INTILIATIONS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9TH, 1915.
VICTOR-VICTROLA
THE IDEAL ENTERTAINER.
CALL AND WE WILL GLADLY
IT TO YOU.
HELIGOLAND TO-DAY.
VISIT TO THE ISLAND FORTRESS
BTRENGTHENING THE DETENCES The following description of a visit to Heligoland has been communicated to The Tymes. Such a visit by a foreigner to this fortress during the war is an undoubted achievement.
The island, from which the civil inhabitants have been removed, is in the hands of the German Navy. Work is proceeding on the fortifications, which are being strengthened, while gunners are engaged in testing and marching with new big arms.
KIEL, November 15th. Very few people are allowed to go to Heligoland, and when I heard that no foreigner had gained admittance to that holy of holics since the end of July, in order not to aronte suspicion I decided not to make a risky attempt of any kind. However, a better opportunity for going to Heligoland than I could havo hoped for DEMONSTRATE was awaiting me. For several reasons, which will be easy to understand, I shall not give the exact details of the means by which I succeeded in getting to the island. It is sufficient to say that I got there in a perfectly honest and fair way through a gentleman who I entertained in a distant country two years ago and who knows the Bight of Heligoland and the island extremely well.
EXCLUSIVE AGENTS:
MOUTRIE'S.
A.
D. C.
PRESENT AT THE
THEATRE ROYAL
TO-NIGHT!
[31-1
TO-NIGHT!!
AT 9.15P.M.
FAIRY BALLET,
ENTITLED
SNOWWHITE AND THE FROG PRINCE,"
IN 3 PARTS AND 4 TABLEAUX, IN AID OF
THE BELGIAN RELIEF FUND.
UNDER the Distinguished Patronage of HE. Sir F. H. MAX, K.C.M.G., Major-General F. H, KELLY, C.B., and Commodore R. H. ANSTRUTHEE, C.M.G.
Booking at MOUTHIE'S Now Opened.
PRICES AS USUAL,
Soldiers and Sailors in aniform admitted at Half-Price to the Pit. Hongkong (th January, 1915,
INDO-CHINA PORTLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LTD.
FAMOUS
DRAGON
BRAND
CEMENT
PORTLAND
HONG
C
NTO
ALWAYS IN STOCK
HIGH
QUALITY
BUILDING
CEMENT
Apply to P.SOFFIETTI & Co., 14, Des Voeux Road Central, 1st Floor. Telphons 239,
F100-3
WM. POWELL, LTD.
TELEPHONS 346.
TAILORING DEPT
SPECIAL OFFER.
THIS SEASON'S
SCOTCH TWEED AND CHEVIOT
SUITINGS $30.00 to $35.00
Usually $45.00 to $80.00.
FIT AND STYLE GUARANTEED.
BEST TRIMMINGS AND WORKMANSHIP.
WM. POWELL, LTD.
(201
When we left the little coast place in the Heligoland Bight in the afternoon it was already getting dark, and 20 minutes afterwards the very few miserable lights of the coast were no longer visible, and one could only see the lantern in front of our little steam launch. It was a pretty dangerous game to hurry along at full speed in those waters; it was so dark that we could hardly to a yard ahead. Suddenly we heard the noise of another boat so near us that I thought we were bound to crash into it in the next instant, but just as suddenly it went past us. It was a torpedo-boat reconnoitring in the Bight.
My companion told me to look in a certain direction, and after two or three minutes a light appeared. Torpedo boats were reconnoitting in the Bight and signalled to each other every few minutes. The necessity of such signals was demons trated by an accident which occurred in the middle of October, when reconnoitring ships hurried along with all lights out. Two of the fast-going German torpedo- bosts collided in the Bight. Both were badly damaged, and one of them was in a sinking condition on reaching Wilhelms haven. I had heard of this in Lubeck, but it was all very much brought home to me as we went on in the pitchy darkness of the Heligoland waters..
A. CHANGED ·LELAND,'
On arriving at Heligoland, I had no difficulties whatsoever, thanks to my companion. I could do nothing and see nothing of interest till the next day, as I had to stay indoors..
In the morning I beard a heavy cannon ade. The gunners were practising and trying new big guns. I was not allowed to go anywhere near them.
The appearance of the little island has been entirely changed since the outbreak of war. Instead of the beautiful little bathing place of olden days one finds a huge fortress tremendously fortified.
Every inhabitant had to leave the island in order to lighten the work of the garri son. In the streets one cers nothing but sailors and naval officers. They are all busy from early morning till late at night improving the fortifications. A few skill ed workmen and engineers are the only civilians to be sen, and they take a par in the defence works
Five nurses are the only won 3 the island. The inhabitants, who are being housed and provided for in Altona, had to leave Heligoland at a moment's notice after the declaration of war.
The part of the island which is most altered is the Oberland." Mary houses have been destroyed, many trees torn down to clear the way for guns, and there is everywhere an uninterrupted view of the
sea.
Despite the change of scenery, the spirit of the garrison is good and bande are playing every afternoon.
CARGO IN ALIEN VESSELS.
It will be remembered that at an important meeting held recently of the East India Section of the London Cham- ber of Commerce a committee” was appointed to consider the question of
INTIMATIONS
THE
British cargoes in alien bottoms, especial TURKISH CIGARETTE.
the Barenfels and the Gutenfels at Alexandria. - An announcement has just been issued concerning the progress of negotiations as follows:
The Committee appointed at a meet- ing of shippers and owners of cargo on the above-mentioned vessels have con- tinued to urge the Admiralty and other Government Departments to allow these vessels to be sent on to their destination in India with their cargoes intact.
The Chairman of the Committee has recently ascertained that in all prob ability a joint committee representative of various Departments of State will be appointed, to deal with shortly applications such as that made on behalf
British owners of cargo on the Baren fels and the Gutenfels,
cargo
"It was also ascertained that, although it was not beyond the bounds of possibility that soine method might be devised whereby British owners of might be freed from the necessity of establishing their ownership before the Frize Courty yet, in the meantime, claimants in respect of cargo are under the necessity of producing documents establishing their title to the Priz Court at Alexandria. Enquiries were made whether in cases where the documents of Litlo were not available a certified copy of an invoice would enable the claimante lo establish ownership before the Court, and it was understood that in such cases it was possible that the Court might be disposed to accept such evidence as satis- factory under adequate guarantees.
"A further eircular will be addressed to those interested when any additional information comes to hand.!
CONSIGNEES WAR LIABILITIES.
The British Export Gazetle obtained Counsel's opinion concerning the exact liability of consignors and consignees under e.i.f. contracts in respect of goods shipped in German vessels and held up in neutral ports pending the cessation of hostilities. This opinion of a loading authority on commercial and shipping law
it is interesting to observe-ins since been confirmed by an expert Committee of the London Chamber of Commerce. Coun cal's statement is as follows:
Wasimi
T
ster
“Specials"
estminster.
Westminster Tobacco Co Ltd,
London.
$1.25 FOR A TIN OF 50 Orgarettes. IN RETURN FOR SIX EMPTY TINS
WE WILL SEND YOU
ONE WESTMINSTER 1915 CALENDAR. Hongkong, 6th January, 1915.
BOA VISTA HOTEL,
MACAO.
[139
THE Above HOTEL is now under NEW EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT. Tourists and Visitors are Guaranteed every comfort and an excellent Cuisine. Bent attention and moderate rates.
For the purpose of the points before us we may take it as sot:led law that when goods shipped on ei.f. terms are put on board a suitable vessel, the property in them passes to the purchaser. Non- delivery, if due to a peril within the terms of the policy of insurance, gives the buyer a right to recover the value of the goods against the underwriter. If they are lost by default of the shipmaster and of action against the shipowner. But in (or) the seaman, there may be a good cause the case of goods shipped in a vessel under what is now an chemy Ang there can be no effective remedy against the ship. Insurance did not provide for such a can tingency The loss which the consignee is enduring is due to a vi majar, and the cases all go to show that under such circumstances the loss must he where it falls. Certainly unless the shipper had peaific instructions not to ship under a foreign flag, or at present not under the particular flag concerned, it is clear that his liability in regard to the goods ceased far as this matter is concerned on ship- The only possible chance of any recovery for the buyer would be by an action brought against the ship-owner at A the end of the war. But the chances of sucess there depend on the terms of the contract of affreightment and on other considerations, which makes the prospect of encosts in this direction remote in the extreme. The broad fact remains that when shipped the goods became the buyer's property, and correlatively at that AND moment the obligation to pay for them in due course became absolute upon him. Nono delivery does not free him from that obligation to pay.
meat.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL.
T
For Particulars wyply to Hongkong, 21st December, 1914.
THE MANAGER.
[69
PUBLIC AUCTION.
A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE
CHINA AND CURIOS
(Just arrived from the North, being the Property of the well-known Collector,
Mr. LAH VEN KEE).
HE Underigned has received instructions to Sell by Public Auction,
TO-DAY (SATURDAY),
THE 9TH JANUARY, 1915, COMMENCING AT 2.30 P.M., AT HIS SALES ROOMS, DUDDELL STREET,
VALUABLE COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE CHINA AND
CURIOS, FROM SING TO MING DYNASTIES AND KANGHI TO TOWKWONG PERIODS,
COMPRISING
5-COLOURED, 8.COLOURED AND BLUE AND WHITE VASES, PLATES, BOWLS
FIGURES, Erc., Erc. 25-
SANG-DE-BOEUF VASES, WHITE "GODDESS OF Manor," MING.
LARGE BRONZE VASES, SUNG.
FINE CHYSTAL VASES AND SNUFF BOTTLES.
PORCELAIN AND AGATE SNUFF BOTTLES.
GREEN AND RED JADE ORNAMENTS:
OLD LACQUERED SCREENS WITE 5.COLOUR DECORATIONS AND BLACKWOOD,
ALoo
A FEW PIECES OF SOOCHOW. REDWOOD.
N.B.—The Undersigned will give a 2-wooke' guarantee as to the genuineness of the
A few years ago in a letter to the Hong SCREENS WITH BLUE AND WHITE AND 5-COLOURED KANGHI AND KIENLUNG Long Daily Press a local engineer PORCELAIN PLACQUES, POTTERY AND PORCELAIN PICTURES INLAID IN advocated the adoption of modern WOOD, ETC., ETC. I heard German sailors praise the methods of treating sewago in Hongkong, humane and noble behaviour of the particularly in Kowloon. In this con- English bluejackets, who, without fear for nection the following paragraph from the their own lives, try in battle to save Engineering Record will not be without enemies as well as friends in distress, some local interest
Between 6 and 7 in the evening the hard and difficult night service commences-ths careful watching of the sea. They watch and wait, night after night, hour after hour, in order not to be surprised by the powerful enemy.
The disposal of sewage by electrolysis, a method now under experiment in the United States, may revolutionise the systems at present held to be the most economical and efficient. During the past year, an electrolytic sewage treatment plant has been working on Long Island According to a report from one of the chemists employed by the New York city
THE DAILY COST OF THE authorities, the results have been so suc
WAR
articles offered,
Catalogues will be issued. TERMS:-Cash on Delivery,
Hongkong, 5th January, 1915,
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
“AUCTIONEER.
[125
"HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
PUBLICATIONS.
DIRECTORY AND CHRONICLE OF
THE FAR HABT
: 1
3.50
Dos Do. Smaller Edibion 8. CHILDREN OF FAR CATHAY, ■ Social and Political Novel, by C
E. Halcombe...... JUBILEE OF HONGKONG, being an Historical Sketch, to which is added an account of the Celebrations in 1891
cessful that 90 per cent. of the suspended matter and 99 per coat of the bacteria have been removed at an expenditure of Referring to the war, the Economist | 339. 8d. per million gallons. In this BaysAccording to a Swiss computa instance, lime is employed with the tion there were in Europe at the end of electric current and the sludge problem August about 20,400,000 men actually therefore not eliniinated, & factor that under arms. At the beginning of October has to be borne daily in mind when con Germany (according to Swiss reports) kad sidoring the merits or demerits of the under arms twenty-seven army corps of scheme. It is also understood that the her regular troops and an equal number sewage is passed through a three-cight of reserves, making a total of fifty-four mesh screen before treatment, and it is THE army corps say, 2,160,000 men. Of these highly probable that at this point a high twenty-four army corps were in France, proportion of solid is retained, which six Belgium and Alice, Curicen in must be removed at frequent intervals East Prussia, and eleven between Thorn and disposed of. The main points that THE HONGKONG TYPHOON, Bapt.
18th, 1906, Illustrated Accotint and Cracow There are, in addition, have to be dealt with in planning sewage assumed to be 1,500,000 Landsture and disposal schemes are the production of a TEMPORARY MINING BEGULA volunteers serving in the interior, while ear odourless non-putrescible efficient,TIONS IN CHINA ... 600,000 fresh recruits are reported to be the reduction of sludge to a minimum, in training sufficiently advanced for them and economy. Precipitation methods fall * be ready for service in November largely in the second requirement, and while perhaps from a commercial point Even the Neutral States, it was estimated, of view sludge production may be made had mobilised more than 2,000,000 soldiers to pay, it is invariably a source of trouble anwar footing. For each soldier, to the engineer. Whether the electrolytic including initial and consequent expenses, or aeration methods of sewage disposal 103 per day is usually counted in an will prove as successful as their sappor- estimate. This gives a total daily war ters imagine is not yet clearly demon- expense in Europe of over ten millions strated, although there is suficient sterling. Of this Germany would provide evidence of the utility of both to warrant for some £2,200,000 per day, Austria for investigation and experiment at considor £1,600,000, Russia for £2,100,000, and able expente, and even in the face of France for £1,609,000. Even Switzerland failure to achieve perfection. Now was then spending some £60,000 daily and systems are heralded on the lines of Holland probably £100,000,
victories in war it takes some time before their value can be accurately judged.
1.00
0.50
0:50
0.50
MISSIONARY DIRECTORY, paper
cover 80.80 "ISSIONARY DIRECTORY, "eloth
cover 1.00 DOG AND GUN in New Territory 1.00 FROM HONGKONG TO CANTON, BY THE PEARL RIVERA Book for the Globetrotter," by Capt. 0. V. LLOYD with Maps and Illus. IRZIATI
41.78 HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS, half-
yearly vol., "bound" BIXTY YEARS ANGLO-CHINESE
CALENDAR, 1834 to 1928 RATES OF EXCHANGE AT HONG-
KONG, English Mall days. 1874- BOMBAY RATES OF EXCHANGE
AT HONGKONG, English Mail
CALLED OUT: or the Chung Wang'e
Daughter, an Anglo-Chinese Ro vmance, by Chas. J. H. Halcombe... PLAN OF THE WEST RIVER.
VICTORIA KOWLOON
7.60
2:00
1.00
9.00
1.00
$1.00
*0.76)
0.76
0.75
0.95
0.80
[on paper
0.0
0,50
REGULATIONS FOR RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION IN CHINA HONGKONG HANSARD REPORTS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, Pub lished Annnally MOUNTINGS OF NAVAL GUNS and their Subsequent Use with the Ladysmith Relief Column ......... WARLIKE EXPLOITS OF THE MERCHANT NAVY, by J. E. Festherstonhough. So FOLITICAL OBSTACLES TO MIS-
SIONARY SUCCESS IN CHINA 0.25 TRADE MARK REGULATIONS IN
CHINA
0.25
100
1.00
NEW TERRITORY
MAIL TABLES F 1914, on ourch POWER OF ATTORNEY FORM