-SEQUEL TO A GUILD
FIGHT.
Choppers Used to fattle
ya Dispute.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
VOLUNTEER RESERVE
ORDERS.
H. K. V. R. Orders issued to- day by Major Wakeman Com manding H. K. V, R., state
Prisoners of War Camp, and
This afternoon in the Police Court, before Mr. J. R. Wood, shree Chinese were charged with saulting Ave others, the case being a sequel to a fight between members of different guilde.
H. J. H, Gardiner prosecuted Prisoners of War Camp: and. Mr. L. D'Almada e Castro defended.
Gun Club Hill Picquet.
The H.K.V.R. will relieve the HE.V.C. on Sunday, the 3rd inst.
Detail.
Sunday 3rd inst. Sections 1 and 2.of A. Co.
Monday 4th inst. Sectione Dr. Moore, of the Government Civil Hospital, testified to the 1 and 2 of B 05. admission of the prosecutore, Tuesday 5th inst. Sections
One to the Hospital. was 1 of 0 0.
uffering from an incised wound Wodnesday 6th inst, Sections over the eye, a pieos of bone about 3 and 4 of A Co. the size of a dollar being removed. Thursday 7th inat. This was possibly, done with the 3 and 4 of B Oo. chopper produced. The second had a wound in the temple and a deep wound below his right shoulder blade, severing one of haribs, Two others had wounds on head and face, and the fifth
the arm
All the wounds were, incised none could have been caused the bamboos, covered with
od, which were produced in
Gardiner, outlining the for the prosecution, said that
3
Section
Friday 8th inst, Sections 2, and 4 of 000.
Gun Club Hill:
and 4 of A Co.
Sunday 3rd inst. Sections
3
Monday 4th inst.
Sections
3 and 4 of B Co.
Tacoday 5th inst. Wednesday 6th inst. and 2 of A Co.
Thursday 7th inst.
inst.
2, 3 and 4 of 0 Co.
1
1 and 2 of B Co. Friday 7th
Sections
Section
Bections Section
EXTRA
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1915.
THE ROLL OF HONOUR.
Captain Black.
Captain Donald McGregor Black, 1st Essex Regiment, who is amongst the list of killed, was 28 years of age, and entered the Bervice in 1908. He was promoted lieutenant in 1011, and from 1912 to Jane, 1914, noted as aide-de- camp to the G.0.0., Straits Settlemonts, He received his promotion to captain in May last.
AN URGENT APPEAL FOR COMFORTE.
. For Troops at the Front.
Lady May make a special ap peal to the women of Hongkong. on behalf of Troops who have, gone, and are going, to the Front. She asks for 200 pairs of knee- ospa, and 200 sleeping-caps to be sent to her at Government House before Monday, October 11.
The quantity is large and the time allowed is short, but Lady May is confident that the women of the Colony can do it.
Wool and instructions can be
SUFFERING ARMENIA.
Whole Population
Dispersed.
Atrocities on Pretext of Rebellion,
TENNIS.
CS, Ladies Tournament. On Thursday afternoon twelve games brought about the comple- tion of the Ladies' Tennis tourns- ment, held in connection will the Civil Service Club, the successful competitors being:-1, Mrs. Mo Lead; 2, Mrs. Cousina; 3, (a tie) New York, August 14.-The Mra, Tacobi and Mrs. Williams. United Prese to-day publishes The first and second prizes were the following article received presented by Mesure P. O. Iemail from its special correspondent, and W. G. Smith, respectively. Mr. Henry Wood.
Bijou Theatre. The programme at the Bijou
Constantinople (by courier to
Dedesgatoh, Bulgarie, and thence Theatre contaias two good Ameri-
by mail to New York.
Captala Brett. Captain Herbert Alfred Brett was killed in action on 6th inst. at the Dardanelles. He was in
For nearly three months now can films: "The Hills of Silence," the 9th Lincolnshire Regt. (at- tached 4th Worcestershire Regt.). bad at the City Hall between the 2,000,000 Armenians of Tar-which is full of the thrills con. Captain Brett was formerly in the hours of 10.12.30, and key have been undergoing at the tingent on the fighting of Indians the Federated Malay States, and 2.30-6.30; also from Mr. Pope, hands of the Young Turk Glovera and the finding of gold; and "A was a son of the late J. W. Brett, St. Andrews Vicarage, Kowloon; ment a renewal of the atrocities Million in Pearls," a remarkably of Arunded Lodge Waddon, Sur- sad also at the Ponk Club. Tho of Abdul Hamid that so far have ingenious detective story film, rey. He was 31 years of age.. wool is given free-all that is ask-fallen short only of actual mas
Captala Lloyd.
Captain Walter Lloyd, seponded for is the knitting
son of the late Thomas Lloyd, of Leghorn, Italy, and of Minard, Argyllshiro, was born in 1874, He joined the 2nd Battalion Royal Welsh Fasiliers in 1898, served at Malta, Cairo, at Crets, and afterwarda at Hongkong and ia Iadis, Subsequently he held a volunteer adjutancy at Cornar- von, and was attached to the regimental depot at Wroxham. He retired in 1011, and joined the Reserve of Officers, and at the outbreak of the war was posted to the 8th (Service) Battalion Royal Welsh Fasiliera. He married in 1899 Phyllis, second daughter of Admiral Sir Francie Powell, C. Co. will parade on the Cric-K.O.M.G., C.B. bscribe fairly lavishly, and be- ket ground at 5.15 p.m. on Moa-
e defendante were members 1 of 005.
Parade Cancelled, sold guild of rattan workers,
The parade of A. B. and C. Chap-Ying Tong. That guild
been in existence in the Companies ordered by Corps any for a great number of Order No. 71 for Friday, the 8th
rs and at one time embraced inst. is concelled. the rattan workers in the Mony. All the members had to
Parades.
ore they could be admitted into day, the 4th inat. Dress: Drill Captain Hugh Crawford Fraser, the guild something like $200 Order Shirt Sleeves, ha 16.18 paid by each worker. That becamo B bardea
was
to
Captain Fraser.
8th Battalion Royal Scots B. Co. will parade on the Cric Fusiliers, who has been killed in ket ground at 5.15 p.m. on Wed.action, was the youngest son of many of the workere and nesday, 6th icat. Dress: Drill the late Hugh Fraser (H.B.M. Diplomatic Service), who was formed, the Order Shirt Sleeves.
Britiah Minister to Japan, and of Mrs. Hugh Fraser, author of "A Diplometiat's Wife in Japan", etc.. Ho was gazetted captain from the Reserve of Officers in November last. He obtained his first appoint. ment as second lieutenant
DOW
Recruits.
Royal Scots Fusiliers in Decem- ber, 1889, and served throughout
Knee Caps or Footless Hose.
4 needles No. 10 or 12-2 skeins,
4 or 6 ply wool.
Cast on 80 stitches.
2
Knit in rib of 1 plain, I purl, or 2 plain, 2 parl, or 3 plain, purl.
For 15 inches-140 rows. Uast off.
Sleeping Caps,
4 needlee No. 10 or 12-2. skeins 4 or 5 ply. Wool.
Oast on 100 stitches. Kuit in rib of 2 plain 2 purl. For 3 inches.
Kait plain for 4 inches. To decrease*-*
Knit each 19th and 20th stitch together.
Knit I plain round, Knit each 18th and 19th alitch tozatber.
Kait 1 plain round. Koit ench 17th and 18th stitch together.
Decrease in this manner down to 25 stitobea.
Ran a thread through, these & fasten securely.
:
THE YELLOW DRAGON.
adare.
In the early part of May assled for a determined
tered to the four winds of the Empire.
Horrors of the March,
I talked with eye-witnesses who, coming to Constantinople from the interior, had seen this miser
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OBITUARY.
ALLMAR
Professor Dickins,
We regret to report, the death on September 18, of Professor Frederick Violor Diokine, O.B., who was born May 24, 1888, the eldest son of the late Thomas Dio- kine, J.P., Edgemoor, Manched- ter says the Land O. Expres. He was educated at Bossali
Sabool and in Paris. Ha served as medical officer in the China, and Japan Navy in from 1861 to 1866. In 1870 ha was called to the Bar, and became an Assistant Registrar in 1882.
of C.B. was conferred on Pro- fessor Dickins in 1901; he wAS also an Officier d'Academie. He married, in 1869, Mary, daughter of W. M. Wilkinson, Ryceroft
THE CHINESE NAVY.
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To build a Submarine Flotilla.
He was appointed Registrar of the University of London in 1898, and held the appointment until 1901. He was a frequent contribut or to various journals, including The London and China Express; and also to varione magazines. resistance. He was the author of the Japanese Ал orders were sent to the police of
overwhelming Turkish portion of the "Life of Bir Harry seat Parkes," and bis other public- the entire Empire directing a
WAR force, however, the simaltaneous descont an
town; it fell, ations included "Primitive and
Mediaval Japanese Texte, Armenian population. At mid-against the night the police authorities and then the Tarks carried out in
devised system of deportation Chiushiagora or Loyal Leagu"," swooped down on the homes of all the extremast degree their newly-Hundred Views of Faji," "The Armenians whose names appeared on the list sent out from Con- and dispersion. Twenty thousand besides translations of and com- His con stantinople. The men were placed Turke from Thrace were taken mentaries upon work of Far under arrest and the houses were to Zeitoun and established in the Eastern literature.
with Japan in this houses that for generations had nection searched for papers which might belonged to the Armenian fami- country was further shown by implicate them either in the pre- The latter were then scat being Reader in Japanese at sent revolutionary movement of the Armenians on the frontier or
Bristol University. The honour in plots against the Government which the Torks declare exist.
Following this search there began the carrying out of the system of deportation and dis peraion which has been the oraclable population being dispersed House, Manchester, by whom he and deported. They were being had two sons and two daughters. lest feature of the present anti herded across the country by sol- His death took place at his re- Armenian wave. The younger diere in groups ranging from fifty sidence, Soend Lodge, Wilts., at men, for the most part, were
were unable to maintain the fast drafted into the army. On the to several hundred. Old men who the age of 77, authority of mon whose names
new guild
would be known in both Americs Paca set by the mounted soldiers and Europe if I dared mention were beaten till they fell dead in their tracks. Children who were Yan Yee Tong. There had A Co. will parade on the Oric- been trouble between the two ket ground at 5.15. p.m. on Friday
them, I am told that hundreds, likewise too tender to stand the if not thousands, of these terrible strain dropped out by the guilds ever since the new one the 8th inst. Dress Drill Order
were seat at once to the front had been formed some four or five Shirt Sleeves.
ranke at the Dardanellea, where wayside, while the mothers were driven relentlessly on with no years ago. The members of the
death in a very short space of Recruits will parade on the
hopes of ever again being able to old gaild felt hurt that a
time is almost a certainty. The find their little ones, guild should be formed and there Oricket ground on Monday, the
older men were deported into the Other mothers with babies in had been bitter feeling one 4th inst., Wednesday, the 6th
The Queen's College monthly-interior while the women and the other, but whether inst., and Thursday, the 7th inst,
under their very eyes, unable to this fight waï 100 vm-men gf that at 5.16 p.m. under Sergt. Major the South Afrioan War (1899- the Yellow Dragon-is still going childron, when not carried off in arms, unable to ses the latter die China has decided to build a sub-
and ita September an opposite direction, were left to (twiss very severely), and men-isme contains some vory graphic" shift for themselves as best they give them the nourishment naces New York Herald. For some time
Wives and husbande, sary to suetsin life, and unable to bear the agony of leaving tham the Queen' menfe received extracta com a real war diary could.
more ofhich would be welcome. brothers and sisters, even mothers by the wayside to an unknown Cal Notes" record in an and their little children have been fate, dropped them in well a and the King's medal with me
dispersed in such a manner at to they passed, thus ending the of the Old clasp Captain Jones.
e also contains the Head- they witotically all hope that sufferings of the little ones, and Captain Loftus Edward Perceval
Wholesale Wangiber again having thus at least the consols Jones, 7th Yorkshire Regiment, master a address at the close of
Simultaneous with these arresting of knowing their fate. who was killed in action on Ang. the scholastic year.
of the population throughout the population troll his miserable 3 in France, was the elder son of
Empire, the police at Constantin- Ionised largely in two places. Ufs the late Mr. Peyton Jones, M.
ople swooped down on the alleged portion was established in a mar- Inst. C.E., Melbourne, Australia, Educated at Camloden, St. Kilds, Battalion D.O.L.Lip August, leader of an Armenian Society shy region which up to the pre- he gained the Supreme Court 1914, taking part in the severe that was declared to have for its sent time has never been habitable
Amongst the names mentioned an occunt of the deadly malaria; in the Admiral' despatch on Prize at the Melbourne Univer-fighting round Ypres at the end own object not only the wreating
of July.
from the Turkish Empire part of while the other portion was at the work of the Navy at the sity, practised as a barrister, wont Lieut. Hutchison, te territory for the establish- down on the Persisu Gulf to Dardanelles is that of Com to Ohins, and was a partner in
Lieutenant Donald H. Hutchi- ment of an independent Iccality so deadly that the poor the firm of Hanson," McNeill,
Albion (Goting Captain.) Hid Jones and Wright, Shanghai. O, 16th Battalion County of Lan- Armenia, but also the over- victime prayed to be sent to the der Walta-Jones, A keen sportsman he was a well Westminster Rifles) was the ment. These were tried by Court-
don Regiment (T.F.) Queen's throw of the Turkish Govern- malarial marshes instead. Their brother Captain Watts Jones, kuown writer and amateur jookey youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. martial, and on June 15 nineteen/Prayers were in vain.⠀
The Government's Case. B. it may be recalled, was and was chairman of the Shang, Hutchison, Dove House, Hatch of them were hanged in front of
murdered by Chinese officials at In defence of these terrible Kwel-kwa-Cheng st the time of hai Club. On the call for officere end and formerly of Japan. He the Ministry of War at Constan- measures which have been taken the Boxer troubles. He had been in the East at the end of last year was born in Yokohamaand educat tinople. As a result of vigorous the Tarks at Constantinopla do- he at once responded, and we od at Merchiston Castle School, protests which followed on the clare that no one but the Armani- travelling in company with the given a commaission na osptain. Edinburgh, where he was con- part of prominent people at Oons as themselves are to blame. are Me J. Grant Birch, who wat Leaving Shanghai on Christmas
the Tarka promised They state that when the present fantinople, Day, he was gazetted to the 7th and a school leader. He was in that no more wholesale hangings attack began on the Dardanelles they were descending the Yellow Battalion Yorkshire Regiment on the football and cricket teams would take place,
the Armenians were notified that Watte-Jones subarguendly went River was cspained. Commander Feb. 23, and left for the front in for several years, and was captain Of all the terrible vengeances if they took advantage of the to Chias to inquire into the of the Ragby fifteen for the season so far moted out by the Turke in moment when the Tarks were Lleut. Blagrove,
particulars of his brother's death; 1913-14, when the school, with an the present anti-Armenian.oras concentrating every energy for and to arrange for proper burial. Lieutenant and Adjutant
of the Richard Coors Blagrove, 6th unbroken record, won the chamade nono appear to have equalled the maintenance Battalion Duke of Cornwall's pionship for the third year in that inflicted on the population Empire Light Infantry (killed in action succession. The athletic cup bt of the city of Zeitoun. This was rebellion, they would be dealt on Aug. 12), was the youngest the school sports in 1914 fell to an Armenian town of 20,000 with without quarter. This bim, and he was keen member of population which had never as a warning the Armenians failed to son of Colonel H. J. Blagrove, the Officers Training Corp., Leave rate of fact, been completely head: They not only rose in C. B., late 13th Haseara, and was educated as Cheltenham College ing school in July 18 he was anbison by the Turka. Situat rebellion, occupying a number of woll up in almost inaccessible important towns, including Van, and Sandhurst. He was a proceed to Pembroke Colleger
mountain fastnesses, it had even bat helped the Russians in their Cambridge, but on the outbrer member of the Cheltenham
ned sort of
in the Caucasus. The football team and of the Harle of war received a commissio
the Queen's Woết
antinople quins Club. He joined the Tletitenéis Enle DOLI in May, 1911, and perv
Class of Instruction.
Posting."
or no, he could not really say. Drill Order Shirt The complainants, who happen Sleeves. to be members of the sacoad guild
A class of instruction will be walking along were Queens Road West, three going to held on the Cricket ground at vinit relations, and one to buy 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, the 5th mooncakes. An they went, with-inet, under Sergt. Major Bond. but any warning or nay words Dress: Drill Order Shirt Sleeves. between the parties the defend-
Pls. W. E. Roberts having mats attacked them with two chop- pers and bamboos. None of the joined is allotted Corps No. 535 defendante received any injuries and Posted to Coy. "B" Seo. 2.
Orderly Officer. whatever, and if it were suggested Orderly Officer from the morn- it was a fight, it was a one sided affair, the defendants being arm-ing of the 3rd iost, to the morning ed with choppers. He was unable of the 9th inst. 2ad Lieut.
H. R. B. Haucook. to say whether there was any
Orderly. Sergeant. premeditation on the part of the
Orderly Sergeant from the Chap Ying Tong.
morning of the 3rd inst, to the morning of the 9th inst. Sergt. T. C. M. Hurley.
The hearing was adjourned.
VOLUNTEER ORDERS.
state.
Corps Orders issued to-day by Lieut. Col. A. Chapman V.D.,
King's Park Range. The Range in allotted to Right Section M. G. Co. for Masketry, Beornita Course. Part I (if not completed on Saturday, 2ad iust.), on Sunday, 3rd inst. from 9 a.m.
to noon.
Parades. Parades for Saturday, 2nd instant, Nil
Detsil.
Kowloon ntil miozning of 3rd
Betty
› Shipping News.
The departure of the a.a. Mongolia bug been postponed, and she will leave Hongkong for Sin Francisco on Wednesday the 6th prox. et 1 p.m. instead of Monday the 4th.
Up to the Miauto. Closing Prices:
Cementa, $10.50 buyers. Docks.- $824, buyers. Wbarves.$79, sales... Douglas's. - $89, unles, ve Providents 89.10, buyers. Cantone $427, sales. China and Manilaa cants-$45.
boyers Indos-$1565, buyers.
1902), being wounded three times strong,
tionow
July.
of
spiouously successful as an athleta
10
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A wire from New York saya'
Washington correspondent of the marine flotilla, according to the
Admirs! Wei Hsg, ohier narsi constructor of the Chinese Navy, officers, have been studying sub- and eighteen other Chinese marine constraction in various sbipbuilding plants throughout the United States. Admiral Wei is reported to be strongly Impressed with the practicability withe, cabmarine ar Chinese water for Purpose
drowned when the raft on which
War Flims on Shameen. On Wednesday night, by the invitation of the French Conrul General for Canton, Shameen habitants were treated to an ex- cellent exhibition of cinematė- graph war picures lay the Oldh theatre.
The E. bana in nook