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THE HONG KONG...... TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1913,
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Canton Burns Opium. The Interuaticonl Reform Barean in Peking 'has received a telegram, say's the Peking Daily News, from the Governor at Can- on stating that on May 15th a large opium borging was held in Canton, 7987 ounces of raw opium, 3700 ounces of prepared, opium, opium pipes, morphia, opiam pille, etc, etc., seized by he police being publicly barned.
The Treasury Department. The Government he decided o make the Treasury Department distinct and separate crgin which is to be in charge of a superintendent, who will be under he direct Control of the Presid- a. This auperintendent will be' vested with the special power in firecting the ter organs of icance and in solving financial probleme.--Ping Paol
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FIELD NOTES FROM THE RUS.... SIAN FRONT by TIMES Oor: Tennondant
track one of them on the bead, 12.000 wounded men taken the The opportunity bad gone by, when he was chrsed by the Japan feld. A nearly equal number of and in war a chance thrown away
prisoners were captured on either rarely recure. Next day further THE GERMAN IN side. "Ere-Witness" was pro- reinforcements reached the Ger-
DEATH OF OLD bably not farout-when he reported mans, and the conditions bacame
OUR MIDST. RESIDENT OF JAPAN. te German Icas to ba 18,000 less favourable for the British,
Who caused the destruction of Mr. C. J. Strome Passes Away. about one-third greater than that the situation haing complicated the Admiralty stores at Lerwick? on the British side.
by the communications between Accidental fires do occur, but cot The Japan Gazelle recorda the morul, guin which the Field observers being cut, not at the to well guarded as an Admiralty passed away, in Bournemouth, The aerial, apart from the the artillery commander and his as a rule, in places presumably death of Mr. C. J. Strome, who rom Shuusi, where, as rei in Marshal ban to show for this long gunners were unable to co-opera1e" dǝpot in time of war says The where some of his family now sre, hese columes a day or two RP casualty roll is not much to boist with the attacking infantry, Glo!e, and there have been too says the Japan Chronicle. Mr. pium is being cultivated no never efore. Smugglers of under 100 of, nor does Sir John French esy Neither on the 11th for oa the many of these conflagrations at Sirome was a very early arrival unces of opium are liable to three
While he gives 12th, when Sir John French decid-critical prints for us to suppose in Japan the firm of C. J. Strome bontha' imprisonment; of any
anstinted praies' to wayed to bindon the effansive, was that they are all accidental. We& Co. being originally established SUBMARINES, TORPEDOES partity over 100 ounces, six in which Sir Douglas Haig any progress made by our troops allowed a German Squadron to in Kobe in the '70's. Afterwards MINES by W. E. Dommett 60 GERMAN CULTURE Edited by hoathe. Thus it lappens that carried out his orders, and beyond the positions which they make the most complete investiga be removed to Yokohama, where Then the seizures are made, it is to the "magnificent
gallar-coupied on the night of the 10th ton of Lerwick and the Balta he and his family were highly THE SECOND PHASE OF THE
who troops und that they have in every
The failure of the General Scund at a time when the prin- esteemed. Ltterly, Mr. Strome 383 weighed 36 cunces.-P. T. fought under that General's 'com-Officer Commanding the 4th cipal hotel at Lerwick was kept health failed, and he returned to THE UNMAKING OF EUROPE by
mand, be amite that caly the Corps to bring up his reserves at by a initial part of his plan was carried the right time and place was
highly intelligent England, where he received the
bnefit of every attention. The LIFE OF HIS MAJESTY ALBERT
KING OF The cases of infectious disence out, and that the rest of it must known in Truth Office a few days war the Admiralty seemed to re- greatest sympathy, will be felt THE MINOR HORRORS OF THE the health retures of the Kobe be held in abeyance till he is after the battle occur ed, but the ga'd the Shetlands, now one of with the surviving relatives in ity Office for the week ending ready to undertake "farther information was withheld pend the most important rendezvous England and in J-pan: bis
fensive operations." Neave ing the publication of Sir John of the Grand Fleet, as entirely daughter, Mrs. F. W. R. Ward, CAPTAIN LOXLEY'S LITTLE DOG Jay Sib are given rs shown in Chapelle was captured from the French's raport. Silence may negligible, and a correspondent bis Bop, Mr. 0. D. Strome, of LEST WE FORGET: AN ANTHO
enemy, but no che can read the now be broken, and it is right in the Outlook declares that some Yokohama, for his widow in Log- THE Field-Marshal's despatch without that it should be, as the 'error five years ago the Germans were Mre. G. G. Brudy and Mrs. Edgar PANION
land and his two daughters there: seeing that something more was reported was the principal cause actually allowed to ia bis mind than the capture of not only of the defeat of the Field and
carry out tar odvres single village, and that he only Marshal's plan, but of the on Balta leland. That is, how UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS. regarded this as a stepping s'on great IDES of Ife which over, not so vital as the presence for carrying out an ulterior subsequently occurred among of German spits on those islands Eastern Extension Australasia
was the British troops owing to the now, and once again we ask Mr. strategical plan. Lille clearly Sr John
French's four and a-half hours delay McKenna to consider the matter objt ve, and he hoped to reach on the 10tb. What makes the from the British, and not from The births reported number 137 which starts from somewhere it was not one of judgment, for do not care whether the Germans it by getting on to the ridge-way error so deplorable is the fact tant the German, point of view. We ad deaths 134, against 168 and
near Hambourdin and extends all geprals are liable to make living at critical points are ra 39 respectively in the preceding to the village of Fournes, where mistakes on the spur of the mcturalised or anca uralised. They eek and 162 and 107 respective-it bifurcates in two directions, ment, but was due to the executive fought to be under lock and key.
for the.co reato ading period!
spar leading to Haute general not being on the spot to
imes.
The Health of Kobe,
be fillowing table:—
New cases.
∞∞ Recorered.
yphoid.....4
ara-typhoid 1 ysentery ...4
iphtheris...8
carlet Fever 2
4
.astus - { { ܝ
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23
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1.
5
4.
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reach the northern spur at Haute keep in rear of their troops, pro-men do, but when cur infantry, Pommeran while the Anglo- vided their whereabouts is made get into their trenches thes Fined for Selling New Bread.
Indian Corps gained possession known to the unit commanders, other run or surrender. They. Amsterdam, April 16.-One of of the southern spur at Illies, and there are times when they will not s'aad up against a bayo he Berlin Courts has severely when the two corps would use should be close up to the fighting net attck. Herein lies the vala unished a master baker on the the ridge-way for an advanca on line. This was one such occasion, of Neuve Chapelle. It has made harge of telling newly-made Lille in os-operation with the and unfortunately the General our men confident of victory. The man, who took little 2nd Army, onder General Smith was hot where circumstances Faults there may have been, but sins to conceal his opinion for Dorrien, operating from, the Lys. required he should be, be regulations, was fined £7 10s, The coonpation of Lille would In spite of the faults of sub fought with a courage which is not on the pot of the men, whe or a single offence, and the have been a great strategical ordinate leadership, which Sir the admiration of the whole world, anageress of the branch a coup, and it was worth fighting John French has brought to light, and has won for them the grati- hich the offence took place for s
the battle of Neuve Chapelle was tude of their countrymen. This soaped with the penalty of El. The plan miscarried owing to a great meral vistory reflecting is a great esset for the future, he Court considered that the lamentable delay of four and a honour on the British Army, for and one which Sir John French, TF you have lost your appetite master baker's conduct doring half hours, which occurred on the it established beyond doubt the with the experience of this battle the big variety of e hearing of the cate was most morning of March 10, after the fighting ascendancy of British to go on, will know how to turn dainty dishes at the ALEXAN- nseemly and sent him to prison village of Neuve Ohapelle had over German soldiers. The into good account when he resumes DRA JAFE is sure to tempt
three days.
been captured by a brilliant vincibility of the German army the offensive. charge of the 23rd and 251 has now been proved to be a
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