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HONGKONG CLUB.
NOTICE
N EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL A MEETING of the Members of the HONGKONG CLUB will be held in the LARGE DINING ROOM on FRIDAY, the 31st May, 1918, at 6.30 PM.
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Business-To confirm the Resolution passed on the 16th inst. as posted in the Hall of the Clah
By Order
E. DES VIEUX,
Secretary,
Hongkong, May 17, 1918.
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INTIMATIONS
MOTOR CAR TRIPS IN KOWLOON AND NEW TERRITORY.
of
HE "STAR" FERET CO., LTD.
conveyance Endertake the MOTOR CARS (at owner's risk) be tween Hongkong and Fowloon in a special erano lighter. Cradles for Motor Cars provided.
FARES each trip 50 per car-to be Fald to lighterman. Telephone 7, (Shipping Depart ment) when required.
Hongkong, May 21, 1918.
WANTED.
411
THE "STAR" FERRY COMPANY, TWO MARINE ENGINEERS with
LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the TWENTIETH DEDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of this Company will be held at the Offices of Messrs. LTD. On JARDINE MATERSON & Co.. THURSDAY, the 30th May, 1918, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts to 30th April, 1919.
The REGISTER OF SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED From Friday, the 24th May, to Thursday, the 30th Alay, 1818, INCLUSIVE.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
W. S. BROWN, Secretary,
Hongkong, May 15, 1918.
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We supply Kennet Tablets.
DEVONSHIRE CREAM - Can now be bad at our Depot,
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Shop experience to set as Work hop Foremen, also a Foreman Marine Butler Baker and a Foreman Ship Carpenter to take up duties in Shang- hai. Address all communications to
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NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
THE STORE OF
GRACA & CO.
DEALERS IN
ไป
POSTAGE STAMPS, Flower Seeds, Toys, &c,
HAS BEEN REMOVED TO
No. 10, WYNDHAM STREET.
Hongkong May 18, 1918.
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GERMANY IN RUSSIA,
ECONOMIC WEALTH OF THE ANNEXED PROVINCES.
marcial purposes.
ANATION'S TREASURE HOUAS.
Savatiemen: la rand by the Brinkhaerican Tubeer to
for
sympathies who have been at work so the totals agriculture so unts for
domestic goods long In Biberis there is natural wealth £28,858,600, of almost every kind. In the Altai, or £34,434,800, and textiles for £2,303,700, "Golden-Mountain district aleae, for animal products accounting for another instance, there are the largest coal, irca £17,040,100, and minerals for an addi- ore, and other metalliferous. depositational £18,034,300. known to the scientific and commercial Other principal items were timber £6,788,70 and spirits £16,912,701, First world
And later would come control of old among the agricultural products came Mr. R. Martons, a leading Eussian merchant and industrial economist, and new railway systems, "connecting potatoes 31,082,700 tons, nata 6,208,500 with the Trans-Siberian, and, to the tona, and whest 1,318,400 tons. Among writes on this subject as follows:-
west, with the great lines having ter- the districts included in these returns Following on her annexation of minals st Moscow and Petrograd, but are the Baltic provinces proper, Fathonia Couronis and Lithuania, Germany bas leading to Germany se surely as if they Livonia, Couronia and Korno, and naw "occupied the two remaining bad been built for her military and com-the neighbouring Goreruments
Petrograd, Vitapat, Vilns, and Pakov, all of which will come under German. Baltic Provinces, Esthobia and Livonis.
domination unless the Ister are driven Important as they are, in the economic
In the other direction the Trans-cut of the country by Allied forces or and political sense, it may be doubted whether the Teutons will not find them Siberisa Bailway would give Germany under the terms of passe.
so far as immediate access to the Far East. Wealth beyond "empty sacks and mach-needed supplies for her the wildest dreams of nations lies locked armies and her civiliso population in the bosom of Russia and Siberia. are concerned. Indeed, by one opera The late Government had planned tion er another, the whole four districts network of railways that would have have been denaded of the bulk of their opened up the country's treasure house, the richest natural wealth, the industries have and made Russia perhaps been transferred inland since the war nation the world has ever known. began, agriculture has dwindled greatly the Allies do not quickly drive Germany and its produce has been consumed out of the country they have annexed as fast as produced. Probably there is from sorely-stricken Eussia, Germany no considerable reserve of any kind for may become the dictator of the world And what she would be able to, baild navies and the invaders to steal. railways existed before the war are now create armies such as aven she has never so disorganised as to leave the two dreamed of. She would control vast of raw material, human and
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*A. B. AND D.
CHINESE MEN OF LETTERS IN
„ASS STEDE DOCK"
A London paper says:———
It has been said that one Chinaman is painfully slike another facially that
provinces kimost isolated from the rorestAnd she would be able to it is impossible to distinguish them.
mainder of Russia.
At the same time the political import keep the whole world is simed dread ance of the Germanisation of this large and industrial impotence.
The difficulty was apparent at the Old Bailey when foar men were put on trial
area of Baasias territory, which include When surveying the internal trade the open door of commerce for the hole and the exporta and imports of the for wounding another, and judge and of Russia lying north-west of the Urals, Baltic, provinces, it is necessary to jury became hopelessly confused in and Middle Biberis, cannot well be over remember that the latter figures apply trying to distinguish between them.
It would be far better," said Judge estimated. Indeed, but for aurance not to imports and exports for the people either by looks or namely that reorganised Russia, in combination of the occupied territory alene, but with the Allied nations, will in the near mainly to the interchange of commodities Rentoul, in a distressed vaice, to call future dictate peace to Germany that through Baltic ports for the whole of the A. B. C. D. and so on with the witnesses. Otherwise we shall get will include, restoration of the Baltic Rasets and part of Siberia. Provinces and Lithosms to their chosen. This accounts for the very large totals mixed up between prisoners and wit
and prosecutor would be found in connection with the many porta This was done, and, aition, the situation
after evidence menacing to Russia, Siberia, and the of the occupied region, where, including interpreted from various Chinese dia whole of the East. 100
the Petrograd, Viepsk and Pakov GERMANY'S VIR-EACHING AMBITIONK." Governments, the population, barely lecta tre men were sentenced to ning With the exception of the many reaches 13 millions, as compared with months hard labour and, a third to two renegade Germans, who became Russian the 178,000,000 of the whole empire monthe in name while remaining Prasian in During the year 1913, the last of the heart and in methods of control, the normal periods, trade through the ports mass of the population is anti Germsa. of Petrograd, Kronstadt, Riga, Revel, The middle and professional classes, Liban, Windan, and other smaller places. living for the most part in towns and included imports of over £46,600,000 and their suburbs, are descendants of various experts of over £48,800,000 nationalities, for the Baltic Provinces in total the intendal trade turnover of were, the "cities of refuge for political the Governments concerned was remark. refugees such as were pleatiful in the able, showing £143,234,800, as compared Mary Stuart period and during the with £803,375,000 of all Rostia. In Huguenot crises, They are of English, Scottish, French, Swedish, and other why chest descant, but by ceptories of association
and intermarrying :
became
Castion peculiar to themselves. As a whole, they adopted the German language, which was introduced during the activities of the Hansestic League
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Bat in her scheme for the economic and political control and exploitation of Bass Germany has no such narrow vision as is contained between the. frontiers of the Baltic Provinces. She is undoubtedly looking to development of the mormous mineral, agricultural and other riches of Greater Bassis and the Urals, and to the aren groter natoral riches of Siberia. With the ports of the Baltic provinces and of the Black Bes under her control, as they aro now temporarily, and as they will re- main until the Allies force ber. to:
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