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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1917.
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THE
OVERLAND CHINA HAIL (PUBLISHED EVERY MAIL DAY.)
Contains the Week's New i
of Hongkong and the Far East
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STEAM OR MOTOR VESSELS
8,000 Tons, 4,000 Horse Fower now Built. Steel Building Work of every Description.
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Castings, Forgings, Repairs and Supplies, Prompt Attention and Shipment to Destination,
-INJECTORS AND STEAM PUMPS.
W. S. BAILEY & Co., Ltd.
ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS.
KOWLOON BAT.
THE WAR
LATEST
TELEGRAM S.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mast,)
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NOTICE.
NT EUROPEAN, Non ASIATIC et A INDIA desiring to leave the Colony should apply in person at the Central Police Station between the houra
pax to T. and 2 to 4 PM daily
Applicants will be required to produce Pports or identification papers. All persona, with certain exceptians,,, who Femain in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register them- seires under the REGISTRATION of PERSONS ORDINANCE 1916. Forme of Registration giving the particulars required may be obtained at the 9.P.C. and at all Police Stations.
The Penalty for non compliance is a fins not exceeding $50...
SILIMPOPON (SEBATTIK)
COAL
THE COWIR HARBOUR THE Undersigned having been appointed
COAL CO., LTD., are prepared to quote prices for best quality SILIMPOPON COAL trimmed into Bankers at SEBAT TIK or SANDAKAN (British North Borneo.
KILIMPOPON COAL compares favour- ably with the better grades of Japanese Coal and given good results an very moderate consumption.
Steamers calling at SEBATTIK or SANDAKAN exclusively for SILIMPO. PON COAL (either exige or Bankers) are exempt from payment of all Pert charges.
At Sebattik Steamers are herthed along. elde the Company's wharf where there is a minimum depth of 27 to 28 feet at low vater Spring Tides.
Charta of Siboko Bay (Sebattik Bar- bour), Prices and all other information concerning the Port can
application to the Agents,
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1097
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LIMITED.
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1.00 to 8.00 am...Every-15 minutes. 8,00a.m. to 10.00 a.m...Every 10 minutes. 11,00 a.m. to 11.00 am... Every 15 minutes, 31.30 am, to 12.45 p.m...Every 15 minutes. 11.45 p.m. to 1.15 p.m...Every 10 minutes.
1.15 p.m. to
to 1.45 p.m...Every 15 minutes, 1.45 p.m. to 2.15 p.m...Every 10 minute. 116 p.m. to 5.00 p.m... Every 15 minutes. 500 p.m. to 8.00 p.m...Every 10mluation,
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KIGHT CARS
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8.50 p.m. and 9 p.m...9.30 p.m. to 11.00 p.m. every half hour. 11.00 p.m. to 11.4ă p.m. "every quarter of
a boar.
7.30 s.. SUNDATE 2.00 to 10.30 ....Every 15 minuter. 10,30 x.m. to 11.09 km...Every 10 minutes. E.30 am, to 12 Noon....Every 15 minutes. .00 noon to 1.00 p.m...Every 10 minuter. 100p.m. to 5.30 p.m... Every 15 minutes, 4.80 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. Every 10 minutes.. 00p.m. to 6.30 pan... Every 15 minton d.30 p.m. to 8.00 p.m...Every 10 minuter.
NIGHT CABS' on Week Days.
BATURDATE
Hitra Dar at 13 midnight, SPECIAL CARB by arrangement at the Company's Office, Alstaruna Bozzozias' Des Voeux Road Central,
Besecu stał poząch tickets available for ́all cars not already full-raming sb the| time stated in the Company's time tables, but not for special oers, san be obtalapd on application as the Company's O No Bosson ticket will be issued a payment therefor has been made in Bank Notes or by Cheque or Compradore order; representing Back Notes,
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Manajers
DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO.
AUDION
AND VERLAY
MOTOR
CARK
HOLE DISTRIBUTORS FOR THE FAMOUS
Terxon 483.
COME AND INSPECT
GREY
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'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.
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING Go., La.
Established 1883
·MANUFAUTURERS OF)
PURE Manila ROPE
STRAND
1" to 16"
CIZSTRENGE,
GABLE LAID
4 STRAND
3" to 10" GIRLUMITAZNCI
5* to 15* CIRCUMFEREY L.
Oil Drilling Cables of any size up to 3,000 feet in length Prisca, samples and fall particulars will be forwarded on application to
Shewan, Tomes & Co. General Managers.
Hongkong, April 11, 1912.
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OLD
BROWN BRANDY
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QUALITY.
Brown Brandy!
25 YEARS IN WOOD,
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BUILDERS OF SHIPS & ENGINES
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in Casks of 375 lbs. not.
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GENERAL MANAGERS
THE HONGKONG HOTEL
AND
GRILL ROOM
PEAK
J. E TAGGART,
MANAGER.
HOTEL.
ADMIRABLY SITUATED AT VICTORIA GAP. Adjoining the Tramway Terminna. 1,400 feet above Sea Level. FIEST-CLASS FAMILY RESIDENTIAL AND TOURISTS HOTEL
Telephones in all rooms First-cases Cuisine, Lounge, Smoking and Ladice rooms, Roof Garden.
Terms-From 8 per day mex.. Telegraph'add: Fenceful,'
P. O. PEUSTER;
Manager...
ENEMY ASSAULTS ON:
FRENCH FRONT.
GERMAN CLAIMS TO SUCCESS.
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LONDON, March 5.
PRESIDENT WILSON
CREATES A SENSATION.
MANIFESTO DENOUNCING THE OBSTRUCTIONISTS
A German official report. received
WASHINGTON, March 5, by wireless, states: We stormed and
The Serate meste to-day under captured a French position at Car-
extraordinary circumstances. riores Wood on A front of 1.500
President Wilson delivers, this metres and repulsed counter-attacks morning. bis inaugural unéssage from during the night
the steps of the Capital, but inean- We cuptured an important post-while, the nation has been stirred up tipn at the south-east corner of to the core by manifesto de- Fosses Wood capturing 578 pri-nouncing the little group of wilkul soners, 16 machine-guns, and 20 men representing only their own quick-loaders.
opinion who withstood 300 sup- There were nuinemus ar fights in porters of the Clovernment's policy which the enemy lost 18 aeroplanes at a crisis fraught with more fr. yesterday and we lost four.
THE FRENCH REPORT. A French communiqué states: After a most intense bonibardinen:
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reaching possibilities of national danger than ang Government ever experienced.
President Wilson emphasises that in the region of Churieres Wood, on
while the nation supports the the tight bank of the Meuse, the Government with unprecedented enery violently attacked on a front unanimity, the impression will be of three kilometres between Cham-created abroad that other Govern brettes Faru and Bezonvaux.
ments may do us they please without Repeated assaults between Cau-feur of America doing anything. rieres Wood and Bezonvaux failed. The great Government of the United. The encing gained a footing in our States had been rendered helpless advurated elements north of Caurieres and contemptible and the only Wood, but our fire smashed all remedy was to alter the rules of the attempts to penetrate the Wood, Senute. with heavy enemy losses.
THE BRITISH FRONT.
GERMAN ADMISSION OF A BRITISH SUCCESS.
LONDON, March 5.
A German official report, received by! wireless, says: The English attacked southward of St. Pierre Vaast Wood- and captured a trench sector on the Bouchavesnes-Meislsina road.
THE ITALIAN FRONT.
The country can be relied upon daw the needful moral..
THE ARMING OF AMERICAN MERCHANTMEN.
PRESIDENTS PLAN TO' OVER- COME OBSTRUCTION:
WASHINGTON, March 5. President Wilson, in a statement yesterday evening, informed the country that he had not the power to arm merchantmen and to take other steps to meet the submarine menace without the authority of Congress. An extrag session is required to give him that An Italian official messuge, truns-authority but it was useless while the mitted by wireless, reports:
ANOTHER ITALIAN SUCCESS.
Th
LONDON, March 5,
Senate works under the present rule of We brilliantly attacked and pecu- permitting a small minority to keep an pied a strong position, 2,700 metres overwhelming majority at bay. in altitude in the Copta Billa group in the Avisio sector.
THRILLING INCIDENT IN JUTLAND BATTLE.
POSTHUMOUS AWARD OF A V.C.
LONDON, March $.
He proposes to call a special session of the Senate to-day to revise the rules: and to supply means of action to save the Country from disaster
BULGARIAN TRENCHES SHOWED' UP.
ENEMY BOMBARDMENT OF MONASTIR.
LONDON, March Reuter's Correspondent at Serbian Headquarters reports that the Bulgariate treaches at Monastir are snowed up.
It is officially estimated that the.
A. thrilling story of the Battle of Jutland is now fully revealed by the Admiralty's announcement of the posthumous award of the Victoria Cross to Commander Jones of the destroyer Shark which led a division of destroyers in an attack on the enemy battle cruiser, squadron enemy dropped 2,627 shells and bombe The Shark was disabled by two pa Monastir daring 3 months. Forty- shells- und another destroyer came}
three houses were destroyed and 300 between the Shark and the enemy children were killed and 37 men and 8k damaged, 33 men and 35 women ant
and offered assistance, but Com
A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., PATELL & CO. KING EDWARD HOTEL under Jones warned the destroyer, women and children were injured,
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
TELEPHONE NO. 616.
THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO., LTD.
(NOW RECONSTRUCTED),
TINGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, EOILER-MAKERS, BRASS and FROM FOUNDERS All work done in ibis establishment is guaranteed. We have over thirty years' experience. We own two Slipways and can accommodate any craft of 200 feet long,
Town Ofios, 48, CoNAUGHT ROAD CASTRAL, Hongkong? Telephone No. 40 Bhipyard: Sham-Sai-Po, Kowloon, Hongkong,
Tolaphone No. 9. Batatoa Kurnished na application
Hongkong, April 1, 1912.
WONG FING WA, Manager.
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DISSOLUTION OF AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENTA
off, saying if it remained it wooll almost certainly be sunk, and then 556) LL ELaczkid Team Pres Entrance, though wounded in the leg, he helped
Electric Lifts, Fars and Lighting, European Bathe and Sanitary Fitticos, to man the after wheel: and, sub- Hot and Cold Water Spatoms throughout.sequently, when the forestie and
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TANG YUX DESTEST, succesce to the late SIEN TING, 14 D'ÁGUILAR STERZE.
TERMS VERY MUDERAUS
after un'a crews were blown away, Commander Jones, assisted in keep ing the midship gun in action.
SPY COURT-MÄRTIALLED" IN LONDON..
LONDON, March 5 The Preas Bureau announces that ner has been court-martialled
MR. HUGHES DEPARTURE FOR ENGLAND DELAYED.
SYDNEY, March 0. Owing to the obstructive tactics of the Labourites, the Federal Government kas suddenly announced the dissolution of Parliament, entailing an indefinite. Postponement of Mr. Hughes vint to England.
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