Ford
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
$1,250 (Local Currency) complete with Electric Lights and Electric Horn.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1918.
ECONOMY.
The Ford is essentially a strong, light car, being built of Vanadium steel, the
·lightest and strongest" steel® made. Weight" is the most expensive thing in a motor car." Every additional pound increases the demand on the motor, makes necessary more gasoline and oil, and results in greater wear on tyres.
RED TERROR IN PETROGRAD.
TERRIBLE PICTURE OF PRISON LIFE.
from Fortress Cell.
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Food.
overcrowded eslla. Whers, ander the old regime, one prisoner Way Tris is, of course, a “very rough confined, and a bad to sleep in, translation, bat a call with 19 three meals a day, half an hour's men in it is hardly the best plaas walk every day in the oorrider (o compose poetry, Our first end a walk two or three times aaoxicus inquiries wore 88 to week in the gsider, now no less whether we could communieste than 20 occupy the same cell with the outside world and reasive parcels and food. Officially
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BIRDS OF WAR.
THE BROKEN COURSE.
Wonderful Pigeons of French Army.
By Harold Begbie.
not in the least; it'e £120 a year.” "And the reat of your house?" "Forty pounds with rates and. taxes." "Any more members in the family ?" "A vinter, sir; she's a student." "Well, you know, Mr. Daab, I think you are The scene in a little room in so'ng to find it very difficult to The exccass obtained by Gen- Norfolk atreet, midway between live during those two years,” there was no ommanication, bateral Goursed early in Jaly in the wheeling thunder of the Ob, we shall scrape along all ss far away from the latrine seit erald be effected by various bresking the German offensive Strand and the moving waters of right, sir.”ð posible. When we first got ways and mesne. Parasle we were in Chempaste was characterie our Father Thames. The time into the cell and the door was told, were sccepted by the Comed particularly by the
exis A recent afternoon. The proud dignity, the high courage, closed we could not wee where on mandant twice weekly, and were 'treme degree of perfection which dramatis parsome are a middle and the strengthening humour of every possible method of rapid aged committee and several London's middle-classes at the young gentlemen broken in the back of it. Magnificently said!
We sleep on the stone floor, all round the walls, and try to keep
We could write open letters to our friendz sad ogold receiev parels from them thrice weekly From the money taken from a "we were permitted to receive 50 roubles weekly, but that did not go very far, and the sathorities fed dis once daily, about 2 pm. when Every mess of five men received a basin of fish soup Special Correspondent's Dispatch and a quarter of a pound of dried black bread per man. We were provided with wooden poons, and Fat round and supped from the common basin earth we were going to arrange Eot water for tɛa "was provided on: se'тes, and this was all the an lib. So except for the fact of more difficult as three of the the overcrowding, the insects, and company were Red Gaarde, who some of the prisoners, we had not were arrested for stealing at Smolny Institute, where they had plentiful, stock of undesirable been on guard, and who had's gueste. So they got wida berth and a larger space than they deserved.
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The following dispatch from of the Daily Chronicle Special Correspondents in Russia describes events that happened
after the outrage on the British Embassy at Petrograd The
so much to complain of. dispatch, which came by a cir caitous route, reveals a terrible criminals was brought in, and Oa Monday evening a gang of picture of the eafferings of Eagane of them told me a rather in- liehmen flung into prison by the teresting stors. A commissary Bolsheviks. The correspondent'e Darrative is written from bie game in and made some remark prison cell in the Peter and Paul to this man sand went out; This Fortress, the description of which man then told me that the com indicates the brutality with which misaary and he were old criminals, who had been in prison Together, the Red Terrorists are tresting
A short time ago, the commis, British subjecte.
sary was arrested for housebreek Cell 89, Peter and, Pauling and wes sentenced to be shot Fortress, Tron betakoy Bastion, He offered his services to the Petrograd. Sept. 5-On Friday. Bolsheviks, and was released on Avgust 20, Uriteky, Commis- condition that he betrayed all his sioner of the Interior, waa mur old comrades. So now this dered, and the same evening Mr. gentleman rides round in a motor Woodhouse, the British Coneal, and arrests all his own friends. was arrested, as were the men. He has been engaged only two bere of the English Club who weeks on this particular jab, and were present at the time the has already arrested over 200 murderer was supposed to have criminals. The relations of the tried to hide there.
guard to the prisoners were on the whale correct, but one command- ant was simply brata!,
Although this club is called "English," there is no eingle member an Englishman, but it was originally founded in 1770 by an Englishman. The father of the murderer Kannigiteer was aleo arreated according to the Obiness fashion..
As the room got faller the atmosphere became more and more slifing, so a number of the prisonera went into the kitchen to get a breath of air. Suddenly the commandant came in. He The following day all the demanded what they were doing Bolshevik papera made great there, and in being informed that capital out of the English Club, the reason was that the room was and state that the English and so overcrowded and stiffing, called French had directly engineered out. Drive them into the room: the murder. On the Salarday Stifle them. That's what's pant afternoon a mass of arrests tooked.” place, and a company of Red
However, the overcrowding Goside were sent to the British became so serions on the Tassday Embassy. There an exchange of that it was essential to take some sho's took place, the result of stepe, so the British and Frennb which was two Bad Guarde were and a few others were ordered to killed and one wounded, and get ready. We were not inform Commander Cromie, who distined where we would be taken to, gaieted himself so in the Baltic and there was a considerable Be Commander of the British delay, as at firet the guard fatly Satmarine Flotills, was killed.
refased to take us anywhere.
The Bed Guards were so violent after the death of their comrades that for a time there was a COD-
Marched to the Fortress. Finally a guard was collected aidez ble danger in the members and we were all assembled in the of the Consulate being lynched-yard, and then in broad daylight off head. However, they wers we were marched to the Peter and.
headed to the prisoners after inspection.
As they had very little chance of inspecting them properly pirosla were no ived only sliter four or five days, by which time
had to be fiang out. most of the food was sptien and
The official ration was se in mech woree state, and, although we were supposed to receive bread and coup daily, owing to the abeerce of proper appliances the prisoners were fed only twice weekly,
However, the others made us kadly welcome, lumped together a little closer, and we arranged car belongings on the floor, after which we ast on the bed, as many
The tart time they had been as would. told the Intest neme, ed was on Sandag at 11 p.m., gave each can a cigarette from the soap was so riften hardly any our scanty supply and learned one could eat it. All Tuesday the routine and rales of the little we received nothing, on Wedoes commune in which we found day there were rumours both reg. ourselves, as well as the tradi-arding food and parcele. The latest tions of car cell.
arrivals who had a little food and money were not as badly cff, but some of the officers were literally sad absolutely starving.
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Towarde evening when the sppetites got keeper, the centries along the corridors were badgered
communication had attained.
Among the agents employed were carrier pigeons, the use of which bas been greatly developed is the French Army since 1870.
war:
Gallantly said, with all the
So magnificently said that a lump The room is so narrow that the comes into one's throat, looking committee sits with its book to at this brilliant young surgeon the wall There is just space who bas suddenly become the The idea of utilising pigeons between the three gentleman of youth of London's middle-classea acically in the firing lise was the committee and a fire place fighting to keep its bead above originated during the war. It was small arm chair. In this simchair French in inception, and was littered with cigarette enda for a water.
He has fought for us, facing.
alag a French ides to organise and site a young gentleman broken death day after day for two years, ase mobile pigeon houses.
by the war. Crors beside him, and here be is a suppliant for etanding in the window is a 870 that he may qualify to hesl roller-top desk, and at this desk other soldiers of their harta. site the chairman of the com- mittee.
An elaborste
ning is Decesesty satisfaclority to adapt the pigeon to military nquire mente. It begins as soon as the bird is strong enough to fly, and in a few weeks' time the pigeon should know the voice of his keeper, eat out of his hand, sad come to bis call. Trist fights begin at three months, the bird at first being released at emall distances from home.
Battle Training.
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"There'll be your railway farea and year laughsona," anys the chairman. The young "man smiles. I can lunch, sir,” he
spa, on s akilling a day."
The chairman ie Sir Hedley Le Bsa; the committee is composed of educational experts; the fund they are siministering is s most He is neked to go cat while the most poble, breach of the Lord committee considers hia gate. Kitchener National Memorist What hopes are in his beart, Fand; and this branch is known what fears in his mind, as he re- by the time cf Kitchener enters the room. Scholarship This fard provides "The committee has consider- the man broken in the great wared your case, Mt. Dash. They with sufficient money to complete think you are anderestimating. the educational course which he your needa." broke with a single gesture of patriotism by enlisting in the Army of Freedom...
Ask Mc. Dash to come in," eays the chairman. Then to the committee who are turning over their papers he says, "This is a good case. A medical student of the greatest promise."
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Mr. Dash goes a little pale. "Further, the committes does not think that after having fought for your country you should be a burden on your mother."
Mr. Dash draws in his breath.
The committee has therefore, droided to pay your fees, and io addition to make you a grant of £100 a year daring the time you are qualifying
Here in this call in "Purisoke witch, the ardent member of the Extreme Monsrohist party in the Dama, Jawbaiter and reactionary, who abandoned politics when the war was declared, and organised
During this period he is also all sorts of institutions for the by a flood ef questions: "Will trained to travel long distances in comfort of the soldiers on the they give us food to-day?" baskets. Ores the pigeon has front-hospital trains, victusliing "What about our parcele? The learnt the lesson of returning stations, trains with baths, &.; asentries gave what answers they home promptly, he has to be Pan Slav of the Pan-Slars, who could and our hopes were raised sconetomed to the noise of battle, in his burning patriotism and by receiving a ration of a quarter and he is sent to the front, being love for his country was ready to of a pound of dried bread." eet free in the batteries when kiss the Jews whom he hed
In the Darkgeia .
they are in action. formerly so bitterly derided. At 12 midnight the light went
According to his calmness! Part of his time he spent in out, and as the poor chaps eat in writing a poem on the war, of the dark, depressed, hungry, we ander artillery fire and bis The secretary opens the door which the following is a rough could feel the hell they were goi classed as "superior" if he is Come in, Mr. Dash; will you?" speed of flight he. is and looks into the next room.
How can one esy what happen- translation:
through. We could not help
ed in the mind of Mr. Dash'? Ha- because the little supplies we had speedy and regular, as "good" he seks in 9 msarer which is shot forward in his chair, pale se "Peace.""
would hardly have made a mouth. if he is regular and certain, sud entirely fres from any hardness ghost his eyes abining with Nation of slaves, of avarice, of fal all round. They tried to
as "fair" if, despite bis qualitience formality of cffcialdom. greed!
sudden and overwhelming jɔ, Rass thou hast eald unto the sleep, but from time to time one of speed, he cannot be relied on A tall and handsome young his lips trembling as though he
would get up and stare anxiously in dificult circumstances. Dis man enters the room.
A few had no words, and then, “Oh fir, through the peephole, straining tinctions are made even between months ega he was facing the that's awfully good of you! By his ears for the olank of the soup the individuals in the first cat terrifying horrors of modern George, it's three o'clock at last a distant birde are trained to fly both to composure; here in this room his thank you, so much. cans, One o'clock, two o'clock, egory: Thus the best of the warfare with the mcet admirable too splendid. Thank you, sir, Well, it's
seked is it the food ?-to receive despite their natural repugnance lips twitch little, and one good news to his home in the cisak. We all roused up. We sad fro snd also to fig st, night, face fluebes, the corners of his Think of how be carried the
reply "Yes," this glad and even for us welcome
notices that bia hands are chaklar suburbs! ing. It is an ordeal for the
Thus this committee sitz greaf minute
nerves, this committee.
through the sfternoon in its little The chairmen rises at once.
Slavic foe,
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And sent by thee, two miserable Cringing to fall beneath the
by bride."
boot of steel
The traitors they a future curse
awaits them
But at this hour their fate con
cerns me not. "
At last the
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Bird Heroes.
Everyone must still remember
I mourn Thee; Thon foremost of arrived, and the cell door was the series of heroio messages sent "How do you do, Mr. Dish ?"narrow room in Norfolk treet
Earth's warriors
That joy this hour of deep
impressioned wOBS.
Unfeeling Lenin bas mutilated
» Rassis
And for an hour's might betray'd
her,
taken to the Old Prelecture of Pal Fortress, to the evident Police which is now the bead- distress of the Baseisne whom quarters of the Bolshevik Folice, we met on the way. We went and there detained.
very slowly, sa some of our party But Thou! enraptured, has cried were over seventy years of age, with one or two cripples.
to him "Messiah. oar way we passed the Embassy, which seemed deserted, the Bag
Among those arrested at the Consolate were Mr. Mackie, the Viee Consul, Mr. Dobson; the Times correspondent, Mr. Lom bard, the British chaplain, and being down athers, On the Sunday the arrests continued, and Marsden, commandant at first refused to re
On arrival at the fortress the
of the Morning Post, Birkmyre, of beive us, as the cella were so over- the Daily Exprcas and myself crowded, but he finally decided were sleo arrested.
Confined with Murderers.
We live, so, therefore, perish our Contempt to Thee, Thou miser
mighty land,"
able ffal.
sires.
The ancient glory of outraged Clapping thy hands to Kanoe's
final hour,
three dirty wooden basins of fish out by Commandant Raynal from he says in a voice not masly of seriona studente and good men to flaug open.. They brought us in
helping broken soldiers who arev soup with cabbage in it. This Yaux Fort between Jane 2 and 5. kinduers but of real welcome. was scrupulously divided, first They were all carried by pigeons. Mr. Dash in a litle surprised. mend broken coureee and to be. it was called. All received about pagne as many as 50 colam fideh to the roots of his dark hair, engineers and manufacturers of the liquid, next the "thick," as In the recent offensive at Cham. He takes the hand put out to him, chemists, schoolmaster, clergy, come the surgeons, doctors,
rather painful to see men who trenches on the 15th, 12 of them three glasses fall, and it was bograms were received from the and saye," How do you do, sir ?"
England's to moOW, The obairman invites him to p.m. on Sanday till 4 a.m. the periode varying from seven to 15 committee would like to ask him is in it much common sense, a hed eaten almost nothing from II reaching their destination in be seated, explaining that the characteristic of England. There It is a work, may I say it,
conceal their hunger. following Thursday trying to minategend 20 in periode of from a few questions; Mr. Dash boge deal of practical wisdom, and sa
16 to 30 minutes.
politely, eits down nervously. grest minutes of my lifetime, one there were two individual birds words. This very gallant gentle
Personally, it was one of the
Daring the battle of Verdun His case may be alated in a few ority of boman kindness.
Daily Chronicle. impossible to forget. One candle that each carried seven important man has served for two years. on the table, nineteen man messages, and daring the opers- His career at school and driver. sitting round the walls, drinking tions on the Harne on July 11 sity was distinguished. At one
he had already qualified for the elect kacoka at the cloaed gates M.B.0.8. and the LROP of the rchool yard, and on being His income is nil. He has no to the ente chapel, where he diploms when war broke oat. admitted is escorted by Fellows pension because the army, in its him to finish ble medical course, he is greeted by the head master, Os returning to the school yard Ele Bike the Fand to grant him the lower master, and the staff of bis feen, sixted seRoughly, the school. The installation. £70 for two yesIE...
The committea" saka reveral
vies in the chapel follows.
Qualat Eton Ceremony. Dr. M. R. James was installed
osremoniel is that the Provost-
to put us in the Trubeiskey Thou crucifiest by hands of out of all sorts of vessels thanking last thate was one bird that of the chief hospitala, of London Be Provost at Eton recently. The
Bastion, where political prisonera
were formerly confined. We were
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Smalny's soum.
their hande accursed.
We were taken to the Pre- feotore where we were examized, our money taken from as except where the cells are exceedingly They could not sink their country ing about 100 reubles, and we damp, but we were taken to the If ye had not, with ali gour pleas we settled ourselves for the night.command to reply effectively to need for surgeons, demoblised aken the formal declaration.
afraid at firel that we would be With all their insolence, with all four days for the food instead of arrived home exhausted, the fin. of gers of one claw having been corfined on the ground floor
get, we had one cigarette, and The bird, however, was carrying longer. After eating all we could carried away by a shell fragment: then the candle was put out and a message that enabled the French
Today we may receive percsis, an enemy attack.
"Fere then placed in a large room, first floor.
for an age
for quiet":
of native land
the Tartars!
will be our pride if we get one.
́in which over 130 were finally There was a foul prison stench We must have peass for honour so we live in hopes, and great confined. These included British as we went along the corridor→→ and French subjects, together the smell of men who had been Thou hast received it! helpers of Perhaps I shall get a towel and with Russians, among whom were herded together with little air occsinemerchants," and
Soap, a few cigarettes, or even a
Those who bare snything fata
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murderers, burglare, pickpockete, and less comfort. We could see Thy lot is teara, groanings, and faw lamps of nagar, I Have even little, those who haven't look on very sensible questions, always in: Queen and People of Rumania,
specalators.
pallid faces looking out through
In
beggary.
There were 36 hede in the the peepholes in the doors, and whom all holy thoughts are hopes of getting a book. How-nionsly. God help them kindly way, Hr. Dan loon The Queen of Ramenia, in, an rocm, so the majority alept where were mainly former officere many Thoa'it never rise, thy neck shall on inquiry we learned that they
ever, Bone - must not be too There is one Englishman in his nerrcuznosa. But he is interview eccorded to a repro- - barat and crushed. they could some on the floor and of whom had been employed in
optimistic, * qua mày: roosive my cell, skro the president of the always polite, and never crosses sentative of the Budapest paper nothing.
English Club, an ez motor, who the border to familiarity. As Est, myš sm" The Recusations on forms. I personaly alapt on srious Eviet institutions. Most The icy cold, of iron slavery's meats in our day
learn the gripping, - "}
However, we have three mo- tells us funny stories. We even The obairman seks questions, that I have been working against the table and was a good deal of them had not been examined, formented by visitors." There and some bad been confined fox Rejanel rejoins! y men who
At twelve play dominoes (made of card. apologising for their intimate the Central Powers do not tramble yake. w a regularly elected head of over a month without 57 searchs Loz “From
máday the gun goes off ; ni seven board), oszds likewise. Át nther mutue. “You require feen for me at all. I have simply done my
́on, time we have discuss ocs on the two years, Mr. Da-k?" "Ya, duty in encouraging pan, the slentrio “ligh and at twelve ftaldni
politimai nitration, the present air Bat how do you
спрове zing thưas two
the roca, alswyer who had been accusation being made again! Who waited her, your hopes may out. At other arrested for Roosgting payment them.
for his services, and through
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Twenty in Call for one.
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to Tim