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WATSON'S PULVOSMIDROSIS.

AN IDEAL DUSTING

POWDER.

Keeps the feet and armpits cool and sweet in the warmest weather and removes any unpleasant odour:

Cures sore and blistered "toes.

In tins 50 cts. each.

·PREPARED ONLY BY

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1918.

| "Local: Operations."

DAY BY DAY.

To-morrow's Anniversary,

A JAPANESE MURDER.

·Mystery Solved After Tan Years.

In a war like the present, we | |sre rather apt to overlook or under-estimate the value of local FALSEHOOD, SMOTHER IT WITH TO THOROUGHTY SUPPRESS A

Over ten years ago-to be operations. We have so contract- BILENCE. ed the habit of "thinking in

precise, on December 27th, 1907, the mutilated body of woman WIS battalions" that unless there is

discovered in a trunk at Esyaki big offensive under way; oar! To-morrow is the second anni-railway-giation, in Negusski pre- inclination is to jump to the conversary of the commencement of fecture. The police in Nagasaki elusion that nothing is being done. the second phase of the Bomme prefecture and Bat if we stop to think, we shall Battle by the British troops; realies that what have been termed "pin-pricka" serve a very useful purpose after all, We are re- minded of that by the sazounos-

"The Dollar.

1893.

HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE YEARS - AGO.

(Compiled from the

Hongkong Telegraph" filer for the week endang July 20, 1893.)

The Dollar.

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

A story is being told of two- farmers who walked in the mead-. own on a Sunday evening in sum. mer. ** Ab," said ane, ""ark 'ee to them ohurch bells. Doant they

"Hey! sound beautiful " ssked the other, who was hard of bearing. "What d'ya esy?”

sabrequently throughout the country endea voared to solve the mystery

"Them belis!" the Arst farmer and trace the murderer, but

roared.Bsint they lovely, com-- Jaly 13-Tos rate of the ing over the medders?” The The opening rate of the dollar without success. The authorities dollar on demand to-day is 2/8.

placed an embargo

deaf one still shook his head, on all ment now made that in less than on demand today was 38. 4d..

reference to the case in the neW)~ | Mr. Lapralk's Death. Can't hear 'es," he complained. a month's "Icoal operations" the

The Medical List.

July 14-By the sadden"Wait till them darned bella French have captured no fewer |

The name of Dr. Ma Chia-kimsking investigations daring the decease of Mr. John Stewart

papers, and have been patiently though not altogether unforeseen have stopped ringin'!" than 5,400 prisoners, including in added to the Register of last ten years. sixty officers. And what our Medical Practitioners,

The mystery has Lapreik, Hongkong and indeed now been anravelled, and those the whole of the Far East has lost be rationed, but we have not Says the Daily New:➡We may gallant Allies have done is no

editors who were impatiently one of the finest specimene of eased to be hospitable. The doubt equalled by the British also,

for the wires of late bare daily news of successful British be sold at the P.W.D. Office on ventures of this type. Bat figures the 29th instast. The upset like this give no account of the premium for the whole of the late strategic value of these operations is $7,794. which bare improved many a

When we take all the factors into

Land Sale.

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Eight inland lots of Grown

brought slmost land situste út. Aberdeen are to something about the affair were leader in the commercin! world, entertained at the House of Com

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD., weak point in the Allied line.

HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

TELEPHONE 16.

BIRTH.

EVANS. On 13th. instant at the Peak Hospital, the wife of F. W. 8. Evans, of a daughter. (prematurely).

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1918.

BRITISH POST-WAR ECONOMIC CONDITIONS.

means unimportant bearing on the general campaign..

In Albania.

Assaulting a Coolie. At the Police Court

-

"Typhoon Warning.”

A Boy's Theit.

+

At the German Club.

Governor's Peak Residence.

go to learn that the ban had cause of charity, a staunch patrona formal lungh: the Labour Party greatly relieved a couple of days never failing benefactor in the mona the day before yesterday st been removed.

On December 8th, 1907, a man short, a big-bestted, whole-souled to-day. On Thursday the Belgian of sport in all brancher, and, in are entertaining them again there appeared at Nagseski station and

gentleman. arranged to send a trunk by train

Trade Committee are the Govern- Kowloon Mosquitoes. thie to Hayaki. The trunk was duly

Jaly 15-Te mieroscopist

ment's guests at dinner at the consideration, we must come to morning, a Chiuree was charged, eent to that station, but as so says that a mosquito has 22 teeth Carlton: on Friday the Chambers the corelusion that these little before Mr. J. B. Wood, with one come to claim it, it was put His verscity would not be doubted at Claridge's and the Chamber of of Commerce are lunching them happenings are having a by no saulting a coolie. It waa atated in the luggage room, An offen- by 18sidents at Kowloon if he had Shipping are giving them dinner

that defendant knocked com- sive smell which soon became said 2,222. plainant down and then assaulted very noticable led the railway

there the same sight. Finally, him with a brick. Defendant was officials to open it, when they

July 16.There was quite an on Monday they are to lunch af sent to prison for seven days were borrified to find the murder-enjoyable concert at the Clab the Mansion House as the City's hard labour.

ed body of a woman.

Germanis last evening, the only guests. Still a crust or two for The wide activities of the police defect noticeable being a niggard-

แ friend Turning to another war theatre,

in endeavouring to clear up the ly curtailment of the programme. the developments which вге The following telegram was mystery were fruitless until nine The occasion may bave been the The total of German lowes taking place in Albanis are of a received by the American Cone years later. In May of last year 14th, or it may have been in moante colossally, but as Mr. most gratifying character. There salate General, Hongkong, from it was ascertained that the mor honour of the Dake of York and Boner Law remarked in the we see the Italian and French the Manila Observatory at 9 p.m.dered woman was the wife of the Princess Mar, for whom House recently, an autocracy does troops pashing forward on a veaterdayTyphoon in about man named Nogami Kanishi, who Drama must best and Trumpets Wellington asid the same in his front of no less than eighty 113 degrees Long. E and 19 had died a few years ago. Nogami bray" as long as the excitement

not care; a democracy does. miles, their immediate operations degrees Lat. N., direction an- formerly lived in Kobe, and was lasts. being a sequel to steady pressure known.

To compensate neigh-day. He could conceive nothing wisely exerted during the past

an ex-convict, bat succeeded in hours for any little disarrang greater than Napoleon at the bend His Excellency's Private two months. There is in this

getting an important position stment that may have occurred in of a French army. "But Napoleon Secretary.

the Japan Hatch Company, of the family, chandaliere and to had one prodigione advantage***. anccess every evidence of a most His Excellency the Governor Kobe, by concealing his record. soothe mattere down in a nice he had no responsibility, he could beneficisi messure of Allied co has been pleased to appoint Mr. He was gradually promoted and friendly way, they sang a musical do as be pleased. No man ever ordination, for besides the Franco- Arthur George Marobison Flet about 1907 as in charge of parody on God save the Queen." It more armies than he did; I Italian militery "forces, British cher to not as bie Private Secretary, general affairs in the match com-There now.

could not riek a man. I knew monitora ara aleo oc-operating on in addition to his other duties, pany's office. With improvement

that if ever I lost 600 men with- In one of our notes in yesterday's issue we called attention to that the

the coastal sector. It would seem during the,, sbaence on leave of of bis position he became flaent,

Austrisos in the Prime Minister of Australia's virile uttarancs before the British theatre of the war are pretty Ponsonby Fane or until farther addicated to loose living. At this in accordance with notios, moved har of the House of Commons.

July 17-At a meeting of the cat the clearest necessity, I should this Mr. Richard Arthur Brabazon and with his encoesa he became Legislative Council, Mr. Belilice, be brought upon my knees to the Producers' Organisation in London, regarding British pre-war much in the anharpy position notice. economic conditione and what will have to be done at the conclusion in which their brethren found

time he was 42 years of age, and That the Secretary of State The Kaiser has Napoleon's “ad- of the war if we desire to maintain our commercial prosperity and themselves in Italy recently, for

hata 17 year old daughter by his be requested by telegraph to come vantage" to-day. profit by the lessons which the war bas taught us, particularly by the the latest news tells of a continu Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, at the Police discovered at Hayaki.

A small boy se charged before wife Yoshi, whose body was to an early decision on the ques knowledge that has come to us of Germany's unscrupulousness in stion of the Allied advance and of Court this morning, with snatch-

tion espetioning an expenditura Self-barbering may take on's commerce, se in other matters. As we stated, Mr. Hughes did not the enemy retiring in disorder, ing a bargle from a little girl at by Nogami was one named residence at the Peak for his traption applying the principle of Among the geisha patronished of $60,000 for the erection of a new development now that a con. mince matters in his speech, and though what he had to say may be This gaining of the upper hand Shackiwan yesterday. Defendant Karodo Hess, of Fakawats, Kobe. Excellency the Governor." Mr. the safety razor to hair-cutting to some not wholly pleasant reading, it is unqacationsbly the right in Albania comes as Bort of "straight talk" in the circumstances. Mr. Hughes has often counterpart to the recent Italian another email boy bo

a fitting denied the cffenon, eaying it was He wanted to get her as his wife, Chater urged that in the present has been invented. Hitherto the spoken on this subject, of which he is rightly recognised as an drive on their own soil and it responsible for the theft. Bis who was given a sum of 72,000 as kong it was madness to commit been regarded by most men as was sad accordingly divoresd Yoshi, oritical state of fiasaces in Hong-feat of cutting one's own hair has expert. He still maintaine what few will question, namely, that it provides further demonstration Worship thought the case proved a divorce allowance. Yoshi, bow-the Colony to further expenses, is a matter of absolute necessity for the British Empire to organise of the fact that the Austrians are and ordered that the boy receive ever, strongly protested against especially for

impossible of achievement. The industrisily and economically if it wishes to maintain its position in a bad way and have very little nine strokes of the birch,

a Peak house, only person I know to have after the war. To win the war, as Mr. Hughes points out, heart to fight, wherever they may

the geisha taking her place, but which, sa Mr. Balilice ought to accomplished it (s correspondent » without being prepared to meet the immediste conditions, would mean that we should "olnap smpty huske."

post-war | be.

was compelled to "liva At the Police Court this morn- separate house, while Nogami tion than almost any other pro

in know, was more liable to deprecis. Affirms) is the first Earl of B'emington. When staying with Very pertinent is the question which Mr. Hughes pata when A Cheering Outlook,

iosa Chipree was charged with lived with the geisha sad his perty that could be named. The the Blessingtons Charles Mathews, he asks: "How can this mighty "Empire hold together in

being in possession of a revolver. daughter. A few months later his Governor said it made very little the solor, records in a letter to the fature save by aamerona virile populations united by

Defendant said be had recently daughter committed shicja with difference to bim, as the proposed his mother: "Lord Blessington ties of self-interest as well as of race and of common the war situation as a whole, it is constable said the revolver was vince. It seems that trouble then of progress

Proceeding to take a glance at arrived from Canada. A Chinese an actor at Komsiko, Kaga pro bonge would at the usual rate always cute his own hair!** This ideals, sad bow could these conditions be seared without certainly distinctly encouraging concealed in a tea caddy. De recurred between Nogami and his he only helf Snished during the the Earl feared that is barber of the P.W.D. sppears to have been done because economic prosperity"? He rightly conclades that "upon the con at the present moment. Thers fendant said he had been working divorced wife, and according to present reign. Still "Oraigie-would trim his looks so closely a ditiona which guarantes a profitable investment for capital, plentiful are and regular employment for labour at good wages and under good in

no immense operations in Canada for 16 years. and he the result of police investigations, burn" was very poor value for so make him run the risk of catch- conditions; upon the development of land and other primary re wherever we look we can find him into the country. A fine of Aratamechi

progress, admittedly, bat intended taking the revolver with he strangled her at his house at the money. Mr. Whitehead, ing a chill. "Lord Blessington- sources, the greatness, nay, the very existence of the Empire and every evidence in anpport of the point $200 was.imposed.

the night of while admitting that the Govern very susceptible to cold," adde part of it, absolutely rests."

It is unquestionably the osse, as we pointed out yesterday, that while the Central Powers are The following additional con- discovered in a trunk at the eto, strongly objected to spending declares that he is able to detect

that the Allies are on the ascendant Control of Money-Changers.

December 5th, 1907, or twenty-or ought to have a good Peak Mathews, and has a horror of Germany was making very serions inroads into our commercial fading it increasingly difficult to dition is added to the conditions railway station.

two days before her body wee house to lodge stray Archdukes, through draughts. Count d'Oresy proeperity and that she was doing so by unscrupulous methods which carry on the war. The Germans of all money changere licences only the war has disclosed. This however, makes little differeuss to the are losing precione time by de- made by the

so much money just now. Besides, being left crossways in the key- 'a aurrept of air osused by the key Before the police could obtain the "Mountain Lodge" site was eitustion. Germany's peaceful penetration, we are reminded, had laying their cffensive in the West, Council:"6. Every

Governor in honeycombed our industrial life to saob an extent that we were they are troubled with differences obanger shall exbibit in a con-of consumption at his wills at Hr, Belilios esid it was the beat,

any clue to the murder case, the worst in the Colony, on hole of a door." money however the murderer had died account of its exposed position. trading not entirely for our own advantage but for Germany's sleo.; of opinion in high quarters, while spicuous place on the premises kabi in 1909. After his death Ons division, the Colonial Secret-ermy is th

The motto of the American Lack of organisation in our Imperial esira was to a very large the newest developments in where his business as money the geisba, Karoda Masa, became ary and Mr. Keswick abstained Young American officer being so, profoundly stirred by the muddle into which our haphasard and may well lead to a diver regarding the currency of the Hatsune Hotel at Tateano. All Mr. Chater opposed the motion, methods had brought as that he atters the solemn warning which sion of military strength to Colony which may have been sent thees particulars had been obtain- and the rest supported it. every Briton would do well to take to heart, namely, that unless in that particular sphere. Austria to him by the Colonial Treasurered by the police up to May of last the new economic environment after the war we are not adequately ie smarting under her recent de- or the Secretary for Chinese

"P. C. No. 5." equipped we shall surely perish." Only a supreme effort can feat and is having her burdens Affairs." enable us to rise superior to the effects of the terrible disaster and added to by poor harvests and»

year, when Mass was arrested and July 18,Sounds hike the head. the united strength of the Empire will be needed if we are to retrieve heavy foods. In short, things

sent to Nagsesti on enspicion of line of a novelette, doesn't it? our enormous losses in tressure slons. Our war indebtedness, as appear to be going all wrong for tising columns that "The Gink." The murdered woman had two registered number of a boor of a fions from dump to damp until, at shown by the facts anpplied by Mr. Hughes, is truly stupendous, the Central Powers, the tempera who have had such a successful younger brothers named Kolay "bobby” in the Hongkong Police midnight, it was passed along the

It will be seen from our adver. being implicated in the murder. Bat it's not; No. 6 is simply the

having already resched DO leas than eight sterling, to which has to be added the interest on this tremendous improved by the certain know are giving special performance drunkard. The police also tried to be taught them. Last evening at over the top who opened and

billions of whose leaders cannot be sesson at the Victoria Theatre, meo, the latter an inverterste ken of his legitimste duties, must it, pieced our to

ashi Seiemen and Kobayashi Force who, lacking the grip and front trench boards. Here he saw men waiting sum, many millions annually for pensions, huge sums for repatria- ledge that the Eatents Powers are at the Mount Austin Regimental tions, avocational education for disabled soldiers and many other profiting from the insotivity and Theatre on Tuesday next, under arrest there men but though Ko couple of friende strolled down shared its contents. Then be financial responsibilities.

As Mr. Hughes said, consideration of these foots should lead build up their strength for the Ward, M.P., and offers of the desd. The police suspected that quietly chatting arrived there

growing troubles of the enemy to the patronage of Lieut. Col. John bayashi Seiemon was arrested it to witness the military display west back to find out how other

was found that the other man was on the parade ground and things were done. we to the conclusion that we were in for "s pretty bad time." For decisive days that lie ahead. The 25th Batta, Middlesez Regiment both men were concerned in the fally fifteen minutes before even it must be borne in mind that post-war burdens can be met only by Allies' confidence is rising: the The performance will be open to murder, as they were badly in the bandomen had sesembled, and, post-war reforms such as those outlined by Mr. Haghee. Neither enemy's is declining. Soon we the public, and an opportunity is need of money at that time. The being absolutely answare of any excluding enemy countries and

The World's Wheat. eloquence nor resolatione can solve the problem, we are reminded. should be at the turning of the thus given Pesk residents to see former geisha and Kobayashi restriction regarding positions, Bussis, last year was 3.3 per cent. While the world's wheat yisid, A fundamental fact was that more wealth must be produced, and wayn. the oa operation of organised labour was absolutely essential And

this bright and talented little Simon have since been under look seats on the railing close to less than in 19:6, potatoes were these poet war reforms will not begin or and with tariff reform. Every industry, as is pointed out, must be dealt with se circum...

Port Regulation, stanoss demand, and if a duty is necessary, why not have it?} This seems to us to be the commonsense way of dealing with our

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A keen

rations reached the British front- to the Staff, on the "Q" side was ordered to learn how

lina soldier. So he made track for. French seaport, scribbled his name on stin of bully, and then mat on it" daring its peregrina-

preliminary examination, bat on Mr. Behmidt's premises. They 32 per cent, ap. The following further addition the 13th instant both wers were bardly seated when ap loom has been made to the Pablic acquitted on the ground of ed Policeman No. 5, who with

Flying Men Killed.

Treffio Regulations for the Port "izsufficiency of evidence." all the cffensiveness of ozat- At inquests on firing men, it of Hongkong published in the

According to the theory of the iron impertinence, blurted some esa boast's more excellent or műre

thorny fiscal question, and it is one which the nation ie likely was stated that Second-Lieutenant Gazsite of 3rd August, 1914 police, Nogami Kanishi strangled beer-etained ungrammatical order capable polios foros than can to be found ready to scoopt. The war hae taught ae many thingal John D. Baird, of "Prestwick, At ́the end of meation (e) of Part 1/his wife with the assistance of to the sflect that the narties we Hongkong the men are uniform. and the best leseno in that which seems to be the principal object while manoeuvering in Essex sinsert the following:-" (vii) | Kobayashi Umeo, her younger to "clear out of that”, Oss ofthe) ally nonricous and obliging and which Mr. Beghee baa in view, the whole Empire, strives towards

tion, 600 ft., and Second-Lieutenant. When a wouth-wester (1) brother, who died some years ago, twsiz debated momentarily he is bet fur to the better w ita ipcaivable resources put to the organisation, W. E. Le Fevre, of a training blowing and the Ghirl Examis Umeo is believed to have beester he would resent the inscience in the force that the unscomazily our responsibilities individually and collectively realised, and and ware killed; and a Canadian possible to board ships using the with the body in a trunk and sent digàided course of taking the evening should be made public. valy realised, age squadron, while instructing, felling Den inde that amin. the man who want to Negaki of P. O. No. 5 or parane the more insolent conduct of No, 5ft united: effort made to utilise to the beat purpose the knowledge Cadet W. W. Wait, twenty-six, western entrance in the proper in yeters of ten years standing reporting him to Headquarters. do bullying boss to nippad which we now possess and the means at our disposal, Only by such was drowned through the machine stamination anchorage, rossels mystery been unravelled, and a Taken on the whole, there is coses bullying must be nipped it to Haysabi. Thus à murder man's number with the view of We admire a man who fearlessly effort can we hope to overcome and riss superior to the war's how was tremendous burdens and place the Empire on a propar economio

in pose-diving into are to be examined under the lee sordid story it is.-d. C. footing

Elstree Reservoir.

of Green Island.”

no town in the stiverse that "is the bud, tre