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THE TRIBUNAL.

This Afternoon's Sitting.

The Vacum Oil Company.

fit:-

1. 0.0. Stark. 2. A. Lasch

The following man of military

$. J. Brook.

ège from this Company has been

Jenkins.

rejected as unfit for service--A

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17,` 1918.

"PURL AND PLAIN," · ATTACK ON SUEZ CANAL

A Local Book Of Verse.

Charities.

таму состра

FOILED.

Indian Sergeant's Flac Leadership.

BHEIMS BEFORE THE WAR.

W

The successes of the French in

ANOTHER PIRACY,

Over 5600 Worth of Booty Stolan.

BEHIND THE BALKAN FRONT.

An Old Turco-Greek Village.",

There was much trouble and

The

aninscribed stones

Oar

CANTON NEWS.

Canton correfprudent writes as follows com

Lung's Troops Warned. A memorial from the Tuchun

* Government Duties. Trevor Allen writes in the Daily Government has been decided on The power of the Military Under the very appropriate An incident in guarding the By Major C.J.C.'Street, R.G-A.

Chronicle sa follow :- title of "Purl and Plain," the | Jars Canal during the first year

Oneosunot tell when the village

six principles:-1, To decide on The General Military Service | South China Morning Post, Lil, of the war, hitherto unrecorded in

Another piracy has been report lost its soul, whether in the early or peace; 3, to carry out Tribunal again est this afternoon have just published a dainty werth the selling. The canal is

foreign ralations and negotiate and considered the following little volume consisting of several 82 miles long and the troops repelling the German thrust in od to the Police; the following days of this war or the last. In a Treation; 3, to supervise th

sets of verses by Mrs. Maconachie, available for its defence in those the neighbourhood of Bheims being the story. 28. Bounty weet dat ciel positions and negotiate foreiga wife of Rey, J. Kirk Maconsebie, early days were only sufficient to daring the first days of March, licensed junk No. T1528. She immemorial the fast does not pastor of the Union Church, and hold small redoubts a few miles have given a fresh interest to that states that at noon on July 12, really matter. Sufficient it in tolosas; 4, to give judgment in The following are medically admirably illustrated by Gunner apart and to send slender patrols ancient town, whose fate has been whilst her junk was sailing from know that, upon a day of calamity differences that may arise between A. Molloy, B.GA. The little book, backwards and forwards between so anxiously watched by the Macao to Cheung Chau and near these lonely keepers of Locke, provinces; 5,-to supervise the which is dedicated to Lady May, them.

whole world since the invasion of Taing Chen, in Chinese waters, these bygone tillers of the soil, increase of military forces in the "The gracious President of the Ons morning, just as the first France in 1914.

a long boat containing five men, hosped their belongings on to law-protesting provinces; 6, to Hongkong Branch of the Queen false dawn of the Eset was clear, Rheims was only eight houre carme alongside the junk. Three pack donkeys, and took the rough supervise the increase of ammuni-

tion in the proVILOMA. Mary Needlework Guild," is now ing, an ladian sergeant, with two from London in pre-war days, by of the men were armed with retrack over the bills for ever? on esle, we are informed by the of his men, was patrolling, when the express to Switserland vis volvera and they boarded the junk, Secretary of that energetic body, he met a patrol of two men coming Boalogue and Basle. The journey one of them shooting at has had confusion, you may dobond. The has been issued to Lung's troops at $2 per copy-in aid of War from the other direction. To these was through a country which has band and hitting him in the head men careed and beisboured the in Luichow City to the effect that Mr. Congdon appeared for the

be asid "The night is now over; now become familar to every above the eye. The ballet plough little panting beasts with sticks. Company.

ment's The book, which should appeal join my party and we will return reader of the newspapers. Branched down by the side of the cheek The women abuffed along with, Lung and the Central Govern- forsee ste gradually The Obsirman said the chiefly to members of the local together." A little further on his ing off from the Boulogne-Paris bone. The pirates then drove all their loose heeled shoes,

deminishing and if they surrender Tribunal had no particulars Needlework Guild, as indeed party of one N.0.0 and four men line at Amiens, the train passed the occupants of the junk into the grimy youngstare spiralled to the Cantan Government sheir before it from the. Company moet of the verses express some met the next patrol of two men; through Chaulne, where it cross-cabin and closed the door, Ister they stumbled on barefoot. as to the pre-war staff or the ides regarding the Guild's work, and to them the sergeant ed the line as it existed sailing the junk towards Tan Now the place is silent on that ranks and positions will be kept present staff, or as to whether is a very worthy contribution to also said "Follow me.",

TL before the Somms offensive of Chai. The men put aboard their | burial ground yonder, with its the passages, they can return to as.usual, or, if they like to pay any man had left the Hongkong the many efforts that have been whole proceeding was accidental July 1st, 1918, Nesle, Ham, and own boat $480 worth of cargo arade, office for sotive service, but per made for the sake of "ewsei and perhaps not quite regular, Tergnier, all names familas at and $130 worth of persons! insnimate as the hills out of which their native villages. Otherwise, Company dilaot claim exemption made as ao familiar. The verses need of his men. haps this was immaterial, as the charity" with which the war has but before long the sergeant had the time of the German with belongings, leaving the junk and it grew Walls have crumbled when the city falls they will be

drawal sarly in 1917. Its first making away in the direction of and roof gape, so that here and rarely treated as rebels. Assembly to Most. in any of the cases,

are gracefully expressed and the Barely had the little party of stop after Amiana wae Lson, Tan Chai harbour. The woman there a white or bat interior

After 100erving important com- Mr. Congdon :-I did not think

subjects selected refer it was necessary to supply any several of the

to seven gone half's mile when one where, from the station, could be managed to tree herself and gleams in the sun. The soul has

munications from the Tachan, figures of that discription se we tione in which countless women back. "Lie down quick," he said, magnificent position on a hill where the matter was reported to rotting rotting with the stabbe decided to hold su extraordinary one of his rooute osme running seen the cathedral standing in a sailed the junk back to Macao, gone from it, and the body 18the Provincial Assembly bas Her husband of the last corn-crop, the parched meeting on the 17th. - It ià re- are not claiming exemption.

The Chairman read a letter engaged owing to the war.

at Home and abroad are now "I saw some Eaver hate (the head overlooking the town. Thence it the authorities.

dress of the Tarks which has passed a few miles in front of the was left in the charge of a Chin- stems of maise left on these ported that the financial position which the Tribunal had been

Mrs. Maconachie is to be con- replaced the historio fex) peeping present line, through Gaignicourt ese doctor, and when she left for patches of ploughed land.

of the whole province is concerned. Notice how, from villa to hoval, sent by the Company in which gratulated upon her little book over yonder maand. And I think and Leivre, antil the towers and Hongkong he was progressing the Company set forth that

the village seems to have grown. and Ganner Molloy upon the aleo I saw one or two Germans."ohimneys of Rheims esma into slowly.

In Kackung village, Nam Hoi total exemption was not being

So far, no trace of the pirates out of the very soil. The outer district, daring a theatrical per claimed for Mr. Stark, Mr. Leach Very happy manner in which he "If that is so," said the sergeant, view; the train stopped, not at the

walls are of rough, weathered formance the matabed was strack part of "we will at once attack them.". hes performed his

main station, but at the little has been discovered.

atone-boulders out of Forming his six men into a village of Betheny, through

sides and ravineer with mad Six men and one women were hill by lighting in a thunderstorm. line of skirmishere he ordered an which the trenches ran at the

thrown in between Through a killed besides a number hurt. advance, taking advantage of present day. every Borap of cover. They had From Betheny to the maiD

mouldering doorway, littered now not gone far when a hail of bul station was ten minutes in aIn consequence of the war the with debris, one enters a small lete fell on them; the sergeant curious little train of two Cairndon Hotel, the only honse courtyard, graced by the family was shot through the knee whilst carriages, past the industrial of call between Inverary and ag tree, and perhaps a sentinel one of bis little army wae killed. quarter of the town, which, among Arrochar, is to be closed. Some poplar. One notices that this "The enemy is evidently in its other activities, ie one of the famoga men, including Keats, cater wall is loop haled, and then force," remarked the sergeant as chief centres of the woollen Wordsworth, Barns, and Dr. ascends by rough stone stepe to be bound up bis leg. "Therefore, district of France.

Johnson, stayed at this famous the inevitable verandah, shaded noon, before Mr. J. B. Wood, s by an overhanging eave and railed Chinese compositor appeared on Coming out of the main station, hostelry. #Sher Sing, ran back along the

by a plain wooden balustrade, remand on a charge of mealing a bank and shout

to one was confronted by magnificent

Verandah, perhaps, hardly con quantity of type, valued at $50, the Frenchman at the next public gardens, a birse of flowers gaze to stop the shipping both during the greater part of the that has escaped the mysterious room, open at the front to the hot

veys the picture; it is more a from Mesara Kelly and Walsh, Then zan On and year: From it fine boulevards ways.

the operations to which the former sunshine, a place of assial gossip, tall the Colonel Sahib what has led to

of the centre

beyond it to the variety has been sabjeated.

and wine, and siests. happened. It is two miles you town, and

The scene of these operation is Beyond are the living rooms, bave to ran, but be of good Hotel der Lion d'or, of unknown courage. I will remsin here with antiquity, etending in the cath nothing short of marvellous. In two usually, with uneven walls of the chalky bills that lie to the the same stiff clay that clogs one's these men and hold the enemy."{edral

nothing square, with

Gardiner asked Lor At that moment three ships between it and the cathedral south-eastward of the town, are boote, faced with a thin coat of appeared round a bead in the opposite but the fine modern huge caverns, covering in all baff or white plaster. A shallow leniency, saying defendant had many equare miles of half natural, ed recess in this clay serves as been employed for many years sa Canal, followed at a little distance statue of Joan of Arc.

or Mr. Brocke. The Company the work. We hope the general felt that Mr. Stark and Mr. Leseb public will give the publics might be placed in a false position a kindly welcome. ion, and, in justice to them, it was We bave pleasure in quoting Decessary to say both three men two of the Terres My very are important to the Company's Little Bit," and "Mittens," organisation and in normal times which seem to us to be particul- would be indispensable. The arly good:- reason they could be "pared was that there was a shortage of supplies in outlying statione, so that two

had been. brought into the office here, and also there usa

a shortage of ebipping. The company had been fortunate in Focuring the services of a new man from, Am. erica, The Company felt it could not conscientomely ack for ex emption..

men

None of the men had anything further to add to the papers they had sent in, and none of them asked for exemption.

Mr. Leech was granted two mantha' exemption and Mr. Stark and Mr. Brooke no exemption.

A. 5. Watson and Co.

The following ste medically fit:-

1. W.T. Eleon.

2. E. W. H. James.

3. H. E. 8. Payne.

The following men of military age from this firm have been rejected sa anfit for service :- F.O. Todd, J. P. Suiter, A. W. Smith, D. Wilson, W. H. Whitely and W. H. B. Muskelt,

Mr. D. E. Clarke appeared for the Company.

الحلوه

The Chairman said that from the papers which had been sent in it was gathered that the Company held that their business was in the essential interents of the Colony and that for the public safety qualified chemists were necessary to carry on the business. It wse impossible to get qualified chemists from England and the Company did not know of any who could be engaged loosily. The total exemption of Mr. Payne and Mr. James was asked for and B temporary exemption for Mr. Elson. The pre-war staff of the Company was 19 Europeane and to-day it was 11, plas extra help which had been secur ed for a certain number of hours per day. The Chinese staff had been largely increased. Four

qualified obemista had lelt Hong.. kong for active service."

The Tribunal decided to call up Mr. Elson and to exempt the

other mer.

?

MY VERY LITTLE BIT. Letters from the home land!

Papers too!

News of all the old friende,

News that's true!

Pictures of car working girls,

Fighting boye!

They have dropped their

gemes, it seeme, Smashed their toys.

Frank has learnt to face the

gaba," Jim to fly. Do you think those girls

theirs

Sit and cry?

They have other things to do

No tears now!

Olive's hoeing turnips, Moud

Milka the cow. Can you fancy Lilian Oleaning grates? Mary in a restaurant, Washing plates?"

Who had dainty finger nails

Like our Nell'e?

Guess what she is doing

Filling shella!

of

Oh, you girls moross the ses,

Happy you!

Staying where there's life to live,

Work to do!

Idle in this torrid isnd

I most sit.

Thank the Lord for one thing

though I can knit !

Boross

immediately followed suit.

Famous Hotel to Close.

Struck by Lightalog.

COMPOSITOR IN TROUBLE.

Scat to Gaol for Type-stealing.

At the Palice Court this after.

Mr. J. H. Gardiner, who ap peared for the defence, said be anderstood defendant was DOW prepared to plead guilty. Defen dant did so when the charge had been read to him again.

M2

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defendant's

by two more, all steaming into Rheims had many fascinatione, half artificial origin. One enters cupboard, and another, reaching a compositor in the Colang. He the ambush set by the Germans. The antiquary might spend weeks these gigantic dag-outs by sloping from floor to roof, as fireplace. had been some five or six year The sergeant was in an agony, in exploring the cathedral, with shafte, wide enough to drive The supporting timbers are bare on the six of the Hongkong Ialo bat with his four remaining its magnificent tapestries, with coach and four down. At and misshapen, you see little graph and about the same porand men opened rapid fire which practically the nave was the end, brilliantly illuminat better than logs in fact-while, of years with the South China an the enemy, hoping thus to hung, sad ita carvings and mile after mile of cellars, contain-gable of rough bought and with Messrs. Kelly and Walsin for ed by electric light, are instead of a ceiling, there is Morning Post. He had only been warn the ships in time. To his traceries that cover every square relief he saw the leading skip inch of it. If he had farthering millions of bottles of wine in reed-matting supporting massed about six months,

picturesque Mr. Labrum, manager of suddenly turn the engines fall weeks at his disposal, he might arious stages of maturity. It is pantiles, and s steam astern and gradually warp proceed to make the acquaintance to underground city, populated chimney-stack of stone and tile. Mesara, Ketty and Walsh's prins into the far bank out of im- of the church of St. Remy, aby inhabitanta whose lives are That is all. It is "home" re-ing worka, said that the typs non-mediate danger; and the abips handred years older than the spent in attending upon the needs duced to the elemental, an indefendant had stolen was mor

behind, noticing that something cathedral (it was built in 1160), of the bottles that earround them.provisation of rock, earth and about four shillings round and was amiss, though they could and, to the ignorant lover of pure Without going into details, it tree; a sure refuge nevertheless, was not now procurable. There Balkan blissarde, and were many of these petty thefts neither see nor hear anything, beauty, far more impressive. If may be said that champagne is from

he sought yet earlier relins, the emphatically not merely ran off shelter from an overbearing sun. going on, and he caked bis Wor- The Tarks, now finding they remains of the Bomsu triamphai from casks into bottles and left in 1One might live in wore placeship to make an example of thie

dag-outs, for instance, or tenis man. had only a small patrol in front arch, the Porta Martis could well peace till it is ready.

His Worship sent defendant to of them, began advancing in arrest his steps. After these, the The visitor to the town might that capsize, at night in a mov-

prison for three months. them aside and get at the ships, and the Lyese would probably thronged with market women findaa few pathetic relion rage charge against large numbers, so as to brash sixteenth-century Hotel de Ville return from the vaults through storml

the older streets of the town, Boattered on the floor, one The Police withdrew The sergeant, however, was a strike him as aggressively modera from the surrounding country. It of clothing, a broken olay pitcher, mother, of receiving stolen prop brave fellow, and knowing the For the traveller of importance of holding the Tarks practical tastes, modern Rheims always seemed France at its best, a woman's shoe, a vessel shaped erty.

this old quarter, teaming with apparently from the hard rind of back fought a fine reargaard had many attractions. It was a action, dispating every yard of busy industrial eity of some picturesqueness and good-temper. & pumpkin, & rusty stirrup, & ground. As the fight went on he hundred thousand or more in- The canal flows through the centre small sickle such be this primitive LOOK AT YOUR TONGUE

of it, covered with enormous people used at harvest time, lost two more men; so that, habitants, far enough (about s himself badly wounded, he had hundred miles) from Paris to slow moving barges, and fringed They are all epitaphs of the life first thing, in the morning. Hande perohence grown early only two men left, and one of these possess an individuality of its with quays that were the play- that once teemed within these white, of yellow and furred,

hard in aiding earth's was wounded. Things owa. Besides being an important grounds of the juvenile populs walls; but one may read deeper Fat need green swelling.

looked desperate, but it is always railway centre, being the junction. The children seemed always of that life in the style of habit darkest before dawn; and so ion of the railway from the on the verge of falling into the ation itself. That loop holed surely enough at this critical Channel coast and the North to water, but somehow they never outer wall reveals too plainly the

then from did. Their shrill cries blended insecurity and menace which the little sugar-coated laxatives moment the Turkish fire ceased. Switzerland and

the with the songs of the waterside made of almost every oottage's which care Constipat The sergeant was poering about Paris 10 Meziarie and yet from homes moet dear anxiously to see what this meant, Ardennes, it was an inland labourera, drinking their oaps stronghold against catila-stealers, nee, Biliousnes caressing=m

and what new plan of attack wea port on the River Vesle, cenalized of wine at tables set catside the brigands, and raiding bands. hot schen, foul-smelling breath. Only, work of mine, I beg you being prepared, when the man as a link joining the Airne to the little better that sandwiched for murder, persecution and Of chemists, also 60 cents the The gxcellence of it themselves in between the ware rapine zfamily and racial feuda, phial, pout free, from :.Dr. BBY,

at his right, a few yards off, Marne.

at times, no doubt, within the Williams Mediane Co.,:08-See "She who made as made suddenly gave an exclamation of communications has contributed houses.

From here to the social esntre village itself.

Fahgen, Road, Shanghai. friendly grasp,.

joy. "See there by the grave of very largely to the flourishing

The habitual verandah evid” "She who sent us sent a grate. Allah, we are cavedi The Colonel state of the industries of the town of the evening life of the town

ful clasp."

Sahib, with some men, a company Besides being the metropolia of a was but a step. The Cafe Bplen ences a life of indolent sociability

.THE.MITTENS.

Work of mine, go, caver what

gon miÉT :

Poet's hands that lately moved to speak the soul's out welling,

Foolish hands that errad, or hande oft-times outspread in blessing,

Handa that thrill in memory

$1

Defendant's Story Believed.

معاه

more

[PINKETTES

at the least, is issuing from the large agricultural and grasing dide might fairly claim to be this and carousal;" for when one's stones? To-day we live, for to- Hongkong Tramway Co,

fort to cut off the Tarks may district, it is an important centre centre. Here one might get a sheep may be stolen tomorrow morrow there may be war.

of the wool, trade, and the chief good dinner, with unlimited still one's harvest pillaged, one's "No people is so poor or grie The following is medically fit:

they perish in hell?”.... —A. D. Macdonald. The following

His sight was keen and true, warehouse and distribution point champagne thrown in for four women carried away into capmitive, but it has some sense of Having dined, one tivity, what gan ons do but lounge ornament and beauty, and these man of military age from thie

and the Tarks had seen also sad for the wine that takes its name france.

a door into and gossip, quarrel. at cards, turbulent folk ined to exRIDES company has been rejected as A marine bawker was charged were in full fight. It proved from the surrounding district of paese through anfit for service: W. E. Roberte, before Mr. J. B. Wood, this morn afterwards that this brave Indian Champagne, There, it is largely the auditorium of a music hall, drink sheep wine, and -siesta? thairs, eirangely enough, though:

The Tribunal decided to ing, with being in unlawful sergeant and his six men had grown.

towe - the latest revne" "fröm | And if one loses badly, or the the medium of chimneys... They i Exempt Mr. Macdonald.

possession of nineteen pounds of achieved a very notable snocest. This champagne industry is a the Police Bergires. When orop is ruined and the cattle die, are shaped like aquat belfríeu or old iron, valued at about $10. He The enemy force consisted of 500 most interesting one, and contains the show was over, another door are there not more fortunate campanile towers,you tobeurre, was arrested in Taumati by sa Tarks, with three guns, led by many, scorete, The osqual drinker led into a hall round which oup travellers who come down from and repost in deuil the rough Owing to the great and grow. Indian constable, and he claimed German officers, and commanded of a bottle of the wins) has very might sit sipping a glass of finer the bills weary and thirsty, fie stonewalls and projecting tiled ing shortage of paper, the public that he had purchased the iron by a German general Their little ides of the propene through champagner, and listening to their ever-laden donkeyrer ponies gables of the building all The at Home have been requested to off some boatmen at Tai Kok intention was to sink by gunfire which it had been, or of the labour éxcellent orchestra, while the under the verandah of the innresult is unity of formalne exercise the greatest economy, Tani, His Worship thought there the first ship that came along, involved in producing it. Perhaps more adventurous, spirits danood particularly in the matter of was no reason to believe that the hoping the next might foul has the citisen af Basims; knows too in the centres stationery. Much of the note man had not bought the iron and or also be sunk by gunfire, and mash about it, for, be rarely! Such was the city that the

German. paper now in mee is extravagant discharged him, telling him to that thos the canal would be drinks sparkling champagne,

bom Bar in sise and quality,

take away the iron as well,

blocked for weeks,

Use Less Stationery,

de d

yonder, and get duped at cards colour good to behold. In this or belplegaly dragged and drunk? derelior hill village of Macedonia And what is a traveller more or one can learn how, bermonious less in a land of waditional and integral a part of the whole bloodshed and nameless genre: structure a chimney-stack