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OUR LONDON LETTER
(Continued from l'age 5.)
And here is ancther story, equally authentic, and told first band to the same man. This time
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDN, SDAY, JANUARY 19. 1916.
in Belgium. Os abould take their point of view into accour Batties have been fought, towns and villages pillaged and razod
POST OFFICE-
Corrispondence adiressed to soumy
to the ground, civilians indiscri- subjects in China, Siam, Farsis and Mar- minately shot, frightfulness has ocos cannot be transmitted. been applied with scientific and yet the themselves
it concerns a Manchester regiment thoroughness. of Regulars. The mingled tragedy tors
find
The Service to Germany, Austria, and
and comedy of it turn on the hourly exposed to the shafts and the Ottoman Empire are suspended.
arrows of a subtle spirit of deri British Tommy's incurable hobby After of souvenir collecting.
sion, steeped in levity, infinitely every engagement in which this
worse than open rebellion. It is.
34
Ship in somasisation with Cape
battalion was concerned, and few indeed, hate a labour lost. An D'Arular Radio Telegraph Station- hartalions had performed more American lady recently returned
Empire
brilliantly in more first class from Brussels talls of two Knight Campanion Sardinia
picture shows, the men secured incidenta, eloquent in show all sorts of mementoes. These they proudly went home to the ing, how the refractory Belgians ontrage the feelings and the suburbs of Manchester, where high sense of propriety (a la German helmets, Garman bay Pressienne) of their lately onets and extridge pouches, supervaned
MAILS DUE.
masters. S.bezia, Chenan, 19th Jan, militsky
Shanghai, Kashing, 19th Jạn. German belts with the familiar Motor car tooting was exca | Borah, Sardinia, 20th Jan, "Gott Mit Una and all sorts of gively limited, by special decree,
to military enemy badges scon crowded the
motora; further- congested front parloare of typeal more, certain specific moduls- Lancashire homes. But theretions of woots were prescribed.
was one
MAILS CLOSE TO-DAY.
—Pɑ 10CHOW, 1913. Jan. 5
man in the battalion. Upon this, every gamix in Bruf Swatow,Ningpo. Shangbai & X. China
girl" at
a simple private with a
螺
sela commandeered
whatever
TO-MORROW,
home, who had co sort of luckor, trumpet, whistle, or the like Ele was a gallant fellow, and keen instrument of torture he could lay as mustard, but somehow, when his hands on. From the instant ever there was a "do" on, he was that any German offer ventared always puton some comparatively on the street the regulation toot. non-combatantduty, like the tels- phone, ar bald up with the re greeted him, and clung to him Swatow, Amoy & Formon via Anging &
The result was that, barsting forth from the ground
he trod Severe punitive disposi-Eaiphong Per KAIFONG, 20th Jan. 9 though he did his beat, he
tions were enacted to safegard was never able to send home one the prestige of waiform, which, Swarow & Belawan-PerS, JACOB, SHA really satisfactory German souvenir. The dark-eyed little in a measure, abated the nuisance Hathew & Haiphong Per HONG KONG,
*
Tabo-Per SOSHU M. 201 Jan Zam
Jan.11.
20th Jan 13 au Dairen Per TAITO M.25th Janil am
Per ITOLA, 20th Jan. 1 pit. On a certain occasion, whilst Straits, Burmah & India via Calcutta some officers and a few civil Swatow & Bangkok Per HUPE 20th
Jan 7 pa functionaries were sitting "gazz Bangkok-Per DIVA. 20th Jan, pa gematlich", at a restaurant, the Bangkok-PerTONGLES, 20th Janapan obnations took rasaandad, quits at hand, necessarily simed st
SHIPPING NEWS.
ARRIVED..
Exechven, Dr. a 1125, RJ Cain, 18th
Jan-Wai-bai-wei. 19th Jap Gen-3&S
WEATHER REPORT.
On the 19th at ILIZ-Pressers bas. increased donidambly ower Hokkaido, the depression having passed into the Pacific.
Pressure chatgun olmwhere are small.
Moderate monsoon, may be expected Pasting. Be an 1013 ART uralow, 13th
Jan-Swatow, 17th Jan. Gen-over the X China Sea. B&S
Daigi Harn. Janas. 389, T. Konishi, 18th Jan-Exiphong, 16th Jan, Gen. -OSI
Changsha, Br. 22 1433, F. C. Gambli
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Hongkong Babafall for the 34 hours ending at 10 am to-day, 070 inchet.
FORECAST FOR THE 14 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW.
Distziet.
Forecast.
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East
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Station
and soothed irate heroes of the Lancashire Witch, who was his vaterland.
"girl" wrote him at last. It was bat kindhearted, tender, sppealing letter.
Could Bill not manage to send her some souven- irs 1007 It was not that the so much wanted them for herself, or needed any tangible evidence them, as no military motor was in that her Bill was doing his duty sight. The tooter could not be with the best of them. But the found, after diligent search, Shanghai Nari China-P WAL Derwent for House
The sadacious offendet, however,
wives and sweethearta and mother and yet the toot would recur at of other men in the same battalion, irregular intervala. "Ee istzum all neighbours of hers, were toll werden,” remarked the burly making her life miserable. They major, at the head of the table. were always calling ber attention to their growing museums of German relics, which adorned their parlours in witness of the prowess and the military valour The girl of the fighting men. told Bill that what made it wores
Mali,
Stangbal & North
China (Есторе
via Siberia) -Fer SHANTUNG, 20th Jan 3 pm.
Shanghai Br. P.Q. Monday 24th Jan.
SHING, 4th Jan. 5 pm.
Tatem for Canton Chengrs for K.G. Was via Matso Yechige Mara for Chinwangtao Taiwan Marn for Amoy and Singapore Chipshing for Honey Yennan for Hoogay
Hour.
Barometer,
Temperature.
Humidity
5. 29.57
*9.89
D'ilon.
Force.
Wanilor.
Hothong for Foochow vix Swatom Vingehow for Shanghai
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30.19 30.19
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CLEARANCES AT THE HARBOUR OFFICE
Bonin Is.
Chefoo
SOS 30.88 wow 4b
Shanghai, North China and
tia
FRIDAY, 21st Jan.
was in time fond out. It turned Swatow, Amor & Foochow Par HAI- out to be an alien parrot, which ecme undiscovered fancier had
wilfully and maliciously trained. At this point German thorough-
Siberian
TAN, 21st Jan, 1 pam.
Зарад тіл Мод, Ектора Siberis Per SARDINIARIS
Jan. 3 pm
for her was the fact that many of / 282u came to the reacne în its 100 (Shanghai Bz P.O.Wednesday, 26th Jan.)
perial integrity. The bird was
This letter with it before
a court-martial стег
major
SATURDAY, 22nd Jan.
Pind Jan. 9 A..
Z
thees men were only privates, placed under arrest, and charged wheresa Bill was a fully fledged insulting the German Army corporal. simple appeal drove Bill nearly which the barly C: azy. It was aheer hará lack presided. It was questioned ite Holbow & Haiphong-Per DANGI M, that he had been left out of all replies were not only, as might Straits-Per WOLLOWRA, and Jan the scrapping where there were have been expected, parro-like souvenira to bay for the asking and incoherent, but irrelevantly But how could he explain that to
it would the gil? He tried to buy some
aggravatingly insist on tooting, souvenirs from the other men Bat he had very little money, and they refused to part with any Thea in desperation be “pinebed" another man's collection. The
profan“, and
12000
Shanghai, and North China (Europe via Siberia) -Per CHENAK, 2nd Jan. 1 p.m.
nd Jan 5-pun
regardless of the majesty and the Shanghai Bz P.O.Wednesday, 26th Jan) lemnity of the court. This was Shanghai & 3. Chins Per WINGSANG too much for the presiding major; be dropped the bird eternity, shooting it burglary was discovered, trac then and there, without any red to him, and be ignominiously lest his stripes. At last the word more ado, like a mere mayor of a
into
་་་་་་་་་་་་་
SUNDAY, 23rd Jan.
newly invested Belgian or French Swatow. Amoy & Formosa vis. Tamani went round that the battalion was town. The honour of the uniform for again. This time Bill, thus was vindicated from the slur as a simple private under a cloud, was not pui on special daty. Hof biped offenders, feathered and
otherwise.
went with the rest of the boys,
The irredeemable perversity of and was the first man out of the the Belgian was again shown in the tterch #ben the wbiatle
case of a man who, complying with | went. He led the way through the law, declared himself the pos the hall of lead. got through seasor of two pigeons. By the time the aurbed wire first, and went of the next inspection, two tiny straight for the German trench. Eis comradea were on his beels new arrivals had, in the regular Bat before they were up and in, cores of nature, increased the
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30.30. 289
Jan. 18.
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Jan 19.
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9a 30.19 54
Komichow for Saigon"
Yoshow for Ningpo via Swatow
Tan for Hollo via Manila
Tientsin for Kobaz
Chaysang for Canton
Sosha Mare for Arping via Swatow
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TUESDAY, 25th Jan.
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MANILA. JAPAN and HONOLULU, (
PROPOSED SAILINGS.
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Arrive
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Shanghai N. China,Japan vix Nagasaki. Hosoiala, Vaited Tam State South-Ataerica and ➡Canada via San Francisco and Caozda, United Kingdom
Europe via Siberia) - Per CHIYO M. 25th Jan. 11 size tow. Amoy & Foochow Per HAI-
CHING, 25th Jan. 1 pim.
Bill singlebanded had put "paid" happy pigeon household. The in- Philippine la-Per TAMING. 25th Jan
to the account of about half a
spector, refusing every explans- tion, imposed a fine upon the
dezen Germana Bill was fight owners of the birds, and wrang the
necks of all unregistered intruders. ing like a fanatic, but a cold and Ecientific faratio, not so much on Immediately after this their life
less carcasses, dangling from a this occasion for King and country, as for the "girl" in the ribbon, ominously reminiscent Manchester subarb. He staggered of the heroic Belgian colours- back, when the time came, to his proscribed for the time being owa trench, carrying enough from their capital, bat sflame in German souvenirs to have filled a the battlefield-rere exhibited small Pantechnicos. The Ger
to the passers-by, with this in- Joans were blazing away all the
scription above them: "Morta time from all round, but Bill wee not to be bustled. He reached his Pour la Patrie." Evidently Bel- gium is not conquered, and from
own tech last of all the parts their point of view the Germans bat without dropping a single have good reason to complain.
Bouvenir. His
girl" in Man-
chester got the whole collection.
Bat they were not sent home by
Bill He was absolutely riddled
A STUBBORN FOE
To conquer an obstinate kommy" (re-
by another kind of German sou-quires, persistancy and perseverance. It venirs, and died in the treach, the same with Rheumatiem, the dread with his queer museum around foe of mankind, which zanks foremost in him, before they could get the field dressings on.
The Troubles of the Han,
o not exactly The Germans - BZD′′E having a happy time, items, in
stubbornless. To eradicate it from the
English Mali.
3pm
FRIDAY, 25th Jan
Straits, Barmah, Ceylon, Ada laide, Western Australia, la- dia, Aden, Egypt, and Earage. The parcel mail will be closed on Thursday, 27th Jan, at 3p Per KASHMIR, 28th Jan: Letters: 2. pam.
SATURDAY, 29th Jan.
Pronch
Mail.
Haiphong Saigon, Straite, Bar- ma.Ceylon Adelaide, Western Anstrália, Indix, Aden. Egyot & Earape---Per POETHOS. 29th Jan, & p
TIDE TABLE.
From 17th to 23rd Jan, 19 6."
system, won mas be the right weapon. LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM is the only ready that can overpower it. It has 2; cured hulpbem, crippled auffazers who have been discharged from the hospitalas incurable.
Mr. W. Willams. Totterdows, Bristol, Mon conquered Belgiam. Mr. B. Pits For Syen Ibare basti render- Zam. Triana sends the following des d saft for work by Ebernation et eription of the torments of the night tarrhis shooting pains kept me in
gay. I could met sleep s USONY STOR. The Hans in their new province. Two bottles of that wonderfal pamedy
Fairman to the enemy 14 LITTLE'S ORIENTAL, BALMourad make
completely. I cas 2600med with ally honest and
46
Bold at Ball yer bottles
S And Son Hongkong
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overdow
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1 Barometer, reduced to degreen Fahrenheit on the level of the sea in in- chas, tenths and bundredths.
Temperature, in the shade, in degrees 195 Fahrenheit.
375-40
Hongkong, 11th Jan, 1916.
3 Humidity, in percentage of actuation 27-13 the Humidity of air saturated with mois-
twas being 100
Tytam Eyewash
Tymam Intermediate matte
Pokfula
47.68
#444
124.30
Trim Low £vrem
660.45
644.70
Total dato
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153.5€
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19.1
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5 Force of Wind, according to Beaufore Scale,
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Overdow
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Kowloon - Gen}}
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39075
Consumption of water in Kowloon Im mitions and Decimals of Cellows Dering the snouts of Dec. 5.
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