12
SAYS INFLUENZA STARTED
IN CHINA.
CHINESE AND MOTORS.”
THE CHINA MAIL
WEATHER REPORT.
January 17 123-No returns bas decreased slightly at Shanghai, and from Japan and Wladivostock. Pressure increased slightly elsewheres. The an ticylons is moving eastward froh mon opisborg, who stopped for faw days lacon will prevail over the south coast of Japan before proceeding on an extended China sat the N China Sou tour of Amories and Erope.
Any remseks of Mr. Hani erg on the rubject of motor vehicles my bac-sidered important for there is probably no man in China who has made i mine extensive study of this industry. High josta ago
"Olina has a wonderful future in the The-Japan-Advertiser-mi-automobile business," says Mr. Hubert comparison, of the epidemic of the die- esas knows se Spanish Infueras with the epidemie of pneumonic plague thai broke out in Harbin, China, In Uctober. 1910, and spend continuously through- ogt Northern China at the same time, reveals so many points of similarity as strongly to suggest that the disease which became epidemic this fall may be the same malady, but modified by racial sad topographical difforonwy, that rev-ho a sivud at bhanghai peorman ged Northern China eight years ago..' To-day he is the bead", the largest
The original the influenza plague was atomobile interesta lo China, suggested to Ur: King won af er its out break in U.S. compa, hy Our U. Walker, neminont American athority on Chinese is This ggestion led to an, investigation of the report of the prenmonic plague în China and there is sufficient likeness of that disease to the so called Spanish influenza to warrant a consiration fit.
"The Chineno za just re-lining the possibilities," he says: We had in Ohrs no rbeda, but now in and around Peking they have constructed sep-thing like 100 miles of very good roads. The this begin" ning was made was due to the love of d Yus-bang, then the President, for motor jug. He built the Ast 20 miles of road out to the Summer Palace, whrno · bem bored, at least once a work, at times taking the young ex-Emperor with him. In this w-p he aroused in the higher officials a realiza- tion of the pleasures of motoring, and The gradually ther appeared a very remarkable
| network of rosda around Peking.
This pneumonic plague first appeared in Harbin, a town in Manchas under Chinese control. Harbia is on the Trans-Siberian Railroad and was the original bothed of the disease.
plagoo bad prerafled in Rasula prorious November, 1910; but the Russian, alert to its dangers fook immediate action and stamped it out
It was believed that the plague was carried into Harbin by the fur dealers, the fars themselv s. and by Chinese la ourers returning to their homes to calabrata New Year's Day, a 'au tom upi" From versally served in China, Harbin the plague rapidly spread in all directions usually following the lines of traffic along the railroads."
Is spread as far south sa Chefon, a rco- port town, probably having been carried there by Chinese coolies returning from the north.
By January 24, 1911, 1,300 Chiacso and twenty-seven Europeans, two of whom were physicians, and an assistant, had died from it; in fact nearly all who had the discano perished of it.
The plague had been very serious, the mortakty being fearfully high. This malady bar spread throughout China. Wherever Chinese cookies from the north bare travelled" they have carried this disesse. From 1910 to 19 7 China has beim free from it. The writer heard of teral cases being present in Peking but year.
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"From this beginning, there developed a interes's, in roads in other towns and now a gord condke in reseres of constre ica from Shanghai to Woong which will release the 1,600 cara a pre-ant bottled up in Shanghai. This road of 20 erilen will be finished in atout alz weeks. This road will give access to the old Oblaine port Zoada, which will afford soma B6 miles of road for the autos,
"Automobiles are becoming more and
more popa'ar with the Chine. The open car is preferred in Cantal China while the oled er has gained more 'avour in North China, as it has in Jam The cirsed air is preferred where officiallem abounds, because the Charno-official- has the idea that it more; impe-saive for him to bo
visible. In addition to his artor sedu sion, with him are alway eight soldiers -ith draws guns, foot on each running bar. For this rouan, a
car pacally carries 13 people : two drivers, the sight soldiers and the officials to the seat, each of whom carries a revolver emapicuously di played. Of course, this moving fortress is merely a matter of romp and ceremony.
"The Impr'ation of care in Chins, se indicated by the cantoms statlaties of last In the early rart of 1917 about 209,000 perr, was 500 per cent greater than ever Chips colles collected from the nor-¡ before," and this enormoms pero'n'aga thern part of China where the pneumonic would have brewgrester if that restric plague bad raged at intervals since 1910, is hid not last. Now that war is were sent to Franco as labenrim. Partof, I look for a tremendos increase in them wore, went around through the the automobila kusinera of China," Mod'terranean; some, and perhaps the **majority, were sent across the Pacido and then through Canada and America to be transported cross the Atlantic to France. Entire trainloads of these coolies wein carried across the United States to the port of New York and thence to Franco.
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bacillus associated with the four groupe of prepmococci, the streptococcus hem- olyticus and the micrococcus entarmalio or instance, in one camp the organisms found were the influenza bacillus as- sociated with group and preumococcas:
associated with group three mococaps; in another influenza streptococcus hemolyticua, etc.
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Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 hour anding 10 am to-day, 0.00 ch. Total lace January 1% 63 inches
minst an average of 0.49 inches.
Forteset for the 24 hours ending at soon on the 18th January 1918.
1.-Hongkong to Gp for N.E. winds, fresh: tau.
and
N. winds,
Forms Lhanel; freall
1-Routh coat of China. between Hong and Lanacka: The same a No. 1.
betwcom Youth coast of China Hobutung and Hunyo: The same as No. 1
ROYAL OBSERVATORY LONGKONG, DAILY. WEATHER REPORT.
JANUARY 17, 1819.—m.
Station.
Hour:
Barometer ses Lovel
Temperature.
vidiostock. Ba Nemcro ... Hakodate. Takto Kochi Yagasaki.. Kagoshing Oshima Saha Tahijima ... Benin faland Welbsiwei 6 Haptor chang Klukiang... Changsha Shanghai..
atzlaft Sharp Fk...
moy Swatow Teihokum: 30.18 Taich Tainan Koshup..... Pescadcres Canton 8.3.11 52 Tongkona Gap Rock. Macao Wuchow Pakhci Hoihow.... Phulien77 Toumadin
St.Jambe Aparri .... Dagupan Manila.....
Trelobor (loilo
Legaspi
Surigao YAM Labuan
H.
30.13 57 30.10 64
ET 30.06
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13.07
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Wind
IIumidity.
Direcuaa..
Force.
1828218111
Weather.
NEWS FROM HOME.
[From Our Own Correspondant.]
of them are being dosed daily with [two quinina tabiata a'day-a measure
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1919,
ARE YOU RICHER?
INCOME.
Savings Certificates (Mang iskan in lumps of £300 by rich men and their children to escape Income Tax) is only ▲ little over £503,000,00”! (two hundred millions); and a further £300,000,000 | | (three hundred millions would probably Somebody has got rither during the overstate the amount of War Loa
War Bonds held by small forestõus.
they have accepted without enthu- siasm. It is curious that whereas WAR HAS DOUBLED NATIONÁL the open-air trom and omnibus workers have suffered severely, the stuff of the tubes and underground railwaye have escaped almost un! |scathed:
For the New Statesman” shows that
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It is the 13 per cent, of the population
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(Contined from yesterday.).
LONDON, Nov. 11 LONDON'S JAPANESE CLUBS
In many quarters the epidemic has The visit of Prince Yorihito of
seen attributed to the war, and has the surual income of the United King-who, before the war, owne. 89 per cent. Fushimi was a great success. In been labelled the war plague,"dom has increased from 3,000 million of the total private wealth, who have been able to add suberantially, to their spite of the fact that the event was though there is no evidence to con- pounds to 4,000 million pounds." somewhat overshadowed by the sbirneco the two. The only persons to Also that the capital value of the pri- possession", and who now own by far the ring news from sea and land. The regard the "u" with favour are rate fortunes in the UK. have increased greater proportion of the enlarged No- official representative of the Misade the schoolboys, whose schools have by 20 per cent. from £1,500,000 to tional Debt.
been closed until the wor of the £11.000,00,000.
The 8 per cost of the population, woe very cordially received, especially opidemie is over.
The effect of the warupon the amount who before the war may have owned, when he visited the Grand Fleet, and PREMATURE CELEBRATIONS. and the distribution of what we usual on an average, £4 per boud of also when he went to the Guidiall,
When it was known that German ly call wealth-the aggregats of privats wealth have probably inercased plenipotentiaries were on their way fortunes-is still obscuro, anys the "New their little to be the guest of the City.
of furniture to the French front to apply for an Statesman." "It way, Indeed, be ya re and personal effects; to a One of the places ho visited was amistice at the hands of Marshalb fore we shall be shie tocbtain statistics paratively small extant their hold- the Nippon-Jin-Kwat-the. Japanese Fock, people got hither nervy .. Club in Mortimer Street. So flour and the expectation was. tenge.nabling any precise estimates to be made ings in Savings Banks Cooperative shing is this Japances centre that Hence, when Reuter announced year he British Government will perhaps Societies, and Trade Unions: and per We know that, even if fighting ceases this Societies, Frichdly and Building little Inter that the armistica had the 350 members are seeking for heen signed, there was no d'éposition have spent before we set through all the heps even their holdings in houses and larger promises, and shortly they to disbelieve it, and those, inclined to necessary cost of demobilisation, some land. expect to be established in the heart celebrate proceeded to kill the fatted thing like £10,000,000,000 (ten thousand On the other hs d, this class kas of clubland, for their funds are am-calf and to bring out the carefully million pounds) and that this is car suffered greatly to the extinction or stored last bottle. Then like a bolt tainly more than half the aggregats depreciation of small busincares; what ple for the migration into more. exfrom the blue Reuter came out with tatal value of all the property, securities little hoards have in many cses bren clusive thoroughfares. It has been g in urgent mewagen to editors to and investments of all kinds owned in tritter for frequent comment, especi-suppress the previous message, which the United Kingdom just before the sadly drawn upon in order to live. It is
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doubtful, to say the least, whether, after
ally, in the City, of late years, how had been issued on information re- war, rapidly the Japanese colony is grow-ceived from an-American diplomatic Does it follow that those who owned the war. the aggregate private fortanes ing. It is a very prosperous colony source. This wis followed by on these fortunes have to use the phrase of the 88 per cent will amount to as and Viscount Chinda, the Japanese official denial from our Foreign Office of a Cabinet Minister-lost half their much as 13 per cent of the augmented Ambassador, has reason to be proud so the would-be joy distributors were property? Will the amount drawn total. Measured in capital wealth, and of the membership'of which he is
nonplussed. But meanwhile many irrespective of any contemporary service ubject to many individual exceptions, the head,
men, tad telegraplied to their wives rendered, in the form of rent and interest the rich will have become richer and the that in consequence of the fine war be any less than Lefore the war! Or poor hardly love poor in the course of news they would not be horns to din-will on the contrary, the aggregate of the last Ave years. This, of coure is, in ner. The postal censors cut out re-
NEW LEGATIONS.
The last few weeks, by the way.
representatives in London. The Czecho-Slovak nation
dities.
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I have brought us fresh diplomatic ferences to the war news, and all the private fortanes, and the tribute of rep: fact, the invariable effect of war, food
and interest that we pay to our land short ge, currency, deprcia io, and wives got wuS
4 declaration their lords and capitalists, be greater after general increase in the price of commo- had just established a legation in Grevence husbands were bent on a night out.
Many had got No far as to swallow the war? These are questions to which
It is more difficult to speak confidently Square, with Dr. Ossuski as its chief, the contents of the bottle they had very dednite answers can already has to the amount and distribution of the When, earlier in the war, i Foreign Legion was recruited in London the saved all along for the Duy." Now Riven.
We know, not by any means exactly, aggregate not product or »nnual income of the community. Before the war we Czechs established offices in Picea they are disconsolate over the fact
error, what was the aggregate capital come, at the contemp rary level of it probable that by this time the war liquor to celebrate, fake news. As a would have so thoroughly brought mutter of fact, at that time the pleni-value at market prices of the private's prices at about £2,000 0,000 to £air, would be moved to make the official French lines, and it was come ten prior to the war. The ca'culations of millona), of which the manual working: . shem to the front that the Allies potentiaries had not reached the owned wealth in the United Kingdo000,000 (two thousand folle hundred sünouncement that in considera: hours later that, they did so. various statulicinas, based on the wage-tarnem, and their families may I happened to be passing the valleial statistic, approximate have got, all deductions under possibly tion of its efforts to achieve indepen **Globe office is the Strund when dence they regard the Czecho-Slovaks
£12,500,000 000 (twelve thousand five hundred millions); the other casios armies as an Allied and belligerent ringularly little excitentent. People hendered milion pounds) About with £160 per annum perhaps, £ 10,- .' artby waging warfare against Austria.just smiled and passed on, while the per cent. of this" was owned by 13 per oor to £400,000 (four hundred sold es looked almost depointed cent of the population (each family millions); whilst £1,300 000,00 (twere original rather mixed Foreign Legion over the cessation of hostilit es before being worth over £1,000); whilst 19 hundred millions) went as profia, in -banevolently stilled upon as rather the Gennaps bad tasted on their own | por cont of the total was shared among tereat and reat to the business, profess or oddity grew into armies, and soil the mediche imposed upon sui-88 per cent. of the papalation, their then the armies into a proud and fering people in the invaded lands.
dilly Circus, but few people though: that they drunk their best pre-war bot within a relatively small margin of might have put the total natio al in-
as an Allied nation, and recognise tlie they bung out a sign that the Ger. in placing this total at somewhere about nearly so mach.as ̈ £800,£0°ƒ00 (eight
unity of the three Czecho-Slovak nians bad surrendered.
Hungary and Germany."
united race, B one of the romances of the war
tories.
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BACK HOME.
average fortune (including furniture and ional, and property owing world (about personal #fects and all sarings) being half of this representing rent and in-' less than £47. We may go further and terest, apart from the reward of person- say that per cent of the nation owned service), twice as much wealth as the remain- ing S8 per cent. !!
Of the many exiles in these islands Thein is the first of several new who were driven bere by the onrush
Nothing in the nature of agreement. legations we shall have in our diplo of the Huns, the Belgians are, of
can be postulated ar to the correspondi matic quarter, after the work! hus courge, most numerous. Many have
How will this stand after the waring figures for 1518-19. The following is been settled down again into a re- prospered exceedingly and will not
It is confidently estimated "that the offered only as a rough estimate, based shuffled division of races and tertigo back, but preparations are already
in course of completion for the re-post-war capítul value of the aggregate on such statistica as are available, and it “ patriation of all who wish to go. of private fortunes in the United King- is doubtless open to much correction. GUNS FOR ALL.
Then there are a number of Serbians, dom-such as would be assessed, for in- We must include in the value of the Now at last London has a first including one sturdy old gentleman tance to the Duties-will have posi-product what we are producing for war. clase show of captured guns, from whose acquaintance made at one tively increased by at least,20 per cent; as well as what we are producing for our big high-velocity cannon down to of the prine pal West End restau-
we must, of course, take contemporary machine-guna and tranch mortars..ant, where he had, installed himself from 21,500,090.000 to £1,000,000,000 own consumption and for. export; and 2. TEMPERATuzz, in the shade, in de whey fill both sides of the Mall and as an expert in the prepuration of teen thousand millio s).
prices. 8o estimated, there is reason to believe that the natiotal product for the
OW. Jars, Chief Ausletapt, Rongkong Observatory, Jan. 17, 1838. 1. BAROMETER, rerinced in 3g degree rich, tenths and humired the Fahrenheit on the level of the son in
crees Fahrenheit
The coolies made splendid labourers is France and were in the back of the lines daring the German drive of March, 1916, in another it was the influenza bacillus rion, the humidity of air saturated with to
No doubt any of them wera cap- tured by the Germans at that time Bebce the outbreak of the direasa in the
German army and its rapid spread to Spain.
pen-moisture being 100
end
Wo see, therefore, how differant strains
of the pricamoeocens and streptococens associated with a bacillus were the ex citing caceea of the epidemic in different localities. Tikewise, the mortality and virulence of the disease has varied in different localisi
So far as medical science knows today this disease first broke out last spring in the German army, where it was said to have been very serious. Next it was heard of in Spain, henes the name Thus we have shown a striking simi Spanish influenza. The name is really larity between the pnecmonic plagus of
■ mirnomer, but it has stack, probably Worth China and the so called "panish because it was the first epidemic of in influenza epidemic. It is not unreason- Haenia that Spain ever had. Since nurable to believe that the two diseases soldiers and ailors have been returning may be the same. The influenza bacillus from the batt'cfields of Franes it has
and the bucillus pestis in typical become very prevalent and serious informs may stimolate each other. We our camps and citim all over the counkaw that organisms may assumo dif.
ferent conditions.
try.'
TYRECTION OF WD, to two pointa.
Readiford Boale. WND, according to tetached cloud, d'Arizzling rain, I fog, A. STATE OF WEATHER, b blue sky, gloomy, hail, I lightning, oo ercast, passing showers, a squal,als, 1800 Ethunder, y visibility' w'dew, wat
7. Ram in inches tenths and bun Froiths
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So far as private for unes are corcem- a. Huwiory, in percentage of antura-stretch right past Buckingham Palace wonderful coffee. Next week he re
the exit opposite Hyde Park turns to Belgrade, where before the ad the small minority of us who are pro Corner. All London is examining war he was one of the richest men,perty owners, even to the modest extent these six hundred samples of the owner of Serbia's principal hotels and of £lion capital, will certainly, in the trophies won by our gallant troops, enfes, and friend of the King and the boge to handle the guns, so as to be fought in the war, was wounded cand mothers are bringing their small Government. Typical of his race, he able to tell when they grew up how twice, lost all his property when the they saw and worked the guns taken Huus advanced, and landed almost in the world's greatest war. Some penniless in England. Without loss will go overseas, for they were cap of dignity and without repining be tured by Dominion. troops, while set to work to eam his living. Now others will be given to Provincia he is going back o rebuild hshat cities and the rest will be deposited tered fortunes, singing the praises of with the National Wor Museum that the liberating British all the time. will presently spring up as one of the His son remains at Birmingham memorials of our Imperial service to University, where he education is humanity...
HONGKONG REGISTER
date al
Frerias
dog the date
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1 pime
Wind...... Force
aromater femperature
amidity Direction of?
30.10 30.11
30.19
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After this brief reviewal the plague, The ordinary info z bocillus is a Westher. and the narration of its possible cod.
short lender bacillus. The bacilles Rain.. noction with the present epidemie is is pestis is about the same length, but is of interest to compare the clinical and
generally a fatter, broader bacillus. bacteriological aspects of the malady.
Both are Gram Negatira
It is not necessary here to go inte. It seems possible that the bacillus detail concerning the clinical data except po tis may have been present în a non- in a very general way. In the Chinese virulent stato in the Chinese coolies and epidemic there were few definite symp-maumed new vira'ence, vigour and a toms at the entses of the disease except somewhat different form when trans the general malaise, prostration, loss of planted intu virgin soil. The high mor.. appetite, etc.. soon to be followed by the tality and 4-fectivity of this epidemic pneumonic process and death.
strongly miggest it
So it is in the present epidemic On this basis the eld-mics which have There have been indefinite symptoms followed all great ware may be explained with great prostration rapidly followed If a nation or tribo en survive any by pripumonia and death in the disease long enough is will acq ire im- virulent forms. The outstanding fea-munity to that discare. When, however, tures of the Chinese pneumonic plague foreign pple mingle" freely and ere its high infectivity and high intimately as in war, epidemic will leak mortality. Bo this a-called influenza out. The imctive nonvirulent organising epidemio which is more contagious, is in one race will become virulent in some followed more frequently by pneumonls other race which has nos acquired and attanded with higher mortality immunity to that specific organism, than in any prăvions influenze epidemic
In the prestatie plague enthie of China the Béellius postia el most constantly found associated With the
pogoccur and the streptococcuE hese organisms were found in different
STRAIGHT AT IT.
„Klebert, open a'r Tempe,sters on the 181--53 Let op ir Temperature on the 17t6-02
T. F. CLAXTON Director, Ubervatort, Jan. 17, 181
Boecker
HONGKONG TIDES.
THE AIR SERVICES. After the war, I bear, the Govern ment will control the aviation in- dustry almost entirely. They will fir upon the rules for flying over foreign territories, the mail and com- mercial routes to be followedy and will manage the whole somewhat after the plan of the Inland Petal Service.KR
Any number of young aviators are. keen to remain in the service. It is the one branch of war service that has completely captured the enthu siasm of its votaries. Even the Royal Princes are all smitten with the love
Tb tire-tihla viven below has been of it. Prince Albert, the King and ample at the National Almansa Office Queen's second son, has greatly in- in London from the result of the analysis proved in health since he took to fly- of observations taken by means of an ing. He never reeted until he had stematic tide-recording machine In the secured permission to join, and now Water Police Basin at Trim Bha T he is reaping the bencht. Juring the year 1809-97
The era of the table corresponds with Prince George is funding because the the zero of the sounding in the Admiralty war is froishing before he is out
hart which has been found to be 4 feel enough to join in it--but he is inches below mean sea-level
January 18th to 24th, 1819.
Now
To obtain the depth of water on the intention to be a flying mun dide ange at the Victoria Naval Yard in any case. The Crown Prince of add a feet 4 inches, and on the gauge Belgium has the some ambition, at Lamont Dock, Aberdeen, add 10 foot while as to Italy, not only the Crown 4incher to the height given in the table Prined, but also his sisters, revel in the management of aircraft. There would be no need for conscription for this branch of war service if the con- flict lasted another decade, for all boys, no matter what their rank in life, are bent on emlating the birds..
STILL INFLUENZA, A The influenza is still with us, shotgly in most districts. there is n lessened Est of fatalities. We are epipoing to hope that it has done ita worst One of the peculiar things about it: is that it has attacked open- sir workers to freely and ane fifteen hundred of the London police- men ans down with it. Now too rest
Localities here the plague was preTHERE no use of our "beating 2. * plound the beah.” -We might, ks will ord with it, first, as lath. We want s'au you to try Chainberlain's Cough Remedy There is no reason so far as we can see the next;ime you have a cough or cold,
why you should not do so. This prepar- stion by its remarkable cures has gefond
The virulence of the disease likewise tance, Dr. Thibafama sade a report on eight diferent strains. of pneumoniz piague or alone bef in the International, Phil Conference held in Mukden in the361911.
word wide reputation, and “people 4 Wet overywhoto speak of it, in the fighest | zmr. The bacteria loung as pacienta in the interms of praise. It is for ade by all Boonta epidemie been the influenza Chemists and Biorekoopers.
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year, all deductions made, considerably exceeds 4,000,000,000 (four thousand millions) or nearly double the pre-waz million soldiers and sailors, and the lose gars. In spite of the absence of fire
of much foreign trade.
aggregate, have increased our fortunes, market value, by at le it £2,000,000,000, taking all our possessions at the current two thousand five hundred millions). And the distribution of the aggregate private wealth will be even more an equal than it was before the war. The
per cent. of the population, who fur.VERY young child is-septible to merly owned two thirds of the total croup. Don't wait until this drved. Wealth, row rishably own three-fourths sal dies attacks your little one before. of a greatly augmented to el."
Certainly, a vast number of
CROUP.
you prepare for it. It comes in the right when chem'sta ihope are naually cl sed, and this alone should be a ward- ing Get and keep Chamberlain's Cough
proceeding at the expense. Mr. Individuals have taken up War SavingRemedy at hand. It never fils, acts, Certificates and War Bonds in small amounts But the total amount of war ale by all Chemists and Storekeepers.
the romances of the war.
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