WALKER'S
"BLOCKETTES
(PATENT
REGISTERED,
"well-bent
ED
attentive, and thirs
phere of general con
earnest devotion to work.
bere
is manifest good fueling among and between the pupils and staff.
* CARBOLACENE * DISINFECTING PERFORATED Bach is one of the many com-
BLOCKS.)
1. They ensure Healthy Homes and a pure, pleasant and
beneficial atmosphere. «
2.-They purify and sanitize the air,_and_are_a_safeguard
against infectious disease.
—They last MANY MONTHS, cost very little, and require
no aftention.
"BLOCKETTES" PRODUCE THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE PINE FOREST11!`-
BOLE AGENTS FOR HONGKONG AND SOUTH CHINA,
TRUTH IS LIKE THE PEIEL, HE
BRITISH OFFENSIV.
ALONE, PORSESTES IT WHO HAS BROKEN GERMAN LINES
PLUNGED INTO THE DEPTHS OF: LIFE AND TORN HIS HANDS. ON THE ROCKS OF TIME.
The Weather.
At the Peak 8s.m. Temp. 77;
Lower level 8 s.m. Tamp. 25
menta which appears in the fav.m Inspector's report on the Belilion Public School for the past your fine. -Thow words reveal a highly
The Malls. satisfactory state of affairs, and those who know the admirable Siberian Mail-Arrived per
Polynesien to day. record which has been established by this particular Fehool will American, Canadian and U. K. Mails.--Closed paras. Kama- kura Maru al 3. p.m. 40° day.
serre that they are wall merited. Unhappy, falling-off in the average attendance has to be recorded, but the fault for that in
to be found in a series of unfor funate circumstances beyond the control of thom in whose hande [the "management of the school
A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., lim During the year, for
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instance, no fewer than seven assistant misiraemon resigned, three of whom set up rival soboole in the neighbourhood, while there
The object of this paper is to publish correct information, serve to tendency among the Chinese girls
the truth and print the news without fear or favour.
+
The Dollar.
To-morrow's Anniversary. To-morrow is the anniversary
Germany by Britain in 1890.
Promoted Major.
.
is also reported a regrettable of the csesion of Heligoland to to leave school on reaching Clues 5 in order to get married, the upper classen being, in conse- Captain G. O. Turnbull, quence, very small, Circam-D.S.O., 28th Panjabis, was recent stences ansh asthees must be ly promoted to the rank of Mejor. very disteartening to an enthusi» astic and painstaking staff.
Valuable Work.
ent
VISITED.
HOW ENEMY TRENCHES CRUMBLED UNDER
т-
OUR FIRE,
in cash-f Chase Belds of Franos.
and
40 feet deep
consented, had been masses of earth
Where the Dead I le.
dead bodies must lis bu They were: white above the
Bat soms had been brown earth, and paf into. nast of the upheaval of earth rowe, and labelled with stripe of thein, and into some of tin bearing the names of those mest down, impelled who now have prace.
strong, grim spell of those little French troops were mingled dark rooms below where Gerasan soldiers lived only a law dayı ago.
** Doeth's Stairway. They seemed haunted by tha"
now battles of the war.
The following dispatch is by among our own men. A working Mr. Philip Gibbs, the Daily Party of them came along shouldering picks and shovels. Chronica", special war correspond- They were Territoriain, past the spirits of the men who ban mode fighting sgs, but tall, sturdy, their homes here and ind carried With the British Army in the hardened men, with a likeness to into thees holes the pride of their Field, July 4-No sensational their young sons who, with less, souls, and any postry they had in American, Canadian and Siberian progress has been made by as weight, bat with the same hard, their hearts, and their hopes and Mails Close per. 8., Em-Bruce I wrote my last dispatch, bronsed look, are fighting the terrors, and memories of love and life in the good world of pasos. preas of Asia at 10.30 am. yesterday, but our guns are in a
good position to follow up agr It was the sound of, French | I could not resist going down to to-morrow.
advance, and the baitis is de- guns away to the south which was such place, though to do so gav The opening rate of the dollar veloping. I believe, socording to making most commotion in the air me goose flesh.
the original plan which sat today. Big fighting was going on - I had to go warily for on the on demand to-day was 2.1.5-16d. cipated slow and steady fighting there, as though the French were stairs ars were unexploded bomba
from one Germin position to making a further advance, and the of the "hair brash" style. another.
rafale of their feld gans was stumble or a kiok might send one This is being done, and another incessant, sud like the roll of to eternity by high explosive foros, point was - gained to-day by the
DIRBy drums.
and it was difica't not to stumble, capture of Bernafay Wood to the
As I went over the battlefeld for the steps were broken or north-east of Montauban, from
Down inside the little square which I have just come back after of Montauban the enemy's shells, faling into a landslida.
Bernafay Wood, where each side rooms were filled with the relic seeing the shelling of this wood, and our own were falling over from close range.
It is behind the lines on the held part of the ground. A little of German omoers and men. The A coroart in to be held in the outskirts of the battlefields that to my left Mamein was being deal tables were strewn with Sailors and Soldiers' Home on one sees most of the activity of pounded heavily by the German papers, on the wooden bedsteads Saturday next, commencing at 8 war, as I saw it to-day again when gunners, and they were flinging lay blus-grey overCosta, Wine ragged fringe of trees, just in huvernacks, boots, balta, kit of There is one aspect of the pm. Admission will be free, and went up to this captured ground shrapnel and "cramps" into the bottles, photograph albums, furry
of Montauben.----
front of me, which marks the every kind had all been "tumbled school's activities which is worthy all are heartily invited.
Up there where fighting was MARRIAGE.
bad come here after the first rush ” Before Mr. Hazeland, at the in progress not many men were place where the village of together by British soldiers who REDMOND-DAVIS.-On July 10th, at Christ Church Cathe. of special mention, and that is the
They were also barraging a line to the snemy's trenches' and dral, Victoria, B. C., by The Very Rev. Dean Schofield. M.A., D. D., starting of cooking classes, which, Palics Court this morning, a visible. Until the advanos, after Montauban once slood. Rector Frederick Anselm Redmond, Lecturer in Civil Engineering it insisted, are becoming very Portuguese, named Francesco the work of our gone, and the
There were men in hiding now, at the University of Hongkong, youngest son of the late Mr. M. J. popular among the Chinese girls. Adris, was charged by an Indian short, sharp rash from open of trench just below the trees, and searched for men in hiding. Redmond, formerly of Kotah Hall, Kotagiri, India, to Eileen Beasley. The pupils first receive detailed police Reserve constable for ground under the enemy's shrap keeping steady flow of five- youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. Jessop Davis. Fairfield, instruction, as to methods and Enniscorthy, Ireland.
reasons, and then proceed to riding bicycle at Kowloon with- nel, car men are hidden and the point-nines into one end of the though harmlow. In one of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. ·
the practical work. No difcus a light. Defendant said he had only movement to he seem is that wood to the right of Montauban, dug-outs where I groped my way Other shella came with an jutumbled against something, and irregular aboios of place over the fumbled for my matches. When thera. T. H. Martin and Family desire to return heart-felt thanks ficulty is experienced in obtain light, but it was only a dim one. of the shells barsting and towing for which our men are now fighting, down it was pitch dark. I for the many kind expressions of sympathy and condolences, received ing materials, the pupils be- The Constable said there was no up the earth. from their friends and acquaintances, in their recent sad bereave-ing eager to bring all that isoil in the lamp at all. A fine of
battle-field, and there were mo I struck a light I saw in a corner ments when those clouds of black of the room a German:
To Dear Wilhelm." shrapnel overhead suggested an
He lay curled up, with his head immediata dive into the nearest
on his arm, sa though sleep.
Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.
Telephone: No. 1A.B.C., 5th edition.
ment.
Western Union Office address: 11, Ice House St.
The Hongkong Telegraph.
- HONGKONG, TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1916.
A CANTON SIDE ISSUE.
Concert.
No Light.
I
Turmoil of Men.
Bat on the way up, now that the war is no longer stationary, there is a great turmoil of men The Colony's Health. During the past week there and mules and gons and wagons, were seven cases of enteric fever and again to-day I wished that I dagoat. notified in the Colony (two British could put on to paper sketches
$5 was imposed. wanted. The apparatus, we are told, has cost just over $20, sud, in view of the value of auch in atruction, no-one will quarrel with the remark that, if the ex
of personal hygiene on the papils, special attention being directed towards such : mattera as the benefits of fresh air, cleanliness
Dishonest Cooks.
ས
Binge
eaveral hundreda. Many men have been killed outright and left of over 360 Chinese girls-such of provisions. Complainant said three days of battle, in which and in great disorder. Letter we hope for a little note from you.
Since there is no - resson can come to an
Germany and Peace.
..
per-
were lying about, and bally beef tins, and cartridge clips. Our men had gone forward and thems old trenches are abandoned.
Hidden Fortress
Dear Wilhelm, in order
I passed noroen our old line of I did not stay to look at his face, periment continues to be success-
and the rest Chinese), four of rather than words to describe tranches from which on Saturday but went up quickly. And yet I ful, better equipment ought to
which terminated fatally. There these scenes. For here all along morning our men went out cheer- went down others and lingered in be provided ister. It is proposed
of the tragic spirit that dwelt now to start a laundry class, were also three fatal occurrencer the way were historic pictures of ing to that great attack which one whers no corpus lay becaus which also should be most useful of small por (all Chinese), and the campaign fall of life and carried them to the farthest poins there and put its spell on me.
gained that day, in spite of heavy
They were all written to "dear one fatal case of plague (aled colour.
Great camps had been asem-losses. The trenches now were to large numbers of the pupils. Chinese). One of the enteric bled in the dips and hollows of filled with litter collected from the brother Wilhelm," from sisters Another thing we are glad to
and brothers, sending him their borte in that much gains catee was imported. Since the the bills with pointed tenis battlefield-atacks of rifles and kit, loving greetings, praying that his
|beginning of the year there bave
between the lines and great piles of hand-grenades, no longer taken to impress the importanos besa 31 cases of plagus (all fa{k!),\'masses of korses and wagons and needed by those who owned them, baslth was good, promising to
even of which were imported.
This old system of trenches, in send him gifts of frod, and yearn- gan-limbers crowded. together, Mr. G. Sailing, manager of the with thousands of men basy as which French troope lived for ing for his homecoming. While it is clear that exaggerated stories bave been published as to the sumber of casualties in the fighting round about Canton of persons and apparel, and the cigar factory at Yanmail, obarged ants. Transport columns osme many months of war before they your last letter and card," mid hie cook, and sesistant cook, at down or went up the hilly roads handed them over to car men, was one of them, "we have beard "Every time the postman comes. that number, on Lung Chai-kwong's side alone, has now reached proper filtering of water. A school the Police Conte this morning, driven by tired men who drooped like a ruined and deserted town nothing more from you.
which has an average attendance before Mr. Hezsland, with theft in their souls or saddles after left burriedly because of plague, lying where they fell or dumped into the river, while others have as this one has and which lays he had missed a lot of things of they have had but little sleep.
to be patient with your fate you mast thank God because you sustained injuries of a more or less serions nature, necessitating itell out to instruct them on the late and he decided to set a watch. One of them was asleep to-day.
To The Fighting-Line,
have found fortune in misfortune.” their removal to hospital for operation. Many, too, have subsequent lines here indicated, must have a He placed an Indian walebroen
He had fallen backwards in
Poor, pitiful lottoral. I was ly died of their wounds, despite the highly-skilled attention of the large and far-reaching influence on guard and the letter as the
sehamed to read them because it' hospital doctors, foreign and Chinese. It would be a new thing for on the rising generation of Chia- assistant cook throw over the his wagon still holding the reins, ese females in Hongkong. Therewall 8 tin of coffee, mustard and while he slept his borses
It is beyond the power of words seemed like prying into another. those who make and prolong the wars and skirmishes of the world fore it is to be hoped that itse. His Worship bound over the jogged on steadily following the
There was a little book I picked to desist from fighting merely because their soldiers must needs fatare will be brighter than its assistant cook in the sum of $100, leaders of the column. On the to give a picture of the German men's secrets, though he was dead. safter injury or death-or even because many quite innocent persons immediate past has been, end and sent the other to prison for roadside and among the wild trenches over this battlefield of
that it will henceforward com- three weeks.
flowers of uncultivated fielde Montauban, where we now hold up. It is a book of soldiers' songs, who are in no way connected with hostilities happen to be alain;
batobes of infantry, who had been the line through the wood beyond. fall of old German sentiment, Conflicting Stories.
Before Saturday isit it was about "the little mother" and the and we have no hope that Lang Ohai-kwong and bis legion of mand all the support it deserves.
all night anemies will think it worth their while to take sack fsots into con-
A Police Reserve constable, marching aideration..
who is also a warder at Victoria hape, had flung themselves down wide and far reaching network of old house at home and the pretty Jadging from the statements Gaol, prosecuted a Chiness at the and slept also while they had a trenches, with many communice- girl who kissed her soldier boy to expect that the casualty list made by the party of Danish Police Court this morning, before half-hour's chance, with their tion ways and strong traverses, before he went off to the war. shiver at their strength to see genlied," which has been eeng that fathered it bave ceased, it surely becomes those on whom tour through Germany, our He stated he was prasing down rifles and packs for their pillows. them marked on map. No along many roads of France.
end till the fighting and the political unrest Socialists just returned from a Mr. Hazeland, with gambling. arms outstretched, with their and redoubts--so that one would And here is the red old *Mor-
Other men were moving up to
*Morgenroth" beatír Teutonic enemies are at the Moon Street when he aw defon- the wounded men have any natural or moral claim to
Red morning ann! Red morn- themselves for the alleviation of the sufferings of these moment in a very bumble and dant and others gambling: Hewards the fighting lines, marches of infantry, however great unfortunates; and we should bear with the greatest satisfaction that chastened frame of mind. We are went up to them, and they set ing with a steady tramp along would have dared to assault such
It was a grest underground barly death? Soon will the tram- the Chinese of Hongkong had taken steps to strengthen financially informed that everybody in the upon him, defendant striking him the chalky roads, which plastered position with bombs and rifles. ing san! Do you light me to an the bends of those persons in Carton who just now are devoting Fatherland in praying for pesce on the neck and arm. Defendant them with whise dust from stool fortress, which any body of men peta sound, and I must leave this thomsiven to the care of the wounded-notably in the and that Germany is willing to aid he was not gambling and helmet downwards, and put a British-American hospital there. This institution, better known throw in her hand without receiv-when the constable got hold of white mark upon their faces, could have held against any others life, and many a comrade with me.
tructive power of heavy artillery. 48 the Canton Bospital, has a historical interest that should ing any tangible reward in the him he (defendant) would not except where the sweat came for all time spart from the des
But now I * -raadify appeal to the Hongkong Britisher, for it dates back to shape of new territory for the go because he was innocent. The down in gullies. Artillerymen
Why now it was the most "Factory" days, before Hongkong was one of our enormous sacrifices she has made. other people who were standing were leading up reserve horses, colonies having been founded in 1835. Just now the efforts of In other words, she is willing to round laughed and the policeman who put their ears back for a frightlal convulsion of earth that its staff are being taxed entirely beyond its numerical alcongth, and relax her hold on Northern got mad and struck påt right and moment, as though to switch off
The bombardment by car two foreign surgeons and ons nurse are working literally night and France, Belgiam, Poland and left. A fine of $3 was imposed flies when heavy gans blared the eyes of man could see.
kad tomed all these earthworka day. They are loyally backed up by Chinese doctors and nurses, Serbia so long as her own in- for gambling, and $10 for forth close to them sad shells of
at least 8in. calibre went howling into vast rabbish-beaga. We had and probably all would go well if the institution were not so serious dependence is not interfered with. assaulting the constable.
overhead to the slamy's linen.' ly hampered by want of money—not for alterations, reconstruction That ins bumiliating climb-down
& Uhinese, who was fined about At wayside corners were field made this ground one vast series of shell orsters, so deep and so and similar luxurics, but for the mere daily and hourly extra for a nation which has insistently
brand that it was like a fold of expenditure arising out of the care of wounded soldiers, and of boseted of its invincibility and of a month ago for keeping a gamb-dressing stations Aying the Bed civilians who have been unlucky enough to find themselves within its confidence in victory. That ling house at West Point, was Cross flag, and surrounded by extinct volcanoes. the erratic line of fire,
Germany is already beaten there before Mr. Hazeland, at the Police little parks of ambulances, where
'Billows of Earth. can be no manner of doubt, and Court this morning, on a charge atretcher men were busy. And
The ground rose and fell in It will probably ooour to our readers that the persons whome that the truth in gradually using of sesaulting the man who gave every now and then, så a cross- fint duty it is to help in the relief of all this suffering are the broken to her people is equally information against him. Inspeo frost or a by-palb, a wooden enormous waves of brown earth; wealthier refugees, from Canton, These people have been socorded sure. She can have petes at any tor O'Sullivan stated that defen- notice-board directed the way in so that standing above one orzD an unassailable shelter within foreign territory; in many cases are moment, 100, but only on the dant made the amault last night red letters and she words “ Walks I mw before me these solid lows with 30 fast slopen - stra even able to carry on at least a proportion of their ordinary basis Allies terms. Those terms are and again this moraing. - Hising wounded,"te des traumactions from that shelter; and, whether their sympathies are unqualified and moonditional Worship, in inficting a foe of This was the Via Dolorm of ing away like a nos trazia with General Lung of with his adversarios, they will hardly be pre-aurrender, and outil Germany $50, or, in default two months men, who could hobble away from Front HOFMEY
to deny that it behoves them to do all in their power towards adapts her frame of mind to imprisonment, and in binding the battlefield up theca and get | hurled hundrede if not thenko Posing the sullerings and spending the racotary of recognition of that fact the Allies hits over to keep she peros for back on their lege: to care trane their own race who, for at least na individual fault, are daily, being are soarosly likely to be disposed six months, spoks very strongly port more badly needed carried from battlefeld to hospital, The Chinese are not wont to to pay say heed to her subtle to him, saying that if be · wars stricken comrades, be backward in works of charity there are times when their ready passe hinta. A pesos before the brought into Court again beloner in the lines thereswas giving shamed as Europesus; and we feel certain that a zanesent í Allion task is foully completed would be sent to prison for long rons which would made one
on the part of the well-to-do refugees will prompt them would be worno than
the old
to the Caston Hospital the monetary help that
Pugilistic Gambler Fined.
after two
form and long-rings gana inte shin nizotoa of feld. aw here and
fre
Ioarely thought my, joy would end like this. Yesterday I rode proud steed; to-day I
shot through the cheat, to morrow I shall be in the gold grave, O red morning sun i which I found today at Montan
On the front pegs of this book,
ban, there is an Army Order from Prince vor Eupprecht of Bavaria to the soldiers of the Sixth
We have the fortuma,” it "to have, the English. front, the troope of thous whose sary for yea them work to surros ring of enemies in
bloody
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