THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1915.
That Coat of Arms,
Observant people are noticing that some at emplis in the making to hide the Germål boat of arma
FOR THE MORNING AFTER THE which has been decorating the
NIGHT BEFORE TAKE WATSON'S
LIVER
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DAY BY DAY
THE SOUL'S DARK COTTAGE, BATTERED AND DECAYED.
LETS IN NEW LIGHT THRO CHINES THAT TIME HAB MADE- Waller
The Weather.""
Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 84; Bunshing.
At the Peak 8 a m. Temp. 76 nebine,
;
Deatsch Asiatische Bank so much to the disgust of the loyal citizens of Hongkong. But the eclipsing is rather a large order, for the obnoxious emblem appears in stone over the main doorway and, in iroo, poross the lowes pari of each of the many windows. The tenantsof the floor above the bank bave very commendably decided to pisce a neat wooden cover over es representation of the Prussian carrion crow that appears on their own windows. This they are perfectly at liberty to do, but anfortunately they have no power pablished 36) columns of solid to deal with the eyesore apart reading matter. To-day there from where it appears on their will be 341 published.
own premises. It might be as
well if the Government or the
liquidators would take the hint
for the removal or the covering
Count the Columns,
Yesterday the
The Mails.
Telegraph
and decide to become responsible Siberian Mail. Due par 8.8.
Novara to-morrow. up of the remaining eagles. We Siberian Mail-Olosss to morrow have quite enough to remind us ⠀ at 3.00 p.m. pers.s.Sintiang of the Germans without being
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PARSONS-BIRD.-At St. Nicholas' Church, Newchwang, on the 17th instant, by the Rev. Henry Hibberd, Frank Stanley, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Parsons, Chalfont, St. Giles, Bucks., to Margaret Johnstone, only daughter of the late 'R, S. Bird and Mrs. Bird, Duns, Berwickshire.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1915,
GERMAN TESTIMONY.
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NOTES ON THE CRISIS
THE NEAR-EAST 'AGAIN..
A Batch of Bad News for,
Ormany.
There is not much to encourage Germany to take a hopeful view of.things in the batch of wires'
CIGARETTE AND TOBACCO A YEAR AGO TO-DAY.
FUND.
For the Illed Forces at the Pront.
After sending report on Satur- day the following leter was re- ceived which speaks for ithalf, it will be seen that the writer wAÐ A member of the Hongkong Police. Now surely the smokers who
LEADING, EVENTS IN THE GREAT WAR.
Extracts from the war nswa 'con- tated in the "Hongkong Telegraph" of August 85,
1014.
The Oversea" Volunteers. Mr. Harcourt has appointed &
received last night and this morn., envy the weed will help along committee under the chairmanship
the good cause.
Hon. Secretary and Treasurer.
Fracce 20th July 1915.
GEO. J. B. BAYER,
Fron Gonner 0. M. Wilson.
21at Siege Battery RG.A. Br. Expeditionary Force.
of Lord Islington to render advice and saistance to the Committees of the Dominion contingents. The members are.--Viscount, Bryce, Lord Denman, Sir Edward Ward, Sir Owen Philippe, Sir Gilbert Parker, Sir Herbert Morray and Mr. Kiobard Barbidge.
Gold Influx. Tony's gold influx into the Bank of England is 62,065,000.
The Freach Position, An offoial communique issued. in Paris says it has been decidea to withdraw the French troops from Donon and Ssales, as the points are no longer important, seeing that the French occupy e fortified line beginning at Nancy,
ing. An enemy bydroplane is stranded on Danish territory there is serious shortage of coal in Turkey, and the British have added to the hopefulness of the [supply situation there by sinking
two more transports in the Sea Geo: J. B. Sayer, Eq, of Marmora; the Russians, are
Hongkong holding up the German effen" Dear Sir; May I approach yo sive between the Vilia and the with reference to the gifts of Niemen: the Germans are tobacco which the Colony is an frantically and it would seem) generons in regularly sending to fruitlessly striving to stip the British lads, serving their the French offensive in the Empire, fighting. Vosges the French have spoiled My battery the 21st Siege the look of one of the Belgian R.G.A, which has been but here railways the Germans are so quite a long time is comprised of badly of for equipment that they a very good percentage of boys are stripping their own dead-a who had already either sarved in ghoulish sort of acoupation in Hongkong prior to the war or are which, one feels, they would be like myself serving for the occa perfectly at home and happy ion who have resided in the and Zeebrugge has been bom- Colony or other "inter ports" barbed by British warships. Qaite Four out of our eight sergeants a fair list in its way, this. Need have Hongkong service to their lesa, to say the German account of Foradit. the Zeebrugge bombardment does not tally with the report from get what is necessary in the line advent of Japan as a combatant, Individually I can manage to The Times, in welcoming the Flushing. If we are to believe an of a smoke but on behalf of the in honourable fulfilment of Treaty airy Berlin communique, forty troop" (battery) may Loek.you obligations, says this will form war vesels "appeared off to be so good as to add us to your one more tie uniting the two Zeebrugge, but disappeared" list. in face of the German cost artil.
island Empires in a common pur- S'hai-lery-a thing that a British service has no County to see to
Our particular branch of the pose in Eastern Asia. fleet would be sure to do. We our welfare sad, our supply prefer to believe the other story, through the Regimental Authori which represents the German bat-ties it very limited. On an average a packet of ten cigarettes per man per week.
Closing prices :-
Onions.—$072, bayers, « Chida Fires.-$162, buyere. Douglas's. $87, sellers."
¡Combined$ 148 s.
50 b. Deferred 02 d China Sugars 128, bayors. Luzona.-$38, sellers, Hongkong and K. W. and G.
-Indos. Preferred
Co. Ld.-$75, nom. Ewce.-la. $177, buyers. Hongkong Coltons-$8, sales. H. K. Ropes.829, sollers.
buyers. Shanghai Cottons in Tle, 102, buyers.
The Dollar.
teries as silenced,
#3
Earl of Leven Wounded! that the Earl of Leven was dang
The Press Bureau announces
(The Earl of Leven and Melville erously wounded on August 22, is a Lieutenant in the Royal Boots Greyb.)
The Island Empires.
At Orips.
eign Affairs telegraphs to-day that contact has been established between the opposing forces all along the line, as present without advantage to either side.
The French Minister for For-
It will be seen from our issue of yesterday that Miss Billie Burke, formerly one of theatre going London's" many idols has sccepted an American cinemato- graph company's engagement for five weeks' work.". The popular sotress will receive £8,000 for this fact which seems to show that there is still money in the moving picture line; at any rate for some people. Misa Billie Burke is but one of a hundred or more well-known or tolerably well known artists who have play- ed to the camera instead of to an appreciative house; and some of these have found the business
norative that they have never gone back to the stage, will be interesting to see what success Miss Barke meets with when deprived of the stimulus
The Balkans, etc. of an uproariously appreciative house. Many artists who have To-day's Anniversary. heen lured by the high rate of
One of the funniest things we To-day 'a the 45th anniversary have struck lately is the German payment to accept cinematograph of the repulse of the Germans at remark that "the Italo-Turkish engagements have found that they had, as it were, a new
Verdun..
rupture will produce a change in business to learn, and only the
Italo-German relations, especial- more gifted of them ancoeeded in
ly as any Italian attack on the The two Ohineno boat women Dardanelles will be an attack on preserving their charm to the full charged by Revenus Officer Wil-German soldiers," The feeble when they found themselves den in connection with 850 taels pomposity of such an utterance is NEWS FROM THE NORTH. Cavalry defeated an Austrian limited to gesture and facial ex- of opium, wore each sentenced to almost pathetic. As though Italy pression. This, at any rate, has been the cass with British and six months imprisonment with cared two straws whether sle American actors and actresses.
bard labour, at the Police Court, offends or pleases the almighty this morning. Facing the Camera.
Continental artists, "especially the French and Italians, are said to have had loss difficulty
The rate of the dollar on demand to-day is le 9 3/8d.
The Opium Haul.
Lease Renewed.
Trus ing to someday again re- turning to Hongkong to take up my duties-that is when this war ia seen through. I must close,
Thanking you in antisipation. Yours faithfully,
(Sd.) C. M. WILSON. LS. 88 11.K. Pulice.
The Ministry of Justice.
Russian Progress.. The Russians have occupied Arys, twenty-five miles west of Lyck, in the district of Gumbin- nen, Eastern Prussia.
Servian Invasion of Hungary Imminent.
The Servians have elesred the country around Lczalias, Lesh- nitza and, Schabatz, Servisn
column, capturing four Howitzer and ten field guns. A French official despatob, evidently refer-
Prussians The truth is that (From Our Own Correspondent.) ring to this engagement, Bayı Germany has been used for BO
that the Austrian forces, while many years to being listened to
attempting a counter-cffensive: by the secondary Powers that she
Peking, Aug. 12. movement towards Schabats, that her words and hints and Nanking 8 per cent. Band e.scow ready to cross the river Save cannot lose the habit of thinking
Owing to the rehearing of the were repulsed. The Sarviene are threats count. Any declaration and the summary excontion of the and invade Hungary. that she may have to make with Magistrate of Jung Heiep,
LANGKAT OUTPUT.
According to the Dutch press, s most remarkable denunciation of the Kaiser and his supporters has been issued by an organisation calling itself the German Humanity League. This body has
St. John's Ambulance. published a manifesto, the text of which we give in another column,
Association. dedicated to all its friends and associates and, in very plain langu age, laying responsibility for the war at the dor of Germany herself, in "this direction which one St. John Ambulance Association, Mr. E. Ralphs, Hon. Secretary, The British mind has, as a rule, very little pationes to spare for can well believe: To begin with, acknowledges with thanks, re- humanity leagues as such, for almost always there is behind them no Anglo-Saxon can ever hope to ceipt of Fifly Dollars contributed some craze that savoure of unhealthinees. If, then, British readers approach the southern Contin- by the Hon. Mr. Lau Chu-pak to regard to Italy-or Roumania Kaangei, against the judgment attach any importance to, the manifesto it is because it was issued entals where expression and gea-tho Anoiation's by people of the same nationality as the Kaiser and because it is tare are concerned. Thus while for the Wounded."
"War Fond will, we feel sure, be received of the Kaeilin Court of Justice, very decidedly of the nature of a confession. Indeed it is the con- Max Linder or the ever adorable
with equanimity. The day has the relatives of Wang Haun, ex- fession element about the whole thing that at once acquits it of" Wills" were likely to be a
gone by when she can terrorise, Financial Commissioner of belonging to the class of document which our own pro-Boer party success from the beginning, a
and the wonder is that even her Kiengei, have petitioned the We are informed that the pre-own'dall wits do not grasp that censorate that the death sentence WBB occasionally moved to put forth during the South African War, oinemitogrsh work habit of erat lessees of the Victoria Thea fact. But probably they do. passed by the Loal Court of advise us that the Langkat oat
Meaars. Wright and Horoby gesture being second nature-the It tells the truth in so unvarnished a fashion that one tremblee beavier British and American tre have entered into an arrange-There seems no doubt as to the Justice upon this official is unfair for the current month for the fate of the signatories if ever they should fall into the hands type could only achieve success the lease of the theatre is renewed peoples
ment with the owners whereby satisfaction among the Balkan and unjust. The officials of the follows:- of the militariste. Practically every one of its teree statements slowly, or else was marked down for a farther three years. We are Italy's decision. Greece, in against this practice lest it will be 88 1 whole at Ministry of Justice are bitterly gives the lie to the various utterances of the Kaiser. "No Siate for failure, because depriving it glad to rote that the Victoria will her coveted our land or menaced German integrity. Our ships were of its voice meant robbing it of still continue under the very able free to sail, and welcomed, in every aoan. Our citizens enjoyed nine-tenths of its stock in trade. management of Mr. J. Blake. fullest civil rights in all parts of the world. Our industrial output And this reminds us aleo that found a ready market in every_quarter of the globe. Commerce neither British nor American was increasing year by year. Everywhere the German flag wae companies, BAYO in very
It was alleged in the Police respected. To-day it is the badge of infamy," These assertions rare cases, have yet
suo-Court, this morning, that a Obin- come crisply, as though in amart contradiction to contentions urged ceeded in coming within many ess in the Kowloon Market cut by the war party, and every citizen of the allied and neutral coun- streets of the Continental firms the hand of Mr. Pilos Latorens tries knows that they breathe truth. Germany was free to come where the output of first-class films of 45, Haiphong Road, whilet and go as she liked, and it was respect rather than jealousy that e.. is concerned. It looks as though she was purchasing bananas from Great Britain entertained towards her commerical enterprises." We the former would have to engage hita. It was alleged that he anateh admired her "push" and deplored the relative slackness of our own an increasingly large number of ed the fruit from her hande commercial firms-notably here in the Far East. If any nation felt Continental artists if they want when she was bargaining, end a unamiably towards her it was France-on account of her possession to satisfy the European public as knife the men was holding out the of Alsace Lorraine; and that, surely, was very natural. In graval, a whole. Almost invariably the women. The case was remanded. however, she was not disliked as a nation, even though Germans sa British artist proves heavy and individuals have always had a bad name in every quarter of the world on account of their hopeless lack of manners and their all-round arrogance and phurlishness,
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needed this last little fillip, as is great disadvantage of the judicial war enthusiasm, ecarcely followed in other cities to the shown by a later wire. According independence of China, Mr Chang this, some Greek politicians who Chung-hsiang, Minister of Justice, have arrived in England speak of intende to resign his post as he their country as calling for war." finds it very hard to protect the Surely Germany will have enough name of the Court of Justice and enemics to satisfy ever her after the independence of the judiciary of the Republic. There is in creased contention and discord between the Judiciary and Ad- America and the Situation,
ministration and the tension will be increased if the Censors inter- Americs must be finding that fere with Wang Hana's case. her prese le getting the bit bet wes ite teeth. It continues to Wang Bean belongs to the so- It is interesting to note that denounce the sinking of the called" Kuangtung Clique" and Arabic and says, with a candour he was recommended by Mr. that the Government must find a Chang Ha to the post of little disturbing, that to reason the Financial Commissioner' of with Germany is merely to Kiangai over.
year ago. parley with a murderer. Never The Proposed China-American theless we note that the parley Steamship Company, continues, and Mr. Lansing has Mr. Chang Chen-bean and cabled to the Ambasandor in several other Chinese merchants Berlin asking him if Germopy who went to the United States has an ofheial report of the Arabic for the promotion of Onino- for any decent, self-respecting German who bas hitherto been proud
incident-but not instructing him American commerce and industry of, his country. It goes without saying that there must be an
Three men have been remanded to ask for a report! This will will be expected in Peking shortly throughout the Republio dealing enormous percentage of the German publio that did not want wor
in regard to an alleged armed haraly please the newspapers, to report to the Ministry of with the necessity of pupils learn- and that has been, longing to see it at an end. The unpleasant
Greeks in Macedonia. fact remains, however, that these will have to suffer for the guilty.
robbery at 8, Lung Wan Street, One of these latter-the New York Commerce and Agriculture the Athens, July 14. According to first floor. Doubtless many of them will wish to become naturalised enbjects of the official tables the number of men gut into the house by climb enough that one of the German Bank and a Ohino-American specially the period after the It is supposed the World-suggests what is feasible formation of a Chino-American ing the past history of China, Other countries. But who will want them? Who will trust them? Greek refugees coming from Asia ing a water pipe; they threatened American schemes was to flood Steamship Company from Shang- opening of the fire porte to for Even the United States will hesitate now before giving them a home. Minor. Thrace, Turkey, and to atab a woman, but the ories of the Danish market with supplies Hai to the U. B. A. The Chineseign commerce. Also the various -Formerly Britain always accorded the warmest of welcomes to Gar-
mana; they went into the Homeland by the thousand and made Bulgaris, and installed in Macea girl awoke the inmates of so that Denmark would be glad to promoters of these new concerns causes which led to the present
donia, except those installed in another for who blow police dispose of these at any price. At are chiefly wealthy Chinese mer themselves comfortable. Those who are guilty of the war and it the ancient isles of Greece, whistles. The men then made least there is enough in the ang-chants from the Biraits Settle of affaire in this Country, so as pitiable and deplorable condition attendant atrocities, and those who are not, will, it is to be feared, amounts to 107,922, whose aban- off, but one man was arrested by gestion to show how ready the ments and the United States. to roues a patriotic feeling in the phare pretty much the same fate, and the whole nation will hence doned forth be stamped as people whom, nobody wants and with whom Baimsted to be of the value of arrested, and it was alleged, to ignore the neutrality of their
personal property is a Inkong. Later the others were hyphenated Americans have been Chinese Education.
rising generation. No anti- obody will negotiate.
The Ministry of Education has foreign languages will boinserted 358,653,840 franOS.
doggers were found on them, adopted country.
issued an order to all schools in the books.
uninteresting when shown on the screen, while the American is either strooiously vulgar or else merely and wearisomely silly. To-day, says the manifesto, all this is changed, and the German Perhaps this is oue of the depart- frg has become "the badge of infamy. It adds: "To their last ments of life that Fate will be hears the Kaiser, von Tirpitz and Bethmann-Hollweg will carry up good enough to overhaul for us on them the brand of shame for the unparalleled ruin they have when the war is over. There's wrought and the misery into which they have planged the world by grand are mmodation, as the their barbariam on land and ea." This is a comforting reflection Sootsmen observed.
Alleged Armed Robbery,
A
Total to 24th inat. 5,204.
Daily
average 220.59
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