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10,000,000 VOLUMES.

GERMAN SCHEME THAT COLLAPSED.

Particulars of a great scheme of the German Government for the establishment of a library capable ultimately of accommo- dating 10,000,000 volumes were given by Captain Rottenburg in evidence before the Board of Trade Committee that is inquiring into Mr. A. Gattie's central clear ing house system.

Captain Rottenburg, who has been closely associated with Mr. Gattie's scheme except during the war, said he went to Dresden at the end of June 1914 in conuec- tion with the German Govern. ment's library project. The Ger- man Government, he said, want

to handle the olurges between the storehouses tral offices.

ed machinery

and the reading rooms and cen-

They sent an engineer around the world to study all the great libraries and to report. At the end of his voyage the engineer

for a

Two days after sending the

TUESDAY OBER 21, 1919.

SPORTING TIT-BITS,

The Chelsea ground at Stamford Bridge can now accommodate 90,000 spectators.

a

Smith, who has been swept into the Rangers capacious net, is son of "Nie" Smith, who played so long at back for the Light Blues."

MOVEMENTS OF

STEAMERS.

The American & Manchurian Lines.s. CITY OF NEWCASTLE

is due to arrive here about 10th November.

The N, Y.-K. 89,- KAWACHI MARU (Liverpool Line) left Liverpool for this port via the Suez Canal on the 17th Sept.. "Winks" Malcolm, the old Mus- and is expected here on the 30th

May-flower October. selburgh-Loarhead centre forwa , has signed for The C.M. 5. NANKING sailed Forth Rangers. He is now resident from San Francisco on October in Grangemouth.

3rd, and she may be expected to arrive in Hongkong on Oct.

it.

The final of a handicap quoiting competition at Hawick resulted in C. Douglas (6) defeating R Sherriff (8) by 21 to 13; 3, J. Oliver (1); 4, J. Helm (10.)

R. A. Gallie, who played for the British Army in the Imperial Services competition last year, though now resident in Edin burgh, will play regularly for Glasgow Academicals.

The N.Y.K. 5.9. SADO MARU

(European Line) left London tor this port via the Suez Canal on. the 4th Oct., and is expected here on the 12th Nov.

The N. Y. K. 9.8. TAMA M.

(Calcutta Line) left Calcutta for this port via Singapore on the Stt Oct., and is expected here on the 29th Oct.

The N. Y. K. s.s. KOSOKU M. (Bombay Line.) left Bombay for and is expected here on the 7th bethis port direct on the 17th Oct.,

November.

Mr. Walter Graham, Chicago, a native of Hawick, has presected 3 gold medal to Hawick and wilton Cricket Club to awarded the player with the best bowling average for the season.

S. Puddefont, the West Ham

England centre-

United and

forward, has been keeping him- self fit during the summer by His best distance track running. is a furlong. He has been

winning a lot of prizes.

heard about the new (attie Transport Company and asked specification of their machinery to be sent to them. required estimate: he (Captain

Glasgow Academicals are start Rottenburg) went over to Dresden to explain the plans. Later the ing their "old boys cricket executive committee wrote to section next season. R.C. Warren, the New Transport Company.one of the popular brotherhood is secretary of the section, and letters addressed to him at the Academy will find him.

saying:

"We should give you the onder but you must understand that for the first four or six years the turnover of the volumes would not be sufficient to warrant our installing your machinery."

The Transport Company wrote stating it had cut its prices in order to get an opportunity of showing what its machinery could do, but under the circum- 'stances had to withdraw their

offer.

An instructive comparison be- tween railway methods and the results claimed for the Gattie system was placed before the

Committee by Captain Rotten- burg. Explaining the working of the proposed clearing house at Battersea, he said it would be

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As a comparison with these 40 trains marshalled per hour, at 60 containers per train, by which 2.400 containers would be mar shalled and ready for loading per hour, the average marshalling at Nine Elms per hour was 63 wagons.

The Admiral L. s.s. ICONIUM is due to arrive at Hongkong on

November 1st. from Seattle via usual Japan ports and Shanghai.

The N, Y. K. s.s. TOSAN M. (Calcutta Line.) left Singapore for this on the 18th Oct., and is expected here on the 26th Oct.

The P. & O. sa, JAPAN left Moji for this Port on the 18th instant, and is due here on the 22nd instant at about nood.

The P. & O. 5.5. DUNERA left Singapore for this Port on the here on the 25th instant at about

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HIS THIRD MILLION DOLLAR

COMEDY

Lochhead, the Heart of Midlo- 19th instant at 8 s.m. and is due Prices: $1.50, $1.00 & 70 Cents:

thian young centre forward, comes from Busby, a Renfrew- shire village where the Hearts manager spent his boyhood. Donaldson, the International winger, comes from the same quarter.

It is anticipated that W. A Hill, the A.A.A. double champion, will have another "go" at Joe Binks long-standing record for the mile 4 mins. 16 4-5 secs-at

the London Athletic Club's meet- ing.

Joe Beckett is 23 years of age and M'Goorty 30; both are 5 ft. 10 in. in height; the Englishnian weighs 13 st. lb., and the American 11s 11 lb and the former has a reach of 7134 in.,

and the latter half an inch more.

6 a.m.

The T. K. E, s.s. SHINYO M. arrived at Manila on Saturday, the 18th instant and sails at 3 p.m. to-day, being due to arrive The T.K.K. sa. SEIYO MARU here on Wednesday, 22nd instant. sailed from Moji on the 18th and will arrive at this Port on the 23rd instant.

RUSSIA arrived at Shanghai or 19th Oct. 7 p.m. left there 20th Oct. 4 p.m. and is due at Mänila.

The R. M. 8. EMPRESS OF

on 23rd Oct., 8 am.

The R. M. S. EMPRESS OF

JAPAN arrived at Tsingtau on 19th Oct., am. left there 19th Oct.. noon, and is due at Shangbai on 20th Oct., 6 p.m.

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The R. M. S. MONTEAGLE | SAL arrived at Kobe at Midnight, on Est.

Mr James R. Nisbet, who died suddenly in London a few weeks ago, was a well-known figure in Edinburgh cycling circles when the 19th October. that sport was on the "boom." He edited the Scottish Cyclist for many years with marked success. George Dallas and George Hamilton, the half-mile and fur- As far as marshall-long strings of the famous Mary. ing went the machinery of the hill Harriers team, are now pre- Gattie scheme was capable of 38 sident and vice-president of that TYPHUS EPIDEMIC AMONG times the turnover of Nine club. The inference is that both Elms.

have now definitely said "farewell" to the track.

He added that cranes would be situated at intervals right down the clearing house. by which means practically the whole freight on trains could be dealt with simultaneously.

Mr. Arthur S.Seaman, electrical engineer, referring to the chain of escalators for the conveyance of truckers to various stages of the clearing house, said it would be possible to bring the escalator to a stop within a few inches. The escalator proposal was an entirely new one.

Mr. Clode, K. C., for the Railway Executive: It is to a certain ex'ent a secret proposal

Mr. Seaman: There are certain things we do not want to disclose.

During the coming season the Watsonians will be in Wales at Christmas time to engage Swan sea and Newport. On New Year's Day the Hartlepool Rovers will be a Myreside, and a return game will be played at Hartlepool to close the.. Watsonian game on

April 3rd. A start will be made

TERRIBLE CONDITIONS IN SIBERIA.

SOLDIERS.

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Omsk, Oct. 11. Siberia is threatened with one of the greatest typhus epidemics in history, according to reports from Colonel Teusler and his party of Red Cross representatives who have been in Western Siberia for

BOOKING AT ANDERSON'S.

TIDE TABLE.

20th to 26th October, 1919.

*

Rich Ware Hongkong

Low Water Factor

Kran Time.

In morning a afternoon.

EXCHANGE.

SELLING.

T Demand

4/594

4/5 15/16

4/6 1/16

4/6 3/16

30 d/s

tr. 60 dis

41140

fields. The situation forecasts privations and deaths greater than last winter. The Omsk Department of the Interior re- ports that 230,000 new refugees have been registered bringing the total up to half a million.

4 m/s

T/T Shanghai

T/T France

4/6 3/16

Nom.

T/T Singapore.

1904

T/T Japan

186

T/T India.

499

Demand, Indis

222

T/T San Francisco)

& New York./

934

T/T Java

29914

T/T Marks

Nom.

8.23

Demand, Paris

BUYING.

4/7/4

4/714

4/755

4/734

95

4 m/s. L/C..... 4 m/s. D/P. 6 m/s. L/C 30 ds. Sydney andį Melbourne 30 d/s. San Francis-1

co & New York 4 m/s. Marks

Nom. 4 m/s. Francs 8.47 6 m/s. France

...... 8.55 Demand, Germany. The sanitary conditions are Demand, New York 9336. frightful, and unless the American TIT Bombay

are

Near Omsk 30,000 are actually without shelter: winter is ap proaching and thousands digging holes in the ground" to escape freezing.

six months. The cases among "Red Cross can furnish relief, the Demand, Bombay...

death toll this winter will be far TT Calcutta

the Siberian troops since Jan-

on October 4. when Greenock uary 1 last amount to 120,000, beyond anything previously Demand, Calcutta...

known in Siberia. to

20%

222.

19514 The Russian Demand, Manila Red Cross estimates mortality Demand. Singapore. 19034 among children at 30 per cent On Haiphong and it is increasing. The country On Saigon has been stripped of all medical On Bangkok accessories, hospital clothing and Sovereign.....

the people's Gold leaf per Tael... 32.40 underwear, and are

since Wanderers will be met at Myre- and

July 1. side.

40,000. Fresh cases now Charlie M'Lean, who won the total 1,000 daily. Trains from light and heavy ball putting com- the front bring Icads of stricken petitions at Lochaber, is a native soldiers ragged and verminous. of Fort-William, and won the All the present disinfection and | same brace of events there as far hospital resources

over back as 1895, when 21 years of whelmed, and the fever is rapidly age. Early in life he was a bank spreading among healthy soldiers. clerk, and then was a member of Typhus is also spreading among Govan constabulary. Later be the civil population in Western enligrated to Canada, and on and Middle Siberia and there are returning engaged in sheep farm- indications that by mid-winter it ing. Recently he was on military will reach enormous proportions. service. He has many marvell- The pressure of refuges fleeing ous performances on record. One from the Bolsheviks in July, of his best putts was at Aboyne August and September is over- The British Museum Library-16 lb. ball, 46 ft. 10 ins. At crowding all the cities from Omsk contains 4,000,000 and the London Inverness he has a genuine high eastwa: is. A countless number Library 300,000 volumes.]

leap of 6 ft. to his credit.

of refugees are living in the

Dr. Hele Shaw, F.-R. S. (Pro fessor of Engineering), said he

believed that the Gattie mach- inery would do what was claimed for it.

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organizations, Zemstvos, town Bar Silver, per az ...

forward

unions, provincial governments and also the Russian Red Cross. are begging the American Red Cross for assistance as their only) hope in face of the desperate situation.

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It the opinion of the Red Cross officials the reverses sustained by Admiral Koltchak's army are due H'kong 50 cis sub. to the inadequacy of sanitary facilities at the front. The troops are now better in moral.

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BREAKFAST

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J DOKEY 16JOUE-I HAYEKT"; HAD TIME: "TO READ IT.

OH, HERE'S THE MORNING PAPER! WHAT'S THE LATEST

NEXTS, HELEN?

CAN YOU BEAT IT? SHE'S DOWN THERE READING THE PAPER: WHILE I UP DERE MAKING HER BED!

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