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DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of FIVE DOLLARS per Share has been Declared and will be Fagalds at the HONGEONG, And SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION on or after WEDNESDAY, the 4th April will be
The REGISTER of the Company CLOSED from SATURDAY, St March, to both diye inclusive, WEDNESDAY, 116, during which days to Transfer of Shares san be made.
DIVIDEND WAREANTS will be ready on WEDNESDAY, the 4th April, and many be abtained on spplication,
DOUGLAS LAPEAIK & Co.,
General Managers,
[481 Hongkong, 21st March, 1917,
PEAK TRAMWAY COMPANY, LTD.
NOTICE
BOUT 240 Members of the HONGKONG
A VOLUNTEER RESERVES to being
conveyed by Tram to the Peak between 2:15 and 3.80 P.K. on 8 TURDAY, 24th Instant, The Management would be much obliged if Peak residents and the public would, as far
possible, refrain from travelling to the Feak during the hours of the day above mentioned
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers.
NOTICE.
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T IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that, on and after the 22nd instant, and vahil further Notice, the Road from DEEP WATER BAY REPULSE BAT will be OLOSED to Horse and Vehicalar Trafie in order to admit of certain
affected thereto. Improvements
bring
W. CHATHAM Director of Public Works.
Pabllo Works Office,
Hongkong, 20th March, 1917.
NOTICE
[4225
8.8. "BERWINDVALE." TEITHER the Captain for the Owners will be Responsible for any Debte incurred by the Crew of the above veseli
[413 Hongkong, 17th March, 1917.
NOTICE
E bave been Appointed by Messes
OF NEW YORK.
WHOKESSON & ROBBINS, INC., their SOLE AGENTS for Hongkong, Mae Kwong Chow Wan and South Calan, for the sale of Drags, Chemicals, Draggists Bandries and kindred goods,
THE HONGKONG MERCANTILE
CO., LTD. 17th March, 1917.
Hongkong.
314
HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE.
THE ANNUAL
GUNERAL MEETING of the Members of the HONGKONG
THE HONGKONG DAILY
PUBLIC COMPANIES
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED, AND REDUCED.
HE TWENTY-EIGHTH ORDINARY HOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Offces of the Company, 8t George' Buildings, Chater Road Victoria, Hongken on TUESDAY the 27th day of March, 1917, atTM AM, for the purpose of receiving
the Statement of Accounts and the Report of Directors for the year ending 31st December, 1916, and declaring Dividend.
ANNUAL MEETING OF SHARE
By Order of the g
BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Hongkong, 6th March, 1917,
874
THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA
DOOK COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that ING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be bold in the Office of the Company, 2 Endings Hongkong, of TUESDAY 27th March, 1817, a at 19 Noor, for consideration of The Direct he
Report and Statement
On Yer ending 310
Decembe
SHARE The
REGISTER and T
and TRANS FER BOOKS will be CLOSED from the 21st to the 27th lust, both days inclusive
By Order of the Board of Directors,
RM. DYER,
Chief Manager. Hongkong, 16th March, 1917
(413
HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LTD. THE THIRTY-SIXTH ORDINARY HOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the General Managers at 11:30 AM on WEDNES DAY 28th instant, to receive a Statement of the Company's Accounts to 31st December, 1916, and the report of the General Managers
The TEANSFER BOOKS of the Company the 14th to 28th instans,
ANNUAL MEETING OF SHARE-
from
will be AD SAFEK
both days
& CO., LTD. JARDINE, MATHESON & CO
General Managers Hongkong, 8th March, 1917.
HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY LIMITED; NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
FORTY-EIGHTH ORDINARY THE
MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the Undersigned at Noox, on WEDNESDAY, the 28th instant. The TRANSFEE BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 14th to the 28th instant, both days Inclusive
& Co., LTD., JARDINE MATHESON
General Managers, HONGKONG FISH INSURANCE CO., LTD.
[38 Hongkong, 8th March, 1017.
CHINA BUGAR BEFINING COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE: THE THIRTY-NINTH ORDINARY MEETING OF THE SHARE HOLDERS of the shore Company will he held the nices of the Geners Agents, Pelder's Street, FRIDAY, the 30th instant, st Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report and Blank of Accounts for the year ending Set December, 1918,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLONED feunt the 16th to 30th March, both days inclusive.
JARDINE MATHESON & Co., Lav
For General Agents. Hongkong, Bh MACH, 1917
1588
GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE will be held on MONDAY the 26th MCREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,
1917, at 4 P., nrecisely, in the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ROOM, NEW GOVERN for the following
MENT BUILDING, for the to
purposes
(1) To receive the Report and Accounts of the Committee for the year ended 31st Desember, 1916.
(2) To elaots New Committee..
(3) To tassot any General Business.
By Order,
EAM WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Hongkong, 18th March, 1917,
1400
LIMITED, AND REDUCED,
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will bo CLOSED from THURS
1st Marob, to BATURDAY 31st 1817, both days inclusive, advertent The return of Capital of $2.50 per Bhare will be paid to Shareholders on and after the 15th March, 1917, on presentation of Share Certificates for endorsement :
By Order of tha BOARD OF DIRECTORS, Hongkong, 22nd February, 1917. HONGKONG TRAMWAY CO, LIMITED
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THE ASSOCIATION OF EXPORTERS AND DEALERS OF HONGKONG.
(Incorporated in the United Kingdom), THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
of the Members of the ASSOCIATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the OF EXPORTERS AND DEALERS OF COLONIAL (Hongkong) REGISTER HONGKONG be held on TUESDAY the 27th March, 1917, at 4P.M. precisely, in the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BOOM, NEW GOVERNMENT BUILDING for the follide
(1) To receive the Report
for
purposes and Accomte of the Committee for the year ended 31st December, 1916.
To elects New Committee.
To trommet any General Business.
By Order
EAM WILLIAMS, Secretary
Hongkong, th Marob, 1917,
NOW READY.
THE
DIRECTORY
AND
CHRONICLE
TOR
CHINA, JAPAN, STRAITE SETTLE MENTS, INDO - CHINA, PERLIPPINES, ETC.
1917
FIFTY METH ANNUAL ISSUE.
Largs Edition Atraged
PRICE
811:00
Celers abone be sent at once HONGKONG DAEZ PAS8, 123,
7.00
of the Company will be CLOSED from TUES- DAY, 27th March, 1917, to WEDNESDAY, 2511 April, 1917, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Direcions,
WE HOBERTS,
Becretary, Hongkong, 19th March. 1817,
NHE
HONGKONG CLUB
NOTICE
4990
THE
INTIMATIONS
PRESS FRIDAY, MARCH 23BD, 1917
INTIMATION
HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO.
LIMITED.
NOTICE
Attention of the Pablis
WATSON'S view with growing disfavour the whole
THE Speciale undermentioned Pegales tions which form part of the Regulations made by the Governor in Connell under Section 3 of pharel the Electricity Supply Orange, 1911, on the 15th Alrok, 1817
33:-" Any person making any addition to
any electrical installation commented to the Company's main without obtaining the written consent of the Company
Amoroto shall be liable to adition
*
ezoceding 6100 for Any consumir B4 — Any
apan whose premises nok addition shall be found shall any mich be liable to a poslty not exceeding $100 during for every day or part of a day which such addition shall have been in existence. In this regulation con- Femer means the person in whos same the contract for the supply of alectricity to such premises was made with the Compsay, or if thers be no such person, the principal teamt or of the pomen la tua ocupation premises in which such addition, thall be found
Having
in regard to the possibility of a break down of the Company's presant plant through unauthorised editions to existing installations the Publio is earnally requested to bo-operate with the Company-by
-by bringing to the Com pany's notice any contraventions of the above regulations.
Datect this 20th day of March, 1917.
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evacunted towns and villages. The people. We are advised that it has been found in the arcas concerned notably those of moccssary to postpone the mailing of the Noyon, from whose midst a number of ss. cundor From Wednesday, the 28th young women have been carried off intonat, until Thursday, the 29th at noon.
The following paragraph appeared captivity tell a very different tale, and ovon the Germans themselves, it is said recently in The Passing Show, of Iran.. don-finir experts in Hongkong, says sale wanton destruction which has been the Evening Neurs, predict the practical wrought. This view is not, of course, extinction of the trade in human hair. dictated by any sentimente of pity, but We detect a note of
Adness in this little by fear of reprisals if the Allies reach announcement, for the Evening News the Fatherland-clearly a possibility cannot very well ask for the comb to be which is now being recognised. We are applied to the funk-holes of Hongkong warned not to expect that the present in the circumstances. This, of course, is a joke at the expence of the Evening rate of advance will be continued mush longer, and already, it is reported that Ves in places the Germans are offering a more stubborn resistance,
HONGKONG MAGISTRACY.
AN OPIUM DIVAN,
A police raid on an opium divan at Takwawan resulted in the arrest of mine
Chinese, who are brought before Mr. Melbourne yesterday,ne of them was charged with keeping the divan, and tho othere were charged with En quenting it. After bearing evidence, his Worship in- posed 2 fine of $50 on the 1 seper and 12 each on the othe, defenda
SILVER DOLLARS.
On being searched by a Chinese re venue officer at the Canton Wharf, a Chinese was found to have 200 silver dollars in his possession, with intent to export them. Dofendant said the money
While the changes which have taken. place dur og the past three weeks in the contour the Western front furnish us with legitimate groand for satisfaction, we must be on our guard agaics investing them with undue significance. obvious that the Germans would not have fallen back if they had not found the pressure brought to beat against their old positions intolerable. That cannot be disputed The pretence that General HINDENBURG planned the retreat in order to lure the Anglo-French forces into a trap like that into which the Russians fell at Tonnenburg is too hollow to deceive anybody for if he bad any such design he is far too astute to proclaim it from the house tops, even to pacify the people of the Fatherland. The hollowness of the case which it was sought to make out scous, audced, to have struck some of the Germans, who now submit the alternative explanation that the German command. decided to create an entirely new position in order to rob our troops
A Chinese watchman, who had been in of the opportunity of taking the initin the employment of the Tramway Co. tive in the spring. They chose this course for five years, strayed from the path of in proference to an assault on our honesty the other night by taking pos positions that would have involved session of a number of copper hands be "terrible bloodshed." This is prob-longing to his employers He was din ably much nearer the truth. Realis covered attempting to carry them off ing that their old positions were concealed under his overcont no longer tenable, the coepiy, rather than
Was given to him by relatives, in ordee to meet the expenses of a wedding. Mr. Melbourne fined him $50 and declared the dollars found in his possession con- fiscated.
A WATCHMAN S LAPSE,
He was sentenced by Mr. Wood, yes
A. S. WATSON &tempt a costly and bopeless offensive, terday, to six weeks imprisonment.
CO. LTD., WINE AND SPIRIT MEHCHANTS, HONGKONG.
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The Baily Press.
HONGKONG 232 Mason, 1917.
decided on a tactical retirement, to new chirenched positions, which, we may be. sure, have been carefulay prepared with
ALLEGED SNATCHER DIS- CHARGED.
A Chinese appeared yesterday before. Mr. Wood, ander remand, on a charge of snatching 893 in notes from the pocket of a shopkeeper's foki, who was on his way to the bank.
[Mr. Gardiner, solicitor, appeared for the defence, and produced the defendant's employer to testify to the man's good character
Complainant's story was that defend- ant came up behind him, spat on hia shoulder, and, when he turned to remon strate, watched the notes from bin pocket. He seized and retained hold of
A LITTLE BIT OFF A Chine appeared before Mr Wood the aid of the forced labour which they charged with attempting to steal a gas luve been recruiting in the territory burner from a street lamp at Wanchai. they occupy. Though these positions are He climbed up the standard, and was described as more formidable than any about to remove the burner when he saw which our troops have hitherto encounter- an Indian coustable observing him. Hə Honerous Orpics. 104, Das Vmur Boar, Oed, there is no reason to doubt that, in slipped down the standard to the ground, due course they will share the fate and was arrested. Inspected Sins told LONDON Ovrica 181. From Bremer, EC,
of those which have already been the Magistrate that he thought the man sato was a little bit off." The charge was reduced. Speculation is nife where the Germans will make their ultimately dropped, stand
Opinion seems to favour the line, which we are bearing, cover- St Quentin, La Fere ing Cambra, THE GERMAN RETIREMENT.
and Laon. Both Cambrai and St. IN wat and boisterous weather the Anglo Quentin are very important centres of French advanca continues unchecked railway and road communications, and along & front of more than sixty miles, the loss of them would be a very serious extending from Arras in the north to blow to the Germans, affecting their forces Soissons in the south, The great leat Lille and Ypres, as it would cut not Transloy Hebeuterne-Arras salient has only the foeder line from Cologne through now disappeared, and we are holding Mauberge, but also sever the line from practically the same line as that which Metz, Sedan, Lille and Ostend running General Jorge ebose for his first attempt parallel to the old front, to stem the German onrush in the open- The rapidity with which progress has been made may he ganged from the fact that in some places our troops have penetrated twenty miles beyond the positions they were occupying a week ago. With insignificant lose they have liberated two French Depart ments and several thousand square kilo metres of territory. The German retrent
At the Victoria Recreation Club, on is, of course, due to a prearranged plan, hut, despite the semi-official assertion Wednesday night, a number of the
AN INCORRIGIBLE YOUTH. met and presented Mr. from Berlia that the operation has been members
A youth, the adopted son of a Chinesa carried out like a peace manoeuvre," it Crowther Smith with a
suitably inscribed, as a token is evident that the enemy have been pur- compass
the theft of ten pieces of clothing from a sued with such unexpected vigour that of their esteem and good wishes on the clerk, was charged before Mr. Wood with The father box in his father's house. they have been able to offer the occasion of his leaving the Colony resistance which they intended. Had it & view, to joining the Army The pre-
Po Leung Kuk, and sent him into the been otherwise, they would not have sentation was made by the Hon Mr stated that he took the boy from the country to be educated at a Chines relinquished so speedily the Bapaume Claud Severn, C.M.G: ridge, which commands such a wide
"An interesting lecture, entitled Poli- school. While there the boy atole from extent of territory and other prepared
tica Backgrounds of the Wr," will be his (witaese' and neighbours houses, and positions. Every possible obstacle has
thout been placed in the path of the Allied given at the City Hall, Hongkong, next had been arraigned for bis conduct at the
at 6.15 o'clock by ancestral ball" many times, Monday to troops and, in addition to committing
Professor R M McElroy, Ph.D., Head effcot He ran away to Canton, and there continued his thieving habits. He of the Department of History and returned to Hongkong, and was no long Politics & Princeton University, U.S.A., back when he committed the present the clothing and a sum of money, He of the National Military Camps Associa disappeared, and a and member of the Executive Committee theft, breaking open a box and stealing ton, U.S. A Professor McElroy has los Cangen, wid was ought in a rain
FOUR-RO
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PHIRTY-FIRST YEARLY OFFICES 2 Cought Road Central,
of the HONGKONG CLUB will be held in
Clab House on THUESDAY, the 29th
March, 1917, at 5:30 PM.
By Order
E DES VIEUX, Secretary
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Hongkong, 16th March, 1917.
NOFIG
A desiring to leave the Colony should apply NY EUROPEAN, Was Aciatio or Indian
of all be required to produce pe
world or identifiestion paper,
All persons 7th our options who emain in the Colay for more than 7 days,
OFFICES Ja King's and Tork Buldings
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A truck coolie has been removed to the Government Civil Hospital suffering from injuries sustained in being knocked down by a motor car st Pokfulam,
defendant, despite the efforts of several confederates to drag him away, and, The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice during the struggle, defendant managed to pass the notes to one of his cÙnt- Memorial and Afiliated Hospitals ac- knowledges with thanks a thank offering | panions, who made off, of 250 to the funds of the Hospitals..
priamatio
After bearing the evidence of the de- Lendant's employer, Mr. Wood discharged the defendant,
In person as the CHITRAL POZIOM FLATION & ROOMED HOUSE Mount Kellett innumerable acts of vandalism, the Ger-
ABGADE
mang have not scrupled to poison the wells between the hours of 9 AM to 1 *a and 1 F. Furnished for 5 or 6 munthe
along their route, as they did in South NO 12 DRACONSFIELD
established rule of civilised warfare West Africa, in defiance of a long
studied at Berlin, Leipsig, and Oxford, and a sum of 811 in his possession. I They frankly admit the, everything that might be serviceable to the enemy has sad having travelled extensively in was found that the clothes had been been destroyed," but have the effrontery Europe, has an intimate first-hand know. Pewned
ledge of the political conditions in the to add that the greatest consideration belligerent countrice. He was in Germany bas been paid to the inhabitants of the for some time after war was declared
REGISTRATION OF PRESONE ORAIN
NANCE 1916.
Forms of Regieimtlon giving the packincses
GODOWNE Duidell
TWO donows in Deifel Stres pas
(Unfurnished on FOR BALE,
Apply for LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
re mired may be obtained of the G.P.0 2014 P CLOVELLY No. 19 ET BAG
Polloo Biations.c
The Penalty for non-compliance is u
coeding $50
Mr. Wood sentenced, the defendant tor Erokes with the birch twenty-four bours' detention and 10