WATSON'S EUMINTOL
A Liquid Dentifrice having all the Characteristics of Odol.
- mad. Applied directly on the brush it cleanses the teeth
prevents their decay. When mixed with Water It forms a pleasant antiseptic Mouth Was which purifies and refreshes the whole Mouth,
Price: $1.00
Per Bottle.
A. S. WATSON & Co,
PREPARED ONLY BY
HONGKONG AND CHINA.
THE HONGKONG „TELEGRAFI, FRIDAY,
Straits-Born Chinese Loyalty,
COTOBER 1,—1915.
DAY BY DAY.
NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
A YEAR AGO TO-DAY.
AT THIRTY, MANSUSPECTS (IIM- BELF A FOOL:
KNOWS IT AT FORTY, AND RE-
FORMS HIS PLAN.-Young-
Oar Singapore correspondent wired us yesterday to the effect that the Siraits-born Chinese have passed a resolution in favour of their community's voluntarily re- gistering itself and offering it aervices to the Government in any capsoity, Then British rulo cannot be so very irkacme and tyrannons, after all. Since war broke out, offers of help hayo heavy fog. come, dot only from our blood- brothers of the Dominions, but also
The Weather.
Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 78; rais,
At the Peak 8am. Temp. 71;
Count the Columns.
frost every district of India Yesterday . the Telegraph and from the indigenous po-published 32 columna of solid To-day there palations of every one of the reading matter. smaller Colonies; and these will be 32 publiabed. offere are still being made. Is there no reproach in all this for the shirkere at Home and out here? When the war atory cɔmea! to be accurately compiled, it will have to be mournfully admitted that, while Indians, Chinese, Africans and wixed races were keen to help the Empire, and Ltd., while the Dominions were spend-
The object of this paper is to publish correct information, serve to ers at Home or from Home-ne
the truth and print the news without fear or favour.
* SE FÆI A3 16 18 TE ZU ERESAN*
Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.
Telephono: No. 1
Western Union A.B.C., 5th edition. Office address: 11, Ice House St.
BIRTH.
LITTLE-On September 26. 1915, at 657 Route Ratard, the wife of J, H. Little, of a son.
MARRIAGE.
KERR-LYON.-On August 12, at Norwood, Fred Bernard. eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Kerr, to Gwendolen Mary, daughter of late Geo. K. Lyon and Mrs. Francis Bwayne, Norwood.
DEATHS.
BARRATT.-On July 10, in the Military Hospital, Ghent, of wounds received on April 22, Sorgeant Rob rt William Barratt, agod 35, a member of the staff of Messrs. W. F. Stevenson and Co., Ltd., Philippine Islands,
DICKINS-Angust 16, at Seond Lodge, Wilts, Frederick Victor Dickins, C. B., aged 77.
ing their money and their lives with a prodigality which has staggered our enemies and the neutral nations, there are British-
are afraid to hazard a gueeÐ at how many-who seem to take a pride in doing absolutely no thing and in speaking disparag- ingly of those who are anxious to {do something. All honour to the Straita-born who have come for- ward voluntarily and without stipulation or reserve.
Waking up the Shirkers.
Share Market News-Opening Official Quotations, Binke. -- $830, tales. North Chicas Insurance.-Tl,
170, Layers.
Yangiezo's $248, buyers,
ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT.
The American Loen.
CANTON NEWS.
LEADING EVENTS IN THE (From Our Own Corre
GREAT WAR.
Extracts from the war news con- tained in the "Hongkong Telegraph" of OctoberTM 1,
19.14.
Servians Recapture Semlis, The Servians have recccupied Semlin, after a feros batilo,
Contactus Day, Canton, September Hung Cheung Lom hai a circular of instruction to all It is very gratifying to find that
Confucisa temples, in what the Anglo-French toan bas even
directs that the celebration Confucine Day shall-Int? more than fulfilled expectations, "Opposition has virtually die-
days, beginning on the 2811. appeared" bas on ominous sound
the present Chinese month about it so far as German future
cordingly a general assemble interests are concerned; and it is Germmos Driven Back Towards all Cantonese Confusion noteworthy that Renier draws at tention to the contrast between The Japanese on the day and called to meet on the 27th the the success of this losh and the night of the 27th drove the enemy proper arrangements. The want of success attending that towards Tainatan. Their casual table big dinner will be h wh ch Germany has endeavoured ties were 150. The German day at 4 and the formal com in honour of the Sagent sight to promote. The differences be- lose are unknown but fifty wore following morning, an omn tween the Americans' reception captured with four machine guns. of the ventures are not difficult to account for. 8 far as the
Talogtau.
British Warships Take Part In the Bombardment,
A
apon his great deeds will te nounced at 1 and all Confudi The Japanese on the 28th are urgently requested to t German-Americana are concerned, bombarded two of the Tsingtau to lend dignity to this ceremo Indo (Combined $153), bayers.aa wa have observed before, their forts.
British. warship
Lead Monopoly. China Deferred $91 b. 894, e. loyalty to the Fatherland exists participated in the attack. One of Several merchants have Shanghai Coltons. - $93, rather in noise and in cheap plot the forts replied, but ineffectively. tioned the authorities for
buyera.
ting than in "coming down
Antwerp Bombarded. privilege of a monopoly of i China Providents-$9, buyers. handsomely." If they were The Germanato-day resumed the lead business" at Kong Tu Ropes. - $344, sellers. so devoted to the country of bombardment of the outer forts. As there is no precedert is falle Douglas's-$89, buyers. their birth why did they leave it The garrison replied by sorties in this matter Nam Hongken; and K. W. and G. for a home in a foreign country? at various points and repaleed magist. ate has be requested *
781 buyers,
Obviously enough they have no the enemy with heavy losses, investigate and port what
be a spital intention of coming forward as They also bombarded Lierze, bis opinion, woul champions of a lost cause. They and the inhabitants .d. It is yearly tax to be indeed. will will, probably, beguile the feared that Lierre has been des New Hydra Rac
A Mr. Wa Hogen bu i time with setting fire to property troyed. A strong fuice of Ger- and with other such diversions mans has re-occupied Moll, which vented a new bydilio which do not cost them any-they threatened to destroy unless ha now petitio for the
Docks.$824, sales and buyers. Kang Yike. The. 15h, buyers, Green Islands. $101, buyers. China Sugars, $131, buyers. Luzons. - $40), sellers.
The Dollar. The rate of the dollar on demand to-day is 1 0 11/10d.
To-morrow's Anniversary
To-morrow is the 37th anniver- eary of the stoppage of the City of Glasgow Bast.
!
On Holiday,
Apropos of the nobis army of shirkers, we have just come across a novel appeal to them, mentioned in a recent London paper. A pri-
Mr. P. H. Holyoak, left yester vato of the Coldstreams was charg- ed at Marylebone Police Court day for a holiday in Japan. with being drunk and discharging
a service rifle to the danger
Silk Quilt Stolen.
Theft in MacDonnell Road.
80
ram and
Battle of the Alsne: Situation given an inventor in t
Unchanged.
countries. The Governor. There is practically no change approved of his request and in the situation at Aisne. The promised to grant him the dewind Allied Loft has had very heavy right as soon as he will forward fighting but it well holding its the necessary model
OWD,
Fishing Smacks Blown Up: Italy Warna Austria.
thing; and the dr.matio in the fugitive inhabitants returned. exclusive patent atiner in them will still prompt them to convene grim midnight meetings, each man revolver. armed, determined, mysterious meetings at which the Almighty will be told how to deal with England etc. etc, and at which
Wang Po Docks. much will be said while nothing
General Lung has sont a letter, is done, Bat the police of New
to the Department of River York and Chicago will doubtless Two Italian fishing smacks bave Defence, in which he alleges know how to handle that sort of been blown up by flouting mines that, Lan E. Foon, the Dock patriotism. As to providing in the Adriatic off the Italian Superintendent, has toro down money for
obviously coast, and eighteen members of valuable public building, Mre. Pennefather, 6 Observa-losing nation that will be quite the crews were killed. Italy has General Lung it is alleged order of the public. A fine of forty RYLEY-August 14. suddenly, at Guy's Hospital, Oliver Ryley. shillings was imposed, which we police of the theft from her house pakks Americana bave by this Austria on the matter and has directed that he should make Masowbile the made serious representatione to led his immediate discharge sod tory Villas, bas complained to the another matter. accountant, Mercantile Bank of India, Ltd., aged 62.
feel sure there were plenty of
timo boon ablo 10 make demanded massures be taken to good the damage and stand trial. OSBORNE.-On August 9, 1915. 2nd Lieutenant John William people ready to pay on Tommy's of a silk quilt valued at $100. up their minds as to who is at prevent a recurrence.
Liest. Kam Leang is the newly Osborne, 9th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers (oldest son of Mr. behalf. An officer of the Cold- John Hall Osborne, formerly of Shanghai and Tientsin). Aged 25 streams came forward and spoke
Inalt and as to whom it is wiser Japanesa Success at Tsingtau. appointed superintendent. Hei years. Died of wounds received in action in the Dardanelles on of the man
Mre. T. J. Thompson of 13 to help with money. Germany cia A portion of the Japanere fleet driver to General Lung and Com ag an excellent August 7, 1915.
Kidnapping Cases. MACHADO.-On September 26, 1915, at 51 Roode Road, Shang-soldier who had done a solid coppell Read has complained fire no sccurity, and those who landed a force and occupied Lo-mander of the fort at Fai Moca,
twelve months in the trenches, to the Police of the theft from her lend her money may eay goodbyo she Harbour, in the neighbour.
Americans hood of Teington, and to k four Since the great food many and who was just off back again room of a gold brooch eet with to it "right away.
know well enough, too, what a field gaus, which the Germans casos of kidnapping have come after # brief respite, and pearle valued at $35.
German victory would have meant abandoned. They held the place to light, one stranger than an- apparently magistrate and pri- | The Shautakok Murder.
to them. Asons of their own people with a small foros.
other is that of an old woman in Boner parted the beat of friends, This morning the Uhinese pointed out in a recent letter, Japanese Official Report. Honam who had four girls (0 It turned out that there had been arrested in oonnection with the already, if it were not for the "Commander-in-Chief Kato, of sell, saying they were her a a cartain amount of method in Shantakok murder was brought British feet, the Germans would the Sacood Squadron, states in and her extreme poverty forced Thomse temporary madness. before Mr. R. F. Lindsell and for be bombarding Long Island; nay bis offatal report that on the 28 h her to offer them for sale. It was He had taken a potshot at a bird, mally remanded. Mr. Otto Kongmore; they would, by this time, September the Japanere Navy noticed that the dialect of the w not, it would Beem, with any Sing appeared for the defenos.
have overran the United States stacked Lavalian pori with gun-man was dissimilar to that of the malign intentions towards the
Theft of Pig-Iron.
like a plague.
boats and destroyers, an, also girlsand some quietinvestigations seized foor Krupp field guns resulted in the arrest of the old four limbers and some ammunition women and the discovery that the which were left by the enemy." four girls had all been stolen from their country homes in the Ching Yuen District. The loca tion of the detsation board was also discovered and ten ther stolen girls were found and the master of the house together rith bis wife were arrested.
hai, Carlon Maria, son of Julian Maria Machada, age 33.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1915.
CHINESE PROGRESS.
bird bat because he was convinced A Chinese charged with stealing that the sound of a rifle-shot pig-iron from the Kowloon Go would be an excellent thing down Company's Yard at Yauma An interesting little publication has been sent us from Chefoo. shirkers. "The loafers in Lon- labour and four hours stocks by wherewith to arouse some of the ti was sentenced to 14 days' hard It is colled Astatio Republicans, and it intends, the fates willing, don don't understand there is a Mr. G. R. Wood at the Police 10 appear twion • mouth, with the view of bo
barefiting Chinese who war," be remarked when arrested Court to-day.
"We shall have to wake them are anxions to improve their ads of E lish and incident-
up.” Unfortunately it will take ally-of republican doctrines. The text of the various ales-ora than a single rifle report to liberally sprinkled with explanations, in the Chinese character, of wake up some of the alafats difficult or idiomatic passages, and the general suggestion of the perio lical is one of practicality. There are brief papers on matters
of social, political and domestic progress, educational and business!
tad hig som unga space. The Chinere, in their following of
sidy gavo to
Mr. Spencer Leigh Hughes has made an interesting analysis, for his readers in the Daily News, of
To-
Clothes Stolen from a Shroff.
The Germans in Russia.
The German Dow papers, we note, are boping that Ganeral von from the Eastern front to the Hindenberg will be transferred Western. That will quite well suit the Allies' convenience, for,
LANGKAT OUTPUT.
Meeers, Wright and Hornby if he makes as big a fool of him- advise me that the Langkat ons pat self there as be bas done in for the month of September is a A Chinese shroff residing at Kassin, the war will be the sooner follow:- 108 Wellington Street bas report-over. So tar 期 we
ed the potion that someone Leor.
can September1 both he Bod the eflected an entry into his promo Rockenson have prin by wrenching of the stair case cipally distingu themselves door and stoje twenty-six pieces by leading their troopa of clothing falued at $35.
trop which they stand bat little Unlawful Possession of Gun pow-|ohance of getting out of. Is not
der Punished.
the moreas incident, mentioned in This morning at the Police the telegram this morning, more or lesa emblematical of the German position in the Est? The Teuton, linded by his own eternal belief himself and handicapped to a
in
thick headedn°89,
has
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There were two plaintiffs against
Parr and Company in the Sum-" mary fourt, this morning.. Tam Bui-wai sued for $70 and George Fisher sued for $9188.
Hi. Haywood (Mr. Leo. D'Almada's office) appeared for the plaintiffs and Mr. Rass sp- peared for the defendant,
Tursday the 14th was fixed for the hearing.
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affairs, and a short editorial on the need for "observation" where Books for Tommy. Chinese national progress is concerned. This latter, while being ambitiously ready to look forward to the day when Chips will take "a front seat in the ranks of the civilized nations of the world," is not lacking in frankness concerning Calestial shortcomings.
The writer insists on the necessity for deeper observation some of the booke which charit- Court, before Mr. J. R. Wood, a among his countrymen, and implies what Hongkong knows well ably-minded folk have forwarded Chinese we charged with having enough to be true: that Chinese observation exercises itself rather for the use of soldiers in the tren- unlawfally a bis possession on superficial and non-essential detail than on the fundamental ches. We notice an appalling pre-lbs of gan foder an hij
valence of volumes of sermons and at Lyemuo. 4ospector Gerrard things that matler. Theftio ono on which he might have perm of hymnbooks a fact which informed bisi Worship that the restar extent than other races Weaters customs, have too often observed mere surface affairs of makes one feal rather sick. The powder ery cheap and had well onceive of by his own drase or, worse still, the vices of the West, and have neglected the troops in Flanders are giving made at Shaukiway. The blundering forward into Russia, growing like a cock on a muck Alleged Stabbing Affesy, very things most calculated to improve their race materially and their lives for the authe defendant war fined $15.
heap and believing that he is A Chinese has been admitted to co quering the world; and mean- lastingly Bad we been ideal observers," remarks the writer of Empire yet there are
pedtable bodies at Home who can the article in question, "we should have observed, and abs insult them in this manner. We the Government Ovil Hospital while the very peasants have would have imitated them (foreigners) in healthy food, regular wonder what sort of literature the suffering from a stab wound to been laughing in their sleeves ventilation, oleanliness, outdoor to
as they watched bim waddling offies boare, the real any, etc." And on the question of cendera themselves would choose the face alleged to have been in- business one he is none the less frank. "Their salaries are for beguiling the intervals he dicted by a man now in custody, to his own damnation, His" con tween lengthy spells of facing the The prisoner was before the quest" of Russia will most as quite enough for them to live honourably, without any enemy's fre and poison gas. It magistrato this morning and was suredly be one of the things that underhand income known se 'equeeze."
All this is sensible and healthy, and as it should be, but one is lamentably true that there are remanded. The wound is alleged historians of the future will want smiles as one reads that the intellectual superiority of our Western still some thousands of good folk to have been saneed with a rusty to errand themselves" on. brothers is again the result of the painstaking organisation of West- who do not appreciate Kipling's knife and this fact was mentio sed "I'e Tommy this, and Tommy by the Police when an application ern educators who, yeara ago, made general education compulsory.""
Meanwhile the Kaiser is distri- In the first place we do not know of any reason why, if the writer bod that, en' Tommy 'ow's yer soul?" was made for bail, which the subuting iron crosses in the West. If the gendera will provide thorities desired should be heavy. Dear mat! Forhaps he thinks that Chinese, be should admit the intellectualeuperiority of the foreigner;
Alleged Aram on a Juak. and, in the second, he strangely misunderstands the European if he plenty of covels of every olass,
Another Chinese was charged that cheap and nasty decoration the wholesale handing round of thinks that compulsory education has made him what he is intellect from Kipling and Conrad down ually. Of course it is difficult to compare the two brains-Chinese to works of "The Blood-stained with boing in possession of four will stop the rash of the French and Western; as difficult as it is to compare the two concepts of what Patty-knife" order, they will be rims and four and od rond of eist of Souchon, or will frighten MAIL SERVICE TO JAPAN. reilly constitutes education. Climate, diet, environment and a score performing a good work. Everymunition on his junk at the the British forces into packing up Western Examination anchorage, their gear and going home. Considerations have placed a distinct mark between the two, one loves" a story", but all tastes Mr. G. E. Gardiner, on behalf of Aropse of the British in that and 0. Company, Hongkong, in«[
The Superintendent of the P. botter go to the shroff, Think as Aunt of living in the West could make the Chinese do not happen to bo alike reslice that there is in je surprising to us that they do not where atories are concerned. Mr. P. W. Guldring for the de quarter, it speaks wonders forms us that he has received if they venture to throw away at success ahead of them There are hundreds of private fence, said the defendant had for the training system advices from his managing di- Faranean civilisation. For their and grasp at the soldiers who would hold out both permit to carry the arme, from s Kitchener new arm rectors that the Company will that they will come to see that their system of eq
bands for the best things in the authorities se Canton, but had s
one that it could go maintain's fort-nightly service to andern fiction; but žasqmuch as
it has done and and from Japan, by continuing for them, and that they will bibe the
perm ho would obtain
the majority of the company lainen WoMF: also prefer the
amara<from Shanghai to they not have them ?."
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Chines: offers Judge his
Auditing.
In the Summary: Court:~~ Paisne Judge ('o Chinese defend- Bot) How much do you owe?ì
Defendant:-Well I brought
my books up and I would thank your Lordship to make them up for me (loud laughter)
Paiste Judge: You had.
Mr. Rusa (foamsintiff) would
he care to come found to us would take good tar he is not robbed ? (laughter
Pulsus Judge:~Ve? well. Defendant-I would like to have the accounts made up.
my Lord (lad laughter).
Faine Judge Well fry then,
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