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·七十月四年八十壹百九千變英
BUSINESS NOTIOĖS
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, APRIL 27,
OLD VAT W. S. BAILEY & CO., LTD.
No. 4. SCOTCH WHISKY.
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·T BIG..
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NY EUROPEAN Non ASIATIC or A INDIAN desiring to leave the Colony should apply in person at the Centra Police Station between the bours of A. I P.M. and 2 r... to 4PX. daily.
Applicants will be required to produce Passport or identification papers. All persons, with certain exceptions, whe romsin in the Colony for moro than T'daya are required to Ragister them- elves under the REGISTRATION PERSONS ORDINANCE 1016. Forma of Registration giving the particulars required may be obtained at the G.F.O. sad at a Police Stations.
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NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE INSURANCE 00,
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WHO ARE VISEND THE SHAKES OF THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE
CONZANY, LED.,
And
THE RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE €0.
TOTAL FUNDS AT 1ST DECEMBEя, 1914,
£33.970,367,
Z-Authorised Capital £6,000,0
Subscribes Capital £4,500,000%
Paid-up Capital £2,437,500
1L1-Lilo & Annuity Funds... 17,567,590
11-Fire Fund.
3,937,047
Sinting Fund Account
1:23,230
£23,970,367
£9,381,456
337.239
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THE PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that the following revised Passage THE SERng & Contor will come inte
Satoon, Single
Return
and Class, Single... Dock
Daybonta
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8.00
2.00
1.00
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25,339,228
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THE WAR.
HEAVY FIGHTING IN FRANCE.
ENEMY'S OBJECTS UNACHIEVED.
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of the mest fighting, all the moro gresome because the guns were temperarily silent, as the com butants were inextricably mixol before the Germans were finally driven out and au important position dominating Amiens restored to BRITISH RETAKE POSITIONS AND British bands. The enemy will
Losvos, April 26,
12.10 a..
600 PRISONERS.
of
probably return to the assault or Villers on this account, bus he
Field Marshal Sir Doughts Haig here in a sharp awkward salient reports t
formed by the confluence of the The Franco-British positions moment nothing but a slaughter-house Somme and Avre which is at pre northward of Bailleul to castward for him. "Hangard is almost equally Wytsclmete were heavily attacked important, but it has changed hands- There has been fighting of great often that the enemy's hold may
he considered precarious. It is pos severity all day on the whole of this front, perticnlarly in the neightensive will develop south of Ypres, sible. however, that a really big hourfood of Dranoutre. Kennel 'aud Verstraat. In the course of repeat
ed attacks and counterattacks, the Allies were compelled to withdraw from positions held this morning. The fighting continues.
South of the Soinme successful Australian and English counter attacks last night regained positions
and mention of heavy fighting north cast of Bailleul may indicate such ờ development.
The position at Kemmel where the French hold critical positions is not
satisfactory. The mention of “ Vierstre seems to suggest that the withdrawal included retirement from the last positions of Messines Ridge, near Wytschnete.
BRETONNEUI.
and around Villers Bretonneux THE BRITISH SUCCESS AT VILLERS and advanced the line to within a short distance of the former front. We took over 600 prisoners. The village is now in our bands. The enemy employed at least four Divi- sions in yesterday morning's attack Headquarters, telegraphs this rel on this front. Frisoners state that|ing:-
LONDON, April 25, 10.35 p.im
Reuter's Correspondent at Brite
the objectives included Cachy village The success at Villets Bretonneux, snd the Cuchy-Fouilloy roud. The beginning with the splendid counter- objectives wer not reached any-attack yesterday evening, has been. where The numbers of dead found a great performance. It cost the in the recaptured positions show that Germans terribly dear to get tooting the enemy's losses were very heavy in the village. It will be scarcely less, expensive. if they have been REPORT.
cleared out as seems likely. We Eave doubtless re-established the line Vest of that place. The Germa Despite the mist yesterday, or Tanks have not particularly distin-` aviators tackod troops in the neigh-guished themselves. The whole ve bourhood of Villers Bretonneux from were concentrating upon a single
AYTATION Field-Marshal, Sir Douglas Haig's report on aviation (says:-
fussing, pada
a low height and brought down three British female," but on arrival of CAR CO. enemy machines. Two of our re * male" Tank they quickly mude off. It was two of our light Tanks, Our night-fiers dropped 54 tons of the small, mobile pattern, wincle of bombs on Estaires. Armentieres did fearful execution among the ani Routers and also on the railway fresh enemy Division which had not stations at Courtrai and Thourout, yet entered bottle since arriving from
All our machines returned.
the Russian front. These Tanks charged the massed troops again and again, loob ng on their return sehif they had been wallowing in a var shambles.
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A French cofanianiqué states: the Germans this morning reachbed" There has been great reciprocal the rest of font Kemmel, but later. artillery activity in the region of reports indicate that it improbable LD. Hangard and on both banks of the that the. Allies have lost any highs Avre but no funtry movement.. ground. These last two nights the The Germans in Woevre, after a enemy has attacked the French futious hombardment, aftacked in around Dranoutre with a strength of the sector of Regniévill and guised six battalions, and gained a tempor footing in cur advanced lines, butary advantage, but was driven back wore promptly ejected and the lines by counter-attacks. This moming a restored. We took prisoners.
much heavier assault was delivered
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There was un artillery duel on the by four to six Divisions over a foot, right of the Meuse and in Vosges of seven miles on the line beteren Seven Germun aeroplanes and Bailleul-Wytechnete. The Alpim captive balloon were brought down Corps, the Eleventh Bavarians and on the 22nd and 23rd. Ten other the 17th Divisions consisting of aeroplanes were brought down bidly mountah cops were engaged, ther daruged in the enemy lines ufter Jager regimens supporting, and or Bighta
entirely fresh Division, the 56th, was identified. The attack overlapped our. WHAT THE BATTLE REVEALS7, our front on the right Hank of th
French. Disconnected reports in- TANDON, April 26.dicate that the bullrush, tactica, of The progress of the battle shows enemy massen carried them througle that the Germans are continuing the the defensive line in places, amel plin of striking in two directions possibly some German parties pro ximultaneously, their inmediate ob-gressed towards the crest of Mont.. jectives being the Channel and Keimmel, but I am told this alter Amiens. They received a savere noon that the French hold bothe repulse in the southern are, thanks Kennel village and bill, so it noemer to the magnificent counter-attack that the danger to this important carried out by the Australians, supstrategic key position has boers poita by Englisir regiments, incind averted, The Germans appreciato ing the Berkshires, Northamptons; the unportance of Kemmel so, fully Durham stalYo hires. It was that bitter and prolonged fighting us the English regi nts, to which this one is anticipated many young troops have regently The latest report from Villere come from England, the gallantly Bretonneux is that the Ger held Villers at an inferno of believed to have been pra gas-shelling un overwhelmed by mopped up there and 46mult by five Divisions of infantry, will fully The Germans seized and established the enem
which feat a permanent bold of the vi they packed with machine-gum hence
that the I
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