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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1914.

Lord Mayor's Day.

DAY BY DAY.

JOY IS THE HAPPINESS OF LOVE:

NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

AWARE OF ITS OWN FELICITY, AND IT IS LOVE EXULTING: IT IS LOVE THE TSINGTAU DRAMA ENDS. RESTING IN RICHES WHICH IT HAS LOVE TAKING A VIEW OF ITS NO FEAR OF EXHAUSTING; IT IS TREASURES, AND SURRENDERING

ODING. ITSELF TO BLISS WITHOUT FORE- The Weather.

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The ninth of November, and no Leid Mayor's Show The Lord Mayor's procession was in- stituted, we believe, numewhore about seven hundred years ago, and the only occasions on which it is likely to have been left out of London's programme are during the time of Cromwell or perhaps in the Plague year, 1865. Its abandonment this year will, we fine,

Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 72; feel sure, meet with the approba- tion of all sensible people. In a fine.

At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp. 61; general way, co loyal Britisher will ever tay "To what purpose Siberian Mail.-Closes tomorrow

The Mails. ia this waste?" where expensive

at 4.30 p.m. public functions are concerned; for we are a ceremonial-loving people, and, by natera, cling On Saturday the Telegraph pub obstinately to the fashions and lished 43 columns of solid habita of our fathers; and it will reading matter. To-day thero be a bad day for the Empire if will be 36 published. we ever decide to be and to do otherwise. Bet the present, as goes without saying, is quite an The rate of the lollar exceptional case; it is not a time | demand tc-day is 18 8.7-108. for public rejoicing-ye; and it

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with mmunications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for paution, but as an evidence of their bona fides.

is not a time when any avoidable outlay of money, that, is 30 badly needed in other directions, would be at all justifiable.

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HONGKONG, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1914.

THE FALL OF TSINGTAU.

While we all realise that it is in Europe that the real issues of the war are being fought out, it is only natural that we in the Far East should have watched with peculiar interest and concern the

The Colony's Revenue.

During the discussion on the Badget Bill, in the Legislative Council, much was made of the fact that a third of the estimated revenue for the coming year is

Operations on Land and Sea.

Elsewhere.

VICTORIA THEATRE.

A Remarkable Show of War Pictures,

JOTTINGS BY THE WAY.

The scene was the Kowloon ferry, the speakera a lady and a gentleman, and the topic of con- vereation, dancing. “You know The enterprising management thred the male person.

tho D'Alberts, of course, of the Victoria Theatre have, at a don't think I do," said the lady The Seventy Days' Madness of

No: I Taingtau has come to an end in acquiring the rights of some

very great expense, succeeded in hesitatingly; Do they live in the garrisca hae surrendered. Grat series, "The Outbreak of We get all sorts of useful the only possible way it could remarkable war pictures. The

Kowloon ?" With its fall the Far East, is no War, will be shown to-morrow information from the Volunteer. operations; and the Geiman It is a lengthy, film decoriptive of that the 7.45 launch will leave longer in the area of the war (Tuesday) night for the first time. Reserve Orlers, the latest being Asiatic Squadron now roaming the the war preparatione and mobili- 8e03 is without a home. Of the nation of the British army, annow what colour the barracks will at 7:50. We are waiting to hear we know that the balk are as for French and Savian troop An away as South American waters, immense amount of interesting ships composing that squadron well as of those of the Belgian, be whitewashed. and the elusive Emden ulone detail is requires sny attention from us in these pictures, including the that Shakespeare " will, in course

packed into this part of the world. To a7 departures or arrivals of large of time, become a German classic." A German patriot has stated that tho taking of Taington has bodies of soldiers, the various Why not? Surely the nation that all along been a foregone con marches of troops through London enn menspolise the Deity ought clusion is to give expression to etc. Field hospitale in working not to experience much difficulty the obvious; the only wonder is order are shown with Belgian in making a permanent annexa- that it should ever have been nurses and doctorant work: The dar, Saturday was the the Festival its late we can appreciate the day, Wednesday, Thursday and

According to the Chinese calon defended. Now that it has met picture is on exhibition on Tuestion of a mers dramatist, of Li-tang, cr"Beginning of Win-humane maner in which the Friday night,

Japaness and on them fell the

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Count the Columns,

The Dollar,

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evening, at 5.15 p.m., Professor At the City Hall, on Friday C. H. Robertson is to lecture un der the auspices of the Odd Volumes Society on High and Low Temperatures." Tae lecture is open to the public.

Bijou Theatre.

FOOTBALL,

Hongkong F. C. v. The Navy.

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bigger part of the task-set about above, the series "Boys of the Bulletin. Iteater wired through, On Friday, in addition to the Congratulations to the Manila

they gave the defenders every tion of the training and board-points d'appui, it". Our con- reducing it. When their forces Bulldog Brced" will be soreened. last week, to the effset that the were within striking distance, This gives a detailed representa Allies had captured varione ohance to hand over the fortress ship life of our bluejackets, temporary grively states that nothing for it but to bring the military, as well as some good latter refused to give in there was eating without loss of life, but when the together with a host of inter"We lost few points from Dappui argument of shot and shell to views of the Hongking Boy Sourt.

poin:8, naval ead southward.”

bear on the situation.

avoided

THE D.O.L.I.

Captain R.H. Olivier, Cornwall

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operations connected with the siege of Tsingtau, the fall of which of the opium traffio, occasion was a herd struggle ending in a goal-fight off the Chilian cost, though, Germans in the middle of the passengers-268 in all, of whom

match

How

Fox-hunting.

Tomorrow at ll a.m. Mr. G. London without the Lord Lammert The raten of Babecription to the "Hongkong Telograph" will Mayor's Show will be queer household farniture at 3, Caratr ia polling valuable enough, but the country districts von Villas, Kowloon. Daily issue$30 per annum.

without fox-hunting will bo Weekly isane The rates per quarter and per mens m, proportional. Subscriptions fort has issued a circular om queerer still, The Dake of Beau- or a period loss than one month will be charged as for bodying a resolution pred by

meeting of Masters of Hounds to The daily issue is defvered free when the address is accessible to the effect that, in the interest of nesanger. Poak sabauribers can have their copies delivered the national food supply, the

War conditions in Hongkong at work. This series will be ex- have not deauded Mr. Atkins of The Humane Japanese, their residences without any extra charge. On copies sent by country's poultry should beshield post su additional $1.8) per quarter in charged for postage.

Even when it came to that rais Sunday. Another interesting film Chiness low-breakers occupied a hioited on Friday, Saturday and his ready wit. On Saturday four ed as much as possible by the The postage, on the west, to aug part of the world is $1.00 keeping down of the number of

the invading forces appear to shortly to be shown have had only one idea is mind, Victoria is "The Black Bend," af of Pedder Street-in the stocks. the commanding position at the top per quarter.

foxes. A splendid ides, but 'The series of pictures illustrat- and that the destruction of the Singls Comea, Daily, ton cents Weekly, twenty-five cents (for cot easily workable when most ing the Balkan Wer, now being forte, ro as to render the garrison highly sensational story of the The hair of one of them had been

Cash only).

of the fox-hunting fraternity are atown at the Bijou Theatre, has impotent to hold out. As far as

misdeeds of Italian banditi. Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a fixed out after

out in ridges, like a badly-mown bigger. game attracted large houses; for, a possible they have parind will be continued vutil countermandle.

meadow. tho

We commented on this Front. This. difficulty though they relate to what has slaughter and the detraction of (Payable in Advance,

fact to a Tommy who stood by. M.F.B. who has given instructions present, and, now that Turkey the last has been solved by at least one gone by, the detail is quite of the the Settlement, and up to

"Yus," he observed thoughtfully: to his keepers to shoot the foxes! has ventured into the arena, the over

moment they flow

"Looks as it 'o'ad it cat wiv & the city scattering a

kuile an' fork." The marks of exclamation are localities have on added interest. warning notice relative to the intended to covey what our grand- Other good pictures shown last preservation of buildings, and fathers would have thought of night wera. Pathe's American and confined the dropping of bombs Light Infantry, has been killed in have worked for the Daily Mail The object of this paper is to publish correct information, to serve fox-abooting. Even today there International Gazette, the Mexi to the enemy's principal defen-action. He joined the Cornwalls at some time or other, judging the trull and print the news without fear or favour. is many a husky old squire whose can Revolation, bridge building sive lines. Then it was that the in 1809, and servod in the South from his love for the obvious. hair would stand on end at the by the French Army, and a two defenders realised that all was african War with arodit. Cap-"The Kaiser talks" is his. latest suggestion. But needs must part story of a very engrossing up, and the hoisting of the white tain M. E. Yeatman, 1st Battalion headline. But when did. Willie where the devil drives; the fox-pature depicting some more of fag speedily followed. Thus the South Wales Borderers, killed in fever do anything but talk? bunters are off to the war and the the wonderful adventures of Nick drama ended. No-one will blame action, was recally promoted foxes are spoiling the henrooste, Winter, the detective.

the Germans for giving in; to captain. Ho had been eleven add there seems no other" way.

have resisted any longer would years in the regiment.

Mention of the Daily Mail out of the difficulty than by

have been a wicked sxcrifice of The 1st Battalion Cornwall reminds us that we are awaiting powder and shot.

more lives and already too many Light Infantry would appear to with one amount of eagerness, have met an unnecessary death to have been in the thick of the fight the arrival of the batch of Home satisfy the whim of the Kaiser. for the last three or four weeks, papers published immediately Now that the fortress has fallen, says the London and China Ex-after the declaration of war ships and men are released for press. They were at Mons, where against Turkey. We are dead other work, and ite capitulat.un they lost heavily, and since, a keen to see how many of them. thus means a double coup for the private stated, they had been in have spoken of Turkey as the alties.

several terrific An interesting game took placə

engagements. sick man of Europe. expected from opinm, and, in on Saturday afternoon between

The Valparaiso Fight. Referring to the battle at view of the eventual suppression the Hongkong F.C. and the Navy, some farther details of th naval they

.The week-end has brought us Landrecies, he explainöd The 8.9. Manchuria, on her last were attacked by antrip from Frisco, carried a 18 is now announced. That is no, in the first place, because Tsingtau taken to point out that some other less draw. The

overwhelming forco

of cord number of first class cabin was Germany's naval and military base in the Far East, and as each source of income would sooner watched by quite a fair number the story

was there are still some gaps of was known to be strongly fortified. As long as it we retained it or later have to be discovered. of spectators,

to be filled in, night. His company were rest 100 were missionaries! was a danger-point, and in the interests of peace in the Far East it That of course, is a point which

On the face of things we ing in a field after a heavy down the second class, or garden, pas- The teams draw up to the have come became necessary that it should be taken, and taken quickly, to one can readily see, but we can-whistle of Mr. F. W. Eager as engagement; but we do not set fallen asleep in their little they too had been put to the worse off in the pour, and many of them had sengers must have wished that prevent the spread of complications in the Orient. Now that the not go as far as the member who follows: fortress bus finally surrendered, not only is Germany deprived of a suggested that it was a sign of

koow the extent, or even the bisoutos. They were aroused missionary line of business in base for hostile operations, but former peaceful conditions in the weakness to rely on the proceeds Hamilton and Young Long, Stal on the enemy. It is clear that immediately had to open fire.

Hongkong FC.-McCubbin character, of the damage inflicted suddenly by gun reports, and the days of their youth. Far East are restored. That, at the moment, is one of the most from the tale of the drug in ker, and Boad; Larkin, Gace, the enemy had a preponderance gratifying consequences of the fall of Thingtau.

making up the year's Budget. Wilkie, Goldenberg and Pennell. of strength in vesselfive to our of Cornwall's Light Infantry, said Sergeant Lambert, of the Duke It was, of course, hopeless from the beginning for Germany to

What those proceeds will be can hope to bold the place, with the relatively small garrison stationed very well be gauged by the and Fennimore; Pink, Martin, issued by the Admiralty the (der the Mare, and he was being mind, Mr. Bang On, or whatever The NavyCard Hurdin three and from the statement be was fighting at the battle of "lower case" T if you don't From the look of the telegraph there, against the combined Anglo-Japanese oust ught Far batter authorities, ani very naturally and Ashby; Hopper, Nicholls, mans appear to have been able to taken into the hospital shot your name is) beard on the would it have been, from all points of view, had the fortress never they are taken into due account Adams, Campbell and Sm tb. beon defended. In that event Germany could only have lost the in making up the balance-sheet.

dictate the conditions under through the elbow. He said that cricket ground the other day From the kick-off the Club's which the engagement should be the fighting at the Marne was the "lost man's" placo--as she has now and the sacrifice of many lives and much The time will come when that right wing moved first and go fought. We are tnd that they terrible, and about 600 of the bullseye. needless destruction would have been avoided. By putting up a source of revenue will be exhaust-well into their opponents" territ avoided action until the light Cornwalls were cat up. Another fight she has injured herself fer more than anyone elas. She has od, but that is not yet. bowed to the inevitable and has had to pay dearly for postponing the moment is imminent it will attempt to an abrupt conclusion why this should have boon when the left hand, but, he added, tian Soienes corps of volunteers When ory before Larkin brought the gave them the advantage, but soldier said he was shot through We hear nothing about a Chris- the unpleasant anemony Although taken by it eli the success of the be time ecough to look about for with a well-timed stopper. This our ships were the speedier is evidently with some satisfaction, for the Front. Now is the time, Allies in bringing the Tsingtau garrison to its knees may at om other means of raising money; initial eat-back did not duunt the one of the points which have yet I gave him five as something surely, for the washuppers of Mrs. of overwhelming importance, but taken in conjunction with other and there are some very obvious club, who maintained pressure, to be cleared up. Had the whole to go or with. I stopped him Eddy to get busy and charm a circumstance, it is not without considerable significates. Regarded means by which freat rovnuo giving opportunities to Golden-of Admiral Cridook's quadron from taking any further part in few bullet: out of the wounded. from that a and point it will be considered as se ouating for one mare may be assured. The Govern-berg and Larkin, both of whom bern on the scene the ucident the war." of Germany's quickly-diminishing overeen posses-ion. It was one ment must be aware of that fact, missed favourible openings. would doubtless have worn a of Bismarck, dreams to strengthen the newly-anited Griny of and we see no need for it to re- The Olab were his day by the creation of a Colonial Empire, and in pu sunce of veal its hand at the moment. In helped in their stack by the reason or other the Ganopus and on toubtedly different aspect. But for some this desire the north-enst part of New Caires, the Bismarck fuct, that would be a foolish step knowledge of the sound defence Otrants were absentees. The Archipelago, the Marshall Isles and part of the 8 Imon group were

Paris, Sapt. 18, 12.30 p.m.- That Special Service from that Hamilton and Young were chief point of interest now, apart secured about thirty years ago; the Carolines were aid. d in 1899.

In a dispatch from Odessa, the Washington has been fairly busy Then seventeen years ago almost to the day-Noromber 14, 1897-

putting up behind them. The from the question of the fate of do respondent of the Havas during the week; so has the Osta Teingtau was seized as a cen re of German influence in China, and

two backs on more than one of the Monmouth, is whether or not Agency says the Government siatische Lloyd. The former has its development has involved the expenditure of money on a scalo

casion stopped some very sturdy the German squadron is still Press Bureau at Constantinople found out that General DeWet hitherto unheard of for developing a young seule pt. All these Le Matin states that the German particular, at insida right, gave lot of watching.

The Brussels correspondent of raids by the sailors. Hopper in intact. If it is, it will require a has forbidden the use of the word and Bea (sic) are headingserions possessions have now been lost, consequence for which the Gar-loosa Maubeuge totalled 40 000 Adams a chance for goal, the lat

Petrograd for St. Petersbarg, and revolt in the Transvaal, and the mans have to thank the folly of the Kaiser in throwing down the Tas Le Matin, in publishing ter's header being stopped by

The Allies' Progress.

odore Tarkiah now papers to call Orange Free State," and the latter gauntlet to practically the whole world.

detaile concerning the siege of McCubbin who, as usual, was panning out in to our of the

The land operation are still the Russian rapitalS. Petersburg, goes oue better, by the statement that the revolution is steadily Attention will 10 be rivette 1 00 the future Muubenge, mentions that the quite safe.. of Teington. At the moment it is in the oconpation wood of Louieres, about sixj

Allies in France, Belgium, Pe-

spreading." of Japanese and British forces, but it will be redlind that when kilometres from the centre of the continued much the rume, though The Russians are at the mom in Wing is still far from happy, sa During the second half, playland, Galicia and in East Prnasin pelled," etc. The German Right Japan entered the war she announced her intention of taking the town, was offered for sale in July, the sailors hustled a little mer making the most progross, and is ebown by the announcemen doubt the report that the German territory then lassed by Germany, with a view. to its eventual, 1911, sad was purchased ostan- than in the opening stages of to as their successes grow an extent that a change of tactics is under prisoners of war in Kowloon are restoration to China. Wo may be sure that she will discharge her sibly for buildinge na a loco-game and ou one or two occasions the results must tell on the consideration. That is a tacit limited to "two rations daily of promise to the lull, though of course she may reasonably ask to be motive factory. It now transpires icoked like scoring. Once in development of the war in other a mission of failure Io war, as bread and water" but does not componunted for the cost in men and money which the carrying out that the real purchaser of the task has involved. However, that is a ma ter for the future. Frederio Krupp. After a concreto top of the goal, Met ubbin rusbud Belgium that the verest side is not changed unless things that a well known Manila Hong- was particular, when Alams was on thest os. It is in France and in football, the composition of a altogether dispute the statement In the meantime we can feel cause for satisfaction that Germany foundation had been prepared, no out in the nick of time nad man fighting is taking plan, but are going the wrong way. That is kong German has been shot as hus ka lor foothold in the East, and, ap Britiahote, gladly askuowt farther progress was made on the aged to get the sphere well away a glance, down the telegrams how they are going for Germany ay. Do Manila newspapermen ledge the part which our Allies bave played in bringing abou the foundation until it served as em- Fruitless corners conceded by reveals the consequences to the regals. The first time the Angle-Japanese Allisuce has been put placements for. German siege both sides brought a most en- enemy in the phrases, complete- she is thinking of trying ber luck palled by mischievous Bitish at the moment, and that is why 20 shout asking to have their legs. into operation it hus emply justified its conclusion,

joyable game to a conclusion..

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German Losses at Maubeuge.

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