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OVER THERE.

serican Spirit.

advertiser-her felt

band is usually told what her right hand dooth. Most windows display some kind of service fis

· ́and

there ara innumerable bations forty thousand for aeroplane workers alone. When any Vessel is launched on the Passaic Biver, the ship wrights add a clasp to their hadges, and, even 1, with a humbler taak, usually return with s decoration-seme ribbon to stick in my ocat. It is the custom "of the counity to deserve pradis, sad ona has to conform. The White House itself has in the window & food

DOLENJVATION card;

Breybody is now st it. Take. for instance, cesaute. In 1800 thers, were 900,000 acres Fo atilized. There are now 4,000,000 sorer, and ike crop is worth £30,000 000 sterling, which means better, oil and far. Not only are the army and navy in wonderful Fealth, but white pine. trees are at et rid of blister zust disease; while the forest service has appropriated million? of dollars for prevention of fires. The Labour Department has put a hundred and fifty thousand workera on the land, and fame are returning to the old plan of feeding themselves, The ree ponsible, Commission tells u that there Sr. five-and-a- -quarter million Fr gardens in the country—an increase of 51 per cent, over last year; and the produce would pay the food bill of the whole American Army now in France. Twelve hundred thousand children also have gardene, and have raised ter million pounds worth of produce, thereby helping also to save rail. way traffic.

Patriotism all Round. "There is strict curtailment of many industries. Farnitare, BE at Grand Rapide, ia down 75 per crot., and the plants are devoted to seroplane propellers. Apart, from Government holding, the building trades are turned over to munitione, and satomobile fsot eries are requested to put them selves on hundred per cent. war work by January, 1, which should not be difficult, as the present Government orders aggregate £180,000,000. The President requested motorists one Sunday to refrain from gseolice. A few joy riders, tempted by Coney Island, chowed themselves, but were driven off the streets by crowds of children shoating "Pro-German! At Decatur, Ill., ́a town of 40,000 inhabitante, the Consumption: of 80281 in Jane was reduced form 460 000 26: Iset year to 194,000 Ib. in 1918. A Sagar Equalise ti a Board is regulating prices, and the supply of boney is under etimalus. At Boston travelling kitchens at street corcers demon sirate how food may be saved. Pasca stores ara gathered in barrel, patriotically painted, and era cleaned and

barat, the

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1918,

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AN OLD ALLIANCE.

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wrla. Very little wee known in b'a coastry about Portugal or the ties between the two nations, or of Portugal's aptitudes and resourges, which could easily be turned to mutual advantage, The rooms of the Camera Portuguese had been, and were friendship and prosperity. The Portuguera de Comercio e Indas- Feeding the National Effort.iris, 20. Badge zom. Cansonill, true friends of the British in

The national effort is fed by street, were filled by a gatheringer and in peace,

reedlting charcoal being used for ka maekesgeines German poison. Two hundred millions of rabbits sae trapped annually.

The name of Lusitanis bad

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DITIONS of the letting by Public INSURANCE CO., LTD.,

Auction Sale, to be, held on Monday, the 16th December, 1918, at 3 p.m. at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Gov- ernment, of One Lot of Crown Land

Yaumati in ihe Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the

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at

Great ststermen talk elcquently England recantly for the caciszitanis was the ancient name!AN ARCTIC EL DORADO.1explore the island and to make Surveyor of His Majesty the

to phonographs of gigantic caps- city, and the recorde are scattered pening of the Chamber,

for Prussia,

of the nuclens of Portugal, so

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In the absence of Dr. Augustas that the Portuguese were in other It is a curiona oroumstance that There will b no difficulty, with far and wide, being preserved in

babitable all the year round. steel among the archives; What

de Vasconcelice, the Portoggee words Minister, who left the previous]

"Luzitanos," From there existe, in the Spitsberger he presence of coal to such rast PARTICULARS OF THE For my be true of their parents, morning for Lisbon, the Chamber Lexitania, that is from Portugal, Archipelago within 400 miles of satities, in having both light German-American children are: 100 per cent. patriotic, and will Samuel de Lears, who said howed the way to ladis. The Ospe the richest depuits of cosi sad

it was that Vasco da Gama sailed the coast of Norway and 1,200 and best daring the winter was opened by the hon. secretary to the Cape of Good Hare, and miles of Great Britais, some of months, not tolerate rentimentel iffection that the advent of the Chamber and a large part of India had iron ore in the world, and that covered by the Germans before Spitsbergen had just been die Mere eerionely, the develop another strong link between by errangements with Portugal,

was of the utmost importance of been transferred to Great Britaid they have been let undeveloped. the war, and they had established ment is impressive in volume and bewildering in detail. Undeterred great Britain and Portugal, wc and Newfoundland was a mere tion Company approached Su since been destroyed. Evidence Recently the Northern Esplora wireless station there, which has by a loss this year on railroads were the oldest Allies in the gift to this country, alec by Ernest Shackleton, and invited has been found recently that which amount to sirty million

Portugal, which still possessed him to organise in expedition German agente have been at work pounds ready, Congress has a skill in riveting plates for sten large and important colonies in to Spitsbergen. With the ap in the hope of appropriating the Bill for taking over water power dardised bridges. Among 8,500 West and East Africs, and Timor proval of the Government, Birhole Arobipelago. As recently plants at cost of forty million men under training for the in the Far East, as landmarks of Ernest undertook this work a 1913 the country was visited poande For aeroplanes a chain Merchant Marine, there was only Portuguese courage and deeds. The expedition wu sccompanied by Prince Henry of Promia and of landing fielde, at a distance of ons death in seven months, sooare Snoh were the old allies of Great by Mr. E.VC Salibary Jones, he late Count Zeppelin. Spita

hundred miles apart, is biogfal of human life has this country Britsin. established scross the continent, became. All shipbuilding help. If only the British would direct.

bergen was British possession Paper patterns are made for America to farnish more generone more sturation to Portugal and too

seventeenth century just as for ladies' rations to zentrals, and, onriously, the possibilities that it effered for

enough, come food is returning business between the two coun

from

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Great while. The Chamber would do

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mansging directați the

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