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TU. THE

CHINA MAIL.

„HONGKONG, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1915.

BY TELEGRAPH.

THE WAR

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)

AN ATTACK ON THE ENEMY DESCRIBED.

LONDON, Oct. 18.

SANITARY BOAD

At a meeting al the Sanitary Board this afternoon.

Those pausal weto Mr.D. W. Tratman (President), Dr Pearse, Lieut-Col. Crisp, Dr Fitzwilliams, Mr Ng On Taz, the Hon. Mr Hewett, the Hon Mr E. R. Halifax, and the Secretary, Mr Bowen Rowlands.

Application was made for permission to orect two water closets in a house on North Kowloon Rural Building Lot No. 1-

Mr Goldring, the Hon. Mr Bewitt and

against the proposal. Mr Chan Kai Ming expressed themselves

favour provided septic tank was also Lieat Col. Crisp minated that he was in erected and its effluent properly dispord

Dr Fitzwilliams was in favour, the efluent

Reuter's correspondant at British Headquarters describes the Bri- tish gas attack of 18th inst. which he witnessed from an eminence close behind the trenches. He says, boyond en ures where massed batteries were pouring a concentrated fire on the German positions was a land of desolation where troops warn hidden in trenches waiting the whistle to leup the parapets. On the horizon was a mass of smoke constantly to be discharged anywhoso. In his opinion broken by flashes of bursting shell. colour, white, yellow, black and sometimes pinkish.

The smoke constantly changed what was safe at home was safe bero. I the Board should object to it being passed Suddenly from the left of the British lines came a cloud of yal-in the stream let it be discharged on land kowish-smoke creeping towards the opposite line closely followed by members to study the attached circular by away from the atresm He recommended broad finger of whito vapour, which widened as it advanced and spread Messis Jones and Attwood. over the yellow cloud forming into an opeque mist which gradually enveloped the German trenches in a dense fog. When first noticed it looked like a big ball of cotton-wool poised a fow feet above the plain; then us the wind caught it, it assumed the aspect of a gigantio funnel, tilted towards the enemy. More smoke followed up from the same spot as though someone was blowing puffs from a huge invisible pipe. It was heavier and more bewildering than a London fog. Occasionally that it produces an effluent "at to drain wbon the vapour lifted one had glimpses of Egures darting backwards and the nearest water-courte without forwards across a space between the trenches; these were apparently good that duck bumbers. Then there was a momentary flash of a mass of men appear ing to spring from the empty plain and sink back again in a new place rufolded in a cartain of smoke.

This was all ocu could hope tosee of an infantry charge in this war.

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AMIRAL HAMELIN" TÖRPEDOED. “«.

LONDON, Oct. 18.

A Tunisian mail boat has arrived with survivors from the steamer Amiral Hamelin" recently torpedoed in the Mediterranean when 50 were drowned and 50 injured.

LATER.

A message from Marseilles says it is now announced that there were 71 victims when the "Amiral Hamelin" was torpedoed.

A messago from París says the sinking of the vessel was a despic ablo outrage. The submarino fired without warning and thereafter over forty shells struck die steamer while the passengers and crow were taking to the bosta.

The noise of the firing brought a French destroyer and a British hospital ship to the scene, but the submarine sank the "Amiral Hame- lin with two torpedoes-beftry-disappearing.....

SERBIANS REPULSE AUSTRO-GERMANS

WITH HEAVY LOSSES.

PARIS, Oct. 18.

The Austro Gemans have attacked Serbian positions on the Savo and around Bolgado six times, Boing everywhere repulsed with heavy

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Bfe D. W. Tratmas, Head of the Sanitary Department, said This application is objectionable because it involves the Haid into stream from which perrons possibility of a discharge of contaminated may drink. The best that the writers of this circular can say for their apparatus is

into

constructed fur

ag

abu

and

A duck-pand has best ite utilisation, Mit passer

lung "the, "¡¡roadside. and cannot be distinguished from ordinary land drainage or spring water. England be wise person drinks from dack pond or roadside water-course, how- over clear. In many places the public are Warned by notices against drinking from euch roadside chaupele. Sach notices here and I do not think that would have little effect on the natives the present case there is any need allow the danger to come into existence, With respect to the possibility of each danger I note that the circular states of

of these installations that it

it super-

the specification of the superseded plant seded plant of twice the size which proved to be ineficient." If we could got have little doubt but that we should find that the makers also claimed infallibility for their

system, and I have already point

ed out that the house for which the present "pplication is made" is too far away

regular examination.

lo moving that the application be

granted. Dr. Fitzwilliams said that the septic

ptic tanks wore advocated very highly at home. The effluent was turned into streams which were part of the gevaral water supplies. He was convinced that the efficant

pars.” In talking

were

about the contains oft

of

A telegrafa from Nish states that hitherto the Bulgarians have cap-side- they overlooked the damping f tured a few weakly defended positions in the region of Pigot. They night soil on the hillsiden. have been repulsed at many other points.

One way purified material, the other was not. ation may or may

Mr Tratman: The fact that contamin. dumping of unparised matter does not

not be caus

caused by the seem to be to justify us, as Board, in allowing the possibility, which has to be admitted though it is a remote one, "of contamination on the other side.

Eventually the application was

MR. W. "G. GRACE SUFFERS A SEIZURE.

LONDON Oct. 18.

Mr W. G. Grace has had a seizure affecting his speech, but his friends are hopeful of a speedy recovery."

[W. G. Grope, the famous cricketer, was a surgeon by profession. He whe born at Downend, Gloucestershire, on July 18, 1848. He played cricket for Blocester from 1979 to 2000 and for England. Australia. Se ngay you in

(Havas Beretoo-4

PARIS, Oct. 27.

Yesterday our aircraft, bombarden Metz railway station To-day we carried a strong barricade at Neuville Saint Vasst. We made progress m Lorraine. Our sircraft bombarded Vosges railway stations and also supply centres.

Athens:We repulsed vigorous attacks delivered by the Bulgarianē against Vallandoro, inflicting tertible losses on the enemy.

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