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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY,

DAY BY DAY.

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

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

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Office address: 11, Ice House St.

BIRTH.

More Aeroplanes.

We stated yesterday that yet another two seroplaner had been

ing us that, if ever Britain

The Weather.

Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 86; alight fog.

The Malls.

want to war, her Overseas sab American Mail Dae per jects would fall away from her Chiyo Maru to-day. one after the other and would Siberian Mail. Due per gicat over her downfall, Fifteen Anliui to-morrow, months ago an Australian roliti Siberian Mail-Olosed per cian was passing through the

Siberis to-day at noon.

8.8.

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Siberian Mail-Olored per a.e.

Yingohow to-day at 3 p.m. Australian Mail.-Closed por .. Hitachi Maru to-day at 4

p.m.

Up to the Minute-Share Market News.

Closing prices:

Hongkong Banks.

sales ex div. Canton Insurances.

bayera.

AUGUST 17, 1915."

NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

GALLIPOLI SUCCESSES,

The "Revelations."

A YEAR AGO TO-DAY.

LEADING EVENTS IN THE

GREAT WAR.

Extracts from the war news con- tained in the "Hongkong Telegraph" of August 17,

1914.

While it behoves un to approach very guardedly any plot discover. Germans Driven From Heights ed by the American press, whether An official Perie despatoh saye

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REVIEW.

SOME TALES OF THE" SAMURAI..

[Tales of the Samurai Oguri Hang- wan. Amdaption from the kodan and chronicles of the Japanoe originals."— By James 8. de Bonneville'; Tokobama, 1915

Mr. de Bonneville, in his stories

provided for the Empire by private GOD MADE HIM, AND THEREFORE individuals-the donors in this LET HIM FASS FOR A MAN-Shakos- cave being Sir Basscon David and peare. Sir Shaperji Broacha, both of Bombay. Such news makes cheering reading and even encour

ges feelings of beastfulness in the Britisher who is tempted to ask At the Peak 8 am. Temp. 77; what other Empire in the world's clear. history has received so much [loyal support from its subjects."": Count the Columns,

And surely a certain amount of Yesterday the Telegraph in connection with the war or the French forces drove a German from the lives of some of the re- swelled head" is almost par- published 384 columns of solid with any other matter, we have Army Corps from the heights owned samurai, has given his donable under the circumstances, reading matter. To-day there to admit that the past perform-commanding Blamont and Cirey readers one of the most charming ances of the Germans prepare back on Saarburg, after a hot pieces of Japanese folklore that Only a year or so ago even will be 344 published.

most of us to believe any dirty engagement. The Germans auto have wen. The legends which Our own people were tall.

allegation laid against them. fered serious losses, a number be has translated show us the land of Nippon sa it was in the Four- Moreover, to judge from Router's being taken prisoners. abstract, the New York World and Warning Regarding Rumours. teenth and Fifteenth Centuries, the Providence Journal-the The Official Press Bureau warns embellished by the fantastic touch periodicals which have under- the British public against ramours of tradition. We have called them taken this exposure of enemy of the arrival of woanded men. legende bat, the stories are based trickery the attack is of a and disabled shipa in Great upen fact, and concern the doings far railder and saner mature Britain, and declares such rumours of actual historical personages. than the majority of the "scoops!! to be, without exception, baseless.

The translation and arrange- with which it is the practice of The Burean says that the successes ment are patently the work of a the United States press to than-and reverses of the British arms man whose labour has been one der-strike its readers. Indeed will be announced officially with of love and who has read in o we cannot see that the charges out delay.

very wide circle around and contain anything more wild or

A Coming Battle. outside his subject. He gives more incredible than those re- The Belgian headquarters an as love and war; villainy and cently made by British newspapera nounce that there was no fighting magio; ogres, beauties, beggars, $830, against the Germans in America. yesterday. Long Belgian recon- princes and right valiant It has been proved boyond a doubt naissances failed to discover the warriors; and though many of $380 that the forged passport dodge enemy's forces. It is believed the stories are tousehold words to was being worked pretty freely that they retired on to the main the Japanese--as much so as our in New York some little time body of Germans who are concen-own Arthurian legends to us since, and the American papers trating for an attack on the Liege Europeans-they will come with merely reiterate this. As to the forta on the left bank of the Meuse. a fascinating freshness and new-

ench Troops in Belgium. expenditure of two million dollare

ness to the average man of the a week in corrupting the public, Lue French Ministry of war West.. What the compiler practi W. Powells-$7, sellers.

there is again nothing ezt aor-announces that the French troops cally dees is to put himself in the (Combined $ 152 .

dinary. If an impoverished Ger- entered Belgium at Charleroi, place of the native hodanshi Indos. Preferred

man community here in China is and are advancing on. Gembloux (lecturer or story-teller) and to Deferred

still spending considerable sums in force.

lay balore hie hearera tale after Further French Victory. tale of the heroes whom évən” Hoogkong Tramways.-$5.20, is spreading manifest lies among

the natives and in endeavouring The French have brilliantly modern Japan delights to honour, to sow discontent among such defeated a Bavarian Army Corps in a manner so alluring and con Chinese as happen to be British at Avricourt and Oirey, on the vincing that it never occurs to us subjects or resident in British borders of Torraine. The enemy to question their authenticity. territory, how much likely is it fad, leaving many dead, wound- In his preface Mr. de Ben. that the wealthy friends of the ed and prisoners. The French neville puts us at once.on a foot- Kaiter in America should come continue their advance from the ing of familiarity with the ground down handsomely towards the Vosges into Upper Alasce, where which he is going to cover, and fomenting of strife and disorder? they have recaptured Toann. sketches in an exceedingly bright France and the Great Battle. and interesting manner the plan The French Government has of the stories, adding such If Britishers as a whole are issued a communique preparing historical details... slow to believe in the readiness of the public for the impending help to elucidate

89 will the enemy to work mischief by great battle. It says that owing We ought to add that so well- mattere. underhand means, it is because they have but little real con- of men will be engaged and that is this preface that the eternal to the fact that several millions arranged and well. thought-out of British subjecte but including A Chinese school boy has report- osption of the German tempera the front will extend for 250 foot-notes and parenthetical ex- not a few whose hearts were with ed to the police that his residence, ment, Britain in her national task. 182 Wellington Street, has been sense enough to know that he expected for at least a week; and to be sisential concomitante, of The German has just miles, no definite resalt can beplanations that are often thought The High Commissioner, the broken into and clothing to the was not cut out for a diplomatist possibly more. The Government such works as the "Oguri. Hang Admiral, the G.0.0. and the valus of $27.80 siqler.

therefore he seeks to make good appeals to the public to follow wan' leading residents both European Accident on Murray Pier, his deficiencies by spying, lying, the phases of the operations with on the text pages themselves." can almost be dispensed ecolly end intelligently.

Hongkong. O, and M/S.

Ld.-22), buyers. Docks. $75, tellers. China Providents'

buyers.

S. Co.

$8.85,

Colony and, in course of conver- sation, he bitterly regretted that "England was done for," and that loyalty was the last thing anyone thought of nowadays. We Baked him: "Would Australia stand by the Old country in the event of war?" and his reply was: "I like to believe ao-but I can't help my doubts." That a very pleasant surprise was in store for this gentleman wo all know; and thousands more have experi enced the same sort of surprise.; Before there was time to declare war even, the Dominions and the Calories and India were, 80 to speak, falling over each other, in their anxiety to help the Mother Country. And cow, after a year of war, that auxiety, so far from woning, is ever increas ing. Singapore and the Anniversary,

Talking of the loyalty of the Colonies we see from the Straits papers to hand yesterday that our

that Singapore, like Shanghai, gathered itself together on August 4 to testify publicly to its loyalty to the Empire and its readiness to do all in its power To-day's Anniversary. to help in carrying the war to To-day is the 70th anniversary The of the passing of the Act for the a happy conclusion. Singapore Free Press says that Registration of Births, Marriages "a great gathering, not only and Deaths. fully representative of all classed

"

WRIGHT-At the Government Civil Hospital on the 15th, prophecy was amply fulfilled and instant to Mr. & Mrs. A,E. Wright a daughter..

DEATH.

WALKER By Telegram, Killed in Action at the Dardonelles. Charlos Nigel Gordon Walker.

SHERIFF-At Colombo, aged 90., the Father of Messrs. Sheriff Bros. Jewellers, 30 Queen's Road, late Chief Interpreter to the Sultan of Maldive Island.

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VOLUNTEER ORDERS.

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The German Plotter.

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The Goeben and the Breslau.

Greece and Turkey,

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owner, but are in entire keeping extremely delicate art work for which the Japanese are so re- with the tone of the stories.

The volume is onɔ which we can very strongly recommend to all our readers.

and Asiatic were on the platform, fortune to pot bis foot between holes, listening to private con- A Chinese, who had the missnesking, peeping through key and appropriate speeches were

To give anything like an out- delivered by representative men. and the Murray Pier, has been letters-and hribing the first tool there is no reason to doubt that ly-printed pages is, of courte im- the Taikoo Dock motor launch veriations, reading other people's The Official Preas Borean say covering some five hundred close-

line of a series of adventures" Will any of our readers enlighten us as to this. Colony's reason for admitted to the Government Civil that comes handy to do the work Tarkey is about to replace the possible. We will add that we .. The Home mails have brought to hand the full text of Ger- remaining in splendid isolation Hospital suffering from a crushed which his own brain is too lum Germans on the cruisere Goeben nope it is also needless. many's reply to the American Note of June 10 last, and after by practically ignoring the An

fcot.

bering to attempt. He sees no and Breslau (now in the Dard Such things should be read in digeating its contents, which will be found elsewhere in this issue,niversary altogether? Is Hong-

Theft from Hospital Matron,

harm in all this; it is what he anelles) by Turkish officers and full and not at second hand, have no doubt that our readers will remain more than ever kong to remain just Hongkong da Hospital, has complained to thinks, under certain circum shows that Tarkey has purchased anggests the greatest fidelity to Misa Innes, matron of the Matil was brought up to; he even crows. This official statement The form of the translation convinced that no more impudent document has ever been addressed, to the end of the chapter? At the police that, some time during stances that his patriotism () and the vessels. Renter's correspond-the spirit without a slavish fol- under the guise of professed friendship, by one great Power to Singapore the Committee of the the past three weeks, some person his duty to the Fatherland demand ent has arrived at Mitylene from lowing of the letter which is another. Not only does the Reply seek to bury the rest issues in Straite Settlements Association, stole from her office at the Hos- these noble acts of him. This the Dardanelles and states that what a good translation should a multitude of meaningless platitudes it also teems with hypocrisy backed by the Chamber of Com-pital a very old chatelaine in the is why the ubiquitous German the Goshen und Breslau were still be; and the result is a charming and insults, and, in its concluding passages, advances a series of merce, seems to have made itself form of four old Maltese coins in London needed a deal more flying the German flag on the

proposals" which, if they do not amount to an attempt to brow-responsible for the arrangements. dated 1750. beat the United States, at any rate constitute an endeavour to strike Is ourown Chamber of Commerce

watobing than the Home Govern- 13th inst., and that there is a bitter The work is beautifully printed an unholy bargain with the American Government a bargain so lacking in initiative we will not

msnt ever thought it worth while Anti-British feeling on the part of and contains, in addition to three which aims solely at the discomfiture of Great Britain and the say in patriotiem-that it cannot

to bestow on him. Having regard the Turks. The Allies will de- removal of the confessed dieadvantages under which Germany laboure organise so simple an affair as a

to all this, we see no reason why the mand of Turkey that she shall illustrations. These latter are by very helpful maps, forty five as a result of the impotency of her naval forces. The document, in general public meeting? We have

ravelations mentioned in this disarm the Goeben and the Bree Mr. Kaneko Sanji; and they are fact, deliberately trifles with ieause of the utmost gravity, and it contrived to give both Shanghai

morning's wires should not have lan and it is anticipated that rot only fine examples of the could only have been drawn up by the leaders of a nation which and Singapore the laugh of ne

arcasonable amount of attention Turkey will agree. has sought, and still seeks, to ride rough-ahod over all canons of but as this is by no means the Copa Orders issued yesterday that the German sticks at nothing, paid to them. Experience shows us justice and all considerations of what is due from one civilised first, or the fi'ty-firat, occasion by Lieut.-Col. A. Chapman V. D. however mean or loathsomely tions of Turkish mobilisation, Greece is demanding explana. State towards another.

on which Hongkeng has done elate: The Reply opens with a piece of oant which is as barefaced as this, the other two porte may be

contemptible; then why should Greece will mobilise if the reply it is astounding. It says that the concern of the United States in magnanimous and try to forget. Reference Corps Order No. 2 not the stories of poisoning horses, is unsatisfactory. Bosing that the principles of humanity are realised in the present

Things at Home.

of 9. 8. 15, the names of further bribing labour leaders, etc., clo, Autonomy for Poland. To na who are exiled it is candidates are required as soon war, finds a ready echo in Germany." adding that "the Imperial cheering to find from Home corres- as possible. Should the times for

be worthy of belief,?"

The Czar has conferred auton- Government is quite willing to permit its statements and decisions pondence that people in Britain practices mentioned in Corpe East makes it a little plainer that omy for Poland includes German CROWN PRINCE'S BOAST.

The Allies in Gallipoll, ony on Poland under a Viceroy. Each message from the Near The Czar's proclamation of auton- in the present case to be governed by the principles of humanity, just as it has always done." This from a nation which bar are as undismayed as ever by the Order No. 2 of 9, 8, 15 be incon the Allies have more than est and Austrian Poland. ravaged Belgium and a great part of France, which has committed war, and as fully determined as rehient to the majority of candi-ablished their footing on the the most revolting atrocities on defenceless civilians, which bas they were twelve months ago that dates, an endeavour will be made Gallipoli peninsula. At how many stooped to the lowest possible depths of cruelty in the use of their country is coming out to arrange more suitable ones if ssphyxisting gases on the battlefield, and which has, in the particu. OP dog in the struggle. Com-it is stated on their applications Iar incident which has given rise to the American protests, wilfully pared with any of the Contin- what other times are preferred. murdered little children and innocent women! In the next breath seems to be a bed of roses. Oc...

ental countries involved, Britain. Germany poses as having been "alwaya tenacious of the principle casionally there is a mild local Parades for Tacsday, 17th in all sorts of unexpected places, advise us that the Langkat output

Parades. that war should be conducted against the armed an organised scare; occasionally some wild and instant. 5.30 p.m. Recruits of as though they meant to dislodge for the current month is as forces of an enemy country"—baby-killing and trawler-sinking to

the Turks and drive them to the follows:- wit! But there is no need. to dive further into the improbable gossip goes round Engineer Co. (except Quarry Bay centre, just as the reaping tissue of falsehoods and mir-statements of which the Reply is compls speedily alifies; but as a whole exercises on Cricket Ground machine with each now sweep.

which the good sense of the peo-Section), Squad Drill & Rifle

August posed. Its actual terms are its own beat commentary,

life at Home is not so very far under 3. M. Higby All reoraits makes the rabbits scattle a little There is, however, one point about the document which cannot from being "as usual". Theatres (including latest joined) of Right nearer to the middle of the corn- escape observation. That is its deliberata evasion of the facts of the and music halle are doing well, Section M.G. Co. who have not field. Nor is Gallipoli the only case. There is no mention whatever of America's demands for business is good, and, if prices been passed out--Squad drill & pot in which the Tarca-Germans guarantees, no expression of regret for the murder of innocent have gone up, there are no Skirmishing on Cricket Ground, are being harassed. The destruc passengers, no promise to make reparation for the loss of American evidences of shortness of money Biretcher Bearer Section- tion of an enemy munitions lives, and above all, no undertaking to refrain from attacking pass in general, and poverty and un- Instruction at Headquarters. Isotory by a French oruleer on enger ships. The original excuse for the sinking of the Lusitanie, employment are less marked than Remainder-Lecture: by the In the Levant coast is another of the allegorically disposed of in the American Note that the liner they have ever been. Surely this specting Oficer, Capt. A. Riddell Was armed and carried troops has now been definitely abandoned feeling of security will spar on the 74th Panjabis, at Headquarters, 83 the flagrant lie that it was. Now Germany eeeks to shelter her- laggards to do something that alf under the weak extenuation that, "it was to be expected" that will help to lighten the much after being torpedoed, the vessel would remain above water long heavier load which the good folk enough to permit the passengers to enter the ship's boats! a more of the Allied countries on the puerile and nauseating excuse could not possibly be imagined. In Continent are bearing. Why, this case, motives count for nothing. Faots are everything. And after all, should the Britisher be it is by facts, that Germany's conduct in this particular incident, snug and comfortable when the as indeed in the war as a whole, must be judged.

Belgian is homelése? |

Detall.

duty until morning of 18th instant Gun Clab Hill, Koalcon. On H. K. V. B.

Detention Camp, Kowloon on duty until morning of 18th instant-H. K, V. B.

landinga does not neem very points they have now effected

clear, but it is evident enough that they are turning up.

minor set-backs that contribute handsomely in the wearing-out process. Of course the considera- on ahown by the French In the bombardment would scarcely giving civilians fair notice of

be appreciated by the Germans, who regard even the simplest courtesies se signs of weskuess

and effeminacy,

LANGKAT OUTPUT.

Messrs. Wright and Hornby

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To Penetrate French Froat by August 4.

Northern France, July 2, Fierce fighting is proceeding in the Argonne, where the army of the German Crown Prince is still battering itself against the French defences in an endeavour to pierce our Allies' lines. Mode

Prisoners say that the Crown Prince has promised Berlin the complete penetration of the

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always conched in the accepted vernacular of insult, have been flung into the French trenches.

There can be no doubt that the German offensive has been long prepared The closing of the Swiss frontier was obviously in- tended to cover movements of German reinforcements in this region,