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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

A carrer pendant › to the Manchester Guardian Bayr:- suppose some readers will imile at my contribution, but I knew a man who had had one of his legs amputated; and I have often heard him 'assert that on cosasions when he felt an "itobing where his real toes used, to be be felt irresistibly impelled to worstch the toes of his artificial

CORRESPONDENCE.

(The opinions expressed by corres- - pondents are not navessazily those of the Hongkong Talagraph."]

THE DERBY DAY CATASTROPHE,

[To the Editor of the "Hongas Talograph."

Sir, I shall be obliged if you

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1918.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

TOYO KISEN KAISHA.

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5.8.

ANYO MARU," From 80UTH AMERICAN PORTS, SAN FRANCISCO and JAPAN PORTS,

The above named Steamer hav." ing arrived, Consignees of cargo are hereby notified to send in! their Bills of Lading for counter-

:

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LIVER SAUSAGES.

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&c.,

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leg, and from, I suppose, a kind will aske, it known through the of sympathetic sense-actually columns of your paper, that the felt relief by doing so. A rather Magistrate, acting as Coroner, signature, and to take immediate OXFORD SAUSAGES. curious fact is that when a person will be glad to receive commani. delivery of cargo from alongside CAMBRIDGE has suffered concussion of the cations in writing from any Cargo remaining undelivered brain at a time when attering a person who tay desire to give on

March 3rd, at 5 PM, PORK sentence, but owing to his evideres at the exquiry which will be landed at Consignees accident not being able to com- will be instituted into the reentrisk and expense, and delivery BEEF

must then be taken from the plete it, on trepanning, taking disastrous collapse and confiagra Company's Godown. place the first words attered by tion of the mat-heds at the Bace

Storage charges will be assesS- the patient will be the completion | Course. Communications may ed on all cargo remaining un- be is any language and ehould delivered on March 7th, At be sddressed to myself. The 5 P.M. The value of the organisations writers are greated to slato No Fire asurance whatever for sending books to the trenches their full asma, and address and will be effected. is emphasised in this extract to set out the details of the in from sa officer's letter to his formation, which they are able to sister, who is engaged on war give.

of the sentenos.

- work at home. He writes from

British Eat Africa:-" I knew

to my cost, from being a whole

sile sock merchant (Ordnance

Yours etc.,

G. A. WOODCOOK, First Clerk and Magistrate, Magistracy Hoogkong," March

officer) for the last 2 years, how 18, 1918 difficult it is to see the real

No Claim will be recognised after the Goods has left the Steamer or Godown.

All chafed and damaged cargo will be landed into the Com pany's Godown, where they will be examined on the 10th March, (at 10 a..

No Claim will be recognised if filed after the 17th March,

objects for which one is striving Sir,The Chinese community 1918. amidst all the rush and harry of is profoundly togobed by the war and social disorder, to main-sympathetic resolution passed

T. DAIGO, Manager.

tain steadily in view cos's real this afternoon by the Exocative Hongkong, 1st March, 1918. goal and to differentiate between and Legislative Councila in refer. important thinge and secondary enca

of

ta

the dreadful losses

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

From U.S.A. JAPAN and. SHANGHAI.

THE Motorship

"PERU,"

ones. I always find that after a anffered by the Colony. The THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD. peculiarly strenuous period sppalling calamity that hae 'Rock-count" a course of befallen us has cast a gloom over reading of really fine poetry the entire community which hse comes as a refreshing brecas and anfered in common in B helpe to remind one of the softer atsetrophe that has no parallel side of boman nature. You try in horror and frightfaloese in the a short course of, say, Meredith's history of the Colony. poems or Bopert Brooke (the

On behalf of the Chinese com- modern poets, owing to their on-manity, we desire publicly to conventionality, have got very tender our grateful thanks to the having arrived from the above near to the real meaning and cool members of the army, navy sad ports, Consignees of Cargo of present-day work and thought). palice (bath regular and reserve) are. hereby informed and you will had an added zest and civilians, who, regardless of all Goods are being landed. to your very strenuous work, personal danger, rescued so many at their risk into the hazardous What I call 'sentimental history" people from a horrible death. To and/or extra hazardous Godowns

e, the recording of the spirit, the Japanece, Portuguese, India that actuated all the noble deede and other communities whose of the past is also inspiring, and loses have been equally great in in many cases shows one extrc-| proportion, ordinarily clearly how modern beartfelt sympathy and six cere trenda of thought otherwise in-condolence. explicable grew up. I assure you

I would not have come through 21 years of appalling routine with a well-msinisined sense of pro portion and perspective without the necessary antidote of litere

ture."

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We extend

Years etc., {|

LAU CHU-PAE, HO FOOK,

Hongkong, 28 Feb., 1918.

qur

that

of the Hongkong and Kowloon

whence ardjor from the wharves delivery may be obtained.

Wharf and Godowa Co., Ltd.,

Goods not cleared by the 7th inst, will be subject to rent

All broken, chafed, and damag- ed packages are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined at 10 a m. 6th inst

Claims against the steamer must be presented within 10 days not be recognized. of arrival, otherwise they will

Sir,-Allow me a small space in your valuable paper to put forward a suggestion which I am No Fire Insurance will be sare would meet with the bole-effected by us in any case what As might hava been expected, hearted approval of the

en-ever. the American prese is not insenal tire community. I anggett Bills of Lading will be counter- ble to the humorous side of the that

with the proceeds signed by English controversy over the of the jewellery and valuables

THORESEN & CO. Banding to London of the replica collected within

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the sites

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned has received instructions to sell by Pub. lic Auction on

FRIDAY, the 15th. March

1918.

commencing at Il.a.m.

at the Waterfront, (Framway Terminus) Shaukiwan

of Barnard's statue of Lincoln. of last Tuesday's tragedy, the Hongkong, 1st March, 1918 The New York. Etening Post Government eboold cause to be suggest that, without making erected an impceing monument improper remarks about one of over the place on Caroline Hill cur allies," attention might be where were buried the charred drawn to the Albert Memorial, remaids of those who lost their the Crystal Palace, and namerane lives in the Rice Coarse fire. It por rait statues of departed British ia after all culy a little bit that we Fovereigns. Lord B yce is quoted can do and therefore, let us do it. se sticking ao for his home Should the rate of the jewellery towa" when it came to an inter. & ho impre est le dr the money national context in aglinees. the raised, be insuffizie ct for the "Besides, continues the American parpore, I am in a position to say commentator, "Londonera can with confidence that the. Chinees always appeal to the ability of community which suffered their climate to overlay apccath- most. in the recent diesster, nees with a patios of moot, and would come forward and subscribe transform blatant realism into the towards such a food. There is semblance of romantic antiquity.no doubt to, that the reat Before many 969800 Cв etspee, af the € mmunity, sa weli Barnard's London Lincola will as the relatives and friends of bave been weathered and mellow the sufferers would like to con ed and rendered invisible by fog, tribute their quots, in order to and smoke until it will look just perpetaste the memory of those as inconspicuona as the statue cf, who met their death under such Queen Anne,"

sad and appalling circumstances. I may mention that this letter

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Very few people who attended in instigated by some prominent the meetings addressed by Mr. members of the Chinese Com Bonar Law in his contest iqmunity.

Northwest Manchester in 1010 Thanking you,

will have forgotten his famous

black book. As a Bootaman Mr.

Y are etc., CHAU NGAN TING.

Boost Law is an adept is the Hongkong, March 1, 1918.

procese of "heckling," bat on

these rccasions be seldom answer-

One Wood Lighter Length

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GEO, P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

N conseque ce of the Maxima- lists' declaration that Russia has suspended the state of war with the Central Powers. and that all agreements with her Allies have becoms void, T, the undersiz bed. Cartain D. A. Lukhmanoff, hereby announce:

Firstly, that from the bottom of my heart I send my curse to

ed a question without producing THAT PAIN BEHIND YOUR the political adventurers of all

from his pocket a ems! black;

Ybook. He appeared to have the

*faculty of opening it at the right

SHOULDER

descriptions and aades, from Sturmer and Pr.topopoff to Lenin and Trotsky, who have

page and of finding the proper is probably due to disordered brought my bel ved country to answer to a question from his liver. Pickettes dispel. "liverish, the present state of crazy own point of view, whether it nes," Constipation, Biliousness, anarchy, famine, weakness, related to finapos, cotton statistics, aick-hendeches, clear the com, political prostration, and i famy.. or commercial mattere generally, plexion and sweeten the breath. - And, secondly, that my heart, Towards the end of the contest questioners tested the capacity of the little volume in widely

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different ways, but it was asidom the dainty little laxatives, of all at fault. The only point in dealers, or post free, 60 cents the which it was found wanting, phial, from Dr. Williams perhaps, was that it failed to Medioine Co., 96 Szechnen Road, secure his election.

Shanghai-

| my braids, and my hands will - stay till my last gasp with the noble Allisa, who have united all their efforts and fearlessly shed their precious blood to save the world from the German militarism:

clutches of

Capt D. A LUKHMANOFF, R.V.F., K.S.A, K.8.8. etc., etc.

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