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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1915.

Trade with the Enemy.

DAY BY DAY.

WHAT'S DONE WE PARTLY MAY COMPUTE, A

BUT KNOW NOT WHAT'S RESIST- ED-Burns.

Count the Columns."

While German Americans are uitering loud" "Hochs" for Mr. Bryan, we must needs do the same over the Foreign Office oable which appeared in our Extra yesterday. On and after July 26 trade with the enemy in this part. On Saturday the "Telegraph of the world, as well as in Morocco published 44 columns of solid and Persia, is to be at an end. reading matter. To-day there British firms in Hongkong and will be 37 published. the Treaty parts owe's big debt ~

of gratitude to the China Ao016

NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

THE RUSSO-GER WAN SEE-SAW.

Mr. Bryan Among His Friends.

CONCERNING SIHON, KING OF THE AMORITES

Notes of Sermon by Rev. J. Kuk Maconachle at Union Church on

Sunday Morning. Text: Numbera XXI. 21. "And Sikon would not auffer Israel, to pass through his border; bat Si I: is impossible to feel no dir-ho gathered all bis people to gust at the latest performance of frael into the wildern88"

gether, and went out against

SHANGHAI CHAMBER

OF COMMER

Trading With the Enemy

eircular letter has be issued by Mr. John Johnsto Chairman of the British Ch ber of Commerce (Shanghai), w reference to the resolution pas atracting the Committee to u at the last general meeting,

the authorities to legialate agai

Members of the Chamber Y

aither

The Malls. tion for having let no opportunity Australian Mail. Lue per se. The world as a whole gave him from primitive history could

| Mr. William Jennings Bryan. It might seem that this chapler trading with the enemy in Chi Empire to-morrow. Amerioen, Canadian and Siberian Secretary of State on purely con- date, but it has been cited to jus- any British oxporting hou oredit for resigning his post neoarcely concern us at this distant are open to trade = w Mails. Cota per se. Tonyo) soientious grounds, and so, thong tifs the initial atrocity of the pre-local Maru to-morrow il s... few could use mattera with his

directly or throu Canadian Mail.-Closes per 8.5. eyes, many felt at least sympath-sant war, the invasion of Belgium asked to send their names to

representatives, Tamba Mara 3 p.m.

alic towards him. Having given

by the enemy to its on their way Hon, Scorelars, Mr. J. Norbe Siberian Mail. Closes per an. up his post, one feels that his to make war on Franco, Soriaona 6 Peking Road. The names w Sinkiang to-morrow at 34only dignified course lay in vi have been preached to German be placed on reco:d, and effo drawing himself from public life congregations apr this incident will be made to bring togeth altogether at least till the times designed treasure them na to members of exporting firme, w mend. Sich a course, however,

the action of their country, would not have fitted in with which is condemned by with a view to the handling the self-advertising "spirit of every other Lation in the

slip of pushing this very neces sary mexɛdre. With the few persons who have, in the absence of any definite prohibition, carri- ed on commerce with the enemy in China we cannot be expected to sympathise. If sense of honoar and loyalty would not restrain them, it was time that the law did so... Even now the path is not going to by an entirely easy one, for the complicated arrangements be- tween firm and firm in a neutral country-with any number of middle-mën taking a band in the game are not going to be sattled

grace allowed will be a busy one.

WATSON & CO., LTD., all in five minutes. The month's

HONGKONG.

The object of this paper is to pullish correct information, to serve the truth and print the news without fear or favour.

Cable Address; Telegraph, Hongkong.

Telephone: No. 1

A.B.C., 5th edition...... Western Union Office address: 11, Ice House St.

BIRTHS... YOUNG-On June 20, 1915, at the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. S.C. Young, a son.

MARSHALL—On June 20, 1915, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. H.C. Marshall, a'son.

MARRIAGES.

CAMPBELL-CRAIG.—May 19, at 'Culmore, Archibald Smol- lett Campbell, elder son of Mr. Smollett Campbell, Commissioner Chinese Customs, Macao, to Theo Margaret Denise, daughter of late Gilbert V. Craig, of Culmore.

WEEKS-EVANS.-May 26, at Alphington, near Exeter, Joha Ralph, of Shanghai, son of late C. D. Weeks, to Olive Kathleen

Evans.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1915

THE SANITARY BOARD'S REPOR

Harbouring Resources.

Up to the Minute-Share Market News.

Closing prices:-

Hongkong and Shanghai Bank- ing Corp.$815, sellers. Union Insurance Scolety of

O'ton, L.-$895, nom. China Fires.$148, sales and

buyers.

are members of this Chamb

the man; thus we have world. It is good to infer that trade which has previously pass the edifying spectacle of an be glad to think that many Ger- been issued by the British Char

they need reassuring. We should through German firma.

The following eironlar has al ex-Minister of State of a great country bobbing and bowing and main Christians have misgivings ber of Commerce grinning before a hybrid orowd about that attack on their defence British Chamber of Co amero that is loyal neither to Germeny

less neighbour, but if so it will Indo-Uhin 19.-$104, buyers. nor to America and that has take more than sermons on the

(Slanghai) Dair sirs, Hongkong and K. W. and G. helped to make the United case of hos to alter their judg. The appended corresponden States what it.i. Conduct such ment. Their or Chancellor blurted out the truth when he

relating to the attempt of as Mr. Bryan's bringe its own

Chinese Government to apply t punishment as he will find at the spoke openly of the attack on next elections. Fortunately there Belgium as a wrong, and the Stamp Tax Laws on foreigne are millions of people in the been after-thoughts, including of this Chamber decline to com ie circulated for your informati defences sinco cff red tave a'l United States who will have this from ancient Jewish history, ply with this illegal demand.

and it is suggested that membe neither part nor lot with the is absurd to compare a great German-Americans, who want to Continental State falling on a have nothing to say to them and little country like Belgium with who will most deoidely refuse to the case of these wandering tribes be dictated to or advised by them faced by Sihon and his boate. If Germany wants peace she must

$108

Co. Ld. $834, buyers. Hongkong Lande

busera Hongkong Electric Co. Ld.

$40, buyers. China and Minilas-84.95,

busers.

Douglas's.-$631, buyers. Chias Sugars.-$118, buyers. Langkate. Tls. 39, buyers. Luzɔná.- $36, buyers.

Mr. McKenna's plea to the people at Home to barbour re- sources is not ill-timed and may be said to have as much applica tion to Hongkong so to anywhere else. We are quite sure that the public was not intended to: take an alarmiat view of the caution, but merely to 190 a little common sense-anch se i refuses to use in normal times where ressonable economy is concerned. The people in all, or moat, parts of the Empire who have the greatest need to lay the

To-day's Anniversary. To-day is the 58th anniversary warning to beartare, it goes of the Massacre of Cawapore; almost without saying, the very poor and the newly rich. Among

the latter, and sometimes among

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The Dollar.

The rate of the dollar demand to-day is Is 9.7/16d.

National Relief Fund.

on

Ham,

Yours faithfully,

F.J. NORBURY

Hon. Secretary,

chcote a less paltry and under- Necessity was pleaded, but the road handed method than her agents one. It was thought to be the Lave not yet wholly got or through Belgium was not the only and friende in Americs following.

Peace Talk Agalm

Bre

easiest, but, if necessity is to be these difficulties. Christianity pleaded for doing what we want still supposed by many to to do under circumstances the identified with the daplicities That Germans, or at least many there is an end to honour and ware, the fearful maledictions

most favourable to ourselves, Jacob, the cruelties of the David of her people, wouldwel come peace is made tolerably necessity was Germany's self-diehonouring to the Bible not obligation among men. The only the imprecatory Paalme.” It The following subscription to clear by the article in Vorwaerts created need for a speedy victity, study it according to knowledg other classes, extravagance is the National Relief Fund ia an- which has led to the extinguish-which, thank God, she did not and common sense, judging wh looked upon as a sign of "gen-noanced at Home:-British Coming of that out-spoken periodical. tility. At Home it is not un munity and certain Chinese sym- Furthermore the speculation as get. Little Belgium stood brave is primitive and preparatory b common to find the wives and pathisers at Canton (subscriptions as to the interview between Kaiserly in the breach. She abided by the more fally developed, an daughters of successful shop Marob) £133 8s. 1d.

Franz Josef and Count von Beth international law, and ber king anbordinating all else to the per keepers teraing up their noses at

showed himself a high-souled fect law of Obrist. "Ye bat mann Holweg has its significance. gentleman, whore action is not for beard," said our Lord, that cold meat or made dishes though Commission for Hongkong Man. As we remarked the other day in a moment to be compared with that was said to them of old time. perhaps there have been times Hongkong residente wdl be these notes, ponce does not come of this truculent Amorite chief but I say unto you." That when there would have been pleased to hear that Mr. A. F. all at once, even in a small and barring the oily read to liberty what we Christians have to go more then welcome to them! In S'orrey, who left here with the unimportast ea. There must against a people escaped from I can never be enficient fo London and the south of England Hongkong Contingent, has been be a beginning, followed by a bondage. Then particularly we us to be stown that this or th this spirit is more marked than given a commission in the Mid- very large number of happenings must note the point of treaty other was permitted in days gon elsewhere, both among the class dieser Regiment.

that are utterly trifling in them obligation. There is not even a by. It were a poor busines net mentioned and also among

selves but which, taken together, the extremely poor. Food that

serap of paper in this Bible should we huk back to principle show us in no accertsin manner story Supposing the Israelites which have served their ancien the quarter in which the wind had solemly compacted with o'er time and have long ago ba sits. Germany must see that every nations that, in the general superseded. The most appallin day her enemies are becoming interest, the Amorite territory of all possible calamities will hav stronger and more united, as well was to be kept inviolate, then overtaken the world if the spiri as more determined on her down there would Lave been a parallel of the savage is to command th fall. Every day the machinery between the ancient story and the resources of civiliation, and tha for circumventing her and if contemporary one. But it would has really cone to be the question many an East End household Sir Robert Ho Tung Golug North, need be for starving her out is have been a parallel of infamy and at lesne in the convulsion whic eighteen pence a pount for one Hongkong on Wednesday for a nearer to perfection, while simul hero of the episode would have the bare truth to say that the old will live on steak at a shilling or Sir Robert Ho Tang leaves being elaborated and brought unscrupulousness, and the ons is now proceeding. It will be bu day and on fried fisho now bread much-needed holiday. He is taneously her own attempts are been this very Sihon: risking all heathen Gads have conquered and cheese for the remainder of going north by the ss. Tookang becoming more and more abor- for his good faith. The religious Christ if men are to possess at the week. It is no wonder that and will probably be away two tive. we are the spot of continental or three months. ratione whose housewives will furnish an appetising and whole-

Opium.

The Sanitary Board is an organisation which, from its very nature, is perhaps more open to criticism than any other Govern ment Department. While there is no room for two opinione as to how the Postal service, the Police or the Public Works Department should be carried on, sanitary work appeals to different minds in different ways; what A. thinks & good measure B. may deplore; and each man's method may have much to recommend it. This applies especially to systems of drainage, means adopted for the prevention any sensible well-to-do household At the Police Court, this morn of contagious or infectious diseases, sad a host of other matters.would make use of is thrown ing a Chinese, who was found on Thus it is out of the Sanitary Board's power to please everybody; to

away by many a labourer's wife, board a Micao steamer in unlaw Batisfy A. without arousing the ire or the adverse oriticism of B. Read even though the family must ful rosession of three tuels of impartially the Report of this department for the past year shows

"make do" on bread and cheese, opium, was fined $100, or in de that good progress has been made and that, if the Board itself have Inquiries made by various bodies fault one month. wasted much valuable time in eilly discussion, the employees and

have discovered the fact that active officials have not been entirely idle,

From the extracts which we published on Friday it is clear that useful steps bave been taken towards checking disease, towards a better arrangement in regard to the burial grounds and towards proper supervision where slaughter-houses ato, are concerned. We should like to see that more had been done in connection with tho overhauling of insanitary promises; there is still the old tendency on the part of the Board to say: "See how dirty these places are! snd then to confine its energies to talk. Farther efforts have been made in the direction of rendering houses rat-proof, and figures show that a very satisfactory war has been waged against obstrac tion of various sorts.

meazuras

.

Remanded,

teachers of Germany seem never these material resources and to have fairly faced this point forget the lessons of good faith A Losing Game.

We have bad several pronounce humanity and conscience which In the North of France and in ments on the war from their re- have slowly grown_up___ some dinner on a third of the Before Mr. Wood, at the Police Alsace-Lorraine the tide in heavily spacted theologians, but they with them to prevent civiliss along cost of an English meal in a cor Court, this morning, a Chinese against her; at sea her perform either ignore the Belgian case or tion from being the fina responding class. Happily the was charged by Inspector Kerr ances are becoming laughable, for repeat the assertion that Belgium tragedy of this world, and to Home exchequer and credit are with being in unlawful possession while she has succeeded in sink was conspiring again t her power-preserva a distinction between good, but it is a well that the of a quantity of rope valued ing three British ships out of ful neighbour, s-fotion for which man and devil. The conquest of improvident should be pulled up $80. The arrest was made by nearly fifteen hundred, in one not a shadow of prof has even Oanaan by the Israelites is no with a useful reminder.

C. O. Chau Tsim. The case was week, she has lost a submarine in besa offered to the world. The model for the nations of the remanded.R

The War and Prophecy.

But while endeavouring to see the Report with an unbiased eye and to forget that we have ever had occasion to question the Board's wisdom or gotivity, we cannot be blind to the fact that an excellent case can be made out on paper which may by no means entirely tally with what exists or does not exist, as the case may be.

her own waters. The punishment point needs so theologian or modern world, though it had its When the Sanitary Board's Report says that each and such mei

that her troops are meeting with any other kind of expert to deal place in the parrows of Provid have been taken for the spread of plague or for the destruction of

Interesting Wedding, down in Aleace is perfectly awful, with it. Let it go to any common ence in that far-off time. A o8u66 mosquitoes, or that so many rat-infested areas have been cleared,

The marriage arranged between and the fighting on the Aisne and jury. The unanimous we are bound to give nareserved credence to the statement. Bal

Elgar Davidson, eolici or, of the Heights of the Mense is just a will be at once that a men kind must be bidly in need of verdict which has to find support of that we are not going to allow such statements, and such belief in them,

On Friday we reprinted from Hongkong, second son of Mr. and resord, latterly of disappoint must keep his word, and that if buttroming, though indeed the to persuade us that, by these performances, the whole field of use-

a Home paper a quaint letter Mrs. John Davidson, of Liver- ment and set-backs. And while you have got to me sort of law or old Bible history, filly treated, fulness has been exhausted or that, for the $353,431.05 which the which spoke, with an amusing air pool, and Eva Geraldine, eldest the Germans are the consciously theology up your sleeve which leads if no support at all. But Colony spent on this department during 1914, it has hal its full of confidence, as to the present daughter of the late M. E. G. losing, they have the felicity of will let him break that when it even were that otherwise, the value. Oar columns daring 1914 stoned plainly enough that the

war's being that foretold by Crew and Mrs. Crew, of Langford reading that important mat suits him, so much the worse for example Sanitary Board has only too often left undone those things which it

the Propheta which is to "usher Lodge, Olifton, was to take place ters in Britain, whether fin-your theology or your law. What Joshua, who came not to destroy ple for us is from the second ought to have done, and, from what we have seen during the first in the thousand years of peice. very quietly at Emmanuel uncial or regarde munitions, are we to think of this way of de men's lives but to save them, six months of 1915, there soome none too great a dispositio on its It is almost refreshing, in Church, Clifton, during the last are steadly improving, and that ing the Bible, particularly in the imperishable words He use part to amend itself. Abuses to which attention has been drawn these materialistic days, to week in May. dozens of times are still to be found; and while the Board in solema

find anyone with so much simple conclave is discussing the desirability of allowing someone to erect

faith left. The writer seems to swater closet with as much argument as though such a thing were

have fixed on the year 1919 for a new and dangerous institution-offences which it would cost little the battle of Armageddon—a foot or nothing to see to (nay, for which, in many cases, men are already of lose interest to us and our being paid to attend to) remain rife. Can it be for the good of the readers than the date at which

TYPHOON WARNING.

whatever may be the opinions of Inn which has claimed to take when He had just been refused her own unfortunate subjecte the lead in modern Biblical inter-ert ance to a Samaritan vill apon peace, Britain, France, pretation in the interests of on-age on His way to Jerusalem, and Russia and Italy are all for war lightened Christianity? It is His disciples wanted to reall to a finish.

nothing but the old trick of going down fire from hearGR İN The Russians,

to the Bible for what you want; ment: "Ye know to; whe Rnesia is still, in many res and ignoring all that does not of spirit ye are of," He pects, the hardest of her problems. happen to suit you. If we fail to and His own strong, ger

Colony that foul-smelling dust-carts should parade Des Voeux Road peace will come and end this pre The Telegram quoted below Two oan play at the game she is judge the earlier parts of the is destined yet to win

at five or six o'clock in the day in such weather as we have had dar ing the past week, or that coolies should ladle out, lingeringly and lovingly, the contents of a drain in the European querier just when people are taking their after-dinner stroll? Is it good that the dhobis should be permitted to rings our clothes in the filthiest water and spit in them while they iron them; that a dripping and stench-emit ting nativecoffin should be borne along Queen's Rai Central at eleven o'clock on a hot morning, and that our pavements should be expectorated upon just as freely and as frequently so the coolie ble. ment obosea? We could enumerate many other matters concerning which we find no satisfactory mention in the Report; but perchancs we have said enough already to show that our Banitary Beard has still not quits reaphed a state of perfection.

Bent war. The most interesting

the tan has and in the some part or see how bea

point in this letter is that which was received from the Manila meditating aaregarde cutting the Bible in the light of the later, we over even the stubbo deals with a mysterious cloud Observatory at 4.45 p.m. on June Russian army in halves. Her miss the large lesson of the whole, mag. The clonde low which interposed itself between

27.5 the British and German armies Typhoon west of northern che apparently still hopes to get velation as men were able to bear horizon, Bat clouds gay huge mass of men out of which which is that of a progressive reis trae, at this time on and in the midst of the oload Luzon more than 100 miles die-

dis the maximum in cleavage power it. Every evil host of shining figures. This tant. Direction weems to have driven the enemy 10.30 am: June 28, is making a target which cannot been defended:

se mora o well be missed; moreover Russia other of the back, a fact which makes one Cyclone or typhoon west of also can work with wonder why

had

northern Lazón, more than 100 need be, and to such timed its appearance

milea distant. Moving WN. W that the ar carlier and have saved valuxble lives

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