TYPHOON SIGNALS.
STORM-WARNINGS ISSUED FROM THE. HONGKONG OBSERVATORY.
The following Typhoon signals are hoisted on the Masthead on
Kowloon, Signal Hill.
the Harbour Offtoo, the Kowloon "Godowns, H. M. S. Tamar, Greon "Island, Standard Oil Promisos Lal-chi-kok and F. O. Quarters, Lycomorn.
A CONE
point-upward
A CONE oint upwards
and DRUM Inlow
A DRUM
A CONE
point down. wards and DRUM below
A CONE
point down- wurde
A CONE
puint down. wards and BALL below
A BALL
'A CONE
point upwards and BALL below
THE WAR.
Germany
Austria.
COUNTRIES ENGAGED.
Britain. Russia. France.
Belgium. Italy
Japan
Servia
Montenegro
Indlater a Ty.
Turkey
phoon to the North
of the Colony.
against
indicates Ty. ARMY TERMS EXPLAINED. oboon to the North-East of the Army corps is a complete army.
on a small scale in itself. "The strength" varies from 35,000 to 45,000 men.
Jology,
dicates 23 Ty ahoon to the East Of the Colony,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1915.
Division is a force of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, usually with a strength of from 15,000|| to 20,000 men.
"
Indicator Ty.Brigade is a force of infantry o
phoot to the Mouth-East of the
Colony,
indicates a Tr phoon to the South of the Colony,
to
cavalry. The infantry brigadel is from 4,000 to 7,000 strong. The cavalry brigade is from 1,000 to 2,000 strong.
Regiment of infantry is from
A
2,000 to 4,000 · strong. cavalry regiment is from 500 to 1,000 men strong. Squadron of cavalry is from 150
to 200 men strong. Ty-Baitary of artillery in the British and French armies has 6 gune aud about 200 men. In the German Army consists of 4 guns and 150 men. In the Russian Army it consists of guns and 250 men.
indicate phoen
tha South-West of the Colony.
indientes a Ty. phoen to the West of the Colony, "
PRINCIPAL EVENTS.
Odessa and in the Crimea, Opt.30-Col. Moritz, rebel leader
driven out of Cape Colony, Nov. 1 Getman naval vistory
off the coast of Chil
March 20,--Russian Flest bom. barda the Bosphorus. Ger- man submarine sinks Weat African liner Falaba.
other contingent.
HOTEL LIST.
Hongkong Hotel.
Anderson & E Balm Murray Baring J. H BollÜD J
Lambert EB Laytoca O Lewis DJ
Lloyd
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Markbar B
Nov. 3-German squadron makes | March 31.—Australia "offers an Bellion, in ER
a raid on "British ́ coast.
Bow Nov. 4-German oraiser Yorok etrikes ming in Jada Bay. Nov. 5-England and France de- clare war on Turkey. Dar danelles forts bombarded, Nov. 6-Tsingtau surrenders. Nov. 7 Russiane "enter, East
Prussia.
Nov. 10--The Emden destroyed. Nor. 11-Germans capture Dix
made,
Nov. 19 House of Commone
votes a new army of 1,000,000 men. More than 1,100,000. Nov. 23-Russians surround Ger-
man corps south of Lodz, Nov. 20-British battleship Bul
wark destroyed by explosion in the Medway River.
1-German Reichstag votes new credit of fire billion marke. King George visite Flanders.
Deo,
Doo. 2-Austrians occupy Bel- grade. Gen. De Wet captar- ed.
4
Dec. 3-Serviana defeat Aus-
trisna in three days' battle. Dec. 8-Germans occupy Lodz. Dec. 8-British naval victory of
Falkland Islands.
Deo. 9-Gen. Byers, Boor leader,
killed at the Vaal River. Dec. 13-British submarine sinks
the Messudieh in Dardanelles. Dec. 15-Austrians evacuate Bel-
grade,
April
KE D'Almada Castroe
Mias
Castro o
Davis Mr&Mrs F
Dodd
Danals Fo to WA
Marriott Dr Mrs O
McNicoll L D Mehta KB Marcok! J
Miller & b
Mody Mr & Mrs J II Moore Wm
Neighbour W.B
Org Miss JG
E Ormiston J
Poat H H Paton Blas Piteber A
Poll D
Reeds Miss PS Root Miss ML
Cheetham April 8.-Pricz Eitel Friederich
CHE internet in Norfolk Navy Case Capt L
Case. Yard, U.S.A. April9-G.rmaay nasu mes liabili
ty for the sinking of the D'Almada s American ship William Frye. D'Almada Cantro Anti-Austrian demonstra- Manter tions at Genos, 10-German
Note United States complains that Duffy Miss ME
Ehrenfels HE the latter bas accomplished
Finney AC nothing by ber diplomatic French Capt & Mrs Poti Mr & Mrs FT correspondence with Allies Fitzwillem DiGLRay E
Rasy, Official statement as to ill. Fuller Mr & Mrs B, Randall Mr A treatment of British prisoners Glaister Kra
Gibb ip Germany.
Goobal CH 11-German Socialiste ieue Gould Mr & Mrs J prace pamphlets: Bishop of Goulbourn V London visits entire Front. Griche HL Goodrich CL April 12- New York Herald Hait
Hairitean M demanda thas Couat Bern-Hall Capt TP
HALW storff should be given his Hannibal Mr & passports.
WA
Valia Dr&Mrs H de Hewett Hon MEA Watkins OE
Hodge WJ
White F W While Mr & Mrs HL'E
April
E M
r
Min F
ROAS RG Rawell J P Sheldon
Mr & Mr RD Smith WH. Smith Mrs AG
Basby V
Sundheimer W.A Thompson W Stadl PA Vanda
MrsTrowbridge II
April 13-Sir John French asks for Hollingsworth A H Weill Mr & Mrs A
extra munitions.
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April 14-H.M.S. Renard steams Hussey Capt L fon miles up the Dardanelles. Irving E A Jepson R B Fatile Zeppelin raid on Ner-Joseph EM thumbrian coast.
Joseph BM
Avalie BM BuckallEJ
Wilkie J W Wood GG Wood Mis RF :.
Cariton Hotel.
Benado J H
Clarks Miss May
H
April 15-Datch as. Katwyck Joss MT
torpedoed without notice. April 18-E. 15 runs ashore in the Dardanelles; officere and men made prisoners.
19-Austria's request for food-atofis to be allowed to pass through Italy relased. April 20-German Note proteit
Dec, 16-German cruisera bom-April
bard Scarborough and Hartlepool..
Dec. 18-Egypt proclaimed
indicates a Ty-June 28-Archduke Francia Fer.
dinand asanasinated. July, 23-Austria seads an ulti-Dec.
"matum to Servis.
boen. to the North-West of the Colony,
RED SIGNALS indicate that the centre is believed to be more than, 300 miles away from the; Colony.
H
BLACK SIGNALS indicate that the centre is bullered to be less than 30 miles away from the Colony...
The above signals will, as here- tofore, o hoisted only when typhoons exist in such positions
July 31-Rusgia orders general
mobilisation:
Aug. 1-Germany declares war on
Russia. French Cabinet orders general mobilisation. Aug. 2 German forves enter
Luxemburg,
J
Aug. 4-England sends ultima- tum, demanding observance of Belgian neutrality. Ger- many rejects ultimatum.
or are moving in such directions Aug. 5.—England at war, that information regarding them Aug. -Germans enter Liege. is considered to be of importance
leaving the harbour.
to the Colony or
to shipping
URGENT SIGNALS,
In addition to the above, when
French invade Alance.
southern
Aug. 15-Austrias enter Servin. Japan eende altimatum to Germany.
it is expected that the wind may Aug. 17.-British land in France. increase to full typhoon force at any moment, the following Ur.Aug. 19-Beginning of battle of
Lorraine.
gont Signals will be made at the
Water Police Station," and re- Aug. 20-Germans enter Brussola.
posted at the Harbour Offco:- THREE
Aug. 23-Germans enter Namur. Aug. 24-British "begin retreat
British protectorate. Gen. Botha roports Boer rebellion as at an end,
20-20-Severe fighting on the line of the Bzura River. Dec. 23-French Chamber votes
war credit of £340,000,000. Dec. 25-British naval and serial
raid against Cuxhaves.
Deo. 28 French occupy St. Georges, near Nieuport. Jan. 1, 1915-H.M.S. Formidable
qunk in the Channel,
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Cr
Copley NC
Croplay UC Ellis G W
Wo
Felebar
HD
Macgregor D Marshall J
McDonald Miss J Malver
Mook Thomas Nielsen M Pederson Th Posnell W Ponton N Soga T
Toptell E
Thom Wm
Welt J B Wiaterson R
against the seizure, by Hallway the British, of the s.s. Paklat, Hoshal De Sir John French repudiates Jones OLD
Killer S A German statement that the Loes H British had used aspbixisting | King Edward Hotel. ganes.
April 21-Russian torpedo-boats aink ten Turkish vessels loaded with monitions.
April 22-Turks prevent Italiane in Turkey from responding to mobilitation call. Anti-war ritts in Trieste...
Almond Mrs R
W Я Bettison Mr & Mrs Brown C. W Budge
dga. W
Claxton A A
Cale
Cooke Mra FL Cooks Miss J F Cooke Master G M&
Jan. 3-French capture Steinbach. April 24-Allies land at three Course A Jan. 3-4-Russians win decisive
points of the Gallipoli pen-Dutton Mr & Mrs insula
victory over Turks in the Caucasus.
Jan. 8-French advance across Aisne, north of Scissous.
Jan. 13 Turka occupy Tabriz.
Count Berchtold resigns. Jan. 19-German air fleet bom-
barde Yarmouth.
Elion W T
Fyfe à A
Lauretsen bir de Mrs
Los W D
Los T H Lunnor Miss Lennox J
Macdonald Major D Murphy
April 25-British captare Hill Go Mr&Mr.
For Mrs A 00. April 26-Canadians' victory an|Fritz C
Hazlitt PE Ypres. General attack"
Hashimoto FR the Dardanelles by land and Hoshing A
Buster sea forces,
Mr MrsJ. Jackson Mir-se' Miza!)
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Jan. 21-General Falkenbaya, April 21--Freno re-capture Joseph J
German War Minister, resignat
Jan. 24-British naval victory in North Baa: the Blucher sunk.
Nakal R
Passmore Mra WO
Feoning A L Radford H Ramsay Mr R A
Riobardson Mr & Mrs
Mr&Mr HE
Robson Mra Soper C H
Stewart R Sylvester Mfrs 9. Tanto H Tait Mr & Mrs A N Taylor F Throllell Mrs. Tourbello Mrs EL Taida 9 Underwood Mr & Lambert Mrs
Mrs JH Kingsclere Hotel.
Rawlinson R. J Robertson Mr &
Mrs J Sachse Mr G Sheldon Mr. & Mr
Hartmannsweilerkopf. Earl KalesT H Kitchener's
statement Kay WE "in the Lords concerning the Germans' il-treatment of pri- Boners."...
Fielder E
Filkins Miss D EXPLOSIVE BOMBS AT
INTERVALS OF TEN SECUNDS.
A Black Cross will be hoisted at the same time, superior to the other shapes,
from Mons.
Aug. 25- French evacuate Mul
hstaen.
Aug. 26-Germsos take Longwy. Ang. 27-Louvain burned by
Jan. 26-Germans lose heavily at
Givency and Cuinchy. Jan. 31 Germany inaugurates
submarine raide, Fob. 3-Germau buxiliary cruiser
eunk of Patagonia.
5-Turke attempt to cross Suez Canal. Feb. 6-Allies resolvat naite
financial resources.
NIGHT SIGNALS. The following Night Signals Germana. Japanese block-Feb. will be hoisted from the Flagstaff ade Tsingtau. on the roof of the Water Police Aug. 28-Baitle of Heligoland. Station at Kowloon, the Harbour Sept. 2-terman advance reaches Office Flagstaff, and H.M.S.
Senlis French Government Tamar,
moves to Bardeaux.
I. Threo-Lights Vertical, Groon, Green, Greon, indicates that a Sept 3-hesians occupy Lem-
typhoon is believed to be situated more than 200 miles from the
Colony,
berg.
cept. 5-Battle of the Marne
begius,
II. Three Lighta Vertical, Sept. 7-Maubeuge taken by the Green. Rod, Green, indicates Germana..
that a typhoon is believed to be Sopt. 12-German retreat halts situate i less than 300 miles from the Colony.
III Three Lights Vertical, Red, Green, Red, indicates that the
on the Aisae. Sept. 20Germano
Rheims.*
bombard
wind may be expected to increase Sept. 22-Germoneubmarine
to full typhoon force at any moment.
sinks British cruisers Abou- kir, Oreway, and Hogue. No. III Signat will be accom- Sept. 28-Indian troops land at
Marseilles. panied by the Explosive Bombs,!
as above, in the event or the Sept. 28-Germans begin siege of. information conveyed by this Antwerp.
signal being first published by not. 2 Germane defeated at night.
The Night Signals will be sub-
Augustowo.
stituted for the Day Signals at Oot. 5-Belgian Government re- moved from Antwerp to
Ostend.
Oct. 7-Bombardment of Ant-
sunset, and will, when necessary, be altered during the night.
SUPPLEMENTARY WARNINGS. For the bonefit of Native Craft and passing Ocean Vessels, a Out, 9-Antwerp occupied by
are
Cone will be exhibited "at each of the following stations during the time that any of the above Day Signale
hoisted in the Harbour.
Gap Rock, Waglan, Stanley,
Aberdeen,
San Ki Wan Sat Kung.
werp.
the Germans. Oct. 12-A Boor commando in the Cape Province mutinien, Oct. 13-
Belgian Government iruneferred from Ostend to Havre.
Oct. 14-Allies ocoapy Ypres, Battle begins on the Vistula.
to date 104.000.
Shields A L Slager Mr& ME
J Percy Burn
Wilson M J
Peak Hotel.
and
April 20-After considerable Forbes Mr&Mr. A
opposition, the Allied troops Fulder BE
Forbes A establish themselves across Hardman A the end of the Gallipoli Hegeworff peninsula. General Hatton Lurbrs JH van
Logan W resigas command of the 21st Nixon. FO Division through ill health. "Mr. Lloyd Grorge introduces Baxter. HR proposals dealing with the Bowdler Mr
Butler PR April 30.-Farther contingent of
drink question.
Carmichael Mir
Mr HF Australasians disembarks at Cartwright H A
sulii Me & MisD Carulli Gallipoli. Respirators suppli- ed to the army as a safeguard Cary w
Clair against gas.
Campton & C 2-Minor sea encounter bc- Causland A tween British and Germans. Darling Cel R E
Ellis ES British lose the destroyer Falchine Major Recruit, and Germans two Hale Mr & Mrs B
Kali Col Gordon destroyers. 3.-Admiral Jellicoe ex- Hardman A
Hauser W presses uneasiness as to the Hind BA
Humphreys Mr situation in Clyde and Tyne Johns Mrs TJR yarde
Jones Les
Feb. 8-Total British cacaalties Feb. 10-Germana execute the
rebel Moritz. Feb. 17-Canadian contingent
lande. in France. For. 20-27-Over 10,000 Ger- May
mans surrender in France. Feb. 27-Allied Fleet enters the
Dardanelles.
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Mar. I-House of Commons volda supplementary credit of 37 millions and a fresh credit of 250 milliona.. March 8.-British aeroplanes
attack Osteod. March 9.--Second Canadian con-
tingent lande in England. Naroh 3-10.-Four German sub-
marines accounted for. March 10.-British
capture
+
May
Kadoozie E
Grand Allgood HP.
May 4.America asks for informs- tion as to the sinking of the Gulf Light snd the attack on Allen Mr & Mrs the Cashing. Mr. Lloyd Andrewa WJ Georgs estimates that eight Crew Mr & Mrs
Anker JO months of war have coat 307
Dunrich A millions.
LoDuo Grant
".
Neuve Chapelle. March 14-German losses at La May Bassee total 10,000 in three daya. Maroh 14. The Dresden sunk May
off Juan Fernandez Island. March 16,--Sir John, French
estimates German losses in La Bassee region to be 17,000, March 18.-Briti-b battleship
Irresistible and Ocean and French battleship Bouvet aunk by floating mines in Dardanelles.
Cape Collinson, Sha Tau Kok Oct. 15-Ostend ecoupied by March 19.-Kaasinenter Memel,
Tai Po.
This will indicate that there' the Germans. is a depression somewhere in the Oct, 18-British cruiser Hawke China Sea, and that a Storm
Aunk by German submarine. Oct. 24-Ten daya battle be
fare Warsaw enda in German defeat.
Warning is hoisted in the
Harbour.
Further details can always be given to Ocean Vessels on demand;
Oct. 27. by siguals from the lighthouse.
-Russians reoccupy C. W JEFFRIES,
Lods and Redom. Director. "Oot; 29-Turkish naval attacks on
6-Annoureed that Germans at J in South West Africa poison-Johnson C ed the wells.
Klavier A Lour G W 7-The Lusitania sunk by German submarines, 1398 lives lost.
Secret of Shamrock IV. Sir Thomas Lipton, whose Shamrook IV. is laid up undor sosled cover in America, accord-
Lambert Eag Lieut
and Mra Joha
Lambert Miss Linton A
Marriott Mrs
Mitchalmore Mr &
Mrs V Mons Mr & Mrs DX Olivec
Mra
Perkins
Fouesney. H N
Fyne Major RE
Ralphs Mr & Mrs E Sinclair A
Skinner Mi
A Skaft O
Smith Mr&Mrs E G Braith Mr & Mr. AF Squale Mrs Tindall Mrs EW Tisdall G Trahn JA Mr & M Yarondzon P
Hotel. Lookey WH. Lowden R MoArthur J Nixon AC Odner T
Reynolds O W Robertson D Shank Mr & Mrs Roote FG Bteen M G Todd O W Vode VD!
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HONGKONG GENERAL' CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Notice is hereby given that at an Extraordinary General Meet ing of Members to be held on Monday 12th July, at 12 no'n in the Chamber of Commerce Room, New Government Building, the following resolutions will be pro- posed and if carried by a majority of those present and entitled to vote will take effecti
1. That, in the opinion of this Extraordinary General Meeting of the Chamber, it is inconsistent with the purposes for which the Chamber was formed and existe, and inconsistent with the obliga tions of the Chamber towards the Government, and inconsistent with the interests of the Chamber as a whole, that any member who is the subject of a nation between which and Great Britain a state of war exists should con- tinue to be a member..
2. That accordingly the Rules be altered by the addition of the fllowing now Rule to be num bered. XXV viz
Any member who is the enbject of a nation hetween Budge which and great Britain a state of war exists shall ipso facto cease to be member." Dan kejah
By Order,
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Acting Secretary Hongkong, 30 June, 1915.
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