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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1917.
CHINA BY LAND & WATER
IS A GIFT THAT WILL BE PARTICULARLY WELCOMED BY CHINA HANDS WHO ARE ON LAND SERVING THEIR COUNTRY
IT WILL GIVE THEM AND AND SEA. THEIR COMRADES: INFINITE PLEASURE.
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Beating the U-bout..
DAY BY DAY.
MAN IS NOT A FIGHTING ANIMAL: HE IS FIGHTING BECAUSE HE IS NOT AN ANIMAL.-M. GE
MODERN WARFARE.
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JOTTINGS BY THE WAY. TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY,
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A Police Reserve Order sayi What is the qusiurent street- that heather may be worn with name you know of in London, uniform on the 30th instant. If past or present?. It would pro- we know anything about the bably be hard to beat Shalligo- persistency of Hongkong's lasser, naked-street, which, according to our amateur police will have so the late Sir Laurence Gomme's
Not only are we succeed- ing in limiting the scope of the submarines, as last week's 33 most satisfactory shipping returo
disclosed, but we are simultane- ously taking most effective offen-Chexterion.
In former were artillery was sive measures against these under-
1o-morrow's Anniversary. handled with strong horses or That fact wɛa very fas pests.
Tomorrow is the second anti-mules. This way in the day strikingly illustrated by the
Liord vereary of the battle of Ctesiphon, when the average weight of option in the matter. Mr. snäoɑncement - in
field-piece was two to three tone, George's speech to the eff at that peer Bagdad.
and fire tons was the absolute maximum. To-day there. arð
од The opening rate of the dollar thousands of guns
demand to-day
PACKED IN NEAT BOX READY FOR POSTING. effect this blow will have on the
PRICE $5.00
A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., build. But, beet of all, the
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|«vidence before the Loosl Recorda Commistes, appears as the name of a street in Wapping in a sewers ́ "The Drink Problem at Home," rate-book for 1748. In those in one single day we bad destroy- ed fire U-boats, su accomplish-
every saya & heading. Hongkong's willldays the naming of a street was ment for which our naval forces
A front ranging in weight begin on the let of next month.not in the hands of a seduta, sanot be too highly praised: Wa
to Sity tops, Still, the Tytam Tek' reservoir public authority, hence the oddity wonder what the Germans will
from thirty and the giants run up to sevenly will be opened three weeks later. of some of these old names. think of this little bit of informa
five tons. Some of the projectiles tion. Apart from the crippling
Scarcity of red psict is The Appropriate Adjective.--- artillery as this can be trans- weigh nearly top campaign from which the enemy
ported only by railroad. Daring" A seroplane fitted with one of compelling the "General" motor war-brown expected so much, there in the
the heaviest of the Verdan the new Liberty molors passed buses to adopt heavy loss which the destruction
fighting, the handling of the through a esvere trial with flying paint for their bonnets. But afterwards-is there no chanow of those fire boste involves, for
French artillery #quired no less colours," says a contemporary,
of the bases returning to the old Jeabmsriors, especially of the
than 500 trains of 25,000 cars to modern type, are costly craft to
bring up the projectiles alone.
The war in evidently coming cast of having a different A dissipated looking Chinese The Germans, at the same plass, nearer to our doors, for we read colour for the various routes P Under the old system the securing of each a useful "bag"
the was charged before Mr. Dyer Ball, need some 3.000 guns of a kotal ad this bould convince
at Beaugehen, near Macao, being
out his bae, knowing that green enemy that any hopen be hae of at the Police Court shie corsing. weight of 60,000 tons, which of an allsek by Yuan Taï's troops traveller could more easily pick starving us into submission by with begging, bat etously denied had continually to be shifted to "reprised with machine-gun
wan Bayawater; a yellow one, or doomed to that he had ever done so. He meet the conditions of battle.fre." !!
mustard-pot, as the drivers and submarinismo sre
conductors called it, Padding- atter feilare. We want more became exceedingly angry in the Railway-lines built especially for
Members of the Defence Corp ton bus; e red one Kilburn to which news of this sort. If it can be deck and wore rather forcibly. gun-ebifting areas product of the with announced, a'most immediately When the lakong stated that be present war. They did not exist
"Heather Day" won't be por Patney, etc. It greatly added for after the oven, that on a single saw the man beg off's European at its outset, and their constraction arriving back from camp on Victoria; white the Bank to
day we have accounted for five in Queen's Road, the man shouted and handling have been devel- U-boats, surely the Admiralty can cut that he would kill the lakong. oped and adapted to their use mit ed to escape the badge cellers to the picturesqueness of the now depart from ite policy of not A "fine of $5, or 14 daye, was entirely during the fighting of merely because they happen to streets. making known the submarine imposed and the man was led the past three years. Writes the have no cash on hand. "Chits Epecial European correspondent sccepted" is to be one of the
What is "afternoon 188"? Im losses. We see no reason whatever away protesting the while.
Wearing Stelen Footwear. of the Radway Age Gonette (New motios of the collectors.
the Food Controller'a Regulations- why a monthly statement should
A Chinese carpenter who bas York) :~
When we read the heading no provision ia made for not be issued of the results of our
A big gun is white elephant. A New Type of Dam" we supply of sugar for less in warfare against the U-brate, and been recently employed on aebip we are certain that the figures at present in the barbour wae if you can't handle it. It is a
to enlarge oover bow. thereby disclosed would have a charged before Mr. J. R. Wood, tank that won't roll. If the thought we might possibly dis the afternoon in factories and car business houses, and the Midland beneficial effect on public at the Police Court this morning, enemy breake through your vocabulary. But we were greatly Food Commissioner has asked for
with stealing a pair of books, a trench-linen two, four, or eix opinion.
pair of socks and some laces, the kilometers, and does the job in disappointed at finding it only an official ruling on the point. ployees who require a cap of ten The Prime Minister Triumphant. property of one of the men on a smashing, harry-up fashion, he referred to a water-worka echeme. Load Rhondda replies that em- We notice that "The Lira" ie in the afternoon must bring their If the rest object of the debate board. The man got away with is sure to take these guns that are the goods by wearing them a be the very life and heart of modern
in London, own sugar from home. It is urged, in the House of Commona on
was leaving the yard, bas he was defense unless you have some way being revived Monday was to discredit the pre-Ister arrested while trying to of getting the gene away quickly. B ndman's are not bringing it to however, that in a large number rent Government and particularly
"Because of its difficulty, it has Hongkong, though, Possibly they of factories and business houses the Prime Minister in the eyes of fewn them. His Worship passed the House of Commons and the sentence of three months' hard become more of a railroad than think we wouldn't bother to pay in the Midlands where giri em- sa artillery taek to save heavy to see prevariosters on the stage | ployees work for long hours toa--
ron ap against in the afternoon is a practical country generally, then it can
guns, or to ruth them forward when we Oplum Possession. safely be said that it failed
Two boat women were charged to new positions if the enemy is them almost any time in everyday necessity. They intend therefore to have another word with Lord lamentably. Mr. Lloyd George
. In the life.
Rhoadds. came out of the ordeal with flying before Mr. J. R. Wood, at the being beaten back... colours. He did so by adopting Police Court this morning, with early part of the war, because of
We hope Sootland won't be
Perhaps when peace comes the simple expedient of saying being in unlavial possession of the lack of proper facilities for that his seemingly indiscreet ob thirty-five taals each of prepare handling rapidly even the heavy unduly concerned at the sancunce-
women guns then existing, it would take meat el "The Allies' New War some. stadious person will give One of the notable things of the time is the ease and rapidity servations in bie Paria speech were opi. Dae of the
part they have played in the war. with which, in Britain, cane sugar bar replaced best sugar. The not precisely what they appeared admitted the offence, but the months to get guns into position Spirit." It's nothing to do with us a romance of metals and the Among the newer kind zone is Napoleonic war dealt a heavy blow to the cane fager industry; the to be and that they had been other, represented by Mr. W. B particularly daring rainy weather, an batitate for wbisky.
The new French Minister of figuring more prominently in the com bired effect of the Continental system and the British blockade delivered with one object in view, Hind, denied it. Inspector Wildin when the roads were deep with Was to 80E a severe shortage of sagar do the Continent, and this namely, lo aroase discassion and atated that the drug was found mond. In the French and Italian led to the rise there of sugar beet cultivation on's great scale, consequently to awaken new in-concealed under the women's mountains the so-called mountain Jastice is, we observe, named production of munitions than
Perhaps
clothing. They were treated howitzer, elrepped to the back of Nail. We sincerely trust that aluminium. Professor T. Tarner, Beet gradually gained upon and foally passed cane; and in 1913-terest in vital issues.
of the University of Birmingham, 14, while the world's production of cane sager was 7,170,729 109, sach slice, as Mr. Lloyd George walking along the Praya The a male, was about the only rapidly no-one will hit him on the head, of the Metallurgical Department "In this same early period the A local sportsmen recently shot tells us that the output of a single that of European beet sugar was 8,254,700 tons. With the out evidently thinks, come legitimate case was adjourned until Friday, moving gun and.
Caught ! Pawnshop.
a large bawk with a small air-foundry in the Midlands to-day
there Are DONDY break of the present war the caention of exports from Germany to ly ander the category of “political
Alle girl living in Nathan biggest guce erailable and those! Britain gave cane ita chacce; in 1916 17 the world's production strategy"-bat, we must admit
gun.. Only the species of the bird and of care sager had risen to 8,710,280 tone, and Europe's to a certain amount of sympathy Road, Yanmeti, saw a man take a of the longest range-fifteen to
barreled marine-gune of the descriptive article on
How I whole world 12 years ago. It in predaction of best bad fallen to 5,075,000 tons. The whole balancs with those who take them literally quilt from the verandah of her twenty four miles were the long prevents him from giving me a foundrisais egaal tothat of the of one of the great trades of the world has been altered, sad the and consider them scoordingly. Gouse and make away with it.
the fint article to be made of while they were sorely needed, return of Britain from beet to cane suggests some rather serious If public men are to make state. She shouted to her mother, who French and the Italians. But brought down my firet Albatross recorded that & baby's rattle was ments which appear to be more or followed the man to Korioce, there were no facilities to carry considerations for the Germans.
aluminium. This was in 1856, Before the way, Britain waller and away Germany 'e best ons less in the nature of "hlasing in- where she saw him go into the gune within close fiting dis-
and is intended for the infant tomet for sugar. Sugar was much the largest article of export from discretions," affaire would soon pawnshop to pawn the quilt. Ee
camp will cost. Among other Prince Imperial of France. Germany to Britain. - For years Britain never took less than 55 per come to & Borry pass if they we bere arrested. When charged tance of the enemy, or at least
Sir Arthur Tapp is ons of many cent, of the German export and sometimes as much as 75 per cent. were able to extricate themselves before Mr. J.-B. Wood, at the there was the cousiant danger things, it will probably cost thoke
men whose original desire was in 1813-14 she took as much as 78 per cent, according to the by stating that what they had Felice Court this morning, the that if the gods were carried for attending it a nasty cold and a
for a life on the land, but this ed by the enemy artillery, the figure given in the British Cosenlar Report bo German Trade in said as merely a piece of "poli-man was found to bave a previous ward and their location discover doctor's bill when it's all over.
That may be conviction and was sentenced to 1913. This year saw the culmination of Germany's production, tical strategy."
*The Chief Justice wishes therese in all probability due to the Lack of means to shift them to new which reached 2 738000 tons. Her average production during the true; but it may, nevertheless, be three monthe hard labour and goon would be lost because of the
four hours" etocks.
were more horses in Hongkong, fact that he was born on his five years ending in 1913 had almost equaled that of India, and irritatingly g misleading..
positions. For this reason the He will probably agree with as father's form in the little village onsiderably surpassed that of every other country. Her total ex Party Feeling Undesirable." Sergeant Bond, of the Water marins guns of the Italiane, their that we've enough assee, anyhow, of Orleton, not far from Leomiar Circumstances, however, weigbing port, of eagar in 1913 was valued at 263,900,000 marks, which
Mr. Asquith's reference to the Police, was on patrol daty in the 240 millimeter ones
altered the course of his life, with means that the expert to Britain of this one article was . orth to her Premier having indulged
the result that he had more time in barbour yesterday when he saw upward of filisen tons, had to b over £10,000,000 a year. The war put an end to this; the German relevant rhetoric" to
the a number of men on a cinder kept far behind the front for
defensive purposes.
to forty tenn on two separate available for Y.M.C.A. work than crop lor 1915-16 was only 1,400,000 tons, scarcely more than ball good people of Paris indicated boat transferring coal to A that of 1913; and export to Britain bad, of course, entirely ceased,
"At this period of the war, ears, fastened together by a single would have been the case had ibat be was sotuated more lighter. He went long-side Yet the British refineries never stopped work; though they need by the interests of his party, and enquired where the cost before the present vast network of overbead steel platform on which agriculture been his life's work. some 900,000 tons of raw eagar a year for the home market alone, than by a desire to have so came from and where it was to be railway-lines was built partly for rest the gun and gaz-track, The their needs have been met from cane engar. It has been a difficult explenstion from the Prime sent. Be could get no satisfactory war-user, the fist care ceed for same system is used with the reficeries never had to stop work, especially in the case of Jare no one can sympathise at present, men, nine in number, for being the most primitive description, all-steel frame ware being specially some deserted da sccount of raids task to time the arrivale of eager from all over the world so that the Minister. With such an attitude swers, and then arrested all the artillery-transportation ware of fifty-on gone, though in this one town are many empty dwellings, ines the task has been accomplished; the refineries have received a feeling ehould he ab-orbed in the shelf tons. of coal-kich was building 1st cars of a uniformase. The use of two different less by owners called away on WBT, steady supply, while the loss of German and Austrian sogar bes
The men type, different types of care being short care booked together ap service. On the steps of a grey Camn moo aim of presenting a the quantity found. been offset by a great increase of production in the tropics. aited front. Of course, it is were charged before Mr. J. Rebicted to as obstacles to the pears to help in the turning of stone house, whose owner, It is true that British consumption has fallen from its mezimen of more than ever essential that the Wood, at the Police Court this rapid and economical handling of carrer. One of the most imposing doctor, is absent in France, 1,729,243 tons in 1914 to 1,395,569 tone in 1916; bat that is rather rains of Government should be in | morning, when Mr. J.B. Gardiner freight, the average car was not sights witnessed, by civilians is crozobes daily a lonely tabby a question of hipping than of sogar.
the binds of the right person, appeared to defend Beveral of fited for biggan transportation, that of there big guns so they est,, It is an unusually friendly
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old The end of the war, then, will find the German enger tradenith who is his country is, in these them. The case was adjourned,
care averaged pses along the railway. At creature, responsive to the advan Britain goue and Britain furnished with new sources of supply and eritiost times, vested with power bail being fired at $50 each.
eighteen feet in length and were stations where balte are made ces of every passer-by who cares just
enough the longer that Germany, prolonge the straggle, the more firmly will that practically makes him a
to grest crowds gather, and little to atroke an arching back and strong A Wite Prosecution,
from eight
clamber ten children
apon the awake a delighted part. Pity and the now British connections become established and the more hope Dictator. By common consent and Two Chinese boarding house carry lees will it be for Germany to regain her lost trade. Some people by virine of his many admirable renners were charged before Mr. tone.
One of the excep-gigantic pieces to thrust immense sympathy galore have been lavish talk of German sogar recovering its position by the aid of heavy achievements, sucb. n
one for Dyer Ball, at the Police Conet this ions in recent years to this car bouquet of flowers into the ed upon it; friends of the doctor the fifteen-inch cannon months. have received indignant wnony. bongties; bat we should be interested to know where Germany is Great Britain is unqaretionably morning, with behaving in a die-type was that found on supposed to be going to find the money. What applies to Germany Mr. Lloyd George, whose great orderly manner on
Board the Northern Railway of Frence, "When the train carrying such mona lettera arging them to adopt applies equally to her unfortunate satellite Austria, who also export strength lies in his clarity of es. Namhoi leat ovening. Esid- where the ore-care were filty feet pieces arrives near the front the the deserted animal, and one kind ed a considerable smount of eager to Britsin. It is true that the vision, his wonderful physiost¦ence was given by a chip's guard, loog and built to carry forty tons process of placing the jumbo in lady eren brings it daily tributes East competes with Britain for Java Bugar; so do the United Staterad mental energy, bis remark who stated that the men jumped of weight," It was such are es position begins. This is generally of toothsome ecraps, Alas! all this for Caban, though their competition may grow less with the recent ably organising ability and his sixard before the boat was pro- these that the French used in carried on at night and with the sentiment is wasted. The cat i enormous increase of production in Porto Rico, Hawaii, and the gift of imparting to others a perly moored. He wanted to tarn railroading their marine guns almost secrecy. The men of the feline impostor! It never be United States themselves. But Britain bas second string to her good deal of the enthusisam hem back, but they refnied and daring the fighting along the railroad corps must accompany flanged to the absent doctor has the gan to its fasl position no morasetion with the house ; i bow; she could grow all the sugar she needs in her own tropical which his Gaelic temperament struggled. A lakong one to his Year and Mense.
Formerly the body of the gua building a permanent track merely exploiting the empathies- dependencies. What can be done is shown by the little island of canees him to feel. Mr. Lloyd assistance. Inspector Kent stated Mauritius, which in 1916 sent is 200,000 tons (allasted to Fesser) George is a born leader, having that why be bad charged the men was wholly dumounted from its thereto, After the revolving tiep of the casual basar-by for its own 24 gaine 20,000 in 1913. But the key of the position is British all the easealini qualities for ook was because bearding house carriage and laid flat on a seperate table bed for the gun is prepared, base ends. Fat and well-liking, Galene, which, it is stated on good authority, bould easily gin a position. That nach wn ranner had tcently been crushed car. At present, and fer rome the gun is elid on strong hand-it apparently allies forth daily million tons of anger, instead of the 120,000 it now sende ua. The should at times commis 8 Torball to death by itfing to get on board time past, it has been the practise cars into position. While the job from some comfortable home repulation of Demerara sugar is well known; and if we could look indiscretion is not at all curpriz steamer before the gangway to load the twenty-ton guns on of removing the gun to i now intent on scourier aussehe, Germany would have lost her last chance of rehabilitating her to Demerara for a good deal more than half our annual consumption, ing, but sech should certainly was down. These men should single flat car of the strongest position is not a light one, it is car and unmerited termi Bagu industry. And every day that the war luis brings this made the occasion for a have waited for the gingway, type available, with extra support no longer as impossible ons, This story, being a uns cùm, but
pulling of political wires. Fines of $3 sich ware imposed. ing trucks, sad the guns of thirty; thanks to the mile”
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