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NORTH POINT. BÅTHING.~

THE TOWERS OF SILENCE.

Work of Preparation Nearing, Completion.

An Interesting Article,

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1917.

SIDELIGHTS FROM GERMANY.

Victory Over Moneybags and Sea Tyranny.

you want to be particularly Those who have been looking| festiva in Bombay you go and visit forward to a renewal of bathing cemetery. It is no ordinary Felhazeitung, which has been The widely circulated Kolnische facilition at North Point will be cemetery in the strict meaning lately in rather low spirits, uttar plemed to learn that the work of of the word it is not a cemetery ing many a dospondent wail, is preparing the site and providing at all, for the bodies are not bara recovering, owing principally to accommodation for bathers is well ed. Nor can it be called a burial the success of the sixth war loan, under way, and that it will only ground, for the bodies are not and to the evidence which be a matter of a few days now baried, before the announcement is made

supplies of a "high moral tons among the people. The following that all is ready.

shows the paper at its best :---

"Shall we now, when we are so

It belongs to the Parsees, followers of Zoroaster, popularly We observe that the site of the known as fire-worshippers. As a bathing, beach is not quite the matter of fact, all the four elements near the goal, destroy everything game se last year, being a little are sacred to them, and therefore by shortsighted impatience or ill nesrer to the town, the change my rot te defiled

by considered rentiment? Shall we having been made to secure contact with 8 dead better and cleaner besch. A zum-This limits the messe" of dis-given us in these 33 months of body destroy all which car defecce has ber of women and men have been posing of the dead considerably, war, and which we bare built up employed cleaning the beach, and Ordinary burial would contami- before the entire admiring world? those who take advantage of the ante Earth; the natural process of Perish the thought. Are we to de- facilities will find a great im decay would contaminate Air; prive ourselves of the prize of provement in cleanliness on what cremation would do the same for victory now that the pointer on the was experienced last year at low Fire; and to throw the bodies dial of the world clock points to into the res would pollute Water. the hour "which announces the Thus it will be seen that Zoroas victory of German and Europesu ter left a pretty problem for his freedom over the Anglo-SaxoD BOS followers to solve. The Towers tyranny and the moneybag of Silence contain their solution democracy of America? Perish of it.

this thought also.

water.

A bamboo pier is being erected, as well as commodians matshed, and rows of buoys are being laid down, giving an assurance of

safety,

FILMS THE CHILDREN LIKE

Statistics of "Regular" Cinema-Goers.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned has received instructions to sell by, Pub-

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THURSDAY, the 28th. JUNE, *1917. commencing at 10.30 a.m.

They stand on the top of Mala

"And now, in the coming two bar Bill, on the best site in the months of special economic best residential quarter of Bom- privation, are we to bring bay. There are five of them, abcat a situation of our own Allied Shipping in Gulf of Bothnia enclosed by a high wall in an area free will which our enemies, of about eight thousand square in their hatred, sad siter nearly yards. Visitors generally motor three years of war, have not out from their hotels, which stand been able to effect ? Never. This in the basinesa quarter of the cannot happen. If it happened imately 90.000 tons of Allied town, commonly called "The the German people would have Fort, and it is a plessent drive ceased to be German. The Gershipping which has been tied op in the cool of the evening along man is tough and thorough. UP beginning of the war will be Among the witnesses before the ses shore between Colaba then! After all, it is not sach a released as the result of an agree the Cinema Commission in Loaden recently was Dr. Moore Bombay takes the air, while the We can bear it.

and Malabar Points. Here long time till the new harvestment between Great Britain and Ede, Dean of Worcester who

Hold cof Sweden which was concluded to described the results of visits to sands. All sorts and conditions have reached the goal, and then of the bargain the release of itiron bedsteads, tapestry - covered rising generation digs on the another two months and we shall day. Sweden secares as its part four picture theatres in Worcester of men

may be met with, we can twist the noses of the and of inquiries made in element but the Parsee is conspicuous envions Boglish and of the Amerabips, laden with foodstuffs and easy chairs & couches, teak writ-

among them all by reason icans satiated with our blood."

ary schools sa to the effects of picture shows.

He had not found, esta in ex-

.

"What are

Moral

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in the Galf of Bothnia since the

at his Sales Rooms, Dudden Street.

A Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture. Comprising:

Double brass & brass mounted

other necessaries, which have screens.

[ing tables, Japanese lacquered Cherry-wood couch, been detained in British harbours.silk embroidered pictures,

of

NOTICE.

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of bis dietiactive featüren The entire April zamber of and dress. Nobody bata Parsee the Suddeutsche Monatshefte one The ïfficial statement of this gravings, oil paintings, ceptional oneer, any indecency, would wear a black frock cost in of the beet known of German arrangement says that thereby the colure. toilet sete. bronze orn bat a good deal of sensational Bombay, whose climate is recken-magasines, is devoted to "The country's whest requirements mente, ivory carvings, curios. melodrams and scenes of brutality ed "sticky" by those who know Growth of England."

cut-glass, silver & electro-plated A liet of antil the next harvest will be met, which young obildren might be not "Singapore. Bat most dis. ita contents will give inficient provided the present system of ware, cutlery, etc, etc.

Also tempted to imitate. He felt little haotive of all is his black shiny indication of the character of this rationing is steadfastly adhered A Selection of Canton Black- doubt that some Elms of this iteaddress, which rises up in front publication. "Political Morals 1, even if, as there is reason to wood Ware vkind were unhealthily exciting, like a small mitre and which is and

comprising:- and some teachers had told him supposed to be a copy of a cow's Lina Bog,

Politica," by fear, the harvest is late. Further Couches. chairs, flower stands, more, it is said, it seems possible stools, curio stands, table, etc. that children dreamed of them hocf, worn upside down.

பூசு пр 2 nation of hopeless to increase rationa to some extent etc.", He had found that children

Arrived at the Towers of Bilence, hypocrites. Carl Petere, who con

And in very urgent cises. from the poorest districts were you climb the bill by two broad tributee several articles, writes on London, May 9-An Exchange

3 Fowling pieces. the most constant einems goers. fights of steps. Halfway up stand, the "Rise of the Empire" and ex- Telegraph despatch from Stock-the 27th. inst

On view from Wednesday, On inquiry from 1.843 boys it wo Hindoo perters who scrutinise patiates on the cruelty and false-holm qutes the Svenska Aftan- was found that 718, or 30 per your pass. A notice reminds you hood of our relations with subject ladet, as saying with reference

Catalogues will be issued. coot described themselves as that smoking is prohibited, as peoples. Alexander von Haller to the Anglo-S sedish agreement

Terms: Cash on delivery.

GEO. P. LAMMERT, regalar frequenters of pictures. being, one supposes, a sacrilegious points out the gsins we have that it was not secured without

Auctioneer. Among girls the proportion was ee of fre. Before you ach the acquired by our interference in compensation on the part 25 per cent., or 477 out of 1,868. top of the hill the secret of the European were. There is a letter Sweden, the main condition by Different answere were given as Towers is out, for those who from Herr Houston Stewart Cham- Great Britain being that the to the comparative popularity of have eyes to see. For out of berlair, the notorious renegade, narrow sound used by British THE Office of Chinese Mari- Tarious kinds of films. Cowboy the trees which grow below who writes mach abuse of the ships returning from the Baltic, time Customs for Kowloon films got 18 out of 23 possible and against the walls flop country of his birth.

and which was mined some and District will be CLOSED votes, comic films got 15, Army large beary birds.

Dr. Hoffmiller castigated us for months ago, shall be re-opened. to public business on the 23rd, and war pictares 14, detective they?" you exclaim, as you look our neglect of education. Dr. The newspaper. also says that the date of the Summer Holiday. inst.. (5th, day, 5th mcon), being sad burglary filme 11. Six up at the great wings planing Droyion enlarges on our cruel guarantees were received from #choola pat cowboy films just over your head. Then your methods of conducting warfare; Germany that the vessels would firet, seven schools preferred eye catcher the bald outstretched Herr Jonathan Swift (1) writes on not be torpedoed. comedy, and four favored war neck and you know at once. our scandalone treatment of pictures. Travel, illustrated | Valtares!

Irish children; "Indicas" bow industries, dramatised novels, sad The trees are fall of them, and wo dor quered Ιndis and romances were less popular. you can now see them sitting on oppress its inhabitants; and Children did not "elove making, the walls. Even so, the full Cari Petere and Herr W. J. Bryan FOR RUN-DOWN PEOPLE. and mostly descr. ed it as "silly'

"

significance of their presence may back him up with denunciationa They positively disliked murder not strike you, until the porter's of British rule in Iudis. The rest and burglary, except in so far as voice ia beard saying..."Yes, they of the number is made up of there was

a detective interest are hungry to day. Only one little choice extracts from the works of attached to them.

child so far," and be lonks down British writere, in which the Some tesobers had spoken far- the road to see if there is another errors and crimes of our history ourably of the effect of the better funeral in eight.

have been held uptorreprobation, class of film on children's powers And that is the way in which Price only le. 8d. of observation and desire to gain the Pareees have solved the prob- general knowledge.

lem of the disposal of their The Dean expressed himself in dead. They let the valiares vour of the formation of a strongest them, and thus none of roof to the tower; it is open to vigilance committee, bat said he the four elements is directly the skies, and even when no had found no case where adults pollated. It might be objected faners! is in progress the tops were present with children for pure that this is a post porement rather of the walls are fringed with

of

"

The expression ""ran-down" comes from the feeble action of; an unwound clock, and the com. parison is a good one. Applied to health, it means a condition in which all the bodily fanctione are sufeebled. Appetite fails, the digestion is impaired, the eve are impoverished, the complexion becomes pale, there and mental depression. Fatigue is no animation, but rather worry

poons of immorality. He preferred than a solution of the difficulty, exprotant vultures. What happene is a constant symptom. Btate censorship to local control, and to io truth is in But it at a funeral masy best be left to the No particular organ. being Though the State might be thickestis foe the Pa see's religione eera imegination. It is all over in two affected, you must look for relief headed and wooden in its methods, ples, and its falty logic does not hours, one is told. The bones are to the blood, as it circalates it would not be inaccessible to seem to offend big reason. afterwardsswept into the central everywhere. Improvement in the local influences.

The area inside the walls is well where the action of sun and blood is quickly felt throughout Sir R. Wallace, EC., chairman partly a trim garden, lain" out rain reduces them to powder which the entire system, and

Dr. of London Sessions, was strongly with walks and flower beds, snd is carried off down drains which, Williams pink pilla for pale of opinion that cinema were bad partly a wilderness, through the contain filter bedr

people are the best and most con- for all young people, and that no trees of which you can dimly res child under 12 should be admitted two

This in the story which the old venient blood builders. As your the white sinister Parree guide reels of glitly in blood becomes rich and red, the to a picture show without a parent.locking towers. Oe of them broken English, ending up with various organs regain their tone He was in favour of the plan of is the suicide's Tower, Visitors a tog about cust to dust and and the body recovers its vigour. half-lighting of saditoriums, STA not allowed to go sehes to ashes,—and A very. If you have any or all of the which had been adopted in Bir beyond the garden, and none bat, horrible and cold-blooded story it above symptoma try the tonio mingham, Es objected to pro- the priest in allowed to penstrate seems to the Christian mind. treatment with Dr. Williams menades in picture theatres alio the towers themselves. Bot a Reverer ce for the dead has pint pills, which ara obuinable gether. He agreed that filma model in the garden shows how from the very first one of the from Chemists everywhere also depicting "adventurous orime they are n-ed The tower itself is distinguishing festarea of post free, one bottle for $1.50, 6) tempted boys to emulation. He just a shell, but about s third of Christianity and is RO still for $8/- from the Dr, Williams' deplored the lack of parental she way up a broad stone ledge except among some of the mere Medicine Co., 96 8schoen Road, Coontrol which was evident every or abeltrans rrond the barberons German tribes, who do Shanghai,

where to-day, and said that "chil- inside of it. On this shelf the not sprink from ring the FreeSend a post card for a dren were not being trained in dead bodia are reverendly laid, graven of their fallen fwR. B. most useful Health Guide, to "matters of moral responsibility? " but not to rest.” For there is no in 8 ngapore Free Press.

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