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INTIMATIONS

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5TH, 1915.

THE VICTOR-VICTROLA

a surce of endless pleasure to the entire household.

CRACOW.

THE HISTORY OF THE

THREATENED CITY

A reliquary of the olden days, a towered and turreted city, splendid and comely with the dimmed radiance of a timeworn tapestry Where will you find a town of this earth containing so many speaking emblems and survivals of the past Probably nowhere.

square among the gay-dressed peasants,

GARIBALDI'S GRANDSON.

HEROIC DEATH IN ACTION.

dateil December 30th appears in one of the The following dispatch from Bome

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Those who love the Polish people will pray that they may be guided to aide with tha Russiaus, who, whatever their faults, are more akin, spiritually and temperi- mentally, than the Austrians or the Prussians. Then, perhaps, the trumpet speaking out from the antique belfry may for once complete the call and thereby signaliso and welcome the drums and tramplings of an army of invading The nows of the death of Lieutenant friends, sounding the deliverance Bruno Garibaldi, the grandson of the Poland.

famous Italian hero, has caused a great sonsation throughout the country, and revives the magle surrounding the name are heing experienced in obtaining any of the great Liberator. Great difficulties

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From the despatches received, however, it appears that the late ligutenant was in command of a section of his company, which was the firet to attack the Germans at the point of the bayonet, and which of Japan, Officially Recommended by the succeded in dislodging them from the tronches they were occupying. He was Medical Colleges of The Imperial Universities wounded in the head in the thick of the fight.

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If you stand in the great cobbled market GIRDLE OF GERMAN MINES. says a writer in a home paper, you will After arguing that the destruction of hear the loud boom of the clock striking the German squadron sooner or later was the hour of the day, and then the sound inevitable, that its loss does not seriously ot a trumpet high in the air. At overy weaken the practical strength of the hour this is repeated. It seems to come German Navy, and that on the other hand from the big beliry just at hand. In the the German successes greatly stimulated night when all is still you hear the wild German confidence, the Frankfurter notes fanfaronnading on the moonlit sky, Zeitung proceeds and when, later, you begin to make And what about the situation in home enquiries you are told that this custom is waters The British Empire could a part of the lite of Cracow, her hardly conceive anything else than that Austria tried its best to spoil the town when war broke out the North Bes must when it took over the magnifoout be the playground of the English Fleet, Kenaissance Palace of the Polish kings while the modest German ships in the Heligoland Bight would creep to the pro- military. This palace should be, but is tection of the guns on this island, Auglo- not, an anomaly in Cracow. It is not Russian relations meanwhile assured a Polish but Italian, and of the most thorough control of the Baltic. Very few luxuriant kind. It is, or was, as fine an people ever imagined that the Channel example of Renaissance building and could be anything elee then the means of decoration as one could find. undisturbed communication between Eng In the old days there was a great bond land and France. And what is the situa of sympathy between Cracow and Florence, tion The Russian ships are gradually and the artist kings of Poland at that being frozen in in the most obscure recesses time made many exchanges with the of their coast, the Russian and Finnish Flower of Italy. At great expense, and Gulfs are closed by German wines, and The general opinion here is that Lieut. with many difficulties of the long journey the entrance to the see-free port of Libau Garibaldi's and 14 what his grand- MACGREGOR&C. WESTMINSTER SMOKING to be overcome, they translated numbers of is sealed. The Baltic has almost become father would have wished it to be, while

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Being blinded by the stream of blood pairing from his wound, he was com pellert to rotire for a time to get his wound bandaged, but exhorted his men to con- nor the struggle. He returned shortly, and, at the head of his victorious men, led the pursuit against the enemy, but while encouraging his soldiers on with word and gesturo he again fell. He had only breath to cry ont: Leave me go ahead, boys. Viva Italia!" when he expided.

fine Florentine craftsmen to Cracow, and German lake. The North Sea is com fighting, though indirectly, for Italy, the the result is that in the Palace and in the manded by the German Navy Germany's country of his father, and for England, Cathedral on Wawel, overhanging the ships above and below the water cross the the birthplace of his mother. Patriotism winding, Vistula, there are incomparable passages which separate England from our in him was developed to a high degree and treasures of Italian bandiwork.

They creep up to the enemy's he was as solicitous for the welfare of When the Austrians came into posses-monsters and destroy them at the entrance England as for that of Italy. Although sion they took the glorious king's residence to their holes. Gindles of German mines naturally deeply distressed at the death so regally situated on this eminence comoncircle the British Isles, and by their of her son, his mother shows exemplary manding the city and, in the endeavour terrible secret sink mighty ships with fortitude, and has, in fact, asked her to make comfortable barracks, thought powerful explosions. The thunder of our husband to telegraph to her other sons, nothing of breaking down walls between guns off Yarmouth and car ghostly surging them, to continue to prove them- rooms to facilitate their vandalistic marines are the answer to the noisy selves worthy of their heroic brother notions of what was praction. They broke rhetoric of English Ministers. They con. [Lieutenant Bruno Garibaldi was one of

stitute the destruction of the idea of the six brothers, and was serving with the Italia supremacy of the English Navy in the Volunteer Corps, under the command of his North Sea. Nay, we have gone a step eldest brother, Lieutenant-Colonel Guisseppo further. German guns are directed upon Garibaldi, the Corps being attached to the the Channel. We have not yet arrived at reach Foreign Legion. Another brother the point whence we can encirole the whole was one of the Construction Engineers of arm of the sea with the flight of our the Chinese section of the Canton-Kowloon shells, but already we have advanced so railway and married about a year ago the far that under cover of the fire of our daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Galuzzi of Hong-

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up mosaic flooringe, smashed the stained glass of the windows and knocked the heads off sweet little stone statues harm lessly resting in their niches; the soldiers sharpened their swords and ground their axes on the stone tracery of the window frames, and hung bacon from hooks driven into the priceless carved, and painted wooden ceilings,

BUYING BACK A HERITAGE Then the Poles, impoverished though, they were, emptied their pockets to buy back their heritage from the Austrians, and counted themselves happy in getting the Palace safely into their own hands at the cost of its purchase plus the cost of providing new quarters for the Austrian troops. The spirit of the nation welled up and brimmed over, and money poured in from all quarters to repair, the havoc, It became a national endeavour to help the restoration in every way. The son of Sienkiewicz, the navelist, underwent an architectural training in order that he might volunteer his services and, for no personal gain, devote his life to directing the workmen employed in bringing back to the palace its former splendour. The work of restoration is being done, reverent ly and wonderfully; the new portions of stone carving are chiselled with real affection and fooling, and the "wear" of the stone is achieved by artificial moans in so ingenious a manner that it is difficult to tell where the damaged parts have been mended.

To behold the passion and patriotiam that throb through and irradiate this astonishing reconstruction is an experi- ence which stirs the soul, for you see the puler boats of the whole nation con- centrated into one steady movement build- ing up and forging new life in the

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By her land Army England has tied herself to the fortunes of our enemies on the Continent. But our submarines have wormed their way into the limbs of the English giant, and are pulling him quite DISCOVERY OF ANOTHER DARK close to us. The German guns on the coast make it possible completely to forget that it is against an island that we are waging war. We do not know what is to come, but, the terrible anxiety and the insane speeches of which we hear from England betray to us the fact that it is not a naval war in the old sense which we have hitherto been waging in the North Sea and in the Channel, and that the Island Empire has now appreciated the full meaning of the war. We do not let our selves bo bnded by the feeling of strength which the enemy's anxiety gives us, and we know that the work against England has not yet been even hall done, but we are full of cheerful hope because we see BRITAIN THE BENEFIDIARY, that "English supremacy at ces" has not held good. Nothing but a victory could make the expression true. We shall accept battic gladly,

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Chinese Government to hand to Mr. F. French England used all her endeavours SATURDAY,

Arrangements have been made by the We in England know something of their Aglen, the Inspector-General of Customs to add the flames necessary to make the great hero Kosciuszko, but all of us perhaps do not know that he has one of and Vice Chairman of the Bureau of French pat boil overduerak ayy the finest monuments in the whole world. dollars one hundred and twenty thousand be satisfod that not less then fire nations National Loans, each month the sum of England shuffed the cards, and can now If you look down a certain street in Cracow, your eye goes right out to the ($120,000) from the revenues assigned have taken up arms against the Germanic meadows beyond; in the distance there is of the National Loan of the Third Year and Russia had to sacrifice large portions of under the Loan Regulations to the ServiceWhile Belgium was laid waste and France a green symmetrical hill the shape of of the Republic of China of $15,000,000 their territories, England sauntered round basin inverted; in spite of its regularity it might easily be thought a natural and the Supplementary issue of 88,000,000 the world and calmly pocketed the German

Loan Service Accounts have been opened colonies without considering the feature, for it enters the vista so simply in the name of Mr. Aglen with the Bank Frans or Russia. and strikes the eye with such a sense of of China and the Bank of Communica

interests of pleasure.

In order that England's sphere of action Here, again, you have the Poles at their tions, into which these monthly instal-might not be curtailed, she made a contrac very best. When Kosciuszko died, how tents of interest will be paid as received, by which not one of the allied nations should were they to record their glowing worship and these accounts will be drawn on to make prace independently of her! of the great hero? Not by sculptured meet the half-yearly interest Coupons So the world is witnessing the grotesque marble or even the most beautiful and payable through the intermediary of the comedy in which the biggest natious are everlasting bronze fashioned by great sove-named Bank. The first interest fighting for England with every possible PROTESTANT craftsmen, but with a monument built by instalment for the month of January has self-sacrifice the whole nation. To this sacred spot been duly received and brought to account. there came from every part of Poland men of eight million dollars (83,000,000) are Subscribers to the Supplementary Issue of every kind poet and peasant doctor further notified that in accordance with and politician-warrior and clerk-cach of them with a handful of earth as part Article 2 of the Loan Regulations the full THE PERFLEXITY OF POTEDA M of the nation's tribute. No class, nor amount of dollars four hundred and eighty equality, nor any place in Poland was interest on the loan for one year, has been war, but recalls the surprise which was thousand ($490,000), being the amount of that England did not bring about the Elsewhere the Forische not only admits unrepresented, and the result was an im- posing hill, a landmark for miles, on a duly raised by the Ministry of Finance felt that she should have come into the HONGKONG DAILY PRESS OFFICE ridge rising out of the undulating plains and the Ministry of Communications and conflict af all

on the outskirts of Cracow..

WHAT OF THE FUTUREAUSA A The grass grows thickly on its sides and footpaths wind about it to the top, where there rests a rugged undressed boulder dragged from the mountains at Zakopane. One word only is chiselled in the rude stone and that in the plainest and simplest lettering-Kosciuszko

With the news of the Russians and Gernians at Cracow there comes a dread. What is going to happen to the Cathedral, the Palace and the Mound? The majority of the Poles would undoubtedly prefer the Russian rule to the Prussian, but the Polish patriots in Austria-Hungary have ban misled and put into a quandary with promises of freedom offered from both sides, and to promise his country back to a Pole is like promising life to & con- demned man. Who can blame them if they join both sides, when both are offer ing to give their own country back to them?

What glorious joy will reign in our hearts. completely throttling the breath out of the when we shall at last have succeeded in British Empire!

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