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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1917.
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THE RIGHT FAITH OF MAN IS seriously perturbing some of the wỘT INTENDED TO GIVE HIM RE German subjects or-sympathisers POSE, BUT TO ENABLE RIM TO DO in Canton, one of hom has B18 WORK-Rusia. sgain favoured us with 's little budget ef reading matter which apparently gives his joy to bring! to our notice. Among other of the Baule of Austerlits (1805) things, be sends as a number of ativertisements issued by Bong. kong British firms, across which he has typed what he probably on thinks to be sarcastically humor-28. ons acmiment, but which sadly will fails to hit the mark. The one
The Dollar."
A DISEASE OF
AIRPLANE-MAKERS.
Fatal Dope-Poisoning.”
Almost every industry bas ons or more disenes from which thoas who engage in it must be care- fally guarded, In early days operativen solared and died from
1892
HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE
YEARS AGO..
(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the weak ending December §. 1892.5 The Dollar. The opening rate of the dollar there "oautions! dia" by
December 1.The rate of the "demand tonw
was thousands nowadays their study dollar on demand to-day is 2/91 10.7/81. The closing rate constitutes an important branch
པ A Foreign Invasion." of medicale incition FrappeRY be found on Pag. 1
December 2-la there nobody from an editorių" in Amer can To-morrow's Services.
erupt.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY,
Sir A. Conan Doyle in master. of the case which he makes sgxinet our intolerable divorce. laws, but possibly, if he does not. rstready know the case, he may care (esys the Daily Chronicle) to be reminded of Da Terreaux v. Da Terreaux, a tangle of legal cariosities. tried "before Mr. Jastics Cresswell. A child of 16 sloped with and married her music master, a man 20 years her senior, Returning in tears, she was sent by.ber pasenta to the- thing which he is evidently mort The Bishop of Victoria is to Medicine (New York) thus, the Comercially interested in the Continent for a term of years:
welfare of Hongkong courageous The man married a second time,... orions that we should read is a preach at St. Peter's Church to manufacture of air placee parbans enough to take up the oadgels while the girl was still abroad. long screed of some four columns morrow morning and at the ear newest industry, is not ex-
was, then, her Jogal What the writer calls against the danger as petroleum What of rubbish which he has gone to osthedral in the evening.
"dope- pris pior." more strictly near Commopolitan Dekat Sham-
tankenow approaching completion position? the pains of underlining in red
Trade Marks: pencil throughout. This is said. The Hongkong Government and professionally
known as hai-po under the suspices of a "toxic jaundice," induced, local Germ: frm! The Govern to be a translation from a Harbin Gazette contains sa Amendme paper dealing with an alleged reof the licence for the payment of aro old, by poisonous substances ment will regret it folly is Was the second · marriage of pert by nine officers of the U, 8fees for patents and trade mark, contained in the Trish with
sauctioning this uspedeerary her husband legal or not? I General Sts on the position on especially relating to enemy sab which the linen of the wings is dangat. If any responsible legal, did that marriage auto- the Western Front, in which|jecte.
made water-proof and air-proof. This business is so new that the citizen will give us a lead, thematically render beraires woman? H's Exceli uer the User Ad-study of safeguarding it bae nosite active in fuence in the fosle to enough to a lawyer to-day, but it
Telegraph will be glad to throw The situation would be clear · be "deeply concerned over the
+al situation there." Incident ministering the Government was made to much progrees sa orash this latest foreign invasion. would afford, possibilities to the ally, the British and French Gov-appointed Hrs Ewart Berjimin longer established industries, bat
An Incident and its Moral. noveliet or play-writer. When eraments are accused of wilfully George Scaler to the temporary there is surely no resson why we
December 3.-A Chinese con- the questions had to be pat, it distorting the Dewa from this rank of Lieutenant in the Hang- should needlessly sacrifioes skilled theatre.
kong Defence Cups, with Got workers whose services are of table on day on the Prava last was to Cresswell that the possi from the 14th November, 1917. value to their ocastry. Sys the week went to +leep and fell into ed young woman went. The care"
the barbour, and, alas was drown- | turned upon the point “had ake paper named above-
"In order to apply the vasted like a rat. His valuable body disentitled herself to relief by The whole thing is snob an atter tissue of lies that we might tion, open to all qualified natural flying squadron which is contem picked up ander the Poesig separating herself without reas SILUSG" within the born British subjects, well be forgiven for consigning admission to the ludian Civil the United States is now placed day with
for pisted, the seroplane industry of wharf yesterday and interred to enable
police honours. meaning of the Act 7 The judge the article to the waste-paper Service, will be held in Land under forced draft. As is natural Moral Constables should not said No, because in the first in backst right away. There is, however, one point so repeatedly in August, 1918, and that empire in the expansion of an industry sleep on daty, and if they do, they stance abe had been entrapped by of the regulations, llame of ex under the strese of emergency, should lean against a pab door the music mister. But if she had insisted upon that it is worth amination, and forms of applics over-emphasis is placed upon the or a lamp-post, and take care to not been entrapped? drawing attention to. Theae Ameries officers are said to have tion to be filled up by the rapidity of construction and little stick to it, like a leven, that has found the German lines so strong
candidates may be seen on thought is given to the hazards got hold of something good, don't
at application the Colonial involved. Large numbers of men yer know. that without speedy and ample
Chinese Military" Review. In fring a limit to the height are to be employed under asw help of America on the largest Secretary's office.
December 5-Kowloon Oily to which aeroplanes may rise, Thought It Was Rico. and trying conditions, exposing has been during the last three regard must be paid not only to scale, there is no possibility for
An old Chinese man the Allies to break through sny.
was them to occupational diseaser, the
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER. 1, 1917. -
THE ALLIES' WAR AIMS.
Facts and Fancles.
Defence Corps Commission.
Indian Civil Service. It is notified that an examinx-
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where, it certainly in their own fault, for by the Preen, Members of } way through the "impregnable "/Defendant; it appeare, jomped factories devoted to the manu letter on Mr. O'Brien-gentle at a maximum on, the earth's sur-
PEKING PAPER SUPPRESSED.
Drastic Police Action.
consist of Irish "linea, stretched
A' Riddle.
oitement quite mausual in that mechanical factor for the decreas Quite recently Mr. Lloyd George, in a speech at Paris, which where." Later on we are told charged before Hr. A. Dyer Ball, nature of which has not been days thrown into a state of ex- the human factor, but to the caused considerable commotion at the time by reason of the out. / that "well-informed bigh military at the Polits Ozart this morning, fully recognised in this country. pesurfal watering place. Theraad dranity of the air at high
with being in unlawful The hygienic dangers of the cfficersconfessopenly that with the spoken stars of some of the remarks made, orged more complete for oss available to-day the German Possession of a quantity of seroplane industry have been in has been an immense review of altitudes affects both man and co-ordination in the prosecution of the war, Lord Lansdowne now
district ander the local mandarin, tion engine of --an seroplane" comes forward with a ples for co-ordination of the war sime of the lines cannot be pierced." All this pig iron. Defendant stated that vestigated by the New York all the military forces in the machine. The internal combur
he was a coolie and had been State Industrial Commission sounds very pretty from the
assisted Allies. At drat glance it would almost sppear that there was a German point of view, but uho told him it was rice. It was Hygiens of the Bureau of In/Excellencies. All the mancsavreely on the air in which it mOTER, by several visiting depends for its energy vary large- given the staff to carry by a man through its Division of Industrial | mimilarity in the ideas expressed, but obviously while the Prima "Minister a statement explains itself, Lord Lansdowne's simply means
happily the recent happenings in pity, he said tearfully, that he spection. It is probably fortunate known in the Chinese Army have as the gas mixture which moves that it should be made clear what are the precise-sims for which the West make the picture a little should be sent to prizon for the that the experience in England teen practiced, and nobody killed. the cylinder is a mixture of petrol
"Only an Officil."
vapour and sir. And the energy the allies continue to wage war. It may be takes for granted that real. During the past week
December 8-Altar carefully of that mixture is conditioned by among the Allies there is no debisty on this point; and if there we have had the story of how the sake of the ten cents which he sad Germany has pointed out the
persaing "Bappy Ratepayer'a *** | the atmospherio pressure, which is exists any doubt in the minds of the enemy, in Germany or else British troops have smashed their would have earned carry the stof, liability to illness and death in
mao and stateaman e regret isce; 20,000 ft. above sea level Parliament and others in all the Allied countries the sims of the Hindenburg Line and gathered in over board this morning when be facture of these flying mechan-
was being brought across, Bisisms of cffence and defence. Allies have been mentioned time and again since the beginning of some thousands of bewildered Worship sent him to prison for The wings of an aeroplane ing it in the Telegraph We find 50 per cent. of that at sea level. We CARDOS Cee our way to publish the pressure would be only about the war. Esch country knows preciesly why she entered the war, this has been done without wait
and awe-stricken prisoners. And 14 days. and it is equally well-known that there was general agreement and
over mahogany or sprues frame- Tery little fault with our cor- In addition, the extreme rarity of ympathy with the individual vises expressed, such as France' ing for America's reinforcements
work; the interatices of the cloth pondent's sentimente, but his the air at altitudes above 20,000 desire to fight on-one war had been forced upon her for the end will, we venture to think, be
are made impervious to water language is far too intemperate to feet means a redection in ita restoration of the Provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, filched from her repeated again before long. If it
and air through repeated applice the colampa of a daily newspaper.whether any aeroplane could be justify anonymous publication in baoysney, and it is doubtful in 1871, and with Great Britain's sim to free Belgium from the yoke pleases the Germans to delade
tions of a varnish which contains Besides Mr. O'Brien is only an supported in the thin atmosphere of Germany and to make secure the right of small ustions to exist themselves into the belief that
as ita chief base sither acetate or cficial, and he cannot help that.which exists in the vicinity of the anhampered. There was no question either as to the antinebing they are invincible, the Allies do
nitrate of cellulose mixed with a
Az Old Joke. "....... summit of Mount Everest. determination of the Entexte Allies to fight on until it had been not mind. The awakening will
rapidly evaporating solvent, The December 7 Hongkong Hotel made impossible for German autooroy ever again to prove a menace better able to wait than the come with time, and we are far
mixture frequently termed ' dope clerk (to suspicious-looking guest) towards the democratio institutions of the world, for it should never
varnish' contains dangerous sub-Have you a trank, sir? be forgotten that years before-war occurred and, in fact until the enemy is. Ne. Mr. Canton Ger
stances such as tetrachlor sthane, Globe-trotter-What the devil Sir Archibald Henter, who time war was declared, the great democracies of Great Britain, man, your effort to convince us
A writ signed by the Chief of acetone, wood alcohol or benzia. do you mean? Do you take me leaves Aldershot for the War France and Americs endeavoured to urge upon Germany the
that Germany is unbeatable falla advisability of at lesat introducing some sort of restriction in the give your brain a rest on that Commander-in-Chief of the Pre-frequently responsible for the ill-
Office, comes on his mother's side trifle fist. We advise you to the Metropolitan Police sad the The tetrachlor ethane is moet for an elephant.?
from a famous family of soldiers, ever-accumulating burden caused by the piling-up of armsments, by which the retrenchment effected would enable schemes of a more
subject.
cautionary Force was served upon ness among seroplane workera December 8-By the Orfis the Grahames of Glenny, one of the management of the Peking which "presenta itself with Gots-Why is the Hongkong whom was praised by Lard salutary character being entered into. Germany received soch The Pirates Again.
Gasette forbidding the public symptoms of nausea, vomiting, Telegraph like. a beautiful Wolseley as the bravest of the reqaouta either with indifference or with arrogant disdain. She We are not at all surprised to tion of the paper last evening, abdominal pains, jaundice, de woman 7-Because when once brave." Sir Arnhibald himself had her own views regarding armaments and, in fact, sa the world hear that pirstical bande are once says the Peking Daily News of lirium, and leads to possible looked at it remains for ever in is the hero of many gallant ex- now knows, was basily planning to wage war on a colossal scale. again terrorizing peacefal in November 22. Attempts to seize fatality."
the memory of man-and they all ploits. In the last Nile campaign It may therefore be stated that, objectively, the war sims off habitants in the vicinity of Canton yesterday's issue were made in In the operation of the "dope try to procure a facsimile of the under Kitchener he was "the the Allies were clear to all who would take the trouble to inquire and Masso. The letter from our the morning, because of its process" the greatest risk to one they san. Ahem! about them. Evidently, however, Lord Lansdowne thinks the Canton correspondent which publication of anti Japanese health is incurred when the var- time has come when it might be advantageons in the appeared yesterday shows that articles.
nish, in order to gain time, is interests of all for the Allies to formally declare they have been amusing them- When reveral policemen re:ch-dried in rooms that are defective what those aime now are. Perhaps he believe and it is quite selves by burning down houses,ed the Gastle's office in the in two important features for the probable, that ench is the case that modifications may now have to pillaging kidnapping scores of bora workers. In the first place, they
Thomas Coxon, a private in be made to meet changed conditions, and that such modifications people and demanding double theng, they found the boje are overheated and, somondly, the Darbam Light Infantry, who may be readily acquiesced in by the Allies and, at the same time, field and house taxes imposed by papera leaving for delivery, which they lack adequate ventilation. has been absent from his regi- be more acceptable to the enemy: may, indeed be of such a nature the local authorities. These are were of course seized.. This was Our medical authority urges it aement since August 9, has been that peace may be brought nearer in consequence. If se, it is a soms of the fruits which are being reapcamble for the fact that a duty of physicians to take discovered 17
a dag-out in Liverpool, where Mr. Asquith consummation devoutly to be wished, and a re-statement of the Allies gathered through the example some of-its-gabeoribers did to: warning of the possibility of Bheapwash Woods, Northumber spoke last month, was the scene war aime cannot, in these circumstances, he made too soon, Lord set by those who have taken upon receive their papers. The industrial disease in the manufac. land, says the Timer of Oct. 5. of Gladstone's Tast great pablie Lansdowne surely over-states the case when he asya or infers that | themselves the assumption of management of the Gazelle ture of planes ander war- premure, The dog-out contained a room sperch. On Reptember 24, 1896, the Allies desire the annihilation of Germany as a Great Power. The sathority in Canton. What with demanded of the policemen the and says that both employers and 8ft, rgoare. There was a straw in Hengler's Circar, he addressed ocurae and especially the result of the war will determine that Ir. San's rroognition of bandits ressan for holding up the paper: employees must be brought to bed and a large quantity of food. 6,000 people on the Armenian point, but it may safely be said that no belligerent on the Allied and robbers by giving them the As the policemen could not give realise the necessity of safeguard stuffs.
question then being within three months of his 87th birthday: It side ever pazpenaly set out with such an intention: Whether Ger- atatus of soldiere, and the open any reason, they returned to their ing the industry againat acor
was finely appropriate finale to many will be ruined economically or whether her deeds will lead flouting of authority by him office, leaving one of them behind bidity and mortality in manufac to her being completely ostracised depende antirely on herself, and and all the other self-appointed to watch the front gate the Germans know that quite as well as we do.
and ture proportionately greater than Active and frequent medical his public career to speak in the cficiale in Kwangtung, it is no another the back door.
that existing among the aviators supervision is imperative in order city of his birth. The last addreen If it is the case that the prolongation of the war, as Lord Lans wonder that the pirates should downs sage, will roin the civilised world, then, we should imagine that come to the conclusion that they returned to the Gazelles office product. We read then:
About six o'clock a police officer Boating in cloads with the faished to secure early diagnosis of the bo gare not at a public meeting poisoning and to prevent these at the opening of the Germany would be as anziona me any of the belligerents to arrive at can do pretty woeb as they choor, with writ prohibiting the | "The New York State Indus serious after effects. All workers Jubilee Bridge across the Dee in some sort of agreement as soon as possible. His lordship's view, They are merely following the publications of proper sad trist Commission makes, à series complaining of dizzinsee or sleepi- the following June, however, will not, we are inclined to think, receive general endorse example set them, and nobody giving no reason for the order of recommandations which com nees are to be removed from their ment; bat if a re-statement in the light of faller knowledge of how need be surprised at it. All the The management of the paper mand consideration. They cover employment for at least forty- The present King of Sweden is matere stand at present, will assist those in Germany desirous of same, it is a bitter commentary on explained that as the work for advice for a downward system of eight hours. pesce--and, according to Lord Landowns, there exists in Germany the fitness of Canton's present the day bad already commenced, ventilation, and the drying of its flock of unfassbered said to be the only monach ever "Pesce Party" then such a statement cannot be submitted too rulers that they are nasble to be could not very well order & wings, ailserne, and rudders in eagles is essential for the success known to wear eye girees on soon. The wer is being waged by the Allies for specific purposes, preserve order in their own dis stoppage. It is feared that the rooms apart from the dope' of the American forces it must be State occasions. In point of fact, and until those purposes are sccomplished is must and will be pro-triot or to prevent ench abomin polico, may interfere with the room. The workers should have forthcoming in the quickest both eye-glasses and spectacles longed, so matter what may be the consequences. We think his able happeninge as these. It is delivery of the paper this morning a filieen minute rear period in the possible time. Esete, bowever are very rare among walties of lordship is not likely to receive much sympathy even from the Ger-high time the P-king authorities The Japanese Minister, Baron morning and sitcrucea in the must tot involve the sacrifices of to-day. This curtainly is true of man pacifists as his observations savoar too much of the certainty took the Southern silustion in Hayaabi, protested to the Ministry open Air All dope worker workers and not conduce to the our own Royal Family, no living of Germany's utter defeat. Boch defeat must altimately come band. At the worst they cannot of Foreign Affairs against the should be provided with bot run incidental loss of health and member of Date of Cumberland) about, if the war is prolonged, but it is very doubtful if the present fail more miserably that the Can- publication in the Graadle of anti- ning water, anup, individual output which mast result from include the Dake of Cumberland) time-with the collapse of Itussin and the reverses of Italy fresh in ton amateur administratora, and, Japanese articles on Monday. towels, and overalt, as well as dope poisoning. The medical employe any sid.10 vision here mind is the most opportune to refer to it in the manner in which with the exercise-cf, a little Upon the request of the Ministry well-ventilated lockers, Eating problems of war are no less wass time when Queen Victoria Lana Lansdowne be done. Something more, we are of opinion, than sternness, they ought speedily to of Foreign Assirs, it is believed in the dope room is to he for- important among those providing would not allow anyone wearing a statement of our war sims will be needed to bring about anything be able to bring some semblance that the Metropolitan Police took bidden, and at least an hour is to the Instrumentalities than smong spectacles to appear before her at in the shape of a cessation of hostilities or even of a better under- of order out of chaos.
be allowed for lunch period.-shoes making use of them. glanding with such a people as the Germans.
action sgainst the Gasstie,
Missing Soldier's Dug-Out.
point of the Sirdar's spear." Dar. ⠀ ing the siege of Ladysmith he crept over a hill one dark night. with a little raiding party, sur prised the Boere, and crippled a troublesome Long Tom.
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