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PER MENUSE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7TH, 1919.
THE THE AMAZING GERMANS.
KING'S MESSAGE TO
FIGHTING FORCES. SUPREME HOUR OF VICTORY.
The following messages were sent by the King to the Navy, Army, and Air
ixth, November Armistice
Furce
| Day :-
c.n
THE NAVY.
To the Right Hon. Sit Erie Geddes, K.UB, M.P., First Lord of the Ad
jrnity.
QUICK TURN OVER FROM WAR TO PEACE WORK.
SPORT.
LAWN TENNIS.
HARD COURT LEAGUE,
were
The result was as follows :
SEPTUAGENARIAN TWIN- BROTHERS QUARREL.
ONE RUBS LIME AND KEROSINE INTO THE OTHER'S EYES.
An interesting ease, in which n man aged 71, charged his twin-brother with assault, was heard at the Magistracy, yen terdas, by air. . B. Wood,
I appines that the two old Mich
Mi. H. J. Greenwall, the special cor-
DOCKYARD RECREATION CLUB v. respondent of the Daily Express, writing
BTA CO. #,G.A. from Berlin on December 4th, Bay: An hour ago I climbed into one of the bombed London and
The Dockyard Recreation Club aeroplanes that
aris. It is significant of the chastened spirit of the majority of the German at home, on the 5th inst., to the 88th
that secrets hitherto jealously Co R.G.A
Parry and Crocker, R.N.. beat Evans quarrelier pas after Chinese New Year Now that the last and most formidable and were revealed to me. of our cacaice has acknowledged the
Ferdinand Basch, formerly a naval
The defendant then triumph of the Allied arms on behalf of Hight and Justice, I wish to express my officer, now managing director of and Praguell, 74; beat Davi, and Amy, over sevenly erots
tied the vmeplainant to a chair, and, praise and thenkiulness to the ofteers. Zeppelin factory at Stanken, one of the; beat Gibbons and Leach, 4-3.
Spanton and Crocker (Dockyard) bent after preparing a mixture of lime and tet, and women of the Royal Navy and outer suburbs of Berlin, took me over Both the French and Marines, with their to utades of the Flect the workshops. Auxiliaries and Mercentile Marine, who ourscives called the aerial baby-killers Davis and Amy, 7-4; frst to Evans andersin oil, rubbed his babere eset with it. The complainant screnined ont. for more than four years have kept open Gothas, but it appears the naine was the seas, protected our shores, and given wrong. They were Stankens, named Pragnell, 5-6; beat (libbong and Leach,
whereupon the neighboure informed the Phillips and Perkins beng Davis and Pulier The injured man was removed to Aay, 68. lost to Evans and Pragnell, | Hospital suffering from a barat fag, and
as safety.
6-6, and lost to Gibbon- nad Lench, 5-4.
Total D.R... 55; 88th Co. R.G.A., 44
Ever sinc thai Entein! Fourth of after the place where they were built. 4-7. August, 1914, I have remained steadfast The first acroplanes that raided London in my confidence that, whether fortune and Paria were Gothus, but later they frowned or smiled, the Royal Navy would were the machines 1 saw this afternoon. The Zeppelin works at Stanken have once more prove the sure shield of the
her built since the war began. They British Empire in the hour of trial.
cover hundreds of acres, and employ 3,000 I went into an enormon: work-people.
sume of these giant hanger and saw aeroplanes only forty-three are in exist
s
Never in its history hna the Royal Navy, with God's help, done greater things for us, nor better sustained its old glorious traditions and the chivalry of the
With fall and grateful hearts the peoples of the British Empire salute the White, the Red, and the Blue Rasiga and those who have given their lives for the Fing.
LIKE VULTURES.
They towered above me like sinister I thought of the terrible nights I had vultures and an I climbed into the car I am proud to have served in the Navy.spent in Paris when these monsters came They are all black, with great white I am prouder still to be its head on this over the city. monorable day
crusges on each lower wing.
(Signed) Orotas R.1.
THE EMPIRE B ARMIRB.
To the Right Hon. For Viscount Milner, Q.C.B. GM.., Secretary of State
for War.
I desire to express at once through you to all ranks of the Army of the British Empire, Home, Dominion, Colonial, and Indian Troops, my heartfelt pride and gratitude at the brilliant nuccess which has crowned more than four years of effort and endurance.
They have
a wing spread of 140 feet, and from nose to tail they measure eventy two feet. They carry six machine guns and five They motors of the type used in Zeppelins, each developing 250 borec power. propellere. drive five
CRICKET
CRAIGENGOWEH ɛ. R.G A
The following will represent Craigen. gower in their longae match, at home, with the R.G.A. tomorrow at 2 p.m.
R. Basa (cnpt), F. Thompson, A. W. Grimmett, L E. Lammert, G. Manley, 1. Rumjahn, T. F. Ford, U. Ourar, M. li
Goldenberg, Abbas, A.
and
Arculli.
It.E. UNIVERSITY.
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brend wrists.
Mr Wood renunded the case, as etun plainant is still in Hospital.
CATE FOR SALE."
A Chinese WAR
charged before Mr.
'cals Lindsell, yesterday, with crying out for sale" without a hawking licence.
He The defendant denied the offence. anid he old cats to people who were fond of rearing them as domestic peta.
The lukony who arrested the defend ant. said he heard the man shout his trade cry. Every time the defendant saw the Takong, he was silent, but, directly the Inkung's Isack way turned. the ery jwas rojicated again and again
In this League match, to be played The crow consists of one commander, two pilots, one wireless operator, on mechanic for the petrol tanks and three tomorrow on the University ground, the other mechanics, who also have to work following will represent the home team:
can The neroplanc the machine-guns.
R. A. Ponsonby Fane, F A. Redmond, Germany, our most formidable enemy, for fourteen hours at a speed of who planned the war to gain the supre mery of the world, full of pride in her eighty-one miles an hour, carrying 2,940 K. S. Lin, D. K. Samy, M. P. Choa, ared strength and of contempt for the gs. (oder a’ton and a quarter) of bombs. W. Gittens, J. J. Wright, G. E. Marley had no ents.
and rise to a height of 13,900 feet. An acropinn for
Transatlantic flights is T L. Choath, V I rejoice that in this achievement the now nder construction at the factory, Rumjabn.
HONGKONG CF. «. KOWLDON CC British Forces, uns grown doon sa This machine will have a wing-spread of beginnings to the finest Army in our his 198 fort. and the engines will develop tory, have Lust geliant and dis- 3,000-horse power.
The following will represent Hongkong tinguished a part.
jat Kowloon to-morrow at 2.15 p.m. T.
small British Army of that day, has now been formed acknowledge defeat.
In
Atienza, and A.
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Hardly was the armistice ink dry when the sorkers at Stanken began in feverish Soldiers of the British Empire! France and Belgium the prowess of your haste to transform the raiders into ente arms, as great in retreat as in victory; mercial machines. I saw men tinkering E. Pearce (capt.). F. J. de Rome, 17, E. has won the adauration alike of friend and hammering to turn them into per Donnelly, F. W. H. Evans, Capt. Gray, and foe and has now, by a happy his
1P. Jucks, M. M. Maas, Capt. Murray, toric fate, enabled you to conclude the Benger-carrying aeroplanes to link up ali
the European capitais with Berlin. campaign by capturing Mans, where your saw dozens of fighting machines, all built F. Sution, F. Byrne Thomson and It. V. predecessors of 1914 shed the first British of aluminium, being transformed for the blood. Between that date and this you
servicc. postal have traversed a long and
defeat has more than once star roach;
you 'in
اند
Thursfeld.
NAVY . I.R.C.
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In reply to Mr. Lindsell, the fukung said that, when acerated, the defendant
Rat i don't quite understand," marked the Magistrate,
The Chinere interpreter. interposing, Were Very often explained that rate hought by the hawkers and resold at a higher price.
The Magistracy: Had the defendant. a basket? The Inkung: Ies
Empty? Yes.
The defendant was munth's imprisonment.
sentenced
$1 T
UNDESIRABLE VISITORS.
Set in the car and wings of the late the face; your ranks have been thinned raiders there is a remarkable contrivanco
The following will represent the Inslian again and again by wounde, sickness, and on the circus-hoop principle. Parachutes.
a friendly match death: but your faith has never faltered, are folded and covered with flimey mater
The three Chinese, who were arrested your courage has never failed, your heartsial. A man jumps on the spot, tearing Recreation Club in
extensive have never known defeat.
through the cover, and grabs the pana against the Navy, on the latter's ground
tomorrow at 2.15 p.m. A el Arrulli,on a charge of carrying on With your Allied comrades you have chute, which opens automatically..
a Chinese ZEPPELIN AT KHMITUM.
H Ismail. S. A.robberies and kidnapping in won the day.
A. Rumjaho, B. Others of you have fought in more left cor
Going into the airship tent fields: in the mountains and plans earnt details of
a remarkablment IA
Zeppelin Ismail, G, C. Earde, A. L. Andree, Evillage, were brought up, on remand, be- of Inly in the rugged Balkan ranges;
Zeppelin, with Moosdeen, Sirdar Khan, Hasham Khan,fore Mr. J. R. Wood, at the Magistracy, under the burning aun of Palestine, Meso flight which took place last year. At 8
A. R. A. Hamy and A. Hassan. potamia and Africa: amid the shows of B., on November 21st, a Russia and Siberia; and by the shores, of a crew of twenty-two, carrying twenty five tons of munitions and medicines, left the Dardanelles,
Men of the British race who have shared Jamboli, in Bulgaria, for German East these successes felt in their veins the call Africa. On the night of November 22-23 of the blood and joined eagerly with the the airship was over Khartum, when Mother Country in the fight against received a wireless message from Nauen tyranny and wrong. Equally those of the ordering it to return, because Berlin had ancient historic peoples of India and learnt throngh & Reuter despatch that Afries, who have learned to trust the flag the majority of von Lottow
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with out вор.
FOOTBALL.
KOWLOON F.C. §. SOUTH CHINA ATHLETIC (R.).
The following will represent Kowloon
yesterday.
Owing to the absenco of certain im
witnesses, Mr. Leo Longinotto, portant the Assistant Crown Bolicitor, asked for a further remand
Mr. Wood remanded the case for a week.
The thinese who was arrested in Hong.
of England, hastened to discharge their troops had surrendered. The airship rein a second division league match e. South debt of loyalty to the Crown
turned,
a charge of committing desire to thank every officer, soldier. at 8 am, on November 25th. The ship, Ching Athletic (R.) to-morrow, at 2.30 kung, at the request of the Singapore and woman of our Army for services Herr Rasch, was capable of going p.m., on the Navy ground:-V. F. M. de authorities, on nobly rendered, for sacrifices cheerfully Booking now open at Moxtrie's.
given: and I pray that God. Who has from Berlin to New York and returning Britto; A. Jackson and C. P. Cave; A. robbery, was produced before Mr. Wood, been pleased to grant a victorious end to this great crusade for Justice and Right. will prosper and bless pur efforts in the immediate future to secure for genera tione ta core the hard-won blessings of Freedom and Peace,
(Signed) GsoRGE R.I. ROYAL AIR FORCE.
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The Zeppelin factory at Friedrichsha van Langenberg, G. White and A. fent is now building an airship for a Simmons; F. Wheeler, J. Rasmussen, T. Transatlantic flight. It has nine engine. Knight, W. Hyder and Hyder, jun. and eight propellers, and will carry & hundred passengers. If the international Reserves:-J. Lima and K. Mason. situation is clear, the first flight will take The voyage is expected place in July. To the Right Hon. Lord Weir, Secretary to last forty hours,
of State and President of the Air
Herr Rasch affirms that Germany never Council.
had more than five Zeppeling in commis In this supreme hour of victory I send sion, and that there were never zore greetings and heartfelt congratulations to
any
all ranks of the Royal Air Force. Our than twenty-two in existence at aircraft have been ever in the forefront given time. Twenty were lost by Allied of the battle; pilots and observers have action or accident,
the maintained
offensive coneistently throughout the ever-changing fortunes of
sheathe the sword until our end was the day, and in the war zones our gallant
achieved. That pledge is now redon dead have lain always beyond the enemies'
ed Our far-flung lines or far out to sea squadrons have flown over Home waters and foreign seas, the Western and Italian battle lines, Rhineland, the mountains of thio Palestine, Macedonia, Gallipoli, plains of Mesopotamia, the forests and swamps of East Africa, the North-West frontier of India, Bnd the deserts of Arabia, Sinai, and Darfur.
COMING TRADE PROSPERITY.
Abolition of the Government control
of trade at the earliest possible moment was the burden of most of the speeches delivered recently at the inaugural meet-
Mr. Longinotto informed the Magis trate that neither the Police escort nor
the witnesses, who had been despatched
by
the Singapore Governmen arrived.
The case was remanded,
bud
DRUNK AND INCAPABLE.
Henry
Charles
Wakeman
ploaded
ing and luncheon of the British Federa-guilty, at the Magistracy, yesterday, ta tion of Iron, Steel, Tinplate, and Metal being drunk and incapable. Merchants, held at the Cannon-street Hotel, London,
Earl Brassey
To do so
manner.
WAB
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.
ORDERS ISSUED BY MR, F. C. JENKIN, Qar
Defendant found sleeping in remarked that Free Queen's Road East. When awakened by The outbreak of war found the whole Trade should no longer be the fetish that a constable, be refused to go to the Polica
I rejoice to think that it used to be, They wanted to knew Empire que.
a disgraceful the end of the straggle finds the Em pire still inore closely united by the whether it was the intention of the Station, and behaved in
Mr. J. A. Wood fined defendant $5. common resolve held firm through all Government not only to control, but to vicissitudes, by the community of suffer carry on trade and industry. ing and sacrifice, by the dangers and would be disastrous to the trade of the The sooner Government control Country. triumphs shared together.
The hour is one of solemu thanks-could be abandoned, the better it would giving and of gratitude to God Whose be for the trade of the nation.
Professor Chapman thought the poten Divine Providence has preserved us through all perils and crowned our tinl energy of the trade of this country Let us bear our would prove to be greater than ever, arme with victory.
was before the triumph in the same spirit of fortitude and that groat prosperity and self-control with which we have commercial community. The world had
been waiting for goods for borne our dangers.
wes stagnation there was really at the moment,
ab All Buperintendents, Inspectors and years, and though there was
bo satis
Unit Commanders will attend at enormous volume of demand to be fied. Prices were not going to fall very
Headquarters Offices on Thursday, rapidly. The middleman was not yet
February 13th, at 6 p.m. before the war.
It was pos
February 8th, 1019, ' of our enemies, I desire to congratulate sible to have too many middleman, but your Excellency, the Princes, and the he firmly believed that the officiency of peoples of India, on the success which our economic system was largely due to:
the middleman, who bound together the KING INSPECTS CHINESE LABOUR ház attended our united offorts,
With re
CAMP. the producer. consumer and The struggle now so happily onded con
removed ne so has domanded unprecedented sacrifice gard to Government
The birth of the Royal Air Force, with ita wonderful expansion and development, will ower remain one of the most remark able achievements of the great war.
Everywhero, by God's holp, officers, men, and women of the Royal Air Force just have splendidly maintained. our cause, and the value of their assistanco to the Navy, the Army, and to Home defence,: has been incalculable. For all their
His Majesty the King-Emperor also magnificent work, self-sacrifice, and deva sent the following telegram to the Viceroy tion to duty, I ask you on behalf of the of India:-- Empire to thank them.
to
(Bigned), Grones, R.İ.
Novombor 11th, 1918.
A PLEDGE REDEEMED,
The King issued the following message Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Afrion, and Newfoundland-
At the moment when the armistico Is signed, bringing, I trust, a final end to the hostilities which have parvulasd
years
I desire to send a mosage of greeting and heartfelt gratitude to my Overssa peoples whose wonderful efforts and iacrifices have contributed so greatly to secure the victory which now is won,
THANKS TO INDIA.
LONDON, November 11th. On the signature of the armistice with
over
four.
Germany, marking the conclusive vio to the extent to which ho
tory of the Allied arms over the last
viow
KUPELINTENDENTS, INSPECTORS, AND UNIT
COMMANDERS.
THE BOOT Be The King, during a recent visit to the gall upon her for men and resources, possible, and he thought he might say Indio has played a part worthy of her
was the view of his president (Bir Albert distance along the Queant-Drooourt line, martial sundflies and high tradition though one had to be cautions that this battledelda in France, walked for some She has fulalled my faith in her single Stanley). The duty of the Government minded devotion to my person and was to maintain control only so long as which at one time was so much in the Outsido pize; abe las vindiented my confidence M Was
Together we have borne this tremende in her destin, herhood proved by bronzoensary in order to prevent #mouths of our war expert
ous burden in the fight for justico, and liberty. Together we can'now, rejoice
at the realisation of those great hime
for which we entered the struggle. The
whole Empire pledged, its word not to
(Oontinued at foot of next column.)
The bond partnordlig in trisk and triumpha will
Mr. T. Lough, M.P., urged that Marquion, where the party stopped for
enduro of justice in restored, homes are re Lot the stream of commerce flow one pany was paraded for Inspection by Bis united, and the blosings of peace neengte in their natural courses.
in years to come, when the reign Government control should be ended now. luncheon, the 58th Chinese, Labour Com
cheers.)
(Loud
Majesty: