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MUMEYA Japanese Photographers.
All kinds of Photographic Work done in latest stylew also Fanport Fboros.
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Developing and Printing for.
Amateurs a Speciality.
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Na. A Queen's Road Central TEL. 954,
No. 18.753.
The China Mail
THORNE'S
ÖLD VAT
No. 4.
SCOTCH WHISKY.
SOLE AGENTS:
A. S. WATSON & Co. Ld.
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
HONGKONG
Em. Ca
ESTABLISHED 18
就二十月正年七十安百丸千登典
BUSINESS NOTICES.
HONGKONG. MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1917.
BUSINESS NOTICES
STEAM OR MOTOR VESSELS
8,000 Tons, 4,000 Horse Fower now Built. Steel Building Work of every Description. Castings, Forgings, Repairs and Supplies. Prompt Attention and Shipment to Destination. INJECTORS AND STEAM PUMPS.
W. S. BAILEY & Co., Ltd.
ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS.
KOWLOON BAF "
ENARLADRO -
THE
THE
* GYERLAND -CHINA MAIL
(PUBLISHED. AVKEY......
MAIL DAY.
Cuning the Week's New of Hongkong and the Far East.
Prices (including Postage) 1ɔ ang part of the wwf $13.
per ARG
PRION. 33.00 Per Month
WAR.
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
THE
(Router's Service to the China Mail.).
DISASTROUS EXPLOSION IN
LONDON.
THE WESTERN FRONT.
NOTICE.
YY EUROPEAN, Non ASIATIC ar INDIAN desiring to leave tha Clony should apply in person at tin Central Police Station between tho hours 9 AM to 1 r.M. and 2 T.M. 50 À-P.M.
daily
Applicants will be required to produce sports pr identification papers. All sona, with certain exceptions, whe Pain in the Colony fer or thes says are required to Register them-
under the REGISTRATION PERSONS ORDINANCE 1916. Form of Registration giving the particulars required may be obtained as the 8.1.0.
at all Police Station.
The Penalty for non compliance iz s fine net exceeding $50.
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TRAMWAYS. SOMPANY,
LIMITED,
TIME TABLE
WEEK DATI.
1.00am. zo. 3.00 ....Every 15 minE JON. 8,00. 20:00 s.m...Every 10 minutos. 10.00a.m. to 11.00 ... Every 15 minutes. 11.30 am to 12.45 p.m...Every 15 minutes. 18.15 p.m. to 1.15 p.m...Every 10 minutes. 1.16 p.m. to 1.45 p.m...Every 15 minutes. 2.45 p., ho 2.15 p.m...Every 10 minutos. 15 p.m. to 5.00 p.m...Every 15 minute 6:00p.m. to 8.10 p.m...Every 10 minutos.
NIGHT GAME
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8.40 p.m. and 9 p.m., 9.30 p.m be 11.09
p.m. every half hour...
11.00 pm to 11.45 p.m. every quieter af
an bour.
7,30m.
SUNDAYE.
8.00a.m. to 10.30 a....Every 16 minutes. 10.30am to 11.00 sm...Every 10 minutes. 11.30a.m. to 12 Noon....Every 15 minutes. 12.00 boon to 100 p...Every 10 minorem. 1.00pm to 5.00p.m...Every 15y iantes: 6.00p.m. to 4.00 p.m... Every 10 rates. 6.00pm. bo. 7.00 pm... Every 15. 7.00p.m. to 8.10 p.m...Every 10 atom
NIGHT VARS ∞n en Wook Days.
SATURDAYI.
Extra Car`ai 17 midnight.' SPECIAL CARS by arrangement at the Company's Office,. ALKKANDRÄ BUILDINGS' Des Vaux Road Central.
Besson and punch tickets avallshin För all car not already full running at the "blue stated in the Company's time tables, bob not for special cars, can be obtained on application at the Company's Office- No Benson takes will be issued until payment therefor a been made in Bank Notes or by Choque or Compradore arder representing Back Note
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managert.
NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE·
INSURANCE CO.
UT WHICH ARE 'VESTED THE SHARES OF
THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE
COMPANY. LAD
and
THE RAILWAY PASSENGERS
ARSI RANGE ON,
AL Funde at Sles Deckiem, 1914
TOTAL 70223,976,367.*
1-Aathored Uspital £8,000,000
Bubacrioed Capital £4,600,000 Paid up. Capital
£2,437,500
f1-Fire Funda... 3,887,047, In Life & Annuity Fanis..... 17,567,690
Sinking Fund Account
128,290
£23,970,567
Revenue Fire Brazchemi..... F2,381,458
Life and Annelly
9,141,693 Brancheskausm Ravenny Marina Department... 387,203 Other Becsipts ser
478,940
£3,239,223
The Ancomtiative Fonds of the various Beshches are separately forested; and, by “Act of Parliament,"are' sob melde to meet ike olalma puder the respective Departe ments of the Company's Businem. 2
SHEWANATOMES & 00.
DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO.
дурвон
OVERLAND
MOTOR
¡CARE
SOLE DISTRIBUTORS FOR THE FAMOUS 2
To 492.
COME AND INSPECT
DAVIDSON
MOTOR
BYULS?
BEST CARS IN THE COLONY FOR HIRE.
ANISEED AND LICORICE
COUGH BALSAM.
FOR THE RELIEF OF ALL CATARRHAL COMPLAINTS SUCH AS COUGHS, COLDS, HOARSENESS, AND SORENESS OF THE CHEST.
PRICE 50 CENTS AND $1.00 PER BOTTLE.
VICTORIA DISPENSARY.
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THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING Go., Ld.
Established 1883
·MANUFACTURERS OF.
PURE Manila ROPE
STRAND 1" to 15"
GABLE LAID
4 STRAND
5° to 15' CIRCUMFERENOW..
3" to 10" CIRCTKIVAZNGE
GERCURYKKENCE.
Oil Drilling Cables of any size up to 3,000 feet in length
Prices, samples and full particular will be forwarded on application to
Shewan, Tones & Co., General Manager.
Hongkong, April 11, 1912.
WATSON'S
THE
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PREMIER
SCOTCH.
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WATSONS Hace
MILD, MELLOW, MATURED.
501
TAIKOO DOCKYARD.
BUILDERS OF SHIPS & ENGINES
• OF EVERY DESCRIPTION -
ترسم
THE THYOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING CUMPARY
**TAIKOCK
of HONGKONG LTP.
AGENTS:- BUTTERHELD A SLEE -TELEPHONE & 212-
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ITS EFFECTS DESCRIBED.
Losnos, Jan. 21.
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GERMAN ATTACK ELSILY
REPULSED
Panis, Jan. 21.
A French communiqué states : A German attack in the direction of
The fremen were able to circum- 'Canny-sur-Metr, in the region of Lässigny, was easily repulsed. We took scribe the fire.
prisonerk
Heartrending scenes attended the removal of women and girls from bluzing premises. Many were un conscious, having been stunned by the shock. Some were terribly burned and charred.
CONDITIONS AT THE FRONT.
SICKNESS REDUCED TO A MINIMUM.
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A crowd of tugs was soon busy
LONDON, Jan. 22. taking victima across the water to
Reuter's Correspondant at Head- every hospital within reach. One quarters, describing the conditions there, child a few months old was extri rays a white mantle covers the semi- cuted from a heup" of ruins, once ita frozen ground: The trenches are already inalnahy and deplorable mess, which parent's home, being the sole sur-is inevitable when the ground really
vivor of a family of six.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COLD lessly at midnight. Roof after roof winter. If we are uncomfortable, the
PORTLAND CEMENT
In Cuaks of 375 lbs. net.
In Bags of 250 lbs nét.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
GENERAL MANAGER,
THE HONGKONG HOTEL
AND.
GRILL ROOM
PEAK
K
J. H. TAGGART,
MANAGER.
HOTEL,
ADMIRABLY SITUATED AT VICTORIA GAP.
- Adjoining the Tramway Taminus, 1,480 foot sbors Bon Level. FIRST-CLASS FAMILY RESIDENTIAL AND TOURISTS HOTEL
Telephones all rooms First-cus Cuisine, Lounge, Smoking and ladier rosum, Roof Garden.
Terus From $5 per day weÁZ.
Telegraph add: 'Ponce l'
P.O. PEUSTER,
Mandager.
“A. S.}}WATSON; & Co., Ltd., PATELL & CO.
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
TELEPHONE No. $16.
THE KWONG HIP LONG CO., LTD.
(NOW EXCONSTRUCTED).
ANGINMERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILERMAKERE, BRALS and IROS FOURDERS. All work done in this catsblishman is guaranteed. "We hate over thirty years experions We own me upways and can socommodate any malt of 200 fect lopte
Town Offine 48. Gowe went ROAD CENTRAL Hongkong. Telepass No S
Telephone No. Shipyard Shum-Sui-Po, Kowloon, Honwrong, Yetmates.forniabed on application.
Hongkong April
WONG FING WA
thawa · Nevertheless, conditions in the Fires were still burning relent, permament trenches are better than kat
Germans are far worse. Everything is. being done to mitigate our hardships, including the use of skin coats, wading boots, muggers, mittens and good hot
collapsed with terrific crashes, and the flames rose Eigher and higher. Expanding fountains and the masts of shipping stood out clearly sil houetted in the sky. The scene was awful in its grunduer,
As evidence of the force of the explosions, it is stated that a huge piece of a boiler, weighing three.or four tons, was found in a field 400 yards from the scene of the disaster. Another piece, a "ton "in weight, emished into a butcher's shop inst- antly killing the occupants.
been left with only one wall stand-
meals served to the men in the front- line. Consequently sickness and trench- feet" are reduced to a minimum
THE BLOCKADE.
GREAT SCARCITY IN ENEMY COUNTRIES..
LONDON, Jan. 2. An interview with Lord. Rodert. The district in the immediate Cecil, Minister of Blockade, published- neighbourhood of the explosion looks in France, describing the work of the aa if it had been visited by a terrible blockade, concludes:-"The scarcity in earthquake. Houses have been Germany is undoubtedly very gusto. demolished wholesale, the roofs being There is every reason to believe that ripped off and many buildings have the condition of her allies in words,
The telegram from Rotterdam - ing....
nouncing the meeting of Austro- Apparently places on either side of Hungarian statesmen in Berlin to disenss the river suffered most severely, the the feeding question coincides with the most serious food crisis yet, reached.. concussion apparently travelling over
In Berlin many bakaries have closed the water rather than over land. In down for lack of supplies and many.. some cases dwellings several miles householders have been without bread down the river suffered more than for a fortnight. The failure of the potato buildings much closer to the scene. harvest is accountable for the scarcity," In a few isolated cases windows in as `potato-fiour, is necessary in braad- the heart of London were smashed. making. Milk, also, is extremely scarce Sothe plate glass in Kingsway was and very dear. A new regulation ordera blown out and windows were broken that sausages shall contain at least 14%.. in St. Jaznies Park. There was per cent. of bran much damage to glass at Brixton, Brockley and Greenwich. The shock was most severely felt át Lewisham and Catford.
(MR. BALFOUR'S NOTE..
GERMANS INFURIATED.
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ORGANISING LABOUR.
LONDON, Jan. al. Mr. Neville Chamberlain, addressing the alliance of Employers and Employed at Birmingham, said: "Perhaps it will depend on our efforts during the next few weeks whether there will be
a fourth winter campaign or not. The | colossal task of organising 'the nation LONDON, Jan. 22.
must be faced. The nation post Mr. Balfour's Note to President understand that the Government is Wilson. has infuriated the Germans. most earnest about it and will not The Koeinische Zeitung Boys: hesitate to take what steps they think KING EDWARD HOTEL distortions and menaces must be the service is insufficient."
The reply to British arrogance, necessary for victory, if voluntary
sword and torpedo:"
Central Location.
Importers-Exporters A Mossie Litos, Pans and Lighting
Commission Agents
HONGKONG
Branches-
BAN FRANCISCO, CAL YOKOHAMA, JAPAN. BOMBAT, INDIA.
HANKOW
SHANGHAJ CANTON,
TEAM Fam Zintraneo. European Baths and Banimary · Fittings, Hot and Cold Water System theoghout. Best of Food and Servion
TECERONE 37%
WTTOHKEL,
TANO YUR, TETUR,
the lato BIEN TIME,
TERME VERY MODERATE
[Chemeltation Eren.
WOLFRAM DISCOVERIES. IN CORNWALL.
LONDON, Jan. 22. New lodes of Wolfram are stated to have been discovered in Cornwall, sufficient to provide a large propor tion of the British requirements,
SHORTAGE OF WOLFRAM IN
GERMANY.
"PARIS, JER, 22.4. The Germans are offering a big prize for a substitute for wolfram of which thems is a shortage.
THE RUSSIANG ON THE FRENCH FRONT.
FIND THE WINTER WEATHER
MILD"
Losoos, Jan. 93. Beuter's Correspondent at French Headquarter has visited the Eus, ion sector and toys the Tension
sian who
Eastern-Innh are mostly veterans, are finding the weather "mild
The Germany greatly resent the presence of the Russians and sec over gas at overy opportunity, but the precautions taken by the Bus- Sians is effective.
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