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GERMAN DYE.

HONGKONG SUMMARY COURT

CLAIM:

Gorman dye figured in an action at the Hongkong Summary Court yesterday when the Bip Hing Arm, of 6, Burd Street, daimed $730 from the Tour firm, of 375, Queen's Road Central. The amount claimed was the balance alleged to be due in goods sold and delivered The agreed price of one cuse of Bor and Butterfly scarlet dye was 880, leas $150 which was deposited,

Mr. WE L Shenton was for the plaintiffs, and Mr A M. Preston de fended.

bought to Knitting

Mr. Shenton explained that the dye was a German dye and some time ago his firni

two cases from a firm called "the Tai Hing Knitting Factory. On May 18th, a representative of the "do- fendant firm called and spoke about the purchase of one of the cunes, and it was agreed that the plaintiffs should sell on of the cases for 94.40 per tin, there being

200 ting in a case Delivery was given and the price was paid. It was decided that the defendants should take delivery and pay for the case by May 20th, making a deposit of $150. On this date negotia tions took place and the result was that the case was delivered to the defendunts, the fos who made the delivery being told to wait for the money until the man came who had the key of the safe. He waited from 8.30 to 9.00 p.m. and ther went back and reported to his employers his failure to get the money. The return

of the goods was requested, but this was refused and a man was sent to the Police Station and a delective came down and witnessed the demand for the money or the goods. Both requests were refused. The defondants still had possession of the cases and had not paid for them. Mr. Shenton added that he believed the defence would be that the dye was int up to quality, but that was not stated nt the time. Two samples of a dye hnd been sent to Mr. Dovey, the Government Annlyst, but he could not say whether they were samples of the same dye as the plaintiffs sold. At any rate. Mr. Dovey's report stated that they were püre

Evidence was then given and heating was adjourned,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 29th, 1917

HONGKONG MAGISTRACY.

HOKLOS AND PUNTIS.

The Hoklo and Punti chair coolie fighting case was concluded yesterday. It was explained to Mr. Wood that the Hokies were entitled to the chair stands in Wyndham Street, and in front of Blake Pier. The Funtis had the mors. poly of the stands in Chater Road, in front of the Post Office, in front of the Hongkong Hotel and at the Star Ferry Both sets of men could use the stands if they had been engaged to wait.

The two Hoklos, who had trespassed on the Pantis stand and thus caused the fight, were each fined 25, and the Punti was discharged,

ENGLISH NAILS,

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HONGKONG POLICE AT THE HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTS FOR

FRONT-

4MOOCHING IN NO MAN'S

LAND"

Corp. Lane, formerly of the detective staff of the Hongkong Police Force and who is now somewhere in France, has recoaily written a most interesting letter to a colleague in Hongkong. He is now attached to रा

Chinese Labour Corps, having been transferred from a Guards Regiment.

After referring to the fact that a letter which he had written for Hongkong, and which he had placed "safely" in Jus rabbit hole, had been buried as the result of a German skell exploding when he was, happily, away from home," Corporal Lane, whose letter is dated 15th, says

“We were expecting the (German) re- In connection with the charge preferred treat to come some time before it actually against a Chinese of attempting to ex did, and when our battalion was in the port brass nails without a permit, and line the Intelligence crowd got plenty to do which was adjourned to allow the defend-every night in trying to find out what was

ant to apply for a permit, Inspector Brazil stated that Mr. Lloyd of the In- ports and Exports office, would not grant a permit because the nails were English nails. If they had been of Japanese manufacture bo would have granted permit.

Mr. Wood asked the reason for this discrimination, but Inspector Brazil way unable to give any information on the point. He added that the confiscation of the nails was asked for.

NEW LINE OF BUSINESS.

ROUX AND BULLECOURT.

DEAD KNEE DEEP.

PERCIVAL PHILLIPS.)

The ruins of Roux and Bullecourt- even miles apart have again, been the Gene of decisive German defonts,

Ræux and Bullecourt are the two most battered bits of the entire Arras battle front. It is difficult to say which is the greatest ruin, so heavily and so thorough ly have they been whipped by the shells of both sides during the force struggle for their possession

COSTLY MOVEMENTE. Since we stormed these miscellaneous rumnants of German defences the enemy his sat in a makeshift position of shallow trenches further along the river bank in front, and his movements were few and costly. Back again in the tunnels and shelter and a lighter grip on the magging concrete pita of Roux there was more

line north and south of the Scarpe.

battalions sent out of the fringe of wood- Try he must, and try he did-with fresh

land, beside the marshes and over the broken ground along the Douai-railway Khe agunst a good three quarters of: 2 mile front. The left of this attack hit the railway station and the chemical works I cannot remember how many times this notorious scrap-heap has been the theatre

INTIMATIONS

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NEW STOCKS OF

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of old-fashioned hand-to-hand warfare $12.00 $13.50 $14.50 $16.50 per pair.

going on in the German lines. We poren one day alone it changed hands four tunes, and the dead lay knee-deep among always in the same piece of front and the twisted machinery; but no other single finally got so familiar with No Man's building involved in this or any other battle of the war has been the some of Land that we mooched across it every more close-quarter fighting in more dra- night with our rifles across our shoulders matic circumstances and our hands in our pockets. We stood looking over the Germans wire like cows looking into a turnip field. It was dirty, cold and miserable work, and we never did anything more wonderful then to cha An enemy wiring party back home Our artillery did some great work there, the shella making about fifty Germans run

during the successive visits of the Ger It was studded with machine-guns mans, and the wreckage of a dozen defeats encumbered the defences held to-day by bats, for one wave of enemy infantry was our meu. Again there were deadly com- carried right through our barrage into perately to remain. Again they wero the chemical works, and struggled des turned out. The British garrison drove through them with bombs and bayonete, of surviving fugitives to their own place. and the adventure ended with the fight|

STOET BASTIONS

A fire of 31 was imposed, and the nails out into the open from an advanced post were ordered to be confiscatelle

one day and we picked off quite a fow with our rifles at about 200 yards. To

Roux village ruins withstood a similar onslaught. Our men holding the collars. give them their dus, they carried out the of the château and the cemetery swept retreat very well, and I think our attack their adversaries, with Lewis guns, and was well-arranged, too, for we made con- craters to night. The Germans bad forli many dead Bavarians lie among the siderable advance with very little loss.fed the Roux defences too well. There We got to the second line on March were stout concrete bastione, loopholed 16th, and on the 17th of Ould Ireland ·

for, machine guns, that proved thoir worth in new and disconcerting ways, and the we had chased him from that bit of tunnels underlying the cemetery and the equations, in charge of my com village, were equally useful to thei: new country. I was. pany's scouts, and we had o No. 1 time

Opium valued at $260 was found on it Chinese woman in Des Vœux Roid yes terday,

When charged before Mr. Wood the de- tendant stated that she was the keeper of a general store in Canton, quit that she came to Hongkong periodically to by goods. A friend had informed her that opium was a good 11 to of business messages to the company. A couple sent and she therefore purchased some up into a "hooby' trench and one or

The woman

who was

Arrested at 6.30 two were wounded, but nothing really am, on "Weuntsday, had the opium.con serious occurred. The Germans never cented around her waist and also in a came in for so much cursing before or basket which had a false bottom."

since as when our crowd got across and She was sentenced to six months im found hundreds of empty bottles and jars

THIRD GYMKHANA MEETING.|prisonment,

The following are the entries for the third Gymkhana meeting to be held on July

THEFT AT THE HONGKONG HOTEL!

tenants

It is hard to distinguish the living on our own, sending back recasional from the dead on the field before Roux- hard, faded, to pick out any distinguish. ing feature of the conflict around these regged walls at the river's edge, harder still to describe in detail the Bow and ebb of the German waves across the naked ground,

d to picture the uneven It is equally hard to picture the uneven fighting at Bullecourt. You must not image typical French village of shops and itewashed houses, or even the re main of houses, or rushes of infantry up And on the open streets, with desperato little counters of bombers around picture que old church, or sallies aeroas an orchard of blossoming apple trees into cottage gardaus in pursuit of fugitive. Prussian Guarda

~Bever e one with a drop in it. We collected quite a lot of souvenirs which were all turned over to our C.U. to pat in some kind of a Guards Museum, When we got back we were put to work building rosus and railways and worked very hard for some weeks,”

Five ·FURLONGS RACE: Ariel, Moka.. Mr. Beaurepaire, assistant manager of Billiking Social Schemer, the Hongkong Hotel, summoned a Chinese Pingwa Chief, Oak Bay, and Sinoia for the theft of a pair of brown boots Referring to the fact that he has been

GYMKHANA - STAKER:-Now Ally King and also a watch, of the value of $10.

attached to the Chinese Labour Corps, Dick, Town Mouse, Australian Chief, The goods were the property of a Mr.the writer says that the Chinese are ell Cadzow's Wait, Windsor Dallin, Clond Maslin, who was a guest at the Hotel. lands and Anticipation

Inspector Brown said that the defend ant was emplosed by a firm of upholster

rs who were doing some work at the hotel. The defendant went into a room in the fourth floor and took the things, He was seen in the act by one of the "boys" who chased him to a lower floor, where he was arrested with the boots and watch in his possessiert.

Class HANNICA-New Ally, King Dick, Town Mouse, Pingwa Chief, Cunico Dahlia, Magie Dablia, Windsor Dahlia, Hush Hushi, Whipper In. Ben Bolt, Oak Bay, Rex, Sinoin, Moka, Ariel and Ploughed Field.

ONE AND A QUARTER MILE HANDICAP- Tittlemouse, King Dick, Town Mouse, Australian Chief, Cadiow's Waif, Choice

Dahlia, Windsor Dahlin, Cloudlands,

The excuse put forward by the defend Ben Bolt, Rex, Anticipation and Plough ant, who admited the theft, was that he had been gambling, had lost $10, and he bad to make the money up.

ad. Field.

1.0.A. BERGEANTS' MESS OUTING.

He was sentenced to six weeks' im

prisonment,

TYPHOON WARNING.

$30

å

There are no houses, no orchards, and. gardens, Imagine rather a fasteced heap of rubble, over which toil groups of tired and dirty and unshaven mense thickly coated with the dust of shell- ground plaster and brick that they are like fantastic figures in a masquerade, from the North, but some of the inter been blown in by blasts of high-exp.osive, struggling along narrow ditches that have pretera who went on board at Hongkong sweating under the weight of their bomus, lying fat beneath a few sticks of of were very well received and told him a timber or dodging from a tass lot of news about the Colony. The Euro wreckage that half fills a cellar to the mound of earth and uprooted iron caili pean staff in charge of his particular that hides a crumpled, dug-out, the better men who to fling a grenade into that pile of Corps is nearly all composed of men huyo been in China. There are about rubbish. fifteen Europeans to a company of about

constant break of human was against 500. Corpl. Lane adds, with regard to his particular platoon ”—““I am making the wall of our defcure have wiped away proper Guardsmen of them, and they all vestiges of a village from the ground don't drink congee on duly like my chop landscape, a, strip pf lorn desert laid on a fertile valley--as dead and utterly tormless as that ribbon of lifeless soil called Hill 60 by the salient of Ypres.

HUMAN WHRCKAGE.

chais used to.

SAIGON RICE MARKET.

The Compagnie de Commerce et de Navigation dExtreme Orient of Saigon, in their report dated 19th June, states Thanks to the generosity of the sub-

Owing to an important demand from scribers to the Services Entertainment

the Philippine Islands and Japan for Fund, the members of the 1.0.A. Sor The following telegram has been re-immediate and July-August delivery, the prices of rice have advanced again since gants' Mess at Lyemun, and the nurried ceived by the American Consalata or last report: families of the Company, spent an enjoy General, Hongkong, from the Manila The rains seem to be regular now, and able afternoon on Wednesday. Starting Observatory :--

in nearly all the provinces the natives 11.30 am.. June 28th. have started ploughing the rice fields.. :?

The total amount of rice exported from Warning. Depression, north-eastern the 1st January up to the 12th June is

at midday the party proceeded on a trip round the island. Lunch was provided

ball

OUR LITTLE BIT SOCIETY

The undermentioned articles have been sent by "Our Little Bit Society, Kowloon, to Messrs. Showan, Tomes & Co. Lo be forwarded.

564,042 tons against 646,615 tons in 1916 We quote todayWhite rice, No. 2 Bifted Japan qaality, Hongkong dollars 3.91 per picul, foh. Baigon, for June and July shipment

on the way to Lamma, and, on reaching part China Sen. that island, swimming, rowing, polo, etc, were indulged in. Same excitement was caused by a Sorgeant, who was believed to be an export swimmer, nearly drown- ing himself. One of the party, thinking that a joke was taking place, hit the un- fortunate man on the head with a polo

which

little the worse for his unpleasant es quilts, 11 pillows, 11 pairs stretcher perience. The rowing caused some arpuse, boots, 80 suits pyjamas, 46 pairs white ment, as one of the oarsmeh, not being woollen, bed socks, 8, knitted face cloths, very expert, made things rather wet 21 pairs socks, 34 woollen muffers, sé and uncomfortable for the others. After leaving Lamma the party went ronnd the island, arriving back at Lyemur about 6 p.m. Tex was served on the way.

TURKEY SUFFERING FROM HUIG ER, TYPHUS AND HUNS, An Armenian arriving at Amsterdam did not improve matters To Queen Mary's Neddlework Guild, states that famine is general throughout

You cannot find a stick or stone that will help to reconstruct a worner of Bullecourt. Whirlwind barrages and the

cant held it. It is a blank in a pleasant

* Nor can I describe clearly the wild und aimless flow of bombers which is the struggle for this desolate place. You hear that the Hun is embedded in a poet in the south west corner and that our line has angged back from the church to the upper cross roads, and forward again to the main street that bisects the village on the south The

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pet is the end of a trench wholly hidden in the tumbled earth. There is no church, to cross-roads, no main street. As well try to get your bearings in the Sabara Without a compass you hulplessly adrift on a Saragasso Sea of o mark to set you to the north or enet, tangled wire and human wreckage, with save the mysterious white maze of Hip- denburg trenches beyond or a path that is but a bloody trail across the craters newly trodden on the ashes of last night a barrage with dead guardsmen in grey and the boding of their victors to mark The way, Vanished, utterly vanished, and in a low brief weeks of fighting.

Many of the bombers who lie in the insecure shelters of this evil place remem bor Bullecourt as it was when British patrols, pushing along the roads from

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absolutely dominating Turkey. The The Germans, the Armenian says, are Ministers are still all Turks, but the vice. Getimas of the worst types The Turkish ministers, the real managers, are all

officers are depressed and discouraged.

The German soldiers in Constantinople are indulging in all kinds of excesses.- Arakt

and trim fields. Even when we closed with the enemy long his new line, and his given up,ullecourt survived for a time. guns began pounding the country he had

Its disintegration began when our net trenches. Then our men came to grips draw tightly around the Hindenburg

with the dwellers in the cellare, and the laet fragments of the village above them slipped away in the smoke. It is an insignifiesat ruin,

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