THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH.
EXTRA
HONGKONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1915.
SPECIAL CABLE,
TELEGRAMM.
MYSTERIOUS
INTERESTING STATISTICS.
The Revenue and Expenditure of Nations,
The following figures compiled by Mr. J. H. Schooling are an stated in the British Official Blus Book published up to April 1910.
Russia
Country,
United Stated
Bavenue Mil-Expenditure
lions sterling. Millions sterling,
287
278
165
177.
Franos 144
159
155
CAL
United Kingdom
152
152
Austria-Hungary
148
148
Germany
187
137
143
Italy
23
90
Belgium
31
Sweden Norway Denmark
440
...
KAP
140
•
***
130
Total...
!
1171
1188
In this table the results for the United Kingdom relate to the year ended March 1909. Taking the seven Great Powers as one whole their continued Revenue and Expenditure is so follow :-
Revenue Expenditure Revenue Expenditure
Millions Millions sterling. sterling.
per
par nant.
The seven Great Powers, „The four
1121
1182
98
95
other nations,
54
5
1171
1188
100
100
Total:-
The yearly national expenditure per head of population works out as follows:
Expenditure per head of population. 92 shillings.
Country.
Belgiam
210
France
79
United Kingdom.....
Austria-Hungary
Norway ...
•Tenly ...
***
Sweden .....
United States Per
Germany
Busia Denmark
HE
母
H
394
100
*1*
***
隐能
#
Average for 11 countries ;---
3349438181
The expenditure of the United Kingdom has grown consider. ably of recent years the highest point being touched in 1902,
Expenditure of United Kingdorn, 1895-1900.
Year ended March 31st.
Expenditure per head of
!population.
#1895
48 shillings.
1896
50
1897
51
1898
51
1899
54
1900
68
1901
89,
1902
94
1903".
1904-
80
66
65
68
87
1905
1908
1907
1908 1909
DAUNTLESS BELGIAN WOMAN'S DEATH.
18888885.
tried to pass some letters into Holland, was in a state of superb patriotio excitement,
YUAN SHIH-KAI WISHES TO GIVE SCHOLARSHIP TO HONGKONG UNIVERSITY.
(From Our Own Correspondent).
Shanghai, August 14; 4.55 p.m. President Yusn Shih-kai intimated to Bir Charles Eliot, yesterday, his wish to give a sobolarship of 82,000 annually to the Hongkong University,
NATIONAL REGISTER.
(Continued from Saturday)
pound for each day during which the offence continues,
(3) If any person falsely "ro presents himself to be a person to whom a certificate of registration has been issued under this Act,
ment and fine.”
EXPLOSIONS.
DETROIT MAN OETS TEN YEARS.
"SILENT AND BUSY," inseparable whole. Imagine if it
SERVIAN TRIBUTE TO ENGLAND.
AN ISLAND'S ¿LEGIONS,
were not so imagine if the Ger mans bad such dominion on the waters! Their battleships would now be at Salonika, Kronstadt, Vladivostock, at Naples, Marseil les, and Odessa, at Jaffa and Bombay. Then, from all those sides would creep the German hosts; and who knows how many tribes and nations would not now be fighting against as on the [The following eloquent tribnie Prussian side? It is, indeed, our Bruter' correspondent
in to England, moving in its expres happiness that these nine-tenths Windsor, Ontario, saya that a slon of the deep faith which the of the best strategio position the native of Detrios has been sen- smaller nationalities have in our English are holding now and not tenced to ten years' hard labour country, and inspiring in its the Germans. for participation in a conspiracy incentive to not in the present to dynamite buildings at Windsor according to the traditions of a and Walkerville,
(Reuter's Service To The Telegraph").
London. Received Aug. 10.
SHRAPNEL FACTORY,
EXPLOSION;
London. Received Augünt 15.
great past, is from the pen of a Servian writer M. Lazare Kos sovac, and has been contributed to the official Servian journal Samouprava]
English people know all this very well, but they nster talk about it. They keep silent and think about their own merita! But they are not silent in regard to the merita of their Allies. There has not been a single success, not (2) There shall be paid out of he shall on conviction under the
The English people are silent; the smallest achievement of Ena- money provided by Parliament to Sammary Jurisdiction Acts be
but it is remarkable that when sian, French, or Servian arme, the local registration authorities liable to imprisonment with or
these northern men begin to speak which has not been generously towards their expenses under this without hard labour for a term
Reuter's correspondent at Pitts they are more eloquent than we praised by these silent Britons, Act allowances on such scale as not exceeding three months, or to barg states than as explosion of the south. More eloquent is Our Servian successes at Rad- | the Treasury may approve, and
a fine not exceeding twenty took place at the Westinghouse Kacaulay then Mirabeau, and nik and Kosmsi have been the expenses of local registration pounds, or to both such imprison-shrapast factory, when two per. Carlyle than Ronan, and Gladstone acknowledged by none so warmly ́authorities under this Act so far,
As if the chill as the English people. Merely sons were killed and six injured. than Mazzini, as not covered by such allowanODN shall be paid, in the case of a
A newspaper had previously pub-northern mists pressed upon the chronicling their own successes, lished a letter predicting that the mouth, their thoughts come to they have described in glowing municipal borongh council out of
works would be blown up. the tongue and go back from the details the encoesses of their Allies. the borough fand or borough rate,
tongue again unexpressed. Eng. lishmen are silent and thoughtful. and in the case of any other local registration authority out of the
Never was this island more silent, fund or rate aut of which
more thoughtful, or more busy the general expenses of the
than it is now. The war has authority are payable.
given to the whole of Great Britain a solema aspect. As I stop ped upon British spilat Folkestone, I felt as though I had entered Westminster. All this island is transformed into an abbey: every man in silent, thoughtful, and busy.
be no used.
13. In the application of this
Aot to Bootland-
(1)"Secretary for Scotland shall be substituted for "Local Government Board" and " Board"" "Registrar-General for Scotland for Registrar-General”;
ا رومی
THE IRISH MAIL
DISASTER. "
London, Received, August 15.
(2) The council of a county, and the town councilof a royal parlis- 10-A local registration aut
mentary or police burgh shall be bority may for the purposes of the local registration authorities this Act use free of obarge spy for their respective areas, and each
The North Western Railway room which may be used for the such areas, shall be a separate Co., in an official statement, purpose of taking a poll at par-registration district: provided reports that, up to the present, liamentary election, subject, how that the boundaries of a royal or it has been ascertained that eight ever, to the conditions and pro- parliamentary burgh for palice persons wore killed and thirty visions subject to which it may purposes shall be the boundaries injured. The mail train from thereof for the purposes of this Euston was running out of Stowe 11.-The duty of registering Act: and provided further that & tunnel, when its engine came in under this Aot shall not apply to local registration authority shall contact with the broken connect sny prisoner in a prison, certified be entitled to call upon the other ing rod of the engine of a train lunatic or defective, or inmate of local authorities within its area proceeding to London. Several any poor law institution, hospital, for their assistance and coopera coaches were thrown on either or other institution for the care of tion to such extent, and subject to side of the line. persons suffering from physical or ach conditions as may be pre- mental infirmities, nor to a prioribed. Any two or more local soner of war or a person who is
Authorities may registration interned:
combine for the purposes of this [The following telegrams ay Provided that before the dis-Act, subject to such conditionens peared in our special edition of obarge of a person from a prison, may be prescribed.
yesterday:-1 lunatic asylum, or other place.
(3) The expenses of local regis where he has been detained, or fration authorities under this Act, from a hospital or other such in-so far as not covered by allow. stitution seaforesaid, the governances from the Treasury, shall be or, master manager, or other per-paid in the case of a county coun- son in charge, shall ascertain from oil out of the general purposes him the particulars required to rate, and in the case of a town be registered under this Act, and council out of the burgh general shall forward them to the proper improvement asessment or any local registration authority, who other assessment leviable by the shall cause them to be registered town council in equal proportions and a certificate of registration to on owners and occupiers; provid. be issued to the person so dis-ed that the ratepayers of a police charged..
burgh shall not be assessed by ed under this Act makes wilful expenses.
12(1) If any person employ the county council for any such | default în the performance of any of his duties under this Act, he shall for each offence be liable on conviction under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts to a fine not ex- ceeding five pounds,
Ireland to such extent and subject 14. This Act shall apply to to such modifications as are here inafter mentioned:ble
IRISH MAIL
MANY KILLED IN SMASH.
London, Received, Aug. 14.
Later.
In the Dardanelles five great
man
and sixty persons were killed in It is reported that between fifty
accident. the Stowe Tunnel railway to
How beautiful and delicate are the lettera of English correspon- dents from Russia. And as they have been eloquent in praise of the successes of their Allies, sa these thoughtful island people have been not less eloquent in sympathetic descriptions of the losses and pains of their friends. One could make books of the articles depicting Serviss rafter- inga from typhus, devastation,
and want.
The same is true in regard to battleships have gone down. In Belgium. One might think the southern lands such losses that the English had no pain would cause countless comments; sad suffering of their own, but they oanse Englishmen to Oh! yea they have, and become only more silent, thought-ot a little, but they are silent, ful, and busy. In the Atlantic and in silence they tend their there was committed the "Super-on wounds and bear their own distress. Bilently and thought orime of the Lusitanis, which like some vast earcophagus fally they have freed all the peas, was laid on the floor of the deep, from the frigid to the torrid zone. Bat in England, as the news But they have Lot stopped there; arrives, lips are only pressed they are helping now to free the more tightly, the brain is more dry land. Their troope are fight. intensely concentrated, and tasks ing day and night in Balgium, in are more bravely seized. The Gallipoli, in Mesopotamia, in Zeppeline make daily competition South Africa. They have made with their brothers the submarines superhuman efforts to create land in the destruction of private forces in as many months as sny property and of unarmed and in- Continental Power has taken nocent people. At home poisonous years. We from a distance be A serious accident has occurred bombs may fall from airships, hold only the glorious sex-power near Northampton to the second while poisonous gases choke the of Great Britain which has just portion of the Irish Mail, which heroic men in the trenches, Day been displayed to all the world. so-day ran off the rails at the by day appear the long columns But we do not see these gigantic Weedon end of Stowe Tunnel. It of killed and wounded. But the internal moral efforts which are is reported that many have been granite island is silent, thought- not less magnificent than her sea killed or injured. Doctors and ful, and busy! Thus it makes
dominion, D motor ambulances are hurrying apawer to all calamity.
Marius said, " As soon as I stamp my foot upon the ground, the spot.
The English have to-day 8 so soon will arise the legione!!! Pole to Pole. veritable sea dominion from That, however, was only the idle If their duty word of a southern mind, King "A correspondent who appears
(1) The Lord Lieutenant may to be well-informed states that
the Allies was to free George has silently put his foot the waters, they have done upon the earth and there has in ker åtinging remarke were like a
by Order apply section ons of (2) If any person required to this Ast with the necessary mos
that duty brilliantly. To-day a very truth arisen legion after laah for the exactitioners. Shot register himself under this Act difcations to Ireland or to aby
Servian can embark at Saloniks, legion. And they "are arising only in the legs after the first (a) refuses, or without lawful area or areas in Ireland specified gietras-General for Ireland as Antipodes, around the globe and alone has been self-deceived, and and travel through Sasz to the still! In this point Germany volley, she mank to the ground axone neglects to fill up or cause in the Order crying, "Vive Liege! Vive la Bel- to be filled up a form to the best
aforesaid, and the Registrar back through Gibraltar to the whole world surprised. All The Daily News Special Corgique!" and a non-commissioned of his knowledge and belief, or to as the case may be for any such the contents and make them avail-whole journey he will travel Idles as the empty wooden "horse (2) The register for Ireland, or General for Ireland shall tabulate Salonika again. Daring the the world regarded the British respondent, R. Franklin Tate officer had to dispatch her with sign it as by this Act required, or area or areas se aforesaid, shall able for such purposes as may be July 4: valges from Paris, under date of his revdlyer in order to silence ber. (6) refuses or without lawful be formed under the directions of andered by the Lord Lieutenant; apon the friendly English before the gates of Troy. Albion
"Among the victims was a excuse neglects to attend at any the Lord Lieutenant by the Be
green sea-fields. English power has stown herself more defe than manufacturer, M. Justin Lenders place or time at which his attend gistrar-General of Births, Deathe, Lieutenant and at the Registrar- realized in sach
(4) The expenses of the Lord upon the waters was never Ulyssee; but she remains Yery One of the latest German criman His wife, suspecting what was ance is required under this Act; and Marriages in Ireland (in the General for Ireland in carrying so effectively as now. Never busy
measure silent, very thoughtful, and very In Belgium was the execution on going to happen, offered, on the or June of sight oitizens of Lisgo, eve of the execution, a big sum of
section referred to as the Be this Act into operation, shall to was there in history upan land: That a land may gaire nimbus one woman, all honourably money for the release of her caness to be made or signed, any duty it shall be, to compile and may unction be defrayed out of exercising now upon the seas, must appear upon it a great race (e) wilfully makes or signs, or gistrar-General for Ireland) whose auch an extent as the Treasury such power as the English are of grandeur, sud beauty, there known, on the charge of willingly husband. Her offer was accepted, false return of any matter speci-maintain the register from in- money provided by Parliament; You will say," The waters are or a great man. In this point siding and abatting an organise and who was told to bring the few filed in the form; or tion created for the purpose of thousand francs at noon next day.
formation at his disposal or fur- (5) Sava es, provided in this only a highway, nothing more. revealing to the enemy the move When Mme. Lenders arrived fally gives a false answer to any partment of the Government of this Act shall not apply to highway. They represent nine humid island stood low and und (d) refuses to answer, or wil-nished by any other officer or de section, the foregoing provisions No, the waters are more than English people, this misty and Carlyle was right. Before the mamma of troops at Llege Station, with the money, her heart beat question necessary for obtaining paramant to such directions or by Ireland.
Les Nouvelles - a Belgian ing high with hope, her the Information required to be the council of any county boroughs (1) This Act may be sited tenth of the best strategio derisin sa il it might sink beneath journal which is published at husband's body was already obtained under this Act; or
which may be desirous of assisting as the National Registration Act, Britons, are now in our posses se fast se granite, appears to be positions, which, thanks to these the waters. But to day it stands Mastricht by a group of Liege oold."
(8) refuses or without lawful in the formation of the register 1915. journalists, kas ⠀ received, the Leat Nouvelles contradicts excuse neglects to perform any (8) The register shall contain (2) This Act shall continue in Britons, had certainly been in this lofty rock stands a nationa
Ricn; but which, without these firmer than the Alps. And upon following details of the affair: absolutely the statement that the other daty imposed on him as respects the persons registered force during the continuance of German hands. A free highway one man and as if placed by Pro-
Kaiser caused a proclamation to by or "Our compatriots died like be posted up on the walls he shall for each offence be liable graphs(a)(3), and (d), of subsection longer without prejudios, how from starvation, makes possible watchfal eye every corner of our under this Aor the particulars set forth in para- the present war and no of the ses preserves the Allies vidence as sentinel, to view with hecost. They ans and all refused of Lage expressing his die on conviction under the Summery (1) of section four of this Act, so far ever, to the talking or prosecution the transport of men and muni- plänet and every movement, of to have their eyes bandaged before app of what had occurred, Jurisdiction Acts to a fine not as the same have been ascertained of proceedings for any offence tions, and transforms what would nearly two milliard of th
that all death exceeding five pounds, and in the from the information at the is committed before the expiration be otherwise widely-scattered beings of all races, all be referred to him case of a continuing offence to a posal of or furnished to the Hew of this Act. sing carried ont;
further Do not exceeding one!
parts into a well knit and and all States.
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