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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1917.

Sauce for the Goose.

"We wish we had the swine who invented gas; we would

DAY BY DAY.

crucify him." 85 speake a cap-WHICH NOBODY SHOULD WORRY THERE ARE TWO DAYS ABOUT tared German offeer, and well be-YESTERDAY AND TO MORROW. might, Lene, which is etill' in

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The Dollar.

KAISER'S NEW MINISTERS.

A Burgomaster made Home Secretary.

JOTTINGS BY THE WAY. TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY,

At the Boundary Commission Congratulations to the Honginquiry at Westminster City Hall koog Constitutional Reform it was stated that Bookingham Association on the continued Palace was situated in two. evidence of its feverish activity. parishes, that of St. Martin'ein- the Fields and that of St. George, "Coal Retailers Ask Fair-Pisy," | Hanover Square, the boundary-

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When the parish of St. George's was carved out of the great parish of St. Martin's, in the eighteenth cantary, the manor of Ebury wat jories its boundary thas became part of

enemy hands, is literally drench-To-morrow's Auciversary, ed" with Osnadian gas, we are To-morrow is the first sadi- told, and the Germans there are versary of the capture of Florina

Amsterdam, AoR. 3.-The now having a real taste of the by the French and Russians. Cologne Folleseitung, which is heading in an American crossing the site of the building poison which they introduced in

always well informed, reporta this Paper-In Hongkong it's the The origin of this enrions oir

consumers who have the groter.onmatance goes back to veRY- the early days of the war, and

morning as deficits the appoint-

ancient times, when the castarn which they fondly hoped would The opening rate of the dollar ment of Dr. Richard von Kaehl Another U.S. heading:-"War boundary of the manor of Ebury easble them to best their way | OU demand to-day WB maan se German Foreign Minis Pats Yegge calling on Blink." was the stream variously known. through to victory. Two can 3,2.7/8d. The closing rate

ter, and of Dr. von Wallraf, Chief. Which, being interpreted, as the Ay Brook, the Tybaru, and play at a game like this, and to will be found on Page 1. Bargomaster of Cologne, as Immoaneth that burglars are less in the King's Scholars' Pond Bower, day the Germans entrapped in

perial State Secretary for Home evidence now than in pre-war which JAM from Hampstead" Lens are found cursing those who

Il-treating a Sparrow. Affaire. The Frankfurter Zeilung times.

through Mayfair and across the ware iubaman enough to inveet. At the Police Court thie worn- also, reports the fret; mentioned |

site of Backingham Palace into, warfare with this new anding, before Mr. A. Dyer Ball, appointment as settled.

Our educated comp. is possess the Thames at Millbank. terrible borror. The writer of the Chinese offiooïlie in the employ Von Kushlmana's nominationed of the real war spirit. For nɔts some two years ago saw of Mr. F. C. Jenkin, was charged is no surprise, thought the other "Heavy gunnery" one "day last some hundred " gared

and by Mr. Jenkin with cruelly ill-appointment is quite unexpected.week he viciously set up "Heavy torture stricken British soldiers treating a spa:row. Mr. Jankin It was generally believed that the Germany!" A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. brought into a French railway prosecuted and said that the man Home Office, where the daties

station by hospital terio; 10-day | was amusing himself by letting have increased far beyond one Members of the Defence Corps one of its constituent parts, and the memory of their swfai suffer the bird fly over the randsh man's ability to carry them out, hare to Berve an ings and their agonised gross in end then jerking it back by a would be split into at least two when called up. We presume the parish boundary, The revived by the toy of picos of string which he had tied departmenta. Tais may probably that, as in the case of the night old mansion which preceded what is happening in Leae. Bottite leg. His Worship inflicted yet be done, and Draven Wallraff guarde, they are overwhelmingly Buckingham Palace stood on the of pity for the Germans ons leela 8 fine of $10.

will share his labour's with a delighted as the announcement, bank of this stream, which was Done. War is a ghastly businehe,

second Minister, to be appointed.

sabrequently diverted, and even- and it is no use for as to fight in

An old man has been conveyed The two appointments have We read that a number of finally covered in a the to the Government Civil Harpital their interesting features. Neither scene-painters will accompany the King's Sobolara Pond Sswer.. Ikid gloves wuile the enemy uses kanckie duster. The Bans can suffering from the effects of an of the new Ministers is a fire American Army to France. In The duality of situation is not complain if we give them a immersion which he subjected eating Juaker. The Ksieer's their odd moments they might likely to be

perpetusted in ate of their own preciona medi-bimaelf to yesterday. "It appesca new Foreign Minister, who has try their

hand at touching the matter of Parliamentary' cine. That must be our policy that the un We coming to held various poets on both sides up the German soldier's repota representation, for the portion of in this war. We must pay the Hongkong from Man Tan by the of the Atlantic, is, of course, well tion a bit; it's pretty badly paint the Palace in St. George's parish Germans back in their own coin steam launch Hang On, and, when remembered in London, where he ed at present.

will be, it is proposed, in the And when we hit, we must bit some distance from Hongkong, was Councillor of the German

Parliamentary division of that hard, for victory will go to the he threw himself overboard. Oae Embassy for some considerable "There will be • special pame and the remainder in the side that can strike the heaviest of the crew of the launch immed-time before the war,

arrangement for reserved seste Abbey division. and the most deadly blows.

istely jumped in after him and Forty-four years ago he was on the grase,” says a contempor- held him up sotil the launch tora in Constantinople, where his ary in announcing the forthcom Mr. Gerard's Revelations.

could pick them up,

father, Otto Kuehlmann, was ing Police Reserve concert.—It

Than Mr. J. W. Gerard, who

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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1917.

RUSSIA A HEPUBLIC,

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A picturesque and amusing story went the round of the Prese a few weeks ago, stating how Mr...

| had been "arrested at Invernecs- * for travelling in`a prohibited sres without a passport.”. "Es was detained by an armed guard for balf an hour-ao the story

V. R. C. Sports. director of the Anatolian Bail may sound selfish, bat we shall until recently' wwa Ambassador.The annual aqustio sporta in ways. In 1906 he married the do car utmost to get hold of a Mauro, Secretary for Bootland,.

connection with the Victoria niece of his predecessor in comfy chair. for the United States at Berlin, Recreation Club commance on Loudon, Fraulein Margarets von there is probably no other person Theradav, the 27th instant, and 8.amm, the daughter of an What's in a name? Nothing more competent to pass an opinion and wil last for three days. A immensely wealthy Geman indus apparently, for to-day the case i on Germany's actions immediate really splendid programme of trial magnate. She died quite reported of an aged Chinese who ly previous to and daring the war. events has been drawn up, in recently in Constantinople. jumped overboard while travel- went and then suoccoded: It is therefore of first rate impars clading six events for each of the Von Kaehlmann probably owes ing on the sleam laarch Hang in establishing his identity. ance that Mr. Gerard, having,ence frst two days and Bovea for the not a little of that Imperial favour On. That's just what he didn's The point of the story whe his return to America, retired

faul day. Several championships which be bas enjoyed within do,

that Mr. Munro' is the authority from the diplomatic service, should

for issuing passports in Scotland. b; able to give kid views on the open to the Colony will be decid- recent yeare to an act of perecnal terrible situation crested by the led. Enrios, which should be sent bravery. When the Kaiser ar Our evening contemporary of as a matters of fact, Mr. Manro to the Bea, Becretary (Mr. R. O. rived at Tangier on a famous Friday last :-To-day's pleasant was not streated nor placed under War, unhampered by diplomatic Wichel), close the 24th occasion it was too stormy to laud, breese and good weather are due an armed guard. He arrived at etiquette. In the series of articles instant

bat von Kaehlmson, who for to the first taste of the North- Inverness etation, and knew that which he has been contributing |

some time had been German re- East-Monso00:" Next day he could not leave withiant per- to the London Daily Telegraph be

Three Chinese were charged presentativa there, faced the "The present weather must not mission of the commanding has revealed many matters that before Mr. J. B. Wood, at the violent storm in a small boat, and be taken to indicate the setting officer. This officer was at a local hitherto were somewhat veled Police Court this morning with reaching his Imperial master's in of the North-West monson, hotel. He was immediately sent in mystery. His conversations being in ualswfal possession of yacht, climbed aboard by means bat ie dae rather to a depression ount of the chaos of the past few weeks, Basis, it is officially maan Hollweg removed all doub: 184 trols of raw opium. Revenus of a rope. This fact gresily over Tonkin."-Now Re know all announced, has emerged a Republic. It is but some six months as to the fact that Germany ba day he visited the Sag Hotel, Von Kaehlmann had a finger since the Romanelle were so unexpectedly sad dramatically over for years been planning wat or a where he saw the three defend in the Tangier pis to a mach Cable conundrums-We al thrown. The intervening time has been fall of happenings, more gigantic scale and that up till the ants in a room. On the fi or were greater extent than in generally most feel like offering a priz: for a very stout lady, clad in muslin, or leas historically important and all of them deeply significant of last moment her hopes of con-umber of large travelling supposed. In German political a solution of the Nitzapepan was banging on to a strap for the inevitable apbesval caused by the aprocting of a detested quering Frecce and Russia were take. One of these was opened circles, shortly after the Tangier ekebayor line" (contained in a dear life. A very small soldier Oligarchy and the birth of a new regime that gives promise of a based upon the belief which, with on examination it was found melodrame, it was declared that Beater message concerning the who was wedged in on the sest bright future to the people as a whole. The manner in which the Teutonic arrogance, smopated Romancis were ejected from power left litils doubt bat thet aj almost to a certainty, that Great that the sides of all the trunke the Kaiser, received at Lisbon, Russian Front). We made it struggled to his feet, and in quite

on his way to Tangier, each in one formation, mainly be to the pro contemporary had B-" shot, at chical Government might prove to be more suited to Raenis's re-pedient to intervece. With that

bable effect of his contemplated Naza.Pepausk-Bases"; and q'uirements and to the temperament of the people, but, as has been ides uppermostis mind, Germany,

Dog Killed by Motor Car. A motor car driver from a local action, that the visit was on the yet another chanced its arm on proved, Russia is in no mood meantime to repeat the experiment: it is now known beyond the For centuries the R msncff: raled with an iron hand and with little slightest doubt, began the war, garage was charged before Mr. point of being abandoned. Von Nezapopane Kebajar."

Kuehlmann got wind of this, and exppose you pay your money and regard for the welfare of the people who were subject to oppression beginning it at a time when it A. Drer Bell, at the Police Court

be so.

as take your choses. The slightest opposition to the dictates of the authorities was gener-serione internal strife were likeler in a negligible manner and/patch to the Kaiser giving his

with the Kaiser end. von Beth.

ally met with punishment of a most rimorcus kind, politie diffinders, to arise in Ireland in consequence being banished to the remote and often terrible ecclusise und horrors of the troubles in Ulster.

of Siberia. Time and time again brave men and women, gʻaded to

Officer Wildin slated that yester-

was remanded.

pleased the Kaiser.

stoar it.

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for, and Mr. Manro's freedom of

mɔvement was not restricted for more than five minutes, -

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eat to the ample lady. Smiling ly she thanked him, and then, looking rather bewildered, said: "Thanks so much! But where did you get up from?"

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There are about 17,000 persons" in Ireland to whom the ban on

desperation by the hardship of their lot, under the woal grinding The Huas' Pernicious Environ-that he wondered complainant had visit was added to the sensational returning shortly and will be glad | they can speak nothing bat Irish.

rale of Russia's rulers, and, actuated by motives more potent then their will to put them sulo operation, clashed in vain sgainst the

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mann and the Entente statesmen. even Count Bevendow, The Count charged him with Dr. von Wallr. is probably every speech but Gaelio. Ons of

with killing a dog, belonging to view, and to call the stringe Chinese complainant. Com-riulently in Berlin. The reaals plainant said he did not remember was that the Kaiser'e spirits and Mrs. S. E. Green, who has been English imposed by the Guelic the date. Bis Worship remarked courage revived, and the Tangier absent from the Colony, will be League will be no hardship; far acts of William the Second. to receive any communications, John Ball has, in no uncompli taken out a summons at all. Es;

The appointment will certainly etc. from the workers of "Our mentary sense, these “anspeak- Batocracy "which the Romanoffs bad established as the result of Mr. Gerard, in, the final, did not seem to worry about it.

only in his other island, but else- generations of tyrannical away. Isolated revolta 0001sionally had a chapter of bis revelations, Complainant went on to state that not please the Junkers. Daly's Little Bit Society" after Satar-able" sons and daughters, not where in the United Kingdom. fisting enccess, but these short-lived triomphe almost invariably tells of bow on bie retera be paid $150. for two doge, couple of days ago, Count Revent day, 22nd instant,

Wales has apwards of 190,000 redounded beavily against the hopes of democracy, which scarcely to the freedom that everywhere Defendant said that a military low in the Deutsch Tages. meitung fell upon him with

009, and daughtern, big" and dared raiso ile voice..

permeates America be felt "for officer was a passenger in the those sledge-hammer. blows are any indication, he has the little, who cannot prononpos It was, we are of opinion, less a concession to a fear the first time the atter horror and car and he said that if he were generally reserved for Subside makings of a good a reactionary sentence in English, and on Boot- that the spread of democratic institutions were inevitable, uselessness of all the misery the required as a witness he would

land ovar 18,000 are dumb in even in Russia, than a concession to the enlightened opinion Prussian military sutoorste had some. The dogs were fighting in of Europe that the Tear ultimately and quite unexpectedly brought upon the world." This the street, and the one that was announced his intention of establishing Dams or Parliament is particularly significant and killed ran underneath his car. being at of sympathy with Grer- one of the most efficient chief these it, or was, a few years 120, man ideals and with harbouring borgomasters in Germany. For in the Isle of Arran. Qasexpected in the Russian expital. That the Dama had practically no real paints to the fact that the The oases adjourned.

pro-English notions even now, long time he has held that to hear a name romantically power was abundantly evident on many occasions. In fact, it had son of the German, people, Wigwam Tennis Club.

There was a large attendance of Before the war, the Count said, position in his native Cologne, unlike our own, but it was merely power to obey the behests of the Oligarchy which had set having so long been misguided members at the Wigwam Lawn von Kuehlmann was one of the which he has been largely instru plsia John Brown. ap and which could, sa was on more than one occasion plainly is an environment in whien war shore, put it down without much effort and with little fear of the and war's supposed virtues and Tennis Club on Saturday, when greatest and most active avocates mental in making into German's

of an understanding with Eng- model city. A highly capable Not many men fnd entranos to- consequences. By the most observant of those who saw the desir-glories were perpetually being the last of the series of spoon land, of a policy of "German official, belongto taone of the most the House of Commons nowadays ability for a complate change in Rassis's governmental affairs, it extolled, were quite unable to see competitions for the season took world politics without war," and prominent Rhineland families heat twenty-two, as Lose Lord was evident that nothing short of bussia being embroiled in a berit as it is mees by free peoples, place. Some opdat sport was that he is still an opponent of na- is great personal friend of the Stanley, but in the good old simes cus war would bring to bar more advanced intellects, the in all ite hideousness, ardaliy,| provided, and spoons were won

Kainer and a member of the not a few becsms members whilst opportunity they longed for, and by which they hoped to overturn oppresion, pain and inhumanity. by Miss Millar and Mir, Kaoth limited submarine warfare,

Popular in pre-war London Prumian Upper House, where he in their teens. "anors have always- the all-powerful Ramanol dynasty. It was rightly discerned that t. Gerard predicta that there (1st), and Miss L Nave and Mr. the Oligesony, with its lack of system during peace, would be will be a reckoning in Germany Jefferies (2nd). Later the annual society, he was certainly a “bril- sits with the Centre or Catholic ben excluded by statute, but in the reign of James L. no low than equally lacking during war, and that it only required free hand when the people "realise the meeting of the Club was held, Mr. liant around" to Frince von party

Before the war he was a strong, 40 est in Parliament, sevarni of to bring the people into such a parlons condition that a rising of truth and when they learn what Jefferies preiding. An alteration Litchnowsky in his endeavours such a general and widespread character would be inevitable. The base motiy actuated their rulers was made in the ralow to permit to keep England out of the war. advocate of better relations be them under 17. In the debste on of Ladies being represented In the early part of the 1014 two England and Germany, and Clarendon's impeachment in 1887. prediction was well-founded, for almost from the beginning of hostil. in condemning a whole generation ities the populace were faced with serious enanomis difficulties, with to war and death" It is devoutly on the Committee, sud the follow-orisis he was absent from London, organised numerous reciprocal one of the speakers was Lord which, i was soon evidrat, the Oligarchy either could or would not to be hoped that such may by ing officere were elected: Hon. sad he has been known to boast visits of the leading trades and Torrington, aged 14. There cope. The many secret societies with which Russis, like every the case-and that at no distant Secretary, Mr. W. G. Clark; Hon. has had he been in Bagland, professions. He headed one of infant members were nothing if

Treasurer, Mr. C. G. Gerken, instead of on leave. in Bavaria, those deputation, to London on nos precocious, and when some ogpressed ountry, sbounded, noting the growing discontent among date.

Committer, Mr. Kennedy, Mrs. England would not have entered the eve of the way. He has done a one, arged that Lord Tilkiand. the people, spread the di-estisfaction among the so-called prole-

Miller, Messrs. J faries and Rail- the wat. He urged the influential tremendous spout of work to was too young to sit in Parlia tarist and the troops; and with an ease that "could only he bora of

ton, with the Hon. Secretary and Bavarian Prose at the time not to advance the industrial status of ment, as he had not yet sown his impending disaster a general rising, ekilfally organised, wiped oas

Bon. Treasurer er officio. The attack England, so sure was he the Rhineland, and has carried wild oste, the young nobleman for ever the dynasty that had- for so many generations abused its

through many social schemes in replied that he could imagine no power no syrannically. It was a complete and well-merited triumph Mining Administration's mines their services, especially Mr. A. G.

The total on pat of the Kailan retiring officers were thanked for of our neutrality

What the new Foreign Minister's his city, which have made it more suitable place for wowing for Damoorney, and it was generally believed that the natural oan- for the week enting September Heslist as Hon. Secretary and attitude will be remains to be famous throughout the world. He them than the House of Com elation to such an upheaval would be the extablishment of amounted to 65,263 tons and Me, Gerken for the enthusiasm be seen. If some of his ants in Con has taken no groat part in politics, mons, where there waTS/BO MANY Republic. This conclusion has now become a reality, and Russia the sales during the perioi to had shown in arranging the series stantinople and in Holland, where bat is known to be decidedly with geom to pick them up to-day stands forth free-from the trammels that have impeded har 16,087 tone.

of enjoyable spoon competitions, he was for some time, Minister, the holding ont party, for many WILTY centurine,

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