1915-06-07 — Page 5

TO-DAY'S

LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,

(Continued from page 1.}

GOOD CROPS IN CANADA.

June 6, 1.60 p.m.

A message from Router's correspondent at Winnipeg states that the crop reporte are excellent, especially wheat, ortsand barley..

FINANCIAL EXPERTS MEET.

Jnne 5, 150 p.m. Reuter's correspondent at N03.raputs that the British and Italian Finance Ministers and their respective experts have already bad an important interview and a final e nference will take place... DEATH OF FORMER FRENCH MINISTER.

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June 5, 1.50 p.m. The death is sanounced from Paris of M. Qumille Pelletan, Minister of Marine.

THE UNCENSORED LETTER, CASE,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1915.

JOTTINGS BY THE WAY DAIRY FARM NEWS.

M

'An efficient Chinese wanta

re engagement in Commercial field, has a competent knowledge in business methods." Why not

add "and 'in' orthography"?

Q

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BUTTER & CHEESE.

Owing to the abnormal prices ruling at present in Australia

DAISY BUTTER

The Telegraph often speaks for Butter, and the rise in the price of Canadian Stilton Cheese, we with a loving air of proprietor have been compelled to advance our retail prices to the following:- ship of "Oar Sanitary Board," "Our Burglar, "Our P. W. D.", "Our Gaol" "Our Schools" or "Our Educated Compositor; bat it would never have been unpatriotic enough to talk about "Our Raid on London."

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Speaking of raide on London, we suppose there's no such luck as ports of Tooting having been bombed off the face of the earth -the parts that have helped to

DAIRYMAID

BUTTEROUP

PASTRY

...$1.10 por lb.

.. 1.00

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.80

.70

These prices have been approved by the Food Committee and

CHEESE

supply Hongkong with an aristo-ame into force on 24th May, 1915. ox-cracy, we mean.

June 6, 1.15 p.m. Tho Times in aonnection, with the publication of an uncen- Bored letter from Major Richardson has been acquitted.

THE DARDANELLES: MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS.

The correspondent of the Times at general assault on the Turkish positious in moruing of the 4th,

June 5, 1.40 p.m; Mitylene reports that Gallipoli began on

June 5, 1.50 p.m.

a

the

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"Our Fleet", £ays Admiral

Dewey, "is not excelled by any in OPIUM PROSECUTIONS.

the world except for size." So

there is something bolonging to

the Americans that is not the Result of week End Activities. largest in the world, after all! The tidings will be a severe blow to the Manila papere,

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346.

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287

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320 Guaranteed

Total to Gib, inst. 1833

Daily average 305.50

Sirce the Suthorities have a batch of opium cases before Air. This morning, there were quite courteously taken notice of our J. R. Wood at the Polico Court. mild protest as to the ascending Inspector Kerr obarged three and descending of Battery Path Chinese on four separate counts by sand-laden ocolies, would they in connecting with three late of oblige us still futher by enquiring opium:-77 taale of prepared 270 "A telegram from Petrograd states that the Russians have dis-who the gentleman is who rides taela of locse, and 48 raels of covered large withdrawals of Turkish troops and artillery from the down it on a bioyole, by-laws prepared. They were charged Caucasian front, The best regiments have been transferred to notwithstanding?

with being in possession of it and Constantinople.

alao with exporting the same from journey to Sweden, thint be speake the colony. The men were stopped on behalf of only a very small by members of the special staff, Swedish minority, chiefly consiet told off to inspect passengers join, ing of university men and military due to leave for Swalow. The varsity and military manners. defendante' boxes were examined Norwegian newspapera like the and the drug was discovered cot-Trondhjem Adressearis, 1emark cealed in false bottoms and sides. 1h Norway has us reason fo The case was remanded until complain of Russia, and that the Wednesday next...

professor la ignorant of the real situation, and of Norwegian politi- cal and public sentiment.

KING OF GREECE: CRITICAL CONDITION."

Prefixed to a list of Germsn lies termed "an official cablegram from the United States", and

The King of Greeda to-day underwent an operation for the published in a Mauila paper, we ing steamere, just as the boat was officers influenced by German

removal of a rib, or ribs.

Jone 5, 3:45 ą w..

June 5, 12 35.

p.m.

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Renter's correspondent at Athens roports that on the evening of the 5th the King's temperature 100 to 1043, and this was ascribed to the reaction of the operation.

German specialists spent the night in the sick room, nad bis condition is regarded as most critical.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIER'S SUGGESTION.

June 5, 1.40 p.m. Renter's correspondent at Melbourne telegraphs- Benitor the Hon. G. F. Pearce (Ministr of Defende.of.the Commonwealth 1910-13) said that in addition to sending reinfore ments to the front the Commonwealth should send as many infantry brigades as they could get men.

The Premier, the Rt. Hon. Joseph Cook, and representatives asserted that Australia had act sent sufficient men to the firing line and that every man who could shoulder a gun should go. The Premier suggested registering every able-lodied man in the Commonwealth.

THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA.

(British Foreign Ofice Telegram)

find: "Re-publication without special permission of the German consul forbidden according to Act 1851." We believe it is nothing but the terrors of that act that prevents every British paper in the Far East from cribb.ng the good news. By the way it begins (we're just seeing how far that German consul will let us go) The Germane captured on the Loretto billa fourteen hundred Frenchinen.

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This Oplum is Yours. The alleged possession of thirty taels of opiam valued at $175 led to the appearance of acother two Chinese bafore the same magistrate.

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Police evidence was given to the effect that the two men were Herr Blin, the taipan of the caught with a basket in their Hamburg America Line, remark-possession in which was hidden ed in a recent interview: "We the drug in thirteen tins. are just going to close a contract The defendants. denied for the building of several large knowledge of the op'um and said steamers. They will be the big the first they knew of it was when gest cargo-boats in the world." a Chinese constable came up be Now we know why Washington hind them, asized them by the talks of sending a Note to Ger-neck and said: This opium is

yours."

many.

The Turks cursed the Ger- June 4. mans heartily," eage Reater. We The following is a summary of the Sicretary for India's com-wonder if some of those Turks munication respecting operations in Mesopotamis. After success had taken lessons in the noble fally dispersing hostile columns which, as previously announced, art in Hongkong. If so we've recently threatened us on lines of the Euphrates and Kerua Rivers, no doubt they proved themselves We bave a combined naval and military attack was organised on May 31 equal to the occasion. against the remaining hostile force zorth of Karna. Our troops, all eorte of pet names for the Ger- partly wading and partly in toats, executed a skilful taraing move-mans here. ment. Our artillery soon silenced enemy's guns, the excellent prac

"Economies at the Zoo" saya tice of the naval guns and territorial battery being specially con- spicuous. Heights occupied by the Tarke were soon seized and the a Daily Mail headline. In fatare, enemy fled, leaving three 16-pounders complete with ammunition we believe, the deer are to be img acked to make one set of antlers and nearly 200 prisonera in our hands.

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Altar harmlessly exploding several mines in the river bed and last for two years, and snakes on land we continued our advance on Jnas 1 bat found the enemy are to be warned not to cast their

bad hastily evacuated his camps at Barhan and Ratti, leaving many sloughs too often." ton's standing, fle was observed retreating in tamere and cative

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boats which were speedily pursued by a naval flotilla. By the It is President Wilson's im- evening of the lat we reached a point five miles north of Kaurna. partiality that one most admires. The Tarkish steamer Bulbul was overtaken and Bank. We cap He has sent Notes to England, tured two large lighters, one containing three field guns, ammuni- Germany, Chin and Japan, in tion and mines, also several native craft, and about 300 prisoners. is, we understand, about to send The pursuit was continued by moonlight. Our caenalties were trifling, about 20 in all.

(Continued on page 8)."

THE FOLLY OF LENDING.

TELEGRAMS.

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Sergt. Brazil to whom the de fendants were brought at the Central Police Station said that the defendants told the same talo then and the magistrate ordered their discharge.

SWEDEN'S ATTITUDE.

Pro-German 'Professor Who

Speaks for Minority

Copenhagen, Saturday-Pro fasgor Hjerne, from the Upsala University, a Swede by birth, has given an interview to a Norwegian editor, in the course of which he declared that Russia was Soandi- Davia's enemy. He hoped Austria one to Mexico. Washington and Grmany would defeat Rarsia, Notes will toon be as difficult to because then Sweden would ascape as malaria or the Iron escape having to do it. If Sweden Cross..

should be mixed up in the war, which he regarded as not unlikely, According to a Philadelphia then she, like Germany, would paper: "The Rev. Dr. Silas O, have to fight on two fronts, as Swallow, prohibitionist and re Norway, acting under England'a Governor Brumbaugh against the He had no grievance againet

This morning at the Police MORE GERMAN KULTUR, former, has written a protest to influence, would. attack Sweden.

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Court before Mr. Wood a osse Reuters Service To The "Telegraph," re-appointment of former Gover-France or England, but he wanted TLT

was mentioned in which a China.

ess is charged with the theft of a jook whilst beilee.

Mr. Hayward of Mr. D'Alemada e Castro's office peared for the defendant.

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At Salt Lake City, Lorenz von nor Pennypacker. He bases his Germany to be victorious, as, in board. Apply 11 Hankow Road, Arnim, claiming relationship objection or Pennypacker's course bis opinion, the war weald other with the German general of in the graft scandal." With wise not end in any final victory. This war, he continued, was that name, bas been arrested on Mr. Swallow as a prohibitionist

a charge of etealing a strong box, and Mr. Pennypacker mixed up first in a long series of ware, and belonging to the Maharajah of with graft, what did Mr. Shakes- it was necessary for Germany to lice was that the complainant lent Kapurthala and containing impeare mean by asking "What's gain ground in the went to be the junk to the defendant laat Portant papers, from a room in in a name?" Angest for the purpose of going an Hotel

fishing. The defendant took the

junk out and did not return. He

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had not been seen since until he to the effect that while sailing on was found at Cheungchau. In June 4 outside the entrance to the meantime a 'now licence had Junk Bay, the s., Keijo Mara been taken out for the boat:

HONGKONG TENNIS LEAGUE.

collided with his craft, doing Civil Service v. Club de Recreto, The oase waseent to Mr. Lind-damage to the extent of five The above match was played

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