TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1918,
Hughes & Hough
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STER Undersigned have received instruc- tions to sell by Public Auction, (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNIÐ).
оп
FRIDAY,
the 11th April, 1918, at 10.30 a.. at their Sales Rooma, No. 8,
Dea Vieux Road, Corner of
Ice House Street,
A QUANTITY OFf
ROUSEHOLD FURNITURE, 22, Removed to Sales Rooms for Convenience of Sale). Also. ELECTRIC FANS, CARPETS, PIANOS,
And One MOTOR BICYCLE.
TEEM-Cash.
HUGEES & EUTGH,
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, Apr. 8, 1913.
FOR SALE
FOR SALE.
€ Rooms.
307
HALESEND." 100 THE PEAK,
Apply C. H. GALE,
P. W. D.
Hongkong, Mar. 28, 1918
FOR SALE
TO LET
TO LET.
RESIDENTIAL FLAT in Prince's
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.
MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD. Fongkong, April 8, 1918.
900
TO LET.
AMERICAN · CABLES,
THE CHINA MAIL.
JAPAN TO SELL SHIPS TO AMERICA,
GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF THE SAN
MEAT INDUSTRY.
WASHINGTOS, April
FRA CISCO A FREE
PORT.
SCHEME "ADVOGATED BY `
COMMERCE COMMITTEE.
1. President Wilson has named '*' Cobi NAVY COMMUNICATION SERVICK TOʻ mission to shape the national policy
MANILA PAPERS-]
governing the production, sule and dis- Washington, April 9. tribution of meats during the wae. This The committee appointed by the Sun The War Trade Board has issued a action is in accordance with a recens, Fransisco Chamber of Commerce to statement reading in part as follows: mendation of Food Administrator investigate whether San Francisco should "Negotiations between the United Hoover, who has noted the favourable be made a free port, and of which_Joha States and Japanese shipbuilders have results of the policy of regulating the laufen was chairman, bas reported in resulted in an agreement to puret ago 18 steel, esipper and sipe industria Japanese ships of about 100,000 tons
favour of such a recommendation. "The deadweight capacity.
The Meat Comnessionensists of universal testimony appeats to be," says which. will be added to the United States. Shipping Secretary of Agriculture Houston, the the report, that a free port has sided Board Beet within a few months. chairman of the Federal Trai's Commis immensely in quickly building up both These rensels are large modersson, the chairman of the Federal Trade, the foreign and domestic trade of every steamers and with the exception of one Commission, the shaisman of the United, harbour where it has been property mone are more than two years, old. Delivers a American ports will begin States Tariff Dount, Secretary of Labour established." pot later than May and will be finished Wilson and Mr. Hoover. in September.
A progressively higher price per ton 910 is probable according to the month of
delivery
as there is a premium on early delivery.
TO. 3 CANTÓN VILLAS, Kowloon. No.
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.
MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD. Hoogkong, April 8, 1918.
TO LET.
OFFICES in York Building.
No. 1 MORETON TERRACE. HOUSES on Shameen, Canton.
Apply to-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
MENT & AGENCY Co., Lea,
TO LET.
TROM 1st May next, No. 1, AIMAI VILLAS, earner of Kimberley and Austin Road, Kowloon. One six-roomed House, with separate bath-rooms and kitchens. Apply to
PATELL & CO... King's Buildings, Top Floor. Hongkong, Mar. 29, 1913.
TO LET
258
vexy
IMMEDIATE ENTRY, Lour
desirable SHOPS situated in Ice Bonne Street, opposite the Grand Hotel, recently reconstructed.
For rent and other particulars apply to the Manager. Eongkong Ice Co., Ltd. 48 Connaught Road Central.
Hongkong, August 2.1917,
TO LET
9003
FLAT in Nathan Road, Kowloen.
Four roomed houses in Kowloon.
Apply to- BUMPEREYS ESTATE & FINANOI
.CO., LTD. Alexandra Buildings.
Mongkong, August 23, 1817.
INTIMATIONS
TUSCULUM, Barker Road, 168 Peak MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA
Apply
DUNCAN CLARK;-- LANY, CRAWFORD & Co. Hongkong, Mar. 1, 1918.
FOR SALE.
195
THE Undersigned, have received in- structions to sell at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of Ice House Street,
"
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MOTOR YACHT Built 1918, had very little usage, Hull ...
...Teakwood Length, water-line 19′ 8′′; over all 35o Beam ...
7 Draft...
... 3 Motor "Scripps", Heavy duty 14 H. P
Complete with Lavatory, Refrigerator, Suit of Sails, and ali Accessories. Price and full particulars may had from the Undersigned
Terms: Cash,
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, Jan. 9 1918.
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AGENCIES:- CHINKIANG: Mesars Gearing A
a
letter to the President in which he said This change in policy may take the form of a more definite direction of the
In return, the War Trade Ecard bar large packers or even government opera. Agreed to deliver to Japanese stription of all packing establishments.” builders corresponding amount of steel | ⠀ for shipbuilding, ton för ton. Further negotiations are in progress to secure from Japanese shipbuilders 900,000 additional tons of construction in retur for steel."
CONTROL OVEN LABOUR.
Berounting the experience of other' Mr. Hoares outlined the new plan inities that have had free port areas, the report calls attention to the fact that the city of Hamburg, by virtue of its being a free port, had in 1910 surpassed Tendon in its foreign trade by $100,000,000, and far exceeded Liverpool in imports, notwithstanding the fact that the English cities had a certain natural advantage in being part of a free trade WASHINGTON, April 8
country. Hamburg's total foreign com The Laited States Employment Ser
marit, anys the report, Was only vice has divided the country into.. 2888,000.000 jess than that of New York. districts, thus facilitating the mainten ACQUISITION OF GERMAN DOCKS ance of equilibrium in the country's of the successful operation of the res Other cities mentioned as illustrations
labour supply. Steady employment is port plan were Hongkong. which, the assured by the federal dissemination of report says, orpassed New York in clear. information as to healities where labouring foreign trade tonnage several years shortages exist, thus enabling the shift before ing of labour to the places where it is advanced rapidly as a collecting and Singapore, which most nested.
distributing centre. and Copenhages. which, as free port, won the trade of the Baltic arcs.
AT NEW YORK.
Washington, April 2. President Wilson has signed a law permitting the sale of the great proper tien owned in America by corporations which have been virtually adjuncts of the German Foreign Office and military system.
MONEY FOR SYRIAN RELIEF.
New York. Mar. 30,"
The law enables the United States to acquire all the German steamship docks in New York harbour, etc. The invest- ments of the Kaiser, ex-Chancellor Bethund Syrian Relief reports its February The American Committee for Armenian mann-Bollwegg, former Ambassador Bernstorff and other German junkers are receipts as 9881,818, making the total to included in the terms of the Bill
date 89,210,168.
SIX NEW U.S. DESTROYERS.
· WASHINGTON, April 3.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels has an- nouneed that six more new destroyers
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Among the adventurers of German origin who have passed from the by-way WASHINGTON, April 3. of the City of London into the safe keep- The Senate Judiciary Committee hase of an internness camp recently is a favourably reported a bill imposing a
as Albert Edward Heyr penalty for disloyalty. The Senate originator of a treasure hant" which adopted so amendment prescribing 2 ended disastrousis for several people in years' imprisonment and a fine of $10,00) 1911. for anyone who by word or act supports or favours the cause of Germany in the prescat war or by word or act opposes the cause of the United States.
Fads for customs duties while goods are Theld in warehouses.
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derse the cost of receiving, transfer ring and reshipping of merchandise.
Free ports will increase the speed and
Free ports accord facilities for unload- ing goods, which may be stored, packed. mixed, assembled, manipulated and even manfactured within the free zone with the greatest possible freedom. Manufac tirrers are recorded the privilege of Heyr, who was born in Germany and exhibiting their goods, grading and alter lived most of his life in South Africa,ingsume for domestic or esport tse. had a beld imagination. During the win Bayers can examine, test and compare ter of 1913-14 it gras whispered in the the commodities of the world before AMERICAN TROOPS IN ACTION IN City that one or two people were about making purchases.
FRANCE.
make a fortune by investment in a
Well-developed Free ports or free zoner private syndicate formed to find a whisky the United States will stimulate the bottle fell of diamonds." Here and growth of exporting houses and enable there one could be found who had vers them to hold goods for set periots with. tured in the syndicat and would out the paya-ut of dutie often equal not part with is for £100." The value to the cost of the commodity itself. of the diamanda was variously estimated Resides supplying a at one, or two, or three millions, outlet for American goods, Free ports aid These stories had their origin in a yarn the American manufacturers in need of told by the German South-African Heyr. foreign supplies by bringing raw materiale tt began with trackless desert of South West Africe and import or export, as the needs of the In jóarney through the to our shores cheaply for subsequent the discovery of a dying Boer. With his trade demand. lass breath the Boer cophided in Heyr the story of the famous bottle, and the aval plan." The bottle contained the fruits of a lifetime of boarding and the plan pointed to an island off the coast of German South-West Africa, as the hiding place.
WASHINGTON, April 3. The enthusiasm bere equals that des- cribed in cables from correspondents as baving been aroused among the Am erican soldiers overseas by the forward march" under orders for participation in the great battle in Franco.
The number of soldiers thus sent against the Germans is being held as tit military secret except that it is stated that more than 100,000" will participate. How many more than this Dumber will be sent against the Runs is not intimated.
Government officials expect the United States fighter to perform creditably alongside the soldiers of the Allies, who ara greatly admired here for their gal lant fighting of the past week.
Cables describe the American advance to the battle front as orderly and speeds the men singing as they march. General Pershing's headquarters is described as buzzing with systematized activities:
THE UNITED STATES ARMY.
Washington, April 4.
THEANCHE SHIP.
more convenient
cargo boats will be greatly increased, and The number, speed and efficiency of in this direction a free port becomes a vital factor in trade demands that will be, placed upon us after the war.:
· KAISER HOLDS TO COLONIES.!
The Kaiser has appointe Privy Coun
There are, of course, laws framed in South Africa to prevent the export of diamonds without payment of a tax. cilior Haber te be Governor of New Hence the hold which Hayr's story had Guinea, says the Komische Vollzei All of the soldiers at present in the The island, ib
on the inugination of City sprenlators." and adds: It sounds curious that asserted, belonged Governor should be appointed to a Cited States except abont 15 per cent required to assist in training the saldi- neither to Great Britain nor to Germany.region which we have lost during the tional million men who are coming to though either might lay claim to it were war, but the fact that Germany has n the National Army training camps this it known that it contained a bottle fuil intention of renouncing her colonies is summer, will be in France by August, of diamonds. To sure the treasure a thus clearly eruphasised.”
according to a decision reported to Eave
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just been made by the War Department. vessel must be found and equipped, azin- All the military chiefs and the Pressed if necessary; the bold Heyr must be of the nation rejoice in the above news, given command and the journey must which came a somewhat of a surprise to be undertaken by men willing to risk the country.
The forces now in training campe
anything."
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which are applying for transportation Such was the story. The fraits of it to Europe are regarded as suficiently were seen when a young man of wealth trained for immediate effective fighting. was persuaded to horrow money on a re They are being sent "over there just as versionary interest in an estate, and fast as ships can be obtained to carry finance the expedition. He lost both the them. The disposition of troops and
transportation already made will enable money and the diamonds. Heyr went to several hundred thousand. man per- South Africa just before the war and haps to reach Europe in time to parti-again after war broke gut. On both occu cipate in the present great battle if the i sions he returned without the diamonds, the fighting is protracted as it was at but was well furnished with money. Verdun
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