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THE BEST THING

IN SIGHT

IS

CROOKES GLASSES.

N. LAZARUS

OPETRALING OPTICIAN."

25, Green's Enad, Genmal, Danabolg

The China Mail.

June 17, 1920, Temperature 34.

ESTABLIS

Rainfall 0.55-inch

Humidity 84.

June 17, 191, Temperature 4.

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1920.- 日二初月五申庚年九泰中

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BUSINESS NOTICES

DEWAR'S

WHITE

HITE LABEL

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Price $20 per Case ex Bond delivered to Ship.

$28 per Case Cuty paid.

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BUSINES: NOTICE3

To-day's closing rate 3 63, To-day's opening rate 3.61" On June 17, 1919 3 615 16

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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

(Beuler's"Service to thì Chino Mail)

GERMAN ARMY.

LONDON, June 15, In the House of Commons at question time, MrWinston Churchill stated that there was no intention to disband the Irish or Welsh Guards (Cheers) as long as they were able to maintain recruiting so as to preserve

LONDON, June 15th. the national character of the regiment, but the maintedance of : éve

In the House of Commons, Mr. Lloyd regimental headquarters required careful study and it might be advisable George said that in a statement on Vas to reduce them to three or establish one joint record office. Anyhow care trol estimated the strength of the German 10th, the Inter-Allied Commission, of Con- would be taken to balance considerations of economy against sentiment Army at 90.000 by June 10th The Ger and tradition. Replying to Mr. Glyx, Mr. Churchill stated that the questionman wireless station has officially issued of making a change in the Seats Guards had never been raised. It had been suggested that the Irish Guards should be brigaded with the Scots Gourds.

HR.F.

JERVIS BAY, June 14.

The Frince of Wales, en-route to Sydney, landed at Jervis Bay, the Dartmouth of Australia, receiving the warmest welcome..

SILVER SLIDES.

LONDON, June 13.

The cash price of silver fell yesterday 53 pence an ounce to 44,1 4, the lowest since March 1918, due to considerable offers of silver from China and the continent and the fewness of bayers.

EXCHEQUER BETURNS,

LONDON, June, 16.

The exchequer returns for the period April 1 to June 12 show receipts at £272,472,130 and expenditure £251,916,575. La the corresponding period of last year the receipts were 2151,743,550 and expenditure £346,459,131

DEMPSEY'S TRIAL

SLACKER ALLEGATIONS FLOORED.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 15.

The trial of Jack Dempsey on a charge of evading the military service draft resulted in a verdict of not guilty.

THE ARMY,

JALANAN M

LONDON, June 16.

A White paper detailing the army estimates for 1920 shows the peace Iestablishment of the Territorial Army at 236,000 and the war establishment 381,000. It also shows the distribution of the Army to los Home 150,000, Colonies 15,000, Rhine 16,000. Constantinople 21,000. Egypt 30,008, Palestine 22,000, Mesopotamia and North West Persia 70,000:

COTTON.

INCREASED PRODUCTION WANTED.

LONDON, June 16. The annual report, of the British Cotton Growing Association contains. encouraging details of the "Association's activities but emphasises the urgency of extending the cotton growing areas of the Empire, especially in view of the decline in production and the increase in consumption of cotton in the United States. The Association dealt with 30,881 bales of cotton in 1919, compared with 29,190 in 1918 and 48,087 in 1915, where after the results of the war began to be felt but the valüc în 1919 was a record, namely nearly 12 million sterling.

ITALIAN CABINET.

BVD.

UNDERWEAR

ROME, June 15. Signor Giolitti has been invited to forma the new Cabinet.

THT KRASSIN MISSION.

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WINE MERCHANTS,

It is stated that the Belgian and Japanese Governments have decided to join the British conversations with Krassin,

THE SOUTH ELICTION,

LONDON, June, 16.

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a statement that the army has been reduced to 2001000, and that the forces in the veutral zone have been reduced to ten battalions of £v. gnadrons with on battery. This information has not been checked by the Inter-Allied Commission. but there is evidence to show that there has been considerable reduction of the arty in the past month. The German Gorera. meat has issued orders for ibe disarmament i of unauthorised meerve formations, but it || is still pressing for permission to retain the armed constabulary.

GERMAN GOVERNMENT.

BERLIS, June 14th. Herr Trimborn, the lender of the Centre Party, his opted the task of forming a Cabinet

་

BELLY, June 14th. Heer Heinze has informed the President! that he is unable to form a Cabinet, owing- to the Majority Socialists refusing to

Parte in a coalition with the, People's i

VIOLENT THUNDERSTORMS IN ENGLAND.

LONDOS, June 13th. Violent thunder-storms, travelling at the rate of 50 miles an hour, swept England from Folkestone so. Liverpool.

Floods

have been reported from numerous locali- ties. Considerable damage was caused by fire and lightering in London and elsewhere, and there were several fatalities,

COMPOSITORS' STRIKE.

LONDON, June 13th.

No evening papers appeared in Mar- chester or Liverpool yesterday owing to the strike of compositors, who åre refusing to work overtime, in order to enforce the derhand of £1 per week increase in wages,

THE MOSUL OUTRIGE.

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BAGHDAD, June The Arabs suffered very heavy losses in attacking oroys between Sergat and Mosul. We had practically no losses. Cavalry encountered 300 raiders at Tauis yarah, killing 35, Armoured cars killed the others. The column has reached Telafar for carrying out punitive opera-; tions.

NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL--OF- AUSTRALIA

LONDON, June 14th. The Right Hoa. Henry Wiliam Forster, ex-Financial Secretary to the War Office. has been appointed Governor-General of Australia...

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UNREST IN IRELAND,

LONDON, June 14th. Sinn Fein and Labour organisations are embarking on a campaign in mid-Ireland for the Dublin railway strikers. It bas been decided that in the great of the strike continuing they should make a ten per cent. levy upon farmers, also levies upon shop keepers and other classes in the com -munity..

The bye-election at Louth, where activities were interrupted by a disaster on May 20 resulted as follows :

Wintringham, Independent Liberal, Turnor, Coalition Unionist, -

CRIMES AT PRE-WAR RATES.

...9,859. 7,3547

the, fee for an automatic machine or the charge for taking a punt through A Thames lock. But the wicked citi- zen can go his way to answer a sum- **Drunkenness,' 2 London magis-mons at the local police court with the trate is reported as observing, seems cheering reflection. Your crimes will to be on the increase in this district. CDS you less-as long as he can restrict them to proportions that will I shall double the foes for it until Trot bring down on him that awkward see some signs of improvement. and irreducible judgment without the

"There is room for much doubt option of a fine." whether any improvement will be seen

This is not at all as it should be, as a result of the threat, but the an- for there are two obvious objections to nouncement raises one still more in-having the controlled price of mis- teresting point that does not seem to behaviour fixed at an uneconomic have occurred either to the crime con- figure. In the first place, it may en- troller or to his customers," says the courage misbehaviour tired of paying Manchester Guardian. **Even if the double for every other commodity, the price of misdoing were doubled, it most reputable citizegs might adven- would still, as expressed in terms of ture into minor crime on discovering the depreciated sovereign, mean that, that here, at any rate), was something the culprit was getting off more cheap that had nos gone up in price. Second- ly than he would have done in 1914ly, if minor critninals are contributing

for the same offence."

less to the general support of the judi- "The fact of the matter is that the cial system honest citizens must be wages of sin-that is to say, of the contributing more, which is obviously smaller sorts of sin that are habitually unfair. The east running an corrected by a police court fine-are efficient, police court for, the benefit about the only kind of wages that have of casual and regulats customers has not received a severe overimuling in certainly increased, if baly by the rise the light of the increased cost of living in policemen's wages that was given Everything else goes up in price, even last year. Yet the offender still gets such apparently immovable things as his crimes st the old bri

DEFEAT OF WHITE ANTS.

The system at one time nearly al- ways a opted and still frequently met with was that of raising the building exposed to the ravages of this pest a few lect above the ground by means of steel uprights, to each of which was attached a metal cup completely encircling the support. These cups were filled with some noxious liquid, such as paraffin, which had the effect of entirely insulating the building. Evaporation and the formation of film of dust frequently negatived these precautions and was the cause of per mitting the ant an entrance: Further attention was drawn to the subject and other methods investigated. The use of uprights of timber suitably treated with liquid poisonous to the ant, and then creosoted proved fairly success- ful, but the good results from this method were proved to be not alto gether permanent.

Careful study of the habits and antatny of the ant was then made with a view to solving the problem, and it was found that by.inverting the cop already mentioned and grinding the edges to a sharp finish an impassable and permanent obstacle was offered re the "white"ant," the articulation of its body being of such a nature that the aharp edges rendered negotiation:;? the cup impossible, and with every. attempt a fall to the ground was in- evitable:

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