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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1918.

RECESS NO. 44.

VIRGINIAN CIGARETTES

A

Large Size

Cigarette.

Tremor the Cover Cut the Label r

TRADE

MARK

Virginia

Recess cigaretes

Manufactured

WAR'S TOLL.

by

The

Fills the Grave and Emplies

the Cradle.

Packed in

Air-tight

Tins of 50

Cigarettes.

Westminster

Oberkontant de ängland in factiger soulter Dog Lat

GEO.

P. LAMMERT.

Sir Bernard Milet, the BeAUCTIONEER. APPRAISER

zistrar General, gave come strik.

lag figures of the effate of the

waren population at a meeting of

che Royal Instilate of Public

El Altb.

AND SURVEYOR.

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

To Eagisod and Wales the THE Undersigned has received

birtis registered in 1913 numberlic 881,800," he said, "I 1915 tury fell to 814014, and in 1916

* 785 520.

"The slightness of the fall from the previona year W88" un- doubtedly due to the boom in marriages in 1915, when the number of marriagee celebrated the record reached

instructions to sell by Pub. Auction on

SATURDAY, the 17th" August. 1918.

commencing at II

2.0).

at his Auction Rooms. is

Duddell Street.

17

cases Sherry

30 ..Toilet Poap

figure

2

17

Knife Powder

5

of 380 885. Io 1917 the effscle

Disinfectant

of this boor were rapidly passing On view from day of sale

sway, and the births registered

fell to 668,346, the lowest reached

since 1868

"Up to the present we have

lost in England and Wales 650,-

Terme-Cash on delivery.

GEO. P. LAMMERT.

Auctioneer.

000 potential lives on the standard THE Undersigned has received

instructions to sell by Public Auction on

SATURDAY, the 17th. August 1918, commencing at it a.m.

of 1913 Had the births con- tinued at the same level as in 1913, there would have been 31 million births recorded up to the and of the present year, but there will probably be only 2,850 000,

"I am not among "those," added Sir Bernard, "who confidently ex- pect a sudden and sharp rise, of

bacco. The birth rate when pasca dosa

A Quantity That there will be some oɔme. iacreses is more than probable, Cigarettes,

at bis Sales Rooms. Du.dell Street.

Bales Real Turkish To-

01 Egyptian

but it will, I think, be long ere (More or less damaged by water.)

the birth-rate resches even the

On view from Friday the

very moderate figure that obtain [17th inst

ed before the war.

"We may assume that Germany

has lost in potential lives the cqui-

valent of 4.5 per cent. of its total

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer.

pre-wer population; Austrin over THE Undersigned has received

5 per cent., and Hangary 7 per cent, The war, by the fall in births which it has occasioned, bas cost the belligerent countries of Europe not fewer than 121 millions of potential livon,

- instructions to sell by ¡Public Auction on

TUESDAY, the 20th, August 1918. commencing at II am.

at his Sales Rooms, Dudell

Street,

"While the war has filled the graves it has emplied the cradlee. A Quantity; of Tweed and Every day the war continues Flanel Sult Lengths. Ready means a loss of 7.000 potential Made Suits, Linen and Soft lives to the United Kingdom, Shirts, Collars, Straw Hats France, Italy, and the Central Towels, etc., etc., etc.

On view from Monday the Empires Kaos emicide among 19th inst. European peoples, in short, on a zovost colossal moale has been the quiviend

rait of German

Terms

Cash on delivery. GEO.P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer.

Tobacco Co, Ltd LONDON

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GRAND PRIZS

KAPTEY EXHISTO

POST OFFICE.

The parcel post service to Cubs is auspended.

Telegaple Communication with Wag- lan Ighthonas is interrupted.

The charge for castos duty on tre samples fun manufactured tobacco not exceedia: ni oz. in gross weight and on samples of apirits (except pe fumed xpiri's) texceeding 12 os in groas woshiimported into the United King- dor by post has now been increased to 256d and 15 respectively.

RUBBER SHARE REPORT.

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2- Sharex

2/6

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6/0

10/6 13/-

Batang Malaku

8/6.

rice izported Into Taiwan (Fo⚫moss) and

Bakol

$13

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Bit Mertajam

Bkt. Sembawang 20

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8/6

Spanish Off in Morocco (wxcept for

韧 rupeaded.

Chimpul

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14/6

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3/0

3/9

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2/6

5/9

2/9-

3/9

25/

30/-

3/6.

4/6

2/4

2/8

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Damansara

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H'lands & L'lands

60%

701.

The importation into the Common- wealth of Australis of tes, other than that grown or produced in British Poet-Langen (Java) sions is probibted, unless the ponsent in writing of the Commwealth Minister | Ledbury for Trade and Customsa Las been feat Lumai obtained.

Kuala Lumpur Lanadrou

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100/-

42/-

46

4245

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60%-

4710

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80/-

.100/-

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70/m

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261-

90%-

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45/-

55%.

Rembia Ürg.

28/0

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25/-

45/-

Invest

2216

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35/

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351- 105. Tebrau(Jobora) Untd, Bun Batons 55j-”

60/- 701- 70/- Dollar Shares.

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Seafield Fostal Agencies at Abul Khasib, Amara, Bagdad, Buara, Basta City. Fao. Kut Naseriyaz Qalat Saleh, Suk ash-Sheyuka and Zibals ia Mesopotamia is

is suspended and that piece goods, haberdashery and, similar articlás, except those intended for the personal use of the addressee and Bot for s'e, cannot be sent to thoss Alur tiaja offices or to Abadau, Ahwaz or Mobm- merah by the letter post, and that such articles if received will not be delivered and will be

be liable to confiscation "

Ayer Kaning Ayer Molak

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Arrangements have been made for the | Hkt. Jelutong transmission of parcels to the United Kingdom via Canada.

The rates of postage are as follows:- Parcel not over Sibe... 90 cents.

De Do-

Tibe ..$1.80

11lbs... 2.70

No insurance can be elected on parcala | MandaiTakode cent by this route.

Tambalak

2,70 2,90 1,00 1,10 1.7 185 4,20 3,00 .15 .55 .70

Balgownia

Bks. Kati

Glegaly.

1.40

1,65

Jeram

1.15 1,25

Jimak

1,25

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1,95

2,06

.65

Pantai

1.10

1,20

Punggo

.53

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3.00 3,00

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8,00

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1,00

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8,00

8.40 6.00

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7,00

7.50

·5,00 5,00

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6,10

B.M.

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6.75

6,25

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1pm.

Nyalan

5,65

6,00

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AUGUST, 13th 14th & 15th, 1918.

"THE STORM."

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"THE TRY OUT."

Pokes and Jabs Comedy.

American Gazette, No.

71.

FRENCH DAY IN SHANGHAI.”

"THE LAMB." Harold Lloyd and Company.

JUGGLING WITH HIGH FOREIGN PROFESSORS

EXPLOSIVES:

IN TOKYO UNIVERSITY,

A Professor's Demonstrations.

A-dozen unstoppered jare, each

Expensive and Unnecessary." Some time ago we reported a proposal which had been made to dismiss the foreiga Professors at the College of Law in the Tokyo Imperial University, and it now

known to contain a formidable seems that the scheme has explosive from T. N. T. to the materialised, says the "Japan comparatively harmless gunpow-

Chronicle." According to the der, stood on the lecture table at Tokyo Nichi-Nichi," the Coun the Society of Arta one afternoon cil of Professors has decided to recently.

dismiss at the end of next year Cls by a portable naked gas Professor James Lee Kaufman, jet burned cheerfully.

Behind lecturer on English and American the table a mild-mannered, jovial law, Professor Tbeoder Stormberg. professor sprinkled first few cturer on German law, and grains of one and then of another Professor Jean Joseph Ley (?), on tiny trays and cheerfully ap. lecturer on French law. This plied the gas flare to them.decision has already been in- Others he laid on a tiny anvil and formally communicated to the hammered till they detonated three Professors. In addition it amid smoke and noise..

is reported that the dismissal of

In front of the table an audie Professor William Byde Price, nce, chiefly young soldiere, sat lecturer on political economy, is fascinated, some of them even's also being demanded. In this little uneasy. The gas flare or connection a Japanese Professor the hammer applied to the wrong at the College of Law is quoted explosive would have had other by the Tokyo paper as saying:- results than those to be demon- "The three foreign Professors strated. A general with an artillare each drawing a yearly aslary ery record paid a compliment at Y9,000, which corresponds to the close to the "courage" of the a total salary of eleven and a half demonstrator.

Japanese. Professors. Things

There was really no danger, were different ten years ago, inasmuch as the manipulator of but now there is a crowd of the dangerous powders was Mr.Japanese scholars who can match James Young, chief instructor in the three foreign Professors in I science at the Royal Military English, German, and French

• Academy, Woolwich. He was law, and there is accordingly no giving the first of three lectures reason why we should depend on" Military Explosives of To-upon foreign scholars. Even Dr. day." and he had in front of him Yamakawa, President of the samples of most of them.

University, is receiving a salary

Once only he took up an attit-of no more than Y6,000, white the ude of extreme caution. "This salary of a first-class Japanese is nitro-alycerine and I must be Professor is only Y2,500. On the really careful. I always take off dismissal of the three foreign my hat to this." he assured the Professors the salaries of the audience. His first few grains, Japanese Professors will be raised were the many, and he reduced. (by 20 per cent.), and, moreover, the number. Then came the fre new Professors and three hammer and the explosion, a assistant Professore will be loud report indeed. But cther appointed in connection with a f nitro-glycerise burnt calm'y proposal to create new Chairs without any explosion at all. on penal administrative law and The safest way to destroy it," constituional law." It is not yet the lecturer explained. "unless known whether the other foreign the quantity is so vast, as in the Professors in the University will East London explosion. when the į be dismissed or not.” heat generated is sufficient to

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cause it to detonate-then the UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS. only thing is to run.

The Great Northern Telegraph Company, Ltd.

Look at this harmless stuff" said Mr. Younr, setting light to a tray of ammonal. It was diffi- cult indeed to get it to iznite) at all, and only a gentle fame resulted. Yet this was the sub- stance that blew up the great mines at Messines Ridge and it is one of the most largely used high explosives for such purposes. Mr. Young exploded liquids as well as powder. He assured the audience that the tales of won- derful French and American explosives which killed whole regiments as they stood or could lift St. Paul's bodily from its foundation are sheer fiation, Nitro-glycerine, discovered in 1848, is the most powerful explo-

Kangmunawha, Talabokan, from Shanghai.

Kwangshunyuen, from Yoko

bama.

Honjunco, from Tokio, Lessaiyai, Benan Hotel, from Shanghai.

Lausigkey, Great Esstora Hotel, from Shanghai.

Kazuo Madono, Matsubara Hotel, from Osaka,

Choybwang Care, "Kongohan," from Shanghai.

Nicholson, Hongkong Hotel, from Yokohama,

Teak, from Kobe. Yuenchinghong, c/o Sunglai

ive known, and is likely to re-hang, from Shanghai. main Bo.

Chonggoonleong, from Enns. Tamura Matsubara, from Osaka

Luibunchoan, Stag Hotel, from

Rise in Storage Rates.” At a recent cat-tence of repre Amoy. sentatives of various leading ware.

Floris

Vazleer, Hongkong

Hungyoungchun Co., Shutoi- hung, from Kaijo,

Bibbs, from Peking. Cheongsinglso Tabpaotai, from Shanghai.

TIRING,

Act. Superintendent

housing companies in Yokohams, Hotel, from Yokohama. it was decided to raise the storage fee by 3 per cent. It ja etsted in this connection that the storage fee collected by the Yokohama, Boyeki, Shoubia and Yokohams Dook Company's Warehouaa dar- Day On date on dating February amounted to Y 20,-

000,000, during March to Y.20, 500,000, April Y 29,000,000, and May sad Jure Y 28 000,000 each, Tas warehousing companies are said to be under the impression that in the tutuma all the warehouse Apsos will be in w

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