1914-09-24 — Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

Preservation of China's '

Monuments.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1914.

NOTICE

The Order of Shoort he THE VICTOR VICTROLA

Gior Shonai has

isaned an order to all the tacyin. of his province to the effect that as Shenai ab unds in ancient monuments, such as palacée, tomba, temples and other establishments of the former dynasties, it is incumbent upon "the local officials to preserve them istsot, so as to utilize them for educational and aesthetic pur- ровее. The Governor reminds them that the former Governor i issued similar instructions to the local officials in the previous pear ordering them to make a re- port of the number of such monuments in their respective dis- triots, but a year has elapsed, with some of the officials still taking nɔ̃ notios of such instruc- tions. The Governor warua them that punishment will be meled out to any official, who fails to make such a report to him within a certain time limit.

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Owing to the repeated request. for resignation made by Mr. Chang Hei-luan, the acting Governor of Fenglion, the" Gov. erament has decided to appoint Mr. Chang Yuan-cliï to succeed ́him. As Mr. Chang Yann-chi has been appointed delegate of the

Professor Paul Rowland, of third magistrate examination, bia appointment to the office of the Sapporo, las contributed to the Fengtien will pro-Japan Mail the following account Governor of Fengu to the public of his journey from London to immediately after the examina- Japan on the outbreak of war:

Just four weeks ago to-day, I tion. Peking Gazette.

was peacefully enjoying the bath ing at Sandowa, a cosy little Two Chinese revolutionists of sea-side resort on the Tale of some note stole into Tiehling the Wight, off the south coast of Eng- other day, says the Manchuria land, when the war cloud sudden- Daily News. For the arrest ofly loomed up in the East. My each a reward of S. T.1,000 was destination was Sapporo, Japan, offered. On Sept. 5 both were and my ticket was already bought traced to the Chinese thentro ont- from London to Harbin, I decided side West Gate, Some Chinese to go to Berlin at once so ne to be

disguised soldiers were

as within striking distance of the jiarikisha coolies and succeeded Rumian border in caso Russo in carrying them when they German relations became threat- came out of the theatre later in ening. This was on Thursday,

Revolutionists Neatly Captured at Tichling.

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A German division has crossed the Vistula to render help to the Austrians,

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The Dutch Parliament has fixed a maximum price at which four and meal may be sold.

News from a Boulogne source says that German troops have left, for Russia from Valenciennes, Armentiers, Doual and Balleuil,

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The Java Bods states that an

The German potato and grain. "the evening to a point where a July 30. Even at that late date harvest have been abundant. number of their comrades and the London papers were still The populace has garnered scif- policemen were together: At this engrossed with the situation in foient store for a year's consump. point the vehicles were upturned Ireland, and the British publiction. on purpose, and when the fares did not dream of the noar pos- were landed on all fours each feitility of a general European found a group of powerful | war. soldiers upon him, biading him In crossing over from the Isle hand and foot. A dozen of small of Wight to Portsmouth, 1 passed bombs, a couple of Mauser pistols through Spithead Channel, where, with 400 rounds of ammunition, five days previously, I had seen sud a lot of Chinese currency the largest British fleet ever notea were 'found on their gathered together, 493 vessels, persons. They were escorted to large and small. Now there were Makden on the following day. only three or four in sight.

Aeroplane Accident in Tokyo.

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Leaving London at 8.30 that An aeroplane accident is report-night (Thursday, July 30), 1

the Channel ed from Tokyo.. It appears that crosser}

to the Hook Mr. Hoshino Youezo, a private Harwich airman, was flying across Tokyo Holland, and arrived in Berlin Bay from Inage, Chiba Prefecture, about five o'clock the following on a monoplane of his own inven- afternoon (Friday, July 31). The tion at about 7 a.m. on the 13th. waters just off Harwich were alive On the way, he encountered a with British men of war, con shower of fain and a strong breaze, stantly mauoouvring and cease With great difficulty, the airman lessly playing their blinding reached Teukishima at the mouth searchlights on ships and shore. of the Sumida, when the motor On the train to Berlin were caught fire and he was obliged to eeveral British and American alight on a patch of reclaimed tourists, and the conversation ground. Unfortunately his ma-turned upon almost every subject chine came into collision with a except the maelstrom into which pole and was overturned. Mr. we were blindly speeding. Scenes in Berlin. Hoshima received more or less

To Decimalize Time.

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Expeditionary Force for duty in Halland is being raised in the Dutch East Indies. It will consist of Netherland Indians, Evropeans, Amboinese, etc.

News from Vienna says that after a ten-days' battle the Aus- trians were defeated by the lus- stuns and lost two Generals. The Germans came quickly to their csil for assistance but arrived too late to help.

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den Lin express. The case seemed hope- periods, called hores, instead of den, made up mainly of students less, but I next went to the Russian twenty-four hours, each hore and young civiliane, obearing and Embassy, where I was told that 11.31 train. out that being similarly divided into fifty singing at the top of their lunge. the periods, called chrones, each The Emperor had that afternoon night would be the last to oross chrone about one and a half moved from Potsdam to the Royal the Russian frontier. (This minutes-being the thousandth Palace and had made from the proved later to have been correct.) part of a day as the gramme and balcony that now-momentous Waiting on the platform of the the metre are the thousandth part, speech beginning, "For five Friederich-strasco Station were at twenty Years have Ileast twice as many people us respectively, of the kilogramme and and kilometre. The chrones are far- kept and defended the peace, could possibly get into, the train ther subdivided into contichrones, but now.

Extras bound for Alexandrovo. When the equivalent of a second. The containing the speech were being the train pulled in, women were devisor of the plan asserts that scattered broadcast through the trampled ander, shrieking and Russian beyond it, that was city without special permit the new system would facilitate atreats. Suddenly to step into moaning, portera knocked all At Alexandrovo our pass from the police. By eleven marine observation, besides this bewildering harly-burly was each other down, and men porta were called for, but customs o'clock in the morning the line of simplifying calculations of time like nothing so much as au un-fought their way through the examination was dispensed with, people waiting their turn for these generally. The French govern expected plunge into ice-cold swaying mass. To brute strength After a six hour wait we were passes was two blocks long. I ment, however, shows no inclina-water, startling, full of unseen belonged the victory. That night piled into closed freight cars and stood in the line from 11 am, to tion to adopt the ideo.

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