THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1916.
VICTORIA THEATRE.
GREAT
RAMME.
Commenced on FRIDAY 18th inst.
"THE GOLDEN SWORD-KNOT:"
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PATHE'S BRITISH and FRENCH GAZETTES; ALSO COMIC FILMS.
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Contents of Ga zetten :-The Allies Rendezvous.-The Disturbance in Ireland-Lord Wimborne.-Mr. Birrell the ex-Irish Secretary-Dublin-Sackville Street-King George V. starts the Military Cross- Country Race at Aldershot-Bayonet Fighting.-His Majesty visits Aldershot and Inspects the Different Troops. With the Allies in the Near East. La the Fort of Tozha, now in the hands of the British→→
Army Traction in Alsace, etc., etc.
SHELL TRANSPORT AND pany, ibe Chairmsa ssid:-"1] FRANCE'S GLORIOUS DAY. in the "Marseillaiss,' Dalyzin
TRADING CO.
A Dividend of 35 Per Cent.
sven
foer
How London Celebrated the
Festival.
DUTCH SHIPPING.
ozon more showed how very good. French art can be. Tae audience, more French than English, listen- ed delightedly to Violet Loraine, Royal Packet Company's Report. Raymond Bitchcock, Marguerite The report of the Royal Packet Soisitiel, end to all the clever Company (Koninklijke Paket- people who made such fun out of Taart Mastschappij) for 1915 Dalysia's revue:.
shows a record of satisfactory All the grim horrors and the development. The contract with
THE YUNNAN OPIUM -SCANDAL.
News of the 36: Missing Trunks.
The North China Daily News
Yesterday, up to a late hour,
SHARE MARKET “QUOTATIONS.
Up to the Minute.
Banks. China Fires. b. 8 15400. Steamboats.
b. $ 740.00.
$22.50.
Indos-(Def.), dras. 3 128.00.
Ferries.
ป
Sagar. Halabon.
b. $ 38 25.
I must pay a well-deserved tribute to the personnel of our fleet, who bare bad most difficult and, indeed, dangerous duties to falfil, and has performed them admir- ably. Our steamer Turbo was attacked by a submarine in the In one of the little streets of London, July 12-Sir Mercne Mediterraneen, but by successful London's Quartier Latin, allablaze Samuel (chairman) presided at manoeuvring eacceeded in avert with colour, hang a flag that the manual meeting of the Shelling diaseter and got safely to uzzied the observant passer byahining glory of Verdun were the Government, which was due of August 12 naya:~.
The Goldmouth made it was neither British nor French shown in a wonderful film at the to lapse at the end of the year, Transport and Trading Co., Ltd., port,
resistance, There was a "fragment of the West-end Ciaems. The battered was renewed for another period of | saw no developments in the Yan- held to-day in Winchester Houve. an report sad scounte, he usid: men eabmarine at bay for no pisos of the tricolour, Bet: ? great French guns at work. betions to the Government being the appearance of General Tih / HK. Wharvos, „b. 8 88.50.
In moving the adoption of the and suceeded in keeping a Ger-Jaion Jack; indubitably, too, a town, the shattered hospitals, she ten years, the company's obliga- Í asa opium scandal, except for Langkata.
A plump and comely French Fond, mine explosions under the considerably increased under the Zion, alias Yih Zang-zah, Oom Kloon Dooks...sa,127.00. tionally strong one, since we have | much damage, the wireless tele- women, passing by with a lone German lines, the heroism of the | new cɔntract and adapted to the mander-in-Chief of the 6th Be £1,645,505. Le 101 invested ouleide | graphist ̧ being wounded as well roll of bread under her arm, exfire brigade which keeps to its ever-extending needs of traffic publican Army and special dele-
post, and endless little touches consequent upon the development the business in first-class secar- one of the engineers, before plained it,
for Yaansa at the Mixed Court. "But, yee," she volunteered, which tell with an almost intoler- of the Dutch Indies. The new gate to the Military Conference
able realism of the supreme contract embraces a system of no ition, £600,000 in fired deposits surrendering to the
Investigations are still being aash at bankersoa current scoount allowing the crea to escape in and mine might wave side by side, sacrifices which our Ally is fewer than 30 lines, as compared | briskly pursued for the recovery with bankers, and £138,788. ls 54 la revenge, the anbmarine, whilst with a smile, "years ago your fisg and at short notice, while we have the boste, captured the captain But is it not that we are some-making, have been admirably with 13 under the old agreement. \ of the missing 38 trunks, which |
The osob position is an excep- less than eix hours, sustaining
still to receive from our subsidiary companies £920,212. 17. Id.
The question of petrol, its sup ply to this country, and price, is one of such public interest at the present moment that I propose to deal with this before toaching
spirit could not be purchased
Germans,
It is anticipated that the receipts Mile Edmee. of the Opera under the new contract will you will be glad to bear be arriv So it is that my old grandmother Comique, sang the Marseillaise," remain about the same. ed safely in Germany, and we has sewn our two flags together, and the audience was not saham- have been able to send him car and they make one. One greated to sing the chorus with French rather unfavourable conditions, The year 1915 began nader thanke and some parcela. With family and big vistory!"
but there was gradual improve this exception, our tank flet | July 15 was known officially
Those who wanted a more last-meat, particularly in the second
of
and took him away, but I am sure thing more than friends to-day? screened.
hes escaped injury during as France's Day. Not only Soho,
warmth and enthusisem.
the authorities know to have been brought to Shanghai together with the 24 which have been seized. balance have been picked up and Claes as to the existence of the
. $ 110.50.
д. Т
26.75.
a. $ 39.00,
S'hai Docks.. b. T 87.50. Land Invest. $ 100.00. S'hai Lands. n. T 92.00. 4.85. Yanglasopoos. ET Borneos.
n. $
8.25. China L. & P. b. $ 4.60. GreenI'land..b.&or. $ 9.50. Trama. (L. L.) sa. 7.60.
strong hopes are entertained for although it was within the know- the ultimate seizure of the missing ledge of the prosecution that part
basen were discovered he would
other matters. Finding that shall the war, but the steamer Nord but the whole country evolved ang memory of the great day half of the year. Passenger and ( opium. Just what information the of that opium had been offered except by those who had always Shanghai-Langket Company), of Day became Our Day. So at/been made by the disabled Poilus Government decreased, bat so it has, naturaify, not transpired;"} the Minister of Munitions that wreaked in November off the coast of the comradeship of the treg. You could get painted figures of of 1914. Better results. than in a hundredweight of Yunnsation for bail. It was true that used it, complainta began to reach about 2,000 tons deadweight, was home thera was a glorious echo at the Jeffre School at Lyons. private osigoes far: exosed those but it is known that well over half View with diefavour any applios-" supplies could not be obtained of fasmania. Meny ships which ebee. For close on two yesću the the great "papa" himself, but previous years were shown by the opiara was offered for sale in the accused was a man of high we had under construction were solidarity of the two peoples has there were little representations services to and from Australis, Shanghai yesterday morning. If position, hat the only result of placed in the hands of the Petrol asfortunately delayed in delivery deepened and deepened. France's of Tommy, and several of the and the Siam services were well this in a portion of the Yannaathat would be that, if he were Control Committee, whose efforts, owing to the war, whilst, in two sorrow is our sorrow, her joy is fighlan ler, who makes a very maintained, yielding satisfactory l'opiam for which the search is guilty of the offence, it would be
our joy, and her victory will be special appeal to the French are results. The steady expansion of being vigorously prosecuted, it far more serious for him. I hope, will receive loyal support, delivery 12 months after the boste our victory. Yesterday the le 1st All sorts of little artistes made the company's traffic is shown by would seem and may lead to some good. peata that the endeavour so keen premiams to the builders only to to emphasise the love of the Eng. sala at the main depots and they ber of passengers carried has has already been split up, but out that the object of granting With the best intentions it ap- were due, we had to pay heavy emotional amongst us was glad l'out of fragments of shell were on the fact that since 1881 the nam- | assumption that the missing drug megistrate, the Assessor pointed
sad the malter was eventually
down prices was not an namized benefit, because at the price of
28 2d per gallon petrol could not
be sold at a profit in this country, and, Doneequently, oataide our ow applies comparatively
case at lenet, even to obtain
have the boats commandeered by fish heart for France, and to make the Government 88 GOOD 26
little tribute to the unending ware ready. You can valour of her troops and the they understand, under these cit-limitless devotion of her women. oumstances, the great anxieties
£50 For a Fing. that the managera have experi- There was
no conscientions
were eagerly purchased.
At the Bits Hotel were to be bought the most delicate of silk flowera with a very touching his tory behind them. These dainty
10,000,000 Favours.
to lead to the
After consultation with the
increased from 122,000 to 617,000 against this is the fact that a bail was to ensure the appearance last year, and the amount of multiplicity of hiding places of the socused at the trial. Be private cargo from 104,000 to involves a larger number of cosas estisfied, on account of the 881,000 tons, while the company'e federates and greater risk of dis-accused's position, that hail in ships cover an average of 667,000 geographical miles, as compared
covery.
An astonishing statement is any amount would be forthcoming from members of the same party,
little was imported. It would be fenced in oondacting a business objector to fing days yesterday. blooms are not the work of the with 188,000 miles. The voyages | onrrent that this lot of opiam is but there was no guarantee that entirely misleading to way that which, even under normal cir-Not to have been French would factory girl, but of the widows of to Australia and Siam cover an really the second that has reach the sccused would appear at the
8
is purely
tone
8
qaration of pries (coupled
we bare done, oreated
A
to us in
fala fed all calculations.
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Mr. Musso then applied for a despatch warrant to isans for the apprehension of the three men who have not yet been arrested, They had gone to Hangchow and counsel said he wanted to have them brought back into the juris- diction of that Court.
The application was granted.
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENT.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN,
JAVA-PACIFIJ LIJN.
ed this pors. In asid that, by trial. The trial, he pointed out, there was at any time difficulty in landes, so far as the regala have been an British. So the French officers. English ladies, aggregate of 36,106 miles,
Daring the year steamship similar means, a large quantity of would come on sa soon as pos- obtaining petrol for the British tion of tonnage is concerned, is little tricoloured bow or the min- some of whom have themselves
beast by great difficulties. Al-istare sword was in every but been widowed in the great war, aragen yielded a gross profit of opinis was brought into Shang sible and, in the circumstances, market, seeing that the produc- though shipowners in general tonhole, and the poorest of the bought the flowers, not to wear 5,243,504 forins, as compared bai six months ago, but on the he did not think that any bail tion 10 the Uailed Statem
have made profius from the war poor made exorifies and gate or for decorative purposes, but to with 3,068,817 for the previous occasion the smugglers are said should be granted. He would,
treasured memorice, year. The sum of 2,156,314ft to have been successful. smounte to 4,000,000
that has been far from the case their shillings or their pence se keep as
however, be willing to consider .year. It
Mr. Grant Jones, British Ar an application for bail when the with us. In fact, the Anglo-Saxon readily as others gave their pounds Made in the homes of France, (1,961,1928 in 1915) is written
now so empty and lonely without for depreciation of the flock, and sensor, and Magistrate Ya, had 36 casse had been discovered Petroleum Co., which owns most and 50 guínes cheques. of course, with the possibility of the feet, has been obliged to The exalted faith of France the father of the little ones who 313,871 (193,7858) for establish- the case of General Yih before of obtaining transport) to ensure
net profit of 2,621,818 florins a supplies to any extent required reduce its dividend, Although|was expressed in the touching thread mamma's needle, the little mente in the Indise. Out of the them yesterday morning.
was charged with being concerned Upon the advancing of the price prices during part of the year requiem at Westminster Osthe blooms were quickly sold.
The organisation of France's dividend of 10 per cent, is in smuggling opium the imports to attract supplies which, atas during 1914, the enormous France were reflected in the Day, directed from the headquar- declared, as against 5 per cent. tion of which is prohibited. to 24 10d a gallon, it was possible were practically on the same level dral. The unfaltering hopes of
Mr. G. D. Musso and Mr. B. F. lower level, would never have increase in production expenses women who wore the dress of the tera of the Orix Rage Francaise for 1914.
preoladed any increase
i peasants of Alsace. The ten- in Knightsbridge, was in the
C. Master appeared for the prose reached here. We were driven to
cation and Mr. J. G. Priestwood the conclusion (the fact being Company.
net profits by the Bataafeche derness of France was in the eyes hands of Viscountess de la
Although the
defended. end in the smile of her Red Panouse, assisted by Mr. D. H. strongly represented
Mr. Musso informed the Court responsible quarters) that in the troubles in China adversely affect Cross workers pleading in the Illingworth and Mr. P. Collins. Ambassador's words. They who for help for the Ten million favoura were offered have given so much know siso general interest it was better to our business and there is a large streets
persons wanted-on-s-warrant sacrifice other trades in order to redaction in the volume of wounded pion-pias. In the firm to the public by at least 5,000 how much worth while it was to that the accused was one of seven
deliveries in that country-the step of the French officer was all ladies. But Mme. de la Panouse give.
issued in connexion with tha bring patrol (which we were
Alsace-Lorrainers in London. obliged to purchase even if it had opinion of your directors is that that is moet msgnificent in the organised the day so admiraly
Atsac-Lorrainers in London it importation of opium from Yaonan. ·He was arrested on to be sold at a high price) than the prospects of the business courage and will of our most that everything went with com-
pleta esse, and to her excellent celebrated the National Foto Day
Wednesday. Counsel intimated not to provide it at all, and this over the whole world for the dear Ally..
Is a wonderful day, full to the arrangements it owes its glorions in the evening with a dinner and that at that session he only in- The war bee current year are satisfactory.
The directors' report showed brim with expressions of the suocem.
concert at Gatti's, organised by for patrol
· demand
In commemoration of the day the Ligas Patriotique des Ai- tended to offer evidence of arrest of such an unprec-dented and that a credit of £2,164,606 has sense of fellowship between the
remand in custody. unforesen charecter that it has been brought forward to the pro- two countries, one can point only the Joint War Committee of the saciens Lorrains, Fae Ligue, after which he would ask for a
it and loss acsɔnat.. A second here and there to examples.
British Bed Cross ·and· Order of founded soon after the beginning.
Det, Sab.-inspoosor Dee do We
interim dividend for 1915 of 51. Flag-sellers, stationed in the St. John han voted a sum of of the war, has done good work bave devoted our very beet on the shero was
to be paid on streets, at theatres, at West-end £25,000 to provide dressings, in attending, to the comfort of posed to reosiving a warrant for deavours to serving the Govern-
per 5th proximo, making 35 hotels, told, almost monotonously, droge, and other hospital re- Alsace-Lorrainers who hays left to arrest of seven people, inclad- ment by assuring them of a con-
"TJISONDARI," ainst eapply, of the very finest per cent, for the year, leaving of the generosity of the people. quisites for the wounded soldiers this country to join the French ing the socused, and in con- HE Steamship
sum of £420,302 to lle. Gaby Deelys received af France, but another proof of army and in looking after sheir sequence of it he called at No.
184 mapen Road Uhinese having arrived from
BAN petrol the world produces, at low osrried forward. The interim cheque for 550 for a single fig. the solicitude of the British Red wives and families.
FRANCISCO, prices. I may safely say that
Mr. Cathcart Wason, M.P.hotel. Taste he found only three by Sirman, the socused and three othera
Consignees of Cargo by her are where the Government have relied dividende were free of income tax. Ten-pound notes rastled contina Cross for its sister society. The on as we have never once failed The roserve account amounted to ously. Silver hesped up the little help of the Scottish and Austra prosided, supported
$4,000,000. . ho amoant of cand until they had to be empted lian hrenohes has been sent in Edwin Cornwall, M.P., and being out. He lefs a delecurve in hereby notified that all Goods are them. The greater portion of our fleet is engaged either directly or £60,000 had been allocated to su only to be filled again. Late last generous measure to the gallant Mourey, the French Vice-Consul, charge and when the accused re being fonted at their rise into was intensely turned he was taken into custody the nazardous and/or extra haz indirectly on
exchange adjustment account, night it was impossible for the Poilus. The Candian Red Cross Even the manu the Government
which profit had been derived organisera to indicate even has sent great contributions of pia Ally," Bonnes Bouchees and brought to Loozs. Pulice ardous Godowns of the Hong- Bervice, and I say, without a
****** Friandise · de la Station where the WAITANT WAs read | Kung ở Kowloon When a co- from the low rate of exchange in approximately the amount collect dressings, clothing, bedding, & Bromasilof,
down Co., Ltd, whence and/or Dover so him, V.. incment's besitation that so far
Holland on London.
ed for the French Bed Crom, but New Zealand, South Africa, India, Grande-Bretagne George
"la reply to Mr. Masso, witasse from the wharves delivery may derived from baring
Pom- any Mr. B. W. A, Delerding haring it is confidently hoped that Jamaica-in fact every part of "Concombres Jellicos, financial benefit from the
----No-Claims-will be admitted has seconded, the report and account £100,000 has been raised. the British Empire has added me a Succes-Final « Farfait stated shat the taree men not be obtained. merasa
arrested had left Bhinngual on after the goods have left the the.... this company
were passed.
**At Mile. Delysia's matinee at its generous share to the great Invincible a Verdan's in Potain,
Wednesday morning. -suffered very materially, because The following retiring directors the Ambassadors, M. Morton, in tribute to Franon's wounded Torreur Germaniqas a la Fran-
osise,
1.-"- and" " Frassottos de la
Mr. Priesthood applied that the downs, and all Goods remaining undelivered Watter the 26th we are not speonistors in tonnage were re-elected to the board: his irresistible French, suotioned soldiers. but build ships for our own trade Messre, Bamnel Samesi, M. Pa programme signed by the artists
"When we emerge from this Forst des Allies-Mori Kultur prisoner should be allowed out on Aug., 1916, will be subject to rent, bail. The socused, ho said, was a „All Ulanns against the Steamci Owing to the fact I have cited, W. Foot Mitchell, B. J. Black, and by the French Ambassador, sanguinary gloom we shall we the being among the conmes. many promising ventures that wa
There was enthusiastic chear-mulary. officer of the Yunasa must be presented to ins Under- had entered into (believing that and Sir Reginald MaoLood, It quickly realised £8 152, With 'ar of Franos gloaming with
K.C.B.
equal success ha extracted a fresh brilliance to a deeper and ing as the speakers, referred, so. Government and was proceeding signed on or before the 28th pound note from a member of the purer sky," ome the inspiring the coming tasorporation of the on a special mission w Peting in August, 1916, or they will not andienos in the clever litte akit words of M. Paul Cambou, the loại Provinces again with France; connexion with military messors, recognised. on thought-reading,
French Ambasadors he spoke We were fighting for the ideal the pointed out that the soonexi chartering our alesmere to the A new sorios of stamps has been "Please, lend me a note, asks to members of the French colony of liberty and, progres, said Sir was a man of position sad would shat in London, who met together at Edwin Cornwall, and wothing be sbie to farnish tail. He spoord- Admiralty at Blue Book rates, we issued for the payment by weekly Morton. Delysin "rende
would have sent the soldiers of ingly naked pha. have had to pay over four times instalments of income-tax on it is the intention of the owner so their country's Re
France and England into she wa the price for neutral tourge for small incomes. The stamps will present-it, to the a
we should have tonnage at our disposal) had to go neglected. From this sourds alone our trade. has been crippled, for, whilst
CAR OWN EE GIFments, and even
on
$
Income Tax Stamps.
be affixed to curds" "warkly
Äl' proken, chafod and