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GENERAL NEWS,

Chinese Schools.

According to official figures, there are în Chins 38,099 public Yobočie aco^mmodating - ema 895500 pupil. Dissatisfied with the Small number of institutions

Bothparison with the popula Lou the Minister of Education

he planned for the increase of år) 185r1,000 middle and primary School in the course of this year

Wyithu Peking Lrader.

Japanese Workers for France. "Fivă bundred Japanese work men will go to France as muni- 1100 workers, and it is planned to Bend later an additional force of 1,500 for the, same purpose, no cording to Japanese“ paper, which reports pending negotia tictv, etween the French Gavern- ment and a Japanese emigration -Company,

y, It is daid, that the first

of workmen are to be used se fathe operators, and the plan for taking the Japanese to the Western front manition plauts was inaugurated last October. The men havs not been sent because an agreement on the wages to be paid cannot be reached, the French being willing to pay about Yen 2 a day, but the Japs- nese company has not accepted | the figuree.

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Centraller of Horse Transport.

AD Bonoungement by the Board of Trade asye that in consequence of the increasing demands of the Army and of Agriculture on the horee stock of the country, traders, carlags vontractors, and othere find it difficult to obtain the horses required for essential work. The position is made worse by petrol shortage, and by the lack of means for repairing motor vehicles. It is proposed, therefore, to regulate the sale, purchase, distribution, and work- ing of all horses, other than Army and agricultural borses, and generally to exercise control aver such horse stock. The President of the Board of Trade bas sp pointed Mr. R. B: Salbie, at present chairman of the Com. mittee on the Utilisation and Feeding of Horses, to be! Controller of Horse Transport.

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Armies," contributed to the Scientific American (New York, Another remarkable army December 11, Mr. L Lodian tells food is the compressed fig cffe that the food essentials of an army of the Central Powere, in use over are four meat, bread, sugar, and century, and with the pedalior HONGKONG & SHANGHAI quently cocure in Germany, tes, Btaled in the order of import advantage that it may either be BANKING CORFORATION. especially in the Lanehager Ance, it being understood that utilised for food as it is or con Beide, in the neighbourhood of fate are included in "meat"and zerted by infusion into a coffee. Berlin, pear

that the Ordinary Yearly cereals, legumes, etc., in like drink, with the inevitable NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Konigeberg in

**bread." The sugar" item fggy four. The much-wrinkled, Meeting of the Shareholders.in Prossio, in Hesse and elsewhere. It is aleo to be found in Bohemia,

inoludes all sugar containing smoke-dried pears found in the this Corporation will be held at where there are great deposits.

fruits, and under ** léa are same armise are another product the CITY HALL, Hongkong, on counted coffee, chocolate, rocosmide by the ton. These are used SATURDAY the 23rd day of and national beverages. Writes by the troops as a sombined February, 1918, at Noon, for the Mr. Lodian:****

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Another detachment of Austrian The King and Queen enter soldiers of Italian extraction and tained the members of the sympathies, who have been American Mission at luncheon at released by the Bassian authori

The West Indian Contingent. Bookingham Palace recently.ties from internment in order that

purpose of receiving the Report nutriment and corrective. Brigadier General Sir William

of the Court of Directors together With the King and Queen were they may serve with the Italian

"The Swiss Army, which now with a Statement of Accounts for Prince Albert and Princess Mary. Armies, arrived si Tientein Rail. Manning, Governor of Jamaica, "All armies possess emergency

None of them is entire and then figures in the daily news the year ending the 31st Decem- The arrangements were of the way Station from Siberis on the who recently paid a visit to the rations. simplest and most informal obst- 18th alt. They nambered about British West Indies Regiment at ly up to the mark; sad the pro-48 Sghting hard to maintain its bor, 1917.

The Register of Shares of the acter, and no change was made 300, making the total who have the front, Attended the half-blem is still to find an emergency centrality, has but one notable et, the lunch from the strict stress been sent down about yearly meeting of the West Ioration which shall be passabls food-product-the white checa Corporation will be CLOSED tien Contingent Committee at antisfactory. For instance, the late. This is made entirely from MONDAY, the 11th Febru the Colonial Office. He said that American article is lacking in of cocce-butter and sugar, the ary, to SATURDAY the 23rd

of the bean February, 1919, (both days in general cfficers, officers proteins and fats; and the choco-brown residue manding, and company officers late tablets which accompany it after removal of the stearin clusive), during which period teing excluded. The moulded no transfer of shares can be all testified to the excellent be are an indifferent gabetitate.

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method of rationing constantly 375. practised by the King and Qlean and impas! upon the entire Court and Household. There was neither music nor special

British Women in the Philippines.

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The small British community baviour of the men ander fire, There ага three different chocolate cake has the smooth, registered. floral decoration. After the meal, at Calorcan, in the Philippine and added that the West Indians parched maize meal packets and glossy, ivory white appearance of which was served in the House Islands, has forwarded to the were in no way affected by heavy three chocolates. The former billiard-ball. A lese sweet form Directors.

hold dining room, the members Over Bess Club a supply of com casualties. The men

were in article is bat s revival of the of the bite chocoliste has a dried with their Majesties for some in which they may keep their time. One of the members of the

admirably with their British can Indians, on which they could sugar. Both types are recognised mission declared afterwards that personal belongings. The women comrades. Sir Everard im Thara, exist for days when hunting or s of food value superior to the a loyal and general following of mined to take their share in the fact that the regiment was now hardy race finally abandoned the brown part is much over-rated,{

of this little community are deter- the chairman, emphasised the on the war-pach. But even this of the ordinary brown chocolate; bably do away with all suggestion war, Bad a weekly meeting is held carving on practically every for the better known pemmican in this respect being comparable SINGAPORE DOLLAR of the necessity for compaleory at which all kinds of work for the front, and that it had been in the dried chopped meat with graine to beef extract, caires foot jelly, rationing, and added that he and Red Cross in undertaken,

of the mission chatted separately fort bsge for woonded soldiers Arcellent spirits, and got on parobed maïzs-meal of the Ameri-cream incorporated in Tida "ól)

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firing line in the recent eaccess mixed in, to which no straight and other supposed dainties, ful operations in Palestine. Sir cerral product can compare as a popularly imagined to be highly Frederic Hodgson mentioned that sustaining food. The German nutritions.

**An Italian army chocolate is A notice was published in the only recently it bad won a Army pea-sausage, or Erbewurst. Dublin papers recently from the Military Cross, 12 Military has been much overpraised by in saussge-length form, pet up in military authorities stating that, Medela, and two Boysi Humane those whose familiarity with ordinary casing, while ite plum HONGKONG DOLLAR

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extent, padding than the more familiar pioneers of antomobilism and ple in Dublin by a recent raid for The Lord Mayor and Mr. Hoggend is actually inedible when one of British tradition. The aviation, interviewed: by a repre- arms in the city by evil-disposed Speaking at Chiswick, at & Bentative of the Times of Malaya, persone, rifles, revolvers, and meeting of the National Feder. anpooked, being of a nauseating, Italian spotted dog is made with eaid that he had been sent by the ammunition will be received for ation of Discharged Baldiers, Mr. terish, andraw flavour. It would one of the beavy and dark Italian Air Ministry to Canada and other safe keeping at the Ordnance Pringle, MP, zeferred to the seem that an emergenoy ration wines in lieu of water and fat out places to stimulate reoraiting and Store, Telaod Bridge, Dablic. mesting at the Mansion House in should above all things be edible meats in place of ordinary interest in aircraft work there, Receipts for erme and smman connection with the "Comrades as it is to provide for the no abortening.

*There is, to repest, no entire~ but that his official position was tion so deposited will be given in of the Great War, movement, remote contingency in which offer for inspection of Mechani- all cases, and applications for the when one of reversi diarranged cooking facilities are lackingly eatisfactory emergency ration RAINWATER PIPES cal Transport Services for the return of the arms will receive men interrupted the prootedinge. The finest known combination nee by any army, and perhaps

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He said that they did not object to of censtaining and beating qasli there never will be. The nearest many of the war plased, he s

he said,

the "new organisation, but they lies among meat foods is a form approach thereto is the simples: would be used for passenger and

Edible Earth" as a War Food, did object to its trying to caplaze of sauange with high fat contentinas the unsalted, sun-dried. msil fervices throughout the En- The Eilenburger Tageblatt an the cld organization by bribing called by the French boulet rame Laper thin meat sheets of some of Pits after the war, and the first nounces a new or rather's redis and corrupting its officials, When (chain-shot). This is slea ticed the Latin-American forces. This -KTUALIOntes to be

organic covered, "food," by which, it the interraptera were ej'ced the by the Baigisus and the German is always dry and clearly to would be those overland. The says, Germany will be able to remark was made by the Lord It is a winter food and is never handle, can be eaten as it is, and

iseged for sammet campaigning folds up compactly like brown we journey from London to India, hold out antil the enemy gives up Mayer that they could now see The string is so firmed that each paper. The think article of the which, before the war, took at the struggle in despair. This where German gold was need least 14 to 15 days by boat, and food" is described under the and Lord Beresford paid, "Now, ball constitutes a single sub-hipping supply trades is a very The Asiatic soldiery have a 4 Australia 30 days, could be beading Edible Earth, a Timely the Bolcs have gone." The Lord stantial ration. To quote für different and very inferior one. redgood to four and seven days Hint." It is called fossil far" Mayor at that time did not know ther

There are more than a desez "imilar sun dried and upisited respectively. In regard to Ma- or infusorial earth." The that the interrupters were con laya, an air service for mails and journal enye." This fossil four nected with the federation. He varieties of compressed teas used meat sheeting, in smaller sizes, -passengere would be of inestenlis to be found in large layera ip had sent Mr. Bogge en ample by the Rassien commissary, hayed from the round of gost, ab's a-e. Malaya would be about Sweden, Lapland, and Finlandpology, and expressed his regret appearing in various forms-barheep and pig, while certain

On tries tribes depend upon -6500 miles from London, which, while France, England, and oc bat he should have attered any. alab, tablet, diso, ball, etc.

imilar product of the deer, and at a flying rate of 1,200 miles per capied parts of Greece are treater hing that, in any way, which is a bigh-grade whole leaf. ten day, wou'd bring her within five by natore in a much more nign.ced on the patriotism of the Compressed tes occupies vers the off-lo. la every Cass food.

gerdly fashion. Fossil flour fre- organization.

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