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To Add Sparkle To Your SPIRITS

THIS Christmas

INSIST ON

WATSON'S

WATERS

THE ECONOMY TIN

$1.20

LARGE SIZE (8 oz.)

(Contain as much as large bottle)

65 Cts.

HANDY SIZE (4 oz.)

Why Pay More?

The Andrews Liver Salt you have hitherto bought in bottles is now packed in ECONOMY TINS. You can now buy a STILL, BETTER ANDREWS al a LOWER PRICE. Andrews has the largest sale of any effervescing sall in the world, and is not only cheaper than ever-it is also a better and different Andrews-the same as sold in Great Britain for nearly 50 years, combining the qualities of a refreshing saline with the properties of the IDEAL TONIC LAXATIVE. Its slow, continuous efferves- cence is due to a combination of salts which exhaustive experiment has proved to be the most efficacious and health-giving. Besides-Andrews keeps better in tins than in bottles, and is untouched by hand during manufacture. ANDREWS LIVËR SALT benefits in four ways:~~-~- (1)' By osmosis—ensuring thorough cleansing and

elimination of polsonous waste products.

(2) By Il frict action on the liver and stimulation

of the flow of bile necessary for digestion.

(3) By its moderate riimulating action on the bowel muscles, Inducing them to function naturally,

(4) By Its antacid action on the stomach. By asking for ANDREWS In the ECONOMY TIN you will obtain the SAME QUANTITY as in former bottles at a LOWER PRICE. Andrews in Hins is, also, a BETTER ANDREWS. By buying it in the now containers you SAVE MONEY and, af the same time, benefit from the IMPROVED QUALITY. You NEED Andrews if you suffer from: BILIOUSNESS LASSITUDE

CONSTIPATION LOSS OF

FLATULENCE

GIDDINESS

HEADACHES

HEARTBURN

APPETITE

NERVOUS

DYSPEPSIA

LIVERISHNESS

Sold by all Chemists and Stores

918A

EFFERVESCENT

ANDREWS LIVER SALT

VIGORA

ANDREWS

LIVER SALT

for Inner Cleanliness

Sole Agents:-BANKER & CO., LTD., P. O. Box 755, Hong Kong.

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 23, 1938

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Britain's Prime Minister and to carry an umbrella, which is longer known as "un parapluie," but as "un Chamberlain." Konged fortunate. It is now in a far The umbrella must be reckon-

Ninety-Third Year of Publication SA Wyndham Street, Hong

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different case from its ally, the mackintosh, which preserves only 7, Garrick Street, London, W.C.2fying nothing to the general po- the name of an individual signi-

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pulace, and which with obsole- sence is likely, therefore, to en- counter also oblivion.

For the the "Chamberlain" must be plac- Gladstone collar, and the Gain- the

borough hat, and should it ever become extinct, the recollection of it would be safely preserved by reason of the name attached to it.

One wonders if, at such a per- iod in the dim future, the recol- lection might not be entwined with many legends celebrating

Hong Kong, Friday, December 23, 1938 this association of the man and

THE DEATH PENALTY

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the umbrella if, for example, Pitt's exclamation after Auster- litz, "Roll up the map of Europe!" might not have then a companion phrase in Chamber- lain's "Roll up my umbrella!" before Berchtesgaden.

A Revolt On Milk

and

By 114 votes to 89 the House of Commons recently approved a resolution in. favour of abolish- ing the death penalty for an ex- perimental period of five years, which was the suggestion made As a change from the beset- by the Select Committee that re- ting questions of armaments and ported on capital punishment in foreign policy it is refreshing to 1930. It was clear from. Mr. come across what looks almost Geoffrey Lloyd's speech that the like a minor political crisis on Government is no more likely to a Milk Bill. The whole agricul- be influenced than this and other tural policy of the Government is Governments have been by the disliked by many Conservatives, recommendation of the 1930 but the Milk Bill is giving the Committee, and yet the vote may most trouble. The part of the very well have been something bill which is particularly criti- of an underestimate of the actual cised is that which attempts to state of public opinion on this re-organise the present "waste- subject. One question of prime ful methods of distribution and importance is whether the death to make pasteurisation compul- penalty deters, and that has been sory. The effect of these pro- doubted on various grounds by posals, the opponents of the bill thoughtful and informed obser- declare, would be to squeeze out vers in many professions, includ- the small dairy farmer who dis- ing the law and the administra-tributes his own milk as well as tion of Britain's penal arrange- the small distributor pure ments. Obviously it is not an ab- simple. This consideration is the solute deterrent, for if it were main motive of the opposition, murders would cease. Whether but more disinterested arguments there would be more or fewer murders if the death penalty convenience the housewife by les- are that the proposals would in- were not enforced is one question sening the number of daily deliv- that the suggested experimental eries and would create unemploy- period of abolition seeks to an-ment by reducing the number of swer, and the Home Office argu-workers engaged in distribution. ments put forward against that There are other objections raised experiment on Wednesday were against the bill, and the Govern- not specially convincing. If five ment will probably have to years is too short a time in which cept amendments. to judge of the experiment's ef- fect or to decide what the alter- native punishments should be, then the period could be extend- ed; the argument that if the ex- periment failed "the task of rein- troducing the penalty would be a most invidious one" would be

For the convenience of Members met by the prescribed time-limit and Guests of St. Andrew's Society to the test period. Least satis- attending the Ball to be held this factory of all, was Mr. Geoffrey evening, a special 5 minutes service Lloyd's suggestion that "some of Star Ferries will run between 9 outrageously brutal murder" p.m. and 9.30 p.m. and a special might expose this country "for service from Kowloon to Hong Kong the first time in its history to the 5 minutes service of Star Ferries horrors of lyrich_law." That will run every 15 minutes between seems a singularly unhappy ex-midnight and 1 a.m. and every half ercise in the invidious art of hour thereafter until 3 a.m. The nest-fouling. Lynch law belongs Vehicular Ferry Service will be ex- to fundamentally unsettled. so tended until 2 a.m. ci-ties. How often have the En- glish people been found protest- ing against the mildness of a penal code approved by their rulers? Their protests have usually been all the other way.

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"Un Chamberlain”

Belgian admiration for Mr. Chamberlain has led that land to pay him a charming compliment; for, one hears, it is now the fas- hion for every Belgian gentle man to imitate the custom of

ST. ANDREW'S

BALL

ac-

The first Supper will be served at 11.15 o'clock p.m. (approx.) and all those desiring to participate therein should be seated in good time be- fore this hour. No reservation Sup- per Tables may be made,

Members and Guests are request- ed to note particularly that ADMIS- SION TO THE BALL WILL BE BY TICKET ONLY AND THAT THESE CANNOT BE OBTAINED AT THE DOOR OF THE HOTEL.

Entrance to the Hotel will be by the Main Doors, Salisbury Road,

only.