TO-DAY'S
THE HONG KONG
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,
MINISTRY OF MUNITIONS ESTABLISHED.·
June 8, 7.95 p.m. In the House of Commons the bill for the establishment of the Ministry for Munitions was read a third time.
Mr. Asquith said that Mr. Lloyd George would be responsible to the House and the country for the necessary supplies to the troops, sad he was sure the house would wish him woll in the great Mr. Forster announced that arrangements had been made for the production of the high explosivo tri-uitro-toluol, securing an ample supply for ourselves and also enough to assist our Allies.
task that he had before him (land cheers.)
IMPORTANT FRENCH SUCCESSES.
June 8, 5:40 p.m. According to Reutar'a Paris correspondent important French suocesses are recorded in a communique. There has been a violent infantry battle on the Notre Dame de Lorette platenu. Tao Germane replied to the French night attack with three fierce counter attacks. The French maintained every position, We progressed at Sonoliez and took, after most violent fighting, another group of houses near the Labyrinth," Four timed, the Germans were repulsed at Hebuterne while trying to recapture lost ground. The French bays made an important extension to their gains,
PUBLIC EXAMINATION.
Grave Allegations Concerning”
Company's Capital.
this afternoon...
ALLEGED COUNTERFEITING,
This afternoon the case was The Deputy Registrar (Mr. . continued, before Mr. J. R. Wood, D. Melbourne), sitting in Bank of the case in which two Chinese, ruptcy, heard the public examina: a man and a wema were charged tion of YuSie Tioga flour dealer with being in possession of Counterfeit Hongkong and Chi- The Official Receiver: Ishould neee caine und of implements for liko you sir "to caution this misking the same. debtor bafore the examination A Quinese detective deposed storts that if he is found not that when the police made the speaking the truth in his examin raid, the male defendant was ation he is liable to prosecution for actually engaged in plating some perjury.
of the coin, and the woman was The debtor having said he busy melting metal over a fire understood his position said he in the kitchen. bad atro the name of Yu P. He The prisoners were committed had no tong names. Ho bad no for trial.
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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1915.
OUR LONDON LETTER.
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The Canadians.
shown in these last days &
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A Grim Picture.
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What Devlis They Were!
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VOLUNTEER ORDERS.
Corps Orders issued to-day Lieut. Col. A. Chapman state :---
Joined.
The undermentioned, having joined the Corps, are allotted Corpe numbers and posted a6 follows:No. 1858 Private J. C, Castilho to Right Section M. G Co. No. 1859 Private J. S. McKenzie to Right Sotion M. G.
Co.
Belchers Section.
Parades..
Paradea for Thursday, 10th
instant. The parades usually held on Thursday will take place on Friday this week.
" Detall.
On duty at Headquarters from 7.15 a.m. to-morrow to 7.15 a,m.
lith inst.-Centre Section MG. Co. from 7.15 am. 11th & 7.15
No. 2 Section a.m. 12th inst. Art, Balty.
At Gan Club Hill, Kowloon
H.K.
Jane 14
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Note. Until further orders, the guard at Headquarters will be obanged at 7.15.a.m. & 7.15 p.m., instead of at 7 a.m. and Z. p.m.
he heard about behind now of these things. Why, that CONTEMPORARY OPINION him: The rousing about wae mince tart that Flossie sent me
Abraham Lincola, "Play up 0. M. T." And was eaten, by me in the trenches shortly afterwards relief arrived with my feet on a dead man. The following leading article in the person of another well- could not move at the time with- was taken from the Public Ledger known rugger man at the bead of out being shot. But I am quite of April 15, (Continued from Page 5) a company of infantry. Our happy and fitand can't grumble."
Fifty years ago today Abraham Lincoln laid down his life for sportsmen have already aoffered
humanity. Not too often and never gas. Already the French and the heavily in this war, but those who Belgions have discovered means survive still keep in the thick of
too reverently can Americans cf rendering this form of warfare it. The old country owes more to
pause to honour his memory or ex It must her sporting sons than the tribute
press gratitude to the Almighty of little practical use. always depend in any case on the of history con over repay. Their In another of these letters home for his service to his country. way the wind happens to be names fill the casualty lists every pon which we depend so much Other men bave re-uniteda divid blowing and the conformation of day, and they are dying at the for pen-pictures of the stirring ed nation, or liberated sa enslaved the ground. The lowest down front every day like old Romans, events of the war, a private of the race, or carried to conclusion à thing in warfare used to be the in the High Roman way, making Royal Marine Light Infantry fratricidal war, or swept immora! The attention of members of poisoning of the wells. It has death "proud to take them". And gives a graphic account of the institutions from the earth by the Belchers Section is specially been left for Prossion Kultur to yet one finds paffy journalists with sinking of the Irresistible in exercise of consummate statesman-directed to the printed special think of otaally poisoning the pincenez,eilting at home in dowdy the Dardanelles. "It was ship; but no one man ever om instructions posted in the Drill arm-chairs, actually indicting the about four in the afternoon," he bined and carried through, chiefly fall relating to War material in sporting spirit of the nation writes "when it happened. A by the charity of his mind and the
Coast defences. its frivolity and failore minute before we hit that mine purity of his character, several to realise the gravity of the a shell struck us overhead some- auch gigantic enterprises in half a situation." The one possible thing where, for inside our casement we decade. Washington wolded a The Canadians were subjected that could compensate this country could feel a distinct shook and bandful of colonies into a con- to a good deal of quiet criticism for the hideousness of a temporary hear the noise of falling pieces. federation of States; Lincoln fused during their long and dreary German invasion would be to have Then, before we had recovered them, sfter they had fallen apart, spell of training on Salisbury some of these anaemic scribblers from that came the real hit-snch into a self-conscious nation. Lincoln accomplished Plain. But nobody ever doubted and suonymous detractors takens tremendous blow, I was thrown the magnificence of their phayal-out and shot against a back wall by completely off my feet. When I atupendous task by transforming que and spirit, and they have the modern Hass. That would pro- got up and looked at the blanched his instrumente into fellow-work dis-bably be the only way of bringing faces of our crew, I could see thaters, by inspiring his fellow-work- splined courage en la fiery valour home to these writing fellows the old Irresistible had finished era with the passion of responsible that will win them andying fame Low the war really affects people her career. There was not much leadership, by dedicating himself in the military annals of the who are taking part in it. One is said; our officer told us all to re- and his associates to a mission of Oa daty until 12th-Right Sec- British Empire. It was not their glad to see that Mr. A. J. main inside until we knew what divine significance. Under Lin- tion M. G. Co. Officer in charge fault that thay bad to yield ground. Balfour bas raieed his voice in to do. By this time the ship had coln the Civil War was a crusadeLient. C. Smith,
At Kowloon (Detention Camp.) When the Froach and Belgian protest against this libel on our listed heavily over to port, slop for an ethical nationality; under trenches were raabod by the countrymen and countrywomen.ing almost to an angle of 15 another it might have been a Os duty until 12th instant
Officer V.R. Orderly Germans, under cover of their There is scarcely a home that has degrees. The next order was melodramatic carnival of hate and asphyxiating gas, the flink not staked ite beloved manhood Everybody aft," so we all went vengeance. Yet, when due meed Lieut. Danby, Orderly Sergeant of the Canadian position was on the haward of this great game. aft and fell in. I never saw the of credit is given to each of his Sergt. Sorby. hopelessly exposed. But they There are few homes that have slightest panic, just everybody co-labourers, Lincoln stande dis-
Next for duty at Kowloon (Da- never wavered for a moment, nor cot bean shadowed by the fell going along as if we were in Porte-tinctly above them all in solitary tention Camp) Jone 12 Civil Ser- lost their cool and steady demen- soimitur of death. And a measily mouth Harbour. We fell in, the strength and unique grandeur. vice Co. Jane 13 Scouts Co. pour. The Germans have massed little journalist with a palo com- Marines right alt. I took off my The very greatness of the men
Scouts Company, two whole army corps, for this plexion, and "most weak knees," boots and coat, all ready. I cannot who shared with him the awful June 15 Scouts Co., June 16 attack, delivered at the juncture deres to talk about "the people" describe my feelings to you. Lots bu den of the hour only enhances Centre Section M. G. Co., Jane 17 of the Allied line-always a weak not realising the gravity of the of things were surging through my bis pre-eminence. He was the No. 2 Section Artillery Bittery, point-where the troops of one situation.
mind-thoughts of you and of all. central ster in a brilliant constel-June 18 No. 1 Sec. Art. Batty. army linked up with another.
Bat we were not given much time lation, but it was his power of and left Sec. M.G. Co. The enemy's infantry burst
for thinking. All hands were soon personality that held the lesser
Officer on duty Capt. Churchill. through the French and Belgian
busy throwing overboard any- luminaries in their place, furnish Capt. Stewart, Lient. Weall. thing "flatable," barrels, tables, ed the light that they reflected Lieut. Murphy. Capt. Wood, lines and. swung round actually to attack the Canadians in the A serjeant of Engineers senda chaire, boxes, and anything we and marked the course of the Liest. Danby. Capt. Armstrong. rear. But the Canadians were a very descriptive letter home could lay hands on. Then we great orbit they followed. neither surprised nor dismayed." What is being in a bombarded sighted, tearing towards us, a des A certain number of them prom-city like? In the place where troyer. How far off she seemed. him an influence mightier than Itly awung round to meet the am now all and every particle of We could do nothing but wait the finest constraints of humanity Germans, and they fought back glass has gone West and whcle until she came up to us. Now power, not ourselves, that to back like heroes. The Gar- houses are hlowa to stoms.
The came the worst part of all, and makes for righteousness" which statement of affairs sworn by him Debtor: I thought the directors mans will not soon forget their effect of the large shells is terrifio. even now I cannot recall it with broke birth's invidious bar and before the Official Iteceiver on would go into the accounts them arst hand-grips with the soldiere Going along the strests you hear out a shudder. The forts on shore, over-rode an unpropitions early May 12 was true and complete, selves without me informing them. of the Dominion, nor that a funny whistling, Then you or, rather, the Tarke in them, environment and marked him for All his property was shown in
The Deputy Registrar: Get irresistible charge and des- hold tight, sad touch wood. In must have seen that we were a destiny that can be esteemed as that statement of affaire. He that out of him. Do you know. had no property in Chins nor there were grave irregularities which the Canadians recovered then comes a crash tust seems to target for scores of guns. My guardianship of the American B second a shell pitches and sinking, and soon we were the nothing less than a Frovidential
Apart from the eight hundred any share in say firm or business for more than a year?
the beavy British gune thst split the world. 1 have seen a word, what devils they were nation. Ambition can make pounds of opiam landed daring in Chins. He had been in Hong. Debtor was in charge of had been lost, and checked the shell burst and send a fragment Imagine our ship, listing right Napoleon, but not a Lincoln; for the past forty-eight hours by the kong thirty years. He had been the purchases and sales and the German advance. Unhappily 300 yards which in its tarn has over, her decks covered with us all ambition feeds on presumption police, the Revenue officers have a flour dealer for sixteen years. | other man was in charge of the their casualties have been covere, made an: ther five foot hole in the all, helpless, and all around us, and must sooner or later essay 3 slae been engaged in a vigorous He commenced the Yu Hling oath, and there was an accountant in officers and men they have lort ground. The actual shell itself growing ever nearer as they found do what mortal man cannot search for contraband, en1 Sing firm. He had a $5,000 and an auditor
heavily. But those gallant men makes a nice little hole about the the range, were those awful ebells accomplish-and fail. Genius they have succeeded, we are share. Chan Yan Po the other Continuing debtor said he did who have fallen have not fallen in size of our frost room at home. bursting! Never can I forget the on make a Beaconsfield, but not informed, in fading another illicit manager rau away from Hong- not ask the permission of his fal- vain, and their deeds have led to The people get absolutely panic scans, if I live to be a hundred. Lincoln: for genins must six hundred pounds of the drag. kong.
Chan Yan Po spent a low directors when he advanced a rush in recruiting, not only stricken. You can see pid wo- But soon the destroyer cams up always, by the very variety of its Up to the time of going to press,
he himself money from the funds of away in Canada, but over here it men of 80 and fine little children and alongside, and then began skill, pass off overdrew from the firm. The the company,
home. The finest symptom of being carried off to the hospitals the task of transferring ourselves things as natural, and must The Official Receiver: You this war all through has been that badly hit. By God! if some of to her. Nearly all were off the timately be the subject of apology over $20,000. Chan Yaa Po had aid Can Yan Po was in the response to the patriotic call the people in England could Irresistible, when a sheil burst A coercive will, masterful obarge of the cash, and witness charge of all the money-how ever becomes more ready and see that awful misery, there right amongst a group of our pertinacious, con make a Bis- was in charge of the sales. Wit- did you advanua this loan to overwhelming when the fighting would never be any more strikes men on deck, killing several marok, but not a Lincoln í for ness did not overdraw. It was yourself if Chan
pushing Yaz Po ja most fierce and the most dinting while, this war laste. One shell and wounding several more, the untempered will, not true that he had overdrawn was in charge of the money, blows are being dealt.
pitabed in a quare where several It was horrible to see the wounds sternly toward ita goal, is relent over $2,000. He paid back without him knowing something
civilians were selling things to some of the poor chaps had. But lear, ruthless, heartless, unsora- over until tomorrow. money he had so that about it?
the troops and blew even liter coon we were all aboard, living, palous and almost barbario; it Good Sportsmen and Good
ally to atoms. There was ro-wounded and dead, and so we tore my tike the world with fear Fighters,
thing left of them. Nothing can away at fall speed to safety. How and wonder-not win it with love. stand against it, and the noise, we escaped being hit while rush Rough hewn and elemental he Some splendid stories of brave is deafening.. Those who survive ing away I don't know. We may have been, yet there of the third moon. The note was agreed to let you have the money, desde are now being told from the explosion can see only a passed through a very inferno of about him that air and grace of night by Chinese fi-hermen at on the 14th day of the fourth moon. did he?
May 8. The note was made after
France and Flandera. It is pro- smudge, a brick-coloured smud-shelle, and yet escaped untouched! disposition which won, even in Lyeman, and it weighed 113 lbs. Debtor-I asked him for a loan
love of the world. Fow who Special Police Inspected. witness borrowed the money. He and it was up to him whether be posed to erect a fitting memorial, go, where their home once stood. Our captain, as fine a man as one the passionate times of war, the and was seven feet long.
in the Jiule Yorkshire village to That is what might have happen- could wish for, would not come
have Last evening H. E. the Govercor borrowed another $1,000 on the sked the other directors or not.
power 21st day of the Gifth morn-Juse The Official Receiver: Bat the deed that won the V, O, for the about me in the least. This is poor old Irresistible was the shini merited affection; swe and super made a surprise inspection of the
which he belongs, to perpetuate ed in England. Don't Dry with us, and the last I saw of the have wielded Compania he slid paid it) the you have forgotten you told us simple private in the Grenadier the real life for me. So let 'em gradually sinking, great shelle stition have given to greal rulers platoon of the end banese Company. He paid $3,000 into the before, you never asked any one Guarda who captured fifty Ger- carry on."
." Another. soldier has bursting all around her, and the adoration or subserviency of platoode of the Special Police, Company and it was all paid be- cf the directora and I asked you mans single-banded. This doughty sent this little peo-picture, "I the captain standing on the people, but seldom has one within the Police Compound. The fore Chan ran away. The aafe specifically if you asked Chan Yorkshireman advanced in
BO a was in a firing trench a few days bridge,"
and the prerogatives of a despot built men underwent a careful inspect- was opened and nothing was Yan Po and you said, No? found there. According to the
Debtor: naked Chan, bat zicely of a German trenob. There- to the French, the Germana and it had not been for those horrible in the heart of the race. His quently expressed to the platoon scrimmage until he got the range ago which had in tara belonged calm. He was saved later, and if himself a shrine, as Lincoln bas, ion by His Excellency, who subse- books there should have been did not oak any of the directors. apón he proceeded to pelt the the English. In some places in shells, no doubt all hands would tenure of high office was full of gommandera his pleasure at the $20,000 in the rate. The direc The Official Receiver: You Germans with dynamite until lie this trench there were showing bave been saved. From the public and private generositis, drils. He also promised that he tors pressed him to surrender kaew Chen Yan Po had been. had them all all that were the feat of both German and destroyer we were taken to the of magnanimous condescensions the money, and he then tunde advancing himself loans from the left alive-completely cowed, and Urench dead. They had Queen Elizabeth, and there we to human weakness, of the charity very disgain inspect them at no out certain accounta and compnay so be should not raise us he put it "ready to lead out of been killed and buried where were fitted out with what clothing that covers a multitude of size, very distant date. submitted them to the directors any cbjection to you doing the my hand." Another fine e ory ie they fell. One Frenchman had we required. The next day we At the time there was not much same; ie that it ?
told of a well-known Rugby foct been buried about five months were all sent to different ships, I
·∙left in the safe.
Debtor said he asked Chan for baller, who used to play for Old age. His grave was marked by a and several others going to the The Official Receiver put it the loan. He attributed his bank Merchant Taylore.
He was little cros8. A shell came along Ark Royal, the aeroplane ship to you, you know for more than ruptcy to going guarantor for the caught with his platoon in a Ger and blew the Frenchman and his So ended it all. I never want to A year there were grave irregu Company to n Chinees bank for man rual, sudden and fierce, and cross in different directions. It go through another experience larities in the accounts and yoo the sum of $3,000..
was fighting for his life, at the wash's a pics thing to see; but like it. I shall never be able to reported to nobody?
The examination was closed.
head of his surviving mon, when we don't take a
a sorap at malice | forget it,"
share in any property belonging to a tong. He was 43 years of age and he was a foar dealer. The
lot of
amount he had overdrawn was
which money
any
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he could not have overdrawn any. Debtor He was in charge of He borrowed $2,000 in April the cash and I certainly asked him 1913 from Yu Tak Ban and ho paid before I get the money. $1,500 of the debt on the 24th day!
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The Official Receiver:-And he
perate bayonet work with
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STILL MORE OPIUM.
Another Haul by the Revenue Officers.
many artificial
al
no arrest had been made in con- nection with the affair.
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of the righteousness that correcta
s terrible wrong without leaving
heritage of batred in the soul of those who were disciplined. It is, therefore, fitting that all Ameri- cans to-day should remember in affection the service and the sacrifice of the great Empolpator,
Correspondence. Owing to pressure on our space, Corsespondence "bas been held
Shark Caught at Lyeman. On the seven o'clock ferry this morning a fairly large shark was brought across from Kowloon to Hongkong. It was caught last
improvement they showed in their
LATEST SHIPPING. NEWS
MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS, The F.M. 1. CHINA will be despatoled “
from this port on Tuesday, June 15% at noon, for Ban Francisco via Manila, Namaki, Kobe, Yokohama & Honolulu,