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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MAY 31, 1915.

Battery Path and Its Coolles,

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DAY BY DAY.

"YOUR DAILY DUTIES ARE A FART OF YOUR RELIGIOUS LIFE JUST AS MUCH AS YOUR DEVOTIONS ARE"

The Weather. Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 79;

fine.

At the Peak 8 am, Temp. 73; fog.

Count the Columns.

The Malls.

NOTES ON THE CRISIS.-

FROM THE PULPIT,

*HE BRITISH AT FESTUBERT.

The Italian Advance,

The Divine Calling of Nations.

cath: for that the

CHINESE GUEST.

Consul General of the Republic to Manila in Mongkong,

The following are roles of a sermon † reached by the tav. J. Mr. Szy Cho Tuang Ohnanl Kirk Maconachie at the Union General of the Ispublio of Obian in Manila, who was recently ap Church yesterday morning.

Text: "In that dey shall Israel pointed to that post, is at present No one supposed for a momert be the third with Egypt and with in Dongkong, on his way to that the enfeebled Austrian troops Assyrn, a blessing in the midst Manila. would make any lengthy stand of the

Last night he was the guest of against the Italians; therefore Lord of Hosts hath bleeted them, our readers will not be surprised saying, Blessed bo Egypt My Mr. Lam Ubik-shai of the Shoung to learn of the triumphant people, and Assyria the work of Tak firm, at a dinner given at advance, northwards and east My bande, and Israel Mine in the fo Yan cestaurant, Weat Siberian Mail-Closes per 8.8.wards, of cur new ally. The wires her tance." Isaiah XIX, 24-25 Point. There was a large gather- do not err on the side of lucidity, The key to this group of pro-ing of friends to wish the gurat but it would appear that, while phictes lies in the political cir- success. one Italian division has crossed damstances of the time, some

Fronch Vail-Arrived per 8.8.

Chili to-day. Australian Mail.-Closed per s.. Aldenham today at 10a.m.

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Siberia to-morrow at noon.

Sme while ago we enggested in this column tha: the best way to get building material to the top of Garden Road was not via the thoroughfares most used by Europeans; for, at the time, bricke sand etc. were being carried by leisurely coolias the whole length. of Pedder Street and up Queen On Saturday the Telegraph Road as far as Murray Barracks and thenseist) Garden Road. The pablished 45 columns of solid hint which we gave was acted up reading matter. To-day there 00, which, we ballove, will be 301 published. RBTe everybody satisfaction. The coolies were made to pass along the Praya as far the Navy Yard and then along side the cricket-ground. Of late this excellent arrangement has been broken through and the last. state of Hongkong is worse than the firet, for women coolies by the score now pass the day as cending and descending Battery Path as though it were Jacob'e Ladder. "On behalf of our read- ers, many of whom are compelled to use this thoroughfa: a four times la day, we feel obliged to protest against this needless inconven- with ience. At cerisin times foo:-pas- Bengeras down the path must dodge in every direction to avoid the many sand-baskets that are being carried up, and even then they ara lucky if they escape without Of course the initisi absurdity lies in the Government's allowing junke to be unloaded along the central portion of the Praya, which, anywhere else in the world,

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conquest, Egyptian jealousy, and The Consul General for Manila western frontier of Austria into amongst the small nations in is a relative of Dr. Alfred Sze the Douglas Stedmahip Co. Ld.-C.rinthia and has silenced trigues, which often centred in Chinese Ambas: a lor in London. battery at Titch (Villach?) Of Jerusalem, to play off one of the the third division. whose objective two great rivals against the other. was presumably Trisste, we hear I ajab, whore advice was often nothing. The Grat, which is sought, always denounced these marching up the Adiga towards alliances as futile, and bade the Trient, must have a good heart in people trust, not in Egypt for help its body, for warfare in the Tyrol, even in summer time, is not babies work.

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To-day's Anniversary. Tu-day is the 13th anniversary

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rightonus God over all.

The preacher referred to a re-

at the oppreso, but in the cent utterance of a Berlin protag aor, claiming the usual Divine Ta the text he looks forward to right of domination, admitting time of restitution in which good relations for the commcn advant-

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that his country had xo friends

and dedantly averring that she

...

A Fine Story from Headquarters.

age shall subsist amongst the needed none. It was a pity, he The account of the recent opposed elements.

said, that these hare-brained figating at Esitabart is the right! We have heard of more than one lecturers could not be gagged, sort of recruit-making staff. Triple Alliance in the course of land the press checked by some- would be retained as an esplanade, of the signing of the Peace terms The whole story is full of the history. The latest of these has just one with a modicam of common deede of Britishers, broken upbc.ue the ancient en- aaase. Germany's practical men But since this part must needs be between the British and the brave

of magnificent self-sacrifice mity between Italy and Austrian did not talk so f.o'ishly. They used why caañot the coolies be Boers.

and loyalis; and Sunday Services at the Peik

the has emerged, a3 sooner or later were aware that a settlement of obliged to carry their burders by

Church.

sake of this we can ignore the fact it was sure to do, and one more some kind must be made, and the same route as before?

We are informed that there that it contains so little generalp litical league based on self that even the violors in a wer will be a service at the Peak news and might almost as well, in'erest has gone the way of pre- have to live along with their Church at C30 p.m. on the Sun- from a progress point of view, decessors. Isaiah had in view neighbours when it is over.

One of them, a leading cficial, days in June. All the state are concern a beaten army as Do political tresty, formally

victorious one. The most satis drafted, solemnly ratified by had lately deprecated the spirit of It is thirteen years to-day since free.

Photographs of the Tennis Match, factory feature is that the enemy august signatures on one of those hat:ed and rancour on that the peace terms which put an

We have received from A. Fong, is definitely spoken of, here and "scraps of paper" which have account, and had truly remarked. end to the Boer War were signed. Photographer, a series of photo-there, as running away. As a depreciated so terribly in world "We need one another." When we consider the magnificent

No enduring penca, continued loyalty of General Botha and his graphs of the Tennis match which record of progress we woul currency of late and for whose

was partly played last Friday. rather read the French com restoration to any value at all the preacher, could there be antil -*** followers it is quite easy to

The Yawata Maru. maniques; particularly that one our country has gone to war. that was heartily recognized, and bury all past bitterness and The Yawets Maru, which was which speaks of the British 28 The text speaks of a partnerays were found for practically even to forget that there have sunk off the Algerian coat on making en adv: 1.38 on La Basser. ship based on the common con-accepting some of its implications. been, during the present war, a May £8, was the property of the

soiousness of a Divine calling and The time had not yet come t GRESSON.-Killed in action in Flanders on the 25th May, John few foolish malcontenta who, Ukon Gonzayemon. She was built

The Turks.

mission which the three nations arrange for immediale peace.” “I Edward Fresson of Messrs, Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd.-Lieut-valgarly speaking, did not know in 1888 by Mosers. M. Pearse and

share for the common benefit am afraid," said the preacher, which side their bread was Co, at Stockton on Tees, and her enant 3rd Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment.

The retrospective wire, again, of mankind. They have drop- "there is a long and difficult way beltered. The typical Afrikander registered tonnage was 4,360. which tills of the Allies doings pad their rivalries and joined to go before that hour strikes. who looks back on the past knows Her port of entry was Kono. in Gallipoli bas i noient hands to make tl emselves, under The off moes of the enemy against well, and is the first to admit, The Prince of Wales' Fund. history favour about it, but we Goi," a blessing in the anth"the law of nations would have to that his country has benefitted To-day boxes have been placed have to be thankful for small The vision may be Utopian, bat bs brought home to him. Bat enormously, even already, by in the tram cara for the purpose mercies. It is good, however, to we are in ill case if we have not-the time to speak of peace would British rule. Of course mistikes of helping in the collection for read from a later wire that we now hing but incredu ity in success arrive, and who can but hope that have been made, but that was the Prince of Wales' Fun, the have an army of eighty thousand for U.opis Alr. Roosevelt says bitter experience would have the fault of individuals and not of idea being that by this means men carrying on operations there, that the atrastive to Utopia is taught even the self-satisñed Britain as a whole. The Boere are opportun by will be given to those and that the Turks are running hell. The state of the world at instigators of this war that they Nearly twelve months ago the Telegraph published an interview well aware now that no cther who desire to contribute small out of supplies and are entirely present backs that opinion, and must undergo a change of mid with a western-aducated Japanese gentlemen who spoke of the Powers in the world could have sume without publicity.

reduced to a defensive attitude. teams to be pressing men of action and attitude for the future extreme popularity in his country of a olan of European literature afforded to let them cf so

Alleged Army Robbery... Panic seems to be beginning in into the ranks of the dreamers of if they were to be received which, at Home, would be called, perhaps, rasotionary where the cheaply. All they were asked B.fre Mr. Wood, at the Police Constantinople itself, thanks to deams.

again into the cɔmity of nation” conventional code of morals is concerned. We now find the same to do was to surrender uncondi- Court, this morning, Sn Yu was the pluck of the command- We are apt to think of the Jew The collapse of the Balkan complaint being made by some of the American missionaries. tionally and,

at shergad by Inspector Walt wither and crew of E 11; and now as proud and exclusive in his League after its overthrow of the Apparently it is the work of Continental rather than of British authors Lords Milner and Kitchener pro- being concerned with an armed the Tarks have further mat consciousness of belonging to a Turks was a further proof that that has obtained this vogue in Japan. Plays, novels, poeme and mised them an Imperial Grant of robbery in Queen's Road West. tar on which to meditate, in chosen race. But in this Jewish alliances based merely on self- essays having a flavour of revolt against traditional morality eeem three millica pounde, and loans Mr. Dixon, of Messrs. Wilkinson the announcement that Roumanis prophet we have a high example interest did not endure, and it to be the kind of things that "sell," translations of some of the more for the purpose of rapatriation ae and Grist, appeared for the co- and even Balgaria may j in the of breadth of outlook.

would be sed if the emergenco popular running to hundreds of thousands of copies. All this is well; there was to be no execating fendant, and asked for a remni, Alles. If this news makes Turk- All great nations have thought of sordid considerations should interesting because what is happening in Japan is the converse of of ring-leaders and the Boers were which was granted. what is taking place among the Chinese, whether of Hongkong or to be allowed to coatique the use,

ey think, it will have even a themselves. God's chosen. They even vitiate the union between the North. Among the fatter the European books demanded are where necessary, of their own

strengerfect on Germany, whose are right in that, where they go Britian and her present Allies. The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice people must sooner or later arrive wrong is in failing to recognise Britain's leading motives were as asually of a technical nature; while those which may be considered language in courts of law. Those Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals at the conclusion that world that other ustions have a place nearly disinterested as ever led a to be dangerous to public morals seem to be almost entirely a local Beers who may still hunger after bega to acknowledge with thake jealousy of the Fatheriand's pro-and work provider tially assigned great nation into war, and product.

the sweetness and light of Ger- the following donations to the gress" is a played-cat tale, and that to them also. Religion therefore the crisis was bringing home In this latter respect one feels that it is the Chinese and not the man rule would do well to reflect funds of the Hospitals:-Chan the true version is world-disgust becomes little more than a racial to the whole Empire a sense Japanese who have to be congratulated. The existing domestic on the difference between Brit- Chik U. $100; Bin Ying-ohow at the Fatherland's despicable calt, and Deity a megnified patron of the datiea Be well 'ES morality ideas of the two countries may be, an 1 probably are, suited ain's and Germany's respective $100 Fung Chun-yuen $100 metlole, and world-determina-saint.

the privileges of the high to them, but they would not suit Britain; and similarly British or attitude towards a conquered Ma Ying-pai $50; Wan Man-rai tion that this European eyesore Our own nation, dowered as it place to which God has called it, even Continental notions are not such as can be conveniently and people.

$50; Obin How R $50; Lighall be ex erminated as foon sa has been with manifold, con- What is wrong with our patriot- profitably grafted on to Far Eastern systems, whether Chinese or

Wing-kwang $50; Ma Cheung possible, for the general welfare. spioncus, and continued blessings isms is, not that they are too Japanese. Either of the two latter is certainly as "moral" as Britain,

ki (Shanghai) $25. the only difference being that opinions as to what is right and wrong"

The Yawata Maru and Mälay Bat in this respect are not the same in the East as in the West,

Mart Collision. neither Chin v'e nor Japan's ethical code, with special reference to

We received the following from the local cffice of the Nippon

HONGKONG, MONDAY, MAY 31, 1915.

WESTERN LITERATURE IN THE FAR EAST.

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No Business in the Firing

Line."

Alice Memorial Hospital.

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is not free from the error, which fervent, but that they become to indeed belongs to human nature. defipient, aggressive, contempt- We have had cur phases of nous. It may seem but a plati Meanwhile the Garmin sab. Jingoiam, when it was proclaimed tade to say that a man should

import views that have brought anything but good to European the story, which Reuter ent the relations if the sexes, is so immaculate that either can ford to There is a very human" note in Yusen Kaisin. With reference marines are get ing active again. pretty stridently that we were be able to love bis native land. acoiety. It has to be remembered that the Eastern mind still pre-seaterday, of the rescue of Colonel to Renter's teleg am of the 20th An E'der Dempster boat has been the people and then we used to without magnifying it to the dia-7 serves its old-fashioned' respect for books as booke, To it, the wood, of the Scottish Borderersinst., reporting the sinking of the sun, and attacks have been made] wonder that" the Englishman paragement of every other. But no wonder the shallow cosmopo written or printed word is far more serious than to us; in fact there" One of the rescuera was the Yawata Mara" in the jon a Shire liner and on the China abroad was not as popular 88 is the attainment so common? is a touch of the law-giver, in their eyes, about every author; for Colonel's servant, who bad n of collision with the 2.5. "Malay Jara boata are, we believe, still

Me literranean Sen in consequence Matual's s.o. Ping Suey. Holt's might be wished.

Of lets the same thing has been litan in reaction looked for the in the of coli beg to inform you the Dutch their own jadgment against what they find "in the book." When are not many nations whose that the sunken steamer is not have done for years past; which thoroughness, by, or enemy in tion of national distinctions alto- the Britisher reads e.g. Ibaan, he is considering the great playwright not as a moralist but as a man of letters; and he will rass from him people can embine extremes of the "Yawaio Mara" of this Com makes this most recent attempt at the present war. Germany, an-gether. The true path lies in the to Tennyson or Newman or Nietzsche or Darwin or Kipling or Zola discipline with extremes of go-pany although the name is submarining yet another insult to fortunately for herself, has an willing recognition of national life

3-you-please; bat the British or Emerson in the same spirit; he is prepared to learn anything or

a neutral nation. And talking of emperor who embolies in his own and interest in a common band Is oce of those that can. nothing from each; but nothing that any cns of them lays dowa The well-trained British Ber- North Point Bathing.

neutral nations, we observe that character and blurte out oa publio amongst peoples each of whom is Germany has sent a "Reply" to occasions the conceit and vulgarity called of God to his place in the will necessarily be accepted by him as gospel.

vhat, like the soldier, has all With the Oriental the case is almost the reverse, and he cannot the instincts of immediate abs-on June. when the tents will and argument of which is a studi-through less distinguished chaa.

Bathing at North Point opene America's Note, the whole wording which elsewhere finds expression common service.

Egypt My people, Assyria the help regarding Ibsen or Bernard Shaw, or whoever the man may be, dience; but temptation must not as someone who must be listened to inwardly as well as outwardly be carried to far. To put an irate again be placed in the customary led piece of impudence. The nels. There is a chorus of State work of My hande. Israel Mine Therefore the lesa noquaintance he makes with, let us say, Ibsen's Britisher within shooting this position by the Tramway com- tricketers who drew up the Reply paid professors and a subservient inherit ince." modernise the terms, views on the sanctity of marriage, the better for him. As we have said, western literature of this sort presents little danger to the tense of the Germans and to tell any. In addition to this, ar know as well as we do what class newspaper press to ecko is so realies the vision, and if rangements are also being made of ship the Lasitanis was, and that all Germany comes to believe it eseme dim and far away him: Your place is with the for a continuation of band nights that, had her status been that of if, and sounds it abroad until the in the present stress, own literature arises, they are more likely to turn their eyes towards is to push things too far. The previous years. Chinese at present; for as a distaste for what is unhealthy in their civilians; not with the soldiers," which have proved so popular in an auxiliary cruiser, close upon rat of the world is sick of the the more in it the object of The Govern couple of hundred American strain, and the nation claiming to Christian hope and effort. And if what is wholesome in our own. As for the Japanese, their educa- tional authorities, if they are wise, will use every endeavour to probability is that the servant in ment are repairing the pier, and men, women and children would be the chosen of God finds itself the Hebrew seer'e words seem popularise the beat-and therefore not the most modern-of Euro-question, like Kipling's bugle are, we are informed, rendering not have been travelling on board without a friend in the world. remote take those tomely ones of paan literature in their country. Japan has so much to fear in her boy, had purloined arills and was every assistance. There will be of her. The remaining rubbish Deutschland uber alles! After the Ayrshire ploughman:

out for a day's fan. Good luck to a band stand and a matshed with about discussion between the two all, one has heard Role Britannia naxiety for "the very latest," in this direction as in others; and his fan and his disobedience, a large verandah at which refresh governments, and as to the Lust-with an accent not wholly dis- therefore she should stick as closely as possible to the English since they were instrumental in gever be served by the trnia's supply of boats, is hardly similar let us be careful how classics and avoid with all her strength the up-to-date novel or plav till she is ten z enough to win parvil nad pro^t by its good faving man's life,

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