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A $3,000 FINE
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The defendant pleaded guilty and His Worship imposed a fine of $3,000, with the alternative of nine months' hart Inbour.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1917.
SURVIVED SIX DISASTERS.
SAILOR WHO; ESCAPED FROM THE TITANIC AND OTHER WRECKS.
THE RESERVE DÚGOUTS.
he isclaim any desire to see the Monarchy restored. According to him! the whole trouble has arisen out of!
It can without the slightest warning. Parliament's refusal to declare war |
One moment all was peaceful, and the only sound which disturbed the stillness against Germany. Consequently the
In Mr. Wood's Court this morning s
of the lovely autumn day was the noise" Tiichana. now insist on the dissolu.
Chinese passenger on the s.5. Kuong Sai
The hospital ship Donegal was torpe of spades, besting sandhags into shape, tion of Padisment, ghd if the Pres
Savsónar, Jäng 12. was charged with the unlawful posseded on the same date as the fine from the working party building up the The Tukwuns of the south-western sign of 46 tools of prepared opium, other almost within sight of the Fastish roast. support parapets two hundred yarch sident will not do it the Tuebaus
12Fateithvua-chavvo telegraphed te than Government opiom.. will, and they will then feel and General Feng Kro-change stating
The missile struck the stem, which, to away. Then a momentary wailing note, Is was allegol by an Indian watchman use the phrase of one of the survivors shock, & lund explosion, and a big Gør- man shell burst among the cluster of arained to depose the President fit they cannot possibly entertain on the Eavny Shi that apon seaching was "blow to blazes," "
dugunta The greatest gallantry was shown by THE PREMIER SCOTCH OF and find another. The alter the the independent Tukwans, denund the defendant aboard the steamer be
The dugouts lay in the heart of a wood.. new Parliament is elected war will for the pardoning of the monarchists, discovered the contrabonal drug tied the officer at crew in caring for the The trees near the margin had been thin
soldiers, all of whom were quickly need out by passing Gertuan shells, but be declared on Germany that They also opposest to the disshi-round the Inter's waist.
madvert to the other vesels which "rume where the dugouts were baut, the it they succeed in getting a new tion of Parliament.,
to the rescue
wool still grew thickly and wholly There was no panicat all one of the screened the position from hostile air- Parliament which is not constitutes) j
row told a tewspaper reporter. Every ft. For months not even siny like the The only satisfactory
THE PROTECTION OF THE
one worked quietly to get the wounded shell hack fallen new even when, the" off, and we had all got clear when the rest of the wood was being shattered by 22 CONSTITUTION." feature of the situation is that it
| vessel sank; ab ut three-quarters of an a previous heavy bombardment" the seems to be regarded as a certainty
Sussonar, June 12,
hour afterwards, she went down stern dugouts were left untouched but to-thay fiest
their time
ime has come for the Germans do that there will be an fighting Ac-l Owing to tla formation of an army A BANISHEE'S RECORD).
This man had a wonderful escape from not waste heavy shell in aimless
Aring. wirling General NE all the in Ceking for the protection" of the
diath
"officer merges from one of the was off dury, and was sleep
An "off ing aft in my brother's hunk when the dugouts. His platoon is in Peking troups are with the Tuchons, Constitution. Ynner Mu-tuk ins tele- Chinese banishee, who, in May explosion care," "be said. "It was a good here, and he quickly rusts them out and 1 occupations thing for me thas I was not in my own lens then to the shelter trench wounded soldier while I was on duty.thed down when the second shell barsts. and my brother told me nos to disturb Splinters hit the low parads just above him but to take his bunk. When the the officer and fall or the inhoards iz explosion secutred it blew to pieces that front of his bend. He res her art hist part of the ship where my own bunk was hand mechanically and
As it was I was injured. After the drops it hurriedly. It is nearly red hat crush part of the deck above my head and his fingers smart with the barn. fell in and gashed my forehead rather third shell crashus thron.h the treetope. lopping off a large branch and the ex- badly."
plosion blows in the dugout which the officer has just left; and thereafter the shells come at well defined intervals.
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
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THE PRESIDENT.
President is ready to issue a mandate that he will eineel his declamation of dissolving Parliament, but the Acting impendence. Premier resolutely refuses to counter- sign it, and until a mandate is eluntersigned by the Premier it is! |not a valid dreument. The only way out of this dilemma is for the Taclinna to induce L KING HL, whose selection us Premier has already been Japproved by Parliament, to nisume
THE Undersigned lave moved in. HONGKONG WRONESDAY, June 13, 1917. office and eruntersign. the mandate,
structions to by Public Auction,
(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCEANED),
TUESDAY,
the 19th June, 1917, commencing
THE CHISIS IN PEKING,
The whole movement serves but tal denivustrate to the world what a farce republican government in China really is and how impossible it will
for a period of twenty years, was brought before Mr. R. Wood this morning on the charge of reburning to the Colony before his term of banishment lo is reported that the President bad expired. has" again "expressed; his desire to
The defendant's record, which com- resign, ir order not to be compellemenced in 1901, was very back. He to commit an inconstitutional act.
had been convicted seven times for arceny, and banished from the Colony AN INVITATION TO TUAN KI
on seven previous occasions, SUL
The lefendant pleaded guilty to the The President has again sent Hacharge and. His Worship adjourned the Zow-hong
to Tientsin, with an case until to-morrow morning. Sately distrissed from the Tr autogriph "letter inviting Tuan Ki
miership) to direct the country's
coincides with the desire of the
Tentsin Headquarters.“
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ai 2.30 p.m., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, is difficult. to get from the news be to count upon stable government | a fairs. It is also reported that this!
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BLACKWOOD FURNITURE,
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which has been coming from Peking during the past week any intelligible.
in China for many years yet to
come.
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NEWS OF THE DAY.
VALUABLE TRAKWOOD Ride of the situation which hashes! is that the mandate issolving [Since the above was written news has developed in the North. Not only Parliament has been issued to-day] are the statements made by pron- Upholstered Suites, Arm-ghairs arxinent figures in the picture often" Solas Card Tables, Bedroom Furniture, contradictory but their actions are comprising Double and Single Brass-
unted Pedsteads and Twin Beds bewildering. What, for example, steads, Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, can be more amazing than the fact: Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, that the acknowledged leader of the Occasional Tables, etc revolt of the Tuchuns is allowed by Tea and Dinner Services, Crockery, Glass Ware,
Cooking Staves, Cutlery. Toilet Sets, te, Bath Room Utensils, Rulltop Desks and Writing Tables, Suntry Electro Plates
Ware, etc.
Also
Platios in good condition, Electric Reading Lamps, Blackwood and Teak wood Screcus, & quantity of Blackwood Forniture, Engravings, Pictures, etc., et
Tennis Foles and Netting, Porcelain Cigar Cabinet. Enamelled Bath, Brass Finger Bowls, Carpets (Sew and second kand), Child's Cots, Perambulators, etc., etc.
(Full Particulars frora Catalogus.) TA-Caęb.
HUGHES & HOUGH.
Auctionsers Hongkong, June 13, 1917.
THE CALENDAR.
General Memorazda.
FRIDAY, June 15-
1985
231 p.m. - Auction of Household Furniture, Blackwood Ware, etc. at Massen. Huglier and Hough'a. SATURDAY, June 10-
King of Sweden's Birthday (1968). 10.30 a.m.-Auction of Eath Gowns, Towels, Grass Cloth, Brans Ware
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"LOCAL AND GENERAL"
Tomorrow is observed by Ameri-
the Government at Peking to send cans as Flag Day to commemorate the into the "capital a large force-fact that the present United State fag varioukly estimated at from 2,000 to was decided upon on June 14th as the 4,000-to quarter them in various emblem of the young United States of parts of the city and to establish the America.. headquarters of this force at the Temple of Heaven? It is true that it has been one of the established
Our Dairen contemporary says the leader of the revolt, General practices among the principal Japanese CHASE Haus, had been invited by steamship companies to offer to shippers the President to come up to the 5% freight rebates on outward goods capital to discuss the situation, but from Japan to China ports. In view of
DR. WE TING FANG'S RESOL
LUTE ATTITUDE.
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Dr. Wa Ting-fang was surmounted by Wong Sze-gban, Kong Chiu-ching and other unitary officials, at the Presidential Palace, who demanded that the acting Premier should. countersign the mandate dissolving Parliament, so as to save the coun- the sacrifice of his
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A VERY BAD CHARACTER.
Before Mr. A. Dyer Ball this morning, Chinese coolic, employer hy the Sanitary Board, was charged with attempting to steal a "gold ring from, a | Chinese woman in Bonham Road.
The complainant deposed that at about 1b; p.m. yesterday, she left her residence and started walking along Bonham Road, which was at that time Practically deserted. She had gone but ashort distance when she was approach el by the defendant, who began to follow her.
As she started to quicken her pace the defendant attacked her nad attempted to pull a gold ring from her fuger. When she screamed, however, Da Wu Ting-fong refused to the defendant became frightened and comply, saying that he would give took to his heels. The complainant the matter due consideration at his then rushed back to her residence and
resignation. yesterday afternoon. house. He finally tendered his secured a police whistle, which sha
try, even 21 reputation,
THE PREMIERSHIP
ON TITANIC AND BRITANNICS
from others details, which the man bim- Later, says the correspondent I learned self confirmed, of the sunzing series of esopes he has haul from vessels lost or injured in collision or warfare. The record is as follows:→
Nine or ten years ago he was on the Asturias, the hospital ship recently sunk, when she was in collision on her ten
voyage.
Hawke.
burns.
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A man comes stumbling into the shelter trench. He is a signaller. His dugous hus been blown in and two com- rides are buried beneath the debris. The officer immediately rises and with out an order the men near follow and together they sprint ACTOR! spelling dugout is a mass of dislodged to the scene of the disaster.
the The
from which beams and biss of
In 1911 he was on the liner Olympic and iron roofing protude, and when she was in collison with the men immediately spart bulling the To 1912 he was on the Titanic when sandbags aside and levering up the she sank after collision with an iceberg. timbers. Four tres frost-bitten and injury to leg. The warning note of another shell is . . heard and they lie fast on the ground. auxiliary ship Alcanum when she sunk A dugout is struck a few yards away, and was sunk by the German raider but the shell does not explode. A ma Greif
if in the North Sea. Shrapnel wound rushes out of the doorway. He is the old "santpury man" of the company, he In November last he was on the giant bus evidently preferred the shelter of Britannic, the hospital shin, when she the dagout to the perils of the open. Another shell in coming and he wildly was torpedoed in the Frest
This month he has again lost his hip dodges to one side then to another, not through
knowinż where to them, and finally be being torpedrer.
runs right into the shell-burst: The explosion harls him into the air against the top of a dugant; and then he crashes in the ground. No man could, have survived happening so no one goes to his assistance.
When I saw him his head was swather in handages the exe, in his own ex pressive phrase. was "bunged on" and his figs and we were swollen out of all simpe. One hand was also wrapped in fully, if painfully, as he talked and the handages. Yet he still smiler cheer last thing he told me was he had already fixed up for another bout if he was well enough to go when she sailed!
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COMING CHANNEL TUNNEL.
CHARING CROSS TO CAPE TOWN BY RAILWAY.
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Working feverishly between the shall bursts the party at length manage to disentoms the signullers, and they are quickly carried away to the dressing station One man has escaped without injury but the other has been auffocated He was black in the face when the rescuers reached him and though the doctor worked for an hour he could not revive him.
bles. It chanced that a member of Police Reserve (S.P.C. 597) saw the defendant running Blong Caina Road, SHANGHAI, June 12.
and, hearing the
alarm, Dr. Wu Ting-lang having resigned chased and caught him. The defendant was subsequently identified by the CHANG HSEN, having planted big bold famine resulting from the rush of the President sent Fa, Zow-hong to complainant, and when alle related her Eraucis Fox, at the Royal Geographical seek what he
Tientsin to attempt to persuade Listory, the prisoner was taken into police The Communications clique and the King-bi to assume the Premiership.eustody."
Yinkew party, strongly oppose Li King-hi being elected Premier.
The former favours Chu Süt-chong
troops in Peking, prefers to stay in
the Nippon Yusen Kaisha has decide to discontinue this practice Tientsio whence he threatens the wholly for its North China (including Government with we know not what if Dairen), Seiton, and Vladivostok regular his demands are not conceded fine tres, to be operative from July 1st printis, he demande the dissolation next."
of Parliament ar has issued an ultimatum with a time limit of 48 FAR EASTERN MEN AND THE WAR. and the latter Tuan Ki-sui
hours. That time limit has already been exceeded"; but a Chinese ultimatuin has usually elastic qualities. What would happen if the Peking Government totally ignored the demand we do not know. "At first
The death in action is also announc: ed of Second-Lieut. T. Fleteber; formerly of the international Cotton Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Shanghai.
Mr H. G. Manwaring, of Evans,
the President was reported to be Pugh & Co., has left Hankow to join strongly opposed to the dissolation M. Forces. Mr F. Bushby, who has on the ground that it would be been engaged creeting the Alfred Holt, new premises on the Hankow bund, has anconstitutional." But now #paso laft for similar service.
etc. at Messrs. Hughes and Hough's.parently it has been discovered that
SENDAT, June 17
Bunker Hill Day, USA.
TURDAY, Julie 18-
9/2 pm-New Moon.
FRIDAY, June 22:~
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it is possible for Parliament to be dissolved for reasons which fit into
The following men hays recently returned home from Japan to offer their services for the period of the war:
the Constitution. The sinister more Messrs H. H. Pells of Etajima, S. G. S. ment in the North appears to have
Brinkworth, Yokohama: G. Balens Dairen.
Anniversary of the King's Coronation, frightened a large number of the
SATURDAY, June 23-
Prince of Wales' Birthday (1894). Dragon Boat Festival."
SUNDAY, June 24:---
Midrummer Day.
WEXSDAY, June 27
Entries clase for third Gymkhan THURSDAY, June 28:-
Settlement Day: Hongkong
Exchange:
MONDAY, July 1 --
Dominion Day, Canada"".
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WU TING FANG'S RESIGNATION.
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Several men working in the support tretches have been lit by the flying splinters, and they begin to arrive at the dressing station. Among them is one. man who left the shelte: trench where Mother Nature has, according to Sirthe rest of his platoon were lying, to
be considerai
Anfety Society recently, made every provision the old
In the supports. To thos
of all sanitary man is led in. His scle for the construction of the Channel injury is a broken ara Though dazeri
by the shock he smiles contentedly. Al The defendant, who pleaded not Tunnel. She has left a bed of grey chalk the other wounded are no less cheerful guilty to the charge, then explained to between England and France, which is and a man suffering the agonies of a
wound being probed the magistrate that whilst walking in the most suitable material of all through chaff an indignant commade about his shrapnel Bonham Road he accidently stepped on which to hore a tunnel.,
jumpines during the bombardment.
The shelling has stopped; the complainant's foot. She immediately
After describing the way in which it wounded have been lod down the com all the began to abuse him and throw stones at would he constructed, Sir Francis went manication trench, and the dead man him and when he in turn began to on to consult the Continental Bradshaw has been buried in the little yard in the
of the fate The Orient Express will clearing ne
g near the dressing station. Men throw stones at her, she ran into berastart from Charing Cress and run are busy retaining the damaged dugouts, house, and securing a polise whistle, through to Constantinople Here, and thers are hunting for shell splin- informed him that he intended to train ferry would take one portion ters and souvenirs in the shell holes. A summon a police constable and have across the Bosphorus, whence it might hind one of the dugouts. A group of large unexploded German sholl lies be- im arrested Becoming alarmed by the Egyptian mailways, and thus find till a careful sergeant descents on them traverse Asia Minor, Palestine, join on men are indulging in horseplay round it her statement, he ran away, but was ita way south by the Cape-to-Cairo and sets them to bury it and fence off the subsequently arrested.
route. Another portion would go spot with barbed wire. Tomorrow the After further evidence was heard, through Bagdad to Karachi and India the shelling, and the mea will siso have locality will look much as it did before however, His Worship remarked that stantinople and Calentta; change at disturbed.
"Take your seats, please, for Con- forgotten that their peace has been A mundate dissolving Parliament
man who would attack a defenceless Scutari, Khartoum, Bulawayo; Johan was issued this morning at 5 o'clock.woman in a deserted street, with the nesburg and Cape Town."
It was countersigned by Kong Chiu idea of frightening her into surrendering Chung.
her ring, was indeed a very bad thar acter, and he sentenced the defendant to four months' hard labour.
PEKING, June 13,
A mandate has been issued accept ing Wo Ting Fang's resignation as acting Premier and appointing Kong Chi Chung to act in his place.
PARLIAMENT DISSOLVED.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Mr. F. P. Damenberg, a teacher of killed on April 9th, while leading bie music formerly of Hongkong and latter. platoon in an attack. He was for five | Iy of Shanghai, died on the 5th inst. at your previous to the war with Mears the northern port from typhoid and
hert and Co. of Shanghai...
heart disease: A
members of Parliament out of the capital, so that it is impossible to Second Lieutenant John Walstan Charles Bolland, Norfolk Regiment, was get the necessary quorum" dor sitting Bence a valid reason exista for dissolution, "in accordance with the Constitution." The revolutionary Tachans are not greatly concerned Stock about the constitutional principles
News has reached Shanghai of the
involved in the dissolution: indeed, death of Lieat. Charles E. de Berigny
Mr. Charles Emmet Yeater, of Mis-
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The Noul Express for Petrograd line and China. It may seem to us,” would connect with the Trans-Siberian observed Sir Francis, a very remarkable prospect, but it is by no means. ini- *
STATE AND WAR DAMAGE.
possible of realiation, that within a Over 700 municipal authorities were IMPORTATION OF BRASS CASH. Comparatively few years travellers from represented at a conference at the Man- London will be able to reach sucho House, London, recently, to urge distant places as India, and China and that the burden of damages inflicted by the Malay States, without leaving the enemy aircraft and bombardment shall be railway systems of the world, through made a chargs on national funds. A the medium of the Channel Tunnel" resolution to this effect was carried, and it was decided to ask the Premier to receive a deputation.
A Chinese cook on the sa. Kwong Tung, brought before Mr. A. Dyer Eail this morning, pleaded not guilty to the charge of attempting to import 12,000 brass cash into the Colony without an import permit from the Superintendent of Imports eri Exports.
Detective Sergeant Fallon who arrest-
REPRISALS. INEVITABLE.
MR. BONAR LAW'S DEFENCE OF THE FREIBURG AIR ATTACK.
of
nuri, a practising attorney at Sedalla, ed the defendant whilst the latter was the cancellation of the draft ton-
of the Royal Flying Corpe at the early
and formerly one of the Board of leaving the Hoi. On Wharf with the of 19 while on active service, in sge stitution is, next to the dissolution France. Lieut. de Beripay was the Curators of the University of Missouri, brass cash in his possession, said the of Parliament, the chief plank in only sun of the late Mr. Th. de Bergay Wilson as Vice-Governor and secretary, the defendant carried on his shoulder. the wisdom and utility of the bombard- has been nominated by President
Certain members of the House 2.30 pm-Tain! Gymkhana Meeting their platform. There is no word who was very well known in the Fast of Public Instruction for the Philippine Upon being apprehended the defendantment of Freiburg.
coms were concealed in a basket, which Commona recently raised the question of breathed about an abolition of generally" but more particularly in
Lalands. Parliament, yet, if there is to be Japan where he spent the greater part
CHIN
a re-election of Parliament, there of his life..
(Acting Captain)
seems no justification for assuming. Lisateuant that the new Parliament will be a Percivale. David Bollaud, Welsh SHIMMER KILLED BY A SHARK IN very different body from the old, R, Spec. Res., bae been awarded the
MANILA BAY,"
said a man bad asked him to carry the
new
The Mayor of Margate hoped that the Government would adopt new methods and accept responsibility for war darnage. He remarked-humorously that Germans, tired of the putrid atmosphere. of Germany, liked to pay periodical visits to Margate, where the air was so pers kad bracing, (Laughter.)
NO MORE GINGER.
MrMolteno: Is the bombing of Freiburg | basket ashore and be was unaware that marprizal for the sinking of British hos-
the basket contained breas mash.
pital ships in accord, with assurances given. Is it part of a new policy of enter- Sergeant Fallon informed the ing into a competition with the enemy Outhwaite waked the House ol magistrate that tous of unmanifested by way of reprisals
Commode recently, how much inger had Mr Bonar Law I cannot add to the heen Imported into the country in the brass cash,, packed in hundredweight reply given last Thursday twelve months ending December last, and sacks, were being brought down from children are reported to have been killed whether there had born any restriction on Mr Molteng Twenty-six women and A Manila contemporary reporta Cavite last Thursday afternoon, Diler smuggled into the Colony, and maited think it to be in accord with the high Mr. G. E. Roccrts mid the quality
While swimming in Manila Bay near the West River for the purpose of being and injured. Does the War Cabinet its Import airce (Laughter.) Ery, champion distance swimmer of the
*** principles of humanity for which we are Asiatic Fleet one
fighting airmen 1,468 Antie Klogs and compof the mosa popular down. Worship impost & fine of 626
OVERLAND EDITION.apless the men who comprise the Military Cross. The official report opposition are regarded as so terrified reads "He set a splendid example by the recent developments that throughout and was largely responsible they will bide their diminished heads
for the success of the operations. He and refrain from bocking re-election. has provicssly done flan work". Captain General NEI SU CHUNG, who may the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, and Land killed instantly when the fierce son and ordered that the brass cash, bë dhe Bonar Law: These considerations
THE BEST WEEKLY NEWS- PAPER FOR ALL INTERESTED
IN HONGKONG AND CHINA bo described as the fighting General of went home to join the Army. GENERALLY."
Dale's crew, was attacked by a shark
bring that orrafangs should be with was 100 tech, the importation had
the enemy to attack civilian populations! | china
Mr. Moveagh Can the hon member animal literally tore him to piccos. Men confiscated.
were fully weighed by the Government bers of the crew of the Monterey huppen [We understand that a thousanil brass the revolutionary Tuchrna, says if
before taking action say how it is that the Government has ed to see the accident and recovered the cash, which weigh about six catties, is made up its mind what it will consider
Mr Pringle Has the Government got, none of it? (Laughter.) CHANG HEUN
gons to Peking, he SAFE, SURE, ALWAYS CURES body of the swimmers the corrent exchange for about que me the success of this policy of m
At five o'clock Thursday afternoon dolar local currency. When a thousand prisais Tar will not go to make peace, but will Do not suffer from cramp, colic or Fry, who was a strong winter, started beast cash are welted down and sold at Mr France Is not the best reprisal to ORDER IT BEFORE GOING try overthrow the President and becain's Calie, Cholers and Diarrhoen about 615, as the crew of the Monterey three dollars. Therefore, antstracting are with tria British, teaditions, bath
pain in the stomach when Chan from Cavite to swim to Manila. At brass its valuation increases to about fight and beat, the Germans in accord-kes AND THUS KEEP IN restore the Manchus General NEI Remedy goes to the right spot and gives watched him on theater they the about fifty cents for the operation of on land and bost COUCH WITH THE is fully opposed to CHANG HSEN be without it if you are subjoes to red appear. A boatwa lowered, and target about 150 2 is made on an circumstances we link repilsals are ing
Taimediate relief. You cannot afford to rush of the water ark then the tinge of transmeting, the coins to solid brass, My Bonar Law Yer b
but in Scort going to Peking for tint reason, for attacks 1, this kind Foz, ale by rushed the scene, but when Ety
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