LONDON RAIDED IN DAYLIGHT.
the people would not båve been very different Except in the immediately affected streets men and women, and'cffice clerke, Aerial Drama as Seen From little more than ohildren, stood
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vastly interested, a little excited, but not in the least frightened,
They were everywhere. Offices with accessible roofs were be-
London, June 13-There came to. London yesterday the nearest
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, JULY
OPIUM SMUGGLING.
Jankwuter Heavily. Flaed.
Before Mr. J. R. Wood, at the Police Cout this morning, the master of trading jank No.) 1414 was charged with posressing 275 taels of opium, and also with vision of modern warfare that it sieged by enthusiasts who chose permitting his junk to be used has yet known. The Zeppelin raid to forget official advice as to the for the purpose of carrying opium. which swept over the city in the safety of the basement. It was The drag found was valued at October of 1915 came in the the tops of buses that the people darkness and mystery of night. sought rather than the refuge of → It was in the late duek of an
autumn evening that Londoners anderground railwaye, and fire watched the monsters of the air escapes and lamp-posts and
bridges were crowded. making death upon the in-
nocent.
Train of Ambulances.
$2,750.
Inspector Wilden atated that on Wednesday morning be board- ed the junk with Chinese Revenue Officers. The defendant was on board and said that the master After these few minutes of tenne had gone sshare. A search of Yesterday it was different. In the gracious loveliness of a perfect interest and deadening noise the the junk was made and close to - summer's day, when the sky was adden silence was very swiul. the mast a seaman found a hole brought up the opiumi blus and gold and clear, enemy! The cessation of gan-fire told that and
small tine. The bole aeroplanes journeyed through the the raiders had been driven of, in clouds like little silver birds, and and, looking to the sun, one was a space between the bottom their paceze was watched by could see that peace had come of the mast end the balkhead of thousands of men and women who once more to the air. Watching the junk. It was very cleverly had but dimly seen the Zeppelinsky the drama of it all bad so to be the master and owner of the the light and movement in the contrived. Defendant was proved
fixed one's attention sa to junk. It happened that I boarded a
"of other days:
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bas "at Ludgate-circus at 11.40, eliminate even a flashing thought Defendent mid the opium was It was eastward bound. We had of its meaning. Bat with the not his, and he knew nothing passed St. Paul's Cathedral when silence came the swift running of about it. there suddenly came in swift ambulance care and their pealing Raocession sateral tremendous crashes. People on the bus jumped su people will at an- expected alarme." But there wa 20 uneasiness. Our guna at it again, someone remarked, Bat
bella told of the ugliness of it all. ship asked if there was a power After hearing the case, his Wor- and its deep significance.
to confiscale the junk, but In And these ambalance care dart-
confiscated.
1917.
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"THE RECENT RAINS.
"Two Landslips Reported.
The beary ruins of the last few days have caused further land. slipa.
ed cat from all sorts of little sidepector Wilden said tha: caly janks under 15 tous could be sizes, jining together in one corfeested. This was about a A slip has been reported to the long stream that dowed eastward 100 tone junk and could not be Police as hiring occurred in like a rapid. Special ocnetables the demeanour. of the people in
Kennedy Ead, near to No. 160. His Worship decided to proceed the streets suggested something marched quickly about their
About fifteen yards of readway. business. Fire engines else. From every office and were from nowhere, as it seemed. fr.t charge, and defendant gave Road had been carried away came with the second as well as the on the Kowloon City to Shatin house and tes shop men and where, but a little while ago, evidence on this charge, saying owing to a landslide. The spot women bad strangely raehed out, They stood still, gazing up into there had been stillnews in the knew nothing about it Itst which the slide took place is the air. Why? “
streets and great noises in the air must have been one of his fokis two milee past Kowloon City, just Amazing Drama of the Skies. there was now quiet above and who was responsible.
The conductor mounted the queer noises and movements stairs to suggest that the outside below. passengère should seek safety inside. Some of them did so; they bad an instinct that all wan not well in the air.
His Worship, convicted on the RECnd charge and imposed a fine People gathered together in of $5,000, or six months* bard groupa,“ exchanging
stories labour.
Mea their experiences.
of
A case of the possession of no and women rushed to telephone less than 450 taels of prepared "I'm not a religious man," re-boxes, and taxis were hailed all
west of the Lion Rock.
RAPACIOUS CHAIR COOLIES.
Profestor Gorziles, Musical
marked the conductor, "bat what over with orders to "find the optom was before Mr. J. E. Wood, Director at the Hongkong Cine-
a
I may is, we are all in God's raided streets.” bands, and if we are going to die
"They say there are hundreds we may as well die quiet." killed," someone whispered in But some of the inside paraeng shaken voice. "Oh, no," replied ers determined that if they had man who overheard, "I think to "die quiet" they might as well very little damage has been done," see something first, and they saw aix Zeppelins, cried one climbed on top and with wonder woman whose пектов. were strack eyes they watched the
the Teabes down," retorted her neighbour.
amazing drama of the skies.
It was amazing because it was BO beautiful. It was not easy to
at the Police Court this morning, matograph, summoned two chair ons jack being coalies before Mr. Dyer Ball, at two seamen charged. The opium is valued st $4,500. The case was sojourned the Police Court this morning, until to-morrow morning. for demanding more than their Yet another case of opium legal fare, and also with using possession was before Mr. Wood, abusive language to him. Ho
THE FIELD GLASS FUND.
Four binoculars and one tele scope are now to be added to the list of glasses received for for warding to the Manager of the Lady Roberts' Field Glass Fund.
A list of the names of those who
below:-
have contributed them in given
Biccculare.-One from Mr.W. J. Morrison, Chartered Bank,
Hongkong; one from Mr. 4. E. Hongkong; one from Mr. R. L.
Crapnell, Moxon and Taylor, Bridge", Lane Crawford and Co.,
Hongkong: and one from Mrs. Stedman, Matilda Hospital, The Poak,
Telescopa-One from Mr. F. 0. Butcher, Hongkong.
The total now stands-One stand telescope, seventeen hind telescopes, fifty-three binoculars, and a donation of 375 00.
YOUR HEALTH AND APPEARANCE
a woman being charged with stated that he engaged the chair both suffer if you are a victim of
PINKETTES
overwrought. "And I saw one of Possessing six teele of prepared at the bottom of D'Aguilar Street constipation. The remedy is
opiam on one of the wharves. It to go to his home in Arbuthnot was stated that a coolis had been Road. The chairmen asked for 15 employed by her to carry a centa before he started, but he And so they stood, talling little basket, at the bottom of which believe that those little silver stories of what they had seen, was found a tia containing the specks far up in the heavena had and of what they imagined drug the power to bring death and they had seen, finally making
Hia Worship diecharged the desolation and unendurable suffer their way, many of them, to spots woman. ing to men and women and little where little tougues of smoke tald firemen were fighting children, living at peace, going bow about their daily business in- destruction in those places which cffensively.
Not Proved,
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENT.
told them to go on. As they were the little gentle-se-nature lara- going up the bill, they turned tives which diepel constipation, cf into a lane be did notliverishness, bilicus headaches, want to go through and when be clear the complexion and purify indicated that he did not want to the breath. Of all chemists, or go there they started turning and post free 60 cents the vial, frem twisting the chair about. He Dr. Williams' Medicine Co, 96 thought they were going to turn Szechuen Road, shanghai, had suffered from the serial play. J. R. Wood, at the Police went for a constable. The legal A £ berman was charged before him over. He jumped out and Few people saw the entire fleet of little silver gems.
Court this morning, with carching fare to his house was 10 cante. of Taubes at one and the same "It had all happened in a quarter time. It seemed se if they were of an hour. All these things had sh by using dynamite. I was He supposed the men knew him, playing bide and-seek in the been done in 15 minutes tha: 6ted that he was fishing, with for he always took his obairs from clouds for, like a little gleaming seemed like 60. When the time others, leween Tai O and Deep the same stand.
Bay, wher Sergent Perkins bit of quicksilver, you could see had come and gone people want
The men denied that they sek- one suddenly appear only to back to their shops and their approached and saw a lot of fiabed for 15 certi and said that sa iying dead on top of the water. they were going up they slipped, vanish as quickly bebind a filmy homes to carry on their normal Some of the fishers made off. hat and that was why Mr. Gonsales WANTED: COMPETENT cloud-mist, while another emergWay of living. They looked at the defendant was caught. Heliamped out, because be #88quires position. Apply: "X.V." ed to lose itself Bg *wiftly in the their watches and thought they was found to have a stick in frightened.
had stopped. When the regular his bost, such as is need for light- Fascinated, I watched this lunch boat arrived they poured ing fases. The man denied aring $5 each.
His Worship imposed a fine of Bonham Road. fairy-like game in the heavene; it out into the streets once more, was more like an elusive Rackham, following the track of the raiders, dynamite, and a no dynamite was found in his possession and picture for a child's story book But it was not in" a care-free & other bosts had got away, his than a battle waged with desibly instruments of science....
spirit of adventure. They want Worship discharged him.
ghadows...
Good Samaritans,
to see what war had done, and
The bus went slowly on until somrone stopped it, wishing to they went quietly and in "order,
descend and eo, perhaps, to find
AUSTRALIA'S PART.
Plans of Mr. Hughes,
London, July 4-A Sydney
Their hearts sorrowed for those eastwards. There were tears in better viewpoint to whom offering had come. her eyee; she was rather badly cable states Mr. Hughes las
They wanted to help, "Is there shaken. But she was proud. Boon watching a
issued a statement regsiding the were from the top, the birds anything 1 can do?" That was
Very
was no panic
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Fear of Gas Bombs.
"I can't go bome," she said to Government's recruiting policy,
that
the
of war vanished altogether; one the spirit of the Londoner yester-me, It looks like a coward to do in which he announces that it is could see only the sharp white day. Be wanted to help rather that when everyone else is staying proposed to continue volantsry- fame of barsting ehrapnel, or its than to see, to sympathise and at work." Sae intended to wait iem fixing the mizmum samber of soft grey smoke. And still there encourage rather than to obtain sill her hour of release. I left enlistments necessary to mir vicariously a new sensation. This her basy at her work once more. force the existing divisions at the attack on the city that he loves in The raiders, as I have said, present rate of 7,000 monthly. There came a moment, how-all the deep places of bis were 15 minutes over London, Mr. Hughes says that the present ever, when soma of ma felt soxions, heart sent out his sympathies in and there were at least 15 of them. rate in inadequate, especially as In the distance thick towers of boundless measure to the sorrow They have done this little injury the Government desires, if the smoke rose up from a certain ing, it brought a re-created deter- to the station of which the com- reaalts permit, to give the re point which suggested gas bombe.mination of will to live so that monique speake, and they have, mainder of the First Division a There was something in those our fighting men shall have the brought death so lile gizle sad holiday in Australia, Mr. Hughes carious columns which seemed help of all civilians in their fight boye at school. In the area, farther BADOOL CUS different from the smoke from a against the perils of the air, in which they covered these two Government proposes to be strict fire, and we remembered how, in their battle for the safety of points are the only points which, in sport with a view to husband- the long ago, we had been warned women and children in the heart can be described as of public im- ing the financial resources of the to use gas maske. I do not ear of the beloved land.
portance.
conatry. Accordingly the Govern And the women? I know that pote one person in a thousand
This is a fact to remember. It' ment intends to call a conference among the crowds possessed each through these 15 micates that is indeed terrible that there of eports representatives of each a thing We came a little seemed so timeless. they carried should have been so much loss of State to recommend the best Beer, to what seemed to be the on quite simply, with perfectly life, so many injuries not easy means of achieving this object. real danger spot, and whiff of adostentations bravery. The girls to bear in patience.
The Soliera Slement Board smoke fiosted by, but they gave who conduct our buses, the women pregrees of the war romaine on-hse sccompli-bed good work in oat no poisonous fumes, and there who drive horse-rans and motors, affected by the raid. With all connection with the eettlement of Was relief in our hearte as we trousered lasses busy at window- their energy and with all their returbad soldiers on the land. realised our mistake.
cleaning, ticket collectors at skill, and in the sufficiently er Following Mr. Hughes' statement All along this eastward journey stations, little uniformed westensive ares which they covered, that no eligible single man should bomba were falling and the guns Benger-children going about their these missionaries of death have be employed by the Common- were making great noises. Bat business-they were all quiet.not in their visit done the damage wesitb, if a returned soldier were I saw no quick searching for: There was a homely, rough that our own gallant airmen qaally suitable, a concus is now shelter, no uking cover. If it spoken charwoman whom I shall have dons again and again on being taken of all eligible men had all been an exhibition of remember. She was anxious about works of paraly military import employed by the Commonwealth Aring et Hendon the attitude of her little one living some miles ance in Germany,
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