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GERMANY'S CHANGED

SOLDIERS.

MARCH PAST OF PRISONERS OF

THE VOSGES.

1.100. In this controversy I am able to Five persopa) evidenter, as I saw on Satur day

Last the prisoners taken at Harts mannawailerkopi march past, before the General Commanding the Army of the Vosges. There were twenty-one officers and 1,360 non-commissioned officers and rank-and-file.

THR HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17TH, 1916.

INDISPENSABLE MAN.

AND THE GIRL WHO GOT THE JOB.

[AY W, PSTT RIDGL.].

THE LACK OF SHIPS,

DEMANDS OF THE FIGHTING

FORCES.

GERMAN INTRIGUES IN MOROCCO.

THE FRENCH ZONE.

DUPERS AND DUPED,

In the following article "The Times! " Tonymer correspondent describes the widespread intrigues which the Germans -carried on in Alarocco for some years up to the outbreak of the war and the relat tions of their agents with the doors. The outbreak of war in Europe found ing, both by peaceful the outr

penetration and by more active methods, engaged in congrats in Morocco busily

VISITORS AT HOTELS.

HoscкONS HOTEL Mr J. A. Ásaj SE Mr&Mr A. E. Ada'r Mr&Mrs Athol Ander

Bon and meid Mr G. E Anderson Mrs. E. Armstrong MR.L Atkin on Mr H. Murray Hain Mr J. H. Baring Mr & Mrs H Bassett ME. E. Be

Beillies Mr B. E. Belilios: Mr 0. D. J. Boll

Mr G. W Beswick

Presumably: the Germans do not wishing. If my department suddenly stopped-these fall far short of what neutral com- very month in which war was declared. Ag

"How Miss

idly, have such good grounds for so do- What are you smiling at?" “Only you," she replied. of

Hopwood manages to keep her features straight when you're talking like this to her puzzles me,"

Miss Hopwood," he remarked austere

M

Mes A. E. Hodgins Mr S. L. Horrebin Hr J. St. Hunt Capt R. Inces MPA Jonsen

Mr E. M. Joseph Mr.N. B. Kranjia Capt . E Laver Mr0.uritsen Mr8. Longfield Mr K. Mackensie Mr R E. faen and

Dr & Mm O. Marriott

Mr F. R. Mars' a l

Mr T. Malanma

WEATHER REPORT.

On the 18th at 10.40 am.-The anti-cyclone has strengthened. It is now central to the north of the Lower Yangtza Valtoy.

The depression over Indo-China is filing up.

·Pramurs ́elanges in southern dintriots are smail.

No returns from Japan.

Fresh monsoon may be expected along the eant co.at if China and over the N China Sea. Honggung ramatsu for the av mudzu dading st 10 am to-day, 0.00 1 sohni.

The forest for the 24 hours sndirigent moom to lay in an fallown- DISTINA

FORECAST

Mrs McCulloch and Bongkang & Newtonchord E. to N.E. winds,

child

Mr D. MeMarmy.

Mr L. Mell-tia

MyJ. Mumeok

Caph W. McGible

Capt W. M. Meaney

Mr B. K. Mehta

Mr A, 8. Mn ch

Capt & Mrs. F. D Northcombo

If Ernest Blancy paid a somewhat tardy

The general rise in liner freights as visit to the recruiting office it was 20% for from the beginning of 1918, says the Times, It is always instructive to put the ac-

want of patriotism; certainly there was no

means that the liner companies are acting curacy of the German communiquét to the

in accordance with what is going on every The test of fact, writes H. Warner Allen, a imputation on his courage. British correspondent with the French Whenever baudquarters tell me to go," day in the open freight market.

steamers which are tramp ormies, Recently there has been heavho had said, "I shall be off like a shot; That rates for fighting on the mountain in Alsace knoc will take the responsibility from off my charteved to carry whole cargoes move to the French as the Vieil Armand, and shoulders, and what happens to the work upwad almost every day; the long

imanns the Hart to the Germans ag weilerkopź. The French in their scial afterwards is no affair of mine. But, mean-schedules of rates for the thousands of communiqués d'aim to have akn 1,600 white, I reckon I am justified in consider-commodities carried in the declare that their total losses do not exceed and my own private opinion is that head-ap business if these tates were perpetually their position in the country. In Central M. H. Biokorton prisoners, while the Germaus on their side ing myself as indispensable here at home, tarely altered. Merchants on liners are changing. But it is the cargo freighte

in bringing to reason a block of "I don't know anyono," remarked his which set the pace, and the liner companies (coco French and native troops were Mr R. J. Birbeck quarters held the same view,"

are bound to follow, tribes of the Atlas, while mobile columns Mr J. J. Blesker

J. & N. Brown sister with the candour of a near relative, sooner or later

the forthcoming liner advances

10 other

outlying parts of the French zone,

Mr R. Buchan who has a better opinion of himself than height, and the fort, and reached a dizzy were striking wherever danger appeared Capt B. Branch

Mr T.J.

Bruens what you have."

British Few people," said Ernest Blancy stol. Are relatively moderate. The profits ofThe occupation of Wazan and the moun-- cargo steamship ownerships are tains surrounding the sacred city had been

MLB. Cave, now on an enormous scale, though even decided upon and was announced for the De F. di Conevi

My C. Champkin native army under Haider ben Muiz, the panies are making,

1.A. W. Cross The chief cause of the rise, which a great Sug chief, was quenching the flames

Mr T.J. Cokely Mr H. A. R. Conant ways falls on the consumer is reqaisi- of an incipient rehellion in the far south.

Hoa. Mr A. W. tioning by the Government of mercantile The road from Fet to the Algerian fron

Crot shipping Vessel after vergel has been tier had only recently been opened, the withdrawn to be commissioned as a junction of the French troops proceeding M. N. Oroucher

to fleets and arruies, until the total amount ita rebellions and its sieges. This district of British shipping in Government ser necessitated the presence of considerable vice cannot fall far short of the total of French forces for the protection of the the whole of the German mercantile marine military railway and roads which were

hurriedly pushed forward. substantial proportion of the British mer- cantile fleet-in commercially unproduc-removed from the centres of trade and live. Yet British shipping is the main colonization, Morocco was at peace and stay of our commerce and the whole of not only at peace, but making great strides our finance rests upon its successful con- in the path of commercial prosperity and agricultural wealth, The institution of Justion, the unceasing extension of roads, mercial employment

ports, and other public works, the building finance, the readjusting of the native land Lt-o, & Mrs A. B. dr. Sorby laws, and a thousand other necessary and difficult details were occupying the inde fatigable energies of the French,

&

Europe to believe that nearly 1,400 men.

number considerable including a picked troops, Jaeger or chasseurs, as the French call them, surrendered without putting up a fight end without suffering Conse- number of casualties. large

Affair exceeded the official estimate of eleven hundred by at least three or four As to the number of times that number. men who marched past, my evidence is

we may conclude that the German 17, "happens to be a young lady provided armed cruiser or for use as a transport frau, east and west having taken place air & Men J. W.

agrees with pretty nigh everything I sky."

To Mis Hopwood, when the Postmaster General's communication on the subject of

supported by that of a neutral colleague inlistment arrived, Ernest spoke with before the war. All this tonnage a very beg the exception of these regions, far

who counted the files as they went by. It Was only the unwounded men still capable of marching whom we saw and there were more prisoners in hospital.

Speaking generally, the prisoners who rehed past the French general were not soldierly in their appearance or behaviour. nor did they arem to be in any

gravity. The war had affected her pro pects so far as regarded business; the firm of West End dressmaker had been getting rid of the newer hands and her turn was coming nearer; it now somed likely that the war was going to interfere with her domes- lic interests. Ernest announced that he

STILL HIGHER FREIGHTS POSSIBLE.

Way adequate representatives of a mili- and a dozen others from the district office that the Government cannot ignore it. of railways, the many aspects of trade and

barst Power that when all is said and dano has had the audacity to declare war against the eivilised world.

SAMPLES OF GERMANY'S FIRST LINES. From the point of view of physique the There prisoners were curiously mixed!.

wore

soma well-built non-commissioned officers who, if their expressions were dis pleasing, were certainly able-bodied and well-trained soldiers. "Quite a consider- able proportion were mere toys, whose faces showed that the hardships of the trenches had seriously affected them. Several of them were spectacled, studious looking youths who would obviously, have been more at home poring over their books. There were in this hatch half-a-dozen or a dozen prisoners whose physique would cor- tainly have barred them from service either in Franco or England. It must be membered that all these men were taken in the first Gorman lines. It is certain that one would search in vain along

the

were going round to see the recruiting ser- geant on the morrow,

"They're bound to miss you, dear;"' she said.

He ventured to think this was putting It too mildly. Try as he would, he could not help suspecting that the department was about to tumble down, to collapse, to vanish from the face of the earth; in short, to

A position so acute has now developed The mercantile marine has adapted itil marvellously to the demands of the Army but there is a limit to the function of every instrument. No sane person could expect that portion of the mercantils marine which is now, left in commercial employment to do the work done by the whole mercantile feet before serious in- roads were made by military and naval demands. If these demands on the same scale are necessary in future they will Cortainly looks like it," she agreed. be me in ao grudging spirit, but the Some folk, said Ernest, were under the country must be prepared for still higher impression that experienced men could be freights and dearer food and raw replaced by amateurs; he himself know betterials. ter than that. As a matter of fact, it took an enormous time for an ordinary chap to learn to do the task that he was now relinquishing.

go to pet,"

"One can't go and build Kome in a day," said Mike Hopwood.

MB-

Perhaps the most serious commercial result of the present position is the loss of British trade and the opportunities now made for neutrals, of which full ad- vantage is being taken. In some trades vessels under foreign flags are doing the work hitherto done by British ships, and the trade slipping by them. In one port be shipped for there are no vessels to atone 30.000 tons of goods are waiting to carry them, Offers of freight are being daily refused by the regular lines

AGENTS EMPLOYED.

It is not easy to surmise what were the real intentions of the German Government with regard to Morocco, beyond their un- disguised opposition to French influence. A tires it looked as though the annexa- tion of the country was their immediate design-at others that Morocco was to be the lever for extortion and blackmail else. where. One fact is clear, however, that, the case of a victorious war against France, Morocco was to be one of the richest of the prizes. In order to facili- tate this policy the German authorities and their agents left no stone unturned to stir up the opposition of the natives to rebellion of the French, so as to ensure a

French and English lines, from the North wish to credit until it became something British owners are powerless to prevent the whole population in the case of such

>BERLIN HOUSEWIFE'S BILL A CONTRAST WITH LONDON CHARGES.

He had heard a rumour, that he did not more than a rumour, to the effect that girls were going to be engaged in the place of the men. He could only say of this that a more ridiculous, a more absurd, a more fantastic idea had rarely entered the brain of a head oficial

NEUTRAL SHIPPING ACTIVITY.

Sea to the Swiss frontier, to find a single soldier so obviously unfitted for his duty An officer summed up the whole affair. "I am delighted to see," he said that

Great shipbuilding activity is known to the German officers have their men so little

prevail in all neutral countries, where They mun discover the error of their in hand as to allow them to become go

the stupendous freights now being carned slovenly as these prisoners. Any soldier

The new recruit left London for training. make the question of costs comparatively can see that the majority of them are doing ways, dear," she assured him. their best, and can march no better simply because they have never been taught. It Before going he bad a row with his sister unimportant. The war, it is generally would be impossible for a French soldier and pleasing interview with Miss Hop-recognized, has made possible a great ve an English soldier to march so badly wood, the two were photographed by su pansion in the mercantile feats of all because they have been properly drilled.artist in High-street, who declared of the neutral countries and the creation for the

picture that it was truer to life than life future of the kecest competition.

Shipowners cannot resist. the demands The German Army has changed indeed."

itsel. Miss Hopwood wished her com

made on them in the name of the fighting panion had put on a brighter air, and he mentioned it was nothing but the anxiety forces, and while in receipt of such fabu regarding his old department that prevent lous freights on their own vessels some ed him from throwing off an aspect of may be content to see the available sup elancholy. The public had always expect ply of tonnage become more and more restricted. But the fact remains that ed a good deal from the department, and he could not help prophesying that there there is now bot nearly sufficient tonnage to meet the needs of British commerce as The average London housewife feels that would soon come a most terrible outcry. Stis shown by the continually rising freights, she has legitimate cause for grumbling it Martin's-le-Grand simply inundated with and that the corsumer who is paying prices for ordinary necessaries for house complaints, questions naked in Parliament, these charges has the right to expect the hold consumption increase from a penny meetings held at town halls, All the fat, most efficient management of the many hundred merchant vessels now in Govern to three-pence per pound-even in abnor-so to speak, in the fire,

"Don't worry too much about it, dear," ment service. The withdrawal from mal circumstances.

Suvla and Anzac will be welcomed for the She should consider the position of these urged, and give me another kiss."

The kiss cheered Private Blaney and the relict it should give to the shipping situs- German Hausfrau in Berlin, and draw a comparison between their respective two went to a first houss at a music-hall, tion, and it would seem imperative that Jota...

where from 6.15 until 8.45 he was able to the claims of finance and commerce should A lady forwards to the Pat Mall forget postal arrangements and the imia future be carefully considered in con- list of charges made for goods minence of postal troubles. Indeed, one of junction with the military advantages to and provisions she obtained in Berlin dur-hose gren by a bather bulky lady in be gained by far-distant overses expedi- ing the second work of this wonth. It will uniform and describing the long conversa be noticed that the items comprise the or- tions held with the recipients of letters on dinary main requirements to fill the bouso-

her rounds amused him, although he ad-

Gazette

a

tions.

a war being declared.

MAGATHE MANNESMANNE.

Mr&is F. E. Davis Capt J. Dewar Miss J. Dewar Min V. Dewar MA. Dowar Capt e. 1), Don Mr. & Miss E Fiss

Ms M. B Daly Capt J. B. FFAR Mr A. Fiugriete Mr Ja

Fiolay Mr Ja

J..do Forres M. J. Frain Mr Dubuis Paler

Garret

Mr GH.V.Go '69 Mr J. Gibb

Mr V. Goaldboura Mr & Mrs J. Gould Mr A. G. Gordon Capt. P. B

Mr W. A. Nowers me J. Ormiston

· Mir Jas, Ormiston Mr & Mrs E. V. D

Parr

Mr W. P. Payne Mr&MrET. Ftober apt B. I. Pottinger Alisa F. Kesy

Mr B. H. Ray

My W. A. Ray

Mr L. Sareseni

Mr & Mr J. R. Shaw Mz & M = W. A

chi s Mr&T. W.

Simmons

Mrs M Slade Mr A. B. SoraNBOA

H.. Stalker

Mr & Mrs B. F.

Stewart

Mr H. H. Taylor Mr A. L. Todt Mr Toad ǝt

E M.

Mr & Mrs, W. &. Capt. Trostridge

Hannibal

Mr & Mrs C. II.

Hy

Mr J. Hawert -A. Hiots Jr W. J. Modgo

Mr F. R. Vida P.. Mr & Mrs Wallace

Mr C. E. Watkiss Mr. Wilkis

Mr J. F. Wright

Mrs W. C. PassTIONE Mr W. J. Pringle Mr B. A. Ramay Mr J. F. Keld

King Edward HOTEL M> Ruse) Almond mi G. BanusFERN Mr & Mm T.B Cheng Yr & Mm A. Courno

Mr 0. Dinger HrT, N. Gregory Mr E Grieve Mr T. Gonn Mr & Mrs Hammen and

daldren

Mr G. E. Richardson Mr. Robson Dr. & Mrs S. Sama Mr F. B. Suger Mr F. M. Bowers Mrs B. Bylvester Misr Square Mr OIL Boper Mr E. M.Bleigh Mr & Mrs E. 3.

Tawnyy sad son Miss J. Tawney Mr H. Thornton Mr & Mrs J. Tikosuct

Mr&

Am

& Mrs. J. B Underwood

Mr Van Vliet M&Man G. E.

Waters

Mr & Mrs W. White Mr. D. E. Wichel

fresh fine.

NE winde,

strong.

Formoss Grannel SontiCom of Ukian botwasn') The cami ne

No. 1 Hongkong and lṣmooka. į

Eonth count of China between j East winds,

Bengkong and Hainan..moderato..

UHINA

CUAST

METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER.

6гm FannoinT AM.

Station.

Vladivostock. Stej NSTATERO Hakodate 490 Tokio

Koobl***** Nagamkia Kagonima.

Nain ishijma Bonin Is. Chefoo

Weibsiwei...... Bankow+23:

Johang upa Kinking s

Sharp Peak Amoy

80.37 26

Wind

NNW

AW

140

Swater s

Taicks

Talaim

Tainan

Kohan

Fesordores Canton Hongkong Gap Book

$30.1

30.1

30.11 m (30C8

MANO PI Wachow9- Holhow ********* Pakboi m

Phallen ....! 5 30.01

Ompet. James APRITI Dagupan Manila Legated Tacloban

Hallo Suriga

Lakuna 14 vardag

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29.87

29,84)

29.80 73

29.80' 78-94 RADIO. TELEGRAMS.

Tiskini 6, 29,93 70

* Lat, 30,00 N. Long, 113.00 E

Westbor,

Force,

N4 b

T. F. CLAXTON, Directes,

1- Banowaram, reduced to 19 depress Fabreplei on the level of the son in inchem. tenths and hundredths.

degree

4 TEUFERATWIa, fa ibe

ahada.

3 Humanity, in parentage of exturation, the kummidity of Mir maturated with mondstare being 100.

DIRNOTION OF WINE, to two podaba

FORCH OF WOD, soourding to Beaufort Bende. L STATE OF WHATZUE, b bins sky, e ́detached aloud, ddrinating rain, 1 feg, a gloony, à imii, 1, × ZAINS, #NBOW, à thunder, v visibility, wdów (wet),

hining, 9 Orizon), p passing showers, & aqual 7 Rim in fncžen. V' benibu and bandredthe,

The muddiest period of German intriguera Corbett was during the years that Dr Rosen, that astute Orientalist, represented Germany at Tangier a period that overed both the conference at Algeciras in 1907 and the Agadir incident in 1911. Ably assisted by

Mr Mrs W. Dr. Vassel, the German Consul at Fer. there was no intrigue to which the Ger-

Jackson man Minister did not stoop, no misto Me J. Johnston and dentation ut he was not prepared to make by which he could injure the cause of children France and lead the natives to believe Mr J. Jonoph intervention was at hand. Dr. Rosen's Kofold that an imminent and successful German Mr & Mr G. A. failure in Morocco was owing to the fact Mr A. Late bilen

He played Miss E. G. Tambden that he intrigued too much.

W. D. Lee the native

Mins Megy the native game less ably than himself, and thus lost their confidence. The strain of Oriental blood which flowed Mr D. Moore in his veins prevented his stopping abort Mr H. Murphy of actiong which the natives would have Mr & Mr Nicholson

Mrs Newman approved of in their own people, but B. C. Norria

epised in a European. A really more dangerous enemy was his successor, Baron

The pledges given to the ManDVENIANUS Seckendorff, who, while upholding German interests with exaggeration and buster, gained the respect of the natives by the by the natives of Maroces had no mora fact that his policy was shove board. The

The Moors regarded Dr, Rosen as one of them. value than the pledges given to the same

latter had promised his personal protec selves; they never ceased to regard Baron natives by the Kaiser at Tangier, Seckendorff as the representative of ation and that of his Government, and the Mannesmanns promised a German expul- sion of the French and a restoration of the Great Power.

Tools were not wanting to Dr. Rosen's country to a Sultan presumably of their awn choosing. The Moore, in return for group represented by the Brothers Max- the pledges, and for the Mannesmann hands. The rich and important industrial aesmann were pushed by the Gorman au- moneys, promised a revolution and a mas thorities to every kind of extravagant pro-sacs of the French. A few may have ENEMY FOOD PROBLEMS. posal and action. They were enticed to thought that with the assistance of German hold larder for the week, and for the pur-mitted the idea was decidedly for fetched.

spend money wholesale and stupidly, money and German arms the dislodgment poses of contrast & Pall Mall Gazelte re-

A recent telegram to the Statesman and if ever the great sums expend of the French was possible. The majority presentative obtained from the manager They took supper at a restaurant in High of Messrs. Selfridge's provisions depart Holborn, and Frivate Blaney expressed the state that the Austrian papers declare del by the Mannesmans are known it merely promised anything that was pro- ment the corresponding charges for the hope that Miss Hopwood would use every that the opening up of the route to Con will be appreciated how little they accomposed to them in return for money

endeavour to stay on in the dressmaking stantinue has in no way relieved the piched and at how great a cost. Mining received.

Germany and concessions were the outward and visible position of The following table shows the differ. He pointed out that she was fitted for no

The prices of foodstuffs, they sign of their propaganda-behind this lay other work, and that even reduced wages were better than no wages at all. While declare, till stand at enormously high the fixed determination of the ultimate smeking a cigar be made a sporting offer to rates wile the exchange value of gold possession of Moroso by Germany. For come up to town and marry her at a regis is declining. The Nieue Freie Presse this purposo no sum was considered too states Bulgaria and Turkey as well as the great to buy an important Moor, no leave Miss Hopwood thanked him and said 2- por lb. 1 to 1/3 (Cheddar)

Now from Turing Syndicate was scattered broadcast try: Many Moors were undoubtedly Tempesture okuese me ap

the Balkan campaign. Bacon.

2/8 por It. 1/3 perib, thin stresky

creased their yoke and not lessened it hy the money of the 1/5 per lb. prime

key states that the whole country is through Maroons for the purposes of poli- duped by the German promises, but all streaky 1/6 par 16, back

reduced to a state of starvation and that tical intrigue. The Mannesmanns became the Germans without excoption were duped the Germans car do nothing to Improve the prey of any and every Moorish adven by the Moorish protestations.

Berions disorders have turer, from the Saltan Mulai Haid, whom Hand himself, whose read to the 3/per lb. 1/1 to 1/8 per 1b,

the situation. From 1/2 per tb, hind-

Im afraid you're always too consider broken out at Essen, Breslan and Dresden they assisted to put on the Throne, down was rendered easier by German intrigues, gites.

in consequence of the abnormal economie to the villagers of the inaccessible moun abandoned his Teutonic friends almost as thins of the Riff and the Sus. In Germany soon se his succession was assured. Yet From 11d. parit, foreste, deer, of other people.

"I try not to be, be declared

"A conditions.

a considerable portion of the Press was the German intrigues were 1/8 par lb. gitra.

From 1/1 parlblogs.

man has to look after himself. So far as

acquired in their interests, and in Morocco The amour propre of the natives, who were still smarting under the iden of foreign From 10d. per lb. I am personally concerted I can fareses that

No they founded a German newspaper. this now Efe of mine is going to result in a situation for months and months. ahldra."

Not only were the Mannesmanns the domination, was wounded, and they had Margarine 1/10 per b. From 9d to 1/- besta considerable improvement in my health. further allusion was made in the correspo victing of a most any native who entered not had time to appreciate the many bene

quality. Candles.. „Bd.por4lb. Ad." to "bd. Is cheap or one thing, I shall be free from all that dence to this topic,

He came up to town on week-end leave, into relations with them, but they gathered fits that French rule was bringing them. trying responsibility that has weighed me candles

down during the past years."

and fonud Miss Hopwood, as he expected, around them a score of hungry. European France, and France alone, had shattered 2/1 per lb. (cheapest)

st her aunt's bonse,,

oo-adventurers, who took their money and their independence, and 18 per 15, pars

How deep, how

these German unworthy ether one hand, and, as he feared, sold their secrets. They purchased frau-Germang alone, offered to restore and dulent mining rights in districts which decoration of a hat. Always an outspoken ther prospectors never virited. They made intrigues were is now known. At the out- o-called independent Chiefs break of war the French military aathort- with treaties man he gave his vows candidly.

Here's Saturday evening," he protest whose one and sole idea was to take the ties interned number of Germans at "ports and ed, "and I shou'd like to know, out of Mannesmann money and who had so more Casablance and other more curiosity, how little you've earned for right to make a treaty than a squire in their papers were seized. Immediately yourself this week forge North Wales would have to sell the col their Moorish agents, desirous of secur

tribes

Bame

ence:

week.

BRELIN PRICE.

·Batter

SELFRIDGE'S

......2/7 per lb. 1/6 to 1/10 per lb.

BOGLOVING

Austria

THE PLOT REVEALED,

In their dealings with the Moors the German authorities utterly failed to com- prebend the people. They allowed them- a certain class of Moor that Morocco selves to be persuaded by the flattery of

to give-in fact, would welcome them, and that they were

Soap...7 per lb. 114. per 8 He. (prim- 3 trar's office so soon as he obtained his first Central Powers fad that they have promise too to the Min- looked upon as the saviours of the coun

Pork

Matton

.

Toa (cheapest).3/8 per 1. 2/9 per lb. Potatoes Rice

1/2 per t Yan (chpat). 1/1perlh. Flour.. 8ld perib.

she would prefer to wait, if he did not mind, until the war was over,

As you please" he said graciously,

y

was thinking more of you than I was of

myself

Tell me about it.""""

.....

"Tell you about it!" he echoed, "Why, bless my soul. I'm always telling you about "Oh, you mean your work at the district office

14 lbs: 1- good quality. 24 per lb (cheapest) 6d. per 1b.bewCarolina.it.” 6d. per lb. pot (plans) 91d. for 31 lbs. (best):

Roughly spearing, this means an expen- diture of 235, ed, on the part of the lady in Berlin and of 13 4d in London, the fatter sum including is, for potatoos, which are are not mentioned in the other bill, excepting to my that noue for the past fourteen days.”

"there have been

Under the heading of steak there en pears in the German list the ominous word

Moorish

Mulai

he throno

dangerous.

Twenty-eight shillings dear. The liery rights of Gamorganshire, They1nce against them. The postmaster Of

she went on, is what I'm getting at the district post office. I'm & letter sorter there, the same as you wers. Half-past ten in the morning-to-half-past six at night It took me only nine days to qualify

HONGKONG

METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER.

Hongkong Observatory, Februly, 16th,

Previous On Daison Este

Day at

Barometer

Humidity. Wind Direction

Weather as

st

at 2 p.m.6 IS

212

20.13 30.18

30.08

LO

58

63

69

70

80

Fast

East

1

Frat

Higkost spen nir Tamparakurs on 16th....... ED Lawont open sie Tamporaáærs on 15th... 54.

HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.

From 17th to 13rd February, 1916.

HOR WATER

Height

Haight.

LOW WATER.

H'Long Mean

Hong

·Mesn

Time

Timo

b..

fin.

ft. In

14 2 3 1

1.0

8.1473 1 49 4 3 3

18m

9 61 43 832

their own safety, brought forward paid salaries to almost numberless

Court men, whe promised much and did nothing. the German Post Offie and several of his Tams. 17 9 41

shot, but many who were They were fooled by, all

maconspirators were convicted by more accessible regions of Morocco their mart prospectors did considerable work, and equally guilty were shle to escape from

8 517 32.298 3

9-2773 3 808

"Good guess. "Well," she said encouragingly," you've got the satisfaction of knowing that you are now handing that over to somebody else,"

"I pity the somebody else," he remarked grimly.

Privats Blancy received notes from his sweetheart while he was in comp, and to one of theso he replied somewhat sharply, passed the test in sorting in that time, it may be discovered minerals of valus, the country before steps could be taken Babar. 19 m 10 6 14 5 m 2 2

201 The flour, it might be added, is for it gave the information that his advice like the work very much. It interesting, but it can safely be said that the vast sum against them. The German aim was this

Santos spent by the Mannesmanns have proved rebellion and massacre of the French, n described as lebread and ground on one subject had been disregarded Miss and it's so easy,

money wasted When war broke out their and, no doubt, of all Europeans except

*** Among the Mom. 31 10.60 the and probably accounts for

Private Blaney, before sitting st table payments to the tribesmen ceased, much Germans, by the tribes Hopwood, it appeared, had said good-bye to price

The lowest price charged for repairs to Mortimer-street, West; she was told, in a for an excellent supper, declared that any to the annoyance of the natives in quen incriminating letters found boots is sed, and the brief commentary letter sigued. Your affectionate and ever one could knock him down with a feather, tion, who promptly deserted the Maunes from the correspondent of the Cologne T29 11 15 51m 52716 cone ades with the information that there admiring lover," that it seemed as though In view of his greatly improved appear mann cause after having consigned them Gazette in Morocco, written from Tangier

Not one Frenchman, is a fine of $5 imposed if potato skins are the had no more sense than a farthing'sance, owing to drill, this was held by the and their relations and ancestors as to a German friend at Casablanca in a WOL

said, must be allowed to escaps s.17C,” burned, and some horbes are fed on worth of pins; the writer said it would ladies to be a poetic exaggeration — Daily tires do to the nethermost regions of an | time of peace.

unfathomable inferno, serve hor correctly if she remained out of Mail. shipped straw soaked in water.

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