GENERAL NEWS,
+M,C. and V.A,D.
acupoed that Lisat M.C, the well- will be married
rito Mina Madge Parkir, a purss, of Northampton,
*mot, Griggs, who won the an Derby at Cairo during pf bis leaves, holds the Italian
Medal for Valour.
C1Young Trem Drivers.
'his report on the Glasgow Sighway accident, of December 5, Choral Pringle recommends that #bodld not be appointed sa dfivetà under the age of sightsen (in this came the driver wanbeveX-
and that woman should re- osīvu all gbssiblé encoßragement to undertake the duties of drivaru.
“Maaltion for Shensi.
The Tachan of Chensi hsa abgraphed to the Central
· Government stating that owing so the great number of "tufei in his province and `owing to`his having to supply arme-and-am Tinition 'ta Gonatal L'a Tæn hon who is now starting a new bmpaign against the rebels in Saibbuan, he requires an im- mediste supply of arms and ammunition from the Central Government. As the Central Government has decided to te- -conquer Szechuan through Shensi Province, the Tuchan's request has been favourably considered, fed the Ministry of War and the Board of General Staff will for ward the arms and smmunition to a day or two.-Peking Dasly Near
Freaks of a Tornado, Von Wert, Ohio, March 18- Two persons are known to be dead, another is reported killed, four injured persons are in s hospital, between twenty five and alty farmhouses are completely or partly wrecked, and scores of barns and cutbuildings were blown down sa the result of the tornado which swept this country last evening. The known dead. sre': Bex Les, 12 years old, of Middleburg and Mrs Charles Gree, the same township. The financial loss in the country is estimated at from $500,000 to $1,000,000 The tornado first étrack Middleburg, traveling north-saat soross Harrison, Plea Bant and Union townships. The
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 191
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twister would swoop down, Prohibition Policy Advocated.
wreck a farmhouse, or possibly
two or three, and then jump over
four or five miles before doing
more demage. Reports received
In the House of Commons
here to-day say that the towas of | recently, “. in the coarse of the Continental and Higate were not debate on the Address, Mr. Dancen ha wiped out, as reported, but that
MEDICAL REPORT ONT
ALCOHOL.
Actfan oa. the Body.
A new kind of cthoial report
been pablished by His amendment Majesty's Stationery Office. much property damage was done Millar moved an there. Baudzed of chickens expressing regret that, in view of Tastead of being prepared in the were denaded of every feather.the increasing need for economy form of a Blue Book it is printed One chicken, with only a few in transport, food, and man-in a small heady edition. It is feathers left, was blown high and landed on a telephone pot, from power, no mention was mads in the report of a special medical ammittee appointed by the which it was rescued. Bsidera the King Speech of any action Liquor Control Board to inquire weighing a too were found in the to be taken to prohibit the msna toto the action of alcohol on the roads at several places, having been lifted from fields or creeks facture and sale of intoxicantadarhuman body... and carried may yarde. Ining the continuance of the war. Union Township a formbcuse was Supporting his motion, be lifted from its foundation and was observed that they had been carried into an adjoining field, informed that total probibition wonid resalt in a waving of abat Seven Weeks in Shell Hole... 'London, February 8-After 50,700 tons of shipping, or the psssing through sa ordeal of equivalent of 29 abip.
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The findings of the committee Are particularly valuable and interesting. It has been ascer
ined that alcohol, instead of ad that its direct setion is almost being a stimulant, is a narcotic, wholly confined to the pervon system. Its nutritional valse" in affering and privation such a8 The output of 18,000,000 ber
trictly limited, sud ita habitas' öne imagines" few men could rele, which WAK Bull allowed,
ase as-an-aid-to-work-physiologi- Barrive, Private. J. Taylor, meant, be said, a loss of 600,000 olly unsound. The ordinary asp Holloway maa sarving in the tons of barley and 60,000 tons off alcohol, it is pointed out, London Regiment, has been engar. Was it right that one clar should not-be-moderate, but swarded the D.CM The official should be allowed to consum-hould be limited to the consump story, al his experience published double rations in the form of beer ion of beverages of adequate in the London Guetta let or atos ? He fell absolutely certair dilution, taken at sufficient inter
follows: "For that if the Government attempted night is as conspionon + gallantry and devo- to go to the extreme length saz tion to daty under exceptionally gested in the amendment there trying and terrible circumsta ces would be an increase in industrial Having been sat cf with his unrest, No National Labour Con company he received a ballet in ferenca bad ever passed & resolu the thigh casing & componed tion in favour of the doctrine fracture. To avoid o plars he embodied in the amendment, and rawled into a shell hole where he asked the House to hesitate which gae remained for a period of over before taking such a stap,
vala of time to prevent a persistent deletericos action on the tirages Lord D'Abernon has written' a prefsor to the report in which reminds us that the total amount ol moory devoted to the parches of s'cohol in this country is near
50 per cent. greater than the total receipts of the whole railway system. It is merben doable the
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even weeks, during the whole of was bound to canse labour trouble. expenditure on bread, and more which time the surrounding Mr. Clynes, in reply, asid that than equal to that on meet. Be-
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latriot was aahf-cted to the Food Ministry bad to a great fore the war it was approximate HONGKONG DOG, CAT, a severe – bombardment by extent én-open « mind-ou-this||7 equal-to-the-total-revenue-of-
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water which; be obtained in sense in support of the idea that Na ional Debt. Waterproof caps. After some they would agree to absolute pro- Apart from the economic se Twới kị three of the enemy visited | hibition. En pointed out that an pest, it in admitted by all parties, his shell hole, but by feigning increase of production had to be the Chairman of the Central death be aroid.d capture and conceded because of a formidable: Contol Board · sädɛ, " that the eventually succeeded in crawling demand some time ago in many
ck to our licens distance of parts of the country. The short some 900 yards. Be displayed age of beer was an increasing extesordinary, pluck and endur- cause of industrial unrest.
Lde by his determination, not to): «The amendment was negatived fall into the enemy's bands.' without a division.
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