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Mr Choate's Praise of the British, Mr. Joseph Choate, former Am- bassador to Great Britain, in a speech delivered at New York, Baid: "England is determined never to submit or yield and never to make peace till the devil of militarism has been so vanquish- ed that it will never trouble the earth again. English courage and the spirit of hope is magnificent, and nothing could be mere grand

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1915,

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than their wives and mothers and Received by the the attitude they take on the war."

3,000 Million Tons of Rain at Home,

Lord Desborough, presiding at recent meeting of the Thames Conservancy, said that the rainfall over the Thames basin for weeks ́ended January 5 was 12.38in., equal to a fall of 3,015 million tone, or 602,57 million gallons of water over the 3,812 square miles

of the Thames basin. This was

the highest rainfall over the

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whole of the Themes Valley for S. MOUTRIE & CO.,

anequal period during the 31 years: that records had been kept.

Canadian Frontier Incident. Toronto, January (8-The Dc- minion Government has informed Washington that it is willing; as

ROLL OF HONOUR.

an act of friendliness, to pay Officers Killed and Wounded.

damages to the family of Walter

Smith, the American who was

shot and killed while duckshoot-

ing noor Fort Erie, and to Mr.

Jan. 15. The following caenalties among Charlen Doreob, who was injured. officere in the Expeditionary. The Government expressed regret Force are reported from General for the occurrence, and a provin- Headquarters!❤ cial constable and three militia- men are being held for trial. No liability is admitted and, of course, the punishment of the men will depend on the result of the trial:

Killed.

Amphlett-Morton, Beo. Liant, J. F., King's Royal Rifle Corpe,

Birt, Capt. L. H., D.8.0., R. Berkshire Regt.

Chade, Sec. Lieut. H. 0, N. Staffordshire Regt...

Norbury, Capt F. O., King's Royal Riffs Corps.

Voyage of a Bottle. The bottle which, thrown into bo na on Studland Bay, Dorsot, Grenadier Guard".

Crisp, Seo. Lieut. F. E. F., on August 18, 1913, is reported to have gone sabore near Christ-

Crowe, Capt. W. M. O., Royal Warwickshire Regiment, oburch, New Zealand, eleven Newton, Capt. W., S., Honor months later, has made what isable Artillery Company. perhaps a record in long-distance drifting. But, so far as rate of travelling in concerned, its aver- age of one mile and a half per bour was beaten by a bottle thrown into the Atlantio, 1,250 miles N.N.W. of Cape Town, in November, 1912, which was found on April 6, 1913, on the beach Dear Port Philip Bay, Victoris, Australia. To cover 7,250 miles in fire months necessitated ap hourly average of two miles.

Inoculation for Typhold. Major-General Sir Francis Lloyd, Commanding the London Military District, inspected the

Beckham, Lieut. G. A., East Lancashire Regiment.

Shattook, Capt. M. M., 16th Battalion London Begiment. (Scottish Rifles).

Stirling, Capt. J., Cameronians

A. D., Oxford and Bucks. L.I.

Tylden Pattenson, So. Lient,

Lancashire Regiment.

Wheeler, Capt, O. N., South

Died of Wounds. Farrier, Sec, Lieut. A., S. Wales Borderers...

Hoare, Sec. Lieat. P.H.T., East

Wounded.

members of the lat City of Lon-Lancashire Regiment. don Brigade, R.F.A., at the Drill Hall, Handel-street, Bloomsbury, recently. In a short speech Sir Francia expressed his warm satisfaction at the appearance of the men, but said that the in- cculation numbers of the brigade were not quite as good as they ought to be. Ee strongly recom- mended the men not to believe any nonsense that might be said on the subject. Under very bad conditions of weather there was

Arohdale, Sc. Lieut. 0. A., Rifle Brigade.

Brierley, Capt. C.L., Lancashire Fusiliers.

Browne, Lieut. W: P., Lat (Royal) Dragoons.

Banbury, Sec. Lieut. T. St. P., Royal Field Artillery,

Barne, Capt. A. H., D. S. O., Royal Field Artillery.

Grogan, Major G. W. St. G., hardly any entorie in the fighting Worcestershire Regiment. force, while in the South African Guest-Williams, Lieut. W. A., War, under, much better climatic | R. Berkshire Regt."" conditions, the cases of exterio

Hadson, Major A. R., Royal were very numerour. He believed Field Artillery. inoculation to be an almost abso-

Hunter, Capt. R.D., Cameron-

lute defence against the disease. fans (Scottish R fles). He could speak from experience, Ingoldsby, Sec. Lieut. for he was inoculated, and he Lincolnshire Ragt.

H.,

brd enteric in South Africa, and Jeffrey, Lieut. J. A., 13th

he believed that it was inoculation

that then saved his life,

Chinese Students in Tokyo, On the 12th instant over 2,000 Chinese students in Tokyo a sembled at the Y.M.O.A. build-

|

Hussare.

Jones, Lient. C. R., K. 0. Scottish Borderers.

Leason, Lieut. N. A., East Lancashire Regiment,

Maclachlan, Sec. Lieut. F. J., King's Royal Rifle Corps.

inge at Mitoshinocho, Kands, to protest regarding the Japanese proposals to China and several dozersdelivered patriotic spacobas and both speakers and audiences broke into tears, and then the ohairman nominated a committee sad passed the following resolu tions:1. That, the Chinese Royal Engineers. students in Japan be united into

Marshall, Liont-Col. W. R., Sherwood Forestera,

Engineers.

Matthews, 380, Lieut. M., Royal

O'Connor, Capt. P. B., Royal Engineers.

Pritchard, Major H. L., D.S.O.

Robertson, Lieut. W. M., Lin-

Rochfort-Boyd, Maja H. 0..., Royal Field Artillery New

Books, Lieut. O. D. W., Can ronians (Soottish Rifles).

a body, 2. That a special com-colnshire Regt. mittee. be elected with a mission to return to China and present to the Government their view to roject Japan's proposals. 3. That committee representing each vince telegraph to Chiang cl'ns to give support to the protest against Japan's proposals. 4. That it is their duty to return to Chins to do their duty to their native home, etɔ. Several han- dred yen were collected in the evening as funds for the travell ing expenses of the committee,

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