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Cycle Riding la Kowloon and

Hongkong.

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DAY BY DAY.

HOW OFT THE BIGHT OF MEANS TO DO ILL DEEDS.

MAKES ILL DEEDS DONE.-King

John..

The Weather.

Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 84; At the Peak 8 u m. Temp. 77;

Count the Columns,

After our varicus complaints as to the praction of the riding to the danger of the public that is so persistently carried on by many of the Asiatic and Eurasian youths of this Colony, it is extremely gratifying to us to find that the police have taken up the matter. The young man who appeared before the Court yesterday on this fine. charge was, in the magistrate's, opinion, not riding to the danger fine. of the public. Credit is never theless dus to the constable concerned, for his vigilance, and we hope that other members of the police will show a like

Yesterday the Telegraph activity in keeping an eye on published 34 columns of solid the orole brigade. On this side reading matter. To-day there of the Harbour the Queen's Road will be 341 published. still seems to be the favourits neighbourhood for riding either without a bell or else for refrain. ing from ringing one. Od Saturday afternoon a small Chinese boy was aa nearly as possible run over near Flower Street by an older compatriot, presumably of the· well-to-do class, who rode at furious epeed and made no at- tempt to ring his bell. And, by the way, it is usually among this closs of Chinese that cffenders in thie respect, are found. Many coolies and workmen use bicycles but we have rarely seen them attempt to play fast and loose with

the law and with the comfort of

Europeans, as their wealthier friends seem to think they can do. The really ill-bred Chinese are not of the working class at all, but are the wealthier youngsters who appear to think, since the Revolution, that the possession of a smattering of English entitles them to be more or less a law to themselves.

The Children's Recreation Ground. Talking of yesterday's cycle case, we gather that much of the dangerous riding takes place round about the strip of ground which is supposed to be set aside as a playground for European children. In connection with this ground we hear various com- plaints from our readers, and one of theas is that the seats which were erected for the youngsters are not infrequently converted, during the evening, into lounging places for idle Chinese. Another reader states that he baa been obliged. to forbid his little ones to use the ground, on the score that overtures of friendship are continually being made by adult, Chinese and others to the children playing there. No sensible parents care to have to grown-aps who are entire strangers, and we would suggest that messores be taken to reserve

The Mails.

NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

̈INDO-CHINA S.N. CO.

ON THE FRENCH FRONT.

| Ramours of Fusion with P. & Q,

Things Waking Up.

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A YEAR AGO TO-DAY.

LEADING EVENTS IN THE GREAT WAR

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America Indigoant st GermSS Destruction.

There Lave been one or two features in the Industrial-Miscell-Extracts from the war nema con

tained in the Hongkong aneous section Boga the Globe of "There is a mild hint in this July 27. Among shipping shares Telegraph of September

1914. morning's wires, taking them to-Indo-China Steam Navigation gether, at a general waking up of Preferred and Deferred tave affairs all round, so far as the again been supported on a report Allies are concerned. Of two of Bonuiing fusion with the portions of the great battle field Peninsular and Oriental Steam

the Caucisus and the Carnic Navigation Company. Alps--we have heard little or nothing for some while. The success or failure of the Allies in CANADIAN SEAMAN

these two regions is of consider- ably more than minor importance. We have never yet been told what the Russian obj:otive in the

Siberian Mail. Dae per 8.8. Caucasus is, and it is only

Anhui to-day.

from time to time that the

TROUBLE.

The destruction wrought by the Germana in Louvain has around. intense indignation in America," where the Press compares the German methods with those of the Japanese, who gave notice of IN the blockade of Tsingtan.

Alarmist Reports_Disproved. Lord Kitoboner's statement (regarding the four days' battle)........ bas completely disposed of the, steadily growing crop of alarmist reports regarding the situation in France. The Allies now occupy

Charged with Vagrancy. Charles Charters, a Canadian Canadian, U. K. and U.S. Mile.insertion of a stray -place-name

-Closed per 8.8. China togives us any clue to the actuel et amin, at present unemployed a line extending from the south of day at 11 a.m.

geographical progress made by was charged before Mr. Wold.at Australian Mail. Closes per the Russiane "here. It would the Police Court this morning by the Somme inland slong the river 8.8. Changeha to-morrow at seem that almost the only thing laspector Gordon, with being a sad past the fortresses of La Fore and Laon, then eastward towards worth annexing in Asiatic Turkey vagrant.

11.s.m.

Canadian and U. K. Mails.-Close per se. Titan to-morrow at 2

p.m.

Siberian Mail.--Closes per as, Chonan to-morrow at 3 p.m.

Up to the Minute-Share Market News, Closing prices

Banks $815, gales.“ Douglas's $72, buyers. Hongkong O. and M. S, S.

Ld. $21, sellers. Shall Transporte.

aales. Hongkong and K. W. and Co. Ld.-$751, buyers, Hongkong and W'pos D.

Ld.-$74, bagere, Laou Kung Mow.

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E. K. Ropes.-828, buyers. China Sugars, $126, sales. Shanghai and Hongkew W.

Oo. Ld.-893), buyers. Union Waterboste, $171,

buyers, Hump' rey's Elates.

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The Dollar.

The rate of the dollar demand to-day is 1 9 3/83.

$63.

is the railway that raba to The Inspector explained that Mezieres. The correspondent of Soutari, but, so far as we remem- the defendant deserted from the the London Daily Telegraph at ber the last scene of a Russian. Dumeltan and the police bad Amiens says that the new linto victory was somewhere in the been looking for him. Later he the Allies is infinitely stronge neighbourhood of Ezrom went to Japan returning upon the than sny held before, while 1 far cry from the rai way or from P. and O. s.s. Malta from which disproportion in numbers ha an overland march in the directionship be also deserted. For the last been reduced. Fighting is reço:t- of the Dardanelles. That the three months he had been living ed from Bapeaume, twenty-fire

miles from Amiens.. Turks are rot numerically weak upon his wits.

The defendant was remanded down there is pretty clear from the fact that over five thousand to the House of Detention, In- of them have just been captared. spector Gordon promising to endeavour to find a abip for the

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OPIUM GROWING IN KUEICHOW.

Italian Successes, Renter's explanation of the absence of news from the other. front mentioned-Carnia is that there. It will probably (ake most there has been "long inactivity" of as a good while to realice fully Large Grops in Wuchuan District, what mountain fighting meana: The Kusiyang Correspondent the neccesary, though tous the of the N.C. D. News writes under less wearisome delas, the date of August 4:- multiplied dangera and the etern-

Fresh Troops Fight Russia. A Russian official report says / that freeh German troops have

appeared on the frontier and have taken the offensive at some places. The bitile continues along the whole Austrian front. The Rus sians have assumed the offensive south of Lublin marching through country which is covered with Austrisu corpses.” Sɔme of the troops have been fighting era- week, but the vigour of their at- tacks is unabated. The Russians have captured numerous gung

A foreign friend living at and quickfirers and are steadily al difficulties of transport. Unless Taungi (five days north) writes advancing on Lemberg, the capi. wetry to bear these things in mind me that so much opium was tal of the Austrian province of we shall never give the Italians gathered this year in the Wachuan Galicia.

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anything like half the credit they district (still further to the Battle of Heligoland: Casualt es. deserve for the placky and patient northeast) that farmers in Taungi The official account of the struggle they are making, not declars that they will sow opium Heligoland naval action says that only on this particular front but this year. On a recent visit to small cruisers and destroyers in the Tyrol and down on the Ksicto (three daye north) I heard daringly attacked the Germans.. Isonzo as well. What has to be that many in that distrior say the Some of the B.itish ships ware. admitted ia that they have same and for the same reason.

on already made good their claim to

To-day's Anniversary, To-day is the 15th anniversary of the routing of the Boxers round Peking and the British occupation

The Hongkong Telegraph their children talking continually of Fengtai.

HONGKONG. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1915.

“SENSATIONAL PESSIMISM.”

look for the motive that has inspired that tone,

Committed for Trial, The three men, who

were this ground entirely for children charged with armed robbery at and their amabs. On Shameen 168 Lang On Street, Wanchai,on auch a patch is set aside and August 21, were committed for adults, of no matter what nation trial this morning by Mr. J. R. ality, are strictly forbidden to Wood. trespass upon it. Cannot the same be done here?

Boy Missing.

be the finest mountain' fighters

in the world-or at any rate

kncoked about but the superior

guo power and strength of the. individual British ships told. The crewe of the five German vesele

to share that honour with some of POLICE RESERVE ORDERS sank totalled twelve hundred, of

our own Indian troops. That the Austrians have entirely failed to dislodge them or to penetrate into Ialian territory themselves after all this while, is an indicat ion of how little their German allies have to hope from this quarter.

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Police Reserve Orders issued

to-day by Mr. F. C. Jenkin, U.S.P. (Reserve) state;— -.

Patrols.

whom nine hundred perished.

Australia's Second Contingent. Australia has decided tɔ raise a second.ecatingent. *

LOCAL.

Wednesday, September la, 550 p.m. Bailey, Cartwright, Butterfield, Arnott and Baaj Also Acting Irapector J. M. Wong and Sergeant Wei Wing Sam to patred with Crown-Sergeant Lang

of the 2nd Ba, D.C.L.I., "und 8.50 p.m. Sergeanta Ua Hew Captain Ward and Lieute Fan, Wong King Tin, B, W. Marshall, ourried out their d Wong Taps, Peter Wong and James

Also Sergeant Sirdar form 6th to 25th August, 1914. as Marices on HM.8. Triang.

A Ratino, Orter issued by Maj General F. H. Kelly, C.B., G.0.0. desires to place on contains the following-The record his Batisfaction of the ex- cellent report he has received from Captain Fitzmaurice, R.N., of

Sensational newspaper pessimism the expression is Mr. Hilaire

"It is Worthy of Note."-"- Belloc's-is still rather more to the fore at Home than one could

It is worthy of note, says a later wish to see it, a ad one often wonders what purpose the wet blanket

Heater wire, that there is intense fraternity hopes to serve. Pessimism in the individual and in the

artillery Botivity among the Allies newspaper are not by any means the same thing. In the individual

A Shopkeeper's Plaint. on the Western front. It is in- ley. it is always due to vanity, self-consciousness, love of singularity or Novelists and Practicality, A Chinese shopkooper, of 92; deed, for no army begins an else to some apparently ineradicable disease. In the one as it is Yesterday we published rome Dea Vear Road, has complained offensivs unless it is sure of its mere affectation, in the other most desperately and grimly real. skittish remarks of the Globes on to the Police that at various dates supplies. We have had various But with newspapers it is another matter. The opinions expressed the subject of Mr. Hall Caine. he entrusted a tailor with cloth hints in the Home wires that the Khan to patrol with Witchell." in an editorial are not those of an individual or they should not be; The writer finishes: "Happy to be made up into clothing to the shell dificulty had bean got over, they are dictated, sometimes consciously, sometimes unconscionely, thought. Why not hand over the value of $200. The tailor is mis- and the stirring up of things on Thursday, September 2nd. to the writer by what is commonly termed "the policy of the paper.' government of the country to a sing:

the Frasco-Belgian front, as well detailed by O. O. Portagaese Co. 5.50 p.m. Five men to ba Therefore when we find, eg, one of the organs owned by the committee of novelista?" There's

as down in Alsace, looks like a Also Sergeants Silva and Ribeiro syndicate of which Lord Northcliffe is managing director; taking up m ny a true word spoken in jest. a line that can only be termed morbidly pessimistic, we naturally We are not going to say that we Mr. Pope, foreman fitter in the these. We hear nothing of any vory practical confrmation of

to patrol with Inspector Watt, would like to see the Empire Royal Naval Dockyard, bag report big battle, but not a day goes by 8.50 p.m. Sergeante C. C. Mon From recent Home papera we see that Mr. Balloo, in concluding "ras" by novelists, but we main-ed to the Police, that yesterday without recording some score, the and Chow U. Ting, and three a war leotare in London, spoke very plainly on the subject of this, tain that some exceedingly between 7 a.m. and noon he en- importance or unimportance of men to be detailed by O.C. Chin- which, as he pointed out, must be either a patriotic motive to spar practical men could be found trusted his Chinese boy with which we shall learn later, eee Co. Also Sergeanta Botelho men on to patriotic efforts by frightening them, or a personal motive among the ranks of well-known jewellery to the value of $263 other thing worthy of note is the and Roz to patrol with Inspector of revenge, or of advantage to a private career by sensationalism of British and French writers who and $320 in money. The boy has steadily increasing success of the

Taylor. Fome col." Even supposing, Mr. Belloc goes on to argue that" these would take the shine, as they say, not reported himself since. Allied airmen. Taking one fact

Friday, September 3rd. politicians and newspaper ownere" are acting from patriatio motives out of many of our prefessional

with another it looks as though

550 p.m. Chief Inspector for ontein their lives," they are still doing the British cause anything politicians and business men.

Mason, Sergeants Lammert, Bafore Uommander C. W. Beck.we are justified in regarding the Silva-Netto and A. E. Alves. bit a service. But he does not believe that the motive is a patriotic There is no more practical man

for with R. N., at the Marine Court long-anticipated offensive as hav | Aldo Potter and Marlin to patrol one. Hobelieves that, to put it broadly, the men responsible for scar-living than Kipling ing or attempting to scare the public hava an are of their own to grind, a start; and his mastery of this morning Sher Singh, watching begun.

with Inspector Wilden, and accordingly should be dealt with promptly by the Government. technical mattere has many a time man of the Ping On Wharf,

8.60 p.m. Five men to be de- With this view most people who remember the scurrilous staggered some very ultra-kdow-charged Wong Fok-yau, beat

In the East the offensive is be-tailed by O. O. Portuguese Co. attacks on Earl Kitchener of three months ago will agree. These ing persone. Fer general world master, with anlawfully lying ing carried on by both parties

Parades. particular attacks have, it is true, disappeared, but only to make knowledge one would go far be- alongside the said wharf in such

(Central Police Station 6 p.m.). by the Russian in the Drinsk ay for new tactics. There is something more to be considered fore one found a man to beat a manner as to obstruot the access

All with Rifles, except Recruits, than the fact that a paper's taking a designedly gloomy view of the Pierre Loti", Joseph Conrad, of other vessels thereto on the district and by the enemy in the

Wednesday, Sept, lat.-Nos. 3 & 4 Chinese Platoon. All Chinese

The Obstruction Nuisance.

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Other Wires.

position at the Front will have an evil effect on the people at Isme. Morley Robertsar (among literary 21st ultimo. Defendant was fined Valinski, while there is something recruits under Chief Laspector.

Beighbourhood of Vladimir

HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY LIMITED.

Combined Parade.

the way in which the Detachmen

AMERICAN NEWS.

(VIA MANILA, '. Decisive Fight in Mexico? Washington, August 23.-The forces of Villa and Carranza are now lining up in central Mexico for what promises to be the decisive battle in their long struggle for supremacy.

Former San Francisó Grafter Released.

Washington. August 23.-Abe Ruef, the San Francisco grafter; who with Mayor Schmitz, was condemned to prison several years ago, has been released by the governor of California oa parole,

Cloudburst in America, Washington, August 21,—A cloudburst of unprecedented more than mere scrapping going

Thursday, Sept. 2nd-No. 3 magnitude has inundated the on on the Rigs road. Another wire & 4 Portuguese Platoons. Details southeastern portion of Missouri saye that Britain is prepared to from Portuguese Co., and Band and portions of Arkansas. The make certain concessions to the Recruita under Crown-Sorgi, train service has been demoralized. Americans over the blockade,

0. M. S. Alres:

Many deaths and much suffering! This is so like a certain type

are reported from the inundated of Home and never seem to be able the D. S. P at the Central Police Starvation in Mexico City,

Washington, August 24-A takos chillyshallying for policy 3rd. Parade in mufti, with rifles, Receipta Aggregate and that utterly refuses to learn

Only those warned for Patrol City on August 13 bas just arrived for week. Receipts from past experiences. If we daty on that day will be excused in the United States and reports

for 36 weeks, stand aside to let goode pass oat from this parade.

a serious famize in the capital. Duty Reminders" Book.

Several people, he says, hava died 11,407 881,703 of Germany and Austria to 9,752 408,795 America, aball we not also have

Men warned for patrol are made of starvation, and immediate relief to atond aside and let the money responsible for obtaining this at is necessary to avoid further 1,855

27,092 due for these go to the enemy? the D. S. P.'s Office,

deaths from this cause.

of politician that we have at All ranks will parade under district.

Approximate atatement:

In the varidus British overssas possessions are thousands of roaders men who are not essentially pove- $10: who are dependent for their information as to the progress of the lists) Hilaire Belloc. Again, Sir war on meagre telegrams and on papers a month or so old. It Gilbert Parker, while he has done happens that the class of periodical that has chosen to publish these work that has undoubtedly daily or weekly jeremiade is also the clase most in vogue. among placed him in the front rank of proved often Colonial readers or was co till recently. The result speaks for novelists, has itself. One wonders if it ever dawns on the people who go out of enough that he is a sound and their way to minimise our victories and magnify our difficulties shrewd politician. We would cer- that, in order to serve personal ends, they are guilty of a monstrous tainly rather see the nation's af- instinctively argue "it's in the paper; therefore it must be trae." those men, than have them mis- 28th August, 1915, We can only hope that, unless this fooling ceases and happily it handled by many of the gentle- is not on the increase-Government will take eirong action. If the men whom the public hae, of one Authorities have the power to prevent properly conducted journals time or another, trusted with the frota publiebing nowe items that are calculated rather to help it management of its affairs. All we This Year... than binder it in its difficult task, it can surely also exercise itself nek that H. G. Wells ba forbid Last Year:, to the extent of forbidding the expression of editorial views that are den to have any say" in the Increase:... more than likely to depress Britishers, to encourage the enemy, and 'matter. to unsstile many of the native inhabitants of our Colonies..

act of cruelty to hundreds or thousands of nervous people who faira in the hands of any or all of Traffic Receipts, for week ending to get rid of; the type that mir Station ät 5 pm, on Friday, Sept. Mexican courier who left Moxico

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