Intimation.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 23 1909
A. S. WATSON & CO., originally insed, or what wate the special
LIMITED.
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.
AERATED WATER
MANUFACTURERS.
SPECIALITIES:
DRY GINGER AĻE.
LIME FRUIT CHAM
PAGNE.
ORANGE CHAMPAGNE.
STONE GINGER BEER.
PALATABLE -
AND
REFRESHING.
Watson's
-FRUIT-SYRUPS
up in arms against the Provincial officiats, | which is already in the vertex of commercial | but it is deep-seated and sound. Why then because of the resuscitation, of a dead and depression. : As wa stated yesterday, now out should not the Government endeavour to raise Ergotten, order regarding the taking outlets for the dispaial of the opium brought to a company of Chinest voluntaan, who would « permits in triplicate before the opium | Hongkong have been found in Saigon and Sai- | be a credit to the Colony and whose appearance could be sold in the Southern Provinces. nam, but it is impossible to say what reliance can at officialfun diens would be a terimalal to the Nobody seams to know when that order was be placed on them as permanent markets, „Even. „wiss_action_of_the_Colony.? We are 10_h,,va.
reasons which induced the Goverment to place "an "additional burden on the shouldery of the
Canton; opium merchants Possibly, some | officious" and soll-seeking underling saw an opportunity of securing another, "squeers" for the benefit of those in authority, not forgetting |
were they to become regular customers,that does a Unis irsity one of these days; would it bot be
Sunning Railway.
THE EXTENSION LINE
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THE HABBAS' CORPUS CASE.
PRISONER DISCHARGED, Before the day's business commenced at the Criminal Sessions this, morning, the Chief Jus- tice delivered judgment in the recent habens dorpus case, it may be remembered that an application was made the other day for a writ of habeas corpus, in the course of which interest- ~ing datails were adduced.
PROTEST FROM SAN-U1,
[From Our Own 'Correspondent.] · ·
Canton, 22nd September... The Sunning Railway Company is reported to have obtained from the Ministry of Posts
His Lordship sald in part that he was sorry and Communications the right of extending the that in this case he had again to pick bolas iz the procedure which had been. followed, but Supping Railway from Kung Tick Fau market was bound
do it. Thres important points town to as far as Kongmoon, the whole of the had been raised but one of them seemed to go San Ul. The Sunning Railway Company, has
bimself, or it may be that the order was they derived from the opium' irade has been ancourage amovement which would undoubted. Proposed line lying within the district. of } down to the very roots of the administration of
promulgated with the object of inserting the this end of the wedge which would break up the trade of the merchants and lead to that inonopoly in the sale of the drug, which the Provincial Government bas sought by divers methods to obtain. Whatever the real reason, the regulation fell on barren ground and was ignored by the merchants concerned. Strange
ly clough, the officíuis also appear to have
permanently diverted from their grasp by the opening up of new centres of distribution.
WHY NOT CHINESE VOLUNTEERS I
not in the slightest degree affect the argument advantageous tó enfist the resident students in that the hasty and ill-advised action of the such a company, so that their hours of recrea...” officials in Canton bas seriously affected the | tion might be spent in perfitable exercise ?: Wo legitimate trade of British merchants. Per; already spend a sum verging on $50,000 per haps the Canton authorities will come to their annum for the volunteers we have, and it would senses when they find that whatever revenge | not be out of the way to add a trifle more to
ly prove an influence for good. Of course the
now invited subscriptions for shares at $5 each justice that no Magistrate'nor Judge had any Colony is "hard up*; everybody knows that, from the public to raise the required funds for fight to delay justice. When he had made but money in frittered away in directions from the undertaking. Not till recently, however, up his mind he was bound to deliver judg. which little or no benefit is derived, and if a have the people of Sap U district brought ment. This could not, of course, be dealt with proportion of that sum were devoted to the forward any protest agafast the Shaping Rait in any formal way, and it was left entirely formation and equipment of a Chinese detach Company as regards the Company's under to the judicial discretion of the j.dge or taking in that district. Now they assert that | magistrate." In this case'll find been, stated ment of volunteers we venture to say it would the line should be built by themselves and with by the Crown Solicitors that the magis so and Shanghai says ditto, so why, should be money well speat Singapore seems to think: their own money.
trate had made up his mind that he would The San-Ui people have consequently been not commit the prisoner on the charge holding public meetings at the Ming Luen of murder owing to difficulty ˇof identifică- Tong Assembly Hall and have agreed to raise tion and promised at a future date to discharge a capital of two million dollars, of which sum him, and then take evidence on another charge. ball is said to have been already underwritten. Yet prisoner, entitled to his discharge, was They are now endeavouring to lay before the Brought up on the 4th and remanded until the Ministry of Posts and Communications at Pe. toth. Apparently, the second remand was in king a claim for the restoration to them of the order that another warrant might be served up. right of building the railway' within their on him. There was a tendency, he thought, to district.
be complaisast in the administration of she law after extradition and certainly the second warrant could undoubtedly have been served and execu ed on this prisoner, and so he would not then bave been entitled to dis.. charge But, being entitled to discharge, bo-
the be free, and before
Shanghai pipers regarding the soldierly quali So much has been written lately in the
forgotten its existence, or it did not suit the ties of the Chinese detachment of the Shanghai Hongkong be left out in the cold?
convenience to give it effect. These are ques 10 of Chinese official subtlety which it is useless for us to inquire into, because nobody yet has been able to fathom the workings of the official mind. In any case, the opium mert Chants in Canton pursued their business in contempt of an order which remained in abey
AO
ance—until the other day some busybody re-
urrected the order and declared that fareiga - opium" could be sold
or distributed for sale unless the permit in triplicate
Volunteer Corps, espècially in connection with the presentation of an Imperial banner from the Prince Regent, that one wonders how it in
Lo
AND GENERAL.
that Hongkong jogs along without a similar THE pepper industry in Port Dickson and dis company altached to our gallant välusteers. It uict is languishing. There are but a thousand cannot be from any spirit of racial prejudice and acres under cultivation at present. we scarcely think that the Government would deny the Chinese the virtues of grit and stamins when drilled by British pou-commissioned off cers and led by men in whom they cas "place their
yust. We can remember with what PRESIDENT Talt denies ordering any reduc
tion of the Americas Army. The difficulty,
THE will, of the late Dr. George Doda, M.D., some time practising in Hongkong, afterwards at Florence, Italy, bai been proved at £12,850.
THE SAI KUNG MURDER.
had been granted by the palice authorities. regret the officers of the Weihaiwei companies he says, is to obtain sufficient recruits to keep J. R. Wood, the Chinaman who has been ar second warrant, was served upon him. With
5,000 with the colours.
witnessed the disbandment of the native troop whom they had brought to a state little short of perfection. We have all read how the IT is a strange fact that Chinese gardeners Chinese troops under General Gordon quelled prefer to rent the lands of Malays and others to the Taiping rebellion, the general with a cane carry on their trade, rather than take up the nd on their own account, paying larger rents in his hand assured of the staunchness and diathan they would have had to do if leased direct cipline of his little army, And now we haar from the Government, the Chinese Company of the S.V.C. lauded, to the skies, recognised by the Prince Regent himself, honoured by the citizens of the Northern Settlement and praised by its officers -men who are not likely to give free vent to any admiration they may feel lest the company should become conceited.
In Singapore
CANTON DAY BY DAY,
OFFICIAL, AMENITIES.
[From Our Own Correspandent,)
Canton, azed September."
consulu at Cantos. L
APPOINTMENT.
instant in whith Wong Ping Pit, at present An Imperial decree was issued on the noth
Taotal of Consabo1iry in Canton, in transfer red to Kwangs as Faotai of Constabulary in that province, and Lau Wing Tin is appointed accessor to Wong Ping Pit in Capido.
CLAN FIGHT.
The oplum merchants refused to obey the or der and one member engaged in the trade was arrested and his place of business closed. His fellow-guildsmen immediately took sider agelost the Provincial Government and, as in evid ence of their sympathy with the trader who was made the scapegoat, shat up their pre nises and went on holiday. As will be seen, there was en question of foreign interference in this case; u was entirely a matter betweed the officials and the merchants in Canton. And yet the actual sufferers by this concerted' attempt to thwart the officials were not the merchants who had voluntarily suspend there is a Chinese detachment which is 50 Viceroy Yuan Shu Hsu, accompanied by bis This morning at bulf, pasi `eight o'clock ed business but the Hongkong firms, engag- strong that the members have their own bead-secretaries of foreign affairs, Taolai Su Yui ed.in supplying Canton with opium. When
quarters, drill-ball and club conveniences. Chiu, Expectant-Prefect Sit Wing Nin and Mr. it is explained that in the ordinary course indeed, as many readers must have not Wang Ming, proceeded to the Shameen to re of busiden, when trade is unhampered by ed, one of the crack-bois-is-the-Singa- turn the official calls on the different foreign the jealous and absurd restrictions of short-pare Volunteer Corps is a mixed witli aerated or plain water sighted officials, the weekly shipment of opium variably picked to represent that Settle Chinaman who
from Hongkong to Canton averages between make excellent refreshing, beverages.
o and 101 cases, representing a value of $150,000 to $250,000, it will be recognised that Guaranteed to be made from the far from being a trivial question, this act of passive, resistance, on the part of the mer- pure juice of sound ripe fruit.
chants in Canton is of vital importance to one of the chief branches of the distributing trade in Hongkong. It's worse than a boycott be, cause a boycott is generally in expression of A. S. WATSON & CO., retaliation for misdeeds, either actual or fan
cied. Whereas he e the Hongkong traders .LIMITED,
had no say in the matter one way or the other. The Canton nierchants went out of business and as they required no more goods the supplying firms found themselves up yainst a (18 dead wall. We have nothing to do with the question whether the merchants in Canton are tight or wrong.in the attitude they have adopted. That is their business. And as for the officials, they probably have proof to show that they were vering according to orders issued from the v
Cereal
yamen at some indefinite period. But this much is certaip. British traders are their copies delivered at their realdances without itled to expect that no restrictions will be im any extra charge. On copies sent by post an additional $1.60 per quarter in charged for postage, The postags on the weekly is to any part of the
HONGKONG and KOWLOON.
Hongkong, 15th July, 1909
SUBSCRIPTION HATES (IN_ADVANUR) – DAILY--$36 per assum.
WEEKLY 18 per ausam
The rates per quarter-and-por mensam, proportions!" Baberiptions for say period lew than oze, monik will be charged as for a full month. Tha dally isaga is delivered free when the addrom in
socessible to memenger. Poak aubscriber can hare"
world is 50 cents per quarter. Single Copies Daily, len cente. Weekly, twenty-
fire out' (for cash only),
BIRTHS.
On September 14, 1909, at Bhanghai, to Dr. On September 14, 1909, at Shanghai, the wife of Mr. F. H. Crossley, of a daughter.
MARRIAGE.
And Mrs. Baleau, a son..
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po-ed against the buyers of their goods such as would of necessity lead to the dislocation of trade. While it is true that certain privileges in respect of opium have been preserved by the
PRISONER FORMALLY REMANDED:
“Arthe Magistracy, this afternoon, before Mr. was entitled to
rested for the alleged murder of his sister-in- law near the San Cheong village, in the New Territory, go the 13th inst. as the result of a long-standing dispute was arraigned on the capital charge. Mr. P. P. 1. Wodehouse, The prisoner was undefended. Deputy Superintendent of Police, prosecuted.
Dr. J. W. Hartley, Medical Officer at Kow loog, deposed to having been present at the past mortem examination held on the body of a Chinese woman on the 15th inst. Witness attributed the cause of death to loss of blood and said he saw a deep wound in the region of the buttocks two inches long and about two and, a ball to three inches deep. The knife most have entered the artery but he could not say whether the scab was caured by one blow,
Further evidence was called and the case te.
manded.
THE MACAO BOUNDARY 25
QUASTION.
A WARMING,
The Wai-wu-pu has wired to the Viceroy of the Liang Kwang" "Provinces to the effect that it has heard a lot of wild rumours regarding the 'Macao Boundary Question and the Boun
regard to the magistrate not sitting in the Court, Bis Lordship said that though it might be considered a technical point, he considered it of importance and held that the steps taken were not in Court at all and that the prisoner was entitled to his discharge.
יד
Mr. Eldon Potter, in the absence of Mr. M. W. Slade, applied for prisoner's release with. out appearance in Court. The application was granted, “
CHARTBRED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.
INTERIM DIVIDEND DECLARED.
The manager of the Chartered Bank informs us that he has received from his London Office. a telegram advising than an interim dividend has been declared for the past balf-year 10 30th June, 1909, at 13% p.n. free of income tax.
ROBBERY AT SHA,
THE RECENT OUTRAGE AT CHUNG CHAU.“ At the Criminal Sessions this morning, the Chief Justice presiding, two Chinamen were arraigned on charges of armed robbery at sea
dary Protection Society bas telegraphed that and receiving goods. Sir Henry Berkeley, K. the Portuguese have despatched warships Acting Attorney-General, instructed by Mr. . With reference to the serious clao-fight | and troops to, Macao. The onid Society is' par- | F, B. L. Bowley (from the Crown Solicitor's which occured between the people of the vill-fectly. entitled to, discuss the question in a Office) appeared for the Crown, while Mr. age of Po Leung and those of the village of peaceful and proper manner but it has no right Eldon Potter, instructed by Mr. Reader Harris Lang Hing, in the Namboi district, as report to spread dangerous rumours and raise, the (of Messrs, Wilkinson and Grist) represented ed a few days ago, the bid feeling between the public feeling against the Government con. | one of the prisoners. rival clans is still smouldering and on the cerned, thus inciting the people to disturb theThe jury were as follows:--Mr. E. M. Hate- mallest pretext one party will attack an- peace and should be stopped at once. The land (foreman), Mesars. J. J. Lossius, S: ", da other with fire arms, &c., regardless of the
Police Tuotai has, under the Viceroy's instrue. Luz, J. Rodger, W. Schmidt, F. F. Barretto presence of the Namhoi, Magistrate and the tions, issued a proclamation prohibiting the and W. L. Leask. "brayes" who were sent by the Viceroy.to spreading of ramours concerning the Bous-
The facts of the case as outlined by the prosa- returned to Canton on the 19th instant and the place to rettore order. The Magistrate dary question and warning the Committee of cution ware that the prisoner(Leang Bulaod Lai the Boundary Protection Society.-Shanghai | Foog) with a number of others who had succeed- reported to the Viceroy the loss of nine lives in
Times. the first village and thirteen in the second. On the arst instant the Kwangchow Brigadier Namboi Magistrate, together with a large num- General, Li Mung Yuel, accompanied by the ber of soldiers, was despatched by the Viceroy to ressive order.
meat in the interport matches, and his score is Loever the lowest. How comes it then that in Hongkong, where the volunteers are always being encouraged and patted on the back by Governors and others of lesser degree that it has not been thought worth while to promote a Chinese company of volunteers? With all due respect to the members of the volunteer corps an it stands at present, wo scarcely think that they could afford to say anything against the idea; certainly it should not affect their amour propre, because as it is, we understand that the coterie system Dot entirely eliminat. ed from that body. But, in any case, the Chinele volunteers would not bob-nob with the future tarpass of the Colony; they would be long to a company of their own, under a Euro- pean sergeant-major; they would have their owo forms of amusement and their own messes, and there would, therefore, be no occasion for East and West to clasb. How often have we beard Sir Matthew Nathan urging the youth of Hongkong to join the Volunteers! Of course Siz Matthew had du cany time while be ruled in Hongkong and it is just possible that his successor would be equally enthusiastic in
Following is the result of crushing opera- seeking to bring the corps up to its full strength tions at Raub for the four weeks ending 11th were it not for the fact that be has been work gold obtained, 88 ounces; averageperton 3.29. instant Bukit Koman. Tous crushed, 3,330; ing like a dray horse since he set feat in the Bokit Malacca-Toos crushed, 1,867, gold Colony. We have seen fetters in the papers | obtained, 158 ounces; average per ton 1.70. from the commandant begging the members.
RAUB AUSTRALIA V GOLD MINING, CO.
of the corps in get their friends to join. And YELLOW PERIL AGAIN BRUITED
what has been the result? So far as we know there has been no iesult at all., Withou wishing to disparage anybody, we should say that a good many volunteers used to joib because of the camp_at_Stonecutters. Last year we were seriously told that the camp
was a foretaste of imprispoment with hard
CHINESE SOLDIERS. PLOCKING INTO
MONGOLIA:
A Russian correspondeat, quoted by the Tiny Velo, kom which the report is trans. lated, scade the following sensational news from Kiskhta
.....
ed in effecting their escape, held up a junk on the 18th July last off Chung Chau Island, sod SHELL TRANSPORTS, altaż tying up the crew, took possession of the juok, and removed the entire cargo consisting of There has been a sensational rise in the $137 in money, ten bales of coltoli, soo bags of.. shares of the Shell Transport and Trading Co, flour. 64 packages of medicine and other goods remarks a recent London financial journal, aggregating to the valee of $14,000. The The writer say; - Rumours of various kinds evidence showed that it was a carefully-planned have accompanied the advance, one being attack which was skilfully carried out and to the effect that the presecce in New safely accomplished. Shortly stated, it appears York of Mr. Deterding, a Shell director, in- that the Sam Buḥ Hop junk left Hongkong for dicates negotiations forn-working-arrangeSni-Tung on the day in question with a large- ment with the Standard Oil Co. Of another cargo. The junk left Hongkong harbour shortly rumour, however, as to a rich strike in Borneo, after three o'clock in the afternoon and reached doubts. The directora stated in their recent anchored off the island. At about sine o'clock I have now official confirmation and my own Chung Chan at about soven the same evening and report that depreciation on a sufficient scale that night, the crew, who sumbered thirteen, having been provided for by the Bataafsche beard two blasts from a steam launch, Shonly and Anglo-Saxon companies, they did not deem afterwards, they saw three men leave the launch it necessary further to increase the reserves, 10 and board their junk. The men said they that there is every reason to noticipate a more were officers of the law and demanded, to liberal distribution of revenue in the earlyse the permit allowing arms and ammoni- future.
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POLUNTEER CORPS ORDERS.
Chinese "overnment under the various treaties, it is also the fact that the interests of British merchants are safeguarded to the extent of allowing then a fair field for the disposs) of their goods, and it the officials erect a barricade ag inst the free circulation of opium by requir- ing certain vexatious conditions to be observed
tlon to be carried. As there was a quanti- On August 9, 1909, at Beira, Portuguese
ty of arms and ammunition on board: the East Africa, Colonel Gerald Hope Wilding by the Canton merchants they are violating in O'Bullivan, late Royal Engineers, Inspector spirit and in fact the principle of the treaties,
junk, the accountant of the Jank proceeded to Geral da Fazenda, Companhia da Mocambique, to Clara Louiss, only daughter of the late It was, therefore, quite within the province
Monday, September 27th. Recruits' lofantry He was then taken to and shut up in a cabin, Parades at Head Quarters at 5:30 pm turned than a bag was thrown over his bead. produce the permit but no sooner was his back
Albert Oroad, Esq., of Shanghai, China
of the Hoogkong dealers to appeal to the DEATHS.
Drill. Infantry Company Lecture. Lecture together with the rest of the crew. The men From China to Mongolia are passing Instructor, Bargt. Wallis, tod Buffs. Tuesday, then heard a scampering ef feet above them labour; there was no occasion for the war aumerous Chiasts, obviously neither estisans September 28th. Specialists Training. Gt and the rattis of chains as the anchor was? On September 15, 1909, al Chaosan, Bear Consul General for Great Britain at Canton to Changsha, E. Bohm, Capt, of N.D.L, steamer obtain redress for their grievances but, riors to describe the fun as being favor agricolturite. Their ages range from tayors, raugo takers, sigualiers and fare setters, dropped. After some time, the men heard the Afel Fa, aged 35 years.
ak we all know, once an official department and furious"; it was all hard graft, racing eighteen to thirty, but no sider. Very few Instructors, Sergis. Moore and Carman, R. G..chor being hauled up and fels the sailing On September 17, 1909, al Shanghai, Peter Chas taken up a certain position it has to be up hills with twelve pounders and racing back call at- Urge itself, but pass it to the West. Sergt. Wallis, 2nd Buffs, Wednesday, Septem-away of the junk. Simonsen (US Navy, retised), aged do years.
blown up by dynamite before, it will move an again. Many a man worked harder doing the They are well clad; they have waggons, tents ber 19th... Gun Drill, and a Companies,{"
After several days' inch. The Consu-General did make represeá- camp period than be bad ever done in allic. It has not yet been ascertained whither. L. howitzer. 3 and 4 Companies, 2.95" Q. F- the men were fed by rice being lowered confinement ip the cablo, during which tations to the Viceroy, but who had the Vice- his life before. But the genuine volunteer who formant several tens of thonsneds of these A. Friday, October 1st. Cfficers' and Special-itemselves sirended on a sandbank colles away they are migrating According to this instructors, Sergi Moore and Carman, R. G. to them, they felt a grating noise and foxed' roy's ear to begin with and what was the plau, believes it to be his duty as it is his privilege people have already passed and this only durists Fire Discipline. Instructor, Sergt. Car- from civilization. The accountant subsequently sible tale they urfided to His Excellency, and not his necessity to fit himself to take the ing the current summer! An American mis man, R. G. A.. who is still-raw-10-administrative methods in-field-in defence of bis country, did not regard tionery...(also... military agent) with whom the
faforined the Police of the affair, as a result of Parade at Taikoo at 5.15 pm Thursday, which, the two prisoners were apprehended and Canton?" At all events, these representations the manavures in the light of a picnic, granted to travelled to Kiakhta, affirms that these September 30th 2.95 Q. F. Gus Drill and in-l had no effect, and bow the services of the Hong- through the benevolence of the ratepayers for whoes weapons are supposed to have been Moore, R. G.A.
are not simple settlers, but positively soldiers,struction of gan layers. Intractor, Sergt. kong Chamber of Commerce and the Foreigo of Hongkong.' And it is' men like those shendy delivered, Although it is in the nature of a platitude to Office have been called to the assistance of that are wanted in' the H. K. V, C— This news, adds the Russian paper, is open refer to the intimate trade relations that exist those dealers who have been made the vicarious DOL your fack-a-defiical namby-paimby to serious docht. Why should Chinn, if she betwenn Hongkong and Canton it may not be victims of official ineptitude. If this order mothers' darlings who delight to have their wished to move her troops within the confines of amiss once again to emphasise the point by which has caused all the trouble was confidered uniforms tailor made so that they may appear Russian boundary, or to the boundary lucelt be. A TELEGRAM from Haugchow says that the
her own empire, to places situated close to the
calling attention to the effect which a pařely 10 unimportant that it was shelved immediately to advantage at church parade. Now, it has obliged to have recourse to the masking of her Governor has undertaken to raise Tia, 1,000,000 * domestic aquabble in the Southern capital is ex after being issued, surely it might be quashed been the experience of Singapore and Shanghai movements? Similar rumours wore carllercom for the navy organization. The Provincial Tax Sim Free Peças learns that tauny ralis of excialng on what is stilt ons of the most import for good and all and thus end what is nothing that when the Chinese colist as volunteers they Eastern Baikal, in which the fantasy of Mesant and the Police Bureau will jointly contribute sent and will be shortly fipated down thi Megam monicated with reference to the boundaries of Treasurer, Falt Comptroller, the Grain Intend.tesk are being constructed in the north at pros Cant trade products in Hongkong. It is some more or less than a storm in a teacup so far as throw themselves whole-heartedly into their spurs los correspondents scattered armed bands Tis. 230,000 a year, for four years, and the to Bangkok. Owing to the heavy rains and the parties in Canton are concerned, although duties and suit themselves like men, Their of Chinese even along the line of the Trans-Hangchow, Ningpo and Wanchow Customs bigh doods, this your will be a good teak year it is a matter of vital importance to this Golósy, i satheriaren may not be of the flamboyant sort, | Baikal Railway siment as far as Vladivostok i will subeoribe Tis 20,000 for the same patiod. for Siam, e
The
Hongkong Celegraph
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1909.
THE OBDURACY OF CANTON
OFFICIALS,*,
weeks now ginos we-ware in a position to in
gvunce that the opiuma dhealers of Canton were
JOINED.
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Evidence was then called and the case ad- journed. Mr. H. Hunter joined the Corps on the zist A XETURN of the paval expenditure of September, assigned Corps No. 1,103 and post- Powers shows that while Britain's total" Wat ed to No. 3 Company.
£35,000,000, compared ... [ with
618,750,000. £19,500,000, that of the Unlted State