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Hongkong and the War.

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Shanghai Men and this War.

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The Wost River Flood:

Ostracising the German.

"Sanitary Neglect.'!

Tho Appalling Disaster.

West River in Flood-

Unprecedented Calamity at Canton,

Distressing Suicide at Sen.

Random Reflections.

Peking Notes.

Swatow Notes.

Macac Notes.

Conference of Japanese Chambers of Com

marce.

Planters in Conferoncé..

Hongkong Mon at Gallipoli.

Bathing Fatality at North Point

The Colony's Finances.

Inspection of Police Resprvos

Hongkong's Water, Supply.

Sanitary Board.

Correspondenco:---

Bormans and Austrians in

Customs Service.

The Imperial Arts of Germany,

Bank Note Circulation.

Burglaries at Kowloon.

Hongkong Chamber of Cotamerte,

Raising the Wind" in Chiuz.

Germans in Chino.

Trading with the Enemy.

Prince of Wales' Fund.

Cigarette and Tobacco Fund.

Local Sport.

Company Reports: --

Hongkong and Shanghai Bauk Nederlandsch Indische Bank. Shanghai Waterworks Co., Ltd.

Chinco

Shanghai Dock & Engineering Co., Ltd, Hongkong Tramway Co.

Chinese Aviator to Fly at Shatin.

Conditions at Tsingtau.

German Properly at Tsingtao.

Proposed Restoration of Prefecture System.

The Importance of Antung.

China Association's School of Chinese.

Trial by Ordeal in Yunnan.

Passengers to Singapore.

Shipping Notes.

The Priest as Soldier.

Telegrams.

Enemy firms in Hongkong,

Hongkong and the Water Carrings System.

The Law Courts.

Hongkong Legislative Council.

Passenger Lists.

Commercial

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WAR NEWS.

APUSH AND CO” HUSTLE."

HOW THE RESPIRATORS, WERE BUPPLIED TO. OUR TROOPE IN THREE DAYS.

CHAOS IN AUSTRIA,

DISCONTENT AND SEDITION AMONG PEOPLE AND TROOPS.

GAOLS OVERFLOWING.

in the catalogue of things done wall"

Frem reports which have reached Roms on the British side of the war, the supply from various centres, ays the Rome onx- of respirators to the whole Army at the respondent of the Daily Graphic, it ja now front at lightning speed must be included. certain that Austria-Hungary is threaten- Hitherto It will be remembered that when the Ger-ed by serious internal troubles. mans aprang their surprise on our troops it has not been possible to send Blav regi- as Ypres the War Office issued appeal merts against Russia or Croatian troos for respirators, and thres or four

against Serbia. inter it announced that sufficient had been of Italy the Italian speaking troops from obtained. The Draper? Record tolls bow the achievement was due mainly to the enterprise of one gentleman of "push and go

With the intervention

the Trentino, Trieste, Istrie and Dalmatia are an additional source of anxiety to the Vienna Government. They cannot, of course, be used against Italians, and have had to be sent to the Russian or Serbisa frontiers and removed from the districts in which their knowledge of the topography would,

under ordinary circumstances, have been worth its weight in gold.

"The War Office at first sont out an inquiry to a number of the big old-estab lished concerns ja Nottingham as to when delivery of a very large quantity of plain net, dyed fast black, could be guaranteed, and in nearly every case the reply was ton to twelve days. The gentleman of push and go, who must be nameless, pro mised the War Office to see the business through in less than half the time, and bo was given a free band. His first call was How on a big net firm in the south. much plain not have you in the place?opulation, which, almost to a man, sym

he may be victorionts, he asked. The stock was a large one, and pathise with the invader and hope that

They are replaced by Poles, Czecha, Rumanians, Hungarians, or Cormons, who do not speak the language of the con try in which they operate, and who meet with scarooly veiled hostility from the

A similar state of things prevails in

ho bought it all. Next he visited bough | Galicia and on the Serbia frontier. As a

ham. In less than a day he had

result, the only troops available for ser

up all available stocks at a fair market price; interviewed the dyers; pointed out that it was immaterial what kind of a vice at any point are the German-Aus- black was obtained, so long as it was a trians and the Hungarians. This has im fast black, and insisted on the Garorn.posed an effort on those two States of the ment orter taking precedence.

Empire out of all proportion to their numerical contribution. As a consequence Hungary is sething with discontent, and though Count Tisza and other Hungarian statesmen who are primarily responsible for the war are trying to bluff the situation is daily becoming more serious.

SEDITION RAMPANT.

"Ordinarily it takes three days to dye black, but the bleaching precess, which is arat necessary when a perfect black is desired, was dispensed with, and the same day a very large quantity was despatched by passenger train to London. This was Friday Saturday was devoted to organ- ising the manufacture of the respirators,

Conn Apponyi stated the case to the and the energetic gentleman responsible for this record hustle was horrified to Emperor Franz Josef with brutal frank- learn on reaching Nottingham at 8.30 on ness, and he has behind him the whole, Monday morning that the dyers had taken formidable weight of the Hungarian But if discontent is rife in their half-holiday on Saturday as usual. Opposition. It is immaterial exactly what was said Hungary and Austria, sodition pure and to them, but the effect was electrical. In simple is rampant throughout the rest of an incredibly short time thirty pieces were the Empire: In Bobemiu, Poland, the on their way to London, having been Trentino, Istria, Dosnia, Herzegovine and dyed, dried, and despatched within a few Croatia à reign of terror prevails. The gaols are full to overflowing with suspects,

Layers.

Evan the railway companive wore hustled, all the goods being despatched newspapers are suppressed, and an army per passenger train. The oost of carriage of secret police keeps watch on the words alone amounted to several hundreds of and actions of the people. No one dare pounds. The Drapers Record remarks open his mouth in public, and still less put that the incident illustrates what oan bo his thoughts in writing. achieved by a man who knows his business and who knows not only how to hustle himself, but to hustle those on whom the success of his operation depends,

HIGHLANDERS' CHARGE,

PIPER'S HEROISM AT FESTUBERT. As an instance of how deeds of beavory by the Allied troops have become so com- mon as to pass very nearly unnoticed, a wounded private of the Black Watch tolle! casually a story which is own brother bo one that, early twenty years ago, sont a thrill through the British Empire.

The intervention of Italy has still fur- ther added to the embarrassments of the Minister of War, and he is now at his wits end to find regiments on whom he can depend to face the Russians, Serbians, and Italians. If Rumania.should intor vene in the world-wae his cup of affliction will be full, as he will have 150,000 Aus- brian-Rumanione whose fidelity to the

on than doubtful

to whom it will be extremely difheult liss on any of the four fronts that the Dual Monarchy will then have to face.

REIGN OF TERNOR,

shape

Any further altempt to make the Aus trian Germans and the Hungarians play During a recent charge by Highlandore, the role of "maids of all work" for the in the neighbourhood of Festubert, the Empire may have disastrous results. The pipers went into action with the company tremendous slaughter of Austrians and in order to inspire the men. One of them, Hangarians are bad enough on paper en on this occasion, emulated the action of

families in the individual Piper Findlater, the hero of the great masse, but when they come home to the

B father, * SOD, charge by the Gordons at Dargai.

He fell wounded early in the charge, of

never brother, gune and the private who tells the story sw him propped against a tree trink with the national patience reaches breaking strain. A country which las te move blood streaming down his foot, but con- tinuing to play the men into action. Es scores of regiments thousands of mile to did not see him again, and believes that this nameless horo was killed.

THE SNIPERI..

A period of comparative quiet on the British front has again brought the sniper into some prominence, and our fellows havo demonstrated that in this kind of work they can give the Germans as good as they get

I heard a characteristic story to-day. Some Lancers were in a rather bot corner, and two of my informant's chums wero shot through the head. I continge in his own words:

That got my back up, and so I voted to go out. I slipped into a Johnson hole about fifty yards from the German trenches, and got a couple of Germans, Then an officer, with a red band round his hat, looked over the trench, and 1 saiped him. But that was the last had a chance at. Two of their snipers

me, and had got a "dekko"! couldn't raise my head an inch after that. Even when I kept down they

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prevent them deserting to the enemy and which has to keep up a reign of terror ta muzzle the civil population has almost reached the limits of its powers of resistance.

That, according to reports which have reached Rome in the last few days, is the position to which Austria-Hungary is rapidly moving.

WEATHER REPORT.

On the 16th at 11.50 a.m. - Increases of pressure are general througloat the area. especially over Japan. The sat cyclone has again increased in intonaity and wea and now extends from the Chine Ceast to the N.E. of Jorun. Pressure remains relatively low over the central portion of the China Sex

Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours sading at 10 am to-day, 060 inches.

The forecast for the 24 hours ending si 'nær.

went on firing over the hole. Still, I'd to-day in ne follows had a good day.

I asked him what he did until darkness

71.2

enabled him to get back.

"Oh," he answered, "I had a book. It

DISTRICT.

was a nice warm day, and I just layou Bengkong & Neighbourhood squally; cloudy, my back and read."

PORTUGUESE EX-MINISTERS.

DEPORTED. ·

General Pimenta de Castro, late Prime Minister and the ex-Minister of War; Senhor Goulart do Medeiro, ex-Minister of Education: Admiral Xavier de Brito, ex-Mister of Marine; and Senhor Machado dos Santos, lender of the Re- formist Party and supporter of the late Ministry, were removed to the craiser inco Outubro, which left last month for the Azores.

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South coast of Chins between The same as

No. 1. Hongkong and Lamocks, Fouth coast of China betwien (The same

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No. 1.

CHURCH SERVICES.

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CATHEDRAL, Hongkong. 7th Sunday after Trinity, 18th July, 1915. Holy Communion (8.01 m.) Blatins (11 am) Respontes, Ferial; Venito, Tucker; Psalms, Te Deum, araby, Banb, Felton and Barryi Oakley in F; Jabinte. Onsely in G, Holy Communion (2 noon). Hymns 217 and 321, N.B-Psalm 90, verses 1, 2, 9, 10 and 17 in unison;

Paal 91. sorses 1. 7, 11 and 16 in unison; Farina 92, verres 1, 2, 5, 9 and 10 in Entong (5.45 pm), Hesponses,

and Tront back Ferial; Psalms, Stainer Magnificat, Lemon (25th mo ning); Nunc Dimirtis, King (25th morning); Hymns 175, 267. and 29.

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