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INTIMATIONS

NEW SHIPMENT

OF

VICTOR VICTROL

AND

VICTOR RECORDS

RECEIVED BY THE

“EMPRESS OF RUSSIA "

S.S. "TACOMA MARU,"

INCLUDING

THE

LATEST

AND

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SUCCESSES.

S. MOUTRIE & CO.,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6TH, 1918.

FAR EASTERN MEN AND

THE WAR.

Lieut. A. V. Davies, who was recently reported killed, has been wounded and in a prisoner in Bavaria.

CENSORED MAILS. AMERICAN LETTERS ON "EMPRESS OF RUSSIA." STRONG PROTESTS TO US. GOVERNMENT.

Mr. R. Llewellyn Jones, of the China Mutual Life Insurance Co., who was toral Rifle Corps, has been awarded the given a commission in the 15th King'ste

Military Cross,

TRADE IN SOUTHERN PORTS FOR 1915.

SWATOW.

GERMAN CAPTIVES IN JAPAN. The prisoner of war is an anomaly, an incomprehensible thing, to the Japanese, By their creed of martial valour and knightly ways he is a man who should be

The ropurt of the Chinese Maritime dead, 'who should wish to be dead rather

Customs for 1916 shows that the commer- eal activity of Swatow was well main than live facing the light of day, the cyes

Considerable indignation was felt bytained, merchants, with the exception of of comrades, and other men. That such &

entire American community MI

the dealers in bean-tuke, buying on a one lives proves that he has broken faith

Shanghai yesterday (anys the N.-U. Daily rising market. With regard to opium dews of August 20ta), when it became the price of Hk. Ths. 7,600 which prevail- with himself and all the world. Elder

generally kuuwn that illy four-fitus oed in January increased steadily to Hk. omcers and civilians alike deplore the Captain Ray Dallas, of the Northuni

Las American mail received by the 'm-'s. 14,090 in December. The net value hot that, for a second time, young herland Fusiliers, has been awarded the

prexs of Kuanza had been censored by Japanese soldiers sec prisoners of war, Military Cross. This is the first instance,

of the trade of the port for 1915 was British authorities. The indignation ap dk. Tls. 56,827,08, representing an in not wounded or crippled, anu imashained, we believe, (says the N. Daily News)parently arises, not so much from the

rought to be guarded and kept in Japan of a Shanghai boy gaining this distine

rease of 3 million tacles over 1914. mere fact that American mail was cer training and traditivas, all tion.

sored, but from the manner of the doing, af opium, the capital required to finance wing to the enormous rise in the price | Japanese. Tustincts in such matters, being far ditterent from those of Europe.

Captain Harry W. Carritt, Northampmaster sent a long telegraphed protest to as affected other branches of trade. Monday night the American roshe business was considerable, and this A few prisoners taken in outpost tonshire Regiment, killed in action, was the Postmaster General, at Washington,Nevertheless, if opium is eliminated, the

Tsingtao engagements around

the only son of the Rev. T. A. Carritt, orongat to Japan in October, 1914. The of Portishead, and had won the Military mons, to the Department of State, and

as did the Consul-General, Mr. Nam- sar's Commerce can be described as palance arrived in November, soon after

Cross. He went to France in April yesterday the American Chamber

wholesome. the surrender, and were distributed at 12 of last year, and has division headquarters in the provinces.tinuously in the firing line since,

Co Joinerve of China sent a strongly word- the 4,600 Gorman prisoners from Tsing Captain Curritt was 20 years of age, and ao are detained in groups at different had been engaged in missionary work in places.

China for five years. He had hoped to return to that sphere after the war.

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Lieutenant Thomas Malcolm MacQueen, last Lancashire Regiment, who fell on July 15th, aged 29, was the second son of Dr. and Mrs, T. MacQueen, of Bolton House, Eastbourne. He was educated at Eastbourne College. He went to China in the service of the Yangtze Insurance hai to enter the army in December, 1914. He obtained his commission in February, 1915, on the recommendation of the British Representative in China, and had been at the front since last July.

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protest which will go to Washingto through the American Minister at Peking as well as another protest to the Chamber representative at New York who will for ward it to the parent organization, the United States Chamber of Commerco at Washington.

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There was a decrease of foreign im ports of five million taols. Exports of Chinese goods at 15 million taels repre- ented an increase of 34 millions, and imports of Chinese goods an increase of six millions, the exact figure being Hk.

ls. 26,663,120. foreign flour enused a corresponding in- The disappearance of

Several of the larger American firmsicals, while marked increases were noted crease in Shanghai mill flour to 277,344 here were so incensed over the manner in which their correspondence was de

in beans, ground nuts, bean and other livered to them that they telegraphed to

ails, and leaf tobacco. their head offices at liome and to corres mail for China should be so addressed that the postal authorities will no despatch it by a British vessel ja future

LTD., left pondents instructing, that hereafter all

EXCLUSIVE AGENTS.

VISIT THE I. C. S. EXHIBIT

At the Old Post Office,

Pedler St., opposite

Hongkong Hotel,

OPEN FROM

jo A.M. TO 8 P.M.

Stop in and learn' wat I. C. S. Sindants in China dre doing. One of the 280-1. C. 8. Qarses of Special Training offers you the. means to a buster position and salary,

THEATRE

(1074

ROYAL.

MAURICE F. BANDMANN PRESENS

TO NIGHT!

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TO NIGHT!! Commencing AT 9.15 P.M. SHARP. WOLSELEY CHARLES RENOWNED COMPANY,

"THE SCAMPS,"

IN THEIR

MERRY VAUDEVILLE ENTERTAINMENT STRAND, COMEDY AND PALACE THEATRES, LONDON,

Fest THE

ENTIRE CHANGE OF

PROGRAM ME!

IS THIS

PRICES AS USUAL.

MOUTRIE'S.

BOOKING AT

YOUR

SMOKE?

YANG KASK

Organster Specials

Turkish

IT'S THE BEST.

ON BALE

HONGKONG HANSAND REPORTS

the MEETINGS of the LEOBLATIVE COUNCIL for the Ses-ion, 1916.

.

BEVISED BY TEE MEMBERG,

PRICE

1070

[100%

LAPPA.

The total value of the trade of Lappa dk. T. 880,764 over 1914, but less by was Hk, s. 17,600,509, an increase of

dk Tla, 181,910 than 1013, which may be FA SHOAL OF PROTESTS.

Considered a good average year. The It is estimated that four-fifths of the importation of foreign goods showed u Lieutenant George Guy Finlay, Royal Letter mail was opened and resealed with a light increase at Hk. Tis. 11,746,618, but Irish Regiment, killed on July 14th. waed," but with no indication as to where

gummed slip bearing the word "Censor bo Customs Revenue at Hk. Tls. 150,09% the second and only surviving son of the censoring was done or who did it.

howed a decrease of Hk. Tis. 30,000 from Colour Henry T. Finlay, D.L., of Cer. Not only was ordinary letter mail open-owest recorded sines the establishment kigh, County Dublin, and was 20 years ed, but registered mail was also examin-

De previous year's total, making the of age. He was an assistant on Vallam-

of the office in 1887. The importation of brosa estate, Selangor, and volunteered ed., Instances are cited where parts of ertificated Indian opium through the from the Malay States at the outbreak of cuck sures of letters are missing entirely,appa stations was only nine chests, and, the war, nad obtained his commission, in the missing parts of the correspondence owing to the additional tax and tho January, 1915. In May of the same year referring to commercial matters only he joined his regiment at the front, and such, for example, as an estimate for a

.ormation of a syndicate in Canton, it is | served with it until his death.

robable that little opium will find its younger brother was killed in action at recipient bere has been waiting for some

His certain engineering work for which the way into China by that channel. Aubers Ridge on May 8th, 1915,

The export of Chinese goods increased time, the letter referring to the "enclosed and with a pin attached showinį

** 20 per cent, aggregating Hk. Tls. that the enclosure was originally insert

,260,660, mate taking first place with ed. Possibly the censor, in the hurry of

ik. Tls. 100,000. There, were no imports his work, enclosed the missing correspond

f Chinese goods. The oyster beds, owing. ence in a letter for another firm-which iamage resulting in a decrease of 600 o the ingress of flood water, auffered has happened before, to the loss of onniculs in the total of dried oysters frm and the gain of another which re ceived and acted upon information to

ixported. which it was not entitled.

The literal application of the food re- gulations might work a hardship on Europeans in Japan, and the Govern

ent has been very liberal in ging supplies of foreign food for the vs. The first prisoners brought or from carly outpost engagements said Sadly

They treat us very well. But, oh they give us so much tea. Equally they sold by the Japanese Government To Jacco Monopoly. They wanted something black and strong, and were allowed to import cigars at their own expense, without duty. When individual prisoners ordered cigars by the hundred boxes, the Custom authorities protested, with effect. The arrival of 4,460. prisoners from Tsingtao did not stun or thrill the egun- try-side nor whip the nation's imagina. ou as did the arrival of the first groups ind the tens of thousands of Russian pri- oners in 1904-5. The prisoners have not come in Euch

nurubers this time, and they are meek and philosophi

apraceful looking lot. glad to reach the quiet and comfort of order ed restful existence in clean Japan fter three months of noisy, Tsingtag They are educated, and no such burden of ignorance disgraces Japanese

oil as in 1904 when the srandalised Captain Walter Joel Ralphs, R.F.A., Bcials made the Russians who could killed on July 15th, went home on the read and write turn to and teach the outbreak of hostilities from the Far East, nighted thousands of the rank and file where he had been for several years on The German prisoners greedily avail the staff of the Chartered Bank, and themselves of the obligatory lesson in the stationed mainly in Shanghai. Japanese language one hour a week, and athlete and all round sportsman he be ven engage further instruction. Many came famous in the Enst when a lieu- save made such progress in the language tenant in the Imperial Light Horse as a geady that the end of the war will find rider and polo player, and commanded a them better equipped than ever to push squadron of Light Horse in the second Serman, commercial interests in the Far Chinese revolution. Captain Ralphs had East Prisoners may send and receive seen a year's active service in France as etlers and money orders free of charge, forward observing officer to a battery, and gifts of every kind may be received He was gazetted second lieutenant to the after due inspection; visitors were very Royni Field Artillery on December 30th, freely permitted at first, and many offi1914, promoted lieutenant on March 25th. ers' wives were allowed to rent houses 1916, and a few days before being killed was promoted captain for service in the

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and live in the same town as the field. He was the younger son of Mr,.

rs. The abuse of this last privilege lud o its curtailment. Some families, with ut applying or waiting for the War lice perinissien, arrived pell-inell with children, dogs and Chinese servants, and Provincial towng were treated to such cenes and sounds as the occasional mix onary family had never afforded. Not he theatre nor the moving pictures had repared that provincials for the frantic

lustrations of affection, the raptur sur greetings of the loud-voiced prisoners d their voluble frans. The doings and the going on of these imported households were a nine days' wonder, and a ane bed am was raised in otherwise quiet corners of provincial Japan.

and Mrs Joel Ralphs, of Blenheim Place, Dukinfeld.

data

When a representative of the North Ching Daily News yesterday called or would give no information whatever be the American Postmaster, Mr. Darrah

yond stating that he had reported the whole matter to Washington and that be had nothing to say, as the affair is in the bands of the Post Office Department The American mail received by the press of Russia comprised 144 sacks,

KONGMOON.

Kongmoon trade only totalled Hk. Tis 2682,616, or Hk. Tls. 2,205,593 less than he aggregate for 1014, while revenue col- lection suffered to the extent of Hk. The

25,103, representing a little over half of the collection of the preceding year. imports of foreign goods totalled RL. TEST 3,579,314, decrease of Hk. Tle. 047,405, of which the principal item was pium, which fell from Hk. Tls.. 1,348,298 Hk. Tla. 103,289. Chinese goods ex- arted were valued at Hk. Tls. 1,103,202,

Besides mail addressed to American sensored, mail for British firms in Shang hai was examined as well. It was state destructive floods causing a falling at the American Consulate-General yes terday that official mail from the depart

in prepared tobacco, leaf, and fruits. There was only a slight decrease in the ments at Washington was opened, so thaimportation of Chinese goods at Hk. Tie,

censors showed no discrimination 1,001,113. The American post office yesterday wa

the

Major Perey Anthony, Welsh Regiment, who has heen killed in action, was a son of Mr Charles Anthony, late proprietor and editor of Hereford Times. Major Anthony volunteered in the Malay Stales swamped with protests, cuch protester in October, 1914, and, being accepice, writing a complaint as though he were signed his appointment at Batu Gajah the only one whose mail had been ta and was gazetted jemporary captain in tho Welsh Regiment. He served as a lica- pered with, and it is interesting to note tenant in the contingent of Herefordshire that among the earlier and most vigorous Volunteers attached to the 2nd Shrop-protests were received from British Arm shire Regiment during the South African who apparently thought that the censor- War, and had the Queen's medal with ing was done by the American authori five clasps. GENELOT'S TREATMENT OF PRISONERE.

An allround athlete, in

ties. One firm asked "When, where and In Japan German residents who South Africa was captain of the who consored this letter, and by what yehaved themselves, went on living in Wanderers' Cricket Club, and played authority their houses exzeity as well treated, as three-quarter for the Transvaal. He was afe and unharmed, as before the war.

in the Bulwich College cricket eleven and No one was mobbed or molested, not a football fifteen. He headed the Hereford tope thrown, nor a sigy down, and Gershire averages for more than one season, Ban professore and teachers and pastors and was invited to qualify for Surrey continued their work as usual. One pro and Worcestershire, invitations he could fessor in Imperial University, not accept owing to his engagements responding to the sigmons for reservists, left for Germany on August 'Ist.

Lieutenant W. J. Ralphs, who was in assigned his salary to his wife, and the the service of the Chartered Bank of Japanese Covernment continued to pay.

the

He

abroad:

WHERE WAS IT DONE?

VOLUNTEER RESERVES.

ORDERS. BY MAJOR WAKEMAN, O.C., H.S.V.E.

NOTICE.

All Officers and Sergeants of the Corps will parade at Major Wakeman's Office in the Courts of Justice, at 5.30 p.m., on 7th Sept., 1916.

G. H. WAKEMAN, Major,

Commanding, H.K.V.R. HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

PARADES, CENTRAL STATION.

7th-Whole of No. 4 Company under Chief Inspector Mason and C.S. Major, 3.45 p.sn.

Thursday, Sept. 7th.--Certain men de- tailed from No...2 Platoon, as per previous Orders, 5.46 p.m.

NO. 2 COMPANY. Wednesday, Sept. 6th-All ranks, ex

cepting medical exempts, will fall in under the O.C Company at Central Police Station at 9 p.m. Uniform, caps with covers, and rifles. Members of the Police Reserve Banil attached to Sections will parade with their Sections. The remainder of the Rand, except drummers, will parade without their instrumenta The Drums will attend:

BAND PRACTICE.

It is not known where the censoring- was done, but the general opinion aceme to be that it was done on the Empress of Russia nt sea. This, however, seems im-Tuesday, Sept 5th, and Thursday, Sept probable, as those who visited the sbir and talked with the purser and other vlicers' say that no mention was made of censoring A more probable explanation is that the work was done on the small it to lor in Tokyo for all of the year's India, Australia and Cains, is reported teamer between Seattle and Victoria at which port the Empress took on her mail to have been killed in the recent fight Another leave of plzence requested:

The nail left Seattle at nine o'clock in university professor answering the sung in France. He was well-known is

the morning and arrived at Victoria at mans repaired to Tonggo, and in due Shanghai in many spheres of activity,

two in the afternoon, and in the interval time was brought back to Japan as bus first and foremost as a volunteer and

of five hours a large staff of censors could prisener of war. He at once asked leave one of the keenest and most enthusiastic to retârn in his classes, and was amazed members the Shanghai Light Horse has done the work. The steamers run- The manager of the ever known. He rapidly rose thorough is known that for some time the Cana- ging from Seattle to Victoria aro British. at a refusal Deutsche Bank at Yokohama, usled that the ranks and received a commission in

dian authorities have been consoring all his head book-keeper be permitted to coune 1992, laking command of the uuit soon

mail between the United States and back from detentine on parole, and was afterwards. Lieutenant Halphs was a

Canada and vice versa, and it would not puzzled that the request was not granted. well-known figure at paper hunts, of be surprising were censors at work on At Christmas in 1914, a Japanese who which he was several times heavyweight the ships between Seattle and Vic had lived in Germany, suggested a gift winner, and he also met with success as toria. The Empress of Inssit sailed

Christmas trees to the German prison-

a jockey in the Kiangwan Gymkhana from Fistoria on the evening of August The Japanese YM.C.A. undertook Meetings. At the outbreak of war, he the work of finding 50 perfect little was stationed at Hanków. He sailed for

The mail arriving by the tangenbaume in the Bender region, wh050 England in the autumn of 1814. He at August 3rd was not molested.

Monteagle sailing from the same port on foresters, wood-cutters, and university

once obtained a commission as · 2od professors worked hard to fell and drag Lieutenant in the Artillery and later the trees to the railway, which transport- ed them free. The Y.M.C.A, also sent received his second atar. At the time of thousands of candles, and sheets of his death, he was taking refuge in a dug- Christaas note paper, and the American out, when his shelter was struck by a Bible Society gare a German New Testa- ment to each German prisoner. The same festival was observed in 1915,

The Kaiser's birthday was celebrated each January as a holiday, with feasts, speeches, and songs; and at Fukucka the captive Governor and his staff made it a very, ceremonious affair. Can anyone imagine British and Belgian prisoners in Germany being allowed to celebrate their sovereign's birthdays in

such any fashion? Were their families allowed to join them -Japanese Supplement of The Times.

hell. It is characteristic of the man that, although mortally wounded, some of his last words ware for the care of the horses, to which he was all his life so devoted,

CHINA'S CABINET.

NAMES SUBMITTED TO PARLIAMENT.

President Li Yuan-hung forwarded to the House of Representatives on the 29th ult, the names of the Cabinet Ministers for their approval. The list is as fol- lows:-

Chi jui.

Premier and Minister of War, Tuan

10th.

SHIPPING NOTES, RISE IN SUEZ CANAL DUES. A further rise of 50 centimes (5d.) per ton in the Suez Canal, duos is announced to take effect as from the 5th October,

Friday, Sept. 8th, at 6 p..

The Lecture on Discipline and Routing, fixed for Thursday, Sept. 7th, is adjourned pending the issue to all ranks of the Police Reserve Standing Orders, now in the course of print ing

F. C. JENKIN,

D.S.P. (B).

LECTURE CANCELLATION.

DIRECT SHIPMENTS OF SIAMESE bringing the rate for laston ships to f

RICE FOR CUBA, £50. (6%) per ton, and for slips in ballast to 4. 750. (39. 11d.) per ton.

During the last six months of the were raised as from the 1st April last, 1916, 8,070,525 lb. of

The dues Siamese fiscal year ended March 31st, by a centimes, and the possibility of the otherwise known as No. 1 white rice, Siam Gardea," present increase was mentioned" at the annual meeting of the company, held valued at 8143,671 gold, were, states the recently in Paris. It was then pointed American Vico-Consul in Bangkok, Mr. transit receipts last year declined by Bangkok for Cuba. Siam Garden rico out that, in consequence of the war, the Carl C Hansen, shipped from the port of nearly 21 per cent, and the total receipts now forms the larger proportion of the by nearly 27,000,000f, (£1,080,000). In the rice exported from this country and is years immediately preceding the war the best quality produced in Siam; but In the bloodiest actions of the present

there was a steady reduction of the dues, it is said, however, that occasionally i war the less of the British forces en-

and the increase now announced will is mixed with a cheaper and poorer quali gaged did not exceed 12 per cent. killed

raise the rates to the level of 1911. ty, called "Na Muang," the grains of and wounded of the whole engaged.

which are short and cracked, and easily. Even at Neuve Chapelle the losses spread

Minister of the Navy, Ohen Pil-kuan.

GERMANY'S NEW LOAN,

broken during the milling process The over several days did not exceed 10 per

Minister of Justice, Chang Yoo-tseng.

Siam Garden rice derives its name from cent. In the recent advance it could

Minister of Education, Fan Yuan-lien.. Germany has launched a new war loante fact that it was originally grown in not have been more than 1 per cent. At

Minister of Communications Hsu of £500,000,000, which will bring up here ditches of vegetable gardens, but its Waterloo we lost 42 per cent.;

Shih-ying.

total to £2,500,000,000. To fill the last loan, sultivation is now carried on on vast Minister of Commerce, Ku Chung-which was a financial fiasco, the German tracts of land. The amount of Siam rice Balaclava 70 per cent.; at Albuerz, 60 Noon-Douglas Steamship Co., Ltd., Meet-actions it ran from 19 to 50 per cent, of

per cent., and in many almost forgotten biu.

Government appropriated the whole of shipped to the United States for the ing of Shareholders.

Minister of the Interior, Sun Hung-yi. the deposits in the people's saving above period was 557,600 lb., valued at 2 Minister of Finance, Chen Chia-tao.

817,700 sold,

FORTHCOMING EVENTS.

TO.NIGHT

9.15 p.m.The Scamps" at the Theatr

Royal

***

$5

Tuesday, 20th Sept

DAILY FabISH - OFFICE,

the force engaged..

At

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tang Shao-yi.

banks.