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WAR

for this cakes

HAIG & HI

THE HONGKONG DAILT FRESS, THURƐDAY, DECEMBER 11TH, 1918.

Are you one

of them?

TO-DAY as they have done

since 1679, Haig & Haig supply fine whisky. The famous "Five Stars" brand is sought, after by cultured people because of its rare and delicate quality and its scarcity!..

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you

In all good clubs and cultured homes, for private and social hos- pitality, for comfort and refresh- ment, men call for this finest Stars Scots Whisky age-mellowed Scots whisky.

Are you one of them?

Draw the cork and Haig &Haig Five

will sing its own

praises.

Haig &Haig Five Stars Scots Whisky

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your

orders in advance and make as sure as you can of getting me.

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CUTICURA HEALS PIMPLES

- On back of links boy's head. Became worse, began to spread and form into Įtard, dry crusts causing great trita- tion, Could not keep his hands from his head sind, he got little sleep. Got free sample Cuticura Soap and. Oint- ment. After tising a week could see {much improvements Bought more and önly used one box Olotment and ono tablet Soap to heal him.

Frat signed statement of Mrs. E. Giltrow, 6, Bryndewyn Rd., Newport, Mon.. Eng.

Use Cuticus Soap and Ointment exclusively for all toilet purposes.

Sɔng to cleanse. Glacment to land. Be Depot: F. Nawbwy i Salg LaA, 37,

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PROHIBITION -AT WORK

· ILLICIT TRAFFIC,

Almost two years ago, by the act of the Provincial Legislature, British Columbia became "dry. On a referendum vote. the people voted the bar eat of existence on the understanding that it was a war measure only. Some few months later the Federal War-time Prohibition Act went a step further and prohibited the importation of liquor to one province from another, a practice which had beep allowed under the Provincial Act.

force.

Until the Armistice the position was accepted philosophically enough, but since that time the opposition to prohibition. in general, and to the British Colombia" Act in particular, has been gaining

Even the strongest advocatesa among the drys do not claim that. in its administration, the law has been an" unqualified success, while its antagonista declare that the Act is a piece of class legislation of the worst type, that its administration has been a scandal, and that it has led to an alarming increase. in the number of victims of the drug habit

The statement that crime in general. has shown a tendency to decrease will not, bo denied by anyone. Prohibitionists claim the credit, for this fact, but their opponents say that it was due to the war, and had nothing to do with liquor con- trol. Undoubtedly since November last there has been a heavy increase In trime. The capture of "stills" for the illicit manufacture of liquor, operated often by Orientals, has become an every-day occur rence, and, in addition, all kinds of substitutes," in the shape of ginger harmless-sounding and other beverages, bare raade their appearance'in hitherto unbeard-of quantities.

essence

The worst blow the "dry" party re ceived was the exposure of the dishonest administration of the Act by the former Prohibition Commissioner himself This individual was prosecuted some menthe ago for various sets of malfeasance. ini cluding the theft from the Government of more than 70 cases of Scotch whisky. It was also charged that he had imported whisky by the end on his own uzount for private disposal. He was convicted and sentenced after much delay to a term in gool. Quite early in the history of prohibition here it became evident that there had been wholesale cór. ruption in the administration of the Act. the upshot being the creation of the Maderation League." which adve cats the sale of beer and light wines under strict regulation."

From the beginning one of the main points of criticism has been that the onus of the sale of liquor has been thrown upon the medical profession. Liquor may be purchased from the Government stores only on the order of a physician in the form of a prescription. Unfor tunately this regulation has been scan- dalously abused. It ir common know-

dža that in the city of Vancouver one doctor alone issued in the month of June this year over 4.000 prescriptions." for each of which the “* patient” paid the recognized fee of two dollars (88.).

It seems certain that the whole ques tion of liquor control must again come before the people. There is every indies- tion that prohibition in its present form will not again receive the support of the voters-Times,

FOUR LEGGED WHALE

"

·ZOOLOGICAL CURIOSITY AT

KYUQUET.

A whale having two hind legs four feet two inches in engta was landed some time ago at the Kyuoqnet whaling station and is one of the zoological curios of the century. Manager Ruck, of the Consoli dated, Whaling Corporation, stated that in his twenty years of whaling experi ence, during which time he has been in close touch with the industry, he had never beard of whale having legs on the exterior. The mammal in question was a female, humpback..

Mr. Buck said. that, whales bave atro phied legs within their bodies, these being Doomerang shaped and twenty inches in length. These now useless portions of anatomy were evidently once used to propel the maumatis on land after the manner of dinosaurs, but have shrank into the body with disuse The atro phied legs are usually found not fastened the whale, but merely imbedded in the flesh...

The legs found on the whale at Kyuoquot, had bones in them covered with half an inch of blubber. The bones are being for warded to Prof. Anderson of the Natural- History Museum, New York.

The forelimbs of a whale, though func tionally reduced to mere paddles, with no power of motion, except at the shoulder Joint, have beneath their smooth and con- tinuous external covering all the bones, joints, and even most of the muscles, Derves and arteries of the human arm and Land; and rudiments even of hind legs are found buried deep in the interior of the animal, apparently serving no useful purpose but pointing an instructive lesson. to those who are able to read it. .

The humpback whale, so called prob ably on account of the low humplike form of the dorsal fin, is very distinctly charac terized from all others, especially by the immense length of the pectoral fins or

* dippers which are indented or scalloped along their margins, and are, except at their base of a white colour, nearly all the rest of the body being black.

FIRST ARTIFICERS' LODGE.

„The first) Artifners Lodge of Free- missons, No. 3,774 of London; the members of which are all workers in metal, hava offered to the London Education Commit." fee three prizes of 210 10. each, to be awarded-kannally- to studente in L.O.C. classes who ate the best craftsmen respec- Lively in jewellery, designing, and mount ring, silversmith designing and making.

and horology.

HONGKONG FUND FOR

DEVASTATED

FRANCE

PANSY DAY

FRIDAY, DECEMBER

19th.

Street Sale of Pansies in the Morning.

GRAND MASKED

at

BALL

Volunteer Headquarters, Garden Road,

at 9 pm.

Admission $5.00 including

LIGHT REFRESHMENTS.

:

Prizes will be given for the most original dominoes.

CABARET

SATURDAY, DECEMBER

at Volunteer Headquarters

20th.

TÉA, TOMBOLA, THE “EVERYTHING "

STALL

and the ** EVERYTHING ELSE" STALL.

Also continuous

VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT

Including Cinema Display.

DANCING: 3 p.m. to midnight,

CABARET

DANCE FOR FRANCE."

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IMPORTANT NOTICE.

leanliness. Science always insisa on these Maxima. [N- Manufactures the most Important Point is Improvement, and

Dietetica

Groundnut or Fonaut Oil can be used as a sábstitute fo Olive O Butter or Land, but when Slightly Dirty is injurious to health.

In China, by the Ordinary Methods of Extraction, Dirt and Dust are not guarded against: Our Method shows a great advance. By the use of New Machinery kad New Methods Scrupulous Cleanliness is Assured, p

Our Machinery during the Process Filters the Oil while our Factory is Free from Dest Oar Oil la Clear, Sweet and Fragrant; and Compares most favourably with other Oils used for Culinary purposes: there is no residue.

Prices are moderate so as to induce new business.

Analysis is always given, before Shipment to Foreign Countries.

Proprie

NAM CHAU OIL FACTORY,

Office No. 297, Queen's Road, Central, HONGKONG.

Factio Noi 18, Kwel Lin Street, BAMSHUIPO. hip of this concerns bakinga sutirely to à Chinese CXtisen.