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THE CHINA MAIL.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1917.

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LONDON LETTER.

(From Our Oven Correspondent.)

THE RAIDERS,

on.

The Germans don't appear to bave; This week, however, there has hoon a, been quite clear as to their direction, great bombardment of the Belgian coast for they claim to have damaged Charing from the sex, the Germans have made a Cross station, which was not within wild attempt to beat back the British even a short distance of the bombs. forces that have taken over the section of Dame Kumour has also been having a the line up to the cosat, adjacent to Nieu- merry time, alleging that the General port, and the British artillery has replied Post Offee was destroyed, the West with great intensity. The result has En laid waste, and several stations been a concentration of guns that has inel None of these statements is raised an inferno of sound and this has true, so if they have reached your part penetrated as a constant rumbling boom of the world, this statement of mind even to the saze of the burrying Loa-]......

LONDON, July 13. The recurrence of air raids on London and the clear declaration of the Premier that the military needs at the front are the-first-consideration, have not im- NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA

proved the temper of Londoners. Not LIMITED (IN LIQUIDATION).. that there is a scare, or weakening at have some value at a reassurance. doner. Till its origin was understood Certain buildings in the business part] it caused any amount of wild reports to (Incorporated in England.): the knees over this latest development}

fof the town and certain districts, circulate sa to a raid or invasion of of Hun "irightfulpes", but there is TAFEDEEMED BANK NOTES. irritation that after three years of war especially in the Fast End, suffered England being in progress”

MESOPOTAMIA. N° OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that and assurances that London was now most. It was a serious raid, of course, OUTSTANDING NOTES will invulnerable, home defence still remains but not so bad as rumour made it out

great be paid on presentation to the under- to be attended to "later on," and the to be, aided by the system of Censor The promise that the signed po or before SATURDAY, 20th September, 1917, at Noos

enemy can come and go with compara ship which prevented any plain state Mesopotamia scandal shall be the sub- AFTER THAT DATE, hoklers will tive impunity.

ject of an official judicial inquiry, with, ment of the facts." find it

it necessary to claim repayment in

power to investigate the responsibility from the BOARD OF TRADE,

1

Assuredly the enemy caught us 'more The development of these auropiane STERLING whom the necessary funds or less by surprise in the raid ou raids is a far more dangerous thinic of all concerned, whether military

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medical or civil, has been well "received" except for doubts as to the commis

fact that all the officers concerned· have

will be remitted.

THE BOARD OF TRADE ke a

Harwich and London in the last for than the Zeppelin raids and makes charge for payment of claims out of right. The former was a more or less Longon, in the opinion of many, nomes deposited in the "COMPANIES legitimate attack on a naval base, but a more risky place than many sioners whitewashing this and that im LIQUIDATION ACCOUNT at the the curious thing in that raiders passed' of the

portant functionary. If that is done Bank of England.

towns hitherto beld there will be a big row, for the public, first over a coup in Suffolk supplied to be so perilous that no visitors now

even in its present habit of accepting A. R. LOWE,

Liqni luter,

with anti-aircraft guns, but they were not go there. I have visted Great almost anything, is so worked up over Chartered Bank Building,

fired because no officer was handy who Yarmouth, and Lowestoft in the past the sufferings of the wounded in Hongkong, August 17. 1917. 9440 was authorised to give the order to fire fortnight. It would have been the Mesopotamia under the early incom I was at an east town not far away at height of the season in normal summer called for and the men with a pull

petent administration, that scalps are the time and clearly beard the ex-and there would have been scores of will find it increasingly hard to get the plosions. It was ludicrous to find later thousands of holiday makers. Instead, usual stringe to work for their escape. that we were being waned at that town there was desolation. Only a few local The only real satisfaction is felt in the to take shelter two hours after the residents were to be seen on the sea been relieved of their datits for the enemy had gons homme.

frouts, the boarding houses were either present. The danger is that the inquiry There is this justification for the closed or just existing by taking in may run its course for so long that the advocates of warnings. It had been officers and their relativos attached to anger of the public will cool and the said by the opponents of such notices local garrisons or camps. Let Londonera ghastly errors of the Indian Govern ment and military medical authorities that the effect would be that people will not badge from their City. Raids may be eclipserl, by some fresh senso would simply flock to the street. Now or no rida the metroplis will go on its tione. It may be taken for granted, on Saturday, when the great squadron way within an hour almost as unmoved however, that when the men of the of enemy aeroplanes hegan to bomb the as before. The raiders, can achieve Armies come home again to take part in ordinary life, there will be far lean town, the streets were cleared as if by no measure of military importance by tolerance of incompetence in bigh magic. People took refuge in any pro these, tip and ran forays,

places mises that happened "to be safe” and handy. One great Oxford Street store opened its basement doors and five But now we in London have a bundred people took shelter there. The new sensation. Hitherto the country result of this dire for the dug-outs districts have heard the rumbling was that the casualties were very light, of the artillery over the water bur considering the size of the raiding party, the roar of the London trafic antil now In one great City dra where many has silenced the distant reverberations. bombs were dropped and upper floors

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THE GUNS

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The raiders appeared out of a clear sky, passing over north-west Londen and thence towards the City. - Thair numbers are Tariously stated, but certainly there were over twenty,

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