Baker Falmer & C
The talina Muchary of the last
NAPIER JOHNSTONE'S
"SQUARD BOTTLE"
WHISKY. UNVARIED FOR OVER 150 YEARS. THE SAME TO-DAY AS IN
1745.
BEWARE
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 17mm. 191*
NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES
"BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
8.8BENLEDI"
FROM: MIDDLESBRO," LONDON AND
STRAITS
4ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed
that all Goods are being lauded at their risk into the haardous and/or extra hamendous Godorus of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf sad Godown Co., Ltd, whence Mad/or from the
WEATHER REPORT.
On the 16th at 10.58 a.m.-No :etúras from Japanese Stat ous,
The typhoon bus o fazed the coast to the mirth of Tourne andfilling up
Pressure has decreased slightly along the
north east oist of China and increased me derately, chng tho wouth east count. It hi inre sed slightly elombero,
Hongkong rainfall for 24 hours ending at 10 am, to-day, 0,55 inches,
The foreout for the 24 hours ending at N on
| wžáryós delivery may be obtained we today is as follows:
No Claims will be admitted after the Lave left the Godowns, and all Goods remained undeliver the 19th f
arber
will be
to rent
All Claims against the Steamer
musi presented to the Undersigned on or before the 26th int, or they will not be recognised a
All broken, shafed, and damaged Gooda mas be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 19th inst.. uf 11 AM.
No Fire Ingranos háu been affected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
GHAB, LIVINGSTON & CO.,
DISTRICT
Hongkong & Neighbourhood
Formosa Channel.
FORICALT winds, mo
{dorato tais,
The same as No. 1.
SouthCoast of China be wean; The same 28 Hongkong auf Larocks, 1 No. L
South coast of China between The same as
***No. Hongkong san Haina ..
METEOROLOGICAL
Hongkong, 12th May, 1916.
695
CHINA
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION.
OF
COMPANY, LIMITED,
IMITATIONS.
4OLE AGENTS IN HONGKONG:
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.,
and from ALL Wins MabonARTS.
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Over 35 yurs ago the laos Lord Place Beadoiskais vertised tothe benešti The received førstu ·HI MROD'S CURE an every post bringe -audi-ar littera lo-day,
MROD'S
CURE for
ASTHMA
FANR), PR 40 YEAKL,
So'd in thay by ali Chemists and Stores throughout the Country.
Beware of Imitations.
APIOLINE
(CHAPOTEAUT)
LADIES LY
· för functionaf troubles, delay, pain and those reng-ilarinas f' suliar to:
frescribed by the highest French -M-dical' buthorities and superior-to- Tobey, sleei Drops and Pozay: FOYEL CHAPOTEAIT, 6 ro fivienne, Parks. Talk ky vit Chemists:
43
"THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY'S THERAPION NL-1 THERAPION NË 2 THERAPION NO. 3.
CUGIRONIC WEAKFASSEN, DRAINS LOST VIODI, EG GOLD BY LEADING CHEMISTS, PRICEJN ENGLAND, 24. BEND STAMP RODARSH ZMYSLOPE FOR, DA GURJE FREE BOOK TO DR. LECEERE MED.CO. BAVERSTOCK
TRY NEW TEAM ON FOR. YOU! THERAPION
(EAN/PO TAKE,
FEE THAT TRADE MAREES WORD "THEXAFIONIS OF KA SAIT. GOYTRTAMP AFFIXED TO ALL GENUINE FARKORTER UNIET OMMAVING THERAPIONA
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND
** SINGAPORE,
NHE Steamship
THE
FOOKSANG
having arrived from the above Perts, Consignese of Cargo by her are hereby informed that all Goods are being lauded at their risk into the basardous and/or extra hazardous Godown of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, whence and/or from the wharves celivery may to obtained on wh
Goods not cleared. by the 21st May, will be subject to rent c
All broken, chafed and damaged prokages sre to be left in the Godowns, where they will be. examined, CLAIMIN against the Steamer must be presented within 10 days of arrival otherwise they will not be meognised.
No Fire Innande will be ablasted by an in any case whatever.
Bills of Lading N
- bê deustarsigned by th
JARDINE, MATHESON & 06., LTD.
Manga General Managers
Hongkong, 15th May, 1916.
NORWEGIAN SAFICA AND ATSTRAL ENGINE,
CHRI NJA.
NOTIES TOONSIGNEES
HE Steamship
THE
ARTEMIS."
having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby formed that their Goods, with the exception
1 Ordam, Trisure and Valuable, are being
"
nded and stored at their risk into the hazard. and/or extra hasardous Godowns of the dongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown ompany Lil Kowloon, whence delivery. ay be
Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unlaw timation is received from the Consignees O-DAY
It to be lauded requesting No Cizimi will be admitted after the Goods re left the Godowns, and all goods remaining delivered bear the
after the 32nd May, will be subject
rout.
All broken, shafed, and damaged goods are to
• left in the Godowne, where they will be smined on the 22nd May, of 10 LM.
Btation.
COAST
REGISTER/
16th May, a,M,
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MINERINGKAT:
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30%
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113322122221221210SRET
29.78 70 29.80
Wind
Hamidity.
Direction
Wasthar
TF CLAXTON, Director
1. Barometer, reduced to 32. degrası Fahçan- heit on the level of szở xăm îi Lazang, teatas
All Claims must renala va before, the 29th
or they will not be recognised. No Fire Insurance will be effected Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the sad hundredth “idersigned,
THORESEN & Co, Agents Fongkong, 15th May, 1918.
ON BALE
170
TONGKONG HANBAED REPORTE
HCFTINGS
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL Melom1915K,
SMA BETARED BY ZIE MUM", 198,
PRICE
DAILY Paman OWY:CE Hongkong, 25th February, 1910
3. FEMPERATURE, in the shady, in degem, Fahrenheit, E
3. Huxtorry, in paremtage of saturador, the humidity of aur maturated with moisture being 100%
DIRECTION OF WIND, to two points.
5. FO30# OF WIND, 3ccording to Beaufort Seals 6. STATE OF WEATERE, b blue sky, o detachat cloud, d drizzling rain, f fog, g gloomy, h hail, l lightning, o overcast, p pssing showers, q aqasi, r rain, mow, t thandar, v visbility, w law (var),
7. Bats in lachen, tenths and handrødtba
HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.
From 17th to 23 d May, 1918,
»Hien WATER
H'kong
Month:
Height
** LOW WATER.
H'keng.
Mean
Tune
Moan
Time
E
ft,in.
"Thuce, 18 m 8/
Height
27
05
79m 2:45
91
Fortify yourself
with Bovril
IT MUST BE BOVRIL
Wed 17 m 8 15 7 4 m 2 16
BRITISH TO THE BACKBONE
€6-1;
FM 19.
Bakar, 201
San.
Mar
Rest and Comfort for the mother and health for the baby
follow the use of the Allenburys' Foods. They resemble healthy human milk in composition, nutritive value and digestibility. Babies fed on the “Allenburys" Foods invariably thriva well detai
Allenburys Foods
MILK FOOD NG L MILE FOOD NO
From birth to 3 months, From
GRED FOOD MOJE
ava RUSKS (Malied)
Allen & anburys Ltd, da,
01
64-1-1
AN ADMIRAL'S DAY SKETCHED
ASTONISHING RESULTS.
officer on the morning watch will not FOOD ANALYSIS IN GERMANY.; risk withholding from the Bag lieutenant until breakfast-time, and on receipt of which the fig-lieutenant, hesitating be AT SEA HE ENVIES NO MAN wegn the wrath of the Admiral at being
Awakened and his wrath at not being At a general meeting of the Associa To some careful and anxious adminis awakened, decides that the latter would ton of Austrian Chemists, held at trator, doing his war work aid office be the more formidable. It the Admiral Vienna, the president, Dr Mansfeld, files and the click of typewriters and thee wise he breakfasts alone in his own electric liglite of winter in some crowded pleasant day-cabin with his favourite reported on analyse which had been and littered town ofice, and trying to pictures and books about him, and where made of 1,358 articles of food during the keep his vision of efficiency clear in the above the mahogany mantelpiece some past year. The results of the analyses, fog of figures and words and forms little group of photographs reminds him to said, were uppaling, and revealed in- through which he has to work, the mental of the wife and children he once knew credible trickery of the very basst de picture of the Admiral in a sen command in the far-away time before the war. It must often seem brightly lit by every is probably the only moment of comfort thing that is enviable and desirable. able solitude throughout the day. To sit Many a General even, whose dream of down to breakfast in the dining cabin service in the fold has come down to the with his staff would be asking a little reality of sitting all day and half the too much of them and himself, for night in an uncomfortable room in a sociability at breakfast is not one of the farmhouse or a village inn, and dealing virtues if indeed, it be over a virtue with stacks of army forms, must think of the naval officer. enviously of his brother over whom the
Cross of St. George is blowing out in the breezes somewhere at seat
That is human nature, which sees things partially instead of wholly, and is prone to dwell on what is unfamiliar and enviable in the lot of others. And of all the stars in the firmament of war, the Admiral commanding. A fleet at sea appears to the imagination as the most remote and picturesque. His business is further removed from the life and ex- perience and knowledge of ordinary men than is the business of anyone else about whom they read. He is a monarch, and lives in something of a monarch's state:
A constitutional but an absolute monarch, wielding powers even of life and death over his subjects,
A PRISONER TO DUTY,
soription. No fewer than 333 articles were shown to have been adulterated nimest beyond recognition, or nearly a quarter of the total number of articles analysed.
Dr. Mansfeld stated that there were three circumstances which we at the root of all this malfonsance-The pre- vailing custom of sending gifts to soldiers, the importation of adulterated And after breakfast comes the secre articles from abroad, especially from tary. The secretary is a being, sometimes Holland, and the efforts made to find human who has been trained from in substitutes for articles of daily consump faney in the strange arts of Service cortion, the supply of which had been
aexhausted respondence, who can tell you at glance the certain effect upon circu stance and upon your career of heginning a document Submit that or Sub mitted who knows that vital secret of existence in the Navy, what you can
" do You do and what you cannot can't say that, Sir he murmurs over the Admiral's shoulder, when that plain man is about to state that two and two make four. He cogitates for a moment,
It
For the troops a large number of un- wholesome tea, coffee, and cocoa mixtures and extracts were in use, most of them deleterious and worked up with suger and dry milk ingredients of a mont dangerous character
From abroad the most important im- ports-meat and potted meat, sausages, fat of all kinds, soap, condensed milk
FOOD ADULTERANTS............⠀⠀ --
Coming to particulars, the President stated that in the case of meat and potted and preserved meats and sausages the adulterators moved pretty much on the usual lines. Two of the most com mon adulteranta were potatoes and yeast with gule to bind the mass together, and is given by the mac, of aniline or tar dysg me seasoning. The necessary colouring
and he is in many respects not merelyonsidering the possibilities of documents and cocoa are articles which cannot be beginning variously, With regard to obtained at home. There are ingredients your submission as to the composition in these things which have hitherto of four
I have the honour to submit the been used for human food. This in Yet he lives not remotely, but among following considerations" In regard especially the case in products supposed to their lordships request for informar to be derived from, milk, four, and them, like a queen bee in the heart of a hive; they are packed about him in tion as to the effect upon the efficiency honey. close ranks, and every citizen is a sol of this squadron likely to be produced He has his capital, which is the by the addition of two todo te ont lagship; his royal palace, guarded by having been submitted to me hy sentries, is the Admiral's quarters Hemanding officers of ships in this squad has his territories strictly defined; his ron, whose reports are appended, that provinces are the squadrons and flotillas considerable economy, both of time and under his rate, and ench in commanded material, would be effected if two and two seould be officially known in future by a lesser monarch, who must render,
ccount to him. He has also his allied as four." Finally, with a happy smile, sovereigns, rulers of equal degree, from he exclaims, "I tell you what wo ean do whom (let us breathe it gently) be may your 2030 not understood; should be Bir we can make a signal and say, have sometimes to defend his own borders
The large consignments of pork fat if, in that natural vanity from which
addressed to RA" Through mazes even the naval officer is not always free, like these the secretary has to support from Holland contain increasing quan they venture to encroach. Over him, an and guide the Admiral through all the tities of cotton oil, and much of the bours of the forenoong other edible fats from that country are elder brother and fellow sovereign, The Admiral's day in harbour is al mixed with absolutely worthkes things though a greater, is his Commander-in- Chief. He, although great, is human ways stormy. The wind and sea may be and with tallow. Dutch margarine was and never asks what is impossible or calm outside, but within those white of the very worst quality, with a thick orders what is unjust. But above and enameled walls there rages a tempest of coating of monldiness on it. Some of Thán around them all is a strange and in paper. Sometimes it blows reports and the ingredients defied analysis serutable providence, called the Ad dispatches, sometimes a strong breeze of mouldiness was found on other food- miralty, possessed of a high-power wire memoranda and reference sheets sets in stuffs as well-maize, for example. Samo dess apparatus, which directs all his always there is a gale of letters official of this maize was tried on a horse-Dr. doings, and watches and listens to him The relation between the Admiral and letters, Bervice letters, personal letters.
Manfold adds, with fatal consequences. night and day from whom he cannot be hid, who leads him often by ways he secretary is stereotypen. The Admiral The flour famine induced dealers knows not and from which his heart regards himself as a person whom Heaven largely to adulterate this vital article of sometimes rebels, whose way is in, the has endowed with one supreme gift the food. In one case, quoted by the Pre- whose path is in the great waters, gift of literary expression. He feels that sident the four used by bakers for strow- whose foot-steps are not known if a letter is to be written, no one caning on their baking boards was found to It is, indied, a picturesque situation do it so well as himself. The secretary consist of three parts of powdered lime winwed from the outside, but like most with the devotion and veneration due to Ground bread for sprinkling on the out on the other hand, regards the Admiral stone and one part of ground sawdust, things into which the picturesque enters
the point of view makes a difference. It
his unrivalled qualities as a commander side of louves was difficult to obtain, As roughly true to say that of all the and fighting man, but deplores his powdered maize was used and soli admirals who have been continuously em
ignorance of official routine, and his per- instead as the real article, ployed at sea since the outbreak of war
Ristence in attempting to do for himself
HEAT, COCOA AND SOAP, that which a trained and qualified, man bardly one has ever had any leave or
can do so much better. The facts are The sticle called "Honey butter,” slept a night away from his commandi and as most of them had been at sea for probably more often on the secretary's which is now so largely used to replace some months inunediately before the de side than on the Admiral's secretaries latter for spreading on bread, is neither claration of war, that means two years being better versed in the strange war- more nor less than refuse by-product literally at the post of duty without fare of official forms. For days after one of sugar coloured with a tar dye, and change or relief. For all their rank of them has scored off some other Ad- and state, they are prisoners to their miral's secretary in a heavy engagement duty. Their daily lives are circumscrib of paper his face will be irradiated with ed and monotonous to a degree almost a kind of unearthly joy Admirala, like incredible to the average civilian, who most men who have the true genius of the sailor, are generally more or less in- perhaps thinks his own life is monotonous enough. Their familiar or domestic
articulate on paper, in spile of their intercourse is restricted to half a dozen strange illusions in this respect. There or a dozen officers; day in and day out are exceptions, of course; every Admiral they see the same faces and listen to the under whom the writer has served re same conversation; for people who have alizos that he is one lived exclusively together as prisoners THE STAFF AT LUNCHEON. for two years cannot have anything very new to any to one another. If they had, some of them (such is the effect of naval training on a certain type of mind) would think twice or thrice before they said
it
some of the meat extracts are pro- deed by a combination of substances, ot one of which has any nutriment, arid many of which are highly dangerous.
Cocoa and chocolate ure most exten- Rivaly adulterated. The grinding up of cocoa husks is extensively practised, says Dr. Mansfeld, both in Austria and in Germany. There are cocos sabloids for sale which contain corn starch and little else rave some tar colouring matter. Such an article as good soap it is most. At luncheon the Admiral will meet foult to procura, and the procces of his staff collectively-half-a-dozen officers Jeterioration proceeds rapidly. The at the outside, all of whom have seen fatty substances in the better class EDLDA him in the course of the morning are reduced to 12 per cent, and in the individually, on some point or other con
ANXIETIES IN HARBOUR nected with the great machine If the qualities used by the poor for scrubbing Admiral be a morose or liverish man, the purposes to one per cent. The rest is conversation will be carried on in lowling, and badly worked, and badly tones, like that of a family party presided similated alkalis.
The Admiral's life in war varies be- tween two conditions, life in harbour and life at sea. One might imagine that
over by a gloomy father, but if, as is The association has analysed insect his moat arduous time is spent at sea and more often the case, he is fairly urbane powders whose application must infalli that he goes into harbour for rest and and well, the scene is akin to that in bly create intense discomfort, and which recreation but it is the only other way the parlour of a popular headmaster who are absolutely worthless against vermin. about. Going to sea, where there is at has asked one of the house masters, and
bis
any rate the chance of a fight, is his some of the sixth and upper fifth to tea. delight; and when the smoke begins to The Admiral is the headmaster, the flag of rest when the unlighted shores have billow from the funnels and the motor of captain is the house master, the fag.com been left behind and the course and speed the gyro compass begins to hum, the lines mander and staff paymaster will repre have been decided for the night, and the disappear from his face and his spirits begin to rise. It is on his return to sent the sixth, and the Bag lieutenant fleet has settled into its stride and is and odds and ends will represent the harbour when the anchor is down and appes fifth. Any joke made will be standing stiffly into a bardening easterly
gale the picket boats come alongside and greeted by laughter in proportion to the often during those brief periods put
True, the flag lieutenant may heavy parcels of paper and bundles of rank of the person who makes it any head in at the door and deliver various big envelopes and bags of typewritten opinion offered or fact stated will have items of information, but he has no 0 matter begin to come on board; when weight given to it in exactly the same wrath to fears on this occasion, nor are
the navigating officer is departing from
communications to bis last interview, and the secretary Proportion. Underlying it all there
deep unity and loyality; but really it be delivered. For although down in the comes in with his first basket of urgent is not the most amusing or stimulating wireless room the chony dial of the high- papers, that the real anxieties of the
form
of social intercourse for the Að Admiral's life begin again. At sen there mirala power wireless le tuned to the Admiralty wavelength, nothing merely vexatious is only the enemy in harbour there is
After luncheon may come a brief exeur is likely to be received in the small hours. well, there is the Admiralty for one sion ashore, or a walk perhaps, or a short And when the Admiral comes out on thing harbour the Admiral is lucky if he game of golf. But at tea-time the Ad
lucky if beiral is back again, the secretary wait the order and disposal of his fleet in is not wakened in the small hours by ing for him with more baskets of papera he wishes it to be, he can feel, as he the unwelcome apparition of his flag The same routine as that of the morning watches day warming over the wrinkled lientenant, in pyjamas, great coat, and
Rear Admiral, new to his work
and
18
to his bridge, at daylight, coded out on
cep, holding a signal in his hand. If goes on until dinner time; and the same billows of the North Sea, that he is back is command be a very high one the party assembles, with much the same con in his true clement: again, and that bis will not happen to him unless the signal version After dinner there may be a day contains all the possibilities that he of bridge, and then more secretary has dreamed of. He does not thun the is really urgent but if he be only and more paper work until bed time. In company of his staff at breakfast; there
game addition to all this the day shot is a now note in the conversation fearful lest things are being kept from through with various interviews with cap although the business st sou is almost as him, it very likely will happen. talas, junior Admirals,
Is gunnery officers montonous as the business in harbour, With the great men, the Admiralty and all and very kind of expert whose there is a refreshed and stimulated feet- the Commander-in-Chief communicate affairs and activities needs some direc ing in the mental and social atmosphere, direct, and they are not active without tion or sanction; and probably in the just because being at sea contains grost dae cause in the small boura; but the midst of it the barge will be called away possibilities, which being in harbour doen,
small Admiral has to receive his 115 and the Admiral will set forth to pay notgan y For Br
filtered through the Admiral senior to visit of inspection to one of his outlying And all day, except him, and perhaps a still
more senior Admiral ashore, and his communications AT BRA AT LAST.-.-.-.-.
may be sent at any time most convenient-
to
provinces.
Ker hour or two in the evening, The Admiral
is on his bridge, tuning and tempering th
the various staffs which have to desi The Admiral's day at sea lasts for 24 mighty instrument which has been. E with them. And he may thus be wakened hours but it is a happier day for him trusted to him; disposing it to bigat if from a sweet sleep to learn that the than the shorter day in harbour. He that boon be vouchsafed; if not, exercis effects of Able Seaman Smith, ON.000378 deserts his warm and luxurious sleeping ing it in all its magnificent functions 1 23, are to be forwarded to the senior cabin in the after quarters, and his bed, is in these hours, full of realisation and him in the Admiral's a posibility, that the Admiral can forgot naval officer say, at Leamington,, for is made for disposal is not a good beginning for cabin, high upon the superstructure that the weight of paper that is accumulatings the day. Even in the case of the scuier clusters round the foremsat Here he for him at his base; when he envies No Admirals there are constantly signals retires for brief and intermittent periods man, and is to be envied by most.
(Continued) oN NETS arriving in cipher which the deciphering