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HONGKONG DAILY
THE ITALIAN
RETREAT.
"TRIBUNE TO OUR ALIES.
from the Italian front Mr. JM N. Jelfrica gives the follow ing clear acc of how the enemy ste
broughthe Itali
ever,
DAY JANU
WINTE IN FLANDERS.
SUPPLYING THE LINER:
1918
EGYPT AND THE WAR,
THE FINANCIAL POSITIONS
IFROM THE TISSCORESPONDENT AT
CAIRO
19.19
[HHING EXTRAITS FROM THE DIARY DE
„BAMURIL PEPYS, ESQ. ]
Our trouble, this winter will be the
Dotober1th Indoore with my work
cecded in breakin
BEKO B8 on the Somme during last, a
Of all countries brought within the war mon all day watching their finishing of front at the beginning of the pro
evil memory. It will be the zona Egypt has nesuredly been the most my new cellar, to supplant my old cellar, offensive He write in the Daily Mail | troubl of Batting up supplies to the favoured. The adhesion of Turkey to the and do give me very curious pleasure of November 2nd i
lines, and of getting shelter, and any Central Empires, it is true, created a
and satisfaction, being now ready against. give decency of comfort for the men in the short-lived menace to her borders, but it the Hunter a Moon. In all ways the new critical front and support positions. As on the proved a blessing - in disguise, for it allar mighty handsome and of grentu
Somme, but worse than on the Somme, we brought to this country thousands et cotafort, it being ätted with an electrie pied | have behind ne now an eight-mile shetch troops, who spent and had spent on their radiator, a table for dining that may be of crater land, over which our battles maintenance enormous sums of money turned into a bridge table; and Board. have been fought, so that it is great which more than made up for the finan, the upholsterer, of Tottenham Court-road, desert of mangled earth with in Fable deep pits, pierced by shell
eiad loss suffered by the cutting off of the baying made teda for myself, my wife, and filled with water, and
Ennual tourist invasion. The georgaphi and Dorothy, our old servant who hath cal position of Egypt has, indeed, atpod now stayed with us five weeks, which her in good stend, and as result insteadtheds do shut up against the cellar wall
increasing ber public and private indebtedness, as so many other countries when we have company. But Board has have had to do she has been enabled to changed a pretty prio for them, saying reduce it most substantially
that all bed-makers and upholsterers: he At the end of the first eight months of now commandeered for making zeroplanes – the war, which coincided with the close to catch up the Germans, which it be of the Egyptian financial yen: the State hoped will be done next year ice to finances showed a deficit of SE.1466,000 (the par value of the Egyptian pound is
'own'
inton
13 restring
the oncoming LLA BILET
stantial fall in cotton prices during the winter of 1014:15. The last financial your that for 1916-17 has closed with a surplus of £E,2,880,000, and already the current year, for which a record revenile has been budgeted, is showing signs of exceeding
Which on April
at 1914 stood
October 10th — Mv. workmen being. done, I did spend this day pleasantly with ray wife getting ready our new cellar against our housg-warming party to morrow, these warmings being much in fashion now that all people live, mainly in their cellars and only use their houses in pleasant weather, when it rains, or slows Made everything brave with ornaments end pictures, and my wife did
BECHO AND B dominating the Isobro will do it by roads and tracks laid underserved while the securities in table, they being mascota and have always
The
ago
all deprecia
ave us on our wedding be placed on the
proved unbreakable, and no harm can
But my surveyer came this morning and
- It is considered weane client any details of the great, and operations taking placer at pre may be said in a general we that the
which The best testimony to the value of its defence may
ay be found in the words, cr its commander, the Duke of Aosta, that he was ready to bow in salute to the bamblea mong his soldiers, such was bis admiration of their courage ground, when the "bocks have slopp The retirement of the Third Amy over in gullied between the "slopes, began on
and it yielded
bogland and lakeland in which men sink Fas it the hutments and stores it at He went the top, barming behind it to their armpits Four miles of or Wes forced
to abandon As the rear grund are under heavy and continual guard retreated
line lire. Another four miles of it are un there were
ore clouds of smoke all about scattered and atossing fire, and nowhere them from which although the enemy is there any cover except a few splinter covered them with shell to which their proof dug-osts,
wn guns were unable to answer they All through this coming winter-alas! were being withdrawn, they nevertheless it has coms Desics of men will have to £10s. 3'd) en consequence of the tom charged- every now and then, driving, take their turn in this great, Slough ci | purary paralysis of trade und the sau back
gring
Despond, in the wetness and the coldness the artillery seach
perhaps another and misery of it, and transport officers precious hour in which to get farther and Q that mysterio letter which
Live me they drove the
stands for all the organisation of map drove the enemy back plies, will not find it easy to provide the into the Vallone when they seemed on with the material of life and war. They the point of taking the
will do it, but it will not be easy. They of the insist that the yellow vases Aunt Jene. and thus
infantry of fires broken by shells and laid again by E6,000,0 the and the Grenadiers with their fresh relays of men, who work like machine-gun fire covered the
the slope Up soldier unta in all this muck heap, got how it was invested thepretation come near whosoever site near them. to the skyline with hostile dead were ng all the risks and none of the glory about £800,000, toda they now doth, tell us that even one of the touton
showed at that date a The artillerymen of the Carso
less
They will it by mules, heavily tion Sono plondid that their companions Eder but sure-footed among the hell on has been write more values now hots from the enemys super-super- from Dosso Faiti, the anal limit of the craters and winding slowly in long. Apart from an increase in some of the Gothes could fall above the new cellar che con and farther
occupation of the
back over single files across that blasted country Customs duties, and from the raising of and hurt it not, it being forty feet below me of the the ground and built, he says, to make them all the
wind, and the earth vomits up blackly postel rates, taxation, direct an, The efforts of enemy broplanes to about these mud-splashed beasts. The indirect, has remained this
which God forbid yet, but do seem mighty. the lines of retront and cause a will do it by ration parties tragikus obtained have been entirely due to the bottle of John Walker against to-morrowe was three years ago, and the high return hear And so to bed having laid in n permanent interruptiba
failed, although night after night in the black darkness. their
her almen were daring and came as lightened only by the glare of gun-are improved condition of the whole com house warming, paying three pounds five Farnos of the frontier: dodging shelf-bursts, stumbling, falling munity. This improved condition shillings therein, which be mad extre
apparent with every
rection. The vagance, but will flutter our guests and Gorizin itself was heavily bombarded get bred its but getting there always has cufticided before its evacuation and ons bridge getting there, if they have any luck Nile floods, and as a result, the fella show them how I do still come on in was destroyed Bat bere again no per manent interruption of the retirement
The transport drivers will take their farmer has been able to obtain excellent this world, having, indeed, made £2,000 occurred. Some of the bundings of the wagons to the end of the last tracks and crops What with the general rise in the clear this half-year out of my shares in cotton during the past 18 months the Licensed Vehicles Patent Dud city were badly injured, however.
unless their horses are killed or the and the great demand for
d for cereals, the Catcher Company, and another 2400 Corizons, too, was shelled by 13-inch guns drivers themselves aro hit they will be at
from my venture in the Barrage Enr. lahin have made cool For My Vere is and backly damaged. On the Monte the dumps by schedule time I give Banto
The of heights the troops held my men their orders, and then don't Tangible evidence of prosperity is October 17th-Did hold our house- firmly
to worry," one of our transport officers said afforded in the facts, first, that the assay warming in the new collar this night with retiree received
the order the other night, I know that if they returns reveal the sumping of an increas much noble and good compan, among General Cadorna's communiqué in are not all killed they will get the goods ing number of new gold ornament them five Controllers All mighty taken. which he speaks with a noble candour up all right." That is the way it which the fellen traditionally invests hi with my new cellar, Lord Teddington, rarely equalled of the jusufficient resilt done, but it is not an easy profita; secondly, that land transaction now Salt and Pepper Controller saying ance of portions of the Second Army... a pleasant way, and those eight or on-the, increase; thirdly, that ther that it is as fine 4 cellar as any in that is the samy Lovering the front from miles deep of craterland and
direct Tolming
bogare, no arrears in to the Carso gives the
to land eight miles deep and a hundred
of which have collections real causes of the enemy.miles long the worst on the Flanders ious focords; and fourthly that the admire the little kitchen dug out behind.. the cellar with a serving hatch for days
Shefur fe
thefront, knt back everywhere, make a dalt in
due to the mortgage and Dorothy for handing dishes, and the little instalments offor 10% to
financial, establishments, pra, all begna caid, when fats which there in wretchedness redeemed only on repaid promptly many of the tobby under one entretes it with strong tole them that they would mod by greet heroina, great paticne and the before medarity, while most of the arrest books for ladies and gentlemen's steel
be in Italy In two days
spirit of the Brition soldiers, who dudure remaining over from previo sort of the device of an old coal-scuttle for the tide audi that
have shrapnel cloäly nud my own cunning - Austrian Emperor his rol
n speech rush all these things with their jaws squared boen settled.
led Indeed, the work- made in a small
town, promed to the task
emptying of fragments from helmets and the inhabitants an early pance, stingIn the billets of small Flemish towns for there are scarcely any applications trum umbrellas. Much mirth until late, that Italy would be successfully invaded the lucky one, make the best of a good for fresa losas, and the capital which is when "All clear having been, called by and that at little cost of bloo
timg cleansing themselves of the grey coming in, instead of being employed in the watchmen put their megaphones mud in which they have been living and new mortgage business, has been invested everyone away in armoured taxicabs,
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THWAY Wagging where shells come with a scream down the the railway, telegraph and here fe abelter even in the end of the world,
ropes.
STOL OF CHE SHEL
On the fateful day
DELIVERING THE GOODS
price
30
kafellahin
good
Aeth London. Most all did our guests
a mortgage banks Lainiost at a standstill
ea sleeping and eating and cleansing theirs and older to
loan addy! other gilt-edged such as could get them, the drivers being terrible artillery fire was opened all alone minds of the things they have seen in an his recent report the Actine we now mighty surly and refusing to come
and
the line from Plazzo to San Gabriele at the fields of death. It is bright and for about houth Sam The bombardment continued warm in the stamanets, and good to almost play a game of dominoes in the Church entiraly carried on with kne and tear Army huts, where there is always a shells Some idea of its intensity-may piano and a gramoptiome to take men's gathered from the fact that an officer, minds away from the war and the com a man ofs vory, calm temperament,
Eat in decent rooms with
pictures round
be
ms that being unable to do
Finan
out of nights while the barrage is on, cial Adviser estimated that the war had October 18th To my office, feeling eaulted in an addition of 'shout thirty agueish after my debauch of two dures of millions to the wealth of Egypt: Many Scotch whisky last night, it being a year climate is in reality a very conservative Colonel Springbok, who is close fi touch people competent to judge my that this since 1 bad tasted it. To me comes one and that the true figure is consider with the Government, and he full of
higher. Be that as it may, the fact
but shelter in a blind in the walls and a warm fire burning, and community as a whole has increased peeches by Cabinet Ministers which will forts of an older kind of life when mens that the sponding power of the mighty doings shortly: to wit, six great
storm of shells, be set himself
count
frighten the enemy hugely and finish his wonderful new war invention
the missiles so esto occupying mind. Feare in their hearts. These are great hormously, though owing to the difficulty inorale, Alap Colonel Springbok talks of In sector of between 150 and 200 yards places for men just do rule them play
outlet for the present. As considerable down from battles in obtaining imports it is not finding
real at this restrict
up in Europe
OD INNS OF FLANDERS
won fuf- tem, dummy moon contrived
Wash and sit down to a good meal, and fellah masaca MAVERA at Chiswick to blow him over to France,
haystaly
excavated the look at the latest illustrated paper be
Abel and rieral density of the the fure, well, and keep things. merry The mist general atmosphere, which was, of
and bright course, our på
a result of this restriction of imports, by on humble property man of Drury - points of the enemy's programme,
The balance of trade alone during the Lane (who is to be made Baronet for it), helped to prevent any dissipation of the For officers there are now clubhouse, in three years amounts to over 2E.22,000,000 the moon to be hung in the sky from wall of gas this formed, and all the the towns behind the lines and not very in favour of Egypt, to which must be a balloon on nights, when there is no real soldiers sould do was to gag themselves far behind, either-still within shall range
added the balances Standing with their mask crouch, in caverne and
or over bere and will be put out when he On the
and bomb range, and here ofheers, cover of the local bange sian bng to the credit moon, and will lure the enemy's aircraft had in the wet mud of the lines, can get a gente, in London, Paris, I Plateau, which
in London, Paris, Rome, and New is over, sad then a monstrous bellows. heen too
won for caverne to
not the where the Frenchmen will lie in wait for unfortunate infantry were only able to foro tramping off again to the hell firo of the war in Egypt. There exists,
element, which has made money out him. The truth of which I know not. take what sheltor they could find behind corners of the front, getting further indeed, an element which has made very rocks, where these were convenient back Best of all these officers of the substantial profits out of Army contracte
EES In any case the position was that all the Italian forces were taking luge gating class like to get into one of the and out of cotton, and rareal dealings from what appeared to be a universal id itas on the roads of war, where they The profits made by fellahin no oute bombardment
of their and it have that his Positions. But can sit with a few pala round a small begrudges them, for these are the results G
table and est long and leisurely, and of their own efforts. Moreover, since the Germung devilish ingenuity comes if it was not really so, tald their time over a bottle of red fellah is the
in his material condition not bombarded, overwhelming helling elevhere are tables, and white tablecloths and the the profits made by Cacl element referred shelfing both and the cigars. There are libble lampe on the Bute bud i conseltimate behest of the
State and is welcome. from being perceived
glasses are all sparking, and it is Through this gun in the ring of fire a dream of an extremely nice and friend to above do not in any way advantage and gas a German army corps passed, ly teaven to soldiers who have been fight most part of foreigners, or at any rate mising; the last heavy rains stopped in
Евуристо
This element consists for the before and
they ke it the defenders of ring in the mud. the adjoining powere
were being either For
It
18
the
SAIGON RICE MARKET The Compagnie de Commerce et de in their report dated December 20th
appears now that a certain vector was wine with coffe to follow and a good proven Eckbone of the country auy Navigation d'Extrême-Orient, of Saigon
is easily recounted..
of
state; market sincs
- since our last latter has
been lifeless,
The new crop, according to the latent news from the interior, looks very pro- climatic conditions
the permenneidents, who willed time and the Pa
opportunity leave the coun
on the fortunes
are
very favourable
have Buchared during thej, he
total amount of rice exported from
the
доп
Hongko
BIRD. HAIG AND YMCA HUTS. 153, taking BOTH TWO
wo hours the Garment
the 1st of January up to the 1th of suspended fire. It seesped as if the Bir Douglas Baig has sent the follow. here Considerable proffs have also been December 1917 1,187,824 tone against
their terribly wet weather fad decided them ing autograph letter to the YMCA in de
made by foreign companies whom profite to abandon their
1,177-762 Bat at & connection with the Leamington Hut Sodent outside Egypt and taking little No. 3 sifted Japan, quality, ar offensiva
2 tone in 1916: most part to shareholders
quote to day White &ID, AR dawn van coming, drum-fire Week - ——---
resident of unexampled horrar began adew on General Headquarters, British Armies ceras the company in which their money for January-February ship
interest in the country beyond what con
what con dollara: 3.07 per pieul, the Italian lings and Inated for some two in France. hours. Then out of the slightly rising Dear Sir,The value of the work done made by this foreign or non-Egyp
is invested. Considering that the profts
have been solely possible, t
soldiery of many nations by the MCA huts in France 1era Veranderkent internally by the of the country.
worst from the
calculable I should esteem it a double-
sistance Bainsizza
dragged up their machi
An olie
who
the attackers off
and made several
The resistanc especially desper muy deal separ
the
Globocal
ulary, the
Italy
taken and
Joop of Next Columns.)
we to be fo
It is to be hoped that hen the
and non
so far have
arden
honour that one of them should hear my Egyptian Comment, not to mention the name, and that it should be provided by
Over high sede maintained comes rav people of Leamington, Yours, very the British Flethese remarks do not found to rope Cruly,
of
course, apply to British companies Egyptian cleme HALO British shareholders, who pay their quota escaped any but incir
to the Empire in the form of come and
thus adjus
nore equit nuded on Monta Exchequer super war.
levied by the British taxation. whi
ribution miraculously the cost of admini
towards entirely borne by the ion of position said to should be made by them. conceive the impres under the fiscal system at present in apon me when, from the in Egypt there is no means of tap of the mountain. saw that this very
itimate sonTOS
dows bow in and the Egyptian Glover nte Nero heights knows only too well what
way before the
fure in upkeep
tanta
and were still holding out on works nwaits
tare days later though ther Dře day's rations with then
new dropped them leaves
might reach
* fool of Rezi Column,
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duty has been imposed factured and consumed in
the only new tax inco
imposition has been
view to making
dition
for the
the
ted may
looked