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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1916.
ITALY'S HELP TO RUSSIA
UNREWARDED HEROIS HONGKONG SHARE
PRISONERS IN -AUSTRALIA.
Planing the Austrisas in
Officer's Story of Delville Wood.
Camp's' “Black Hand,"
the Trentino.
Northern Italy.-One result of presented to a meeting of the the war will be a new and desper
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One of three eubalterns, who | have just arrived home in a Red" Enemy prisoners in Australis Cross Ship, wounded in Delville anfirebolders to be held at Bharat friendship between Italy and have been concentrated by the Wood, told an interviewer that Buildinge, Lahore, on August 7. Russia. The two ostions are Commonwealth Government into there were some real brave Banks The report stater that first drawn together by the bonds of one large camp at Liverpool, things" Gone at the end of that general dividend of seven sanas common effort and a common New South Wales, says & Mel- great fight..
They can't give Cantons There are now D.O.M's to everyone, you know," in the rapes was paid in Novem enmity, Austria is the prime bourne message, bor last and that a further divi antagonist of both, and every interned cross upon 5,000 Austri-he said, "but honestly, all those Unions
North Chinas dord of Eve anuse in the tapee blow that Northern Colossus ane and Germans, including man earned it, just as well as any Yangtazes was paid in May last. In delivers at the heart of Italy's old persons drawn from every clame of the chape who get it. What I
this latter oppressor awakens an answer of society, and representing every am thinking about is the lot of China Fires connection with
that of the shade of religious opinion and of things that nobody at all ever H. K. Fires b. dividend the creditors were given ing throbin the option of receiving seven Southern people. The operations culture. annas in the ropes (making 14 in the Treating and Galicia annes in all) in full discharge off are regarded here as the two
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knows about; not even a man's own mater." And he told this The Austrians lose no opport story : » sheir claim, but only three ex-sections of joint plan. Cadorna unity of expressing their hatred
We had to fall back a bit onos, Indos (Del.) ercised this option. The balance and Brassiloff have been working for their Allies, the Germans, and froma shallow trench at the top, Indos (Pre) dus to the public is only Re, not only in harmony but in so frequent and so desperate are after we'd been in it, and thought des
the hatrede and rivalries amongst we'd got it. Well, we fell back Ferries 54,670-8-8 representing the unison. balances on some 130 admittedItely owes much to Russia for the Germans that large force for, oh, it must've been ten claims. The debie das to the com- drawing off the main Austrias has to be kept to maintain order minutes, the time I mean, and a pany amount to Rs. 1,90,735-12-9. force, and so preventing it from and prevent escapes. Within the lot more Boches came up sloug Sugars The liquidators expect to declare being employed with overwhelm-last two or three months the those communicating supe, and it a further dividend of four anuseing foot on the Southern line. censorship has been raised to almost looked once as though we in the rupes on or about Decem. Everybody, understands that an extent which has enabled the would'nt get it back again. Kailans
Perhaps it is not so widely un-Australian public to know of the got my does in the trench, you derstood that Italy has gone far existence of villainous gang of know. When I saw car men all Raubs Siamese and the Philippine Rice to repay the debt. Russia is under blackmailing Germans verit falling back I tried like the devil Tronohs
beavy obligations to Italy for the able "Black Hand "--which for to get out. I was in quite a deep A letter has been received at way in which she used her great some time battened upon the bit, and I nearly broke blood
DOCKS, WHARVES, of Agiositare in Trentino saocesses not more for wealthier Germasne in the camp. vessels trying to get out; but it
GODOWNS, &C. the Boreau Manila from the Department of her own advantage than for that
go. My shoulder H. K. Wharves 8. Agriculture of Siam, requesting of her Ally.
Bevelations at inquents held
giving me
bell, and Kowloon Docks es. information as to what work has
Thai Docks been done by the insalar baresa timed, and utilised with strict pon Germans who have been the right arm would not work at H'kew Wharves n.
abot for attempting to escape or all. Well you know I'd rather with regard to the hybridization regard to the general situation of for murderous batalities to fellow have been sent West altogether. sad pore-line culture of rios. The the Alliance, and in particular prisoners Lave thrown larid I always did feel I'd rather any- leiter also intimates that it is the that of Rasais. The Astice battle light upon some of the lowest thing than be taken by the desire of the Siamese government was fought to check the Austrian types amongst the Germans. The Baches. I had my revolver, of to send a qualified representative invasion and drive the invaders most fiendish crueltics in the way course; but I'm not much good H'phreys Est. to the Philippines in order that back beyond the frontier. That of persecution have been practised with my left hand. Ten to one Kioon Lands he may be shows the methode was a great object, but not the by this "Black Hand" upon they'd have got me alive. I could Shai Lands used by the loosi berean and be only one. Another purpose was some of its hopeless victims. Bat ses over the edge and I was West Points given each instruction as would kept in view, which was that of now the gang had been broken cursing my luck when I saw a enable him to carry out similar preventing the Archduke Francis up and its members eo separated chap deliberately stop, turn round COTTON MILLS. work in Siem. For a number of Joseph from detaching troops that concerted action is, to say and look at me, and sort of Kung Yiks
Ewos years the Philippine bureau of from the Alpine theatre in num- the least, unlikely during the weigh up his chances; and then S'hai Cottons agriculture has been carrying on bere adequate to oppose a serious remainder of the war,
go on again. He was falling back | Yangtszepoos b. t. 51 experimente in pure-line culiare, obstacle to the Raseian march to
It anything, the past treatment with the rest of our lot you know. MISCELLANEOUS. and has listed over 1,500 hybrids, the Carpathians.
of the Germans by the Govern Just then a Boche machine gan Borneos 1,100 of which have been tested. By keeping this conception The Siamese government has been steadily before him Caderns in orrad on the side of opened as it seemed right along, Chine Light & P. b.
leniency, st any rate down to the side me. It was really just round informed of this, and has been showed his eure grasp of the fund-discovery of the "Black Hand" the big traverse. "That settles Dairy Farms advised that as the bureau select amental principles of strategy: plot and its attendant murderous it," I thought, I'm done now." ed-seed plots will be barvested in He carried it out with that cruelties apon German who took And it did settle it, ico, That H. K. Electrics November, their representative rapidity of decision and that should arrange his visit to be electric energy in action which honest view of their obliga-chap l'd seen, who'd evidently H. K. Ice Co.,
tions while within the osmp." decided once that it wasn't good Ropes bere at this time, when Besistance possible will be reader in history as one of the really trolling the prisoners' movemente the typewriter began. Dawn on Trams, Peak, old b.
To-day the regulations con- enough, altered his mind when Trams, Low Level b. x. d. $7.30 great soldiers of the grest war. are stricter, but even now, as far his hands and kuess he went, sed Trams, Peak, new b. cents.80 When the presence of eighteen as practicable, the Germans are scuttled all the way back to where Laundries Austrian divisions upon a single allowed to manage their own I was, like a lizard. He fairly Although only se yet in its in-small strip of the Italian front affaire in the camp, and within gasped at me; no breath, you Wm. Powells fancy, there seems some prospect threatened to become upendar- its limits they have a fair amount know. "On me back, sir," says Morning Posts - b. that robber planting will event able, the general decided that a
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chouc de l'Indo Chine" gives draft the plane for the creation of Italian Intelligence Department that fire, and fixed me up again. some interesting details regarding thie fresh unit. At eleven o'clock had good information of the and then I felt him crumble ap the progress which is being made. on the morning of the 22nd the whole project. No sooner sa under, and at the At present planting has been plane were ready.. Before mid-a date fixed than Cadoroa struck time I got thie, through confined mainly to Cochin-Chine, and there are only about five night the first troops of the new hard. On the sight of the 24-h the left arm.
I rolled olear, and looked at his million Hevea trees planted, they were on the mark. The same and 26th his patrols in touch
swift touch was shown in the with the total catpat in 1915 being 250,- climax of the counter offensive, reported a certain slacking in the but be had no coat or cap, and enemy everywhere face. I'll never forget his face, 342 kilos, or about 504,000
Demand pounds, a fact which shows what The Austrian official apology for Austrian resistance. The retreat didn't know his battalion.
30 dia. forehead was laid open, 60 dis. «inner the retreat is that it was under- WIS a comparatively small proportion taken in order to "shorten their Cadorna ordered a general attack, and bleeding fast, I dragged 4 m/8.............. 2/2 3/16
beginning. Therespon Bis of the trees is as yet in bearing line," and confer greater freedom On the night following the im
behind A stump, and T/T Shanghai...... 704 The whole industry, indeed, of movement. That is one part of assault delivered with laid him with his bead on my T/T Singapore ...... 92 14 see is to have started from the the atory, not the whole. The farious energy along the whole baversack. Then I acrambled out T/T Japan 101 example of ons colonist, oer Austrians certainly were teek-line. It was so sudden and so to find a stretcherbearer for him. T/T India
160 14 tain M. Balland, who, with a ing more freedom of more violent that the retirement Bat I got caught up in our ad. Dezaand, India..... 160 3⁄41⁄2 small plantation of abaut
ment. Becing that their of the Austrian infantry, which rance then. You know what it T/T San Francis 51 15,000 trees, succeeded in the Italian
co & New York! coup had failed was intended to be an ordered, is. And I went on, thinking I'd second year of tapping in its immediate purpose, they leisurely retrograde movement, find my man after. Glad I went, T/T Marks....Nom. T/T Java.......................... 124 1⁄44 the time of the rubber wanted to be free to transfer a beesme something like a rant in a way, because I had three T/T Francs boom-in making a net profit of large part of the army which had The programme of delaying the bombe a wounded corporal gave Demand, Paris 24,000. Two companies were been wasted over that abortive Italian advance with a comparamé, and it was easy lobbing them sabeequently formed in 1907 and
easy to their Eastern front. With fively thin rearguard while these with my left, at close quarters. 1908, and the Government has thie sid is might still be possible two hundred thousand men were By gad, I lubbed 'em all right; 4 m/s. L also carried out experimental
to stem that Kascovite inundation being comfortably packed away nearly lobbed myself to Kingdom planting at its agricultural station of the Hungarian plain which the to Hungary broke down. The come, too. Bat those bombe did at Ong-Yim. There are, how Vienna Government dreads, be whole Austrian line had to pat its their job all right, before we
30 d/s. Sydney &
Melbourne...} ever, no plantatione se yet on the cause of its political, even more weight into the defence in order cleared the trench. It was hours 30 d/e. San Franc scale to which we are accustomed than its military, effect. The best to morean the withdrawal of can-after, before I could get a man inco& New York! in the Malay Peninsula, most of aid Italy could render to the now and transport. And the nine to help me look for that good the trees being planted by smail Alliance at this juncture was to selected divisions, instead of chap who'd dragged me out; and colonists, who hope to achieve the prevent, or at least to delay, the going to fight the Russians, we never found him, Lever a sign same success se M. Belland. The extensive transfer of men and were still kept fighting in Italy, of him. But to do what he did: country, it is stated, is anitable to material to the Bakowias. Bril- the Heves Braziliensis, and while liantly and effectively was that Austrian centre and left on the bell: why, many s chap's got the By forcing back the whole thinking it out, too, in all that the growth is rather lower and given. than in the Malay Peninsuļa
night of Sunday, Jane 25, Cador- V: C. for no more then that, I By the middle of Jone the na, bad, won the victory which think. the treas are more free from Italian re-inforcements had been brought the hostile offensive to a Yes, there disease. About six plantations built into the battle line after close. But the greater victory things like that, in Delville alone, sra, now in bearing, but only that amazing rally by motor car was gained in the following days, and the same all along the front, three are of any importance. The along the mountain roads. The during which the Italian general right through the push. original Belland plantations have Austrians saw that there was compelled the enemy to give now an output of 61,609 pounds, to be no more going forward in ground at his pace, not their own. the Booiste des Plantations Italy, and they decided to go back. The parsnit was unresting, relent- d'Hevesa de X-trach one of The decision was to take effect on law, and inossians, The Aus 282,900 pounds and the Bociete Jane 19. On that day the Austrians had got a long start with Agricole de Sasanaab produced trian Headquarters Staff had their heavy guns, which they that a Canadian Company has A Toronto Gorrespondent states 200,009 pounds last year. Others received instructions to begin had been drawing back for several returned to the Canadian Govern will come into the field before
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