THA HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY JUNE 12TH, 1917.
CUTLER · PALMER & CO'S FOOD PRICES IN HONGKONG.
NAPIER JOHNSTONE'S
Known as the
“OLD
SCHEDULE OF MAXIMUM, RETAIL
1. Flour :-
RICEB.
(a.) First Grade.
per bag of 50 lbs. per lb
abrus Wong Fa Ye Lobsters-Long Ha Malkerel-Chi Ta Hon Fish Mong YO Mullet Tasi Ya 24 Oysters Bhang Ho
Perch Tau Lo
Forret Fish-Kai Kung
Pike Fa tau Forg
(b) Second Grade.
Plaice Pan Yü
per bag of 50 lbs.
4.00
Pomfret, black, Hak Chong
28
per th...
08
Pomfret, white-Pak Chong
(e.) Third Grade.
per bag of 50 lbs. per 16.
Prawns-Ming H
3.60
38
Ray Psi P. She
h
07
Rock Fish-Shek Kau Kurg
15
2. Tinned Milk:
Roach Chun Yü
(a.) Sweetened Condensed Milk,
per 11b, tin
Salmon-Ma Yau
Shark Sha Yüg
37
(b.) Unsweetened Condlased Milk,
por 1 lb. tin......
SQUARE” (c) Rurilised Milk, for vin, (18
WHISKY.
ESTABLISHED;
1745.
BOLE AGENTS IN HONGKONG
AND SOUTH CHINA
LANE, CRAWFORD
and from ALL WISH MESONANTO,
POISONED HANDS
MASS OF BLEBS
And Eruptions. licked, Burned. Could Not Work or Sleep.
HEALED BY CUTICURA
"I wafford very much from poisoned hands. My bape bécathu oon man of. biebs and sore eruptions which we always watery, and discharging. They world iton and burn and 1 svald do no hedework of ang dad and I could not leép at night.
ly bands were bad for two year I Bow Cuticura Sip and Vinturint adver ased at Isent fe a free, surpple“. I bought moms Cufigura trons, and after {wo weeks I was empletely healed."
Sinted Mrs Belle, Carlisle, Court, 6 Hotst. Creswich S, Abendt. Erg,, July 28, 1915
Sample Each Free by Post With 32-pääsin Book- og tá clonásp and Ointment to heal Address pont-cart Tot nămples. F., Newbory & Sun, 27, Clare tarhoume Sig, lonletts Sold pverywhere.
(d) Sterilized Milk per 1 litre tin (e) Egle Brand, per 1 lb. tin (Skimmed Milk, por 1 h tin 3. Sugar:
Qube (in 6 lb tins); per tin ... 1,20 Refined Crystallized, per lb.
Granulated; per lb.......
Soft, No, 1 quality, por ib.
Soft, No 2 quality, per lb
4. Frozen Meat
Skate Po Tu..
Suapper Bap It Botes Tat She Yu Toron-Wan Yü Turbot 136 Hau Ya Turtles, mall, fresh
Keuk Yu
POULTR
Chicken-Kai
14
Capons, large, mall-Sin Kai DuckAp
A4
13
Doves-Pan Kad
Egge, Hen-Kil Tan (cook-
per doz.
The Dairy Farm prices of frozen food and other stores as printed in the Dairy Farm price list and amend ed in red ink dated the 21st day of February, 1915, signed by the Chairman and Secretary of the Food Committee are the maximum retail prices of the articles enu- merated in the said list. Ap- proved copies can be seen ofther ni the Treasury or on the premises of the Dairy Farm Co, Ltd., in Wyndham Street.1
Market. Produce --
BUTCHER-HEAT.
But Sirloin Mei Lung Pa... Ib. Beef Prime Cut do n Beef Corned Ham Ngau Yuk Beef Roast Shiu Ngau Yuk Beef Breast Ngau Nam Yuk Beef SoupLong Yuk
Beef Steak-Ngan Yuk Pe... Beef Steak Sirloin-Ngau Lau Beef Sausages Ngau Cheung Bullock's Brains-Ngau No,
Bollock songus,
Li Bullock's
ing Eggs, Hen-Ka Tau (fresh) Fowls, Canton-Kai
lb. Fowls, Hainan Hoi Nam
Kai...
Geese Ngoainen 37 Figeons, Canton-Pak Kap each Pigeons, Hoitow-Hot Hau
Pak Kap Turkeys, Cock-Fo Kai Fung 16 Turkeys, Hen Fo Kai Na Snipe Sha Ti Pheasant-Shai Kai Quail Om Chun Partridges Ce Kú
* PRIJITA. Almonds-Hong Yan Apples (California)
Shan Ping-Ko... Bananas (bride's), Macao
Heung Chin
Carambola-Young To
Cocpanuts-Ye Tse
Lemons, Chin
Ling Mung...
:ench
" Lai Chi Kana Ha
Oranges Coaton). (sweet).
Shan-sheng Tim Chang Oranges (Canton)
Pears (Canton) Cooking-
Sha Lig
Peanuts-Fe Shangy Persimmons large Hung Tsz Plantain Tai Shiu
VEGETABLES, ETC.
Beet Boot-ung Teol Tau Bitter Sanesh-Fu Kwa - Brinjals, Green-Ching Yun
Kwa
Brinials, led Hàng Bell Cabbage, Chinese (catamon)→→ Kai fold Cabbage, Shanghai-Ye Tsoi... Cane Shoots bunch Kau
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THE WESTERN FRONT.
STRENGTE AND MORAL
A SURVEY OF THE ENEMY
[BY THE TIMES MILITARE COTICSPONDENT
I have recently been afforded the OP portunity of visiting the Somme battle fields and of recognizing the connection between the events of last year on that front and the fighting now in progres on the front St. Quentin-Lea From the Sodime I have passed along our present line, have seen something of the fighting. and have talked with many of the chief actors in this great drama which is still 38 holding a world audience cathralled. It may therefore he expedient that I should summarize the opinions which I have formed as a result of these experience
In order to understand the nature of the task set to Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig this year it is necessary that we should all realize the nature of the op 20 position which confronts us and o 36 French and Belgian Allies.
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18
38
26
60
avrige
percussion range of his field guns to 9,000 yards, and by using pieces like the 24om naval gun, which has a range of nearly 6,000 yards. He knows the ranges of our guns to a yard, and places his own guns, just outside these Tages whenever practicable. We therefore must constantly neck for improvements, and should remain prepared to shell his back areas even at extreme ranges, for thera are many advantages to be derived from this course. We cannot expect to be superior in all calibres, but our artillery is now very good, and munitions are
more than abundant, 2
OUR POWER
My impressions of the Somme were con my what I ont of the Arras ight ing. I do not think that the Germans are short of shells, but I think that they or other are unable to make up their are short of guna, and for corde Petson leeway. We amothered their guns on April tb, and later the German artillery was distinctly inferior to ours. Our counter-battery work, not above criticism on the Somme, has become deadly. In four months before Arras our aeroplanes reported 1,589 Birect hits on German guns as well as sumo 200 important ex plosions, so that the German adminis tration, which was already hard put to it to repair its guns, to create a reserve, and to provide artillery for the new divisions must have had an anxious time.
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Pan-Germanic Group out of his captured guns, and as some of these had 1,000 rounds with then, and our guns could not be brought up immediately owing to the state of the grund, we found the German guns quite useful.
THE INVINCIBLE TANK.
GREAT DEEDS OF THE CHEERY ENGINE OF WAR.
[BY PEROIVAL PHILLIPS.}] We are still hearing many stories about
winter devising ways to combat their the tanks. The German experts spent the destructiveness, and the battle of Arra garo them the first opportunity of testing
these inventions. It may be fairly sid that the tank is still unconquered by the onemy's ingenuity.
In some places the German infantry
which roamed around destroying small managed to get to grips with the tanke,
redoubts, but could not prevent these mobile batterica completing their So many of them were helping to dar the battlefield of concealed pocket of Germans that it was inevitable that tommer should suffor from clance explosions. Even when they were put out of Edion the tanks usefulness was not wholly an end.
IN THE OPEN,
deadly
I have heard of one crew which con- The Germans are still very strong Ahrge number of German guas must 30 fact, stronger than they have ever been. have been placed out of action during tinued to kill Germans long after their ditial to those which we captured. The minder and one roun opened the stool German report that the guns lost had door and took their Lewis gun into the gst is not oper to us to reckon that they the fighting in the Arras district, in ad craft was filled with danes. The com
have less than 4,300,000 men in the 25 on both fronts, 500,000 on the line of bean destroyed before they were abandon-open. A detachment of twenty-one communications, and 1,000,000 men in the ed in quite untrue. I heard of no such Bavarians who advanced and tried to General Allenby's Third Arms, while of The officer and his companion afterwards depots of Germany. They have increased destruction of the 100 guna captured by make them prisoners were all killed. ank toured the Scarpe marshes Another tank the number of their divisions in the West the 4 or more guns captured by General made their way back unhurt,⠀⠀⠀ - Home's First Army only one was report to 155, and of this number there are deed hulged by a pa tinily successful at for nearly two days, and having exhaust divisions between the and the Oise tempt to blow it up. The proof is that ed all its ammunition in this The German strengths are also fairly well nearly all these captured guns were used mission, anused itself by bursting in ngainst the enemy General Byng formed little conorrted shelters, and then came contentedly home again: A group of 3 maintained, and the companies av
200 flou. These who doubted the exist
tanks arrived in our enemy held village ence of the new German divisions to
early two hours before the infantry, destroyed all the machine-gun empiade- ments, killed many of the enemy, and which I here often alluded must now change their views, for all the first series
then sat down in the High Street until the supporting battalions came up. of new divisons, 13 in number, have been identified in one theatre or another. Sir The German trenches become super-
The lull in the fighting continues on. Henry Hawlinson's troops capture a 400 officially more formidable every day, these gentry in a rent affair, and if Never were there seen such industrious there are still soeptics in the Government, military moles as those Hunt, and the the greater portion of the new British it would bowall to parade these prisonera amount of work done by these people, front, although there is still lively skir in Downing-street and to show the mum and by Ruusian prisoners, is really promishing in the environs of Lens and bers on their shoulder straps. Our ad digious. A first line system of trenches around some of the villages, south of the mirable Intelligence Servicc have once includes a front lime, usually held light-Scarpe, which are practically in the more been found Faithful guides; a support line, and a reserve line from line.
Our cordon, which now forms nearly a To be il confronted by 8,000,000 The spaces between the lines are divided German fighters makes the later stages of up by lateral retrenchments. There are semi-circle around lens, has been drawni 14the war a serious matter for the Allies,alnost always two lines of barbell wire still tighter against the western suburbs. and we have besides to reckon with the in front of each line, and of course there Britisk patrols are now within about 400 500,000 men of each successive German is flanking fire from machine-gun pits yards of the streets leading to the centre class as it is called up. The 1918 German The guns are also often covered by ferru of the town, and they can look up some class is already incorporated, and the courete, and the dugouts have been so of these broad, straight thoroughfares often described that there is no need to wher Bayarian infantry are hiding 1919 class in the depots. But there is n reverse to this German medal. Combing dwell upon them. But when we have among the shattered, buses,
10
21
Lemons, America-Kam Shan
18.
Ling Mung
Lichees, dried (small stone)
21
28
24
per eet. 10 freah Ngau
43 Reach
Tongue, Ham Ngau Li
corned
80
Bullock's Head-Ngau Tau
$1,00
Bullock's Heart Ngau Sam. 16.-14 Bullock's lump, salt-Ngeu
Pamelo, Sim-Taim Lo Yau each Walnuts Hop To
T
Grapes-Po To Tsz...
21
Bullock's Feet-Ngau Keuk...oach 11 Bullock's Kidneys-Ngau Yiu
Artichokes Ah Chi Cheuk
10
36-6
Bullock's Tail- Ngau Hot Bullock's Liver Ngau Kon... lb. Bullock's Tripe fundressed),
Ngdi To
Beans, Sprout Nga Tsoi „ Beans Long Tau Kok
13
66
Calvea Head and Feet Ngau
Bet $1.30. tsai-tan-keuk Mutton Chop-Yeung Pei Kwat
Mutton Leg-Young Pe Mutton Shoulder
b. 20
25
Shaw
Mutton Saddle
Yeung
fenug On
8
24
Cauliflower (Large)-Ye Tsoi
Fa
Yak
£7
Cauliflower (Medium)
Pig's Chitlings Chu Chong.
Cauliflower (Small)
Pig's Brains-Chu No
Carrots Lam Shin
Pig's Feet-Chi Keuk
12
Pigs Fry-Chi Chap
Coléry, Chinese-Tong Kan
0
Pig's Head-Chu Tau
16
Chillies, dried-Kon Lat Chin
25
Pig's Heart Chu Sam
Chillies, jed-Hung Fa Chu
19
Pig's Kidneys-Chu Yiu
18
Piga Liver-Clü Kon
Pork Chop Chu Fai Kwat..
Chillies, groen-Ching Lat
V: Chiu o p
Curry Stuff, English-Ka Li
Pork Leg Chi Pei .....
Chu Lin
10
30
Cucumber-Ching Kvaeach
20
Garlic--Sun Sau.......
It.
Ginger, - young -Sun
set 60
Keung
each
08
Ginger, dd-Lo Koung
12
Horseradish, Shanghai-Lik
20
Kan
Indian Corn Shuk Mai
22
Lettuce Young Shang Tsci.
20
KEATINGS
WORM TABLETS
GRIMAULT'S
SYRUP
OF
HYPOPHOSPHITE OF LINE
FOR
STUBBORN COUGHS
BRONCHITIS
WEAK LUNGS
CATARRH
CONSUMPTION
Pork Loin-Chi Han Tun... Fork Fat or Lard Chu Yau Sheep's Head and Feet-
Young Tau Keuk Sheep's Heart Yeung Sam Sheep's Kidneys Yeung Yiu, Sheep's LiverYeung Konib. Sucking Pigs, to order-Chu
Suet, Beef Shang Ngau Yau,, Buet, Mutton-Shang Yeung Veal-Ngau Tai Yuk Veal Sausages Ngau Taai
Cheung Lard Chi Yan
Hoi Sin Yü
Carp Li Yü ..............
22 3848 88 87 88
Water Chestnuts in Tai... Water Chestnuts, Mandarin- Kwai Lam Ma Tai
Mushrooms, Fresh-Shang Tso
Ku Okroes
Onions, Bombay Yeung - Chung Tàn
LOOKING INTO LENS.
men have not eased to marvel at the arid and strange collection of stores abandoned by the enemy in Living They a-reserve against future casualties, un found piles of new coffins in one depôt as damaged microphone gets, buried fold gun, packs of clothing, and unused leather goods, and plenty of oil and endles.
ut German industries is practically at certain period in which to photograph An end. The only drafts available are and register upon all these defences our The garrison of Lens, which has been the young class and the recovered wound-bombardment simply smashes everything obviously reinforced since Sunday fight- ed, and these will not be enough, if the into smithereens. I searched hard foring, still resists, and shows no inclination fighting continues the old sale, to the wire and the trenches of the main to give up any of its outposts among the keep the ranks full in this at German line on the famous Hill 145 en coal dumpa until forced to do so by the Kome period this year, Germany must the Vimy Ridge, and could not fix it with British patrols. begin to use part of her new formations ecuracy amidst a mass of shell oráters as drafts, and it may be that the second and shattered fragments of ourbed wite series of new divisions will drawn Out of 10 contreted machine-gun el upon for this purple. These new divi-placements on one short section of ground sions exist, but they are in a sense a bluff, attacked by um of General Allenby for the German Headquarter Staff Innst divisions, as were completely demolish have known perfectly well, when theyed, and the tenth had half its rooting formed hem, that they could not, with knocked off. It is the same story with the concreted himbproofs of the German their diminishing resources of men, main tain 250 divisions in the field. Certainly envies. Our heavy howitzers play the they knew this, but they placed all their very deuce with them, and in short, when I have been nearing some of the experi. goods in the shop window to create an we give our funners and men hences of these troops during the terrible necessary time for preparation, and do illusion hat the stock in hand was limit not try to march to the fuse in an fighting in the mud of the Boisen-Hache, less and to afford their enemies fresh afternoon, a German position is as good and afterwards when they pursued the reasons for listening to offers of peace taken before an Assault. Our gas is retreating Germans into Angres and negotiations
Falso most effective, and the Huns must Liévin, One battalion included many clare that in all their two and a half GERMAN MORAL,
curse the nimes of their chemists who long-service professional saliers, who sle years experience in this way they never The moral of the German Armies in added this new terror to wat
attacked or advanced under such difficul ties. front is still respectable. There are ndr
They were wedged in the morass of the wood, above the waist, in piros, aniped
10 thing but Active and Reserve-formations
15
TISH
Barbel-Ka Yü
Onions, Green Shang Chung Onione, Shanghai Sheung-
Bream Pin Yü
18
hoi Shung Tau
Canton Fresh Water Fish
Parsley Kun Tsc
15
Potato, Sweet Fan Sha
Potato, Japanese-Tat Pun
Catash Chik Yü...
12
Shir Tea
Codfish Mun Yü
14
Potato, American-Ta Ki Sha
Crabs-Hai ikainga
26
Tani
16
Pumpkin-Tung wa..
3
Dab Sha Mang Yu
12
Radish Hung Lo Pak Tsai....
Dace Wong Mei Lap
Rhubarb (fresh)-Tai Wong
Dog FishTit To Sha
10
Shallot Kon Chang Tau
Eels, Conger Hội Man
Spined in Tsa
THERAPIONE C
20 seadu
Eels, Fresh water-Tam Shui
Tomates Fan Fe
18.
Taros-Wu Tau
Eels, Yellow Wong Sin
Cattle Fish-Muk Yü
* BLOOD PONIE, KTORY, WILDER. VAIRAST VILLASK
HEYELOPA NE FREE"
PABER DICHOTI: LU ROB GASTELJOME A COVEN
WEAKLAN BY FOREV601
THERAPION
CASTING
Frogs Tin Kai
Garoupa Sek Pan Gudgeonk Kap Yu Herrings To Pak Halibut Cheung Kwan
MONTSERRAT
Lime Juice
Brings to your lips the juice of
the lime fruit.
It is a drink that is always cooling and refreshing, The children love it. Order a few bottles to-day. Large supplies have been lately shipped from London.
DJ All Storekasperk va Duan Baum Kupper à' Webbs, Lick ---- Llywasnt a London.
358-1
100
16
Turnip Punti (Long) Lo
- Pok
Vegetalle Marrow Tsit Kwa
Water Cress-Esi Yeur Water Lily root-Lin
Shu
Yams--Tai Sh
Teoi
gau....
**THE 418 SERVICES
SPLENDIDO FEATS
by Bavarians only hundred and fifty
trenches
Vimy Ridge, gun fire from an uncaptured hummock on Their finest feat, however, was rising again after they had dropped utterly exhausted beyond the German which they had stormed and staggering the und--the bodies onwards after the retreating for The wood was theirs and the enm drac lay were found in one shell hole. They had When the message was very little food, no sleep or rest for Forty-eight hours and signalled, The enemy is retiring through
everywhere in
men, and the entire battalion was on its
USTASTET FOOD
fighting against the British, and there is only say two German acroplanes cross practically no difference in the military our lines during my visit to the British each 05 value of these two categories of troops, frost, and when some of ultra canie upards away and enfiladed by machine
though individual divisions naturally and drove them off I thought that ours vary, they do in all armies All the looked like thoroughbreds and the Get Landwhy and Landsturm troops have man hackneys There were, however left our front and have gone ast, We plenty of German aeroplanes on the Gor- have the best of the German troops in man side of the line, as well as many den with and they still fight tilly It observation balloons, The Fokker is is true that on April 9th they were hand, thirty played out on the Western front somely beaten and driven our of the where the Albatros on enter and the strongest positions with greit loss of Halberstadier represent the best single prisoners and guns, argetim indeed cater fighting machines of the enemy surrendering tamely, but it must be The foriner has two guns firing through allowed that the attacks of Generale the propeller and 160hp. Mercedes Allenly and Home were so admirably engine. The Roland, the L.VG., the mounted in every particular and the Bumpor, and the Aviatik are the most whole operation was such a perfect model common two-seater types Fighting, Angres," The officers shouted to their 3 of the prudent offensive, that the Garconnaissance, and artillery work are feet instantly eager to pursue the mans were completely outclassed. The terried out by separate units, and a Bavarians, and if possible make them tack of April gard and following days sharp distinction is drawn between these fight, showed the enemy in a better light different spheres of aerial activity. The counter-attacked forcely again and again organization of the German Air Service and there followed some of the bitterest is fairly well known to us, and we also fighting of the war. Not improbably, the know to our cost that we were met by German commanders had beenseverely re superior numbers of fast single-seater primanded for their failure on the 9th fighting machines at the opening of this and had been ordered to take the offer year's campaign, v sive, This suited us very well, as We must make up our mind that when had the best of the ground with a very fever we relay our efforts at home a great powerful artillery in postion. The nation like the Germans will beat us, and The men are very modest is falking. 11 longer this German counterattacks com this is not true of aviation alone. Thy of their own exploits, but all of them tinned the better we were pleased and Garmang produce some star pilots who are full of admiration for their chaplain the more men the enemy let. But we are quite good, and I fancy that, the per- and his splendid work during the attack. must admit that he showed spirit, era sonnel in the German observation The cheeriest man in the Army." id if he did not deplay much tactical balloons drawn largely from the an alter of the battalion, "He doesn't telligence so that on the whole we cannot artillery as it khould be. But I should know the meaning of the word fear. call the German moral had. I could sony that the general level of efficiency is I say him flaundering hall submerged take but little ception to the quality bigher in our service than in the German the ad of the Beisen-Hache smiling of the prisoners whom I saw,
and assuredly despite the chemy's good and shouting words of encouragement to fast fighters, and his numerous anti air the hien around him. He went out in craft batteries and sections, he has accom. No Man's Land while we were being shot German frst line for all the Huns had plished much had than our men, and our from the Pimals and helped carry pilots retain all their offensive spirit in the wounded, and he pren went to the We must, expect ups and downs in a cleared out and did what he could for the novel servide of this kind when so much dying cience and industry are arrayed against To-day the padre toiled again through ug but the unconquerable spirit of our ran into the mrose, which was once a men will prevail in the end if only thewood on the lore shots Souches to bury
PUR & the gra -3harming: honie organization is equal to the energy the dead and it wooden crosses ever
4
6. In view of the prohibition of the er
port of certain food stuffy from the United Kingdom, the prices of these articles can no longer be fixed. If, however, any consumer considers that, he I has beat over- charged he may make represcota tions to that effect to the Secretary of the Food Committee, Sanitary Beard Offch for investigation. Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoria, Hong kong, this 25th day of May, 1917. By Command,
AGM FLETCHER,
Colonial Secretary: GOD SAY THE KING
The German continue their practice of substituting machine-pover for man power as much as they can witness the large us now being made of the new 08/15 machine-gun, but on the whole we are thle to beat them in michine power, and sur artillery is now not only superior to the German numerically but also more
efficient in many ways,
The enemy tries continually to outing na, an, for example, by increasing the
at the front
They pressed through the erenly trenches exploring due-outs in whi candles were ill burning and untåsted Angres and making a secure line beyond food lay on the plank fable reaching it before taking the rest which already was rightfally theirs,