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HONGKONG'S LATEST WAR GIFT.

Home Government's Cordial Thanks.

The Hon. the Colonial Secre tary forwards as the following copies of telegrams to and from the Secretary of State for the

the war-

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CORRESPONDENCE.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1918,

The opinions expressed by coITSS» pondents are not necessarily those of the "Hongkong Talegraph.”]

PLENTY OF SOAP 1

To the Editor of the Hongkong

Telegraph"

Yours etc. JUDEX!

MOTOR PROSECUTIONS,

Dimly Muninated Rear Lights,

QUIET FRIENDS,

In an Old Picture Gallery,

At the Police Court this after- noon, several Ohinese drivers and owners of motorcars were charged with not showing a rear light at A correspondent on the Times the back of their cars. The writes:-

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HONGKONG V.A.D.

Orders issued by Mrs. Ralphs, adjutant and Hon. Secretary, {* ata ---

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CANTON NEWS.

MUNITIONS IN THE MAKING.

Lancashire Bfficiency,

adaptable and persevering man agement, and well-organised and oo-ordinated direction.

Dealing fret with the organisa- tion, it may be said at once that the experience of the north-west

Monthly Competition which will

arsa has completely justified Mr. Membere are reminded of the

Somewhere in the North-Weet decentralisation

Lloyd George's experiment in the af executive take place on Monday, the 26th munitionsares there stands a little authority. Nearly three years summonses were brought_by the- At a distance of only 10 minutes Police Reserve. Mr. F.O. Jenkin, by train from Victoria an old inst, at 5.30 p.m. Mambers will timber shed and a workshop ago Mr. Lloyd George visited Sir,-Your correspondent "Nil D. 8. P. (B), prosecuted. picture gallery is still open to be below:-

attend in alphabetical order as which before the war were devot-Manchester to address & meeting Colonies relating to a farther gift Desperandum" is evidently to Each case was taken separs enjoyed in quiet. There have

ed to the making of fences and of the leading Manchester engin of $800,000 to His Majesty's draw one of his own Scotoh red-sely. In the first case. Staf been no removals, there are no

E-K-5.30 p.m.

gates and the repair of agrical ears and other businem men on Government for the purposes of herringe sorose the trail. Is it not Inspector Eldridge stated that masterpieces in hiding.

L-M-5.45

taral machinery to meet the the p.m.

nation's need of shells. a fact that Mesars, Lever Bros, in on the 22nd ult. be saw car gallery in "Alleyn's College of

N.-Y.-5.00 p..

everyday needs of the private Shortly afterwards the engineer- Translation of Cods telegram quoting the figares for certain No. 28 in Lower Albert God's Gift" at Dulwich remains in

A.-D.-5.15 p.m.

estate Un which they are ing employers of the Manchester. from Governor, Hongkong, to yeare, gate the total amount of

Road at 8.45 p.m. As defendant its quiet garden and shrouded by by private arrangement,

Members may alter their turns situated says the Times of Jane distriot established among them Secretary of State, London; date soap exported from Great Britain passed him be (witness) stopped its ancient sreepers just as when

19. Today in these buildings selves an Armaments Output 6th August, 1918-Unofficial into China? Mesere, W. Ghim. Mr. Jenkin

Those who are desirous of miscellaneous staff of bricklayers, Committee, with a small ex- Members of the Legislative Humphreys and Co, vestured to Present

aleo Buskin and Browning walked passing examinations in Homs carpenters, labourers, and coun-cutive or board of mangement, Council unanimouely desire that remark that they were also includ-examined with defendant and days and learned something of September 30th are raquseted to

wat sorgsa the fields in their early Nurring and/or First Aid befors try lassen are producing ahella. to the Colony of Hongkong should ed in the total given; and how only one light was feand. He what the Datoh, Italian, and notify the undersigned at this fox-hunting squire, is the proud manitions production. Similar utilise the engineering The lord of the estate, a typical resources of the district for make a further gift of £300,000 modestly they have expressed did not know whether it was English masters, had to tesoh towards the general expenses of their claim may be gathered from electric or oil. The number of them. It is a gallery to which meeting.

proprietor of the factory. He boards were est up in Oumber- the war.—May.”

sight of the figures. The real the car we act properly illami Hazlits devoted a boor and some

obtained by sheer importunity a land, Liverpool, North Wales, and Translation of Core telegram question "st issue, of course, is mated. The light waa in charming sketches, and in which

contract for shells in the early other parts of the area. In the from Secretary of State, London, Lever Bros. proportion of the proper order but the number- George Eliot found refreshment

days of the call for "munitions. meantime the Ministry of to Governor, Hongkong; Date, total, and it would be interesting plate was not placed in such and delight.

Without any official aid-in fact, Munitions had set up offices in -17:0 Angost, 1918"Your to know what percentage, if any position to enable the light to

You may go there and have it writes me follows:-

Our Canton correspondent fin spite of what was almost official Mezohester, mainly to supervise," telegram Angust 6th, His of the figures for 1918 and 1917 play on it.

to yourself almost any day of the

opposition he managed to equip co-ordinate and assist the efforts Majesty's Government gratefully came to Lever Bros' representative

Defendant said be was week; the surroundings are

Anti-Smoking Campaign. the premises with s accept further

cariona of the employers' organisations. generous gift for sale in South Obina

ander ⚫ the

The Interior Depariment has collection of machines, begged, Beginning with an office of six impression redolent of peace. The rooms are offically communicated to towards war-expenditure and de- Enclosing my card,

that the light was all right. The spacious, stately, and light, and Civil Governor that in view of they

the borrowed, or bought wherever rooms coupied by three officials wire you to convey their cordial

number-plate might have beer for the farther delight of the art the growth of the cigarette smok-later he added to them sever Office at the Ministry

aculd be got, thanks to Legislative Council.—|

and sad two women clerks, the Ares displaced sa s result of the lover contain some Long,"

vibrations of the car.

heg besatifaling habit it is necessary to atriotly al machines built up cabinets and settees of the great observe the following three home-made castings. He com- conatitates virtually s Govern- from gradually expanded until it now Inspector Garrod spoke to times of Louis XIV. and XV. regulations, otherwise the harm pleted his contract, obtained ment Department, with branches having warned drivers and owners. Beale clocks and vaas, too, lend resulting will be worse than that another, and is likely to remain a in all the most important towns The men beosme careless." their reminiscences of the golden from opiam:-1,

A fine of $10 was imposed.

the police abell producer to the end of the of the sres. There has thus grown Mr. Webb, owner of Car No. books on art and artists lie in does not exceed 18 yests from leading turner, his woman asare close supervision and with the daye of domestic art. Yet more should stop anyone whose age war. His own daughter is the up a system by which, under the The Hon. the Colonial Secret-

138, was summoned for a similar vitingly open for bim who will to smoking cigarettes in the street, tary is the manager, his staff co-operation of a sry forwarde as the following

cfence, pleading not guilty.

Government read. Butthsepirit that permeates 2, no cigarette smoking should be includes only one man who was a administrative staff on the spot, transtation of a letter addressed

Sergeant Bullock, Police Re- the whole, that suggested its permitted for naval or military trained mechanic before the war, boards, representative of the by the Wai Chino Pa to His

eerva, atated that he stopped the collection and arrangement, and men; 3, no teachers or scholars and yet the average percentage of manufacturers and scquainted Majesty's Minister regarding the

car. Defendant was driving at has spoken to so many with fresh- should be allowed to smoke or faulty shells turned sat in this with contributions made by the Colony

the time.

The light was quite ness and enlightenment, is only to buy cigarettes.

their FRUCTIF004 and of Hongkong to the Metropolitan At the Magistracy. this after-good, but the numbers were so be met with by the visitor who,

improvised shop by this im-capabilities, sot as agents of the Flood Relief and Conservancy noon, Mr. E. D. C. Wolle, sitting that the light only reflected seglectful of booke and guides,

Raising Military Funds. provized staff was 18 when the Ministry in placing and executing Barsau for relief work in the as Coroner, resumed the enquiry dimaly on the whole of the plate. surrenders himself wholly to its Shin Chow, has abolished all the

Li Kun-yon, the commander in percentage for the arm was 8.1. contracts. At the present time Province of Chihli. The gifts into the cireamstegoes surround-

Defendant said it was impos- spell.

For this statement of plain fact there are over 200 contractors referred to may be seen at the ing the death of certain people eible for the angles of the plate

stamp duty stations within the there is anquestionable authority, working for the Manchester and There are individual pictares region, and issued $50,000 worth The case is, of course, exceptional; District Board alone, and the Colonial Secretary's office:- in the collapse of houses in

to shift, as they were both that leave memories. There is of new stamps to be used in Nam but it is no exaggeration to say that total amount involved in the com Wai Chice Pu to H. M. Minister. Morrison Hill Road on August 1.

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bar and "Jacob's Dream," by Rembrandt Hing and Shiu Poking, 19th July, 1918. The jury was composed of even if the bar was shifted the or his school, a picture in which proceeds to be used for meeting general throughout the whole of pounds a year. The expenses of

Chow,

the the spirit which it indicates is tracts rang into many millions of Bir have the honour to Messrs. A. Fothergill (foreman). He admitted the No. 7 might inspiration bridged over by an

light and plate would be the eame limitless space is by some subtle military expenses. inform you that the following J. M. Xavier, and U. Bumjahn.

the North-West area. In the old the board are met by a contribu letter has been received from Mr. Revenue Officer G. Watt, in have been more distinct but the ethereal causeway. It is a track

daya it was a 'common repiosch, tion from each contractor one- Haiang, Divator General of the giving evidence, said that on whole numbers could not be dream-like forms are passing and with the bad management of the and the adjoining counties were Ministry, the board pays the and & were very distinct. The of light, up and down which Provincial Assembly in connection the manufacturers of Lsnaashire contract prics. As agents of the It has been decided in the perhaps not wholly deserved, that quarter of per cent. of his Metropolitan Flood Relief and Sunday August 4, at 10.20 6. mistaken. Mr. Jenkin said he repassing, showing the way to Telephone Department, that the allowing themselves to be out contractors in its area, and, unlike Conservancy Baresa:-

be W88* in the Opium "Some time since I received a Factory together with Inspec- could not read the numbers.

Fistes of infinite hope, It is a present Superintendent should be stripped by foreign competitors Government Departments, from the Wai tor Sim when Mr.

Defendant asked Mr. Jenkin if poem of the exaltation of a young dismissed and an experienced in Baker'e Chiao Pa forwarding a sum of one little girl came and told them his eyes were as good as they spirit that has fought and won, man be appointed in his place. supremacy. Ne each charge oan it pays weekly 80 per cent. of the the race for industrial settle its accounts promptly, for hundred thousand Hongkong that her house had collapsed. might be and Mr. Jenkin replied the glimpse into a spiritas! world With regard to the question of be levelled against them now. value of the stores delivered. Dollars, which rounged into Pek. He ran across the street and came that so far as he knew they were that comes now and again to finer mortgaging the Department, the It it be fine d ing currency for $94,788.73, being to the scene of the disaster, and all right. He only used glasses spirita in early manhood. Sir loan from the Bank of Formosa is a contribution to the food relief saw that houses 14, 16, 18 and 20 for close reading. A fine of $10 Galahad had seen it, and how objected to, an internal loan being

of collapse, was inflicted.

CHINESE FLOOD RELIEF.

Appreciation of Hongkong Donation,

COMINICAtun

Hongkong Aeg. 19, 1818.

A RECENT COLLAPSE,

Enquiry Resumed This. Afternoon.

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The Telephone Department.

"Civlysation does git forrid

Sometimes upon a powder-cart,”

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Some idea of the trade handled by this board, which covers only". fund remitted by E. E. the Gover-were in a state

many have seen it in these four preferred.

Hanchester and its immediate nor of Hongkong. I also received a heard shouts coming from

Beveral other cases of's similar thrilling years, who have left no

it is not less true, si say rate in neighbourhood, may be gathered from the Paking Flood Relief No. 18 He went into the house character were heard. In some record, but passed by the ladder

this district, that war has brought from the face that its turnover Association a farther contribution and saw a woman in the back- instances dirty lamps were to realize their dream.

|a wonderful advance in industrial this year will be a boat 20 million to She was pinned ander sid from Sir Henry May of fifty room.

be the oxuse Bod There is Sir Joshua Reynolds'a and well-known Gainsborough of equipment, organisation, and pounds, and that under te opera thousand Hongkong dollars, oesth some debris, and with the in others it was said the plate "Mrs. Biddons sa the Tragic the two sisters they hand down enterprise, It has been said sizat tion many thonssad shell of which exchanged for Peking maintance of Inspector Sim she bring fined as wrong angle wae Mass," a replius of that in the pleasant memories of a very the war is the renaissance of different types are being produced dollars 47,500, and was "likewise was taken out alive with only a

A fine of $10 was Duke of Westminister's collect unique family, painted in the England. The statement, so far as weekly, together with aeronautical for distribution for relief work few slight bruises. He then imposed in each case,

100, and the familiarity that great age of portraiture

it relates to industrial processe88, in

parts and vast quantities of other in Ohibli,

went to No. 20 and heard

cheap prints have gives to it England.

can be judged by a simple teat. wat material. The board, it "At a time when the war in moans from the cook-house.

Baseball Match Result,

vanishes when we are face to. Then there are Claudes, the The modern messure of industrial should be added, have nothing to Europe is at its bitterest the On close examination he

fsce with the artist's own work, temples and the classic BBBS efficiency in the number of anita do with inspection, labour apply, collection of subscriptions is now the bair of someone's head The handsome sum of $459 One or the other story as to its which had so deep an inspiration of electricity consumed by each dilation, transport, and similer easy matter, and Sir Henry May's amonget the debris.

He has been ressived by the Hon.pose may be the true one that for Kesta, and supplied for him haman operative. In the 32 year deals with by representatives - Thess Are all public-spirited and warm-hearted removed several of the bricks Treasurer, War Charities, for the asked to take her eest as the the want of foreign stayel in bus before the WAT generosity merita deep respect; from above the head, and with redis, of the British Red Orosa Tragic Muse, she instantly sat spiritual treatment of Greek my-1,480,000,000 units of electric of the Government Do. This office has received from H. the sesistance of Palice Reserve from Hr. C. J. Hammes, being down as the picture shows, or snology. There are Gaidos a power.

In 3 years of

war Partments working in the Area E. the President a specially made Constable 263 (Noris) and Sex-proceede of the baseball game that, after it had been began in "St. John Preaching in the we have used 4,000,000,000 fice of the Ministry. BetweOD silver tripod and has itself pre- geant Walters they got the roman promoted by the American com- different position, she turned Wilderness," whion has created a units.

Mechanical in methods

the contractors and the boards of pared a gift in the usms of the out. She was slightly braised munity for the benefit of the andenly to look at piotare small literature of criticism and have been so improved that the management, and between the Uhairman of the Peking Flood and prae attended by s Chinese American and British Red Cross on the well, and that Sir Joshua appreciation, and the "St. Sebas-personal element in production boards and the Area Offies, there Belief Association, of silver doctor. Later on, at 12.30, wit organisations on August 14,

instantly seized the o pose in," whion surred the emotion have enormosely reduced; or, to is complete and cordial ander. - cup as a memento, and I have 1898 assisted to dig out the body

Small Collapse.

as the essential and real, and described by Charles Kingsley put it in another way, individual steading. Criticisme astorally the honour to request that you of a woman from smongst the A slight house collapse cook bigged her not to maye. There is "Aiton Locke."

exertion is being reduced and are not wanting on any side, but will be good enough to cause debris. This was in house No. place this afternoon at about the 18, the embodiment of all the 01 Duton pictures there are individual earnings increased by common agreement it is these articles to be transmitted to 18. She 188 dead. Witnees 1.15 p.. when soddenly, epirit-forces with which she seized many good. All the old favourites the gradual approach to perfec. acknowledged, that this system, Sir Henry May in commemora stopped there till 7 p.m. He did without say warning,

the on and made her own the creations are represented, and represented on in plants.

based on devolation of Govern- tion of his generous action "*. not see say more bodies taken kitchene of both the first of the tragedy.kings of drama, It well; and one can wander amongat In this progress North-West mant control and exploitation of

I have the honour accordingly cut.

and second floors of No. 25 Third is Greek in its ampliony and their keen insight into character England has taken so mean

Local detailed knowledge, has to forward berewith the silver A small Chinese girl nert gave Street fell into the yard of No. power, in its absolute and essential as familiarly as at The Hague part, Faced by the demand for worked smoothly and efficiently. tripod and oup and to request evidence. She said that at pres- 250 Queen's Bead West. It was freedom from the trammels of or Antwerp. There are Marillos, munitions, the manufacturers dis. From the first it has been the that Your Excellency will be so ent she was living in" Yin Wah very. fortunata indeed that ordinary life and circumstance, analysed and apostrophized by played remarkable initiative and policy to adapt and to kind as to transmit the same to Street, but up to August 4, ahe there was nobody there, and She might be the High Priestese Hatalitt and Baskin in their ingenuity in adapting and extend existing plant rather than to set up HE. the Governor of Hongkong, was living in No. 18 Morrison consequently the inmates were of Apollo. If we can defy the day; Vandycks that stand sa ing their posse time resources to new ana special machinery. Tex- I have, do, Hill Road. Sometime after 10 none she wore except for the Tragic Mase, this is the deity; everlasting records of the dignity, mest war-time needs. Thats is tile machinery makera, electric-

wae preparing some excitement which naturally pre-bat it is enough for me that she is and often of the rare beauty, of scarcely any implement of war,

machinery manufacturers, chain- food in the kitchen. She Tailed.

at large amongst the wider spaces, those in high estats.

whether in the air, on land, on the makere, glassmakers, motor-car Was standing a little way Possession of Gellgalte,

where passion is elemental and But this is not catalogue.es, or under the ses, which is not makers, and many others were from her mother, brother A Cainess was charged on thought infinite, and that femi. It is rather an impression being produced in the North-West enlisted for the great and argent standing outside the door of the 54 sticks of gelignite without a gives she touch that calls forth sequestered and cousin. Her mother was remand with being possession of nine grace, refined and ideal, of peace in war time. In the ern area. The following are only tak, and is may almost be said t

silance of these some of the war products of these to-day that the great conglomera- kitoben, and she shouted out that permit. Mr. Leo D'Almsds, who the highest response in men. beautiful roomey with the counties:Aeroplanes, marine tion of industrial towns of which Childhood ailments in most some and had fallen into the appeared for the defendant, said

are Linley pictures, blackbirds singing in thegarden, minse, submarines, motor-lorries, Manchester and Liverpool aza cases come through some derange kitchen from the hillside. On he was instructed to plead guilty. those of the Linleys of Bath, who the jaded spirit can get into touch heavy howitsera, trench martare, the mercantile fooi forma IDU VACİ ment of the stomach or bowele, looking she could see some boul-On the day in question his client won Gainsborough's sfection with the secrete that kara spoken hand grenades, fank engines and arsenal. Of its products and of Baby's Own Tablete, the Canadian dere coming down. This was at the was having a luncheon at the "with their invariable trick of to painters from the early days of chains, torpedoes, and shells of the factors in the production it children's remedy, have been back door, One of the boulders M. Y. San's restaurant and there sttracting the interest of interest-medieval art simoes to our own all sizes. The writer has been can be stated that the producers" proved by thousands of mothers rolled straight down and pushed mat his old soquaintances and ing people." Here are William, day, and can have the joy of permitted to spend a week in in working now as angradgingly to be the greatest medicine known her along. She ran away as she was entrusted by them with two Thomas, Samuel, and Osise, and, sturing many old memorise and specting a few of the workahope they did when their task had for the cure of these ailments, aw the boulder coming down. panels containing the galignite above ELL, Essbeth, afterwards reviving much old knowledge of Innomahire. Some of the

the compensation of novelty, simply tossuse they regulate the She rushed to the door, but it to be taken to the as. Fatehan, Mrs. Sheridan, painted with her The drama of historical episodes, things seen and heard will bowels and sweeten the stomach, was closed, and eventually the As he was going along the Prays, ester Ann. Elisabeth also lives the aromas of earlier societies, the be told later. The story of Concerning them Mrs. Napoleon succeeded in opening it and ran to he was arrested and was found in as St. Cecilia in Sir Joshua's enthusiaɑms of the various phones what the North-West has done to It is not tranj se faz as we kno Lambert, St. Ignace, Quebec, the street. She looked back to possession of the stuf Mr. window at New College, Oxford, of European ari, are all lingering supply the Navy, the Army, and (saya the Birate Echo) that she writes: "Baby's Own Tablets are the house and she had the inten- D'Almeda naked his Worship to Osiae, as a charming 007, and there. Above all there is a dream the Air Bervise with all the vast overziment his decided to meka. an excellent medicine for child- tion of going back to find her consider his client's position. He William, said to be the hand- of repose, an impression of some and varying list of defensive and provision for wives and depend hood ailments, and I am well mother, out as she tried to get understood his client had been somest of his family these by thing stable and untouched by offensive appliances will form a sale of married men who are pleased with their " Of back her passage was blocked by taken out to look for his friends. Su Thomas Lawrence, and the alarums and tragedies of war, large chapter in the history of goug to the front, by baying for medicine dealers, or by mail at the closed doors. She then ran but had failed to find them. Mr. Samuel by Gainsborough, are to be carried home, for all of Britain's mobilisation for war, oach of them as the thesal Post 60 centa a vial from The Dr. upstairs and enquired about her J. Wood imposed a fine of $250 portraits of these rarely interest which we may well blows the For obvious reasons only part of Offices in the SoulemmaİN NƏ KOAM Williams Medicine Co., 96 Sze. mother.

and ordered the gelignite to being faces and equally interesting founders and benefactors of it can be told at present. It is a dollar stake in the Straits turdi chaen Boad, Shanghai,

confiscated.

personalitina. With the striking "Alleyn's College of God's Gift." story of unremitting labour, million dollar lottery or dinge KE

(Signed) CH'EN LU,

Affairs.

for the Minister for Foreign

CHILDHOOD AILMENTS

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The enquiry is proceeding."

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