TO-DAY'S
THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH.
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS
(Bouter's Borvico to the "Telegraph. "]
THE ALLIES IN THE WEST. ANOTHER ARTILLERY ACTION IN PREARATION.
SECOND EXTRA
October 13, 5.50 pm.
man railwaya in the Oise region, where troop movements have been Franch aeroplane squadrons are very active in attacking reported.
THE RUSSIANS.
GERMAN ARMY CANNOT AFFORD TO TAKE PRISONERS,
CURIOUS MISADVENTURES.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1915.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL $3,314, while it is estimated that a sum of $4,000 will be received for the conservancy of the same neighbourhood.
(Continued from Extra.)
result that the estimate for next Honourable Members will agreo your under this head is only $100 with that its construction_re- more than in this year's Estimates.flects much ared it on Mr. Jaffe (and those who were associated Public Works Extraordinary. with him Under Special Expenditure the
The sum available under this amount provided for the removal head has to be regulated each worke" a eum of $14,000 has Under the heading Water of ceilings has been reduced from $10,000 to $4,000. This mom is Fear by the amount of money been provided for an additional considered sullioical as the work
The Government and the Community owa
debt of 8 gratitude to the members of this
available from the estimated Revenuo. The position with
Force which I may remind you is has proved less expensive than which I was faced this year was
to correct G
bas
membera more
Prison.
Was anticipated.
Education.
Military Expenditure,
to
00
Filter bed, which is urgently re- quired.
continuo
be trained for the work at the
UP TO THE MINUTE.
Closing Prices :——
Hongkong Docks.
Balog,
$90
China Lighte, -84), buyers. Indos. $158, bayora Douglas's-$89, buyers. Langkate.-Tle. 381, sales. Wharves.-$80, buyers, Ewos. Tls. 17, buyers. Hongkong Cottons. →→
buyers.
$9.40;
Kang Yiks. Tis. 15), sales
and bayers. Cements. $11.10, sales,
Transhipment Facilities.
It is notified in a Government information that transhipment Gazette Extraordinary for general
this Colony to say goods shipped by or to enemy firms or their Persia, Morocco, Japan, or the in etmediarica in Ohion, Sism, Dutch East Indies.
In the New Territories the as follows. The estimated Re- composed of British subjects of
principal expenditure is for is $11,300,010, while venue British, Indian, Portuguese and
road construction. Chinese race. The Force at the
⚫stimated Under "Personal Emoluments" the
expendituro Tshould have liked to provide a sum of $1,000 has been provid-exclusive of Public Works Extra much larger sume for the develop presoat time numbere 415.
Under Other Charges a sum of ad for a Shorthand Teacher at ordinary is $10.703.374, leaving ment of these Territories, but it $1,500 has been provided for Queen's College, to meet the in- balance of $805,636 available has been impossible to do so. ammunition for the Special Police creasing demand for Shorthand. for Public Works Extraordinary if The total eam which it Reserve. The sab head "Cluth-It is expected that the fees re-
the budget is to balance. How the is proposed to spend on ing and Accoutrements" show ceived for tuition will cover his two large works which are under Public Works Extraordinary is so increase of $5,000, which aty.
construction, namely the Tytam $1,273,400, which is nearly a A Paris communique says that there is fierce fighting with due to the higher cost of material Oxing to the poor atendance Tuk Scheme, Second Section, million dollars less than the sam
the additional Service trench engines and artillery in Lorraine, The Germans after com. A sum of $3,000 ne been the English Selcol for Indians at and
provided this year. Even this at West plete failure of their attacks on Linge and Schratzmaennele, renewentored to cover the cost of cloth Kowloon will be closed at the end Reservoir
Point, reduced expanditure, however, ad their efforts this evening,
ing and accoutrements for recruits of this year.
require between them a sum of There is another artillery action in the couras of preparation of the Special Police Reserve, and
renewal of anitorms. The amount provided for Oapitation Grunts be clear, therefore, to Honourable will have to be met from the Under "Other Obargos" the eum no less than $900,000 and it will will result in a deficit in the but get as a whole of $473,704, which along the entire front.
The German infantry were only able to gain & footing on airly required for the equalisation of been increased by $5,833 Members that only by the mosi eurplus balances of the Colony. | facilities will not be granted in yards of one front trench, but a counter-attack enable us to re-exchangs on India Police remittowing to the increase in the ruthless elimination of many
Post Office. occupy a portion immediately.
ancea has been increased by $8,-
Under "Personal Emoluments" Dader" Special Expea litere" public works hae it been possible the post of Sinior Clerk has been owing to the fall in exchange en a sum of $1,950 has been entered deduce the satinated deficit to abolished causing a saving of $3, Gar-000, a larger sum being required ambere at the English Schools, desirable, but not indispensable,
previous under-aw half the Building Grant of a comparatively moderate sam.
702, and it is proposed to ap: estimate. The vote for "Pase $2,500 to St. Joseph's College
With regard to Hongkong unpoint in his place a Postal ages, and bonuses in lieu of pass-towards the cost of additional der the heading" Buildinga" tho
Inspector, whose principal ages shows an increase of $8.550. class rooms.
Bums provided for Items 1, 2 and duties will conalet of the in- This increase is due to the fact
3 are required to pay the raten poction of the branch poat that
of the
works already offices, and the general super- European contingent are AI- The amunt provided for the tiny
mpleted.
vision of the postmen, No salary pected to take leave in the Contribution to the Imperial co
loss Under Item 4 a sum of $40,000 has been inserted in the estimates expenditure of the Colony: They October 13, 4.15 p.m. future owing to 0 new Government is $205 630
Estimaton. The sum required in According to Reuter's correspondent at Paris, a Petrograd schein by which members of the than that provided this year. in provided for the erection for this post, as it is proposed appear in detail on page 112 of the
decrea-e ia mainly of Quarters for Subordinate O for the present to
1910 a $386,198, the major portion A sam of the temporary arrongoment telegram aaya that the Russiane are now capable of taking the of-contingent on 9 months leave will This
to the fact that the ficers, Happy Valley.
of which is due to expenditure Lance-Surgoant of fensive on a vast acale, owing to the transference of forces from the draw full pay during & months of due
on the Station Buildings at Kow- Russian to other fronte. German effectives have become so thinned the leave, and also to the grant estimated arrears on account of $50,000 was entered in the 6s whereby a at cartsin points that, in order not to weaken the firing line by the of free passages to the wives the Contribution for 1915 are timates of the current year for Polioa is acting in the post. A
carriage sheds at Hanghom. formation of escorta, they have received orders not to take any more and families of Indian polica $79,600 as against arrears of this purnone, but the work has sum of $2,880 has been saved by loon and the new locomotive and
inen of the Indian $298,154 in respect of the con-not Eson proceeded with up to the discontinuance of the gos prisoners. The German army in Puliesio is becoming embedded in and to
date. It is in my opinioa very eorting of mails on board Penin-Charge on Account of Public Debt.
Under this bead there is a total. bog and is being harrassed by baada of sturdy francs tireurs.
contingent retiring on pension. tribution for 1914.
quartera anlar sad Oriental Mail Packeta. increase of $81,039 due partly to The Honourable Member, who re- In place of the Staff Officer of desirable that these
An addition has been made to the lower rate of exobsage on prezente the Chamber of Cam.the Volunteers, whose post is should be erected as soon as pos merce in October last drew atten- temporarily vacant provision has sible, and tendere for the work the Radio-Telegraphists, who will which the estimates are calculated parlly to the inclusion of tion in Finance Committee to the teen made for allowances to an have now been called for.
Bum of $30,000 has been Cape D'Aguilar Station. By this Crown Agent charges on the 1908 comparatively large number of Inspecting Officer and two Ad
antored under Item 5 as it is means it is anticipated that future loan, which were formerly paid men in the European coatingent jutants. who drow a bonus instead of going
Coder "O har Charges" the possible that a start may be made economies may be offooted,
Under "Other Charges" the out of a special fand, and to the interest due on the cost of Railway RAILWAY ACCIDENTS TO GERMAN TROOPS
ou leave. The improvement in Capitation Grant of the Vol-with the extension of the Central
Police Station. Negotiations for share of the Mail Subsidy payable Construction. Reserve has teen the pay while on leave is expect-vateer
Pensions. October 13, 4.15 p.m.
ed, as I have already stated, to incraneed from $1,050 $15,750 fue resumptios of the Buildings by this Colony is increased by
Under this head there is an Acording to Reuter's correspondent at Amsterdam the Tele-remedy this io some degree. that is to ea from the small grant on the site have been concluded, $5,544 due to the lower rate of
corned before the Reserve was and the Government will obtain exchange at which the calcula- increase of $51,000 due to lower graaf learns that, during the transport of some German troops in
exchange, and to additional Flanders, a serious railway accident occurred. The number dead in
The staff of European Warders embodied, on the outbreak of war, possession of them at the end of tion is made.
fthe oarrent year.
A sum of $11,429 has been
pensions. been unknowa, bat Bed Cross train was immediately despatched.
reduood by in the Volunteer Corps and a
The construction of the three provided for Stores for the Radio-
Charitable Services Another Gormsa train near Zeebrugge fell into a canal, and three, thereby elfooting an grant equivalent to that which
small works under Item 6 is very Telegraphio Station at Capo
The only item to which I wish eighty-fire soldiers were drowned.
immediate saving of $3,290. This tho Volunteer Corps can earno.
D'Aguilar. This is in accordance to refer ander this head is the pro- reduction has permitted of the It is with peculiar entisfaction desirable on sanitary grounds.
Under the heading "Com- with an estimate made by the vision of $15,000 as a grant in re-organization of the Ladies that I have to record the ex- ets involving an increase of tremely satisfactory condition of municatione" Item 7 (a) is raten-Naval Authorities, who are re-aid for the maintenance during the Volunteer Forca both in nu- tiou money on a work which sponsible for the working of the the year 1916 of the three German $3,830.
Charitable Lostitutions, namely, morios strength and in efficiency, will be completed the year, (b) Station,
Kowloon-Canton Railway, the Berlin Foundling House, It has been found possible The Force has rendered and is is to complete path, whisk the
In these estimates the working | Blindenbeim
and Ebene- 10 replace two Nursing still rendering very valuable ser- Government undertook to con-
When Tinancial Minute Sietera nt tbe Overa vices and can justly claim astract while the sum of $15,000 exponess of the Kowloon-Canton zor.
30 indirect provided under (c) is put as low Railway appear in detail in the No.
*Was brought In the House of Commons at question time, Sir Edward Grey ment Civil Hospital by six Pio important, although said that raw cotton waste and oxiton yarn were all contraband, bationer Dressers. Not only is a share in the tremendous battle as possible to meet probable re- body of the Estimates, instead of before this Couceil I explained at being included in an Appendix. some length the reasons which and that every possible step was being taken to prevent their reach-small saving effected by this the Empire is fighting in differ- quirements.
Under the heading “Drainage' The estimate expenditure for had lod me to recommend that ing Germany. It was intended to deolare contraband forthwith bat the system of ement parts of the world for which cotton piece goods and other cotton products, and to prohibit theploying Dressera, which is in so largo o proportion of the regu- the only important work is that next year is $313,905, which is the Government of this Colony export of such goods as were capable of being used in the man force in other Oolonies, is now for lar garrison has been released. in Item 8 (d). Is is necessary on $8,550 less than the estimates should come to the aid of these The only Institutions during the current facture of explosives, to neutral countries contiguous to Germany or the first time introduced here. I am repeat that to this body sani ary grounds to make a start for the current year.
year and .....................KJA ALTATERESSE DER SK Austria,
Dressers will only obtain promo-se to the Special Police Reserve on the work of draining the two items to which I would refer tion on passing certain qualifying the Government and the Com- Lookanpoo Valley in view of the are as follows:-On page 109 the same reasons apply to next examinatione, and it is to be hoped munity owes a vary deep debt of occupation of the old Cotton provisisa has been made for nine year. The sum provided in ex- Milla by the French Convent additional porters at a cost of olusive of the estimated receipts that the scheme will meet with gratitude.
and the general development $1,293 which is necessitated by from local philanthropista from the same success here that has Public Works Department
Under the expansion of the traflio. On the Education Department, and been achieved elsewhere.
· Under Under "Other Charges" the menta the post of one vote "Provisions for Patients" Grade Assistant Engineer willvided is considered absolutely has been made in the vote for expected to amount to $2,840.
Fuel, Lighting, &o, for Carriages, The Balancing of the Budget,- has been increased by $1,000, not be filled at present, and no necessary.
Under the heading "Miscell-Station and Offices as the amount As I have already stated a sum dao to the higher cost of food. provision has, therefore, baen The following team will re-
This afternoon at the Peak
Under the head Institutes, made for its Owing to existing eneous" Items 11 to 14 are requir- provided previously was under-of $473,764 will have to be ap
ed to meet the services of an estimated.
propriated from surplus balances present the K.0.0. in a Match
Pam conditions the programme
Item 15 is to The estimated Revenue from in order to meet the estimated between the K,0.0, v. B.G.A. Oburch which was decorated for Personal Emoluments" a and R.E. to be played on Saturday the cocasion by the Misses May, the of $2,160 has been inserted as Publia Works has been consider ordinary year,
to tho officer ably reduced, and it is desirable complete the dredging off Kow the Railway next your is $432,000 expenditure for the year 1916. 'next at 2.15 p.m.
wedding was quietly solemnised an allowanes
Revenue for the current year, the inclusion in the esti. J. P. Robinson, K.R. Macaskill, of Mr. H. S. Bзnnett, of the Chins acting as Bacteriologist. The sum to take advantage of an opport- loon Point and Item 18 is to or $3,000 less than the estimated This deficit is occasioned by The sum provided for compe- leaving a net balance of earnings mates of two extraordinary items W. Kay, P. W. A. Wilkie, Dr. and Japan Telephone Company of $810 provided this year will unity which has arisen to reduce cover unforeseen minor works.
eations and resumptions is lower over working expenses of namely, the War Expenditure Forsyth, B. D. Evans A. A. to Mise Adrienne Andrey Gladys lapse as the Baoteriologist has the staff.
and the Expenses of Construction Olaxton, L. J. Black bara, J. V. Holmes. The ceremony was con-not taken leave, but as he pro-
There is an increase of $2,000 than usual, but in the present $118,695.
The financial position of the of the Kowloon-Canton Railway. Braga, F. Batton, J, Stalker. duoted by the Bav. V. H. Copley poses to take commuted instead
Railway is showù in detail ia
The budget which is in the Umpire:-Mr. D. J. Mackenzie, Moyle, chaplain to the Cathedral, of half-pay leave next year it has in the cost of Gas Lighting (Item state of our finance it is necessary
been necessary to provide a larger 10) due to extensions of Lighting: to curtail each expenditure. Scorer: Mr. Edward Julian
of $2,500 for meters (item 23) I have already referred to the Appendix II on page 121, from hands of Honourable Members Whits.
The bride, who was given away by Mr. W. L. Carter of the Tele-inserted under Special Expendiof
A new sub-hoad has been due to a previous under-estimate; large sam required for the water- which it will be seen that the de- has been drawn up with great
$1,000 for
maintenance works under construction, but foit to be met next year from care to meet the circumstances
eam of in which We find од phono Company, was attended by
waterworks in Kowloon having regard to the contracts Colonial Funds is a
solves. I is intended to Miss C. E. Clarke as bridesmaid, ture for "Dental Instrumente and of while Mr. W. E. Ford of the
15 Faraiture for which the (Item 35) due to increase of al-and the argent necessity for these 8523,025,
In accordance with the pro- meet the needs of the Pablio posals which I made in my Service of this Colony and no provided. Cortain dental Kowloon (Item 35) also due to a reduce these items.
of With regard to Kowloon the Despatch. No. 137 of the 22nd. more than these needs. It is a surgeons have gonerously offered previous under-estimate; their services at the Government $2,500 for maintenance of build-cams estimated are those required April last, which has already badget framed with due regard Civil Hospital free of cost and the ings in the New Territories (Item to meet the ordinary services of been laid before you as Connoil to economy, and it contains no above sam will provide the 30) due to a large increase in the the year. The sum of $30.000 Paper No. 15 of 1915, the capital expenditure which cannot be des contract rate; and of $2,000 for provided under Item 28 is the construction account is to be fended from that point of view. necessary equipment,
this I hope it will meet with the con Sanitary Department: Maintenance of roade and bridges retention money on the contract closed at the end of beedavenging of Shaukiwan has in the New Territories (Item 41) for the Typhoon Refuge. This year and the expenses of convenience of Honourable Members completed instruction beyond the authorised to take the second reading of the been taken over by the Ssaitary due to a greater length of roade, work Department, and it in autioipsted It has been possible to make re- Augast some monthe under the loans of $1,100,000 and £250,000 Supply Bill on Tuesday the 20th The honeymoon is being spent that the work will cost a sum of ductions in other items with the contract time and I think that are to be included in the annual October at Nura, Japan.
COTTON.
MORE STRINGENT MEASURES TO BE TAKEN,
CRICKET.
K.C.C. v R.0.A. and R.E.
Hoogkong Cricket Club. The following sides will play Saturday 10th inst, play com- mencing at 2.15 p.m.
October 12, 5.35 p.m.
WEDDING.
Bennett-Holmes,
800.
Medical Department.
Emolu- of the neighbourhood. * Personal 1st. Itom 9 the sum of $20,000 pro- page 110 an increase of $1,000 from the asla of work, which are
Public Works Recurrent.
in the Club practice match on Telegraph Company sated as best equivalent of $150 has been tration; of $1,000 for matters in works it has been impossible to
man,
R. Hancock, G. E. Aubrey, F.E. Baker, P. Jaoke, P. 8. Leigh Following the service a recept Bennett, M. M. Mass, L. ion was hold at 50 The Foak, given Morris, H. E. Muriel, F. by Mr, and Mrs. H. T. Juckman, Syme Thomson, E. Wilkinson, where the happy couple received! N. J. Austin, B. A. Brand, P. R. the congratulations of a large Butler, F. W. Cary, A. L. Gace, number of friends.
C. J. Hewitt, R. Kennedy, E. J.R. Mitchell, H. H. Taylor, A. Whitmarsh
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