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GENERAL NEWS,

Airship Station.

INDIAN BANK failure.

The Ariny Council'han decided to erect a station for Army airships on Salisbury Plain, aud a se is-li oly to be selected at Perham Down, near Ludgershall (Wilt) Ra-lway Station,

People's Bank of India Closes

It's Doors.

THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1913.

· SERVICE MATTERS,

The State of the Army.

Under this heading "says the The Advocate of India, of Sep-Globle, the Duke of Bedford, who tember 20 anys:-

has an inconvenient habit for the

·

The People's Bank of India, limited, situated in Elphinstone military authorities of confront Cirole, Bombay has suspended ing them with very"usly facts payments with effect from to-day, based on their own official stat One-Legged ytator.

nocording to the instructions re- A special Bleriot munnplace iscrived by them from their head istics, has again returned to the being conserumion for M."Marcel fice at Lahore,

charge in the columns of the Demourter, the young French | man, who lat a leg as the rent of an accident at Bleudon last Warch

IN predngly anxious fly os me bai uwil ibe meeting is reasy ho comeuls à unself with making flights in the role of passenger. "Theatre Cry of " Fire!”

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increasing its military strength, Lahore, 19th September, 1913, our Regulars and Auxiliaries A aryl was raises by d 19 50. The People's Biak combined are 233,000 fewer in someofie', in the gallery at the j of India Limited Bombay.

number than they were ten years Pabor berat. Sumbelow! slac

"Siop all the payments till ago. In the Regular Army slone other bigh. The audience, num- further instructious. Sharehol- there are 37,000 fewer officers and bering shou 3000 people, sprang | dors are considering the question men; the strength of the Royal No. 68 Peak, Mount Kellett. to their feet, and those nearest of winding up of the Bank on the Artillery has been very danger-Church Mission Society Bunga the doors rushed out. About forty 30th September 1913.”

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Herve is a decaying quantity: 30th May, 1914, partly furnished. injured. The only reason for the

while our Home Defence Terri Cheap ront. outery was that drought caused

torial Army is 63,000 under its the sudden flickering of a gasjer,

establishment, and more than half "Marriages »Prevented by Lack

the force either physically unfit for active, service or admittedly inefficient even according to the modeat standard laid down by Lord Haldane. These facts are undeniable.

of louses.

The above bank was founded about seven years ago, with a capital of 12 lakhs. The amount involved is not yet known.

The officials of the Bombay branch are reticent, and as yet there is no further news to be

brined.

!

A Run on the Bank. Wires to a contemporary from

On account fan unp ece eat ed dearth of houses in High Wycombe, inch has a population of over 20,000, ine e rporation has decided to build fify-four Ahmedabalerated that Irge dwelings, t be let tulerate numbers of depositors in the Peo rentals, Alterman Walter Buch Band of India. Ahmadab daid of the Territorial Force.

said many couples wishup to get married were prevoured from doing to because there were no houses for them, to live in.

A Big Lottery Broken Up. The promoter of a racing lot tory, Wm. Evans, aged 32, was fined £25 at the Guildhall. Eight thousumi circulars were seized in his mour-nar when ho was arrested, and the Lord Mayor directed that the stampa, valued at. £35, should be given up to him. Evans, who said he did not know he was committing an offence, announced his intention of dropping the business.

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GOOD GLASSES

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There is no economy in going

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Personal attention is given to the examination and the fitting

A later tolegram from the same do not see how any honest mili source said that about 400 depositary man can, by any possibility, troversy over the respective merits tora and creditors of the People's look upon the great majority of of the bull's-eye target and shoot- Band of India assembled on the force as in any way fitted for Police and Horse Malmers.

Friday at the bank office and de- the great game they may at any is worthy of notice how, under ing under service conditions, it mauded their money Horse manning uutrages in the

After 2 time be called upon to play the influence of what is un- Wednesbury district of Stafford- p.m. they were informed by the Rarely have we seen in cadet doubtedly the shire are recurring with such re-gent that money expected form corps boys of the age and phys

more popular gularity that the palico unto the Labor head office and from ique which are gladly accepted that under service conditions to an optician of doubtful ability

system with the rank and file, rities have sought the help of other branches had not yet been now in some battalions; they are this system has reacted on the persons outside their rauke. A received, consequently he was absolutely unfitted to take the efficiency of the army, both in notice issued by the Chief Con-usble to make payment. He field. The strength of some units the cavalry and infantry. With stable of the county offers a re asured be depositors that money in camp was absurdly emall, and regard to the cavalry, the recruits of lenses that will relleve all ward of $100 to any person giv was expected from the branches the average efficiency of a very averaged 65.8 points in 1910,68.8 trouble. The only charge is for ing information which will lead and would pay as soon as it was low standard. There is a very in 1912, and 71.7 in 1913: and the glasses. to the arress and conviction of received. It is said the Surat setious lack of properly trained the perpetrator of outrages on a

branch made payment on Friday officers, which would tell a sad the trained soldiers 105,2 in 1911, and 105.6 in 1913.. In the case horse belonging to Joseph Tarton

tale in resl service; but there is of the infantry, who are more st Panic in Lahore. at Bradley.

Our own

a marked improvement in the home with the rifle, the recruits correspondent at

non-commissioned officers. It is averaged 67.9 points in 1911, Professor Campbell Smith.

Lahore wires to un- Emeritus Professor Alexander The People's Bank of India, only fair to any that some unite 71.7 in 1912, and 75.1 in 1913; Campbell Fraser, who was born Limited, which has its head office were found to be in a very super the trained soldiers averaging Note: in an Argyllshire mause, on at Lahore and sixty-four branches or condition, in numbers, discip-105.6 in 1911, 111.2 in 1912, and September 3, 1810 has relebiedt different cou'res all over Indialing, physique, and efficiency: 112.7 in 1913. With the new

The Only With Lord issued the following notice last unfortunately they were the ex-rifle tested on Salisbury Plain, Optician in D'Aguilar St. his 94th birthday. Rosebery, Di Campell Fra-er in evening-

ceptions which proved the rule. and with which a man can fire the only survivoi, of "Au Edin-{ Payment stopped until further

point blank at 600 yards, the! burgh Eleven" which came trum instractius form the sharehold-

shooting has been very satis the pea of M. Barrie quarter offers who meet on September 29.'

factory. a century ago, and his professeci- Mr Harikishan I hм been

"

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The Horse Supply. The outbreak of mange in s number of Army horses, as has

Crimea and Mutiny.

N. LAZARUS,

Ophthalmic Optician. 1A, D'Aguilar Street.

Telephone 1292.

European

al memories extend as for hickmanaging director of the Busk happened in the case of the 20th To Lieut-General Green- THE IDEAL LAUNDRY

as 1810, the year he was appoint since its beginning until he retir. Husara at Colchester, has Wilkinson, whose death has oc ed to the Chair of Logie Nowed last math wing to severe promptly heen attributed, by curred after a few weeks' illness, College. Enburgh. Ten years critidem in the Press of his many of the regimental officers to belonged the distinction of having later when he had gained distinc various finзncial and industrial the horses brought in for the fought in the Crimea and the tions by his philosphical writings, cuneorns,

maneuvres under what is known. Indian Mutiny. He took part in Dr Campbell Friner was appoint- There has been a panic in as the boarding out ayatem. the battle of the Alma and the ed successor to Sir William Lahore and the crisis is expected Hamilton, in Edinburgh Univer- ta offent a large number of people Bity. Professor Campbell Fa-oral niany other banke lately chief claim to fame will rest on establish in the Punjab. bie admirable exposition and commentary of the work of that great thinker and philosopher, Bishop Berkeley.

Under this system cortain horses siege of Sebastopol, and was pre- are loaned to civilians, farmers, sent at the siege and fall of Luc and others in return for their know, It was on the occasion of the keep; and they may be used for Jubilee of the Crimean War in hunting, and indeed for any pur-1904 that the deceased officer was pose save heavy draught, racing, one of the seven veterans selected out to grang

jobbing, but must not be put for the honour of the C.B. He As a rule they are never ceased to take the warmest a very good stamp of beras, and interest in the affairs of the Army, The report on Judicial (Crion the scene to-day. A group of have loaned them. They are liable of the National Association for the are wall appreciated by those who and for some years was Chairman minal) Statistics of Ireland for disconsolate Instians was cluster- to be requisitioned for a month's Employment of Reserve Soldiers. 1912 shows that the number of ed around reading and ro-rending training annually, or, as in the

Increase of Crime In Ireland.

The Scene In Bombay. The doors of the Bombay branch of the People's. Bank of India were closed when an Advocate representative arrived

indictable offences known to the the notice of the suspension of police during the year was 0.931 payments, which was pasted up of course, must be produced im- present case, for manoeuvres, and, compared with 9,870 in 1910 and

Most of the depositore are mediately in case of mobilisation. 9,831 in 1911. The total for parently poor men, and several Their only cost to their hirers in 1912 is equal to an annual rate of 'those presont of 2 27 per 1,000 of the popula- barly Pathan asserted that theyter of which probably does not including their keep and insurance, the lat tion of Ireland, estimated to the had deposited from Rs. 5 to Rs. exceed £2 per annum. It the pre- middle of the year, as compared 10 in the Bank. with a rate of 2:24 par 1,000 in One venerable old gentleman to the "boarding out" Aystero, it eant outbreak of mange is traced 1911, 2.25 par 1,000 and a rate loudly declared that evil always would seem to suggest inefficient of 2 34 in the in the year 1908. came of placing money in banks, inspection on the part of the The number of persous tried for even in the biggest ones and that authorities; the disease should in non-indictable offences fell from the only safe investment was any case have been detected by 193,635 in 1910 to 185,345 in Government paper. 1911, rising to 195,248 in the year]

the regimental veterinary officera Another Indian gentleman was before the horses were taken over 1912, an increase of 9,901, on the wildly excited. He suid be had from their hirers. year preceding. There was an Rs. 25,000 in the different inorenzo of 804 in the number of branches of tho Bank and had persons tried for drunkenness in intended on the previous evening 1912 as compared with the pre-to withdraw it.

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