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for elementary education is as great as the 1 WEST RIVER PIRATE OUTRAGE ON Minister says and we have every reason to believe he is correct, in saying as much --ho should find that schools can be filled without compulsion as fast as they can be built. Hence the first step towards the introduction of a system of compulsory A. S. WATSON «ducation in China is for the Government to leve an education rate to enable the resssary schools to be built and the necessary teaching staff to be trained. As for compulsary military service, that too a project which can only be taken up in China in the same way-by easy stages There are other obstacles besides the finanda) mo`to be overcome, notably the fact that the martial spirit is lacking in
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It is reported that Messrs, Banker & Co., of Wuchow, have received an urgent telegram from their Nanning office reporting that their motor boat Tien Fat trading between Nanning and Pose has been attacked by pirates, resulting in the loss of many lives on board, including the ship's head compradore and No. 2 pilot. The telegram does not give much detail beyond that several tens of men were killed, including the two members of the ship's brew as above stated, and the ship's cargo completely looted, but it is surmised
HONGKONG LICENSING
BOARD.
GRAND HOTEL AFFLICATION REFUSED. A meeting of the Licencing Board was held in the Legislative Council Chamber yesterday. The members of the Board present were:-The Hon. Mr. Claud Sovern (Chairman), Hon. Mr. E. 3. Hewett, CM.G., and Messrs. C. G. Alabaster, D. W. Craddock, R. O: Hutchi- son, and H. W. Bird, with Mr. G. A. Woodcock (Secretary).
All the applications for licences were granted with the following exceptions:--| application refused; Grand Hotel,
The Stay Hotel, application held over.
THE CRITERION BAR.
WAR NEWS.
THE SPIRIT OF THE BRITISH PEOPLE.
OFFERS OF MEN AND HONEY.
A
·AN UNFOUNDED RUMOUR. Manila papers had a report last Friday A cablegram to the Pioneer (Allahabad) from the German Agency at Shanghai dated London, 16th October, says: The that a large Japanese steamship bound spirit of the people is auperb. for Singapore had been sunk by the million men have offered, including rejections. The value of private sub- Endea
On the following day it was stated that scriptions in cash and kind is not this liner was believed to be the Sunless than fifteen millions pounds. Th Maru, on which the Shanghai contingent balances at banks are being freely offered, One man sent to the funds his savings of is travelling.
£4,000, Workinen have contributed their savings in bank deposits,
The rumour is entirely without founda.
the day after the Emlen's, dramatic visit tion. The Suwa Mara arrived at Penang
to that port.
INDIAN BAYONET CHARGE.
THE EMDEN'S" VISIT TO PENANG.
It appears from the accounts in the Mousquet was approaching the entrance from seaward when the den emerged from the harbour by the northern channel,¡ ̧ and engaged and sank her.
the people. A telegram from our Peking that the unfortunate vessel was on her Station Hotel, application withdrawn SIKUS AND GURKHAS RECEIVE THEIR DARTIS Straits papers that the French destroyer Correspondent a day or two ago informed that the President, in order to enesarage militarism in China, has $2.65 rtialed that the war gods shall be regalarly worshipped There was a time 2.00 in China's history when every man was
3.00
downward trip from Pose to Nanning, and when passing a narrow channel about mid-way she was fired at from the banks. The firing must have been directed at the wheel-house to have caused the assistant
Mr. George Green, licenced of the Criterion Bar, was called before the Board, and the Chairman informed him that the Board had decided to grant the
NEWS FROM GERMAN SOURCES.
The following is among the latest
German and Austrian progress in Paland and alicia is good.
liable for military service, but those are/ Pilot's, death, and that of the compradore, licence for another year,, but he was to equal to anything scen, throughout the German telegraphic information:-
days Tony meged, and the soldier's profession now has few attractions for the averagS Chinese.. It is indeed, despiced. There is a Chinese proverb Good: iron will not 3.45 which says:
he ntilised for the manufacture of
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one
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beliefs which China has to discard it she is ever to take the rail amongst the nations of the world to which her vast 4.00 territory and population should give her dain. The great war in Europe conveys for the Chinese the lesson that 4.55 they are alone in the view, that n good son will not enlist as a soldier. They may pea. if they will, that the great nations 455 of the West without exteplión find the highest expression of patriotism in good sons being ready to sacrifics life 265 and fortune to fight for the defences and the honour and glory of their country. 6.65
Belted earl and cook's son" are seen 0.95 ghing side by side. animated by the same lofty spirit of patriotism and the sare high sense of public duty. We have no doubt the war is being carefully studied in its many aspects by the leaders of thought and action in China, and we suppose that these voluminous regulations find for compulsory service which we reproduced in the Peking papers must be A. S. WATSON & CO.. regarded as one of the earliest fruits of
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that study. They are the product of a political party-the Progressive Purty- -hot-having regard to the present condi- fion of Ching the only comment they suggest is that the new Progressive Party sens to be no improvement on the old if this is a fair sample of their ideas of practical statemanship.
Monday next is a Bank Holiday. The Christmas parcel mail for England
closes this afternoon,
Sir Thomas Jackson's two sons have
both returned from the front wounded.A The name of Lieut, A... Day, R.E., who is well-known in Hongkong, is in a list of prisoners published, by the War Office on the 16th ult
Subscriptions in Cochin-China to the million national war fund exceed a franes. The spontaneity of the action of the Apanese is described as remarkable,
The second engineer of the Laerlea, Henry Wright, who failed to appear at to a charge
whose room is next to the wheel-house.
The matter has been reported to HB.M's Consul at Wuchow, and it is to be hoped that he will leave nothing antone to require the responsibic Chinese officials to bunt np these savage piratical fiends for due punishment and to be taught to respect British trading vessels, This is the third piratical attack on foreigners and foreign ships reported to se taken place within five weeks in the Province of Kwangsi.
· LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,
ware applicant that there had been a report made of a disturbance which had occatred in the bar one evening. If any further reports of the kind were made the question of withdrawing the license would be considered.
WHEN AN OFFICE IS NOT AN OFFICE As to the Royal George Hotel, Kowloon, the Chairman informed Mr. II. Ruttonjee, the lieuces, that although his hotel had a two roads in considerable frantage, on Kesloch, on the ground floor, the Board had beett informed that the hotel did not possess any proper office, and that a visi tar 15 the hotel, wishing to enter, was not able to find any entrance to the hotel except through a door facing one of the two rands, where there was but "a staircase was no office where anyone could go in to engage a room or to ask for a guest, and ane going in was not able to 6nd the savager or anyone else without going into the billiard-room or the bar.
LONDON, October 19th. Correspondents describe how the Sikhs and Guridias received their baptism of fire in the present war, near La Bamser, saving the situation when an avalanche of Ger mans overwhelmed the British trenches. The Indians displayed bravery and dash
war.
They had been held in reserve and were ordered forward with the bayonet in the The issue was decided in nick of time.
The Gerinan advance was an instant. not merely checked, but was beaten and broken, the enemy fleeing headling The Indians ran through them, using the steel in a most workmanlike manner and turn- ed the foe back to receive the fire of the British infantry on the right and left. It was a regular slaughter.
The Indians did not stop at the recap ture of the treaches, but pursued the enemy some distance downhill till the were re-called and returned as prout of their work as the Tommies were of them.
outer. 2.
General von Moltke, chief of tho German imperial staff is recovering. General von Falkemayn is acting in his place temporarily:
A Inter German official report saya:- "In Poland the German and Austrian troops were obliged to give way befor new Russian forecs advancing from Ivangored, Warsaw and Nowogeorgiewsk after having successfully repulsed all thes Russian attacks in several days, lighting The Russians did not follow the retreating Gerinan force at once, and our with drawal was accomplished without diffi- culty. Our troops will group anew
eastern theatre of war, in which then las -been no important change.",
A neeting of the above is being held the going up and a book on a shelf." There A MULTITUDE OF GERMAN SPIES.according to the situation in the north
afternoon. The orders of the day are as follows:-
First reading of a Bill entitled, "An Ordinance to amend the Alien Enemies (Winding un) Ordiannice, 1914," Ordinance to amend the Medical Regis-stairs.
First reading of a Bill entitled, "A
tration Ordinance, 1884.
Fecond reading of the Bill entitled, An Ordinance to apply a sum not excandig. Nine million five hundred and fifteen thousand six hundred and ninety tro Dollars to the Public Service of the
war 1015,"
Second reading of the Bill entitled, "An Ordinance to provide for the levy of Estate Duty payable in respect of the estates of deceased persons.'
Committee on the Bill entitled, An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the Iw relating to Chinese Passenger
Ships as defined by the Chinese Passen
rers Act, 1855, ond concerning Asiatic Emigrants generally.” *
†This Bill will go through all its stages
at this meeting. Will not be proceeded with at this
meeting.
SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL
The applicant interrupted with the remark that there had been an office in the hotel for the past three years-under the The CHAIRMAN-Wait until I have finished speaking. There is nothing to show that an office is in the hotel entrance, and I say there is no office thero. The place you mention is full of dilapidated furniture, and if anyone goes to the hotel for a friend there is no one there of any sore but the Sikh watchman, and there is no office. As a matter of fact the office" does not exist you may call it an office, but it is not an office in the ordinary way. The Board wish me to inform you that the licence will be renewed on the condition that an office is
erected to the satisfaction of the Board.
Replying to the Hon. Mr. Hewett, applicant said he had lived on the pre- mises for the past fifteen years; he also had a manager who could speak English.
HONGKONG FOOTBALL CLUB.
ANNUAL MEETING OF MEMBERS. The annual meeting of the members of the Hongkong Football Club- was held yesterday, Mr. F. Browne presiding.
The CHAIRMAN said that the Association
Among the many institutions established for the purpose of doing good, helping the indigents, succouring orphans and abandoned infants, irrespective of creed and nationality, there is, probably, none that excels the Society of St. Vincent de section's season had been very good, and Paul Half a century has elapsed since the Rugby team had enjoyed an exception- a branch of this charitable institution was ally gratifying season. The Club had established in this Colony, and the done extremely well in regard to its Society's reports, published annually, afford proof of the valuable work the finances, and had a good balance at the Society has done. The Society largely end of the financial year. More attention depends on the proceeds of an annual had been paid to advertising the more im- bazaar for its funds, and it is hoped that,portant matches, and as a result the the forthcoming 4 Fresco Fête, under the distinguished patronage of His Excellency the Governor and Lady May, to be held on Sunday, 9th November, in the com- pound of the Roman Catholic Cathedral, will meet with its accustomed sitccess, overshadowing everything. despite the great political crisis which is Following is an abstract of the accounts of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Hongkong, Wanchai, and Kowloon dis tricts, from 1st October, 1913, to 30th September, 1911:
RECEIPTS...
Helanco ...... Prosasds of Al Fresca Féta Donation from Colonial Government Subscription from Hon. Members... Cortion from Sunday Meetings... Sundry Donations Donation Twelfth Night" per- Subscription Insp. F. Fisher, 12
months at 35 Interest, etc.
formance
EXPENDITUHET
gates" had shown much improvement As to the prospects for the season which had just commenced, the members of the Club were to a large extent engaged in
their first call, but footballers were men Volunteer work, and that was, of course of great courgy as a rule, and it was thought that they could well carry on with their favourite form of recreation in addition to their Military duties.
The adoption of the report and accounts $1,228.80 was proposed by the CHAIRMAN, seconded 1,00141 by Mr. H. I. JONES, and carried
100:00 unanimously.
The next business was the election of 243.02 officers, and the CHAIRMAN proposed that 65,00 the Hou. Mr. Landale be elected. President
for the ensuing year:
130.00
Mr. N. L. RATON seconded, and the mustion was carried unanimously.
480.00
The CHAIRMAN said that the Hon. Socre. 00.00 39.70 tary (Mr. J. C. Taylor), and the Hon. Treasurer (Mr. F. A. Gace) were again willing to give the Club the benefit of their very valed services, and the meet- ing approved of their re-election with ac elamation.
$3,996.50
THE Chinese Government sceus to be as prolific as ever of grandiose legislative schemes of which nothing comes or is likely to come for many years. Among the more important of the projects which bave recently been proposed is a system of conscription and a scheme for the gradual introduction of a system of compulsory Amongst the further contributions to the education. Both are of merely academic National War Relief Fund inaugurated interest in China's present circumstances, by the Prince of Wales are the following: but the projects are nevertheless noteNippon. Yusen Kaisha, Tokyo, £500; worthy as indicative of the current of P. & 0. 9. N. Company (collected on Chinese opinion in influential circles. | board as. Fungini, £38. Considerable modifications have been
Mr. Wood at the Magistracy discharged made in the compulsory education scheme since we last board of it. The ideas Amy Masoa, a typist, who stood charged originally entertained on the subject with reviving a stolen cheque and with
to recognised be utterly courspiring with divers other persons to In the altain by means of false pretences 803.93, impracticable for many reasons. first place a sudden provision of schools in niones of the Hongkong and Shanghai for everybody would involve an enormous
Bank. outlay, for which China is unprepared, and, what is of equal importance,it would require an enormous army of
Mr. H. S. Rouse was re-appointed Cap- trained teachers: These, we need hardly
tain of the Rugby section. Mr. R. F. add, are
Careful nct yet in sight.
Long expressed his desire to be relieved of the duties of Captaincy of the Soccer consideration of the proposal, should
Brction. The names of Messrs. R. B.. Cause the educational enthusiasts to
Bigden, J. Stalker, and W. V. Pennell recognise thas a system of compulsory Worship that at 7.30 pm. on the dat Sisters.
were proposed. The latter declined, and education must be regarded rather as the October defendunt created a disturbance Extra allowance to destitutes,
00.00 Mr. Stalker was elected after a ballot. Hearty thanks were accorded Mr. Long coping than as the foundation stone of in the bar, and demanded to know why medicine. funeral expenses
for his services during his two years' reform in China. The plan as modified the hotel had not got German beer. He
and potties......
48.55 tenure of office. by the Minister of Education, with the also made abusive remarks in regard
West River Relief Fund
50.00 The new Committee were clected as Balance
844.91 follows: Rugby, Messrs. A. Murdoch, approval of the President, provides for a to the Colonial authorities and called
Jasper Clark, and H. G. Hegarty witness a spy. Defendant was fined 810,
$3,086.59 Association, Messrs. F. Browne, R. F the capital first, whence shall and bound over in ICO to be of good
Long, and W. V. Pennell. spread out gradually to the pro- behaviour
A member expressed the opinion that it would assist the Captain of the Soccer vinces like rays radiating from the
section and tend to produce greater satis- Every child over the age of eight
faction among the many playing members of the Soccer leam if a Selection Com- is required under the scheme to attend
wittee were elected. The meeting ap- school, and the draft scheme provides for
The following will represent the proved of the suggestion, and the Com- the co-operation of the police in enforcing part of August from Shanghai for Hongkong Cricket Club v. Kowloon mittee were empowered to act in the elec-
For the same reasons that a delivery to a Chines?, care of the Cricket Club on the Hongkong Cricket tien of such a Selection Committee.
Yingchor. The parcel was found to Club ground on Monday, 9th November, It being unanimously felt that the Club general scheme of cempulsory.education
contain one sporting gun and accessories, play to commence at 10.30 a.. Tin should make some contribution to the is Utopian it will be found that the pre- and 300 odd cartridges. The contents of will be served in the Pavilion at 1 pm Prince of Wales Fund, the Committee sent seleme is also impracticable and will the parcel wero described as hardware. R. N. Anderson, D. E. Donnelly, were authorised to decide on the manner have to be pigeon-holed for many years. The consignce could not be found, and Kennedy, P. S. Leigh-Bennett, A. C in which funds should be obtained and
at the Magistracy yesterday, Mr. Leith, M. M. Maas, W. Manning, E. J. devoted to such purpose." Compulsory education in China must Melbourne, sanctioned the forfeiture of R. Mitchell, S. 6. Moore, R. A. Stokes,
Thanks to the Chairman concluded the come about more gradually. If the desire the arms and ammunition.
and R. P. Thursfield.
meeting.
start being made with the scheme in
sun.
the law.
Weekly allowance to 92 families in the Magistracy in answer
tickets and each ..... of disorderly conduct in the Grand Hotel, Christmas allowances was re-arrested on Tuesday on a warrant, Wanchai Hospital for medicat and appeared before Mr. C. D. Melbourne attendance, medicine, etc...... yesterday. Mr. F. Reichmann told hisAllowance to Wanchni Convent under the care of the Italian
$2,770.00 02.50
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A. J. C. DA ROCHA,
Treasurer General.
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HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB.
Defeclive-Sergeant Wills executed. search warrant at the premises of the Hongkong Parcels Express and Storage Company on Tuesday, and scized a parcel which had been sent there in the early
SOME OF THE ENEMY'S TRICKS.
In a Press Bureau, comin naïque on the 28th September, the following interesting information is given :—
GEEMANY'S MAIN OBJECT.
It
NOT: THE DESTRUCTION OF ENGLAND!” Espionage plays to large a part in the conduct of war by the Germans that it is The Berliner Tagcilatı, in a significant : dificult to avoid further reference to the leader, appears to renounce the popular subject. They have evidently never forgot view that the destruction of England is ten the saving of Frederick the Great the main object of the present war.
When Marshal Soubise goes to war he emphasises the Russian mennce, and says
When I followed by a hundred cooks. take the field I am preceded by a hundred that no one must forget that every loss of spies. Indeed, until about 20 years ago power by England means an increase of there was a paragraph, in their Field Ser-strength for Russia. vice Regulations directing that the service cludes, "We all hope that the English of protection in the field, eg, outposts position as the world arbiter will be and advanced guards, should always be profoundly shaken, but it must be tenfold supplemented by a system of espionage, our duty to fight against-Russia acquiring Though such instructions are no longer the same position,' made public, the Germans, as is well known, still carry them into effect.
Apart from the more elaborate arrange- ments which were made in peace time for obtaining information by paid agents, some of the methods being employed for the collection or conveyance of intelli- gence are as follows:-
The article. con--
THE GERMAN WAR CONSPIRACY.
HOW DEMAND FOR SHIPS AND MEN WAS INVIGORATED.
Wils
LONDON, October 11th The Daily Telegraph publishes extracts Men in plain clothes signal to the Ger from a memorandum written by the lato man lines from points in the hards of the Captain Bertrand Stewart (who chemy by means of coloured lights at sentenced to imprisonment in Germany as night, and puffs of smoke from chimneys a spy before the war, and was killed by day. Pseudo-labourers working in during the fighting in France) and which the fields between the armies have been was submitted to all the Ministers of the detected conveying information, and per- oversea Dominions, emphasising Ger- years of sons in plain clothes have acted as many's system in recent advanced scouts to the German cavalry instigating trumped-up cases of alleged when advancing. German officers and English spying with the view of exciting soldiers in plain clothes or in French or in British uniforms have remained
public demand for more ships and men. The memorandum also describes sham
trials, based upon mendacious evidence, and cruelties practised in prisons,
localities evacuated by the Germans in order to furnish them with intelligence
The Daily Telegraph expresses the One spy of this kind was found by our troops hidden in a church tower. His opinion that the revelations contained in presence was only discovered through the the memorandus had some part in erratic movements of the hands of the uniting the Empire against the Germans. church clock, which he was using to signal to his friends by means of an improvised A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF TSINGTAO.
Had this man not been semaphore code. seized it is probable that he would have signalled to the German artillery the time of arrival and the exact location of the headquarters and staff of the force, High explosive shells would then have mysteriously dropped on to the building. Women spies have also been caught, and secret agents have been found at rail-
ends
observing
dętrainments.
PRECAUTIONS.
A Press correspondent at the Front writes as follows:-
Tho
A fellow correspondent and myself werd kindly taken by a Japanese officer to the base of the steep hill of Fushan, as Omurayama after the christened Oraura Infantry Regiment which carried entrainments and thick shower of shells. The hillside was
full of fresh holes made by the explosion. the position of great strategic value in
of huge projectiles fired by the enemy's It is a simple matter for spies to mix batteries at Iltis and Moltke Forts. The even for about to and from their homes, and dif-burdenless fellows like ourselves. with the numbers of refugees moving ascent was a laborious one,
We could ficult for our troops, who speak neither climb took our breath away. French nor German, to detect them. The not help wondering how the Japanese French have found it necessary to search could dislodge an enemy fortified on the Crash! villages and also the casual wayfarers on top of such a precipitous hill.
Amongst exploded a shell only about nine yards the roads for earrier pigeons. the precautions taken by us to guard ahead. It ploughed a hole in the ground
Soon wo against spying is the publication of the and raised a cloud of dust. following notice, copies of which have reached the summit and saw through the been printed in French and posted up foliage and the binoculars, the enemy's (1) Motor-ears and bicycles, other than camps, barracks, forts, etc., right under those carrying soldiers in uniform may our eyes. On the left Iltis Fort rose like not circalate on the ronde.
a gigantic bat, and the muzzles of its (2) Inhabitants may not leave the locali formidable guns ley yawning against us. ties in which they reside between The city of Tsingtao spread itself out ab 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.
its rear, and the Governor's official residence and the Beer Brewery stood Bismarck conspicuously on the left. Forts crowned a minor hill on the right, and their battery was spitting fire and irun at our positions. Further on the. west stood Moltke Forts fronted with tiers of wire entanglements. Passing our eyes Events have moved so quickly during seaward beyond rows of two-storeyed red. the last two months that anything con brick barracks lie snugly between Iltis nected with the mobilisation of the British and Bismarck Forte, and part of Main Expeditionary Force is now ancient his Harbour is scen beyond. Two torpedo tory. Nevertheless, the following extract destroyers, one of which was the 570, lay of & German order is evidence of the at anchor and a few steam launches wore Right mystification of the enemy and is a trialso seen moored to the abore.
below us tiers of trenches were encircling. bute to the value of the secrecy which was so well and loyally maintained at the time the hillside ready to face Japanese in England:
(3) Inhabitants may not quit their homes
after 8 p.m.
(4) No porzon may on any pretext pass through the British lines without an authorization countersigned by a British ufficer.
THE VALUE OF SECRECY
10th Reserve Army Corps.
Headquarters Mont St. tuliert,
20th August, 1914.
23.40.
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CORPS ORDER, 216T AUGUST. The French troops in front of the 10th Army Corps have retreated south across the Sambre. Part of the Belgian Army has withdrawn to Antwerp. It is report ed that an English Army has disembarked at Calais and Boulogne en ronte for Brussels.
The King visited the wounded soldiers in bospital at Wandsworth. When a man of the Coldstream Guards related how he had been shot by the Germans after the latter had raised the white flag, the King exclaimed," They don't play cricket,"
assaults.
FE VOS DER VILTS."
The following story is related by sergeant-major recently returned wounded lo Colchester :*****
With their, front file dressed in uniforms taken from the killed and wounded of an English regiment, a German corps attempted to surprise an English battalion.
As they approached, the English commander, becoming suspicious, gava the order to fix bayonets, whereupon the Leedlo Germans shouted Nein, nein! mistake! Ve ves not Shermans, vo vos der Vilts.
The British then charged with bayonets and the Germans wilted."
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