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INAPIER

JOHNSTONE

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WHISKY.

UNVARIED FOR OVER

150 YEARS,

THE SAME TO-DAY AS IN

1745.

BEWARE OF IMITATIONS!

SOLE AGENTS IN HONGKONG

LANE CRAWFORD & CO.

and from Art WINE MERCHANTS-

res

HANDS AND ARMS ITCHED AND BURNED

Red and inflamed. Could Hardly Do Work. Never Free From Cuts and Cracks. Gave Up-Hope. Cuticura Soap and Ointment Healed.

2. Wenfeld Cottages, High St.; Ayles bury, Bucks. Eng.-"It was about four years ago that my arms fraci 'the-cibows downward Dogan to be red and islamod and then began to itch. They got so bad that I serakchod until they blod and then they seemed to start a small foster. They socmed to gradually get waese and my

handle are arms were bandaged up. The backs of my hands werg nothing but deep row cuts and blod na soon as ever 1 moved them. I could hardly do my work. I gave of all hope of over being cured us may bands ad arma

tom cute and cracks. from from FOTO Rover

My husband read of wires by the Cat- eum Remedies and advised me to try them sent for a free saadple of Catleura Soap 1 and Cintment They seemed to cool ing hands and arms from the first. I washed them in the Cuticura Soap and warm water and then put on the Ointment after drying

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x. They did so much good and I bought mere and now my hands are na noût, as ever. eo from outs and itching baring paks which for four years I was never from from." Bigned) Mr. D. Matthews. Jan. 23, 1914, Why worry about your hair? Outleura Soap shampoos and on occasionit use of Cuticura Olimont will clear this scalp of dandruff, allay itching and irritation, and promate hair-growing conditions.

Samples Free by Post

Although Cutleura Soap and Dintment aru sold throughout the world, a sample of inch with 32-p. Skin Book will be eggs free upon request. Address post-mind: F. New- bery & Sons, 27, Charterhouse London.

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4KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 25TH, 1915.

WEATHER REPORT.

On the 24th at 10.50 am-Pressure bis decreased galekly over Eastern Japan and Inarasted moderately to sonakderably over this remainder of the area,

The anti-oyalone has strengthened and the northern depression has advanced to the eat of Japan Pressure is still relatively low over the China Bes,

i

Honghong rainfall for the 24 hours soding at -10 am.toldãy, 0.04 inches, man op ma

The forecast for the 24 hours ending at aper

to-day is sa follows:--:

DESTRICT

nongkong & Neighbourhood

#!

***

FORECAST

(E. winds, moder ate to fresh; fair to cloudy, (North winds, Formosa Channel

strong. South coast of China betweenƒ The samo sa

·No. 1. Hongkong and Lamooks South coast of Chins between (The AING RE

Hongkong and Hainan...1

No. 1.

METEOROLOGICAL

CHINA COAST

REGISTER

Station.

24TH MAX, AN

Wind

Hour.

Barometer

at Ben: Level.

Temperature.

Humidity,

Direction.

Weniber,

Force

Viadvostook. Th Nemaro

6.29.73 Hakodate,...... 29.73 Tokios "29.70

Nagasaki.....

Kagoshiman Oshima Naha

* 39.84

29.95)

-22,90 129 93

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29-01

29.01

S

20.01

# 30.06 59-54

Laki'jme ...... Bonin Is. Chefoo....... Weihniwei: .......] Elankow......................... Ichang Kinklang s Changahs Shanghai

Gutalaff

Sharp Posk

Amor 699.88

SAW

30.06

30.07

76

|

Swatow. 1000+

29.93 67 Taiboku......... 5. 99,93 66 87 Taichu

or

# 89877

25.84

Konham

29.81

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Canton

6

Hongkong

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C. W. JEFTRIES, Dirselor.

THE BATTLE FOR HILL 60,

1 BAROMETER,ireduced to 12 degrean Fabrenkeli on the level of the sea in frohes, tothe and bandredths.

2 TEMPERATURs, in the shade, in destes Fahrenbait

8 HUMIDITY, in paremiage of maturation, the benmidity of six saturated with moisture being 100.

́s Dimmerion or Warn, to two points,

MOTOR MACHINE GUNS IN

ACTION...

A PICTURE OF THE YSER.

The following descriptive account which has been communicated by an Eye-Witness present with General Headquarters continues and supplements the narrative published on the 20th April of the movements of the British Forge and the French Armies in immediate

April 20th, 1915.

touch with its

On Thursday, April 15, nothing occurred beyond the explosion by us under the recorded in the last summary, under the enemy's tronches at Cuiachy. It destroyed some 30 yards of his front line,

On Friday morning the Germans in reply fired three underground charges nem our trenches in front of Givenchy. They were all short of the mark and caused no damage at all.

On the next day, the 17th,one of the enemy's Manexwerfer was knocked out by our howit zure on the loft near Ypres, und in the same quarter a German aeroplane was brought down in our lines by our aviators. The pilot was killed and the observer captured.

On the evening of the 17th an attack was made by us on the enemy's trenches on Hill 60-a commanding point which lies on the north side of the pres-Comincs milway, about two-and-a-half miles south-east of Ypres This spot has frequently been the

the last of action,

occasion being the scene

which occurred some two heavy fighting months ago, from February 14 to 17, during which the summit of the Hill was throughout

6 FORM OF Word, sooarding to Baufort Boals. I STATA OF WEATHER, b blus aky, a detailed cloud, d drissling rain, f log, a gloomy, h ball,,

lightning, overeat, pyraming showers, g squali rrain, snow, i thunder, w visibility, w dom (wet).

7 Bain in inahes, † tenths and hundredths.

HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL

GISTER.

Hongkong Observatory, May 24th.

Previous On Date: On Date

Day st

2 p.m.

Batometer Temperature

Bemidity

10

(at 2 p.m.6 8.0

201 29.89

29.91

76

73

*76

"

93

84

Fast

76 Ezit East

4

6

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J. Lambert

Weather - Rain.........urte

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Mr F. W. Cary

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Mr Consland

Col, Darling R.E. Mr A. S. Davies

Mr & Mrs J. H. C.

Goodban

Mr F. A. Haseland

Mr & Mrs B. A Hale Mr A. Hardman Major Faiching Lt Col Gordon Hall,

ZA,M.U. Me B. A. Hind Mr & Mrs C. Hain.

plireza Mr. & Mr. W. G.

Humphroge My T. J.B. Johns Mr Lee Jonea

Mr & Mr Allen

child

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Mr T. L. Perking Mr H. N. Pourtney Mr Pringle Major Pyne, R.E. Mr & Mrs E. Ralphe Mr. A. Sinclair Miss Skinner Mr C. Skott Mrs Squaer ME & Mrs Gran

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GLAND HOTEL

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Wind Direction....

Force.....

Highest open air Temperature on 23rd... 82 Lowest open air Temparaturs en 23rd .. 73

HONGKONG TIDE TABLE

LOW WATER.

Free 26th to 31st May,

HIGH WATER

H'kong.

Mena

Time

Month

*w* 'q

5.57

Height

**5/Height.

Mean

Time

it. in.

h, m.

ft. in.

5 &

Fasa 25 m

034 2 4 6 26 a 5 Fed 20m 27 620212 3

7 32 a 5 0 1 28 a 1 Thurs. 27 m 7 1 6 9 m 1 2

25 2 190 Fri. £8 m. 7 38 7 5 1 34 2

9 39 = 4 6 3 90 2 Bator, 2022 7 9 2 7 3 9

10 44. 4. 33802" 30 m 8 8 8 12 41

11 46 a 4 1 .4 48 0 3 80 m 3 15 31Jm9 55

3 2

3122.

Мод.

in the enemy's hands.

Our effort to gain the point began at 7

p.in. on Saturday, when we fired heavily charged mines under the German position, blowing op a length of trench with some 150

THE CHINA-TRADE.

EFFECTS OF THE DEADLOCK-

P:

UPON JAPANESE GOODS.

Before the Peking negotiations word a dead-lock trade between

THE WASTE OF WATERS. In front of the line is a waste of water melting into the sky, and the farther bank obscured in mist The grey expanse is here and there intersected by a road running for some distance on an embankment, and broken by a few trees and hedgerows or the remains of a farm rising up out of the flood, on which brought to islands the advanced posts of each side are Japan and Chins was pretty well main- established: The corpses of long dead Gor- tained, as demonstrated by the figures man soldiers and the swollen carcases of published by the Finance Department for the air, drift aimlessly about, while large the influence of the diplomatic complica cattle and sheep with legs sticking stiffly into the last ton days of April, though, under faoke of wild fowl give the one visible touch. tions coupled with the impecuniosity of ringing out from the front, the occasional salting dwindling of her export trade, of life to the desolate scene. The rilla shuts China herself, caused by the city of reports of distant guns, and the noise of the the trade returns for every month sincd shells rumbling overhead and bursting with

Mr. Kurachi, the Vice-President of tha dull thud far behind accentuate the prevail. last Autumn showed a poor result.

silence.

Obino-Japanese Industrial Development Nothing could present a stronger

a

contrast

to this comparative indiction than the nature Company, who has just returned from a of the fighting in progress along the sand trip to Tsingtao, gives in i Froes inter- dunes farther to the north. Here a desperate riow a good picture of the financial and struggle at short range continues from day commercial relation between the two to day, the opposing trenches being situated countries before, the criam, of course, within a few yards of one another. Here, from the politico-financial standpoints instead of mud and water, the troops have. In spite of the political complications, he to endure the wind which blows the sand says the Chinese generally recognise the about in stinging clouds so trying to the eyes importance of a Chino-Japances economic

Even the Chambers of Com to necessitate the wearing of motor affiance.

Under the restless drifting sand

merce do not take up the suggestions of goggles.

Merchants froml the configuration of the landscape is con: boycott agitators tinually altering, fresh dunes being formed Shanghai the hotbed of anti-Japanam at one point, while they melt away at

Therefore, another. Perhaps the best description of feeling, also denounce the harangues of this area of soft-looking shapeless white hotheads as wild nonsense. mounds is that given by a French officer, the arrangement for the economie union who compared it to a land of whipped cream is being steadily carried out independenti ly of political issues. This friendly feel ing between the Japanese and Chinese. business-men has been clearly shown in the attitude of the Chinese shareholdere at the recent general meeting of his com pany. All the proposals from the Japanese side were heartily approved and now concessions were secured for the com

NATIONAL RELIEF FUND.

COMPLAINTS OF BAD

ADMINISTRATION.

pany. The first of them is the monopo lization of copper, the second the contract. The administration of the National for the sale of iron ore at an iron mine men manning it, who nearly all perished. Then, within & fow minutes, our infantry

Says The Times, is the sub-in Anhui, and the last the right to work rusbed the craters in the enemy's line Belief Fund, Save The

a coul mins in Shenshi sud gained possession of some 20 yards jeet of considerable criticism an all-partAn official report from Foochow also length of the latter. So suddenly was the assault earried out that our troops met with of the country, The Fuad was founded paints the situation,, before the crisis, hardly any resistance and sustained very by, the Prince of Wales at the outbreak of few casualties, securing 15 prisoners, amongst the war for two objects the relief of whom were two otheera The Germans shortly afterwands opened a heavy fire on the section we had gained, and kept it up throughout the night, but our men held

they bad won and beating off soverh! firm, working hard to strengthen the ground

counter-attacks.

FIERGE SUNDAY FIGHT. .

Shortly before 7 on Sunday morning the Germans made their real reply with a deter- ined effort. They assaulted in force, coming o in close formation, and hand-to-hand fighting continued for some time. At this

dependents of sailors and soldiers who are on active service or who have died for

alleviation of distress among the civil their country, and the prevention and population arising out of the war. It was placed under the direct charge of an executive committes, which was appoint ed by his Royal Highness after consulta tion with the Prime Minister Nearly five millions sterling have been subscribed to the Fund. According to the latest

tolerably bright, while admitting the blighting effect of the diplomatic compli cations. As far as the local trade is con- cerned, says the report, the effect at the European war is very slight, but it is at

to the instability of silver, the decline in the purchasing power, and other causesy the same time to bradmitted that owing

demand for Japanese goods is somewhat fagging, though imports from Europe have been almost stopped. Since the negotiations were started in Faking, anti- Tapanese feeling in been much in ovi- dency among the natives, though no syra- tematic attempt at boycotting Japanese

juncture invaluable service was rendered by official figures available, £1,400,000 has goods has been made, thanks to the exer

rushed to the front, and opened fire on the masses coming forward, while our artillery aked their ranks with shrapnel. The counter-attack was beaten off with very heavy loss to the Germans, who, as usual, showed no inclination to accept defeat,

been among the families of sailors and soldiers and £200,000 in respect to civil distress.

Criticism of the administration of the Fund comes mainly under two heads Dependents of sailors and soldiers com

Chinese the movements of agitators. merchants have with some reason stopped buying Japanese goods except when the

The circula stock on hand has run out. tion of Bank of Taiwan notes also has dwindled greatly. But it is generally believed that there will be no serious blow to Japan's trade there, for if Japanese goods be rejected the natives may at once feel considerable inconvenience on ac count of the scarcity of general cargo and the resulting rise in prices of com- modities

Throughout the whole of Sunday, the 18th, of unreasonable delays in the pay ment of esparation and allotment allow troops continued to be hurled against ostanees. It is said that, no notice has been 'trenches

and once, towards evening, roine obtained a footing on the southern edge of the taken by the committee of many cases of crest. It was only a momentary advantage, genuine distress to which their attention however, for at 6 p.m. our infantry charged has beca called. It is said, further, that with the myonet, dislodged the Germans many of the grants made are wholly from their foothold, and secured the whole inadequate. On the other hand, the

In a degree these glowing reports are position. An hour later the hill was held in Workers National Committee protest strength by as. Further details of this against so large a proportion of the Fund confirmed by the trade returns for the successful operation will be given later. Our baing distributed among dépendents of closing days of April last, Exports to casualties, as may be expected from the sailors and soldiers whose needs should China for the period come to 3,476,042 yon, fighting, were by this time heavy, but the have been moet by the Admiralty and the which figure is a somewhat encouraging German fosses were far greater. We took War Office, nad say it was understood gain on the preceding days, though a de sonic prisoners in the course of the day. The that the Fund would be used principally cline of 898,141 yen as compared with the especially stubborn resistance made by the for the relief of Givil distress. They have same time last year. In importe, on the enemy is due to the fact the the position asked the Executive Committee of the other hand, an astounding increase of was of value to him, for it commands, Fund for a full statement of receipts and 1,879,068 ven over the same time last year large portion of ground to the north as far

expenditure, together with an explana-is reported, principally owing to the in- As Zilfeboke

During the day a German Leroplane was tion-of-the-policy which has bem-pursued creased shipments of raw cotton and damaged in a tight with a British plane, and in the administration of the Fund, and beans, the total figures being 3,014,361 forced to descend. It managed, however, toare calling upon the trade unions and yen,

Details are shown in the aubjoined reach its own lines."

other labour organizations to back their

table:--- demand.

Exports for the closing days of April-.

1915

ON THE BELGIAN FRONT

SERIOUS GRIEVANCES AT OLASGOW.

An account has already been given of the British front, showing how the various locali-

In Glasgow so groat is the dissatisfac ties differ; but stronger and perhaps more interesting contrasts are presented by the tion with the administration of the Fund that the corporation has asked its This area to the north of us near the coast. country is of three different kinds. There is Finance Committre to report on the the district immediately north of Yyres; then advisability of opening a local relief fund. The grievancs relates to that the inundated region extending to

Nieuport; and, finally the belt of sand dunes close to branch of the work of the Fund which the sea. The first requires no description, has to do with relieving the needs of the for it presents the usual characteristics of the families of sailors and soldiers. Glasgow, low-lying districts of Flanders. North of it, it appears, has contributed ncarly

at a distance of sows eight miles from Ypres, the inundations commence. The flooded area varies in width, but is in general some 23 to three miles across, except in the neighbour hood of Disande, where the ground is Somewhat higher and the hostile lines approach one another closely. This town, as is well known, was the scene of terrible fighting in October, and at one time the Ger- mans succeeded in eflecting a passage over the Iser to the west of it, but were defeated and driven back into the river with great loss. The place itself is now held by them, but they are unable to debouch from it, since the river crossing is in the hands of the Belgians. South of it the Belgian line runs along the canalized portion of the river; to the north it follows the line of the railway to Nieuport.

£250,000 to the Fund, and has received only about £130,000 for the assistance of the dependents of the men it has sent to the Forces of the Crown.

Manchuria North China Central China South China

Total

1914

(in thousand yen)

445 Bio

.1,888 1,835

..1,333 9,203

10 25

..3,476- 4,372

Imports for the closing days of April-

Manchuria North China

Central China South China

Total

1915 1914 ..1,139 235

372 292 ..1,394

623 100 55.

The Executive Committee of the Fund

..3,014 1,125 admit that the Iccal administrative

Already, however, the market is visited machinery for the payment of allotments with alarm and disorder, if the reports and allowances is not yet working so received so far are to be relied upon. soothly as could be desired. They state, According to a Dairen despatch all the moreover, that this work was undertaken. Japantee residents in South Manchuria to relieve the unprecedented strain which have been ordered to leave their settle the war and the raising of the Newments in a given time, while the coasting Armies have imposed upon the Pay steamers in the China waters have been Department, and hope-before-long-that-warned against the dangers of tarrying the Fund will be entirely relieved of their ports too long, so that the market in charge.

When the story of the past few months is recalled, and the actual situation of the Belgian nation is borne in mind, the aspect FEELING AGAINST GERMANS shocked at the report of the culmination

of this part of the line is strangely impres sive. Here, in its catrenchments looking out over the country, once the richest soil in Flanders but now willingly surrendered to the sea, is the Belgian Army, still unvanquished after eight month of war. Behind it stretches only a narrow strip, some 10 miles in extent, of Belgian soil, left to defend, and even in that strip there are few villages or towns which have escaped the enemy's fire. Of the more important, Nieuport lies in rains- Latterly u shells have been mining

IN KOBE.

It appears British feeling against the Germans in Kobe is rather strong us a result of the recent barbarism of the Huns in sinking the Lusitania. A Kobe dis- patch to the Nichi Nicki prints a tele- gram stating that at the Kobo Cluba num- ber of British residents were discussing the disgraceful affair, when one well- known resident, in order to thơw his

it Furnes has been battered historie Ypres disgust, smashed a picture of the Kaiser

on bis yacht, which had been presented by a German member.

has been utially destroyal. As for the villages immediately in rear of the line, they are almost razed to the ground. War has added desolation and horror to the natural melancholy of the country side, which at all of the most dreary character. A 15 times dead, wind-swept flat, its only features are the villages, with their tall church steeples, and a few trees, chiefly willows, all bent and twisted by the prevailing winds from the

sea

A visitor approaching the Belgian trenckieg from the West passes through one battered village after another, and sees here and why sad as9610 2 there among the rains a few women and 4- children still clinging to what is left of their

homes.

One cannot bo surprised at the indigna ton arcuted among the British community. in Kobe against the Germans, for Brition residents do not forget how the Germans at their Club during the Boer war drank to the downfall of the Britain Empire, and ** rejoiced over the disasters which befell British arms during "Black Week." -Burprise has evon bien expressed in some quarters that any Club with a pre- of British and Allied ponderanor members should. in view of recent events, allow a single German to remain on the

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Dairen has become alarmed, and on the Exchange beans and silver have slumped. 70 sen and 40 sen respectively. In Osaka also the export cotton yarn market was of the crisis and yarn slumped on Tuesday between 2 yen and 3.00 yen, thus bringing.. down the figure again to the bottom in April-Japan Man

FORTHCOMING EVENTS.

TO-DAY Non-Peak Tramways Co., Ltd., Meeting of

Sharabolóera et the Hongkong Hotel. 2.30 p.m.Auction of Winos, &c., at Saler

Rooms, by Mesira. Hughes & Hough.

TO-MORROW

2.30 pm — Avetion of Very Valuable Howe

hold Farzitora at resideser, Windsor Hedge, Austin Road, Kowloon, by Messrs. Hagbes & Hough.

Thursday, 27thx M«y ---

12 30 -Tha 83" Ferry Co., Ltd, Ordinary Annual Meeting at the Officer of Meears, Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd.

2.30 p. Auction of Very Valuable House

hold Farmiters at residence, Windsor Lodge, Austin Road, Kowloon, by Menart.- Hughes & Hough.`

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