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half-year and the Allies" reserve power growing steadily month by month. Rapid as our advance has been during the past few weeks it has not been so rapid as the Corinan onrush in the Spring, but that counts for listle we go we are consolidating our positions, und there are signs that the enemy, now their retreat has become general, will be far behind those lines forced back
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The Postmaster-General announces that instructions have been received from Lon- don that the transmission at ten to the United Kingdom by parcel post is pro- hibited.
The opinion. has been expressed locally that the Capt. Cramie, Naval Attache at Petrograd, mentioned by Reuter as having been murdered by Bolshevists "ut
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A CHINESE ROMANCE CHINESE CHARGED WITH HAR-
BOURING A GIRL
At the Hongkong Magistracy, yester day, before Mr. J. R. Wood, Mak Lam was charged with harbouring a 13 year old Chinese girl.
Mr. A. E. Wood, of the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, proscented.
After formal evidence of
had Arrest been given. the Central Police Station
from which they launched their thun derbolt. Our threatening movement towards Cambrai alone will have vital Cromie, who was so well known in Hong- interpreter deposed that on Thursday, emarqueners if pressed much farther. kong us the officer commanding H.M.S. the defendant, having been cautioned, bad
and there is no sign of slackening, so far. Should Cambrai fall, Douai will have to be evacuated, and the, loss of
Rosario on this station during 1913 and 101 Both Capt Cromie and his wife
took a great interest in amateur theatri-
made a statement to the effect that this
girl came to his house of her own free will.
Thom Fan, a street hawker, living in Douai will make very procarious the cals in the Colony during their stay here," Ezra Lane, deposed that the defendant German hold upon talle. Moreover, it and Mrs. Cromie was also known as and the girl lived in the upper floor of is stated that the fate of Cambrai is very good tennis player. Capt. Cromie's one of the flats in which he hired a room, bound up with that of St. Quentin, and war career was most distinguished. In This statement was corroborated by the With the Allies in possession at St. September, 1815, when in command of principal tenant of the house, who added Quentin the retention by the enemy of, he forced a passage in the Baltic the further detail that the defendant and the girl stayed in the house as man and the St. Gobain heights, between La Fere A month later his activities caused a and the Ailette, upon which the whole week's suspension of German traße. In wife from the end of April till September
and. The defendant paid the rent (83.30). German line in the West depends, will November, 1915, he sank the German
Sergeant Wills said that. aeting on a be impossible. In view of these con- cruiser Undine, which gained him the St. siderations the CROWN PRINCE's reported George's Cross, the D.S.O., and his proful guardians of the girl, he went to No. report made on September 2nd by the law.
motion to Commander. Flis intimate connection with Russia seems to support the belief that he was appointed Naval Attachs at Petrograd in 1917.
atatement to an interviewer 'that the Germas are simply, as is were, demon- atrating the elasticity of their defence and have no desire to annihilate the Allies must rank as, perhaps, the most ludicrous of the many inanities attribut
4, Ezra Lane and found the girl in the house.
Witness took her to the Police Station.
Thom Kam, the girl in the case, said that she was not yet married.
She was adopted by a Chinese and his wife, în
et to this brainless firebrand Accord CHINESE TELEGRAMS. whose house her chief work was to take
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ing to one of the French Generals, we are in the last lap and are now close to the winning-post." and although this may appear un unduly optimistic sum- ming up of the situation in view of the heavy fighting that undoubtedly hes ahend, the removal of the German main Headquarters and the reported strength- ening of the delenges of the frontiers encourage the belief that a very consider. uble retirement of the German forces is
contemplated. Any compromise such as WATSON & The Times suggests that the enemy ars
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tiling to offer must be altogether out of the question." Whether it be this year or next, it is certain that the Germans will be forced to evacuate France and Belgium without any compensation" in ["the East, and, when estigating the time that must elapse before this desirable Amation is reached, it would be well to remember that a huge American army is being concentrated to the south- vest of Verdun. There has been compara tively little fighting in this sector, and when the German reserves liave been still further reduced it is possible that the full weight of this new material will be thrown suddenly against the enemy to his complete andoling.
Today and tomorrow being Jewish New Year holidays, the Jewish business. offices will be closed.
The Rev. and Mrs. W. Featherstone, Mr. and Mrs. D. K. Moss, the Hon. Mr C. Mel. Messer, and Mr. R. E. Belitios returned to the Colony yesterday."
;
The members of the Ticatsin Volunteer
Fire Brigade have resigned ́in a body
owing to their application to the B.M., Councils for an inquiry into certain" alleged grievances having been refused,
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SAN PO."]
PEKING NEWS. It is reported that Tuan Chi-jui left Peking for Tientsin on the 2nd inst.
Tin Wan-lieb is acting as Premier.
The Peking Government has suddenly ordered Li Shun to raise a million dollars and to send that sum at once to Peking.
Chang King-yew has reported that he
watch Ng Pukta, on the Hupan front. has sent one division of his troops to
CANTON NEWS,
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AMUY CRIB18...
care of her younger brother.. On March 2nd when her guardians had taken her younger brother, who was sick, to a doctor in Wanchai, she left the house at the instance of a woman named Ah Luk., She changer her residence to No. 4, Ezra Lang without her "guardians" consent, and lived with the defendant until the latter was arrested. She knew that the other people in the block considered them inan wife.
When she was living with her
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guardians her adopted father had invited the defendant to the house. Her gunn- dinns knew the defendant well, and ft was she who had asked the-defendant to receive her into his house. She had not intendel to stay away from her, guardians' house altogether, but to go back some time later CANTON, September.uth.
The adopted father of the girl said that she was one month old when he bought A message from Amoy states that the her from a woman. He had brought her situation there has become very grave. up as his own daughter, and did not give The Canton forces are approaching.. his consent to her going to live with the The Tuckun and some other Fukien defendant. His consent was not asked for leaders bave recently arrived in Amoy to when she changed her abode. When the control military affairs. The foreigners, gir disappeared he met and asked the however, afraid that Amoy will be in- defendant to help and her. Witness asked eluded in the war zone, have advised Li defendant to report ber disappearance ut to move back to Foochow
the Police Station and he said he had. done so. Witness offered defendant "tea money if he found the girl, and the defendant had replied that he had already spent $10 in looking for her. The de-. fendant advised witness to offer a rewari?
Many have already left Amoy. Those remaining are seeking foreign protection. It is said that the Fukien troops are Eighting with each other near Amoy. Kiso-CHOW TO BE ATTACKED.
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It is reported that the authorities have of 30 to 300 to the person who found the ordered the leaders, who were sent to girl. Her farther discussed the matter
uttack King-chow, to commence the attack
before the 15th inst.
Other messages state that Long's troops in King chow have agreed to surrender conditionally to the Canton'forces.
A NARŁÓW ESCAPX.
Commander Li Luh-kwan, the Chief Adviser of the Military Government, was fired at by a number of rioters on the bund when he was returning to his headquarters in a motor-car after visiting the Chamber of the Government.
with the defendant, and, getting nothing
satisfactory from the Inter, he let the matter drop. He had subsequently met the defendant more than once and the latter had Femarked that it was very dif. cult to find the girl. Later he heard of the whereabouts of the girl, and gave the informer $40 as "ten-money." He then informed the Police. Witness said he had known defendant for several years. They had been friends, indeed, he had consider- ed defendant his best friend in Hongkong.
THE ALLIES UNCHECKED ADVANCE
Tux Allies are continuing to make, pro gress along practically the whole of the Western Front. There is still very considerable area of ground to be risover. ed before we are back again in all 'the positions we occupied during the early part of this year, but already more than half of the territory overrun by the Germans in their great" peace offensive" has been regained. In the vitally im-
Chinese, aged 18 years, has been sent portant sector known as the HINDEN to the Government Civil Hospital suffer. nunc ** switch-line" we have inade a gaping from injuries, to one of his legs ar some six miles wide and are nearer to the result of being knocked down' by Cambrai than we have ever been before, motor-car No. 144 in Queen's Road Cen- STABBING AFFRAY IN THE a reward, but said that defendant had except for one brief interval when Sir tral, near the City Hall. DOCOLAS HAIG flung bis' advance guards almost to the suburbs of the City, and as subsequently transpired, came within
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A fatal motor-car accident occurred
days ago in Bhanghai Street, Yau an ace of scoring a brilliant victory Dati A Chinese youth was crossing the road when motor-ear knocked him KOWLOON MABINE LOT No. 48 Territory, however, is not everything. suitable for Coal Storage.
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Defendant at this stage denied that witness had ever naked him to look for the girl and also denied suggesting that a re- ward should be offered for her discovery.
Witness admitted that he had suggested
recommended an increase in the amount proposed..
The hearing was adjourned for this morning.
WEDDING.".
vicinity of the General Post Office shortly THEIR MAJESTIES" before nine o'clock last night when a Chinese stabbed another Chinese with a knife, inflicting a wound that is believed
to be serious.
SILVER
"THE QUEEN'S APPRECIATION OF HONGKONG'S GIFT.
There was no preliminary quarrel. The The following letter, acknowledging the assailant seemed to have shadowed the gift of the women of Hongkong to other man till he secured an opportunity H.M. the Queen on the occasion of Their of injuring him, and it was not until the Majesties Silver Wedding, has been re injured man cried out in pain that itceived by Lady May:— was noticed that anything was wrong. Buckingham Palace, 17th July, 1918. The assailant chose the place of attack Carefully, for it was under cover of the Fost Office verandah that he struck the
At the Eongkong Magistracy, yester day, before Mr. J, R. Wood, three chair coolies were summoned by Staff Inspector McEwen, H.K.P. (R.), for refusing to regardless of cost. The Germans reached carry a passenger. Inspector McEwen the Marne before Marshal Foch, follow stated that as it was raining heavily he ing the example of his eminent predeces asked his interpreter to fetch a chair, hat nor in 1914, called a halt. On two all three defendants rufused to come. Mr. occasions the passage of the Marne has Wood fined then go each. Thirty other foiled German ambition, "and now in chair coolics were charged with rushing spite of the rumours that some great at passengers at the foot of Wyndham mysterious army under General MACKEN/ Street. Major Hammond related to the SAN is preparing to make another lunge, Magistrate his experiences. He aid that effected the arrest of the Chinese without kind thought which has prompted this
there is little prospect that the enemy just as his wife and he had engaged SALAT at the Pan Higher Fock, having patiently bided his
MALL_FURNISHED BUNGALOW or will ever again penetrate so far. Marshal chairs he heard somebody else call out
time, for
a chair. There was a general has snatched the initiative from the scramble and the coolies, running past
Mr. Wood inflicted fines it with the Germans spent and exhausted, was seated, by the tremendous struggles of the past ranging from $3 to $0 for each chair.
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Dear Lady May, With reference to your telegram of the 25th June, the Queen desires me to say that she has kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation received from the manager of the Hong- л cheque for £1,025, baing the gift of of three hundred and fifty-one. women Hongkong to Her Majesty on the occasion.
The Queen is deeply touched by the of Their Majesties Silver Wedding
An alarm was raised and two Indian constables and a Police Reserve constable
much trouble. The injured man was present, and Her Majesty will be glad thanks for their generosity, you will of B.A. M.C. men and a European Detec assure them how highly sho appreciates taken to the Police Station by a couple, in conveying to the donors her was
The Queen will be pleased to apportion tive Sergeant who happened to be on the this token of their loyalty and devotion hospital, where ho was attended.
ia, which she takes a special interest.-.- The motive of the attack is not yet I am, yours sincerely, known
EDWARD WALLINGTON
enemy and is never likely again to lose early overturned the chair in which becene, and was, later, removed to the this money" to some deserving charities
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