PLAGUE PREVENTION.
What is Blog Done lu Manchuria.
Dr. Wa Lenteb, Director and
FOOTBALL.
Staff & Depta. v. 88th Co. R.G.A.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1917.
CORRESPONDENCE.
The opinions expresand by corres pondents are not necessarily thom of the Hongkong Telegraph."}
THE WAR TAX.
(To the Editor of the “ Hongkong
Telegraph."}
This 2nd Division Lagaa Chief Medical Oficer of the North match was played on the Navy Manchurian Plague Prevention Ground last evening, Mr. Mo- Service, in his fifth annual report, Tavish having charge of the for the year ended September, game.
Sir, I am taking this opport 1917, says, inter alið :---
Play was of a very even obar. unity, through the medium of your valuable columns, to bring Owing to the extraordinary ster, both sides putting in plenty to the notice of the proper depreciation of the rouble, apon of dash. The defence proved so which our appropriation has beenperior to the attack in an authorities the matter of the
of my house rent every month.
hitherto been based and the in-case.
special 7% War Tax recently After Alisen minutes play, enforced in this Colony. I-WED cressed cost of material and cost of the Gunners were awarded under the impression that the living, the members of our Service freskiok for handa just outside id extra taxes were to be paid have gone through a very anxious the penalty res. This was well by the tenants and the landlords period indeed. Our budget was taken by the centre-half, who jointly, but, on the contrary. I arranged when the rouble wae icand the rigging with a good have been requested by my land. worth $1,20 Mex.," but since the bard drive. Nothing further lord to pay the full 7% cut commencement of the war the was ecored in this half. valus of the former bas steadily. The Staff & Depts, played much gone down, until at the present better in this half,, the re-seng time one rouble stands at 15 cents fog of their team being for the Mex. only. The suffering thus best. On one occasion the ball entailed, especially upon the lower rolled along the Ganners' goal employees, has been immense, and lice, but nothing secraed. A few it speaks volumes for their loyalty ainates from time, Strange head. and earnestness in that they havead the ball into the net from stuck to their posts for about a sorner kick, Result-1 all. On your in spite of eo much dis-the the run of the play, this was couragement. The happy newe quite a fitting result. that the original appropriation of TI. 60,000 will be resorted to instead of Re. 78,000 will be re- caired with much relief by all.
The other League match ar aged to be played, 83rd Co. R.G.A. v. Middlesex Regt. Ben. had to be avoidably postponed.
My monthly rental is $20, and for the past three months I have paid $1.40 each month me War think it is fair for the tenants 10 Taxed to mý landlord. Do you pay this extra expense while the working people, and the landlordi majority of these tenants are hard-j simply receiving the rent every month? I would suggest that the Government should appoint a apecial Committee to investigats this matter?
I have been told, the landlorde ate In some instances, taking this opportunity to increase
the rental as well...
Lest December, I asked for and
Royal Engineers v. Navy. obtained leave to proceed to This was a friendly match Hongkong and accept the Honor-played on the Club Ground
Daring the past few years, I ary Degree of L. L. D. which the festerday, neither side fielding s
understand, the value of house Governor of the Colony.officiating representative team. Play was properties has been going up by se Obancellor of the University, of a one-sided character, the leaps and bounds, and doubtless wished to confer upon me" as acme Engineers doing practically all many of the landlords are getting recognition of the prominent part the pressing during the first half good prices for houses bought previously. I think the landlords
istration and restarob in Ohiña," love at half-time.
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Youre, sto.
▲ TENANT.
I have played in medical admin- and were testing by six goals to should treat their tenants sa Sir There were altogether fire re- The second half was not pro-
Robert Ho Tang treated his. The cipients, and I was honored by ductive of mach good football,ost of living nowadays is getting being the only medical man to little or no dab being shown by bigher and higher, and any extra obtain the distinction. I also either side. Another goal was expenses mean more hardship for
Tailed myself of that opportunity added to the Sippers score, who the working-class people. to attend the Joist Conferta cat winners by 7 goals to mil. ence of the China Medical Mis- Bionary Acoiation and the National Medical Association which was bald in Canton from Jan. 24 to 30, 1917. Together: with Dr. Beebe I sat alternately
· as President of the Joint Con- ference, and was fe-elected for a further period of two years. As in former jeare, the members of ar Service took a prominent part in reading papers and eending ex The Saiyingpun Division will hibite. The paper by Dr. Fred furnish 1 Officer and 20 men, Eberson our Bateriologist, on with 2 bagers, for daty at the
ST. JOHN AMBULANCE
BRIGADE.
Ordere ismed by Mr. E. Ralpha giate
H. K. D. C. Camp of Exercise.
22nd.
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Fall in, Thuraday 22nd, a ordered at Divisional Head-
Hongkong, November 21, 1917. The correspondent will find his complaint dealt with in oar leaderette column.-Ed. H.K.T.]}
NEVER NEGLECT YOUR ILLS,
There are many people, inclod- most women, who will take
else's health than their own. This
port of accelfi-bbem is not really kind; it is not right. A person in bad health is always a burden in
The Nature of Plague Prop, from the 22nd. inst, to the far more trouble about any pe teatoxing" aroused considerable 30th, ioat, inclusive. interest because it anticipated the Baggage to be sent to the discovery of a new successful Divisional Headquarters not later seram against pneumonic and then 10 am on Thursday the
some way or another. To sare septicemic plague, apon which we
others from becoming a burden, and allow one's self to become an have concentrated our attention during the last few years. This
invalid, is neither wise nor keram, if proved ffective in quartere.
делегове, Dress:Helmets, shorts, pat- practice, will indeed mark a step
Science shows that nine-tenthe forward in the treatment of leer, water-boties (filled); haver of the ills which afflict mankind, plague cases, especially of the sacks (Sted), great costs (rolled).and women especially, are due to
Cape to be carried. pneumonic and septicemic variety.
Next for dots, Queen's College poor and thin blood. This is Armenis too little blood, and
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Commission:Corporal bloodlesanese, and the headaches mes and cattle in their newly- Wei Kan to be Lee-Sergeant and and backaches of the fair sex----
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you know that a remedy is in hat if our Government and the Secretary, Y. M. C. A. Division.
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knd prevented anibrix among Chief
coal farmers work hand in hand
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he fertile regions of North Man-mente. The Chinese city is now people are able to make abun- THE Steamship baria will yield most productive practically a new town built upon dance of new blood, and this
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"STORVIKEN."
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I left Harbin on June 13th for river bank having been reclaimed as flows in the veins of vigorous,
sarual trip of inspection to for wharfe and main basiaees healtby people. It is important, having strived from the above out-station hospitals on the throughfares. The price i land though, to get the genuine Dr. ports, Consignees of cargo by gart and Amur. I found all his increased by leap and Williams at shope; if in doubt her are hereby informed that borpitale well kept, and can-|loande. The value of the lot send $1.50 for a boule, or $8 all Goods are being landed at erable progress was reported upon which our hospital stande is for 6, to the Dr. Williams their risk into the hazardous rywhere. 6 proper carriage aressed at no less than half a Medicine Co., 06 Szobuen Road, ve, paved with cobbles has now million roobler.
Changhai.
The past year has been a very
In made leading from the town Taheibo to the Hospital. The healthy one so far as infections
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joiale, Merchante, and gentry dieesED le concerned. Plague Alleged Fraudulent Conversion. Goods not cleared by the 8th re bare shown commendable contigues to be sbsent throughout A Chinese dispenser, of 64, November, 1917, at 5 P.M. will be
rprise in helping our Medical Manchuria and North Chine, Bonhem Strand, charged a board- subject to rent. para with financial support making this the instructing and lighting the ecceenive
All broken.chafed and damaged which Court this morning with the packages are to be left in the Oar Medical Department in it has not occurred. Small-fraudulent conversion of $1,000 Godowns where they will be bia bas during the past year por was prevalent for some entrusted to him to deposit with examined by Messrs Goddard taken bacteriological and time in Harbin and the villages the Chi Shing firm. The defend and Douglad on 28th November, jical examinations for sacer-on the rivers, bat scarlet fever ant was represented by Mr. G. E. 1917, at 9.30 AM.
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ng the parity of water was not so noticeable in Haywood, and the defonos was Claims against the steamer ier, mineral watersand milk. Shanghai, where there the disease that the money was given with must be presented within 10 veral occasions we have been chimed an upmensl number of instructions to pay for certain days of arrival otherwise they to analyse pilla sold in the victims this year. Dysentery and goods. The defendant then en-will not be recognized.
Oar medical officers have, enteric fever ato not abnormally trusted the money with a man No Fim Insurance" will be pled as exsnipers for pract- high. The dienstrom foda nimed Wong, who bad decamped, seated: by us in any case whit-
of medicine in the city, which have recently occurred in A promissory note had been given an steen thus examined, only Tientsin and the sortounding to the complainant, who had wed our requirements. In districts may easily load. this accepted it, and, id, signed by of the war and increased winter to a serious epidemo of Haywood, it was a case for civil svörything, large sums of typhus, relepilng fever and other proceedings. After avidezno had have been spent by the infections diseases unless proper hero given, his Worship (Mz. J. les upon road constraction maitary precautions are taken, L. Wood) adipurged the case till Hongkong, 21st November, 1917. ber municipal improve. nóW.
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