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February 14, 1918,
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UNFIT WAR PRISONERS.-
Agreement between Russia and the Central Powers.
London, February 12. According to Reuter's correspondent at Amsterdam, a telegram from Berlin says that the Basso-German delegates at Petrograd have signed an agreement whereby usfit war prisoners will be repatristed 83 soon sa possible,
Similar agreements have been signed on behalf of Austria- Hungary, Bulgaris and Turkey.
the
DASH INTO TRIESTE, pier, however, WIN
quard-room. There could be Torpedoing of the Battleship beard a confusion of voices and
Wied.
the barking of a dog, and from The Daily Telegraph has the railway station sabore the received from Mr. Perceval Gib-noise of an engine screaming bon the following detailed ac vociferously, and between-while count of the Italian dash into the slap-slap of the feet of a sen- Trieste harbour and the torpedo-try patrolling the middle pier. ing of the Austrian battleship Lieutenant B'zzo crawled back and gave the order, and up came Wien:
Venice, December 13.-There his men, orawling bands and are men and deeds which shine knees over the ecocrete, passing sihwart the fog of war, across its big cutting tools from hand to dreary routine and staleness, like band. Groping their way to the a sunbeam through clouds. Buch cables, some set to work to cat a man, such a deed, came to light them, while two men scouted when two little ships and their inshore leat some sentry should I shouldn't have liked crews gnawed their way through arrive. the booms and nete which guard to be that sentry, with those big, the inner harbour of Trieste, and wet sailors lying armed behind sink the battleship Wien, where the mooring bollards and waiting the lay moored to her baoy, to silence him! with her sister the Monarch
The cutting instruments work- alumbering alongside of ber. Aed well. It only needed a strong guarded harbour, steel netejar to set the mines exploding, fringed with mines, Beatrice but the cutters bit their way yawning by their guns on the through strand after strand of mole and the breakwater, and the the twisted stesi wire. Three Italian sailors, ander Lieutenant cables above water were evered Rixss, of the navy, working at the without trouble, then fire more cables of the nets within earshot below water were grappled and of the forts and the ships till they hauled to the surface and cat in At last came the eswed them apart and could run their turn. in and do their work! It was moment when the weight of the more than a great feat of arme; net and its attachments tore the last remaining steel stranda it was a lark.
and com
The whale great The Wien was one of three asunder. ships launched in 1895. Her cobweb of metal and explosives sisters were the Monarch and the esok. The harbour Isy open!
Rizzo and his men crawled Badspeet. She carried four 10. inch and six 6-inch gunė, and sjback to their boats, sad those crew of 441 officers and men. boats moved like shadowe into the She has owed Italy death any Vallone of Maggia, where the time these two years. The Italians Wien and the Monarch lay noting nearly got her a month ago when their buoys. Nearest lay the she wse shelling the Lower Piave, Wien; the Monarch alumbered and the motor-bests went for her 200 yards beyond her. B'zso with their torpedoes. She has edged in to investigate, and then too, bed other narrow sospen, backed cftill be had his enemy Now she lies on the bottom of the st 150 yards. His second boat, the old patty officer, Nallone di Maggis in Trieste onder
hia beam Harbour, on a clean sandy bottom shifted out apon in about eleven fathoms of tor to get a line which cleared
bow quoise-blue water. Liea enunt the Wien's Rizzo and the crews of his two manded the Monarch's great steel lauzobes craft not mach bigger fank. Bizzo raiced his arm in that than a ship's lifeboat are the gloom, and saw the answering men who put her there. Lienten-gesture of the old petty cfficer. It 'Let her go!" ant Bisso is one of those men in the moment. the Italian Navy who makes in a Broond four long steel devils weird speciality of tickling the were sliding through the water Austrian in his bed.". He is for the enemy.. A roars blaat thirty years of age, a Sicilian of mea waterpont raining on with the strong manline good to them-and a second roar, as looks of his race. In charge of the Monarch, too, got her dose I his second boat was a tough firefu the motor boats the man yelled involuntarily as the torpedoes eater of 62 years.
The thing had been well pre-landed on their targets,
A searchlight flashed out from pared after careful study of the Amined ares. It seemed that the the Wien and sewed at the dark Austrians had devised a systems. An agitated scream sound- ed over the water, "Wer da?" of combined nais and mines, 80
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The Inquiry.
The Search for a Low Price. The Fight for a Reasonable
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The Battle for Low Insurance, The Cable Godsa. The Censor. The Delays.
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FEBRUARY
MORE EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS.
Strange Discovery of Black Bristlas
Late last night and in the early hours of this morning the
1918.
YACHTING.
February 14, 1917.
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Royal Hongkong Yacht Club.
EARTHQUAKES.
Temperature 6 Humidity
Some Theories as to Their Causes.'
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The đặth of the eeries of Clab Championship Races for the Handicap Claas, Ose Design Although the „terrible Class, and Heyward Haye and which are often produced by Gal Cities was sailed off on earthquakes have in all egÐI Baturday afternoon with the forced themselves upon the attent repetition of the earthquake
ion of man, it is neverthelem shocks which the Colony a
Handicap Class.
only within the list, Afty years perienced yesterday afternoon.
Courre Lyeman Besoon (P.), that the phenomena have been Jast. before 11 o'clock last night; several residents telt dietinet earth Cast Books Buoy (P.), Lysman subjected to exact investigation. tremore, while at 4.30 this morn-Beadon (P.), Distance: 10.1 miles. A new science was thus setablishe
ing many wete awakened from sleep by a dimilar experience. This latter abook lasted for quite half a minute sad wae almoet equal in intensity to the first tremor felt yesterday. doen.
following reenlits :-
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ed under the name of reiimology and its development in England was largely due to the researches of Mr. Robert Mallet.
Accounts of earthquakes are to | M.8. ELYS. HMS. be found scattered through the
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Dot appear, however, to have re Dione owes 50 4.11.05 4.41.55 writings of many ancient authors, 4.44.27 4.44.27 but they are, for the most part, salted in say serious damage, Holls
Jessica receives
of little valge to the seismologist, (though these faitly frequent re
There is a natural tendency to 1.41 D.N.S. carrences of the disturbanca
Diana receives
exaggeration in describing such caused a deal of anxiety to many people.
5.13 4.54.00 4.48.07 phenomens, sometimes indeed to the extent of importing a super- Colleen receives
7.34 D.N.E. Aileen receives
natural element into the descrip tion. It is true that attempts 10.08 4.55.50 4.45.44 were made by some ancient Painta Pointewriters on natural philosophy to for Race to Date cfar a rational explanation of
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One Design Class. Course-Channel Rocks (P), Kowloon Book (P), Mark bost on Starting Line (P), Channel Rocks
Many Obinese report a strange phenomenon in the discovery of numerous black bristles in the streets. These, they say, hava been found in large numbers in all parts of the city-even at points as far remote one from the (1) Dione (2) Balla other as the western, district and
(3) Aileen Wong Nei-Cheong. Several pick-
(4) Diana ed up in the central district and
--- Jorgios in the neighbourhood of Happy. Colleen Valley were brought to our clos this morning. The Chinese do not know how to sccount for the appearance of-there bristles on the streets, come saying that they must have fallen from the sky and The Harderous Feeling.
others asserting that they are from The Barczatic Letter of Com- the moustache, of the Dragon, plaint from the Customer having been for up through The Advice How to do Things the ground! Their di
discovery 18, The Anxious Insurance Agent. at any rate, regarded among the The Auxions Freight Solicitor. superstitions as Moding ill for the The next ten Insurance Agents, coming year. The next ten Freight Solicitors. The Insurance Company. The Information that Steamer ia s Cousin of Noah's Ark. The Big Premium.
The D farence. The Higher Rate.
The Additional Premium. The Delivery of the Goods. The Dock Clerk.
The Rejected Packages. The Longshoremen. The Strike.
(P), Kowloon Hook (P), Distance:
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SINGLE COFT 10 GEN
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TELFORAMS.
(Bester's Service to The
THE SILVER MARKET.
-y London, February. The silver market is quiet.
DON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY.
Vistoria Theatre; 8.15 p.m: Bijou Theatre-7.35 più. New Hongkong Cinematograph ➡9.15 pm.
TO-MORROW, Victoris Theatre-19.15 p.m. Rijon Tbestre-0.15 p.# New Hongkong Cinemato) graph.-9.15 p.m.
Saturday, February 16. Victoria Regalia,
Monday, February 18, St. George's Society-Special general meeting at Olty. Hall;
earthquake phenomens, but the 5:30 p.m.
hypotheses which their explsa Constitutional Reform Associe- . ations involved are, se a role, too - tion-Annual general meeting fanciful to be worth.reproducing at City Hall; 5.45 p.m.
at the present day.
Thuisday, February 21. Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf
The great earthquake of Lisbon in 1755 led the Bev. John Michell, Professor of Minazology & Godown Co. Shareholders at Cambridge, to turn his attent meeting; noon.--
on to the subject; and in 1860 he published in the Philosophical Transactions a remarkabis messy on the Cause and Phenomena of Regarding the
Earthquakes. earth as having a liquid interior covered by a comparatively thin MS. H.M.S. H.M.8. ernst, he corosived that wayca Daphne Scratch 414,21
might be generated in this Bonits
subterranean liquid, and that Since yesterday the Police have Alles
anah waves, by shaking the Harible crust, would produce the received a report of the walls of Halcyon the house at No. 21, Stanton
Note: The points for this race shock of an earthquake. His ille- Street cracking. From Yamati have not yet been awarded owing stration of the movement of the comes the report that when the to a protest being under con-ground is that of loose carpet
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Saturday, February 23.
Shanghai. Hongkong & Banking Corporation.--Annual meeting; noon.
Monday, Feb. 25. Bios Mesting, -1st Day.
Tuesday, Feb. 28. Race Meeting-2ad Day,
Wednesday, Feb. 27, Race Meeting.-3rd Day.
fret shock was felt bandrede of aideration. The pointe given thrown into undulations by being to "the snap and jar occasioned people rusbed into the streets below are those awarded for the shaken at one corner. Although by the sudden and violent rup panic-stricken. In the rush for fourth Championship Rice. Michell's hypothesis is still tare of solid rock-missses, and per
The Non-Arrival of Steamer.. The Repetition. of
Almost later. Everything
Mentioned Before.
The Delsy. The Request for Extension of
Credit.
The Extra Load Tell from the
Castomer.
The Final Shipping. The Bills of Lading.
The Captain's Spree in New
Year. The Delay. The Bank.
The Waiting for the Cheque. The Cheque
The Happy Feeling.
The Cancellation of License; The Final Headache,
Points
for race.
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safety one little girl was knocked
points accepted, in a modified form, by hape the instantaneous injection Position. down, receiving injuries from
to date some geologiste, it should by into them of intumescent mollen which she died some three pours]{1}· A‹lsi.
remembered that many arguments matter from beneath.” He be (2) Daphne
of considerable weight have been lieved that the rapture of the (3) Halcyon...
urged by modern physicists rocks was dus, to expansion of (4) Bonita
sgainst the doctrine of a liquid deeply seated masses of mineral nucleus and a thin crust. What matter, conergnant apoasitharin Heyward Hays and Gael Class.
Course:Ubannel Book (P.), ever the merits of Michell's theory, oressed temperature or diminished UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS. Kowloon Rocks (P), Mark boat og he failed to understand the true temperatures It is argued, how Starting Line (P), Channel Racks nature of wave motion, and the ever, by Mr. Mallet, po mechanical (P), Kowloon Hook (P). Dist-way in which it in transmitted principle, that arch frsoturen
Jaring an earthquake shock, could produce only very wask im ance, 8 miles.”
Modern seismologists believe that palees; but he believes that some an earthquake is a vibratory earthquakes, especially those motion propagated through the marked by long continued tremors," solid materials of the earth, much may be due to the movement and in the same way that sound is crushing of rock mases by tan-
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Baker, Y.M.UA, from Ran- Lysbeth owes 1:25 4.24.544.28.19 propagated by vibrations in the gential pressures produced by
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Clark Circus, from Hanoi..
Danica. from Saigon.
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Toinette ower Dawn
Fruin Kremlin, from Tientsin, Lady Urala Gibson Engineer, from Sydney. Dorothy Monsha Singh, from San Gael Francisco.
Orsine, Hongkong Hotel, from Saigon
Vacher, from Mandinh.
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atmosphere.
olarooling of the earth. Even at the present day, after Seam has always been a favourite all that has been written on the agent with seismologists, eines it
-4.26.87.4.20.04subject, but little is really known in clearly competent, so i don
rros. 42 4.28.28 4.27.48 as to the origin of earthquakes, great effects. by i
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ing as they do no widely in in-crust, might reach highly tensity and in duration, should heated rocks and remsin quietly, be referable to one common in the spheroidal condition, until mechanism. Aoy great concussion, a local reduction of temperature 6venapan the surface, is anddenly caused it to lash into competent to produce: tremors aletai. 8:
that Rizzo's chances were great, "Who goes there?"). There
Strike at Tziren. at the best, of being blown to were shoatinge and stampinge
For some days past trouble had pieces. One of his chief problems along the deck of the wounded was that of the huge steel cable ship; searchlights waking along been brewing in the Tairen Dock- attached to the nets. But he out the shore and on the breakwaters; yard of the Kawasaki Shipbuild- these handily under. On the and anti-aircraft gan roming ing Yard, arising out of the night of the 9:b, when the two everywhere, None in Trieste demand of workmen for an Hongkong, Feb. 7, 1918. little boate ast out, there was mist knew whence the attack had increase of wages. On January.
26 part of the workman went on The Great Northern Telegraph
which may be regarded After all, the origin of earth on the sea. It was past midnight ocme-whether from air or sea-strike and on the following day
All yachts of these classes will
sa diminative earthquakes, thus gaakes is probably to be regarded when they crawled in towards the The sky was festooned with the strike spread among the other
compete in the events provided the great landslip at the Romberg af part only of a much wider Gosat where lies the white city of barsting shrapnel while shipe in workers
There was fighting "Yungtailoong, Tungshunlu, on the programme of the Victoria in Switserland in 1806 was question. Whatever causes are Trieste, cascading in anowy ter- the barbour opened with their among the foremen and their from Shanghai.
Regatta on Saturday, 16th. instacoon panied by a local qushing competent to produce velestió Ross down its radiant billside to gune towards the harbour mouth, subordinates, says the Japan Asanuma, Dayn' Maru, from
Yachts of the cruiser class are of the ground. - Volger and Moks Botion are, in all likelinood, e qual. On the 29th, the Mitsubosho. the piers and docks of its port. shelling the misty Adriatie at Chronicle."
requested to dress ship and have suggested that some of the ly competent to produce the The two boste crawled in towards random. By the light of that management thought it advisable
Dock Company, from suchor cf the Victoria Recreation small earthquakes which have ordinary manifestations of seismic farione illumination the Italian to shut out all the workmen, Kobe. the harbour mouth.
Clab..
been felt in Germany in the post energy, mlation is clearly Teengkwongle, Chunghing Trieste Harbour is sa affair of sailors saw the great balk of the fearing further trouble. This
may be referred to the failing in traßouble beternen the geographi- three piers, fatting seaward, Wien listing towards them. By seems to have further incensed Co., 101, Wanland Street, froth
them and they put forward - a
of the roof of enormous enbal distribution of: volcanoes and Shanghai making than two obangels, one this time they were making for declaration that unless their pay
the harbour mouth. Shells spout was increased by 40 per cent from Kobe.
Itakura, Matsubara Hotel, German Criminals as Labour
terranean cavities formed by the the chief earthquake-srans; and M. Drafts A to either hand of the central pierod around them, het noue hit they would not resume work in which is also a breakwater.
Bykora o Moutries, from Amsterdam, Nov. 18.-Owing long-continued solvent action of although it is not for a moment
to the leak of male labourers the water on deposita of rockaalt, be supposed that the volcano and These channels were closed by them; and both boats saw, are any circumstances. The South Yokohama. A booms and pets with their minee, they left, that last anbaidence, Manchuria Railway Company,
Calluet, c/o Banker Co., Dœux Germans are using criminale for limestone, and gypsum. Such the earthquake-stan
industrial undertakinge and causes, however, can have given other in the all linked to the piers by the that wriggle and resignation with which is greatly suffering from Road, from Shanghai gress steel hawsere. The boats which's dead ship goes under the strike, is acting as a pesce Kwonghingloong, from Yoko-private employment Criminals rise to only very petty shocks, os and
The Monarch still fared, hat maker between the strikers and bams
wearing prison clothes are now and must be quite satordinate to thela glided slongside the pier, and, Risso climbed up its concrete the Wien lay at the bottom. The their employers, but so far there
Yunyowloong, from Yokohama to be cosa mending the roads, aubterranean disturbanoss of a they
ading cost, sorting potatoes, more general character, side and reconnoîtred the sins conquerors breakfaaud at home. ara no prospects of an amicable.
settlement. The Tairan Dock
and delivering wood, and to The late Me Poulett Boropa top. There was nobody on res mia of them was very yard is reported to employ 1,500
was led to refer most tarthquakes tilling the land” thet pier. On the middle hungry,
Japanese and Chinese.
Hour
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