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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1914,

serve

Western Union

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1914.

FIXING THE RESPONSIBILITY.

DAY BY DAY.

NOTES ON THE CRISIS,

SINKING OF THE JEMTCHUG.

A SORRY DEAL.

THE WEEK-END WIRES.

THE EMDEN'S MASQUERADE AS THE YARMOUTH,

Deceive the Curious.

Interesting Story Revealed at the Police Court.

The Late Monsignor Benson.

Local admirers of the novels and poems of Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson will be shocked to hear of his death, at the early age of FINISH EVERY DAY AND BE fcrty-three. Father Benson's rite WHAT YOU COULD, SOME BLUN DONE WITH IT."YOU HAVE DONE in the literary and ecclesiastical DERS AND ABSURDITIES NO DOUBT Good News Coming from Every world was a speedy one. Eleven AS YOU CAN THIS DAY FOR ALL CREPT IN: FORGET THEM AS SOON years ago the papers announced THAT IS GOOD AND FAIRI-Emstaon.

Quarter. that Mr. Benson, then a clergyman of the ultra-ritualistic party, bad

Though the week and wires

A remarkable story of Chinese The Weather. been received into the Catholic

havs brought na nowa of a parti- Bow and Funnel Constructed to loyalty one to another was told Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 70;cularly et ruling character, the Charch. At that time very little heavy fog.

at the Police Court, this morning. wes known of him apart from the

tale that they tell is, on the whole,

A stoker on a police launch was At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp. 63; ons of steady, all-round progress fact that he was becoming populer raia.

for the Allies. It is clear that been enabled to hear the true of old copper frem Taikoo Dooks. The Hongkong Telegraph has of frequent collection, a quantity alleged to have stolen, by means as an Anglican prescher and

The Mails. was a son of the late Arohbishop French Mail-Due from Earops the effects of exhaustion, for dar she was sent to the bottom of the known to a Chinese water police the Germans operating in France; story of what happened to the He stored the copper in the and Belgium are suffering from Russian craiser Jemtobug when launch, and later the fast became of Canterbury, · Then, quite suddenly,

he

to-day blossomed aut into a historical

Siberian Mail. Closes to-morrow in the past few days they have bes in Penang Straits. novelist, with such books sa The

shown bot-liftle "sotivity, and

men who took it into his head to With hopes of doing good turn the copper into money. King's Achievement," "By What]

what attempts they have engin-work for their nation, the officers After he had sold it, the steker eered have been easily nullified by and men of the ill-fated oruiser realised what had happened to Authority and "The Queen's Tragedy, all dealing with the On Saturday the Telegraph French troops. On the Left and to the calamity. All through a show away." The result was that the alertars of the British and turned in " the night previous bis "eorap" and then gave the Reformition period. These he fol- published 43 columns of solid in the Centre, the Allies' artillery starless night and into the early they were each charged in cos- lowed up with some novels of a reading matter. To-day there has overcome that of the enemy, hours of a morning heralded by nection with the theft of the modern type which had, more or will be 34 published.

while on the Right, where the a mist of almost impenetrable copper and sentenced to two less, a religious background. Of

The Dollar.

Germane have evidently been deneity, the string of watch mo the harl labour each. on making desperate efforts against boats along the Straits kept

the Franch, distinct progress Las its impo tant vigil.

Lospecter Gordon proszonted. been made by the latter. Here passed.

Ships He explained that the broker nt. to and fro "with Yaumati, to whom the copper

at 3 p.m...

Count the Columns..

all his stories most people will The rate of the dollar agree that" By What Authority" demand to-day is la 8.0-10d., stands easily first, as regards Stock Exchange. In fast it is probably the only opened to-day. Quotations will both power and convincingness. The local Stock Exchange re. avowedly partisen novel in ores-be found in our abare report on tion that never once allows itself page 9. to be betrayed into spite or an exaggerated representation of the doings of "the other aida." A Family that just missed

Greatness,

Visitors.

Jou?

and take character for vary many ment; each interrogation was police every assistance in their the fighting has been of a give-ghost-like quist, and eerie move had been sold, had given the weeks, but it appears now to be satisfactorily answered-troly all investigations, and that he had turning in favour of the French, was well. Then, in answer to the bought the metal in good faith. Mr. Stevenson, of the well-the Vosges, have succeeded in perhaps signalled in other words,

who, in the region of Verdun and question: Who are known firm of shipping insurance establishing their tranches within the lamp shons on the reply agents in Manila, along with his thirty metras of the enemy's "Yarmouth going to anobor." wife and child, are at present position at several point. staying at the Hongkong Hotel. Russians Doing Well.

Theft of Cigarettes.

Returned.

rant for his arrest.

Remanded.

Company would allow the ma any compensation for his loss?

His Worship asked if the Dock

The representative of the Com- any said he was afraid the

unfortunate position of having Company would not.

lost both copper and money.

The dealer was therefore in the

WOMEN MOLESTED,

Allegations Against. Todlaps.

about?

ing. Sergeant McKay charged a to this conclusion long since. ataff. The father of this succeas- At the Police Court, this morn-disinterested onlooker has come hie envy and inspired eventual clother. He grabbed her by the

one,"

Tadeed if there be a grave

Lights ceased to flicker, farther fault in the book it is its

usage of the Morse was considered "ooldness." Often Father Benson Inspector O'Sullivan prosecuted, ed between the Russians and their was welcomeu as British custodian Hard blows are being exchang unnecessary, and the cruiser that writes more like a historian than a Chinese at the Police Court, dual enemies. But here also the of Penang, passed without me JENKIN-At Forebank East, 166, Peak, to Mr. and Mrs. F. C. a novelist, and while he can this morning for stealing cigar- battle is being waged with results lestation. On the Jemichng the Jenkin, on November 21st, a daughter (Barbara. Pat.)

depict with wonderful fidelity the ettes at West Point. A sentence from which we may derive every officers, with the exception of passions of bats and religious of six weeks' imprisonment was satisfaction. While the fighting the one to whose lot fell the lonely devotion, he faila rather bidly paed. when he handles what most

in the Centre goes on space, it is watch of the young morn, and novel-renders

further south that the enemies his assistants, were in peaceful demandlave Among the passengers who have shown most activity. interests, Nevertheless retarned from Home by the Austro-German Armies here made the crew. The vigilant night The sleep, as were the remainder of only missed, by a very little, being Kitano Maru to-day were Mrs. F. a particularly aggressive move which saw a four funnelled a "great" writer; which fact is Smyth, Mrs. J. A. Plammer, Mrs. with a view to getting to the cruiser emerge from the mist and doubly interesting in that it may B. Hale, Mr. W. B. Rigden, Mr. sesistance of the German forces wirelessed her as to what she was. The police have received a also be stated in regard to his W. Farmer and Mr. A.A, Fyfe in the Centre, and, even after Again came the reply, "Yar number of complaints during the better-known brother, "A.C." "Substitute Wouldn't Do.. who, as poet, biographer and. At the Police Court, this morn-heavy losses, they came again, nearer, it was seen that she had of women by Indiana in civilian

once being driven back with mouth.' essayist, has few equals among ing, Chinese contractor, who only to encounter a spirited attack none other than the appearance garb.

As the craiser drew week-sad of alleged molestation modern literary men. Another was subpoenaed as a witness in a from the Russians, who inflicted of a British cruiser and that she brother, Mr. D. F. Benson, bas case thought he could send his enormous losses and captured corresponded with the construe-Tang Yuen, living in Stanley A married woman Damed. published many more novels than to a substitute. Mr. Hazeland, the deceased cleric, which are less however, insisted on the lawny prisoners. In view of the tion of the Yarmouth down to the village, raporta that good and more popular; though being observed and issued a wer-Germans and Austriane ought The look out man scanned the was returning home to Stanley

failure of this attempt, the most minute detail.

11 a.m. on Friday while she he too has once or twice come: Nearly four months have now passed since the peace of Europe quite near to writing durable

surely now to realise that their incoming "friend" with admira from Aberdeen, she was accosted was rudely shattered by the failure of the Great Powers to comfol frio, the late Archbishop

union is a complete failure. The tion, an admiration that aroased by an Indian attired in plain pose those sharply conflicting differences which were brought to a Benson, also occupied a big place head by the severity of the Austrian ultimatum to Servis. Events in the estimation of serious read possession of's revolver and fiv Chinese with being in unlawful

closer insp:ction, Was he mis neck and, she alleged, tried to The Colonial Respense, have moved with such rapidity of sequence since that time, and the era, and, in his "Life of St. Basil," on the way to Shatin when British Empire in the crisis funnel opptared to tremble, and Another married woman living

an taken? Was it a nightmare? commit Again fresh proofs are forth-Had his nerves become a menace her. She shouted for assistance,

assault rounds of ammunition. He was coming of the solidarity of the to bis judgment? The extr and the man bolted up the hill. upon din of warfare has been so incessant, that little opportunity Las been would have done big things bad arrested by a Chinese detective. through which it is now passing. the tremore appeared further to in the same village reports that

showed himself to be a man who provided for investigating in detail the circumstances which led to his many duties left him more The case was remanded for far- Australia, Reuter informs ue, is associate themselves with the she was passing along the road the outbreak of the great conflict. Looking at the matter on broad free for literary work,

ther enquiries to be made. and general lines, British opinion has unanimously laid tho.

prepared to train unlimited numbows of the vessel. "Heavens! It from Stanley to Wanchai with China's Budget. гезроп-

Stray Pony. sibility at the door of Germany for precipitating the crisis by her that the Budget for the fourth Road, this tiffin time. For a outing another batch of 50,000 men vas; the bows had been alteradmanded money. Be got hold of

We notice from Peking papere had quite a good time in Nathan of battle. Canada, too, is enlist tra fennel

A pony without any attendant

bers of men, so that contingent is not a British vessel, bath, and when she got near the wanton breach of faith in infringing the neutrality of Belgium. year of the Chinese Republic bas

may follow contingent to the scens ก German

The ex- forestry path, an Indian in plain That, without a doubt, was the prime cause of all the trouble, but now been prepared, and the Pro-An hour be appeared to have been for service at the front, which with the aid of canvas, and mast her and she called out "Thiel.” HARY but can clothes stopped her and de- it is well that we should pay due heed to the circumstances which vinces have been notified of the about two o'clock he caused the she will have no fewer than make-up of the counterfeit Yar- ran away in the direction of Deep preceded and followed this faithless act. This we are able to do by amounts the Government expecte

allowed to freely wander, and perusing the official Blue Book which has been issued under the them to collect from the various rickeha coolies to go round him 108,000 men ander arms. Re-mouth.

means that by the end of the year alterations had completed the The man became alarmed and title of Great Britain and the European Crisis" and which gives sources of revenue. a dispassionate narrative of ovente leading up to the war and sets comes to $385,000,000, and al- of the road. It would be as well,membering of what fine fighting just as the boatswain had blown nasty bruise over the left eye.

The total ae be sullenly atcol in the middle.

The alarm was raised Water Bay. The woman has a as the speeches delivered in the House of Commons by Sir Edward appears that the administration out in full the official correspondence laid before Parliament as well though this seems a large sum it perhaps, to have him taken into how that mon are made, and the 5.30 whistle summoning the While carrying fah from Stan-

how wall they sorved us in the crew to their daily taak. Grey and Mr. Asquith,

custody. expenditure totals no less than

ley to Wanchai, a coolie named Arms and Ammunition.

South African War, we can ap immediately the Emden felt Wong Shing, of Wanchai, em- The chief function which this publication will serve will be after the deduction of that portion

Before Mr, Hazeland, $70,000 above this figure, that is the Police Court, this morning, forces which these latest evidences she asnog round so that she was attacked by two Indians, both preciate the strengthening of cur her disguise had been penetrated, ployed by Chan Mun, fishmonger, to show how urgently Britain strove for peace up to the very last of the revenue from the Salt and a Chinese who had just arrived point not to be overl:oked is that the torpedo store of the Jemtohag dians, it is alleged, stole from his. moment, and how she was flouted in her keen desire by the duplicity Castoms taxes which is to be used from America was charged by all these offers of help are wholly and blazed away at her without a pocket 40 cents. He cried out and of loyalty mean. And the great could get her guns to play on to dressed in plain clothes. The In- of Germany. It is openly stated that we had no concern in the to pay off foreign loans and the Inspector Gordon with having in spontaneous on the part of the moment being wasted. dispute between Austria and Servis. But when, through that interest thereon. In spite of this dispate affecting the interests of Russia, it became evident that the financial stringency, the Loan B2, a revolver, 100 rounds of re-

his possession, without permis-Dominions concerned.

The the men ran away up the hillside. peace of Europe was at staks, Britain could not stand aside. Thus Barosu of the Ministry of Finance of Winchesterammunition. He was which have been made of the of cabin furniture. Then the ship

officers who had been sleeping The coolie says he can identify it was that she intervened not with threats of force, but as the agent proposes paying off sams for leans fined $250 or, in default, three scarcity of wer news, the public heeled and tottered, for all the Naval Airship's Services.

volverammunition and 200 rounds

Mere News. After the frequent complaints of the sudden call by the smash

were apprised of the seriousness the men on arrest. of a spirit of conciliation. Within forty-eight hours of the delivery and indemnities, interest on the of the Austrian altimatum, Great Britain made three attempts at Reorganisation Loan and advances peace. She urged (1) an extension of the time-limit, (2)

months' imprisonment, a union by the Quintuple Group amount.

will appreciate the supplying of world-like a man, seized with par of the Power to work together in favour of conciliation between ing in all to well over two hun-morning, four Chinese launch press by the subcrities here. deck to behold the four-funnelled man Emperor has conferred the At the Marine Court, this Foreign Office cables to the local tial paralysis. They rashed on the Standard says that the Ger

The Berlin correspondent of Vienna and Patrograd, and, (3) was responsible for the Russian, dred million dollars. As to how coxswaine, defended by Mr. J. H. Quite a batch of these telegrama German oraizer crashing shell Iron Cross on the commander and French and British representatives at Belgrade advising Servia to this is to be accomplished, there Gardiner, were charged with were passed on to the newspapers after shell into the rapidly-sink each member of the crew of the go as far as possible to meet Austria. On the first point Berlin is no indication given, save that making fast to the .s. Telemachus during the week-end, and in every ing vessel and to hear the boom German naval airship Schueke- merely consented to " proposal she" had no objection," while regarding the third, Austria "it le reported that the Minister discharged and the others were ing character. They are refreshing tions with deadly accuracy the Fatherland by "the magnificent pass on" the message to Vienna, to the second contained in the statement that without permission. One was contained was of a deeply interest formed their destructive opera-ferred for service rendered to the would not extend the time-limit and advice to Servia therefore be of Finance is planning to secure each fined $25. Three Chinese if only for the fact that they cover accuracy so easy to develop when reconnoitring that led to the de care the information which they of the torpedoes that per-lanz II, This distinction is con- came superfluous. Then it was that Sr Edward Grey suggested an a big sum of money impartial tribunal in the form of a conference of ambassadors. Italy, the items. With financial mat ware charged with moving their other events than the actual hos there is no opposition. But though straction of the three British France and Russis accepted, but Germany refused."

ters in their present state of dis prohibited hours. One was fined depreciation of German currency; it appeared, the Russians, officers the North Sea by German en

forts about the harbour during tilities auch, for instance, as the doomed to the swirling waves, as cruisers" resently torpedoed in Now we come to the crisis. Germany went on asacing Great it will be interesting to see how $20 and the other two were fined the untrustworthiness of German and men, who been spared the marines.

organisation all over the world, Britain that he was trying to mediate batween Vienna and China will perform, what looks $10 for being on board the e. the British War Loa, eto, Theagers of death, got to the Petrograd and on the afternoon of July 20 Sir Edword Grey invit like the impossible.

$10 each. A Chinese was fined"official" news; the response to ed her to suggest any form of conference she pleased. At that very moment the German Chancellor was asking the British Ambassador

Benledi without permission. whether Britain would remain neutral provided Germany did not

Foreign office cables Lave been too late. Another heel, and the fair, according to international guns and opened fire. But it was

The Emden's dieguise was an Bijou Theatre. tanoh Holland and took nothing from Franco but her Colonies, at

The Bijou Theatre's chief at- appearing in the Shanghai papers fighting days of the Jemtchug law, as it was clever, so long as the same time declining to give an undertaking that Germany would

Two Submarines Sunk Bytractions until Wednesday on for some time now, and it has

Russian Cruisers. not invade Belgium. To that enquiry Sr. Edward Grey gave a per

ebe did not fly a foreiga flog sist of a long and very dramatio been a regrettable anomaly that A telegram from Helsingfors story-picture

No one officer, no one man, can while actually firing. To pass emptory refusal. From thence onward peace was out of the question. says: A strong Garman Honour, a most beautiful series have been so long without them happened. Each remembers gain admission to enemy har- The Magistrate's we, in a British Colony, should give a connected story of what tocats, a dangerous position, to Russia and France did, their utmost in co-operation with Britain. Prince Henry of Prussia, is in Sweden, and two excellent The Japanese Conetil-General gether, they make a wh the line what flag she had a mind to, effect

squadron, flying the flag of of views of the river Angerman, On the very afternoon of Germany's declaration of war on Russia, oraising round the Aland Talands: comics: The Royal Road to at Lyons has received from his from these bits, from these in whatever diegnise she thought certain incidente, and, put to hours or inlets, she could fly Russia gave an assurance that she would on no socount commence The Naval hostilities if the Germans did not cross the frontier, and France Staff announces that further ments of the always welcome Max the British and French armies agency of a Hongkong gentleman, is to be hoped then that the declared that her froops would keep aix miles from the frontier to information received: from the Linder. The last-named repre- with a special kind of paper a Russian of position, integrity glorious run of the Emden was in Headquarters Fame," and some more achieve Government an offer to rovide dividual experiences, and the kind best to achieve her purpose. It prevent a collision. This was the situation when German troops Commander-in-Chief of the Baltic sonte Max as an Italian brigand which may be converted into and standing, who gathered them no way marred by an abuse of the Invaded Luxemburg, the neutrality of which had been guaranteed Fleet shows that the Russian for the time being, and the suc-worm winter clothing. Germents in conversation with wo of the roles of the game." by all the Powers with the same object as the similar guarantee re- cruisers which were attacked by ceas of his manoeuvring to win made from this paper have been rescued officers, that we get the reflected on the Sydney is all the garding Belgium. In face of these facts only one conclusion can be German submarines on October, the lady who has a stern and for worn for some time by the Japan- aforetold story-the truth, ungar greater when one allows for the drawn that Germany,

is most laughably depicted.org resulta,

how the Jemtohug met her fate, commander of its opponent.

to meet

Harbour Offences,

af

Paper Clothing for Troops

were over.

enb

"The credit

greatest calamity in the world's history. And the blood is on her

and Germany alone, is responsible for the 10 and October 11 Bank two bidding parent in the background eso army with the most satisfac nished and incontrovertible, of courage and the ingenuity of the

own head.

submerines.