1914-08-26 — Page 2

INTIMATIONS

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26th, 1914.

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of the Far East. This feeling in Japan was rendered still more acute by the Proclamation issued by Admiral VON DEEDRICHS, Commander-in- Chief of the German Squadron in Enstern

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The relations between Germany and Chins are friendly. Lately when hostilities occurred between China and Japan, Ger many came to the resene with all ber power, in order to show her goodwill to China." The Japanese nation to day recalls the occasion when Germany "came to the rescue" and wrested from Japan some of the spoils. of victory in her war with China, and, now after Germany has been sixteen years in the occupation of Kiaochow, during which time she bas spent many millions of pounds sterling upon its develop ment, the stage Las been reached when the Japanese apprehensions that German occupation of sochow would imperil the pence of the Far East are fulfilled, and so Japan comes to the rescue now, as Germany came in 1895, with all her power." By the terms of the Agreement isochow was ceded to Germany on lease provisionally. for vinety-nine yours." A clause in the Agreement ab which soweth ng may 1001 be heard... Lys that should Germany at some future time express the wish to return Kinonhow Bay te China before the expiration of the lease Chira engages to refund to Germany, the Pipenditure she has incurred at Kianchow, and to rede to Germany a more suitable. place No refund is likely to be made to Germany for the retrocession of the place when this is done by Japan. There is much speculation as to what compensation Japan is going to get for her present under- taking, and it may be that she will be satisfied to receive from China the value of all the Government property- the place coufains.

China will probably make Kiechow an open port, especi ally if it is possible to reconcile this with her ambition to provide herself with a satisfactory, navul depôt in those waters.

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The Daily Press.

HONGBONG, August 26TH, 1914.

News from the North regarding the opera tious of the Japanese against the Germans at Kiaochow is awaited without the least doubt to the ultimate result

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elsewhere in our issue to-day that the limits of Japan's action have been clearly defined and we do not believe that

any "compheations "Lare likely to follow Japan's intervention.

It is highly satisfactory to observe that the Siberian mail service was resumed yesterday.

The Chinese State Department was instructed by the President to despatch a telegram to President Wilson expressing his sympathy at the death of Mrs. Wilson on behalf of the Chinese Government, 2

According to the Pekiny and Tientsin Times, the Chinese merchants living in Siam," numbering over three millions, have applied to the Chinese Government for the appointment of a Minister to safeguard their interests, and for the opening of international relations with the Government of Siam.

Mr. Andrew Pooley, formerly Reuter's correspondent at Tokyo, who will be remembered in connection with the naval scandal cases in Japao, is in Shanghai. Mr. Pooley, who is under bond pending his appeal from the decision of a Japanese Court, intends to visit England before returning to Japan.

Portuguese Consul in Hongkong, bas shown us official reports from Macao cen- tradicting the statement made in the repart that the Monte fort gave the wrong signal on the occasion, and we arú pleased to be able to make the correction.

With reference to the recent fire in Rua of the attack which has made upendo Campo, Macao, Mr. J. J. Lieria, the the place: Everybody recogniars that the refusal to surrender the place enta is au unnecessary sacrifice of life; but for six thousand more or less trained man to yield conditionally without a struggle would be a tremendous blow to the national pride of virile race, and so the sacrifice is being made. Germany has been in occupation of Kisochow now for a period of sixteen years. It was seized by Germany, without previous intimation to the Chinese Government,

Mr. A. M. Marshall, for so long agent of the P, & O. Company in Shanghai, left by the Oriental for Home to take up the senior position in London. Many friends assembled to say good-bye to one who has been so deservedly popular here, says the NC. Daily News, and the

HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE

COUNCIL.

A meeting of the Council is convened for to-morrow.

ostensibly on account of the murder of two German missionaries in the Province of Chinese gave Mr. Marshall a great salvo Shantung, but Germany had long previously of crackers been looking out for a port and coaling station on the China coast, and, according to the German Government, "the offer of a port and coaling station in the South of China had on more than one occasion been made to the German Government by that of Chine, but had on esc's (ccasion' of the consequence been refused in cordial relations existing between 1e Gov- ernments of Great Britain and Germany, The seizure of Kinochow alarmed no nation more than Japan, and it is interesting now on glanging at the records of that prod to noto that Sir ERNEST SATOW, at that time the British Minister in Tokyo, informed the MAEQUESS of SALISBURY that "the general opinion in Japanese official circles seems to be that the proceeding was unnecessarily hasty and that a prolonged or possibly per manent occupation of such an important

The orders of the day are:--` Committee on the Bill entitled "An Ordinance to amend the law relating to the observance of precautions against Piracy."

Second reading of the Bill entitled,. An Ordinazos to provide for the levy of Estate Duty, payable in respect of the estates of deceased persons." Will not be proceeded with at this meeting.

Committee on the Bill entitled, "An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the Law relating to Chinese Passenger Ships as defined by the Chinese Passen- gers Act, 1855, and concerning Asiatic Emigrants generally." Will not be pro- ceeded with at this meeting.

THE WAR.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCA];

THE GREAT BATTLE IN

BELGIUM.

FIRST LINE OF DEFENCE AT NAMUR TAKEN.

LONDON, August 24th,

2.65 p.m.

The Official Press Bureau announces that the British forces were engaged all day on Sunday and after dark in the neighbourhood of Mons, and beld their ground.

News had been received that the first line of defence at Namur has been taken. This necessitates a withdrawal of a portion of the Allied troops from the line near Sambre to their original defensive position on the French frontier Nu information has been received regarding the casualties, which will be published as soon as known.

FALL OF NAMUR,

LONDON, August 24th.

4 p.

The Official Press Bureau announces that Namur has fallen.

CHARLEROI TAKEN AND RETAKEN.

LONDON, August 24th.

6.35.p.m.

Charleroi has been taken and retaken.

FRENCH TAKE THE OFFENSIVE ALL ALONG. THE LINE. LONDON, August 24th.

6:35 p..

A French official despatch, issued in the foreroon, states that the Germans are making most desperate efforts to take Namur. The French have taken the offensive everywhere, from Mons to the frontier of the Duchy of Luxemburg. The battle is raging with regularity, in conjunction with the British Army, and nearly the whole of the German Army and Reserves are engaged. The field of operations, especially on the right, is wooded, and difficult. The battle presumably will last for several days. The huge extension of front and the numbers engaged will render it impossible to follow it step by step. A decisive result must be awaited, otherwise there is a risk of supplying the enemy with information.

6.45 p.m.

An official communiqué says that it has been decided to withdraw. the French troops from Donon and Baales, as these points are no longer important, seeing that the French occupy a fortified line, beginning at Nariny:

EARL OF LEVEN DANGEROUSLY WOUNDED.

LONDON, August 24th.

7.15 p.m.

The Official Press Burean states that the Earl of feven and elville, a Lieutenant in the Royal Scots Greys, was dangerously wounded on the 22nd August.

HUGE GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS MARCHING ON

CHARLEROI.

LONDON, August 24th.

8 p.m.

It is announced from Brussels that 300,000 Germans have marched

southward on Charleroi,:

ITALY NOT TO ABANDON NEUTRALITY.

LONDON, August 25th.

11.10.

The Italian Premier assured a group of Deputies that no mobilisation is imminent, and added that even if it did occur it would not mean the abandonment of neutrality.

THE BELGIAN CASUALTIES.

LONDON, August 24th.

A p.m.

The Belgian Minister for War states that the total Belgian

casualties amount to 10,000,

LONDON, August 24th.

G.25 p.m.

BRITISH GOLD INFLUX.

The gold influx to

was £2,065,000.

THE OVERSEA VOLUNTEERS,

LONDON, August 24th.

6:15 p.m.

The Secretary of State for the Colonies has appointed a Com- mittee under the chairmanship of Lord Islington to render advice and assistance to the Committees of the Dominion contingents.

The members are:--Viscount Bryce, Lord Deuman, Sir Edward Ward, Sir Owen Philipps, Bir Gilbert Parker, Sir Herbert Murray and Mr. Richard Burbidge.

JAPAN'S INTERVENTION,

NEWSPAPER COMMENTS ON JAPAN'S DECLARATION.

LONDON, August 25th,

12.20. p.m.

The Times, in welcoming the advent of Japan as a combatant in honourable fulfilment of her Treaty obligations, says that it will form ono common purpose in more tie in uniting the two island Empires in a Eastern Asia,

The Daily Telegraph says that the automatic effect will be the total ruid of Germany's cherished ambitions in the Far East.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

NUKUKOU BRIDGE DESTROYED BY DYNAMITE.

PERING, August 25th.

11.20 p.m.

After the evening train passed (for) Kinochow on Monday the Tsinan Railway Administration destroyed the Nukukou bridge by an explosion of dynamite."

[The Nukukou bridge is situated on the Shanting railway, which German property.]

SANITARY BOARD.

cd the principle of the first, and they could be merged into one at the next meeting. He had no objection to altering his amendment to the affect that "the

The usual fortnightly meeting of this authority was held yesterday, the Vio-matter stand over till the next meeting

President (Hon. Mr. A. F. Churchill)

There were also present;- presiding. Hon. Mr. E R. Hallifax, Hon. Mr. E. A Hewett, C.M.G., Colonel Irwin, Dr. Fitzwilliama, Mr. P. W. Goldring, Mr Chan Kai Ming, Mr. Ng Hon Tsz, Dr. Francis Clark (Medical Officer of Health), Dr. W. W. Pearse (Assistant

of the Board for discussion."

The amendment ae altered was carried.

ARMED MERCHANT VESSELS.

BRITISH ADMIRALTY'S RIGHTS.

Medical Officer of Health), and Mr. Ely asked the First Lord of the Admiralty

W. Hamilton (Secretary to the Board).

THE PRESIDENT'S INDISPOSITION. The CHAIRMAN said he regretted to inform the Board that the President was ill, and that it was in consequence of that indisposition that he was in the chair.

In reply to Mr. King, M.P., who recent

over how many merchant vessels there was a right of pre-emption or hire as armed cruisers or transports; and for what number of years the amount of £150,000. for this service in Navy Vote B would be repeated if existing contracts carried out,

were

THE WATER CLOSET QUESTION.

Mr. Churchill, in a written answer, An application was made for permis-says-The Admiralty possess the right of sion to erect 12 water closets and a hire or pre-emption by contracts with the trough closet in a block of buildings on following companies: "Kowicon Inland Lot No. 574, R.P. Hanoi

Road.

The CHAIRMAN said that he proposed to withdraw this matter and allow it to stand over to the next meeting, as the President was dealing with it personally,

This was agreed to.:

Cunard Steamship Company Over

all the Company's vessels. International Mercantile Marine.

Over all the British vessele in the association.

In addition to the above, the Admiralty possess rights of hire or pro-emption over the vessels employed under Post Office mail contracts with the following com- Pacific Steam Navigation Company.

Hon. Mr. HALLIFAX proposed that the next item on the agenda (an applica- tion to erect a water closet at Kowloon Lock) be also held over, as it came underpanies: the same head.

The CHAIRMAN said a commode existed at present in the place where it was proposed to instal a water closet, and it was rather difficult to see how the Board could prevent the commode being there. Even supposing & water closet were put up, it would certainly be a less evil than There had the existing arrangement, been a suggestion about sea-water being used, but he would advise flushing direct from the fap.

– Service; Liverpoor Callao, việ Magellan, Panama-Valparaiso. Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. -Service: Southampton - West Indies; Bouthampton-Brazil and

River Plate

Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navi-

gation Company,-Service: Brin disi-Bombay Brindisi Shang- hai; Brindisi-Adelaide. Union Castle Mail Steamship Com- pany. Service: Anglo-South Africa, Alderney Steam Packet.Service; Alderney-Guernsey; Alderney- Cherbourg.

Messrs. MacBrayne, Orkney Steam Navigation Company, North of Scotland and Orkney and Shet Jand Steam Navigation Company, Glasgow and South Western Rail- way Company (purchase only) Bervice: Scottish Steamer Mail Service.

As to the second part of the question, I must refer my hon. friend to clause 34. part 3, of the Cunard Agreement, which was presented to Parliament in 1903.

THE EUCALYPTUS IN THE EAST.

Some thirty years ago a great deal was being written about the virtues of the tree of cucalyptus or the "blue gum Australia, as a means of improving the

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Hon. Mr. HALLIFAX said the time must come for the Board to take a very much broader view of these applications that came through week after week, and which were increasing all the time. If they allowed-and he supposed they must allow that the water-carrier system was the only cne that was entirely satis factory (they had heard instances of it being unsatisfactory), he supposed there was no reason at all against it, if the system was an eficient one, but at the present moment they had water closets allowed. It did not matter where the water came from-whether it came from the sea, from a private well, or from the mains they had first of all to be respon sible for the main drains. He thought they had now put salt in their joints to prevent roots of trees destroying the sewers; they had architects making con nections from the houses to the drains, which as likely as not ran through some hody else's back garden-almost certainly in the vicinity of cook-honses. There was no necessity to put salt in, and as far as he could see. no necessity for extra supervision. Then they had the Chinese plamber erecting a closet, and be was notoriously bad in this work, in which he could not equal Europeans. Out of all these applications they wanted their position re-considered, and some more or less precise lines laid down for the Board to follow. The line that they followed at the moment seemed to him to hopelessly out of date. The approval or refusal of any particular applications seemed to turn more or less on the general im pression of that Board as to whether the facilities would or would not be as the case might be properly made use of, and this general impression had crystal lised itself into this old phrase "subject to an adequate and independens water supply." He would like to see the phrase much more clear for his own guidance in considering these applications. There was still another point that was always in the background when these applica tions were considered, and that was the question of harbour pollution. This ques- tion bad always been shelved with a vagne sort of idea that these applications were timited: So they were, but they were growing, and they would reach a certain stage when the matter must be seriously faced. In addition, there were the trough closets that the Board were erecting all over the city. If they had the question of barbour pollution arising in an aggravated form they might be faced with a question concerning the main drainage They ought to know where they were. He would be glad to know that the main drainage was not affected by the number of conveniences they were making here. The growing supervision that Mr. Hewett had spoken so much about was quite obvious, and to the expense of that supervision must be added the loss of selfish people who are determined to of revenue they were faced with at the moment. For these reasons he opposed the approval of these applications at that meeting, and moved an amendment that the applications should be held over until a sub-committee had been appointed to. consider these general questions.

Mr. GOLDRING seconded. Hou. Mr. HEWETT said he thought the time had certainly come when they should have something definite to go ou with. The only thing they bad to go on at the present moment was that it was past an idea governed navy officers, that generally understood that water closets they were a sort of diplomatic officers should be permitted on the lower levels of and that their wives must he pretty and the town, but there had been exceptions in charming. In consequence, they were the cases of hospitals, the University, always looking for pretty, modernized women with a view to marriage, and hotels, and general offices, and so on.. That was, roughly, the line they had been there was a time when a wife dressed like going on, but a great many exceptions an actress adorned almost every naval had been made. The other day they officer's home. Now, however, a different agreed that water closets should be allow idea prevails, probably owing to the ed on a big block of buildings on the object lesson furnished by the husbands upper level. He thought that both ap- who are taxed with pretty, but luxurious, plications should be held over until the vain and uncontrollable wives. Marti ageable naval officers nowadays are look- matter had been gone into thoroughly

Hon, Mr. HALLIFAX Said the appli- 10g for women who are sobor in mind and cation regarding the Kowloon Dock cover healthy in body. The golden age for

beautiful women seems passing away.

health conditions of the places where it was planted. There was some difference of opinion as to whether the tree possessed any specific power against disease or whether the good effect it produced was simply due to the thorough drainage uf the soil by its rapid rate of growth, Treek were planted extensively in some places in India, chiefly in the north, and some have. done very well. When the complicity of the mosquito in the causation of malarial fever was established beyond doubt, eucalyptus oil, came into favour again an protection aginat mosquitoes. The tree is again being "bound" in connection with the campaign against the common domestic fly. Some writers advocate the keeping of young eucalyptus plants in the drawing room, giving them a month or two of the open air in the course of the year, and they can very easily be raised from seed. The addition of a little eucalyptus oil to formalin, exposed in a saucer, is recommended as an effective -way of killing flies.

JAPANESE ADMIRAL ON THE

MODERN WOMAN. -

Vice-Admiral Yashiro, Minister of the Navy, who is now visiting Kyoto, has dis cussed the problem of beautiful women, in an interview with an Osaka Mainchi representative, saying that the time will Pass when beautiful women are popular. "The current thought of Japan,” says the Minister, has undergone a great The. change in the past twenty years. nation is now demanding extreme liberty, as is shown by the cry for emancipation in fiction and poetry. At the same time, it is an undeniable fact that the number

satisfy their own desires, absolutely with- out any consideration for others, has in- The recent navy case is the creased. outcome of such selfish desires,

"The Japanese community, however; will not suffer the continuance of such an unprincipled conduct for a long time.. It will return, to a certain extent, to the old principles of loyalty and patriotism. This tendency has become evident in the manner in which naval officers select their wives For more than ten years.