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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1926.
BATTLE' OF LE CATEAU RECALLED.
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Picture shows the unveiling by General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien of the Cenotaph erect- ed to 209 officers and men of the Suffolk and Manchester Regiments, the Argyll and Suther- land Highlandera, and the Royal Artillery, who fell at Le Cateau in stemming the German advance in 1914.
CEBU CEMENT CO.
ACCOUNTS SHOW BIG *LOSSES.
of
OUR MOSQUITOES,
(Continued from Pégo 1).
ns 1 have been able to find but little data regarding them. Specimens have recently been obtained from the neighbourhood of Kowloon City and Cheung Sha Wan
NEW PACIFIC SERVICE.
ELIMINATING SHANGHAI AND
JAPAN?
San Francisco, June 30.—It is
direct
'Notwithstanding reports oficials of the Cebu Portland Cement Company that the firm has
learned that great pressure Is been operating at a profit in 1925
being brought to bear on the and in 1926, an audit for 1925 by The Megharinus splendens is an the insular auditor shows a net loss interesting mosquito; it typically officials of the Dollar Steamship of Pesos 81,730.11, according to a inhabits jungle, it is not a blood- Company to establish a report made public at the Bureau of sucker, and its larvae, which, exist freight and passenger service Audits. Alberto Barretto, presid-for many weeks in that stage, readi-
between San Francisco, Manila ent of the company, has been sub-ly feed on the larvae of other mos- mitting monthly reports showing quitoes. Unfortunately they are and Hongkong. an increasing profit. The Govern-rare in this Colony, The larvae of the the Lutzia vorax also prey on other ment's total investment in
mosquito larvae. plant to date is Pesos 2,760,200.
to the five. Admiral The rocky pools around our coast, Oriental, ships recently purchased close to the edge of the sea, are not from the Government, which is What amounts to Government or always free from the larvae of mos expected to follow the arrival of public gain in the operation of the quitoes; I have found Aedes togol Captain. Robert Dollar in Manila cement plant at Cebu, however, it breeding in large numbers in such about. August 1. Captain Dollar was explained, is the saving of one pools near "Big Wave Bay," in is in Japan and plans to make “à peso a barrel consumed here as a water more saline, through evapora enreful.inspection of business con- result of the competition offered by tion, than ordinary sea-water; no ditions in all ports touched by the local firm to foreign cement doubt they occur in similar situa-Dollar liners. firms. Withoit the Cebu Portland tions elsewhere in the Colony.
WINS LOWER PRICES.
Cement Company, foreign cement
YELLOW FEVER CARRIER.
Interest centres in an announce. ment by the Dollar Line with re-
ference
NEW PLAN NEEDED.
houses in Manila would have suc I am informed that when the It is pointed out that shipping ceeded in maintaining the cost of Panama Canal was about to be in the Pacific never has been satia- cement at one peso more a barrel opened, and a large amount of sea factory from the standpoint of the
NEW EARTHQUAKE,
Over 400 Casualties.
London, July 5.
A message from Padang, Sumatra, says that a new heavy earthquake shock has occurred at: Fort de Kock, Several buildings were severe- ly damaged.
There was panic everywhere and the total fatalities, so far, have been over 400,-Beater.
A
traffic with the East was expected annual traveller to the Far East by this route, the Indian Governor to the commercial houses who ment were anxious to obtain in- want to deliver orders quickly to formation regarding the distribu- southern ports in the Orient.. tion of the Stegomyia fasciata, the year ago a direct line to Manila yellow-fever carrier. Careful in and South Chini was "virtually vestigations were made in this assured to meet the needs of silk Colony, with the result that this interests in San Francisco and mosquito was found both in Kow. Los Angeles. loon and Hongkong on many occa
It was then planned to have the sions, usually in earthenware kongs ships serve Manila and Hongkong, or other vessels used for the stor-making the fastest possible trip. age of drinking water; however, on the return journey from Hong- it is apparently not common here, kong. Honolulu would be includ- for I have found it only once in led on the way to the Orient but more than a year.
omitted on the way back. Shang- than it is at present, it was pointed With regard to mosquito-borne hai and Japan would be eliminated out. Up to date the Cebu plant has diseases other than malaria which by the ships on the now service," produced a total of about 400,000 occur in the Colony, flariasis is barrels which meant a saving of sometimes met with, and the Culex The Pacific coast is filled with about Pesos 400,000 for the govern fatigans, our commonest mosquito, rumours concerning plans for re- meat and the public that consumed a considered usually to be the in-routing the former Admiral liners, its products.
termediary hoat. The Stegomyla Inquiry among silk manufacturers Last year's total production of fasciata is rightly regarded in many here and in Los Angeles discloses the cement plant was 283,167 bar-countries as the carrier of dengue that they are planning important rels or an increase of 18,186 over fever but seeing that this mos increases in capacity on the ex- that of 1924. The total cost of quito is rare with us, and that pectation that conditions in South cement sold was Pesos 1,583,671.70 dengue is of frequent occurrence, China will improve and they will while the net cement sales amount it seems probable that dengue be able to supplement their ed only to Pesos 1,449,881.21, hones in Hongkong is conveyed by some Japanese silk with supplies from the loss by the company. The loss other species of mosquito, possibly Hongkong.,
MANY RUMOURS AFLOAT.
The launching of the great in 1926, however, was much less by the Culex fatigang; however, than in 1924 when it amounted to further investigation of this pro- Matson liner Malalo in Philadel
blem is necessary. Pesos 380,116.39...
phiá last week, together with the, van bad weste FIGURES ON PRODUCTION,
Dr. Severn says the above obser-plans of Nippon Yusen Kalsha to vations must be considered as a construct several new ships,, 19 Each barrel of cement of the Cebu plant was manufactured, pack-obtained during the past twelve quarters to mean that the entire preliminary report. The results interpreted in many well informed ed, and sold at a total cost of Peso months have been promising, and schedule and routings of Pacife 5,428, according to the auditors the work will be continued. report, while the actual selling price was only Pesos 5,136. The actual manufacture of a barrel of cement cost last your Pesos 2.68 as against Pesos 3,397 i n1924. The net loss on each barrel was Pesos 1:452 which was Pesos 1.167 less than the loss in 1921.
WORLD FLIGHT
PLANNED.
MARQUIS DE PINEDO MAKING ARRANGEMENTS.
AMERICAN WEDDING.
QUIET CEREMONY AT CATHEDRAL.
A quiet wedding, of interest to the American community, was] solemnised at St. John's Cathedral Jon Saturday morning, the contract- ing parties being Miss Marguerite Bernard, of Canton, and Mr. Walter Campbell Gibson, Jr., of the International Banking Cor poration, Canton.
transportation must be revised.
Shipping statistics show that Avo years have wrought an enormous change in the Pacific. Figures are boing cited to show that the southern end of the Oriental trade area can now sup- port its own separate service.
CHINESE POLITICS.
ADMIRAL TSAI'S RESIGNATION.
Peking, July 6. The resignation of Admiral Teal from the Revenue Ting-kan
The bride, who was tastefully Batavia, July 6, The Italian airman, Marquis de attired, was given away by her father, and Mr. R. C..Tredwoll, the Pinedo, has arrive here on a visit, 1.S., Consul-General, was present/Council, and the Chinese. Tarif planning a 00,000 mile world fight, as official witness.
Conference, Delegation, which was starting from Italy, crossing the Atlantic to North America, thencoated.
The Rov. H. Copley Moyle ofici-reported on the 2nd instant, is possibly explafaced by the fact that via the West Indien to South
The happy couply afterwards it la reported on good authority America, across the Pacific to New left for Cheungchau, where the that he will take up the Foreign Zealand, to Java, Singapore, India, honeymoon to being spent.
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