YACHTING.
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club Races
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1815,
THE DIRECTORY AND THE VALLEY OF DEATH
CHRONICLE.
NOTICE
An Invaluabs Publication for Busincas Men.
Ruined Villages of the Alano.
WE ARE PREPARED TO DELIVER OUR
The re-mail of the seventh The well-known “Directory and Championship Race for the Chronicle for China, Japan, the Handicap Class and One Digit Settlements, eto, publish Glasa of the above Club tooked by the Hongkong Daily Press, place on Saturday last. Reaults Ltd,, bas again made its appear
Handicap Class.
ance, the 1915 issuo being tho Caree:- Trocas Rock (8), Efty-third year of publication. Kowloon Rock (S.), Channel The familiar red covered book is Rock (S.). Distance 10 miles, Preparators gun 2.25 Starting gua 2.20 p.m."
Name,
Heap on
Course.
Finishing
Time.
Corrected
Time:
Pts.
Position for Race.
(1) Dionë,"
(2) La Linda.
(3) Colleen.
(4) Kathleen.
8
Pte. to date,
.47
The battle round Soissons and the retreat of the French to the
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strongest position on the southTO ANY ADDRESS IN THE CITY, EAST & WEST POINT, side of the Aisne have brought down to Paris and other parts of
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bad become imbeciles on account unrecorded in dispatches and of their anffering and privations, denied even the tragic honour of They were taken care of and this notoriety, which have been sent away, somewhat against their struck by death and are now but will, to safer places.
almost as bulky us ever, compris p.m.ing, as it does, no lower than 1,852 pages. It contains all the features which have made it the premier publication of its kind Those arrivals, saya the special in the Far East, and no business correspondent of the Daily house can afford to be without a Chronicle, help ono to understand copy.
more clearly the general.devaste- M. S. H.M.S. H.M.S. The task of gathering together | tion and prolonged agony which Dione Soratch. 5.51.44 5.51.44 the immense amount of detailed exists in the Valley of the Aisne La Linda 2. 37 6.06.47, 004.10 information which the Directory and the villages on ita acrthside. Rolls 3. 30 D.N.8. " contains has naturally been made It is a valley of death. Official Kathleen 7.00 6.22:35 0.15.35 all the harder by reason of the reports maution culy a few villages. Colleen 7.00 6.22.23 6.15.23 unusual conditions which have by name, according to their Dorothea 10, 30 D.N. F.
prevailed since the beginning of strategical importance; but there Ayeaba 12. 15 D.N.F.
August last, but the publishers are a hundred hamlets or more
and joined the Soots Guerda in have succeeded in their work in
1890. The Earl of Stair (then a manner which is certainly most
Lord Dalrymple, M.P.) and the surpri-ing under the oiream-
Earl of Erne (then Lord Crich stance. Tae in fleece, of the
ton) are two members of the war is seen in the fact that on charnel-houses of bones and rains. Sometimes the people in these House of Lords now prisoners of This ocossion the customary In the single district of Vic-sur-outlying villages have actually war. The list of officers missing allulos and lisle of firm Aisne, for example, the little com- been in the midst of hand-to-band also includes: Captain O. O. Hat- nomea and residents are manities of Sacoin, l'erniant, fighling, which has raged down chison, Royal Sole, the golfer; missing from the Tsingtau Ambleny and Ressous-bes alifal their streets and lanes or scross Second Lieutenant G. E. Y Beotion, though the, dosoriptive spota in old days of peace, where the market-place, and have taken Cratchley, Scots Guards, who Course: Kowloon Rook (P.).matter relating to the erstwhile Nature displayed all her gracious-a share in it almost willy-nilly, played for Oxford in the Univer Distance 9 miles. Preparatory German Colony is retained. Ao- ness along the winding river, and with pitoh-forks or sticks or any sity cricket match of 1912; gan 2.35 p.m. Starting gun 2.40 other print which may be men- where time itself seemed to other wespon.
Second Lieutenant A. B. Lang. |tioned in that in the case of Ger-slumber-French, soldiers atare
Grenadier Guards, who kept man firms in Hongkong and upon broken roofs, shattered
wicket against Orford in 1913, Singapore the firm namea are walls and trampled gardens,
sad was second airing at rackets
and Captain the Hor, J. B. Camp- bell, Coldstream Guards, eldest son and heir of Lord Sratheden. Lieutenant Percy Dale Kendall, of the Liverpool Scottish, killed. near Ypres on January 27, was a member of the Birkenhead Park Rugby Football Club. He played. 1901 and 1903, end against Wales for England against Scotland in
in 1902.
Rolla.. Dorothea, Ayesha.
One Design Class.
p.m.
Name.
Finishing Time.
H. M.. S.
Ailsa..
6. 49. 43
Allacob.
Bonita.
Daphne. Halcyon:
Position.
(1) Daphne. (2) Allanal. (3) Ailes.
Bonito. Halcyon.
5. 42. 41
D. N. S.
5. 10. 48
D. N. 3.
48
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28
11
34 18
Pte. Pts. for Rice, to date.
8
25
27
3
30
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and the broken wood work of farmers' osrts, and all the tragedy of war's ruthless damage.
Week after week, torn and Report on Last Year's Activities, turn about, German, Franch, and British shells have crashed over those places, making dust and ashes of them...
merely given, with the names of upon the twisted iron of ploughs THE SEAMEN'S MISSION. for Cambridge in 1911 and 1913 liquidators appended in sich instance.
As to the ground covered by the Directory, it is sufficient to state that the area extends from as far north as Vladivostock down
The Report of the Seamen's to Samatra, and that all ports of
Mission, Bongkong, for 1914, in- importance within these limits are
cludes the following:- dealt with in statistical, do crip- Pensaate who clung to their Finance Toanks to the gener tive and directory matter. Then cots, hid in their cellars, and at there are the usual hong lists, lists last fled, describe all this in a early part of the year, we have osity of our subscribers in the of classified trades and professions, sentence or two. They have one The fifth and final contest for texts of Treaties, Codes, etc., a grievance, even against fate-managed to keep the flag flying the Cruiser Championship was coloured plate of house flaga, their own misery is swallowed up estly hope they will not fail as in a difficult time, and we earn. sailed on Sunday last in extreme-Hongkong Postal Guide, local in that of their neighbours, oach when our collector again paya ly boisterous weather, the course obair and boat fores, etc., etc. family knows a worse cass than them a visi. It will be seen being Bokhara Rook Buoy (P.) The volume is, as usual, extremely its own, and so, with a shake of from the balance sheets at ite and home. Distance 13 miles. The well bound, and the whole publict- the head, they say there are many end of this report that our finan race resulted in the Scotengden tion is a credit to the Company who suffer these things."
oisl position is at present satis- winning the Championship for the ander whose management it is
factory. Bat the following reasone Becond year in succession. produced.."
will show that we shall need all the help we can obtain ia
Cruisers,
Name.
H'cap on
Conras
Finishing
Time
Corrected
M, S. E.MS. HU.S. Miranda Sorateb 1.12.33 1,12,33 Queen Boo D. N. S.
Snipe 1.05 D. N. 8. Cenone 105 Disqualified Irene
13.00 D. N. 8. Eris
13.00 D. N. S. Iria 13.00 D. N. S. Scotong-
den. 15.10 1.14 52 12.59.42 Dorothy II19 30 D.N.S.
Tattan 52.00 D.'N.S.
4.
Flora 58.30 D.N.S.
Pts,
a
VOLUNTEER ORDERS. Corps Orders issued yesterday by Lieat Col. A. Chapman, V.D.,
state; -
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Joined. The andermentioned having iined the Corps are el lotted Corps numbers and posted
Shopkeepers and peasants of Celler, of Ounde, of Attioby, along the way to Berry-on-Bo an1 from Billy to Sermoise, all those who have now fed from the valley of the Vesles and the valley of the Aisne have just the some story to tell, monotonous yet thrilling, because of its tragedy,
as follows:-No. 1773 Sipper It was their fate to be along W. smith to Engineer Company. the line of death and destruction. No. 1774 Sipper W. Brown to Oae old fellow, who has just come Engineer Company. No. 1775 Ganner T: Orton to No. 18otion Artillery Battery.
Field Firing, 21st inst.The Scouts Comi Bay will parade on
from Vailly, has lived for two months in a continual cannonade. He has seen his little town taken and retaken ten times in tura by
fatore:
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING Co, Ltd.
The 31st Ordinary Annual Meeting of Shareholders in the above Company will be held at the Company's Office, St. George's (L.) A considerable number of Building, 6, Connaught Road, past subsoribere have left Bong-Victoria, on Wednesday, the 31st March, 1915, at 12 o'clock Noon () As time goes on the an- for the purpose of receiving a ausl sum necessary for repaire Statement of Accounts and the and renewals at our new Institute Report of the General Managers will increase.
for the year ending 31st Decem- ber, 1914, and electing a Consult ing Committee and Auditors.
kong.
(III) Should the war be of long duration the Institute receipts will diminish, as indeed they have done already, wi boat a corre sponding decrease of expenses,
(IV.) A monthly allowance of
the French and the Germans. $85 received for many years from Cricket Ground at 8 30 D.m When I heard of this eye-wit-the Sailors' lome, West Point, Drass-Light marching order. ness I thought," Here is a man has to ceased. Position. for Race, to date. Two porohes to be worn. Water-who has a marvellous story to The Institute. Owing to the
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(1) Scotengden. 12.
198
Pts.
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But what dose be answer the Institute. The Concert Hall donnell Road. Apply to:=m sager questions about his experi-was placed at the disposal of the A.B‚0.” c/o Hongkong Tele- ences? ile is hard of hearing, Hongkong Cadets for temporary graph. and, with a band making cap beadquarters.
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CHAMBER OF COMMERJE. NOTICE,
Parades. Parades for Wedner day, 17th instant, nil. ⠀
To-day's Orders.
To-day's orders state:-
Joined. The undermentioned
little dazed. He says at last 1 Services For the reasons mentioned in the previous par
By Order,
EAM. WILLIAMS,
baving joined the Corps are al-It was difficult to get to sleep.agraph, it has not been found lotted Corp numbers and posted That is all he has to say about possible to continue the Sun- A Meeting of Foreign Import as follows: No. 1776 Pte. A. it and many of these possants are day evening services as ers of piece-goods will be held at David to Scouts Company. No. like him, repeating some trivial the Institute, but we do the Secretary's Office, Chamber Mrs. Edgins, of the Old Kow-Section M. G. Co.
1777 Pie. T. 0. Wilkin to Left detail of their experience, the loss our best to encourage individual of Commerce, New Government
of a dog, damage to an old teapot, sailors to attend the Cathedral or March, 1915, at 4 p.m.
Buildings, on Monday, the 22nd loon Hotel, prosecuted a Chines Leave The undermentioned as though that colipsed all other other Churches, and, as far as for trespassing in the servants are granted leave of absence as Bat little by little, if one has possible, place the Mission launch quarters of her rooms, ma
follows Pie. R. H. Whittall patience, one can get wider tater that about a month ago she W.G. Clark from 1.4.15 to 1.12.15. old man from the village of Soupir new books was received from a Prosecutrix informed the Magis from 17.3.15 to 17.5.16. Sapper glimpses of the truth. Another at their disposal for this purpose, Literature.-A large supply of eaw the defendant in her servante' Weekly Reports O. Ce are telle a more vivid tale. Hisdwell quarters and she told him to go reminded that the weekly state is ing place sheltered some of the friend of the Rev. J. H. France, way and not come there again. required at the Orderly Room not Germane when they traversed kong, and there have been most Yesterday she found him asleep later than 5 p.m. to-morrow. this district. in bed, deve
late Seamen's Chaplain at Hong.
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THE HONGKONG & WHAM- POA DOCK Co., Ltd. NOTICE
Road, Hongkong, on Wednesday, 31st March, at. 11 o'clook a.m. for the purpose of receiving the report of the Directors and state- ment of Accounts for the year.
The Ordinary Yearly Meeting Parades. Parades for Thurs- The inhabitants of Soupir, he sailors. We would again remind of Shareholders will be held in The defendant informed the day, 18th instant- 5.00 p.m., says, were divided into two our readers that gifts of magazines the office of the Company, 2 court that he went there to Signalling Section, Muskotry ins- groups. Able-bodied prisoners and illustrated papers oro, always Queen's. Buildings, Connaught got some things for clansman,truction on Kennedy Road Range, were font off to Germany, and and, "feeling giddy," he had to Corpl. Grimas, R.E., will attend, women
Women and children who were lie down,V
5.15 p.m., No, 2 Seption Artillery carried off in the retreat were Inspector Kerr, who was in 10 pdr. drill at Headquarters, afterwards allowed to go back; charge of the case for the Police, Right Section M.G.Co, Centre but not
ot antil several poor little said that there had been several Section M. G. Oo, and Civil Ser- creatures had been killed, and London, Fob 6-Among the larcenies on these premises during vice Company-Aiming drill and pretty girls subjected to gross in-officers announced as missing The Transfer books of the Com the past few months, articles Musketty Exercises, ander Com- dignities by brutal soldiers. So, A. O. Morrison-Bell has been M.P. 24th to 31st March, 1915, both
Major A. C. Morrison-Ball. Major pany being stolen from the bed and
pany Commanders, on Cricket at least, the old pesasnt aweara,
days inclusivOCK for the Honiton division of De- ether rooma.
*** Ground, Remainder, nil, f. Upon sulering Soupir, he says, TAKE & DATA APRI The defendant, was fined fifteen Detail. —On duty at Volunteer the French troops found in collars vonshire since 1940 in the Con. By order of the Board of Direct dollars, or in default of payment,
Headquarters and Mount Austin where they had concealed them Bervative interest, Ho was three months, gang?
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