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FOR PLASTER WORK AND RE-IRFORCED CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION

AS

USED IN

NUMEROUS

IMPORTANT

WORKS

IN

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FOUNDATION,

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THE EASTERN ASBESTOS CO.

QUEEN'S BUILDING, CHATER ROAD, HONGKONG

THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO.

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SHEWAN TOMES & CO.: General Manager.

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HONGKONG JAPANESE MASSAGE ASSOCIATION.

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to

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AND

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CREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Casks of 375 lbs. net.

In Bags of 250 lbs, net.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

General Managers. Hongkong, 16th August, 1916.

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MR. ROOSEVELT.

AN AMERICAN

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DAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1919.

He was

emotional ditiaan, was heard to by personal visit. may, when "getting the worst of easily at home with all sorts and He had a the argument about the Pro- conditions of men. TRIBUTE.gressive parts "Well, it is en-voluminous correspondence. He ongh for me that Theodore Roose had shrewd advisers at his elbow. All this made his insight into popular feeling remarkably clear and deep. Moreover, he readily kept pace with the growth of his country. The increasing masses and complexity of our population did not disconcert him, he saw CIGAR

It was with stupefaction that velt has asked me to join, and I Americana learned of the death should obey just as unhesitating of Theodore Roosevelt, says the ly if he asked me to jump off the New York Erening Post. As Brooklyn Bridge." Such cases son would they expect were not rare, and they hint to read that one of the great furves us that something like a super of nature had suddenly ceased to man in the political sphere has operate. That exhaustless energy passed away.

the nation steadily and saw it stilled? Impossible. When! His hold upon impressionable whole. Where other politicians Molley, abroad in 1852, heard of and aspiring young men continu- dealt with individuals, Mr. Roose- the death of Daniel Webster, befod almost magical even in hisvelt reached out for vast groups wrote to his father: As for later years. It was not only his Others would scheme for the votes thinking of America without personal quality that drew them. of a clique, but he bodily thrust Webster, it seems like thick-ffis personal example was before out his hand and captured the ing of her without Niagara or then as an inspiration. He hearts and the suffrages of a the Mississipi." So today we doubtless our fuest instance of whole race, an entire Church, & feel as if one of our titanic powers the turning of a man's whole block of States. Never have we had been extinguished. "I have powers, from his earliest days, bad a politician who, with such seen," wrote John Morley, after into public channels, Born to an appearance of effortless ease, his latest visit to the United wealth and ease, with a physical drew after him great masses and States, "I have seen Niagara, and handicapito overcome at the bemoalled them to his will. I bave seen President Roosevelt."Ining, Theodore Roosevelt grip- Being 3 highly skilled Upon that old and cool foreign ped his body by the sheer force politician of the first rank, Mr. observer, too, the impression was of will, made of himself a miracle Roosevelt knew the value of made of having been in contact of ebullient health, poured his moral forces. He made use of with elemental energy. Dynamic sympathies and activities, over them again and agaiu, in his to the end, the fact that its swift the whole range of the social and public career, with wonderful extinction was unforeshadowed political life about him, and success. There may have been) to his fellow-countrymen will became to all the younger of his a certain exaggeration, but there make their sense of shock and generation the very type of im-was also an undoubted truth. loss the keener.

petuons youth "flinging itself into in the assertion that he did man of his In using the worn phrase about the service of the state. The more than any death extinguishing envy we memory of him will long, we all time to arouse the conscience of often forget the other part of hope, exert its fascination and its the American nation. Nice dis- Bacon's dictum, namely, that compelling appeal upon generous tinctions in all this matter must death "openeth the gate to good and ardent sans of the repablic.be left to the bistorian; but we fame." Extinctus amabitur lem. Mr. Roosevelt had a genius for are confident that he will find in And in the tributes to Mr. politics that manifested itself in the Thedodore Roosevelt of 1900- Roosevelt, those who opposed him many ways. He had an extraor-1908 a flaming fire. Its blaze politically will vie with his sup-dinary ability to sense public was not always wisely directed; porters in dwelling with pride opinion in the United States. but, on the whole, it did barn upon the flashing and brilliant This was partly inborn, we fiercely against materialism' in features of his career, and in suppose, but more acquired. He our public life, against sordid exslting his

title to knew all sections of the country contentment with the things that enduring remembrance. He was such a gallant figure! The gift of inspiring enthusiasm and per- sonal devotion was his in amaz- ing measure. In 1912 one whe was known generally as an un-

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perish in the using, and against the crass and foolinh belief that popular grier. ances, in which there was an element of justice, could safely be left unredressed, To put the matter concretely, President: Roosevelt's ordering of the suit of dissolution against the North- ern Securities Company was, at the moment, made the subject of | bitter reproaches. But five years had not passed before the opinion became general that his decision

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away a part of the exhilaration! of life. We feel that we ne'er shall look upon his like again. There will be. few outbursts of assionate grief over the sudden death of Mr. Roosevelt, but men will go about the streets se if subdued and solemnised by an añannounced eclipse of the sun.

GENERAL NEWS.

SOLDIERS', SILVER BULLETS, Some wonderful records of thrift have been set up by the fighting men since the introduc- tion of War Savings Certificates. The Army and the R.A.F. have contributed two and a half million

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and War Bonds. The record so far is held by the lans of Court O.T.C. This aait formed ita Savings Association on December 3 last year. and has already rais ed £76,000. The cadet battalion of the Household Brigade has contributed £31,000 since Feb- ruary of this year, and the Aero- nautical Inspection Department

of the R.A.F., with a Savings Association numbering 786 mem-

bers, and only founded in Sep- tember, 1917, had mised $34, 597 ap to November last. There tre few units in the British Army nowadays which do not boast of a Savings Association. Any unit which raised £2,000 (the cost of an aeroplane) could have its name painted on one of our new flying machines. As a result of this sebeme 250 new aeroplanes were given the names of various unita, At the top of the aeroplane list comes a Volunteer regiment. The 4th V.B. Alexandra Princess of Wales' Own Yorkshire Regimemst haa five aeroplanes bearing ita name The Royal Maciszem, Chatham, have four.

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