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GENERAL NEWS

JAPANESE CHILDREY'S

CONTRIBUTION.

Every Japanese boy and girl in the Japanese school at Bonclu- tu contributed five cents to the! United War Work campaign there recently. These funds were given to seven great American associations which have carried on work among the soldiers over- Besa. There are about 2,700 Japanese children in Honolulu.

CHINESE "TRAIL BLAZERS,” Fan Tuan Ten, Minister of Education in the Chinese Repub- lio Cabinet; Yen Hsiu, founder of the first university in China; F. T. Sun, Minister of Fish and president of the Fish College, and Pding Chang, president of the Nankai College at Tien-tain, were recent visitors at Utah. They were en route to China sfter spending more than half a year inspecting american eductional institations. "Trail blazers of a new day" was the name given the noted Chinese visitors by a local educator, for in their invest- igation into American tional

educa-

the

systems is seen foundation for great development

in China.

THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA.

An examination of the bricks! and mortar in the Great Wall of Chins was recently male in Shan- haikwan by Mr." J. C. Witt, A chemist attached to the Bureau

Mr. Witt! of Science, Manila.

reports that the bricks are so weak that pieces may be easily broken off with the fingers. They are much larger than ordinary bailding bricks, gray in colour, and resemble pumice somewhat in structure. The mortar, which is pure white under the expose! surface, is much stronger than the bricks. The tradition that

the bricks were dried in the sur only was confirmed by laboratory tests. If they had been dried in a kiln the appearance of the wall would have been considerably different and its strength and durability would have been much greater. The general appearance and analysis of the motar in- dicate that no sand was mixed with line.

SHIPS INSTEAD OF GUSS.

The private naval arsenal of Elswick on Tyneside is making elaborate arrangements for con- verting its great establishment to the arts of peace. A leading oficial states that they propose to extend their mercantile ship- building, and to build freight and passenger ships of the high- est class. The firm is also tak- "ing up the construction of marine

gines on the biggest scale, and it is also intended to build locomotives at Scotswood and "To elsewhere.

the meet arigencies of the war, and to provide greater scope for the! manufacture of guns and am- manition," said the official, "we moved our old engine works to Glasgow, and there we have formed an alliance with Messrs. A and J. Main and Co., the Government contractors. This combination will continue the construction of our old specialties, such as hydraulic machinery, dock gates, bridges, and cranes, and it will also carry on civil engineering contracts of all kinds."

MIELIONS OF NEW SUITS. Demobilisation will call for millions of new 'cirry" suits. Production of military clothing is to be curtailed without delay, and mills which have been tarning out khaki by the mile for four years past will be able to devote more attention to the

NICH THE HONGKONG / TELEGRAPHAL SATURDAY, JANDARYCHIL. 1919.

NOTICES.

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When you

start the

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Let us send you a Victroly, easy krms If you like.

#

Victrolas frem $.4.

20%

10%

discount for cash with order.

discount for monthly' accounts.

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Exclusive Agents.

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SHIPBUILDING MATERIALS, SHIPCHANDLERS AND

HARDWARE MERCHANTS.

'PHONE NO. 16.

25, WING WOO ST.

CENTRAL

ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY

WAR BOND DRAWING.

SALE OF TICKETS CLOSES

́ON 15th FEBRUARY,

Tickets, $5 each, obtainable at Banks, Stores, Clubs and Hotels.

AS ARMY KOEPENICK.

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ther there will be enough to go as Captain J. McDonald, attached -round really depends on the to the staff of the Northern length of time demobilisation English Command, a man nam- will take. A heavy rush back toed Smith has just been arrested civilian life would mean very in Cork on a charge of unlawfully short supplies, to say the least wearing a uniform of a staff Already there has been a large officer. Smith, it is alleged, ia Sabarbs it contains liste of increase in the demand for desarter from the London Scottish Civilian clothes. The head of a Rifles, and the police were look-w the goods they ships, and the Golon a

& long and Foreign Markets they supply: also Weet-end business house stated ing for hira for

PROVINCIAL THADE KOTICES? recently that for the last four time on charges of obtaining years his trade has been 85 per money by various means. He of leading Manufacturam, Merchants, at, cent. military and 15 per cent. had toured Ireland in a motor civilian, Since the armistice car, entering barracks and ob-

is percentage

90 taining petrol for his car without Civilian and ten military. He permita m all the towns be visit gave it as his opinion that it willed, on the strength of his red

the

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