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GENERAL NEws.

Electric Locomotives in Japan.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1917.

AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE,

Defaulters Said to be on the Increase.

A Melbourne message to the "Daily Chronicle" says the pa- pers there have made much of the

The "Japan Advertiser" states that, owing to the electric lo- comotives used in the tunnels on the Usui Pass on the way to Karuizawa having been so success interest aroused in England by

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TO BE LET OR SOLD.

TO LET,

fal, proposals are on foot to extend the publicity given in the "TheHE COTTAGE-Barker Road. Godown.sitasted on water front,

To be let or sold, 'Addie-a- their used to other lines.. The Daily Nows and Leader" as to the Dension, Ram & Gibbs Itaya and Akaiwa Tunnels on the large number of prosecution* un- | Hongkong. Oth Nov., 1912.1880, Oshu line are mentioned as cam-der the first year's trial of the ing within the scope of the new compulsory training echome. soheme at a cost Y.5,000,000.

of about

TO LET.

0. LET. MODE ENAGH” The Minister for Defence, 10-T the Frak from 1st May, 1913, vited to explain the position, re vealed a state of things which on long lease.

808

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East Point. For further particulars' apply Property Office, Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd.

Hongkong. 18th Aug,, 1919. (688

OFFICES TO LET First Class

accommodation, light and.

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Earlier occupation Japanese Naval Manoeures,

made the Melbourne "Argus" de- might be arranged; 5 bed-roona Al-airy, on First, Second and Third Floor, The principal and decisive bat- tles were to be fought off Kishu, clare it an "extraordinary conterations will be made to ani tenants in new baikling being orected for Messrs.

fession of failure." In spite of a

if desired. Apply to:-Llosteid & WHITEAWAY LAIDLAW & CO., LTD. Entrance from Des Your Road, Eastern Japan, and were expected minimum penally of £5-ma-Hongkong, 29th Oat, 1912

Davis,

Electrio Lit to all floors. Electric to commence on the 4th or 5th zimum. £100 with which the

Light throughou*, * inat, and to last two or three days. lads had been continuously threat- At their conclusion the floote will proceed to Tokohama, where oned, in order to get them to drill, thero wore no less than they will be reviewed by HM 16,000 who were liable for pro- the Emperor on November 12th. His Majesty will board the bat-tecation for not putting in the re-

the year. quired attendance of 04 hours for

tleship Satsuma for the ceremony which which will be the most im2

posing ever witnessed in the Far East.

Cholera in Japan The official bulletin of the Japanese Home Office issued on the 12th inst, states that the number of choler a cases report ed throughout Japan had then reached 8,186. The number of cases in this Prefecture has reached 32. Stronuous efforts are

that the areas have been so The "Argus" anys: "We know arranged that the scattered part of our community is entirely exempted. We know, further, that the time the senior cadets are required to give to thoir training amounts to no more than 64 hours for the whole year. So much the worse, then, is it that such an enormous proportion

To der Street..

O LET on, 2nd Floor No. 2. Ped- The plan can be seen aed all partica. lars obtained st.te Offices of Messra, One roomed Office. Apply Property PALMER & TURNER, Alexandra Office, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. Buildings, 3rd Floor Hongkong, 22nd May, 1912. 1881| Bongtonr. 30th Sept. 1919.

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disease and it is hoped that there will not be any more coses.

Kobe Herald.

The Kwangtung Loan. The pr posed £5,000,000 loan to be contracted by the Tuinn of Kwangtung with a certain section of the province as security, has heen rejected by the National Council, and the proprssd issue of banknotes by that province will be considered by the Minis- try of Finance.

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QUEEN'S DISPENSARY

very moderate number of drills The Golden Venture, J. S. Fletcher. required of them. When full Taterhooks, Ada Leverson. allowance is made for those who The Escort, Gestia de S. Wentworth have had to be excused for various causes, the number of delin- quenta is beyond all reason. That only six out of every nice who Aro bound by the law to give 64 hour per annum in preparation for the defence of the country have.com- plied with the obligation is, on the face of it, an extraordinary | confession of failure."

Investigation of Foreign Coins in China. In order to reform the Chinese

After having stated in Parlia ourrency, the Ministry of Financo now proposes to investigate the ment that all who had failed to different kinds and the number of render the required service would foreign coins in circulation. Tole-he prosecutod, the Minister for graphic instructions have been Defence, Senator Pearce, was sent to the provincial authorities forced by the rain of complaints asking them to co-operate in carry, from all parts of the Colomon- ing out the measure. Compulsory Education in China, The Ministry of Education is now working or the details of instituting compulsory education.

Personal.

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wealth to give way. In cases where fines had already been im posed they were remitted, by a special order of the Governor. General, Instructions were issued

It is intended to provide that a to magistrates not toimpose finds, boy or girl between seven and but simply to order the boys to fourteen years of age must attend up their drills. Cadets who had school. The parents will be held only mised ton hours drill were responsible. The bill, says the not prosecuted, provided they "Peking Daily News," will be promised to make up the drills. submitted at a Cabinet meeting reabed through for reducing the An amending bill is now being ers long,

fine to £5 maximum. "Under the The "Peking Daily News "now arrangement the fine cannot states that Miss Horron, sister of be recovered from the parents, Mre, Taft, the United States Pre- nor can it be deducted from the Bilent's wife, is touring the Far boy's wages. These alterations East. Having finished Japan she have so wittled away the com is now visiting Peking, acoom-pulsory punishment that was panied by Missca Harrison and freely stated in Parliament that Ramsey.

all element of compulsion had Shanghai's send-off to the Ferris boon" destroyed.

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