Gold Band
VIRGINIA Cigarettes
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 112, 1016.
"Gold Band"
CIGARETTES Should demand the consideration of every logical smoker
REASON FIVE The Virginia Leaf is absolutely stripped of all its fibrous veins, only the velvety part is retained
Westm
estminster
Tobucco Co.Ltd.
London
Stemming Virginia Leaf
Mental and Physical Fatigue.
When brain or body is weary the digestive powers are weakened and distaste for ordinary food is often experienced. Under such circumstances the “Allenburys” Diet is especially valuable. It is pleasant to take, easily digested and assimilated and speedily restorative. Thus it helps the system to recover tone und vigour. The "Allenburys' DIET is prepared from pure rich milk and whole wheat-the two vital food elements-combined in partially pre-digested form.
"Made in ́à menute-Add boiling water only.
ALLEN & HANBURYS Ltd.,
Ba, Peking Rd., Shanghai, Rex 151.
2.2.0.
and LONDON, ENGLAND.'
Henburys
DIET
A food for Adults and quite distinct from the well-known 'Allanburys Foods for Infants.
PETER
DAWSON'S
WHISKY
is Mellow and
as Mild
as
Milk.
·SOLE AGENTS :
H. BUTTONJEE
& SON,
16, QUEEN'S ROAD.
[1903
PACIFIC MAIL S.S. CO.
U.S. MAIL LINE.
OPERATING EQUADOR,"
THE NEW FIRST-CLASS STRAHERS « VENEZUELA ” AND COLOMBIA
14,000 tons each.”
HONGKONG TO SAN FRANCISCO, VIA SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA AND HONOLULU,
THE SUNSHINE BELT.
THT MOST COMFORTABLE, ROUTE TO AMERICA. AND EUROPE.
SAILING FROM HONGKONG:
8.8.
8. ECUADOR":
VENEZUELA "
...SATURDAY,
14th Oct 1916.
8.8.
COLOMBIA":
These Steamers have the most modern equipment including ALL LOWER BERTHS and large comfortable at sterooms (sil ringis and two berths only),
The Bafety and Comfort of Famongers in our first consideration,
Tickets are interchangeable with the Toro Kiss Kimia and the CANADIAN PACIFIC QURAN SERVICES, LTD. -
For further information, rates, literature, schedules, eto, apply tome
Telephone 141,
COMPANY'S OFFICE in Alexandra Buildings, Chater Boad.
1036
·Eleva-s
WOMAN'S FLIGHT OVER THE NORTH SEA
MISS J ANDERSON'S VIVID NARRATIVE,
- REMARKABLE MEDICAL
DISCOVERY.
MIRACULOUS FRENCH CURES
beem quite burned away. (We saw the coloured photographs.) They had tried to graft on skin at another hospital, aud there he had been for fourteen weeks, suffering dreadfully, making hardly any progress. He told us this himself. He had been in the hospital, where we were, The following catruct is reproduced seventeen days. His nose was quite Miss Jane Anderson, the American from a series of orficies, entitled "Iar covered again. His eyes were open. He writer, vividly narrates in the following Letters of an American Woman "could talk. Above all, he suffered no artile her impressions of a flight in "I hayo been to a hospital (not here, bat pain. But the surgeon told us privately seaplane over the North Sea.
in Paris, before my return here) where that he feared disfigurement, as he had With the arms of a mess-room chair for I saw the most wonderful cures wrought not been able to begin his treatment Boon my arm rests, with maps, charts, and aon suffering men that I have ever seen enough,SAM
As we started to leave the ward two signalling revolver on a narrow shelf in my life. Indeed, the whole thing is before me, I made, in one of his Majesty's such a miracle that it is hard to write men came in with a stretcher, When they finest seaplanes, a fight over the grey collectedly about it, and I know you will bad laid their patient down the surgeon waters of the North Sea and saw, in accuso mo in any case of exaggeration called the younger of the two to us. (He certain nameless harbour, a flotilla of until you see the photographs I am send was not an orderly at the hospital, but Britain's destroyers — grey, splendid, ing. They don't lie! Unless you see them had been giving a helping hand.) His powerful, true and magnificent symbols or the men with your own eyes you think hands and face had been burned by the of war. I am the first woman who has the one who tells you must be drawing explosion of a gan. We saw, as usual, been permitted to see the hangars which upon a vivid imagination. I did until | a photograph. Had they not told me, house his Majesty's grent fleet of the air; I went myself..
should not have believed it to be that of Iam the first woman to make a flight in
the man before me. He had been brought one of Britain's seaplanes, designed for
here immediately. He had been hero war, created by wor
fifteen days, I could see no signs of any burn, though by looking closer. I realised thar b's hair and eyebrows and eyelashes wore newly growing out. The doctor asked me to touch his check, it was as soft as a baby's!
It is a small annex of an faimense hospital where burns and frozen hands and feet are treated, and there I saw Slowly, steadily, smoothly, we rose from eleven men (there were more) who had the sca We were climbing, climbing bad burning tar played upon them by the straight toward the grey sky. I saw the most recently perfected device of their roof of the station dropping away from so-called civilized enemy. (The Allies us; the strip of sand narrowed, became won't use it!) When they reached the brighter, clearer. Already the roofs of hospital,, the tar was still burning, their the hangars, and their great painted clothes were burned off. Don't think I walls, were taking on new contours. I went out of curiosity. Heaven forbid was impressed, anew with the amazing I went to see this marvellous care and fact that men could fly above the to try to interest others in it. And I earth:
We were moving toward the open sea. Before inc, the grey water reached to the groy, sunless sky, a band of law clouds uniting them. I looked over the edge of the fusilage. Below me, on my left, washed closed into the shore, I saw some thing rising above the water. It was black, nameless, formless-n wreck beaten in by the heavy tides. There were great strips of wood covered with the slime of the sen; there were twisted, rusted sheets of iron rich with the waste washed up from the bed of the ocean. The little waves etrciel the black thing, bordering it with a white border, grave and delicate it infinite designs.
UNWRITTEN, EPIC,
upon those whose feet and hands had
been frozen at Verdun, men who had been lying on watch, immobile for days, nav ng neither hands nor feet for fear of being discovered by the enemy, along a
You will have been asking all along, "What is this wonderful thing? Why known throughout the world!" But isn't isn't the name of such a benefactor
painful to witness. Mr. W said yester curo is so very simple, and because, too, went knowing that it would be intensely it the history of all great inventions and discoveries? I suppose it is because the day he went to visit the hospital at my the man has neither wealth or influence suggestion that he considered it the greatest discovery since chloroform, and behind him. The simplicity of it is anch every other person with whom I live that even 1 could grasp the thing after talked has come away marvelling wax, paraffin, and resin. It is heated to a brief explanation. The mixture is We went first to see the dressing done 120 deg C, when it becomes like water and of the colour of honey. Drawn off from the reservoir in which it is beated, it is ready for use. If you dip your fingers into it at almost 120 deg, is I did it has only a comfortable waruith and dries at once about your hand when you withdraw it, incasing every little fold or crease with an elastic covering through which you can sce. All air is kept out and there is no moisture, and you know, air and moisture are the greatest causes of suffering to burned people. If the flesh is not too frightfully sensitive, the wax (or anbrine, as the. surgeon has named it) can be painted on with a brush. If it is, the liquid is sprayed on with a small pump. member is then wrapped in cotton and gause to keep the waxy covering from breaking, or, as in the case of faces, ginning the wax covering is removed with a mask of gauze only. In the he every twelve hours and a new one is
part of the lines where trenches are im Possible because of swampy soil Have you ever seen gangrenous feet or hands Do you know what things of horror they CAT become? Do you know what the odor My jilot, leaning over, pointed at the of gangrene is? And do you know that black hall, We were rising above it, almost always the foot or hand, if not climbing swiftly. My pilot smiled and the whole limb, must be amputated shook his head. He know better than I Then you will know something of the tho mercilessness of the gen. pode
wonder when I tell you that of all the For it was his life, this flying back and dozens and dozens sent to this surgeon forth above that restless might of sombre only one had to have his legs amputated, water, where England is building one and of the others only a few lost their great part of her story of war. He had toes, and these because they had been first his own place in that particularly no treated in other hospitals, and time had and unwritten epic which is the history been lost before they reached him. We of the Admiralty of Britain. There has saw the dressing being done. It took Been to finer thing in the tragic annals great courage to look. Ordinary wounds of war than this.
We are nothing to these. But not a man flinched or cried out, because not une suffered any pain And that was why painted on. The removing of the wax could stand it.
cause is no pain. As the days go on the
th
It seemed, at uncments, almost absurd that 1, because of certain hits of steel and wood and canvas, should have the power to rise above the wide, waters of the sea, to look down on the mystery and splend our of a grey aks renching downward to white sand and white breakers.
Yes, 1 was lying above the North Sen. And a stiff side wind was blowing, a cold win that sting my tuce and my hauds. But we were going forward At times the slip-stream, that draft of air From the propeller, was' heited, by the engine and forced back, warm and humid
CAPRICES, OF THE WIND.
The
wax is removed only once in twenty-four hours
One man talked to me in English. He had been a waiter in a New York hotel He talked calmly and smilingly while To my surprising inquiry if that werks his dreadful feet were being painted with really at that produced such marvellous, white, waxy liquid. This is the such miraculous results, the surgeon re- wonder of which I am to tell you later.) plied: "Mademoiselle, we do nothing. Another lay on a stretcher rolling Nature, left, alone, does it all. It is as bandage unconcernedly while they dressed if we covered the man as one covers a his stumps Does it but I asked. plant in a conservatory, away from all "Not at all," he replied; but before I harmful influences, and there the skin reached here
There were others and grows again untouched, as a plant grows others, all with the sume sort of hands and under the influence of the sun. That fest-all cheerful and interested in their is all." But it has been the work of a Then we swerved, listed, the machine own cases, all witnessing to the fact that lifetime; research which has taken all his trembled, secretly assailed by sume sinis they felt no pain, all fuat recovering private income, and which has quite And then we came to the burning tar evidently left its mark on a deeply ter and invisible violence. We were cases. One doctor told me that it was seamed and prematurely old face. It vulnerable, defenceless infinitely considered the most terrible form of kriew that below is the great calin suffering. I fear you could not stand it seeras so tragic that one who has found ocean moved, woeding, from us. I faced if I should describe them in detail. When out how to ease two of the most terribly the driving wind; it bore down upon us, I caught sight of the first of them, tortures-frozen limbs and hurno monstrous, implacable. The plate dipped could not believe my senses. I could not should have received so little recogni- and rocked. The silk and caurss wings, believe that any man in such a state could tion, so little help. One ought to cry fragile, perishable wings, were without be living. My indignation was the one aloud his name from the housetop! He | 644-3 | | resistance. The wind rippled along them, feeling uppermost, and I exclaimed aloud deserves the recognition and the thanks expending its giant caprices, rushing to the nearest surgeon. **** Why did you due a great benefactor of the human across the delicate surfaces, lifting thom, not free him from suffering ? *** (Mean race, But he doesn't ask it. He is the then Forcing them down laut over the ing, Why did you not kill him? " And most modest of men. All he asks in to he knew what I meant.) His reply was be allowed to receive as many poor, "We have freed him from his suffering. suffering creatures as possible. But he And do you know, will you believe, that is very poor, and so is his little annexe. very man that apparent wreck, every And that is why I among others who feature of whose face was then indishave seen the results of his work, am tinguishable, eyes closed, lips and parts going to try to spread about the know. of his face burned to the bone, teeth all ledge of his work, hoping that he may exposed like a grinning mask, whose some day reap the benefit. Please help Buch is the North Sea. And far above describe-talked with Mrs. T the other all one can do for him, he does. The hands were too dreadful for the to me to do this. If ever anyone deserved it, so that the sky seemed closer to us day, only ten days after That the fea sights that remain in my memory, inef than the water, we were banking and tures of his face are not only plainly making a wide turn toward the land.
distinguishable, but that the deep wounds faceable, cry out for publication! But I looked ahend and saw, for the first are flied up, the flesh last healing over because I don't want it thought that I time, the harbour which lay beyond the with new white skin, that there remains
am writing in older to advertise any peninsula over which we were flying. It on his forehead but one place not yet remedy or scheme or man I will give you was wide, beautiful, with a deep, abel fully recovered, and that there will not the surgeon's name and address in a ving beach rising on open sido. And be, within another week, even a scar. I postscript. Then any one who really there, at anchor, was the grey flotilla of have had all his photos in my hand (taken wishes to help can get it from you und destroyers
by coloured photography), a succession write him direct. If one can do nothing.
CUTLER PALMER & CO'S of the planes.
NAPIER JOHNSTONE'S
WHISKY.
THE
ORIGINAL
SQUARE
BOTTLE
WHISKY.
ALWAYS
RELIABLE.
BOLE AGENTS IN HONGKONG AND SOUTH CHINA:
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO., and from ALL WINE MERCHANTS,
SAVARESSES SANTAL 17CAPSULES
PHYSICIANS RECOMMEND THEM - MADE. IN LONDON • OF ALL CHEMISTS
(48
The horizon of the set was clouded with the smoke of distant vessels. I do not know what they were, what power was invested in thein; but I know that they were part of the whole. One ele ment in the great cordon England has spread.
How small they looked, down thereof photos from the time he entered until else, one can send crude paraffin, which those fine ships in which is concentrated the day of which I speak-in all, barely over here is very expensive, but at homo so much of the meaning of war, We were 4 month It is nothing short of a so cheap. AN dropping toward them. They seemed to miracle, Mogeover, he told me with his P.B. Dr. Barthe de Sandfort. Hos be rising to meet us. I saw them taking own lips that he had not suffered at all pital St. Nicholas, Issy-les Moulineaux, outline against the surface of the sea, after they began to treat him by this new Pros Paris. First there was the white mark of the method, deck, a slender oval with a solid black centre amidships and a dark blet on the bow
MYSTERIES AMIDERIPS.
But I have seen for myself others who were recovering or practically well; neve scen a succession of their photographis, too-what they were and what they have become--and I can tell you that his is no unique case, by any means,
WINNING AND HOLDING GROUND.
Then in the black centre I saw the funnels. They were like three holes
There was one who had been a violinist
After describing one of those smaller The decks might have been cut from before the war, and whose hands, swollen incidents of which there have been so white cardboard, shaped, with fine draw to the size of small muffs, were plainly many on the Somme, a correspondent at ings to mark those grave mysteries amid-visible blistered, purple, green-beneath British Headquarters writes: ships The destroyers did not seem to the transparent waxy substance which "In all these operations we get into float on the water. They were level wit it. They had form and fine contour, but neither substance nor solidity.
And we were circling duwa, lower and lower. I saw the decks below me widen, saw, it equal intervals, the black guns delicate pointa reaching out over the The man watched the process with in the point in taking a trench and nine lustreless water. They seemed to lie on terest. They promise me," he said, in points in holding it. It is an exaggera- the face of the sea..
answer to my questions, that I shall tion, for the initial capture of any posi- And then, on the deck of a destroyer, have the use of my hands again, and
tion fortified and defended with machine I saw something moving. At first I was believe them, for they have already done guns after the German fashion is a for- not sure. It was only a little black dot. such wonderful things. If had not experi- midable matter, but it is nearer the But this dot was a human being. It enced it myself, I could not believe that truth than the common impression which moved forward on the white oval, very so quickly and so simply." And I couldys all the stress upon the act of such pain as I suffered could be stopped
capture.
covered them. The surgeon made a small the habit of talking off-handedly of con- mark with his instrument around each solidating a new position, as if it were wrist and cut the waxy covering. Then a trifing thing which follows the taking he turned it down and began peeling it of a new trench as a matter of course, off like a glove, and like a well-oiled It was a very distinguished officer whom glove it came off entire,
1 beard say the other day that it was
very slowly
It was then that I reali.ed, for some not have believed that such hands could In the constant thrusting forward of
have been made ever again to resemble wholly inexplicable reason, the value of anything human had I not seen the our line inch by inch, which goes on the co-ordination between the chips of the sea and the ships of the air. I saw coloured plate of them ten days later here, the amount of digging, of wiring Though a trifle larger than ordinary, they and of making defensive works of all in some measure how this new war has were as white as yours or mine, with not kinda which bas had to be done under created new codes and laws of war. The one sear anywhere. The man was to leave extremely difficult conditions has been en- planes are the eyes of the flesta From the hospital in a day or two. He had ormous, and the assistance which has been their great vantage point the ships of been there less than a month.
given by the Pioneer battalions has been the enemy are spread below them on a vast chart. Yes, it is new war, new and wonderful war.
We visited another man whose case had incalculable. The casualties among the been exceedingly difficult, for the flesh Pioneers have, in many cases, been very of his nose and lower part of his face had Ecavy, but they have done magnificently.