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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUNUST 20, 1915,

Fires in Canton

B Canton is still frightened by thefre bogey, and with grot reason, for the amount of hayo). brought about in this way during the past few months, has been appalling. Even apart from the amount of incendiariam which has been proved to be rife in the native city during the past three fires an ever prosent me there. or four years, the danger from The Chinese are notoriously care [less with lampe and in their handling of explosives, and con-

DAY BY DAY.

EARTHA STAGE,

THE WORLD'S A THEATRE, THE

WHICH GOD AND NATURE DO WITH ACTORS FILL-Heywood

The Weather. Lower level 8 s.m. Temp. 84; sunabine.

At the Peak 8 am. Temp. 78; sunshine..

Count the Columns. Yesterday

The Malis.

Siberian Mail Dao per

Liangehow to-morrow. Biberian Mail-Closes par

Anhui to-morrow at 5 p.m.

Up to the MinúteTM“Shara

NOTES ON THE CRISIS

GERMANY AND AMERICA,

The Kavno Forts.

A YEAR AGO-TO-DAY.

LEADING EVENTS IN THE

GREAT WARS!

Extracts from the war news con- tained in the Hongkong Telegraph" of August 20,

1914.

CANTON NEWS.

From Our Own Correspondent.)

Fears of a Haw Food."

Conton, August 18, Several days lately &i Kwan has been agog with excitement. Whenever there is a little 'rain Servian Victory.

some of the streets are covered That Kovno story seems a little An official Paris, despatch con- with wa'er to the depth of one to mixed thing which nct un- firms the report of a Berrin iz inches. The probable caus commonly happens when official vie1ory

at Schabats, The is that the draina are left in a statements from Petrograd are Austrians participating number blocked condition and the auriace interleaved with Berlin communing 80,000,

water can find no outlet. WiL iques. While the Germans are America and Foreign Ships. claiming possession of Korno, President Wilson has signed of responsibility, several orders

characteristic Oriental shirking look, stock and barrel, and while the Bill admitting foreign ships have been æent out requesting the Kaiser is distributing liara' to "American registry, King

the inhabitants of each street to es medals or something of the wort

Turkey and Greece.

see that the drains are op among his generals, the Russians : Greek and

Turkish statesmen The result is obvious. state that," after desperate battles are proceeding to Bakharest for a business is shoved into the hands lasting for eleven days, which cost general discussion on the situation, of all the people, so it beogenes the Germans enormous losses,"

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quently there is greater risk of

the Telegraph an accident where they are con published 351 oolamas of solid cerned than in European towns, reading matter. To-day there again, a fire in a well-arranged will be 342 published. otr, unless it gets en undus atart of the fremen or has a sharp wind in its favour, is usually mastered. before it can reach adjoining buildings. How Canton, or any place constructed on similar lines, must fare when a house ostohes |light, "our readers know. The

most elabors to engines and capes, and the most efficient fire- (fighters in the world, will be use- less so long as the average width of 's street remains that of a L2n- don alley-way. Our correspond. ent in Canton informs us that, în an inspired moment, the local Government has ordered buckets: of water to be placed in the main streets for the extinguishing of potential fires. Those who have

The object of this paper is to publish correct information, serve to seen Canton's "main aircots"

the truth and print the news without fear or favour.

·Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

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Telephone: No. 1 . A.B.C., 8th edition. Western Union

Office address: 11, Ice House St.

BIRTH.

apart from the Hand-will appre cinte the practicality of this new

move.

Another Lyaching Case.

BRIDGER-On the 20th instant at 6, Babington Path, to Mr. sign of a healthy moral vitality and Mrs. R. L. Bridger--a daughter.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1915.

WHAT GERMANY WANTED.

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· Market Nowa.

Closing prices:

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those Kovno fortifications that are

"Germans Agata Repulsed.

The Germane, when making actaly's business and situated on the left of the Niemen another stempt to arces the not attended to. When the Cal have fallen into the enemy's hands Meuse, near Dinant, were repulas officiala wake up to the foot Banks $830, sellera ex div.which hardly seems quite the ed by French artillery with con- that they are elected to serve the needs and beat interests of the Yangtaze's-$245, buyera ex same thing as the Berlin story. siderable loss.

73.

people, that a public official in no

Douglas's. $60, bayore Dooks.

873), buyers.

Iados..

Combined 149 8. Prefened 57 8. Deferred 92 a

Shell Transports, 92/ sellers. China Sugars.$125, buyers.

Rauba84, sales. Shanghai Dooks 401,sales: Shanghai Cottons in S'hai - [Thu, 102, sales.

Green Islands.38, bayers.

$8.40,

* Humphrey's" Eilates,

buyers. Shanghai Lands Tir. 102,

buyers.

Electrica $43, sales. Watsons. $6.60, buyers.“

The Dollar.

The rate of the dollar on demand to-day in 14 9 5/163.

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Of course the Germans have made tattoo Loyal" Canada.

a capture, and it would be folly H. R.-H. the Duke of Con-more and no less than publio to seek to minimise the valus of naught, in the Speech from the servant, then and not till then it but it remains to be seen Throne convening the Canadian may we hope for a reasonably whether there in reel strategio Parliament, emphasised the clean oilyen importance attachable to it or not. splendid response to the call to New City Passen If Russia still keeps the fortifica-duty from every provicce. The time to issue passes to people It has been customary for some tions to the right of the Niemen same espirit, he said, inspired she bringing in goods for the Gover

it seems to us that von Hindenberg | whole Empire, and this united

$1

does not hold the first and action to repel a common danger part, allowing such goods strongest bulwark on the inner would not fail to strengthen the line of Russian defenses.” ties binding the Dominion..

KWANGTUNG RELIEF "FUND.

emption from search at the city gion. The new Governor har aken up all the old pamen and issued new ones.

Everybody is thus warned that the old passes are uselesa....

Centon Electric Lights. It really seems time for some

Subscription List No 33. The Tang Wa Hospital begs to one to call attention publicly to soknowledge with thanks the the disgraceful condition of the following donations to the Kwang- electric light service in Sai Kwen. tang Flood Relief Fond.

Formonths and mon the before the TT from New York $2000.00, flood the lights were not to ba Por Menora Kin Tye Long from depended upon at all. They the Chamber of Commerce of came on as usual about the right Bangkok $5000,00,||||

time and after shining for half The Chines0 Commercial an hour or so they gradually Printing Press $40.00.

west out. The poor subsoriber, who pays, by the way, probably greater raten for service (P) thang subscribers on any other sizable anty on earth would be left in total darknes, so far an

America waking up. Apparently the American news- However much one may deplore

papers have not spoken in vain, the multitude's readinem to tako

for weread that Dr. Wilson is tak- the law into its own hands, one is bound to feel that the average

ing at any rate preliminary action in the matter of the alleged Ger lynching case in Amerios is, a Kang Yiks.Tle, 15.30, buyers. man conspiracies in the States, The President saks for definite and sense of fairness. Renter reports to-day that

spy kotivity in America before the statements in regard to German man who, according to British law, would

war, p. We should not be surpris" Have been banged a couple of

ed if the resulting revelations give years ago as an-approved: mON To-day's. Anniversary.

him something, to think about. derer, has been allowed to dally To-day in the 45th anniversary The Americans, like the British, in gaol while reprieve measures of the shooting of the Prussian are a deal too ready totske strang- were taken. The murder was spy, Lieutenant Harth, at Paris. erson trust and to assume that they |2 of a particularly atrocious

mena ro harm, because they do character and, when two years

not happen to carry red fig, bad passed without the Man Yuen and Company sued openly preach sedition or launch perpetrator's paying the penalty F. C. Castle for the Sum of an occasional bomb. The hint of his crime, his neighbours lost $24.25, in the Summary Court, conveyed in this morning" patience and undertook the hang- this morning, according to the wires, is that, for long enough ing themselves. As long as law list. remains the elastic substance that

it has been of late years in the States, the sympathies of the in- habitants of well-organised countries will probably continue to remain with the lynchers. has been carried on in Americs is fair to say that lynching as it has almost invariably been char scterised by a rugged sense of real justice and fair plays the justice that, in the hands of the America a great country. That, early settlers, promised to make

The latest Tômés received from Home mentions that an article by Baron von Liebig, dealing with " Germany's wanta" was being widely circulated in Berlin à month or so ago. The Baron, it seems, speaks of his compatriots as "a World People in the World Powor sense," (whatever that may mean) and proceeds to demand that Germany shall have a frontier capable of easy defence, and military foross "which can protect the interests of a World People in every part of the world." He further decides that Germany's navy must be raised to the "requisite level," and that she must obtain "as mach luni as possible" for agricultural parposss, must have "her" own colonies and not merely paris of Central Africa," and must own territory from which she can obtain her own raw material, especially cotton and ores. Finally she must acquire an uninter-in this Twentieth Century, such rupted piece of coast, a free approach to a World Sɔs.' As a use ful afterthought he adds: "The North Sea is, of course, no World methode should still be called for Sea, but an inland ses which England, as this war teaches, can closeems to show that there is a big at pleasure."

flaw somewhere.

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| A. Religious Moratorium.

Small Claim.

Judgment.

Mr. Justice Gompertz Shortly to return. "Mr. Justice Gompertz will be back on Sunday week," said Mr, for the hearing of action at the Justice Hazeland in fixing a date Summery Court, this morning.

Robert Dollar Company Makes

the intensely hondurable German mind has been devoting itself to spying and meaking and

2 Subscribers of 820-each and of $10-each $60,00.

1 Subscriber of $7.90, 1 of 66- and 1 of $2 $15.00.

Already acknowledge! $460 029.30

Total $476145,50,

LANGKAT - OUTPUT.

ان می کر نہیں

Judgment was given against prying in connection with Ameri Mesars. Wright and Hornby Tong Sing and Company who can battleship secrets and the advise us that the Langkat output were sned by the General Electric affairs of the Panama Canal, for the current month is se Company Limited of China for Farthermore, it moms that follows:- the sum of $280.

American det: otires have at last

August got to the bottom of the forged Fassport story, and that the. Ger- man Embassy is itself involved ! To the British mind this sort of| thing is practically unthinkable. duale, whether German, American Wecan understand private indivi

or British, improving the shining hours with dirty and disreputable work; but it is impossible for a nation that has been brought up to regard the diplomatis service 31 fomething almost sacred, to conceive of an important Em- little plots, which one associates bassy's lending itself to miserable only with the foreign waiter class. Bat German honour requires a show-case all to itself,

Claim,

In the Summary Court this morning, before Mr. Justice Haze- land, the Robert Dollar Company significant comments on latter sum of $58 51 The bearing was Yesterday we published some sued Kwong Took Cheung for the day German religion which bave adjourned. appeared in a Berlin Lutheran

Baron von Liebig is by way of being a professor of chemistry at the University of Giessen, and if Germany were any other country she would ask this guardian of the young idea, and all his fellow theorists who have done so much towards adding fuel to fire both before and since the outbreak of war, to hold their tongues about what they do not understand; would, in fact, tell them in an unrar magasine. The writer very justly nished manner not to make fools of themselves. That certainly points out that, if Germany is would have been Bismarck's way; but then Bismarck was at leastwice, she will

found it over difficult to believe this.

Settled.

Before Mr. Justice Hazeland, declare a mo- in the Summary Court, this morn-

Other News. the morning and mid-day wires, There is a variety of items in

The fighting in the trenches," Mr. Crew of Messra, Hastings and perhaps more interesting then

been talked at опе

A Question of Time:

EUROPEAN ACTION.

Tons 242 238 214

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221

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229

228

2254

11

215

12

240

13

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14

214

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204

18

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216 215

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Total to 19.h

inst. 4,248 Daily average 224.53

A ROYAL OVERSIGHT:

King Albert's Luncheon with General Fach.

alextrin lights were concerned, till eleven or half past. Then they came on again. Dering the Blood, when we presume, all the dram shops and gambling houses were closed, the servics W&S“ excellent. Sinos that time the same old lactica have been inaugurated again. If any one is brave enough to kick he is met by the bland and vagno answer that they are trying to supply too many places and that this thing will continue till new machinery is installed.

DEMORALISED TURKS.

Soldiers Who Rus

Shot:

to be

How the Allies' successes are affecting the spirits of the Turks is shown in the following" divj- Hamilton Bional order, quoted by Sir Isa

There is nothing that causes us moreforrow, increases the courago

of the enemy, and encourages him to attack more freely, causing as great losses, than the losing of these trenches. Henceforth com manders who surrender these tranches, from whatever side the attack may come, before the lat manis killed will be punished in the same way as if they had ran Gway,

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a man, and not an ass in a lion's skin. It was each bombastic fratorium" in the religions line ing G. A. Hastings sued Wong demande as those mentioned above that helped to give the younger while the war is in progress Lak Fang for the sum of $116. generation of Germana a better conceit of themselves (they alwaye had a tolerably good one) and thus paved the way for the present he says," is of such a character Hastings said the case was settled. importank. Another bint is given confliot. The cackling of half a dozen of these male old women was, that every feeling of religion, and has since proved, capable of working more mischief than the every act of devotion, every in

us sa to the real and material atterances of a thousand politicians even wrongheaded ones; for clination to prayer cesses." S

progress which is being made in the German publis, like the Chinese, cherish an almost superstitions we should imagine, with a people morning : --

In the Summary Court, this abell-making at Home, in the reverence for the sayings of book-learned inen.

statement of a British officer] Bis Lirdship These gallant that lays itself ontto lecture-hall and library generale told their worshippers that the saphyxiating gas and to poison Gardiner :-There is a possibility men at the Front were which the King and Queen of the I hope that this will not occur

ase What do you call "long." Mr. serving in France. If ever our Paris, June 30. The ville in Germans were a World People, and none of the said worshippers wells. A good deal of drivel has of the case being settled. His disposed

to get Out

of Belgians reside at present is close again, I give notice that if it does time Lordship. That does not con improbable-they are going to King's grandfather, Leorold I, I do not desire to see a blot made and another about war and vey much (Laughter.)

heart and that is exceedingly to the high road by which the I shall carry out the punishment. Had Germany had the good sense not to listen to euch evil religion. That battle is not Countollore the war might never have taken place. Germany mast included in the precepts of the

have plenty to cheer them up entered Belgiam in 1831 when onthecourage of our men by those have thie, must have that, must have the other, said the professors; Sermon on the Mount, Britishers

now, for they know what they are the crown was offered to him. who escape from the trenches to and so the torch was laid to the stack. She had ample territory, a are sadly aware; but so long as

able to do, given a fair amount of It is at this vills that the King avoid the rifs and machine gun large revenue, useful colonies and a powerful grip on the world's the existing condition of human

Ammunition. Another item, and Qasen received the other fire of the enemy. Henceforth I commeroa; could she not have been content with these? No; society leaves them no other

which we take to be the foreran- day General Foob, who Belgium was a small, weak nation, relying on the honour of the methodol punishing wrong-doere,

ner of many such, is that which mande the armies of the Republic who do not shoot with their re

com shall hold responsible all officers Powers for protection; therefore Germany plundered her..

deals with the failure of the in the so th. At ranchine Queenvolvers all the privates who try to France there is no reason why they had acquired a reputation for gathering weakness and effeminacy, ehould not go to the fight with

Mid-Rhenish Bank one of the sat at the head of the table with escape from the trenches on any her army was said to be useless and her commerce such as might clear consciences, praying for

important Disconto Gesellschaft General Foch on heright and pretext.Commander of the lith easily be grabbed from her; therefore Germany attacked her. Had victory as their mediaeval fathera

group

What else could the King on her left. The con- Division, Colonel Eifaat. these attacks proved successful, bad Russia and Britain, and did before them. For a ruffian

bo expected? Germany has versation of their guest so deeply To the copy from ultimately Italy, kept out of the fray, a few more years would army that has outraged every In the Summary Court, this like water and, to give the devil they very neatly forgot the object note is appended

been pouring out her money interested the Royal hosts that extract was taken the following doubtless bave witnessed the annexation of Switzerland, Holland and law, human and Divine, to insult morning, Mr. L. D'Almada ehia due, her commercial ciroles for which they had invited him, possibly Denmark, for "small nations must go!" What would have the Deity with prayere is quite Castro, represented by Mr. Hay have stuck by her with more which was to hand bim the in talion. The contents ill be followed is easy to guess. But the Fates saw the matter in another another matter, and we agree wood, sued Parr and Company, loyalty than she deserved. But signis of the Order which had communicated to the officers, and To Commander of the 1st Bat light, and to-day Germany, for her pains, Ande herself without a with the Berlin theologian that Limited for the sum of $208 even the combined purae of the just been conferred on him. I promise to carry out the colony, with a paralysed navy, an army that has achieved infamy it would be less hypocritical being the amount due for profes, country is not the widow's oruse The General had already taken till the last drop of our blood has instead of fame, a topalace ripe for revolution, a name so slained if the Germans decided to put Bional services rendered. that centuries must pass before it can begin to cleange itself, and a prayer on the shelf for a while. Mr. Haywood, when his Lord to Germany's finances, even motor car when King Albert ran Signed Hassan,

and an end was bound to come his leave and was seated in his been shed. Sign and well nigh bankrupt exchequer. In addition, her last friend, Am- They will have quile enough ship called on the ection said though she added to them by out of the ville jumped on the 127th Regiment. erica has "lound her out", and rain and dissolation are staring ber need of it later on when our lads there had been a settlement, the robbery with violence, and econo-step of the car, and hurriedly

Commander coldly in the face. Baron von Liebig has told us what Germany at the Front have had a fair defendant going to plaintiff's mised them by starring wanted; the Home wires are telling us what she is going to get.

her handed over the precious casket, with apologies for his absence of mind.

chance at them.

Claim Against Mesirs Parr & Co., Ltd.

office and paying.

Hackless troops,

Then follow signatures of com Dany commanders.