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Cleanliness Science always fasists on these Maxims.

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Grossinat of Peanut Oil can be used as a substitute for Dive Oil, Hutter or Lard, but when lightly Dirty is injurious to health.

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In him by the Ordiniry Methoris of Extraction, birt and Dest are not guarded against: Our Method shows a great advance. By the use of New Machinery and New Methods Serupulous Cleanliness is Assurd.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY ZATE, 1919,

Our Machinery during the Process Filters the Oil, while our Factory is Fred from Dust. Our Oil is clear, Sweet and Fragrant and Compares most favourably with ' other Oils used for Uplinary purpows: there is no residuo

Frics are moderate so as to induce new business Analysis is always given before Shipment to, Foreign Countries.

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Licut, L'ommander Read and tummand. er Towers were entertained by the Ame rican Lunghoon Club, in Londen at the Savoy Hotel, on June 6th, when a larg compans of Andrienas, and others närin

OVERSEAS TRADE

MP LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER.

A frater on the subjet dg, the develop- ment of unl merseas trude has been addressed to the Prime Minister over the signatures of forty-ye members of Parliament, representing various shades.

sleg to greet them. The chairman of the opinion. Tas, question has been engag. day M. Femeis E. Powell, pake of the Fine the attention of the Industrial tironj quests as descendant of the Pilgrim in the House of Commons. with jim result Faibers, whos aftera journey through that the organisatyn of British dipl. pair of men andes, hat banded at Plymouth watean Consular services is urgel' as ana mukter of" vital national concern. Harbour, from which entici

The following is the text of the lytte to Mr. Lloyd George :

ed

the Pilgrim Pathers themselves had stik The scientile renits of the expunki- tion. by beliered would do much to develop aviation in both racutries,

It is agreed on all hands that the rapid feestory and development of our Lieut-Commander Read, E.S.N. whe prereas trade is vital to the financial was badly cherra, said that when they stability and the prosperity of our coun- Landhed at Lish the langage difficulty. To this end it is essential that there arose, and they bad troubly in trying, toshinid be a highly-organised, well-equip shank their Portugues: hosts for what ped, and progressive Department of Over they thought they were sayine. (Laugh as Trade. The department is at pres ter) Franer the diffealty again went in its infanes, and its officiency wit! curred, is personally, he spoke French depend on the lines of policy "and ad- only when blog his temper, thaughter.) | ministration which are laid in the ins But in England they fel ag home. He mediate tote. We, hate soon rispevatedi did not know how many in that company statements in the Pers that a vacancy is were eitians of the United States and how, likely tour in the control of this many Britishers; but he knew that ir did. department. We feel that the special nogach mLTER? (€ heers,) As face functions which the department has to bevitid make one, they were all alike perform should be the only consideration fe proposed a roast. The English-speak which should weight in the pointment ing Racethilus fit of a successor. The departing. 1896

the earth. (Cheers.)...

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The toast was drunk with thu-iasm. Commander Towers, LS X., said that ax commander of the Ng. Hi isin. which division had been sadly depleted in this Atlantic furt, of theirs, der wished p express the thinks of all for the most

We, therefore, ask that when the karty recepliagy that England has given

The newspapers, he murked, urcasion arisesavery offort shipuld by made shad ran away with them up this fight. I to train the services of a skilled man of was undertaken as a naval eqération, but affairs for that post for at least a mini- During this period considerably more had been made of it.mum of six months. They had instructions to put a seaplane heross the Atlantie. The Secretary of the Navy approved the general plan and gave Then a tree hand. Lient. Commander Read and his crew accomplished a war derful Hight, hat they accomplished it be cause they had ge absolute backing of the navy hrers.) He hoped they had been shessful in the purposes for which the flight was undertaken. One was, to girove to the world and to their own my in particular for there were sceptics in it- that the seaplane had arrived! The other was to forge og mor Fink between the two English-speaking nations of the world. 4Lmt chera.)

TOMMIES IN THE JAMIEN OF EDEN,

Mr. Patrick Francis Murphy, gue or the witriost of American speakers, in am" amusing speech, said that before the lunch he had been speaking to Commander Head about the ospitality of the English- speaking races. That huspitality would never be exhausted, but Commander Read might be. It was a short road from hos- pitality to the hospital. (Laughter.)

The news now-a-days was so extraordi- nary that we had lose the capacity for surprise. The most unusual things had become usual. We met so many tavola- on men that they became conlinon, just

he would bus in on position to investigate closely the present organisation of the department and its future needs, and to determine the tines of its future develop went. ir su duing he should. in our opinion. in conjunction with the Secre tary of State for Foreign Affairs, and the President of the Board of Trade, give! sprei consideration to the following questions i

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Every one of us wishes to make the hest arrangement of his life. In his youta he is confronted with two alternatives matrimony and celibacy. matrimony has its thorns and cliney has So the (e3- Pt roses, (Laughter.) tion is whether it is better to be incon- But be veniented our way or another.

publier (Laughter.) Why, even the stered place in Scripture were treated with light familiarity They had read af Australian soldiers bathing and dixport ing themselves in the Sea of Galilee. The British Amy went inta Mesopotamia, and British Tomies were strong in the Garden of Eden, never giving thought to that unfortunate affair of the apple. Laughter.) When the British us as he goes through the that matri Army entered Nazareth one of the Ameng is the more popular, for it is with riean Western papers announced it with matrimony as it is with good mustard- all the naked force of novelty. In larg people prise it with tears in their eyes. letters across the page were these words: Laughter.)

British Take Christ's Home Town." (Laughter.)

Some very improper person has ad vanced a theory thats peuple are either young and innocent or old and virtuous. Laughter.) So that proves that there Ar three perils on te. The Erst is when we are very young and we think of the indiscreet thing we are able to The

"Germany has not gained half of Europe by murder and robbery," said Mr. Murphy. Having exhausted her. , then, with tears in her eyes, the asked for the cessation of hostilities, on do that is the ny" of innocergge.

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The Hohenzollerns were a wonderful Virtue (Laughter.) It is said race. They reminded one of the sacred Virtue, like the owl, dwells in ruins. It is apes in Ladia, which had been worshipped about that period that old men give young men good advice, when they are no longer so long that they had come to believe in able to set a bad example." (Laughter.) will be despatched for NEW YORK via SUEZ CANAL on or about their own divinity. It is very damaging to the character of anyone to be always surrounded withithe Yes. yes. chorus, and ex-Emperor William suffered from what might be called the unhealthiness of supremacy."

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Mr. Murphy referred to the ex-Kaiser as playing the role of the Flying Dutch man. Now yinished and forlorn, he was a mental replica of the man on whose montiment was incribed these words:

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In an allusion to prohibition, Mr. that Americans spoke the language of Shakespeare and Milton Well, we do Murphy said the Scriptural injunction There partly proceeded the speaker. We was that Man cannot live by bread

alone he would die of thirst. have taken great liberties with it. In.

were many public men in America who! our relentless country we live in a series of rushes that sounds like the infant did not care for liquor, so they took it Mosen so we have compressed form of way from those who did. Morality is thought. We have many phrases that not the attitude we sometimes assume towards the unattractive. It is easy to resist tem- only would astonish Shakespeare and Milton, but the words themselves would ptation when it is offered by the wrong KIPPERS

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We poor denizens of the U.S.A., which Great Britain has the Emerald Isle. (Laughter.) On our borders we have is now the United States of Amendments, Mexico, that wonderful country where we come across the Atlantic," said Mr. Murphy, in conclusion, "not in the every now and then peace breaks out. (Laughter.) Now, if Great Britain would Pyrotechnic way that, the fight command. ers do, but we can at least cross the only take over Mexico we could do very Atlantic for

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