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Count the Columns.

at random, the Times of October 22 has four complete columns of Law Reports and Notices, twó columns of racing, a considerable

On Saturday the Telegraph pub amount of corresponderice relished 43 columns of solid items dealing with sah diverse reading matter. To-day there lating to everything but the war, topiona wills, the Dairy Show, the will be 38 published. Universities, scientific matters.

The Dollar.

the Board of Trade, and, above The rate of the dollar on all, two whole pages of com-demand to-day is le 8.13-168. mercial news. The Literary Supplement of the

"Times."

Colony's Health. Last week there were two cazes

NOTES ON THE CRISIS. JOTTINGS BY THE WAY. SHIP'S OFFICER

CHARGED.

WHAT OF THE RUSSIAN VICTORY?

How the British Once Agala Saved the Day,

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gentleman eat." We would will- Assaulted a European Constable.

A local advertiser wants "a

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At the Police Court, this mora-

we fear he may be considered too ing, befcra Mr. Hazelnud,

lin Ocetra, ship's officer, much of a bounder,

Phoumpeho, Taikoo Locks, was "Socks for our Soldiers is a charged with assaulting a Cainess hearling that appears in the last woman, being drunk, being dis The despatches which have Daily News out from Home, and orderly, assaulting Constable come through concerning the strikes us ge slittle unpatriotic. Drury and damaging his uniform since our last notes were penned who is getting more in that line great Russian victory in Poland Süraly it is the German soldier to the extent of fifty cents.

The constable said that on the make it abundantly clear that a than our Tommy.

way to the station the defendant great disaster has befallen the

tore buttons from his coat, and assaulted him. He was violent : Garman Armies--perhaps the greatest since the war began A recent Home wire says that in two instances. The origin of but we are still without a clear

the price of botton Jaros

the trouble was the assault on the and carcise account of what has Vienna is double that in Man woman in a homea in Cross Street. happened. The fact that the cheater, but it neglecta to mention

His Worship said he was satisfied the man was drunk. Morning Post's correspondent the cost of war yarns in Berlin. should go as far as to state that

Defendant, who said that he did the Russiane have already

not remember what happened, inflicted on Germany's finast Gorman soldiers at Brealau was fined $0 covering the differ troops

a blow unprecedented recently turned their guns on the ent charges and ordered to pay the since the days of Napoleon, and planet Jupiter. It's all very well sum of fifty cents se compensation that in any even the balk for them to Bask to excuse them for the damage to the uniform. of their army is irrevocably elves now by saying they mis- lost, is sufficient to show that it is took it for an aeroplane; it's our Kaiser's orders. Jupiter's title, accomplished.

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Of course no one in Hongkong, of enteric (one fatal) and one fatal or elssthere, supposes for a second that "public interest is other than occurrence of small-pox notified no mean stroke which has been belief that they goted under the

in the Colony. All were Chinese sufferere.

Another Hongkong F.R.C.I.

The Probable Situation.

of "father of gods and men.

$1

"RUM FOR TROOPS,"

was, after all, a distinot infringe-What Great Soldiers Think of

Alcohol.

ment,

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We learn that, in well-informed

aa keen as over in the doings The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" wil of our troops and sailors. But the people at Home are anquea

At a meeting of the Council of The official Russian statements be as follows:

tionably recovering their sense the Royal Colonial Institute on of proportion and are deciding 13th inst. Mr. Gregory Paul Jor- on the situation ore none toz fall, that the war is not going to last dan, M.B. (Hongkong) and Mr. and some significance must circles in Berlin, some doubt is forever. Perhaps the change John Lamb (Butterworth, Straite undoubtedly be attached to the beginning to arise as to the out-of

warning of the General Staff to (change, however is hardly the

Sattlements) were elected non-the effect that reporta concerning pansion of interest) is most noticeable when one looks through

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Swedish Consulate.

Gamblers.

Stole the Chickens.

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The Battle of Ypres.

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Jedge tentonl sends to the editor of the Daily Chronicle, the following letter regarding the

despatch of rum to the front for the use of the troops :-

As most people are anxious that the best should be done for our soldiers at the front, and

ten se to the benefit, or the re- as much has been said and writ-

verse, of alcoholic liquors, your readers might be interested to know the opinions beld by men whose views are sure to have weight. May I quote some statements and facte

Lord Kitchener bos forbidden the forwarding of any presents of wine or spirits to the troops, and he allowed his men no spirits during his campaign in the Sadan, and the victory of Athara was won on similar lines, for he sent back all the beer which had been ordered to the front for the soldiers.

word, let us call it the ex-resident Fellows of the Institute the Russian victory not founded The China Merchants' 8.9. Mr. A. Nilsson, Consul for on facts should be received with Irone is notified as having lost the Times Literary Supplement. Sweden, is leaving Hongkong to reserve. At first glance, the aver- her anchor: We presume the Quite a few weeks ago, we were day by the ss. Mongolia for age layman might be a trifle finder will be rewarded if he remarking on the darkness of the trip to Peking. Mr. J.J. de Roua, perplexed from

bringe it to the police station.. publishing trade. Now, belold, Consul General for the Nether that subsequent messages speak we have the big firms-Macmillan, lands, will be in charge of the of the progress of the fighting Methuen, Cassell, Hutchinson etc., Royal Swedish Vice Consulate much in the terms of previous

The "Marseillaise" is never despatches. It is obvious, how- cach with a colamo or couple of during Mr. Nilsson's absence.

ver, that the Germans have sus-more thrilling than when played calumneofadvertisements of books

At the Police Court, this morn-tained huge losses; and the safe (as we heard it the other night that rarely relato to the war! Not only so, but we find atout ing, Detective Sergeant Brown conclusion to draw would seem to while passing along a certain twenty columns devoted to notes prosecuted seven Chinese for be that the Kaiser's troops are road) in funeral maroh time and or reviews of books, in which the gambling in the Yeo Tack mat. completely encircled but that they on a barmonium. word war is never mentioned:-ashed, Nathan Road, Kowlooa. are not yet finally beaten. In the

"The Kaiser will yet eat bis column and a quarter on a volume They were fined $2 each. Eight words of the official Russian state- by Nansen, another on "The other, for a similar offence, at 67, ment, they are still maintaining Christmas dinner in London." "an obstinate resistance." In says a German paper. Why not? Canton Street, were fined $4 each other words, the operations and There is always Newgate or St. Clement of Alexandria, and Ho forth. Things are steadying: A Cuiness who stole three they must be on an immense Bedlam.

yet complet- down.

chickens, the property of Mr scale are

But as we are asked to A Manila contemporary heads a Lord Roberte has said: “ Give What the Chinese Eat.

Paine, Babington Parb, and also ed. We are really glad to have stole a bucket frim Mr. A. Mor-awit the revelation of defia-paragraph "German Flest reaches me a teetotal army and I will found that the Chinese appetite rig's residence, Robinson Road, its results "in firm confidence," tho Sea.". Was it in the sky load it anywhere,

Sir Henry Havolook, in his'des- diaws the line somewhere for we was sentenced to one mentli's-im- we may assume that the Russian before? *

patohes on the Indian Matiny, thought it didn't. Yesterday a prisonment and four hours' stocks military authorities are

The Boston Herald remarks: attributed "the self-denial, mercy Telegraph reader was out with aon esoh charge, at the Police optimistic in their belief of the

eventual outcome of the great "That Treitschke was not spared and generosity of the hour" to gun and, for want of batter game, Court, this morning."

cheme which they have in hand. to be the head of the Gorman the fact that "European troops.. shot a wild cat. When the beast

Arms and Ammunition.

Press Buranu, is a severe loss to had received no spirit-rationa had done "futtering," the At the Police Court, this mori-

the cause of Pau-Germanism."sloce July 8, and bad found.ño sportiman heard a contemptuous ing, Detective. Sergeant Willa

Well, maaskee; he couldn't have intoxicating liquor among the little snort from the native at his charged two Chinese with being

Huh! No can chow, side.

in unlawful possession of arms) We have now some idea of the been amuch biggerliar than those plander of Ghuzaee."

Lord Wolseley said :'" The old- grumbled the boy. Things are and ammunition at 11, Wing nature of the operations which for who are running that Bureau just

superstition that grog is a good looking up when the Chinese boy Street. The first defendant was so long have been taking place now.

thing for men before, during, and elevates his nose at the thought charged in connection with one along the front from Ypres to

Sarely there are more graceful after a march has been proved by of eating wild cat. Soon perhaps revolver and five rounds of am. Armentieres, thanks to he may develop a distaste even munition and the second defend- detailed despatch from Field ways of announcing an officer's scientific men of all nations to be for the tame variety. et it is ant in connection with the pos- Marshal Sir John French which death than the method recently a fallacy." He would allow no

publish to day. not so many years ago that the session of thirty rounds of am-wo

The chosen by a Calcutta contempor-spirits to be served out to his men Government here despaired of manition. The first defendant. Balgiana, aftor their herd fighting, ary:"We much regret to see in on the long night march to Tel ol No event within the memory of the present generation has being able to start a tannery in was disch rzed and the second were completely exhausted, and, the Roll of Honour the name of Kebir, and his pronouncement was, "Drink kills more than all when that became appareat, the etc."- welded the people of Great Britain together in bonds of noity ao Hongkong, because the natives was fined $100.

our newest weapons of warfare." supreme object was to prevent close and strong as the great war which is now convulsing Europe. were given to eating the skins'of

Admiral ir J. R. Jellicoey There is, as usual, a very good the enemy from carrying out a "Pigeone pay dollata where It has been a common experience in our wars of the past to find the the beasts slaughtered; and, in nation divided against itself as to the rights and the wrongs of the our "Twenty-five Years Ago" it programme at the Victoria taraing movement, which, if chickens pay cente," says an Commander-in-Chief of the Brit- our painful duty to Theatre, the principal picture effected, would lay bare the chan-advertisement in a Manila paper. ish Fleets, speaking at Gibraltar, cause we have espoused-there have been the anti-war and the pro- was once war parties, whoso differences have been so acute that an adjustment record the conviction of a hawker being "The Secret of the Well," nel porte. That was the one aim So they ought; they can fly bigler said: As regards straight shoot- of their respective view-points has been absolutely pat of the for offering rat soup for sale! a very long coloured film, telling on which the Germans were con- and so see more. (For we take it ing, it is everyone's experience question. The divergence of opinion has usually been traceable to Other times, other manners, a story of a crime committed in centrating their efforts, and they that the payment relates to admis. that abstinence is necessary to the highest eficiency," and he Paris and traced to a fraudulent were relying on the pressure of aion to a baseball match) the prevalence of the party spirit in politica a spirit which has evidently.

quoted with approval the state- banking frm in India. The In- huge masses of men to achieve been as pronounced in Imperial as in purely domestic affaire.

ment of Captain Ogilvy (a noted dian acenea are beautifally this end. At that time, the To-day the situation is almost without precedent in our national

"At first the officer maintained gunnery ina raotor), thas tbe depicted and pre, in themselves, northern flank of the Allies need- life. Men have forgotten party and thought only of the common

well worth going 10-808, weal. The lines marking off political factions have become obliter

"Bad ed reinforcing if the movement his attitude," says a Chinese re- shooting efficiency of men was "bat confessed after a proved, by careful and pro Desire" is sensational, but above was to be stopped, and Sir John port, ated: Radicals and Conservativos bave found themselves in the

some magnificent Alpino scenery, French's despatch shows how hundred lashes were given to longed teste, to be 30 per cant. same camp, each as enthusiastic as the other in a great cause.

There was a packed house at while "The Millionaire Milkman" brilliantly that task was carried him. Well, we always did say worse after the issue of the rum Now that we have seen how a regard for the fundamental things

that actions ara more effective alion than before it, the, ration of life-the protection of the weak and the fulfilment of solem the Bijou on Saturday evening, and "Womanly Curiosity" afford oat.

than words.

being one-eighth of a pint. promises has swallowed up the smaller issues in the larger and the chief attraction being Mr. excellent comic relief. To-morrow has brought into existence a new patriotism, we may well speculate Bert Flatt, the American Musical night the second series of war for a moment on the ultimate consequences. Will this war mean Comedian, whose fame had, pictures will be shown, the dea h-knell of the party system, a system which has been apparently, already spread,though described as the curse of the Empire? The answer to that be ouly made his first appearance

what on question depends entirely

by in Hongkong on Friday. His unanimity clever patter "brought down the

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1914.

THE WAR AND POLITICS,

"the party ayatom." If we hope to

we mean

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Victoria Theatre.

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It is impossible to go in detail into the keen game of strategy

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Only Buffaloes; Undoubtedly the occasion upon which developed from these operations, but a close reading which British troops were sudden

When a well-known book stated that of 11,000 men who offered themselves for war service in 1899 and 1900 8,000 were found unfit to carry a rifle and Americans Evacuate Vera

sund the fatigue of discipline, Cruz

of the remarke of the British ly alarmed in the most inip and when similar startling facts of opinion on all questions, Imperial and internal alike, assuredly, house" a number of times, and

Washington, November 23. Commander-in-Chief shows that propriate costume was after the came to Ight, a Government en- we shall be disappointed. That would not, indeed, be desirable he was loudly encored for his and, whether we like it or not; men will divide themselves into Banjo and Saxophone selections, In accordance with President the occasion called for all the pow. battle of Maida, ia Southern Italy gairy was held, and after pla- groups and factions. But so long as they have a common aim, and bi manipulation of the first-Wilson's orders, the evacuation offers of skill and cudurance avail-(the victory that gave its name to longed investigation and examiz- that aim is their country's welfare, it matters not if they differ in paned instrument being particu. Vera Craz by American troops able, that hard blowe were given Maida-vale), in 1800. Bir John ation of 68 expert witnesses the their opinions as to how that object is best attained. The chief fault larly clever, ai also was his was completed to-day. Not an and taken, and, above all, that Stuart, having ordered his men committee reported alcohol to be to be found with the present-day conception of politics is that the rendering of the descriptive song, American soldier or sailor now by magnificent generalship and back to the beach for a rest, gave a most potent and deadly agent claims of party are too often put before essentials-before the things" Mr. Boose." Mr. Flatt is one of remains in the city. All the sheer courage and intrepidity on the brigades permission in turn of physical deterioration. When, the best artises seen in Hong foreignere in Mexico City have the part of our men, the British to bathe in the sea. While Ede's therefore, men say that soldiers that really matter.

If we win through in the present crisis, as all good Britishers kong for some time, and those in taken refuge in the legation, conwere able to stay the threatened brigade we thus enjoying itself, are not as well treated as they are convinced we shall, the praise will belong to no party; it will be need of that best of all tonica, a ditions having become such that onslaught and throw the enemy a staff officer, seeing a clond of might be the above opinions are shared by all who have responded to the nation's call, whether they hearty laugh, should not miss their lives are unsafe. They are back with hage loves. The whole dust, glloped up with the cry worthy of consideration.

story provides another proof of that French cavalry was approach-

Inefficacy of Prayer. care to call themselves Socialists, Conservatives, Liberals or what seeing him. The programme hoping that Vila will arrive in the

Marj ire-Will I get every- not else. Certain is it that, when the wer is over, the leaders of the also includes the 4th series of city before Z pain. The Car- the incalculable valan of the ing The Grenadiera and 27th several parties will have a more wholerome respect and regard for Pathe's, War G zette (length rángh police han deserted and a British troops to the cause of the rushed out of the water, seized

Mcther (cautionsly)—— Every- osch other and for their respective opinions than ever they had bo-1,000 feet) a powerful four-part reign of susrchy prevails in the Allies. And, without any undus their belts and muskets, and fell thing I play for, mamma ? fore. A new union of forces may not be effected coalition Govern drama, 6,000 feet in length, city, Foreignare feet certain that bassing, we think it may be said into line with ordered arme, in ments have seldom been a success-but if the present crisis has no entitled "To Shield Her Son; ahould Zapata arrive first in the that once again the sterling fight perfect discipline, but without thing that's good for you, desr." other eff et on our politics! life than to create a general desire to see and a very amusing film showing city, a reign of terror with an ing qualities of the British soldier, a rag of clothing. Then it was Marjorie (diegustedly)—Oh,

only by some frightened buffaloes. anyway."" as good in others, and not merely to pick holes in whatever pro how Father Baya a Chimney limited pillaging and bloodshed coupled with fast leadership, found that the dust was caused what's the uns, then; I get that

will result.Manila Bulletin. posal emanates from the other side, then it will have performed a pot. work of no menn importance.

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saved the day.