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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,

On May 10th at 19,90-No returns from Japanese stations,, Pressure has degrensed Alightly over Annam, Lazos and Formora; it has increased alightly in neighbourhood of Hongkong and mpilerately over N. China, and B. Manchuria A week anti-éyalónu formed over N. Chins yesterday and has pre moved eastward to B. Japan, the depresion is situated over Tonking

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Hongkong rainfall for 24 hours ending at 10 a.m. to-day, 0.00 Inch Total lace let Jaunay, 0.29 Loobes, against an average at 14.31 Inobes.

The forecast for the 24 hours anding at moon to-day is as follows

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(E and

S,E. winde, moderats. clondy, Bome

(The same a

Na 1. South Coast of Chins between. The same as

Hongkongiand Lismooks No 2. South Cost of China between The sme sa

Hongkong and Bain

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Hongkong to Gap Book

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· 10TH" MAY, AM.

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Barometer

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Wind

Humidity.

Weather!

Direction.

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Vladivostocka, 2990 40

4 or

30.01 38 40 WAW

on

20

work-

An

Bonin I. (vs) Chotoon Walhaiwel Hankow Tebang Kiukiang

3002 55

Sharp Peak Amoy Swator Taikoku Taichu Tainan

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it means Insomnis is & grave disease; that the great nerve system and the real life of the body is impaired and the diseases should be healed promptly by proper treatment.

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Your nervous energy is like a bank If you use it up faster than account you add to it you overdraw your account. Therefore if you suffer from nerves, have sleepless nights, braintsg, or lack of

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bye

bind despondency,

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1 TSKIRJATURE, in the shade, in dégre a Fahrenheit

6. Hummer, in pareantage of saturation, the humidity of sin saturated with moisture being

100 WIND, to two points.

DIRECTION OF 5, KORUN OF WIND, socording to Beaufort Bonie 6. STATE OF Ware, blue sky, a deticber aloud, d drizaling rain, f fog, y gloomy, h hall, 1 Lightning, o overcast, p passing showera, q qua rain, mow, t thunder, ribility, w.des (wit

7. Har in toches, tenths and hundreds

HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER.

Bangkang Observatory, May 10th,

Barometer an Temperatue

Bumidity Wind Direction.

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·21:

Weather? Rain

Previous On Date On Date

·Day at 2pm 6am. 1 pm

29,72

29,74

99.74 80 96 NW East Fast

1;

Highest open-air Temperature on 9th 82 Lowreel open-air Temperature on 10th

HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.

73

From 11th to 17th May.

LOW WATIL HIGH WATER:

Superior to Emulsions or Cod

Liver oil

Each tiny Moihuol capsule re-

Bun

presents the medicinal value of a

seaspoonful of oil, c

Recommanded at the Paris Ace-

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BEHIND THE LINES.

HOW THE ENEMY LIVED. [FROM PHILIP DIENS, VEITIAN WEID-

QUARTERS, FRANCE.]⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

FRIDAY MAY 11TH, 1917

ZULUS IN FRANCE.

CETEWAYO'S NEPHEW.

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. home of Parliamentary, institutions and

COMMONS MESSAGE TO THE DUMA

I do not think that I have ever been so impressed with a sense of why the Allies

In moving in the House of Commons are bound to win the war than I was to i

a message of good will to the now day, writes a correspondent to a Home paper. It was the sight of a double line of South African natives lined up for Russian Government, Mr. Bonar Law mo to see in one of the many camps I rise to move the motion stand which are already occupied by Arican Native Labour Corps in various ing in the name of the Prime Minister,

Corp in which reads as follows: parts of the war aren.

the South

In the ranks of this motionless array, standing rigidly to attention, were eplen did looking Zulus, sturdy Basutos from the Northern Transvaal, and drep-chested Pandos, Willing volunteers, every one of them, who have exchanged their sunny luxuriance for the bitter cheerlessness of this particularly severe winter in order

of popular election, feel that it in nor only our privilege, but that we have special claim of our own to be among the first to rejoice in her emancipation and to welcome her into the fellowship of free peoples. (Cheers.).

Beyond the strategical probleme of the Gertain retreat to the Hindenburg line or further-raising great questions as to what are his plans during the noxt few months the hazard of a last offensive or a steady withdrawal to his own frontiers--his abandonment of a great stretch of country to avoid the increasing menace of our armies has opened up new scones to us full of grim interest. In hasty telegrams written after long days of tiring adventures in the walo of the German rearguarda following through mang through the

and tramping to do

The oficer who conducted me round great ruin they have left behind them. I have tried to give some iden of the their compound was a gentleman distin- tragic drama of it, a'l, the uncanny guished in current South African bis- He called three men out of the the abandoned country, the quietude of the go of towns and villages ranks one a nephew of Celewayo, an named destroyed not by shell fire, but by other a son of Dinizuli, the third picks and axes and firebrands, the deep asians. I desired him to ask Daylana, mine cratere blown under ronds, the whether there was any message he broken bridges across the Seame, the would like to send to South Africa during the last thirteen days have a nocent victims of the change as is con crowds of starved civilians surrounding His reply, interpreted was that he rested the attention of the world, even

and his comrades were proud our patrols in market squares where they n had been herded while their homes were with the grint Army of the Em in the midst of the greatest convulsion in flames around them, the little bodies Pice in France tint they were well that has ever heen brought on the earth tax the sagacity of the wisest statesman.

cared fer and happy, and that although the weather had been such as they had never dreamed of before, yet, thanks to plenty of good food, warm clothes, dry buts with big fires, and a generous of blankets they were getting through it quite well.

time sorge M These natives wear a

weeks

of British troops advancing through barbed wire entanglements into fortress positions like Bapaume and Peronne, and our cavalry patrols feeling their way forward into unknown, country to rearguards are in hiding. That, in a fow, liges, is the historical pieture of this strange new phase of warfare in which we have been pushing forward during the past two But through it all, to me, an onlooker of these things there has been one special theme of interest. It is the re- velation of the German way of life behind his lines these abundant lines his military methods of defence and ob servation and organisation and the domestic arrangements by which he has tried to make himself comfortable in the field of war. Along every step of the way by which he has retreated there are olics which show us exactly how our enemies lived, and fought when they were hidden from us across No Man's Land and their philosophy of life in war, All that is worth a little study. Every where-outside Bapaume and Peronne and Chaulnes and all these deserted places near the front lines--one ugly thing states one in the face; German barbed wire. It is heavier, stronger stuff than ours or the French, with great cross-pieces of iron and he has used amazing quantities of it in great wide belts in three lines of defence before his trench system and in all sorts of odd places by bridges and food; and villages even far behind the trenches, to prevent any sudden rash of hostile infantry or to tear our cavalry to pieces should we break his lines and get through His trenches were deeply dog, and along the whole line from which he has now re treated they are provided with great concreted and timbered dugouts leading into an elaborate system of tunnelled galleries perfectly proof from shell-fire. and similar to those which I have de scribed often enough in the Somme, battlefelds, de a builder of dug-outs the German soldier has no equal.

CONCEALED FORTRESSES.

V

to Fo

There is no lesson which history teaches more clearly than that freedom is justified of her children, Power and wider you make the basis of power the responsibility go hand in hand; the more you diffuse and stimulate the sense of responsibility We may predict with "That this House sends to the Dumn confidence that that will be found to be its fraternal greetings and tenders to as trus in Russib as it has been proved the Russian people its heartfelt congra to be trues in every other part of the tulations upon the establishment among world. (Hoar, haar.) In the meantime, them of free institutions, in full-con- and until the mercent comes when the fidence that they will lead not only great Russian, people can become con to the rapid and happy progress of stitutionally articulate, we here watch the Russian nation, but to the prose with the keenest solicitude and sympathy cution with renewed steadfastness and the efforts and the labours of her Pro vigour of the war against the strong visional Government. To carry through hold of an autocratic militarism which revolution so deep and so far reaching in its effects upon the social and political threatens the liberty of Europe.

of vast and varied community events in Rusin which have followed fabricsight and self-restraint, with

life, and as little hardship to the in each other with such startling rapidity slight dislocation of the framework, of sistent with the thorough and complete a task which, under any conditions, would achievement of the governing purpose, is

und the stress of the greatest war in his ship. But, in fact, it has been done at a time when Russia was under the strain tory. We have confidence that the dis ernment will be found to be endowed tinguished wen who form the now. Gov with the patience and the prudence above all, we feel assured that neither which such a situation demands. But, they nor the Russian people will abata by a jot the tenacity of their resolve or

by the hand of man: What has happened in Russia reminds us of the early days of the French Revolution. We recall with what a glow of hope the fall of the Bastille was received by liberal-minded

form not dissimilar from that of the roen, throughout the world, the feeling Royal Marines, with blue cloaks, cowboy which was expressed by our own poet in hats (frequently adorned, accordingtowords which I have not had time to

puttees }: taste), ammunition boots, and

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;

very

rectly;

When to be alive was glorious,

bring the war to such an end as will justify all the sacrifices of all the Allies." Their daily rations consist of 1lb of verify, but which I hope I quote cor-the concentration of their resources to

h. of, hread, 1lb. of

(Cheers) We read with pleasure to-day. mealie meal, which is made into a

and of course with no surprise, the do savoury porridge,

But to be young was very heaven" claration of the new Russian Govern meat, coffee, and salt. Twice a week they get 1lb. of vegetables per head, and

We recall, too, how quickly and how ment, that they will sacredly observe tobacco and cigarettes are issued. There

a dry canteen in every compound. The scheme is another of General sadly that bright dawn was overcast. It I am quoting their words=“ the und will resolutely carry out all the Botha's great services to the Empire is too soon to say that all danger is over alliances uniting them to other Powers, The success of the step has been so great in Russia. It is too soon to feel con and so unqualified that the War Office fident that the new Government has agreements concluded with the Allies." is asking for it to be expanded many fold already laid the foundations on which (Cheers.) The cause of the Allies, what- beyond the original limit, sed fiberty, in the words of Burke, "will ever may be the number and the variety One result of normons valne should be have wisdom and justice for her com of the theatres of war, is one and in- the setting free of a great number of panions, and will leave prosperity and divisible. Russia hus from the first white labour and permanent base men for plenty in her train," But it is not too played her part not only loyally but the Mother of Parliaments to lavishly. She will, we are assured, now other work are segregated upon very soon friendly greeting to the Parlic that her people see their own freedom

The natives are much the same plan.ng in the South Afriment of an Allied country-(cheers) within their grasp, continue in that can mining compounds. Every effort is made to amuse them; they are naturally and it is not too soon for us to send to course with, if possible, an intensified great singers, and are encouraged to get the new Government a message of good. purpose and will. Every blow, that is enemies to sut up an international up smoking concerts About 25 per cent will, to a Government which has been struck effectively by the Allies in this of them speak English and the rest formed with the declared intention of war is aimed against the design of our olusion, and & Government which has autocracy, and it is aimed equally on show great keenness to learn to read and carrying this war to a successful con

The employment consists of every kind undertaken a task as arduous, as has behalf of the freedom of the peoples, be write our language,

THE VOICE OF IRELAND | of general military labour. The disc ever fallen to the lot of any Adminis- they great or be they small (Cheers.)

the foreign aggressor and of establishing, pline is excellent, the police and sentries tration the tank at once of driving out freedom and order at home (HeRT heard being all natives who are unafnied. --Em

Mr. Devlin (Nat., Belfast, W.) On a great and historic occasion of this character the House will agree that the voice of Ireland ought not to be silent

(hear, hear) and in the absence of Mr Redmond through illness I have been invited by my colleagues to associate tion. If I may be permitted to offer myself on their behalf with the resolu one criticism, I should express my deep. regret that there was not a more trium-

great and epoch- phant note in the speech of the Leader t

Amidst the horrors, of the House (hear, hear) because we are in the presence of war we ought to rejoics that it bringe making event. into life a free and enfranchised Russian nation (cheers) and this mighty people, now in the enjoyment of genuine liberty themselves, will be all the more deter mined and better equipped to battle hear, hear) and particularly for alt successfully for the liberty of Europe

The Government, in putting down this Bussian revolution as a striking, which represent their peoples. (Chaors) free. We on these benches regard tho motion for the consideration of the dramatic, and almost bloodless message House of Commons, were wall aware that of hope to all pressed peoples it might be considered premature, but we all freedom-loving nations. But it. 1 have submitted it to the House in the something more than that. It is a warn

FELLOWSHIP OF THEE PEOPLER.

It is hot, I think, for us to judge, (Quick and good is our shooting?". Othe German gunnere greeting) Shell craters in the open urens showed much less to condemn, those who have the French gunners had returned the taken part in the government of an greeting, and that the garrison of this Allied country, and I hope I may be citadel bad done well to arrange their permitted to express the feeling which majority of the members of this House, Tife diuinte as a subterranean existence, I believe will be shared by the vast But for times when the French gunshich 1, at least, hold strongly, a feel were quiet and when the French sun was shining they had built al fresco corners ing of compassion for the late Tsar, who with garden seats and tables round which was for nearly three years, as I believe, enormous stacks of wine bottles were our loyal Ally (hear, hear) and who Bat in addition to these trench systems littered, showing, as I have seen in all had laid upon him, by his birth, a burden But we cannot forget that one of the he made Fehind his lines a series of these abandoned places, the enormous which has proved too heavy for him strong poats cunningly concreted and quantity of drink consumed by German commanding a wide field of fire with officers in their lighter nioments This issue, and the greatest of all the issues, dominating observation over our side of citadel in the wood is only one out of of this war is whether or not free in the country. I found such a place quite similar strong points all along the lines stitutions can survive against the on by accident yesterday. My car broke now abandoned by the enemy. Péronne,slaught of a military despotism (hear, down by a little wood near Rove looking with Mort St, Quentin on its flank, and hear--and we cannot but rejoice in the world-conflict all the Allied Powers will across to Damery and Bouchoir, and the with the Somme winding around it, and hope that in the final stages of this woody wired fields which till a week ago with forests of barbed wire in the marches he under the direction of Governments small nations tightly struggling to Were No Man's Land. When Lstrailed below it, could be called impregnable if into the wood I suddenly looked down any place may dely great armies. It an enormous sandpit covering an acre was wonderfully fortified with great in or a, and saw that it was a concealed dustry and great skill for over two years: fortress of extraordinary strength and and, walking into these places now, organisation-an underground citadelmarvelling at their strength, I can only for a garrison of at least 5,000 ineu per ask one question, which certainly the

it may strengthen the hands of the and tyrannies everywhere (Cheers.) I fectly screened by the wood aboye, Into enemy will find it hard to answer. Why hope, and in the belief, that if neat nowing and a portent of doni to attoerholes the sandbanks on every side of the vast has be abandoned such formidable Russian Government in their difficult might be tempted on this occasion, for pit were built hundreds of chambers leadstrongholds? It seems to me that there task (hear, hear) and Iventure ear it offers me a splendid aphjortunity, to

is only one answer. It is because they ing deeper down into a maze of tunnels which ran right round the central arena had to go, and not because they wanted nestly to express the hope that no debate draw a inoral from the great events of Before leaving the enemy had busied to go. It was because they have no will be found necessary-(cheers) from the last few weeks, int I do not desire himself with an elaborate packing up, and longer the strength to hold their old line the feat that such a discusion might to avail myself of it. I want to let the had taken away most of his movable pro- against the growing gun power and the diminish the value of our message as an voice of Ireland join in united harmony- we have opportunities to draw the perty, but the fixtures still remained growing man power of the British encouragement to the Bussion Govern (Cheers.) The Leader of the House moral at other times we will avail our and a litter of mattresses stuffed with armies, and have been compelled to atment and the Russian people... (Cheers.) knows, after his experience, that when shavings, empty wine bottles, candles icript a new strategy which will sav which had been burnt down on the let it reserves and shorten their line,

Mr Asquith-The resolution which my selves of them, desire, on behalf of night in the old home, old socks and old Behind the lines the German officers right hon friend has proposed expresses my colleagues representing Ireland, to bouts and old clothes no longer good for and men lived comfortably in French the pinion not only of the House of express the profound sympathy we feel active service, and just the usual relics Billets and organised, amusements for which people leave behind when they battalions in rest. At Bapaume they Commons but of all the peoples who are with the Russian people, and to any how change houses. The officers quarters had a little theatre with painted scenery the constituent parts of the United deeply we rejoice at their emancipation were all timbered and panelled and In Nesle the Germans turned Kingdom and of the whole British(Cheers)

Mr Wardle (Lab, Stockpore)-It is pspered, with glass windows and fancy the Café de Commerce into their casino, Empire. (Cheers.) It is not our prec LABOUR'S CONGRATULATIONS. curtains. They were furnished with bed and played military bunds, whose music tice to interfere in the domestic concerns steads looted from French houses, and did not cheer the hearts of wan women or the internal controversies of other impossible to let this occasion pass with with mirrors, cabinets,, washhandstands, whose children were starving. Strange nations, however closely their interests out adding a word on behalf of the labour marble-top tables, and easy chairs. The fellows! God alone knows what to make may le bourd up with ourselves by movement of this country (Cheers.) cross beams of the roofs were painted of them. The French people just libe kinship, by industrial relations or even The speech of the Leader of the House with allegorical devices and with legends rate from their rule, which was by the closer and more sacred ties which was not so cordial in tone as the terms such as Gott mit une, Furchtles und reign of terror in the severity of its bind together Allies who are unitedly of the resolution itself. The resolution. Trou." In Treue fest. Each room ofisial regulations, contradict themselves making unlimited sacrifices in & common in its wording is all that any of us could had an enamelled or iron stove, so that in expressing their white-bot hatred of cause. This rule we have steadily ob possibly desire. At & recent labour con the place must have been snug and warm, the German character and their hiking sorved, but in my view it is no violation forence which was called to consider the and I noticed in several of them empty for the individual soldiers who were of it nf, we feel, as we all do that the franchise in this country the position of cages from which singing birds had quartered on them want her momentous events which are taking place Russia was uppermost in our minds. They were kind to the children in Russia are of such a kind as to reserve. Our first thought was Russia, and we and even to demand; from us special and ent congratulatory telegram. We down when German officers opened the

But they burnt our houses."

now desire to join with the whole nation doors before their own fitting..

Karl was a nice boy. He cried immediate recognition. (Chears.) An when he went away But he helped to autocracy which notwithstanding then sending a mesange to democratic organised as a self-contained garrison, smash up the neighbours furniture with strange mutations in its history, in the Russia, and in extending the hand of with carpenters shops and blacksmiths an axe. The lieutenant was a good personal fortunes of occupants of the fellowship. The revolution betekens no sheds, and a quartermaster's stores still fellow, but he carried out the orders of throne, seemed to have become an in-weakening of Russia's will in regard to orowded with bombs and aerial torpedora destruction A woman told me, with tegral part of Russian life, and beyond the war. It is a sign and signal that thousands of the which the enemy had quivering rage in her voice, that a the reach of possible attack, has, in the representative government is not dead left behind in his hurry and Kitchens German officer, rode his horse into her course of a few days, without effective we only hope that there will be no dis with great, storea and boilers, and & Red room one day Another woman showed resistance, or even attempt been blotted sension amongst any class of the Russian Cross establishment for first all, and me the cut down her hand and arm which out of existence. (Cheers.) The form of people, that the will accept this re concrete bath houses with shower hath she had received from a German soldier Russia's future government is to be sub- velation and this new system of govern- and cigar racks for officers, who smoke who tried to force his way into her house mitted sa we are glad to know, to the ment, and that they will all combine with betore and after bathing. Outside, the at night. Other stories more horrible free judgment of an enfranchised people our Allies, whatever they can, to break artillery officers headquarters was a have been told me by women white with (Cheers) Whatever their ultimate de- the bonds of tyranny, and to set up board painted in white letters, with the passion. Yet it is clear that, on the cision may be, from this moment by free and liberal institutions, t

whole, the Germans behaved in a kind that vervact Russia takes her place by following couplet

AS

disciplined way until these last night Schnell und gut ist unser Schuss

when they laid waste so many little Deutscher Artilleristen Gruss,

Tages and alt that was in them." (Continued of foot of next column)

The men's quarters were hardly less comfortable, and the whole place was

the side of the great democracies of the The motion wits then carried, Mr. world Cheers) We, here, na my right hon. Ginnell being the only member to raise friend reminded us, in the original his voice in opposition,