THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
EXTRA
HONGKONG, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1916.
TELEGRAMS.
THE ALLIED OFFENSIVE.
Conquest of Saillisel Complete.
[Bester's Service to The "Telegraph."}
November 13, 1.05 am.
An official wesings from Paris anys :—North of the Somme, we completed the cinquest of Scilliani, an i, judging by the number of corpses on the piptured grondd, the German Dies must have been most heary. There were taksa prisoners "227. men, and eight machine guns were captured."
There was only the anal artillery fire elsewhere.
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THE GREEK NATIONAL MOVEMENT.
-November 12, 10.35 p.m. Rouler's correspondent at Athene states that more. Garrison
officers and non-commissioned officers are joining the National moyoment and are proceeding to Silonics, where a draft of 654 organised Greek volauteers from Egypt his arrived.
It is reported that the Government has acquiesced in the tente's demands that public officials and officers shall be permitted to join the Nationals provided the officers resign their posta,
LATEST SINKINGOS.
November 12, 10.35 p.m.
DAY BY DAY.
GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.
Chinese Prisoner's Death. Mr. F. A. Hassland, at the! Police Court this afternoon, held Hongkong Golf Qlab was deg
The championship of the Baysi an enquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of a Chin- on Sunday on the Fanling,
as prisoner in the gaol. The of spectators, the pa
| in the presence (pi į large, jury was composed as follows: im
A B. Mesers. Allan McDougall Slack, 8. H. Dodal
was of Herbert Griffin, and George Kay Haxton. Dr. MaKenny said the weather man had died suddenly. He made and 120 opere bid
post mortem examination and morning round, some good pla
Was seen and Hers found deceased had been suffer-a ing from fatty degeneration of with a load of two the heart. The jury returned his opponent. verdiet of "Death from natural and eventually.
he still farther
OSTERS.
物
The latest sinkings report are the Norwegian steamers Daphne i the Police about the matter. Mr. and Seirsted and the Danish steamer Frej.
It is confirmed that a German submarine sank the American steamer Columbia,
A PEACE MEETING ABANDONED.
0850
morrow.
and four to play. Europees Robbed on the Tram.)
Before Mr. F. A. Hassland, st not up to championship
generally, the dis the Police Court this afternoon, fuller socount will two Chinese were charged, one with receiving, and the other with En-larceny from the person, of a silver watch belonging to Mr. McArthur, third engineer on the Oseang.
Japan Miálög. The number of mining permits Complainant said he boarded's tram and as the first class was full | iawned in Japán fór the payment. he went into the second and after year has been about these: kimse be had gone some distános he as large as the number immed in found that his watch had bean 1915. Recent statistion whow that stolen. He gave information to 762 petitions for the experimental mining of iron, copper, gold, and [D'Almada appeared for the first silver were issued during: July, 1916; in the Wame maatli of 1915 defendant, and the adjourned.
there were only 396 petitions, a difference of 368. The number Ex-Rallway Worker Charged.
The hearing was continued at of petitions from January, to the the Police Court this afternoon, and of July, 1916, #were in which Cheng Hi is charged 6,338. In 1015 the number with larceny of $300 from Po was 2,368, a difference of 5,870 loon Railway Station, whilst mining of coal, in July 1916, Wing-po, stationmaster at Kow-petitions. For the experimental a bailes. Mr. Bratton prosecuted there were 124 petitions, whereas and Mr. Goldring delanded. in the same month of 1915 shers Mr. Bratton said defendant, since were 89. From January to Jaly." leaving his employ at the railway, 1916, the number was 1:210 had become a travelling trade sa compared with 3807 in man between Hongkong, Wong the same period of 1915. For Lik and Canton, and he had on oil, there were 134 in July, 1916, one occasion before taken sam to 85 in July 1915. For sulphur of $100 to Wong Lik for the and manganess, there were 62 in complainant. Not long ago de in July, 1916, to 28 in July, 2015, fendant was entrusted with $300
November 12, 10.35 p.m. The Romney Macdonald peace meeting arranged to take place to-night at Cardiff has been abandoned in view of the assemblage of a large hostile orowd,
RUMANIAN SUCCESSES.
November 13, 2.45 & m.
A Rumenica communique announces successes on the northern front. The Rumanians assumed the offensive on the Moldavia front and advanced in the odiadjs to the line between Topol, Cisine and Granssuf, capturing one hundred prisoners.
WAR EXPERIENCES.
A Hongkong Pollcomna's
Letter..
to take to the same plaos, but the money was never taken and after UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS. a search defendant was found in a brothel. The osse was ad-
out of motion and had lost rather heavily. We only had two days' roat and we were then moved to wardeshe front egsin. It was a journed, very miserable maroh throngh pitch darkness, deep mad across country and a kind of railway line.A few German shells greeted
I got into an awkward fr the
Bastern Extension, Australasia
& China Telegraph C#,
pat.
Benjamin Cooks, from Shang-
Chunguan, from Semarang. Ewo, from Hanoi. ·--
Cinpuntack 146 Postbox, from
Medan.
A very interesting letter has us as we were nearing our halting next night. I was sent out with was. an old fatigue party to bring in rations
hai bean reosived over the week-end place, which
with zino lined which came up a sunken road by imm P. O. Lane, of the Hongkong reach Police, who left with a cutingent dug-oals. We were very fre pack mules. It was dark and a to German big crowd from the other com of the force for the front somequently treated time ago. We announced that shrapnel. I got in an old German panies were there. Shrapnel was
again B man recently he had been awarded the dug out which had oncrete going over thick, and now would D.O.M., and although the writer surface reinforced with iron, con- and does not mention the epino fa intaining a table, cupboard and stop or stagger CE towards mized with which he won this distinction beds of soft shavings. There had the dressing station. In the Bangoon. | Saigon:- he gives a very descriptive so been window glass in it, with harry 'I got
party and found my wrong count of his first sojourn in the wire woven into the casing self marching off to their limpo. |
trenches, The latter statee"--"
The pisce had been pretty badly
the
Kwongfatwing 93 Derpose St., from Victoria B.C.
Lipeckyoke 4 Wood Boad, from Sinna, China Hotel, from
Yeewoo, from Haiphong.
17. M. BRONZAG
Superintendant, November 9, 1916.
LATEST SHIPPING NEWS.
MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS Thà C′′F, 0. 8. LL.' EXPRESS or
I have been in France for about meuled by our shells and threat. I was getting exhausted, carrying two months and like is fairly well ened to cave in at any time. We two big cans of water, and when Hongkong, up to now. When we arrived we were gails comfortable and the I explained my fiz I got told to were kept for two weeks in a base envy of the whole company, go to hell. I struggled off again camp on the Coast. It was a very There were still Germen shells frightened enough, to had my large camp" and the draft of £ying about, and one of our boys way to the third line, The guns almost every regiment in France was killed. I got a real shock were going fairly heavy, and I had are kept there.! There is a large there too. I was looking at the to go through the remnants of a training osmp suached to it, and remains of the dead Germans wood and village which the Ger every morning we had to march near the edge of a wood when mans had been pounding all day. np a very large hill in fall it a shell fell near me and sent me I do not know how I struck the and stand most of 'the day on sprawling, I began to think it road, bat there I met a wounded RUSSIA arrived Yokohama on Nov. 20, the top. There we got a bit of real was near tes time and so I chap making for the dressing asb p.m., ea routa. Vansoléretrizantes,
station. I went with him some of The O. P. O. S. MONTEAGLE started to hurry home training, for, although it was rashed, we probably learnt more cenght my toe in the fingers of the way, but every now and then amived Shanghal ng Bendapatan, 1143
while he rested. The shelfs'and' there in one week than during the gent who was coming up from we had to crouch by the rosdaile Koriat's as pets left Shanghof on You scle time we were in the Depot under the ground. I Talled, and shrapnel seemed to know that wa TARKALA WHO For House of and Reserve Battalions They even another shell came whooping ran us through * ̈dag out filed round. You could postcely we were there." When I left him This Septimber last, arrived in Los with poisoned gas and gave us Mother's boy going of at a tangent like the devil and managed to don on Saturday, the Kiti hintais, a taste of the ** tour" star, so in a cloud of dust. Our Company find our trench safely but badly show as what it was like. I met was in the third line, which was soared. There was a heavy bom- Hourihan. There and he was then soft enough, but the going and bardment of our line that night, transferring into an anti-aircraft the coming out was the worst of It was terrible the way ws over- sorpe. Once we came under shall the job. We had to travel on a ed the village and wood in front of runken road, along which the with shalla. They made all' fire and we had soms very garrow Germans were sending shrapnel, colours in smoke. In the middle seospod. "Bome" "unite "near us. lows moon and hormon, We were and shell that is flying around in of it! sex 980, eh-ons astillery
the dark mi
dark makes ope jumpy. It observation men up a tree, and I out one day when the place we was quiet in the trench, though would not have had his job for
was shelled and the Sergeant Major gold ast move in the daytime million pounds. Bat we orgas
ΠΟ and one man ran for the dog-ons for the German pheervation bal out fairly light.
at the first shell. They got there,
about same time as the scoopd loose. Their aeroplanes were very --The latter concludes by saying and I believe want home to costos, but the place was fall of that the writer is now in a com
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moquaintance with it. We had gently been taken, and there were, but he says "that, their pronë 'EBUTTERFIELD"& ®
a lot of dead Germans. rjog: only two loves there. Liter we were rushed dp to our battalion all around. We buried them as i
it was an unplossant job. of á súdden.” They had just comeản:
and
ready for everything and orgy.
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