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GENERAL NEWS.

All Salats' Church, Tleatsia, A bosatiful stained. glass windor has been added to All Saints' Caurob, Tientsin, and is located just above the font... Is bears the following inscription: **In ever loving memory of Mary, wife of Clude William Kinder, bora 19th August 1861, died 25 h March, 1911. Bleat are the pure in bears. Mr. O. W. Kindër, O.M.G., MI U., is well-known to older residents as the former General Manager and Engineeri in Chief of the Peking-Mukden Railway.

Shortage of Bank Clerks, The depletion of bank staff by onlistment En caused range) obsages behind the counter: Dur ing the first days of dislocation, and before the emergency could] be mat, one general manager of a Manchester bank bed, of necessity, to reduce himself to a ledger clerk at odd times. Most banke have now culled in the assistance of their pensioner-, aud ora employing girls to type and to work the large number of adding machines used in the big effices. Standard Oil Company Extension of Interests.

"New York, December 11- According to the New York Times, the Imperial Oil Company of Canada, which is said to be -controlled by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, has purchased three oil companies The Peru, London, and Pacific Petroleum Company, the West Coast Oil and Fuel Company, and the Lagunitas Oil Company-with the intention of merging them under the general control of the -Standard Oil Com, any. Tois means an immense extension of the Standard Oil interestalio the South American fields.

Murder of a Harbin Family. Harbin, Jan. 6.A small store- keeper with his family of seven was murdered last night in his store which is situated in the centre of the town. The objebt was robbery. The murderers have not yet been discovered.

"Ware Sharks!

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1915

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HOW DE WET WAS

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Dramatic Termination to A Prolonged Chase,

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Cape To December 2. Colonel - Com andant Brits reports tha: he captured General De Wet yesterday on a farm at Waterburg, 100 miles due east of Mafeking and about an equal distance between the Moro kweni Native Reserve and the Malopo River.

secured, but has always managea to break through.

Last week over 60 rebels were captured and brought to the town." Smallor nambers have also been secured. Some motor cars taking out sup.

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ring- Reports have come in of a accessful combined" movement gainera rebel commando under Rautenbach and Bruwer, which

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of De Wet'e force under Cmman-rock, this writer tells us, is The Belligerent Marie. Says the NC Daily News-dant G. Wolmarans, a brother of quarried from various points Miss Marie Corelli has written General Wolmarans, at Kom-around the bay, to be used for what is described as a "fine fight-mandant Spruit, 52 miles north-concrete constructions, roads, north-east of Vryburg Besides filling, and other purposes. The ing article," The way to get an article of this kind from Mise Commandant Wolmarans," Com-material is loaded on berges Bud Corelli is to make a noise like a mandent C. Strydom, and Veld- towed jo various points as de Cornets J. J. Prenasr and Dired. For filling in the water- Bordeaux Hospital Devoted to Marais, with 56 men, were front and constracting part of

captured. Paris, December 3-The Matin De Wet had left this party the Oakland side, a recent contract announces that the military day before, trekking farther west, calls for the delivery of about medical authorities have decided The pursuit was continued relent- 1,000,000 tons of rook, which is to send to the Russian hospital at lessly, and yesterday Comman now being excavated at a quarry Bordeaux all wounded suffering dent Brite came up with De Wet about an hour by water from the from preudo-arthrosis, or loss of on a farm at Waterborg. After city. The plant here includes bony matter. In that hospital being surrounded, therebel party, three steam shovels, each capable they will be treated by the merbod numbering 62, surrendered with of handling 1,000 to 1,300 oabic

yards of rock in ten hour, a¦ of Dr. Voronoz, who as discover-out' firing a shot. ed a procedure by whith bones of The total number ofrobelacaptur- railroad system, and electrio other men or monkeys can be ed by Commandant Britsis about dumping apparatus which can fill transferred to the patient, The 120, and includes Commandant a barge of 250-ton capacity in first operation, that of transplant- Noter H. Oost (editor of Het Volk) about an hour. Saya Mr. Yon ing a monkey's bone to the arm and five vold-cornete. The pur. Bernewitz, in substance: of a wounded French soldier, as suit from Vryburg and the sub-In order to bave plenty of just been carried out with consequent captars were carried out rok for the shovels, large quan powder and tamping took about noise being caused by rolling of rooks, than the actual explosion. plete success. Dr. Voroncz may, with the assistance of a special tition of material are broken at four days therefore, claim to be able to motor-car contingent from Wit-the faces being worked. One To help the main blast by The blast was an excellent one, restore life to parts of the body watersrand, manned by men of is a brown and the other a blue cutting away the foot of the hill, and a total of 168,250 tons of! regarded as dead for ever, and the Clonel Jordaam's column. This metamorphic sandstone, the late so as to allow the broken rok to rook, well broken up and require Russian Hospital at Bordeaux is Colman was composed of comman- ter being the hardest. On July elip down, eight 22-foot holes ing no secondary blasting, has ON going to be devoted to this treat-dos com the Middelburg, Lyden 11, 1914, large blast was made were bored as equal distances, since been moved by the steam- ment, which will be served by burg, Barberton, and Carolins at the brown face, which kept the These toe-blaste were fired shovels and dumped into Sin

shovels supplied for over two first, and so loosened the bottom. Francisco Bay. -dactors specially selected by Dr, diatric Trongsalut, chief of the Army Durity these operations there month. An adit was driven in- In setting off the large charge, a Moligt once having ban only benene operaltymase to the hill 35 feet, from which 220-1014, 110-ampers louizens specialised in the new treatment.ly, a rebelwounded. Reuter."

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CTOBE-Cuts were driven 70 feet rent was switched on to the leads Well-known Editor's Death Vryburg, Dec. 3-De Wei in each way. The press cuts were At the moment of disruption, as Mr. J. T. Herbest Baily, editor being brought in here, Com- divided into four sections each, shown by the half-tone, the whole of the Connoisseur died in on mandant Brit has been operat- and ware charged with powder. bill was lifted ont several feet, don last month after a short ill-ing for some the in this district Three electria exploders were fell back, and then the broken dainty dishes at the ALEXAN-Mount Baher als nese He was the author of with a strong force. Beveral inserted in each charge, making rock started to roll down. There DRA CAFE is sure to tempt oL CONQUEST OF THE WORLD,

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