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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 16, 1917.

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THE GERMAN POLITICAL CRISIS.

Bethmann Von Hallweg Resigns.

London, July 14

The Admiralty states that à Berlin wireless message announces the resignation of Dr. Bethmann voo Holweg. He will be succeeded by Dr. Michachs, who is now the Prussian Commissioner in the-office of the Food Controller.

A Ciy of Despair.

Lundiva, July 13... The German Conservative pressers a cry of despair over the granting of secret universal suffrage to Prussia and considers but the situation is hopeloos as several Prus- Blan Mmsters are seemingly "against the reforin and have consequently resigned.

The Radicals Rejoice,

Loudou, July 31.

In Germany Lhe Radicals rejoice at the prospect of the Prussial Reforms but wonder now the legislation Will pass the Prussan Dat which is filled with coineryaWYOR that the legislation Bud industriai

j. and Lope will be clacteal vs Royal Decree or by resolution of the Bezebstag.

THE MESOPOTAMIA AFFAIR.

Lukuva, July 11. imulierence to the opposition in varon. quarters 15 the rivuse vi tummons at the proposal to establish a mixed tribunal, the Arcsopotamian alles has been practically none dona ana e maum qucation is eft in a must conused state, The newspapers we mnging the Government to make up its mind and to decide on a definus policy.

THE RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE.

London, July 14

A Russian wireless official message states: In the neigh- bourhood of Kaiusz we rupatsed two attacks 'in the direction ut Alosciska, near Ugáriathal, and an attempt to dislodge us from Bajusz. We occupied the village of Novica to the south-west of Kalusz.

THE SILVER MARKET.

London, July 14.

SOLE AGENTS

THE WEEK-END DELUGE rescued, these being ba

SERIOUS HOUSE COLLAPSE THIS MORNING.

Many Chinese Burled in Caine Road.

Copelant.

is not unusual in Hongkong when,

as was the case on Saturday

10 inches.

A Terrible Collapse.

Telephone No. 1186

DAY BY DAY.

CANTON NEWS.

slightly buried and having been protected by beams and walls) which had lodged upon the other falling material, and so saved from Revere orashing. Dra. HeLenny, Jordan, Aubrey, Thomas and ing the Broken Hill Associated

Business Visit.

Mr. E. J. Kitching, represent-

Prospects of Trouble.

A NEWSPAPER “HIND”

Charge Against the "Sunday Pictorial.

At the Mansion House recently. before Alderman Sir William Our Oartón corresponden Treloar, Sunday Pistoral. Nown- Thompson, (Tung Wah Hospital). Smelters Property, Ltd., is at writes ander date of July 15 as papers (Lataited) and Mr. Frede assisted in rendering first aid, present in Hongkong on business followe

[derick Raymond Sanderson, the bat it was found that the first connected with the lead industry.

editor of the Sunday Pictoralj were summoned at the INSTALOS',

four people were not seriously He is staying at the Hongkong seemingly quiet,isin reality rather of the Director of Public ProssOR- -

10g

Land Sale,

Bathing Picnic,

cigarettes."

The position here, although

serious. Disorderly behaviour by

injured, only suffering from Botel. minor cata and braises and

At the P.W.D. Officer this the Yannan troops and conflictations for having on March 25, with, Boogkong was visited by shook. These were dispatched thunderstorm of intence violence to the Government Civil Hospital afternoon, the sale took place of between them and the Kwange lawful authority, palubed in in the early houra of Sunday. in ambulances, where thei: Inland Lot No. 2238, situated troops (the Takwan's soldiers). Sunday Pictoral informs-" It lasted for several houre, wounds were properly dressed. west of Military Hospital, Bowen and also with the police, occur 10 in respect of the move- during which terrific thunder and It was soon found that the Road. The purobasez was Mr. every day, but the vernacular meats of some of the forces of his abdool Rshim, on behalf of Mr. papers are prohibited from refer Majesty and the plans or bap On the posed plans of military operation most vivid lightning were almost, work of extrication was

of each forces, the information difficult

one, for

gare had Nemasse, at the upset price of ring to the facts.

contrary, they are required MOT. $9,000. The rainfall also was exception to be taken that, in

to state that harmony existing calculated to be useful to and the fallen timbers

The Colony's Health,

between the two szmice and that the enemy. They pleaded “Not ally heavy.

Guilty." masonry, other people below did

During the past week there discipline is observed by the The storm was of a type which not suffer from a further fall of have been five cases of enteric Yunnan soldiers. They are given

Mr. Mair appeared for the the heaped up material Afever notified in the Colony, of to understand that if they do not

Director of Pablic Prosacations; length, one woman, who had beer which one proved fatal, There comply with this order they will. G. F. Gill, K.O., and Sư a typhoon eaters the coast to the discovered to have been saved were also one case each of plague, be treated in the same way as Li Archibald Bodking for the de- north-east of the Colony. It from death by a lodged beam, diphtheria and paratyphoid fever, Wai-chuen, the editor of the Num fence, instructed by Mesra, Badd, reported that a thunder-bolt fell was brought out, and, in this that of plague ending fatally. Yust Po, who was pulled out Johnsons, and Jocks.

omewhere in the locality of

Mr. Muir said the charge arose there WAS too, C188,

an The only non-Chinese anfferer was from his office and shot in the Hongkong, but there is no con absence of serious injary, cate the paratyphoid patient, who was street by soldiers."

ons of the publication in the firmation of the report.

on the head and feat being a Britisher.

A few days ago, about 7,000 Sunday Pictorial of March 25 of The deluge of rain was most her chief injuries. It was just

Yunnan troops began to cross the 10. fullowing paragraph ander marked, as will be gathered when after this ressae had been made.

river from Fang Chuen to Shaki the beading "An Eye on the it is stated that, according to the that it was discovered that another. Observatory, recorda, n fewer large portion of the retaining Detachment Army

On Saturday afternoon last, the, Chang. Tas Provincial Author-North"

Ordnance ity ordared them to stay "And just by way of a hint. I than five inches fell between 1.30 wall, with a large quantity of

Corps, together with the families where they were, but this order had a very strong tip from one of and 4.30 a.m. Taking the period earth behind it, was showing attached, were the guests of the was defied and the troops crossed the well informed ones yesterday from 8 p.m. on Saturday to signs of collapsing.

Services Entertainment Faud, at the river and encamped on in- to watch closely the happenings 10 am, on Sunday the tats)

bathing picnic to Clear portant positions in Shakilin front of the British fines north rainfall was 8.14 inches, so r. The heavy rain which had

|from Arras.' started to fall did not Water Bay, The trip, in spite Ohang. The arsenal there is now T. F. Claxton, the Director of the pow

That was published 15 Jays improve matters, and ae of the unfavourable weather, was pratically in their handa. Royal Observatory, informe us

The wall-to-do residents and before the great sitsok on the was CYBLY possibility greatly enjoyed by all. The party The fall for the 24 hours ending there 10a.m. to-day was 1.85, making of the rescuers becoming in roinned just in time to avoid the bankers in the City are daily re- Vimy Ridge, which was to the the two days fotsi-almost exactly volved in s second alide, it heavy downpour of rain which moring their valuable possessions north of and close 19 Artan Tan was deemed wiser to leave the ex- followed. The Detachment Army to safe places, woh as Shameen, paragraph was brought to the stennon of Brigsdior-General cavation of the debris in this Ordnance Corps wish to offer Hongkong and Maoso. particolar spot until the wall had their thanks to the subscribers of Chang Kai-yee, the Defence Cockerill, of the Intelligence It was almost inevitable that beer abored up. Arrangements the above fund for their kindness, Commissioner of ohaikwan (also Department of the War Offies, on the torrential rains of the past for this to be done were started, and so the Hongkong Cigar Commander-in-chief of Yannan Apr 2 by the Headquarters...

Bluff at the front. The two or three days should be fol-when it was found that, farther Store for sending a supply of troops) is said to have refused to lowed by landslides in the hill away from the wall,

abey orders from the Takwan and meaning of the paragraph was "the well-informed one 17 districts, and coon "after eleven collection of rubbish, underneath

the Civil Governor. He is dis. that n'clook this morning a disastrous which it was thought that some-

missing and appointing magis kaew of the intended advance of landelida took place in Cains one was buried. Busy hands set.

trates and officials just as he the British foross, and, be, wie.

and unpatrious imprudent Rosd, as a consequence of which to work to réMOTO this only slightly damaged, the back thinks fit. the servants quarters of Nos. 8 heap, and at lengths girl, verandatis being smashed in and, It is reported that Li Lieb-kannough, either out of vansy or and 13 were demolished, fifteen of about twelve years of age, was in some minor particulars, the intends to force the Takwan to for purposes of gain, so desołows or sixteen Chinese servants being found to be entombed. By a walls were cracked by the force resign. The development will in a manner which could not

fortunate circometacos, her head of the concussion they received, sake on an interesting appearance Belp being useful to the enemy. entombed.

Brigadier - General sa soon as Ban Tat-sen arrives

George The large playground of St. had been protected, tough her Joseph's College terminatee on body and legs were imprisoned Daring the tifo boat, wataff officers went to Macao, Qu

Li Lieb-kwan and a few of his Kynaston Cockerill, C.B., B40- Director of Military Inteligence KING'S ANTARCTIC FLAG. the Caine Boad side in a high re- Itwas some time before she could more bodies, wara recovered, 'onaj

aining wall, some eighteen or be entirely freed, a beam hating of a woman and the other, of Starday. The object of the the War Office, said the par- sgraph was brought so his attune; twenty feet high, and it was to be saw through fire and arl. The wonse was dend visit is not knows.

The Takwan and the Oivilon by the sutuorizes of dir bage portion of this, about of brickwork carefully fifteen yarde in length, which removed. When she was finally whom, found," but the girl was

gram from the Defence Commie knowledge of the injended move- ster ason.

her; extrication, suddenly crashed down, fall-rescued, she was at once taken to still alive. Death took place prornor have received & sale Douglas Haig's Sa The fires ing upon and crashing the the Hospital, her injuries nos

San Yaman left by the gunboat April 2 came to him through cervante quarters of the two being so serious as might have we are going to press, efforts soser of Uhuichow stating that mente of the British forces befure are being made so rescue s Sir Ernest Shackleton had an houses mentioned, which were been expected."

woman, who, di, baried ander sin for Canton at 3 s. one paragraph in the Stay.

the 14th inst. ́ ́. Small pieces of earth and-stone ashairing wall. She is appar audience of the King at Bucking-separated from the high wall ham Palace recently, when he by pasanga way about eight feet were falling away from the ently Tortly injured and An important notice has been Mr. Gill, K... for the defence, handed back to his Majesty the wide. At the time of the fail, the threatening well, and although can hold conversation with the ined by the Civil Governor said the Tory last thing in the advising the people not to believe minds of the defendants was to do flag which was entrusted to him servants of both houses were con- the Brigade and the other help-resone party.

gregated in the quarters taking era did all in their power to

| wild rumours and saying that he day thing to which excaption conta Other Subsidences. and the Takwan will keep order be taken by the aginorities. Tas their morning meal, and were locate the missing people, no-

Several small landslides have in the province.

Sunday Pictorial hɔd never been. buried under the falling earth, a thing in the way of serious work

The Provincial Authority onlied a question betore, and not well as the debris of the put could be undertaken prior to the been reported, as well as other

intends to give the fantanjexception nad ever been taken to houses, which were crashed in aboring ap of the wall. This minor damage.

A pahlia selephone wire broke monopoly to say syndicate that anything it had wržen by the tremendous weight as wis the state of affairs at tiffin though they had been mere match-time, when heavy rain was still in Plantation Houd, the Peak, on an produse half a million dollare done. It had rendered many

falling, proving a severe handicap Caturday night, and # quantiją ius advance revenue, so that the patriotio wood..

Thaalarm wassoon wounded, and to those "engaged updu the task of earth and once fell in Kellett Ygunan troops may be paid of thanked by the Government. The it is reported that the formin: Paragraph, might have meant a 1892. The Shanghai exchange lived for nearly six months when the Fire Brigade, together with s The actual number of persons Rosd, osusing an obstraction, haa hardened sympathetically. their ship was sank; and, Ister, it number of constables and Sani- buried seems to be little obeceives A large hole was caused at the fansan monopolies as Macao will further retress of the German Ceylon reporta that planters are

as huisted on the hut at Klapbantary Department coolie, were but it is known ther either seven janosion of Garden Road and get the enterprise, Leland, where 22 of Bur Ernest's quickly apon the scene. The or eight servants are still pissing, afacdonnell Road, and there was were marooned for five don. Captain Superintendent of The whole of those involved in tha siwo 1-18, <amali, (aobidence- in Police (M. C. Hol. Messer), catastrophe werewoman and girls. Kennedy Road, a wash-out in and Station. Officer Lane, of The houses to which the May Boad and a big scam) hlɑwn the Fire Brigade, look sharge of servants quarters belong are down in Bowen Boad. operations, telephonio messages oopmpied by Mr. Ho look and Mr. Is is also reported from the Samuel and Coy for several years, to inflor say, punishmen summoning ambulances and Liu, Lim-lang...The thosed Fisk skal small läntilipe cook lett Yokonages on June 21 for thorafure made the doctors. The more fortunate thousand yes, which stand, spars pisos' in Findlay Road, Barker Amerosa, a rans vocupants of the quartecă, murs) frạm, the

Silver stands at 40 but there is no demand. There are slightly larger offerings, but the market is uncertain.

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS FOR JUNE,

London, July 14

The decrease in exports is £3,622,000 and in imports £859,338 as compared with June last year.

TELEGRAMS.

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(Reuter's Service to The Telegraph,"

YESTERDAY S.

TELEGRAMS.

DEATH OF OLD-TIME JOCKEY.

London July 14

The death is announced of the old-time jokey, Tom Cannon, senior.

Sir E. Shackleton Hands It Back to His Majesty,

to carry across the Antarctic.

This silken Union Jack, which THE SILVER MARKET.

his Majesty gave to Sir Ernest at the start of the expedition in 1914, London, July 14.

was flown of the Endurance Mesura, Montagu & Company

in the Weddell Bes After in their silver report siste that, wards it fosted over the little owing to general baying, the price has resobed a record sizes Camps on the drifting ice, where

she explorer and his comrade

using the new two-rupee notes of whion five lakhs were circulated early in Jane for payment coalies, in preference to coin in the Indian Tressary. The holding of silver has further increased.

Beater reports that silver slowed at forty-one. The market is quiet and buyers are satiafisi,

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sae rescue of that portion of his expedition which was left on the Boss Barrier when the Aurors

broke adrift was affected..

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Sir William Trélour, sáid found the charge proved, naving regard to what p❤-

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