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THE: HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16TH, 2015,

77-3

A VISIT TO THE BRITISH turbane. No longer did I see the narrow-

ARMY.

AMONG THE INDIAN TROOPS.

ed eyes that had astonished me two days previously and which seem to be implanted slantwire across the countenance, but aplendid regular features, elongated ovals, clear and golden complexions. Hail to pur Aryan brethren, costumed like East- ern kinds of mogi!

I have visited Ypres, Albert, Arnien- tieres, and some thirty villages more or Stationed on the road-edge, upon a heap less dismanted and despopulated, writes of pebbly stones, I watched these beauties and rarities of the Orient move along M. Maurice Barres, the eminent French under the poplars of France. A peasant

Over publicist, novelist and academicjen.

came along with his cart, and the French roads littered with branches cut off by officer attached to the British Head- shrapnel, we passed rapidly, and British-quarters Staff requested him to take up a ers sitting here and there, by the wayside position on the side of the field, to as not made signs with their hands to our drivers to disturb the march-past. And it was that they had better hurry. Was it thought for our safety or for their own, compromised by the alarm that our little procession and the cloud of dust it raised might give to the Germaus f

ran

very curious to observe that old French- man give way to these prodigious foreign- ers, whose quality and quantity he men tally weighed with friendliness.

During this long march-pust, so exciting to the imagination, I put thirty questions to myself, the only one that interested me profoundly being, What are these In- dians thinking, be they Skins or Gurkhas 7 What is their idea of this war . For whom and for what are they lighting ?***

Well," said an Englishman to me, laughing, "they know the Buche is a dirty beast!'

We reached our destination; we wander ed amid a Pompeii still trembling with vestiges of life; we examined the eccentric shapes eroated by the caprice of the shells; we lamented over the remains of humble family goods buried under ruins; we gently questioned the children who carelessly about a town fuller than ever of jolly hiding-places; we shook hands with

WHAT ARE THEIR THOUGHTS? the few inhabitants who insist on staying and working in this inferno. Suddenly,

There is unch wisilom in that exclama- the authors of this destruction demanded to. After a year of wee men are fight-

over An Avintik flow our attention, Ypres, pursued by shrapnel fire whiching to give back blown. I was told: "They ere fighting because that is the Raj's splashed the blue sky with a sucression of | order!! Just as a believer, obeyg God

little white clouds,

THE RUSSIAN ARTILLERY,

I have seen, half-drowned under the waters of the Nile, the Temple of Isis at Philae, the hammer of the Christians has left it; I have seen, above Byblos, at the source of the River Adonis, and with in the circle of sacred rocks, the Sanctuary of Aphaça; ruined by its enemies and by earthquake. The gods the passing-cen-

they are obeying the Government, the Raj that is the terrestrial Providence, the Key- tune, the central “something" that is not to be made a subjret of disenssion."

MOTHER

SEIGEL'S SYRUP

The proof of Mother Seigel's Syrup is in the taking That is why fornier sufferers, whose vitality was being rapped by Indigestion, say it is just excellent for stomach, liver and bowel troubles. Thanks to Mother Seiger's Syrup, they are now strong and well. If you are afflicted Indigestion or other disorders of the stomach, liver, and, howels, take Mother Seigel's Syrup regularly for a few days; long enough to give it a fair chance to make its beneficial influencë fell, The note the improve- inent in your appetite, your strength, your general condition. IS EXCELLENT FOR

Mrs. L. Milford. Hanover Street, troubles of д more serious Mayfair, Johannesburg, Trans-nature. Through inability to vaal, wrote on March 7th, 1914 ; digest my food I became so "Mother Seigel's Syrup proved weak that the least exertion so ctticacions in restoring me to brought about a collapse, and health that, after the repeated I was entirely unfilted to per failures had with many other pre-form my household dutiqu parations, it came as a pleasant Mother Seigel's Syrup, however, surprise. My troubles started banished all the pains and with irregularity of the bowels;aches, rebuilt my system, and later developing into stomach endowed me with robust headth," DISORDERS OF THE

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ADDRESS

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Sirgapure Fingapore Kiligchi. Wayda Hotel. Mabila Rossi'or, Passenger; Miyazaki

Start

The power of the Raj is evmonly in-

Five a six The following is a list of unclaimed telegram rated in the Rajah. Rajabs have come to the British front.ing in the Eastern Extension, Australasia as They remain a month or two, then return China Telegraph Company's office at Hong to India one after another, and afterwards ong come again, so that two or three of them turies; the rise of the river, the shaking are always present at the British-bead | Chip Bokchupe...

quarters, They I've there without pomp, of the earth's crust have been less potent Baring only one or two sides-de-camp. than the Prussian artillery on cities built of bricks The faraous Linen Hall and the Cathedral of Ypres are dust and frag ments; the statue of the Virgin at Albert hangs, as by miracle, from the tower of its dismantled church. As a solitude there is nothing completer in the world. You may race boldly through these streets with

out fear of running over anyone.

All this panorama of war is curiously moving; but I have seen it now all along the front, from Belfort, always the same picture of desolation. The soldier is the I have come to see the essential fact, Metropolitan and Colonial forces of Great Britain, Kitchener's Army, and then the native troops, towards whom, I confess, my imagination turned with impatient inter- est these Indian, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand levies which constitute one of the prodigious Burprises of this war of nations.

PUNJABIS AND, GURKRAS.

I was toll about the Rajah of Jodpur, a very aged men, who is not the reigning Prince, but that potentate's uncle, and who possesses the highest prestige. And 1 re called that Chevrillon related that the sovereigns of Jedpur trace their genealogy through 139 generations, to the Sun, whe was the grandfather of Rama.

A general told me I must not allow my imagination to become over-excited. He brought these mythic heroes within modern sen,

our

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ADDRESS

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Shanghai Yelecurne, Carlton Hotel Bhongbai

CHURCH SERVICES.

74

FORTHCOMING EVENTS. Thursday, 21st Oct.

9 P. An Open-Air Concert and Fête in

the Public Gardens.

Wednesday, 27th Oct-

Noon-Hongkeng and South China Steam Fisheries Co., Ltd., Meeting of Shure- holders.

12.15 p.m.-Hongkong and South China Steam Fisheries Co., Ltd., Extraordinary General Meeting.

Friday, 30th Oct

A.15 p.m.-Hongkong Club, Extraordinary

General Meeting. Saturday, 30th Oct,

Noen Heng keng Jockey Club, Half-Yearly

Meeting.

p.m.-Ministering Children's League Bazaar, Wednesday, 3rd Nov.

3.15 p.m.-Mieting of the Licensing Board

in the Courcil Chamber. Monday, 22nd Nov,

Noon-Hongkong Cotton Spinning Weaving & Dyeing Co., Ltd., Meeting of Membera at the Office of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.

EATHER REPORT.

over ile no to purt of the Chica S

Moderate to fosh easterly wnds will prevail

Hongkong mofall for the 24 hours ending at ST. Pezen's CHURCH, West Point. Sun. 10 s.m. to-day, 0 C0 inches. day, 17th October:-., Holy Communion,

The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon 11 au Morning Prayer

and termor.to-day is na follow p Pincher, Rev. WT. Featherstone,

UNION CHURCH, Kennedy hood. Sunday,

DISTRIOS

FOR BOAST 17th October. Morning Berrice at

Predo e Hymag, 21, 48, 256 and 439. Rev, D. C. Gi'more, I.D., of Hino n. Even Rongkong & Nafghbourhood, derate to fresh:

"Yes," he said, the e Sikhs formerly constituted a war enste, equipped them selves at their own expense, and would de nothing except fight. But in modera India the sword has everywhere made mom for the pen and the plough. These hand- some cavalrymen send their pay to their. John's Cathedral Hongkong, 2 (b | families to buy land which they will till on Sunday after Trinity. 17th October, 1915. their return home."

Holy Communion (8.05 a.m.) Matins (1) am) On the 15th at 1.00 am next day visited a can hospital. Responses. Ferial; Venite, Turer Palme, orare considera ly over Japan, sad slightly Pressure has in- where the Indians are fadmirably) nursed of the 17th morning; Te Deum, Oakley in F

Jalilate, Bayss in F. Holy Coumarin (12 general elsewhere. The tie ok De extends orer the Pulippines; lightly decreases ars in tents. An opportunity was given me It was one evening when--twilight was for conversation with an officer of Sikhs. No. Hymes, 2.4 and 368. NB-Palm from N. Chius oro centra Jajar I was gazing into the solitude hanging officers to 13 British officers. The one with Psalm 87, ver end 4 G. P. in noison; ctins Sen; that in the Pacis ap eare to be falling over the Flemish countryside, and In the fighting unit there were 17 nativerses 12; 9, 10, 14 and 17 in unison;

A shallow depresion has for med over the uver a village in ruins, that I encountered whom I conversed was at Indian, profuse Palm 8, verres 1, 10, 14 and 8 in nnison

Ewmore (5.45.p.m.); Reaperses, Fer al; Psalm",

Elling up. my first Hindu. A group of women were

ly, decorated, who had been wounded in loading up a cart, a few diminutive rows heroic action and who had a superb laya 24th mornin); Auns Dimiti, Fitzherbet the 17th orpsing (); Mugulda, l'amid.e, were feeding beneath a row of willows, the fore. With his Raurel woollen jersey and 24th even ng); Hymne, 536, 268 and 425 poplars quivered in the gentle breeze, and his broad chest, he looked like the most (T. 424). in the middle of the roadway an Indian ordinary honest French village farrier. of the Punjab came towards me. He walked I said to myself that these foreigners from with the steady gait of a rural postmon far-away who are astonishing us by de His turban and khak uniform were sod-fending the soil of France aide by side den with rain and mud, In another set with us are really our very close relatives. ting, with a few jewelled clasps flashing They like to mingle with our peasants on his collar and headdress, he would have with whom they converse by signs and 1 seemed a king's son. We,watched him

saw a child who was teaching them French with pleasure, but this Oriental bas become He said, "knife" and "potato" while such an habitué of these villages, a bird of peeling a potato and the Indians repented the Low Countries, that he passed by us the two words after him. without casting a glance in our direction,

The same evening, on this somewhat watery plain of Flanders, we were given an opportunity of inspecting a group of Gurkhas as they were about to take their turt in the trenches. These wiry littlo men, whose bronzed faces were motionless save for their eyes, were drawn up along the roadside under the trees. I should have taken them for Japanese. A few of them, unless I am mistaken, add the large features common to the negro to this type of the yellow race. They are a mountain

Two Taubes few over Compiegne on people. Their favourite weapon is a cur the 11th ult, and dropped bombs on an Fed knife, a sort of sickle. In peace or in ambulance. Each arrow bore the war they wear it always at their belt, and inscription, "Made in Germany On one use it to cut down branches fer the build side, and on the other, Invented in

"It does marvellous workFrance." ing of buts.

in hand-to-hand fighting," their colonel

WAR BREVITIES.

The Dedoagatch correspondent of Le Tempe stated last month that the majority of the heavy cannon that had been in position at Adrianople and Lule Burgas have been transferred to Bulair and Gallipoli.

said to me, and he ordered one of the men The Liquor Trate Control Board has to hand me this huge poignard, or decided to schedule Greater London as a I admired the instrument and munition area, thus prohibiting treating koukhri. its owner. The latter's yellow, creased and enforcing the further dilution of ince was expressionless, His eyes, hów

spirits. This step is the result of a ever, rolled fiercels, and seemed to avoid request by Major-General Lloyd, com-

"Poor Boches!" I exclaim-manding the troops in London. our gaze. ed to the colonel. And, indeed, these are wonderful warriors. It is said that they The Union Troope Fruit and Produce can see clearly at night, and that they are Committee have arranged with the Union great at the art of creeping among the Castle Company to carry free of charge thickets in their valleys and on the slopes fifty boxes of fruit weekly for the troops of the Himalayas, surprising their in Europe. The fruit will be distributed enemies. That, in any case, appears to be by the Trivish Red Cross Society in Lɔn their natural tactics, disciplined and tom-don to sick and wounded in military hos-

pitals throughout the country: pered by British civilisation.

THE MANCH PAST.

There

On the Swiss frontier from Baste to Constance anybody speaking English or When they arrived in November and saw French is delayed at the frontier the vast, damp pivin from which no moun-stations for full inquiries, and often lose tain top rose on the horizon by which they their trains for other countries. could get a sense of direction, their spirits a special ordinance against anybody seemed to droop; at least, for a time. They speaking English, which greatly hampers shivered in silence, like our Moroccans, in Americans while travelling. the rain and cold. Maybe they suspected some devilry in the frightful noise made But the by the German beavy artillery.

Seventy-one bids were received by the auctioneer at the Baltic Exchange when first warm rays of the sun reassured them. he offered for sale, by order of the Ad It is a kind of war they had not foreseen; miralty Commissioners, the prize German but, anyhow, it is a war Ther fud steamer Emil, 1,854 tons, now lying at She was eventually sold pleasure in it now, and having become Barry Dock. accustomed to the Flemish sky they crawl for £58,300 to the Overseas Syndicate, out at night in the mud like tigers, to Limited, of Ironmonger-lane, E.C. wards the German outposts,

Of the 103 Victoria Crosses conferred Two-days after I had admired this mys-since the war began, forty-eight have been terious infantry, these enigmatic faces from the depths of Asia, I was enabled to witness a march past of the cavalry, the Sikhs from the Punjab, tall and stalwart, with noble countenance, mounted on hand All beasts and men were some horses.

Quite different resplendent with health. from the Gurkhas, the Sikhs never cut their beards or their hair. Their beards are quaintly rolled over their cheeks; their hair is uplifted and concealed under tall

cured by members of thirty of the sixty- nine line regiments at the front, four by Territorias, six by the Brigade of Guards, nine by the Artillery, five by the Engineers, four by the Flying Corps, and The Navy has two by the Cavalry. secured ten Crosses, the Indians right, the Canadians four, and the Australians one, while one each have gone to the Headquarters Staff and the B.A.M.C., clasp also going to the latter.

Servio at 6 Byone 234 201, 24 172, Preacher: Rer. J. Kirk Maconschie. Communion »fter evening service.

SHIPPING IN PORT..

STEAMERS.

ANBUL, British str., 1,228, Eedy, 13th October Shangbai 10th October, General Butterfeld & Swire. CHAOCHOWFU, British str., 1,195, Wolf, 12th October-Swatow 11th October, General.-Butterfield & wire. CHIYUEN, Chinese str., 1,177, Ross, 14th October-Shanghai 10th October, General-Chinese.

CRIPARING, British str., 1,199, H. G, Walker, 14th October-Tientsin atb October, General-Jardine, Mathe son & Co.

DALJIN MARC, Japanese str., 800, S. Saito, 13th October-Swatow 17th October, General-Osaka Shosen Kaisha. Eron, Nrwegian str., 875, M. Eliassen, 14th October-Dairen 8th October, Besa and Bean Oil.-Order.

HONGWAN I British str., 2,080, G. King

hore, 13th October-Singapore 7th October, General-Chinese. KEIJO MARU, Japanese str., 1,116, D.

Imaidzumi, 14th October - Hóibow 12th October, Rics.-Order. LoXBANG, British str., 897, D. W. Ritchie, 14th October-Haiphong 10th Octo ber, General-Jardine, Matheson & Co.

MATBANG, British str., 1,643, G. H.

Alcock, 11th October Sandakan 5th October, Wood

General.- and Jurdine, Matheson & Co.

NICHIREN, MARU, Japanese str., 1,400, O. Kazaki, 14th October-Honkohe Bay 11th October, Salt-Dodwell & Co. PERSIA, British str., 2,744, J. Hill. 8th October-Ben Francisco 15th Septem- ber, General.-P. M. Co.

3,860,

SADO

MARU, Japanese str.. K. Asakawa, 11th October-Shanghai 8th October, General-Nippon Yusen Kaisha.

TAISHUN, Chinese str., 718, A. Wester- lund, 9th October Shangbai 8th October, General.-Chinese.

TENMEI MAKU,

Japanese str. 3,224. Tamura, 12th October - Moji sth October, Coal-Mitsui Bussan Kai- sba, TONOHONG. British str., 1,313, F. J. Prynn, 6th October-Saigon 2nd October, General.--Order. WAKAMATBU MARU, Japanese str. 1,772, Tamanaka, 11th October-Wakamateu 5th October, Coal-Mitaui Bussan Kaisha. Weau, British. str.,

East winds, mo- Lolondy,

¡N.E. winde,

fresh.

Formons Unanziel

South comet of Okina between The sams a Hongkong and Lamooks. No. 1 thwart of Chips between J The came

Hongkong sod timmṣo

No, 1,

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HONGKONG METEOROLOGIUAL.

REGISTER.

Hongkong Obourvatory, October 18th.

Baromater Temperature Rumidity... Wind Lurection

Fores

Weather

B420

Previons On Dair On Date

k.

Day

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at 2 p.m. 5 8.3

29.87

29.29

2988

£3

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79 76

East

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3

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Highest & panair Temperature on 14to... 13 Lowert open air Temperature on 14th .. 60

MONGKONG TIDE TABLE.

Week

Fron 16th to 22nd Octoler,

HIGH WATER

| Days of

Height

LOW WATER.

E'kong

Ekong.

Мека

Mean

Time

Tizie

1. m.

it, in

b. m

ft, La.

Sakas.

15 1 36

7. 9 a 10 $2

J 8

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or low water

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17 a 3-0

6 5 5 9

6 9 11 31 10 38

8

9

18 m 5 90. 8

7 99 s 5-7

1

20 7.5

Ca

68

9A5 5 0.9%

19m 6 16 604

6,7 m 1 0

70 2

60 m 1 4,

815

22 m 90 b. 3. D 2 32

30 & 9 2 90 #

19

2 £

LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENT.

1,250. E. P. Partridge. 9th October Wuhu 4th October, Rice.-Butterfield & Swire

The str. Nagoya left Singapore for this YUENSING, British str... 1,128, W. M.

Mesney, 12th October-Manila Bth port on the 16th instant, morning, and October. General-Jardine, Mathe, is due here on the 20th instant at about sos & Co.

noon.