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WAR ITEMS:

Euston Road Arsenal.

The Tambora.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1914.

DAY BY DAY.

Prize of Wär.

A monition referring to the as. Paklat, captured as a prize of war, has been placed upon the notice board of the Supreme Court.

The schools and obarches, as well as many cottages, were filled with the wounded, who had been left for 10 hours, and in some casOn 12 hours, in the fields and on täs Fonds while the rival forces sorg- Shortly before midnight deteo-ed backwards and forwards. tives raided an hotel in Easton- road, and made an important Information has been received capture. In view of the dungerous by the Agents of the Hotterdam

Girl Thief. oharacter of the exploit, a'detach. Lloyd from the Governor-General

Three mouthe' bard labour was ment of Territorials was marched of the Dutch East Indies that he the sentence passed on a Chinese has received a telegraphic message girl who stole a pair of gold ban- In abeircom the detective from the Minister for the Colonies gles from another, valued at $150, ecized two men, who offered no at The Hague to the effect that as the Police Court this morning. resistangs Loaded "automatic the passengers of the Tambora Burglary Proceeds Recovered. pistols were found on the man.belonging to the Rotterdam A Chinese charged with being Both are believed to be foreigners, Lloyd Company have all been in possession of stolen goods was though they speak English arrested at Brest and the vessel given six weeks' bard labour at fluently. One of them was a detained. The passengers have, the Police Court, this morning. man over six feet in height, with however, been allowed to leave The arrest was effected by Dot.

Breat on a military bearing.

board the Nieuwe Singleton who was thus instru- From under the bed were Amsterdam of the Hamburg mental in recovering the proceede drawn bundles of rifles-foreign-America Line, which vessel had, of a burglary on September 2. made weapons, but all of the also been detained at Brest. This latest Mauser type. In other vessel is being allowed to leave parcels were found hundreds of owing to the fuot that she has no cases of communicable disease ronnde of ammunition, and contraband of waron board, which | notified-one » each of plague, dozen of automatic pistols and was not the

with the diphtheria and enteric fever. ammunition.

The two former ended fatally, both sufferera haing Chinese. The anteric onse was that of an Indian.

Another large consignment of weapons and cartridges was found in another room.

Tamoora.-Singapore Free Press.

The French Artillery. The superiority of the French Artillery over the German Artil- tig understood that documents |lery is shown throughout by its were also found and taken pos- greater, accuracy and longer range, says a telegram published session of by the police.

The Colony's Health, Last week there were only four.

Victoria Theatre.

Newe Las reached London by La Courrier d' Haiphong, again gave a "hand night." The

of arreste ander the Official; Beorets Act at the following places:

Maidstone (3.), Conway (2), Obathom (2.), Walney Island,

Shot at Patrol.

regiment was assaulted.

There was again an overflowing house at the Victoria on Saturday night, when the management

The German Chamber of Com- Panjabis' band, under Mr. Now merce in New York has com-man, played with their asual menged, throughout the United States, an active anti-British and anti-Japanese propaganda, says telegram published in Le Courrier d' Haiphong

Siberia,"

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DAIRY FARM NEWS:

NOTICE.

We beg to notify our cus- tomers that on and after 14th inst: our amended prices (as approved by the Food Com mittee) will come into force.

All existing price lists are hereby cancelled.

Amended copies can now be had on application.

THE DAIRY FARM Co., Ltd. 16 SEPTEMBER, 1914,

HONGKONG TRADE,

Little Doing During the Past:

Fortnight.

spirit and taste. The pictures and Market Report issued by the The Fortnightly Prices Current were as good as ever, but the Hongkong General Chamber of

Fire la Medicine Shop.

."

from first hande.

Torkieb, making total stocka: Patna 822 chests, Benares 417, Malwa 1,244) and Persian and Turkish 262. Exports during the interval including looal con- sumption: Patna 12, Benares 1, Malwa 18 and Persian and Turkish 45, leaving, balances on Sept. 24th., in chests, Patna 822, Parsian and Turkish 252. Benares 417, Malwa 1,244) and In uncertified Bengal, the bal- best item on the programme was Commerce under date of Satarance on Sept. 10 was 62 cheste the Dares' equilibrist. aot-pretty, day shows that trade, on the Patna and 94 Benares; imports "An exciting incident cocurred

graceful and quite bewilderingly whole, has been very quiet during have been 20 and 30 chests re- at Bentley, Hants, on the London

oleyer. We understand that the period under review,

epectively-total; Patna 82, Be- and South Western tailway, early Russian refugees arriving in there will be another gala per Under exports, the Canton nares 124. No uncertified opium on August 7, when a railway Copenhagen report a marked im- formance next Friday night.

circular issued... by was boiled by the Government patrol belonging to a Territorial provement in the treatment of During the first half the celebrated Messrs. Herbert Dent & Co. during July or August, but 20

• Russians in Germany during the coloured film, "Britannicas The man had just been relieved last few days in consequence of a will be shown, while the second says stocke are about 5,000 bales, chests Patna and 30 chests Be

but business for Europe is nares were exported, with the from guard at a calvert near Russian threat that if Russians half will be given up to the special absolutely dead. For America result that 62 chests of Patna and Alice Holt Woode, and was were maltreated in Germany turns by the Darea, together with there have been some settle-94 of Benares are now on hand. returning to the station, when every German in Russia would be Mr. Harry Ralph, Mr. A. England, ments at slowly declining prices. The Saperintendent of Importe two men sprang at him, and he sent to Siberia, says the Times,

Mr. McArdle (by request), Mr. American buyers appear to be and Exports reports: pengal was dealt o blow with the bust end Sples and Catholic Soldiers, Lyth and other well-known local of a revolver, which smashed his A corporal serving with the amateurs. The proceeds will be asting very cautiously in spite Market: No business has been

of lower prices. Some shipments transacted glasses. He grappled with one Expeditionary Force, says, in the given, as before, to the Prince of of waste silk have been made to Quotations are unchanged: of the men, but failed to hold course of a letter printed in the Wales Fand.

| Standard, that German agents

England and America, presum- Paina, New $9,325.00, Ofal him, and fired his rifle at him.

Shots were apparently exchang. and others of the genus apy

At 4.30 this morning & areably on old contracts, but no $9,200.00, V. Old $9,100.00, Be- $9,050.00, Old ed, and the noise brought up going about circulating lies of all broke ont in the front part of a purchases are likely for the Dares, New,

For instance some of the patrol's comrades, kinds,"

medicine shop at 16, Cochrane Continent in spite of lower prices. $8,925.00, V., Old $8,825.00. who saw the two men disappear- One of their yarns is that the Street, occupied by Lung Wai-san. Reater's under date of Sept. 14 Malwa Market: "Quietness bas ing in the wood.

Pope will excommunicate all The first and second floors were gives the price on standard tin continued to prevail. Quotations Roman Catholics fighting for used as a family house, and the cash 14 3/4 per owt.. but there is are unaltered as follows-New to France or England. Some of our third floor was vasant. Damage no market. Yunnan merchants years drug, $8,300, 4/5 years,

$8,400, Oldest $8,500. fellows are Roman Catholics, and was done by fire and water. Part are holding for higher prices. I am glad to say that it only of the premises was insured with In the cotton piece goods trade, makes them more determined to the Man On Insurance Company

fancy cotton goods show not Seventy-five German reservists square accounts with the spread for $2,000. Mr. King, Deputy change; there have been no sales first boude, were stopped at Queenboroughiere of such stories.

Superintendent of Police, attend reported fram

although clearances have improv ed with the fire brigade. Continental pier on Aug. 9, and

London, Aug. 25.

ed alightly. sent back to Horsham under

The correspondent of the Dizy

After a long period of stagna. escort as prisoners of war.

A Chinese residing at 1, Elgin

RAILWAY. Germans arriving at Queen-Mail describes a visit among the Street has reported that a female tion, business has been reanmed stowa pier last night by mail French who were wounded in the resident at the house has been in coston yarn but on a very

NOTICE. small scale. Since the outbreak steamer Mecklenburg, from the battles of the Vosges and have robbed during the night by some

Tis hereby notified that com- Continent, were detained. Two been brought to Vichy, whose person who entered by breaking of war, prices have declined $6

mencing on Thursday, let German reservists who arrived palatial hotele have been trans- window on the top floor. to $10 per bale all round. Clear-October, 1914, the train timed to overnight to embark were also formed into hospitals.

Jewellery to the value of $2,095 anoes are still unsatisfactory ow-leave Kowloon for Shum Chun at was taken.

ing to tightness of money. Quota 8.00 pm. will leave at 7:30 p.m. tions are:-No. 108 at $94/121. and return from Shum Chun at No. 128 at. $103-122. No. 16s at 8.45 p.m. arriving Kowloon at 9.36 $114/132. No. 208 at $110/148. p.m. Arrivals 3,150 boles. Sales 2,000 at the firet volley and then all the dancer, has been seriously ill at bales. Shipments nil. Unsold other officera At eacceeding the Wentworth Hotel, Sydney,

stock 57,000 bales. Bargaine Berne, August 24th-Details of volleys. When we found ourselves and on the advice of two doctors 40,000 bales. the fighting that took place be without officers wo, not bothering has postponed her Adelaide

There is nothing to report in tween the Germans and the Fren-about what was going on at the

BGABOD, ÅR GOOD as she has re- woollens, and raw coltons show ch at Mallausen on the 8th and front, rear or flank, fixed bayonots covered from the effects of in-no change. the 9th are now becoming public at 1,200 yards and went at them; fluenza and neuralgia, she will In metale there is no change It appears that on Sunday the singing all the way. We were go to the Blue Mountains to re-nominal and much the same as Hermans abelled the town, and just fifty yards from the enemy caporate.

Fifteen rounds were fired into the darkness, and the woods were searched, but no trace was found

of the men.

Prisoners of War.

made prisoners.

The crews of two captured German ships were landed at Dover Inst night as prisoners under a military escort...

The First Mulhausen Battle: Belated 'Detalls.

Back from the Pront.

"I talked with many of these wounded," he said. "Three men who fought side by side said:

"It is probably our own fault that we are bore. Our major foll

the population took refuge in the when we were downed,'

collars. The German infantry "In an adjoining cot was a

Big Jewellery Theft,

Maud Allan Seriously III. Miss Maud Allan, the Salome

stormed the French entrench- atardy peasant, who told me this first hospitals two miles from the

ments at the bayonet's point, and story:

***At Cirey a shell fell full on fighting line.

The ambalance men collect

from last report. Prices are

Prices show a farther advance

Wheat in the American market remains strong, but with practic

ally no change. The bulk of the

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last quoted. Nothing doing in yellow metal. The market in Owing to the continued depres petroleum products is quiet.

the clone formation of the French

sion in exchange, the advance of 10 cents per unit on Standard Oil began to give way. Those on the my knapsack, sending me spraw- east and the north of the town ling face downwards. I did not the wounded by means of carri- brands is still maintained. retreated, the Germans following st, expecting every moment to ages. If a soldier is only slightly them at the run.

ho blown to atoms. After what wounded he is kept until ready to for Java engar, but business in At the street corners knots of seemed a half hour, seeing that rejoin the firing line; but if any all assortments has been dull.

Reported miles of solipetre are breathless Frenchmen whepled to the shell had not exploded, I sericas. operation is necessary he face the enemy, and formed hunched up my shoulders and is sent to the hospital two miles 200 bags, but the market is gaiet

farther to the rear, where eminent with stocks at 1,000 bagó. : double, and triple linos. Fasil- the ahell gently rolled off."

OLD "A woanded artilleryman con- surgeons and most up-to-date The flour market report says: lades followed, "but the result wAA always the same--the rush of the tributed the following:

appliances are available. **'I witnessed one horrible charging Germans, the olash of

Many Germans are being treat steel, the shriek as the bayonet scene. The Germans were shoot.ad at the French hospitale.

England and the War. was drivon home, and then the ing from the deep trenches among

crop appears to be still in the French ran again.

which our artillery was doing

London, Aug. 18,

hands of the farmers, who are in The number of ante-morator a position to hold their stooks, The ghastly work was con- terrible work. But as a German tinued until nightfall. The dropped another took his place um bille that were presented at and this had tended to lessen the German tactics involved terrible antil bodies of the Germans wore the Bank of England, this morn-gambling on exchange, Flouring undelivered after the 5th loss of life, but they practically on a level with the surface of the ing again reached the limit which prices are unchanged and no assured victory to the superior earthworks. At this moment it is possible to deal with... business of importance has been

The Board of Agriculture reported. weight of numbers. When the German battery was ordered to Germana secured possession of advance. The heavy wheels sank satimates that the hop crop in Operations in the local market the town the dead and wounded in the trench, but the drivers Kent is well above the average. are restricted by the financial The number of unemployed in position, while stocks up country lay at every street corner and furiously lashed their horses and beneath every archway. Next finally dragged the guns acrcas Manchester has increased from are large enough for present day the French and German dead the human bridges."""

4,000 to 14,000 needs. Stocks here are about

The Prince of Walth Fund 280,000 Backs.nagin wore buried in common graves Further Late Telegrams. in the surrounding fielde. Many The following telegrama are now stands at £1,250,000. It in-

Quotations are Patents M of the wounded crawled into the taken from the Sydney Morning clades a donation of £6,000 from $3.00/3.20. Cut Olla 2.70/2.90,

the Begum of Phopal

Straight 2.60/2.80, Seconde 2.30/- cornfields to escape being trod-fferald -

2.50. par.bag.

1.

ment has registered over 2,000

den upon by the fighters, and for French Red Cross System. The British Red Cross, move daya afterwards the Germana Paris, Aug 19. bearched through the growing An excellent Red Cross system trained nurses for service in boru for possible dead bodies, has been established, with the the war.

The total importation of opium

since Sept. 10 have been limited

loon, whence and/or from the wharvesdelivery may be obtained. after the Goods have left the

No claime will be admitted AS Godowns, and all Goods remain October will be subject to rent.

All claims against the steamer must be presented to the Under- signed on or before the 19th prox. or they will not be recognized,

All broken, chafed, and dam-

aged Goods are to be loft in the Godowns, where they will be ex- amined on the 5th prox, at 11 im.

No Fire Insurance bas, been effected.

Bills of Lading will be counter- signed by

DODWELL & Co., Ltd. Agents.

to 18 cheats of Persian and Hongkong, 28th Sept., 1914.

IN FINE OLD MATURED WINES.

PRICE PER CASE 1 DOZ. OTS. DUTY PAID $20.00

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