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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
BERLIN IGNORES
ALBANIA
MADRID, Aug 13 (Reuter)~~A bint that there is stiff trouble in Albanie Is contained in a cryptic [statement from the Berlin correspon
dent of the Spanish "newspaper, "A.B.C."-to-day.
He states: "In.Betiin, no im- portance is attributed to the hop- penings in Albaula,”
Titled Flying Officer Missing
LONDON, Aug. 13 (Reuter),—Fly- Ing Officer Lord Shuttleworth is mins- ing following operations on August 8; Lord Shuttleworth succeeded to the title last year on the death of his grandfather. His father was killed in the Inst war,
Mine-Sweeping Ships Damaged
LONDON, Aug. 13 (Reuter).-The Admiralty announces that the mine- sweeping trawlers. Tamarisk and Pyrope, were doinaged as the result of enemy air attack and subsequently sunk.
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This Includes old furniture, works field of art. cameras, microscopes, glasses, plonos, carpets and turs, In all classes of newspaper Vacant" is the largest, section devoted to "Situations On Sundays, Most provincial newspapers carry tung publish up to 12 pages of them. papers like the "Frankfurter Zel-
The war has resulted in a marked Increase in three classes of advertise- ment-matrimonial, schoots of inn- gunge, and death notices.
a whole page of matrimonial offers. Advertisers niso want buy such In an important Hamburg news- things us dirty used Dil for rr-
paper more than half the language
school advertisers offer to teach Eng-Aning old rubber tyres past re- lish. One teacher
pairing for mending boots, and even Is called Herr
old artificial teeth, eyes and limbs. Cameron.
Drink Trade Busy
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BRITAIN'S modern may be equipped with Ishield..
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The West German newspapers, re- ilecting the Increasing tendency to seek relief from war strain in alcohol, daily publish dozens of advertise- ments for "bur ladies" and "table ladies."
"Bar tudles" are not barmaids as we know them in England, but wo- men whose chief attribute is a good figure and good clothes, and their job
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Table ladies" are on the cus→ tomer's side of the bar and their Job Is to entertain those who sit at the tables or dance with them-and tot eye-them to drink.
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August 10 supplied by the medical Government camps here for nuthorities are printed below with figures for August 3 in brackets:
to Queen Mary. He has fired at the visor with a shotgun and found that there was no penetration at a dis- tance of thirty yards, whereas the King's Park 1,250 (1244); Matau- unprotected eye would be destroyed
at oven twice the distance.
chung: 1,389 (1,431); North Point 1,370 (1,280); Morrison H 543 Sir Richard, who was captain in (542): Tol Hang Squatters Camp 2 the R.AM.C. in the last war, saw 477 (2.709); Ngau Tau Kok Squatters much blindness caused by metal
fragments penetrating the eye, and It Cap 970 (082); Kam Tin. 2,021
(2,035), is his belief that over half the cases) could have been prevented by
Soldiers,-In d
hospital 7 (10); visor.
Argyle Street 720 (714). Between 1914 and 1918 approxi- The grand total for August 10 was: mately 2,000 were blinded in both 11,058, as compared with 11,233 on eyes and 40,000 in one.
August 3, showing a decrease of 175.
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