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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY,
JULY 26, 1918.
America to the Fore.
DAY BY DAY. “
WAR CHARITIES.
Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, (Monthly sub. June) per HE Club.
(Subscription List NJ, 27.)
The great value of America's military effort to the Allied osusÓ:
SANITE IS THE ABILITY TO DO
is made more apparent as time HARD WORK. goes on. The latest statement on" the subject comes from General Smute, who asys that more than
The Dollar.
To-marrow's Anniversary, a quarter of a million US troops versary of the murder of Capt. -To-morrow is the second anni. are now crossing the Atlantic Fryatt by the Germans. monthly. Whatthis steady inflow | of American troops means i illustrated by General Smuts":" remark that it will not be long before the American on demand to day was 3a. 4d.· Army in France in as large as the combined Anglo-French armies. That is a most wonderful thing,
The opening rate of the dollar
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The Colony's Health." The only asses of communicable
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and it shows how nobly the disesse notified yesterday were United States is rising to the two fatal occurrences of plague. occasion. Bach В possibility
Alice Memorial Hospital. The Hon. Tressarer of the
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of the Colony held at the V. R. C.
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whin the near fatare would have been considered almost impossible six months ago. America is moat Alice Memorial and Affiliated assuredly doing her part well. She Hospitals begs to acknowledge 10% on. V. R. C. Derby must now be well ahead of her with thanke the following Sweep original programme, and every donations to the funds of the day adds to her £ghting strength Hospitals:-Sin Shen Che, $60; on the battlefield. Beat of all, Belilios School for Girls, $20; her troops are of high quality, sa Wong S, $10; Lo So 8, the recent fighting has clearly $20; W. M. I. Taoe. $10; demonstrated. Germany may Pawn brokers' Guild, $200. well look with swe on the wonder- fal Forte of our Arberican
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The forthcoming opening of 3.00 underground theatres in Paris may be regarded as the first manifestation of those post-war 30.00 architectural changes which are
bound to come about as the result of aerial warfare. However the 3.00 use of aircraft and the bombing of open citisa may by hedged rcand by international agree- 10.00 ments, Hague conventions, and the like, most sensible people will 693.67 probably agree that subterranean
helters will form a better proteo- tion than saraps of paper. It is 16.00 unlikely that we shall spain 13.00 become troglodytes, bat the con- 30.00 atraction of underground shelters, 20.00 anderground theatres, and other 15.00 places of assembly, and the con- 10.00 struction of railways in tunnels 50.00 wherever practicable, esem 30.00 certain development,
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morning, with being in unlawful Mr. J. P. Elster (Monthly A development of the utmost possession of fourteen table of equires them
sub.) forward their names and addresses with importance is forsshowed in the Government opiam, this being Mr. P. C. Jensen (Monthly Communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for
announcement that the Washing- nine taele in excess of the quan- Tulsation, but as an evidence of their bona fides.
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was P. and Co. (Monthly sub) an American bankers' loan to arrested in Connaught Road Gen C. B. B. (Monthly stb.)... Chins, provided
ibat China tral yesterday.
Inspector His Worship Chief cancels all her outstanding Loans impoeed & fine of $1,000 or two
(Monthly sub.) and that all Loans in fature be months" hard labour.
Inspector Gordon (Month- shared by American, British,
ly sub. French and Japanese bankers. The financial situation in Obina
A very unkempt Obinere bae been one of "considerable
appeared before Mr. E. D. C. Hor. Mr. Claud Seren gravity, especially since the war,
(Monthly sub) and there appears to have been no Wolfe, at the Polige Court this well-defined policy followed in morning, charged with stealing Britishers (Monthly sub.) MCCULLAGH-G.. D. McCullagh M. M. Corporal, Royal
the contracting of obligations It appeared that the iron was
Wong Siu Woon Monthly two old pieces of corrugated iron.
sub.) Dublin Fusiliers. Killed in action in France, March 1918. Later the Government. The
R. Riach of Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, London Staff.
deed as gates to a pigsty, and Mr. G. V. Quintuple Loan Agreement has
that the defendant was found (Monthly sub.) necessarily been largely inter- fered with by the special circame that he found the iron lying carrying it. The man's excuse
Mr. S. Baker (Monthly
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Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.
Telephons: No, 1 A.B.C., 5th edition. Western Union
Office address: 11, Ice House St.
DEATH.
The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1918.
CHINA'S NEeds.
Stolen from.
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Members of L. O. L. 509 Star of the East (Month- ly subs. July/Sept. 1918)
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of existing Loans will be received to three weeks' hard labour, we do not know, but it is clear for a previous conviction SL. K. L. (Monthly sub.) .... that Chica has much to gain by proved against him. accepting the proferred aid of the Allied nations on whose side she has now ranged herself. We presume that in this matter the Allied Governments have been working in close anion, and in that event we shall watch fature developments with dep intereet.
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· Unpleasant Remarks, In the Summary Court this morning, Mr. F. X. D' Almade, referring to a care in which he was interested, said he understood H.E. Cricket Club, Our Canton correspondent a couple of days ago sent us on
that one of the parties was dead, interesting item of news to the effect that Dr. Wa Ting fang hae
Mr. Faithful, who was appearing been busy soliciting the recognition of foreign Powers for the eo:
in the case also, retorted that that called Military Government at Canton. Whether this step means The Western Front.
was all nonsense. The men had that the Southern malcontente are finding it hard to feel their own
only been in his office the preriona way and to carry on the burdena and responsibilities of administra- | The telegrams to hand bearout day and could not very well be tion, or whether it is an indication that the quarrel with the North the fact that the fighting on the dead if he were walking about is to be maintained to the bitter end, it would be interesting to know. Western Front continues with the streets and going to his (Mr. Mr. E. G. Smith (Monthly We can well believe, however, that even the Kuomintang extremiata unabated vigour. The German Faithful's) office. Hr. D' Almada have before this come to realise that it is easier to talk about govern resistance to day.
aid that be was only saying what ing a country, or a portion of it, than it is to do the actual work massage, has been most stubborn he had been told by the man's And any section of political, wire-pallers must always find it a hard and the fighing most persistent brother. At any rate, he objzoted tack to keep things going once they gain & messure of power, simost along the whole Front to the way in which Mr. Faithful especially, as in this instance, when much of its energies have to be between the Marne and the Aisme. spoke. His friend made nee of devoted to coping with internal unrest. The case of Rassis has Farther it is stated that German Fome very unplesesnt remerke- provided us with ample confirmation of that point.
artillery firing is most severe on was not nonsense,"
Baya
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Dr. Wa Ting-lang is admittedly the best man the Southernera both sides of the Oarcq and their could have ebosen for the task of attempting to secure foreign front ie stoffed with machine gua recognition. He is well known to most of the Powers as a progres- at; also that sive man and one who as Foreign Minister did much good service fierce fighting between the for his country while in office. Bat we fear he has got rather into Americans end the Germans on the wrong political crowd since, and that his reputation bassofired the crests north of the Marne. All accordingly. Even all the slogasace with which he is endowed this goes to show that the will, we fear, scarcely avail to secure foreign recognition Germans in their retreat are being of the body which has set itself up in Canton, for that closely and tirelessly followed by body openly fouta the Central Government, will have no the Fresch and the American dealings whatever with it, and imagines that it possesses all the troops, the fat of whose counter- virtues and no defects. Berating the Peking Government for being attack is not yet spent. Another only the representative of the few, it ia itself in the same position, telegram, dated the 24th instant,
A Chinese clerk was charged though it fails to recognise the fact. The point which all records that the British resumed these discontented politiciana overlook of deliberately ignore operation on the Marne and before Mr. J. E. Wood, at the is that the general well-being of the whole nation is of far farther advanced in the wood Police Court this morning, with greater import than the winning of office by factional parties. That enrrounding Vrigny, and "thas a embezzing $142.43 from the is why at the present time we see not a eingle man or party arising oorsiderable part of thickly Hung Shing shop in Sai Street. with the declared intention of forsaking political squabbling and wooded ground was taken from It was stated by Inspector Mr. E. H. Sharp (Monthly launching out on broad policies for the common wenl. If there the enemy, the possession of Grant that the defendant was agitators really cared for their country and were anxions, to pat it which ia
considerable sent out by his master to collent r before all else, they would not waste their energies on domestic importacos.". These and other a number of debts, but did not strife; they would seek out the best from all factions, agree on a telegram recording facts of return to the cffice for several policy of compromise and concentrate on essential points in matters similar mature clearly point to daye. The meter grew suspio. which most loudly call for attention. By a revealed willingness to the Allied Forces on the Western ions and visited the defendent's Mr. E. Irving (Monthly so act, it would be an easy matter even now for North and South to Front more than holding their house, come to an agreement and work in harmony for the nation's pro-French and the American trocpa He promised to return to work where the defendant on with the enemy. Both the stated that he had been ill Messrs. Cawasjçe Pallan-
Bub.) gress and happinces.
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We are almost tired of saying that Obins' is a country of absol continue to advance, and it is the following day but did no do jee and Company (Month. ately unlimited possibilities. But it is the truth. Yet the fact stated in one of the French com-so. Enquiries were made and it Mr. R. E. Cooper (Month-
ly stb.)..... ecame alwaye to take a vary secondary place in the minds of those muniquee, recording the resump was found that he had collected who profess to be anxious to guide the country's destinies. If China tion of the French and American debts to the amount stated in the Helena were but opened up as it should be, the country would soon be one of attacks between the Oareq and obarge.
May Institute the richest in the world; sed, with the financial equilibrium restored, the Marne, that "we hold on the
The defendant maintained that Victoria British School (June) (Monthly sub.).... happiness and general contentment would inevitably be the lot of left Armentieres and Chatelet be was a working partner in the (Monthly sub.).......... the people. In mining alone, there is a source of untold potential Wood, beyond which we resched ehop, the complainant being the Sir Robert Ho Tang-re- wealth, but obstacles continue to be placed in the way of those who and occupied Brecy, while at man who applied the money. would interest themselves in this aspect of the country's develop- certain points the Franco-Amer. He had as much right to the ment, as we well know in South China. The latest proposal in this icane in the centre advanced over money as anyone. In this cues connection is the levying of an additional tax on ore in order to meet three kilometres." This is oon he had loaned the money tem- "military expenses burden on a great industry merely to keep armed in 67 American official porarily the squabble going between North and South. The one need of the message. Clearly, all is going His Worship decided to take
Further proceeds --St. moment is for eane judgment and intelligent action. But where are most satisfactorily with the Allies the evidence
to-morrow and Interest on London afe
George's Day the signs that these essentials are likely to be reslied ?
on the Western Front.
accordingly adjourned the case.
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fund of Special War Tax from tenants, 1st and.. 2nd quarters 1918
Bat.
DREADNOUGHT HOSPITAL !--
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1.955.00
15.00 The former American am-
baseador at Berlin, Mr. J. W.. Gerard, tells ap smasing story of a well-deserved enab administer- ed to the Crown Prines by a Miss Bernice Willard of Philadelphis. Some few years before the war the lady formed one of a party of distinguished American guests on board the Kaiser's yacht at the annual Kiel regatts. The Crown Prince and Miss Willard werO 10.00 seated on deck pear one-another, when a whiff of emoke from his 18.25 cigarette blowing into the young 59.40 lady's face, a lieutenant standing by remarked: "Smoke withers 50.00 flowers." "It is no flower,” said "
the Prince with clumsy jocularity: 10.00 "It is a thistle." Misa Willard raised her eyes a trifls. "In that "-case," she said, "I had better re- 28.00 tire or I may be devoured."
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The Daily Express underatende that the cfficer who developed the eaheme for the use of fog and 200.00 smoke in connection with the st- tack on Zeebrugge was Acting 25.00 Wing Commander Frank A.
Brock, 0.B.E., RN. Six Etie Geddes stated that he WAS 210.00 killed during the operations, He was a son of Mr. O. T Brock, the famous maker of 10.00 fireworks. He entered the Royal
Naval Air Service as a fight- lieutenant in January, 1916, be came a fight-commander in 25.03 December, 1916, and in Janusty last was made an Officer of the new British Empire Order:
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.Fifteen million pounds of whale flesh are wasted annually, being used only for fertiliser, when it .60 ocali easily be used as food. At 5.00 the whale luncheon given recently
st the American Museum of 114.95 Natural History Prof.. William
Fairfield Caborne said that 100,- 25.00 000.000 pounds of whale mest
could be supplied to the country 61.00 annually st's cost of 12 cents, à pound. Whale meat is ocareer thao beef and a little fatter, bat 20.00 its flavor is delicious, and some of those who have teeted it canzed. Pay that it is superior to canned 100.00 beef, matton or pork.
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Sound travels, with such clear- nes ander water, Professor J. Joly raid at the Royal Institution that a water-tight wateb which 25.00 had been lost in the ass and con- tinued to "go" was recovered by a diver, who traced it by its tick, He described a radio-telephone, in use by the United Stater. In certain American lighthouses, where there was no human being, s phonograph spoke into s receiver, which converted its rounds into either waves, which were picked up" by the ship and Again tranelated into sound
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Thus, on approaching Point Judae, the sailor heard the worde "Point Judes" called out again and again. As he neared the dangerous point the voice cried to him in a deeper tone: "Keep 79,069.40 off," you are getting into danger. Already acknowledged 1,067,987.61.
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The impending exchange of 31,147,057.01
war priseneta will have the effect Amounts remitted, etc... 1,062,66LFS of saving a good deal of account
25.00
10.00
10.00
N. J. STABB, Hon. Treasurer. Hongkong, 25th July, 1818.
10.00
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65,658.22
250.08
Balance in hand... 64,192.23. Prisoners of war have their rights, their title to food, raiment, shelter, protection - mostly denied them in Germany; and the Power which holde the prisoners may ultimately demand payment for its efforta in the matter. Russia, after her war with Japan, Ships Commandeered.
had to pay the victor 42 millions Bir L Obiczzz Money etated in and the sum was formally handed sterling on behalf of prisoners, the House of Common rroently over by cheque by the Russian that all German ships within the Ambassador in London at the British Empire had now been Japanese Embassy in Grosvenor-
gardens.
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