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THE HONGKONG BAIET PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16TH, 1918.
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PIANOS
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CASE AGAINST THE P. & 0.
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When the hearing of the case brought
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HONGKUNG VOLUNTEERS.
OLDERS BY ZIRUZ.-CGL, A, OHAPMAN, V.D.
JOINED
1.Private H, B. Arnold joined the
Corps on 16th February, 1016, b allotted Corps No, 1978 and is posted to Loft Section M. G. Co,
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ENGINEER COMPANY. 3- Lyeoun Reliefs" from 15th to 29th iust, is posted on the notice bound at Headquarters for information o all concerned,
PARADIS
4-Parades for to-day.
WONDERS OF WIRELESS.
POPULAR TALK ON TRANS. MISSION OF SOUND.
The Christmas course of juvenile lea One could write a volume on the differ-tures at the Royal Institution was opened by the Kobe Marine Insurance Company once between the system of recruiting in by Professor H. H. Turner, Savilian against the Peninsular and Oriental the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy at the professor of Astronomy at Oxford Univer- Steamship Navigation Company, of Yoko bama, claiming 100,000 yen damages for beginning of the war and that in voguesity, who is taking us his subjectWire- tho sinking of the Eekusei Maru, owned at prosent, says, the Morning Post. It is less Messages from the Stars." by Mr. Kumataro Ishigaki of Tokyo, was one of the most interesting and dramatic illustrated his remarks with lantern slides! resumed in the first civil section of the chapters of the war, how the compulsory and a number of experiments, Yokohama District Court on February 1 system has been working in the country Mr. Sunagawa, attorney for the defendant for fifteen months, and with practically lectures were originated by Faraday, and firm, petitioned presiding Judge Uyotsuki every man mobilised, and how at a time Professor Turner recalled some of the The present course is the Both since the to devote ono day exclusively to the ouse. He said he wished particularly to relate when the whole of its manhood is already achievements of science in the interval. the circumstances in connection with this engaged at the fronts or on way duties. The year 1995 was the year of the firs case. Mr. Sunagawa said he believed the force the fighting units, and cover a cou.
the country raises men enough to rein railway by steam from Stockton to Duc suit was an important one and had an tinually increasing front hundreds of miles and the airplane, the telegraph and phot
lington. We had sinos had the motor-cur important bearing on international law.
away. The system purated in Hungary graphy, the telephone, and wireless tele, On 9th March, 1914, when the Japanese is the cause of immense bitterness, and graphy. steamer Hobuse Moru was on her way one need not be a prophet to predict that most wonderful! Ho imagined the righ
Which of all those seemed the up the river from Woosutig to Shanghai this upnatural way of raising new forces answer was, That which is newest at the a collision took place with the P, & O.will very soon call down vengeance on steamer Oriental and the Hokuli Maruthose who are responsible for it.
In wireless telegraphy sank. Messrs. Iwata and Sugenuma, re-
The simple facts are these. The mililly returned to old methods of com presenting the plaintiffs, allege that the tary authorities, having to supply the methods of wireless couimunication:
munication, Sound and light were fault was with those in charge of the armies in the field on three fronts with an Orientat. By virtue of the insurance con- almost unlimited number of men demanded
Owing to the war, wireless telegraphy tract existing then between the plaintiff from a sides with the impatience of it desirable to ask for leave to use it even was under a ban, and he had not thought company and the owner of the useidespair, are throwing themselves upon the for ilustrative purposes. Light, sound, AND REGULAR ATTENTION Muru, Mr. E.-Ishigaki, the company paid resources of the nation with such veheand wireless telegraphy needed something
mence that military exigencies hold in the insurance money.
to carry them. thrall now every male from boys up to
In the case of sound it Mr. Sunagawa contends, however, that men of fifty. It is quite common to find veyed light and electricity.
was generally the air, while ether con the present case does not come within the consumptive ion not yet fifty-one, who sibility of sound when there is no truas The impos jurisdiction of the Japanese Courts have been refused seven times being en-mitting medium was directly illustrated Moreover, when the owner of the vessel rolle now, even those who will reach by the exhaustion of the air of a glass brought an action against the defendant the age of fifty-one in a company in the British Supreme Court of Indeed, anyone, who can move a limb is As the air was withdrawn the sound month's time, vessel inside which a bell was ringing. China at Shanghai judgment was delivered being enrolled and in most cases these gradually ceased, though the hammer con- against the owner of the vessel. Under new recruits are not even allowed back to finued beating on the bell. The lecturer these circumstances the plaintiff company their homes to take leave of their families, also showed a method of transmitting sound ahend or to some unit in training, neon the floor. A tray was put on the top position cording to whether they have served of the rod, and immediately the strains of already or not. The ruthless method en a gramophone which was being played in played in recruiting makes the ordinary the basement underneat became audible. pressed very badly if such methods have to pointed out that though the popular im citizens think that the army must be Sponking about the air, Professor Turner be adopted, and there is no doubt that agination had been struck by the feats of this is the case. The army of the Mon airplanes, wonderful things had been done archy, indeed, is being employed in a task previously by balloons, Far greater that is too great a burden, and though heights had been reached by means of it has achieved great things up to the balloons than by airplanes. Mr. Glaisher present it cannot achieve impossibilities, ascended seven mileg in a balloon. Ho Yet it is felt by the leaders, Austrian and drow attention to the fact, now almost German alike, that a last attempt must be forgotten, that more than a quarter of u succeed now, it will never succeed; there of made now or never, and that if it will not contury ago apparatus, to which the name aeroplano was given, had been con fore, the last drop of strength, the last trived for making acrestatie experiments. ounce of energy,,is being put into notion For the purposes of illustration ho brought out a toy windmill, and showed how "by turning two out of six sails at a sharp angle and the other four at different up which prevented their being driven) and slighter angle a balance could be set round by the force of the air.
INCLUSIVE.
HOUSES TO · LET·
FURNISHED FLATS
F
THE
THE Undersigned are prepared to furnish some of their Tregunter Mansions (May Road) Flats to suit jatening tenants. These Flats have first-class appointments which laclude English Baths and Kitchen ranges, hot water supply and water closets. They are of two kinds, viz.: Flats with 3 Bedrooms and 2 Sitting Rooms and Flats with 3 Bed- reoms and 1 Sitting Room. The latter are specially suitable for Bachelors. Armuge.
ments could be made if desired for the use, in common with certain other tenants, of the adjoining fresh water swimming bath.
Apply to
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE, Co., Iro, Alexandra Buildings. Hongkong 26th January, 1916.
TO LIT.
(20-3
TO LET.
OFFICES IN PRINCE'S BUILDINGS, Second is at justified in instituting the presentant are either sent to the front straight
formerly occupied by Messrs. case, he says. Wm. Meyerink & Co,
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ALEX ROSS & Co., Liquidators, Wx. MEYERINK & Co. Hongkong, 9th February, 1918. [252
No,
TO LET. and 10 MOUNTAIN VIEW, Paix, Apply to
M. J. D. STEPHENS. Hongkong, 13th November, 1915.
[07
AVENSHILL (206 Rontaining 6 Booms, 3 Bath Rooms,
TO. 41, THE PRIK, adjoining Pook Club
Apply to
F. C. JENKIN,
Prince Buildings. Hongkong, 14th February, 1916.
TO LET FURNISHED. From Mid-April nexi.
[279
CRAIGMIN EAST, 180, PELK. Moderate
Apply
T. K. DEALY,
at the house.
Hongkong, 14th February, 1910.
TO LET-FURNISHED.
From 1st April, 1916.
TO LIT.
EAST, Fark Bond, Serrania Quarters, &e. Vacant 1st November.
Apply
DEACON, LOOKER DEACON &
(HARSTON. Hongkong, 19th October, 1915. 1100
TO LET.
Petitions filed by attorneys for both parties to the suit on 1st inst, were graat ed Judge Uyotsuki decided that on the 24th February, the day the next bearing is to be held, will be wholly assigned to
the caso
ECONOMIC PRE-SURF.
WHY THE WAR MAY BE A LONG ONE.
A writer in the Round Table issuas a warning against hopes built upon the rapid weakening of Germany from ecozo- mic causes:-
ΠΟΥ.
BETTER POSITION OF GERMANT.
and
by placing a red in a vertical
Professor Turner also showed on the soreen some remarkable photographs of parts of the sun's surface lately taken by Professor Hale, who, be said, had obtained results far surpassing anything got before.
"Before many months Germany will Thie, as I have said, explains the drastic have to raise another loan, If the cam- paign goes against hor, or even does not it is understood in Hungary that Gor- measures which are now being taken. Yet go with her, the next large operation will, many itself is much better off. and this of course, zot be nearly so easy. But it is knowledge creates dissatisfaction worth while repeating that so long as the bitterness. The position in Germany, in Government has a printing press, it can fact, is not to be compared with that in make money and can pay its way with it, the Monarchy. There the military au- JO. 11, GAGESTREET, from 1st January, wish it to continue the struggle..
so long as the Gorman people trust it, and thorities carry on the recruiting with an Nis
Simi- eye to the industrial and commercial life Apply to
larly difficulties of food supplies, of un-of the country, and exemption from mili- J. VINCENT BRAGA,
employment, and of high prices while theytary service is easily acquired under the will all increase, will probably not taken Order in Council relating to commerce Toyu Kisen Kaisha,
least 100.000 men will shortly be necessary Hongkong, 16th November, 1915.
by themselves be sufficiently serious to with foreign countries, to engagements on [100
to garrison the conquered parts of Serbia, compel peace.
work for war or national purposes, to the 180,000 now on the Roumanian frontier "It will be their cumulative effect work or employment in connection with cannot be reduced, for the attitude of this which will press hard upon the German public recessities, etc. In Austria-Hin-country still gives rise to doubts and people, unless they are counterbalanced gary no such order exists, for only army anxiety, the Russian front must be kept by great victories in the field. It is pos. contractors and their assistants, and those intact for four of an offensive on the part sible that Germany may fail to obtain sup-strictly employed or engaged in war work of the enemy at any moment, and in view imports. But it is not well to rely on this,empted in Germany run up to hundreds bers of German troops from that front, plies of one or more absolutely essential are exempted While the numbers ex-
of the withdrawal of considerable num In the financial and economic spheres the of thousands, those in Hangery are only fundamental question is the psychology of a few thousand men besides the ammuni the German nation and the measure of the tion and war material workers sacrifices it is prepared to endure. There is everything to show that that measure will be a large ens.
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HOUSE
Kowloon
70. 3, STEWART TERRACE, TH
NO PRAK
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"A. J. P."
Care of." Daily Pross" Offics. Hongkong, 11th February, 1948. [283
No
TO LET FURNISHED.
TO. 5, MORRISON HILL -6-Roomed House 4 Bedrooms and 4 Bathrooms, Vacant from 1st March.
Apply
HARRY WICKING & Co. [235 Hongkong, 3rd February, 1910
TO LET.
TWO HOUSES in "STONEHENGE
No. 5. Robinson Road. Newly dena-up and remodelled,
Enah House contains downstair Two Good Rooms and upstairs Three Bedrooms, each with Bathroom.
Outhouses and Grass Tennis Court,
Shortly available for occupation.
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"DAVID SASSOON & Co., LTD.
Hongkong, 22nd December, 1915.
TO LET.
\FFICES in Queen's Building.
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£118.
ARE HONGKONG LAND INVEST!
MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD.
Hongkong, 8th December, 1915.
TO LET.
【O. 5, MOUNTAIN VIEW, PRAX,
No
No, 55, ELGIN TERRCUE.
1100
"GLENIFFER," 3, Hankow Road,Kowloon.
* EILANDONAN," No. 5, Des Voeux Villes,
No. 54, THE PRAX, Fully Furnished, including
Piano, from 1st May to 30th November.
"WOODBURY, No. 4, Hankow Road,
Kowloon, from 1st March, 1916.
- No. 2, ZETLAND STREET,
No. 21, SHELLEY STREET.
No. 25, SHELLEY STREET.
No. 25. SEYMOUR ROAD, WOODLANDS
VILLA WEST.
No 58, PEEL STREET on Caine Foad.
lerel
GLENSHIEL," No, 141, Plantation Road,
Peak, from 1st November, 1915.
*LEWKNOR,” No. 126, THE PEAK,
HARTING" Austin Road, Kowloen.
No. 3, "THE ALBANY."
ROSENEATH.”2. Hankow Rd, Kowloon.
No. 6, BELILIOS TERRACE.
antrance on Conduit Road.
No. 25, BELILIOS TERRACE, WHE
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OFFICES at 2, Connaught Bond.
OFFICES in King's Buildings, OFFICES in Des Voeux Roma Central. HOUSES in CLIFTON Conduit Road,
GARDENS,
NEW HOUSES in Broadwood' Terrson, HOUSES as the Peak.
No 1, MORETON TERRACE, Caneway Bay
GODOWNS, at Wancha No 1 and 2. WEST END TERRACE
CANTON,
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ASAHI
DAI NIPPON BREWERY
32
BEER
CO. TOKIO JAPAN
If the war is a prolonged one finan- cial and still more coonomie considerations will exert greater and greater influence But for some mouths to come their in- fluence will not be decisive or even sorious, The Allies, it is true, have in the aggre gate much greater resource in wealth and population than have Germany, Austria Hungary and Turkey.
great advantage of concentration and ab- "Germany, on the other hand, bag the solute preparedness. Her whole aim is and must be to deal her foes rapid blows violent and shattering in character that they will be forced to make peace before any process of economic exhaustion has begun. In this it does not appear that she will succeed.
The number of casualties in the Austro- Hungarian armies during the past four weeks is estimated to amount to not less. than 600,000 men on all three fronte, of which more than 25 per cent. were cases of sickness, due to the changed climatic conditions, and to the inferior physique of the arms engaged. The ambulance trains bringing the wounded back from Serbie carry as many sick consumptive ad fever-stricken men as wounded, due to the abominable sanitary conditions in the evacuated regions
DOGS CALLED' ITP.
7.00 a.m. Members of Signalling
Section and other Signallors, a detailed in Signalling Section Order dated 3th December, 1915- Semaphore practice at Headquar tera.
5.16 p., Recruits of Engineer Ce.. Musketry and Rifle exercises af Taikoo Dockyard, under Bergh. Everest.
5.15 p.m. Civil Service Co-Drill as
Headquarters.
8.00 p.m. No. 1 Section Scouts Co.
(all members)-Machino gua İz struction at Hendquarters. Remainder, nil,
DETAIL.
5-Ox duty until morning of 18th inst
-II.K.V.R.
G. E.. STEWART, Osp,
Adjutant, B.K.V.O.
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE
ROUTE MARCH,
All rauks, except medical exempts, will parade at Central Station a 2.45 p ̧m. sharp on Saturday, February 19ta. for Route March through Weetorn Police District. Uniform, Helmot and Rifles,
N. C. OFFICERS.
C. Officers will meet at the Magistracy on Thursday, February 170, at .5.30- p.m
MUSKETRY PART II.
Firing will take place on Sunday, Feb (a) Leave Blake Pier 9.00 am, sharp.
ruary 20th, as follows:-
The
3rd and 4th Platoons of No. 2 Com
pany, also N.C.Os of same Com pany who have not fired Part II, * All N.C.Os. of No. 2 Company will- Leave Blake Pier 1.00 pm, sharp
attend for Rango Duties.
1st and 2nd Platoons of No. 2 Com.
pany,
2nd Platoon, No, I Company, Also
Bergt. Gibson, Inspector Lammert, Borgts, Eustace, Hewett, Fothergill,. Butterfield and Wilks will attend for Range Duties.
TRAMWAYS, attention of all ranks, and parti cularly of Inspectors and Sorgenata, is drawn to the fact that the Police are expected to pay regard to, rather than violate, the Tramway Bye-laws, Reports have been received of over crowding when coming off Parade.
F C. JaNzIN,
D.S.P. (R.)
JAPAN AND INDIA,
To give an idea of how ruthlessly the recruiting is being carried on, one may mention cases by the hundreds, where people have been carried away literally
is an interesting note on Japanese com- In the Pioneer Mait (Allahabad) there from sanatoriums not to speak of soldiers
mercial enterprise. having to return with unhealed wounds.
Allies in the Bag East are waking aurant. It appears that our The recruiting campaign" just now in
age of the interruption of Engush and progress had disastrous results for the
German trade with India caused by the special constabulary of Budapest, This worthy body contains men either too old
war to improve their own prospects in the Ladian markete. In particular, Japan or unfit for military service. They num bered 30,000 up to the posting of the last Another sign of the sore need for mon
has been supplying Indian buyers with only 15,000. If one takes this case se a recruiting placards; now they namber
many article which were formerly pro- is the official announcement published re- vided by Germany, among them being cop basis to start from, the figures being the garding subjects of allied countries, per and yellow metal sheets, comment, and reliable information available, it can be themselves at their respective Consulates, Ware is also being imported from Japaza
These people are called upon to present ass lamps and chimneys.
Enamelled accepted as indisputable that afty per Gorman, Turkish, Bulgarian, at once and in large quantities. It is ever more fre cent of all those men who have been ro-prepare to have immediately for home markable to noto that the Japanese have peatedly thrown back as unfit are being. enrolled now, Indeed, that is calculating Should they fail to answer the call, taken to brewing beer on a large scale; on the safe side. for the special constables says the placard, they will be enrolled and they have definitely get to work to But it may well be that the issue of included men over fifty, who would not They can choose whers they would rather medity.
in the Hungarian of Common army.
cut out their German rivals in this com the struggle will be decided in the next even be called up for medical examina
In the year 1913-1914 Bombay three or six months, and, if it is, will have tion. Another point is this: there is not serve, at home or in the Monarchy, batimported only twenty-two gallons of beer been decided, not by any economic or finan-one civilian in Hungary today who, ifore they must. Their Age is not avon
from Japan; but in 1914-1916 this figure cial considerations, but by the force of under fifty years of age, has not been limited to hity years. Every male over
had risen to more than 8,000 gallons. arms on sea and land. Therefore, though medically examined by the military at seventeen must go Another placed on Importations have increased rapidly,' our task must be to weaken Germany least eight times. Yet the enrolment of the street corners calls ep the dogs, save the Pioneer,
Cotton piecegoods are economically and financially in every pos these moon is proceeding at the rate that "All dogs capable of drawing small carte also being imported from Japan on a sible way, it would be folly on our part men between twenty-one-and-twenty-four are to be brought up for examination for large scale, a lact which the journal re- to look to such influence to decide the wor are called up in peace time. In order to the people read it with ironic smiles tors.
war purpoDB, aays the placard, and commends to the notice of English por in our favour."
gain a clear idea of the military value of thinking that soon the cats and even the those men one need only point out that title canaries will have to do their bit.”
THE WASTAGE-TEMANNY
men who were rejected as unfit a month if the war lasts much longer. As a matter COURAGEOUS F.M.S. CONSTABLE. VESUVIUS BURSTS ITS BONDS.
ago are being accepted now,
of fact the war dogs are doing very good w service, and as no more horses are to be Among the recipients of the King's medal Since the eruption nine years ago a big
A a matter of fact, one cannot blame had they are extremely useful in drawing for police and firemen granted on New new cone has beon forming above the throat
the military authorities if one considers the machine guns and other light equip Year's Day was Bela Singh, Police Com of Vesuvius inside the main crater until
the renny and military objects that drive ment. The army resorted to dogs only a stable No, 1827, F.M.S. Police Force. It it had attained a height of nearly 200ft. them. The Hungarian statistician whom few months ago, for up to then the em- was granted for exceptional courage in. This cone was suddenly rent asunder on I have already quoted in the Morning ployment of dogs in the Austro-Hungarian seizing and overpowering armed Folice-
ans l'ost the night of Japan 3rd, when an enormous several times, calculated the num-army was quite unknown. The famous man Basant Singh, who ran amok at Depor volume of gases, accumulated within the bers needed at prosent for reinforcements Hungarian horas are almost extinct now: Barracks, Kuala Lumpur, on April 13th; fery gullet measuring 150 yards in sir at not less than 37,000 daily if the Gene- the dog has to take its place
1915 After having ahot dead and bayonet cumference, and blocked hitherto with mil-ral Staff insists on keeping the numbers Just because this state of affairy is felted a sergeant major, Basant Singh took up. Lions of cubic yards of congealed haya, continually up to the mark. The Serbian very keenly by everybody here and be a position of challenge in a corner of the finally found vent through the cone, which campaign itself consume over twelve cause the people are made to believe that parade ground. Bels Singh who was re- was blown to pieces. The vast floor of the thousand men a day in killed, wounded, the same state of affairs exists in Germany fused a rifle, managed, by keeping out of: central crater was fooded with molten
and sick; the Russian front consumes al- too anaasumption which I do not en sight behind the barracks to get behind fire, and giant tongues of fame shot sky most as many, and the Italian theatre of dorse there is considerable talk going on Basant Singh, and when the dutte, was wards. This night spectacle of a burning war during the present offensive of the about the voluntary, aystem of recruiting about to fre as the adjutant, sprang on mountain-after its long spell of cleep at enemy is costing even more of the 37,000 in England. To put it plainly nobody him from behind, disarmed him and held tracted many sightseers.:
men needed, those who have recovered believes here that over a million men have bin until assistance arrived. from wounds supply the half, but the other volunteered for active service in England. half have to be found, if the army is to Naturally people judge things through be kept up to its present strength. That the sentiments existing in Budapest, POETRY SEASON IN JAPAN, would mean 19.000 men a day, that is, where if the recruiting had been volun- 570,000 a month, of which half, 285,000, tary, not ever 100.000 men would have To drop into postry" in Japan is the have to come from the civilian popula been raised, Tot it is the general opinion regular thing, once a year. There were tion. How otherwise would it be possible that if it be true that England raised January 24th, says Lord Balfour saw a twenty thousand ute sent in to the House for the recruiting authorities to raise over a million men by the voluntary system deputation of the Rubber Traders Associa hold Department this year by all classes of such numbers out of a mass already sifted it is the greatest marvel the war has pro- tion last week. His utterance shows that
that majesty in the composition of light verse, ployed. The occupied territories need an
compulsion is going to be introduced as reported, but the authorities are exer- number of men" for garrisoning The sax honoured wipers were all condities, a circumstance which has to be new, and first class men are to take the past few weeks applications had been
inlimited
and that perhaps a million cising a closer supervision. During the mosets, if such a phrase may be used with rockoned with in Serbia, especially where held in a few months' time against the received in such large quantities that, bad propres, the most honoured being a provar village needa guarding and gar Germans in the West at a period when they been granted, they would amount to vincial school teacher, while second place itisoning where a population not only the Central Powers are on the verge of practically the output of the East in the given to a woman, the wife of a Waseda pro-hustile but dangerous to the army has to exhaustion is regarded here with consider. period in question being shipped to Ame
be watched, terrorised and crushed. Atable apprehension.
RUBBER PERMITS.
A wire to the Times of Ceylon, dated
"ONE GODOWN, No. 8, Burrows Street, OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE, the people anxious to he bracketed with the utmost, if not by the method ex- duced. On the other band the rumour permits are not to be completely stopped
TWO GODOWNS, in Doddell Street,
No. 2, DES VŒUX- VILLAS, 61, PRAX (Unfurnished),
No.58, THE PEAK (1 CAMERON VILLAS. Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS-
Brd Floor, Alexandre Dufidio pS. Hongkong, 11th February. 1916.
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