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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1914.

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ERICSSON

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Tel. 66.

SOLE AGENTS.

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Daily Press.

Chinese New Year. Moreover, the President bas decreed that all the old festivals which were obaurved, under the Monstoby shall henceforth be | vilicial holidaya ander the Ro...... public, and, more specifically, he has directed that all Government departments shall be closed for three daya in observance of the New Year, according to the old reckoning, 80 that it wa'd appear that in the North aa in the booth the sentiment against the change is overy hɔl- ming. This official re og i on of the old calender, as weil "'ns the new, cannot but serve · ·to check, though it may not entirely put a stop to the tnencies towards the change that exist. |Bat if the Guvernment adleres

ADDRESS. to the Gregorian calendar in its

own budgetting, the probibility ia that in course of time the CARRY,

now. tendency to adopt the calendar in the ordinary business TRANSPORT, office of life will become 8 ron. ger and stronger until the change STORE, becomeass general in Chinas it is to-day in Japan. Dr. San INSURE.

Yat-sen and his friends were in too great a harry to m ke the 3. Duddell Street, change. President Yan Shih- kal's motto, in all projects of saggi reform afecting the muonour- ed and deeply-ingrained habite and customa of four hundred millious of people, is festina lents.

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HONGKONG HOTEL

A LA CARTE GRILL ROOM.

ingking, 20th April, 1914.

Now 0, st.

J. H. TAGGART,' Managor

GRAND HOTEL.

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TEL. 'AUDLESS "COMFORT '

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Tel. No. 1977.

F. REICHMANN,

PROPRIETOR. [

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Tel 373.

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South China Morning Postz

The Cost of Living. Many countries are experien- oing great difficulty in satisfying their need for capital, and very little new work is being under- taken anywhere in the world.. This means that, for a ́time aš“ say rate, the demand for goods and the consumption of many countries will bo reduced and». there is a probability that the supply of goods will be in excess vf the demaud. The price of commodities, therefore, will fall. This purely economic present- ment of the case in such that no single government could cope with and hope to be successful. Every country every district indeed, has its own particular problem, the solution of which. may bring temporary relief, The whole question, however, is there- by brought no nearer a settle- ment since now problems are opening up every day. The causes which contribute to the increase of be ing of

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require international adjustment and mót national legislation.

China Mail,

Education In Japan.

The thirty-eighth annual report of the Minister of State for Education in Japan was recently issued and perusal of its pages, fforda a glimpas of much that is both interest og and instructive.

For one thing, it shows that the Japaness are maintaining their efforts to make their national sys tem of education, as complete as

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