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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9rr, 1916

On the 8th at 10.05.-Pre sur Ins in creased oraldersbly at Shanghai, and decreased modera oly over Japan.

A

strong auti opcion, which was contra' to the east of Tokio yesterda..., 'han punen into the Pacific.

A dep e-s'on is shown to the south of the Locchus.

The monosa will freshen considersly along the cast coast of China and over the N. Chna

Hen

Hongkong rainfall for 24 hours, ending at 10 am. to-day, 0.00 inch Total sings 1st Jannaty, 79.13 laokes, against an average of {B0F8 inches, relat

The forecast for the 24 hours ending at moon to-day in as follows :--

DISTRICT

Hongkong to Gap Rock

Formon Channel

FORECAST N.E.win's, fresh 10 strong fine. {becoming colder, ...'N.E. gale.

Bouth Coast of China between (The une s

Hongkong and Lamooks

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HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER.

Hongkong Observatory, November 8th,

¡Previous On Date On Date

DAY

GERMAN HOLD ON TURKEY.

IMMENSE ACTIVITY IN ABIA.

NOBLE SELF-SACRIFICE.

HOW MAJOR LOUDOUN-SHAND WON THE TO

AUDACITY OF A FRENCH CAPTAIN.

AT THE KEAD OF EIGHT MEN HE CAPTURED A FORT.

The Hulletin des Arméns publishes account of the Somme operationg during the period from July 19th to July 30th, containing a description of the capture of the village of Biaches, in which the following episode is particularly strik- ing

LORD MAYOR'S BANQUET.

CAN IT HE SIMPLIFIED I

CITY FATHERS' PROBLEM.

The Prime Minister has made the sug A story of magnificent self-ancrifice is revealed in the posthumous award of the gestion that this year's Lord Mayor's Victoria Cross to Major Stewart Walter banquet should be of a simple nature, Loudoun-Shand, of the Yorkshire Regland as turtle has long been considered the ment, who recently gave his life for his most costly element, as well as the charae country.

teristic feature, of the great civic feast, It was on July 1st, last, in the great turtle must, presumably, be the first item

to go. advance, that he earned his V.C., the

How, after all, are you to simplify" second Dulwich man to be awarded this the Lord Mayor's banquet? If you coveted distinction. The late officer and abolish the turtle, why not the famous his company were attached to the baron of beef also, and the salmon, and Brigade, and had been deputed by the the game pies, and the turkeys and hams, colonel of the battalion to attack the Ger the capons and tongues, the prawns in man front line trenches and to clear the aspic, the sweets and the wine? German dugouts, etc, after the leading not only a question of where to begin, It is battalion had got there.

but where to end. Moreover, there is the question of foreign opinion. What will foreigners think of its, in the light of our national reputation The whole Eng lish nation, beyond all other mortal men is most given to banqueting and feasts, The intervention of engineers to blow says an authority of 1463, quoted by Bur-up the work threatened to be too slow; ton in his Anatomy of Melancholy," but it was absolutely necessary to reduce nor has that reputation for hospitality the fort. An infantry captain offered to and good cheer lost its strength with the take it by surprise, and he succeeded by flight of time.

an audacious and unheard of coup. banquet which has been held for hundreds the position of

Let us recall a few details of the great The officer had managed to ascertain the communication

The ordeal through which the latter had just gone was one which might cause brave men to falter. Through a tornade of machine-gun and shell Are they and pushed forward to the entry trenches, but few of them had actually got there unscathed.

À neutral who travelled from Berlin to Constantinople by the Balkanrug and knows all Turkey very well, gives his impressions to The Times as follows:-

Aleppo was filled with German officers, There seems no doubt that many more of these were returning to Germany than going to Syria. Here were many of the sanitary commissions bringing distilling apparatus to fight the cholera which ap- peared among as Turks, both civilians and soldiers, in Aleppo, Damascus, and the Lebanon. Djemal Pasha was in Damascus. He said at that time that all the trains moving eastward would be crowded. Troops were moving south and east and at the railhead about six hours journey away (about 60 miles north of Aleppo) at a place named Inlchie, in the plain which slopes towards Adana and Alexandretta. On the first foothills west of Aleppo was a large camp on the high ground. This was plentifully supplied with water, and there were great stretches of pasture a rare thing anywhere in Syria, and a combination which makes it an ideal halting-place on the road,

Cholera was raging at Islabie, and the deaths amongst the Turkish soldiers averaged 30 a day As cases occurred they were quarantined, and as fast as each regiment had passed its quarantine period it was entrained towards Aleppo There were not less than 4,000 quaran tined troops at that place. At Islahie there is a network of tracks and railway sidings capable of holding a dozen trains. Thousands of tons of oak wood It was a case of heroic, yet deliberate He knew it was certain laints for fuel, for all the trains runn-death, but felt that such a man were being brought in from the mona

situation must be faced with unflinching ing south and east of Aleppo were using

courage. By this time his movements this instead of coal,

tae specially under the notice of the eney's machine gunners, and presently Major London-Shand fell wounded in six places.

GREAT STORES OF SUPPLIES.

At this juncture Major London-Sund arrived with his company.

It was a terrible moment; for a terrific fire was playing havoc with those who dared to show themselves to the foe, For a few

was

seconds, the men seemed to falter under the withering fusillade which decimating their ranks and spreading death and destruction all around.

RECEIVED SIX WOUNDS,

self-sacrifice.

Biaches was taken on July 9th, and was passed by our troops, whose irresist ible dash carried them beyond the fortified work called Bisches Fort, the resistance. defenders of which continued their The cunning threet of machine-guns in a battery under the marshes prevented trench mortars was inadequate. a frontal approach. A concentration of

officers

continued to

remain under-

of years on Lord Mayor's Day; an his-treach leading to the fortress. Followed toric fenst, as much part of the life of by a small body of men consisting of a the City as the Guildhall itself, which sub-lieutenant, a sergeant, a quarter- most of the Sovereigns of England have master, a corporal, three cyclists, and attended after acccssion.. The Lord

a bugler, he set off on July 10th at two Mayor and his illustrious guests (who clock in the afternoon, and penetrated

alone into the fortification. include besides royalties, statesinen and ainbassadors notable soldiers and sailors, and celebrities in various walks being underground. Eventually a aum- Ho saw nothing, all the Germans of life, advance to the great banqueting ber of man appeared, and then another hall to a fanfare of trumpets. The tables body of men with a corporal, but the not only "groan beneath the weight of things, but are ablaze with plate good and flowers, the farmer worth many thon-ground. sands of pounds. Above the tables the The Germans gazed with stupefaction There is a small wooden barrack at

storied walls and root are radiant with at the Frenchmen isolated among them. Islahio entirely separated from the Turs

But his men had meanwhile gained con- | soven thousand jets of light. At the Feeling that any hesitation was danger- kish quarters. Here the Germans had installed water distilling apparatus and idence and steadiness. At his request, one upper or long table sits the Lord Mayorous, the captain shot down with his near by there were large spaces marked of the propped him up, full in the line and the most distinguished of the visitors revolver the first of the enemy and out where all sorts of ammunition and of fire, and there, with continued words At right angles to it are set w score or shouted Forward!" supplies were being brought by the motor of couragement, be saw the last man more tables for the other guests.

His eight men dashed up to the Ger- trucks over the break in the Baghdad with a consciousness that he had done weight, is brought in procession from the The leader and his brave men returned out of the trenches and onward to victory. baron of beef, weighing three hundred-mans, who offered no further resistance. Railway which occurs at this his duty to the end, he soon succumbed kitchen to the hall in the morning, and with a hundred and fourteen prisoners, One huge heap of stores was labeled

Rations in large letters. There were to his wounds, witiwus & sigh or ma being placed upon a gigantic spit in including two officers. other heaps of rubber tires and ammant

Born in Ceylon, the late officer came to view of all the brilliant company is cut taken. tion, and very large supply of petrol England at an early age, and after being up by the white-fracked City carver with eduented at Dulwich he entered upon a a sense of importance rightly, belonging came in as we were leaving.

business career.

The outbreak of the to the mysteries of the culinary art, The road over the Amanus Mountains South African war called him to arms. Simultaneously waiters carry in the fam from this point is new and has all been | and, failing to get to the front as a mem-ous turtle soup. built within six months or a year. It inher of the London Scottish, he enlisted

not fully metalled, there are no guarding in the Pembrokeshire Yeomanry, and walls or fuished culverts, and it is ap-went through the entire Boor war. parently only a temporary road, to be used until the tunnel is completed at that point. It is 20 miles in length and a grade steeper than any seen in any other

in the top of the Taurus Mountains, country. The grade was appoverty £xed looking south towards the Mediterranean by the power of the notor-tricks which in a superb position from a scenic and had to be employed, which vary between strategical point of view, is a large Ger 40 and 60-horse power. The torrential raine of the autumn and winter would ensity and quickly ruin the road as it now stands incomplete.

AGERILAND CAMP.

The

Aud so the banquet begins. Twenty to thirty cooks have prepared the repast,

The fort was

The captain was mentioned in dis- patches in the following terms: "On July 10th, at the head of a body of eight men, he captured with unheard-of audacity a fort occupied by a company of the enemy and three machine guns, and some fourteen tons of coal have been which for twenty-four hours had kept .consumed 'in cooking it. Some forty our troops in check. He took. 114 pris-

turtles are slaughtered for the soup, and oners, including two officers." some 500 cooks, waiters, and porters, in all, are required for the 8,000 plate. changes. And the cost? That is more or lens a secret, but it has been written that the great feast costs about £1,500, of which the larger proportion is borne by the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs out of their own pockets.

A FRENCH HERO,

STORY OF EXPLOITS ON MANY FRONTS

---'* Cayfaïn Dumas, after a life of honour and loyalty, on August 12th died for France the death he had always desired."

man cavip. This camp is a model in its way, and there are certainly over 6.000

BANQUETS PAST AND PRESENT German military motors carry men and soldiers already stationed there, perhaps One of the most magnificent of these | stores over the break from tailbead to as many as 10,000, It is laid out in epicurean feasts was that of 1814, after railhead, and the journey is one of the streets, has fences, buildings, tents, and the overthrow of Napoleon, when the most thrilling to imagine. In the motor hospitals, and all the paraphernalia of chief guests were the Frince Regent, the This is the brief official epitaph of an truck there are no seats, and only cura permanent camp. It has a post-office, Eniperor of Russia, and the king of amazing veteran hero of France, who baggage to rest upon. The road crosses wireless and ordinary telegraphy, and á Prussia, and when the dinner was served started fighting at the age of 19, in the Amanus and climbs in long spirals, complete system of local telephones, on plate valued at over £200,000, and the 1887, and received, 筋 巍 Pontifical and after five hours enters German head- Several miles below and in strange con- total expenditure of the meal" was Zouave, the first of 10 wounds. Ho quarters at Mamoura, alongside the rail-trast is the Turkish military camp of estimated at $25,000, As Mr. William way station. Here are all the signs of the old-fashioned kind, where there have Brymer yesterday said, its modern Lord fought in 1870, and also on the Southern rapidly increasing German activity, and been cases of cholera, and where there is Mayor's banquet is a mere snack com Algerian frontier, in Tunis, on the Ivory, a carefully fenced enclosure of more than now a quarantine station. Lying about parod with some of the banquets of the Cunst, in the Sudan, the Gaboons, on an acro in which are the headquarters of there were several of the old galvanized past"; and he recalled that the historic the Morocean frontier, and in the Trans- the German Military Mission. The Com- pontoons, apparently some of those feast was held, without curtailment by vaal, and, at the age of 66, endeavoured mander occupies a good two-storey house which arrived too late for the first attack a single oyster," in the year of Waterloo. to enlist at the beginning of this war. of 10 or 12 rooms, and there are other on the Canal. There is said to be little It is interesting to note that Mr. Wil The French authorities refused him on houses for the men. Water is laid on appearance in this camp of that plenitude liam Brymor and Mr. George Ring, the account of his age. and there is every sign of permanent of stores and aramunition that is notice-present heads of Ring & Brymer, are Accepted in the Belgian Army, he was occupation.

able in the small German town above. the direct descendants of that Ring & made prisoner, but escaped in time to Beyond the railway station the Cer-

Bryner, the successors of Birch & Horfight at the Battle of the Marne, where From some of the motor drivers it was ton, the firm whose partner, Samuel he received six wounds; then he fought mans are erecting a 'model hospital on the slope in a compound of from six to eight learned that the German camp has 100 Birch, the unsurpassed pastrycook, was in the Dardanelles and in the Vardar acres. There were some time ago 400 or large 40-50 horsepower motors, each Lord Mayor of London in Waterloo year. Valley, where he was again wounded. 500 iron bedsteads, eats, and stretchers, capable of carrying from 10 to 20 tons. The firm has for centuries done the cater Captain Dumas took part in the firet condensing machines, and medical sup Grossing the Cilician Gates in a motoring for the Lord Mayor's banquet, days of the Verdun fighting and was plies for camp and hospital. A little track, an observer

and actually alternatively with the "Albion," of again wounded, but he rejoined his regi distance beyond, lying alongside the rail- counted 147 new German lorries, most of Aldersgate street, and to this wonderful ment in time to take part in the Somme way, was a large collection of aeroplane them 60 horse-power, and all of them record there have been only three annual offensive, and was mortally wounded in wings and other stores. There were also loaded with stores. Or each of them was exceptions. Herewith we give a Lord big quantities of petrol. Observers sow a German driver, and in some cases two Mayor'a inauguration banquet just before the capture of Cléry on August 3rd. six or eight, aeroplanes being brought her men. There were also four armour- the war, and, by courtesy of Mr. Brymer over the Cilician Gates. The whole imed cars and the bodies of the aeroplanes and Mr. Ring, the mean of the Guildhall pression gained was one of immense pre-mentioned before. The driver of the post banquet in the year of the accession of paration.

Ear said they were hound for Baghdad, William IV., which was one of the most and had been purchased by the Ottoman Gargantuan in gastronomical annals. command or control to be seen anywhere The pre-war menu was as follows:- The break in the Baghdad Railway in groups of 10 or 20 at convenient places with this caravan. They were observed Backache is rarely due to kidnes over the Taurus Mountains is 43 miles, I along the narrower portions of the road,!

Turtle Sear Turtle trouble. Doctors will tell you that kid

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Chicken and Traffics its presence by means of pains in the

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DON'T WORRY ABOUT YOUR KIDNEYS.

back.

In the vast majority of cases Lumbago

is the cause of the back pain, but it also

arises from nerve debility, and in women from ailments peculiar to their sex.

NEW ROAD AT CILICIAN GATES.

Baw

and at presem is covered by motor which is now in the process of rebuilding

The route followed by this service under German engineers. vice. has been famous since the days of the Phenicians, and has been mentioned in every great campaign since, From

15,000 to 20,000 Turkish peasants are at

VALLEY OF MUNITIONS.

At Botanti, the end of the Baghdad Railway, was the greatest sight of all

present employed in completely rebuild in the way of munitions and war sup- 牌 this road. They are widening it at plies. The whole narrow valley for a

all points, straightening all curves, lower: mile all round the railhead station was

ing and equalizing grades, making it being rebuilt, graded, and bridged,

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Uk Tongues

Orange Jellies

Creams

Queen Mab Paddingu -

Fruits anst Frośni Chocolat clairs Maids of Honor

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A FEAST OF 1830.

with the menu of 1830:-- How modest does this repast appear in

Royal Entertainment,

in the Guildhall,...'

LORD MAYOR'S Day, 1830,

Са

Mayor.

THE ROYAL TABLE. First Course and Removes. Turtle.

Lumbago, like all other forms of hou ready for the heaviest possible motor according to a comprehensive plan which matism, is caused by poisonous secretions traffic, all with the appearance of the showed every sign of permanency. The in the blood, and Dr. Williams' Pink greatest haste. It ends in a beautiful work was being carried out on a very Pilla, by expelling this poison and Alpine valley at a place called Bozanti large scale, and stores disposed of in an making the pure and rich, have on the main line, from whence starts the order)y way, alongside the sidings and cured tens of thousands of cases of Lam train for Haidar Pasha. This route can switches, bago and Rheumatism during the past be covered in two and a half days, or There were also aeroplanes and huge contrast

which are fully provided. five-and-twenty years.

Nerve Debility means that the nervous about 00 hours, without changing of cars, piles of ammunition and provisions.

It is along this section of the Baghdad There seems no doubt that those in charge. system has become ruu-down. The blood Railway that the greatest signs of war were pushing matters forward during feeds the nerves and Dr. Williams Pink like preparation appear. The tunnel at the dry months before the winter rains Pills Feed the blood.

Bozanti is at least three miles long, and, make the half-completed road impassable With women back-paine usually arise according to the most recent news from During the two full days of daylight The Right Honourable John Key, Lord from Anemia (bloodlessness) and in say the Swiss engineers in charge, it will from Bozanti to Haidar Pasba our train case prove that the delicate machinery require at least two years more to com- passed at least 40 military trains carry- regulating the

functions needs the plete. One observer saw a sketch by the ing Turkish soldiers going east. By a stimulant which only pure rich blood can engineer and notes which fully bore out rough calculation based on the number give. Women everywhere tell one. another that Dr. Williams Pink Pills this opinion. It is true that the Taurus of the trains, consisting of more than give just the help needed, dispel back bas a small, narrow track running about 40 Turkish regiments All the men actually pierced by a tunnel which go cars each, they must have contained pains, restore regularity, give rosy cheek, through it, but the opening is only the locked like hardened troops. good appetite, bright spirits and perfect vault of the tunnel proper. It is as traing there were small guns, but no ap

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inverted U part the only everywhere, Dr. Williams Pink Pills can tunnel as it is now and the square below apply to the trains which passed also be had from the Dr. Williams' Med is the part yet to be excavated. There the daytime, no attempt having been Pheasant with Forced Meat. Purt Cutlets eine Co., 26, Szechuen Road, Shanghai, a small narrow gauge track, and this is passed in the night. These forces travel- 81.50 per bottle (8 bottles for 8), post being used to hurry ammunition teil to Aleppo, and from that point could through. This naturally interferes with have been sent either to the Caucasian the excavation, and, besides, it is a slow front along the Baghdad Railway to business. The engineers state that by the Ras-el-Ain south of Diarbekr, or, if time the Taurus tunnel is completed all defected at Aleppo southwards, they the other smaller tunnels of the ap might have reached the war zone by the proaches on the north and south will Cans for the recent attack. All down have been completed also. The long the Baghdad Railway, as well as in Bozanti tunnel is holding up the great Berbia and Bulgaria, there are reported. work

thousands of freight cars with the Bel (Continued at foot of next Column) gian marks still upon them.

free.

THERAPION

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THE WTDRAGSE (PARTEZKOA) PORN OF TESTER

THERAPION

made to estimate any trains which we

Turbot and Smelts, Roast Beef, Stewed Veal and Pees. Fillet of Ampthill Rabbit. Partridge with Savoys.

Fits of Turtle., Lorded Turtle.

White Soup.A

with Tomato Sauce,

Boiled Chicken and Oysters. Mutton Cutlets. Fillets of Lamb. Tartle Salmon:

Collipeo of Turtle. Ham. Fins of Turtle. Raised Pie with Snipes. Fricasseo of Lamb Sweethreads and Ragout Gravy Boop Cod's Head. Quarter of Lamb, (Continued at foot of next Column)

SIDE-TABLE Broiled Chickens and Mushrooms, Roast Saddle of Mutton. Baron of Beef. Apple Pies (hot and cold). Plum Pudding. Cabinet Pudding. Apples and Boiled Rice. Savoury Pie

Oyster and Ham-Pattics. Pinions of Fowl and Ragout.

THIRD COURSE.

Ruffs and Reaves,

Madeira Jelly. Cream with Noyesu.

Pustry.

Balad. Prawns.

Wild Ducks.

Moulded Fruits. Blano-mangë, Green Peas. Stewed Celery, Woodcocks.

Mushrooms. Asparagus.

Pastry.

Pineapple Jelly, Broccoli. Roast Pheasanta

Cray Fish Salad..

Pastry

Cream with Ligueur. Maraschino Jelly.

Buffs and Reeves,

DESSERT.

Ice

Pineapple.

Apples, Pears.

Ice.

Brandy cheeries. Preserved ginger.

Pineapple,

Grapes Cake Peaches.

Joa

Nectarines. Grapes.

Cake. Pineapple.

Preserved ginger. Brandy cherries.

Pineapple.

Pears Apples Preserves. Grapes Preserves.

Ice and

And this "Old English" menu was further cheered by champagne, hock, clarct, sherry, madeira, burgandy, port, and sauterne. Such was the gargantuan. feant spread before the civic athers and their guests less than a hundred years ago-Daily Telegraph.