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THE CANTON RIOTS.

LEADER SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT,

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H. F. Frévost Battersby, tho special correspondent of the Daily Graphics writing from British Headquarters

SAYS:--

The Nga:

A YEAR OF WAR,

EMBARRASSED GERMAN,

REVIEWS.

ARMING OF SUBMARINES,

Several years ago aaval experts in the United States recognized that it was in- perative that submarines should be pro- vided. with armament in addition to tor-"- It is remarkable, says the Times of the 3rd at that, although the German gerents in the present war have strengthos

pero tubes, and the experiences of belli-

newspapers have been able in recented them in that view. For nearly two atonths to express great satisfaction and years, it is reported, oficials have been confidence, their attempts to sum up the weapon for the use of under water craft working out the problem of developing n results of the first year of war are when cruising on the surface which would embarassed and ring false.. The Cologne not delay the clearing of decks for diving, Gazette produces afresh the boasts and and the conclusions arrived at as the result fictionis that have done dity at any time of investigations and experiments "hva warfare has made two in the past 12 months. apparently contradictory demands upon example, once again that London is the Army and Navy Register," w 3-inch It says, for now takon practical form, According to the maker of guns: ons is for a weapon shivering with four of the Zeppelins"; disappearing gun for under-water craft which will shout further than any that the English Battle Fleet has over-shot-before; and the other is hiding" and that the ceny's Burca, and, every test having resulted is has been perfected by the Navy Ordinance for a weapon which will drop a shell a nunees are in confusion." It rejoices shorter distance from the muzzle than an

once more over the hatred of Rugland, satisfactorily, the gun and carriage has chciny was ever expected to be. So one the main object now, 28. before, of been sont from the ordnauce factory to finds the Germans at work upon a gun German embitterment," and then repeats New York for mounting on the new sub- which shall carry a world-shattering pro- the old story about the origins of the marine .. The new gun is made jectile from Culais to Dover, and as the same time devising quaint little mortars wicked British statesmen,

war, and the plot long schemed by shorter than the regular 3-inch Navy weapon to meet space limitations. This which will lob tins of high explosives about as far aa

been fitted for very high angle fire, which reduces its range somewhat, but it has inan cam punt a football.

will give it some chance for uso agailist aeroplanes. The seagoing · submazino authorized by the last Congress may be armed with two or more gums, possibly of inch oibre, although final decision en this point has not been reached.--Vaval and Military Record.

...

Of the very big guns we have had little experience of late They are somewhat extravagant things with which to do much firing and expend on one expansive burst the labour which would produce a host of smaller and perhaps more needed projectiles,

Quite the reverse, however, is true of the many short-range weapons which have been dovised to add to the discomforts of treach defenc

The Kokami says the Japanese Govern mont has received official intimation the the ringlender of the Chinese rioters who joopardized the lives of Japanese residents in Canton at the time the recent Sino Japanese negotiations were in progress, has recently been sentenced to penal ser vitute for be, while leur ötlers have been sentenced to torms ranging from fourteen Men learn of the arrival of some now months to bfteen years.

unpleasantness and of the pet name Japan's demand for redress in connee-attached to it, and when they experience tion with this affair has bee acepted by something that seems to fit the descrip the Chinese Government, which has de

tion they attach to it the name of which Thus one hears cided to pay through Mr. Segawa, Consul.they have been told. General at Canton, some Y80,000 to the explosions attributed to the Sausage. Japanese suff:rers.

which were undoubtedly caused either by

"Rum-jar or an aerial torpedo..

C

The trouble of all the German writers sems to be the difficulty of explaining how Germany can expect her efforts, however successful they may have been, to and in victory, The Cologne Gazette says that a hostile colonel has published the following programme in an American magazine :--

IN THE WEST.--No change for the pre- seat, but in October the beginning of a French offensive which will roach the Rhine in December.

In

IN THE EAST.-A Russian retirement a the first case, followed in August by the intervention of Rumanis, and in September by a general attack upon Austria by Italy, Serbia, and Rumania, who will recover Galicin in October and invade Austria from three sides, causing the Austrian Govora not to take refuge in Germany. October retirement of the Germans from Courland and Enst, Prusia. In November ovaculation of Poland and Silesia. In The detonation of the "Rum-jar once Decomber, German request for a truce. The heard is never likely to be forgotten, if | fall of Constantinople is predicted for Søps. ono's ears are left with any further use tember. for sound. The "Rum-jar." is named. from its resemblance to the gallon stone that the Cologne Gazette publishes all What is perhaps most interesting is jars in which ration rum is carried, but

than the

THE "RUM-JAR.!!

following:-

OPENING SESSION OF TSANCHENGYUAN,

ABSENCE OF LU YUAN-HUNG..

PERING, September 2nd. The Teanchongyuen (State Council) hold is rather more than double the size of the this with no better reply its opening session yesterday afternoon jar.

The damage it causes is entirely due to We admit freely that in the art of ja the capacity of Lifay (gi its detonating quality; that is to say, it prophesying and lying our lative

enemies are Chunber). President Yuzu

But in confidence in our Shih-kai appointed the Stat Secretary does not like shrapnel or high explosive superior to us. to attend as his representative while shell, rely on the metal it ourries of which many are so sure of victory that we only good sword we despise such arts. We in Wang Shih-tung,

the contains it for its effect. It is difficult member of a President's Secretariat, was appointed to give an adequate conception of the shrug our shoulders at such self-deception

and imagination. Of this we are sure special delegate to read the presidential noise 'ji makes,

that the Allies will not succeed in taking the Dardanelles, and that our armies will The Peking Gazette states that Vice-

yield neither in the East nor in the West.

The Cologne Gazette adds the following curious consolation for the German

address.

of hie

that Vico-Preside-rot

THE AERIAL TORPEDO.

merchant solved Nor does anyone appear to have Ho will resume after the war his old

piani, fat than the Raan-jar

of

and

About the serial torpedo there seems to President Li Yuan-hung, wo-is Chair- be, mere mystery. man of the Council, was absent from torpedo, and is furnished with a pro- It is the shape of a yesterday's session of the Tsanchongyuan pellor; but exactly what the propeller and that this caused considerable comment. The Gazette learns from a cirtain quarter does for it seems not yet to have been that the absence of Vice President Li Yuan-hung is connected with his desire, guessed from what it is fired, the pro- commercial relations, and the German which he communicated to President eller suggesting obvious difficulties, Its mercantile marine will again sail proudly La the enemy AS HONGKONG WEEKLY PRASS ASAHI BEER. Shibukaweliqundige is reported to be slow, its trajectory under the German flag.

The adds dilingkarlmann

ok the other hand, the hit spirit offnet de ter they pressed a strong wish to retire to private incident. The enemy suddenly began 16 we have decorihod was engranatg begin. Ia countless articles shell a dug-out

Francothe confasion The first shot carried industries, the destruction of trade, him to reside outside the grounds of the headquarters. Forbidden City under the protection of a way an elm growing just behind the the discontent among the peoples which is

dug-out, the second struck a poplar about culminating in small bodyguard-Reuter.

revolutionary movements, forty yards further on. Two men What used to be abused as reactionary and engaged on some fatigue work near the illiberal in Germany is now copied by our SUPPLIES FOR RUSSIA FROM poplar were killed on the spot, yet it was onomies in Russin, Land Reforma in impossible to say by what agency. They England, Universal Military Service; and in JAPAN.

had not been struck by any fragment of Franco, the Thres Years Service or shell or splinter from the tree.

our Their grey uniforms. On the anniversary of the clothes were unsinged, and there was no outbreak of the great wor We suspicion of gas. That they were both frightened neither by threats untouched is proof that they could not troubled prophecies.

by The German sword have been right on top of the explosion, continues its work, aided and sharpened by and the shell was estimated ascertainly a pure consciones. not bigger than a five-inch."

Lostringhui" and the War.

A: Shanghai_Man under Fire.

Novel by n Far Eastern Author.

Strengthening the Japanese Navy)

Concert at Naval Canteen.

Need of School Teachers in China. Leading Articles; –

Oversea Britons and the War.

West River Conservancy.

China's Police System,

A link with the Past.

Raudoni Reflections.

Korea Mining Dispute.

Batched by Germans in China.

Sanitary Board.

Foochow Chub.

The Law Conria.

Tho Colony's Finance.

Bank Notes in Circulation. A Public Garden for Shanghai.

Prince of Wales' Fund.

Hospitals for Foreign Service. Cigarette and Tobacco Fund. Mator Ambulance for the Front.

Kwangtung Flood Relief Fund.

Death of Mr. H. T. Wade of Shanghai.

Swatow Notes.

Macao Notes.

Coronation-of-the Emperor of Japan. Correspondence: --

Our Currency Muddle.

Sporting Competitions in Warbima.

Singapore Defences

Chinese Trade Commission in New York.

Local Sport.

Plague Prevention.

Shipping Notes.

Japan's Confideneo.

Passenger Lista,

Fire at Kowloon.

Hongkong Tramway Co.

China and the Standard Oil Co.

Let Es be Pro-British.

The Similarity of North America and China.

Commercial.

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LARGE ORDER FOR RAILWAY STOCK.

The Jiji publishes a Nagoya, dispatch, stating that in addition to orders for arms and ammunition, placed in Japan by Rus- sia, the latter has asked Japan to supply 15,000 railway carriages,

aro

nor

be the five-inch, shell which has obtained emulates the utterances of Count Revent It is the five-inch, or what is supposed to In a second article the Cologne Gazette the deceptively affectionate sobriquet of low. The reference to the Dogger Bank

Percy,

action is as follows:-

The Nippon Sharyo (Japan Carriage) Kabushki Kaish in Nagoya, was Inst week approached by the Tokyo authorities At present you have in the trenches the In the North Sea, Admiral Hippers whe to manufacture a certain mumber of rail option, if it can be called an option, of repeatedly bombarded the English coast and way carriages within a certain period.

being shelled by Percies,' "Pip-put a wholesome terror into the English in squeaks which is The paper learns that in ordering the car

gun of auch their own country, sent the Briton Beatty riages From Japan the Russian Coyern-bombed by Rum-jars," and their leaser Tiger became one the sound of which was smaller calibre-and field guas, or being home with a bloody head, and the name mert expressed a desire to hare 15,000 car kindred. rings within a hundred days. The Nip

enough to make the English Admirsity pon Sharyo Kabushiki Kaisha, the Kara Baki Shipbuilding Yard, and the Kisha Kaisha are the only establishments where railway carriages can be turned out a present. The capacity of these establish ments is limited, and they are unable to manufacture 150 carriages per day. Sono

TRENCH KUMOUR.

nervous.

If you can prevent the approach to Of the late Count Spee it is said that yours of the enemy's trenches, whizza Achilles would have envied him, and camiot or do not wish to prevent him, wished him & Homer to sing his deeds." "tactics are resorted to. If you an Alexander the Great might have bang then you take to bonbe. Somo men find

HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORES.

ORDERS BY LIEUT, COL A› CHLAPMAN, V.D.

MUSKETRY, PART 1.

Corps Order No. 3 of 8. 9. 15, the following In addition to the recruits detailed in

will fire Part I, Recruits' Coarse, at King's Park on Saturday, 11th it, at 2.30 p.m.

Centre Section M. G. Co.-Pte, F. C. Todd. Left Section M. G. Co-Pte. T. C. Willin, Signalling Section Pte. Rodrigues and

Tangap.

SIGNALLING SECTION. Clasa (J).-Commencing on Saturday, the IIth inst, and every Saturday until further Headquarters at 7am. for Morse Flag, notice the following men will parede at Heliograph and Buzzer practico under Sorgt.- Major Blair: LeCpl. Reis, LeCpl. Rocha, Ptes. Hurle, Jacobs, Young, Reis, Rodrigues, Santos, Luz and Chaves,

Clase (11) Commencing on Friday, the notice the following men will parade at 10th inst, and every Friday until further Headquarters at 7 am for Morse Flag Practice unilor Sergt. Silas and Corp. Lawrence: Pies. Abbas, Costa, Cotton, Gomes, Jennings, Pereira, Ramsey, Ribeiro Wilkinson and Tangap. Parades for Friday, 10th instant-Nil

PARADES.

DETAIL

Gun Club Hill, Kowloon -

On duty until morning of 186h instant-

H.K.V.R.

Detention Camp, Kowloon-

On duty until morning of 13th instant-

H.K.V.R.

G. E. STEWART, Captain,

Adjutant, H.K.V. Corps

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

Friday, Sept. 10th-All ranks in uniform, PARADES (CENTRAL POLICE STATION- FM.)

with helmets. Fall in at 5.50 p.m. sharp. Only Patrol mon and unfit are exempt.

medically Monday, Supt. 13th-Indian Recruits under Sergeant Major for Rifle Exercises. Indian Platoon under own Commander. Tuesday, Sept. 14th-All Chinese Recruits for Ride Exercises under Chief Inspector. Sa far as possible, all fixtures, such as Lectures, Practices, etc,should be cancelled The

PARADE.

l'atrol men, although exempt, in favour of any Combined Parade. should also endeavour to attend. Friday, September 10th:--

6.60 p.m.-One N.-C. Officer and seven P. Cs. to be detailed by Inspector d'Almada.

8.50 p.m.-One N. C Officer and seven P Cs to be detailed by Acting-Inspector J. M. Wong. The Chief Inspector will visit.

Saturday, September 17th-

2.30 pm-Crown-Sergeant Langley and

seven P. Cs. to be detailed by Crowns Sergeant Sirdar Khan,

8.50 p.m.-One N, C. Officer and seven P. Us to be detailed by Inspector d'Almuda."

Patrol men unable to attend are made strictly responsible for providing substitutes

6,000 workmen are needed for turning out drenches are only a few yards apart, the | RUSSIAN GREETING TO THE and for advising the D... P. thereon.

one kind of warfare more restful thak another. Occasionally, when the opposing inconvenience of the situation is accepted on either side with tacit humour, and sometimes with a jest..

this number daily. The Railway authori ties, together with the three establish cuting the orders, and are now holding ments referred to, will co-operate in exe

In a certain position near an awkward negotiations with Russia as to the delivery sadient nocturnal operations had brought dat:

our lines within a few yards of the It is further stated that the Nippon Germans. In order to prevent an attack Sharyo Kabashiki Kaisha has received a from them at dawn, a wire entanglement communication from a certain quarter in was hastily begun in front of our the United States asking if the manufactreaches, ita continuation had to be ture of a certain number of railway carri abandoned owing to the proximity of the ages can be undertaken. From this it is enemy's lines. Next morning it was dis- inferred that the American manfacturers covered that the entanglement had been are in receipt of very large ontlers from completed, and that a notice had been affixed to it conveying the intimation Russia and her Allies-Japan Gazette. that the Germans had finished the

obstacle, sesing that it

of equal servios to both sides, but that they hoped the British would keep it in repair.

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The newspapers report the Central Powers have up to now occupied 70,312 square miles of foreign territory The enemy occupies only 4,281 squarejnilsa,

The total of prisoners of war for the first year in Germany and Austria- Hungary makes a round total of 1695,400. Altogether the booty in Germany can be calculated at from 7,000 to 8,000 fannon and front 2,000 to 3,000 machine gne.

The Times apponds to this state out the following footnote:-

Was

GERMAN WRITER'S PESSIMISM.

The Vossische Zeitung publishes a load- ing article by Georg Bernhard, the well- krown writer, which is in some respects surprisingly pessimistic.

that besides

ALLIES.

TSAR AND HIS TROOPS.

PETROGRAD, August 185.

"I here solemnly declare that we will not conclude peace until the last enemy soldier has left our land." The Tear's words at the Winter Palace on August 1st, 1914, are reproduced in the Press on the anniversary of the war. A message in the Bourse Carette to-day printed in all the Allied languages, says:--

JOINED.

The following have joied-F. Gonzales, F. P. P. Silva and W. A. Hyder.

POLICE RESERVE AMBULANCE.

Until farther orders, Dr. Thomas will lecture at the Magistravy every Monday at 5.30 pm. Only those who have joined or have transferred to the Ambulance Corps. can attend. Absence without leave from these lectures must be immediately reported to Acting Inspector J. M. Wong.

UNIFORM REGULATIONS. On all parades, and duties when in will carry walking sticks. uniform, Inspectors and Acting-Inspectors

FOOTWEAR.The British Company will Firm confidence in vistory, in the com-

wear white boots on parade. Other Com- nnaity of world-wide interests, and in the Panies will wear either white or black boots Spal triumph of right fires the spirit of the discretion of the O. C. Companies, the nation. It has been our guiding star it to the decision of the individual.

who issue orders accordingly, and not leave throughout this year of bloodshed. It

DIROITLINE.

will serve us in the coming months, it may be years, of this terrible struggle.leave from the Parade of the British and A number of men were absent without Bussis groets her Allie France, Great Portuguesa Companies on Wednesday, Sep- Britain, Belgium, Serbia, Montenegro,tember 8th. Japan, and Italy. All hail their heroic

The names of the absentees loyalty and firm determination to stand are to be immediately furnished by Platoon Herr Bernhard says

by her to the end, till light dispels gloom. Commanders to the D. S. P. victories the German people have had

F. C. JENKIE,* On the occasion of the anniversary of many disappointments during the first the Declaration of War, the Tsar has

D. S. P. (Reserve). year of war. He bitterly complains of issued an Order of the Day to his Army Germany's lack of friends in the world, and Navy saying that, in epite of their and attacks the United States, who has, efforts, which have covered their flag he says, always interpreted the Prusso with fresh glory, the enemy is not yet characteristics of his race. Wishing to He was a Scot, with the usual thrifty In their statistics of squia mil American treaty of 1828 in favour of broken. They must not lose heart in the know his fate, he telegraphed a proposal

herself. occupied by the enemy," the German

face of the new newspapers omit to include theared facilitated the direct export of German blessings of peace. Painful triads had effoe he received as afirmative answer

From the fact that England has recessary to

sacrifices and trials of marriage to the lady of his choice. restore to Russia the After waiting all day at the telegraph German South-West Africa, broland, des New Guinea, the Bismarck Arcipelago, presumes that these dyes are re-exported time they had emerged with new strength said the operator who delivered the America, Berr Bernhard often been sent to the country, but every late at night. Well, if I were you," the Solomon Islands, the Samoafslands, to England. He regards as ridiculous and pover. Taicy-two, and a considerable part the suggestion that England should buy His Imperial Majesy expresses his firm marry a girl who kept me waiting so

messag Cameroon.

"I'd think twice before I'd These German teritories up the whole of the American cotton belief in the successful tormination of long for an answer." "occupied by the enemy" maka total expert, as it would increase enormously the war and asks God to bless the forces the Soot. of over 450,000 square miles,

Na, na, replied the British war expenses.

of Russia-Times.

who waits for the night rates,'

to

The lass for me is the loss