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0.00
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per bag of Butte, por lb.
8.00
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2-Tinned Mi
(4.)Sweetened Condensed MIE,
por llb. tin
0.05
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A
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East wills, mo-
DISTRICT.
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Formosa Channel.
fair to aloudy, [N.E. winds, fresh,
REVIEWS.
How to Win at Royal Auction Bridge. By "CUT CAVENDISH.” London :: T. Werner Laurie, Ltd.
RUSSIAN RESOURCES.
FINANCIAL PROBLEMS OF THE
WAR
INTERVIEW WITH A MINISTER..
On the 8th at 11:50 am. Pressure has in. areased quickly over Japan, the Loechoos and Formony, owing to the advisoissatwads' of the anti-oyalone, which is now contral to the
This is a third and 'rovised edition of a south of the Techgos. Decreases are general over tað Tómainder of the ares, more especially
work that has reached its seventh thou Dr. E. J. Dillon at nterviewed in over 9. Manchurin, which is covered by an area and, and when this is stated it requires Paris, for the Daily Telegraph, Us Bus of low pressure. 16o depresion of pastorat little more to commend it to the card sian finance Miniser, M. Bark, on mat- har passod in to the Pacifo ng k
ters which, the interviewer declares, playing public. This edition contains the new laws of Royal Auction Bridge" may aptly be termed the outer fringe Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at revised and brought up to date by the of the financial problems for which the 10 qm, today, 9.00, Ingen der Card Committee of the Portland Club, Allied Governments aro a present busy, with the help of representatives of the devising solutions." As, in consequence Baldwin, Bath, St. James's Turf and suffered much end out of all proportion of the war, Russia's exchang has While's Clubs. "Cut Cavendish,'' who'
to her flourishing economical and solid is recognised as opo of the leading au-
financial position, and to the work of thorities on the game, regards the now
remedying this state of affairs is one of laws as an improvement on the old, and the first cares of the three financial in his preface to this edition comments Ministers, I consider (writes Dr. Dillon)] on the principal changes. His hints on that M. Bark's utterances on the subject the game itself are set forth with uner would for the mount, be listened to. ceptional clearness, and will be found of with greater interest by the Europea benefit to skilled players as well as no public man hero. For reasons which E. vices. How to Win at Royal Auction havd unfolded it would be unreasonable Bridge" ought to ho at hand in every to expect any statement from him respect- club and wherever card-players do con- ing to work wlready neomplished, of gregate
even the proposals which will shortly by formulated, as all three plenipotentiaries require absolute freedom from outer influences during their deliberations. remarked to M. Bark that much had changed in the internal condition as well since I had had the pleasure of discussing as the international relations of Buggie these matters with him it Petrograd last April, and that what most challenged the admiration of foreign nations was the heroic massage conceived by the Emperor sad applied by M. Bark, renouncing entirely the large revenue from the State monopoly of alcohol.
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PROHIBITION OF ALCOHOL.
The Minister replied that ho falt proud of being the Tsar's exemtor in a work at ono se grandiose and beneficent, the happy effects of which had already visibly infuscă o caw spirit into the chorised a great faith in the potentia Russian people.
"I have always
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Brother-in-Law to
By PARRY TRUSCOTT. London: T. Werner Laurie, Ltd: Buoyant humour, with a flavour of irony, is the dominant note of Mr. Patty There is something very loveable in Arthur Gurney, the brother-in-law to Standley Potts, the hu- manitarian and vegetarian who is too busy trying to alevate humanity in the abstract to attend to the needs of his own wife and abildron. Arthur is a bale clerk at Norwood, and is cleverly drawn as a typical London suburban young man. Romance enters unexpectedly into his life through a shangs menting with a young woman obviously of a higher social kank, than himself, but though she kindles the flame of his imagination it is a pretty young girl rescued from a pond in Nor wood Recreation Ground he marries even-lities of the Russian nation, but I masti
admit that even my optimistic anticipa tually. Arthur may be considered a trifle Quixotic; he is overflowing in good-tions have been greatly exceeded by the
reality. As you know, there was fare. There may have been some jus considerable deficit to be covered in the tication in his sister's remark to him ordinary Budget of the year 1914, Well "It's no use being good if you're lot we have stopped the gap without diff sensible"; but we would not have him culty or effort. We had 500,000,000 otherwise. He is one of Nature's gentle-roubles in the. Free Reserve, and ther mm, and we love him rather than the available funds from which we drew, and philanthropist, who talks while the other the problem was solved I increased at Mr. Parry Truscott has been very some few taxes during the remaining: successful in his portraiture of suburbia, maiths of last year, and I found that the and most of the characters are excellent sal very of the peasante has been raised types. Altogether a refreshingly bright very considerably by the law prohibiting. and optimistic book.
the consumption of alcohol and that the benefcent operation of this edict con tinus to make itself felt progresively.
The Secret Flat. By GERTIE DE S. WENT WOETH JAMES. London: T. Worzor Laurie, Ltd.
Taking advantage of this new and puissant factor, I have further increased Women with brains abow the average consumption, and other things, such as the excise duties on various article of are liable to make failures of their lives,: therefore it is good that they should be sugar, tobacco, milway travel, and I
recko
additional return of wamed, is the saying attributed to the 534,000,000 roables from these items dur heroine of this novel of passion. Coning the present year. It is difficult for stance Carrick is a profesional pianiste, foreigners to realise how great are who marries early life, after being Russia's economic resources, and how wooed in whirlwind fashion by Louis much greater they have become since the Hohne She refuses to accept domestici promulgation by his Majesty of that ty. She has always, as she puts it herself, Humanitarian law which, I may add, is..... been "top dog," and feels that in marry felt by the Russian poople themselves, ing she has surrendered her independence. pot as a restriction, but as no inestimable She desires, as many women, doubtless, boon conferred upon them by their pro have desired before her and will continuo vident momarch I can assure you flipt so to desire through ages yet to come, to
the productivity of every class of work- be the predominant partner in the house in Russia, whether we examine there hold, and she sets about securing the post-pursuits, has already increased by from engaged in agricultural or industrial tion in her own way. Judged by the 30 to 50 per cent, and I need hardly cimoms of everyday respectable society, paint out to you what that one fact con- she makes a moss of her life, but just how notes in a population of 170,000,000, t sho docs so must be left to the reader to say nothing of the cessation of the waste discover. She is a disagreeable person, which formerly accompanied
and "gay decficult to live wi', "as the Scots followed the consumption of alcohol. would say! There is no excuse for her. A woman need not be a genius to disari- minate true love from a simulated pas- degression. If she is successful in teaching women that there is something more in life than the selfish gratification of physical emotion, Miss Wentworth James will have done some good. It does not follow, however, that because a women has brain above the averaga that she makes a failure of life. A healthy mind, a healthy body and healthy orepation will see most women through life in a healthy manner. If they want unhealthy excitement, it is "always easy to get it. There are many ways of going to the devil.
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HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER.
Hongkong Ulservatory, April 8th.
Previous On Data On Date
st Day
at 2 pm, 6 mm. 2 p.
30.14 30,13 30.08
Barometer A Temperature Hamidity Wind Direction ...
73
63 64
35
85
73
NE 2
NE
East 4
Force
Weather ******* Bail o mien
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HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.
From 9th to 16th April, 1915.
HIGH WATER
LOW WATER,
H'borg
Meaz
Time
Ilaya
Month
El'kong.
Moan
Height
b. m. ft. in.
06
5 12 6 3 11 15
145 4-9
70-501 4
PC
Time
b. m. ft. in.
Fri.
*310*
9m 7 ga
Estur. 10 m 7 58 4.7 6 49 a 6 3
0:13:6 117 650 m 125 16
4. 6
7 43 & 6 8
Mon.
Roon
1 20 3.0 12 8 15 5 3 m 154
8 288 61 2 5 2 4 139 38 | 5-6 m 2:22 2.0
1 8
245 19
Wed, 14 im
Phore. 15
6.0
2:49
5 5
3 26
Ertablished, for over FIFTY, YMASƏ Jirouiston largely throughout Southern Chias
"Indo-China" ate
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DIFFICULTIES OF THE
GROUND AT YPRES. Eye-witness in a recent report says: A few facts about the recent fighting south-east of Ypres can now be given. In order to realize what our troops have done in this locality the nature of the country must be borne in mind. To the south of the Ypres Comine Canal the ground, although there are some enclosures, is comparatively open, but to the north of it there are many, woods.. In course of tims these have become a vet "abattis," or tangle of fallen trees, deterapened thickly with frans-de-long in the form of shell craters. To add to the hardships of such fighting the troops have been attack- ing on ground in which a man will sink up to his knees in mud. In spite of all the drawbacks, the counter-attacks wera carried out with such resolution that in nearly all cases the original live was re- gained.
DIMINUTION IN CRIME Again, the rates for the maintan anod of prisons have fallen, because crime has everywhere diminished, and, in some districts, has disappeared altogether. Another indication of the welcome change which has come over the nation afforded by the returns of the savings banks. whers nervous, and in Russia, as clse--
In war time people are every where, large sums were withdraws from the savings banks as soon as war was. declared. Well, since the total prohibi tion of alcohol, the socounts I have received from these institutions through- out the cointry are so encouraging that even I, whose faith in the Russian people has always been large and firm, did not anticipate the rapid and splendid result which they denote. Although only a few months elapsed between the promulgation of the Tsar'e humane and patriote edict and the end of the year 1014, the exceÉS. of deposits over withdrawals amounted to 84,000,000, or twice the imount of the proceding year.
Russia's rconemic situation, there- ford, is not merely excellent, but it in rapidly improving, and my faith in bor future, not a blind, but a carefully reas: sued faith, is boundless,”
WELSH PRISONERS IN
GERMANY GETTING THE BETTER OF THE
CENSORE
Welsh prisoners of war in Germany, are able to notify their friends at Home more fully of the conditions of prison and internment camp life than are their English colleagues, and that without On the night of the 15th, as our troops having recourse to the doubtful safeguard wite advancing to drive the enemy out of of invisible ink. A latter which passed one of these trenches, his guns suddenly opened a tremendous fire. Our men were in the open at some distance from the Germans at the time, and being thus takea as a disadvantage their chance of success looked small. Without a moment's hasita are the English equivalents of the Welsh word immediately precoding. The letter tion, however, the attacking line broke
was written in English throughout into the double and, pounding through exe pling the Welsh words, which the the mud, burst into the German tronch. German Censor took to be the names CẼ Here one of those curious situations other English prisoners. The curred where both sides remain in occupe-reads:
tion of the same trench within a few yards
the German Censor, at which is and will long be kept as a family treasure, contains the passage given Jelow. The words in brackets (which did not, of course, appear in the letter as written)
You will be glad to hear, news of old. of one another for a considerable time:
The counter-attack on the 17th was also here. Mr. Bara (bread) is very nuch friend. Mr. Bwyd (food) is very bad a most dashing pics of work. The trenches occupied by the enemy had been darker than when you aw him, and is quite hard. I never see Mr. Cig (neat), subjected to so heavy a £re that they and Mr. Ymenyn (butter) but-seldom would not await our opset. As our men to was very bad indeed the liat few tibes charged forward cheering, the Germans I met him. I used at first to meet Mr. were observed leaving the trenches and Idaeth (milk) every day, but he has not hurrying to the rear.
been here now for some ting."!
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