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(From Our Own Correspondent.)
POISON RUMOURS IN SHANGHAI.
JAPANESE INJURED BY MOB
GERMAN HATE
SOME WAR MEDALS.
CHILD LABOUR.
NEW AMERICAN LAW
UNDERFED GERMAN CHILDREN.
MUNICH LADY'S LETTER,
WAR DEPARTMENT
CONTRACTS.
All persons, with the ex- freption of these, of Chinesa desiring to tears the
ceived at the Headquarter Offices,etween the hours of 9 am to Victoria Barracks, Hongkongdam, ki dam, dail
Sealed Tenders will be reolony should apply in person until 12 o'clock noon on the 30th AT THE PARS OFFICE, POST- June, 1919, for the Supply of OFFICE BUILDING. Indian Supplies for the period) Applicants will be required to 1920.
tion papers.
Germany.coined her hate, not only hymned it. It was struck Labour law of West Virginia
The signing of the new Child in silver, copper, and iran, and
The following is the translation the result was a harvest of satiric the Governor of the State of part ofia letter to an English medals such as might have come received by the National lady from the widow of a pro- The rumours of poisoning of wells and foodstuffs are causing rere, however, a peculiarly Ger- in the policy of West Virginia in who worked hard in his lifetime Shanghai. June 17. from the devil's own mint They Labour Committee as a revelation literature in a German university, fessor of English language and serious trouble. Fifteen persons have been seriously injured and a large number less seriously in two days, as a result of mob attacks the Prince of Darkness nor ADX Mr. Owen Lovejoy; secretary understanding.
4an phenomenon, and neither regard to protection of children to bring about an Anglo-German on the supposed poisoners. There were some Japanese among the other nation can lay just claim to injured.
The letter is The Chinese are refusing to buy hawkers' and shops' goods, and 1914 and rose rapidly toward per- it is. a sign of an unprecedented have had not a word from you10th July, 1919, to 31st March, produce Passports or identifica.
their invention, which began in of the committee, believes that dated Munich, March 25th:-
For more than four years I many are dieting to avoid supposed poisoned foods.
fection as the emotion which in advance in the attitude of Amf I write to-day, it is Foreign efforts to discredit the rumour are still unavailing. spired them gained momentum
from current events.
erican men, and women to-because I do so long for a kind wards the edugation and word from you and from the hand protection of American children. Every day I think of England and which I have loved so dearly. satiric vein through the medium If West Virginia achieve long for her to understand the in- of cartoons. The German people, the impossible," said Lovejoy.describable misery here. This looking for something more solid "other States can achieve the Bockade is so terrible,not only be and medallion. Now a medal which has gone farther than any of cause (even worse) it stops the enduring, hit upon the possible. Not that West Virginia cause it leaves us to hunger, be- is usually designed to commemor these other States, but she had last hope of understanding be
SULTAN OF PERAK RETURNS.
Singapore, June 16.
The Sultan of Perak has been on an informal visit to the Governor and attending the Spring Races, returned to Berak on Saturday.
SIAM RICE PRICES.
Singapore, June 16.
Siam rice prices are now $9.95 and $9.70.
THE "WIDGEON" INCIDENT.
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ADMIRAL TUDOR'S GOOD FORTUNE.
Shanghai, June 16, H.M.S. Widgeon was returning to Ichang from Chungking when she was fired on while passing Wushan. One shot, hit the table in the chart room which Admiral Tudor had just left. There are no other details.
An Asiatic Petroleum boat was also fired on in the same week and the Standard Oil Co's. Meitan was stopped at Kweifu" and boarded by Chinese officers, but was permitted to proceed.
SHANGHAI QUIET.
Shanghai, June 16.
All is quiet to-day.
SHANGHAI TRAMWAY DIVIDEND.
Shanghai, June 16.
The Tramway Company has declared a final divided of 5% and
a bonus of 5%.
TO-DAY'S CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
BETTER FEELING IN PEKING.
Peking. June 16.
非
The students have markedly quietened down.
As a result of the decision of the Government not to further interfere with the students doings, there have been fewer public speeches and co parades.
200,000 DRUG-CRAVERS.
- O
EFFECT OF AMERICAN
PROHIBITION.
THE INJURED LIST.
Most of the nations. during the
war managed to vent their special
Forms of Tender and other
All persons with certain excep who remain in the
the Office of the DA.D. of S. & T. Colony for more them 7 days arr Particulars may be obtained from tions at the Headquarters, Offices. required to Register themselves under the REGISTRATION of PERSONS ORDINANCE 1916. Forms of Registration giving the ... particulars required may be
WANTED.
ate some kind of national triumph farther to go than most of them tween our two nations, Sophocles/ WANTED Britisher Enar. Jobtained at the G. P. O. and at
enter
are
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA..
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE Company's Steamship
"SADO MARU.”
G.
PARTICULARS and CON DITIONS of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Monday, the 23rd day of June. 1919, at 3 pm, at the Offices of ' having arrived from the above
the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at Land at Kennedy Road in the ernment, of One. Lot of Crown their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Cora-
Coloay of Hongkong. for pany's Godowns at Kowloon, a term of 75 years, with the where each consignment will be option of renewal at a Crown
the Goods are landed. sorted out mark by mark and de-
Rent to be fixed by the livery can be obtained as soon as King, for one further term of 75. Surveyor of His Majesty the
acquires a sinister significance at present have to go. She lagged said long ago in the "Antigone: Immediate Position. . 1. Re- when it is put to the negative until it seemed that she would
getic Shipping Man Seeks Police Stations. duty of exploiting the defeat of never catch up with the pre-hate, but in love." Believing this. Hongkong Telegraph."
Woman is not born to join inferences Apply Box 193 copiange is a fins at exceeding
The Penalty, for aan-comm the enemy nation, be it real orgressive Safes Now she has let me grasp your hard once imaginary. "It is to this duty that placed on her statute books a law more to-day. One now no longer these medels were put.
establishing a minimum age limit here would bid me say: "Get They were not issued by the of sixteen years for mines, quar- our English friends Government, but were turned oures and all occupations danger-you in the dreadful bitter lot to help either by private individuals or ous to life or limb or injuribus to which overcomes you, when you patriotic societies as instruments health or morals.
gee your children cry with Frem EUROPE AND STRAITS. of propaganda. At first they were "Formerly she permitted boys hunger and pass yourself, dizzy cast in copper. Later, copper be- of fourteen to work in mines and with weakness, from one duty to coming scarce, they appeared in quarries when school was not in another. Yes, help me not to iron, the more impure the iron. session, and the law contained lose utterly the rich treasure the better the medal, it is said. no special -provision
to which we had in our friendship During the war a few of these dangerous and injurious occup with England. Since my husband medals found their way, to this ations. The new, law requries died, three years ago, I have ports, Consignees of Cargo are Officer Administering the Gov- country. At present their nam-that no child shall receive ber
a lived through much. - is
and greatly among them being the very occupation covered by the statute The
augmented. permit to
any. gainful learned much, and lost much......
children fine collection brought together-and all occupations except a great joy to
growing me, but their by the American Numismatic agriculture and domestic service physical development gives me Society, through the courtesy of are covered until he has under-constant anxiety with such under which the present reproductions gone a physical examination by a feeding. were made. There is no special public health physician or autterly broken down, and no one Germany is artistic value to most of these public school physician to deter-helps her to recover. It is des medals, but in a rough way they mine his fitness for the work heperately dreadful.
Well that my exhibit a resemblance to me- is to undertake. This is a new husband is dead. Yet were he dieval German woodcuts, with provision.
here he would now find so much their grotesque, imagery and "The educational qualification
to do with his their frequent introduction of the for a work permit is raised from
splendid skeleton Death. W. Eberbach, in completion of the fourth grade to his series of medals vilifying Eng-completion of the sixth grade. land, which included the famous But the most striking contract resurrected the medieval title is in the maximum length of the Lusitania medal, in 1916 even between the old and the new law
the Dance of Death" for his working day. No child under productions.
sixteen will hereafter be allowed to work more than eight hours a day or at night. Formerly there was no restrictions whatever as to working hours-twenty-four a day was the maximum."
No nation escaped its satiric commemoration. The Dance of Death was levelled mostly at England, but Italy and Ireland came in for some notice among the six, two of which are here reproduced. Britannia. Rule the Wares, Though?" represent-
seems
democratic ideas.
Optional Goods will be carries years on unless instructions are given PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. to the contrary before NOON TO-DAY.
Goods not cleared by the 23rd June, 1919. will be subjec! to rent.
Damaged packages must be left EXPORTERS ASK FOR MORE in the Godowrs for examination
STEAMSHIPS.
():
US. BUSINESS MEN NOT SATISFIED.
by the Consignees and the Co.'s representatives at an appointed bour on Tuesday & Friday. All claims must .be Fresented within ten days of the steamer's arrival bere, after which date they cannot be recognised. No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns. NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA, Agents. Hongkong. 6th June, 1919.
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THURSDAY, the 19th June,
1919.
No. 2 Saifee Terrace (ground
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Exporters and shipping men in this city.did not receive with un- mixed approval (says the New York Evening Post) the announce- ing Death sinking a British sion
ment made last night from of the dreadnought, was directed against were continuously issued against Hurley, Chairman of the United medals which Washington by Mr. Edward N. Lord Fisher. The Lusitania England. Early in 1914 ap- States A citizens' meeting convened by educational bodies was held in medal, showing Death riding a peared" England and Her Hench-efforts would be made to obtain Shipping Board, that the Public Gardens on the 14th inst, but it only lasted an hour and steamship which flies the British men," representing John Bull the immediate release of 500,000
JAPANESE SOLDIERS. was most orderly.
flag, and inscribed Trickery palling the strings of the Allied tons Board the Lusitanie," was direct-before her. England seeking to the "8100.000,000 worth of ton- and Forewarned. Frivolity on states or urging them into battle vessels for use
of War Department STRICT RULES AGAINST ed against President Wilson, the bribe Pope Benedict XV in 1914;
in moving
THINKING.. "despiser of the warning." Baron England making use of neutral
aage that is congesting Atlantic
According to the Mainichi, e Sonning was the special object flags to guard her ships in 1915 such an amount of ocean tonnage the destruction" of the League ports. Aside from the fact that lengthy manifesto, which urges of wrath in the third of the series, England sinking U-boats with would be inadequate to meet the of Nations and censures the At labelled Latin Fidelity." and mystery ships in the same situation. it was said that con-Government for its diplomatic showing Death kneeling to wring year: England as a sea monstersiderably lower rates would have failure (presumably in Paris), the neck of the Roman she-wolf in combat with Germany the to be put in force if the Shipping Was A stab wound inflicted by a
"England, the Measure Is Full, young Hercules: England in Board did not wish to see the bulk regiment in Qeaks. It is a new
received by certain A Quantity of Valuable House- man in & quarrel on another fourth of the series, depicted 1917 as death driving Fracce as
hold Furniture man's left shoulder has sent a death with clenched fists rushing a woman bound and beaten before creasing number of British and addressed to Japanese barracks. (Full particulars from catalogue}
of this freight moved by the in-thing for political poletics to be Chinese to the Government Civil into the sea toward England, him toward Verdun: England in other foreign vessels that were The printed matter was signed. The Health Commissioner for Hospital.
while a Zeppelin precedes it half every diabolical act that
On view from Wednesday. New York, Dr. Copeland, at- A Chinese who was yesterday hidden by clouds.
the becoming available at carrying Death was mind of a propagandist could rates in the majority of cases be-
"National Association of Tokyo."the 18th inst. tributes the drug curse in great knocked down by motor car No. again the protagonist in the fifth invent or artist could depict was low those asked by the Board.
Our contemporary/quotes one measure to the inability of those 131, was sent to the Government of the series, this time wearing shown in these medals issued
of the senior officers
Terms: Cash on delivery; accustomed to stimulants to pio- Civil Hospital.
the cap of a British Tommy and throughout the whole four years. taken into consideration, it was though soldiers are probibited Another factor which must be the regiment as stating that
Geo: P. LAMMERT, cure whisky.
A piece of granite dislodged sitting on the grave of Home He declares there are to-day and fell on the right leg of a Rule."
The United States as pro5teer said, was
Auctioneer. smoking
the nature of the from taking part in political a pipe and stone-breaker at Tai smelling a bouquet of sham-popular phase for medal purposes. was called to the fact that at pre- these days to keep their minds
to have been the most cargoes between 200,000 and 300,000 drug. Chinese
available. Attention discussions, it is impossible in takers in New York alone, and Shek Ko. The man was removed rocks. May Blossoms from Europe's Suicide," designed in sent there were more than 50,000 entirely vacant that the metropolis is facing the to Hospital.
the Green Isle is its legend, 1917 by Karl Goetz represents tons of weight cargoes in and thought. For this reason, the and free of gravest narcotic menace in its
The last of the group history."
memorated the sinking of the bull which is about to hurl itself ment which could not be moved ing reform in military education. com Europe borne on the back of a about New York awaiting ship-military authorities are consider- Tubantia, and WAS "England's "Greetings to the on the reverse side of the medal amount or measurement cargo to absolutely forbidden to have any slugged on the bayonets of an army, while in bulk until there was a fair At present junior officers are Neutral Tubantia." Death ready stands America accompanied by go with it. And certain embar- other intellectual interests than to launch two torpedoes at a Japanese grinding out money goes by the Railroad Administra military ones, though the senior passing vessel occupied one side, from a column.The Laughter tion, are said to have hindered officers, who are old enough to and the reverse bore the verses, of the Heirs," is its title. Similar- the bringing of measurement car-have sound and fixed ideas, are Frieden leben, Wenn "Ee kann der Beste nicht in y President Wilson is shown in goes to this port while the freight required to study various phrases
es dem another medal the zealous congestion lasted. basen Nachbar nicht gefallt" notewriter, penin one hand and
of thought and movement so that (the best man cannot live in peace, rag af money in the other: British ships bave been engaged of affairs.
The fact that practically all they may acquire a full knowledge if he does not please his wicked Above his head is the Ger-since the Armistice io trade and neighbour).
The process, as described, would proverb, "Ohne Fleiss that man
a large percentage France came in for satire in keinen Preis" (No-raward with America's fleet has been employ-only after they were past instruc- of seem to be tell the officers to learn medal form early in the war, but out industry). The American ed to relieve the as time went on England and munition trade was satirized in a sections of European. was com- scheme will include the encour- stricken tion, Perhaps the reformed the United States offered, it uniface medal designed by L.mented on this morning by agement of intelligence among seems, more attractive subjects. Gies. "America in the World one exporter in In 1914 appeared the silver War" it purported to show, re-with the fact that on certain
connection the junior officers as well
This medal, "To Paris!" showing a vealing, a ses monster, laden trade routes, notably to Francé, manifestoes young
sending of political athlete" on horseback with ammunition, its mouth bulg-Spain and Portugal, this country is
the soldiers
VICTORIA DISPENSARY. £20 per ounce a profit of over seeking admission to the clinics This was hardly a satiric medal the Hudson River. The skyline months. The fact that the Ship manifesto in question appears to
motley crowd of human wrecks ready to charge on the city ing with money, swimming down had had no ships at all for several ment of Japanese activities. The NOTICE: The
interesting develop- and to narrating the individual but it was soon followed by an of New York could be seen in the ping Board announced recently be of the most ultra-patriotic and above pharmacy at 32, Queen's A result of the raids has been; histories of the patients, three out other, distinctly so, showing the background, and the monster great reductions in rates on these reactionary type, such as the Road, Central will on 15th June hitherto conducted by the. the entire suspension of the of four of whom are under 26 Gallic cock trampling the un-wore the hat of Uncle Sam and other trade routes on which War Office loves. But a few next be transferred to AS activities of the doctors in treat years of age.
rolled treaty of the Geneva Con- From the same artist came the it provided no vessels has receiv days ago we were hearing of Watson & Co. Ltd., the Hong- ing narcotic patients, who, de- The possibility. of the United vention, while a number of dum-Russian Revolution, prived of drugs, have been States not being in a position to dum bullets were revealed. piled showing a mob of revolutionaries
1917, ed agreat deal of adverse critcism: Socialistic or at any rate anti- kong Dispensary, who will take wandering the streets in agony. enforce national prohibition on up in the rear.
The hope is "expressed among capitalistic postcards being sent over the stocks, proprietary medi The Health Commissioner has July is indicated by Commiss- the Grand Nation," was its and hurling the Czar from his place, that the United States Shipping radical reforms and reaction both Customers requiring prescriptions All Respect for mounting the steps of the throne both exporters and shipping men to the troops. If the parties of cines and prescription books. therefore opened municipal ioner Roper, head of the Govern legend. The reverse side threa-a piece that is only rivalled in Board will come to see the futility make bids for support in the repeated will on and after the "drug clinics, where patients mont's Internal Revenue Bureau, tened, "You will soon be reaping repulsiveness by the medal "Wie of "dealing out boats in driblets" ranks of the Army a situation will date aforesaid be able to get them abandoned by doctors can obtain Mr. Roper declares that there is Revenge." The Franco-Russian lange noch? (How much long- and that there will be further be created which the militarists dispensed at the Hongkong relief at cost. These clinics, it is no provision in the law, as passed Entente also had its share of er?), which depicts death taking release of tonnage in the near will rightly regard with apprehen- Dispensa77. announced to day, will remain by Congress, as to how Prohi- Teutonic fury in iron. -
the pulse of the sick giant future from other work for the sion. They will regard them -open day and night until further bition as & war-time measure Fury is, however, a mild word Russia, whose body is about fall carrying of American products to selves as a new Frankenstein.
shall be made effective.
FW. STAPLETON, ruling. pason and crush the Allies.
the various markets of the world Japan Chronicle;
What is true of New York is true of other great cities of the U. S. The Federal authorities have conducted a series of raids and arrested a number of doctors and chemists who have been illegally catering to the cravings of drug fiends. They have made amazing discoveries. In the last six months no fewer than 1,500,--. 000 prescriptions for narcotics have been given by 30 New York doctors alone. One medical man arrested has been in the habit of prescribing for over 1,000 patients
daily.
DON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY.
formance at Kowloon 9.15. p.m. Bostock's Circus. Opening per Victoria Theatre-9.15 p.m.
Coronet Theatre 5.15 and 9.15
D.m
TO-MORROW."
Victorie Theatre 9.15 p.m. Coronet Theatre-5:15 and 9.15
p.m.
Prescriptions have been made out with the aid of a staff of
The newspapers are devoting clarks and filled by chemists who columns to descriptions of the dispensed cocaine at the rate of
500 per cent.
notice,
to
describe the
an
to
TEA DANCES
will be..
DISCONTINUED
until further notice.
D. M. GOODALL, Manager.
PHONE 407.
business