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THE WAR-DEVASTATED VILLAGES OF FRANCE.

THE HONGKONG FUND.

HOW TO GET A PASSPORT.

BY ONE WHO NEARLY DID.

AN EXPENSIVE PROCESS.

"Yes, I'm off to Milan this week,"

I announced brightly to Jackson on Sunday night.

THE CHINA MAILE

SEVEN MILES UP:

HOW TO STAY ALIVE.

WHAT OXYGEN DOBS.

FROHIBITION LAW.

A FASCINATING DRIKE.

Another-flaw in the Prohibition Law bas been found by Representa- |tive Gandy, of South Dakota, whoj has introduced a Bill in Congress How could Major Schroeder live asking that."mental" be banished! Mescal, which b at an altitude nearly a mile higher from the country. that the world's balloon record, when the button shaped top of a cactus those who made that record came but nevertheless intoxicates, and is"

plant, apparently contains no alcohol, Get your passport?" he asked. "No," I answered. "I'm seeing near perishing and were saved only being used extensively in the Indian Then he by the presence of mind of one of reservations. about it tomorrow." laughed in that irritating little way them who pulled a valve at the other drinks whites are eagerly According to those critical moment? This was Glaisher's adopting it.

who have sampled it, mescal I have pressing business in Milan, experience in making his 30,000 foot makes whisky seem like lemonade. and I want to get there, at the latest record in 1862. Two airmen besides In describing the effects of the drug, at the beginning of next week. Also, Schroeder have beaten that record. Mr. Gandy said: Time is lengthened. I want to spend a couple of days in They and he were saved from A minute is like an hour, an hour is

of his.

In publishing the following statement of accounts of the Hongkong Fund for War-Devastated France, Mrs. Basil Taylor, the originator, desires to convey her thanks to all those who, by hard work, sympathy and subs -criptions, assisted in the splendid result of this appeal. Special acknowledg ment is made of the services of the General Committee in organising and carrying out so many different forms of money-making, including the meet-be called out. ing arranged by the Gymkhana and Jockey Clubs, which proved the best paying entertainment of the whole; and special thanks are accorded to the Portuguese Community for the splendid and indefatigable work it did unde the leadership of Mr. EV. M. R. de Sousa, then the Consul General; also to the French community and to the Chinese of the Colony, headed by the Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak and Sir Robert Ho Tung.

Reconstruction in regard to their distribution.

HOUSE FULI

his personal appearance.

.

In the absence of

WAR INVENTION,

A "ZIGZIG" CLOCK.

PRIDATĒ "AVQUST 4 1980-

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

New shipment of FROZEN SMOKED FISH

Selected Fillets 60 cts. per lb. Finnan Haddocks 50 Selected Kippers 40 Red Herrings

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THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE Co., Ltd.

THE SMALL BOY.

AT THE KINEMA.

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(BY ELIZABETH-MARC ]

BANKRUPTCY:-

ONE OF THE LAST

LETTERS OF LORD FISHER.

Writing to The Times, a few weeks before his death the late Admiral

"Oh, look! It's beginning! Oh. Lerd Fisher said: can't they run fast? Oh, good graci-Reitoration is the secret of convic Forgive my dambable reiteration:

1:

It sells Buggilla's soap and body's little liver pills! Adver tising is the soul of business aid the secrec of political success. As 1 dear

Paris and call on two or three men Glaisher's experience simply by like a whole night, things seem far in Switzerland as I pass through. having plenty of oxygen, we are told away; common sounds are wonder- So yesterday I saw about my by the Journal of the American ful, so that one note struck on the Association (Chicago). piano sounds like a whole chard; passport. I did not see it let me Medical make that quite clear. A telephone Only a few years ago, this writer each note producer a new series of book told me to go to Lake Buildings, tells us, this rarvellous performance wonderful colours. Clothed in these St. James' Park, a pretty name that would have been rated as virtually kaleidoscopie colours all kinds of sounded cool. I found it at last, impossible because of the limitations animals and objects are seen, some and, well these officials know a pretty of the human organism at great beautiful and alluring, others grot- heights. When Glaisher attained esque and fearful, but it is the spot when they see one.

26,000 feet, he could not read his colours constantly coming and going instruments properly. Shortly after that mare the most satisfying The place was full and everyone this his legs became paralysed, and appeal." was very cross and perspiring. In then this arms. Then his sight front of a big blackboard at the end failed, afterwards his hearing, and of the room were rows and row of he became unconscious. In Tisand- people sitting on forms, or were they jer's fatal trip of 1875, all began pews? These were only the people who to suffer before an altitude of 23,000 had nearly got their passports, and feet was reached, and two of the they were wanting for their names to party died. We read in the Journal—

“The baneful effects on life in the A claim in respect of an alarum bus, is that a real bear? He's got Lim! No, he's sliding down the Out of a slot in the wall someone rarefied air of higher altitudes clock by means of which it was pos- canisters. Oh, look: Look: The handed me an application form so usually makes itself manifest at alter its course at the right moment bear's coming down, too!

sible for the helmsman of a ship to

Did you carefully folded up that it might have barometric pressure considerably in order to avoid being torpedoed by exer sec police make such idiots friend once said to me (he's very emin- been a secret warrant for execution lower than that represented in the I started to fill it up. It was fairly classic instances just cited. In a combission on Awards to Inventors. York? If I laugh much more I shall out), "I don't care a d-n what they reasonable until I reached the end, review of the medical aspects of Commander Wyatt, formerly in the burst

a submarine came before the Royal themselves? Do they always, in New

say of me so long as they say some The proceeds of the Fund have been sent to M. Paul Hyacinth Loyson, and then it became embarrassing. aviation, the experts of the Medical Navy, and Captain Lewis, RN., made

thing." (And they have!!!). Adver- 110 The du Bac, Paris, the will consult with the French Minister of No one should be asked to describe Research Laboratory of the Division a joint claim in respect of this inven- on: Not much of it, is there? Isn't renchment, and reform was my last "What a funny dress that girl's got rising is reiteration! *Peace, RB- When I had done my best I offered of Military Aeronautics assert that tion, which was known as a "Zigzag" she cold? What is he looking like etter but one to you under Observer's Through M. Reau, formerly Consul General for France in Hongkong.

mountain sickness befall some persons clock. - the suggestion has been made that the name Hongkong should be per- it to a lofty official across the court at a lower, others at a higher, altitude, themen given to that of some village in the devastated part of France ter. He glanced at it for a fraction but it is also certain that no one written by Admiral Sir Richard Webb, somebody? I thought he felt i 1 nation and you well know to be that for? Goodness! Is that how a splendid lewer of June 1. (The man Commander Wyatt read a letter man looks when he's in love with who wrote that letter "loveth our man shall have been benefitted by the Fund, to perpetuate the memory of a second. Bottom not com who proceeds beyond a certain who declared that "zigzagging" was hope I shan't look like that. I know justly famous ! Some one has tersely

countersigned of the Colony's work for their people. This offer was unanimously accepted-pleted

elevation-the critical line for by the Committee, and in due course the name of the village so, designated and photographs ..

Your best him escapes

most efficacious in warding off sub- father didn't, anyway, or you would said, "We aise our voices against the the malady. An

marine attack The witness explain never have married him. will be announced in the Hongkong.papers. Mrs. Taylour hopes, after route for Brussels, madam, is

elevation of 20,000 feet or even lessed that the clocks were used with

madness of illimitable commitments consultation with the Minister of Reconstruction in Paris, where she is This last part was, of course, meant might provoke it in some; others

"It would have been better if she and indefinite responsibilities" (Meso- going on her way home, to visit this town and write to Hongkong some

large convoys of American troops,". may escape the symptoms to

It's insane tu account of the Colony's god-child. Finally it is hoped that, although the

14,000 feet, while only, a very few, which, when proceeding at a rapid had told the truth at the beginning. potamia and Poland). Hongkong Fund for War Devastated France has now been wound up, the

The idea of having a photogminh possessed of unusual resisting power, /fate, had to zigzag, and unless they wouldn't it? I can't think why she bave Crystal Palace follies, etc., and Why does she keep kind to spend an extra three millions on a Colony will continue for generations to come to take an interest in the

had some synchronized method of didn't.

the im- .village the Colony will have helped to create.

taken and finished while you wait can without much distress venture

în her throat?

mortal khaki of the trenches," when was cheering. For three shillings upward to 19,000 feet. We are fur doing so there would very soon have swallowing? Has she got a cruinn gaudy subsifise for

Mr. R. Moritz (for the "Treasury) Aren't they going to begin fight we are suffering from the most exact got four lovely photographs that ther reminded that the symptoms of can pass off as those of a friend: mountain sickness depend not only agreed that these clocks were an ing soon? Oh, there they go! The ing system of taxation ever in this anti-subotarine don't aim very well, do they? Oh, world (Will Limehouse end by swal Next, I had to find someone who his physical condition, but also a weapon. Zigzagging could not have he's bumping his head on the Soor,lowing the Tories, or have the Tories intricate contingencies, been adopted successfully apart from Just like an india-rubber ball. Why swallowed him? Alas: Mr. Bonar could youch for my integrity,. ftat various took me nearly an hour and to the especially on the amount of physical a clock, but there were other clocks, doesn't that girl do something, instead Law: What a fatal mistake, you made North of London, and I also wasted exertion made in ascending; that is. The applicants had merely introduced of standing there with her eyes bule swallowing the Coalition Pill on May another hour in forgetting that the on whether the ascent is performed an element of variability to an in- ing out?

by climbing or by passive carriage vention by a man named Brooks,

17, 1915!! That very night you Oh, there's the Red Indian oreep were sure of turning out the Govern photographs had to be signed as on horse, in railway train, or in a who only received: £30 from the ing up! He's got a knife! He'll stick ment and winning the war! You know

Ireached the office just before they

Admiralty Ordnance Committee For him! I told you so! Good job, too! it but you became a minority in the closed. (They close at four, or they miss that view across the lake when penetration of the higher reaches of that improvement Commander Wyatt Didn't that man who was murdered Cabinet instead and also became a

the atmosphere in these newer fights and Captain Lewis had already look surprised?

What's that girl participator in 14 times too late as of man, including Rohll's ascent to received £100 each from the Com screaming about? Anyone would so vividly portrayed in Mr. Lloyd 31,000 feet, and Casale's unofficia!

mittee.

think that she didn't want him killed. George's most famous speech! The Commission will promulgate She's a bit of a bumbug, isn't she?

-The one secret of pur greatness has You haven't filled your face in," record of 33,000 feet last year, and

their decision.

"Why is that woman hugging that been an effective Parliamentary Op culminating in the splendid achieve. remarked the official in his tired ment of Schroeder in rising nearly

other man, Mommie? It isn't her position really to take on the govern- way, as he pointed to a blank line.

seven miles above the earth? It has "THE PERFECT MAIDEN.” husband, is it? Well," I replied,

ment of the country at a moment's I really

"Gracious I been the scientific demonstration that

Aren't they gallop notice! That was killed by the Costi- thought that you could do that better the predominant physiologic upset at

ing! She rides well, doesn't she? on Government We are now what than L"

Considering she has never seen 2

we are in Pegliament through that sup- horse before! Will they get away?posed great patriotic leat! It was an Oh, the precipice! They've gone anful trick! It is leading us to bank- over: No, only the horses

rupicy and rain because there is no Opposition 1.

We are requested to add that Mr. Matheson, of the Chartered Bank, has kindly consented to receive and deal with any further suns which may come in to the Fund; and to receive and publish reports from France as to the progress of administration of Hongkong's contributions.

STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT.,

CREDIT.

Pansy Day Fund.

Acknowledged in Press up to 8th March, 1920...$.11,843.26 Later subscriptions

Gymkhana Club.

By cheque for net proceeds of St. Andrew's

meeting on 29th November, 1919

for someone else..

PHOTOS AND INTEGRITY.

haven't seen for years.

well

350.00

$ 12,193.26

7,710 93

Lecture by Mille. H. Van der Flier at City Hall on

1st December, 1919.

Collected by Mrs. Beavis, Mrs. Edgar Davidson.

and ladies assisting them.......

$.

Bockings through Messrs. Moutrie & Co..

253 85 128.60

382.45

..

871.50 -363.00 110.00

$1,314.50

Masked Ball on Friday, 19th, December, and Cabaret on Saturday, 20th, December, at Volunteer Headquarters.

Gate receipts (including coupons sold) including teas provided by Mrs. Taggart and conducted by Mrs. E. D. C. Welfer Messrs. Moutrié & Co. (including coupons sold) Messrs. Donnelly & Whyte, Proft on bar sales ......

Tombola.

Everything Stall--Mesdames Hay, Edgar David- son; and Everything Else Stall-Mesdames Scott Harston, Frost.......

Portiquese Stall.

Proceeds. Tombola and Lucky Dip Stall per Portuguese Consul General, Mr. E. V. M. R. de Sousa.

------$1,015,80

By collecting tins 76, 77, 79, 80, 82, 84, 85

and 87........

1,414.35

580.561

Swiss Stall.

By collecting tins 72, 73, 75, 78, 83 and 86 per

Mrs. Young

132.81

Hauchecorn Statuary Group Raffie (by Gapt. Basi!

Taylour)..........

England v. Scotland Association Football Match, Boxing Day. December 26. Increased by collections at Navy Cup Final of Xmas Day, per Mr. W. Nicholson. Vice-President. Hongkong Football Club

Sales and advertisements-Mesdames French and Taggart...

Red Cross Cookery Book.

Raffle

Per Mrs. Frost, Kowloon

Per Mrs. Basil Taylor, (1 lace shawl),

Interest, less stamps on cheques.

matshed....and

DEBIT:

it is looking at its best.) The place was just as full 1 handed the form over triumphantly

I

He sighed and wrote something I couldn't see properly, but I am sure he put "plain."

"What about the visas ?" I asked. "They do not arise yet," be replied. Come for your passport to-morrow or the next day. That is all for to-day."

STILL ANOTHER VISA!

was a free man.

This is what my freedom cost me. Taxicabs and ominibuses made a big hole in 10 There was 3s: for some dreadful photographs. 75. 6d. for the. $3,14332 passport, 8s. for the French visa, and another 10s. for the Swiss visa-51 760.00 118 6d. is all. In addition, I reckon the time I wasted at another seven

682.82

* 4.

406 20

309.02 156.00

guineas.

on the nature of the individual and

airplane.

What has made possible the

bigh altitudes, whether it be exhibit ed as mountain sickness or airmat disease, is primarily due to the de Privation of oxygen in the rarfied

been collisions. “

extremely useful-

AN ANXIOUS. SEARCEL

New York July 10-The trustees of the £2,000 fund left in March, 1919, by air. As long ago as 1878 the eminent Count Pant Balconi, of Turin, the

"I'm glad they got away. Can French pirysiologist Pan Bert, furni interest of which is to be paid annually have-a-chocolate? And it ended all shed clear experimental proof that to the most virtuous girl of Pro-right. And all those others were the abnormal symptoms and dangers vidence, Rhode Island, are anxiously shot. Of course, I know that they experienced under conditions of seeking a possible prize winner as weren't really shot, but, Mumanie, did- UNFORGETTABLE GIRL lowered barometric pressure are those July 17 approaches. The Italian they send real horses over the preci

ANOTHER PRECIOUS LITTLE LIFE SAVED---

How Baby's Own Tableta Håfoguard The Children Against Aummer Hils.

dummies. I say a leg waving.

Is that the duchess? She's rather

Pl

BRITISH TRADE BOONING.

SIM KOBERT HORNE'S OPTIMISM

An Australian ex-Sergeant who

ing them to help him in finding the

girl he wants to marry. In his letter

he tells of love at first sight and of a roken received after 15 minutes' talk

from a raway carriage window.

After serving in France, Flanders,

and Gallipoli, he was demobilised and en route for Liverpool and home.

The train stopped in Birmingham Station. A young woman came, on the platform, and the Australian and two friends conversed with her during the quarter-of-an-bour's wait: Just before the train steamed out she gave a lock of hic weach. "To cut 1

long story short" declares the writer...

There was a little queue at the of want of oxygen. Despite the vari- Consul-General, under whose super pice to make that picture? Well, 1 ANZAC LAKS POLICE TO FIND HER. Swiss Passport Office in Russell ous attempts to faroke other factors, vision, by the terms of the will don't know. It didn't look to me like square, W.C, the following day al the accumulated scientific evidence award is to be made, has approved though I was there early. I was to-day supports Bert's conclusion 14 points which must be possessed who, attended to fairly quickly, and when that the essential cause of altitude by the virtuous malden 1 had paid 10s. for a return visa I sickness is lack of oxygen. Conse being 20 years of age, mar fat, isn't she? And you would think holds the D.C.M, and M.M. has quently, he who would attempt the riageable, and the daughter of she would keep her mouth shut when written to the Birmingham police ask. conquest of the air several miles common people will best deserve she eats. above the earth must be supplied the prize by her conduct and family "Are those dresses”, the latest with oxygen in sufficient abundance. virtues." It was comparatively fashions? Well, I'm glad you are not

The adaptation of man to life at easy to draw up the 14 points, but fashionable: altitudes has occasionally been dis the trustees are losing sleep over the "Is that the end? Oh dear cussed in the Journal. Important as problem of finding a girl who posses- Can't we stay and see it again? 1 they undoubtedly are for the moun-ses them. To meet the trustees re- did like it when the Indian stuck him taineer and, latterly, for the airman quirements she must be strong, true, in the back. I can't think why you under ordinary circumstances of fiy-just, kind, reverent, humble, dutiful, | don't take me to the pictures oftener. A friend has just told me that I ing, these adaptive responses cannot amiable, prudent, faithful, patient, You can't be so poor"Daily need an Italian visa. Can I face satisly the needs of the organism in cheerful, decorous, and if possible Mail.

those record fights represented by discreet. another of those waiting rooms? .

Such a gil it is believed i Schroeder's attainment. According-| must be sought in Heaven and not in NO SECURITY AGAINST CRIMINALS.

*ly, it is significant that his failure to Providence, Rhode Island. Commenting on the above, the ascend even higher in the world's Daily Mail, in a leader said-The record-fight was due, occording to the -$465.02 worry and expense caused by the Press despatches, to the exhaustion

I was smitten on the spot. It is 255.05 passport nuisance are illustrated in an of the aviator'e oxygen tanks which

about her that I am writing to you account which a reader sends us of supplied the needed respiratóry gas.

Sir Robert Horne, writing in the because I love her. I don't knoW $-27,353.75 his efforts to obtain the necessary It is this failure, we may assume, in

Manchester Guardian Commercial her name and haven't a photograph. documents for a journey from Lon the absence of official information

Supplement saysOur foreign trade of her, nor can I give you muchi, of a don to Milan. After two and a half-which'robbed him of consciousness

has advanced by leaps and bounds, description of her. Nevertheless she days of attendance, obtaining his and thus was responsible, for the

Goods have gone abroad, in increasing was quite prepared to leave Birming passport and the various visas requir-spectacular fall of several thousand

Every mother knows how fatal the ed at different offices, and after an feet which almost cost Schroeder his bot summer months are to mail volume to recreate our solvency. ham then and there to accompany me expenditure of 38% 68., he still finds life.

children. Cholera finfertum, diserbes, Even more in the future in the Australia, but in the circumstances himself without the Italian visa.

The glowing accounts of the dysentery and stomach troubles are rife

The writer adds that the girl has the development of trade and industry. It would be an enormous boon to new conquest of the upper air have at this time, and often W precious little past, a great part will be played in it was not to be considered." $266.52 the public which travels for business been replete with praises of the fe te bat after only a few hours by a search for markets, success fall perfect tooth, which he believes to be and for health if this elaborate superior motors, dependable air The other who keeps Faby's Owning most to these traders who are most her own. She lived with her grand- system were swept away by compressors the unique recording Tablets, the Canadian children's remedy, resourceful, in meeting with reliable mother and was employed in a Bir international agreement. Passports instruments, the heating devices in the house feels sale. The occasional and visas were necessary during that made it possible for man vee of these Tablete frèrests och gods the needs of the world's mirmingham factory. The Australian the war to exclude spies and to endure a polar climate of 67 and bowel troubles, and if sicknesskets. In markets in which we were wants a full-length photograph of the dangerous characters. Even then degrees below zero, and other suddenly her help bring the formerly supreme, we now see our girl, and says that after he has cor- Hitle one through. Hr. Jom B. Pringle, predominance threatened. Perhaps responded he will pay her fare out so passports and visas were regularly mechanical features. It is more Forest Falls Catarlo, Canada, writes the most astonishing example of our that they may be married. To the forged by the German officials, than likely that the record will again think. I can thank Baby Chim advance has been the manner in which police he promises unending grati-- precisely as the Bolshevists are under be broken not, however, merely Tablets, for my baby's life Hea 29000 stood to forge them to-day. They because these devices have been badly constipated but after giving him Lancashire and, Yorkshire manufactur ride The police withhold the neare are no security against criminals made more perfect and efficient, but the Tablets they elieved him Almost arers have taken advantage of the Ameri- of the Australian in order that he may 933,25

serving a criminal State For pro also because science I have taught one I also find them good when he can market. Compared with the cor not be inundated with letters Ins

ism all restless and I cannot say to responding period of 1919 we sem romantically 25.011.67tection against these people we look the airmen how to secure an unfail musly in their favour w

to our secret service, the splendid ing supply of the indispensable Baby's Own Iablets make teething in the first four weeks of 1020 about misses."" $27,353,75 eficiency of which was displayed-at-exygen After the enforced can. 87, ars à postively, barmist ratedy 06 per cent more cotton yarn, abou every point of the war, if we main sideration during the last few years for pleterer fodigestión do tree nimes the amount of cotton picce

comitipation, diaryhose and ons. thin that secret service, visas would of the abomination of noxious gases,, obedion from drastit, ale post odds, and three to five times as much Beginning not be required and passports could it is a relief to return to the confros, 80 cents the Thom the Dal wooden cloth; while the values of be issued good for a term of five or sideration of one that is truly bene William Mediclas Co. 96 Brechnen woollen cloth were rightintes as

24 Bond; Bhanghai - ficent" ten years.

Pansy Day and Cabaret. Collecting tins

45.00

Lecture by Mlie. H. Van der Flier at City Hall on 1st Dec, 1920.

50 per cent, gross.proceeds presented to Mlle. Van der Flier

ofa. Belgium Fanda

Rent of City Hall (reduced price) and Caretaker

$188.72 77.80

Masked Ball and Cabaret.

Cost

500.00

Rent of chairs and tables....vineprave

53.31

Band and professional dancing:

90.00

Electric light

45.00*

688.31

Everything Stall and Everything Else Stall.

Sundry cost

119.00

Red Cross Cookery Book.

Cost of printing..........

Cost of posters, programmes, printing and advertising la

деязрарства...

By demand draft on Paris Fes. 274,127.90 at 10,96

H. MATHESON;

Hon. Treasurer.

and correct.

GEOFFREY S. ARCHBUTT, ACA.

28, 1820

illness:

disposed Birmingham

WALLA August 15, WALLA" BOATS will call on Eying the call flag

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