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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

The order of the day for to morrow's meeting of the Legis Istive Cosil are :-.

·First resing of a Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend the Alien Enemies (Winding up) Ordin Buoe, 1914.

This Bill will go through all its stages at this meeting.

Firrading of a Bill entition to amend the Medical Itagi ration Ordinance,

An Ordinanc

1884

Sand ceing of the Bill en itled Ap Orlinton, to apply a sum not exceeding Nine million five hun red and fifteen thousand six hundred and ninety-two dollars to the Public Service of the year 1915.

HONGKONG CRICKET

CLUB.

Tue following will raprent the Hon.kon. Cricket Onb veraua the Kow.oou Cricket Cab, "on the Hongkong "Cricket Club ground on Monday, November 9. Play to commence at 10.30 a.m. Tu will be served in the pavilion at 1 p.m.-R. N. Anderson, D. E. Donnelly, R. Kennedy, P. S. Leigh-Brunett, A. O. Leith, M. M. Maas, "Manning, E. J. R. Mitchell, S. S

Moore, R. A. Stokes, R. P. Thursfield.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WIDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1914.

WEI-HAI-WEI'S PRE- PARATIONS FOR WAR.

HOLDING THE FLAG. ALOFT.

Making Ready for the Wounded. How Pegasus Marines Earned

Wei-hai-wei, Qot, 24.

Fame."

The history of Wei-bai-wei under

Cape Town, Oół, 2. the British flag, if ever it comes to be written, would make some-

Further official particulare havO what sorry reading... melancholy been received of the action be-

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record of things begun and not tween the British cruiser Pegasus SMOKED FISH, finished! In the beginning and the German craiser Konige Britain was to create a first-class berg at Zanzibar, *********** ferrere here, a naval bare crating The Konigsberg appreached at £5,000,000 and oatrivalling both fall speed at five a,m, on Sunday, Port Arthur and Tsingtau. But and disabled a British patrol boat the expense of the Boer War and with three ebots. She then open-

AND

We Import

the teaching of the prophets of led fire on the Pegasus. Her ABSOLUTELY THE BEST TABLE BUTTER THAT MONEY the "blue water" abbool led our shooting, which was very accurate, Goverement to change its views began at a range of 0,000 yer ir,

to put, money into ships in closing to 7,000. Ireference to" bricks and mortor." One of our contemporaries, it Reeme, has a great deal to say on 'grand strategy,' ** ard on the

unavoidable breach of China's

JJ

The trandside of the Pegu-us an engaged, but her guns are

THE disabled in 15 minutes, when her fire ocased.

eatrality by Britain and Japan twice, but was held up by hand The British flag was shot away in the attack on Teingtau sod The writer, or writera, sṛguea the German railway in Shantong, by marines. Apparently little or no damage was done to the that Germany was eniitled to

Konigsberg-Reuter. fertily Tsingtao, because Russia and Groit Britain did so at Pert Arthur and at Wei-hai-wei, re- Lectively. It is as well, even fr people who indulge in one sided logic, to be sure of their Facts, Fod it should be olearly anderstood » that Great Britain has not fortified Wei-bai-wei.

Things Not Done.

at one time mustered 1,300 men

CAN BUY,

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DAISY

PEACE TREATIES,

Nine Nations Come into Line,

BRAND.

PRESIDENT YUAN.

Not Popular with San Francisco Chinese.

Instead of celebrating President Outside the main block are the buildings with separats cooking Trat "Emperor William'a reply been requested by the Uhinese Washington, September 15 Yuan Shih-kai's birthday, an bad arrangements for zymotic ones. to the infraal race enquiry of Foreign Olice in a message cent Here are nineteen bede, but, if the United States which it is to the San Francisco Opsulate, Becessary, the premises could

hoped will

open the way to end Obinatown ignored the head of receive twice. that

number the European war is expected the republic, and hothonded per- Part of the U. S. Olub has within the next few dage was tisane went so far as to tear the Of things begun but not finished" we may note the de- been taken into the hospitalrevealed to-night,

picture of the President off the The feeling of optimism in walls of the Six Companies re- funct Chinese Regiment, which area providing further accom-

molation for thirty patients administration circles was height-ception room and smash it into and must have cost over $50,000 Further back, premises in Bealeened to-day by the signing of bits on the flair, says a San Frat- per annum: the incomplete forii-Street have been reserved for the treaties between the United States, ciego journal,

Sikhs, to receive forty to sixty Great Britain, France, Spain and fications of Liukungtav, on

The population of San Fran- which a good round sum' Wag 2018. There will be ander the China which it is believed "will oisco's local Chinatown comes for spent: the unused Transvaal mur immediate care of a native make armed conflict between the most part from southern doctor who has been attached to the United Sales and these Chios, and the sentiment i coolia immigration premises, the existing medical staff, which, nations almost, if not entirely, almost unanimous against Yuan costing, it ia said, Over £10,000 the Weibaiwei gold should ald, includes Surgeon

Shib-kaiand is favour of in Yat- miner, which the Shanghai Loyd, R. N.

800, who is beading the uprising invester hag- GVITY ragon

against the President, Luan Shik-kai is accused of con- ducting the affairs of the public in a bigt-handed mor- ner and the request that hie birthday be colebrated is pointed to a typical of hie unrepublican

Red Cross Work.

a

impossible."

Settlement by Diplomacy. The treatise provide that all disputes which cannot be settled by diplomacy shall be submitted to a permanent commission for investigation for one year.

Similar in principle to the twenty-two tralies signed with

4.

attitude..

re-

· The last thing tha: bairritated the local Chinese Yuan Shib- kai's failure ta acknowledge the telegraphic messages sent by Chi- Dese in America asking his aid at Washington in framing a new exclusion bill.

The good ship Shengking, Captain French, has been charter to remember! La t but by ed by the the Admiralty and was means least, there was the pro- for several weeks in dockyard posed Naval Hospital, the four 1-

hands here, being fitted up as ations of whiob" wera, laid and materials collected

hospital ship, swinging cots be but no more. The "hendy man," howing provided for the more serious ever, is seldom at a loss in Chees.

Central and South America and encountering houlties. The

a few Europead countries, nine- present Naval Sick Quarters-as Should the Germans carry out teen of which have been ratified is the case with a great many of their throat and resist to by the Senate, the four pacta the promises used by European the "Jast man,"

"the number signed to-day are regarded by or the Island-are.merely adapt-of wounded will probably officials and diplomats here as ed Chinese houses. The writer, exceed the accommodation the most advanced step which through the courtesy of Fleet the hospit il provides, and arrange- the American Government bas Surgeon R. F. St rk, R.N., badments have been made to use taken to forward the cause of

So yesterday, instead of devot- an opportunity of inspecting the the Naval Canteen. Here minor peace.

ing themselves to celebrating the Immediately after the con President's birthday, the Obinete Sick Quarters, and it is surprising cases and convalescents to the how much has been done with number of 100 have been provided ventions were signed, Secret went about their business, China- blocks of native buildings to for. In these circumstances the ary Bryan, despatched telegrame town's Augpoles, with the ex- then for the requirements of work would probably be more to the American Embassies ception of those over the consulat

Germany, and the Sam Yup society, one of modern medical work. The hos-then the hospital nursing staff had Legations, in pital proper has its own electric can undertake, and our woman luteaia, Austria and Belgium the Six Companies, werd - bar lighting plant, which readers folk have, I believe, unanimously actifying them of what bad Tas day meant taing in the possible the use of an up-to-date offers to give such time as they occurred nad expressing the desire Oriental quarter. The coloi ration X-ray apparatus. The operating can spare to oursing and caring of the Unite! States to algo consisted of an argumet hers and room has been rendered thor for the wounded. A ladies' com-similar treaties with those coun- another there, big rad postera în oughly aseptio, and such serious miltee has been called together tries, all of which have endorsed the deal malle, Bouting the Fri- operations as one for appendicitis, by the Hon. Mrs. Cavendish, who the principle of the peace plan.sident of tho Republic, and a and the removal of a diseased kid- takes general control of Red Japan Not In Pact.

broken picture lying on the floor noy have recently been performed. Gross work. The number of Japon alone has not accept of the dix Companies home on!

thoge who have had exed the principle or enter-Stockton Street. Some of the wounded of the periene or training is limited, ed into negotiations, it became Kennet were landed hers in aand we are fortunate in having, known today, because of the parlons state: Being too striously as a temporary resident here, a desire of the Ministry there not to in view of the extensive injured to be moved from deck trained nurse in the person of confuse the Japanese public while Jesult v. Germans. damage which has been done by they had to be left as they lay till Mra. Phelips, whose lectures on the alien land controversy is being Father Barnard Vaughan, the the German 17-inch siege gun it landed here after a very rough auraing and bandaging, etc., adjusted.

Jesuit preacher, speaking at Hull, | in not surprising that there should possige. Their roadition on have been well attended.

Members cf the Cabinet and expresse 1 his anxiety to go to the be much public interest in Paris arrival can better be imagined. It is as well to be prepared for administration officials vitaessed front, and said he could account in regard to the rature of this than described. One died here, the worst, and the stapa taken by the signing ceremony in the oflice for at last two Germin new weapon and its working and two others were in a grave the women of our small com- of the Secretary of State. Mr. Arrangements.

condition. One of these, bed a manity are most praiseworthy Bryan nad personal friends of the According to details published, badly, fractured skull, on whom and indicative of the spirit that Secretary were present. saya the Central News, the gun, the operation of trophining was animates the entire womanhood which is pop'a ly known as the successfully performed. The other of the British peoples. "Brammer," an isoparated only was in a state of extreme exbaus- by engineers cially furnished too through loss of blood, and by Krupps, is discharged electr e-bis life was saved by the gradual

THE BRUMMER.'

Germany's 17-inch Siege Howitzers.

H. M. S. Keanet.

A Tragic Story.“

Some fifty odd Germane, we

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The Cabinet officers, Amba endors and Ministers who witness- ed the signing of the freaties were given a luncheon at the University there in andropacy of vene, but

peace,

no direct references were made to

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The Germans are reported to be manufacturing now a gun of 20.08in.

An American Loan to China,

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENT,

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the Exhibitions.

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Auction on talaban

Neutrality soup, French olives, white ra-fisher, Spanish omelette, is added that the shell, in exploderacy and the end, surely, of alla fine disregard of China's English mutton chops, rice cre

neutrality-Booked to Tsingtan at ing, emits deadly gases.

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quette a la Peking, French pear, The Hospital.

the beginning of the war, are not ora O'Brien, Miami salad, Am- the main block contains the so desirous of a heroic, if useless, crican ice cream, oolong tea. P.M.O.'s office for secretarial end as is the purely military Will Receive Belgians, Ja work, olo., the operating room, section of the garrison. Two of Prosident Wilson, it became. TUESDAY, the laborory, certain small their number went to the Gover-known today, bad made co reply roome for officera and larger wards not as a deputation to suggest tithe mastages from Emperor Peking, Oct. 26-A week ago for the men-thirty-six bede in that as honour had been satisfied, William and President Poincare the Bethlehero Steel Works con all. These words are simply, but it was about time to think of of France relating to the use of oladed with the Chinotungpu quite efficiently, furnished with surrendering to force majeure. dum-dum bullets in the war.

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