SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1915.
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on!
TUESDAY,
the 28th September, 1915, commanding at 11am, at their Sale ftocms, No. 8,
Dan Vosur Road, Corpor
of Ios House Street, —
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CARPETS, CURTAINS,
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&
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And
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THE FORT FITS ENTERIJ
A hozas to house search orsa vetý vida Fares· wan erried out by the Friends: Ambulance Unit (organized by the "Quaker").seting under military authority and very case of enteric discovered in this my was removed to a special typhoid hospital of the British Army, where over a thousand people were Isolatede
The search partia of the Friends Unit bewed great ca ge and devotion, work- fing at times under shelldre in lagen which still receive their daily dose of Car.. in "hate" Hanwhile two of the bar. resiologista coiled, day and nighs at the over-increasing, back of their quest for the fats carriers, and not a sim. le indivi dost was
was allowed to save the hospital until certified to be freest typhoid, becilli, Ose of them. however, escaped. An old lady. marked down as carries," made hur way out of the hospital and disappeared for a considerable time, until she was dia carered at a certain village, and it is. x loast, a curious' and. significant thing that in this arts there has been a sarious rise in the typhoid figures." A has been new house-to-bousa search organized, aided by the Belgian authorities, ading andor their Ministry of Public Health, which he now been trired. Oring to these scientific methods. the British Army has been anved from the Scourge
of enteric-the number of cases is I learnt how good it is, and how yallant.st kritis-so that the amtistics of all The two miere be hunters with whom I was laft for information were au rounded with the same sort of equipment which I had purcsival inside the motor yan.
To safeguard these ages our policy for the future is the policy of the past. First and foremost to see that the margin of stocks over sales is always large enough to maintain our unique quality. Agents General, CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO. JOHN WALKER & SONS, Grp., Scorch Was Dintizarre, KilmARNOCK, SCOTLAND-
COMMERCIAL.
COTTON AND YARN.
As they smoked cigarettes and answered my questions they would demonstrate atatement by holding glass phisis ap to the light, or by directing my right eys to the lens of a microscope, in which I could see the life-struggles of various microbes which breed death in the human body or by
a cultivated for examination purposes. holding up glass boxes in which these bugs
NO. 1 MODULA LANOBAZOWY,
previous wars, in which the percentage of mortality due to disuase was enormously high, have been entirely reveset. The that of the victory, as great in its way as parme, is due to the high candard of geserat sanitation developed in the Army der recone yours, to the protection feried by anti typhoid inoculation, and to the early diagnosis of all essen by the bacteriologists and the isolating of the in- fected and microbe carrying peop's,
DOOMED PARLOURS.
Messrs." Jarnes „F. Hatton and Co., fade, of Manchester, in their weekly market report, dated August 26. 1915. "Cotton endaes are now keeping very strady in altrust as high a lavel as has een experienced since the nutbreak of the war, and at the moment thers does not seem much likelihood of any material
It seemed to me when I left the teat change. Siser our last report, cotton Ess
that had been in the presence al men wer oileially declared contraban af war, who, if there is nog glory in this war-and hut with the British aancuncement, there God know it is hard to End-should have Innovation on Umhy of Cornwall Estate. was a vague midertaking by the British the greater shars elit. For while other Government, which put into other words, men are destroying life they aresaving it,
and while prost nations are at each other's The parimar of the pose family, for so could only mean that prices would not throats, making mockery of knowledge, long a holy of holies, has had a day 4 be allowed to fall to any extens, that they in this and other tents are still tapan institutions it has been firmly ablish would generally upset and disorganize holding the sanity of science and pursuing Led for years. A courageons decision, bow- business. Government announced that they were
The particular Sauls of activity for the to build at Kennington cottages with ready to fad motey to help planters to microbe busters are among the breeding. iteban, seallery and bedrooms, but with france their crop, so that although the grounds of the bad haetti, which produce 20 parlour.
Reformers and housing experts have fature is still very uncertain we have the poison of all those diseases which the cotton crop in the unprecedented menace an amy more than the enemy' agitated for years against the existence of 829 position of having support of the ben artillery. The work began in a small way the parlour as an unnecessary evil and. at the outbrek of war, when a young expanse in a pour man's house. But it Governments. We doubt very much if Irish bacteriologist (he was one of the two seemed sacrilege to interfere with one of any selian will be negare and probably men with whom I talked) came out to the greatest of Victorian traditions-the the oral support of these undertaling France with motor cycle and a side-car, front rount, with its angular furniture, will be sufficient to keep fluctuations picking up equipment in & taske shift way ruffed canary, wax fruits, those ching dogs within sonable limits, and it would be as he went along, and doing laboratory with the Bzed atare, the plentitude of anti- research in various felt hospitals. From a acassars, and the abundance of woul quite in keeping with the usual run of scientific point of view the story of his mats, On a tabe anddr the window was things, that the market should just go unting chass for the enteric "bag" along the beavy Bible, cherished ragister of the the other way to what has been generally the foul ways of war is as gallant a thing as family births and death
any individual action in this
year of expected.
straggle.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
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THE
(JOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),
WEDNESDAY,
the 29th September, 1915, at 11 am, at No. 1. Torres Buildings, Kimberley Road, Kowloon,
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TO LET
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Further, the United States the high vocation of science amidst a world war, has been sure to by the state office PROMENADE CONCERT OCB Army Ataunition, Scoter TOUR ROOMED PLATS is Handf
The cloth market does not change much so far as the amount of business done,
of insanity.
of the Dachy of Cornwall, who es aboet
*
will be given in the BOTANICAL GARDENS.
SATURDAY,
Entrance only by Main Gate, SEPTEMBER 16, 195 at 90-PM
Lower Albert Road,
at 80P.IL. MKS. VILLIERS SMYTH MR. H.I. JOKES. Hongkong Police Raservé Orebestr Band of the 18th Toby. Accompanist-P. C. George Grimbie, H.K.P.R.
ADESSION 20 CASES. Members of the Van Military" "and: Police Fefees in anifein are invited as guests al the Pot ce Reserve,
The profits if any. of this concest will go to the Band and Orchestra of the
A Hongkong. Sept. 9, 1915
**If the choice is between a parlour and an extra bedroom said an architect to the next stay in the developonent of this Daily Chronicle representative, there scientife work was when & mobile labors should be no hesitation in chasing the
Bat the poor man, he can but cloth prices are certainly firmer and tory was brought at of the war zone (by bodenow.
afford much rest, will choose the parlon when buying recommences on a larger, the second of the two men with whom
family of six de seven into two talked) in conjuance of a suggestion and crowd a sende, it will be found that higher prices onde some time previously by the wall and stuffy bed cous.
the War Office.
of men rejected by the by the
The persealge miscellaneous business in small lines for, This office în chirge actual requirements. Bombay seems to Laboratory (there are now eight of them) more seriously we shall have to think of the be in a better position than Caloutta, came out with a motor rab equipped in health of the home lost and the little most complete way for bacteriological kitchen arda suali parlour crowded with both as regards the business done in the practice: Hia immediate purpose was, to purposeless things the poor home of the rge Extension Dining Table, Chairs,aurs and new business sent home, but catch, typhoid canters that is to say, future shnoid have a good sized
people who,hile not necessarily anteros sith a gas stovifos ecosing, indicerently microbe, which they convey to other human room.
The Local Government. Board has re- beings, so that from aven one of them a whole district or a whole army corps may sognised that the parlour is very often a be infected. After a fortnight' search be superfluous rden. In their memorandum had the extraordinary good luck to catch a on the provision of houses for the working Claasen they give five plans of model types. canier," who was immediately isciated.
will have to be paid. India still does a RA.M.C. and accepted a 1. Mobile recruiting authorities indicates how much A.K.P.R.
Handsome Bedroom Suite (Faured tear),
ALD
Sideboarda, &c., Oil Paintings, Water the reports from abroad all show that the disence,ars. inhabited by the Ino living room, with two or three będ- | Colours, Plaques, Lace Curtains, Rugs, the Tarar prices have not increased with &c., Brass Fenders, and Fire Brasses,tis iure on this side, which fact can Pantry and Kitchen Utensils including only he put down to the large stocks Easmelled Bath, &c.
existing, the necessity of realising, and the general sagcity of money." i Treadle Sewing Machine, Sunblinds, There has been a further substantial Electric Fittings, Plants in Pots, de, increase in dyeing prices announced is (Full Particulars from Catalogue,j week which affects the low to medium cloth rather heavily, but quite a nun On view from Tuesday 2 p.m. "
ber of firms who have announced the TEAMY-As usual.
alrance could zot dre any quantity of
* HCGBES & HOTGE,
Auctioneers. Bonchong, Sept $1, 1915,
Isay
KEATINGS ALOZENGES
cure the worst Cough
891
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
WE HATE BLIVED
A NEW SHIPMENT OF
SCLECTED
FALLET HADDOCKS
KIPPIRS.
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In the spring of this year a serious In three of these there in a living room and epidemic of enteric fever broke out among scultery, but no parlour. Just now there the ciril popolation-chiefly refugees from are economic ions for abolishing the t of the area occupied by parlour. The rat of building materials Belgium-in part the British troops. It was a most dan and the scarcity of labour has so much gerous menace to our Army, billeted in increased the capital outlay necesary, that these people's houses, and the R.A.1.C. economies in odling and design will have stuff at whatever price was paid swing, immediately abdertook a preventive to be affected to keep rents within the campaign which make among the finest rasch of the people for whom the properties episodes in the records of medical science, are intended.
to their shortage of colours.
VICTORY OF BRITISH
SCIENCE
Saving Troops From Disease)
I pressated a letter to one of the microbe haulers, but I had to stand outside hig tent for awhile balore he could answer it as there was a palazer going on inside - A Major came out and explained the situa Tion The General bad arrived and the officers were discussing lies, writes. Mir. Philip Gibbs in the Daily Chronicle.
When they begin talking about fide," mid the Major, the conversation, is ely to lait some time.
So I had time to oak round the cala in which the microbe bunters hats i email plot of ground on which to pitch their own Leotand motor, "ras, filed, as I could see by a glance inside, with a variety of glam bottles, phial microscope, and queer Instruments which suggested some abstruse scientific research like the "quees för the elixir of life or the transmutation of netsia If only they would find the elisinin one of those phials!
But their work in other fields is very good in their bot, after the Coueral had Enished his palavare and given", mala
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DAHAR LODGE, No. 4, Peak Road,
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824
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TORMAN COTTAGE, NO. 4 PEAK ROAD, Good Rooms, inmediato possession.
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FOUR ROOMRD HOUSES in Gortion Terrace and Salisbury Avenas, Kowloon... FLATS in Nathan Road. Kowloon. "A FLAT-is" "Hamphreys Building,. Kowloon.
Apply to
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
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NO.
TO LET.
619
【0. 8,-STEWART, TERRACE. Fesk
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$11
FROM 1st September that part of the
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Hongkong, August 19, 1915,
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