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Japan's Part.
DAY BY DAY.
GOOD CHEER AND POSITIVE USE SOBRIETY, SANITY, HEALTH, FULNESS TO HUMANITY ARE ALL PRIMAL REQUISITIES IN EDUCA- TION.
To-morrow's Anniversary, To-morrow is Independence Day in the United Stater.
In his interview on the impress- ion of his visit to Japan, Prinos Arthur of Connaught, who is no stranger to that country and who is immensely popular among our Far Eastern Allies, did well to dwell upon Japan'a loyalty in, the war. He spoke of the part she had played and of what she would đo if called upon, and we may take it that these were no idle wards, but ware based upon definite knowledge. It is in eval The opening rate of the dollar matters that Japan has moet on demand to-day was Sa. 31d. - assisted the Allies. The extent of her work in this direction has been far greater than is general.
The Dollar.
VICTORY A MATTER OF CONVICTION,
Sanguine Estimate of French General.
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“It was at Jena; at Marengo,) TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY, which made Napoleon : at Water loo, which unmade him, when Blacher came up in the evening.”
And, appropriate as it would In these days of stirring doode have been, the General did not in the air it may surprise many add that was supremely so in the people to learn that recently, in no less mourentnoma battle of discussion which arose in a Hondemont-Fere-Champenoise RF.O. mors in France on The Daily Chronicle special in September 1814. Fooh and the pluckiest firing deed on correspondent, G., H. Perris, bis liectenants have indeed won record, first place was given to writes ander date of April 18 the right to preach this doctrine. Bleriot's memorable gross Chan-
"Victory is a matter of con-
What, then, of tomorrow? We nel flight. Only those who havs viction." The moral factor in the are nearing the end of the trial, flown know the capital value to most important of all. It would if not the execution. We know the airman of confidence in his
what we have before us. be right against nature that we
We mashine. The dad engine in the should not beat these suthors of cannot yet say that this is the dark spectre of his dreams, and Discharged.
so many infamice, and now we laat battle, but we can say that it yet Bleriot crossed the Channel A-Obinere was charged before ly imagined, and Prince Arthur Mr. J. B. Wood this morning with than ever that we shall beat enemy has thrown into it the remained in the air for the time may say with more confidence is the decisive battls, because the on a machine which had never was only expressing the truth being a vagabond and sleeping in when he observed that the the street. There was also found
mass of his resources, and {he calculated it would take him operations in the Mediterranean, on bim a number of para tickets, which the mazal issue of the war Allied armies, mores by a single one of his gravest doubts was the The tone of deep sincerity in his failure will be decisive. The to make his Channel fight, and the Indian Ocean and the Pacific One of defendant's fakis appeared had been largely instrumental in to speak on defendant's behalf was thus presented surprised me will snd governed by the idea machine's ability to resob Rus
them"
keeping open the world's trade and said scoused was returning Osthotic priest or a Radical pro will say the last word.
a little, for the speaker was not a of the last stroke for victory land with sufficient height to
Germany and The Imperial War
Conference..
The Colony's Health.
On March 23 he was called on
case is worse;
better.
clear the cliffs,
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There is one remark of Prince to his shop that night and so be festor, but one of the coolest and We have husbanded our Arthur's which might be read se did not want to disturb the teenret chiefs of the French army. We have arrested the enemy, claimed in the announcement reflecting somewhat on the Press; occupants he remained in the The General, commander of the
strength," the general insisted. No great sex triumph can be He mentioned the Japanese Navy's street, His Worship discharged forces which first intervened on and now hold him firmly. Thanke that aix sideswomen have been work in the Mediterranean as defendant with a caution. having "received esant attention
the breakdown of the British right, to superior artillery and as appointed at St. John's, Tatton- in the newspapers." That, how-
stood amid bie mape and els greatly superior sviation, we are ham, for the office has lost mach ever, is no fault of the Press, for Daring last week there were blas jacket and long boots, look-
reports, a short, trim figure in wearing him down.
"If it has not succeeded in a When aidesmen
of its dignity and usefulness. the rigid ceneorabip regulations notified 29 cases of spotted fevering younger than his 56 years, month, what prospect of success their daties were to bale all per- were synodsmen, amor and addresses with naturally operate against any (27 fatal), 22 of plague (18 fatal); but fors tired gravity in the eyes. has it? It can kirike some more sons suspected of heresy before a demanications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for detailed mention of those 11 of enterio (all fatal), two fatal The rule of anonymity is severe blows. Bat we are daily Church. But nowadays the face-
operations. In common with cccurrences of diphtheria and one All communications intended for publication should be addressed other papere, we bave on many non-fatal case of puerperal fever, everer with our Allies than with better prepared, and daily their tions of their office are falfilled in
occasions spoken in terms of high All the sufferers were Chineses, and the Generel is not one of
lending assistance to the church- praise of what Japan's naval
the men most widely known even Up to now, in less than four warders. save one Filipino suffering from The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will sphere, and that that work is were notified six cases of spotted early in the war for the part he Perhaps more divisions can be Halifax to Montreal soldiers
hips have done in this partionlar enteria. Daring yesterday there among his own people. He was, weeks, & number of German perhaps, more in the public eye divisions have been engaged. be as follows:-Daily issue-$36 per sunum. Weekly issue- deeply appreciated by the Allies fever (all fatal), 12 of plague had taken under Foch in the thrown into the battle. On the wife belonging to the latter oily On a train travelling from as a whole there can be no doubt (eight fatal) and one fatal case of defence of the French centre in other hand, many of those now in gave birth to twins. The interest- whatever.
entario. All the sufferers were the battle of the Maras. Then line are in a lamentable state, anding feature of the event for those Chiness.
came the long inertia of the tren- others brought back for the outside the home circle is the fact Too Many Lights.
ches, when exceptional gifta wars second or third time can be little that the first baby to arrive, a boy, Mr. G. H. M. Bannerman, of blacketted.
was born in United States for The Germans, it would seem the Hongkong Electrio Co., anm-
"For the first time the German ritory, and the second baby, a from the articles appearing in moned the manager of the Sun block the Paris road about 1919 olass has been used to a girl, in Canada. So the boy bom their Press, are very much con- light Co., of 18, Pottinger Street, Noyon and to throw fires cavalry, coinciderable extent to complete in the U.S.A. must remem cerned regarding the meetings of this morning with having erected then infantry out further sad effectives. Very soon, with British "infans" until he is 21, when he British War Conference, which two extra lighte in his establish farther. To the north-west, pick and American-reinforcements, we will have the choice of remaining ars at present being held in Lou-ment. It appeared the defendant ing up the isolated units left by hall have the margin we want an American or becoming s Can- don. And they have good reason was away in Canton when the the Army, stiffening the resist Finally, the General spoke of adian citizen. to feel so concerned, for even the summone was served and someone ance as the odds diminished one the difference of moral on the two superEcial knowledge such as clee appeared on his behalf, Mr. to ten, one to eight, one to four, sides, "the most important fac Speaking generally we have they passes of the importance of Bannermen said when he called and at last, still greatly outnum tor." The German rank and file not found embers inclined to the Conference is sufficient to at the premises defendany offered bered, fighting von Hatier to a entered the batte in high en marmor against the new tobacco thusiasm. They were newly olad duty. The extra 21., though;& cause them ao little anxiety. to apologies for what he had done, standstill, Never before has the Conference Mr. J. B. Wood adjourned the
Whether, sa most Frenchmen and rested, they see around them rather big jump, will in many assumed so much of an Imperial ease, and a warrant will be is think, Paris was in any immediate all the signs of a prodigious cases be more, than counter character and never before has itsmed for defendant's arrest asse one of the German preparation, a machinery and a bakanced by tha
objectives we shall know in time, method the power of which was allowance." Moreover, the pat- new "wife In any case the General has the evident, but not the costliness in riotic smoker is no longer is s glory of having built the first flesh and blood. human wall against the worst
quandary, for the Chancellor flood of the war, and whether for ed their wishes into thought that additional tax is to help pay for A careful propaganda had torn. (makes it quite clear that the speed of vision and execution, all this must be irrsistible, that the war and is not intended sa s manoeuvring skill, material
the war would be ended and peace deterrent. "I have impressed expedients, or power of mapiring won by crashing the two chief apon the Shipping Controller," his men, it is one of the great Allies, France and England, be he told us, fests of the time.
that in importing quietly, reflectively, without a be proportionate to these hopes, and look pleasant!
For half an hour he spoke field. Their disillusionment must A cheery invitation to light up fore Americs could come into the tobacco he is importing money.”
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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1918.
THE DECIMAL BYSTEM.
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WAR COMFORTS.
manifested so plainly that it stands soon as be reinrus. for the British Empire in all its power, strength and majesty. That the Conference looks not to the past but to the fature is evident from the nature of the subjects being discussed, which appear to be, with few exceptiona, relating to post-war economic problems.
Valuable Lessons Täught.
The
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Although we have not hitherto Our men, on the other hand, had three-halfpenny post the twopenny post" is within living Thay understand and memory. Wa sssociate it with
There are days when reform is in the sir, and it is therefore/many valuable lessons and none milk covers, 10 head-bandages. { It seemed to me characteristic of have learned to wait, and can
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viction."
THAT TIRED FEELING
PINKETTÉS
undertaking to Mr. Dookwra, s merchant, bat on a trial in the
King's Bench it was adjudged to
belong to the general post, and
was snnexed to the Crown in 1680. The two-penny post” lasted, with a short interval, antil post was adopted. 1840, when Rowland Hill's penny
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City Hall Work Party.
During the month of Jana, the City Hall Work Party packed the following:-38 mosquito nets, 518 bendkerchiefs, 56. Deirs are or rhetorical phrase, of and, in fact, it is markedly visible
the critical moments of the among the prisoners. alippere, 14 pairs, bed-boots, 112 struggle and what may follow. has taught wat
not surprizing that occssion should be taken of the feeling of broad- British Empire, if it will, can be stump-bandages, 18 reversible nothing warmer than in his appreciate how they are husband. Dickens and Thackeray, but its
more valuable than that the 36 many tiled bandages, 32 s gallant nature that be was in wait. mindedness engendered by the war to press once again for the independent of the whole world bed isoke, 28 dressing-gowns, appreciation of the qualities of the ed, they understand their osuse, origin was of the seventeenth fevision of the British system of coinage by placing it on a denimal for the various commodities 185 suite pyjamas, 15 vermin groups of British soldiers whom and they would all say with the century. It was founded on the basis. The Association of Chambers of Commerce has recently had required in our different manu- shirts, 12 cotton ander consideration the draft of a Decimal Coinage Bill, and from factares. Before the war we bed jackets, 18 surgical euits, kick a man when he is down, to nature" that it should fail. Well sad the rabarba by Mr. Robert
shirts, 85 he had to reform. It is so easy to general that it is the observations which we have seen in the Home papers it would were far too
"Against "Penny post" set up in London appear that the principles underlying this measure are gradually to rely upon Germsay and ather helmets, 187 vests, 153 shirts, 20 most of them have paid in their shat Victory is a matter of con- He signed his interset in the much inclined 96ebrounds, 27 psira socks, belittle the defeated even when may it be said of such an issue Murray, an upholsterer in 1683. gaining favour among the business men of the Old Country. That countries for essential natural small pillows, 12 packs playing blood for their failure. ie only what would reasonably be expected, for when the matter is products and commodities such cards, 26 scrubbers. 1 surgical looked into it will be found that the reform is urgently needed, not as dyes and chemicale, which cap, 2 night-abirte, 3 pairs bed- told, but everything indicaten The full story cannot yet be only to bring as into line with all other modern countries, but for experience has since shown as socks, 2 pairs knee-cape, 10 that our men about and south of the sake of simplification.
The other day, we gave some details of the means by which Empire.
can be produced within the surgical shirts, 5 meters and by St, Quentin pat up a good fight, kind contribution 11 bed-jackets. and showed an obstinate bravery the decimal system could very easily be applied to British coinage. varicne kinda can also be aban- Theses were packed in seven equal to that of their more It was shown in that article that the humble penny was at the dantly supplied without going cares, three of which were sent fortunate comrades elsewhere, bottom of the trouble, and that it would be a simple matter to effect further than our own borders, to the Red Oroes dietributing The fault, if there was any, was these mornings is most likely das the necessary changes by introducing a new coin to take the place These facts, always well-known centre at Bombay, two to the not theirs. No out can speak to "liver." The remedy in of that unit of currency. The suggestion is that the sovereign to most British businessmen, will 15th General Hospital, should be divided into a thousand parts, the decimal system being no longer be overlooked, and one exandria, sad two to Mrs. A.E. Ceneral, and he is positive "they Al- mare eathoritatively than the
Two generations of junior followed right down to the lowest value coin. The point naturally of the great 'reauite of encha Barton, Bawal Pindi, Indis. | suggests itself that if the advantages of reform are so obvious it is policy will certainly be an
reporters will be sorry to bear of are admirable soldiers." Since strange that the step now urged has not been taken before. One writer Empire more closely united and 384 pairs socks, 25 espe, 62 pairs have found the officers most loyal, digestiar,
The Wool Department packed the came under my command I the little laxatives which aid Northumberland Labour member the death of Mr. Fenwick, the sscribes the insation to popular ignorance, plus the inertia of a more self-supporting than the knee-cape, and 3 pairs operation the men excellent in discipline liverishnets. dixxiness, bilions without doubt he was the most Caro Constipation, (wrilos a veteran Pressman) for conservative race. The two isoters undoubtedly have played an world has ever before known, stockings. important part in the matter." For this is no new enggestion which The Germans are so dismayed
The Mothers' Union's cou British artillery gave us peculiarly
and in fighting qualities, and the headaches, foul smelling breath. delightful speaker, from the is now being put forward. It is re-called in one of the Home papers at what is being done that all they tribution to the Jane's papking, valuable aid. I have written to 60 cents the phisl, from Dr. addressed an audience, Bis
Of all chemists, and post free, reporter's point of view, who ever '« that it was close on a century ago that British business can suggest is that they continue consisted of 7 veste, 9.shirts, 8 England to Bay Bo. men agitated for the adoption of the decimal system and their insidious attempts to under-paire socke, 8 snite primas, 8 many hesitant voices those words ohnen Road, Shanghai,
After so Williams Medicine Co., 96 Exa-delivery was extremely slow and well over fifty years since the Bank of England subscribed mine British acity by endeavour-bed-jackets, 12 milk covers, 12 fell upon grateful esra.
hundred pounds to the funds of the Decimal Association with the ing to causa quarrels to arise bandkerchiefs, 6 head-bandages, ides of giving the moverent an impetua. And yet some eleven years between different parts of the pair gloves, and 2 night-shirts, characteristic thing, a character- ago when the last Ketrio Bill was presented to the House of Empire. But they are much too late Commons the second reading was rejected by a large majority.
It does not require much thought to realise that the "all-ten'
(for Mrs. F. J. Stabb). been speaking of the mechanism U.S. Import and Expert Rates of mind would be enjoyed by system has everything to commend it, and at a time when esse and effect upon the splendid solidarity received from Miss Ratherford, portance of enduring till the and import rates, which were a few more orators of the Fenwick do will ever have the slightest A letter has been recently of batile and the decisive “im- In place of the cancelled export shorthand reporters if there were rapidity of oslculation are sought after, ita adoption by Great Britain, that is now everywhere manifested Assistant Matron of the Royal proverbial last quarter of an hour. omitted from the originally sn-type. both in regard to coinage and weights and messures, would be all in the Empire and which has Herbert Hospital at Woolwich, an "Two great armies face each nounced policy of basing all trans- to the country's advantage. We in Hongkong know how easily a made it more olosaly united than extract of which British system of decimal coinage osa work, and business people ever.
we pablish other in line. They grapple continental charges on the flat The admission of Admiral von must often have occasion to decry the awkwardness of the Bee
below, and we are going to for- feeling their way, strike here or domestic rate, special rates for Capelle that the U boat war has system when it comes to the adjusting of acccante end the making
ward e osse there, of the articles there to find a weak place wear imports approximating an in- been a failure mores the Hamburg of other comparative calculatione. It has well been said that there
the asks for :--“I wonder if you each other down, and at length areas of from 45 to 100 per cent. Nachrichten to a fiaros decend cannot be freedom of trade until those with whom we have com
would let the Ladies of the City the origis comes when one of over former carload import rates, for mors and yet more activity *** mercial dealings understand us and we them with the least possible
Hall Work Party know that I them attempts a decisive mag- and an increase on farload Our U baate in the long run Loss of time and calculation. Therefore, considering the general,
would very much appreciate savre. And other things being export rate west from Chicago of cannot fail to bring about Eag prevalence of the decimal system, it would assuredly be a wise Bill for the Conscription of here. The usual dressings will throw in a sufficient mass who effect, say cablegrame received at war in the surest-nay, the only Bir Wr. Ball, K. P., is drafting box of articles for the Hospital equal, it is then he whe can some 60 par cent, have gone into land's utter collapse. The U-bost move on our part to bring ourselves into line with other natione, women for national service bebe most socsptable, with pyjama wins. So nearly always the great the cffice of the Governor General mre The argutnents in favour of a decimal coinage are unanswerable, tween the ages of 19 and 31, suite, triangular bandages, and cne-day battles of history were and by local commercial arms England! Therefore let us keep and we should much like to see the reforms introduced. while the which it is intended to bring open-backed shirts, added in lost antil evening, when a final yesterday, pay the Manila on sinking, siuking, and always mortal-wespon» against present spirit of revising defective systema ia manifesting itself.
additior.”
stroke turned the scales.
Bulletin of June 26.
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