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THE WAR.

FAR EASTERN MEN AND SHANGHAI KICSHA COOLIES AN UNDERGROUND FORTRESS.

STRIKE.

THE WONDERS SEEN BY A VISITOR TO VERDUN."

A correspondent of the Gotenburg Com mercial and Shipping Journal gives an interesting description of a visit he para to the subterranean works which surround.

passes were examined, a formality, to Outside the town," he relates, our which evon the staff officers have to submit, Then wo descended steep streets, passed middle of barrack buildings, including the an iron gate and found ourselves in the residence of the Commander, the windows of which had been barricaded with sant

ed the fortress of Verdun...

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Mr. George Barber, of the Victori. A serious strike among ricsha uolies in Institution, Kuala Lumpur, who we..! home last November and joined Shanghai commenced on the and inst.. The Public Schools Battalion, has been grau. trouble is said to have arisen through the ed a commission.

Dr. C. E. Durrant, of West Clection of the Municipal Council in eli Sanatorium, Port Dickson, who left tutinating so many rishus per month. Now FM.8. last April for a year's holiday. that the reduction has been made, the ro has received a commission us Lieu ena turns of the ricsha owners have been re- in the R.A.M.C. and is now attached uured and now the coolies are obliged to the 19th Brigade, .F.A., North Camp, pay, roughly, thirty cents more than the Aldershot, and

Connaugne previous rate of hire. The rate formerly and to the Hospital,AX

sout. Surtees Sheffield, late of Batu Bighty cents per day, and those who own paid by the coolies was between sixty and Matang Estate, Perak, attached to the the vehicles are, apparently, looking for 2nd battalion of the Hampshire Region extra return on the reduced number of ment, who was reported "missing 1733 August 8th is now reported to have beon rieshas. kified on that day, while leading his company is an attack on the Turkish traiones before Achi Babu.

Second Lieut. C. A. MacGregor, ath Gordon Highlanders, who was killed in action as in front on September 25th, was at one time in charge of Holmwood Estate, Kuala Selangor, but during the last few years prior to the cutbreak of war he had been at Brusch Tin Mine, Perak, under the Borneo Company.

Mr. F. M. Favell of the FM.S. Sur-

me that for safety a sake the living quar veys, late of Kelantan, das ben. serving in France with the 6th Durhams since

ters wore even deeper down, in the earth; April, and was all through the second

A number of arrests have been made,

beyond doubt: twice as deep as the xpres battle and the gas attack on Whit American Assessor, and Magistrate Waung ing a second endless winding staircase. A The first case came before Mr. Krisel, General's work-rcom I found after descend Monday. He is now attached to the 42nd Ariny froop Co., R.E., and is working at the Mixed Court. A coolio was charged small city, electrically lighted, had bee on trench defence. Mrs. Favell has join with others not yet in custody, with inti-built American fashion. This, then, was ed a Voluntary Aid Detachment and is midating a ricsha coolie with a view to subterranean Verdun. There is living working as L nurse in one of the preventing him from following his em auxiliary military hospitals in Co. Dur-ployment. A fire of 85, in the alternative room here for both the military and the civilian population. Life here can pro- five days' imprisonment, was imposed.

ceed on the same lines as on top of the earth, if necessary for a year). We passéu through long galleries with many rows of iron beds. The quarters are in absolute. readiness for immediate occupation. There were refreshment rooms. and kitchens, lazarettoes and hospital supplies. Ventilators supplied fresh air at all points, A little farther were the store-rooms, where cases of flour, preserved heat and other supplies, even casks of wine, were awaiting the advent of the garrison, whilst part of this vast subterranean spac was occupied by thres of Verdun's electri city works, two big mills and a bakery."

The principal disturbances have taken bags. By a winding staircase we reachedUITE of WELL FURNISHED ROOMS, place in the Hongkow district, where quite a vast subterranean complex of rooms, in Robinson Road Level, with or without. a number of the firms who own ricshas have where the business of the General Staf board in English Private House. their premises. The methods adopted by was being carried on. In a bare room,

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"H" the strikers were of a determined nature, the walls, of which were covered with maps,

Care of "Daily Prosa" Offico. which can be said to shew that, as a body, sat the General. A short man of vigorous!

Hongkong, 26th November, 1915. [1232 they are well united. In some rebuild, with sharp penetrating eyes, ros wore turned out, in others the mudguards up from behind the writing table. of the rich were broken, while the gen welcome you,' he said. I shall have you eral method appears to have been the re-shown as much of the fortress as I can.

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2ND LIEUT. BUCH MIDDLETON. The following is an extract from letter just received from 2nd.-Lieut. Hugn Middleton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Usborne Middleton, who is in the 9th Battalion. Yorkshire Regiment, some. where in France

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moving of the valves attached to the tyres, The captain who accompanied me, tour OS. II and 13, GAGE STREET, from

thoroby rendering the vehicle completely useless.

COMMERCIAL ROMANCE. CHINESE CORNER THE MARKET

IN ANTIMONY.

This is a great life; the only trouble is, it might be such a dog's ve

One of the most remarkable commercial we can never get a change to

hack back at the blighters. You do romances of the war is revealed in the doubt, know that my jou is that of trans-Prosiac pages of a Consular report just port officer, which means going up with issued by the Foreign Office from the ammunitica, food, etc., to the trenches at night and generally spending the day of Mr. Consul V. L. Savage, whose back of the horse lines. So, you see, we district covers the populous Chinese pro- don't have a chance to hit-just go up few months of the war were notable, so vince of Hunan. Ho states that the first and get fired on by suipers, and machine fas as his district is concerned, for the guns. So far I have not received fact that the world at large suddenly

scratch."

Mr. Corney Thorne, eldest son of Mr. Cornelius Thorne, of Shanghai, has been awarded the Miltary Cross.

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A letter from Lieut. J. Boll-Irving, 1st Lancashire Yeomanry, dated October 15th, says that his regiment arrived safely at the Dardanelles.

awoke to the fact that it was depen- dent upon the Chinese province of Hanan for its supplies of antimony, and that the world. had to pay Hunan's prices for it,

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Det. Sub-inspector C. Mall, of tw Shanghai Municipal Police, who is at present en love, joined the Seaforth

"It may be romarked, incidentally, Highlanders as a private, He was sub that the enormous profits: realised by the sequently promoted Lance-corporal and native mine owners and refiners of anti- has now been. Gazetted a second lieuteny were in no way shared by the peo- Dant.

ple in general, or the Government, of China. Before the war the value of anti- mony regulus on the London market was about £25 per ton. It has long been assessed by the Chinese Customs, for the purpose of export duty, at about £10 per ton. It has now risen to over £100 Per on, but the assessment rate has re- mained the same. As the Custong figures for the total value of the trade are based on their own valuations, it will be seen how wide a gap inay lie between statistics and reality.

Betty SEROT., F. REUTEK,

Sergt. F. Reuter, of the 10th Battalion 19th Yorkshire Regiment, writes from France under date of October 29th-

Just a line or so to let you know I have entirely recovered from my wound and by the time you receive this I shall be back in the firing line.

It is marvellous that any of us are alive. We advanced in & perfect, shower of high explosives, shrapnel and bullets, also in a Scotch mist of gas, but nothing could stop the lads. How different from Germans, who are splendid fighter as o distance. I am glad to say my section of machine-guns has done some grand work (got them four times mare), and I only hope. I can get them again like it, because they deserve to be exterminated. They are abominable. A chum of my officer, in the Canadians, was crucified by them our wounded are bayonoted. sometimes they are dragged into trenches or shell holes and then they bomb them: yet when it comes to a square deal with the bayonet, they won't fight like men but on their knees they cry los mercy,

I am in the pink, of condition, and looking forward to the next scrap with confidence, knowing we can beat them in a mix-up at any time. (I was wounded by a bullet in the right upper arm.)"?

Mr. John West Middleton has been killed in nation at the Dardanelles on October 12th, He was shot through the Head and death was instantaneous. The sun of Mr. and Mrs. Osborny Middleton, he was born in Shanghai in 1898 and received the first part of his education at the Shanghai Public School,

INDUSTRIAL ÉXHIBITION.

BIG SCHEME TO PROMOTE BUSI- NESS AFTER THE WAR.

war in

Up to the outbreak of the Europe the export of antimony had pro. ceeded on normal lines. The whole out- at of the pure motul, to refined by the Hua Chung Company of Changsha, which enjoyed a monopoly of the manu facture of regulus in this province was controlled and marketed in London-by & British concern under a time contract. Temporary banking, difficulties having arisen with the war, the Chinese refincre of the metal seized the opportunity to denounce the contract.

Soon afterwards market quotations for standard metals were stopped in the United Kingdom, and the export of antimony prohibited. Owing to the use made of it for the manufacture of muni itions of war it was declared to be con

traband, and its transport by land or Bea closely watched and restricted. The area within which it was produced in France was invaded by the Germans and thus cut off from the world at large, as was also the outant from Austria-Hungary. The Bolivian and Mexican mines having closed down, only two or three minor curces of direct production remained as possible competitors to the one important producing aros left, that is to say, the Chinese province of Hunare nar. "From

both foreign and Chinese sources of information the real state of affairs soon became known to all the Chinese interested in the trade, and when an urgent demand arose in Japan, Rus sia, America, and the United Kingdom, the Chinese seiied their opportunity, help up supplies for a time, and cornered the market,

HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS.

CORPA ORDERS BY LEBUT.-COL, A. CHAPMAN, V.D,

-JOINED; BA 1-Private J. Martin joined the Coips on 6th December, 1916, allotted Corps No. 1948 and posted to Scouts Com- pany (No. 3 Section),

LEAVE

2-Gunner, H. Relph is granted leave of absence from 8th December, 1915, to 8th January, 1916.

PARADES

3.-Parades for Wednesday, 8th Inst.:- 5.16 p.m. Signalling Section, Bignal- Jing practice at Headquarters.

At

p.m. Recruits of Engineer Co., Musketry and Rifle exercises Ta koo Dockyard under Sergeant Everest. Remainder, nil,

DETAIL 4-Gun Club Hill, Kowloon:---

Oa duty until morning of 18th inst,:.

H.KR.

Sext for duty No. 1 Section Artil lery Battery and Left Section 3.G. Company.

Officer on duty: Lieut. Rees.

P. of W. Camp, Kowloon:

On duty until morning of 13th inst.:

HKVR

NEXT FOR DUTY-OFFICER ON DUTY,

Dec. 13th-Right Section M.G. Co.:

Lieut. Konnett.

Dec 14th,-Spouts Co. Capt. Stewart. Dec. 15th Scouts Co.: Capt. Hutchi

Dec 16th.--Scouts Company: Liout,

Murphy,

Dec. 7th.-Centre Section M.G. Co.:.

Capt. Wood;

Dec. 18th Civil Service Co.: Lieut.

C. Smith,

Dec. 19th.-No. 2 Section Artillery

Battery: Liegt. Danby Orderly Sergeant from 19th to 20th

inst. Corpl, A. A. Bolton,

G. E. STEWART, Capt.,

Adjutant, E.K.V.O, HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

JANUARY, 1916.

The January Schedule of Fairol Duties, will

be issued on or about December 2nd. Company Commanders are required to send so this office on Saturday morning, the 18th insta return showing (1) the. exact number of their men doing duty. in Deesmbor month in Central, West. Point Wanchai, Yaumati, Hunghom, and Peak Districts and with the Water sumber of additional men (recruits,, Police (Land and Harbour); (2) the

the date of sending in the return..

KËNDETT, REMINDER BOOK.

revised and amplified and will be re -issued in due course,

portland ROUTE MARCH,

A great after-the-war movement on business lines is being planned by a new While the price of regulus on the organisation called the Institute of In London market at the time of the out-etc), they have available for duty at dustry. The main object of the Institute break of the war was about 225 per ten. (which has a highly influential body of directors) is to promota a British Empire by the beginning of December it had riaen locally to over £52 per ton 1,0.b. Industrial Exhibition, to be hold about Hankow, and by the end of the year it was having run out, this book is being nine months after the declaration of must have been between £60 and £70 por pite for the exhibition buildings, con had increased considerably in propertion ton. At the same time, the price of crude sisting of 10-ency of land within 30 to that of regulus. minutes walk of the Strand, has al-As regards prices, the pace was set ready been secured. The buildings, being by the New York market owing to a of stone and brick, will be thoroughly shortage of stocks in the United States. permanent in character, and they will Locally the buyers who were ready on the The attention of Platoon and Company cover about three times as much ground spot with their money obtained most of agDylmplaj VOR GRATUITAS

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No. 58, PEEL STREET, on Caige Road GLENSHIEL," No. 141, Plantation Road, Peak, from 1st November, 1915.

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ROSENEATH,2, Hankow Rd., Kowloon No. 6 BELILÍOS: TERRACE. No. 25, BELILIOS TERRACE, with entrance on Conduit Road,

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There will be-no "amusement side to this gigantic exhibition by far the biggest thing of its kind ever attempted either in this country or in Germany for its aim will be solely to get usi ness in the markets of the world not ond for English, but also: for: British Empire goods, whether natural or manu factured, Rol

America," said the Secretary to a Daily News representative, is making claborate preparations to capture new markets when the war is over and rast

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All ranks will parade at Central Station, at 0.65 p.m., on Friday, December, 10th

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Commanders is drawn to orders of the metal. Here Japanese dealers scored, December 6th and 7h r of crude or ore, while British and other japani) e nena being able to snap up incoming supplies FC JENKIN, European buyers were trying to arrange terma, with local agents by telegraph > The output of the Hua Chang Com- Pany's refinery averaged in 1914 a little over 200 tons a month, bus the plant has been extended, and the Hue ChangThe Lord Mayor of London is anxiousFFICES at 2. Connaught Roed

to get recruits for the Bankera Battalion, and is somewhat disappointed with the response made to his appeal. In two, mouths only 300 men have enrolled, and 700 more were needed. The difficulty The Soerabaya Handelsblad, in a leader that the banks find themselves unable to ONE GODOWN, No. 8, Burrows Strael, every direction, Germany is also getting inspired by recent incidents attributed to release more men. The place of the Touch

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while there is yet time she will stand nodies, calls for drastic measures to be have been filled by pensioners recalled to Bay. MERION, No.6, THE PRAX, Unfurnished chance oven of regaining her old pos taken by the Dutch Government in all the desk and by women, but it is held tion, still less of improving itSecond known cases of German machination. It that the work of those who remain cannot only to the successful prosecution of the further states that several; suspicious in- be done, by substitutes. The bank clerk war is the question of paying for the cidents have come to the knowledge of the cannot, of course, be prevented from en war in future years."EN

authorities and that the Germans residentishing, but in most cases he is given to in the Netherlands Indies are not only understand that he cannot rely on being well organised but have large capital at reidstated on his return, and that in any their command.

case he will lose seniority.

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markets when the war is over, and past The

Groat enthusiasm for the scheme being displayed by the official reprezen tatives of the Overseas Dominions.

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