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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 19.5.

A Useful Sentence.

Mr. Lindsell deserves the thanks

of the community for having, atin any rate for a season, put it cut

DAY BY DAY.

THEY HAVE BEEN AT A GREAT FEAST OF LANGUAGES AND STOL-

of the power of a Chinese rallin EN THE SORAP3-Shakespeare,

The Weather. Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 84; At the Peak 8 am. Temp. 78;

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NOTES ON THE CRISIS

WILL THERE BE A WINTER CAMPAIGN?

News From the Near East,

A YEAR AGO TO-DAY.

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LEADING EVENTS IN THE ORBAT WAR,

Extrasis from the war news con-, tained in the "Hongkong Telegraph" of August 14,

1914.

COOLIE OR KAISER.

Jesuit Addresses: Hongkong Audience.

to do farther mischief by sending bim to gaol for eighteen months,

The members of the Catholic The Ender's trouble reems to

Womens League inaned a general invitation through the columns of have bees that he could not resist fog.

the local presa to hear an informal the temptation to anatch a lady's

Some amount of excitement was

address by the Rev. Fr. BrowES handbag and-when pursued fig.

caused locally by the wire publi-Belgians Holding Thele Own

Alter retreating on August 11, 8.3. at the League Headquartersat - elab bie pursuer with" a bodkin. In order to impress on the Yesterday the

Telegraph shed in our Second Extra yes-

vance yesterday. The Belgians the subject of self-denial in a Hongkong (the chances are that reading matter. To-day there Russian stooks were anexpectedly fought their first engagement in thoroughly original manner, a wind of this hopeful visitor to published 3334 columns of solid terday evening, to the effect that the Germans resumed their ad- St. Patrick's Hall, Holosea booming. Occasionally the Lon

Count the Columas.

ho was a visitor and not a Chin-will be 424 published. ese British subject) that our law

The Malls.

Novara to-morrow.

American Mail. Due per

forbids the pastime of highway Siborien Mail. -Dao to-day robbery, the magistrate further 8.8. Yingchow ordered twenty-four strokes. If English Mail.-Due per our magistraten would but keep punishments this very salutary end satisfactory level, there would

be healthy falling off in third class pissenger traffic from Canton to

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8.8.

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don Stock Exchange, not being the open north-west of Hasselt, feature of the address being the quite infallible, is mistook in its successfully holding their own quickness of thought shown the idgmente; bat only very as To thousand men participated Fr. Browne, the crisp style of

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casioaslly. Nine times out of ten it in the fight. The Germans are delivery and the convincing is a very sale finger-post to be constructing siege batterias north nature of his arguments, gnided by, and, until it is proved of Liege, (Hasselt is the chief His Lordship Bishop Pozzoni, In to be it out" in this instance, town in Belgian Limburg, 18 introducing the speaker said that

miles N.W. of Maastricht.)

Fr. Browne had emulated B shall feel justified Siberian Mail. Closes per we

8.9. Luctor to-day at 6 in continuing to look for good French Losses in Alsace Denied. Ignatius in obedience, and un The reporta of enormous hesitatingly responded to His news in the not far distant future. (French) losses in Alsace are den- Lordship'e suggestion that he

Nara to-morrow.

P.

Hongkong. As we have remarked Siberian. Mail.-Closes per s.4:Already-and possibly this mayed in Paris, where it is officially should deliver an address that Novara to morrow at 9 m. be the piece of good fortune stated that the French hold Upper evening. The same had been the

meny times, it is nothing but the fact that Hongkong has acquired the reputation for handling rogues with an almost criminal leniency

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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1915. "THE INTELLECTUALS" AND THEIR DEMANDS.

ation of those good tidings, the more gra'eful we shall be to them..

Verandahs.

The prosecuting of a woman yesterday for throwing a bottle from a verandah, to the danger of the public, encourages us to hope that the law is going to be a little more wide awake in bringing to book persons guilty

Up to the Minute-Share

Market News. “.

Atlantic..

going to the front after thirteen years in Manile.

Fr. Browne eaid in speaking of self-denial they were apt to

hinted at in the wire-dewe comes Alsace with considerable forces. case with that famous member of that the Russian victory South of It is officially declared that Alsace the Order of St. Igastins the Caucasus is assuming very is now cleared of the enemy. Bernard Vaughan, when he passed Closing prices :-

ingen. O. and M. S. S. Co. considerable proportiolley of the German Cruisers Hunted in the through Hongkong. Fr. Browne

column alone, in Ld-21, buyers.

Euphrates, has seized a number British, in addition to French China Fires.-$159, buyera,

Combined 152 s. of prisoners and much war craisers are in the Atlantic hunt Iados. Preferred

57 b. material. Of this Russian army ing five German cruisers. 94 b. operating in Asiatic Turkey we Trade Routes: British Admiralty's Deferred China Sugars. $127, sellers, have heard little, though everyone Luzons $41; sellers, Raube-$3.90, sellers, Hongkong and K. W, and G.

Co. Ld. $77, sellers. Shanghai Docks.61, buyers. Kong Tiks. Tle. 15.10, buyers. Eeories. $444, sellers. Watsons, buyera.

Confidence.

associate with it hair-shirts Bad knows that it is there; and just The British Admiralty is oon- other extremes of discipline suck now it is certainly making itself fident of its ability to keep the asthey heard of in the Saints lives. Self-denial did not belong entirely talked of. Idle conjecture sug world's trade routes cpen. gests that the business with Liege Bombardment Readmed.to the sainte-Self-denial, self- which it is concerning itself may The Germans have resumed the control and detachment were be to get possession of the bombardment of the Liege forte, really something that was in every railway that runs through Angors which are replying vigorously.one of us. The building of obar ap to Skutari; or, again, that it German at empts to cross the act ir was the exercising of self may be meditating the long over-river Mouse have been consider dental and restraint. He com The rate of the dollar on land march scross the semi-barren ably hampered by the fire of the mended to them the advice of demand to-day is le 9 3/81.

The Dollar.

To-day's Anniversary. To-day 18 the 15th anniver- wary of the relief of Peking after the Boxer trouble.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

territory between the railway and forta, the Black Sea coast, still with Skutari as an objective. To us who are uninitiated, it always @ems that there must be a score Examination in Cantonese. of ways by which the Dardanelles business Constantinople It is hereby notified that Mr. and. Percy Burn, Cadet, passed his final examination in Cantonese on the 18th June, 1915.

that the name of the Po Wa Ins surance Company, Limited, has been struck off the register.

Auction, Sale.

dell Street, on Monday at 2.30 P. a quantity of household furniture."

Memorial of Re-Entry.

Appolatments.

The following appeared in the

could be harried on by land war-Government Gazette of to day's bae would like to see some of these fare, and, if only out of curiosity, date: experimented on.

Po1onins to his son, “To thine own all be true." It did not appear to be self-denial at first aight, but when they got down to the logic of it, there was a great-

deal of truth in what Shakoge peare had said in the worde "To thine own self be true-

past that it is exceedingly diffi Land Office according to law, cult for the authorities to His Excellency the Governor caught unawares by the approach May, 1914, and published on page dominion over ourselves when

night's wire us to the manifesto of the "Intellectuals" without straighten things into line. The has been pleased to appoint the of winter, for already arrange kong, 1914, the following re- was nothing extraordinary painfula

of what is beautiful

and instructive.

To thine own spiritual self be That part of a hostel attached irne, thine own higher self to the University of Hongkong What did they mean by self- of this type of offence. Though Company Struck off the Register,

which is occupied by Students of denial, detachment, mortification It is notified in the Gazelle

The Coming Winter. In fact one would like to see any

the University shall be totally ex- and such expression? The mean- bottles are not always the missiles, there is never a day or night passes but someone thinks it his

thing that promised to cut short empted from assessment for rates. ing was similar individually as That part of a hostel attache collectively-they meant the the war in a manner satisfactory to or her duty to throw into the street

the Allies. Though a winter to the University of Hongkong in me? They really meant the any kinds of object, from mouth-

Mr. G. P. Lammert will sell by campaign has not for our men the occupied by the Warden shall be power to say "No" and under rinsinge to meat-bones-the throwers usually being supremely Auction at his sale rooms in Dad-terrora that it possesses for the partially exempted from sees other circumstances to say "Yeg indiferentes to whether people are

Germans and Austrians, it is not ment for rates by the reduction that was when the saying of either meant our own inconvenie passing below or not. The Uhin.

the sort of thing we should hold of one half of the assessment.

With effect from the 12th ence or the reveran. We were out both hands for. There are few ese are, of course, the chief law.

people who do not believe that it August, 1916, the rate of postage priotically obliged to praction breakera in this respect, though

It is notified in the Gazette is at least possible for the enemy a parced not exceeding II lb. self-denial. When a lady follow- -as yesterday's police court case proves not the sole ones. Like for general information that a to be broken before the weather in weight to the province of Yan-ed the dietstes of fashionmit might appear strange, but it was many other matters in Hongkong Memorial of Re-entry by the Cov becomes seriously cold; bat nan (China) shall be $1.

ernment of Ma Tau Kok Lot No. whether this will actually be the There shall be added to the true-she practised self-denial. Most of us are finding the habit so confirmed in us of laughing the law in regard to the verandahsen been registered in the case or not is quite another Regulation made by the Governor- The awkwardness of fashion or sneering at modern German culture, that we run the ziek of for has been so played with in the

matter. At any rate it is evident in Council ander section 6 of the to the wearer was self-denial. getting that there is a deeply pathetic side to the present situation.

that our people do not mean to be Dogs Ordinance, 1893, on the 14th Self-denial gave us perfect None of our readers who have come into direct contact with the old-fashioned German scholar at his best, can, however, peruse last

245 of the "Regulations of Rong thoroughly practised and there We may not be prepared to admit law cannot be set at defiance-year Horourable Mr. Alexander Mao-ments are being made for the experiencing a very real sorrow,

after year, the Government con- donald Thomson to not

as warm clothing of the troops. Of gulation-On and after the in practising it it could be quite the validity of the claims of Germany to be the beginning and end doning, without its being very Colonial Scoret ry, and. Mr. Ed-course, if the wat, must, be pro- 21st day of August, 1915, all pleasant. A saint, to be a saint. of all world-culture, but, if we take away ber contributions to life is hard for the newer men-succes-wari Dudley Coracaden Wolfe to tracted, it will be to Germany's muzzles must be constructed of need not go about with a long science and the arts, we rob rosiety of a very large proportion of its

Fora of former slackers-to insist

Let se Colonial Treasurer in heavy cost. Cold weather to the wire and must be of a pattern to face as though he knew no joy aggregate stock

be approved by the Captain Oa car sporting falde saints were all. Things are, however, on the ing the absence on leave of the and the enemy would ba knows that Germany has produced some of the most brilliant intele mand, and, in course of time, we Honourable Mr. Claud Severn or powerless to check a returning of which may be seen at the Cen-self-control and denial hal to be lents that the world has known, and that the German universities look to find Hongkong at least until further notice with effect dash of the Russians on Galician tral Police Station." "Any dog practised. A saint could go to of pre-Nietzscheau days, even if they fostered sentiment to a

degree habitable.

from this date. :

and other territory, that would wearing a muzzle of any other Hell in a day he had only to let that it foreign and disagreeable to us Britishers, in most cases were

render all the pains which the pattern after the 21st day of his feelings run along their own yet, literally, the homes of learning; and even Nietzsche himself,

It is notified in the Gazette for German army in the Eset has been August, 1915, shall be deemed lines and he would soon accom despite his lunacy, was before all things one of the most highly

plish that transition. It was by general information that under taking, so much waste labour. But, not to be muzzled. educated men of his day-and though a sham philosopher, a

decided

the provisions of the Death Duties as things are shaping at present,

self-control that he became a saint ly real poet.

(Killed in War) Act, 1914, 4 and it looks as though there would

and it was by self-control that And are we to take it that the pitiably ridiculous manifesto of

5 George V., Ob, 78, in cases re- little enough fighting going on

he remained a saint. Self-denial which Reuter speaks has emenited from these same universitiea?

The almanac tells us that fifteen commended by the Secretary of by the time Christmas comes.

had to be practised by the Kainer Unfortunately the German Press has lent itself to so many deliberate

years have gone by since the day Stale the Lo da Commissionere of

laughter) but whether it was a lies and frauds that one would be well within the bounds of reason when the frightful strain at Pek- the Treasury will be prepared to

Affairs at Home. Sa

coolie or a Kaiser it did not Two interesting Home wires ableness in rejtoling: the whole thing as the feeble invention of

matter, self denial had to be ex- some third or fourth-rate joursalist, Again, the Government 18, caused by the Boxer dietur consider favourably the grant of show the situation in regard to the

bances, was relieved by the arrival the relief authorised by the Aat munition output and the feeling The undermentioned baving elected to deny ourselves because

eroised. It might be that itself bas obviously been primarily responsible for 90 of the European troops. Those to the estates of persona killed in of the commercial and scientific jined the Corps, are allotted it was a commercial or some other many of the artfully-constructed false reporte which the papers have who have read Putnam Weale's military operatione in any part of element where the cotton question Cospa numbers and posted as expedient, but if we applied the obligingly oirculated, that it to may justly be regarded as the culprit admirably written "Indiscreet Let the world during the present war is concerned. It seems clear follows:-No. 1891 Pie. L. very same self-denial to the spiri in this case. Tras, not one of us knows very much about the exact ters form Peking" can form some which are liable to the payment enough that at last, and in face Sim to Scouts Company (No 3 if we did it with nobler purpose, state of things in Germany at the present day, but there is at least idea of the terrible position of of death doties under the Im- of difficulties of which we out here Section). No. 1802 Pre. T. K. then we were doing just as tho abundant proof that her rulers are hesitating at nothing that will

do not yet know the tenth part, Wong to Right Section M. G. Co. saints. If they practised self continus to keep the people in ignorance as to the real coarse which foreigners at the capital during perial Aots. war events have been steadily if slowly taking from the beginning

the mualtions machinery really No. 1893 Pie. A E. Meyhing to denial and mortification has been set in going order Right Section M. G. Co. Thus it would be not at all surprising if the Borlin authorities, in a

with results, let us hope, that are Transfers, moment of creative fervour, themselves sat down to sketch out this piece of silly bombast, and then secured a few professorial signatures

manner decidedly distasteful to Eight Section M. G. Co. 10 Heaven. going to proclaim themselves in Pte. E. L. de B. Alves from he did not care to use if we could to it in order to impart a convincing touch to the masterpiece.

the enemy very soon. It 315 Engineer Company, dated 10. controlled establishments are 8. 15.

Examples or particularising are surely needless; every school-child on ita being obeyed once and for addition to his other duties, dar Russians is like water to ducks, Superintendent of Police, samples (made because it was there that

from the source to which it is attributed. And this is for from

The Boxer Anniversary,

all that period of stress a period, it would seem, that could have been very much shortened had a little more system and a little less silly

Death Duties.

LANGKAT: OUTPUT.

international jealousy been the Messrs. Wright and Hornby order of the day. Meanwhile, The remaining sapposition is that the manifesto actually comes what happened to the adving us that the Langkat ontpat for the current month is as "Society: great. unthinkable. Even in the last twenty years the Grman aciver Harmonions Fists" to-day? Are of the

follows:- sities have undergone such wide changes that the old student class there any Boxers still in existence?

August 1 has almost disappeared, giving place to braying, military-mad We should doubt it. The past youths whose sole text-took is von Bernhardi and whose knowledge fifteen years, in point of progress even of Nietzsche and von Troitschke is probably limited to hearsay in certain directions, has been to and to snatches onlled from review articles on the works of these China what a couple of centurion two maniacs. Formerly it was the professors who pointed the wayere to European countries. and the students who were the disciples; but it was being ade Of course we do not believe clear, before war broke out, that nowadays the grey-beards are wel! content to be led by the rose by the students. These intellectuale that she has become perfect—or, indeed, greatly more are probably as well informed as to the actual progress of the war oivilised than she was before; As the Chinese of Canton, and no would age nothing ridiculous in but in her attitude towards for- the trifling demand that Britain should yield up her commerce and give place in all things to Germany. And there is another matter eiguera che certainly has improv- ed a thousandíold, and wa vary. about which they seem to be ignorant. If they should ever bare a mach doubt if, latent fanaticism opportunity of reading the conclusions of the various committees of

nr another Boxer notwithstanding, enquiry into Prussian atrocities, it may occur to these modern will ever be possible. lamps of learning that the less said by them about culture and beout" barbarians the belter

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