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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1914.

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·NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

IN THE WAKE OF WAR.

VIRTUE 18 HOLD, AND GOODNESS

THE RUSSIANS IN LEMBERG,

How Long will the Great War

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IV: 'A Laggard on the Stage.

Last?

The young man with the

The new Star Ferry pier at Kowloon has not come out of its firat experience in a typhoon blow any too well. It is far more exposed than the old one, and one NEVER FEARFUL result of this is that the service stops much earlier than would be necessary under the old condi tions. The harbour was not particularly rough on Thursday we have seen the ferries running is much worse conditions-but the fall affect of the waves" was

felt at the new piar, and as consequence it would certainly have been unwise to attempt to land or take off passengers later than the hour when the 'boats were stopped. As it was, the pier sustained some damage, so much

Shakespeare.

The Weather.

Lower level 8 a.m. Temp 82; sunshine.

At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp. 74: sunshine.

The Mails.

Australian Mail-Olosed per es. Inaba Marr to-day at

8.m.

Siberian MailCloses per

Namur to-day at 2 p.m.

Count the Columns.

so that yesterday it was impos Yesterday the Telegraph pab sible to use one half of it. And flished 36 columns of solid even then, the incoming bosts reading, mater. To-day there had grest difficulty in coming

will be 40 published.

LTD. alongside, so strong is the current

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NOTICE, TO SUBSCRIBERS.

The rates of Sabeription to the "Hongkong Talegraph be as follows:-

Daily issno-36 per annum. Weekly issue-813 per annum.

at this point.

Notifying the Public.

The Dollar. The rate of the dollar on demand to-day is le. 0.1-16d.

Labour Day,

Monday is Labour Day in the United States."

New Peak School.

Tendere are being invited for the erection of a School at the Peak..

appear,

盘点

SANITARY BOARD.

Motion Regarding Public Ser- vants as, Volunteers.

"That the members of this

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The announcement, made to speckled tis and the smile on- day, that the Russian army has fered the train at Penge. We Board on Tuesday, Mr. P. W. At the meeting of the Sanitary captured Lamberg may be des saw the tie first; the smile show- Goldring, pursuant to notice, oribed as agreeably startling look. Besides, the smile was an

ed after; both had a second-hand will move: Everyone anticipated it, of course, for the Russian advance through imitation smile. It was George Board de respectfully submit to Galicia has been brilliantly con- Robey greatly dilated and marred His Excellency the Governor and 10 ceived and oarried out; but only in the making. We knew him to the Military Authorities that one here or there could have at once for wit in his own all employees of the Board serving s.s. expected that Lemberg would fall estimation. His eye fell on the either in the Hongkong Volun

quite so quickly. It would

old man in the corner, and we tears or the Hongkong Volunteer so far as the rather meagre tele- saw that here was a subject for Reserves be afforded special. grams indicate, that the Russian his wit.

"facilities to allow them to attend series of successes have been

Halle, grandfather," he cried, to their duties properly, having achieved with the minimum off 'out on the Icose, what? At regard to the vital importance of loss, whereas the Austrians have your age, too,"

keeping the Colony in a sanitary lost terribly. They could hardly He was a very old man, with a condition at the present time.' aroid doing so, for they have, skin greatly withered. White, The orders of the day most of the time, been the pursued heavy eyebrowe overhung bis comprise force, and they appear to have ye Trembling hands were While on this topic, the query

baen driven mercilessly from folded over the top of his stick, erect 12 water closets and one Application for permission to might be put as to whether it is

point to point.

and they were thin and wasted; trough closet in a blook of build- not possible to give residents in

The Russian army is a vory

A Changed Army, Kowloon some notification that

great blue voins stood out on ings on Kowloon Inland Lot No. them.

574 R.P., Hanoi Road." "will ferries have stopped running,

different army from that which

"You leave me alone," he cried, other than by means of flying the

Application for permission to was so readily beaten in the end stenting trouble. "I don't want instal a water closet at Kowloon blue flag at the pier. As things

by the Japanese. The men are no truck with no gubblin' young Dock, Kowloon Marine Lot No. are at present, one lias to weather

the same. They were always will parrot." His voice was thin and 27. the conditions and make a trip.

Prison Tenders.

ing enough to fight to a finish, wavering. He broke off and to the pier before he can ascer

Correspondence relative to the Tenders are being invited for But no army can fight well which coughed painfully. tain if the service has been the making up and supply of

erection of a 20 seat trough is badly equipped, as the Rumian "Lamme," oried the young man, oloset at Shek Tong Taai. The daily issue is delivered free when the address is accessible to suspended, and, what is more, he winter clothing for the Prison army then was. There was, ja

"grandfather's been on the loose messenger. Peak aubscribers can have their copies delivered at has to make frequent visite sub- Staff.

plain words, too much graft in and caught a cough. Naughty their residences, without any extra charge. On copies sent by

the army of ton years ago. But Naughty! Have a jujube, grand post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. The postage on the weekly intus to any part of the world is $1.00

rather stolid enthusiasm in time only the last word... that is gone now. The men of father.'" the army are fired by the same

The old man appeared to hear of war and show the same steady Single Copics, Daily, ton cents. Weekly, twenty-ive coats (for

"I can't abide these 'ere cash only),

courage. But they fight better jujubes," said he, "Chocolate'e Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a fixed

because they are provided with what I like. Gimme a bit o period will be continued until countermanden.

better fighting instruments. They chocolate, says I, and I'm happy, (Payablo in Advance.)

have magnificently, of late weeks, saya. I ain't got the teeth for wiped out the stigma which that there jujube stuff." attached after the last war in

At that the wit of the young which they engaged. One remark man with the speckled tie burst falls to be made anent a tele- forth in all its glory. It sointil- gram in to day's issue. The lated so greatly that another maa The name of Dr. Kenelm Hut Russians, in seven days' fighting, begged him to desiat. What he chinson Digby, University of have captured forty thousand did say was: Hongkong, Bachelor of Medicine prisoners. This speaks either of

"You leave the old man alone A minute, when we were at and Surgery of the University of exceptionally brilliant execution or I'll bash your head in." He school, was sixty seconds, and we London, and Fellow of the Royal on the part of the Russians or of said it fiercely. He was a big man, believe that it still is. But not College of Surgeons of England, a readiness to surrender on the and he had an effective way of everywhere. Not (at times) on has been added to the list of part of their foes." the Star Ferry, for instance. We medical practitioners of the have seen people before now miss Colony.

indicates how much one has to

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"SHENTON.-On the 5th September, at the Peak Hospital, Hongkong, to Mr. and Mrs. W.E.L. Shonton, a daughter."

and print the motor without fear or farne,

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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1914,

THE OLD CHINA STILL...

Interim Dividend."

share, declared by the Hongkong The interim dividend of $1 per Rope Manufacturing Co., is pay able on Monday.

sequently to learn whether the boats have resumed running. One way out of the difficulty suggests itself to us; it is that when the blue flag is hoisted at the pier, another should be run up on the mast at Blackhead's The Bishop's Engagements, Point, where it would be visible The Bishop of Victoria's en to practically everybody in Kow-gagements for to-morrow are: loon. Similarly, when the flag 8.5 a.m., Holy Communion at the is hauled down from the pier, Cathedral; 11 a.m., preach at St. the one at Blackliend's should be Paul's Chinese Church. removed. Then residents would know what the situation is with- out the necessity of having to Short Minutes. brave the elements to ascertain.

Dr. Digby.

No St. Andrew's Ball at" Singapore.

Letters Patent.

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Report from the Government Analyst on the public water supplies for the month of August, 1914.

Limewashing return" for the 1914. fortnight ending 18th August,

Mortality return for Hongkong for the weeks ending 16th and 23rd August, 1914.

Mortality return for Macao for the weeks ending 10th and 23rd August, 1914.

Kat return for the weeks ending. 22nd and 29th August, 1014.

VOLUNTEER ORDERS.

schomes laid down have, when convenient to local officials, been A POST OFFICE MYSTERY persons having any interest in But all that has got to be faced, handle a bayonet in them days. Ellis.

very materially modified. After all, the Chinese public, especially in the interior, is easy proy for unscrupulous officials, and, whatever may be said to the contrary, the day has certainly not yet arrived" when we have seen the last of agacezs and peculation in official circles in Ohias.

Pertinent Questions

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dealing with such a bully. "You Corps orders izauad by Lient- Duration of the War. paver mind him, grandfather," Cl. A. Chapman, V. J., under Thu objesi of this paper 14 to publish correct information, to summer the truth a ferry because the signal which

Speculation is rife as to when he said. "You never done no one, date of yesterday, state... the war will be over. As though no harm, I know. You bin a Tram fares.-Claims may be anyone, whether expert or no, peaceable msn all your days, put in, through Commanding spare has a way of making some At a meeting of the Committee could tell that! There are many eh?"

Officers for the amount of tram or of the minutes a little longer and of the Singapore St. Andrew's who argue, of course, that the war I was always peaceable," said ferry fares actually expended in some a little shorter than a minute Society held last week, it was will prove so sanguinary and so grandfather, "even at Inkerman." going to and from duty. Men is supposed to be.. And the an-unanimously resolved to abandon costly that it will soon be over. The effect of the word spoken living at the Peak and not in noying thing is that it is very

the preparations for a St. An. A re-reading of Earl Kitchener's there in that carriage was electric. possession of season tickets may often the last, and most important, drew a Day Bail which were speech. in the House of Lorde, al. Grandfather raised his heart. recover their fares for going to minute which has a bit docked off authorised by the society prior to however, would seem to deny us "I'll tell you about Inkerman." and from barracks when on duty, it. Especially is this the case in the outbreak of war.

even that lope. De stated, it he said. "That was a dirty, cold The rate allowed for Peak tram the mornings, when men's tem-

will be remembered, that if the morning, and my mate he says is 15 cents return (Soldier's fares), pera are rather more short then

war was not over as the end of the to me, What would you give for No claims for ferry fares will be daring the remainder of the day,

It le notified that the Asiatic three years for which he had been a glass of ale?' he says. And: 1 entertained from men in pо8508- with the result that one has Petroleum Company (South appointed, others would be found says, angry-like, 'If you speaks sion of special passes. heard, some bad language used at China) Limited have by assign to carry on the work and see the of ale again I shall push this here. Parades Parades for Satur times. We have more than oncement become proprietors of a matter through. The prospect bayonet through you,' I says, day 5th instant and Sunday 8th seen these last minutes timed, Letters Patent registered on the held out by these words, even He was too fond of jokes, he was, instant. Nil. and the shortest of the lot was Colonial Secretary's Office No: for that "If," is anything but ajgöt në stomach when it comes to instant.-Group 2..Officera "on 25th June, 1900; under the though we make full allowance A man who's always jokin' hasn't Detail-On duty Saturday 5th The bugbear of taxation-more often illegally levied than other just over thirty seconds. We wise-bas for many long years caused public irritation and complaint short and respectfully ask that engineer, of 17, Praya Central, and straitened resources, the the speckled tie looked uncon- Armatrong, Capt. Churchill and protest that this is a little too 1337 of 1900, by W. S. Bailey, cheerful one. It means strained man's work." (The man with duty Saturday 5th inst. Capt. in China, and it would appear that the volume of protest je sa strong the minutes be minutes and not, Hongkong, and P. H. Murray, shaking of economics to the bot-fortable.) today as ever before. Since the establishment of the Republic, occasionally, mere fragments of engineer, of East Point, Hong- tom, and an immense, amount of Rassion comes up he pinked my Guard on Saturday, Right Section, "And when a big Lieut. Norrington. To furnish taxation has been revised in accordance with certain fixed regula- minutes.

kong.

money taken from capital. For mate first time. He'd 's pinked M. G. Co. Orderly Officer on tions, but it is only the truth to say that in many quarters the

Cargoes on Captured Ships. a very long time to come it will me, too, only I pinked him firat Saturday, Capt. Armstrong, Or It is officially notified that all mean the partial ruin of credit.-be, be! I tell you I could derly Sergeant on Saturday Corpl. cargoes, other than enemy car- We have got to see the matter There was a follow with a big goes, laden on enemy ships cap, through.

beard comes up to me that morn- tured as prizee, and requiring A follows.

correspondent writes as release of such cargoes or portions Some of the Japanese papers, I will stick you right through, ing and he says to me, he says,

Snake Poison and Rables, "On the 5th. August. I posted at the Office of the Crown Soli. pablished some quaint stuff-it

of cargoes, should make enquiries whether native or foreign, have he says"

Will snake poison prove a curs a letter, with the addrese, The citor, Courts of Justice.

You learned to speak Bus- for rabies? This question was We notice that this matter of a due and proper collection of West Point Bailding Company, Crawn Solicitor will require proof prevent war, but nothing more speckled tie

The is the only word during the sien," struck in the man with the put to the French Academy of revenue has recently been touched upon by President Yuan Shih- Ltd., Hongkong," clearly type of ownership and porticalars as strange than an alleged Foreign "I did not, If you lied your the Director of the Paris Natural Science by M. Edmond Parrier, kat in one of his Mandates. He admite that in the early days of the written. On August 31 the letter to the freight, whether paid or Office dispatch, from Washington. wisdom teeth you would know that History Museum, who has read a Republic" outrageous persons, one after the other, snatched and was returned to me by the Post unpaid. atole public, funds and extorted money from the people." He then, Office, opened, and marked." Re-

According to this procions you do not want to learn a paper describing experiments by goes on to comment at some length on the necessity for raising turned Correspondence." I went

message the Gorman Am langnage to know what a man's a French woman scientist, Mms. revenue in order to meet current administrative expenses and to to the Post Office and asked for

bassador in Washington hes saying who comes up with a Phisalix, with a serum composed cover the payment of loans and indemnities. It is apparent from the Postmaster General, but was

circulated a telegram from the bayonet and his eyes glaring and of asp venom and the secretion of the tone of the President's remarks in this regard that be" fears told be was out. I then asked

German Chancellor to the follow-speaking, fast. You are a fool, the salamander. Rabbits incou further resentment at the reminder that all taxes are to be duly paid for the Aesistant Postmaster

ing effect:-

that's what you are. I will stick lated with the new serum were as lawfully demanded, for he is at some considerable pains to General, and was informed that

Having been isolated from you,' be says, Next minute he was proof against any injection of the explain, in simple language, that unless the means of defraying he also was out. Then I stated.

communicating with the world, granting on the ground. Next rabies microbe, saya a Elome administrative and military expenses are forthcoming, there can be that I wanted to ase the officer in

Germany can get no news and time, Iaays, you will not talk paper, but the immunity did not, no protection guaranteed. Hence, he says, the Government would charge, whoever he was, and was

consequently has no means of when you should be busy." Bat I lost more than a fortnight. rather accept a less serious evil and endure a temporary affliction" introduced to a gentleman who

rebutting the false reports knew there wouldn't be so next. -this, evidently, a gentle reference to the burden of taxation--ip said the letter must have been ment of Mr. John William Lechostile Powere.

It is notified that the Appoint circulated by the papers of time. That was the joke-he, hef order to ensure safety in the long run,

delivered and that the Company Jones as Marshal of the Supreme has no alternative but to de- time."

She therefore I tell you Inkerman was a great Gladeing further down the Mandate, ons can quite clearly so delivery of it: Later I called at hereby cancelled, and His Excel Germans are sincerely grate you went into your first battle; first you will have a drop of

had evidently refused to take Court of Hongkong, In Prize, is fend herself by practical deeds.

we get to Londos that President Yuan forecess the possibility of the people objecting the offices of the West Point lency the Governor has been ful to the American papers grandfather?"

"What did you think when Bridge, grandfather," said he, "I to further taxation on the grounds that there is a fair probability Building Company and on telling pleased to make the following for their efforts to make the him.

will see you on your bus. And of some of the money sticking to the hands through which it has to them what I was told at the Post appointments in pass before it reaches the national coffere: For he points out that Office they said that was all non-therefor

brandy with me."

"There are substitution true condition of the country all taxee must be levied in strict accordance with regulations, ad- sense, adding that they had a box

"I had two shillinge I had not some people who believe that the ding that "the artful invention of new forms of taxes for extra at the Post Office and certainly Hamilton Taylor, R.N., to be Chancellor know about the false Grandfather's reminiscences of

Commander Basil Regina! Germany is isolated, how did the wished I had spent it first.","

known to the world." Now, if spent," said grandfather, "and I offer of a drink will wash out any

insalt or indignity. okarges, and the connivance of underlings in the practice of cor- would not refuse to take delivery Marshal of the Supreme Court of reports, how do the Germans his fights were interesting but warrior door take sondy Bud

"Thank you," said the old- ruption should be avoided, otherwise the amount extoried by the of the letter. officials would be many times larger than the insignificant sum called

Hongkong, In Prize. for by the Government." From this it is very apparent that the unity of inspecting the returned Malboyre Beckwith, B.N., to be amorious papers know anything would have some fine chocolates." now. It makes me shakes

We have been given an opport- Commander Charles William doing for them, and how do the I had that two shillings now I

know what the Americans are not particularly illuminating. "It my grandson will meet "me, and President himself has no more faith in the officials than have the letter, which bears in Chinese Assistant Marshal and Mr. John of the true condition of this

I never touch no kind of spirits people. That is a sorry state of affairs, and one which needs to be characters (evidently instructions William Lee-Jones to be Assistant isolated country? And, anyhow, when the young man with the 'chocolates, There weren't no remedied before China can make any progress worthy of the name, to the postman), the words:

We were passing Spa Road over touch it but I'm fond The ory in China is still for honest officials who will trust one an-"Constraction Company, No. 4 of the Supreme Court of Hong the Americans think of

Marshal and Official Accountant has the Chancellor heard what speckled tie leaned over towards chceolates at Inkerman, nor no other and act so as to merit the confidence of the people as a whole. Street,"

the the old man. Clearly he wished and one of them my mate.

brandy neither. Only dead men And we fear the day is far off when the ary will not be heard.

kong, In Prize.

Louvain business?

to make amends.

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THE PRIZE COURT.

New Appointments Notified.

one man asked

"When