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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 22ND, 1923.

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[FROM OD OWN PYRAZSPONDEN.]

EDINBURG, April 19th.

GREAT WAR MEDALS. FOURTEEN MILLIONS ISSUED.

113,000 Clasps to the 1914 Star: 1,750,000 101-15 Stars:

Some idea of the amount of work ac- complished in the distribution of the mals al other decorations awarded for The recent scenes" in Parliament, inservice in the Great War may be gathere which the "Clydesdale Colts" took a leading from the fact that since issues conuneneed, Four with the

present no surprising aspects to thosarly in 1919, more than

300,000 1914 Stärs; meetings of Glasgow Town Council. They were simply a petition on larger scale ntul in a mero important centre of what has often been there ex perienes. The chorus of angry protest, the tumult and the shoating may appear to bespeak tremendous earnestness on the par of those who indulge in them, but they are more a matter of tactics than anything else In the Town Commeil i frequently begins with something very like ing, and although heat is generated,

EQUALLED BY thies of it alt

NONE.

SOLE AGENTS:

PRICE & CO.,

WINE MERCHANTS,

play art altinintely

will corridors engineer the news of "which will reach their supporters. The House of

thus extremists smiling in the

the

having reflection ""dust"

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Labourist

of

400,00 British War metals; aml 4,530,000 Victory · Medals have been engraved and issued to officers and miss and to the various Record for rank and file. In addition up

wards of

22AMARO 1914-15 Stars:

Gonaco British War nedals; and 150,000 Vietery Meilals have been sent in hulk to the Dominions; while

110.000 British War medals (bronze) have bent engraved and issued for per- Commons is now getting its share of Retonnel of native latur corps.

The following issues have also been arist methods as practiseal in Glasgow Town Council In Glasgow, also, as at title in respect of gallant and meritor Westminster, the "scenes" are apt to rudous in a lotit at fisticus, and it is no up- usual spectacle to a Town Counciller

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THE PHARMACY,

THE RED BUILDING (OPPOSITE (or House Sr.)

in

freely

mockery" confess afterwards, is largely "eyewash."

The best story of the all-night sitting in the fuuse of Commons is about the Glasgow Labour MP who complained that he had paid is for a heel at a hotel and was not able to occupy it.

to end the affair, as the participanning

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Outside labour circles in the West, where the scheme of a capital love is an obses sion, Scottish pinion looks upon Mr Baliwin's Riget as well balanced, sound prudent finance. Only in regard to the Excise details is there any disappoint ment expressed. Scotland has a grievance in the commission to reduce the spirits duty as well as the beer duty. It may pointed out, however, that the Scottisia electors had not the foresight which was show in England at the General Election. In many parts of England the price of beer

sof was a serious issue at the election, and on being approached on the matter

Exchequer Chudicellor of the definite pledge that if tax reduction was sible beer would be one of the consideration. first

itetos

pretive He las redeemed his pledge in a way that who were hasntistied the English Unionists most retively advigating the reduction of the duty, as no pledge was given in regard to "Scotland's national drink the Chancellor was not called upon to put it in the same privileged

It may position.

be conficiently pelicted that there will be a light uver à discrimination which makes the English 's beer cheaper and leaves the Scotman's

Scotland a hope was whisky unaltered. In entertained that reinction of the duty on spirits would be the substantial one of 2.- respect that that is the only reduction

would be possibile to

handi it over in its entirety to the consuming a reduction public. The result of such would have

12,0 beer. that the bottle of whisky would have sold at 10/- the whole benefit thes going to the consumer. It is argued that with such a reduction the consumption of whisky would nedistely increase to such a figure that the Exelwuer would not ultimately be the loser.

men's

in

EMIGRATION FROM THE BRIDES,

service during the Great War.

11.000 Military Crosses,

3,00 Distinguished Conduct medals; 129.000 Military pedalss

29.00 Meritorious Service medals: 120,000 Emblems to these mentioned in

despatches.

1,150,000 Silver Furthermore,

War fudges have been issued to individuals who were discharged from the Service on account of wounds or sickness,

The rill dispatched with, the Stars and Medals represents a total length of 1.500 miles.

The

Having regard to the study reduction in the taff of the Medal Branch of the War Ofier during the past two years, this progress has been remarkable. inilure of many thousands of mea to keep the Record Offices informed of their! proper addresses has occasioned endless difficulty in the distribution of both stars and medals to individuals, The distri- bution of the Long Service Medals, the Territorial Efficiency Medal, and the yar- tous war medals for military operations: unconnected with the Great War is being maintained. The nanber of such medals engraved and issued during and since th war is over 93,000 Long Service Medals, Territorial Efficiency Medals, 30,700 24,30 Territorial War Medals, and 20,000 war and they mela's (of forty different descriptions), together with 74.000 elasps: also 12,500 Judie General Service Medala! for strries in Afghanistan and on the frontiers of India in 1910-21. Progres with the latter has been comparatively slow owing to unforeseen difficulties that have arisen in India. Arrangements are wildvanced for the issue of the Greeral Bervice Medal.

ANGINA PECTORIS. SUCCESSFUL OPERATION FOR MYSTERY DISEASE.

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- General interest was created mating of the Medical Congress at Vienna recently says an Exchange message, by a statement of Professor Werckelbach on the treatment of angina pectoris. operation, he said, total relief could bo obtained from its pains.

B' au

"Attempts have been made before to cure this agonising disease, which may bo esuribed as cramp of the heart, by opera-

The cenatis returns for the Scottish rural Counties recently published afford deprese ing evilence of the stewly weakening ition, and with some success," said a docter the foundations of our national life. It is

an ironical circumstance that at a time when to a Daily Mail reporter. "Dr. Jonnesco, the problem of congestion of population in a French surgeon, by exeising a small portion of a nerve (the left cervical centres with consequent un ympathetic nerve) completely cured a man

the standard

ient and swegration who for years had been suffering from

of fife, is exercising

should continue to rau in channels which severe pain.

lo not make for a restoration of the balance

between town present

and country.

"The report does not indicat; the natura

the of Professor Wonckelbach's operation.

the

Indeed at ent moment the exodus from ue rural Although there are many theories we are The quite in the dark as to what causes angiaa magiude

Cistricts is of unusual and Anseria are pectoris, from which women rarely staffer.i

Governments of

not to be blamed for preferring Highland is mostly a disease of ten of the better stofters to the Scoto-Irish labourers of the classes, and is particularly common among Mental stron Clyle Valley; the tragedy o

doctori ami among Jews. it is tint this

it. Over 700 preference short av with ady and worry predispos to response in our

depopulated art, people die in England every year from it,

it is not at all uncommon." and that inlustrations when its tires run low, should ful it all but impossible to get rid of what a cold-bloode gemmist would regard as its waste human products. Emigration takes the fit and leaves the antit: it has no use for waste products, but drains the arterial blood of a nation. We had lately heard so much about hund settle ment schemes in the Highlands that we

hardly prepared for recounts emigration on a scale that has neces sitated a revival of the old plan, in the historic days of direct sailings from the Western Istis

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ing scribes write off so much for deprecia tion, following the excellent lead of all well. managed companies, but the "ok 'was" enter their protest in the most effective way. lound about the time when Mr. Sweetser. of the American, champion, was dy

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the was stated at the B.W.T.A. congrese in emigration from the Highlands and the Einburgh that its annual consumption often rural counties generally is the saddest had increased by nine tons. Kilsyth is feature about it. There is always hope for apparently very dry indeed.

a peasantry whose passion for their native soil expresses itself in practical schemes for making the best possible use of it The comparative weakness of the tie he tween the Scottish agriculturist" Scottish curth would seen to be at the heart of our land problem.

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"YOU CAN'T KEEP THE OLD 'Uss DOWN."

Music-hall songs have their fimitations, but on occasion they have the knack of get ting to the heart of things. The singer of the ditty with the alluring title quotelabuve may feel constrained, after what has secart- ed at Rochampton, to add a new verse to commemorate haly Herd's great achieve ment at Roehampton. You simply, can't keep the old 'uns down. Year by year golf (Continued at foot of next column.}

A cure for methylated spirit drinking is suggested by an Edinburgh chemist, who says that he pats croton oil into each quantity he sells. If used for industrial purposes the spirit does its business as usual; but if drunk-well. the drinker wont want to try more.

Robert Burns is more quoted in the House of Commons just now than any other port. But it was taking rather is menti advantage for Mr. Murray on a recent version to declaim-

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