THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1914,
NOTICE
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GENERAL NEWS.
Twenty Million for the Bank. New York, Aug. 13-1 learn) that the special committee of the New York Chamber of Commerce appointed to consider questions involved in the reopening of foreign credit and shipments of American grain abroad to-day recommended the adoption of the scheme by which £20,000,000 in gold shall be placed with the Treasury of the Dominion of. Canada in trust for the Bank of England.-Times
* Chinese Neutral Conference.
The Neutral Affairs Office bas held a meeting in the President's Office at which President Yuan was present. The agenda of the meeting was: (1) the appointment of additional beatral officers for the various districts adjoining the war zone, (2) the defence of the districts outside of the war zone, (3) whether or not the transport. ation of contraband should be prohibited in the districts in- cluded in the zone, (4) what direction should be given to the Governor of Shaoinng re- garding the solution of a certain diplomatic question, (5) the pro- hibition of the occupation of Chinese gamens by the belligo:ent troops and, (6) to limit neatral expenses of the provinces.
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Graphic stories of how the 16, reaching New York Harbour British troops at Mons fought
From the scene of battle, the ahortly before midnight. The Shamrock came in under tow of during the two days in which Sir Thomas Lipton's atoa yacht they bore the braut, of the main point of interest in the European Erin, eag the New York German advance reached Paris in war drama, so far as England is the early hours of this morning, concerned, shifted in the small ald, and is on this side of the when officers arriving from the houre of the morning to the water to be laid up for the winter, front reported at the War Office; railway station at X., where probably after
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When, quick action was necess-and wait and to practise that the Chinese Press to the effrct that the Shanghai Office of the ary the firing and the action of which the Iron Dake called the So they Bank of Communications had the men were only those of prize wonderful "wo o'clock in the notified the public that it had retifi mon firing at a disappearing waited in a draughty station lor their comrades, thrown back ceived instructione from its lead target. There was no excitement, Office to accept certain Treasury no nervousness; just cool, me- Bills ea cash from purchasers of thedical efficiency. If the British temporarily from the scene of the Internal Loan Bonds, the lost heavily, Heaven only knows action, to fit them to retaro, if While the crowd waited for the local Loan Agency, upon inquiry what the Germans must have possible, immediately...
one of their as to the trath of this report, has lost, because, as
(whom the wounded, train after train rolled slowly through carrying more received the telegraphic reply wounded officers
British soldiers to the active that "se the Government is in British took prisoner) remarked, urgent need of ready money, the We had never expected any front-Central News. bills must be courteously refas thing like it; it was staggering." The British troops went to ed." "Copies of this reply bavo been at once distributed among their positions silent but happy.
Hongkong Harbour Master's Notice. business men for their informa-There was no singing, because that was forbidden, bat, as the tion.
It is hereby notified that in- Improved Trade. :
drab co'amus deployed and be- Trade is steadily recovering gan to crawl to the trenches formation has been received from from the partial confusion into there were various gallios of the Consul General for France which it naturally fell at the humour in the different dialects that until further orders, the outbreak of the war, says the of English, Lish, and Scottish lights at Cape St. James and at Times of August 21. The measures counties. The Yorkshiremen, for the entrance of the Saigon river taken by the Government, the instance, would draw a compari- will remain unlit and sill not be bankers, and the Committee of son between the men they were relighted except by the order of the Stock Exchange in relation to going to fight and certain doge the Naval Commandant. Entry home defence, finance, and com- that won't fight, which the into the Day of Coconute (Baie merce, have animated the business Yorkshire collier has not time to des Cocotiera) in absolutely pro-
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EXPERIENCED BARBERS confidence. There has not been CockLey soldier was there with that general atoppage of work his allies about "Uncle Bill," tween the times stated above, no
AND HAIRDRESSERS. and wages which was anticipated and every Irishman who went ship must approach within five a fortnight ago. The rule is in'o the firing line wished ho bad miles of the Cape. If they at-
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Lakes place. They look forward to better times cut tunics at all, they dung them where the examination of vessela when part of the £100,000,000, eelves at the German horsemen in takes
a manner which surprised even secured by the Government on the vote of credit, comea into their own officers, who bad them- general circulation; and the selves expected great things of IF you have lost your appatite expansion of home, colonial, and them: The Uhlane, whose name dainty dishes at the ALEXAN foreign trade comes at the result and fame had spread terror among DRA CAFE la surto tempt of the closing of German markets. the Belgian peasants and the you
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