INTIMATIONS
GENERAL HOLIDAY!
UDAY Jy has been proclaimed NDER Ordinance No. 6 of 1912, MON
GENERAL HOLIDAY and the BICHANGE BANKS Hbe CLOSED for Business on that day.
Hongkong,
27th June, 1017.
AUCTIONS
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, JUNE 80TH
PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS & [779e letting by Public Asesies Sale to be held on TUESDAY, the 3rdy of July, 1917, at 8 PM, at the Onices of the PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, by Order of HIS EXCELLENCE. THE GOVERNOR, of Cus
HOUSES TO LET
TO LET
NICE FURNISHED A TOUR in the best locality, for
Immediate possession.
INTIMATION
Apply to
BY APPOINTMENT,
OFFICE of PEAK HOTEL
POBY
TO LET.
KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY Los of CROWN LAND shove Bowen Road, NO. A&B, ROBINSON ROAD
(ENITION SECTION).
THE PUBLIO IS HEREBY NOTIFIED
in the Colony of Hongkong for terms of 75 years with the option of renswal ni CROWN RENT to be Ased by the Surveyor
That commencing on SATURDAY, 30th of Hus ABEY, THE KING, for one farther
instant, and on each sceseding Saturday until farther notice, Tifles will not be supplied on the Train leaving Kowloon at 3.38 ro
By Order,
II. P. WINSLOW,
Manager: Kowloon, 28th June, 1917.
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DISTRICT GRAND LODGE OF HONG KONG AND SOUTH CHINA, EC..
NOTICE.
T SPECIAL MEETING of the DISTRICT GRAND LODGE OF HONGKONG AND SOUTH CHINA, held at the Masonic Hall, 2, Zetland Bireet, on SATURDAY, Brd inst., in celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the first Assembly of the Grand Lodge of England, which was commemorated on that day through- out the Empire, collection was made in sid of tha
HONGEONG WAR CHARITIES FUND. Freemasons not present at the Meeting who wish to subscribe may until 7th July, sand donations to W. J. Toren, Esq, who will be glad to receive contributions however small
By Command of the D. D. G. M Hongkong, 27th Jun, 1917.
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term of 75 years.
Baghty Ho
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Boundary
Memezronviola :(Approximaža)
fent
per
mila | plan. 25,000 1727,800
(about)
PUBLIC AUCTION,
[76%
THE Undersigned has received instino-
tions from the Liquidators of Monro, JURKEN & Co. in pursuance of an order of the Hongkong Government to well by public auction at 18 o'clock (Noox)
TOREDAY, the als day of July, 1917, at his Bales Booms, Duddell Street,
THE VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY situate as The Fest, Hong
DAVID BASS00N & Co. Imm
TO LET
NEW HOUSE in Conduit Bond. Bendy for cocupation. Also 1 GODOWN in
·Duliah Street,
For rent and other particolars wyply Hom
HKH NÁMAZEE, 1·Den Voer Eat
1409
TO LET.
FIVE-ROOMED HOUSE, with Tennis
Gouri, in Minden Villas, Kowloon,
A FLAT in Nathan Bead, Kowlo
Apply to
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
Co, Inma
Alexandr Building":"
TO LET
kong, and being RURAL BUILDING OFFICES at 3, Commangha Bond Central,
LOT No. 10, STRA
1 In On Lor. The Property Consists of:- NOTICE.
The piece or parcel of ground and Lysholt, 104, 2 The NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the premises known ag
subsisting between Pass, ritasis near Mount Gough, in tar the Undersigned and Mr. POON WAN KOCK Colony of Hongkong, with an area of carrying on Business under the Style or Firm 194,089 square fees mud registered in the name of UNION TRADING COMPANY Land Offies Rural Building, Los in the Colony of Hongkong and elsewhers las NO 19. beon Dissolved from the Blet December, 1916, Bo far is concerns the said Mr. FooN WAN Koox, who Letired from the said Firm on that date,
Dated Hongkong; 27th June, 1917
(sd) S. M. CHURN, (Sa) CHONKEY
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BONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LTD.
NOTICE.
WING to the GREATLY INCREASED COST of Manufacture it has boo decided to raise the PRICE OF ICE to 14 cents per lb, as from the 1st July next.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD,
General Managers, Hongkong, 22nd Jane, 1817
1780
THE UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG,
ST. JOHN'S HALL
THE SENIOR HOSTEL for the Residence of Biulents at loXOKONG UNIVERSITY Applications for Booms for September should be made now to -
The Acting Warden,
ST. JOHN'S HALL,
University, Hongkong
FOR SALE.
DO NOT MISS A GOOD OPPORTUNITY.
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The Lot is held for the unexpired resi- due of a term of 75 years created therein by an indenture of Crown Lease dated the 23rd day of April, 1998, gaz
The Annual Crown Rent is $85.00.vent
OFFICES in King's and York Bailings, HOUSES to Let Wongnaishong Band, 4 LOUSES in Clifton Gardens, Daniluli Bond HOUSES In Broadwood and Horsien Terms
HOUSES on Shameen, Canton,
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT AND AGENCY CO., LTD.
WANTED.
WATSON'S
STONE
GINGER-
BEER
The only fermented Stone Genger Beer in the
Far East.
The real charm of Stone Ginger Beer is the flavour produced by partial fermentation; without this no Stone Ginger Beer can be said
to be genuine..
$1.00 per doz,
TRADE
Нап
HOUSE OF WHOLE FLOOR with A. S. WATSON & For further persicular and conditions About 10 Rcome la central location.
of sals apply to tel
MEU. WILKINSON & GRIBT, Bolicitors for the Liquidators,
or to the Undersigned, en
GRO, P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer. 4
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PUBLIC AUCTION,
Y direction of the Government of
B'Hougtong Mass. RUDIES
HOUGH have received instructions to sell by Public Auction,
O HONDAF;
the 13th day of August, 1917, 16 3 F.M., at their Sales Room, Ice House Street, Victoria, Hongkong, The Following VALUABLE LEASE
HOLD PROPERTY situate at Victoria,
Hongkong, VIL --
All THOSE pieces or parcels of ground situate at Victoria aforesaid and known
and registered in the Land Office BECTION OF MARINE LOT NO. 101 and SECTION"B" OF MARINE LOT NO. 101. Together with the massage erections and buildings and buildings thereon known as No. 7, Queen'e Read Central, Victoria aforesaid.
Please apply to
Box No. 1, Care of Daily Prem" Once
787
WANTED.
OFFICE at the Central Location:
Apply to
CO., LTD.,
1917
(adds the Report) the paramount im- portance of river and railway transport in Me
shown themselves so
The Bishop of Victoria will be the preacher at the Cathedral to-morrow
(Sunday) morning The evening service at the Peak Church will be resumed on July 8th
which several ineffectual attempts were mado to relieve him, he was compelled to
otamin, and their responsibility capitulate in consequence of the exhaus tion of his supplies, and the garrison of Was grave," General Sir JOHN NIXON WAS oleven thousand troops was taken prisoner responsible for recommending the 1915 adult advances with insufficient transport and by the enemy. In the meantime, the
equipment. The transport shortage ab veil of secrecy and silence, which had been discreetly drawn over the Tigris the beginning of 1916 rendered the Kut relief operations fatal. Painful as when matters went awry was lifted by the these disclosures are, it is in the national Times, which, in a loading article entitl interest that they should be made new, ed Mismanagement in Mesopotamia,"
so that those who are culpable may be no said: The statements transmitted to
longer ontrasted with
aibilities us from many quartors seem to point to
which they have something like a breakdown of the
utterly incapable of disch medical arrangements. It is said that the field hospitals are too few, are badly equipped, and inadequately staffod Medical requisites are sometimes lacking, and the scarcity of doctors is deplorable. We have now heard of case after case in which seriously wounded officers and men have been left for two or three days with
A Chinese woman has been sent to the no further attention to their injuries Government Civil Hospital suffering
feld than the first dressing. The river from the effects of immersion. It seems steamers on the Tigris are said to make that she was married four days ago, had their voyage downstream with the decks a quarrel with her husband, and then strewn with wounded men, insufficiently jumped into the harbour. provided with coverings to shield then from the bitter cold of a Chaldean TWO MORE HONGKONG winter's night. The larger vessels which AEROPLANES FOR THE FRONT carry the wounded through the Persian
OVERSEAS CLUB'S SUCCESSFUL APPEAL Galf to Bombay are imperfectly staffed, and one correspondent anys that wounded have been arriving at the Bombay Docks in a condition which recalls SMOLLETT account of the attack on Cartagent Another correspondent says that the torrents of rain, flooding trenches and camps, make many wounds gangrenous. planes →→→ But the principal complaint, which bas| £2,250 for a 100 horse-power, gun-mounted-
Mr. J. J. Bryan, the local Correspond ing Secretary of the Overseas Club, informs us that be cabled to the Overscas Club, London, yesterday the following amounts for the purchase of two nero-
Aeroplane, given Mr. A. R. Love, who, it will be remembered; offered to give an aeroplane on the condition that the General Com munity subscribed another by July
lat.
£1,500 for a 70 horsepower Aeroplane
subscribed by Residents of Hong- kong in spouse to the appeal made by the local branch of the Overseas Club.
now been reaching us in increasing volume for some weeks, is that doctors and nurses ire scarce, that medical re- quisites and comforts are lacking, and that lives are being lost through neglect. due to imperfect organization. We fear the later stages of the Mesopotaman operations have in many respects been very badly run. Few casualties were no provision was made for expected, and
flood of wounded Entrenched post- tions on the open plain were attacked in January without, adequate artillery pre-
ON THE PHEUMPHENH.". paration, and the consequences were
At the Hongkong Summary: Court yes- ARATED WATER MANUFACTURERS. grave. Today the transport is insufficient
for the requirements of a large force." terday, before Mr. Justice Gompertz, The strong criticisms which these revelathe case was highlined in which W. J. tions called forth in the Frem ad in Stocks is suing Captain de la Sala for Parliament led to a complete reorganisathe sum of 81,000, for alleged libel.
Mr. Grist said he understood that the tion, and the result of this was seen last
argue the legal points March, when General MAGDE entered | [703 - | HUMPHREYS. Suddenly at sea, on Tues- Baghdad siter a brilliant pursuit of the of the case and thed have it tried before
day 19th inst., on board the Empress Turks, who were compelled to retire in judge and jury. of Asia, WG. HUMPHREYS. By cable.
[778 great disorder after suffering heavy WALLAOR-On the 29th June, at the lossen. It is this which enables the Com-
Government Civil Hospital, after a long illness, JAMES WALLACE, aged 48.
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FURUKAWA & 00, 20, Des Voeur Boad Central.
NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES
6.8. “DUMBEA,” COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES
Telephone 436
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DEATHS
HONGKONG OFFion: 10a, Den Vœux HOLD, 0. LONDON. OFFION:* 181, Fræer Braast, E.C.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, Séra June, 1917.
missioners to declare that notwithstand ing the nerd of reverses the success of
the campaign as a whole has been remark. able, and that nowhere have more substantial or more solid victories" been achieved than in Mesopotamia Probably this is all we should have heard if an immediate investigation of the facts had not been insisted upon. As it is, we are told that the medical provision was in-
NOTICE.
aONSIGNEES of Gargo from Harrs, de, ins Conection with above steamer tre hereby Informed that their Goods with the sæcepilan af Optum, Treasure and Valuable are being made and stored at their risks into the haardous and or extra hacerdom Godowits of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Goders years created by a Crown Lease dated Co., Ltd, st Kowloon, whence delivery may be THE MESOPOTAMIA MUDDLE
ohhaired framediately after the 8th day of April, 1856 | Optional Cargo will be for THE report of the Commission appointed down after the battles of 1915-16 and most
Term 999
Area in respect of Section " & " of Marine Lat No. 101-8445 94. Pro- portion of Annual Crown Bent 884.45. *** EAN and Nat OIL MILL PLANT in
Ares in respect of Bection “B” at BEAN
perfect working order for Sale at next to Marine Lot No 101-625 g It Pro scrap-iron price.
portion of Annual Crown Rent $1.75.
·Please address enquiries to-
For further particulars and conditions of sale apply to
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,
Prince's Buildings,
Care of "Daily Prome" Qube.
FOR BALE
AGS OF USED ASIATIC POSTAGE
STAMPS.
BAGS
400 Stamps for $0.601 2000 Stamps for $2.00 100 4000
500
$1000
1500
(6.00) 2900
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NOTIOR.
NY EUROPEAN, Non-Ashble or Indian
Ice House Street, Hongkong, Solicitors for the Liquidator of THE DEUTSCH Astationen Baxx,
or tak MEAN HUGHES & HOUGH, The Auctioneers. Hongkong, May, 2017.
FOR EUROPE AND AMERICA,
INDIA, AUSTRALIA, 800.,
PRIVATE RESIDENCE AT THE Outrozen, A Comprehensive and Complete Enoord
of the
slestring to free the Colony Abould apply H
In person at the URETRAL FOLIOS STATION between the hour of 9 4.3 to 1 P.M. ASÍ SP.M.
Allestion papers All persons wilk pertain exsections whe In the Coloury for more than 7 day need to Rörigke themonium wadon tha REGISTRATION OF FERSONS ORDIN ANCE 1914
Forma et Parisisbon giving tho particulars required may be obtained at the GP0. 1976 The Penalty for non esurplinase le* has not
Intimation
on "unlegi
is received from the Consigness
before Noon To-DAY requesting it to be landed
Fills of Lading will be countersigued by the Undeigned. Goods maining sucked after the 4th July, at Nook, will be sanjei to rast All Claims must be sent in to me on or before And sanding shargon the 8th July, or they will not be restrained
TUESDAY, the
the 3rd Jul, at 10 No Fire Insurance has been eftested.
P THOMAS
Hangheng, 29th June, 1817.
ON BALE
A “TAIM OF TER RATES OF ZICHINGI
AT HONGKONG:
Parties desired to are
The Puisne Judge remarked that be would appoint a day next week for that purpose.
CHINA MAIL STEAMSHIP CO'S NEW PURCHASE.
THE S.S." CONGRESS" TO BE RENAMED THE NANKING."
Contracts covering the purchase by the China Mail Steamship Co., Ltd., and reconstruction of the former Pacific Const
auficient from the beginning and alti Steamship Company's Congress were con--
mately resulted in a lamentable break.
cluded in the latter part of May, and, according to present advices, the ship should be ready for service on the Pacific to inquire into the conduct of the cam lamentable and severe suffering." The paign in Mesopotamia is a damning Commissioners find that Surgeon Generalome time during November, and may be indictment which fully justifies the HATHAWAY ahowed unfitness for his expected to leave Hongkong about the end strictures that were passed upon the office" and they severely censure the Com of December, operations in this theatre of war by The mander-in-Chief in India, Bir Beauchamp Times in March of last year, and, taken
The vessel which was built in 1913, is 442 ft. long, 65 2t. beam, 7,935 tons gross
As reconstructel by the Seattle Construc- tion and Dry Dock Co., she will have a passenger capacity for approximately 120 teerage, and will be first class, modern cabin passengers, 100 second and 200
and up-to-date in every respect. When full up with steerage passengers she will carry approximately 4,200 toar cargo.
It is proposed after reconstruction when the vessel takes the water at Beattle to rename her the Janking in bonour of the ancient capital of China.
All damaged packages will be enmined on in conjunction with the Munitions who not only failed closely to
superintend the adequacy of medical pro. 4,012 tons net, displacement 13,800 tons, has a double bottom throughout, has scandal' and the Dardaneller failure vision but, until the Viceroy's superior
twin screws, burns oil fuel, and has a shows that a rigorous Press Censorship authority forced him,' declined to take
My speed of about 18 knots such as that which was imposed when
notice of tumours, which were true. hostilities arst broke out would not have They also criticise the failure of the been an unmixed blessing to the nation Commander-in-Chief to visit Mesopo if it had been permitted to continue. The tamis periodically; either in person or expedition to the Persian Gulf opened
by his representatives. The general in November of 1914, and for nearly armament and equipment were quite in twelve months afterwards was uniformly icient to meet the needs. The whole successful, indeed, Mr. AscuITH an
was badly of commissariat system, nounced in the House of Commone that
organised during the period of Indian our forces were within measurable
Government responsibility and, though distance of Baghdad." But, as at Galli- there was no general breakdown, the poll, just when the objective seemed to he
Simla authorities bestowed meagre al within reach it was snatched from our tention and illiberal treatment to the grasp. The ease with which our progress expedition's wants during 1914-15. Th had been made led us, apparently, to supply of reinforcements se alen 11- anderestimate the enemy and to push on sufficient." The Commissioners describe through a roadless country, deatitute of the advance towards Baghdad in supplies and transport, without proper 1015, an offensive movement based on preparations. The consequences were political and military miscalculations, disastrous. At Ctesiphon the retreating It was attempted with tired and in
TOR
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uate prepara Tarks took up a prepared position, where sufficient forces and inad they were strongly reinforced, and tion and resulted in the Kul disaster. onsibility for General TowwSHEND, who had been sent The weightiest share of
COMFORTS FOR OUR SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.
GIFTS
RECEIVED BY THE HONGKONG WAR CHARITIES
COMMITTEĽNEA
The following gifts have been received by the War Charities Committee for the use of our Boldiers and Bailors, at the front, and will be distributed in due purse through the medium of the Com- mittee's representative in London ------
From Messrs. Wassiamull Assomull.. chests China tea ____From_La· Inmilar Cigar Factory, in pursuit with a weary and inadequate the untoward advance lies with General Manila One case tobacco cuttings
whoes col (dent From the Philint Co Manila Tw force, was obliged, after suffering 4,500 Bir Jos NITON, casualties, to fall back upon Kat. Here optimism was the main cause of these containing 476 packages of smoking
tobacco, reo. he was invented, and, after a gallant de decision. The Indian military antho eigarena 230 fance lasting nearly five months, during rice insuficiently realised from the first tobacco
containing 20,000) ken of smokingi