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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY,

OCTOBER 10, 1916.

DAY BY DAY.

PLAGUE PREVENTION.

P.W:D. PROSECUTIONS. YESTERDAY'S CRICKET.

By Appointment

WATSON'S DRY GINGER-ALE.

FRAGRANT, AROMATIC, DRY.

ITS

"DRYNESS" IS A FEATURE WHICH HAS HELPED TO GIVE THIS DRINK THE POPULARITY IT SO WELL DESERVES.

Pints $1.20 Per Doz.

Splits 70 cts. Per Doz.

TRADE

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MARK

The Stephano.

Germany has now added to her laurels by carrying her submarin- ing campaign into American waters, and we would give a good

SWEET MERCY IS NOBILITY'S What Is Being Done la. North Trouble with Chloème Contractors. H.K.C.C. Beatan by ""The Rest."

The Weather.

At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp. 73; sunshine.

Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 78; sosbios.

The Malls.

Siberian Mail-Closed per ..

Magellan st 4 p.m. to-day. English Mail.-Due per s.o. Nors

to-morrow.

deal to know what President TRUE BADGE-Titus Andronicus. Wilson and his immediate sup- por era think about it. If they will carry their minds back a little it may occur to them that Germsay had given certain under- takingo in regard to interference with passenger shipe, and that the United States papers, only a few months ago, were full of what they termed the President's bloodless triumph Cver Germany. Do they now realise that suck triumphs are not worth the ink and paper used in recording them? What- over the Government may feel about it, the

newspapers, judging from this morning's wires, about what they term "Prussian warfare in American waters” and they inform the Government that is its highest duty "to go any length" to end this; adding that "if Germany desires to incar the wrath of the United States, this fell likelihood this doing so. is jost what Germany does rather want to do.

Manchuria.

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Mr. A. E. Wright, of the P. W. We have received from Dr. Drosecuted several contractors Wa Lien-teh a summary of the before Hr. J. B. Wood, at the cricket, the match in which the After a day's most enjoyable fourth annual general report of Police Court this morning. with Hongkong Oricket Club were the North Manchurian Pigus various breaches of bye-lawa, Prevention Servics, of which he

One contractor

playing "The Rest" yesterday is Director and Chief Medical oned for removing

sum-ended in favour of the latter com-` stone bination, in spite of the fact that Officer. The following are some from a retaining wall near the heavy score was made by the ex racts therefrom:

N. Y, K. Mose. It was pointed Club. At the tiffin- interval, up The laboratory at Harbin has been fitted with a first class out there had been a collapse as to which time we reported mattera this spot, and defendant bad no Canadian and Siberian Maile.to-date applianoss in order that had continued doing so he would arly after resumption that s rot electric centrifuge and other upright to take the stone. If be wickets down for 232, but it was yesterday, the Club only had four Cloes per 8.8. Shidzacka Mr. Eberson may carry out his have made the main road unsafe. set in and the tail end of the Maru at 11 am, to-morrow, work in the most efficient manner. A fins $100 was imposed.

Olab's eleven failed to make any

·Australian Mail-Closes per as. We have for some time been

Eastern at 3 p.m. to-morrow. engaged on the problem of im-some work above May Road was 279, and, a fact which is no Another contractor engaged on stand. The total made by them ate frankly indignant French Mail-Olosca per 8.8. Paul munity in plague, which promises charged with dumping rubbish compliment to the fielding of

Leoat at 10 am, to-morrow.

to bring forth some striking on Crown land. Mr. Wright said "The Best," the extras amounted results in view of the wide differ- defendant had been given a per- to the high figure of 58. ence which appears to exist mit to put the rabbish, which had between the poisons obtained accumulated owing to a subsilently, Dewar 37, Marley 23, and from this and other well decce which occurred

disease-producing

afer Witchell 41 showing that the Jane, game was going to be a close one. ganisme. The difficulty of procur-(on A noising animals for experiments in diets noe further than that upon given by Commander Gibson, cme But the display of the day was Harbin has been great and has which he had placed the debris. whose 92 were made in perfect nec searily handicapped our work. To save himself the trouble he style. It was hard luck that he got The first annual conference of had got rid of it as close to the caught when the century mark the National Medical Association work be was, engaged cn as was so close in sight, Good of which I was Secretary last year he possibly could. sad am now President, took place told to remove it and when were some way behind when the He a scoring followed but The Rest" in Shanghai on 7-12 February. asked Inter if be had last man but one went in Re

A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., is the most effectual mesus of

ÆRATED WATER MANUFACTURERS,

Telephone 616.

rule

which Correspondents are requested to observe 'the requires them" to forward their names and addresses with America and Germany, communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily publication, but as an evidence of their bona fides.

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

for

The Dollar.

The opening rate of the dollar on demand to-day was 26. 2.5/16d.

To-morrow's Anniversary.

To-morrow is the 517th versary of the institution of Order of the Bath..

Dairy Farm Co.

the

koown

of-the

beavy rains in

land plot of

......." The Best" started exoel-

The extraordinary general merican be little doubt as to meeting of the Dairy Farm Co. her anxiety to drag the States Ltd.. for the alteration of the into the war, partly out of sheer Articles of Association is to be As in the case of the Missionary done so he replied that he had. with his partner enoceeded, how. chimpanzee-like love of creating held at 11.45 a.m. to-morrow,

Medical Conference held the year Ad Inspector later visited the ever, in knocking off the required farther mischief, but mainly, of Knocked Down by a Motor.

before, the members of our Ser-spot, but none of the rabbisk bad runs, and when the Club's score A Chinese male has been convice took a prominent part by been taken away. The cost of had been passed by six, the The rates of Subscription to the Hongkong Telegraph" will course, so that it shall be said

that Germany could only be deveyed to the Government Civil sending papers and displaying removing it would be $60 or $10. innings was declared closed, "The world. Hospital suffering injories receive large anmber of exhibita con- Some of these people were a great Best" thes winning by eis raze America's best men and for-/ed through being toocked downnected with plague and other nuisance. A fice of $25 was im-and two wickets, Ereryons. voted The rates per quarter and per mensam, proportional. Subscriptions tunately some of those wield no by a motor car in Shanghai Street. kinds of infectious disease and posed, and on order made that the day a real sucess. The scores

be as follows:-

Daily issue-$26 për asnam. Weekly issue-$13 per annum,

Single Copies, Daily, ten cecte. Weckly, twenty-five cents (for

cash only).

fested by the entire

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Missing.

H. K. C. C.

T. E. Pearce a Dewar b Bod-

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Advertisements and Subscriptions which are at ordered for a fixed in which she could materially Hunter, of Alexandra Boildings, of this land are watching the pro- that marmots, like human beinge, M. M. Masac Dewar b Gibson.. 35

period will be continued until countermanded.

(Payable in Advance.)

The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will be delivered to subscribers by, the Dairy Farm Compan. Ltd., Shameen, Canton, who have been appolated our agents there.

By Order,

"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH."

BIRTH.

COSSART.-On October 9th at 7 Queen's Gardens, to Mr. and with .08. Mrs. Louis A. Cossart, a daughter.

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1916.

CIVIL SERVANTS AND BUSINESS.

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Total BOWLING.

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11 3 41

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5 0.21 1

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Alice Memorial Hospital. their method of prevention, defendant should have the rabbish for any period less than one month will be charged as for a inconsiderable amount of in-

The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice The next Conference will be a removed in the course of a fort-

were as follows:-- fall monib.

fcenos-are not foolish enough Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals joint one consisting of the The daily issue is delivered free when the addres see is accessible to to be "drawn" by such transpar begs to acknowledge with thanks Missionary Medio 1 Argociation

night. messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies delivered at ont tricks; nor will they, if they their residences without any extra charge. 01 copies sent by can help it, allow their Govern- the following donations to the and the National Medical O

ment to to to drawn America funds of the Hospitals:-Wab Oo, sociation, and will be held post an additional $1.80 per quarter in charged for postage.

in Canton about the time of the Pisgae among marmote. Car J. Stalker at. Hopper b Hamil- The postage on the weekly issue to any part of the world is $1.00 does not want war, nor do the $100.

Allies need her help in an

old Chinese New Year. I am rezalis obtained so far are em per quarter.

Bat Information has been given to pleased to note the increasing in-bodied in a paper which will be B. B. Tayler e Hopper b Bird. 19 active belligerent sense. there are a hundred

the Police that a man named Tterest which officials and people published simultaneously in Eag-F. Syme-Thomson b Gibson... 18 land and America. The discovery A. H. Claxton b Bird ... 27 is missing. He is forty-three greas of our work and our attempts assist the Entente without shedding a drop of blood or years of age and left his address to instila public health conscience are able to transmit plague them-C. Beswick b Witohell

Am- at 11, Shelly Street, three days into their minds, without which Belvea by conghing, i. e. through Lt. Col. Morgan b Witebell 3 esorificing a single man. erican sympathy, from being age, but had not been seen since. modern scientific medicine can the respiratory tract, raises a R. Kennedy e Hopper b Bird &

Accidentally Drowned. make little head way. In this re-question of the atmost import B. P. Thursfield Bird originally pro-German in the main, has steadily veered and Central Market has reported to with which the scheme of a Cen-domestic animals like the rat,

A Chinese stall-holder in the gardImay mention the enthusiasm Ance, in that other snusepiible N; Wright_not_out", during the past six months and

the Police that yesterday, whilst tral Model Hospital in Peking,moase, cat etc., may do the as me more, has been pronouncedly assisting in unloading fish from a now in course of construction, has We have also been able to establish

But this has not

bost, his foki slipped into the been received by all classes, and the fact, hitherto denied by prevented her from coquetting water and was drowned. The the saccess which has already many workers, that marmote cap with the Germans occasionally body has been recovered. and from helping them in s

stiended the establishment of the take plague by feeding upon in Kay variety of ways. If the Ameri-

Peking Islation Hospital for the fected organe. Our experiments Bird Can would forthwith declare reported to the Police that on of infectious ditesses,

The master of a junk has reception and treatment of cases regarding plague transmission Witchell their sympathy officially and Saturday his bost was caught by

through the agency of ticke, have Brage... would undertake to help the heavy seas and dashed on the one for plague, which even in hare evidence to prove that a Gibeon... The past year has been a quiet the scarcity of animals, but we Mazloy... been limited in number owing to Hamilton Eatento Powers with if need rocks at Cheong Chaa. His son. Indis and Hongkong appears to far se the marmot is concerned, Redmond For considerably more than half a century the Government ser- under no circumstances to render overboard and drowned, and his choria and North China have the tick which is frequently the

be-money sad munitions, and aged three years, was washed have subsided considerably. Man- vice, whether at Home or in the colonies, has been a legitimate matter help of any kind to Germany; wile was injured on the rocks. remained entirely free from the only parasite infesting ita akin, is Capt. R. N. Denaro Kennedy for jesting. "Red ispe" Las become sa expression of which every they would be taking a useful The body of the boy has not been pest, and this makes the sixth as capable as the fi in convey. British child knows the full meaning and the higher walks of Govern share in shortening the war. recovered. ment employ have been commonly regarded as next door to sinecares. Meanwhile how is the new sat-

consecutive year in which the ing the disease from suimal to G. E. Merley e Morgan b This was the general feeling up to the time of the outbreak of the pre-marining going to affect the Pre-

The Missing Woman.

diresse has not cecorred through animal. The above discoveries A Ohinere woman, living at 32, sent war. Since then, while men have felt confirmed in their old gidential election ? -

open up a wide field for further R. O. Witchel run out out the Northern Provinces. Pottinger Street, has laid informs- opinion in some directions, in others they have been compelled to

The continued existence of investigation, and we hoped in Commdr. Gibeon e Stalker b modify that opinion and to own that there is "morein" the Govern- Immigration After the War.

tion with the Police that on Satur cholers in Japan, especially the course of another year to com- Pearce... ment servant than one might think. The war has brought the Civil

day she entrusted another woman Nagasaki and southern parte, Las plete the work we have in and re- Major Roberton e Olation b Service into stronger light than it has yet known: light which done a wide and graceful thing in and a pair of bangles, valued at am confident that the well to plague victimes a more potent J. V. Braga b Pearce...

The Duke of Connaught has with a ring, valued at $1,100,pat as seriously on our guard, bat garding the possibility of applying Bialker could not show up its deficiencies without, at the same time, doing publicly identifying himself with 8050, to sell for her. The women organised Sanitary Service of ram than any at present avail-P. A. Redmond b Claxton justice to whatever merits it may possess. To-day men realise that the no Germine need apply' even though Dickens' "Circamlocation Office" is still not dead, movement in Canads.

has not been seen or heard of that country will be able to cops

E. W. damilton not oat since, though the bangles have intellectually speaking the service is better manned than ever before migration," he said at yea- been recovered.

In conclusion I may record the R. E. O. Bird cat out acessfully with any contingency in its history, and that its faults are attributable rather to a system terday's banquet at Ottowa,

that may arise.

great advance in municipal under: Sergt. McGregor e Wright b Swept it Up. than to any individual or group of individuals.

"is one of Canada's greatent

The serious epidemio of Acute takinge which has been noticed

Pearce The university record behind an enormous number of these probleme, and, after the war, Mr. F. A. Hazeland, at the Police which, beginning with the city of of Harbin daring the past yest. Poliomyeliits (Infantile Paralysis) in the Chinees and Russian parío men is a enfficient guarantee that they are anything but foole, and she would be wise to insist that Court this morning, with being New York, has been spreading In spite of the war and increased the fact that so many of them have risen to world fame subsequent the immigrants shall be of British in unlawful possession of a quan- ly, shows them to have fulfilled the promise of their youth. origin." If our public men in the tity of salphar in quoon's Load throughout the Eastern Biatce post of living, wealth has increated Practically we are justified in saying that for one positive fool that Homeland would take a leaf cut west. Defendant and he had of America has claimed the by leaps and bounds among the Pte. B. W. Hopper did not bat. the Civil Service containe, there are ɓity men of more than of the Duke's bock and definitely swept it up in the Street. Inattention of the world. Already mercantile olarses, and the Chi-i average brain and attainments. Then why does this service contiene commit themselves to an opinion spector Sullivan said the man/over seven thousand cases have ese city of Fachiation to be a butt, and why are so many of the Empire's governmental on this all-important matter, could not here swept it up; been reported since June with 25 carcely be recognised owing to Syme-Thomson 7 2 14 0 departments in each a bewildering muddle? In the fres place, the there might be less anxiety in was all new stuff. A fine of $10 per cent. of deaths. This disease the large number of fine brick men are too sure of their "iba" and, in the second, they have received the minds of the British people or, in default, a monit's hard is peculiar in that the microor- buildings which have taken the no definite business training. In every walk in life save Government sa a whole. Canada at least labour, was imposed.

ganism osusing the disease has not place of the mad or wooden huts service, a man's prosperity has to depend on himself; other men will requires по better objeot

been definitely isolated nor has of plague times. The extensive not do his work for him while he idles, other ren will not always shield lesson on the sawisdom of

the proper means for its proven-area of land lying between the him; and, if his work is not satisfactory, diemieesl stares him in allowing her territory to become a st 3.45 s.m., 81 46, Queen's Rond tion or treatment been found. settlement bridge and the entrance the face, and, with it, probably a long spell of unemployment and sinkhole for undesirables than West. The fire occurred amongst of America, however, are now as reclaimed and sold in bailding Claxton...

The best physicians and scientists to the Chinese city has been either decendence or poverty. Bat for the idle or incompetent civil that afforded by the United a quantity of straw which in servant "the sack" has no terrors, for only under most exceptional States whose German popula- thought to have lain near a wall, hoped that before long this men.

work on the problem, and it is lote, mainly to Chiness business circumstances is be ever likely to be discharged. His employmeut tion alone is in the neighbourhood at the other side of which is a

In this way millions is secured, and a comfortable pention awaits him.

of ten millions. Nor ought Bri- glass furnace, which heated it,

difficulty may be cleared up, and of roables have been realised for Then the business side. For one of these men who is familiar tain berself to need much warning causing it to gatch fire. The Fire the epidemic stamped out.

municipal improvements, such as with offics rentire there are a hundred who know lees about it than if she cares to call to mind all Brigade were called on the scene Harbin reports that patients come draing and improvement of street The Senior Medical Officer at the laying of fice macadamired the young clerk with only a board-school education; pay, many that she has enffered in recent and were successful in putting it

streets, constraction of open Chinese ofice boy could give them points where good deal of years through allowing aliens to ont, damage to the extent of $100 as far as 2,000 li away. Osses of lighting. The Obiasse city is

from all parts to be treated-s0MG practical work is concerned. The result is confusion where there warta into London and other being done.

Mecari. Benjamin and Potts might easily be order; wicked waste of the public's time where towns. Primarily, 18 goes Tobacco Leet Obstruction.

infections disease admitted in- also to the fore, and two steam advise us that the Langkat output things might easily be done with proper despatch. A writer in the without saying, it is the Germans Inspector 8m summoned

clade typhos, eculatina, ory-rollers (one of Belgian and the is as follow:- London Evening Standard has made a suggestion on this point whom one wants to see rigidly Chinese, before Mr. W. . Hasipelse, small-pex, obiskes-por, other of Japanese manufacture) which we cordially hope will be acted upon by the Government barred; but there are thousands of land as the Police cars this parotitis, and whooping cough. have been bought for laying out This is to the effect that all successful candidates for the Home Civil other aliens who, though they may morning, with erasing an ob- Profiting by the increased know- proper macadamised roads in Service should undergo a year's training in commercial methods not hail from an enemy country, struction by apreading tobacco ledge obtained in the treatment place of the irregular loose earth particularly in the prompt handling of correspondence. If the are not wanted in British territory, leaves in such a position that they of septic wounds during the pre-which has up to now been the gentleman who makes the suggestion had bad dealings with some of for the reason that they introduce interfered with pedestrians. Mr. sent war, our Medical OfBoers pricipal feature of the thorough- our consular officials and with civil servante in Crown Colonies, dirt and diseass and do anything Hind appeared for the defends have successfully tried new forms fares. One of the new roads in he would not have limited it to the Home Civil service. There is bat contribute to the general mor- and said big dient employed of treatment for these conditions. ontemplation leads direct to our little to choose in point of unpracticality between the employees of al uplifting of the country. "The lot of coolies, and it was hard to air. Eberson and I have lately has undoubtedly set in, and it is In the research department, hospital. A new era of prosperity the Foreign Office, the Colonial Office and the Home Government, British Empire for the British" keep an eye to them all. His All are badly in need of a severe training in routine work and not may sound cherish; but we have Worship reached that he must carried out a marise of socomaful parnestly hoped that our public ons abould be allowed to proceed to his appointment till he can satisfy had to pay to beary a prios for keep an eye on thema Maanmiriora, dirawn from the business world, of his ability to perform our pass univarasi hospitality,

Kos of investigations an the transition basith work may go hand in

hund with it. of Pulmonary $5 was impond.

Vand Baptisomis ordinary cili za work in a thoroughly efficient msunne.

A Chinese was charged hafors

Glass Furnace Causes Fire. Oo Batarday a fire broke out,

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Taylor

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Bernick

Stalker ... Pearoo Morgan...

Thursfield

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Aut

...285

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3 1 15

4 0 32 5.2 .14 1.81

9 2 46 3 5.0 34 0

3 0 10 0

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LANGKAT OUTPUT.

October 1

2

HI

3

201

4

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Tons 146

122 112

101

137

118

30

118

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107

#

118

Total to 9th inst: 1,077

Daily average 112.68