THE KWANGTUNG FLOODS
1
Relief Work Proceeds.
If the local interest in the Kwangtung Bonda has died down, it is more than on 'be said "fo the distress. The Stan Lee, which returned from the Dit yetter day, had similar to those of cther boats which
experience
THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH.
WHERE GERMANS FAIL.
Bogland Can Produce Larger Steel Ingots Than Krupps.
"I am sorry to have to confess it, but shortly before the war I was dining with the managing director of Krapps, who told me that they were making steel ingots the crucible process evolved 175 weighing 110 tons for gans by
Sheffield University, as the Royal Lustitation on Tuesday,
EXTRA
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1915.
THE ARSON CHARGE,
Cross-examination for the
Defence.
This afternoon, Mr. B. Lindsell continued the hearing of the arson case in connection with the fire at 158, Queen's Band,
Inspector Crden, in answer to Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, who ap peared for the defence, detailed
OUR LONDON LETTER, along and had a good look at the
(Continued from yesterday.) Just at that moment, fortunately, three Canadian bombers, who had heard our message for bombers passed down the line, came to our assistance and kept the Germans well in hand while we built our double block. During that attack, fittings in the ground which of my three anbalterna (the fourth the positions of the various I am sorry to say, I lost two out
place from both sides, and came to the conclusion that to storm it with 100 men (which was all I was to have 70 of my own and 30 from another company) in the bright moonlight would have been mere suicide-We should every one of us have been wiped out by the machine ganz. So I sent a massage through the colonel to be wise to knock the place to the Brigade to say that it would
CONTEMPORARY OPINION.
Trading With the Enemy
In China.
from the Times of June.
The following leader was taken
the attitude of the British Govern- The serious issue presented by
but
WAR ITEMS.
Like Father. Like Son.. A commission bsa been granted to Mr. Leon Cody, eldest son of the late Colonel Cody, as an aviator in the Royal Naval Air” Service. All Colonel Cody's three on are now serving the British Government. Vivian, the second eldest," is at the Royal Aircraft Factory, and Frank, the youngest, at the front, Colonel Cody was
To Squirt Burning LiquidS
the same clansouring crowds in Benjamin Huntsman," said Pro-ant who, with his fokis, was car- Roy was shot through the body they agreed to do at dawn, but with the enemy in China has at 1913. He was a naturalised Eag we have detailed: encountered yesra ngo by an Englishman, was occupied by the first defend- has not yet returned). Poor old pieces with lyddite firat. Thiement on the question of trading illed while flying in August, cancos, risking their lives and fessor John Oliver Arnold, off rying on a tailoring basinesp. after we had got about half way, when dawa came, for some reason last been brought to a head. Ishman of American extraction. those of others for the sake of
There were two banging kerosene and though we quickly got his or other, the order was cancelled cannot remain where it is now, being the first to get the dole of
lamps as well as "ges fittings for wound dressed Bad moved him and no artillery bombardment or can it be further shelved after rice, and the same artful tricks to
the purpose of illumination. back on a stretcher, he died in took place, but we were expected many months of quiet Amsterdam, June: 3.—The obtain, if possible, a doable dole.
There was a reservoir for a lamp, hospital the same night. Baail was to make an assault just the persistent protest. The China publishes & letter from At Shiu Hing the ode
capable of holding two or three simply magnificent all through; same. However, fortunately for Association produced consider Germany, despatobed in such a have fallen about fifteen feet.
gallons of korpsene beneath the as soon as Roy (who was bomb us, the Germans during the able correspondence on the subject way as not to pass through the In Canton they have practical-
stairs.
officer) was wounded, Basil went night bad come to the con- at its annual meeting in London censor's bande, which says that ly subsided in most places,
A draught coming in through up to the front and by his coolness clusion that discretion was the on Tuesday, and the chairman new building has been erected though the water still reaches a
the door on the ground floor pass-and courage belped materially to better part of valour, and had of the association, Mr. F. at Krupps for the manufactors of fair height in the low district at
ing up the stairway might account wards the success of the affair, and removed their two machine guns Anderson, made a strong appeal some mysterious new war sugine, the back of Sha Ki. It is suggested
for the flames coming out of the at laat, when all our bombers bad and most of the garrison, and to the Government. On the same machine for squirting burning which is believed to be a inonster now that the real responsibility presses squeezing out armour first floor windows, as the Chinese been killed and there was just the when we made the assault and I the new British Chambar of gaid to a long distance.
constable saw, but when witness chance that the Germans might jamped up on the parapet demand-Commerce in Shanghai passed
for the flooding of Canton itself lies with the bursting of a dyke in the North River, sub sequent
to which, the water swooped straight down on the oity. In any caso the Chinese Government needed no further argument to convince the песвавіту for ombanking
Neither the Germans nor the Americans, however (proceeded the professor), could produce the Sheffield white crucible. That was a secret handed down from father to son in Sheffield..
In the No th of England they were making ingots weighing 150 tons, and there were 12,000 ton plate like cheese.
TYPHOON WARNING.
well alight. The fire was just looked up the staircase it was not beginning to shoot out between the steps.
Mr. Shenton said he was going
off. Even then
he
than
A
houses established
conclusion that German
conatries" outside Europe" were in neutral
esry, for the public to supply
patterns.
fell of what he described as a
conld block the trench, he picked were left threw down their rifles ment of the King's Regalations, announced on June 3 that an im- Professor Arnold went on to
bomb as back again before we ing their surrender, those who resolation urging on amend. New Type of Respirator.
The Secretary of the War Office tragedy in the history of metall-
up a rifle and ran along their and put up their
hands, and our Shanghai Correspondent proved type of respirator had urgy. M. Martin, who originated
parapet pisking off the German so that we gained a bloodless telegraphed that German trade been adopted as the official pat the "open hearth method," wast
bombers until an exploding bomb victory. We took one officer imitated by others and eventually to suggest that two gas jets had blow the lower half mis and 21 men prisoners (anwound. China was reviving in con- tern on the recommendation of s it of disappeared. He was found in been left burning, balf turned on; face
sequence of "support from Man special expert committee. Ample ed) besides 15 wounded, one tren- cheater," a statement frequently supplies of this respirator are. proper. 1010 in the direst poverty, French if the wind had blown the fimes had sufficient strength left ch mortar, and shout 400 ride made and never yet denied. The now available at the front, and it the work into akilled and honest placed M. Martin in comfortable by might have caused the fire. write me a note and send it by where, we aɔuld not find either of Government came last autama to their soldier friends with other and for putting and British metallurgiets bad row out a kerosene lamp burning near and sufficient thoughtfulness to and any amount of ammunition; present position can be very is undesirable, as well ge unneces
bat although we searched every briefly explained. The British circumstances for the rest of his The witness agreed that this messenger saying that he was life, and he had been awarded the might be the case. The fire very sorry he was out of action." the two machine guns, though we the highest honoar-the Bessemer origade pumped many hundreds Poor old obap he was fall of found plenty of balta of ammuni- Gold Medal.
of gallons of water into the pluck right to the end. In that tion for them. This fort was, it
Dernburg A Traitor. shop at considerable foros. part of the trench we only took possible evan worde from а not to be anbjected to the lawtervention of Italy has caused the Copenhagen, June 9.-The in- The force of the water was such two unwounded prisoners, though itsry point of vie against trading with the enemy. Conservative papers to begin as to strew the contents of the several wounded, and we were
the trench we firat There were certain qualifications, wild attack on the Jews. The shop all over the place. The glad to be able to resone a wound-took, and it took us two days of but that was the broad result of Kreuz Zeitung and Tageszeitung kerosene reservoir was found, after ed Canadian who had been captur-/hard work to clean it up and bury the definitions then laid down. Bro Bзying that d'Annaozio is a
imagine the awful state of the state of defence..o. But at length the German trench; instead of the beautifully our time came for a short respite, some of which have very intimate Sunnino is a Jew, and as such clean and canitary trenches we and last night we were relieved relations with Manchester. The has been very expensive." Von had known before, we found by another battalion of our British merchants in Chins, and Bodelschwing, at a meeting of everything in a most loath-brigade and came back for a the China some state. The Germans a bout short rest, for which we are all London, have repeatedly pro- publicly stated that the Jews had
tested against to bury very grateful."
confer- caused the war. Dernburg, a meat of the status of neutrale German Jew in America, had been necessarily remaia German sub- House of Commons Casualties. upun Germans in China, who & traitor to German interests. jeats, because they are under extra-territorial jurisdiction. Tas Mr. Agar Robartes, the Liberal Prize Court at Alexandria, ad- member for St. Austell, has been jadioating upon guole shipped wounded brings the number of by a German at Baanghai, and House of Commons casualties dp
hands.
We learn from Mr. Ho Fook that the Tang Wub'a distributing work is proceeding space and that antiring efforts are being made to satisfy the hungry and ton remove the homelese into asfety. We append the Tang Wah's latest acknowledg- ment of subscriptions received. Through the courtesy of the We ought to add that the as- American Colleul General, the tere of ships using the river are telegram quoted below was justly incensed at the continual received, from the Manila obser firing that goes on from the banks. vatory at 8 p.m. July 21, 1915. So far as we can learn, no Typhoon north of Meiscosima attempt on the part of the Kwong moving north-north-east or north- tung Govern neat is male to east. oheck this; sbota
are fired wantonly by the villagere (a not inconsiderable
of proportion
whom are always in possession of arms) and, in some cases, people on the river boots have. been injured or Filled. I seems as though any stoumbo st proceeding to or from the floded area is regarded as a fair mark for these irresponsible snipers and it is not earprising that captains "should feel that they have a per- fect right to fire" back,
Subscription List No . The fung Wa Hospit it begs to acknowledge with think the following donations to the Kwang- tung Flood Relist Fund.
Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Kuala Lumpur, $3000.
Canton Bri there Tobacco
Company, $1000,
Per Kwong W Bospital Collec tion No. 5,654.80
Inhabitants of Aberdeen and Aplichan 469.71.
The telegram quoted below was received from the Manila observatory at 11.15 am. Jaly 22, 1915. Cyclone or Typhoon north of Muiacosime. Filling up.
UP TO THE MINUTE.
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the fire, full of water.
Mr. Shenton remarked that that was probably the kerosene which was seen coming out of the build- ing on the surface of the water. VOLUNTEER RESERVE
ORDERS.
HK.V.R. Order No. 56 issued today by Major Wakeman Com manding II.K.V.R. to-day,"
Parades.
of four days before. You cannot all the 'dead, put it in a proper The decision specially affected Jew, whose name was
Fight for the Fort.
Poulton's Grave. tier, the famous heavy weight box It is announced that Carpen ing champion, concerning whom there have been rumours abroad, quite fit add in good health. Since the beginning of the war be had been acting as a motor car driver,
is
housea in China, Rappoport. A
paper says
Association in the Danischer Wehrverein,
this
'The official announcement that
here never bother their dead; they leare them lying in places two and three deep, on the floor of the trench, or build them up in front to form a para pet where sandbags have been There will be no parade to-kuooked down by ahell fire. Is morrow, Friday July the 23rd.
was simply too horrible for words, A," "B" and "0 Companies walking along the trench over a will parade on Monday, Jaly the for of bodies, some of which but is now attached to the subsequently captured, held that to 12. The fall list is as follows:- 26th, on the Cricket ground, at had been there for weeks. Well, Military Aviation Service, and the shipper was an alien enemy, 5.15 p.m. for Company Drill, and we got to the point I mentioned has host obtained his pilot and the finding was andoubtedly Gladstone.
Killed Mr. O'Neill, Mr. on Friday, July the 30th at the above about 3 o'clock, and there osrtificate. His temperament correot. The Government have The following arrived too late dame time and place for Batia we remained the whole day with and physique should enable him gone to the length of expressing the bert, Mr. Fitzroy, Mr. Sandys, Wounded. Mr. Aubrey Her for correction on page four.
line Drill Happy Valley. Drees: out food or water, for we had to win fame against the German view that trade between Great Bris Captain Campbell, Mr. Wedg Iodca.-$133, 09h hayers.
Drill Order, Sairt Sleeves. Re had to leave everything of that Teube machines or the Zeppeline. tain and Germsas in Coins is "unswood, Majer Archer Shee, Mr. Douglas's. $54 1/5, bayera.cruits will parade ander Sgt. sort bebiad as, and it was im- The whole world has been thrill-desirable," but they refuse to Raymond Greene, Mr. Agar Onida Sugars, $120, sales and Major Bond on the Cricket possible to get anything up to ed by the description thie week prohibit it. It is ountended that Robarten.
buyera.
Ground on Wednesday, July the ne during the day. Everything of the splendid feat accomplish they have taken this course in Lazone. - $441, bayere.
28:b, and Thursday, July the had to come about 300 yardsed by the young English airman deference to powerful influences maple (since succeeded
Prisoners of War-Lord Dairy- Wharves,-$73, buyers.
29th. Dress: Dali Urder, Shirt across open country from our old who blew up-a Zeppelin with exerted at Manchester. There is peerage), Major Morrison-Bell.
to the Docke. $754 buyers.
Sleeves, "D" Compsay will first line trench now the support an incendiary bomb at a height ample evidence to warrant the Cementa.-$885, bayers.
parade at Volunteer Head-
So we simply had to of 6,000 feet and was hurled by belief that trade between Man from Canada.
Railway Construction Men trench. Langkata. Tis. 3814, buyers.quartera on Wednesday,
parah in the blazing san, and the force of the explosion round chester and Germaus in China July the 28th, at 5.30 p.m. make the beat of it, doing what and round like a spent rocket. A really amounts in many instances Bury, Vice-President of the Ottawa, June 1.-Mr. George under Sgt. Major Cooke. Dress: we could, weary though we all recent despatch from a Reuter to trading between Manchester Janadian Pacific Railway, yester- Drill Order, Shirt Bleeves. Signal were, to put the trench into correspondent in France, describand Germany, because most of day inspected the Canadian The "Yellow 'Dragan." College-the Yellow Dragon 6.30 p.m.,
The Magazine issued by Queen's on Wednesday, July the 28th at
lers will parade at Murray Battery decont order." or waich Tommy Atkins with char: definite relations with their own Corps, which is now mobilised as ing a visit to Ploegeteert Wood, these German firma maintain Overseas Railway Constraction contains much that is of general
This vivid descriptive letter acteristic genius has christened country. On the other hand, the St. John, New Brunswick. Mr. interest this month. Its beat In future the class of instruc the afternoon orders came from following tragic reference to one deze who are expressing their self as more than pleased at the
Class of instruction
concludes as follows:- Daring "Plug Street" contains the practics is finding warm defen Bury afterwards expressed him. feature is, perhaps, a letter from tion for Inhabitants of Tai O 196.40.
the Dardanelles, dated May 14. Officers will be held on the Cricket rights agein that night and take era who now sleeps his last sleep newspapers. We think the are above
Non-Commissioned the Brigade that we were to push of our splendid sportsman fight views in letters to the Manchester fitness of the corps. Tuo men which is fall of live off, asengros- Ground on Tuesday in every week. the remaining 250 yards of trench there. Sale of Flage per Mease. O. W.eing to the outside reader as to the The next class of instruction will and the fort at the end of it; but there one comes across miniature course from good though mis Fletcher, Fa Pak ying. La Wan- schoolboy.. An article describing be held on the Oricket Ground, I wrote to the colonel and cemeteries, containing the bodies taren motives, and that if they clusively of men from Canadian
He writes "Here and Government paraned middle physique.vage nan and Tsui Wai-u 174.50.
The corps is made up ex- The following subscribed $100: is both
a winter
trip to Ireland at 5.30 p.m., on Tuesday, July told him my men were really not of those who have fallen took the only logical view, namely railways, and they are all experte Hon. Mr. Oland Severn, Meeers. exceedingly well written. An Sleeves,
informative
and the 27th. Dress Drill Order, Shirt in a it state to do it; they were in the wood. In each s spot, shel- that Germans in China are cae-in various branches of railway Kwong Tai, Messrs. Les Chan, ambitious correspondent sends Gun Club Hill Picquet and the experience of the previous lies Lieutenant W. Poulton Aot, Manchester trade would no Italy's Soldier Klug... Messrs. Po
very weary and rather shaken after tered by the overhanging trees, mies within the meaning of the Sang Cheong, s letter to the editor, setting forth Prisoner of War Camp Guard. night, and had neither food nor Palmer, the Rugby international really suffor, because it would Messrs. Po Hing Mesura. Kwong You Hang, Yue post of commander of the Hong H.K.V.R. on Friday, July the attack was to be a success it should come time back while engaged British channels.
Cheong, his reasons for applying for the The B. K. V.G. will relieve the water for 24 hours, and if the who was shot through the head quickly be transferred to purely from Milan to the Matin says it is Pazio, Juue 8. A message
·Tak Company, Messrs. Obi kong aeroplane; reasons which 23rd. Sang, Mesare. Sul On Wing, are so ingenions that one is almost.
learned that during one of the Lnen Hing, Yat Yue, Yuet Looog tempted to say they deserve to be
be made by fresh troops. So he with a working party. His grave
recent encounters with the Aus "Oban, J. R. Michael and Co., taken into serious consideration. Sergeant.
sent another company (No. 4) up is in perfect order, with the grass Lce Sergt. . U. Moxon to be to relieve mine, and brought us mound covered with flowers and
trians a shell barst within fifty Tang Hip Loong, Yue Sang
A Buras Relic,
yards of the King of Italy, Hia "Yuen, Tea On Toen shop, Union
back to the second line trench, surrounded by a wooden fence," Au intereating Bucas ralia has Majesty, however, paid no atten Trading Company, Mr. Leung
Sergt. G.O. Moxon, te posted to work along the remaining part of simple statement quite unmoved. at the "aald olay biggin'
The other company managed to Few sportsmen could read that just been placed in the museum tion to the occurrence. He is Heung Tin, Chinese staff of the
Coy."A" Section 4, Pte. H. O the trench all right, but could not Here was one, in the flower of his Alloway, where the poet was born. troops, and often goes into the at living the ordinary life of hir Kowloon Canton Railway British rections
Coy. "B" Section 4. Fto. A. J. had a garrison of about 60 men made in the image of God. And ed Burn's small library. The aroused amongst the troops in Holt having joined is posted to take the fort, where the Germans youth, who, if ever man was, was It is the bookcase which contain fring line. The enthusiasm Oarter having joined is posted to and two machine guns. However, even that splendid figure is still bookesse, which is in excellent anch that a few days ago, while Coy, A Doction 3. Pte. L.A. They double blocked and built a for ever. That fine chiselled face preservation, is of pine, painted they were shouting Long live to Coy."A" Section 2. of the fort and made good their sleeps in the little Flanders wood exactly as the poet left it. The to one of his officers, remarked Cossart having joined is posted barricade within about 40 yards is not in death eternal, Poulton a dark cak colour, and remains the King His Majesty, turning when parading in shirt sleeves, ing evening my Company was tornational player of the game, the possession of Miss Annie me to join with them Note. Braces must not be worn part of the trench, and the follow- a gallant and matchless in bookcase has up till now been in One would think Khaki shirt, collars and ties must sent up again for an assault o be worn
The Kaiser has some appalling Barne, Cheltenham, tuo poor's Long live tue shefort in the dark
orimea to answer for.
granddaughter.
Exchange
The Esatern and Australian Steamship Co., Ld. 250.00,
Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, Hen. Treasury, St. John's Cathedral 248.72.
The following subscribed. 870 Staff of the H. K. & K. Wharf & Godown Company's West Point Godowne Mesers. Yuen Kee Chan.
Fairlea Sohoool, $40. The following subscribed, Mr. J. H. Woollacott $25-Mr. R. O. H., Mr. G. R.S.,
Mise L. E Kenny, $20. Wautsaj Government School, $14.4 The following subscribed 850 Already acknowlelged, $195, Mrs. Oboy Wu Shi, Mr, L. E. C., 661.22 Mr. A. O. Ling.
Total $208,992.15
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