? PRESS TELEGRAMS.
WORK BY ITALIAN SEAPLANES.
THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY. 1918.
London, June 27. An Italian communique states:-Seaplanes hombed the quays and hangars at Darazo on the 20th and 27th with good results. All the machines returned undamaged. We drove down sa ensmy seroplane which was retorning after attecking our torpedo-boats.”
FRENCH ATTACK IN THE WEST.
Over One Thousand Prisoners Taken.
Brierreagle and to the crest to the south thereof,
several fires were observed.
EARLIER
TELEGRAMS.
BABY-TALK.
An Uanscessary Evli.
Pradence Bradish writes in the New York Evening Port as follows:****
- At two years-of-age à obild SOME CURIOUS - TAXES. ing. Even a tax on tombstones!
should have several hundred words at his command and be gaining others constantly, at the rate of a thousand words a yekr. It all depends upon the conversa tion that he hears about him. He will learn bad and vulgar wordsj
a readily as good ones.
· Strange Plans for Raising Ravenna
Like all hin predecessors of the
thought of recompense. Peel,
SHANGHAI SHARE MARKET,
was once proposed as a tax that! could meet with no objection. Sheridan, the setor member, Messrs A. L. Anderson and Co., replied that the only reason why in their weekly share circular, the proposed tax could not be dated Shanghai, Jane - 22, objected to was because those out sixtos:Basinées during the of whose property it would be week has consisted chiefly of A few weeks ago the Chan-paid would know nothing of the wash-out" purchases and mlet You will notice that at the age celler of the Exchequer aubmitted matter, as they most be dead for the settlement to take place. on 28th instant. The chief It used to be taken for granted of two years the child is carefully to the House of: Commons the before the demand could be made; that children had to pass through construating sentences. Help him
but then, siter all, he added, who features of interest are the rive in a period of "baby tall." In fact, about it, but do not prees him most gigantio Budget ever known. Enew that it might not be rendered Shanghai Docks and Lacn-Karge London, Jane 29...
I can remember when this lingo he will go fast enough, Sentences past seven hundred years, Mr. unpopular by being represented Mows. A French communique states:-South of the Aiane, we was all but a recognised language; incorrectly framed should be taot
as a tax upon persons who, having To-day's opening rais for T/T sttacked this morning from south of Ambiony lo sast of Montchildren were deliberately taught fully corrected; but he will be our Law bas had the assistance, paid the debt of nature, must on London was 171; the Dollar Gobert with the object of driving the enemy from fortified to speak it. I suppose that learning far more by Example Public and private, uninvited yet
Debentures. An is usual st the Bilometres and cirried trenches abova Leverside and the heights who imagine it a positions. We penetrated enemy organisations on s front of seren there are still backward mothers than from precept. Very Hitle so freely placed at a Chancellor's prove that they had done so by rats being 12.575.
wervice on such occasions, of a host having the receipt engraved upon children
their tombstones ? necessary is the language of
close of a half year, there is a of volunteer. financiers suffering north-west of Catry, carrying our line to the western outskirts of age of their child's develop modified by their instruction in from "the fever of Escality," each Lowe, copying the example of the and prices while anobanged are The match tax, the tax that little more doing in these lines mant, as well as others who formal grammar. The advance attained a maximum depth of two kilometres cling to the idea that "baby-
axious to add bis drop to fill the United States, proposed in 1871, Arming. & M. O. (1912) and A famous educator called my scal pitsber and make it over the tsx that was so unpopular (1913) 6 per cent, fetched 86; and One thousand and sixty prisoners have at present been counted. talk is so canning?" Some child-attention to the fact that a store. The assistance has not that it had to be abandoned, we (1914) and (1915) 53 per osat 76**
Daring the 26th and 27th, twenty German seroplares and ren seem unsble for a long time of good adjective and exolame always been absolutely disinteres have to bear now. Bat there are Shanghai Land 6 per cent, (1909 four balloons were brought down. Fifty-eight tons of bombs to produce certain sounde; in tions is a preventive of slang tad. Times have changed, and the were dropped on aerodromes in the regions of the Somme and the ench a certain amount of “*baby Watching young people, I have sieme and on cantonments and bivouace at Buxieres Hauterne, talk" is unavoidable. But with tried to make our way home of offers of the present day have other tares of olden daye which came to business at 96), and Fismes and Gaignicourt and railway stations at Soissons" and most children it is just as easy, the girls use so much "college probably been made without we are little likely to see again) (1992) 6 per cent at 95; the 51 per imposed, however great the cent issue of (1916) being market Fere-en-Tardenois. Two ammunition dumps were blown up and and a great desi better and more slang," while others did not take hogerer, has put it on record that the pressure for revenue may be 4-
Banka-Bongkong and Shang- sensible, to teach them to pro- it up at all. Two contrasting
Among them are the window tax acunes correctly in the first place. cases I have in mind, of girls who the suggestions be received were and the hearth tax. The latter, haie were not quoted but shares often sacompanied by a modest Never teach a child anything were classmatee. One invariably
Marine Insurance.-Cantona that he most later anlearn. The used beautiful English with request for a large percentage of ancient days known as the offer at $580.
the amount obtained by the fumage or tax of smoke farthings, necessary lessons are so many, delightful infection and pro- proposed tax in consideration of is mentioned in Domesday Book, are wanted at Hk. $225, and the time in which to learn what nunciation. Her mather WBB
Corqueet. It was regarded in $800, North Chinas are utili we must so short, that it is im-well-read, widely informed, talk. the novelty of the ides and the and was in force long before the Unions could be placed st Ht. Ister daye with bitter hatred, and asked for at 125 and Yangtzwes portant to have the child started well in a gentle voice with certain succese of its operation.
The net of taxation is now so right especially when it is just cultured manner, read a great widely spread that few new and the visits of the "chimneymen," at $109, while buyers of Far ea easy. If we adaits take paine deal to her children, sad brought profitable sources of revenue can termed, were looked upon as an offers to 211.
se the assessors and collectors were Easterns have improved their Shipping.-Shells: A meeting conversation with the children to The slangy girl with the loud be suggested even by the invasion of the sacred home of peak correctly and distinctly, voice had bad no home example expert volunteer. In the old days the Englishmen: William the was held in London on 20th
he bad a far greater, obance. Third repealed it, the preamble stent ospitalising the Company's they will follow exit. Lenerally in these matters, and her training any excellent suggestions were of the Act abolishing it declaring Reserve Fund by the issue of speaking, you can tell from a in the use of good English had then laid before Chancellors of that the step had been taken "in three bonus sheres for every five child's conversation, vocabulary, been oil. That is the whole story: the Exchequer end were adopted order to erect a lasting monument held and the price rose smartly to infection, and general tone the The same thing applies in the Fert of simosphere in which, he sequisition of foreign languagee. by them. Others were regarded of their Majesties goodness in 140 Shanghai Tuga: Ordin lives at home.
As I have said, this is the basis so fantastic that they were The first serious business cfness of childhood.. At the age of brushed aside with scant care every hearth in the kingdom." sizes" are nominal at 224 while a There is one of the right years later, unfortunately, few "Preferences" are available child in the world is to learn the five, or even earlier, a child can latter, however, that has come becured by the shadow of
the monument on the bearth #1 40.
Docks and Engineering. language of the folk among whom begin to learn French, for ex into its own since the war began. be is to live. It is a matter of ample. A few words and sen- The entertainments tax of the the taxgatherer at the window on Shanghais, under the influence of indifference to him what language terces, with perfect pronunci
the same errand. When the tax amour disseminated possibly for it is; be will learn with equal ation, can be sequired without present day was anticipated over was in fores people sought to settlement parpos, improved facility, interest, and pleasure the slightest difficulty. Nowadays 150 years ago by the inventive
demolished their Engineering advanced from 171 Spanish or Choctaw, Sanskrit or one can have in the house the genius who proposed that all evade is in every possible way, from 1084 sellers to 113. New places of public diversion, includ-
chimneys in order to obtain s
for several small sales up to 181. Koreau, Greek or English-hat talking-machine records that give ing playhonger, operas, jever is the tongue in which bis the foreign languages correctly querades, Ranelagh, Vauxhall, window tax was quite as unpopa- French are wanted si 7") and In-
reduction of the charge. The Lands and Hotels, Anglo pareate and neighbours express sad the little children can pick Sadler's Wells, and Astley's the their wants and their emotions. them up with the greatest esse famous resorts of the fair and the lar, and was even more open to vestmente, at 691. The demand He may even invert a language You don't need & French gover fashionable of his day, should evasion, Windows were com- for Hotels at $12 still obtains.
mess, though a good one is 5 ba taxed. Another proposal was pletely blocked when the time for Cotton Mills Bettlement are grest help in this matter.
the sesessor's visit came round, rargements mentioned above have And that the very statues in the the use of the foreign taggarden and the lakes and the and were opened again as made this a more sotive market. he had made his Ewas changed hands at 170 and vastly increases one's facility with
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GERMAN SOCIALIST SPEAKS OUT,
Amsterdam, June 23
The Independent Socialist, Herr Haase, in a remarkable speech in Tucaday's debate in the Beichstag, said that Count Hertling spoks at the behest of the Conservatives, industrial magnates and militarists who remained victors, Hertling, Kuehlmann, and You Payer being only fg leaves to cover the nakedness of militarism. it was Ludendorf who really ruled Germany. When Kuehlmann said that the Germans did not desire world conquest be apparently had not read the recent speech which referred to the anta- gunism of Prusso-German and Anglo-Saxon world views. This reference to the Kaizer's speech-evoked a storm of protesta Herr Haase continued to accuse Germany of cul- pability for the war and said the Government dould not expect to be trusted by its enemies in negotiations. He concluded by describing the horrors of the German occupation, includ- ing medieval tortures in the prisons of Riga
קדי
GERMANY'S FOOD PROBLEM.
Amsterdam, June 99.
The "Niewe Rotterdamsche Cavrant" states that in a very large part of Germany cats and three-fourths of the dogs are being killed owing to the food scarcity. The ma jority of poultry has been slaughtered and cows, which are insufficiently fed, if they do not yield a prescribed quantity. of milk are slaughtered. A Worse fate as befallen horses and great numbers are starving. Fig-breeding is threatened with utter ruin and only sheep farming is in a favourable condition
GERMANY AND, ALSACE-LORRAINE,
Amsterdam, June 27.
In the Reichstag the Alsatian, Herr Hanas, strongly complained of the treatment of Alsace-Lorraine by the Diet and read a letter from General Ludendorff wherein he stat- ed that General Hindenburg advocates the union of Alsace- Lorraine with Prussia ps the best solution.
BULGARIA AND GREECE.
Amsterdam, June 28.. The "Kruez Zeitung" states that Bulgaria is demanding that Austria and Germany declare war on Grecce. The newspaper comments that it is a matter of expediency.
LABOUR MINISTERS CALLED ON TO RESIGN,
London, June 29.
The British Worker's League manifesto referring to the Labour Conference's breach of the political truce calls on the Labour Ministers to resign and appeal to the electorate.
OBITUARY.
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London, June 23. The death is announced of Vice-Admiral F. H. Henderson.
CANTON NEWS.
always in the presence of or in the best books to their attention.
of his own. I knew a pair of twins who used between them selves a dialect absolutely mean inglese to their parents. The only queerion ie, what sort of language shall the child lear?
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so also were scores of other articles and the shops in which plated with the object of ventilat they were sold. A daty was sting his pantry was held to have one time levied on bricks, but by The tax was repealed in 1851.
opened four additional windows. some, curione process suffered a change into a tax on publicans, Undoubtedly the most compre. hensive scheme of taxation ever
the groves, the grottoes and 2000 his own, giving him not only the temples of those days were assement. This procedure was are still looked for. Orientala mold certainty in pronunciation, but a thick-set with statues of heathen met by 8 provision by st.51 and are wanted. Shanghai The babbling of the fret year increased sppreciation of ahades gods and goddesses--ahould have which a penalty of 20 was Cottons advanced from 137 to 139, every window but Kung Tiks retired to....14. seems to follow a logical course in of tone and mesning,
& price put upon their heada, la imposed for vocal gymnastics. The child finde
Again and again I have spoken addition to the suggestions of the reopened without notice to the Tangisepoos have changed promptly that he can make en of the importance of table-talk, the volunteer Enanciers the surveyor. Disputes frequently hands in some quantities between chanting noises with bia throst, discussion of matters of current Chancellor of the Exchequer has arces as to what was and what 8 and 8.10. Lsan Kang Mows tongue, and lips; he experiments interest, having the children prae many finger posts pat ap in past was not s window. "Window," Arschauffe of the story of the with them, and retains those that ent when worth while people are times to guide him on his fiscal according to the dictionary upon mille proposed purchase advano- tura" out to be useful.
which the judges relied, wared the price from 168 to 122}4, A very guests at the house. A home table path. Time was when taxes were derived from" wind door," and but at close shares are offering at complete record that I kept re habitually silent and dull turns pat on the watches attached to garding my own son is very in out silent sad dull children, and the seals that dangled from the building by which light and air. Industrials.-Langkat, after
signified any aperture...... in a 120. teresting now.
leares them to pick up their fob of the beaux or hang on the are intromitted." A bole made sales at 14, are' nominai at that vocabulary from the servants and girdles that
encircled the for additional ventilation was held figure, Sumatras offer at 70.. the street.
waists of the belles. Thass Beading aloud in the home is who owned. clocka The first were the throst sounds of the utmost valus in this con- also regarded as it subjects meaning of the Act, and so, tions were made a bargain prices, A month later he had gained nection. Let the children listen, for special teration. The "guines too, WEB a hole through | but the situation is otherwise un- wêre shot changed. Sungaina: The annus! control of his tongue and lips, and let them do some of the pig" tar-the tax a householder and was experimenting with m, reading, even of interesting had to pay for every person in into a cellar. One appellat was meeting is advertised for 5th , P, b, and delighted with the grown-up books. It gives them his household who wore a pigtail assessed in respect of a cellar proximo: accounts not yet to hand. various explosives, combining not only a larger scope of ideas, and covered his hair with powder grating with iron bars to it, Miscellaneous-Cultys have introimproved to 10 bayers. Con them into "B'o," "P'," "M'm," but self confidence in the use of ahad its day and passed away, mitted" that it was necessary to structions remain nominal st
although so little was in all sorts of combinations. Then rapidly growing vocabulary. The. So, too, had a tax on soap the nee a candle in order to see. In 661 Gras are wanted at 211, and he found the “1” sounde-“Le"! right use of the mother-tongue is impost that gave Lord North his THE BATTLE W.A.A.CS. and "Ls. By the end of the very valuable accomplishment. nickname of "Old Soepends," yet another case a man who, under Telephones offer at 76.
third month he was selecting. But it takes time and pains to and a tax on salt. Gloves and reformer, had placed in the wall the advice of a distinguished He had discovered that certain of acquire it. And it begins at the end mittens were once taxed, and of his house four perforated mino The War Ofios is proud of the those attracted desirable attention very beginning. Our Canton correspondent behaviour of the W, A: A. Cand produced results. He carried writes as follows:-
daring the great battle, when they on definite, even if unintelligible, refused immediate safety for conversations with his ball, his Sham's Coming. Eumour says that Sham Chur-themselves and stood their ground doll, and the kitten. huen, one of the newly-elected like men.
When ba was seven months | Administrative Directors of the An official st the War Office old he said "baby," clearly mesn South-Wsetern Government, has who knows the ground where the ing himself. The picture of the Left Shanghai for Canton on women were said: "I believe Baby Stuart on the wall was As noted a few days ago (esys devised was that which draw Yesterday the gual indicating board the .s. Shinyo Mara that they were at a training "baby" too. He found and clung the Japanese Chronicle to hand) within the net all bachelors and a syphoon to the wear of the
When you have no appetite and for Capton. It is reported school in a wooded bollow, to "h" for the ost, and “do' the closing of the Russo-Chinese averybody in whose house a Colony was hoisted, but it was even the sight of food is nazeest that his coming to Canton is due Lorries were seat for them, but for dog. At eight months he frontier at Pogranichinaya owing birth, a death, or a marriage lowered shortly after nine o'clocking, you will have to build up to the persuasion of the South- they, knowing soldiers would said Hark!" distinctly after me, to hostilities between Bassians took place. On the burial of a this morning. The Observatory your blood to get lasting relief! Western leaders who promise to know that these were urgently and knew what it meant. Then in the neighbourhood of Umari duke the State drew 850.4s; on reports that the typhoon probably No amount of dieting, stimulating elect him the President of the needed to convey wounded and he got the words "app" for had rendered it impossible to that of a dustman 4s. The burial entered the cost, sa she, south of drugs or any, freatment that over Bouth-Western Goverument. for other pressing needs, refused
the help. They choes instead and wrong quickly upon send goods to Vladivostok by of a duked: first son cost the Swatow last evening and that it looks the blood will help you for
cow" dis the Chinese Eastern Railway, father £30. 2a,; in the case of is now filling up to the north any length of time. On 'Dr. Eun Yat-sen having to stop ix dangerous covering that these sounds, quite causing a panic among the person of the lowest degree east of Hongkong.
You can, however, always build! arrived at Shanghai, the Speaker place and to make fes and accidental in their first pronancia exporters in the railway zone. the pounds disappeared and
up the blood with Dr. Williams' of the Parliament at Canton har feed the weary people who were tion, made a sensation among his According to the latest die only billings were paid. To
Pink Pills. You can be certain telegraphically asked him to come passing" and then, when they elders, and meant definite things. patohi from Dairen, arrangemente marry cost a duke is. Od.
they will make the blood risha: to Canton as early as possible and could stop no longer, they march- A month later he had learned are now being to send goods less then to ba buried, Anonymous: Journalism, ~~ has also sent a special envoy with fed 15 miles.
that the amazingly interesting, by the South Manobaris Bail. The scale for the peerage in
The cammatties of the London and parer with every dows. This the diploms of Administrative "Only those who know those creature playing in the street was way. It is expected that the regard to births, and marriages District of the Institute your-stomach strong and Director to present to him.
Dr. Williams, Pat Pill of Post Accepted. length of the walk; only those played with him at times was from the 15th instant. At present with each, dessent in rank. An passed a resolution exprting lasting beoght to every matt General Tong Kai-yiu, Tucker who were there will know what it "papa" and that the thing they consignments on the Chinese archbishop paid at the same rate the opinion that the present kom indigestion. of Yunnan, bas telegraphed to the meant when the ronde were wouldn't let him eat was a pin. Eastern Bailway have cocum sa s daka; bishop was regarded extent of the snonymous system and the free diet Parliament at Canton and all the thronged with people and lorries The red things swimming in the lated to the quantity of 390,000 as the equal of a baron. If he in relating to the original work of what to Eat and Hos to Eat leaders in the South West, going both ways and with every glass globe were “whish."
tons, of which 270,000 tons re- remained single a date had to professions! Journalista on the annostacing his acceptance of the sort of impediment.
Even in these early beginnings present Manchurian boans and forfeit 212, 11e, The eldest son daily and weekly Premir in portal card will bring itante, Administrative Directorship of at What the War Office feels is the selection is a matter of imite the remainder timber. It is es of a duke paid 85 less in similar jurings to their interest and Dry William Pink Pilla the Sonth: Western Government that the W. A. A. Cs. have proved tion, and thereafter the acquisit timated that if the South Man- circumstances. An ecquire who repute, especially in view of the old by all chemists, or they will that in an emergency disciplined ion of definite words comes swift charis Railway can send from declined to hang the matrimonial growth of signed articles by sent postpsidņi bottlelii for Telegrapine Interruption. women have the presence of mind ly with prantine and increased 2,200 to 2,500 tons a day from noose round his neck paid $1. writers other than profesional 150 m for 181, by that The Great Northern Telegraph to do the right thing at the right control over the wooal apparatus. Olangohan, the present accumules, but a simple gentleman was journalista. It was recommended Dr. Willare Medicine Company, Co. announces that telegraphic moment, Their training has done Some children are quicker at it, tion can be cleared by the end of charged only Be The may for that steps be sabetantially communication with Amoy is for them what training does for a but the procom is the same, - August,
those of meanez estate was a shille, to modify the syster leoldier." totally interrupted,
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Japanese Trade on the Russo- Chinese Frontier,
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96 Szechuan Road, Shanghai.