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THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1917.

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Tsiographia Addre *KKIRICK" KONGLENG,

GREAT HOSPITAL SHIP

TORPEDOED.

WOMEN RESCUERS.

THE CHINA MAIL.

spoo by each for the marshalling of the Passengers in the event of disaster. The f davite were on a now, principle, which renderad it possible for the beats to be latinabed by electricity on an even krol, even the ship had a list, or was going down by the hand or the stern. It was also possible to swing the boats over the ship so that all could be launched from one side.

From the bridge, which stood 60 feet above the water line, the captain. had complete control of every working quarter

ADMIRALS DAY ON THE

ANCRE.

GALLANT. ATTACK ON BEAUCOURT

BY NAVAL DIVISION.

(BT PERCEVAL GIBBON, SPECIAL, COR-, RESPONDENT OF THE "DAILY CHRONICLE"}

With the British Army on the

Somme, Nov. 21: Pub. in

LONDON, Nov. 23.

ATHENS, November 23: Pub. in Londen, Nor. 93. The Britanic" was torpedoed at eight o'clock in the morning and wank near the ahore 35 minutes later. It was going to Salonika without wounded; the

indicata whether his order had boon included 10 carried out. Another feature was

Somme, and the Somme winds some complaisent on board nursas, 190 officers sud mon of the Boyal | electrical submarins contrivance to where to the sea-canal-boat rivers, both

indicate the proximity of lightships.

Army Medical Corpe...

WHAT HEADACHES POINT TO.

When a patient mentions headaches the doctor seeks for the cause, and in a

of Cases

Rads it in some majority derangement of the nervous or digestiva gystem. Headacha, sa is well known, is one of the commonest symptoms at. weak disordered stomach, or exhausted nervous system and therefore, one of the surest signs. impure and blood. That modigestion, stomach weak neas, and nervous troubles arise from a faalty blood

is supply

follows &

of the lizar, and had instruments to The little Ancre goes down to the prompt improvement by that

AN

of them, unknown to seamen. But, aw the weak, palo victims of

Twenty-five of the injured are in the

The ship, bad transverse watertight though the souls of the dead Admirals Russian hospital. Others are on board bulkheads, and the arisagements were gould not rest in these days of Britain's Allied warships. The British Minister such that any six of the main comparte peril, as though from Nombre de Dios visited the survivors at the hotels as ments could be flooded withours afecting and the crypt of St Pauls the gros night and the wounded in the hospital. the safety of the ship. The watertight spirits of the fighting seamen had mullied The people of the Island of Zos wit-doors in the bulkheads could be closed hithen, the battalions whose names are need the sinking of the feast add the from the bridge and there were electric the names of Admirals drove forward struggle in the waves of the victime.bella to give warning of the impending Thay promptly responded to appeals for closing of any of them, and, in case up the Aucre under the thresh of help, and the Anglo-French Squadron at anyone was unable to get out through machine-guns till all came to an anchor the Fircus, destroyers and auxiliary the closing of the doors, ladders or together, in the conquered positions at crals, immediately set out.

secapes were provided in eich compart. Beaucourt-sur-Ancra.

With reciprocation engines and turbines of 2,000 horsepower and 13,000 respectively, she could do 21 koota.

Tau conduct of the islanders was splen-{ment. did. Women tore of their clothing to maku bandages for the injured, Some of the injuries were very severe, especi-) ally in the case of those in two beats caught by the propellers.

An hour before the torpedoing the beds PUBLIC AUCTION,

were made for the reception of the sick and wounded, for whom the ship had THE Undersigned have received instrue.tommodation for $1,000. -

tions from the CAPTAIN SUPERIN&roliet ship which was dispatched to TENDENT OF POLICE, to sell by Public Zea immediately on reports of the tor Auction,

pedoing of the ship has retpraod.—

Daily News" corespondent.

On

FRIDAY,

the 6th January, 1917, at 3 p.m., at the Water Police Coal Yard, Kowloon,

A QUANTESY OF SULPHUR

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HUGHES & HOUGE, Auctioneers to the Government, Kongkong, Jan. £j 1017.

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ца

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COST OVER £2,000,000.

BELFAST, Nov. 23.

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Among the medical staff were the fol HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,lowing Ulster doctors: Col. Andersen.

in command of the medical staff; Cap Rantoul (Lisburn), Capt. Duncan (Bally. mana), and Lieut. Shackleton (Holy

*CM.

Teams :---- Ás usual.

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wood).

LIFE-SAVING DEVICES.

The fact that only 50 lives were lost out of 1,150 en board seems to show that the elaborate precaution taken to ensure the safety of the ship and those on board from the perils of the ara proved very officacioust

On one trip the Britannic carried 3,213 patients.Daily News" Correspondente.

TERRITORIAL GUARD FOR.

PHILIPPINES.

Villamor Senators recently.

The bill them.

and

and

Erst Beutenants, 156 second lieutenants 30 captains, 24 majors, 12 lieutenant colonels, six colonels, two brigadier generals, and one general

That was on Monday and Tuesday of last week, November 13 and 14, in the action which swept the Germans from their line beyond Beaucourt, Beaumont Eamel and St. Pierre Divian.

"CRAFT IN AIKOLE FIGHT.” The narrative of those days and of that Eghting can, hever be told in full, so great is the multitude of single heroisms and obscure devotions.

with

blood tonic treatment.

When the blood has been purified, and made strong and refreshing, snow rest Is the appetite, quickly ap- bloodlessness. Then follows a steady improvement in the digestion, with fall rigorous nervos; and as the blood becomes more plentiful, good health is restored. freedom from "headaches, In time nervous attacks and weakness.

natura buoyancy, of spirits is gained, which is the very spice of life.

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carried it on till the remnants of it were close before Beaumont Eamel

Hera whore the German line before the village confronted him, he collected the forces within reach. Of those still But no amount of if, however partial living and unwounded (or not seriously and perfunctory, can omit the attack of wounded) he gathered together a storm- one battalion, 1 115 of the Naval Division, when they madeing force of 250 of one

another, 15 of a third, some

me sa men bad they have carried hither from the inexplicably got round or other fronts upon which they have been machine ma

Bre and

and joined engaged.

from

good upon the Somme the groat name as the Serials as the leg to

"cages."

BALLORS" BATTLE PLAN.

the

awhile, the

hell

and

they to that they had get

separated from their own-unit; It is only now, while the burial parties they were alone and without direction The Britannia" was completed exact.

and the men of the salvage corps are but they had gone forward towards the ly a year agn, and sailed from Liverpool

That the Philippines should have a clearing up the ground of the battle village still. With this force be pashed

fato

German position, meeting on Dec. 21 last. Eer cost exceeded two Territorial Guard or National Security that there defines itself the part which with only slight opposition, and occupied 1338 millions sterling. The special feature of to be composed of the insulae and they played sad the nature of their it for the nighthe forces held up on the

the venant was the system of carrying municipal police, to maintain peace

leathe ridge saw night coming! the lifeboat, of which she had 48 of the order, to suppress disorder and to quell successes. Until a day or two ago, their

down on them and the Germsa redoubt largest size. These bosta. instead of revolts, and to be under the supreme dead wore still on the ground before spes extending right along the boas deck, were command of the Governor General," are Beaucourt; strange to their ga-helmets, still unsubdued and mowing down

forward. Three Tanes started the same night-or, rather, at 3 Guevara the feldgran body of a German. arranged in four separate groups. Phen the main features of a bill presented by many yet locked in a still grapple with attempt to go t and dispatch of messages to the Marconi matic tubes were provided for the receipt

Dead Germans were there in plenty, on the following morning. The officer who bad кобе for them guided them "The Jones Act" the explanatory too; and 1,725 living Germans whom back to the walking in front of

groast.

Blow beast room. The angle of the rudder was statement says "places in the hands of they brought out with their hands in them, for a Tank" is a electrically recorded, and the depth of the Filipince all of the

One of the machines moved laborious- meana to the air-that attitude which will now

ly forward towards the redoubt, still was wounded by electric prepare themselves for self-government German for all time-are in our with its walking guide, caterpillaring ita machinery. The took out men had tole In order to be able to maintain an

laborious way up the slope. There was phanis commanication with the bridge. Autonomous government, the country

not:s yard of the ground that had not and the steering was done through tele- should be strong enough to protect

itself externally and internally. The The line they held, and from which been dug up by shells a dozen times. motor gearing direct.

Tank slowed up and moved successfu experiments performed in they attacked, extended from the Ancere again, always with its guide ahend, till. Honolulu where the Territorial Guard northwards to just below Beaucourt, he brought it within 100 yards of the

redoabt exists, point to the fact that should and their objectives included that spraw

The Germans in the redoubt. TEDA the same measure be adopted in the ling maze of trenches and communion their guns on it, and watched it still They had Philippines the problem of their tioms and machine-gun redoubts which came on; they siswit pause. T internal defense will be solved.

the Charmang badrot stutt sy beside them. The ser

battleship lay one of chance to go forward and gain ground; cho stood in reserve when the mans in the redoubt waited no longer. were not to be left They could see men where before they their occasion. attack commenced were attalions had bac only sern steel plates fall of

When the

and lut second, poked a polethrough a machine-gun The length of service shall be three gained their first objective, they were to mystery, and they actu

through years, and any person can re-enlist as settle down upon ital Division mesat leophcle with a white rag on the end of

aurrender. 213 made at Gallipoli and Antwerp. many times as he wanta provided that line.

The moment of attack came shortly every enlistmen: shall be not less than to make as clear a mark upon the Somme it and waved it frantically in taken of one year or more, than three years." height from the top of her four funnels They shall have all of the duties of the before dawn on the Monday morning But while this was going on, the men present police sad constabulary and when, across the wet parapet, the lift of shall have a frie service of the railway, the bills showed black is ink against the who had lain out through the night the During the dark, small detachments ittard down the great)

Exec they were not and free medical treatment. The muni grey of the eastern sky. The barrage before Beaucourt- had not been idle. »

before the German positions. them and three machine-guns had come health officers shall take charge of the

represented nothing more 5,000 souls with the crow, She was bail: i cipal Lealth officers and the district | went screaming over, eruptingier pashing up on the right pay t

strong made of finger-thick strands of Bollana firm, for the White Ste Line, and company or companies stationed within fight feet high it stood. 40 to se lest to Incandescent Patrol Lamps and by Harland and Wolf, the famous

its way acrosa pearly 2000 yards.

by enemy's The officers of the Territorial Guard spiky wire; and the barrage mowed it than is left of an attack that has forced appartenances.

When war broke out she was the shall be officers of the United Stateske bo males of, front the shellfire-swept ground barred

pest thundered, a quarter of an hour trenches, ffany of them were wounded takes over by the Admiralty and £tad Army who desire to enlist, officers of

The vessel when the insular police, and the officore of the tempest thund

While as a hospital ship.

forward-t

It

the time Was

these men were fighting e finished was described as the finest Red late Filipino revelation who shall pass of mighty carronading; and then came but at daybreak their commander, carry

over went the first wave the ahore. The ship ambodied in her struc...) ■" duly cappointed board. The Comuns nosed upwards and the Bre-curtain to the Tank Zwas threatening!

them the

the heaped ruins of "Beaucourt Cross Kospital in the world, afoat or mental and physical examination before the moment when the muzzles of the ing his four wounds, took them forward

had to ther

among the ture the last word in shipbuilding skill,

lifted in the middle to a ridge, with its The Germans who held the village stood tooper to it well; the fighting was intense. But them, stooper especially in regard to devices for life

towards Raving. She has double bottom over 5, deep, divided into a number of com- partments. This system was continued up the sides of the ship considerably above the water-line, and arranged so that at. Do time during a voyage was a indoor in the inner skis open

LIVERPOOL NOT. 23. The White Star liner Britannia" was the largest ship in the world, her 50,000 tons exceeding the tonnage of the Cunarder "Aquitania." She was 900ft. of 4ft., and the The folowing LIGHTHOUSE GEAR long, with a ba &c. &c, viz:-

on

AN EARLY DATE.

One occulting apparatus, complete.. Circular wick lampe.

Spars burners.

Cylinders and wicks,

And

A quantity of gear pertaining te Meering Buoys,

Also

Axles

A number of Locomotive wheels and Farther particulars may be obtained from the undersigned Terms-as usual

BUGHES & HUUGH,

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Hongkong Aug 24, 2013

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THE Undersigned have received Trains from the Casas dor KARMENT SALT RAVENUE DEPARTMENT, to sell by Public Auction,

SATURDAY,

the 20th January, 1917, at

12 noon, at their Bales Rooms, No. &..

Dee Vorax Bond, Corner

of Ice House Street,

"The Revenue Cruiser

*KUNG TING!

sho now lies on Ockson Island,

Extensive repairs were made to this.

Fossel quite recently

to the keel, was 180 She was designed to accommodate nearly 2,000 passengers, so that she could carry a total of some

For further particulars apply to the wadersigned.

Terma-Cash.

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Auctioneera, Hongkong Dec, 29, 1918

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Podle fortress

•Seren vessels with Diesel engines were.ble to and occupy, their portion of into s union with the lear

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of

Aber,

there tones another sonorous insistent, sound, gaint

Where the derate to their violence. battlefield lifts towards Beitcourt it is wer the banks above et. Flere clearer. Dision return it so an echo. It rings, it and uplifting of all one's sense, quickers, till, in's full of the gunk, ries

the river aider Upon the slope of this there was not come that far, and in that mannen ahow to be denied not; and just about the time German redoubt, a little ings four casemates upon its fighting when the garrison of the redoubt was faces, armed with a battery of machine tying its whitest shirt to the pole, they

forward and broke. Beaucourt was ours. guns which commanded, the f

of the ridge. "It was

“DRAKE'S DRUM"> northern lop the Germans first

line,

Now, above the ancreas coe's enr setually behind

while the men of the There were some remarkable features

Anng over it,

the right were grows dull to the never ceasing voices Erst two battalions about the lifeboats, of which there were

thrust into the at the guns, as their sound seems to forward kor 48 of the largest size ever fitted, to a

classified during the year, 3 built by Germen libe liner. Two of them were equipped with powerful ongines. They were arranged Messrs Harland and Wolf, Limited, and her comrades of the two battalions landscape and the numbing chill of the

Messrs Burmeister and Wain,

a driving aleet of bullets against which | that Copen Burmeister sad Wain, of bagen

There are now 48 vessels hold no advance was possible

ATTACK DỰNG UP, ing Lloyd's classification fitted with

Accounts vary as to how many ma- engines of this type, and there are at

course

construction ever 30 chine-guns that one redoubt alone turned present in sets of tirese engines: Twelve of the 48 loose, apon the attackers. Their fire esels are equipped with Werkspoor swung to and fro across the shell-pitted

open, wheeling hire searchlight beams one recounises it..

It is the drum-Drakes drum-that left, never called in vain in the bour of to..ther foregoing, several

The e attack was hung up on the Britain's need, the bour of the Admirale bower fitted with til engines of other than mentioned 11

hot-bulls engines erros, to be met likewise made by Messrs J. and C G Tolinders of bullets, while upon the right the other Verkstads Aktiebolag, of battalions found themselves ahead of of the Mokapkey

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of the steeper slope towards Baucourt. commanding one MONDAY, the 8th day of January, be fitted in more thin 30 vesela which are 1917, at 8 pan., at the Offers of the being built under Lloyd's inspection. Caked left lank below the p

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