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TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1918

SHIPPING

P. & O. S. N. CO.

ROYAL MAIL SERVICE

UNDER CONTRACK WITH HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT TO

MARSEILLES AND

TAXING FASOLDERS AND CAHOD TO

C

LONDON,

· STRAITS, COLOMBO, INDIA, AUSTRALASIA, KÖYPT, &c.

Steamers

Colombo

Leave.

to

Hongkong

Connecting Mail Starpor from

Noon

Colombo,.-

Daa Marseillen 1917,

Duc London 1917.

When Passengers change Steamers at COLOMBO eccmmodaticu in the connecting Steamer from COLOMBO is definitely freserved · Hongkong at the time of Booking

On the Australian Route Tickets Interchangeable with Orient Line.

SAILINGS DIRECT TO

SHANGHAI, MOJI, KOBE AND

6. 3.

YOKOHAMA

Leave Hongkong About

Prasengers may travel by Railway in Japan between Porin of Call fros.of charge. Returns Tickets are available by Mumagòries Maritimes Company.

INTERMEDIATE STEAMERS

(Non- Transhipment).

IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE MAIL STEAMERS, WILL LEAVE DIRECT FOR

MARSEILLES AND LONDON,

Calling at SINGAPORE, FOR WHITENHAM, PERANG, COLOMLO AND POST SAID.

CARRYING 180 AND 2ND SALOON PASSENGERS AT REDUCED RATES.

STEAKERS.

PROPORTO SALINCS:

Lesre HKONG about

Leave STORA. about

Dus at M'SIIZLEA. if calling about

Das LONDON about

THE INTERMEDIATE SERVICE IS TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY_FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS.

All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge and each Berth Famished with an Electric Reading Lamp

Round-the-World Tickets and Through fickets to New York in connection, with the Principal Mail Lines.

Batura Tickets at fare and a half available to Europe for Two Years; or to Intermediate Porta for Six Months.

Owing to the War in Europe Steamers and Sailing datea are liable to be cancelled or altered without notice.

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Any damaged packages must be loit in the Godowns for examination by the Consignees and the Company's Surveyors. Masses Goddard and Douglas, at 10 a.. a Mondays and Thursdays, All claims mcat be presented within ten days of the steamera arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognised. No Claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.

For Further Information, Fassage Fares, Freights, Handbooks, Dates of Sailings etc., apply to.

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Superintendent.

CHINA MAIL S.S. CO., LTD

FREIGHT AND PASSENGERS.

S. S. CHINA

WILL SAIL FROM HONGKONG FOR

SAN FRANCISCO

"

VIA SHANGHAI, JAPAN PORTS & HONOLULU,“

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10th, 1918.

AN UNSURPASSED HIGH CLASS PASSENGER

': SERVICE AT INTERMEDIATE RATES,

0. E. RITTER,

Freight and Passenger Agent,

Frince's Buildings,

Ice House Street.

INDIAN AFRICAN LINE.

Cargo carried on through Bills of Lading from HONGKONG to BERA, -DELAGOA BAY, DURBAN (Natal), EAST LONDON, PORT ELIZABETH and CAPE TOWN with transhipment at COLOMBO to Steamers of the INDIAN AFRICIAN LINE

FROM EosoxOND:

PROPOSED SAILING, Connecting with

FROM JUMLONING,

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ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE.

OUTPOISONING THE

POISONERS.

TERRIBLE

WEAPON. -

THE CHINA MAIL.

FIALTORS AT THR HOTELS.

*

many and Austria-Hungary. An airgland. cân carry: a suficient number of glans. bottle burla, filled with arsing inder

HONGKONG, HOTELA pressure, to make uninhabitable a town Be D. Abraham Mr and Mrs C. F of five hundred inhabitants. This all in Ming: A. G. Anderson “Laennon vengea During the German mault upon fohabitants cannot protect themselves by Mr&Mrs F. Zobel Handy: Mrs C

one trip. This is said advisedly the Mr Goo. & Archbutt Capt. T. La Lacam Arhentiers recently, a bangs and masks, or other devices an when fighting Me J. 11. Baring Mr H. Ly ghastly phenomenon was witnessed, other fume enemies'sch chlorine and Mr H. A. Faxter MH. B. Leggats irite FL T. Bronadon in Popularsulphur dioxide, for there is no known Me La Beckingsalo Me And M# 30.3. Mechanics." Many of the shells which substance which will absorb arsine is Mrs E R. Belios

chlorine is absorbed.

Mr H. E. Beyer fell in the town were sectingly a very

Me and Mrs Mr R. J. Birbeak Camora fragile construction.. They scarcely densed the ground where they burst. They injured very few people with dying particles. They did not exintain either cyanogen gas er chlorine. There' was a slight incense-Eke odour, but this was attributal to a peculiar and important powder the Huns were supposed to have been forced into using. There seemed to be no reason for the shells..

Six hours later the ghastly truth began

CHARMED. LIFE LOST,

Me J. D. Birrell -- Miss E. Linder Hr CO. Bobas Mr C. Little

GENTLEMAN RANKER WHO ROSE Mr W. G. Browell Me 1x Mackintosh

TO A COLONEL.....

Liest-Colonel John Maxwell, M.O., of After fighting career full of peril. Bath, has fallen at the age of 36 2

On the first day of the war Colonel Maxwell enlisted a private, and by. tha end of November, 1914, he was chief rignalling officer.

Mrs. A. LA Bonet? Me G. Ladin Capt. & Mrs Rnch Major and Ms D Me Brand & family Macdocaldata

MrWalter Buhmeyer Me and Mrs F. Mr N. Barss

Maitland MINA. Calderon Mr W. R. Harks Dr and Mm T. 8. Harrioth MrRY. Cameron Dr and Mr O.

Carrington

·Mr G, H. May M. WE Clarke Ma RR Flankett Mr and Mrs

Mr C. M. Mainne

He particularly distinguished himself to make itself known. Soldiers, muleat Hooge, and was promoted captain on eitikens, women, and children began to

the feld for his gallantry. sollapse by the score. Many fell in con-daya and even nights, and was so tiredMe A. H.Donecker Mr G. Noble

vulsions. Some went stark, raving med, The whole community was poisoned poisoned by sonic new and terrible agent that even the lerman archfends had not

At Delville Wood be taught for seven

the Bnish that he slept for Eve hours leaning against a parapot: The colonel of the Engineers wrote to him that only Engineers to fortify Orchard Trench his skill and enterprise enabled the

and Wood Lane.

Capt. Mre Corne Mrs A. Melian Miss Camelsson Mr and Mrs M. M.

hussen

Mr. J. Marechi MrJ.D. Courtney Murray Mr 8. David -- Mr J; S. Nicolaon Mrs Pater Dow Mr E Eagle Mr and Mrs E Mime.

Edsall

Prof. & Mrs Fapini Mr J. Paimien F. Hiss C. du Pont

WJ. Pringle"

Mrs B Pritchard

and sons

dreamed of using before. For nearly a charmed if Be, was struck by shali M, Geativand Ratsas

12.D

Four thousand

week the terrible ges

did its work, | although the shell attacks ceased abruptly

the first day.. individuals died in agony greater than even the feared chlorine ever had caused. The age employed was araína, known the laboratory Da arseniureted bydrogen, one of the deadliest of all fumes kanwa the chemist-beside monoxide may be tried with in zom- which hydrogen cyanide and early

in

parative safety.

ta

This fume fury can be made quickly.

Colonel Maxwell up to his death had splinters twelve times, and got away from normans on a reconnaissance by emptying his revolver into them.

Colonel, Maxwell eat through the Somme campaign and the recent offer Aive in Flanders. He was buried with full military honours in Ypres cemetery.

INTIMATIONS

emily, and in immense quantities, increly MITSUBISHI COSHIKWAISHA

with

by treating any arsenical ore hydrochloric acid. Made for demonstrs.

tion purposes, where the pure gas in desired, the method is to mix arsenie with zine shavings, and to pour over the receptacle bydrochloric acid. The chlorine combines with the zine, little water is released, and a large quantity of the acaine is formed.

(Mitsubishi Co.)

COAL DEPARTMENT.

SOLE PROPRIETORS OF TAKASHIMA CURI MUTALL KISHIDARE, TOSHINOTARI HOJO,NAMAZUTA, SAYOKANADA,

AGENT FOR SAKITO COAL

Head Ofos MARUNOUCHI, TOKYO,

The Allies will fact a natural reluctance SHINKEW, KAMIYAMADA, BIBA] to use this weapon, just as they felt a ¦ & OVUBARI COLLIERIES] natural reluctance to adopt the Germany"

! Flam chlorine, sulphur dioxide, and menwerfer attacks. These fall outside the pain of civilised warfare, in the somet class with well-poisoning.. No nation should adopt such tactics, but this war has crossed the boundaries of all civflised precept. The Allies only chance is to match the Schreklichkeit " of the Hun with still greater awfulness. If this con (be accomplished with the Germans' own

weapons, so much the better,

The arsine bombs is the most deadly weapon the world has developed. Thrown from an seroplane, or projected from a high-calibre howitzer or rißo, the gue sprands slowly upon striking. The g is invisible, and heavy that no wind

hort of a hurricane can dispel it suf-) ciently to make it harmless. It is known as acreener that is, it follows the hellows of the ground and progresses by Inches. For this reason its presence is spt to be unsuspected, and it may take

week to complate its deadly work.

4

Cine whi-and it does not have to be

fingful, by any means is certain death. There is no remedy or antidote known to medical or chemical scienen The effects are in some respects much the same as ordinary arsenic poisoning the suffering which ensues upon accidental eating of rat poison is an example of this but in addition, the gas attacks the big totally different

nerve teatres in

0

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manner, causing aberration and convul- JAPANESE MAKERS. sion, and death in a half-hour or so, after the first symptoms are noticed,

The Germans made another vital, mis

take in revealing this terrible weapon, the Every kind of Footwear arsine bomb, to the Allies, for th uations ust assuredly never would have. thought of using it, otherwian. The mis- take lies in the fact that while the

Romlar Direct Service from JAPAN, CHINA and STRAITE to BRIRA, Germana foisted this ghastly reality upon DELAGGA BAY, DUBBAN, EAST LONDON, PORT ELIZABETH, and OAPE modem warfare, they have not the TOWN, calling a MAURITIUS" on route and stording to Guiokont Feightsrsenic to pursue the course they have Transport from the ORIENT is 8OUTH AFRICA.

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"Hongkong, March 23, 1918.7

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