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AUGUST – 31,
1918.
DAY BY DAY,
DER TAG.
1
No, The Germanu" in their sapianos ANCIENT TIMES TWAS GREAT LO89-
thought THEY HUNG THE THIEF UPON That since the world saw light
THE GROSS: BUT NOW ALAS! I BAYT WITH There never was a race so great
Nor half so full of fight;
GRIEF.
THEY HANG THE CROSS UPON
THE THIEF-Lord Curzon.
The suggestion (made by s Bome paper, that every ship belonging to the Allied Powers sunk by German submarines shall I be replaced by Garmany out of her merchant shipping, ship for ship and ton for ton, is one of the sapest sad moet practical we have yet encountered in connection with the terms of peace to be im- posad on Germany. But is it not posible to go even further still? If a thief or a robber in oaught, the law is not satisfied by fine. (1915, 77 rain and fog.) his returning the booty; that Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 82;
sufficient-he bas fine. (1915, 84 rain.) some penalty in addition: The Hups in this war
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tn
100
pay
The Weather. At the Poak 8 a.m. Temp. 75:
The Malls.
have proved themselves most Siberian Mail-Closed per se. vicious burglars, and they must
Porthos at 4 p.m. to-day. le punished na such. There American Mail. is, therefore, much be China to-day
to
morrow.
The Dollar.
per
4.8.
FALSE PRETENCES.
COMMENDED POLICE RESERVISTS,
Prosentation of Bars by the Hoa. C.S.P.
Sentence of Four Months.
Mr. J. R.. Wood gave his decision this morning in the own in which a Chinese was charged with obtaining money by false pretences. - The case was ODE în
On many occasione since its which the plaintif was promised formation the Police Reserve bas by the defendant a berib sa been highly spoken of by those compradore on the .. Nord, who are in a position to jedge of sum of money being handed over its value to the Colony, and these in consideration for the post. It appreciations have not been in. was later discovered that the ship frequently expressed by His had not been into Hongkong for Broellency the Governor and the many years, and that the defend- Hon. Captain Superintendent of ant had
no opportunity of Polios. Last evening yet another providing such a berib.
fanotion took place in the nature Mr. P. W. Golding appeared of an acknowledgment of the And north ur to the see,. for plaintiff, and Mr. C. F. Mason usefulness of this body of men, And midway twixt the east and for the defendant.
this being the presentation of
There never were such sailors bold, Nar women so divins, Nor soldiers with such martial
air; Nor beer that's so sublime; There never was a country ssen Fo perfect, so refined, - Nor where a king had more control O'er body, soul and mind.. Now Deatschland atretobes far
and wide
weit
Lies Berlin on the Spree. to But Frits, he was not satisfied With such a vast expanse,
So on his neighbour'a vineyard he Cast many an sovious glanos. He looked to south, to west,
to
· Dae per 1.8.
said for the further engges-Siberian Mail.-Dae per. 8.8. tion, which has also been pat Luchow to-morrow. forward at Home, that in the final Canadian Mail-Doo reckoning it should not be "ton
Empress of Russia for ton," but "two tone for ons." The author of this proposal would go even further still, for he advocates that if, after the pledges which Germany continues to give America, she should con
itae her embmarine frightful- Correspondents are requested to observe the 'rule
forward their names and addresses with Dess, she should be openly told requires them to
for that she will have to pay communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily
thres tons for one, and so on until sary of General Bazsine's retreat To plant bis progeny. publication, but as an evidence of their bona fides,
she ceases her outrages. Here at into Mais during the Franco-Then, looking northward, there any rate we have a very sound Prussian War. and, practical basis for dealing
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1916.
THE APPROACHING DOWNFALL,
If Germany can see other than swift ruin dogging her at the present moment, her madness must indeed be of the incarable order. From the Jutland battle down to the present moment her part in the
ing to Allied abipowners the lossen they have sustained, the sobems would do much towards crippling the German mercantile marine, a thing which must be done if we are not to give back to the Germans the place on the sea which they held before the war. Germany's marine power
bas to be smashed.
d
Military Reform for China.
reforms for China.
The opening rate of the dollar on demand to-day was 2.. 1.13/16d.
To-morrow's Anniversary. To-morrow is the 46th anniver
3
A Deal in Pigs.
The bearing was continued at
enst.
So far as he could see
No vacant spot could there be
fcund
be gaw
The ecran spreading wide, But o'er it raled B.itannia With trident by her side.
the Summary Court ibis morning. Now Fritz was e'er a jesicusman, before the Chief Justice, in which Suspicioar as could be,
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the Chong Shing firm, of Jardine's And said, "If Britain rules the Bazzar, are claiming from Lang Yong, trader. of Tong Street, the It's good enough for me.' sum of $196.31, for the wrongful witbolding of nine pigs. Mr. "No doubt from o'er the ocean R. C. Faithfall appeared for defendants and plaintiff were" She gathers piles of gold;" represented by Mr. Mattingley. To thick that I should have no Jadgment was given for defend-
“It makes my blood run cold.”
Ball Increased.
wide"
abare,"
27
"My army is beyond compare ' "My soldiers are not low,"
As they can't swim to England's
abore
We mentioned yesterday that General Fong Kao-cheong basant with costs. sent a delegate to Peking to con- Bult with the Central Government concerning certain suggested military
Thalakong who was committed" General Fong, it will be for trial by Mr. J. B. Food the remembered, displayed very other day on a charge of receiving “ A navy I'll have too.” marked ability as a strategiat a bribe was again before the and organiser in the Yunnan Court this morning. Mr. O. F.80 there and then he fat and trouble of Inss year, wherein he Mason, who is conducting the cam planned, was Besociated with Tasi Ao; and for the prosecution, said he had And worked from mora till there is no doubt that the Pre- decided to withdraw the other aight, sident, who is a prudent man, charge of striking the constable. To build a fleet in which to ship will be very ready to act upon Mr. Otto Kong Sing applied for His military might. the hints of so practical a soldier. a renewal of the bail of defend. But Britain ruled the waves, you Among the General's planeant, but Mr. Wood said he would
know,
are the reorganisation of have to increase this from $200 A hundred years and more.
the
Revolutionary troops to $750.
into the regalar ermy, the diebandment of all superfluous troops and the reform of all the arsenals in the country. China, it need hardly be said, is in the peculiar position of finding her self with either too few or too many soldiers. To repel foreign
Shanghai Races.
The programme of the forth- coming Shanghai Automa Reos Meeting has been issued, with the notification that the races will be held on November 6, 7 and 8, and
Bo Frits was always left behind And more and more he swore.
For every ship he planned to build The British laid down two, And let him know 'twas their intent The same always to do. Still, cas fine morning up be got And found he'd quite a fleet, that entries close at 5 p.m. on Saturday, October 7. The list of With Britain's to compete;
hope events differs Fomewhat from that
His Worship raid he had de- Commended Service Bura to cided to convict, but, at the same number of its members. time, he accepted". Mr." Mason's #aggestion that another maa ▲ special parade took place
was more guilty than the defend at the Central Police Station, ant. As the defendant had been the presentations being made in gnol since July 27, he would by the Hon. Captain Super- only pain sentence of four intendent of Police, Mr. O. MeL: months' hard labour."
Messer. Among those also present
But Jellicoe, he followed him And really gave him fits And blew a large part of his
fost
Into minutest bits.
Now this did not quite correr-{
pond
With what he hoped would be. Still be gave out the German fleet Had gained the victory;
►
And sunk of hostile ships s score: So far as he could tell, And thought that quite as many
*more
Were damaged by his shell. Bo when the ships came into port, The bands begen to play, And flags were flying everywhere To celebrate the day.
Bat though the day had come and
gone:
Der Tag, their constant boast, They wished they had not been
so kren
were Captain Frankı ́A.S.P. (Beserve), Mr. T. F. Bough A.S.P. (Reserve), and Major Jordan (Surgeon Superintendent); The ́ men were under Mr. F. O. Jenkin,
D.SP. (Reserve), and Chief In-
spretor Mason.
The men having been arranged into square formation, Mr. Messer presented the Commanded Service Bars to the following, their com mended actions being detailed as under: →→
Crown Sergeant Wong Kwong Tin (now Insprater) is highly commended by the Marins Magi- strate for his intelligent sotion in a steam launch overcrowding caSS.
P.O. 124 Ng Kunges and P.U. 149 Oban Hung are commended. by the Hon C.S.P. for intelligent soting in effecting the arrest of a snatcher in Queen's Road Central on the 11th, Inst.
P.O. Gaskell is commended by the Eon. O.SP. for his resourcefulness whilst off duty in effecting the arrest in Nathan Road, Kowloon, on the 31st. January, of a reckless cyclist Still must the fiction be maintain-who collided with and upset a
On drinking of that tosat.
ed
Een though lies must be told, do down the Kaiser quickly went To greet the victora bold'; Then carefully shut all the gates That none cutside enald view, And kissed each szilor on each
obeck,
And every stoker too. As you may guem, a sailor's face Is rougher than his heart, And several days he lay in bed
And suffered from the amart.
ricksha carrying passengers, In making this presentation, Mr: Messer said it gave him particular pleasure to present Mr. Gaskell with a bar on account of the fact
that he was such an old resident of the Colony, and also that he was one of the original members of the Police Reserve.
P. O. 137 Chan Yuk Sha in
commended by the Bos. 0.8.P. for his prompt action in eaving a young girl from being ran over by a tramcar on the 13th, inst. » P. C. 137 Chan Yak Shu is also
for his smart capture of a snatcher in Des Voeux Road West at 10.45 p.m. on June 18th.
war has been an unrelieved list of reverses, disappointments and invasion she has not enough; to the Off Day on November 11, and Although he knew be could not And as be lay in bed and thought conmended by the Hos. 0.8.P.
you see,
Of what he'd spent in vain, He solemnly resolved that ne'er Would be to sex again.
disillusionments. Even her succasses" in the way of submarine keep proper order in the country sttacke and air reide on the British cosst have fallen off, and she can she has enough and to spare, point to nothing of a face-saving nature. The frantic moving of The Chinese Soldier. troops from east to west, and from west back again, has profited her The ideals of the Chinees of last year. On the first day, the Bat what he thought was this, nothing; her attempts at Verdon have bat farnished cartoon artista soldier at the present moment Sabecription Griffin Stakes takes with ideas, and in East Africa her soldiers are being bunted and cannot be considered very lofty the place of the former Navy If he could land his men exterminated like vermin. The help that was to have come from ones. In a word, he enrola him- Siakee, and another race-the On Britain's aborer, he'd essy From out Britannia's hand Turkey, from Austria and from Bulgaria can never come now: Tar-sif because he regards the Kalgan Plate-for Subscription key is being steadily crushed by Rassis, and Austris by Russia and military life as an easy one and Griffins, is added to the pro- The lion in his den. Italy combined, and the converted movement of the Allies in the because
On the accond day! And though their fleet might be at any moment he gramme. find himself able Balkans promises to give Balgaria all the occupation that abe is may
there is also an additional race for to
immense likely to require. Thus Germany, stands helpless, able to do little indulge in unlimited looting. Subscription Griffins--the Man They could not sail on land, more then put off the evil day that is coming to her on the western The preservation of good golian Plate-bile on the third And 'twas not even possible front; waiting, as one might say, for the blow to fall,
order and the lifting of his day the sixth race will be His army to withstand.
board
And all this is without taking Foamania'e action into considera-country out of the ditch are handicap for Sabecription Griffine) tion. By her entry into the war, as one of yesterday's wires pointed questions which he leaves to his instead of the former Cosmopoli. So as he thought he'd shipe enough out, Roumania practically completee the deadly blockade of our arch-superior officers. What wonder tan Cup. On the Off Day there To carry out his plan, enemy. Germany and Austria have been calling themselves" the that the wiser among the military will be, es as the case at the Be shouted out defiance bold, Central Powers" for long enough, without ever dreaming that the word and provincial chiefs should with Spring Meeting of this year, a Nor heeded God nor man. "central" might come to have the bitterest of meanings for them. to see the army well sorted and handicap race for all grifios. Central they are: the centre of a circle of avengers who have sworn sifted and the worst of the an- to bring them to judgment and who must now close in on them till desirables summarily dismissed? they yield or are crashed. It is a dark time for Germany, but a The more experienced leaders darker yel may come before the war ends. While she, conceivably, know that there is good, trainable
Victoria Theatre.
There was quite■ large attend-
But what was his amazement, when He found the British fleet Did sweep his ships from every sea And thus his plan defeat,
+
That ne'er again he'd try to wrest The trident with its venomed
pointTM- He'd rather fight on land. Tie said, I hear, that somewhere
down
In South America,
A fleet is advertised for sale, "Part worn," so goes the "par".
It is not really quite so bright And fresh as 'twas when new, But, for a small republic, it Most certainly will do. Some boles may be
abserved
In armour, deck and yard.
perhaps
P. O. 168 Mck Lai Bang (now day O. B. Sergeant) is commended by the Hon. C. S. P. for his plucky conduct in effeating the arrest of an armed robber who had come mitted a robbery at 39, Gaga Street on the 23rd, January 1916, and the recovery of a part of the stolen property,
Sergeant Chay Siu Tong (now Or. Begt.), and P.Cs. Chos Man Chan, Wong Tai Ków (-ow both Sergeants) and P. C. Ip Kwan of the H.K P.R. Ambulance Platoon sie commended by the Hon. 0.8.P. for seal and alertness in turning out to attend a poisoning case at Nos. 2 and 9 Praya West, Kennedy Town, on the 18th.
may still be well supplied with men, provisions and munitions, material among the regalarance at the Victoria theatre last And, what was more amazing still. They are but where Britanni. February list.
M
knocked (That day she left her oard.
A cost of paint and plate or two
And, make the ships as good
'ESW
In case they have to fight.
her allies, Austria and Torkey, have been giving unmistakeable soldiers, and also among those evening when the performers. Did all bin ports blockade, signs of exhaustion. The Bulgarians are doubtless in tetter specially enlisted since the recent Dr. Rows and Mors, made their So that no ship could'venture out condition materially; but they have never taken altogether lindly to troubles began; and there is no first appearance. The first part To carry on its trade. the work forced upon them; desertions from their regiments have doubt that, by a proper re arrange- of the programme was occupied bean matters of every-day occurrence, and only the cultured joys of mout of regiments, at least the by some very excellent pictures, Nor dara his fleet c'en show its Will put the whole thing right, looting Serbia have given them any real heart to their work. With nucleas of an efficient army eso including a two part drams en- face her associates in this condition is it unthinkable that Germany may be found. General Fang's refer- titled "Romone," featuring Mim Out on the rolling mais,
day, in the very rear fatare, find herself deserted, and her fellow ence to the arsenale is significant, Mary Pickford. The whole of the Until compelled by public voice criminala clamouring for a distinct prace?
too. Hitherto the mismanagement audience seemed extremely well And lack of most and grain. Had Germany not been in the hands of medmen she could never of them has been proverbial. satiefied with the performancs have allowed things to come to their present pass; never haya con Squeeze bar invariably prevailed,Į of the two artials, Dr. Rowe exe-Then, not inspired by great resolve sented to clip so steadily and irretrievably towards certain destruc- and be class of European outing BUND emart tricks. To sonquer or to die, tion: But her people, with all their boasted wisdom and knowlege, occasionally employed has not in her clairvoyant set Mora gave His slips crept out with secrecy seem to have been content to trust their affisies to men who should always beed of the mont a great deal of information in her To trap the enemy. have been in an saplam for criminal lunatics yoara ago; men who reputable, Not only so, but, az snewern to written questions, her
pointed to the moon and told their followers that it was theirs for has been shown in connection prediction as regards the war And to a certain point indeed the asking. And now the penalty has to be paid-by a nation that with the recent. Canton fighting, being that it will not end before] His plan sucoseded well, will soon be as bankrapt of money as it now is of honour, What are these establishments have been shont Easter 1919. Another large] And Bantry's fat he battered the German people going to think of their rulers on the day whereon regarded rather as the private Power, she thought, would some. With many shot and shell; they stand despoiled of the territory which they have seized, and property of individual leadera into the conflict in 1918, Taking realise that the blood of millions has been shed, and the country's than of the State. A lot of work the evening as a whole, it was one Until our Jellicce arrived entire treasury wasted, in the fatile effort to keep these? What, too, in this direction lise ahead of the of the most enjoyable spent at the And started shooting woo," are they going to think when they find that their punishment is not as President and his advisers, Vistoria for some time past. The When Frits, he found he'd had to stop at more restitution? What, for that matter, are they bugin- and we wish him a happy imus two performers are dus to appear ning to think, even at the present moment?
out of all his difficultier
again this evening. “
enough
And beak to pori ke few..
|
P. Cs: 233 Harry Loo and 224
Leang Kim Hung are highly
commended by the Hon. 0.8.P.
for their intelligent and plucky
action in effeating the arrest of
as
Bet that your ships you may
retain
To sail upon the ocean main, Keep them within your harbour
tight
When Britain's trident comes in
right;
| And, don't forget, to waive the
rules
On sea or land that ocean layas, Proved very ineffective tools To fight the power that rules the
WATOI.
MENO.
Hongkong, August 30, 1916,
two enstobers in Kan U. Fong on the 20th. July, 1916.
After" making: the above pre- sentation, the Hon. C.S.P., called on P. O. Soares, and said he wŁE sorry that a little red taps hai prevented 'his name from being on the list. It had now been
brought to his notice that he (P. C. Soares) did extremely good work in the-Ribeiro osse and it was mainly through › kis notion that the case was brought befors the Courts. He regretted that the constable's name "had been forgotten, but he had great ples- sure is presenting him with a bar
The propeadings were brought to a close by the Hou, 0, 8, P. taking the salate.
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