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R.G.A. Mineral Water Factory, Victoria Barracks.
Hongkong, 24th June, 1916,
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NOTICE.
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(IN LIQUIDATION):
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FERD. BORNEMANN & CO.
(IN LIQUIDATION).
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NODOWN, No. 103, Prays East,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 24cm, 1916.
APPHE
AHE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD.
1917
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HOUSE, in Observatory Villas, Kowloon.
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INTIMATION
CIGARS
ARRATOON V. APCAR & Co.,
14, Des Voeux Road.
(811
connoisseur knows that a good
Cigar in bad condition is no
than an indifferent Cigar
condition.
TO LET-FURNISHED.
DDESLEIGH," 5. Bowen Road, for 2 or
months from ead of July.
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MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE,
AGENCY CO., LTD.
TO LET
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good
It is therefore of the utmost importance that Cigars should be
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND kept in a specially prepared place which will aid them to mature, and at the same time protect them from the damaging effects of a humid atmosphere such as prevails in this 18, Bank Building Colony during the Summer Months. We have recently constructed a
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CREDITORS are requested to send their
Claims against the above to the Undersigned on or before the 30th June. JOHN D. HUTCHISON & Co., Liquidators.
Hongkong, 20th June, 1916.
CARL - BODIKER & CO. (IN LIQUIDATION).
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REDITORS are requested, to send their Claims against the above to the Undersigned on or before the 30th June.
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NOTICE.
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REUTER, BROCKELMANN & Co. (IN LIQUIDATION).
CREDITORS are required to send in their Claims against the above to the Under signed, St. George's Building, Chater Road, on or before FRIDAY. the 30th June, 1918 SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,
Liquidators.
Hongkong, 1st June, 1910.
A
NOTICE.
WM. MEYERINK &
H. TIMCKE
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LL CREDITORS are requested to hend
in their Cisims to the Undersigned on
or before 20th Junė, 1916.
ALEX ROSS & Co,
4, Des Voeux Road, Liquidators.
Hongkong, 31st May, 1916.
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NOREIGN ASSISTANT for Book Office
of Local Shipping Company. Previous
perience essential..
For particulars apply to
BOOK OFFICE”- Care of "Daily Press Office. (795
Hongkong, 10th Jun, 1916.
WANTED.
F
OR Singapora, CHINESE CLERK with
a good knowledge of Chinese Characters;
thorough knowledge of English essential;
DOCKLANDS," No. 7, Robinson Road,
from 1st August, 1016, or earlier.
M. J. D. STEPHENS,
TO LET
[800
the First Floor of No. 25,
Des Voeux Road Central.
Apply to
UROPEAN OFFICES, from 1st July, Large Drying Room for Cigars which ensures to Customers buying from us Cigars in First Class
Condition.
ALEX. ROSS & Co."
(796
TO LET.
OFFICES on 1st Floor, No. 3. Queen's Road Central, at present in the occupation of The China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
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FFICES in Princes Building,
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SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., Liquidators, REUTER, BROCKELMANN & CO.
[672
TO LET.
OFFICEC on It Floor Mouson's
Road Central (In Ice House Stroot). Apply to
WILKINSON & GRIST. .691
TO LET.
DAVENSHILL
RAY
EAST, Pak *: Bond, containing 6 Room, Bath Rooma, Rervants' Quarters; &e, Vacant Isi Neromber
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DEACON, LOOKER. DEACON &
HARSTON
(00
TO LET.
A SMALL GODOWN in PRINCE'S
BUILDING.NE
For partienam atc.. anniv-
THE HONGKONG CENTRAL ESTATE,
LTD..
TO LET. From 1st May,
$65
Brand for brand our Cigars, besides being the Cheapest in the Market (as a reference to our Price List will show), are the best.
We keep al varied assortment of Brands of the following Factories always in Stock :—
LA CONSTANCIA.
LA COMMERCIAL. AQUILA DEL MUNDO. COMPANIA GENERAL. LA INSULAR.
to
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HONGKONG HUT FUND.
A SMALL HUT ALREADY SUBSCRIBED.
Total Amount Required: ua (Approx.) Total Amount: Subseribad 84,377 Balance
to bo Raised $1,323
Yesterday was another good day, for the Fund to provide a Hut for our soldiers who man the trenches in France and form the Bulwark of our Empire,
"A total of $1,197 was received from 33 subscribers.
the British Army was far too small to would be compelled to provide the horse. think of taking part in a European war. This is, no doubt. true. But how much Lord Money, in his Life of Gladstone, better it would be to provide first for the referring to one of the Anglo-German | horse-power necessary to draw the cart, erises, laughs to scorn the idea of Great knowing that horees have to be trained, Britain being able, in her then condi❘ while the cart requires but a little grease tion, to meet Germany in war on land, on its axle to follow the horse wherever and Great Britain has learned, only to it leads. History shows innumerable bitterly, how true this is. Unfortunately, cases where the rawest lovies, under able however, the efforts of those who claimed handling, were able to win great victories, see clearly a coming war with Ger- FREDERICK the Grent, WASHINGTON, and Jonny were concentrated on the question NAPOLEON could win victories with troops of levies, not on that of supplies. Even that had been bastily trained in the face
We are thus assured of a squall permau- after the war started three was appar- of the bighly-trained troops it con
fronted them. On the other hand, onc ent Hut big enough to serve a ramp of ently, no suspicion in high places that President LINCOLN's greatest difficul5,000 men more was required than the raising of
ties in the American Civil War was to troops. An indiscriminate selection of
find competent officers to command bis enrolled volunteers was made; men were
levies. The truth is that the born com oven before the cloth for their uniforms maader is much rarer than the born was woven, or the steel for their rifles fighter, and the very rarity of the former was forged. Men were taken from in- necessitates that there should be a large
reserve to draw on and that every oppor portant industries, even from munition factories, seemingly in complete innotunity should be given for real merit to rence that it was munitions, and after be recognised and rewarded. It is in thes that munitions, and still munitions, that directions that preparedness for war lies, were required. When the truth downed rather than in measures of conscription. on the Government men had to be broughĩ
back to the munition factories, where they
could best serve their country, and from which they had been taken by the authorities who should bave been best acquainted with the nation's needs. Twice
the British Army has broken through the German lines, and twice has the effort
proved useless. It has been stated that
this was owing to the officers not know- ing what to do. It is more probable that it was owing to the immense superiority of the enemy in the matter of armaments It is notorious that the British Army authorities took but little interest in the machine-gun, the weapon which is now playing so great a part in the trenches: that it made no effort to follow Ger
A HONGKONG HUT ** IN FRANCE.
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8577-
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£525-
·£500-
£475
£450-
£425-
£400-
9370-
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£825-
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many's lead in the matter of airships, although it should have had informatione to show that they were required for the defence of the country. It cannot be ud- mitted for a moment that what Germany has been able to do in the matter of big guns cannot be done by England; yet it is a fact that the greatest steel-producing £250-- conntry in the world was immeasurably inferior to Germany in this respect. All these circumstances throw much light on what preparedness for modern warfare means, and how far such preparedness is consistent with a voluntary system of conscription. It means, in the first place. an adequate supply of munitions, and adequiste arrangements for adding to those munitions, or maintaining L supply, in times of emergenty. It malas, further, the full development of all, su pons of attack or defence, so as to prevent a possible cuemy having any superíority such as Germany hus in her · Zeppelins. BIRTH.
Since DICKENS described the Circumlo- Harris--At Nanking, on the 20th June,
1918, Mrs. RowLAND HARE18, widow cution Office the British Government of the late Rowland Harris, of a Departments have shown but little ad- Cughter, Peter DEATH
S. WATSON
CO., LTD.,
CIGAR MERCHANTS,
HONGKONG.
TELEPHONE,616.
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89.
vance in their methods, as is, perhaps,
would be required mainly for translation OFFICES, 2nd Floor, St. George's Bulld- Sen On Wednesday 21st Juno, at to be expected when we remember that
work,
A. B. C. Apply-
Care of Daily Press" Office. Hongkong, 29th May, 1016.
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SHEWAN, TOMLES & Co.
(741
[$18
TO LET.
R.
-HOUSE
Kowloon Apol
Knutsforl Perrnon,
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT AGENCY CO., LTD
TO LET.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
DARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of PART by Pablo Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 20th day of June, 1916, at 3 F.M., at the Offices of the PUBLIC WORE DEPARTMENT, by Order of H19 EXCELLENOY THE GOVERNOR, of One
Lot of CROWN LAND at Kennedy Town, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years with the option of renewal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surreyor of HIS MAJESTY ZHE KING, for one farther term of 75 years,
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No. of Sale.
Stogintay No.
Locality..
Boundary
rents, (Approximate.)
foot foor
Dontanti
Annual Rent.
Upset Pelos.
per | suls" pan.) 4,430 (20)1,750
(about)
Hongkong, 18th June, 1916.
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FOR SALE.
NE 104 BHP. HORNSEY ACKROYD
OOIL ENGINE complete with and coupled direct to one F 7.W. Continuous Current Shunt Wound Dynamo of 50/70 volts with shunt reculator.
∙ALAN
ONE SWITCHBOARD for ACCUMULATORS, DYNAMO, de, complate with instrumanta för 300 Amps,
For further partienlern apply to--
The Daily Press.
To furnish and equip a large YMCA hut in France.
To furnish and equip a small V.M.C.A. but in Fiance.
To start and mintain two buildings serting a camp of 10,000 souliers for three months.
To maintain a now build
ing serving a camp of 5,000 men for three months.
WATCH THE MERCURY RISE.
DONATIONS RECEIVED
Hon. Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C. Messrs. Fontreath & Co.
Victoria, B.C., the Right Reverend practically the whole of the staff is
YESTERDAY. AUSTEN, Lord Bishop of Columbia
drawn from those having a purely liter- 1825
ary education with an open contempt for
Subscribora to War Charities
Fund HosGross Orica 10, Dan Vaux RoLD, C. practical science. When the Civil ServicG. A. Hustings LONDON OFFICE: 181, Fam Star, Commissioners revise the examinations He Fook ....
as to bring them within the scope of prac. tical life, then, and not till then, will M. s. S., R. A. G. and E. II. practical considerations guide the De Staff of A. S. Watson & Co
Hon. Mr. Claud Severn „ partments in their handling of public W. A. Hanniball affairs. In any case the appointment of Mrs. M. J D, Stephesis a body of experts is necessary for such. Templeton
Jimi and Alick: a department as the War Office, which is F. W Kew especially confronted by technion! details, W. H. Smith
AS. D. Cousland. so that all matters relating to munitions
Arehd McIntyre AB. Avasia F. H. T
HONGKONG, 24TH JUNE, 1916.
NODE TO
TO. 4. DER TŒUX ROAD CENTRAL PREPAREDNESS
THE
Rassian Consulate.
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DAVID SASSOON & Co., LTD. [418
AGEN
FOR WAR, COMMODIONS DWELLING MUCH has been heard of late as to pre HOUSE, with Offles, Servants' Quarters, ete., paredness for war, but as yet the ideas No. 14, SHAMEEN, CABZON, from tek June, at prasent in the occupation of the Imperial involved continue in a nebulons state may be kept fully up to date. Further Generally speaking, to the man in the the present war has shown that the first
necessity of an army is a large body of Grey Brigade street preparedness for war means con- scription, the training of all the citizens high trained officers, and, to obtain J. L. McPherson expable of bearing arms. There is these, an adequate remuneration must be W. G. Goggin
"Elga another side to the question, however-given. The Service must no longer be A. L. Penning one which suggests that Lord Roberts if he had had a clearer vision of what was exuning, would rather have directed his energies to arousing the Government than arousing the people. At the lngin
TO LET
FFICES at a, Connsught Road.
OFFICE
21. WONG-NET-CHONG ROAD OFFICES in King's Buildings. HOUSE in CLIFTON GARDENS, Conduit Prad, ja must.
No. 1, HILLSIDE" THE PEAK.
restricted to the sons of the well-to-do. | A. B. Stewart
JB The rigid enste svɛtem that bas up to
Mira. Bowley w prevailed in the Army must T. H. King broken down, and every privato be given R. L. Bridger
WS.
a chance to win that field-marshal's baton
Nos 1 and 2, WEST END TERRACE ing of the war Great Britain was tot 1 which NAPOLEON said every soldier carried:
CANTON Appiv
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Kowloon
TO LET
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ly unprepared for war on land. It is in his knapsack In any case, the ratio true that she had a small, highly-trained of officers to ren must be largely increas- army, but it is by no means clear that ed. One of the greatest difficulties Great that army was adequately equipped to Britain has had to contend against is the take part in a war against a European shortness in the supply of officers, and TWO BOOMED-FLATS in Nathan Road Power. Although in the South African the necessity of training officers before THREE-ROOMED FLATS in Humphrey's War there was ample evidence that a the conscripts could be trained. With a Balldinor, Kowlyen:"
large reserve, of officers, adequate sup- FOUR ROOMED FLATS in May Road small nation provided with strong arra with every modera convenience, Lacluding ments can make a stand against a much plies and up-to-date raunitions, the neces Earliah Bath Rikben Tango Ho more powerful nation, the lesson seen sity for compulsory conscription beonines Alexandra Buildings Flats specially dad to more module three to have been thrown away. It was pro considerably lessened. Those who have bachelors at remorable rotala Immediate claimed that never again must a Proter been persistently demanding conscription 48 a necessary measure for the defence FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES in Gordon torate be allowed to heap up armaments, Termos and Baliabury Avexas, 1
Kowloon
but it was never suggested that by herself of the Empire, have been clamouring for Apply B
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCI heaping up armaments Great Britain the cart without inquiring as to the horse might be taking up unwise thought for that is to draw it. Perhaps they thought the morrs. It was ackno ledzed that that, the cart provided, the Government
LINSTEAD & DAVIS.;
TO LET.
URNISHED ROOMS, with or without
Bart. Every convenience.
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It is bad business, though, to pay £460-- for a fut to serve 5,000 mẹn when for another $150 you can secure one serve double the number,
to
Won't you help ns, then, to raise the $1,323 needed for the larger Hat. Every. de contributil now, his three times the purchasing power of those already subscribed.
What a splendid opportunity for the man of slender means to do good!
There is no used to say any more about the excellence of the object for which we plead.
Do you know that in Canada the Y.M.C.A raised £40,000 like a flush of lightning at the beginning of the year in order to support the good work done- by these Huts up to the end of next December, and that £10,000 of this money was generously devoted to the troops of the Motherland? The Canadian Govern- ment think so highly of the scheme that they have conferred the rank of Captain upon all the selected Y.M.CA. vere- taries who have gone to the Front in charge of the Huts, and have granted them a Captain's rate of pay so that
there may be no charge on the Fund.
All these secretaries work under the direction of Mr. Gerald Birks, one of the most influential business men of Montreal, who has been granted the "rank. of Major, and is stationed in England for the purpose of buying supplies on the best possible terms.
Men can use the hats free of charge at all hours of the day and night. The tariff for food and refreshments is based on the cost price of the articles used. A cup of tea, for instance, costs only one- half-penny.
If any further evidence he needed of the merits of this scheme it is furnished by the fact that the Hongkong War Charities Committee have now included these Huts-permanently in their appeal. to the public, as will be seen from the letter which we publish this morning From the Hon. Mr. Hallifax.
We wish this additional appeal every possible 'success, and hope that a large- proportion of the money received by the War Charities Committee will bewir marked for this adniirable object.
At the same time we hope that the provision of the balance required 1o. complete Hut-No. 1" will not be delayed as a consequence,
Iet ne firich building and Hat, before taying the foundations of others.
LAND DEALING IN HONGKONG.
REPORT FOR 1915.
The report of the Land Officer for 1915.
50 shows that during the year two thousand
50
50
one hundred and 6fty-four (2,154) Deeds. 50 and Documents waru registered under the
30 provisions of Ordinance No. 1 of 1841. affecting three, thousand four hundred and seventy-five (3,475) lots of land. The total money consideration on sales mortgages, surrenders, and miscellaneous
TH documents amounted to 850,250,789
25
25
25
20
20
20
total number of documents registered in the Land Office under the provisions of Ordinance No. 1 of 1844 up to the end of 10 1915 was 58.825
10
10)
The total area of land sold and granted on lease during the year was 285 acres
10 36 1/10 poles of which 103 acres 2 rooda
10
10
10
01/10 poles was in respect of land dealt with by the District Land Offices. The number of Crown Lenses granted during 10 the year was 106.
10:
The total amount of fees collected by
1 stamps, exclusive of the New Territories, during the year amounted to $40,479. being $3,530 less than the previous year. The amount of land registration feer ". the New Territories amounted to 82,836.40.
1,197 3,150
Choques should be erased and made payable to the Hongkong Hut -- Fund" for whdi an account has been opened with the Hongkong and Shanghai Ting Corporation.
4977 4 477 *** The total Crown. Rent due in respect of leased lands in Hongkong and Kowloon (excluding certain Villages in Hongkong and Kowloon entered in the Village Rent Boll) amounted for the year ending 25th December to $425.194, an increase of $7,359 on the previous year the total amount due in respect of leased lands In the Villages in Hongkong and Kow. THE VATICAN AND THE WAR.
loon appearing in the Village Rent Roll for the year ending 30th September was Replying to General Sir Ivor Herbert
the House of Commons last month, 3.355, an increase of 28 on the previous Sir Edward Grey said that Sir Henry Howard has been informed that the The amount of Stamp Duty paid on with no one with regard to the pas hates and Letters of Administration Vatican have been in communication registered documents exclusive of Pro- sibility of peace. The Vatican, however, amounted to $77.14 The amount of have made representations to Germany Stainp Duty on Probates and Letters E in order to induce ber to abandon sub Administration registered amounted to
#90,763 marine warfare.