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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, ~TUESDAY, AUGUST 20,–18187-
GENERAL NEWS.
Met,Many Hongkong. Boys.
Mr. C. A. Bowern, son of Mr. asud Men. T. W. Bowern, who laft Shanghai, on May 13,1917, to sffar his services to the British Govern- ment and received a commission * 2nd Lieutëment in the Chinese Labour Battalion on his arrival in England, has been gazetted as Acting Captain of his Company (acmewhere in France). He wishes to be remembered to hin öld Shanghai friends and schoolmates and mentions meeting meny Shanghai and Hongkong boys while in England on leave.
Decorated By Chinese
Government,
In appreciation of their brave services in rescuing 243 Chinese when the OKS. parsorgera Kiangkwan was sunk at Hankow on April 25, 1918, ihres Standard Qil men have been decorated by the Chiness Government. Capt. V. OKsus, of the Mei Kiang, bas received the Fourth Order of] Chisho, and the lith grade of the same order has been awarded to Mr. E. J. Harris, superintendent of the company's Bankow installa- tion, and to Mr. G. Nyland, hiej sesistant, who took command of rescuing motor boats.
No Proof of Desertion..." When a soldier was charged with being a deserter at Bangor it was slated that the man had special leave to see his wife, who was dying from cancer. The leave was extended, and the man esdeavoured without "sucose to get someone to look after bis family. He was arrested by the military police, but released by them when the facts were known. "He is not shirking," said a police superintendent, Lowing to the state of his wife I do not intend to arrest him." The magistrate, in dismissing the case, told the escort to inform their Colonel that there must be prof that the man waga deserter.
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A Balect Committee is to bel will be sufficient to provide the
Arrigo Boito, one of the report on the costs of manufacture and distrib. appointed to tion and to pay a dividend at the phrase "for the duration of the greatest of modern Italian com
rate of one-half the standard or
war" which appears in many legislativa enactments
pozera, confided to his friends jast before bis death recently. pre-war dividend, Municipal ga since the autumn of 1914; and to Nero," which he intended to be passed that he leaves the four-act opera, andertakings, it is recommended, report also on the expediency of his masterpiece, a practically eball be antiled to increase the charge sufficient to pay the actual prolonging after the war is over Anished work...” A couple off the existence of Swinter in which
cost of manufacture and dietribe the phrses cocars. Mr. Charles tion, but the inoresee maat not
Roberts will probably be chair exceed half the statutory price.
man of the Committer, Useless Shells for British Army, £10,000 a Year from Dustblas, Before he was sentenced recent Hackney Borough Connoil er
orchestration would satisfy my hoare more for retouching and
"The ne libretto supiratione.' for this
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ly, at the Old Bailey, to three pects to be able to extract 10,820 Falsts," from Boite's own pen, years' ponal servitude, on a charge a year from household dostbins, bat "Nero" itself has been con- of conspiracy in the supply of The council is to be recommended tinually promised and so often
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defective wax munitione, Bernard to set up a new department to withheld over a period of forty SCHOOLBOY FARMERS. on the scene. The land was dage. Kupferbang pleaded with the jury deal with the salvage of house resre. The initial ill-success to disregard bis German name, refuse. The revenue quoted above which greeled his. "Mefistofele,"
over bastard-trenching - Lod His ancestors, he said, were is based on an average load of since recognised everywhere as
manured at the rate of 22 londa) German, but he was born in refuze examined, The initial one of the grandest creations
of farm manure to the sore. Later on it was pat in ridges by the Manchester, and his sympathies expenditure is pat at £2,500, and of contemporary operatic art, had always been with England. the annual expenditure as £5,010 caused Boito infinite hesitations, issued giving the results of phosphate, together with lowt. "An official statement has been plough, and 4cwt. of super- Mr. Justice Darling reminded The scheme has been examined and 0208, after "Nero Kupferberg that he had got by the Paper Controller and a had already been announced for from 13 20188 cultivated by the added. A remove division plant- potato-growing at Eos. In 1917 of ammonium sulphate, per sore Beardon the man charged with representative of the National public performance, Boito called boys, jaet on 15 tons of potatoe-led the potatoes, which him-to pass, as good and proper Salvage Council, who are antisfied Ricordi, and
Whether this work be produped with a net profit, after payment by the plough. After that for use in shells to be fired by the that it is sound..
were produced, Belling for £100, covered in the British Army,exploder containers, Hidden in Room for Threo in my lifetime matters little, bui of all expenere, of £45 19. 8d. the ground wea hoed at variousREMY absolutely component parts of
dizatisfied with the eheile, älthough they would do no A dramatic meeting between s instrumental part, and I have There was also a profit on the times, and then earthed up. In harm to the enemy and be a wife and her husband was de-swakened to the fact that I don't hoeing done, in neighbouring Jaly the potatoes were twice defence to the British. On' Boribed at Tower Bridge Police know harmony," From that time farms, of 59 6a 7d. A cheque for prayed with Burgundy mixture, Beardon the sentence was 18 Court recently. The man, Fred Boito gave himself up to profound 55. 53. 3d. has been banded and did not suffer from blight, months' hard labour.
Chitty, RF.A., came home opjatadise in musical technique.
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convalescent wounded there.. Mr. H. de Havilland, two of the By the sale of the potatoes assistant mastera, gave careful locally, curiage on at least three loupervision and unstinted labour. truckloads was thus saved, sud the There is now a fresh committee, official statement adde:- and each bousa is responsible for every locality grew sit its own its own plot. It is expected that vegetables locally, the burden on the return this year will be greater the railways would be considerably then last. On the old plat Bootch lightened, and double cartage Epicure potatoes have been plant- svoided."
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