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INTIMATIONS
Ten Victor Records which
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Silver Threads Among The Gold...
Cello
17342
Broken Melody,
Juliet's Slumber
17460
Venetian Love Song
Finlandia Tone Poem (Sibelius)
36536
(Meyerbeer)
Blue
2502
Paradise
Mist
Fox Trot
Song
Vixea
04327Ah, Love, but a day,
04120 I Hear You Calling Me
74437-Love's Nocturne
74397-Legende
801-La Campanella (Lisz
-89389 --Abide With Me (Liddle)
... Que Step..
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Violin
...Pianoforte.
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28 ra 1916,
Rozario Bourdon. Victor Concert Orchestra. Conway's "Band Conway's Band
Evan Williams. McCormack.
Hamlin Zimbalist. Paulerewski. Clara Butt.
MOUTRIE'S
VICTOR AGENTS.
JUST LANDED:
A SUPPLY OF
CALDBECK,
(20-3
MME SARAH BERNHAR DT.
VISIT TO THE TRENCHES.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph writes :--
BLOCKADE TRICKS,
SOME TRUE STORIES.
[DY A BLOCKADER:]
"Onions on might play tennis with! What na absurdity-
"Not so big a one as it sounds; wait until you have heard the story?
Tumbling over the waves on her way back from a "search" came Sesscraper's Hoat. She tied up alongside and her crew
scrambled inboard along the boom," !!
Bill, here's something to put in your soup," called one of them to a messmate, holding up a large onion."
Right you are: pitch it here," answer ed Bill, extending a lage, work-hardened palm. Whizz came the onion, which toueled Bill's horny paw, rebounded from it, struck the edge of a table, and then went bounding along the moss-deck like ball.
Well I'm blowed!" exclaimed Bill, looking after it with a surprised yet un- derstanding eye. So that's the latest, is it 7, Best if you can over make sure you've properly overhauled there ships. until you've prized open the mouths of the crew and looked down their throats with a telescope.”-
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The alleged onion was made if rub- ber and had been brought back as a curio by one of the search party from the ship that had just been overhauled, and aboard which there were many bushels of other onions exactly like it. All surts of clever devices are adopted to try to get contraband through the British lockade. The American genius who in Vented wonten natinegs gave an idea to would-be blockade runners which they here elaborated and vastly improved.
But hard war experience has taught our patrol service not to accept things as being just what they seem--no matter how guilelessly like them they may ap pear. In this particular case, when the Vessel was boarded pinay sacks of onions were found among her cargo. Most succulent, oniony onions, too, they look ed, and the crew opened the sacks quite confidently. However, when the examin ing officer picked up one of the onions at random and dropped it on the deck the game was up. Except for a few real ones spread carefully at the top of the sacks, the whole of the onions" were made of rubber. They were undoubtedly on their way to Germany through some neutral port, but the discovery of their real composition marit confiscation, and the wily Hun got none of theseveget ables for his war-broth,
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CHARGED THROUGA FLAMES FRENCH HEROISM AT VERDUN.
IN A BRITISH ARMY BIPLANE.
THRILLING VOYAGE ALONG THE
BATTLE LINE..
The following article by Mr. Gordon Brace has appeared in the New York. Tribunet-
A correspondent of a Leipsig paper on: tho Verdun front quotes the following illustration of French gallantry "Two German battalions advancing on the western part of the Bois des Caures of defence by a gallant French officer, were stopped in front of the second line
Travelling from the heart of England who shut himself up alone in a block house with machine-gun, and fired his Majesty's fighting biplanes; return uninterruptedly on the German soldiers.ing in a speedy scout memplane; on As they could not overpower him with hand grenades, they had to get a flame projector to compel him to cease an aporation that was holding back two battalions."?
to the battle lines in France, “in one of
these two voyages, when I passed first over peaceful rural England, theu: out below me a fleet of British battleships in above the blue of the Channel, where, for
cruising formation showed like moving The use by the Germans of fire has not grey shadows on the gleaming water, two been carried on with impunity. An in- great facts came home to me. First, the cident in the enemy cheek at Donaumont realization of what the aeroplane means illustrates this. The Germans had tried in modern warfare; and, secondly, the rémarkable efficiency which has been at- tear-producing shells without success, and as there was not time to get their fam-tained by the Royal Flying Corps, pro- menwerfer in position a special company claiming the progress made by "Britain of men was sent forward armed with | in her struggle for the mastery of the paraffin papps.
skies.
The regiment facing them came for the most part from Paris, and as the enemy moved up one of our side said,
"He'd be damned if he'd be fired by those con- Founded Boches," and before the officer in command had time to decide the French- men
were out of their trenches, had charged through the flames, and with bayonet fixed were among the fire gang. The latter were so surprised by the sud- | denness of the attack that they tried to escape by a headlong flight. They were cut off, however, and the whole section exterminated, their apparatus being brought back to the French lines that
everning
The colonel in command mildly repri manded his men for acting without orders. One of them, a young wergeant just promoted, whose face and hands had been burnt said Colonel, I was to blame: I gave the orderForward. The colonel hesitated a moment, and then stepped forward and embraced him..
CONDITIONS IN ENEMY RANKS."
Four German soldiers succeeded in de- serting from the Ypres front after getting rid of their uniforms and donning civilian clothes.
One of them, who in civilian life had a comfortable position, complained of the life of the German soldier at the present time. His narrative furthermore con- firmed what was said in the British communication of April 12, concerning the losses of the Germans that week be fore Ypres. He said that if there were
Madane Sarah Bernhardt has just paid her first visit to the front, where she gave six performances in three days Her headquarters were Toul, and she motored round, appearing successively in six different improvised theatres, -Bone less than a quarter a mile from the front in Argonne and not far from Verdun To-soldiers fresh from fighting As rubber lends itself to dever fako barrier and strict surveillance the she recited her speeches from Lesing this is always being done. Ger- Cathedrales "
and the poem by her many offers a good market for the article grand-daughter, which you know in Lon- if the sender can only get it there and do but which we have not yet heard he does not fail in doing this from lack
of ingenuity in trying. Like everyone who comes back from the Front, Madaine Sarah Bernhardt is full of devotion and enthusiasm for the French troops. I spent three days among heroes," she says, among men and youths many of whom had
when
here.
wiles of clever tricksters have made the Long months spent in countering the crows of our blockading ships the most saspicious people on earth. And not
Germans would desert in thousands, and his companions confirmed his statement.
The recent fighting round St. Eloi was very bitter. Of a group of 482 men with whom they were there remained only 19 The others were killed or seriously wound- said the Englishaian was a brave fighter, ed on Monday, April 3rd. The narrator
who regarded war as a sport, m
incredible feals, and who formed without good enuse do they decline to afraid of disturbances among their own
Judge by appearances only. Yet with all teir astuteness they sometimes come very near to being deceived.
The German military authorities are men, and therefore act with great seve rity. There was even a small revolt över the food.
A long row of new biplanes stood be fore the sheds in the level field.
You may choose whichever machine you like," the commandant said.
"That makes it easy. I replied. "PH go with the first pilot who is rendy."
It was, it happened, Lieutenant Mend. I had made a good choice. Lieutena Mead is tall, young, with keen grey eyes -the type the R.F.C. invariably selecta for this important work. He inspired confidence. And this is a grave matter, for the more une travels by air, as a passenger, the more particular he be
-comes-ubout his pilot.”
Oui aeroplane, a new product of the Royal Aircraft Factory, stood ready, grey, compact, powerful. Her struts and cables were massive, Her two seats, arranged fandem order in the fuselage, were roomy and comfortable.
A few sweeping circles to gain altitude, and wo headed into the cast. The earth hud flattened out, and lay down there Hooded in sunlight-a thing of glory. Field, forent, stream-cach had its park in the fashioning of that wonderful carpet.
But after awhile the character of the land changed. The plains gave way to hills, bleak and grey. The roads showed very white, for this was the chalk and limestone country. They were quite clearly defined, these roads, a thin net: work of delicate lines like the veins in a leaf. Then we came into the cooler air of the coast. Felow us the sun and mist were dividing it evenly between them, and suddenly there rose up, far ahead, an endless blue wall.
There was no gradual entering into the strange element before us, Abruptly, as
What had seemed impassable was giving we swept over the line of white cliffs, we were swallowed up in blackness.
way before us,
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PATROL, EXPENSES.
All claims for Patrol Expenses atrady gent to the D.S.P., many of which. have not been attended to by the lat ter, have been handed to Bergeant- Aceguntant. Balean, Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, who will pay same in due course. Warning officers are requested to send all'
future claims direct fo Bedean.
CYCLISTS.
Sergeant
The following members are invited to at
ténd in mufti at the D.S.P's. office,.. at 6 p.m., on Friday, June 30th:-. Sergeant Buiterfield. Sergeant Fother gill, Ps. H. E. Edwards, H, E. Pearson. Wattie. A. J. Ablong, Bailey, Frost, Henderson, Iresoli, Packham, Ramsey. Crown Sergeant
Arenlli,
Sergeant
Arenlli, P.-c. Karim Deen. Jospector Alves, P.-es. A. A. Alves, D. C.
Baptista, N. U. Botelho. Sergean-Major Peter Wong, Crown Sue-
grant_Janes Wong, Sergeant George! Lee, Sergeant Chow Pak Tim.
F. C. JENKIN.
D.S.P. (R).
the military of the two-nations are en from aviation quarters also from a sap.. operating. Lorries were soon on the way
dicated how effective is the system in- ply depot a few miles away, which in- stalled at the front by the R.F.C.
Long before the tenders arrived Mead had discovered the source of the trouble. It was of a minor nature and likely to occur in the very best of aeroplanes and. automobiles. A nut holding a comection in the pressure feed device had worked loose, thereby reducing the flow of petrol. Two ininutes were sufficient to correct it. The machine was ran out of the water under her own power and the only dam age she sustained was the parting of at cable, caused by the sleek of contact with the ground.
When it caine to getting away again Mead did what seemed impossible. There wasn't a level spot in that whole pasture. Yet Mcad selected a course where he had to dodge hummocks, and which gave him only about one-third of the proper spact, took her jolting over the rough-ground, and a plunge off the cliff over the water.
But we came through. The construc- tion again proved its worth. The motor - held to its task, and we were off to the main aviation base of the British Array in France.
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I was told about them. I remember, for instance; a young aviator who had several medals and whose military cross
Would anyone think that rich, juicy The deserters showed the Telegraaf wore seven palm branches. His chief, huey-comb, with honey dripping from it, correspondent a specimen of their bread, introducing him, said, When he gets could be anything than well, just rich, which a Dutch haker, to whom it was the eighth film brunch I wonder where juicy honeycomb made by the little shown, said was made of maize and wheat he will put it? The boy blushed and busy hen" whose habit of improving There were continually complaints
of very bad quality. said, laughingly, I shall have to have each shining hour" receives so much then made smaller. What splendid and praise from peets, philosophers, and
about the food, said the deserters. A lieutenant maintained that the bread was MACGREGOR&Co. charming fellows they are never had others who are more given to talking than of the best quality. This and other so deep an impression of the sacredness working themselves Our naval pat circumstances led to an exchange of of art. I was proud to say beautiful service can tell you that there is a kind words between the lieutenant and some verse before such men, and should have liked to die in their midst. I saw wound- of honey made by bees which do not buzz of the soldiers. One of the latter struck while they labour, although they try to wanted to tend improve each shining hour" well enough. the doc we are all rightSpeeltucas of it are occasionally found executed.
the lieutenant after being struck first by no. they said.
him. The result was that the soldier was give as a few minutes more; wait till in the blockade area. As usual, it was Madume Sarah has finished reciting. Arst unearthed in a ship that was being that they were ordered to attack the slugglish fish, nosing her way through forth a black substance, while an ou:inous
Concerning the fight at Eloi they stated No audience of kings and great ladies, could be worth this audience of soldiers searched for contrahend, and so good was British with the bayonet, Soldiers were of France. We came to comfort them,
the imitation that the boney
posted in the rear of the attacking party. and it was wre, on the contrary, who chance of getting through.
with-orders to shoot them down, if they came away full of their faith and ex
tried to evade the attack. thusiasm.
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EVERYWHERE
TAXATION UP TO THE HILT AT HOME.
had a
Part of the vessel's cargo consisted of case after case labelled pure honey." This turned out to be pure fake"-but that is getting rather ahead of the narra tive. When the cases were opened they party noticed that her bulkheads were Cuing through one ship the search were found to be filled with the familiar abnormally thick. When in doubt in little square boxes of comb with honey-vestigate" being the principle upon or what looked like honey-running out which the examination service is run, the of it. One inquisitive sailor tasted this, balkheads were ripped open and quite an. Bfr. McKenna has prepared a very in made a grimace, and tasted again; then extensive arsenal discovered inside them, teresting table for Mr. Leicester Harms be wrenched a comb from its box and Rifles and ammunition galore had been worth, who asked him to show the total dropped it on the deck and Jo! it secrated there. Upon another occasion percentage of unearned incomes from bumped up and down there right merrily. big stock of rifles was found packed just £150 to £100,000 payable under the Finance Bill, as income-tax, supertax combs were built of rubber and had been cunningly stowed away that detection Clover investigation revealed that the ader, a tramp steamer's decks, and so and premiums necessary to provide estate duty, taking 10 as the age for the
seemed impossible Really, the only way Jast purpose. Typical rates
of making sure that sonte vessels carry follows:
no contraband would seem to be by pull ing them to pieces.
Income.
£160
3000
£300
£500
£1,000
£5,000
£10,000
£100.000
Rato per £ in pence.
11.20
- 18.42-
20.06
36.98
54.79
78.30
93.48
126.55
AR
The last item works out at more than 10s, in the pound-probably the nearest approach to the conscription of wealth in our history,
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TOHLEGS IN FERTILE FRANCE. Mile after mile of fertile fields, in On and on we flew, There was no
which women were handling the ploughs One had thing in front of us, nothing behind us, and cultivators, lay below us. nothing on either side. I tarned to look to look sharp, indeed, to discover even s at Mead. He nodded, nud nosed the tiny plot which was unplanted. And I felt the pride which the whole world feels machine down, down through the blue if it were at the bottom of a deep well Northward we sped toward where the vapor until I looked over, and saw, as for the record France has made. of light, the grey water of the Channel, great Armies face each other. Only the Then the gloom of a patch of mist en-eye could tell when we approach, for the gulfed tis.
steady roar of the motor, running with Once, when the darkness slowly yielded precision and smoothness, drowned all to the light, I had a start. Almost ther noise. I had been gazing off to the directly under our craft appeared a spot right for some time, trying to make out quite foreign to anything I had seen be
a distant object which puzzled me. fore.
Gradually it assumed slender, gave it up and turned quite abruptly to eigar-like lines. As it became distinct, the left. Looking down, I stared. As the light played on the silver envelope far as the eye could see, over that vast of one of Britain's dirigibles; she was expanse were what might be taken for 2,000ft. below, probably patrolling and small volcanoes, Here, there, everywhere the surface of the earth opened, belched she looked for all the world like a great,
the sea of mist.
elond of smoke drifted lazily away. My mind was slow to grasp the meaning of it--that this was the work of artillery. Below us the water ended in the plea- Now and then Fromea patch of woodland sant sweep of the French coast, about the sunoke would filter out. Three times eight miles distant. Then came an un-in passing over villages I saw buddings kind shock. Without warning the reva- vanish as if by magfe. Only the smoke hundred to the minute-dropped far be lutions of the engine dropped several remained, low flying speed; and slowly but surely we began to descend, which was discor. certing, considering that we were dying her adoat. in a land machine with nothing to keep
WITHIN AN ACE OF SMASH.
point on the coast. He was quite cool Instantly Mead steered for the nearest and self-possessed, even if the cliffs sud- and forbidding. For my part, I wasn't denly lost their beauty and jutted ugly sure that I would not prefer to take my chances in the Charinel. It stemned a bit hopeless either way. The pilot calculat- ed rapidly-then headed her toward the largest open space on the shore. It prob ably was the worst landing spot in France, but he had no choice.
In one last dive we tore over the const
wounds-those two ugly wounds from And then-then came those two jagged
which the lifeblood of natious is pour ing. They ran side by side. now very close together, now diverging a bit to be. enme parallel farther along. Sinister and ghastly, they atretched away into the?. distance. And as if they were not raw: enough, from time to time the shells. doubtless hurling human bodies into the oriented them, tearing vicious boles and air with the mad and smoke. I was glad I could not see that.
ENTHUSIASM OF OUR AIRMEN. And so we came at last to the head-
provement is amazing,
filled with some smeary, honey-coloured substance to make them resemble the real thing, as they did to the life. A clever idea this for getting rubber into Ger- many, though it failed.
Hollow masts filled with petrol wors Among the lading of another merchant part of the "find" in one traup picked
quarters of the RFC. It was pleasant- to glide down and land gently on that ship the "arch" found what purported up in the blockade area, and her doable
amooth green. To get away from the to be many bags of coffee. These were bottoms were also stuffed with contra overhauled and tested with the result bend. Double bottoms are frequently line and down into a gullied cow pasture few miles away. Now, less than two grim evidence of what was happening so. that a great deal of rubber was discovered used as places of concealment, though on a steep hillside. The plane missed a months ago, I visited that same aero- hidden in them, this being made to ap-much less secure than some others that fence by less than a foot and struck the
drome and inspected the equipment. pear as nearly like coffer as possible.aro improvised-such as, for example, crest of the hill at a speed which Mead And there is no comparison between Being accommodating
afterwards declared must have been 100 stuff in the hands the hollow furniture and bunks like a tes an hour. As the wheels came in what I found there at the time of my first of the clever "faker," rubber has become conjurer's trick-box which came to light contact with the earth we bounded him visit and what is there now: The in- the prime masquerader among contra in one innocent looking old trader. in the air and plunged on down the hill. band goods. It has been found posing Since cotton became contraband all.
My return to England was made in a 34 rusty from hoops, toys, sponges, and sorts of ingenions dodges have been tried Three times this occurred, and each time fast monoplane with Lieutenant Passant. as an inside filling to various articles, to get it through the blockade. One ship seemed inevitable. But the wonderful there was one incident. It was when
braced ourselves for the smash that It was swift and absurdly easy. But from tinned meat cans to broom handles, which was intercepted carried what pur construction of the machine saved us were crossing the Channel at a height. In the earlier days of the war soine of ported to be a cargo of flour. Certainly, With a Snal, crazy lurch we left the last of almost two miles. Away down there. A STUBBORN FOE. these blockade-running dodges may have there was a great deal of flour in it and bummock and alighted neatly in the showing against the sunlit water, were been successful. They stand no chance a great deal of cotton as well. Some of mathematical centre of slimy frog three long white lines. They were like To Conquer an obstinate requires persistency and perseverance.
enemy of escaping exposure now.
the first sacks examined panned out cor- pond, while frightened cattle fled in three great lines of breakers, except that But rubber is by no means the only rectly. Then an officer kicked ons mid- every direction. It is the same with Rheumatism, the substance which the exponents of contra-way. The sack yielded oddly to the im-Bit of luck," commented Mead, as dread foe of mankind, which ranks for band tricks endeavour to get through.
they were straight and unwavering. It Jos HOUSE STREET. TEL 230-165. mest in stubbornness. To eradicate it Germany wants copper badly, and there it seemed as he expressed it, "Like kick Takes a good bus to stand that." I what they were,
was not until Passant noticed them and pact of his foot. No dust flew out, and limbed out and waded ashore descended a bit that I could make out from the system, you must use the right are always people trying to supply her ing a pillow" At ones the sack was agreed, and also thought, "Takes a good about 30 of his Majesty's warships, A mere trifle. Only weapon. LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM with it. Some of them hit upon an in-pied, and what a revelation! They make such a landing without steaming, along in cruising formation, is the only remedy that çan It has cured helpless, crippled sufferers certain success. Instead of being hidden All the other sacks gave up a like seert piling up.
genious plan which seemed to promise middle part of it contained only cotton.
thres abreast, and one behind the other have been who
uni each line pital as incurable.
in the ship, the copper was clamped to There was flour at the top, Bour at the His first thought was to report to head
Nothing
ever have seen her bottom. Apparently the consigners bottom-and cotton in the middle of them quarters. Despite the isolation of the inspiring than the sight of those ships, writes:—" For 3 years I have been thought that, however closely the British
spot two gendarmes were there within rendered unfit
for work by Elemmatism. Navy might search the interior of a Said a bluejacket, indicating the crew
10 minutes, and shortly a British orderly moving with an indescribable grandear toward an unknown destination, their At night terrible shooting paire kept movessel, no one would have nous enough to
of an overhauled steamer that he was peared. He came from an Australianowy wakes blending, into three per could not sleep or use sy think of examining the outside of her just leaving, "If any of those chaps fell Colonel's compliments. He says he can
hospital a mile away, and said, The fectly straight lines. I thought of that. medy LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM spiling vessel when intercepted and over-stull they've got hidden in their boots." A you join him at luncheon: Worth Bed, which holds this
Two bottles of that wonderful below the water-line. But they had. One overboard they'd sink like stones with the arrange communication for you and will other mighty Fleet--the watch dog of the it with utmost confidence removed hauled was found to have a great quan-humorously satirical exaggeration, no It was amazing to and anch an abun
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Kaiser's ships
And, as the white lines faded into the distance, I concluded that England las not only a very respectable Air, Service,/ but a pretty good Nav