MÓNDAY, MAY 20, 1918.
SHIPPING
P. & O. S. N. CO.
ROYAL MAIL SERVICE
UNDER CONTRACT WITH HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT
TOTA
THE CHINA MAIL.
LONDON LETTER.
(Peam Our Own Correspondent.)
UP-ENVER CALIEN KESH,
LONDON, Mar. 97.
the minds of
Spring his Londoners dreaming of green vistas
MARSEILLES AND LONDON, and vertant reaches of the river,
TAKING PASSENGERS AND CARGO TO
STRAITS, COLOMBO, INDIA, AUSTRALASIA, EGYPT, do)!
Steamers to
Colombo
Leave Hongkong Noon
Connecting Mail Steamer from Colomba.
Due
Dhie Marseilles London"
1917,
1917,
When Passengers change Steamers at COLOMBO
instinctively into operation a shorten ing process, and from eleven to Bill past was considered the latest closing the Then with the outbreak of the war-apart from a few Incorrigible night birds and young efficers haine from the Front with a keen desire for a tabloal of hectic life-there are desire for further compression, and ten to half pitst becaue popular. That
new proposals are all the more severe"
INTIMATIONS!
MITSUBISHI
SHOJI KAISHA, LTD. (Mitsubishi Trading Co.)
But may have been rudely awaken. ed to u realisition of the presence of
because of the reintroduction stCOAL, GENERAL IMPORTS' and
EXPORTS. the alien in their milat by the duner time, which makes all our clocks tell us it is half past nine wher covery that the foreign element,
innost souls the knowledge in our
SOLE PROPRIETORS. OF
uneuss at the prospect of possible remins that it is only half past eight. TAKASHIMA OCH MULABE
extensions of hostile air raids on
Accommodation in the connecting Steamer from COLOMBO is definitely reserved in likely cottage
Hongkong at the time of Booking.
On the Australian Route Tickets Interchangeable with Orient Line.
SAILINGS DIRECT TO
SHANGHAI, MOJL KOBE AND YOKOHAMA.
S. &
Leave Hongkong About
Passengers may bearel by Railway in Japan between Ports of Call tree at charge. Return Tickets are avaliable by Stemagòrics. Maritimes Company, INTERMEDIATE STEAMERS
(Non-
Transhipment). IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE MAIL STEAMERS, WILL LEAVE DIRECT FOR
MARSEILLES AND LONDON, Calling at SINGAPORE, PORT SWETTENHAM, PENANG, COLOHLO AND PORT SAID,
CARRYING lar an rp-SALOON PASSENGERS AT REDUCED RATES.
STEAMERS
FECTURED SAILINGS:
Leave
EL'KONG
about
bus an M'REILLES. it calling About
Dun LOXDGY about
THE INTERMEDIATE SERVICE IS TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS.
All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge and cach Berth Furnished with an Electric Reading Lamp
Round the World Tickets and Through Tickets to New York in connection with the Principal Mail Lines.
Return Tickets at tare and a half available to Europe for Two Tears; or to Intermediate Ports for Six Months.
Owing to the War in Europe Steamers and Sailing dates are liable to be. cancelled or altered without notice.
.or advice.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES, Consignees are reminded of the necessity to apply to the Company's Agents esgarding arrival of consignments expect of which they have received documents Any damaged packages must be left in the Godowas for examination by the Consignees and the Company's Surveyurs. Mesara Goddard and Douglas, at 10a.m. Mondays and Thursdays. All claims must be presented within ten days of the thesmer's arrival hore, after which date they cannot be recognised. No Claims will * admitted after the goods have left the Godowas
For Farther Information, Famage Fares, Fraights, Handbooks, Dabas at Sailings
ade, apply to.
B.V. D. PARR
Superintendent.
CHINA MAIL S.S.CO., LTD.
FREIGHT AND PASSENGERS.
S. S. CHINA
WILL BAIL FROM HONGKONG FOR
SAN FRANCISCO
VIA SHANGHAI, JAPAN PORTS & HONOLUSU.
JUNE 21st and AUGUST 8ist, 1918.
AN UNSURPASSED HIGH CLASS PASSENGER BERVICE. AT, INTERMEDIATH ́RATEI,
Freight and Frasenger Agent,
Loe House Street,
0. H. RITTER,
·Prince's Buildings,
INDIAN AFRICAN LINE.
Cargo carried on through Bills of Lading from HONGKONG to BEIRA, DELAGOA BAY, DURBAN (Natal), EAST LONDON, PORT ELIZABETE and CAPE TOWN with transhipment at COLOMBO to Steamers of the INDIAN APRICAN LINE
FROM BOROKOTO:
ہو
PROPOSED SAILING, : Connecting with
FROM OTHERS
EXCELLETT A000MATION FOR Lat and Žan- Ülamn Fissengers, '
ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE.
Regular Direct Bervice from JAPAN, OHINA and STRAITS to BHEA, DELAGOA BAY, DURBAN, EAST LONDON, PORT ELIZABETH and CAPE TOWN, calling at MAURITIUS et route and affording the Gaiokost. Fright Transport from the ORIENT to BOUTH AFRICA.
For dates of departure, Hame of Freight, apply to
THE "BANK LINE. LIMITED
ELLERMAN” -LINE. (Ellerman & Bucknall Steamship Co., Ltd.)
JAPAN, CHINA · AND STRAITS
AUTO
UNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENT.
FOR PARTICULARS OF BAILINGS, SHIPPERS ARE REQUESTED TO APPROACH THE UNDERSIGNED
Stamera moceed via Suez Canal or Cape of Good Hope at Owners?
Bobject to share without notice.
to Rew & Co, Canton
THE BANK LINE LTD
General Aponsi
Furia or Berlin..
SOLDIERS AND RELIGION.
Everybody who has been in touch with the millions ist soklier at the Front has come back impressed with the helief that things will never be the same again," that the men will
KISHIDARE, TOSHINOTANI, HOJO, WAHAFUTA, HAYO KANADA,
and OTURART COAL MINES. »
DAGENIS FOR SAKITO COAL
Head Office:-TOKYO.
Branches and
Representatives
London with the corning of Anyway, the fine weather is coming, und in any case London rever was in weather, had descended on the most this geneintion a city of night life the SHINEW, KAMIYAMERA, BIBAL, desimble quarters within easy reach of London an? had fought up every and house-bant. Mablethead and otherhitherto exclusive resorts are now suburbs of the East End, and great is the dia- content thereat, The fact is that while England's best have gone to the war, great sarms of natives of death a better share of this world's Bussia and elsewhere have been good things, and so forth. It is in use. Kobe Osaka Tsuruga. Magora, unking big money, and so they are been able to get hold of British business and British riverside re treats at the one time. The oven ing and norning trains to these one time haunts of peace are a sight for the setulent of sociology, so provoca tive are the diamonds, fur garments, and ustralian coats.
EARLIER CLOSING.
sympathy with this that Lord Laver hule, has now intæxlured the system
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SHIPPING
PACIFIC MAIL S.S. CO.
U. S.
Mail Line.
OPERATING THE NEW FIRST CLASS STEAMESS
** ECUADOR,” “VENEZUELA” and “COLOMBIA,”
14,000 Tons each.
HONGKONG TO SAN FRANCISCO,
vis SHANGHAI, KORE, YOKOHAMA and HONOLULU.
The Sunshine Belt.
The most Comfortable Route to America and Europe.
Sallings, trem Hongkong” at Noam
8.8. "ECUADOR"
*...WEDNESDAY, Kay thad, 1919
· 4.8. "COLOMBIA" · arizomada WEDNESDAY, June 19th.. 1913, AS VENEZUELA
------WEDNESDAY, July 17th, 19128
These Steamers, have the most modern equipment incinding overbead electrio Ens and electric lighting ALL LOWER BERTHS and large comfortabla Staterooms (All single sad two berths, outy).
The Balety and Comfort of Passengers in our first consideration. "Special care is given to the exisine, and the attendance on
passengers_Cazoot de sarpamed.
Tickets are interchangeable with the Toyo Kisen Kaisha and the
Canadian Pacific Ocean Services Lat
For further information, ratos, literature, sabedales ete, apply tom
COMPANY'S OFFICE in Alerandra. Buildings, ARATHONI 141.
Chater Boadi
RANKS
Nagasaki, Karatau, Wakamatau, Moll,
Yokohama, Tokyo Hakodate. Muriran,
intow, Shanghai, H. BANKING CORPORATION, Qtara, Viadivostock Paring. Tientai, TONGEONG & SHANGHAI of six hours" work a day into his great Taipeh, Hongkong. Canton. Esiphong. works at Port Sunlight, for he is cop-Manila, Bingapore Calcutta: London PAU-UF CAMTAL..... vinced that if anyone works fully for six hours he or she should have umple time for relaxation or self- impyement.
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and New York.
Rams FeNDS
Sterling
£1,500,00038/.~$15,000,000.
Sifter
19,500,000
REMENT MARLETT OF
PROPRIETORD
$15,000,000
BANKS
TEDERLANDSOBEHANDEL
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(Nescartando Trangro Socurer)
$34,500,000 AUTHORIARD}{ 75,000,000— (£6,230,000
CAPITAL } $15,000,000
D. Landale, :- How. Mr. E. Shellim,
W. I. Pattanden, Esq.
Cable Address : Hongkong IWASAKI”, Now there come others who declare Cantou, Haiphong: “IWASAKISAL", that the war laus hund a great effect in Codes AL A. B. C. 3th Ed...
Western Union and Bentley's
Come of DIRECTORS. This is all the more regrettable making mon more religions, I
Bon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak. Chairman, i since we are being put to bed at an think," said a chaplain just home Agency for THE OSAKA MARINE GT. M. Edkins, Esq.,-Depaty earlier hour, under the Defence of the from France. that the war has in-
Chairinan. &PIRE INSURANCE CO.,8. B. Dodwell, Esq. E. V. D. Parr, Esq. Real Act. Truth to tell, few of us duced thousands of men who before
C. 8. Gabbay, Esq.A. Plummer, Esq. LTD., OSAKA.
Hon. Mr. mind the earlier closing of theatres the war were unattached to any and other places of entertainment, es, religious body, definitely to associate well as the restaurants. Least of all themselves with one or other of the de the actresses and actors compunturches, and openly to profess a for though they were the recipients of recognised croud. This attitude has many oral and vertit bonquets i
not been produced by any promptinga when they played steadily on, through of murowness or bigotry, but has air raids, few of them camendage to rather been the expression of a desire the extent of denying that they would to be able to give some evidenca of rather be finished with their work, at
the faith that is in them."" an enflier hour.
The
same thing is observable atmong civilians, and it is interesting to record that four of the most pro- animent comedians on the variety stage have recently joined the Roman Catholic Church.
For Particulars, apply to...
.'..-.._S. KAWATE, Manwer;
No. 14, PODER STAKET, HONGKONG.
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APIOE & STEEL
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The fact is that we shall all save much in coal and lighting, und be able to get away to leisurely pursuits, and we shall all be better foroit by the end of the summer. As it is, the milwags are cutting down the train
THE PRINCE OF WALES. Services still further, so there is less
The Prince of Wales, utter making and less inducement for lute birds
friends with the industrial workers to remain abroad at nights, except at
in various parts of the country, und the price of much inconvenience. The chief criticism is that the varions also with his tenants, has gone back restrictions as to food and the curfew to the Front. His last visite were to
his property in South London, which y and so forth ure first of all tried on: London and the South. Try it on has been much improved in recent the dog" appears to be the official Furs. There the occupants of soull matto-before the North his any tanto of the regulations. "
MAXWELL CARS.
Automobiles for Hire and
for: Salé.
easonable Price.
Phone 2500
dwellings greatly, amused him by their realistic descriptions of their But the social historian of the domestic experiences. One of them Sole distributors of
told him she hoped he had come to future will furely set down the last
inspect the leak in her rool, and urged that the process of ending entertain- ments earlier begun in the years and see for himself what she had to him to climb, through the skylight before the war. By a mere accident endure on miny nights. of Parliamentary difficulty in 1874 With the officers of the Allied the Metropolitan places of refresh-
Annies the Prince is exceedingly Test were allowed to remain open
until half past twelve, or an hour and Popular. The now-arrived Ameriezra balf later than in any other part of have been the last to make his he country. Even so, it did not acquaintance, and all are loud in exhaust the London tendency to lato-their praise of his manly absence of Tews in years gone by. Anyone artificiality and “side.”
accustomed to the London life of
twenty or twenty-five years ago recalls social dinners on a large scale which never dreamed of dispersing nil two o'clock in the morning. Yet before the war there had come
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that
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MASAGE
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∙PARD-UP
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TALOK BATORS,
WALTEVERDEN.
PRVING, PONTIANAK,
Correspondents at Bombay, Colombo, Hadras, Pondichery, Calentta, BangToke Salgon, Haiphong, Fanot, Amoy, Toky
ama, Kobs Melbourne, Sydney How York, San Francisco, Bos dos,
TONDON BANKZ- The Union af
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Honghong, March 23, 1918.
HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.
siness of the above Bank Is
conducted by the HONGKONG
AND BHANGHAI BANKING DOR"
Tha Bank bays und sobs and recover for collection Bils et Bachanga | lamen latines of miselle onda Besanches -- and Correspondenta in the Bay on the
bančnem of every dans
Bept
PORATION. Rakes may be obtained an IE YOKOHAMA SPECIE
spplication.
INTEREST on deposita is allowed on the minimum monthly balances at 31 PER GENT, per annum. Depositora may teenfer at their option, balances of $100 or more to the HONGKONG AND SHANGKAL BANK. to be placed on FIXED DEPOSIT at 4 PER DENT:
For the Hongkong and Shangha.
Banking Corporation..
per annum."
N. J. STABD,
Chief Manager.'" Hongkong, May 14, 1916.
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THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITKE
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BISHI ONO,
11 March, 1918,"
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BOOK BINDING
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$82.500 €130,000
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