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FRAGRANT AND REFRESHING

A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd.

HONGKONG.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1915.

The Alleged Armed Robbery."..

The statement of a Lantso woman to the police that her bonsa was held up by robbers,

DAY BY DAY.

FOR EVIL NEWS POST, WHILE armed with revolvere, opens up GOOD NEWS BAITS--Milton, two sore points: the ease with which the Chinese séem able to get possession of revolvers and

The Weather.

NOTES ON THE CRISIS. A YEAR AGO"TO-DAY." | JAIL BREAKING AT KIR IN.

THE BALKAN situation.

Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 84 More Bad News for the Enemy

the need for more practical ecran. operation with the Government

between

them'shelter and with intermediate bomes si Macro or some smaller

island. Ono would have thought that, for its own great comfort and security, the Kwangtang Government would keep a stricter watch on the traffic in arms, Á things are, there seems little to prevent any Canton coolie from possessing a revolver and am- munition and, when he is tired of these, from passing them on to someone else that someone else not infrequently being a Hong kong Chinese.

Our Police Court.

We understand that when a case was called upon at the police court this morning, the defendant, a local business mon, stepped on to the rostrum" near the judicial table, held a brief undertoned

The object of this paper is to publish correct information, serve to conversation with the presiding

the truth and print the news without fear or favour.

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

Telephone: No. 1 A.B.C., 5th edition.

Western Union Office address: 11, Ice House St.

DEATHS,

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1915.

THE ZEPPELIN-A YEAR'S SCORE.

magistrate- and then left the coart, That this conversation wAB icandible is amply proved by the fact that the press raporters themselves, close though they were to the magistrate, could not hear what was said. All that any- one present was aware of was that the gentleman had been called upon to answer a summons, Whether he was fined or discharg

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At the Peak 8 a m. Tomp. 77;

Count the Columns,

11 a.m.

The Mails.

Up to the Minute-Share Market News, Closing prices:

Banks.-8820, sollers. Unions.-8972, sellers.

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(Combined # 145 68. Indo

Deferred 10 88. Ohinas.

Preferred *.55 B8 China Sugars. $126) sales. Luzona.- $88, nom. Ural Caspiane. 38 buyers. Ewoo-lls. $1781, buyera. Langkate. Tle. 373, bayern. Shanghai and Hongkow W.

Oo. Ld-$91, buyera. Hongkong Lands.

nom...

$109,

08.15

$171.

Hongkong Cottons.

buyers.... Union Waterboats. -

sellers. Shangbai Cottons in S'hai

Tle, 106, buyers, Humphrey's Estates. $61. Shanghai Docks $63, buyers. Kang Yits-Tle. 17, sales.

The Dollar.',..

demand to-day is le 9-3/8d.

The rate of the dollar,

To-day's Anniversary. To-day is the 35th anniver- sary of the late Earl Roberts arrival in Candabar after his celebrated marob.

Royal Birthdays.

"LEADING EVENTS IN THE

GREAT WAR.

Extracts from the war news can tained in the "Hongkong Telegraph" of August 31,

1014.

The Surrender of Apin, -

Machlas-Cans Brought into Play-

the

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breaking incident is reported from News of a very determined jail- Kuis, in which a large number of this Colony on the part of the rain and fog.

of men-later reports say four Kwanglung cfficials. From the

If there is nothing of a porti.

hundred-were killed and wound- readiness with which the men is Yesterday the Telegraph calarly enlivening nature, so far

ad says the Japan Chronide of question are alleged to have made published 363 columns of solid sa "car side" is concerned, in the

The Secretary of State for the August 10. It appears that on straightway for Uhinese territory reading matter. To-day there over-night and morning wires, Colonica announces that Apia, in the 6th instant some convicte the inference is that they will be 34 published,

there is more than a little in them German Samoa, suranderad to were at work ontside the prison. were not British subjects but

shat is calculated to add to Ger an expeditionary force, sent by gate, and at about two o'clock, belonged to that detestable.

many's disquiet. It can hardly be the Governor of New Zealand, on taking advantage of class that hovers anywhere Canadian, U. K. and U.S. Mails. encouraging, for instance, 10 Saturday.

abannes of the wardera hero apd Canton,

-Closed per e.. China to know that an added enemy in the

The Land Battle. tiffin, they ran back to the prison, with friends in either place to give Siberian Mail. Closed per s.8. the Allies have made a successful statement describing the British cells, set free about 1,000 inmates.

day at 11a.m.

form of cholera bas ocme, that i Lord Kitchener tas iegued a and, breaking the look of the Yingehow to-day a13 p.m. air raid on the German lines at share in the four days' battle Evidently this attempt at jail. Australian Mail. Closes tor Bixschoote, or that Japan has starting on the 23rd in which breaking had been pre-arranged, morrow per v.s. Chengeha at decided to place her munition he says. During the period, the for the men as soon as liberated factories at the disposal of the Allies were occupied in resisting armed themselves with the awords, Allies particularly Russia" and checking the German adv rifles and revolvera of the jailers, while there mast be much that ance and withdrawing to new and all sorts of other weapons, and is exasperating in Mr. Balfour's lines of defence. The battle attacked the warders. At the same sistement of Zeppelin affairs, began at Mons, on Sunday. The time the convicts set fire to the After all the larid lies that Ger German attack was stubbornly kitchen, which burned furiously. many has spread broadcast, it can pressed and repeated, but it was. The jailors, taken unawares and hardly be pleasant for her to be completely checked by the British most of them being unarmed, told that she is not only knave front. On Monday the Germans were at a decided disadvantage. bat fool as well. We wonder, by made vigorous efforte, with In a brief space of time orer $120, and the way, if it has occurred to her superior numbers, to prevent the fifty were shot or cut down, and to contrast the British idea of a safe withdrawal of the British only half a dozen escaped to give bombardment with her own. force and drive it into the fortress the alarm to the police and milit- Germany bombards the East of Maubeuge. This was frustrated ary authorities. coast, hits a girls' school, three and the enemy's losses on both A contingent of police was sent ohurches and a perambulator; days far exceed ours. The to quell the disturbance, but was .. Britain bombards Zeebrugge, British retirement proceeded on routed by the convicts after a which is strongly garrisoned by the 25th with continuoue fighting, pitched battle. The troops then the enemy, and the result, in though not on the scale of the arrived on the scene with some killed alone, is six hundred.

previous two days.

machine-guns, which were wed By night, on the 25th, the Bri- against the prison-breakers with la the Balkans,

tish cocopiad a line between Cam-deadly effect. The convicts, how- Things seem to be briskly on the brai, Lasteau and Lend recier. It ever, fought with dogged stub. rove down in the Balkane. was intended to resume the re- bornness, and despite heavy Germany, in her customary tirement at daybreak on the 26th, casualties on both sides the fight honourable manner, is at but five German army corps at was kept up without intermission work down there, doing all tacked and the fighting was so all through the night and till two that she can to stir up new strife; aosa and fierce that it was im- o'clock the following afternoon. bat, as we have before remarked, possible to carry out our retire- By this time many of the convicts Germany does not and never did ment till the afternoon. This bad either been killed, wounded WALMSLEY-At Quarry Bay on the 30th inst., through and was not known till the pressmen

on-shins in diplomtoy. When she battle was most severe and desor captured, though about 200 accident, Arthur Walmsley, aged 33 years.

undertakes anything of the Bort perate and our troops extricated men who had taken up their THOMSON.-On June 17, 1915, killed in action in France, Pte. made "enquiries out of court

the is safe to make a muddle of it themselves magnificently under position

in empty

houses James G. Thomson, 1st Gordon Highlanders, and one of the Shang- The case was a perfectly simple hai Contingent; youngest and beloved, son of David and Jsabella one merely one of the scores of

to conceal the flaws in her work the 28th the British have not been when this dispatch was sent. sooner or later. Then she tries the heaviest artillery fire. Since were still offering resistance Thomson, Dunoon, and late of Dumbarton.

aamuzzled dog charges that come

by rubbing in lies, just as an molested. They rested and refitted The town has been placed under before the magistratee in the

anhandy carpenter stuffe an ill after the exertions of their martial law, as about 300 men course of a month or two; bat

To-day is the birthday of the mede joint with patty. Any fair glorious achievement and are are believed to be at large, and that hardly matters. We ask-a we asked some few months back Queen of Holland and the Em-admit offhand that British, French encounter undaunted in spirit. examination on coming into or minded neutral would, we think, ready for the next great all Chinese are subjected to strict when another local European speror of Japan.

The Departure of the China.

and Bussisa diplomatists have "allowed to have his case heard

To-day the Frenchmen bere the leaving the town. The sailing of the Pacific Mail forgotten more than the Germans brunt of an attack which was re- According to a later dispatch, privately instead of in open court

why thould a procedure, the steamer Chira has been post-will ever know concerning, the pulsed. On the 28th the British the disturbance has been quelled bandling of a delicate situation. Cavalry Brigade under Colonel and order restored after 27 hours mere thought of which would roned until to-morrow at noon.

Notice to Consignees.

Germany has low ecandalice any stipendiary al

ounning Sir Philip Chetwode, fought a of fighting. Altogether over one The First Lord's statement as to the effect of the various Zap Home, be allowed in Honkong? goods ex 88. Bloemfontein re-sight and tact she knows nothing. man cavalry.

Consignes are reminded that by the barrelful, bat of real fore- brilliant action against the Ger- hundred prison officials, police- pelin maids daring the past year, even though it tells a sorrowful Whatever the charge is whether maining undelivered after to-mor- Her head is too thick. And she The strategic position of our hundred convicts were killed and men, and soldiers, and three atory, bas ita reassuring side for us who are living thousands of miles away from it all and, in most cases, have friends at Home disgraceful or, as in this instance; row will be subject to reat.

need not be in too great a hurry to selves and our allies is: Where-wounded before the disturbance about whose safety we are naturally anxious. In the first place, the cogaised practice of British courts entirely trifling-it is the re-

invade Servia. Last year Aut tris as a decisive victory for us paid was supi ramed. statement puta an end to many foolish rumours that have been

Mr. G. P. Lammert will sell by tried that, and quickly discover be fatal to the enemy, the co- banded round the Colony: wild stories of an untold number of lives to discuss it publicly and not in auction, to morrow at 11 am, ud that she was backing the tinuance of Anglo-French resist lost, towns destroyed etc. In the second, it shows that the air any hole-and-corner manner, and his sale rosme, a quantity of wrong horse. It locks grand chance which can keep in the closest

we know of no reason why this valuable household furniture.. attacks, on the strength of which Germany hoped to win "the next

paper; it is fine to barble to say grip with the enemy's best troops POLICE RESERVE ORDERS. war." have been ludicrously futile. The facta, as briefly sketched allowed to depart from custom-

particular Colony should be *** Wall Collapse.

that a couple of hundred thousand can if prolonged, lead to caly one by Mr. Belfour, are these: Daring an unknown number of aircraft and law!

At 76 Fiu Iu, Shamsuipo, a men are just across the Hanga conclusion. raids, spreading over a period of twelve months, there are 309 Nomination and not Examination. such an extent that treatment almighty command to walk in

wall collapsed injuring a coolie rian frontier, awaiting the Kaiser's Turkish Neutrality.' casualties to report, "and only on one occasion has damage been

Turkish diplomats are giving inflicted which, by any stretch of language, could be described as an army order suspends the old

One of to-day's wires states that at the Tang Wah Hospital was and take what they like. But most positive assurar ces that Police Reserve Orders inded of the smallest military importance.” The casualty lists include rale of admission to the army by

they may have to ask Servia-and Turkey will alrictly observe neu-to-day by Mr. F. C. Jenkin, forty-nine children, eighteen of whom were killed, and two hundred examination. Instead, commis

Dairy Farm News.

possibly even Roumania-about trality.

D. S. P. (Rezerve) state:- and sixty adults, seventy-one of whom were killed, No soldier or sions will le given to candidates wishes to inform its customers game again: bluff and threat

The Dairy Farm Company that. This is just Germany's old

Parades. Tuesday to Thursday, August sailor was killed.

How this squares with the "raide on fortified towns" mention- specially nominated. This is a that it has just received a ship with but precious little do" Heligoland engagement have 31st to September End, as detail- ed in the various German communiques is for the mastere in med vided it does not go past the Haddocks.

move in the right direction-pro-ment of Kippers and fillets of behind it ail..

arrived at Harwich. They declare ed in orders of 30th-31st instant. acity who inverted them to decide. With but a narrow strip of post altogether. Our Ssadhozet Murder in the New Territory,

that the British guns were fired

Patrols. water between the English coast and the Flemish, and with a whole and Woolwich system is just the

Tuesday to Thursday, August with terrifio accuracy end force year in which to make experiments, in air warfare, these noisy other swing of the pendulum fron King Kee, Saikang, has made a new from the Russian front, but decks of the Germen warships

A shopkeeper at 28, Wong There is little enough that is and that most of the men on the 31st to September 2nd, as already German braggarts have succeeded in killing eighteen children and the old-fashioned custom of allow report to the police that his wife what is clear enough is that the perished. seventy-one non-combatants and in doing acertain amount of damage ing men to buy their way into the was murdered yesterday. De-Tear's troops are continuing to to private property. Their raids have been just mere wantonness; they army; and what has long been tails of the affair are not yet to not on 's defensive that is more Maya Blation in Poland. The have been brats), and have served no hostile purpose whatever." How wanted is a happy mean between hand.

A Zeppelin airship bombarded › German lives and aircraft have been sacrificed to obtain this

waring and destructive to an many

extremes. It was a public scandal Muzzling Order Summonses. glorious result we are not told, but we know from past wires that that any fool should be able to This morning Measts. A. Las bean. Day after day, this captured eight of the crow, two enemy than many an offensive Hussiane hit the Zeppelin and the raiders have not always come off scatheless..

The Germans would doubtless contend that, in a bombardment act as an army officer merely be Anderson, and W. L. Pattenden, hopeless "invasion" of Russia by quickfirers and a quality of of any kind, there is always a possibility of non-combatante" being examination system a new danger summoned for allowing their thing to show for it so far as they

cause he had money; bat by the both residentson The Peak, were the Germans goes on, with no explosives. injured or killed. "That is so; and had the air raids taken place at, was thrust in the path: that of dogs abroad uamuzzled. They are concerned but a steadily de Frisis, was brought into Hong. let us say, Chatham or Davonport or Aldershot, though one would excluding a man of nerve and were each fined five dollars..

Another prize of war, the ss. have deplored the loss of civilian life as much as in the existing brain and resource from the

crossing army. And the sold circumstances, Germany would not have been branded butober and honour of holding the King's

weather is coming on t kong Harbour yesterday afternoon. baby killer as she will be for centuries to come, The British commission solely because he was MR. GEORGE CALDERON nation is too sporting an one to waste time in lamenting fair losses; weak in class subjects. Most of it is the stealingof lives of unarmed people that we resent. The Gerne have known men who were

MISSING.. mans seem to have set out with the idea of causing pain and damage calculated to make a name for Amongst those reported wound-fool she is making of herself, and no matter to whom or by what means. It is the modern Prussiau themselves as soldiers, but who, ed in Gallipoli and since reparted how entirely her leg is being notion of manliness. Their professors (from the snugness of an through being ploughed for missing is Mr. George Calderon, palled.

P. A. Rozario, to be Sergeant, easy chair and secure in the knowledge that they themselve are not Sandhurst, were finished for the Slavonis ccholar, who is also

Unless otherwise ordered, band likely ever to get hurt) have preached "hardness"; have laid it life." Of course thers were odds well known to playgoers by his

practices will take place every down that pity or consideration for the weak and ende of things open to them: adaptations of Eussian plays, a

in which L. Mo. Laren, ohief Tuesday and Friday at 8 pm. immoral and contemptible; and Bo, with the valour creeping in through the militia well sa by his own plays, "The

officer of the ad. Madawasker was sharp, A young rough who chargea through a crowd of (and being looked down upon Fountain" and others.

summoned by A. Mao Lean the little boys and girls, smacking their heads or pulling off their hats, therefor by their mesamates) or

Bind recruits will parade for Mr. Calderon went to France

master of the aforementioned ship squad drill under orawn-sergeant up-to-date Germany goes to war. When she is in danger of being enlisting on the chanus of pro- last autumn as an interpreter with fired on, she puts women and children in front of her, knowing that motion-which

with unlawfully and wilfully O. M. 8. Alves on Thursday, was generally the Blues, and was wounded at the

disobeying his lawful com- September 2nd, at 6 p.m. no soldier of any civilised nation would shoot, under these circum-

mande, the time fixed by stances. And her sea warfare is carried on on the same valiant worse than disastrous; but, in a first battle of Ypres. He was given Col. A. Chapman V.D. state the Court being 10.30. The principle. She torpedoes a cargo vessel, and laughs at the struggles made dicontented and unsettled Warwickshires, and cams to Eag-

The funeral of the late Gunner police could not find the defen- of the drowning men; ehe sinka a huge liner, knowing full well for life, and the army probably land a second time wounded. A. Walmsley, No. 2 Section dant, however, therefore the sum that many of the passengers whom she is sending to death are women lost a good officer. Toe Boer Later he was given a commission Artillery Battery, will pass the mone could not be served. and children; and she bombarde a fishing village or an unfortified War showed as that there is in the Oxford and Backe Light Monument at 5 p.m. today. pleasure resort. Is it any wonder that Britain, France and Russia have determined that such an utterly irresponsible Power shall be many a man in the ranks fully Infantry, and early in May was disarmed and shall cease to is a Power? What sort of men would deserving of a commission, and sent to Gallipoli, where he was the new regulation should go's attached to the King's Own Scot and for all, a nation that has shown itself unfit in every way to bear right. the troops of the Allies be if they did not resolve to stamp out, once long way towards letting matters tich Borderers, and was wounded

on June 4, arms or to hold State responsiblities ?

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general way, such a man wash commission in the 2nd Rogal

The Russians,

And

they follow their old plan of leav ing nothing for the enemy. Will Germany never realise. what

wherever the Russians retreat

VOLUNTEER ORDERS,

Corps Orders issued by Lieut

Funeral.

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Accurate British Gunnery, The German survivere of the

German Airship Captured,

LOCAL.

SOMETHING AMISS.

Summons Against European

**Unserved.

At the Marine Court thiamora-

ing, & case was down for bearing

detailed in ordem be

Friday, September 3rd.

Nelto, and A. E. Alves. Also 550 p.m. Chief Inspector Mason, Sergeante Lammert, Silva-

Inselor Wilden. Potter and Wright to patrol with

850 p.m. Five men to be de- tailed by O. O. Portuguese Co.

Men warned for patrol are

copy of the " Daty Reminders." reminded that they must chain.

a

Police Reserve Band.

The Hor. O. 8. P. has sanc tioned the fr llowing appointments in the band:

1. da Costa, to be Bandmater, A. J. M. Rodrigues, to be Oroan Sergeant,

Theft from a Steamers A coolis, living at Yaumati, The alleged offence was said has reported to the police that Drees. Church Parede order to have taken place in Victoria while asleep on the s... Charles Hardenin someone stole from his (no helmet badges). Officers and Herbour, on the 28th inst. Warrant Offers wear a crops The police were still making jacket pocket a silver watch, with hand on the left arm. Officers search for the man when we gold chain and sovereign: Beisp will wear swords.

left the Court.

Mizan, pandage valued in all at $95