THE KWANGTUNG
FLOODS
FURTHER DETAILS.
HONGKONG RELIEF MEASURES.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MUNDAY, JULY 18, 1915,
HEAVY FINE FOR OPIUM OFFENCE.
Parades.
witnessed there have been of the charities, begins to-night at the POLICE RESERVE ORDERS. gbastliest.
Koh "Shing Theatre. In view One of the most ironical features of the flood distress, 40 per of the situation is that the British cont, of the takinge will go and French war craft, which on to the Tung Woh-the Kwong
Police Reserve Orders iended other occasions always lent hand. Wah, the Alice Memorial to-day by Mr. F. O. Jankin, D. 8. Bome help to sufferers by Hospital and the Public Die-F. (Reserve), state- flood, are, of course, barred pensaries, taking respectively 30- from entering the river on so 20 and 10 per cent. Undoubted, count of China's neutrality. ly the performance is to bo on a The U.S.S. Wilmington, however, magnificent scale and will be a (Central Police Station), Mon- hes done splendid service; and finer affair than anything of day, July 19th-Nos. 1 & 2 For her arrival on Saturday morning, its kind that bas ever taken toguese Flatoons and Chinese Though the floods have very with supplies and with men pre- place here. The finest Recruits. 5.30 p.m. decidedly abated and the Canton pored to help in rescas work, was notore in South China bare Tuesday, July 20th. Combin fire is out, there is little or no a welcome sight. She got to been engaged and the play willed Parade. British Company at abatement in the distress brought business at once and has already continus for five nights and four Volunteer Headquarters, 5.30 about by both. We continue to accomplished much. As we anti- days. Mr. Li Wing-kwong, of the receive accounts of the happen- cipated in a former account, Ho Wing Hing Bank, has guaranteed Portuguese and Chinese Com ings of the past week from new nam Island has been one of the every cent of the huge outlay neces-panies as Central at 5.15 p.m. to arrivals; some of these naturally woret" sufferera. Many of the sary, so that all money taken draw Rifles as follows: recapitulate what our readers house have enormous holes will be alean profit; and the already know, but others contain many new odds and ends of in-
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Apparently the failure of the
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in their aides, while many more promoters hope to realice at Portuguese Company, have been twisted from their least $40,000. Mr. Ho Ngah-lau, foundations and stand at say and proprietor of the Tai Ping Theatre
every angle. One man, whose has decided to close his own Nos. 1 & 2 Platoons: Martinie.
French Prisoners In Court,
SACHED GROUND
Battlefields Viewed from A Flemish Hill.
Sallent of Ypres
There begins the famous" sal- ient of Tpres, which is likely to be regarded by future genera tions as the classic battleground of the British army. This afternoon in the Police John Bachan, the special corriah patah to the right of the dis In the following despatch Mr. Try field and spar and
farmstead is famous. That brown- Court, before Mr. J. R. Wood, pondent of the Daily News, des Leopold Birot was charged on oribes the battleground of Mes tant church spire is Hill 60, where remand with importing and being siges, Ypres, 8t. Eloi, Hill 60, one of our divisions hisa for weeke in unlawful possession of prepared and the ridge of Notre Dame struggled against howitzer fire opiuma valued at $85,000, and de Lorette-The first sight Zillebeke ridge begins, and a and poison gas.There the Kisin Maurice Verdillies also appeared of the front, he says, is
electric light within the city was business lies on the island, when house so that there may be no Noa. 3 & 4 Platoons: Winobeaters, was taken sa admitting the weight and every hamlet fall of khaki. hold Brigade saved the situation
Rifles.
only local, for, in parts, (even in asked when he thought of return counter-attractions, while Mr. the flooded districle) it worked as ing, airily suggested that his Taoi of the Sun Company, is Chinese Company. usaal sbroughout. One gentleman premises have probably long ago giving gold medals to prominent remarks on the extreme nonchal-boon washed away.
Nos. 1 & 2 Platoons: Winchesters, benefactors and patrone. ance with which those Chinese Many of the stories se lo exor- The Victoria Theatre devoted Nos. 3 & 4 Platoons: Martinis. not directly affected by the food bitont rates being demanded the whole of yesterday's tekings have been regarding the situation. for sampan hire are un(three performances) to the Flood Some have not even taken the happily true. In one Case Relief Fund and, by way of helping trouble to discover if their relatives a sampom was 2001 waiting on the good work still further, were alive or dead. In one case, a outsidea nearly submerged house, will give the proceeds of the two man found a tab flating on the and its crew were coolly asking performances next Friday (the river, containing a baby and the seventy dollars a head of the second of which will be a special sum of three hundred dollars. He people on the roofs people whose benefit concert) to the same worthy took the three hundred dollars lives were threatened by flood object. but left the baby. The tub and starvation and who had lost floated down stream to another their alli village, where a man of less mean mould rescued the phild..
Up till Saturday, the Shameen was in an indescribable state of In low-lying districte like Wong confusion, and its only use Sha and Sai Kwan the water seemed to be to act as a short stood, for some days, at nine cat for native refugees who swarm feet. The predicament of ed across it from east to west, Europeangin such neighbourhoods most of them with no luggage can only be imagined. One man whatever as dejected and miser- telle as that he lived entirely on uble as the con-sufferers were gay rice, and egge of an uncertain age. and business like. Every kind of When he wanted food he des graft has been figuring there, patched his cook in search thereof from the newest in motor boats to and trusted to luck. Usually the the oldest and most primitive in cook swam to one of the shops that rafts. "A situation that has been had been able to remove its stock fruitful in diversion and comic to a higher storey; a basket was adventure for the men of the lowered on a string for the Settlement" bas been a moat purchase money and a parcel of trying one for women and rice followed,
children. One man, anxious to The Chinese police have wou get his wife and baby to Hong- big opinions for themselves by kong, captured a dugout in which reason of their promptness and be placed the mother and "obild pluck, though we do not and as many of their belongings hear very laudatory accounts as possible, and, with the aid of of the exploits of the soldiers some coolies, proceeded to tow who wore told off to relief the little oraft in the direction of work. The police in Pun Tong the British steam bosta pro alone have saved several thou-ceeding which answered admir sands of people had are deserving ably till she got aground on of the vary highest praise.
stones and rubbish and had to be unloaded.
So far as the European in the native city were concerned, it was the loneliness, the absence of newa
RELIEF FROM HONGKONG,
As will be seen from a sub.
GIFTS OF RICE BTC. FROM
HONGKONG.
By the courtesy of the Hon. The Secretary for Chinese Affairs We are able to give the following list of goode despatched from Hongkong, up to date.
Canton.
July 14, 300 Bage Rice to July 15, 300 Bags Rice
Canton.
July 15, 16 Bags Rice Washow per 8.8: Sanui..
to
to
July 15, 50 Bage Rice to Takhing per s.. Saoui,
Shinhing per 6.3. U.S.S. Calso.
July 15, 100 Bgas Rice to
Saichiu per 6.8. 0.8.3. Wilming.
Constables Leite and Ozorio of the Portuguese Company are to immediately return their Win- obesters to the Armoury.
Absence from the Colony.".
"leave of absence' D. S. P.
weat. We
The Second Battle,
Still father north, beyond the town, the second battle
to answer similar charges in re-in the nature of pa anti hundred yarde east raged the spect of $75,000 worth of opium olimax, if it takes the form of a craolal struggle on October 31, Mr. B. O. Hutchison appeared birds-eye view from a hill-top. when Mousy, with a division of for the prosecution, Mr. C. G. The whole hinterland is a beehive the French 9th Corps, held the Alabasterinstructed by Mr.M.J.D. of military preparations, and position by dismounting his Stephenssppeared for the defence leaves an unforgettable impression cavalry exco:t and drawing upon of Verdillies and Mr. M. J. D. of sustained effort. Then come cooks and ambalance men for the Stephens for the defendant Birot. the last astrow roads filled with attack.
The case against Verdillies was battalions retiring into reserve or taken first..
advancing to the trenches, and mo- The statement of the accused tor convoys without intermission, November 8, Kavanagh's House. There, too, on the evening of of 250 kilogrammes of prepar- And as the end of it all these red by their charge, and the Blues and ed opium, that it was not Govern zigzags and smoke puffs and the 2ad Life Guarda lost their com ment prepared opiam. Mr Ala- muffled undertones of sound. Amandere. Along the ridge towards baster said that the charges were spectacular battle with fage and Ghelavelt Cavan'e Brigade made brought under the wrong section, charging masses would seem a their famous stand, and there and on this Mr. Hutchison made greater drama in this secret war Lawford's Brigade came out of the necessary amendment, fare hidden in the earth and the notion reduced to its brigadier,
The defendant said that the rooks of hill. opium was not on the manifest of
five officera, and 700 men. A Tenth Army's Foats. ri the s.s. Polynesien because if it
little to the north, where the bad been he would have had to chimneys behind a swell of land, well arranged coverd on an South east one sees the tops of ground from a distance looks like take it ashore, and he was to to where Armentieres lies: Beyond is English estate, the charge of the ceive his money on board.
the brume which marks a plain 2nd Worcestera saved our battle Mr. Alabaster took the objec- the Black Country of the Pas de tion that the Mail Ships Act 1891 Calais-sad on the far horizon a ber 31, and eleven daya later the on the fateful afternoon of Octo- Members leaving the Colony for was not complied with. The mail faint line of upland. That is the assault of the Prussian Gaard any period whatever must notify ships act and the Order-in-Conn ridge of Notre Dame de Lorrette, broke itself against our 1st their Platoon Commanders, and oil under it places the French from which recently the French Division. not the Chief Inspector or the Mail and the French Mail only, made one of the greatest thrusts D. S. P. Platoon, and Company and Mail of no other country in of the war in the Commanders leaving the Colony a position analogous to that of a in England have heard far must notify the U.8, P.
ship of war. Process would not too little of that wonderful cam Members who, before leaving be executed on them until certain paign of the Tenth Army round the Colony are required; under diplomatic formalities had to Arraa. There, on October 4, the Traveller's Restriction Ordin- be observed" They were, in Maud'huy flung back a deadly aa- Ypres has raged since April ance, to obtain a pass issued by foot treated as a portion of the sauls of Von Bulow at a time when 22. The tale of this great fight or under the authority of the C. territory of the country from his left flank was not yet protect has still to be written tala not 8. P., must produca a written which they came, not only in that ed by the British troops. These, less splendid than the epic of the signed by the country and upon the High Seas, on Octobor 24, the Prussian Guard autumn, for if the situation in the but also in the waters of other drove in vain against the French second battle was strategically General Notification dated April countries. Revenue Officers were lines based on the Arras Innate less critical than in the first, the 22nd. 1915, is cancelled in so far forbidden to go on ships having of hills. On the right, hidden heroism of the stand was not less July 15, 100 Baga Rice to as it relates to absence from the the status of a ship of war, Verd-behind the hill of Kemmel, is the splendid, and to the menace of
Colony.
illies had in bis possession a famous Ploegsteert Wood, where, superior numbers and far more permit from the French Authority in the most fantastic system of numerous gune was added the valid for one year from last trenched conceivable, our troops horror of poison gas. There the Canton per s.8. U.S.S. Wilming July 15, 300 Bags Rice to
February to buy and sell opium in have been confronting the Saxon Canadiane and other of car troops French territory. The defendant 19th Corpe since October. Fur July 16, 300 Bage Rice to Can-
won eternal glory. was approached by certain people ther north, and still in sight, is a following
subscribed in this Colony for the purchase of line of shattered buildings on a $160,00 Mesare Wong Lap certain merchandise, which he ridge. July 17, 300 Bags Rice to Can-Kee.
We still bold the salient of counsel, had no doubt meant That is Messines, which Allen- Ypres, but it is no longer the same Meaara Po On Loong and Staff, the prepared opium. It stuck by's cavalry held till November salient. The sharp angle of Canton
Jaly 19, 1500 Bags Rice to $123.00,
oat in the letters that he was to 1, when they were driven out after November bas been replaced by Hang King Club, 8110.55. Canon per "Helen."
July 19. 1200 Bags Rice to
bring it upon a meil steamer, a fierce struggle. Along that so easy curve sever i miles shorter Chenk Kwan School, $104.85, that he was to receive the pay ridge runs the high road from in diameter. Ghelavelt, with its The following subscribed $100,00-Mr. Yat On, Mr. Ke and that the whole transaction so possession was one of the main and Zonnebeke and Langemarck; ment for it on board the steamer Armentieres to Ypres, and its femons cross roads, is lost to as; Oa, Mr. Yu King Shu, Mr. far as be was concerned would German objectives. They hold and Brachcote, where Dubois chow and neighbourhood per San, Mr. Mak Yuet Shan, that was
July 19, 1000 Bage Rice to Wu-Cheng Yu Sam, Mr. Tong take place on board the steamer most of it to-day, for the great Zouaves fought so gallantly in motor boat Tungkong
Messrs. Hang Cheong Chan, French
Bay, upon campaign of the autumn, if it did November. The retention of the territory July 10, 50 Bage Rice to Tak Mesars. Tai Wo Chang of Bang their licence. The defendant gave them better treach positiena necessity. It might be out off ander not give them a road to Calais, salient Ypres is not a strategical hing per e.s. Lintan Total:-7315 Baga (7,245 gunay Mr. Chui Siu-cho, Mesers. Wing not come ashore and the property Jast opposite our hill-top is the Russians cut off the salient of kok, Mrs. Lam Wong-she, Im-tan, believed that so long as he did than ours, and on higher ground. without disadvantage, as the bage and 70 mat bage).
Cheung Shing, Messrs. Yee Tai did not pass on shore bat in village of Wylechacts, some Lodz. What the future may Up to July 198810 lba Biscuits Hong, Societe, Anouyine de Navig French territory he was entitled broken red walls on the ridge, bring is unknown, but the value. to Canton.
ation Chinoise de la Cochine Chine, to sell the opium to any purchaser and below it, in a field of yellow of the British etsnd of the past 18 Baskets Biscuits to Canton Messra. Kwan Mow, Mesars, Ohap and that it was not for him to mustard, are the opposing trench month is clear beyond all doubt, 2 Bage Biscuits to Canton Cheung Hong, Messrs. Yuen enquire too deeply into the pur- lines. These slopes to the left 500 lbs Biscuits to Canton
Meaara. Choung Fat Yasa, Messrs. intended to put it. In these and Maedelstead, which the man force and proverted the Seung, Meears. Wing Tong Tak, poses for which the purchasers of the ruins are Petit Bois
We have detained a great Gar Taui Cheong Loon, Messrs. Hip circumstances if his Worship Gordons and the Royal Sonte Wartembergers from sending re- tools and Co., Mr. Tan Lai-chun, should be against him, and he fought for desperately last De Mr. H. S. Playfair, Mr. Wong did not think his Worship could cember. Half a mile north the French success at Lensoves much inforcements to Von Balow. The 10,698 Mat bags. Ping-run, Mr. Leung Tin-kwal, be against him, his Worship situation changes, for not to our holding battle along the 1,605 Ganny: 1
Mr. Cheong Tin-ehan, Mr. would see that it WAY British lines are on the heights. Ypres Canal. Bat the ground. Tong Shing-Hi, Mr. Wong case
to be dealt with Just over the Dickebuech poad we have lost is top stored for us Tao-ying, Mr. Leung Yne the utmost leniency. He did not there is a wooded slope with a shing, Mr. Wong Kam-fnk, imagine that he was selling it skeleton house at the top of it.
to view it passing from us with- Staff of the Hongkong Printing otherwise than on French terri That was once the chateau of regret, Come day we shall Presa $90.00,
The following subscribed owing to the licence he had a right the hamlet of St. Eloi, which we
tory, and he considered that Hollebeke, and to the left of it is advance is the resolve of every soldier, and shall hold again the 350; Mr. P. W. Goldring, Mr. A. to sell it upon French territory. held in the November fighting eating places of our beroio dead. F. Aroalli:
The following subscribed: ----
Verdillies was a member of the and again in March in the coun- Claes 1885 and a reservist of his tor-attack after Neuve Chapelle. Wood, Aunorimosine. Sin Saigon $25.00; Mr. J. R. Wood, Mr. A. city and he had got leave from Chak Na-shi.
Mr. Hatobison said the French
ton.
top.
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ton.
July 19. 1800 Bage Rice to North River per "Helen "
and the utter feeling of helpless scription list and a catalogue of ness that hurt more than the gifts in kind which follow, Hong- rough and ready meals. The only kong has done its beat to meet break
monotony the disaster; and other practical ia the
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occasional crash, measures are being taken to make followed by despairing and the anticok a little less black. quickly-ätified soreams, which On Saturday evening the S. 8. told of another house Tai Ming left for the interior, collapsed and more lives lost. Iscaded up with a farther many parts of the city the water instalment of provisions. The was higher than the level of the owners, the Kwong Wing Com gates, which made abs.lute pri-pany, not only sent these at their soners of those who could not own expense but very generously dive under the arch; for no boats gave free passages to as many could hope to reach them. On poreons as could be accommod- the other hand, many parts of the sted who had relatives in the old city were never affected at all Wuchow district to whom they and have remained dry through-wished to convey foodstuffs. This cut, owing to their lucky altitude, kindness will be the more appre We still bear no confirmation ciated in that food is reaching of the etory spread by Chinese prohibitive prices. A steam telegrams, to the effect that the launch, with a Chinese mili-240be. fire was intentionally caused. As tary escort, will
be .. in it originated in the Tung Hing waiting at Wachow to tow the 170 lbs. street (commonly known B8 Tai Ming into the interior, Kerosene Oil Street") there Baropesa firma continue to in every likelihood of it come forward with very practical having bean purely due to help. The Standard Oil Company The Tang Wah Hospital begs accident. Tang Hing Street has placed one of its large lighters to acknowledge with thanks the is the centre of the foreign at the disposal of the Relief following donations to the Kwang- supplies quarter the area lying Committee for the conveyance tung Flood Relief Fand. to the left of the Steamboat Com-of supplies to Canton and the
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4 Baskets boiled eggs to Canton 7 Bags Rice offal to Canton" [The above were presented.] Rice bought up
to July 18
Do.
Total
... 12,301 Each guany bag weighs about Each mat bag weighs about
TUNG WAH SUBSCRIPTION LIST NO. 3.
From Benevolent Society of 5/16, $11,281.00.
The
Mrs. An Ho-shi, $20,00, Mr: H: $5.00
Mr. G. H. Gray, 1,00,
ta
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENT.
Mail was flying the Police flag admitted having brought the and the Revenue Officer went on opium into the colony on board NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. board the ship with the police and the s.s. Laimun but thought the
pany's wharvez," Tide was runn-North River, and the Asiatic Rowe Lima, Peru £1000 at 19 Already, acknowledged $140, apparently they were in order, man ought to be charged under FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG
From Chinese Consul and Sir Companies of San Francisco $5,000.00.
065.88.
Total $169,653.24.
& SINGAPORE
ing in at the time, and the flim- Petroleum Company has lent a ing oil, assisted by the breeze, motor boat by which the Com- naturally spread everywhere." mittee is sending a large number
What arrangement the polios had section 47. He intended to Apropos of fires, a wire was of bags of rice to Wachow and
with the French mail he was not transfer the opium on board THE Steamship received in the Colony this morn the vicinity." We understand, Per Kwong Wa Hospital $1,-
able to inform his Worship. The the French Mail. His client ing to the effect that there has too, that all the local river steam-420.38.
Local Help.
licence to sell opium in Saigon, was not aware of the ordinance
"SANGOLA beon an outbreak at Fatshon, and ship companies, European and Messrs. Shewan Tomes and Co:
he was prepared to prove, was and though of course he could having arrived from the above that over a thousand houses have Chinese, are transporting, freight $1,000.00.
The Lion, the Colonial Secretary made out in the nants of a not plead ignorance of the law, ports, consignees of Cargo are been destroyed.
free, all rice shipped from here The following Subscribed $500 following:
asks us to make public the Chinese
he had no knowledge of will be delivered from alongside, hereby informed that their goods The current on the river itself to Cantɔn.
His Worship inflicted a fine of the ordinance passed on February Mr. Ho Kom Tong, Mr. Chan It is not intended to make an $15,000 or in default imprison 1914 and he had no inten of the vessel will be landed at Cargo impeding the discharge is still remarkably strong and We learn that Mr. Tang lu- Chik Yue, Mesars. Yat Cheong, spp sal to the public for subscripment for twelve months. tion minor ossmaltica ora constantly Kwong, formerly chief of police Mr. Chan Wan
tion of breaking the law. He once, at consignees risk and ex- oconning. On Saturday morn in Canton, who, as we reported at The following subscribed spread distress caused by the the defendant who broke down, telegram from Saigon. He did Cargo remaining on board
tior in for the relief of the wide Mr. Alabaster, on behalf of went to Amoy in response to a pense ing opposits the Honam custom the time, has been appointed to a $800.00 Mr. Li Shek Pang, foods on the West River, bat advanced a strong ples for not intend to lend the opium at after I pm on 21st instant will bonse, a launch, laden with rice Government post in Kwangei Mr. Choo U Tan for distribution, capsized, and the Province, has very considerately The following
subscribed aid of such relief should "send he would consider representations on board the French Mail throng. No Bire Insurance haa boom
persons desiring to subscribe in leniency, and His Worship said all, but it was intended to put it be landed at consignees, risk an inroutes are believed to have per postponed his journey in order to $200,00 Hon. Mr. H.E. Pollocker donations to the made to him through the French another person and all it was rooted.
hed. The wante ground opposite be able to assist the Tung Wah in K.O., Mesara Cheung Wo, Mosers Secretary for Chinese Affairs. Connal within a week, The British bost wharves, outside its relief work. Kum Wo Ohan, Mr. Shan Yik, That officer is in close tough with The case against the man Birct, to come other person,
intended to do was to give it over the old custom house, is being em The Chinese theatrical perform- Mr. Ho Ping Woon, Mr. Too Yik the Tang Wa Hospital Committee, which was of similar nature His Worship inflicted a fine of Ployed as a public mortuary, and ance, which has been under way Fang, Mr. Young Gat Ngate who are organising a Relief Band we next proceeded with. Mr. Ave thousand dollars or in default needless to say, scenes for months past on behalf of local Lenn Yik Insurance, Co.
among the Chinese Communi Stephens said that the defendant imprisonment for four months.
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signed by the
Bills of Lad DAVID SA
Hongkong, 19th July
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