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CREAT BRITAIN and AMERICA. 'STOCK LIST, PAMPHLETS, AND PRICES ON APPLICATION. Quotations for kay description of Machinery or Engineering Plant on application to
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1914.
NOTICES
GUARD AGAINST
PLAGUE.
The season is with us when the utmost care should be taken to avold Infection.
IZAL
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MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA. Hongkong, June 11th, 1913,
LESSONS IN CHINESE.
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engkong, 16th August, 1910:
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THE GRAND HOTEL ORCHESTRA. WILL PLAY SELECTIONS CA DURING TIFFIN AND DINNER AND AT INTERVALS DURING
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South China Morning Post.
Town Planning, Housing reformers and town- planners gonorally have reason to be grateful to His Majesty the King for the kindly interest he takes in the question of housing and particularly in the garden city application of housing and town planning. Their Majesties have lately visited some of the Garden City sohemes in England and the TEL King has himself ontored with
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conditions on his own estutes of the Dachy of Cornwall, where expiry of leases has recently on- abled the carrying out ofextensivO rebuilding upon plans approved by Professor Adshead of the Depart ment of Civic Design at Liverpool. In England and Wales there are 224 town-planning schemes under way and Mr. Herbert Samuel, the new President of the Localcem. Government Board, will shortly introduce legislation which will make the adoption of this method of civic betterment obligatory.
Daily Press.
Oplum Smoking in the Colony,
If the opium habit had created among the Chinese population of
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co.ing opproaching the evils
1864
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Hongkong. 29th Jan., 1912.
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which arise from the indulgence of alcohol in the large cities of the United Kingdom,- Mr. Alexander, if he knows anything at all about the European com manities of the Eset, will be perfecily well aware that they would not be elow to take the necessary steps to suppress the the evil without stopping a moment to consider whether or not their
action would entail an increase in the levy made upon. tham by the collector of taxes. We in Hongkong liye in what has been described in the Anti Opiam Society's literature as one of the greatest sinks of iniquity in the Far East, in this connec tion: but notwithstanding that there are many: religious organi- sations here we have never heard of any one of them being moved to make a protest against the existence of the opium evil in Hongkong. Wherefor it may surely be inferred that either the smoking of opium in this Colony was never a serious evil, or that it never forced itself unpleasantly upon the attention of the public, and could therefore reasonably be regarded as "&harmless indulgence."
China Mari
Kidnapping In Canton
It is certain that those who steal these little ones do not carry. them off that they may sell them again as slaves for few would be inclined to buy them at that age
years their owners would be ex- inasmuch as within two or three pected to marry
arry them to suitable husbanda, and, therefore, they would have no sufficient interest
No. 1683. in buying them that they might Berve BB servants for a couple or three years. It is almost certain that these children find but one goal, and that is the horrible brothels either at Canton or full some other place, where they can for a time to hidden away and made familiar with their new surroundings...
We should think that official life would feel the stigma of this sort of thing so keenly that they would leave no stone unturned and no secret place unsearobed in order to pat an end to it. Though the generality cannot be blamed for the deads of rascala, yet that there 18 so much raecality of this kind going on in open day should be a painful reflection to those mem are to-day go ceünitival y antio that thour country shot garded as Forvilized) people as cult
make this kidaš