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TURADAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1921.

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P. & O.-BRITISH INDIA

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STRAITS, JAYA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEAT ANDIES, MAURITIUS, ELST AND BOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEKXBLAND PORTS, RED KEL, EGYPT, EUROPE, &t.

LORD KITCHENER.

LOCKED UP HISTORY.

THE

WAR SECRETS BY LORD ESMER.

A GREAT SHOT.

GROUSE, HARE, AND SALMON

AT ONCE.

FATAL COLD SHOCK.

DEATH AFTER VISIT, TO IGE

... CHAMBER

T

A prominent Municipal Councillor of Paris, M. Reisz, died suddenly in Peculiar circumstances.

It was his duty as head of the Public Works Committee to visit the cold storage sccommodation at the meat markets.

"A great shot" was describt dati Lord Esher, who knew the first the London Press Club when Mr. Lord Kitchener well, who represented William O'Malley, formerly MP (er him in France and corresponded con- Connemara, was presented win a stantly with him, who kept a journal

cheque on his return to Ir and and was himself throughout in very after 52 years' residence in Eng and close touch with events at the front,

Viscount Barnham, who mac. the That was the hottest day on record in his back," The Tragedy of Lord

referred Dresentation.

Mr.in Paris, with a temperature of 101 in Kitchener" (published Murray, 10s. 6d. net), explains where Kitchener Malley's prowess as a sport the shade, and at the market the I am told, indeed." he said, "hat Committee entered chambers where

failed and why.

The tragedy, when he took office on one occasion with a rifle he shot the temperature was many degrees | in 1914 as Secretary for War, lay in at one and the same time a pheasant,! below freezing point.

this:

a salmon, and a snipe."

Mr. O'Malley, in response, said: They regarded it as a pleasantly ・好き

no longer the K. "On one occasion I fred at a grouse i was

cooling experience; but M. Reisz was K. of the Sudan and South Africa, and he only as ye was aware of the and a bare happened to be in the line seized with pulmonary trouble, which

of the gun, and I shot the hare. I developed rapidly, tragic fact. The armour of his

did not see the hare at all. There was a river in front of me where the salmon were jumping.

soul had rusted; he had noted, if others had not, the corroding traces of the passage of years. He glanced round the War Office for help, but could find none. Whitehall had been swept clean.......In this novel sphere he was Baffled and lost confidence in himself.

The old fre and vigour were not there, but instead a strange and"

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS (South) touching softness. On one famous

9. 5.

Tons

Bengkong (about)

8.000

3.450

6,600

15th Cet. 14th Oct. 25th Oct 9,000 1 115 Nov.

"KHIVA

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SAILINGS (South)

| 3.600 21st Seph Sincxport only.

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS

occasion, not very long before his. death, he was in Paris conferri.g with Lord Esher:

He spoke of the dislike felt for him by his colleagues, adding, "Asquith is my only friend" One present told him that an eminent member of the Cabinet had complained that he was wanting in candour and ton fond of what were supposed to be "Oriental methods." He said quite humbly: "Yes, I suppose it is sa; but I am an old man and I cannot change my habits it is too late.”

GREAT MOMENTS

Presently I beard a man by the river exclaim. That is a great shot. sir! What is a great shot?' said 1. The reply was, Bezorra, sir, you have made a great shot and Lave killed the salmon.***

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

THE

HE Steamship

"ANYO MARU,”

From SOUTH AMERICAN PORTS wis SAN FRANCISCO, HONOLULU &·

JAPAN PORIS.

THE DARDANELLES. The second important matter in which Kitchener went wrong was the Dardarelles expedition, where he refused a combined operation on The above named stevner having the ground that he had neither en arrived on Monday, the 19th Sept. nor munitions. He cannor he 1921, consignees of cargo are hereby acquitted of a share in the testified to present thair Bix of Lading sponsibility for an enterprise that for counter-signature, and take he had the power to vero, if he is immediate delivery from alongside Godown, not prepared to support it with

steamer or the Company's any so landing troops that knew to be essential.

r!

where all cargo impeding, immediate

|

discharge will be landed at consignera' risk,

The third grave issue was his day Excalibur had lost its temper. Ye! in demanding compulsory service. Stomge will be assessed on cargo (South) there were flashes of genius and When the Cabiret asked his opinn remaining undelivered after Monday,

many moments when he was great, he appeared vague and unsettled. 26th September.

reasons, Exte All broke, chafed and damaged He knew the Germans would come For a variety of through Belgium:

Manila Thursday faland, Townsville Brisbane. Sydney and Melbonma

SBANGHAI

"EASTERN "

**ARATURA "

4,000

€,000

94th Sept

i at !! ..

17th Cet.

BAILINGS

ΤΟ

" JEYPORE"

"BARDINIA"

6.600

28th Sept-

GREGORY APCAR"

5,000

481 Sept.

* DUNELA

4,000

5,400 nd Sept.

SPECIAL

at & a.m.

& JAPAN

Shanghai only.

Japan via hangbai. Shanghai and Japan.

d Oct. 1 Shanghai only.

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The P. &... "FGYFT" is expected to leave Hongkong on or about the 16th Janners, 1999, taking passes vers and cargo for MARSEILLES and LONDON calling at Bombay..

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BAILINGA FROM HOBURONG BUBJEÛT 20 ALTERATION.

of which he ever expound packages will be landed into the Com- ask his culpany's, Godown, where same will be fresh parliamentary examined on Tuesday, 27th September,

No claims will be recognised after

When on the morning of August ed. he refused to 13. (1914) a bevy of French staff leagues for officers left Lord K's room at the powers. During these months the at 11 am. War Office, after listening to his fortunes of war seemed to sway to warning that their appreciation of. and fro the military position was mistaken, and their netion of the duration of the war miscalculated, they were sceptical but impressed.

He intervened with tremendous energy to give the Red Cross its opportunity and alleviate the suffer- At one faretul ing of the wounded. conference in July 1915, at Calais, with the French he surprised every body:

His colleagues were astonished; told each other that they had never heard him to surb advantage; and unevenness" commented upon his

of steamer.

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*****

Weat Hon-how,”

5th October. Also, cargo accepted for Transhipment at San Francisco

and or Seattle to weekly sailinge for NEW ORLEANS, SAVANAH NORFOLK, BALTIMORE, PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK, & BOSTON.

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T. K. K.

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SIBERIA MARU

TENTO MARU... KOREA MARU ....

...92,000

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LEAVE HONG KONG. .Cot. Ist.

„Oct. 15th at 10.30 1.15.

„Cet. ·29th.

Nov. Jath.

Nov. 17th.

Dec. 7th.

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95th

ANYO MARU............ 18,700..............opt

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Had the decision which goods have left the Steamer or Godown, was taken afterwards been taken one will he entertained if present-

beened later than three weeks after arrival DOUGLAS Iben, victory might have achieved at least a year sooner... He procrastinated; counted heads And and weighed authorities.

strength of Our meantime the armies was falling and the war ia peril of being lost.

Lord Kitchener's prestige with the Government was waning fast, though his name was still one with which to conjure abroad, when after the tragic eveals of those sad-months, came the sudden rews of his death. Not unjust was the comment on it, at in council. The French were much the moment when it was known, impressed. It was for Lord K aby a Frenchman of great inficence meteoric moment.

and experience" which Lord Esher records:

Ordinarily be stood aloof from the politicians:

No are insurance whatever will be Fected.

Y. TSUTSUME,

Manager. Hongkong, Sept. 19, 1921.

"BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

HE Steamship

"BENARTY,"

From ANTWERP, MIDDLESBRO, Kitchener's was a fine death, and,

LONDON & STRAITS. is good for England and France. Never will England lay down here that all Goods are being CONSIGNEES, of Cargo are hereby arms till his death is avenged. He had seen his best days and his work landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the was finished; it is better so.

Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Lord Esher adds himself:

and/or Godown "Co., Ltd., whence from the wharves delivery may be

to

And

He shrank intu obstinacy and These meetings of the silence. Cabinet have been described by one who was occasionally present: "All the talking was done by the people least competen: to discuss the subject. The Lord Chancellor [Lord Haldane) | There are moments in K's life delivered an exceptionally long haran- which I like to remember; his gentle que on 'strategy, The Secretary of ness at Khartum when he stood an Skate for War said nothing." But the spot where Gordon fell; his a friend he was not always sent. At times growling admission he was driven into an unconsidered who, like him, had cried when the veterans marched past flow of talk more exasperating to Mutiny his colleagues than his reserve at Lord Curzon's Darbar; the tone His form of speech was Cromwel of his voice when he spoke of Jan in its obscurity and in- Birdie" (Brdwood). coherence.... He bad no chance at a Council-Board of 23-described by some ribald onlooker as vestry meeting with a vicar in the chair-he was caught in the net of convention, and from it be never was able to break away.

SIR HENRY WILSON.

obtained.

No claims will be admitted after the

Goods have left the Godswas, and all Goods remaining nudelivered after the 26th instant, will be subject to rent.

All claims against the steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 3rd October of they will i not be recognized.

No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned |

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,

Agenta Hongkong, September 19, 1921.

All broken, chafel, and damaged Many picturesque stories are coo-Goods are to be left is the Godown, tained in this book, which gives so where they will he examined on the important an insight into the secret 26th instant, at 10 am history of oar times. It was known from the ex-Kaiser's interviews that In three directions bis conduct of he sent Queen Victoria a plan of by the war at last compelled criticism campaign for use against the Boers. The first was the question of the Lurd Esher tells what became of it. VICTORIA, SFATTLE & VANCOUVER via Shanghai & shells, where the facts are stated its receipt was acknowledged by the Lord Esher. old Queen "with frigid politeness," Japan ports. Through bills of lading issued to all Over dispassionately by

Sir John French, in 1914-15, made and Lord Kitchener's reply to it land Common Points in U.S.A. and Canada.

great demands for shells and machine" delighted the Queen by its cool in- KARBIMA MÄRI ......

Thursday, 29th Fept, at 11 & K.

guris, which Kitchener and is difference." By some mistake Victoria HUWA MARU (^aganku di pia... ...Saturday, 2th Oct., at 11 advisers treated as excessive, and is said to have opposed Kitchener's FUSHIMI MARU (Sagos kinaos į ...Saturday, 19th Nov, atthis compelled. Lord Northcliffe to command in India in 1903, though ARSEILLES, GALUN & ANTWERPT Singapore, intervene in a famous Fress cam she died in January 1901.

Malacca, Penang Colombo, Suez & Port Said.

paign. INABA MABU

...Friday, 30th Sept., st 13 map. Every soldier on the Western Front Sir Henry Wilson's fine conduct dur KAMO MARU...

...Friday. 14th Oct. 11. believed the War Office to be supine ing the British retreat from Mons. in this vital matter, and the feelings will be read with deep interest, telligg of men wrung with anxiety were not how a gaunt figure, scantily clothed, soothed when, instead of shells, the laughed through the night bourg War Office sent to G.HQ. drawings at St. Quentin, absorbing of pontoons for crossing the Rhire. item of, information, taking advan

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LISBON MARU

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...Monday, 3rd October,

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well as in the lesser times of old; and Kitchener himself, when in the steady searchlight of truth all the mistakes are revealed, yet stands put Branches and tion of munitions of war; therefore among the heroic figures of the war.

Representatives --- Lord K. had to be bent or broken. Great man he was, but not cast insigamaki, Karaten. Wakatan. Mioji, because he was, unquestionably-in the greatest mould. He was not like Eure, Babe, Osaka, Izaruga. Nags7s, his loyal way covering with his Napoleon or: Cromwell, always true, Yokohama, Tokyo Hakodata, Muzoram, authority the blind complacence of to type as the greatest men of action Otaru Vladivostock, Peking. Tientsin, his subordinates at the War Office, almost invariably are. Reckoned to Daira, Tsingtao, Tainanks Hankow, Shanghai,, Hongkong, Canton, Manila; This seemed the plain common sense, be firm and resolute and strong, he Singapore, Bourabaya, London, Paris, of the matter, then, and there is no was certainly at times all three, but New York and sentile,

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