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THE SOCIETY OF ST. GEORGE,

HONGKONG

THE HONTKUNG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, APRIL 5ra, 1918.

WAR BOND DRAWINC

(IN AID OF WAR CHARITIES).

TICKETS $5 cach, HONGKONG CURRENCY.

With reference to the Original Prospectus issued in connection with the above, it

has now been decided that :-

1.~Tho value of tickets to be sold shall be limited to 8500,000 (Hongkong

Currency).

The sale of tickets will be extended two months, and will therefore close in.

Hongkong on Wednosday, 12th June, 1918. Sellers of tickets are requested

to send their return, and remittances to reach Hongkong by that date.

3-Should any winning ticket not be presented before noon on the 23rd December, 1918, the ticket will be cancelled, and the value will be distributed.

amongst War Charities by the Comunittes of the St. George's Society of Hongkong. through the median of the Hongkong War Charities Committee.

4.-Notwithstanding the extension of the selling period, it has been arranged that

the Bouds of the Hongkong Government War Loan of 1916 that are paid as prizes

shall bear Interest from the 1st May, 1918, and the first balf-yearly piyment of Interest

will be due on 1st November, 1018..

6.-Lista of Winning Numbers will be despatched to all selling centres as soon as

possible after the Drawing, the date of which will be announced later by advertise-

ment.

By Order of the Committee,

H. C. SANDFORD (Hoo. Treasurer), CH AS BESWICK (Hon. Secretary),

St. George's War Bond" Drawing,

TICKETS obtainable at Banks, Clubs and Leading Stores.

(1626

CUTLER PALMER & CO'S “

“ASAHI BEER.”

MISTONS

SQUARE

BOTTLE WHISKY.

NAPIER JOHNSTONE'S

SQUARE BOTTLE WHISK

DAI NIPPON

ASAHI BEER.

PORAND PRIZE.

ASAHI

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DOLE AGENTS IN HONGKUNG,

AND SOUTH CHINA.

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and from ALL WIRD MaxOF ANTE.

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LAGER-BECR

EATINGO POWDER

KILLS BUGS

11738

BREWERY TOKYO CO..

BOLE AGENTA MITSUN BOSSAN KAISHA. Tin. No. 259 of 156,

THERAPION NO THERAPION NO.

HERAPION NO 3

BREVKORRACHAS NO KAMISURA, LONDON, NOR YOU

ERAPION

GLUT OF RICE IN MANILA.

JAPANESE SHIPBUILDING

YARD CLOSED.

TIN IN 1917.

SIR BEAUCHAMP DUFF'S DEATH

OVERDOSE OF VERONAL.

Oddic, the Westminster coroner, on the An inquest was held by Mr. Ingleby

formly Commander-in-Chief in India, body of General Sir Beauchamp Duff,

donian Club, St. James's-square.

NO TRUCKS TO MOVE IT.

The range of fluctuation has been While the response to the food product

The Kasudo Shipyard at Kudamatau, unprecedentedly great, almost £110. tion campaign among rice growera has

Yamaguchi profecture, run by the Kuhara Beginning the year at £180, there was a Family of Osaka, suddenly stopped stendy rise for the first five months, then been so great that record quantities of

a practical marking time for the next rice have been grown in the rice fields of operations on Monday (March 11th) when the Philippine northern provinces, the 300 of the workmen were dismissed. It ve succeeded by a considerable rise who was found dead in bed at the Cala equipment of the Manila Railroad 28 reported that all the shipbuilding during November and December. In the i utterly unable to handle the demands for materials and the remaining workers are second half of the latter month tin came cars made by rice producers. The com-

under partial Government control, pany has some- 1,200 cars available for service, but, by order of the public utility commissionary, mnist destine 100 of them

The

to ha went to the Innoshima Shipyard of

the Osaka Ironworks.

The Kasado Shipyard started opera tions in July fast. At the same time, the

Kubara family announced that it would for sugar - cane transportation. balance, says the Manila Times, can be convert Kudamatsu, the place the family used for transportation of rice, but there hails from, into a vast industrial town, ave to dar orders for nearly five times shipyard was bought as a site for the A very extensive trast of land near the the number of cars the company has factories, and the townspeople were filled There is no relief in sight for the with pleasure at the thought of the in immediate future. It is a case of pati- the proposal implied. But their exhilara ensased prosperity for the town which Not only tion has prate Shipyard sto while the railroad force is working at the Kasado Shipyard stop all opera top capacity to handle the rush. New tions on the March 11th, but the project terminal facilities are being prepared at for cresting factories has also been sus- the Tondo station, and this will so pended. The building contracts with facilitate loading and unloading that a the Obayashi Gumi and other building number of freigot cars will be released contractors have been cancelled, and on for extra duty. It will be necessary to the 10th and 11th the contractors in turn bring expropriation proceedings to secure | dismissed £ thousand workers specially some of the land necessary for the exten engaged fe reason for the suspension of

for the work.rs 8 sion of the freight terminal, and this means that no relief can be looked for the Kubarn undertaking, a responsible from this quarter for at least six months official of the Kasado Shipyard is quoted

nd perhaps longer

bas saying that it is due to the American Meanwhile the railroad authorities are embargo on the export of iron. He aids hunting the world for Freight curs, Rush

that the suspension is not due to any

works at Yawata

speculation being prohibited, and the price immediately dropped about £40 in

a fow days.

Mr. Douglas G. Duff, of Cheyne-court, Chelsea, said that his father was nearly 03 years old. He was referred to very, adversely in the report of the Meso- potamia Commission, and this affected him considerably. He came home in September, 1910, having, in effect, bon Council had asked those who were een- relieved of his command. The Army, 9d.sured in the report of the Commission

The average price of standard tin for the year was £297 118. 6d. £55 38.

the four quarters of the year being: more than in 1916 the average prices for

January to March April to June

£197 12 2

July to September 2424 October to December 273 10 4 The tin imports into England were considerably smaller, viz, 27,143 tons, as compared with 32,040 tone in 1910 and 350 tons in 1815,

to put in their defence to the indictment formulated in that report, and his father way in process of formulating his defence at the mornent of his death. He had instructed Bir Charles Russell, solicitor, and they were in pretty constant touch. The inquiry was to be held when his father was ready.

His father lived at the Caledonian Club, St. James's-square The fitness last saw him alive on Christmas Day, industry has been short all through the better health than he had seen him for The supply of steel for the tin-plats when he seemed in better spirits and

demands for other purposes. In Jana Mesopotamin trouble 'he thought it was year, owing to the enormous Government some considerable time. His father had suffered from sleeplessness, and since the it was 43 to 44 per cent. of pre-war quantities; in April this was reduced by a further per cent, while in August a slight increase was made, making the proportion 40 to 41 per cent, and in quantity was granted, so that the allot ment now stands at half the normal

works is reported to have caused a loss of 10,000 tons of steel.

more or less constant. He complained about that at Christmas The witnesa did not know he was taking any drugs,

The Coroner He was, I believe. Lord Kitchener's right hand man in India-

orders have been placed in Japan thing connected with the State Steel October a further 10 per cent, of pre-war Witness: I think you may fairly say.

Visdivostock and the United States.

"From the United States, there is no hope the large shipbuilding undertaking at. In the autumn a strike at two of the steel regarded the Commission's report, as

of the orders being filled this year at least, since American Industries are tied up with work for the war purposes of the United States. Japan manufacturers are in much the same plight At Vladivo stock, surplus care are known to be avail able, but confusion in the Russian Govern ment and interminable red tape may prevent the acquisition of the care. The railroad hopes to get 400 cars at once, but its prospects are not of the brightest.

Save for the cara destined for sugar, cane, the railroad is giving preference to rice in backs. It is not handling palay (the unhulled rice) and will not accept this freight probably till after June, when the present rush may be expected to subside, and

Some time ago it was rumoured that Kudamatsu by the Kuhara firm had its origin in a failure to obtain control of the Osaka Ironworks. It is now rum oured that the suspension of the under taking is due to a sudden favourable change coming over the situation as the result of the arrest of two Directors of the Osaka Ironworks in connection with the Steelworks scandal. Even before the insident the Kuhara family, according to the Jiji, owned

waves of the out 40 per cent of the concern, having pur

There has been no variation in the oficial price of £10 78. Gd..

ply has been almost ent off, the figures for

With respect to foreign bars, the sup the last four years being

1914

Tons. 278,014 1916 12,00 1917

Tons.

2.969 965

that The witness added that his father grossly unfair, and was extremely anxious that the evidence should be published in to complete his defence. § exten. He was also extremely fnxious

The Coroner There would be objectionis It might convey information-That is to publishing the evidence in extenso.

the outral suggestion.

But not your father's view!=Well I will not say. He was of opinion that, if it could not be published in full, at all events the greater part of it could be. *4* Was it his opinion that if it was pub- liehed the public might take a different

his view that he would justify his cop duct.

REPUGNANCE TO SUICIDE

chased over 10,000 shares owned by B. Hunter, formerly its President. As already mentioned in our daily share te SIAM AND ENEMY SUBJECTS view of it? Yes, unquestionably It was

alfons to India recently Siam deported a suspen

DEPORTATION TO INDIA

Did he ever say anything abour ani number of enemy side-Yes, but simply more or less gen –

erally, when the report first appeared. saw him shortly afterwards, and we discussed at some length the whole situa tion which had been created. I cannot

port, the Kuhara family has been eagerly buying the shares of the Osaka Iron works, irrespective of price, since the stir The condition of trabe is working a

was caused among the management of the hardship on the rice mills of the north concern owing to the arrest of two of its Calunipit, Bayombong, Cabanatuan and sion of the Kuhare undertaking at

Directors. The rumour that the other rice centres report hodegas barating Kudamatsu is due to the existence of u with rice and no cars to move it. 60 favourable prospect of taking over the serious has the situation become in several control of the Osakas Ironworks recaire tow as that warehouse space is exhausted colour by the proposal to transfer the and the mills can accept no more palay shipbuilding material and some of the

milling The railroad men recoguise workers of the Kuhara arm to the Innoy. Many of these women have her the seriousness of the situation and are shima works of the Canka shipbuilding working night and day to solve the pro-concern. Japan Chronicle. blem ut conditions have simply over- wheline them:

CONSCRIPTION IN JAPAN.

Something like 70 Siamese women and over 100 children by German or Austrian fathers are left as a legacy to the coun-

RUBBER IN BRITISH MALAYA SOME OF THE DEVICES USED IN ong side the country is well rid of her

REMARKABLE GROWTH OF THE

INDUSTRY. The latest compilation of statistics by

AVOIDING IT!

Colonel Baknino, chief of the Tokyo gendarmerie, interviewed by a reporter of the Jiji, gave some interesting facts

owed money to supply goods to their husbands. Siam has treated the deporteca with such consideration, which contrasts very markedly with the treatment meted out by Germany to civilian prisoners of war Leaving political consideration on prisoners. Half the wild rumours with which the bazaar has been full emanated from the interiment camps. Despite the existence of a vernacular and foreign

in this country the of the people still gather their major by what is happening from the gossip. In their daily visits to the markets, all over these enemy aliens in Bangkok and them which could not well be withheld, Ayadbya, and the dacilities for visiting all helped to keep alive a feeling of ayn pathy entirely out of keeping with the situation.

say exactly what his words were, but he would never take his life. It was totally said to me that, whatever happencil, ho repugnant to his whole idea of life. He always spoke with extreme repugnance of the idea of suicido.

Mr. L. Lowton drain, Director of Ag with regard to the various devices the country. The constant presence of position of the body suggested a peaceful

culture, Federated Malay States, gives the following coujarison between 1915 and 1916:

Number of estates Acreage in posscasion. Acreage planted

Acreage producing... Newly planted m

employed to avoid Unscription.

He said that the number of those who try to evade conscription has considerably decreased of late years, but there are still 997,474 & good many cases of auch attempts. 551,959 There are students who keep their names. 351,222 registered in some schools of recognised

1915. 1918.

886 984 916,601 490,479 281,130

29,429 40,781 standing. Such cases will be closely

1918.

Henry Addison, & valet, said that on Saturday night he left Sir Beauchamp Duff in bed, reading. He seemed quite cherry-more than on other nights. Sunday morning he found the cleotric William Henry Witherden said that on light burning by Bir Beauchamp Duff's bed A book was lying on the ficor, and Sir Beauchamp was in bed lying almost in a natural position, wearing his glasses. The Coroner's officer said that the

2nd natural death. A tumbler and some who sold the bottles told him that Sir bottles were handed to him. The chemist. Beauchamp Duff had been a customer for many years. After his return from India he had long talks with him about his sleeplessness in India. He said that the RACE SUICIDE" IN FRANCE and bromide, which did not have the doctor thore ficst prescribed potassium. Inclusive of the corresponding figures, investigated, “We are now making," he for the Malay States outside the Federa- said," an examination of the cases of

For half a year the French Academy of veronal, of which he used to take onÓ desired effect, and then he prescribed tion that is to say, Johore, Kelantan 10,000 such students of military age of Medicine has been deliberating upon a tablet as a rule every other night, You and Kedah, and Trengganu-the were as follow "gganu- the totale whom reports have been sent in from the

waterent prefectures Those who do not report drawn up by Professor Charles if it was not then effective he would ta 1915.

really attend the school and who only tichet on behalf of a special committes veronal was one bottle of 25 tablets eve one each night. His average purchase Number of estates

1.198 1,203 keep their names on the register for the Acreage in possession. 1,519,547 1,005,107 purpose of dodging the conscription will appointed to inquire into the problem of months. He bought one on October 150 Acreage planted 703,525 806.731 be warned, as first offenders.

depopulation in France. No decision has another on December 3rd, and a thi Acreage producing... 347,750 455,120 There are also teachers and univer, as yet been announced, but it is thought found in Bir Beauchamp's room co on December 31st One of the bott Newly planted ...... 49,475 59,252 sity graduates, who are exempted from

The Straits Bettlements Blue Book for military service. If the law to enforce probable that in one form or another, tained bromide of potassium and t 1916 gives the acreage of rubber land in the examination of all males of military the Academy, will recommend endowment Dr. R. S. Trevor, pathologist, said the

other eight veronal tablets, the Settlements as approximately, age be put into force this trouble will 208,800, of which 170,481 acres are in be obviated.

of motherhood by the State.

Dr R 8 Trevor said the Malacca, but it is not shown what proThere are others who resort to the

For Profesor Richet is disinclined to for death The appearance o was no natural disease to accour portion of this is planted and in bearing device of disfiguring their bodies. Some accept some of the more popular explana the body suggested that death

In 1916 the rubber crop in the Federated put peas into their cars, or cut off their tions of the falling birth rate. He is followed some dose of a drug such as Malay States amounted to 36,612 tous ingers, or tamper with themselves so as doubtful even of the common belief that veronal, which was soluble in spirits. against 36,860 in 1915, 14,192 in 1912, and to produce piles. In the western parts the extraordinary decline in France 1 He had examined a deposit and had not 888 tons in 1907, and the figures for the of the country superstitious ideas are in any considerable measure due to the doubt that it was veronal, NE whole of the Malay States of ten years were as follow for a period prevalent examined in worsens geta orsion of property, for whereas the fall of Duft must have had a tremendous amount

For instance, young men will inheritance laws providing for the divi-

The Coroner that Beauchamp 870 tons. 1912 16,210 tons with the string of a woman's petticoat the birth rate has been particularly of worry and mental distress as a result 1,515

1913 22,122 sewn into their obi, Some snatch the remarkable only in the last 40 years, the of the Mesopotamin report and it was: 10092,882**

10142 30,347 1910 5,947, 1915 43,528

offerings of mochi" from the front of law to which it is so often attributed has reasonable to suppose that his sleepless 1911 10,133, 1916... $7,157

Buddhist sanctuary on their way to been in force for more than a century ness had been getting steadily worse. These figures, it'

examination. The idea in all, these cases Moreover, it is observed in classes that 221178€ be pointed out, is that by rendering themselves unclean have no property to bequeath, and are Duff died from narcotic poisoning sel

The jury found that Sir Beauchamp ropresent production, not export, and in they will fail to pass the examination. therefore not subject to the law in ques administered, for the purpose of procu this connection it may be stated that the They sometimes come. total export of plantation rubbed from charms. Generally it is their parents wating influence of the Chuch is an misadventure.

with religious tion. As to the supposition that the ing sleep, and that his death was due to the Federated Malay States alone amount whe urge them to do these things important factor, Prof. Richet points out ed to 68,70 tons in 1916, against 44,523 tons in 1916, 15,506 tons in 1912, and 2,641

Another officer of the Tokyo gendarone that though among the Bretons the tons in 1909 in which latter year the

meyle gave an interesting account of the birth rate is respectively high, yet it is total export from the whole of the Malay superstitious practices peculiar to the very low in other communities no lese Peninsula (inclusive of the Straits Set-

Tokyo district. He said that some religious. Nor does he believe that touch tlements) was only 3,340 tons. The total swallow three pieces of beans and that importance can be attached to the migra export from the FMS. alone in 1917 was Buddha and wet their eyes with water, being that in some districts the urban himself was told by Dr. MA

others eat the rice balls offered to the tion from country to town, the truth in the neighbourhood of 30,000 tons,

or sew the pennant stalen from a shrine birth rate is actually higher than the surgeon of a Dutch steamshi of Inari into their obi wa Kui rural. On one point he agrees with the arrived at San Francisco. On 1s --- Colonel Bakatno said that, as a rule great majority of observers namely that out from a European port, these tricks were of no avail and the in France as elsewhere the decline is charming manners who spoke said, there was a passenger, on confession in such cases by adopting a deliberate birth control, dictated per name of Forbes He showed an recruiting officers could usually get & attributable in the main to voluntary and with an Oxford accent and weat threatening attitude.

haps by more exacting standards of social omfort and a growing disinclination photographs military matters as among women to devote the best part of Suez Canal Forbes claimed to

passing thro their lives to rearing children. A desire tish the back of his be

flat. Noting this

Dr. Jelier sa -room dur

1907 1908

24.

HOW A GERMAN SPY BETRAYE

ARHIMSELF

The

story of how a German spy betra

TAXATION AFTER THE WAR. The Parliamentary Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is naturally giving anxious consideration to the prob Tem how to meet the enormous accumu lation of financial liabilities, which the

CREATING A NEW ARMY. war is bringing on the nation. It is Plane for the mobilization of an army less an important consideration, but while in realised that the present methods of of defence to be composed of several Profer Bichet believes that the expense journey, soros the Red Sea he s

formerly monopolised by men is douberish taxation may prove insufficient, and it hundred thousand men are being put into

to take a larger abatein activities motie

Hawk gets understood that Mr. Bonar execution with almost feverish anste, but involved in rearing children is the most asked Forbes in German where Law has no intention of making a levy on no announcement has been made that important of all, the cost of a child up heen born. Forbes sprang to his f capital. But it is believed that there is Brazil will send troops to Europe It to the age of 16 averaging, according to also in German, asked the do-tas avust potential source of revenue in the is generally believed that this fighting his estimate, about one-sixth of the rent of he was an Englishman undeveloped material riches of the Em force is to remain in Brazil. When father's annual earnings. It is for this Ceylon, the doctor saw Forbes pire, and the expedienes of utilising these Brazil declared a state of war to exist reason that he believes the State must sketches and informed the port a When the steamship putin at C for the purpose of coping with the great with the German Empire, the Brazilian sooner or later pay those who undertaketies. Dr. Jelier said he had since financial demanda is not likely to escape army was composed of 18,000 men, with to provide for the perpetuation of the that Forbes was tried, convicted a the aftratios of the Treasury.

officers enough for 30,000:

at Colombo,

где

had