1918-09-11 — Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

The Irony of it,

Yesterday afternoon about half. past two, a steamroller might have been observed wending its very leisurely way soatwards by the Horse Basar: and th, irony of ironiss, sbout twenty yards ahead of it walked a coolie with a red flag, Bayan reount imene(of N. C. Dedy Neus How many motor-cars, not pro- vided with men with red flags, muat havs whiszed past the roller „in ita promenade we have no idea. "Grast is the power of “olo css-,

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German Cures, 2,

The drastic measures för nervS troubles adopted in several Ger- -man military hospitals are of such

A character that, according to a Munich telegram to the Kolnische Folkanitung regular zavolla against it have occurred, hospital warda being demolished. The hospital at Borenheim was borned dowa, presumably owing to inoen- diariam by a patients treated. An electric current is employed, and so great is the pain that many of the patient tremble and often scream before the actual applice- tion, and under the effect of the" current their shouts are often heart-reading, Patients have of. ten run away from the doctors applying the treatment,

New Name for French Polla.

The Americans are not satisfied with the commonly accepted Bickname of the French soldier -poila. Probably it does not ́carry the right amount of collo- gais snap to satisfy their boisterous camaraderie. They bave invented another name. To the Americans the French private is now "Didonk." All French soldi era addresa men in the ranks in the second person singular, and every French private's first remark, particularly if he is offering ori "requesting a drink, ie "Die donc." an equivalent to the American's characteristic "837!" In the light) of this origin, then "Didonk" is good and will stick.

Sugar Order Revoked. " The discovery that the Hotel Plazs did not have a large surplus | supply of sugar when it was penalised recently resulted in the Food Administration re- voking its order sospending the hotel's baking license. Alter hearing at which evidence appeared (to show that the hotel management was guilty of hoarding, it developed that clerical errors of a material nature had been uncovered, which com- pletely changed the aspect of the case. A new bearing was asked

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1918.

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