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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 27. 1914.

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Fire-fighting,

Hongkong's Fire Brigade is step by step being brought thoroughly up-to-date, and the

DAY BY DAY.

NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

CABLE CENSORSHIP,

"WHO WOULD BE FREE, THEM-

STUBBORN FIGHTING STILL CONTINUES,

The Weather.~~~~ Lower level 8 am. Temp. 80;

latest indication of this fact is to SELVES MUST STRIKE THE BLOW." be found in the announcement e that a new motor fire engine and pomp is to be secured at a cost of $13,384, Experience with the fine.

At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp. 71; present motor tender has shown

fine. its great advantages, and the now engine should prove a most valuable addition to the Colony's fire-fighting appliances. Repect of ita utility deserves

special mention, and that is that pump which, will be of great the new apparatus will include a service in the upper levels where the pressure of water is not saloient to throw a high jet. "The work of our firemen in the

Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which requires them to forward communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, but as an evidence of their bona fides.

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past deserves all the good that can bo raid of it, and it is only right and fitting, if we expect them to do their best, that they should be supplied with modern apparatus.

Kowloon's Claims,

The Mails!

Siberian Mail.-Due here to

morrow.

Canadian Mail-Olosed to-day

at 11a.m.

Canadian Mail-Olosed to-day Closed to-day

at 1 p.m. Siberian Mail.

at 3 p.m.

American Mail.-Closea to-day

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Trade List.

Russia Once Again to the Fors.

05 the

WAR ITEMS

Was it Suicide ?.

An Important Notification.

A Government Gazette Ex-

Lady Raymond West was in traordinary issued yesterday con- Germany when the war broke taine the following notification:- out. She has arrived in England It is hereby notified that on and after many troublous adventures after October 20th telegraphic and gives an entirely new versionet Fierce fighting still goes on in addresses registered prior to of the death of Prince William the western theatro of the war July 1st, 1014, may be used as of Lippe who, according to Gar- without any very appreciable the addreas but not

man statements, fell a victim to change in the situation. It is signature in telegrams (a) bebis gallantry in raising a re- still on our extreme Left that the tween any two places in British gimental standard to rally the hardest blows are being ex- Territories including Egypt (Germans to the siege of Liege. changed, particularly round Lille between each and any of the Lady Raymond West says Prince and just over the Belgian border, following: Britib Territories William's cavalry regiment at- It is here, of course, that the including Egypt, Territory of tacked in the dark another Ger country is easiest for the enemy to allied countries, and the United man regiment, almost annihilated traverse, and, perceiving that fact, States of America provided in all it, and when day downed and he the Germans are trying might cases that either sender or addiscovered his error and main to break through the dressee or both are resident out-himself rather than face the Allies' lines. Inasmuch as our side Europe. In the base of banks Kaiser's anger. forces at this point have been re-authorised to send or receive A Gift From Shanghai Welsh inforced, however, there is not remittance telegrams with one

Ladies,

he shot

Count the Columas, Yesterday the Telegraph pab- of solid lished 36 columns reading matter. To-day there will be 38 published.

much hops of the success of the code word it will be necessary Mrs. Hopkyn Rees, wife of the operations. The enemy appears still to give the address en clair President of St. David's Society, The Dollar.

bank eo and eight other Welsh ladies of This new engine is designed

The rate of the dollar on to have orossed the Yeer canali Bender is not a

Shanghai are sending to their between Nieuport and Dirmude, authorised." for work in the City of Victoris, demand to-day is is. B.7.16d. addresses

On and after the 1st of Novem-compatriots, the men of the South but a glance at the map will growth of the settlement across the Christmas and New Year Malls, show that a force taking that ber the following codes will be Wales Borderers, and to any bat the time will come, with the

The Christmas parcel mail to line stands in distinct danger of permitted to be used in telegrams Welsh sailors there may be at barbour, when the question of Strengthening the Brigade on the the United Kingdom closes in being cut off, so long as we hold passing between the United Tsingtau and Weihaiweis present Kowloon side will have to be Hongkong on November 5 at 5 our position on the other side of Kingdom on the one hand and of 4,500 cigarettes, 200 tine of At the p.m., while that for the New Year the river. In any case the enemy British Possessions and allied or smoking mixture, forty hard The rates of Bubscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will given consideration.

moment, of course, Hongkong, closes at 5 p.. on the 19th prox. is being kept quite close to the neutral countries outside the plags of tobacco and sixty-one sea-coast, which is precisely where European telegraphic system ou pipes. This present has been be as followa

with its mss80s of buildinga,

Trade Enquiry List No. 28 we wish to keep him. One very the other hand-A.B.C. 5th received at the depot of the deserves premier consideration but, all the same, Kowloon's has been issued by the American satisfactory development is that Edition, Scott's Code 10th Edition, British Women's Work and will claims must not be lost sight of. Consulate General of Hongkong the Allies are at length beginning Western Union Code and Lieber's be forwarded at the Arst oppor Happily a fire in the European Connections are required by to make some progress in the Code.Messages in private, ortunity N. China Daily News. quarter is a thing unheard of at American exporters for many lines Centre, where, owing no doubt any other code not recognised

largely to the billy character of will be stopped. Neither private Galatz, Sept. 15-Great mani- the country, the Germans have supplements nor numerical equi-festations have occurred here in present, but we never know the of goods."

At 5.30 pm. to-morrow & been extremely difficult to die-valents of phrases in published favour of the Triple Entente. An day when an outbreak may occur.. Hence should we be prepared for all eventualities. And while on mesting is to be held at the lodge. Progress is reported codes are admissible. It should immense crowd, composed of all this matter the question of Institute of Engineers and north-west of Soissons and in the be remembered that groups or classes of the population, today consider the region of Craonne. On the right, series of numbers and similar paraded on the streets of the city, If we are to formation of a special engineering too, the French are more than expressions (for example prices of cheering for Russia, France and pressure in the maine must be Shipbuilders to borne in mind.

most stcake) are not necessarily admia England. The German and Ang- Wounded Slightly,

noteworthy feature of the opera-eible because they appear in code. trian consulates are guarded by judge from the manner in which section of the Volunteer Reserves holding their own, the the water feebly trickles throngh

Ip Wang, a Chinese male aged tions here being the satisfactory If the decode would not have forces of police. the pipes in most of the houses

12 years, has been admitted to position row taken up by their been passed by the Censors Letters from the Front.

The newspapers which are The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will be delivered in Kowloon, the pressure say the Government Civil Hospital, heavy artillery in the Woevre neither will the coded message

suffering from a wound in the head caused by the fall of a box region, which, we are informed, be passed. In every case the offering to publish letters from commands the German lines of name of the code used must be the front are not likely to procure which he was carrying down a communication with St. Mihiel, indicated on the form and no much information by that device, flight of stairs,

and looks like interfering with charge will be made for the for the Censorship is taking no. the line to Metz:

transmission of the name of the riske. The story is being told of code.

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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1914.

THE EMPEROR WILLIAM'S CRIME.

UNMUZZLED DOGS.

Court Cases Show the Police Active.

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Engineers' Meeting.

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Jewellery and Money Stolen.

Lou Tso-chau, manager of the

Russia's Good Work. Li Yuen oil shop, 264 Des Voeux Road West, complains that some Turning to the eastern theatre, person has stolen from his house it is evident that the Austro- in Kee Ling Lane a jacket worth German forces are having decid

Malta's Cargo.

contact with the Russians, who now appear to have once again takan sp to offensive. The

"CHUNG YANG.”

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Roumanian Sympathy.

a woman in England who receiv ed a four-page letter from her. husband. All that was loft legible of it was the address and the final words, "With lovo to you and the kiddies." It must Ly been a very interesting letter, [We understand that the same fate has befallen erme of the letters sent to Hongkong.]

"Quaint Chinese Festival Mr. D. E. de Souza, of Kow- 50 cents, containing 5 articles of edly, the worst of the deal in their

Observed To-day loon, was this morning, at the jawellery valued at $47.50, and Police Court, before Mr. J. R.$84 in money,

To-day is the feast when many Wood, charged with allowing bis

The cargo shipped from Hong, latest news from this quarter of the Chinese will be seen wend-

The Biden-a Protest. No British periodical, whatever may be its ordinary policy or (dog abroad without a muzzle.

The defendant said he gave the kang by the 3.8. Malta included labels the German official reporting their way towards the bills.

The Bengal Chamber of Com- politics, hesitates to lay the whole blame for the tragedy that is now being enacted on the shoulders of the Kaiser and his immediate dog away early in the year, and 200 bales of silk cocoon, 10 bales of the fall of Warsaw as some Being the ninth day of the ninth

the summone was adjourned sine of raw silk, 484 half-cheels of thing not far removed from pure moon, the day is termed "Double merce has addressed strongly dic, to allow a summons to be tes and 23 chests of opium for imagination. A French statement ninth," Ching Chiu, but as worded letters to the Bengal Gov advisers; and no Britisher worth the name can be found to own

London; 200 bales of waste silk ironed just twenty-four hours be-nine" is taken as representing ernment-regarding the exploite that bis country is in any conechle way at fault in the matter. brought against the new owner.

A Chinese charged with having for Manchester; and 60 bales of fore the circalation of the German the Yang or male principle in of the Emden in the Bay. It is It is notable, too, that many of those papers and magazines which,

story spoke of the enemy retreat Yih Ching, Chien diagram, so pointed out that Calcutta, the The Colony's flealth. ing south of the Polish capital, this day is also called the Double most important post in the East under ordinary circumstances, pass for moderate and cosmopolitan, a dog without a licence was fined raw silk for Marseilles.

The health return for last week while later intimations-that is, Yang, or Chung Yang,

is absolutely unguarded so far as have, since war broke out, waxed the most virulent in their $5.

A similar penalty was ordered)

It was on this day that Huon shipping is concerned, and it is denunciations of the Kaiser, as well as in their prophecies for the in the case of a Chinese living in was of a particularly gratifying subsequent to the iesaing of the

was character. There were no cases German circular-show how the Ching was said to have been asked that convoys be provided for fature of himself and his empire. A case in point is the Nineteenth Hollywood Road, who Century, which has recently published an article by Mr. J. Ellie charged with allowing bis dog of plague and only one each of Russians have driven off the advised by his friend and tator, merchant vessels and a British enteric and small - poz. The Kaiser's troops and captured Fei Ch'ang-fang, to quit his oruiter detailed to protect the trad out without a muzzle., Barker on "The Ultimate Ruin of Germany."

Major Martin was fired a like former ended fatally, and the several important points in the house with his family, and to routes. Further representation In this article the writer is extremely auxions that all should sum for a similar offence, by Mr. latter was a non-fatal occurrence locality. Desperate attempts have ascend the highest hill, each with on the sime subject will be mad

imported.

been made to etsy the encoming a bag containing some "Evodia by the Chamber to the Govern "carefully differentiate between the governing classes and the mass Melbourne.

Poisoned by Aniseed. Russiane, but these have only Rutaecarpa alang from the meat of India..... Mr. P. Karze, of Kowloon, was of the people" in Germany. He insists on what probably nine-

The body of a young Chinese ended in the routing of the shoulder, and then to drink German Prisoners give Trouble tenths of us have felt all along; namely: that the war did not break summoned for keeping a dog with-

The Daily Chronicle repor married woman has been sent to enemy with heavy losses. The chrysanthemum wine on the top out by the will of the people. They were forced and driven into out a licence, and for allowing the publice mortuary from Chung Austrians have met with no of the hill, in order to avoid the insarventions of German prisone it," he argues., "They were and are still deceived and misinformed it abroad without a muzzle.

The defendant said he waO Chau police station. It appears batter results, and an attempt of calamity which was going to over- in Edinburgh, where they are in by their Government-controlled Prees." He might perhaps have added that the present Kaiser, since Prince Bismarck ceased to have keeping the dog for a friend who that the deceased, Wong Tat-ling theirs to turn the Russian Left take him (Haan) and his family, terned in the military barreol a voice in the governing of Germany, has made such a steady had gone up to Tsingtan. All was by name, had drunk a quantity has ignominiously failed. So all Having a complete trust in hie under a guard of Territorial atinggle to win despotic power that the bulk of the people have done in a rush, and he did not of anisced and had become un- along the line the Russians are teacher Huan obeyed, and when These prisoners are German nav actually forgotten that Germany ever made even the slenderest know whether his friend had a conacions. Police Sergeant Ap- patting the enemy to flight, and be returned in the evening, lol men who were captured in Helig pretence to being a limited monarchy. On paper the Czar's power licence or not. With regard to the pleton, who was called in some as they progress the consequences the whole of his house was land. Headed by a son of Admin is absolate, the Kaiser's limited; but in actual fact the positions are licence, he was under the impres. hours later, administered an must have a distinct bearing on reduced to ashes, the dogs, von Tirpitz, the prisoners made sion that the dog was too young emetic, but the woman did not the situation in France and chickens and cattle being burnt desperate rush on the Territor

recover. to want one. It slipped out by The Kaiser has plunged Europe in war, then has caused the the back door without the mazzle blood of millions to flow needlessly; has flooded the world with on.

Inspector Gordon said there anxiety and with poverty merely to gratify his own overweening vanity. Granted that he could have no conception of the immensity was trath in the defendant's Vale curse which he was laying on Europe; that he reokoned with statement, and withdrew the first oat hie hoet, counting on Britain's refusal to be embroiled, and on summons.

The defendant was fixed $6'on a walk-over where France was concerned; granted, too, that, if some good fairy could wipe out the horrors of the last twelve weeks the second charge. and place things once again in the position which they occupied before the war, he would be even more thankful than we-OVED

almost reversed.

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then in the fact altered that his original intention was to increase UNIVERSITY OF his prestige, and perhaps his territory, while knowing full well that warfare and particularly warfare of a modern and scientific nature must bring death or ruin to an e:o:mous number of quite unoffending persons? For the man who sets his own petty self- importance so much higher than the lives of his subjsota-leave alone those of the nationalities wherewith he is at war-what

New Postcards.

Realising the Facts.

WONDERFUL FIGURES.

British Andibilated" Twice.

Over.

Belgium. Incidentally it may be to death.

guards but all were secured a recalled that the Austriana' task Now the Chinese make the day thereafter transferred to sa We have received from Mosers. was to hold back the Rassione a holiday, and being kites to the keeping in Edinburgh Castle. Kelly and Walsh & set of new until Germany could dispose of highest peak. As they fly these Ceylon Contingent for the Fro It was announced on parade postcards just published by this France and ber Allies in the west kites, they cut the string, so that, well-known firm, comprising six and bring up her troops to the as they say, all ill-lack may fly Diyatalawa on September 2 beautiful coloured views of Hong- Austrian frontier. But now both away with the kites.

by Col. R. 1. Fell, Commandi the Volunteer Force in Ceyl graphs. They belong to Tuck's forces are fighting for their kong, from the latest photo the German and the Austrian

that the Contingent Company the OP.R.C. are to be Super Glosso" series, and, as existence. their name iudicates, they are

straight to England and not finished with a highly-glazed The report which came to hand

Egypt at all. The autouncem was reosired with loud che surface. They should meet with over the week and concerning the

Same 120 members of the C HONGKONG. a great demand, and are sure to attitude of Tarkey is sufficient

make a wide appeal to friends at indication that Germany is be Bordeaux, September 15, tingent came down to Color Home:

ginning to realise that the tide A reader of the journal La by the mail train in the e Double Wedding. has turned against her. The Suisse calculates that, if the tele-ing, and several, seen b At the next matriculation ex- An interesting double wedding favourable military situation of grams of the Wolff Agency are to Times of Ceylon represents

took place yesterday at the the Allies, coupled with the Rus be believed, the French have also told the newe punishment can be severe enough? This is the burden of the latter amination, to be held in Hongkong Union Church, the parties being sisu sucoesses, has caused Ger up to the present lost 880,000 about 227 C.P.B.C. men in part of Mr. Barker's article. He makes no bones about the matter, on December 14, five prizes of one According to him, the Kaiser should be judged by the nations he hundred dollars each, offered by respectively Dr. J. Henderson many to renew her pressure on the men in killed and prisoners. The ing at Diyatalawa Camp, and, has wronged, and should be treated as a criminal to the end of his Mr. Chan Kai-ming, Sir Paul Lamb and Miss Janet B. Watson; Porte to fight on her side. Things Germans claim to have captured a single exception, they all

i have signed for three years o days. He should certainly not be allowed to load a life of ease Chater, Sir Charles Eliot, Mr. and Dr. W. Chalmers Dale and must be looking black for the 177 generals, 1,213 flags, and ed on for devine abroad. and luxury, either in Germany or in another land. The colossal Ho Fook and Mr. Lan Chu-pak, Miss E. M. Brodie: Both bride Kaiser when he has to call poor 11,982 cannoo. war which he has brought about is not only a crime against the will be awarded to the successful grooms are on the staff of the Turkey to his aid. What game is According to the Agency, the a long a period as the pre opinion of the men is that German nation, but a crime against civilisation, against mankind; candidates who obtain the highest English Presbyterian Mission in Turkey playing at, we wonder? British Army has, already been war may last, and the ger and the wronged nations should sit in judgment on him." That marke. The winners of the South Chins, Dr. Lamb being One day she is all for Germany, annihilated twice, they assuredly will do even as they eat in judgment on a far greater prizes may enter any faculty, but stationed at Changpu, Amoy, and the next she reassures the Am As for the Russians, the Ger-reaching England, they wi man who was nevertheless no greater tyrant at heart. We only must join the University on Dr. Dale at Shengkang, Fakien basadors of the Entente that she mans claim to have made 800,000 at once drafted into a hope the memory of the said great man will not be insulted by his January 3, 1015, and commence The ceremony was performed by will stick to teatrality at all of them prisoners and conducted Regiment and will be in Exchange probability sent to the from one of the brides, assisted by the thus with the Turks. feeble imitator's being sent to St. Helena, Bome more fitting place residence in quarters assigned to the Rev. John Watson, father of costs. But, after all, it was ever them to Berlin.

Special. can surely be found for him when the day of reckoning comes,

them.

Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie.

There

fore the end of the year

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