JUESDAY, AUGUST 1):1916.
Hughes & Hough
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THE REAL GERMANY.
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WINTER
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SUBMARINES OF THE
FUTURES
M.P, FORECAST OF GREAT
LINERSA
Sir Joseph Compton-Rickett, M.P. contributes to the Daily News an article which he forecasts the coming of the submarine finer
pay As the ardianese food ticket system provides only for the crdinary consump tion of food at home, there has to ba Incessant communication with the local obulas. In order that people shall be able in ged meals as they axive about.) EXPECTATION OF GOOD HARVEST. For the purposes of the shortest journay is is becessary to obtain a soicnlled Landkarte. or travelling ticket. For [FROM A CURRSSIONDES IN THE TIME."very short periods the travelling tickets Ar provided in addition to the ordinary I have tried to make it clear thas severs food tickets, so that people, who are military defeat and the custing of Chermafestemed to make theques journeys communications with the East can alone always stay at hon. But in the case of are little better of the people wha undermine and destroy the foundations of any considerable journey the rations are German confidence. Esanomic pressure adjusted.. by itself is mikely evar to bring Germany to her knees as long as she retains her present sources of supply. But it would umber of women employed in work ofis doubtful whether we can ever disa
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AUCTIONS.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
BY
Y direction of the Government of
·Hongkong Messrs. Hughes and Hough bave received instructions to THE Undersigned have received izsprucell by Public Auction,
tlose to sell by Public Auction,
(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNEN),
од
FRIDAY,
the 4th August, 1916, commenting at 230 p.m., at their Sales Roonis, No. 8. Des Varix Road, Cerner
of Ice House Street,
A NUMBER or Lots or HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, &c..
Comprising:- Several Carpets and Rags. Sideboards,
CD.
FRIDAY,
the 11th day of August, 1916, at 3 puta. at their Sales Room, Ice House
Street Victoria, Hongkong The following Valuable Leasehold Property situate at Victoria, Hongkong.
viz
resistance.
all kinds
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Discoming food problems in time of war, be writes
to build grecarios in order to store the It has been suggested that we ought produce of our own Dominions. By this means the submarine and the Zeppelin would fail to starve us out. Although a more intensive cultivation of soil would give us bettor results, yet it our own
ponse with an importation equivalent to three-fourths very far, and when the atores came to
ths of our consumption. Those granaries would not carry us an end we should only have deferred the evil day, to find ourselves Face to face with the problem at list. The solution direction. It would be impossible to of our difficulty does not be in this blockade every creek, bay, and estuary of these islands.
We should get enough to eat, irregular
the heart of the Empire and its several interruption of communication between supplied and at high cost. But an
parts would be a matter of the gravest
One of the most striking changes German life is the rapid increase in the
bo foolish to underestimate the factory work, and many factories are now This applies expecially to importance of the economic pressures entirely dependent upon women's labour Given "military defeat or the cutting of But the movement goes much farther than the Eastern communications or both, the that, and it seems to me to be less due privations which the German people have to pakriotism: than to recessity. It will be remembered that the Germans at the endured would haten the collapse of their beginning of the War, made, an immense Tictae of the fact that that introduced zo. The broad facts of the economic situacral ratium. Qua never bears tion in Germany seem to be accurately now do not make any payments that such boasts now. The ruth is that people appreciated in England, but there appears they can avoid. Theoretically, tenants to be a tendency-it is perhaps natural are aspected to pay rand if they are abletroportance. to overestimate the present effect upon to do ao, but in practice very little ront public opinion of increasing privationa. in being paid at present. Nor are people, The real difficulty is to be found in So far as i can "judge, the mord of “ay longer paying the interest on the character of submarine warfare. Germany has thus far adapted itself what lengths the mortgage system has dificulty would remain. Aircraft
mortgages, and anybody who knows to
Even if we secured an advantage of 50 per cent over our opponents, that have yet arisen. pretty thoroughly to all difficulties which been entried in Germany in recent years meet aircraft, but submarine cannot find ing generally, small German capitalists creeks and shallows rising to the surface will understand what that mieurs Speak. submarine-at least not yet. These monsters would creep about our swedy who own a few houses and live on the at care intervals, crossing each other by rent are now in a very bad way, and their accident.
sighters are compelled to take the best work they can get. The calf en formato
NO LIMIT TO THEIF AIZE. ·
Dinner Wagon, Dining Tables and No. 101 and SECTION B..OF MARINE (we shall have to stand another winter." labour seems to be still growing rapidly.traffe of warships or hers will be
Obaire, Chesterfeld Sofas, Arm-chairs,
c., Wardrobes and Toilet Tables, Double
and Single Bran and Brass-mounted Bedsteada, &c., Miscellaneous Furniture, several lots of Blackwood Ware, Pianos, a lota Porcelains, &c., &c., Ice Cheats. Also
1.
Tea Bets, etc..
And
A number of Lots of Matting, SE, #c, 1 Caille Mctor, Complete, Gent's Bicycles, &c.
(Fall Particular from Catalogue.) Trx:"Cash
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, July 27, 1920
The public generally is prepared for the possibility of another: winter of: "war" ALL THOSE pieces or parcels of Almost way German now says, in reply ground situate at Victoris aforesaid and known and registered in the Land Office
to a question as to how long he thinks SECTION A OF MARINE LOT. that the war will last, I am afraid that LOT No. 101.
Together
with the He almost always puts it just like that- thereon known as No. 1, Queen's Road, afraid we shall have to." What than ever, and the average country town mrsauages erections and buildings
German life bas become more "homely sustains the ordinary public is the conis duller than ever it was. Apart from stan; assurance that, however hard life the absence of most of the men, people may be, and the difficulties are only are much less regular than usual in thei? temporary. It is atili almost universally tendance at the eats and beer-houses believed that victorias, and more victories, for one reason.. because of the increasing will end in a German pesco, and that shortage of beer, then all the present troubles will be at an end.
Central, Victoria, aforesaid Term 930 years created by a Crown Lease dated the 8th day of April, 1836.
Area in respect of Section A of
Starine Lot No. 1019445 Square Feet, Proportion of
Annual Crown Rent. 884, 45 Arca in respect of Section B of
Marine Lot'. No. 1912 673 Square Feet, Proportion of
Annual Crown Rent. 8 6.75 For further particulars, and conditions of sale apply to
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PUBLIC AUCTION. THE Undersigned have received in- structions from the Liquidators of Czs. J. GAUPP & Co. to sell by Publit Austion,
05
SATURDAY and MONDAY, the 12th & 14th August 1918, commencing cach day at 10-30 a.TIL,
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,
Prince's Buildings, Ice House
Street, Hongkong.. Solicitors for the Liquidators of The Deutsch Asiatische Bank,
or to Messrs. HUGHES and HOUGH.
The Auctionzers.. Hongkong, 11th May, 1916.
ANTI
On the same date, FRIDAY; the 11th August, 1916, after sale of the property above des- cribed, a sale by PUBLIC AUCTION: will be commenced within the Building, No 7 Queen's Road Central, formerly the premises of the Deutsch Asiatische" Bank, of the Valuable Office Furniture, Electric Fittings, Etc., Etc., certained on the Ground Flour and Basement of the said premises,
As follows:
at their Premise's Alexandra Buildings, Chater Road, VALUABLE STOCK IN TRADE, Comprising - Gold and Oem Jewellery; English American and Swiss 18ct. and 14ct Watches; Bilver and Nickel Watches; Diamonds; Pearls; Marine Chrono tion Cabinet Safes Large and Small Four Large Fire Proof Safes, Combine meters, Liquid Steering Composes; Log Desks, Bookcasen, Teakwood Seats and Rotators; Sinkers; Thomson Compass Stools, Leather-covered Upholstered Cardy Board of Trade and Standard Desk and writers, Duplicators, Sofas and Settees; 2 Clocks Mercurial Borometers; Megaphones dress, Filing Cabinets, Book Anemometers; T. Squares; Set Squares;
ate, etc. Ceiling Fans, Electric Curves; Microscopes; Thermometers; Brackets, very powerful Electric Ceiling Spirit Levels; Surveying Chains and
Lights, Reaching and Desk Lamps, etc., etc. Arrows; Admiralty Charts; Nautical
(Full Farticula from Catalogus.)». Books; Optical Sundries.
On view from Friday, 4th August, until day of sale.
+800.
(Fall Particulars from Catalogue.) ( On view from 10th August.. TermaCash,
"HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers. Hongkong July 31, 1916.
875
THE Undersigned have received in-
structions to sell
(70% ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),
at their Sales Booms, Na, 8, Des Yeux Road, Corner of Ics Houss' SERKKE, Opc GRAND FIANO by Brinsmeid, in perfect order, cost £150.
And
One ORGAN by Mason & Hamlin, Eleven Stops, in good order. Further Particulars and inspection rany be made on application to the Undersigned. Tant
Terza de canal.
HUGHES & HOUGH;
Iuctionser's Hongkong, July 16, 1916.
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Let the following places in Hongkong
The Hongkong Estol The Hongrong Ferry Wharf,
The Kowloon, Farry Wharf,
-The Urfar Peak Trim Slation
The Lower Peak Tram Station,
Ternis:-Cash.
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER.
Solicitors for the Liquidators, of the
Deutsch Asiatische Bank HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, July 38, 1016
FOR SALE..
At the present moment the worst difficulties are regarded as temporary in an even zartower, sENSE, Everybody that is to say, is looking for great relief of economic tension as soon as the harvest Is got in. As far as the ocular evidere of an ordinary traveller can go, I must conarm the official assurances that the harvest is likely to be a very good one. The crops at present look splendid. In this connexion it should be undertood; that one of the chief objects of the Government in the control of the food supply is to regulate consumption-not merely to restrict it so much as possible
LOOKING AHEAD,
Very soon the Atlantic will be darken- ed by huge airships, and its depths. explored by submarines. Submerged
Germany: already boasts that she is conducted with immanity from weather. building vessels so capacious, that they America
carry mails and passengers to
possible size except the depth of water
There is really no limit
to their in which they will have to operate. The anbabatine of to-day will be the exhiont The general public are not now deeply a future, museum, like the old Impressed by the enormous German world Compared with the early
the pioneer Tocomotive of the casualties. For the most part, they really twentieth century specimen the sub- have no idea what the German losses have marine of the future will resemble an been. Not only is no-information eset +
Atlantic liner besito a river steam boat, published as to the total losses, but the fate of individual soldiers is concealed as much as possible. An anxious relative in a German village had no souren information other than the local officials
TRADE.
INTIMATIONS
ALEXANDER'S
LEMON SQUASH
AUSTRALIAN
Prepared from FRESH LEMONS with full favour of the Poel.
ONE & TWO Tablespoonfuls with cold plain Aemted or Mineral Water forma DELICIOUS AND REFRESHING BEVERAGE.
DONNELLY & WHYTE,
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THE HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY, LIMITED.
In this development we shall recover we shall adapt the alternative of under- our communications for in time of war deptos wil-provide the pair of safety Hongkong, 1st. August, 1618.
parigssion. The darkness, of sos A mother who hai for a long time had for the great liners, and our imports, cho Bergomaster's ofice. At first whe no-nown of her son will probably go to from, continent to continents
exports, and Tassengers will pass freely
ill-hear nothing. Then she will be told surface But phings below to escape the "On "quiát days we may navigate the that her son is wounded? Then she will buffet of storm of the hair of shell. The hear that he is dead this pathaps, three from an expression into a fact. Having freedom of the sans will be translated or four months after the soldier's death. become amphibious we oso use the From what I have and, 18 is clear that waters in the way best suited to our It will have been noticed that the food the Germen people are living in an purpose difficulties in Germany, socmed suddenly artificial atmosphere. The truth is
A battle fleet will grow is sportivnas to increase in the mouth of October last unknown to them and cannot be known a school of whales. Tarty feet below the surface an everlasting 'penco begins, but. year just at the moment when improve to them until it breaks through the it will be to longer the peace of the expiration of eix months from the date of this notice, that is to say on the First. ment was expected on the completion, of German lines in the rear of the Allied, tomb, but the still waters and green the getting in of the harvest. They forces
It is important for the Allied pastures of Neptune, really meant, although the Government peoples and their Governments to besz was careful not to say so at the time, this steadily in mind and not to imagine Attempta may be made to detect the
TAX DISKS.. that the harvest was a bad one. This that, because this or that event strikes approach of other submerged vessels. year every effort will undoubtedly be them in a certain way, it will therefors of water will convey sufficient informs
but it is doubtful whether the vibration de to increase rations after the harvest. strike the German people in the same tion. Apart from accidental contact That would probably be done to some way. If I might summarize the impres with such vessels or with ice, the actual extent even if harvest expectations were sions I have tried to convey I should risks of sub-aqueous traffic may be less not realized, because so many promises any
than surface transport. have been made that, they cannot safely be disappointed: But the main "polat. is that the German Government is always koking abend."
(1) No effort should be spared to obisin complete military victory in West and East,yot
(2) The importance of cutting the German road to the East as quickly
as possible should never be forgotten
It is to Germany that we owe the rapid development of these new methods of progress. She will also lead the way to protectivgen
güménsures: against them. The antidote is mostly found in company with the poison.
ENSURLARIKE WARFARE
(8): Economic pressure should be ing ships will have the capacity of It is most probable that all our fight- incrassed in: every possible way.
descending, below the surface. What
Every arrangement has been made this. year for a particularly accurate estimate of the harvest. Precise instructions were issued to all landowners many weeks ago, and the census taking began on June 1. With these three factors working arey part-mines may play in future sea The official census will take place at together the Allies will be able to obtain warfare they will be more easily circu various dates for various crops, beginning the complete tremph which alone can beld by passing under it. The force of vented by vessels able to avoid a mine with corn in July and ending with teach Gewony her truce place in the attack the power of the gun and the potatoes and beet in September. The world. increase in the area under crops since the beginning of tho war is astonishing.
(889 What is most noticeable to the ordinary.
eye is the incess of the area devoted SHORTAGE OF INDIAN CURRENCY
to potatoos..
There is no doubt whatever that life
REDEMPTION "OF DERENTURE. ISSUE OF 1st JANUARY, 1909.0 OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Company within pursuance of the power reserved to it by Clause 2 of the conditions endorsed on the above in weries redeem the debentures the numbers of which are set out underneath as the
presentation and surrender of the debentures in question at the Company' day of August 1916 at which date all principal and interest will be paid on Bankers, the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. for payment accordingly, together with all coupons attached thereto to the The holders of much debentures are requested to present sick debenture HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION on the 1st day of August 1916 for payment.
Daced this 29th day of January, 1916.
By ceder of the Board.
H. TAGGAET
Numbers of Debentures drawn
Acting Secretary.
491
760
994
1267
297
493
762
999.7
1273
300
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763
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301
495
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517
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312
521
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316
543
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548
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551
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335
555
843
torpedo. are
strength of armoured ake
1067
1366
overtexing the resistance and the old contents between gun and shield will enter upon a new phase.
336
350
846
10797
1367
337
564
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1575.
82
346;
565
858
1085
1402
91
356
569
868
1089
1411
123
365
572
860
1097-3
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132
370
2578
874
1105.
1414
148
875
591
376
1108
1427
153
367
600
894
111
1429
179
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620
916
1120
1431
185
399
621
920
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187
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625
925
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$1459
211
412-
638
933
1151
14820
233
417
639
938
11538
1470
239
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649
045
1178
1473-74
2401
427
1186
1475
241
434
677
949
1189
1480
243
442
701
965
1216
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244
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718
976
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1497
252
451
978
1229
255
457
744
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12317
257
467
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985
2241
$273
478
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990
1242
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E. 31-ing/ NEW TYPE TAPPET one has had personal experience of the writes India unquestionably require This is very serious whes we take into
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STEAM ROCK D with numerous spares, also ONE STEEL VERTICAL CROSS TUBE BOILER with all fittings working pressure 80 lbs. per square inch mounted on trolley,
-Apply- GILMAN & Co., For full particulars. Hongkong, July 12, 1915.
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that already from our current experience So powerful, has the offensive become
equally The financial correspondent of the can easily imagine two fleeter o
matched
akilfully handled in Germany is now very hard. When Times of India "1⁄2 in the weekly review which, night.
ly destroy - ons : another in the course of a single action. after inadequacy of the bread and other additions, currezes. As the supply of account the number of months required. rations, it is difficult to understand how overalgas is cut the chief recourse open the great mass of the people, especially to Chovarament la to mint rupeos," The
o produce a first-class battleship.
The strength of attack is bound to lead in torna, exist upon them. In the Mint and Gurrency. Office returns indicate to the multiplication of smaller fighting country, at any rate, ond esually finds, steady coinage of rupecs, which do not units snit of our discarding, perhaps temporarily, the great battleship which ontinvestigating an individual case, that remain. long in Government treasuries or carries Cresar and all his fortunes.a man are found to supplement the beaking reserves and which becomes ab rations in a variety of wayo--not all of sorbed in op-country- bezpera and the
writer in the "Daily Ex proac them honest. Farm aarvania, tor example; theatres of war in Africa and Meacpo declares that the term wash out now help themselves to an increasing extent, tamis. Although the stag-eason has in common use in the Army is pure Navy and by no means all of the food that set in, there is no return flow of money talk Wash out is simply a signalling leaves shops reaches, the customers. As the central reservoirs, India is term, tued in the Fleet from time imme- the list of foods under Gorament patiently and calmly bearing, the shortage, alte, and fifer it had been read, and morial."; "The aigual would be written on control increases, the privations of the of currency, but until and unloa large acknowledged the yeoman of signals individual naturally increase also. The additions take place to our currency it would about Wash out to his signal- strict control of the meat supply was a will be fuller to expect any onsiderable boy, when the mesings would be rubbed radical change, and it is obrious that the stretch of cheap money. Government is off the late with Sponge or damp institution of egy tickets will nously now wide awake and appears closely to aloth.
mont rations.""
poaler supplement to other a tagad
to
restrict the consumption of what has been follow the existing curious situation. The financial: intereste are satisfied with the progrena of event, and the co-operation and co-ordination betwear, Government prblic confidence. The bazaars are fairly and the banks..cosiderably strengthens full of money t present because the chief
A DRAUGHT OF HERBINGH
More potata then over Ars now, being aten in Germany but the most fav able development of late, has been abundance of horrings. They made their app-ernee in largo. about three mobs ago. where they really come from, but they
and tie pub
well
discount boasoe have purtal operations, and are going
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THE HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY, LIMITED.
- NOTICE, 18” ALSO HEREBY given that the ABOVE DEBENTURES were drawn on Saturday the 2nd Jan 1916 for on Tet August next ce per notice as an all fac The eCompany L prepared to purchase my of the above balom lat Augiat next: La, on the first day of any intersening month between this date nord date of expitation as set forth in such notice
By order of the
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