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INTIMATIONS

WAR CHARITIES COMMITTEE.

MEETING of the War Charities General Committee, which the British Community is invited to attend, will be held at 5,30 pm on MONDAY 1st April 1918, in the Chamber of Commerce Room, City Hall Ris Excellency the Governor will preside.,

BUBIS E:--

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To receive the report of the

Executive Committee.

To add farther members to the

General Committee.

3. To invite and discuss suggestions.

The election of an Executive Com

mittes by the Genoml Committee will

take place after the meeting.

་་

ER HALLIFAX,

Hon. Secretary,

War Charities Committee.

Hongkong, April 3, 1918

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INTIMATIONS

HONGKONG GYMKHANA” OLUB.

THE FIRST GYMKHANA MEETING

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Season will be held at HAFFT VALLEY on SATURDAY, the 5th instant, commencing at $13 pm.

The Charge of Admission will de $1.00 for others than Mambers of the Hoxxon JocksT OLUS or GTHERLY CLUB.

Soldiers and. Sailors in uniform Free. The Committee invite the Ladies of Hongkong to be present.

Hongkong, April 3, 1918.

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charge of the sick coolies before the diagnosis was confirmed, was infected and encumbod is a result of his noble work.

DEVOTED WOEKZES.

One consideration which becomes apparent is that higher costs per pound are probable, since the whole of the opkeep of estates, where no special pro- phus, which is so unknown invision is available, or utilised, must come and North America that doctors out of the profits of the reduced output. zever sto caso in the course of their | Another point of conseqnenes is think, as lives, is here in Chisa ever presen; and, a general class the companies standing to hear the brunt of the restriction as owing to its long incubation period, very The Chinese Press has recently don-dangerous. There is, however, probably far as reduced dividend paying capacity tained some statements as to a typhus no case on record, where it has been is concerned are those which by reason of big profits earned in pre-war periods have suppressed as rapidly and effectively epidemic in the depot of the British the recent incipient epidemic athitherto escaped excess profits duty. Emigration Agency in Weihaiwai The Weihaiei.

It is obvious that such concerns are open to suffer a clean out in their N. C. Daily News is informed that

dividend producing powers whereas these statements are grossly overdrawn

Of the twenty Britishers in the depot companies that have been paying excess and the authorities of the Agency have at the time of an outbreak of what was duty according to various bases of "sess now furnished our contemporary with known to be a deadly disease, not ons mont will escape with relative lightness finched and not one demurred at any in this respect, as the effect, of reduced. the following facts as to the epidemic.

detail at work allotted to him. Disinfect earnings will chiefly be borne by the On January 99 there were over 300ing, and bathing coodles, dealing with Chancellor of the Exchequer by way of perfectly healthy coolies in the depot infected clothing, watching exita and lower takings in excess profits duty whe bad passed the quarantine period entrance, keeping the men in good spirita

And occupied,

all was willingly and chear for all possibis epidemic. But on Jan fully accepted as Britons work. uary 30 and on February 2, some 1,550 Under such example the Chinese of all further recruits arrived from the north grades followed, and of them also via Tientsin and Chinwangtao. Oving must be put on record that their conduct to the spread of plagae in Shansi these was rana peur et sans reprocha.

Can a greater sontrast in humanitarian men were put in quarantine for seven conceptions exist than that shown days. But the incubation period for between the German treatment of fellow typhus is from eight to 14 days and was found later that among these two Europeans in Wittenburg and British shipments there had been typhus. treatment of Chinese in Weihaiweil in infected cooles. The diagnosis was not the one case, brutality and cowardice; in the other, kindness and real courage.

clear until February 19, but directly In the rat, neglect of all that science

* so the depot was reconstituted into segregation and hospital camp ander Dr. A. K. Barter, &M.O. of the depot, and Captain LA. C. Panton, ciic, as Deputy S.M.Q.

REMARKABLE RISULTS.

The results attained in checking and preventing the spread of this very in fectious disease and in treatment of the sick have been most remarkable.

Out of some 2,500 coolies in the depot there have only been 311 admissions to hospital for typhos and only 13 deaths up to March 18

On March 18, the date of this news there had been no admissions to hospital for five days.

has taught and failure; in the second, organizai knowledge and success.

RUBBER PRODUCTION. IN 1918.

In regard to this last-named point a correspondent tells us that a computa- tion has been made in one case, a cor- pany paying 35 per cent to 20 per cent. in dividends. The result of the estimate is that the total dividend is likely to bf reduced by about 24 per cent, bat the Chancellor of the Exchequer is a heare fuser.

AN ALLENBY MYTH-

A strange tale is in circulation at clubs where men from the East fore

ather, says A Club Member in the Liverpool Post. It is said that, apart from General Allenby's unquestioned success, bis name has had a remarkable effect on the Turks. For Allenby is by them interpreted as Allah Nabi, which means the main from Allad, or the emissary of Allah. Therefore, bis The London and China Express auderstands that good progress has been diving interposition. This was a stroke triumph has been accepted as a direct made in obtaining aesents to the proof fuck which never entered the minds posal put forward by the Council of the of the war authorities when they wisely Rubber Growers Association to confine gave him his command, output in 1916 to 8 per cent. of the production of 1917. What is wanted is The epidemic has therefore been not, however, a certain percentage of stamped out in the depot completely assets from members of the Associa and no single case has developed outside tion, but of the production of the of the wire fence.

members. It would appear from some Unfortunately, the late Dr. A of the crop outputs for December that Baxter who,, from the nature of his many plantation companies, due to one appointment and from his knowledge of reason or another, have already begun. Chinese, was the Medical Officer in to restrict production. Anyway, their outputs are less. This of course, is not the result of the policy advocated by the R.G.A., but precedes it in the desiral direction. It is really what might be termed the Tebrau pélicy. Anyway: what is desired is unity of action from whatever cause it springs and if reduc tion of outpat brings reform also in solling methods much good may be the result. - Some other points brought out by “G. V. W., in a financial orgas, indiente other points that have arisen: He write

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It is estimated that the Rubber Grow Brat Association does not represent more than 50 per cent of the total number of producers, so that bad the minimum number of consenting pro- ducers set out as necessary to form the desired majority in the original circular | to. growers been left at 60 per cent,

would have been open to a very large margin of producers to tap sa ranch s they cared to at the expense of the asserting conor Connideration b sucly possibility has led the Council of the FG.A to use their idea of the minimum proportion of consenting mom- bera necessary for the success of the scheme and the fixing of that percentaru to Raralsod from the bee perconta stipulated in the original proposal to 70 per cent?

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