WAR TELEGRAMS.
(Continued from page 1)
THE FIGHTING NEAR BAGDAD.
HEAVY BRITISH LOSSES.
November 24, 10,55 p.m. The Press Bureau states that after a night march from Zenr, which was occupied on November 19, General Townshend'e divi- sion attacked a Tarkisb position at Ctesiphon, eighteen miles from Bagdad, and on November 22, osptured it after severe fighting all day, taking 1,80 prisoners together with large quantities of arme and equipment.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1916,
́ASSAULTED A GIRL
Chinese Heavily Fined This
Morning.
A Chinese was charged, before Mr. Lindaell at the Police Court this morning, with using abusive Language and with assaulting a Obinose girl in Des Voenx Kond yesterday,
Inspector, Sim said the man met the girl in the street, panahed ber in the back and then used a good deal of abusive langudge towards her,
The girl, in the witness box, said she was going to buy stampe at the Post Office when the de
Oar losses were 2,000 killed and wounded. General Townabond's force and the General Headquarters fondent came up to her and asked bivouacked on the captured position. Heavy counter-attacks on her to go to his boase.___ When Western Tuesday night wire ropulsed but want of water on November 24they were near the necessitated a retirement to the river three or four miles below the captured position
THE RECRUITING QUESTION.
THE CASE Oo AGRICULTURE.
November 24, 11.10 p.m.
Market, the defendant made some more remarks to her and she caught hold of him. He then hir her in the face with his open band.
Another Chinese girl said de-
} fendaut made similar overtures to
her.
Defendant was faed $50 on Dimousing agricultural recruiting in the House of Lords, the Duke of Marlborgh denounced the attacks that had been made one oh obarge, and was ordered to Field Marshal Sir John French, who had endeared himself both to pay a further $5 for epitting in our own and to the French officace. He was a fighting man with the Court, heart and energy of a nobool bag.
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Viscount Selborne endorsed the tribute to the fullest extent. Lord Lansdowne said that agriculture was a basic industry, the collapse of which it was impossible to contemplate. The Governmout realiead the urgency of the matter and had endeavoured to prevent exbaustive depletion.
PLIGHT OF GERMAN INDUSTRIES.
November 25, 1.30 p.m. The Frankfurter Zeitung states that the cotton pinning and wearing industries of Germany have practically no more material and can obtain none except for army purposes.
(Continued on page 10.)
YUNNAN.
Some of Its Possibilities.
A Hongkongentleman's Interesting Impressions.
(Continued from Yesterday.) The following time table and schedule of distances is faken from M. Cordier's Guide Book, which containe everything that a traveller could wish to know about Yancan-Fu.
The writer trolls that M. Cor- dier will pardos hie infringe- ment; but will aho recognise that the writer's appreciation and re- cognition of what M. Cordier bas
Pho-mol a A-mi-tcheou.
farrivee I depart
0 Pho-mri
10 Lao-key
10 Bo-keou
( arrivee
1 depart Jarrivee
1 depart
18 MR-bouang.pos 23 Nan.k'i
32 Ma-kisi
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48 Lao-fan-tobsi... 58 Ta-chou-t'ang
74 La-ba-ti
B5 Po-tchai
96 Wan-t'ang 109 Pono-tea-t'sing 124 Loa-kon-tchai 135 Ko-kou
147 Lo-chouei-long
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norrea of the caravans keep the heart and lungs of the Provinos still performing their functions.
It is wonderful to watch them; they are not lordly camole or stately elephants, — just wen ponies and mules with bells on their necke and pack saddles on their backa-climbing, descend ing-patient little beasta of burden.
As far as the writer oan gather, the majority of the pony-breeding in done on the S. E. and 8. W.. 0156 confines of Yunnan, though there 7.03 is, of course, a very considerable 7.18 amount of local breeding. 7.23
Of the road itself one cannot
7 38 say that it is ever much more than 8.10 a track ocassionally, but it is wide 8 28 enough to be easily followed and One never really 8.42 recogised,
8 17 loses eight of it, and the caravans 9.42 and the music of the paraven bells 10.22 are seldom out of one's sight-spd 10.57 bearing.
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Owner of Opium Vanishes.
A Chinese man and woman were charged at the Police Court this morning, before Mr. Haze
1.62 se means of transport; but the land, with being unlawfully in 220 big lakes, of course, are used by possession of 400 taels of opium, 167 Mong-tsen (Dragon noir) 3.30 of communication,
TELEGRAMS
OBITUARIES.
(Reuter's Servios To "The Talozrap b.")
Received November, 25. The deaths are announced of
done to make Yunan-Fa and ite/155 Fohe-ts'ouen (Milati).. 3,01 launches and steamers, sa a means to the value of $4,000. Mr. Mason B. M. One of Works, and of!
beauties more widely known are 181 Mong-tsen (Fi-obe-tohai) 4.09
sincere.
197 Ta-tehonang -
Halphong Hanol-
Natin Sir Soir 212 La Tour (Ta-t'a) 0 Haiphong 028 1640 741 223 A-mi-tobeou...
Kil.
10 Vat-cash-
thuong 845 159 7.59
15 Du-ngbia.. 0.65 209
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2. Phu thai... 108 222 8.8 50 Phim-ra 720 2.34
81 Lai khe 7.30 2.44 834 28 Tien-irang 7.38 2.52
44 Haiduong 761 3.05 852
51 060-xa 8.03 3.18 904 55 An-dien 8,19 3.27
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At this point the writer maken 448 full confession that he kao 5.27 nothing whatever about
57 waterways of Yunnan, hiving never seen a navigable river. A-mi-techeou a Yunnan-fou.
6h 58
As a result, a visit to the beat 7.18 available library reveals the
0 A-m1cheon...
18 Bino-long-t'au
37 Sain-kien-asen
46 Da-li-be 55 Si-tche-gi
65 Jo-obnaei-t'ang 76 Poto-bi
95 8-eal ...
113 Nono-teou
61 Cam giang 824 838 020 125 Lon fong-tronen
67 Xuan-daoTM 8.34 3.48
77 Lac-dao 8.50 4.05 9.43
858 4.13
81 Dinb-da
5 Phu thuy
92 Gia si 102 Hanoi
138 Nin-kio-tou
1151 Ti-chouei
114
164 Keon-kisi-teau
040 42% 357 171 Yang kini-Pen
Jutrivée
0.20 4.42 10.18) 178 Yi-leang Idepart
Hanol alao-Kay.
◊ Hanoi...
10 Gis-lam
11 Yen-vien
17 Xusn-kien ....
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more
as
that this is Jess aDirect, except 0.02 regards the communication with
defended.
A Chinese river policeman stated that he was in No. 10 Police launch and went aboard the sampan owned by the defen- dant, where he found the opiam produced.
A Chine-a constable stated that 9.28 the Yangtee and the West River, there were three people on the In 00 Bat, even then, transport by in bat, the two defendants and 10.62 land waters is dangerous, and 14.30 nouitable.
... 11.57 The inland watere are fairly 12.32, well defined, indeed, and it must 1.01 invariably follow that unless a can 128 al system, which would involve an 1.28 expenditure beyond the means of 200 China, as she is, were instituted, 2.10 the waterways of Yuansa can 2.51 daly serve as a mogh guide to 251 the essicat way to the sea.
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child.
Crown Sergeant Caygill deposed that the opium was brought to the Police Station in a sack.
Mr. Mason, for the defauce, said that bis clients" boat was engaged by a women who took some lag gage on the sampan which proved to ba the drag which was the Very briefly, Yunnan holda the abject of the charge, and then 3.54 sources of China's great water-the Police launch came alongside 4.36 ways. The West River rises from and the woman passenger escaped. 5.15 Tang Chen, the lake above the
0.45 458 10.82
194 K'o-pao-taen
6637
203 Tien-80
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211 Chouei-'ang
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84 Throb-loi....
71
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100
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69 Bao bat
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27 Mi-noi-thon ...
18 Buong-park....
Bà Hương lại
78 Vistri...
82 Pho-duo
91 Tien-kien
an Phu Tho
109 Chi-oha
118 Thánh ba
131 Ag thuong 141 Down-thuong
108 Co-phuoDE
156 Yen-bay
17 Ngoi hop
187 Mo-ba
202 Trai-butt.
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219 Lang-key
238 Bao-ba
248 Thai-van te
202 Pho-V
278 Thai-net.
294 Pho-moi
296 Lao-kay
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7.67 The second lines of communi capital, and one of the main
His Worship:-I am inclined
Mr.
|
Sir Schomberg Kerr McDonnell, G.C.V.O., Formerly Secretary
Mr. Francia Robert Ellis, O.M G. Auditor General and Comptroller of Revenue, etc., of the Island of sylon, and Formerly Governor of North Borneo.
a
COOLIE'S ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
The name of a Chinese ricksha man was called in answer to a
charge of plying for hire without licence, Tonpector O'Sullivan in- timsted that the man was illowing to the fact that he had attempted to commit suicide by banging his head against the wall and then hanging himself with a jacket. His Worship-All for plying without a licence!
HAVE YOU A RHEUMATIC FRIEND?
Tall him about LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM, a modera emancipator from the
7.60 cation are the oldest of the rivers arces of the Yangtze runs from to think that this lady is a myth.
the big Yunnan lake itself. The 800 and have this advantage, that they Nomti and the Red River are in
Menon-Scob things obes and rains of the human body. No 8.14 have the sanotion of time, and the the South and South-Weat. have happened in this Colony, more relief, but permanent freedom from 8 25 glory of ancient assge. It was
From Thibet, the Mokong runs There was our old friend the Peak the tortures and deformities of theums
burglar who escaped from gaalen, be sure has been achieved not three times.
8.40 upon the old oaravan routes that through the Western part of the 853 the pioneers of the railway map Province and ends up in Saigon, 906ped their line. After all, this rail- How far this is all available i‹
9.22 way does not top the province and hard to say, but this is clear,- Hie Worship:He was a clever
9.38 all ita resources, invaluable 9.53 though it ie.
that the waterways of Indo-China, man. Tonkin, Aanam and the French
contact.
Mr. Mason:-Your Worship
not a fow times, but thousands of times. Excetual in the most hopeless CERES.
LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM
Just rub it in. It stops the pain. Stope i quiokly. A little more and a perman-
est cure is affected. Pass on the word of hope to all who suffer from then walan
or other bodily tortures.
Bold at la, 48, per bottle.
Agents for Hongkong, Musara A. S. WATSON & Co. Ltd.,
10 09 From Szechuan, Barmah, 10.25 Thibet, Kweiohow and the Hinter Protectorates and those of Siam has no evidence that this woman 10.50 land of the French sphere of and Burmsh are all in close touch was not clever. It may not seem 11.07 influence, the open road with its with the great waterways of Chins, possible that she could disappear done. Jack Sheppard got awaY 11 37 infioite and illimitable system of and that Yunnan is the point of like that, but still aach thingsere
· 12 41 OSKAVADs keeps tánch with the
This is a question that will be from Newgate where the prisoners 1.04 outer world.
TO-DAY'S His Worship:-This kind of Eastwards and northwards the dealt with later in considering were well watched.
ADVERTISEMENT 1.58 esravana hold banda with the the uain question of Yannen' 232 Yangtee and the West River possibilities-how Indis can be thing is getting to be very com-
WANTED. linked with China via Barmah, mon. I feel sorry for these people. 3.11 Southwards they supplement tue The waterways mean, to the because they do it for such a small VANTED.—English Gentle-
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c/o Hongkong Telegraph.”
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