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decreasing losses of slips. We are not toid by what now means this greater measure of success is being achieved Mr. Luoro GEORGE says we owe a very considerable debt of gratitude to the great American people for the effective assistance they havo condered and tor the cratt they have placed at our disposal, and he also mentioned that now that the American nation is in the war it is easier to arrange for the protection of our mercantile marine than it was before. All which
IN HOSPITAL.:
[By PATRICK Maufi, Author of
"The Great l'usty" etc.}
FUTURE OF BRITISH
TRADE,
SIR. A. STANLEY'S PLANS FOR ·
EXPANSION.
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I
NEWS FROM HOME.
MONDAY, MAY 28 1917.
(From Our Oton Corresponstant, )
It it comes about that the Car come here to resilə, we shall soon want a twentieth century edition of [ Duket's “* Kings in Exile,for me. already have "ex-king Manuel of Portugal, and the Duke of Orleans, angl the times are so distinctly un- Writing on the pre of Easter. I healthy for monarchy that others
Losnos, April 5.
A 33OWY EASTER,
The hour was three o'glock, in the afternoon. l'entered the dugout to find my hate puchole gazing" mutely at A variety of topics was dealt with by sume black liquid in a sooty mess-tin. Sir A Starley, President of the Board of }
"Some milk. Spadhale "I said, hand-Trace at the luncheon of the Association Welcond some slight signa of mikler may be added before the war is over. ing his the tin which bad fast conse to of Chambers of Comunerve on March 2 weather after an arte intreluctions conspicuous exception niny bo me in a big parcel from England.
RAILWAYS.
It was necessary that this country sheuk! not centínue to enjoy to an un- parallell. degree facilities in railway transport during the war, in order thus our-anny should be able to make that progress in Franes which was going on at the present time. Restrictions would be removed as rapidly as conditions would permit.
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PETROL
to April. In the North there are mentioned. So much is the King of snowdrifts several feet deep, with the Belgians lolised that if a regener- sheep on the fells subinergo; and fated Belgium chose to become a even here in the southern wounties Republic the King wonki bo electext
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we lave had several inches of and a temperature thus has called for big fires and heavy overgents. The oldest inhabitants have been very magh its evidence, recalling their We must look forward toan enormouslyPXperiences of Aprils in hygone days, increased demand for the Army and Savy, and we must be exceedingly careful in order to keep axtock to meet emergencies."
VAL MINKS.
"So milk for me, matey," he replied. "I'm feelin' done up proper, I am Cannot int a bite. Tummy's out of order and my ads spinnin' like a top. When's goes to support the assertion made sick parade?" he asked. by Admiral Lord Benesoud thờ|
"Seven o'clock," I said. "Is it as bad as that Spudhole?" other day when he said that nothing but over-water craft in large numbersmile. "Aveyer fig to spare?"
"Worsen that he answered with a
can beat the submarine in bine water. Obviously the entry of the United States into the war enables the British Admiralty to concentrate a greater force of its own patrols in the danger zone, and although America has not the lumense fleet of trawlers to call upon that England had at the beginning of the war, it is possible Tel Higgles of another section accom- make an announcement showing how islands. There was a little shaking 1
that in addition to undertaking the policing of the American side of the Atlantic the United States Navy has beau able to make some contribution to the force operating against sub
1.30 p.m. --Anction of Furniture, AITKENHRAD-On May 2, t Shang marines in the zones barred" by
Blackwood! Ware, Sundries etc., at Masaru. Hughes and Hough's.
3 p.r.-Sale of Crown Land ar PW.D.
3. p.m. Meeting of the Sanitary
Bonit
4pm.--Meeting of the H.K. Chamber
of Commerce. "
General Memorzxda.
WIDNESDAY, May 30
H.K. Stock Exchange Settlement Day. Soon. "Star" Ferry Co's, Meeting.
A sertion of Household!. 2.30 p.m.
Furniture at N. Arbuthno Road
5.15 Hongkong Clab Exterior
dinary Meeting...
5. p. Girl Chuiches Display in
St. Andrew's Church tall, Kowloon,
THE RADAY, May 31-
hai to Mr. and Mrs. R. 4 AITKEN HEAD, I SÕI
DESMAN. On May 2.
20 Mr. Mrs. Charles C. DUSMAN, a daughter.
THOMAS,
5.15 pm-St. George's Sciety's —
Meeting
FRIDAY, June 1:-
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2.30 p. Auction of Honscholl
Hough's.
SUNDAY, Juze 3:-
E. M. the King's birthday (1563). MONDAY, June 4
General Holiday.
DEATH.
On May 13th, at Bulawayo, South Africa, C. Love Tos, gller sin of TuMAS. THOMAS, No. Bluut, Yokohama, — aged 42 years.
The
China
"I have, Emaswered, fumbling in my pocket.
"Well, give it to somebody as 'asn't sot none said my mate with a wan
smile. En off smokin' a bit,” ·
The case was really serious since Spud hole could not smuke, for a smoke- les hour for him had always been a purgatorial period: After len I went with hun to the dressing station and
panied b. Ted's tummy was also out of order and his head was spinning like
a top.
but they are ananinis that they have none of them seen anything fik this one."
OPTIMISM.
Arst President.
One of the results of the Russian Revolution is that the Prince of Wales will probably seek a wife elsewhere After the Rumanian idea was abandoned the choice was supposed to lie between the Care daughter and his niece, who had heen much about with Quee Alexandra. Now there is a great cry for a British Princess, for foreign- bred, Queens have been credited will malign influences in this war-is for example, the Czarina and the Queen of
Under these girennsturges it is all the inore remarkable that the spirit of optimisin rules, so strongly in these Greece.
Much less coal must be barned in this try at an early date he would
they proposed to deal with this essential commodity. We had to mine e grest of hens when the push on the
ALJENS IN THE MERCHANT SERVICE
Both in the Lords and the Commons
1tood outside the door of the dressing. deal more iron ore than in the past. Western front first begun. but now this week there has been a disposition
station while the two men were inside. Pibently Spudhole came out
Some of the men engaged in coal mines but ench day adds its steady totul to
particular object.
My temperature's and lunner and airl be released,, be though, for that the villages and vantage points wre aliens kokling officers' certificates in opr
nine," he said.
hundred, and what?" ejaculated. aner point nine, it was said Ted Higles appearing t the doorway. Mine's an anner point eight. Lots o blokes are sufferin from the same thing
mxis the M.D. calls it, but the right name n' it's trench fever.
Right
, name?" interrogated Spudhole
"Well, it's somefag wat we can under-
**, said Ted.
• BUSINESS NAMEK,
ed from the enemy. ever the Pessiinists have to admit that the uns are going back, because they because men and guns oppos to them as better than their own
The Registration of Business Names Act had not been in forte very loag, but the wily foreigner is 'inding ways of evading its provisions. "I must take ited upon myself with my udvisers to find somie way of preventing them.".
to demand strong regulations against "
merchant service.
With demands for 500,000 more meu for working and service battalions before July there is a feeling that the aliens in our midst are having too easy Under these conditions there is n a time. The Russians are likely to be modified pleasure over the news that called upon for duty in the Army very Over 650 undertakings, representing Americi has come into the fray. It shortly, in accordance with an agree more than 12 millions, had been dealt is good to see all the free nations ofment with the Russian Government and with under the Trading with the Eremy the earth upited against the common jere long it is unlikely that friendly We're to sleep 'ery tonight in the celler under the dressin station; theyrt. Steps had been taken to complete fox of civilisation, but there is a foul aliens of military age will be able to steal the jobs of our own countrymen told me.
stand
Are you coming back again to the trenches" I asked."
ESYNY TRADE.
In the mornin' we're to the winding up of these businesses oting that an American Fepresentative while the latter are risking their lives,
HIGHER WAGEN,
Recent American new Germany. papers indicate that a good deal of pore attention has been concentrated on the submarine problem, and if America has not yet supplied a fleet of sub- marine Chasers there would seem to be every likelihood of her doing so at an early date; so that there is a prospect of continned improvement
report in the M.O. apsin. "Then if in the alternative, to transfer the enemy in the situation. German speculations thinks fit e'll send us off to the ospital interest and rest them entirely in British
I went back to the firing treuch alone. in the past few months "have been sos
Spurlhole and Ted did
subjects. not return the concerned with, the question as to next the day
Three weeks Ister Spudhaie hold out
We were sitting in a dug out in the until July." Captain PERSIUS, one Ypres saint when a Jews is per
mag-time, pad heard outside. The of the leading German writers, a mans, at the time, were shelling our couple of months ago wrote: "A position. Who was he who played rag time as unaccompaniment to the thunder catastrophe can be expected only if of high explosives? Who could he be
unless Spudbole our submarines succeed in keeping
And sure enough it was Spudhole neutral shipping alurost entirely away back to us again, trig and tidy from
new boots from trade with the British Isles, and it that ear of importance with
and
its so easily on a man who has seen strange sights in strange regions.
"What's your..temperature now ?? I asked as he came in.
Mail.whether England can
HONGKONG, MONDAY, May 28, 1917.
DEFEATING THE SUBMARINE.
BUCCESE
41
came
Furniture at Messrs. Hughes and ONE of the most welcome items of in destroying English shipping in
news during the last few days. has measure which keeps pace, as far as been the statement, made by Mr. possible, with the February result. LLOYD GEORGE on the increased After July the danger period will it didn't art go up and down" sid Blimey it's the correct thing now, but with which the enemy not set in again until the products Spadole putting the Jew's harp in his pocket and sitting down." "And" aubmarine menace is being meet the country itself have been con- orspital!" he went on, "It's no fun. Towards the end of last week) Reuter umed.
tell cabled a statement made by Lord definitely when that will be." The art bad if you've got it bad "What sort of disease is Pyraris?" a
answer to that question has already and
TURDAY, June 5-
3.07 p.m.-Full Moon
THE CHINA MÁTTA
NOTICE
CURZON in the House of Lords to
It is difficult to decide
voice enquired.
To
it's
Spudhole, adding Wot moan's this. If T ad it had I'd get off
at the Peace Conference may be a wakening intinence and tray tend to aid the Hohenzollerus and their
associates to obtain better terms than they deserve. However, we must wain an, zu to tell the truth,
Higher wages were here to stay, and as far as his information went very little fault had been found by employers, so ong as they got an honest day's work in return. It is to their advantage and t.. there is nothing in President Wilson's the advantage of the country that higher
as so often happens to day.
41 RUMOURS.
had much "wild and "wids rumours in Never since the war began have we
sirulation as during the early part of
last week. There was a test mobilien- tion of the bone forces, including the speech thas can be construer in 4sational guard and the special constables, Tife chons of praise which gave the stories a certain founda everywhere, out of Germany, is with- tion. From that time on the ale simply out a discordant note.
quivered with tales of an invasion, of
wages shouki continue after the war work sense. The British working mn is as good any in the world. When he was in America the British workmen was regarded as the gristocrat of the labour world.
FUTURE TRADE..
The Government could and must help a great deal more in the future; but if
oar industries failed to meet the com- petition from overseas and produce gonda which would compare favourably with system could possibly succeed. those of their competitiors, no fiscal
TRADE BANKA,
the effect that the reason why the been furdished by the British Premier. bad," said god if you've only got it 'aff
There was ample room for the establish- Premier postponed a decisive reply in 1918 the United Kingdom will ter blighty but my case was only a lightment of trade banks and they would be to the respresentations of the Jockey be self-supporting.
one, not so bad as Ted Iggles. E. not uble to do things which the joint stook oat o'erse yet, and may be it's a trip banks were not able to do. Tha cor- Cammanications relating to news should Club in regard to the stoppage of
across the Channel for im Gawd we wor bad goin down from the dressin poration would have on its board re be drowned to THE EDITOR,
| racing was that "the greater success
itation. I couldn't even smoken fag: We presentatives of industry and commerce, "Correspondents must forward their ans and addresses with any commiunie-grappling with the, eubmarinė-
came to a village and from there a motor with experts in various industries
associated with them.
tion addressed to the Editor, not nocessary menace might alter the food situation for publication but sa ridance of good
in the next six weeks Q7 with,
two
NEWS OF THE DAY.
In the American colony in London bore towns laid in ruins, of Bying the delight at the definite step was people, sunk German warships and all almost comical to witness. Ameri-the rest that the inventive mind of man cans who have been going about could suggest. The famous fable of the apologising for the attitude of their Russian army that pasted through Eng- country through all the wearyland for France in the early days of the
war was positively outdone. months of patient negotiation, are now plnost truculent in their satis
fnetion.
A DEMONSTRATION OF ALLIANCE,
All that has happened actually is that the Germans made a raid into mid-sea and sank one small armed patrolling trawler. There are experts, Next Monday, I hear, there will of course, who believe that Lord Kit- chener was right in his opinion, a great demonstration in Trafal- gar Spare to show the solidarity of the Huns will make one desperate duais frequently expressed in private, that the peoples. The flags of the Allies for our shores on a fairly large scale. will be hoisted and it is intended, It. would be a foolhardy enterprise, of authorities. permitting, to keep the course, and to evade our feet and land, flags flying till the end of the war. say, 80,000 men on our shores in the In front of the National Gallery a face of our defence artillery is a big great Union. Jach will be nailed to order, but it might serve a desperate masthead by a sailor, while along. German Government, bent on saving skle will be the banner of the over the face of the Hohenzollern dynasty - A good many people in this country, sens dominions and the Allies. The with the people, if they were able to further back in.bos. We were rattled says a Sydney paper, seem to be under. about on that there bas and we wor the impression that because the Allies flags of Russia, Japan, France, Italy. stay a German panic at home with. dropped down at another crap about are far stronger than Germany on what China and Amerion will be hosted tales of an invasion of England. The decisive at prominent corners of the Square, very fact that none of the invaders
They the greatest miscalculation in the At the earl of June the U. S. Con, and, saluted in turn by the multi would be likely to get home" again whole series of miscalculations of sular Court will be abolished. In its should av en Lorst to the wide need of more man-of, as Sir William
aly speak but 'e man- that fated Empire." He told the place a lower court of the U.S. District
All matter for publication should be months." The German people have written on one side of the paper unly.
been promised by their "Press an Letters rakting to business should be early victory by way of submarine
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́LOCAL, AND GENERAL.
Mr. P. W. Ker, CMG, has taken warfare. Mr. LLOYD GEORGE is over charge of HB. M's Consulate now able to tell them that their General at Tientsin as acting Consul hope of a triumph in war based General,
upon submarines is going to be
House of Commons that "substantial Court will be established.
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mbalance took us to a clearin' station. There was a Vot bath there and wy wor put to bed in a big 'ouse; blankets, plenty of 'em, and a good bed. Twas a grand place to 'ave a kip."
"No stand-to at dawn,” I said... **Worn't there!" said Spudhole. Two ours fore dawn we ad all o' us to stand- to in our blankets for the Germans began
to shell the place. We'd to 'op it away
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to could Robertson has put it another ball mille, waich will include delegations might even be an aid, as preventing the was to write to er when 's went west hard to follow about the reason. In London, and all manner of organisa
address and lion before July. Yet there is nothing from the various allied colonies in possibility of early contradiction,
THE DCCHESE OF CONNAUGHT
We went further back after ·we'd a spite of the really wonderful rurt oftions, There will be no speeches,
results bit
The late Duchess of Connaught waA. 108 4 to' grab, such of was
able to eat the new somefing, and we came to an 'orap under spite of the way in which these re- but the great multitude will solemnly the first member of the Royal Family canya at X-A nice quies place, it,
salts
have been exaggerated, it is not A Portuguese las named Edward and me and Ted was along wir two sufficient to be merely stronger than swear at a given moment never to to be cremated. She had a horror of Alterations and additions to Advertise With enhmarines are increasingly de Laz was 'Sined a dollar by Mr. Wood others in a bell tent. There we began the enemy'il you mean to beat him make peace while the Eichenzollern: physical decay and long ago made ar-
to get better TABYA angry plice all thoroughly and on short order. It is Nathan Road, Kowloon, and his brother in eat her a drop of mille and ed front could be broken at all, and even this morning for playing tennis in the same. They were tryin to curs us not so long since the experts were rule. That has, indeed, become the rangements for her own ense. Queen | by us. Eight days in head wir wondering whether a strongly entrench hattlecry of these later days of the of it, but the King raised no objection:
fire contà each.
anenta
o Pages 2. 3, 6, and 7 should efficient and that "during the last
Buzeet, not later than 11 30 m
starvin
Alexandra was shocked when she heard
be erat to the Office. No. 5, Wyzdbaththree weeks or a month we have was remanded on a charge of resisting once or twice a have been snow, when we have the best of reasons | War. The chief culprits are being ghen the Duke of Connaught brought:
Alterations and additions to Advertise dealt more effectively with submarines,
ments on pages 1, 4, and 8 should be than during any corresponding period of the war." Also that the results!
sent as not later than 1 p.m.
Now" Advertisements should be sent is before 2p.m.
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they war: they must
Damn little
laid by for knowing that it can be broken, it marked down for punishment. In up the question of his wife's desire. tom-tits in aurry.
remains true that under the most favour- 1 got inter trouble once," said able conditions the breazing of it must some sense this is an outcome of the Hardly any of those present in St. Spudhole warming to his narrative. E be a costly task. Britain is supposed to The funeral the late Mr. S. Takahashi, climbed up the tent pole one night just have about two million men in France Busian revolution, which showed George's Chapel at the funeral servic for the month of May are not only the "Consul General for Japan, take lo ave a song on my own and when I. That, at any rute, is the German/ what could be done in the way of were aware that only sahes of the
nak or the top down comes the 'ole thing estimate, though Colonel Repington, of regioving swiftly obstacles to progress Duchess were being laid to rast. sad I lands on Ted Tggies bread-basket: The Times, ms declared it to be when once there is cumulative effort.
a ccnsiderable improvement upon place to-morrow (Tuesday),
Those
two point five the next mornin. The Haig, bas about that number traingt Z CZAR, If temperatoor was up to an unutar and exaggerated, Probably Sir Douglas
"eard about me bein' up the pale.
THE
those for the mouth of April, but desiring to show a last tokon of respect Thiographie Addrem Mau Hongkong upon the anticipation formed by the are invited, to join the cortege at doctor didn't arf give me a look when 's and ready for use at any time. It Admiralty regarding what would Causeway Bay at 5.20 pm. The late But 'e was a good bloke, the M.O.lion. The strength of the German armies
is said that the French have three, mil There is a report in circulation that ocear. Spesting in the Reichstag Mr. Takahashi came to Hongkong about When I got inter me die uniform'e look oppoeed, to them may perhaps to put a quiet hint has been, conveyed to at the end of February after the a year ago from Nanking. He diede ord at my cap. Ye remember it boys down at not far from 3,000,000. At that the Czar that he should not seek a first month of "unlimited" On the 23rd inst after a month's illaeis was more like a rag men's than a rate the strength of the Allies is to that retreat, in this country.If, tant be
soldier c' the King's. Then 'e arst me: at the Germans in the west, as 6 is to 3. submarine warfare-the German Chancellor expressed the most completo confidence in triumph based on submarines, Safely protected,
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at the premature age of 43, leaving widow and five children.
& Ave yer seen much wari Not af i Now it is to say the least of it true, it is probable that he and his
aven't I told im "I thought so," he extremely doubtful whether such a Sys, indgin' by ver cap. And e told
the German armice in the west Dowager Empress is already installed the orderly to indent mé, for a brand defentity is enough to thoroughly family will go to Denmark: The new uniform. And e gave me two this year. They must be routed; merely Rauter's Peking correspondent, francs to get meself a drink when I was to drive them back and back would not in the Crimes with the consent of the
leavin' on the land fronts by the genius of writing on May 10th anys-Eugene and how is fed !" I skod be enough to finish off the war, and an Russian Government, who know her
extra 100,000 might make all the differ our supreme Army Command, Chat, the editor of the "Paiking Gazetta" "Not so bad yor know, said Spudhole are. It is said that at the height of the Patriotism for Buasir and her un-
is being kept in very close confinement,
And d'e didn't arf want to come back Somme battlo last year, highly place availing efforts to warn her son while victorious on the water, and many His foreign and Chinese friends are not wiv me. E didn't mind stayin', there sa commander: declared that, much more there was yet, time.
long as was wir im, but when I was might have been done if there had been prepared for the permitted to communicate with him and goin' away twas annuver story. E did available even three fresh divisions. submarine war than a year ago, we enquiries regarding the treatment be is want to get back to the tronches confidently look towards the coming receiving are only met with the reply Spudhole Is Epudhole in here
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BAGDAD SCHEME WAS NO
GOOD."
Convinced by the Britisk victories in Sesopotamis, and the Russian mocess in
Persia that their Berlin-Bagdad dream has ended, the Germanas are now making
out that the milway scheme could never have been a success. Commenting.car
the ubject, the Rheinisch Westind fische Zeitung
The German Berlin-Fagded dreams equld only end in a fusco from. sa The Gzar is rather like our own economic standpoint. It is impossible King George appearance, but fakes for this rallway to attain any economic the latter's character. The two are
importanca or even to replace the tea routes."
The verse below was sung a divine attached to each other and Ring service in Fielding, Bask., (Canada) after George would offer no persoutl the first verse of the National Autheri at the close of the service in the objection if the Czar came to reside Methodist chapel there recently
God save our splet die men, Bring them save come God save our men, Keep them victori Fedient and chival
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NOW IS THE TIME
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lieve the pins are