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West River Shipping.
The regular monthly meeting of
THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1923.
LOST TORTOISE HORDES.
Million Shipped Yearly to England.
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What happens to the enormous the Chinese General Chamber of number of tortoises which are Commerce was held yesterday after inported to this country noon, afr. Li Powai, the President, nually? asks a Home paper.
Nearly B occupying the chair. There wero
million of these no fewer than twenty two items on creatues among the first reptiles the agenda, but of these only a few to be adopted as pets in England.
-arrive bero every spring.
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related to matters of moment.
Already this season one dealor. Some time ago the Chinese Cham
in a comparatively small way of bor acting on behalf of number business, Mr. George Palmer, of of Wuchow steamship co pantes, Paratreet. Camden Town, bas wrote to the Government asking received 40,000 watar tortoises that something be done to protectand 20,000 of their terrestrial Wuchow steamers firing the Chinese cousins,
HEART PAIN'S CAUSE.
Js Most Often 'Anaemia. CURE IT BY BUILDING UP YOUR BLOOD. ". Many women who have thin flag, which were, then unable to The pond tortoisee, usually im- blood, and whoso nerves are un maintain their normal schedules ported from Italy, are often so strung: comptain of a Renaction owing to political activities along closely packed that, in their, around the "beart which they de the West River. The latter pointed struggles for freedom, many are soribe as stifling. It is an alarm. out the effect of the shipping blinded by the claws of their ed symptom of anaemia, or tota blood, whion disappears when the stagnation on the food supply of companions...
blood is built up and the anaemia Hongkong.
PACKED IN BARRELS,
Many land tortoises are still purchased by misguided people under the impression that they destroy garden pests. whereas these creatures are vegetarians, and would s000 consume an allotment of lettuces.
Mr. Li Po-kwai yesterday "referred "Land tortoises come in barrels, to two replies from the Colonial | as a rule," said Mr Palmer, "and Secretary, one of which stated inter the first thing I do is to put the alia: "His Majesty's Senior Naval bose on them I then scrub Officer on the West River has com-them, examine them for parasites, municated with the officer in charge and give them a cost of grease, as
a healing ointment." of the Cantonese forces in that area, who states that be has no instruc tions to stop either Chinese ог foreign ships, which can pass up and down the river freely so far as he is concerned. The Senior Naval Officer also saw the Chief of Staff of the opposing Kwangsi forces, who stated that Chinese steamers engaged in legitimate trade could pass up, provided they stopped at Dosing and announced their af proach by nine short blasts on the whistle."
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Water tortoisee, which are Carnivorous, are, on the other hatd, often expected to feed upon Cabbage stumps,
These long-suffering animals have such extraordinary tenacity of life that M. Roni said a land tortoise deprived of its brain lived quite unconcernedly, save for the persistent closing of its eyea, for eight monthe afterwards.
Another chelonian is said to bavo existed for 23 days after being decapitated.
over-come.
The first place where anaemia or thin blood shows is in the lips and gums, which become blanch od, and in the membranes that line the eyelids. You may b naturally pale and still be healtby, but when these membranes lose their bright red colour your blood indeficient in quality or quantity,
Thin blood is a danger; it invites disease, because it is too weak to fight the disasse germs that are. continually trying to invade tün aystem. To build up the blood there is one ramedy that has been a household word for a generation, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People... They tone up the entire system, meke the blood rich and red, strengthen the nerves, increase the appetite, put colour in the cheeks and lips, and drive away that unnatural tired feeling.
Tons of thousands of weak wai men, and men top, have regained health and strength by the use of DR. WILLIAMS' PINK PILLS. As land and water tortoises will] during the past thirty years. You bibernate safely in the open in can begin your own cure witbout
The Chairman said the Chamber had acquainted the shipping firms of the nature of the reply. News received from the West River during the last few days indicated that the through service to Wuchow. had again boon stopped by order of the military and no steamer was allowed to proceed beyond Shiuhing.
Hospitals and Military Expenses. Through the efforts of the Cham ber the hospitals and charitable institutions at Canton have been exempted from making donations to mero inexplicable. help the military in the present warfare in,making the announce didnt the Chairtent stated that Lửẹ Cantun hospitals and charitable surities recently forwarded a letter) to the Chamber saying that a d mand had been made upon them to
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which they had found it impossible
to meet. The letter asked thei Chamber to help them out of the difficulty. In view of "the close relationship between the Chaton institutions and the local organiza-¦ tipas, of the kind, the Chamber wrote to the authorities at Captur, i pleading for exemption. The letter had produced the desired result the Chamber being now in Ba session of a letter from the Canton hospitals conveying their tanks.
Trafficking in Children. The Chairman. mentioned a letter from the Kwangtung Shiu Tuer, a public organization at Canton, re garding the exploits of socalled press gangs. The letter stated. that, these had been very getive at Canton and intely a very undesiralde element was found among people: öf this ilk, who kidnapped small, boys from ten to fifteen and cloaked their i operations under the pretext thai: they were securing labour for the transportation of wir malerials. The Kwangtung, Shy Tuen asked: the Chauber to assist 'he bringing the kidnappers to book in Hong kong whither, it was believed, most
of the kidnapped boys were sent
Mr. Li Pokwai said the Chamber had written to the Government on the matter.
Water Discussioti în Camera,
The Press was excluded when tlie. Just ileus on the agenda was roached, which dealt with le Government's proposal to introducé water meters in the rider main die tricia
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