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THE DIRECTORY AND CHRONICLE 1916.

FOR CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO. UHINA, SIAM, STRAITS SETTLE

MENTS

STATES,

WETHERLANDS INDIA, PHILIP. PINES, BORNEO, ETO,

MALAY

#IFTY-FOURTH ANNUAL ISSUE.

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The Directories and Descriptions are of :

Peking.

CHINA

Socabow. Canton. Klentain, Chiakiang. Whampos,

Peltaiho,

Nanking. Kowloon.

Chinwangtao. Wohu.

Baku.

Lapps.

Kewfang. Sambul.

Autong.

Hankow.

Manchurian

Yoshow.

Trade C'tres. Shansi.

Kongmoon. Nanning. Washowfu. Kwangchauwan. Chungking, Pakhol.

Newchwang. Iehang.

Dairen

Port Arthur. Hangchow. Holbow.

Ningpo. Langchow. Wenchow. Mangtao. Bantu.

Chefoo

Weihaiwei

Trinanfu.

Mulden,

Shanghai.

Bwatow.

Tokyo.

Yokohama.

yoga.

Kobo.

Poochow Amoy.

Holow. Brezino. Tengyueb.

JAPAN AND FORKƆA,

Deska. Korung, Moji.

Tainenfu. Nagasaki. Takow, Hakodate Anping.

Shimonoseti. Tamsai.

Neolofersk.

KASTERN SIMMERÍA.

Vladivostock.

Beoul,

OKOVAN. Wonnan. Mokpo.

Ebemulpo, Fusan.

Konkan.

Chinnampo. Pingyong Bongchin, Hongkong and its DepandEnoxxe, Manan.

KUMBINA.

Anna. Hué.

Hanoi.

Haiphong.

Tonkin Provinces, Quinton,

Manila,

Porat

Barswak Granoi,

Tour

Ma

saigon, Gambodge.

PELLIPPINES

Ilaiko.

Cebu,

BORNEO.

Labuan,

British North Bornes.

BANGXGE.

MALAY Bravi,

Selangor.

Pahang. Kedab

Negri Sembilan, Johore. Kelantan.

Trengganu. Perlis. Bingapore, Penang, Malacos, Prov, Welleniny,

Buitensorg.

British. French.

STRAITS BWIRLAMENTO,

NETHERLANDS INDIA.

Semarang. Padang. Sourabaya. Muonmar.

East Coast of Sumatra.

NAVAL SQUADRONI,

Уврадене,

United States. Siamese. Italian,

Office of COAST AND RIVER STRAMERO,

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THE MAPS AND PLANS

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various

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THE SAME TO-DAY

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REWARE OF IMITATIONS

MOLE AGENTS IN HONGKONG LANE CRAWFORD & CB,

and from BEL WIES MIOTANTE.

HEAD, HANDS, FACE

MASS OF ERUPTION

Disfigured Face and Neck. Hands in Terrible State, No Rest At Night for Itching and Burning. Cuti- cura Soap and Ointment Healed.

6. Darham St., Orangetown, Cardiff, 8.

·Walon --"My hoad, hands and face wore ́une trass of soros with the sczenia I had When I rubbed them water would run fron them and whorover the water weat a frosts eruption of Bores would break out. It dis figured my face and neck; but my harkis woro In a terrible state. I had to wrap my head in cotton wool and I had no rest at night for the itching and burning. I could not do anything about the house and I had to cm- ploy a girl for the time being to do my house -wode

tried ointments and herbs but they

vori underwent dld nie 'no good shḍ' Oven treatment. At last a friend naked in to got

like some Caticura Soap and Ointment ao

I washod free sample of each. . I' wrote for the affected parts with Cutters Soap amă warm water and put the Outeurs Ointment on. I I have had a set of Cuticurs Soap and Ointment since and they thoroughly cured me." (Bigned) Mrs. A.Wheeler, Jas: 31, 1914. Although the Cuticura Soap and Oiste ment are mort successful in the treatmint of affections of the skin, scalp, hair and hands, they are also most valsable for every-- day use in the tollet, bath and murgery bas Chase they promote and rasintain the health of the skin and hair from infancy to age.

Samples Free by Post Although Cuticura Boap and Cutters Ointment are sold by drugglate and dealers throughout the world, -n berat sample of each with 32-p. Bkka Book will, bo went free upon requiset, Address post-card: F. Now- bury & Sons, 27, Obarterhouse 84. London.

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"BASS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1918--

THE GOLDEN BEAN THAT

GERMANY WANTS.

If Germany is being allowed to import soya beats she is getting food for her man, her cattle, and her guns. No coun- try more than Germany appreciates the value of this wonderful golden bean whose introduction to Europe from China forme the greatest trade romance of the present

century.

SIR THOS. JACKSON, BART, TRANSLATION OF EVIDENCE PARLIAMENT AND THE FAR

FUNERAL AT STANSTED.

TO-ALIEN PRISONERS.

RULING OF THE COURT OF

APPEAL

BAST

TRADE OF KIAO-CHOW.

The funeral of Sir Thomas Jackson took place at the Stansted Parish Church on flowers, and the coffin being covered with December, Bath, the interior having many

In the House of Commons on December: many wreaths and other forel mementoes,

The Court of Criminal Appeal on Dond, Lord R. Cosil, replying to Bix Edwin The con was borne by the butler and other cember 17th dismissed the appeal of Cornwall, said: There has naturally been employee on the estate. The cervice, which was conducted by the Vicar, the Ber

Lee Kan, Chinese, who was sentenged E Goodchill, was choral. Those who had to death at the Central Criminal Court arrived by the frein from Liverpool-street for the murder of a woman at Limehouse taken to the churol. The company is without the evidence being interpreted to were met at the station by motors and

It was said that the trial had proceeded cluded:

Captain Julius Jackson (son), who was severely the prisoner, who could not understand Low than eight years ago Europe knew wounded in September, 1014, and Mrs. Jubis | English. The prisoner was defended by practically nothing of the soya baan or its Juan, Lieut. Rused Jackson, B.G.A. (/m), councel. remarkable nutritious qualities and tho atajor A. M. Tabor, Hussars, and M. Tabur The Lord Chief Justice said that the uses to which it could be put. For over daughter); Mrs. Lloyd, wife of Lieutenant-praction of the Courts in regard to bran 2,000 years the Chinese, cultivating the Colonel Lloyd Lancashire Fusatio; Mrs Ray-slations had varied considerably. The plant chiefly on the plains of Manchuria mond Marker, widow of Lieutenant-Colonel B. only praation upon which there had been had kept it to themselves. Dictionaria, Marker, D.8.0., Coldstream Guards, who was uniformity was that when a dosire was still dismiss it with sentenco as ga killed ju action in November, 1914; ud ise manifested by socused or his counsel for Asistio leguminous herb the seeds of which D. St. F. Jackson (daughters), Sir Thomas eldest translations it bad beon permitted. The are used in proparing the sauce called son, the new baronet, Major Thomas Daro Jack-wafer and wiser course when a foreignor The war with Russia brought the o, M.V.O., D.5.0., King's Own (Royal Laness was the defendant was that the evidence Japanes in dieser bogel for

be where the bean is cultivated. They re- alised its value and possibilities, and in 1908 a firm of exporters in Japan sent a trial consignment to England.

was

a complete dislocation of trade at Kino- chow in consequence of the-war, but f would appear that the Expanese authori ties have done their best to facilitate a return to normal conditions,

that

Straits

a publi

THE SINGAPORE MUTINY Mr. Gershom Stewart gave notice that. on January 4th he would ask the Secretsay, of State for the Colonies whether he has official information to the affect

· of the the Governor Settlements has admitted in speech that the loos] suthorities we sware for some time before the mutiny in February lost that there was a gosling unrest amongst the men of the 5th Natio Light Infantry; whether it is stated in official report that the first shots were fond anat Alexandra Barracks about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and, in view of the fact that the mutineers did not cut the telephone"/ wires, will he say how it was that the officer in command of the German prisoners' camp was not notified by telephour, and how long it was before the Govorize and the inspector-general of police became- were killed in the Sepoy linos and Koppet aware of the outbreak; whether civilians-

Harbour districts, within a short distance - of two important police statione, more than an hour alter the first shots had been fired: owing to no warning having been issued; whether some Europeans received no notice- of the outbreak until the following day, and in some cases were left to find out things for themselves; whether by a prompt and extensive use of the local telephone lines Europeans both in the city and suburbs could have been notifed at once of the outbreak; and whether the finding of the court of inquiry oan now be laid upon the Table.

mud his youngrat pon, Lieutenant C, S. Jackson, he or his counsel expressed a wish to Coldstrenin Guards, who has also been wounded, dispense with it. There was no authority were unable to attend, both being on active sor for the proposition that the omission to vice in France. Others prowans were :-Mr. G. translate evidence in this case

· Our exports on vegetable oils were im-

Brown, M. D. Gilmour, Mr. G. F. Wright, and irregularity which vitinted the proceedings. pressed. Orders immediately followed and Mr. Jack McCullagh (nephews), Mr. J. R. M. For this reason the appeal was dismissed. the goya bean boom" began. It pro-mith, Sir Walter Gilbey, Lord Blyth, Hon. Her Commenting on the case. The Times duced in Europe what has been described her Bisti, Lady Cameron, Sir Fielding Clarke, says: As the attitude of the Judges in na a commercial revolution. Every coun- Mr. Gorabotn Stewart, M.P., Mr. Murray Stewart, such cases has varied within the last fifty try of importance became deeply interest. Mr. J. Anaan Bryce, M.F., Mr. A. M. Townsend, years, it was time that some rules for ed. Quick fortunce were made by pioneers, Sir Carl and Lady Meyer, Sir Charles Addis, Mr. their guidance should be formulated by The exports from Chinn row rapidly of soul, W. E. Ross; Mr. W. S. Edwardson, tice lng now declared that the safest and Ss Hughes, Mr. Douglas Jones, Mr. H. L. high suthority; and the Lord Chief Jus- now the bean is second on China's exports, with a value approach Mr. J. P. May, Mr. R. C, Gosling, Mr. and Mrs. course is to interpret the evidence to the ing £8,000,000, Russia and Japan, whose w. Foot Mitchell, Mr. W. Munford, the Bay. sccused except when counsel on his railway system serve the bean district, B. C. Earle, Mr. G. Alder, jun., Mr. A. Alder, behalf expresses p wish to dispense with are chiefly concerned in the work and

Mr.VA. C. Hawkins, Mr. H. E. R. Hunter, the translation and the Judge thinks fit organisation of expert,

to përthit the omissions." As the ultimate The soya bean survived the "boom" D. and Miss Hurtigan Colons! Healy,

C.M.C., Mr. W.A. Buchanan, Captain responsibility is cast upon the Judge it It justified most of the flattering things Houtledge. Mr. 0. Nowell, Hon. Mrs. Rome, Mrs will become the invariable custom, no said about it. Its famo spread far and Archie Gold, Mr. W. Sauders, Mr. J. Ross-Anton, doubt, to have the evidence translated wide. Many tone were exported to Hull, Mr. T. Gauthory, Mr. and Scott Henderson, Mr. Such a course will be in harmony with where a factory and oil presses were estab-1. E. Yeouinus, Hon. Mre. Garald Gold, Mr. the best fraditions of our Courts, If the lished and a very important export trade II. II. Bass, Mr. W. H. 8. Tíssiman, Mr. J. accused does not understand the proceed to the Continent was built up. Our agri-Lyall, Mr Homco Harwood, Mr. T. M. Cings he might just as well be tried in cultural colleges experimented with the Browne, Mrs. Bolton (representing Caps, Bolton), big absence, and it is contrary to law to bean products as food for eattle and pigs; M. Erio Magn, Sir John McLeavy Brown, Mr. hold a trial for a felony from which the Sweden set her experts at work and dis-

and Mrs. Waller Gold, Mr. E. H. Oxley, Mr. D. prisoner is absent unless he makes his covered that bean cake was a highly satis-H. Maskintosh, Col. David Chapman, Mr. Dtrial impossible by disorderly conduct in factory food for milch cows; Denmark Prine, Mr. J. C. Peter, Mr. Tresham, Mr. W followed and built a large factory at

Irvine Rowell, C.M.G., Mr. P. Hendry, and Me Copenhagen to deal with the expert from Vladivostock; the South African Goyern- ment Trades Commissioner, convinced of the great future of the soya bean industry, urged the competition of South African farmers with the bean growers of Man- churia. In Paris a factory was built by a Chinese firm.

GERMAN THOROUGKNESS. And what did Germany do, With cus tomary thoroughness she got Germans on the spot to find out all there was to be found out about the bean and its food and trade values. She sent them to Chang shun, the great distributing centra for the bann in Manchuria. Already German houses were well establicere it a greater share than the British in the It was not long general import trade, before the Huns decided to adopt the friendliest attitude towards the soya bean, and in 1913 Germany rescinded the import duty and installed soya bean plant in her oil mills, importing the beans through Vladivostock, often in British bottoms chartered for the purpose.

The secret of the soya bean is its uni- versal usefulness. Almost more remarkable than the rise of the bean trado itself i the crop of discoveries of the uses to which it can be put. The Trades Commissioner for the Government of South Africa in

Q. Little.

MEMORIAL SERVICE AT ALL HALLOWS.

A memorial service was held at the Parish Church of All Hallows, Lombard street, E.C.; at noon... The service was choral, the by mans and 90th Psalm being finely rendered by the choir. At the close of the service the "Dead March" in Sazut was impressively rendered by the organist, The service was woll attended by old friends of Sir Thomas, the company pre- Boat including

the dock.

In early times the desire to be just to foreigners led to the grant of a right to be tried by a jury de medittate langwie, than ia, & jury of which half the members were alien. That right, was taken away by the Naturalization Act of 1870 Pro sumably the aliens in most cases were bilingual. If they were not, the incon venience, caused by the privilege must have been grast, as may be inferred from an experience related by Mr. Justice Sorutton during the bearing of the China man's appeal His lordehip, while on circuit in Wales, was faced with some- thing like a jury de medietate linguae, for Lady Addis, Lieutenant T. Addie, Miss addis, three monoglot Welshmen had been sworn Mr. A. L. Allen, Mr. Frederick Anderson, Mr. as jurors and it became necessary to tran- and Mm. . . C. Anderson, Mr. A. G. Angier, slate the summing-up phrase by phrase, Mrs, and Miss Anton, Major Atkinson, Mr. 0. In such circumstances interpretation was Baker, Bir Eric and Lady Barriagiou, Me, F. J. imperative. It will not be disputed that Earthorpe (General Manager London County and it is equally essential that a prisoner, Westminster Bank), Mr. W. U. Bayne, Mr. W. especially if he be charged with the M Blackie, Mr. M. Blackwell, Lady Boyes, Miss capital orime, should be enabled to com- Boyes, Mrs, Blackwell, Mr. S. Broadbent, Mr. prehend what is said for and against him 3. Campbell, Mr. John Caines (Yorkshire Penny at his trial. A prisoner is placed under a Bank, Ltd.). Mr. E. J. Carroll, Mr. H. C. Car arique disadvantage if he is not pro raibers, Mr. E. Cook, Mr. J. B. Coughtric, Mr. vided with the means of following the 0. H. Crawford, Miss G. Davies, Mr, J. G. current of the case made against him. Davies, Mr. F. d'Idanger, Mr. de St. Croix (North Even though the depositions in the pre- China Insurance Company), Mr. Georgs Erans, lirainary proceedings at the Polios Court Mr. Ewell (London County and Westminster have been translated, new evidence may be Bank), Mr. O, Fond, Mr. A. J. Fraser, Mr. Wadmitted at the trial which, in the words Fraser, Mias à. Furley, Mr. A. 8. Garütt, Mr. of the Lord Chief Justice, may enable the K. F. Gordon, Mr. H. Gorsuch, Mr. W. H., N.

THE FIVE-POWER GROUP, On. December 23rd, Sir Richard Cooper asked the Secretary for Foreign Affairs if ho would state whether the agreement between the five-Power group, formed for the purpose of issuing Chinese Ioats, has been dissolved, and would he state if there was now an opening for privato British merchants and financial institutions ta secure contracts direct from the Chinesa Government with the support of the Foreign Office,

Lord Robert Cecil: The answer to the first part of the question is in the negative, and the inquiry contained in the second part does not, therefore, arise.

CAERLEON.

Here, where the dust blows up and down

the road, Trudged sober pilgrims bending to the

load of gaunt-armed crucifix, And steaming censer, and imagined sina: Hore, where the last pink foam of sunset

thias,

Swept horsemen terrible in dappled aki-a

"Where myrtlea mix With wiry flowers that straggle, soentless,

drear,

1012 gave the following list of soya bean Goschen, Mr. J. Howard Gwyther, Mr. Bidney accused to recollect facts tibi then for Yes vivid as the hair of Genevieve,

products :-

Vegetable (like mar-

zow fat peas). Soups

Most substitute. Chocolato substitute.

prepara.

Macaroni

tion,

Flour,

"Artificial milk

Cheese.

Coffee substitutė.

Artificial horn, Biscuits and food for diabetes patients. Sauce. Moal for cattle.

Oil Oilenke.

-Fertiliser- Beancake.

The oil extracted from the soya bean, be pointed out, was used in the manufac ture of the following articles :— Dynamite and bigi Waterproof cloth.

explosiver.

Paper umbrellas and *Soaps.

lanterus, Salad: vil Lubricating oil, Lamp oil. Preserving sardines, Lard substitute,

Linoleum,

Rubber substitute. · Margarine,

Above the loam Thorn-thickets whitened, wazen, Inably hot, From horded clouds the random sunbeam.

chot

On crouching gable-ends of Camelot

And fretted dome. Hore, where hedraggled seasons still unfold In death's-head leaf and rain-drenched

marigold,

To prayer or sport,

Far bells, wild trumpets, sterms of'

crashing brass summon ghost faces, pale above the gram, Dotting the dusk like mushrooms, as they

To Arthur's Court,

pass

gotten and to give additional information nusock, Mr. J. H. Hoycook, Mr. E. E. so hip counsel for the purposes of cross-

The remarks of the Lord. (Royal Exchange Assurance), Mr. R. H. Hill, examination." Mr. Wynnard Hooper, Lord Inchcape, Mr. G. Chief Justics apply to evidence only, but W. Jamieson, C.M.G., Mr. B. M. Janion. Dr. logically as Sir Barry Poland-has-point James Johnston, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. C. Jones, ed out in these columns, the prisoner Mr. L. G. Jones, Mr. C. B. Jourdain, Mr. Paul should know all that counsel for the King (Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs); Mr. Crown has said against him and should M. Kirkpatrick, Mr. O. Mackintosh, Majer Oknow also what the Judge has said about Magnino, Mr. J. MacLennan, Mr. Malcolmson, him in the summing-up to the jury. Mr. T. Mercer, Mrs. Middleton-Williams, Mr. A. According to Mr. Llewelyn Williams, the Mansur, Mr. G. W, Moore, Mes. Montgomeris whole of the proceedings is sometimes in- (widow of Rear Admiral Muntgomerie), Ms. G.

terpreted on the Welsh circuite. It is E. Noble, Mr. C. B. Nugent (Union Discount oumbersome and tedious process, but it Co.), Mr. R. E. N. Padield, Mr. Page (Page&is in consonance with the spirit and the Gwyther), H.2. the Persisu Minister, Mr. history of British justion. The judgment K. F. Pjokeu, Mr. O. C. Plowman, Mr. W. O.

of the Court of Criminal Appeal, however, Hutobone, Mr. J. F. Reid, Mr. R. L. Hichardson, so far as it goes, has removed doubts Glasgow Herald Mr. G. A. Richardson, Mr. Roberts, Mr. E. F. Robinson, Mr. Sydney Rogers (Imperial Bank of difficult point, and it is altogether Parsia), Viscount St. Aldwyn, Admiral of the to the credit of our system of conducting

criminal trials, Fleet Sir Edward Seymour, Mr. G. E. Sendell, Mr. A. A. Shand (Parr's Bank), Mr. A P. Simp son, Mr. J. de Berhièrs Smith, Mr. J. I. M. It. requires imagination to appreciate Smith, Ar. W. F. Spalding, Mr. H. M. Stanley, that all these commodities are the produc: Mr. . H. Soul (Anglo-Egyptian Baut), Mr. J of one hardy plant from far Manchuria J. Todd, Mrs. A. M. Townsend, Miss Jessie Thom- which was first commercially introduced sott, Mr. W. II. Wallace, Mr. William Walter, to Europe seven years ago. Small wonder Mrs. E. Watney, Mr. F. Wheatley, Mr. B. White, that the Kaiser's men and pigs and guns M. 7. H. Whitehead. Mr. W. N. Whymper have a welcome for the little yellow bean Royal Exchange Assumace), Mr. C.. Wield, Mr. even more hearty, perhaps, than for W. Wield, Mr. II, C. Wiloor (formerly of the eopra. The pod is about two inches in Daily Press) (representing China Association), and length and the plant has an erect stem Mr. A. G. Hood two to three feet high. There are three main varieties of the bean, vellow (huang ton), green (ching ton), and black (wu ton). The yellow contains more nutritivs ingredients than the others, and the beau exported is almost exclusively yellow. The quantity of oil extracted varies from 16 per cent, to 19 per cent.

Paints, varnishes. Toilet powder.

ROMANTIC BEANSTALK.

DISASTROUS FIRE IN JAPAN,

THE KAISER TO THE SERBIANS.

"RETURN TO YOUR HOMES AND CUSTOMS."

J. G. 8.

THIN FOLKS WHO WOULD BE FAT

INCREASE IN WEIGHT TEN POUNDS ON MORE.

A PHYSICIAN'S ADVICE.

"I'd certainly give most anything to The Proclamation issued by the Kaiserbe able to fat up a few pounds and stay. to the Serbian people is as follows:- that way," declares every excessively thin. To my noble and heroic Serbian insu or WOMBA.. Such a result is not people:

impossible, despite past failures. Thin people are victims of malnutrition,

prevents the fatty condition which elements of food from being taken up by the blood as they are when the powers of autrition are normal. Instead of getting into the blood, all the fat and fesa pro- ducing elements stay in the intestines until they pass from the body as waste,

"It has been an unfortunate necessity A disastrous fire broke gut between the that has put our two nations in conflict, warehouser of the Tobacco Monopoly but the fauli has not been yours, Oberoio Bureau, at Higashijiri-iks, Hyogo, and Serbians! but rather that of your Gov- the Hyogo workshops of the Kawasaki ernment which allowed itself to be deceived Dockyard, Kobe, in the early hours of by its perfidious Allies. Do you wish to

continue on this disastrous policy, sacri January 19th. A large wooden building ficing yourselves to the Allies who have

rows of warehouses of the been your rain! and three Monopoly Bureau, besides an office and a factory building of the dockyard, were

were

To correct this condition and to pro- You have been fighting for three years, duce a healthy, normal; amount of fat

For that supplied with the power which nature has

This can best be accom→

Twenty-five per cent, of the cultivated area in Manchuria is given up to the bean, and the town of Changchun owes its prosperity to the trade and the Japanese who have had the enterprise to develop completely destroyed before the outbreak and your valour has demonstrated that the nutritive processes must be artificially it. Here at Changchun the Russian and wes got under control two hours later. you are worthy of liberty. Japanese railway systems meet, the Rus-The Monopoly Barosu warehouses contain-reason we come, not as enemies, but as denied them

Harbin and ed 344,500 ton of leaf tobacco valued at your friends, for the purpose of reorganis.plished by eating two Sargol tables, with sian trade going

ing your national liberty and guarantee every meal. Sargol is a scientific com- Vladivostock and forth to

Japanese

south to Y.450,000 approximately, which Dairon. On these two routes 70 per cent entirely destroyed. When the destructioning. Four rights. We therefore invite the bination of six of the best strength-giving, of the beans produced are exported. To of the buildings is taken into account, the population which have abandoned their fat-producing elements known to the nations, territory to return to their homes, medical profession. Taken with meals, it Changchun come the caravans of cars total loss will exceed Y.900,000.

their customs and their labours, and when mixes with the food and turns the sugars and starches into rich, ripe nourishment loaded with beans from all parts of Man-

they have returned they will find that our

for the tissues and blood and its rapid churis for sale to the brokers.

promises are not false--WILHELM.

of Serbian diplomatic circles in Rome have effect is remarkable. Reported gains

from ten to twenty-five pounds in a single been notifel that the Germans have es-

Yet tablished a provisional Government at month are by no means infrequent.

and all Austro- its action is perfectly natural Nish and have withdrawn Bulgarian troops and ended the Austro absolutely harmless. Hargol is gold by

A. S. WATSON & Co., LTD., Bulgarian interference in the adminis tration of Serbian affairs, Proclamations VICTORIA DISPENSARY,

THE PHARMACY, have been issued announcing that the

QUEEN'S DISPENSART, THE EDWARD DISPENSARY, Gormans will respect Serbian nationality. This action of taking over exclusively the charge of Serbian affairs is said to have and aroused intense ill-feeling amongst the kong Austrians and Bulgariana-Exchange.

of

Writing in his book on Japan of his visit to the bean centres of Manchuria, fact in the history of international com

And the manifold uses, Mr. Robert P. Porter says: "Only after merce....

well as one has travelled through the region agricultural and industrial, as where the soya bean reigns supreme and dietary to which the bean can be put bas geen the wharves and the warehouses, irrest this generous vegetable with in- the stations and the platforms, laden with creasing importance and the future bags of beans, and noted the thousands of the bean crop with romantic myste queer looking stacks with pagoda-like roofs Quite a literature is springing up about with which the country is dested and the saya bean, and in years to come when which serve as temporary storehouses for our fairy tales are revised we shall surely the produce while awaiting shipment, read that Jack's marvellous beanstalk does one realise that is (the growth of the grow from the soya bean-“T. C." in the bean trade) is not a fable but a veritable Daily Mail.

other first-class Chemists of Hong-