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INTIMATIONS
Ten Victor Records GRADED HAND
which should be in every home
Another group of ten records which are among the favorites in the Victor Record catalog.
Henrietta-Valse Hesitation...
Cavalleria Rusticana-Intermezzo
Tales of Hoffman-Barcarolle
Wedding of the Rose--Intermezzo
55427
Flame of love
17311
Rove of my heart
17618
Whore my caravan
37476
Henilezvous-Intermezzo.
88075
Tosca--Vissi d'arte
85376
Dreams of long ago
86479
Angels Serenade
84197
Traumeri...
64424
Who Knows?
Stop your tickling, Jock
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10rn, 1916,
BURNING THEIR DEAD. STORY OF DANTESQUE SCENE IN BELGIUM.
MINE-LAYING WITH SUB-
MARINE
HOW IT IS DONE.
POSTAGE STAMPS.
THE RUHLEBEN EXPRESS,"
EX FRND J. MELVILLE]
As soon as the great German offensive before Verdun started messages were re
BY FREDERICK A. TALBOT ceived here, an Amsterdam message says," from the Belgian frontier stating that
(Author of "Bubmarines Their Mechanism and Operation ). the Germans were again burning the bodies of their slain soldiers in the blast furnaces at Seraing. These reports hare,
During the past few weeks, the losses of craires, been contradicted in the Geranong vessels, plying the North Sea, wan-Press, but this is by no means re together with the sinking of two or three garded as proof of their inaccuracysmail British war-vessels, point to a re-stamps of which the war has produced rather the reverse,
Hitherto it has been very difficult to establish the reliability of these reports, but I have just had the good fortune to meet a Belgian gentleman, a resident of Seraing whose trustworthiness is beyond cavil, and who has been able to give me fall and specific information about this Victor Band ghulish business from personal observa
lott Concert Orcheaten
Song
་་་ ..
Song-
EXCLUSIVE AGENTS:
WHEN IT IS : DARK,
newed oatburst of activity upon the part of the Germans in sowing the waters around our coasts with the globes of death. these lurking mines undoubtedly are While the greater proportion of planted by means of the usual vessels specially constructed mine-Inyers and trawlers adapted to the duty there is every indication that a large number
**ELECTRIC " SHIPS. THEORETICAL ADVANTAGES AND RESULTS AT SEA
Advocates of the application of the The British prisoners-of-war interned electrical transmission of power to ship in the German camp at Rulleben have propulsion will be bighly interested in had a local postal service of their own, the comparisons recently made by Mr. and even a special series of stamps. James Dornan before the Institution of These stamps may never attain "cata | Engincers and Shipbuilders in Scotland. ogne" rank, but if the hieben Mr. Dornan, basing his arguments on the pres Delivery justified its existence, they assumption that tooth-pressures and may be classed among the private piteteline speeds had reached their. limits, and that super-heated steam could several examples.
Mr. William Stern, not be used in conjunction with revers- lately returned to England after release ing turbines, calculated the advantages from Inhleben, gave some particulars, to be obtained by propelling a 21,000 ton and showed examples of the stamus at 19 liner by seven different methods.
meeting of the Manchester Philatelic The computations made suggested that Society recently. One of the prisoners, the yearly total saving on a ship employ for carrying messages between the difer using two shaft quadruple engines would Kamps by name, started the local "post,"
ing turbo-electric propulsion over one
and as the messages were delivered with sist in coal saving and £38.925 in extra ent stables where the men are housed, be £58,775, of which £17,850 would con have been set in position from submarines. in the hour at the small cost of one-dead-weight carried. The initial cost of The adaptability of the underwater third of a penny there was a ready sale the electric ship, however, would be ap Werronrath He said: "When the inhabitants fighting ship to this sphere of activity is and lise for the stamps sold at three aproximately £8,000 more than that of
Harrison Serning fiving near the blast furnaces by no means new. It has always been penny.
Other values were the it and the vessel fitted with quadruple engines. Conway's Band receive orders from the Corman inilitary considered to be an outstanding charac
The superiority of the electric ship Victor Orchestra authorities to shut their doors and winteristic of the Lake submarine, the The stamps were ninde locally, by is also demonstrated in varying degrees
...Melba dows and to extinguish all lights in their general features of which the Germans means of a rubber stamp. The gunmed
Caruso houses as soon as darkness falls, they are known to have incorporated in their paper, perforated in squares, was obtain over all other standard methods of pro
pulsion. The saving effected by the McCormack-Kreisler know what it means. They are also latest Germania U-boats. But the Lakeed from Berlin, by permission of the former over a similar ship, propelled
Mischs Elman strictly forbidden to leave their houses."
feature bas never been seriously develop authorities, and on this Mr. Kamps im through two-shaft hydraulic gears is. McCormack
**“However, about a fortnight ago, ated by those Powers which have embraced pressed the rubber handstamp reading estimated at £17,625 per Ennam, and ▲ Harry Lauder considerable personal risk, I succeeded in this type of submarine, the general con- Bahleben Express Delivery in two lines over a ship fitted with two shaft mechani
getting a clear view of what occurred.
tention being that the underwater fight at the top, the word “
Postage
at each cal gears at £21,107. The advantage of As soon as it became dusk a number of ing ship is better suited to what might side, and the value, 1-3rd,
or the two-shaft eléctric drive over the four long gouds. trains arrived from the front be described as straightforward aggres
" pewny,
at the botton.
shaft direct turbine is estimated at and were lined up before the furnaces
The creator of the post was almost cer£40,012 per aunom. sive tactics as represented by torpedo and gun attack. At the sine, time, how tally a stamp collector, for he also Why the electrically propelled ship bas ever Lake merely introduced the mine-
officia! and postage-due gained so little favour in Europe is a laying function as a subsidiary duty and
matter which shipbuilders cap alone ex- The convenience of the service evident plain. Perhaps it would be too sweeping one for which the submarine might be profitably employed when its primary Messages were sent saving journeys exists a strong prejudice against "things ly appealed to many of the prisoners. a statement to suggest that there still service was rendered impossible.
seross the knee-deep mud, invitations to electrical, but the fact remains that As a matter of fact the submarine can
tes were sent by the "post," and oven whereas the idea of justifying (by the be adapted to minc-laying duties with circulars
produced -by duplicating use of electrical transmission) the differ- very little difficulty and nt nominal ex-machines were delivered in considerable ences between the speed efficiencies of the pense. All that is required, as in the numbers, advertising the talents of those turbine engine and the marine propellor Lake vessel, is a compartment, either prisoners who were anxious to make a originated in Great Britain its first ap forward or aft, which can be shut off little pockel-money by operations of aplication on a businesslike scale took from the interior of the vessel, communi sartorial or tonsorial natur cation between the two sections being effected by means of an air-luck. This compartment lends to the outside of the craft through a special opening or hatch, the latter being preferably in the form of a hinged flag, which may be let down when the vessel is lying upon the seabed, of Dante,
up and down Considerations of hygiene do not conso as to form &-"ramp
which the men appointed to the mine stitute the only reason why the German laying task may pass in and out of the military authorities burn such a great CONCERT REVUE number of their killed soldiers. The sol- liar diver's gach, but preferably carry boat. The men are dressed in the fami diers whose bodies are burned do not Sgure in the official lists of the killed, but ars merely put down as missing and their relatives go on toping against hope to hear something of them."
MOUTRIE'S
PAR
B.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
ARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of the letting y Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 16th day of May, 1918, at 3 r.x., at the Offices of the PCBLIC WORKS DIPARTMENT, by Order of BIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, of Ose Lot of CROWN LAND at Shaukiran Hood,
in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term
THEATRE
HONGKONG.
(29-3
ROYAL.
FOR A SHORT SEASON ONLY.
THE
HUMPHREY BISHOP
AND
These trains were filled with corpses packed in fours and bound by steel wires When the trains were unloaded all outer clothing WHY removed from tho bodies, the metal buttons and the cloth being too precious to be wüsted. There the corpace Werd thrown; in a business-like wấy: but not, irreverently, into the furnaces, and I should estimate the number burned dur ing a single night at about 800.
A DANTESQUE HORBOR, "
It is a ghastly sight when a furnace is opened and the corpes are given to the destructive element. The flames throw a lurid glare on the men who are busy with their gloomy task and they remind one of evil spirits from Hades, ovenpied with the torturing af damned souls. I felt
at to yours, with the option of renewal af LONDON STAR COY. that I was having a prep into the Hades
CROWN PENT to be fixed by the Surveyor of HIS MAJESTY THE KING, for one further terms of "75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT-
Registry.
Locality,
Benntary Memetirements,
Apprairates
N.
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Hong kong, 6th May, 1918-
Contents
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Direct from the London Palladium.
Fooking at MOUTRIES.
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TO-NIGHT, MAX 10th.
Hongkong, 20th May, 1916,
165-4
NOW ON SALE,
THE
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TO LET
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TO SUFFER OR NOT TO SUFFER.
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their own self-contained respiratory ap paratus, such as the Draeger, strapped to their backs, instead of being burdened with the air-pipe trailing to an air pump within the submarine..
issued
stamps.
STAMP COLLECTING IN JAPAN...
1)
place in America, and that, as the result of comparative experiments, the United States navy is equipping a super-Dread- A little over three years ago there was nought with this means of propulsion. started in Tokin the first philatelic These activities abroad, coupled with the kukai, or the Stamp Lovers' Society, and lead us to question whether our ship society in Japan. It is called the Yura conclusions arrived at by Mr. Dornan, its journal, the Taraku, takes its name builders have not on this occasion passed from the British magazine, the Stamp without use considerations on pass Lover. From the latest number of this stantial contribution to marine engineer, Japanese journal it appears that oring. We can only hope, for the good ganised philately has been making rapid reputation of British engineers and ship- collectors in Nagoya formed the Air Tie and mechanical gears for turbine pro strides in the country. Last year the builders, that the champions of hydrau kai which is also to be translated pulsion will be able to produce figures. " Stamp Lovers the Kyoto al chociety; and in Evoto and results which will justify their con-
or Kyoto Phila fidénce. telic Society, has just been established. There is also a collectors club in Osaka, The submarine, thus equipped and which, although not strictly philatelic, designed for mine-laying purposes, pro includes a large proportion of stamp eceds in the usual manner to the ground collectors. The apread of such organisa | which is to be planted with mines. She tions in Japan should help to clear that settles quietly upon the sealed. The country of the counterfeiting which has Sir R. Blair, the London County Counties, together with their anchoring been rampant for many years. cil Education Officer, has issued a looklet chains, are transferred to the divers com NEW TOGO ISSUE.
partment. If the vessel; be loaded with containing suggestions to help parents a big cargo of mines the Intter may he former German colony of Togo is about Another set of British stamps for the and teachers in talks to children on the passed in batches and at intervals are to be issued. It consists of the stamps imperative necessity for individual.
quired to the divers' compactment, Theof our Gold Coast Colony, over-printed. economs in every pensy if we are to win men, in their diving dress, enter the com Togo, Anglo French Occupation." partment, which is now locked against There is already a series answering to We must (he says) do our share them, they being unable to re-enter thu this description in use, but the local giving up things that we like: The submarine until admitted from within, overprinting was rude and unsatisfac- country's three needs are health, under telephonic communication being providtory, 80 a new set was ordered front the standing, and victory. When we are ed to facilitate conversation between the printers in London, Messrs. De la Rue tempted to use up anything or to spend commander of the vessel and the com- & Co. The London overprints are bolder money we should ask ourselves this ques-partament. The latter is then charged and clearer, and will be readily dis
** DONT'S ” FOR CHILDREN.
TO IMPRESS ECONOMY ON YOUNG MINDS.
the war.
tion: Which of these three shall I be
helping or hindering
Every penny we spond unnecessarily helps the enemy. As to our little bits of saving being not worth troubling about we can easily get rid of this difficulty by doing a little sum in arithmetic. There are, roughly speaking, forty-five millions of us, men, women, and children, in this country. If we each save a penny, that is £17,500. How much would a penny a wreck come to in a year, or a penny Sir R. Blair suggests that pupils should be asked to write out a list of things they think they can do without, and of ways in which they could avoid waste and make things go further. Here are just a few you might save, but you will be able to suggestions of the sort of things which think of many more than
AUSTRALIA AND SILVER
tinguished from the Colonial production.
LESSONS IN STAMPS.
with air under pressure, the electric rutors, normally used for driving the vessel ander water, being utilised, for this purpose. When the pressure within part to the recognition by a pedagogue Stamp collecting owes its origin in the coropartment has heen raised to a predetermined figure the door in the hull of the educational value of the hobby, is released and the men are free to pass albums or catalogues; a Paris school Before there were any special stamp out. The water cannot enter the divingmaster encouraged his pupils to procure compartment, inasmuch as the air pres Foreign stamps and arrange them in sure within the latter exceeds the hydros-their atlases. His system was followed tatio pressure. Thus, supposing the by others, but it has remained to one of vessel were lying in 70ft. of water the the newest firms in the stamp trade, would have to exceed 3011b. per square this educational side of philately on a air pressure within the compartment Geographis (Lunited) tn. develop inch, which would represent the pressure systematic scale Their stamp cards" a very successful innovation,
per aquare inch exerted by the water have plection of these cards makes a
upon the submarine..
and & The outstanding advantage accruing most attractive combined stamp albu that the task may be carried out during map in the centre, and around the may from planting mines in this manner is and atlas. Each card has a coloured the daytime and in security, because no is a neatly arranged representative selec evidence of the deadly work is betrayed tion of the stamps of the country dealt The stamp cards are already upon the surface. It can also be com- with pleted with facility and despatch. More being extensively used in the class room over, mines may be planted in an area with good effect. A large variety of the which the enemy considers to be beyond cards has now been completed. such a pest.
SALE OF A MANILA STEAMER.
Not going to picture palaces, not eating sweets, not riding in trams, buses or traing unnecessarily, being very care ful not to waste bread or other kinds of food, taking trouble to learn to cook well, 50 as to make the fool taste nice and g | further, keeping the cooking pots clean,
being careful of your clothes, and mend hostile mine-laying tactice to the estuaries By submarine it is possible to push ing them when they want it, not throw of rivers and the approaches to barbours ing away empty bottles or jam pots, but without the slightest warning being ex- The sale of the steamer llondagua by giving or selling them to people who will tended, and the dastardly work can be the Manila Railroad Company to Miguel LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM use ther being careful of the things at carried out at a distance of several hun- J. Ostorio, for the sum of F275,000, is an (applied externally) and feel the pain go, school, like paper and pencils, and even dred miles from a home port, so long as nounced. The new owner is to assume Relief is obtained immediately and periak."
it is within the underwater vessel's possession of the steamer at the expira manent cures are effected in a short time
radius of action. But they can only betion of its present Shanghai charter, cares where the case has been given tip
pursued in comparatively shallow waters which expires on January 1st, 1917. The as hopeless
Hundreds of slaves for rheumatism have
An increased demand for silver coin, and in depths within the limitations of Londagua is an iron screw steamer of forgation what enforing means. You can owing to the war, has arisen in the Anti-those generally accepted for anchored 1,758 gross and 1,208 net registered ton- forget it, too..
podes, as will be seen from the following mines. Of course, if the submarine inage, and was built in 1870. She was Bold et la: 4d, por battle
extract from the Australian newpaper delegated to the task of releasing free formerly the Rigel, the Minas de Bata. Argus under date January 3rd, 1916: mines the vessel is able to sink to any tha. Par, the Adolf Deppe, and the
The Federal Treasury is about to em-depth with the limits for which it has Saxonia. bark on the minting of its own silver been structurally designed, which in the coins.
The departure was made neces-case of the German craft is about 170ft. sary by the world wide shortage of In this instancy the mines, by virtue of silver. This, in turn, is attributed to their buoyancy chamber, instantly. By several causes, the chief of which is the upwards to the surface to become the therefore, in demand, which was brought. It is well-known that Germany pos- tremendous increase in circulation, and, sport of current, tido, and wind. about by the activity displayed in war sesses a large fleet of underwater hornets industries Recently the Commonwealth which have proved to be useless for the Government, finding the supply of silver generally accented submarine operations in Australia: insuficient to meet the They are small vessels of 250 to 300 tons demand applied to Great Britain for of relatively low speed, limited radius Even in laying the mines extreme cau £100,000 worth. But Great Britain had of action up to 1,900 miles and of little tion would have to be displayed: A mis not enough for her own needs, and was aggressive value owing to the restricted hap would be communicated to the sur unable to grant Australia's request. number of torpedo tules and the torpedo face of the ser, when, owing to the The coins could not be made either at magazine capacity. the Royal Mint or Birmingham The at Commonwealth Treasury then asked the
These are eminently adapted to mine. Imperial authorities if they would send laying, but their duties are far from out the dies, and so enable Australia to being as straight-forward and secure as mint her own silver coins of the various they appear at first sight In the first denominations – Tais request was agreed lace, these little vessels have a somewhat to, and the dies are now on the water. limited submerged speed and radius of The permanent head of the Treasury action under such conditions. They (Mr. Allen) expects to be able to go would be called upon to elude the traps straight ahead with the minting of ap and spares to which their consorts as Li,proximately £300,000 worth of silver fighting submarines fell victims, and, if
Continued on next Column.)
FORTHCOMING EVENTS.
'TO-NIGHT
9.15 pm-Concert by Humphrey Bishop and
London Star Co., at the Theatre Royal. TO-MORROW
s.15 p.m.-A Grand Concert at King's
George's Hull
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+
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“CLENSHIEL," Ya 141, Plantation Road,
Posk from 1st November, 1915.
HARTING, Austin Road, Kowloon
No. 4, BELILIOS TERRACE.
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3 pa&totion of Crown Land-st
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Forordinare. Ganarsi Meeting. Saturd 20th May
Nou Hong kong Flectric Co.,
Misting of Shareholders.
coins.
cornered, they would be unable to show any fight owing to lack of torpedoes. have to proceed warily; if detected, ar Operating in shallow water, they would rangements could be speedily completed for their subsequent capture and the de struction of the minefield before any damago could be wrought
-¡ vigilance of those entrusted with the
mino-laying submarine would be sum marily cut short. Favourable weather is also essential to such enterprises because in shallow water a slight sea would be adequate to set up heavy bumping of the aubmarine, which would probably imperil her safety. In these circumstances it is extremely doubtful whether thesab marine will be employed in this diaboli cal duty beyond the 'confines of the Northi
Sea.
HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS
CORPS ORDERS DY LT. COL & CHAPMAN, "V-D}"
NOTICE:
1.--~(1) Tim following extract from the HK. Government Gazette of May 5th, 1910, is published for, informals) tion:-No. 184-It is hereby noti fied that the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration has been granted to Capt. J. H. W. Arm- strong, H.K.V.C., in accordance with the provisions of the Royal Warrants of the 18th May, 1899, and the 3rd August, 1902.
(b) Company Sergt. Majors are re- quested to render to the Corps Sergt. Major before the 15th inst. a return of Ye total number of rounds of bi ammunition in pos session of the members of their units
............ APPOINTMENT,
HE. The Governer has been pleased. to-appoint Le-Cpl. Walter Brown to the temporary rank of 2nd Lieut. in the Engineer Company of the H.K.V.C. with effect from the 4th May, 1916
RESIGNED
3.-No. 1857 Sergt. Silas is permitted to resign on leaving the Colony,
LEAVE
4-No. 1501 Pte. E. L. Sim is granted.
leave of absence from the Colony from 16th instant to 30th June, 1910.
GUARD. 5.Guard Commanders will note that new guard orders have this day been posted, and will make them- selves thoroughly acquainted there- with when next on duty.
----PARADEN, -
6.Parades for to-day.
7_s.m.-Signalling. Section 40?
Class at Headquarters. 5.15 p.m.-Civil Service Company at
Headquarters.
6 p.m. Scouts Co. No. 2 Section at
Headquarters:
DETAIL.
7-On duty till 1ith inst.-B.K.V.R. Next for duty May 12th-No. 1 Bec-
tion Arty. Batty.mp Orderly Officer 12th to 18th-Lieut.
Weall
AE CHURCHILL, Capt,
Adjutant, HEVC.
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.
BAND PRACTICES.-4-29 Monday, May 15th, and Thursday, May 18th, at Central Police Station at 8.15 p.m. sharp.
EQUIPMENT AND EMERGENCY BOARD.
The following Sections are warned to-at-
tend at Central Station between the hours of 5.50 and 8 pm.
All ranks, including medical exempts, are ordered to appear. Leave of ab- sence cannot be given by any other than the undersigned. Every kind of article issued to the indivi
dual members with the exception of Blue Uniform must be produced. Monday, May 15th No. 2 Section Tuesday, May 18th No. 3 Section Wednesday, May 17th-No 4 Section. Thursday, May 19th.-No. 5 Section Friday, May 10th-No. 1 Section Equipment officers will attend with this Sections of their respective Com panies,
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