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We Have the Money..

The "silver bullete" hava come along all right; M. Lloyd George was able to announcə İD the House of Commons yesterday that the War Lean had been more than covered, and, that fact nctwithstanding, the British

DAY BY DAY.

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BE LORD OF THY OWN MIND; THE DREAD OF EVIL WORSE OF ILLS: HALF OF THE ILLS WE HOARD

WITHIN OUR HEARTS

ARE ILLS BECAUSE WE HOARD

THEM-Proosor.

The Weather.

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NOTES ON THE CRISIS..

LOSS OF THE BULWARK.

The Russian Steam-ruller

Gets doing. The loss of the battleship Bulwark is one of the heaviest blogs which our Navy hae sustained since the war broke out. In point of size, she is easily the biggest beat we have lost, even though she was by no manner of means a modern fighting ship,

Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 500.

63;

At the Peak 8 a.m. Tomp.

55;

being over twelve years old. But

The Malls.

fize..

at 4 p.m.

of valuable lives which the dis

1889

HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE

YEARS AGO.

Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the wick ending Nov. 28, 1889.)

The Dollar,

THE HONGKONG CONTINGENT.

Local Men who will

to the Front,

We have been favoured with s list of the tames of those genilo. men who have been accepted and signed up for servics in the

Money Market is in a better position now than any Money Market in the world. These are a couple of hard facts which may interest the Kaiser. Qae grant feature of the taking up of the

November 28. The Tate of pepial contingent which it was War Loan is the enormous num-

worse than the loss of the boar, the dollar oa den ind to-day la aonounced by His Excellency the Governor would be sent Home bor of small applicants, nearly

which, after all, will not be 32

Piratical Pagans.

from this Colony. The contingent 100,000, who have come for sard. Siberian Mail Clcase -day gratly felt, is the great sacrifice

November 22, A couple of was at first proposed, to consist of. What does this mern? It means that the people have faith and

ator has involved-some 700 of piratical pagens were stopped by about sixty men, but since it has confidence in our ability to carry

pub- those breve men and trus who, a watchfal Sikh, at Yaumati, yas been decided to make the number thewer through to the end.

solid had they been given the opport. terday. One pointed a loaded eighty They have never wavered in that

there unity, would surely have done revolver of the cruet-stand calibre The following are the names of belief, and we imagine they will

grand work for their King und at him, and the other playfully those signed on up to date

Mr. A. F. Briggs (South Chana, never have cause to. If money

ocustry. We moura with those poked a sword in the direction of is to win this war-and it certain-

who mourn te-lay; but our grief his works. The Sikh knocked the Morning Post).

first down, however, and annexed is temporod with the comforting bis gan, nad the other id. The Works Department) knowledge that it was no enter

prisoner was fined $100, with prise of the enemy which sent our the option of six months hard, At the Marine Court, yester-men to a watery grave.

this morning." day, a Chinese was fined $10, for making fast to a steamer,

Count the Columns, Yesterday the Telegraph lished 36 columna of reading matter. To-day will be 43 published.

The Dollar.

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The rate of the dollar ly will be a great factor—there| demand to-day is 1s 8.13-16d. 0зn be no twa opinione na to ita result. For that is a commodity. of which we have almost in- exhaustible supplies.

Refugees and the

Servant Question.

The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph " will published yesterday reminds us

be as follows :-****

Daily issue-$36 per annum. Wookly issue-$13 per annum.

fali month.

a

Harbour Offence..

Woman's Loss.

on

A woman living at. Tai Po The re-print of an interview merket has had atolen $15 in with Lady Lagard which we money and other articles, to the

total value of $25, that the number of Belgian Missing Flower Pots, refugees now in England may A woman bas had flower pots cffer some sort of solution of the and flowers taken from her gar servant difficulty with which don, Tramway Path, valued at housewives at Home have been $19.

Theft of Furniture. trying to cope for so many are A woman living in Queen'e past. Among these refugees thure

The Cause.

Austrian Smokeless Powder. November. 23.-The smoke.

less powder that Austria is using it will have to be abandoned. At a recent practice shooting, Leveral

makes such a fearful smell that

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AL. J. O. Chalmers (Public

Mr G. Jorge (Mossre. Forge and Company).

Mr. E. W. Evera (Mesara Watson and Company).

Mr. B. F. Victor (Messra.

Goldring and Phillips,

Mr. C. A.J. Wilkie (Kowloon). S rgeant A. Pattison (Hong- kong Police).

"When the first brief message came through, merely etating that the ill-fated battleabip had been "blown up at Sheerreas, all manner of ugly possibilities suggested themselvos. Some feared, though to it could be men fainted from it."

[We don't hear that the Austrian possible they hardly saw, that an enemy's submarine bad stolen up shooting to day brings about very

when an ocossional Servisa Mr. B. Forster (Astor House the Thames and accomplished much in the fainting line, unless her deadly mission. Others jump

Hotel. had been at work to no small ed to the conclusion that apies Desaant woman is fired on.]

The Share Market.

Mr. E. S. Jepson (Moésre. S. J. November 23A much David and Company)...

"

Mr. R. Heilgers (Aster House" Hotel) Butterfield and Swire)...

Mr. A. N. Joseland (Mesaro..

Dessenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies delivered at are apparently many who haval Boad Central has had stolan from parpase. Speculation in other steadier and healthier tone has Mr. R: "Lapaley (Kowloon

The rates per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscriptions

for any period less than sus month will be charged as for The daily issue le delivered free when the address is accessible to their residences without any extra charge. On copies sent by poet an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. The postage on the weekly isane to any part of the world is 1.00

per quarter.

cash only).

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by Urder,

“HONGKONG TELEGRAPH."

The Dongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1914.

OUGHT AMERICA TO ARM?

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100

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Woman's Missing Jewellery,

a

been bred to domestic service bar room quantity of furniture and who will doubtless valued at $51.

to happy"

Clothing valued at $10 and be only fiod situations open to them.

several articles of jewellery have For a couple of generations uw been taken from the Louse of working-class girla at Home have evinced a very decided pre-woman in Queen's Road East. ference for factory, shop or office work, and have sigcified their be- lief that domestic service is not the degrading. This is belief among the Flemish, and, since so many of them are now ready to take whatever work there is to take, English mistresses will surely jump at the chance; the more so that the Belgiaus are noted for their industry and olesalia: 88.

"Q" and Patriotic Verse.

Watch Stolen.

Mr. Bridger, of Babington Path, reports to the police that some person has stolen from his room an English lever watch valued at $20. Hesuspects work

тел.

Property Sale.

:.

Removal of Graves.

in the official announcement which '

What Hongkong Wants. November 27.-"We have a right to eleat each and every one

Docks).

Mr. G. W. Rogera (Canton), Mr. A. Hall (8.8. Onsang). Mr. G. D. Procter (Astor House Hotel).

THE SHARE market.

Our share list, corrected up to yesterday, appears on page 9. The quotations stand good for to-day except in the following cases :-*

$310; Douglas Steamships, $29 buyers; Shanghai Cottons, Tls. 71 buyers; Hongkong Electric Trame, 89. 9d. buyers.

China Traders' Insurance Com pany-$72 per share, buyera..

North China Insurance —Tls. 350 per share, buyers.

Canton Insurance Company,

quarters inclined to the likelihood been noticeable in the Share of some terrible accident, on Market since yesterday, and a fair board, and these last-named found justification for their views through at increasing rates."

amount of busiassa hus been pul

inter came along to the effect that Hongkong Rifle Association.

November 26.- "The, fourth the vessel was rent asunder competition for the Faki Cup was by a magazine explosion. Even shot on Saturday, Notwithstand- St. Andrew's Day. this statement, however, leavea ing the unfavourable weather,nine St. Andrew's Day, which falls much to be expluized, for this members turned up to contest for on Monday, is to be celebrated in must assuredly be the first inter- Dr. Noble's priz, which was Won Hongkong by a big concert at al explosion which has sent by Mr. F. G, Collins with a score the Theatre Royal in aid of them immoth warship to the bottom of 54 pointe." Prince of Wales' Fund.

with such terrifying rapidity. [Among other contestants men- May be we shall never know the tioned are Mr. Shelton Hooper, Hongkong and Shanghai Banks, fall story of precisely what Mr. W. D. Braidwood and Lieut. $720 sales; Canton Insurances, happened, for there are but few Col. Verner Chater.] left to tell the tale. The blow is a

Australian Federation. hard one to bear, whatever the November 26. The Australian cause of the dienster may have Colonies are generally averse to been, but, like true Britishers, we Sir Henry Parkes proposed con- can eat a firm face and show the vention, and consider the preer nt Sir Arthur Quiller Couch took Fittings Stolen.

world that we can take the bad Federal Council sufficient for on a big job when he set to work,

Mr. Spalding, clerk of worke, news with the good, Icoking con- their needs." In our issue of Thursday we published a Washington telegram in a Cambridge lecture, to account Humphrey's Estate, reports that fidently to the future with lasting stating that the United States Chief-of-Staff has recommended that for the British soldier's taste in rome perron stole from two un-faith in the power of our Navy to the American army be increased to a total of 205,000 men; and, song and verse. Most people will occupied houses in Nathan Road, come through thick and this. farther, that a First Line Reserve of balf a million men should be agree that, though Tommy comes Kowloon, brass fitings valued The German Debacle. of our anofficial members of the Ltd.-$130 per share, wrented, and that the number of Militia should be raised to 300,000. from every point in the British at $30.

The great sma-i-np of the Ger- Legislative Council, sad the He advances, as an argument in favour of this move, the facts that Isles, Cockneyim sooner or later

Tangleze Insurance Association man armies in Poland has come Governor will exercise & wit-Tls. 06 per share, Hawaii is unprepared for defence, and that the Panama Canal and becomes the dominant note with The property situate at Bon-at length. All the pretty sobom discretion in exercising that right."

Hongkong Fire Insurance Com- the Philippines are in much the same condition. We may take it him. Why, we cannot say, for ham Strand West and Wing Lokings of the German Staff have The idiotic "hong" business has

pany-$382) per share, sellers. that the Chiel-of-Staff will have behind him the moral support of there are many line regiments in Street, sold by Mr. G. P. Lammert, come to nought, and to-day the bad a good innings; it should China Fire Insurance Company Mr. Roosevelt, whose Speak softly, and carry a big stick we which the number of Londonera at his sales room, yesterday, great German machine, fastead of now be quietly relegated to the

-885 per share, quoted some time sines; but we may be equally assured that Preis bat trifling. Now the Cockney brought $60000; the buyer was running smoothly and sweetly dust-bin. A thick-headed noodle, sident Wilson and bis colleagues in office are scarely the kind of in all his likes and dislikes is Mr. Wong Pik-chaen.

according to rale-of-thumb cal. because he may happen to be Company-80 per cent. premiam Hongkong and Whampoa Dook mon to further any such scheme, willingly.

absolutely inexplicable' and in-

calations, is shattered to pieces, partner in some mercantile honse sellers. As friendly lookers-on, we Britiebera can perhaps see as for comprehensible. "Q" knows,

broken, may be, beyond all hope that drags out a miserable roand the "fora" and "againsts" of each a proposal as those more Cornwall and knows English tention of His Excellency the Kitchener announced in the treaty days, is hardly good enough share, sellere.

It is notified that it is the in- of repair. The fact that Earl oxistence on traditions of ante- Steamboat Company-$42 per Hongkong, Canton and Macao intimately concerned. To us, Mr. Roosevelt's big stick ides seeme Literature, with B .more sound and sensible provided a big enough stick can be found! To than common knowledge; but overror to make an order direct House of Lords that the Russians for modera requirements; the China and Manila Steamship be partially armed is worse than to be unarmed, for this at once we suspect that his educa-ing the removal, within one bad checked and defeated the qualification is defective, as the Company-$102 1-2 per share, presupposes a divided confidence. Thus the question seems to re-tion has been neglected where month, of all graves on the piece Kaiser's forces with greater Hongkong of to-day needs men of sellers, solve itself into this: Has America the right men, (we know she the C.okney is concerned, or he of land known as site of the losses than ever before" prepared ability-not puppets who sre has the money) with sufficient of the military spirit, to enable her would never have attempted to western filter beds.

usforsomething more than a mere pulled by a string in Government to raise an army capable of defying any two first-class Powers ? Can explain" him. Tommy prefere

success, and the later message House, or by outside influences she rely on the united support of her immense population, in the music hall wit and Surreyside

from Petrograd confirmed our which we refrain from naming." event of war? If the replies to these questions are to be in the nega-pathos" to what is more ideal-

bigbest hopes. That message. [As there are no longer any tive, then it would seem that she would be better advised to forget istic; but this we take to be a

told of how the Germans were "thick-headed noodles" uccupy her ambitions; to be content with the position of a monetary rather good sign; for it means that there

completely outclassed at every ing high positions in Hongkong than a military Power, and to rely for her defence on the support is no-nonsense about him; that

point-routed all along the line. we merely give the above na being of stronger nations. America's actions with respect to the Mexican he has no time for sentiment:

Germans' Crude Strategy. of interest from an antiquarian Heretofore the Kaiser's Army point of view.] incident at the beginning of this year, and the attitude of a very Jest stick to what you like best, great proportion of bar people towards the European War, show that Thomes; and good luck to you!

has made loud boast of its high

German Army Corps, the country, as a whole, is averae from, the fighting iden altogether,

state of efficiency, its great pre- November 28. The Reichstag and that the "in time of peace prepare for war" maxim could

paredness and its fine morale. Committee has approved the hope to find but, little favour there. Then if the nation is to ap-

To Consignees,

It has claimed for itself a formation of two new Army We wonder when the sanitary proach the question of armed defence half-heartedly, how much

Consignees of cargo by the monopoly of high strategic Corps." authorities will hit across some Kitano Mara ara reminded that qualities. But aatil this wor its hope is there that it will find a stick of the requisite "biguess?

"Darned Expensive. That there is material in America for one of the finest armies method of refuse-collection which grote remaining undelivered after claims had never been put to the November 28. At the Finance the world has ever seen cannot be doubted, even though the coun- will not result in distorbing Monday will be subject to rent.

Hongkong Ice Company- tcet. Now the German Head-Committee meeting yesterday, ky's experience of modern warfare is a minus quantity for the practically the whole Colony in

quartera know all too well that the Bonourable Lister thought $110 per share, buyers. what should be the peaceful hours panish War can hardly be asid tə

"A land that has a

Hongkong Rope Manafectar- Passage Brokers' Licences. . two can play at strategy, and that it would be interesting to men- population of over ninety millions should have no difficulty in being of early morning sleep. In other

It is notified that applications others can play the game a trifle lion that the Tytam works had ing Company, Ltd.-$100 per able to produce an army of several million well-drilled men, and a words, when will the dustman's for Passage Brokers Licences for better than their own military cost $1,137,315, up to the

share, Follers, savy proportionately strong; for America has the dollars. President bell cease to ringt Theanor the year 1915. under the Chinese geniuses. Fine theories do not sent, not counting the storm and Godown Company-389 per Wilson and those who think with him are, doubtless, building on of the present system, is most felt Emigration Ordinance, 1880, will win hard battles; they are damage or the distribution pipes. the present war's being the last that History, will ever have to in Kowloon, where the European be received at the Harbour Office very apt to lend to disaster, Well, Alfred, dest; it may be share, sellers. record, and so regard thair existing army as all-sufficient. But is lenses are grouped together in from the 16th to the 30th Decem- just as they have on this interesting, but it's darned there no illogicalness in this point of view? If they profem to hold blocks, more so than in Hongkong: ber, 1914. Applicant are re-ocoasion. The Germans evidently expensive. that both sides in the great war are fighting for power, and that The dust-carte set out on their quested to state the names and thought they had a soft thing on there is not a pin to choose between them where justification and mission in the early hours of the adir ses of the parties they offer when they drove back the Russian rights are concerned (which is precisely the ground that an enormorning, and though residenta ag, suretics,

advance guards, but they bad a mas number of Americans have taken) they should surely follow have long since fallen in with the

terrible eye-opener when they up their own train of rea osing and assume that, when one of the requirement to have their dust-

knocked up against the Czar's two partins bas conquered and has made manifest to the world its bine placed outside in readiness

main army. One cinnot read the ewn superiority, it will lust after further victories. English people for the scavengers when they

story of how the Germans were know that the Allies are going to win, and that; having accomplish- come round, the latter muat per-

lured on and surrounded, without ed what they started out to do, they will be content to settle down force continue to herald their

realising that the Russian strategy peacefully to the old order of things. Bat American-to je hand-bell. One of these days we arrival by ceaselesa ringing of a

The telegram quoted below was magnificent and their evolu

The quotations which follow from their Press-do not feel so sure of this. If then, they are

are from the Hongkong Telegraph satisfied that some aggressor-be it England, Ravein, France or can see some infuriated house. Was received by the American tions absolutely efficient. Similer- Germany is coming along presently, drank with conquest and holder opening hostilities on these Consulate General, Hongkong, ly, one cannot fail to perceive the for Nov. 28, 1889.

Hongkong and Shanghai Bank prepared to dominate the West of the world as well as the centre of sleep-breakers, for there is a limit from the Manila Observatory at abject failure of the German

12.10 p.m. yesterday

schema. The Germans crade it, one would think that it was time for them to begin preparations to human forbearance and we Cyclone or Typhoon E. of conception of strategy might wall183 per cent. premium, buyera. 84 per share, buyers,

Union Insurance Bociety of to meet the newcomer. America is a great a very great-nation, have a pretty shrewd iden as to

astound the Russians, as co-day it Canton$103 per share, buyers. and the best way for her to ensure the continuance of this greatnosa how the battle will go, too.

does the whole world, to strike out a definite line for herself forthwith, and stick to it.

count."

Disturbers of Sleep.

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Hongkong Finance. The financial statement for September shows that there: venne during the month was 8794,314 48 and the expenditure $750,258 00. At the end of the month the balance was $3,388,- 393 82, compared with $3,344, 337.34 on August 31.

TYPHOON WARNING,

Palawan, moving W.

1889.

· SHARE. REPORT.

pre-

Hongkong Gas Company- $135 per share, sellers.

Hongkong Hotel Company- 210 per share, sellers. Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per cent. Debentures-$501.

Indo-China S.N. Company- 15 per cent dia, sellers,

Douglas Steamship Company-- $67 per share, sellers.

China Sugar Refining Com- pary, Ltd.-$200 per share, buyers,

Luzon Sugar Refining Com pany, Limited $68 per share, Fallers.

Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf

Hongkong Dairy Farm Co. $14 per share, sellers.

A. S. Watson and Co., Ltd. $23 per share, sellore.

Hongkong High Level Tram- way Co., Ltd.-200 per cent. prem., sellers..

Hongkong Steam Laundry Co., Ltd.-$25 per share, nominal."

Green Island: Cement Co. fold isans)-843 per share, bayers.

Green Island Cement Co. (now amme) $ut per share, buyers.

Hongkong Land Investment Go L, 4103 por share, bayera. Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd, ---

West Point Buildings Co., Ltd. -845 per share, sellers.