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GENERAL NEWS.

Mean Tok o.

"Japan is a very abnormal country, and in Tokyo, the capital, there are great discrepancine. The Emperor's palace, surround- ed by a great wall and most, three noble parke, a few good streets, and a dozen handsome buildings, but, for the rest, the greatest collection of wenn streets and shaky shanties I ever saw in my life. The population exceeds a million," says a South African visitor.

A Heartless Joke.

THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1918,

OUR EASTERN FLEETS. A "TYPHOON” IN WALES

How British Naval Forces acs,

"Distrubuted.

A naval corresponent to the Times writes:

Three-Minute Storm which did

Terrible Damage,

oharacter and conficed within

Adisastrous-etum-of-wind swept over part of Wales on the In any examination of relative night of October 27. The storm naval strength in the Pacific and apparently colonis Eastern Seas it would be mis-comparatively narrow libits, but leading to dissociste one British within these its force was alloge quadron from sno her, since a Ither exceptional. At least two the equadrons, those in' 'Obins, lives were lost in the storm, and the East Indies, and Australasian waters, have for some time form- ed one fleet, the ides being that in times of war they should operate under one commander-in-

At present the squadrons of what has hitherto been known as the Eastern Flest are in a state

the damage to property was very great The danisge is roughly estimated at between $30,000 and £50,000. Sucres of cople have been rendered home- léin, and stopa are being taken to fad them temporary shelter,

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There were many cases of in local amateur, and is a stupiferred from the East Indios sad

will be use as a training ship.jury, the most serions being those and cruel hooX.

The sphere of notion of the New of Gertrude Wheeler, the daugh- Zealand Division in perce time, tor of the Treharris Congreg. Yet another prophecy of the unless som further change in ational Chapel aretaker, and idealist is Long fall!led in made, inclu les the Pacific Islanda tower Israel, the 10-year-old cop fact, Some time ago we were blow the equator to the south-of the postmaster of Edwardsville, Merthyr Vale, who are suffering told that, once aeroplaning be

Following the arrival at Sydney from fracture of the skull. Will came practicable, teriffa would. disapi car, for, so it was reasoned, of the principal ship of the new im Blake, an octogenarian ex- it would be impossible for serial Royal Australian Navy, changes Taff Vale Railway inspector, bis Customs officers to check the rush are being or shortly will be made son, William Blake, and a servant of "free imports through the in the compositi n of the British girl of 17, named Williams, were sir. Now we learn from Reuter Naval Squadron in Chica. The taken from the ruins of their that smuggling by seroplane is bittleship Triumph has just house at Abercynion with fract- being carried on between France arrived in Ewen waters, and ured limb: The roof was blown and Belgium, lau, tobacco, and the cruiser Mormonth is about a hundred yards away.

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Rewlog Match at Henley. An interesting match was rowed. made the China Squadron will stairs. He had an sooner done on October 29 over the Henley asist of the powerful preso than the roof crashed in bury-Regatta course between officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal oadnought armoured cruiser ing the child's bed. Minotaur, & 14,000 tons, the Along the whole Teff Valley, Engineers in light coxswainless" battleship Triumph, the armoured from Treforest past Cilfynydd and four-oared boats. The Royal cruiser Hampshire, of 10,580 tons, by Quaker's Yard to Trabarris, Artillery crew won by four leng- When Lord Rosebery a shor the two light cruisers Newcastle wrecked structures and uprooted ths. This race was the 13th of and Yarmouth, ten destroyers, and trees marked the path of the an intermittent series of matches time ago raised the question "o, the decay of mannera, someone three, submarines as well as 16 storm. I was first felt at Tre-between these two corps, and we think it was Mr G. W. Esmall craft for river duty. The freat, and it seemed to gather record is now seven to Biz in Russell-hastened into print to Triumph will become receiving force as it ontored the valley at favour of the Royal Artillery,

The Royal Engineers finished express his grief that young p-ship at Hongkong, but will be in Cilfyndd. It rushed with a roar

The Indignity of it,

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ple of the present day frequently active commission. The sphere that one resident described "as four lengths behind the winners,

of action of this squadron east-like a train in the Severn Tan-whose time over the Bay Soury' instead of 'I beg your ward has for some time extended nel," and passing to the right of was 8min. 59sec. pardon.'

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deflected to Treharris. Along the It is generally admitted that In the Est Indies the battle-whole way the storm was con- the northern territory of Australia wonderful mineral розведзев the more sincerely since the day, ship Swiftsure, a sister ship to the food to a path of about 200

resources, but that these have! a few years og, when a young Triumph, has relieved the light yards.

One of the most str king scenes not yet been properly developed. monkey in a house-agent's office cruiser Highlyer as flagship, and observed that he supposed we the other vessels on the station of destraction was presented A report has been received from Administrator (Professor should like to get into our new are the new light cruiser Dart-in Fairview-terrace, Alereyarn, the house as soon as poss. We never mouth and the older light erat where some 60 houses bad their Gilruth) to the fact that an recognised the full indignity of sera Pelorus and Fox, as well as roofs shorn off. Many of the extensive find of tin has been all contractions, abbreviations, ur small craft for use in the buildings were competely wreak made at Beswick Creek by two ed. In the cemetery at Treharris prospectors. The scene of the and modernisms till that moment. Parsian Gulf.

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The effects of the storm were Mr. A, W. Bansey, B.A., who none of the five big cruisers was has just taken up the Fairbairn a modern veel and only two also felt in Cheshire. At Peck- Studentship, is a son of Rev. A. carried guns heavier than Bir forton Csatle, Lord Tollemache's Bonɛey, who is returning to China Recent changes have been in the seat, the extensive greenhouses after a furlough to take up the direction of providing either more were demolished and the glaas principalebip of Griffith John powerful or else more modern and parts of the woodwork were College, Hankow. After taking vessels for the Eastern Flest; found a mile away. The damage honours in Lit, Hum., Mr. A.W. and, while there is a small reduc on the Pookforton estate amounts Bousey spent three years in Mans- tion in numbers, in point of age to several thousands of pounds. field College, and then proceeded and power the equadrons are in At Willington, which stands on

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