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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER Grx, 1917
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【HE ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the above Company will be held at the Conipany's of Offices, on SATURDAY, the 29th September, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with a Statement of Accounts to 30th June, 1917.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 1st to 20th September, both days inclusive,
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers. Hougkong, 6th September, 1017.
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The ordinary general ceting of the Douglas Steamship Co., Ltd., will be held at the Company's offices on Saturday, September 29th at noon,
Two mails front Englund are expected to arrive in the Colony to-morrow (Friday). One is dated Londen, July 27th and comes vid Siberin. The other comes
Canada but the date of its despatch
is unknown.
At a whist drive held in the Naval
CHINESE TELEGRAMS. [FROM OUR PERING CORRESPONDENT] ALLIED NISTERS AND UNINTERNED ENEMIES,
PEKINO, September 4th.. The Allied Ministers have made repre-
sentations to the Waichinopu pointing out the dangers of German machinations re- sulting from the large number of these enemies who are at large.
TARIFF REVISION AND CHINA'S PART IN THE WAR.
There will be a meeting of the Diplo matie Body on Wednesday to discuss the revision of the Tariff and also Chimse participation in warfare.
It is announced in Church Notes that the Rev. V. H. Copley Moyle, Senior
THE LEASED ENEMY SHIPS, Chaplain of St. John's Cathedral, who is now at home, has decided to renew his
The lease of cucmy ships to Chang Chież agreement for three years from April
ath. He is due back in the Colony not is a loose contract, as it is understood that inter than December 1st of this year. The thess vessels will be sub-lensed to tho
Japanese. Rev. G. H. Griffith, Assistant Chaplain, will then be going home for war work.
AS TO
PROVINCES CONSULTED
CHINA'S ROLE IN THE WAR.
The Government has dispatched w
industries which make use of iron. As a matter of fact, the supply of the home product to shipbuilders, it is stated, amounts only to 30,000 or 35,000 tons a year, which is sufficient for only 70,000 or 80,000 tons of shipping. It is true that there are many, projects on loot to in crenso Japan's home-made iron and steel, and some rather glowing statistics as to the capabilities of these foundries when they are all working, which, however, will not be for two or three years. In the meantime, urged by the immense profits Theatre, by the Royal Naval Quadrille to be made on ships, Japan has Club, on Tuesday evening, prizes were enormously extended her shipbuilding won by:-Ladies-1st, Mrs. Scars; 2nd, capacity. Before the war there were only Miss Marshall. Men-1st, Mr. Hart; 2nd, six or seven shipbuilding companies in Mr, McCormack. the country. To-day there are thirty which have actual stocks for building ships, and many more whose stocks are only on the market, a moderate estimate of the amount of tonnage that can now be constructed by Japan gives it, is 000,000 tons a year, which is seven to cight times the amount of tonnage for which she has home materiale. In other words, if Japan is deprived of foreign supplies of iron
By the kindness of the Services' Enter- and steel she can build only 13 per cent. of that which she has made arrangements taiment Fund, the N.C.Os, and men of to build. It is hardly surprising, there 3rd C. R.G.A stationed at Lemun fore. that the Japanese shipbuilders were combled to have another outing on cireniar telegram to the Provinces invit should be making, the most earnest efforts the 26th August. On this occasion a muching opinions as to whether China should to bring the situation before the American shorter trip was made, a visit being paid isin the Entente or America, or not in- to one of the sinal bays at the Eastern It has been pointed out by anthorities.
entrance. As is always the case, this experts for many years that Japan's so- CHEROOT called ship-building industry was really outing was thoroughly enjoyed by all, a ship constructing industry, that the and with the promise of cooler afternoons greater part, if it all, of the musterials the remaining trips of the season should brought from abroad, and the provide still greater pleasure for the
participants.. vesils merely put together in Japan,
The Frawley Company bring their stay which In the advantage of cheap labour, This warning fell upon deaf ears. within Hongkong to a close this (Thursday) the result that Japan's ship-builders now evening, when they will present at the find themselves with all the apparatus Theatre Royal the drama "Paid in Fall"
vaudeville mélange entitled States Government will give way on the Little Bit of Texas and Kentucky," Miss question remains to be seen. Unfortunate Eva Lang plays the leading feminine y, the Press in Japan does not seem torale in "Paid in Full," and Mr. Moore understand the reason of the embargo, and Miss Haager provide 'the songs, The and is inclined to look upon it as a dances and stories which go to make slight to Japan, although, of ourse, the up the vandeville entertainment,
Frawley Comuny have had a successful embargo is equally applied to all coun- tries. As already announced, the United season here, and it is to be hoped that States is prepared to permit exports of the measure of support they have received iron and steel to the Allies for actual will serve as an inducement to them to wat purposes or for purposer directly pay the Colony a return visit before long. DEATH.
connected with the war, but as the pur-There is no doubt that their performanceH pose for which Japan requires the iron have all been thoroughly appreciated. GOSZALEZ BEL CATILLO-At Madrid, en the 4th July, 1937, HERMILLA ROZARIO GONZALEZ DEL CASTILLO, and steel is not connected with the war beloved wife of Hilarion Gonzalez del | directly or indirectly she can hardly Castillo. (Shanghai and Japan obtain supplies on this count. In Japan
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AT A CHEAP PRICE.
THE PENINSULAR AND
ORIENTAL STEAM
XE HAVE authorised Mr. WILLIAM: EDWARD LEONARD SHENTON to Sign our Firm name as a Partner from the 1st day of September, 1917.
DEACON, LOOKER, DEACON & HARSTON.
Hongkong, ist September, 1917.
NAVIGATION CO.
STEAM FOR STRAITS, CEYLON, A. S. WATSON & but little material. Whether the United and [087
UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG.
THE
SESSION 1917-1918.
UNIVERSITY
September 15th
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Degree Courses in Medicine, Engineering, Arts including Education, also a Course in Commerce.
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AUSTRALIA BOMBAY, EGYPT,
MEDITERRANEAN PORTS
AND LONDON,
THROUGH BILLS OF LADING Issuno poz BATAVIA, AMERICAN, CONTINENTAL, AND SOUTH AFRICA PORTS,
THE Homeward Mail Steamer carrying His Majesty's Mails, will be despatched From this port as usual, taking Passengers and Cargo for the above Ports. Passengers, vessel accommodation in the connecting NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA, LIMITED have departure from Hongkong.
(IN LIQUIDATION).
(INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND).
Unredeemed Bank Notes.
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that any
NOUTSTANDING NOTES will be paid on presentation to the undersigned on" or before SATURDAY, 29th September, 1917, at Noon.
AFTER THAT DATE, holders will find it. necessary to claim repayment IN STERLING from the BOARD OF TRADE, LONDON, to whom the necessary funds will he remitted.
THE BOARD OF TRADE make a charge for payment of claims out of monies deposit. ed in the "COMPANIES LIQUIDATION ACCOUNT" at the Bank of England.
A. R. LOWE
Liquidator.
Chartered Bank Building,
Hongkong, 16th August, 1917.
WANTED.
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for Silk and Valuables and Italy, France and London (under arrange. ment) will be conveyed by this Steamer proceeding via Bombay to Marseilles and London
Parcels will be received at the Office unti 3 P.. the day before sailing. The contents and value of all packages are required.
For further particulars, sailing dates, etc. apply to
E. V. D. PARE,
Superintendent
1
8.8. " ATLANTIQUE,” COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
NOTICE
CONSIGNEES of Cargo from Harre, &o,, in
connection with above Steamer are hereby informed that their Goods with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables are being
hazardous and or extra hazardous Godowns of
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HONGKONG, TH September, 1917.
JAPAN AND THE AMÉRICAN EMBARGO ON IRON AND STEEL.
"A
HONGKONG MAGISTRACY. AMMUNITION UNDER THE BED.
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dependently, and whether Chinese should be sent to Europe.
JAPANESE MINISTER ENTERTAINS:
SIR H. H. DERING. Baron Hayashi entertained the British Minister to Siam, who is visiting Peking, at a unquet,
RUMOUR DENIED.
The report that Hanan has declared its independence is denied.
[BY COURTESY OF THE
CHUNG NGOI
BAN TO”
CHIEFS OF FINANCE.
SHANGHAI, September 6th. At yesterday's meeting of the Cabinet it was decided to appoint three Chiefs
follows: of Finance of Provinces, as Tien Cheng-pin to Kwangtung; Li Tsing. jin to Kwangsi: and Chu Choh-sing to Hunan
POSTPONEMENT OF INDEMNITIES.
The postponement of indemnities will be discussed by the Entente Ministers to-day. The five per tent. indemnity on
CANTON NEWS.
the Government has not interfered with
A fine of $25 was imposed on a Chinese the Customs will be postponed for five the shipping business either to control the,
The who was found in possession of 57 rounds years. shipping itself or the freights. subsidised lines, it is true, have their of ammunition. The ammunition, which | freights regulated by the Government, was ordered to be confiscated, was foundi but this was the case before the war, and, under the man's bed. as the number of steamers to be run under the ontrnets with the Government is very i | still, they are but a dmp in the ocean compared with the demands at the present time. The demand for freight-space is,
ON THE ROOF.
A Chiness went into a house in Lower Lastar Row, took a cunt and walked out, He was seen, a chase ensued, and in the He was sentenced to six werks hard]
Tabour
landed and stored at their risks into the CONSIDERABLE agitation has been caused indeed, so heavy that the subsidised com- fund tu thief was caught on a roof, the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown in Japan by the embargo on the export panies would prefer and in some cases Co, Ltd, at Kowloon, whence delivery may be of iron and steel announced by there seeking to get rid of the subsidies obtained immediately after landing.
Optional Carge will be forwarded on unless United States Government, and dipto- before Noon To-DAY requesting it to be landed here.
so that they could regain control of the
ABOUT end September by Local Shipping Intimation is received from the Consignee malic pressure is being brought to bear to freight rates. The profits. made may be
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Bille of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned. Goods remaining unclaimed after 19TL
the 8th fast, at Noox, will be subject to rent and landing charges.
All Claims must be sank in to me on or before MUNICIPAL COUNCIL, the 12th inst, or they will not be recognized.
All damaged packages will be examined on AMOY.
FRIDAY, the 7th inst., at 10 AM.
No Fire Insurance has been effected. PPLICATIONS are invited for the
P. THOMAS, and position
SECRETARY, of
Agent. SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE to
Hongkong, 2nd September, 1917. the KULANGU MUNICIPAL COUNCIL, Amoy. Applicants should give full particulars on
FACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP CO., the subject of their previous experience. A knowledge of Hindustani would be preferable.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. good working knowledge of Accounts is absolutely neCEAEDTY.
of testimonials need be seu
sent in
the application." The
A
candidate will assume efce
He shall perform all the duties of Secretary,
on 14th
and Superintendent of Police,
8.8. ECUADOR," FROM SAN FRANCISCO, HON JAPAN PORTS, SHANGHAI
MANILA
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CANTON, September 5th.
The new Civil Governor, Li Yew-loo CIVIL GOVERNOR'S ARRIVAL. arrived in Canton yesterday afternoon- Li came in » towed-bond which was follow el by a lot of junks conveying soldiers, and landed about 5 p.m. He will assume GOVERNMENT STONE.
office to-day. He was welcomed by the vari When three then were charged with ous officials and will dine at the Tuchun't judged from the dividends decinred, cutting stone fram a Government quarry, yamen this evening. The Civil Governor, score some relaxation in favour of Japan. Whereas the Nippon Yusen Kaisha was without permission; it was stated that a is using a wooden seal instead of the To understand the position it has to be
paying 10 per cent, before the war it now let of this sort of thing had been going former one which was locked up by the reinembered that Japau still depends very largely for her iron and steel on supplies 70-and the shareholders want more on of late. The Magistrate, in imposing Tuchun when the ex-Civil Governor jetf from abroad. There are, of course, iron The Osuki Shusen Kaisha and the Toyo a fine of $10, said that such a practice THE 3RD GENERAL.
Kisen Kaisha have rach about quadrupled must stop. In future the penalty would their pre-war dividend, and one private be more szvero, time has sent its dividend up from 30 per cent to 720 per cent. Some of the accounts of the shipping companies are
An unemployed zement worker made up in such a way that it is very found carrying five large fleres of wood at Sai Kok in the early hours of Wednes difficult to get at the real facts. When a day morning, When asked where he had company shows a loss of Yen 32,000 on its got the wood the man at one admitted A previous conviction was proved, and hard labour. the defendant was sentenced to 21 days
CANDID THIEF.
was
Canton.
The Chuirman of Parliament Ng King lim and some others entertained Admiralt Ching Pik-kwong at the Orient Hotel on the 3rd inst. They proposed to appoin Admiral Ching the 3rd General at the next meeting, but Ching refused.
The Tuchun bas ordered the 6th regi MORE PROTECTION FOR THE SHAMEEN. ment to stay along Shaki in order to give more protection to Shameen.
foundries in Japan, but for some reason er other the industry has made but little The Government ironworks progress, were for a long time a drain on the tax payer, und, as these were the best equipped and most efficiently run foundries in Japan, it may be imagined how the private foundries fured. Japan. it may be men working account and yet pays a dividend that he had taken the wood for firewood. THE PARLIAMENT AND THE PRESIDENT.
IRON PIPING.
The Parliament-red to President
concession of Tientsin, requesting him to come to the South to consult upon military affairs.
Li Yuan-hung, who is now in the British
fioned, has not the advantage of England of 200 per ecat. out of the amount brought in having her coal and iron in close forward it is apt to create the feeling THE above-mentioned vessel having arrived rozinity, and at present most of the that little raliance can be placed on the
Fourteen days' imprisonment without THE EX-CIVIL GOVERNOR LEAVES HONGKONG The maximum salary to be paid to stel To the above ports. Consignces iron ors und in the foundries has to be figures published. The prices paid for
will be $300.00 per month (Amoy of Cargo are hereby informed that their brought fron Chins. Foreign iron and ulls also show hage appreciation, so hard labour was the sentence passed upon The ex-Civil Governor, Chn Hing-lan Secretary), with an annual incrsiss of $25.00 per Cargo is being landed at their risk into thus
in unlawful possession of a quantity of Kitano alaru on the 3rd inst. Carrency),
a vessel and selling it again iron piping. The man was found in YOUNG BUN KETURNA. month to a final maximam of $350.00 per month: Bardous and/or extra Hamardons Godowns steel are thus necessary to her in all the that a so-called shipping company, by Chinese, who was found guilty of being left Hongkong for Shanghai by the six
He will be provided with Uniform, Light of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and industries in which the metal is used, and purchasing Fuel and also Quartera.
Godown Co., Ltd. Kowloon, and stored, si
Wednesday morning with the piping in The
very necessary in the ship-building in a few days after, can easily clear amounts Hollywood Road in the early hours of will be in the Municipal Build Consignees risk. Quarters ing, and must be occupied by the Secretary
Consignees of Cargo are hereby nolited that they must produce an Import Permis signed by dustry, which is now, naturally, in a very rupping into tens of thousands of yea his possession, and he was unable to give appointed.
the Superintendent of Imports and Exports prosperous condition. Japan's depend with no expense and very little risk. The satisfactory explanation of how he came
before Billa of Lading on bence in foreign supplies in this direction number of millionaires who have made by it.
Amoy not later than November 30th, 1917.
MENT OF SECRETARY," and should reach terigusd
By Order of the Council,
T. W. DOBINSON,
Becretary, K.M.C. Kalangsu, Amoy, August 17th, 1917.
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STAMPS with duplicates, containing:
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All Claims must be presented within a month of the Steamer's arrival here, after which they cannot be recognised
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns and all Goods remaining undelivered after 9th Sept. will be subject to rent.
NAVAL IRON.
Ban For-san, Dr. San Yat-sen's on who has graduated from a university i
Public Park, Whampoa the United States, has arrived in Canton
YUNNAN TROOPS, He is living now with his father a th
The Yunan troops under Cheung Hoi yu's command (the 1st Division) ore steal-gradually coming to Canton, Most of the Forts on Ma-On Mountain have been taken by these troops.
All broken, chafed and damaged goods are to is well brought out by some recent their money in shipping since the war
Two Chinese were charged with in the Godowns, where they will be
In these circuring 256 lbs of scrap iron and rivets, the FRIDAY, 7th inst., at 10 AM. statistics as to the anunt of tonnage started, and are even now adding to their
Sergt. Tulloch said that the men were Japan can build from her home-manu-wealth, is astonishing.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen requested the leaders factured fron and steel and the anodt stances it will not be surprising if the property of the Naval authorities. of tonnage which her shipyards are United States refuses to remove the em arrested at Mon Kok Tsui with some
communicated with the Naval Dockyard to Whampon for protection.
The Commander of Tigris Pagoda bax
་ ་ iron and steel turned out by the Japanese no reason for adding to the wealth of and the material was identified.
Inspector Allen, of the Naval Yard announced that junks and other vessels equipped to build. The total quantity of bargo in the case of Japan, She may see pieces of the iron in their possession. He of Yunnan troops to send a few regiments
No Fire Insurance whatever will be effected.
boro the Government stamp. has requested the Tuchun to install mili Consignees are requested to sand in their foundries is only 350,000 tons a year, but the shipbuilders and shipowners in view
Mr. J. H. Gardiner, who appeared to tary telephones in these forts, Bills of Laling for countersignature as 200,000 tons of this comes from the of their activities being merely for their Police, said that the rivets were new and are not allowed to go near the farts 14 defend, put in a plea of not guilty, and Defence Commissioner Mok Wide-kun. immediately.
State foundries, and is reserved for the own enrichment and in no way relieving
request returned to Canton yesterday. Army and Navy, there remain only 60,000 the necessities of the Allies in the way of the case was adjourned, bail being fixed who went to Kwangsi on General Luk's
at $200. 88 tons for shipbuilding and all the other supplies or armament,
2.50
4.60
5:00
& CO.
PACIFIC MAIL: 8.8." CO.j R. C. MORTON,
General Agazit.
Hongkong, 2nd September, 1917.
NO. 6, WYNDHAM BERNIE,
Hongkang.