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INTIMATIONS
Ten Victor Records which should be in every home
Silver Threads Among The Cobl...
Venetian Love Song
*
Panken Melody
Juliot's Slumber
17856
3505
* Fackeltonz
35302
Blue Paradise
Aliss Vixen
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Finlandin Tông Poeur (Sibelius?
64387. All, Love, but a day.
642) Hear You Calling Me
74837 Love's Nocturti
74257--Legende
...
8440 Campanella (Liszti
... One Stop
(Meyerberr)
Fox Trot Song
Violin Pianoforte
Song
Make Abide With Me (Liddle)
Welle
THE BONGKONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, JULY 19тra, 1916.
Rozario Bourdon.
Victor Concert Orchestr
¿Conway's Banul Conway's Band
Evan Williams. McCormack.
Hamlin Zimbalist. Paderewski. Clara Butt
MOUTRIE'S
VICTOR AGENTS.
THEATRE
(29-3
ROYAL
MAURICE E. HANDMAN PRESENTS
THE
NEW BANDMAN OPERA & COMEDY CO.
TO-NIGHT!
TO-NIGHT!!
WEDNESDAY, JULY 19TH.
James Welch's, Greatest Success:-
OH! I SAY.“
Tanu ashay, Jugy are? The New and Revised Version.
COUNTRY "GIRL": From the Royalty Theatre, MAN WHO STAYED. "AT
HOME."
ENTERTAINMENT.
"A
Friday, Jely Bist :-
**THE
SATURDAY, JULY 22ND
GRAND VARIETY
THE BELLE OF NEW YORK,
BOOKING
AT
MOUTRIE'S PRICES: $3.50. $3, $2 AND Boarkong, 19th July, 1916,
1970
Mosbat, Jung SITAP- The Evergreen Record Breaker,
"AMUSEMENT WITHOUT DISCOMFORT"
SEE
PALISADE
THE
OUT-OF-DOOR-PICTURES
LOCATION NEAR POST OFFICE. KOWLOON.
·PROGRAMME
TO-NIGHT!
-TIFE LOST WILL ( Thrilling Drama) 2-parts--
THE BLIND MAN (A Splendiit Drana in 3 jarts). MILAN (Svenien
$1.
A NORE FROM THE DEEP (Keystone Comic, A scream from start to finish). MARY OF A DUCKLING (interesting und Ainusing. GARRY'S GAZETTE, etc, se
BAND TONIGHT!
POPULAR PRICEs:-- $1, 60 Cents and 30 Cunts. "Soldiers and Sailors in uniform 230 Cate.
Hongkong. tl: July, 19113
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SOLE AGENTS :
M1780 BUSSAN KAISHA
RONOTONO
Hey Horon SIBERI. TEL 230-155
and
I have best with soldiers on the war-
COTTON TRADE. AWARD.
DISAPPOINTMENT OF OPERA÷ TIVES LEADERS.
.6 Opera-
I do sò. There he made in price lists not price
is a rusty wire before me, than a field ¦ wages during 1916, and six weeks stopping slightly upwards with kot be given after December 31 for any dep grass, then rusty wire again, and a further alteration." Both parties agreed last week to leave the decision to Sir red line of broken earth. There is not a sign of vennt, due sharp eres ar George Arkwith. The operatives were always watching us, even as these crouch the first place their case in his hands. watching employers agreeing to adopt 11 ing soldiers around me ar
the similar, cours following on There are dead. Germans-
a private them. grass before us. You need not see themference. The result was received by. to know that they are there & wounded the leaders of the operatives with feelings of chagrin, their opinion being that the old'ees' sits in a corner nursing his leg.
Trache warranted a higher advance. Th Here and there men pop out like rabbitsrest margin of prices in the eatton
Others
maplyers' proposals contained an offer from dug-ouls and mite-shafts.
or loan stoking of && per cent, advance, but po further sit on the fire step against the clay wall. Who would dream alteration in the standard piece, price took at their bold, earless fies that list of wages for two years. Employers who have been seen state that the nwurd this in a front line and that at any mo mut it is possibln that a grey wave mag only post;pues the waiter to February admerge them! With all their careless, 1917, when the whole question will bo hearing I mice that every man has his thrown into the allog-pot again. gas helmet and his rifle within easy
·wach.
†
SPECULATION IN TEA.
A GLIMPSE OF THE ARMY, Lusitania, and Louvain barbecu brought
to the bar of the world's Justice, THE CAUSE OF HIGH PRICES. I DY SIE ANTRE CONAN DOYLE.]|
And now we are there--in what is sire- y the most wonderful spot in the world, FROM A CORRESPONDENT TO THE TIMES." It is not an easy matter to write from the front firing trench, the outer break the front. You know that there are water which holds back the Gurmann tide, The attention of the public has recently several courteous but inexorable gentle How strange that this monstrous scilia-
The award of Sir George Askwirl on been draw to the high pricus ruling in men who may have a word in the mattion of giant forces, setting in from east the application of the operatives in the the ten market, and the charges mater, and their presence imparts but to west, schuld find their equilibriom; cotton spiming trade for an increase of regarding alleged reruering operations mall case to the styl" But above all tere across this particular meadow of 10 per cent, in wages, was 'pablished last ttave led to a Government inquiry, Pening the result of that investigat you have, the twin censors of your own Flanders, How fur" I ask, " 180 month in the Following terms:
yards says my guide. Pup" I tives to receive na advance of 5 per eat. a few statisties will perhaps enable us to conscience and common sense, which as-
sure you that, if all other raders fail marks a third person just in front. "A to he pair où and after pay day in the arrive at some reasonable opinion on the
you, you will certainly find a most at
sniper," says my guide. "Take a look week ending June 10. No alteration to subject.
out that the tond ve one in the neʻghbourhood of the through the periscope. I must first be pinilit Haupt-Quartier. An instru.live story stock in boud, varies the time of the year. When India ships is still told of how a certain well-amenn her abundant crops from July to Janu- traveller recorded his satisfaction imports largely exceed consumption with the appearance of the big gars at and suck accumulates. Once Jannars is the retiring and peaceful village of turned stock diminishes, the lowest point Jam & and how the days later, by an bring reached in May-Jane. The follow-interesting "coincidency, the village of ing figures show the minimun stock for Jamais passed suddenly off the may and
dematerialisedi inte brick dust emely of the comparative years,
There is also an invisible stock, being splinters. the duty il quintity in the hands of distributors. That, really, may be, taken, as two weeks' consumption. At path before, but never have I had a day présent, however, as at the corresponding crammed with experiences and impres Some of them at period or 19th, this quantily, owing to siems us Aesterday. are Budger payments of duty, must be least I can faintly convey to the reader, increased by at least 50 per cent, or and if they ever reach the eye of that another (week's supply, The difference, get man at the Haupt-turtir they although not taken into negant here, will give him little jer. For the erown- st be remembered as an item to thing impression of all is thenormous good against 1913 or 194.
imperturbable confidence of the Acos BOARD OF TRADE TIGPRES FOR CONSUMPTION and its extraordinary, efficiency in organisalin, administration, material E TEX AND OF STOCKS, 1913-1915.
A mile of fruit trenches and then we and personnel.. I met in ond day a Misan bezmänis- Avenge.
RF on our way back down that weiry Stock, May flap in stock, on pries per | sample of many types, gu Ariny com
pverage of preindu" lk, ali
nar. corps commander, two livi wolk. There is a pause at Corps Hind in tautas, Alty 1.
quarters, and after it wo are taken to a sional cum'minders, staff officers of many
medal presentation in a market square. 3.11
grades, and, above all,. I met repeatedly Gerals Munro, Haking and London, the two very great men, whom Britain
famous fighting soldiers all three, are bas produced, the private söldigg and
the British representatives. An elderly This table proves (1) that there was a the regimental officer: Everywhere and larger stock on May 31st last the on on every face une read the same spirit of ranch feminal stands beside them, Bri- either of the three preceding correspond-chwerful bravery. Even the half-madtish inforfry kiep the ground. In front ing dates: (2) that this stock covered & erunks whose absard conscienes present
are about Bfty Frenchner in civil dress longer period of consumption than did the barring the way to the devil sem of every grade of life, workigen and either of the others; and (3) that notwith-eat to me to be turning into men ander wounded that they are back in gentlemen, in a double rank, Thy are standing these factors favouring cheapthe prevailing influence. I am a hatch ness the price was. 37 per cent, higher of them, neurotic and largely be-spec civil life, but today they are to have than in his, which comes next below, it incled, but working with a will by the some solace for their wounds. They fean in relative plenty;
The problema, there is why the higher trenches yet.
They will volunteer for the heavily on sticks, their bodies are twisted and nimed, but their fiers are shining price! It is true there have been so he
with pride and joy. The Franch Gen- increases in freights and other charges,
Pral draws his sword and addresses them, If there are pessimists among us they One catches words like hannoür' per mere have's' redneed garden costs are not to be found among the men who.
patric. They lean forward on their that probably most of the producers are fare doing the work. There is no foolish crutches, hanging in every syllable which laying down feal in London at a lover bravado, no under-rating of a dour ops ers hissing ant rasping from under Pate ban they did in 1913. It is only pinent, but there is a quick, alert con- that white moustache. Then the metals fair to add they are in no wise responfident attention to the jou in hand which are pinned on. On poor ind is terribly sible for the advance they put their pro is an inspiration to the observer. These wounded and needs two sticks. A little duce into public sale in Mincing lane brave lads are guarding Britain in the girl runs out with some flowers. He leans and the bidding there determines the present. See to it that Britain guards forward and tries to kiss her, but the price.
The excited buying of home them 'n the future! We have a bad recrutches slip and he nearly falls upon operators is the uncountable feature.
cord in this matter. It must be changed. her. It was a pitiful but beautiful little They are the wards of the nation, both seme officers and inen. Socialisin has never
Constaapáícul Jan. 15May 13.
DE. REAGUJA 1 115001
19 145,700,000 74,001,250.
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1914.
b. med.
but coarser plucking and larger vieids
gatne.
roadside.
had an attraction for mo, but I should
Mr. E. Judson, president of the Opern- Live Spinners' Association, said "I am shall very much disappointed but we abide by it until February, 1917,
FAR EASTERN MEN AND THE WAR.
ان
Smith, Mr. P. V.
Highlands Estate, F.M.S., has been awarded the Military Cross. Mr. Smith took part in a raid on the German trenches, and was wounded in thirteen places, bit is now gonvalescert.
Sergt. Grimble. formerly of the B. M.P. (says the 3.-C. Daily Neurs), who was badly wounded in action and lust both legs, writes: Glad to say I'm all and right.
Now the British candidates maroh up
smart
be a Socialist to-morrow if I thought one by one for their medals, hale, hearty that to case a tax on wealth these men men, brown and fit." There is should ever suffer for thy tine or healthyoung officer of Scottish Bifles; and then selection of Worcestera, Welsh Fusitiers that they gave to the public cause.
I am expecting to leave, here (Wharncliffe) shortly. Been under orders some two weeks now law in the Times, May 17th, that Co. "S.M. T. Howarth of
Ours
was wounded in the left Jaw and left shoulder. He was at Yangtze po previous to joining up Got a bit of Sheffield Telegraph, June 3rd, good news, vide London Gazette and umble name was in the liet for D.CM. and Military Medal. So I guess my joss is in. Not heard anything from the regiment ofheially yet. Guess I shall have to wait until can hop about a bit. at any rate. 1 knew. I was rectiramended for it and am glad i got it."
Yer
· HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.
GANTERN ACCOUNTS.
June Accounts are to be paid not later han Wednesday, the 10th inst. FAKADES, ETC. Wednesday, July 10th. Whole of No, Company at Central at 5.10 p. Thursday, July 20th. Orchestra Prac-
tier, 6 p.n up for his
Friday, July 21st, Band Practice, 60
22nd. Defaulters" Saturday, July
Parade, at Central 4pm sharp, Uniform, helmets and rides.
P. C. JENKIN,
D.S.P. (R.).
P.DL.
At this time last year quotations, with much more reason, where at the same level. as today, but once the new crop began to arrive on a large scale they fell cou tinuously until in November a drop of From that 4d, ab, was established.. daig persistent purchasing from week to week has forced prices back again and it is diet to resist the belief that ther Get out of the car. Don't let it stay and Scots Fusiliers, with one funny littl must be extremely large holdings ac here. It may be hit. These words from Highlander, a tiny figure with a soup- cumulated in a comparatively few hands. a staff oflityr give you the first idea that bowl helmet, a grinning boy's face be- Probably the mutual jealousies of the things are going to happen. Up to then Many acts of great bravery," suchi was neath it and a bedraggled uniform. great distributors have mach to do with you might have been driving through the the record for which he was decorated, thes operations, and the unexampled black country in the Walsall district prosperity of the working Flasses with the population of Aldershot let loose Even the French wounded smiled at his especially in the North, has provided he upon its dingy roads, Put this aint appearane, as they did at un- funds necessary for the lacking up shrapnel beint.
other Briton who had acquired the chew, That hat of yours capital in a veniaré, of this kind..
would infuriate the Bocks" this was an nggam habit, and came Speculation, in tea, however, is a risky unkind allusion to the only uniform medal as if he had been called suddenly which E. have a right to wear. Take in the middle of his dinner, which he The consumer way, consoles himself with this is elinst the selection that he is not suffering so it is a standing order. Now come on,"
You won't need it, but was still endavouring to bolt. Then came the end, with the National Antheru. much as the figures suggest. Owing to the fierce struggle for business tea is
We cross a meadow and enter a tranch The British regiment formed fours and Here and Bnce it comes to the surface went past. To me that was the most in- being retailed at almost cost price, amel
They were the no longer bears the proût that was unce.
again where there is dead ground. At Pressive sight of any. the sheet anchor of the grocer's business. auch point an old charch stands, with Quer's West Surreys, a veteran regi- If anyone is hit it is the single shop an unexploded shell sticking out of the most of the great Ypres battls. What
grand fellows! As the order came. post has gone up. "it's a dear little beios surely drained by the pressure of to see that shell. Tien on again through faces flashed round upon us, I felt the shells are reliable," remarked a senior retai', whose meaus of livelihood is wall. A century hence folk will journey
Eyes right," and all those fieres, dark gun,' says the officer boy. And her lare combinations with their mechanical an endless eating. It is slippery clay might of the British infantry, the in-behind us. impersonality and limitless resources. below. I have no nails in my boots, an
"They vary with different. tanse individuality which is not incom calibres, but Mother' never goes wrong: iroń pot on my head, and the sùn above me. I will remember wilk Ten patible with the highest discipline Much The German ling was very quiet, "Pour- they had endured, but a great spiritqu ils ne repondent past." asked the telephone wires run down the side, Here
shono from their faces, I confess that as Russian-prince. Yes, they are quiet ta and there large thistles and other plants I looked at those brave English lads, and day, answered the saior. But we get RUBBER REPORTS.
grow from the clay walls, so immobile thought of what we owe to them and to it in the neck sometime." We are all JOHORE, NURBER LANDS.
has been our line. Occasionally there are their like who have passed on, I felt more led off to be introduced to patches of untidiness.
"Mother, Shells." Buy's There is a racket emotional than bets a Briton in foreign who sits, squat and black, amid twenty The report of the Board of Directors the officer laconically.
parts. of the Johore Rubber Lands (1913) of guns before us and behind, especially.
of ber grimy children who wait upon. and feed her. She is an important per- Lunited, states:-After payment of all behind, bat dager seens ramote with all
Now the weretnony was ended, and vac-
son is Mother and her importance charges, the net profit for the year the Bairnfather groups of cheerful
It was amounts to £31, 134 s. 5, to which has Tummies at work around us. I pass one again we set out for the front.
grows. It gets clearer with every month. to be added the sum of £5,196 11s. sd.. group of grimy, tailored boys A glance to an artillery daration post that we that it is she, and only she, who can lead were bound, and once again my descrip- us to the Rhine. She can and she will brought forward from last accounts. at their shoulders shows me that they
tion must be bounded by discretion if the factories of Britain can beat those giving a total to be dealt with of #36,331 are of a public school battalion. I is. 1d Out of this the Directors rethought you fellows were all officers Suffice it, that in an hour I found any of the Hun. See to it, you working nun razor-keen young and women of Britsin. Work now if commend the payment of a dividend of now,” I remarked. No, sir, wo Tik self, together with one shilling, share (free of income-tax), it better so." "Wall, it will be a great artillery observer and an excellent oldyou rest for ever after, for the fate of ̃ absorbing £19,976 7s. To the next account memory for you. We are all in your sportsman of a Russian prince, jammed Europe and of all that is dear to us is the surn of £8,022 118. 44. is carried debt." They salute, and we squeeze past
into a very small space, and string in your hands. For Mother? is forward. The crop secured was 414,180 them. They had the fresh, brown faces out through a slit at the German line, dainty eater, and preds, good food and bs, against an estimate of 400,000 lbs. of boy cricketers. But their comrades In front of us lay a vast plain scarred plenty. She is fond of strange lodgings, stowing an increase as compared with were men of a different type, with hard; vals, such as you see where gravel pits dignity. But that is a dangerous sub- and slashed, with bare places at inter- too, in which she prefers safety, to previous season of 184,858 lbs. The aver strong, rugged features, and the yea of break a green common. age gross price realised was 3/72id. men who have seen strange siglits. These life or movement save some whealing
Not a sign of ject. per I, compacing with 2/1674d. for 1911, and the cost f.o.b. was 11 728d..
are veterans, men of Mons, and their crows. And yet down there, within a against 1-44!d. The estimated ontong pals of the public schools have mile or so, is the population of a city One more experience of this wonderfuf turn for the present year is 769,225 lb., of something to live up to. which the following quantities have been
Far away a single train is puffing at the day--the most crowded with impressions. back of the German lines. We are here of my whole life. At night we take a on a definite errand. Away to the right, car and drive north, and ever north,. nearly three miles off, is a small red until at a late hour we halt and climbi house, dim to the eye but clear in the a hill in the darkness, Below is a non-
sold forward 22,400 lbs. crepe, May; Up to this, we have only had two clay June relivery as 2/td. per Ib. 22,400 The walls to look at. But now our inter ribbed smoked sheet, May-June delivery minable and tropical walk is lightened at 2.71. per lb.; 67,200 lbs. crepe, July- by the sight of a British aeroplane sail-glasses, which is suspected us a German derful sight. Down on the flats, in s December delivery at 3/4d. per ib. ing overhead. Numerous shrapnel bursts post. It is to go up this afternoon. The huge semi-circle, lights are rising and 67,500 Bas. ribled smoked sheet, July-are all round it, but she floats on serene gun is some distance away, but I hear falling They are very brilliant, goirg December delivery at 373fd, per lb.
CHINESE SPIES IN SHIPS.
CALDBECK, of eighty-nine in the British shin
ly, a thing of delicate beauty against the the telephone directions. Mother up for a few accends and then dying blue background. Now another passes will soon do her in," remarks the gun- down. Sometimes a dozen are in the air and yet another. All morning we saw ner boy cheerfully. Mother" is the at one time. There are the dull thuds of |them circling and swooping, and never name of the gun, Give her five six explosions and an occasional rat-tat-tat. a sign of a Boche. They tell me it is three four," he cries through the phone. I have seen nothing like it, but the near- A summons against Sin Song of 10 nearly always so that we hold the air,Mother" utters a horrible bellow from est comparison would be, an enormous Limehouse-canaeway, for keeping a Chin and that the Boche intruder, save at somewhere on our right. An enormous ten-mile railway station in full swing at ese seamen's lodging house without a early morning, is a rare bird. A visit spout of smoke rises ten seconds later night, with signals winking, lamps way licence was adjourned one day last month to the line would reassure Mr. Pemberom near the house." "A little short, ing, cagines hissing and earriages. at. Thames Police Court,
ton-Hilling. We have never meta says our gunner. Two and a half bumping. It is a terrible place down Mr. Abinger, for the men's and British aeroplane which was not ready minutes left," adds a still small voice, there, a place which will live as long as Firemen's Union, said that ut of a crew to fight," said a captured German avis which represents another observer at a military history is written, for it is the tor the other day. There is a fine stern d'fferent angle Raise:ber seven five, Ypres Salient. What a salient it is, too) Danube, seventy were Chinamen provide courtesy between the airmen on either says our boy encouragingly, "Mother" A huge surve, as outlined by the lights, ad in London. Such men were brought side, each dropping notes into the other's roars more angrily than ever. How needing only a little more to be an en- to Shanghai or Hongkong and after aerodromes to tell the fate of missing will that du the seems to say. "One circlement. Something caught the rope MACGREGOR&Co. wards said they were British subsets officers. Bad the whole war been fought and a half right," says our invisible gus as it closed, and that something was the There was no doubt that many wer by the Germans as their airmen have sip. I wonder how the folk in the house British soldiers, But it is a perilous noder the influence of Germany and went conducted it (I do not speak of course of are feeling is the shells come ever nearer place still by day and by night. Never in British ships to convey information the Zeppelin murderers) à peace would Gun laid, sit, says the telephone. shall I forget the impression of ceaseless, It was of incoriore that, all these eventually have been more easily ar Fire." I am looking through my glass. malignant activity which was borne in Indring-houses should be registered. In ranged. As it is, if every frontier could. A flash of fire on the house, a huge pillar, upon me by the white, winking lights, what was known as "Chinatown the be settled, it would be a hard thing to of dust and smoke then it settles and the red sudden glares, and the horribis an unbroken field is there. The Germann | thudding noises in that place of death Chinese population had grown from 1,000 stop until all that is associated with the
bencath me.—Daily Chronides": words Carell, Zeppelin, Wittenberg, (Continued on next Column.)
SOLE AGENTS,
15, Queen's Bead Cmstaal
5
to the enemy,
to` 8,000.