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THE HONGKONG DAILY

PRESS

FRIDAY,

·JULY 4TH.

1919.

REMAKING FRAnce,

B

DODGE BROTHERS

MOTOR CAR

Its Goodness is alone responsible for the unusual demand that has existed right' from the beginning.

Nothing has ever disturbed the demand for this Car. No outside conditions, no conditions inside the industry seem to slow it up a particle: The people want the Car more intensely at this moment than ever they wanted it before, The Car has reached the stage when its sales are almost automatically increased.. By this we mean that one sale is almost certain to result in one or two other sales.

There is a very pronounced and definite public opinion now in this country, concerning the Dodge Bros. Car.

People seem to know that Dodge Brothers' idea, from the very first, was that if they built the Car right, nothing else mattered. It is the quality revealed in are attracted by its performance which makes the price impressive. People something more than price; it is the internal and external excellence which characterises the Car.

"The high price it demands when sold second-hand increases the which the Car is held."

respect

in

It would be hard to find a truer test of enduring worth. People are not eager for used Cars unless they know that such Cars have before them a long life of satisfactory service...

And so the Dodge Brothers Car is bought," not upon price, but upon the quality and value that it embodies,

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

BY ROYAL WARRANT TO H.M. THE KING.

CHAPOTEAUTS

MORRHUSL

Superior, to Emulsions or Cod Liver oll.

Each tiny Morrhol capsule ro presents the medicinal value of a |«teaspoonful of all...

Recommanded at the Paris Aca demy of Medicine, "for loss of appetite and flesh, to patients with consumptive tendencies

Sold in battles of 100 Capsulas.

AGENTS.

Quality.

With LEA & PERRINS' SAUCE, a few drop: sprinkled over the meat, fish or cheese, &c., are all that is required to impart the most delicious piquancy and flavour.

The QUALITY and concentration of its ingredients make a little of this sauce go a long way,

Lea Herrins

Original and Genuine WORCESTERSHIRE

A GOOD INVESTMENT

is always sought after. Any expenditure, however," which promotes oma'a wazi being is a sound investment. Good health, undeuhtadiy, is one of the greatest smuta & man, or Wonian can posset for without it name can be at their best physically or It to mentally. Minox good hemithi, the joy of life is dimmed.: Bescham's Pizza sen a paying investment for all who desire to promote and maintain good health. wise to have recourse to kala-wonderful spedita en the firas signs of indisposition, When the stomach is disordered, when the appetite in poor, when the bowali ars irregular, the live sluggish, or you feel gmerally out of sorts you capsat do better than take a few down of this world-famous medicina" You will oéétainlý benefit. There are ample retuens in health and satisfaction for all who invest in the remedy of

Beecham's Pills

'Frepared only by „THOMAS ELSCHAM, St Helens and..

Sold everywhere in box, ripe Sid (36 pilla) 1/2jd (54ptils) & 2/5 (163 pits),

"I

THE WOMEN'S PART. [BY M. P. BILLINGTON:]

LILLE, April 7th.

WOMEN DIPLOMATS: WELL, CUTLER, PALMER & 00.8%

WHY NOT?

THEY ARE, BORN TO IT,

When are we going to do the right thing and throw open ver diplomatic and Consular services to wonten ? asks Miss To some of Sophia Montformery in a London pub

lp Renaissance" was the spirited sign over a newly opened little shop in Armentières this morning.

as of the party of Englishwomen who have coine over at the invitation of the Mayor of Lille, addressed to Sir Henry:

cation

It is a commonplace that in the days

Britain, M.P., and carried out in detall before the war the Services were under by the Overseas Claks it appealed in its cland. They have been abused both in apt and striking illustration of the Parliament and the Press, and reforms courage and high heart with which Francs

On

are supposed to be on the way

women

Bus the greatest of all reforms is never is facing the arduous task that lies before

*uggested-the appointment of her. Litle we had already seen. Friday evening, the visitors were received Ambassadors and Consula

by Maitre Crepy, the Deputy-Mayor of

There is, however in Paris to-daga

Lilk, in the regrettable absence, through lady diplomatist in the person of Miss illness, of the city's chief ruagistrate, and Gertrude Bell, who has filled, the post of Lady Britain had made a charming little Assistant Political Officer of the British speech in French, expressing the admira Government at Bagdad. I do not know tion of all those present, representing whether this office is honorary or not. many phases of feminine, political, phil.The point does not matter anthropic, and professional interests. for

the faith and the endurance shown by the

Miss Bell is an expert on Mesopotauri

women of our splendid Ally, who had and her knowledge and talents are being suffered such unspeakable hardships and pressed into use for the enlightenment of humiliations at the hands of their brutal the Peace Conference.

Why not extend the practice of employ invaders. And from the gentlemen con nected with the civic life of the town ing women apou diplomatic missions!

The other week Queen Marie, of. Re you beard with

She has fested at the risk of heavy punishment to mania was in London acting as a kind of themselves towards the sorely ill-treated Ambassador Extraordinary.

fbeen diplomatising in Faris, and hay ru British prisone

Raced of the ratitude never to bej

sympathy mani-]

of war last summer.

It is the domestic side of the sufferings turned there on the same errand. She within the devastated area that wil be seems to have been engaged on both official the central siden of our six days pro-and unofficial enterprises, and all of them gramme. Of the glories and the valour,

When one thinks of the matter women ondere born diplomatists. They are brought of the sheer, stark, material wreckage, and ve been successful. the desolation of great tracts of

the records of the past fertile country, the

years, and more have been full. But up to wheedle and cajole. Every woman's

tile is a history of diplomacy there can be contrasts sharp and poignant even in the loss of home and all that it They fatter and persuade with irre- stands for. The inhabitants of La Basséu sistible success. The country which can impress into its service the largest num had been wanderers and refugees during the greatest part of the four years of ber of beautiful women with minds well fighting-save for 250 dauntless folk whol equipped and disciplined and possessing

There are plenty of women well fitted by their knowledge of languages and by travel to take up work as political officers abroad. Only a ridiculous red-tapeism stands in the way.

hid themselves, God knows where, in that a fine charm of manner is the one which awful aggregation of tottering masonry is likely to secure the greatest diplomatic

the cnc prosperous town.. successes. that stunds At Merville the people had enjoyed cop parative immunity until the big enemy Then the advance this time last year. Allies had to shell the town to check German progress, givich to leave the the inhabitants

One of the most successful missionaries avery few hours in place.

In the utterness of its destrues of recent times was me. Novikoff whom tion, the literal realisation of no one Lord Beaconsfield aptly described as the stone left standing upon another, we cha M.P. for Russia in England."

excellence of the feel pride indeed at the

women

even more Bassée.

Are

makers eraft, for it is, there not a number of women in Great reduced to rubble than La Britain who could become M.P.'s for these. Could they not be ap- In each case women came out islands abroad? to tell one and another of the English pointed as propagandists until such time visitors of their experiences, and piteous as the diplomatic services became largely little tragedies of the useless wastage of staffed with gifted women 1 family treasures and undeserved misery it seems to be unfortunate that the Rreat diplomatic gifte of women are 7 they were,

allowed to rust. Women should be called

HOMES IN PROSPECT,

It is at Armentières, perhaps, more to the profession. They should be trained than, at the other places of a long day's for special work. "as diplomatic represen itinerary in a military char-i-baner that tation abroad calls for a variety of skill. In the history of every country there. the signs are most marked of the re

A brand-new have been great queens who have stamped clamation of the houses. Chalet Clemenceau in timber stands bold. their character upon the age in which ly out. A builder has put up bis eign Hther lived

boards, and here

of

are all the

If women can be queens in fact "är”""reil activity in well-loaded carts waiting as in name, what is there, in common-

Gines is very

to go out of his yards

scarce, but where a few panes have been to urge against their appointment

Hol cord they fill the ground-floor winan Ambassadors ad Coneala? The answer |

, and behind them in the snowy white is of course, nothing!',

briar hise, or the lace curtains, as dear

tu

the French woman us to her London

sister.

open. The shops are beginning to beland pear trees are bursting out in all

The

and a few onions, oranges, the promise of the summer fruit. and broccoli show that the greengrocer little gardens are coming under cultiva is ready for customers, A couple of

the women Blouses and scans hat shapes indicate that tion, and rows of young cabbages and

lettuce are neatly set, while

well as the men in the smaller villages the modiste is resuming her business.

At the Through windows still void even of the are digging and turning the soil biled paper that is rendering wide ser blacksmith's there is invariably a little Vice. are glimpses of the polishing of

discussing the possibilities, and the group Hours and the sweeping of wall wading afforder ploughs.

while a cost of repairing the more or less, out- cart

laden with some chairs and

down and cooking utensils comes slowly

the street.

How are they re-establishing these modest little bones?

N

Then there is the reclamation of the land en which so many tragic episodes

At this moment have been played to grim ending. Bun ning northward out of the city was a there are two very useful sources of sup big tract that had been seamed with

its ply

The War Office is disposing of Quilding materials employed in camps trenches and blown into hillocks and atcraters under intermittent showers of and butments, and other directions, at vicious shells. As it appears now it is

manding the Fifth Ares has just ex-

very reasonable rates. As the officer cot good promising agricultural land. With plained to the visitors, there is a regular ample labour at prisoners or

the sullen-looking

• KVK | tbsp

system in regard to the disposal of

in

whether from

Chinese coolies, the trenches have been tem in ressed to the disposal of such filled in, the rough places made plain,

and held at frequent stores, and alea are

Round tervals in convenient centres.

too, there are largs posters an

by the sale of large quantities of

all is now ploughed over in long How long the line crowd

of straight furrow's

the East will be able from

useful wares that have been used in the to continue their work in this direction

depends

on the shipping that will be

huts of the Young Men's Christina Asso- available for sending them home. Many

Then, again, I have been

are eager to return, but their engage

L'intip the vast premises occupied by the ment has been made for three years, and

American Red Cross, which,

now that

до

the needs of the wounded are no longer with a large proportion of the men there the paramount

call, can devote itself to are still many months to run. that other side of its great purpose in

Incidentally, there was a glimpse of meeting distress due to widespread dis. the quietly practical contribution of these aster: Here were stacked enormous quan buave French women to the re-establish- tities of beds, bedding, homely furniture, ment of normal conditions. Outside one stoves, enamel ware, scrubbing brushes, of the most ruined of these larger villages

there

prosperous little busi- had been a and much more, including such things ther as butter churns and gardening, impleness of the grocer's shop and light_re

freshments and blacksmith's forge. There is a French committer in ROB5 were, of course, all every district and carton, through which six.

service app the mother, daughter, and such help cas

Blit

it safely and is really required. But, as a

the Germans good deal of furniture and equipment a piece had to leave as

menta..

can be rendered act,

have come

The

has been saved, for, that passionate in pushed on in the autumn of 1914, But within a few days of the great British stinct of the French for keeping the heir looms passed down from grandparents led sweep forward inst September they were to great efforts to safeguard the most back again on their old site, where a small shed alone remained standing. stove, a cherished possessions.

THE MESSAGE OF SPRING.

..:

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JOHNSTONE'S

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BOTTLE WHISKY

NAPIER JOHNSTONE'S

SQUARE BOTTLE WHISKY

SOLE AGENTS IN HONG LONG ANJE CHINA LANE, CRAWFORD & CO, Kad from ALL WINE MIRCHANTS

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COMPANY

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BOLE AGENT= MITS U BUSSAN, KAISHA

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Alex. Ross & Co. have secured

the wholesale agency for the

famous Gillette Razors & Blades."

V

Enquiries solicited.

They cleared this out sock & Lad

and got together counter,

In their degree, for the work, is at the of tinned food and permission to sell .. earliest stages, there were the same sigas light, beer,coln addition to a local dus- of returning life at other places. I went tomers as there were, they won the patron through Bac St. Maur and Sailly, where age of many a British motor-lorry driver, is a fair Gods-acre laid out by the Land when we went in to get some coffee with our picnic lunch they were doing bour Company in which sleep many of trade that would have delighted our Anzac heroes; Estarre, burnt out in tra

a more ambitious establishment 1918, where some day soon its great wheat while the sleeping quarters of the

of these three wille outside market will again be busy,

they h Lestrem a fine hare which ran across the women, possessed of delightful manners.

that wild lile, too,

was some straw on a few boards rough turf was

proot

is returning. There are dead orchards, fused on to the rafters of the patched ro, F of them mournful in the gaunt of their little shed. Thus were they cr blackness of the skeleton trees. Bugun ring on till the young men would com there are those where the cherry and plum (Continued at foot of next column.)

back and realise dreams of a fine shap and a motor-repairing depot Telegraph,

Daits

ALEX. ROSS & CO.,

4, Des Voeux Road Central,

HONGKONG.