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COMPANIA GENERAL

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1917.

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TABACOS DE FILIPINAS.

NUEVO

CORTADO

EXTRA

$3.25 PER® 100

A FIRST-CLASS CHEROOT

AT A CHEAP PRICE.

2.

DAY BY DAY.

IN THE DEGREE THAT (YOU KEEP YOUNG IN THOUGHT YOU WILL REMAIN YOUNG IN BODY.

An Ordinance Ignored.

Yesterday's "proceedings sti Polion Court included a ruling. that the sale of the worme in the street "sa "food, for man" is no offence against the Public Health Ordinance. These | paddy field worms are admittedly To-morrow's Anniversary.

sold for how sa comption, and To-morrow is the second suni. the Ordinance is as clear so clear versary of the German reocoups- could be on the point that notion of Lutsk, in Volhynis. sach food is to be hawked outside

The Doller.

WAS

CORRESPONDENCE.

Kas opinions expressed by oOETHE- pondents are not usosumrily, ihoon- of the "Hongkong Telegraph."}

UNSEAWORTHY VESSELS.

[To the Editor of the "Hongkong "

Telegraph."]

1892.

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE: Wells published his “First and

YEARS AGO.

It is nearly ten youre sinos där.

Last Things," and now from Messrs. Cassell comes a revised and enlarged edition at 64, net Mr. Wella describes the book as "the wet clay, which becomes a living body in 'God the Lavis- ible King," bat, though with some of us clear thinking in so is it hard to judge whether Mr. of rare an exercise that we may find Welle thinkslearly, most readers, will fad it an extraordinarily sinoere attempt to define beliefs and intentions. Those who take

(Compiled from the " Hongkong Telegraph" files for the week ending September 29, 1892.) Sit-Be your leading article on Friday last re old ships trad-

The Dollar. |ing out of local ports with no

law compelling the owners to the dollar on demand to-day

September 28.-"The rate obtain 8 certificate of 888-2/916." worthiners. I personally bare Kowloon Island Lot No. 1350 brought this matter up for die-

the marker. Clause 78 of the The opening rate of the dollar Ordinance laye it definitely down on demand to-day

3d. that food for man shall not be sold (St.

The or exposed for sale in any plaos will be found on Page 1. not being a public market, ex-

commodities

slowing rate

Land Sale.

Th

"Some" Legislation. September 23. It is proposed

cepting certain specified in the subsequent clause. is to be sold Ly section at the cassion before several surveyora Thore exeptions do not inolade P.W.D. effices on October 9, and have been diatinatly in on the opening of the neri Session Mr. Wells on hearsay or in casual worms and, that being the case, is about 27,050 equare feet in formed as follows-If ship of the Hongkong Legislative elections may had some rarprises. it is clearly an offence for these extent and the upset price is owner in Bougkong applies for a Council to introduce e farther For instance I know that love comestibles to be barked about $27,050.

pasenger licence, the Govern- amendment to the Beam Launch for an idealised person can be. the streets. Mr. Dyer Ball appears |

Consul for Peru.

Surveyor

once clauses of the Merchant Shipping It happens that in my younger to have been sorely troubled by The King'e Exequatur empow-

to prevent days I found a character in the the problem as to whether each ering Monsieur Luis Alvarez inspects the vessel and com- Ordinano, 80 88

owners to carry launches carrying marine survey history of literature who had a bawking was permissible, and be Calderon y Astele to act as Con pale the called in the Head of the Sanitary súl for Pern in Hongkong ham out any alteration", repairs etc.]ers or other persons whose beaks singular and extraordinary charm

ment

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD., Other

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expressed the view that it would be "rather hard " for these hawkers to be prosecuted, ap pereatly basing bis belief on the ground that for many years the law had been discheted, as he acid it was gaite customary for Serrespondents are requested to observe the rute which these worms to be sold in the inquires them to forward their cames "and addrësses with atreel. Against that view we sammúnications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily publication, but as an evidence of their bona fides.

For Aircraft Fund.

necessaries for saving life, lights in the dark."

tender and comforting, who Mr. J. J. Bryan acknowledges and, on completion of this, a cer

A Warning I

indeed helped me through shame September 24 "The Police and bumiliation as though he held with thanks a sum of $500 for the tificate is granted and renewed by

Aby VERBO yesterday discovered in Queen's my hand. This person was Oliver Aircraft Fand from Mr. H. F. Barvey annually, Carmiobael. This smount will be which trades to and from this Road the dead body of a mos Goldsmith. His blanders and had committed troubler, his vices and venities, sat on to Londes, sa the local port registered in Hongkong. quite, which

fring the British flag, dan sail nicide. In its trousers pocket seized and still hold my imagins with or without boats, hall ratten, was the following note: Let my tion. The slights of Boswell, the Attention is drawn to an ad-engines or boilers ditto, no di fate be a warning to all my fellow contempt of Gibbon and wil hi for have it on the authority of/rortisement elsewhere in this issné) trets signals, any old accomoda creatures; never try to penetrate | company save Johnson," the ex-

a two lengths bandicaption, does not require a certi-

of genworthiness. If and Surveyer. Faneral to Vicar of Wakefield, and that grean

All communications intended for publication should be addressed Business correspondence should be sent to the "Manager.

to the Editor. "

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

Telephone: No. 1

A.B.C., 5th edition.

Western Union Office address: 11, Ice House St.

DEATH.

fand is closed.

V. R. C. Sports.

ladies' race in connection with the cate Y.RO. eqastio sports. Special the arrangements are being made for call

the convenienes of competitors.

Smuggled Opfum.

engineera morrow."

OF master

st the Government fices and ask why this is, they are politely informed that the

Very Cheap.

have been proceeded against and

sait of his and the doctor's cane- convicted for infringing the

and the love despised these Ordinance in this respect, but, in

September 24. Here's a lip things together made him a con epite of that fact, the magistrate saw nothing incongruous in. A woman, early this morning. Government has no jurisdiction for the learned in the law and all genial saint and hero for me, so others whom it may concerr. A that I thought of him as others sweeping precedent aside and in was found coming off the Canton Why this should be 1 fail to see, Hongkong special jury the other pray. It is good, too, to read permitting the opinion of the sanitary official to divert him from /izair, and when searched at the 68 the Board of Trade in Britain dyret the down the cost of what Mr. Wells has to say about a strict enforcement of the law. 1tse was fond to have in her compels any old craft, basst wise | publiabing half a colawn in the Bob Stevenson and Yorke Powell

possession three tsels of prepared opium. Mr. J. B. Wood, at the Police Court this morning, in Ricted a fine of $250, and con- fecated the opium.

Is It True ?

THORNHILL-At Southampton, on July 25th, Harriett Jane, beloved wife of 3.8. Thornhill of Southampton, and mother of Canton and at Foochow have 2/Lieut. A. M. Thornhill of Hongkong.

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1917.

THE LATEST BRITISH OFFENSIVE.

Ac Explanation.

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sound town at ten cente

per

Hongkong Telegraph at $250, and Healey. And yet, although at the rate very copy of the Telegraph in arth about $12,000, we still sell

Bat probably many readers Py. As we're often said before, will fasten on to what Mr. Wells it's too cheap-practically given he to say about war and the possible great war. In 1908 he away at the price."

writes:- For my own part I Soutless Jurors. September 24-"Recording tween such Powers su Great can imagine that a collision be- Britain, Germany, or America might very well involve nearly very other Power in the world, might shatter the whole fabric of credit upon which nur present stem of economice rests, and Pat back the orderly progress of social construction for a vast ineli tarval of time. One figures great- towns red with destruction, while

or otherwise, to be surveyed at least once in foar years sod A rumour has reached us to

equipped with all necessary life the effect that enemy eubjects at

earing appliances for the number of crew she carries, irrespective been given permission by the

of ber being cargo or passenger rospective Commissioners of With regard to the two dass ship. There are reesels sailing Customs to use the Catioms at the Police Court yesterday in out of this port to day in Claba at those porta to their respect to the sale of worms for that rotten state... Should "bearta content. Considerable human food, we understand that they encounter a gale, not to speak.

indignation has in consequence the charge against the defendant of a typhoon, they would founder been aroused, so we hear, and fined by Mr. J. R Wood was one at once, and should the orews got Angel (to newly-departed soul): some members of the Custome of hawking within market limite. a chance to put their bosta out Show me your ticket, please. staffe have stated that they would The question of hawking in the they would find that, fratly, there Which place are you bound for? rather resign Club membership strests food which should have are not sufficient boats to carry Soul: Why, don't you know than associate with the Hans. It been sold in the market was not the crew, and, secondly, the bosts I am a Hongkong Special Juror!

Angole:-Ob, Haden!- seeme, however, that membership raised.

are as rotten as the ship. ·AB- is compulsory on the Customs

Body Found.

other question I would like an.

(Note: This story is palpably employees; hence resignation is The body of a Chinese youth swered is, if a vessel with a British atrae, as the Hongkong Special Jarora have до Boul-Ed. cat of the question. If there be has been found flsating in Gia flag registered in Hongkong, any truth in these rumours, Drinkers' B1y: The boy, who trading, we will ser, to the Onset Hongkong Telegraph.) we sincerely hope that the won aged 18, srġ a student Port, without a passenger licence,

Hongkong Smelis. matter will not be allowed to rest of Tang Wah College, has with her crew of 50, is allowed to all that don't go down one pictures the crash of mighty September 28-For the sake giant air ships darken the sky, After a lull on the British front-i lall that has been variously where it now in. The Hun was been missing sites the 20th carry as many passengera as she lend Streat! The steach is ironclade, the barsting of tremen

to Dz from Maono explained Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig now sende as a report unwelcome enough in these out and it is earmised that he was likes

life-saving *appliances of a very gratifying nature. It is to the effect that oor gallant ports before China declared war one of a party who went to with

imply over cowering, horrible, done shells fired from beyond awful, almost catable with a the range of sight into un- for her craw troops have resumed the cfensive on a vary wids front, to the east on Germany; be in doubly so now. Stonecutter's Island to bathe on not "rüfficient of Yores. In the earliest telegrams of this latest movement it was And as all Germans have rightly that date. He was a member of the only, and they in a very bad carving knife, worer, beded, than protected cities. One thinks of the warpings of Dazzy brook congested waye swarming with bricfly stated that "estisfactory progress is reported and that we been removed from the Customs Police Reserve, being in the condition? I have asked these Fair. There are also a few ta desperate fighters, of torrents of bare already captured valuable positions." This gave promise of staff, why in the name of com- Ambulance Sotion.

questions and the answer I get is fours down west which have

fugitives, and of battles gone cat actions of a similar character to those that preceded the occapation mon-sense are they allowed in be Appointments Approved. "Write to the Harbour Master His Majesty the King has been and state that in your opinion

of the control of their generals degree of gas about them.”

into of Vimy Ridge, the aspture of Messines and the taking of Lange members of Custome Clube? The

unsppeasable slaughter. imarck. Judging from the news contained in the telegrams that have Ear, because of what his race pleased to approve the appoint the vessel in not seaworthy and since come to bend this hope seems likely to be fully justified, for has done, is a social outcast in ment of the Honourable Me. we will compel them to make her though the story is still incomplete, it is nevertheless indicative of practically every part of the world Robert Gordon Shewan to be ano." As no doubt you are aware, "nobis deede, nobly done." More prossically, it has to be said that now, and certainly Britishers and Unofficial Member of the Legisla. these vessels are mostly owned by NEUTRAL STEAMER AS at masses of people thrown out the new attack is again cas" on a big scale." Like the movement other Allied subjecte in the tive Conseil during the absence Chinese who at present are mak- that preceded it and which led to Langemarck falling into our hande, Chinese Customs have no wish to on leave of the Honourable Mring fortunes on the high freights. it was and is evidently intended to be a flink movement meant sociate with him. The fact is Edward Shellim, and of the font of the war that the Allies are to disorganise as far as possible the formidable Hindenburg line, that he is being too kindly treated appointment of the Honourable fighting) and if any member of The fighting appears to have been most intense in the zone which in China these days. He should Mr. Stanley Hudson Dodwell to the crew were to complain as lies setride the Ypres Meain road, the primary object of the attack be shown the door and told be an Uncficial Member of the above, he would be looking for being directed against the German positions at Glencorse Wood, politely but firmly to shut it-Legislative Council during the another job in 24 hours. Con- Inverness Copes, Nonneboschen erd Polygone de Zonnebeke, all from the outside. of which, we read, stand on high around.

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STEAMSHIP DEVONIAN

crew,

SUNK.

Leyland Liner Probably Destroyed by Submarine.

A DECOY.

A U-Boat Trick that Failed.

a

There is a vision of interrupted

communications, of wrecked food trains and ennken food ships, of

of

employment and darkly tamaltaons in the stests, "of famine and famine-driven rioters,” And so on. Some of this has coms, but on the whole the warld supports war with less dislocation than Mr. Wells or anybody else absence on leave of the Bonour-wquently, the Marter, Olforza or

could have expected. Or is shis sble Mr. Percy Hobson Holyosk. Eugineers who have to join these

Twelve of the crew of the Nora delusion of the sheltered ? sbipe are between the devil and wegian eteamship Benguela, The story of how a member of deep sea. I think if you could captured on Jace 15 by a German the orew of one of the Hongkong see your way to sek for views on submarine, and used for sixteen and Kowloon Wharf and Godown this matter through the columus days so a decoy vessel for British Company's lighters sought to of your paper you would be doing and Allied shipping, resched an The Bev. Billy Sanday, who ascape arrest by swimming in the good and valuable servios to Atlantio Port recently on a Spanish recently has been addressing 20,- Harbour was told to Mr. J. E. the seafaring community of ship. According to the sailors, 000 people nightly in New York, Wood at the Police Court this Hongkong. morning, when he wse charged

A Poor Swimmer.

!

Yonra etc.,

MASTER.

Obviously, the possession of there positions, would completa the mistery of our Westhoek syetem and thus materially strengthen our hold, which has been gradually growing stronger, on Hindenburg'e Bank. Quite clearly the movement gives evidence of brilliant strategy, and if the final result bears any com- parison with what has taken place in the preliminary stagea the Carefal preparations of this latest movement is very likely to rank with those of a similar nature that hava preceded it: We read that

they were held prisoner on board and has persuaded some 60,000 on this occasion the attack "differed materially from that of previous

their own ship for that time, their of them to wilk up' and ubske battles in various aspects", with the object, it would appear, of deal-which left an Atlantic port on Tarpector Gordon eaid that early Hongkong, Sapt. 21, 1917.

The Leyland' liner Devonian, with stealing a quantity of wax.

Tewel in charge of Germans haada, and pledge themselves to cruising abont in the enemy's new

waters a new way of life, bas found's ing with

defensive tactica. Though Jaly 28, has been enak, per- in the morning of Wednesday a the actual preliminary bombardment was comparatively short, it semably by a German submarine. Chinese watcbman set himself to

asually frequented by merchant warm friend in John D. Rocke. war, it is stated, of "incredible intensity." This bears out the now Officers of the line have confirmed watch the crew of the Company's

shipe," with the U-boat, partly feller, jun. The revivalist preach. well sitested fact that in the power and numerical superiority of our the report that the vessel was lost, lighter on No. 1 Wharf. A sam-

sabmerged, hovering about and er is frequently a quest of the artillery we still continue to be well-ahead of the Germans...

Government Appointment, raidy to attack anything that Oil King's son at his Fifth Saccinally, Reuter'a correspondent at the British Headquartere no word as to the safety of the and the crew

but stated that they had received pan came alongside the lighter "His Excellency Governor has might be tempted to come near Avenue house, and Mr. Rocke Eapplies an

feller has more than once shared Excellent, though necessarily brief, account of

commenced to appointed Mr. Garffrey Norman the supposed Norwegian. traneler bags of wax and iron. Orme to be an Assistant to the Thursday's great battle, in which he same up the results of

Bat the effort was fraitless, the the platform palpit in the vast the action. From it we learn that the attack has been another" fas sixty, and on her last trip to a going on and, with a view to addition to his duties as District toon days nothing was sighted. are being held. One Sunday The Devonian carried a crew of The watchman, saw what was Secretary for Chiness Affairs in men asid, and in the entire six-tabernacle where the meetings success "for Britieb arme, that our troops penetrated the enemy's foreign port there territory to the depth of a mile, thus enabling our advanced troops American horse-tenders aboard. Indies, he blew hie whistle

were 85 calling the attention of some Officer with effect from this date. Af the end of that time the recently a notable incident in the to reach the Zonnebeke-hslavelt line and beyond the central par-Boorda at the British Consulate Immediately the crew of the

Board of Examiners.

Benguela was looted of her stores, service was a prayer offered by

militċnaire, allel of Polygons Wood. Very appropriately the correspondent in New York showed that there fighter and sampan made has appointed Mr. Law Yan-pak and the vessel destroyed by gratitude to the Almighty that so

the men met adrift in their boats, the His Excellency the Governor

expressing taking into consideration the nature of the ground, characterises the

Beramble for safety. Some of them to be a member of the Board of action as a "wonderful achievement," as it undoubtedly is. The were no Americans in the crew.

tombs. The crew was picked up many thousands, "whether clothed situation at present appears to be one exceedingly satisfactory for Boston-Liverpool servion, was the got

The Daronian, long in the jamped on to the wharf, some Examiners during the abarce on and landed at a Spanish port, in the latest ou', or all sattered our gallant troops as they are now bombarding the Germans who first ship sailing out of Now York bat others, fading their

sway on other lighters, leave of Mr. Alan Eustace Woo", capture was described as being interested, "not in money making, The enbmarine which made tha and torn," had' shown they were are massing for counter-attacke-which is an indication se to the im to arm herrelf against submarines. biccked by these means, jumped Catalier.

#BS vice

Mr. Arthur Ramaden" portance and value which the enemy places on this latest splendid Cable advices from England to into the Harbour. Most of them

of 1,700 tops, armed with two not in, social plasaize, but as achievement of British arms. It is also pleasing to note that a largo the company did not indicats could swim well, but the delen-

4 inch gnus, in addition to torpedo equals, prepared to consperate a number of prisoners have on this, as on other similar cocasiones, fallen whether the Devonian had depart dass was one of those who could

Japanese Consul General..! tubes. She carried a crew of few hours to the deepest things bio Excellency the Governor sevenly men, and one of the of the spirit." The words fell a, into our hands, the nature of the morale of many of them being in-ed for America although it was not, and he was the only one bas been pleased to recognise, efficere told the Norwegian that little strangely from the lips of dicated by the fact that they have been surrendering without resistance. Later and faller details of this latest phase of the fighting in Flenders assumed that she was on a west caught. The police managed to provisionally and pending the they had been out for five munibs one of the richest men in Ambrios, will be awaited with eagerness, as it may be confidently anticipated bound voyage when enak. secure the property and the receipt of instructions from His from their base. The number of | but their sincerity in pat bayand Tba Levonian, a vossal of simpen with the goods on it. Moj ety's Government, Kr. Eleski the submarine or the name of its question by Mr. Rockafellar a no- that the brief summary so far supplied will be pleasingly amplified 10,435 net groes, was built at Defendant was sent to prison for Suzuki e Consal-General for captain could not be ascermined, wearying efforts for the and that the gallantry, the resource, and the general excellence of the Belfast in 1900,

four months.

Japan in Hongkong.

the mon anid

tion of New York notion will point notably to what our troops have accomplished.