REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
(Continued from page 1.)
LABOUR TO THE FORE.
London, October 8." The Labour Party has decided to run thres hundred candidates at next General Eléction.
THE FINNISH PROBLEM.
Helsingfors, October 8.
Bills have been published proclaiming Finland a republis and regulating Russo-Finnish relations. The latter, which will be submitted to the Russian Constituent Assembly, provides for the continuance of Russo-Finnish union on the basis of Finnish sutonomy.
GERMAN NAVAL INTENTIONS.
London, October 8.
In a telegram from Stockholm it is reported that strong German naval forces have been observed off Bornholm and Stockholm archipelago, confirming the rumours of a Ger man offensive against Helsingfors and Petrograd. It is believed that an attack on Helsingfors by land and sea is firstly contemplated
RUSSIAN RAILWAYMEN'S THREAT.
Petrograd, October 8.
The railway strike committee threatens to stop food transport unless ita demands are conceded.
IN THE BALKANS,
London, October 8.
A French eastern communique states, that the artillery
is active on the Vardar front, north of Monastir and in the region of the Lakes
GOLF.
Championship of Japan.
There were twenty entries for
the Golf Championship of Japan,
"OUR DAY."
Lady May. Rose Food.
already
played at Rokkosan on September Sabecriptions"
acknowledged... 23, details of which are now to. hand. The weather when play Dr. J. T. C. Johnson opened was all that could be Capt. B. Branch ... desired and some good score Mr. Yoshitanga Sano were locked for, anys the Kobe Mra. Harker Herald. On the completion of L O. H, M the first round it was found that Mr. E. W. Malcolm with a 73 headed the Seld, followed by Masura A. T. White, C. Brion and G. A. Boper all with 76, Mr. J. P Arthur with a 78, and. Messrs. HL E. Daunt, H. Horne and J. D. Thomson with 79. Hr. Á. E. Pear- son, the Yukobama captain, was first of the visitors with 80.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1917,
MISS ADVENTURES.
She Turns Copper,
You hardly notice ber; but there she is in the 'shedowe, watching the flippant crowd stream by, ready to interfere when coossïon calls.
She wear an armlet as a sign of her office, and confronts danger cheap. If you hit her, she would to hit back. She is there, not to
with neither helmet nor tran-
CRICKET.
- K. C. C. v. Royal Engineers.
This match was played at Kowloon yesterday and resulted in & win for the home side by the feature of the game was the fine narrow margin of five runs. The batting of de Rome for Kowloon sad Waller for the Engineer Scotes:
well..
Kowloon.
F. Wheeler, o Lucas, b Orip-
well...
LIFE IN BERLIN AND VIENNA
HEROISM OF IRISH.
ROLL OF HONOUR,
Soap at £1 a Cake, and Gaba 6s. 3d, a Mlle.
A Vallant Struggle Against Overwhelming Odds.
Another Ho
rkong-Man Killed.
British Front in France and It is with extreme regrat that Belgiam, August 22.-The story we hear of the death in action of Mr. A. Marahal, the Daily News Trish battalions, both Ulstermen King's
of the valiant fight waged by Captain E.F.G. Orchard, of the Pecial correspondent, writing and south of Ireland men, in the 8th Irish Battalion, News Liverpool Regiment, from Paris, recently stated latest British offensive northeast reached
the Colony to-day tinguished neutral who is visiting remarkable pages in the history "push." have lately talked to B. dis of Ypres, forme one of the most that he was killed in the July Paris for the first time in two of this sanguinery battle. As
The deceased officer, who had years, having recently been both was the asse with the intrepid been Twice mentioned in des 22 to Viedos and Berlin, and his Londoners in Polygon Wood to patches;
comparisons between life here the south, they did not achieve Momza. Lane, Orawford and was formerly with 83 and in enemy ospitals odatain the success which they sought, Company, with whom he served
much of interest.
bat the struggle they made for about £ve years. He went The course of life in Paris sur against overwhelming odds will Home in 1914, having: volun- 47 prises him, for in spite of certain make their names immortal in teered for active service. He was
O restrictions, which cause incon-Irish annuis. ⠀ 0 venienos but nothing more, he
only 31 years of age. During The ground over which the his stay in Hongkong, Captain 0 finde things much the same Irish troops fought Thursday may Orchard made a host of friends,
so in 1915.
He was track anghly be placed as lying with whom, owing to his sunny 11 with the number of vehicles, between Fortain on the north and genial disposition, he was a horse-drawn and motor-driver,, and Foesenberg on the south, great favourite. He was a very 4 to be seen in the streets of Paris. Before them isy strong Bavarian Leen yachtaman, being well- When I said something about positions scattered over a terrain known aa a member of the
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Reskee J. de Rome, not out
A
street the wrong-doer, bat to: prevent the sufferings and cor- J. H. Hesa, o Luoss, b. Ürip- ruption of wrong-doing, In turning copper she brought into existence a new. conception of police. She repre- sents the social conscience and the social benevolence. One of her duties is to warn girls who are
bebaving unsuitably end. Travers, b Oripwell another is to pat girls in touch. Stalker, a and b Oripwell... with local societies clubs, or D. J. Mackensie, o Adams,
W.TElon, b Bikes classes." She is a friendly copper.
..Berkos A male constable remarked to her the other day, "Business hea got very slack since you ladies began to work here. A police
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R. E. Cobb, o Milliard,
Cripwell
t
R. Pestonji, a Lacse, b Orip-
well...
sergeant bee said of women L E. & Hodge, c Townsend, patrola. "We cannot do without
b Cripwell... them now." Sir Edward Henry himself has appeared on a public platform to bless them. There are well over 2,000 of thess.dev.]{- ed women.
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5 the difficulty of finding a taxi he which of first blash made an Corinthian Yacht Club. Hin laughed, and said: "Do you advance seem impossible. Stretch- many friends will hear with deep 38 know how many there are in ing out from the Zonnebake sorrow of his death.
Vienna now? About 200 horse Langemarck road" across
the
cabe and perhapa 50 taxis; and centre of the battlefield was s
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..164 most of them are engaged by the ridge which dominated all month, by rich people. If you surrounding ground, and from a are lucky enough to find one, myriad of machine-guns on the you may count on having to pay creat could be poured a deluge of 5 france a kilometre, which works ballets into advancing ranks, out at 6a. 8d. a mile. A journey
0. M. B. W. ...16.5 1 71 7
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The state of the streets, as far as fagrant vice is ocnoerned, bas so changed for the better in recent years that a gentleman of forty whose youth factuated be- tween Jimmy's and the Blusa Royal Engineers. Poets, and who wound up his 2nd. Opl. Adams b Cobb, nights in the expper-rooms of the Low. Opl. Luose, b Stalker $3,330 Continental, would hardly know Spr. Gordon, .b.w., b Pes-
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London for the same place. Bot
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there is an infinitely greater giddiness among the respectable girls of the period. They make a more noticeable riot at street cornera than ever their disrepat- $3,455 able sisters thought of doing
COMPANY REPORT.
The China Light & Power
Company, Ltd.
10
The report of the above Com- pany, for presentation to the
election.
themselves for re-election.
topji
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from the centre of the city to one
Through the southern portion
FANTASTIC" DANCERS.
Miss Ivy Aldons and Mr. Fred
of the stations will cost you from of this section the swollen Keeley, of Frederic Shipman's 730 to 35 frapos.”
Zonnebake River" poured its Fantastics" have a very big muddy water, and scattered along repertoire of quaint and clever Soap can only be bought in a few chemista shope, and then both banks of the stream were dances, for they are most enthu almost at its weight in gold. A many steel and concrete redoubta siastic over their work and spend tablet of "gavon de laze" costs holding from 20 to 100 Germans, the greater portion of their spare all well armed. Immediately in time in inventing new numbers. 40 or 50 marks, and an ordinery front of the Irish was dadulating as a result, each: not that they [cake of soap 20 marks.... “
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Pestonji
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2nd Op): Charters, e de Rome,
b Hodge
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Spr. Waller, not out
Theatres are much frequented, ground. Every knoll was a present is fall of variety and meet at them instead of rong Bavarian position and the interest. So keen indeed are the People
about their giving parties at home, for at the whole section was filled with con- two dancera
crete redoubts and shell-bole asste that they are in the fortunate buffesa is is still possible to get lined with mebine-guna. De position of earning their living something to est without present-
pressions in the ground were simply by indulging in their pet Loe. Opl. Pascall, b Pestonji 12 ing cards.
In the great cities the situation mas of knee-deep mad caused hobby. Mt. Kesley's biggest Spr. Hilliard, a and b Stalker 4
till supportable, but in the by recant rains and floods of the success to date has been his
river.
"Inebriate Danos", an item 19 little towns food conditions are Extras
lamentable.
The Irish battalions were which given him plenty of chances display smart, foot-work.
twenty years ago. They dress. with less restraint. They are more brasen. And they are ae valgar as anything this action has yet produced. Khaki seems Spr. Townsend. b Stalker to have driven them crazy.
To help them the women oopper etande in the shadows, watching her opportunity. She is outraged by these noisy girls, not indignant because they show far Cobb
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A new way has been discovered muddy and wet when they began to of checking desertions among the the attack. The Uistermen were Among the many noval dances O. M. & W: troops on the borders of neatral on the left of this battlefield, and which Miss Aldous included in her countries. A warning has been the men of the south on the right. repertoire is "The Kangaroo published, socording to which Shoulder to shoulder they moved Hop", which, s the title suggests, 10 1 30 the families of soldiers who have out among the heart-breaking is an Australian specialty, kim 5080 deserted will have their ratione obstacles at the break of day, Aldous and Mr. Keeley will make reduced by 50 per cent. Under bogging at every step, and all their first appearance before a that human beings could have Hongkong audience to-morrow the conditione existing in the done, under such circumstances, night (Wednesday), at the Theatre Central Empires this amounts to
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DUTCH EAST INDIES.
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SHARE QUOTATIONS.
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The second round began at 2.30 p.m. but unfortunately the weather changed and shortly after the last couple were away a hes shareholders at the sixteenth too much cheap stocking and mint enveloped the course, with ordinary genersi meeting, to be wear far too high heels to their Pestonji the reaalt that only ten of die held at the offices of the Com-ahoddy shoes, not even hopeless de Bome competitors completed the round.
Wheeler pany, St. George's Building, on and despairing when she hears Mr. Malcolma went to pieces 10 Saturday, October 20, at 11.30 their impudent, self-estisfied Hodge.. the afternoon and with a 90 was?
laughter. On the contrary, her
a sentence of death by starvation, they did. As they advanced they Royal, when The Fantastice quite out of the running. Mr. fatos White returned a 75, which gave oluding the sum of $338.88 get these girls into one of her The net profit for the year, in-faith is sure that she has only to
first encountered the customary will commence à senson of mere thinly held line of German ons ziment and music. him an aggregate of 151 brought forward, 18 $67,374.26, comfortable clabe to make them
posts among the shell craters, 16th was the cause of his undoing, which it is proposed to deal with a sa good as gold. In these clubs
These Bavarians fell back, and is the hole cost him an eight in follows, Viz: Write off the value there is no preaching. In some of
Oar Centon correspondent
almost immediatly the Irishmen each round.
of lines, $20,000; Write off the them men are admitted. In all of writes under date of October 8
found themselves facing fire from Mr. Biren did not complete value of buildings and machinery, them amusement is the chief note, as follows:
Germana Finmadial Operations. visions rapid fire whipping out a every machine-gun batore them, the round, and intereat WEL
Bat refinement is there, with Information from Peking centred on Mr. Roper who was $47,374.26; total, $87,374.28.
Consalting Committee, Mr. self-respect and honest virine garding the Southern acrest is at The Amsterdam Telegraaf, of steady stream of less, breast high, Banks reported to be going strong. P. White resigned on leaving making an atmosphere.
prezent quite contradictory to July 30, contained in its financial across the whole battlefield.
indos (Def.) required a 74 to win sad, finish.
They face the most difficult reports bere. A telegram from calamans the following reference Amidst this bail of ballets and China Sagara ing with a 71, had a comfortable Colony and Mr. G. W. Barton load of 4 strokes. Considering the Consalting Committee.
was invited to take bus place on situations. Those fagrant sights Peking: states that Luk Wing-to an outspoken criticism of arashing shells the Irishmen K. Wharves
In to be seen in certain quarters of ting is in favour of the convoca certain moremanta in the Dutch pushed doggedly forward. The Kicon that practically the whole of the round was played in dense fog itcordance witu tus Articles of the town siter duck are almost tion of the denate, whereas Ching East Indies which are certainly Ulstermen first strack position De ez dir b;
Association Hoa. Bir Paul Uteter, too flagrant for the action of the Pik-kwong and Wong Ching-worth watching:-
called Pond Farm, below Fortuin. Ewoa In the Boaraboys Handelsblad Here were many machine-guns Kang Yike was a very meritorious perform U.M.G., and Mr. G. W. Barton male constabulary. The women ting. MP., who have recently anos. For the first 12 holes bie score was 41-7 ander foarsere, and are eligible for re- patrols go with them, and do returned from Kwangsi after an has appeared an article about the placed in concerte pits, behind S'hat Cottons their part with the girle, while interview with Lak Wing-ting, waye in which the Germans in which towered strong redoubls Yangrezapoce and it looked possible that hej
Auditors. The accounts have the constables deal with the reported to the generalizime that Datch India, nader protection of and deep dugouts. The Ulster Dairy Farme might break the record of the been audited by Mesura. F. Mais soldiers. They interfere, too, when Luk was very indigant on hear the Dutch Government, are try men plunged into the gun-pits Cementa course, but the tension musste land and A, E. Lowe, who ofera saldier is being victimised. Bating that the Peking Government ing to socompliali their financial and a fierce atraggle followed. Ropes, been too great as he took fires to
their chief work is that of geardian intended to conroke the Senate and other sims. The article re The Bararisas would not sur H.K. Tramwaye finish. His card read as follows:-
angel to the flapper.
and that a squadron has arrived fors to the establishment of render, and they fought until the Oat 3 3 4 3 4 3 4 3 3=-30
Some of them have found in at Swatów. He is said to have German bank them, with the last German lay crumpled beside Home ...3 4 4 5 5 5 8 4 5-41
this volunteer work their life's declared that be will units the encouragement of the Dutch his gan. A small garrison was The following were "the NO. 1 HONGKONG V.A.D. vocation. They plead to he entire forces of the Sauth to Government. The writer raises left to hold this place, and the
Typhoon Warning. enrolled as members of a per- protest against these happenings, the question whether it is not Irishmen pushed on. There wAL ...76171-147
Mambers of the Detachment manent force. It has discovered A petty officer and three dangerous to show such a pre-constant and bitter fighting-at was received by the American Too telegram quoted below 76175141 volunteering to sell programmes to them the delightfal knowledge soldiers of the Yunnan, garrisonference for German capital. every step. 78x77-165 and badges, in uniform, at the that they can help people.
Consulate General, Hongkong, went to a banker on exchange That preference existe," says Near Pond Farm they were held from the Manila Observatory at ...83x78-161 exhibition of war pictures, at the One of their dation is “tó | business. The soldiers want the writer, as appears from up by partly ont barbed wire 3 p.m. ...13x20=163|Pablia Gardens, on "Our Day," observe and note saying bearing away and later the officer alleged what has becoms known about entanglements, and as
to-day: Oyelons or they typhoon E. of Meiscoaime, moving. ...88178-164 are requested to send in their on the welfare and conduct of the that be had lost $110 in the shop the fagilition which the struggled through this they were N.N.E. ...79x85-164 pames to me before Saturday, girls" that is so say, the flappers, and demanded compensation, Ostindische Producktenbankac. swept with bullets, Numeroas
80185-165 18th instant.
I have no doubt that at the heat- quarrel broke out and the officer ties Gesellschaft receiven in redonbia" ~ ́ wora encountered 88185173
The following have been passed quarters of the National Union of end thres fokin were taken to the Dutch Government ciroles. That beyond, and in most cases it was 93185-175 "efficient" in First Aid and Women Workers, Mrs. Cardes, police station, bat an hour later preference is not unknown hand-to-hand fighting to a finish ground, was known, and for a Home Nursing for the year their honorary and devoted and all four were taken away by a 10 the Entanto, and in with a stubborn enemy. The time that eminence was sciuslly 1916-17-Member: Mrs. Mans enthusiastic secretary, is collect number of soldiers who forced that preteranos, behind which Southern Irish at a given hour in British bande. But it was too A quiet wedding took place at field. Mrs. Good ben, Mise Denison, ing from these observations of the their
way inta
the station. the Dutch" Court alique" acts, went forward with all the coolness importanta pesition for the the Parish Oburch, Nantwich, os Mrs. Evan Jones, Mrs. Carleton, patrols material for legislation The banker petitioned the lies a great danger. For the which made them famona at Germans to relinquish. They Saturday, the bride being Lily, Mr. Griffin, Mrs. Alabaster, Mrs. which will prevent the fapper's Governor, and an arrangement time being we shall not be more Ginshy and other places. They massed great numbers of men only daughter of the late Mr. and Marray Scott, Miss A. Gordon, baby sister from growing ap into we made that the three explicit. We protest against any surged on through the mire to behind it, and hurled them Mrs. Boven, formerly of Brenhilos, Misa Lammert, Hies Loureiro, a flapper.
Hokis should be handed over to facilition being « given to the some of their objectives, but they against the frình. The latter me Olytha Park, Newport, and the Miss M. Loureiro, Miss Davidson, I like to think as I pass them the police while the petty offer German business man, because had passed numerous unsilenced the onslaught with bayonet and bridegroom Lient. E. P. H.Mr. Laask, Mrs. Pierpont, Mra. in the London streete that they should be dealt within the they bring the loss of our colonies machine gun emplacements and olabbed rifles, sad fought as their Lang, let Monmouthshire Be Shenton, Mrs. Douby, Mra. Bro pre obeerring, and note-taking garrison. It is reported that the nearer, and also because nok following wares of infantry were forefathers fought, fotoely and giment, younger son of therton Harker, Mra, Armstrong, Mach good, now that women sie $110, was paid by the banker
determinedly, the late Mr. W, 8. Lang. Mias Wilkinson, Misa Worters, to vote in Parliamentary eisonona, when he heard that his fokis was People as the Germans have hold up by these.
10 be in shown themselves formerly of Newport, and of Mie. Miss Judah, Mrs. J. W. Taylor, may come of these notes. Harold being tortured..
North of Fresenberg -was- But they were greatly oatmums Lang, Lattiedean, Brent Knoll, Mr. Goldsmith and Mrs. Gegg. Begbie in the Daily Chronicle,
Belgium deserve no amiatanos redoubt called Borry Farm, hold- besed, and gradually they were A grand military meeting was Even without aid given by the ing sixty to eighty Bavarians with forced to fall back until the Somerset. The bride was given Probationers Miss Chisholto
held in the Tasban's office which Datoh Bate to Germans, the machine guns. The position was Germana had regained their hold away by her brother, Mr. A. O. Minas Hastings and Mrs. Hayward.
all the commanders of Tangan Dutch business man will, in the too strong for the infantry to on the hill. The Bavarians then Boves, of Townsend House, Nant. The first of a course of lectures British Columbia's Shipbuilding. The Tabhup, after expressing dimonity to come triumphantly until those troops which had attacks, and the Irish, many of and Kwangai troops attended coming years, have quite enough take, bat the Irishmen battled on began a series of heavy counter- wich, and the best man was Melon "Home Nursing", "will"Ee W.. Ford, of Hongkong, where giren by Sra. Tidall at the steel and wooden, vessels under present situation, dealt with ival who will show himself in tion lay dead or wounded before retreated slowly, Aghting
There are £5,400,000 worth of Lak Wing-ting's views on the out of the competition with sayed an attack on the fortifies them wounded, and all exhausted, dhe bijdegroom had himself been fitiens May, Lastitute on Friday construction, or contracted for, in intende military movemente i ovioso Rald, even worst: Bat others pushed forward to inch of the way until the án. gentice as a solicitor for next at 8 pm. several years prior to the on break
Acting Adjasant and Bon. Seo, ship being built there.
a year ago there was not's large which are kept secret from she ruthless and unfair than he had Hill 25, as this ridge, which reached the scanation wicks the
“been on the miilidey fuld. domimted. The surrounding lots at dawn, and which may
returns:-
G. A. Baper..
A. T. White...
J. P. Arthur...
E. O. Jeffery
H. W. Malcolm
F. F: Mackie J. D. Thomson A. E. Pearson"
H. P. K. Drewry ILY. Morriss
Wedding.
W. WILKINSON,
British Columbia to-day, while