SHARE MARKET QUOTATIONS. Up To the Minute.
Banks.
Dougissee
b. 740.00. b. 133.50.
Indos (Def.) B. $125.00.
Star Ferries.
b. $37.00.
China Sugars. s. 111.00. Kowloon Docks. ss. 12700, 9.69.
B.K. Wharves. b. $ 83.50.
Cermente.
BR. $ B.K. Electrics. b. $ H.K.Tramways. B. $
51.50. 7.60.
TRADE MARK CASE,
Injunction.
THE PLAGUES OF AMĖSOPOTAMIA.
Fleas, Mosquitoes. Dust,
and Disease..
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1916.
would attack as without truce. About this time there arrived coneigument of Cardigan jackets, in response to January's cry for warmth. Transport in Mesopo- tamia is slow, and friends 1 home, when they read that we are on the gridiron would do
CRIMINAL SESSIONS. A VISIT TO THE FLEET. POLICE RESERVE ORDERS.
Kidnappers Get Five Years.
~Calm After the Battle..
had not been arrested.
Orders issued to-day by Mr. F. 0. Jankin, D. 8. P. (Reserve)
I
Patrol Lists.
Rifles and Ammunition,
Transter.
Joined,
Mounted Patrols-W. W. wards.
No. 2 Platoon, No 3 Section B. A. Hyder.
Lectures, Headquarters' Club 5-30 p.m. Wednesday, August 23rd.
TERMS OF PEACE.
Why Germany Cannot Accept Them.
CORRESPONDENCE.
The opinions expressed by the correspondents are not neceES- arily those of the Hongkong Telegraph"}
SLEEPING CRIMINALS.
(To the Editor of the Honghong
Telegraph.)
#.
DEATH OF
MR. C. J. XAVIER,
London, July 12.-Loaders of
In an article outlining possible The second day of the Augast the Labour movement in Franos
In all lists of men warned for terms of peace the Spectator em Criminal Sessions opened at the and Belgium, who will be return-
Patrol Duty sent to the D. 8. P.'s phasises the fact that the only There is no respite or trase in Supreme Court this morning, ing to their own countries in the plagues of Mesopotamis, and when, before the Paisas Judge few days, are in a position, from office, Warning officers are re terms we can offer are such as her the only normal thing in the country on which one mount is (Mr. Justice Gomperts), the case personal observation, to assure quired to state the Collar Number, ralers must fight to the death
was heard in which a man and their fellow-workingman that these well as the namas, of each patrol-against
"In the first place, in order to
Bir. Owing to the hot weather, woman, named Wong Chung sad sertion of Admiral Jellicos that man. that the plague cycle is unbroken and continuous that the plague Leung Ho respectively, were the ships which took part in the
gain that security for which we Band and Orchestra.
are fighting Germany must be daring this season there sta overlap. The plagues of May are charged with kidnapping a six- Jatland battle are absolutely dast, heat, and Bies; and the year-old boy named Kok Tee-yn ready to meet the foe whenever Band Fraction.-August 28th forced to make restitution in hundreds of Chinese, if not thous greatest of these is flise. The from a shop in Shanghai Street, he chooses is beyond all doubt. at 6pm.
Orchestra-T. Orchestra, in respect not only of the territories ande, sleeping in front of ell flies in the tente, dugoats, and Yaumati, on June 20.
she has seized since July, 1914, Chinese shops in the Colony.. They also know that the German. The prisoners pleaded "Not atatement that the Wampitelieu of the practica fized for but of those which she laid hande No doubt some of them are on and which sbe hae the staffs of such shops, but THE CANTON SITUATION. tronches, unless seen, are unbe lievable. To describe them is to
and the following was Bank after gallantly Thursday, August 24th., will play on banard one's reputation for tratb, guilty,"
First and foremost amongst them. Yet the Palice do You esanct eat without swallow were empanelled on the juryrashing to the aid of the Warrior on that the daks at the Head oppressed during the last fifty or there are also mme oriminsia she must give back every inch of not take the trouble to arrest these Messengers from the President.ing fies. You are your spoon Messes. B. Hercock, J. Reid, Miwell let us be charitable and quarters' Club between the hours
territory which she took from individuals who are eleeping in of porridge in the air to shake J. Fortie, N. McIntyre, Look Poon- say a mistake. During the weak of 6 and 7 p.m.
France in 1871. When pesce the same place with the genuine them off; you put your biscuit sad shan, C. B. da Rosa, and F. and the heads of the working-
class movement amongst our Members leaving the Colony or comes the lost provinces must ehop people. Why do not the authorities taka stepe against There is little soough that is bally-beef in your pocket, and Bevington.
Mr. G. N. Orme conducted the gallant Allies-every one of them
Many of new in the situation round about surreptitiously convey them in
s period exoseding, or likely to
"The full restitution of the soil these undesirables? Canton. Spasmodic firing con-closed fist to your mouth-hatesse for the prosecution, and, in fervent patriots, and some of them obtaining Medical Exemption for be lust no more.
and it is warprising that the tinues both in the Shek Wail you swallow flies all the same. opening the case, said that the mourning the loss of their own
been penalty to return their Rifles and as necessary an item se the re- Verdun-have Tong area and also down at Shek. They settle in clouds on every boy had been living with bis wons in the terrible straggles exceed, 7 days, are required under of Belgium and of Serbia is just them are known to the police,
parents at 247, Shanghai Street, around lung. The position at Shamcheo thing.
As I write I cannot see the and. A few days prior to Jans 20, s taken to visit the fest, and have Ammunition through their Equip storation of Alance and Lorraine, opportunity of acreating them in
Yours &c., is reported as quiet. Some amount
P. K. K... of "acrapping" is stated to have of my pen. Iovertook a aquadron cousin of his father's came to live been thrilled with the demon-ment officers to the Musketry and so also is the restitution of not taken advantage of
In the case of members at only that part of Poland which is
occupied ... by Hongkong, August 22, 1916. taken place on the river between of cavalry the other day, and in with them and it was he who on stration thus afforded of the might Sergeant, or to the latter direct, the whole of Poland-ie, not
The primary object of the visit present on leave or medically ex-temporarily the gunboats of the rival factions. that state of semi-coms, in which the 20th took the boy away, in of Britain on the seas.
Arrivals from the West River the heat wraps one, I thought collusion with the two defendants. state that very large numbers of they were wearing chain armour. It was known that they agreed to of the delegates to England was empted, whose leave or exemption Germane and Austrians, but Kwangsai soldiers are arriving at I had walked my borse beside pay $140 for the boy, who was to take part in the meetings of the hes exoseded 7 days, and in the Poren and Galicia as well. No Shin Hing, presumably from them some minutes before I die later taken up to Kongmoon by General Federation of Trades ase of mumbers who have left Polish soil must be left under Gor- the Chief Inspector of Musketry question of Schleswig-Holstein we Wackow and even from Nanning. covered that what looked like boat and from there to a village Unions, and originally the foreign the Colony without permission, man or Austrian sway. Into the Two representatives of the mail was the steely blue metallié Dear Sou Ning. It was not until delegation comprised represents:ill take immediate steps" for had better not enter in detail just}
July 17, that the father found tires from France, Belgium, President have arrived in tong-mesh of flies.
parts of the Dachies in which kong---Whoang Boo and Nig At night the flies disappear, cut where the boy was, and going Ruesis, Italy, and Portugal. The securing the return of Rifles and now, but we may be sure that any there is a local majority hostile to Prassian rule will not be kept Yong-jen. The first leaves to-day and the mosquitoes and sand-up country to the village, paid sonference concluded the Govern- Ammunition.
P: C. 744 Vincenot-is-trans-under the heel of the oppressor The funeral took place at the for Jhia Hing, and the accond flies relieve them, completing the $270 ae ransom. The man who ment have invited them to visit
works, and one of our great ferred to the Motor Patrols.
Italy will, of course, deliver the Roman Catholic Cemetery last will follow later. It is understood vicious circle. Mosquitoes are bad actually taken the boy away the fleet, shipyards, munition military camps. Appro
Italians in the Treating and evening of the late Mr. C. J. that their mission is to interview local. In many places you may
Eridenos was then called.
enough the fleet Shum Chan-hoen on behalf of be spared them altogether, but
Italian-speaking Tyrol from Xavier, whose death occurred at After hearing the evidence, the priately
Ed-Austrian rule. Cards will become his residence at Kowloon on Li Yuan-hung, end to advise him there are districts where they are
a wholly Italian lake, and none Sunday evening. The deceased to return to Peking without employed by the gods biob jury returned a verdict of guilty was taken first. Unfortunately the delay.
plagae ne as the chief scourge. by six to one against the male Russian, Italian, and Portu-
of the Italian-speaking peoples of was one of the oldest residente Io one osmp I rack a species defendant, and by five to two guess delegates were unable to take part, but, included in the
the Italian Alps will remain in of the Colony, and, prior to which could bite through cord against the women.
party which is now on tour_ste
Austrian possession. Trieste will his retirement, ten years ago, His Lordship said he quite L. Joubaux, secretary, Con- riding breeches.
come into Italian handa. Again, was Chief Clerk of the Supreme In the last week of April we agreed with those who had found federation Generale du Travail;
Austris and Hungary will no Court. He had been in the em editor of watched with apprehension the them guilty, as he was quite clear M A. Lagast,
longer be allowed to appress the dwindling rim of snow on the the prisoners knew all about it. L'Humanite, H. J. Bled, so
Slave, whether in ploy of the Government for over forty years and besides the post Pasht-i-Kub, knowing that when There was a lot of that sort of cretery, L'Union des Syndicales The Surgeon Superintendent of Southern Standard Oil Company Obtains it had vanished the sun demon thing going on in the Colony and I do is Seins; H. P. Damas, secre. Police (R) will lecture on " Police Bohemis, Croatis, Dalmatia, mentioned above he was clerk to he was determined to stop it. Betary. Federation D'Habillement; First Aid in Street Accidents." Boenis, Herzegovina or any other then the Chief Justice, Sir John passed sentence of five years' N. H. Onuddo, secretary of the To be siteaded by all Sargeant portion of what was once the Carrington. He had also acted 180 Deputy Begistrar and burd labour sach.
Federation of Textile Workers; and sil Patrolmen of over 1 dominion of the Hapsburga.
"Farther, Germany and Ags Accountant of the Court. In H. G. Toulouse, representing year's Service. Optional for all
tris will have to pay fullest in bis public and private life railway workers in Northern other ranks,
Monday, August 28th-Lecture demnity to Belgiam and Serbis bewas 6 much-liked ра France; M. V. Lefovre, secretary of the jewellers organisation on "The duties of the Water for the rain they have wrought in sonality, and the news of his H. A. Kenter, book printers Police, and of the Land Police on those two kingdoms. Here no death was beard well to be packing off their win-though it bounces off the ground societies; M. J. Gainchard, secre- the Water Front." Water Folice plen of German or Austrian bank- all his friends with regret by buffets you, finging the sand and tary of the Transport Workers' to attend. Optional for all other raptcy will be allowed to hold 68th year. The deceased leaves good. They must make reparation one son, Mr. C. A. D. Xavier, lo It is a country of excess; nothing dust in your face. You eat sand, Union; M. P. Chanvin, secretary members.
for their deeds of hell in those mourn his losa, his wife having iserer moderate. There is some breathe sand, lie in saad, hare of the Building Trades Federa
two countries, even before they pre-deceased him some some few Headquarters' Club. thing almost Biblical in the way and in your ears and eyes and tion; M. A. Gaspar, of Liege, re-
The Club premises will be open feed their own people. Again, minihs ago. the gods of this sadient land have clothes. Sandflies by night; dies presenting the Belgian metal
The funeral was largely stiend- An affidavit, filed by Mr. Kraft, conspired to panish us. There is by day, until they shrivel up; ssad workers; and Mr. O. Mahiman, to Ladies on Thursday, August even though Germany and Aus the assistant manager of the malice in the sky and soil. Malice and suffocation by day and night. secretary of the Federation of 24th, from 4.30 p.m. to 7 p.m. tris will be too utterly exhausted
when the war ende for the pay of floral tributes,
ed and there was a large number Hongkong branch, stated that the of heat and drought; hunger and There are other kinds of dieTransport Workers of Belgium.
ment of a general indemnity, they plaintiff company were the regis- thirst; and flies; damp and cold comfort, different kinds of heat- The party is accompanied by Mr.
For learing the Colony without must restore the rain they have tered proprietors of the trade and mire; flood, hurricane, and mark representing a comet or star rain; fever and ague; and malice the moist and tropical heat of the W. A. Appleton, secretary of the
swamps of the Euphrates and the General Federation of Trades permission, a P.O. has been wrought in the Northern provinces used in respect of their mineral interwoven in the web of qircum-Shat-al-Arab, the parched and Unions; Mr. James Orinion, awarded 18 houra Gella' and of Franon
As for Turkey, the rule of the oil. That mark had been ex- Blanoe.
desert heat of the Tigris sad the Amalgamated Association of Card Special Patrol duty.
Ottoman Empire must cesee, and tensively used by the plaintiffs for In the first week of May an old Karun. Each variety has ite at and Blowing Room Operativer,
this quite as much in the interests many years, had acquired a con-
of its Mohammedan as of ile siderable reputation, and was campaigner consoled us with the tendant insects and peculiar sil- Councillor Alfred Short(Sheffield),
For the Tobacco Fund.
Christian subjecia.: Conetan. generally known among the remark that the flies would soon mente, which often take the form Boilermakers' Society; and Mr. Mareland, Amalgamated
We have had handed to 119 A
go 10 Chinese as the "Star" mark or be dead, "The heat kills them," of boils and eruptions. On the W.
sam of $35, which was collected tinople, will, of course
Russia, and not merely Conetan- brand. The defendanis recently he explained, "frizzlee them up Karun you may be stricken with Cotton Spinners.
like wool in a flame"--this by what is locally known GO dog-
Unfortunately the weather was at the billiard match in the Palace
tinople, but the Bes of Marmora imported into the Colony a large number of cases of kerosene oil way of consolation, when it was rot-the legacy of some poison- not very favourable for the visit. Hotel, Kowloon, on Saturday and the Dardanelles. To give
It is reported in shipping cir- ous fy. The Bagdad boil and It rained incessantly, and the night for the Cigarette and Bassin the city on the Straits and oles that the Indo-China Steam not manufactured by the plaintiffs 105 degrees in the shade.
"What do you call really hot?"
Aleppo date are other ills of the air was by no means clear. Oat Tobacco Fund,
to leave the possibility in the door Navigation Company's steamer or emanating from them. All
country of which one hears, of this, however, there was as
being slammed of her face would Washing has been chartered by a these cases bore trade marks with I asked.
"Oh, about 112 degrees! In though I have not encountered minor advantage, for officers who
be an absurdity. That is one of local firm for a term of twelve the word "Estrella "apon them. one's tent of course, it goes up to them. They leave a permanent took part in the battle told the
- inferno of battle. fight for at all costs. Happily, sult in a handsome profit for the Many of these cases, about 2,000, anything. The dies won't bother impression of Mesopotamia barat visitors that the degree of visibi them lashing at full speed into the things which the Allies must months at a figure which will re
into you-a cicatrice for life, lity prevailing was about the the were exported by the defendants you then.
In India beat in tempered by I have just paid a visit to Ahwar same as that when the hostile the imagination was impotent however, there is now no more Company. to Macao before the plaintiffs
direction, however, question as to this than there is were aware of the fact, and there houses. One is armed against it and the Permian oilfields, reputed fleets met. The visitors were thus in this had been seized in this Colony externally with pankahs and cold to be the hottest spots in Asis. able to form some idea of the the contrary impression, that about the restoration of Alasoe- preparedness and perfect organi- "Theoretically, we bare no 2,056 casas. Representations bad baths, thick walls and roof, and There is a place called Rahda, dificulties of the gun-isyera when of quiet self-confidence, thorough Lorraine to France.
ta Ярдех Germany's bren made to the defendants and doors and windows that shat it where I spent a night between firing at long range,
The visit was well timed, for eation will be an abiding memory desire they were prepared to accept the out and internally by ice and cool the Tal-i-Khavyat and the Imam
drinks. Spreading trees are plant Riza ranges. In a tent here last just as the Frenchman and Bel with the visitors. Perhaps the colonies, but as a matter of fect least to which the Allies could Other particulare filed showed ed by the rosdeide, in Mesopots August the thermometer never gians were boarding the picket question most frequently put to they will have to be taken from consent, we have put masters too that defendants had imported mis, where we are fighting, there fell below 120 degrees for three boste which were to take them to the naval officer accompanying her. Oar South African fellow high? On the contrary, is it to them the understate rather than overstate: 5,000 cases bearing that trade is no shude
not so much se s days and nights, and it reached the destroyers the Lion steamed the party was, “If nowa came subjects are not going to allow-obvious that we have tended to single scraggy date-palm.
a maximum of 129 degrees. slowly and majestically past them, now that the Boches were out, small blame mark and the probabilities were
The morning's work done, you
At Abwaz our troops are nesrly to all appearance just clipping in how long would it take the fleet restoration of South-West Africa the settlement which must be im- or of East Africa to the hands of posed on Germany if we are to due eocarity. Next, thet prior to the ordering of those lie in your tent with the flap open all ander roofs, and the miseries, quietly after a little constitutional to pat so sea. ? cases the defendants were not
The answer to this question is each bad neighbours as the have. aware of the existence of the end the sideflies lifted up end of last year are a memory. It was somewhere in the North Sea.
As ship after ship was passed, not for the public at present, Germans. The French, again, we must ask: Can any one expect sporions trade mark, kat it was gep through the long day wait from here that the 12th Brigade
which it
is not back the Cameron. In a word, such terms through negotiation P hard to believe that when the ing for the sun to go down, made their barning march to the recently published despatches because it might give Frits in are not likely to want to give that the Germans would agree to
Your only apparel in a sole topi Amars last Juas, An exploit of telling of the gallant deeds formation defendante saw such mark they did not realies that an infringe- or a wet towel round your head. which little has been heard, but performed by each came back desirable he should have: suffice the German flag will cease to fly That the Germen people, sick of it to say that it was regarded as in Afrion. The Australiang, will the war se they are, might agree ment had been committed, be- The thermometer runs up to 130 one which will be numbered with to the mind with curions now highly aansisctory to our Allies, see to it that it ceases to fly also to them we admit; but the Gar- cause the plaintiffs' mark was so degrees in a tent, where the tem the great classio marchesof history, vividness and reality. Even so, wall known. The defendants Perature is, of course moh when the story of this campaign, however, it was very difficult to The two ships which aroused the in New Gaines and in the man people at present have no had given an undertaking to higher than the Government, is written. One home journal magine all these magnificent greatest enthusiasm amongst Pacific generally. Again, if say in the wat. They do what Last year spoke of "Our picnic in vessels, now lying calmly in Frenchmen were the famous any one imagines that Japan their ralera tell them; and tist in have the trade mark removed and standard reading. completely obliterated to the The Mosoptamian wan corrodes Mesopotamis." The author of orderly mooring lines, with the Queen Elizabeth and the bydro in going to sasant to Kiao-chan all. Bat the Emperor, the Junkers satisfaction of the plaintiffa. all pride. It is so corrosive of the phrase would have had a thin crews proceeding in that peculiar plane carrier Engadine, which so being returned he is inbouring and the military caste while they,
Mr. Jenkin, in the course of
vanity that the Staff officer will time of it if he had been run to cheertal disciplins which share bravely assisted the disabled ander a very strange delusion havas legito stand upon, will tarisps the British Navy, with Warrior. "The Engadine, qaltes Finally, theagh the British people never consent ip terms of this his addrese, ontlined - these facte ride broad in his shirt alores earth by one troops.
innocent of red taba, But one
Thanks to a saving sense of their ordinary, domestic dution, a small versa), must bare present- want noʻterritory for themselves, kind. Why should they ? As fue and added that the plaintiffs were wears a sangaard over one's hel- humour and his native resiliency, with the packed "boats` making/ed, with her prominent hydroplane Grmany must hand over anol)ay their power and influence sre not asking for, damages, but be did, ask that the defendants met and a spine pad, for one can of spirit the British soldier, in calls from one floating fortress to shed superstructure, an excellent portions of her fleet as remain concerned it would mean entire hould pay the plaintiffs taxed get sapatoke here through the unbowed by the climatic balet another, and with the supply tuam, yet her captain and crew intact after the war, and with that extinction. They will, iberiore,
small of one'a, beok.
ings, He keeps his end up boats delivering their good did not hesitate to doshta in feet the faised of/Heligoland, fight till the Chistesad. The "Who can my that in the serma bese no alternative, and we cus The persistent hot wind
tradesmen's varia do on land-itismongst the bursting abe pond through all the plagues of Hind
{we have sketched, at the very poker then none. poisminį
A motion relative to one of the trade marks need by the Standard Oil Company was made before The Obief Justice, at the Supreme Court this morning. Mr. F. C. Jenkin applied on behalf of the Company for a perpetual injunc tion to restrain the Wing On Tei frm from using their trade]mark.
Star
the representation of a star and
io janation.
Lordship
ter comforts.
"
14
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Default.
on
WAISHING" REPORTED
CHARTERED.