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NAVAL WAR IN SEVEN SEAS.

STRAY CORNERS WHERE THE. FLEET HELPS. CONQUEST OF GERMAN COLONIES,

[C. PREZADY,

DAILY EXPRESS" SAVAL CORRESPONDENT.]

When one reads of the Navy attacking to enemy a riverside town 150 miles om the open sea one suddenly realizes unt where there is water of any sort set Jower can get in its blow.

in for

The attack this week by Captain Nuna; K.N. and u email gunboat flotilla on the town of Amare, on the River Tigris, is one of those ininor operations of war which are full of picturesqueness for those

don't take who

them part

those and full of hardships why do. No eye-witness has accompanied this party, and unless one of the junior others has a taste for scribbling we may -never hear much of the operations; yet it is safe to wager that they are such an adventure se would drive boys and men wild with delight to read,

Captain Wilfrid Nunn is just the inan His command for such an undertaking.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, JULY 17TH, 1915.

hesitating tactics lost for the German HONGKONG SHARE MARKET.

Empire a total area as large as the xen-' tinent of Australis, and in exchange won the barren victory off Coronel over the ilf- armed ships i Christopher Cradock,

"Misuse of sur power is as bad as lack of it That is one of the lessons for us to: learn from the deeds both near and far

of our

Messrs. Vernon & Smyth in their weekly share report dated 18th July 1915, state

HUGE OPIUM HAUL.

CHARGES AGAINST A FRENCHMAN:

At the Magistracy, before Mr.-J.- The local market closes scmewhat R. Wood, Maurice Vidillies was charged quieter than in the ourlier part of the with being in possession of 6,250 tuels of week under review, but price generally

Sailor men who suil upon the senare well maintained with buyers propium, worth about $75,000. He was also To fight the wars and keep the law dominating for mest stocks. The London charged with importing the same. And live on yellow peas,""

market is quiet but firm, and with few Revenue Officer J. C. Wilden told thọ : sellers except at prohibitive rates.

WAR NEWS.

FOR GALLANTRY !

ORDER FÖR THE.' LUBITANIA "*"MITEDGREN,

The Copenhagen correspondent of the Daily Mail says that the Kaiser has con- ferred on the commander of submarine 21, Captain-Lieutenant Hersing, the order Pour le Mérite in recognition of his act." in torpedoing the gallant

Lusitania.

The lives of 1,198 civilians wore lust in tho. Lusitania.

AIR RAIDERS' HAVOC. AT:

KARLSRUHE.

GERMAN CALL FOR REPRISALS,

The Beutsche Tageszeitung, cornment-

Karlshe But in hergen the Allies' raid on

says:---

is only the little old sinop Espiègłe, which half the books of reference on the war di not think worth mentioning Captain Nunn co-operated with the Indian troops in the capture of Fan and of the Turkish entrenched camp at the Shat-of-Arab, and the helped in the capture of Qurnah, displaying great enol. ness in headling his ship ander five in the difficut conditions of unsurveyed

waters.

ALL OVER THE WOR

mans have done thus far, but on civilians.

INTIMATIONS

LANE

CRAWFORD & Co.

SOLE AGENTS FOR

Plantation Rubber was last quoted at Magistrate that when the M. M. liner Poly- £171/15/2 Bar Silver closes to-day, unesien entered the Harbour on Thursday SPALDING'S ATHLETIC

9 9-16d. for ready delivery and Sterling he boarded her, in company with Mr. FT at 1/9.1-16. Shanghai T.T. is quoted

:0:

GOODS.

EVERY REQUIREMENT FOR

They went to the defendant's at 78, and the Bank's buying rate for 3ds, Barns. bills on that port at 701.

cabin, and there saw four trunks, the keys BANKS.-Hongkong and Shanghais have of which the defendant handed to the again been booked at. 8815, and a further Revenue Officer. The trunks were opened i small lot is obtainable at this rate. It is notified that an intorim dividend of and were found to contain nothing but £2/2/- per share, subject to nicome-tax opium. They Tater went to the old, SPALDING'S will be payable cm and after the 16th where the defendant pointed out" two of August. The transfer books of the Corporation will be closed from the 2nd more boxes, which were also found to con- to the 14th August, both days inclusive.

tain opium. MARINE. INSURANCES. -Unions have fur- The defendant tendered the Magistratu ther improved their position, and can now a written statement, and the ease was be placed at 3015 after siden. Cantons

#re

wanted at $370, and Yangtszes adjourned for a short time to enable could probably be placed at $240 with correspondence, which the defendant said

GOLF.

"GOLD

MEDAL

¡CLUBS.

DRIVERS AND BRASSIES

Parca $5.50 Each.

IRONS

Purcel$4.75 EACH.

Ex. 73. North Chinas, are quiet at Tls. he had handed to the Revenue authorities, R. FORGAN'S CELEBRATED CLUBS.

150 with ne buyers at any reasonable rate in evidence.

MADE AT ST. ANDREW'S. : DRIVERS AND BRASSIES

„PRICE 84,00 EACH,

IRONS

PRICE: $4.00 EACH I

to be produced He said he had tele graphed that murning to Saigon.to have sent on to him his permit for the He also had a exportation of opium, permit issued by the authorities in Saigon

The corespondence was produced when TAYLOR'S AUTOGRAPH CLUBS.

FIRE INSURANCES-Chinas have been Germany's answer to this foul attack looked at $150 and cunting in request, must be ruthless reprisals not ile en Hongkongs have advanced to 395 and military cities and Pertresses as the Gerlose firm with further buyers,

SHIPPING-Douglasca are still in request The best place for such reprisals to be executed is in the West-end of Lonsin at 856 cash, and sales have been effected to export opium,

at this, and at 9561 for settlement! rather than Paris, which is fortified. Adalivory, also at $57 Augusts Indos have the hearing was resumed, and the de- air raid on the West end of London-wound a sharp rise to $118 cash, but closer These operations of ours at the head of make a most profund impression through somewhat easier with sellers at this rate fendant told the Court that the corres There are no sellers of this pondence now in its possession had been the Persian Gulf are but a sample of the at the whole world. In addition to that, after sades.

Star Ferra Mevara. Witherby have just pubsiderations-in-pursuance of her subgarine, cannot at present be given.

Who's warfare.

are wanted at 833, and Ching and on asked to deliver, this merchandise, lished a second edition of their

Manilas at 40 cents. Hongkong, Canton and he did what he was zekċd. Who in the Navy" with a special war These

and Macro Steamboats are again weaker supplement of services of officers.

with sellers at $20, and no buyers at the quite ignorant of the law in Hongkong, being a stranger, but the other man who moment over $18.

ALL MODELS.

PRICE $3.50 EACH.

Back done by the Navy all over the seven Germany must drop all humanitarian con stock in London, and a sterling quotation received by him from Mr. Birot. He had LADIES' AND LEFT-HANDED CLUBS.

SCAR,

"PILSENERS."

HOWFIZIŚ TRAT KILL ALL WITHIN 150

YARDS BANGK

curt two-lion biographies (for your true Navy an has no hankering for printed fame) cover a wonderul range of sea fighting. Tsingtau, Sargoa. Itobinson

Surgeon-Major Leaghintsoff, who has Cruson's Island, the Njong River Darrenched Warsaw from the battle line in es-Salaan. Sheik Soyd-all plaers, the Galicia, is quoted by the Exchange corres. quieter after sales at The improved rato | half of us could not have pointed out onpondent as saying that sereneighing the the map a year ago-have been the seche of fighting for which men have been men- tioned in despatches,

wounds were from shells; half of these were from big e libre shells, and the rest From field howitzers and field guns, including shrapnel shells.

REFINERIES.-Chino -Sugars have further improved but close on the quiet side with probable sellers at $127 Luzons are also of 914, at which there are probable sellers, Os-Shells in sympathy with au improvement in the London selling rate to 57/8 have advanced localls to a haying In times of peace we thougis a great

quotation 86/9, at which a fair volume of deal of the font of the Porns, which

Bullets," says this authority, played business has been transacted, also st 8773 went up the River Amazon 2,000 miles and no role. The rifle is the infantryman's, and as $7/9 for London delivery. Lang at the end of the trip was nearer the Paci- Loy. The infantryman does not fight,kats have not been dealt in locally, but fe than the Atlantic Ocean, deep, in the When the big guns have finished the fight lose with buyers in the North at T. 39, heart of a continent. In times of war aing he occupies the trenches which they

MINING-Tronohs have been done at slop penetrates 150 miles up a river in have won' hostile country, in the face of opposition.

32/- ex dividend, and Raubs at 8. but and we consider it worth passing mention

otherwise no business of inportance has transpired in this section, and quciations in an official communiqué

given are more or less nominal.

Their

The effect of the Skoda 12-cm. guns, known as the Pilseners," is worse than the effect of the Krupp Thick Berthas, Tu much the same way we at home have The Skoda shells weigh 2,800lb

DOCKS, WHARVES AND GODOWxs. Heng- paid very little attention to the remark=normal-trajectory is seven kilometres ably efficient way in which the Australian high, and in soft greand they penetrate Keng and Whampoa Docks after apparent Navy and the Australasian Expedition-twenty feet before exploding. The exple strength at $74 to $75 have net maintained

centrs two seconds after impact. their position, a few shares offering ary Force awept all the German Face The Pilseners are howitzers, and except safe having brought the rate down rapidly cul nies into the net of the British Empirin diameter do not resemble the Krupp to a selling quotation of $70, with sales. and buyers at $89, and sales to a small A " Pilsener expedition as correspondent for the Syd within one hundred and fifty yards, and toon Wharves have been bocked at 870, ney Herald, has just published a brief popular account of the work done, which kills many who are further off. The mere and can still be placed at this rates

sign

within a few weeks of the outbreak of war.mortars, 42-01.,, ghell kills every one extent also at $70. Hongkong and Kow

Mr. F. S. Burnell, who accompanied the

He was

STOCKED IN ALL MODELS,

CLOCK GOLF had naked him to deliver the merchandise GOLF BALLS, CADDY BAGS,

GOLF PAINT. TEES. CAPTIVE GOLF, ETC. was well acquainted with the local law. He had three children in Saigon who bad ubody to look after then, and he accord- ingly hoped that the Magistrate would deal with the case as such as possible. He JUST ARRIVED: also asked for "provizional liberty.".

The Magistrate having pointed out the heaviness of the penalty to which the defendant was liable, adjourned the case | until Monday, at 2.15, and said he was prepared to hear the French Consul i regard to the question of bail.

HONGKONG BANKRUPTCY

COURT.

·A PRIVATE GENTLEMAN.

Re Ng Ping Sam. This was an appli cation for adjudication.

The Official Receiver said that the debtor was a private gentleman" who

If

serve to throw a great deal of light on that pressure of gas breaks in the partitionsLANDS, HOTELS AND BUILDINGS.-Hong had not been trading. The first meeting!

very remarkable undertaking.

RAW RECRUITS.

He tells us, for example, that a heavy sprinkling of the force consisted of men who had served in South Africa cr China. but the majority were the rawest of re- orails, and for a time the hapless officers were almost distracted by the multiplicity of the tasks that devolved on them," All the same, a part of that force six weeks later, in thick bush country in tropical heat, was so skilled in its work that when the dense vegetation made it impossible for the scouts to keep ahead of the column, they improvised a system of scouting by which the first scouts were followed by others, and each party as the main hody passed it fell in at the rear.

Sniping was persistent and when sud- denly a fusillade caught the band every man, without waiting for orders, sprang into the cover of the jungle, and only one man was killed.

and roofs of bomb-proof shelters. Scores.

gus.

of men who escape metal fragments, kong Lands after sales at 8110 have im stones, and showers of earth are led proved to 8112 with buyers. Humphreys lacerated, or binded by the pressure of Estates have been booked at $6.10, 86.15, Men who are only a short distance and $6.20 and close in further request ai the latter rate. Kowloon Lands are away are torn asunder.

wanted at $40 and West Points at $71, but again there is no business to report. Central Estates are quiet but steady t $100, and Hongkong Hotels firm with buyers at $110.

had been held, but nd resolution was prised.

The application was granted

"REY REVOKED. The gas gets into the body cavities and

Re the Sun Wo Firm This was an expands, tearing the flesh asunder. Some times only the oloties are stripped off,

The Official Receiver said that at having intact the boots; of men alove by

application for adjudication. The clothes

duy there was not a fragment romains.

COTTON MILLS-Hongkongs have been the last bankruptcy disappear, and only small metal artioles are found. If the shell is very near the bocked at 87 and are wanted. In the explosion melie rifle barrels as if they were North, most Cotton stocks are in strong an adjudication and three trustees were struck by lightning. Men who disappear request at improving prices, the closing appointed. Since then these three gentle- men bad, for various reasons, declined in such explosions are often reported ea quotations being as follows:--Evros T2

dict. Before applying for their missing, as there is no proof of their 176, Kung Fiks Tis. 141, Laou Kung

Mowe Tls. 87, Internationals Tis. 91, to death.

Shanghai Cottons Tls. 96, and Boy Chees appointment he (the Official Receiver)

obtained the consent of the three gentle Tls. 44, all buyers.

been MISCELLANEOUS.-Cements have

men, and it was only after his lordship sold at 88.60 and $6.85, and clo ie

made the appointment that they notified Dairy Farns are request at $8.80, wanted at $34, after sales, Ices at $183.him through their solicitor that they Ropes at 820, 8icam Laundries at 83.15 have been booked at 8411 and 942, and are still in request at the former rate. Hongkong Trams are obtainable at 25. and Watsons at $6)

CONSTANTINOPLE'S FEARS.

NO COAL FOR FLEET OR TRAINS. According to private information which reached Sofia last month from Constan- "Again, troops were on board the trans-tinople a feeling of depression prevails port Berrima at Rabaul one Sunday when in the city, especially since the adhesion and Union Water Boats at 817. Electrice Preferred not to act in that case,

of Italy 10 the Entente, and Turkish families continue to emigrate to Asia. The general uncasitices and alarin have been greatly increased. by the appearance of British submarines in the Sea of Marmara.

A urgent message was received from Cob mander Beresford, R.N.. at Herbert hoebe. that reinforcements were needed immediately. The boats were in the water in four minutes, and in twenty-six minutes two companies of infantry were re-embarked in the cruiser Encounter and on their way to the spot.

MEMOR-Next Settling Day, July 28th, Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Prolonged military councils were held Co., Ltd., interim dividend of 31 per to devise measures of defence against this share. payable 29th instant. West Print new danger, and a number of destroyers Building Co., Ltd., interim dividend of were told off to go in pursuit of the sub-$2 per share, payable 29th inst

Should their attacks be roGEW- marines.

od is has been decided to sink several old ships in the narrowest part of the Dardanelles, and thus obstruct their HONGKONG TENNIS LEAGUE, passage.

KOWLOON B. . CHINESE

RECREATION CLUB

His lordship-They revoked then? The application was granted, and the Official Receiver appointed trustee.

A VALUABLE TENANT.

He Man Wo Lung. This was an cation for the hearing of petition.

NEW CONSIGNMENT OF SPALDING'S G. M. TENNIS RACKETS.

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.

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SWEET SLEEP.

The restorer of strength, the renewer of appli-life, the rich reward of weary humanity

IS IT YOURS I

Mr. Otto Kong Sing, who appeared for Mr. Goldring, said that the liabilities were put down at 821,000 or there-

The asseta were said abouts.

to

Or do you turn and toss through wake- ful hours, rising unrested and unfit for the duties of another day?

LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM rubbed into the throbbing temples, the burning! forehead, brings sure relief to the nerves

And soon SLEEP comes quietly, stend be 818,000; $8,000 represented stock-in-soothes and calmas-encourages repose, trade, and $10,000 represented book debts.

ing upon you and wraps you in its restful The Official Receiver said that an embrace.

Sold at is. 4d, per bottle.

The spirit of the Navy in all these various undertakings is well instanced by the story which Mr. Burnell tells of Lieu Bond, R.N., one of the company officers of He and Lieutenant the expedition. Travers were in command of a scouting Force, which had great difficultice and

The almost total lack of coal causes langers to face, yet he strolled along the road as though we were out for a pic serious misgivings in the city. All coal uic. talking about the variow plants wein the private stores of industrial

This match, postponed from Saturday, July-examination of the contents of the debtor's were passing at the side of the road.

establishments has been requisitioned, and 3rd, was played on Thursday on the K.C. C. shop showed that the most valuable "He's an enthusiastic botanist, and all these factories have stopped work

Within a few days the running of trains round, and was won by the Chinese Recrea- medicines bad already been removed, and

tion Club by one game. Soures :-

what remained in the shop he did not there he was discoursing on lepidoptera

Tho and such with the imminent risk at every on the Anatolian-railways will come-to-an

think would meet the liabilities. For the same moment of being picked off by some aigend owing to lack of fuel.

managing partner had left the Colony- ger up a tree."

reason, as well as through fear of British submarine attacks, the operations of the Jeffries & Lindsella. Un Hew Fan and

Li Ching Fang... 7-4 that was the act of bankruptcy-there The support given to the expedition Turkish Fleet are now much restricted.

Do 1. Ng Sze Yuen and was no accountant capable of making ou

Lo Man Pan 3-8 The Australian Navy was invaluable, as The Syrian troops which recently arrived

a statement of affairs, there was no pos Mr. Burnel shows, A book on the work in Constantinople were sent on foot to

*. Wong Po Kie und of the squadron under Vice-Admiral Gallipoli, the train service over the Ars

Choa Po Min.... 38sible means, if an order were made, of Patey would, perhaps, carry the story anople line being much reduced. The Taylor & Chunyat . Un Hey Fan and

recovering the debts, due to the firm, and Li Ching

Fang... -3 further, for we have no record in these principal cause of the trouble is the de

five months' rent due amount. there were Ng Sze Yuen and pages of the work of the light cruiser struction of the collieries at Zunguldag by

The landlord had been Lo Man Pan sing to over $900. Melbourne, which steamed 11,700 miles 1. the Russian Fleet,

to see him, and he said that if ha distrained now he did not expect the contents of the shop to satisfy his de-

·LESSONS LEARNED.

six weeks at the beginning of the war. Four German submarines, one large searching out the enemy squadrons in the and three small, are stated to be now at

KOWLOON B.

Do.

Do.

Do..

CHINESE RECREATION. Games,

*. Wong Po Kie and.

Chos Po Min..... 6-8 Li Ching Fang... 9-2

Pacific, and so showed the way to be clear Constantinople. The former is believed Stevens & Stalker . Un Hew Fan and for the advance across the seas of the to have arrived vi Gibraltar, and the Expeditionary Force

New

Intter to have been transported overland

We at home may not have paid much in small sections. These vessela, it is attention to all these far-off doings, but stated, are intended for operations in the the lesson has been well learned in the Black Sea. British Dominions in the Pacific. Zealand. British Columbia, and Australia bave all learned that the Bexibility of sea power, its ability to move rapidly across the face of the waters and to strike when

The Petit Journal, of Paris. publishes

a letter found on a German prisoner, which says:-"My dear Albert. I hope you will soon be in England, and as there

Do.

Do.

e. Ng Szo Yuen aud

Lo Man Pan. 5-8 2. Wong Po ki and

Choa Po Min.... 3-8

49-50

In one street in the Longhill district of

mands.

It was subsequently decided to postpoze the case in order to allow the petitioning creditor the opportunity of verifying the statements of the landlord

In many small German cities the entire They wear ordinary dreas, with blue caps and brassards.

and where it will, are essential to tes much gold in that country, I would like. The German squadron in the Far East by MARIETTE.

continued existence of world-wide empire you to send me a pair of gold earrings West Hartlepool there are sixty-six houses. I postal service is run by women,

from which no fewer than seventy men have enlisted.

Agente for Hongkong:- Messrs. A. S. WATSON & Co., LTD.

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