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Hongkong Legislative Council.

The Loss of H.M.8. Triumph..

Major-General Kelly, C.B.

Death of Mr. J. E. Greason.

The Death of Mr. E. W. Tilden.

The Gallantry of the 40th Pathans.

Shanghai Arson Case,

Bhipping Notes.

The Freight Market.

Correspondence:-

An Appeal to Englishwomen.

Lawn Tenajs

Hongkong Italians and the War

University of Hongkong

Hongkong Currency Question.

No Dealings with Enemy.

Shanghai Gimbs and German Mombers.

German Goods in a British Gosown.

The Lusitania Atrocity.

Coin Sweating.

Knighthood for Mr. Ho Tung.

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WAR NEWSMOK

THE "LUSITANIA" DISASTER.

AS REPORTED IN BUDAPEST.

The Morning Post's correspondent at Budapest says that a good impression bas been created by the fact that the Lilsitania was sunk near land with the express purpose of enabling passengers to escape so that no passengers should be

** killed!

THE RETORT COURTEOUS.

MR. ROOSEVELT'S KEPLY TO HERE DERNBURG. the According to a story which is going round of the Preae, Herr Dernburg, with characteristic tact, approached Mr. Roosevelt and asked him the reason for his hostility to Germany

Because I think the position of Gormary is wrong, was Mr. Roosevelt's reply.

Bat, objected Horr Dornburg, you and the Kaiser are friends?

I have great respect for the Kaiser and admiration for the German people. I object to their war policy, that is all, observed Mr.

Roosevelt

Nevertheless, insisted Herr Dernburg," the German Government honoured you on your visit there above any other citizen of a Why, the Emperor oven foreign country. invited you to dinner

So did King George, retorted Mr. Roose -valt.

That ended the conversation.

OVER 600,000 PRISONERS IN

"SIBERIA,

-

"BRITAIN WILL NOT LET BELGIUM STARVE.”

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE ́ ́ HONGKONG

DAILY PRESS.

May 2nd, 1915, 818-We have pledged our honour to But Belgium is not a restore Belgium. word-it in a people, and the Belgian people is starving. If we let it porish during the process of restoration we shall have grasped only the shadow of our tack, Mr. Hoover, Chairman of the neutral Commission for Relief in Belgium, and Mr. Franoqui, Chairman of the Com- mittee in Brussels, tell us that "

Lre now

a million and a half Belgians at least entirely destitute. With the rapid-er- haustion of the meat and vegetable sup plies, there will probably be, before har vest time, 2,000,000 Belgians who must be fed and clothed solely by charity. The remaining 4,500,000 will got their pitiful daily allowance of bread through the Com

And they mission and will pay for it." add: Will you help us to keep the destitute alive?"

This neutral Commission, marvellously organised and administered, has hitherto, succeeded in just keeping abreast of the situation, raising its funds from America, other neutral countries, and the British But their funds are failing Colonies. fast; and their needs are getting greater. It is in response to their desperate appeal. that a National Committee for Belgian Relief has now been formed in our coun- try, and every penny it collects will go without deduction into the hands of the neutral Commission, and through them to

The Petrograd correspondent of the the starving Belgian people, in the form So far Germany has kept hor Petit Parisien was authorised by General of food.. Sukhoninoff, the Russian War Minister, word not to filch what is sent for the Bel- to-publish at the beginning of May thegians; and the organisation of relief now makes it almost impossible for a German following statement:

Headquarters Staff can give us details to touch one loaf of Delgian bread. The garding the strength of the troops At present need is for £100,0000 a month; the the front, but already Busela has put into future aced will to even greater. the field, and armed, several millions of

Our own exigencies are, of course, soldiers; and can still, according to cir tremendous; but what would they not be cumstances, evasiderably increase that

if Belgium had consulted her own mate figure.

Regarding prisoners, the numbers takenrial needs, had just chosen to save her by the Russians are enormous. The self instead of saving the Western majority, of course, are Austrians, and world With Belgiam complacent to the the difficulty of lodging and iceding them Germans, Paris gone, Calais gang-it The exact would have meant another year on to the appears to be considerable, figure cannot be stated, but it may be years we may have to fight, an extra fire said that in the depôts of Siberia there are hundred-million pounds of money, an already over 600.000, while hundreds of extra-hundred thousand lives. If ever tenins are slowly proceeding from the country owod debt, this country owes it frontier towards Siberia, The number of to Belgium, to keep the breath in the prisoners in these is not known, but the bodies of her people. Owes it, and must Emperor "rancis Joseph will soon have pay it. more soltera in Russia than in Austria.

£36,000,000 WAR ORDERS. HUGE-RUSSIAN AND FRENCH CONTRACTS. IN DAKADA AND U.S.

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In standing to her guus Belgium saved of course the whole world, for modern civilisation is built on nothing if not on. good faith and honourable obligation; but it is France and Britain before alf that they has saved, France, however, has a terrife task in the rescue of her own Thanks, ruined millions in the north. perhaps, to ruined Belgium, Britain has. not, may never have, to rescue and restore ruined towns and countryside.

Ths New Fork World says: The Canadian Car and-Foundry Company is now working on £16,000,000 worth of orders for shrapnel and explosives re-

In return, what is Britain doing? ceived from the Russian Government, which has deposited £4,000,000 with the Spending money and blocd like water, lo National City Bauk, the Bank of Mon-driva the Germans out of Belgium! Yes! treal, and J. P. Morgan & Co., to be ad-1-But let us be honest. We should have and vanced to the Canadian Car and Foundry to do that in any case, for our own inter

est. We are not thereby discharging tho Company

debts of gratitude, justice, and humanity. Giving hospitality to 200,000 Belgians - It is something, but not enough: nearly enough! So far we have not facil at all the desperate situation of Belgium itself; we hay not, indeed, been asked to.. From Canada, and Australia, with one- fith of our population, help to the value of £150,000 a month has been coming in. From ourselves, practically nothing. But in futur, all eyes are turning to us; it is we who are now asked to stay the march of death."

Mr. Nathaniel Curry, president of the Canadian Company, says there are about thirty American companies working on the contract, and that there will soon probably be ferty.

They would probably begin delivering the shrapne in about three or four weeks. Deliveries, they expected, would total about 500 shrapnel duly rheul the first or middle of July,

Many concerns in this country and abroad were making explosives that never made them before, said Senator: Curry: In many instances car shops were being, used to niauufacture shrapnel and explo

gives..

A telegram from Chicago says:-The French Government has alcs:d contracts with the Du Pont Powder Company for £20,000,000 worth of powder.

"THE WAY TO TIPPERARY" The Cologne Gazette says it has received the following "poem" from a German living at Java

It's a long way to Paris, It's a long way to go,

It seems a short cut through Belgium, But it's a long way, you know

Good-bye. Kaiser Wilhelm, Good-bye, noble foe!

It's a long way to St. Helena But that's where you go!

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It's a long way to Tipperary, We left in August last, and now it's

February

We came at Charleroi, a city very fine, We did not stop there long, ran back to

St Quentin.

We were also et Mons, and different

other places,

But as a sporting folk, wo are fast, you

know, at races,

We hurried up from there, we found it

rather hot.

We are back now on our way to safer

Aldershot.

It's a long way to Tipperary.

Not

A penny income tax in our country yields nearly three million pounds. If each one of us sets aside at once ore penny, from every pound of hia income, this peopls is saved this people more cruelly wronged than ever prople were, this people to whom cach one of us owes a debt, that we have not realised,that we cannot It Bel- realise in its full proportions. gium starves, the civilised world incurs a stain more black than we dare to con template: a little country gave itself for Civilisation, and Civilisation, having the We means to anve it, let it prrish !. are dealing here not with words, ideals, and what not, we are dealing with hanger very simple thing; if people are not fed. they die. No ultimate victories, vindications, and indemnities are of the -If lenst use to Belgians, starving now, they are not kept alive on the shoulders of this country, the richest country, and that which has gained most by Belgium's suffering, the reproach will die heaviest Verily it will

There can be no exaggeration in the tales of Belgium's trouble-fer no words can ores begin to tell it as it should be told. There can be no exaggeration in the ex- pression of gratitude for what we owe her. If those wronged and ruined prople had done nothing for us, should we grudge them enough morey to spare curselves the sight of their starvation just across the 52a under our very eyes? But seeing

B did not yet arrive, and now it's what they are what they have done for.

Theary,

is very rough,

And the Germans very tough,

The latest song we sing the tale is

rather dreary. We have lost the way, any boys, the way

to Tipperary.

The Timer, iu a badler commenting upon the disclosures in a Belgian ladys) diary, we reproduced in the Daily Prea a day or two ago, says: "The crimes committed by the Germans in Belgium are a scandal and a shame to our commor civilisation. Let the nation think seri ously, of the unspeakable degree of the torture the Dinant lady, from whose diary extracts have been made, and her companions underwent. They will then understand what is the militarism we ar determined to destroy, not sparing blood or treasure in this taak.

us-bow-how can wear to let them lack the mere sufficiency of life!

No Britain will act let Belgium" starve. We have not known hitherto what was neded of us in this racs with We are too. death Now we do know. brbud by far not to pay 'cur debts. For this is a debt of honour, preceding even thic charity that begin at home. *

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