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SONGKONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 1 1917.
BUSINESS NOTICES.
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DAT SALUTEN,
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WAR.
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No. 18.868.
THORNE'S
OLD VAT
No. 4.
SCOTCH WHISKY.
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SOLE AGENTS:
A. S. WATSON & Co. Ld.
WINE & SHIRIT MERCHANTS,
HONGKONG,
TEL. 616.
NOTICE,
NY EUROPEAN, Non ASIATIC
INDIAN desiring to leave the Colony should apply in person at the Central Police Station between the hours of A.. to P. and .. to 4 PM.
daily
Applicants will be required to produce Passports or ider.tification papers. All perms, with certain exceptions, who remain in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register the selves under the REGISTRATION of PERSONS ORDINANCE 1914 Forms of Registration giving the parzienus require may be obtained at the G. F.D. and at all Police Stations.
The Penalty for a compliance isa fine hot excoeling $60.
PEAR
TRAMWAYS COMPANY.
LIMITED.
TIME TABLE.
WREK DAY".
7.00am. 1 800 a. m...Every 15 minutes 8.00a.m. to 10.00 a. m... Every 10 minuta. 10,00am. to 11.00 ....Every 15 minuter. 11.30am to 19.45 p.m...Every 15 minute. 19.45 p.m. to 1.15 p.m...very 10 minuter. L10p. to 1.45 p....Every 15 minutes. 1.43 p.m. to: 2.15 p.m...Every 10 minute. 2.16 p.m. to 5.00 p.m...Every 15 minuter. 5.00 p.m. bo 8.00 p.m... Every 10 minute.
NIGHT CARN-
8.50 p.m. and 9 p.m.. 8.30 p.m. to hire]
pa, avery half hour
11.00 p.m. to 11.45 pm every quarter of
AD boar,
SUNDAYY.
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*30.1. 8.00.m. to 10.30a.m... Every 15 minutes. 10.30am. to LLUD am...Every 10 minutes. 11.30am to 19 Neon... Every 15 mints. 12.00 boon to 100p.m...Every 10 minutër. 1.00pm to 5.30 p.m....very 15 minuter. 631pm to 4.00p.m... Every 10 minutes. 6.00pm.bo 8.30 p... Every 15 minutes. 6.30pm. to 8.00 pm...Every 10 minutes. NIGHT VÅRY as on Week Days.
SATURDAYS
Extra Car at 12 midnight. BPECIAL CARS by Azangement at the Jompany's Oflen, ALEXANDES. BUILDINGS" Des Fox Road Central.
Season and punch tickets available for all cars not already toll running at the time stated in the Company's time tables, bat uch for speciaă/cars, can be obtained on application as the Company's Ooo- No Season ticket will be issued pati payment therafor has been made in Bank Notes or by Obeque or Compradore order representing Bank Noter.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS. SON, General Manager*.
NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE
INSURANCE' CO,
TH WHICH ALE VESTED THE SHARES OF
THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE
COMPANY, LTD.4
and
THE RAILWAY PASSENGERS
ASSURANCE. co.
"TOTAL FUND AT 31ST DECEMBER, 1914,
€23,970.367.
1-Authorised Capital £6,000,000
Butasribed Capital £4,500,000-
III-Life & Annuity Funds... 17,567,590
Paid-up Capital
23,597,500
-Fire Fand
Biazing Fond Account
Ravenue Fire Branch
5,837,047
126,250
·£23,970,367
£2,381, 456 Life and Assuity) 2,141,593
Branche Revenue Marine Department... 537,299 Other Becolpia
478,940
號一月六年七十至百九千壶英
BUSINESS NOTICES,
STEAM OR MOTOR VESSELS
8,000 Tons. 4,000 Horse Power now Built.
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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 BAY
DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO.
HUDSON
AND OVERLAND
MOTOR CARS
BEST
SOLE DISTRIBUTORS FOR THE FAMOUS
TELEPHONE 482.
COME AND INSPECT
OLET HALLST DAVIDSON KOTOR
CYCLES
CARS IN THE COLONY FOR" HIRE.
BEWARE OF MOSQUITOES!
MOSCATINE.
The infallible insect repeller.
PRICE 50 cents, $1.00 and $2.50 Per Bottle. PREPARED ONLY BY
THE VICTORIA DISPENSARY.
32, Queen's Road Central.
THE HONGKONG RO, E MANUFACTURING GO., LA.
Established 1885
-MANUFAUTURERS OF.
PURE Manila ROPE
STRAND
to 16'
CIRCUMFERENCE.
CABLE LAID
4 STRAND
5 to 15"
CIRCUMFRIKA L
3" to 10" CIRCUMYTECK
Oil Drilling Cables of any size up to 3,000 feet in length
Pries, ramples and full particulare will be forwarded on application to
Shewan, Tomes & Co. General Managers.
Fongkong April 11, 1912 +
GIANT LAVENDER TALCUM.
SON SUPERIORS LAVENDER
Talcum Powd
EFRE
PURE
The latest addition to our
fine series of Lavender Toilet
Artles, is a powder of ex- ceptional merit.
It has real "antiseptic pro- perties and is wonderfully Boothing to the Skin.
1,1b. Size for $1.00.
A. S. WATSON &
CO., LTD.,
HONGKONG DISPENSARY. Telephone 16.
THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO., LTD.
(NOW RECONSTRUŐ"""D).
ANGINEERS and SEIPBUILDERS, BOILER-MAKERS, BRABS and TRON 25,839,228 FOUNDERS. All work done in this establishment is guaranteed.. "We have the Accumulative Fonds of the various over thirty experience. We own two Blipways and can accommodate any ante Branches are panely Juvested, and, by of 200 feet lon
Aol of Parliament, are not aside to meet
the claims under the respective Depart ment of the Company Burine.
UHEWAN, TOMES 00.
Town Ufler, 48, Commapunt Road Center, Hongkong. Telephots Nɔ, 462. Shipyard Sham-Sai-Po Kowloon, Hongkong,
Telephone No. 9. Eatonabee furnished en ipoliostimu
Hiring April 17120
WONG PINO WAY Managers
TAIKOO DOCKYARD
BUILDERS OF SHIPS & ENGINES
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION
-THE PIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY
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REMARKABLE ADDRESS
BY THE KAISER.
IN A MINOR.KEY.
AUSTRIAN REICHSRATH.
A LIVELY SESSION EXPECTED.
AMSTERDAM, May 30.-
The Reichsrath. (Vienna) opened
its first sitting singe the war.
The Galleries were crowded.
AMSTERDAM, May 3p. The Kaiser, in a remarkable ad- dress to the troups on the Afrus front, declared thus" the enemy was attempting, with unparalleled supan National Lenguo, was elected
Dr. Groms, the leader of the Ger
There are indications that the
plies of munitions, fially to break President, the German resistance. He said that noble pinded. Germans cun session will be very lively as the appreciate the instive of the French Czech parties, who are numerically who fighting to liberate their superior, lave united in order to hotes, but the English are fighting fusist upon the foundation of a single obstinately and remptiously only for Slav State, while the Poles and the enlargement of their power at Socialists intend to make a demon- Geenmay's cust. Germany, he said. į strution in favour of peace. More- is fighting holy fight and the dura forer, the Poles demand the union tint of it is in God's 'hands, ther-of Galicia with an independens many's business is to hold on, how | Poland having a outlet to the meu. ever long, the war may lust and. Aberman civilians are prepared to: share with the traps every danger and distress.
Meanwhile, Geruah submarines an working to cut pieve
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Losos, May 31. The meeting of the Reichsrath has attracted great attention everywhere owing to the possibility of big. developments. The Czechs have
Lalandy begun a policy of bitter
stility against the Government... They did not participate in the DESPERATE AIR BATTLES voting for the President, while they elected Her Klatsch us their REMARKABLE SPECTACLES.
chairman as a protest against, the Government's imprisonment of him Tosuos:-May, 30. for three years without trial on a Correspondents at Headquarters charge of hight treason state that despite the luff in the fighting, he British aerial offensive continues unrelentingly day and night. Some of the most desperate." air battles of the war haye byen. fought recently, many at a height
· PROJECTED INTERNATIONAL BOCIALIST CONFERENCE.
!
-PETROGRAD, May 30.
The Executive of the Workmen's
BRITISH DELEGATES.
of 19,000 feet. Thirty German and Soldiers' Delegates han decided ranchines were destroyed on May to convoke un international socialist 27th alone. In one melee between conference at Stockholm between ais British and eight Germans, July 15 und 30. the machines were an close that the wings grized: The spretnete!
STOCKHOLM, May 31. was bewildering as the combatants
The Dutch Scandinavian Socialista described enormous loops and Committee bave been informed that crescents. bokling each other's tails. the British Socialists have nominated | Once seven machines were locked Mr. G. H. Roberts, M. P," and Mr. together and slad to earth pouring Rammy Macdonald M. P., to represent out bullets amid a shower of slimp- the majority and the minority res nel from the guns below. The fight pectively at the International Socialist ended in the destruction of four Conference.
German machines and the British coming off westheless.
On another occasion » British pilot, after destroying two machines, win attacked, but he felled his assailant with seven shots from his autofhutic pistol after his gun had jambed.
ALLIED AEROPLANES BOMB GHENT.
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AMSTERDAM, «May 31. The Echo de Belge states that
ITALY'S WEEKLY SHIPPING REPORT.
NO STEAMERS SUNK.
Комк, Мау 31. The weekly shipping report for the week ending May 26 states that there were 498 arrivals of a total tonnage of 185,110, and 476 nailings of a total tonnage of 455,358 uat including fishing hosts and small.constern. No steunters were sunk.... Twelya sailing vessels, each
fifteen Allied aeroplanes heavily under 50 tons, wofe sunk. bombed Ghent on Monday, consider ably damaging the railway station and causing a panic...
THE AUTONOMY OF FINLAND...,
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The machines returned, without! loss, after burnerous air fights.
ANTILLERY ACTIVITY ON BRITISH AND FRENCH FRONTS.
A GERMAN REPORT.".
LONDON, May 31
A Berlin official message states
PETROGRAD, May 80;
The Government is discussing the Finnish demands including the autonoing of Finland under inter national guarantees
FROM LONDON TO ROME BY
̈AEROPLANE.
ROME, May 30 British aeroplane bon arrived.
that there was lively artillery activityIt Hew from London stopping at
at Ypres, Wyschnete, and Bends Paris, Tarin and Pisa (? Lens).
There was also a most intense artillery duel at Chemins-des-Damer and in western Champagne..
LONDON, May 31 Field-Marshal Sie Douglas Haig
reports:
We drove off raiders to the south of Armentieres taking some prisoners There has beer considerable reci procal
leryctivity near Bulle Court and on the right bank of the Scarpe
BRITISH HELP FOR FRENCH SHIPPING
Pants, May, 80. M. Boussenot the Secretary, to the Naval Committee of the Chamber, has written an article, in a Cewspaper appealing for further Bridsh help for French shipping. He mentions that over 500 British ships are at prestas working for France es
(Conttumad on Pare