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J. H.TAGOART, Manager.
GRAND HOTEL:
A first-class and up-to-date Hotel, most central location, within the vicinity of all the principal Banks,"
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will give you certain, prompt relief and ensure a good night's rest? This, the only genuine oure Tel. 373 for Asthma, discovered by Mr. NOBBS, a qualified Chemist, and a sufferer for many years, will, if taken when..necessary, effect a radical cure of this erstwhile in- curable malady.
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GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED,
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THE-
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(Published Annually)
Enables traders throughout the World to
graduate versed in litera- communicate direct with English
ture, has been a teacher to Eu-
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STEAMSHIP LINES
Those who intend learning the arranged under the ports to which they Chinese language are requested sail, and Indicating the approximate to write c/o "Hongkong Telesailings. 'graph" office or direct to No. 14, Graham Street, first floor. Hongkong, 29th Jan., 1912.
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CONTENTS.
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3 Poking News ............ene
A Chinese Gueat....... 48 The General Officer Com
manding ima Correspondence.78 Catholic Cathedral... Commercial ................................ 9--15 Ointon News ......49 The Courts ...18-19 University of Hongkong...49 Leading Artioles 20-27 The Cigarette and Tobacco
Fund... Notes and Comments ... 28-82]
33-38 Prince of Wales, Fand ...50 Special Articles..... Spork maimuna sa nës 39-41 Baden Powell Bay Sconte
60 Municipalisation LITRI SI SHA-
on 4/42-44 Building Fund Appointments ..................**
Knighthood for Mr. Ho Increased Interport Re
Tangisaniūk Master, Mate and Engineer
Examinations
venue Rivalry...............44 Grant Us Peace () Lord "45–46 Death of Mr. J. E. Greason 48. From the Pulpit.
********46-47 Hongkong Health Return 47
Italian and Austrian Warbl Garments for Soldiers...... 51 Telegrams
British Trade In Chios.
If the new Chamber succeede in impressing the Home" Govorn ment with the need for definite legislation in this connection, whether Japan follows Buit or not, it will have achieved something angible as a beginning to wh we trust will be a long career of usefulners. That the Germans, handropped though they are, intend to keep alive their busi Ders crunction in Chias is almost daily brought to notice to a variety of ways, It should therefore be the aim of every Britisher, no matter low large or small his interest, to see that "no help is extended to the enemy to enable the latter to keep up appearances in the meanwhile and then be in: a potion to compete with British firms on the old lines when the war is over.
Daily Pra
Japan and the War.
It is to Germany. that she (Japan) looks for instruction in science generally. Her education- al system is admittedly an adap tion of that of Germany, end her Army, though origically founded on a French model, has recently bern greatly influenced by Ger- man methods. German thought land German ways thus play' a much larger part in Japan than they do, say, in England, and in these circumstances it is hardly surprising to find that a strong sympathy is still felt för.. that country. Politically also Japan is stout on a level with Germany.
In both enantries bareaucracy is supreme, Govern mentsupervision and Government interference omnipresent, and the military party of eufficient power to say the polioy of the country. Buch "a political organisation therefore by no means srikes Japan se anomalous or effete. Rather she is inclined to ses in. German strength and German patriotism justification of despotic as compared with popular rale.
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China Mail,
German Submarines. “M. Liubeuf adùs thai, forequal displacement had age, the French submarines have better nautical qualities and a more powerful armament than the German ones. Notwithstanding the great acti- vity displayed by Germany in submarine construction since 1907 and the importance of the sams voted for this work, she had : zot bad time to build a very large number of submarines Her pro- gramme was to form by 1917 a flotilla of 72 bar ts, by the opening of hostilities she was able to put in service slightly more than half that number. Austria commenced the construction of submarinesin. 1907. When war was declared,ebe had six ready, U 1 to U.6, of 300 tone, and four, on the Krupp de signa, under construction at Pola: The five built by Krupp, above referred t›, were to be numbered U7 to U 11. The four Pola boata have been completed, and are rumbered U12 to U 18.
Esgland to a much larger. fleet of submarines and when, sa at prevent în the Sea of Marmora, | they have an opportunity, they will soon make their presence felt.
Souvenirs From the Malay Peninsula,
Mr. T. 8, Batler, of the Southe ern Line, left Bangkok by the Obangohon on May 15, en route for Home via Canada. He takes with him a fourteen-foot python and a black panther onb, couvenira of hin residence în the Peninsula, which he hopes will live to sen England.
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