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TRE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY SEPTEMBER 13, 1915;

Mc Gulper's Substitute for Tee is WATSONS E

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A.S.WATSON &Co Ltd WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS HONGKONG.CHINA & MANILA

BIRTH.

TRADE MARK

Eilandonan,

SMITH-On Sunday, 12th Semptember at The Peak, to Mr. and Mrs. Norman L. Smith, a daughter.

MARRIAGE.

DAY BY DAY.

THERE IS A PLEASURE SURE IN BEING MAD, WHICH MONE BUT MADMEN KNOW-Dryden,

The Weather. Lower level 8 s.m. Temp: 80; At the Peak 8 am. Temp. 73;

The Malls.

Adather Case for the S.P.C.A.

In connection with our recent leading article on cruelty to an Imals by Asistios in Hongkong, a reader supplies us with come facts conosrning a rather bad case of neglect which has come under his immediate notice. Same neighbours of his, who have gone on a holiday; left s pointer, in dull, charge of native servants, obvious ly under the impresica-that dali. |these would care for the animal

properly. Seemingly their way Count the Columns. of "caring" was to visit the dog On Saturday the Telegraph ence a day and to exercise so published 42 columns of solid little discretion where minor de- reading matter. To-day there tails, like food and water are con- will be 301 published. cerned, that the poor beast moaned day and night. Our friend in- formed the police who, on paying a call at the house, found that the pointer's supply of food was 8 little atale boiled rice (magnificent frame-forming food for a sporting dog!) and that the only water available was some blueh contained in a vessel in which a choice colles. tion of tin cans and other thinge was stored. The dog was removed and is presumably now in a fair way to recovery. The ownere of course trusted to their servanlı- a procedure not at all to be re- oɔmmended in the East where the proper care of animals is con- cerned; and we should strongly advise intending holiday-makers to send their dogs to the Home, in preference to leaving them to the tender mercies of people in whose eyes neglect is no crime. Bill Posting.

We notice that the Kaala Lam- par Sanitary Board is discussing the advisability or inadvisability

WINTER-SHEFFIELD.-On September 4th, at the Presbyter-of permitting bill posting in the

ian Church, Singapore Harry Norman Winter, of Malacca to GraCO Evangeline Sheffield oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred, late of Hongkong, now of Singapore.

DEATH.

IMHOOF-At the Peak Hospital on September 13 at 1.10 p.m. Willy Imhoof. The funeral will pass the Monument at 10 o'clock to-morrow morning (Tuesday Septombor 14)

The Hongkong Telegraph

Izieb.

HONGKONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1915.

IRELAND AND THE WAR.

SOWD.

NOTES ON THE CRISIS"

A Quesilos of Damages under a Contract.

BERLIN ADMISSIONS,

In the Summary Court, this

A YEAR AGO TO-DAYS

LEADING EVENTS IN THE

GREAT WARUM

Batrasts from the war Tawa

tained in the..." Hongkon Telegraph" of September 15

1914,

On the Western Front. We shall soon look to see some definite results of all this can« nonsding on the Western front, morning, before Mr. Justice It can be no exaggeration to Bay Gomperts, H. Honds, 28 and 27 that the greatest artillery battle Praya East, Victoria, a trader, that the world has ever known is sued Chen Yaen, 6, Cochrane in progress here: a battle which Street, a provision merebsat, for

British Capture Eleven Guns could hardly have taken place the sum of $185, being damage

Oonsiderable bodies of infantry had our supply of shells "been suffered by bim by reason of 13 meagre as it was six or even three cases and 45 tins of condensed months ago. If the people at Home, milk part of the 65 are being found hiding in the woods, having been left behind delivered

owing to the Germans' rapid will see to it that that supply goes cases, sold and on increasing, there can be no by the defendant to the plaintif retirement. They surrenders Fir Canadian and U. K. Maile.

Closed per s.s. Canada Mara doubt as to the issue. The enemy oor about August 31, 1914 being sight. This and the riding of vit had the Allice at a terrible advant of quality interior to that required lages and evidences of drunken.

·to-day at 1 p.m. Siberian, and Canadian U. Kage in this respect for long enough the verbal contract entered noes point to the demoralization Mails, Close per n.s. Teays-but only in this respect. It into between the defendant and of the enemy. Furnit is beina

vigorously pressed. Maru to-morrow at 11a.m. has been amply proved during the plaintif, for the sale and Siberica Mail-Olases per s.s: the present campaign that no purchase of the said goods.

ancho Omorrow at other nation can stand up against Mr. W. B. Hind, of Mr. G. K. French and British gunnery, Hall Bratton's office, appeared for given equal chaness in point of the plaintiff and Mr. Dixon, of supplies. We hear little to-day Mesere Wilkinson and Griet, tinues north of the fare andborst the direction of 4 Bolawon as to the quality of the German appeared for the defendants.

Mr. Hind said thin care Bros and Campienge The Germans shooting; and that little does not convines us that it has greatly out of the purchase of 55 cases of abandoned great quantities improved since the days--some tinned milk (Eagle Brand). These munitions, material, numerous nine months ago when the were purchased by the plaintiff prisoners and wounded, and enemy was pouring thousands of from the defendant, 15 cases to we captured another flag. shells per hour on the trenches of be delivered on board the Jap The British army captured the Allies with next to no effect. anese craiser Ibuki and 40 asses eleven guns, much material and Here again is one of Germany's to be delivered on board the Jap took from 1,200 to 1,500 pet errors. Just asshe thought that anese crinser Obikums. They soners. The enemy in the centre $9, delivered on board by

p.m.

Share Market News-Opening

Official Quotations.

8.

Co.

Banke. #815, bayers. Hongkong C. and M. S.

Ld. $20, sales. Douglas's $86, buyers.

Combined $152) b. Indo

Deferred

93 8.

Chinae. Prelorrod .80 b. Dooks.-870, sellers. Hongkong Cottona —

buyers.

Green Islands. 88.30,

The Enemy Demoralised Our success on the left wing is more marked, Qar advanos co®

thought that artillery success defondant, at the request of the front between Sexanno and Shanghai Cottons in S'bai.was merely a question of thous plaintiff, who never saw them. Revingy. The Germans in Argonne ande of shelle. Perhape by this nor were they inspected by the have not yet fallen back. One Tis. 104, sellers.

buyers. time she is realising that many a plaintiff prior to delivery. The troops, gothwithstanding their British gunner will do more harmonisers left Hongkong and when efforts in a five days battle, $31, to his opponents with one shot they got to Singapore this milk still have energy to pursue. then her pea le oan with twenty. was found to be unuseable-an Nothing now has taken place [along: the right wing at

Lorraine and in the

Ranbe-$31, sellers. Shanghai Dock and Oo.863, sellers. Humphrey's Estates, Fales and sellers. Ewos-Tl. 175, buyers.

Eng.

87,

China Sugars,-$134, buyers, Langkata.-Tis, 37, buyers,

The Dollar.

The rate of the dollar demand to-day in Jo 9 618d.

To-day's Anniversary.

Promotion.

Co.

saloable.

·Belgians beat Germans.

The Patient Russian.

His Lordship Why? People are still rubbing their

Mr. Hind mid it went bad, eyes at the fact that Russia is proving herself less fool than she Really he should not say it went may have looked, and even abad, but rather that it was bad, Antwarp and Lemburg, are on- German communique grudgingly There were letters from both tirely, and eastern Flanders almost admits that General von Hinden-cruisers stating that the milk entirely, free from the enemy. which had been The Belgians reoconpied Ter burg is having a less easy time was bad

to. the

plaintiff in mondo. The Germans lost heavily- than be bad bargained for. The sent admission, too, that troops bad to Hongkong. Finally the milk was in a 8ght in the environs and fed on he withdrawn from the Rigs sent up here and arrived in Jan-headlong. The German column region to deal with affairs down uary this year. Plaintiff then advancing from Melle towards in Galicia is valuable one, no saw the defendant and there were Oudenarde and Bayen made re. walter, whether it is a lie or the some negotiations about it which trograde movement northwards truth. If it is trus, it shows that did not come to anything and the during the night, bat was checks scarcity of men is indeed begin-writ was finally issued in respected on the heights of Fenne: and ning to tell on the enemy; if of the balance of fifteen cases only again wheeled southward. The false, it is an indication that he because forty cases had got lost, Belgian field army took the cannot, after all hold his own in or mislsid, or strayed somewhere cousive against the Germans af

Lordship would look the 10th inst: sad advanced con this district and in hard put to to and they could not be traced, Antwerp, captured Aerohet on find an excuse which will wilencs hig Berlin questioners and cavillors. at the rit he would and tinually until the 11th int, Our Meanwhile, who is in possession with $7.25 per case, half the Held guns, inflicted important the plaintiff had credited defendant artillery, especially the new heavy of Skidel, after all?2i

purchase price of the milk. He loses

The Allies to Servia.

And what has become of the put that. figure in because he Mr. Churchill Confident,

Mr. Winston Churchill, address crushing move which the Austro-understood from what he bad

Ropes, — $28), buyera, Steam Laundries,

buyers, One of the matters in which Hongkong can give points to the Straits and the Malay States in this very one of the hoardings. In the large towns at Home bill- posting is a special trade, many of the placards are designed by well- known artiste and the hoardings, far from necessarily being na eightly, are often decidedly picturesque and entertaining. But the East has not yet risen to this pitch of artistic feeling, and a Ohinese paste-slinger's notion of decorating the town usually con- Bistas in Singapore-of stick- To-day is the 156th anniversary ing ansightly, native-designed of the British victory at Quebec. bills in the very places where Much talk has arisen in America—and come at Home--on they are most calculated to prove

Lient E. L. Paske, who was with An eyesore. He respects no account of an article recently appearing in the New York Sun from the pen of a very popular Irish writer, Mr. Seumas MaoM nus, which edifice and, left to himself, would the 2ad Ba. D. C. L. I. in Hong- represents or perhaps we had better say at once" misrepresente" think nothing of decorating kong, has been made Temporary the feeling of Island where the prezant war is concerned. In that

the Hongkong Hotel, the Banks Captain. country there is, writes Mr. Machianne, "a spontancona anti-English with pictorial testimony to the

or, for that matter, the churches

Indian Constables. Death. outburst on the part of the patrictio men of all parties, an outbaret

Indian Police Constable Thala precipitated by what they consider the betrayal of Ireland on the value of cemebody or other's pilla

or ginger beer. There are parts Singh died at the Central Police part of Mr. John Redmond; and he adds that "recruiting in or ngapore, Penang, Kuala Station, yesterday, and his body Ireland has been a tragic failure." The Irish may well ejaculate, as they did when Sir Roger Casement distinguished himself by his Lumpur eto, corresponding to has been removed to the public Germans promised to the Serviene been told by certain people here, ing a great recruiting meeting in esme ten days ago? Beally the that when milk was not good, but London, confessed that the situa Bedlamite conduct same little time since: "Save us from our where even the poorest posters

our Wanobai; sordid corners mortuary..

bluff and bennos of these people still saleable it was a common tion was far better than had been friendel" But that we know that Mr. MacManus is a very ardent

ia incomprehensible. Even now, custom here, in the trade-

expected in the early stages patriot of the sort that cometimse allows its tongue to run away with here there would seem to be

help to relieve the sys; and The Canadian Pacific Railway, after all the terrible knocks that His Lordship:-Who drinke (cheers). If this battle had been it, all the while meaning no harm, we should have little hesitation no objection to their being placed, The local office of the above friend Wilhelm has received, he this milk that is not good but still as disastrona as, thank God, it in saying that the New York journal in which his remarks appear But neither Hongkong vor Kaala named company have received still thinks-ar thought ten days saleable?

appeared to have been triumph- had misunderstood or misprinted him. It has to be remembered, Lumpur wants the European from the management a telegram go that he has but to threaten, Mr. Hind:-It is not a question ant, he would have come before however, that he is a very frequent visitor to Amorios and has, of late yeare, become somewhat of an idol in the eyes of the American quarter so disfigured. Nor, for advising that Sir. William Van for his enemies to quail and to of that; there is sugar in wilk them with unabated confidence hit matter, is it wise that a Horne, late President of the withdraw. Will he never learn and it sometimes crystalises out. (cheers). Whatever might hap ortain type of bill of more or less Candian Pacific Railway Com that nobody cares s curse for what The sugar crystalises and the pen, the war would finish is ce If ons feels a certain resentment against these American-Irish Gillis tendency should be allow-pany passed away on Saturday large talk in the world as to the it is still good and useable. I those of civilisation. Mr. Char

be threatens, and that all the milk becomes partly solid but cordance with car interests ands it is because they spend, and always have spent, an undue propor-ad anywhere in oar Colonies in afternoon, the Hch instant, tion of their time in misrepresenting Ireland. Ninety-nine per the East; for while pictures that

masses of troops which he has in am told under these conditions, chill, amid grest laughter, maid cent. of them have never been any nearer to Ireland than New York, the European eye taken for grant-

waiting to swallow: Servia, will it is usual to allow half value not a single Gurman battleship and probably not more than fifty per cent, have but the slenderested may be all very well in London

not cause so much an a quiver of and sooordingly I framed the could be found in the The Bijou Theatre had an ex- olaim to genuine Irish descent. In fact the pukka Irishmen beare just about the same relationship to them as the old-fashioned Americs or Paris, they may yet tend to cellent house on Saturday night, the eyelid to any of the foress writ in that way. Bal. I find German Ossan. The health gentleman from the Southern States does to the wretched by brid lower the white population in when the long, dramatic film arrayed against him and the hoge now that is not what is the matter the navy, was better than it had from the Chicago gutters who writes himself down German- the eye of the native a thing quite "The Mysterions Tow" 83 on whom he has conferred the with the milk; now it is actually ever been (cheers),

screened for the first time. The courtesy title (if "courtesy." and sour and I apply for the #101, American and who has no intention of being fully loyal ether to Ger English and French.

story deals with the detection of "German" be nat fitreconcilable which has been credited to the many or to America. If Mr. MacManus has been holding free and Anatole France "considers a crime and introduces many terms) of soldier? How much defendant, to be struck out of the frequent converse with these gentry, his extraordinary assertions quo- English the richest and most features that are qovel, startling Servis is likely to care is chown writ, and I. aus for the whole they could rely on

maint in our ⠀ naväl ted above are not difficult of explanation. For those who have eyes eloquent of languages," ao- and engrossing.

in the cable that represents the amount $246.13. to see, Mr, John Redmond's popularity among his own folk was never garding to a paragraph in our

British down there as getting in His Lordship-You claim as What they had to do

make a grent army. greater than at this present moment. Ireland is nct, as many good General Naws column on Batur- Rowing Fatality in the Harbour. Austrian trenches beyond the

some good gun practice on the milk is vaineless ?.........

Mr. Hind:-Yes.

sure way of bringing the people seem to think, a land of noisy, ragged agitators, seeking the day. If this were said by the The mistress of a rowing boat blood of the King Emperor, and cursing the name of England even ordinary Frenchman one might has reported to the Police that Danube, and the French as keep: Plaintiff gave evidence in an end way to put and kee in their sleep. Its people are as sane and rational and practical as those regard it sa apringing from his while rowing in her boat from ing an eye and few odd guns accordance with the opening the Continent an army of at

One million. of any other country, and if King George passed by their doore to- natural polite readiness to niske Yan Pa Hang village, to Samani- turned on Semlin. The Germans statement of Mr. Hind, morrow they would fall over each other in their hurry to honour and admissions ca'onlsted to please: po, in her licenced boat No. IIY, ber of extra appeals to the Deity defence that the milk was quite The Premier The Rt. Hon must be putting up quite a num. Mr. Dixon, put forward the Commonwealth with Mother entertain him. A few madmen there are, of course, who ran about bat from a man who is well in the the two women who were rowing to punish England, with all this fresh, when it left defendant's new Premist, preaching anti-English doctrines; but does anyone give serious at front rank of contemporary world in the bow, as they passed Cheung in view. tention to them? One lame cobbler was found posting seditions literature it in another matter. stawao, broke their car and were

premises as it only arrived early Andrew Fisher declares that in bille in Cork. Enquiries were made and it was discovered that the There are few foreigners of to day precititated into the water. She

in August end even in summers the Mother Country to the end war the Commonwealth is with aufortunate man had ro: long been out of the lunatic asylum-and who have ao complete a grasp of at onse threw a rope to them and

il properly stired, would keep The Labour party policy will be he was prompily sent back there. Has England-hae London the literature of England and of thereby saved one, the other

about six months. This milk WAR none of those maniacs alto ?

The statement as to recruiting is one of those wicked eslumnias Austo e France and wemay take it recovered.

the possibility of her language as being drowned and her body not that are very difficult to trace; but instead of seeking to know the that he is speaking from honest origin, it becomes us better to look at indisputable facts. Long before conviction. It is interesting to the war broke out there was an enormous percentage of genuine remember that he was one of the Irish (among when we are not including Orangemen) in the British discoverers" of Kipling, and We are indebted to the Ameri- army and navy; in fact the Services have never been without them. that long before the average following: The Telegram quot on Consul General for the In the old penal days, even, they contrived to enter one of the two. Britisher had began to appreciated below received from the Hospite religions disabilities. And, since recruiting for the war the latter the French Academi-Manila Observatory at 2.15 p.m. began, Ireland has sent her finest sons to the Front, and is continu- cian had shown that our language ing to do so. Is this the failure of recruiting? And what sort of contains few zeal human docum

Sept, 12, 1916, compliment does Mr MacManus pay to his follow countrymen in ents to loach the Story of the Cyclone or typhoon N. W of deeming it possible that they could refrain from fighting against the Gladebye. Decidedly English the Ladrons or Mariana Islande Oppressor of Europe? Could they, of all people, with centuries of leaves nothing to be desired in moving west. endurance of infamous bratalities at their back, inflicted by Eng-oint of richness and eloquence land, fail to protest when a nation, more ezcal and unjust than Eag- and strength, but where de Cyclone or typhoon Pacific land at her blackeet, takes upon itself to exercise its rafian strength finitences and daintings are Ousan, about halfway between the against a small nation like Belgium? But the answer may be found

ball havO

Mariana Islands and the Looohnos way for the French, moving west.AEE

in the Victoria Cross records and in the recruiting returns for the Nationalist quarters of Ireland,

unnecessary;

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-Bijou Theatre.

TYPHOON WARNING.

12.25 pm. September 13, 1915,

LANGKAT OUTPUT.

British Army of

Wanted on Cont Mr. Charobill continued

left exposed to the san instead in accordance with the previous of being stored in a cool labour administration place on the oruisers. Da the

voyage down no doubt they were

214. exposed to the sun..

September 1

Tons 211

"

12

203

208

#

105

-203

201

100

219

214

215

208

Total to 12th inst.

Daily average

2490

209.50

Mr. Hind said he could not say Mr. Lammert is, but I want somet whether good tinned milk would one who knows something abzul

go bad in any certain time, it milk,

Hi Lordship said an expert

should have been oalled in.

Mr. Hlud said he expected Mr. Lemmert,

His Lordship-Doss he know

| anything about milk ?

| Mr. Hind -Well he know

something about everything that is asieable.

His Lordship-I know per |fectly, well what a capable man

Mr. Hind:-Well it in diffionl

to get anyone from other firms

the trade to come forward. W you grant me an adjom and I will try to get someor

His Lordship deoli

it was for Mr. Hind to

she and he should have brought the expert evideɓos

Lordship gare: 120gm. for the defendant with costs