THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
SECOND
EXTRA
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1915.
TO-DAY'S
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS.
[Beater's Service to the "Telegraph."]
THE ALLIES IN THE WEST.
DESCRIPTION OF BRITISH GAS ATTACK.
October 18, 1,30 p.m.
SANITARY BOARD.
An Old Question Rovived.
The usual fortnightly meeting of the Sanitary Board was held ihin afternoon, when Mr. D. W. Tratman presided. There were also present the Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett, Mr. Ng Hon-taz, the Hoo, Mr: E. E. Hallifax, Dr. Fitz- williams, L-Col. Orisp, Dr. W. W: Peares, Medical Officer of Health, and Mr. W. Bowen-Row. landa secretary.
Application was made for per-
in a house on North Kowloon, Inland Building Lot, No. 1.
Mr. Goldring and Mr. Chan Kai-ming minuted against the proposal.
Lt. Col. Oriep favoured the application providing a septic tank was erected and its effluent properly disposed of.
Beuter's correspondent at the British Headquarters in dosorib-mission to erect two water closets ing the British gas attack on the 13th inst. which he witnessed from au eminence close behind the trenches, says: Beyond the area where massed batteries were pouring a concentrated fire into the German positions, was a loud of desolation where the troops, hidden in the trenches waiting for a whistle, to leap the parapets. The borizon was a mass of smoke constantly broken by flashes of burst. ing shell. The smoke constantly changing colour, white, yellow, black and sometimes pinkish. Suddenly, from the left of the British lines there came a cloud of yellowish smoke creeping towards the opposite line closely followed by a broad finger of white vapour, which widened as it advanced, which spread over the yellow cload, forming it into an opaque mist which gradually enveloped the German trenches in dense fog. When it was first noticed it looked like a big ball of cotton wool, poised a few feet above the plain, and then as the wind caught it, it assumed the aspect of a funnel tilted towards the enemy. More smoke followed it up from the same spot, as though someone were blowing paffa from a hage invisible pipe. It was heavier and more bewildering than a London fog. Occasionally when the vapour sifted one had glimpasa of figures, darting back. wards and forwards, across the space between the trenches, apparent-This application isobjectionable ly bomb throwers. Then there was a momentary flash of a mass of men appearing to spring from the empty plain and to sink back again, and a new place was enfolded in a cortain of smoke. This is all that one could hope to see of an infantry charge in this war.
THE AMIRAL HAMELIN.
ARRIVAL OF SURVIVORS.
October 18, 5.30 p.m.
The Tunisian mail-bost has arrived with the survivors of the steamer Amiral Hamelin, recently torpedoed in the Mediterranean, when fifty persons were drowned and thirty injured.
THE BALKAN SITUATION. AUSTRO-GERMANS REPULSED WITH HEAVY LOSSES October 18, 5.30 p.m. According to Reuter's correspondent at Parie, a Nish telegram states that up till now the Balgarians have captured a few weakly defended positions in the region of Pirot and have been repulsed at many other points. The Austro-Germans have attacked Berbian positions on the Save and around Belgrade six times, bat were everywhere repulsed with heavy loasa.
LOST SUBMARINES.
Tirpitz Invited to Confess,
од
should confess the truth.
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TELEGRAMS.
DR. W. G. GRACE.
SUFFERS THROUGH A
SEIZURE.
London. Received October. 19.
Dr. Fitzwilliams:-I am in favour of this system, the effluent to be discharged anywhere. What is safe at home is safe here. If the Board should object to it being passed into a stream, let it be discharged on land away from the stream. I would recommend the members to study the circular of Messrs. Jones and Attwood.
The Head of the Sanitary Board:
because it involves the possibility of contaminated fluid into astream from which persone may drink. The best that the writers of this circular can say for their ap. paratas is that it produces on effluent" fit to drain into the near- eat water course without offence to sight or smell" and "so good that a duck-pond has been constructed for its utilization," and again "it passes along the roadside and cannot be distinguished from ordinary land drainage, or spring water:" In England no wise per- son drinks from a duck-pond or roadside water souras. In many places the public are warned against drinking from roadeido channels. Such notices would have little effect upon the natives here, and I do not think that in the present case there is need to allow the danger to come into existence. With respect to the possibility of auch danger I note that the circular states of one of these installations that "It superseded plant, twice the size which prov. ed inefficient." It we could get the specifiostion of the super- eeded plant I have little doubt but that we should find that its mak. ersalso claim infallibility for their system and I have already point. ed out that the house for which the present application is made is too far away for regular exam- | inations.
The Hon. Mr. E. A. Howatt moved that the application should be refused.
Mr. Ng Hon-tez seconded. Dr. Fitzwilliama urged that the application should be granted. They know that the effluenta from theas septic tanks were quite harmless. The system was much in uso at home.
The German newspapers seam to have been instructed on Sept. 7, says the Times, to boycott Mr. Balfour's letter German submarines. The Frankfurther (Router's Service To The "Telegraph," Zeitung, however, contained a
Dr. W. G. Grace has had a fairly accurate translation, the only serious omission being the seizure affecting his speech, but thosel his friends are hopeful of a spe›dy phrase explaining how who send the submarines forth on recovery for him. their unhonoured mission wait! for their return in vain. Oa Tuesday evening the Frankfurter tinuing successfully, that it has Zeitung even published a leading compelled the English to admit article demanding, not obscurely, (this is a reference to a recent that the German Government article in the Economist, of which much aɛe has been made in Gor After a good deal of talk about many) that the British blockade the "concessions" to the United was a mistake, and that the ris
Lt. Col. Crisp also thought the States, the Frankfurter Zeitung of prioss in England boom application should be granted, expressed approval of the more and more serioas.. The
Even if the effluent did get into Government policy, and article oɔnola lez:-
the stream near the house it prosseded:-
Nevertheless, oven Herr Balfour would be comparatively harmless, We cannot be hambugged out is a skilful exponent of his policy by the time it reached the bottom of this opinion by any antagonis- and ons oon learn from him. In of the hill. It would have to flow tio newspaper or by a man like this matter, as in others, the ovar rocks and would be aerated. Herr Balfour, who now claims English have got ahead of us with The president referred to Major a victory for his War Ds- their statement, but the German Wakeman's house on the Peak partment without being able point of view in the submarine and asked whether Lt.-Ool. Orisp point to ал Occasion war as regarde England and the would agree to an affluent pro apon which the English Admir-United States seems to us to be 20 perly treated from that house nity has over risked a battle. good that astatement from the falling into the Pokfalum Because the mea in authority in man side, and the publication of a Reservoir. Germany consider it to be profit-balance-shoot, if this dosa nɔt Lt.-Ool. Crisp pointed out that able to avoid a broach with the distach the oilm progress of the the effluent falling into a station. United States, boosaucedly negotiations with Washington, ary water was different from its not without reciprocal concessions would make at least a very re-falling into a moving stream. -they have givan up an un8953a-pectable appearance aide by side He moved that the application... tial part of the submarine war, with the letter of Herr Balfour be granted subject to the emuant and because a fresh opportunity and the utterance of the other being so provided for that it did is provided to falsily history, the conquerors." It is high tims
First Lord of the British Admixto render the judgment of the not fall directly into a stream.
Dr. Fitzwilliama seconded, bat alty regarda himself as a grat German people in these matters the amendment was last and the independent of the Poriginal motion that the applica- Tas Frankfurter Zeitung olaims of French and British nowe tion be refered, carried, that the submarine war is con- agencies,
oonquarar.