THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1918.
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NOTES ON THE CRISIS A YEAR AGO TO-DAY.
DEFER NOT TILL TO-MORROW TO BE WISE,
TO-MORROW'S SUN TO THEE MAY
NEVEL RISE-Congr: To
The Weather. Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 80; eunshine.
At the Peak 8 am, Temp. sunshine.
His Excellency made quite suf- folently clear, in his speech at the Legislative Counoll meeting yesterday, the Colony's position as concerns the water supply for the next half year or so." It has too often been forgotten that, fraga! though the Chinese are in many things, over modities that come to them, or seem to come to them, for nothing: e.g. water or forest timber, they are dangerously Yesterday the Telegraph pub. prodigal In self-defence, then, the liabed 33 columns of solid Colony has been obliged to adopt reading matier. To-day there the fountain system; and, as the will be 33 published. Governor pointed out, the carry-
ccm.
ing of the water from street to
boues is, after all, considerably
Count the Columns.
The Mails,
the leas of two evils. The next Biberian Mail.- Duo per thing the Government would do' well to keep an
By0 00,
Yingobon to-day.
75;
8.8.
ALL FRONTS WAKING UP.
LEADING EVENTS IN THE GREAT WAR.. Entracte from the war news con tamed in the: "Hongkong Telegraph" of September 34,
1014.
Cruisers.
Cerman Submarines Sink British The craisers Aboukir, Hogas
QUESTION OF INSTAL-
MENTS.
Portuguese Debtor and Loans.
This morning in the Summary Court, before the Paime Judge, Mr. Justice Gomperts, Messrs, A. 8. Watson and Co., Ltd, sued JM Xavier to recover the som
Bulgarian Mobilisation, Up to the very end, Bulgaria is succeeding in keeping her
of $25.50 alleged to be due for views and intentions-end to a very great extent her movements and Cressy have been sunk by goode sold and delivered. —a secret; ord apparently all submarines in the North Sea. Mr. M. J. D. Stephops appear- that can be got out of her in that The Aboukir was torpedoed and ed for the plaintifle, and the she will maintain an armed the Hogue and Cressy, while defendant, who was unrepresent neutrality, that abe will certain standing by to save the crew, wore ad conronted to judgment and ly not" join the Central Powers, alio torpedoed. A considerable asked to be allowed to pay the that she is merely taking the number were saved by another amount by instalments of $5 per same precautions as Holland and warship division,
destroyers, month; Switzerland-and that she has trawlers and boaie. Å steamer
Mr. Stephens, in answer to a Bul-ham arrived at Ymuidan, near mobilised 100,000 men. garia's army strength on a peace Amsterdam, with 287 British ery by his Lordship as to what he had to say to that offer, footing is nader 65,000, though survivers of the torpedoed orui- remarked that he hardly know ter up somewhere about 350,000 few wounded. Eight survivors of the defendant oned other sums of a strength not to be despised, the torpedoed oruisers have
Harwich, It is money and in action 1113 there
in this direction, is the needless/English Mail,-Closed per s.a. for war she can apparently mus-sers. There are one dead and a hat to say. He was afraid that
Nankin to-day at 9.30 a.m.
waste of water that goes on in Siberian Mail-Oloses per, B., European households and offices
Luohow to-morrow at 5 p.m. where the flushing of pavements, verandaba sto., is concerned. The average coolie responsible for this branch of domestic economy Belly seems to think that, for one drop of water used on the vex- andah itself, twenty are required on the heads of the people in the with street below. If this water were
might hour less about the possibi- lity of famine.
MINERAL WATER MANUFACTURERS
Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which
requires them to forward
addresses their names and
communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for used a little more sparingly wo
subiication, but as an evidence of their bona fides.
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Our Sanitary Board Again.
Share Market News-Opening Official Quotations.
Banks. $825, buyera. Douglas's.$88, sollers: Hongkong G. and M. S. 9. Co.
Ld. $20, sellers,
China Sugars. $1324, buyers Electrica.- $44), buyers.
Co. Ld.- $78, buyers. Dooks.-$81), buyers.
Indo
(Combined $154 b. Chinus. Preferred
Deferred 91 b. 62 D. Kang Yike-Tl9, 10.40, buyers. Ropes.$82, buyers. Ewo8,-Tls, 175, bayers. Shanghai Cottone in S'hai.-
Tis. 1034, sellers. Hongkong Cottons.
buyers.
$91.
Hongkong Tramways.—$6,20,
buyers.
Members of the Sanitary Board who are reating under the impres. sion that their Department leaves nothing to be desired, would do wellto take a stroll down Wing Lok Street: We do not know if the stepoh there is perennial, bat we do know that yesterday evening at eight o'clock, for a stretch of from filly to a hundred yards in this thoroughfare, the small from the public convenience which banks on to it was so appalling demand to-day is 10 9 11/163. that no European could pass without feeling exceedingly sick.
Peak Tramwaya
buyers.
The Dollar. The rate of the dollar
893.
especially in view of Bir Ian landed at Hamilton's statement when in estimated that seven hundred are He did not know what the claim wasa claim for $110 against him. Hongkong, to the effect that be saved. Thirty officers rescued was for, but from the name of the honestly regarded the Bulgarian from the sea landed uninjured, plaintiff he thought it was for troops, man for man, ca unques-dressed in sacke, shawls, ele money lent. He would like to tionably the finest in the world. Five German submarines st-know how it was that he could go Of course she has no money, tasked the cruisers. Other British cut and get money on loan and werth Speaking of; hor 10:1 cruisers and torpedo boats rasked not be able to pay his debte. expenditure was at least half a to their assistance and it is re-
His Lordebip-Probably be million rounde ahead of her re- parted that they destroyed two
was hard up. ceipts, and her public debt is submarines. Steamers are bring-
The Cressy
thing wrong.
The defendant told bis Lord- ship that be earned $100 per month and had to keep his mother. He paid a third of hie salary in rent,
His Lordship adjourned the
Police Reserve Orders isstied
to-day by Mr. F. O. Jenkin,
D.S.P. (Reserve) state:
Patrols (Central). · Friday, September 24: 5.50 and 8.50 p.m.-One Sergeant and saven P. Os, to be detailed by Inspector Wong for each shift.
Mr. Stephens: Yes, but what Hongkong and K. W. and Gearer to thirty millicns than ing other survivors and wounded I contend is that if he could get a twenty: Nor can she look to Ger- to Ymuiden.. First the Aboukir loan like that and not pay his many, Austria or Tarkey for any and then the Hogue were torre debts, then there must be some- for promisce and paper money will doed. This took place at air in the not pay troops and buy muni- morning. The Cressy sank two of tions. It is in Greece that the submarines before she was the mobilisation seems to have herself torpedoed, aroused the most excitement, and sank at eight o'clock. we have no doubt the Germans Merchantmen Captured.
A British orniɛer operating on would give a good deal to know what was said at the conference the North Atlantio captured the between King Constantin and M. Hamburg-Amerika Liner arredatter into chambers. Venizelos, and at the subsequent merchantman Spreewald-(5,899 | |Cabinet meeting..
tons gross, built at Furness in POLICE RESERVE ORDERS. All-round Activity. 1907), also two colliera with The despatch from the Dard- 6,000 tons of coal and 180 tons anolles is again very much of the of provisions for the German retrospective and even pictorial Atlantic oraisers. order, but there is practical in- Ninety-two to Twelve. telligence from the Serbian, Ninety-two Germen veesele on French, Italian and Russian fronts have been captured since the Three weeks ago the Austro-Ger-outbreak of the war. The Germans mans had, according to their own have captured twelve British talk, so army just outside Belgrade veerels out of four thousand It is true that Wing Lok To-morrow is the 68th anniver-which was going to hammer all trading oversons.
Servian Victory, sed sary of the relief of Lucknow by sorts of things into the Serbian;
but this TYAB evidently of The Servians have defeated geant and seven P. Os. to be. largely by Europeans in a general Havelock and Outram. way; but that fact is scarcely
8 piecs with the roat of 150,000 Austriana on the Drina detailed by Inspector Wong. The material; for the neighbourhood
the German hot air pidgin. On river, near Krupanj. The enemy C. I will visit each patrol. Sunday, September 26: the West, things are being made were making a desperate attempt
5,50 and 8,50 p.m. One Ser- of Chinese, who may contract
distinctly uncomfortable for the to penetrate Servia and thus disease and spread it widely.
enemy, who has again been prevent the Servians from advanc-geant and seven P. Os. to be The Saivian detailed by Inspector D'Almada. Will not the Sanitary Board do
obliged to evacuate fortified poste ing into Pornia. something, in a caso like this, to-
while one of his patrola in Cham-army on the Drina was hastily The Sergeant-Major will visit wards bettering things? Those of
pagne was completely wiped out. reinforced and gained a magnifi- each patrol. its members who are opposed to
We are asked to say that the The allied airmen have done cent victory. the water carriage system would lecture on Christian Science, some more excellent work, both become most ardent converts if advertised for this afternoon at in Belgium and also down in they could only be prevailed upon the Chamber of Commerce Hall, to take lodgings in this particular will not take place. part of Wing Lok Street for a day or two.
Street
is not one
The object of this paper is to publish correct information, serve to is a residential one for all classes
the truth and print the news without fear or favour.
彼沩籐村飕翼智学网姿防採大正繪莒饿急報本
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1915.
The "Times" and the publication of Military Achievements.
To-morrow's Anniversary
Postponement of Gymkhana Meeting.
The date fixed for the Final Gymkhana has been altered to Saturday November 13.
Christian Science Lecture.
Drowned.
Wurtemburg. In conncotion
with the latter raid, it is amusing
ور
89
LANGKAT OUTPUT. Mesara, Wright and Hornby to notice the handy manner in advise us that the Langkat outpat which the German communi-for the current month is The body of a Chinese drowned que disposes of it all, making it followe from a cargo boat whilst the latter just a more nothing, On September 1 ... Tons 211 was working alongside the ss, the East front, things are going Haiphong, has been removed to very nicely-a feat which must the mortuary. The deceased over be evident oven to the most balanced and fell into the water.persistent of our Jeromisha who THE LACK OF BOATING FACILITIES IN HONGKONG.
have been prophesying annihila tion for the Russians any time the Compared with most settlements in the Far East, Hongkong
It is interesting to reflect that! An amah residing at 41, Ro-laat six months. Germans Resing enjaga many advantages, especially as regards the opportunities which it given for boating and sailing. But though geographically while an article appearing in the binson Road, reports to the police in disorder, a town and various captured, seventy wo are thus favoured, a moment's consideration will suffice to show Tames of a few years ago commen- that come person stole from her villages that the facilities for participating in the form of recreation mentioning adversely on the policy of the quarters a gold fager-ring value thousand prisoners taken in three ed are comparatively meagro. Tako any seaside place at Home, or military anthorities, would have $12, and $1 in money. even the smallest riverside town, and what do we find? Sailing been read with respect and some and rowing boats, to say nothing of motor-driven craft, are available amount of ane, to-day no one is in any number. What is more, they can be hired at a cost which likely to take notice of its out- permite of an afternoon's pleasure at a cost which is within the reach of all. Here in Hongkong, the conditions are just the reverse.
An Amah's Loss."
Unmuzzled Dogs.
or four weeks, besides seventy cannon and two hundred machine guns, the prospect of an early At the Police Court, this morn and severe winter, and the Fouringe in connection with the ing, Mr. Franke, Assistant absolute assurance that an enemy failure on the part of the Home Superintendent of Victoria Gaol, march on Petrograd is impossible authorities to publish news of our was fined $10 for permitting two-all these thinge taken together scarcely argue in favour of a It is true that we have our launch pionice in the summer, but troope cohievements in Mesopot dogs to be at large unmuzzled.
amis. Since the once great journal
crippled and orashed Russia and these are only available to those who are able to stenze the use of fell from its high estate, it has
Badges of Rank Stolen.
of a magnificent German victory their firm's launch or who can afford to hire one from other quarters.
Captain Halliday of Lyamun in October. In the latter case, owing largely to the fact that the launches are in circulated such an overpowering
The Intrigue in America. the hande of a very few Chinese concerns, the price-anything from amount of cheap journalism and Barracks reports that some person
As time goes on the Austro- 34 an hour upwards-is almost prohibitive to many who would general rubbish that if now it has stolen from his room a leather delight in a weekly trip on the water. Then there are to be con- spoke for half an hour with the case containing two razora, a pair German diplomatic corpe in sidered those who prefer sailing to a launch picnic.. For tongue of an angel it would not of sleeve linke, and gilt stars, America appoore in an increasing- ly queer light. All this under- solution of the question, and be listened to seriously. There badges of rank, value $30. these there is only one
hand work by diplomatists is ownership of
here may, for instance, be much to sailing 8
Six Weeks' "Hard."* bo
in favour Faid Not only extremely heavy,
A Chinese who forced his way portions of Europe to learn. Till Fomething new for the civilised again the expense is there the cost of the boat to be counted-anything from $300 to what the Times argues; the Times into a house to which he had no fermany taught us otherwise, wa|
that
io
bost, Bat
of
Saturday, September 25: 5.50 and 8.50 p.m.-One Ber-
Monday, September 27:
5.50 and 8.50 p.m. One Ser geant and seven P. Cs, to be detailed by Inspector D'Almada.
patrol,
Inspector Taylor will visit saob
Patrols (Eastorn), Friday, September 241.
5.50 p.m.-P. Ca. Hasan and Moosdern.
8.50 p.m.-F. Os. Hasham Khan
and Rumjahn. Sergeant Khawas: Khon will visit
Saturday, September 25:
5.50 p.m.-P. Os. Nazarin an Moogdeen,
8.50 p.m.-P. Cs. Fatob Deen
Sergeant: Suffiad
Sunday, September 28,
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and Hussain.
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215
will visit.
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and Omar,
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Total to 23rd inst. 4781
Daily average
207.87
A DUBLIN MYSTERY,
Masked Mea Selze Rilla Store.
Considerable sensation was
6.50 p.m.-P. Cs, Abdul Hamid
8.50 p.m.-P. Ca. Santra and Sheikh Hamid. Sergeant Arealli will visit
Patrols (Water Police). Friday, September 24.
5.50 p.m.-Wilke (8) Gaskell
(8) Henderson (P)
8.50 p.m.-Kim (8) Mexwell (8) Inspector D'Almada (P), Saturday, September 25:
5.60 p.m.--J, Ivanovich (8) V. Ivanovich (9),
8.60 p.m. Mehr Deon (8) Jaman Khan (6);%
Sunday, September 200 5.60 p.m. Souza (8) Xavier (8), 8.50 p.m.-Two men for (8) to be detailed by Inspector Wonger
8600-ta: the contingent expe sɛes have also to be taken into se-may be absolutely right and the title, was seat to geol for six had always thought that Ambascossioned in Dublin on August Monday, September 27
count. These involve an outlay of at least $12 a month for the Censorate absolutely wrong over boat boy's wages, another 82 or 33 for incidentale, and a periodical thie Mesopotamia affair; but that week, at the Police Court thie
outlay of $7 or $8 for."alipping" the craft so that she may be will make no differetos. It haal morning. The period will be sadors and their suites were 16 when news spread that a store 5.50 pm. Fothergill (P)
spent in hard labour.
among the instituations that com adjoining the London and North Balley (6) Packham (8), mand respect of themselves. When Western Railway Company's 8.50 p.m. Wester Robert sora ped. In the oase of a motor boat the expense is probably heavi- debased itself forever in the eyes
Sudden Death,
war broke out the Germans proved, er still. It follows, therefore, that this way out of the difficulty is of all readers whose opinion is
worth anything-and there's an A Chinese waiter named Mak by their behaviour towards the North Wall premises had been son (8) Nicoll (8).
raided by several men, who Promenade Concert, Septem only open to relatively few people in the Colony.
and 'on't.
Ying of the Hongkong Club, died French and Russian Embassies anddenly on the second floor of that they at least had no intention carried off in motor-cara á large
Inspector Wong quentity of rifles. the premises yesterday owing to whatever of regarding them as Watchmen on the premises siste three men to the rupture of a blood vessel. sacred; and now they have 10 that the raidera all wore maake money and His body was removed to the creased our knowledge on the and brandithed revolver, and pro mortuary.
subject by showing us how
attack
If the matter is carefully considered, it will be seen that look of enterprise accounts for our being deprived of a recreation which should be pre-eminent in Hongkong, More boat-yarda are needed places where one oan hire at a really reasonable rate, whatever type of boat ono wishes. Especially should, those placas provide small
Property Stolen they consider their own Embas that they could not resist the Inspect craft, in the way of yawla and motor-boals, which can be built at
A Chinese woman from Samt sice should behave when in a It is stated that the rifles were three men quits & low cost. These, let out at, say, $1.50 an hour, should soon
pan Street reports that some neutral country. The consolation
intended for the National Volun for pay for themselves and prove a little gold-mina to the owners,
person has stolen from her room hanging to it all is that every
White foera, Under auch conditions, sailing and boating would greatly increase The case in which three Chin a gold locket, and two gold finger freak piece of dirty work is The police are inv in popularity, and enterprise would reap correspondingly large res ons ware charged with perjury rings along with 822 in money... another indication of the fret that wards.yaho idea is worth every consideration; the writer's surprise has been remanded until Monday the total value of the property lost common know herself beaten. affair, but the stolen Is that it has not before now been hit upon by some local syndicate" next,
being $84.
The Perjury Case.
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