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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY,

WATSON'S OLD BROWN

LIQUEUR BRANDY

IT HAS

ALREADY DONE TIME

“21

"

YEARS IN WOOD

E

QUALITY

TRY IT

AND BE YOUR

OWN JUDCE

A.S. WATSON & CO., LD..

Hong Kong AND

China.

Our Praya.

DAY BY DAY.

OCTOBER 11, 1916,

ALL ARE BUT PARTS OF ONE STUPENDOUS WHOLE

WHORE BODY NATURE IS, AND GOD THE SOUL-Pore

Can nothing be done to make the stretch of Praya between the Connaught Statue and the Har- bour Office a little more eadar- able? It is trae that we have to thank the Government for im- proving the roadway, itself in that neighbourhood'; owing to the energies of the P. W. D. it is now possible to ride along there in a riokahs without being rain. jolted to death by the holes in the road. But in an important place rain. like Hongkong the residents have rarely & right to demand

The Weather.

Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 80;

At the Peak 8 am. Temp. 73;

The Malls.

Close per es. Bbingo Maru

to morrow at 11 am.

K. and Canadian Maile.

Close per as. Tacoma Mara to-morrow at 1 p.m. Siberian Mail. Closes por a.. Yingchow to-morrow at 3

p.m.

NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

MORE NOTABLE PROGRESS;

Greece and Bulgaria.

to

FROM THE PULPIT.

KILLED IN ACTION,

Comfort for Mourners.

Mr. F. May Lowder.

Notes of a sermon presohed by

Mr. E. Gordon Lowder, Com- the Rev. J. Kirk Moonachie at missioner of Customs, Kowloon, the Union Obarohi Yesterday received information Yesterday morning.

that his second son Mr. Frederic

notion in Franos,

"Blessed are they that mourn; for they shall be comforted." Mat. 5/4.

This doubtless sounded strange

We do

May Lowder, had been killed in

The deceased who was only in his twenty-fifth year; went to the

British newspapers are not in the habit of taking for gospel the interviews published by the A sociated Press of America, and therefore the latest alleged state- something more than toler-American and Siberian Mailement by M. Venizelos must be in the ears of many who first front from India in April last. received with some little caution. heard it, and we need not suppose He did his training in India in He is represented an having said the Divine Master attempted to the Meerut Divison of the that Greece would abide, to the explain it overmuch. He is the Indian Expeditionary force. He very letter, by the Serbian treaty Truth, and the truth does not went to the front as one of twelve and as having given a nasty plain itself; it lays hold of a motor-cyclist despatch riders and Bide-alap King and life does the explaining. We he was corporal of the division. tle Constantine by observing that Christians are brought up to He had not been in England

There is no reason to hide be accept our Lord's bestitades since he went to the front. bind the wording of a tresty." pronounced on the poor, the Of course, whatever he may have meek, the mourners. exid does not alter subsequent accept them, yet do ever wholly facts. The Greeks or coitain 0886 to seem strange, opposed an powerful individuals among them they are to much which is aimed

have shown but little disposi-at ordinarily? Sorrow a blessing! is best suggested and bodied forth tio to abide by treaty terms, As long as possible we keep it at in mother-love, which, surely is arm's length from ourselves and bat have preferred to cling to a

the tenderest, most considering nos tco creditsble peace; and the for those we love what efforts long see-eawing and talking and would we not make that the touch thing we know on earth. The early church saw this suggested To-morrow in the 45th anniver-mobilising has had for its sole of grief should not come nigh in the revelation of the Divine the eary of the French success at praction! result the presentation them. In this we follow an in-nature as sacred Trinity, some

of the King's portrait to the ex- stinct so deep that we cannot bat

obey it, within the bounds of part of the unsearchable riches of the Godhead being suggested to reason alanyrate. But weerr when we assume that failure to avert ideal relationships of the human our understanding through the

ably well-made thoroughfares. The jankmen and

sampan people litter the roadway just as U. they chose, and it is nothing to find bricka, sand, etc, stretching more than halfway across the road. Neither law nor order- nor common decency-is observed by these boat people, who tie up jast where they think they will and usually arrange to land their variona commodities in No anch B place and manner as will be most inconvenient to Europeans who may want to use the Prays for the purposes of walking or riding. And always -above and beyond everything we have the Sanitary Board's salubrious quarters Dear

Share Market News-Opening Official Quotations. Change.

The Dollar.

The rate of the dollar on demand to-day is 1= 9 15/16d.

To-morrow's Anniversary

The object of this paper is to publish correct information, serve to Youmali Ferry, proclaiming Bagneux.

the truth and print the news without fear or favour.

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DEATHS

LANGLEY.—At the Government Civil Hospital, on 10th October, Nancy Isabel, aged six months, beloved daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Langley.

LOWDER-Killed in action in France, at the age of 25, deric May, second son of E. Gordon Lowder, Commissioner Customs, Kowloon,

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, MONDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1915.

"THE DEVIL'S BIRTHDAY. "

their presonce far and wide by the foulest stink in the Far Eset. And yet that stretch of Praya

might be one of the Colony's beauty A YEAR AGO TO-DAY. spots, Junk traffic could just as well be banished farther west, and what is now more like a long dungbeap could, with next to no exponse, be converted into a fina esplanade: But, after all, does Hongkong really care?

Mexico's Government,

GREAT WAR,

Extracts from the war news con- tained in the "Hongkong Telegraph" of October 11,

1914.

Allles,

the

Minister.

A Secret Treaty.

Talking of treation, a Greek/trouble is the great failure. We family. The Holy Spirit was

doors and beckon sorrow from s

Ar-

The longtby article which, under the above heading, we re- We hope the Carranza Govern-castle-on-Tyne. He stated that he the early days of the war Serbia'a "peaking of putting ap with Bimself a man of sorrows and

have higher duties toward those we newspaper learns that, some three love than keeping their eyes from promised by our Lord se "The months ago, a secret treaty was tears and their hearts from heavi- comforter," the word being the

| same sais used in our text, LEADING EVENTS IN THE signed between Balgaria of the

one part and the Austro-Germana ne. We are not to open our other comforter," He said, of the other, by which the former, dietanos. Bat God would have continue His own work amongst in return for ber coming to the

men us leave the door on an easy

and that suggests how aid of the latter, was to receive a latch, so that when this angel of largely our Saviour's work on whole lot of place which never His does come there may be no plied to Himself the Messianic earth was of that nature. Ho ap. were Germany's and never will be. too reluctant bara against His In the intervale of war news we

That is the sort of bargain that,

satrance. Let us not treat what promises, of One annointed to Fre-sometimes hear odds and ends

were we in Bulgaria's shoes, we God sends se a foe assaulting the bind up the broken hearted, of about the position in Mexico.

ahould have no tizie for. We never

citadel, when it is a friend bearing moars,

"to appoint unto them that The latest of these is that the Berlin Announces the Fall of could see the point of a man's

to give them the United States has recognised

an ambassage. If Christ's word Antwerp.

promising to give us what didn't Carranza's Government, Pri-

His actions were The newspapera in Amsterdam belong to him. And how will the dwelle richly in us, sorrow when it garment of praise for the spirit of comes will not be what the Apostle consistent with this portrait;

heaviness," vately we think that Britain state that an official telegram from Greeks and the Turke view this calls "the sorrow of this world and America are a deal too handy Berlin announces that Antwerp littlematter? The Serbians will lose which worketh death." It will everywhere and in every point at recognising Governments that has fallen.

lees sleep than anyone over it, for not beat ne down into utter col- He bore Himself that, remember- sre either mere mushroom growths Big Battle Still Favourable to

the manner in which they have:

ing His life, we concede to Him or else are founded on the foulest

The battle continues under entered into the new feature of apse, it will not produce in us the right to issue even that ex that second death of bitterness traordinary summons to the whole murders, America was in a terrific

the big campaign ehowa them to and resontweet to blast what may of our burdened humanity, "Come barry to recognise the Chinese satisfactory conditions to Republic, and our own people Allies. All our front has been be well prepared and very much remain of life. This, let it bonto M, all ye that labour and at one with their allies. Of course noted, is no mere resignation 2 are heavy laden, and I will give were ready at even storter notico maintained, despite violent their defence of Belgrade is not the inevitable. It does not need to acknowledge the new Serbian tacks of the enemy at several

going to be easy work. The city Christian gospel to teach us that Comforter Who will come to them you rest. Bach is the Divine raling house and the Portuguese pointe.

is awkwardly situated for de- what cannot be cured must be that mourn if they seek Him, "Militarism Must be Crushed." republic-albait both existed as

Lord Haldene addressed two fence, being, to start with, a andared. Our Saviour is not a result of the work of cowardly regicidea. But let that pass, great rerraiting meetings at New-frontier town. If, however, in

sorrow which is unavoidable, but acquainted with grief, for "we printed from John Bull on Saturday, is worth some amount of

to 987 emphatically array, all unprepared as it was, of positive benedictions which have not an high priest who Eerions thought and in not to be dismissed as mere fanatical raving that an and has come to the long

ment may prove satisfactory and wished

it WIS fortunate that the could keep the Austrins very sorrow may conceal, and therefore cannot be touched with the which would have been its fate bad it been written eighteen reign of bloodshed and lawless wat

when much at bay, her troops ro- we are bidden always to hope: sould not draw closer to us feeling of our infirmities." God bad come now, months ago. The spirit in which it is conceived is one of the un-ness that never need have taken we

three nonstituted were bound with

enormously alwaye to triumph, and to And then He has done in Christ by those from our feet on new starting pointa mistakeable signs of the times and if it appears to recommend the pet the neighbouring Powers. We should have been in prengthened countering of hate with bate, of violence with violence and of out- Powers bite been a half as adient position formsof poses able to give quite a satisfactory at the behind the wonderful other hand do we wrong haman a difficult position if we had bean Britain and France, ought to be towards better things, Thie lien sharing our soxtowe. And on the rage with bloody revenge, no fairminded person can censure the formidable as their bark. writer,

If men make their century, their century also makes them,

must be that militarism, which account of themselves. Mesa-abundance in the Bible of kind nature by saying that we come and if Britishers are returning to the old bloodthirsty outlook and

perverted every talent of the while the Bulgarians do ros seem words for the sorrowful. Where is nearer to God in our griefs than concepts of their fathere, they are not to blame. Mr. Bottomley-M. Delcasse's Son a Prisoger, German nation, at ould be crushed too happy over their new under the God like the God and Father of usually in our joys? Perhaps it The deepest sympathy will be and broken, and future genera thousand of them have signalised sidera na human creatures in our and it and human beings, not taking, for we read that four our Lord Jesus Christ, Who con it may be. But taking life se we ought to be otherwise, with some for he, presumably, is the writer of the article-bas, it may be asid, merely reiterated with strong language and stronger feeling, whst felt by the English-speaking tions freed from each terror, most of us have known for many months past. But there is a world with Mr. Kipling in the

their sympathy with their German weakness and our griefe? If we as they might be, but as they are, Fighting in East Prussia. reiteration that is a newspaper's duty, more especially when its lose of his only son, on the bat There has heen obstinate fight-monarch by deserting.

are to seal up this fountain where there is ground for holding that readers are Britiabers. Unless German blackguardiam is constant- tlefield. With M. Delaasse, too, ing in East Prussia. The Ger-

indeed are men and women to that one blessed ministry of ly harped on and kept before the public mind, we Britishers may the world will condole; for though mans retiring on Lyck blow up

turn for cheer in hard houre when even von qaits easily allow to slip from our memory that which it his son has not been elain he is a number of bridgea. Artillery is our bounden duty to remember.

prisoner in the hands of peoplo duels have occurred along the who would take a delight in mak-Vistula. ing captivity additionally hideous

Thus Mr. Bottomley does well to irritate the wound and to do

all in his power to prevent it from premature healing. He has 3 Fresobman. Indeed in their hand- to the relative of eo prominent a

Another German Island Captured.

a

and

Germany's Losses Increase.

In the Euern and Western the heartaches with pain and sorrow in to keep.a. from imagin theatres perhaps the most self- assertive fact is the continued pitieth His children so the Lord

emptiness? "Like as a Fathering that we can get along very well without a God to fear, a Saviour losses which the Gormans are pitieth them that fear Him" heaven to hope for. Something to deliver, a Spirit to sanotify, suffering both in ground and

Bir John French's I could not believo in any other mind of the philosopher when he

am bound to believe in this God.

of this must have been in the It is reported that another Ger- in men. more than common knowledge of human nature, with special

bulletin describes very consider No other being, however exalted, referance to the British variety, and he krows that unless we are ling of prisoners the ingrained man island has been captured. continually compelled to feel sore we may not only relax on lowness of the Germans bonassert-Scharnhorst and Grefsensu in ablo progress and the recapture however omnipotent could be said, "Sorrow is better than efforts to bring William of Germany and his fellow-beasts to book, ed itself as fully as in any of

Samao, There has been a thrilling in- and adde that cur own losses are the God we have seen in the batter. The heart of the wise is of the Hohenzollern redoubt, God to us were He other than laughter, for by the sadness of

water counsels that would simper " God will punish the Germans. Some time ago they were picking terlndo in Samso, which is run-comparatively slight. No word face of Jesus Christ, Whose in the house of mourning, but but may, when the enemy is finally in our power, yield to milk and their various gallant enterprises.

British Aviators Destroy a

Zeppelin.

the countenance the heart is made.

are по

It is wrong to bear malice." When the celebrated " Hymn of Ease" at the best-born among British ping smoothly under the Union has yet come througle and the peculiar delight it is to bend the heart of fools is in the house was published, we remarked that Britishers do not hate the and French prisoners for special Jack. The German warships extent of our casualties and those down to the humble and Germans. But that was many months ago; Germany had not then insult, and we can hardly hope Scharnhorst and Greisenau on- of the French in the great com- contrite. "As one whom his of mirth, ". To turn our world & fortnight mother comforteth, so will I come of our Utopias seem to point to into a house of mirth, as some stolen the lives of some of our finest troops by means of poison gas that when the son of a famous tored Apia (ospital of the Island bined attack of and other vile trickery; nor did we know the half of her iniquities their hands their

French politician comes into of Upolu) and the New Zealandere ago. Had they been markedly fort you." Wonderful words! I in connection with the conquered citizens of France and Belgium.

behaviour manned the gaus, expecting a serious the Germans would not am going to believe in the God would be to make it but will be of bombardment, but the warships have failed to boast of the fact, Who uses this language to us ther, however,

house of fools, we fear. Nei❤ Ans nation we have a sort of humorous contempt for expressing towards him hatred for, to the ordinary British mind, it saveurs too much of a particularly noble order. The departed. A German steamer nor would our own people have until I hear of a better, a nobler, turn it wilfully into a house af and businesslike race. But, call the feeling what we may: hate relatives in that every freah the Union Jack was still flying.bear of alove on four thousand of every driven, chastened soal, too blinde, crushing the spirit of it of a keeping down, the deaire for revenge, determination to punish, or what not the prisoner taken by the enemy and

the enemy being captured, and of easily growing hardened and un-, shutting out the sunshine. grave Austrian admissions as to believing in the stress and trial Unly when the shadow does fall, longer the war goes on, the more is it borne in upon those of us who very fresh mon elain will surely

The Admiralty annources, the strength of the Russians. How of this rather unmerciful world, let us recognise the angel's wing, ments need hardening. We have no more right to forgive Germany men of the Allied countries to put through the Cfficial Press Bureau, much longer is the game to last would but let himself be as a and remember that some of the give a due amount of thought to the position, that our national senti- be an additional incentive to the than a criminal court judge has to say to the lowest type of murderer forth their full strength to punish that Commander Spencer Grey then? who has just been found guilty: "Go in peace; thy sins are for the Termin who bare caused all reports that, as authorised, be car given thee." That judge is an enemy to pablio morality and a

ried out, with Lieutenante Marix this suffering.

and Sippe, a successful attack on traiter to the country that employs him if he refrains from sentencing

the airship shed at Dasseldorf. the prisoner to death, Similarly we Britishers will be false to our manhood and treacherous to heroio France and Belgium, to say nothing of our other allies, if we hold up a finger to save from a

a height of 500 fest, pierced the Pichette, aged 14 and 8, wire comforting. The terms are too Apostle "concerning them who violent death the maniac who still calls himself Emperor of Gor-notifies that in connection with The flames were observed to be Railway shops this evening, the you may take the two as answer- hope, but are able, amid all the The Local Government Board shed and destroyed a Zeppelin. playing in the Canadian Pacific wealthily vague to be defined, bat are fallen asleep. We do not many, together with all his advisers, when the day for casting up schemes to secure improved can- 500 feet high, this being the re-elder placed the nozzle of a com-ing to each other better than any loss and grief to ascribe blessing Rocounts comes. If Mr. Bottomley, by means of his articles, conditions in respect of maternity sult of igniting the gas in the pressed air hose against the other would answer to either of to the God and Father of our Booted in keeping the popular mind permanently inflamed against and infant welfare, it will pay airship. All three officere are younger boy's body and called to them. We may not idolise any Lord Jesus Christ, Who bath Germany, then by all means let him go, on writing. The British one-half of the salaries of infant safe, but the aeroplanes were an engineer, who was playing human love, even the tendercet. begotten us again unto a living imagination needs inflaming-until there is not a man or wo- and maternity health visitors in lost. The feet was a remarkable with them but in the next room. We know--grim fact that in his or her power towards bringing about a victory for the Allies. 1914-5 and subsequent years a hundred miles and the previons what was going on, the engineer will I not forget thee" in the Lord's saying, bus is contains a promise man, or even a child, who is not doing something-the moat that in London in respect of the year one. The distance flown was over to turn on the air. Ignorant of woman may forget her child, "Y" hope." "Blessed are they that

mourn." It may sound a hard' The public should be allowed no rest till Germany has been made to This only applies to health visitors attack bad put the enemy on their did so, with the result that the addendum to that sad admission of life which nothing can take suffer as poor distraught Belgium has suffered; till it has ceased to specially appointed by local guard and caused them to mount boy's body was blown open and Still, in the nature of the "God of be a nation, and till the ringleaders in the war have been awarded authorities for such schemes.. the only punishments that they are capable of feeling..

anti-aircraft gabe,

he died shortly afterwards, all comfort" is something which

State and Infant Welfare.

child again, "one whom his mother comfortath." There is no best in shade. The shadow lies aweetest scented flowers, grow such other comfort in this world; deep upon millions of hurts this Killed by Playmate.

every mother's son of us knows day, and we recall the word of Quebec, August 21-While that very well. You cannot define comfort from the Christian

brothers named "mothering” and you cannot define

Lieut.Marix's bombadropped from two young

Borrow as those who have no

away.

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