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A TRENCH RAID.
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A dapper little man, with gray hair and moustache, tip-toed through the Thirty-fourth Street entrance of the Waldorf, went to his room on the fifth floor and sat down. Cane a knock at the door in opened it and two
visitors en
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE SERVICE DOLLAR AND
CHARITY,
[TO THE EDITOR OF THB HONGKONG
DAILY PRENS
Si-Yesterday the military rate of the dollar for the ensuing month was announced; it is 28. 83d, or practically is more than it was three years ago. Next month, judging by the latest, silver
All wurking parties clear of the The word is trenches by ten o'clock."" passed round, and we know that some thing is afoot to-night. Later, as we gather round our commanding officer for an evening conference, details are coin- municated At midnight a bonbardment by our guns is to commence, and at 8 am Le raiding party will go over the parupe was the reply mith, the hotel detective, market report, it will be at least 38.
to hry zhe Germans" in the trenches
4. 19 'à moonless night, and the Bat;
open county appears wrapped in repuse but nere and there the darkness is stabbed by the fitful gleam of ster-shells, for the chemy is always nervous and never likes to trust the ground in front of him to darkness for long. Now and again,› IV, there comes a sudden "bang bang 1 bobind us, and the swish of shells overhead, moaning away, to their distant bursting pince, and then silence. The ** struto" cust is to begin at midnight does not prevent the ceaseless worrying of the Germans by our batterica. Ar.
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tered.
Is this his Excellency the Minister from Sweden one of them asked.
It is," said the quiet man,
Then you're under arrest; you aren't the Minister at all. You're a faker,"
And Joseph
and Detective Kelly, of the Forst Branch, escorted to wailing taxicab a man who for two weeks had enjoyed the service of New York's best hotels and shops because he posed ag A. . Ekengren, Envoy Ex- riordinary and Minister Plenipoten- tiary to the United States from Sweden.
At
So far no word has been said by the Military Authorities of any action they have taken to remedy this wretched state of affairs. There is no gainsaying the fact that the private soldier in Hongkong
Police Headquarters he said he was Carl G. Bressel, 5 years old, a civil is no better off than a pauper in the work. engineer, of Chiengo. He told the detec-house-he is dependent upon charity for cives he was a native of Sweden, educated any recreation he may have and for
The police: at Stockhola University. said he told them that because of poor numerous other little items which he living recently, and since he had been simply cannot afford to get himself.
lor Minister- mistaken frequently
I.
HONGKONG BANKRUPTCY
COURT.
There was a sitting of the Bankruptcy Court yesterday, when the following cases were dealt with by the Chief Justice, Sir William Bees-Davies..
EE FUNG MING SHEK. The Official Receiver (Mr. H. A Nisbet) stated that in this case a reosiv. ing order was made on May 10th of this FEAT When the first meeting of creditors. was called, no creditor appeared, He naked for the debtor to ko adjudged bank- rupt and the Official Receiver to be appointed trustee-
The application was granted,
A SCHOOLMASTER'S AFFALES. Lau Pat-lan, a schoolmaster, during
the course of his public exanimaation, said he was made a bankrupt on March 15th. his debts were 8200 principal and 80 interest. He had stood guarantee for a
The working parties tile slowly dów Ekengren, he thought he would try mas- By this system his self-respect is gradual man who borrowed the money but whu
querading as the diplomat.
The technical charge on which he was held was for furging a cheque for $13
ly disappearing,
I understand that a large-hearted-sec- and passing it at the store of Mark Crosstion of the Hongkong public are organis. & Co. for a leather bag. This choque was
had died two years ago. He was now paying 87 a month.
The Official Receiver stated that the matter was a small one, and be applied for the examination to be closed.
RE CHAN YING CHI The Official Receiver said that certain enquiries were being made in China with
the tortuous trenches and, forming into parties on the roadway, march rearwar to to billets and food, their task for th night finished; for the Germans will pro ably abell our lines by way of retalia said to be one of more than a score that ing a fund to assist the married families tion and it is better to have only the Frossel passed in New York, ornately of the garrison. Whilst, on the one hand, Garrisons there. Then along the road, engraved with the Minister's naine.
appreciating to the full the kind thoughts FLAG GUT IN HIS HONOUR. towards the trencies, noiselessly come
Perhaps the biggest his the fake diplo-which prompt the action, and also the the meni destined to make the raid. Grim-looking they are, for their faces and mat made was at the Ritz-Carlton. He hanics are blackened. Beneath their arrived there on ath June, told the clerk tactful way in which the distribution is great coats, which will be discarded when he was the Minister from Sweden, was being carried out, yet, on the other, it the time for action comes, they wear given the customary 25 per cent. diplo will, in most instances, be a realisation regard to this case, and the result of
nutic discount," assigned to one of the dark woollen jerseys, without tunics, te best suites, and the Swedish flag was of the phrase "Unto him that bath shall them had not yet been received.
hung out in his honour. He left the next day, paying his bill with a cheque, and the first the hotel people knew of the imposi- tion was after the arrest, when it was found that at the time Frossel was at the Ritz-Carlton the real Minister was in this city at the Plaza.
give them freedom to ply their weapons They carry rifles, bayonets, and bombs, but a Scottish raiding party which is guing over" near us is armed, at the request of the men, only with hatchets, And good use they make of these weapons,
too.
These men are going out into the dark- ness to ince they know not what. But there is a quiet confidence in each other and in their oficers, which is born of common knowledge and common danger. And what great adventure it is a gamble with fate, the forfeit death. So these British fighting men, sportsmen all, are full of subduert excitement and the eagerness of anticipation.
be given," as quite a large percentage of these people are drawing extra allowances in some shape or form. With the excep. tion of two cases, the remainder are all The people senior N.C.Os. and W.08. When the Minister" walked up to the Waldorf desk he told the clerk that that feel the pinch most are the married men who have had to leave their wives and he did not wish the newspapers to know be was in the city, because he had to con duct important business for his Govern- children behind them. The single man went, and therefore asked permission to with no encumbrances cannot afford more sign the hotel's private register,
than about two suppers per week, so request was granted, and he got a room and bath on the filth flour, on the Fifth that the position of the man with his wife Avenue side
The
He
asked, therefore, that the public examina
tion be adjourned until next Court.- Agreed.
Lea's EXPERIENCE WITH MONEY-LENDEES, An Indian, named Mahomed R. Shalleh,
a clerk earning $135 a replying to the Official Receiver, stated that ho was month. He owed between $1,200 and
the illness of his mother, the death of his $1,300, which debt he contracted through father, the birth of a child, and the high It was noticed that the Minister" and children at home struggling along cost of living. He admitted borrowing. Now we are in the front-line trench, made a good many purchases, which were on the neagre separation allowance and $150 from a money-lender and signing awaiting midnight and the beginning of sent to the hotel, but nothing out of the the bombardment which is to last two way was observed until the daily Hotel his allotment can be easily imagined. for $540, and also signing for $100, when hours. There is something uncanny in Association sheet warned against a man What must the unfortunate man's feelings he borrowed $120. On this latter sum he the stillness of a night like this. The who was impersonating the Swedish wind whispering in the grass in front of Minister. The description tallied with be when he receives a letter from his diene had been paying 8 per cent, interest, since the parapet and the rustle of distant tres that of the Waldorf guest, and Detective ones at bome saying that there is a tops sound with startling elearnoss. Smith started an investigation, and the Already our ears threb with the fancied arrest followed.
CHEQUE BOOK MADE IN NEW YORK. crash of guns. As the hour approaches, The minutes
We Ienden-footed.
Among the possessions of, the Minis wonder if our artillerymen have forter" the detectives found a watch, which gotten! But on the stroke of twelve the the man had bought at Tiffany's with
chegue, several leather bags frin Cross, mighty roar begins un onlethand, and a a number ist ebeques already made crash succeeding crash, rolls along far out for other purchases, He told the to the right. The thousand missiles tour detectives that he and the ornate cheque and scream overhead, and burst upon the book made in New York, German trenches the ruddy light. large number of engraved cards bearing Tongues are loosened now, and men chat the inscription, freely as they watch. Fritz is getting Ekengren, Minister from Sweden.” it bot now, Ah! Poor old Fritz!" they Prossel s physique is tuch ike that of Minister Ekengren. He is about the same age, of the same medium height and has the same gray moustache.
say.
Are
For two hours the roar continues, the suddenly censes. In a moment we are over the parapet and advancing meross (“no-man's-land" From the right, machine-guns are spitting viciously, but we move rapidly and silently, and there are no casualties The enemy's wire has!
Wilhel
He had a
F.
FREIGHT MARKET. - Messrs. Snowman & Co., of Hongkong, been smashed by the bombardment, and in their freight circular dated Hongkong, we soon reach his trenches. Three sen- 18th August, State: --
carly in 1916 and still owed the prin.
His lordship-I suppose when you get
same thing again? Why did you do such your discharge you will go and do the
& thing!
doctor's bill to be met, or some other cipal. urgent call for money perhaps meaning i a ruatter of life and death to one of the children, knowing full well that he cannot possibly repay the money even if he is able to borrow it. With the price of commodities so high at home the wife can scarcely make both ends meet even with
Thus it is
the most meagre of menus. the children who will have to pay for this state of affairs in after life, because through inck of Funds their dentrom must be neglected.
The point is that, as I have said, while appreciating to the full the thoughtfulness of that section of the public who have provided the fund, surely it is up to the Government who went the men out here:
The Official Receiver We never allow them to become bankrupt twice, or hardly He is paying $25 a month out of his salary.
PVCF.
The examination was closed.
BS WING CHOY,
Mr. F.. B. L. Bowley-representing the traster, applied for a further adjourns ment of the public examination of the debtor for four months on the ground that one of the principal assets in this bankruptcy was a claim of $10,000 against
a Chinese firm in the United States. An
tries are seized at their posts. One of
Since we reported on the 4th inrt, the them, refusing to yield his arms, 18 bayonetted, for there is no time f quiet tone of our market has retained to give them sufficient, money to enable action had been commenced for the re analtered and little business has been them to live aa British subjects ought to covery of that debt and the defendant parleying.
negotiated on either trip or time charter basis. The Saigon/Hongkong rate has live in a place with such a cosmopolitan had been given, three months to prepare weakened slightly, whereas when we last population as Hongkong. went to press $1.12 was the ruling rate.
Some of your readers may say: Fixture of a small outsider has since
The trenches appear deserted.
Except these sentries there is no sign of life Our party divides, and cautiously works down the communicating trenches, ta
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his defence.
Why His lordship said that the matter had
been going on for a long time, and it
The Official Receiver said that the re presentative of the debtor opposed the application.
wards the second line. After a time we been put through at 81.10 per pical, but don't the soldiers themselves take some become quite at home in these hostile with seemingly small demand little fur-action?" It is because they are so bound was rather hard upon the bankrupt. quarters, for still the enemy shows nother business has been fixed beyond that eign. Hidden away in his dug-outs and of a medium-sized regalar caster for a by regulations that any reasonable action. rearmost trenches, he lies low like a rat, round trip Hongkong/Saigon Hong which a man might take individually and we penetrate right to the third line kong on lumpsun basis of $13,500. without seeing him.
time of going to press valy a small such as making a complaint would be quite fruitless, and, although the regula But down is drawing near. So our enquiry for tounage at a cent or two over leader, who is in constant communica the dollar per picul is in the market. tions lay down strictly to the contrary, tion with battalion headquarters, gives Exports of rice from Saigon from 1st it would be chalk-marked against him for the order to bond the rhg-outs and with January to 24th July, 1917, amount to draw. The wicked little missives are
Eventually his lordship adjourned the case until the next Bankruptcy Court.
BANKHILFT DISCHARGED
The discharge of M. S. Harteam, who 551,935 tons as compared with 617,807 tons the rest of his service; and any collective
was made a bankrupt in 1913, was granted sent spinning into every aperture, and for the same perion last year. Quotation action to redress this obvious wrong then, rallying at a pre-arranged point, we for No, 2 White round sifted rice stande prepare to re-cross to our own lines. We at 43.69 per picul foch. Saigon for would be regarded as an act contrary to on the application of the Official Receiver, good order and military discipline. who said that 87 per cent of the liabili are not to be suffered to do this ua August/September shipment. molested, for now the Gorman artillery SAIGON/JAVA AND SAIGON JAPAN-Re-Even if the individual soldier's com- ties had been paid and there were auffi- is in play. Shells are falling on our mains as previously advised:
de. plaint did get farther than Hongkong, wire entanglements. The barrage cuts off SAIGON PHILIPPINES There is a our direct return. But our leader knows mand in this direction; offers at 81.40 Ian Hay's Round Game Department" his ground well, and by devious paths, have been made without takers and ten-
trenches before daylight. Our losses are over this figure, and after some waiting, we regain our nage could probably be placed at a litt would get hold of it, and the man would very satisfactory, and ordered the dis one man killed and three wounded. We have a few prisoners. The raid has been
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cient assets to pay a further six per cent., His lordship remarked that this wee making a total of 8 per cent.
be disqualified for some breach of the charge. BANGXOR/HONGKONG.-The rate in this intricate rules of the gaine. direction is very strong. We last report.
Thus it comes about that the only
a success, and we are complimented in ed. $1.70 as the ruling rate for inside the Divisional Orders.
bar loading, and this has strengthened to hope is the public of Hongkong. Other the extent that quotations were made at means failing, perhaps the Unofficial
1.80/81.00 for inside/outside the bar
the vagaries of the market-Yours, etc,
H.LS.C..
Not all raids are so quiet as this one. Many teen with incidents, and there is no variety of warfare which furnishce loading respectively. A fixture of a smell Members would take the matter up. All more strange surprises. The men are outsider is reported at the latter rate the men want is a dollar fixed at a reason- eagor for the work. An Irish battalion, and a medium-sized local steamer has been able rate so as not to be dependent on recently arrived, saw a neighbouring unit fixed at $1.60 for inside and 81.45 for making a raid it was too much for the outside the bar loading- Irishmen, A number left their trench and NEWCHWANG/CANTON.-We have still no. without orders and joined in. They thing to report. returned later, happy and triumphant, COAL-There is still a strong demand to be promptly arrested for this breach for collier tonnage Japan to southern of discipline. But the gravity of the ports, but in the absence of bottoms it officers was unequal to the situation when is difficult to state a rate, although it is the men blithely explained: "Arrah, yer possible that, with offers at about 557. honour, sure we just went over to chris per ton, tonnage might be closed for the ten our bayonets! "
latter part of the year loading Moji Singapore With regard to local business stocks of Hongay coal at this part are fairly good, so that there is little demand. 4 small steamer of about 300 tons has, however, been fixed for a number of trips at $0.25 per ton.
FIXTURES REPORTED. Hongay/Hong kong 4 tripe 9.25 per ton.
BAIL TONNAGE LOAD LOAD.
RUSSIAN GENERAL TO BE SHOT
The Petrograd correspondent of the London Morning Post says that General Magogizsky, who headed the recent re treat of Russian troops in Galicia, has been tried by court-martial and ordered to be shot for disobeying the order to shoot all deserters.
A METHOD OF HOARDING LIGHT, A method of hoarding light has been discovered by a Pittsburg manufacturer. The inventer, Ethan 1. Dodds, will offer Mr. Dodds found a material with which the scheme to the Navy Department. he paints the inner surface of an ordin- ary glass globe. In the globe is set a smaller globe with the neck open. This was placed for a few moments over an ordinary electric light bulb in Mr. Dodd's room. Then the light was turned out and the globe taken into the closet of the room. In the utter darkness the globe threw off a light by which printed matter could be read if held close to it: The inventor said that the light would remain for about an hour and a half.
EVERY MAN A NAPOLEON. Canadians are very enthusiastic over' the appointment of General Currie to the command of their army corps. recent despatch from the French front to
The practical use for such a globe in the Toronto Globe it was declared that General Currie's method is "typically the navy, Mr. Dodds explained, was twofold. He said it might be used Canadian."""He works on the principle aboard submarines giving sufficient light that every man in the ranks is
for the men to find their way about the Napoleon. He encourages officers to go interior of the vessel. On board battle- among the men before an action and tell ships, he said the light could be used them exactly what they are to do and while the vessel was in night action, when receive auggestions; thus the men go into lights had been extinguished to avoid
He said the action knowing all about the attacked detection by enemy craft ground, and so are prepared and free to glow of his globes could not be seen at develop individual initiative."
any great distance.
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