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Mount Etna: Again Active.
Rome, Den, 18. --Advices/ frons.
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HONG KONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JANUARY SI, 1916.
TONE
Catania, state that two craptions THAT'S WHERE THE
of Mount Etna occurred yesterday
from the crater formed in 197 Smoke, steam, and schon were emitted. By to-night the volcano is again calm.
Str E. Speyer and Sir E. Cassel.
London, Dec. 17.-The attempt to deprive Sir Elgar Speyer and Sir Ernest Cassel of membership in the Privy Council, on account of their German birth, has been defeated. Lord Chief Justice bad the Reading, who has case under advisement, delivered his jadgment to-day. He declared Sir Edgar and Sir Ernest, x-nam turalised British subjects, had all the rights of Briäsh-born subject, and therefore entitled to be mem- bers of the Privy Council
Gone to Shanghai
Mr. H. Tub.s-, of the firm of N Lazarus, opticians, who for som years has been in charge of the Hongkong office has come to Shanghai to take over control of the branch here, says the N. C. Daily News. M. Tobias claime to be the only optician bolding British qualifications in the Far East. In addition to being a Freeman of the City of London, and a fellow of the Institute of Ophthalmic Opticians, he alro holds the diploms of the Spectacle Makers Guild, which has on its examining board such eminent men as Dr. Lindsay Johnson and Professor Sylvanas Thompson
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Marvel of Surgery. An extéordinary surgical opers tion has been successfully, per- formed on a wounded soldier at Sunderland Hospital. When st the frost a piece of shrapnel
Vismala.XVI.
Ok, we manage
A YEAR AGO TO-DAY.
LEADING EVENTS IN THE GREAT WAR.
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Extracts from the war news con- tained in the Hongkong Telegraph" of January 31, 1915) "Defeat of Turks
track him on the head and dislodged a piece of bone. The Banderland surgeons took strips of Perambulators”. Edinburgh, Dec. 11-In a of bone from the patient's shin
The Hatin's correspondent. speech delivered bero this even and filled them into the skali ing, Lord Rosebery said: "At Carity, which was 3in. by 4in fatates that the Torks have suffer- this moment there is coming over The new boce knitted with that ed another crashing defest in vesel-fraught with peace. It of the shall, and the patient Persia, their right wing being He is now overthrown by the Russians, who have entered is propelled apparently by a rapidly recovered. gentleman named Ford, who going about, is in high spirits, are reported to
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board the German steamer Gernis! We Bangkok Times regret to announce the death of HB.Er carriage to Naples. At the Prince Krom Man Divskora outbreak of war the Gernis in- Wongs Pravat, which occurred terned herself in the Dutch East on January 4 The late Prince Indies, but the appellants consulate, was born in August 1857 and was sanded that by the terms of the a son of King Mongkut and Chow contract the property in the goods had passed to the buyers, and the Chem Manda Chan. His own zame was Phrs Oog Chac Kasem-sellers were entitled to payment mi Sapaycke, and he was prothree months after the date of the moted Krom Mun Dívakorn in R.
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The Late Sultan of Perak. S. 115 by His late Majesty. The
A Federated Malay States Go Pance married Mom Lamai, a sister of Pbya Senabhimak. His vernment Gazette Extraordinary, eons are Mom Chao Pradibaddha pablished last week, contained Kebemeri (Lord Lieutenant of the following zotification:- “I: Chandabari), Mom Chao Nane is with profound regret that His (Under Secretary in the Ministry Excellency theHighCommissioner of Finance) Mom Chao Boonsri announces that His Highness thestration Yamadakatsutomo Cor- (educated in England and a Sultan of Perak, Sir lárie Merit lecturer at the Medical College), el Aazam two others who are offices in the G.C.V.O., ibri Almerbum Iskan- army, and one who is in the dar Shab, passed away at 7.45 last Mahadthai living at Nakon evening. By the decease of Elia Pathom. The Prince was never lata Highness, the State of Petak in Government service. He lived and the Federated Malay States for many years near Wat Jetpbol, have lost a wise and able Ruler, before moving to near Wat Sam and the British Government & kling, and was a great authority trusted friend. The obsequies will on orchids.
take place at 4 o'clock in the
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