THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14t, 1918.
HOW A HONGKONG POLICE- MAN WON THE D.C.M.
AN INTERESTING LETTER. A letter has been received from P. Lane, a neuber of the Hongkong Polise Force, who is serving in the Irish Guards in France, in which he desuribes, quite modestly, the deed of valour which won hin the D.C.M.-the shielding of a wounded man under fire.
RANDOM · REFLECTIONS. When the estimates for the ensuing year were under discussion by the Legislative Council a week or two back, the Director of Public Works explained that the Government thought it wiser to open up new roads in the New Territory rather tha" spend money upon titivating existing roads. This is a per fectly sound policy, for land which is inaccessible is relatively valueless. There is always, however, a risk of running to extremes, and a glaring example of this
The Constable, who writes from France, is afforded by the long neglect of Nathan Road. This fine, broad and states that he has been in that country.
which straight thoroughfare,
is the loon Peninsula, has long been blocked at the point of intersection with Gascoigne Rond by a narrow screen of rock, and, as a consequence, it is neces- sary for those desiring to pass out to the country beyond to thread their way through a maze of squalid and crowded Chinese streets, in which the sights and saells are neither elevating nor salu brions, until the high rund is regained a Little farther, on...
COMPANY MEETING.
NORTH CHINA INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
HONGKONG MAGISTRACY. ALLEGED THEFT OF A JUNK Sergt. Wills of Yaumati, charged a
The thirteenth ordinary general meet- Chinese with the theft of an oyster junk,
report had been made that the junking of the North China Insurance Co., was missing and the prisoner was found Ltd., was held at the Company's head in possession of it.
office, 6, Kinking Road, on October 31st,
A remand was granted.
OPIUM IN WOOD, For being found in possession of 4 tnels of prepared opium, the Chinese car-
The Chairman (Mr. R. McEven Dal- gliesh) said that the printed report and statement of accounts to June. 20th; 1910, showed the Company's position on the
INTIMATIONS -
LANE,
CRAWFORD & Co.
completion of practically two years of GENTLEMEN'S OUTFITTING DEPT.
main artery of trafic in the Kow for two nionths, and so far," I like it Penter of the Chefe was fined $4,500, with war conditions. Notwithstanding the
All this could be avoided by the simple expedient of removing a wall of rock, only a few yards thick, and why this simple and obvious course has not
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well enough. After we arrived here we were kept for two weeks in the base camp on the coast. It is a very large camp, and drafts for almost every regiment Franco are kept here. There is a very ergo training, camp attached to it, and every morning we had to march up a very big bill in full kit and spend most of the day on the top. It is there we got a
bit of the real training, and though it was rushed a bit we learned more there in one week from the men who had been
the alternative of twelve months' in-
prisonment. The opium was found con- antivity of enemy submarines, especially vented in hollow pieces of wood,
VALUABLE BUNDLE.
A Chinese was seen by an European Sergeant walking in Fee House Street, and carrying a bundle The Sergeant was suspicious, and questioned the man con corning the bundle. The man became scared and ran away, but was not fast enough for the Bergeant. The hundle, which the man dropped in his fight, was
towards the end of 1915, the directors were j able to come before the shareholders with This a substantial balance in hand. satisfactory state of affairs was due to the never ceasing watchfulness of our navy and the navies of our Allies, ably backed and resourcefulness of the by the care and
The principal feature of this year's officers and men of the mercantile marine,
balance sheet was the appropriation to
NEW STYLES IN
LINCOLN & BENNETT'S
CELEBRATED
cover-excess profta duty. In diverting FELT and STRAW
been taken leng agʊ is one of those things in the actual fighting than we did in found to contain 28 taels of prepared such a substantial sum as £23,000 for this
grass
opium.
Mr Hazeland fined the man $1,000, with the alternative of twelve months' imprisonment,
ATTEMPT TO SMUGGLE OPIUM INTO GAOL,
our time at the depot and the reservo battalion. They even rushed us through a dugout, fulf of poison gas. and gave us a dash of the lear stuff to show us I met Hourihan what it was like.. grown.
(unother Hongkong constable) there, and he was transferring to an anti-aircraft crowd. One of our camps came under shell fire, and we had somo, very narrow shaves. Some of the units near us lost men and horses. We were out one day when the place was shelled. The Sergt. Major and one man ran for a dug-out at the first shell, and arrived there about the same time as the second. I believe tion of the food led to the discovery of both went home to England as a result | opium. of their acquaintance with it. We had only two losses there."
which, as Lord Dandreary would say "No fellah can understand." Quarrying is being carried on to within a few yards of this very point in Coronation Road, on the opposite side, and the road has been made up for so long that it bas become
Mean- while the contractor. 15 devoting his energies to a semi-circular excavation on the face of the cliff instead of going straight on, apparently regarding the barrier as sacrosanet. The effect of this extraordinary mauarre is to block egress from the narrow tongue of land, which is now becoming thickly popu lated, and to retard the extension of the European settlement towards the site which has been acquired for the purposes of a garden city. The residents of Kowloon argue, with a good show of reason, that the completion of the main trunk road to the New Territory is more urgently necessary than the multiplica tion of roads through a wilderneSY,
It is to be hoped that the fine of $200 which was imposed on a Chinese mother for dumping on a piece of waste-ground the body of Ler daughter, who had died from smallpox, will tend to discourage this practice, which, as Dr. Smalley intimated to the magistrate, is far too
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Pc. Lane then goes on to describe how they were rushed off to the battalion “very sudden. They (the battalion) had just come out of action and had lost rather heavily, but only got two days rest and were all moved up towards the hout again. "It was a very miserable match, through pitch darkness and deep mud, across country and along a kind of railway line A few German shells
The audacity of opium fiends is amaz A Chinese was charged with at ing. tempting to pass opium' into Victoria Gaol on Sunday. The man went to the prison with some food for a prisoner. Suspicions were aroused, and an examina-
Inspector Davitt said that a certain man was in the gaol, and the prisoner was sent by the wife of the man in goal with some food for him, and this food was found to contain opium.
Mr. Leo D'Almada, who defended, pleaded guilty to the taking of the opium to the gaol, but said that his client was
purpose it must be borne in mind that although the head office was in China the Compat was incorporated in the United Kingdom and had its registered office in
London. It was probable, therefore, that FELT HATS IN
HATS.
SEVERAL
SHADES OF BROWN, GREEN AND GREY, $7.50 EACH.
WITH VENTILATED
LEATHERS.
it shall be taxed on the same basis as home companies. The Chairman preceed- ed:-The protection we have enjoyed and which we owe to those who are defending STRAW HATS IN THE NEWEST SHAPES FITTED our Empire on land and sca is common to all British business concerns, but it would appear that companies registered in certain parts of the Empire outside of the United Kingdom and in Shanghai at the British Consulate General are not privileged to share the burden of taxation on an equal basis with home companies. I think the general feeling among Britons"
this part of the world is that the pre- sent system of only levying taxes where there is direct representation in the Im- perial Parliament does not meet the con- ditions ruling at the present time. Pro- tection from the military and naval forces
"common, and constitutes a serious men greeted us near our balting place, which an agent and was unaware that the pack-of our enemies is what we have primarily
are seldom forced with havings. There had merely an innocent agent. -
The man was discharged.
ace to public health The object, of
He had course, is to avoid the expense of burial was an old trench with a fine-lined dug age of food contained opium. and the attentions of the Sanitary out, where the Germans had been. We looked through the regulations, and had were still followed by shrapnel, but 1 had Department. In this respect the floating the luck to get in an old German dug-out, been unable to and anything by which population of the Colony are great It had a concrete surface, and was rein the man could be convicted. He was offenders, though they brought before a Court.
contained a table, chair, Bodies of and beds of children are often left on buoys in the been window glass in it, with wire woven harbour for the waves to carry away, into the casings, but the place had been while other parents prefer the more direct | badly nuled by our shells and threaten- method of throwing the small bodies over-ed to cave in at any time. There we had board. No doubt the offenders wait a quiet time of it, and were the envy until the police-boat is not in the of the company. The letter states that vicinity. Perhaps a police warning the German shells continued to fall and would help to check this very undesirable one of our boys was killed." ↑ practice.
The following communication was received by the commanding officer of
got
a real shock there, too. I was looking at the remains of German dead near the edge of the wood, when a hell fell near me
BOXING.
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED,
Private G. Thomas, 4th K.S.LI, so sand sent me sprawling. I began to think cepts Corporal White's challenge for a
that it should be gear tea-time, and as I
to pay for, and all Britons would, I think, desire to pay for this on an equal basis I feel sure that the practical necessity of collecting every available round to meet our country's enormous expenditure will overcome any constitu tional difficulties which at present stand in the way of imposing the full measure of emergency war taxation on all British Besides companies wherever registered. excess profits duty our payments for ordinary income tax will in future show
substantial increase.
local auxiliary force a few days ago started to hurry back I caught my toe six round contest on any convenient date taken as the basis of our valuation. Our
"I really admit it a shame that I, descendant of and a British subject, do not serve H.M. the King and country in the hour of need. I therefore beg to withdraw the request. I made some time ago for exemption from service for stated reasons, and hope you will enlist me in from this date."
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RECRUITING IN IRELAND.
SIR E. CARSON'S ANALYSIS OF. THE FIGURES.
in the finger of another "gent" coming after 14th December. other shell came whooping around the up from the ground, I yelled, and an- corner. You could scarcely see. ther's boy going off at a tangent in a dust cloud.
My company was in the third line, which was soft enough, but the coming and going out was the worst of the job. We had to travel along a sunken road on which the Germans kept pouring shrapnel, and the dead lying around
made you feel a bit jumpy. It was quiet in the trench, for we could not more in the daytime for the German observation pilots. His aeroplanes were very scarce, but the place The other day a coolie, who had seemed full of oura.. The trench had only completely lost his mental balance and recently been taken, and a lot of dead presented a pitiable picture of helpless-Germans lay around. We buried then in
the ness, was found by £ tukung, and con- veyed, like an ordinary offender, to the
Needless to say, the commanding officer who received the letter swore the man In with alacrity. It is to be hoped that this example will stimulate others who have hitherto held back to come forward and shoulder their share of the general burden.
Sir Edward Carson has issued the following statement;---
Investments-In valuing our sterling investments held in London, minimum prices have been done away with and the market prices on July 7th, 1816, were securities have accordingly been written down to these figures out of working ac count 1918. Our other securities in the aggregate stand in our books at prices ruling on June 30th, 1916, As long as -the rate of interest on Government Bonds tends to increase we must expect further writing down in respect to prewar 201 vestments in order to keep them in "line with the new standard. It will be scen that our position is a very strong one.
Owing to the sharp rise in exchange during the past year we have transferred Tls 60,000 to our exchange and invest- ment fluctuation account.
In placing £10,000 to our sterling re- serve fund, bringing it up to 190,000, we are continuing our established policy. of adding to our Bnancial strength. The is very essential in view of the uncer tainty of trade conditions after the war and the possible appearance of competi- the accumulation of profits made during tion arising in new quarters by reason of
the war and which are free from
In the speech of Lord Wimborne, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, made in Dublin on Monday last with reference to Irish recruiting, his Excellency is reported as saying:-"Since mobilization Ulster has contributed 54,000, of whom 40,000 were Protestants. night; an unpleasant task."
Leinster has contri- P.c. Lane then goes on to describe buted. 12,000, Connaught 4,000, Munster Central Police Station, followed by him the D; . M. This is how he puts splendid contribution, and nothing could the happening which eventually secured 10,000, and Dublin 19,000. That was a crowds of children, who saw only fun "I got into an awkward fix the next detract from it." in the poor fellow's strange antics. The night. I was. sent out with a fatigue
We are able to recommend a final divi- lunatic was kept waiting in the charge party to bring in rations which came up bution of recruits was more than that for the year, which I trust will meet with These figures show that Uister's contridend of 15 per cent, making $7 per cent. room at the Central Police Station for the Bucken road by pack ponies. It was of the three other provinces added twenty minutes or more, during which | dark, and a big crowd from other com-
your approval. While your directors together. As Donegal, Cavan, and consider it advisable to go cautiously in time he acted as only lunatics do act, and panies were there. The shrapnel was Monaghan hove, I believe, only contri- this direction in view of the importance was then pushed and dragged, by the going over thick, and every now and collar of his coat, to the Government Civil again a man would drop or stagger to buted about 3,000 between them, it will of further consolidating our financiai Hospital, followed by a crowd of child wards the dressing station. I got mixed be seen that the other six. Ulster counties position to meet any new situation which ren, who jeered at the demented creature with the wrong ration party and found have contributed about as many as the may arise after the war, they consider and aped his antics. Cannot such cases myself marching into their line. I got three Southern Provinces together. Lord that in recommending this increased be accorded some degree of privacy very exhausted carrying two big cans of Wimborne gives the figures of males of dividend they are not departing from This maa, surely, could have been water, and when I explained my fix military age as 562,000. This was the their conservative policy. strapped up and conveyed to the hospital was rudely told to go to and strug-figure given last year by Mr. Birrell In on a canvas-covered ambulance instead gled off with my little gun, frightened the House of Commons, made up as fol- of being dragged through the streets in enough, to find my way hack to the third lots
line. The guns were going fairly heavy, the full light of day.
and I had to go through the remnants of Germans were pounding all day. I do an old wood and a village, which the not know how I struck the road, but there I met a wounded chap making for the dressing station, and went with him of males of military age who have been some of the way Every now and then recruited since the war is, according to we had to crouch by the roadside while these figures, as follows:---
he rested, and the shells and shrapnel
Leinster Ulster Munster Connaught
174,397
***** 189,489
136,637 61,302
It will thus be seen that the percentage
Ulster
Per cent.
31-8
Leinster (including Dublin) 17-7 Munster
Connaught
11-4-
··4-9
Turning now to the prospects for 1916, as forecasted at our last general tecting, marine disasters show a marked increase, while fires are of very frequent occur. rence. Owing to the shortage of available Residents of the Peak and others who
tonnage it is not to be expected that the same attention can be given to overhaul have occasion to pass up the paths
as in normal times, and there are many leading to that delectable region will be
instances of vessels being employed pleased to netice the recent efforts of
endes for which they were not originally, the authorities to improve the appear
adapted. This is, of course, due to the ance of this umbrageous and naturally
exigencies of war requirements, but the beautiful district. The painter, with
high war rates hitherto prevailing are his brush, has been busy on the railings seemed to know we were there. When I
no longer available to counteract these. and other artificial and necessary left him I ran like the d-, and managed
adverse conditions, while marine rates on fixtures, and, among other things, he has to reach our own trench safe, but badly
the main trade routes are practically the same as those ruling before the war.. renewed the lettering on the various scared. There was a heavy bombardment
The report and accounts were presed, notice boards, which fill a very useful of our line at night. It was terrible the
This is what his Excellency describes and it was decided to pay a final dividend purpose. In the discharge of the latter way we covered the wood and village in duty he has not been so careful, in one front of us with shells. They made all ass splendid contribution, and nothing of 15 per cent on the paid-ap capital
be at least, as the Chinese usually are colours of smoke, and in the addle of could detract from it "
and a bonus of 15 per cent upon contri- the art of reproduction, with the if all I saw one of our artillery observers But the figures quoted by Lord Wimbators marine premiums, both payable at exchange panicle per tael; to transfer result that the public are requested to up a tree. I would not have had his job horns do not include (as stated by Mr210,000 to sterling reserve fund, to write mote that no kites are to be "flow" in for a million, quid. We came out of Birrell) any males of the age between 18 Tis 20,000 off premises, and to transfer a particular road, and that among the it fairly light".
and 18. This would add another 40,000 We were marched back to camp, few wheeled vehicles allowed there are packed like sardines in trucks, and goror thereabouts, which would increase the the balance to underwriting reserve ac
prabalators. The Tatter might be back to billets, where we are now. My figure of 562,000 to 600,000, and would count, closing the account for 1915.
Mosers. Dalgliesh, Hide, Fairchild, defended on the score of sound spel-platoon is in a comfortable harn loft therefore redues the percentage I have a Bain and Lambs were re-elected directors, Ing," but the former is without warrant We are out of the sound of the guns, ready stated. It is, in my opinion, a great and the remuneration of the directors was or excuse, which may account for the and in the middle of orchards, green mistake to pretend that Ireland has made approved at Tir. 6,000 per annum. ** grins and
The directors, we hhorized to pay guesses of E party of fields, etc. Our little crowd is ready for a splendid contribution" it is not
bonus not exceed- American visitors whom I noticed look anything or anybody that may turn up, true, and it is an encouragement to leave to the Company's st
alaries for the ing at this particular board the other and I am sure we will keep our end up unfinished the work so splendidly coming 20 per cent, com day.
past year. wherever we go.”
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