·DESPERADOES IN SKIRTS.
POSTMISTRESS BEATS THREE BRIGANDS.
TO MAKE FLYING SAFE.
NOVEL - SCHEMES,
Many novel ways in which A price has been put by the future airmen will be assisted to French authorities on the heads find their way were outlined by of two brothers named Bandissart, Maj. Gen. Seely (the Air Minister) who for a long time have terroris-recently at a luncheon at the ed the Briancon region of the Hautes-Alpes department. Louis, their young brother, was shot some time ago by a roadmender during one of their midnight raids.
For years the brothers lived by smuggling, their knowledge of every inch of the mountain roads across the French frontier en
abling them to carry on a flourish ing contraband business.
Some time ago they came down from their mountain fastnesses and took possession of an old hut on the Alpine slopes near the village of La Bassee. It is alleged that they had several deaths on their conscience, and had twice been condemned to death in their absence. So they decided to keep quiet for a time, which meant that they began to prey on the local population. :
Cattle began to disappear, farms were broken into, and anyone who happened to disturb the bandit brothers in their operations was lucky to escape with his life. Instead of calling in the police. the peasants, who are a hardy and independent race, organised expeditions and started to hunt the Bandissarta like wild beasts. Things became so hot that they decided to quit their tumble-down
huf
were
THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH
SELLING OFF.
GOVERNMENT'S SURPLUS
WAR STORES.
Surplus," the new official or gan of the Surplus Government Property Disposal Board, is drawn up in the best catalogue style. House of Commons. His ang-The 64 pages of the first issue. publication will be fortnightly at gestions included:
light-3d, a copy-are packed with des
criptions of the enormous surplus war stores which the Government are selling to manufacturers and traders. The data is classified in
Vertical beams from houses.
Air maps totally different from the present maps.
Names of stations in big
THURSDAY, JULY 24 1919.
HOTEL LISTS:
Howarang HotL Corrected to 11th July, 1918. W. G. Anderson H, P. Holheiser Boy Anderson Shelton Hooper E. 3. Abraham Capt. & Mr. R Mr. & Mrs. B. G. Innes
Anderson
Mr. and Mrs. A.
G. Bernard E. G. Byrne B. Bigazzi & . de Barros DM. Biggar
& Mrs. B. B. Capt. W. Black
Bergeron
E R. Boericka
sections, and the intending purchaser can see at a glance whether any goods be requires Mrs. E. R. Bablios are for sale by public auction or J. Birbeck by private tender, and in the former case the locality and name Mr. of the auctioneer are given,
Mrs. L. M. Joblin Mr. M. Toblin Mr M. Jones R M. Joseph O. J. Kennedy J. N. Kitwich Madam K. Keeler J. T. Kidd
G. E. Lynott
Mr. and Mrs C
Lauritsen
Mime. Laris
Mrs. Liddell
& Mr. & Miss Risney
D. R. Black
G. Ludin
Lillie.
E. E. Maslin
white letters on the roofs. He also announced that. Mr. Churchill had asked him to ap- point a committee of flying men, aircraft constructors, and repre- sentatives of the Treasury to find how best they could spend money to minimise the risks of flying. Twelve national factories and H & Mrs. G. E. J. Mahon
That committee, he said, would be appointed, and its recommen-lands and factories section, and Master Black dations acted upon.
in each case full details of build-Capt The luncheon (which wasings and machinery are given. attended by the Prince of Wales) was given by Major-Gen. Seely in honour of the American airmen who recently flew across the Atlantic.
The Prince of Wales, in a short speech, heartily congratulated them on their achievement.
that
General Seely eaid although they celebrated the conquest of the Atlantic they were still a very long way from perfection.
The Government meant to do a number of things. It must mark out aerodromes, and there were some things very urgent in which people could help.
one mine are included in the
Items in the ferrous metal section include: 5,000 tons of double length shell billets; 194,- 323 drawn weldless steel tubes; 299 air cylinders: 113,800 pieces of chain mail; hundreds of tank parts; and tons of hoop iron and tinplates lying in various parts of the country.
In addition there are thousands of tons of factory stores, nails, screws, hammers, pickaxes, etc. thousands of horses and acres of building materials of all kinds.
and Mrs
Branch W. G. Browell T. Collett W. G. Chan X. Croucher
M2. & Mrs. T. R
E. McInnes
|Dr. G. W.McKenn
Mrs. Nilsen W. P. Neeson |Capt. "0.
Úmmundsen Mrs. A. Purlenky
V. Cameron Mr. & Mra E AS 3. Perry
Carvalho
J. H. Cosgrove F. W. Cor
Haig Dilekyan P. Demaretz Mr. F. E. Daris Mrs. J. A. Doune Miss E. Emanit Miss K. Esanson D. H. Farrant
E. H. Gordon Mr. & Mr. Giert
There are also to be sold scores of thousands of tons of foodstuffs F. Graham of all kinds the diversity of which may be gathered from the follow- ing samples
sen
A
Capt. Pritchard Mr C. & Paget and 2 children.
H. E. Peterson D. A. Preston Mrs. C. R. Powie.
de Bidder Mr. and Mrs. N.
P. Rathvon W. Rogers J. Rogers C. Eicon
Mr. and Mrs. T.
Carr Ramsey
E. H. Ray Miss F. Reay F. Sampson H. Stephens
1.
Curry powder, 53,000lb.; capers, & Graeme 2,480 bottles; mixed spice, E R. Gallop 7,400lb.: mixed herbs, 4,8001b; C. Galumi salad oil, 9,000 bottles; rennet J. & R. Gardiner Miss H. essence, 4.818 bottles: anchovy Mr. and Mrs. A. Skinner essence, 520 bottles:
Hartz and two V. Steensby salt,
daughters 1,900 tins; gelatine, 7,00016.;
Mr. & Mrs. C. Z Me and Mrs. C. Thomsen custard powder, 25,700lb.; ver-
Humphreys micelli, 4,000lb. sweets, 40491b.; pearl barley, 81.8301b; mace, Mrs. skill.
1,0321b; ginger, 1.7861b.; nutmeg. Hussey 1,4131b; cayenne, 5371b; pimento, HH. Hart 10,034lb.: mixed seasonings, Lt HE 1,9691b.
One day a deaf-mute named Alphand, while wandering among Every one of our lighthouses the mountains, saw three sturdy should be fitted with vertical women climbing the slopes push-beams, and he was told by Trinity ing a wheelbarrow. Their skirts House that that might be carried were tucked up, handkerchiefs out in a short time. covered their heads, and shawls Then they must have more
kotted
round their landing grounds. The average shoutiers Hiding among the good field was 200 yards across, furse, he saw them suddenly doff but the machines took 400 gards their women's clothes and to land unless the pilot was a man re-appear in masculine dress. It of superhuman
More Was the Baudissart brothers emergency landing grounds moving back, to "their Alpines would greatly help. stronghold. They wore sandals,. which they had put on the wrong way .round to disguise their tracks,
If the LordsLieutenants of counties and chairmen of county councils could get the permission of owners and write to General After a period of calm the Sykes about it, many a wander- Baudissarts began to "come downing airman's life would be saved. at night beat on armed burglary. Again, it would be a good thing One night the local postmistress if the railway companies would was awakened by a noise, and paint in big white letters the looking out of the window saw Dames of their stations on the three men breaking in. She fired roofs of the buildings. at them with a revolver, and they replied with a fusillade from their Brownings, but the
plucky woman drove them off.
It was after this that the youngest brother was shot. Now a price has been put on the heads of the two surviving brothers, and they
being scientifically hunted by determined villagers.
are
EUROPE'S INDUSTRIAL
PARALYSIS.
AMERICAN. BANKER'S
WARNING.
of
W. F. Harris L. E. Towneley
Mrs Tobiassen McConnell. Tatundjian
Hemnel
Mr. & Mrs. C. E
Templeton
D. Thos. Vint
Mr. & Mrs. J. H
Williama
{J. Wilkie
PEAK HOTEL
The miscellaneous stores sec- Capt. T. P. Hall tion is an extensive line." G. Harper ranging from some hundreds of A. Holgersen steel drums to periscopes, motor goggle cases, rum jars, razors, watches, clocks, balances and weights, barbed wire, buge masses of furniture and lumber, etc., etc.
The aircraft section includes Capt. Allen They must have good telephone aeroplanes, seaplanes, flying communication . between all boats, engines, and a multitude aerodromes, and whenever an ef accessories. airman was known to be out at night vertical searchlight should be shown in the air.
B
Then they must have good air maps which were so totally For different from land maps. instance, the great landmark near London was Got a cathedral or a
came
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"OH POSTSDAM ! "
SUBSTITUTE SWEAR-
WORDS.
Corrected to 14th July, 1919.
Sir Ellis Kadooris F. R. 3. Adams W. A. Knight Major and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. B
Bird, D.5.0. Kewley Mr. and Mrs. CMr. and Mrs. W.
Breyer
G. Lay Kr. C. Ball
J. D. Lloyd Haj. F. T. Bowen p
and Mr. Dr. & Mrs. Byers MacDonald 10. T. Breakspear Mr. Miskin
Mr. and Mrs Mons & Mane.
Bridger
de Mattos
Bridger, Jr. Finlay. Miller
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
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EAT
WISEMAN'S BREAD.
After
More good news from
WISEMAN'S.
a lapse of 3 years, we are now getting regular supplies of the very strongest and best quality flour that Australia produces and we turning out the most nutritons and delicous Bread the Colony has ever known.
+
Don't take our word.
and try it.
Corrected to 11th July, 1919.
Dr. M. E. Anger (Mr. & Mrs. C. Ju G. L. Allen"
Hammes
Mrs. R. Almond |Miss F. Hammer
A. Harrison de Boer
R. H. Beavan
B. James
S. Bawder
F. G. Becke
Dr. and Mrs. N. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. E. Brown
Martin
Beicovitz
C. B. Bird
A. Button
T
D. McMurray
Miss Pike
Miss Philip
T. L Perkins
Lt Col and Mr
Thursby Felbam
J. J. Barry
A. E. Batt
Mrs. Crowlie Capt. Gay Cam
ming
E. G. Coomer
Mrs. J. John-
-stone
Mrs. Kibee and
child
T. Kennedy
+
Capt. K. LarsSER
G. Lewis
15. F. McBrown
J. G. Chadwick J. B. Maikle
1. Macfarlane Mr. & Mrs. Molino
Choi Shing & son
J. D. Danby ̈
Mr
H Mr. and Mrs JR. G. Douglas
Pilger AB. "Embart
hill, but the Aldershot Valley, Many people appear to be in- that long, yellow patch which terested personally in the League could be seen from the air for a of Refinement, whose formation W. A. Batterfield Mr. and Mr. J. long distance. Every little was announced recently. The Capt. G. L. Baker Milne stream and patch of water should aim of the league is to combat G. W. Barton be ahawa distinctly on the air-the "eursing habit," that was so man's map.
widely contracted by both "men Mr. & Mrs. D. He gave figures the other day and women in the Army and
Blair New York, May 26.-In a showing the number of accidents, Navy, and is spreading through C. M. Blaker
to people with all ranks of the community. which before striking address
the Economic Club at the Hotel Astor rather a shock. But from the
Mr. A. M. Preston, of Loraine-Capt
Butler to-night (Monday) Mr. Frank A. armistice until last week there road, Holloway, goes so far as to the was only one fatal accident for suggest the issue by the league,
B. " Rev. Vanderlip, president National City Bank of New every 43,000 miles flown. For a in pamphlet form, so that it be Bundle, c York, warned America that she cure they must have a slower ready for instant reference, of a J. Brett was almost the sole hope of landing speed.
list of officially
Approved W. A. Cornell Ten per cent. of the accidents substitutes, such Europe, which was threatened
as "Go to Mrs. Cocks with starvation, idle industry, were due to fire. That ought to Berlin" "League of Nations!
R. C. Comrie be cured. The next. cause was or Ob, Potsdam!"...
J. Cochrane crippled transport, para-
Lt-Col lysed markets, injured moral, propeller accidents. It was absurd
Are expletives necessary? The and shattered Government to have propeller accidents.
general opinion evidently is that credits. America had not begun He said at once, on behalf of
most men and
Mrs. Cormack a great many J. Davies to understand the full import of Mr. Churchill and the Govern women, have not self-control what has happened to Europe. ment as a whole, that they would enough to do without the Mr. & Mrs. John After visiting England and all do everything they could for they did not vent their feelings Europe wast of Germany he every kind of experiment, and in this way on certain occasions Mr. and Mrs. O. found that his own ideas of the their experiments would be unre- ther would bust,"
4.
2.8
Coles
Duncan
Eager
war's effects were absurdly in-servedly at the disposal of all schoolboys say. Their needs r. and
...
those who flew.
adequate.
The difficulties were entirely Commander Read spoke of his different from those existing after reception in London, and con- the Napoleonic war. Europe was gratulated the entire British now a factory community depen- people on their wonderful sports dent upon world trade for much manship. The British people of its food and raw materials. are good winners,” he said, England's predominance during they are wonderful losers." the last 20 years in international
industry was due largely to
& low wege scale, but
but
the
S. Evans
Flaman
E. A. Ram
W. Eborall
and
B. J. Pardoen F. A Pales
Mrs. L. M. Peace Franke & chil-ra. W. C. Pass
P. Farrell
M
Mrs. E. M. Carr
Bamsey
drea
A. L. Fry
W. E. Roberts
J. Forrest
baugh
Mr. and Mrz. M.Miss Farrell
S. L. Shosky
A
E. G.Mr. & Mrs. Mur. Fetherston
ray Scott Maj.
J. E. P. Fielding Scantlebury J. D. Forrest Lt. Stevens
DOTS
Mr. & Mrs. C. X.
Richardson
Mrs. Robertson R. Slessor
B., K. Spencer Mr. & Mrs. Stew art and family
F. Tarlor
are
Write for a sample
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WISEMAN'S BREAD.
COMMERCIAL NEWS.
THE CHINA CONSORTIUM
DIFFICULTY.
matters no further, so far as the practical question of getting the new Consortium into warking”“”: order is concerned, for, as w understand, the representatives of the pre-war Consortium group The Times of June 6 says:
find themselves quite unable to Replying to a question in the consent to extend it to the point House of Commons on Wednes at which "no cause for criticism? day, Mr. Cecil Harmsworth made on this ground would remain. the first official statement that The protracted. delay, in our has yet been forthcoming on opinion, is very unfortunate, and behalf of the Foreign Office with may be seriously prejudicial to regard to the arrangement for a British interests.
new. Four-Power Consortium for financing loans to China. The
NEW ELECTRIC PLANT IS SOOCHOW.
of
main details of the scheme for For the last two or three creating national banking groups months the majority of the ymuples. for this purpose in America, of Soochow have been using onl France, Japan, and Great Britain lamps and candles instead we gave in this column on April electric lights. Ther is another 10, and on May 17 we drew interesting phase of the boycott. attention to the delay in carrying movement. The Boochow Elec- it out. Mr. Harmsworth's reply, tricity Company used to be however, shows that the difficulty Chinese concern but was sold, tow about arranging the banking a Japanese company last winter group in this country still for an enormous sum ($1,20ENDES, persists, although the Japan-This caused a sensation but now e69, French and American thing very serious happened, wat groups were formed and given the boycott movement was form their national mandates many ally launched by the students weeks ago." His
Majesty's With the exception of the Government," he says, "will street lamps and those used in naturally give full support to any the yamens, electric lamps whos British group which may be form- electricity is generated by the Mr. & Mrs Weideed to take part in such a Con-Japanese plant, were discarde E. Williams
sortium," but he contigues" in The now spanese company Master C. Ham-, G. E. Wetton
regard to the alleged monopoly, been hard hit by the movem (J. Welch
his Majesty's Government, from It is said that the the outset of the negotiations, j'owners are now willing have made it clear that there can out the company at redt be no question of exclusive official but it is known no on support to the British group univen at a discoun less that group is enlarged in such cont
C. T. Grootes Bir sad Miss W. E. Gallears
Stubbing's Mr. & Ms. Gre
воту LH.W. Good-
wid
14. Findlay Smith Mr. and Mrs. V. Mrs. Findlay Smith would be met, however, if they
Mr. and Mrs. B. could find clean and expressive Farrast
E. Tyler substitutes for the objectionable Mr. and
Mr Land
Mrs. Thornton Floquet
Gen. Other correspondents take the Mr. and Mes. Y. Maj
一覧 words they have picked up.
Ventris matter more seriously.
They Fassi have noticed a really lamentable Mrs. Graves increase in the use of common F. W. Gibbins
Ewear words by girls who a Mr. and Mrs.
Galloway few years ago would would have expostulated with their menfolk Mr. and Miss Ma. Wakeman
Holworthy Mr. & Mrs. E. 7
du: F. Hutchi
600
J. P. Hughes
F. C. Todd
C. H. Turner
T. B. Taylor
Mr. and Mrs. W
Underwood
CARLTON HOTEL. Corrected to 14th July, 1919.
Mitchell Mr.
and
"J
Mrs.
W. F. Alder Miss Madhavadas Mr. and Mrs JAI. Alvarez
Mr. and Mra J. C. de Wolf
HS. Allison Mr. and Mrs. G. JA Basto
M. Wolf
MMr. and P. D. Wilson
Bruzz Mr. and
Brammer }H. Crandall
Craig
Warren J. M. Zethoven
labour was not earning enough wait for things to straighten out for using these very words in now to keep a roof over in the long run.
The European their presence. They even drop its head. England's future was industrial paralysis is vastly more into what is often unconscious absolutely bound up with the important than her financial obscenity without a blush, for J. Kret Continent. She cannot get out- confusion. America must give there is a great deal of the parrot Miss Knight side credits with which to buy aid in a big-spirited, scientific in all of us. food and materials unless there way, treating the European situa- i The habit is debesing," writes is a European demand for her tion as & unit.
The highest "A Mother," not so much because
KINGSOLERE HOTEL that the of the meaning of the words used, Alabastez © G goods. A reponsible Minister authorities believe
situation will told the speaker that unless the food
be even when that is most objection- Ditting #T ropean demand was speedily worse in the spring 1920 than in able (for these words rapidly lose Bardis. BC
ished, five to six million the present year. What America all meaning), as because it Dinman, Mr & Mr
at be got nearer should supply is not credits to the loosens the boxhme of the Mind.
supplies.
exhausted national treasures, but i wa Hodwry on the actual things necessary to restart
Coleman (7 Ľ. F
neston Mi &c Mh
Charlton
Mrs. Merry and
A. Martiner Mrs. M., Marquat.
I Neall
(G) Pansźliye
C. Penaflor
Dr. N. Planten
Mr. F. Came Ross Wm
TOD
Miss M. Donics
HL Dikstra
G. Gracia
Miss L Hargrave
I Beyer
M."
Frrita
a suzanner as to render it stufficient- kfas only representative of the financial
houses of good standing
ed in loss to
Cause for
of vite
new