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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13г. 1914.

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The river steamers Hoi Ming and Hoi Be were sold at public auction yesterday. Mr. G. P. Lammert. The former realised $50,000, and the latter $29,000.

Messrs. A. W. Studd of Messrs. Weeks & Co., J. Bell-Irving of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., and Mr. Matheson, of Moses. Butterfield & Swire, are among with a view to service at the front.

RANDOM REFLECTIONS.

The disappearance of a clock from the Hongkong Club will become an historical reminiscenes, for who is there that has not read of such happenings in other considered worthy of record by the august institutions, such incidents being But the real tit-bit of the historians {

think that the capture of Antwerp counts the Shanghai men who have left for Homesearch for the 860 Clab alock seems to

is surely a noteworthy achievement that the garrison was able to ges safely away in these circumstances with the loss of only two thousand men, who, being greatly antnumbered, crossed the border into. eutral territory and there laid down their arms, in accordance with the laws of beutrality. While it is sad to Belgium crushed, it would be a mistake to for much in the general plan. Some great sacrifios at points distant from the in theatre of the war are evidently unavoidable at present. The defenes, the -Admiralty report says, could have been maintained longer, but at long enough to allow of adequate forces being suit for relief without "prejudicing the main strategic, situation. With that situation The Commander-in-Chief of the Allies well lis Staff a and

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public un trust the judgment of those 2.50 who have the management of the war. To-day we have the news that an early 3.00 Advance by the Allies is contemplated. Such incidents in the campaign as the retreat to the Marae and the fall of Antwerp but serve to impress upon the 5.45 public especially in the United Kingdom, where it appears to have been but inadequately appreciated as yet-the great strength of the enemy and the Titanic character of the straggle before the nations who have combined in the 4.00 task of ridding Europe of the terror Notwith- Prussian militarism. standing all that has happened in the 4.55 past two and a half months to disappoint our hopes and expectations, confidence. in arm and remains ultimate success

Every reverse but serves, to 455. unshaken.

strengthen the purpose and resolve of the Allies. What Germany has so far been obtained at extremely 2.65 achieved 1

heavy cost, and the longer the Allies 6.65

maintain their ground in the North of 9.95 France against the constant assaults of the enemy, the weaker must become Germany's powers of resistance. For, all 13.15 th while that the German commanders

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A quiet and pretty wedding was solemuised at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, last week, when Captain J. B. Bailey of the C.N. Ca's str. Share Harkow-Changsha run, was married to Miss K. Wilkerson, Matron of the Victoria Nursing Home."

The Insular Colletor of Internal Revenue in the Philippines reported last week that the work of collecting the income tax is now practically complete, The total collected under the Income-tax Law to date, in round figures is P230,000. It is hoped to add twenty or thirty thousand pesos to this sun from delinquents,

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The price offered for good sugars, says a Manila contemporary, is at present higher than has been experienced in the Philippines at this season for a long time, This is due mainly to the curtailment of the beet-sugar supply in Europe. There is prospect that very high prices will be paid for sugars for some time to come. The extent to which the Philippines will benefit by these conditions will depend mainly upon the grade of sugar turned

out.

MURDER AND ARMED ROBBERY

IN DEEP WATER BAY.

The police have been informed that hetween eight and nine o'clock ou Sunday evening about eighteen men, armed with rifles and revolvers, boarded the Yee Wo Two Hing junk in Deep Water Bay. Chinese are reported to have been killed and the master of the junk and the cook taken for ransom. The robbers got away with money, clothing and ammunition.

RUM AND TOOTHACHE.

A man named Michael Griffin appeared before Mr. Wood yesterday on a charge of being drink and incapable on Traya East on Sunday.

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His Worship-Were you drunk? Defendant (whose face bore traces severe treatment)-Oh, yes, I was drunk all right! He added that he had a couple of teeth drawngont on Sunday, and was given liberty until Tuesday. He suffered pain in his teeth, and took a drop of to ease it. It must have got over

Tum him.

A European constable told the Magi trate that the man had been ejected from the Naval Canteen, and was found

recklessly sacrificing their men, apparently out of all proportion to the losses they are able to inflict upon their adversarics, large bodies of men repre- senting the flower of British manhood from all parts of the Empire are in relied upon to give a good account of themselves when they are drafted into the field. Some time ago LORD KITCHENER stated that he hoped to have in the feld from the United Kingdom alone an army of over a million men within-six mouths. The splendid response made to his appeal has shown that he made no miscalculation. But he is wisely making sure that the new troops, whether raised in the Motherland or in the Colonies, shall go into the field well trained for the task before. them. Meanwhile it is tantamount to a victory for the Allies | lying on the road." that they continue to keep the Gerinans where they are at present entrenched, as not only does this give time for the training of the fresh troops, but by holding the enemy in such force in the Western theatre of war, the progress of the Russian Army in East Prussia and in Hungary is facilitated. Manifestly a great deal depends upon the progress made by Russia's vast army, which in numbers is more than the equal of the

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inferior prman Apparently in military ciency. When we take nsnivey of the whole field, incidents like the fall of Antwerp appear in their proper perspective, and we gain impres sions that go to strengthen confidence in the ultimate success of the Allies.

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For being in unlawful possession of 750 lottery tickets for sale, a Chinese, arrested in the West Point district, was fined $250 by the Magistrate jesterday.

A fine of $2 was impesed,

TRADE IN THE UNITED STATES.

have been missed in the usual literacy channels. No one told of how a big and burly Sherlock Holmes, keen on the soont, used the iron fire escapy in an endearone to unravel a knotty problem. He had no escaps, but the "boy" who directed him intention of descending to earth by the happened to take it into his wooden bead to shut down the grating. Subsequently much dirt-bespattered individual group of diners, Ве that

WAS "only the energed among a explained detective in wearch of the clock, and then made good his escape, not, however, polies ufficial, with more explanations, before he had also collided with a high to the effect that his presence at the Club was sincerely in the cause of duty and a clock.

To respect to the making of garments for the troops, and quite irrespective of any communications which have been published in connection with the satae, a geanine campaigner has forwarded me a enggestion, which appears to be an His idea is that extremely rational one. the good ladies who are keen on dving something for the men serving at the front, and who desire to see that our winter campaign, should work on quite soldiers are well clothed for a rigorous. a different line to that which they are "The people at about to proceed upar. Hume" (by which the military authori ties are indicated), he says, "know better than any of us what will be necessary, and it would prevent a large wastage of philanthropic energy if the ladies forwarded the money proposed to be spent on materials to the headquarters at Home, with the request that it should be used for the express purpose of providing the man with serviceable comforters. Let. experienced people do the buying." will merely remark that this seems to hea by no means wild proposal. And the goods would then he made factories, which are struggling to keep all their employees, and thus benefits would be conferred in other directions,

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My faith in prophets has gone. At this particular noment I was counting upon being somewhere in the vicinity of the Earth's centre, and amusing myself with sorts of weird and strange things. According to a crystal gater, by name Ho Ming Cho, Hongkong should now be should be grovelling about with worms a buried city and all of us who exist here our bosom companions. and things as Nagasaki, Tokyo and Kyoto were also due to be sinking towards the other side of the Earth, but at the time of writing no news of this nature bad reached the Colony. We were due to leave for this tam. on underground excursion at Sunday, and half an hour before this my packing was completed and. I waited impatiently spade and bucket in tow. thought this might be useful. About

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a.m. there was a distinct giving "ol" something, and 1 at once gathered myself and my luggage on to my bed and prepared for a comfortable journey into the unknown.... At 8 a.m. the "boy" called me in just the same way, and, A telegram from Washington, dated the blinking badly. I tried to explain to that 7th inst., to the Manila papers says-obviously incredulous servant that the. "The initial stagnation of business in the trunks and bucket and spade must have United States caused by the outbreak of been placed on my bed by, a practical the European war has ended. Orders for joker while I was roundly sleeping. And goods are pouring in from Europe and it was good for Ho Ming Cho that he

was in Kwangtung at that moment. South and Central America. The money situation is casing and rate of six per cent. prevails in the reserve centres."

GERMAN SAVAGERY. OFFICIAL EXCUSES FOR MILITARY HARBARIEN.

The Daily Telegraph of Augast 28th contained the following:

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This reininds me that early in the year a belief obtained among some of the Chinese business men of the colony that this would be a year of "bad in There

KOB hing joss,"

with the calendar T connection calamity. I cannot recall that an earth- forget now exactly what which portended

HONGKONG, OCTOBER 13TH, 1914.

quake was expected, but I do recollect that one of the worst typhoons the Colony The organisers of the amazing service of had ever expericued was in the catalogue. THE fall of Antwerp demonstrates that

so-called war"news" sent out daily to an Well, we have come almost to the end of MA. P. P. J. Wodehouse, Depaty unsympathetic world from the German the typhom season, and not only have impregnable fortresses" are of little ase against the formidable siege guns of Superintendent of Police, who has been Government wireless stations at Naugh or we not had a bad typhoon, but we serm to-day, supported by an overwhelming on leave, returned by the Chigo-maru Norddeich, and picked up by the Marconi to have had fewer alarms than usual. 1 Company's apparatus, have at last, been should think the year quite nateworthy in attacking force. But the capture of yesterday.

betrayed into an obriously accidental that respect, though we are not quite out display of truth. Hidden away at the end of the woods" yet. Bad typhoons have Antwerp seas a somewhat barren victory

of the latest batch of these messages which visited Hongkang even as late as the without the surrender of the garrison.

reached na last night is to be found an mouth of November. It was in a typhoon The wonder is that the defenders,

appalling paragraph, which, in the course in November that H.M.B. Sandpiper and the Nethe the line

of a very few lines, arimite publicly and the nutun Uity were sunk in 1900. The when

officially the terrible charges of barbaric prophets, however, were right in one brokea, did not evacuate earlier, instead

savagery that during the last few days respect, and that is that 1914 would be of putting up a hopeless defence from

At the agistraes yesterday a Finn have compelled the Belgian Government "bad for business!" the inner forts, the only result of which

In these unsettled times business between named Willian Monoka was charged. by to appeal to the judgment of the civilised

world. was to keep the Germans for, two days, Mr. W. Pavis, manager of the Seatren's

Special stress raust be laid on the official European importers and Chinese mer- ruthlessly destroying what the German Institute, with behaving in a disorderly character of this confession, because it is chants has been put largely on a cash commander describes in his Proclamation manier at the Institute on Sunday.otorious that nothing can be transmitted basis, and interested me the other day asa beautiful city." It, as the British Defendant was remanded ia alice from the German wireless statious ander to notice, that, in apparent orulation, & Admiralty statement says, Antwerp was custody until to-day for the services of present conditions without the express large Chinese establishment in Queen's section and approval of the Berlin Road catering for Europeans had decorat a ruined and a burning city" after the

Clovernment. The statement in questioned its establishment with neatly printed cards bearing the legend" Cash required." is as follows:~ bombardment, the German commander

of arms and With most of us this is a chronic com- distribution A Chinese living in a lower floor of a

"The cannot have much that is "beautiful"

because the firm in left to protect. It must have been a sore house in Shanghai Street, Yaumati, beard animurition among the civil population plaint, but it is only notworthy in this disappointment to him to find when he a noise on the four abovi, which aroused of Belgium had beer carried out un particular case

nraged the public against Germany by reputation for rendering accounts only at entered the city that the British and his suspicions. He quietly made his way!ystematic lines, and the authorities question has for many years past bad a reports.the end of each year, according to tho Belgian forces had departed, and that up, and observed the naked feet of a massiduously circulating false all but 2,000 of them are still free protruding from under a bed. He pulled They were under the impression that, with Chinese calendar. The intimation that "to fight another day. No informa- the man cut, and Iaspector Gerrard at the aid of the French, they would be able that "cash is required" has been inspired two days. The only means of preventing hard-uppishness" as by a feeling that tion has been given in the official the Magistracy yesterday stated, that the to drive the Germans out of Belgium in in this case, no doubt, not so much hy telegrams regarding the full strength prisoner had stole a couple of pairs of surprise attacks from the civil population one can never tell in time of war what of the garrison, but it has been trousers, and had wrapped them up neatly has been to interfere with unrelenting may happen to Hongkong and all who their frightfulness' would be a warning Chinese must realise by this time that variously reported to range from 120,000 preparatory to taking them away. The "everity and to create examples, which by dwell therein. However, most inteligent to the whole country. The increased war there is extremely little likelihood of to 150,000. Whatever the exact figure may man was taken to the Station, and was

RODERICE RANDOM. have been, it was evidently much inferior found to be a returned banisice. His contribution levied on the Province of Hongkong hetag attacked. to the forces massed against them, and it Worship sent him to gaol for six months. Liége has also had an excellent effect."

Russien interpeter.

THE WAR.

ĮTHROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE GREAT BATTLE.

A LULL PENDING A GENERAL ADVANCE.

To-day's Paris communiqué says:--

LONDON, October 11th. 5.25 p.m.

· German Cavalry on our Left who had seized certain passage of the River Lys, eastward of Aime, have been driven back. They retired yesterday evening to the region of Armentieres.

The enemy attacked vigorously between Areas and the Cise, on the right bank of the Ancre, without making progress."

We made slight progress in the Centre. north of the Aisne, particularly north-west of Soissons.

Between Craonne and Rheims The German night attacks bave incert

repulsed.

There is nothing to report between Rheims and the Mouse.

The enemy attacked very violently at Aprement and in the region enst of St. Mihiel on the night of the 9th, and during the 10th. Aprement was taken and re-taken and remains in our hands.

"There is no change in Lorraine and the Vosges,

Thus everywhere we have maintained our positions.

LONDON, October 12th. An official announcement issued at 11 o'clock last evening in Paris says:-There is nothing new to report, except the capture of a flag near Lassigny. The general impression of the operations to-day is satisfactory-

LONDON, October 11th. 11.00 p.m.

The Official Press Burean publishes a further narrative by "an It is only notable for the eye-witness at the British Headquarters.” remark that there is a lull in the operations pending a general advanc.. country, dwells on the waste of The "eye-witness" lengthily describes the ammunition by the Germans, and compares the invisibility of the British, French, and German uniforms.

GERMAN AEROPLANES DROP

BOMBS IN PARIS.

LONDON, October 11th.

Two German acroplanes have dropped twenty bombs in Paris, three. persons being killed and twenty wounded.. The bombs felt mostly in Ruo Lafayette and Fauborg St. Antoine. One bomb which fell on the roof of Notre Dame and another which dropped in an adjoining square failed to explode.

French aviators are pursuing the Germans.

LATER.

Four persons were killed and twenty injured by the bombe dropped from German aeroplanes flying over Paris. The casualties were, mostly anong women and children. A flag was found inscribed: We have taken Autwerp. Your turn will come soon.” --

Contrary to the first statement previously telegraphed, the borals which fell upon Notre Dame did explode and ignited a beam inside the edifice.

THE BRITISH. NAVAL BRIGADE AT ANTWERP.

BORE THE BRUNT OF THE GERMAN ATTACK.

LONDON, October 12th.

5.15 a.m.

Two English newspaper correspondents stayed at Antwerp to the end, and escaped in a motor-boat as the Germans were entering.

A dispatch to the Morning Post says that the Belgians on the 2nd inst decided that surrender was inevitable, but they were inspired with fresh courage on the morning of the Brd by the announcement that British The British Marines arrived on the 4th, after travelling help was coming. all night from England, and immediately took up their positions in the hottest corner at Lierre. They, with reinforcements, bore the brunt The Germans, vi the attack, and were subjected to gulling artillery fire. (fecriving the Belgians by a ruse, outflanked the position at Lierre, making There was great destruction of houses in the city retirement inevitable.

by shells, but only three shops were burnt.

THE INTERNED BRITISH NAVAL FORCE IN

HOLLAND.

LONDON, October 11th.

An Amsterdam telegrant states that trains from Flashing are conveying two thousand of the British forces northward to the military concentration camp.

AUSTRIANS DEFEATED BY MONTENEGRINS.

LONDON, October 11th. A telegram from Ceftinje states that the Montenegrins surprised 20,000 Austrians matching in column, endeavouring to cut off the Montenegrins before Berajevo. In the first day's fighting the Austrians lost 1,500 killed and wounded and retreated on Kalinovek. On the second day the Montenegrins inflicted on the Austrians a loss of 500 killed and wounded and took many prisoners and match booty.

This is the hardest battle yet fought by the Montenegrins. ITALY'S NEW MINISTER OF WAR.

LONDON, October 11th.

A telegram from Rome states that the King has appointed General Zuppelli to be Minister of War.