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THE BONG

OND

THORNYCROF

JOHN

Shanghai Office 65. Szechuen- bga

Marine Hotors and Motor Boats,

Molor Lighting and Pumping Sela.

Shallow Draft Steamers,

Thornycroft Water Tude Boilers.

Thornycroft Oil Fuel System-

Commercial, High-speed and Pleasure Craft.

New Shirts

flac one

English made of French Print, with Collar to match each shirt.

A nice varley of Stripes In various fast colours.

Barathea or Silk Crepe-de-

Chine Ties for bows or knots to match.

See Window display at

BR. BOXBURGH,

for China.

MACKINTOSH

CO., LTD.

MEN'S WEAR SPECIALISTS.

16. DES VOUX ROAD.

SOLE AGENTS

THE FUJI TRADING CO. LTD..

(Ime, in Japan)

New Patented Invection i

Unbreakable and Beautiful,

SILK GLASS

Reclares Ordinary Glass in all purposes.

Bample on application >>

THE FUJI TRADING CO., LTD.

TA CHATER ROAD, HONGKONG,

THE LEADING BRANDS

MANILA CIGARS

EL PALACIO

&

IMPERIO DEL MUNDO.

BOLE AGENTS

THE HONGKONG CIGAR STORE

CO. LTD.

HOTIC MANSIONS.

HEALTH V. SICKNESS.

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classes had done:

SMOKERS!!

REAL

BARGAINS

Owing to heavy accumulation of stocks we are offering:

or a period of two weeks for Cash only

CIGARS,

the followinE

CIGARETTES

& TOBACCO :

MANILA CIGARS:

Their wages had LA MINERVA

paid 280 (1,600 mark).

gone up about six times. The worst hit with English were the head workers, officials and middle class generally. They had completely one sible to say Official salaries had mly under. How they lived it would be impos increased from two to three times. oficial class in Germany bad always been The poorly paid but now their plight was desperate salaries increased by three times

His own staff had bad their

HOW IS IT DONE? How is it done! I have put the question in a score of quarters. It is always | answered in the same terms The British **The German Oves on what the Englanpened in the case of the judges at the In Consul" 41: Hamburg replied succinctly. I asked as an example,”

as an example, what had hap- man throws away. Dr. Dernburg's ex- perial Law Courts near by. Before the planation was equally direct We are War, he said, their income Wa 14,000 living on pur trunks and boxes. You are marks a year (about £700). It had been weing a people clothed in the last rements increased to 92,000 marks, and was now of their pre-war nechtaulations, A to be raised to 28,000 mark. From this University Professor said I have one 23 suit of clothes-this in which I can a man terms). In other words, the highest per cent, was deducted for income-tax, pear in public. When I go home I change

leaving 21,000 (a little

over £1,000 in Ger into my rags I have not bought any officials in the land had had their salaries clothes tince the war began, and it is imdoshled to meet an expenditure which had possible for me to buy them. I need to appreciated twelve times In English buy a suit for 100 marks, now it costs terms their incou had gone down from 2,000. I have not 2,000. The English 5700 a year to less than £200. As for the woman I have quoted before developed the young, it was, Maid Dy. Rothe, impossible point. The Germans had been trained in or them to marry Apart from the

babit of economy that was producing,

intolerable living conditions, furniture was this apparent miracles The care. Trally unobtainable at present prices, clothes had been "a national set of im house accommodation out of the ques measurable value and the accumulations tion There was a shortage of 9,000 houses had been great. It was matter of pride in the past to have good stocky of clothes and linenza Every German girl of the middle class when marrying provided t furniture every girl of the poorer classes. their beds and bed linen. The extent of the provision of lignend

after, incredible to the Eaglish Mind.

These stocks had kept the people going through the war. Sheets, dyed and made up, had provided dress wear.

CLOTHES, AND THE HAN,

in

Fancy Tales Perfectos High Life Reina Victoria

Reina Victoria

88888

Usual Beduced

$2.75

$3.00

1.75

3.35

3.00 $2.50

50

4.35

3.60

100 8.00

700

COMPANIA GENERAL

Pigtails

10 $4.75

$3.75

nites

las

4.00

3.30

8.75

3.00

Perfectos (tinfoil) Perfectos

$25

3.70

3.35

Senadores

25

240

Especiales Isabells

50.

8.50

Conchas Especiales

$50

3.00

50

$4.25

3,60

100 800

700

100

3.76

-1000

3.00

250

the city, and the cost of materials made LA new building prohi

economie

pamo, he said and there no visible way out This diagnosis of conditions in Lipsy pri

centres in Germany. example, the Ober-Burger

meister (De Bluner) told me that in the LA after months following the end of the war the city had paid out 45 million marks thin the Imperial Exchequer, contributed (nearly 2 million sterlingy, in, relief. On six-twelfth, the State of Saxony four, and the city two Would they get the in perial grant Dr Buner shrugged his shoulder, fla

Much the same explanation was offered by Uber Burgerine.ster of this city with whom I had a long talk at the Town Hall yesterday on the condition of life bere Leipzig is a typical example of thow a THE TRAY DRIVER, cities which Germany has in greaterWe hope yo, he said with a smile abundanon than any other country. It is

What these conditions mean in human. term might be illustrated by many inci dents which bare come before me, I will mention two

Ideales

Reina Victoria

Reins Victoria Londre Nuevo Cortado INSULAR

Perfectos (tinfoil) Reina Victoris. Reins Victoria

183.00

$2.60

100 8.00

PERLA DEL ORIENTE

10033.50

$2.00

25 8.00

5,00

4.60

3.75

Bicos Comerciantes Ricos Comerciantes Cabinets (assorted)

SOUTHERN BRIDE

Majestics

ALHAMBRA

Predilectos

EGYPTIAN

$3.50

$2.90

$37.00

$6.00

CIGARETTES:

Price

Reduced Price

#100 $475

No. 4 No. No, 8

100% 3.75

100 3.2

2.75

100

2,26

$2.00

NO

100 2,35

2.00

100

850

3.00

place of 800.000 inhabitants, the home which was not hopeful. The middle and of the German judiciary, the greatest book icial classes were being crushed between publishing centre in the world, and an im the upper and the nether millstone For portant cotton manufacturing and indus example, the wages of the tram drivers trial town. The station is said to be the 2nd been increased from 1,600 marky largest in Europe, and it is probably the year to 12,000-sote sven times, though most beautiful. It was finished after the they were still worse off than before the war had started, and for a parallel to the wine. It better to be a tram war. Meanwhile his own salary remained one would have to go to the Grand Central driver thao na Ober-Burgermeister in at New York, of which it is reminiscent Germany to-day I said, and be ruefully MELACHRINO®

Dr. Hothe the Ober Burgermeister, smilingly admitted that the last thing the able to buy a suit

agreed Clothes His own sons, were zun- German would surrender was his personal appearance. However hungry he was and however much he had to economise at home he would be careful about his hat and his boots. His clothes were turned inside out The correspondent of a great English and back again, but they would be spot paper in Berlin told me that the char Jess and the crease in his trousers would woman who comes in each morning to clean be unfailingly there. But it was true that his flat, and to whom he paid what before- clothes were nupossible to buy and when the war would have seemed a princely s the surplus left over from the war bad muneration, asked him....one. gons and the contests of the trunks were might be absent for two days. He inquir SCHINASI BROS. used ng Germany would be threadbare of the reason for the request, and thiếp, the The city was living like the rest on the willingly explained Bbs and her margin of starvation. The potato ration baad had not food in the house, hút nhiên would be exhausted at the end of this had a relative in the country from whom. month (May), bet Berlin, which distri- he could get potatoes, I would take buted the Bour throughout Germany, was her two days to go and return, and that hepeal that the bread ration would last was the ground of till the next harvest. For the rest the

of her request city had laid in supplies, of... macaroni,.. which would take the place of the potato hathority into an En

The other ca

case is on. give also on. 'child w the Rulir: Country: Westp -could rottions have been more

BOOK FAMINE

showed no revival revive until raw materials were obtain anywhere else) able. The war stocks of the cotton trade might leave her wern exhausted and the industry was comfelt ill. It was meas mg fous standstill The book trade was and the teacher told paralysed by the price of paper, which had A little later, her head 10cressed 1,500, per cem, while the price and when they went to her books had only been raised 500 per It is of course, the for cent, and could not be raised more. was becoming impossible to publish text try districts there has

It feels the pinch most sente books and scientific books, for the e ca cent, food, and it tiount and student world has been so hard power of the Governm hit that they could not buy them si pro rural population to pent prices

the town.

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Natural

VAFIADIS

Extra Fine

$1:30

$1.00

$160 $1.20

Best Egyptian KENILWORTH (Virginia)

ROB BOY (Virginia)

100

2.25

SMOKING

TOBACCOS

Reduced

$8.00

$1,30

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