CONCERNING WAR EXPERTS.
TO MESSRS, BELLOC, MAUDE & CO.
"And what asked my wife, as we settled to our pipes after dinner. “is the worst thing you poor dears have to endure in France?"
Tho returned warrior luxuriously crossed his legs and gazed contemplatively nt the fire, He is rather 1 in our family just now. Everyone also is either over of under age, except myself, and I had a regrettable difference of opinion with the doctor. I must confose that I rather dread my grandchildren asking me in future years what I did in the Great War The a special constable
GERMAN SUBMARINE
[BY THE
SECRETS.
SPIES AND SPYING.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 10rm, 1910.-
DAILYMAIL CORRESPONDENT WHO DINED WITH THR KAISER, 17-
One of the axioms of those employed in secret service work for a newspaper should be to seek material by staying at the best. hotel in any city in which he is making Investigations. Big fish swim in large lakes, Furthermore, the visitors at large hotels pro less noticed and suspected than
those st. small ones.
THE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR-
The following correspondence has passed between Mr. Ronald McNeill, M.P., and one of his constituents with reference to compulsory "service" and conscientious objectors
The Square, Stournouth, Canterbury,
Jan. 12th, 1910.
To Mr. Ronald McNeill, M.F.
S18-May I respectfully inform you that as it is my conviction that all war is contrary to the precepts and principles of the Christian faith, I cannot take part in the present conflict without abandoning the loyalty I profess to the Lord Joris Christ
I trust that during the discussion on the Military Service Bill in Parliament, you will have in mind the single men of will tary age who feel that by acting in accord- ance with their deepest convictions, they are truly serving their God, King, and
I learned a good deal at the Hotel Bristol answer that Iwah
at Vioana. It was there that I encounter guarding a brewery secung to the somehow a
ed the officer of the Polish Legion who in- trifle frivolous and unromantic- But-Itroduced me to a German foreman erector of submarines from the famous Germania digress. Revenang à vine moutona,
"Of course-shelling's nasty, very nasty shipyard at Kil. He was of the boasting at times, and saipers are the devil. Our ype and by the same judicious flattery which carried me so many miles in the guest thought deeply," Mining is a nasty
enemies territory I soon found out a great weapon, and bombs, both ours and theirs, are very dangerous. But, d'you know. Ideal as to the mystery of the German sub-country.I remain, Your obedient servant, really believe that speaking personally, marines in the Sea of Marmors. mind you-it's war experts.' He looked round sadly and sighed,
"War experts!" I explained in sur prise. But before you went out you always used to swear by 9.
"That's just it he interrupted; "I did. The process of disillusion is what hag 30 much worse for me. As you say, made before I went out I used to rear by those majestic utterances - those sonorous phrases. The fact that in no single case were the prophecies ever fulfilled meant. nothing to Hope lives eternal-and the reiterated singent nade mnthly that we should be on the Rhine by Tuesday for night was undoubtedly a great comfort. When Tuesday fortnight came and no Rhin remembered that to er is human, to get paid for it is divine.
Of the small type, they number six-I do not think mort, It was a little more than a year ago that English newspapers were discussing the possibility of carrying submarines by rail. The Germans have "proved that submarines of the smaller type ena easily be manufactured in sections at. one place and carried hundreds of miles
by trail to another, where they are assembled and tested..
THE "U" BOAT 1 SAW.
ALBERT HOLMES. 18, Cadogan-place, Lunlon. SW.
Jan. 15th, 1916
To Mr. Albert Holmes,
The Square,
Stoutmouth, Canterbury. SIR.I am in receipt of your letter of the 12th, in which you tell that as your opinion all war is contrary to the principles of the Christian faith, you can I proved the accuracy of this man's in-.
not take part in the present conflict with out abandoning the loysity you protes formation as to four of the submarines by actually seeing them, The numbers of
the Lord Jesus Christ" and you intimate three of them were 4, 18, and 25 King, and Country" by refusing to taky that you propose 144 serve your “God, I could not are the number of the fourth. They were all of exactly the same size.struction, and your fellow-countrymen and part in defending your country” from de The 18 hus painted on its coining tower
countrywomen from pillage, mardes, and a huge Tron Crus shaping that it has Then i went out to France, where Inchured saree great distinction.. found that my querations from the great- thinkers became the subject of unseemly mirth. In fact, when I told the colonel that I had it on the best authority from (one who know that the German Army was
only being kept up to strength by the ployment of incurable opileptics in the thirdline trenches his reply was unprint- able. On my mentioning my authority his reply was still unprintable, ending up with a fervent prayer that be and all othery of his kidney would come out and do something instead of writing such drivel, and that if the sniper who had twice grazed his nose was an epileptic bo wished to Heaven we had a few in our Army,
But the habits of youth die hard. True, faipe and lingering doubts began to creep in, but I was far from the condition of cynical humour with which hardened officers who have been out there seme time greet these effusions,
“As I have said, the fact that each one differed from everybody else's utterances and his own previous ones I passed, over.. The fact that of two men, ench startang with the samo data, one positively said the way would be settled in France while the other as positively said Russia was in material. It gave one such a wide choles oneself.
***Even the great thought I saw put forward by one export that the possession of heavy artillery was a disadvantage to the army that had it, owing to its tamo. bility, even that though, I confess, it abfuck me as a trifle barre--I swallowed, with a gulp.
Hiring a rowing boat and wearing ny fes, I found their base on January 15th. It is cleverly hidden betwixt two big Ger- man liners in the Golden Horn between the marine frsonal and Hasskein, a little vil-
age that, has been entirely destroyed by the explosion of a powder factory. By this
rape.
KAISER STORIES.
SOME BIRTHDAY ANECDOTES..
BY HERDERT VIVIAN)
An Englishman was hurrying through the streets of Berlin with a great bundle of books under his right arm and all sorts of parcels in both hands. As he poised himself on the edge of the Friedrichstrasse preparatory to making a dash for the re- fuge in the centre he was arrested by a warning cry. The imperial carriage was alust upon him.
He had only time to stumble back, shift parco's anyhow, and take off his hat with his left hand. But, fancy saluting an Em- peror with the left hand I have known men in India knocked down by choleric. colonels for milder solecisms. No wonder the Kaiser was wrath and forget his dignity.
He leaned right out of his carriago and shouted something that sounded very like Swine! Then there was us exhibition of rage that must be twee en litinn Varied history of the Hohenzollerns. The Kaiser put out his imperiet tongue at the unknown Englishman.
How childish! Yes, but he has always considered himself a spoiled chrid, with a a spoiled child's privilege to do just what happened to enter his head. And just then he was marmuring an equivalent of Gu1t strafe England to himself nearly all the time. It was soon after his father's death, when he had put his mother under nerest and set seatings at every door of diaries and private papers, and it was n the palice to prevent her exporting her English (who knows perhaps that helped to smuggle them away. very left-handed Englishman) who had
THE JOKE HE LIKES,
Stil, with his chameleon temper, he has often offered an apparently warm welcome to
agrishmen before and since. I say apparently, because there was almost always an enemy of mischief about it.
came to meet when he was cruising remember an industrial deputat un that
nothing about lacustry but a great deal about somewhere near Hamburg. He said about the sand everybody began to wonder what he was driving at
I will not discuss with you whether the Christian faith requires us to slow such abominations to be perpetuated without re, wath me that it would be not less contrary sistance. But.. as I am sure you will agres
you to be of military age to make use of to Christian principles for you-assuming the tufferings and sacrifices of other fe time, it my informant was correct, and securing the continnange of your own have no reason to doubt that like so many safety and comfort, I presume you will Germans, be told me a good deal more thanappy for appointment as a stretcher- he ought, the number is six. He had put bearer at the front, or as a mine-sweeper at the together at Trieste
The German submarino officers and crews. sen, where you will bo helping to save
human life without by your action ender-mouth. to be met in Constantinople are not at all dering any life but your own. Yours of the swaggering Prussian type,...... faithfully.
" 61'8" FEAT:
These smaller type submarines must not he confused with the U7 51, which, as the German newspapers have so proudly de scribed nude the great voyage from Kiel to Constantinople, either through the Eng. Fish Channel or by going round Scotland, some ten months ago Von Herking, who, now that Weddigen has been killed, is the
hero
RONALD MCNEILL
The first essential of a travelling Ger man or Austrian spy is to obtain by hook, or crook a passport from a neutral country which enables him to arrive in England in safety.
Let me describe a conversation with one such individual, who, opening the conversa tion on the war as we approached a fron tier tried to find out my views. I lot him express his own first, and they were vio
"None the less," he said, "I have been amung those Schweinkunds twice in the jastax months. Fortunately, I did not let the grass grow under my feet during my seven years' residence there, and I Blatter myself that I can speak English as an Englishman. Do you know any he asked.
of the German submarine navy, is the type of man who would appeal to the sporting instincts of Englishmen. He is of the Max Horton kind. It was he who sank the Triumph and the Majestic.fently pro-German,
As quietly as any Englishman would bave done he described to me on my first visit to Constantinople his wonderful voy age, the picking up of petrol in the Bay of Biscay at an exactly appointed time and place, his passing by Gibraltar in broad daylight, the agonies of his imprisonment for two hours in a' British submarine net of Lemos, the escape with a damaged pro- poller, and safe arrival at Constantinople in the early days of May. I often talked to him in the Pera, Club on my previous visit, when there were comparatively few Germans and plenty of food!
"It wasn't anything like that that finished me." The warrior sadly tapped out his ash on to the carpet and ground it in with his foot: dear chap, he was back in bia dug-out again in spirit. "It wasn't that it was the hideous way I was insulted one wet and windy night, when
If all the Germans were of the game lyps averything had gone wrong, and while I
s the German naval officers and men the still hung in the balanes of illusion and
word Han would not so aptly fit. They disillusion,"
Insulted cried my wife.
are obliged to do horrible work but it is how? Surely it couldn't have been intent be remembered always that they are.
earrying out orders from Berlin
tiona.'
But
Thore
"A little," I replied in order to draw him out. And indeed he spoke English perfectly, and looked a very excellent speci men of the Anglo-Saxon race, such as one. found of moininga, before the war, in Eand-street or Pall Mall,
The basis of the false passport, which the traveling spy must get, is the birth sertificate. This is easily forged and can be obtained for a price by those who know
where to go.
In the early days of the war therg was are brutes among them, no doubt, but such a regular trade in forged passports in German naval officers as I have met com-several neutral countries, where they could pare most favourably with their swagger- be purchased for between ten and fifteen
Ger- ing colleagues of the land service. ponads, Those days are now past and man sailors are under no misapprehension John Bull is wider awake, ns to the might and efficiency of the British Navy. They do not spread the tale that the British Fleet is hiding in ports while the Germau ships are proudly promenad ing the North Sea,
With the birth certificate, combined with a-letter from some commercial firm to the effect that the person referred to wishes to proceed to Egland on certain business, tht getting of the passport is not so difficult as it may seem. The documents are prestated at the passport office and the passport secured,
"A very nasty, choppy seu!" he roared, in that colloquial, exotic English of his. There was sa odd look in his shut the muteles twitched at the corners
confess, now, weren't you all very sick "Ah gentlemou," he went on, indeed when you crossed the North Sen? Didn't you feel very sorry that you had ventured upon our German Ocean, our great tafeguard against invasion ?"
Then he threw back his shoulders and gave vent to prals upon peals of Homeric laughter, that seemed as though they never would stop.
I have been told since by several of his familiar friends that anything to do with sea-sickness is an unfailing source of joy to him. However gloomy or perturbed he fay be, the mere mention of a bad cross- ing gsutlices to bring him back to intith.
Hig Laugh is unlike any other in the world-not so much a wad laugh as au uncanny eas. He opens his mouth very wide and roars, or rather bays, screwing up his Rose and shutting his eyes. It is
an infections laugh, for you are too much astonished to want to join in. At last there are three or four snaps or barks and he stops suddenly. The only sound I have heard much like it is the laughter of
forest when a storm is passing away.
DOING ALL THE TALKING.
Most of his humour is of the simplest, silliest kind, such as would make quite small schoo.boys feel ashamed, Occasion- ally however, he devised practical jokes that must have required a long period of incubation For instance, he made quite a practice of inviting Mr. Winston Churchill to the German maneuvres and then scarcely allowing him to open his
toouth
He received me very kindly," Mr. Churchill told me ruefully on his return. from one of these expeditions, but his ideas of conversation are decidedly ori ginal. He insists on doing all the talking be....
This must have been special treatment deliberately prepared for a good talker, as the Kaleer's habit is to ply most people with incessant questions. The idea that ho is garrulou, in private requires re- Then comes the vise of the British Confutation. It doubtless arose from memories sul not so often an Englishman as he of his many public indiscretions should be sometimes, if English, older and less alert than he should be,
With
IMPERIAL PINCHES.
Then if it won't, I should dike to know what is. Listen to the story and ther judge I'd had an awful night; it was raining. I'd fallen into a shel hole in the dark and scarly drowned. My servant had upset my only bottle of whisky and my tobacco was soaked. Another blighter had gone on leave instead of me, and I was fair fed up. However, I got iniu my dug-out in time and found thero was a mail-which southed me, And after a Our people started the war ten years while I forgot my petty, miserable troubles too soon was the remark of one German in the beautiful flow of stylish Eng- naval officer to me. Jish which I found in one of the papers. One soon gathers that there is no lovel There was something so wonderfully com lost between the German Army and the forting in those reassuring columns. German Navy, and it is not to be won- Surely nothing could be amiss in the war dered at. Contrast, the two types, as I when such a flood of rhetoric gushed so often say them at the Pera Palace those papers the travelling spy of German" When he stayed in the New Forest (come glibly forth from that facile pen. Again Hotel: the one swaggering, "swanking," or Austrian birth or interests arrives at say for purposes of high espionage) to and again was he repeating his message of grumbling at the lack of amusements, Folkestone or Tilbury or Southampton, made himself quits popular with the villa hopo and comfort. Certainly, having road growing if the Liebesgabe (parcel) from where there is no lack of strict scrutiny.gers by giving elaborate tea fights to their page or two, I felt a little dazed.Berlin, with its saunge, Leberwurst, and Lately the investigation has been especially children. He used to organise their games didn't seem to have reached the paint, but the like, cigars, and puté de joie gras, is a severe. But of what avail is investigation and give them shillings, but the small boys then i reflected I'd had a trying evening day late; the other quiet, well-mannered, if the passport and business letter sccomed to complain that he was too rough, aud perhaps my brain wasn't working at accustomed to great hardship and dangerpanying it are based on false premises? and he did not seem to realise how much pressure. I read on,
At the risk of repeating myself, I from childhood, self-respecting and re- wish again to asseverate what I drew specting others the nearest approach to an English gentleman that the Germans especial attention to last week, and the
can produce. Not many naval officers are week before, and the one before that; ag a from the Hun country of Prussia, firm grasp of this essential fact is im
situation. Whatever minor facts may now
Arrived in England, the travelling spy visits the resident spy, cautiously, lest the resident spy is being watched. He meets bim perhaps is a large hotel. He writes nothing. If he makes an appointment, it It is beyond question true that the sink-is probably by telephone or message perative to an undistorted view of the ing of the Lusitania is horridly unpopular through a third party.
In the early days of the war spies were or again crop up in this titanic conflict, in the German Navy, though gloried an by
more oareless with the result tant num we must cat shut our eyes to the rules the whole German people, of war. They are unchangeablo, immo-
bera of them roŝo at dawn the Tower of table: the rules of Casar wore the rules of
Loudou Napoleon, and are in fact the rules that 1 myself have consistently laid down in thes,
columns.
They cannot change; this war will be decided by them as surely as night follows day; and those ignorant persons who the would do well to remember that are permitted to express their opinions
simple fact."
Spoken like my own brave boy, I thought to myself What is this gem of thought this great world fact the all but he have forgotten What is this literary pistol that to-morrow I will hold at the colonel's head 11 read on, and at last got it." The warrior looked at us, each in turn, solemnly. portentously
***Whine was it?" wo erica together."
An obstacle in an army's path is tha which obstructs the path of the army in question,"
Ta was then I felt the brewery calling ma-C,N. in the Daily Mail,
The letter consorship has doubtless check-
extent
ho could hurt with his pinchen,
MANY DISGUISES,
SHIPPING IN PORT..
STRAMARO
CHUNGKONG, British str., 1,228, E. Monk
maa, 13th March-Hongay 11th March, Coal-Butterfield & Swire. Daaris, Norwegian str., 897, Thurson, March 6th-Saigon February geth, Rice-Thoresen de Co. DAINICHI MARU, Japanese str., 1952, Tukui, 8th March-Saigon 3rd March, DAIYA MARU, Japanese str.. 1.658, K.
Rio-Mitsui Bussan Kaisho, Ozawa, 8th MarchMoji 2nd March, Coal-Mitsui Bursin Kaisha. TEICHING,Chinese str., 394, G. B. Baines, 11th March-Swatow 10th March, FooER, Chinese str.. 859, Miyoku,
Gonoral-Chinese,
10th March-Bangka 1st March, Guzi. HANGCHOW, British str., 999, Partridge,
eral-Order.
WEATHER REPORT.
On the 15th at 11.20 am.-The anti-cyclone as weakened. It is still sentral over N, China,
A shallow depression lies to the north of the Bonins.
Pressure has decrenand in all dir'ricte, mo erately along the east coast of China and slightly elsewhere,
along the east coast of Chine, and over the N. Fresh to moderate monsoon may le expected Crins Sea..
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 am to-day, 0.00 faction.
today in sa follows:-
The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon
DISTRICT.
FOREGAST
1 Fast wirds, mor ̈derate ; fair,:
NE. winds. ...strong to fresh.
13th March-Saigon 8th March, Rice, Bougkeng & Neighbourhord HONGKONG, French str. 730, A. Mar- Formosa Chancel
-Butterfield & Swire..
guerite, 12th March-Haiphong 1013 March, General-A, R. Marty. KAMOR, Norwegian atr. 987, -, 14th March-Singapure 8th March, General. ---Order.
HBINLEE, Chinese str., 1,359, Meri, 8th. March-Weihaiwei 2nd March, on. oral.--Order.
Bouth Coast of Chius between ! The same
Hongkong and Inenooka. Į No. 1, Bouth coast of Chins between ƒThe ame Hongkong and Baman.. 1 No. 1.
INDRAGHIRI, British str., 3.000, W1o, CHINA
Charters, 8th March--Manila 6th March, General.-Butterfield & Swiro, LAENTES, British str., 1.35), A. Jenkyns, 19thy
March-Saigon 4th March, Rice and General Order, Luzon Manu, Japanese str, 9,085, S.
Watanabe 13th March Kobe 4th March, General.-Osaka Shosen Kni- abs.
MAUSANG, British str., 1,463, G. H. Alcock, 10th March-Sandakan 4th March, Wood and General. Jardine, Matho- son & Co. MoREsux, British-str., 1.350, M. B. Wil-
Station.
COAST
Bon, 11th March-Saigon Gth March, Viadivostock, Rice-Order NANY Manu, Japanese str., 1,019, K.
Nemuro Hakodate Tokio-
Krobi
METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER.
15 MARCH A.M.
Takanashi, March 4th-Moji February Buth, Coil-Mitsu Bussan Kaisha, NIKKO MAKU, Japanowe str., 3,076, I. Nag moo Takeda, 11th." March Manila 8th Kagoshima March, General---Nippon Yusen Kai bima AUG sha.
Nabs in
NINOro, British str., 1,228, J. A. McCullahima
loch, 11th Murch-Saigon 6th March, Itiec-Butterfield & Swire. PROMETHEUS, Norwegian str., 1.029, M. Jensen, 14th March Baugkok oth March, Rico.Thoresen & Co.
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SHANTUNG, British str., 1,221, Heathrel. Changaba Hàn
12th March-Shanghai 9th March, General-Butterfield & Swire. SEANEL, British str., 1,229. H. B. Simons 12th March-Saigon ath March, Rico. -Order.
SHAW HSING, Chinese str., 767, G. Rams land, 10th March-Dalny 4th March, Beans.-Order, SHIOKUM MARU, Japanese str., 1,739, C. Shirai, 19th March.-Miike 6th March, Coal Mitsui Bussan Kaisha. ST. ALBANS, British str,, 2.535, E, T. Pilcher, 13th March-Kobe 8th March, TANGO MARG, Japanese str., 4,280,
General-Gibb, Livingston & Co.
Takano, 13th March Nagasaki Oh March, Goueral-Nippoo Yusen Koi sba TooSING. British str., 1,423, Jag. M. Hay, 14th March-Moji 9th March, General. -Jardino, Matheson & Co. URRAY MARU, Japanese atz., 9,285,
Coal-
13th March Mike 7th March, Mitsui Bussan Kaisha.. YUENBANG, British str., 1,753. W. M. Mesney, 14th March Manila 11th March, General-Jardine, Matheson & Co.
FORTH OMING EVENTS.
Saturday, 25th March:--
11.30 Hongkong Hope Manuaisoturing
Co., Ltd. Meeting of Bhareholders. 11:45 am-Hongkong Repe Manufacturing Co, Ltd., Extraordinary General Meeting Monday, 27th March
5.30 pm.Hongkong Club, Thirtieth Yearly
General Mesting. Tuesday, 28th Merch:-
11:30
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8 HUMIDITY, in peromings of saturation, the sumidity of air matarsted with moistare being 100. Ice Co., Ltd., Meeting
* Diamoriów or WIND, to two polała, poli
• HOBOS OF Warn, wwording to Basatori Bamts. Noon--Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.,
1 BZAZE OF WHarnsa, b ́blas aki, o disachad Meeting of 8bareholders.
dad, ddelsaling rain, £ fog, a gloomy, but, i Wednesday, 29th March.--_
lightning, o Orsonely passing showers, a #qual 11.30m-China Sugar Refining Co, Ltd, dn, vanow, t thundar, w visibility, wasRLEAN
Meeting of Shareholders.
7 Bam in inches, § tenths and hundesditto. Friday, 31st March
71,30 am.-Luzon Sugar Refining Co., Ltd.,
meeting of Shareholders.
ENGLISH MONEY IN GERMANY.
The Times correspondent at Rotterdam reports that's considerable amount of Eng- lish paper money is circulating in Ger- many, where a one-pound note fetches 25.40 marks against 20 marks in normal times. The writer of the Times City article, while remarking on the great improbability that English notes are now passing legitimately into Germany, expresses the strongest ans picion that Germany adding to her other whether agreeably or not was of no conse-lowing the example of Frederick the Great. His delight has been to surprise people. criales by forging British paper, thus fol-
forget to tip humble people and then watch money, thereby increasing Prussian re- quence. I have seen him deliberately who flooded Pond with forged Polish stealthily to see how they took the disap-sources while injuring the enemy's finan Pointment, The eventual reward would cial position. not be according to their fortitudo but- according to the whim of the moment. Mischief is the keynote of big more than eccentric character
The presence of German submarines at Constantinople is not altogether relished by the Turks Ench of the four sub- marinos I saw bas a gun on the fore parted. written communication to a very great For instance, when he went abroad of the vessel, not a powerful weapon, but
The greatest care should be exercised by special police were always told off to guard quite sufficient to inshil terrop into the
British Consuls abroad as to the granting.
him against conspirators, and he used to inhabitants of the city, if required,
of the visethat is to say, the superscriplay the most elaborate plots to dodge his tion required by the British Governant disguises were so Jugenious that the keepers and make them look foolish His on the passport. If necessary the British Consul should have the support" of u ehrewd international polyglot detective from England to advise him and warn him against any case in which there is the least suspicion. The statement of the man abovo referral fo that twice within the last six months he had been in England (and I have no reason to doubt his word) shows that even now there are possi bilities of leakage for which the authorities any of the principal ports of arrival the three I have mentioned are only a few of many) are not responsible They can net only upon the papers produced;
There is just a little fight left against the Germans in Turkey as I can prove, but it is very little, The Germans know that, and never allow the Turks too much ammunition, lest they may turn against them. It is notorious that the shortage of ammunition in Callipoli was due, not entirely to inability to get it there, but to the fast that the Germans would not trust the Turks with too much.
A SPY'S TALK.
Now as to apics. I have my own views as to the Geroun spy system in England. Of one thing I am certain, and that is that it is as thormagh as is every other part of their military work
I gather that there has been nothing wicked about his escapades, but his great-ambi- tion was to pose as a fascinating young man and take people in. ́ ́ This bas sometimes led w rather unpleasant no- meats, for he cannot stand chaff and back of his head even at his most expansive cherishes notions of five-majesté at the hours
NO MONEY.
HONGKONG
METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER.
Hongkong Observatory, March 15th,
Barometer
Pamperstare fumidity....
Wind Direction
Poros Wether Baini
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HONGKONG TIDE TAŚLA,
From 16th to 22nd March, 1916.
Hson WAZZE
Height
Height
"Low" "Waren.
H'kong.
Mean
Time
Time
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