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ON THE WATERFRONT. tonnage than was reported a few
Recent Soundings, The Commanding Officer of H.M.S. Bluebell reports that as a result of soundings recently taken över Nganchau Am Pai Shoal. A rock with a least depth of 8 feet over it a: L.W.0.5. was found to exist in the centre of the shoxì. Phaition (approximate) Lat. 23 13 N., Long 114, 11 E The Admiralty Charts affected *:-: 3129 Exs: Lamma Channel,. 1466. Hongkong Island, lis. Approaches to Hongkong 2695. I Hongkong to Mirs Bay. 3025. Macao to Pedro Blanco and 1962. Hongkong to the Brothers.
Busy Day.
weeks back. Rates vary between 276 cents and 30 cents per picül according to the size of vessels Coal from Japan to Hongkong is coming down at Yea 3.75 to $4 and to Singapore at Yen 6.75.
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MRS. BESANT'S ACTION FOR ALLEGED SLANDER.
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Why Famous Theosophist was Freed from Internment,
Mrs. Annie Besant, President of the Theosophiest Society, Lave evidence in the Court of Session at Edinburgh in an action she has brought against the Belly Graphic for alleged slander. the claims £1.000 damages.
Yesterday was the busiest day there has been at the port of In an article publi-bed on De- Hongkong for about two months. | cember 12,1917, entitled "Unrest Al ́ogether there were 22 arrivals in India," the in Grophin, Mrý of steam tonnage from all ports Besant says. "Fabels and cal. and several of the ships enteredumniously stated that she had were big vessels. There were been interned by Land Pentland eight passenger steamers «from (then Governor of Madrast be- overseas paris, four of which Blew | cause she had refused to disrom the house flag of the Nippon tinue the advocating of sedition." Yusen Kaisha. The same company had one cargo steaner arrival as well as the large passenger Bicamera.
This, she contends, falsely re- presented her as a person who avocated sedition, and refused to discontinue its advocacy. On the contrary, she says, she never ad- The stranding of the passenger
vocated sedition, and the state-: steamer San Jose on Asuncion
ments in the Graphic were cal Reef off the coast of Mexico lastculated to do her great injor
Passenger Steamer Aground.
week was reported in Hongkong who gave her age as 73, said that, In the witcces box. Mrs. Besant, this morning by the Pacific Mail in 1915, she became concerned Steamship Company, owner of that, unless an active movement the vessel. No loss of life was reported and the vessel
for reform was supported, it would was be impossible to koop India within asid to be resting easy on the reef, with prospect of the Empire. The Indians were a
getting her afloat again". Tho
very law-abiding people. During Ban Jose is a well-known steamer,
her internment à petition was pro- on the Pacific Coast and has run
sented to the King for her release, for many
but in August 1917, when Mr. years
from San .Francisco to Central American made a declaration of new policy,{ Montagu, Secretary for India, ports. Her tonnage is 2,081 gross. she was set at liberty.
Freight Market Dull. The freight market locally still continues to be practically life- less, it was reported this morn-
The hearing was adjourned.
ing. No change, either one way | A MISTAKE MANY PEOPLE
MAKE
when troubled with Constipation is in following the old-fashioned practice of taking powerful pur gatives which upset the stomach, and leave the condition worse than before.
or the other, is spoken of. One factor that has much to do with this state of affairs is the over- stocked condition of the rice mar. Let at Hongkong. Lately, since the latter part of July, there have been heavy arrivals of rice. at Hongkong from Bengkok and Saigon with the result that the The up-to-date treatment is to market is now the reverse of use Pinkettes, which, whilst what it was a month ago. Now promptly efficient, act as gently there is no demand for tonnage as nature, leaving no after ill. from either Saigon or Bangkok to effecte. Pinkettes dispel con- Hongkong. In the coal trade stipation, care biliousness, sick neveral vessels have been fixed to headache, torpid liver, skin load at Hongey for Hongkong, blemishes, costed tongue, fool- the rate being $3 ton. Tomelling breath. Obtainable from Canton and Swatow the rate is dealers, or post free at 60 cents $3 25.
per vial from Dr. Williams' For freight from Java to Hong. Medicine Co., 96 Szechuer Road, kong there is a better demand for Shanghai.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
O.T. C. OFFICERS.”
Provision for Employment on
Mobilization
In order to provide for the utilization of the services of officers of the Officers Training Corpe on mobilization, the present unattached list of the Territorial Forca has been reorganized into a supplementary and a general liat, the latter comprising sections for active service and home service.
Officers of the supplementary- list will be affiliated to existing T. F.unita, subject to the approv al of the Association and the of ficer commanding the unit con- cerned, and will be confined to officers of and below the rank of captain. Officers of the activa service section of the general list will consist of those who do not wish to be affiliated to any parti.. icular unit, but who, on mobiliza- tion, will become available for posting. Officers of the home service section will
ia the
be thase whom, event of mobilization, university authorities or beadmasters wish to retain for duty with their O.T.C. contingents. All officers Now on the unattached list will ba transferred, automatically to the home service section of the general list as from June 30. The Army Order does not affect those officers of the Special Re- serve or Territorial Force who are now seconded or attached for duty with the O.T.C.
BISHOP'S WALKING STICK.
The Bishop of London, in dedicating the Artists Rifes War Memorial at their Drill Hall, in Eustoo-road, London, held the silver crozier of his office in one hand, and in the other an ash walking stick. His lordship ex- plained that the stick was pres- eated to him by the Artists when be visited them in France in 1915, Acd be greatly prized the Cemento,
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