1914-10-28 — Page 8

TO-DAY'S

THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH.

LATE WAR TELEGRAMS,

EX-KING MANOEL DESIRES TO FIGHT FOR

BRITAIN,

DISLOYAL BURGHERS CAUSE TROUBLE IN AFRICA

Idea of Rebellion Thoroughly Detested.

[Renter's Service to "The Telegraph"]

Putting Down a Rebelllous Movement.

Oct, 27, 11.40 p.m.

The Frass Bureau states that. Lord Baxton, Governor-General

EXTRA

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1914,

HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB:

The Committee's Report on

the Past Season,

The report of the Committes of the Hongkong Cricket Club for the Season 1913-1914, to be prosented at the annual meeting this evening, is as follows:-

The Committee beg to submit their report on the working of the Club and the accounts for the year ending 31st August, 1014

The income and expenditure

STOLEN JEWELLERY. THE PREVENTION OF BIJOU SCENIC THEATRE THE EXPLOITS OF THE

Maximum Sentence Imposed.

The circumstances attending the theft of about $800 worth of jewellery by a houseboy were in. vestigated by Mr. J. R. Wood, at the Police Court, this morning when Mr. Garraway, an uugine at the Kowloon Locks, prosecuted. The defendant admitted his guilt.

Inspector MoHardy, in charge

|

TYPHOID IN WAR.

Our losses from typhoid or enteric fever in the South African War should be remembered to- day, writes Dr. Saleeby in the that the oarelessness or deliberate Pall Mall. It is almost incredible defiance of the principles of hygiene which often marked that campaign on our side can recur, but anything is possible in such

of the case for the police, inform-directions until we have all ed his Worship that the theft took undergone enough training to

"Medical advice is a very good

This evening, there will be, acreened at the Bijon the first number of Pathe's War Gazette. This film is 1,500 feet long and nondes, amongst other interest towed into Yarmouth Harbour ing items, the following:

A captured German ship being the French troops crossing the frontier into Germany, Earl Kit. chener's 100,000 army recruits receiving their pay, scenes in Paria on the declaration of war with Germany, conscripts leaving

EMDEN.

"Not Flatshed Yat."

20 say that when the commander Cafoatia papers of September

the skippers of the five qunken of the Emden took his farewell of

gentlemen, you will hear of me vessele, he said "Well, good-bye, again. I have not finished yet." Evidently he has not finished yet, his allowing the Kabinga to go be- for not many hours elapsed after

fore he sighted, stopped and sant the sinking of this vessel bears the Clan Matheson. The story of

place yesterday afternoon, when realise the profound folly of the Paris for the military, depots, out in important essentials- of South Afrios, has informed Mr. Harcourt that a number of burgh account showes profit of $753:58 the complainant and his wife late Lord Wolseley's remark that British Parsoval airship fying ers in the northern districts of the Orange Free State and in West- as against the sum of $154.91 at were away from the house. The thing when it is asked for." The initiated in the grim realities of the other five vessels.

•

ern Transvaal bave been misguided enough to defy the authority of "the Government and make preparations for a rebellion.

Generals Christian De Wet and Beyers, commandeering the military, requirements of the commandoes, have already seized ei bron, and the officials have been captured.

Government is determined to deal with the matter firmly A very great majority of the citizens of every Province are thorough- ly loyal and detest the very idea of a rebellion.

Ex-King Manoel Anxious to Serve.

Oct. 27, 7.5 p.m. Reuter is authorised to any that Ex King Manoel has no

over Kent, young reoruite being

the Emden's easy capture of

Markomanaia tales one heard in Edinburgh war, sea esoute assisting coast- box and stole the half a generation ago when the end of season 1612-13. The defendant went upstairs and Committee, owing to the present opened A

and

guards by patrolling Britain's are unable to use this surplus to smuggle it out of the house, from South Africa are never to be salomon board the cruisers doctors and dressors returned shores, King George in naval circumstances, regret that they jewellery. To conceal it redeem any of the debentures.net war pair being tied forgotten-yet even then, while Australia and New Zealand, the they had intended to do. The the inner

in one place camps would be laid British expeditionary forca en debenture interest has been paid. round his knee and the jewellery in the very path of sewage, training for the front, and British

Mr. T. E. Pearce heads the bat stowed away there.

against the urgent advice of the Dragoons depositing their colou re ting averages for all matches caught through his trying to pewn medical officer, in another, as wo with 51.54, whilst Mr. M. Ma bangle. The pawnbroker re shall see, important and succese prooteding to the front.

in Westminster Abbey before fused to have any dealing with ful attempts were made to control Maas heade the bowling averages

was

connection with the recent events in Portugal. He liss endeavoured for all matches with 18 wickets the man and reported him to a disease by a method whick to-day

through every channel to serve Britain in any military capacity..

Queen Amelia has left for the front with the English Red team into the Cricket League and caught. The whole of the!

Crosa party,

Thames Restrictions.

for 286 runs. The Club put one Indian constable. The defendant tried to ran away but was chased which they won. The following individual scores of 100 and over stolen articles had been recovered. were made for the Club during

His Worship" told the prosecu- 134, 125 and 108 (not out), Mr. the defendant would be R. Hancock 119.

is one of the triumphe of medical science.

these conclusions. The recent. Of course the best way to pre-records of the British Army in vent typhoid is to prevent the India, of the United States Army, bacillus from ever entering the of the French Army, to name

With the and Pontoporos

a scouts the Emden has a com- at least fifty miles. Within this plete sweeping view of the bay for radius it is impossible for mer- chant vessels to penetrate with-

fate of the Emden it becomes all the more fascinating in vier of her commander's confession to one of the five skippers. He said he was determined to play the war. game right to the end. The thing he feared was the British men- of war, the Japanese he said, not being worthy of consideration as fighters on the sea, He con

out risking capture. As to the

The Press Baresu announces that all Thames traffic must pass the season-Mr. T. E. Pearoe tor that the most he could give body. In civil life that can be the first that come to mind, all fessed if be came into contact

through two stipulated channels.

French Destroy German Batteries.

Oct. 27, 7.15 p.m. A Paris communique says the struggle continues to be parti- cularly lively between the mouth of the Ysor and Lena. The Allies have not retired at any spot, but have continued to make progress between Ypres and Roulers and also in the Soissons district. in xpillery combat at Berry-au-Bac has resulted in our favour. We destroyed several of the enemy's batteries..

“PEACEFUL" VISION. HONGKONG

And Some: Pertinent e Rlections.

tr

VOLUNTEER

RESERVES.

were

The following ordera issued to-day by Major Wakeman,

A newspaper published in 0.0. H. K. V. R

Manila, styled the German-

American Manila Weekly, pab- the V. It. Notice Board at the

An Interport team, selected from and representing the whole Colony, was sent to Shanghai by the Club in May last and after an exceedingly pleasnat matab was defeated by 116 runs, the chief soores being Capt. E. I. a.. Barrett 100, Mr. F. Potter 58 (not out) for Shanghai and R. Hin- cook 71 (not on!), and T. F. Pearce 49 for Hongkong,

During the early summer months the arioket pitch of 40 yards square was again raised- Committee are due to

Mr.

The annual lawn tennis match against the L, R. C. was played in May and resulted in an easy wiu for the L. R. O.

six

quired whether he would care to have the man committed.

Prosecutor said he would rather have the man dealt with sum- marily, and the prisoner was sent to go for six months with

four boure stocks in lies of the last day.

known to him the commandǝr of the Emden was not disposed to interfere with all shipping on the Colombo-Calcutta route;

done, and is done, thanks above tell the same unequivocal tale. with the British his game would monthe imprisonment and en- all to the teaching and the work From Professors Muir and be up, but he was determined of the English pioneers of Ritchie's standard "Manual of that no nation should take his ship. primary sanitation, and to the Bacteriology" (sixth edition, He would sink her first. It seems German Kech at a later date. June, 1915) one may quote the fairly clear that for reasons best But water supply in war is following: another fair, and not least Thus, in India, of 4,502 because it gives the flies their soldiers inoculated, 98 per dent, chance. Well do I remember contracted typhoid, while of Professor Cniene, on his return 25,851 soldiers in the same The P. and O. 8,8. Nankin, for from South Africa, remarking stations who were not inoculated, instance, was told at Colombo GERMAN PRISUNERS IN that the occurrence of typhoid, 254 per cent. took the disease. that the route was perfectly

even where men bad cared, as In Ladysmith during the siege safe ..and

the captain had JAPAN.

they sometimes did, to obey there were 1,705 soldiers incon pot

remotest idea orders about drinking-water, lated, among whom 2 per cent. of that the Emden was in the The German prisoners, fifty pointed to flies as the agents cases occurred, and 10,520 unia- vicinity until he reached the pilot which conveyed the bacillas to ocalated, among whom 14 per brig in the Hoogly twenty-four

who arrived at Matsure by the

new

the

1. A time table is posted on and relaid and the thanks of the five in number, taken at Teingla, food. Today, of course, we know cent. anffered from typhoid hours after the arrival of the lished for the manifest purpose of/Courts of Justice, showing Tatcher. The outfield has also been Nitto Mara, were taken to Moji on that that guess on the part of the Wright collected statistics dealing Kabings.. Other vessels had a endeavouring to promote sym-the various parades, which all carefully looked after throughout the 9th instant. There they were man who had been Lister's right in all with 40,600 individuals, of similar experience and of one,

supplied with

semi-hand when he established the whom 8,600 were inoculated, and which shall be nameless, a very the whole year.

Japanese" clothes made of fan-antiseptic system was as good as showed a case incident of 2.25 per amusing story is told. This nel and were sent to Hikojima it could be. In war and in peace, cent.; with a case mortality of 12 vassel was also a day behind the for medical inspection.

but above all in war, let us per cent.; in the remaining 41,000 Kabings, sad when she got to According to a Jiji despatch, beware of dubious water, and let uninoculated the case incident the Sandheads she, according to wae 5.75 per cent, and the case the castom of vessela wanting But thore is another possibility, mortality 21 per cent.

pilots, abowod a blue light they were very glad to get out of us keep flies from food. clothes and some of them, it is re- which directly follows, in the line There can be little doubt that in and furiously sounded her harm. ported, went so far fa to danes of medical advance, from the bald this method an impartint pro The pilot vessel was in the with joy. They were taken pri- and happy hazard of Jenner, on phylactic measure has been dis. Hoogly, but the captain of the through the scientific discoveries covered." There can be none in nameless Vessel was ignorant

pathy for Germany, inserts in ita ranks of each group are required columas, both in German and into attend, also a time table of the English, a portion of what Launch Service.

2. For Praliminary sketry purports to be a statement by an

Practices men will parade in Englishman residing in Germany, which is partly as follows:-" Groups. The standard test and the politicians in Great Britain field firing will be carried out in

the original company sections. could, like ourselves, enjoy living 3. Parades for Thursday 28th here for many years in pesas and inet, and for Officers and NO. 0.8 appreciate Germany in peace,

haired veterans put on their

attack, "

4. Further Particulara with

A Recent Bazaar.

The annual lawn tennis tourna-

ment was played in March and April and was one of the most successful meetings in the history of the Club. Ladies took part for

|their uniforms and into clean

cirole

from school or "play, staggering Mother Superior, of the Italian D. E. Clarke in the final. The acts as interpreter. The proountry Sir Almroth Wright later in the rash and the secrecy of the getting bigger every time with,

class,

conera landed at Moji at two

o'clock.

¿

off"

becoming endeared with the on Wednesday the 27tb inst, and the first time. Mr. H. A. Nisbet sonere at Poushan and Liteur. of Pastear, the discovery of the the light of still more reccat of the fact and he began to cruise country, and if they could see Friday the 29th inst. as ordered. retained the open cingles Cham-Thero was no trouble on the voy" | bacillua typhoons in 1880, the figures, which need not now be round for her. Presently he got a

pionship by beating Mr. 8. E. age and the prisoners fell in with boys of fifteen years with heavy rifles, doing duty for hours and regard to arrangements in camp Green in the challenge round all regulations readily. They sabsequent study of immunity in eited.

response to his booting. A search- hours, guarding bridges, ready are posted on the notice board at in thros straight sets bad won expressed their appreciation when the Pasteur Institute in Paris, and Note, for instance, the recently light was thrown across the vessel the Challenge Cup outright. they were given hot baths. The in Lille by the director of the published letters and data of Sir and then he promptly shifted his to do their part for the protection the Courts of Justice.

Sir Paul Chater, K., C.M.G., has officers were given European diet, Pasteur Institute there, Professor William Osler and Sir Lauder course towards the source of the of their country, whilat grey- Alice Memorial Hospital. very kindly presented a magni while those of lower rank were Calmette, "whose brother in the Brunton. In correcting this article light. Much to his consternation uniform for the Fatherland, then Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hos-value £50, open to competition European dish. One of the priof the Figaro. Another French- able to refer to these letter,

The Hon. Treasurer of the ficent challenge cup in its place, given. Japanese food with one far days before the war was editor for publication, I am glad to be the vessel using the searchlight

began to move. ia . & they would realise that here pitala begs to acknowledge with to any one resident in the Colony. soners named Wimark (?); a petty man, Ubentemesso, followed the which I have been anxiously round the numeless one. speaks the nation's sentiment, thanks the following donation to Mr. S. E. Green won the Handicap officer, had lived in Japan for principles of Pasteur so far as to awaiting for weeks, and the lack The latter's explain made a aroused against a shameful the funds of the Hospitals: — Singles "A," beating Mr. T. H.

Brown, Jones and Co.,. $20. King, while the Handicap Singles many years. He has a Japanese noceed in immunising guinea of which it was here designed to free use of nautical terms and It is indeed a most peaceful

wife, and his sister is now resid pigs, by doses of dead typhoid meet,

ultimately asked the vessel with B went to Capt. Hattersley ing at Aoyama, Tokyo. He cultures, against subsequent dosee How many of our men acrosa

the searchlight what she was play- vision-small boys, taken away We are requested by the Smith, R.G.A, who defeated Mr. speaks Japanese Buently, and of living and virulent bacilli. the Channel have been thus pro-

ingat. The latterstilladamant,con under the load of heavy rifles, Convent to convey her sincere Doubles Handicap, one

Most important of all, in this tected probably no one knows, tinued to oircle round, the circle backwards and forwards across thanks to all friends and patrong was

под by Mesero, L. N. a bridge, while their old for their donations and assistance Murphy and B.. O. Sandford o'clock in the afternoon, and left prepared a vaccine by heating, and last few weeks many men were the merchantman in hot puru

Then the mysterious vessel put without grandfathers totter about the at the recent bazaar held at the from Measis. 4. N. Josolard by rail for Kurume at four thus sterilising, flaske of bouillon certainly sent

inoculated with bacilli of a known inoculation, but not a few of out the searchlight and dis- village, clad in the uniforms Convent. Considering the strenuand J. B.. Peumon and which they had been compelled ous times the sale was attended the Professional Pairs, which

virulence, the dead bacilli in the there, we may hope, have appeared. The nameless one had vacoine being counted, so that a since been dealt with. It would been pursuing the Emden and to don before their sons were by very gratifying success, is an open event, was won made to serve in the German thanke to the generosity of the by Messrs. R. Hancock and R, D.

known dose, not so n.uch of them be a crime if those who know the the commander had been having This morning at the Police as of their toxin, oan be given. facts should fail to apply their one of the little jokes he spoke army. And it calls forth other community, for which the Stewart against Mesars, H. A. Court, before Mr. J. R. Wood, The first dose, of five hundred knowledge at once. How much of to the skippers of the five

peacefal

visions in times Mother Superior is very grateful. Niabet and H. R. Phelips. The two jaak men were charged by million dead bacilli, is followed more may be done for our present

vessels he had sunk the day before the war, when

,, Highway Robbery.

Mixed Doubles Handicap, held in Iuspector Gordon with being in after ten days by a second of a Expeditionary Force in before,

this lada were taught from Last night, as Wong Poi-sang this Club for the first time, was unlawful possession of a quantity thousand million. Examination respect I do not know, but there

All the crews of the sunken infancy that their duty lay in of 28, Uppor Lascar Row, a atall- learning how best to slaughter holder at the Central MarketWon by Mr. R. Hancock and Mrs. of rico, said to have been stolen of the blood; thereafter reveals a is plenty of time to inoculate" ships agree in praising the C. E. H. Beavis against Mr. H. from the 8.8. Waishing. The rica specific power to kill the typhoid every man who may hereafter courtesy with which they were their fellowmen, and the glory to was walking along Tank Lane,

Humphreys and Mrs. W was alleged to have been found bacillus in vitro-that is to say, leave our shores. Those who' be achieved by the destruction of carrying with him the day's

Armstrong,

on board their jank, but no in cultures in glaas vessels. Such refuse, as suy man is entitled to lives and property in other lands, takings ($115), three men who

The thanks of the Committee claimant had been found. Mr. observations ought to mean, if refuse, perhaps, should serve at

THE BLUEBIRD." It leads also to thoughts of the were sitting on some steps made are due to Messrs. R. Kennedy Otto Kong-sing appeared for the modern bacteriology has any basis, home. (The inoculation is com once really peaceful villages in a spring at him. They threw

and N. O. Wilson for kindly defendante, and the case was that the inconlated person is more pulsory in the armies of the great strongly advised to take up their Holdera of advance tickets are Belgium, ruthlessly destroyed by pepper in his face and, snatching auditing the accounts.

remanded until to-morrow after or less immuniced against the and free democracies of France the fathers and brothers of out of his hand the handkerchief

The following members served noon, bail being allowed in the bacillus if it enters his body, it and the United States.). Modern seats at once e if they wish to these boys who guard the bridges containing the money, ran away on the Committee during the sum of $50 each.

should either be killed so soon science, now foully prostituted in secure good ones, as the general in Germany; and who are Wong Poi-snug gave chase and

season:-Messrs. F. Meitland prepared to resist the anticipated pargned the men into Queen's (President), R. Hancock, A. O. E.

that he does not suffer from the service of military aggression, booking opens to-morrow morn typhoid or, if the degree of pro- should also be used, as it can be 10g and there is likely to be a ehameful attack' apon their Road. Mr. S. A. B. Bux, & Elborough, T. B. Pearce, H. A. and A. L. Linton. The present tection be less, he should be able thanks principally to French and big sush own villages by men (aided by solicitor's clerk, who heard the Niebst, W. D. Jupp, A. R. Committee is:-Messre. . Mait to put up a better fight against English research in this humane allies) who have lost all but life alarm given, succeeded in the Sutherland, Major Dickinson, land (President), Rt. Hancock, the invadere itself in consequence of an attacking the runaway who held the D.O.L.L., W. C. D. Turner, Rev. T. E. Pearce, Major Robertson, Clinical inquiry on an im sacred lives upon which in this which the word "shameful" is money, and the other two were F. G. Hastings, R.N., Major A. R. Linton, T H. King and mense scale, in both hemispheres woonian hour is staked the fate of most inadequate to describe. subsequently arrested,

Robertson, A.O.D., T. H. King A. B. Sutherland,

of the globe, abandantly justifies Liberty-Pall Mall.

Rice Possession.

field, to proteof those brave and

12

treated.

sold out for the Gala Night; only a few pit stalls at $3 are still available. These can now be

The dress circle and stalls are

reserved at Moutries,