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· THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1915.

CO., LTD.

A. S. WATSON & CO.,

ESTABLISHED 1841

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

Cruelty Cases.

DAY BY DAY.

NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

GONE- BUT NOT FORGOTTEN:

The Weather. Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 78;

At the Peak 8 am. Temp. 70;

The Malls.

THINGS IN SERBIA.

Affairs at Home.

CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

Alleged Murder at Yaumati.

BRITISH RED CROSS

SOCIETY AR

The case in which Wong Kee And St. John's Ambulance Fund, The total of this Fund now pleaded not guilty to an indiot meat of murder at Taumati on amounts to $5,827.94, since the September 19 was resumed this last list was published, subscrip morning.

tions have been received from the following:--

We are glad to notice, as time. goes on, that there is an ever- increasing effort on the part of police and public to put an end to the atrocious crueltise to animals that have too often been the rule in this colony. Sammonses are being taken fog.

The following Jary was onl out more frequently for those

led :—Mesars A. Starenson, fore-

The Hon. Mr. A. M. Thomsov, offences, and men are being pro- fog.

**The war will not Anish soon," [man, A. Edward, O. R. Chun- Mr. W. J. Tatoher, secuted, and in some cases poni-|

is what Sir Eric Swayne has been nett, D. D. Osario, R. J. Beme- Mr. G. A. Pentreath, shed, for what would havo beon

frankly telling the people at Hull, dios, B. 8. Benjamin and 0. 0.

Mra, E. Murray Bain, ignored quite a few years ago.

Mrs. H. Hanocok, One of the most promising signs Siberian Mail. Closed per se. Great Britain, be adde, must have Bord.

three million men by the spring, The Hon. Mr. J. H. Komp, At- Mrs MP Telati, is the fact that the Indian police Allantique to-day at 10 am, We are in a position to offer our themselves are taking a

Mr. B. C. Sandford, more U. K. and Canadian Mailato make Germany realise the use torney General, prosecuted, and

Mrs. Chatham, practical intereat in the customers a limited quantity of very matter. A care brought to our

Closed per as. Sado Mara leeaness of continuing the war." Mr. O. G. Alabaster, instructed This last expression of General by Mr. P. W. Goldring, defended.

Mr. Ho Kwong at 11 a.m.

Swayne's in particularly useful Inspector Gerrard "said when

N. J. STABB, Hon. Treasurer. fine old Bourbon Whisky cask aged notice yesterday serves sa an ill-Siberian Mail.Clowed pero and happy. Germany knows has the accused was brought to Yau- Liangchow to-day at 3 p..known for well nigh a twelve-Imati Police Station he was wear.

The Fand closas on Thursday which has been in our bonded ware-in dragging a goat by the neck

month-that she cannot win; (ing a singlet and a pair of trou 21st. October. Sabsoriptions of Share Market News-Opening but that is not sufficient. ere, both of which were stained any amounts will be welcome. house in Hongkong for the past

She has to ba taught that with blood. Blood was also com

BOURBON WHISKY.

astration. Two men were occupied

along Icehouse Street. The beast was obviously too sick to move; yet his tormentore persisted-till

scens and insisted in the animal'a

four years and which we guarantee an Indian sergeant arrived on the

Samples ten years old.

will be sent to intending purchasers free.

A.

being placed in ricksba!

S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., mild suggestion very hesitatingly.

HONGKONG,

The Palice Reservo has been treated to eo maoh advice from the press as to what it abould and should not do that we only offer a

It is that the men on patrol— especially the Obinase, who have an advantage over other men ia |

--should overhaul, occasionally, some of the bird shops in their dis tricte, and also should have an eye. to the packing of poultry in crates. Two interesting Anniversaries.

The object of this paper is to publish correct information, serve to their knowledge of the vernacular

the truth and print the news without fear or favour.

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

Telephone: No. 1 A.B.C., 5th edition. Western Union

Office address: 11, Ice House St.

BIRTHS.

Official Quotations.

Canton Insurances.

nom.

Union Insursacos,

sales.

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har prolonging of the waring from a wound in the head, and could bave climbed to get out. But $425,

from abeer malevolence-abeer other parts of the man's body the witnesses in their eagerness to maniacal desire to cause as much were also stained.

stop the man's defence said he $955, damage and quffering all round, There was, on the pillar, of No. could ́not get in at all, Then the

Shel! Transporte.-87/6 sellers. Tronohs, 28/ com. Docke. - $88, 884 sales. Humphrey's Estates.

eelleta.

$7,

Hongkong Cottons. $0.40,

Balea.

-

Providente.$9.80, allora, Dairy Farms-$32, sellers

x div.

Cements. #101, buyers. Ropes -$34, buyers, Langkats- Tle. 38 bayers, Watsons.$61, buyers.

In view of all the fighting, that is going on, on sea and land, and of the fact that this war is one of { allies against allies and not of one nation against another, it is in-demand to-day is 1/9 15-18,

SLATER. On October 10, at Kuala Lumpur, the wife of C. D.teresting to remember that to-day Slater, of Kuala Lumpur, of a daughter.

JELF-On September 27, 1915. at Ipoh, the wife of Arthur S. Jelf, Malay States Civil Service, of is son who did not survive his

birth.

STEWART-On September 11, at Old Court, Hangor Hill, Faling, the wife of A. J. D Stewart, of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, Batavia of a daughter.

DEATH.

MacGILLIVRAY-At Belmont, Kingussio, on September 11. Finlay MacGillivray, retired rubber planter, formerly of Jabong

Estate. Perak, F. M. S., ago 1 60 years.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1915.

FEMINISM IN CHINA.

and to-morrow are the annivers aries, of the battles, respectively,

The Dollar. The rate of the dollar on

To-morrow's Anniversary To-morrow is the 88th anniver-

of Leipsic and Navarino-hoth of Bary of the Battle of Navarino; them conflicts in which a number of nationalities took part. In fact

Alice Memorial Hospital,

the Leipsic event is still spoken Alice Memorial and Affiliated of by aame historians as "the battle of the nations," thongh Hospitals begs to acknowledge perhaps "the battle won by Ger- with thanks the following dons man treachery" would have been tione to the funds of the Hos an apter name. Napoleon's army pitate: St. Andrews Church of 100,000 (which contained Kowloon $81,50. many battalions of Saxons) was opposed to 240,000 Prussians, Austrians and Russians.

The

French were beaten, chiefly owing

to seventeen Saxon battalions, A YEAR AGO TO-DAY. |their allies, turning upon them in

the heat of the engagement !" Always the Turks.

11

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Extracts from the war news con- tained in the "Hongkong Telegraph" of October 19,

1914.

Armentleres Retaken,

Further. Advances.

as possible can only bring her 68, the print of a hand, in blood. eagerness shown by the witnesses extra trouble, making her ultimate The photographs produced were of the Crown to bring home this punishment thrice as severe as it of that. He went into the next case to the prisoner was shown in would have been had she ear- house, 71 and on the dividing another direction and that was rendered earlier. It sasma toler wall be found more blood marks the question of the blood.

"Gentlemen, the evidence of ably clear that nothing but the and also the print of a hand in gathering round her of an over-blood. On the verandah of 69, the witnesses for the Crown whelming force will ocuvince her there were a few drops of blood, simply reeks in blood, blood of all this. She thinks in big some a few inches apart and some everywhere, according to them. aambers; all her bally instinote a few feet apart which made These witnesses see blood every. dispose her to associate size with trail in the back floor of 89, and where, and I am going to submit strength. We know otherwise, ap to the sacks of flour where to you that they see blood where but we have to see the thing from the accused was found biding. there is no blood. Take the oase DÍ | her point of view and to set to work in the manner that will be the most convincing to her.

By Mr. Alabaster:-The hand the prisoner-soaked in blood, mark on the photograph produced and you have the deceased's in Court was a distinct mark of a garments which were soaked in lelt hand.

blood. To test the witnssssa' By His Lordship-On the evidence by the clothes them- The Need of Men.

deceased a bunch of keys was selves, you will as the prisoner's found. One of the keys opened clothes wore Dot soaked in Obviously that manner in the the safe; he opened the safe with blood and the atatement overawing of ner by the presence it himself. Nothing was found on that they were soaked in blood of large bodies of troops and by the prisoner. As far as he knew is proved, by demonstration, the eatablishment of the fact that the contents of the safe were to be unitrus. There was blood The Hoa, Treasurer of the we can fill up all the gape in our intact. There was a large on them, and how was that blood front a quickly as they are made. sum of money there, mostly onused? Again you have the reluctance of the Crown witnes889 And this means recruiting on a in rolls of eabsidiary coin.

The station interpreter said he to admit that any of that blood much larger scale than has hitherto obtained. If the men at read and explained the charge to could have come through the

The latter then blows which he received on the', Home who are so slack in offering the prisoner. themselves would but realise that made a statement which witness hoad from Sergeant Murphy's a wild animal is never more took down word for word. The truncheon. Well he bad three dangerous then when he sees statement when read over to pri- blows on his head, at least, and himself driven to bay and badly soner was signed by the prisoner. everyone of those three blows wounded, they would hesitate no The statement was then read made his head bleed, and yet you longer. The treatment accorded to the prisoner and he admitted had the Chinese constable who to a British nurse in Brussels is an it. He said he did not murder you hear say-Oh no, that earnest of what we are to expect the deceased. About 3 o'olook blood could never have got on hiể from this cultured nation now that in the morning he heard people clothes because that blood was Northern papera are interesting themselves in the possibility

its losses and defents have driven making a row and when he there already. Apparently blood The make-up of the Hidea of a pronounced Woman Movement in China in the near future. here is intereating, though not

LEADING EVENTS IN THE it more mad than ever. If a Gercame out to see what was the cannot go where blood has been,

GREAT WAR. One journal, the Japan Chronicle, goes so far as to say: "It almost

man officer (!) oan, in cold blood, matter and he saw people running and when pressed on the point he mora so than in the case of looks as though there were a big socio-political experiment begin- the battle of Navarino, which

walk up to a fainting woman and and calling out arrest man.' said the blood was old blood.' ning in Obina, compare with which the question whether a took place fourteen years later

shoot her, what may we not next He was afraid he would be streat-Gentlemen if that was old blood, despotic ruler should be called President or Emperor is trifling." (October 21, 1827); for here the

brothers, cousins, friends or sons deceased's shop. The people who dered man, a man murdered a look for? What meroy can onred by mistake so he ran into the it was not the blood of the mar Of course, ali manner of apheavals bave been prophesied for China, Boete of Britain, Russia and at one time and another, which have terminated in a puff and France, under command of Ad

who are prisoners in Gormany saw him did not know him and few minutes before. Sergeant not in on earthquake at all; and those who take the trouble to miral Codrington, were oppos

look for? What can the Belgians they called for the police to arrest Marpby himself says he gave consider, even for a moment, the tone of thought that has dominateded to the Tarks and Egyp-

who are living under Prussian him, because they thought he was him three light taps. Well this part of the world for untold centuries, will be disposed to num- tians.

rule expect? There is no devilry, the assailant. After he was arroat perhaps in Ireland where they Most of the harm done ber the anggested movement among these things which" fizzle out." was the work of the Tarks them-

from the torturing of women to ed he was taken out and a foki of break heads for amusement, and Woman, we all know, has had a greater influence in Chinese galves for, rather than have the La Basses caual, has occupied soners with disease and the real assailant, therefore he was described as-only giving him The Allies' Loft Wing, north of the deliberate inoonlation of pri- the shop also thought he was the knocking a man out, it is properly affairs than in those of other Eastern countries; bat has she ever their ships fall into the hands of a position in front of Givenchy. poisoning of water-courses, that brought to the station. been a distinct force outside her own house? The grim power of their enemies, they destroyed the The Allies at Fromelics have re- these gentlemen are not cap-never seen that knife (produced) lieve it is a policeman's duty ever"

He had three light tape. I do not be the husband's mother within the household is undeniable; but, out-greater number of them. The taken Armentieres. aide, bet influence is made to cease by the mere fact that Chinese fact that this defeat of the Tarka

able of; and therefore they before.

to give a man light taps on the tradition decrees that woman shall stay at home and, until recent was subsequenty spoken of by

must be subdued, markes whether Mr. Alabaster in the head; far from me to say it wan years, even went the length of demanding that she the Duke of Wellington as

by conscription or by say other course of his address of defence not a policeman's duty to use bis should be crippled in order that Clan tradition be lived down all in a few years? We are perfectly that our hopefal British prac slightly progressed at certain the men of the Empire must stop pression, it must have left on the to use his truncheon, he uses it. she might not stray untoward event" seems to show yesterday north of Arran and means. This is no time for Par to the jury said if the evidence trancheon, but when the time liamentary debates on the subject; of the Crown had left any im comes that he feels it necessary well aware that, following on the Revolution, acores of would-be tice of cherishing the Tark and points between Arras and the the talk about compulsory service minds of the jury the impression for one object and one object "enfrage" nocieties sprang into being, but they were destined to be suspecting the Russian had begun Oise. The eitastion in the Centre by coming forward in a body that a great deal of it was untrue. only, and that was to stun his ad- short-lived. In the North we believe that western-educated Chinese even then. It our grandfathers and on the Right Wing is an-voluntarily. The righteousness or Let them take the evidence for versary, and not to give him three girls may still be endeavouring to set on foot various feminist had been possessed of a little more changed. organisations; but here in the South, beyond the facts that a few foresight they would have wiped

the uprighteousness of compulsion the prosecution. So keen were light caressing taps." The ovid- Americanised women in Canton whisper their aspirations one to cat not only the Turkish fest bat

can be talked about when the the witnesses for the prosecution once had been coloured in a mon- another, and that Chinese women in Hongkong bave been known the Tarkish nation, for it bas

war is over.

to rebat the story of the prisoner ner hostile to the prisoner. They The Commander-in-Chief of to frequent the cinematograph shows without the consent of their been a carse to civilisation for the Second Squadron reports on

that he ran in from fear of being could not separate the truth from husbands, it may be said that "The Cause" despairs of adherents. centuries-and indeed might have the 15th October that one part of

Russla mad the Enemy.

arrested by a mistake that they told the faleshoods and thie being * Thie, cf course, dcsi not mean that

the Chinese remained so for another generation our second division, together with

story, which, if the jury believed, murder case he asked them to say woman of the large towns or of the foreign settlements or two had not their own unlucky one British craiser, after proceed pierced the enemy's front and mitted the murder because be vincing. They had been told of

Once again the Rassians have the prisoner could not have com- that it was insufficiently con in what she was a few years ago. A change-even one that star gaided them into taking ing to the north of Ta Kwong have made important osptures. could never have got into either a photograph of a hand, bat finger may be termed desirable-bag been working for some years a share in the present war. When Island on the 14th October bom And if they are showing them-honse at all, which was ridiculous prints had not been produced to. past, which is encouraging the younger generation of Chinese, that is over we are hardly likely barded fiercely the Iltis and Hoi selves a terror now, what are they because he was in one of the say that the finger prints left both male and female, to feel that a woman has a right to be to bear much more of Turkey, Chasa Chus fortiranes, destroying going to be like when they have houses. The witnesses of No. 60 there were those of the prisoner. treated as a rational oreature and not to be perpetually the as regards affairs in Europe.

person of the inner chamber." "Emancipation," however, is quite

part of them. At the same time, brought their army ap to some-swore he could never have got in What better could they have pae of our seroplanos, flying over thing like its fall strength? there because the doors were had than thar, another thing, and the foreign women who have been going about

Then they the Hai Chuan Ohue fortress, Personally we rather look forward closed and could not be opened; had the evidence of Li-po, a gen- preaching suffragist doctrines among the natives are doing a cruel!

throw bombs upon it, while to the day when the Germans and were not opened until they tleman who earned his living in as well as nu idiotic thing; for they are awakening hopes which can never be realised. The Chinese man is no fool, and even the most

This morning in the Police observing the effect of our firing. will find themselves opposed had seen the prisoner. Those in the pleasant past time of tasting advanced, even the keenest lover of American or British institutions, Court, the case was mentioned in In this battle w sustained no by a Kirghiz army. The two will No. 71 said the same. The sage pastry, which they could not

understand each other so beauti- gestion was put to them by the accept as truthful. is not likely to give encouragement to ideas which can only bring which Mrs. Millie Tangap, 39 damage. his country trouble; in lead those who have lived longest among the Elgin Street, summoned 0.

fully. In fact it is a condensaaton Úrown, and they repudiated it, The jury found the prisoner people of the West will probably be the very men to aos that the plao. Castilio, and Mrs. Amelia Place ing of power in the hands of women is just the course most likely to of 38 Elgin Street for assault and Along the wads front there has on the part of civilised European that he might have got in guilty.

Prisoner protested his in- lead to the weakening of a country from a military point of view. for using threatening, abusive been simple camonading. The copato fight those women-killers; before and he had been in hiding Asistio tribesmen to deal with. have got in without being seen, Thus, neither from the old nor from the new Chinese can much and obrome language, whereby a progress on the Allies' Left con- they should be left entirely to the there. They said he could not oceno.

His Lordship, in passing sen enouaregement for feminism be expected. And what of the women brasch of the peace might have tineand the Albabave occupite Indeed it may yet take a and there was no place where he tence of death aid the faty, Fromelles, south-west of Lille, themselves? Do they really want to push themselves to the front ? been occasioned.

from these could hide as there were people after investigation had arrived Probably not, in a general way. From all we can gather, the

Similar summonses were issued French marines gong the Ypres prolonged visit

Canal to the sea repulsed a Ger- Kirghiz men to bring the Ger- on the floors, and, on some floors, at the only conclusion they could moment the traveller strays from the towns where foreign women by Mra, Santos.

mans to reason. From all one hears there were twenty, or thirty have arrived at. He did not are to be found, all trace of these extraordinary aspirations dis- Mr. P. W. Goldring appeared man attack.

of Russia's prospective recruits, people; on the first floor there think there could be any appears. Not only so, bat little birds whisper that the advocates for the prosecution and Mr. Dixon

the enemy will be "in for a gaudy were as many at five people and doubt in the mind of anyone who of the great movement have been very roundly snubbed in Shang- of Mesara. Wilkinson and Grist

time, the day they enter into it was impossible he could have had heard the case, that he had hai, Nanking, Peking and Hankow when they sought to spread the defended.

negotiations with him. But even got from there to the next brutally murdered the deceased. gospel of suffragism. From what the educated Chiness themselves Mr. Goldring informed Mr.

should they seize upon the hand-house. They had had the Whatever his motive might have say, the day is certainly coming when their womankind will take a Haseland that the summons by Turkey and Egypt. iest German town and make them-suggestion put forward that been, he had to justification for more reasonable interests in the thinge proper to women: when Mio. Santos was withdrawn, it The Porte slate officially that selves at home there for a while, morning, that he could have got having murdered the man.”: Hin they will exercise themselves on such subjects as the hygiene of the having been issued in error and Turkey entertains no aggressive they cannot sink to lower depths on to the verandah by climbing Lordship's duty was to psen the home and will really be the companions of their menfolk; but the day in excess of bis instruotione, intentions against Egypt, which, than those which have rendered over a half door. Had he done sentence of the law, prescribed in never coming when the women of the East, in appreciabis numbers The case was adjourned until the statement pon's out, in a the troops of Kaiser William that, the half door on which he got by the law. His Lordship then will imitate the crasss of the unsered women of the West,

Wednesday October 27.

Turkish province.

notorious,

on to the verandah by climbing he passed sentence,

PENDING ASSAULT

SUMMONS.

81. We made a marked advance

Tsingtau Operations,

The Allies Progress.

The Scheldt Sall to be Mined.

It is reported that the Ger- msns have minst the Sobeldt below Antwerp.