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"MEHO." FOR TO-MORROW.
St. Swithin's Day,
General Memoranda.
Fanar, July 16 :-
Bio Furniture at Mesam. Hughes and Hough's
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE WEST. RIVER FLOODS.
UNPRECEDENTED IN HISTORY.
Canton In a Tarrible Plight.
NO NINESS ON THE SHAMEEN, The disutr as Houda in the West River.
weed not have occurred. The west (stage wus the attack'où nur merelmät deet, which, as it passed through the danger-zone at the rate of about Alteen hundred ships a week, could hardly be entirely missed. We seem now to have reached the stage when the merchant ship, too, is [a rare pray, and these wonderful
vessels of war, with their experts derelishing bandreds of houses and involving the deaths of numerous Chinose, crows and expensive equipment, are wr graphically described by Dr. W. H now concentrating their energies on D-beon the Amation Mission, Yung the sinking of little trawlers and mur Canton this morning by the
tong. who arrived in Hoogkong from Kinshan. loring their crews The Gerinan Away up the country and around the
Canton Delta the water has been sweepi, g submarines have now got down ju down, flooding the river, the city of Can lifeboats and fishermen struggling into and the Shameen an appalling degroo Business on the Shanean ia at a the sea. Is this to live in history na completa standstill, the ollices and houses the von Tirpitz touch?"
bying Bouded on the ground
Avos.
AMERICA'S NOTE TO
GERMANY.
The complete text of the United Sales last pose to Germanby, sous on June 10th, is publiad on page 3. The toferences > the ** Falsbar and Lusitania" are particularly interesting,
NEWS OF THE DAY.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
Fi
Tha ik despatched henc's par as Chiyo Maru "our June 8 was delivered in New York on the 10th inatant.
→Standing on the dack of the vessel," mid Dr. Dobson...everything has a fat appearance, cramped and like a pigmy oky tor the water is up to the roots of mout of the Chinesa" hwaseE, No boats. ara moured at the wharvas and the Hood tants by in a furious derrent, b whirlpool. Janks and smaller bosta hava: is impossible for small- ataft to live in anch
been wretched away from their moorings and have unibed down in the torrent. The river is strewn with wreckage from: house? bandles of rice are being carried away and the paddy roots ara doating down in huge quantities. All commucimtion with the villages of the North and West Rivers ha bean cut off and all the boats are moerd, it being impossible to run against usà ̈a carren".**
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HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL.
The flowing is the ayar da to be sub, mited at a meeting, to he held ta marrow 12 3.30pm-
I. Fionnial Minutes:-
Raport of the Finance Committee. (No.-)
Scood reading of the Bilk intituled An Dedinanes to amend the Chineso Extradi- tion Ordinance;, 1889. "
Second reaching of the Bill intituled An
Ordinance to amend the law relating to the pa shment of Blogging.
Cunraities on the Bill intitulad An Or- dipance to amend and consolidate the law relating to hinese Patong Ships" a detinal by the Chinese Passengers Art, 1855, and concerning Asitio Emigrants generally.
BELGIAN GOVERNMENT'S PROTEST AGAINST THE SUPPRESSION OF THE BELGIAN RED CROSS BOCIETY.
Cul-General at Hongkong sends us the Mr. P. Ventraten, the actiog Belgian
following:
On the 14th April, 3016, Baron von Bising, Governor General of the occupied Belgian provinces, ordered the dissolution of the Central Committee of the Bolgian Red Cross and the immediate seizure of its funds and archives which were put under the supervision of Count B. von Earizfeld. This decreu was notified to the contral eommittee and immediately applied by the Germans who were accompanied by a military force.
The dacrue constitutes an arbitrary.act of violence which 我搞得 abentately unwarranted and against which the Belgian Government protants onergatie liy
Canton itself is stated to be dooded in certain parts to dopth of eight ter feat. Many of the people have takes refuge up the trous to which the children have been made fut with ropes. The walls around svâu pounds are being washed away, and on the urdinary level the water has reached the roofs et
Chinese dwellings." the Fati side the river and particular. in the Fang Chuen village the effects of the food have been very greatly felt. Uver 100 beats had been opast and houses have original occupants gho had ascended to the Red Creas was recognised as a civic organi been washed away carrying with them the Founded in the year 18, the Belgian roofs to escape the rising turrant It insation by the law of 30th March 1891. Its simply awful, you can hardly realise what first statutes were drawn up in sacordance it is like" went on Dr. Dabaan. The with the fundamental and uniform prio-
The Belgian Government, or the 14th. October, 1894, gued the Convention of Geners of 22nd August. 1864, and on 27th August, 1907, ratified the International Convention of 8th July, 1906.
This place is full of Germans and Joskuso, Weisespar, Ja'y 14, 1915, they are flaunting their flags all over the
pladen writes a Kuling correspondant.
The G. O.C. gave permission for the ranks of the Hongkory Volunteer Corps tonight before last lo was unbearable. The ciples of the Red Cross; on 13th March wear one of the badges of the Fronch "75" gun to-day.
SUBMARINE WARFARE,
d glance at recent telegrams clearly' indicates that now even more than
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them at the rate of about one every twenty water dashed into the houses, demolishing minutes. There was no shrieking by the people—the action was so sudden - but only The newly formed Shanghai British mar as the water carried away the debris. I have spoken with some of the oldest in- babitants and they have asid that such flood is unheard of. Yesterday it was RĪT feetabore the highest flood hitherto known, The natives are having a foarful time and hundreds, if not thousands, have lost their lives. It is utterly impossible to and it is to be greatly learul that when the estimate the damage to life and property,
Hoods abate
ber of Commerce has appointed E. B Stewart, Secretary for Chins of the Losick Missionary Society, IsSecretary.
at any other time in the war is the submarine playing a conspicuous part. As to whether it justified the predictions that were
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its
with these principios were voted by the 1:96, now statutes equally in accordance
Sociory and approved by the Government. A Royal decree, dated 25th March 1806, organizes the participation of the Belgian Red Crus in time of war as an auxiliary of
the military medical force.
The National Belgian Red Cro-« Society is therefore legally constituted and is official's recognised by the Government as by other Red Cross Societies.
BY
WEDNESDAY JULY 14, 1815.
TELEGRAPH.
THE PROGRESS OF
THE WAR.
THE BRITISH WAR LOAN.
STATEMENT IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
DESPERATE GERMAN AT-
-
TACK REPULSED.
SQUADRON OF AEROPLANES ATTAOK
GERMAN STRATEGIO KAILWAY.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
THE BRITISH WAR LOAN.
STATEMENT BY THE CHANCELLOR.
LONDON, July 13.
stated that the total subscriptions to the War Loan has now reached nearly In the House of Commons Me, McKenna, Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Article 1st of the statutes provides that £600,000,000, The papers bad mentioned eight hundred millions, which was tunde regarding its utility before the that the mile for Carton, Wath
salatance to the military medical force and said that 500,000 subscribers had contributed 570,000 millions through the We are notised by the Post Offies
the Society in tims of war, must give its
a sam neither expected or desired by the Government Mr. McKenna alao, war there can be no question and Simshui" and other West River ports | sickness and will be an epidemic of contribute to the relief of all the victims of Bank of England and 547,000 persons had subscribed 13,000,000 through the
the only cause of complaint that can are vapended on secopat of the foods reasonably be raiseit is that Germany in those districte.
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alsense.
the war.
WHAT THE SUBSCRIPTIONS SIGNIFY,
Article 9 of the Royal decree of 25th Post Office. He was not yet able to give the figures regarding the small game. March 1596 declares that as good the mobilisation of the army is decreed, the Ked Crous Society, as well as all other societies that are affiliated to it must act in medical force in the field. accordance with the Roles for the military
alone, withent conversions of stock. The results were all the more remarkable Mr. McKenna smphasised that the £600,000,000 represented new money.
DESPERATE GERMAN ATTACK ON TŘE
LABYRINTH REPULSED.
LONDON, July 13:
Dr. Dobson domibod the deplorable situation at the Lunatió Asylum where he said there were 600 refugees with nothing is using these.vessels for purposes of
to ent. Their kitchen was under water The Jiji states that the chief men of and what they wanted. at once was a murder. According to reports to the Chinese commercial societies in Chang-quantity of cooked food lund the modern Huns intend to chun collected from the Chinese shops all hundred refugees ar the H. V. Noyes
Two ́untinue doing so, thus emphasising their Japanese wares, heaped them up and College were in a similar plight and help The above dispositions established clearly as the subscriptions were almost exclusively money immediately available, A9
must be sent immediately if the lives of the limits of the nation of the Belgian Red the people at present were unable to sell securities. the fact that they are outwith the set are to them.
these people were to be spared No Cross. They could not be one-stopped pale of civilisation, Judging by the
eerges were being landed and steam without coming inte esattict with the Rolled financial resources of the Empire and a demonstration to our Allies and our It was, said the Chancellor of the Exchequer, an oxhibition of the unrival- The death how taken place at the Euro-Launches were the only means of scavey-gian Law which continues to be applied in enemies that Great Britain had proved faithful to her trust. reports referred to above opinias in wan Hospital, Kuala Lumpur of Mr J.
Away to the cast of the Shameen in the occupied provinces of Belgium. quarters still differ as to whether the Mackenzie Cowan, of Messrs Mace, Ballapot where the Chinese Past Oco was the German Gor rar Genersi in Belgium Canton was raging a big line on the same The Belging. Government is aware that submarine game
"ie worth the and Co., and formerly the Federated demolished about three years ago, and.it has tried to oblige the Red Cross Seciety candle." In Germany, the view is Engineering Company,
wna impossible to give assistance es to take an active part in the working of the that subaurines have more than)
no one would ronch there. Maila had institution he is organised ander the "Japanese trade with Chins in the tiste other localities effected. The Ming work" and which is absolutely ontside the stopped and no news was condng through nane aid and protection to women by justitied their existence and the re-half yoar of 1913, Compered with that of Sant Elm school containing over 100 sphere provided for the Red Cross Society. Baits achieved bave been attained at 1914, shows a decrease in exports to the jamstes was flooded out and they were also The latter's Central Committee derlined the a moderate proportionate coat But amount of over Yen 20.000.000, while dly in need of belp. The missionaries Governor's invitation and in doing so in England, the entirely contrary view imports show increase of orer Ten way to higher levels but means of music Society and with the Belgian law. Its perute attack on The Labyrinth under the protection of a curtain of rere doing all they could to get people acted in accordance with the statutes of the
A telegram from Paris states that the Germans attempted a des“. is held, and the submersible is deeme; $,000,000.
wars difficult and preesions.
attitade has been approved by the Inter comparatively speaking, a failure.. Ju
terday anon the river had risen another the German press there is a note of
fret and it was then rising at the rite an inch an hour. The raids cessed on irritation over the protests of neutrals
Friday last and since then the weather regarding the methods of these craft,
has been good. and Count von Reventlow writes in the Berlin Deutsche Tageszeitung:
"The newspapers-of our enemies, as well as those of neutrals, ought in| grasp the simple logic that the German Empire and its statesme and its Navy would be exposed serving the front and Indges, bearing † Mat the fi oda at Canton and on the Went against this arbitrary decision of the
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For the twenty-four hours ending yes.
One Chinese boatman and two bont.
anal Committee of Genova. Notwith fire. The assailants were decimated and completely thrown back.
anding this, Governor General von Bis A communique adds that there has been fierce grenade fighting in women were each fiued 92 by C mmander
sing took this refusal se u pratert to die Argonne and that the German movement in the Vosges has been solve the Sociary and to seže ita funds and defeated. Beckwith at the Marine Court this morning
archives, for moaring between prohibited hours.
The humanitarian sim pursued by the Three inen and two women were fined the necessity of immediats assistance for work it purposes to do entities it to be AEROPLANE SQUADRON ATTÁOK A GERMAN
In condusion, Dr. Dobson emphasized | Red Cross and the good and charitable each fur mooring in a prohibited place at thous people who were unable to obtain considered as an institution to which all Yaumali By.
choked food, as all they doubtless hare to most pay respect... sabri-t upon is raw rice.
To-day, the-most important of national
The act of fiolence of which the Belgian Society is a victim has created a logitimate
painful impression,
and
STRATEGIO RAILWAY.
LONDON, July 18. 5.85 pm.
ANOTHER ACCOUSE The statements of passengers and stone. French Fete days, in being celebrated as
ship officer coming back from Canton The Belgian Government associates itself A squadron comprising thirty-five aeroplanes, despite a gule, three "The Day of the 75." A special collectionnerenac, if anything, one's view of the to the solemn protest raised by the Inter-171 large bombs at the German strategic milway at Vigneulles les Hatton was made ram behalf of the French soldiers gravity of the situation there, and show national Committee of the Red Cross Chatel, serving both the region of Culonne and the Forest of Apremont.
German Governor General which is not
The most important supplies were concentrated there.. doinishing, with a consequent increase in only contrary to laternational law but bas River generally are growing rather than
All the aeroplanes returned safely, though vigorously shelled. the kas and destruction of life and property. the faculty of fulfilling the mission for deprived the Belgian Red Cross Society of An ufficer of the Kinalan." whink arrived this morning from: Canton, spoke which it has been created,
the serious state of amphatic ly
a rep'ion of the fathers French an were sold by the Tiny Sconta
The King has been pleased to give and
to the ridicule and contempt of the whole world if they did not carry out this trade war... precisely with psion of Teakwrd and the means and in the sense in which grant ubi Mr. John Stirling, Audit-illes. The esgo they took up from it was announced. If this trade war Secretary. Inspectorato-General of Posta Hongkong tauld not be discharged and had were, it of fear for the Unitel Pakiax, His Majes y's Royal licence and to be brought back. In his view there was
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL States, to become a farce, it would authority to wear the insignia of the Sixth little probability that the regular cargo
Mr. R.EH. Oliver, of Breasts Caldbeck, 11a.m.- Auction of Miscellanea damush you repair the prestige of Clare of the Order of the Escullent. Crup, a service, with proper facilities for diéturre, Macgregor and Co. is returning to Sings
would be resumed in less than a werki the German Empire,"
decomtim conferred on him by the Tas paswa era from Hongkong for Canton pore from Kala Lumpur. President, of the Republic of China inexperienced great difficulty in getting Despite protesta from neutrals, ixcognition ul valisis services rendered. sukinuring warfare is to go or just tis
BATURMAT. July 17 -
(Hout, Shoes, Raincoats, etc. etc.) ni Menirs. Rughes and Y nigh's
MaNDAY, July 18
6.30 pm.Victoria Recreatio Club's bufore the Lusitania was sunk, is the According to Northern papers a Ger.
Annual Meeting.
Tuzabay, July 20-
Nima
General Meeting
GERMAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS.
AMERICA TO DEMAND A DEFINITE STATEMENT.
Tostos, July 18, 240 pan. character of the situation existing hetwan Germany and the United Aizlegram from Washington states that in view of the critical States, the latters nply is being carefully and duliferately considered. Iubinations from White House point to Arica demanding such a definite statement of Germany's attitude as will deterinine whether rola- tions can be continued.
bare, and had to pay lausch ownera nzy. - Quartermaster and Hon. Lisut, G. (W. thing from four to ten dollars for the Crombie, PE, who was in Hongkong for privilege. Os the resen journey to some time. has been appointed to the Pusongers included a number of Ameriou view of many thermis papers. Theed Cross far been arrested in the ionaries and their wives and families, School of Military Fogmaning, Chetham. seon-ficial Nomblentsche Allgemein section with the murder of the women and centipedes, expresset le Frorea Concussion at Tionisin in c. The missionaries, whose houses just before their departure bad beon infested with Zeitung reprints endorses the views whose body had been recovered from the opinion that this distress would be this afternoon, the water not going down Jakey Club. Estradinary of the Hamburger Korrespondens. river. The woman was known as Mary Price appalli
at all last night. which rus: Every means that art and is believed to have been the wife of informant, were up to their arm pits in had to go through nearly Git, of water, Peop's on the Shimazu, according to our Chinese trying to escape frofa tho fire and nature offer, to overpower the Rusdan subject named Easter who is now
wster." The Gurms Mission was all food. enemy we shall inexorably and un- at Ting
ed out, and the church full of water. The and were charged $50 to $15 for pas shakenly use. It is foolish to wish to
stravasbip companies goĉuwns were flootartsags Cown to the river boats. * The Hongkong University has accepted fasting about, as well as rumbers of old
Loxoox, July 18, 2:40 pm out, and great quantities of driftwood wale free submarine war under the rules, the offer of Terkay Lake Yes, C.M.G., of moeight and beacon, as to this morning, arriving hero about, orbs on stomslips. Detectives are watching the piers whose muni- The New York authorities are investigating the conspiracy to place of times which did not know sub- Singapore, of a load of half a million as knocked down, cel the telegraphic services Pin, to-day was kept open ass houston are baded, and arrests are expected of wealthy German-Americans marines. Now wine requires new free of interest for twenty-one af triftwood are noticed at the norther slept deck through the fight. The
caspletely disorganised. Great quantities of refuge and several Hundred Chinese in have organised the laming of boobs in ships.. Arrangemens are now being made for the section of Pile Exrriery: All yesterday
WEDNESDAY, July 1
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I continues to font by, and the embacka.
laws of submarine warfare, and our poor groths to ahtain an absoletely free reaches in the vicinity of the Canton hope of alleviation. Wreckage of all kinds encmics should be aware that we use Univerity education. Two scholarships The recurul Impressions given by yo tion and, disembarcation of passengers in
Slasmship Ompany's WEALL not inclined to abandon a particle of wil he allotted to the Straits and two tones of the scene is one of indescribable the power which the new weapons han the Falerated inlay.
a matter attended by considerable risk, wedge wreckage of sampeus, of cargo and taking three or four fimce as long placed in our hands. Our watchword
boste of household furniture. Many of Mr. H. G. C. Perry-Ayscough and the vessels had exciting experiences both in a mush
po rival of the "Heungsbon this again Buoye
Never in all my 60 years aperiends
AMERICK ON THE LLERT AGAINST GERMAN-AMERICAN
CONSPIRATORS.
THE WELSH MINERS STRIKE.
DISOBEYING THEIR OWN EXECUTIVE"
LONDON, July 19.
The delegates at Cardill have frequently refused to listen to their
dependa of the Government's action.
is not prizes, but destruction, and Captain Otter-Barry, joint authors of in the river were sorte aftersoon was awaited by large crowds JREAT REDUCTIONS IN prize-courts may become deserted."
adrift With the Rusminne in Mongolin hare A steam launch, laden with food, has of Chinese Curiously onogh, she own executive, and the latter's recommendation to continue work on the PRICES.
At the beginning of the war Ger- both seen much active service aineo they been desintched from Canton to Wuchow, brought no European passergara, bat day to day contracts or to take a ballon of the mmers has been rejected. man submarines senght their legitilaf Feking at the outbreak of the war. advised of the Customs ofeislawak krowded out with better chic Chi-The Secretary, Mr. Richardson, afterwards stated that now everything
the Acting Commissioner there having The former was invalided home from Canton that Wachow munte prey and sank the Formidable, France with malaria, but only after he insistest, and the population was without
was completely mesa. LA PART Ilauke, Hermes, Cressy, Hogue, and the spent more or less all the time at food Pare Urugs, Fatopt Medicines, &c | Aboukir, but since the end of October thus front. He is rapidly getting better,
they have entirely failed to touch a and will shortly retum. On the other The Kre, which began at 3 yesterday 4. Queen's Road, HONGKONG, warship, except the armed liner auxeral so mach from the strain that beg
hand, OkptainOftor Berry's nerrea have afternoon, was still barn Bayan, ander circumstances that has been phlige to go on voyage to
Australia for his hesitb.
The those show o
gam
of the river have I son suything like it," roid an otheca of the Heungsbar. He dad that Chiness with a much longer
+ APPLYING THE MUNITIONS ACT.
M. Lloyd George anounces that in operation with the South or at 8 this experience sold, the foods were paralWales coal sinke a proclamation, Ints been issued to day, under the Muni
Sidled The distress and poverty after ions Aot, making it an offence to paracipate in a strike without previously abefezent wards would be adat, ind wordt zemuls
Forting to arbitration.