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BATTERY YARNS.
Something about the Tanka,
The Tork is a noble animal | and the friend of meokind as opposed to Bonkind. Bat the Tank adds to the worries of the Artillery. There is a general feeling in the Artillery that simultaneously with the use of the Tank "love" privileges for the genners should have been extend.
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Lady May Rose Food:
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Hough ears. Silve-Netto & Co. ed. It is not only that the Tank Sikh Temple. increases the complication of Sir William & Lady barrages but to and from hie Reep Divies atable the Tank is apt to make "Tibbie"
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life a shade more exciting for Mr. A. Shelton Hooper artillery billet, A hole in the Mre. Eldon Potter ... ground may not be much of a "Arcadian
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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1917.
CORRESPONDENCE.
[The opinions expressed by correa- pondente are not necsemilly those of the Hongkong Telegraph."] THE NOUSING PROBLEM. To the Editor of the BangaLAND Telograph."
Sir,The housing question is undoubtedly a serious one, but an equally pressing need is "that come provision should be made to ensure the comfort of those Europese who are fortunate enough to be able to own or rent) 65 20 houses in ac-called respectable
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you have you do not want a Tank Mr. F. Maitland wandering abent ita wire-Commodore B. G.
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"shell-beda and duck-board walks. Rev. J. K. Macon-
The High Command the other. schio
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day gave orders that Tanks were Mr. H. G. Earle
not to go out for crawls without Sabecriptions through Hon. guider, especially within gun Mr. Lau Cha Pak÷- lines. But this incident happened Mr. and Mr. Choy
Bing before that order.
Mr. Oban Cheok ding Mr. Chan Chik Yue... Mr. Nz Bon Tiz
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Our battery was just behind a ridge which the enemy shelled with more industry than skill. Bat se an sverage of 50 abella a "day fall within the battery area | Aroulli :—
we all had "dug is." The battery | Mr. A. F. Arcolii mees was a trimmed and develop Dr. E. el Arcalli ed abell-hole the sides squared Mr O. el Arculli (Sr.) of, i fam bosma thrown over Mr. A. ei Arcalli the top end + little Mr. E. el Arcalli earth on top of that. It Mr. O. el Aroulii (Jr.) would keep out splinteri (th's chance of a big shell we had to w Assomall and Oo:-
Sabeoriptions through Hears take) and it was no blot nor balge on the landasape.
Mesure Wasiamull
The night of the day we took Assomall and Co.... Martinpaich (and that was the Mowers. D. Chellaram day the Tanks made their first More. Pohcomall Broa. - asnosticnal appearance) jog reign-Mesere. M. Dialdas ed in the Meas. It was not only
and Bona
that the day's harvest of prisoners | Messrs. K. A. J: and towns WEL a good one Chotirmall and Co. bat the Martinpuich batteries Mesare, M. Navalvai
·ware our special worry and they and Co. would now worry no more. The Messrs. T. Parsoomall
last bottle in the mess was broach- ed and we drank to the Tanks.
I was Orderly Dog for the day when our subterranesa festivity was broken by the wound cutside of a thousand cats, one hundred Pekinees dogs and a messick alephant or two squabbling in
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trench. That was the sound'ın it filtered through our dog out roof. It seemed to call for „barrage or ac mething.
I clambered up to the surface. About 20 yards away we & Tank waddling back to its stable and beading straight for our Meer. It had just taken a trench in ità, shefile and was coming along at a great bat..
Rev T. A. Broadfoot Mr W. B. McKay Mr D. McEse Mies B. A. Shearer ....... Kies F. H Langrill... Miss A. Dalmage... Miss A. J. Dickson... Dr. J. A. MacBesa Mr H. Watling
Mr P. de Reutenfeld In's orisis one does not always Mr A. C. Biesterfield think of the right thing just at Mr T. Vaill... moment. It wha's wrong move Mr J. BaemaƑBen to have gone up to that Tank Mr K. O. Cherrington and to appeal to its better Mr. J. Chipperfield... feelinge se Idid. It had no better Mr. H. C. Scrimshaw foelings and came remoraciesaly. E. B: de Rosa... on as I urged it to ston for the Mr. A. B. Craig exke of seven artillery officers all Mr. E. A. G. Fredrick- whom had mothers and some of
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stated clearly that our Meen roof Mr. M. J. Barreirs ... was not even ebel-proof, only r. F. Johsueon... splinter-proof, and certainly not Mr. W. L. Thompson Tank-proof. The Tank came on. Capt. Hill "Oa Les" Then I palled myself together Mr. J. Prentice "On and urged the Tank at least to L'e"
stop and have a drink and talk p.J. G.
over the matter of its path home., B. Powed
There was whisky and soda in M. C. M. Kuşkerdel
the Mar, perhaps the last bottle
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that to be ruthlessly eacrificed?
The Tank paused, ten yarde
away from our roof. The day
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Subsequently the Tankexplain-
ed that it had not the remotest
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A striking example may be fund on or about the Conduit Road level, whers European re- sidenta get no peace whatever owing to the number of Chinese. living thereabout, who cause grest sanojauss by baring native bands, which make nerve-racking noises by day and night, frequently accompanied by the firing of oreckers.
Until quite recently this district Was gaies and orderly, but of lete has become almost unbearable, and it is high time that steps should be taken to place some restrictions on Chinees residing there.
Enclosing my card,
Yonra ele.
"HEADACHE,“
Horgkong, Oct. 7, 1917,
CANTON NEWS.
Our Canton correspondent, writing on October 18, sintenzi
The rebel troops in Hasen, after the loss of Hengshar, topped fighting pending the arrived of reinforcemente from Kwangi and Kwangtung, and urgent telegrams have arrived to this effect.
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▲ eam of $300,000 has been sent to Shuitwan to meet the military expenses for marching to Hasan.
Owing to the financial difficulty in the Provincial Treasury, the chief of that department has despatched six officials to visit every district and press the people to pay the field taxes due to the Government,
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SHAPE QUOTATIONS.
The fact that the troops in Waicbow dislike the successor of Commander Chang Tin-ki who has resigned, and requested the authority to cancel the appoint ment, caused the rumour to the effect that Wrichow had declared independence against the Canton Banks Government. The Authority has HK. Fires, however sent two military com- Iados (Dat.) mendera with troops to pacify Steamboat,
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them and si the same time to H.K. WbarvEB keep su sye all important posit-Kowloon Docks 6. ions. The nearly-appointed com- Cemente mander, Lan Tiz-bok, has halted
on the way and dares not proceed so the post.
The Provincial Authority was very surprised on hearing thai | Chen King ming (former Tutah of Canton) is enlisting new recruits in Waichow under the
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instructions of Dr. San Yat-sen daily regularity, thus removing
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FIRE IN- all SURANCE OFFICES. will be CLOSED for the Transaction of PUBLIC BUSINESS after 1 p.m. on THURSDAY, 18th October, 1917.
By Order.
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and has proposed to give Chan the the causes of sick headaches, Hongkong, 17th October, 1917. command of 20 battalions if he biliousness, facial eruptions and sad Dr. San will cease their ill-smelling breath.
activities. It is reported that so
får over 10,000 men have enlisted but owing to lack of ammunition and fands & Division cannot yet be formed.
SPORT.
Billiard Tournament.
The Garrison Billiard Chal- lenge Cup Competition was con
$7,388,20 tinued in the Soldiers' Olab laat evening. After thres excellent games the Royal Engineers in their match with 87th Co.,.B.G.A. converted a deficit of 100 to s
ides of making raspberry palp of available & field which had been lead of 59, a very creditable per-
such an attractive little Mem,
well fertilised and exceedingly to mance. From the epretstare "I know quite well that there well dag up by shell fire. But
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was a battery hereabouts" said as a seed bed it lacked even-improvement in the games and HAND and TYPING; for a Ship point of view there wes & distincy WANTED A YOUNG MAN with experience in SHORT. the Captain of the Trank, "and nees. Thors WAS .no Ecose double figure breaks were fre-
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c/o Hongkong Telegraph. by Sipper Townsend agairat feet deep Bergi Edgeler. The prospect of getting, s The BCOPPA were The Tenk from the first show-fatigue party to emoothe down an
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I was steering & good course. in planting lettuce--not letrade! You have no idea how handy a of tan ordinary little ship she is answers to the shell-boltá belm like, a duck.".
ia ite phraseology. From an in- Bat the O. O. remembered that 0.9.M. Benth side view the Tank is remarkably a herd of Tanks had their grez Bergt, Edgeler like a torpelo and it has a sea ing ground or drinking pool quite
rall as it waddles. The crew of near. With the exercise of a lit:le
Tank are influenced by this, diplomacy he got a Tank to walk
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It shows in their language and around his vegetable allotment 2nd Cpl. Adams their habits, which are free and one day for a few minuter. The 0.Q.M.8: Reakos fearless respectively.
rosalt 聊些荐 an ideal seed-bed. Sapper Townsend The O O. Divisional Ammuni-That 0.0. bas sent to the Inven tion Column of the Thousandth|tion- Board a roheme for improv Division had the idas Isat wintering the agricultural production of growing some vegetables near of England by digging the land hin lines. He dreamed of spring up with High Explosive and then anions and festnoon. There was folling it out with Tanks,
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