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Telephone No:41.
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THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO.
(ESTABLISHED 1825)
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPE, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1914.
This fo'-established and renowned Company issues policies under all the best and modern methods of Life Assurance to meet varying circumstances.
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CRUICKSHANK'S COUGH REMEDY.
A Valuable Remedy for Tafluenza, Colds, Bronchitis, Asthma and ail Diseases of the Chest and Lungs. PRICH $1.00 PER BOTTLE. MARTIN'S MIXTURE:
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Hotels.
HONGKONG HOTEL
A LA CARTE GRILL ROOM,
Blangkong, 20th April, 1911,
Now Oj
J. H. TAGGART, Manager
GRAND HOTEL.
QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL TEL. ADDRESS "COMFORT "
Central Position: Large Airy Rooms; Hot, Cold and Shower Baths: trio Light and Fins Troughout; Large Comfortable Loungs Private and Publio Bara; Billiard Rooms. HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STAMERS. Monthly Rates for Tim and Dinner. SPECIAL DINNERS AT SHORT N ICE CUISINE ENTIRELY ONDER EUROPEAN SUPERVISION, Special Rata For Married Families On Application,
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Telegraphis Address; "VICTORIA"
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OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
South China Morning Post,
Stop Squeeze. China arede many reforms be fore she can take a place among the advance inations of the world. First and foremost of thess reforme is the abolition of corruption;" The Peking-Ministry of Finance has made a move towards this de sirable end by promulgating roles. "to do away with all corrupt practices." The rules are ex- cellent in their way but they do not go far enough, and it would be practical and to the point if, in enforcing them, the Govern- ment imposed deterring penalties for all manner of equeeze and bribery on the part of officials, Only the exercise of most ri- gorous measures can effectively stamp oat an iniquitous evil. which has been countenanced throughout China for hundreda of years and from which the old
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throne were openly allowed to amass enormous rioles, Mesare. E. Backhouse and J. O. P. Bland, two well-known authorities on Obinese affairs, have just publi- ehed the "Annsis and Memoirs of the Court of Peking" and one palpable fact, inseparable from any story of Chins which aims that the Court which hold sway at accuracy, stands out, onmely,
over 'China's millions had been elesped for four centuries in a refined process of bribery and
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ALEXANDRA CAFE..
PRICE 70 CTS.. PER LB.
WATSON & Co., Ltd. and all Grand Hotel de l'Europe, Singapore.
Chemists and Patent Medicine
endors.
LAGER BEER
1
Price $2.50 per bottle.
OBTAINABLE EVERYWHEKE
SOLE. AGENTS
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA. Hongkong, June 11th, 1913.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.
PORTLAND, CEMENT
In Casks of 375 lbs. net. L In Bags of 250 lbs.net.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. General Managers
Hongkong, 16th August, 1901
LAW & SONS
Studebaker
Duddell' St.
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Daily Press.
British Defensive Forces. The nation has been told by the Secretary of State for War that in the opinion of the overr ment and the Committes of Ira perial Defence the danger of an overwhelming invasion is
...not
one which there is any reason to fear, and the Prime Minister only last week emphasis the point that'an'important sub-com- mittee of the Defence Imperial Committee was considering the whole question and bad practical ly come to an unanimous decision which would show that the Navy was as capable as ever it had! bean for "protecting the country/ from invasion. But if the. Government still considers "essential," as Lord Haldane year aga said it did, to have for Home defence a force of abo at half a million composed prin' oi- pally of Territorials, the prey ent position, as it is revealed oy the Army returns, is manifestly an unsafe one. In the circumstan cos the National Service, League, which has a very strong backing
IS TAKING already throughout the commiary
HONGKONG BY STORM.
SAN MIGUEL DRAUGHT
&
BOTTLED BEER.
is not likely to relax its efforts to persuade Parliament to imposs on all British subjects over eigh teen years of age the obligation of serving in the Territorial Force for four years.
China doul
Chiu 'Plog-kwan.
Some seem to think that Chin'g - death is a reward for the part ho is reported to have taken in the death of Sang Kanyan, and that those who read the foots in
Our Bottled Beer is acknowledged this light regard the retribution
to be Par Excellence,
as only just, and are not them eelves sorry that such a fate ho gr overtaken him.
ONCE DRUNK ALWAYS DRUNK hand, most of the go
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Old Post Office Building, Pedder St.
Telephone No,
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who care say mu on about the sad ellair speak with some difidence and are quite puzzled to understand its pr and cons. Whilst some say that be died a natural death arid others arm that he was poisoned, there is wisdom, we think, in speaking of the affair with some reserve. For ourselves, assuming that he was poi soned, and of this
there seems a considerable weight of evidence, we are sure Vint this sort of thing will in the long runs only bring retribution upon the country. Where life 78 so uncer tam that at any hour the knife, the cup, or the bullet may end it, only disaster and shame will be the heritage of those who de grade themselves to these dis graceful deeds.
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