1914-09-21 — Page 4

WATSON'S HOUSEHOLD AMMONIA.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1914.

Canton Coal.

A correspondent to a Northern

contemporary, writing, from Canton, says that money is being

DAY BY DAY.

spent on the development of e al-WAR EVEN TO THE KNIFE. mises in the Canton distric That is quite good Lowe. There

FOR THE BATH, TOILET AND HOUSEHOLD. Used in the Bath it promotes healthy action of the skin, counteracts all effects of perspiration, and is refreshing and invigorating. It le ese, we believe, plenty of coal in pecially useful for cleaning Jewellery, Silver and Plated Ware, etc.

WATSON'S

CELEBRATED

CORN SOLVENT.

NOTES ON THE CRISIS. GERMANY'S WAR PLANS. STOLEN FLOWER-POTS.

FORETOLD BY A GERMANA Defendant who was Vory Frak.

WAR, WAR 19 STILL THE ORY

Byron.

"CALL IT A DRAW."

An Astonishing Stofy from

Washington.

The Weather.

Lower level 8 a.m.. Temp 80; At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp 74;

the province, and if it is worked along right lire, the develop-rain. ment of the coal industry should go a long way toward advancing rain. the commercial activity of Canton and district. Given coal in any

A permanent, speedy and painlos CURE for coms and bunions. sunk and efforts raade to get at

WATSON'S

SHAVING STICKS.

The cheapest and best in the market. They give a free and last ing lather, and impart a spotli'ng fooling to the skin. For delicate and sensitive skins they are unequalled.

A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd. fike what they are said to be.

Hongkong, Dispensary & Kowloon Dispensary.

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

A v D KA

Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which requires them to forward their names and addresses with communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for

publication, but as an evidence of their bona fides.

The rates of Sunsoription in the "Hongkang Colegraph be as follows:-

fuli month.

wilt

Daily issue-$30 per annum. Wookly lane-$10 per annum. The rates per quarter sad per meas x, proportional: Sabecription for any period loss than ne month will be charged sa for The daily issue is delivered free when the address is accessible to neesonger. Peak subscribers can have their copies delivered at their residences without any oxtra charge. On copies sent by post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. The postage on the weakly issue to any part of the world is Single Copios, Duty, touts Weekly, twenty-five canta (for

cash only).

por quarter.

Afvertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordereri for a fixed

period will be continued until countermandel.

(Payable in Advance.),

The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will be delivered to subscribers by, the Dairy Farm Company, Ltd., Shameen, Canton, who have been appointed our agents there..

By Order,

HONGKONG telegraph.”

11

p.m.

The Mails.

per

Count the Columns, *

The Dollar.

3

The rate of the dollar on demand to-day is la, 0.7-168.

A Decent Drink.

Sixty dollare worth of wine has been stolen from the shop of a wine and spirit merchant, 53, Queen's Road Central...

a

GENBRAL.

This morning at the Police The Campaign on Land. Court, before Mr. C. D. Mut- bourne, two Chinese were charged 1s is just possible that someone realises that if Germany's task is flower pots from outside the re- General von Bernhardi quite with the thefs of two china in Washington, with a perverted difficult at esa, there is also great sidence of Mr. Ng Hon-tas on sense of hamour, has set abroad the story that Germany is willing danger for her en land. She ie, Saturday afternoon. The value country,cheaply and scientifically Siberian Mail.-Due 8.8. to make peace.

he points out, hemmed in between of the goods was $18. Quaint and worked, other industries are Koshima Maru to-day.

unbelievable stories have emanat the likelihood of England lending pots, produced in court, as his France and Russia, he recognises Mr. Ng Hon-tez identified the bound to follow. For centuries, Siberiau Mail, Closes per 8.s. ed from Washington before; there, the other natione a band (though property and said that he missed. jof course, small pits have been

Tean to-morrow at 3 p.m. it would asem, they care less for Canadian Mail.

Closes per 8.8 news than for the merely that a British expeditionary force tween one and four o'clock. The

he did not in his book anticipate them on Saturday afternoon be. coal, but these have dono no

Awa Mara to-morrow at if the statement is tras, it will would be landed so readily ae next time he saw them was at o' more than merely scratch the

sarely go down to history as one has proved the case) and he sees garden at West Point. great bede of coal which are anid

of the most astonishing sugges that help can be expected only to be ready for opening. Even

tions ever made seriously. The

A gardener at West Point said On Saturday the Telegraph pub. German Ambassador says that from Austria. But even her that the prisoners came to his now only some fifteen hundred

overy month, In one large, well-reading matter. To-day there war a draw and make peace on that, so large a proportion of the He asked them if they came by fons are brought to the surface ishod 43 columns of solid Germany is willing to call the loyalty, he admits, will be fatally garden on Saturday afteracon

weakened by reason of the fact and offered the two pots for sale." planned mine.as much as that will be 34 published.

the basis that Germany in Europe could be taken out in a day, if

should not be dismembered. No population are Slavs. The fact them honestly and they said the seame of coal are anything

doubt sheer magnanimity makes

that he was alive to Austria's real that they did, having given Germany refrain from asking weakness, in a racial war, should between two and three dollais Dry Air During Operations.

that a win should be declared for not be overlooked. Yet, in spite for the two. Witness offered her and that she should be given of all these dangere, Germany $2.75 for them and at this price. big slice of French and Russian must not shrink from her task the bargain was closed. The next territory! The effrontery of the This is what he says (writing two morning they came with a third suggestion will leave the reat of years ago):~~

pot but before they could sell it the world andecided whether to

Since the struggle is, as appears to him, they were arrested by the be angry or morely amused. There

on a thorough investigation police. of the international question, is as fine a sporting flavour about

The owner of the third pot necessary and inevitable, we appeared in court and said it had the proposal as though a football must fight it out, cost what also been stolen from him on for a game, more than half way team, ton goals down, should ask through, to be given as a draw.

Saturday afternoon. It was worth five dollare. An Improbable Story. Fell from a Ladder. to a fall frem a ladder in Wing that the draw is to be called and What makes the story most With a fractured skull owing look like one manufactured is Sing Street, a Chinese girl has peace made on the basis that boen removed to the hospital, Germany in Europe should not

would thus early disougs the be dismembored.”. whether any German Ambassador We doubt

posible dismemberment of Gar- many, because that is to give the whole game away and, to expose

other linea than those anticipated. the war is to work out along quite to the world Germany's fears that

If the German Ambassador at Washington has actually made the statement attributed to him, be has done something to give the Allies' troops more heart than ever Mention of a draw to them now is a sure way of arging them

This is a Dew

Health Return."

fied last week, all Chinese and Five cases of plaque were noti; all fatal. There was one death from enteric fever out of three

сазев.

Some correspondence appeaTA in the Shanghai Municipal Gazette with reference to an installation at the Victoria Nursing Home for the improvement of the climatic conditione at the operating theatre there. apparatus which provides dry-air during the hot weather, and, if it prove suoceseful, it will be matter" of importance not only to Shanghai but also to Hongkong. windows and doors must be La an operating theatre, of course, closed to prevent the ingress of insects and dust, and the air of such & theatre asually, becomes hot weather. It is a fact that very discomforting during the

on operating during the summer surgeons are not altogether keen mouths, if an operation can be avoided, and this is no doubt that the hamidity in the operating fered the loss of recent profite largely due to the circumstance A Chinese pork dealer has suf- theatre cannot, in serious cases, owing to the wayward tendency be good for the patient and (we of a foki who cleared off with. should assume) does not give the $147. surgeon himself a really good. chance. Ao apparatus which would dry the air would be a God send in the Far East. Education in Macao.

4

The object of this paper de to publish c-trees information, to serve the truth education to boys than it seems to

and print the netos without fear or favour.

S PE CARE SEVANE

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

telephone: No. 1

A.B.C., 5th edition 'Western Union.

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1914.

THE PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC,

Japanese Sent to Hospital,

fell from the first four of a house A Japanese named S. Nakao,

such injuries as necessitated his in Sampan Street, and sustained removal to the hospital.

The Wayward Foki.

Stole a Shade. For stealing a spade" from a contractor's aid at Yaumati a Chinese, this morning, at the Felice Court was sent to prison stocks, for fourteen days and four hours

A Mean Theft."

to make stronger efforts than before. They, like the Govera-i mente, which have sent them to

it may.

and

Frankly Cynical. So he advises awift smashing blows on land. Again he says

A previons convistion was put in against each of the prisoners. There is no standing still in the

Thosecond prisoner when asked world's history. All is by the Magistrate whether he growth and development, remembered being sent to prison It is obviously impossible on a previcas occasion for fiftcen to keep things in the status days said-It was more than quo, as diplomacy has so fifteen days. often attempted. No true prison for a hundred days,

I have been in statesman will avor seri- ously count on such a pos- for three months with four hours They were each sent to gaol sibility; he will only make the outward and temporary

in the stocks. maintenance of existing conditions a duty when he wishes to gain time and deceive an opponent or when he cannot see what

SANITARY BOARD.

The following are the orders of

is the trend of events. He the day, for the meeting of the will use such diplomatic Sanitary Bard to be held on means only as inferior September 22 at 3.45 p.m.

tools; in reality he will

1-Hr. P. W. Goldring

only reckon with actual forces and with the powers pursuant to notice will more :- of a continuous develop-"That the members of thie Board do respectfully submit to His Nothing more frankly cynical Excellency the Governor and to.

meut.

Macao continues to offer a better be in the power of Hongkong to do. We have just received, the Li Po, charged with stealing a fight a common enemy, are deter has been set down thus bluntly the Military Authorities that, all new prospectus of St. Joseph's gold bangle from a little child in mined to see this thing through within the last generation. Peaus, employees of the Board serving College, in. that Colonyan Shelley Strest, was sent to prison and a draw will not be called he says, in effect, must not be either in the Bongkang Volunteers institution of which we once be- for thres months sad ordered to now or later. This is to be a regarded as a permanent possi- or the Hongkong Volunteer Ra

St. receive twelve strokes of the win and a convincing one, cost bility. It is merely a temporary serves be afforded special facilition

what it may.

thing, to be employed for the to allow them to attend to their strengthening of the forces of war, duties properly having regard

fore had occasion to write. Joseph's has a record of two birch. hundred and fifty years behind it, Sent to the Hospital.

2:

Oh that Foki!

Bijou Theatre.

Was

The Big Battle.

Taim Sha Tsui,

the erection of a public latrine in The French Army, He hne this to say of the French 5. Liat of legal proceedings taken by this Department sgainst lacks the subordination under persons for breaches of the Public a single commander which Health and Buildings Ordinance characterises the Gorman (No. 1 of 1003) for the month of army, the

tenacious August, 1914, strongth of the German Tace, and the esprit de

6. Limowashing return for the fortnight ending 1st September,

1914.

and seems determined to live up Two Chinese, before clearing The result of the big battle now for war, not peace, is the real thing to the vital importance of keeping to its reputation, A charge out of town, are alleged to have a progress will mean much to and by means of it nations pro- the Colony in a sanitary condition sometimes thrown up against inflicted injacies on a fellow coun- both sides. If the Allies can re-gress. When he speaks of growth at the present time," schoole carried on by the clergy tryman which called for the peat their former glory the and development, no doubt he 2. Minuta by the President of is that they are old-fashioned in latter's conveyanas to the hos-Germans are not again likely to bas in mind mainly the growth the Sanitary Board on Mt. their methods.. This coul: pitul.

set up so stubborn a defence, and development of his native Goldring's motion reinspection certainly not be made to apply

Two smashing defeste in succes-country, but apparently be forgets of private lanes. to St. Joseph's, whose commercial According to the police report, the finest of troops. The Allies still, a nation may go backward the Sanitary Board relative to the sion would take the heart out of that, while there is no standing 9. Minute by the" President of side has been entirely re-modelled a foki employed by a shopkeeper, have this to give them heart, that through taking a false step. He Prays East Market limits. Probably no revolution in the world's history has been received by an English master who is a 125, Bulkeley Street, has per only the other day they complet-/should appreciate that point 4. Correspondence relative to

trained teacher as well aspstrated i mean triok on his em. with more disfavour by the people at large than that of Portugal. graduate of a Home university, ployer. He cleared off with $130 ed a defeat of the enemy which before the end of the present war. Visitors to the country, no matter what their nationality or politic. The commercial course includes banded to him to pay for goods proved them superior at all points al and religious creeds, all appear to unite in telling us that by far English, arithmetic, general and bought.

and in which the ecoiny suffered the majority of the inhabitants are still as strongly opposed as ever commercial correspondence; the How did it happen?

heavy loss alike in men and guns. army. It to the ruling power, and that whatever tyranny the Royal House may have been guilty of amounted to nothing when compared with from what we can see, it is not countor of Chan Ying's shop in too, is bound to weigh with the Course cocapies four years, but Despite the fact that the The consciousness of that defeat, that of the Republican authorities. One of the latest of these re-entered upon until a boy has had Banham Strand forms the bed of Germans, but it may not weigh turned visitors, the Rev. J.T. Roche, has been recounting some of his same yeare of thorough ground some of the staff, a person has just yet. The point is that, for a observations and experiences in an American journal; and, to judge ing in general subjects.. managed to steal no less a sumtime, they will fight with the from his story, it would appear that the Carbonarii, about whom Sound Minds in Sound Bodies, the Telegraph has once or twice had soms remarks to make, are as

than $173 80 wihout being desperate courage of men who

corps ..of the officers. powerful and domineering as evar. One point made by the writer, preparatory course students can repart made to the police.

Having passed through the detected. Anyhow, that is the seek to win back lost laurels and

France, too, has not those which will probably be new to many of car non-Portuguess readers, choose between the commercint

they are certain to lose heavily

natural reserves available 7. Mortality return for Hong- is that this soorat society, which brought about the Revolution, is and theological courses, the latter

and put up a strong defence be- which would allow us al-kong for the week ending 30th numerically quite small. He saya:

There was a very full house at fore they give way: Immediately

most to double our forces. August and for the month end- "Even at the present hour being under the control of exper- the Bijou Theatre last night, they break, however, the moral

In almost every partionlaring 31st August, 1914. the entire membership does not exceed a few thousand, but its ienced professors. With regard when the unusually long and effect of that previous defeat will there he is wrong, but he was organisation and discipline give it complete control of the political to recreation,

1. Mortality return for Macs situation. The Carbonatii are, in effect, the real governors,"

every facility interesting film "Allantia be felt, and they will give way only voicing the popular view for the weeks ending 30th Augat is given for making the screened. Again, the writer does not hesitate to give a somewhat start- boye physioilly healthy. Not always popular here, gave two exit. But they have first to be driven who most by now be ready to

The Gibson Girls, all the more quickly because of amongst German army officers and 6th September, 1914. ling definition of the Revolution; viz: "The

9. Rat return for the wooks result of a monarchical attempt to purify official life." That encouraged in every way, but, in they sang "The Ulide" and

direct only are the usual school sports cellent turna. In the first half from their strong defences.

revise their opinions. He was onding 5th and 12th September, the enemies of the murdered king were made such by his addition, the lads are encouraged Banjos Ringing" and, in the

A Great Gulding Force.

nearer the mark here:-

1914. In "The Tragedy efforts to abolish political corruption has often been hinted by to take frequent walks round second, "On the River"

of the

But if the French succeed in Korosko" Sir Arthur Consa opponents of the Republic, bat we doubt if the matter has Macao and its neighbourhood, as

making a large African Commissions to Ceylon Planters. "Won't you take me 7; these and Doyle puts into the mouth of one

army available for a Eur- hitherto been put as baldly as this at any rate by an entirely well as boating excursions to the the accompanying dances met of his characters some words

The War Office is granting opean theatre, the estimate thirty commissions, as second disinterested person: The article proceeds to attack the adjacent islands. Theatrical dis- with terrific applause and encores, which are worth quoting at this

of strength of the French lieutenant, in the now Army, 20 Government roundly for its persistence in freedom of speech and of religious thought. There is a striot once a week there is a cinemato Gibson Girls and appreciates there lies a great guiding force

banishing plays are given from time to time, Hongkong evidently likes the time. I think that behind na

army as compared withours to members of the Ceylon Plan- will be quite different. This tera' Rifle Corps and the othera tional interests and diplomacy censorship over newspaper. utterances. To criticise the Government graph exhibition in the college their cleverness,

possibility must be borne publicly, or even privately, involves the risk of boing hustled off to theatre, and every

in mind, for according to

to the Ceylon Mounted Rifles, all 4 Providence in fact-which is jail and of being kept there until the authorities are ready to let the educational trip is made to

the whole provious develop himself is given a commission as at home, Lieut.-Col. Biddulph offender go."

What the Rev. J.T. Roche has to say sa to parsecu- Hongkong, where students remain

for ever getting the best out of

ment of affairs, we may tion for religious opinions in present-day Portugal barely calls for for a few days, visiting all the

leach nation and using it for the

safely assume that France Major of the Eighth Battalion notice or comment because little of it is new to our readers, if we points of interest. Ia short the

good of the whole. When a ¤à

will leave no stone unturn-Rife Brigade. tion ceases to respond, it is time

ed to acquire, if only for a except his statement that President Arrigo remarked, some time ago, college is as good as it can be. Death of Naval Yard Storekeeper. that she went into hospital for a

time, a military superiority wont to war, and he suggested that the time had come when "statacu ehould be erected to the Nevertheless, we think some fight! devil, as a recognition of the fact that he was the first revolutionary." ought to be thrown on the follow-

few centuries, like Spain or

ovor Germany. She knows for her exactly the line of action well that she cannot reach she has followed. She had, he The idea at least has novelty about it.

The polico report that the body Greece-the virtue has gone out

her political goal except by said, to take the offensive and act ing paragraph from the school of John Foster, aged 40 years, a

of her. Statomonta roach us, from time to time, of the wasteful and prospectas: "La this course be-atorekeeper in the Naval Ord- not placed upon this earth to A man or nation is

a completo defeat of her. expensive manner in which the new Government goed to work, and sides the subjecte ehown in the nance Department, and residing do merely what is pleasant and

Eastern neighbour, and awiftly. Great masses of troops also of its entire failure to fulfil its promises as to the education of previous list which are all taught at 1, Perceval Street has been what is profitable. It is often

that such a result can only were to be massed on point after the people, but apparently the article in question makes no attempt in the English language, French, sent to the mortuary. The de called upon to carry out what is

be obtained by the exercise point so that the enemy should be of extraordinary efforts. to cover this particular ground. We have always been opposed to Physics and Chemistry attend ceased was found hanging from unpleasant and unprofitable, but

speedily crushed. This has bean oriticising a new movement before it has had ample time to show any class are included and the the neck from a rafter in the if it is obviously right it is mere anticipated, with great accuracy, fact that the plan has failed does Most emphatically, this man tried, without success, but the the world what it is worth; but we sometimes think that the pupila may in the preparatory bathroom at the address mention- skirking not to undertake it." the trend of events to-day. He not alter the fact that General Government of Portugal, having had fall opportunity now in which course provided the hour is ed; The police are making in- These words clearly fit the pre-recognised the dangers which von Bernhardi knew what he to correct the alleged errors of the monarchy, has as yet performed suitable." very little on which it can be congratulated

quiries into the matter.

Germany had to face when she was writing of two years ago,

year .an

FOUND HANGING.

Bad

sent situation.

קוי.