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HONGKONG
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
BOOKBINDING
DAILY PRESS" OFFICE.
The only office in China kaving European thaght workmen. Equal to Home Work FURNITURE WAREHOUSEMEN
CHEE & CO., Established 1859.
Every Household Requisite. Dopot for
INSURANCES
STEP. HUNUKUNG EDI
HUN INSURANCE OFFICS, LONDON
FOUNDED 1710,
Fre Undersigned having been appointed AGENTS for the above Combany, are re pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Bator,
SIR HORACE RUMBOLD ON EUROPEAN POLITICS.
Sie Horace Rumboll, late His Majesty's ↑ Ambassador to Austris. Hungary, contributes to the Normaler number of the National Review a striking article under the title "Au English Tribute to the Empeter Fransis Joseph to which we alluded in passing yesterday. Open, ing with a general review of the European situs FIRE INSUR- tion and the chief forces at work in Continental
SIEMSSEN & CO.
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Hongkong, 16th May, 1892. TRANSATLANTIC
Fastman's Kodak Filmus nul Accesories: TANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG. politics, Sir Horace Ramkokt writes thus of the
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The Vudoreignod, having boon-appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are pre- pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
SIEMSSEN & CO.,
Azouts. Hongkong, 16th November, 1872,
NOTE COMPANY OF HAMBURG
TORTH GERMAN FIRE INSUR The Undersigned AGENTS of the above Company 8 PREPARED TO ACCEPT First Class Foreign ani Chinese Risks at Current
STEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong, May 1995. g GENERAL MARINE IN URANUS COMPANY, LIMITED, OF DRESDEN.
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HOTZ, 8'JACOB & CO.
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HE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are repared to ACCEPT EISKS against FIRE at Current Rates,
German Emperor:~~~
which, after some hesitation and diffulty-ths 1. Queen's pleasure. having to be taken on the. subject-1 ostsinud bars to do rileve I may claim to be the only one of Her Majesty's representatives who was at that time able to contribute to the putting down of an abominableYOU WISH TO SELECT A PRESENT, VERY WELL JUST LOOK BELOW.— naisanos, and this, of course, owing to the direct support of the Emperor, who shortly afterwards, at a dinner at the Barg, was pleased to express to me very warmly his acknowledg. insats for the assist unes given by the Embassy is this affair. Compare the nation describes
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above with what took place in other countries. "Take, for instance, the personal bearing to where none of the mechanisms, always se sternly. wards as of the brilliant but aetate ruler whe, pat iu motion in dealing with similar offences thanks to a variety of causes-for some of which against the powers that he was over applied to it must be admitted, woars onraalves answerable check the coarsest and most indecent attacks on - become so important a fuctor in the caloar venerable Sovereign nad on our troops culations that govern our policy, and who would, engaged in the war, and then draw a moral further entanglements to which I, for one, sin it is credibly maintained, fain inveigle as into from the comparison.”
Sir Horaco ends with b reference to the corely frust the country will never be a conformidable paril" of Pan-Germanism. He sentig party. There is no denying that the agrees with Dr. Famarz that the only effective position taken up by the Emperor William in tarrier to the movement is a strong revitalisal Germany-which is simply a passing pluse, and Austro-Hungarian Monarchy." He observes that only an indication of the long-existing and the designs of the Pan-German party point 29781 deeply-tooled antipathy entertained for us by logically to the reduction of the Daal Monarchy- the great wass of Gormous-appears-quexcepto a state of political and economic vacsaingi tinnable, and
and says, in conclusion, that the maintenance of Bure particularly 10 DA exemplified in the recent episode of the Austro-Hungary as she is, it is sad to have proposed visit to Berlin of the misguided tould--as she ought to be, is a matter of supreme
importance to us, no less than to others.
The article in the National Review is the subject of adverse comment in tko National- Zeilung of the 30th October, which says:-
NOKIZIK
In this fustance it Boer leaders. absolutely augraciots to thcom
Boy doubt on His Majesty's wish to not on the square as a true friend and a would-be ally, loyally trying to stem the anti-British tide. Yet, in the belief of some of the shroudest observers amongst us, he is thereby purposely administer. ing an irritant to the recalcitrant body which tenaciously opposes his darling naval megalo- munia, by bringing home to them that they HC Z, JACOB & C have only themselves to thank for what they
[29 Rud April, 1900.
choose to consider unworthy trackling to the THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON ANDlated-English. In any case, the attitude of
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the Sovereign certainly in no-way reflects that ASSETS EXCEED TEN MILLIONS STERLING. Undersigned having appointed TAGENTS bevaredo ACCRET FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS against FIRE, at Current Rates.
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Sir Horses Rumbold, who expressly avowe the opinion that the Germans are potentially the most unrelenting and dangerous foor of England-it was, no doubt, in this spicit that
ho used his influence iu Vioann-returas to the valgar caricatures directed against the then Queen of England which during the South African war opposred on many occasions on the Continent. Ho relates that he was one day, by command of the Emperor Francis Joseph, of the nation, which remains cue of distinct fally requested to make it possible (for the
hostility to us, though summer list tempora of late in expression by a sense of our enhanced military importance, and the revelation of the heretofore unsuspected Imperial reserve forces at our disposal. The Germans, it remains my THE WESTERN ASSURANCE COM-firm belief, continue to be potentially our must
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Public Prosecutor) to take legal procedings in Vienna in the prescribed manner against these vulgarities, and that after he had received authority for this step from London the Prosecution actually took placo. The author. wh a side glance at Germany, the significanes of which is made samleieatly olear by preceding
.
Sir Horace Rombold then discusses the 'rela.statements, invites his readers to compare the motion taken by Austria with that of Germany. liors of Austria-Hungary to this country
ease of that kind the foreign representative or THE Undersigned having been appointed during the war, and more particularly the Quite apart from the question whether in a the Government of the country to which he is AGENTS for the shore Company, repersonal attitude of the Emperor Fraucis
accredited has to take the first stap, it may arin prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE Joseph. He mys:- st Current Rates, and
be noted that, according to the German peral WM. MEYERINK & CO.
code, legal proceedings gainat iugults to foreign Hongkong, 22nd July, 1992.
Sovereigns are only possible when the foreigo New
tale in questior guarantees to Germany reciprocity of treatment. We question whether this is the case in England. The English Government has certainly never proposed to the German or, in former times, to the Prussian Ambassador in London that proceedings should be taken on account of English insults directed against the German Emperor or the King of Prussia. The estimate which educated and respectable persons in Germany form of such low scurrilities and the condemnation they pass
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The National-Zeitung is, no doubt, technically accurate in its description of the legal position of the German Government, writes the Times Berlin corespondent, but the parallel drawn between the misdemeanors of the English and German comic Press cannot be upheld. The reference to the days when Prussia satun envoy to the English Court proves that it would be necessary to go very far back to £nd any ex- pressions in the English comiu Press in the slightest degree comparable to the vielent language constantly employed throughout Ger many during the past three years. To the frantic indecency of the German Witzblätter
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"It may not be generally known that the Emperor professed a special celle-to use the expressive French torm-for our late Queen, whom he looke.l up in as the wisest and most bencficent of his crowned contemporaries. His attention happened to be called, during the worst period of the war, to certain caricatores ina Vienus comic paper which were of! THE Undersigned, having been appointed very objectionable character, although not AGENTS for the above Company, are to be compared to the scandalous produo. prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE tion in Simplicies and other German or
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French leading satirical prints. These not BRUTER, BROCKELMANN & CO.,
having come nuder my notice I was surprised Agente. Hongkong, 1st April, 1897
(118 one day by a visit from a high official of the Interior sent by the Imperial order to explain that the Emperor was fully determined to pat a stop to those disgraceful attacks on a great Sovereign and a friendly country, but, for that purpose, desirot that I should he informed of the cooperation which, under the Press legisla tion obtaining in such matters, would be required
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