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THE NEW GERMAN ARMY.
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A REVIEW OF HER POLITICAL GROWTH.
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KISTER SHIP BEING BUILT.
The annual general meeting of The Admiralty airship R-33 the Hongkong Football Associa arboured securely in the gigantic tion, also the Hongkong Football khod where she has been built, is / League, will take place on Mon- has been contributed to US counts of the new German NaHE undersigned have received
The following article on Korea According to more detailed ac all ready for fight, and only awaits day, the 19th inst. at 5:30 pm at Daily News-As this country is tional Defence Bill, its main pro-Be a favorable day to make her first the Victoria Barracks when the looming prominently before the visions are as follows
in the air. She is by far balance sheets will be presented, eastern world just now, the the largest airship that has been and the general business of the following brief notes may be of public is to raises provisional (1) The President of the Re- ballt in Britain her one rival Association, including the elec being a sister ship that is near- tion of officers, will be arranged.
National Defence Force, which, ing completion on the Clyde, says
The past season has been a problem, it is needful to study frontiers of the Republic, enforce To understand the present ent Defence, shall guard the pending the creation of a perman- the London Times.
very successful one and the meet-history. The peninsular called the orders of the Government, Visible No. S. 18. R-33 floats high from the ing will have the very pleasant area or ground, huge and blue-gray, but task of accepting a balance sheet inhabited by those who were, order at home.
Haien so softly toned and beautifully for the Association showing a
is and maintain tranquility and proportioned that sense of her credit balance to commends next great size is swallowed up in the season's, workings of erori earlier settlers who row predom-150,000 to 200,000 men (excluding
Remington & time, twa races. The old or, Mongoloid is to be built up to a strength of No. 5-10
(2) The National Defence Force 1 Oliver Typewriter Visible
Visible No. 10 - 18′′ immensity of the still vaster mately $200 and for the Football inate in Southern Korea were a shed in which she is poised in League of approximately $60 race who for ages, and until quite ficers, and administrative service), I instant preparation to soar. This is a very satisfactory result recently, were practically serfs,
officers, non-commissioned
1 Monarch Typewriter Visiblo Holding herself lightly aloft. of the season's workings, and under a semi-alien caste, called on a popular basis, by the amal-Visible No.11-18"
of-ING. 3-14 though moored to the earth with augurs extremely well for sport Yang Pans. These serfs have not and by the recruitment of volun- No. 5-18
1 Remington. Typewriter tant cables and ponderous iron and particularly Association foot been noted for much energy, but
gamation of existing formations cubes, the airship gives a won-ball during the coming season.
1 Oliver Typewriter Visible derful impression of size devoid
As regards the actual playing known it would be seen that they be divided in sheh way that if their early history were better of weight, an impression which season, it is doubtful if any former have learned how to suffer and
(3) The national territory shallNo. 3 - 18.
1 Monarch Typewriter Visible is heightened almost to the season in Hongkong has been so endure. degree of the ethereal by the interesting as, although the Clubs
every army corps ares shall be silence that has fallen after long have not been up to the standard
liable The northerners are a much brigade, which shall be named months of eager labour and by the of former years, they have been more stalwart race, being, as is after the province to which is be-15th
raise one national) amber lights which alone are so evenly matched as regards generally supposed, partly semitic longs. permitted to fall upon the cradl strength, that the games have people, who, possibly with the old ing place.
provided excellent sport to per- Phoenician adva turers, found be placed under the National (4) The national, brigades will This great structure of duralu-haps greater crowds than have their way to south Mancuria High Command, and the sieco- mir, 670 feet long and 80 feet ever watched football in Hong-over 3,000 years ago. Certainly, tive services of the old army are mean diameter, carrying four kong before.
as their remains prove, they were to be entrusted with the task of gondolas and fitted, with five
of South a tribe far advanced in the arts of raising the new army.
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· engines, each of 250 horse-pawer, /China Athletic into the Senior history as a race of quiet people, peal for the new National De- weighs less than thirty tons, with competitions, has been largely living just to the east of the old its nineteen balloonettes filled responsible for this, and their with hydrogen. sixty tons of air, and therefore, kong Shield matches reaching were ruthlessly attacked by the It displaces fine performance in the Hong-boundaries of the Chibli province, who in the third century B. C. besides its Own weight it the final round. and playing a can lift another thirty tons. It remarkably good game before a
last but one of the Ts'in' em- is poised on tiptoe, as it were, record attendance for the Colony, perors, who drove them back waiting for its release from the will be a matter of football history over the Liao river. Nemisis iran fetters that hold its feet, and in Hongkong. Next year they barrior of sand forming the the rolling back of the lofty doors will be strong favourites with the buffer state, being removed. the followed sure and swift, for the between which the light of the crowd, and with every prospect true day manages to steal with of the British teams being much down, and in spite of the build wild Tartar tribesmen rushed The ship has been formally Joseph's College team also including of the Great Wall, gave China
stronger, and the clever St. handed over to the Royal Aired in the Senior Competitions, endless trouble. They and the Force, but her commander, there should be an Association tremendous discontent engenerat- Colonel Hicks, did not set her boom in Hongkong
ed by the forced labour, used free because wireless messages
The Hongkong Club flattered to erect the Barrier of bricks, from a distance gave warning of their supporters by playing a together with the fact that China storms from the southwest, which strong game throughout
had a weak ruler caused the airships may one day brave with season, and besides being run downfall of the Ts in dynasty. impunity, but into which it would ners-up in the Hongkong League, be unfair to launch a new craft they secured the Hongkong more
The Kaoli, settled down to a not yet attuned to its element. Shield.
.or less With the It is to be expected that the air-stalwarts like Stalker, Railton, Liao until the 7th century A. D return of industrious life eastward of the peaceful and ship of the very near future will J. Rodger, Ralston and others, when the be able to defy all weathers; and the inclusion of one or two Emperor, the great Tai Tsung, almos: last T'ang In fact, Mesars. Armstrong and ex-Service men who are stopping thirsting for more conquests, at- Whitworth, who are the builders in the Colony, next year's prostacked the Kaolia. who put up a of R-33, say that airships can pects are good. now be built to fly the Atlantic The Navy have played con- and though eventually driven very determined and long fight, and ride safely in a gale moored sistently good football during the over the Yala river, were not in the open to nothing more than season, and created a record by actually subjugated. a deeply rooted bollard, after the winning the H. K. and U. S. manner of a ship in port. The League. They have played a the undoing of his dynasty too,capital and rendering an annual
Tai Tsung's campaign proved
a Chinese resident to live in their. Far Easterns R-33 is believed to be capable of very strong game and with the for during his prolonged absence but not vexatious tribute. The flying the Atlantic, and certain big China Fleet returning in the serious troubles broke out in Manchus actually encouraged the minor alterations that have been near future their prospects of China, needing his return, and innate desire of the Koreans for China Fires made since the day of Armistice fielding a good side next year are whilst thus engaged, the food seclusion by laying waste a wide H. K. Fires suggest that the Admiralty may very bright. have it in mind that she shall Both
gates being opened by the further strip of their own Manchu ter- the R. E. and R. A driving carry through the enterprise and have suffered by severe losses of safeguards, hordes
back of the Kaoli ritory west of the Yalu as a "No thereby secure another blue players, and have had a moderate north-eastern Tartars poured into Chinese from entering Korea, Indos (Pref.)
of ferce Man's Land." forbidding all Douglases ribbon for old England.
season, but under the circum-China, These alterations have the stances have done well and pro-Tang dynasty and for ever after, the residency,
smashed up the excepting those connected with effect of increasing the petrol vided good sport.
Indos (Def.) storage capacity so that if her The 2nd Division League has time, made China more or less vasion and the intense love of
excepting during the brief Ming
The awful dread of foreign in-
Shells cruising speed should prove to be been a very keen competition subject to various Tartar rulers.
Ferries sixty miles an hour, she will be with St. Joseph's playing a strong
their own land, its customs and able to keep the air for eighty game throughout.
to
strong protest. Ming fashion of head-dress under
left Korea severely alone, simply The earlier Manchu monarchs
of fendal sovereignty by abstain-North Chinas requiring an acknowledgement Cantons ing from all foreign intercourse, Unions not sanctioned by Chine, allowing
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In the 13th century the Man-language, kept the Koreans an Sugars hours and have a cruising range Depts., but for one or two rather of many lands, determined to
Staffs and gols, having overthown the rulers hermit nation. About sixty years Malabons of 4,800 miles. The southern unexpected slips, night have won conquer Japan. fitting out
ago a small and route to America, which is the the Championship as they took huge
ill-omened filibustering expedition set out more favourable for the outward three points out of four from the (Tarien) Bay, Weihaiwai and grief on the river near Pyeng Langkats
armada, from Talien from Shanghai. but it came to Kailans journey, is something like 4,000 leaders, and towards the end of Kiaochou Bays, curiously res. Yang the foreigners being all Shanghai Loans miles, and the R-33 would there- the season played in convincing pecting fore have a margin of power for form. They also made an ex Korea.
the neutrality of killed. Later, the then Korean Shai Explorations! contingencies.
ceptionally good fight in
This expedition. the brilliantly planned, The speed of the airship is Shield
so regent, known as the Tal Wen Ranbs Competition with
came to Kung, fearing foreign intrigue. Tronohs' derived from
the nought owing five engines, Royal Engineers, only losing by which broke it up. The barely priests and
the storms massacred a number of French Urals Sunbeam-Maori type. placed at the back of the forward drawn games. Kowloon also, a the Japanese to a sense of inse- Christians.
One is the odd goal in three after two averted invasion, however, arous- his best people, who had become about 10,000 of or navigating gondola. Each of smart Junior combination, curity, giving the war party a after this the Hermit Land was the touring gondolas half-way played very good football and chance to come to the fore. and opened by an American Admiral Blong the body of the ship has a had a successful season. They the Mikado was consequently to foreign trade. similar engine, while the rear entered the Hongkong Shield retired to the background and the gondola has two that are coupled Competition, and
Once shaken out of its old ruts, together to drive a larger pro-kong Club were all out to bea?
the Hong-military Shogunate strengthened. Korea seems to have been unable Centrals peller. The crew of twenty-three them in the first round, which however, a very strong milit- deposed and
During the 14th men will have some comforts they did, but not before Kowloonary force
century, to go alone. The Regent was H.K. Hotels that no earlier airship has afford-scored the opening goal and gave by
the young kingLand Invest. ed. They will, for one thing, the Senior Club a severe shock. of
together given full power, but though re- 'phreys Est. have warm meals, because the It is hoped that next season a Korea-like Belgium-made
the invasion puted to have been a good well. Kioon Lands Korea, but meating man, he was unable toL Reclamations hot water from the engine separate cup to be played for on noble stand for its neutrality, and country, though he did most suc radiators will be used to heat the knock-out system will be though it failed to keep out the cessfully keep out opium. In 1884
a keep a strong hand over his West Points cooking-pots, and it is declared presented by the Association or invaders, held them that it will be possible to fry egg some local sportsman for the Pyeng Yang until the Chinese between Chinese and Japanese. Kung Yike and boil potatoes. The R-33 fa juniors, as this form of football could gather an army and come In 1894 China and Japan went to Lau Kung Mows
at bay at serious troubles arose in Seoul Ewos the first airship to carry para-competition is very popular. on the scene. In due course the war over Korea, which resulted Orientals
Japanese were driven out of the in the downfull of the great Li Shai Cottons peninsular, but as they retreated, Hung-chang and ultimately of the Yangtszepoos according to tradition absolutely Manchu dynasty.
Russia, as is well known, Green Islands
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airship would have carried about best of the airships the Germans believed by the Koreans of to-day, siv guns, including a couple of ever had in commission, and if they devastated the whole of determined to annex Korea and China Borneos two or three-pounders, eight 100 the enemy had projected same-southern or industrial Korea, so forced on the war with Japan, C. L. Borneos b. $5 old b. 1.05 no pound and sixteen, 120-pound thing superior the bombs. It is the elimination of events have prevented our know porcelain, silks, paper-making. troubles and loss.
course of All the most skilled workers in bringing the bombe which permits of the ing more about it.
herself endless China Providents b. increase in the petrol storage.
smiths and other craftsmen were As to methods of construction, either killed or taken captives to torate over Korea, and it seemed Macao Electrics.
Japan followed with a protec- H. K. Electrics
Dairy Farms As to food and water, the calcul- there is reason to believe that the Japan. Korea had in former ages as though, at long last, a period Ropes tion is that each of the crew commission that has visited Ger- given Japan her main ideas for of prosperity and progress had Trams, LowLevel n. should have an allowance of meat many has returned satisfied that making porcelain, silks and much dawned for the Land of Morning Trams, Peak, old, b. and drink equal to his own we have no need to take lessons else, also Confucianism and Budd Calm. In spite of many initial Trams, Peak, ew bote. Weight:
This is the latest and largest One of the main exterior features there was almost no intercourse would father"Korea into a Steel Foundries
from the builders of Zeppelina.hism. For the next 500 years, mistakes, it looked as if Japan Laundries pe of British airship. It has of the construction of the R-33 is been designed by the Admiralty, the stream line to reduce wind neighbour.
between Korea and her eastern flourishing nation. hich, at the time of drawing the resistance. It gives the ship a
The persent position is most Watsons
U. Waterboats ans, had the opportunity of comparatively blunt head, a fall very friendly with the Kao and and one sincerely hopes that Wiseman's
The Mings seem to have been unfortunate for all concerned, Wm. Powells Andying and improving upon the body, and a long tapering tail. to this day the Koreans adhere Japan and Korea, a mutuallyBrit. Burmahs
ostraction of the Zeppelin L-33. The general shape is that of a tenaciously to the Ming style of interdependent, may yat work:
R-33 is not inferior. to the torpedo.
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