THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1917.
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THE STOCKHOLM.CONFERENCE.
London, Aug. 16.
In the House of Commons, Mr. Bamsey Macdonald juressed the Government to reconsider ita attitude towards the Stockholm Conference. He argued that M. Kerensky Invoured it.
Mr. Bonar Law, replying, denied the truth of the insinua- tionsthatsApKerensky's telegram stating the Provisional Governmentatitúdo anent Stockholm was the result, of a fishing theage sent by the British.. M. Kerezsky's wire was cautely spontaneous. Its real importance was that Britain ad believed the Russian Government itself was initaung the Stockholm Conference. He believed that was true until the time of the change of Government, but the present Government expressly dissociated itself from direct rea- ponsibility. M. Kerensky pointed out that the Coalition Government could not be bound by the decisions of a Con- ference in which but one party was represented
THE RUSSIAN FRONT.
London, Aug. 16. A wireless Russian official message states: The Human- iana for strategical reasons withdrew to Soveja taking up a new line. They repulsed attacks in the Suchitza Valley. The Germans renewed the offensive in the direction of Focsani and the Russians and Rumaniasis retired to the north-east. The Turks together with several thousand Karda-took the offensive on Tuesday in the direction of Kharput but were`repulsed everywhere. with this exception of in the region of Mount Salbusdag.
RUSSIAN TORPEDO BOAT SUNK.
Petrograd Aug. 16
An my mine has destroyed a torpedo boat, in the Aland Archipelago."
GOLF.
American Comment on the Gume in the Tropics..
for example, the moist steamy, {hast, which" prevails for the
greater part of the twelve months Mr. speedily wilta the most energetic] {golfer to a ́limp rag, 'while the mugginess of Singapore, in the tro-
it for a few hours.
..
THE KRONSTADT REPUBLIC.
British Officer's Russian Speech.
DR. MORRISON'S LIBRARY HONGKONG FINANCES.
Sold to a Japanese Baron,
41
Treasury Statement-for May,
and Liabilities on
3,325,864.87
30th April, 1917.$2,173,243.85 Revenue from 1st to
31st May, 1917... 1,152,621.02
Expenditure from"
May, 1917,
Balanes.
Ist
to 3 Lat
归罪
897,411.25
$2,428,453.62
LIABILITIES.
Balanos,
Total,
$ 888,633.18
121,738.24 19,371.30
1,820,740,72 ... 2,428,453.6z
ASSETS.
M
$3,758,194.34
Advances, .. Subsidiary Coins, $1,178,011.17
House Sarrion A Imprest
count, ***
Grown Agente'
289,646,40
35,998.85*/
The
It
Unallocated Stores,
Deposit Account,
Unallocated Stores,
(P.W.D.)
(Bailway), faveatment Account, Cual Acconat, Balanco, Bank, Orowa Agente" Current Account, Exchange;
2,044.54
782,093.24
269,265.79
113,051.31
87,240.47
199,016.96 795,719,69
Total,
14,137.33 10,578.73
$3,768,194.34
**THE COURT CARDS."
Warwick's Party to Visit
# Hongkong.
Yet another theatrical stirsóï- pical Malay States, is even worse. ion is promised Hongkong in the At Sourabaya, in Javs, where the near future, for advices ressived
Dr. G. E. Morrison, Political | ⠀⠀ enthusiasts play on a discarded by Mesars. Moutris and Company
Adviser to the Chinese Govern- The Treasury issues the follow- oil-field, the saltriness is truly indicate that Mr. Edgar Warwick,
ment, has sold his Asiatio library ug financial statement for the sppalling, while at Barswak, Bor-the Joker" of the "Court There is no poking fun at the to Baron Iwasaki, a Japaness month of May, 1917:—
co, the awful mugginess, coupled Carda," in bringing a company attainmente of Britieb
millionaire, for $35,000. The officere with the extreme roughness of the of talented entertainers to the nowadays.
contract was signed on Wednes Revenue and Expenditure. ground, positively makes a tramp Colony from Australis quite early
At a meeting of day after a lengthy negotiation, Balance of Assets around the course penscoe.in
soldiers November.
conaeated with The theatre-
the anys the Peking Daily News of Nor is it possible to accesfully going public will recall that the Kronstad Republic, a new note August 10. The famous collect ight the heat even if one's gar Court Cards" made a tremend was struck by Major Thornhill, ion of booke, dealing with Chins mente are restricted to the throne hit here some couple of who, seeing the audience con or dead, in the world, will be in almost every language, living neet possible, the atmosphere years ago, and no doubt the party cisted mostly of soldiers, talked transferred from Peking to Tokyo weights the player, finally re-hich Mr. Warwick is now head to them precisely as he doubtless within six weeks. |dacing him to a wreck.
ing will prove an equally great learned, when a subaltern, to Golf is played under mach the attraction. At the moment we address raw reornite, into whose bear the name of Dr. Morrison. I The library will continue to same atmospheric conditions in have not the fall details of the heads" something had to be got. will remain intsot, and, as in the Barma, half the golfer's time composition of the party, but we In correct Bassian, but with a being taken up in wiping the know that it includes Mr. Barmao, strong British socent, which students in Japan. These are past, will be open to serioas streams of perspiration from his very fine baritone who has sung inspired the perfect confidence of some of the provisions in the face and neck. The Sierra Leone before H. M the King and who is his audience, Major Thorabill contrees sigued by Dr. Morrison Deposite not Avail- chaate is equally unpleasant, one of the most artistic singers told in simple, short sentences and Baron Iwasaki.
bile the course, which during who has ever dome East.
able, his experiences in speaking in she eammer rsins becomes a huge Mr. Warwick writes from Au- turn to all the regiments of the on Chias is now lost to this-Drafts, ...
A marvellous collection of books Crown 'Agonis'. swamp, is by no means agreeable{stralia, and alates that he has been | Petrograd garrison since so play on. Fortunately it drice in military camp for three months revolation and to indumerable dollars for squeeze, and not a cent
the country, which has millions of Postal Agencies). quickly, the water disappearing in New Zaland, having been regimente over practically the for foreign books. Dr. Morrison's Total Liabilities, after the fierce ean has shone or passed out just within a few days whole Bamian front. A marmar library contains wonderful records
of getting his commission. He of approving comment followed of The game fcurishes in Africa, 838" My rotten old "lak among the listening Boldiery nowhere else can be found, and Obiness history such as from the shoras of the sparkling arm broke down ander the work. throughout the speech, and every which ought to be in the Govern- Mediterranean to Capetown, and It has been keeping me out all the point went home, often in ways ment Library but they are not, from the Atlantic to the Indian ime, but I got through on a probably quite unenspected by
It is worse than useless to cry Ocean. Bat. not without diffioul fake. I can see now that the the spesker. Here are examples: over spilt milk, but before the ties, for in the north the Nile, over-doctors were right all along
I was told many times that removal of the famous collection flowing its banks, places several and that I was foolish to per- England began this war. Calcutta link up the pride of courses under water during the rare.
I of books from our midet, let us! Anyway, I am glad that replied, "Whoever says that lies," take a fusi glance at it. Bengal. Indeed, the Galattammer months, play being im I have had the experience. It (Barrah! Bravo!) I was asked Golf Club, with its model greens, possible until the destructive river Dasn't done me sny harm, and
The fact that the purchase what about the Boers? I replied, price was £35,000 for the library admirably kept fairway, not too much rough, and wall appoint.aumes its normal dimensions, feel that I have done my best. Today the Boera are fighting attests its great valGO.
|In other places the strong grass can't do more." ed olubhouse, isa most prosperous intereferes with good lies, and as
Faller detaile of the visit to about the Colonica?
alongside us." I was saked what collection has been housed in a institution. But if Osloatts holds
Wall special fire-proof building. are of Hongkong will be announced African troops and the Beraambers 20,000 volume. Some tees and greens the premier position, a number of and, there is a chance of the
later.
We are
sure that Mr. ander our flag have occupied of the works, extend to a large When golfing enthusiast Op country" clubs run it close. ball bounding for when it Warwick will receive a bestis same; Irishmen have taken others. samber journeys to a perfectly sppointed At Puunab, for instance, a rocky pitches. The Egyptian courses are, welcome on his return to the The population in these Germaso onlarly in the case of valuable of valamies, parti d ́ubhouse, annexes a stained pades, was turned into however, sallalansory, and in the Colony. maddie, and makes a round over Icellent course by dynamiting winter months it is possible to
Colonies are natives, sad when transactions, reports, reviews and the war is over we will ask them periodicals. Then there is so links that are "tried and fine," the rocks into smithereens play on them without experienc
A Cambling Raid. if they want to go back to Gar-extensive assembling of pamph he seldom thinks of anyone play clearing away other obstructions, ing discomfort: Daring the Before Mr. A. Dyer Ball, at the many. If any do I sin aura shey fiets, and a remarkable collection ing the game under diferent con- and laying down earth. A number
summer, however, the host is most Police Court this morning, eight are welcome. You see, they know of articles cat from reports and disione, says the New York of links which exist elsewhere on pleasant, while the flies and the Chinese were charged with gem-the German and don't love him periodicale. Some 68 volumes Evening Post. Yet it stands to have been prepared in a similar dust make is posible so beliers in bling at a house, 40, Graham as some of our friends at the front of United States Esports an reason that golf 'mast. be played manner. In some pisos masses of the ten plagues of Egypt.
Street. Inspector Brown, who seem to do, Eagland has been Foreign Relations have boss cat under adverse circumstances in rock are converted into inolines|
Elsewhere in Africa clabs some-was in charge of the case, ssid asked often enough to save the ap for their contente relating to many countries on this mortal coil, by means of endless cartloads of times suffer from lack of members, that the Police raided the pre-assives from Jerman despots. China. Cuttings from "The collections are the Roman Catholio Among some of Dr. Morrison's and they say it is only when s earth, and in several instances and, if a player taking the lawmises about 10 o'clock last night, fon know what they are doing illustrated London News" from Literature, a complete collection devotee has seen the game in out to be denied enthusiasts have into his own hands, chastimes and there was a big scramble for with your own peeple in the 1842 to 1868 and from "Oernhill" of British Bluebooks about Chins, strange lands under queer con- sewn the ground with gram-red woolly-headed native caddie, the safety. The eight defendants occupied ditions that he can really up to avoid the nuisance caused by chances are that the links will be were all caught, but several men Everyone, man, woman, giri, in 1850 are also preserved. set of the "Canton Register," the Russian territory from the first number pablished works of Chinas fotion, and a preciate his home links.
severely boyousted by the abo ceasped, 020 man jamping or boy, has to work from Therefore the library, in reality, first newspaper published in Years ago, before golf had tra. Eluge trees have also had to be rigines, the golfers being left to through the window and being foar in the morning velled far beyond Great Britain, uprooted, and when the dried-up carry their clabs ander a swelter-titled,
tilijcontains more than 20,000 English in Chins. The first isens Failed golfers had to possess their bed of a river has intervened, ing or in Tadia, Ceylon, Barmah, $3 enoti.
The defendsats, who eight in the evening. (General | volumes.
of the paper was printed in 1827 blazing, pitiless sun. denied the offence, were fined ramble of soldiers commente soul in patience until the exi coolies have laboriously filled the
All of Dr. Morrison's books are and consisted of four quarto gandies of the work upon which part which interfered with the and Straits Settlements in if
bere, can expression particularly in good condition. Peking is one pages. There are more than four they were employed enabled them drive by emptying countles advisable to do more than gently
catching the ear: "Fine eight of the best places in the world to anndred diouonaxies in his to return. In a low distant spots buckets of earth into it, Natural admonish serring coloured after the player's back is turned-Germans, Tes, and those who damp season books go mouldy thrice as many volumes in English boure' day they'll get with the keep books, but in Japan in the library. It is said that there are "it was possible to get a game, snuh zarda abound, most of them be caddie, Should intense CX40
naval officers when taking a run ing deepwater courses, small peration, brought on
wherever pativa caddies are em-il can't work are put in prison an and have to be carefully looked so in French and more than four by the shore at some Eastern possession porda, uflaks, which are stifling atmosphere, the diffical-the Malay Penisala, South Afri averyone to be birched, evening upon the sale of the library to German. There are many books The Germans allow after. A'Chinese official commentimes se maoy in English, an in ployed, be it India, Osylon, Egypt, Bogged, would bratily mark out temporary ditenes varying in width from ein ties of the ground, the aggravat links and make the best of things. to twenty feet, and clumps of ing behavior of the uasive passerat, of Chira. The moment them and girls, provided shey Baron Iwasaki, remarked:" Ber in Latic, Datch, Italian, Russian But only during the past two mango trees. Other obstacles are by, who make a special point of esddie having marked the spot often asked, is your coudley really Times correspondent, he spent Tue Editor of The New Bast game is over, the sharp-eyed given not more than twenty er keep these books boue." Portugues and Spanish lan decades háa golf become general furnished by droves of unruly getting in the way, result in where he has hidden the ball, was sold that Hash is something like $4,000 ⚫ your remarks that the of leation is not
strokes on any, one day. I was When Dr. Morrison was gnages. in unlikely places. Daring the buffaloes, passing country carts, the angry .exile
applying visita the local receivers of stolen early nineties expatrial golfers and struggling flocks of goats, the business end of a club, contemplated overcoming the The St. Andrews rales are, bow. there is certain to be trouble. I property and ascertaine which of the only free country in the world. on making purchasee for his only, library, but also an art difficulties presented by un-ever, sagmented by countles lonely parts of Assam the keen price. Balls being more or less what he liked, but to my mind any book that is necessary to his surprising collection of plates of the rascale will pay the bigbees Well, I replied, each might think ubrary. His principle is to bay gallery, for there in a nomowkas promising ground; to-day linke local rains, thus making thisge golfer is sometimes reduced to scares, the infuriated golfer in Raseis was no free country when library regardless of the cost ana scenes in China and of portesits of aorta-exist where it was once les difficult for the player, teaching one of his native serv forced to bay back his own noffending officers were thrust as so adviser to the Government, of selebrities, Chinese and foreign, believed imposible to make
Although the “cold weather" ante how to play the game rather them,
of the East is generally pleasant, than run the risk of growing Nor is it ones to bring the offend was every other day withons larger part of bis income for purportaat is complete set of property or go without a game. into prison and led on bread and he has been able to lay ont a still Not the lanes, interesting of the In India golf has long flourish during the rest of the year one ranty. Neither the Assamee nor ed. The Bombay course, where, golls in an atmosphere resemble the Uhinees races take kindly to banishment is liable to result in
ers to task, for even the mildest trial.
chasing books. A quarter of a Vasty Fair onctoons al propia, This reference to the Kronstadi century ago, before he had come montarac with Uhina,IM Owing to the public recreation ing Tarkish bath. Long be golf, which in their hearts they the boys deserting in a body. The Republic's proceedings, where to this country, Dr. Morrison sits is also well off in relation ground being used for the pur fore reaching the first hole the consider a childish recreation and native caddie-master also gives several hundred wretched officers began collecting books about to Marco Polo There is sow fres pose, canvas screens (which, are player is steaming, and by the quits unworthy of a grown man's trouble, and, if deeply affronted, stili languish anger the regime Chips. Most of his books had so Lessin edition of 1485 and the fres erected and removed as required) time the fall round has been attention
bip revenge may take the shape of of freedom, produced a startling be imported from Entops, sad Isalian of 1995. Indeed, saak tate the place of bankers, hacfcompleted be is ready, so drop Golf balls are lost in large damaged greens and enlarged effect. The soldiers abeered the America, and * say book acs Kfzaan aditions ban existed for many a year, and the with exhaustion. At Colombo, nam
· found" dinsqtly holes,
the dust.
the
effective kik.