1914-11-21 — Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

£25,000 Fraud Sentence. Joshua Woodhead, mill secre- tary, pleaded guilty at Bolton Sessions to embezzlement and false pretencer.. The offences began seven years book, the total Bom being £25,000. Senience of three years' penal servitude was passed.

Decrease in Crimes. According to the annust raport of the Prison Commissioners for: the past year, just ieaed, there "has been a substatial decrease in the number of persone sentanc ed. to imprisonment for criminal offences, the numbers for 1913-14 and 1912-13 being respectively 161,603 an1 160,023.

The

pre-

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1914.

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U.S. and the Philippines. Aleuter Washing on telegram says the House of Representatives has passed by 211 votes to 50 thei Bill declaring the purpose of the United States to recognies the independence of the Philippines

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Lord Minto's Will. The fourth Earl of Mint), Governor-General of Canada, 1898-1904, and Viceroy of Ladia, 1905-10, who died on March 1 last, aged sixty-eight yørrs, left unsettled personal estate of the

S me ides of the extent to total value of £150,716, in od. dition to which he owned a very which the great war in Eor pe is considerable real estate. His making itself felt in the Far Esst furanate and Cther household can now be gathered from numer

Sole Agent for Hongkong, effects at Minto House are valued cus newspapers and correspond- Kowloon, Macao and Canton. for proba'e at $28,534, and his fence which have reached Los All Goods coming from that Firm In many directions the are to be Sold at the same Rate articles of vertu, etc., exempt bon. from Death Duties, are estimated fdeling seems to have been haras in Paris. The latest Catalogue eoured almost up to the last will be placed at the disposal of moment that Great Britain would the Ladies, if required.

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Scottish Artist's Death. Mr. James W. Herald, the well-known Scottish artist, died at Arbroath leat month, aged 50 years. Mr. Herald studied under Sir Hubert von Berkomer it Bushey, and for a number of years bered, were dependent for their Ministry of Finance has formally had a studio in Croydon, where information upon brief, and often requested the Ministry of Forsign he did some of his best work. misleading, telegrame. The posi- Affairs to notify the Diplomatic For seventeen years he had beention in the Far East is a pecaliar Corps that the redemption of short residing in Arbreath.

one. Thero are so many cosmo-period loans will have to be tem Path. politan communities, there that porarily delayed. When the sitaa- The Late Earl of Clarendon.

the outbreak of war, involving tion has improved, Chin, it is Many well-known people atten led an impressive memorial five of the Great Powers of intimated, will device means to service for the late Earl of Clar-Europe, brougit in itt:ain many pay off the loans due to the endon, at St. Margaret's Church, complications, Germans, French, various banks, foreign firms, and In North Cains, Westminster. The King was Austrians, and the citizens of the dockyar ls. represented by Lord Herschell, other countries concerned had Shanghai, and the Yingteze and the Prince and Princess any business and other ties in Valley the stoppage of businese Christing by Sir Archibald El- the ports of China and Japan, at i serious, but steps are being flongkong, Singapore, and their pidly taken to ameliorate the Federated Malay States. Many situation. It was only to be expect The Surrey police aratnvestigat of them were liable to be calledd that there would be alarm for s ing a mysterious fire which up as Reservists, and when the time, but latest news indicates during a recent night des royed war brcke out they had promptly that at many places a perceptible a mill and a large quantity of to take their departure. In basi-improvement has already set in. timber at St. George's Mills, Wey-ness and in the municipal life of The Chinese authorities seem to bridge. The timber had been the communities referred to many be well alive to the situation prepared, and quantities were to gapa huvr, ther. for, been left, crestyl at Shanghai and in the be removed next day for use in resulting often in the greatest in Yangtze Valley, where the atop the comtruction of temporary convenience and the dislocation page of forsign business bas. of local Fairs. There is also the resulted in many thousands of hospitala..

Fersonal side to it, which will bo people being thrown out of work. New Ships for U.S. Navy. Reuter's Washington corres appreciated by iLose who bave to this situation the banks have pondent reports that quotati nived in the Far East. The foreign been requested to accommodate have been rent in for the arm-communities there have lived on the merchants with losos, 00 ment of three new battleships: the happiest and friendliest terms. mortgage, acceptance of bills of For side armour the Bethlehem They have worked together, and lading for advances, and all other Steel Company # the lowest played together, and many friend-commercial facilities. Japan has hidder, offering to supply 22,000 ships have been cemented besigo, of course, suffered, the export tops of armour at $435 port n,tween the British and those with of habuins and other silk fabrics while for turret armour the whom they are at war. To such baving been brought prastically lowest tender was tat of the the present state of affairs must to a standstill. All this paralysis Midvale Steel Company at $486 be peculiarly unpleasant. We of trade will, however, we may recently stated; however, what we hope, gradually right itself,- per to).

thought should be the attitude of L. and C. Express. British residents in the Far East towards those who were so unfor- tonately situated in their midst. We are glad to see the view we expressed is the guiding principle of cffieisl utterances in several places, notably at Hongkong where

The author of this magnificent the Governor, in a speech to the

poem is Mr. Henry Chappell, a Volanteer Corps, alluding to railway parter at Bath. Mr. The statement that Messrs. the fact that there were in the Chappell is known to his com- Speyer and Co. have notified the Colony residents of the countries radies as the "Bath Railway Foot:" New York Stock Exchange that with which we were at Tar, A poem such as this lifts him to by virtue of the King's Proclama- appealed to them to treat those the ranks of a national poet.] tion of Cept. 9 it becomes necese residents with the respect that ary that the Right Hon, Sir Edgar became Englishmen. Speyer should have no direct or From a commercial stand point indirect connection with soy firm the effects of the war upon the doing business with persons re- Far East were bound to be stricus. eident in Germany, wil perhaps Trade in many places has been put an end to a good many rom-more or less brought to a stand- ours which have been current, still, and there is always the Few men have figured more pro- danger that the native element minenty in finato al ciroles in may take advantage of the con- England in recent years. He fusion which ensues to make controls the Len on system of further trouble. So far nothing #underground railways and the serions in this direction appears omnibus.services associated with to have occurred. In China, Yuan Sir Edgar was educated at Shih-kai seems to be taking every Frankfort, and was a partner in precantion. The situation in the f.m there until 1887 He Lorope la naturally incressed married in 1002 a daughter of the financial stringency, and it is Ferdinand Count von Blogcb, scarcely surprising that the

Death of Sir William Markby. Sr William Markby, K.U.LE, died it his re+idence, Headington Hill, near Oxford, last month, aged eighty five. He was Record er of Buckingham 1885 6, and a judge of the ligh Court, Cal casts, from 1866 to 1872.

Sir Edgar Speyer.

THE DAY.

By Henry Chappell.

You boasted the Day, and you

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And now the Day has come.. Blasphemer, hraggart and coward all, w Little you reck of the numb-

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The blasting ahell, cr the

white arm's fall,

As they speed poor humans

home.

You spied for the Day, you lied

for the Day,

And woke the Day's red

Monster who asked, flod's aid

Divine CADREAZA Then strowed His seas with

to

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(Defenceless slain for never a

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You have sown for the Day, you

have grown for the

Youre is the harveg. NA

Can you hear, the grouns and

the awful cries?

Can you see the heap of slain

that lies,

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