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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY,

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obviously it.could not be extend- ed to apply to Chinese tenements in general, the widespread prac- clear. tice of throwing refase from whence is one of the biggest lear authorities have to contend. evils with which the sanitary, Something might be done to Siberian Mail-Arrived per .. abate this evil, however, by em Chenan to-day. ploying special watchers to keep

an eye on some of these places, and, when an offender is caught, stiff fine-nct a mere dollar or two should be imposed...

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The Malls.

DECEMBER 16, 1914,

NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

THE "ALLIES RESUME THE ATTACK.

How the Germans haye Entrenched Themselves.

THE HANAMETAL.

Ship Released by Order/

of the Court.

This morning, Mr. Justice Gompertz, sitting in Prize Jarisdiction, gave his decision in connection with the application by the Crown for the condemnation

of the ss. Hanametal as a lawful prize of the Crown.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,

A meeting of the Legislative Council is to be held to-morrow. The orders of the day are

Second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend the Defences (Skefobing Preven tion) Ordinance, 1895,

Second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend the Recreation Grounds Ordine ance, 1909.

EVERY AVAILABLE REGIMENT.'

British Lines.

It is good reading that, after the lall of the past few days in

The Attorney General, the Hon. Flanders, the Allies have once more set out on a resumption of Mr. J.H. Kemp, instructed by the the offensive, and by a combined Crown Soliciter, Mr. P. M. Hodg attack have succeeded in making 800, appeared in support of the what is officially described as sub-application, and Mr. Eldon Pat- stantial progress. There have no ter, instructed by Mr. W. E. L. Australian Mail.Closed per se. doubt been very good reasons why Shenton, of Messra, Deacon, Fierce derman Assault on the

Tango Maraaf 10a.m. to-day. the Allied forces have so long Looker, Deacon and Harston, Canadian and American Mails stayed their hand, and, equally, we appeared for the claimant, W. Closed per e.s. Fersin to-day may take it that factors have been Kata, an American citizen, of at 11 a.m.

at work which make the present a Shanghai, owner.

Dealing first with the question favourableopportunity for striking If the law were amended to

a blow at the enemy. We know, in as to whether the Haanmetal was fact, that the Allies positions engaged in unnentral service, his dated November, 4, from Norths prosecutions instituted," the time make this possible, and a faw

have been consolidated, and it Lordship, after quoting various eat France, as follows:

Swept from the coast by the Count the Columns. should soon come when the Yesterday the Telegraph pub- may be assumed that by this time authorities, said: "There is noth Chinese would realise that itlished 36 solumns of solid the French and British ranks have ing inconsistent with the duties Auglo French warships and would

along the Year, the Germans have pay them, so adopt habite reading matter. To-day there been materially swelled by re of a neutral in the carriage of 4oded ont of their trenches a little more cleanly than those in will bo 35 published.

inforcements. The fine general-ordinary passengers to or from a ship which has marked the Allies' belligerent port; on the contrary once more changed the direction The ovil, of course, largely arises which they indulge at present,

campaign in the past is sufficient the consensus of all nations of their attack. Turning south- from the fact that the Chinese use

to warrant the view that the new especially favours the continuance ward they are now directing all their verandahs for all manner of demand

offensive would not be taken if during war of the usual opera- their efforts upon battering a thinge, and if the sanitary author-

there were any risk about it.

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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1914.

SOLVING SANITARY PROBLEMS.

obnoxious evil,

to

tenants respect the provisions of the law.

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than they do at present, and sew

Siberian Mail.-Closes to-morrow

per 8.s. Luchow, at 3 p.m.

The Dollar.

The rate of the dollar on

to-day is 18 9.7-188.

Auction Sale.

At the sals of liquors at Mr. G. to it that the verandahs were only P. Lammert's sale room on Friday, used for the purposes for which several lots of cigare will also be they were intended, a decrease of sold. the ovil should be the result. Action on the two lines suggested would most certainly be bene- ficial.

The Mexican Situation.

The interest attaching to the European war hae diverted, to a very great extent, the world's attention from what is going on

Police Promotions, - Police Officers R. Kent and J. Grant, have, we are informed, been promoted; to the rank of Inspector.

Arrived from Home.

Among the passengers who in and around Mexico. Judging returned from Home by the from Washington cables recently Katori Maru to-day were Mr. and received in the Philippines, the Mrs. A. Denison and Mr. and Mrs: aituation is not without some H.O.R. Hancock. gravity. Indeed one wire says that President Wilson is receiving

Prize-Oiving.

a good deal of urging, from the

The annual prize-giving takes governor of the State of Arizona, place at the Victoria British to protect American subjecte from School at 11 am. to-morrow. Mr. the attacks of Mexicans over the E, Ralphs, Inspector of English border. Mr. Hunt, the Governor Schools, in question, reports that, during awarde

the past month, no less than forty-seven Americans have been hit by bullets coming from the Mexican side, of whom fourteen have died. A more recent wire (December 11) says that General Bliss, who has at last been sent to the frontier with some artillery- men, has himself had a narrow escape of being killed by one of these wandering ballets. How do Americans Regard It All? Some few months back wo published an interview with on American gentleman newly returned from Mexico, where be and his friends had been subjected to disgraceful ill

will distribute

TYPHOON WARNING.

the

The telegram quoted below was received by the American Con- sulate General, Hongkong, from

Cyclone or Typhoon.-W. of the northern Ladrone or Mariana Islands, moving W. or W.N.W.

ORDERS TO BELGIUM.

Invaders Pour Proclamations on Victims.

their

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Paris, Nov. 7, A special edition of the New York Herald publishes a message,

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tions of trade by neutral vessels. Passage through the Allies' lines In the present oase the Hensmetal near Ypres, abandoning the pos- had as yet no passengers on itions hitherto held by them along -Aided by Mechanical Force.

board. It is not suggested that the railway between Nieuport and It must be remembered that the Government of the United Dizmude:

It seems that the enemy have since their cosupation of Belgium States or that those in charge of the the Germans have had ample vessel or her ownere had received thrown every available regiment time in which to build up for notice that the passenger traffic in this part against the British defensive by sea from Teinglan was forbid-at Ypres. Combate around that strong themselves positions, and the task of oasting den all neutral ships. In the important strategical position them is therefore no easy one. absence of such notification I have been the fiercest yet record- Their theory of the offensive and think that a friendly Power would ed in Belgium. The Germans. original urgent desire bave cause to complain if an have brought up countless guns for swift and decisive victory did intended operation of this kind, with which they are shelling the. not make them careless in regard not yet carried into effect, were, town without respite (passage to providing for defence, and, in in the complete absence of positive excised by Censor). Up to the spite of the number of men at authority, treated by the Courts time of writing the Allies have their command, they appear to of Groat Britain as a ground for held their ground (page excised). Gans put into the field by the have used mechanical force as far confiscation." The next ground as possible. The result has been for consideration which his French have done magnificent that they have been able to con- Lordship dealt with was whether work. The Germans evacuated etcuct trenches with remarkable the Hanametal was in the service Perwyse hastily, leaving over a speed, and of undoubted strength. of the enemy and under belliger thousand dead in the town. They On this point a correspondent of ent control. He then dealt with were buried by the Belgians. one of the Home papers recently the change of officers after the de. Perwyse is now a heap of bricks. pointed out that the Germans have olaration of warand said by the law The streets have disappeared, and been doing a good deal of their of the United States of America, a piles of rains have made the french-cutting by machinery. ship wholly owned by an American place almost impassable. The Before the war broke out they had oitizen or an American Corporation church has been destroyed, and

with provided themselves ais entitled to fly the American flag the cemetery presents a ghastly number of mechanical ploughs and to American protection; saob spectacle. A number of coffins driven by 200 horse-power petrol ship while trading in Far Eastern have been torn out of the earth by

waters, but not doing interport hundreds of shells.Exchange. trade in the Philippine Islande,

motora.

Not Inspiring-.

can

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may carry a master, officera and

Contracts for Armour Plate. Contracts. for $10,674,112

were

It does not, of course, need orow of any nationality and is much imagination to realise that still entitled to the protection of worth of armour plate and steel for the Manila Observatory at 118 engines of that power can scoop the United States. The change the new battleships California, a.m, to-day:

out trenches much more rapidly of officere was made with the per- Mississippi and Idaho than men with spades, and though mission of the United States awarded on October 27 by the navy it is improbable that the number Consul at Teingfan and was department to the Bethlehem and of these machines ia so large that regularly noted in the books of the Midvale Steel Companies. The Midvale Col'a contract is for they have been available at a Consulate. Formally, then, every- moment's notice at every point thing was in order and the owner 7,374 tons of Al armour at $435, where entrenchments might be of the vessel was doing no more 401 toas A2 armour at $488, 290 Following the recent disclosures made regarding the filthy and

come desirable, it cannot be than the law of his own country tons Barmour at $468 and 63 tons insanitary condition of certain lanes and passages in the heart of usage. In his statement to the

doubted that the machines which permitted him. But the question is of steel at $378. The Bethle the city, which ore used in common by more than one tenant, a Telegraph he spoke with no incon-

have been at hand have proved whether the vessel was put into the hem Co.'s contract, at the same committee of the Sanitary Board was some time back appointed to siderable bitterness of his Govera

highly useful to the enemy. All exclusive control of the enemy prices, is for 14,748 tons of AI Government? Was the German armour, 802 tons of A2 armour deal with the question. The conclusions of that Committee were ment's policy in not dealing with

the same, the sight of yesterday laid before the Board in the form of a report advocating Mexico with a strong hand; and,

invading army digging itself into master in fact placed on board as 580 tons of Barmour and 126 toza an amendment of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance in further, gave us the impression

trenches to resist attack is not an agent of the German Govern of U steel.

Hia Lordship, then such a manner as to throw on owners of property the responsibility that some millions of his fellow-

ono which Amsterdam, Nov. 6.

have been ment?

the summed up the evidence and of seeing that these areas are kept in a cleanly condition, and the countrymen feel equally strongly

The Handelsblad learns from altogether inspiring from Buggestions made met with the unanimous approval of the members against Dr. Wilson's conduct in

that the Antwerp

German German point of view. Hiding in arguments of counsel on this point object of the voyage to carry to present. There will doubtless be, on the part of certain property regard to the Mexicans. United Owncra affected, somewhat of an outcry against the new obligation States politice and policies are so which it is suggested they should bear, but in view of the fact that entirely different from those of authorities in Belgium are issuing trenches does not much asetet the and said Patting this part of Tsingtan information to be Attorney General cared to put it, Allies? He thought the anewer some remedy must be found for this growing and most Great Britain that it is impossible more proclamations. The first scheme for the long-dreamt-of the case for the Crown at the gathered on the voyage sa to the

is and that it

it could only be said that the way that the only direct evidence an utter impossibility for Britishers, unless they have threatens to punish severely all advance on Calais and other coast highest, higher perhaps than the disposition of the ships of the

tions. The second promises twenty on tenants, each and every lived for some years in America, those who pull down proclama porte. fix the responsibility

operations of the Hanametal were available was that the vessel was The Scandinavian Powers, one of whom, in case of trouble, make loud protestations of their to understand them. To us who marks to every one who gives up

Be consistent with a guilty as on proceeding on a trading voyage- breech block of a Belgian gun, &

Some significance must be innocent intention. It was suggest in itself perfectly lawful; other innocence, we think the Board has come to a wise decision in are not "in the know" it seems fastening on the landlords, whose interest it will now be to see that that Dr. Woodrow Wilson is play though it is believed that all the attached to the news that the ed that the owner should himself nentral vessels-o. g. Japanese, ing a dangerous game in allowing breech blocks were destroyed by Kings of Norway, Sweden and have attended in order to explain had shortly before this day While the Committee proposed a modification of the Ordinance so much licence to the Mexicans, the Belgian gunners before they Denmark ere to meet a couple of the circumstances and show if he been removing zon-combatants along these lines, the report also contained one or two very practical From what we can see, the main left the guns. A third regulates days hence to discuss conditions could that the Hanamotal's from Tsingtau and there was arising out of the war. It is said voyages were made on his service nothing to prevent the Hanometal auggestions for the guidance of owners in carrying out their new ity of these are bullying rumans Bigations. One of these was that, as an additional safeguard, all who will go just as far as they No passports are issued at that the discussion will have to and not on that of the German also engaging in the traffic. balconies abutting on lones and yards used in common should be are allowed to go, and who, at Antwerp for Malines, Ghent, or do with the economie difficulties Government, but on the whole I There was no such direct evid- unclosed with wire-netting. The idea is a good one, though it might every turn of the road, will con St. Nicolas. Young men between which the three countries are think that on this ground, no ence against her as would be also be extended to windows, seeing that in many of the cases strue forbearance, and doubtless where the evil is most apparent there are no balconies abutting on well-meant turning of the left the ages of 18 and 30 are not experiencing as a consequence of prima facie case has been establish required to stamp as illegal an very big question, is opened up, check to the smiter, as mere allowed to leave Antwerp, the European upheaval, and ed against him. There is nothing apparently innocent voyage with by the raising of this matter, and when the Board seed how cowardice. In common with the Same per repose lash ye were the message indicates that more than suspicion and suspicion in the ordinary rights of a neu- the new order works, if approved by the Government, the time will rast of the world we are bound to day's mailboat from Flushing was the present policy of net does not carry the case far enough,tral ship. Fin Lordship/oon- effectively than at present with the throwing of refuse from verscholar, a gentleman and a man/50 Belgians of military, age who That may or may not be. In the tion therefore fails. He said there for enspiolon, but it is not suffe wanted to join the wore

observere, however, the day will left Shanghai, but the railway neutrality must be proved before Flushing, November 5. minishes and which can scarcely be checked by occasionally catching nese; nevertheless we cannot help arrested..

not be for distant when one or between Shanghai and Tsingtau the vessel of a friendly state can be The Germans have issued a now other of these nations is brought

was in order and working, condemned; and here none has an offender red-handed. The difficulty of dealing with this wider thinking that the Mexicans would problem will be that in very many instances the owners are not have got abort abrift had Mr.

Roosevelt, or even Mr. Taft, been proclamation prohibiting all per into the war, and when that day and there was no evidence, been established. The grounds sons from approaching waterways comes, if it does, the situation nor was it suggested, that com put forward for confiscation have resident in the Colony

batween Bruges and the cost will take on an entirely new munication between the two therefore failed, and it is my duty in power just now,

aspect. Bearing in mind Gor places had been interrupted. It was to order the Hanametal to be British Lleutenant Killed In Trespassera are warned that they

Aeroplane, ma may be shot,

many's attitude towarde Belgium, then quite easy for the Govern released. The question of costs London, November 5.-Liett-Heavy gone have been mounted the fact surely cannot be overment of Taingtan to procure any and damages I proposo to reserve water, and that these shell be kept in a good state of repaire Bar tenant Murray, lost hi lile in an on the sand dunes along the coast looked that if Germany were to information it desired to receive for the present. I make the sroplane accident at the Avon from north of Ostend to the Datoh evictorious in this war, the from Shanghai by a more ex order for release, subject to giving lying hool this morning. It is frontier Trenches have also been believed that he miscalculated dug from Hover inland. 3 Farther position of these three nations would be a most unhappy one, integrity would soares the distance while landing, after reinforcemente have reached the be hoped that be mo light over Rushall German fghting line during the

th a days purchase.

to the offensive sress.

Anyhow, it is satisfactory to feel that a beginning is being made in dealing with this problem. The worst of it is that existing re- gulations are not enforced as they might be. For example, the law requires bat all verandahs abutting on to public streets shall be provided with proper channels and down-pipes to carry of waste

almost anywhere in the heart of the city broken pipes or pipes chok- dun with rubbish can be seen, and when the verandahs are wash down the fliby water splashes down on to the angeforlow

the sale of newspapere.

ditious channel than the sea of due security by the owner route. It was unnecessary then of the Hanametal to pay any cats for the vessel to less ghai or expenses they may be For this purpos

was the to pay.