1918-07-23 — Page 6

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 23RD

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ITALIANS CAPTURES

POSITIONS.

LONDON, July 20th 7.05 p.m

An Italian official report states-Our detaclononts al Adamello captured Mount, Stabel and completely re-occupied Corne di Cavento. The enemy left many dead and numerous prisoners on our hands, besides a large quantity of war material,

General

LATEST UABLES:

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)

SPANISH MINISTER RESIGNS

MADRID, July 21st. The Minister of Marine has resigned AUSTRIAN NEWSPAPER RENOUNCES SUBSIDY.

AMSTERDAM July 21st.

The Cologie Gazette a correspondent at Vienna

JOHILDREN BRUTALLY

MURDERED IN BOHEMIA.

ZURICH, July 20th.

1018

WEATHER REPORT.

July Sind at 18.36-No returns from Japan, and Vladivostok. Pressure bas dos erased slightly the majority reporting atations *; there is no apparent change in distribution since yesterday. The typhicon in fituated to the N. Gusa, probably moving N.W De

ending at 10 ani to-day, 036 inch, Tatal Hong kong rainfall for the 24 hours

since January 13, 44,53 Ipohes, against an Average of 47.30 imben

today is se follow

The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon

The details of the brutal murder of five school children and six others at Pilsen on June 21st have only now become known through an interpellation in the Reichsrat. It appears that a crowd of women and childreu watching the leading of a bread waggon at the Skoda Works began to ery. We are starving. We also want bread Suddenly an infantry patrol appeared, and, without an order to disperse or a single word of warning, Hongtong to Gan Rook fired a volley from behind into the crowd, killing five children between the ages of 10 and 13 and severely wounding four men, one of whom died, and two women.

AMERICA THANKS BRITISH EMPIRE.

LONDON, July 21st.. President Wilson has despatched a message on behalf of Americans thanking the British Empire for the celebrations on July 4th. LANCASHIRE COTTON TRADE

STRIKE AT WIGAN,

LONDON, July 20th.

NUTRICT

Portiora Channel

FORECAST

(8.W. winde, mo

derate; cloudy, Inome rain.

No.

Bomb Coss of Chini belvion. The mame as

Hongkong and Lampaks

291⁄2 Coast of Unlu befsroom; The semis n

Hengkang and flainas. No. 1

that the semi-official Owing to the operatives contention that Fremdenblatt has rennunced the Foreign it would mean the continuous unemploy | Tu-z Office subsidy in order to have a free ment of a large number of men the opera Wed hand towards the Austrian Government.tion of the Cotton Control Board's “play

The Foreign Office had complained of ing off" order has been postponed for a Thara the paper's attitude and bad demanded fortnight, from July 20th, for a further FA that it at least should be neutral

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA. CZECHS CAPTURE BIRSK

AMSTERDAM July-21st.

A message from Berlin atates that a Moscow despatel says that the Czechs have captured Birsk, the Soviets with- drawing.

consideration of the whole question of part-time in the Lancashire cotton trade

Two thousand workers at Wigan Cot ton Mills have struck owing to u dispute

as to whether the recent 20 per cent. advance in wages is on the present or pre-war wages basin,

DUCKBOARDS.

GERMAN GUARD FOR EMBASSY AT Í MOST USEFUL FURNITURE IN THE

MOSCOW.

AMSTERDAM, July 21st. The Rheinische Westfuelische Zeitung's correspondent at Berlin states that the Soviet Government, while refusing to agree to the proposal that a Gorman battalion be sent to Moscow to protect the Embassy, consented to the employ ment of several hundred German soldiers Kin mufti.

THE BRITISH LANDING ON MIRMAN COAST

In connection with the Murman land ing Trotzky ordered the Soviet soldiers not to support the French and British officers and not to permit them to go from one town to another, and to watch them carefully, as they were conspirators against the lumin people.

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EX-UZAR SHOT.

A wireless Russian official report staica; The Central Executive Committee has issued a mesinge made public from the Ural Regional Council concerning the shooting of the ex-Czar

TRENCHES,

The word duckboard conveys to the average civilian an impression of a a plank leading up to the diminutive entrance of a poultry house. But to a soldier who has seen servico in France, or Belgium that same word conjures up a vision of trenches, desolate stretches of mid, and rest, billets behind the line.

the immediate neighbourhood of the firing line the duckboard is ubiquitous. It consists of two pieces of wood about six-fect long with a number of eighteen. fuch cross pieces nailed to them in enon away as to form a long narrow grating. It is an essential part of the furniture of a well ordered trench. The method of

than is actually required. use is to dig the trench a foot deeper Stout aross pieces are fixed at the proposed floor level, and on these the duckboards are Inid. In this way there is ample room for water to drain away while the men occupying the trench walk dry shod. In the early Lpart of the war, when the dackboard was yet to be invented, a very little rain con and the flour was always inches deep in verted your trench into a miniature. river,

mud,

It is advisable to nail the duckboards securely to the supports. Otherwise they are liable to be displaced and drop you Ekaterinburg was being seriously into the water and mud beneath. Or you threatened by the approach of the Czecho. may happen to tread on the extreme edge

of one of them, and it will turn on Slovaks, and simultaneously a counter-side when you come a nasty cropper revolutionary conspiracy to wrest the Also, round about Ypres and in other wet sectors; it was a frequent occurrence, ex-Czar from the Council's authority was if the boards had not been properly discovered. The Ural Regional Council, secured, to stand on one and see the next therefore, decided to shoot the ex Car Hoating downstream. Then you had to

de. *** OTHER USES. Nicholas, which decision was carried out on July 16thi

LATER

The Central Excentive Committee ap- proved of the shooting at Romanoff. The latter's wife and son were sent to a place of security. Important documents con- cerning Romanoff, including the diaries ho kept till the last, diaries of his wife and children, and letters by Rasputin to Romanoff and family, will be published shortly.

CHOLERA AT MOSCOW AND

PETROGRAD

LONDON, July 20th."

A Russian official wireless report men- tions that there are 224 known cases and 78 suspected cases of cholera at Moscow and 120 case at Petrograd

Duckboards are useful apa

apart from treach flooring. They have been adapted to all manner of purposes. Three or four placed across the top of a trench and covered with a couple of layers of sand- bage

shelter. If the floor of your due will make an admirable, shrapnel-proof damp a son duckboards laut us out in enable you to keep dry. But you require a good supply of empty sandbags with which to pad the boards, for they make the bro a most uncomfortable bed. The edges of

into you es cut

side like knives

Behind the actual trench system there are frequently miles of country churned. up into thick, stricky mud These are crossed by tracks made of duckboards placed end to end over which whole batta- lions have to pass in single fils. There is a firm path a foot and a half wide, and if you are so unfortunate as tostep off you are foundering in an apparently hot- tomless sea

sea of the variety of mud peculiar to Flanders,

of

THE DISASTROUS FIRE AT FEZ

Clear of the fighting zone.

zone, in the region. semi-cell-earned spells of rest,

villages in which our troops LONDON, July Bist

the duckboard is still in evidence Router's Agency has received details of

IB the the disastrous fire at Fez in June, which rest camps they form paths between the huts and texte, and, as the majority of was attributed to German incendiaries. French villages are innocent of sidewalks The outbreak started at five o'clock in the

morning at four points simultaneously in

temporary ones ara constructed of boards and one oth the great Kavaria Bazaar and destroyed

There are thousand 9,000 square yards of the very centre things, for which duckboards are used: of the commercial quarter, where there In cases of emergency they can be used, were nearly 1,000 shops, 25 to 50 per cent. upside down, as stretchers, and they

have of whose stocks were silk, cotton and even been known to disappear mysteri- candles and half the stocks of native ously when the occupants of a dug-out manufactureThe French authorities required fuel for their brazier. Of the acted most energetically and blew up the many things which have been introduced surrounding houses. This stopped the fire treaches the duckboard is one of the most to. lessen the discomfort of life in the

and the famous sanctuary of the Mulah the average private swear when carrying at the very doors of the Carouine Mosque important. But no one who has heard Idriss, which had a very narrow escape them up the line would think so. They The Moors are grateful for the masterly are not heavy, but are extremely awk fashion in which the French saved these ward to carry, especially along a wind- shrines.

ing trench,

HONGKONG TIDE TABLE:

from 241 to 20th July, 1918

HIGE WATIK

LOW WATER.

BOD

Mau

Height

Haight

23 m 51 7 7 16 30 868 0m 2:15 12 8 10 41

10 5 4 4

24

4.164 0

25 m 947-9 m 3 12 28

28 m 10-8317 6 [m 3:55

t

star.

San.

Mon.

110 4 8 6.30 a 0 6 27 m 11 14 7 9 m 116 12 3

33 m

m 5 38 12 08880 645 10: 29 m 19 5 3m 6 14 20 1.10 m 57 784a 22

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