HAIG'S LONG-SUPPRESSED in line with 1 infantry and 8 cavalry
DISPATCH.
fin close reserve. As soon sa it be-i came evidens that the Germans had! thrown practically the whole striking force against this one front, the plane Bir Doughs Haig's despatch on the Chertean break-through in March previously drawn up to hurry ro was published on October, after serves from the other fronts were long agitation, and debate in Parlia-executed, and by the end of March, mentIt is dated July 30,
by which date the principal Ger max effort bad been broken, 9 more
THE CHINA MALL
HOUGOMONT“ CAPTAIN
FINED.
LEAVES TWO SEAMAN IN
HONGKONG.
Before Commander CW. Beckwith N., Marine Magistrate, resterday: J.
ON HABITS.
WEDNESDAY JANUARY
TUNNEL TO IRELAND A MILLION-DOLLAR LOAN.
CANTON GOVERNMENT GIVES
TELEPHONE SYSTEM'AS'-
SECURITY.
WEATHER REPORT.
January 6d. 194. Kim"--No returna from the Philippinos. Pressero has decrossed moderately at the majority. of stations; the satyione la contral to to the south of Japan
'Alpha, of the Flough” writes in "Among the terms of ratersons of the "The Star":—I: sat down to write ax Sales Committee appointed to deal article this morning, but found I could with the problem of fuland transport is make no progress. There was grit in one relating to a sunnel: between Greal,
The Canton Government is contract the machine somewhere, and the wheels Britain and Ireland. The chame basing another loan from the Japanese refused to revolve. I was writing with bean tooted before by well-wiaberi of Taivas Baak. This time the amount is giving the Canton Telephone System together, and by far sighted commercial used to redeems the Bank of China man who believe that it would be all to notes which are still being circalated or to a Ho the good if Trish butter, Triak fish, Irlab on the market at discount. The winds, moderate: clondy, miste lines, you, even Dublin stout, would be present worth of the notes is but drizzling cain. transported here without the secsalty 500,000 of the million-dollar loan was moderato
92 per cent of the fans value: Boise $ ---Formpose Channel : Variabia winds, of breaking bulk on the journey,
Youth comet of China botwe
No individual was blamed bub the British divisions were brought south. Haedonald, Mastar of the sailing ship pan-a naw fountain pan that some" | the two countries, who sen in it realis. / $1,000,000 the interest being 71 per cent Rongkong Bainfall for the 24 houLTS. local commander on the Bruy-Albert By April 9th, f other British divisions"Hougonent, was charged with unlaw~ |, one had been good enough to sand me', tion a means of drawing them, alcaer as scourity. This money will “be against an averago of 0.16 Inalien;)
tfortunate misunderstanding of i
were engaged, making a total of 48 line is, mentored. The cause as infantry and 8 cavalry on the Somme signed are the vast Gorman superior front. ity in numbers,” the fog" on the The despatch then proceeds to Somme, and dry weather in Flan describe the operations in detail, with ders, which favoured the enemy,innumerable instances of splendid coupled with fasts concerning the hercism by our men waziemsion of the British line and the
sive,
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tally and wilfuly leaving behind this Colony on the 4th instant smen belonging to his ship, before the completion of the voyage for which such seamen wore engaged.
A CHINESE CONSUL'S
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ROYAL DESERTÁTORY HONGKONG, DAILY MEATENME
JANUARY 8, 1918-
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in commemoration of an anniversary in which my Intarseat is now very slight was an excellent pas, broad and free in its paces, and capable of a most The defendant pleaded guilty to lea-satisfying dourish. It was a pha, Po ing the Colony without rendering any would have said, that could have written lack of time to complete defences. favoured the enemy. Steps wore taken Peterson and Anderson, who, at the only to fill it with ink and give laita angineering features of the Anglo-Irish Aside from the loan, the local merchanta
On March 31st thick white fog account of wage to the two seamen, an article about anything, "You bad. For the present, however, only the over to the Bureau of Finance of Rongkong and Lamocki: The mme, AZ
the Canton Government last Friday. No. 1. The full dispatch was püblished for the French to take over a portion of time, were under treatment at the G.C.bind and it would gallop"sway to its ransel need be considered. During the Have organized:s trust company off Hongkong and Hains à p. The manie verbatim in the **Wines."
the front. On March 29nd the Germans
journey's and without a paund. That Isat twenty-Evo years four schemes have $8,000,000 to guarantee the Bank of
No. L Orders were issued early in Decemi-opened a gap at St. Quentin All avail Hopital ber 1917 to adopt a defensive policy able reserves at the disposal of the 5th
It appears that the defendant was in how I felt about is when I sat down bar worked out with this abjecs in China netes. Canton Times." against the expected Geririan, offen- Army had affeady been throws in, and warned by the Deputy Barbour Master But instead of galloping, the thing view. It must be borne fa- mine that
we had to fall back on the bridgehead of the port en Jan. 1st to make out an
was as obstinate as a aule. I could be average depth of the North Channel, Since September 1917, pursuant at of the Somme. Next morning the account of wagen for those two men and to a decision by the British Governoseny, found a gap in our new line alas to make proper provision for their res no more speed out of it than under which the tunnel would ran, a ment towards the end of that month, about Hory. The 8th Army commander repatriation, instead of which he deli-Stevenson could get out of his donkey about 80 fathome. negotiations had been proceeding bad to reconsider his decision to fight berately left the port and proceeded to in the Cevennes I tried the bastinado, The shortest of the router proposed with the French authorities regard-cast of the Somme: considering that ing the extension of the front held if involved in a general engagement his Jank Bay where he again proceeded to equally without effect or my Modestine is from the southernmost point of the Then it occurred to me that I was in | Mull of Kintyre, to a pôlat on the fríth
Dr. Cho al Chu, Consul General by the British. After considerable entire troops might be exposed to "a sea under sail, although the wind was discussion it was finally decided that decisiva defeat before help could strive, mest straight ahead forcing him to sonflict with a habit. It is my practice coast a little to the south-east of Fair for the Repubio of China to Bas the British should relieve the Fronchploited by the enemy to a disastrous ex-near the Bokhara Rocks from which it
and that the situation might then be ex- anchor the ship in a dangerous position to do my writing with a pencil. Daya Hoad, a distance of fourteen miles, Francisco in a recent speech urged on my right(south). The additional tent he decided to continue the with- was decessary to tow the ship back to even weeks, pasa without my using a modern sebed of unilor level: But closes unity between American busines front taken over by me amounted to drawal west of the Somme. This in- ate place. As this act of leaving with pan. for anything more than signing my the graat objection to this sort is that men and capitalists with those of the over 29 miles." At the end of Janu-volved the abandonment of the Perouse | out'making the proper provision for the name. On the other hand there are it would involve the construction of Oriental · Repablia. ́ In part bot ary 1918 the British front was 125 bridgshead
"As China still remains an agricultura! Namaro The enemy's advance at the junction nefs behind was done wilfully after not many hours of the day when I am more than a hundred miles of rallway The fighting of 1917 had left the of the Srd and sth Amics cost him being warned and as the defendant without & pencil batwear thumb and in Scotland to for the existing system and who depends upon foreign Hakodate.. "Army at a low ebb ig regard both to heavily. In our retirements "there had had thirty years' experience as a finger. It has become a part of my and a shorter railway to link up. Irish country for many products. The con- Tokio --- training and numbers.": Training was no panic of any sort." Units re the save of three months hard organism as it were, It is to me what lines, while the long journey involved suming power of foreign goods in China Nagasaki bad bean primarily for the offensive; treated stubbornly, fighting, fiercely at
the sword was to D'Artagnan, or his would bring no advantage la time to is great. We are looking for how ro Kagoshima.
Ostiza the need of maintaining the front-ny points and beating off the enemy line systems and building new lines The work of the mounted troops was whenever he tried a frontal attack.
umbrella was to the Duke of Cambridge, the traveller from London or the arces to meet the demand. or his cheroot was to Grans, or whitt- Midlande
Kwish to call your attention to on the ground captured from the invaluable, and the Yeomanry bad to guns, the masking of our fire enabled ling a stick was to Jackson or a short enemy had precluded the develop be reborsed.
Another suggested route is from after the war commerce. This war will Sonia Taland ment of rear-fine sputems to any
the enemy to penetrate and tura the what any habit is to anybody. Put a Portpatrick, in Scotland, to Donaghades result in an inter-changing of the com- Welbelwei, ka 20,07 great degree.". Elaborate training had been taken up auccessfully, Owing
On March 26th the Bay-Albert line fanks of certain important localities..
(4) The Oise and Somme Valleys pencil in my hand, seat me before a in Ireland, each of which is at the sad mercial world, in other words, after the fahang in defence was difficult. At the same however, to a misunderstanding, the were passable on "ng to the dry weather bank writing pad in an empty room, of a railway line. From point the will be shifted from one point to another Changsha time" under instructions from the line was regarded by the local com A much larger number of troops would and I am, as they say of the children, distance is 31f miles, but a atraight It is afe to say that the position of Army Council the reorganisation of mander as being merely a stage in the therefore bave been required to render divisions from a 18 to a 10 bastalion further retirement to the line of the the defence of these rivers secure. These as good as gold, I sick on as tranquilly cours is impossible by reason of the both sides of the Pacife will become ap basis was completed during Febru-Ancre south of Albert. When the forces, however, were not available ex-is an eight day clock. I may be lace that about midway across the xan-important and active one. for world. ary. This seduced fighting strength higher command became aware of the cept at the expenes of other and more dimissed from the mini, ignored,bed draps, for a distance of more than commerce. and affected fighting efficiency by situation the movement had already vital portions of my front, and as tha
two miles, to a depth, amplacen, of 140 | “American manufacturors should in- Taicha mak unfurniliar grouping of units, causing proceeded too far for our former poak axceptional weather conditions eculd forgotten. But the magic wand wast
It is estimated that the mediately put up factories in the Chinese new methods of tactical handling of tions to be re-established. The left not have been foreseen by the enemy at be pencil. Eers was I listing with fathoms the troops.
flank of the 5th Army was dangerously the time when the preparations for hispan in my hand, and the hole complex detour to avoid the bellow would territory to meet the demand. Our offensive were undertaken, there was of habit was disturbed. I was in an increase the length of the tunnel to able to take advantage of them strong. possibility that he would not be atmosphere of strangeness. The pen nearly forty miles and involve a subess
(5) It could not be determined with kept intruding between mid and my run of at least an hour. certainty that the Rheims activity was thoughta. It was unfamiliar to the feint until the attack upon the British touch. It seemed to write a foreign had been in progress for some days. language in which nothing pleased ma The enemy might have employecta por
This tyranny of little habits which is tion of his reserves in this sector, and
miles.
France and Great Britain decided to On March 25th the Governments of place the supreme control of the opera tion of the French and British forces in France and Eelgiam in the hands of General Foch, who accordingly assumed control."
A vast amount of work was needed uncovered. defences, especially on the Somme battlefield." and in the area recently taken Over from the French. Though the time and labour available wore in no way adequate, a large part of the work was completed before March 21st.
command
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0.6.Jamos I propose that private activities be pary K business men, between capitalists of both Legaspi 00-operated between China and American Dagupan
Manila countries Ching barself is not only a tacloban
sties published by the Chiness Custom Humes there is much foreign traile exist ing between. China and other countries, especially Ruasing boat
That bight the enemy get Albert, By the end of February "I con- and the results of the unfortunate sidered it probablo "
the enemy withdrawal from Bray, now became would make his first effort from the apparent." We were now fighting for Sensée southwards. The following Amiens. "To avoid the loss of considerations are set out:
efficiency," which the strain on the 5th To secure the Channel porte Army commander, and staff might have little or necrome
entailed, General Rawlinson was brought on the northern (Ypres) British front from Voralles to chemins tout the and the necessary reserves must be construction of new defence line made kept near Further, the weather was precessary by the sheray's advance caller exceptionally dry dhd an enemy for the appointment of an able and attack astride the Menin soad was experienced commander and staff to preparing
? To save the French collieries garrisons for their delence. I accord direct this work and extemporise and certain important tactical feo-ingly ordered General Gough to under tures little or no ground could be take this important task." given up in the central (Lens) por Summarising the cause of the retire tion except in the Lye.
ment of the 5th Army front and the 8. In the southern portion south-right of the 3rd Army, Sir Douglas **east of Arras ground could be given Haig mys:
up under great pressure without seri (1) In the first place, the forces at ous consequences, the forward area the disposal of the 5th Army were. it was fring, the gun-team holding up eseded too well When the boy was the war has taught us to think "In conclusion, let me summarize—|
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W. Jarraiss, Chief Aistant, Hongkong Observatory, Jan. 5, 1919,
Fabrenhel on the laval of the sex in 1. BAROMETER, reduced to 31 degrees inches, bentas and hundredane
position with which advantage, she can *China herself is in, a self-supporting
build up all branches of home industry, yet she had not been able to so achieve.
<R. TEMPERATUzm in, the abade, in des I wish to inform you that she is looking from Fahrenhe
of satura- #*. Hominy, in percontage of Since these schemes were put for for international support and co-operation, the humidity of air saturated with. ward the cost of labour he increased than from her economic attics, especially altars being 100 enormously and the original estimates from Amarica, a country which is con have gone by the board but sidered the best friend of China
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the knowledge of this possibility neces-familiar to all of us in nowhere better sarily influenced the distribution and described than in the story which Sis and utilization of the Frenck reserves.
datillation of the French rose 45 Walter Beste told to Rogers of his out of Haig's total force of 58 divisions school days. There was he said, would have to be increased, giving it great market for manufactured products, Eloilo had been engaged on the Somme. boy in my class at school who good a tats! length of, perhaps, 29 miles, but also serves as a contre of the Far Gonz
Arrangements for the relief of the always at the top, see socht, I with all the put gemeen Easter trade according to the anti-ban Portuguese visions were undertaken during the Arst of April and wore to my effort supplans a Day ceme Wiarston Bill and Island Magee, baie heen completed by the morning of after day and still he kept his place, do involving about 27 miles of Actual the 10th." "In a thick fog at 7 am on what I would still ag langth I observed tunnel, or thirty miles if a dip in the April 9th "the anony appears to have that, when a question was askel him, seabed is to be avoided. The land stacked the left brigade of the 3nd |
he always fumbled with his angers si a appreach would probably mean another hara broken into their trenches. A particular button is the lower part of seven miles added to the distance, bat Portugacac division in strength and to few minutes afterwards the area of his waistcoat. To remove it, therefore, against this must be placed the ad attack spread south and north."
South of the Portuguese, the 55th became expedient in my eye, and in an antage of a lesser gradient, Division repulsed heavy attacks. Aeril moment it was removed with a machine gun was kept in action although knife. Great was my anxiety to know German infantry had entered the rear compartment of the pill-box from which the success of my measure, and it eup fire from again questioned his fagers sought again the enemy.
The reason has already been pointed
for the button, bari wamos to be Irish tunnel were proved the money can activities in after the war competition ou face the section "Facts to bear. in "Practically all the man engaged an
found. In his distress he looked down sideration would not be likely to stand in and to make the Pacific Coast the com- The enemy attack was expected mind." The extent of our front made the Lys had been brought straight out
the way. Setting saide the cost, and south of Arras with as object the it impossible, with the forces under my of the Some battlefield, where they for it it was to be seen no more than the fact that sub aqueous tunnels, falsad mercial centre of the world in the narcos semile and hun- separation of the French and British command, to have adequate reserves at had suffered severely and had been subs to be felt. He stood confounded, and undertaken with simast mathematical fature, commence to-day with a plan of Armies and the capture of Arniens, il points threatened. It was therefore jected to a great strain and with isade-I took possession of his place; nor did preparation, are as speculative as boring industrial independence between the To meet this more then half my necessary to ensure the safety of certain quato rest, and filled with "young available troope with the whole of the actors which were vital, and to accept reinforcements with which they had no he ever rooover it, or orar, I believe, for oil or digging for diamonds, there two republics. The proposal it carried cavalry were allocated to this secrisis at ethers. The troops holding the time to assimilate, they were agair suspect who was the anthor of his remains the unchallengeable argument out will not only be beneficial to Chica of the reduction in distance between but will be equally beneficial to America tor." In addition' arrangements had southern part of the front, could fall surriedly thrown into three at wrong. Often in aftor-life has lo sighs Great Britain and Ireland which such a through whose efforts it will be essential been made for the movement of a back to meet their reinforcements, which held up greatly superior forces of frests of him smote ma as passed by him, scheme would practically being to pass and free commerce will be given the French forge in case of need, need not necessarily be pushed forward pope. Such an accomplishment refuerz
4. Arrangements were made for so far or so rapidly as chewhere. More the greatest credit on the youth of and often have I resolved to make him The pre-war journey from London to
Belfast was 13 hours; by tunnel this world." rapid transport by rail or "bus of stich over, the southern steten could be reintrat Britain, as well as those some reparation bus it eaded in good could be reduced to eleven, prasibly ta Britisà division as could be kept in forced with French troops more easily responsible for the training of the young resolutions. Though I never renewed ten and a half, Glasgow could be reserve to mest, emergency on any than any other portical of the British soldier sent out from home at this my acquaintance with him, I often saw brought within four hours of the Ulator
line. I therefore considered it unsound ima" TAN
In the conclurling erotion of the dihim, for he filled some interior office in capital, Edinburgh within five, and On March 19th. it was calculated to maintain a consirietable force of re-
ather important Scottish and English that the attack would begin on the server south of the River Somme while tel is a description of the: romarkelile one of the courts of law as Edinburgh cities sppreciably nearer in point of the purchase of the Canadian Pacio 20th or 2185.
Our dispositions was yet unknown where and to what success in which s brigado of lur 18th Poor fellow ---I believe he is dead; time. It may alan be mentioned that Railway by the Canadian Government-li"| were es complete in time and troupe extent the coemy would commit bis Division and the 13th and 15th Brig took early to draking
ades of the 4th and 5th Australian I once saw Mr. Balfour thrown out of available could make them." The The 5ck Army was instructed early Divisions (Major-General Sir J., J. This stride in a similar manner, if with 5th Army, then commanded by in February to set accordingly, both in fiable commanding the latter) recap les tragie resalts. Dressed, I think, General Sir H, Gough, held a front regard to defensive preparsiions on the tured Villers Bretonnaux.
the uniform of an Elder Brother of of 42 miles but the number of divi ground and in the actual conduct of the
1 conduct of th
In six works of almost constant sght. Trinity House he was proposing a toast stons allowed only "of an average of defence
ing, from March 31st to April 30th, 55 at a dinner at the Mansion Houss. It is one division to 6,750 yards. The 3rd (2) The front south of the River Omig British infantry and 3 cavalry divisions his custom in speaking to hold the Army, under Gen. Sir J. Byng. held nga was only taken over by the British fought 109 German divisions; 141 lapels of his coat. It is the most com 27 miles, one division to 4,700 yards. some eaven weeks before the enemy's German divisions were eaged against fortable babit in speaking, unless you Three defensive belts had been con attack, a period insuficient to ensure the combined British and French forces want to fling your arms abous in a
At the Victoria Theatre, beginning on structed or were wearing completion that the scheme of defence would be in At no time was there anything rhetorical fashion. It keeps your hands in the forward area, the most ada efficient state of preparation. During approaching a breakdown of command out of ischial and the body i repole: January 9 la to be shown a Kine-dismatim vanced being a lightly held outpost the winter it had been possible to hold or a failure of Moral. Under conditions Bat the uniform Mr. Balfour was wear- tion of Alexandra Demas celebrated ove screen, Behind the 5th Army, " the defences in this sector very lightly, that made rest and sleep impossible for ing had no lapels, and when the hands Monte Ceiba The film is sad to be view of the maller cerates which and they were consequently in them- days, and called incessantly for the went up in search of them they wander Pathis most stupendous production. When could be placed at its disposal, selves inadequate to mact any serious greatest exertion and quickness ofed about pathetically like s.couple of the book "The Count of Monte Cristo" Mr. W. Logan, the well known broker,
though, officere and on remained children, who had lost their parents on was first published, it was acknowledged has received, table from his son, Cap foria of attack arrangements had been made for con Mach work, therefore, hed to be undismayed, realising that for the time Blackpool sands. They fingered the to be Alexander Dumas masterpisce, and Donald Logan, M.C. to say ibat he is now structing a strong bridgehead cover carried out by the 5th Army, and they must play a waiting game, and buttons in nervous dutraction, clung ing Peronne and the Somine tross strenuous efforts were made with such determined to make the enemy pay the to caco other in's visible access of grief, the critics were granimons in stating that in Egypt. Capt. Logan who won his 15.0 ings; considerable progress ind been resources as were available to Improve full price for the stices which for the broke neander and resumed the search the novel ways the author possibility to for most cons; leuous gaflabity'? fù the made in laying the out, though on the defences as rapidly as possible moment was hisdicti
for the lost lapels, travelled behind his display his imagination which hag ay sarly days of the war, bas now transferred March 21st its defences were incom Great dificultier, however, ware met "The British infantryman has always back, fambled with the glasses on theeldom, if ever, been squalled. All those to the Royal Air Force and it is thought plete. It wan liat considered prob with available labour was concentrated had the reputation of fighting his best table, sought again for the lapels did who have read Moote Cristo" which, by his being in Egypt is because he is op one uble that the enemy would be able on the Peronne bridgehead defences, in an uphill battle, and time and again everything ut take refuge in the the way, has been translated in almost all of the long distance dights which are being to extend the flank lof; his attack be: | which were considered of primary in our history, by sheer tenacity and pockets of the trousers. It was transgen--wil be delighted to see the undertaken by the Horal Air Force. yond Moy, but, rapid drying of the importance, with the result that pract determination of purpoet, has won characteristin omission: Mr. Ballear munshop enabled him to attack this cally nd work had been carried out lightly held front with fresh divisions, with the object of securing the line of
In all 64 Gerund divious tools the River Bamme itself,
(3) The thick fog which envelopes March 21st, the majority the kattlefield on the mornings of March highly tramed To meet them the 21 and 3 undoubtedly masked the fire Erd Army bad & divisions in ing with of artillery, rifes, and machine gun co
reserve. The stb find 17, 6in where the troops on the ground wore That mistakes should occur in which to hang them,
the total British force on more numerous this was tot of such excironmstances is almost inevitable. That battle front was 20 treme importance; but whorethe, de hoy should have been so for as they visions and 3 cavalry, of fasten were more lightly held, as in the word, and that control at all times were in fine. By Alurch southern sectum of the nth Arroyo front should have been so rali tasintalnest, 78. Gurman divisions were op and depended for their munt Chantereffects the greatest credit on the staff a
22 British infantry divisions the eco-fire of artillery and bine and the Army as a whole.
in
reserves.
route to the West of Ireland and reduce an Irish tunnel would establish a through the journey between, London and New York by many hundreds of miles.
"MONTE CRISTO.""
now confirmed.,
Canton exporta yesterday. were seven packages of silk handkerchiefs for London and elaven for Marselles, also-706 pack- ages of woltsam ore?
For the Olympin games ab Manila zaxt Máy Canton is preparing a contigent of competitors. The Students Department of the YM.0.4, the South Chios Athlete
ociation, and the Katung Edues tional Association are taking the matter
victory from a numerically superior fost too practised speaker to adaptation of the novel on the screen of all stag Thrown once more upon the defensive come to disaster se the boy in Scott's, the noones and thrills that captivátod them The Eobe do Panic, after publiabing by circumstance over which he had no story did, but his discomfiture was a when reading this tensely sma Jocal master the purport, of J pu's peace forms, saya control but which will not persist, he parent; He struggled manfully through plecs. Everybody knows the story of thet Japan, concluded an agreement with has shown himself to posseur in full his peech, but all the time it was Monte Cristo and the House of Pathé tre Bri Lal Government in Fol-ruar), 1917 measure the traditional qualities of his obrions that he was at a lot what to for the making of the production has by which the disposal of Tsingtao and
do with bis hands, having no Japola on spared no time or "expense to present is German colunles' worth of the equator were
I happily had a remedy for my die the selection of the characters, the setting Agreed upon. Is la presumed that quietade I put up my yes, took out of the pictures, the locations of the play, the Allier will give their approval of the agree
perici, and, launched once more into actfalls care to respect avaty detail to the unit at the fontance of Great Britalo and the comfortable rat of habit, licked setting mark a new step in motion picture that Japan's demande will be satisfactorily
peacefully like the fight day chigrement,
The fìm Will be shawn'in eight spóchi.
T. F. Claxton, Director Hongkong Observatory, Jan. 6, 1918,
HONGKONG TIDES.
The tide-tabls wiven below has been compiled at the National Almanac Office London from the result of Abe acual yaln observations taken by means of an tomate tide-recording machine in the
of
Water Folies Basin at Taira Bha Teni daring the years 1809-9,700
The zero of the table corresponds with the zero of the sounding in the Admiralty Chart which has been found to be é foot
Inches below mean level To obtain the depth of water on the
tide gange at the Victoria Naval Yad
aid boot 1 inches, and att: the saturs
at Lament Dook, Aberdeen/ sid 10 feet
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January 9th to 15tb 1913.