TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1918.
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THE UNDERSIGNED beg to notify The proposed air by privale Tender
of the Bulk of the above-named Steamer se she now lies stranded on the Esat Point of NAUURAU ISLAND, about from Kwan Chau twenty-five miles
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LONDON LETTER.
(From Our Osen Correspondent),
THE CHINA MAIL.
LONDON, Dre. 7. MONEY.
To judge by the evidences of the past week there is no lack of money in our power, in spite of the drain "101 of war expenditure. One of the Ranks has been selling war bonds to crowds in Trafalgar Square all the week, and has already netted, well over two millions while the big stores are doing record business in selling bonds, Prizes from £500 downwards being offered for dertain numbers that will 1103 be drawn on the lottery system This appeal to the instincts of the sporting investor has been so great a success that the Government are almost certain to issus premium
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THURSDAY, 7th Feb.,
at 9.15 p.m.
now lies, with her Engines, Boiler, A. MIROVITCH
Anchors and Chains and such other equipment as may be on board,
(but, no Cargo is to be considered in the Tender),
9) The vessel is now guarded by the
French authorities
(3) All Tenders should reach the Office of the Undersigned on or before Noon, SATURDAY, the 9th Febru ary, 1919.
(4) A Deposit must accompany enth Tender, the amount of which may o losrned at this Otice, said Deposit will be returned in case of non- acceptance of Tender.
(5) The Vendors do not bind themselves to accept the highest or any Tender. Further particulars regarding the enditions of sale, and a list of Attings and fixtures to be sold with she ship, can be obtained on applica
en from the Undersigned. far and on account of the Concerned.
HUGHES & HOUGH.
Hongkong, Jan. 9, 1938.
FOR SALE
FOR SALE.
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MBE Undersigned have received in
structions to sell at their Bales Rooms, No. 8, Des Your Road, Corner
of Ice House Street,
MOTOR "YACHT Built 1916, had very little usage, Holl Length, water-line 29; over all 35 Beam...
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Complete with Lavatory, Refrigerator, Suit of Sails, and all Accessories Price and full particulars may had rom the Undersigned.
Termna:-Cash.
RUGHES & HOUGH,
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STHE NEW FRENCH REMEDY. THERAPION, NË 1 THERAPION NO. 2 THERAPION NÍ. 3
- MONOSYLLADILACKERSTE PARE)
A CURE
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In spite of von Kaehlmann's gibe at. the credulity of Lord Endert Cecil in the matter of this pamphlet, evidence accumulates to establish the truth of the reports that it has been spread broadcast with official approval.
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GOVERNMENT AND
SCIENCE.
THE KINGDOM OF THE BLIND."
The trivial character of most
The leading German-Swiss Catholic
Varily in our the Kingdom of the organ has recently published a vigorous denunciation of the pro-ind! And the real home, the sres of paganda, and further protests have production, of our blindness has been the emanated frota Beveral religious school. bodies. These persons by reason of school lissons must be patent to all, on their proximity and relations with reflection. Germany are in a position at any rate to verify facts before attacking the movemens, and it is unlikely that they should have omitted to do this.
The
The President of the Board of Educ low is pressing upon the country Bill to enforce longer attendance at school. This will be of slight value if we do not As for the particular pamphlet change our ways of keeping 'wchool-If vo mentioned in the House of Commons, do not change our schoolmasters. certain extracts quoted in a Swiss system through which we have been led newspaper state that the object of to close our eyes and live in happy Ignor- the movement is to fill up the of movement and progress in the empty places caused by the war, and world outside through which we have at the same time to safeguard morals, been brought to the present pass or We ought to break with the active painast not be perpetuated. Ail bourgeoise morality, and to adopt the who have educable children must demand morals of good society. By this that it be reformed. But who shall heat system we should be able to fulfil the physicians The schools were never task calculated to ensure to the in more conservative, les imaginative.. empice numerous descendants.
hands, than they are now, as the younger The of shows, fuirs and other engage-scruples of conscience must be siement is gone out from them, in very mente in progress for the extraction destroyed.'" away. of money for charitable purposes and apparently every one of them is winner. The shops also are crammed with expensive Christmas presents. Altogether the enemy can get very ästle encouragement for his protested belief that he can starte us and exhaust us.
bonds in the near future...
Besides this, there is a perfect orgy
The writer then goes on to remark that "the acceptance of this social regime depends on the women at the ecclesiasticseatt
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many cases never to return.
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NO AUDIENCE FOR EDUCATION. Whilst relatively squall things are being pressed upon us, the vital issues neglected. We are worrying, rightly It is stated that the writer of this enough, about dyestuffs hat the public proposal for polygamy in Germany is are cat seriously troubled about educa septuagenarian bachelor who de- tion the subject does not even command clares he appalled at the an audience in the House of Commons. immomlity among the youth of GerWe can, however, assign a more or less many.
| definise, direct and indirect, value to the Reports from Austria on the morals dyes; they raak as a definițe commercial With the moon fur on the wane, for the youth of Vienna are asset. The do not attempt to assign,
ANOTHER RAID.
deplorable..
HOW BRUSSELS PARES.
BUTTER 13. d., TEA £2, AND
COFFEE 3. 41. A POUND.
From a letter recently received from a
lady in Belgium the following extracts
are taken
we had almost come to believe that we were not to be visited by nocturnal riders this side of the New Year, but on Wednesday night, or rather Thurs day morning, the familiar bark of guns was heard and thousands tam. bled out of their warm beds and. descended to cold cellars until the uid was over. Once more it was the defensive barrage that mada most of the noise. The enemy evidently tried to bum a number of the principal. buildings of the metropolis, but though he made some fires, they were soon put cut, and they were not con- nected in any way with the buildings aimed at. Moreover, rural farmers and clergymen had the satisfaction of At any hour of the day one may have taking two crews of wrecked raiders arriving at one's house & couple of Ger prisoners. So once more the "gunemans, who come to open all our doors wis nos worth the candle" to the and turn out all our effects to look for enemy
LABOUR TROUBLES.
"I don't know what will happen after the war. I thought once that we should be mad with joy. I think new that we have waited so long that there will be a kind of prostration. But there will be an immense relief. How good it will be to be free!
wool of their mattresses, and we in
arrive.
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money value to education; we do not rate of all kinds, especially for shipbuilding it as a commercial asset; we have treated and engineering works. Largest and
it rather as necessary evil, through best assorted stock in the Colony. which, like the measles, our children must pass and we have not been far wrong, taking its quality into accound.
3ch is being said of the importance of Science in Industry, very properly. But HING LUNG ST. in connection with education, to promote the development of the scientific habit of the mind in as ärge à proportion of the
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(ESTARIJSHED A.D. 1880).
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I point of fact, Science has been and is neglected in and by our State, because Science has been and in neglected in our schools. But our Board of Education would not and will not have it otherwise. copper. Three-parts of the doors in Stuce Sir John Gorst went out of office, Brussels have been robbed of their door-Science has a best had Cinderella's treat plates and letter-boxes, wood being sub-ment-and the princely lover has yet to stituted. In Antwerp the inhabitants discover himself and take Cinderella to We are having more labour to have been obliged to surrender all the Court.y bles, and, last week, strikes in
Science has been and is neglected in the Midlands have held up the out Brussels have had to declares ours, NO WE our schools and by the Board of Educa put of the essential aeroplanes. It is chiefly a question of the high cost ay expect our turn to give it up totion mainly because Oxford knew it not,
knows it nct, and declines to recognise, EUROPEAN AGENCY. of food, for the men say it is no goodAll above the age of Efteen are in any effective manner, its beauties and telling them they are earning big furnished with identity-cards, and are claim to give it proportionate treat. wages when the food profiteers are obliged to produce them whenever rement: it is only at the pet dog stage of WH taking it all. The charge is not unfounded, and, though the Food quired. We are rationed by a system of development in the University. As
cards. Recently increases in the priser Oxford governs
our Press: as Oxford Controller, Lord Rhondds, contends of things have taken place. Butter is 27 governs our politics, and will do so until that food is cheaper than it was five francs per kilo (131, d. alb.) eggs are Labour and intelligence become assertive: months ago, that is a paper advan-8 Tranes a dozen, tea is 50 francs a lb. cur State has been without scientific fore- tage mostly, for the foods that ar(£), coffee is on franes (22 8%. 44.1. sight. oficially fixed at low prices are cocos from 50 to 60 francs, chocolate from usually unobtainable at the shops. | 40 to 50; sugar 10 francs (8 46), Cat- Through the operation of the modern Moreover, there is profound meal é francs (68. 8d.) a lb. Dress stuts Oxford systern, an overwhelming pro criticista of the politicians. The have no longer, any price. One dyes the dominance has been assigned a literary plain man alleges that the politicians bed bangings to make clothes of, but the studies; consequently a particular, highly are working everything to suit them-Germans have now forbidden this, and selves and to catch votes. So we leave us to suppose that they intend to have a multiplication of committees, seize these things after the mattresses an over-lapping of departments, the There remains nothing in our country, extension of officialdom and jobbery absolutely nothing but the stream of an and arrangements, at the behest of
implacable hatred," red-tape obstructionists, that are costing the nation so dearly that it would not be surprising if we had a big row one of these days.
HE KING IN THE COUNTRY. The plain announcement in the papere that the King and Queen will spend a considerable time in the country at Sandringham sa a chal lenge to the enemy, for Sandringham is well within the air raid zone and they have made several attempts to
THE AUSTRALIAN FORCES.
THE CASE OF EXAMINATIONS,
specialised type of mind has been selected out and developed for the public service, the readers and talkers have been chise and the doers left to themselves. Civil Service is now manned by men of
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hit the place. It is to be hoped that lutely false. Latest returns show totul But the greater covers the less. Our the King will get plenty of out door of 72,000, of whom 20,000 are in hospital, chief national asset, if not the chief asset exercise, and shooting while he is 20,000 in convalescent hemes, and only of the English-speaking peoples, is there, for he has been overdoing him. 20,000 in reinforcements camps. Of the Oxford. All who know her glory in her self with State duties for a long time latter 20,000, only one third have com charms We need to preserve all the BOWLS NEAR Mem
ploted training the balance having only virtues of Oxford, but she must be shorn arrived in England within ono to Sre of her vices her conceit, her lack of out- months."!
look, her narrowness; in their place new virtues most be added which will make her, once more, fair arbitress - or “OUT fortunes. Then, perliaps, will our king dom ses!—(Prof. Armatrong,)
In spite of the stories to the con trary, and against the advice of his physicisas, be has continned him pledge to abstain from alcoholic drinks during the war, and his tabler continues to be supphed on the sim- pless lines The King and Queen have, indeed, set the nation AIL admimble example all through, a for the Prince of Wales, he is winning. the bearis of the Italians as he won those of the French
CHINESE PAPER AT THE FRONT
A remarkable ovent took place at the office of the Society for the Pro- pagation of the Gospely a few days: since writes a correspondent. A Chineman was confirmed in the chapel, previous to leaving the follow- ing morning for France, where he' will; net as the correspondent of a Chinese paper published for the use of the Chinese labour contingent.
TOLYGAMY FOR GERMANY Gerzony a paraphlet that has beek cumulated bundreds of thousands
the Hun trooper advoca marriages to make up ses hái made quite s'aturë.
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