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FIGHTIG AT YPRES.

VOLLEY BALL LEAGUE.

The Work the Worcestershires.

The Junior Division Final.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1917.

PRIVATE RICKSHAS.

Details of Licensing Requirements.

Mr. Doylas Newton writes as Division of this season will be The final match of the Janior

follows:-

played cf on Thursday, the 20th The fging in this your's inst., on the YMCA. ground, mèceing from January 1, their battles of pree inevitably recalls

Bridges Street, at 4.15 p.m. sharp

Ozners of private rickshas in Hongkong now find that, com rickshan and drivers have to be

the fightin that took place at between Queen's College and licensed, and there appears in Ypres in 14. The ground is the same grond and the place names Ying Wah College. are the esp se those that figured

Mr. A.H. Harris, Commissioner as to how to proceed to conform many quarters lack of knowledge to the requirements of the new Order.

so gloriour in that great battle of the Kowloon Unalome, will in which ie inimitable British present the sap to the winners as army of more than 150,000 the conclusion of the match. The „men chræd and defeated the public is invited.

stlock of German army 600,000 strong,

In parthlar, and at this time,

does the me of Gheluvelt recall

that spend episode, when, on

positions,sbecked the Germans,

and, in iis. way saved a bad

situation.

Kindergarten."

Says B. B. in the Daily Mail:

It will be of guidance to state that the cas licences are being iasaed now at the Central Police Station and can be applied for at any time between the hours of 9 a.m, and 5 pm. The licence fee payable in advance, but all the for each rickaba ia $10 yearly, drivers must be licenced half-

the most atical day of the battis, I am staying in an east coast and at themost critical hour, the town that has suffered more than yearly at a fee of thirty cents. On Worcestenite Regiment in one brilliant harge captured vitalita abare from Teutonie Kaltor the payment of the thirty cents, as dropped from the skies. Yet I each man will be given a obit ty are sean a large establishment the authoritites at the Central stili labelled "Kindergarten." Police Station and this he will Althoah the battle of Ypres,

This surely ought to have been take 10 Babop in Queen's) 1914 bar reached its highest of the first enemy words to Road, which will be painted Is is an insalt to the parents of be photographed. Two ospies! be expelled from our language. out to him, and bere he will murdered children that it should of the photograph will be given deacorate the lintel of any school him, and these he must take back to the Police Station, where one will be affixed to the licence. issued to him and the other kept by the Police for reference.

door.

pitch of itensity by October 2lat and althogh the fighting con tinned tole of a most dangerous nature unil November 11th, it is now seen bat it was on October 31er that the battle reached its crisis. O this day not only wers the Germme determiced above. everythingto break through the completely through the defences purposes. We are informed that British lini, but, for a few haare, of the Ypres line. It was at this this need not take up much of it seemed as though they had moment, on the initiative of the man's time, as he will be attained that erd.

Brigadier General Fis Clarence, promptly sitedded to. With the Early in the morning of Octo. a brave officer who was killed licence number plates will be ber 31st they began pushing twelve days later, that the winge isened, with the figures in white forward baTY

attacks of the let and 2nd Divisions on a black background. These along the Menin Ypres, road, and combined in a counter attack og platea must be fixed to thej it was soon seen that the streak the enemy. Leading the attack centre of the axle of the ricksha was developing ite greatest fores was the 2nd Worcestershires. with the numbers pointing to against Gbelavelt village. North Supported by the Field Artillery the rear. This completes the of it the British of the lat and and by the 3rd Oxford Light DeceBary requirements, 3rd Brigades of the 1st Division Infantry they swept down upon were raked with tremendous gur- the Menin-road and drove the fire and then driven back by the enemy

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especially bitter.

back. The Germans THAT PAIN BEHIND YOUR, overpowering numbers of the fought well enough, but they. enemy attack, the 1st could not resist that manificient

SHOULDER Coldstream, in particolar, being assault. The Worcesters worked is probably due to disordered very badly handled and practical them back to Gheluvelt, and then liver. Pinkettes dispel "liverish- ly wiped cut as a lighting unit in with the bayonet retook Ghelaveit this dea; erata, encounter. As itself. The street fighting was sick beadaches, clear the com neas," Constipation, Bilionenese, result the lias esgged badly, the whole of the Division being prese

The Germans plexion and sweeten the breath; ed back to the woods between Hooge and Veldoek To add to the

PINKETTES confusion the Germans found the bowever, were not to be stopped.. range of Divisional Headquarters They forced their way into the the dainty little Isfatives, of all and General Lomax was wounded house, and fought their opponents dealers, or post free, 60 cents badly sad General Manto etann-from room to room. They cleaned the phial, from Dr. Williams' ed, while six of the Staff officers up. Ghelaveit from entrance to Medicine Co., 96, Szechuen Road, were killed..

exit. By 2 30 on that critical dey Shanghai.

need every house as a fort, firing from the windows with machine- gon and rifls. The Worcesters,

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This blow left the left Bank of the village was again in British the 7th Division fighting below possession. the Menin road, in the sir, and This skilful and gallant stroke the pressure of the Germane cared the day. Reinforcements along the road and through were worked into the gap, the Ghelavelt village threatened to woode were cleared-of-the-Gerr - get round and roll up the whole mane, and the line reformed in line. Hare however the Royal much of its old strength, The Scots Fusiliers, in spite of the power of the German attack bad fact that they had already eoffer been broken. ed heavily, stack to their trenches, and fought until they were cat Albaers Wellington had address-who can speak and write good off and practically destroyed. Thated the Worcestera as "the best English. Reply, stating age, left Ank of the 7th Division se regiment in the army." For this experience and salary required, reinforced, and, after some hard day's work, Lord French, the to Box No. 1351 fighting, aa able to work back British Commander in Chief at Telegraph.""

At the battles of Talavera and WANTED.-OFFICE ASSIST- ANT (Chinese) wanted

to its old positione and cling there: Ypres, added his praise to Wel

tenaciously until the evening.lington's. In his address to Meanwhile, however, the right the regiment he flook cf the Division had fallen he

Baid that regarded the back, and the heavy maessboat Obsluvalt "as the most fighting of the German attack critical moment in the whole of was pounding against it, the great battle." And he also and against the front of General declared. "If cas onit can be Mousey's 9th French Corps about singled out for especial praice it Klein Zillebeke. The pressure is the Worcesters. In his speech was so terrible that the French Le exid "On Oa1ober 31et we were. General was obliged to collect in a very critical position. A every available man, cocke, order-headquarters we received the rev lize, batmen and even his sentries, port that the village of Gheluvelt in order to repell the successive an extremely important strategic waves of assault that were thun point, had been taken by dering against the front.

the enemy. Matters looked The situation, indeed, had be most critical. Shortly after I wea come critical, and about 2 o'clock informed that the village of

in the afternoon it had resched Ghelavelt had been recaptured its most dangerous point. The by a counter-attack. Since then Germana had driven their way I have made repeated inquiries as through Gbeluvalt along the road to what officer was responsible by Veldhoek. They had pierced the for the conduct of the counter. line, and though the British were stroke, and hava invariably receiv fighting magnificiently, it looked ed the reply that it was the Worce for the moment es if the long stershire Regiment who parried endoring defences of Ypres were out this attack. I have, therefore, at last crambling. The only in my despatch to the Secretary bright spot in the situation was of State Bo mentioned it, and the help given by the 2nd said it was the Worcestershire Division which was posted north Regiment who took the action in of Ghelavelt, sad, being little relieving this critical státe. Yon engaged in the main battle, was bear on your colours the names able to fire into the daok of the of insoy famous victories, and ID German advance and somewhat this war you have added losire to retard it

your former reputation. No may

It could do no mora, Mean-can say what the fulare his in while it was perceived that unless store for us, but I have every con the situation was readjusted and fidence that in the future you the gap closed the Germans will conduct yourself with the might by sheer weight of numbers came soldierly bearing as in the and artillery burat sheir way past.”

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