NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG DAILY 1 PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3019, 1917.
HONGKONG STEEL FOUNDRY CO., MINISTERING CHILDREN'S LEAGUE.
LIMITED.
Application for new issue of Shares THE SHARE LIST Closes on THURS DAY, Int November, 1917, at 3 M.
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NOTICE OF REMOVAL":
WE HAVE This Day REMOVED our OFFICE to No. 19, Ice Houge, STREET.
MOXON & TAYLOR. Hongkong, 29th October, 1917.
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ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.
LADIES' SECTION.
THE
ECLECTIC COMPETITION,
HAPPY VALLEY.
NHE above Competition, particulars of which are Fosted at Happy Valley, will begin on 1st November.
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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY (British Section).
TUIE PUBLIC'IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that on and from WEDNESDAY, 1st instant, and on each succesling Wednesday until further Notice, the Trin Tuned to leave Kowloon at 1.18 P.M. is Cancelled and in its place a Train will have at 1.28 P.M. and will run according to the timing of the present 1.28 PM. Saturday Local Train. Titins will be served on this Train if ordered the previous day.
By Order,
R. P. WINSLOW,
Manager. Kowloon, 29th October, 1917..
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G.
B.
SALE OF WORK IN AID OF CHARITIES FOR CHILDREN.
TO be held in the grounds at Government House by kind permission of His EXCELLENOT THE GOVRENOB
SATURDAY, 3rd November, 2 to 6 PL Entrance only at the Garden Gate in Upper Albert Road.
PRICE OF ADMISSIÚN 2
Adults Children
20 dents)
NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES
BEN LINE OF STEAMERS.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
6.5. “BENLOMOND.?
NONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby inform
Call code are being landed at Mhair risk into the basardens and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf
and.
| Godown Co., Irak, whence and/or from the whirror delivery may be obtained.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godawas, and all Goods remaining
All Members and Associates wearing M. C. L. andellyered after the 1st Now, will be subject
badges free.
A Children's Chinese play... & P.M. Children's Ballet & Variety Entertainment 6,
Tes and Refreshments, Lucky Well, Xuans Tree, Houp Ls, Sweets, useful and attractive articles on the varions stalls for children and
grown-ups.
Prices moderate,
No chita taken. [1163
THE PENANG HARBOUR BOARD.
FLLICATIONS are invited for tho position of GENERAL MANAGER of the FENANG HARBOUR BOARD.
Applicants should have edge of all Shipping Matters, including the thorough know- toading and unlouling of
of Cargo and Coal, and Warehousing. should be addressed to the Local Chairman, Applications, stating salary required, FENANG HARBOUR BOARD, lenang.
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NOTICE
NY EUROPEAN, Non-Asiatic or Indian desiring to leave the Colony should HONGKONG GOVERNMENT #% WAR Fply in person at the CENTRAL POLICE STATION between the hours of A.M. 50 1 P.M and 9 2.M. to 4 r.m. dally,
Applicants will be required to produce Passports or identification papers.
LOAN OF 1916.
Couroy No. 2,
Payable 1st November, 1917.
All persons with certain exceptions who remain in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register themselves under the REGISTRATION OT PERSONS ORDINANCE 1910.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that as NT DEFINITIVE BONDS have not yet arrived from Eagland, the Payment of the Dividend dus on 1st November, 1817,
Forms of Registration giving the par will be made by a Provisional Coupon. Seripolare required may be obtained at the Cortificates should be presented at the and at all Police Stations. HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING COX- PORATION, Hongkong, on 1st November, 1917, when the Relative Provisional Coupon will be issued.
ED. C. WOLFE,
Colonial Treasurer, Hongkong, th October, 1917. [1208
GULA KALUMPONG RUBBER ESTATES
LIMITED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the TRANSFRER REGISTER of the above Company will be CLOSED from 31st October to 12th November, both days inclusive.
By Order, LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS,
Colonial Register. Hongkong, 26th October, 1917.
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NOTIOR.
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE
CO., LTD.
THE CERTIFICATE for one Bhare Na 14011 in this Company standing in the name of WILLIAM DE RUSSET of Yokohama, Japan, has been LOST, and if at the expira tion of one month from the date hereof the above document be not forthcoming, another Certificate for the said Share will be issued by the Company and thereafter no other will bo acknowledged.
C. B. P. HAY, per pro. General Manager. [1116 Hongkong, 4th October, 1917.
The Penalty for non-compliance is a fine- not szemeding (50):
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OF
JUST RECEIVED :
FURTHER SUPPLY FLOWER AND VEGETABLE
SEEDS.
GRACA & CO
CO.,
702
NO4, WWHDRAM-STREET, Hongkong
HOUSES TO LET
TO LEASEA
Hooms in Missions Building, The Band, UITABLE FIRMS may obtain Office Canton.
Apply
JACOB SPEICHER,
Secretary Treasurer,
Missions Building, The Bund,
Canton.
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All Claizan sainst the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 7th Not, or they will not be recognised,
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to
to left in the Godowns, where they will be
«tamined on the lat Nov., st 11 A.M. -
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agenta. Hongkong, 25th October, 1917.
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INTIMATION
WATSON'S
D
PORT
8.8. "CHILL," COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES
MARITIMERE
A SUPERIOR OLD
NOTICE.
NONSIGNEES of Cargo from H tre, do, in connection with above Bleamer are hereby Informed that their Goods with the exception of Oplum, Treasure and Valuables are being landed and stored at their rink into the hasardons and, or extra hasardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Con as Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained immediately after landing.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unlem
PORT
WITH STYLE AND CHARACTER.
intimation is received from the Consignee AS. WATSON before Noon To-BAT requesting it to be landed bars.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned Goods remaining undisimed after the Sud Nov, at Noor will be subject to reat and landing charges
All Claims must be sent in to me on or before the 6th Nov, or they will not be recognised. THURSDAY, the int Nov., at 10 A.M.
All damaged packages will be examined en No Fire Insurance has been affected.
P. THOMAS
Agent, Hongkong, 27th October, 1917.
*GLEN" LINE, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
RE Steamship
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“GLENGYLE" having arrived Coongs cos of Cargoby har are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed AT THEIR BIBE into the ardons and/or extra hasardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Limited, whenos and/or from the wharree delivery may be obtained.
Goods not cleared by the 2nd Nov, at 5 PM will be subject to rent.
All broken, abated and damaged Fokagen sre to be left in the Glodowns, where they will ke
xamined by Menge. GonDARD & DOUGLAS on the 2nd Nov, at 10 ▲ m.
Claims against the Steamer must be presented within 10 days of arrival, therwise they will not be recognised.
CO.,
LTD.,
WINE AND SPIRIT
MERCHANTS.
Telarbone 616-
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The Baily Press.
HONGKONG, 30TH OCTOBER, 1917.
MR. WELLS AND THE WAR WHEN Mr. H. G. WELLS wrote. Antici
"combatants are requested to keep off them, appear to us not to be causes at the grass "--and be forestw the passing all. One of them it is difficult to believe. of the phase of tension, the giving of the German Government takes seriously; the weakened opposition, and the tran- the other two purely appertain to the sition of the wur from a state of mutual imperialistic and incurably bell pressure and petty combat into the gerent" German Government, and leave collapse of the defensive lines. Curiously the German people cold. It is with the enough, however, he failed to forceco the people--the real people of Germany power of the submarine, he refused to that the Allies desire to make peace, and soe any sort of submarine doing anything it is not until Germany is given auch a but suffocate its crow and founder at shaking that the present Government sur. sea." He did foresce, however, that the renders the power into the hands of the submarine, if successful, could, at best people that a satisfactory peace can be be but a destructive weapon, which might obtained. There are, happily, signs that be to used on the part of a naval Power the end is not far off, that faith in the found to be weaker and defeated...
wisdom of the German rulers is shaken. Foreseeing all these things, foreseeing, The Reichstag grows more and more un- apparently correctly, how the war of the manageable, the Navy mutinics, the future would end, it is now surprising unity of the country is broken, and Mr. to find Mr. WELLS, when all the condi- WELLS asks us to make peace just when. taong point to such a victory on the side the real victory is beginning to be sight- of the Allies as he prophesied, turning ed. Mr. WELLS is a man of moods; he tail and asking why all the waste and is very sensitive to public opinion, end killing is going on, why the Peace Con-it is probable that he has taken war ference is not sitting now, whether there weariness for a desire to make peace at is anything more to be done on our side, any price. Now is the time to try men's au coming to the astonishing conclusion souls--when the freshness has gone, hard. thee the reason is manifestly because a ship is beginning to be felt, and vitality small minority of people in positions of is beginning to flag. At such a time we trust and authority prevent er delay" might surely except those who set them- the assembling of the Peace Conference selves up to be leaders of thought to give The first question that aristy is-Dres
us renewed inspiration, not whimpering Mr. WELLS refer by the small minority
protestations. to the Allies or in the Central Powers? Although he makes no explicit statement, The total output of the Kailan Mining he appears from what follows to refer Administration's mines for the week end- to the Central Powers, the "smelling 18th October amounted to: 39,434 tons minority being the German Govern- and the sales to 68,747 tone ment, although he acknowledges that “the great mass of the German people still cling to their incurably belligerent Government The reason they do this, however, is, he thinks, because, like Mazeppa and his horse, to fall off seems, in their eyes, to mean destruction. As Britain could not endure to see herself at the foot of some victorious nation, so Germany will resist being placed under the heel of the victorious Allies. To end
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During the week ended October 27th two cases of enteric fever (one of them fatal) and one case of puerperal fever were reported in the Colony.
The weekly religious meeting of the Helena May Institute will be held to day, at 5.30 p.m., and will be conducted by the Bishop of Victoria. The meeting will be open to all women.
A large number of Artilleryinen took
Company R.G.A. last week to Chung part in a picnic arranged by the ssth
laland. Tiffin was served en route and tea on the return journey. As this wag the last bathing picnic of the season, tha opportunity was taken to pass a hearty vote of thanks to the Services Entertainment Fund, for the many plea- sant trips provided during the summer
very
Thirty-seven R..E. and A.SC. incibers of the Kowloon and Belchers Battery Detachments enjoyed a delightful all-day- launch outing to Silver Mine Bay on the 9th instant, thanks to the subscribers to the Services Entertainment Fund and to the Rev C. L Cooper Hunt, C.F. Acknowledgments are also due to Messrs. Owen, Oswald, Harvey, and the members
No Firs Insursnow will be effected by us in be made the mistake of placing the future stand in the way of peace being declared 1ng the launch at a reduced rate
whatever. Bilds of Lading will be countersigned by
JARDINE, HATHESON & Co., LTD.
Agents. Hongkong, 28th October, 1917, [1210
the war then the Allies have only to assure the Germans that their country will not be dominated by any other Power. Here Mr. WELLS launches out into a denunciation of all statesmen, whether of the countrica of the Entente or of the Central Powers. On both sides the declarations of public policy remain, childishly vague and disingenuous, nonths. childishly diplomatic,
The states- men are all too old (over forty-five) and chaffer like happy imbeciles while civi. lisation bleeds to death." but, after all this introduction, to find Mr. WELLS thinking that the reason why Germany goes on fighting is because of her African colonies, or the fate of the Turkish Empire, or the economic war after the pations" he drew a very correct picture of war, seems something in the nature of an
anti-climax. For it is plain that these of the Seven Dials Mass for loan of what war would be in the future, though three points which, Mr. WELLS alleges, music, piano and assistance in obtain- too far away. "Anticipations." was
however important they many appear to published in 1901, before many things
Lt. Col. Chapman, V.D., was entertain- the had happened which have had great in-
incurably belligerent" Germaned to dinner at the Hongkong Hotel on fluence in the present war; before, for Government, do not loom at all largely Saturday night by the oficere of the now instance, the Witone brother in the eyes of the German people, and defunct Volunteer Corps. Every four announced to the world the success of the with the Government, that the Allies mandant, and there were also present it a with the German people, not attended to do honour to his old com experiments in aviation. Mr. WELLS foresaw the far-reaching effect of aerial observation on warfare, but thought it was improbable that an "aeroplane" he used the very word--would soar into the sky and land safely before the year 1930, and in his list of those working to make aviation possible he omitted the name of the WRIGHTS. He looked upon balloons as supplying the armies with the African colonies might be sunk under Eighteen days were occupied on the voy- had 13.JI extended journey Eastward. eyes. The point, however, is that he the sea tomorrow and the German people age from Marseilles to Port Said, but foresaw the value of aeronautics in
never repine. It is the same way with the attribute of being a mascot on the war. He foresaw the dropping of bombs,
the Turkish Empire Suzerainty over particular vessel in which she had though he thought that, in deference to
the East was a dream of haut politique, travelled three times without mishap was the rules of war, the airmen might fire not an absorbing passion of the German well sustained during the passage through Majesty's Maile, fill be desastre power. He predicted that victory will ever the East were irrevocably lost to-man submarines, and throughout the two Homeward Mail Steamer, carrying
them out of guns of trivial carrying people. If all chances of domination waters known to be infested with Ger from this port as trus), taking Passengers by brought about in the air, that the and Cargo for the above Ports Passengers belligerent which had the command of
morrow would Germany lay down her months that elapsed between her embarca accommodation in the connecting vesse secured before departure from
arms? We
Much has tion and arrival in this Colony nothing trow not Hongkong. Silk and Valuables and Tes and Cargo
the air would command the land as well been said about the economic war after occurred to disturb the enjoyment of the France ou will be conveyed by this Steamer to realise. He also foresaw that in war fact, which we are only beginning now and" London (under KITAnge
Madame Flint, while travelling the war, and it is possible that the Ger- trip. ISHOPS, dhewed in Yee House Blewet, proceeding via Bombay to Marseilles and in the future there would be no decisive hat under the skilful incitement of by the splealid morale ut her coin- opo The Grand Hotel, recently moon-
man people may have taken it a little through France, was greatly impressedf
ab the Office ant victory, but a vast diffusion of conflict; the German Government. But even the Patriots. Their mode of life had not 3. the day before sailing. The content he foresaw the value of the rifle and the German Government must find it diffen changed; if anything, there was a spirit For further particulars, oslling dates, etc, machine-gun, camonfage, hidden sharp to keep the people fooled in the belier of subdued gaiety that served to dispel.
TO LET.
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THE
T the Peak, HALF HOUSE, Furnished,
CHINA FIRE INSURANCE CO., LTD. within ary distance of the tram,
NOTICE.
Three No. 6771 and 17546 in this THE CERTIFICATE No. 4309 for two Company standing in the name of Mrs. ARNA JOSEFA CARNEIRO DE LECAROSs (deceased), late of Macao, has been LOST, and if at the ex piration of one month from the date hereof the above document be not forthcoming another certificate for the said Shares will be issued by the Company and theresiter no other will be acknowledged.
CHP HAY per pro. General Manager Hongkong, 5th October, 1917. [1129
VEGETABLE AND
FLOWER SEEDS.
FRESH
RESH CROP of 1917 having been just collected orders solicited for Autumn or early Spring sowing.
List will be mailed free”: on
application.
Moderate rental Write-
Box $0, Cars of"Daily Prom " Ofline. (11,90
TO LET
OFFICES in King's Buildings.
Terrace
and
HOUSES in Moreton Broadwood Terrace. ⠀ ***
HOUSES on shameen, Cantów. Apply to t
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. VERTY AND AGENOL CO. Le
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TO LET
IMMEDIATE entry, Four very dentenlilo
#fructed.
For rent and siker particulars spply to....
THE MANAGERS HongKong Ics Co., Ltd. 46, Connaught Road Contend. 1900
TO LET.
THE YOKOHAMA NURSERY AFLAT in Naiban Bond, Kowloon
Co., LTD.,
P.O. Box 72,
YOKOHAMA, JAPAN.
1108
FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES3 in Kowloom:
Apply tom
HUMPARETS ESTATS – FINANCE
PENINSULAB
ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO.
AND
STEAM FOR STRAITH, CEYLON AUSTRALIA BOMBAY, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS
AND LONDON,
Tanovan Bills of Ladina Jaatan Pon BATAVIA, AMERICAN CONTINENTAL, AND HOUTH AFRICA PORTL.
Parcels will be received at ti
and value of all packages are required. apply to
EV. D. PARR
Superintender t
FORTHCOMING: EVENTE.
Wednesday, 21st Oct.:~~
in the Council Chamber.
Saturday, Sad Nov.--
for
shooters, masked machine-guns, and the lines of trenches. He foresaw that "for
eight miles on either side of the firing lines whose fire will probably never altogether die away while the war lasts men would live and cat and sleep under the imminence of unanticipated death,"
12.00 pm Meeting of the Licensing Board but there was no reason to is the last at eight miles and no reason to speak of death being “unanticipated." He fore saw the wholesale cancellation, or die regard, of the rights of non-combatants-
★ nm. Ministering Children's – Leag
Gals of Work and Entertainment at the Government House.
desire to make peace. North and South several officers on the retired list. Th America, are much more important to thy toast of the guest of the evening was German people than the African colonies, proposed in cordial terms by Major which were run as State preserves and Macdonald, V.D., and enthusiastically rather than added to their wealth. It really burdened the people with taxation received.
Madame Flint, the well-known costu KAISER and his satellites to think that Colony after a lengthy sojourn in France, pleased the pride and ambition of the mère, who has just returned to the Germany was also a colonial Power, but
that the Allies as conquerors will shut the idea that France was suffering from buying food and deprive them of supplies ample evidence of the bereaveidents suf- out all their trade, prevent them from the ravages of war. The sombre hues worn in the crowded thoroughfares give of raw materials, when it is manifest fered by thousands, but otherwise an that they will have all Russia to draw indomitable will to ensure to the end upon, besides the neutral countries of the was plainly discernible in every phase world, and that the United States, of the nation's life. The prices of E according to President Wilson's state- commodities and luxuries had trebled, ment, will be no party to sending Cer but money seemed plentiful, and the many to such a Coventry,
characteristic spirit of the French peoples The three causes why the German was ever more apparent than it is to- people are at war, as Mr. Waza gives day,