TELEGRAMS.
(Combinued from page 1.)
MESOPOTAMIA RAILWAY SCHEME.
[Beater's Service to The "Telegraph."]
August 4, 1250 p.m.
The Tinios" states that it is understood that a scheme for a railway in Mesopotamia has been passed. It will be necessary frst to lay a causeway,
TWO YEARS OF WAR.
sugust 4, 9.45 8.m.
Mr. Balfour's statement is one of the many reviews of the war published'in connection with the second-anniversary. There have been mest inspiriting, showing that though the. Allies have captured a million square miles of territory, compared with a hundred and seventy thousand, "the Allies' advantage must not be measured in miles. They have, at length, secured the initiative in Europe, a result to which the collapse of the Germans at Verdun and in the battle off "Jutland mäterially extributedTMTMTM
As the "Times" says, the German record of the part eight months is a black negation, but the task of the, Alli is still most arduous. The Germans still stand fast on their main fronts east and west, from which it play take a long time to expel Beto. Yet the inspiring results of the fighting on the Somme, and the Russian pressure on the east, show that the task can be accomplished." The troops of the Allies are absolutely confidem in victory.
11 universally emphasised, that the British Navy has. adready proved that it is a decisive, factor in the war, while dere is no tàure striking feature of the struggle than the rebirth of the British nation. As Mr. Bonar Law said in „the colonial estimates dehate in the House of Commons last evening, one of the outstanding facets of the war is the wonderful part played by the Inged Kingdom and every part of the Empire.
SPANISH NEUTRALITY.
Barcelona and German Submarines.
Barceloos is governed from Madrid as completely B other provincial capital in Spain ; but the difference between the remotest and most sloof capital
SANITARY BOARD,
Three Questions by Mr. Bowley.
The orders of the day for next Tuesday's meeting of the Banitary Board include:-
Ita
Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, pureusot- notice, will ask:-
"i. What is the resson for the
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SALES, AUGUST – 5, 1916. -
CORRESPONDENCE.
The opinions expressed by the correspondents are not necesa- - arily those of the Hongkong Telegraph"]
THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEETING.
(To the Editor of the Hongkong
Telegraph.)
Bit,-I think it ́is regrettable that the Colonial Secretary: should
have sent to the Prees a copy of his letter to me, on the subject of my interpolation in Council oo Thursday last, without, at the same time, sendi ing to the Prem a'cnpy of the letter in reply, which I rent to} him a few minutes after 2pm realarday afternoon, in a cover which
wan marked "Urgent." ́I, theref rá, explose a copy of that letter, from which it will be
en that the inference which the! Unverament apparently wishes the public to draw, hat I wilfully made a misstatement of fact and am adhering to it, is wholly incorrect.
I take this opportunity of point- ing cul that my erroneous state- ment only applies to the question of whether 3 Sisters, or 2 Sistera only, were borne on the Estimates for 1915, under the beading, Kennedy Town Hepitel.
Yours etc. Hongkong, August 5, 1916.
EL E POLLOCK,
(Enclosure).
·Princes Buildings, 4th August, 1916. The Bonourable Colonial Secretary.
this date, I much regret that I Sir,-La reply to your letter of inadvertently misread the mean- ing of the Estimates for 1015, under the heading of Kennedy delay on the part of the Govern- Town Hospital, with its reference ia Europe and the great city of mat in dealing with the recom-101 Sister, followed by a reference the Mediterranea, hamming with mendations of the Board with to 2 Sisters, and I desire to ex- life and work and in direct con-regard to No.1 May Road and No. tact with ovary quarter of the 18 Peak Road (Tan Mor)? civilised world especially with ii. What arrangements are France, is infinite and incalulable, made by the Sanitary Department Between Castille and Catalonia for removing menare from river there is fittle. contact and less steamere bringing cattle to Hong- sympathy, and perhaps the only tông? Can the Head of the point on which they agres is in Sanitary Department suggest any conviction that Spain's improvement in such arrange- neutrality must be preserved. mente ?
the
Press my sincere regret to His Excellency The Governor for the interpolation of my remark "That is not so,” which was due to the above misreading.
If His Excellency wishes the above remark of mine to be and, I am quite agreeable to that omitted from the report in Han course, and shall be obliged if you will kindly let me know;
I am, Sir, Your Obedient Servant,
(8) H. E POLLOCK.
This attitude is very well iii. Will the Head of the Sanit- reflected by the Vanguardia,ary Department lay on the table which in size, seriousness, sad and supply members of the Board circalation, as well as in com with prints of the annual Medical pleteness of organisation, is the and Sanitary reports for last year, most important paper in which have been laid on the table Catalonia, ons might almost say of the Legislative Council?"
THE ATSUTA MARU. in the whole of Spain. Athe Plan of the proposed through proprietor, Senor Godo, remarked closet and urinal at the Lower Aground in the Inland Sex. to the writer, As long as the Peak Tramway Station. Government is" neatral
The manager of the local branch the Application for permission to of the Nippon Yan Kaiba Vanguardia will be neutral." Its erect 4 water closets and 2 urinale inform us that, owing to ground. neutrality, like its independence at the Cosmopolitan Dock,ing in the Inland Sea, the oiling party, is not only a name bot Teikoktsui, Kowloon Marias of the e. Atante Maru, sobeduled result of a considered policy, and Application for permission to 10th inst. for Earope, may be to leave here on Thursday, the a strong sense of responsibility erect 3 water closets in the Golf delayed for a few days, and that The exemple thus set is followed Club House on Rural Building the definite sailing date will be generally by the Press of the Lot No. 88, Deep Water Bay. region, whose tone may be des Application for 2 grave spaces cribed as One of neutrality in Section D in Mount Caroline tempered by sympathy with Cemetery. France.
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fact, and appears to be the Lot No. 28,
This rule has exceptions, such
as the Germonophil Correo anð,
LANGKAT OUTPUT,
the Liberal, which, like its parent
in Madrid, is strongly for the
Allies. But the most exception Mosers, Benjamin and Potte
is without doubt Senor E. Diaz advise ne that the Langkat culpat Rotg, secretary of the Barcelona is as follows:-
Daily Press Associatin. Day after August
day since the war began he has
championed the Allied cause in the pages of the Diluvio with rare
paper,
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134
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Daily average
540
135.00
Total to 4th inst.
announced later.
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Capt. W. KEASLEY, having arrived from the Ports, Cont sigues of Cargo are hereby THE Undersigned has received informed that their goods are instructions from the Liqui being landed at their risk into dators of CHS. J. GAUPP & CO. the Godowns of the Hongkong to sell by Public Auction and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, and SATURDAY, & MONDAY, stored at Consignees risk and the 12th & 14th August, 1916,
commencing each day at All_broken, chafed and dam-110,30 am. on their Premises,
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Press Denunciations.
derable stir bes been caused Petrograd, Jons 8. — A consi- in official quarters here by the publication in The Bourse Gamette of an article on Greece in which the opinion is expressed courage and persistence. As his
that the King of the Hellence would do well to go away for a articles were signed, well-inform-
reat at some dorstion to some ed, and pleasantly-written, he
place better, for his bealth than soon attracted the attention of this Germans and their friends, who
Athens, Russian newspapers ge tried at first to bribe him into
nerally are openly denouncing silence and then to eviot dining comfortably in Barcelona, what one of them describes za him from his
and He also recorde bis belief that the the political felony of Greece, to are now trying to get him submarines that hava lately been wards the Eatente Powers, and into prison. He has been 60 solive off the east coast of Spain insists on the adaption of most indicted no fewer than seven have received their supplies and vigorous messnces. times on one frivolous pretext or also their remarkably accurate The Reich oberves that if another. In spite of the Pablio information either from Spain or the Bulgarians entered Greece su Prosecutor's request that he from the Balearic Islands. He is the result of an agreement with should be imprisoned for two of opinion the Spaniards, if any the Greek Government, the En- years woven months and a day there be, who connive at each teate, Powers must draw the neces for endangering the safety of breaches of Spanish meatrality Bary and inevitable conclusions. the State," he has been already endanger the safety of the State The Den says:-"Greece in in acquitted in two cases. The more truly than any journalist the camp of nor enemies." The
declares: who merely execrates the sub Bourse Gazette remaining five summonses" are.
"We must take action without marine's cowardly work. still to be heard.
to remind the Insults to the Spanish Flag. And what he says openly an losing a minute t Senor Diaz-Reig believes increasing number of Spaniards Athenian courtiers of their duties strongly in neutrality, but not at are beginning to think. Senor to the Entente Powers, to whom the price of Spanish dignity; and Disz Betg, who has been invited Grero owen her very existence, he daily urges the Government to visit the Allied from in Francs well as her prosperity.". to ezect reparation for the and Flanders, in a young man recent insults to the Spanish flag, but he bus travelled machi, read. In the Diluvia he records the fact much, and is an indefatigable that within a few hours of the worker. He means to write what torpedoing of the Orlook Head he hopes will be the standard Germana sabmarine officers were Spanish history of the war.
the measures taken at daluriós The Novos Vremya oonsidera imfficient, and calls upon the Entente Powers to bring the necessary pressure to bour at the Piraeus su3l at Athèns, '
expense.
All claims must be presented Gold and Gem Jewellery: Eng- within fifteen days of the lish, American and Swiss 18ct. steamer's arrival here, after and 14ct. Watches; Silver and which date they cannot be Nickel Watches Diamonde; Pearls Marine Chronometers recognised.
No claims will be admitted] Liquid Steering Compasses ; Log after the goods have left the Rotators, Sinkers; Thomson Com Godowne, and all Goods remain-pass Cards; Board of Trade and ing undelivered after the 17th Standard Mercurial Barometers; fast, will be subject to rent Megaphones; Anemometers; T. Consignees of cargo are hereby Squares: Bet Squares Curres; Thermometers; notified that they must produce Microscopes;
an Import permit signed by the Spirit Levels: Surveying Chains Superintendent of Imports and and Arrows; Admiralty Charts: Exports, Hongkong, before Bills Nautical Books; Optical Sun- of Lading can be countersigned, dries, &o, &c, &C. effected.
No Fire Insurance, has been
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