TELEGRAMS.
The following telegrams appearod as a Extra after we went to press yesterday:——
THE OPIUM TRAFFIC,...
WARM DENUNCIATION,
SERVICE MATTERS.
The Late General Park.
THE HONGKONG® TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1913.
Prepaid Advertisements
ONE CENT PER WORD
FOR EACH INSERTION.
TO LET.
The death of Major-General O. W. Park, OB, recalls the day ia January, 1900, when as com mander of three companies of the Davon regiment he drove the Boers from Waggon Hill, outside Ladysmith, at the point of the FROM 1st February, MEI- RION, No. 10, Peak, furni- bayonot. In their aplendid shed or unfurnished. 6 Rooms. charge, the Devons lost four:
The EYRIE No. 13 Peak, London, May 7, officers and fifty-three men. Sir To let furnished. In the House of Commons, the Gearge White, in offering them Rev. J. Towyn Jones, Liboral bearly congratulations, lamented M.P. for Evet Carmarthenshire, this, but reminded them that such drew attention to the opium work as they had done for the trullie and moved a resolution that Empire could not be done without the House again records its loss. Later, Major-General Park's conviction that the Inde work in the Lydenburg district Chinese opium trade is morally earned the high appreciation of indefensible, and calls on the Co-Lord Kitchener.
vernment to release China from KO.Y L.1. Man in Trouble, herobligations to admit the Indian Private John Carter of K. O. Y. drug and allow her to prohibit the I was charged at Singapore importation of stooks accumulated last week, with the theft of & at the Treaty Ports and in silver waioh, value $4, from a Hongkong He vigorously debcp in North Bridge Road. Ac
traflic nounead the
as the cused, who was sentenced to six greatest cursa in China and the weeks imprisonment, said be greatest disgrace to Britain, and asked whether, while the abur ches in Britain were praying for China, the British Government was going to be the only olistucle to the fulfilment of the prayers. God forbid !
should steal again when he came out, as he wanted his discharge from the regiment.
Army Pay.
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OVERWORK AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
For every breach of her laws,
noon.
A Culonal writes to the London Daily Telegraph" as follows:-- The proposed increase in the pay Mr. Edmund Harvey. Liberal of allicers of the Army is a de- M.P. for Leeds, West, supporter.lusion as far as subalterns are The Convention of 1911 was a concerned who onter by the usual step forward, but it was not channels. The abolition of the enough. A new situation had rank of second lieutenant hardly arisen and we should take the lects them, as they must now first step and not wait for China arve for three years before they receive G 61a day. Formerly,
dongkoar 8th, May 1918. (356 to approach us oflicially.
Mr. H. Keswick, Unionist nost obtained their second star M.P. for Epsom, declare that, in that time, and a great many
Mr. A. G. Hales, the famou with a knowledge of nineteen long before, These officers will
War Correspondent and Novelist. years in China, opium-smoking have to wait for six years before
furnishes practical proof of this WAR no more an evil than the they become entitled to the high-
in this statement: I Have asod wking of a glass of beer or wine, est rale, viz., 3 per diem, and
Samatogen and find myself con They found crauks dealing with Colonel Ceels admits that this remorseless Nature exacte a pen-siderably improved in general the question who were just six years is the critical period of alty. Sooner or later those who health. I am working late and as cranky as those dealing with an office: 's service. Young men overtax themselves have to pay in long under considerable pressuce, the teetotal question. “Wo mado a who spend three years in the ranks broken sleep, constant lassitude, and find that my brain benefits bargain with China", continued will apparently, on being com-disordered memory, disorganised by every tin of your nerve tonic Air. Keswick, whereby we forego missioned, at once receive 6s 6d dgestion and other disagreeable that I take. It rovitalises a man money and advantages to assist diem, with an additional 26 914 aymptoms; which may end in a and is not a drug. No brain China to regenerate herself, Today, or £50 a year, and after only nervous breakdown, for their worker should be without it." quote the aboliti nists, we have three years further service the overdrafts on the bank of health. These words must impress all done our part, ut the Chinese highest rate. So that practically
Formerly, recuperation from overworked people that by using Governmentiana doing it."So long officer promoted from the such conditions involved a long Saratogen they will recover their as that was so hn deprecated any ranks receives the highest rate holiday with its enforced idleness, vitality and be able keep on work-
from the date of his first commis expense and anxiety. Now, doo- ing without breaking down. resolation such as the present,
Sapatogen can be obtained of especially now, when the Governo. This appears to be an un- tors understand that these symp ment of China was undergoing duo premium on promotion from toms are due to the using up of all Chemists. transformation. Care should be the ranks, unless it is Colonel the organic phosphorus of the taken in the interests of His Seely's intention to abolish all body more rapidly than the Majesty's subjects and, traders other means of entering the Army, weakened organa oan take it from The supply of Sandhurst and the fed. To overcome the coa Militis candidates is bound to fall sequences of overwork they, off, as parents will hardly be therefore, restore this organic naxious to place their sons in the phosphorus. Army at great expense when they must serve alongside others draw
out there.
GENERAL NEWS.
The Shanghal Mystery.
Sir Charles A. Cameron, C.B., M.D., F.R.C.P., etc., the distin-
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"Candour in commercial matters is always desirable, bat in the following extract from their an-N. nual report a certain insurance company seems to carry frank- ness almost to the verge of brata- lity: The directors have to death of their esteemed colleagues
ing far better pay. For the firet guished Medical Officer of Health announce, with deep regret the
the Ecard but a short time before his death, and Mr. ——, and they desire to record their sense of the great loss the company has there- by sustained. Until the-number of the Board has beзn further reduced, the directore do not pro- pose to fill up the vacancies thus created."
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The mystery surrounding the six yeare, at the lowest estimate, and Public Analyst of Dublin, disappearance of Mrs.-H. Good it costs £830 to maintain a young states: "Sonatagen contains a Mr., who had retired from will no doubt be cleared up 10-man in the Service. Studburst relatively large amount of organic day, says the N. China Daily for Militia expenses, £120; uni- phosphorus, that is phosphorus News of May 3, when an inquest form, £150; an allowance of £60 which is offered to the tissues in is to be opened by the British a year for six years, £360. Few exactly the form in which it can Authorities on the body of in elder will deny that, with a capital of be absorbed." ly wom in found yesterday lying £600, there are better openings Sanatogen is, therefore, the on the river foreshore. It is stated for the class of young man the ideal prepertion for those who that the body resembles the des- Army wants to bi forni in the suffer from overwork and its oription of Mrs. Good, given to Colonies, and if such unequal consequences. the Palico after her sudden dis-treatment is introduced into the appearance more than a week Service for young office:s serving ago. Shortly after noon yester-together, Col nel Scely will find day a River policomrn came ac- that he bra by ou means solved ross the boily some 300 yards the officer prol len... below Battery Creek nad acting on instructions he removed it to the Mortuary. The Coroner was apprised of the occurrence, and an inquiry into the circumstances is to be hell.
Left for Home.
New Step in Army Training,
A new departure in accon modating trop engaged in field operations, ears the "Chronicle," will be tested in the Alder- shot area when 10,000 troopa of all arms will take the field and be Mr T. U. Aldridge quartored on the inhabitants of Municipal Electrical Engineer the countryside, who will be in- has left Shaghai for England vited to take the soldiers into via the United States, and will their houses and provide them return by the middle of October. with food and shelter at an agreed
An area of Goldsmith Workers on Strike in price per night.
Ave square miles lying to the There is quite a little upheaval west of Camberley has been
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