle rich ́and the to the fact that Earopaans are so have concealed in his cock a small to the Bulgariane. Cadoras
The object of this paper is to publish correct information, serde to the truth and print the news without fear or favour.
Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong,
Telephone: No. 1 A.B.C., 5th edition.
Western Union Office address: 11, Ice House St.
BIRTH.
DEATH.
The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1916.
FIGHTING GERMAN PROPAGANDA.
defence of a city has lain in-their The members of the Royal band, and it has been theire to Naval Dockyard Police Meas are give instructions to tried soldiers.holding a "moking concert at 8 30 This is to make a laughing-stock of p.m. on Monday, October 2, China, and to breed extra distrust cf ber fxstitations in the minds cf foreignere. Of course Mr. Chan may be possesis of autical knowledge which bitherto be has hidden under a bushel; but that does not alter the fact that new China bas certainly been inclined to overstep the mark in the case of certain appointmente.
The Houseboy Case.
Hongkong Theatre. To-night the Hongkong Theatre will screen the 12th and 13th episodes of "The Neal of The Navy and co Saturday the 30th, the Isst epito les.
Deferred Telegrams.
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slow (perhaps they have had spor, like's safety razor blade, is regaining the ground lost on armies from Gallipoli and Threos atter unconventionality of a fall too little magisterial en- which is known to be used for the Trentino, while the French and to send them to the Armenian happy-go-locky, impulsive girl
couragement) to bring dishonest cutting peckels open. He was are slowly nibbling back the frontier. All the nicely balanced who has been allowed to run wild - We are more than pleased to see that the Imperial Government of insolent servants before the chrged before Mr J. R. Wood, blood-stained heights round Ver. Plans of the Germans bave been from her early days ap: The
courts, For one case wherein a at the Magistracy today, with dun. Above all, the seas are open
The Near East is no situations created certainly pro- apæet. bae at length come to realise the value of British propagende among man may be justified in taking possessing a dangerous weapon to ca, and from every quarter of longer their strongest point; it wide plenty of opportunities for peoples who have, ever since the war broke out, been liberally fed the law into his own hands there and was sent to prison for 14 the globe a steady stream of in their most vulnerable. Hard wholesome mirth, and there were with German lies. We read that there have been produced, for the are a hundred where this is days:
supplies, munitions and ammoni-pressed on all their frontiers, not a exploited to the fall by the mem first time under the auspices of the British Government, illustrated positively the last thing that he
European Boy Injured. tion is pouring into our trenches, German or Austrian Division can bore of the Company last night, papers with a purely Oriental text. One of these is a Moslem his dignity. But, until we have ahould do if he wishes to maintain
A nasty accident has occurred whilst not s crust or s cartridge Macedonis sad Serbis are being its sucesss on the proper inter- be spared to assist the Balgarians. Naturally, the play depende for to a five-year-old boy named in reaching the Central Powers. propagandist periodical, and the other is the Cheng Pao, a similar a proper system of registration of Jack Lyone, living with his The real and the final siege of the held by the Bulgarian army pretation of the name part, which publication in Chinese. The latter of these is being circulated zot servante bere, we hardly eee bow parents at 13, Government Quar. Huns has at last begun,
alone, assisted by the few remain- I was in the harde of Miss only in Chine, but also among the Chinese in Hongkong, the Datch the position is likely to improve, ere, as a result of which he has I have at own briefly the ever be spared from Armenia. This altogether brilliant success, and ing Tarkish divisions which can | Doris Phillips. She scored an East Indies, Siem, the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay Up to the present the Government been admitted to the Government accumulating balance on
Civil Hospital. He was in Des credit side. Can we, then, expect resist our offensive from Salonics, the creator of the part, Miss Lau has shown bat little desire to Vaaz Road West yesterday when decisive victory and speedy end of States. It is also being sent to Chinese Turkestan, Tibel and Mo¤~ |bɛck up ile employer of Chinese he was knocked down by tramear the war? The answer is diffionit but it is not nearly strong enough | reite" Taylor, playing it at Home. force may be strong enough to we say that after having senty golia. One other feature of this new campaign is the issuing of a labour. Chinese poster which is intended for distribution among the Chinese Somewhat incongruous.
No. 18, and sustained ather Modern weapone, modern field-to withstand a joint sitsok from She was ideal as the boisteroas, Mussalmens (of whom there are said to be twelve millions in Chíns}}
More than ordinary interest hae and foot.
severe injuries to bis right leg works, and, above all, the deadly the north and from the south. It mischievous tom-boy, while in the
maoline-gun, and which deals with the proclamation against Islam iwned by the centred in the trial at the Criminal
i Rumania who holds all the more delicate touches she showed Germans in East Africa, which was discovered by General Smuts & constable on a charge of accepting thought he would have an even- bility. Directly an army assumes as she struck in 1913, it is all up/successful as the domineering.
Sessions of a Police Reserve
speedy consommations on the eye to Constantinople at this herself an actress of much pro- Moshi when that town was captured by the British forces.
A Chinese, who apparently battlefeld almost an imposei. critical hour. If Eumenie strikes, mise, Miss Lillian Stanbridge was bribes in order to secure the ing out with his friends for noth. the offensive on the vast scale we with the Bulgarians. They must soul-less society matron, while The development is an intensely valuable one, and those who release of a prisoner who was sent ing, went to the Tik Sik Hotel at are now undertaking, it automs-ome to terms or face abeoluts the part of the cold-natured, have pleaded for action on the part of our Government to combat gol in connection with the Yaumati last night with a party tically, to to speak, multiplies the ruin. Then we are left to finish self-centred daughter was most the Germans' campaign of lying and anti-British intrigue, io Obins smuggling of opium: On the of friends and ordered food and numbers of ite enemy many times our account with the Tarke in particular, will learn of it with the utmost satisfaction. In thie merits of the case we have nothing drink to the value of about $35. over, because he is enabled to
effectively reflected by Miss Isobel matter we have been far too content to let our side of the war to say these have been fally in- When the bill was presented to defend his positions with
Their numberzare not en ficient Fladgate. Mr. Wheeler. Dryden take ita chance of being given a hearing, and the result has been vestigated by judge and jury and him, he had no money to pay, minimum number of men and side of the lines of Cataldis, nidety. All the other characters to offer any real resistance this bit the lazy young aristocrat off to that the iluns, by their wilful distortion of facts, have been able the accused has been unanimously and, in consequenos, he was maximam employment of ma-which are only twenty miles from were also well taken, especially 10 persuade very many of the Chinese that the Allies are being beaten. found not guilty of the charge laid handed over to the Police for chine guns. They have descended to the very lowest depths to discredit the Allies against him. One interesting obtaining credit with false pre-
Constantinople. When they retire that of the hero, by Mr. Charles in general, and Great Britain in particular, in the eyes of the Chinese, point, however, arises from the tences. When charged before Mr. a decisive frotor, morale will play ray isolated in Gallipoli holding ing naturalason all through. It is likely to be found that, se on Ostaldia they must leave an Howits, who acted with convinc- and our Government has allowed their campaign to go on fact that, whereas the prosecution F. A. Hazeland, at the Police a more important role in the the lines of Balair, just as they The whole performance waS-B without in the least degree taking any steps to counteract its evil was against a member of one of Court this morning, he was sen-closing stages of the war than were obliged to do against the credit to the Company. effects. In the early part of the war, the Telegraph was able to the Colony's auxiliary forces and tenced to four months' hard labour the actual taking of military could such an army with all its comedy" sinney's." This de- print, as an example of the enemy's propagande, some of the fantaz being conducted by the and four hours' stocks, the stocks positions.
Bulgarians in 1913. How long! Tc-night's attraction is another tio lice which the Germans were causing to be circulated in South Crown, the prisoner wee being to be placed outside the hotel. Ohias. With stories such a these spread broadcast, and a policy of the force to which he belonged; defended by the superintendent
It would seem to be sound communiostions eat by land, and lightfal pisos has had a great run of utter inaction followed by ourselves, is it any wonder that masy Thus we had the somewhat in the death, which took pleas at has the chance, rather than to
wtrategy for the enemy to retire our submarines dominating the at the Haymarket Theatre, and in of the Chinese, who are otherwise unenlightened on the war, should
We regret to bave to chronicle to a shorter line while he still Sea of Marmora, hold out ? Not it Mr. Howitt will be seen in the be prepared to swallow the highly-coloured tales as gospel truth? congruous position of the Crown the Viatoria Hoepits! last night, risk disaator by holding on to
long.
part of Joseph Quinney, the an- If Rumanía joins the liberatique dealer, while Mise Gertrude In regard to the truth of the war, not only can the Chinese be crown taking the other. Mr. lady, who had resided in the General Staff fear, to retire bThen the men who fought so Quinney), in which abà presents taking one side of the case and of Mrs. McNeill, wife of Mr. D. euch a huge and comparatively tors of Europe, we shall be in Godart will make her appearance a voluntary servant of the McNeill, of Taikoo. The deceased thinly-held perimeter. Bat the Constantinople before Christmas, in the part of Bosan (Mro. kept informed by letter-press and illustrations as to what is really Jonkin was not, of course, ap- Colony for some 22 years, was cause of the ill-effsots rach a move) gallantly and who scored sa clever obarsoter study, k happening, but the cinematograph can, se the French have been quick to realise, be made to serve the same purpose. For the Fast Fearing in Court in his official well-known and greatly liked by might have on the morale of the mach eighteen months or more the French Government have been circulatpacity as D.8.P. of the Police a large circle of friends, who will whole army. A retrograde more Mesopotamia will not have died in Gallipoli and io ing in all parts of the globe official pictures of the war, wheress Resolve, and he was no doubt be pained to hear of her death, ment on a grand scale would s whatever flms have been secured by the British Government have convinced of the innocence of the and the greatest sympathy will the eyes of the men to the isot that
in vain.
To Consiguses. nos at say rate yet resched Hongkong, If these pictures are of man be was defending. All the be felt for the bereaved husband the game was up, and they would and hideous edifice of Prussian Glauons are reminded that goods Slowly and surely the buge and Consignees of cargo by the`s.s. value at Home, how much more valuable would they be in parts of me, he was placed in a rather and children on and two very likely refuse is fight or to militariem is being undermined. remaining undelivered after to the Empire where the native inhabitants may have some doubt as delicate position, and one which daughters. Mrs. MoNeill had been rally on this side of the Rhine. to how the war is really going on?. More far-nosing than we are, the Mr. Jenkin proscentes in cases returned from Japan on August yard we take in Picardy may/and ité : föundations lie too deep; Entries closs on Saturday," the
it were better had never arisen. If indisposed for some time, and only
The downfall is certain to come; morrow will be subject to rent, French Government has been sending its officisi pictures so far
Remember always that every but it is too Armly constructed, and Aquatic Sports sfield us Indo-China and Dahomey, where the indigenons populsought by members of the Be 30 fast. She was admitted to mean a mile's progress to the in the social life of the German 30th inst. for the aquatic sports to might, if left to the tender mercies of pro-Germans, be led astray as he dose-is it right and hospital on Wednesday sad mc- Russians. One demooray is not people, to collapse saally as she be held at the Victoris Ropes to the progress of the struggle. This task of enlightening subject fiting that, when a Police Recumbed at 9.15 last night. The dying in vain. To my mind, the last mound of the trumpets of our Club on October 14 races is in feality's patronaty which the British Government has servist is on trial, be should, in funeral takes place this evening, historian too long neglected to discharge. We can only hope that the his private capacity, appear to passing the Monument at Stu
decide krahas 1994 new nemini) – When the fall does ansploss of th
Kw comow it will be the greatest the Ambulanos- Brigade. Ora zsky world has ever noende
(Hongkong and
- beginning now made will be developed to the fullest extent,
defend?
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Obituary.
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