INTIMATIONS
Ten Victor Records which
should be in
every
home
JUArlestonne Suite (Bizét) Part 4.
17008-
Caprics Eapanol.
(Beaumont)
17784-
[Twilight-Crepuscale,
Viulia-Cello-Harp
17929-
Violin-Flute-Cello-Harp Hopp Solo
"Song
Album Lent
Nora-Fantasin Lucia-Prelade.
74400-usa-Visi d'arte 87218--Cielo Tarchino... 87030-Madame Butterfly 64130-Menuet) (Hodyu) .74182--Thais--Intermezzo.
Batterfly's Death
Violin colo
6:694-Who the Buys coine Home
70116-Bonnie Maggie Tamson
11
Spox Comic Song
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13f¤, 1918.
Vessella's Italiau Band..
Venetian Trio. Florentino Quartet. Lupitino
Alda Caruso, Geraldine Farra
Micha Elman. Kreisler, Evan Williams. Harry Lauder
MOUTRIE'S
VICTOR AGENTS.
THEATRE
ROYAL.
MAURICE E. BANDMANN PRESENTS
TO-NIGHT!
(29-3
TO-NIGHT!! COMMENCING AT 9.15 P.M. SHARP.
A FAREWELL
OF
PERFORMANCE
WOLSELEY CHARLES RENOWNED COMPANY,
"THE SCAMPS."
PRICES AS USUAL
BOOKING AF MOUTEIE'S.
BOXING!
CITY HALL,
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THE NEED OF A STANDARD | TYRANNY OF THE YOUNG
COIN. 7
COMMENTS BY THE CANTON COMMISSIONSH UF AUSTURS.
In his report on the trade of Cantop during 1915, mr. H. F. Miml, Com Tolover of Customs, saye
TURKS.
SECRET MOVEMENT FOR ITS OVERTHROW.
SYMPATHY WITH ARAB REVOLT.
THE JOURNEY HOME,
HOSPITAL SHIPS AND TRAINS.
PERFECT ORGANIZATION. There is a great dock basin on the
south coast that harbours a feet of ships
VOLUNTEER RESERVES.
OROSES BY MAJOR WAKEMAN, 0.0, HIV.E
MUSKETAY..
is notified that the afternoons of the undermentioned dates have been allotted to units as under for Firing Part 1 of the annual musketry
mealoers, including those ordinarijy pars at King's Park Hange. Al exempted, but excluding those
will parade with their units on the dates named. The Lour of parados will be given in further orders.
great variety of currency, ouers great of Union and Progress is rapidly gaining is a broad green stripe broken at interexcapted under medical curtificate,
in
The movement in Constantinople almost unknown before the war. They The local exchange market, with it against Enver Pasha and the Committee are white painted, and round their sides chances to the speculator and to the munt strength (says The Times correspondent vals with the Red Cross of mercy. When porok, had to bum was,
the Balkan Peninsula) The Old war blazed out on the Continent we had huskes a business of pronting by, bie suade of Guerence 10-410-day quota Turk Party has Jatterly been reinforced but few of these ships, and steps were tions or Longsong notes, bank ut China by the clandestine adresion of many imagen to supply what would obvious The Company Sergt. Majas or Company So tlus "Qr. Bir-Bergh, will attend with tho nutes, the seven or eight Kings or duas portant persons, who, while openly pro become a great need. WHICH, BTC, I use more, the preren Turks, secretly favour the cause of the it carries its sad freight over the fering loyalty to the policy of na Young zeef of mergy was forined, and now
units of their Company Officers in command of Platoons will be respon- grades and antierent mixtures of thore of Entente, and steadily aim at the over-seven seas away from the roar of
sible for the transport of their unit les cropped dollars, le sucent pieces, throw of Enver and his partisans. Their the guns and the stutter of the mitrail
from Hongsong to the range, and ios 10-cent pieces, and the copper ved resolve to put an end to the present euse to the quiet of the long white hos
will make the necessary, arrangements tno non-professional traucher in ex regent has been quickened by the patal wards in England. They are part
regarding ammunition, hring point. registers, and sand baga, etc. 'the to buy of to sell, to bol row, or to lehu, Pirs Offce their plan is accomplished a marvellous organization the fring falis an easy victim. rongsong they would immediately ask for peace step and hops over the parapet and under
Turf Private Atkins cuntas froni
Sergeant in charge of the Signalling - Section will arrange for a signalfer" maintained Lacin position as the most Vaiuasie torus of currency, though tau favourable terms from the Entente the world hise an underground train Drill order will be worn at all parades
to be in attendance on each date. in the hope of obtaining comparatively the wire in front. He hears & sound for advantage in their favour was consider Powers and averting the impending coming through the tunnel before it aly lessened during the year, authoritus catustrophe imperfectes a station, and then there is a
change, y comung into the market, either
for musketry, m
Units, excepting Kowloon residents, de
tailed for the week ending 3rd: September will parado at Blake Pier at 3.45 p.m.
Members residing at Kowloon will parado
at the King's Park lange at the 100. yards firing point at 4.10 p.m.
DATES FOR MUBEÉTRY.
Company Platoon,
The need of a standard
The design, however, has hitherto been crash that deries all description. Some tively recognised as ing pasis of value Dus been strongly genibustrated by ife dim- frustrated by the rigorous measures of one inust have filled the tunnel up and the suitics and disputes which have arisen precaution taken by the Young Turks train has charged it. That is what ducing in your in connection with the and the Germans, and it is now recogniz | Private Atkins inhinks. In reality he has rates at which bank notes Lave been takened that in the present eirenmstances au in a twinkling of an eye changed his in payment of Customs duties; and a efort to revolt would have no chance of state, Hic has become absorbed by the strong effort has been made to have the success. Meanwhile Enver remains marvellous organization. Presently, he is Chung Yang, or new Hepublican dollar, master of the situation and spreads terror gathered in and ticketed and taken to a officially declared to be the standard fun overy side. Executions, open or place where they add cryptic initials to 18th Sept., Monday, value. Sterling exchange opened at 3s. secret, are almost of daily occurrence. the red ticket tied to the second button 19th Sept., Tuckday, 9d to the Hongkong dollar in January: and only slight changes took place until simulate their hostility to the Govern Head, S. thigh and 1 arm," In the 21st Sept., Thursday,
For the present Enver's enemies dis of his tunic It now reads, G. 20th Sept., Wednesday, about the end of August, when a gradualment while secretly fostering the growing collecting things From now on Atkins 26th Sept., Tuesday words of the surgeon, Atkins has been 25th Sept., Monday, "rise began which took the dollar to Is, discontent. Demonstrations of Moslem
1/3-16d. before the end of December, women have been organized, who besiegs loss all power of volition. Ho-is-hand 27th Sept Wednesday, Exchange on, Shanghai went through re the Ministry of War, crying, Give us led by many people like a very delicate 28th Sept., Thursday, markable fluctuations the quotation in hack our husbands, sons, and brothers." and fragile piece of merchandise. He Bad Out, Monday,
4th Oct, Wednesday, January was as high as 80 candareens to The Ulents, with the Sheik ul Islam, is loaded on to motor-ambulances and a dollar it stood in the vicinity of 79 stand aloof from the Government. They taken off again, and put on to trains 5th Oct. Thursday, until Septeinber, when it fell to 78, it are much exicited at the Arab revolt, that hurry him to the sea-board as if he 6th Oct., Friday, went down 1 candareen in October, and which they attribute to Enver's pro-Ger- were perishable goods, which, after all oth Oct.,
Monday, dropped to 4 at the end of November-man policy and anti-falante tendencies he is. Then he is carried on board a 10th Oct., Tuesday recovering to 75 in December. They sympathize with the Grand Sherif, hospital ship, and for 12 hours at least 11th Oct, Wednesday,
Bank notes continued to pass current who, they hope, will proclaim himself he has comparative peace.
12th Oct Thursday, in the market at considerably higher Caliph and obtain the recognition of the SYSTEM AS WATUE WORD,
16th Oct., Monday, value than the coins represented by them Mosh world. Such action would prob. These ships were never meant to carry 18th Oct.,
17th Oct., Tuesday, a promise to pay 100 Hongkong dollars ably lead to momentous events in Con- anyone more sick than the usual cros
Wednesday, conveyed, it may be, on a lthy tattered stantinople. The dissensions among Unannel tripper, but the brains and in 3rd Oct., Monday,
10th Oct., Thursday, rag, exchanging in the market for from Young Turk coteries have latterly become genuity of a wonderfully adaptable sel 103 to 104 of the very dollars promised, more pronounced,
24th Oct., Tuesday, of men have transformed them into float 25th Oct., Wednesday, although, of course, redeemable at the Lanks of issue at face values only Ji is Considerable supplies of flour, haricots, ing hospitals, with all the comforts and 26th Oct. Thursday, difficult to account satisfactorily for this maize, and other provisions have latterly the conveniences of an infrmary on land.
arrived from Samsay, Sinope, Incboli, the saloon has been converted into anomalous state of affairs; for the greater and other Anatolian ports. The com- long ward and all the floor space is taken convénience, în handling and transporta tion, of bank-notes, and the security they parative abundance of foodstuffs, which up by the swinging cots. The social hal offer against loss by counterfeit coins, is indicated by the fall in price of bread, above is another bay and in every are not elsewhere valued at anything like has relieved the public mind of anxiety corner of the boat there are beds. The with regard to the imminence of famine, R.A.M.C. man looks upon all cases ar so high a premium. In the case of the but it fails to remove the gloomy unpres cats" and sitters. The sitters are All Bank of China notes, the premium over poin was only 3/10 to 4/10 of 1 per cent ion caused by the progress of the Ara- those who can sit up and fend for them - premium which may perhaps be acbian rovolt, the fall of Erzinjan, and the selves. The cots are the men who have counted for on grounds of convenience disasters of the Austrian Army The to be fed and touded by the orderlies combat this One of these ships loaded 300 of both Government endeavours to and security against counterfeit,
feeling by issuing accounts of imaginary kinds in 35 minutes one day last month. victories on all fronts, which, however, Bystem is the watchword of the mica fail to impress the upper classes. The service, and the very men who toil up multitude exists in a state of blissful the long gangways with the stretchers ignorance and finding enough to eat and have absorbed this system until they are profiting by a slight revival of business, machine like in their movements, Col No remains fairly trauquil
cases, needless to say, take a great den more handling than the others, and for that reason there are lifts fitted in these ships to take the stretchers in and down from the lower decks. Doors have been widened to give free passage and the whole construction of the vessel has been
THE TWO RHODENIAS.
AMALGAMATION PROSPECTS
In view of the petition which has been addressed to the Secretary of State for the
SATURDAY, SEPT. 1675, 1916, COMMENCING AT EM. SHART. DOVES OPEN 8.30 PM Colonies from Hongkong in favour of a
For the Heavyweight Championship of the Colony,
15 ROUNDS LONTËST
CORPL. SCOTF, H.E. 2. SKAMAN HIGGS.
Champion 10. ROUNDS CONTEST
For the Lightweight Championship of the Colony,
SAPPER RICHABOS,
Lightweight Champion?.
SEAMAN
10 BOUNDS CONTEST
PTE. BEESTY V. PTE. COTTON.
Bantam Champion of the Colony.
Light
8 ROUNDS CONTEST
PTE. THOMAS 7. PTE PLANT.
GROUNDS CONTEST
KELLY weight of the 4th K.S.L.I.
ISAACS,
Hongkong, v. YOUNG ALFREDO, Manila. BOOKING AT MOU TRIE'S. PRICES: $5, 83 AND 82. Soldiers and Sailors in uniforma $1.
G. GOLDSBOROUGH, Promoter,
IS THIS
YOUR SMOKE?
Was minster "Specials
Turkish
IT'S THE
BEST.
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DINNER AND DRESS.
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G. H. WAKEMAN, Major,
Commanding, H.K.V.R.
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE,
MOUNTED" POLICE » TEGRAVE.
ranks will report at Stables at 8.45 m pm on Friday, September 15th.. COMPANY PARADES, CENTRAL STATION, 5.15 E.M."
No. 1 Company Thursday, September No. 12 Company Friday, September 14th, und Thursday, September 21st.
15th, and Wednesday, September 20th
No.
Company Wednesday, September 13th and Friday, September 22nd.
4 Company-Thursday, September 14th, Monday, September 18th, and Friday, September 22nd, Ambulance Platoon-Monday, Septem-
ber 18th.
RIFLES.
altered to England is n matter No. 3 Company will attend at Wednes
From France to a our at 5.30 p.m. sharp on of aliout 12 hours at the most. To soinc day, September 13th, and return
rifles for inspection
the
side
All
ranks will attend in plain clothes for
AMBULANCE PLATOON.
Stretcher Drill at Central Station on Wednesday and Friday, September 13th and 6th, at 5.30 p.m.
BAND
F. O. JENKIN,
D.S.P. (B).
more representative form of Govern Mr. J. W. Robertson Scott, in an pent, it is interesting to notice the pro- teresting article in The World's Work, nesis which have recently been made in urges that it is of the very essence of
onnection with the project for amal- gamating Northern and Southern Rhodes that the thing that prevents most many anxious eyes are strained to catch gentlemanliness to be economical, and is 12 hours of hell, but others are able to appreciate their position letter, and
Lord Buxton, the High Commissioner, of us from being economical in just cowar- the cliffs of Dover pr. the rolling Sussex peaking on the subject at Bulawayo, dice, Simplicity of life, he observes, has downs. When the ship reaches the quas aid that in the event of the vote of the often gone along with nobility of chat- there is another invasion of stretcher- egislative Council on the subject not acter and genius, and it is usually the bearers, and in an hour every wounded being unanimous it would certainly be dry person who is lavish for lack of man is, evacuated. They are carried is duty to scrutinise carefully the con- Taking dining out, which is one of the to the wharf and taken through a vast
originality or strength of character. down the long canvas roofed gangway Band Praet ec.--Friday, September lätt. stitution of the majority and give the big sources of expense, he declares this to shed to a series of bays. These bays are greater weight to the voice and views of bo the most obvious nonsense and vul-built like a scene on a theatre stage with the representative members."
garity. In a measure it provides the no roof of their own and only three sides, Under the terms of the draft Rhode means for social intercourse; but often There is even a fire place to ia Order in Council" and the draft of conversation at dinner is an absolute stage effect. On the a proposed agreement between the Score failure and frequently only a very mothere is a table piled with forms and
promplete cary of State for the Colonies and the derate success. If people met only for a there a doctor site through all the day British South Africa Company, the lot good talk why, he asks, burden them and filling in forms and recording all that ser pledges itself to meet from sources their hosts with great meals? If it has to be recorded when a man comes in other than the public revenue any deficit were not for the burden of dinner giving wounded. The bays are each filed with in the administrative accounts of North-que dinner giving and as the acknowledg one class, and in one there are a number ern Rhodesia In the enlarged Legisinment of dinner giving, social gatherings of cases where the wound is in the head typewriter clicks as the wheels click tive Council, Northern acdesia is to be which now take the form of dinners would and a trophining operation has been over over the metals. In the orderlies granted three seats, the number of clects be smaller and more attractive. There carried out In the next comparatment V ud membebrs being thus increased to 15; on would be eliminated from the lists of are a number of Anznes, if the fext 30 vain endeavour to drown the roar of the
quarters there isonary singing-in-a- the other hand, only a single additional guests all the people we ought to asof the bays there are a number of men in library as well; Some of these men have of 40 sitters. Soinetimes at the end train. There is a gramophone and a representative of the Northern Tryince wanted to meet, Obviously the dinnera grey uniforms, silent and dazed most of lived in these quarters for nearly two nominated member will be introduced a and there would remain the people we - that the elected members will have would be ever so much jollier, them, but receiving the same attention a years and, have travelled thousands of He condemns the coily stimulants the others. These are German prisoner3 miles to all parts of Britain. One of the The electural system of Southern Rhode-which accompany the over-stimulating who have been wounded and captured on started keeping a way-book to show a is to be made generally applicable to fare at formal dinners and adds, "What They are sent to special hospitals, and him the number of miles he had travelled provision is made for the increase of the them per se it cannot be doubted that the for all that is done for them. The rise in the price of paper and the
a representation of 15 as against seven.
King has done the right thing in setting the example of doing without them 0
time of war.
The medical officer in charge of the not one of the ward coaches, but an ad- train has his quarters in the front coach, ditional one. He has a small sitting room, a bedroom, and a lavatory all ensue. Ho even has a telephone, and caring up the orderlies' rooms and the pharmacy car. There is an ofhoo where
fecting
Among the particulars taken when the ramped room for storage upset his plan. number of elected members to a maxi
men are put in the bays are details as and now he contents himself with buying mum of 30, in keeping with the growth
to their native towns. And here the War picture post cards as a record. There are in number of registered voters from time
Mr. Robertson has also some unortho Office shows itself more human than most to time Northern Rhodesia, of course, dor views on women's dress, which he people believe it. Whenever it is possio cooks on each train and meat rations in grasted a larger measure of represents thinks might surely be standardised to be a wounded man is sent to the town be cooked for 200 men on the gas tion to begin with than could be claimed some degree, Women spend so much of from which he game, so that he can be res. There are linen cuboards that would make a housewife envious. Every se the electoral basis, and it is stipulated their tire over clothes, he concludes, be near his friends and relations. When time the train completes a preser that in ang readjustment of seats its cause there is no definiteness in their this is not possible he is sent to the his sheets and bedding are all changed. In The terms of the Order with regard to China and Japan, and his experience, there are a large number of men of one immediately sprayed with formalin and members shall not be reduced below three dress. He has lately been on a visit to pital nearest to his town. Somalines cases where there is infection they are the nominated element is surprisingly and observation of women's dress in regiment who who have been enlisted in
beral. It is proposed that the same these countries leads him to say some nice one county. When the number is sub afterwards treated to a thorough disia- ratio, as at the outest-nuinely, 15 to 7 things about what he saw worn at Pek-ciently large to warrant it the hospital They are queer passengers, these mer train makes a special trip and takes them from the battlefields of France, and they ing and Tokyo. He writes:
tingent on the vacancies in the hospital, are all very brave. You may stand in tingent on the vacancies in the hospitals between long lanes of cota occupied
THE TRAIN OF MERCY.
men in the agonies of broken limbs and Opposite the sick hays are the trains, gaping younds, but you will hear never One has come to look upon a hospital a mustur of pain. There is the inevit- ship as something permanent, with a crew able cigarette stuck in the corner of the and captain and a staff of medical offico most tightly bandaged mouth, and each that never leave her except in cases of man holds tight to a calico bag that cor transfer, then they are replaced Some responds to the ditty box of the sailor, how the public do not see the hospital. In this bag are all his most treasured train in the same way. It is a fact, belongings, and even if he had both however, that these trains are in every aring bandaged and useless he would way as permanent as the ships. They are earry it in his teeth rather than leave
members.
ll he preserved as far as possible, and that were that is not possible the advan For generations the dress of the tage should be on the side of the elector Chinese woman-long coat and trousers ite; so that at all times the official re-and of the Japanese woman kimono presentation will be fractionally less and obi-has remained practically-the the one third of the total number of same. Only the materials have changed
And who shall pretend that Western women, with the tremendous energy not to speak of the time, they give to plaining and choosing their clothes, have acheived more artistic results Though some is recognise ay an Americanism to day, it my really been Honesty must compel an impartial per horrowed from us--one of our verbal emi-sou to admit that there is no drces at grants that has found a wider applica- once so dignified, so hygienic, so artistic tion in a new environment, and visite us and so comfortable as the Chinese lady's never broken up, and they have their it in the custody of the storeman at the
of it. The word is stil part of the vernacu subjection to fashion plates be only to lar of Devon (Teign Valley district), be badly defeated by the coaches, lettered from A to E Tu each the men are carried, those that cannot where you may be greeted by. It did rain standardised dress, why not admit the fact and try to do something in the way um (some), to indicate the extent of a standardisation too? Undoubtedly recent downpour. Devoushiro has fur-
iched the United States with other verwith sweeping reforms made in our eat ing, drinking and dressing, are should bal em grants, such as guças, cálk fate," and "reckon all now branded as the high road to simplicity."
have moved a considerable distance on American goods.
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nurses. Each train is composed of five At Waterloo the last shift is made and there are 20 cpter and these are numbered walk to the waiting ambulances and from 1 to 100. Each coach is a ward on muotor-cars which take them, to the hos wheels, and the whole train is a complete pital. The marvellous organization has hospital ready for any emergency in the anished with them, but it goes on just way of operations or dressings. There the same, handling all this precious is even a bath.
haman freight, bringing it back to be made sound again. It is a great and wounderfal system imes
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