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MONDAY, 5TH NOVEMBER

TOBOLSK.

LITTLE BETTER THAN A LIVING

TOMB

UY HAIRY DE WINDT.]

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2ND, 1917.

THE EX-TSAR IN EXILE,

mach

At

EVACUATION OF RIGA. IMPORTANCE OF THE TOWN.

[BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH'S PETROGRAD CORRESPONDENT.]

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

·ORDERS INSUED. BY MR. F. C. JENKIN, D.S.P. (RESERVE).

$

PARADES, CEVIRAL, 5.30 PM. state it would be more than ever idle to Tuesday, November 6th-Nos, 6 and 6 With Russia in her present incalculable Monday, November 5th-Nos, 3 and

Platoons, and. all Recruits,

Platoons. Also No. 2 Section (at Water Police. Station). Also Ambul ance Platoon at Tung Wah Hospital

at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 7th--Ne: 2, Platouri. Thareday, Nov. 8th-No. 7 and 8 and Friday, Noy, 9th-No. 1 Section and all-

Ambulance Platoons.

Recruits

HARBOUR PATROLS.

Barbour Patrols may now wear winter

uniform on patrel duty,

J WHISTLES, AND CHAINS

to be worn at all times with uniform.

BAND AND ORCHESTRA.

DAILY LIFE AT TOBOLSE

The ex-Imperial family, while awaiting the completion of the arrangements for I have twice been deputed by the late their installation in the Governor's Imperial Russian Government to

palace, retained for five days on board inspect the prisons of Siberia, and there are the steamer which conveyed them from speculate on the military consequence, of therefore few penal establishment the railway torminus to Tobolsk. For the evacuation of Riga. The importance throughout

at vast territor,five days the steamer remained at schor of the loss of the town and the Dvina ·

with which 1 301

unacquainted. My reports

in mid-stream, only approaching the ing on that sector of the front is, of

enable were generally favourable regarding the family to walk along the river bank, course, not to be denied; but, on the other

thoro to

the ex-Tsar and his condition and treatment of criminal con- These walks always took place at a dia hand, it is always nossible that this, blow, victs, who wore often better off than the sauce of some miles from the town. The threatening, es it does the safety of ex-Tsaritsa rarely left the vessel, and political exiles, especially those banished both she and the ex-Cesarevitch, zuffered Petrograd, may at last bring the de- to some remote Arctic village. Thus,

moralised sections of the Russian army during my land journey from Paris to party was transferred to the Governor's in the end prove something like a boss the morning of August 28th the and working-classes to their senses, and New York I came upon one of these ice palace. bound settlements containing fourteen his son and three of his daughters, while Galician front was, it appeare, too dai- The ex Tour went on foot withing in disguise. The collapse of the politicals (of both sexes) who were herded the Tsaritsa followed in a carriage, tant an event to make the necessary im in miserable mud huts, and subsisted solety un fish which they caught in Companied by her eldest daughter, the

Are pression on the politically intoxicated Duchess Olga. The party was summer and conmined during the winter escorted by a detachment of soldiers who proletariate of the capital, but perhaps in a putrid condition, owing to lack of had accompanied them from Tsarsko this nearer menace will compel thern to Band Practices for November ---Tuesday, salt as b preservative. Some of these Balo. people had travelled for nearly two years soldiers who had been to the front and grievously of all against themselves and The detachment was composed of disorganisation they are sinning most realise that by encouraging anarchy and from Petrograd before reaching this hope received the Cross of St. George. les haven (shown on the caps as Sredni idday on the same day the Prior of that they will be the first to suffer should kolymisk), and it took me over five months the Church of the Annunciation

the defences of the northern front crumble Lo accomplish the same journey of about and blessed th house

ki picces. 600 miles, although provided by the Government with numberless horses, dogs. and reindeer Every exile bere was suffering either from scurvy, leprosy, paralysis, or a local form of nervous dis case which generally precedes the suffer er's suicide,Five had become insane cwing to the inhuman and appalling con. ditions of life in this Arctic Inferno, which is bereft of sunshine for nearly half the year, and where a total absence of the conmon necessaries and even de. cencies of civilisation had so degraded these unhappy beings that they less re sembled creatures than beasts of the field. And yet thon of that little band of martyrs who had retained their reason declared that the physical agony which they endured was as nothing com- pared to the tortars caused by the inces- Sant and hopeless monctony of their COUNT LUXBURG'S CABLES. existence.

I mention this in order to show that

The following are the English transla the mental stagnation of Siberian exilestions of the German text of the offe.nl is (to an educated mind) infinitely telegrams sent by Count Luxburg, Ger- harder to bear than the severest form of man furgé d'Affaires at Buenos Aires. bodily suffering. And the former is just to the connivance of the Swedish Lega

who have been consigned to the snowy wastes of frozen Asia. Take, for instance, Tobolsk, the city to which the ex-Tear and Tsaritsa have just been relegated, and which, being only 1,000 miles from MORCOW, is an agreeable centre of life and guiety as compared to Sredni-koly. mask. Yet I can vividly recall the intoler able sense of depression from which I Buffered when compelled to remain there for only a few days, and the feeling of unutterable relief which, even after that brief, detention, accompanied my depar ture For to anyone easily impressed by gay gloomy surroundings Tobolsk is neither more nor less than alising tomb, and Tomsk, and Irkutek, although far further east, are much more, desirable places of residence.

came

Much will naturally depend upon what Russian fleet is so strong that, in normal now happens ab sea In mutériel the conditions the Germans could not tackle But, unfortunately, all we know about One serves as it without risking very serious, losses.

discouraging. the spirit of its personnel is distinctly Should the Germans

Governor's palaces consisting of 14 rooms. The party cupy the first floor of the One is reserved for the Tsar, one for his son, one for the ex-Tsaritsa, and two for her dining room, another as a reception

daughters. room, while the remaining rooms are utilized by the members of the suite and the servants. The building is entirely surrounded by a fence which wereons it from the view of the ing-housen.

neighbouring dwell

Gev

Nov. 6th; Friday, Nov. 9th; Tuesday, Nov, 13th Friday, Nov. 10th; Wed- nesday, Nov. 21st; and Tuesday, Nov. Orchestra Practicts: Mondays, Nov.

27th.

Clarionet Cities: Wednesdays, Nov. 7th

Bth, 19th, and 26th.

and 14th; and Tuesday, Nov. 20th

REQUIEM MASS.

A Requism Mass will be held at the, Roman Catholic Cathedral at 7-30. am. on Saturday, Nuv. 3rd, for the repose of the souls of those who have died in the War,

All

Catholic members of the force wishing

to attend will parade in uniform with, halmete at Central Station at 7.15.a.m. sharp, and report to Chief Inspector d'Almada.

(By Order.) T. F. HOUGH, A.6.P. (R.). Hongkong, November 1st, 1917,

guard ba ships in which hitherto it you stay here it will mean perpetual was sent to work on a farro about five"

to

He was.

of G

reached the Rhine three o'clock on the On July 27th he slipped away and morning of the 29th. He remained in in,, and after a hard swim, in which the biding until midnight. Then he plunged

stream, he reached the Swiss bank of the current carried him two miles down

bis position took him to a police station, river A civilian to whom he explained where slothes were provided him, and he is now back in Hull

Letty.

a much more

In its external aspects gian town.

succeed in making themselves masters of the Gulf of Riga before the navigation is stopped for the winter, the problem of The daily life of the family is the same for an advance against Petrograd would maintaining and supplying their army as at Tsarskon Selo. At 10a.m. break be greatly simplified by water transport, fast is served, at 1 o'clock luncheon, Till next spring, howover, they would p.m. dinner. Only the ex-Tsar and his not have a very long benefit from this wife are under detention. The children are in the charge of their mother, who advantage for Riga is closed to naviga- tion. is responsible for their religious instruction by ice from December to March, the average period of the stoppage of water traffic to the town being 127 days The

SWIM ACROSS THE RHINE. derive from their success will be that of one unquestionable gain the Germans.will

HULL POLICEMAN'S BASE FOR FREEDOM. which to cheer their army against the having comfortable town quarters in terrors of another winter campaign. This a swimmer, and was a well-known figure In days of peace" Constable Wilson, of Hall, enjoyed much local distinction as was the bait which was persistently hold

at the annual swim across the Humber. out to the German troops during the The experience gained, in breasting a as prevalent amongst Siberian exiles near tion at Buenos Aires and the Ministry half of 1013. Their officers pointed to when, as a prisoner of war in Germany, attack on the Riga section in the second rapidly running river proved useful the European frontier as amongst those of Foreign Affairs at Stocks 10th, 1917, No. 5.

the town and cried, "If you take Rigahe determined to make a bid for liberty. ernment has now released the Germa" you will pass the winter in comfort, but After nearly two years of captivity he and Austrian

been

placed

In conse-cold and misery." The passession of this miles from the Rhine.. quence of the settlement of the Monte winter base will undoubtedly have a (Protegido) case there has been a great Cayman is effect on the morale of the

public feeling. The Gov- German troops, ernment will in future only clear.

THE CAMPAIGN OF 1013. Argentine ships as far as Las Palmas, Las Palmas

It was on August 1st, 1915. that the one of the Canary Gormans captured Mitou, and thus camé Islands and is the last neutral touch-into the immediate neighbourhood of ing place

the ordinary ocean route Riga. A fortnight later they tried com. between South America and north Gined land and water operations against western Europe. It belongs Gunzo, January 31st (meaning which twin capital but the barges with

Spain. sailed on January 31st), 300 tons, which which they attempted to land troops near are now nearing Bordeaux, with a view pan were all sunk, and they suffered to changing flags, may be

spared Sif

such heavy losses in warships that their possible or else sunk without a trace cet has not since that time seriously than doubtful loyalty to Russia Those being

loft (spurlon

Spustos (versenkt) - LUX-

disputed the Russian mastery of the Gulf who openly displayed their pro-Gorman Tobolsk is the ancient capital of

Hund.

of Riga The threat to the town was, Siberis, and contains 30,000 inhabitants,

"The second message

rends

however, so immediate that the Russian

aympathies in the early stages of the war, largely composed, before the war, of

"July 3rd, 1917, No. 59-1, learn Government decided to evacuate that very were long ago removed to Siberia and among them several Lutheran pastors, Germans engaged in the leather and

from a reliable source that the Acting considerable portion of its industry which other places, where they would have less Minister of Foreign Affairs, who is a served the purposes of the war. tallow trades. It has been stated that the notorious ass and Anglophile, declared important task was at first entrusted many remain, who would be only too glad This chance of doing harm; but undoubtedly ex-Tsar is being conveyed to his place in secret session of the Senate that to the notorious General Kourloff.to transfer their allegiance from Petro of exileby special train from Russia," Argentina which can hardly be correct, seeing that

would demand from Berlin to whose negligence many people ascribe grad to Berlin. a promise not to sink moro Argentine the assassination of Stolypin, and who population is made up in about equal The other half of the Tobulsk can only be renchod by river. I

ships. If not. agreed to relations would bad to travel there for five days from

be broken off.

became the chief executant of I recommend refusal, Protopopoff's suicidal policy.

proportions by Russians and Moscow did Nijni-Novgorod, up the

or if necessary,

in the mediation subsequently accused in the Duma, resembles a German than a River Volgs to Perm, thene across the The third message rends:

POPULATION OF of Spain, calling in

having arranged the evacuation in such This is not unnatural, for it was found- Ural Mountains by rail to lumen, and down the Iriysh River. The province of

July 9th, 1917, No. Without anned were to be moved first, while thoseed, in 1158, by a party of Bremen mer

a way that the factories where fond vas which Tobolsk is chief town is eight times.

showing any tendency to make conces which the size of Great Britain, and is sparsely

sions postpone reply to Argentine

were making mun

munitions and Chants, and for a until receipt plunging Note articles of army shipment were to he its history it was under the way or th peopled by Rumians, Tartars, and fur

part, of clad Ostiaks and Samoyedes, yet it was

Change of Ministry probable, AB 10 Polivanoff, who had succeeded General in the in those days

Inst When

ral Hanseatic

order and the influence of the ones of considerably commercial import-

stoamers. I recommend Sukhomlinoff as Minister for War, dis-

League. It is from the traders ance, which, owing to the Trans-Siberian sinking them without leaving any trace. Korloff by another officer, and the vast blood has gone on pretty steadily ever Railway has now greatly decreased. On or letting them through. They are all undertaking was eventually carried out.

descended, though the inflow of German approaching it from the river and viewed quite small-LUXBUR from a distance Tobolsk presents an

Thousands of wagon loads of machinery since Before the wae actual German, imposing, and picturesque appearance,

and tens of thousands of workmen were subjects

formed much, the largest con- which is quickly dispelled on closer ac- century. In the Dark Ages fiberian but the empty shells of factories to assist the shops bear signboards in the German trumported to places in the interior of lived in mig tid 500 foreigners who quaintance, for the place then assumes exiles were deprived of their nostrils by them in the manufacture of munitions. Russia, and the Germans will find little

and they had a great part lifeless appearance which sinks into the

of its trade in their hands. Most of soul. There is an upper, and a lowes means of red-hot pincers, but this being Among those buildings is one which was second half of last century town, the former being the citadel, which metal ollander, its suspenders were publie of dit great speed during the spring ernment attempted; to introgace Russian

obviously impossible in the case of the erected at

language. Indeed; it was only in the consists of a cluster of white-washedly removed in the presence of the Tsar of the Russian General Electrical Como as the official language in the Baltic pro buildings overlocking the river from heado nunc concourse of people, and this pany. It had just been got ready for the Times, the thugs hid Peter and Great.

the summit of a precipitous limestone cliff unique exile has now found a resting reception of its machinery when It is approached by a steep carriage place in the local museum

Riga belonged to drive, and here the ex-imperial family.

evacuation was ordered. Simultaneously will probably reside, for the citadel com

Tobolak presents at all: seasons of the with the factory staffs, all the rest of the victory at how the prizes of his prises the Governor's palace, Government year a drab and desolate aspect, especial civilian population, who could afford to pose that the population of the Baltic Galvanised Corrugated olices, and a golden-domed cathedrally in summer, when the only trace of do so left Riga, most of them flocking provinces as a whole is German either It is, however, quite a mistake to sup- Sheets, 8/3, 30 Guage, Same price as whence there is a fine view of the river stunted birch and cedar trees, dusty Aftor the failure of the repeated Ger-only some seven or eight per cent of the is public garden composed of to Petrograd and aggravating the terrible blood or sympathies. The fact is that greenery and crescent-shaped city, which chiefly shrubs, and scentless flowers intersected

congestion which already existed there. the German element in these provinces is Item Amerfóna Galvanised Flat Sheetz 1 Sheets, 8/8", 28 Guage, 6, 7, 8, Bamo decay. Neither they nor the strects stand occupies the centre, and near it ison of these rofugeerable pro fined to the, towns. Outside their walls Item Japanese Galvanised Corrugated consists of drab-coloured, weather-bleached by weedy paths ankle deep in wet wel man attempts against the Dvina line population, and is almost entirely con

wooden buildings in various stages of the Adilapidated and deserted band the autumn of 1916, a English Galvanised Corrugated Sheets ar paved with rough planks which have Forms the dauntless warrior who with betweon. Ove and six hundred thousand prostheses the sec

kept in decent and as the latter stone with the inscription rotted away in places it is somewhat risky bandful of Cossacks captured Western which it had roa

homes, but the remained far below the level of

great

the so-called "Baltic barons, drive after dark for the ago from a for

are the descendants of but dimly lit the constant slatter of Liberia, three centuries he paisan bere in of military of alone Ya the Riga teng yar

the traffic along these wooden thoroughfares the most dismal-looking structure, inside bourhood, but that does not mean that age (they speak, of courte, both Russion

the warna ACAC before

.section ef society also tainted with dis becomes maddening after a time, for it

loyalty bus o

on the other hand cludes many

it in- families which, pi spite of resembles the incessant of and out, which I have ever beheld, yet nothing happened there. bands of druin, and lolling of the it is well in keeping with its mournful this sector of the front was a sin that and German, though the auch winn was old, dirty, and comfortless, and per- Tobolsk bae the highest death rate of any briefly longed far into the night. The best hot surroundings. This, in short, is a city the scene of one of the bloodiest battles selves thoroughly Rome), feel thorn

was last summer they generally use at of the dead in more ways than one, for the war. It was only referred to very meated, like many of the streets with an town in Siberia, a fact partly attribut muniqués, which recorded that some lines

and have been couple

among of Tussion om selves in the present war. The barons the most odour of sewage, for the draining here in able to defective drainage and partly to of trenches had been taken from the holding of land in the Baltic provinces most eager to sacrifice them 6. Guage, Weight about 16 lbs., at Y40.00 Item English Galvanised Corrugated Sheets, was a theatre (generally closed) and a which it is surrounded, and which are their line a few miles

of a very primitive description. There the extensive and stagnant marshes by of fact, our Allies succeeded in advancing That is one reason

nearly all very wealthy, the overage 85, 24 Guage, Same prina as above.

enemy opposite the town. As a matter so-called café chantant, which was un-

being between 0,000 and 11,000 acres Ameri an Galvanised Corrugated pleasant work

ease. Look down from town below was a fruitful soures of every malarial dis- The price they had to pay for this Sheets, 8/3" 24 Guage, at Y47.00 per dive in New Lork vr Ban, Francisco summer evening, and the town below you

bector.

the rest of the picul P. O. B. Kobe.

success

is made up Amusements there were none by day or is invariably concealed by a lake of dense, engagement, which lasted three or four ares Slav race. These people for the

Lowever, do high that it Itém American Tinplates, 170 lbs, 20" x 14" night, except the arrival or departure of fever-laden mist which has crept in a days and yielded no fruits on the other only some 15 per

could

not related up. It is said that in

to the Corrugated 18.

224 sheets in case at Y105.00 per case a river steamer, which appeared to afford sunset from the neighbouring swamp. portions of the front involved, the Rus

n this Sheets, 8/3, packed in skeleton case of about 30 Guage,

Some of the shops were fairly good, incessant rain, and swarms of mos Kuropatkin, who had been responsible is intense, as they showed during the F..O. B. Kobe

the habitants their only relations Serra esson of dull grey skies, ians lost 30,000 in killed alone. General Live, in great poverty and Squalor most part are landless the perrants bel Length: 0 718 A

especially those for the ante of ligne quitses; winter of intense cold combined for this expensive failure, was et ance revolution of 1905-6, when they pillaged of the soil and Number

per case, of sheets: 67, 57, 52,

jewellery and silver, where sleevelinkeith damp, a climatic combination un relieved from his command. "sestípius, and other articles fashioned in known in other parts of Siberia, which

overlords the shape of bell were constantly offered elsewhere is invariably sunlit, dry, and themselves quite at hottie in Riga, and ing those of their owners who did not me For Tobolik is as proud of its hell bracing. Political exiles have told me will not be so coldly received as they of the Baltic province population the The Germans will, no doubt, soon make and burned dozens of chateaux, murder Lucerne of its lions or Beme of bears that they would rather serve a five years would be in a genuinely Hessian town invaders will certainly not be received the Bell of Ouglitch," which for tal-sentence in the depths of Russia, Asis About half of the population are people with open arms, especially since the Rus Among this mas REMARKS:--The above pics are without engagement. Shipments made promptly, banished here by a Tear of the sixteenth for six months, although it is so much many of them have always been of more prospect of at last realising their dreams ling the signad for an insurrection was then rende here in comparative freedom of German blood and speech, and a good sian Revolution has opened to them the

(Continued as food of next Column.) nearer Europe,

(Continued at foot of neat colum:) of becoming a proprietary pestantship.

MADAME FLINT begs respectfully to announce that she has secured the exclusive right from several Parisian Houses, including the MAISON BLUM, to supply her only with their latest creations from the 1st July, 1917, and that she has also engaged the services of Mulle. ROQUE, Première Coupeute, late of the MAISON BLUM, who will undertake the management of the Dressmaking Departament

MADAME FLINT respectfully thanks her Clientele for past favours, and solicits their continued patronage, and also invites the Ladies of Hongkong to inspect the New Goods in her Showrooms, as the Best Models are not displayed in the Windows.

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Andojímachi, 4-chome,

No. 29, OSAKA, JAPAN,

Cabin Address: "KAWAIKITA"

K. KAWAL. Al. Code, A. B. C. 8th Metal Import and Export

Edition, Private Codes.

Merchant.

Item Japanesa Made Galvanised

1.

Sheets, 3' x 6', 30 Guage, "MOON, In STAR" Brand, st Y400 per sheet F O. B. Kobe.

Flat Item Japanese.

above, and

Z

36, 30 Gunga, "APOLLO" Brand,

at Y4.00 por sheet F. O. P. Kobe.

Liew Japanese Galvanised Flat Sheets 3. 31623 Guage, at Y52.00 per picni

F. O. B. Kobe.

Item American Galvanised Flat Bheets, 48' 16', about 5 cwt and 40 sheets per case, 28 Gunge, at Y50.00 per paul F. O. R. Kobe.

Item Japanese Galvanised Flat Sheets, 25 Guage, Weight about 13 lbs, at Y50.00 per pical F. O, B. Kobe

5.

Item American Galvanised Flat Sheets, 20

7

per picul F. O. B. Koba

Itern English Galvanised Flat Sheets, 24- Guage, Weight about 1830s, at Y48.00 per picul F. O. B. Kobe, Item Japanese--- Galvanised

6 at 12.00 7 at 13.50 8, at 14.00 per sheet F, O. B. Kabe

price as above.

Iten

19

8/35 Gunge, 6, 7, 8, Sama price as above, p Item American Galvanised

Corrugated

13. Sheets, 3/3", 28 Goage, 6, 7, 8. Same

price as above. Item Japanese Galvanised

Corrugated

· 1 Shoots, 8/8", 23 Guage, 6, 7, 6, Same

price as above.

Item America Galvanised Corrugated

16.

16.

Item 17.

Sheets, 8/3" 26 Guage, 8, 7, 8, at Y49.00 per picul F. O. B. Kobe.

Item American Tinplates, 160 lbs., 20" x 14" 10.

224 sheater in case at 102 par osos

E. OR Kobe.

Item America Tinplates, 100 lm, 20" x 14",

20.

FO.B. Kobe.

* 112 sheets in case, at Yo3 00 per caso

[1918

gaTpelling them to turn back, covered what was going on he replaced its present, Teuton inhabitants are mainl

either

Co

To

their

roached

During year very

the

wor it

that

rickled back the robe found are the

population,

on a short.

are

tru

they are detested population,

which

Esthenians

Finns, and the Letts; who

who are closely

succeed in escaping.