AT FIRST SIGHT,
The Prospect of London.
NOO FOR
AN AWEU'
DUNT!
The heat, like one whose hobby it is to collect the experienoss of others, was trying to draw from two shy American soldiers a confemtion. At first they seemed
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY I NOVEMBER 29, 1918,
catch a glimpse of it After a COMMERCIAL NEWS. good deal of riding and wilking, however, he had come on the Tower; it was insignificant com Pared with his fancy; but, o more, it was not the Tower's fault.
Rust Prevention.
be
GIT UP ANDY!
GIT
1 317 Dec
"STAndrew's Serie WAR BOND TRA
up Andy, the war's over. We must sell that camyfledge weskit of yours an' git some money for them orspitals. They say as they're crowded wi poor chaps.
Ad a letter from old Bill, him as lost the power o' 'is legs an' has a wife an' six kids. Es at Bellahouston. in that fine ward as was given by the 'Ongkong folk. Says 'e's gittin' on grand an' 'is wife won't know 'im es so 'oppy now.
Member Welshy Jones, 'im as was shell-shocked an paralysed? Put them orphypedik things on him they did
'E's discharged, orl right again'.
Wonnerful ain't it?
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5.KCbater Boad,
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BUYING.
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220
7874
185
3/514
794
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19 000 feet. and c! sluminium 14,000. But with alloy the length of the slaminim bar would be extended TT to 50,000 feet.
Large Demand Then, the Strand. Knowing he recommended for small machine of the structure was so great that 60 dis A new rust prevention process structures like bridges the weight| 30 da as coming to England, he had parta is, says Ies and Cad
4 m/s the weight of train weż almost barrowed in a friend's library Storage, an application to the - determined to defest him.
negligible, but the point came T/T Shanghai for books on London. Thoseurince of the iron or steel of where the epon could only Singapore. man from New York persisted in poking fun at the imperfect books had pictures; mong iron phosphates. After thoroughlyjast carry itself; and, is com TT India............ 21911⁄2
T/T Japan. civilisation of Chicago; the man
them was one of the Strand cleaning, the articles are pariton with steel, light alleys Demand, Indis from Chicago was equally ready Three or four hours in a taxicab immersed in
8 bath
of aluminium could "mcrease the TT San Francis-1 enabled him, as he presumed, totsining and good-tempered in proving explore London pretty thorough phosphates, with a little manga was great expenditure of energy T/T Java
ferrio and ferrons
limiting span threefold. There that New
co&New York) York belied italy, but somehow, at the end of pese dioxide and at boiling water atseting and stopping electric T/T Marks Ne m. adjective.~
When I was in New York," them, he hadn't noticed the temperature they are left antil traine, and if the heavy steel T/T France
42716 Strand. Then he looked up sad hydrogen is no longer given eff. "What did you. "began the host.
think of is ?" the Americane sekeda ta plate, and on that tir. The articles are then air-dried parts of locomotives could be Demand, Paris ...... 428
seplaced by light alloys there together, suspending their civil plate was the word "Strand." when they may be treated with would be quicker starting sad m/s. L/C 3/436 warfare. That's what I've been the Srend #31 not a wide or otherwire finished. As the
That was how he fecand cut that mineral oil, or painted, jspanned, stopping, and an important +
4 m/s. D/P ***** 3/514 asking you about London," retert-
There was jag. ed the Englishmen. --
boulevard with trees on otsaidephosphate surface is attached.
a prejudice 6mis LIC
30 dis. Sydney and The man from Chicago said the other. Again, it was his own explains our contemporary, forms alloys had been greetioned, but and "lapped by the Tham" or ebemically to the metal, no rust, manerce and stability of the against aluminiom, and the per-
Melbourno.....d 3/514 that, in contrast to his friend fult, Height to have known even in cracks in the paint, lo
30 d/s. San Francis 1 from New York, he was used to that the picture was a Lack this connection it is interesting to The main consideration that in research had cleared away doubte,
co & New York! town of real sy be had di covered that London was larger number.
note that sa electrolytic prosess terfered with the use of alumin than he had expected. "He added { Books, said the other guest, of deoxidisation has, according ium was that of cost. Alamin that when his brother came to road, but they should not be been patented in the United in the earth's crues, and we need were good guides to parts of the the Scientific Amricas ium ae extraordinarily plentiful London en wedding trip be trotted too far, Dickens krew States. The object to be treated ed a method of extreating it could not pertvade his wife to go his own bit of London. In new is made the cathode in an elec cheaply. Cheap electricity wa anywhere till shà, had
T/T Calcutta
21914 York he had read most of Dickens. trolyte containing phosphorio essential, and he locked for this to Carson Street, where Becky Sharp It happened that he first landed acid. In addition to its normal the fall utilisation of car
Demand, Calcutta... 220 Démand, Manila 15814 nothing in London where Dickens knew function of carrying the current, eapply.
weter Demand, Singapore. 14076 The New Yorker
it beats among little gloomy Is nes, this scid sofa as a solvent upon remembered the there and crooked, grimy shops and rast withra attacking the steel
On Haiphong s 14% prem. 8.50 par 9.30 xx. 1000 pm. 11.00 pm. STARTS BETTLEMENTE: Starspora: wis a man from Wyoming whe houses. They were so ismiliar or iron body beneath. It is in
American and Orient Trade. On Saigon...... 1 % prem forget he was a soldier for 10 that be felt pleased; ss if as this lees detail that its chief business interests are laying their Gold leaf per oz. 43.80 While the United States On Bangkok 4574
Sovereign 6. Nom, minutes, being coffeeted by the home; he gathered he wouldn's availability lies, since sitrie, plans for a great ade boom after Ear Silver, per oz... build and power of an English
484 drsyhorse on the deck at Livet any introduction to Lot don, enlphuric, or hydrochloric said the war, there is little bought
SUBSIDIARY COINS congratulated his know would not display soch moders given to expansion is the direct- DISCOUNT PER $100: pool. This, in the other's opinion, ledge" till he reached the Bink. tion. Finally, the phosphoric ion of the Orient, according to Was not so impressive as the That gave him a shake; and aslacid in beneficial in pesventing Mr.8-muel Gacbee, president sight of the chimney pots, coming he went on west every yard subsequent further rating. The of the EE Heacock Company, into London. "Or the clothes lines showed him that there was slretrolyte is made by adding ten who has just referred to Manila Canton outside Plymouth," added bie companion.
another London which Dickene parte of phosphoric acid to ninety from a trip to the Uciled Etster. The host at last ventured his had not said anything about parts of water, or adding 10 per Mr. Gaches had opportunity to
There leading question:
weza clearly Beveral cent. of acid to a 10 per cent study conditions in New York, you think London wild be know, not yet having completed temperature of
"What did Londone; how many he didn't solution of sodium phosphate. A Philadelphia, Washington, Datroit placing the country entirely on a like ?***
between 50 and Chicago as well as other war basis and co-relsting every Obiesgo reckoned that nothing The collector nodded. I shall commended,
degrees and 70 degrees 0. is replaces and declared that the business and industry, and prac ever quite came up to one's put you," he asid, "in the section
prosperity of the country was antically every men, in the task of 4120UET. At Undertaken als comtell anticipations; he was prepared to of my cabinet devoted to London,
A Rival to Steel,
outstanding festate of the recolateinning the war The whole is find even the war, with big guns, where you will mest the Londoner
determination of the people bric of business and industrial life Dr. WR senhain in an address "carry on" the wet to victory is now re organised, non-eesen- some kind of whispering gallery, who could not recognise St.Paul's, on "Almainium and its Alloys" With regard to the oriental trade til industries have been curtailed As to London, the Tower Ead disappointed him. It was not the and the housemaid who spent her at the British Bence Exhibitior, question Mr. Caches said that is or eliminated, and the result is a Tower's fault, but his
half-holidays in the British said that aluminium alloy was was at one time considered a smooth raneing machine which is ally but his own. Museum Times.
not a German monopoly. A Washington whether it might be sccomplishing taske hardly Zeppelin framework had a tensile advisable as a war measure to dreamed of before war was de strength of 25 tons to the equare pisco the Philippine islande coclared. Eigh wages prevail in moet in his notion of In conuretion with the X ray good so the acmbination of regard to exports of Ameican king men
bat this was not the same statas a zer is with all of the industrial centree and lis.London had treatment ringworm, the lightnese with highesength that goods which would have placed laxuries and
vast city built medical officer for East Ham could be produced in this country. remotions.un Azippers, subjses savings in Liberty
asme linas ar state that
lived
a' year.
then
well ***
on
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the sum
had read so much about the|**.
Tower that, without suspecting
it, he had allowed that old geol
to
shot
brain.
X-rays on the Hair.. lizch
4
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