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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1917.
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PUBLIC WORES DEPARTMENT.
TT is bereby notified that SEALED
ILIADORY in duinute which shant
be clearly macked ? Temless" for the -supply of "Stores" will be received at the Colonial Secretary's Office until Noon, et MONDAY, the 15th day of October, 1917, for the ne
sapply and dehver of the fol lowing stores required by Government Department during the year 1918 ----
General Stores, Ironmongery, etc.. ----- Asbestos, Rubber Leather, Packings,
Roper etc.
Clothing, Drapery, Haberdashery, etc.. Bamboo and Cano Goods, Firewood,
etc etc.
Drysalteries, Oils, Paints, Varnishes,
etc.
Lubricating Oils.
Kercone.
Wrought Iron Pipes and Fittings,
.
Brass Taps, etc.
Iron and Steel Bura, Plates, Angles;
Brass and troper Bar, etc.,
Iron and Brass Castings, Manufactured
Ironwork, etc..
Timber
Bricks, Cement, Lime, etc.
Each of the above is a separate and distinct tender. Tenderers may quote for any one or more ör all of the above lists, and any one or more or all may be accepted or rejected in whole or in pat by the Government.
Each Tenrlerer must produce with each tender
s receipt that. he has deposited in the Colonial Treasury the suas named on the respective tender forra R4 A pledge of the bond files of his tender, which sum shall be forfeited to the Crown should the Tenderer refuse or fail to carry out, to the satisfaction of the Government, the whole or any portion of the respective tender or tenders which may be accepted. The deposit will be returned to any Tenderer whose tender is not accepted.
For form of tender and further par ticulars apply at this Office.
The Government does not bind itself
to accept the lowest or say tender.
W. CHATHAM,
Director of Public Works.
Hongkong, Oct. 6, 1917.
NOTICE OF REMOVAL
THE MERCANTILE BANK
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C. CHAMPKIN,
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Hongkong. Oct. 6, 1017-
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HONGKONG FOOTBALL CLUB.
THE ANNUAL MEETING of the HONGKONG FOOTBALL CLUB
will be held in the Othees of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. LTD. (Top NEW Floor) by kind perpissim, on WEDNES
DAY, 10th Databer, at a 30⋅ P; 3.
W. J. MORRISON,
Acting Hon. Secretarys
Hongkong. Oct. 8, 1917.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
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LIGHT TO
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WAR TO MAKE TIGRIS VALLEY THE WORLD'S GRANARY.
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Invest in vorher lots in Eaghdad. With the wiping out of Turkish misrule
light is beginning to slune on the valley of the Tigrisi and Enrbrate
palities! and her scheme for the Bagindad The establishment of an independent. Hailway was a bid for the highway of the Kingdom at Mecca and the expulsion of world, which runs in a direct line from the Turks froue nearly the whole of Constantinople through the richest, pro- Arabia has ushered in a day of promise vinces of Asia Minor to the Gulf of India. for the Arab race, When the British I think the real bottom of the war was forces took usah the city was cleaned, the struggle for this highway of nations. Elypt is not only a country of importance pavements introduced, wages ingrens-
a decent government, established, moderh
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WHAT THE RECKONING WITH
in itself, but the connecting link betweed, and "already the whole country is the vast and undeveloped resources of the feeling the effects of the new regime.. Splan und Europe. At the junction of How this light of hope prosperity and the Whits and the Bine Miles 1.100 miles progres is breaking upon Mesopotamia, Adexandria and 1000 andles Irons P. F. HOUGH, since the beginning of the great war and goda, stands the capital of the Sudan
Clerk of the Couran Hongkong, Sept. 9, 1927.
how the fertile country will dembrless which but for the life and death of blossom into the grabars of the East when Guneral Gordon, your Chinese" Gordon. it is rid of the Turkish joke, was told in might still be a struggling Sudanese the assembled members of the Saturday
village... Club Shanghai by Dr. Samuel M.
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THE CHINA LIGHT, AND POWER COMPANY, LIMITED.
When nie reflects that sply about
Sera
SIXTEENTR
ORDINARY Zwener, the well-known writer and twenty years ago no white man, Chris THE
GENERAL MEETING of SHARE adherity on Moslem questions, .
tian, Moxiem, or Jew, could have possesions. HOLDERS Ill be helf at the Offices of the Company, ST. GEORGE'S
We thank tied that there is light being a single our Khartoum without being HUILDING, NO. 6 Connaught Head, thrown on Mesopotamia by the war, said killed or made a prisoner and that.to-day Victorin, on SATURDAY the 20th day
October, 1917, at
at 11.30 .. for the r. Zwener. It has affered from all races and religions meet under the purpose of receiving a statement Turkish misrule oppression and kprotection of the Anglo-gyptian Cove
and the report of the Conerul
AUSTRIA INYOLVES.
Min, July 28.-The Corriere della declarations, in the House of Commons interprets Lord Robert Cecil's last Tuesday, es meaning that the "dis memberment of Austria is not one of England's war purposes. On this as the Allies for clear definitions sumption it makes fervid appeal to
decí www and affinins, means legitimate satisfaction to The dismemberment of Austria, it the peoples now fighting in order to free It means restoring to Berbis her foll their brothers from the Austrian yoke. Abandoning Serbia would bean atrocious rights and jost limits to her aspi
aspirations.
many heroes have been sacrificed.
The just aspirations of Italy and deniable ends of the war for the Entente Powers, and these ends cannot be recon- iled with the integrity of Austria
Did not Mr. Balfour include in the En- teate programme the entire restoration Czechs? If giving to Serbia, to Italy, of Poland and the liberation of the Rumanis, to Poland, and to Egbemiz the right to enter into possession of the
Jars for the year ending the 31st education, amrit its civilisatira-is gonent the change seems marvellous offence against the idealties to which so
July, 1917, and electing a Consulting Committee and Auditors.
to levu.
Now it has the chaser to
Where once fire and sword played havo
The TRANSFER NOOKS of the Cơm, bewine again a fertila gurden spot us has and the highest ideals of life were, the Rumania ars now one of the most on-
pany will be CLOSED from 15th to 20th
of Oistober, 1917, both days inclusive..
SELWAN, TOMES & CO General Managers.
Hongkong. Der 6 1917.
COMIC
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RECORDS
BILLY WILLIAMS
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I wish it was Sunday night
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60001 do wish that I was aly's man
My loss from Glasgow Town 50,841 never heard Father
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laugh so much before (It's a grand old song
The Kangaroo Hop Mister John Mackenzie O' I come Fra' Scotland ·
beme the valley of the Nile.
FRADLE OF THE HUMAN RACE.
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powers.
low ideals of dervish rule, ospeakable in its degradation of womanhood; the horrors of the slave trade, and the The economic and commercial import. fanaticism of religions Intral, now we anee of the valleys of the Nile and of the see on every hand signs of ecocomical, Tigris-Euphrates ⚫cannot be over social, and moral progreRN, estimitid. And this and their strategic The quays, streets, gardens, and pubile territories which are theirs is not dis- rafae has not been concealed from the buildings present the picture of a civilisedmembering Austria let other terms be
Here was the set of ancient town, as regular and a good deal more cal meani
used, but let us
no longer tolerate equivi meanings vilisation, the very cradle of the human ambitions than some metropolis in the concentrated her aims on Mittel Eurupa, Alf Germany Arabia hasson ares four times the growing Weat. The majority of the sud fir saving the territorial integrity of
abe could even
even renounce Alsace Torraine size of France and, ita, northern valley streets are wide, macadamised, and fined her ace implica contid saabre to herself once supported population of Bity with beautiful trees. Luxurious express contested dominion from Hamburg to millico. Tarkish misrule has windledtrains with dising and sleeping cars ryn
Constantiople. If the Entene tolerates this down to two or three milliona, but twice a week from Kaartum to Cairo. the country under proper irrigation would be as fertile as of old. According to the
race.
PALESTINE,
Khurt is only an illustration of what opinion of Sir William Willcox, with Great Britain had done for the develop- proper
irrigation Mesopotamia would ment, the prosperity, and program of become the granny of all western Asin Egypt led the Sudan. We can speak of and of Europe worth two Egypts, Egypt and besopotamis, in the light of Home Sweet Home Egypt, wine the British occupation, has the war solely because of what Great steadily grown in wealth and commercial Britain as done, with her Alljes, to hold psperity. Land which ouw was worth' $21) an acre can now be sold for $2000ee lands or to win them. Darkness, leath nine, massere, perecutional these rest upon Palestine and, the pro
zu of Turkey which aro
a hopeless struggle umpire. •Since the
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Luxor without observing the Kent, and prosperity of this great protectorate. W must add the strategic importance of both of these countries which lo at the grow roads of the world's truths and form the direct highways to Africa and Asfar there have
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in the midst of Europe the existence of such a block it will have lost the and that block cannot be broken if Austria is unbroken. The liberation of the nations which Austria oppressea is an essential condition of victory,
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