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THE TROUBLED TIMES IN CAIRO
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GERMANY'S HIDDEN SHIPS.
U.S. REVELATION OF FLEET
respondent of the Early Moly
According to Mr. Wiltbank, tiermany timates at 300 con's gross camouflaged # accert mureaatile marias
under the dags of gentral nations,?"
tl hotel having been waiting for three weeks. We left the Baltic stilt in which she intends to use in the restera, Liverpool when we sailed
sion of her maritime power and the res Parovic, a magnificent Cunarder, hadumption of her old methods or commer nearly 3.000 souls on board so you eurial penetration, imagine the oevecrowding. But each tried to "make the last of this, and
HONEYCOMBE WITH NUN CAPITAL There is every Benson uur was done to entertain the troopspbuilding enterprises in many neatrat
to believe," aya the article, that shipping w boxing contests, atud aperte being held countries are honeycombed with tretmare each day.
capital, offereth by German subject, un the interests of German commerce. their dummy presentatives direct
in
brought into being a "seret "German
It is this veganizer effort, that has trade fleet, worked undig foreign tags, ping situation a factor against which and has thereby injected into iby ship the Affies may find it hari the contend That ruang during the wae worked with an eye to her after-war trade ja extend her sphere of shipping influen shown by the way in which she sought to by negotiating for the content hig yardy in eutral enantries,
ROUND THE WORLD IN SIX second Pyramid still remains" a portion Immediately on arrival I made en
MONTAS
of the original facing The Sphynx, near quiries about getting a berth back từ „[by, is a marvel and as one looks at it une | Hongkong, and found, at the P; k--0--- realises what a riddle it still is. The tent | offices that there were 800 people on the
UNDER NEUTRAL FLAGS ole of the Sphynx is a marvel of architec❘ waiting-list. Au the N.Y.K. offer they Even if Germany loses every ovcu- ture re-discovered in 1883- huge state could nos promise, me EL PLANERATE I was asked to assist in a ship leaving of red granite so beautifully fitted February nest, and they they had 200 remain in the frene rank of maritime until going hip flying her flag she will still. Hongkong in the middle of February that it IN impossible" to insert waiting in case people failed to take wo nationwy and, thristen the supremacy carrying sailors and soldiers. We left the blade of a
kaife between them. their berths. It was the same story at all Hongkong un a csk fyssy ping and From Mona House hotel I sus thelli hy
Creme Britain and the United States," other affices. However: afcianteig I was at the end of the day passed into fine wea moonlight enh
a statement unde by Mr. Henry C, Wilt most impressives tl thle to make arrangements to get away nank, the writer on commercial matters. thur.. In due eu we arrived at
sight: TAAPEX, Whilst there alone in and was summoned to Singapore where we stayed for three day's, the desert a Bedonin came
Liverpool to anit ke eaten my steamer about" the middmnthly equined by the New York cor fanatick in the Rudder, the shipping From Singajen we went to Columbe,
Be call me he was the am of June. At Liverpool I found, in conse where I managed toʻget leave and priet
the sheik who had charge of the Templeqüetice of the strike, that the ship reeded by night trai
to the of the Sphynx, and he intueel te to ge would not be sailing turn. week. Hill Station. Tom fret. Nuwar with him the following das 20 miles into huge ship, the feltie, was still waiting Eliva.
It was an astonishing change the desert no ennials to see the tombs að to sail when werived, the passengers Ironi the Junt Tact stuffiness of Sakkara. These were erally wonderful: Colombo to wake up in the morning the colours of, the frescies on the walls athi enjoy the crisp, fresh and cool air, are as perfect to-day as when they were like an English sumpte márning. We painted 1000 years ago. The combs of arrived at Nowarn Elisa in exactly 14 the Apis Bulls contain huge sarcophagi days from the time we left Hongkong of black polishyff granite, each 13ft, y Fler I had the privilege of staying at 11ft. and weighing 20 tons However they Dorty House, and spent my time playing were placed there in this dark under galler a must delightful course, through ground passages is a mystery.... buring which meandered a trout "streans, filled the luncheon interval my guide met some with hah. I met there several tea-plan- | Arabs. who informed him that the ters and had an interesting time watch Bedouins further south had been firing ing the process by which, ten is cultivat on the railway and that the train by ed and prepared for the market, Next which I proposed to return to Cairo had day we went down to Kandy, and spent stepped inning, so there was nothing the night there and then back to the ship | for it but to make spred back on a eamet At Kandy, thanks to the generosity of Caguig. the people of Colombo," a" train-lend of That evening seven of as officers et the soldiers came up and spent the day.
ac dinner in Shepherd's Hotel before We sailed from Colombo for Allen, returning to Alexandria. On arrival! where the ship stayed three days heard that trouble bad broken out and Although this spot hears a bad me that trains had been attacked and Euro- I must say that the three days there past peans murdered. We went to the station ed alt to quickly and I enjoyed every to catch the it pa, train and were told minute of my stay. One day we took a that no trains were leaving that night. car and drove over ty see the battle fields, Consequently, we had, to return to the where the Turks attacked the garrison hotel and wait for the early morning and drove it back to within a mile of train. At 6 am.. we were back at the the town. I heard afterwards that they station. In was filled with a clamouring actually, shelled the town, and, what, is crowd of Egyptians and we were told more remarkably, although they captured that the train would not leave until D the water-supply it was never cut off.
AL-DI Atam. it was further post- The garrison drove them back, after swoponed till midday; at midday until days" fighting, about 25 miles, and settled down to trench warfare. The Arabe out side Aden were teenstomed to supply the towh with green vegetables, and when the Turks refused to buy them the Azals were allowed to take them into the beleaguered garrison. In this way green food passed through the two lines twice each week, and on Sunday, by mutant consent, shelling took place on either side. The trenches were well built, and 2
large quantity of emptured material was algown to us, amor which I noticed many guns mad by Krupp's, A-large quantity of stores af various kinds was waiting to be sorted and classified. During the three
ings. Of course one visited the Turks, and the club of an evening was delight ful
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Two officers who had fought in Mesopo- tamia assured me that the battlefields at Aden were very similar to those
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Yet uae wondered
at the excessive amount of liberty which has been allowed them by the authorities,
at Kut, and gave one a fair idea of what when perhaps, a little severe medicina
IT'S TOASTED,the surrounding country is like there.ould have brought the revolt to a timely
We landet 3,800 mer at Hallifax and the ge me an opportunity of seving the devastation wrought by the tremend que explosion a year ago. The cond for on a transar told me he was in France on military, service at the time and returned to And that the whole of his family had perisheck Another mag he was present when the explosion o curred said he found it impossible to discover the whereabouts of his house, his wife or his children, all having perish-
NEUTRALS Who Favore NS, od in the fire. Ab. Halifax we werd
Another weapon which Germany has "xpecting to see the Bor but she did ught to ploy in the mpaign of
preparation for after-war uppink roa not arrive.
ditions is the nominal transfer to neutral interests of ships built during the period of hostilities..
While it is announced in the shipping terms smecently laid down to Germany that such sales will not I recognised. no intimation has been giver of the attitude regard to the matter. of the neutral countries concerned in
It is becoming more evident every day that the scope of the world's com marcinkaner against (fermany is limited tes the Alfica.
We continued our voyage to New York, arriving in the evening. The light anda a. magnificent light..
The B arrived two days after we got there and caused great excitement. At New York the tme old rush was apparent; otherwise life sected normally what it was when I was the opportunity of witnessing the return there in 1015 Daring my stay I had
of President Wilson from the Peace Con
Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Dep- ference. I was much struck by the smart mark, and Holland, in the other aamert, rican troops, who preceded the Fresingainst Germany in ease she refused to and workmanlike appearance of the Amy declined to meet the wishes of the Allies by agreeing to participate in the blockade dent in the procession. Among the sign the Peace Treaty They have no old face, well-known to Hongkong resi shipping much to lose by breaking off motor-cury that followed I noticed a thing to gain by the seizure of Germany's dents-the late French Consul, Mons
commercial relations." Libert. Then followed a motley crowd of German ships in South America. states curs coritaining the democratic suppory the Shipping Controller, due to be des ters of President Wilson. It was a veryments are so be dealt with by the British livered under the "Armistice arrange- Government, and States.
interesting ocasion, and a sight was glad to have witnessed.
SOUTH AMERICAN PRIZES.,,"
Rat by the United It was stated in Parliament on March
From New York proceeded by the Central Railway to Niagara and then, by Colonel L. Wilson, for the Minis- on to Chiengo, which struck me as a placements mad by the Allies for speedily try of Shipping, that under arrange- I visited bringing into use enemy, ships in neutral indeed, a ports, the United States would be respon sib for taking the necessary action in Dur
neutral South Americaa ports.
"It is clearly understood,” be said, that this use of the ships is without prejudice to their ultimate disposition.
SMUGGLING AMMUNITION.
At the Magistracy, yesterday, a Chinese woman was charged with, being in on- lawful possession of 500 rounds of am
p.m. and then, finally, we wew told it would not leave at all as the line had been cut. We were a disconsolate party, as it was most important for us to get back to our ship. After considering various methods-an armoured car; boat on the Nile, etc-we found that the only way of getting out of Cairo was by aeroplane. This method the captain of our ship adopted next morning as the ship was sailing that day. We were left. behind. During the afternoon there was an itatuense demonstration of students unda large number of the educated people, as well as. thousands of Arabs, with all the excitement of the Oriental. I sup- pose something like 30,000 persons mustul noise and dift and rush. have passed cur hotel, the procession the stock yards, which are. taking nearly two hours. There wer
marvel of business organization. cries of Egypt for the Egyptians and
ing the day I was there, in one firm alone Vive la 1.berte..
13,000 hend of stock were slaughtered. On leaving Chicago we took the Santa Fé railway through Kansas to the Grand Canyon. This is one of the wonders of the world-250 miles long and in places We passed through the camel corps at clos
20 miles wide and several thousand feet Aden, and gained some insight into the
deep. With the variegated colours on the difficulties our troops must have encoun- An entirely New principle intered in the desert region around Kut,
rucks brought out by the brilliant sun-munition. by
shine, this makes a magnifeent spectacle.. Passing up the Red Sea we had opportunity of sering the magnificent
There is a delightful hotel on the edge battle cruiser New Zealand, which was
of the Canyon owned by the railway com- conveying Admiral Jellicoe to Australia.
pany. From Santa Fe we crossed the The Admiral kindly sent our ship a mes
went to the station at 9 .m. and were awalk
desert into California, the temperature sage of good luck and we wished him kept there till midday, when, at
The two officers ing pace, our train started, followed by being 115 in the shade, and then to Los
an armoured train. from Mesopotamia
The orderliness and the num During the first Angeles. visit
during the
Passage through alt arrived in
in the city wires cut down and stations barat the Suez
are to
suppose, unequalled. The folinga oman was engaged in rumping aminant. the ground, the sites being occupied by and vegetation tha pardon city, and the zhe Japanese characters on the hardker- at midnight. There
Amount
passed for people who were not Chinese. the bell tents of our troops who were of unrest in Cairo. but no tanging guarding the, place. At Tanta our train sen beaches in the vicinity must make chief referred to a Japanese restaurant of it. Next morning
it an ideni residential resort. Our next in Queen's Road. ourse the won cut to !! the sights
Of course
was held up and we were told that it was derful
museum attrarted our attention. useless to proceed any further as the liner stage took us to San Francisco, where had not been repaired. We had to spend was surprised to find hardly any trace and we enjoyed the whole morning the the night at the railway-station. The climate of this city is very good, and
in of
of the great earthquake and fire of 1906. inspecting the interesting curios
the train, and next morning managed by anong which are the *suomess
the town Rames L. and Pharaoh of the Exodus, slow progress to get to Alexandria,
n is full of interest to trave Mr. Tandsall fined her $250, with the stayed three or four days, and At midday we reported ourselves and It was indeed interesting to look into the
were delighted to learn that our ship things to
to occupy us the actual face of the man who saw and spoke
whole time unti to Muses face
we had been ordered back to Egypt in con our steamer sailed to Honolulu. Hono. In the to. face
evening wa paid a visit to Heliopolis, with its per- sequence of the revolt so that we were lulu, situated among the old Sandw
She stayed in part lect obelisk, which stands where it was able to rejoin her
Islands of Britain, discovered by Cap- erected on
tain. Cook in 1778, and now belonging to BLASHING AT A COMPANION WITH Festival the
of Set by two days and, when things were look-
the United States, is a charming spot. Besostris I., King of
less serious, we resumed our homeward Upper and Lower
The traveller who can spare the t.no Egypt. It is o! granite, stands 66 journey starting along the north cons
and is "high
transfer of Egypt, visiting the smaller stations, would be well advised to is covered with hierogly and eventually reaching Malta, a week one steamer to another in order to stay iron phies.
From there we drove acred later. At Malts there were no signs of
there for a fortnight. Unfortunately wa city to the Mokattam Hills, and visited-
We stayed two days and then
only 2 the Citadel clambered to the top of unrest.
24 bours wait, which we spent one of the delicate minarets of the mosque hurried on to Gibraltar to make up for in a long motor drive up to the Fali, last time Eventually we arrived at where we saw the precipice over which
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Next day there was nothing to be done. The railway lines had been cut and the railway-stations were surrounded troops
Two days later a message was brought to the effect that an
andria.
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Inspector Kent said that a constable met the woman walking in the direction of Spring Garden Lane, carrying a box covered with a handkerchief bearing some Japanese characters. In reply to ques- tions, the woman stated that an unknown man gave her the parcel to convey to a house in Spring Garden Lane. Inspector
success on hind I arranged to of the gourney we passed telegraph ber of motor-cars to be seen in this city Kent added that, in his opinion, the
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alternative of three months' hard labour. The ammunition was confiscated.
CHOPPER.
A Chinese young man has been arrested by the Police on a charge of cutting and wounding a comrade.
The couple left Singapore together.. of Mohamed Ali in the Citadel, ind
arrived in Hongkong a few days ago, saw the sun set over the great Pyramids Plymouth four days bebind our scheduled the army of the defeated chief was driven and lived at the same restaurant, Yes- and the Nile, commanding a perfect time.
The houses look delight terday morning, the accused complained England was changed from what one fully cool and the gol! links perfect, that he had niiwed $300. His companion panoramic view of the
the city of Cairo. The
while the aquarium is of world-wide replied that he did not know who had following
The railway day we wandered about the vari knew it in pre-war days.
renown, containing some of the most stolen it, and a quarrel ensued. The das morques in the town that were trains were frightfully crowded, and one
bounds not out of
(certain of Cairo were too dangerous),
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It is form of thejoying surf bathing in the evening drove out to see the great showing one the difficulties of
was badly wounded. ramids. I was very much disappoint necessary household on the sport unknown to us in Hongkong, By
the vandalism of Mohamed Ali in culties those of
know the aid of a catamaran piloted by three in us nothing about.
Hawaiians In London, unless one.
we went out about half-a- stripping the Pyramid of Cheaps of its had previously made arrangements for mile to see and then, at a given moment, Citadel destroying one of the oldest beds it was almost impossible to obtain Then the crest of a wave caught us. outer covering to build the mosque in the
started to paddle towards
the shore monuments of human industry. Never accommodation at the hotels. The streets
And theless
were full of people and money was evi I estiminte it at least 20 miles an hour receipts for the week ending September 6th its huge bulk, covering an
carried us along at a tremendous speed The approximate statement of traffic area of fourteen acres. impressesdently plentiful, The one pound note one. I entered the interior and the cham- seemed only to have the purchasing value towards the shore, the spray dashing is a followa :--- her of the King and Queen, where Napo of about 5 shillings in pre-war times. Up and smacking one in the face like hail
Beoopta leon, after the battle of the Pyramids. One aaw wounded men everywhere, and stones. Our stay in Honolulu was far too proclaimed his faith in Mohamed. The no matter where one-went-every consid. short I got back to Hongkong/-444. coffin still remains in the King's Chamber ration was shown to them. Snow fell Japan and Shanghai, just six months This Year..... It is dificult to realise how this pussage soon afty i funded, but, apart from that, after leaving it, having, in the meantime, Lost Tour was discovered when the Pyramid was the weather was ideal during the whole circled the globe and scarcely encountered „Increase in perfect condition.
The top of the of my 2 months' stay in. England. .... a day of rough sea.
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Aggregate receipts for 33 weeks
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