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"THORNE'S
·第二十月十年七十壹百九千叠英
BUSINESS
NOTICES.
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HÜD
1845
HONGKONG, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1917,
BUSINESS FOTICES
已丁大歳年六國民華中
OLD VAT W. S. BAILEY & CO., LTD.
No. 4.
SCOTCH WHISKY.
- 10
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WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
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ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS.
KOWLOON BAY.
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TAIKOO DOCKYARD
BUILDERS OF SHIPS &
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION
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-THE TAIKOS DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPI
OF HONGKONG LTD.-
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HIRE.
NOTICE.
NY EUROPEAN Non ASTATIC or INDIAN desiring to leave the Colony should apply in person at the Central Police Station between the bours of 9 4.3 to 1 PL and 3P.M. to: daily.
P.M.
Applicants will be required to produce Passports or identification papers. All persons, with certain excepticos, who remain in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register them- elves under the REGISTRATION of PERSONS ORDINANCE 1916 Focu of Registration giving the particulas required may be obtained at the G.F.O. ad at all Police Stations.
The Penalty for non compliance is a fine not exceeding $50,
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£23,870,367 £2,331,466
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Life and Annuity 2,141,599
Branoborn; Revenge Marice Department... $37.239. Other Receipts 478,940
£5,339,228
The Accumulative Funds of the various Brinchan 178 separately, invested, and, by Act of Parliament, are set aside
weat
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Hongkong, April 11 1918.
BY APPOINTMENT.
WATSON'S
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PINTS $1.20 Per Dozen. SPLITS 70 cts.
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11.00 p.m. to 11:45pm, (erary quarter of
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SATURDARE.
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(NOW RECONSTRUOTED).
TANGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER-MAKERS, BR 89 and TRON FOUNDERS. All work done in this establishment is guaranteed. We have
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THE WAR.
TO-DAY'S
TELEGRAMS.
/ Reuter's Service to the China (Mail.)
THE ZEPPELIN FIASCO"
FOUR ZEPPELINS STILL HEMMED IN.
PARIS, Oct. 21.
THE GERMAN RAID OFF NORWAY
STORY OF SURVIVORS,
CRISTIANIA, Oct. 21. Norwegian and Swedish hips have Thirty-seven of the crews of the been rescued in connection with the
Four Zeppelins are still wandering disabled, all hemmed in by French avintom-two in the south-west, one action in the North Hea in the Mediterranean and the others
It is known that 10 Norwegians, 17 Swedes and 86 Englishmen n the Swiss frantier. One of these perished in the action, but thi alighted in the neighbourhood, of actual numbers are probably grouter."
The victims include three women.
BERGES, Oct 21 Survivors of the convoy destroyed by German maiders between NorwAY and Shetland state that the ships afternoon and were attacked at left the Noregion cost on Tuesday
seven o'clock the next morning. The Germans & ordered the convoy to step and started firing immediately. quickly sinking the destroyers, which
It
Langris and re-nscended (after jetz
tising 15 of the crew.
ZEPPELINS LOST THEIR WAY.
Pants, Oct. 21.
A book found on a Zeppelin cap tured it Bourbonne-le-Bains sup
ports the theory that the Zeppeling lost their way while returning from England.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LD. nt able to dy 110 kilpietrek
PORTLAND CEMENT
in Casks of 375 lbs.' zUT.
In Hags of 254 Tha, net.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
GENERAL MANAGTRS.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL
AND
GRILL ROOM
PEAK.
J. H. TAGGART
MANAGER
HOTEL.
ADMIRABLY SITUATED AT VICTORIA GAPE. Adjoining the Tramway Terminus. 1400 feet above Sea Level FIRST CLASS FAMILY RESIDENTIAL AND TOURISTS HOTEL
Telephones in all rooms. First-cm Cuisine, Lounge, Smoking and Ladies roome, Root Garden.
oma per day. Mox
Telegraph add: Fencefal
PO PEUSTER
Manager.
thirty years' experience. We own two Slipways and can accommodate graft TO THOSE GOING AWAY
of 200 feet lang,
Tora Office, 48, Connaught Reid CENTRAL Hoogkot. Telephone No. 4. Shipyard: Bharo-Sui-Po, Kowloon, Hongkong, Estiantos Juraiahed on application;
Bongkok, Apr 1, 1919.
Tolophone No. 9,
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Central Location?
Besson and punch, tickets available for LI KLECTRIO TRASH Pam Entancy all can not already fall running at the A Rlectric Lifts, Pans and debbing. time stated in the Company's time tables, European Bathe and Sanitary Fitting, but not for special cas, can be obtained Hot and Cold Water System throughout,
Best of Food and Service
en applicabion as the Company's Offi
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intre Bank one
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The Zeppelins seem to be a new were far inferior in size and equip. type us they are bigger than usualment. Then they sank the mer
chantinen in succession. The whole- affair lasted an hour.
The stearers of the convoy kuc ceeded in launching lifeboats but several filled in the heavy rea which prevailed. The survivor renched
hour and rias, to a height of 6,000
∙metres.
Losnoy, Oct. 21.
A French communiqué mentions Norway after two days" suffering at
that two Zeppelins which fell in a sen zond in the interior were disabled when attacked by netoplanes and anti-uireruft, guns, and were com¬ pelled to descend near the Sisteron Valley zone. The crews set fire to the airships and took flight, but were taken prisoner..
THE CASUALTIES IN LONDON AREL
m :: LONDON, Oct. 21. Of the 27 deaths in what is styled The Silent Baid on Friday, seven were killed by a bomb in a shopping district of the West End, and thir-
MESOPOTAMIA.
SUCCESSFUL BRITISH
OPERATIONS.
LONDON: Oct. 21.
An official rengit states:- "We carried out successful open- tions in the vicinity of Deltawa and Kizilrobati
Our columns began an enveloping movement on Friday and drove the enemy across the Dialn
The Tuska destroyed the bridge ab
teen by tomb which wiped out Kizitobatan retreated to the south- three houses in a suburban street.ern hills of the Jebellhamrin ridge: Eight of the latter belonged to one We took some prisoners and cap family the mother, two boya, four tured wagon-loads of ammunition. girls and a baby. Another bomb demolished a tall suburban house in whose collar' fifteen persone took refuge. These were rescued biter. hours of work, some of their yeler??, day. They were little iriured,
The Premier visited the bombed areas yesterday.
"EAST AFRICA
PROGRESS OF THE BALTIJAS FORCES.
LONDON, Oct. 21.
An official report sates - The main enemy forces, retreating.
The damage to property, in London from Obemkuru, reached Mishima,
In not, serious
remarkable feature is that numerous people in the suburbs knew nothing of the raid till it had passed.
In the streets in London where the solitary bomb fell nobody beard the engines of the Zeppelin The fall of bomb was met Burprising
There is much criticism of "the ailence of the anti-aircraft gun.
The air-raid has evoked articles in the Sunday Times and Obierver demanding no further delay by the Government in announcing the con stitution of an Air, Ministry.
abandoning their hospitals.
We occupied Ruponda and the Lukeledi Mission and forced the Germans towards Nyangao. We Docupied Nyangao on Wednesday,
Two Nigerian battalions tempor arily detached suffered heavily. We Joined up with them on Thursday and drove off counter-attacks.
Fighting is proceeding.
BRITISH NAVAL AIRCRAFT AGAIN BOME BRUGES DOCKS.
LONDON, Oct. 21. The Admiralty announces Naval aircraft on Friday night
The Lobbyist of the Sunday Timesed large quantities of explo
the political group which Bruges docks and watching Mr. Churchill is convinced
that be is manœuvring to be the Air Mister immediately Parliamentary
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Fire broke out, as the,
“All our machinés returned.