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8.00 am. HRUNGSHAN. 4.30 p.m. KINSHAN.
SUNDAY, 9TH JANUARY, 1916.
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8.8, SUI TAI, Tona 1,651.
18.8. TAISHAN, Tons 2,008 HONGKONG TO MACAO,
Weekdays at 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. from the Company's Wing Lok Street Wharf, Sundays at 9 am, and I pm. from the Company's Wing Lok Street Whart
MACAO TO HONGKONG, ⠀⠀
Week days at 7.80 m. end 2 p.m. Sindays of 7,30 km, and 3 pm, EXCURSION TO MACAO. SUNDAY, 9TH JANUARY, 1916.
The Company's New Steamship
“TAISHAN"
Will depart from the Company's WinG Lox STEELS WHARF at 8 am, and returs from Maono 3 p.m.
N.B.-The Company will also ran Steamer from Macao on Sunday at 7.8) a.m., and from Hongkong as I pm, from the Company's Wing Lok Street Wharf.
FARES AS USUAL,
CANTON-MACAO LINE.
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8.9. BAINAM, 688 tons, and 8.§. NANNING, 569 tons. One of the above Steamers bares Canton for Wackow every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at about 8 am, and the other leaves Wuchow for Canton on the same days at 9.30 Round trips take shout 5 days. Passengers can return to Hongkong or vice versa by tha Company's direct Bleamers LINTAN and SANUL. Those rossels have superior Cabin tocommodation and are lighted throughout by electricity. Electric Fan in each Cabin,
Booking Office open daily (Bunday excepted) a.m. to 5 pm. Further particulars may be obtained at the Offee of the
WHAT BRITONS ARE DOING ELSEWHERE-
DESCRIBED BY A MEMBER OF THE WEST AUSTRALIA STATE PARLIAMENT.
Among the visitors to Hongking at the prosent moment is the Hon. Mr. A. R. Green, member for Kn goorlie in the West Australia State Parliament
In an interesting conversation with a member of the staff of the Daily Preas, Mr. Green said that the attitude of Aus tralia towards the way was exactly as described by the Federal Premier recently -Australia is in it to the last man and the last shilling. She is already spending sixty milions sterling per annum in oun nection with the war, ned by next June chu will have sent 300,000 men to fight for the cause of Empire and Humanity on the bat lefields of Europe. When universa! military training for (he young was intro dud a few years ago it was viewed with suspicion, and Luything in the nature of conscription would have been stubbornly resisted. At that time, of course, those who were opposed to it regarded war between Great Britain and Germiny as impossible. The youths who were drilled were often jeered at because of the curious ly cut uniforms which they wore, and they were not very enthusiastic over their duties. But since the outbreak of the war and the many volunteers which it has pro- duced a complete change has come over the scene and the youngsters are now only too eager to undergo their drill.
Up to the outbreak of hostilities the Cenmmonwealth had never manufactured a single pound of steel, but now there is a steel works in New South Wales which is turning out steel tor shalla at £10 a ton as compared with the £14 101, a-ton which Great Britain is paying in America. Shells are now being manufactured throughout the Commonwealth.
TURDAY, JANUARY 8TH, 1916
COLONEL ROOSEVELTS,
SYMPATHIES.
THE EX-PREUIDENT IN A MINORITY.
I had on Saturday a long talk with lonel Roosevelt at his country home. The ex-President's friends in England. vill ha gind to know that he is as fit and all of ight as ever, and that he is doing all he can, first, to uphold the cause of the Allies in the United States and secondly (much more difficult task), to bring home to his countrymen the lesson of the war.
WITH THE FORCES AT
THE FRONT.
HONGKONG MAN'S EXPERIENCES, The following letter has been received by Mr. E. S. Benbow Rowe from his bro her, Lieut. O. H. S. Brabow Rowe, bth Bat- talion King's Shropshire Light Infantry, formerly of Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co., Hongko g.............
I last wrote to you when we were in the reserve trenches, but my letter must-have I have heard rumours since coming here Loon very sketchy. I forget what I told that Colonel Roosevelt might himself go to the front as a war correspondent. He you, as it was written late at night in the hás no such intention. If he were to go. II. Q. dugout, when my eyelids. `wers at all it would be with a rifle in his hands heavy with want of sleep and I was chilled- and in no other capacity; and that course is out of the question. Aga mat with cold, so I will briefly reiterate what' ber of fact, the ex-President feels so has happened to me since I wrote you from acutely the figure that his country has cut the base at I think I told you then in this war that he doubts whether be could ever again endure to visit Europe. how I took a drafb up to another regiment, I have never known him so vebement of then returned to the base. They kept me He is sharply almost ferociously-at there for several days, then I received any subject as on this. issue with the whole spirit and with near-orders to join our 5th Battalion, for which ly all the details of the United States Gov ernment's attitude towards the war. He I had applied at what is considered the means, if he can, to rouse the nation very worst part of the Western line I against it. His one chance of exceeding
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is to stay in the United States and fight travelled by train up to a town some 15 liis corner on the spot. In that way,miles behind the firing fine, and from there he is convinced, he will be rendering bth found my way to the place where the to his own country and to the Allies the battalion was resting and reported. They best service in his power. United States had joined in the war. In
It would have been different if the bad been resling for about a week and were just recovering from one of the most that case the Colonel would have been savere nations of the wor-that of Septem- the first to volunteer for active service ber 25th. We went in a strong attalion of When the Lusitante was sunk and Ameri, about 900 men and 10 officers. We deliver- ca intervention seemed inevitable it ised a brilliant charge, took the enemy 1st a fairly open secret that the ex-President and 2nd line trenches and reached their made instant preparations for raising a 3rd line without great loss, then a certain force of about 12,000 men on the lines of thing I can's speck of went wrong, and his old Bough Riders Regiment. The we had to fall back, fighting for every inch generals, colonels, majors, and some of of ground. We held them for a time when the captains were actually selected, and
wo were in their 1st live renches-stuck for his adjutant genera Colonel Roose-it for over two hours, then had to give it velt picked out a man tong known to me as one of the ablest officers of the United States cavalry. Every detail had been covered, and the ex-President calculated that within three months after the declaration of war he and his men would have been in Flanders. To forego that dream has been one of the hitterest didap pointments of his life,
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1Pto. T. B. Johnstone is granted leave of absence from 9th January, 1915, to 9th July, 1916. Lance Corp), C. M. Alport's leave of absence is extended for the duration of the war,
PARADES.
2.-Parades for today (Saturday) :-----
7,30
am. Membora of Signalling Section and other Signollers, - us detailed in Signalling Section order, dated 8th December, 1915, Morse Ang and Heliograph practice at Head- quarters.
2.30 pm, Musketry at King's Park Rauge, as detailed in Corps Orders Nos. 3, dated 3rd January, 1916, and **- No. 3rd, dated 5th January, 2016- The N.CO. i/c. Signalling Section will detail men to attend for tele phone duty, Remainder, sil
DETAIL.
3. Gun Club Hill, Kowloon.
The
On duty from to-day until 13th inst.:
No. 2 Section Artillery Battery. Officer on duty: Capt. W. M. Scott.
P. of W. Camp, Kowloon:
On duty tonight: Scor's Co.. Officer on duty: Capt. Stewart, On duty, 9th inst.: Scouts Co. Officer on duty: Lieut. Murphy, Orderly Sergeant from 8th to 15th
inst.: Sergeant Hegarty,
G. E. STEWART, Capt., Adjutant, H. R. V. C.
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE
AMBULANCE COMPANY. Surgeon-Inspector reports that an ex- amination in First Aid will be held at the Tung: Wah Hospital Tuesday
next, January 11th, n. 5.20 p.m.. Cag- didates will attend in uniform.
munition:
PARADES 5,30 P.M..
up and get back to where we started from, a broken battalion, but nevertheless ono that had made a name for itself and lived Uniform, Caps with Covers, Rides and Am-' up to the finest traditions of the Army. Monday, January 10th-No. 2 Company, Another battalion relieved the 6th and we Tuesday, January 11th. All recruits. were sont back to reorganize. All that re, Wednesday, January 12th-No. 1 Co. Of the company to which I na now posted, Friday, January 14th-No. 4 Co. and all turned were 3 officers and roughly 300 men. Thursday, January 18th-No. 3 Co. which went out 200 strong, and which bore the brunt of the inferno of fire during the retirement, only twelve men answered the rolf call the following morning.
Up to August of 1914 the refractory portion of the silver ore from the Broken Hill Minos was sent to Germany for treat ment, and, as a consequence, after war bmke out work on the mines was practical- I found Colonel Roosevelt much ly hung up. Now, however, arrangements chagrined by the effect on English opinion are being made by a big British syndicate of a paragraph in an article of his in the for building a big smelting works in New current number of the Metropolitan South Wales for treating this ora, Magazine. In that paragraph he criticis
One half the total output of gold ined in his usual downright fashion, some Australasia comes from West Australia, shortcoming in our conduct of the war. and half the yield of this State is drawn I assured him, and he readily admitted from Kalgoorlie.
the possibility that if he had actually Though the Stole has a population of been in England he would not have writ less than 350,000-in its territory of nearly ten as he did. That, however, is not the torn from its context in an article twenty able vigour and enterprise. By opening times its length, gave a totally wrong im up now ground it has succeeded in three pression of the ex-President's purpose in years in increasing its produc ion of wheat writing it. The article as a whole is from 8 million bushela to 20 million bushels, vigorous warning to the United States to up to the reserve trenches, two-thirds of which will be avaliable this be prepared for war; coupled with an year for export or about the same propor-equally vigorous onslaught on Germaxi tion as in the other five States of the island brutality, professional pacifists, and Continent.
"hyphenated" Americans.
recruits.
COLLAR, NUMDETS AND HELMETS, All Companies are required to attend the
above Parades in full strength. Mom-.. bors of Nos 1 and 2 Companies, other than Inspectors, will have Collar num bers issed to them on these parades, after which they must he referred to in all reports, daty lists, musketry regis ters, etc., by their numbers as well as
Woll I came down to this cheery as sembly, to learn that two officers whom I had known well, who had been in the 9th. had come out just before me, were among the casualties, They had been back over a werk when I joined and were getting re- organized. Several drafts had been sent we were practically full strength again both in officers and men. A lot of my brother officers in the 9th-in fact, the pick of there were transferred, to the 5th and joined up. Then we got our orders to In
names,
a million square miles it displaye.remarkpoint. The point is that this paragraph up and within a week aiter my arrival On the same parades men who have not yet.
I was picked to go up the day before my Company to take over things and set out with a small party of men in a motor To drive home his point, Colonel Rocse lorry, which took us as far as the ruins of velt incidentally and very briefly review-what is said to have been one of the most ed our part in the war, beartily praising beautiful towns of Belgium. It is now just us for some things and condemning as not a jumble of shattered walls and rubble. legs outspokenly for others. But he ex- pressly stated that even if in some parti- culars we had fallen short we had done
infinitely better" than
Americans would have done.
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UNDE SHELL FIRE.
We walked through the town, and on through a devastated countryside, up to the reserve trenches, without speciel 25- That alone was his reason for referring cidenta constant stream of ambulances to our share in the struggle, But he is bearing wounded back, and transport a very warm friend of ours in this war, vehicles pussing us on the road. I took and it frankly annoys and burts him that
over the trench and remained there all day he should have been oven for a momentboing shelled intermittently all the time, in the position of seeming to join our It was rather funny at first, standing detractors
about in a trench, or lying like a sewer rat damp little dugout underground, and hearing the shells scream overhead and burst around, but 1 soon got used to it, and strangely enough felt quite at ease from the very first. Bull after three days
had helmets issued to them will be mea sured for saMD.
-MUSKETEY
addition to the instructions issued
Inspectors aud Sergeants,
the M.I will issue to all ranks on the parades next week printed "Notes on Firing Part II.A
Saturday, January 8th-Volley Firing for Nos. 3 Nos. 2, 3, and 4 Companies, and 4 Companies will leave Blake Pier;" at 1.30 p.m. punctually, and No. 2 Co. at 3 p.m. punctually.
Sunday, January 9th Part II. for all
Inspectors and Sergeants, Lears Blake Pier, at 9 a.m. Men are warned that this practice is not expected to cludo before 2.30 p.m.
PROMOTIONS.
Consequent upon the reversion of Inspector Mow Fung, the Hon. C.S.P. has sane- tioned the following promotions: Sergeant Peter Wong to be Crown Sergeant. Pc, George Lee to be Sergeant.
F. O. JENKIN,
D. 8. P. (Reserva).
I gathered from our talk that Colonel Roosevelt is still in politics, and that the forthcoming Presidential election will find him, if not a candidate at any rate a very active combatant. That his views on American policy during the war and on the military needs of the United States of this, on urgent message came down, other trenches, where the conditions were are those of the bulk of his countrymen which sent us hurrying up, at three in the much better, anyhow in the matter of I do not believe. It is a common saying morning, to the very worst part of the ad-small, sad also they were far enough from over here that if there were an election vanced line. A German mine had been the German lines to prevent, their putting to-morrow President Wilson would poll exploded right under our lines, blowing tranch mortam among us with certain nine or ten votes to every one that would everything above it to bits, and heavy accuracy, be cast for Colonel Roosevelt, But the attack was expected before dawn. It had These, and aerial torpedoes, are hellish ex-President is well used to being in a been extremely cold at nights, and when contrivances. They look just like a minority even more seemingly hopeleas we did lie down it was only on a water-pillow coming through the air and when than this. He is not a bit discouraged, proof sheet in a damp dugout, as no blau- they land go off with a terrible hang,
So far as his influence goes in the cam
kets are supplied in the trenches, and, of blowing everything near at hand to bits, course, you have always your full equip as they are filled with high explosive.
paig Efficient Preparedness; the second it will turn on two issues, The
first is
As is generally known, of ourse, Aus- tralia is an extremely democratic country fact which is well illustrated by the achievements of West Australia, At the present moment there is in Hongkong Harbour one of its State steamers the Quinine, of 3,919 tons, which is the first of the State's little foot to enter Easter waters. The fleet embraces, also the West Australian, a vessel of similar size, which is now under charter to the British Government as a hospital ship for £18,000 a year; and the Kangaron, a Dissel-oil- engine ship of 7,000 tons, built by Harland & Wolff, of Belfast, at a cost of £140,000, and now on her way out to engage in the coasting trade. The object of forming this little fleet some two years and a half ago was to assist the small squatter in the Kimberley district to send his cattle to the more populous parts. Formerly the freight space on
the privately-owned vessels which plied along the coast was monopolised by the big squatters, to whom, therefore, the smaller men were obliged to well their cattle. In order to force buying Departures from Macao to Canton on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, så 9 p.m.
prices down to purchases were made for Departures from Canton to Macro on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, al 4,30 p.m.
two years, with the result that cattle were JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAOing of old age up in the north while people in the south were unable to buy STEAMBOAT CO., LTD.. THE CHINA NAVIGATION CÓ., LTD.
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which the space would be first reserved for the small squatters, the bigger men having to rest content with any surplus that might be left over after all other requirements were met. To thwart this project, to keep up selling prices the big squatters then combined with the butchers, but their
́IN THE FIRING LINE, object was defeated by the opening of
Well, we tumbled out, cursing lustily, State-butchers' shops. The result of this system the occupier pays in the first year. is that the consumer can now obtain ment £8 towards the purchase of the property and got quickly away, going up the com- cheaper in West Australia ther in any and his contribution to this end automat- munication trenches with bullets zipping
INTO NO MAN'S LAND. Speaking generally, life in the trenches other part of the Commonwealth, whereas eally increases year by year as the sum pay about all round us and thudding into the formerly it was dearer; and shipping able as interest diminishes until at the end sandbag walls of the trench. Up is the 18 not so bad, especially for the private soldier, There's always plenty to eat, freights have fallen by ten per cent of thirty years he owns his own house. In trench, there was nothing to do but stand though water is scarce as a rule, and le instead of rising, as elsewhere.
the meantime he can, if he desires, buy the to, shivering, and waiting for the attack, The railways in the State are also owned house and for the land outright by payment which never came. When dawn broke it does get a certain amount of sleep during A warranted cure for all by the Government, who have spent of the outstanding balance. “I live” în was a queer sight that presented itself. the day time. It's dreadfully monston abgnized or constitution Dis £0,050,000 in six years on their construe one of these houses myself," said Mr. My platoos was in a sandbag walled on however, and you get awfully bored
sitting charges from the Urinary Established in 1844, but thoroughly up-to CLARKE'S Organs in either wax. These tion. There is now one mile of railway to Green, and for 12s. 6d, & week, whereas trench, still tainly intact, but blown away and all night, even though the bullets are famous Pills also core Gravel, every hundred inhabitants, a proportion I formerly paid 25s a week for a house in places, while a little distance from me whopping about all the time and pro
lew Pains in the Back and all which is claimed to be higher than in any not half so good without any prospect of was the huge crater made by the mine jectiles are coming over every Kidney Disorders. Free from other part of the world.
ever becoming the owner. As the houses explosion. The German trenches were only minutes. I occasionally got some fun, mercury. Forty years' suc The State also owns ferries, fisheries, are built under the supervision of the about 40 yards away, and, when it became however, as every night I had to go out cess. Sold by all Chemists sawmills (for the Jarrah wood industry), Government there is no jerry-building light, to show one's head above the parapet in front of our line a little way into the and Storekeepers throughout farm implement stores, and dairies. Since about them. They are nice brick-built meant almost certain death. The trenches no man's land between the trenches, {the world,
the opening of these last a few years ago bungalows with gardens and every modern
ran across what was once a wood, but this and that is alwaye exciting and interest West Australin has been able to boast of convenience, including electric light. The has been so terribly shelled that now only ing; and shortly before we left I got the lowest infantile mortality-rato in the movement was opposed by the eritractors, one or two shattered stumps here and orders to go out and make a reconomis world. For the education o2 the young | and we were unable to buy bricks, so we there give evidence of it. No green thingsance of the ground right up to the enemy there is free education from the elemen-started our own brick works, and now we no blade of grass even can live there lines. It was a pitch black night and
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hande stayed out, crawling about on my fary schools to the University.
are producing bricks a reduction as the ground is turned and turned and An interesting experiment which is meet of £1 per 1,000 upon the price which we turned again by heavy shell fre-and-end knees, for a couple of hours. I had ing a long-felt want is being made in re paid before.
ploding trench mortars and serial my senior sergeant with me a fine voldter whose one aim in life at the present time gard to housing. In response to the out- "Of course our methods are denounced torpedoes. cry against high rentals the State has by some as Socialistic, but we have no It is a most desolate spot-hot, worse is to get at close grips with the enemy Introduced scheme for providing homes quarrel with private enterprise so long as than everything else, is the appalling and we had quite a good time. At one spot we got right up to the German lines, on very attractive terms for persons in it is conducted fairly. All we oppose are stench of decays everything seems to be so close that we could hear the beggars roeipt of not more than £300 a year. On monopolies prejudicial to the common good. decaying, even the tortured earth, continu-talking in their trench. Luckily we were a block of land leased at a peppercorn Some of our supporters, on the other hand, ally tossed and furrowed by explosion, not spotted and did not run into my rental for 10 years the Government will complain that, we do not advance fast looks as if it were decaying. Luckily, Germans, but we were pretty well frozen erect an up-to-date brick built house enough, but as practical men we have to though these were the trenches we usually by the time we got back. We returned Costing, say, E450 and rent it to the appli- see that the enterprises upon which we em-man and from which we delivered the just as dawn was breaking, and were very pant for £95 a year Six per cent, interest bark are conducted in such a way as to great attack on the 25th, we were only kept nearly shot by one of our own men in get-
there a short time, being then sent to ting back, who had got a bit nervyj only is charged on the capitul. By this ensure access,"
сад. is what he calls Straight, Americanismment less the pack on. By two or three ly. They travel slowly, however, and you
Meanwhile, his faith in our ultimate ing huddled up together we could keep see them coming during the daytime, and victory is unshaken. He lays down only ur bodies more or less warm, but the if lucky, get out of the way. Well, we That is, that the three trouble was our feet-after a few minutes did the rest of our trench tour here. My one condition. chief Allies keep up their courage. Daily they would be absolutely frozen. I put a company were in the front line treach, sandbag or two over each leg, which helpso I got practically no sleep for ton days ed a bit. Mail's New York correspondent.
altogether, as not only had 1 my platoon work to do, but, owing to circumstances I cannot explain, most of the Company work · and
fell on my тевро shoulders,
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