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No. 17,081.
觀四十月二年八十竖百九千叠英
THORNE'S
BUSINESS NOTICES.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1818.
BUSINESS NOTICES
午戌歲年七國華中
OVERLAND CHINA HAILS (PUBLISHED EVERY. MAIL: DAT}}
Ountains and Wook's New
of. Hongkong and thie?
Frissa (including Postség) to alký part of the world: $11
PRICE $3.00 Per Month
THE WAR.
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.
OLD VAT W. S. BAILEY & CO., LTD.
No. 4.
SCOTCH WHISKY,
BOLE AGENTS:
A.S. WATSON & Co. Là
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTE, HONGKONG,
NOTICE.
NY EUROPEAN Non ASIATIC OF INDIAN desiring to leave the Golony shwold apply in person at the Central Falice Statice between the hours of § ax. d. 1'P.M., and 9 P.M. to, 4 P.M... daily.
Applicants will be required to produce Farporis er identification papers. All parsons, with sertain exceptions, whe casin in the Colony for more thar. 7 days are required to Register tham- wolves under the REGISTRATION of PERSONS ORDINANCE 1916. Forms of Registration giving the particulars required may be obtained at the GP.O. and at all. Police Stations.
The Penalty for non compliance is s Benet.exceeding $50,
NORTH BRITISË & MERCANTILE
LESURANON CO,
WHICH ARE TROZES TEX KHAKUS OF THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE
COMPANY, Ltd.,
and
THE RAILWAY PASSENGERS
ASSURANCE CO.
STOTAL FUNDS at Slet Decora, 1914,
EX3.970,367.
TOTA
---Anthoriand Capital £6,000,000,
Babweribed Ospital £4,500,00%" Paid-up Capital £2,437,500 Il-Fire Funda........3,837,047 11-Lila & Anonity. Fonds... 17,587,590 Blaking Fund Amt ... 128,230
£33,970,367
Revane Fire Branch,881,456 |
Life and Annuity 2,141,583
Branche.......... Rerence Marine Department... 337,239 Other Rechipts
$78,940
£5,330,228
The Accomulative Funds of the various Branches are separately invested, and, by Act of Parliament, are set aside to meet the claims under the respective Depart
ents of the Company's Burioose.
SHIWAN, TOMES & DO.,
Apesta.
PLAE. TRAMWAYS COMPANY.
LIMITED
TINK TABLE,
'7.00am to 8.00's. m.,.livery 15 minutas.
1,00 10,00 Eray, 10 minutes."; 10.003.04. bo:11:00 am Every 15 mlaubes. 11.30am to 19.45 p.m.ážvery £5 minutes. 11.45pm. bo1.15 p. Every 10 minutes. 1.15 pm bo 1.45 p.minEvery 15 minutes. 1. pamte ho 1.16 jules_yuy 10 estante. 15p to 5.00 pit.Every 15 minuta. 00 pm to 8.00 pmvery 10 minutes. NIGHT CARD A
Jums pad. 5 pm 1.80 pim, to 11,00 grey half hour,
pid. bu 11:45 pm, every quarter
'' Hour
"8.00am to 10,8 may 15 ialomter. 30.30am to 11:00 am... Erary 10 minater. 11.30am to 12 Necp... Every 10 minutes. 1200 noon be 100p.m...Every 10 minutas, 1,005.m to 5.30pm... fivery 15 minutes. 6.91pm to 6.00pm. Every 10 minutes. 100p.m. 6o 8:30p.m. Every 15 minutes. One M80p...Every 10 mlatibo - NIGHT CARS ago Week Days
Patex Car að 19. midnight. SPECIAL CARB by arrangement at the Complary's Qiión, ALEXANDRA BULĹDinas", Der Vor Boat Central, gita
Bowron and panah, tickets, svallable for ever not already full ramming, at the afino win bed by the Company's time tablos, zok for speels? care, can be obtained application as the Company's Offle
refoy has been made in Bank
JOKE
unkia
ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS.
KOWLOON BAY.
Steam and Motor Vessels,
Steel Building Work of every Description, Castings, Forgings, Repairs and Supplies.
HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMERS.
JOINT SERTION OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT. CO., LTD. AND THE CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED. HONGKONG-CANTON LINE.
Sailings-To Canton daily at 8 am. (Sundays arcepted) and 10 p.m. "From Canton daily at 8 6.m."(Sandaya excepted) and p.m.
BERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT CO. ITD.
HONGKONG,MAÇAO LINE.
Sailings-To Macao daily at 8 s.m. (Sundays. § am) and
2 p.m. (Sundays 1 p.m.).
From Macso dally at 7.30 am, and 9 pim. (Sundays 3. p.m.).
Further information may be obtained at the COMPANY'S OFFICE, Hotel Mamions,
or from Messrs. Thos. Coos & Box, Booking Agents, Hongkong.
DRAGON
OVERLAND
MOTOR
CLARA
MOTOR CAR GÖ.
SOLE DISTRIBUTORS FOR THE FAMOUS
TELEPHONT 489]
COME AND INSPECT
BARLIT
BEST CARS IN THE COLONY FOR HIRE.
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING Go., Ld:
Established 1883 MANUFAUTEREAS OF.
PURE Manila ROPE
STRAND
GABLE LAID
4 STRAND
" to 15
6" to 15"
„CUNQUEFEREY £..
3" to 10" CIRCUMFERENC
DIRCUMFERENCE.
Oil Drilling Cables of any size up to 3,000 feet in length
Prices, mamples and full particulars will be forwarded on application be
Shewan, Tomes & Co, General Managers,
Hongkong, April 11, 1913.
DEWAR'S
IMPERIAL"
AND
EXTRA SPECIAL
SCOTCH WHISKY.
AGENTS:
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.,
WINE AND SPIRIT” MERCHANTS
TELEPHONE No: 616.
THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO., LTD.
(KÓW REC
NSTRUCTED).
PROTSEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER-MAKERS, BBA89; and TRON
FOUNDERS All work done in this establishment la guarnabond Wa bure! wres Ublety years expertsboed; Vo own two Slipways and cou komin malata ay of 900 for long.
Town Ollos, $8, CoRRAUENT ROAD CENTRAL, Hongkong,
Bang
WONG
TAIKOO DOCKYARD.
LDERS OF SHIPS & ENGINES
ESCRIPTION
EVERY
-THE INGO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY
OF HONGKONG LTD
TRECLINIC AMD)-
(Reuter's Service to the China. Mail.)
RUSSO-GERMAN "AGREEMENT.
·EEPATRIATION OF UNFIT
PRISONERS-OF-WAR.
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 1
A message from Berlin states that
GERMANY'S DEOLINING CREDIT.
HERR DERNBURG'S ADMISSIONS.
The Berliner Tageblats gives prt minance to a passage in Herr Dernburg's speech at Karlsruhe which some to have been carefully out ont of most of the report It is a remarkable statement · of German's feancial position
Herr Dernburg: said that, so Harr Halfarich has been semi-officially describ
the Russian and German delegates ated as a candidate for further office, it
Petrograd have signed an agreement whereby unfit prisoners-of-war shall
is necessary to be clear about his past achievements He proceeded
The Bnanciag of the war has really be repatriated as soon as possible.not been effective. We have voted between £25,000,000 and £37,500,000 Similar agreements have been of now taxes, bat at the same time wa
Bulgaria and Turkey.
THE SILVER MARKET.
LONDON Feb. 11. The Silver Market is quiet.
signed on behalf of Austria-Hungary, are lost Customs duties to the amount of at least £12,500,000: We are able to balance the Badgat only by leaving the whole of bar military expenditure" out of the ordinary estimates and enter ing it is extraordinary war expenditore. We have new debts to the amount of £5,000,000,000, and for the ervice of this debt, we need from £350,000,000 10 £400,000,000.) But in this direction practically nothing has been done. The result is that the credit of the Ger Empire has been terribly reduced abroad.
GERMANY'S FORGES.
A Foreign the cable to the Bangkok Legation dated Jan. 24th says
Han Daraburg remarked that tha improvement in the German exchange
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LD. The Germans argue that this year they at Stockholm after the victories in Italy
PORTLAND CEMENT
Onaks of, 375 lbs. "het.
“ot 152 ibe: MEL.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
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will be in an exceptionally favourable is an absolute proof that the general position for the main front. The state deterioration in the German exchange ment to only partially tree, for the Ger- has been due to the fall in German mans had to supply their armies in credit. He remarked that people in Eussia läst Yere with very little. The neutral countries are able to buy Gará systematically transferred guns and man War Lean at one-half of its face aeroplanea, to not only bad they
benefit of practically the whole output value, and so, if German credit were of munitions during the year, but they sound, to make a profit of 100 per cent draw heavily on a source which is not but that they do not do so. He com inexhaustible and which they cannot en plained of the effect of the frequens tirely
drain with safety. After the Som-Fan-Garman sapouncements · that, if me in 1918 the German sir service wa Germany does not get a war indemnity, in a state approaching panic and they she is bankrupt.
THE GERMAN MIND,
INSIGHT INTO ITS CURIOUS
WAY OF WORKING.
made drestic alterations in their flying Corps, and reorganised and enlarged fac tories which, when reconstructed, greatly increased their outputThey unde great effort in 1917 to regain their lost. asecadency, with the result that they recovered somewhat from this marked AN inferiority, but the superiority still resta with the Allies, and when the American fying corps is added the superiority will become overwhelming German divi-So that loyal Americans may get sions continue to arrive from Russia in an insight into the working of certain Italy. The total in the West reached German minds and realise there is need one bandred and sixty some weeks ago for internment of many subjects of the The 1919 class were sent East last year
and will shortly appear in the West Kaiser the chief Assistant United Apparently the German, command finds States Attomey, Mr. Knox, has made it necessary to make use of the younger public-s-letter that had come into his classes at once. So far the Allica possess possession. N EN numerical superiority on the main front
THE NEW STANDARD SHIPS...
· The writer of the letter, an unnamed enemy alien, has bean rebeived in many of the best. homes in New York Influential citizens of this country took an interest in him when he arrived here.
The Government programme of estab▲ position ju a banking establishment fishing standardisation la private yards is was given to him, and he gained, rapid being pursued, although now unanimously rumotion. After war was desired her remained, seemingly, the paceful young Approved. Engineering, in its current man his American friends had thought isto, publishes for the first time parti-him to be
culars of the new standard ships. There But deep in his heart was hatred and are several causes, and the technical contempt for the United States that officers dhuilding the Government in commade him a danger, Mr. Knox suid- nection with this prognomo-all men of This was discovered by Federal agents. high ability and still higher, patriotism From time to time discoveries of other have decided to cotidine each yard to one men like him will he made, and the particlier type of ship, the more public will not le informed of their affetually to utilise the bertbn and the arrest. All will be rounded up in due available machinery. In this way, too, it time for Attorney General Gregory bas luse been possible to build ships suited for so ordered, and the net in outagu The identity of the max in question various trades and for ensuring the was withheld He was tested recent Importation of egestas of belessary ly and papers in his case were brought supplies of raw material and food before Mr. Kaoz for examination. The designs embody similarity in detall. Here is the clicial tesulation, of a nitbough the size of the ships vary, portion of the letter that, is: laki, so that there an uninterrupted flow of shows the true character of this alien plates, bars and sections from the steel Finally, I would like again to thank relling nils. Only two different sizes of you for your kidd letter from C, with engines have so far been ordered-one of a copy of the last speech of voo Jagow 2,500 and another of 1,000 horsepower stready acknowledged) I am ported The machinery work has been divided up about everything and regret all the amongst's great many engineering esish more that you and my close compatrioty Her have to far that you here. lishments, one fram confining tail to the fallen from the frying pan into the Casting of high preaute cylinders, another Bee (Literally from the rain into the to byw pressure cylinders, and others to trong
intermediate cylinders. Other firms. But gentlemen, remember always #gain, are producing the crank shafts. Proudly waves the ing black, whit of the same dimensions and site, and red and woe to the enemy has * The first type of ship estries 1,000 tops: threaten it.What Goes it matter, is
5,000tons dead
"THE OVERLAND CHINA MAIL" being 400 (as long. The second is of ual To hell with the Yankee Tabble i
A the Haw of Hongkong and the Far East.
ORDER BEFORE YOU LEAVE, SO THAT YOU MAY RECEIVE
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FAXI-ADDEERS. PROVIA THE
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capacity, with a Do the cowardly dogs think they can length of
feet. Another type is a lift their hands against our great hard 4,600 ton deadweight carrier with struggling Fatherland in ite drest hour Jengib of B85 feet, while a further is 078 of need? Let us now, therefore, endiare feet long and carries 7.000 tons. Some these humiliations tilently with Ister slips, carry 50, be, having a log teeth, but our hour If yet
have two of out we me of the younger geners will remember the wes fandard:
Banan people too. Ebe type, working twin screw Large of the empi
| Jength of 450 feet, and
tan egiten
kave been standardised
soon, that the? Host