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FOR WEAK DIGESTIONS.
Almost everybody experiences times when the organs of digestion show. painful signs of weakness Sose slight disturbance of health starts the trouble: then the patient turns against fond, and dull, heavy pains in the abdomen give warning that the stomach is unable to do its proper work. Sometimes a false
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE WAR..
(Continued from Paga 5.)
SUNDAY'S TELEGRAMS.
"THE MOST SUCCESSFUL RAID.“
LONDONERS WREST C'E' RECORD FROM CANADIA -S
NO" TRAVELLING IN THE WAR ZONE
CANADIAN ACHON.
LONDON, Feb 23..
OTTAWA, Feb. 28. Reuter's correspondent an. Headquarte An Onder-in-Council forbids women ers saya a London regiment has wrested and children to embark hon?' Cana- from the Canadians the record of carry dian, ports for lestiations in the ing out the most successful raid. One
wur goue hundred and twenty prisoners--all
"craving for food arises; if satistics, the Reuters Service to the China Mail.Prussians--were brought back, and, at result
M. M. LINER "ATHOS" TORPEDOED.
the least, 300 of the enemy were killed Five machine-guns were captured.
is additional torture. Flatulence. a drowsy depression, sick headaches nati tans are other signs of indigestion
The foolish practice of dying to drastic, weakening purgatives at such tines should be avoided. Indigestion arises from stomach weaknesses, and the only effective method of remedy for this debilitated state is to strengthen the 1,430 OF THOSE ON BOARD SAVED. ing and bayoneting the tmpped Prus
feeble organs of digestion by applying them with richer, better blood, so that they are made it to perform their work, This is the true tenie treatment of Indigestion, hy which natural method Dr. Williams Pink Pills achieve great resulta
These Pills make the rich, new blood on which the digestive systems depends to carry on its work of assimilating food, and because
this special power, Dr. Williams Pink Pills strengthen wrak digestions impart a healthy appetite and dispel all the painful disorders thub arise from Indigestion, Nervous Dyspepsia, and Stomach Disorders.
Begin to day to strengthen your Digestion by starting Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. From the first you will enjoy a butter appetite and your food will do you more good. Sold by all lealers, or supplied direct by Dr. Williams' Medicine C, Szechuen Road, Shanghai, 1 bottle for $2.80, & bottles, ass,
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PARIS, Feb. 23.
BOMB EXPLOSIONS IN SPANISH SHIPYARD.
The assault was made half an hour Fefore sunset on the 20th inst. Two GERMAN AGENTS SUSPECTED. Hanking parties met 100 yards to the rear of the German trenches while ther comrades in the centre were still bomb-
sians. Many knew the German langu. and confused the enemy "by. shouting misleading orders.
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MADRID, Feb. 23. Ten bombs exploded in a shipyard Bilbao. Gennan agents are sus- peeterl
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The Londoners remained in the STRIKES AND RIOTS IN GERMANY. It is afficially announced that the Messagarice Maritimes, wail-boat trenches for an hour, thoroughly The retaliatory from China, transporting Senegalese destroying them. tirailleurs and Colonial labourers to German artillery fire was wild and France has been torpedoed in the Medi- ineffective terranean.
Two escorting destroyers, aided by a Funboat which came up, saved 1,430 of those on board."
A SERIES OF BRITISH SUCCESSES.
AMERICAN MISSIONARY FROM SIR DOUGLAS HAIG'S REPORT.
» SOOCHOW DROWNED.
LONDON. Feb. 23 Sir Douglas Haig reports that we have improved our position to the north of Guesdecourt, capturing & trench and taking 30 prisouers. portion of
WASHINGTON, Feh, 26. The American Consul at Malta tele graphs that Robert Hader, an Ameri-
drowned what the they was torpedoed on Missionary from Soochow, was in the Meditermnen on the 17th inst. The ship was torpedoed without warn- ing when 210 miles east of Malta
Mr Haden was drowned when recast of Soucher during which dug outs turning to the ship to assist others. were destroyed and a naraber of the
The submarine showed neither flag enemy killed.
nor wumber.
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itle of March. $250 Lieut. Col. The Athos, was one of the newest and A. V. ALEXANDER, 74 Punjabis, Kowloon largest liners of the Messageries Mari Hoogkook. Feb. 24, 1917. 1595 times feet and is well known in the Far Est. She was a twin screw steamer of 12,000 tons gross, built in 1914. Her Ft.: demensions were:-Length, bread:b, 61 ft.: depth, 45 ft.]
LESSONS IN CHINESE »
B. 12 HON YAN, a Chinese crudante rerumi in
Borature, has been a teacher to Europeo n
diakan Sterbate the Colony for ten years Henk Both of using Buropeutin to
1 The Chinos ayunto. Rad is an ITALIAN TRANSPORT TORPEDOED. frat hate ertinenty as a Chinese ter le gd ertese of Mandarin am Lakka The hotel learn the Chanraarn are requested to write ea China Mril the w
As Follows Upholstered Suites, Arm ebaies and Solas, Card Tables, Defron Furniture, comprising Double mal Single Bouss mounted Bedstends. Twin Bedstemisk (Teakwood), Sidecards, Dinner Wagons, Extension Dining Tables and Chain, frees No, 187, Wellington Strout, meenal Hoor. Tea and Occasional Tables, etc., Dinner Services, Crockery, Glass Ware, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, Toilet Set, de.. Bath Boom Utensils Roll-top Desks and Writing Tables etc. Sundry Electri Hated Ware.
Fiano in good condition, Electric Beading Standard Lampa, Black; woord: and Teakwood Screens, a quantity of Blackwood Furniture, Engravings, etc.
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Teunis Foles and Netting, e.. dj. Brass Finger Bowls, Carpets (New and second hund), Child's Cot, etc. (Full Farticulars from Catalogus.) Txxx-Canb
HUGHES & HOUGĖ. Auctioneers
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FOR SALE.
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SOME OF THE TROOPS SAVED.
ROME, Feb. 24.
The transport lines, on a voyage to Salonika, was torpedoed on the 15th ins, when 160 miles west of Cape Matapar. Part of the
troops aboard. were saved.
SUBMARINE BRUTALITY.
ANOTHER CASE
We occupied a post to the south of Petit Miraumont.
PROCESSIONS HEADED BY THE RED FLAG.
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 29. Sarikes in Germany are spreading" a Hundreds of women and children, headed by the red flag, are clumour- ing for bread. Shops have been looted in Aix-li-Cluspelle, a
DEMAND FOR IMMEDIATĘ HOME
RULE FOR IRELAND...
Losnos. "Feb. 2
The Nationalists attach tlmy utilat importance to the debut on the
A raid was carried out to the south-resolution demanding antediate Hoine "Rule and declare that the refusal of the demand will make an election inevitable.-
We ropulsed mids to the south of Armentiers, In the neighbourhood.cf Ploegsteer wood mail number of the enemy reached our trenches but they were either killed or taken prisoners.
ENEMY ATTACKS REPULSED BY THE FRENCH.
LONDON, Feb. 23.
A French commanique states: There has been artillery firing in Alsnee and Lorraine. The French repulsed. enemy cps de main in the Soisson and Berontaux LS,
MORE GERMAN LYING EXPOSED,
THE NEW ZEALANDERS PAÏD..
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THE ARRESTS IN IRELAND.
PRISONERS TO BE BANISHED.
Losos. Feb. 2. An official statement has been issued-in Dublin that those arrested Yesterday under the Defence of the Realny Act have been prohibited from residing in Ireland.
TRADING WITH GERMAN FIRMS IN THE EAST.
MANCHESTER MERCHANTS
SENTENCED.
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THE SILVER MARKET,
Loxos, Feb. 23.. LONDON, Feb. 21, Reuters correspondent at Headquarthe Stonebridge Cloth Manufacture Harry Broughton, the principal cf | ters. suys that yesterday's German wireless message concerning 200-Britishing Company, has been sentenced, at i dead is notable instance of hardy lying Manchester, to a year's imprison- The New Zealanders carried out the tent, and his sons to a fine of £50 raid and remained for upwards of half sterling,, for trading with German an hour in the Germaan support trenches, finis in the East. LONDON, Feb. 23. doing great destruction and capturing One of the worst instances of deli-44 prisoners. They found the German beraza submarine brutality recorded up tranches strewn with dead from ouz to the present bas been revealed in the bombardment. If the Germans really case of a Lowestoff Bahing, amack which was stopped on the 13th inst, 46 miles counted 200 corpses, seven-eights of
them were German! from land. The skipper and crew were ordered to board the submarine. A German sailor placed bombs aboard the amack after collecting all the provisioną, The crew of the amack were then ordered into a boat and told to "pull away." They were pickell up sixty- eight hours later after being exposed to bitter cold and heavy weather, without food or water, the whole time.
CREW OF " WORCESTERSHIRE "**
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LONDON, Feb 12. The passengers and crew of the Worcestershire were landed on the 18th
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BRITISH PROGRESS IN MESOPOTAMIA.
LONDON, Feb. 23.
LONDON, Feb. 22. Messrs. Montagu's report on the silver murket states there has been certain amount of general ecmpeti- tion while offerings have increased owing to the setback in price indue- Ting"profit-taking and freer sales-alm- the Shanghai Exchange showed
An official inessage from Mesopo-weakness and a little selling occurred and consequently the price declined. tentia says: We have secuted und consolidated two lines of trenches ut the Southern end of the Sannuiyut position. Fighting continues.
The Tigris has risen to flood level; hindering operations.
"NO TIME MUST BE LOST."
OUR RESPONSIBILITIES. GRAVE BEYOND WORDS."
tion.
Paid-up Capital £2,437,600 SUCCESS OF BRITISH MEASURES. -Fire Fendi................. 3,837,047 I-Lite & Annuity Funds... 17,587,500
LONDON, Feb. 22. Sinking Food & ccount .......
be lost!' -——£23,970,887 Edward Carson, First Lord of the Admiralty besides giving instances of Revenue, Fire Branch............ £2,981,456
Lite and Apuuity
warships ramming submarines, men- 2,141,503 tioned the engagement of two British Branche......! Ravenos Marine Department... 237.259 patrol boats and two arbmarines. One 478,94 of the submarines was apparently, sunt Other Receipts
The fate of the second was donhtful. £6,330,223 Another patrol boat reported that it hit The Accomodative. Fande of the various the conning tower of a submarine with Branches are separately formted, and, by its fifth shot and it is believed the sub- the claims under the respective Departed a submarine in the act of diving. Act of Parliament, are set aside to meet marine was sunkt. A reaplane also bomb menta.of the Company's Business.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
LOSING WEIGHT BY THE POUND
"Under Weight,” a condition of 1-Lealth, shows your assim.. ilave powers are decreasing.
WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED COD LIVER OIL COMPOUND.
Supplies the blood with the wanted nourishing and bealthy fesh balding materiale Very palatable.
OF ALL CHEMISTS
THE WAR CONFERENCE.
ARRIVAL OF OVERSEAS PREMTERS.
Lovnos, Feb. 22.
RUBBER SHARES.
HOME MARKETS IN 1910.
THE EXCESS PROFITA TAK, The Financial Times, reviewing the past year's activities, states with regard to rubber shares :-****
has taken
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Moreover
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contains which is needed by bur: nerves and ather food elements which at once brain and which is not supplied in aro assimilated to make tissue and sufficient quantity by our ordinary energy. It is wholly digestible, ä Food. Thus it is an ideal food for fact which distinguishes from Courishing and strengthening the earlier and less highly perfected nerves, and for correcting all the products. The Chairman of the
"Sanaphos i many ills which result from weakness Company making.
cf those nerves which govern all the Sir William Taylor, M.D., Surgeon- working of the body:
General of the Forces.
*Sanapos." I sold by
Chemiats. Stocks are bald by and requests for samples abould be, addressed to Fletcher à. Ca, or The Queen's Dispenasty, Liong Kong
Wholesale Distributor for India and Par Kass-Dakin Brothers.. Lad, Middïongs Bizunk. Lende England.
SINGAPORE SPORTING
CLUB,
REDUCTION OF RACING.
charities. And under such corditions, I am of opinion that racing is more than fully justified. The outgoing committee have drawn up what is a somewhat general idea of the lines on which wa consider our racing should be carried
"Although there was a remarkable advance in the value of rubber shares during 1915, the improvement which LONDON, Feb. 23.
letter, has been place during the past your Mr. Lloyd George, in
almost equally substantial. appeals to the Free Churches to and quotations all round now stand high level This applics co-operate in the campaign,oft &
An the annual meeting of this Club on in the near future. These lines car not only to the younger companies, economy and increased food produc which-other conditions being equal held in the Exchange, Singapore, Mr. roughly be indicated as follows, First, He argus the formation of should naturally appreciate as their pro- Agnew who presided, said that he the Club recognizes the necessity for local groups to cultivate land coperties become more fully developed and wished to refer to the departure from cutting down the number of races in their outputs and, earning powers cor- the Colony of three of their most the programme and as's means to this operatively und concludes with the words: Our responsibilities are respondingly increase, hat also to the prominent members Sir E. Ellis, Mr. Aend, supports the sides of having no concerns to which the price of D. Allan and Mr. A. Robertson, who more griffins imported until the political In the House of Commons, Sirva beyond words; no time must rubber is the main consideration. In had all taken a very practical interest position alters. The Committee are
this connection the developments of the year have been decidedly favourable to in the club and in racing in general. also strongly of opinion that not only the industry, and although the world's He thought they should take this should this be done but that the Club output is estimated to have increased by opportunity of recording their gratitude should discourage in every way possible some 44,500 tons, or 23 per cent. the to these gentlemen. (Applause.) They the private importation of race horses. increase in consumption appears to be as would see from the working account Secondly the reduction of prize money. fully as
notwithstanding the
the fact that they had given away in charities This point is rather a dificult one in great, that the markets in
s in Central Europe are last year $10,000. In addition to that that it hits entirely the man who is an
The quotation for temporarily cut off plantation crepe has fluctuated be they had paid off mortgages of $20,000, wer and who really ventures his The Canadian Premier, Sir Robert tween 2a, 3d, and 48 3id the The balance sheet showed an available money for the pleasure of a large section
at the commencement
ent of the year there were debesitares still outstanding of Singapore, however, is that the men Barden, on his journey to Englans, latter representing the figure, touched cash balance of $20,000. Against that of the community. My own experience was accompanied by Mr Robert as a result of a bear squeeze. The amounting to 320,000. The outgoing who provide for the amusement of the Rogers, the Canadian Minister of year closes with the market firm at committee had carefully considered how great majority of the community are Public Works, 31r. J. D. Hazen, the 11id, and indications point to the this balance should be dealt with and it not the sort of men who are likely to
probability that the average price in the Canadian Minister of Marine and
year will be fully equal to that was the unanimous opinion that this object to pay something which might SUBMARINE CREW STRANDED IN Fisheries und of the Naval Service, for 1910. While the general tendence 820,000 should be invested in: Strita be called a small fix for their pleasure. an absalito minimum. The carrying. and by the Fremier of Newfoundland, of the share market has been good War Loan, thus placing the Club in Thirdly, to cut down all expenditure to Sir Edward. P. Morris. All will do no finish quite at their best. The small way the National interest which out of these: suggestions untirely dez throughout the twelve months, prices a sound position whilst helping in a participate in the War Conference.
decision of the Board of Referees with overshadowed everything else. The regard to the percentage standard for membership stood much as last year excess profits fax to be allowed in and the details of the working account the case of the younger companies, which cannot rely upon a profits were as usual. He tagged to more the INTERVIEW WITH SIR ROBERT standard, as a considerable disappoint adoption of the report and accounta
ment, and matters were made worse by This was seconded by Mr. Farrant Committee. They constitute the hat BORDEN
the method adopted by the assessors The Chairman, before proceeding to under which that. Committee conde in arriving at the capital upon which the vote and the election of committees, our racing in the future should b Lonnox, Feb, 28. ↑ the percentage could be calculated.
But for this check the rise in made the following statement of policy carried out during the war. There necessary addition to the working the outgoing. Sir Robert Borden, interviewed brices would probably have been conas formulated by Beuters, suid 400,000 men had on-iderably greater, but it must be remem committes. The outgoing committee this scheme, and ther is that all mone listed in Canada for oversens service, bered that the removal of the tax will have carefully, considered the position directly obtained under these heading LaDony Feb. 23. of whom 800,000 had already crossed benefit very largely those companies and whilst we feel that the Club has a should be strictly carmarked for
which bave suffered most, and this a general way justified its existence and fonds or local charities. The Committe consider that all surpluses, which th There is intense indignation in the Atlantic. Further recruiting was whi
prospect has not been to any consider continuance even during the period of Clab may be able to obtain at the
Owing to an Sweden over the torpedoing, of the being considered.
Over 100,000 men and women were favourable Sweden sailing ship Huge Hamilton.
yields fro
from many of the thing more drastic oven than
18harity, either war or local The cargo of four thousand tons of working in munition factories in winter the
plantations in Coylon and Southern away almost all surplus fands to various nitrate of sokla wa urgently needed, Canada/Sixty millions sterling baddis did not come up to anticipations charities should be embarked upoш I have said this mainly to show by beding framera. The traw of been raised in Canada, since the war while rumours of special taxation in the my opinioy racing can most distinctly be thirty-four are missing
in addition to the assistance render Deter East Indice had a depressing stifled in Singapore today The Club bathe opinions of The pro-German Aon-bladet says ed Great Britain to the extent of effect on the shares of Jars and Sum apology and compensation are insuffifty millions for munitions Cana- concerns. These factors have tended ficient Sweden must demand from dians were convinced that there recent months to turn the ste
investors to the older.com ding peace except among these, some very good Starmany substituter equally import | would be no ant to agriculture:
HOLLAND.
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 25. German submarine crew of 14 are stranded on the island of Wal cheren between Domburg and West Kapelle. The military are guarding
them.
"INTENSE INDIGNATION IN BWEDEN.
CANADA'S PART,
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of the Allfes..
early upon the men you clott to day as your new Committee. These point have been put to you now in an in the unanimous decision of the outgoing formal way as having been arrived at b
able extent le peditions the war, we had a fealing that some of 1917, shiuld be devoted
bofore you elect the new
has expensive buildings and grondda sud mitte ers and what you organization to maintain and thess you counter
mitres: under, car wolf be used for the money which would
fur fund or accounts was then pat and