THE HONGKONG
NITROGEN SCHEME FAILURE. TO THE SOUTH POLE BY`AIN,
BRITAIN OUTSTRIPPED BY GERMANY AND AMERICA.
the
BELEGRAPH.
ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO.
BRITISH EXPEDITION TO START NEXT YEAR.
A DOCTOR'S VIEWS.
we
3
of time voted
our-
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1919.
NEW ESPERANTO.
MYSTERIES OF MARCONI'S
CODE DICTIONARY.
A physician writes to a Home Much speculation exists as to Mr. John L. Cope, who accom-paper as follows:-
A real Esperanto of commerce the cause of the delay in panied the Imperial Trans- We are threatened, so rumour has been invented by the Marconi
issuing of the second report of the Nitrogen PAntarctic expedition to the Rossays, with a great anti-drinking Co. in their new international code and non-smoking campaign, hail for cable and wireless telegraphy, The Com-Sea in 1914-17, bas outlined his ing from America. It will be which has just been published. ducts Committee. mittee's war scheme was the plans for the now British venture launched, so the story goes, with It is at once a dictionary and a establishment of plant for the to the South Pole, which he is to all the efficiency and thorough-code, for each volume is in three fixation of atmospheric nitrogén lead in June next, and his views ness of gigantic business enter languages-Vol. I.: English, on a large scalo by the Haber or
on the work which it is hoped to prise. Propaganda, we are told French, and Spanish: Vol. IL: synthetic ammonis process.
will prepare the country for English. Japanese, and Russian; accomplish in a five years' star legislation, ard within Vol. III.: English, German, and As already announced in the measurable distance
Dutch. Daily News, the equipment of the
sball bare British Imperial Antarctic ex-selves into teetotalism and non-
The code is so arranged that pedition will include an aeroplane smoking. Those of us whom such respond by cable or wireless with a Lordon merchant cau cor- and by means of wireless the ex- plorers hope to be able to keep in comfort, I think, from a remen-Petrograd and Tokyo without a prospect may dismay can take firms in Paris and Madrid, or touch with civilisation throughout brance of history. As a nation knowing any language but his their adventurous journey. we have been peculiarly suscept-own, and without having to em-
ex-ible to revclutions of thought and ploy a
babit. We do from time to time The business man who receives foreign correspondent. go to rather violent extremes. his letter can likewise translate The virtues of one generation the code into his own language become the vices of the next, and without To obtain further information
yet the present day finds us still of a scientific and economic
English. with very few of our liberties value.
curtailed and, on the whole. Generally to extend our know-singularly free from prejudices edge of the Antarctic continent, one way or another. and thus to endeavour to complete the map.
After an axpenditure of a sum reputed to be about £1,000,000 on investigations and plant at Bil- lingham-on-Tees, the scheme was suddenly stopped before manu- facture began. The opinion was expressed by an authority recently that the second report is delayed simply by the long process of "When it compiling the index. appears," he said, "I do not think it will tell us anything that was not previously known, or that the "Committee has found something better than the German practice
According to the reports I have received from Germany progress there has been very great, though I doubt the state- ment that German chemists have perfected a process for cheap production of synthetic urea. and I think that the huge ammonia factory alleged to have been built since the Armistice is of the merely an extension Badische works at Lud wigshafen.
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The general objects of the plorers are
To carry on the work already done by other explorers.
any knowledge
of
this code book contains all the In addition to words and £gures modern phrases in use in general and business correspondence. NO HARD AND FAST KULE "Forward immediately another The question of such a cam-carburettor by aeroplane, post" is paign naturally suggest other not too technical for its resources. The code translation is more personal problems. I am continually being asked, "Is Ewaaiahasd Awzirpibma. smoking harmful?" and "Should alcohol be avoided?" Apart from the individual case. such questions have no more vital significance than a thousand others which might be asked. When a man asks me if I con- Thus, with our boat and acro- naturally take several con- sider smoking to be bad for him,
We propose to leave England next June." said Mr. Cope, "and sail for Wellington (New Zealand); thence we proceed to Macquarie Island, where a geological survey is to be made. Then we proceed to Scott Island, and establish wireless and meteorological stations; and thence we go to New Harbour, where headquart
"In the production of nitrogen from the air we are very much behind Germany. France, Nor-ers will be fixed. way, and the United States. It is due in my opinion to the fact
that we did not apply the know. Plane carrying wireless equip-siderations into account, such as
war.
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Saturday next 25th inst., from 3 to 6 p.m. on the occasion of the
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G.
NOTICE
"Al at Lloyd's" would be Abahb; "Bank rate on the decline," Anar: Bacon, cheque not received. Bacup, cheque refused. Secretary for State in Marconi's code becomes Ukimi; and secretary of the company, Ukink:
into "eyozm. diplomacy has been translated Buoking at MOUTRIE'S. wishing to leave the Colony mast
We depended entirely on shed, we shall always be in life. the amount of tobacco he information the import of nitrates from Chile wireless touch with civilisation smokes, and what he considers
for the manufacture of nitric acid. and no plant of any considerable size was erected in this country for the synthetic manufacture of
nitric acid.
"France, on the other hand, made arrangements in 1915 with theNitrogen Products and Carbide Co., Ltd., of London, for the establishment of very large plants. These plants, together with accessory establishments involved an expenditure of about $20,000,000.
whenever we go."
many months.
its effect upon him to be, and so By using the aeroplane it is fon. It is a fairly safe rule, I am hoped in a flight of 20 or 25 hours convinced, for a man who really to avoid a tortuous journey lasting has any doubt in the matter. either to curtail very considerably "The distance of the Pole from the amount he smokes or else to the base from which the zero-knock off smoking altogether. place will start," said. Mr. Cope. is about 250 miles. We shall of course, be compelled to take a lige and extra provisions, etc., to enable us to get back in the of the aeroplane event
down: breaking
with "When America entered the the weight of all these things it war she immediately took steps will be necessary to cut down our to erect similar works at Muscleful to the minimum or taking off will be very difficult and lift- Shoals, Alabama, for the manu- facture of nitric acid and nitrate the plane for crossing the of ammonia from cyanamide on mountain ranges impossible. We propose to set off with as much a very large scale.
petrol as we can, and then half way on the outward journey, just before we get to a range of moun- tains that we have to cross, to dump half of it and pick it up again coming back."
"A great deal of investigation by Government departments in this country could have been saved. by consulting men who had special technical knowledge in these particularlines. Instead, nothing was established by the Government of
this country
beyond the smallest experimental
plants.
and
It is hoped to use directional wireless from the base, which will be the ship, and so obtain
tail bearing."
of
Each volume contains also a general business tables of English and foreign and comparative currencies, weights, and measure- of the Marconi International ments. The price of each volume Code is £4 45.
HOME FOOTBALL..
Matches played on September resulted as follows:**
Smoking affects different people so very differently. One man may experience giddiness, loss of appe- tite, and general discomfort if he smokes even a tenth of what an- other man smokes as a matter of 6 course and without any ill effects. It would be felly, therefore, to assert that smoking was univer sally bad. I would advise the man who suffers ill-effects from smoking to give it up, but I would Raith Rovers 0 Heart of Mid. 1 make no hard and fast rule for everyone.
SCOTTISH LEAGUE,
Hibernians
Celtic
2 Aberdeen
1 S.. Mirren
5 Falkirk
GLASGOW CUP.
NOTICE.
All pe sons with the exception of persons of Chinese
race,
R. E. MACDOUGALL,
Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 18th October, 1919.
NOTICE.
NOTICE OF REMOVAL Notice is hereby given that the Branch Office of the Liverpool and London & Globe Insurance Company Limited will on and after the 27th instant be transfer- red to St. George's Buildings (Second floor) Chater Road Hong kong.
Telephone No. 200-P. O. Box 451
RIGBY H. P. KEWLEY,
Acting Local Manager. Hongkong 21st October, 1919.
THE INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK, LIMITED.
Heal Ece: 6 Des Yeux Road Cl Kankow B aach: Panoff Building,
The
have in their pos.ession a VALID PASSPORT. Passengers not in possession of passports will not be allowed to leave the Colony. All persons with certain exce
FOR THE YEAR TO COME A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. tions who remain in the Colons
Precaution is impor aut in all things, for more than 7 days are required | This applies to your own finances Notice is hereby given that an to Register themselves under the best way of providing for the fatare, free Extraordinary General Meeting REGISTRATION of PERSONS by of A. S. Watson & Co. Limited ORD NANCE 1915 Forms of will be held at the Hongkong Registration giving the parti. Hotel on the 5th, day of Novemculars required may be obtained at ber, 1919, at Noon when the sub-the G. P. O. and at all Police
Stations. joined resolution, which was pass
ed at the Extraordinary General The Penalty for non-compliance Meeting of the Company beld on is a fine not exceeding $50. the 20th day of October, 1919, will
E. D. C. WOLFE.
be submitted for confirmation as
a Special Resolution.
+
C. S. P.
That the New Articles already Hongkong, 5th September 1919.
approved by this Meeting and
for the purpose of identifica-
tion subscribed by the Chair
2
man thereof be and the same
1
are hereby adopted as the
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Dundee Ayr United
O Airdrieonians 2 Morton ONLY ABUSE HARMFUL Albion Rovers 2 Clydebank
Dumbarton 0 Third Lanark The pleasure derived from Hamilton A.C. 5 Kilmarnock smoking is undoubtedly pleasure derived from a drug.
theQueen's Park 1 Motherwell
But that is not to say that it must therefore be deleterious.. Abuse of that pleasure, like that of any Partick This 2 Clyde other. is not only harmful it t absurd. Certain people are parti-
1 Rangers
Dealing with the advantages to violent temper.
cularly susceptible to displays of
The
CENTRAL LEAGUE. use of Caine info Cari referred to tobacco may do much to enable Hearts A. the value of information regarding
7 Falkirk A. 2 the development of the whale in-
QUALIFYING CUP-FIRST ROUND. dustry and the probability of
1 St, Bernards Bathgate nineral wealth, including, possib-rash to assert that in his case, for Bo'ness
susceptibility. It would be Armadale
Broxburn Un. ly, gold,
example, tobacco was harm-v. of Leithen "As regards the scientific know-ful, without taking that fact into Gala FYdean 2 Selkirk edge to be gained." said Mr. Cope, consideration. The whole ques-Dunferm Ath. 0 East Fife the Badische Company. But in a great many of the sciences tion is surely one of use and Clackmannan 4 Lochgelly Un. view of the very large number of might be supplied with useful abuse, as it is with that of Alloa Ath patents covering all details of the data; but it is in the domain of alcobel. Moderation and a taking King's Park, 1 Stenho muir 0 East Stirling process, it is doubtful if such a meteorology, in its relation to into account of personal idiosyn-St. Johnstone 7 Morrisonian plant could be run in this country agaiculture in the Southern Concrasies, is the wisest course to Dundee Hibs. 3 Forfar Ath. without a working arrangement tinents, that the most immediate follow. I would far rather re-th with that company.
economic prospects are promised. commend. in obviously bad cases,
The factory at Billingham-on- Tees, which the Government in tended to run, was not, I under stand. completed at the time of the Armistice. In that factory it -was proposed to manufacture nitric acid from ammonia pro- duced by a process analogous to
the Haber process perfected by
from the
them to control such bursts
to
The
ar
lessen
excess
the
than
7 Leith Amat
Berwick U.N.
6 Arbroath AM.
ENGLISH LEAGUE-FIRST
DIVISION,
0
0 Sunderland- Aston Villa
2 Bolton Wand. Bradford
Notts County
Chelsea
0 Everton
NOTICE.
Articles of the Company to HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB
the exclusion of and in sub- stitution for all the existing Articles thereof." JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON.
General Managers, Hongkong. 21st October 1919.
CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE ROBERT DOLLAR CO. THE Steamship
1 STANLEY DOLLAR” · 1 having arrived from San 1 Francisco, B. C., via ports, on Oct. 020, 1919, consignees are hereby 2 notified that their cargo is being landed at their risk into the 1 bazardous Godowns of the Hong- 1 kong & Kowloon Wharf & Go- down Co., Ltd and stored at con- signee's risk.
All broken, chafed.and damag- el cargo is to be left in the 3 godowns, until Friday Oct. 24, 01919, when they will be examin 1ed by Messrs. Carmichael & Clarke at 10 a.m. October 24,; 1919.
2 Bradford City 1
2 W. B. Albion 1
It is generally admitted by complete abstention than modera- Any statement that this country meteorlogists that great droughts, tion. It is usually far more had no synthetic process on a commercial scale is not true. excessive rains, heat waves, and difficult to temper a habit that Before the war the Nitrogen Pro- unusual frosts are intimately re- has become duces Company had purchased lated, not only to simultaneous, it is to discontinue it alto- the world's rights for the Ostwald but also to antecedent meteorog-gether.
giving up Al- process for the synthesis of ni ricical conditions, in places far together of tobacco or alcohol Burnley
regions very often does work wonders in acid from ammonia) and works of removed affected.
éases of dyspepsia, insomnia; and Liverpool considerable size were inexistence at Vilvorde, Belgium, in which "Antarctic data are absolutely certain so-called nervous troubles. Manchester U.0 Derby County 2.
Middlesbro 3 Shef. Wednes. ammonia generated from cyana- necessary if the "physical pro- When we are in robust health we mide was converted into nitris cesses involved are to be under-do not easily run to excess. But Newcastle Un 3 Arsenal
Oldham Ath. acid, the cyanamide being manu-stood, and accurate long-range in lowered states of vitality, the
Preston N.E. factured by the Nitrogen Pro-weather forecasts made for the temptation to indulgence may Sheffield Un. ducts Company at their works at benefit of agriculture. Scanty become irresistible. So that again Odda, Norway.
though or information from the I say, if a man has any doubt at "It would, therefore, have been Antarctic arcas has been, it has all as to the benefit or harmfulness
formed the groundwork and start of either alcohol or tobacco in his Barnsley quite possible, and was even
own case, let him give them up. Bury proposed, to erect in this country ing point of useful research. large carbide and cyanamide "The growing science of aerial And if he is unable to make euch
Clap. Orient works, together with plant for navigation is greatly dependenta decision for himself, let him Hull City the oxidation of ammonia to nitric on meteorological forecasts, and take medical advice and act upon Leeds City acid, on the Ostwald principle. if long-range weather time-tablea it scrupulously. These works could have been are to be constructed they must established in the neighbourhood doubtless be based on Antarctic of coal mines, where they could information."
have been operated quite cheaply.
"By the use of ample capital,
and organisation on a large scale, demanding as it does highly A big industry for the manu-trained technical operators to facture of nitric acid and nitrates could be run on commercial lines
carry through.
0. Blackburn R. 0
3 Manches. City
SECOND DIVISION.
1 Stoke
0 Bristol City
1
Claims will not be accepted unless cargo is so examined by said Surveyors, prior to the above, date."
All claims must be presented
within a month of the steamer's
arrival here, after which they will not be recognised.
No Claims will be admitted|
2 after the goods have left the -1 godowns,
All goods remainning after Oct. 027, will be subject to rent...
Members are reminded, of the Half Yearly Meeting called for on Saturday the 1st November at 12.30 p.m. at the Offices of the Jockey Club, on the Ground Floor of the Hongkong Club Annexe. Chater Road.
By Order,
G. W. GEGG, Acting Clerk of the Course." Hongkong. 17th October, 1919.
NOTICE.
BY ORDER OF THE OWNERS PUBLIC AUCTION
THE VERY
OPENING A SAVINGS ACCOUNT WITH US.
$1 to start. SYSTEMATICALLY it will go to THOUSANDS.
A CONVICT'S CONFESSIONS.
MOTOR CARS STOLEN TO
ORDER:
Further remarkable confessions were made at Westminster recently by the convict, Sidney Meredith, in connection with charges of receiving stolen motor- cars preferred against William George Stephenson. moter repairer, of Westhorp-street, Putney. A fresh charge of receiv- ing a Studebaker car, valued at £350, belonging to Mr. Percy Reiss, was preferred.
Meredith said he stole Mr. Reiss's car and drove it to Putney where he handed it over to Step- henson. I got this car accord- ing to order," said Meredith, ".18 Stephenson had told me he want. ed a car of this particular make. I disconnected the wire from the rear lamp and put a fresh number.
VALUABLE BUILDING SITE plate on the back.
Situate at
KOWLOON POINT "
TSIMTSATSUI
WITH LARGE FRONTAGE- ON KIMBERLEY ROAD KOWLOON
RIPE FOR IMMEDIATE DEVELOPMENT TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION
ON THURSDAY
The 30th day of October, 1919 at 12 o'clock Noon
by
MR. GEO. P. LAMMERT at his Auction Rooms in Duddell Street.
The Property consists of
"Stephenson later said he want- ed three cars to go on a trip to Cornwall, and as I had only got one, I went off to get another. The next morning Stephenson gave me £50 for the Studebaker car."
Witness added that in a book he entered a record of cars he kept under observation.
Questioned by the magistrate regarding the book. Meredith Baid: It is among my pro perty at Wormwood Serbs Prison, but several of the leaves are tor. out. The records of these cars will not be found. I was not going to incri- minate myself too much at my trial.
Albert Henry Kemp, a chauf All that piece or parcel of feur, of Gloucester-road Kens- ground situate at Kowloon in the ington, said he bought the Colony of Hongkong and register-Studebaker car from Stephenson ed in the Land Office as THE for £100.
0 Hudderef'd T.
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No Fire Insurance whatever 1 West Ham Un. 4 will be effected.
Consignese are requested to REMAINING FORTION OF
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
1
an
C&I
Lincoln City. Notte Forest 4 Rotherham Co. 1 So. Shields 2 Fulbam • O send in their bills of lading for KOWLOON INLAND LOT NO. Giving evidence concerning Stockport Co. 1 Grimsby Town 2 countersignature. JAPANESE ENTERPRISE IN PERU, Tot. Hotspur. 4 Coventry City 1
1154.
Argyle
which he THE ROBERT DOLLAR CO.,
admitted ha ring stolen from A correspondent at Lima tele-woly, Wand 1 Leicester City 1
Agents.
The Property is situate in a outside the Devonshire Club, graphs that the Hoshi Phar- maceutical Company of Tokyo is
Hongkong, 20th October, 1919.
said very desirable position ready for Meredith
Stephenson immediate building purposes. told him be wohld. the purchaser of the extensive
Like
tract of land reported as sold Bri. & Hove All Merthyr T'., 1
Particulars and Conditions of the Argyle car, which was a good at the
one, and gave him £50 for it close of July. The Cardiff City
'Sale may be obtained from,. 3 Southampton. 0 representative of the Hoshi Exeter City 3 Luton Town 2
MESSRS DEACON LOOKER Stephenson asked him what he conditions nitrates would be "The question whether the Company
was, and be replied that he could says that no Millwall 1 Ply. Argyle
DEACON & HARSTON, produced at lower price State should control this key colonisation scheme is at present Northampton 2 Southend Un.
get cars quickly. (Laughter.); 1, Des Voeux Road Central, than that imported from Chile. industry is also being discussed in view. The land has been pur- Newport Co. 2 Brentford
Hongkong. Manufacture would be indirectly in France and in the United chased for the extraction of quin Portsmouth 3 Norwich City
The Vendors' Solicitors from the air from calcium carbide States, but I have no doubt what 'ine and the cultivation of other QP. Rangers 0 Beading
Or From by the cyanamide process.
over that the decision in both medical plants. Cocoa and cotton Swindon Town 4 Bristol Rov. Personally, I would never use countries, will be in favour of planting is eventually contem. Swansea Town 0 Gillingham
Mr. Geo. P. LAMMERT, the Haber process in this country, private enterprise."
plated.
Watford 4 Crystal Pal
The Auctioneer.
In this country. Under these
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STATE CONTROL ?
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WANTED.
WAN ED-By a Student, Pri 1 vate Lessons, from English Lady, 4 or Gentleman.. English Liter- Oature and Mathematics Instruct 0 ion. Student will attend Teacher's 1 residence.Apply, stating Terms 1 atc Box 268 cfo Hongkong 1Telegraph."
He understood what I meant," added Meredith.. At this time
I had three cars, including the the Argyle, in a shed at Putney"
The bearing was adjourned.