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THE ZEPPELIN RAIDS
ON LONDON,
AN OFFICIAL REPORT.
162 CASUALTIES.
KANDOM HUNDEN.
The following description of some of the effects of the Zeppelin raid in the London district in the middle of "September was drawn up by an in- pantal observer at the request of the Home Secretary, and is authorized for publication.
While it is absolutely necessary, in the interests of public safety, strictly to maintain the rule that no unautho rized accounts should appear, the real character of these outrages may be the better understood by a collection of
incidents, each of which has been verified on the spot, and is vouched for by the authorities as accurate.
happening when the captain of the Ger- mantairem.ft: professed, to think he was visiting the docks and vitally damaging the Port of London,
POOR CHILDREN KILLED.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22hr, 1914.
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ENCOURAGING RUBBER DIVIDENDS
In the
PEKING NOTES.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]
PEKING, October 13th. THE TENTH. The anniversary of the Revolution fell on Sunday, and it was rather significant
that the heavens were tearful. The oclo-
III-Ia another place a bomb dropped A London paper observes:-There are through the roof of a stable yard; it was signs of "improvement in the Rubbor an incendiary bomb, and it set on fire
The stable hard market, a contributory factor being a motor-car on which it foll. man and his wife, in spite of the fire,the latest batch of "dividends." which was immediately serious, set out case of the Linggi distribution, a second to rescue the 11. horses which were in the interim of 15 per cent has been declared, bration may be the last under republican stable behind the fire, and they were care- fully taken out one by one and let loose making, with the dividend paid in associations, but there is no reason why. in the street. A dog was on the floor August, 30 per cent, to date. Last year the event should not be commemorated above the fire, and whilst the stable the first interim of 15 per cent. was paid under another régime, for it was the man's wife was bringing it down she in October. Bangteng (Selangor)" has was blown off her feet on the stairs by announced a final dividend of 7 per cent, movement against the Manchus which has the blast of explosive bomb which fel! making 12 por cent, for the year. At opened up a new vistá to the Chineso in a neighbouring courtyard. The only the same time £6,000 is placed to reserve, and made possible all kinds of reforms and the sum of £2,524 is carried forward, casualty in this case was a bantam cock.
For the preceding twelve months the total nos yet contemplated. distribution was 73 per cent., £5,000 was tenth of October was anticipated with added to the reserve an now, and 24,137 unusual interest, as it was understood tory dividend is that to be paid by the that something would happen on that was placed forward. Another satisfac Sungei Balak Company, for the interim date which would have an important distribution has been raised from 5 to 10 bearing on the funre. That anticipation,
The Pataling Rubber Estates Per cent. syndicate announces. dividend of 20 per cent. actual, for the dispelled by the Fresident when he can. second interim which may have been well founded, was year ended December 31st last, which is
samo rate a's the declaration celled the review of the troops arranged" of a
The directors of for that date. year kgo.
Consequently Sunday the Golden Hope Rubber .Estates
Five- repeat the payment of 5 per cent, and Monday passed without event. as an interin dividend. The Eow Seng barred flags were conspicuous, the usual Cotupany declares as interim of 10 per
At one time the
IV-In such a case as the last the futility of the enemy's attack was merely ridionlous; in others it was tragic. Somewhere in the vast area of London's The Home Secretary takes this oppor suburbs there is a little block of houses tunity of stating explicity, that the standing almost by itself and divided up total casualties resulting from these into small flats.
On the ground-floor sid raids are in all cusce correctly there was a sleeping a widow, her stated, and are based on exhaustive in-daughter, aged 18, and a young man quiry by the police.
whom they kopt as a lodger. On the first floor was a family with three child-tho In a letter which he addressed to a
ren, two of them girls; and on the second correspondent some weeks ago, the First foor a working man and his wife with Lord of the Admiralty set forth the Eve children, four of them girls and one reasons which prevented his Majesty's boy The bomb dropped squarely on Government from disclosing the exact the roof of the house, As the labourer localities in which damage had taken and his wife who were on the second cent, and the Tenom (Borneo) Rubber rich floral decorations fronting Govern- place in the various Zeppelin raids, floor described it, the whole partition Company, in announcing an interim disment and official buildings were much in These reasons remaia valid, ond there is
This is no intention to depart from the rule wall beside their bed gave way and distribution of 7 per cent., is paying at the evidence, but apart from that there was
appeared; the roan pushed his wife out same rate as twelve months ago. which socurès that no information ean into the centre of the room, and went off the record of the latest rubber results, and nothing to indicate the red-letter day. I made available for the enemy, either to find his children. Two of them, who with such a list it is not surprising that The startling and picturesquo events. in regard to the route he has taken, or slept in the roomt under the spot where the share parket should show signs of which have been looked for are still to the places or buildings on which he the bomb fell, had vanished with room, improvement,
come. Certainly Peking was vere dull dropped his bombs. The experience of bed and everything, and their bodies
and drab on Sunday. the raids of last week, combined with were found two days later under the the German official reports on them, derie of the house. Of the others, the monstrate that the commanders of Ger. man aircraft are often grossly in errors, aged eight, ran for safety to the stuireas which was blown away, and in -2115 113 their movements, and have no the dark fell down inte the hole where his means whatever of estimating the effect sisters bodies were buried in the ruins. of their promiscuous bombardment either of the first-floor inhabitants two were materially or morally. In every case missing altogether. Of the ground floor, where damage has been caused it is pri- where apparently the worst effect of the vate property that has suffered, and in
explosion took place, it is sufficient to most cases this private property has been say that part of the body of the man of the gull residential kind. Almost all the unfortunate people who have who occupied it was found 150 yards
boen killed have not only been non-com- batants, but non-combatants of a kind
away.
V-A bomb dropped in the street blew
A CURZON EMENDATION,
CORRECTING AN AMBASSADOR'S GRAMMAR.
THE MONARCHICAL MOVEMENT.
As I prognosticated in my last letter, the State Council passed the Citizens' Representative Convention Bill and for- warded it to the President, who promul
INTIMATIONS
LINCOLN,
BENNETT & CO.
SPECIAL
HENNE)
* CO
APPOINTMENT.
HATTERS
TO HIS MAJESTY THE KING
AND TO THE ROYAL FAMILY AND SOVEREIGNS AND COURTS
OF EUROPE.
THE NEW SEASON'S STYLES IN GENTLEMEN'S
FELT AND
STRAW HATS
NOW SHOWING:
SOFT FELTS IN ALL COLOURS
STRAW HATS FITTED IVY BANDS
It is rather odd that while many news-gated a mandate giving it the sanction. papers have recalled, in connection with of law two days later. The elections will the late Sir Claude Macdonald, the joke consequently take place in about three of the Curzon emendation of a China de weeks' time, and the final results will be the London correspondent of the Jan oven the most rabid republican, however chester Guardian, seems to have remem- much he disapproves of Monarchy in ALL OUR FELT HATS ARE FITTED WITH SWEAT-PROOF BANDS. bered the second half of the story. The British Ambassador in Peking, address
which it has been hitherto the honourable in the front of a shop, but spent the spatch seventeen years ago, nobody, writes made known about November 15th. Not! $6.50 TO $8.50 EACH. 1 $3.50 TO $4.50 EACH.
practice of civilized warfare to exempt from attack, that it to say, women and children, anual shopkeepers, and working men, the sacrifice of whose lives can -effect
no military purpose whatever, either morully or materially.
FOLLY AND PUTILITY,
The folly and futility of the raids which took place last week can be well imagined when it is remembered that the Loudon district, which may be taken for convenience as the area administered by the Metropolitan Police, is just short of 700 square miles in area. It is by hastily dropping at random in the dark certain explosive and incendiary materia! some where on this enormous surface that the enemy professed to be accomplishing some important military purpose. In point of fact no public institution of any kind was hit, nor any power station, nor arsenal. No damage was done which flects the use of any building connected directly or indirectly with the conduct of the war. It is true that two hospitals
main force of its explosion on a passing There were 20 people on motor omnibus. board, including the driver and condue tor. Nine of them were killed and 11 injured, amongst the injured being the driver, who had both his legs blown off, and died shortly, afterwards in hospital.
These incidents alone account nearly half the deaths which have beeu caused.
for
They will suffice to show what is the real measure and nature of the success which has attended the enemy's attack on the London area
In human life and limb the net results of the week's raids in the London dis- trict wore 38 killed or died of wounds and 124 injured;
I ought not to be omitted from men- tion that two policemen and one Army Service Corps man appeared amongst the
otherwise 210 person casualties; uniform was either killed or injured.
TO FRANCE.
FRENCH CRITIC ON THE NEW BRITISH ARMIES.
in
arrowly escaped damaged, but it is only LORD ROBERTS'S LAST VISIT fair to say on behalf of the officers of an army which has done its best to des.. troy the cathedrals of Belgium and France that up to the present they have only succorded in hitting one church. So far as the moral effect of the raid was concerned, it is to be feared that from the standpoint of Berlin it was a
The Temps has been publishing a series complete failure. If Count Zeppelin himself accompanied the raiding aircraft of articles entitled “The British Army on (as has been reported from Holland) he the Continent," written by M. Réne will be disappointed to learn that only a minority of the vast population of Puaux, with the approbation of the London was aware of the presence of French General Staff, ` bis airship at all, and that amongst those who heard the guns fire or saw the Zeppolin the feelings everywhere aroused were of interest and curiosity rather than of fear.
INCIDENTS CONTRASTED.
That London and its suburbs as a com- munity faces calmly the murderons effort, of the raiders is in no way a mitigation of the callous and purposeless brutality of their action, or of the tragedies which have followed. Here are a few pictures of the effects accomplished by the officers and crew of the last airship which visited the London district,
1-Somewhere in the area of London you can go to the corner of a little
outright; it blow pices of paying stone
the Yamen as to the control of the angtse, wrote as follows:
Your Highness and your Excellencies have more than once intimated to me that the Chinese Government were aware of the great importance that has always been attached by Great Britain to the retention of the Chinese pussession of the Yangtse region, now entirely hers. When this came before Mr. George Nathaniel Curzon, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in Lord Salisbury's Gov. crament, he scribbled & note in the mar gin thus;--
principle, can object to the course to be followed, inasmuch as the Republicang could not trust the people further than has been done by the administration in inviting them, or the portion of them that count, to express an opinion of the Should issue-Republic or Monarchy ↑ the Monarchy be established with this public sanction, there can be no question. that it would be much stronger than any form of government that could be set up by any political coup d'état
HOJTISA PEKING VOLUNTEERS,
Strictly speaking this is not grammar, China has not been mentioned, only "Chinose possession" and the Chinese A small section of the Peking Volunteers Government," neither of which are of the feminine gender. "Hers" can only was able to take advantage of the Lega-: refor, according to the ordinary rules of tion Guards' encampment at Kuang Tsin grammar, to Great Britain, However,
weck-end under canvas,
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.,
SAKURA
BEER.
The
I suppose we must not be pedantic, but and spend a must leave Sir C. Macdonald and the under real military conditions.. Yaman to use bad grammar if they feature of the experience was trench prefer.
were
not
A great shout of laughter went ap in digging, and blistered hands prove July, 1898, when it was discovered that that many
accustomed the printer had inserted Mr. Curzon's
One high-toned annotation as the concluding part of the to wielding the shovel. peragraph in the despatch, and a noisier individual was particularly unfortunate. shout still when the newspapers pointed
out that the omniscient Under-Secretary The scene of his operation happened to had, in correcting the Ambassador's include a particularly, odoriferous spot, grammar, tumbled into his own pit by and be promptly made appeal to the writing neither of which are of the Sergeant Major, who, however, was un- feminine gender." But, they added glee fully, we must not be pedantic, but sympathetic and declared that they were leave the divinities of the Foreign Office under war conditions, and consequently to use bad grammar if they prefer.'
there was no help for the volunteer, who had to dig as though he had no nože,
SALT, REVENUL
THE STRANDED P. & 0.
**NUBIA."
The writer in the third article dwells upon the visit of Lord Roberts to France, and his meeting with General Foch. The famous chiefs were old friends. Gener!! Foch received the old Field-Marshal in the municipal offices where he had passed so many exciting hours during the Battlef the Yser, looking at the clock and awaiting the ring of the telephone. Lord Roberts was keenly interested in the explanations of the latest manoeuvres and in the sketches of the captain. "What # curious Lying opposite the mouth of the Kelani battle," he said, observing the seeming river, with her starboard deck almost Bush confusion in the deployment of the Franco- British troops, Turning to the Staff with the water, and seaweed forming a officers who were present, he said, "You fresh orat over those parts constantly
would remain one of the most touching
SYNDICATE HOPE TO REFLOAT HER.
Those who have faith in the future of China and believe that the country will emerge from its greater difficulties in course of time are justified in their con- fidence by the surprising results achieved Last year by the Salt Administration.
the Salt Revenue amounted to sixty mil- lion taels, roughly four millions more than the gross receipts of the Maritime
likely to be even better. The yield up to the end of September lost is already
evokes pity, says the Tinica of Ceylon.
While the Syndicate, which has bought up the cargo, is carrying on its operations, six millions ahead of the same period for the Syndicate which has purchased the last year, and there is every reason to ubia and her fittings have not been idle.. believe that this increase, will cautinue Already a large quantity of light articles
THE BREWERY'S OWN BOTTLING.
SOLE AGENTS.
TRADE
MARK
Sakura
TEIKOKU BREWERY CO. LTD. MOJI. JAPAN.
Hongkong, 19th August, 1915.
SOLE AGENTS:
SUZUKI & CO.. ALEXANDRA BUILDING,
TEL. No. 468.
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has been brought ashore and work of this during the remainder of the year. Col- BEFORE LEAVING FOR HOME
street; this one has a publiehouse at the have a great General." He was smiling, washed by the waves, the P. and O, Tubia / Customs, but this year the results are corner. Outside it on Wednesday: oven- his keen eyes radiated the joy of victory. ing last week after the place was closed The British Army of which he had been a man and a worials were talking. The woman went off to buy some supper at
chief had done what he expected of it. reighbouring shop; the man stood The Marne and the Yser had saved the there to wait for her, and while he was old world and saved England. The death waiting there fell at his feet the first of
of Lord Roberts on the day of the last the explosive bombs. It killed the man
vain attack of the Germans on the Yser
on to the surrounding roofs, it blew in incidents of this war. the front of the publichouse, reducing the stock to a mere mass of broken glass, over which still floats an indefinable odour of assorted forms of alcohol; it took off the top of a grand piano on the floor above, twisted the iron bedsteads, injured a woman who was sleeping there and reduced what had been the carefully kept living rooms of a small family to a mass of scot and dust and plaster and
broken glass. In what conceivable res pect did it contribute to the progress of
Having spoken of the offensives in the Arras sector, at Festubert, and Hooge, the writer continues:---
nature will continue until the cargo Syndilections are being made more thoroughly, cate have completed their operations and there is less opportunity for differ Mr. Clifford Lake la rendering the Syndi enes between amounts collected and cate assistance, and two spare propeller amounts forwarded. The assistance from The present war of positions in no way blades were sent ashore. signifies the suspension of fighting. It is Mr. C. W. Lonis Perera, manager and this source of Revenue is particularly a war of exhaustion. It is in continually proprietor of the Oriental Boat Company, welcome to the Government at the pre- thinning the ranks of our adversary, com who forms one of the Syndicate, is very
sent time, when money is so urgently pelling him to make good his losses by men hopeful of being able to refloat the vessel, whose value is progressively inferior, that not as a whole, but in two parts. A close needed to carry on the administration, his power of resistance will be diminished. inspection of the Nubia shows her to have and I understand that other two million In this respect the position of the British split up in the middle on the land side; tacls will be handed over to the Govern-" the war!
Army compared with that of the enemy but divers, who have beer at pains to
While Ger-investigate the extent of the damage, sont in the course of a week or two, when II-In another part of the area over particularly favourable, which the airship passed, there is a many calls upon young and old classes, declare that the split does not extend right Sir Richard Dane returns from his tour big block of workmen's dwellinge places England draws the contingents which she down to the keel but ends at the third where men live who are away at their is sending on the Continent from the most plate from the bottom. Under these cir- of inspection in Mongolia.
IMPENDING" CHANGES. trades all day and often all night, and robust of her population, She is throw cumstances, Mr. Perera, who has consult which day and night are crowded withing into battle to-day men from 21 to 30 ed various ship's captains, thinks the most
Already there are discussions regard- children. A bomb dropped on the roof years of age who have both the physical feasible thing to do will be to build two of one of these, and right under the roof qualities of their age and the moral quali- bulk heads, divide the vessel in twe, pumping the flag for the Empire of China, as, was a little fat in which four children ties of volunteers,
out as much water as possible, and then of course, it would not be proper to had been put to sleep. Two of them after These are men of Kitchener's new float the two parts, into deep water, even display republican emblems when the being put to bed had got up surrepti- division, which, since the end of last tually bringing them into the harbour. tiously to make tes in au adjoining room; winter, have been continually arriving in He is quite confident that this scheme will monarchy is inaugurated. By and byo you can see the bed that they left now, the north of France. I have been living fructify, and in the meantime hopes that we may expect to hear that the Bureau mass of blackened and charrred sheets amongst these troops for some months bad weather will not interfere with the of Ries has deliberated upon the new with the mattress torn to pieces They Escaped by a miracle, but in the small past; they are remarkable in vigour, traim working of his scheme.
and discipline.
The bad odour emanating from the oremonial to be followed, and then we bed-room next door to them the other two conclusion, the writer pays a high ubia has abated somewhat, and it is shall have a new issue of stamps. children were killed in an instant. These buildings are strong, and the bomb did tribute to the Territorial Army, which possible to move bent in certain portions coinage is not so susceptible of change, not penetrate far; you would hardly during the grave hours of the Battle of of the ship with no discomfort from this notice the damage to the roof if you pass Flanders responded so nobly to the call canse. It is only towards the middle of as the new dollars already bear the effi
of Yuan Shih-kai. the ship that the smell is offensive. it in the street. That was all that was the Government made upon it.
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