441
way,
on Dutch steamers, I may add coming via Manila but very occasionally by Hong Kong. The Arsenal is going to close down here and although I cannot get any news as to whether any machinery has been moved, it may have been. In a roundabout
through an English woman married to a German, I hear that ammunition is being made on the Islands, The German ship "Fortuna", Captain Hense, is, I hear, sold to Yu Yah Ching and has a licence to trade on the Inland waters and so avoid being posted at the Customs. In the river she flies the German flag but what is to prevent her flying the Chinese flag immediately she leaves Woosung. Yu Yah Ching's motor boat is down among the Islands. Now, in the Chusan Group, with the thousands of junks and hundreds of landing places it is an easy matter to ship off by junk anything and send down to Canton or even Singapore. There is also the doubtful transfer of Hollers of the Sekiang to supposed Japs and now sailing as the 'Fushimi Maru' I believe she only goes as far as Hong Kong and may make one or two or even a dozen trips with nothing and one with something, Captain McEuen, C.S.P. Shanghai, has sent a first class detective down to the Islande,
3.
The following is the latest strengths of German and Austrian troops in North China :-
PEKING.
TIENTS IN.
Officers. Other Ranka.
Officers.
Austrian
7
75
Other Ranks.
10 (sailore
from Kair erin Elizabeth)
German
2
57
2
50
Total
9
132
2
60
GRAND TOTAL
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Hong Kong.
9th September, 1915.
11 Officers, 192 Other Ranks.
(Sgd.) H.W. Iles,
Lieutenant-Colonel, General Staff, China Command.
Hung