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France to see the work cone ly Along what were for any im- the British Comittee of the pressive length of time, artillery Freach Red Cross for the re-lines the soldier will find a good fugees who have returned to many guppits almost intact. and

their ruined towns villages :-

and

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

PASSENGERS DEPARTED.

Pers.s. DUNERA, on 15th Jan.. 1920

from Hongkong:-Mrs E Wood, Mr J Cochrane, Mr Z Peer- bhoy, Mr AL Farwell, Mr & Mrs BG Stone, Mrs CH Eaton. Mrs EM Gilmer, Mrs F Heaney, Miss H Raad, Mr & Mrs WC Ritter.

FRIDAY. JANUARY 16. 1920.

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DAIRY FARM NEWS.

Mrs C West Miss Willard, Mr OUR BUTCHERY DEPARTMENT

Mrs RA Woods, Mr S A Wadood. Mr A A Tycb Khan, Mr W Moore, Mr K Teyaballi, Mr. S W Crom- bell, Capt. V Curle, Miss T Lawn, Miss Pain, Mr J Desormes, Mr J Conrad, Miss EE Jackson, Miss AD Asklot, Mr & Mrs J A Macaulay, Rev. & Mrs K A Garrison, Miss R Garrison, Miss! TE Wright, Miss F Seely, Mr & Mrs WP Hemmens, Mrs CP Bruere, Miss L E Ruppel, Miss M Newton. Mr NG Itch, Mrs Bunja, Dr. W 15 Ashe. Mr Rowe Senator,J H Ross, Miss B Ross, Mrs H Flegg, Mr W Scott, Mr C M Barding, Mr AG Hill, Miss T Lytton. Mr Meeme, Mr Geerling. Capt. & Mrs F Gray, Mr H I Smith, Miss C Cross. Miss M Drummer. Mr AR Kappuswang, Mr R C Nathani, Mr & Mrs LP Dame Miss E Power, "Miss C King, Miss G Smith, Miss A Harrod. Mr NP Vyas.

Per s.s. SHINYO MARU, on 15th Jan., 1920 from Hongkong- THE BATTLEFIELD TO-DAY. ingenuity or handiness possessed Ascher Mrs C. Berry Miss KF. by the constructo s of the "tam-Baguall Mr J. Brooks Mr F M. WHAT FRENCH REFUGEES boos" by their sides are very Blackett Mr W L. Boada Mr P ARE RETURNING TO. empty and sh ge-purposed: ther Bernard Mr DG M. Claye Mrs G

are no longer in process of con-

A. Clarkson Miss F, Denham Mr The following is the first of two stant renewal, and run straight & Mrs T E, Denton Mr & Mrs & articles if a special correspondent through the traze of ruin as if E. Dening Mrs 2 H. Eakin Res. of the Munster therein, who they themselves La mever seem- & Mrs PA. Foster Miss M. Fro has recently toured the warfed as weery and broken as the Mr E. Gillan Rev. & Mrs S M. devastated

Northern Belds to right and left.

Hanford Mr W G. Hunkencier Mr & Mrs W B. Johnston Mr W M. Kueck Mr & Mrs F II. Ke- cham Mr L. Marvin Mies C. Marx Mr & Mrs H D. Mander Mr R. Meyer Mr & Mrs A. W, Meyer Jnr Mr A. W. Madar "ME A R. Maki Mr C. Mantart Cul & Mrs, Sicholson Mr R.Niiyama Me T. Pitzipios Mr & M G D. Parson Mr A. Perez M2 J M. Protezen Mr M. Rosario Mr D. Regensburg Mr & Mrs J F B. Steele Mr & Mrs C A, Staley Miss KP, Studley Mrs E E Smith Mr & Mrs W, Singh Lt. D. Todd Miss J. Thornley Mr P W. Thompson Mrs M. Ulmer Mrs"3. Ulmer Miss R. Vettewinkel MP JP K, Vettewinkel M- X, Wal- sen Mr van, Waveren Mr & Mrs HN van, Wolf Capt. & Mrs B. Adolfo Mr A. Clinton MrB. Daza Mr E. Driver Mr C M. Hicaro Mr GA, Urquhart Mr D.

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behind and between them may be seen the excavated sites of little Vague speculation as to what battery dug-outs e dua. Many would be done with the devastat artillery positions are still as if ed area when the war finished the batteries had gone forward has often promoted serviceable the other day, taking with them conversation between soldiers their sheets of corrugated iron, during a pause in their work off but leaving an occasional aiming destruction, and with many of post, with its lamp stand, planted amatematically in the rear of a conviction of some pride that pit. Some of the pits retain their the state of their particular camouflage, its green wearier than Sectors would

Both ever by long exposure to the battle human industry and whatever weather, and their rougis im scientific skill might be evolved provised fusing shelves, but the for the work of vunstruction.gun planks have invariably gone To-day it looks almost as if there with the guns. A great mileage may still be good reason for their of trench has been lled in. conviction. A soldier revisiting igzag line of whitish soil is left long to mark the course of the old the battlefields after

a white maze absence from: France and Belgium front line and will notice much less change represents the support trenches. than he might have supposetilin some places, notably in Bassee. little would take place in the erval. } front

bas nothing The task of bringing some surt or

beer. yet

of order intu The MUS!

ex-cune, and tourists may scramble tensive scrap-heap

the from shell hole to sheli-pool of world, carried on more or less the No Man's Land, reconstruct

for over a year, ang its sombre history at their unremattugly mas yielded so far. at any rate, leisure, and with no more formid- resuns which are in no way re-

able risk than that of catching markable. From the Ypres their overcoats in the barbed Bailleul road. from liell Firewire which springs out of the Corner, from the La Basser-Lens chalky soil as if it were ground road, or from the Arras-Loua creeper nourishing in a wind. rund, and deed, from an inimte Un each side of mast main roads, nuber of view-points taken at sometimes stretching continuous- hazard along any of the mainly for many miles, are piles of the roads which bave

atues in war history, one might tance to cushy imagine tha, the armies

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jeon! their lines.

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The N. Y. K. s.s. ATSUTA M. (European Line.) left London for this port via the Suez Canal on the 13th Dec., and is expected here on the 19th Jan.

JUST WHAT HER BABY NEEDED.

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Anxious mothers everywhere

one another what to do when their little ones are ailing it is for Mrs. Louis Ramsay, of Litchfield, the benefit of such mothers that

Illinois, Th China Mail Steamship:

U.S.A., permits the Co.'s s.s. CHINA sailed from publication of the following letter. San Francisco on Saturday Dec. She says:--

"My baby caught cold in her 27th and may be expected to arrive in Hon kong on or about stomach and bowels, causing irritation. After the first dose of January 24th.

The Ben Line 8.5. BENARTY Baby's Own Tablets hur bowels, from London, lef Singapore, for became more regular and the this port on 11th instant, and may movements more natural. I have be expected to arrive here on or found the Tablets just what the baby needed and cannot say too about 18th Jan.

The P. & O... MUTTRA left much in favour of them as a Singapore for this Port on the medicine for the little ones." 11th instant at a.m. and is due No home where there are babies here on the 21st instant.

or young children should be with- The N. Y. K. .8. SHIMO M. out Baby's Own Tablets, the (Calcutta Line.) left Calcutta for Canadian children's remedy. this port via Rangoon and Singa- These Tablets are guaranteed free pore, on the 9th Jan, and is from opiates, narcotics or other expected here on the 30th Jan. injurious drugs, and are perfectly The ss. MOORISH PRINCE harmless even to the youngest is expected here from New York infant. They are recommended in cases of simple fever, indiges-

Important barbed wire, seeming in the dis-screen in the world was built ex-

be dark ledgerows. Various defensive devices not of the natural order have outlasted the survey of the salvage corps.

As a service to mountaineers a the surface debris of battle has, lhe deeper kind of dug-outs, of course, been almost entirely the affair of twenty wooden steps wealthy resident of Pomona, Cal. and a chamber fitted who himself is an enthusiastic Steel helmets and or more

such climber, has launched a campaign water-bottles, the fragments off with wire beds, is "one men's clothes and agcoutrements survival, though in many cases to place a heary weatherproof Lave been removed from the view the removal of revetting from the metal box with a ledger and of the tourist. Bombs and hand-walls bas caused a good deal of pencils on the summit of every grenades and unexploded shells internal disrepair and makes high peak in California. and unused cartridges are gather them less inviting than ever and ed orderly into the big dumps rather dangerous to explore. which themselves cover a con. But all the changes of detail serable area. There is left by which have been made do not Indians, driving in C.S. waggons, the roadsides an occasional shell, amount to as much as would affect are to be met with frequently as a rule well rusted and some a true impression of the scale on enough, their frozen attitude of a times unfused, evidently but lately which destruction took place. piece with their circumstance. recovered from the sun; in all Noise--one of the chief persons | Army traction engines may now probably by a French cutiru-in the scene of war-has gone, and then be discovered by tour- Nothing ready portable and with it much of the horrorists, their drivers trying with Bas been left along the main goes from the picture soldiers magnificent optimism 10 cross -Luurist Fouted, Few, if any, o keep in their minds of Flanders, bridges which are manifestly too Le objects which may now be but it has given place to a vast, narrow, and one would have said too slightly constructed also, to Iound, meet the requirements of uneasy silence which scems to

them passage, and souvenir hunter. The absence accentuate the sense of utter give

in creating of the old surface nieris one desolation. The wind blowing suceceding

block of trafic Change which the tourists will through the reeds, and rushes of hule scarcely at all and the what seems dead, illimitable land mentary illusion of war. Small peusoned soldier not much more. deepens and intensifies the un-working parties of the Chinese The latter will ineline rather at pleasant stillness of the region, plod through the mud on the way "urst to stare down the straight, and the melancholy flapping of a from a clearing to that hutmente. Logical French roads and iniss the shred of bark against the withered There is an occasional French luziver animation and $112 of trunk of a tree is one sound motor-lorry loaded with ratione on or about 26th instant.

rusted tin, and there The N. Y. K. s.s. PENANG M. tion, constipation, colic, diar- Luto. He will note the dimin-typical of a hundred others which or

are stil a large number of Ger. (European Line.) left Shanghai rhoes, beadache; they make ished intensity of the traffic, the make poor company for the comparatively tuin nim of mud traveller who has ventured away men prisoners engaged by the for this port on the 14th Jan., teething easy, quickly relieve

Where French in the work of restora- and is expected here on the 18th colds, expel worms, uver the reconstituted pace, and, from the main roads..

the January.

peaceful health-giving sleep. In the more temperate zones well-remembered places seem un-tion.

The R. M. S. EMPRESS OF

Of chemists everywhere; also wherein trenches were nevor familiar to the soldier, he will British and American tourists used, mark the disappearance of most likely find that the unaccus-who pass quickly from towns like ASIA arrived at Shanghai on post free, 50 cents the vial, from the dreary waggon lines, with tomed stillness, making audible Arras, which have hotels, to other 12th Jan, left there 14th Jen., the Dr. Williama' Medicine Co their double rows of dejected hitherto unnoticed sounds, is the towcs like Lille, which have even and is due at Manila on 17th 96 Szechuen Road, Shanghai.

better hotels. But neither they Jan., at daylight, due Hongkong nor the civilian men and women 19th Jan., 8am. who are trying to make bomes among the ruins of villages and towns have yet the power to put a human look on surroundings which seem to be of a planet truck forcely and for ever into sterility.

"horses, standing limply in the main arick in the disguise.

ist and rain, the nutments Khaki has been wiped almost sad "camboos," and remember clean out of the scenes it used to Much of the traffic how each - tamboo" Beened dominate. to project its own peculiar at seems rather like a feeble parody mosphere on to the

road; of war traffic, but our men have roads which

their but a small part anywhere over character from the degree of the old battlefields. Turbaned

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The Pacific Mail 8.8. Co. is in may be expected at this port on receipt of ", telegraphic advice for about Saturday, January 24th.

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