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Me and Mrs G. H.Mr E. F. Mare
WEATHER REPORT.
*Oct. 7. 19%. #In-Warning to Hong. kong depresion filling up in Lat 10 X. Long 113, E-
Oct 7d. 194. 25m-No returns from Japanese stations.
decreased slightly to Pressure has
M. Bannerman 3. Nuithein de moderately at the majority of reporting
Me and Mr N. 1 Maz
Berley
Me P. Marks
Mia Besley
Dr O. Marristi
Mr. McMoray
Mr R beliling.
SET. Berry
Mr and Mrs C. E. Moviden
Benson
NAK. Bishop
Mr H.
Mr. P. Mooney and
Phik
Mr & Mrs S. BinneyMr and Mrs W. F.
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Neron
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Kin Mr S S. Perry
Mr F. P. Brade
Kr G.
Brutton
Mr P. D.
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Miss F. Ch
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Mr Rawlins
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Engineer-Captain
S. P. Ferguson
Mr.Proseks
MrJ. N. G. Eb>a•Mi»«»
Mr Reetze
Cant Grierin
Mr and MrW 4.Me W. R. Ricketts
Hannibal
Met B
dr J. Scott HarewoM-4. J. Rudolph Mr and Mrs Cole and Mr. a. 1.
Hearique
Sprt
Mr E Sacrami Mas S. Sinestr Hre E. R. Jones Capt
Sian sad
Mr E. M. Joseph Me I stepart Kr&Mrs R. Kavies 3- and Mr C. P. Era 5. de de Tempten
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Lauritsen
Mr Mrs E Zolel. family arse
REPULSE SAY HOTẤT
Mr and 3tre T. F. Mr A. B. brell
Mr A. Tetandans Cobbs
Mr J. Sest HartonMr & Ms Welsford
Mrs H.Mr and Ms P. F.
Mr and
Matheson
Capt. Archer
Woo
PEAK HOTEL
Mr & Mrs Ashern
Dr and Mrs H.
Avelar
tuber
Mr Hollingsworth
Flight L. L Harvey
stations. The anticyclone has increased in intensity and the depression in the Chins Sea is filing up. Fresh monsoon will peersil sing the China Coast, and over the north part of the Chima Sen.
Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 am today, 200 incn. Total since January 1st 9670 incher. against an average of 77 86 weben.
Forecast for the 24 hours ending at 2000 on October Sth
GAD -Hongkon
Rock, NE winds fresh to strong: cloudy, rainy, improving later.
1-Formoss Channel. The same as No. 1
bath coast of China between Songkong and Lasocks The same 84 No. J.
Abooth coat of Chins betwee Sorgtoar and Hsinao. "The same as No. 1.
ROYAL JESERVATORY, **IGKONG, DAILY WEATHER BEPORI.
CTOBER, 1994.03.
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Hour:
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Teroporaturo.
Sturnidity.
Vidivostock fis. 9.95 49
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Mr and Mrs B. K.
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Mr and Ms Booth
Mr M. J. But
Mr J. G. Brid:er
Mr G. F. Caville
Neihaiwela. 30.00 60
Fickians
Mr W. Lee Jozen kow Sir Fi Kadnerie Mr. Kargersea Mr Konkersky Mrs and Mis 50
kolevsky
Mr 1 A Laing
3ir T. D. Lorz
Mr and Ms B. de Mr M. R. 1. Loga
Chazourne
Mr and Mrs.
Church
Changsha
Shaterai
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Talbeku
Me P. Mait and
Mr. P. Merce
Taicho
Mrs McAins
C.
Mr & Mrs Cockburn Me and Mee
Mr C. F. Conger
Mri Cormack
Capt. & Mrs Corsun
MF Coven
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Eng--Comi
Dawson
Mr. S. K. Dick
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Dictio
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Morgan
(IA.icholsos .N.G, D.S.O.
Capt 4. S. Minis
Mr E. R. Potter
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Fbalion
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3 Mr John
Dancan Mr. Eager Mr G. Elams Mr and Mrs &. Vander Ekst Mr&. Y. Farmer Mry & MiseStablings
Mr J. F. Swindells Mr C. Farmer Mr J. Farmer Mr and Mrs 8. J. Rev. F. T. Feather Syrett
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Mr Marshall Wood
Mrs L. Hansen
Mr T. H. Wright
Mr CJ.B. Hellstrom
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Mr T. Fale & family Krs Passmore
Mrs Randolph
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Mr Robecheet
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Dr and Mia A. B.
A. Equss
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and family
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Bir W. Thies
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Hongkong Obervatory. Oct. 7. 1920. 1. BAROMETER reduced to 32 degree Fahrerbeit, on the level of the in inches, tepths and hundredths.
9. TYMPERATURE, is the shade in de gee Fahrenheit.
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THE MESOPOTAMIANS.
BLIND FANATICISM.
A PEOPLE IN A STRANGE STATE.
"
Ferdinand Tuchy writes in the Daily Mail-By all accounts we seem to have lost control of the Mesopotamians. Colonel Lawrence, our greatest living expert cu the Arab, refers ominously in the Sunday Tinies to these whose control and understanding of the local population might have been more enlightened. Certainly no people emerging from the war needed more delicate handling than the Mesopotamians.
Imagine a million odd Arabs sud denly jerked from their sensual slum- ber of the ages into a fevered modern world. That was what happened with our coming to the land of the;
Twin Rivers.
Imagine the steam engine, the ocean liner, the kinema, the camera, the telephone, the motor car, the
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A DUEL OF WITS.
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Jeock graphic Communication with Gap
Tinterrupted.
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SATURDAY, October 9.
Europe vis Negapatam-Per KAMA-
KURA MARU.
Shanghai--Per NANKIN.
MONDAY, October 11. Japan-Por MORIOKA MARU.
FRIDAY, October 15, Manils and Australia-Fer AKI DARU Straits and Calcetta-Per BARODATE
MARU
JOTNIRD MULA.
THURSDAY,tober 7
*Swatow, *Shanghai, and North China
Per HANGSANG, 5 pan. Philippine Islands-Per CITY OF DUN
KIRK, 5p.m.
Fort Bayard-Per SUNCHEONG, 5 p.. SAROD-PET DEVAWONGSE. 5 p.m.
FRIDAY. Uctober 8 Heihow and Haiphong-Per HAMES,
93.10.
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TOOSG, 1 pm. Japan in Kahe PLATSANG. 3 p.. Straits, Bangkok, Calcutta & ADEN-
Per CHAKSANG. 2 p.. Shanghu, North Cita and Japan via!
Kobe-Per PORTHOS. 3 p.m Holbow and Haiphong- Per TAKSANG,
3.
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CORONET 1749
TO-NIGHT, at 5.15 & 9.15 pm. EMILY STEVENS
"CORA
The Tale of an Artist's Model.
Snub Pollard in "CUT THE CARDS.'
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
ARRATOON V. APCAR & CO. Agents for
DECISION AFTER COMING ELECTION. Banos Nacional Ultramarino, Micso
Will the United States become wet" again?
Yes," is the measured reply of
Mr. James B. Regan, for many years and New Zealand via THURS proprietor of the Knickerbocker DAY ISLAND - Per. VIC-Hotel in New York, who is now, in TORIA. Registration 3 p.m. London. Letters 5 p.m. SATURDAY, October 9.
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Tel. 1630.
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bocker Hotel has been turned into
Iron. "Steel & Piete Goods. and Straits -Per LINAN, office premises. It has been mar
mured that the reason of my retiring Tel. 2143. 10. Queen's Rd. Central. Marques, South Africa United States. I can repudiate that, Bangkok, Ceylon, Mauritius, and selling out was Prohibition in the India via Dhanushkodi, Egypt
CHINA OVERSEAS TRADING CO. (1919), LTD.
For an hour one afternoon in mall shanghai, and North China--Per Ty business,” he said " and the Knicker- CHINA AGENCY & TRADING CO. OF week the stretch of the Thames
Blackfriars Bridge and Swatow between waterloo Bridge became an adjunct of St. George's Hall, and hundreds of Straits, Londoners were provided with vis- ble proof that the powers of magic: are not limited within the four walls duel of of the building in Langham-place. The occasion was really wits between the Sea Scents and Mr. Maskelyne and his assistants, and it must be admitted that on this occa sion the Scouts had the worse of the argument
The duel between the parties really began during the recent Jamboree at Olympia. On that occasion the Sea Scouts challenged Mr. Val Walker, who makes a hobby of escaping from anything that is bared and bolted, to
& EUROPE via SUEZ-Per as my income-tax payments to the HELENUS Registration 8.43 United States Government for 1919
were 50 much" in excess of previous: am Letters 1030 a.m.
The Parcel Mail will be closed | years that I would be ashamed to Tel. on Friday. 5th Oct. at 5-p.m.. Tierpsin-ree CHIPSHING, F Straits
Bangkok Per CHUN SANG. 3 p.m. SUNDAY, October 10. Boihow, Pakhoi and Haiphong-Per
KAIFONG, 9 A M
Straits,
dis
mention ite amount, and during the year 1919 the Knickerbocker Hotel sold no fiquor whatever for 8 months. "My answer to Prohibition in the United States is this: In my opinion the American public will not adhere. Tel. tion, and the matter will be decided to Frohibition after the coming elec
Ma ques, South Africa In- Bangkok, Ceylon, Mauritius, ria Dhanushkodi, Aden, *Egypt and EUROPE by placing proper men in Congress,:. MARSEILLES-Per NAEKIN, who will not take away the personal Tel. Registration 8.30 am. Letters liberty of the American people. I suggest to my American "friends.
9am.
newspaper, the wireless, the aeroplane, find a way out of a safe of the Saigon. Straits, Bangkok, Ceylon that they should come to London and
He did so, and
Was
strenuous test. Come to our train-
the gramophone. electric light building. imagine all these things, slowly promptly challenged to a far more grafted on to us in the West through ingship, the Northampton," said the several generations, suddenly sprung
from a prison of which you shall upon you in the course of a few Sea Scouts, "and release yourself years, even months!
know nothing before you step on board," and again the chailenge was accepted. Accordingly, Captain Mal- zard and Mr. Nevil Maskelyne held
Colonel Leachman, I remember who for ten years had studia the native on the spot and was recently 3. BENIDITY, in percentage of satura treacherously shot, frequently harp- tion the humidity of air saturated withing on this aspect of the question in be reports and emphasising the moisture being 100.
hectic state of development in which be found many of the tribes along
4.
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DIRECTION OF WEST, to two points. FOBLE OF WISD, according to Bead'ord Sexle. *
6. STATE OF WZATZER, E-blue sky. c the Tigris and Euphrates. Because detected clord, & drizzling fan, tice, we need to remember that for and more gmy, h hail. 1 lighting, evermet two thousand years
living where the! passing showen & equall, ni, 5 HOW these people. thurder visibility w dew, TEL
dredths.
HONGKONG TIDES.
reception in the "Northampton" during the afternoon, and Mr. Walker awaited him. was shown the forbidding task that
the
of the
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take a page from London's book per- taining to the regulation of the liquor. Tel. 2170, 60, Queen's Rd. Central, traffic, which, in my opinion, is more
The tours in! than well handled. which liquors can be obtained are sensible ones--formerly in the United Tel. 2203. 28. Queen's Rd. Central. States there were no restrictions, and People could get drinks at 4 in the
morning."
!
Mr. Regan is in England in connec
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Nagasaki, Canada, United has been working for many years- tion with an invention on which he States, Central and South a safety device for an automatic! America and EUROPE via control system on railways. It bas VICTORIA Per ARIZONA been adopted on the Rock Island Tel. 254. MARC Registration 8 am
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The Sea Scouts had prepared a
about 60 gallons of water, with a steel water tank capable of holding lid firmly secured, by two bolts. In walls upper half
driven, and air-holes had been 7. RAIN in inches tenths and hun-world began. had been mark ing time, living parochially, seeing
Mr. Waer was informed that little farther than the neighbouring tripe, illiterate, without ambition, after he had been securely imprisoned entirely sensual and self-centred by the captain of the "Northampton talking only of the produce of the be would be lowered into the waters soil and of the bargaining of the of the Thames, the interior of the market place, and thinking only of tank would be inevitably flooded, the best way he could. Mr. Walker what new deal they could do or of and he could then make bis escape Sato what new wife they could buy.
Under the Turk the Mesopotamian promised to do bis best, and to the who could find an inch of room on saw no light, merely red for great delight of all the small boys gain. We switched on the light, and
the Embankment the preparations began. Mr. Walker estimated that be now our nomad friends are out to the zero of the sanding in the Admiralty realise their national aspirations." Chart, which has been found to be 4 feet
I do not know if that vast political could-release himself from his steel The prison in 20 seconds, and time after organisation inches below mean sea-level!
time the tank was lowered into the intelligence
river for that period, to make certain
The tide table viven below has been mpiled at the National Almanac Office in London from the resalt of therasiyet if obeerrations taken by means of an Automatic tide-recording machine to the Water Folice Essin at Tajz Sha Teni during the years 1909-9.
The zero of the table corresponds with
To obtain the depth of water on the
dde gange it the Victoria Saval Yard White Tabs" still exists as composed
dd & Leet 4 inches, and on the gange during the war, but Intelligence must that all the Sea Scouts knew which
1 Lamont Dock, Aberdeen, add 10 feet certainly be the most vital section of
Inches to the height giren in the table
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the General Staff in Mesopotamia at the present time. Unless we know what is happening in exactly each of the
sixty
tribes com•
may
ropes to pull at the critical moment. When he was satisfied on this
Amoy,
HATCHING, 1 p.m.
Amos and Foochos-Fer
Per SHANTUNG, 3 p.m. Shanghai and North China-
THURSDAY, October 14,
Railroad in the United States with much success, and is being considered by two railway companies in Great Britain.
SECRECY IN WIRELESS.
"A STEP NEARER.
SUCCESSFUL DEMONSTRATIONS.
Successful demonstrations of a new wireless invention which marks a
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PHILIPPINES AND CHINA.
COLET TRADE.
NEW MOTORSHIP SERVICE.
Rufino Martinez, formerly a goy-
student
United in the
Philippine Islands Japan vis Moji step towards the secrecy of wireless emment
Shanghai
Senator con-
Canada, United States Central telephone and telegraph messages States and now Teodoro R. Yangod's & South America, EUROPE have taken place and
B.C. Per vis VICTORIA. TAJIMA MARU. Registration 8.45 am Letters 9.30a.m.
Marcori
is at
pensionado at the University of Cali. present ducting further tests at sea in his fomnia, where he took an advanced natal architecture, has designed a and North China-Feryacht "Elettra" with a view to its course in marine engineering and SINKIANG, 11 a.m.
wider application. FRIDAY. October 15.
Details of the invention are secret, single-screw steel, cargo-passenger.
HONG, I Am Swatow, Amoy and Footbow-Per HAI- but it may be stated that an appara-motorship for the Philippine-China
tus has been devised which, by what coast trade. SATURDAY, October 18.
exports call an electrical method
via Nega-Per AKI MARU,
10.01.
CHOW. 3 p.. MONDAY, October 18.
and North China-Per TING-
Bergkok, Ceylon, Maurinice, South Africa, L. Marques, India ris Dhanushkodi, Egypt, and EUROPE is MABSEILLES Per MISHIMA MARU. Re gistration 9.45 1.2. Letters 10.30 am
In an article in the August issue of concentration," propagates the of the Pacific Marine Review, describ. beaming his design. Martinez gives, the electric wireless waves in a in any desired direction, and in that length of the proposed vessel be- tween perpendiculars as 220 feet; direction only.
Hitherto the electric waves sent the draft, loaded, 16 leer; depth, out from wireless stations have moulded, 15 feet 9 inches to main spread out in all directions and all dock and 23 feet 6 inches to awning who "listened-in" could hear. The deck; approximate deadweight, 1,200 new invention will mark the end of to 1,260 tons; and cargo, 960 to the wireless" eavesdropper." When 1,000 tons. The ship will accom be able to send out Morse or epocen class cabin passengers. It will have it is perfected a wireless station will modate 56 first class and 24 second a speed of 10 knots at sea and is to by those for whom they are intended. he provided with engines of the Dias- messages which will be heard only
The new apparatus, which is sel type. It will be so fitted s being worked at an experimental finish the voyage between Philippine station in England with a short and Chinese ports in 30 days. wave length, has recently been de monstrated to a number of experts,
The C.F.0.8, "Methren, from Hong- who expressed the greatest Interest in the discovery.
kong on Sept. 3, arrived at Vancoever It is known that German wireless on Oct. £. Shanghai, Sobe-Fer KAMO MABU, research has been lately closely
TUESDAY, October 19. Philippine Islands-PerTAMING, Ils.m; WEDNESDAY, October 20
THURSDAY Philippine Islands, Australia and New
Zesland 1SLAND-Fer NIKKO MARU.
point, he stepped into the tank, the Japan captain of the "Northampton" screw- prising the native population cured home the bolts, and made assurance Shanghai
doubly sure with a spanner. The Bours far-Jung garrisons
tank was swung out on a davit and any moment be smothered in the unceremoniously dropped into the Straits, sudden descent of several thousand Thames. Certain it is that Mr. of the feelest and most savage horse waker was inside the tank when it mes in the world. Unfortunately we
was put into the water; equally.cer- armed many of the more reliable rain it is that within 10 seconds be tribes during the warat, least they had made his escape, and within a were reliable at that time-and we must not envisage any likely shortage of desert arms among the enemy.
About half the population are nomads, the rest sedentary.
The nomads live in tents and are ever on the move. Dow into the desert, now back to the Tigris. They Aourish in little self-contained com- manities of a hundred or so, sowing a crop here, passing on, returning to reap it, and then passing on once more. All the time the nomad goes on breeding his livestock, goats, sheep, camels, cattle, poultry, selling them, ance for barter, now for gold, and passing on.
*
Previous date sion date as.
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tp.a
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The nomads are of stern stuff, loving a "scrap" yet seldom attack ing unless assured, by their numbers, of a slashing success. They are divided into tribes and sub-tribes and pay tribute to sheichs and lesser
minute the tank was being hauled on board again with the bolts still securely in position. The Sea Scouts marvelled greatly Mr. Maskelyne and his friends smiled grimly, and the spectators on shore and on the
Northampton "cheered lustily.
sheikhs. Often a sheikh way, have a following of four or five thousand foot and a thousand horse the finest horsemen in the wide world.
The tribes of Mesopotamia used always to be bordering on a state of hostilities with one another, chiefly owing to religious differences. But one fears that to-day the Mesopo tamians are all united under a com mon banner and are being impelled forward by that had fanaticism known only to Islam,
vis
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The C.P.O.S, R.M.8. "Empress of Straits, Bangkok, Corlon, Mauritius, directed to this problem of the "eaves Japan," from Hongkong on Sept. 14.
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The C.P.0.8, RMS. "Empress of India via Dhanushkodi, Egypt that we were able to pick up with and EUROPE ria MARSELL our listening sets much valuable in Russia arrived at Sobe on Oct. 6pm.
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