1914-10-26 — Page 5

GENERAL NEWS:

Extraordinary Thunderstorm.

An extraordinarily heavy thun- derstorm struck Jesselton town, British North Borneo, on Septem bor 16 about 2 pm. A number of people received slight shocks, while a large tree was uprooted in the town; the telephone exchanged was temporarily die- organised.

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Nelse!

A Sergeant-Major in a letter from the Front states:-The worst about this war is not the fear of losing your life but the hellish nerve-racking noise. Townsmen, accustomed to traffic, stand it much better than countrymen and those recruited from big cities are far the fittest. A London lad told me the noise of the guns woe no worse than the roar of the omuibuses..

Slagapore Mortality Returns.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1914.

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Matches in Singapore.

"The Germans have never Following upon lively inter-concealed that when war came it views with tuans and mema would be carried through without mysterious whisperings have regard for moral and international

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"There is one work for us all. precincts of smoky caakhouses, waged with the utmost rigour on We enter into a new life in which says the Straits Times. Allegations all civil and non combatant all the facts of war that we had appear to have been made against populations. This they made put behind or forgotten for the the bonesty of meniala respon- clear in times of peace; now. war past hundred years have returned sible for parobares at local has come, and we see that in thie" to confront and test us, as they markets inasmuch as charges for respect they keep their word, for tested our fathers. Our Army in matches have advanced upwards they have disregarded their most France has suffered losses heavier of a hundred per cent. This time solemn treaty obligations; they the cookies are no perverters of have set aside all laws of interna- “truth (over this deal) and tional warfare; they bave deliber- are right in resenting any ately, and as a matter of policy, suggestion of dishonesty as filled the earth with horror and the cost of these invaluable hate. articles of universal utility bas

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