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Count Zeppelin.
DAY BY DAY.
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WHEN
Had the European War not ariser, the death of Count WHEN LOOKING AT OURSELVES Zeppelin, reported by Renter, WE CALL IT FIRMNES would have been more universally LOOKING AT OTHERS WECALL IT
STUBBORNNESS, m-urned than will be the pass now. As it is, his name will go down in history, ss a pioneer in one branch of seronsatice, though it will for ever be associated with of the foulest deeds
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It by mirabanos Sir Douglas
Order No. 15, issued yesterday Haig should find it necessary by Major Wakeman, Command-utxt year to organise a spring |ing H.K.V.R., states :--
campaign, says the Daily News, he will probably find very handy the
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Detail,
Parades.
Oa daty from the morning of quarter of a million men which Souday the 11th Marob to the the new scheme calling up at once morging of Sunday the 18th the boys of 18 will provide. That of "warfare" standing to the
March, "A" Coy HE V.R. is probably a low estimate for sccount of German militariem.
Orderly Officer, Lieut. A. M.saking half the number of births As a matter of general interest
Ma ch 10.-"The rate of the Thornhill. Next for the daty, in 1898-the year in biok the it may be recalled that Country of the death of General dellar on demand to-day is 2/11." H.K.V.C.
men were born-as 450,000 (it Zeppelin was a prominent mili-}
ww, in frot, slightly higher thau tary leader long before he took
Saturday, 10th instant:- The this) and knocking off the odd practical interest in aviation. He The Hon. Treasurer of the March 7.-"The German police 10th inst. is cancalled by order of emigration, and so on, there are
Parade ordered for Satuday the 150.000 for deaths, served in the American War of Alice Memorial and Affiliated bare ade an important seizure the General Officer Commanding. 500,000 men to be spread over the unfitness, Secession, as well as in the Franco-Hospitals bege to acknowledge of papers criticising the Emperor's German War of 1870. It was with thanks the following dona-speech at Brandenburg, causing just exactly a score of years ago tion to the faade of the Hospitales serious discontent." A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., self in the sens ruction of Capt. Champkla's Appointment.
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Discontent in Germany,
geants will attend a class of Tolesit a quarter of a million men Monday, 12th instant: Ser-2 weeks. A new Army of at straction in Bayenst Fighting at of 19-for this number doen not Scandal Point at 5.15 p.m. Dress: include the men born in Scotland His Excellency the Governor Temperance Sermons. Drill order. Recruite on the should be a satisfactory reserve has been pleased to appoint | March 7.--" It gives us great Cricket Ground at 5 p.m. for any General to have up his Captain Cyril Champkin to be pleasure to note that our estim- ander Instructor Bergt. sleeve a year heroe, Adjutant of the Hongkong Volun-able evening contemporary hes Oxberry. Dress: Drill order. tear Reserve, with effect from one in for temperance sermons. Signelling Section; "A** and March 15, 1917.
What's year particular brand of "B" Classes at Volunteer Head- unadulterated Scotch,
friend quarters st
It would be folly, esys the name 5.15 p.m. ander Brownie ?
Signalling Instructor Lee.-Opl. journal to attach great importance G. Lloyd. Dress: Clean fatigue, to the movement reported to be Machine Gun Seotion at Welling-Apreading in Bavaria to depose the ton Barracke at G p.m. ander Kaiser and to place upon the Instructor Sergt. Bowlea. Dress: throne a member of the Royal Clean fatigne.
Bouse of Wittelsback, Bat though.
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the first airship or dirigible.bal- oon of the rigid type, and three years later be made bie first as cent in one of these machines: We all know what a chapter of diassters followed for a namber
Public Vaccinators. of its improved successors, hat requested to observe the rule which
The Gazette, contains the names requires them to forward their names and addresses with Count Zeppelin pever wearied communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily
for in bia work of developing of 21 members of the St. John publication, but as an evidence of their boas fides.
Ambalance Brigade and of three type of aircraft, and it can
[cast
medical students of the University be
March 7.-" Of course, it was esid that he was in the main reapon-
af Hongkong whi bare been mere invention -** $ cooked sible for the pitch of perfection to appointed Public Vaccinators. illustration to strengthen an which it has since been
Acting Consul for Portugal argument; but we got there -just The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will brought. Four years before the
Tuesday, 13th instant:-"A" the elond on the German horizon His Excellency the Governor the same. The subjoined para and "B" Cos, on the road outside be not yet as big as a man's hand, be as follows:-Daily issue-$20 per annum. Weekly issue-war broke out he had so far im has been pleased, under instrac-! was published in the Telegraph the Law Courts at 5 p.m. Kow it would be a mistake to disregard $13 per sunum.
proved the craft that he was able tions from the Secretary of State ou the 4th iontaut. The man- loon and Taikoo Sections on the it altogether. Bargris bad a The rates per quarter and per mensem, proportional Subscriptions to initiate a passenger air service for the Colonies, to recognise Mr, agers of the fantan den in Ah Polo Ground at 515 p.m. Dress: great part in the welding together
for any period less than one month will be charged as for a in Germany.
Eduardo Valerio Maria Ricci de Chang Laos, to which a corre-Drill order. Hounted Section at of the Empire, and the late King fall month,
Sones as Acting Consul for Por-, #pondent referred in our issue of Jockey Olab Stables at 5.16 p. Ludwig was the author of the The daily issue is delivered free when the addressee is accessible to A Military Failure.
tugal in Hongkong.
the 27th inst., Bre now doing a Dress Drill order.
proposal to invite King William messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies delivered at
Bat those days have gone by,
Lip-top bacinese in s Lower Wednesday. 14th instant to assume the Imperial title. Oa their residences without any extra charge. On copies sent by and we have lived to see the kong cotifies that the Kep Sing A dollar a bit. Drinks free to at 5 p.m. under Instructor Sergt. epokerman of the South German The Harbour Master of Hong Lascar Row crib Terms: Cash Recruits on the Cricket Ground the other hand, Bavaria was the post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. The postage on the weekly issue to any part of the world is $1.00 Zeppelin employed for other and Island light has recently been losers. Each money ad lib!" Orberry. Dress: Drill
more diabolical purposes: with under repair. It has been timed And yesterday Inspector Stan Signalling Section: "A" Class at the retention of their independ order. States in their insistence upon the fall approval of its inventor, and now runs as follows:-Data- tion dropped in st No. 40, Volunteer Headquartere atent rights, and has oɔntinued to olose friend of the Ksieer, second; ligh', 1 second; eclipse, time, and finding a swarm of ing Instructor. Lee, Cul. G. which has from time to time p.m. under Sigasll be the home of particularism
military school, sad cne who seconds.
extremist 7 seconds: 2 flashes every 10 Chinese indulging in fontan Lloyd. Dreas: Clean fatigue, cared anxiety et Peledam. The many times during this
instead of jsa pidgin,' he annex-"D" Coy at Volunteer lead. Wittelsbachs have not behind The Yaumati Affray. of those murdersome monsters constable who was shot by a Magistrace this morning and gloried at the baby-killing exploita
ed 19 of them, who were marahall-quarters at 5.15 p.m. Dress: them the same unenviable iradi- We understand that the Ladise ed before Mr. A. G. Wise at the Drill order.
tion as the Hohersollerns, but which bore bis name.
Thursday, 15th iLetunt: whether they would be a great An in-robber at Yaumeti on Thursday promptly faed $10 each. Thus Sergeants will attend a class of improvement apon them is open strument that might well have is, though ant out of danger, pro-we havo sided the authorities in Instruction in Bayonet Fighting to question. Next to the Prussian served mankind in peace was grossing se favourably as can be sagmenting the revenue to the at Scandal Point at 5.15 p.m. monarch and the lesser Willie, torned to terrible account in the expreted. He bea ander gone an extent of one hundred and ninely Dress: Drill order. Recruits Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria is raiding of undefended towns and operation, for which there is every shekela of silver-not a bad haul on in the murder of
the Cricket iancosnt hope of faccess.
Ground perhaps as offensively mailyphist in these hard-up days. But what at 5 pm. under civiliane, and the blood of many
Instructoras say Hobensollern of them all, February Weather.
about our little commission ?” a baba rests on the heads of
Sergt. Oxberry. Dress: Drill The average mean temperature thoge hired assassins of the Keiser for the month of February in
order. Msobine Gan Section st Biting. who carried out the raids, as well Hongkong was 59 4, the highest
Wellington Barracks at 3 p.m.
"I have just beard an artillery March 8.-"The China Mail's under Instructor Sergt. Bowles. that, indirectly, of the paint reached being 74.2, on the prize ninoompoop seriously ad Dress: Clean fatigue. Mounted lous soparacy, of the French yarn told to illustrate the marvel- man who now himself lies dead. 26th, and the lowest, 45 7, on the mite that he was once a boy and Section at Jockey Club Stables algunnere" says the "Londoner" While there is positively nothing in the Report of the Dardanel. In the evolution of aircraft the 9th. There were 134.5 hours of enjoyed the supreme moment of 5.15 pm. Dies: Drill order in the Evening Standard. "A les Commission, now to hand, to show that the expedition to which invention of the Zeppelin was a canehine, while the rainfall was receiving s it relates could have succeeded under any circumstances conceivable, distinct step forward, and as a only 0405-inch. The average making an awkward bow
school prize and Signalling Section: "B" Class at French aeroplane reconnaissance there is much which goes to prove that the whole enterprise was weapon. of warfare it certainly humidity was 72.
the Volanteer Headquartere fcre-damned. Three main faots stand out from it: (1). Earl Kitch-instituted something approach.
reception of the gift. This in 6.15 p.m. ander Signalling I observer a couple of battalions of Adisclosed to the eagle eye of the Ordinances Approved. ener "did not efficiently avail himself of the services of his ing & reign of terror in
formation must be of paramount stree or L/Cpl G. Lloyd. Drees: infantry lying in reserve two the His Majesty the King has not interest to the one reader." General Surff, with the result that he undertook more work then it early days of the war. Bat been advised to exercise kis
Clean fatigne, was possible for one man to do, causing confusion and want of in
Friday, 16th instant:-"A" and The observer duly communicated miles bebiad the German liner. this latter respect it power of disallowance with res-- Efficienoy." (2). There was little or no cohesion among those who has had its day. Allied skill and pect to the following Ordinso-
A Characteristic Comment. "B" Cos. on the road outside the his discovery, and the artillery had the handling of sure. (3). The caval chiefs beld genins have been more than a ces:-Ao Ordiasnes to amend the
March 8.For a first-class L Coorts at 5 p.m. Kowloon promptly put up a curlsin fire in aloof when they might have spoken.-It abould not be difficult to match for German devilry; that Trustee Ordinance, 1901. Aand general imbecility as regarde į boil down the above statements into one; namely: the controlling is why to-day we hear so little of Ordinance to make provision simple queations of ordinary ex· Section: "A" Class ai Volunteer Hans were forced to advance.. exhibition of combined senility and Taikoo Sections on rear and on both flanks of the
Polo Ground at
Dress: Drill order. Signalling the range so that the warprised 5.15 m. enemy, then gradually shortened Zeppelin raide in England or in connection with the present war change business commend us to The late Lord Kitchener was, as everyone knows, a man who France. So far as Germany is con- with respect to Bills of Exchange the discussion that took place Headquarters at 5.15 p.m. ander brooked little resistance or opposition. He knew himself for a cerned, the employment of these payable outside the Colony, strong man and, while it was impossible for him or for his keenest machines in the war has been by
vesterday at a mesting of the Signalling Instructor L/Opl. G. Patent Protected. admirera to over-rate his powers as a general sad. en organiser, no means worth the candle. Hage It is notified that, on the ap
Finance Committee in re the in-Lloyd. Dress Olean fatigue. nothing was easier, for one of his type than to forget that his physio- some of money must have been plication of the Standard Oil terminable Militery imposition.
Field Practices will take plaos al powers were showing signs of declino. Es was, by nature and spent on their construction, and Company of New York, His We don't publish a report of by habit, a leader of men, and it was no more than natural that, in many that ventured out of Ger. Excellency the Governor has the proceedings, out of sheer in the neighbourhood of Kowloon his stern eagerness for the triumph of his country, he should under- many have never returned again, granted to the said Company pity for the misguided youthSunday, the 18th inst., "A" Co
City Range on the following dates: take to do more work than it was altogether wise to attempt at his Apart from the actual losses, too, provisional protection for a period who have been running the Sanday, the 1st April, "B" Coy, who claimed that he really was, age. Had he confined himself solely to the military side of things, the amount of damage of resi of nine months from March 1 finances of this Colony for some Orders as to time of parades and or ought to be deemed, over age and had he been backed by an efficient war conseil made up of ex-military significance which the 1917, for an invention for im- considerable time past, to the instractions will be issued later. sa well as virtually unft, nervous- perienced soldiers and sailors, matters would have been different, and Zeppelins have accomplished in provements in candlestick, pend. orion detriment of the rate. All members whether exempted ly twiddled a dilapidated card in either the Dardanelles expedition would never have been entered infinitesimal. Certainly it has fing the grant of Letters Patent. payers. Another exposure of offi upan or else it would have succeeded. Unhappily he was hampered not been a factor which has had Cemetery Closed. cial incompetency so soon after not are required to fire these his fingers. What does that by having at his side a Minister, who, while exceedingly able in a the minulest effect on wAT 18 A It is notified that aeder Section the disastrons Opium Farm fosse practices.
say?" he was naked. After ex- Strength. Tariety of directions, had no more right to express an opinion on milit- whole.
92 of the Poblic Health and, (of which more snon) would pro-
amining it at various angles and ary matters than to command a regiment. Such an as ociation was
Buildinga Ordinacce, 1903, His bably lead to serious consequod is allotted Carps No. 646 and blurted out, "It says I'm ■ B.O. Pie. G. E. Welton having join from all possible perspectives, he bound to spell failure, and it certainly was not improved by the Germany and India.
Excellency the Governor in 06, and we really sympathise poated to Ooy. "A" Platoon No. man." "Oh, no-not as old as addition of a terlium qoid: Mr. Winston Churchill, whose quali One of Germany's many die Council has ordered that the with there inexperienced persons Section 8. fictions for his post were about equal to those of Mr. Asquith. The appointments in connection with Kai Lung Wan Extension who, by the shortcomings of the
all that," retorted the chairman, silence of Lard Fisher is not pleasant to read of, but it is perfectly the early stages of the war
No. 478 Pte. D. W. Craddock ansympathetically. was Cemetery sitated at Kai Service, here been foisted into permitted to resign. easy to understand. It is more than likely that he felt that, since that the Komagata Maru affair, Lang Wan in the Leland of Hong. ositions and responsibilities for there was a danger of his judgment's baing overruled by an un- which immediately preceded the kang shall be olored from and which they have not the alight- practical and unqualified man, is was better that he should hold his declaration, proved to be little after the ninth day of March, est aptitude." pesco. Few people would defend the Admiral for taking such a more than a storm in a lescop; 1917.
We appreciate too little the No. 52 Pte. E. M. Hazeland is great magnitude of the French course, though he would donbiless find many ready to sympathise for the alleged unrest among the
March 9.~~"A correspondent transferred from Indiane was one of the many
Opy with him.
"A" colonial possessions, French There is no difficalis in seopting the Commission's statement determining factors in ber red GOVERNMENT TENDERS. writes:-The same old game. Platoon No. Il Beation & to Coy. Indo-China alone has an area of that, indirectly, certain good objects were attained. There is no inees to begin the war.
The Service first, the public a good
over a quarter of a million square miler and denying that the men sent to the Dardanelles found occupation for then, as we all know, she has Tenders are being invited for secondary consideration. Around
■ population of an enormous number of enemy troops, and that the operations divert lost no opportunity of bring a steelwork platform in the lower peg in a square holes sailor,
over seventeen millions, of which ed attention from Russia during the time when she was trying to ing about disturbanoss in India. yard, Victoria Gaol. The work If the Assistant Fostmaster Was Postmaster-General of Hongkong,
about 25,000 are. Europeans, "find herself". Bat was the game worth the oandle? That is a Theon attempla have failed, first consists of the construction of
excluding military. La face of question which no one can seewer, for some while to come. The because of the hopeless clumsi roof trusses, stenahions, and business, was there no one else Ob vers and ob vere is mine fooled
not capable of managing the
beavy difficulties the French have Dardanelles Report is bat a page or two of a vast volume which has nose of all Hun taotic, and compound girders in the erection in the Public Service capable
great improvements, yet to be written; one which will tell of noble lives wanted, and of secondly because India has strong of a covered platform.
trade has been organised, and in noble efforts thrown away, through the incompetence of the late objections to abandoning her Tenders are also asked for the without going to the Barbour Mit his oil cat short and his interested to know) cotton-grow- of adequately filling the place | Oh vero und oh vere can be be? rome parts (Lancashire will be Government. The side of the matter which concerne au to-day is: loyalty to the Empire. Now making up and supply of the Are we profting of the experience bought by past reverses? Are and then one comes acrom a case andermentioned summer cloth Governor a speech about the loan
Dapartmen? "After. the New voyage cut long,
|ing is extending. And in recent our rulers laying bears the lesson taught by the Dardanelles and like that mentioned by Retuer ing for the use of the Police I hoped better things of him; bat He schrum and he dived, he been developed, more particularly Tears the rubber industry has by Mesopotamia, and resolving to guard against all suck fatars yesterday wherein the orcdality Department:-24 ́ waita soiton
in Annam and in Cochin-China. happenings The turning out of the Acquith Administration was of a few foolish persons has been drill, for Inspectors, &o.; 800 now looks to have been a cheap. an immenes advance towards a happy and speady ending of the exploited by German plotters, suite drabetio, for Europeans and bid for popularity, as nothing in
The French colonial possesiona war. Given one more year of power, such an administration would but our friend" the Kalme is Indians; 600 suita desbette, for or certain than the refusal of Bat
altogether (including Algeria and probably have found us a deal farther from victory than frota dafest. beginning to learn that the frut Chinese; 700 pairs of shows, for the Secretary of Biste to allow
Tania) have an arms of about But it has bass banished, brighter times are in store, and we are to condemn say suspicion of dis- Chinees; 450 pairs of stockings, farther
the Colony, to contract say] .
four million square miles, with within manazuble distance of events which will serve to take the loyalty in India are the bulk of for Chinese; 4550 pairs of gartner,
nader existing
a population of wall- arar faty A of man Marcus and blanders out of our months.
the Indians themaal vas.
for Chinese: 100 bausboo Jain, mirouzetan:
power was in the wrong hands from the very beginning.
Since
"The Same Old Game."
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Field Practices.
Transfer.
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No. 89 Pt. J. H. Mead in trans-
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DEUTSCHLAND UNTER ALLES.
Deutschland gous,
Oh Tere de Bremen is he?
would carry and fetch, Und be always kom to his tes, he don't been seen for a very Long wirelob, Und Ivandse vol'd happened
to be ?:?
Than escorted, the entire body covered the two miles with their hands up, and were duły made prisoners!"
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