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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1914,

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The French Royalists and the

Army.

DAY BY DAY.

KIND WORDS DO NOT COST MUCH. THEY NEVER BLISTER THE TONGUE OR LIPS. WE NEVER HEARD OF ANY MENTAL TROUBLE ARISING FROM THIS QUARTER, THOUGH THEY DO NOT COST MUCH, YET THEY ACCOMPLISH MUCH. THEY MAKE OTHER PEOPLE GOOD- NATURED, THEY ALSO PRODUCE THEIR OWN IMAGE ON MEN'S SOULS, AND A BEAUTIFUL IMAGE

Ilongkong readers will be interested to know that the Duo de Montpensier is on his way to Europe, noxious to go to the Front. A difioulty that lies in his path is the fact that French law forbids descendants of the old Royal Houses to serve in the Army or Navy. According to an American paper, the Duo seema to have little hope that the Re-IT 18-Pascal, publican Government will consent to waive this rule, and is preparod accordingly to fight under the British flag instead of that fine. of his own country. We shall be interested to see how the Presid-fine, ent receives this offer of service.

The Weather. Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 72;

NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

THE" THREE YEARS "WAR.

Some Reflections on the Kitchener Interview..

Since the war broke out there has been endless speculation as to the likely duration of hostilities. Prophete, amateur and profession- al slike, have not been wanting, and the opinions expressed have been as divergent as it is possible they should be. Tust, perhaps. p.m.within the memory of living man is not to be marvelled at, since

At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp. 65;

The Malls.

It is a common belief that, while Siberian Mail-Oloms at 4 theroughly loyal to the principles

to-day.

of those who elected him to his high Australian and European Mail, position, M. Poincare is more

Oloses at 5 p.m. to-day. eympathetically inclined towards

the French aristocracy than most

Count the Columns,

pub-

eclid

of his predecessors have been. Yesterday the Telegraph This may or may not be merelished 36 colamas of talk, but what is a fact is that he reading matter. To-day there is a very practical and broad-will be 43 published. minded man, who is to ohorish unlikely prejudice against Royalty as Royalty; and so one would not be demand to-day is 18 9.5-16d. surprised to hear that he had taken steps to break down what,

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MARRIAGE.

PERRY-CARDY.-On December 5, at St. John's. Cathedral, by the Rev. H. Copley Moyle, Frederick Arthur Perry to Aida Cardy, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cardy, Llandaff.

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1914

THE MANCHU QUESTION IN CHINA.

chievous barrier. China's Soldiers.

a's Sur good deal of late about China's model army, and, indeed, it seems to be a fact that President Yuan is determined to

B

The Dollar. The rate of the dollar

on

Exempted. -The Man Han (Ohinese focial

club) has been exempted from registration under the Societies

Ordinance.

the world has not passed through

188.9.

HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE

YEARS AGO.

Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files" for the "week"

ending Dec. 4, 1889.)

The Doliar.

December 3-Tae rate of the dollar on demand to day is 3/22

GOVERNMENT

APPOINTMENTS.

The following appointmentsare announoad in the Honghung

Govt rament Gazette:

Mr. Charles Alexander Dick Melbourne to be Registrar of the Supreme Court of Hongkong, In Prize, with effect from the 19th November, 1914, vics Mr. George Herbert Wakeman, resigned.

Another Des Voeux.

Mr. John Daniel Lloyd to be November 29,-"A little in-Assistant Marshal, Official Ac- cident occurred at Government countant and a Deputy Registrar House to-day. It was a boy. His of the Supreme Court of Hong- Excellenoy has our warmest con- kong, In Prize, with effect from gratulations."

the 27th November, 1914, vios

(A week or two ago the Mr. John William Lee Jones, at the Front, of a Telegraph announced the death signed. Sir Willian Des Voeux, who world

вод .of

Hongkong Literary Society.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint, an- a crisis which can compare with be about the age of twenty-five.) der the provisions of Section 19- that which we are at present

of the Public Health and Build- witnessing. But when n m & D

November 29.-"This placky inge Ordinance, 1903, Mr. R. B. like Earl Kitchener speaks, the little society, despite its desertion Wood to be a temporary Sanitary world listens. And that is why by the scores of leading men who Inspector, with effect from the 1st be attached to the interview for it a year ago, has entered on His Excellency the Governor the utmost importance should were going to do such great things Lecember; 1914. which an American journalist its second session."

has been pleased to appoint. has bad with the British

Lieutenant Robert Oliphant Hat- The St. Andrew's Ball, War Secretary, the gist of which

November 30-The St. Apoliton, Hongkong Volunteer appears in our telegraphic war drew's Ball, looked at us. an Corps, to be his Aide-de-Camp, news to-day. At first sight one ordinary ball, was moderately with the honorary rank of Cap- might be inclined to doubt successful; regarded as the Scotch tain, vice Lieutenant A. G. Bag- whether the interview ever took ball, it was a very decided "frost," nall, K.G.A., with effect from the place, but on second thoughts the For some days past, rumours had 15th November, 1914. mere fact that the British autho-been current that a great many of ities have permitted the circula- the Scotchmen in the Colony

BANK RETURNS.

The returns of the average

tion broadcast of the opinions were dissatisfied with the "foli Volley Ball.

attributed to Earl Kitohener will quish" way in which the annual Ellis Kadoorie School test surely remove all doubts on that colebration of Scotland's Patron give the country what it has Queen's College in the Volley point. We may take it, there- Saint had been organised, and nover yet had a military force Ball Competition, on 'Thursday, fore, that the statements were consequently intended to hold amount of bank notes in oir made, but what the motive behind aloof, and the greatly diminished culation and of specie in reserve Missing Man Found.

the utterances was, none of us attendance and lack of vivacity in Hongkong, during the month that is united, loyal, disciplined, by 3 to nil. and trained more cr lees upon

The police report that the miss-

can know at the moment,

last night show that the ramour ended 30th November, 1914, as European lines. Among other

was, well founded. The dance certified by the Managers of the things, so we hear from Peking, ing man, William Nattal, has

was doubtless a most enjoyable respective Banks are

Chartered Bank of India, Aus- he has issued to his soldiers been found on the Fraya, and

one for the dozen or so of ladies form of pledge which seat to the hospital,

is required to

who are supposed to lead local tralia and China-Notes, $6,- each man

Cassiety," and for a correspond- 024,936; specie, $5,000,000,

Hongkong and Shanghai Bank- ing number of prominent, cr would-be prominent, male lead ring Corporation,-Notes, $24,- the period mentioned by Eul of the haut ton; but the majority 422,486; specie $17,500,000.

Meresatile Bank of India K tchener when he took up the of residents hailing from ayont duties of War Secretory, a post the Tweed were either conspic- Limited, Notes, which, he said, he would occupy nous by their absence, or they specie, $800,000.

Total,-Notas; $31,501,265; for three years or as long as the left early, lamenting the terrible! war continued. Similarly, the men decadence of this once popular specie, $28,300,000. who have enlisted in the Now Army annual assembly.

Sup-

Qualified Auditor." Mr. Charles E. Miller, Yoko-

fied auditor under the Hongkong Companies Ordinance.

Christian Union.

The Rev. J. K. Maconachia will speak at the meeting of the Hong. kong Christian Union at Ying Wah College on Monday at 5.30

p.tn.

Sent to Hospital.

A Probable Meaning,

The most striking of the views

not less than three years. Here it may be recalled that this was

sign. By sigulog, they are com- hama, has been declared a quali-expressed is that the war will last mitted to the following promises: to obey orders, to defend their country loyally, to protect the people, to respect their superior officers, not to be afraid of death, to be trustworthy in word and conduct, to practise, diligence and patiently to undertake hard labour, and, finally, not to join

bave been sworn in ona like under- per created a desirable diversion, any party or secret society. A Significant Document:

standing. Probably, however, but here again that "Wait until Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Britishers, reared in traditions

the real interpretstion to be put your bettere have finished" sys-185 per cent. premium, buyera. of loyalty brought up, in fact, to

upon Earl Kitchener's forecast is tem was much complained of. regard that loyalty as a foregone

that the Allies have laid their We scarcely see, why this should. cocclusion and therefore not a

schemes on the basis of a cam- be, for there were many vacancies thing to be talked about-may The a.. Kaishing, which arriv-paign lasting fally three years, if at the tables and a very small feel that it is a curious conniased from Saigon yesterday, reports necessary. Such a conservation amount of attention to the raak wherein soldiers or sailors are experiencing a heavy typhoon of energy as this implies may and Gle-who were as much the asked to take such a pledge, south-east of Paderau.

Tre- very well come as a shock to guests of the St. "Andrew's. It is, moreover, puzzling mendous seas were encountered Germany, whoan original scheme Society and as much entitled to Ltd.-$130 per share. T

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A Chinese has been sent to the hospital suffering from injuries to the left hand, sustained when knocked down by a tramcar in Des Vaux Road Central.

Heavy Typhoon.

;

Rifled the Safe.

which has signally failed was courteous treatment as the per-

Union Insurance Society of Canton-$103 per share, buyers.

Uhina Traders' Insurance Com» pany-$72 per share, buyers.

North China Insurance-TL. 350 per share, buyers.

Canton Insurance Company,

to non-Chinese that pat

Yangtsze Insurance Association on November 28. riotism ehould be Д new

to strike a smashing blow on the sons of high degras-on the part-Tle. 00 per share. thing in

China and yet so Mr. Umrigar, of Mosers. S. J. opening of hostilities and get the of the Stewards would have

Hongkong Fire Insurance Com ald B thing in Japan, its David and Company, has reported whole business over within a few obviated much unpleasantness, pany $382 per share, sellers.

door

Оде neighbour. next

to the police that on the 4th inst, months. Now that she knows that. The wiser guests who, by long China Fire Insurance Company of the very things

that

some person, by means of a dup- we are prepared to go on for experience, have become accus-$88 per share. lioste key. opened the safe and years, until the humiliation of the tomed to the idiosyncrasies of Hongkong and Whampoa Dock enemy is final and complete, she the common or garden genue Company-70 per cent. premium took $1,500 in money.

may well shudder at the con- Steward, took whatever they could sellers. sequences.

Flood Reflef.

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الرحمه

The German Policy.

get, and that was not very much, Hongkong, Canton and Macao. ner of a particularly recherche Steamboat Company $415 per description. In fact the sup share, sellers.

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The Bloom on the Rye.

Hongkong Gas Company- $135 per share, sellere.

buyers.

It will have been seen, from the various lottars and news items published in our columns during the past mon.h, that at least some of the Chinese still regard the restoration of the muonaroby in their have made the Japanese a great country as among life's possibilities. Of course, to say that anything people to-day is their more than

Un wholesome Pork. like a majority of them desire auch an event; or even esteem it logalty to their country and

This morning, at the Police likelihood as worth serious thought, would be to mis-state the emperor. As Sir Ian Hamilton re- eituation entirely. Nevertheless we may surely take the disclosures marked when he was in Hongkong, Court, Mr. F. A Hazeland im made in Peking recently, in connection with the arrest of some every Japanese is consciously posed a well-merited fine of $100

It is certainly refreshing to have|per was bad, the attendance China and Manila Steamship leading members of the Royalist party, as being the smoke that part of the empire; and one word upon a Chinese who was charged

$100 per share, indicates the near presence of a certain amount of hidden fire. It against it is an indelible insult to with selling unwholesome pork. Earl Kitchener's opinion on the worse, and the entire arrange-Company

buyers. stands to resson that there must still be in China o residue of pro-himself. The moral side of the In default, the sentence was three policy of the German attack, at ments a complete failure."

this moment, when there is so Chinese soldier's promise concerns months' hard labour.

(It is pleasing to reflect that Manchus, seeing that, only a little over three years ago, the country himself only, but the rest

mach speculation among laymon such snobbery no longer exists was yet a monarchy. In no land that we ever heard of could a obedience to orders, loyal defence The Tang Wa Hospital boge to as to the wisdom of this and the in Hongkong in this year of Hongkong Hotel Company republic replace a monarchy and leave no trace, after a mere three of the country ete.--would cert-acknowledge with thanks the folly of the other. The German grace 19141).

$200 per share, sellers. Two of a Trade.": years, of Royalist protagonism; and least of all in China.

ainly make the Japanese soldier following donations to the Flood campaign in the west, according

Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per The residue under discussion consists, we may suppл80,

December 2.-"Two of a trade cent. Debentures- $501: primarily of persons who became dispossessed of wealth, prestige atare. In fact he would probably Relief Fund :-Chinese. Associa- to our military leader, was a fail-

Indo-China S.N. Company- or position by the ousting of the Minchus; secondarily, of a number laugh at being asked to sign sach tion, Lourenco Marques," $346.- ure. And why? Because, he never agree. Mr. Wotton charged of the ranks and file, who are the property of the last comer and will promises, seeing that no tempta-93 (530) Kwong Shia Flood points out, when an army of in- another conveyancer this morning 15 per cent. dis., buyers.

Douglas Steamship Company- follow the loudest shouter; in many onses, people who hardly know tion to break them could ever, Relief Society, Kuala Lumpur, vasion ceases to invade, bides with getting away with a couple

$1,031 58; total; $1,378 51. itself in trenches, and fights at of flower-pots in the night. The $64 per share, sellers. that the Manchus are not still reigning, If there be any to add to conceivably, come his way.

"Compelled to Steal." long range, it is only wasting it prisoner said: "A fico for the

China Sugar Refining Com these, they will be found among the few-the very ferald A Successful Newspaper Owner.

Congratulations to Mr. Willism Mr. Wood sent a Chinese to self. Now perhaps we can see phrase," but Mr. Robinson said: pany, Ltd.-$202 per share, fashioned students who are convinced that to interfere with the accept-

sellers. ad order of things is to fumble with the devil's tail and, in all likeli Randolph Hearst, who, as we prison for three months for steal-why there is no hurry to perform "Four months.

stated in our General News column ing twelve cents from Chan Kang- smashing blows and spectacular (But the Telegraph of those Luzon Sugar Refining Com- hood, to bring about a condition of afsirs disastrous to men and on Thursday, his succeeded bong in Des Voeux Road Central, coups that cost more men than days was always complimentary pany, Limited-$68 per share, displeasing to the gods. Now all these anita massed together do not constitute a force capable of destroying the republic, but, when in printing the case for both sides The defendant said that his they are actually worth. If the to lawyers and some brokera

so admirably, where the story of mother had turned him out and scheme our opponents have worked upon by outside agitators whose end is an entirely the European war is concerned he had not money to buy rice and adopted is. wasting one, December 2.Two Highland- $108 per share, buyers. ignoble one, they at once become a serious danger to public peace His paper, New York in consequence was compelled to there is no reason why we shoulders and a Marine were charged Hongkong Rope Manufactur in the country. And for this reason President Yuan has ordered the American, bag pri ted a steal.

prevent them from learning the before Mr. Robinson this morning ing Company, Ltd.—$100 per arrest of certain prominent members of the Royalist body. That he picture, flattering enough, of the 'Food Prices.

lesson to the full, and to our with getting full and making a share, sellers, has decided not to carry punishment to extremes, where these are Bitish Tommy

who is doing The official list of prices of advantage.. D

row in the Via Dollarosa Isst Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf concerned, is a sign (and he has given us hundreds of similar signs) such tremendous work on the food, etc., which appears on page

night. One of them-Frivate Scott and Godown Company-$95 per that he is no fool. To execute men who, at beat, are but under-battle front in France" but 8, has been corrected up to to-

was accused by a sylph with aahare, buyers. strappers and toola is at all times a sign of weakness and folly simultaneously. his Deutsches day's date, and is will be noticed,

forty-inch waist, Bloom by name, "It is obvious, too, that by per

Hongkong Dairy Farm Co.- Treated mildly, after having been given a wholesome fright, these Journal publiabes another pic that 15 per cent. additional may prisoners may yet turn out good and sane citizens; executed, they

A. S. Watson and Co., Ltd.- would be used as martyrs by the wire-pallers who organised the turs, to which the legend is sub now be charged for certain art mitting them to remain in Bel- of assault. He got ( and the $14 per share, sellers. She said that Scot Scott had $23 per share, sellers. scribed: British troops that run clea purchased with aubsidiary gium, instead of driving them others were fined $3 respectively.

back over the Belgian frontier

licked her. original propaganda.

Those Chineso who have no axe to grind, and who can ait down so fast that it is n't possible for coiu, as against 7 por cent, pre-into Germany, we are rendering

Germans to espture them." This vicusly,

But the Beak gaid: "That's Hongkong High Level Tram- way Co, Ltd.200 per cent. all my eye; and take an unbiassed view of the situation, are well aware that their country has burst her boats behind her in relation to Man is war journalism with a ven

Twas not that this High-prem., sellers. lander kicked yer, chuism, and can no more go back to it than she can become, offhand, geance. Such high minded im The Harbour Master of Hong- to be provisioned, since they have

But the Bloom, who had got an ideal republic. Therefore they are fain to seek a middle way: partiality should not go unreceril kong notifies that it is officially to carry their transport so far, and

on the rye. end this they find in the existing administration. Yuan Shih kai el or unrecognised. But Mr. announced that the Panama at every little move they have to is not a perfect ruler, but there he sins in good company, for the Hearst, excellent man, does not Canal was to be open for com-cart it about a task that does stop liere. Not content to rest meres, to vessels drawing not not in any way tend to improve same may be said of any president or any crowned head in the with merely giving the views of more than 30 foot of water, on the the contents or to increase the world. But he is man enough to grapple with China's difficulties both sides, ho has embarked on 15th August last. A farther an patience of the men. If we keep in a way impossible to any living Manchu; and who shall say that his rule is a foreshadowing of what will ultimately obtain to a third venturo for other news-nouncement will be made when them just casually engaged in China ? To all intorts Yuan Shih-k'ai is king, albeit not king papers of bia-himself leading a depth of more than 30 feet Belgium for any length of time, absolute, of China; and, as a well-known Chinese Government the van in person are at the shall have been secured in the they, and not we, are paying the head of the Stop the War Canal, The official opening of the Frice that in warfare cannot be officialointed out in a Telegraph interview some time since, a limited monarchy is what the country as a whole can now boat movement, Broadmindedness of Oanal will take place in Match afforded even by "the Great I

this sort is affecting indeed. 1915, understand and most readily profit by,

bat

tho

Panama Canal,

A Costly Business,

it all the more difficult for them

AM

11

1889.

SHARE REPORT,

The quotations which follow are from the Hongkong Telegraph for Dee, 4 1889

Hongkong Ice Company

Hongkong Steam Laundry Co., Ltd$25 per aliare, nominal,

Green Inland Cement Co. (old) issue).-$43 per share, buyera,⠀⠀

Green Island Cement Co. (new issue)-80 per share, buyers.

Hongkong Land Investment Co.,Ld.-$100 per share, scilers."

Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. - $4 per share, bayere

West Point Buildings Co., Ltd, $45 per share, sellers,