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DAY BY DAY.

WITH THE FORCES.

The tragedy of life is in Scenes on the Kowloon Hills decision.

Departed for Bombay. Mr. and Mrs. E. Shellim left for Bombay to-day by the P. and

O. steamer India,

Dismissed.

The Liscum's Crew.

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The crew of the American tran- sport vessel Liscum, nufo bering 28, left by the Rubi for Manila. It will be recalled that the Liscum recently sank in Shanghai waters. Slight Damage. Yesterday about eleven o'clock, according to the police reports, a collision took place between cargo: boat and a fishing boat, the former being damaged to the extent of about $30.

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making for the hill which the others were doing their best to Locate.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Te get out of the defending Street Horrors.

Mċ. Hall Calne. «

party's territory it was necessary

Cannot something be done by A Home paper is beginning a From the point of view of the to traverse the line at this point party on the defence the weather unless one was anxious to cover the authorities to clear the street series of Autobiographical arti- this morning for the manoeuvres a few miles of rough hills which of the Colony of the horrible cles by Mr. Hull Caine, entitled of the Military forces, was ideal. seemed to lead nowhere except to specimens of deformed and dis "Flow I began." There may rea The atmosphere was bright, the more hills. Passing through the

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A man was dismissed at the wind breezy, and a powerful sun tunnel a party of Scouts was eased Chinese which one, from sonably be not a few readers who its way to time to time encounters in the wish that Mr. Hall Chine had shone somewhat distressingly encountered on Police Court, this morning on a

certain position. The main thoroughfares? In both never began at all. We do charge of resisting the police at for the attacking party. From a

shortly after dny break the feotid, train due at Kowloon about nine Hongkong and Kowloon it is a not go that length, but we West Point.

noisy and incongruous village of o'clock whistled through the tun- fairly common sight to sec. Chi- wish he had confined himself to Fire Brigade Inspection.

nese in such a state of deformity writing nothing before or after "The Deemster," "The Bond- The annual inspection of the Yaumati assumed a mantle mili- nel and the party kept clear.

" mon, and The Manxman.' Fire Brigade, by H. E. the Gotant, the guns of various powers By this time the Commander that they have either to crawl along of destruction were being hauled of the defending forces had left or to be carried, while others are so vernor, will take place at p.m. on Thursday, November 21, along the ill paved, narrow streets Yanmati Station and had gone on stricken with skin diseases ns to These three, despite certain weak- by panting military-caparisoned to one of the neighbouring-hills make one shudder at the sight of nesses inseparable from the work in front of the City Hall.

mules attended by clean looking where a good survey of the coun-them. And in nearly all cases, of people of Mr. Caine's typo, all

contained situations that, ap.. members of the Indian Regi-try could be obtained. A major those people openly tout for "cum-

proached as nearly as possible to ments. Outside Yaumati Station, standing on the platform was shaws. A few days since, in a

pily ibat he should and slightly to the left of it, six eagerly awaiting orders and a side street leading of Des Vieax extreme brilliancy, and it seems not have been content to big guns and ammunition our low native officers were impationt-Road, a woman could be seen ex-¡a

hibiting what appeared to be a let it go at that"-as the Ame riages came to a halt, and, after ly walking up and down. the attendants had arranged their

Officers Arrive.

starving baby, almost at death's

ricans say. One of the most rifles tripod fashion, they com-" About half past nipe General door. She squatted on the pave- menced to fix their guns in posi- Sir Ian Hamilton, Col. St. John, ment with the poor little mite in melancholy signs of the times is tion according to teir drafted and a party of officers drove along her arms, and at her feet was the popularity of the typical Hall instructions. A mule commenced to the station and quickly uttered displayed a placard in Chin-Caine or Marie Corelli novel. "boosting and cheap erudi- to make good use of the grass in and obeyed orders were the rule ese, probably appealing for The fact that the immediate vicinity and a for some time..

money from passers-by. Such

Illtreating Pigeons.

driver emulated the animal and

To the ordinary layman who sights as these, however much we tion can pass muster as “deep” A man was charged at the appeared to find the solitary blade is not vouchsafed any particulars, may pity the victims, have no work, only shows how utterly Police Court, this morning, before succulent.

the meaning of the manoeuvres rightful place in a British Colony. perverted or else how utterly By the station a motor bicycle would seem to be that a force of Not only are they repulsive, but ill-trained the mind of the The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will Mr. E. A. Irving, with illtreating

pigeons and was fined $5. Mr. arranged to hold two scouts was men named for the purposes of in certain circumstances they British public is as a whole. Russ, of Messrs. Goldring Barlow waiting for its riders to receive identification be as follows:-

were possess terrible possibilities for "Self-boosting."

who may witness

howover, Solf"boosting". and Morrel, defended.”

their commands. The idea of endeavouring to reach Kowloon those. having two men to the bicycle is from the interior and that a them. Where are the police and would seem to have been really too obvious to be explained. forces of "Reds" were hard at the charitable societies that they necessary in the case not of the The Defending. Forces. work preventing this at Yaumati. allow such blots in our social life people whom we have named, bat Yaamuti station was well of course this might be erroneous so forcefully to obtrude them of for greater than they; of men

ebaracter that, until the public. guarded and for a moment was but from the disposition of the selven on the notice of the whose work was of so lofty a

forcibly were dragged the temporary headquarters of forces and the sonaty information public? the defending forces under available that seemed to be the Water Shortage..." Colonel Rawlinson. To get to the general scheme. One wondere The water supply return just to that work, and made scene of activities by means of why members of the press are not issued makes anything but cheer-realise its value, it was the railway line from this point afforded the sande facilities as at ful reading. There are only 220 practically unknown. Such was would have been disastrous, as the larger manoeuvres in Eng-million gallons in Tytam reservoir, the case with Rodin, Whistler one would not have travelled land instead of having to wan-aa compared with 407 millions and Oscar Wilde; and it is to the very far before one would have der aimlessly over the coun- last year at this time. Elsewhere lasting disgrace of the public been called upon to halt and tryside picking up scraps the decrease in not so noticeable, that such geniuses could only somewhat ignomin- of news as they go along. There but the total storage has never succeed by virtue of vulgar ious retreat. The Major were, we were informed by one theless dropped from 679 million relling of their wares.. Auguste who appeared to be in charge oldier, four thousand in the gallons last year to 417 now. The Rodin is probaby the greatest was very reticent and all enquiries field altogether equally divided consumption per head per day is sculptor the world has seen in three were mes with the advice that the into two opposing armies and the now 17.3 gallons as against 24.4 conturies; but it was not till he Staff Officer alone could give any scene of the minic warfare was in 1911, so that the drop here was nearly sixty that the outside information. To find the staff in the hills beyond Yaumati run-does not quite meet the shortage world knew anything of him Officer was a task not to be onvi-ning out to Kowloon City. and in supply as compared with this and then only because commercial ed and to make him talk when even farther than that, to Fan period of 1911. Kowloon is bet instinct bade him hire a tiny an found in the midst of operations Ling. needed more than the ordinary

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BONG KONG, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1912,

SOLVING WIRELESS PROBLEMS.

Harbour Collision. The master of a cargo boat has reporteil to the police that whilet sailing from Yaumati, and when off Teim Tea Tsui, & Star Ferry launch collided with his boat doing damage to the extent of $100.

Post Office Inscription. The inscription on the wall of the Hongkong Post Office, "AB cold water to a thirsty soul, 80 good news from a far country, has been recently embellished by a heavy hard-wood frame-work of ornamental design.

We

Monkey at Large. are informed, that

a

monkey, which seems fairly tamo, and has presumably strapet from its home, is at large on Mount Gough, Peak, and is paying an syalcome visits to residente entering open windows and making itself a nuisance.

Bongs.

Oplum Smokers,

The Bijou.

Junk Abandoned,

to bant a

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Locating the Spòt.

"Whites

A Deal of Firing,

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ter served. The figures are.. 289 nexe to the Paris "Exhibition of.... million gallons us against 351 1000, and thero exhibit, in shop Most of the men were in a year ago and the consumption fashion, his incomparable werks Whistler, is groat & At the Polico Court, this morn-amount of courage.

There was but one way left to thoir positions by 11 o'clock this per head has gone up from 9.1 of art. ing, a man was charged with keeping an opium divan, at 15 get a glimpse of what was about morning and at about that hour to 11.2 gallons; still, Kowloon genius as he was a orank, pursued Jubilee Strest, but the charge to take place, and that was to there was quite a good deal of has sufficient to tide her readily methods of self advertisment even find FOOD means of entry firing away past the Chinese over the dry period. In the oity, coarser, while the writer of

Lady Windermere's Fan was eventually withdrawn, Mr.

into the linos and remain cemetery. At the bridge just however, there is strong need for Gardiner defending. Five smokers were fined $2 each. Another concealed until one gather before the entrance to the Tau- the exercise of care in the use of found that the play would

ed what were the intentions of mati railway station

there water if there is not to be a famine best advertised by his replyin man charged with keeping was the defence for maintaining their was a body of Indian troops which will be remembered for a to the calls for "Author" with a

cigarette in his mouth. fined $50.

two claim to making the passes in with field guns, while long time. Much has been written from time to time of the difficulties

The Bijou promises a great vulnerable. Along the road to the King's Own Yorkshire which stand in the way of a universal adoption of wireless tele

to iog under the bridge near by to graphy, but anyone who notes the advances which are being made draw to-night"Won Through Old Kowloon City there are many Light Infantry Band was wait-

Waitinga draps that comes paths which lead back on in the direction of perfecting the system cannot but see that, one by from Europe with a fine reputa- the railway and take winding, play the troops past Gen. Sir Ian of the "reds" in trenches as a last HONGKONG'S ABNORMAL The Director of the Hongkong one, these difficulties are being removed. It will be recalled that at tion. Max Linder, supplies the riverlike courses round allot Hamilton. Passing under the brid-line of defence; the greater parter the time of the sinking of the Titanic there was a great outcry raised comic relief, and how funny he is ments green with the products of ge a "Tolograph" representative seemed miles away in the hills. because of the interception of the vessel's distress signals by inde-needs no telling. The Misses the market gardener.. One leads climbed the nearest available hill Under the following bridge the

mati Station between hills or thing which would give some chis were waiting for their regi- rainfall for the month of October,

of wbat was pendent shore stations along the American toast an evil from Connor and Porter appear in new over to the first arch from Yau- in the hope of seeing come bands of the 25th and 26th Balu Observatory reports that the going ment to come past. Climbing on 0.015 inch, was the least on re- namented with slabs erected to iden Detail.

He found one of tho to the line a short cut was taken cord, except in October, 1890, which, luckily, the United Kingdom has been spared by a Govern-

Major R. S. Paul, 126th Bathe memory of lead Chinese. on. ment monopoly which prevents the establishment of a wireless

He was found that the General was October droughts occurred in installation without a license from the Postmaster-General, un-luchistan Infantry, will be the From the railway line it was pos R.E.'s with a red badge in his back to Yaumati station where it when the same amount fell.

visitor to the detention barrack sible for the officefe scanning the helmet keeping a lookout.

which were being made. when the falls were respectively obtainable, of course, unless it is perfectly clear that the proposed next week. The duties of field country around to see any athad no information to give and to have tiffin, preparations for 1892, 1885, 1899, 1902, and 1910, At the end of the operations 0.020, 0500, 0.875, 0.035, and As to the number of men in the atation will not make itself a nuisance to existing services. However, officer will be performed by tempted invasion of that territory lid not know what was going on.

25th through the said passes.

The amount of sunshine, 241'6 operations he was in complete which are expected to take only 0.045 inch. even this problem of interception of messages is apparently now to Captain B. C. Penton.

are engaged be solved, for we read of the Johnson-Varely system of wireless Punjabis, with Captain H. R.

to be hours, was the greatest on record. On the railway lines a couple ignorance. The next hill was half a day the whole of tho 1st Bn. K.O.Y.L..I, next Hughes, telegraphy, which, it is claimed, is untappable. Messages, it is for duty.

of officers were eagerly searching climbed with laborious effort forces

Ordnance map for their only to draw a blank, but away lined up and marehed past the except in 1887, 1892, and 1893, Baid, can, by this system, be sont direct to the station intended, and

The owner of a junk has re-positions, whilst a party of in the distance were two men ap general for inspection under the when the amounts were respeo no other station can receive them.

ported to the police that at ten Baluchis lay low in the natural parently officers who were on the Yaumati Bridge. The weather tively. 2811, 2725, and 244'6 The rainfall for September and In the past, as au expert recently pointed out in one of the clock on the 1st, inst, whilst trenches near a collage known by watch with field glasses. Walking for this kind of work was every hours. leading engineering journals, the trouble hus been two-fold. In sailing from Tun Cheung Mun, the name of Lukamoy. Along on over the bare hillside the end thing that could be desired though the first place, secrecy of wireless messages, has been practically another junk collided with his the pass leading to this spot an of a spur was reached and then it tended to be rather too hot to October, 3:895 inches, was the

boat causing it to become water officer came on the back of a pony it was for the first time that any be quite comfortable. impossible. Anyone who has a receiver which he can tune to accept red. The jank was abandon accompanied by an Indian ser thing was seen of the day's work. It was reported in Hongkong the waves that are passing through the ether in his neighbourhood, ed and it is supposed that the car vant who was on foot. To reach the Away on the right a puff of this afternoon that the Whites had can take in any wireless message that is going; and it is well to go to the value of about $1,200 railway it was nedegedry to cross smoke was followed by the gained the honour of the combat, It was, we having defeated the defending note that nearly every receiver that is on the market can be tuned has been lost. The loss, how stream and a very ugly ditch. report of a cannon.

THE DEFENCE.". The body of a Chinese male for almbet overy wave length that is being employed in wireless ever, is said to be covered by Whether the pony did not fancy surmised, the gun of the attack party.

the task of crossing it or not can-ing "Whites." It was followed service. On the other hand, while it is possible to tune receivers

Charge of Receiving. not be definitely stated but car by anawering explosione in the

aged 40 years, has been found which are made for it, to receive waves of a particular length, in Before Mr. E. A. Irving, at the tainly after some "Action" Ian vicinity from which we had

We hear that orders have been floating in the Harbour near received in Hongkong from the Wing Lok Wharf. Information preference to all other waves, and therefore to shut out the waves Police Court, this morning, two gange had been used 8 return come. Apparently the "rede" from independent wireless stations, every receiving station is more men, described as marine store was made along the narrow pass, were returning the compliment. Admiralty to the effect that H.M. has been received by the police

A Clue to the Position. From a point of vantage the or loss troubled by interfering waves, sometimes coming from dealers were charged on remand

Shortly afterwards a pack mule S. Defence, at present in dry dock, to the effect that death was caus-

thin

and possibily another cruiser, are ed by drowning as a result of a line of Indians were with a stations which are working with the same wave length, and some with receiving two safety valves conversation of a party of officers

and two spindles knowing them could be heard." In times also from stations using wave lengths a little different. to have been stolen. The articles “Ium on number, and one seen toiling up a hill on the other to the prepared for sea at once, collision between a cargo boat both cases the result is confusing-we are told that it is like that were part of a quantity of fittings perspiring individual; looking at eido of the road along which wat is said that the order is in con- and the 8.8, Tuen Bug on the caused by two people talking to one at the same time, it is difficult stolen from the 8.8. Kennebec in the summit of one of the group had come. That gave a clue to the nestion with affairs in the Noor 5th inst

Kowloon Ducks about a week ago. of neighbouring hills. "I Think position of some of the defenders. East, and we understand that Accidental Death. for the ear to take in all that is being said by each.

that must be it he added During the day earthworks in work is going on night and day Yesterday afternoon, Mr. C. D. The case was remanded."

Melbourne, held an inquiry into If the new system of wireless proves what it is claimed to be,

the circumstances surrounding Became Water-Logged. making a rather unfavourable the form of trenches had been to prepare the cruisers for sea

the death of a man who fell from the then we are indeed on the eve of tremendous changes in the matter It has been reported to the remark as to the clearness of the thrown up and four of these were duty. A farther report states of communicating through space. Already a private demonstration police by a seaman employed on map...

nor to be seen on the face of the that victualling stores suficient

Mr. Melbourne said that the man of the new system has been given in London by the patentees, and a licensed trading junk that, His fellow ofhdera, who were hill opposite, fronting towards the for several months are to be first floor of a house in 73rd Street. we learn that it is applicable not only to wireless but to cables and whilst his junk was sailing from squatting on the milway side locality from which White" had placed aboard the oradea telephones as well, giving, in the former, greatly increased speed of Taim Tas Taui, he was collided endeavoured to assist him to been firing. There were three Canton's Independence, had accidentally met his death transmission and, in the latter, a considerably extended range. On with by a launch belonging to the locats lus post. Of this incident of these on the sides of the hill "The Chinese national flag is through receiving fraptured the face of it, if the new development solves the "tapping evil, it Kowloon Dock, and as a result no more can be reported as it and one directly on the summit much in evidence to-day in the skull, and expressed

load will be invaluable for naval and military purposes, especially so his boat became water-logged. was found necessary to make a just over the short tunnel "that streets of the Colony, the occasion that it would be advisa

the railway passes through just being the anniversary of the de- & railing since lofty masts for receiving and transmitting signals are not The junk had to be abandoned move. necessary in the new system Fature news regarding the Johnson- by the crew and it is slated to be Another party of officers came after leaving Yaumati. Of course claration of independence by ing from the first floor to the

Kitchen where the man féla Varely installations will indeed be well worth noting.

worth about $700,

marching along the line as though there was only a small portion. Canton,

insurance.:

least on record, except in 1890

and 1802, when the falls wore. spectively 1955 and 1.570 inch.

Found Drowned,

to have

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