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NOTES BY A NEUTRAL.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 216T, 1915,

THE SLOW BRITISH AWAKENING. make cotton contraband. There is pro

IMPORTANCE OF COTTON.

PHASES OF FEAR.

Buzz By sad gad By, dragon dy and blue, When you're in the trenches, come and

visit you

Now and then a dispatch appears in the Swedish newspapers saying that the

OF ONE British Government is at laat about to

** SOME

"ARE AFRAID the THING, AND SOME ARE AFRAID- digious excitement and activity on

OF ANOTHER." part of the Germans, but nothing hap pens, and things go on in their old sweet way. There are many ways of get ting cotton out of Sweden into Germany over which the Swedish Government has NEED FOR STRICTER BLOCKADE.

no control. The simplest plan is for a The following fragments, which insu gurate a series of articles of unsual in-cargo of cotton to be shipped from one terest, are from the pen of a neutral Swedish port to another from Gothen- writer whose sympathics are strongly barg or some other Swedish Baltic port capture it, which they do in every case. with the Allies. He has had what is proband by prearranged plan the Germans

a unique experience in the war pre and in travelling to rural counremitting the money promptly. tries. During the last 12 months ho has visited Belgium, Germany, France, Hol land, Italy, Greeee, Austria and Hun gary, Russie Sweden, Norway, Rumania, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Great Britain and some of these countries more than

onec.

L.

BYMPATHIES OF THE SWEDES, As to the Swedes, it is hardly natural Quite that they should be pro-Ally. apart from their old fear of the Russian Bent, the Swedes have boen inundated propagando-more with German war

heavily even than the unfortunate Ame- ricans. For many reasons the Swedish Army has strong sympathies with the It was a dark England which I German Army. With the exception of cane last week. The scene at the quays the fact that the Swedish fatigue cap is of the northern seaport to which the picturesque hat of Charles XII. and strangely varied company of travellers that there is no goose-step, it would returned resembled the dock scene in be difficult for a non-military observer to detect any difference between the two Sherlock Holmes. This is even mora than Gorman thoroughness," remarked armies. Gorman plays, German books, follow-passenger as we came slowly to the German ways of thought, and the teach- blackness of the landing place. We had ing of the German language have saturat beon hailed an hour before by a houred the Swedish mind with Pan-Ger shout from a boat through a megaphone,manism, "Send all your passengers below!"! And so the sparse little company wero ordered into the dining saloon. from the portholes of which, however, we could have see anything we wished had there

"You see,

" remark

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Swede, 2 have the same Kultur." I made a deli cate reference to Lord Bryce's report on Belgian atrocities. The Swede had never heard of it. The Swedes as a rule do not accept any story of German mis deeds, and firmly believe that anything unpleasant that may have happened in Belgium was due to the firing on Gorman troops by civilian Belgians.

most

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It is fortunate for the Allies that the influence of the strong pro German party in Sweden: is balanced by the fact that Swedish Socialists are in hostile to Germany and in all cases strongly in favour of non-intervention. It is believed that the Swedish Foreign Minister has strongly exerted his in- fluence against the war party.

They revel in your butter dish and riot in

your ham.

Drill upon the army cheese and loot the

army kam.

They're with you in the dusk and the

dawning and the noon, They come in case formation, in column

and platoon.

There's never zest like Tommy's zest when

these have got to die, For Tommy takes his puttees off and swats

the blooming fly.

"Some are afraid of one thing and some are afraid of another," said Stoner, perch- ing himself on the banquette and looking For myself, I don't like shells, especially through the periscope at the enemy's lines. when in the open, even if they are burst- ing hali a mile away

Is that what you fear most!" I askoil. "No, the rife bullet is the thing I dread; the saucy little beggar is always o? the go."

"What do you fear most, Goliath ?!''

Bombs," said the giant, "especially asked the massive soldier, who was clean ing his bayonet with a strip of emery cloth. It lay on the the one I met in the trench when I was I hardly knew what going round the traverse. floor in front of me, it was at first, but a kind of instinet toll had just flung it into the trench, and ther me to stand and gam at it. The German it lay, the bounder, making up its mind to It was looking at me, I could see its eyes,"

"Git out," said Bill, who was one of the party.

been anything to see. We wero men and women gathered from all corners of the warth: an Englishman who had comu through Siberia from the Far East. odd American or so on his way back to the United States to try to explain the French ladies

explode. Some cotton mystery, returning from Russia to go back to stricken France, a Scot who occupied the curious position of being a naturalized

"Of course, you couldn't see the thing's Swede. Some were uncommunicative, but did not conceal their gladness at

eyes," said Goliath, "you lack imagine tion. But I saw its eyes, and the left uns I almost turned to nearing land and being out of reach of

was winking at me. the submarines, though, inasmuch as our

With respect, I would venture to think | jelly with fear, and Lord knows how I got ship was a neutral one, with her name in

It was electrical latters 12ft, high, any young that some reply to the German propa back round the corner. I did, however, I often hear it in my manipulator of a U boat could only have gauda should be made by Great Britain and then the bombs went bang!

some bang that. settled her career deliberately and malici. and that some step should be taken to increase and accelerate the supply of Dusly.

We'll never bear the end of that--- news from the British side in Sweden. sleep yet,' Coming to and going from Albion in the old days was casinoes itself. To-day The Swedish Liberal newspapers are exbomb," said Bill.

"For my own part, I am more - afraid not even the Germans can excel in the tremely fair, despite the great preva

of" rigidity of the regulations you have lence of German sentiment, but German

What?" properly imposed on incoming travellers,ewspapers with their lies reach Sweden

"the sergeant-major than anythink and the very minute manner in which on the day following publication, and it is nearly a week before The Times arrives they are carried out.

from London with a good deal of the in this world or in the next,' British and French armies, and the Bri- truth, but not nearly enough about the tish Navy.

THE FALL OF WARSAW,

and demo 1 friend who met me at We had been for two days at sea and the quay had a local ovening paper-with him. On seeing it a Russian lady asked "It me in French for news of Warsaw. has fallen, Madame," I replied gently, after glancing at the paper by the light of a porter's lantern. The poor creature gasped and awooned, and but for the kindly arms of an official would have fallen to the ground.

HYPNOTISH AND FACTS.

;

He put a finger and thumb into my cigarette case, drew out a fag, and lit it of He blew a puff the stump of his old one. of singke into the air, stuck his thumbs behind his cartridge pouches, and fixed a Jock of pity on Pryor..

"What are the few more things that you do not mention, Bill?" I asked.

"Few! Blimey, I should say millions There's the stink of the dead men, as well as the stink of the cheese, there's the dug outs with the rain comin' in, and the muck fallin' into yer tea, the vermin, the bloke's snorin' as won't let yer go to sleep, the fatiguos that come when yer goin' to 'ave a snooze, the rations late arrivin', and 'alf poisonin yer when they come, the sweepin' and brushin' of the trenches, work for a housemaid and not a soldier, and the--"?.

Bill paused, sweating at overy pore. "Strike me ginger, barmy and stony," Bill concluded, if it wasn't for theso low things, the life in the trenches would be One of the cushiest in the world."--PATRICK MACGs in Daily Chronicle.

MODEST ASPIRATIONS OF

GERMANY.

HOW THE PROFESSORS WOULD

DIVIDE THE WORLD.

The Berner Tugwacht publishes the following from Berlin: The Agrarians have gathered disciples among a group of professors and intellectuale, who have and Industrials who in June drew up violent profession of annexationist faith

lowing - elaborated a manifesto signed by the fol-

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WE MUST HAVE EGYPT." "We need liberty of the seas, which was the real cause of war between Eng- land and Germany. To obtain it wer must have Egypt, the connecting link between British Africa and British Asin, Egypt, which, with Australia, makes the Indian Ocean an English gen, which joins up all the British Colonies with the Mother Country, which, as Bismarck "That is where England must be sha- ken. The Suez Canal route will then be free and Turkey will regain her ancient said, is the neck of the British Empire.

universal Press: we must take this mono. right. But England also invades the Meinck, Professor of History, Berlin; poly away. Our best arm against Eng- leaders of Europe, we shall bring to the Oucken, Professor of History, Heidellish permeation is the liberty which, as

"whole world-------- berg; Kirdorf, Director-General of Mines. Gelsenkirchen; Schumacher, Professor of Political Economy; Reichenati, Imperial Minister (); yun Schwerin, President of Frankfurt; the Municipal Council of Seeberg, Professor of Theology, Berlin Schaefer, Professor of History, Berlin. The manifesto declares that Germany, rous people, never thought of expanding notwithstanding the might of her mume her European frontiers and kept the peace up to the extreme limits of the the peaceably pursued her trade on national interest and honour. Germany world's market by the side of other peoples, but her enemies formed the plan of destroying her.

THE ONE FEAR. The Germans rose

ensure the culture of Germany and Europa against bur barians in the East and against envy and The manifesto says:- Covetousness of the peoples of the West.

We do not demand the domination of the world, but the possibility to extend our culture and our industrial and com- tercial power throughout the whole world.",

TO FINISH FRANCE.

INDEMNITIES.

"With regard to war indemnities, we shall demand an indemnity which; ns much as possible, shall cover war expen- diture, the repair of damage, and j sions for disabled men, widows, and been examined by the Government accord orphans. We know that the question has ing to the financial capacities of our enemies.

From England, which has been so niggardly in men, we can never demand enough money, because England raised the world against us with gold. It is our duty to crush the insatiable cupidity of this nation. However, we shall prob ably have to apply for a war indemnity to France in the first place, if not - clusively.

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SHIPPING IN PORT,

STEAMERS.

ARTEMIS, Dutch str., 2,311, F. Baedeker, September 15th-Balik Papan Sop tember 7th, General-Asiatic Petro leum Co. 10th September-Kinhor Bay, Salt-- CHEIAN MARU, Japanese str., 1,784, Maka,

Order.

CEEKIANG, British str., 1,312, P. H. Cowan,

18th September-Java 9th September, Sugar-Butterfield & Swire. Liddell, September 16th-Wolhaiwei September 11th, General,-Jardine, Matheson & Co. CHEONGERING, British str., 1,259, D. Mc-

CHIBLI, British str., 1,800, Lloyd, Sep- tember 15th-Swatow September 14th,. General Butterfield & Swire.

British CHIPSHING,

SLT., 1,199, H. Walker, 10th September-Weihaiwei 15th September, General-Jardine. Matheson & Co.. CHOFU MARU, Japanese str., 1,953, 0. Orii, 8th September-Honguy 8th September, Cool-Jardine, Matheson Oo, CHOYZANG, British str., 1,424, Holmswood, 18th September-Shanghai 11th. Sep- tember, General-Jardine, Matheson & Co.

Solveren, 16th September-Hongay DAGFIN, Norwegian str., 897, A. L.

15th September, Coal and Pigs, Order.

DERWENT, British str., 1,560, Midgely, 16th September-Baigon 11th Septem- ber, Rice and General.-Order.

The manifesto concludes with this say-EIGER, Norwegian str., 875, M. Elaissen, ing of Bismarck:-

"Whenever, in any sphere of politics

identical." or elsewhere, one thinks one has touched

canse to effect, but are an obstacle with one's finger, courage and

Reuter. victory no longer stand in the relation of

THIN NOW..

ADVICE FOR THIN, UNDEVELOPED MEN AND WOMEN.

17th September Newchwang 11th September, Beans.-Thoresen & Co. 19th September Coast Ports 18th September, General-Douglas Lap raik & Co HAITAN, British str., 1,183, J. W. Evans,

HONGWAN L., British str., 2,060 G. King- horn, 13th September-Straits 7th September, General Order.

September-Kwangchow. Wan 10th Sep- teather, General-A. R. Marty, ITOLA, British str, 3,402, R. & B. Butler, 17th September Colombo 4th Sept. General David Sassoon & Co KASHING, British str., 1,193, G. Byers,

September 11th Manila Soptember 8th, General.-Butterfield & Swite.

KELIO MARU, Japanese str. 1,116, D. Imaid-

We wish to strengthen ourselves I've been thrilled with fear three times against new enemies. We wish our coun- sines 1 cant out cre," I said; "fear that try to become so great and strong that made me sick and cold. I've got the heal it will no longer be neccesary for us to One does not expect that ony English thy men's dislike of death; I have no par- leave it in order to assure our existence, newspaper would have marked effect upon ticular desire to be struck by shell or bul That is the hope of the people which has ness an unstable peace may be agreed to, any German, yet it is true that the Ger- lot, and up to now I've only had a mod-only one fear, namely, that through weak. more or less afraid of them; but they don't that the pen of the diplomatist may de But once, it was stroy what our arms have won, and that mans who have mingled with the Amding acquaintance with either. ricans in, Stockholm return to Germany with slightly less of the amazing confi strike terror into me. dence in victory with which they arrived. when we were it the trenches at X., I was an opportavity may be lost which may SAYS NO ONE NEED REMAIN HUE, French str. 929, A. Coruclinsen, 17th

morning. The night was cold; there was "Your people seem to be hypnotized," sentry on the parapet about one in the never recur.

& breeze crooning over the meadows he

PHYSICIAN'S I said to a German who was propound- Since I have moved about in England

Thousands of people suffer from exces- these few days and talked and read, I

Yes." he said,. have been constantly surprised to finding the now dominant plan of anexa tween the lines, and the air was full of the how little English people, understand tione and indemnities,

"we are hypnotized by facts and by flags sharp, penetrating odour of aromatic herbs,

With regard to France, the manifesto sive thinness, weak nerves and fooble Hesh-makers, food-fads, physical culture what the loss of Warsaw means to the Russians. The brave and confident one pointing to the beflagged hotel map), I felt tired, and was half asleep as I képt

once and for all by improving" the

stunts and rab-on creams, resign them- of the newspaper articles telegraphed We need every inch of territory we have a look-out on the front where, as you know, back and forth between Petrograd and conquered. Wo shall not give up the the dead are lying in the grass. Suddenly. London hide the anguish felt by all Itus oilfields of Galicia, the coalmines of Bel away on the right I heard a yell-ai piers declares that she must be finished with stomachs who having tried advertised case is not hopeless. A recently discover sians in the loss of the Tear's third great. gium, nor the iron of Longwy. That ising, agonising scream-something uncanny whole frontier from Belfort to the coast, selves to lifelong skinpiness and think est city. Indeed, the whole feelings of not hypnotism, but realization of facts and terrible. A devil from the pit below get and by conquering the part of the French England, if I may judge by what I read It is the English who are being hyp-ting torn to pieces could not utter such coast along the Channel, in order that nothing will make them fat. Yet their unequalled for repairing the waste of nd by the remarks of friends and rail-notized. They are told that the Russians weird cry. It thrilled me through and Germany may thus fortify herself against ed regenerative force makes fat grow KWANGTAH,

are merely falling back as in 1912; that through, I never heard anything like it, England and obtain a better outle to

This remark- September-Singapore 13th September,

Six General, Jardine, Matheson & Co. strengthening the nervs. way acquaintances, show that there is

The manifesto points out that Frasco sickness or faulty digestion, and for KUX SANG, British str.,, E. Knight, 18th here none of the poignancy with regard it is a war of attrition in which the Ger- and hope I'll never hear such a cry again, the open seas. France, it says, must be after years of thinness, and is also

man losses are greater than those of their I don't know what it was no one knew-made to pay a large indemnity.

He was especially sarcastic but some said that it might have the yell

18th September-Saigon 14th Septer- to the war that is felt by those who ard living in neutral countries such as Hol-enemies.

ber, Rice and General,-Order. acknowledged morit have been combined land, Switzerland, and Sweden. It is about optimistic British war writers. of a Gurkha-his battle cry when he slits possesses colonies out of all proportion

son, 17th September-Shanghai 14th not that you appear to be indifferent. It He claimed that the French and Faglish off an opponent's head. When I think of to her power, and that England will able discovery is called Sargol.

"As regards Belgium," the manifesto in this peerless preparation, which is

September, General.-Butterfield & is not that you are ill-informed about armies in France and Belgium outnum

"we must hold her politically, endorsed by eminent physicians and used LANGOROW, British str., 1,220, W. Ben-

Swire. harmless, inexpensive and the war, or too far removed from its ber the Germans by four to one, but it, I said, I find that the three thrills of appropriate these if Germany does not strength-giving, fat-producing elements 1 LAERTES, British str., 1,340, A. Jenkins,

absolutely "The second occurred at Festubert, when says, actualities. It may be due to a mixture that, owing to superior German disc which I speak would be denied to a deaf take them

You remember militarily, and commercially in our by prominent people everywhere. It is

hands. She will thus constitute an in-

efficieurt. of these causes. Certain it is that, ox-pling and organization, more powerful man, topt in households into which death has artillery, and more numerous machine.

tion was billoted. By day it was bad, but comparable naval base against the at entered by reason of the struggle, the guns, the Germans were able to keep the we were there in reserve.

at two o'clock in the morning it was devil-mpts of Great Britain. great mass of the people in your island Allies at bay while they finished the Rus the stench of the house in which the sec

he said,

"that, when it comes to time and

One could cut the stink with a seem to regard the war as an operation sians. "You may tell those English,

undinh, remote from their daily life.

attrition, German organization patriotism will be as effective as they knife, have hem in the past 18 months.

It was a bright August morning when I awoke and set out to visit a friend who lived in a suburb of the city, at which I arrived in full light and activity-a good many mon in khaki about and motor dis patch-ridere speeding through the town. It was the hour of people going to busi- ness, The tickets in the stret car were handed out by a young lady trimly and attractively dressed in a costume similar to that wom by men who do the same kind of work. I had seen the same thing in Berlin and in the nnderground railway at Budapest at the outbreak of the war. That uniformed damsel accomplished the double purpose of releasing a man for war work and notifying to the inhabit ants of the town that times have changed. The effect was spoiled, however, by the presence of quite a number of man of,

Three of military age in the vehicle them descended just us I did. I remark ed to the young lady:-

Engaged, I surse, in one of your great shipyards?"

"Oh, no," she said, "they are bank clarks-all three of the"

England, I thought, is as yet half- and-half at war-an impression felt wide ly, not only in Russia and France, but in many neutral countries.

NORWEGIAN FRIENDS OF ENGLAND.

The manifesto speaks of the growing Russian peril, and says that the occupied part of Russia, should become a rich ugri The cultural country, where the surplus Ger- man population and the refugees who have found an asylum in Germany will be settled.

A month's systematic use of Sargol should produce flesh and strength by correcting faults of digestion and by supplying highly concentrated fate to the blood.

is

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Totaka, 19th September-San Fran- cisco 21st August, General.-Toyo Kisen Kaisha NIPPON MARU. Japanese str., 2,959, A.

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Russia," it says, "is so rich in terri- bry that she will be able to pay an Peace with indemnity in kind by giving lands, but lands without landlords.

would surely lead to a renewal of Russia which would not diminish Russian power and increase German ter the Bargol and say there is a large demand SUYERIBO MARU, Japanese str., 912, R.

I awoke at that hour, and went outside to get a breath of fresh air. place was so eerie, the church at rear with In al brief visit I paid to Norway 1 the spire battered down, the churchyard found that the Allies and especially the with the bones of the dead hurled broad

As I stood there I heard a groan English-have warm friends. Here and cast by concussion shells, the ruined houses. as if a child was in pain, then a gurgie there among the Norwegians one heare

as if someone was goiting strangled, and impatience that the mighty British Fleet has not finished off its Geranan rivad, but otherwise there is throughout Nor-afterwarde a number of short, weak, in way a great realization that, wrapped up fantile cries that slowly died away into silenco. Paraps the surroundings had a

"Once the Russians are driven back be the end of liberty for the little nations. lot to do with it, for I felt strangely na- in the defeat of Great Britain would be

It might haveyond their new frontier we shall not German propaganda has been poured in by the ton, but has met with only small nerved. Where did the cries come from?

I could not wander on the maritime and colonial commerce interested in the war, and any British been a cat or a dog, all sounds become di forget the war which England has made response. The Norwegians are intensely It was impossible to say.

round to see the cause-houses were battered of Germany, That must be the guide of

our action. reserve or victory awakens the same feel forent in the dark. ings as it does here.

down, rooms blocked up, cellars filled with Maybe it was a child aban rubble. There was nothing to do but go back to bed. doned by a mother, driven insane by fear. Terrible things happen in war.

Scandinavia is so fresh in my mind that I have diverged a little from the plan on which I proposed dealing with my experiences. I have done so the more readily because but little seems to be understood here of the vastly import ant Baltic position.

My British friends talk of the blockade There is no blockade of The Baltic is a vast open of Germany mouth through which Germany is getting Germany.

war.

TO SUPPLANT ENGLAND. We must supplant the world-trade of Great Britain. By her blockade of Ger- many England has instructed us in the art of being a European Power mili- "And the third was three cries again in tarily and industrially independent of the dark when theth sent out a working others. We must immediately seek to party to dig a sap in front of our lines. I create for ourselves, apart from the could hear the picks and showels busy in Empire of the seas, a Continental com- front, and suddenly somebody screamed mercial entente as extensive as possible. Oh Oh! Oh! the first loud and piercing, Our friends Austria-Hungary and Tur- But the key will open to us the Balkans and Asia an immense volume of supplies. Statis the others weaker and lower. The incident reminded me of a con-

pretensions of Russia and Great Britain. versation in which I took part at the cians may wriggle and produce figures exclamation told of intense pain. After Minor, and thus we shall assure our

You all remember the affair"

"We must also sign as speedily as Continental Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden that would appear to belie my state wards I heard that the boy got shot through selves of the Persian Gulf against the

"I never ked the bloomin' tronches,"

Then we shall at the present moment is the resort of mant, but I speak that which I have seen,

"It almost makes me pray possible commercial treaties with car

close political friends. keen persevering Cormans and Austrians Germany may have been inconvenienced the belly. When I come to said Bill.

every time I go up.” from Hamburg, Bremen, Berlin, and even by your blockade, but that blockade is

They're not really so bad," said derete our attention to recovering our Vienna and Budapest, struggling for not what it should be.

and maritime treaties must be renewed, supplies of that pr. cions cotton without speak of Germany and "mubstitutes, which no gun can be fired to-day. Ame I shall be able to prove that, with the

"Cushy," exclaimed Bill, foking the and everywhere we must obtain the saree ricans-many of them from the Southern advantage of the Baltic leakage, she has Pryor; some of them are quite cushy overseas commerce. Our old commercial

Nark it, States are constantly in and out of been far less incommoded than you think, (nics)." Stockholm, "I can't understand why or she herself expected. I have heard no

Just little finger. Nark it. Pryor. those Britishers are letting the Germans complaint as to shortages in Germany ash from his cigarette with the tip of his treatment as Great Britain.

We therefore require have it all their own way about this except on the subject of cotton.

now she is busy talking of the use of Blimey, they are cushy if you're not caught

colonial wealth.. cotton," remarked one of them. But the

The wood-pulp. That, I fear, is one of the with a shell goin' in, if you're not bombed colonial empire. Central Africa is only Germans themselv's are puzzled. Swedes far as a transient stranger same kind of German devices such as from the sky, or mined from under the huge desert which does not offer enough can learn are, as a Government, doing bread tickets-which caused so many soft-ground, if a sniper doesn't snipe all yer olher productive lands, and herein is to their duty, for, almost alone among the hearted neutral nations to believe that end off, or gas doesn't send yer to 'eaven, be found the importance of our alliance Allies and reutrals, the Swedes seem to the British Navy was cruelly starving have a thorough respect for the little German women and children.

"The British heard of British Fleet. Fleet," remarked one comparatively neu- tral Swede to me, "got us to put cotton on the embargo list, but German in genuity gets the cotton somehow or other, and will continue to do so until it be comes contraband, if it ever does.'

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BAINT EGBERT, British afr., Aitkin, 18th September-Manila 15th September, General-Order.

Obi, 18th September-Keelung. 10th September, Coal.-Order.

TALREI MARU, Japanese str., 2,102, T. Horiuchi, 18th September Chefoo

8th September, General-Mitsui Bus- san Kaisha,

TAMING, British stc., 1,581, Pennefather, 14th September-Iloilo 10th Eeptem ber, Sapan Wood.--Butterfield & Swire.

TAMBA MARU, Japanese str., 0,803, S. Nagasue, 12th September Beattle Coast, General-Nippon Yusen Kai-

TEAN, British str., 1,350, H. Trowbridge,

16th September-Manila 7th Septem ber, General.-Butterfield & Swire. TELENA, British str., 3,142, J. A. Thack

ray, 14th September-Shanghai 10th. September, Ballast.-Asiatic Petro leum Co. TEIRESIAS, British str., 4,822, D. Robinson, September 15th, Singapore Septem ber 9th, General.-Butterfield & Swire. TONG SHO, British str., 1,177 Hussey, 18th September-Saigon 13th September, Rice

Jardine, Matheson & Co. UNEAL MARU No. 4, Jap. str., 1,810, K. Koroshima, 14th September-Keratan 7th September, Coal-Mitsui Buasan Kaisha WINGSANG, British str., 1,517, T. H Lishman, 9th September-Shanghai 3rd September, General.-Jardine, Matheson & Co.

ON SALE

ÞOUND VOLUMES of the WONGKONG

BWEEKLY PRESS, JANUARY to JUEN,

1915. With Innex Price $7.00.

On Bale at the HONGKONG DAILY PRESS "

On Bale at the "DAILY Pasa" Offer or Offs

Hongkong, 10th August, 1915,