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TSINGTAU ITEMS.

Japanese Take Charge of Railway,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WAR ITEMS.

More German Reservists.

BRITISH SHIPPING AND THE WAR.

The Board of Arbitration' The N. C. Daily News of the appointed to deal with the re 25th inst, saya :-We understand quisitioning of British ships by The Japanese military author- that daring the past week the Government in connection ities have taken charge of the second party of German reservists with the European war is drawn Shantung Railway between Kaomi have reached Shanghai from the from seven panels, containing and Kianobau and trains are run South, trevelling overland, and altogether 49 members. His by Ohiness. No Germans or that another party numbering Majesty has appointed Lord German maila are carried over from a dozen to a score, who Mersey to be President of the the railway.

reached Amoy by steamer, have Board of Arbitration and Mr. arrived here afely on a Chinese junk which they chartered at Amoy to bring them to Shanghai,

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Germans Prepare to Destroy Tsingtau.

Chinese Bill to Germany..

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No Complaints.

William Walton to be the Vice- President. Amongst the ship owners appointed on the Board are the "Right Hon. the Lord

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1914.

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

NOTICE.

We beg to notify our cus- tomers that on and after 14th inst: our amended prices (as approved by the Food Com mittee) will come into force,

All existing price lists are hereby cancelled.

Amended copies can now be had on application.

THE DAIRY FARM Co., Ltd.

DEFENDANT believed,

Action Against Woman as

Guarantor Fails.

According to Chicere. who escaped out of Tsingtan, the Germana are making preparations

"There is hardly a household Inchonpe, G.O.M.G., etc., and to set fire to and destroy all the in the whole vast circuit of Lan- Mr. J. M. Shields (Peninsular important buildings in the town don which is not directly touched and Oriental Steam Navigation if the worst happens.

aume way or other by the Company). There a70 Japanese Detained at Tsingtau, oveats of the past few weeks; Government nominees, besides The Japanese Government has there is hardly a family which is representatives of bankers, asked the United States for the not represented in the Army or underwriters, marine insurance release of two Japanese civiliane Navy and does not hide under companies, insurance brokers, SEPTEMBER, 1914, who are detained as Tsingtan brave exteriors. anxions hearts And average adjusters. The official note of the United that wait eagerly for nows that, During the last day or two States Minister at Peking on the when it comes, may shatter so there has been a remarkable matter has reached the Americau many hearths. Yet not one com-increase in shipping movements Consul at Tuingiau, but owing to plains."

in all waters, says the L. & 0. the interruption of communica.

Express of; August 17, The German Prisoners in London.

Prees tions he is said to be conferring

Bureau announces that There are 300 or 400 German the Foreign Office and the with the Japanese military author- ities as to the means of transmitt-prisoners in Olympia, and this is Admiralty have concerted mea

how London regards the amazing eures for the proper protection of ing the note to Teingtau.

fact: "For all you can see there British trade in the Atlantic. The Court, the Chief Justice, Mr. This morning, at the Supreme might be no state of war, Admiralty has already despatched Justice Gompertz, sitting in The Chinese Chamber of Com- detentions, no concentration camps large number of mobilized Summary Jarisdiction, heard a merce a Tainan has drawn up at all. Three or four loafers and cruisers to their stations common- statement of losses suffered by a small boy loiter outside the ding the trade routes.

case in which Kam Hon sang the Chinese at Taingiau, owing to turnstiles and peer through the nearly treble the enemy cruiser return of $600 lent by the aned Hai Shing-ahi, claiming the the outbreak of hostilities, and glass doors for the joy of beholding forces already there. For exam presented it to the German Gon-vast empty spaces within. There ple, in the Atlantic 24 British plaintiff to the defendant's son sul. The total of the bill amount is not so much as one policeman cruisers besides French are search and said to have been guaranwired the Governors of the to 15,000,000 marks.

on guard. At the back door you ing for the five German oruisers teed by her. The claim was Austrians Detained by Japanese and get less evidence of alarm. known to be in that ocean. The against her as guarantor,

The Japanese troops have

enemy's vessels will be hunted

Mr. C. A. Rase appeared on arrested at Kinuchun a party of

continuously, and although some behalf of Mr. P. W. Goldring. 53 Austrian bluejackots who were

time may elapse before they are for the plaintiff, and Mr. D. F. Tsingtau. their way to

run down they will be kept tooMason, for the defendant.

Mason, of Mesara D'Almada and The Austrians alloged that they

busy to do mischief. A number ware Red Cross men, but the

of fast merchant vessels, fitted

Mr. Buss said the plaintiff,' Japanese refused to entertain

A year ago, even a few months out and armed at British naval who was quite a wealthy young their explanation...

in the British Isles who would or by the Admiralty for the purpose time had been leading money to ago, there were millions of people arsenals, are being commissioned man, had just come into the Colony from China and for some cocid not believe that battleships of patrolling the routes and keep the defendant's son, who had been are cheaper than battles. Parliaing them clear of commerce. ment hae already passed the raiders. In the North Sea aloze, carrying on a business when the largest vote of credit ever pre-where the Germans have scattered money was lent, but who had sented to it. It needs no power mines indiscriminately and where since absconded from the Colony. of prophecy to anticipate that this the most formidable operations When the plaintiff came to the

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German Impost on Chinese. Owing to the protest of the Chinese Government the German authorities have allowed the departure of Chinese from Tsing- tau on payment of $5 unless they

are not coolies.

Not even a small boy waits there. The gates are closed. Never sure- ly did a nation at war gather a camp of its potential enemies with less alarm." Cost of War.

These

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Chinese Currency Reform. The Ministry of Finance and the Garrency Bureau have decid- ed to call a conference of the representatives of the provinces to discuss the scheme of currency reform. Each province.aball be

Laancial conditions represented by two deputies who should know thoroughly the province which they represented. of the

The Minister of Finance and tho Director-General of the Currency conference about the middle of Bureau propose to commence the next month. They have jointly-

varions provinces making them to appoint representatives for the conference. The province of Sinkiang will be represented by the two deputies who are now in Peking to participate in the Financial Conference.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS,

CHINESE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT 7% SILVER LOAN OF 1886. E. 56th HALF-YEARLY DRAWING.

Interest due and drawn bonds

About 2,000 Chinese coolics are hundred millions is merely, the of naval war are proceeding, the Colony from Canton, be used of this loan will, bo payable at the still at work under compulsion." first of many hundred millions. Admiralty can give no assurance, to stay at the defendant's house, offices of the Corporation, on and

The Coolle Question.

When the account comes to be

war broke out.

The Chinese authorities in balanced, what comparison will Shanglung have prohibited the small economics effected on Chinese coolies from entering the the Fleat in the past few years German firm in Canada since the had not been paid back, the latter fighting zone or going to Dairon, bear to the burden of war which and men attempting to engage the nation will have to tako upon coolies for either of these places its shoulders, and to the human are being arrested. The Japacers lives sacrificed? forces being unable to obtain coolies, the Japanese Consul at Chefoo is taking steps to enter, protest.

The Situation in Laoshan.

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after the 30th September, 1914. List of drawn bonds can be ob- tained on application to the undersigned.

For the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. Agents issuing the Loan,

"A. G. STEPHEN, AUT Acting Chief Manager. Hongkong, 30th September, 1914,

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NOTICE.

The Food Committee are in- formed that some dealers and

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the defendant being a relative of big. After he had lent a deal of money to her son, which asked for an additional loan of English Girls Stranded. $600. Plaintiff lent it to him, Some young girls who resobed because he was afraid it he did Folkestone on the 4th ultimo by not, the business would be spoiled the Flushing steamer said they and be would be unable to get An artist, recently returned to had been at German schools and any of his previous loans repaid. London from Bavaria, stated in the authorities had had all the In view of that, be enggested that an interview: "I have seen English girls taken, over the the defendant should guarantee There was formerly a German nothing so striking as the willing frontier, where they were left the 'loan, and a document was colony at Laoshan, says a Chefoo way in which the German soldiers stranded, numbers of them pen made out by the son,, to which compradores are still charging dispatch to the Asahi, hat now go to the front. They do not want niless. Two of the girls said they she affixed her mark, being the maximum prices allowed in the Proclamations of the 18th and no sign of a German is to be war, but are eager to respond to were all who had succeeded in unable to write.

call: country's

The getting through out of a large The plaintiff, in evidence, said "22nd August although many of seen. There is also no sign of their

he came are peace-loving school party.

to Hongkong when the prices in that Proclamation any danger in the vicinity, though Bavarians

Canadian Artillery,

Ohan Kwing ming was Viceroy. have been reduced in the later Lacehan Bay is suspected of people, and essentially pro-

English."

Canada's urtillery force will, Previous to gigning the document Proclamation of the 11th Septem- ber. The Committee therefore being mined.

is declared by military experts, on which the action had been advise the public to scrutinise The Tsingtau Garrison. The German garrison at Tsing. Sir William James Thomas, the compare very favourably, both in brought, the plaintiff had lent to the items in their account books tan, continues the dspatch, is Welsh coal-owner, in addition to equipment and efficiency, with the defendant's son some $1,000, and to pay those amounts only now estimated at 8,500, com contributing 1,000 gainess to the British or French artillery. The none of which had ever been paid. which are legally chargeable.

A witness for the plaintiff said In the event of any difficulty prising Austrian bluejackets and Prince of Wales' Fund, has offer-guns are all modern, and the Germane from all parts of China,ed to subscribe £2,500 for a equipment id of recent purchase, that the defondant could write. regarding payment the public but only about half this number Welsh national hospital at the The 18-pounders have a range but did not sign the gaaraatee, are requested to refer the matter she said that she to The Food Committee, Trea- are really capable of military seat of war. The offer WIA service. The forces are divided accepted at a public meeting at the 60-pounders will carry seven could not write well enough sury. Hongkong.

Canadian ammunition, for that "purpose and, PACIFIC MAIL STEÄMNFIP in to three sections one for police Cardiff at which steps were taken miles.

COMPANY. work in the fortified zone and for the establishment of a field which is of the same standard as because her cross would look just

the British ammunition, will be as well.

From SAN FRANCISCO, JAPAN Tsingtau, one for service in the hospital.

ased.

The defence was a denial that

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the document was ever signed by

8.S." KOREA." tion of defence works, repairs of As the result of an inquiry by Single-Handed Capture, roads, etc., of which there has the Panel Committee, 665 doctors A telegram from Paris teile of the defendant, who was perfectly

The above. mentioned vossel. been a good deal to do since on the London panel have up to the capture of 700 German able to write and was, in fact, a womad. There the storm Of the forts at date stated that they will be pre-Uhlane single-handed by an well-educated Teingtau, the Mainichi states pared during the war to render Alaatian. focomotive driver. He might have been a loan to her that the Foshan fort is the medical aid free of charge to the was moving a train load of Ubians 800, but she knew nothing about etrongest, and the Osaka paper's necessitous dependents of Reser to the frontier, and purposely any guarantee.

His Lordship believed the de- informant is of opinion that it visto on their panel lists who diverting it to another track, ran would cost a great many lives have been called to the colours, the care full speed into France. fendant's story and found for her

Be stopped at the first French with coate, to carry it by assault,

Boy Scout's Trick, The defence works of Teingtan, A Carman Boy Scout arriving station and handed over the whole

will be subject to landing continues the same paper, are from Aix-la-Chapelle crossed the train load of Germans with their to French

charges and if undelivered on 6th quite complets, and there is room frontier and solicited assistance horse equipment

October, 1914, at noon will for 5,000 men to take active part from the Belgian Red Cross on soldiers.

Canadian Gifts.

be subject to both landing and AS in the operations. A fort has the ground that he had been heen hastily constructed on Yie seriously shaken, and suffered Amongst the many gifts made The O. S. K. liner, the Daichi storage charges.

No Fire Insurance whatever

ance whateve island in Kiauchau Bay, but the internal injuries. His vague, by Canadians to the Motherland Mara, arrived in Kobe on Septem will be effected.. defence works of a promontory evasive answere to plain questione since the opening of the war, it bor 17 with Bysack's Cirons on All chafed and otherwise dam- opposite Thingtau, across the arousing suspicion, the authorities is interesting to record that board. At present, all the live-aged cargo will be examined at mouth of the bay, seem to be a had him searched, and found owners of riding horses through-stock has been put into quaran the above Company's godown weak spot. There are no defences complete plane of the fortresses out the Dominions placed their tine. The Circus, consists of 20 on Monday, 5th October 1914, at outside the limit of the leased of Maestricht on him.

animals at the disposal of the horses and ponies, 3 liona, 310 a.m. officers of the Canadian volunteers elephants, 2 tigers, and 7 monkeys. No claims will be entertained. The defences of the German Firms no Status. N fortified parts are stronger than "We are at war with Germany, who were going on active service. The performers consist of 30 unless accompanied by short were those of the Russians at and by the law, so long as this state Beside the gift of cheese from the European artistes, and 50 British delivery note, or list of exceptions taken at the time of delivery to Fort Arthur The barbed wire of war existe, no German firm has province of Quebec, numerone Indiane. A band of 10 pieces is consignees and signed for and or entanglements cover a space of any status in a Canadian court, other gifts have been sent to also included. Until the quaran- behalf of the Pacific Mail 8.8. Co. about 50 feet in width, and they said Judge Morson at Toronto on Great Britain to relieve or prevent tine regulations are removed none. All claims must be filed on or are mounted on a concrets base, August 27, in refusing to give distress in the Motherland. Nova of the stock can be landed, but before 31st October 1914, other- with iron posts. The wires are judgment in a case where a fer- Scotis, for instance, Bent 100,000 the management state that it wise they will not be recognized.

R. C. MORTON, obarged with electricity, and man firm sued a Canadian firm tons of coal for the needy in Log- anticipates that the Authorities

www.Agent. ExSES nothing has been left undone to for payment for dress goods, This land, while Ontario sent 250,000 will withdraw the ban after 12

Hongkong, 29th September, 1914. make this work effecti

was the first law sotion by bags of flour.

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