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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 17TH, 1915.

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QUEEN'S BUILDING.

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FIRST FLOOR, including Tresaury on Ground Floor, lately in cocugation of the German Bank.

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SECRETARY, - A. B. Watson & Co., Lzzo, Hongkong, 23rd October, 1914.

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BISHOP'S LODGE SOUTH," No. 11,

THE PRAX, Unfurnished, Rooms. "WOODBURY," No. 4 Hankow Road,

Kowloon,

INTIMATION

stands for Excellent, and anyone

who drinks-our-E-PORT,-E- SHERRY, WHISKY or E BRANDY can be in

no doubt that the letter E signifies excellence of a high order and good value for money. By

baying in balk from the very best

firms, and bottling ourselves, we are

"The Quaints" are returning to the Colony from the North this week and naboupes three performanots commentż g

the introduction of discase germs, and the employment of assassins to murder the leading personages of an enemy nation. When a treacherous Greek offered to poi- f on Thursday. son Prinaus the warlike Romans reveal- ed the plot to PyarKUs and indignantly delivered up the infamous creature who made the proposal. But in theso modern days, after twenty-five hundred years of additional custure, the representatives of

The following headings aro uxldosť to, tīzei list of goods the exportation of which is prohibited to all destinations:-American pius and Chinese copper coins.

the year,

Bell's Asbestos Eastern-Agency hat- a civilized nation, acting with delibera declared a final dividend of 25 per cent., tion and with cold blood, are not self-less income tax, for the year ending bound as the Romans were. We get a good December 31st, ranking 10 per out, for review of American opinion on the. Falabi outrage from the Literary Digest which gives the following summary of the views of the leading nowspapers on the subject: "The killing of the Folakia's passengers and crew, declares the Philadelphia Public Lodyer, was a crime against

Mr. Y. Asad, who has been for some time past the manager of the Osaka Sho- sen Kaisha in Hongkong, has been trans- ferred to Bombay, His succesor în Hongkong is Mr. Hiroshi Yamaguchi.

By the interracdiary of the Javn Bank, Netherlands India has donated a further 1.50,000 to the Royal National Relief Committee, which brings its donation up" to 11.550,000.

able to give our customers better humanity," and reveals Germany in the attitude of a frenzied benst at bay." value for money than we could by It is not war, bat murder," "exelnius importing the same thing by the the New Fork World; and this charac- terization meurs, accompanied by such case. There is an old saying “Wines

H. E.. The Governor has been pleased adjectives as brutal," "cold-blooded,"

to recognise, provisionally and pending cowardly," and "atrocious," in papers the receipt of instructions from His mature in botte, Spirits in enak."

like the New York Press, Tribune, Sun, Majesty's Government, Mr. Carlos Lay- That is the raison d'étro of

Times, Wall Street Journal, Washing-seca as Acting Consul for Peru ia Hong- our magnificent wine vaults, which ton Times, and Brooklyn Eagle. 16 is

kong, challenge-comparison-with-anything-sassination," says the Tribune, and the

Times remarks that it trads to make the The following members of the Polico of the kind not only in Hongkong stories of other German atrocities credi Force have been appointed Sanitary bat ika Far East. There our wines,

ble. It is an act of "shocking blood Inspectors: Sergeant A.. Floyd, for thirstiness." and "a massaere in the Aberdeen, Acting Lance-Sergeant A. W. are bottled off soon after they arrive, opinion of the Philadelphia Inquirer Grimmett, for Stanley Lance Sergeant bat our spirits, except for a small and the New York Journal of Commerce R. Lanigan, for Shanshuipo, Acting calls itau atrocity-against-which-the-Luspector M. Earner, for-Kowloon City. ak to most daily requirem

civilized world should protest with one are kept in wood. That is why our voice." Piracy" is the New Tork spirits improve in quality, and Evening Post's word for it, while the -Albany-Jaarwal-brands-it-barbarism," spirits imported in case do not. Our and the New York Herald, barbarista customers get the beneût of that run mad." To the New York: Evening, Sen it is a triumph of horror," and to fmovement in value, as we charge the Evening Mail" humiliation to all nothing for it. We cordially invite the world." If the American newspapers were able to feel so strongly on the subject in the case of the sinking of the Falaba when only one American was

our customers to pay a visit of

inspection to our wine vaults, and

enfisfy themselves that the shore is

Do idle newspaper paff.

A. S. WATSON

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& CO., LTD. WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

DEATH.

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STOCKHAUSEN. On May 10th, at Shang

hai, A. A. Z. VON STOCK BADBEN, youngest son of the late F. W. G. von and Mrs. Stockhausen, of Hongkong, aged 32 years..

Hongzong OFFIon:104, Das Vaux Boan C. LONDON OFFICE: 151, Fiat STREET, E.O.

The Baily Press.

HONGKONG, MAY 17TH, 1915.

AMERICA'S NOTE TO

GERMANY.

PRESIDENT WILSON seems to have taken

among the hundred persons who perished, we can understand how deeply they must have been stirred by tho far greater crime of the sinking of the Lusitanie, without warning, when nearly fifteen hundred

persons perished, including nearly two

The Government Gazette notifies that while the Examination Service is in foros. the benches in the neighbourhood of Junk Bay ane dangerous abould it be necessary for the battorice in the neighbourhood tụ open fire. Bathing parties using beaches is this area are warned that they do s their own risk.

The Gazette notifies the following alterations in maximum food prices, made by the Food Committee:-Butter

(Daisy) $1.10 per lb.; Butter (Dairy- maid') 81 per lb.; Butter ('Buttercup"} 20 cts. per b.; Butter ("Pastry") 50 ets. per 16.; Cheese 70 ets, per 1b.; Oranges

15 ets, per lb..

This

The death is announced at Fachow of Mrs. Saunders, of the Church Missionary Society.

Mrs. Saunders two daughters were murdered at Hwasang. Kution, in 1905, and Mrs. Saunders, notwithstand- ing her advanced age, "determined to come to Foochow and take their place as far as

A case is occupying the attention of hundred American citizens, Even it

H.M.'s Supreme Court at Shanghai in there was any truth in the German which the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank- Admiralty's suggestion that the Lusitaning Corporation is claiming damages for had on board a quantity of ammunition, non-delivery of cargo from the Indo- stored apparently below the Captain's China Steam-Navigation Co., Ltd. bridge, it would not absolve the German total of the claim, which is for gunay bags undelivered, amounts to Tis: 8,923.80. Government from responsibility for a clear violation of international law. No one will place any credenca in the report that the ship was carrying 'ammunition' unless it can ho supported by more con- clusiva evulenve than Che German Admiralty statement affords. Therd ar several obvious reasons for regarding the suggestion as an invention, but the Board of Trade inquiry which is to be held into the circumstances attending the loss of the ship will doubtless take note of the suggestion and make somo pronounes- ment upon it. Meanwhile-it-is-of- importance to note the principle which the American Note so very clearly and emphatically lays down. It declares that Americans sail on the high seas in con- fidence that the United States Govern

their rights; and the Note emphasises that it is manifest that submarines cannot be used against merchantmen without inevitable violation of the sacred, prin- ciples of justice and humanity and acknowledged international law American Note means either that Ger- anny has to cease this submarine war-

she could do so. Mrs. Haunders died suddenly.

She was $2 years of age

Mr. T. P. Thompson, who has been the United States Vice-Consul at Foochow since 1911, has accepted a position in the Standard Oil Co.'s service. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson were very popular at Foochow, and at a reception in their. honour given by Mr. Albert Pontius, the American Consul, and Mrs Pontins,

port were present. nearly all the foreign residents of the

up a much stronger attitude on the sub-ment will sustain them in the exercise of jeet of Germany's violation of interna

The report of the Director of the Royal tional law than previous reports had led

Observatory for April shows that tho average mean temperature for the month the world to expect would be the case,

was 74.0 degrees Fahr. There were 125.4 "The President," we are told in a tele- gram today "is absolutely determined

hours of sunshine, and the rain recorded at the Observatory was 1.795 inches. Tho to re-establish international law on the high seas, and the choice of peace or war

figures for the other rain-guage stations were; Botanical Gardens 2.71 inches on, rasts with Germany.". That, indeed, is

thirteen days; Matilda Hospital, 2.45 m the only construction to be placed on the fare against merchantmen, unless she can right days; and Police Station, Taipo, Note-as-it-is-summarised in a later

2.81 on cleven days.

The

carry-on-with-due-regard to interna

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An armed robbery took place at 440

cable, Hanifestly it is the duty of tional law-i,c, save the lives of passengers the United States of America, as of all and crew-or she must count America other neutral: States, to insist upon the among her declared shomies. Germany's Shanghai Street, Yaumati, on Friday due observance of international law by reply to the American Note will be night, Four men called at the house,

| the belligerents. Nor need their inter-awaited with eagerness throughout the Vention in this matter be restricted to the world.

violation of international law on the high seas,” At the time of the torpedo

CHRONICLE CAMERON VILLAS, No. 61, TEX ing of the Falobin, by which act the lives

FOR CHINA, JAPAN, ETC.

FOR THE YEAR

1915.

of over a hundred, non-combatants were

PEAK, Farnished. Immedia's possersion.

No. 3, DEB YEUX VILLAS, 62, Mount Kellett, The Peak (Furnished or Unfurnished), lost, New York paper put the whole No. 25, BELILIOS TERRACE, with position very, concisely in a paragraph. After remarking that it "If it is permis sible on the open sea to send a torpedo. into an out-bound ship loaded with civi-

entmnes-en-Conduit Rosd

No. 27, BELILIOS TERRACE, with entres in Conduit Road. In very good order. ROOMS, aitable for Offices, 1st Floor, Queen's Road Central

WESTWARD HO," Bonham Road,

Chinese coolics are dependant on the fin It is estimated that about 200,000

industry of Malaya for a living.

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which is occupied by a painter and decorator, on the pretext of interviewing the master. Only the occupant's wife foki were in at the time and they

and

Thall for Europe ti Siberia closes. were at once seized, bound and gagged.

The robbers looted the premises, stealing. to-day at 4 p.m.

jewellery and clothing to the value of

91. Two arrests have been made.

The total contributions to dato bo the Cigarette and Tebacco Fund for thes Allied Forces at the Froot amount to We regret to see in the Home papers 24.803.66, of which 84,886.07 has been ex- lian passengers, then it is manifest that athes annoncement of the death at Bay cigarettes:

pended in purchase of tobacco sand Several acknowledgments. EGGESFORD," Nos. 124, THE PEAK, great injustice was done to the Barbaryhill, a Faversham of Mrs. F. J. have been received from the following Unfurnished (6 Rooms), from 1st May, 1915.

HERION,” No. 6, Tan Prax, Unfurnished pirates when this country dispatched Abbott, whom we take to be the wife 1st and 2nd Battalions Duke of Cornwall's L.I.; 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Battalions. (6 Rooms).

BOOMS in BEACONSFIELD and 55, coast," the New York Globe went on to

bombarding warships to the African of the Secretary of the P. and O. Com-Bifle Brigade; 1st and 2nd Battalions. ELGIN TERRACE,

Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders; Isti pany. Mr. Abbott. before being appoint and 2nd Battalions Shropshire. LA "ROGATE,” Aurkin Bosd, Kowloon. say: "If the rule that required the pas-

ed Secretary to the P. & D. Company, letter has been received in which it is No. 8, DES VIRUX VILLAS, 51, PRAX sengers and crews of attacked merchantspent many years in the Company's stated that the Cigarettes and Tobacco are (Unfurnished) 1,850 PAGES—PRICE $10.ROOMS, waitable for Ole, on the Firmen to be protected and which confined service in the Far East, principally in to be distributed to others of the Expodi-

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operations merely to the destruction of property is to be disregarded, then it is difficult to see how it is possible logically to oppose the poisoning of water supplies,

Japan, and when the Hon. Mr. E. A. possible will receive some of the generGUS tionary Forces, so that all as far as Hewett, C.M.G., was last on holiday Mr. gifts from Hongkong. Further subscrip- Abbott noted as the Company's Superia- tions are much needed to keep the supply tendent in Hongkong.

going during this terrible war for tho brave follows at the front.

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