1918-11-05 — Page 8

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

(Continued from Page L)

THE SUNKEN AUSTRIAN. DREADNOUGHT.

Rome, Nov. 3

The "Giornale di Italia” states that the Austriaż dread--

&

naught. Viribus Unitis was sunk by new invention by En- gineer Commander Rossetti

[The Viribus Unitis was one of four Austrian battleships of 90,000 tour displacement completed just before the war. She had a length of 495 ft. and a speed of-90.7, knots,"and carried an armamedt of twelve 19 in-guns, twelve 5.8-in. and "eighteen 12 pr.)

GERMANY'S ISOLATION.

Paris, Nov. 2

Germany is isolated Her armies are not yet broken but the position is grave.

Their exhaustion and obvious ins sbility to hold the front put the Allies in the west in a position to deliver a vital blow, Only unconditional sur- render can make the world safe for. decocracy.

THE TURKISH-SURRENDER.

Paris, Nov 2 Terms of the armistice granted to Turkey are published to day. Turkey has made complete surrender. The terms incinde the provision for the concentration of prisoners at Constantinople immediately, the occupation of Batum, the oil port of the Black Sea, Baku and the Caspian, the use of Turkish railways, and the right to occupy any strategical point. Haras

"FRENCH PRESIDENT'S PILGRIMAGES.

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Paris Nov, 2. In his customary pilgrimages President Poincare has "visited the cemeteries of over 130,000 people at Bagneux, 85,000 at Pantin and 62,000 at Pere Lachaise-Haras.

THE INTER-ALLIED CONFERENCE.

Paris, Nov. 2

At the

Hied Conference at Tersailles, Belgium "and Japan" were represented.

ITALIANS AT TRIESTE.

Rome, Nov. 2

Italisë troops have landed at Trieste.

KROKOL.

A Tais of the War,

he

Alexia Dimitri Protopoffski Was a Russian. Before the war managed a small farm in Littl Russia, In the little family the Protopofikis in the village of

of

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1918.

CORRESPONDENCE.

The opinions expressed by ocuSTE- “pondents are not necessarily thom

of the "Hongkong Talegraph."!

THE BOY SCOUTS.

To the Editor of the Hongrong Telegraph."]

WOH

Sir-The Boy Scouts organ isation "in Hongkong inaugurated during the latter part of 1914, with Major Bowen ss Chief Scout. At the time it

THE GERMAN NATIONAL INTERNATIONAL CIRCUS. THE SOLDIER'S FAITH.

ANTHEM.

Patriotic Words and Tunes,

Good Show at North Point,

The International - Cirens" at the King Toan Gardens, North

A Ballad of Sir Partab Singh,

Was Emperor and King,

rider came to the Rose-red

House,

There is one thing that has Point, attracted a goodly number In the first year of him that firat beaten the Germans during the of spectators, mostly Chinees, last four year the manufacture last night. There was a bulky A of a national" anthem. It in programme-full of variety and obrions, of course, to a logical merriment which was heartily mind-but to no other that enjoyed by those present.

The show began with an ex. powers of organisation which can throw at the hig gun and the bibition of balancing by Mis severe law as incidents of fanc Koti Panchifollowed by Miss Anna

should have no dificulty and Miss Sohi in a Polish dance, with a mere song. Yet, though which was very well executed. the Government has issued orders Mohamed gars the andienos a very for a national anthem and, as we good exhibition of running, sit were told last week, has detailed ting and cycling on a wire, which an army, or at any rate, three was loudly sppisoded. That battalions, of rhymesters and versatile clown, Rococo, kept the tonssetters to work up the materi- audience in a merry mood by his al, the experts have up to the pranks throughout the whole present condemned the products programme. The programme con- cinded with a pantomine entitled

as unsuitable.

was inaugurated, every hope of it usefulness was oberished by all who were interested in the move ment. But things have been gradually allowed to sink to such BB... extent that the Scouts, existing as they are at present, are a mere skeleton of what they formerly ware. From bad the organisation has gone to worse and it will not surprise many if

The question arose quits natur. "Hongkong Barber," which was it be blotted out of existence ally, says the Times They quarr. very amusing. altogether.

The enterprising management elled with the people whose Several well-known and pro- minent business men of the song they have been wont to sing of the Ming Yuen Gardens, in order to attract the public, has for more than a hundred years, Colony have, daring its period and that spoilt the taste of it for arranged for free motor rides for of existence, extended their them. But this was a judgment; holders of box seats and free tram sympathy to the movement and for they seed never have stolen it. rides for those occupying other it is certainly an undesirable thing One would have thought the most

Not content with this, that the Boy Scouts should be musical country in the world they last night gave away a num- totally wiped out of existence. would have disdained to stesi ber of alarm clocks and mirrore, Considering the high ideals of the from one they called "Das Land sa well as a big clock, su prises to movement when first introduced by ohne Musik," or that the most those whose tickets born the lucky Lieut-General Sir Robert Badan- omniscient would have known numbers.

Powell and as set forth in the that there are some things you Scouts Code it is highly desirable cannot steal. For national an that the Scouts ahould continue,

British Consul's Thanks.

The House of Pertab Singh. Youuz he was and an English

man,

وشت

And s soldier, hilt and heel, And he struck fire in Pertab's

beart

As the steel strikes on steel. Beneath the morning stars they

rode,

3

Beneath the evening mun, And their blood rang to them as

thay rode

That all good wars are one, ** They told their tales of the love

of women,

1,4

Their tales of East and West, But their blood sang that of all

their lovas

so

They loved a soldier 'best.".

ran their joy the allotted dayn, The Shadow stilled the Rose-red

Till at the last day's end

Нолев

"..

"

And the heart of Fertab's

friend.

chart

When morning came, in narrow

The soldier's face they hid, And over his fast-dreaming yes

Shut down the narrow lid.

creed,

Three only and no more: They could not find to bear the

dead

as the aims are emphased in the theme are not as other songs. "OUR DAY" AT CANTON. Three were there of his race and simple words "GOD, KING and They are verse and tone as they COUNTRY." The purpose for stand, after the personal enthaiasm which the Scouts were introduced that created them has been en- waa to train them up to be useful riched by the aspirations and and loyal citizens of the British ennobled by the sufferings of

maltitude. Things like these 987 to 8:➡

Empire, and it is a matter of "we can do nothing for you. Good regret that the Scouts movement, but which - was so enthusiastically day,"

Aleris went out faming. "It greeted by a large number of is scandalous," he said, "that in persons, be allowed to be a thing a free country no ode osn tell you

of the past. who you are or where you come We are still in the midst of the from."

Great War and though we are ses sbout in search of Krokol. But still the matter should not be For six months Alexis went ing the beginning of the end he did not find it. He wandered shelved, aa through its office we over the Ural Mountsins on the may inspire the younger genera rack of the Tran-Siberian Rail- tion to keep up that love of Coun- way. He used silway sleepers try which is deeply cherished by for fuel. He settled down at s all,

waa

;

Our

Yours etc. WELL-WISHER, Hongkong, Nov. 5, 1918.

CANTON NEWS.

Be you the men you've been, Get you the sons your fathers got,”

And God will save the Queen. The theft was committed in

nor

W88

A cofifiostion issued above the

British Coneal General at Canton,

A fourth in all Jodhpore.

LICENSING BOARD.

Mr. A. R. Lows Elected a Member.

The election of a Justice of the

Peace, to serve on the Licensing Board in place of Mr. E. Shalim, resigned, took plece lost svening at the Supreme Court, The candidates were Mr. A. R. Lowe. sad Mr. A. Denison. Very little interent was contred in the felection, and Vɛ. E. D. O, Wolfs and Mr. G. A. Woodcock, who were in charge of the balloting. wam not kept very basily eme ployed. The voting closed at 5 30 p.m., and shortly after- wards the result was announced Be follows.

"

Mr. A. B. Lowe

Mr. A. Denison

24 TOLOL ...18 votes

STOLEN STEEL.

Three Chinees were charged on remand at the Police Court this afternoon, before Mr. J.B. Wood, with stealing eleven plates of steel, valued at over $900. Inspector Brazil prosecuted and Mr. F: X. d'Almada appeared for

the last defendant.

the plates were not identified by Inscector Brazil remarked that

the Dock Company, se they form ed part of a fresh consignment and they were not numbered marked or checked, so there were no mesos of identifying them.

A coolie employed at the Kowloon Dook deposed that

signature of Mr. J. W. Jamieson, Maharaj, of your "good grace on the night previous to the

Etatea:

Send us a Sweeper here. A Sweeper bsa do csate to lose

Even by an alien bier.”: What need, what need ?” said

Pertab Singh

theft be as fifteen plates of iron lying on the sea-front near a

crsas.

་

Croas examined by Mr. d'Al- msds, witness said he was work.

And bowed his princely head.g on the crane at 4 a.m. "I have no caste, for I myself

lifting iron plates. The sheets were six to eight feat long by three to four feet wide, and "a

Am bearing forth the dead.” "O Maharaj, O passionate heart,

Be wise, bethink you yet That which you lose to day is lost

Till the last enn shall set.”

מ

God only know," said Pertab

Singh,

"That which I love to-day: And without me no hand of man Shall bear my friend sway.".

high

In the sight of all Jodhpore The dead went down the rose-red

steps

Upheld by bearers four.

|

"

quarter of an inch thick. He stopped work at 4 a.. as be

had finished .big work, remained. He did not count them. When he left, about fifteen plates

There were other lokis working. together and they left with him.

A Chinese foreman of the No. 8 Launch said be was told by the store foremen that the plates were stolen. He, along wish others, then went to search the Docke for the plates. Ea sorted them out himself.

Farther evidence was called, and the case is proceeding.

TRAMWAY RETURNS.

On behalf of the British Red Croes Society (and of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem) the under. 1793. The rulers of Prussia, signed would wish to convey to all Saxony, and other States, in need those of Chinese or other alliad of a rallying cry against the ideas nationality, and also to a large adopted our tune for Heil dir im residents, en expression of most of the Bavolution, harriedly aber of neutral fellow Siegerkrans." The words of this warm and sincere gratitude for were also stolen, having been the nobly generous way in which written by a native of Flensburg their donations and practical they came forward to sasist by in honour of Christian VII. of Denmark. The best verse is the co-operation, by their pretenos Krokol Alexia bad had an an-point midway between two loops,

second-to the effect that " and their figancial support, the eventful existence." There was about a hundred miles from

in horas nor trooper can safeguard proceedings on Shameez Anns his sister, and Paul his either. There was one train a

the steep heights where princes connection with "Our Day" 1918

He feels that the great and un-Stately and slow and shoulder brother, and Michael his father. week, and sometimes it

dwell; their throne is based on so late that Alexis did not know

their subjects' love whence, like precedented success there is When the war came they took which week it TAL Some

a alif, it fronta the storm.". But more partionlarly attributable to Alexis two hundred miles to the times two trains met in. the

this in 10

the sympathetic fellow-feeling match for onr second verse, whose economy the highest to the lowest and ss displayed by Chinese friends from nearest railway station; after middle, and their drivers would

and deadliness of sim about a week's travelling, he was top and get down and ourse sach

it would tax the resources of the other. "Alexis was 'always ready fighting Germans in the front with a suggestion. Why not let writes as follows:-

Canton correspondent not reached at a first attempt, and

which we have shouty resisted all bamboos of the Southern hills to line trenches.

both trains go back after all the

proposale to alter. Three year their gifts, hopes that they will

record separately individuals and When dawn relit the lamp of grief

Within the burning Laat For over two years Alexis passengers had changed from one

Inter Haydn, moved thereto partly fought Germans. He killed fire to the other? Then Alexis would

by his visits to England, partly accept as a body this heartfelt There came a word to Pertab

Singh, tribute to their recognition of the no doubt by the Prussian exam fact that all within the four seas of them. Thea Dame the 80 round amongst the scuffs and sak people if they know Krokn).

ple, wrote tha“ Emperor's Hymn” Revolution, and in one day Sometimes, too, they had watches

which became the Austrian an

are brothers. T he killed twenty-four Russians, and gold chains, and hs, with his

them. Half a century later the It may be of interest so all son- For to him the Revolution Socialist principles, would collect

Germans stole this too for cerned to know that the total sum Deatschland, Deutschland uber realised from all sources amounte meant freedom. After the estab And nearly fifteen hundred

allee," the words, of which by the work of the Red Cross costa to £3,000, that is to say that, s8 lizhmest ot the Bolshevik miles away wes Krokol, Anna #The Anti-Opium Campalga. V. Falleraleben are considerably Government Alazis discovered and Paul and Micheal were still A circular notice has been superior to those of "Gott erhalte per minute, Canton has en that there was no real need for there. Sometimes they remem-inued by the Governor to the Frans den Kaiser." In these two bed is to carry on for siz 10 magistrates of various districte the Austrian ideals of "kindliness, even hours, record" which few

Bafall a fearfull thing, "He always was a hot-headed to the effect that as the time for honesty and candoar contrast parts in Ohina are likely to equal. fighting Germans. So he went fellow," said Anns. "D'you re- absolutely suppressing opiam with the Prussian of unity, right it is said that a sense of duty

"O here in Jodhyore yesterday,"

A fearful thing befall." AWBY.

The same

ides had member when he went to Odesen has arrived, and as it is now the and freedom."

3. done is own coward." There being

"A fearful thing,” said Pertah The Equal Pay Movement. oconrred to others; Alexis found for his army manoeuvres the lies on for opium planting, s

„Singh, every reason to believe that this

The Government has decided he came back and told us? . All watch must be strictly topi,

"God and my heart know well to appoint a committes to in numerous about iron ships that flost on All poppy plants in the fielda

dictum is trae, their reward can company of emancipated soldiers, water and waggons that go

be no meat one.

"I lost a friend." must be destroyed and the planters But his heart sighed for Krokol, without horses? Bat he wasn't punished.

vestigats and report as to the re- "More fearfull yet! Iations which abould be maintain Krokol with the steeple clever enough to deceive me old

When down these stepa you pasted between the wages of women church and the quaint old cot folks with his mad tales. It'a

În sight of all Jodhpurs you lost and men, having regard to the tugus..

.. Krokol,

the plighted word, of the sanctity 1870, bat, when the point was NO ✪ Maharajl="your casta.”** # Bat!

interests of both as well as to the Where was Krokol? Alexis die Alexis was a bad los,

good job we took over his farm. The Press Society has made a of treatise, and the moderation of longer in dispu's, was relegated Toen leapt the light in Partab's value of their work. Tas re At last Alexis was run over by Government for having fined the clean fighter, have lived party Rule Britannia."

afrong protest to the Military desire. The battle songs of Korner, to the secondary position of egoe

commendations should have in stain. They took him iuride, suo local papers $200 each for

On the

*As the flame laaga'in smoke, Tiew the necessity of output dur most prolife in this kind, is in Hamburg and set by the com

well-being of industry in the futare.”

him to stay in the trenches

himself among

+

not know; he could neither read

nor write, and he knew no

them.

bered Alexia.

a

Commend of Troops. Chak Wong, the Civil Governor, bas

accepted the Ppointment of Commander of the Shui Hing troops but the headquarters are established in the Governor's syamen at Canton.

Press Offences,, ·

*

War Songs of the Century. The Germans have never had war, poets ́ to equal Unland, Korner, and Arade. Uhland is still a revered name, though be had much to jesy of honour and

As to his fellow countrymen :

The soft word of a priest... Ha woke, and even as: he woke ́

He weat forth all in white, And saw the Brahmins bowing

there

Alsai O Marharj, alsa! In the hard morning light,

For

O noble Pertab Singh I

bars in Jodhpore yesterday

The following in the approxi mate statement of the Hong kong Tramway Company's traffic receipts for the week ending 19th October, 1918

This Year: Last Year: Incr 1888 *** Dacrense:

Aggregate

Becsipte Beceipts for for work. th wheth $14,091 609,222:

12,591 597,668. 1,500 11,814

geography - did not even and a doctor tried to patch him having published news of che de Waber's tunes. Arndt, the whole, Arnit's song, edited, asy. Thoa priest thy soul hath ing the war, and the progress and

know his name except tast, his father onlied him Dimitri.

Some months afterwards Alexio found himself in Petrograd. He had wandered there, plundering and murdering on the way. Jis went to the Government offices, ́and' introduced himself 'respeas-

fully.

"I should be glad,” he said politely, "if you could tell me who I am and how I can get home again. I live at Krokal”,

"Krokol? "Never hosed of it. d'you spell it ?****

aid the lack

·

"I don't spell it," Alaris.

**Don't spall it? clark. And why

Beos

thing rep

pretty

"A pretty village with a steeple church and thatched cottages ?"

"Yes," agreed the dostar, know it.”

***Induenza.

KINWOT.

never known The word thy lips hava spoke., My caete! Know thou there is a

Above my caste or thine, Brahmin and Rajpus are but dust

To that immortal line.

ap. He seked the usual question, partare of the orniner Hoi Chi for famous for his "Was ist des poser of the first phrase of Ein “Do you know Krokol?" Kingchow, on the ground the Dentechen Vaterland?" and his Heldenleben, seems to offer se And the doctor, wishing to they can only be convicted and pacify him, said, “Yes."

to this question good a chance as any of meeting fined by Law Courts after a trial. "wherever the German tongue is present requirements.

Since 1914, patriotic poetry heard, and “we Grott im Himmel Lieder singt" (presumably Ger-coonpied itɛalf at first in Anding Infinense is very provalent manns.)

zhymes to "hate"; but after a both

in and out of the City. There are about a hundred year or so it tired of this, and" Wide sa the world, free - sa the There is hardly a house without of such songs,

and they dealined upon the lese exciting

ALL, S a case and shout 300 have died of are needed; for the foot in the hut more necessary tank of Para ma the pool of death- the disease up to the prese

Germans have been using up reconciling war and religion. In The cause of all Earth's nobla their patriotic songs rather this taak is divided naturally into quickly of lats years, Schleswig- Catholic and Lutheran, and there- Holstein Meerumschlangen," an with roughly into poetical and old favourite, has dropped ant philosophical, 171918 the since the events of 48 and 84|Bodialists began to make them- At a recent meeting of the have put a new emmplaxion on salves heard, and were in full

“And a tiny railway station ?" azid Alexis, with

terrible cunning.

Yes," agreed the doctor, such a tiny ons.”

Then," said Alexis, all the Bow hope going out of his eyes,it Wan't«Krokol, Krikol", hasn't replied got railway station.

And just before he died he said:

American Red Cross,

7

"Is the right soldier's føïtk.” HENRY NEWBOLT.

Executive Committee of the local matters, "Ich bin ein Freasse" blast, by the beginning of the Raid on Irish Newspaper Office,

It is a perfect scandal that in Chapter of the American Bed with the assertion, to Keithards' next year. As to the tanes, there

free country nobody can tell mó↑ Grom, tha fal

who I am ot, where I' come from; terá made

pointmanta | fraenlent tane, “Come

HT shine

I knew I could send gert, Ohairman Women

sing that the schools

Palice and soldiers entered the

TU-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENT,

NOTICE

BRUNNER MOND & - 00

LIMITED, SHANGHAL,

NOTICE 16 HEREBY given

thas as and from this date and - until further notice MES FERGY FOWLER,AMİstank General Manager of the Com¬

pany for the Far East, has been

appointed to take complete con-

of the Company's manage

of the Southern Star 31ib. mont and interessa.

recently, and: dismantled machinery in socordance with order of General Dæsn under,

By Order of the Dimotors, RECASTAWAR E JONESE