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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1917.
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FOR 25 YEARS.
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WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, HONGKONG.
The Riga Gulf Debacle.
Whatever may be the origin of the onus of the disaster, it is unquestionable that the Russians
DAY BY DAY.
HONGKONG TRADE.
KNOWLEDGE IS AT BEST. THE Chamber of Commerca Report, PILGRIM'S BURDEN OR THE SOLD
TER'S PANOPLY, OFTEN A WEARI-
To-morrow's Anniversary,
Į have received a very "seysre set-NESS TO THEM BOTH. -Ruskin.
Lack in the naval engagement that has just taken place in the Galf of Rige. With a pertinacity
of
Tomorrow is the birthday Sir R. Bridges, the Post Laures's,
who was born in 1844.
that was mach to their credit, the Russian Army engaged in the Riga ares bad, "after the fall of the city, done not a little tol minimise the effect of its loss)on
WAB
The Dollar. The opening rate of the dollar
demand to-day 7,7/8d. The closing be found on, Page 1.
The Budget.
and, by really good work, had 24. prevented the enemy from reap-will ing to the fall the benefite
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The Fortnightly Price Current,
CLEVER DODGE.
Oplum in Double-"ned Jars.
One of the neatest dodges for
and Market report, published by concealing opium was explained the Hongkong General Chamber to Mr. J. R. Wood, at the Police
-TO-DAY'S MISCELLAN
A London church that alm rivals St. John's, Westminster its anslightliness is that of Paul's Covent Garden. T building owes its existence to misplaced manificence of an E
of Bedford and the mispla
of Commerce under date of Court this morning, when s October 19, contains to follow Chinese boarding house keeper energy of Inigo Jones. The e is said to have told the archit was charged with the unlawful ing ******
Colton Piece Goods and Fancy porsession of 30 lbs. of raw opiom.
thet he wished to have as pl |Cotton Gooda.—The local market Jaspector Wildin. of the Ims and convenient a stractors & rate is unchanged since our last reports and Exporta Office, stated possible, and but little bet pre. No sales have been effected that he visited 127, Das Voeux than a barn. Inigo Jones repl from firat hinde. Clearances Road last and found ten large that it should be the handsom
that he would build a barn, have improved women, Cotton are in brakete. The jere appear in England. It is possible si is quoted at 20721 and Mao-ed to contain only lentils and chester prices bare again advans biscuits, but on farther examins he had not seen many Eng! ed. Exabanga has declined 211 tion were found to he doable. barne. doring the interval..
lined, the space between the Colton Yaro.-Clearances bave outer and inner lininge being fall been satisfactory and the drop in of raw opiam. Seven of the jars exchange · bassisted dealers ware broken oven by him. very materially. Dollar rates for lower counts have improved were brought to the boarding Defendant stated that the jure somewhat, but not enough to bouse by a friend, who asked for balance the fall in exchange; them to be looked after. He had higher couple little change. no idea they contained any opino.
His Worship scored
The Yachting Season. The opening orgies of the
Royal Hongkong Tacht Club takes place on Saturday next.
Oplum Dress.
that be bad fondly, boped The Legislative Council meets to enjoy so the result of his so-morrow, when the Budget will saccess. Not only did the Russian come up for discusion. " troops prevent a farther advance of the German invading army, but they actually were able to best them back sud to retain the territory thus won. How different
A Chinese who was charged it has been in the csee of the Russian Navy. From the begin before Mr. J. B. Wood this morn ping it has put up a weak oppositing, for having thirty tale of ion to the enemy a fact which is opium dross in his possession not wholly justified by the farther was fined $300, or three maatba fact that the enemy certainly hard labour. presented a very formidable **Our Day" Photos.. opposition and was much more We have received frm & Fong NICOLL-At 5. Saifee Terrace, Nathan Rd. on the 22nd powerful in every respect There & capital eet of "Our Day" photo October, 1917, the wife of D.G. Nicoll, a daughter.
fis little doubt but that in any graphe. Copies may be ohisiced oiroumetances the enemy woals at Mesera. A. Tack and Co., 26. have had the better of matters. Das Voeux Road Central, and the Still, for the credit of the Russian proceeds of the eale will go to the
Rid Cross Fond. Nary end for Russia as a great nation, a better fighting spirit should surely have been manifest. ed.
BIRTH.
MARRIAGE. GRAY-LAMMERT.-At St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, on October 17th, by the Rev. C. L. Cooper-Hunt, C. F. Capt, Eric Hubert Gray, 74th Purjabis, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Gray, of the Manor House, Honour Oak, England, to Phyllis Jean Mary, elder daughter of Captain Lammert, V.D., and Mrs. Lammert, of 153, The Peak; Hongkong.
The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1917.
TAKING STOCK.
What of the Baltic Fleet?
"
Quotations are nominally:-
No, 10 at $145/175. No." 123 at $155/177. No. 16 at $190/200, No. 20, at $200/$220. Arrivals 1500 hales. Sales 2,000 bales. Shipments 250 bales. Unsold Bargains stock 10,000 bales.
Woollena,-Market still very 21,000 balea.
gaiet.
16.
SHANGHAI GERMAN HOUSES.
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Applications to Remove The Seals.
A Widow's Loss.
Raw Cotton.-Rites bare ad. A Chinese widow, living at 27, Gage Street, reports to the Policenced $5 to $7 per pioul, that early on Sanday morning her bringing op ladian cotton to $45 cubicle was broken into and and Chios staple to $47/50 per
Qaite large number jewellery valued at $3,599 and pical.
Canton silkesere. Herbert applications, arising out of sealing
of
haana were this year attached A weird rumour that br
Darvin relates [Life, Vol. I.. possibly rest on mere illusi their poda' the reverse way my
104] that a competent botar role to say the seeds of fe on the wrong side of the po beans were everywhere growi
Pars praphs to the same e appeared in provincial papí Bo consulted his garde who declared there "mast b mistake, for the beans grow. the wrong side only in leap-yea but he found his gardener ko nothing of how they grew ste time. Finally Darwin's origi informant expisined with ar ogies that he had "heard the ets ment from intelligent farmer not one of whom really knew. over England without a veau here was a belief that spread!
The manner in which the Rus-910 in money was stolea, berest and Co. report as follows orders executed by the Municipal of evidence.
einn Baltic Fleet—which zameri- cally and in efficiency ought to
total loss being $4.509.
Thief Caught.
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under date of September 22:- Police on enemy property, was
·
It takes more than an Actf
he will say in his langue,
Vis dring a quarta oim?' whi means, Will you drink a gut of wine? When drinking, be d repeatedly say 'Drind io"
A Chicese Police Reerrre con- Stock: 3,000 bales. Market-heard on the 17th inst, at the be able to give a good scoount of stable was on duty on the Praja Silk-Exchange again advanced Mixed Court, Shanghai, by Mr. itself has kept in the back- East yesterday morning when be daring the past fortnight and is P. Grant Jones, British Assessor, Parliament or an Order in Co. ground while in minch of vital! awa Chinese carrying & quantity, roted 3 per cent, over closing and Magistrate Kuan, importance has been taking place of wood, the possession of which quotations of our last circalar. Mr. W. A. O. Platt on behalf of Cil 10 restrain an Engli is one of the most irritating besked him to account for The Owing to a slight pressure to cell Mr. Hardoon asked that the pre-man from treating. It is e incidents in a situation that is man could not satisisctorily exame dealers have dropped prices mises formerly occupied by the of our oldest social observans, now fall of anxiety.", Bad the plain the possession and he was slightly but there are no signs of War and other German papers bead its etiquette has varied is Baltic Flest co-operated with arrested. It was subsequently great anxiety to realies. 5th orop is unsealed. They had been sealed little daring the last 300 yes. Admiral Bickhircff in his gallant Those who hold the view that the war will be ended by sheer effurie to prevent the enemy from found that the wood had been reported to have yielded 5.000 on the application of the Chiness Estienne Percier, who publied
stolen from a wood yard.
Before bales Dealers are cow in, the authorities, and he eabmitted that French guide to England a weight of military power before the present year rane its course are establishing themselves on the Mr. J. R. Wood, at the Police market for 6th orop oocoone the they might be unsealed as the 1588, dilates upon our treatg likely to be disappointed. The Western Front is, asit always has been, more important of the ielende in Court this morning, the thief was yield of which is estimated at tensote were no longer here Ho
propensities, "If an Englishm the main theatre of operations, and we are informed by a telegram the Gulf of Riga, it is not unlike sentenced to seven days' hard 8.000 bales. The spart reported suggested that the property on
wishes to treat you," he wris, which came to hand on Sitarday that the year's compeigo there is ly that they would have been.
labour..
on the French market early August the premises could be taken out now regarded as being concluded. The meaning of that, of course, able to prevent the Germsoe'
The Roll of Honour.
has been maintained and for some and stored by the Court until a is not that military activity will totally cease, but that, because of formidable · naval aggregation
We bear with deep regret of the counts full prices have been asked decision was arrived at as to what the coming of winter, any great and general offensive movement from effecting the capture of the death in action of Lieut. F. E. and paid, notably $930 for 10/18 was to be done with it. sufficient completely to overthrow the enemy will be more or less ielande now in their possession, Robinson, formerly in Mesara, dra, Good No. 1, while 13/15 dre. Permission was granted to re- out of the question. Another winter campaign is therefore inevitand much good, with probable Batterfield and Swire's office here of same clase only fetobed $980. move the seals on an undertaking which meaar, "I drink to 75 able, with all its hardships and discomfort in our men, but with beneficial effect on later opera. News has also been received of i per picul. Waste-Bemeins firm. that the applicant would be re and you must reply, I plaig even worse conditions for the enemy now that he is forced back on tions, might reasonably have been Captain A. C. Robinson, M.C., Flour Market Report-Stock:sponsible for the property in the which means, I pledge you." f to low-lying terrain and exposed to Allied gunfire from high, expected. Their extraordinary having been wounded, though not About 200,000. Quotations:- building.
*** you wiak to thank him, say 'Chi dominating positions.
inactivity bas cause the enemy seriously, we are glad to state, American Patent, $500 per sack; Mr. Newman, in connection with tangue artelay," which means, I The German idea appears to be that beaanse our territorial to carry out bie enterprise Both are brothers of Mrs. A. B. American Cut off, $3.50 per sack; the application of the S.M.C. thank you with all my heart," gaine bave been relatively small, though not inconsiderable, our with the less posible hind-worth and Miss Robigeon. Japanese 2ad Patent, $3.07 per Electricity Department for the no- offensive has failed. Such comfort as the enemy can gain from rance and, worse still, has Lieat. F. B. Robinson went Homs sack; Japanese 3rd Patent, $3.04 sealing of the Germen Consulate, looking at the situation in that way he is welcome to. Bat, after placed twenty Russian war vesela in 1915 and in the following year per sack; Japanese Straight, $3.10 said that there were seals (Dutch
The retirement of General ir all, that is not the prime consideration. It is not a question as to in an extremely awkward predica a wonded at Fricourt. After per sack; Shanghai Flour, $3.10 sesla) on the inner sides of the Creo. B. Wolseley to make rom whether this movement or that has yielded the full results expected ment. It is a most inglorious leave, he went to Eat Africa with per Back.
doors which the Assessor had said for, General Sir H. 0:0. Plamr though even from this stendpoint the Allies have no reason for page in the history of Rassis' his brother, being attached to the
as colonel of the York and L- Metala.- Vary little movement could not be broken, being dissatisfied the whole point is the potential advantage Baltic Fleet, and wil remain eo 3-d Nigerian Regiment. Be was is to be reported. Steel plates The Assessor said he did not caster Regiment, terminster a. ercared and the relative position of the opposing armies. And here unless those in aghority can mentioned in despatches some are enquired for at about $26.00 forbid the breaking of the gasle, membership in that corps there can be no two opinions sa to the general outlook. Whereas cause the cfficers and men of the time ago. Moch sympathy will to $27.00 picul Nails have but, at the time the application extending over 50 yers. a year ago we were more or less on the defensive and were unable Fleet speedily to Lasert them be felt for Mrs. Baworth and Miss shown & slight improvement, bat was made, he did not think it George is the younger brother in our sporadic attacke to make any definite impression on the selves and, for the sake their own Robinson in their bereavement, there is to enquiry to buy. necessary to interfere with them, of the famous Field-Marshal, Vis- énemy, to day the positions are exactly reversed. In every epbere and their country's honour,
Ball Estreated.
Sugar-Market active, prices, In this caso it was necessary, the count Wolasley, and is now in bis
79th year. of activity we her established our supremacy, so that from & endeavour to undo much of the
Edward C. Williams, Chief leading upwards.
application was granted and the strategio point of view everything at present is in our favour, We mischief that has been done and Officer, of the sa. Sin U, tailed
sesle inside the doors could be hold the dominating position in Flandere, in which we have firmly prevent a recurrence of each to appear befor Mr. Dyer Ball, st established ourselves, and we have in recent battles no weakened disaster that has befallen Russia the Magistracy this morning, the enemy's resisting power that when the time comes for a renewal in the Gulf of Biga. Unless some when he was charged with sosnuli- of aggressive tactics we shall have no difficulty in carrying all before thing of this sort takes place, and ing M. Pierro Mandio and a e. Thur, while the opposing armies will both settle down now to takes place spor, there seems Chinare clerk at the Astar House the winter, and operations on an extended scale are improbable for every probability of Petrograd's Hotel on Saturday. Sergeant some months ahead, all the advantager lie with us. Not only will being coespied by the enemy Pitt stated that the defendant Portuguese Soldiers' Tobacco including a billiard table. the Germans by perpetually exposed to far worse conditione before long.
than ourecives, but they will have to spend the greater part of
the winter in 1atching up their broken armice and endeavouring The Enemy's Latest Air Raid:
A GOOD RESULT.
Fund.
acknow.
made a complaint to the clerk about one of the houseboys, and. when asked for an explanation of the complaint, brosms
very Already
led ged Collented by Miss J. Collected by Boys
*
Stolen Glass.
to dig themselves more Grmly in. In contrast to this, the Allied forces, secure in the possession of superior tactical Like the many reide that have angry and struck the boy. Mr. positions, with their man power not seriously weakened, on preceded it, the latest nocturnal Mandio, who was very elderly. devote the coming months to elaborste preparations for the visit of enemy aircraft to certain came down from upstairs to B:8 spring campaign, prefiting by the experiences of the past, and work parts of England can only be what the noire was all about and out their plans on a well co-ordinated and syalamatic basis, in the described se another complete tried to pacify the defendent, who enre and certain knowledge that victory is bound to be theirs. And fiasco. To kill sad injure a few became even more angry and in this connection we have the comforting assurance that, by the people and to do damage to an etrack the old man. Bis Worship time the grip of winter is relaxed, America'e army of fresh, hardy insignificant amount of property ordered the $10 bail to be manhood will have been thrown into the balance. From the military and all of no consequence what estreated. standpoint, therefore, we can well be satisfied with the outlook as it ever from a military point of view presents itself so-day.
-cap in no way assist the
An unemployed Obidean anolie Whether or not we can win the war before another Spring, be enemy towards doing anything was charged before Kr. Dyer cause of the incrossing stringency of economic pressure on the worth achieving. And when to Ball, at the Polios Quart this enemy, is another question, though the new German thrust into this is to be added the fact morning, with the larcny of 25 Rassis, with all it may mean in the way of replenishing the enemy's that in the raid he has lost panes of glass from a beans at 10, stocks of foodstaffe, soircely warrants as pinging cur faith in such 趁虚 lesst four Zeppelins. of Seymour Terrace, Mr. P.M.N. dá contingency, Bat, even under the most helpful conditione, the very latest type, involving a Siva, broker, of §. Des Voix Germany is bound to feel the pinch in the coming winter more than monetary loss of probably some Road Central, appeared to pro- she ever has before, while the increasing political unrest in the three million sterling, the utter secale the man, whose excuse Fatherland and the growing anxiety for peace may well bring about failure of the enterprise is made was that his father was sick and a situation entirely unfavourable to a succes-fal prosecution of the all the more palpable. The Ger had no money to bay medicine, war by the enemy. We have it on unimpeachable actuerity that ass, no doubt, still cling to the Bergeant Pitt stated that the the German morale, both in the ranke of the Army and among the idea that the British may get be house was rented by a Chinese in civilian population, is already seriously undermined, and, with the panic stricken by the frequency Oanton, bat was acinhabited, as hardehips of a winter to face, it must of neosanity still farther de- of the raide, as to compel the Gov. the hease was kept ready for se- cline. On the other hand, Allied power and Allied confidence are If so, it in a vain delusion, they necessitating the man'e removal ernment to negotiate for pesce, onpation should any trouble occur on the up grade. With the facts thus, there can only be one evan- tual result that victory to which we have been looking for the pest are cherishing, for no each evento Hongkong. Over one hundred three years and more. That is why to-day we can contemplate tality will ever occur, no matter panse of glasa had been stolen the coming months with high hope and cheery optimism. We have how many raids take place 'and) from the house: His Worship both the will and the power to win. And the whole world, Ger. 20 matter what material effent entenced the defendant to thres zany included, knows it full well,
they may have. -
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Donation from Maase,
from Clab Regres- tive e de Beneficen- cia Donation from Oath- olio Union Club. Balance of subscript
ions over expend- ilare in connection with Tea party and evening party held at Club de Recreio From Mr. Brano da Racha proceeds of sule of Poetry
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removed.
A German at one time resident in the German Club applied for permission to take away from there, where he had been living for 11 years, his private effects;
Sir
Bis service began with the Indian Mutiny. After that campaign he "purchased "
that is strange reading now— a captaincy in the North Staffe.
other campaigns Afghanistan, Egypt and Barmab.
•
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Great speakers are rate, and This application and numerous rarer still is the great extempore others were granted, bat in the speaker. This almost unique case where s German desired to distinction, which is enjoyed by obtain certain fands of the Ger the present Prime Minister, was man Red Cross in the German the peculiar grace of Mr. Glad- $1200.96 Post Office, the request was re-stone. The brilliant speech in fased and the applicant referred which he mercilessly exposed to 16.45
to the Chinese authorities the ridioale of su hilarious Hone
100.00
the "young kaight of the shires,” Mr. Obaplin, was delivered on the spur of the moment, the telling
The Helena May, Institute.
The weekly religious meeting phrases springing spontaneously 250.00 of the Helens May Lastitate will to bie lips. Bat Gladstone never be held on Tuesday at 5.30 p.m., made preparation as to words, and 5.00 when the Rev. J. Kirk Macon once expressed his astonishment aobie will give his second address that such preparation was usual on "Teachings of Christ with ze- with Bright,
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gard to daily life". The meeting
18 open to all women.
The Talmudists forbade a man
to pray in Syriso "because, the A Tricky Customer.
angela do not understand the Santence of there months' hard Syriac language.” But, the labour was passed on a Chinese limits of angelic intelligence hava by Mr. J.R Wood, at the Magis been more strictly defined, as e 43.20
tracy this morning, for the pre Entente story which a cor embezzlement of $45. The facts respondent his sent me illass $1,713:19 ware that the defendant was sent rates, concerning sn old" lady Remittance
into a shop at Yaamati by another who a century ago expressed the banded
Chinese to buy some provisions opinion that the British best the
Remittance
over to the Porta-.
Instead of baying the goods, the French becanes they, prayed guese Consal£214 3. 4, man walked upstairs, and by before going into battle. It was
handed
mesne of a back staircase got out suggested that the French prayed lag over to the Porta-
of the shop. The same evening too. "Oh poor jabbering oren- ..guese Consul
.14.19. 2. Ee treated some of his friends to turpe," she exclaimed, "and if our f
a dinner on the strength of the they did, who could understand; £229. 2, 6, atolen money.
them "