What is LOTOL?
LOTOL is The New Germicide Disinfectant and Liquid Insect Vermin Destroyer.
Spray LOTOL
Means sudden Death to
Freely
Mosquitoes, Fites, Bugs, Fleas, Moths, Ants, Cockroaches, Bilwarfish, and every kind of insect pest.
For use in The Household, Hotels, Hospitals, Theatro, Ships, Publis Conveyances, Stables, etc,
LOTOL in karmiesa o clothes or other fabrjes LOTOL evaporates and leaves no stain.
LOTUL will not injure painted, polished or metal surfaces. ITOL d not leave any stuins on while or wall papst, and com
pletely disappears in about 35 koure, as a tomperaturs of 70 degrees F.
LOTOL Half in non inflammable but wood and fabrics auto
with it burn more readily. LOTOL Ave not contain any compounds oi Arsenic, Strych:ne Cyanide, Mercury; and thengh harmless to Man ben need no directed, it is labelled “ poisonous" to omform with the Poisons Act,
LOTUI, is made in Australia.
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SILIMPOPON COAL
FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1923.
AS THE CROW FLIES.
Polar Journeys By Aeroplane.
ATTACK BY ANTS.
Myriads Storm a House.
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Regular Freight and Passenger Service for Bangkok, Hongkong, and return.
M.S. BINTANG"
(2779 tone)
Expected on or about
2nd. August
18h. August
S. S. "BANKA “ (1648 tons)
Will leave for Bangkok,
7b. August.
25 B. Angust.
"Subject to change without notice,
For further particulars please apply to
Polar exploration has not yet lost its romance. Captain Amundsen won his plaea in the kingdom of the great adventurers when he made his pounce on the South Pole. Ho is now embark- THE undersigned are prepared
By the courtesy of the Secretary to quote pricos for beating on an equally sensational quality freshly mined Silimpopon exploit, a non-stop light of 2,000 of the Society the Daily News Coal, trimmed into Bunkers at miles in a beeline from Alaska to quotes the following description i Sebattik or Sandakan (British Spitzbergen, with the North Pole of the horrors of an ant raid in North Borneo), and to contract midway. Even now, with Con.Tanganyika territory,
Mr. Loveridge, the writer of tho for regular Supplies of cargotinental air expresses running lota at favouranje rates,
dail, the project savoure of the letter, has a house near Kilosa, Stexavere calling at Sebaitik fantastic, for though man has and on July 3 he discovered that Sandakan exclusively or conquered the air, his ioingin-be was being raided by siafu, or Bunkers are exempt from pay-ation lags so far behind his red driven an!s.
These ants are raider, they. ment of ordinary Port Charges. achievement that ho has not
The soldier. The minimum draft of water grasped the meaning of ble con- seek their proy by scent, as they A onside the Company's Wharf quest. Let us seek to realise, are entirely blind. * Sebattik is 26 feet at low water then, that Captain Amundsen is of the species is distinguished by Spring des, Charts of Cowie busy with no mere stunt," but its enormous square head and Bay (Souaitik Harbour) and any aims at the supremo paradoxical powerful jaws.
"At 8 am," writes Mr. Love. required information canoorning success of pioneer work, the con-ridge, we were being invaded by the Pact may be had on
version of the marvellous Into the
siafu, who were ontaring the commonplace. What his flight ultimately implies is a now scale stonework baan of the house at
half a dozen different points. of distances and, in consequence, A new alignment of trade routes, advancing host with one or more "Beetles were flying before the The geography of the future has The Cowie Harbour Coat Co., Ld.already been outlined 'fer us by of the red furies attacked to their hind lege. Wretched crickets and M. Stefansson, who has insisted
small grasshoppers were being. M.S. "JAVA" that the Arctic is good flying
dragged off, feebly waving the country, and that it provides the direct route between Britain and one or two legs that remained to M.S. "APRIKA them. My pot jumpong spiders.5. CHILE" Western Canada. The point is worth verification on a globe. If cleared for their lives with pro-
digious leaps.
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the direct route be traced across the Arctic Circle, the distance between London and Vancouver becomes comparable with the distance between London and New York, and England itself is realised as standing on the outer fringe of the Pacific,
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"Soldier sentries were stationed column, waiting with the forepart at intervals along the lines of the of the body raised and widely. opon jaws for any disturbers."
OREMATED IN HEAPS: Mr. Loveridge swept back the columns in heaps, cremated them with paraffin, put paper soaked. with prassic acid in their bole, and believed that he had stopped the raid.
To turn this revolutionary conception iuto hard strategic and commercial fact, that is wanted is a man and machine. The man has appeared; hie machine has, indead But at 9 p.m. that evening he been specially built and equipped became conscious of a strange and is not likely to be standardis. noise. The white washed walls ed, but the standard machine is of his bedroom were a moving on its way. Engineering thought mass of ants; the sound was made bas shifted of late from the engine by the feet of the countless to the hull, and experiments with multitudo.
The raid continued the next gliders have begun to reveal the capacities of the aeroplane apart day, and at 8 p.m. a stream of from its motor. Now the engineersants, six or eight ants wide, wAR bave gone back with their new sten going straight up the ver
knowledge to the engine, and are ovolving a type of aeroplano in which the bull and motor work STRAIT COLOMBO, AUSTRA-together. As is always the case when there is real progress every. LIA, BOMBAY, EGYPT,
thing dovelails in, and it is not an MEDITERRANEAN PORTS accident that 'Amundsen's final preparation coincide with the Ruccessful trial of the Wran.-| Observer.
WHAT TO DO WHEN BABY
& LONDON.
Through Bills of Lading isened for Batavia, Persian Gulf, Can- tental, American and South African Porte.
THE Steamer "SOUDAN
Captain R.M.R. Collyer, R.D., R.N.R., carrying His Majesty's Mails will be despatched from this port on or about TUESDAY, 7th August, 1923, at NOON, taking Passengers and Cargo for the above Port,
Silk and Valuable Cargo for Italy, France and London (under arrangement) will be conveyed by this Steamer proceeding to Boabay and there transhipped to the on-carrying Steamer for Marseilles and London.
Parcels will be received at the Office until 5 p.m. the day before sailing. The contents and value of all packages aro required. For further particulars, apply
to
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE
& CO., Agente. Hongkong. Zud. August,
You take no when risk you bay A MOUTRIE PIANO.
Guaranteed for seven years,
CANNOT SLEEP,
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andah wall beneath the roof.
In spite of his placing the legs of his bedstead in pans "of water, the ante reached him. They threw a bridge composed of living anls aerose the waterpans, over which the infantry columns crossed.
CROCODILES ATTACKED.
The invaders attacked the pet crocodiles, the tortoises and kill- ed a nest of young rats. It made me shudder," says the writer, "to think of the awtul death scores of small creatures were dying." He himself was driven from the house by ants swarming up his legs.
The baby that cries half the night does not cry for fun. I cries because it is, not well. Al The soft-shelled land tortoises most all infantile ailments, "10-suffered badly oce having its cluding the pains of teething, ariso eyelids esten.
JOHN MANNERS & 00., LTD:
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COPENHAGEN.
The M. S. BOLIVIA"
will be loading for Rotterdam, "Amsterdam, Hamburg, optional, London, Conenhagen and other, Scandinavian ports, about .8.h- August; 1923.-
Expected on or Will leave homewardbound
about.
or about."
Further Sailings —; (
18th. August
10th. September 10th. October
On
25th September 15ti.. October 13th. November
Subject to change without notice.
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7.00 am.
TIME-TABLE
(From iet June, 1923.)
7.00 s.m.
11.15
Sundays.
7.10 a.01.
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in the first place from stomach Hot ashes, cyanido" powder, and bowel troubles. To induce meat baits, and fire were employ- sleep in a natural way, therefore, ed against the horde, but on July 9.30 am. all that is necessary is to set these 7 the besieged were horrified to 11.30 troubles right, for which purpose ace ants arriving in countless Baby's Own Tablets, the Canadian thousands in every direction from children's remedy, have bien cast and south. Thirty steady specially devised.
streams were moving on the house. Grass was fired in their tracks, and they wore driven under- ground.
The first effect of the Tablets is to act gently and kindly on the bowels. Then they soothe the stomach, allay teething paine, and promote calm natural sleep, the baby waking up thoroughly rested and ready for its meal..
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8.50 p.m
7.04
7.13
*
Non-stop. 11.15
By 10 p.m. the raid was over. Not a single siafu was found in the house, though they could be heard in the dry grass 30ft. away. Baby's Own Tablets are guar-
"The discipling and organiza- anteed to contain not the minutesttion of the army,"
Bays trace of any opiate, narotic, or Loveridge, "were beyond re- other harmful drug. They are proach." equally harmless and helpful to
1923, the youngest infant as to the child
MOUTRIE'S, Chator Road.
of 6 or 8 years, and are a praved remedy for infantile constipation,
SARCASM.
A young man was walking past
colic, diarrhoea, simple fever, colds a row of maisonettes in process of and worms. Chemists sell Baby's construction. A workman on the "Want one of Own Tablets or post free at 60' roof called out:
"No thanks,” cente the vial from Dr Williams, these, mister?"
'I don't Medicine Co., 60 Kiangse Road, said the young man; Shanghai.
keep rabbits.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
HERE COMES WILJE NOW - NE” THINKS HES SO SMART-LE'S ASU WIM SOMETHIN'
HE CANT ANSVER
FOR ONCE
SAY, IF VER S' SMART MERSE YOU'D TELL US
HULT TH* CAPITAL OF
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8.03
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" Stopping,
12.00, Midnight. Night Cars:
9.00 p.m.
Weekdays and Sundays.
9.20 p.m 9.30 ta 11.00 p.m every 30 min 15 min Stopping. Special Care.
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BY ARRANGEMENT. AT THE COMPANY'S OFFICE, Alexandre Buildings.
Hongkong, 1st June, 1923.
BY BLOSSER
WHY, WASHINGTON
DC. OF COURSE
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