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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1914,
THE GERMAN CAMP.
AT THE FRONT.
How the Prisoners are Faring In Ceylon.
Stories Told by the War Correspondents.
Impetuous French.
POST OFFICE.
Ships Letter Boxes.
1. It is hereby notified that during tha
continunace of the War all outgoing oor- respondeuse mast be posted at the Gener
SHIPPING NEWS.
ARRIVED.
WEATHER REPORT.
On the 23rd at noon--An antioyolons
al Post Office or at our of Its Branch Sir R.Awdry, Br... 1,835, W. E. Heppell, I still covers N. China.
39ed LastChlawangtao, Goal-
D. & Co...
Officer.
The Times of Ceylon, of August |
2. Ships Officers are strictly forbidden 27, publishes some interesting
The Balo correspondent of the la receive on board their vessels any details concerning the German Prisoners Camp at Ragama, Standard says that in the en.correspondence from the Public.
3.Shipmastors are not allowed to place or expose on board their vessels' latter which, on the previons Saturday, gagement between Mulhouse and
Allkirch, the 159th French in-boxen for the purpose of collecting corres- Accommodated 135 Germans.
fantry ignored all precautions, rondenes; all such boxes found exposed The prisoners at present at the and advanced over open ground on board their vessals will be removed and
returned to the General Post Omos. ` ... ' camp include Baron Von Mason without any cover. They just
4. Balpping Companies must not re- bach and Herr Von Kessel, the fan straight at the German lines, eelre from the Public for fuclusion in son of the Governor of Herlin, impations of the least delay, and their whips' Papers any but bona fide con- aad about twenty German and panting for a chance to attack sigaces letters which should be left opon Austrian naval and military the hated enemy with cold stoel, for inspection when required.
5. Shipping Companies should state la offers mainly belonging to the Some of them who for some reason their notifications to the Fest Office the for other were without rifles actu-exact hour of departure of their vessels Reserves
The naval and military, officere,ally ran with their comrades an. in order that the public may have every according to the International armed, so determined were they facility for posting at the General Post rules govorning the treatment of not to be left behind at the prisoners of war. have a mass of moment of attack. The same cers must send to the Post Office ALL!
have been divided into abont,
dozen other messen,
I
extraordinary
Office
6. Shipping Companies and Ships' OM-
Boxes or received by Ships' Officers at the nose letters posted in the Salpa Lettor reports from which they sailed, or anywhere
trouse to Hongkong.
alating the French troops to deeds
of superhuman' coutage, is ported all along the line.
The messes have boen arranged according to the steamer class by. which the prisoners were travel- ling, and, as for as possible, pas sengers who were travelling by the same vessel and who must, have made acquaintance on board have been placed in the same
Nine Men Charge a Company,
Que notable instance of Belgian bravery is found in the conduct of a farrier sergeant, Rousseau, of the Chasseurs a Cheval. At the head of eight men he charged a whole company of Uhlans, who dispersed, leaving many dead and wounded. The brave com Of course, a large percentage pany of Belgians returned in of the men have beon arrested on triumph to tinelen with a dozen board British vessels which have excellent horses as trophies of their tonghed at Colombo since the exploit.-Times correspondent in declaration of war, and many of Belgium.
messes.
them pre men
who have
Officer's Daring Feat. Lieutenant van Dooren is the
+
Bung'arg. Dr. ■ 987, J. Robles, 23rd
Inst.-Holbow, Eat last., Ged, B. & E.
Albians, Br... 2,997, Wm. Dunbar, 23rd
inst.-O. W. Tao, 17th inst, Coal
KM. & Co.
Chicago Maro, Jap. s. 2,805, K. Hori, 24th Int. Manila, let instant, Flour & Gen-0.8: K.
Kawachi Maru, Jap. a. 3.891. M. Naka-
mura, 23rd inst.-Mof, Gen N.Y.K.
Inverclyde, Dr. a: 9,214, Mansfield, 22nd Inst.-Mail, 17th inst, Coal-J. B & Co.
Gemini, Br. ax. 1,339, Jones, 25d inst.- C. W. Tao, 18th Inst, Coal-K 15. & Co.
Fressure has increased very slightly from Bwstow to Tourane. A typhoon is
approaching the Philippines from the eastward. At 6 am. this morning the cenite was in about latitudo 14 N. and longitude 185 E
Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 hours eading at 10a.m. to-day, 0.90 laches.
FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW.
District.
Forecast.
1 Hongkong and Neighbour-E winds,
moderate; fine. hood...
Just-Bourabaya, 15th lostant, g Formons Channel i Fausang, Br. n.4. 1450, H. 8. Malken, 23rd
Sugar J. M. & Co.
Shipoota, Br. xa. 2,604, J. Ormaton, 23rd lost-Singapore, 16th inst, Coal Order.
7. The above regulations will not affect! the iceased, (private latter boxes carried between Hong.ong & Canton by the ves
is belonging to or managed by the Tanabe, Br.. 4,647, F. 8. Hollieshead, Hongkong Canton & Macao Steamboat Company.
¡įA late mail for Swatow, Amoy & Foo chow will in future be closed for all Douglas steamers 20 minutes before each steamer salla. Ordinary correenoudonou will be received after the regular mail has closed at the s'le west entrance to the G. P. O, in the lane off Des Voeux
Road.
War risks are not covered by postal | registration 'or lakuance,
Tho Parcel Post service to Egypt and
peaded...
The Korea, with the American Mail, 01 the 16th Insant, at 10 a.m. and in
left Yokohama for Haugkag via Manilla
21st inst.--Bombay, 3rd lastant, Ballast-Order.
Kenkon Maru, Jap, 1.2,159, M. Kosko,
23rdinst,Mike, Oos-M. B. K.
Atholl, Br. u.s. 3,031, L. Saxby,22ddfast.
-Singapore, 16th inst., GeomƉ, & Co.
Ükonan, Br. *s. 1,354, W. L. Jones, 23rd, Inst.-Swatow, 22ad inst, Gon.-
B.& 8.
11
DEPARTED.
September 23.
sailed under the British flag hero of a thrilling episode at countries beyond is for the present sus for years. One German subject, a Grand Zelek, batween Diest and ship's barber landed" from a
Haslen. The village was being, British vessel, has lived in London for fourteen years and has threatened by the Germans. The ile and family there. He has Belgians could not spare troops, said that it is the merest chances Lieutenant van Dooren went the firemen from Diest, who that he has neglected to take out by motor-car to Grand Zolck with naturalisation papers. It is a somewhat carious fact that in the valiantly repulsed the German returns which have been prepared for the War Office,many of the German prisoners give London addresses.
scheduled to arrive here on Monday, the K. C. Wan for Fort Bayard 28thinet.
The prisoners appear to be s8 contented and as comfortable as their restricted liberty will allow. Reveille is sounded each day at 'seven o'clock and "lights out" at ten p.m., and there is a roll call twice a day to ensure that all are present. Rations are served out once each day and the prisoners have to do their own cooking, the necessary ntensils and ample fuel
attack."
is
The Hongkong, with the French Mail, ex Magellan, is due to arrive here on Saturday, the 25th 10st.
Jason for Strails
1
Tho Balsatte, with the Malls from Lushow for Shanghat : London (v's Siberia) of 1st to 25th ult. Atsuta Mara for Japan via Kobe
due to ante bras to-morrow.
Malay Maru for Japan Tia Kobe Opland for Bangkok Riojun Maru for Bourabaya Kwangles for Shanghai Chenon for Canton Bir D.Awdry for Canton
The lieutenant hid in a dyke and crawling along it until he was only a few feet from a Ger- man battery jumped out and shot the officer commanding it. He was then about 600 yards from his own men. Next, says Mr. J. .N. Jeffries, the Mail Brussels correspondent, he caught the horse of the officer and galloped back to the Belgian lines amid a bail of bullets. The horse was hit but the lieutenant nevertheless Bilorian, Salsatto, 25th inst, escaped unhurt.
The Salsetto is due to arrive here to morrow, and she will leave same day at p.m. The mail will close at 4p.m.
Belgium, not Bulgéria.
5
Mails for Honolulu, United States, S. Amorice, & Canads will be made up for insi, at 11 am, to connect with the 1.5. despatch por as. Nikko Maru on the 26th Shinya Maru sailing from Nagasaki ob
the 3rd October.
MAILS DUE.
French, Hongkong, 26th inst. Korea, American, 28th inst.
MAILSCLOSE TO-MORROW,
Tomaba for San Francisco via Miko
ULEARANCES AT THE HARBOUR OFFICE.
1 Bouth coast of China be- tween HK. and Lamooks
5
17
N.E.winds, strong.
The same ar No. 1,
Bouth coast of China be? The sama Swoon H.K. and Hainas... aa No. 1.
China Coast Meteorological Register,
Station
23rd Sept., a.m.
Winds
Hour.
Barometer.
Temperature.
Humidity.
D'Hon
W'estock fa
Hakodata Tokio
Nemuro 6 20.97
Kochi
gima
Nagasaki Orbima Naha Ishi'jims Bonin I. Okefoo Whatwe! Hankow
Force,
Weather.
MAIL STEAMERS
THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL S. N. CO.
ENGLISH MAIL.
WILL despatch VESSELS to the Undermentioned PORTS on o
about the DATES named For
: Steamers
LONDON, via Us-) Salsette
ual Ports of Osli.
SHANGHAI
LONDON & ANT-]
Capt. A. F. Viņo
B.N.R. Oriental
To Ball On Remark
4p. 25th Sept.
Freight
& Page
about
Freight
Capt. A. L. Valentini 2nd Oct.
WERP via Singa- ] Namur
poro,
Fenang, Capt. A. Collyer
C'imbo, Port Sald,
& Marsailles
SHANGHAI.
MOJI, KOBE Nellore
AND
YOKO-(Capt. J. Gaunt
HAMA mij R.N.R.
Subject to alteration without notice.
about
& P'eage
Froight
14th Oct.& Psage
about Freight
17th Oct... &P'ange
All the above steamers are fitted with Wireless Telegraphy,
NOTICE TO SHIPPERS.
SHIPPERS are informed that the P. & O. Company's Vessels are insured under "The British Government National Insurance
Scheme and they can effect War Risk Insurance on individual shipments with The National Insurance Committee, London, through their representatives there.
nocousary.
The production of a Marine Risk Policy is not immediately
For Freight or Passage, apply to
P. & O. S. N. Co.'s office,
E. A. Hewett,
Superintendent.
10.23 62 83 nnw 3 ca
Hongkong, 23rd Sept., 1914.
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES
FRENCH MAIL LINES.
FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE TO AND FROM JAPAN via SHANGHAI.
FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE TO AND FROM EUROPE via SUEZ CANAL.
30.01
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TUESDAY, 29th
Sept. at I p.m.
'ALL STEAMERS · FITTED WITH WIRELESS
Transhipping on the Co's Steamers at Colombo, for Calcutta, Bombay and Australia, et kort Bald for the Levant, Constantinople and Black Bea.
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Hue for Fort Bayard and Hulpboog Varg for Tourane vai Hofhow". Rangoon Mara for Straits
fighting the Bulgarians, and, adds Hoihow, Tourano & Quinhon -- For Haimun for Swatow Mr. Jeffries, said that of course
VADO, 25th inst., 8 a.m.
Per YOCHOW, 25th Sept.9 a.ra
iuat 11a.m.
Straits-Far OHUSAN, 25th Yokohama... PerTJILIWONG,
the "enemy" were war-hardened Swatow, Ainoy, Shanghai & N. China- because they had fought the Swatow.& Servians! The only German prisoner who seemed to know that Japan via he was inBelgium was a sergeant. Straits
Mines Fired by Teeth.
&indin
25th Inst., 11 ..
via Calcutta-Per CHOYBANG, 25th inst.. I'p.m.
for the camp fires being provided... Beveral of the Germans who In order to provide the prison were captured thought they were ers will opportunity for exercise during the hours of day-light an 'extra scre of open ground, with Coconut palms here and there, has been added to the camp.
On the hill above the camp flies a large Union Jack, and close by are the quarters of the Galle Bad Nuwara Eliya Companies of the O. L. I., nudor Capt. de Vos exceptional gallantry in destroy.
Belgiin engineers have shown Philippins Is. & Batavia-Fer FJILAT Pearce and Lieut. Darham, who copeti-ing the bridges across the Gathe tute the Guard. The Goard at at the last moment in the face of present consists of some sixty terrible artillery fire, saya Mr. men, but will be augmented by a Alfred Stead, the Expra as further thirty men when the extra Brussels correspondent. The sixty prisoners at present on engineers, anable to get a at board the Australia are sent to the camp. Capt, Wait, O.P.R.O is the Civil Commandant of the
camp.
The living accommodation consists of three large oblong atructures with concrete floors and walls built up to a height of
English
Mali.
Takbol
JAP, 25th inet, 3 p.m
Strolls, Burmah, Ceylon, Ada- laide, Western Australia, India Aden, Egypt, and Europe vla Brindis. The Parcel mail will be closed to-morrow at noon, Por SALSETTE, 25th inst..
their knives to cut the Bickford SATURDAY, 26th Sept. cord of the mines, bit it through with their teeth, blowing up the bridge under the very feet of the Germans.
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German Sples Shot.
Halphong--Fer SUNG- KIANG, 26th inst., 9 a.m. Japan via Nagasaki-Por NIKKO M.,
26th lust., 10a.m. Japan vis Nagasaki-For NIKKO M.,
20th inst., 11a.m. (Honolulu, United Sintes, S. America,
at Nagasaki).
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Hongkong Observatory, Sept. 23.
Per as. Atauta Maru for Japan oto.- Mrs Obira, Messrs K Shimada, Charles Fahrenheit on the level of the sea in in- 1 Barometer, reduced to 2 degrees
MoNell, Mr & Mrs MoPhall, Yoshida, ches, tenths and hundredtha, Toranobi, Ohtani, Wada, Y Iohlda, Prof Hazogawa, Dr Tauno, Miss Hall, Caschy,
Mr&Mrs TOkuda, Kanishi, Iwasaki, A W Modley, E J Brookhays, Takenohl, Cameron Keane, Mr & Mrs Nagano. S
2 Temperature, in the shade, in degress
Fahrenhelt."
3 Humidity, in percentage of saturation,
gata, Mrs Ilmuro, Mrs Ichinomiya, Yo-ture being 100, 200
Osaka, Baron Iwamura, Iwai, Nicio, Na- the Humidity of air saturated with mols-
Ida, Kashimura, Yamagata, Wakabaya-
A number of German spies have been caught over the frontier Canada to connect with the Shinyo M. five feet all round. Between this in Upper Aleaco. A court- wall and the overlapping roof martial was held upon the Amoy & Fohow-Far HAICHING, shibashi, Yoimura, Arisawa, Murakami,
26th Sept., 2 p.m. there is a space which permits a prisoners at Thann, and the Straits, India via Calcutta-Per FOO-ahi, Tojitau, Nakahara, Ohata, Toriyama, constant current of air to pass mayor of that town and a postal Philippine I-Par LOONGSANG, 26th Kojima and Dasol through the building with a result that the rooms are airy and com- fortable, and, at the same time, perfectly dry.
official were shot.
(Thann is in Upper Alsace, twelve miles north west of Mul-
Each of the hausen.] prisoners has a camp bed, with n mosquito net, and topees have been also provided by Govern. ment. Each building has accom- modation for fifty or sixty men,
To Yachtowners. The Globe appeals to its weal- There is a medical officer attached ther readers for the loan of a to the camp and the sanitary steam yacht of not less than 300 arrangements have been thorough. tons to be placed at the disposal ly inspected by and have mat of the Admiralty for the trans- with the approval of the P.O.MO. port of wounded in the North Sea. The camp is periodically visited A completely-trained crow and by the acting Government Agent medical staff has volunteered its for the Western Province (the services unpaid. Hon, J. G. Fraser).
At the present time the Public Works Department are construct ing other buildings for the accommodation of the prisoners at present on board the Australin, and these men will be transferred 884800nt as the camp is ready to take them.
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BHING, 26th inst., 1. p.m.
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· SUNDAY, 27th Sopt, Bwn tow-Per HAIMUN, 27th Sept. 9 a.m. Swatow, Aroy, Formosa via Tameul-
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5 Force of Wind, according to Beaufore
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◊ Bain in inches, tenths and hundredthe
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