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從一廿月三年八十卷百九千春英
BUSINESS NOTICES
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1918
BUSINESS NOTICES
午戊大歲年七國民華中
OLD VAT W. S. BAILEY & CO., LTD.
No. 4.
SCOTCH WHISKY,
SOLE AGENTS
A.S. WATSON & Co, Ld
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
HONGKONG. T616
NOTICE..
K.
ANY EUROPEAN Non ASIATIC or A INDIAN desiring to save the Colony should apply in person at the Central Police Station between the hours P... to P.M.. of ix. to 1.K. and daily.
Applicants will be required to produce Passports or identification papers. All persons, with sertain exceptions, whe remain in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register them- lved under the REGISTRATION of PERSONE ORDINANCE 1916 Forma of Registration giving the particulars required may be obtained at the G.R.O. and 21 * Folies Stations.
The Penalty for non compliance is fine sok exoseding $50,
NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE
INSURANCE CO.
W890S LIE. TEPEND THE READEX OF / THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE
COMPANY, LED, and
HE RAILWAY PASSENGERS
ASSURANOS CO.
STOTAL FUSER AT SIET DECEMETE, 1914,
£23.970,587.
I-Authorised Capital £5,000,000
Babaxibed Capital 24,800,000
Paid-up Capital £2,437,500
I-Life & Annuity Funds... 17,667,680
Sinking Fund Account ...
I-Fire Fund
3,837,047
128,930
£$3,970,367
£9,382,456
Rarense Fire Branch
Life and Annuity 141,593
Branches iura ) Rereane Marine Department..." 837,239 Other Receiptare.
$78,940
£5,939,228
The Accumulative Funds of the various Brinches are separately invested, and, by A of Parliament, are set aside to meet the alaims under the respective Depart ments of the Company's Burines.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
Agents.
PEAK TRAMWAYS CUMPANY
LIMITED
TIME TABLE.
WISE DAY
1.00 ., to 8.00 am..afvery 15 minutes. 8.00am to 19.00 sm...Every 10 minutes. 10.00am to 11.00 a....Every 15 minutes. 11.30am to 12.45 pm.Every 15 minutes. 12.45pm, wo 1.15 pm Every 10 minutos, LIS p.m. to 1.4 p.m...Every 15 minutes. L48 p.m. by 2.15 p.m... Ivesy, 10 minutes, 1.15 p. to 5,80 m. Every 15 minutes 6.90 p.m. to 1.00pm...Every 10 minutes,
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TIGHT BARI
1.50 p.m., sod 9 p.m., 11.30 p.m. 10-11.00
Tylo pm every half bour.
11.30 p.m. bo 11.45 p.m. every quarter of
7.30
an hotte
Bondary
8.00 ba 10,30 mm... EYKSY in minutes! 19.90 am to 11.08 ...Ergy10 minatse. 11:30a.m. to 12 Noon Every 15 minutis, 13.00 noon to 100 p.m. Every 10 gilmabu? 1.00p.m. 8.30 p.Every 10 minutes. 5.30 p.m. ta 5.30 p...rery 10 minutes. 6.00p.m. to 6.30 p.m...very 16 mmbat 6.30p.m. to 8.00 pa. Every 10 minutes,
EFT CARS as on Wook Dayu. FICET
Bikra Cara 13 midnight. SPECIAL CARS by arrangement of the Company's Officơm, ALEXANDER BuLords' Dos Vira Road Umatral
Besson and peach Eckelt available for Call mes pos already full running at the ribed in the Company's time bleu,
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HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMERS.
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Sailings-To Canton daily at 8 a.m. (Sundays excepted) and 10 pm From Canton daily at 2 am. (Sundays arcepted) and
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SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD.
HONGKONG-MACAO LINE.
Sailings-To Macao daily at 8 a.m. (Sundays 9 am) and
7 pm. (Sundays 1 p.m.).
From Masco daily at 7.30 am. and 2 p.m. (Sundays 3 p.m.).
Further information may be obtained at the COMPATY'N OFFICE, Hotel Mansions,
or from Moser, Thos. Coox & Sox, Booking Agents, Hongkong.
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING Go., Ld.
Established 1883
→MANUFA UTURERS OF.
PURE Manila
STRAND
3" to 15".
CIRCUMFERRIER,
Manila ROPE
GABLE LAID
4 STRAND
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CIRCUMIERES E
9 to 10" CIRCUMFERENCER'
Oil Drilling Cables of any size up to 3,000 feet in length
Prices, amples and full particulars will be forwarded on application te
Shewan, Tomes & Co, General Managers.
Hongkong, April 11, 1612.
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THE WAR.
TO-DAY'S
TELEGRAMS.
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THE NECESSITY FOR A LEAGUE· OF NATIONS.
DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
LONDON, Mar. 19.
In the House of Lords, Lord Parmoute submitted a resolution approving of the principle of a League of Nations.
Lord Loreburn, supporting. urged that Foreign Affairs should be brought under direct Parliamentary control.
Lord Lansdowne said that the League of Nations, firstly, must be open to all cations; and, secondly
it should be armed with sufficient powers to securo unquestioning" obedience. He believed that the omens at present were favourable
THE WESTERN FRONT! WET WEITHER RESTRICTS
-OPERATIONS. ***
LONDON, Mar, 20. Reuter's Correspondent at Head- quarters says
Very wet weather is restricting operations. It favours surprise tac- tics, but the enemy does not show Kigns al emerging.
PORTUGUESE TROOPS REPULSE RAIDS.
LONDON, Mar. 20. Field-Marabal Sir Douglas Haig reports:-
The Fortuguese repulsed raids io the neighbourhood of Fauquisart,
There was reciprocal artillary firing in the Passchendaele sector.
BELGIANS DISLODGE THE FOE-
LONDON, Mar. 19.
A Belgian communiqué states:- All the advanced trench elements
for the creation of the League and into which the Germans penetrated
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PORTLAND CEMENT
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In Bage of 250 The net.
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of the United States, because her have been recovered. weapon of economic pressure was unrivalled throughout the world. Lord Lansdowne concurred in Pre- sident Wilson's warning that the League may be compelled not to admit Germany to free economic intercourse after the war. Anyway, nobody proposed to admit Germany to the League, merely upon a Ger. man pledge and a German signature
Attempts to capture our advanced posts in Beverdyk ware repulsed..
Numerous enemy dead were, qund
the re-occupied trenches.
THE FRENCH SECTOR.
LONDON, Mar, 19.
A French communiqué statés:- There were Evely artillery actions" on the right of the Ileuss between
AIR-FIGHTING, ACTIVITY. "
The essence of the proposal was Bures, Badon Vellers, Loraine and that nations admitted into partner. some points of Upper Alsace. ship would partially relinquish their sovereign rights, undertaking to`con- form to the International code laid down by the League He desired the inclusion of the Central Powers because Germany had hitherto al- ways been the greas aanrchist of Europe and becauso her inclusion would do more to wipe out Prussian militarism than anything else.
LONDON, Mar. 19.. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:-
We drove off raiders north-east- ward of Armentiores.
Enemy artillery was active at
Bassce Canal and Armentieres. Ypres, Cambrai, Vermelles, the Lʻ
We dropped nine tons of bombe on railway station and two aerodromes. billets, dumps, and on the Busigay
Air-fighting was very intense ben we brought down 19 planes and tween large formations.
drove down nise
Twelve of our machines aro
Nevertheless, the Leaguo cf Nations was (not?) to be a substitute for satisfactory territorial settle- ment. The latter must precede the establishment of the League. After that disarmament would follow automatically. Lord Lansdowne concluded by eloquently pleading for missing.. the League as the caly means of
Our nightdiers dropped 600 bombe- saving our children and grand-child on two aerodromes used by the ren from a recurrence of the present enemy mightiers, and on dumpet trouble. He quoted the instance of and billete. Prussia after the Battle of Jena, and compared the position with that in 1811 The moral of it was that peace could not be secured by muc- cessful war operations.
The debate was
GERMAN THREATS TO HOLLAND
All our machines returned.
AMERICAN WAR SECRETARY AT
THE FRONTS US
NARROWLY ESCAPES BEING WOUNDED.
LONDON, Mar. 20. Reuter's Correspondent with the American Army in France says
Mr. Baker (American Secretary for Wary on Tuesday visited then **A VIOLATION OF NEUTRALITY front line of trenches and remained for 00 minutes under a brisk enemy shellfire.
"Amsterdam · Mar. 20.
German threats to Holland, if the sequiesces in the shipping arrange. nient are ecoming more menacing. The Tiges Zeitung Raj Germany in ber vital interests wil draw the
Returning to Headquarters o Cherman 4-inch shell burst within forty yards without damaging the car or occupanta, v ka
necessary conclusion from such THE MACEDONIA FRONT.
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