The Hongkong Telegraph
(ESTABLISHED, 1881.)
Copyright, 1914 by the Proprietor.
WEATHER== FORECAST
FAIR.
Birometer 29.05.
Temperature 6
August 25, 1914,
Humidity
2884
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TO-DAY'S
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p.m.
89,
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,
BIG BATTLE IN PROGRESS.
· BRITISH TROOPS ENGAGED ALL SUNDAY,
Earl of Leven Seriously" Wounded:
(Reutor's Service To "The Telegraph."]
British Forces Engaged.
Mons, and held their own...
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Aug. 24, 2.55 p.m... The Press Burean announces that the British forces were engaged all day on Sunday and after dark, in the neighbourhood of News has been received, adds the Press Bureau, that the first line of defence at Namar has been taken. This necessitates the thdrawal of a portion of the allied troops from line from the Sambre to their original defensive position on the French frontier,
No information has been received regarding the casualties, which will be published as soon as they are known,
Big Battle Raging.
TUESDAY,
THE CHINESE ATHLETE.
Surprises which Spring from China.
China, during the past few years has been springing so many surprises upon the Western world that now we refuse to feel any particular concern even for the most
AUGUST
25.
1914.
SHAMROCK AT THE AZORES.
Was Towed Twice in the Rua
From Falmouth.
"Horta, Fayal, Azores, July 28, Shamrock IV, Sir Thomas Lipton's new challenger for the America Cup, arrived here to
developments startling
August 25, 1918:
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Humidity
Temperature 6 s,m. 80. p. m. 87 01. 70
Remarkable Customs and
LIFE OF THE PATHANS. |range, to cross which is certain death, the very dwelling-places of the tribesmen are little forts, in the towers of which the patient markaman will wait for days and even weeks for a certain shot at his enemy, and where he himself may be in a state of siege for a month at a time.
Traditions.
SINGLE COPY 10 CENTE 136 PER ANNUM.
TELEGRAMS.
NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
CONDENSED:
The Russians have occupied
under the new regime. But thers/day, having taken seven days and March, writing in the Army which the Pathan is brought "P: Arys, 25 miles west of Lyck,
ie one interesting fact which saems to have escaped notice- the appearance of young China in the world of athletics, and the announcement of Olympic Games for the Far East to be held Shanghai this autumn, writes A.
Corbett Smith in the Globe.
three hours for the voyage of 955
Like all Fathans, the Afridia
The Germans are making mont and Orakzai are Mahommedane,
If is not an uncommon thing desperate efforts to take Namur. and, with the exception of the Hahommed Khel and some others for houses to have covered ways of the Orakzai, are of the Sunni leading down to the water-supply. persuasion, says Major F. G. The conditions, therefore, under
nautical miles from Falmouth, Review.
develop martial instincts, sod The Sunnie represent the make him a valuable soldier. Eagland. Daring
Afridis enlist in large numbers, her trip, orthodox church of Islam and
The Serviane are now ready to according to those on board; the follow the Sangat, or customs and both in the Indian Army and in would-be lifter of the international
Shisha differ from the Sunnie as enlist less freely, and at one time! Hungary. trophy proved herself an excellent traditions of the faith. The the Khaibar Rifles. The Orakzai cross the River Save, and invade ses host. She took big seas like to which of the traditions are to their martial qualities were con- a dack, and slipped through the
be accepted, Again, while the sidered inferior to those of the A good many years ago--shall water with great caso.
Before Shamrock bade farewell Sunnis accept the authority of all Afridis, but later experience has
Router's Tokyo correspondent we say about fifteen hundred or to the English coast Col. Neill, the successors of Mahomet, the disproved this opinica. They so-physical culture formed a who is making the voyage on Imams.
are in general quiet, well-behaved, states that the Japanese are bom- Shiahs reject the first throo part of the education of all board the steam yacht Erin, which
and intelligent, and respond
barding Tsingtau. « Chinese youths. Bat gradually is acting as convey on the trans- They particularly detest the easily to discipline. this cossed, and the Chinese atlantic voyage, pressed
Hospitality of Pathans. the memory of the Kaliph Yazid, who
The character of the tribesmen drifted into that lethargic con- Aug. 24, 6.35 p.m.
dition of mind and body which challenger hard in order to test slow Hussain, the son of Ali, who A French official despatch issued during the forenoon says the we have come to associate with her gear and ocean rig. Every was the son-in-law of the Prophet. of these highlands is complex. It all day on Sunday, and hold Care
The two soots are bitter foes and was once the prevalent idea that own.
the Afridi and the Orakzai were Frenchmen have taken the offensive everywhere from Mons to the European have come along with and the little racer made
devoid of all honour or morale. combine even against a common The life they lead from childhood, frontier of the Duchy of Luxemburg. A battle is being waged their quaint ideas of "getting a good weather out of the hard that their followers will never
blow
the drenching and regularly in conjunction with the British Army. Nearly the whole hustle on," and the Chinese man-
amidst scenes of incessant strife The tribesmen although gener- in-the-atreat has been so pushed rainstorm she encountered on of the German Army and Reserves are engaged.
The field of operations, especially on the right, ia wooded and about, mentally and physically, the run from Torquay to Ply-
and in a climate the "difficult. The battle will presumably laat aaveral days. The that in self-defence he has been month, where she anchored for ally ignorant of the doctrine of in a rugged inhospitable country, huge extension of the front and the numbers engaged reader it compelled to learn the art of the night. The next day at down their religion, are very super-side so extremen of Bhamrock weighed anchor and stitions and follow the teaching of their country to the other, doss impossible to follow the battle step by step, and the decisive result moving "in which these forsign made for Falmouth, which ab of their mallsha.. The latter are not tond to the cultivation of the lished between the Forces all must be awaited; otherwise there will be a risk of supplying the devils are each experts. enemy with informaation. ̈`*
Germans are making most desperate sorts to take Namur. The the race. Now the American and thing was found in good order, it ias political aphorism to say bloodthirsty, treacherous savages, |
The Oversea Volunteers.
Aug. 24, 0.15 p.m. Mr. Harcourt has appointed a Committee ander the chairman ship of Lord Islington to reader advice and assistance to the Com- mittees of the Dominion contingents.
The members are. Viscount Bryce, Lord Denman, Sir Edward Ward, Sir Owen Philipps, Sir Gilbert Parker, Sir Herbert Murray and Mr. Richard Burbidge.
To-day's gold influx into the Bank of England is £2,065,000.
The French Position.
Aug, 24, 6,45 pm. An othoial communique issued in Paria says it has been decided to withdraw the French troops from Donon and Saales, as these points are no longer importaut, seeing that the French occupy fortified line beginning at Naney..
Gold Influx.
Earl of Leven Wounded.
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Aug. 24, 7.15 p.m." The Press Bureau announces that the Earl of Leven was dangerously wounded on August 22.
His education began with the advent of electric trams in Chine. Mr. Wang, of portly and majestic mied, has as much ides of the principles of balance and motion
reached at eight o'clock in the morning in very stormy weather.
Towed Several Hours
In Calm
enemy.
The British forces were engaged
A big battle is proceeding between the allied troops and the whole German forces.
Yesterday contact was estab abigoted and narrow-minded
along the line, without advantage Bat the officers who have most to either side. class of priests, whose learning is gentle virtues. confined to the knowledge by rote of certain parts of the Koran. to do with the tribesman claim
The Times and the Daily for him the qualities of manliness, They constitute, however, ua The yacht left Falmouth at important factor in tribal affaira, courage, a breezy, frank, good- Telegraph comment favourably as a cow. It looked so easy to jump five o'clock in the morning of July they not only expound the humour and a self-respect that on Japanese intervention in the
war. conceit. on to the moving car, or to alight 21 for her run by the way of the religious law, to settle cases to amounts almost to gracefully with a disdainful wave Azores to New York. At noon which tribal law does not apply, Hospitality is another feature of of the band to the conductor. The she was ten miles west of the but also witness all contracts and his character, and more than one
The Serviancavalry has de- of our expeditions against the Londoner has been educated ap Lizard, and then Col. Neill traces made between the tribes Afridis was undertaken owing to feated an Austrian column, esp to the motor bus and electric car decided to take her in tow, as a men
the tribal reluctance to break the turing four Howitzers and ten law of sanctuary and to sur-fold gans. reader bad characters who had
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through a generation of horse dead calm had fallen, and the tide The Orakzai is more prone to vehicles. Not so Mr. Wang. was getting her back. The same fanaticiem and more open to the Crowds of chattering Chinese evening the challenger picked up influence of his mullabs than is would line the streets to watch a breeze, and the line was slipped, the Afridi, but, generally speak. this miracle of trams fashing The blow soon increased to a hard ing, the influence of the mailahs, paat, and to cheer and deride Mr. north-westerly wind; which which is usually hostile to us, Wang in his efforts to jump off churned up a heavy son, in which felt less in Tirah than in other at a non-stopping place. He Shamrock made a fine picture as parte of the border. always gots of backwards and she rose easily to each wave. On The religious feeling of the beneficout company publishes an hour for the twenty-four matter of self-respect than of delightful pictures of the right hours, On the following day con: deep conviction. and wrong ways to alight, and ditions, were similar, but the wea- instructions in ther was finer, and for the rest prints exact
olaimed it.
The Pathan's hospitality, how- ever, does not extend beyond his
NEWS.
Yesterday's Volunteer Ordera
a doorstep. The parting guest are given in this issue,
is always reticent, if not deceitful,
Interesting war items from
(The Evel of Loven and Melville is a Lieutenant in the Royal always alights on his head. The that day she averaged tea koots Afridi appears to be rather host will have no compunction in exchanges & pear to-day..
Scots Greys.]
The Island Empires.
Aug, 25, 12.20 a.m.
The Times, in welcoming the advent of Japan as a combataat, in honourable fulfilment of Treaty obligations, saya this will form one more tie uniting the two island Empires in a common purpose
in Eastern Asia,
A
"Total Ruin."
The Daily Telegraph says the automatic effect of Japan's intervention will be the total rain of Germany's cherished ambitions in the Far East.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
At Grips.
The French Minister for Foreign Affairs telegrapha to-day that contact has been established between the opposing forces all along the line, at present without advantage to either side.
The Russian Progress.
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How a Shrine was made.
C
Manchu Properties.
properties
Our Intest Home sports letter appears 606) 500
Interesting notes on the appear on page 4.
DON'T FORGET:
to the road he proposes to take; for he knows that his late
leaving by the back door, taking ! a short cut across country to a It is said that an Afridi clan, convenient spot, and picking off Chinese. But Mr. Wang regards of the voyage the wind gradually being ashamed that they had no the traveller, at a decisive range, for the sake of anything valuable these as further evidence of the slackened down until at times local shrine, once induced a very foreign devil's cunning, and there was a dead calm. Then holy man to take ap his abode on him that may have attracted prefers his own methods. Doubt-Col. Neill took the challenger in with them. They made the notice during the visit.
tow until the bredze strengthened matter of his stay with them quite less he will learn in time.
And the Chinese as a race sufficiently for her to rap under certain by cutting his throat, they then buried him honourable and
General news and an article possess the admirable faculty of her own sail. learning and assimilating. The The best day'a ruse were 200, built a splendid fiarat (shrine)
on the seaplane and naval warfare Japanese imitate. The unconth 222, 189, 142, and 182 knots. It over his romains, at which they Favourable Treatment agree Our Contemporaries" appeara
It has been provided in the will be found on page 3. antics of a foreigner playing lawn is possible that Shamrock's boom now worship contentedly. tennis or cricket used to appear will be taken off while she is here Law and order can hardly be meat that the
on page 2, log book on page 6 of the Manchu princes incomprehensible to a Chinese, as it bangs about so much when said to exist. The tribesmen are Aug. 24, 10.40 a.m.
and he would demand how much she is beoslmed. Otherwise the essentially democratic and can should be protected. For the and commercial news on page (9. the player was paid for doing it, yacht is regarded as having done tolerate no form of government. enforcement of these provisions year or so ago the best lawn well, and her performance thus Jirgas, councils composed of the the princes, who own large am- tennis player in Shanghai, where far on her ocean voyage has in- elders of the clan or tribe, con-ounts of properties, such as Prince the standard is a high one, was a creased the hopes of those pastitate the only recognised form Heun, Prince Yo, Prince Chuan, Chinese "boy" at a club. They board that she will be successful of anthority and are the medium Prince Sa and Prince Shan, have are learning to play Soccer really in carrying out the purpose for through which our Political each appointed a representative well, they become experts at which she was built.
Officere negotiate with the tribes to form a commission for the investigation of their properties Capt. Turner, who is acting as men. billiards, they can ride straight
the transatlantio
The occasions for each negotia-in order to demand protection.— across country, do the "hundred" skipper on in level time, but, cariously voyage, is well satisfied with the tione are ordinarily confined to Peking Gazette....
Discovery in Old Oak Chest, enough, they do not take kindly yacht's behaviour. The half of the the settlement of cases where
orow which has managed the murder or robbery has been com of an old oak chest in his church, While examining the contents Of course, this prowess in yacht since her departure from mitted on our side of the ad the Roy T. Plant, vicar of Ted- athletice is only to be found among England is to be replaced hore by ministrative border by the mendingworth, in Leicestershire, certain classes, those which come the other half, who have been bere of a clan, or where the
England, found a register of dating from 1635 which was It contains entries relating to mert, county familos for which local genealogists have sought in vain. Fracas at Hankow. Hankow, July 21st-Yester day, while unloading a cargo of
Railway from a Japanese steamer,
Aug 24, 12.15 p.m. The Russians have occupied Arys, twenty-five miles west of Lyck, in the district of Gumbiauen, Eastern Prussia,
Servian Invasion of Hungary Imminent
Aug, 24, 12.15 p.m. The Servians have cleared the country around Losuites, Leshnites and Bohabatze
Servian cavalry defeated an Austrian column, capturing foar Howitzer and ten field guns.
A French official despatch, evidently referring to this engage ment, says that the Austrian forces, while attempting a counter offensive movement towards Schabatz, were repulsed.
to cricket.
The Bervians are now ready to oross the river Save and invade into direct contact with the luxuriating on board the Erin security of any of the trade-routes births, marriages, and deaths
Hungary.
Tsingtau Bombarded.
Aug. 24, 12.15 p.m. Reuter's Tokyo correspondent says the Japanese are bombard. ing Teingtan.
LOCAL ITEMS.
A PRIZE OF WAR.
foreigner or which are in-New York Evening Post. fluenced by Chinese students with
a European education. The various Chinese colleges and
:
TO-DAY.
Bijou Theatre 9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre 9.15 p.m.
TO-MORROW.
Bijou Theatre 9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre 9.15 pm. Thursday, August 27...
Lammert's Sales Rooms-11a.m.
Sale of Liquors — G.
Friday August 28
Sale of furniture -5 Hart
is concerned. The firgas, how- ever, are not supported by any thought to be irretrievably lost. Avenue, Kowloon G. P. Lam- material force, and consequently the real law of the country is that
might is right.
educational centres now bold It is a source of mystery where regular inter-college athletic the Chinese coolie and honse boy.
Concerning the Vendetta, Bloodshod and strife are mat meetings, and excellent perfor obtains the handsome machine mances, as a rule, resalt. Your which he rides in the dusk of ters of common occurrence bet Chinese, though, is not as a rule evening. But he is always to be ween clan and clan, section and good at jumping, at anything found playing the maddest tricks section, and between man and his good for the Canton-Hankow
at 11a.m.com
Monday, August 31. Sale of Crown Land, P.WD- 3 p.m...
War Department Contracte.
Tenders close at noon,
Tuesday, September 8. United Asbestos Oriental
United Asbestos Oriental
which demands both feet off the in the principal streets of the neighbour. Except during the a dispute arose betwee the crew Agency Ltd. Annual general A novel and interesting document has been posted on the ground at the asme time. Per-Treaty Ports, standing on the periods of sowing and reaping, and the tellymon over an alleged meeting.noon. notice board of the Supreme Court, in connection with the Prize haps, that is why a moving tram- saddle, cutting figures of sight, when truces are made, the country shortage. The Japanese crew Court recently established. The document takes the form of a car worries him so much. But and racing his friends to the in-is in a state of perpetual war; armed themselves and attack Agency Ltd. Extraordinary munition, issued by the Registrar of the Court, calling upon persons he loves bicycling, especially oessant accompaniment of fire which is aggravated by the
ed the Chinese coolies, with the general meeting of shareholders concerned to show cause why the ship Elsbeth, of which Waldemar scorching after a motor car; and crackers, horns, and sar-splitting system of blood-feuds or, as salt that one of the latter was noon
known in the south of Europe, drowned, one seriously injured Langschwer was master, and which was taken as a prize ship by he has been known to frighten bells,
The extraordinary hardihood of the vendetta. S
HK and Shanghai Bank. HMS. Hampshire, and sunk in mid-ocean, her tackle, apparel, ladies out of their wits by taking furniture, and goods, wares and merchandise, should not be pro- a harlequin dive off his machine the Chinese should serve them Clans and sections are separat nounced to have belonged at the time of capture, as a good and over the back of their ear when wall in tests of physical endured from each other by natural has been laid at the Japanese Extraordinary general meeting
the latter has pulled up suddenly. anco,
boundaries, such as the great of a Consulate, which is holding an of shareholdersCity. inquiry into the affair. hwful prize to " Un in the office of Admiralty"
and ton wounded. A complaint Saturday, September 19,
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