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WAR NEWS,
A DARDANELLES HERO.
KEEP YOUR TEARS FOR PRIVACY STEEL YOUR HEART.
lester received by the mother of Scond-Lig Hubert Meager 3rd A
adian Infantry, on the morning when Hi denti: follows:--
LENK
was announced ended. During the next few days we shall If I be facing death every minute. aan taken off, do as the Roman matron of old-keep your tears for privacy, heart and get a dozen steal your
Pray hard recruits to fill my place. for me, and, if God wills it, I shadi seo it through.
"I shall go into action with a clean heart, and if I emerge safely I hope I shall have provved myself a man and a leader, and thereby have justified the confidence of my commanders." Lieut. Meager leaves a widow and child in Australia.
KILLED AT G3.
AN EXAMPLE TO SHIRKERS, An English officer who was on Geneal Butha's staff for signalling duties has writter Hone describing the operations He in German South-West Africa
say's!
The marching was heavy and the especially dangerous, owing to fact that the ceny had laid contact and the country mines all over trap Hundreds have been found end there have been miraculous escapes by the score. In one case, for instance, a whole mined burgher commande ground and a German behind a bush was tugging away at a wire to the explosion. It didn't come off and when eventually, they saw the man I had one they simply took him alive. of my signallers killed and when we He was burd him it made me think.
were VA
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WAR BREVITIES.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, OCTØRER SKJ
The Koelnische Zeitung states that over 5,000 wounded soldiers and 5,000 women have recently been added to the number of Krupp's employees. N
The City of London Corporation a few weeks age decided to grant the Freedom of the City to every ex-boy of a City school serving with the Colours.
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Mr. Bonur Law's committed mom mands that the perisions of subalterns' widows be raised to captains rates, and no. officers' children receive less than the present rate for colonels children.
Among the recruits aged forty-three to fifty who are now being called up in Hungary are many mentors of Parlig ment and statesmen, including the Minister of Agriculture,
Bola Serényi,
SWATOW NOTES.
[FROM OUR OWN COBRESPONDENT.]
ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.
HANDSOME DONATION,
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The Tung Wa Hospital. beg to acknow
edge with thanks the following donations to the Kwongtung Flood Relief: Fund :--- Chinese Chamber of Commeren,
8 3,215.25 Bangkok Per Mr. 1 Playfair from
Saigon LouiOglinstro & Co....$100 Hui Bon Hou Eng Hung 500- Kim Kor
The Ho. Trassurer of the Alice SWATOW, Sptember 29th.
Hospitala and Affiliated Memorial THE TOLL OF BUBONIC PLAGUE. Our minds aro continually set on the desires to express great appreciation of great toll of death in Europe. The the generous donation of 88,309.04 from noblest, the best, the most courageous man the Commit of the recent thebunicul
of hood of the world is being ruthlessly stain performance ju aid in this direst of struggles the world has Medical Charities. This special dona ever witnessed. Yot in this grent empiretion is to be used for working expenses, in the East the toll of death is still greater. exacted by an enemy which slays its KWANGTUNG FLOOD RELIEF thousands every day and very little is said about it. During the last few months, in almost any large town or village in wide districts of South China, if you got up at early dawn you could ser lines of coffins passing through the main gates on to the plains or up the hillsides. for burial. The enemy ja bubonic plague, The inutter of sanitation has not yet enter ed into the calculation of the Government. Every thinking man in Chinn at the pre- sent moment is considering what is the bist form of Government for his country. Is it a Monarchy or is it a Republic? Ax far as one can read the signs of the time a new monarchy is very probable, and No doubt perhaps in the near future. The Tone says in unusual feature of sanitation must begin with the people
is the the Scottish shooting season
tenaate who themselves and the chief desideratam is a large number of women have rented shootings, mainly in order model village an ocular demonstration.Mr. to provide recreation for convalescent offers and others home on short leave In some places known to the writer thei from the front.
plague is so constant that the people go about their business quite oblivious to th fact of the enemy at their gates
As the result of the Crown Princess's suggestion, a scheme has been initiated in Germany to appeal to termans abroad for money to help in the prese It is estimated that cution of the war. £80,000,000 will be raised by this means,
By a unimous vote the Zanzibar Protectorate Councit has made offert of £10,000 towards the cost of the war £3,000 has been mised privately in Zanzibar for Red Cross work, ninety per cent of the subscribers being Maho- medans....
The Morning Post Petrograd corres- 03 penas of age, and if only some of the young fellows who are fit and able pondont refers to a significant indication to do their bit, but wen't, were to of the value of the present Gorman bis gravestone, or rather wooden eyes, with aged 9" it. I am afraid it conscience if they would prick their have one.
GERMAN AT ELSWICK WORKS.
SENT TO PRISON.
At Newentle police cart William Sopar was charged as an cemy with having entered a prehibited area without a perwit. The prisoner was arrested at the Armstrong Whiteworth works at Elswick. He had been a master scaman and the Board of Trade certificato
that the German corps armies
They pro antibitated at Tamnopel were markedly interior to the Austrians. vided more prisoners and more valuable
trophies..
fron
French
many
German inspired statements in the neutral Press to the effect that gas
blinded shelle German troops is officially denied, as no gas has been used by the French It is pointed out that the fores allegation may be a prelude to a fresh inhuman German device.
Although as the result of the war country, says the Near East, has bene Egypt has lost its touris season, the It is calentated fited in other ways. that tourists spent about £1,000,000 annually, but the expenditure by the troops who have been, and are still, quartered in Egypt is estimated at
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The Wall Street Journal (New York) had the following interesting comments German bankers that the end of the war recently on the Kaiser's assurancs to the
CRUSADE AGAINST OPIUM PLANTING.. Now that autumn is wearing on the various country magistrates are bestirring themselves in view of the season for plant THE KAISER AND THE GERMAN ing opium approaching. It is the fact that many of the agriculturists are deter- mined to have nother "go" at it. The
lf proclamations officials are equally ditermined that they won't be allowed.
authorities have already won the battle. strongly phrased will prevent them the The magistrates are busy paying visits
His birth place in this document had
driving their orders into the ears of all proved him to be of German nationality
to all the populous centres. Many are
ben blotted and scratched on, but the duplicate copy showed it to be Wustrow
the local bodies who share responsibilities
Germalry,
Detetive Sorgeant Frost giving evidence of the arrest, said that
of any kind, such as village elders. Pro at the prisoner's house he found
clamations are being forwarded to them in bundles. These they are to post in documented by the Board of Tracks £0,000,000.
i marked private and confidential, On-
The Viture Rotterdamsche "Caurant every prominent place so that nobody can no account to be allowed to fall into
It bad refer on August 20th-stated that the last two say that the people are ignorant of the Is it not the hands of enemies.
ace to the dangers of fernan sib-Prussian lists contained 10,345 killed, views of the ruling powers,
wounded and missing. The Prussian marines. A sortance of six months' im-
that date Dggregated strange that the name of England should prisonment with hard labour was passed. lossen
1,740,639, to which must be axlded 214,000 ba bracketted with that of China in this Bavarians, 184,000 Saxons and 247.000 MACKENSEN NOT A SCOTSMAN
Wurtembergers and the casualties in 44 anti-opium crusade To the onlooker it would appear that the Chinese authorities The idea, currat in the Setish press, Naval lists. says a contemporary, that General von
wish the people to understand that the Mackenson is a Highlander gone astray One finds on the
English are pressing home for them this is quite erraDUOUS, Continent pccssional traces of Scottish
selves. But the opium planters will say names slightly tatansformed to fit the
anti-opium crusado as well as they them surroundings. They ar com ough in Helland, thanks to the famous eighteenth-cmary regiment of the Seots. Dutch, and we have an example in this
Oh it is the English whe object to our just only trying to please the English at Norwegian pianist Grieg, whose ances
planting opium, our own Government is tors, the Griegs of Arbroath, settled in
our expense. We won't be their tool, so we Berven, in Norway,
is no surt of
shall go ou planting opium as before." in the This is quite a natural interpretation to put upon some proclivictions issued. The magistrates are, however, sincere in their present exertions. Instead of the opiute
Von Mackensen
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The Cologne Gazette estimated five weeks ago that 4,000 Iron Crosses of the fret class had been presented during the war; 17 to Princes; 529 to generals, 3,000 to other officers and only 87 to common soldiers. Ninety-eight erosses had been distributed among the Navy, mostly to Admimls, other high Con- manders and Princos..
A letter found on a non-commissioned Mackenzie. He takes his name from officer of the 42nd Regiment of Prussian Infantry, killed recently during one of the village of Mackensen on the Solling the Crown Prince's attacks a small agricultural spot in Hanover not far from the once pleasant town of Argoans recounts how he had succeeded
in escaping from the "massaere,"
We have no illusions now Like most families who Hilpesheim.
snál. concludley: the
we know that our attempt to drive their names General von Mackensen comes of a vory
from
and
break
There is a grim probability about the cabled mony that the Kaiser has assured would come in Colober (1915);— the Gerinan bankers that the war will year When the war broke out German synipathizers censured this newspaper conclude in October, presumably of this
dog with a stick of dynamise tied to It was equally dangerous to for saying that the Kaiser was like at
parison of that great potente lo a dog The Wall Street Journal his tail: let him run or to stop him. The com was resented. therefore takes this opportunity of Anyong with experience of the reck apologizing to the dog. less gambler knows exactly the position militarist party now finds himself, in which the head of the Prussian has involved his financial backers so gamblu, He will, partners in his deeply that they are against their told then that the war would be over a certainty, and Russia could be dealt last October. The capture of Paris was
He borrowed heavily, with at his convenience, when that end net merely of their money, but their are obviously confidence, and, they was achieved. getting nervous.
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It is entirely possible that the war may be over in October, but the Kaisar will have nothing to my about its Germany was duration or conclusion. in the first rush. She is not merely What the been when she failed to capture Paris beaten, bus bankrupt, now.
ba impossible German barkers are fighting for is a encful receivership. They know well What can they do? Already they have with another winter of war.
old family, though its patent of nobility throngh has failed, and it is enpel to plant they expect to see other produce concentrated all the gold of the country
is entirely, modern.
A TWENTY-DOLLAR COCKTAIL.
see so many men sacrificed for nothing'
The letter was written on the eve of the in the land formerly devoted to opium. Crown Prince's big attack on August
7.
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The foreig value. parade in the Reichsbank, where it has the As a reminder to ung daring transgressor exchange market has gone, and, only for the fated Yong Ha which the soldiers this reason, the value of the paper another six months it will rank a little A spicial correspondent of the Daviy reduced to desolation last year is pointed mark is what they choose to call it In Chronide, emphasising the need for more machine guns for the British lines, out as a warning More than in former above the Confederate shinplaster for Here is a tremendous speculative In Wall In the island of Haiti, where one of the points out that from the sea to the Swiss years responsibility is laid upon the purposes of world trade twin Republics is again in revolution,frontier it is estimated that there are
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ones advanced an industrial stank from THE TAIKOO things are as unstable financially. Not 40,000 German machine guns, including village elders. They will be held account transaction, which has failed. many years ago a visitor from New York those of the new light model. arrived one nighs at an hotel, and the means that there is rather more than on their own vicinity. The soldiers, however, 40 ko 166, and found that they had more The ring next morning-what with the swarms of machine gun for every 40 men putting
unloaded on the way up insects around his bed and the street the enemy's strength at 500,000, or c120 will very reluctantly accept responsibi- of it at the top than at the bottom. sold out at an average of 32, and eince brawls below his window-felt so exhaust for every 25 yards of from.
then the property has been admirably ed that he ordered 4 cocktail to brace him Maubeuge and Lille are furnished with lity. The likelihood is that they will The public, which was expected to buy, up before breakfast. That's a teal Man- great stores of gang.
The Three Dot Society" is flourish managed, mainly breause its directors
have stayed out of the stock market
This is the parallel to the Kaiser's hattan," he said as he put down the glass,
ing in our midst. A theatrical company
If the German bankers hupe How much?" Twenty dollars," was Look here" shouted the
visited Swatow recently. Three of the gamble. the answer.
you don't work this on me.
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Triad Society approached them and to save anything out of the wreck, they That's all the stuff's worth and all you'l
fit to the manager who promptly called fo: got out of me." With that he threw down Lloyd's for the purpose of making awards demanded money. They atace reported few assets remain.
Sorry, sir," replied the to the captains, officers, and crews a 25-cent piecE,
where their barkeoper, but haven't you something British and Allied merchant vessels for police. Two of the three were captured smaller! I'll have to give you thirty gallant conduct in cases dollars in change. The visitor then dis covered that one American dollar was at that time worth just 200 dollars in the local paper currency, so that the charge for his drink amounted to no more than en American cents out of the "quarter.
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The new marriage licence are most averse to sailing, but the owner, who was Specs Bank on the 8th alt. Mr. Sanders slow and 10 men had been killed and eight
him to go
Su be sailed and at the Slate presiding, the report of the pro- injured by the fire of a German sub- gress of liquidation showed that a call on marine. The captain's widow is to receive
On taking charge of the ship ho the shareholders of Rs. 50 per share had £100, and the remaining £150 is to be unpopular, for the Government stamp costs to get a huge price for the coal, urged said: "Now this is German property. Did realised Rs. 28 lakhs; further recoveries divided among the officers and crew who 40 cents. This new tax, with all the other river mouth a German pilot came on were expected of twenty lakhs. The out-took part in the fight. In acknowledging taxes are more, they say, than they can board.
"then take standings recovered amounted to fifteen the cheque the owners of the vessel say:--
were We understand underwriters would bear. We shall see if the new tax stops War was begun yesterday.
that; and he downed the pilot with a lakhs and additional recoveries expected of 8 lakhs. Pearls had realised have made no monetary loss had the
Then he turned. the ship round 5 lakhs; there was to be realised fifteen steamer been sunk. As shipowners, the marriages, After all, it is but a small sum it!" exclaimed the captain,
taxes are exacted scope. lakhs, The claims admitted total 165 principle which this represents appeals to in addition to the emption money of the fearful bang on the head with his tele
with his German prisoner on board for TELEPHONE No. 112 lakhs; the total realisations are expected us very much, and we will take much ples-bride-
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England end go safely back. to reach 104 lakhs. annas was declared payable on September our captains to it, as we feel it will have only from such as merry under the age of and steamed off as hard as he could
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