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these insect societies, in complexity and in subordination of means to onde, far surpass anything achieved by man. This is most strikingly scen in the handling of the ser question, which has resulted in the develop. ment of what may be called a third sex,

TELEGRAMS,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

Foodstuffs and other commodities are

not the only articles going up in price these days, says a Manila contemporary. The secret service division of the Custom Bureau reports that the price of high grade opium has risen to P125 for a 5-tael DEATH OF THE JESUIT GENERAL.

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gradually leading them to extend the pro- Piese, until now a complete massacre of the drones is regarded as a part of the season's

routine. A noticeable fact is that the bee society is founded solely for the benefit of the workers. It is a perfect co-operative society of workers, all other elements being eliminated or replaced as soon as they become useless. The control over the pro- duction of the sexes may be said to be perfect. There is no preponderance of rates or females, with its resulting som- plications, and if the bees were a little more assured of the process by which the three sexes are produced, the present masa- sacre of the drones could be avoided. In A. S. WATSON & CO.. this matter there can be no doubt that the

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in the Philippine Islands. This is con elusive proof that the importation has been exceedingly small during the past few weeks.

The death is announced of Father Francis Xavier Wernz, General of the Society of Jesus since 1908.

[Father Waruż was bor at Rottwell, Wurtemborg in 1842, and entered the Society of Jesus in 1857. He was Professor of the Gregorian College, 1883-1904; Rector 1904-6; consultor to the Sacred Congregations of Extraordinary Ecolossiastical Affairs, of the Index and of the Consistory and of the Holy Office. He has published Canon Law in 4 vols. Father Wernz lived in Rome.]

At the Magistracy yesterday, two riesha coolies were charged with disorderly conduct and with demanding more than their legal fare. It appears that the two coolles conveyed the Hon. Mr. Hewett and the Captain of the Himalann from the offices of the local branch of the P. &:0. Company to the Naval Yard, and were paid Ave cents each. The men refused to take the money, and demanded more. They became noisy, and the second

LONDON, August 20th. defendant looked as though he would

The Conclave for the election of a new assault the Hon. Mr. Hewett, The first | Pope will meet on September 3rd. man was fined $5, and the other man was fined $7 on the two charges.

THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE HONGKONG BANK,

·OUTIERREZ DISCHARGED.

Reginald O. Gutierrez again appeared before Mr. J. R. Wond at the Magistracy yesterday on a charge of conspiring to defraud the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation of divers large sums of morier.

Mr. D. Lewis, who prosecuted, told his Worship that he would offer no further evidence, and asked that the defendant

be discharged.

The Magistrale accordingly discharged the defendant.

:

IN THE CAUSE OF CHARITY:

THE PAPAL ELECTION.

CARRANZA ENTERS THE MEXICAN CAPITAL

LONDON, August 21st, General Carranza has entered Mexico City and was enthusiastically received.

TRANSITION OF THE RUBBER

TRUST.

In a sense the results of the Rubber Plantations Investment Trust, whose

annual report is now issued, are an epitome of the Anancial condition of the plantation rubber industry as a whole. The trust is the principal shareholding company of the rubber industry, having an issued capital of nearly three-quarters of a million sterling. Its Chairman, Mr. C. A. Lampard, is one of the leading authorities on rubber matters and his review of "the" industry at the annun meoting of the Trust is regarded as an important pronouncement, analogous, for instance, to the Chairmen's speeches at the meetings of some of the great South that of rubber companies in general, has African mining groups. Its career, like been somewhat meteoric and its affairs have been no less the subject of heated controversy. It is scarcely surprising, considering the position of the industry, to find that the company has suffered a very severe setback during the past year

Our Puking correspondent, writes:- IN THE CAUSE OF CHABITY. An appeal has been issued for funds to help the wives and children of French mon and Belgians who have had to quit their occupations and return to their homelands to perform the military service for which they were liable. As unly bee is immensely man's superior. The bee Britishers and Americans are left in treats scientifically what with us is a mat Peking in any number, it is doubtful of ter of chance, for although there is a certain any great response can be expected, proportion kept between the sexes in the though if these dependents are in dire

asyregards the value of its investments. human race this is merely the result of straits they are certain to be helped...

Its net profits for the year are only normal conditions. At the same time it is LIANG SHIH-YI.

£34,034, against £82,071 for the preced- not impossible that the changing conditions Those who thought that Liang Shih-yi, ing year, when the paid-up capital was £200,000 feas than it is now. And, of life may result in the natural production the olever Cantonese financial genius of whereas in March last year the securities of a third ser in the hum 10. As it is the President, who has found money all were valued by the brokers at £168,187 possible that the neuters of the insect along when neccesary, had been brought more than the balance-sheet value, they organisations were first produced sécident to nought are no doubt confounded by showed at the corresponding date this year a net depreciation of £108,788. This ally through stresa of existence, thus form his reappearance in a stronger form than necessitates a drastic reduction in divis base for the subsequent socialver, remarks our Peking correspondend. Only per cent., instead of 10

ing

structure, so there seems no reason why

events should not follow the same course in the case of the human race. Whether the production of a third sax among the human rice would be a benefit or à disaster it is difficult to say in the present state of our knowledge. It would certainly solve the sex problem and would probably result in a great increase in the mental power. At the same time it is possible it would lead into an impasse which would end in the destruction of the human race.

The Bishop of Victoria will to-morrow (Sunday), preach at St. Stephen's Chinese Church, at 11 a.m., and at St. Andrew's, Kowloon, at 6 p.m.

Major Wenbora, who resides at "Kingsclere," has reported to the police that on Wednesday night some person stole from the dressing table in his room Jewellry valued at £32.

The official rate of the dollar for the month of September, 1914, for all pay ments fixed in sterling which have to be made at Hongkong and on the China Station, will be 15. old.

due to con

HONGKONG, Apguat 22nd, 1914,

SCIENTISTS who have devoted themselves to the study of the social organisations formed by such insects as bees and ants have expressed the opinion that a deeper know- ledge of the development and character of these organisations would be of great assistance to man in directing him along the proper path. There is certainly a great fascination in the study of these insect societies, the more especially as they repre- sent, in some degree, what has been depicted

Nows has reached the Colony of the by enthusiasts as the ideal form of society, death in London of former

Crown It would be unsafe to affirm that the social Sergeant J. F. Lee of the Hongkong structure of bees and ants has reached a Police. He was invalided home on pen permanent form and is incapable of further sion last July, after 13 years' service in

Death was development, hut, on the other hand, it is the Colony. obvious that in certain species degeneration sumption. The deceased was 36 years of bas at in, while in all such a delicate age and, unmarried. balance has been reached that it requires It is reported in Manila that the only a slight interference to throw the whole German steamers now in the barbour "organisation into disorder. In this respect there, the Mathilde and the Clara Jebson, such organisations may be likened to the have been sold. It is stated that the ancient civilisations of Central America, Mauila Railroad Company has bought which went down like a pack of cards before the Mathilde, while the Clara Jelenu has a handful of Spanish soldiers. As far as been sold to Urrutia & Company. There our knowledge goes these bea and ant ́is nu confirmation of the report, societies have been constructed entirely

The ordinary half-yearly meeting of subconsciously and owe their origin to the the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking struggle for existence. Just as pritative Corporation takes place to-day at noon,

was subconsciously led to form

at the City Hall. At the conclusion of societies for purposes of self-preservation, the ordinary inecting an extraordinary so the ants and beea appear to have been meeting of the shareholders will be held, He ́unt. d. But, whether by the necessities at which the resolutions to amend the of their case, or by a more ancient life Bank's ordinance will be submitted -as history, or by a difference in brain-power, advertised..

man

dence. Doubtless it

inspiration that the Domestic Loan came was due to his

into being, and those who know him believe that he will manage to extricate the President from the present serious financial difGeulties.

CORRESPONDENCE.

A PROHIBITED ANCHORAGE.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKÒNG

· DAILY PRESS," ́]

not only as regards its profits, but also.

year's profits, being partly drawn from. per cent, is to be paid for the past year, and even that is not quite covered by the the large undivided surplus.

It will no doubt be urged that in view of the fact that most of the properties in which the Trust is interested are in an carly stage of development a 3 per cent. dividend is not unsatisfactory. It must, however, be borne in mind that a con- siderable part of the company's capital has been issued at a premium. If we add to the paid-up capital the net amount received in share premiums after deduct- ing issue expenses the rate of 'proft last | year works out at only 3 per cent. To a SIE-The owner of a yacht was con- shareholder who bought his shares as an victed by the Marine Magistrate this income-producing investment this morning of anchoring his boat within the especially after the higher rates

scarcely be regarded as satisfactory, prohibited anchorage forming the Cable dividend paid during the earlier part of Reserve at North Point, and I would like the company's career. The fact is that to make use of your hospitable column Hitherto it has made the bulk of its pronts the company is in the transition stage. to wam the owners of yachts, motor-in connection with market and share boats, etc., that the whole of the Bay issuing operations. Eventually, when its round which the Tramway Co, erect tents properties reach maturity, it will be and the bamboo pier are within the the prohibited anchorageYours faith

fully,

W. L. CARTER.

can

of

deriving a more or less steady income from its investments. Meantime, with

the rubber share market at very low ebb, the company is making little profit from either source.

This transition stage has its counter- SO LONG AS THEY'RE HUNG," part in the affairs of the plantation companies themselves. They had their In a certain Dissenting church in few years of big dividends, due to the taking the Liberal side. In his congrega market, but of the market for rubber Glasgow the minister is a keen politician, inflated condition, not of the rubber share tion is an old man who is as stairach a itself. Now that the market has settled Unionist,

down to a more normal condition, their The other Sunday (says a corresponprofits, have suffered severely. But, as dent in the Pall Mall Magazine), the is the case of the Trust Company, there that Lloyd George and his colleagues in the future when their increased areas minister in his prayer offered the petition will be compensations for most of them might hang together," so that the nation might benefit more and more by duty is to look carefully after their come into full bearing. Meantime, their "social reform"-" hang together meaning, of course, that they might be finances, as the transition stage is not yet strong and united.

passed. In the case of the. Rubber The old man jumped to a wrong conclu Plantations Investment Trust, there sion, and as the words "bang together?" seems some need for a roadjustment, of were uttered he responded loudly Amen the capital account. During the past two. to that, Amen.” Noticing the misunder-years a large temporary loan account has standing, the minister bastened to add, been built up. In the accounts now issued Hang together in accord and concord." this is shown to amount to £257,000, But again came the response: "Any which bears a rather large proportion to cord, Lord, so long as they're hung."

the paid-up share capital of £725,000; and some indication on the part of the CHINESE LANGUAGE IN JAVA.

directors of an intention to remedy this somewhat anomalous position would be It is announced that instruction in the welcome. The existence of such a large amount of temporary loans, as a time Chinese language is to bo given in seven Dutch Chinese Schools in Java in the way when less than & per cent. is being earned of an experiment. It is stated that the and the company's skares stand at a dis- It will begin in the 4th class and will tinet disadvantage as regards reserve study of the language will be optional. count, might put the company at a dis-

be given six times a week in each class. resources. And it is possible that many The lessons will be given by teachers from of the plantation companies in which the Southern China, who will be sent out to Trust is specially interested may be only Java at the expense of the Government. too glad before they leave the develop- They will have to bind themselves to

mont stage to avail themselves of any serve the Netherlands India Government

reserve resources that the Trust may be. for three years, their monthly salary to able to put at their disposal. The Times.

be B.150.

THE

WAR.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCI.]

THE LAND OPERATIONS.

GERMANS OCCUPY BRUSSELS.

THE GERMAN ADVANCE.

LONDON, August 20th.

12.20 p.m.

An official Paris despatch says that the Gormans have reached the

Dinant-Neufchateau line, and that important forces continue to cross the

Meuse between Liege and Namur, Advance guards have reached the

River Dyle.

BELGIANS, AFTER DELAYING THE HOSTILE ADVANCE,

FALL BACK.

5.50 ..

The Press, Bureau announces that the Belgian Army, confronted

by superior numbers, has fallen back. Communication with Brussele has

become difficult since early this morning.

The Belgian troops admizably performed their duty, delaying the hostile advance, and enabling their Allies to complete their concentration

without interference.

The Belgian retirement had been anticipated for some days and had been dictated by the strategical situation.

London, August 21st.

3,35 a..

The Germans occupied. Brussels yesterday without fighting.

ALLIEB' POSITION EXCELLENT,”.

LONDON, August 20th.

4 p.m.

It is officially announced in Paris that the position of the Allies is excellent along the whole front.

LONDON, August 21st,

12.10 p.m.

It is officially announced that a Paris despatch says that the Liego forts continue to hold out; while those at Namur have not been attacked. Thus in a forward march the Germans are liable to be caught between Namur and Antwerp,

BRILLIANT FRENCH SUCCESS IN

ALSACE.

GERMANS RETREATING ON THE RHINE.

Loxpos, August 20th.

4 p.m.

It is officially announced that the French have reoccupied Mulhausen

at the point of the kayonet after very sharp fighting They captured.

six guns and six ammunition wagons,"

6.20 p.ru.

It is officially stated that France has occupied Guebwiller a largo manufacturing town on the right bank of the Lauch River, Alsace Lorraine, about 12 miles North of Mulhausen.

LONDON, August. 21st.

JU

The French troops have achieved brilliant success in Alsace, between Mulbouse and Altkirch, capturing twenty-four guns.

The Germans are retreating on the Rhine.

THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF PRUSSIA.

LONDON, August 20th.

1.15 p.m.

The Russians have occupied Gumbianen, a Prussian manufacturing town and colt market, 30 miles 8.S. E. of Tilsit.

The victory was a considerable one, the Russians capturing twelvo

guns and many prisoners,

RUSSIANS ADVANCING.

6.20 p.m.

The Russians are advancing along the whole line.

9.15 p.m.

After three days' fighting the Russians penetrated twenty miles into East Prussia and occupied Lyck.

GENERAL INFORMATION.

CANADA AND GERMANY'S "INSENSATE MILITARY-

DESPOTISM."

LONDON, August 20th.

2.35.m.

In the Canadian Parliament stirring speeches have been made expressing loyal support of Great Britain against Germany's insensati military despotism, Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Sir Robert Barden both They affirmed made magnificent speeches and were accorded ovations. that the Dominions would stand shoulder to shoulder for the honour of the Empire. Sir Wilfrid Laurier said he was convinced that Great Britain would emerge stronger than ever, and that the Irish trouble wonld be washed away.