HONGKONG CLOTHING FOR THE THO)PS.
Lady May has kidly sent as the letters which ppear below, for publication, ant writes us as follows:-
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WAR ITEMS.
SECOND
Controlling Oral Supplies.
EXTRA
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1915,
GERMANY'S ISOLATION.
Blocked.
Petrograd, February 18.-A latoresting Statement of Cables important conference, at which the Minister for Agriculture was present, passed a resolution, re- commanding the requisition of
The following statement with ...These letters have just been stored cereals. It was stated that received in auswer to a box of filly million puda (66 million reference to the cable isolation of 275 garments (mongst which quarters) were in the hands of the German and the Austro-Hun- garian Empires has been given were 12 Obiness oilskin anits speculators, given by Mrs, Anstruther) made by the women of Hongkong and which have already dropped Service: Pakhoi and sert to Queen Mary's should be fixed locally after con- Needlework Guild in December sultation between the Produce
Zemstva.
TO-DAY'S WAR TELEGRAMS,
Freach Proguess.
(Havas Telegram.)
March 25.
French Stock now stands at "1.70. Yesterday we stopped counter-attacks, north of Arran, at a small Eparges.
DAY BY DAY
New Doctors Registered,
WAR LOANS
WORLD'S SAVINGS.
AND
On the Paris Bourse, at the
The following additions to the Two Remarkabe Estimates' by Register of Medical Practitionera a French Economist, entitled to practise Medicine in this Colony, published in Govern- ment Notification No. 240 of the 26th June, 1914, parsuant to Ordinances No. 1 of 1884 and No. end of 1914 business having 31 of 1014, aro published for then been recamed since Decem Hang, Nethe sole Hospital; File- revenue securities, as calculated by the Economiste Francais, wRS meno Maria Graca Osorio, 34, 12 to 15 per cent. lower than at Queen's Road Central. Both are the end of 5913. The Economists Surgery of Hongkong University least + per cent. in the average
cost of capital. Bat it adds:
It was suggested that prices ont by the German Information fort at Baausejour. Today we repulsed counter-attooks in Argonne general information;-Chik Ohja ber 7-the average price of fixed-
"Germany has five cables end-at ing at the Island of Bərküm, in
'il
Russians Advancing,
We
lant; also a box containing sixty- Exchange Committee and the the North Sea, one going to Brest, (the Russiane) parensd our advance in the Carpathians, capturing Bachelors of Medicine and of sesudies this to mean a rise of at·
five men's garments (amongst them being a far rag and Jaeger blanket rug), which waa tent to Dr. Davis in December last,
The letter from Mrs. Eden, Jackanapes Work Society, also shows how much the garments are appreciated.
Firat British Field Hospital for
Serbia.
.:
February 25, 1915,
Dear Lady May, have just heard from my brother that wo are indebted to you and, the ladies of Hongkong for the parcels of comforts which have arrived, Would you please convey: our best, shanks to all those who have so kindly helped to make them.
Madame Groniloh has told me
England to cut them. On the other hand, it will be very difficult, even impossible, for Germany to repair them as long as the war lasta,
"Between Germany and Eng. land there exist six cable lines, partly German, partly English, which, of course, are not used
in France; one to Vigo, in the A Heroic Irish V.C. north of Spain; one to Teneriffe, Where all are herosa it is a on the Canary Islande at the north little invidious to pick cat the of Africa, and two by way of the individual actions of any of the Azores to New York. All five new V.C... Bat two really do lead through the English Ohannel, call for special mention.. Lance-so that it was not difficult for Corporal Michael O'Leary, of the Irish Guards, who killed eight Germane, took two prisonera, and practically captured the enemy's position, showed how the moat thrilling deeds of single- handed valour are yet possible in the most scientific warfare, while Lieutenant Arthur Martin Lake,
From Germany's west of the R.A.M.C., emphatically de- now. serves his unique distinction, that coast, therefore, no communica- of receiving a Clasp to a Crows tios with the world is possible,
Lieutenant ulready gained.
"The telegraphio communios- Leake's original V. O. osme totion aia Holland, Denmark, Nor- of the terrible sufferings of the bim in the South African War, way and Sweden can only be kept wounded in Serbia owing to the while tending wounded under a up by cables that end in Eagland absolute lack of clothes and dress-heavy fire from a much larger and France, where, of course, inge, and I feel that the best party of Boers, who were only a cablegrams are censored.
a hundred yards away. To this return you could receive for your heroic deed he has added many kindness would be a knowledge of the great gratitude the Serbian others during the present war, and he receives hie Clasp "for soldier feels towards those who are most conspicuous bravery and giving him & helping hand. I have had numerous instances of this in devotion to duly throughout the Belgium where I have been work campaign." ing since August, sad nurse who has just returned
describes from "Serbia seldiers as extremely brave and pathetically grateful for the little that she and the two others who were working with her were able to do to alleviate their sufferings, With kind regards and many Youra me, thanks. Believo sincerely,
鄒
the
John Hestnell Beavis. Queen Mary's Needlework Guild
24th February, 1915. Dear Lady May, Another beautiful consignment has arrived from Hongkong, and I will be so grateful to you if you will convey Her Majoety's thanks to all the ladies who so kindly contributed.
"-Globe.
An Amercian Report,
Imartie. Qua de man, (3374) Animalgo
On the Pilitzy river the Germans abandoned positions. four thousand prisoners with a dozen machine-guns.
Dutch Telegraph Station Raided by Emden's Mon." A steamer coring from Singapore reports that Emden German sailors on board the Ayesha raided the Datch telegraphio station at Padang, Sumatra, taking nearly all the supplies.
The Dardanelles.
To Act as Analyst.
Hie Excellency the Governor
Ernest Rosdley Dovey to act as bas been pleased to appoint Mr. Analyst during the absence on until further notice, with effect from the 25th instant.
Operations in the Dardanelles were impeded by very rough leave of Mr. Frank Browne, or weather. Only mine-aweeping was going on.
Activity of Froach Artillery. (Oficial Telegram from the French Government, via Peking.)
March 26. The Germana delivered, on the 24th at Notre Dame de Lorette, two attacks which were repulsed,
trailery in Uhrupagao and Argonne was very active. German attack was repulsed at Fontaine Madame.
The prisoners taken at Hartmanns Weilerkopf amount to 200.
ZEPPELIN RAIDS ON
ENGLAND.
Witty Comment in Paris Press.
obvious to
*The
all.
"The ways to the south via Austria or Italy are also blocked, as the cables that run from weat to east in the Mediterranean be- General Berthant writing in long to an English company, the the Petit Journal, says: Eastern Telegraph Company, and subject does not concern me. My end in English territory. The job is to comment upon acts of cables atarting from Italy, and war, not acts of brigandage. Basel, Switzerland, Feb. 17.- also from Turkey, go via Malta. Those are outside my compet Emperor William will apologize Gibraltar and Lisbon to the Alence." Too gallant veteran puis personally to James W. Garard. the American ambassador to Ger commnnication is possible with very aptigine company and many, for the hostile demonstra ont using the cables of the East of air-raids or seu-raide of the tion which occurred at a Berlin era Telegraph Co., and tele-kind is theatre on the evening of Febre graphic land connections with ary 9, according to a telegram Caina pass through Russia or M. Stephen Pichon tries, for a ceived here to-day from Beru British India. Therefore, with sarcastic moment, to consider the The emperor, it is said, will ex the exception of the wireless question from the German point prese his regrets to Mr. Gerard on service, Germany can telegraph of view: "It is clear that the the occasion of the ambassador's only to Austria-Hungary, Holland, results of the raid would have visit to his majesty at the Esat Switzerland, Italy and the Scan- been more valuable in Tenten Prussian fortress of Koenigsberg.dinavian countries. Spain and opinion had more non-combatants Mr. Gerard is reported in the Portugal are out off, too," been slain, and particularly if the Royal family had been murdered, dispatch to bave accepted the em peror'sinvitation to go to Koenige..
Le was intended. But, however 5,000 German Mutineers expert the Germans may be in berg. "Ambassador Gerard and a party from the embassy were Paris, February 18.-The Press organizing massacres, they have, attending a theatre when a man Bureau has issued a note in which like all criminale, only limited
CHURCH SERVICES.
A
Venite:
Now Edition of the British Pharmacopoeia.
Colonial Secretary's Department It is hereby notified by the that the New Edition of the British Pharmacopoeia became "official" ae from 1st January, 1915. The new list contains Eome important alterations which are printed in to-day's Government Gazette.
Passed in Cantonese.
It is officially notified that Mr. Roland Arthur Charlie North, Cadet, passed his final examina- tion in Cantonese on the 26th February, 1915...
"A decline of 12 to 15 per cont.
nt. in prices does not seem anything enormous, if one con siders the huge emissions of home and foreign Government securities which are under way. In October it was estimated that, if the war were to continue seven its termination around the end of months (which would have fixed February), the direct war ex- penditure of all the belligerenta combined would have been 60,000,000,000 franca.
The outlook now is that the war will last four or months longer say to the end of June, It is undoubtedly impossible to make anything like oznot cal oulations in such matters. But the direct losses of the war up to such a date, combined with the publio loans of belligerents and neutrals arising from the war, It is notified that the nama of seem bound to reach at least the Manila Mitropole Hotel, 80,000,000 france, and they may Limited, has been struck off the approach a hundred thousand Register. Itianlso notified that, at | millions."<
Struck off.
St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong
28th March, 1915, Sunday next before Easter. Holy Communion. (8.5 a.m.) Matine (11a.m.) Responses: Ferial. Hooper, Psalms of the 28th morning. Benedicite: Battishill Tomlinson Battishill. Jubilate Goodson. Hymns: 98, 107. Evensong (5.45 p.m.) Re- the expiration of three months. In 1907, when explaining sponses: Ferial. Psalms: Pur from the date hereof, the Cheung the reason for the strain which cell. Magnificat: Cooke (13th Tai Company, Limited, will, an- then existed on all the world's morning). Nunc Dimittis: losa caute is shown to the con- stock exchangers and money Rimbault (17th morning). Hymns 99, 200, 108 Psalm arbs atruck off the Register markels. M. Leroy-Besalien, in verses 1, 3, 15, 20, son, and the Company will be die-the Economiste Francais estimat Psalm 137, verses 4,,7, Psalm 135, verves 4, G. P. in unison. Spohr's Last Judgment" will be given on Good Friday at 9.15 p.m. with a chorus of 100. voices. Union Church, Kennedy Road
SHIP'S OFFICERS AND
THEIR EFFECTS.
available for investment in securities was $180,000,000, There had been, in 1907, hə added, s demand for more bat the world has not got it; there fore, it can not provide it." Yet in this present asason, since the end of August, the Ger man Goverment has borrowed. presentative Shipowners's Ar- $220,000,000 on a war loan St. Andrew's Church, Kowloonsociations in the United Kingdom and the British Government Sunday next before Easter, 28th furnishing the names of cerisio £35000,000; so that in hardly Mar., 1915. Holy Communion
olled by only two governments, half a year, more capital has been
Sunday, 28th March, 11 a.m. Hymns, 9, 49, 25, 440, 6 p.m. Hymne 388, 129, 110, 264, Preacher,
Maconachie..
Sme time ago, the Imperial Merchant Service Guild address Rev. J. Kirked themselves to the different re-
at 8 a.m., and 6p.. Matias 11 firms who had decided themselves a.m. Responses, Ferial; Venite, to insure the effecie of their ap
The things are all splendid, and in the audience protested because it is stated on unimpeachable means at their disposal, They Rarnby, Day 21st; Psalms, as tains and lers against wit than the French economist's
Annie Lawley, Hon. Seo.
estimate of a full years's avail Benedictus, Langdon; Hymns, desirability of a similar sep able sum of now capital in all
the world. Exchange. 180, 281, 302, Tune 265, 4pm. being taken by shipowners gen- National Anthem. Evening, 6 erally, and from information they p.m, Hyma: 181; Responses, have reosived they are glud 10 Ferial; Psalms, Purcell, Purcell
learn that the suggestion has Turle; Magnificat, Beethoven
already been adopted in a num- 27th Morning Nunc Dimittis, Wickes 10th. Evening. Hymns, ber of cases. To respent to a 149, 315, 26, Kyrie, Mendels- London steamer recently torpedo- ed where the captain and officers sohn; National "Anthem.
DEATH OF BLUECHER CAPTAIN.
als usually the case lost the are informed that they will be whole of their effects, the Luild compensated by their owners for the loze, p
The Guild's Parliamentary. Committee. Mr. A. MacCallum Scott, mem- ber of Parliament of the Bridgeton on Division of Glasgow, bua jined
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS,
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT Company Limited.
The Twenty-Sixth Ordinary Annual Meeting of Shareholders in the Company will be held at the Offices of the Company, Bt George's Buildings, Chater Road, Victoria, Hongkong, on Saturday, the 10th day of April, 1915, at 12 o'clock noon for the purpose, of
for the year ending 31st Decem and the report of the Directors ber, 1914 and declaring & Divid end
February 16nnounce the Pailsamer lary Committee of receiving a statement of Account
jesty was specially pleased with When informed his remarks were cipient mutiny was checked at the, up to the hour when punishment the oilskin suite, and these are directed, against the American beginning of the month, when will be meted out to the perpe being sent out to the Engineers, ambassador, the man began a loud five thousand of the enemy, in-tratora of this endless list of
were felonies and strocities." who have very difficult and dan-and violent tirade against the cluding thirty offioare, gerous work to do about the trench United States for permitting the bound two together and sent in
Splendid recruiting agents, the He was the direction of Brussels, Malines Bs, and have to be out all night exportation of arms.
Nomor On Matin calls German sirmen. The You can rest assured that all the finally suppressed.-Philadelphia Antwerp, and
February 2 a train consisting of Germans' knowledge of psycho things you have sent will be very | North American,
18 oarriages passed through logs is such that, whenever they German Veterans Called up. much appreciated by the French
Amsterdam, February 13.-The Louvain towards Germany. It was see an opportunity, they must and Belgians as well as by our British soldiers at the Front. We Telegraaf learns that in the Rhine fall of officers and men who had put their foot in it. A writer in are now also sending out to Serbia. province that Landetarm levies of refused to start for the Yaer front. that journal met an old English- "Aeroplanes Over Canada." man (perhaps imaginary, but It may interest you to see how 1883, 1882, and 1881 have been
Victoria (B.U.), February certainly plausible) on the boule From Pneumonia in Edinburgh, our things are being despatched,alled up to join the colours on so I enclose you one of our weekly February 16, and levies of 1880 Much excitement and varied spec- varda, who was grinning all over on lists to show you where the things and 1879 for February 17, in- alation has been occasioned by at German stupidity. He mourn The death in Edinburgh Castle are going. Believe me, Yours clading all men who havo not get the reported flight of two aero-ed the innocent non-combatants Hospital of Captain Erdmann, of
served in the army.
planes over the Kamicopa, and plain, but he brightened up in the German Ermoared cruiser very truly,
Goeben Active Again. Okanagan districts of British to think how splendid it Blucher," was
stantly, Athens, February 9. The fol Columbia. The presence of the world all be for recruiting.
Death was due, it is understood, the Imperial Merchant Service lowing message from Mitylene is two maobines was first reported. published here:-The Tarka, to Lieut.-Colonel Vicars, of the The Figaro has turned up to pneumonia and heart affection, Guild. under the direction of German 102nd Regiment, and Major Wil Clausewitz, and found a delight consequent upon the expose the officers, are actively engaged in eon, of the 31st B. C. Horse, by tally appropriate quotation: captain suffered when the Blucher
Striking German Warning in fortifying the coast of Asia Minor Mr. E. D, Galletly, from Gallally's "The reason why civilized pec- was sunk in the Dogger Bank
East Pussia, facing Chios and Mitylene. The Landing, Okanagan Lake. Cor- Goeben, which has been com roborative reports were sub-ples do not kill prisoners of war action on January 24,
or destroy undefended towns and Captain Erdmann was some-
Amsterdam February 18. Ansive pletely repaired, is cruising night sequently received from six other villages is that wars are more and what down-cast when he was and day in the Bosphorus, accom points within a radius of one more ruled by intelligende. Island at Leith, but he is reported official warning has been issue? Difestors panied by a destroyer. All com- hundred miles. The mysterions felligent reflection has shown that to have informed British officers in Berlin against the Ino hasty Hongkong, 27th March, 1915,
PUBLIC AUCTION The following will represent mercial gotivity in Asia Minor has seroplanes are alleged to bays there are far more efficient ways, later that his ship was engaged in return of East Prussian refugees RP. Thursfield a XI versus come to a standstill and she been equipped with searchlights of using fores than in the mere the baby-killing raid on Hazile to their homes. A nex iuuation,
The Sunday Chronicle fe official display of butalinstincts" pool the warning, saye, bes been creat. THE Undersigned has received General von Claasawitz thus, by Captain Erdmann entered the ed by the victorious Fattles in instructions to sell by Foblio Kowloon Cricket Club, at Kow- population is suffering great hard- loon on 2nd April. Play will comchipa in consequence...
Commission for County ly informed that the height stand-
Cricketer,
ard for Lancashire regiments has anticipation bts condemned the German Navy in 1890. In January East Prussia, but this renet Austion on mence at 10.30 a.m. sharp and tiffin will be served in the Pavilion
Mr. Tom Forester, the War now been reduced. An intima. Zeppelin raid as being not merely 1913 he was appointed president warrant a general return to all MONDAYAH dàng
Voeux Road, Central A Quantity of Furniture and at 1 p.m. R. T. Barton, K. Bray wickshire and Derbyshire cricket-now he brou nocived that the against the laws of nations, which of the German experimental gan parts of the province, as housing the 29th March, 1915. com of ourse, ie a trifle, but stupid nery stall and captain of the and food supplies are not yet mencing at 11am, at No. 6 Des shay, B. G. Jennison, R. Ken-
experimente before the annicipal and State officials are Shop Fillings, nedy, F. S. Leigh-Bennett, M. Mr, has received notification from height standezd for the Liverpool ineficient, which is a serious Blucher, which was utilised for sufficiently guaranteed. All
the War Office that he has been Regiments, the East Lancashire sideration. Meanwhile, we are South Lancashire Regiment. He insisters has been reduced to
authorities on gunnery in the former residences, bat without visit here and Peria will ha
German NavyDaily Maile their families little. hurt if it is neglected.. will proceed to St. Helene next Zia with 84in, chest
measurement week to take up his new duties,
CRICKET.
Forthcoming Kowloon Match.
Maas, H. E. Muriel, M. A. Murray,
Good News for Little Men.
gunnery
The Transfer Books of the Company will be Closed from Thursday, 1st April to Saturday, 10th April, 1915, both days inolu-
By Order of the Board of
J. A. Ridgway, L. Wilken, E. P. Riven a commission in the 11th Regiment, and the King's Own Hill waiting for our Zeppelin war. He was one of the greatest urgently teked to return to their Terms Cash on delivery!
Thursfeld. Umpire, Scorer BE. Sedgwick.
Bates;
GEO PLAMMER) Auctioneer