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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WITH OUR FIGHTING MEN.

THRILLING STORIES FROM THE FRONT.

British Soldiers' Experiences.

(From Our Special" Correspondent)

:

London, Feb. 12.

EXTRA

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1915.

here. The backyard and garden are full of them; they are fight ing amongst themselves and we don't know what on earth to do with them."

COMPANY REPORTS.

(Continued from page 5)

Rabber in Stook sid

in Transit...

18.

$180,000.00

64,706.75

244,708.75

...$300,08

TURK ARRESTED,

To Gnol for Returning to the Colony,

Ezokiel Abraham, who was arrosted by the Military Police on board the s.. Hangasog, was charged this morning withie un 38ing from banishment,

Oo

Directors. Mr. E. Goo'z rO- signed his seat on loaving the Colony and Mr. F. Lieb was ap- pointed to fill the vacancy. the regrettable death of Mr. G Friesland, Mr. A. Widmann was asked to fill the vacant sest Mc. R. Shewan and Mr. J. A. Plum mer were invited to join the Dir-. ectorate. There appointments re- quire the confirmation of Bhare holders. Mesere. F. Lieb, H. A. Sisbs, and A. Widmsan have resigned their seats on the Board. The Hon. Mr. E. Shellim and Mr. J. W. C. Bonnarrative by rotation

Tommy and His Dog. bis wrath on the fourth knock, the

par Share The Froach and British soldiers officer discovered that the cur 20,000 Shares seem equally fond of pets. The poral had not been needlessly To add to Invest British Tommy specialises on worrying him. There were in ment Fluctuation doge, as anyone knows who knows fact foar red-headed ladies under

Account Indis, or has oven read his arrest as suspects. The officer Kipling. There is a beautiful bundled them all off to headquare in story, vouched for by a French ters.

Half an

hour later a 1014 Account. The officer, of one of France's white despatch rider arrived with the Bilance at Credit African soldiere. He had a dog following urgent message, up- of this Account called Fead l'air, a name whichparently written more in sorrow suggests that it wasn good jumper. ihan in anger, "Please don't The English equivalent would be send any more red-headed women' Cloavo the Air. Fend l'Air was born in Algeria of unknown parentage, a street arab that fonded for itself from puppyhood: Intelligent and affectionate, be the master that chance gave him. devoted himself passionately to The war oalled his master to serve under the colours, and the dog managed to get on board with hip. From Marseilles he cross- ed. France and went to Belgium, taking part in the Ile was in the grand retreat. victory of the Marne, shared tranches, and one night the the life of the regiment in the

trench which hie mastar was helping to guard was blown up by a shell. Fend l'Air's master was buried wounded. The dog scented out the exact place where Leave Pay and Tra he lay and started digging, until velling Expenses... at last he got his master's head Staff Iooome Tax... clear, and then he started to Quit Reat............... bark, barking continually until Fire Insurance..... at last he succeeded in sammen Ofee Expenses ing the stretcher barers, who Sundries saved the wounded soldier from General Estate Tools what seemed certain death. The Transport and Stock America hospital at Neuilly and is recovering, while the hospital rules have been relaxed so as to avoid the separation of the two friende.

man has been taken to the

a

Total Capital invested

Sb. Tix.

-84,642:07

The defendant, who is 'n Turk, was passing through the Col ny Swatow. He was banished for on his way to Canton from larceny for a term of five gore, have done several other te ma of and is alleged by the pol co to

imprisonment.

Mr. Wood sent him to prison for six months.

THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK.

A Dividend of a Per Cent.

Too local branch of the Yoko-

CORRESPONDENCE. The opinions expressed by the correspondents are not neCURE», arily those of the "Hongkong Telegraph."]

THE POSTAL CENSORSHIP.

(To the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph)

Sir.-The Pustal Censorabipr commencement of the war and which has been in force since the which has recently been more of instructions from the Home rigidly exercised in consequende

Gvernment, is an unpleasant bat inevitable necessity and must se submitted to with price if not with cordi«lity; but it would he interesting to know what qualifi-

ations of fitness for this oper ons, responsible and confidential. work have been demanded by the bol Goverment in those whom it has appointed to anderuke it,

I am not aware of the identity

910,315.89 and being eligible offer themselves hama Spacio Bank is in receipt off any one member of the Cen-

Proportion of General

Development Account. Charges: Slaries, and Allow

suces

* Diseases

New Roads, Drains Seede and Nür- and Field Draine

***

$13,578.51

a telegram from the Head Offse

for re-election.

Anditors. The annexed ao- to the effect that at the half-yearly and I am therefore not counts have been audited by meeting of shareholders, held at smpuguing anybody, but I am M wars, A. B. Lowe and the Head Office of the back as iou to the community at large

sure that it would be a satisfac Bernard Brown who offar them. Yokohama on the 11th inst. i selves for re-election.

was resolved to pay a dividend of have some assurance that no 12 per cent. per adtam for the Jensor who could under any Que is employe i us a Postal half-year ended the 31st Decem-giruamstances be even personally bar, 1914, to add to the reserve embarrassed by-much les be fund Yea 350,000.00 and too tempted to take advantage of forward the sum of Yon 1,335,- anything which came under hin 000.00 to the next account,

·E. SHELLIM, 2,690.10

Caxirman. 468.53

Working Account, 1013. 3,561.32 Losses and Ulaim $447,538.76

400.89 Oharges

53,159 45 2,261.78 Directors' & Audi- .3,616,50

372:51

...

....

8,000.00 168,290,38 517,00

tors' Fees Oommissions Exchange.. 2,488.62

Amount Written off 1,581.10 Fornitura Ac- 3,877.31 B.lince 8,423.41 5,834.68

ejuat

693.05 Not Premia Received, 518 69

Lesa Returns and

$45,817.08

ASSETS. Oash at Bankera. :-- Ou Current Acoɔunt, 120,00 Silver. 244 708.7% On Current Accpant,

Sterling 69,700.0.9 108,876.52 $927,332.44 | On Fixed Deposit,

Silvar.

260,000,00

Reinsurances *-:$7.48,880.08 2,972.49 Intereat and Dividende 188,490.76 1,057.43 Transfer Fees...

484.31

52,687.32

Ares

On Fixed Deposit,

Sterling £12,497.5.7:141,582.10 Investments:-

181.00 In Silver Securities

In Sterling Securities

£50,545,17.6

$927,382.44

Working Account, 1914, 1 10 918.88 Losses and Ulaime $311,949.81 23,352,83 Charges

.

£72,743.3:10

Loans on Mortgage: 82,359.38 On Properties in

Hongkong... $1, 8,000.00 0 Properties in 138,303,47 Shameen, Canton, Or Properties in

Saanghai

Directors' and and- 1,902,37

itors' fees 268.85 Commissions

Amount written off 45,442.0L furniture ao

'count 638.52 Balance ......

299,17 300,608.36

109.56

784.03

98.878.31

There has been a falling off in Dacombor had already developed the best literature this War has a full-blooded regimental esprit produced The authorities are de corps. He was offered a com now exercising.a more strict mission in another regiment, but supervision over letters from the refused it point blank, to the great front. Yet we miserable, people pride of his comrades and officere, at home, who have to console is battalion was placed in the ourselves with the illusory.com trenches near La Bзssee and for fort that they also sorve who nearly two months endured sa only etsad and wait," still get unspeakable ordeal. They never Occasional vivid stories and lan- had the satisfaction of a bayonet tern flashes of the terrific drama charge and scarcely ever saw a and colossal comody that is being German, though the enemy were enacted within half a day's jour close to them and firing was in ney of the Mansion House. A termittent day and night. If a Regular officer, captain of a commas stopped off the planks into pany in a famous Infantry bar- the mud of the trench he could talion, gave me a pathetic in-never get out by his own efforts. cident this week to show the harah One corporal slipped into the mud, fortune that fate deals out to some was up to his middle in ten men. Hia battalion had suffered seconde, and had to be pulled out severely, having been in the thick by three men, with the result of it at La Basset, and a few that he is Dow in hospital weeks ago a new subaltern was with a badly strained back. sent out to him from home. He One lay my friend was with a was a splendid youngstar, good-party filling sandbage. He was

Expen988-anak Bungalows upkeep, looking, up-standing, well-drilled, talking to an officer when's try

Native Buildings bright and twenty-two. His German ballet passed through people must have spent thousands his shoulder from behind. Other

upkeep of pounds on his education at wise the officer would have got it

Recruiting Expence Rugby and Sindhurst, for he was through the chest. He says he

Hospital and Mediost So much for Piou-Piou. Now Watchmen. destined for the Army, and he was conscious that something for Tommy Atkins. "The men Advances lost had received six months' training had happened," then felt a sharp in the O. T. U before being pain like a red hot needle, aud who look after them," writes a Roade and Drains up. grafted to the front. He joined then collapsed. His vest, shirt, lady about the horses, "seem to

keep the battalion in the fronobes at scarf, and tunic were saturated be so fond of them. But I think Water Supply. 11:30 one morning. By 12.10 be with blood. The bullet missed the majority of soldiers are keen Telephons Expenses...

on animale. On the quay yester- was dead and buried. All that the bone and passed within an youngster saw of the War, to eighth of an inch of a main confidentially to a French cart-Upkeep Non-Produsing

day I came upon a Tommy talking which he went with such high artery. But the wound bas boyish spirits and zealous anti-healed beautifully and he expecta stood. Some of the men have dogs. Lallang Digging...

horse. And I think the borea under Wesding cipation and sporting zest, was to rejoin in a few weeks.

As everything the British soldier Pruning l'ests and 40 minutes of murder in the

A Silhouette.

bas, acquired or given" away. mud.

I am told that the country bat- A captain in a Lino regimant since he left England is to bio Supplying

* aouvenir," those animals are talione as a rule stand the har-whoss battalion recently robchod xowing strain and deadly dig the front sends a vivid picture of always introduced to me'ns "sou- "We venir dog, miss." As a matter comforts of the trenches better his first impressions. than those soldiers enlisted from village into a perfect blaze of usually found them left behind.in atambled out of the little black of fact, their present ownera the towne, but that the townsmes,| and notably cookneys and artisane light and & pandemonium" of some deserted Balgian or French from the northern cities, are noise. The German atarlights village and adopted them. The superb fighting men in the showed up the flat swampy dog lives on a generous share of and ourselves the owner's rations and those of open field when it comes to countryside actual manoeuvres. The fortitude advancing up the road across his friends. The other day I was borrid distinctness. talking to a man in an Infantry displayed by the wounded is it with awe-inspiring. A doctor who bag With all the bullete whizzing regiment who had with bim the been working like a slave at one past overhead one would have queerest little mongrel imagin R. 8. F. MGBAIN.) of the main base hospital has liked to slip forward, into the able. His master accounted for W. B. JACKSON given me a thrilling description cover of the trenches as unobtru- his somewhat unusual appearance of the work of the R.A.M.C. He eivoly as possible, and it felt with the remark: "E's a Belgian saya that shrapnel and shell embarrassing to be marching up dang, that's what 'e is, miss," road as brightly lit as Piccadil- and then added vary proudly wounds are very liable to be a sorompanied by poison troubles; y (in the good old nights)." He was all through Mons!" The the bullet wounds, unless they continues,We sloshed along fact that he himself had been are fatal or absolutely disabling into a broader, deeper treach, through Mons," that he had, in the permanent sense, quickly twisting away at right angles to indeed, been out since the very It was faintly lit at intervala beginning did not appear to him heal. I have been shown ond £18, fragment of a German shell pick-with a brazier, and standing on to be a matter of any particular ed up at La Bassee. It is about the ledge here and there were interest, but his small mongrel | ger, are, in our opinion, properly Investment Flactus-

individuals peering was a hero, and he wanted me to 14 inches long and shaped exact range ly like a figure S and its edges through loopholes with rifles know it!

Flanders Mares, beside them. They had goatskin resemble either a fretsaw or a

Our official #Eye Witness" resor. Fragmenta like these coate, oap comfortera on their inflict terrible wounds.

heads, a week's growth of beard has given as a gcod story of the quartermaster who A friend who has returned on their obins, penally'a oigarette ordnance wounded with a bullet through behind their ears, and the lower helped at the Church service, and, the left shoulder furnishes a portions of their frames seemed abbreviation being part of his simple account of his experiences. clothed simply in a sheath of second nature, through the service When the War broke out he was yellow olay. They seemed un habit of running swiftly over: a modest country gentleman commonly pleased to see us, these schedules, read out "We will now whose income permitted of plenty fantastic beings, who in ordinary sing bymn double two 0 Bix. of sport and a motor dar as well times are usually employed, in Art thou weary, ditto languid, as a young wife and two small red tunics and busbies, marching ditio sore distressed ? Bat the children. For a month be allowed up and down in front of Backing-beat story that has come to Lon domestic influences to drown the ham Palace," The mis-use of the don for a long time turns on the still small voice of patriotic con-word bushy for the bearekine of prevalence of red-beaded ladies eclance and the megaphone call of the Guarde clearly points to a in Flanders. An officer at a divi- adventure and the fighting Line captain and a new hand at signal baso received instructions instinct. But early in September that. He concludes, "I would like to look out for a particularly dan hashcoombed to the call of country to put one of these hairy, pre- gerous apy, a woman with red and the serpent throated bugles. historio, cold, muddy creatures hair, said to be working behind He joined one of the new battalions into the sentry box at Backing the lines. He gave orders accord of the Gordon Highlanders, and a ham Palace-it would give people ingly to his men, and was much stiff experience during training, an excellent insight into the con- annoyed at lunch by his corporal bat, when his battalion was beat ditions under which we are now interrupting him four times to tell him that a red-headed woman to the front in the early days of waging war in Flanders,

had been arrested. Going out in

series

Sh. Tla.......

Shanghai, 4h Miroh, 1915. JOHN PRENTICE, DIRECTORS..

GEORGE MCBAIN. General Agent,

We have obtained all the id- formation ani explanations we have required. We report that the above Statements of Accounts, which are in accordance with the Books, Accounts and Vouchers of the Company and the Accounts received from the Estate Mana-

drawn up so as to exhibit a tras and correct view of the state of the Company's affira according to the best of curioformation and the explanations given us and as shown by the booke,

LOWE BINGHAM AND MATTHEWS,

Auditors."

The China Fire InsuCANLE Company Ltd.

***

684,614,09

572,555,04

01,300,00

150,000 00

160,256.40

$1,311,556.40

Furniture Account:— $821,520.19 Offios Furniture,

&o.... Accounts Receivable!➡ Premia due from Agencies, Inter-

Tatal Nat Premia Received, Less Returns and Reinsurances...... 642,656.72 Interestond Dividends 178,182 28 Transfer Fess Exchange.........

est das on Da

141.00

558.69

posits and Invent ments,

&o

$821,520 19

Balance Sheet, 31st December, 1914. LIABILITIES...

Capital Accdunt:-

20,000 Shares of.. $100 each, $20 perShare paid up $400,000.00 Reserve Fund Ac

count ... Extra Reserve Fand

Acoonnt

•

Exchange Fluctus

tion Account. .... tion Account ... Reinsurance Fund

Account Dividend for 1913 Accounts Payablo:

Losses Outstanding and Sundries.

E. SHELLIM,

2,000.00

175,347.01

tios in the ex-cution of his laties. May it be asamad that they are all men of unimpeach able discretion and that no one is employed as a censor whose binnas is such as to plane him in the invidious position of read- 15g the letters of bin competitors in trade?

Your etc.

CURIOUS",

Hongkong, Marob 16, 191,

"THE PEARL CA÷E.”

No Money Yet Forthcoming

At the Police Jourt, this after Hoon, M. Ruw, who is defending the man Cast omiine, who a ebarged in connotion with alleged fraal on Mr. Chopard, the propiator of the A-tor House, Hotel, said that he was corry that they had not been able to get the money yet, but he was certain they would be able to get it by Saturday, or he would not ask for a further remand.

Mr. Hind, for the pro-ecution, said that he was willing to assist the defeace in every way ho could to get the money. Ho suggested the bail be reduced to $500,

Defendant said he thought ha would be able to obtain this, und $3,303,328 24 the case was remanded until to

moirow morning..

W. L, PATTENDEN, Į DIRECTORS,

O, PEMBERTON,

HEORETARY,

Sterling Erohange taken at ls. 0.8/161,

Another Postponed Johnsan Sam Wa Fight.. Sin Francisco, March 8.-The scheduled battle between Hok Johnson and Jess Willard, which was to have been fought at Juarez last Saturday afternoon, did not take place because of the ins liity of General Villa to Bastire the promoters of protection for the spectators. The fight has now have also satisfied ourselves as to been postponed until April 3 and the existence and value of the S will then take place in Havana, curities for Investments, the cash | Cuba,

Auditors' Report: We report 1,000,000.00

that we have examined the Ao 877,588.30 counts of the Company with the books and Vouchera in dongkong. and Returns received from the 6,033.95

varion Agencies for the year end 08,188 69 ing 31st December, 1914. We

213,699.40

1:

$180,000.00 at Bankers and on Mortgage

228 209.49

to the amounts specified. We bave obtained nil; the

in- formation and explanations wo 408 209.49 have required, and in our opinion the above Balance Sheet, which

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NOTICE

The Far East Oxygen & Acety.

300,608.36 includes the allocation of the lene Co., Ltd beg to advice their 1918 Working Acount balance sustomers that Mr. Pailly, Olvil as shown by the Directors' report Engineer, and late technical of date attached, is properly drawn manager of their Singapore up so as to exhibit a true and branch, has taken charge of the correct view of the state of the Hongkong Branch as technical Urmany's affairs according to Mr. Bailly in an expert welder, manager as from the 15th Marchi the best of our information and trained at Miraeilles, and is the explanations given to us, and able to undertake any kind of as shown by the Books of the welding and boiler repairs, Company

The report of the above Com- pany, for presentation to the Working Account, 1914: shareholders at the forty-sixth Balance at Credit.. ordinary meeting, to be held at (Note: The Ster

ling Securities the Company's offices on Thure-

have been taken day, 25th March, at noon, is as

over at 5 per follows:

have now the

dent, lessthan the The Directors have a

values ruling on pleasure to submit their annual

the 31st Decem report and statement of the Com-

ber, 1913, except any's accounts made up to the

in the base of 31st December lost.

Securities whose 'actual value, on 31st December, 1914 was knoWA.)

1913 Account. This sccount shows a net profit on working of $244,708.75 which sum it is pro- posed to apportion as follows- Dividend of $7.00 and Bonus of #2:00

303,328 24

ARLOWE

O. BERNARD BROWN,

Chartered Aco antante, Anditore Hongkong, 11th March, 1916.

Hongkong, 15th March. 1915

THE FAR EAST OXYGEN & DRACETYLENE O Z Ltd.

A.B. The Swedish Trading Co.

in China, (Ltd.))

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