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American Sentenced in Shanghai.
A REMARKABLE
LETTER.
Pathetic Last Message to
· Hongkong Police Sergeant.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4. 1918.
The letter was found on the
In the Utd States Cobalar Ourt, at Sghai last week, before Vice-C sal-General N.T. In the course of the inquirs Johnson, Will Smith, of no int the circumstances attending fixad abode, who was arrestel oathe death of John William Harris, a warrant by Det. Sub-In-pector a constable in the Police Force; Reeves, pleaded guilty to a charge the following remarkable letter of embezzling goods to the value was read. of $115.40 whilst employed by J. D. Sullivan, and also with deceased. stealing a biocycle. Detective Reaves said that the bicycle and some of the other property had been returned, so that the abarge was reduced to $60,25. The ac- cusod was sentenced to thirty days' imprisonmert in the Con- Bular gaol
Christian Scientist Charged.
R Sutton, No. 1 Launch," and on It was addressed to "Sergt. W: the outside wore written the words:
"As the sun sets in the west will my life at the same time, bat God knows where. I sup- poss í um mad. From your a inquiry into the death of heartbroken chum, J. II. Harris Norah Annie Jewell, daughter of! "I cried myself to sleep" once, Benj min Jowell, was concluded but think it is bout in olew up as at Hornsey on Angust 8. The can't stick it any longer. I have girl died on July 20 and at the your photo in my hand, and tas previous hearing the parent a thought of you. Written admitted having relied on Christ-45 pm, 23.8 13. ian Soituce treatment instead of "Dear Bob, it takes a lot of olling in a doctor. Dr. Bell, arvo to pill the trigger. God who mar'e a post mortem examina-bless you! J. H. Harris, 6.25 tion, and there were diphtheriap m
my obum, the best that I ever had, or could have. Good bre, From Your Heart-broken obum.
J. H. Harrie.
P. 8. Dear Fob, Please come to my funeral and remember that
but love for you. to the last I have no feelinge
HSIUNG HSI-LING. Premier as Minister of Finance.
The appointment of Hsiung Hai-ling to the office of Prime that office, were bailed on all sides Minister, and bis acceptance of as good omens for the immediate future of the country, and the only note of advere comment that was sounded was in the nature of a regret that he could not devote bis attention to the re-organization of Finance: Now this regret has disappeared, for, in addition to the duties of Prime Minster, Heiung" Hsi-ling has agreed to undertake those of Minietor of Finance. The com- bination of the two ollices in the one person, is excellent, for the prime consideration for some time to come, once the present disturb ance is quelled, is the financial germs in the child's throat. The The letter itself
Asiong Hai-ling has held jury found that a doctor abould follows:
As the oflice of Minister of Finance have been called in to attend the
before, and he served the country No. 2, Lunch, 3.20 pm., child and that death was ac
well in that post. He has inaus Dear Bob.-Just.. u few last gurated his new term of office colorated by the want of inedical aid, whereupon the Coroner form-words before I take a coward's well, for he has made a a semi- ally committed to father fortistage Bud commit the horrib's public declaration of policy which crime of self-destruction. I am indicates that he has been think of a charge of minalaughter, nut drinky am I inaning ont things with a view to s inthe ordinary sense of the complete re-organization not only | word. 1. howeyer, have felt of finance but of the administra the separ. on so keenly that it tive system generally. As is well has driven ine mad on that point. known, much of China's trouble
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Prehistoric Dentists
In the province of Esmeraldas, in North-Western Ecuador, Pro fessor Marshall Seville, who oc cupies the obair of American Archaeology at Columbia Univer- eity, bae excavated a number of tribe of S. American Indiaur ekuils belonging to a pre-Incan which prove that high-class dei-
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Noticis
Greenwich Observatory has no apparatus for communicating the correct time by wirelese; Fut this is now done by means of ac in stallation on the Eiffel Tower in my life to call back the last jealousy, especially as far as the Faris, which can thus give the twelve months. I have been army is concerned. Mr. Hsiung induced corrent Greenwich time to any cur, and, as you anic, you langht has evolved a plan which will go climatic conditions, sore throat one who presesses the requisite
mo a lessop. God knows, it has for to remove this jealousy and tocours most frequently. receiving mechanism within a been a dear one, as it in coating the same time make complete It lowers the vitality and may istry Anurished in prehistoric radius of 2000 to 3000 miles me my life. Please tell my pen that separation byween the civil lead to tonsillitis, or be one of the times. Professor Seville states The mechaniam is simple and
ple that I had an accident with a and the military authority that is earliest symptoms of diphtherm, consists of a copper wire spistol and they may not know the necessary if the normal govern scarlet fever, mesales or other pended in one's garden, a turd truth. I aun Borry, as God will ment of the country is to he based grave diseases. All these diseasda ing coil, a detector, and a tele- be my Judge, for me phone. The best time for faults and the bad and crael foundations. He proposes to di-tiply in the throat with amazing mony on civil sather than on military are caused by germe, which mul receiving the signals is at 11.30 things, with no truth in them, ide the country into five or six rapidity. r.m. when the Eiffel Tower that I said to you. I would give military districts, quite independ To cure sore throat, the germe mochanism sends ont a "tap' the last drop of my heart's blood ent of provincial boundaries must, therefore, be destroyed. To and half-moons. for each second during three in do you a kindness and you were and affiliations, and at the head of do this, ductors have discarded minutes. the 180th tap making to me the best chum that a man each district he will place a gargles and 11.33 p.m. Greenwich time
over und; and I did not know how responsible military officer, the throat
with antiseptice, for to appreciate it. There is no present tutuhs being abolished: they know now that such doubt that my behaviour made This officer will work in close treatment cannot reach the germs Sir Henry Trueman Wood you resolve to get rid of me from association with the civil authori- in the distant parts of the ta.cat writes to the "Times"Muob the launch. se you say that the ties, but be independent of them. The only thing which does this 18 has lemn said about the advant-pistole had nothing to do with it. In the provinces, which will be Walling's Formamint, the plea- ages a id dieadvantages to macu- Believe me, I pleaded with you retained without alteration as the ant-sting throat tobiet. When facturers of international ex more for a chance than I would major units of the civil adminis sucked, it saturates the saliva bibitions. It is a subject which for my life to the Lord Chief ration,
There is no economy in going the civil governor with s I have of necessity had to study Justice.
powerful disinfectant, to an optician of doubtful ability I can't go on and will be with some cure, and thero is scopelivo, as I am not to be in will
supreme, and he which, as it is awallowed, kills to purchase glasses upon which. in its discussion for endless argu- your company, for every time to
directly responsible every germ it meets.
|your eye-sight depends. Peking. Mr. Beiung
Personal attention is given to ment on either side. But even a that I go ashore I think to mysel said nothing in the brief inter- has cured your sore throat, as it When Wulfing's Formamint summary of those arguments it was Bob that I was with when view about how far provincial undoubtedly will, you will be 28 would take me too long. I pass, last. I came here, and it will not assemblies and local government enthusiastic as the tens of thou- therefore, t the real object I have be so again, and all-through, my bodies will be strengthened, but sands of others, including many in sending you this letter, and own fault. And then there is a it may be presumed that, since he celebrities, who have written in that is to urge upon those in gulp is my throat and you may has said nothing to the contrary-its praise. authority the well-proved fact have seen a strong man cry with the policy snoourced some time that whether individual manufac sorrow-it is not a pleasant sight ago of strengthening these bodies Practitioner":"Having tried all A physician writes in the tarere, or even collective indus-
Well, I asked you on the square and making them more thorough-the British Pharmacopoeia lozen- tries, gain or loso by participation in international exhibitions, such as a Brother but you were adamantly representative will be main-ges, and most of the proprietary enterprises have afforded a valu-and would not give me the trial tained.
antiseptic lozenges, I have become. reduced to one, and one only (for able and effective means of wine that I asked for. God knows,
sore throat), namely, Wolfing's Formamint."
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The second day of his holding you gave me a lot of chances, and oflice Mr fisiung was visited by ning the good will of other peoples, I did not improve, but all the way the Itussion Minis or and the Act of leesoning the jealousies which along my heart has been true, ing Minister for Great Britain arise between nations as between although I said hard things. with view to securing a Bottle The success of Walfing's For- individuals, and that though the Please tell mother that I had a ment of the difficulties that have mamint has brought many imita-
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