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WOLFERS. On July 2 at Peitsib (North China), to Mr. and PETT-On July 24, at the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. Montague Pett, a daughter. (Stillborn).
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THE HONGKONG-TEE-
German Complicity.
“MONDAY, JULY
30, 1817.
DAY BY DAY.
LAWN TENNIS.
Dampite the efforts of the enemy to conceal awkward fasts concerne i
TAKE YOUR TROUBLES TO A ing the origin of the war, little) PHILOSOPHICAL FRIEND WHO IS items of pat happeninga now and BIG ENOUGH TO POINT OUT THE again look out which reveal FACT THAT YOU YOURSELF ARE TO BLAME FOR HAVING TROUBLES. Germany's direct culpability in bringing upon Earope and the world an orgy of destruction and bloodshed unprecedented in his tory. The latest of these in to be to be found in the meaning of the referenos by a Socialist member
The Dollar,
A Dock Theft.
Fast-Footing doing out
Fashiors.
Sir William Robertson's speech
The following story from a cor-
soon put the player in question TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY. into the class of mediocrity, In so many words the California Metsor prophesied that the day of speed manis and worship on the American courts was nearing to the azdem at Woolwich, cons its end. It had served its purpose cluding "By truthful and just, for the popularity and in revolu- and let it be known on occasion
To-morrow's. Anniversary,
Any discussion as to the merits tionising the tactice of the game, that all you do is based on strong To-morrow in the second anni-(of speedy sotion on the lawn
The case of McLoughlin was religious convictions, roall versary of the Russian evacuation tennis courts, especially as it may cited as the inevitable result to be table tribute to him in Sir of Lublin.
be chi fly applied and confined to expected by the player whom George Younghusband's Remini- "Never in the wildest feetness of foot on the part of the entire game is dependent chiefly sce competitor, is bound to bring into upon its swiftness of attack imagining of anyone did we see of the R-icbetsg to a meet- The opening rate of the dollar the argument the names and per-Given a powerfaly body capable before as the great brain that was ing at Potsdam which
on demand to day was formances of several of the greatest of great enduraner, euch as Mo-going direct Enropean warn WBA hald 80 fir back 61 Jaly 5, 1914. This seembly, will be found on Page 1.
28.7.5/16d. The closing rate of the players who have appeared Loughlin had in his youthful days, writes Sir George, concerning Sir in recent years from the Pacifio when he first appeared on Ewer William Robertson in the afte we now glean, was a regular
Casst, says the New York Even courts, in 1909, the element of of the Intelligence Branch at gathering of Teutonic military
Opium Dress.
on in the mess, I picked up sa official magustes, and not only did it A Chinese seaman was charged ing Post. The panther-like glide speed could be made wonderfully Simla, Then he adde: "One day,
of Maurice E. McLoughlin, the effective against the decide the points of the Austrian before Mr. J. E. Wood, at the
of the magazine, and therein read his eu-like agility of William M. the opposite side altimstam to Serbis, hat, what is Polios Court this morning with
S long *S that opening, or closing, address to the far more important; it agreed to possessing six taels of opium Johnston, and the sprinting net accept the consequences of war dross. Defendant stated that it velocity of R. Lindley Murray defivat pace could be maintained students at the Staff College. It between Austria and Russis. At was a very inferior sort of dross bars each in its way contributed the fast player was dangerous. was one of the finest pieces of that time it was fondly believed A fine of $30, or ons month's to the delight of thousands of the The instant there was a wavering, instructional oratory that had over
followers and lovers. of the game on attempt to only depend upon been delivered." that Britain would stand hard labour, was imrowd,
of the courts. Likewise, it has swiftness of #salt on occwions, alosf, but when it bec me
Roofing Falls In. known that we were determined It has been reported to the compelled the adoption of tactical and the movements made frac to carry out our obligatione, cost Police that owing to the very strategy to meet the various tions of a stond slower than of what it might, Germsey displayed heavy rains of the peat week, methods of the spirited sessult. old, then the greatness of the respondant of the Daily Chronicle an susiety to back out of the about Sfteen square feet of roof. Still, with all of its wonderful so player suffered sadder eclipse, is commended to those people who whole business, and would haveling at 31, Queen Road, Central, ivity, ite sparkling changes con. The passing of McLoughlin was wonder how some men get de- done so had it not been too late. collapsed on Sunday. The pre- and barata of great brilliancy in year ago and bis overthrow by nothing of st. ijsbe. A certain tributing ever-changing positions foreshadowed in the doables a corations and honcurs, to say Thess happeniaze are not denied mises are occupied by Ah Fook by responsible leaders in Ger- photographer. There were no the way of epectacular shots from Church at 5-7, 6-1, 6-2, irascible General seats request mauy, for the very simple reason casualties, and the damage is only the racquet, there is a well-defined 6-3, in the fourth round of the to the colonel of a regiment that
would eend him opinion
Do surprise he gaining prevalence singles, crested that they cannot be. The revela alight. tions are important in the ssuse: _Alice Memorial Hospital,
among lawn tennis players that among those who had watobed officer to be trained for Staff that they totally discredit Ger The Hon. Tressarer of the speed in itself is not such a the warning of the California work. The colonel, being
conscientions man, picked out the many's favourite attitude of Alice Memorial and Affiliated desirable thing as it was once re- Comet,
Karl Behr was declared to be cleverest of his subalterns and having been forced into the Hospitala begs to acknowledge garded.
The spiesrance of B. Lindley the player who had set the fashion sent him to headquarters. Three war against her will in con- with thanke the following dona sequence of the Raseisu mobilies.tions to the Funds of the Ho Marray, whose florid style of of covering court at a sprinting days afterwards he came back. Compradores Guild playing on his first appearance in pace. His spectacular style in The General mid he might be tion. They clearly confirm pitala:➡ the Allies viewpoint that from (1916), $400; A Chak Men, Esstern tournaments in 1914 the respect had srossed the very clever, and all that, but be the first Germany planned $100; Cheung Sam Woo, 100, caused him to be spoken of sathusiasm of the Britons in 1907, could not stand his "Cockney the war and was all the while at Chan Kis Stan, 100 Chas the California Meteor, caused the when he played on the Davis cap accent. (We may say the General the back of Austria, of whom she Pa Sien, $100; Lo Shiu Boi, abject of fast fooling to be team at Wimbledon against was a "dug-out.") The colonel, discussed at the Field Cab of Norman E Brooke and the late very disgusted, said to the made a most convenient tool. We $50; The Sun Co. Ltd., $25.
Greenwich, at Greenwich, Conn., Anthony F. Wilding. It was that adjutant, "Send along the biggest are told that after the Potsdam
As he was coming out of the recently. The two important year he was rated No, 3 to the 188 we have." meeting, the Kaiser went on a trip to Norway in order to throw east gate et Taikoo Dock on Satur- questions as propounded were: No. 1 of William A. Lerned and
So the adjatant selected a dust in the eyes of the French day, an employee was found to Who is the fastest player at court the No. 2 of Beals C. Wright,
have a quantity of copper avering in the American game The splendid centrecourt dash of charming young man who had Insid Rassian Government,
appeared exactly two been one of the leading jeunes evidently trying to create the piping hed round his lege. He at the present time? Is swiftness Behr impression that he had no know. was charged before Mr. J. E. of foot se great an asset sa essons before the Gary streak premiers on the stage before the tennis of McLoughlir, the California war. Every day they expected ledge of what was oocurring Wood this morning with larceny, many of the lawn
campaigners be Comat, who is usually credited him to be sent back to the basta- beneath the surface. Bat his and it was then proved that be tournament
it to be? The fact with having pat velo-lion, but instead, in a week's time had been previously convicted. lieve complicity is
now irrefutably Sentence of six weeks hard that Karl H. Behr, a veteran of city and the puoob into the cames meseage from the Geners! established, and probably to day labour and four hours' stocks Davis cup matches, and a player American game. The similarity to any he was delighted with the who has held the highest honours in the style of Behr and young man, and thanked the was passedge
An Uneaual Excuse. on the American coarte, parti McLoughlin in the heyday of colonel for sending bim. He said For possessing 12 taele of cipated in the competitions along their glory was pointed out, and he had such a beautiful voice that prepared opiam, other than Gov. with Murray, added interest in the while it has had many devotees he sang to him every night after ernment opiam, Chinese ses diecassion, sa Behr has always the powerful physical stamina dinner. Now that young selor man was fined by Mr. J. R. Wood, been one of the most rapid men necessary to sustain such a game fisante red tabs all over him and Anything which will tend to alleviate the sofferings and hard. |
at the magistracy to-day, $1,000, among the Essterners footing has resulted in few being so has the ribben of the Military | successful at it as ite originstore. Cross decorating his manly cheat. ships which prisoners of war are undergoing is to be most beartily It seeme to be a fact that there or air months hard labour. The over the court.
It was the chain lightning And, as one of those in the welcomed, and for that reason we are gratified to read that Britain are cranks in all communities. drag was concealed around the
Two little stories which throw and Germany bave been able to come to an agreement which should Otherwise how can we explain man's waist. Defendant made & movements of Xprray that started argument stated, Hebr ie now Possaused of rated in the second clam und
s light on the charseter of the help materially in this direction. From a telegram which we the presence in England of certain rather unusual excuse, He said the controversy.
Kaiser were told when the published on Saturday, the details of the War Prisoners scheme of individuals who have been hold he was at present employed on amazing dynamic force the former McLoughlin not at all.
Those who favoured the side Municipal Council of Rome was. repatriation and internment will have been noted, and it will being meetings for the purpose of the s.8. Hanoi, but had previously Californisa fairly bozzed around generally admitted that much has been gained as a result of the inaugurating the so-called been employed on a Datch bost, the court. It was admitted that that tactics and the ability to play discussing the demolition of the recent Angle German conference on the subject which was held at Councils of Workmen's and He was then paid in Chinese 10: he surely represented one of the the strokes are the most depend German Embaser on the Capito The Hague. The worst cases in Switzerland are to be dealt with Soldiers' Delegates established cent pieces and as he knew they fastest men on the courte at this able weapons for the play era who line Eill. One member, a well- time. That, with George Mwish to gain the laurels and hold known aretologist, said that the by repairiation, while numbers of other prisoners are to be interned, some little time agn by the Pacifist would be no good in Hongkong. Charch, the former Princeton their places among the top ten as Kaiser made the minutest in- not on enemy soil, but in Holland, whose services in this connection Leeda Conference? According he bought the opium at Haiphong cannot be too highly praised. Apart from the military prisoners, to Reuter's Agency, these in with his wages that be could exptain, the Californias holds the the years roll on pinted their quiries as to the exact spot on distinction me being rated arguments to William A. Lara- which the throne of Jove stood in the Daich are anxious also to take charge of some two thousand augurations took place st var roll it hers sad lose no money. more rapid of foot than any other ed, and as a modern instance to the Temple, on the site of which civilians, preferably invalids, and here also their humanitarian con- iaus centres-London, Leicester, The opium was ordered to be American approaching the top, B. Norris Williams, 2d. Neither the Embassy stands. When he duct is much to be commended.
Norwich and Newcastle, among confiscated.
class. George Peabody Gardner, of these men could make any had secured the best obtainable Not the least interesting and suggestive sapect of the other places-with the object no
to fast footwork-opinions on the point, he insisted decisions of the Conferenos are those which deal with the question doubt of obtaining for this pre- On Saturday, a Chinese coolie'ir, of Boston, and famous as a valid claim
seen to be leaving Holt's Harvard athlete, is considered as Es entially a player of strokee that the Embassy should be so of reprisala on individuals. We do not know to what extent this gious movement something of a way method of bitting back" has been followed, bat to Britishere is a national aspect. The whole affair, godowns at Kowloon with several almuet the qual of either Murray and a master of court tactics. by designed that a shrose for himself. good to read that all such punishments at present being inflicted however, is a transparent farce hare of soap stuffed in his girdle, or Church in the matter of cover which he played for the opening could be placed exactly on that are to cence immediately and that future reprisals are to be the outcome of frothy spourings When the watchman went to ing a court after the fashion of and then shot the ball through for he point, Larned, was cited as s anbject to one month's notice. Both to this matter and in on the part of the peace-at-any-catch him, be ran away and tornado on a spree.
Speaking for himself, Marray shining exampla.
: The second story is to the effect the question of the treatment of prisoners of war, the price cranks, and should not be jumped off the wharf into the sea,
Larned's record etsade without that when be visited the new changes now to be effected are likely to work much more to the taken seriously in any way. Here he was seen to be palling the said that in his estimation depend- advantage of the British then the Germans, for it is a notorious fact That each meetings will not soap out, and, after the man hadence upon speedy court ocvering a parallel in all the world of lawn Embassy Prince Boelow, then that while we have been almost pampering the enemy within oar be tolerated was demonstrated been hauled out, several pieces of w88 a mistake. Following the tennis. For a period of nineteen Ambassador, told him that many gates, our prisoners in Germany bere been in many instances almost very effectively on Saturday, soap were recovered from the match in the national champion years, and for that matter from Romans resented the presence of starved to death, to say nothing of the deplorable minner in which when at most of the gatheringe shallow water near the Prays ship tournament at Forest Hille, 1892 to 1911 with the single lapee the Embassy at that spot, and of callest season, in which I defeated of 1898, when he was been hoped the site would soon be soldiers and civilians took Wall. Mr. Allwood, they have been treated in other directions. They will certainly the law into their own hands and godowne, discovered that a box of Church at 6-4, 6-3; 3-6,9-7, serving in the Spanish-American restored to Rome. "I sball restore- welcome the change of residence, whether the Germans do or not. But there are larger considerations which aries out of the de soon made short work of the soap had been broken open and, George and I had a talk about War, Larned held a place among the Kaiser answered," on the cisione reached in the new Agreement, particularly when we come peace faunties, England is as six bare extracted. The above the value of the sprint for the net, the American lean-tennis im- day when I to look at the matter of the general conduct of the war, It is acme anxious as any country for peace, story was told to Mr. J. R. Wood, the leaps and planges for side-mortals as one of the ranking ten. Loraine". The Roman Councillors There who with Murray decri- cheered the narrator, thinking for a seaation of the atrocious at the Magistracy this morning, lina.covering, and all that sort of belligerents have been able to come to agreement concerning the treatment of their respective troops who are in captivity. But how an end to be made of the appall with larceny, was sentenced to It was sure to wreck a player nothing in it," were of the opin-
Town Shanghai, Elise McKinley, aged 51 years.
SEREBRENIK. At the General Hospital, Shanghai. on July
24, in her 38th year, Mrs. S. Serebrenik.
The Hongkong Telegraph.
ever,
HONGKONG, MONDAY, JULY 30, 1917.
AN ANGLO-GERMAN AGREEMENT.
be in the sorriest man in Europe, deeply regretting that he ever became mixed up in the awful business,
England's Pacifists.
Larceny of Soap.
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thing gained that, in the midst of this terrible war, the two principal and devastating hostilities, and for and the coalie, who was charged thing. We were of ons opinion.ed speed with the words, “There's the word" of good omrn.
the end, for ion that reason was asserting it Here is a remarkable atory. much more would be attained if it were but possible to discuss and ing carnage and waste of the six weeks herd labour and four physically in
the moment his speed abated there self in the game after it had had sent to the Daily News by a cor. was little left of his game on its fill of Calfornis revelry.
respondent. The owners of a Thoughtful students of the line fleet of fishing vessels offer A Chinees silor on Dutch which te could depend to sustain boat, which has recently arrived whatever reputation he had pre-same accorded all praise to the a prize of 8300 each year to the from America, was charged beviously made. Oh, yes, I know is players from the Pacific Coast for skipper with the beat haul of fish: fare Mr. Dyer Bill, at the Folies is highly interesting, thrilling, the newer possibilities they had It is almost invariably, won by Court this morning, with poresso ting, and showy for the shown to the game of the court the same mas, whose aptitude for ing a revolver. The weapon was gallery, but that sort of con- It was agreed that McLoughlin, his calling is such that time and found tied round bis waist and tinuous speed leads surely to lawa Bandy, Johnston, and the others again, when his comredee, the was in a new case. He was seked tennis bankrupter, nevertheless." had enriched its strategy of stroke skippers of the little feet are Furthermore, pray remarked sad position. In speed, however, minded to cat pat back, certain
adjust the question of the actual methods of warfare? That, hower, but she is determined that is far too much to expect, sinos all the concessions would have the oljete for which she and her so be made by our enemies. All through the war, the British have Allies have been waging war musi fought honourably, with clean handa; the Germans have had - a first be achieved. monopoly of crime and barbarity. They it is who have sent thousande, of innocent women and children to a watery grave by submarinism and to death by she dropping of bombe from the skies, and they it is who have been guilty of atrocities which even savage races would shrink from committing, and which have won for the Hunn world- wide approblem and sternal degradation.
Benefit of the Doubt.
Port of London Rats.
I know we'll get sommet.” “He can smell it, they say, laughing. From sy distance of 120 miles he hen béén koown to make for the
If we had been fighting an honourable enemy, the war would have
by his Worship why he carried Mr. B. C. Faithful appeared to such a murderous wo pa in such that after that eventful match of they had not left something that that there is no fish to reward ended long ago. The responsibility of protracting it lies with the defend an employes of the Hangs bandsome case, and the man re-a year ago Church and he would permanently remain, and them, he will push on, saying, Germans for continuing to perpetuste barbaritice and breaches of hom Dock, who was charged beplied that he had brought it had entered into a eolemn which would be cherished as ideal "I don't know bow I know it, but international law and usage never before known in warfare. A na-fore Mr. J. R.. Wood, at the Police ashore from the ship to give it to agreement to so reconstruct their] by futura föllowera. tion whose naval men can refuse sesistance to poor helpleee victims Contt this morning, with stealing claneman. He had never been playing as to depend more upon stroggling in the sea and who can calmly look on while there a revolution indicator. The iad to Hongkong before and did not the artillery of their strokes iban devour the poor creatures, mast indeed have sunk to the lowest cator was found on the man as know the law. Both the Captain the hurricane galloping about the depthe possible. It is hopeless, therefore, to expect that we can ever was leaving the dock, but he and the First Mate knew that be court. Marray pointed out that, The eanitary cfficials of the cost of Ecotland without any come to an arrangement whereby the issue of the war may stated that he had had it for four bid the revolver and did not tell while phenomenal activity on the Corporation have caught and obvious reaam, and and there be decided in a straight, open combat, such as that for which our or five years, and had takes it him that it was wrong. His the court might materially assist destroyed 943,927 rate in ships, again and again a great haul of longed. We still have to fight an unscrupulous foe, bat though he was. As the dock people could or une month'e "imprigɔnment, for, a season or two, khat strain of Loudon since they systematiz. something to do with this remark nayal and military leaders and men have for close on three years into the deck to be told what it Worship imposed a fine of $25, in lifting a player to a high place wharves, and docks in the Port fish. Perhaps heredity may have zay, by his dirty practices, prolong the conflict, he cannot avoid not positively identify the indios and ordered she weapon to be was so great as to inevitably ed the process of extremination able gift. One would like to know ultimate defeat. We shall continue the war until the enemy and all for the man was discharged. that he stands for is beaten to the ground.
bring about a remation likely to in 1901.
confrosted.
the men's histor