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KAVALA
CENTRE OF TURKISH TOBACCO TRADE.
COMPANY REPORT NORTH CHINA INSURANCE CO.,
LTD.
1915.--The Balance at. Credit of this Account is Taels 730,734,10 and after deducting an intering dividend of 12 per cent, aggregating fuels 43,715.33, paid on 1st May Just transferring, War Tax Suspense Account writing $25,000, aggregating Tai 180,319.17 to 810,849, 05 ARTgating Trela 71,446.01, off Sterling scenrities;
GREEN AND BLLGARIAN RIVALRY
The report of the Directors of this The occupation of haval by the Company for presentation at the Bulgarians can have no effect whatever airteenth ordinary General meeting of on the course of our operations on the Shareholders, to be held at the Offices of Aegean, but it will undoubtedly cause the Company, in Shanghai, on the 31x much searching of heart among theint, is as follows:— Greeks who havs espoused the cause of the Central Powers, Kavala consists of two separate townships, the Old and the rocky promontory putting out into the New. The old town is situated on a rocky promontory jutting outs into the sea and rising to a height of soun 300 e above sea-level. It reminds one strange of Capatan Hill, Ilfracombe. On the sum- mit of this is the old Citadel, connected with the mainland by a fire aqueduct dating from the days of the Roman The anal bay to the west affords good anchorage and shelter for a limited squadron, and along its ghores ataud the various tobacco fac tories, the property of all nations, for Kavala has been for many years thei centre of the Turkish tobacco trade. With the exception of the few hundred ccamo- titan employees of the tobacco companies The population of the new town is Greek, || of the old town furkan, possibly sme 30,000 in all,
During the first phase of the Balkan War Kavala was occupied by a Bulgarian force without any opposition on the part of the Turks, but on the outbreak of war between Greece and Bulgaria in the sumer of 1913 the Bulgarians were driven out of Kavala without difficulty No attempt was made to destroy the tobacco factories or to pillage the ware- houses,
Probably the Bulgarians felt that as the Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and the American Tobacco Company were the richest pro- prietors it was politic to proservo dis
the cipline amongst their troops, for neighbouring towns of Drama and Seres the vilest cruelties were practised."
and transferring
Taels 60,000 to Exchange and Investment Fluctuation Account, there remains à tors recommend should be appropriated sum of Tuels 386,200.09, which the Direc
the following manner;~~~
A Final Dividend of 15 per cent on the Paid-up Capital, making 27 per cont for the youn
A Bouts of 14 per cent upon Cón- tribntory Marine Premium,
£10,000 transferred to Sterling Re serve, bringing this Fund up to £190,000
Taels 30,000 written off Preisines. And the Balance to be transferred to Liderwriting Reserve Accoust, closing the Account for 1915-
HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS.
CORPS ORDERS BY IT COLSA, OKAPMAN, V.D."
JOINED
8pr. D.-J. Finlayson haring joined is ballet Corps No, 202) and posted
to Engineer Company...
No.
1998 Pte.-J. Dewer is permitted to resign from 17th October, 1918.
No. 1335 Pt. 0. A Dutton is por mitted to resign from 16th October, 1010
3.--LEAVE.
No. 1884 Spr. 3. G. Lawson and No.
· 1694 Pte. T. W. Gibbins are granted one month's leave from 18th October, 1916
No,
No.
2097 Gr. G. F. Turner and N. 1400 rington, No. 1742 Corp. Whitelaw, L. B. Gomes are granted one week's leave from 17th October, 2018,
ENGINEER COMPANY.
Detail of Engineer Company duties Lyenan from 16th to 31st inst.. bas The under-mentioned members are been posted at "Headquarters.
raised to the Proficient rate of Engineer Pay from 1st November, 1910---
ELECTRICIAN.
1941 Spl. Ablong, No. 2019 Spr. Bryant, No. 1996 Spr. Gordon, No. 1870 Spr. Moosdeen, No. 3007. Spr. Maxwell.
"ENGINS' DRIVER:
No. 2001 Spr, Kinross,
1910-The Balance at credit of Work ang Account to 30th June amounts to
5.-PROMOTIONS, Tuels 671,136.22.
a. Engineer Company, with effect from INVESTMENTS.In the case of London 1st November, 1916: Sterling Securities the market prices on To bo Sergeants:-No. 1873 Corpi. Bar- July th, 1918, were taken as the basis of valuation. The Company's other books at the prices ruling on the 30th Securities in the aggregate stand in the June, 1910.
HONGKONG RESERVES,
ORDERS BY MAJOR WAKEMAN, O.C., H.K. V. I.
The Grecks have inherited their dis- taste for road-making from their Turkish predecessors, for, as we have learnt at Salonika, Macedonia is sadly lacking in On
all means of communication. There is one
fair rond leading out of Kavala to the north, connecting the town with the railway at Drama. It winds up the hill along the site of the cobbled Roman road ap which St Paul toiled on his way to Philippi Thero is also a short stretch of rond leading out of the town to the east towards the Bulgarian frontier on the River Mesta. Along this road reinforce ments will be exposed to the fire of our men-of-war
The Drama road runs through a very fertile country, dotted over with rich tobacco farms as well as with valuable cornfields. In Kavala itself there is ab this moment probably a million pounds worth of tobacco leaves, and as the Central Powers are feeling the pinch of poverty so far as cigarettes are concerned, it is probable that this raid is more for the purpose of obtaining supplies of tobaces that for any serious military reason t
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TWO POSSIBLE SUBMARINE VASES. As a base for submarine craft to set against the Allied Flects in the Mediter ranean in the present war Kavala is valueless. The submarines would have to be dispatched from Germany u sections by rail through Adrianople and Dede- agatch, thence to Drama and down the metalled road from Drama by motor wagons to be put together at Kavala and take the water there. The whole route from Dedeagatch is exposed to attack by our aircraft, and the long descent from the crest of the hill to the north of Kavaja would be plastered by fire from our Fleet, rendering the passage of moters down the zigzag anything but pleasant.
It is Enown that the Bulgarians have had their eye on the lake near Port Lagos, known as the Bura Gal, as a sub marice base in preferense to Kavala. The I thoroughly well sheltered, and. the rail runs round the northern shorca, where there is a good water supply for troops and workmen, a desideratum lack ing at Kevala. With a view of develop- ing the capabilities of the Buru Goot the Bulgarians in 1913 commenced the con struction of a railway from Philippopolis through Stanimaks, there over the Chepelarska Planina, to Buk, midway between Xanthi and Drama, thus avoid-) ing the coast railway in Deileagateli. How far this line has progressed since the outbreak of war we have ing means of knowing, but as the earthworks had well progressed in the spring of 1914 it is quite possible that trains are Bow run- wing over a portion of the line at any rate, and that motor trifle is feasible the whole way.
DETAIL.
duty from the morning of Sunday 22nd October, to the morning of Sunday 29th October-"A" Co.
H.K.V.R.
Orderly Officer for the same period
2nd Lieut. A. M. Thornhill, Nol,Until further orders caps will
Tell
be worn and great coats carried banderole over the right shoulder) Next for duty-H.K.V.C.
TANADER FOR THE WEEK ENDING
28TH OCTOBEIL
Monday, 2rd inst.
"B" Co., Platoon No. 5, for Musketry Trained Men, Part 1, at Blake Pior at 30p.m. Dies: Brill order. Signalling Section and Semaphore Class at Volunteer Headquarters st 5.15 pm under Instructor Sergt. EV. Mitchelmore. Dress: Clean fatigue.
Tuesday, 24th lust.
BCo., Platoon No. 6 for Musketry Trained Men, Part 1, at Blake Pier as 3.45 p.m. Dress Drill order. Mounted Section on the Polo Ground at 5:15 pm, under Instructor Q.M. Sergh Talbot Dress Drill order. Wednesday, 5th inst.
B Co., Platoon. No. 7, for Musketry. Trained Men, Part 1. at Blake Pier ut 3.45 p.m. Dress Drill order. D) Co. at Volunteer Headquarters 11 at 3:30 pm under C.S.M. Cooke,
Dress Drill order. Signalling Section and Semaphore
Class at Volunteer Headquarters at 15.10 p.m. under Instructor Sergt. E. V. Mitchelmare. Dress: Clean fati- "gues
Thursday, 20th instant;
"B" Coy., Platoon No. 8, for Musk etry Trained Men Part 1, at Blake Pier at 3.45 p.m. Kowloon Residents at King's Park Range at 4.15 p.m. Dress: Brill order.
Machine Gun Section at B5 p.m. at Wellington Barracks under Instrue tor Sergt. Bowles. Dress; "Clean
· fatigue. Friday, 7th instanti
To be Corporala-No, 1927 2nd-Corp. rington, No. 1742 Corp. Whitelaw.
To be Lanco-Corporals. No. 1079 Spr. Day, No. 1739 2nd-Corpl. Davidson.
O. A. Howells, No. 1387 Spr. Hamer, No. 1835 Spr. Warren, No. 1762 Spr. Stalker,
| CUTLER PAIMER & CO'S.
To be 2nd-Corpornls-No. 1741 Lee. Corp, Kerr, No. 1348 Loe.-Corp). O'Sullivan, No. 1309, Lee.-Corpl. Clarke, No. 1670 Lee. Corp. Norris, No. 1466 Loc. Corpl. Fitzgibbon, No: 1383 Loc. Cornl. Brewer,
Scouts Company, with effect from
13tli inst
To be Corporala-No. 1554 Lo Corp.
Edgecumbe No. 1410 Lee.-Corp. ⠀⠀⠀⠀ Northey, No. 1547 Lee. Corpl. Wilkin
No. 1544 Lee. Corp. Greenhill, No. To be Lance Corporal-No. 1813 Pte. J.
1285 Lea Corpl; Whyte.
Macionald.
6. PUNISHMENT
No. 1878 Pte. P. Tangap, of Bignalling Section, has been awarded 72 hours! detention on the following three charges:
(1) Absent from parade, (2) Absent
from parade. (3) Breach of dis- cipline, scading the Bignal C.I; without authority.
7-PARADES.
Monday, 3rd inst
5.10 p.m. Artillery Battery, Left, Centre Right, Sections M. Co., Beouts Cos, and Civil Service Co, at Headquarters for route march. Dress Drill order kbakı (no tanic). Bifles will not be carried.
5.15 p.m. Recruits of all units at Hoad-
quarters under Corpi, Grimes, Tuesday, 24th inst. ;-
5.15 p. Stretcher Bearer Section at
Headquarters
5.20 p.m. Signalling Section "A" and
B classes at R A. Theatre. 6:30 pm Mounted Section on Polo
Ground.PIN
Friday, 27th inst...
5.15 p.m. Recruits of all
units at
Headquarters C.S.M. Witchell and Compl Grines will attend. 3.30 pin Signalling Section "A" and B classes at R. A. Theatre.. Saturday, 29th inst. :--
2.30 p.m. Trained Men Artillery Battery, Musketry Standard Test on King's Park Lange, Range Officer: Ligut. Danby. Offer 1/e Butts, Captain Preston. Sunday, 29th inst
9am Trained Man Right Section M.C. Co., Musketry Standard Test un King Park's Bunge. Range Officer: Lient Kennett. Officer 1/c "B" Cuy., Platoon No. 8. Recruits
will parade at Blake Pier at 9.30)
Butts, Captain Preston.
A-DETAIL pa. Kowloon Residents at the 100 On duty 29th inst. Scouts Co. yards fring-point, King's
Park
Range, at 4 pm for Musketry, Dass: Drill order
* Coy on the road outside the Law Courts at 3.15 p.m. Drea Drill order, s
Signalling ection at Volunteer Head. quarters at 5/15 p.m. under Instruc
+
20th inst
do.
21st inst.
do
1st Nov-Centre Sectin
M.G. Co. 2nd Nov --Artillery Battery. 3rd · Nov.--Civil Service Co. 4th Nov. --Right. Section
MIC Co
tor Sergt. E. V. Mitchelmore, Dress: Orderly Officer from 29th to 4th Nov Clean fatigue.
DATA STRENGTH.
Pte. D. M. C. Goodall having joined
is alloted Carps No. 622 and posted to Coy Platoon No. 11, Section
́ ́ (8d.) G. K. H. BRUTTON, Captain,
Adjutant, H. K. VAR, V
The occupation of Kavala by a large force is out of the question; every ounce of food must be brought over the hills to the north, exposed to the fire of our ships, or along the shore road from Sarikaban, a fonte equally vulnerable. Fuel also must be brought into the town as well as water. The springs to the west are close to the sea and within easy range. "In fact, it is within the power of the Allien Fleets to terminate the Bulgarian tenancy of Kavala at a face the Gresk and Turkish farmers, and moment's notice,
pag aa there seems every probability of the The disadvantages of the place are so war being prolonged there in little hope well known that it has never been within of these landowners being able to look the scope of our operations to land a forward with any certainty of being per- force there, aur was it worth while to mitted to sow their crops in peace next incur any loss of life un protecting the February or to pluck their leaves next town an long az Greece held aloof from August, our cause.
Augusto dominates the two parts of
Lieut. Murphy....
A. F. CHURCHILL, Copty
Adjutant, H. KV.C.
20th October, 1918
NOTICE With reference to the Hockey Meating
held at Headquarters on 18th inst., a further meeting, at which all members of the Corps interested in Hockey are particularly requested to attend, will be held at Headquar- ters on Tuesday, 24th inst., at 5.30 p.m. Officers commanding should attend.
units
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Kavala and the Buru Geol, and it was. The tobacco harvest is now in full swing the one island which the Bulgarians made and in all probability the Bulgarians in a point of retaining, despite the fact that their advance have requisitioned every spart from its German leaseholders its leaf in the richest tobacco-producing | population is purely. Greek. In the case country in the world. The loss to Greece of Thacos and of Kavela the Bulgariane. Lows:- will be enormous, for two-fifths of the met with a rebuf, and it is extremely The arrivals of paddy from the in- old Turkish tobacco fields were coded mulikely that they will be permitted to terior being smaller, our market is firmer
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to Greece under the terms of the Treaty hold Kavala a day longer than the Allies and our prices have been advancing IL ENGINE cumpleto with and
NE DI BEP HORNSPY ACKROYD of Bukharest, and the value of the deem advisable. Possibly the Bulgarians every day during the last ten days, tobacco exporta from the one part of and their German advisers are of opinion There is still staall demand from the souples direct to uns X W↑ Condlavóns Kavala alone averaged 21 million pounds that from the heights to the north of the neighbouring countries and tonnago Current Shunt Word Dyzamo of 60/70 volle annually It in, of course, possible that town heavy guns can deny the Allied available is very scarce. Y
with shant regulator the tobacco companies, foreseeing the Fleets free potsession of the neighbouring
ONE SWITCHBOARD Bulgarian advance, have taken the pre seas. But before batteries can be erected
ACCUMULATORS, DYNAMO,iza, pomplete caution to export all the leaf in the on those weights heavy guns will have to
with instruments for 100 Ampa. Kavalai warehouses, in which ones little he procured from Skoda or from Essen
For arther particular azuis tom foss will fall on the shareholders of the and foud for the force for the defence of
LINSTEAD & DAVIS, better known companies, but ruin will the batteries, all brought from afar.-
Calemandra Balldimen (Contoned at foot of next Column) The Times.
The total amount of rice exported from 1st Janury to 3rd October is 930,528 tons, against 896,010 tons in 1915.
We quote to-day-White rice, No. 2 Silled Japan quality, Hongkong, 8403 per pical Lob. Saigon, for Celebes/No- vember shipment.