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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
OPEN
TO-DAY
CHAMPIONSHIP
SEMI-FINAL.
Boss of Bota,
NG SZE
KWONG
M. K. LO
on
WAR CHARITIES COURT.:
AT 4.30 PM.
PUBLIC COMPANIES
THE HONGKONG DAILY
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO
LIMITED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
NTWENTY-EIGHTH ORDINARY
GENERAL MEETING will be held at the Company's Offith May, 1917
St. George's Buildings, on SATURDAY, the B
st 13 o'clock NOON, for the purpose of
Palta Statement of the Report of the Directors together Accounts to 28th Rehraary, 1917, and electing Directors and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 31st April to the 5th May, both days idclusiva
By Order of the Board of Directors,
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co. "Agents
Hongkong, 17th April 1917
1589
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
P. M. HODGSON, iton. Secretary.
Hongkong, 4th May. 1917:
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NOTICE.
HE
THIRTY SIXTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Co- pany will I be hold at the Utes of the General
ROOMS to Let, Fest Ofice. Buildings (top Corn, VA DINE, MARSSON &
floor)
Apply
LOWE BINGHAM & MATTHEWS,
Chartered Bank Building, Hongkong, 2nd May;:1017.
basement
Moderate,"
Apply to
TO LET:
(608
Fent
HOUSE, No. 4, Conduit toad, 4 ROOMS.
tod out. houses.
F. M. GUTIERREZ, Care of SusWAN, TOMES &
Des Voeur Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY, the 9th May, at Noon, for
of the purpose receiving the Repurt of the Directors, passing the Accounts, and electing Directors und Auditors
The TRANSFER UUKS of the Company will be CLUSED from 2nd May 10 Lis 23rd May, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,
General Managers,
Hongkong, 25th April, 1917,
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HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
THE CHINA BORNEO COMPANY,
LIMITED.
HE FOURTEENTH YEARLY MEET TING OF SHAREHOLDERS of the above Company will be held at the Company's Ofe, si Chorge Building, at 11 2.M. on FRIDAY, the 18th May, 1917, to rocuite s Statement of Accounts to the 31st December,
and the Report of the General Manager 1916, But Committen, and to elect a and
and Auditor Consulting Committee
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 5th fustant to the 18th May, both days Inclusivo
THE CHINA-BOENEO CO., LTD.,
W. G. DARBY,
RUSSIAN INTERNAL LIBERTY
LOAN 1917.
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that 1956 dated Certificate No. 5/NS Hongkong 21st February, 1912, for Three Shares numbered 67889, 14321, and 89966 registered in the name of Mrs. MARIA DAS
NEVES BUSIEO has been LOST of STOLEN, and should this Certificate not be produced the Bank before, the 11th day of May, 1917,
New Certificate for the shares will be issued, and the storesaid Certificate No. 5/N8 1956 will thereafter be treated by this Corporation
Null and Void By Order of the Court of Directors,
NJ STABB,
Chief Manager. Hongkong, 11th Aöril, 1917.
11OUSES TO LET
INTIMATION
PRESS FRIDAY MAT 4TH, 1917
WATSON'S
OLD BROWN
BRANDY
E
-QUALITY.
Brown Brandy
500
General Manager
L008
25 YEARS IN WOOD,
TO LET
ONE
NE ROOM suitable for an OFFICE.
Apply to
DENNYS & BOWLEY. #[599
TO LET
No
TO, 10, BEYMOUR TERRACE From
1st June, 1917. Apply to
P. M. N. DA SILVA,
6, Des Voeux Road [391
TO LET
A. S. WATSON
CO., LTD., WINE AND SPIRIT MEBORLANTS;
&
aloription to the LIBERTY LOAN
Opened at THE RUSSO ASIATIC BANK, Hongkong, from date to the 28th June,
per cent.
4912
The The
price of issue in
tarations.
is free of Income Tax and other
The Loan is inaned for 65 years and will be redeemable at par by yearly drawings beginning
in December, 1992 reimbursed at par after the
The Loan may be
29th March, 1927.
Coupons
(e payable half-yearly on the 19th
Marda and the 29th September.ja
Interest
on the loan runs from the 29th
March, 1917-intermat from that date to be added NO. 2. STEWART TERRACE, PRAS,
is the prica
of
issue..
Spacial favourable
will be quoted for
Russian Exaban be wired to Potrogral troo
Applications
of
telegraphin charges and Bonds will be far.
warded free of postal expenses.
The Bank is ready to give every facility to
Furnished. Apply to
HE POLLOCK,
Prince's Buildings.
07
TO LET
sabsorbers in the shaps of advances against the1 for occupation. Als 1 GODOWN
Bonds.
G. TISDALL,
NOTICE
Manager,
1609
HAVE This Day REMOVED my OFFICE from Quesn's Building tu 2nd Floor of
Mesura ATACK & Co.'s by the Tour
Read Contral
Hongkong, 30th April, 1917.
NOTICE.
WEI A YUK.
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TE HAVE from l'his Day Opened out
Woffee at New York San Francisco
and Harkong under the Firm Name of KARANJIA & Co.
st
Con No. 2,
KARANJIA & CO Hongkong, 30th April, 1917.
WANTED
Dar List Office is situated naught Road,
SALT GOODS J
159
MALL GOODS LIFT, about 4′ x 4,
Apply
A. 8. WATSON & Co., LTD.
NOTICE
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Daddell Streef,
For rent and other particulars apply to
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TELEPHONE 818.
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DEATH Asta-At the General Hospital, Shang- he, on April 27th, MURRAY ALLAN, the son of the late William Allan, late of Shanghai, aged 17 years. "HoNukung (IPFica == 104, Des Vœux Boan, LONDON ĢINU: 181, Frar: Exxas, E.C.
The Daily Press.
Germany and Austria-Hungary have been purposely, and as an act of war, cut off from the food supplies of other countries, and the inadequacy of their own resources is demonstrated in the high prices which ejen ordinary necessaries have reached und in the provision of substitutes. But the Allied countries, where the chief in- terference with the food supplice from abroad nne heen Germany's submarina campaign, have felt the pinch and aro peguining to feel it more, Germany claims that it is her submarino campaign
The Hon. Treurer of the Alice REUNION OF CHRISTENDOM.
Affiliated Hospitals
ADDRESE BY THE BISHOP OF Memorial and
VICTORIA acknowledges with thanks the following donations to the funds of the hospitals Manchester Royal Infirmary, Nurses Mis. sionary League, 84967; A MacKenzie, 310, Wiseman, Ltd., 30.
The above subject was discussed at the meeting of the Church of England Men's Society, hold under the Chairmanship of Professor Earle, on Wednesday evening.
The Bishop of Victoris opened the All monies which members of the Hong- kong and South China War Savings discussion with an interesting paper. He Association desire to subscribe to this said that the tord reunion implied that the investment to there once was union. Christ formed one Association for be made this weck must be paid in by Church, His prayer and vision are for Saturday, at noon, when the investments one united Church. Seeds of disunion, which has caused the apparently serious for April and the first week in May will however, were soon apparent. The Bishop traced the disruption of Christendom and mentioned some of the causes thereof. He referred to the great cleavage between the Eastern and Western Churches, and to the disruption of the Western Church in the 15th century. He pointed out some aspirations after reunion and the mani- festations of a tolerant spirit in the intolerant age that followed the Befor
close.
HONGKONG AND THE GERMANS.
The Canons of 1604, teaching Angli cans to pray for the Presbyterian | Church of Scotland, the willingness of the authorities to consecrats Scotch ministers directly to the Episcopate: without first ordaining them Deacon and Priest, Archbishop Laud's dealings with the Greek Church, and the cordial fellow- ship of Bishop Cosin and others with French Protestants who to this day. bold service in the Crypt of Canterbury. Cathedral, were all referred to The Bishop quoted long passages from the Lambeth Conference Reports of 1888 1897 and 1008, and mentioned that at the first conference the famous quadrilateral was laid down. That the following Articles supply a basis on which approach may be by God's blessing made towards Home Reunion MA MIWY
snortage of Too in dress britain, but De amount of food suppizes that Ger
At the Club Lusitano last evening there any has been able to destroy bears a small proportion to the whole, and was a farewell (smoking concert to three when we have brend riots in New York, members of the Portuguese community and such a shortage of available supplies who are proceeding to the front, Messrs. in Russia that it foments, if it does not N H Maher CM Pereira and F. precipitate, a revolution, the strength of Marques. The Fortuguese Consul pro Germany's claim becomes still weaker. It sided over the gathering, and after a few:mation, E is argued that there is plenty of food words in which he wished the trio a safe in Russia, but that its distribution has return from their great adventure, be been disturbed by bad management, while presented each of the guests of the evening the rise in prices is due to the market with a purse subscribed to by the members operations of men who see a way to get of the Portuguese community. rich on the misery of others. The same reasons are also ascribed to the high prices in New York, but, while making overy: allowance for this, the very fact that the rigging of the market is possible shows that there is a searcity. The number of men drawn from the land in Russia must meina decreased production. The closer interdependerico of the nations is one of the facts brought out by the war. It is fact which gives cause for hope, as a step in the direction of the consolidation of human, and not merely national, in- terests. The way lus shown us more clearly how dependent the nations of Europe are on each other for different. articles necessary for their own welfare, and has proved to some extent that this interdependence reaches to America, on one side, and the extreme east of Asia, on the other. It is true that Japan dur
that General vol It is reported the war has seen its great staple ing food, rico, grow cheaper, owing to good Hindenburg recently visited the Lens dis crops and her comparative independeneset and what tribus at the oss of income into closer touch with Anglicans and reprimanded the commanders-long
Daily
of outside supplies; but at the same time
Reports of the Meeting of the Legislativo Council, the Mesting of the Chamber of Commerce and the Publio Meeting in the Theatro Royal, when the question of the exclusion of Germans from the Colony for a prescribed period after the War was discussed, have been issued in pamphlet form.
These pamphlets are now on sale at the Oilice of the Hongkong Daily Press, Lot
PRICE 20 CENTS EACH.
VIMY RIDGE.
You see him stand The poor old indignant, with a shaking hand To watch the British batteries Raising has glasses to his eyes That spout their shells upon his lines. You see the fae jawed, brutal face, the cunning eyes without a trace
(a) The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as containing all things necessary to salvation and is being the rule and ultimate standard of faith.
(6) The Apostles' Creed as the Bap- tismal symbol and the Nicence Creed as suficient statement of the Christian faith, (c) The two Sacrements ordained by Christ Himself-Baptism and the Supper. of the Lord-ministered with unfailing use of Christ's words of institution, and of the elementa ordained by Him,
(d) The historic Episcopate, locally adapted in the methods of its adminis tration to the varying needs of the nations and peoples called of God into the Unity of His Church
The world conference of faith and order, has been set foot. The Church of Sweden and the Moravian Church have and the Russian and Greek Churches show increasing friendliness The Angli can Bishop in Jerusalem, Dr. McInnes, had been most cordially received by the various Patriarchs of the Eastern Churches, and at Cairo 40 prelates and both orthodox and and Catholic, clergy, Greek, Copta, Syrians, Armenians, Maronites, etc., took part in a grest service in memory of Lord Kitchener
As to our relation with the Tree Churches of the West, the Edinburgh Conference, the Student Movement, YM.C.A. and the like have broken down many prejudices
she has experienced a rise in other direc tions which has more than offset any ad- vantages gained by cheap rice, which, after all, leaves the farmers who grow it in a worse position, seeing that they receive no larger profit from their crop
The ly, bristling Prussian hair · and at the same time have heavier ex. Ut fee ing in their brazen stare,
around him shifts and shines. penses to meet This is one of the difficul. His
ją beat: ties encountered in increasing the supply On Vimy Ridge his gaze
The subject should not be merely of food-stufts so as to widen the margin Half fury half astonishment
academic but practical: Every member of the Church can and ought to do some between subcioncy and insufficiency. The His comments run for over thers
further onslaughts where
where his Hans
thing to further the cause of reunion, For farmor grows according to the supply and The swarming British now prepare
All must seek, above all things, the spirit demand He is not conducting an eloe
of Christ, the spirit of lovs (controversy. Lie
dead by his decree,
seoms too often the death of charity), the moaynary business, and the larger part Yet fought and died so fruitlessly.
spirit of humility-the Anglican Church of what he produces is perishable and The old man's dull, mechanic trade Of plots and plans precisely laid-
has much to confess and not a little to learn the spirit of self-sacrifice. It may must find a quick market. Germany So many men, so many guns
be necessary to Baorifice some valued HONGKONG TH MAY, 1917. could make every preparation for war in
To balance bostile gune and men
organisation and cherished theories, oven the way of guns and ammunition; she In strict proportion worked by pen-
the Church of England herself, for the Kingdom of God. We must abandon all could pile up a reserve of armaments for Has failed him here; he stands at bay,
And, smitten with a strange dismay,
hidden thing, party spirit. It is deplorable that use on a future day; but she could not Sees, dimly, some new hidde
almost every religious newspaper and publication bears the stamp of some Which
all his calculations SOME years ago a leading English scion-pile up a reserve of food a disability
party. The English Chris an even seeks to keep the mean between extremce. HONGKONO IOF CO. LTD tist warned his countrymen that at no from which she is now suffering. All the Have yet ignored, for there has passed:
Extreme men may get their own way in The Prussian boast that raight, is right That the very distant date the problem of the food nutions live more or less from band to Through all the millions pledged to fight.
a congregation if they are sufficiently in this matter:
of hope that makes them swing A thrill
Astute and aggresive, but in doing so they supply, would become a very seriops one, mouth
shout. the battle with
mey quench the spirit of Christ and thus Towards not only for them but for all the nations earth is capable of growing sufficient
Democracy is armed and out
do more harm than good to themselves and their party. We must allow for the of the earth. This, of course, was long food to supply the existing popula
Before the bayonet and gun before the war, and had no reference to tion there is no doubt, but under And slavish Germans break and run
Where might alone meets might and right, charismatic ministry, that is, the grace of God manifestly: bestowed independently the special conditions which war creates, present conditions, the margin of
of Channels to which we are accustomed. The grass old soldier, butcher-red,
It is a fact that the spirit of God is not bound by any ecclesiastical traditions. Well stares and shakes his bullet head,
The Disciples say that there was a man For like a great advancing tide And Peace has dawned on War's dark casting out devils who followed not them, Our banners on to victory ride
TO LET
TMMEDIATE entry, Two very desirable, SHOPS situated in Ice House Street, opposite the Grand Hotel, recently recon structed.
For rent and other particulars apply to---
THE MANAGER
46, Connaught Road Central
TO LIT
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OUR ROOMED HOUSES in Gordon Terms and Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon, A FLAT in Humphreys Buildings, Kowloon TO LET OR FOR SALE.
KOWLOON MARINE LOT 48 with where are 58,000 sq. ft., suitable for Com Storige ar erection of Godowns.
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1291
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A desiring in have the Colony should apply
NY EUROPEAN Non-Asiatic or Indian O
the CENTRAL POLICE PTAZION in purson between the hours of 9 A.M. 10-1 P.M. and 2 P.M. 104 P.K. daily.
Applicants will be
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All persons with certain exceptiona who Penis in the Colony for more than 7 days
AN
A required to Register themselves under the REGISTRATION OF PERSONS ORDIN- ANGE 1816
Forms of
of Registration giving the portiostar required may be obtained at the G.PU. and 11 all Police Stations
The Pensity for non-compliasou is a fine mot exowding $50
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WYNDHAM ST.
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HOUSES on Shameen, Canton.
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No
THE PROBLEM OF FOUD SUPPLY
I referred to normal times an1 is likely to grow less and leas, owing to normal conditions, and attracted the more the superior attractions of industry and attention by virtue of this very fact the diminishing and always precarious The grounds on which the conclusion was profits of agriculture. The State as the based need not be her discussed. The food producer, with the losses of over point that deserves attention is that the production falling in the shape of taxes results of the warm come degree bear on all ulike, has been proposed as a way out the warning The present starcity out of the difficulty, but the consequent and consequent high price of food, felt increase, direct or indirect, in the cost not only in Europe but also in America of food, would be a serious matter. and even in Japan and China, is no doubt Rather we should look to the scientists to
solve the problem. partly due to disturbed conditions I transport, losses occasioned by the war,e and reduced production owing to the withdrawal of men from agriculture to swell the armies; but, making due allow ance for these causea, the fact is only the more emphasised that the margin between plenty and insufficiency is a very narrow one. Ender normal condition, the
PAC
For Summer Months No 61, PEAK (Sorld was producing - enough food tú ↑ Room Hanse), Parikhed
Apply all who were ready to work forð
No 2. FAIRVIEW 3. Nathan Road,
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night
Jast
-YIMKIN.
MAY MORNING.
Bee there's a sparkle in the blue. Como, my beloved, come with me the leaves can never greener be, And got awer but yearns for you. Subscriptions are invited to tu Hussian And Spring's maid that must be wooed
Then let us make high holiday For Of it is not alwaye May 3 per cent. Internal Laberty Loan, which And take her while she's in the mood, is being issued at 85 per cent type
The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the week end lag 31st April amounted to 68,788 tone and the sales to 54,194 tons.
The semi-final of the open tennis cham
Nay do not pout and hang your head, But breathe the spirit of the time- For, if you come not, Spring is dead Or only lives in empty rhyme Then do not wait on circumstance And opportunity delay
skirts of happy Chance, But
Lit, but it wa.not doing much more. For pionship between Ng Szo kwong and Malware May..
NA 12 BEACONSFIELD ARCADE 120 last two years or so the belliger eat nations have been eking out the in- sufficiency and the losses by falling back ring out and the pinch is beginning to their reserves Now the reserves are
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TWO WOWO, PER TWO GODOWNA in Puddell Strook
(Unfurnished),
Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
Brd Floor, Alerades Buildi
felt. From these considerations the nditions obtaining in the countries of the Central Powers must be excluded
K. Lo will be played on the War Charities Court this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock.
Mr. W. R. Noble, 16, Broadwood Road, April 15th and May 1st some person stole has reported to the police that between
from a trunk is beu-roon a muffer, ne blanet and some clothing, of the total value of $102. The suspect his corvants
To lie, like lion and diks lamb, Eftoon shall Commerce be content At peace with all the Government, thought is worth eight though Nor care a continental d-m
Besides the Editor must pay) Doth leap anbidden to my lips, rhat Of it is not always May
hundred
D. 8. 0.
and the Master did not allow them to forbid him The preface to the Book of Common Prayer is careful to states We condemo no other nations nor pre- scribe anything but to our own people only and I am glad added the Bishop that the Archbishop, in his pronounce. ment on the Kiknyn affair, bas deprecat ed the use of the word invalid for any ministrations that may be irregular from our point of view. Let us always look for what is best in those who differ of God wherever we see it, let us also from us, and cordially recognise the work poperate wherever possible. We sing the hymns and use the theologiesl books of men of different denominations Social. and moral enterprises afford ample scope for co-operation, so also do such organisa tions as the Bible Society, and why should we not join much more than we do in united prayer 1 Bishop Norris and I attended the prayer meeting at the Union Church at the beginning of the National Mission, and when the other Bunday I was at Haiphong, where there is no Church of our own, I attended the French Protestant Church in the morning and the Roman Catholic in the evening.
Amongst all Churches there are many earnest caule praying daily for the fulfil- ment of the Master's prayer that we all may be one, and a Divine impulse is stir- vitg us all. May He grant un Jeremy Tatlor prave Uniting principles, re conciled hearts and an external Com manion in His own good reason.