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HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED.

AS already rotifer, this Company's

Generating Plant is now carrying in the vicinity of the maximum load and no further installations can be made for the present. Consumers and Wiring Contractors. are warned against this "danger of making additions to existing installations are reminded that ander the Regulations for Safety of the Fublic or securing the

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Days for the year 1917.

MONDAY, 29th January, FRIDAY,

23rd Fiebruary,

THURSDAY, 29th March, FRIDAY. 97th April,

WEDNESDAY, 30th May.

THURSDAY,

99th Juno,

FRIDAY, 97th July, WEDNESDAY, 29th August, THURSDAY, 27th September, MONDAY, 99th October, WEDNESDAY, 28th November FDAY, 21st December. By eriler of the Committee,

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A Naval expert writes in the Daily News of November 7 :"

Our submarines have had a run of rather bad luck in the North Sea lately. On August 19, the date that the Fal- mouth and Nottingham were sunk by enemy submarine, Liect-Commander Robert Turner twice torpedou a Ger-. man battleship of the Dreadnought type, but the vessel munaged to get back to port, at any rate according to the Ger- man oficial statements.

DE LUXE.

mean all the difference between sinking

aged,

her and sending her back into port dam

"If she is a Dreadnought and is sunk' there is a bounty of about £1,000 for the crew of the submarine. It she survives the crew get nothing, although they best that in them lay. Some day per- have run all possible risks and done the

haps there will be a prize bonas for for effort as well as u prize bounty achievement.

SIR WM. ROBERTSON'S WAR

WARNING.

IT IN TIME."

Exactly two months later the German light cruiser Munchen was torpedoed by: DO THE RIGHT THING, AND DO another of your submarines, and once agnin

the duraged vessel's return to part was chronicled, the statement dust, she was only sightly bein The

incident which orentred on Sunday must be guided to the list of those where, in default of more reliable information, we are compelled to accept the German story.

The trouble in these cases is that the attacking submarine cannot wait about light cruisers

You wonder how I think the war is going on," said Sir William Robertson, Chief of the General Staff, who visited Bradfield College recently to unveil a cress erected in memory of the 150 Brud- field buys who have fallen in the war.

"We have every reason to be through-

to see the result of her work, becausely satisfied with what we have done up battleships and even.

to date," be continued, "seeing the start seldom put to sea nowadays without awe had, and we may look forward to the stream of fast torpedo craft specially future with complete confidence, subject detailed to deal with hostile submarines. Consequently the attacking bout, after to the condition that we do the right I cannot help seizing a favourable moment for dis thing and do it in time.

but think that the whole Empire-and I charging her torpedoes, is compelled to

well lie low for a long t

time in order to avoid a referring to the

to the men, to the wonjen who have work- an attempt made to locate and destroyed so hard and who have given up so

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that success in wat 13 to one ship may reasonably happen to to those who show the

deter greatest another.

mination and who can best set their There is nothing surprising in the fact teeth That is a remark that applics that an enemy Dreadnought should have ot been encountered off the coast of Denot merey to the soldier and the sailor, mark. The popular idea that the Ger- but to the people at home, from the

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the W&r daya these

the Junior Joany of

from Training Corps and from the

as false now as it has always been the country wo We cannot, because of enemy subma- rines, keep our big ships of the German coastwise excur

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porta to prevent these this incidentes accompanied the first libe. sions, and although, as shows, our submarines are constantly on Army in the capacity of dispatch riders. the watch, they can to more prevent He would never forget the fine work German squadrons from putting to see they did. No matter what time of the than the German submarines in the

day or night, what weather, wet or fine, North Sea cun prevent the constant.

the dispatch riders were ready. patrol of those waters by ner cruisers, or the frequent sweeps in which the Grand Fleet indulges.

HOTU DISPATCH RIDERS.

On one occasion during the retreat, WEAPON OF THE OPPORTUNIST. when things were perhaps at their The submarine, in spite of its develop-worst, it was necessary to get instruc- ment, is still the weapon of the oppor riders were out, and there was no one tions to Headquarters. All his dispatch tunist, and in pormal naval warfare the Landicaps under which it works are out for hours and were hot and tired, to send. Then two boys, who had been tremendous. Luck enters more into

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get a of said "Yes, sir, we will go." They went pedo at their intended victim, and and got through, and he was glad to say mutter of a few yarris one way or the

they ca

back. other in hitting the enemy ship may

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