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With Eczema on Face and Ears. Came First As Pimples. Could Not Bear Pain at Night, Used Cuticura Scap and Ointment. Now Quite Well.

129. Manifold Rd.. Aston, Birmingham, Esg. I was suffering very badly from OCZOIDS on my face and car. It came on frat a pimples and then turned into sores and used to Rich and bura vory badly. Some sights I had to get up in the middlo of the night and walk about as I could not bear the pain. A lot of water would rua from the places and then dry up and leave hard scalo on my face. When I used to wash it would start and run again. It pained. very much,

Having triod no and of things to cura was giving It, it was only getting were sad

up hopes of being cured. One morning maw an advertisement of Cuticua Boop and Olatment in the paper and I wrote for a free

with

of cacti. I used to bathe the parta warm water and Cutients Bosp mora. Ing and night, dry them and then put on the Ointment. After the first drossing they gave the some relief and the eruption Ma not run at all. Now I am gulta wdi, thanks to Catleurs Soap and Ointment." (Higned) William Bosworth, Jaz, 20, 1914.

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 24TH, 1915.

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FOBEOAST.

(B. & S.W. winds Hongkong & Neighbourhood moderate; fair.

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Formoss Channel

PRESENT CONDITIONS IN CHINA..

REFLECTIONS OF A HIGH CHINESE recognizable

OFFICIAL.

perte in China to do this work.

Last

MEN AND MUNITIONS,

RESOURCES OF THE BELLIGERENTE.

AMERICAN ESTIMATE.

Some of the smaller endangered nations

It is safe to say that for to nort twenty years at latest China will do but very little manufacturing. The develop- On the 23rd at 11.00 am-The depression

ment of industry while growing, is barely has moved north-eastward to S. Manobarin,

During the period men tioned the improvement of purely agricul- causing a considerable decrease of pressu:& over

tural pursuits will be the paramount work that aran; there are no other changes in the

of the Government. To bring the farmer general distribution. A moderate intrenes bas

"China should be spoken of in terms to a market is the real work of China

for some time. Docuered in the vicinity of Shanghai and slight of an agricultural nation rather than present take a great deal from us.

Foreign countries ab

The British Weekly quotes the New to moderate decreases are general elsewhere. one of great mountscurting enterprises, main agricultural exports can be classed The Business of Salling Donth," by The York Independent for an article entitled Hongkong rattall for the 24 hours ending af wis the manner in which a high and under beans, sesaato seed and tea

"One of the Salesinon." The writer bo -10 am. to-day, 0 CO inches.

authoritative Chinese official recently "The mining industry in China is in gins: I am a war contractor in a very The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noor expressed himself when speaking of pre-te amount to much. There has never been Allies are the principal buyers, for they its infancy and nothing fas been done large way,” He goes on to say that the to-day lens follows:

sont conditions in his country. As this oficial is peculiarly situated to gain and there are at present not enough

a geological survey made of the country, control the sea. intimate knowledge of affairs his remarks, says the Far Eastern Review, should be of general interest,

year mining regulations wore issued, but have bought heavily, and some of the neu- some people do not feel that the Govern- trals less in danger have replenished The wealth of China lice in her land," mont has allowed sufliciout participation their ammunition waggons and forts. he continued, "the cultivation of which For foreign capital. At present the foreign Germany is after cotton, and gets rubbor has been going on for centuries in a more capitalists is allowed 50 per cent only, and and cupper through her outral neigh- or less approved manner. The greatest by law is not given the right to have bours, more or less. The British block- source of revenue to our Government is, majority control. Some think that this fade cuts off war materials. therefore, the soil.

will discourage the investment of foreign The exports of China have for past money, but, of course, there is provision flour, powder, and trying hard to place an Gretco is very active buying uniforms, couturies comprised raw materials,, and for the making of special arrangements order for rifles. the importation of manufactured articles for foreign participation. We fool that aside as tee smali. Roumania, Serbia, This order was tossed The Government has we should do all we can to encourage and Bulgaria are after ammunition, but never been able to encourage agriculture raoney from abroad for the development their orders are small, as it should in a practical way. Take for of these mines. instance the matter of rice planting. I is another reason that-more-mines-have- England is fairly well off in rifles, China-the law forbids the exportation of not been opened up to date.

shoes, and ammunition, Franco is doing rice, not to loreign countries alone, but

pretty well. Germany is best equipped, from one Provinou, to another. This has The Government as yet have taken no and I know that the great shops at Eason. confined the cultivation of rice to more steps to develop water power. I firmly and Liège are working day and night. locul demands. The law prohibiting this believe that this will be made one of the The writer, who says that his sources of exportation was

promulgated because most popular means of Government reinformation are the best in the world, of the famines that have often vonuo if properly handled. I know places gives his estimate of the present number been caused by a scarcity of rice. in Shamsi where our railway engineers say in arms, either at the front or in training. It has never occurred to the Government that there is enough power to generate The estimate must be received with cau in the past that the exportation of this 3,000,000 H.P.

The Government have nots tien. The numbers seen to be vastly article would increase planting and as-get-realised the importance of water thereby lessen the chances of an under power, therefore, up to date, no special larger than the public believes supply in case of shortage in some isolated interest has been manifested. Personally

England, three million. locality owing to drought or other I feel that this is one of the most.

Russia, six million. Francs, four million. reason.

important resources that we have to

Serbia, three hundred thousand. develop. Scattered over the country there are a few mills run by water power in Belgium, two hundred thousand the crudest of forms, and at most a power Total for the Allies, thirteen million of 20 h.p. is generated.

five hundred thousand.

South coast of China. between J The size an Hongkong and Lamocks. No. 1. Bouth coast of China between The mus j Hongkong and Hainan... Į No, L.

CHINA · COAST . METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER

Blation.

23ED. JUNE, A.N.

Wind

Barometer

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Temperature.

Humidity.

Direction.

Wexiber.

Forth

Viadvostock...: 7. 29.56 62,98, nx¤; 3, Nemuro

**** 6.29.95 Hakodate

$29.89

Koobl

Tokio DAN 29.89

BW

29.84

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Nagai...

99.70

6977

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$9.89

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$9.87

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29.76 79

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Dagupan ..... Manila...... Legazpi. Tolobante

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NE

C. W. JEFFRIES, Director.

A BAROMETEK, reduced to 12 degrees Fahrerbal on the level of the sea in inches, tenths sx kundzelika.

has been the rule.

state.

Those now

A lack of communication

The assistance of

On the other side:--

Germany six to eight militon: Austria, four million. Turkey, one million,

Total for the Empires, cleven to

thirteen million men.

For comparison, note that the Confede ates had only six hundred thousand to th Federals' three million men, and yet the held out four year!

SOME STORIES.

In Twenty Years of my Life," Mr.. Douglas Sladen tells a few good stories. We do not remember meeting this one of W. S. Gilbert before. Mr. Bladen tells.

it of the time when he was editing IFho's Who, and was occasionally receiving testy

The lack of proper transportation facilities, however, has made it next to impossible to cultivate the soil to the extent that one would believe it possible The present modes of communication, ex-

· No practical conservation policy Ins cluding the fex railways that we have promulgated Beyond the establish- are far less able to cope will cho mora. increase of land cultivation than in ment of a Conservancy Bureau under ancient times. For the past three or H.E. Chang Chien, which has the definite four hundred years especially the Gov-undertaking of the Hwai River Conser

In the past the supers- eriment has let the canals and roads of vancy in hand. this country become absolutely unusable titution amongst the people owing to their In olden days the Hsien (District belief in the air and water spirits has Magistrate) who kept public works in been a reason why the Government have repair was rewarded, and the merit of an not given more attention to the matter of official was determined by his ability to conservation, and the fact that Chinn keep up the canals, roads, bridges and hasn't enough money to carry out pro- Atjected clients is an added reason for the all other means of communication.

We would presont in Chine few, if any, of the delay in this great work. public works built by our ancestors are welcome especially British and American capital in this regard. It may be safely intact.

Modern facilities for communication, stated that 80 per cent, of the superstition suchas railways, will prove of the greatest existing in China has now gone.

"In regard to the domestic issue of i benefit to this country. operating have already accomplished a bonds we were most successful with our great deal. Take for instance the Provin issue last year amounting to 816,000,000- ce of Honan, which can, above all others, in fact it is interesting to note that this ettors from persons who had been invited

to send biographical particulars of them-- issue was over-subscribed to the amount of selves and resented the invitation. Here be considered an agriculatural Province. This is the Province that President Yuan 38,000,000. We did not follow the methods is the record of the author of "Patience Shih-kni hails from. After the comple-used in foreign countries of retrrning the

W. 8. Gilbert wrote the rudest letter of tion of the Peking-Hankow Railway the over-subscription but merely increased in that connection:

The now growth of farm cultivation has been original issue to 224,000,000, natonishing In 1902, before the comple issue which has just been placed on the anybody. He said he was always being pestored by unimportant people for in- tion of this railway, the exports from market amounts to $24,000,000, and we are formation about himself.

So I put him Hona, via Haakow, amounted to only receiving the assistance of the foreign down in the book as "Writer of verses 81,000,000 but in five years, say in 1907, banks in this matter. the railway carried from the Province of foreigners has been asked not only to give and the libretti to Sir Arthur Sullivan's

to Honan

Hankow

the Chinese pople confidence in our bond, comic operas." He then wrote me a letter something over $32,000,000 and in 1910 Hunan exports but to invite foreigners also to buy, thus of about a thousand words, in which he This Province, increasing the general confidence of the asked me if that was the way to treat a arnonated to 847,000,000. as I have stated, is purely an agricultural public in China's bond and enhancing the man who had written seventy original credit of the Chinese Government. dramas. Next year he filled up his form We have now in China about 11,000 believe firmly that this issue will meet as readily as a peer's widow who has mar li, or 4,000 English miles of railway, with as much success as our issue of last ried a commoner.

We like, too, the story of Oliver Wendell excluding the South Manchuria Railway year. As to the Chinese buying public,

Holmes: (Japanese), the Eastern Railway I must admit that two-thirds of the pur

A lady whom I introduced to him (Russian), the Yunnan Railway (French) chasere of bonds do so not as a business began: It must bore you terribly, Dr. and the Kinochau Railway (German). We proposition but out of a sense of have projected the following railways-patriotism, and only one-third of the Holmes, to have everybody who is intro Konsu to the Sea (Haichow), Ta-Tung public buy these bonds as an investment. duced to you telling you how they admiro

your hooks,'

the contrary, to Chengte, Kweichow to Shasi, Nam-Out of the present bonds at least ten chang to Canton, Johol to Changchun, millions will be subscribed by interior madain," he said gallantly. "I can never and all of these lines are at present being Chinese and the rest will be subscribed by get enough of it. I am the rainest man

alive." surveyed. The Canton: Hankow, Kalgan those in the treaty ports.

And that of the provincial journal wacheng, Pakow-Binyang, and the Han-

The total national indebtedness of which alluded to Mr. Horace Annesley L STATE OF WELZENS, b bize sky, deacted kow-Szechuan lines are under construe-China is approximately two billions of Vachell as perhaps most widely known cloud, d friending main, £ fog, a gloomy, h hail, 1 tion. The total mileage of railways dollars. I cannot give the exact figures as the author of one of the best modern lightning, 6 overeant, Prassing powerta a 98, contructed under construction and priv without looking them up, and this indebt stories of school life, The Hell," in which rrado, sow, 6 thunder, v vizibility, wilów (wet).

jected will amount to approximately ? Barm in izobos, i tantha and hundredthr 53,000 l, or about 11,000 English miles, edness as stated is in Chinese dollars. Up Harrow is described. There is a smile, To be able to handle the products of our to date there has been no work carried on too, in Mr. Bladen's reminiscence of H. country we will have to build approxi- to figure out the per capita wealth of the M. Alden, the editor of mately 8,000 li more of trunk lines, and Chinese people, and it will be some time Magazine:----

I was sitting next to him one night at about 10,000 li of branch lines. With before such can be undertaken.

dinner. Suddenly he pulled out his the above facilities for transportation the

"The political system of China is the watch: "It is now nine o'clock," he agricultural advancement of China will Presidential system. We have at present said. At this moment there are a hun- bo most noticeable. Among the trunk

a Council of State, and to this body will dred thousand people in America writing Hongkong Observatory, June 23rd. lines to be built may be mentioned the soon be added the National Legislature poetry, and most of them will send it to

Chinchew-Aigun railway. Some years which as yet has not been convened. We Previous On Date On Dateage this country proposed the building of will have only ons House, or it may be

Day st

this line with no idea whatsoever of decided that the Council of State remain

The making it a political railway,

as the Upper House, At present the negotiations for the undertaking are Council of State is acting in the cpacity possibly well known, It will take some of a National Legislature, We have at thing like fifteen years to build the present a Provisional Constitution, and railways that are under construction and the Council of State and National Legis-leaves, loppings, roote chips and any projected, and we may safely say that the lature wore decide upon through the kind of combustible refuse, will make gas. shortest period to be allowed for their authority of this Constitution. The Pre- for working gasengines and supplying completion cannot be put under twelve sident received his powers from the Assem retorts and furnaces. Usually 24 lb. to scare

bly. The Assembly was formed by the 3 lb. of such refuse will develop 1 b.b.p.,. feel that I will be correct to state that convening of two representatives from which means that a ton will supply 100 each Province and four, from the De-b.h.p. a day. As no skilled attention is the increase in export and production of pendencies. This Assembly was convened needed for such wood-waste gas-producing this Province owing to railway facilities in March last year. Eaeti Province had plants the working costs are low, will be true of any and all other centres

Sawdust and wood waste show good of Ching where the natural conditions an electoral body composed of two electora

from each Provincia! District. These financial results when used for distillation prevail for good agricultural enterprises lectors in general convention selected the purposes, and it also pays to use sawdust. You must remember that Hankow is two Provincial representatives who were for the manufacture of Gralic acid, which something over four hundred miles from represented in the Assembly at Pekingut the present time commands a high the sea, and the fact that other lines The Legislature will be elected by the price. He finds that the distillation of will have their termini at the sea will naturally inake it easier to build up ar people but not on the basis of universal one tou of waste wood (corumon soft Sufrage. The roting franchise will be woods) yields to gallons of boiled tour, four export trade.

It must also be kept in divided amongst three classes of people, gallons of wood oils, 6 ept. of charcoal, mind that the Peking-Hankow Railway and this classification will depend upon five gallons of wood-naptha, and 14 cwt. only drains the produce of three districts three qualifications (1) age, (2) education,nectate of lime. With wood waste at 10s. in the Province. Railway construction

The number of representan ton he calculates the working expenses

§ TEXPERATURE, in the shade, in degrees

8 HUMID, in percentage of metuestion, the humidity of air satinated with moleines being 300.

· DARMOTION ON Wan, to two połuła.

* Foman or Warp, sonording to Beaufort Sexia.

HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER.

Barometer oppeti Temperature Humidity...AY Wind Direction ..: Force. Weather setrai

Kain

at 2 p.m. 6. am 2pm.

29.80

29.82

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HONGKONG TIDA TABLE.

From 24th to 30th June,

HIGH WATER

LOW WATEE

fosa the

H'kong

H'kong.

Mean

Mex

NERVES

CHAPOTEAUT'S PHOSPHO-CLYCERATE OF LIME

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IN CAPSKLES, IN WINE, AND IN SYRUP

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GAS FROM WOOD-WASTE.

A writer in The Times states that

with 100 tots a work us about 238 wton, und a quantity, so small as 25 tons can be treated weekly on commercial basis.

China is not expensive as compared property. with the figures we have-of-other-countives from each Province will depend upon of a complete distillation plant to deal tries. To construct i of railway in the population of the Provinces. China, less the interest on the invested hta.it in. capital, will approximate $20,000 (per li). For some years to come i will be more

The American Polish Relief Committee economical for China to build her roads by the granting of railway concessions state that a letter has been received from

The Rev. Mr. Malder, a military Chap- foreign capitalists. There is neither the the famous Polish singer, Edouard de money nor the experience in this country Reszke, stating that his splendid estate at lain who has been invalided Home from to make it profitable to undertake much Garnesk, in Poland, has been atherly Bamor, states that the German officials railway construction on our own behalf, destroyed, and the whole region laid there, who had been earning fat salaries The basic principle for the success of waste. He is living in a collar with and were permitted to retain office under Princess Lukourirski, British supervisors, have struck, and that agricultural developments in China is the Prince and

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increasing of the means of communicatica destitute fugitives from their own sixteen British officials have now replaced Large areas at present not under culti devastated property. He is without fuel, thirty Germans, Since then, he said, the ration, or sometimes under but very oil, or coffee, and scarcely any food. counts have shown a surplus instead of sparsely cultivated, can be turned into Jean de Reske, the great tenor, to whom a considerable deficit: the Colony is now vast productive districts as soon as means the letter was addressed, fears that his paying its way. The revenue will in are afforded for the export of the products brother will not survive his terrible hard-future be used for the development of the

ships. whether domestic or fcreiga export.

country,