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WOOD PRESERVATIVE & WHITE ANT DESTROYER

Treated wit

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Not Treated with

Diphenso

Obtainable in various shades

from

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Attention:

Sole Agents.

SHIPS' OFFICERS

HONGKONG-SHANGHAI LINE

A Few Facta Worth Noting:

(1) The duty on tobuccos at Shanghai having been raised 50%,

the prices will be increased accordingly.

(2) We have a bonded warehouse and a licensed motor boat and can thus supply tobaccos to ships direct from godown, free of Hongkong Duty,

(3) We have always been popular for our variety of tobaccos, and

our low prices will continue in force.

THEREFORE-

OBTAIN YOUR CIGARS, CIGARETTES AND TOBACCOS FROM:-

TABAQUERIA FILIPINA Hongkong Branch.

Remember, 50% Dearer in Shanghai.

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NOW

IS THE

TIME FOR

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WRECK OF MISSIONS

IN INTERIOR.

GROWING ACCOUNT OF DAMAGE BY SOLDIERS.

CHENGCHOW TO HAICHOW.

WEDNESDAY,

SHANGHAT'S ALLEY-

WAYS.

CLEANSING' 61 MILES OF THEM.

A special campaign against in- sanitary conditions in the Shang- hai International Settlement was begun recently by the Sanitation Taingtao, July 30.

Division, especially with regard to By travellers, letters and now the cleansing of alleyways, vacant and then a telegram that manages land and the banks of creeks, the in some way to get through, we clearing of blocked drains, and the are learning of the steady demoli-Alling in of low-lying ground. tion of mission property through-For this purpose four extra Foreign Sanitary Overseers were out the interior.

engaged and forty coolies.

Two weeks ago a missionary from Kuelteltu, in Honan about half way between Hsuchowfu and Kaifeng, received a wire saying: "Feng Yu-halang's soldiers have borrowed and used your things." Chinese who have succeeded in getting here after long delays re- port the looting of missions all the way from Chengchow in Honan to Haichow at the extreme end of the | Lunghai Rallway.

There are nearly sixty miles of public alleyways and about one hundred miles of private alley ways in the Settlement, and the task of keeping those in a clean and sanitary condition, is a diffi- cult one, and depends on the amount of available labour and supervision.

AUGUST 10, 1927.

OUR CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

OUR DAILY TALK ON HEALTH.

THE MANIFESTATIONS OF GENIUS.

HOW TO EXPAND THEM.

Persons who achieve eminence in life are distinguished in child- hood, ordinarily, by behaviour that indicates an unusually high in- telligence. This conclusion was reached by the psychologists of Stanford University who analyzed the records of 300 eminent men the key to success. and women in an attempt to find

Voltaire wrote verses "from his

cradle." The author Coleridge could read a chapter from the Bible at the age of three years. Mozart composed a minuet at the age of five. Goethe, at the age of eight, produced literary work Particular attention was given, better than that of most adults. says an official report, to the sur-ords of these geniuses brings rec- A study of the Individual rec- roundings of military camps with the gratifying result that no com-tounding. Oliver Cromwell many more records that are The Damage at Hsuchowfu.

plaints of insanitary conditions tered Cambridge at seventeen. Another telegram just received were received from the military Ulysses S. Grant had a passion for

atates that "the houses outside the

city at Hauchowfu were looted on Monday of this week. This re fers to the Presbyterian Mission (South). It had been known for some weeks that the older pro- perties of this mission, grouped inside the West Gate of Hsuchowfu

authorities.

Numerous prosecutions, were undertaken for dumping house refuse, and for insanitary condi- tons of laundries and tailors' shops.

had been looted and occupied by RABIES IN SHANGHAI. soldiers, and it had been hoped that those houses outside had been far enough away to escape. But this hope was vain.

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The residences thus looted were

HOW THEY DEAL WITH DOGS.

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Across.

A hybrid. Long beams.

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Prevents evasion of a toll.

More austere.

horses when a boy, riding about alone at eight years of age. Be- fore he was ten years old he drove forty miles from Georgetown to 6 Cincinnati and brought back a 12 load of passengers on the return 13 trip. At the age of eight, Gári-14 baldi saved a woman from drown- 15 ing and at twelve, he saved se- 18 Longs, veral boys whose boat had 21 Animal vetch. capsized.

22 Through.

A non-caller. Trial.

Outer coverings.

Manifcat.

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William Harvey, who discovered 24 Plans. the circulation of the blood, en-25 Roman household deities. tered Cambridge at sixteen and 27 Plug.

28 Descendant of Shem. received his B.A. degree at nine- 29 Peevish those of the Revs. Frank Brown, Strollers along what little of teen years of age. The musician 31 Krecka sonseless. Locke White and E. II. Hamilton. the Bund foreshore now is, left to Haydn beat time for music at the 34 Thing The telegram did not state who the enjoyment of foreigners will, nge of six, sang several masses at 35 Trap. were the guilty parties, nor was it says the N. C. Daily News, have the same age, and between the 38 Extent from end to end. stated how much the buildings noticed that the Police during the

last few evenings have been parti- ages of six and eight learned in 40 themselves suffered.

cularly active in running down one lesson to play well on the ket 41 Edible. A letter received from a Chinese dogs without muzzles, even mild tledrum. Balzac composed juve 42 Tarnished. friend states that the Presbyterian little darlings whose doting mis-nile comedies before he was eight 43 Dried seaweed.

44 Having the nature of a plant. and was passionately devoted to 46 Passages for smoke. Church (North) at Yihsien intresses fondly believe them to be mature reading while still a school 46 Counts of Itinerant justices. southern Shantung was burned Pekes or Japanese spaniels,

boy. and also the residence of the Rev. In this connexion an S.M.C.

Down, C. H. Yerkes. As Mr. Yerkes' re-advertisement appeared in the sidence was one of a group in a paper, stating that dogs found

The accounts of the early years large compound, with schools and without muzzles, whether led or of these great men are full of ex- hospital adjacent, and as the at large, within the limits of the amples of extraordinary mentality. church was several hundred yards Settlement or en outlying roads, In their reported interests, in distant from this compound, we will be seized by the Police and their school standing and

pro- wait the news of the remainder detained at the kennels for a gress, and in their, early produc- with little hope that any escaped period of one week or longer as tion and achievement, these chil the loot.

circumstances may direct and.dren were in general phenomenal. their owners, when identified, will Their achievements were definite. be prosecuted. Unmuzzled dogs Preshadowed in their early be found nt large; and which cannot haviour. be seized are liable to be shot. This measure has become neces- ary owing to the incidence of rabies.

Toll of Ruin at Haichow. The last letter received from Halchow saya: "The residences of Messrs. Grafton, Morgan, Vin-

son and Rice are & pitiful sight. All contents, and besides doors windows, floors and even ceilings are gone." Of this latter loot from various news pieced together A WATERSPOUT NEAR

it is evident that all parties had

a hand in it. The houses were

I

SHANGHAI.

AWESOME SPECTACLE WIT-

Early Mentality.

their study, the California investi- As a result of this portion of gators are convinced that we are probably warranted in expecting superior adult achievement when- ever the intelligence quotient of the child is well above the aver- age, but that we may not be war- ranted in expecting a world genius first billeted by Sun Chuan-fang's

even if a very high intelligence is retreating men, but not more than

found, for there are other factors occupied before they were driven NESSED FROM THE WHARVES. besides an essential degree of in- involved in achieving greatness out by the Southerners who added marely to the damage, but the A sight unusual in Shanghai tellectual capacity. Tests-of-in- faithful "ao bei hsing" our neigh- | was. witnessed 011 Wednesday telligence do not measure the bours and Triends" were the ones afternoon-namely a grent water spontaneity of intellectual activity who did the job up brown.

spout, which appeared to be some- nor differentiate between great where off the Pootung littoral ability and unique ability." The The tragedy of flalchow was one party witnessing the pheno-tests do show that the extra- lightened by an incident that the

menon happened to be at one of ordinary genius who achieve the populace devoutly recognized as

the eastern wharves at the time-highest eminence is also the gifted "the vengeance of heaven" Two about 3.30 pm and what they individual whom intelligence tests families who had been extraordin saw was a huge mass of exceed- may discover in childhood. arily diligent in looting the ingly black cloud over in the foreign houses and had accumu- direction of Pootung. About the

For the first time in the history lated much more than less enter centre of this was the waterspout, of the race for the blue riband of prising neighbours, were burned also densely black, taking some the air world, the Royal Air Force out, accidentally, losing all their thing of the shape of a night-cap are sending out officially a team of loot, their original goods and their with the narrow end in the sea. flying men and machines to at- homes as well. Perhaps some The great bulk of water swayed kind sympathizer with the victims about, as it apparently made its tempt to wrest the Schneider of foreign imperialism will start way in the direction of Shanghai: Trophy from Italy in September. relief fund on their behalf. After it had been observed for Hitherto it has been left to pri N. C. Daily News..

about five minutes, the spout British prestige the Air Ministry vate enterprise, but to uphold gradually lifted and was drawn has decided to provide both men into the bank of cloud.

and machines. It is prob- A meeting of the Sanitary How far distant the spout was Board was held yesterday after- from Shanghai could not be ascer-able that at least six noon of which the business was of tained with any accuracy, nor a formal nature. Those present could the height of the cloud be included Mr. N. L. Smith (chair-ascertained. man), Dr. G. W. Pope (Medical Officer of Health). Hon, Mr. H. T. Jackman, Dr. S. W. Tso, Dr. S. C. Ho, Mr. Wong Kwong-tin, and Mr. D. Davies (Secretary of the Board).

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

:

sea-

planes, capable of speeds of between four and five miles a minute, will be sent to Venice. Squadron-Leader L. H. Slatter will lead the team, the other off- cers being Flying Officer 0. E. Lady Drummond-Hay, British Worsley, Flight-Lieutenant S. M. journalist of note who has been Kinkhead, Flying Officer S. N. visiting various cities and towns Webster, and Flying Officer H. M. upriver, has returned to Shanghai,' Schofield.

The Nerve of Some People!

I BET THERE |AINT ANY KIDS IN

TAIS WHOLE WORLD.

WHO HAS A

BETTER LOT"

YO PLAY BALL

JA!

I SHOULD SAY NOT GSE-WE CERTAIN'Y GOT

A PEACHY PLACE,

HAVENT WE!

WHAT'S OSSIE HOLLERIN' SO'

FOR?

AW, LE WANTS

TO BORROW MY KETCHER'S GLOVE.

I S'POSE.

WHAT!

2 Mathine for cutting grain, 8 Robs.

4 Separates.

5 SlumberET.

8 Vertical faces of steps.

Young.

Empty talker.

9

11

Feed the cattle of others.

Squeeze.

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MASSAGE HALL

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HISTORIC HILL GO.

London, July 19. "For sale, Hill 60, the only intact portion of the Ypres sector, with pillboxes and dug-outs," reads an advertisement in The Times.

It is understood that the owner is a British officer, living in Kent, and that he bought the hill from the Belgians immediately after the

war. He has since been selling; lots for memoriala,

The site advertised consists of 16,000 square metres (about 3% acres), which the agent values at from £3,000 to $1,000.

YESSİR I SAW

IT MYSELF NO MORE PLAYIN'

BASE BALL TUERE!

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17 Jumping.

19 Increase.

20 Delicious drinks.

22 Shaver.

23 Roposes.

25

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30 Legislative bodies.

31 Cut.

32 Large letter (Greck.).

38 Said of a bowsprit (Naut.).

85 In a cold manner.

36 Coppery.

37 Refined air.

39 Hell.

40' Sca-weeds.

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