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TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1917.
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ROM this date until further notice FROM Mx GEORGE FREDRICK DUMBARTON has been appointed Acting Local Manager of the Hongkong Branch of this Chimpany.
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Harkkong, July 16, 1917. HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
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Hoogkeng July 19, 1917.
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Hongkong, July 10, 1917.
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gun himself and worked in with amtber LAST HOURS OF RACING. officer already wounded. Afterwards, to save ammunition, he sniped the enemy with their own rifles, which they had dropped on the field.
Later the village of Guemappe was isolated from the great artillery boni- bardment which previated all approach by the memy, and then fresh High- Detailing how Scottish troops caplanders streamed round by the north of tured Guemappe in the battle of Arras Mr Philip Gibbs, in the Daily Chronicle jisnya :
It is a great episode in the history of the Scottish troops in France.
It was fighting which lasted for nearly
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the village, and the whole line of High ite a hearty breakfast, and walked to the land troops swept back the enemy By that time the Bavarian troops had no allows with a firm step. more fight in them, and knew they were were Remember me kindly to Mr. beaten. They retired in deep disorder
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If you think of some sich figure, or of For a day and a half the Scots were the burghers of Calais going out to deliver a week, after an hour, of attack in the able to rest a little, though always under Brst daylight of April 3. At that bout shell fire, but afterwards there was fierce the keys of the town with ropes round HONGKONG, IS READY TO RECEIVE ng waves of Highland regiments left patrol fighting round Cavalry Farm and their necks, you will have some idea`uli the trenches they had dug under shell-in the outposts near by. The enemy's FURTHER SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE fire, and sent forward towards Gue-fre was interse, and he commanded this the frame of mind in which the people of
mappe. They were
were faced at once by position from the high ground to the Newmarket went out on the Heath on ABOVE LOAN UP TO THE 28th blasts of machine-gun fire, and although north, but little parties of Scots held on May 1st, says the Dally Express, to JULY, 197.
our artillery barrage crashed across the doggedly cutside the ruins of the farm field, some of the German strong points .. G. TISDALL,
were still held in force. Manage.
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until, after five days, they were with the first day's racing of the lust New- drawn. I have told all this in a bald, brief way, for lack of time st the end of market meeting during the war.
At one shout which I know most, there was a gap between the advauring waves telegraph wire, but even so I hope it. It was a splendid summer day, but owing to the fooble light of dawn, in may reveal a little the stubborn courage Newmarket was a town without a smile, which the men could only dimly see, but with which those men refused to give
this was fed up by troops from the way, and when forced back for few hours or with a very wry smile at the best, supporting lines. For nearly three hours regained the ground they had captured and when, after the Two Tinuxand the Scots were held up by the fire of the with a spirit which belongs to the history Gerua machine guns and artillery, and of their fighting cluas. Buffered many casualties, but they
fought
on each little group of men acting with separate initiative, and it is to their great honour as soldiers that they des troyed every machine gun post in front
of them.
men ad
DISCIPLINARY PUNISHMENT OF O.S.K. OFFICERS..
AN EXTRAORDINARY INCIDENT.
Guineas Trial Selling Plata, Minister Hall
was sold for two guineas, the most stoical racegoer left inclined to take out his handkerchief and shed a bitter tear.. A [home "that might have fetched hundress" ą werk ago, knocked down, for the prien of a sack of potatoes! It was tragic.
The Heath looked like a place of mourn. ing, in spite of the jockeys" bright jacket. the nodding vowslips among the grass, the philosophical smile of Mt. Boh Sievier, and the red parasol which, was
Que sergont fought his way down a bit of trench alone and knocked out the gun crew, so that the line could advance Two hundred prisoners were taken in that first forward, sweep when the kilted
The Japan Chronicit mys advanced in long lines and went through mod beyond the village of Captain Yamane and sever other Goemappe with loud shouts and cheers.officers formerly belonging to the 0.5. K. They were checked again by machine gün
fire from many different directions, steamer Kasado-mart have been subject- and immediately from the rain called el to disciplinary punishment, consisting Cavalry Farm ahead of them. This was of the reduction of their salaries. The afterwards cleared, and many Germans circumstances leading to their panish- the paddock. The enclosure was scarcely ment as reported by Japanese papers ball Alled, and there were very · Tow are extraordinary.
lie dead there.
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WOLDS.
Then, between eleven and twelve in It appears that when the Osaka bosen the morning the enemy developed his Kaisha opened its South American line Tattersall's ring was almost as full a
fierce counter-attack. He massed largo some time agn, the Kasado-mars was usual, with the usual crowd of benevolent Diasses of men in the valley, below selected as the first ship on the new line Gaemappe, flung a vast storm of shells She left Kobe at the beginning of Feb. Kentlerpen with kind faces and pocketa on to the village, and then sent forward ruary last, and proceeded to Bueros full of notes and silver, which they were his troops to work round the spur on which the Highlanders held their line Ayres by way of Rombay and returned happy to hund ent to anyone who was
towards the end of May. While It was then that three Scottish troops at Hongkong on her outward soyage lucky enough to back the winner. But showed their fierce and stubborn fighting
They fore rents in the lines of Captain Yamane and seven other officers their voices seemed less robust than usual,
sent telegram to head office oẼ thá contra lesen kishibe asking for a rear--and after this week their pleasant song and rifle and grenade fire, and the enemy time allowance eqasi to four months of Two to one, bar one!" will no more losses were severe, so that the supporting pressed over lines of dend comrades.
the submarine danger on But the attack was pressed by a big route. suse of men, and the thin linca of Scote,
the advancing Bavarians with Lewis gua
troopa
salary for the voyage on the ground of
"
J About 150 motor-core and a small drove
on the Bombay be heard in the land.
They refused to sail from Horgkong of
exhausted by long hours of fighting on the scheduled date pending receipt o
of hackney carriages stood. ranked outakle
were forced to swing back, but we know a reply to their demand. In these cis- the, Stand, but the carriage. enclosure that the first reports were wrong when
a place a melancholy
cumstances the Company had" no
it was and that the enemy retook alternative but to accede to their beyond was
Guemappofor a time. He never set foot demand; and the Rasado-maru left emptiness. Two or three vehicles hid
in it again, though the Scottish line fall Hongkong several days after the miver themselves a one corner, and tried to
them
tined date. When the steamer returned
Little groups of Highland officers and from South America, the Company pretend, they were not really there. med refused to retreat. Bome Of
ordered all the officers to leave the ship On the other side of the connie, the held the cemetery and defenried it and after making inquiries into the against all attacks an oldeer with circumstances leading them to bring for townspeople from Newmarket and a smail seventy to remaied in the north of the village for four hours, though they are their demand, subjected them to company of strangers a few wounded
the disciplinary punis
punishment mentioned had no protection on either flank above.
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spot declined to leave during the retiro for their extraidinary behaviour, they always find their way to racecourses
ment and were found still holding out
have also been rewarded for having auce gave in sir, el fumarent endnom to the when their comrades renewed their cessfully accomplished a difficult voyage, a attack and regained the ground. On the whole the officers are said to be seena The shabletten on their wives other offer lost all the men of hatined with the treatment of the looked on
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