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DR. SHELDON'S

GIN PILLS

FOR

BACKACHE

AND

KIDNEY TROUBLES.

SOLE AGENTS:

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1918,

Those Whistles 1.

DAY BY DAY.

IT 18 VANITY TO WISH FOR A LONG LIFE AND TO TAKE LITTLE CARE OF LEADING A GOOD LIFE.

We made reference the `other F*~ day to the indiscriminata uw of polion whistles on the coosion of fires and other serious occurrence, and we desire to again mention the matter becsuss of a recurrEDOS. of the habit at a small fire which broke out on Saturday morning in York Buildings. From the terrific noise created by the blowing of whistles, which continued" for about a quarter of an hour on The opening rate of the dollar end, one would have thought that στ demand to-day

was 34. the whole of Des Voons 5.7/16d.

Road" was involved, whereas

the worsgration was actaslly, confped to a pile of "rubbish,

To-morrow's Anniversary, To-morrow is the 58th birthday of President Poincare.

The Dollar.

Departed.

COMPANY REPORT.

The United Asbestas Oriental”

`Agency, Ltd.

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FAREWELL DINNER.

Presentation to a Hongkong Journalist...

There was a representative

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

It was a pleasing soinoidenos to the Marquis of Milford Haven, that his honorary degree from Cambridge University came to The report of the above com-

him on the second anniversary of im pany, for pressoflion to the

a British sea victory-Jatland. shareholders at the twenty-second gathering of local pressmen at None of us forgets that he we ordinary annual meeting to be the Hongkong Hotel on Saturday Firet San Lord at thecutest of the held at the rffion of Messrewell dinner to Mr Alfred Morley, to the Navy on July 26, 1914, to night, on the occasion of a fars- war, and at his memorable order. Dodwell and Co., Ltd., Queen' of the Honghong Telegraph, who Stand fast," saved the situation. Buildings, on Wednesday, the is leaving with the fret batch of Bat for thst the set would hate 28th inst,, at IL 30 s.m. state:***

The Ge: eral Managers have the vilitary Service Ordinance. Mr. B. it war, every ship, efficient and men carolled under the General dispersed and demobilised. A to lay before the A. Hala presided in a thoroughly

Still, had it ‹ van been otherwise, Bir Paul and Lady Obster left Peasure the same prooses would probably by the Kores Maru. Bir Havilland shareholders the accompanying felicitious manner, and during the tally masnused, did stand fast, and have bean followed-and that in de Saumarez war a passenger on / Statement of accounts for the year course of the evening the guest of thous the loss of a man.

precisely the point. We do not the same boat. know what instructions are giren

to the non European polios in these matters, but the use of the

The Colony's Health.

telephone or the pablia fire alarm disease notified on Saturday was The only case of communicable A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD., appears to be the last thing that one Estal occurrence of salarie

occur to many of them. They fever, the sofrer being

HONGKONG DISPENSARY,

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The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1918.

MAN-POWER CONTRASTS.

ended 31st May, 1918.

the Expeditionary Foros ordered

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The late Marquis of Downshire,

konour was presented with an inscribed service, wrist watch and gold oigarette css from the

delivered, cocasion being taken shooeeded in throwing cold water European staff of the Telegraph, whose title bas voor A number of speeches were romantic fiction about

to speak of Mr. Morley's sterling on many things not in the qualities, both in professional #nd manner of reactionary peers, but private life, which had endeared se a member of a local firs 5940.00 him to all with whom he had brigade, in which the new mar.

The balance at the credit of } Profit and Los Account, inclad ing $4995.25 brought forward which it is proposed to appropriate from last year, is $32,381 99

follows: To pay a dividend of

15 per cent, on Or dinary Stares.

as

To para farther divid·. end of 10 per cent,

.

To

on Ordinary Share pay $39 60 per Share on 100 Found ers' Shares

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per cent, on Ordiù. To pay a Bonus of

ary Shares

$39 60 per Shere on 100 Founders' Shares

been associated. Eis anfailing qui in also s volunteer. The courtesy, "conscientionannee and costly and perfeally equipped 3,960.00 diligenes were eaprcially emphas miniature railway in Hillsborough

ised, and it was remarked that Park remaine witness to the late the regrets of those present at his marquis'e love of mechanics. He 3,950.00 impending departure were tem frequently drove his own steam pered by the knowledge, that he hobby-horse, and that at a pace was "still being retained as hindered by no traffic regulations, member of the Telegraph stɛff and į

3,980.00

Tennis Competition. The first of a series of spoon rompetitions arranged by the Wigan Lawn Tennis Club was held on Saturday, when ten mix- ed pairs participated. Esch psir German Inhumanities.

We have long been used to played each opposing couple six To pays Bonus of 10 regard the Germans in their con- games, and the result was that dast of the war samen who have and Mr. Browne (owe 15), with a | spoons were won by Mra, Jelties forssken the humane tenets of civilisation and thrown aside score of 39, and by Mr. Wilson and Mr. Rose (reo. 15) with a every convention of chivalry in total of 33: A most enjɔyıbla order to instila demoralising afternoon was spent. fear into the hearts of their opponents, but the latest detail that have been officially published of the gross" outrages that were Asboy was charged at the Police: committed upon British prisoners Court to day with stealing a and wounded men in March last quantity of clothing and a new even still further cffend the heart pair of slippers, valued at $6, presented have been audited by and mind of every decently-mind-trom & shop in Queen's Road Mr. C. Bernard Brown, A.0.A. in ed person. It is not the intention Central. Defendens admitted the the absence of Mr. Francis Mait here to recapitulate the story theft of the singlet and said he land; the latter being eligible, of fiendish cruelty that Reuter's was told to steal it by "a offers himself for re-election.

· A Boy's Offence.

msn. A foki of the shop message gives; suffice it to say that one cannot read it without said the theft was discovered by righteous anger. One is tempted another toki, who raised the to set the question sa to why the alarm. In the paruit, defendant Germans have so acted, and one not been recovered. Mr. J. R. dropped the singlet, which had could supply several answers Wood enteroed defendant to But the answer that more neatly

Bocords with the trath is that, in-even days' hard labour. tent upon victory at all coste, filled Passession of Gelignite. with the mad ambition of domins- A Chinese was charged this

To carry forward lo

New Account

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by the hope that he would evan- The hour of which the Times tually return to the Colony, to has recently been_the_victim is renew the many friendships he perhaps not so singular as one 3,969 00 has made, Reference was also which appeared in the mid-aga of made to the fact that three men Lyon Playfair. Ho and Sit 10,601,99 had already gone to the front from Charles Wheatstone made + local newspapers, and the fact that hobby of jointly working out the $32,381.99 although Mr. Morley could be ill cyphers in the Thunderer. One spared from an admittedly india which appeared pace a month Auditor. The accounts now pensable occupation, neither he puzzled them, owing to its brevity, nor his employers had made spy But at last they solved it. I attempt to obtain exemption, was "The Times is the Jeffrays of reflected credit on him, his paper the Press. They were surprised and the Press generally. that when they communicated Mr. Morley acknowledged the the secret to him. Delane was compliments paid him sad said very angry at his journal ing be looked forward to returning to likened to the unjust jadge." Hongkong when the war was over.

DODWELL & Co, Ltd, General Managers.

A moat enjoyable programme The Moravian Church has lost of music was interspersed with its president in Bishop Hasse, ANEMIA MEANS THIN the various speeches, and the who has died at Bournemouth. evening was brought to a close Mr. Asquith, Mr. MoKeane, and by the singing of Auld Lang other men in public life received Syne and the National Anthem part of their education in Mors.

BLOOD.

tion, the Germans have delibers morning with being in possession Correct it in the Early Stages: tely set out to make themselves of 54 sticks of galignite feared in the hope that the without a licence for the same.

assertion

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manner that it is

LAWN BOWLS.

vian schools, and can testify to the thoroughness of the system pursued there. The Moravians have earned the respect of all religious bodies for their remark- able zeal in missionary work. Saturday's League Matches.Bishop Asses's death has cama sa A surprise to his many friends all {over England;

Two Lawn Bowls League often chief interest being centred in the

as anything in medical science.

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Talkoo v. Police,

Played on the Palica greens,

Watt

(skip.)

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Talkoo.

O'Brisa

Gerrard

Drummond

Ferguson

We were interested to read that

each other epeal. They have never learat lip language as the | deaf and dumb are taught it, but by instinctiva usage they under. stand what the other is saying

Amid the clatter and din" of epinning mules sad looms factory operatives "talk" to sach other by sight.

The late Lord Ardilaan, head of the Guinness family, was very (skip.) 19 fond of bringing parties of dis- Hardwick

Morrison

Maclschlan

morale of the Allies will thereby Inspector O'Sulliven stated that In no disease is delay or neglect fall. Their inhumanities have, ingelignite

need for more dangerous tbania artemis, the words of Mr. Hilaire Belloo, blasting purposes. Defendant, stor paverly of the blood. It is the object of creating a moral the Station, said that he undercommon in young girle, and in There can now be no doubting the point that we have reached disarray among the Allied peo intended for killing fish. He ran down by the heat. Artemis stood that the galignite 6 persons who are overworked or

domiosting factor. During the past four yeare there have been that Germany has ever made, this (Inspector O'Sullivan) surmised makes its approach in so stealthy matches were played on Saturday the King and Queen found it

-etage in the war when the man-power question in becoming the ples. Of all the miscalculatione many calculations made se to when the balance in this regard was is the greatest, for we shall only defendant was going to Canton likely to turn in favour of the Allies. Quite a number of these clench our teeth the tighter and to the lignite to make well developed before its presence the game between the Police and difficult to converse with the estimates have proved very wide of the mark, and it is because too fight through the risk of slaughter bomba. Defendant was cffered is recognised, and yet pala lipe Taikon, by winning which and Yorkshire workers amid the mach regard has been paid to them that surprise has been widely until this immoral nation is an opportunity to seek his friend, and cheeks, dark lines round the latter made their capture of the deafening rattle and roar of the felt at the fact that the Germans have been able to hold their own humiliated and parged of its but he declined, the offer. Aye, sud a feeling of exhaustion Championship a certainty. This machinery. All visitors do so. for so long. There are some people who have a manis for mathe- incensale rage.

lakong stated defendant was aron rising in the morning or after will be the Efth time in succes. But the operatives themselves matical eslculations and who are alware eager to demonstrate in Too Much Secrecy.

reated near the Star Ferry Wharf any light exertion, should give a wion that Taikoo has won the have found a way out. They see advance what is likely to happen on the basis of their deductione.

carrying two parcele containing clear warning to victims. League. To most Britisbérs the facts the gelignite. Defendant said Individuals of this type have been very largely discredited by facts contained in the speech which he was entrusted by a friend with specifio, a tonic medicine, which Bat taken in time there is a since the beginning of the war, and that is why we are always chary Lord Northcl. He has just deliver the gelignite and he did not know increases the number of red blood of accepting any theories which are based on figures as to the ed to Canadian, Australian and it was unlawful to be in posses corpuzoles, thus enabling the probable daration of the war.

American Pressmen, will not sion of it.K.J.B. Wood adjour-blood to carry the life-giving Taikoo winning by 89 points to from the movements of the month. While the reed for caution in these respects still holds, there come as altogether new, bat the ed the case until to-morrow, bail oxygen to all the tissues of the 45. Soozen:- are certain developments concerning man-power which it would be utterance has not a little valas being fired at $500 folly to pass unnoticed, and the figures mentioned in ons of the when looked at in the light of Harbouring a Married Woman. have had unbounded eaccess in body. Dr. Williams' piak pills week-end telegrame regarding the frightial consumption of men of propagande.

**Police, In addition to the German Army have an important bearing on the general war detailing some of the remarkably remand before Mr. J. R. Wood, disease because of this wonderful Augus

A Chinese was charged on the trestment of this stubborn Sim eitustion. We are told "from a most reliable source," that from fine schievements of the American this morning, with unlawfully; the beginning of the war until the end of last month the total Ger-astica ince it entered the lists detaining a married woman in 87 anio

properly, The correction of Grimmett man casualties have been about six million, and as the number of against Germany, Lord North-7 amali, Mr. J. H. Gardiner Williams' pink pille is sa certain

conditions by Dr. Grant men called to the colours during the same period has been twelve clife gave the lie to the enemy appeared for the defence. In million, balf the enemy's fighting forces have been put out of action. Since that time, of course, there have been further heavy has been waging war.

that Great Britain spector Brazil sisted that the If you are suffering from im- Watt

at the woma abeconded from losses sustained, for since August 8 the British and French expense of her Dominions and village without the

poverished blood you cannot Watt bave captured well over thirty thousand prisoners, to say nothing Allies and be justifiably oriticised ledge of

afford to wait another day before Gerrard ber. besbaad of the enormous number that most have been killed and the British Government's secrecy parents. On July 5, the woman thorough trial. Go tony druggist Pitt

and giving Dr. Williams' pink pille a (skip.) wounded. There are hard facte, and that they are caneing grave and censorship without which in the case. concern to the German High Command is appareat from the recent a proportionate view of the nst company with another woman of $1.50 for a bottle (38) for 6) to Kont

was travelling in and obtain a supply, or send Davitt Order by General Ladendorf requiring an abandonment of the ion's fart would have been her village and on the way met the Chics, Office of the Dr. Gordon favourite Garms policy of relying on stacks in missed formation possible. To Britishers the Ger- three meo. Her companion left Willisos Medicine Co., 98 to carry them through to any desired objective,

There are 190 circumstances that we must regard in consider ways beaa blatantly ridiculode, her to come to Hoogkong. When

man inuendo against as has al her and the tbra men invited Schoen Road, Shangbai. ing the matter of man-power. There are, firstly, that the German but to distent Allies and neatrale abe arrived at Hongkong she met above address will bring you a Free: A postcard-request to the strength is manifestly declining; and, secondly, that that of the a very definite publicity is essenti-defendant at Kowloon City Riad free copy of a belpful Health Allies is decidedly on the upward grade. Apart from what the al to dispel the thoughts that and he persuaded her to live Guide. other Entente nations are doing to call up more men, there is the enemy propaganda bas engender with him comforting knowledge of what America'e sotive participation is ed, and Lord No thcliffe has now The

for several days, meaning. We have been told recently that America's manhood performed a valuable cervice. Boveral place before between the age of 21 and 30 years totale the inspiring number of The frankness of the American was removed to Yamati, when twenty million, while a further million of men soms of age every Government has not only sparred the Police made the arrest. year. As to how many of these former are now actually, on the on its own citizens to greater Gardiner said that, according to

We regret to best that news Johnston battlefield we do not exactly know, but there is good reason for efforts but has led to a resl his instructions, hisclient met the has been received in the Colony Owens. believing that at least 300,000 are monthly leaving the United appreciation by others of Unde woman, whom he recognised to of the death at Home of Captain McIver States for the front. What can these figures mean when taken in Bam's determination to see the be his alansman's wife.

He Unsworth, who was for many (skip) 16 conjazotion with Germany's obvious decline in strength? Only matter through, and there can detained her and in the meantime years in the service of the Wharf Hedley one thing that the time is not far distant when, by sheer superiority be no question that if the same wrote a letter to the brother of and Godown Company and who Mair of numbers, the Allies will be able to force matters and secare & method had been applied at Home the woman's husband informing resigned some six years ago. He Atkinson, decisive victory. Nor must we forget that besides man-power there there would have been created a him of the woman's disposal was extremely well-known locally Cooper is the matter of war material, in which respect also the advantage far greater degree of enthusiasm Inspector, Brazil said he and prior to joining the Godown (skip.) must lay with the Allies, for their output is certainly bigger than among the people. In some could call evidence that defend. Company was in command of Smyth that of the enemy Powera. From whichever aspect we look at the matters secrecy is imperative, batant was bargaining for the one of the old Scottish Oriental Dixon situation, it becomes clear that the Allies have obtained the upper where a record of achievement woman for $200 from a women Company's vessels plying Hunter band and it is a consciousness of this fact which fills us with con can be stated without giving away living in Wanchar and had between Hongkong and Bangkok. Russell fidence in victory, even leeving aside any other issues than those of facts to the enemy that he could already accepted $25. His Wor- Deep sympathy will be felt for man-power and gan-power. The flowing tide is with us, and, with use against as, there is nothing ship adjourned the case until next Mr. Unsworth in her bereave a discreet use of our power, the triumph to which we all look for- to lose but everything to gain Wednesday. wird cnc ly bes matter of time-

Women

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Death of Capt. Unsworth.

Mr.

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Hamilton

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Wallace

B.188ll

Prowse

Wotherspoon

tinguished people to stay at bis little hioglodge, Kylemore: House, Connemara. One Sunday morning word was sent down 10 21 the parish priest that there were some Catholic gentlemen staying at the horse who would attend m888, among them being the Lord Chief Justice of England, Russell 9 (skip.) 29 of Killow; the Lord Chief

Justice of Ireland, Lord Killenio;" 45

69 the Duke of Norfolk; Su Bowland Blennerhasestt; Sir Aubrey de Kowloon v. Civil Service. Vete; and the Master of the Bolls. These teams met at Happy Naturally, the priest felt nervous. Valley, Kowloon wizning by 74 at the thought of all these alayır. points to 40. Scores

Kowloon. Chapman

Civil Service. Middleton Bars

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Langley

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Hunter

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people listening to his sermon, Ha determined, as he said, that they should not go away talking about the ignorance of the Irish priests and their lack of education, so he preached the sermon to them

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Bank Mansgor's Charities.. Mr. David George, of › 34, 10, Normanton Road, South Croydos, manager of the Bank of New Brath Wales, left £59,941, His | legacies :icolade· £550 to bis brother coors at the bank. 7 Babject to life interests, he leavII charitable legacies amounting to 40 £8,000.