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“CASCADE” BEER!
A cheery young man of Hongkong
Drank "Cascade" from a glass that was long.
Quantum sufficit?
When they asked *
He replied "Such good stuff is it,
Say a quart and you won't be far wrong!'
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THE WAR.
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Italian Front.
EARLIER CABLES (YHROUGH BRUTEK'S AGENDY. ] ITALIAN SUCCESSES. MANY PRISONERS.
24TH, 1917.
NEW STORY OF RASPUTINS CUTLER PALMER & CO'S
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POISONOUS POWDERS ADMINIS
TERED IN HIS ABSENCE TO PRINCE ALEXIS
The superstitious belief that the health and even the life of Grand Duke Alexis, the young heir apparent, depended on the presence of Gregory Rasputin, the mystic monka notion which ia Kenerally known to have accounted for Rasputin's tremendous influence over the manner by the Husky Slove imperial family is explained in this
Rome, May 21st: An official message says:-Dense masses
Rasputin, according to the newspaper, of the enemy vigorously assaulted Paau
vivial moments, that he was able to for bio, westward of Monte Dente, They stated in confidences to friends, at con- were driven back with severe loss. We tify this superstitution with the help of ropelled attacks on the northern slopes Mme. Virubova, lady in waiting to the Empress, and Mr. Badmael, Court phy of San Marco between Mounts Tucogician, until the Empress was absolutely nacco and Faiti. We captured a hill convinced that the life of her son depend. Whenever Rasputin was absent for any between Palliova and Britovo, and exed on the monk. tended our positions at Vodice, We length of time from the Court, Mme. prisoneret sume hundreds of the dnem.Virubova, according to the monk's story as given by the newspaper, obtained pois sonous powders from the physician and contrived to place them in food brought General.
to Alexis The result was that during Rasputin's absences the delicate health of the young heir apparent grew steadily worse, until Rasputin was summoned, back to the Court, when the powders were stopped and Alexis immediately became betsorg PARLARE
EARLIER CABLES. (THROUGH RIDTER'S AGENCY.) THE NEW RUSSIA. INTERESTING: STATEMENTS
PETROGRAD, May 21st.
The texts of M. Leoff's and M. Tereschenko's statements have now been received. M. Lyoff showed how serious the situation had been, and explained that the Socialist parties had created a Coun- cil of Workers and Soldiers' Delegates
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the Governments and also to support the latter. The delegates, however, gradual Is assumed administrative powers, and the Provisional Government saw itself faced with orders not given by itself. A situation thus arose which might be described as responsibility without au
Hasputin always announced that forty days after his death Alexis would fall
The prophecy came true with start ling accuracy being caused, the news paper asserts, by Mine. Virubova ad- Grand Duke in the hope of continuing ministering another powder to the little the tradition of Rasputin's influence over the imperial family and preparing the way for a successor to him..
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
DARTICULARS and CONDITIONS the letting by Public Auction Bals, be held on TUESDAY, the 29th day of "my" "1917, P.M., as the Offoes of the PUBLIC
DEPARTMENT, y Order.
HIS THE GOVERNO
of CROWN LAND Causeway Bay, the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at CROWN BENT8 to beried by the Surveyor of HIS MAJESTY THE KING, for one further term of 75 years,
PARTICULARS OF THE LOTS.
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172 3,042
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THE Uaders. ed has received instrus- tions from the Liquidators Messrs. J'EN & Có, în pursuance of th order of the Hongkong Government to
TUESDAY, the 31a day of July, only ablic suction at 12 o'clock (Nook) 1917, at his Sales Rooms, Duddell Street, THE VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY situste at The Peak, Hong
kong and being RURAL BUILDING IN ONA LOT. The Property Consists of:
ANY BUROPEAN, Non-Austin or Indian desiring to leave the Colony should apply CENTRAL POLICE STATION In pawon at to 1 and 2 P.M. between the hours to dalla quind to produce a LOT No. 19,
Fan Appliante will be
or Idantication paper.
exceptions who All
Melt portala sady porta or Saran Colony for more remain in REGISTR
Furn of Begistration giving the particulam required may be ebwined as the G.P.O. and at ANCE 1916.
all Pelle Sons
thority, and authority without respon Bland-Button Institute, where the new required themselves under the The piece or parcel of ground and
Bibility.
The fighting capacity of the Array was thus weakened to na alarming extent, and the question of food supplies was bringing the country to the edge an abyss, while symptoms of anarch were everywhere evident.
THE HOSPITALS. Speaking at the Middlesex Hospital annual meeting recently, Captain Samp son Handley, one of the honorary sur- geons, appealed for support for the antiseptic flavin was discovered by Dr. Browning Flavin, of which there is now value in the treatment of septic wounds. an ample supply, has proved of great Unlike most other antiseptics, flavin, in destroying the microbes, does not injure the fics or the white blood corpuscles which attack the microbes,
M Lvoff continued:-Meanwhile our Allies watched us with anxiety, and our enemies eyed us with malicious, and cruelty, insulting us by alluding to the possibility of a separate neace, However, the Government is now reorganised, and stranguap the confidence of the nation Therefore, expects that all its acts will be fully approved and executed. In speaking of peace without annexations and indemnities the Government does not mean that free, Russia will confent to leave under the yoke of the German militarison, territories abandoned owing to the qriminal negligence of the old régime of the interests of the country and the army. Nor can it remain indif ferent to those at present suffering the horrors of a Germanie invasion, and who are under the heel of the conqueror, Thearted lost. existing armistice at the front, which enables the German Chancellor to formuATTEMPT ON KAISER'S LIFE. late the idea of a separate prace must
It is hoped by the research work at be done to help England in recovering the Middlesex Hospital that much will the drug trade which she blindly presented to Germany," said Captain Handley,
But the days are gone when with a few old bottles and jam-pots and s0100 discoveries could be made. The research lengths of glass-tubing epoch-making worker must be free from pecuniary anxiety. In the old days, under the crust-and-garrettheory, & man worked better, it was thought, if half starved.
Cease,
WAR NEWS.
ENEMY ADMITS LOSS OF TWO DESTROYERS.
A German official wireless message in- tercepted by the Admiralty says:
After a naval engagement on the might of April 20th and 21st east of Dover, destroyers 685 and G3 were re
TWO BULLETS STRIKE HIS CAR.
A Beuter's telegram received in Tokio M. Tereschenko's statement, expresses" the hope of the people of Alsace-Lorraine on May 9th, direct from Rume, reports for a better future. They have a right to that an attempt was made to assassinate look forward to a realisation of their Kaiser while he was driving in & Ideal Outrage and injustice are never maator car in Berlin, Two bullets struck forgotten, and violence begets hatred, the tor car, while a third missed
altogether. Liberated Russia wishes this neither for herself nor for the others. Russin is also conscious of the ties which bind her to the Allied democracies, and the duty thes ties impose upon her, Revolutionary Russia cannot, and should not weaken these ties which have been souled by her blood.
DUTCH EAST INDIES. STRONG FLEET NECESSARY
THE HAGUE, May 21st. The First Chamber have unanimously, votel the Budget for the East Indies, after a declaration by the Minister that a strong Fleet was necessary to defend the whole Indies
SILVER.
LONDON, May 22nd. Silver is quoted at 38. The market is steady:
GIANT HAILSTONES.
£100,000 FOR FIGHTING SUBMARINES.
£100,000 sterling to the Admiralty towards The Nizam of Haidarnbait has given anti-submarine campaign. The text of is as Highness letter to the Viceroy of India containing the offer, s
allows
As your Excellency has recently re marked, the moment has arrived when the Empire must make a united effort I am anxious that I and my Stato of to finish this war. In this further effort humble. So far the assistance which 1 nidarabad should take a part, however have been able to render to the Imporial Government has been devoted entirely to the prosecution of the war by land. Mine is not a maritime State, but ever in Haidarabad we have realized the supreme importance of the Navy, especially at the prosent time, when the submarine mentre has again become acute,
"It is my cornest desire to be asso ciated, in however small a degree, with the anti-submarine campaign Situated A sort of competition is apparently as Lar, I auf unable to offer either ships or men for service on the sea. I there going on between China and Japan re garding the size of phenomenal hailstones Tore propose to place at the disposal of (says northern contemporary) Rethe Admiralty the sum of £100,000, to he oontly we reported the fall in Bhaughni devoted to those secret methods of coping of hailstones as large as oranges, Are with the submarines, which, I understand, port now comes from Motosu-gun, Gifu have been successful in the past, and prefecture of the fall of hailstones it which hope will be still more successful is not stated how many-fully a fog in in tha future. I shall therefore be much diameter and that these monster stones obliged if your Excellency will commupi did not melt for three days
25.
The shutting up of the gambling houses in Bangkok has led to a good deal more $100
card playing than heretofore, and its CU, mid that the revenue, from permite for this in the 18 amphurs of the capita Ruby amounts to some Trs. 2,009 a day
eate this offer to the naval advisers of Ala ImperialMajesty, and if they are pleased to nocept this contribution I will arrange for payment to be made in London forthwith.
I need hardly add that I shall stili continue my contribution of £20,000 per martens, which I have made since Sep- tomber, 1914, for the prosecution of the war by land.
OF PERSONS ORDIN
der
premises known as "Lyebolt," 104, The Peak, situate near Mount Gough, in the Lot Colony of Hongkong, with an area of 124,032 square feet and registered in the Office as Rural Building
Pathe Penalty for non-complisave la a fine mot Lot is held for the unexpired resi
exceeding 850,
SCALY SPOTS ON BABY'S SHOULDERS
And on Head. Used to Tear Hersell Nearly to Pieces.
HEALED BY CUTICURA
"I noticed some small spots on my haby's" shoulders and on top of her head. They
gradually got larger and were scaly and very dry, The poor little thing used to tear urself narly in I saw Cuticura pleces, Food and Clntment w Tertised and foy sister bought me a box of Olute ment and & taldes of Soap. Now she is hoped." (Signed) Mrs. B. Law, 18, Laty St., New Worley, Leeds, Eng, April 17, 1915, Sample Each Free by Post With 32-p. Ska Book, (Suap to cleanse. and Distrest to heal.) Address; post-cand for samples: F. Newbery & Sons, 27, Chare tortivume Sq., London. Bold everywhern.
No Household
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can be really happy any of ite members wow alling. Sound: heath in je Vansikoita a boon prickles beyond words, sad without it, sucose and falicity are pikctically imposs sibis. Much illness is positively unnecess ary, and is, occasioned chiolly by neglect. Mnch anxiets given on this account fasésr
and dear onestir, therefore, avoidables. It is "of the _utmost otportance that a vallabia Famady should always be at hand to relleva Beschan'a Pille are an excellent household medician-mufo, ter tako, and sure, in their La curative roke. No homón on the sprint, craptome of indiagoaltion
Should Be Without
thes. They axarcion a beneficial effect: upiam the liver, stomach, Kanaya fund ...? howale They give spandy zaliof, and, in tine, they remove, most of the militants? connected with these important: organa. Attacks of hillounas, còmatheson, lence, headache, drepepala and other dis orders of the diasative system azy epqmdily
37% liem led by
BEECHAM'S PILLS.
There is yet another volet th sobald mörk on the tablet elyour memary Boncham's Pills, in addition to diesấy ném howwledged valus fst kidney, liver, and stemacie divorderi, hava a pospisily banásť: Fetal attači Ek such aLimnotu asara pacali ta wrechen, many of whoc vendare masāƑsas pada and 12-health through izopeana o
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