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HONGKON

HEROIC NURSE OF THE

GANGARRITANNIC.

GERMAN OFFICEE/8} DESPERATE APPEAL.

Marvellous Coolness and Dis- cipline in Face of Death....

His Battalion Reduced, to Fiity Men.

Tün Werther Report und?

...+ for to-morrow with De BIG

Kerr on a Second Extra.

Ou the 29th at 11:10 -- Noʻre^uran" 'feben ' Japanese ›jalions. Premusakhedacrested na derately along the donat from Shang- hai to Ha phong and sighty elsewhere.

The anticyclons, is probably moving"

Athens, Nov. 22.-The sinking

Prem Camp, Nov. 21.-B itish of the great hospital ship B itar nia near the Greek island of Zs troops were be-etting very fiercestward. The monto i wll moderate on Tuesday was attended by coolly the German positions beyond along the east coast of Ocina and oreT

heroism sud by a roepe of bra very which will not quickly perish from the story of the great

安

Not even on the Birkenhead, dot even when the Titanic kept its midaight tryst with death, did British men and women behave with such sterling courage and unfaltering discipline.

"I know that women can be brave," said one of the Royal Army Medical Corps officera, "but I never dreamed they could rise to such heights of cool, unflinch jing courage as those nurses did when under Mies Dowse, the matron, they lined up on deck liks so many soldiers, and as (concernedly” and calmly waited I their turs to enter the boats.

"We men are proud of them, and we can only hope England I hear of their courage. They | were magnificent,”

Devotion to Duly.

the cemetery, on the road leading: northwards from Beaumont Hamel to Serre, when the following dramatic message, sent away by the officer commanding one of the German positions, fell into our bands: --

the Onint

Bea

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Hongkong Bainfall- for "the. 14 hours

seding at 10 am, to-day, 0.00 loob. stal since January 1st: 19.36 inches, against an svarage of 85,31 Inches.

FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MOREGW,

District

FOTÁČKAL. ¡E winds,

1 Hongkong to Gap Rock... } moderate;

fair.

N.E. winds, strong } to freak

9 20 a m., Nov. 18. The English. have already broken through the awitch line by Le. Early help alone can make good. Machine-gan ammunition, machine-guns, and hand grenades argently needed, as the enemy Bouth coast of China be). The same - has osptored reserve.

our ammunition

We have no water, and the men here drunk nothing all day,

Of the second battalion 23.d Regiment there are only 50 men left. We hire blocked the switch line 20 metres to the right of the Boden trench.

1 Formosa Chanss_-——

3 South coast of China be-? The same

beson HK. and Lamocks ) ax No. L

tween HE, and Hainan...) mքo. L.

China Coast Meteorological Register.

6tation.

December të, s.1

Hour.

Barometer.

Temperature.

Humidity.

D'tion.

Foros

Washer,

Hakodate H Tole

The English are already lead- ing away our men. Please rein | V'ostock da And I must return to this fes force quickly-(Signed) Liant. Neuro

-, 2nd Batt. 23d Bagt. tare of their spirit and devotion

Written by low this mssenge, on rochi to daty. Imagine this appalling. and endden disaster, and the cool the same piece of paper, is a Naga fashion in which those young

second message from a machine-shims women looked right into the face company's offer, which Naba of death. Then, when the terri- ble day was over, a number of them went cheerily off to the Russian hospit land remsize I on duty all night. And yet in the morning they were bright and lively, and even went sightseeing

in Athens.

"Lɔɔk,” said one, "I've got Bouvenir. I was using this fork at breakfast when the explosion cocorrad, and I put it in my pretet to keep as a souvenir,”

Miss Dawne, who went through the siege of Ladysmith, made the following statement to me:-

"The ship had all the hospital marks, and was fitted up like the bert shore hospitals. It is im- possible to understand why the ship was attacked,

"We were bound for Madros and when the disaster occurred had everything ready to take on board the sick and wounded there.

said :-

"firma

Chef.co

Two machine guns of the 185th Bonin Is. lost. Detachment of No. 2 gan wasiwe

re dead. We can hold out for

other hour.(Signed) Lieut. A 185th Machine Gun Co.

Bankow

Lobang

Changsha

P.

The switch or linking trench Shanghai referred to in the first mesage sharp Grusda. runs of Lager Alley trench, north amoy

Soden [Swatow of Beaumont Hamel, little farther to the ess treres runs : Pasiesx Alley, Taichu Tainak

Taihoku

There is only one point to add Kohur to this graphic little document: Canon the German reinforoɑments did | H'kong not arrive-Renter.

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FRIDAY, 29th DECEMBER, 1916. Enormous Success of the

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"Yes," mid the purser, "j1st Tourne wait a while, for I shall want you a st. J.

Aparri Dagopas

in a few minutes."

Manila

The boy stool at his post for ten minutes while the boat was Lagmpl steadily sinking, and then, when Tacloban the parser gave him his orders, Suriga

Ballo

I had with me 76 nursing sisters, be went off with the remark, "It's Labrad mostly belonging to Queen been a hig explosion, sir, but I Alexandra's Narsing Staff, don't think it will do ne much together with four stewardessen, harm.”

They are all English, and happily

all are saved, though on landing

on the island we had long minutes

of sexiety, for one boat did not

reach land till long after the others, "We had no patients on bord, excepting a few of the staff who were down with slight indisposi tions. We were able to carry these

The Purser's Lament.

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T. F. CLAXTON, Director. Hongkong Observatory, Dec. 19, 1916,

1 Barometer, reduced to 3t degrass Fahrenheit on the level of the now in Ex- chas, tenthe mud bundend tha

2 Temperature, in the shade, in ingress Fahrenheit.

Humiditis perasaiage of saturation.

A tribute is due, too, to the enolness of the parser himself. the Humidity of all emborated with mola- He saved all the papers on these being los ship, and when everything bad 4 Direction of Wind, to two points. been done, calmly went back to sol

5 Force of Wind, according to Beaufort

his cabin and pat on a clean State of Father, b blue sky, o dem

on deck and get them sway. collar. "I wish," he declared tobed cloud, & drinking main, ffon, s

All Balonglags Lost.

"The explosion occurred when

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gloomy, h hall, I lightning, o ovsroust, p later, lamenting a now suit which pakking showars, q squally, r rain, a snow, he had lost, "I had also changed i thunder, ♥ wisibility, w daw zak

my no her. I bad seven minuten

I could have done it ia.”

wo were breakfasting. We heard somstbing, but had no idea the ship had been hit or was going Evideros gathers that the dis- down. Witbont alarm we went | aster was due to a submarins. on deck and there awaited the|The islanders say that they saw launching of the boats. The whole a enbmerine sear the shore. suf behaved most splendidly,

Four of the victims were buried Barometer 0.12 30.08 waiting calmly, lined up on deck, this afternoon at the St. Denis "We were obliged to leave be Cemetery, Pirms. The British" bind as our belongings such sa paval attache attended, and sl! medals, watches and money, and the other Entente Legations were bere we are with nothing but reprosented and ment wreatha. what we stand up in. We came Ditachment of Britial

and bere from the island in the Herois French sailors followed the coffins | LAWN

METEOROLOGICAL.

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and the Boourge, and were taken to the burial place.--Gnorge EX. Observatory, December 29, 1916.

on board the British flagship, Kenwick in the Daily Chronicle, where we had tea. Everybody

was most kind, and it is imposem sible to say adequately how thankful we are for that.

"We were two hours in the boats. The Hans, however, could not have chosen a better time for giving us an oppportunity to save those on board, for wo had all risen. Wo I were near land, and the sex was | perfectly smooth. Although all my nurasa resohed here last night exhausted and distracted--sOSTOS- ly one of them could have elept without dreaming of drowning, and would have been distarbed by the slightest noise-the portion of the staff who so0ompanied tha wounded to the Basian hospital elayed on duty all night, and will OTICE in hereby given that be relieved by another section Nss from 1st January 1917 the this morning.

Incorporated in Great Britalo.

Total Assets exceed

£4,000,000.

Firs, Life, Marine, Motor Car, Flate Glass, Fidelity Guaranies & Loss of Profits Insurance.

Company's 'ffices, will be ra- There wore a number of boy! TRUS, STELLA METAL and HARE. moved to No 4. Des Voeux Road, woonte os board employed na ma- WARE MERCHANTS. Wholesale, Central (next to the Hongkong & sangers. The parser tells a good and Kendi fruszengoen. Pig Iron and Shanghai Hinking Ciration).

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Hongkang 27th December 1917.

story of his hoy scout. Whas the

ship was struck the boy name up,

T. F. CLAXTON, Director.

Don' forget the iron Claw."

BIJOU

It grips You,

THEATRE.

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Russian Dances, Setch Reel, Coon Lance, ELO. Etc. Ets.

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Comics,

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