GENERAL NEWS.
Views of German Professors.
Seventy-eight proferiora of Bonn University hava signed s petition arging the German Government never to maks an other peace offer; "since Ger many's recent offer has been answered by the British challenge to retire behind the Rhine." The signers consider that another peace proposal would be. mia- chierons.
Unappreciated Humour. Osplan George Whitaker, Coldstream. Guards, was fined el for making a false statement to the sliesa officer on duty at Rydo pierbond.
He was in civilian clothes, and when sɛked his nationalityreplied "Chiness." On being detained by a palice constable he said, "You civilisa police are to officious and ought to be in the trenches. You would then have a sense of humour.“
Horse or Hog Food 7 Charles Grismer of Brooklyn, elected President of the United
Master Butchers of America ou August 7th, said he believed the American public soon would be eating horse meat extensively. "People eat pork without ques- tion," he said. "Just think how mooh cleaner a bores lives than a : hog. Hora fзsh is wholesome and as palatable as the best beef." He predicted that ment prices would remain high until after the war deepits conservation efforts.
King's Cousin Married. Captain the Marquis of Caris- brook (Prince Alexander of Battendberg) wse married re- cently at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace to Lady Irene Denison, daughter of the Earl of Landesborougb. The King and Queen, Princess Mary, Queen" Alexsadia, Princess Victoria, the. Princess Royal, and other mem- "bers of the boyal Family were present Captain Sitwell was groomsman and there were no bridesmaide. The Archbishop of Canterbury and Osnon. Edgar Sheppard, Sub-Desa. cf the Chapels Royal, cfficiated.
Women on the Land, Lord Peel recently issued the following: "In the statement msde in the House of Lorde yer- terday I did less then justice to the number of women placed by the Women's Section of the Nă- tional Service Department, both }|- as regards agriculture and the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. The number of women placed on the land up to the end of June was 5,243, and with regard to the Women's Army - Auxiliare Corp. 1297 clerks and 1,200 domestic workers have been called up by the War Office up to the end of Jone,"
A Strange Aflair.
Thomas Buxton, an actor, now engaged at Woolwich Arsenal, was awarded £73 damages at the London Sheriff: Court on July 26 against Alfred Simpson; watch- maker and jeweller, of Stockwell Rond, 8.W., for malicious pro- soution and false imprisonment. Barton it was said, left a wrist watch with Simpson to be repair-| ed. When be called for it he leaned on a glass showozes and
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1917.
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Fatal Heat Wave la the States. More than a hundred desthe due to the heat were recent- ly recorded in different cities from the Atlantic to the Pacific:
Off To The War.
Depreciation of the Mark, The Times City correspondent Bye: No other constraction can well be placed on the latest onr- rency development in Germany than that preparatione are being
The North Germen Lloyd liner made for the fall of the mark to Princess Alice now undergoing even lower depths then have yet repairs at Olongapo, has been Mesurr. A. E. Elton and P. F. been reached. In Germen papere definitely assigned to the Pacific Tannahili of Kobe, D: Cooper of which retched as yesterday there Mail Steamship line, according to Yokohama and H. J. Elliott of is en cfficial senooncement of an information obtained Ri the Soul have recently returned order issued by the federal Bureau of Custome, says a Manila home to offer their services for council that from January parer. Her repaire are progress he period of the war. Among 1 next the silver twc-mark pieces, ing very rapidly and it is expect those who left Shanghai recently which have been as popular a ed that she will be ready to leave we Mies Ewin who hopes to circulation in Germany as furins for Son Francisco by December] offer her services as an interpreter have here, shall no longer be
io France. It was also ascertained at the legal tender. From now until Jan Custom House thatall the German Archdeacon Dles at Sea. uny 1, 1918, however, currency bosta interned here, Inft at the While on his way home to noles and loan bank notes will be disposal of the Federal Shipping England from the West Coast of given in exchange for them if Board, have already been divided Africa Archdeacon T. J. Dennis they are paid into imperial and up for their operation between has died at ass. For 23 yeara ha state benke. This withdrawal of the Epbert Dollar and the Facile was stationed at Ebu, Southern two mark goina from circulation Mail lines. They will be taken Nigeris, as missionary for the can have only one meaning. The charge of by their respectiva Church Missionary Society. The German Government obviously assignees just sa fast so they are Archdesoor, who was 48 yehra intends to market them abroad as completed, officers and crews for of age, belonged to a family well silver, owing to the high prios to some of them being now on the known for their work in the
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