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"MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1917.

TELEGRAMS.

(Continued from Page 3.)

GERMANY'S ECONOMIC

PLIGHT.

-CONDITIONS, EVEN WORSE IN 'AUSTRIA-HUNGARY,

Lastos, Der. 13. Fresh information regarding the economic situation in thermigny in deates that the position is bevening

WORSH

The en crops have fuiter just the autkok for hurley and bats is hail,

THE CHINA MAXIT

THE ITALIAN FRONT.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

BEGINNING OF WINTER.

14.Unse, Out. 14.

`BRITISH FRONT.

LONDON Out

A premature winter has begun WET AND STORMY WEATHER There are snowstorms, and gales in) the Trentino and fain and floods on!

Fickt Marshal Sie Dongles Halg re the Isonzo and Carso Fronts, transporta-The weather is wet art storm

There was the stay reciprocal artillery Bring

fortaing the valleys into Ickes of tul and torrents, rendering them impassibv.

BRITAIN AND HOLLAND.

DUTCH INDIES AFFECTED BY CABLE RESTRICTIONS.

Wa captured 741 prisoners, including 41 officers, pesterday;

AERIAL ACTIVITY ON BRITISH FRONT.

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LONDON, Oet H. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re. porta-

FINANCES OF THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS

A FLOURISHING POSITIONM

SPORTING

CRICKET.

A match was played on Saturday, King's Park with the futlowing be desween Kowloon C and E COS witRNA NA

P. H. Cohh,, did not hat

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Tatal

Council of the Straits Settlements after At a recut meeting of the Legislative H.E the hair-bad deficere his annual address: the Colmin? Secretary: Bill & bill to make provision for the McConelle Townsend, b Renkes moved the first reading of the upply F Wheeler, e Uripwell, & &akes public servis f the year 20 8. The 3. F. Mead, Lucus, bripwell.. speaker said that when he addressed the CJ. Stapleton Brakes course of his stint that at the Stalker, st Last Townsend Council layer he showed in the K Macasille Waller, b Townsend. end of 1917 the Calany world have mail de Sans & Cripwell, Tawrang able as a cash balanes 84,300,000 LES Hodge, e Milliari, bTownsend £300,000 But, as would have been 1-Pestonj, nut ont noticed in the yourse of His Excellency's W. Elsun, not out. address, instead of finishing up thr your with a total of excers nssets over liabilis ties of 234 millions they netaully had 9680 The revenue then estimated AMSTERDAM, Oct. 14:

ANIMAT, BAR wis now estimated_at The President of the Nethetlands went out till four in the afternoon, an increase of 2030, which left there art. Cripwell.

Despite the weather, our machine 816,142,968 an increase of $3,285,584 The

-BOWLING ANALYSIS. verfus Trust, in an interview. with great difficulty located our troops the end of the year as available cash Spa Townsend In

evised expenditure.for 1917 bowed an

CQ3LS. Reakes... 10 telected the seriousness of the They watched the enemy's movements

balance she of 9, Lup Pascall British action in susperiding all com

and located hostile batteries, which they machine-gunned.

million sterling His Excellency Sapper Genlun" I mercial Teable communication with 14,000 rounds at infantry in trenchesnasets over läbilities at the end of the They also fred had mentioned that the total excess of The future of the fodder props is Hollangi, until the export of sand and and shell-poles and on the roncs Ther year was 30 millions, untk as he did best Set McGregor, hw, h Pestonjo seriously affecting the breeding in gravel into occupied Belgium ceases,

also fired at mounted, troops and year, the speaker proposed to show how Spr. Gordon, b Cabb dustry and the wilk supply, The which has particularly affected concaualties and great confusion.

transport convoys, causing many at. They had to dedirt from that pl. Luens, e Hodzu hobb.

the available cash balance was arriscal Sad Waller, b Fessonjer price of bread generally is beginning nication with the hitch East A low enemy machines wereencounter the harbour and dock works invest/Set. Cripwell, b Club

millions some 814 locked up in C.Q.MS, Reakes, & Pestorje to double utalthe weekly inent ration Dudios. He foreshadowed the pós-fed, but there was little air tighting. mante in Municipal ons 300,00, nd Epl. Adaros o t

We brought down four enemy Imperial War Lona $1, our machines are missing several of $300, wr, total 89,ca, whichd-dacted

KLIK PENSELBEYONDA and Cpl. Charters, e G. Macaskill b which have evidently been lost futom 30 millions left the balance be hat Spr. Milliard, b Pestonje

Pestonje stated. As regarded 1913 their n

pongire Supr. Townsend, b Pestonje ments were for Harbour. Board tare $500070, expenditure in corus

expendi with the war 800,000, upkeep,

Investigations show then, the 2017 harvest is la per cent, bekar mal

VIETNA

A certain amount is expected from the Rumanion Cranerive.

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he been educed, again to ha asibility, of“ Germany; considerately machites and drove down fire. Ton of 'ivances $1.1990 ans and Up" Pascall, c and h-Cobb,

речний.

discontinuing the traffic, which, how Trade and industry, excluding ever, it lus been promised to carry munition making is practically as a on until November 15, The Presi- storms.. standstill. The shortage of raw denteryptically accused the Ameri material is growing as also are trans-can Government of playing pore difficulties.

Fulne

Th publication of births and douths statisties has been supperssød, towing to the alarning nature of the

Sgures,

The condition in Austria and

· Hungary. are infinitely worse.

FOOD CONTROL IN GREAT

BRITAIN

Lastos, Chet. I

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 14. According to the Mausbode, in cousequence of the Anglo-Dutch difference, all Dutch shipping to England has taïs stopped. *

"

THE HOME TROOPS IN THE WAR

Lospos, Oct. 14. The Duke of Commught, address. ing volunteers at Birmingham, suit, he was most unxions n remove the

THE MOST DIFFICULT. DAY impression, that special praise bad

UP THE WAR."

fren meter out to the niner troops without full justice being-dot Yumby »» deseriland as "Donfinion, troops had fought. the ffo. the home trengs Well as the anost difficult seg af the war." up laune troops fund fought with equal to themsel

distinction. The larger proportion of usualties on the latter show riat no troops could have done more excellent work.

The worked shoppers in London foural that ten, Sugar, ries, butter and margarine were "practically unobtainable.

BRITISH SAILORS AND THE U BOAT CRIMES.

„Lusios, Oct. 142

great neting of There a saflors, and Bremen at Cardiff, to devise post-war punishments for

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WESTERN CHINA.

Extras

Total

BOWLING ANALYSIS.

8,000,000. the last named sa includ

! *) estimated to have been Pestonje It... icured last year and 8400,000 the on P. H....

stimate for this year. Australin seemed

THE GERMAN ATTACK IN GULF OF and maintenance of prisoners of war

RIGA.

LONDON, Oct. 14

A German official report states:Innmewhat shy in sending in her bill. a combined action by the Army and Taey had repeatedly asked her to do so Navy we obtained a footing on the

bat p tu race she had failed. These Islandt of Qese!!

agregating $2,357, 00, were un bude el

THE FRENCH CHAMBER.

CONFIDENCE IN THE GOVERNMENT.

¿

PARIS, Oct 14. The Chamber concluded the debate" in which French diplomacy was criticise by passing a vote of confidence in the

the diplomatic and consular services. Government, and recommending reforms in the appointments and promotions in

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THE LOCAL" YARN MARKET.

Messrs. Polishwalls and botton and yarn brokers, have resumed Kotwall the issue of their fortnightly circules. Thoy state--

anxiously topmost prices, were

In the Estimates they would find that the apnditure for tils was put at a little over 13 millions, giving a total of 215238 339, and the revenue was estiuired at $14,038,800. Adding to that It is now more than two months since the eash balance from 1917, estimated we ceased issuing er fortnightly circu 0,926, they had a total in handlas the last being dated 3rd August. for 1919, of 884884,07), again in that occasion we reported that the estioner

expenditure of $15,332,333ical, having entered into heavy eem- Therefore abou

abhu end-st 1918 they would mitments at have an estimate balance of $0,648, 68.

watching the negotiatings the amount that the Culany

that, however must be de lacted

then in progress between the Bombay would have to expensi under, the scheme that and Sorteund shipowners for tannnge. lately been approved for giring war definite arrangements had been made

after, it became know that de bonuses under certain conditions to for the the movement of stocks waiting M. Ribot, the Premier, in a speech certain members of the Government staff shipment. At the suns time, the ray paid a tribute to the French iplumats the total under which bond was $430,0 material suddenly assumed a retrograde andreferred to the clumsiness of Ger for 1918 and 8151, for this movement, while silver began souring the Allies, notably in the case of Ilsace sun, they were left with an estimated commenced tumbling down at alarming many's machinations in seeking to divide operation from July 1. Deslucting that thoi tale upon unr market, and prices

your The

scheme was to come into upwards. All these factors at once tole Lorraine. He and the loyal speeches cash balance of a million string. In speed. Under these eircmustescu, we of Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Asquith 114, the cish hulance was 84,504,0 dicemed it hal balled the German mantive but in spite of the stressful times they France would have Alsace Lorraine would at the end of 118 have double or despite the Reichstag's boastings.

more than double that amount. M. Briand emphasised the impossibil

TOO OLD AT "FORTY?

A LECTURE BY MR. E. G. WILTONity of the Allies calling a halt in the battle, and said that if the Central Powers were foolish enough to continue WAR REIUVENATING VETERANS the war they were doomed to destruc

Mr E. U. Wilton, of the British Con- sular Service read a most interesting Western China," before the North China paper on the Border Provinces of Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, at Shanghai last week. Sir Everard

Geriutius for the Ebout erines and Fraser, Fritish Consul-General, pre- in resolution was passünk that the e-sided at the meeting and introduced the players shoth he asked to refuse Wilton, who has lately spent much

tion.

ADMIRAL CAPELLE'S

"RESIGNATION,

AND LENGTHENING LIFE.

•

War is the great rejuvenator Some time ugn the cry "Ton old at forty" was raised. We hear nothing about it now. The run of forty is in the

Sring line and a mighty useful man, bo'is.

to employ themans on hind or on time in the west of Chins, dealt with SEMI-OFFICIAL CONFIRMATION. Professor Euxley once expressed the „son, requesting dhur public to refuse the people and the natural characteris

tics of the greater border provinces.

These provinces," Mr Wilton said, in part, are three in number, Kansu, ze boundary between western China and chuen and Yunnan, and they form the Central Asia

the interests

the trader Reports for the time t

me being. In the past fortnight, ratters upper to be happily adjusting themselves, ind we are glad to resume our issue under improved

market conditions

The advance raw material have both of silver being arrested, and the produced a more optimistic feeling, the affording the native dealers auch needed opportunity of working off son

"OUR DAY

DURING THE DRAWING OF WAR BONDS

THE ST. JOHN AMBULANCE BRIGADE

WILL GIVE

DISPLAY

ON THE MURRAY PARADE GROUND.

MARCH PAST, with the Brigade's Bugle Band at FULLY EQUIPPED FIELD HOSPITAL TENT

YA. D. Ninsing Sisters,

COMPETITIONS

1. Company Drill

2. Kit Inspection &c.

3. Stretcher Work and Field Practice in First Aid

OUR DAY

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"OUR DAY'

18TH OCTOBER.

DRAWING OF WAR BONDS

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.

WILL PRESENT FREE

ONE TICKET

IN THEIR ISTORE FOR CASH ONLY ^ (SHIPCHANDLERY DEPARTMENT EXCEPTED),

of their former purchases. It must be FOR EVERY $20 WORTH OF GOODS PURCHASED, end to the credit of the foreign importers that, in order to avert catastrophe, such as thus which overtook our market sore.

thus rendering watorial assistance to the ten years ago, they refined for a perio! of two months from effecting new sales, opinion that a man had survived his dealers and enabling them to clear off usefulness when he attained the age of portions of their outstanding contracts." A message from Berlin states that it sixty. How hopelessly old-fashioned Total Sales 2,000 bales. Unsold Stock lauseiger that Admiral von Capelle, exagenarians are doing such useful

semi-officially announced in the Lokatliat secs today. when many 15,00 bales Minister of the Nary, has resigned and vigorous work..

perhaps true that we were becs

AMSTERDAM Oct. 14...

THE BILVER MARKET.

to bug Alermali prends, desiring uths ter mariners to refuse to enter the

erin dag, the boyrott to con tinue for at least two years, and ai additional month to be addesi faj | provinces, is 125,000 square miles in area Kunst, the most northern of the and has a population of 8,000,000 people. In some sections of the north-west part there is

a certain amount of agriculture

LONDON, Oct. 14... but the country for the most part is Silver is quoted at 441d. There is labouring under the general unrest anno demand and the Market is dall. sequent to a civil war and twp Mohammedan rebellions.

Jevery future, přine,

SIR JOHN SIMON'S POST."

Losnos, Out".

It is expected that Sir John Simon,

its

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ENGLISH GIRL AND CHINAMAN.

OF £2,000.

C

It is

ing a somewhat jaded race before the war. Bet the call to arms has renewed our youth. The "grey beard has taken a new lease of life.

The Peansylvania Railway the

bas ie

RUS- pended the rule which hiring of new employees above the go of forty-five years, and they are going to engage retired employees between forty-five and sevent

COAL SHORTAGE IN JAPAN.

QUESTION" OF RESTRICTION OF EXPORTS.

Industrial workers in Caka, Nagoya, into and other cities are anxious to restrict the increase in factory cost at equant on the heavy advance in con!

and will urge the Government to inter fere with the dealings in the coal trade.

Sonie time ago some of them tried to

The man of seventy is gallantly step play into the breach while bis són or grandson is fighting in the trenches

There is, no doubt, a physiological induce the Government to proclaim a reason for this wonderful transformation ban on the export of coal in hope of thos being able to restrict the soaring ten- Convention is the toaster of us all," dency in prices, but the Government said a well known doctor to a representing a different opinion of the cause.

failed

Ito comply with their request, hav- tatives of a Tondon paper.

Tickets will be issued to October 16th.

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.

WAR CHARITIES.

Szethuen, or the land of the Four Rivers, is the largest of all the provinces Kanan and doubles the former province's of China. It has an area double that of who has been given a commission, population. It provides everything that will be appointed to high non-

its people need for existence, with the combatant post in the Army in of agricultural character to tufas COULT STORY OF AN INHERITANCE which the war has brought about. France. Lloyd's Nries says he will its industrial nature, is the absenes no against be Intelligence Officer of the Air country

of villages: There is throughout the Service,

tendency to separate.

For faisely telling the Manchester whole countryside is dotted with separate registration officer they were married, a farm dwellings,

The natural resources, of Szechten Young-wan and a Chinaman, both of of sixty to-day has more energy than Since then the pressers brought to include abundant salt wells. These limehouse, were wells in many places are over 3000 feet Thames Police Court recently and re the effects of the war was the lengthen-enhanced. Gas plants in many small ramoned at the 1 It would not surprise me if one of men, by the dearness of coal has been the man of forty a few years ago. bear on industrial men, especially, as deep and are bored by hand. The brine inanded in custody...... is pulled up by hand on ropes wound bamboo drums.

ing of the average span of life by about towns have been compelled to shut down, ten years

having failed to tackle the Some of them are now in liquidation THURSDAY, 18th OCTOBER 1917. having disposed

ays the

MANCHESTER COTTON TRADE.

LONDON, flet. 14.

The

bad been formally denpant. The man co

"The war has released faculties which for the abnormal increase in the price of

KEEPING FIT AT 36..

Japan

of equipments

of

the Kansai having studied

The Manchester Cortespondent of

The girls father, it was stated, was ** From a a political and ethnographia English and her mother French She the Times states that the position point of view the western country of had an income of it a meats, and on

Nzechnen is by far the most interesting cuming of age would inherit £2,000. with regards to the available cottonThese are the wild stretches toward the continue to improve and it is be. Tibetan marshes. In the eastern section America, and ho had said he would marry joining the Fenior Service Corps, which the prolem compliance with the

She followed the Chinaman Imm men who are past military service are Chambers

In the United States, middle-aged Tho the inhabitantsufe lieved that at the end of the pre- This territory was practically depopulather when she attained the age of twenty performis national services like those exquest of industrial men

chiefy Chinese. scribed peribal of curtailed produced by the mud outlaw Ching in the 17th one.

tion the restrictions will be removed ne greatly modified.

The new census is expected to show that stocks are still large and with the inportations, will be equal to the requirements."

2

ODD NAMES FOR BARY.

by Chinese from the various other pr country, but has since been rapopulated vinces wing to the terror in wach colanista had to be brought in chains.. the country was held, many of these

sends money to the central government

Szechoen is wealthy. It not only FFFECT OF WAP, AT THE CHnts. but it lends it to its poorer neighbours ns.

TENING FONT:; well. Its wealth and strategic import The United States has exported to India and the acquisition of Tibet as never had such a rogue us during the

aoce explains China's.suepician toward

The curious naming of children has Great Britain 000,000 bules xince which it is needless to say is entirely at produce stranger names.

buffer

between the two countries's fear war years. Even the Crimean war did August 1, which exceeds the congroundless. sumption in England during that perity not only to its fertility and the oddity of names chosen for christening

Schurn owes its extensive pros

** I wish you would protest against the period:

The Control Board is ut secur.excellent water communications, of paper. It is u religious ceremony and industry of its people, but also tosita Lincolnshire vicar writes to London artery. The city of Chungking, with desired to give a child ridietrom names. which the River Yangtze is the main it is hard to keep one face strage when mies from the sea is the gateway for That week I was asked to cbriden population of 300,00 and situated

1,400 its extensive commerce. Formerly the twins Bonnino and Petain, although river's desp

gorges and perilous rapids the latter was girl by two open, but now as a culmination made necessary the drawing up of boats of, that's all right the other of the idens of Sir Archibald Little, there gured me, we shorten them to

Yannan," Mr. Wilton said, is atem navigation in the river

Sapry and Fetty" most important province politically at

ing the importation of two bales to every single bale consumed until the Liverpool stocks reach a satisfactory quantity

The removal or modification of the above mentional restrictions will be welcomed, especially as business in cloth hes improved

THE SILTER MARKET

'Market is dull

ONDON, Oct, N

the

was the

How

"OUR DAY" -

MORNING:

Collection for LADY MAY'S ROSE TUND. Or cheques may be sent. NOW adressed Government House (envelopes being marked. “Rose AFTERNOON at 3 o'clock,

LADY MAY

GREAT DRAWING OF WAR BONDS 21 Parade Ground.

St. John Ambulance decompetitions. Refreshments in English and Chisiese stylu, and various attractiotis, EVENING at 9 o'clock.

FETE at the Public Gordons, New OFFICIAL SWAR FILMS shown for the first time. Hongkong Illuminations, an!

bas rendered by the special constables in decided to preset the case to the Great Britain BSBON

Government and request them to stop Mr Walter Camp, a one-time famous the consumption of home produced esat Varsity football player and a writer on at Government works, tostop the sale of sporta, has compiled an instruction book Fushun coal abroad or restric the export telling men over military age how to of eval keep it

Here are some terse'excerpts from it induced to suggest this bet alternative: In explaining how the body has been Drink without eating and eat without the statement the body will present to

mraz, will make you free of the dectors. Japan is especially suitable for export. drinking

the Government says that it is true that Fire gintees of ATALA AG

of water day, none with the ces produced at. some districts in Tayou will save your smoke till after and is very hard on ite producers luncheon you'll never have sucker's to restrict its sale oveness, but it is n your to breathe through,

purpose, hat your mouth, was given ply, at home through the decreuse he THE BANDS OF THE 95th MIDDLESEX REGIMENT, 185

A necessity for Jaoun to increuse, the sap

until you have a chance to change by the body, it may be tried to all up the Afternoon and Bráning.

Don't sit stil. with wet feet. Walk up for home consumption as suggested INFANTRY 14th PUNJABIS and POLICE RESERVE will play

experts. lf Fustam coal is to be called

See how high you can hold your head out the last mensure adopted the former Never let a day pass without covering the gap created with the greater ex bor and how deeply you can breathe when two will also lose their usefu four miles on foot

of home proseed couizz Therefore, with

out of doors. The only thing to be noted

Short shoes and shoes that don't fit this ban on coul costs lot in the long run

that the suppl Two hours of outdoor exercise or the skip You'l never get the goat from walking is uscatly master never made him over-critical of I need anat had diffrate, a dator said, in Don't ask the Beart to pump extra-birt Zeppnin figures in any registers, the Cook

three forming as it does the border farguading other at my hospital bet blood to the brain 1 day and then to vic

facing Tibet, Burma and Indo-Chin

With an area of 100 quare miles and to call her chil

a population of 1000,000, It is situated She cam

on a broken plateau, some 8100 pet said Liole

above sea level and ridged with mecntaan.

TAKTORY It has not you Fucovered from

Berce Mohammedan war, which fed

yeser and claimed 10.000

ach all night

GRAND CHINESE THE

TRICAL ENTERTAINMENT

Erom och tille 12th

ets for the War Bond

ang ate ob