INTIMATIONS
THE KOWLOON LAND AND
·BUILDING COMPANY,
LIMITED.
"NOTCH IS HEREBY GIVEN that EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the KOWLOON LAND AND BUILDING COMPANY, LIMITED will be held at the Registered Office of the Company. Victoria Building, Hongkong. on FRIDAY, the 8th day of March, 1918, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon when the subjoined Rowlation which was passed at the Extraordinary General Mepting of the Company bed on the 20th day of February, 1818, will be submitted for confirmation as a Special Besolution -
"That the Articles of Association be altered in manner following:
(a) That the word "two" be substituted
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CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE.
TAFORTIETH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING OF SHARE- HOLDERS of the above Campany will be held at the Offices of the General Agents, Pedder's Street, on WEDNES DAY, the 17th instant, at 11.30 A for the purpose of receiving the Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1917.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the
Company will be CLOSED from the 14th to 17th March, both days inclusive. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Las.
General Agents Hongkong, Mar. 6, 1918.
$14
for the word "three" in the definition THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB. of "The Board" in Article
(That the word "two" de substituted
for the word "three" in Article 7%. (c) That the word "one" by substituted
for the word "two" in lines one and two of Article 78 and thit the word other shall be substituted for the word"
"others" and the word "his" for the word their in line two of Article 78 and the word "member" be substituted for the word "mem- berg" in line three of Article 76. (3) That the word "Director" be sub- atitute for the word "Directora" in
Article 77,-
PURCHASERS OF PARI-MUTUEL
TICKETS on the fifth Race, Second Day, for Cash Sweeps, Places and Winners also Cash Sweep Ticket Holders, of following Races can obtain a refund on production of their tickets. at the Offices of HONGKONG JOCKEY Cura, on, the Ground Floor of the HONGKONG CLUB ANNEXE CHATER ROAD, between the hours of 3.30 .. and 8.30 PM. on MUNDAY, the 4th March, 1918, until 29th March
Saturdays and Sundays excupted).
HOLDERS OF UNPAID WINNING
(*) That the word "Director" be sub-TICKETS (Cash Sweeps, Places and stituted for the word "Directors" in Winners) will also be paid at the same line four of Article 79.
place and between the same hours as
That the word "signature" be sub-itated above on production of their ! stituted for the
"signatures" tickets.
in lines 1, 2 and 4 of Article 89 and that the word "one" be substituted for the word "twa" and the word "Director" for the ward "Directors" in line one of Article $a.". "That the words "band of one of the Directors be unbstituted for the words hands of two of the Directors" in line 2 of Article 10.1 Dated the 20th day of February, 1018.
By Order of the Board
A. SHELTON HOOPER, Secretary to
The HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT &
AGENCY CO., LD,
General Agents for the Company
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THE HONGKONG LOPE MANUFACTURING CO, LTD.
THE THIRTY-FOURTH ORDIN
ARY ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS in the above Com pany will be held at St. George's Buildings, Chater Road, Victoria 05 SATURDAY, the 9th March, 1918, at 11.33 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General Managers for the year ending 31st
LOWE, RINGRAM & MATTHEWS,
Accountants to the HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB. Hongkong, Mar. 1, 1918,
NOTICE.
192
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that!
the Firm of A. R.. Marty, Revz SALLE Successor, has as from the 12th February, 1913. sold to Messrs. P. 4. LATICQUE & Co. the SS: HANOI" which insures the Postal Service between right to use the name of A. RL MARTY, Hongkong and Haiphong, and also the Compagnis de Navigation Toninoise.
The business will hereafter be carried on by Messrs. P. A. Larroque & Co., No. 4, Queen's Building, Telephone 930,
́P."A. LAPICQUE & CO.
MAISON, A. R. Marty, RENE SALLE, Successor.
208
Hongkong, Mar. 3, 1018.
RONGKONG HOTEL
NOTICE
8th
December, 1917, and eleting a ConsultTHE TEA DANCE which was to be ang Committee and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOK of the bold on FRIDAY next, the Company will be CLOSED from inst., is CANCELLED. TUESDAY, the 5th March, 1918, natil
SATURDAY, the 9th March, 1918, both
days inclusive.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Manayea, Hengkong, Feb. 28, 1918.
HONGKONG CLUB
NOTICE.
189
THE THIRTY SECOND TEARLY GENERAL MEETING OF THE MEMBERS of the HoNGONO Clus, will bebeld in the CLER HOUSE, on MONDAY, the 19th March, 1919, at 5.30 F3.
By Order
E DES YEUX,
Secretary
Hongkong, Mar. 2, 1918.
201
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J. U. TAGGART, Manager.
Hongkong, Mar. 5, 1918.
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SIDELIGHTS FROM GERMANY.
THE ROAD TO INDIA AND
BRITAIN'S PLANS.
t
BRITAIN'S "LAND ROUTE.
only as a glacis for India, the costliest future will show whether the Germans. jowel in the British crown.
are mature enough" to parsze a "policy" which will get us back Musopotamia broadest sections of people recognise the Victory will go to this nation whose necessity of the astions demanda. A
THE CHINESE. DIFFERENCES.
AR. E. S. LITTLE'S EFFORTS. TOWARDS A SETTLEMENT,
It is in pursuit of this policy of securing her Easter Dominions that Britain desires an overland Cond to India. This idea is an old large part of the British working classes one, and has not its origin in this war them. My the day soon come when the know what the British Colonies mean for It took shape after the occupation of The surrender of Jerusalem and the Egypt. Kach has been written lately broadest masses of our people will KING EDWARD HOTEL consequent strengthening of British about the importance of Egypt for assess anderetanding of German for
power and prestige in the Middle East Britain, but it is necessary to add, says eign policy." will have a chastening effect on the pro- the "Kölnische" writer, that the occupa tagonists of the "Hamborg to Bagdadtion of that country was a necessity if policy. It was a policy which attracted England set store on commanding the vast number of adherents, men who seaway to India after the opening of the
Suez Canal.
The land Bras
Way alan a necessity, recognised at an early stage of the war that Germany was bound to suffer. immeasurable losses in her overses trade and Britain, made wise by her Colonial and by the deprivation of markets in experiences, began to secure the adhesion Mr. E. S. Little, who was successful which she could replenish her exhausted of the spiritual chiefsofIslam by an adroit supplies of raw material. Men of the expenditure of gold. It was undoubted in bringing about a settlement in 1911 calibre of Dr. Paul Rohrbach affected to an adroit policy. The Amb population between the southerners and Yuan Shih- see in an extension of Germaz infoence as irritated by the actions of the Turkish kai. is at present making efforts towards the East more thun a compensa-ho "Turanians," posing as the liberator between the north and the south. His Nationale, and Britain agitated against for a settlement of the present differences tion for any losses she might incur of the Arsh tribes from the thraldom of task is undoubtedly a big one, but there oversens, but above, all they saw in it) Tark. And, besides, they would is every prospect of it being successful. serious blow struck at British pre-
Mr. Little bas auggested that a con; dominance in those regions and a policy make of the desert of Arabis a flourishing which would eventually tend towards garden like unto Egypt. The British ference be held, say in Shanghai, and the dislocation of British power in moreover played on the string of an both by letter and cablegrain, with the has placed bimself in communication, Arabic Khalifa, TIXPERIENCED CHINESE, having India.
Knowledge of Import Export,
article in the Then, we are told, came the necessity President and all the Chief Tachans. There is an interesting The Rowi of a military occupation of Mesopotamia! He has received in reply a letter from Shipping, Insurance and Correspon-"Kölnische Zeitung, headed, dence in open for engagement.
to Indis," in which German ambitions and finally the necessity of controlling und the underlying fear that they will and securing those portions of Persis appreciative telegram from the Kiang- remain unfulfilled, are blended in a through which the future road to India rather discordant whole. Some pass-would lead. C/o CHINA Mam" Ofce.
NO ARRANGEMENT POSSIBLE. ages from this article are well worth
The writer proceeds to examine how far Bongioni, Mar. 6, 1918,
212 quoting. It is an article full of flatant
nonsense, but appearing in the "Kelni-this British policy has been successful sche" it is clearly an effort made with The first tangible resolt was the defection purpose, and behind it are doubtless of the Sherif Hussein and his appoint men of some importance.
ment as an Arshian King dependent on First of all, we are told that the Ger the grace of England. Mesopotamia has man Empire, rising in accordance with been occupied so far it is necessary the dynamic laws of nature, has filled for the fullment of British plans, and Britain with concern for the safety of Southern Persia has been firmly in
her her world-empire and the security of
corporated.
The conclusion of the writer is ees lordship. This is really the secret of England's participation in the ar.peculiarly interesting: Une day we
WANTED.'
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"WORKER,"
Accounts and the Report of the Director DAIRY FARM NEWS. for the year ending 31st December, 1917 and declaring & Dividend
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED
from THURSDAY, the 14th March, 1918, antil SATURDAY, the 3rd: "March, 1919, both days inclusive.
By Order of the
BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Hongkong, Mar. 5, 1918.
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HE PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTI. FIED that Accommodation for First Class Passengers will be provided on the Goods Train leaving Kowloon at 12 Noon, on NATURDAY, 0th instant, calling at Taipo and Sheung Shui
By Ordes,
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Kowloon, 6th March, 1018.
213
NATIONAL LOAN OF THE THIRD YEAK OF THE REPUBLIO (1914)
CUBSCRIBERS to the above Loan are hereby notified that REDEMF- TION OF THE BONDS drawn ̈ ́on 20th February last will begin on 1st March 1918,
found
Payments in cash or its will be made at the Bank of Chin Bank of Communications.or any of the Branches of the above. Banka azi also At the Shanghai Office of the Hongkong And Shanghai Banking Corporation
Any bund of which the following aro the two terorinni rumbers, namely; 08, TL 23, 35, 47, 51, 58, 07, 77, 88, 00, in %. draw bonds
ARRERACT, A. AGLEN, RES Inspector General of Customs:
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the Shantung Tuchan Obag and
the
si Tuchun Chen. Both these Tachans express their earnest desire to see an early settlement of the differences be tween the north and the south, but any that it is "up to the President to decide."
So far no reply has been received. from the President, but one is daily expected..
Mr. Little bas also been in communi- cation with Mr. Teen Chen-hinna, who is now in Shanghai, and who guarantees that the southerners will be represented
At the proposed conference, and that be
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has full power to act on their behalf, The Chinese press, it is worthy of She would smash the German attack must come to an urraigement with note, is giving cordial support to the the question her grester, imperial interests, destroy England about Belgium and other purely movement, articles on Germany's naval power, and rob her of European questions. Bat we shall never appearing in the papers almost every
arrive at an agreement on any question day -Shanghai Merbury, which encroaches, on the integrity of British Colonial possessions, stiil.less on We are next informed that Germany's any question which touobes the course Oriental policy rests on "Historical tion between Britain and India. the accessity." We are informed that the vertebral colon of British world-power. political ambition which bas Bagdad as I therefore we do not solve the its object is as old as Pepin and Char-Orient question militarily, even though lemagne. One can see that it rests, we beat England to her knees, the last moreover, on the "geographiesl line of concession which Britain: would make the existing group of Powers-whatever would be the yielding up of Arabis · and this may mean At various periods Mesopotamia. It is thus that the Bri during the past 1.1 years attempts tish think about the road to India. The have been made to link up the Orient with Germany, but until now the neces sary power has been lacking. That Germany has taken the opportunity of securing the assistance of Turkey in the
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