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MUMEYA
Japonesa Photographers. All kinds of Photograping
Work done in latent styles.
also Passport Photo
Developing and Printing for
Amateurs & Speciality.
So. B, Queen's Road Conn
Tat 25-4.
No. 16.968.
The China Mail
ESTABLISHED
號二月十年七十登百九千登英
BUSINESS NOTICES,
SONGKONG TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1917.
BUSINESS NOTIOES
AND
THORNE'S
OLD VAT W. S. BAILEY & CO., LTD.
No. 4.
SCOTCH WHISKY.
SOLE AGENTS.
A. S. WATSON & Co. Ld
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
HONGKONG
TIT.' 616.
NOTICE.
NY EUROPEAN Non ASIATIC or INDIAN desiring to leave, the Colony should apply in person at the Central Police Station between the hours of .. to 1 P.M. and SP.M. tu daily.
Applicants will be required to produco Passports or identification papers. All persons, with certain exceptions, who ramsin in the Colony for more than 7 daya are required to Register them- selves under the REGISTRATION of PERSONS ORDINANCE 1916. Forms of. Registration giving the particulars required may be obtained at the G.E.O. and at all Police Stations.
The Penalty for non compliance is a fine not exceeding $50,*
NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE
"INSURANCE CO.
WHICH LEX VESZED THE SHARDH DE
THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE
COMPANY? LED,
and
THE RAILWAY FASSENGERS
TOTAL
ASSURANCE CO
FUNDS 1731 DECIMÈ, 1914,
£23.970,367.
I-Authorised Capital £8,000,000
Subscribed Capital £4,500,000 Psid.op Capital ...........£2,437,500
Fire Funds
3,83 1-Life & Annuity Funda.... 17,567,590 Sinking Fund Account 128,230
£29,970,367 381, 158 141,693
Revenge Fire Branch
Life and Annuity
Branches Revenue Marine Department... 397,239 Other Receipts. #78,940
05, 139, 228
The Accumulative Funds of the various Branches are separately inTasted, and, by Act of Parliament, are set aside... meet. +ba claims under the respective Depart- ments of the Company's Business.]
SHEWAN, TOMES &“CO.
Agente
PEAK TRAMWAYS. COMPANY,
·LIMITED.
TIME
TABLE
-WEEK-DATE
7.00. to 8.00a.m...Every 15 minutes. 8,00 am to 10.00 μm... Fivery. If minuter. 101,00 am, to 11.00 ....Every 15 minutes, 11.20 at. to 12,45 p.m...Every 15 minutes. 12.45 p.m.to 116 p.m...Every 10 minutes. 1.15 p.m. to 1.45 p.m...Every 15 minuter, 145 p.m. bo 2.15pm...Every 10 minuter. $15 p.m. to 5,00p.m... Every 15 minutes, 6,00 p.m. to... 9.00 pm. Every 10' mhamber,
***** "NIGHT CARE. *"
8.50 p.m. and 9 pm 4.80 p.m. to 12.00 p.m. every half hour,
1100 p.m. to 11.45 p.m. every quarter of
anbour.
8.00a.m. to 10,30 am. Every 15 minuter.
JENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS.
ZIKOWLOON BAYII
Steam and Motor Vessels,
Steel Building Work of every Description, Castings, Forgings, Repairs and Supplies.
DRAGON MOTOR, CAR GO.
HUDSON
AND
OVERLAND
MOTOR
HARS
SOLE DISTRIBUTORS FOR THE FAMOUS DUA
TELEPHONE. 182.
COME AND INSPECT.
SILKT
GREY
HARLET
DAVIDSON
MOTÜR
CYCLES
BEST CARS IN THE COLONY FOR HIRE.
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING Co., Ld.
Established 1883
-MANUFAUTURERS OF.
PURE Manila ROPE
STRAND
to 18" SIECENFIRINCE.
GABLE LAID
4 STRAND
3 to 10, CLACUNYTRESCE
5 to 15
·CIRCUMIRKEN &
Oil Drilling Cables of any size up to 3,000 feet in length Prices, samples and fall particulars will be forwarded on application te
Shewan, Tomes & Co. General Managers.
Hongkong: April 11, 101,
We have just received
a fresh consignment of
TAIKOO DOCKYARD
BUILDERS OF SHIPS & ENGINES
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION T
- THE TAIVOJ DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING CONFY OF HONGKONG LTR. -
- TELEGRIMIC "AJD.-
AGENTS: SUTTLERELD & SA -"TELEPHONE 2=213-
已丁夫懿年大國民華中
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LD.
PORTLAND CEMENT
In Casks of 975 lbs. net...
In Bags of 250 lbs. nat.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
GENERAL MANAGFES
JEFFREY BEER THE HONGKONG HOTEL
(BREWED IN SCOTLAND).
SOLE. "AGENTS
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS
Telephone No. 016.
THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO., LTD.
(NOW RECONSTRUOTED).
NOTNERS and SHIPBUILDERS BOILER MAKERS BRASS and IFON FOUNDERE. All work done in this establishment is guaranteed. We have 200 foes long, l
A
AND
GRILL ROOM
PEAK
J. H. TAGGART"
MANAGER.
HOTEL.
ADMIRABLY SITUATED AT VICTORIA GAP
Adjoining the Tramway Terminus 1.400 feet above Sea Level FIRST-CLASS FAMILY RESIDENTIAL AND TOURISTS HO
Telephones in all cooms. First class Cuisine, Lounge, Smaiding and Ladie rooms, Roof Garden.
Telegraph
10.30. L. to 11.00's... Frary0 luotas over thirty years' experience. We own two Slipways and can scoommodate any craft TO THOSE GOING AWAY
11:30a.m. to 12 Noon...Erary 15 minutes 100 tion to: 100p.m. Every 10 minuter. 5.00 pm to 5.30 p.m... Every 15 minuter. 5.30pm to 8.00p.m...Every 10 minutes. 6.00pm to 6.30p.m... Every 15 minubet. 8.30 pins, to 8.00 am...Every 10 malnubet,
NIGHT CAR2 as an Week Days.
Hates Chr ab 13 midnight, SPECIAL ARB be arrangement at the Company's
IKANDRA BUILDINGE, Dee-Your Road
for
Inze nou, Karmady, full ruming at the
y's time tablos
of
Town Dios, 48, CONNAUGHT ROAD ORAL, Hongkong. Telephone No. 459, Shipyard; Shum Sui-Zo, Kowloon, Hongkong, Kaumaten furnished on application,
Rengkong, Apti 1919.
hone No 9.
WONG PING, WA; Haager
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THE MESOPOTAMIA
SUCCESS.
THE GREATEST WON ON THE EUPHRATES.
LONDON, Oct.
The success in Mesopotamia considered to be the greatest victory won n the Euphrates, and the most complete since the beginning of the Mesopotamia campaign.
Additious! importance is attached to the victory as Germans had been recently hinting at an. Bfensive again Bagdad, by this very route.
SUNDAY'S ATTEMPTED. RAID ON LONDON,
BARRAGE ZACTICS GENERALLY
EFFECTIVE
LONDON, Oct 2
THE WESTERN FRONT.
VIOLENT ARTILLERY ACTTYLITY, IN MEUSE REGION.
Lospos, Oct. 1
A French communiqué reporta There was violent artillery activity during the night, on both banks of the Meuse, especially between the Mene and Bezoa¥Bux.”
-After a lively bombardment, on the sector at Forges, the German strempt to reach our fine, but our fire easily repulsed them. Another attempt, on the right bank of the Meuse, also failed
Enemy aeroplanes, last night, dropped bombs the region of Bar le due causing damage and casualties Five enemy aeroplanes were brought down, and seven other fell out of control in their own lines, One air squadrons bombed railway station aerodromes, cantonments and works, causing violent fires at Fresnoy and Legrand
REPRISALM
London never, bad such u week | As a reprisal for the borobardments end. The full moon rose on Sunday on the open town of Barleduc, two evening-in an unclouded sky. There of our deroplanes, fast nigh was no breath of wind, bus a slight 300 kilogrammica of bon hy on the ground fog. Police whistles convey fortified city of Stuttgart. ed the first warning of the raid, and
"ARTILLERY" ACTIVITY IN YPRES **** the whistles were quickly followed
SECTORS by the distant rumbling, of guns. Then the aerial barrage opened with a terrific dia, exceeding that of Saturday, and lasting over an hour The screeching of shells over the house tops was very weird When the firing ceased the streets in some parts were left full of smoke.
A notable feature was the absolute absence of panic. Everybody shel tered in the Tubes or cellars in a most orderly manner. The severity of the barrage kept the main body of raiders at bay. Bombs seen to have been dropped in the out-skirts
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Heig reports
There was marked hostile artillery activity, during the east and north of Ypres and on the Nieuport sector.
MORE BRITISH BOMBING OF BELGIAN COAST DEPOTS.
LONDON Oct.
The Adminky announces that naval aircraft on
of London. Some bombs dropped dropped several
in a crowded working-class locality good results, on the lock gates af The casualty list here is not yet Zeebrugge, St. Denis ascertainable. The bombs were all aerodrome, Thourout, explosive and not incendiary No Brugenis works and fires resulted
A large
fire was caused at St. Dema Telegrame from the Kent coast Westrem way that the raiders passed over in couples under an incessant Fire, One,
Where were several aerial com KOSOVA SOTMwo enemy mo
uider was hermed in, by shalls over and one was driven
the Thumes estiary. It flew hither
out of control.
and thither like a frightened blue- la Gotha bottle, but eventually escaped norte lieved
eastward
in
* Mr. Lloyd George, who had been spencing the day in the country, returned to Downing Stree in the Fevenings In an interview, he
Buid
1, must take my share of the ham- mering
Everything points to the general effectiveness of the
The damage done was comp triting
It is reported that the on Friday Buraid
Bolland and has been t
THE CAST
states that
inchie
There
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