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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
MINISTERING CHILDREN'S LEAGUE
BAZAAR.
CITALLHOLDERS and those assisting at STALL at The MINISTER ING CHILDREN'S LEAGUE BAZAAR on SATURDAY next will be admitted to the Dress Rehearsal of the Variety Entertain ment which will take place at Government House on FRIDAY, November 2nd, at 5 p.
ADMISION 50 eta
YOU REMEMBER
THE
COURT CARDS
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THEY ARE RETURNING
on SATURDAY, -Nov. 10th,||
PASSED BY THE NONSENSOR, PLAN AT MOUTRIE'S. Prices $3, $2 & $1. Get in early and avoid the crush,
BOOK BEFORE YOU SLEEP,
Price.
ANNUAL SALE.
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Bare Opportunity for Securing General Bargaing at Enormous Reduction in
ME. D. CHELLARAM offers his entire Stock-in-Trade at Oriental Milka, Fancy, Corded and Brocaded-Crepes, Satin, SU Sweaters, Fur Scarfs Silk Wrappers, Evening Cloaks, Gold Jewellery and Curios of all kinds at Greatly Reduced Prices for a few days only,
Those who desire to buy Xmas and New Year Prasants will find this an unique. opportunity for Securing Bare Articles at Bargain Prices
D. CHELLARAM,
SILE, JEWELLERY AND DRAPERY STORE 38-40, Queen's Road, Central, HONGKONG.
NOTICE OF - REMOVAL
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WE HAVE This Day REMOVED!
STREET,
our OFFICE to No. 19, les House
MOXON & TAYLOR.
Hongkong, 29th October, 1917.
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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY:
TH
(British Section).
THE PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that on and from WEDNESDAY, Blat instant, and on each succeeding Wednesday until further Notice the Train Timed to leave Bowloon at 1.48 P.M. is Cancelled and
INTIMATIONS
NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG DAILY FRESE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER $187_1017.
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE
LTD
14011 in this Company standing in the THE CERTIFICATE for one Fhare No of WILLIAM OF Kesarr of Yokohama Japan, has been LOST, and if at the aspira tion of one month from the date hereof the above document be not forthcoming, another artifkate for the maid Share will be issued by the Company and thereafter no other will be acknowledgod, and
C. H. P. HAY, per pro General Manager. Hongkong, 4th October, 1917, ⠀⠀ (1116
OHINA FIRE INSURANCE CO., LTD.
NOTICE
THE CERTIFICATE No 4309 for two Bhares No. 8771 and 17546 in this Company standing in the name of Mrs. Anna JOSEFA CARNEIRO DE LEGAROS (deceased), late of Macio, has been LOST, and if at the ex- piration of one month from the date hereof the above document be not forthcoming Rother certificate for the said Ehares will be issued by the Company and thereafter no other will be acknowledged. Bo
CHP, HAY, per pro. General Manager - Hongkong, 5th October, 1917, filia
THE PENANG HARBOUR BOARD.
A
PLICATIONS are invited for the position of GENERAL MANAGER of the PENANG HARBOUR BOARD.
Applicants should have thorough know- ledge of all Shipping Matters, including the loading and unloading of Cargo and Coal, and Warehousing.
Applications, stating salary required, should be addressed to the Local Chairman, PENANG HARBOUR BOARD, i epang.
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JUST - RECEIVED: FURTHER SUPPLY
FLOWER
AND VEGETABLE
SEEDS.
GRACA & CO. No 4, WINDHAM STREST, Hongkong.
HOUSES TO LET
TO LEASE UITABLE FIRMS may obtain Office Canton
Rooms in Missions Building, The Band, Apply...
JACOB SPEICHER,
4.Secretary Treasurer,
Missions Building,
The Bund
Canton.
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TO LIT.
in its place a Train will leave at 1.95 r..and OFFICES in King's Buildings.
will run according to the timing of the present 1.93 P. Saturday Local Train Titling will be served on this Train if ordered the previous day,
By Order,
H. P. WINSLOW,
Manager Kowloon, 29th October, 1917.
1216
G.
B.
HONGKONG GOVERNMENT 6% WAR
LOAN OF 1916.
COUPON NO. 2,
Payable 1st November, 1917.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that as
the DEFINITIVE BONDS have not yet arrived from England, the Payment-of the' Dividend dus on 1st November, 1917, will be made by a Provisional Coupon Scrip Certificates should be presented at the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING COR POBATION, Hongkong, on 1st November, 1817, when the Relative Provisional Coupon will .be issued.
E. D. C. WOLFE,
Colonial Treasurer, Hongkong, 28th October, 1917. [1208
VEGETABLE AND FLOWER SEEDS.
ARESH CROP of 1917 having FRESH
been just collected orders solicited for Autumn or early Spring sowing.
INTIMATION
LBY COURTESY OF THE “ CHUNG NGOI BAN POL"] AFFAIRS IN THE SOUTH AND WEST.
Tolmino. It is added that, despite the Russian collapse, Austria and Germany at 9 o'clock in the Lecture Hall, Kennedy
The Union Church Guild meets to-night CHINESE TELEGRAMS. still retain as many divisions on the Road, when a lantern lecture will be Eastern front as when the Russian offen given by Rev. J Kirk Maconachie, the sive began inst July. It seems extra subject being ordinary that this should be the case in George? The lecture is open to members The Land of Lloyd View of the plight in which the Austrians and their friends. were placed by the vigorous Italian offen sive and of Russia's inactivity. Certain
Services Entertainment Fund were again On Sunday last, the subscribers to the
will be dismissed and Lung Chai-kwong. Tan Homing Tuchun of Kwang-si,
SHANGHAI, October 30th.
WATSON'S were told two or these months ago homes, bateri cut, were grit will be appointed his sucosmot
PORT
that Austria had been obliged to transfer large bodies of troops from Galicia to
steo the advance of the victorious Italiane. It is now declared that,
taking the front as a whole the
were
THE SENATE The Senate will open on the 10th prox. THE MINISTER OF FINANCE SENTENCED.
the party on this occasion went in charge enesed Kwangtung, alisirs yesterday. nance Corps attached men, and families. The President and the Premier dis- of Lieut M. W. Stevens, A.O.D., on an The Szechwan troops are fighting the all-day picnic to Taipco, special arrange. Yunnan troops at Chi-lin-tsing, a place Italians had a considerable numerical
ments having been made by the kindness near Chung-hing in Szechuen. auperiority. This would seem to imply of Mr. H. P. Winslow, Manager of the that the blow delivered by the enemy was
British Section of the Kowloon and not anticipated, but it is asserted, on the Canton Railway. The general arrange. contrary, that the Italians.
were fully mants
admirably handled by prepared for it, and were confident of Armourer Staff-Sergt. Thornton, who saw their ability to cope with it successfully that ample and excellent refreshments It would be idle to attempt to minimiae were provided for both tiffin and tea. the effect of their failure. The number The pienic was enjoyed very fauch in of men whom they have lost represents a deed, and the hospitality of the SE.F. formidable total, while the guns, which is most cordially appreciated by all probably include some of those fent by conerned, the British, will seriously weaken their powers of resistance and be a welcome
A SUPERIOR OLD PORT addition to the strength of the enemy,
WITH STYLE AND CHARACTER.
A. S. WATSON
CO., LTD..
WINE AND SPIRIT
MERCHANTS.
Tiarnoan $16,
112
Hongkorn Options 104, Das Vmuz Kojo, O. Lennon, Orizon: 181, Frase Braaif, KO
The Daily Press.
Honerone, 31st Octoses, 1917,
ITALY'S
REVERSE-
THE news from the Italian Front continues to be of an extremely disquieting charac ter. The Austro German forces claim to have captured one hundred thousand
HOUSES Broadwood ferrsc
in Moreton Terrass and prisoners and seven hundred guns, and, HOUBER on Shameez, Chaton.
in the absence of any contradiction, we Apply to
bave
no option but to accept these figures as substantially correct. If the casual- ties suffered by our Ally were to be
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT AND AGENCY CO, LTD.
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TO LEZ. "MMEDIATE entry, Four very desirable T
BHOPE, stated in Loe House Bizack, oppose the Grand Hotel, mcently recon.
For rent and other particulars apply to--
THE MANAGER, Honaxone Ion Co., LTD., 46, Connaught Road Central,
structed.
*
TO LET
(800
A FLAT in Nathan Boud, Kowloon,
FOUE-ROOMED HOUSES ↳= Korelosa. Apply to
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE Alexandra Buildings'
(94)
TO LIFTE
No. 2, BELILIOS TERRACE.
No. 57, WHITFIELD HOUSE and GODOWN, Bhsakivan Road,EMEK List will be mailed free on 7, Daddell Birock, now wed as Mestre, Kelly From let November, 1917, TOP FLOOR application.
& Walsh's Printing Office.
LARGE ROOL, Tible for Omos in Queen's Building (on THE YOKOHAMA NURSERY And Los House
(ourner of Connaught Bond Entrend). ONE GODOWN in Daddell TO BR HOLD.
MORE MEN FOR THE LABOUR
BATTALIONS.
has been sentenced to jienal servitude Chen Chin-tao, ex-Minister of Finance, for three years.**
BREAD AND BEEF. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS AT
THE SANITARY BOARD,
At the meeting of the Sanitary Board!
CAPTAIN R. D. THOMAS AND MR. yesterday, Dr. Ozorio asked:---
RK. BATCHELOR.
(1)Is the Head of the Sanitary
Department aware of the fact that the bread supply of the: Colony has gone inferior in gun- fity due to the lower class of Bour imported?
(2.)-Has any examination been inade
to ascertain if alum is being used: in excess of 10 grains to 4 lbs. of bread to give the bread its white. colour?
(3.)What steps does the Head of Sanitary Department propose tor take in the matter?
Capt. Thomas, joined the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company in June, 1995, and has held the position of master since 1898. He is an excellent Chinese scholar, speaking Mandarin and Cantonese fluently, and has always been very popular with the men under him Before he left, the Chinese crew of the first question "No," in answer to the The CHAIRMAN replied, in answer to the Hung Shan presented him with a hand-second question “Not recently," and, in some gold wrist-watch and band. Company, of course, are keening his submitted to the Government Analyst.—--- answer to the third, that samples will be position open, and it is hoped by all that he will return in the best of health and
There for the time being the matter restя: strength after the war. Capt. Thomas is married and has a wife and six children in England.
The
who, from orders which have fallen into vur hands
on the Western front, appear to have been under the necessity of Captain B. D. Thomas, of the Heung economiting in the matter of artillery. Shen, the Commodore of the Hongkong, The chief advantage, however, which the Canton and Macao Company's feet, has eurmy will derive will be political. Sirheen granted a commission in the Chinese WILLIAM ROBERTSON, in an interview with Labour Battalion and has left the Colony a representative of the American Press, en route for France. kas pointed out that the result of the war to-day does not depend merely upon the Armies engaged, and without break ing the enemy's lies it may be possible to achieve victory by breaking the hearts of the people behind those lines. It is from this aspect that we must view the apectacular triumphs which Germany obtains from time to time, Italy, how ever, is a doughty fighter, and, great as must be the disappointment of being deprived in a few days of the fruits of many months painful effort which had almost "placed the key of Trieste in her hands, it is evident that she does not intend tamely to accept the present situation. It is little more. than a year ago that she hurled back the Austrians when they were threatening to over-run the Venetian plains, and she may be trusted to make the invaders pay for every foot of her soil that they traverse as soon as she had had time to recover from the shock she has sustained. Already the Allies, realis, ing that their interests are one and Indivisible, are taking steps to render her every assistance and defeat this latest attempt of the Germans to crush Ons by one the forces arrayed against thema.
ahip's side at Kowloon decks on Sunday, A Chinese boilermaker, working on *
He was killed almost instantaneously. lost his footing and fell into the dock.
that they have received telegraphic advice from their Singapore agents that the Kedah Rubber Co., Ltd, has declared a first interim dividend of 10 per cent.
Messre. Vernon & Smyth inform us
estimated on the usual basis this would represent a loss of approximately half-s million men, or one-fifth of the total mobilised by Italy. There are, however, reasons for believing that the propertion of prisoners in exceptionally high. The Italians themselves admit that some of St. Vincent de Paul acknowledges with The Hon. Treasurer of the Society of the units forming their Second Army thanks a donation of 816,37 to the funds offered feeblo, resistance, thus allowing of the Society from Portuguese Well the enemy to penetrate the left wing on | Wishers,'' the Julian front and to invade Italian
The inquiry into the circumstances
soil:
This is a surprising contrast to
beef, the CHAIRMAN said that the rise in THE SUPPLY OF BEET.
prices sanctioned by the Governmant
Referring to the recent shortage of
Another traveller by the same boat as supply. There was now no danger of any seemed to have solved the question E Capt. Thomas was Mr. R. K. Batchelor, further scarcity. They were not obtain- of Messrs, Deacon & Co., Ltd., the agentsing any supplies of cattle from Wuchow of the Hongkong, Canton and Macao until arrangements had been made for Steamboat Co, in Canton. Mr. Batchelor changing the depot at which cattle from is also going to take up a commission in the West and Wei rivers were collnoted. the Chinese Labour Battalion.
Two other Captains of the same Com- pany have left previously for active service Captain Ramsey, who was at Home when war broke out an immediate ly volunteered; and Capt. Chalmers, Captain Ramsey died in France. Captain Chalmers is now in Mesopotamia.
CANTON NEWS.
(BY COURTESY OF THE "CHUNG NOOI
JAS PO,"
In reply to a question from Mr. Bow- would be in force, the CHAIRMAN, could LEY as to how soon the new arrangements make no definite statement. It would depend, he said, upon their co-operation with the Consul at Wuchow. It was not, however, a matter of urgency now, because the Colony was being supplied from other
sources.
The other business before the niceting was of very little public interest. } addition to the Chairman (Mr... E. V. Carpmael), Dr. Ozorio and Mr. F. B. L. CANTON, October 30th. LUND CHAI-EWONG DECLARES INDEPENDENCE Gale, Medical Officer of Health; Lieut.- Bowley, there were also present: --Mrs.
wong declared independence in King Ming and Mr, C. M. W. Beyrolda It is reported that General Lung Chai. Col. Crisp, R.A.M.C., Mr. Chan Kai
People are suspicious of Lung's attitude, Chow, on the 27th inst. He will join (secretary), forces with Mok King-yu in Swatow.
as he was recently reported to be a sup Porter of the Tuchun.
ordered Cheung. Hoi-yu to send Yunnan troops with all possible dispatch to The Tuchun, Chan Ping-kwan, has
attack Swatow. Cheung has accordingly sent a few regiments from Shi-Kwan.. DISMISSAL OF THE TUCHUN,
After receiving the President's Man
Mr. Bowley asked:---
Which (if any) of the recommenda- tions relative to the estimates for 1918, made by the Board to the Gov ernment on the 22nd May, 1917, have not been adopted by the Govern ment and for what reasons have any of such recommendations not been adopted 1"
the dash and intrepidity shown by the surrounding the recent fire at Ewong date dismissing the Tachup Chan Ping-tions which had been refused had been desired, remarking that the recommends- The CHAIRMAN gave the information Second Army a month or two back in Hokiotsun, Kowloon City, was concluded Governor, who has gone to Shit Hing) diture just now. On the whole he thought Wing Cheung Chan Dye Works, atkwan and appointing Li Yew-hon (Civil not sufficiently urgent to justify expen refused on general grounds, that they were
yesterday morning.
ing. Mr. 1. R. Wood in his tead, the authorition of Kwangtong satisfied that there was no evidence have wired to Ly and asked if he approves show that arson had been committed, of the appointment in view of the Pro ordered the release of the works vince's independence. Li is requested to
return to Canton immediately. to one of his staff that he is glad to hand The Tuchun is reported to have said
self will go to assist Hunan, over the position to Li and that he him-
from
crossing the Isonzo and sweeping over the Baiusina Plateau in the face of a stubborn for supported by great natural obstacles Sines they entered the war Italian troops have compelled such great nearly two years and a half ago the and
admiration by their wonderful, član and tenacity of purpose in a struggle which may literally be described as uphill that the first report of the serious reverse which they have now suffered came a
Police, custody
The following casualties have occurred to N.C.Os and men of the B.G.A. who have left Hongkong for active service since the outbreak of hostilities:-Killed Sergt. Bourner, Bombr Annett,
a painful surprise, and we readily Gunr. Corbin, Guar, Wakeford Died accepted, sa a nstural explanation, the of wounds-C.Q.M.S. Stagg, Sergt. report that our gallant Ally was taken Burgess, Corp. Carroll, Guar. E A. drawn from the Russian and Roumanian wounded: Gunr. Brooker. Wonoded :— unawares by vastly superior forces with Cooper, Gunner Grimshaw. Seriously fronta, It is now authoritatively de- Corp. Wilson, Bomb. MeEvoy, Bombt, clared, however, that this report is gross-Smith Bombr. Heron, Bombr. Stockford, ly exaggerated. In all only about geven, Gunrs, Manson, Dockrill, Cobb, Ham-
OUR DAY.”
Subscriptions – already Mr. G. X. Nuttall
knowledged
LADY MAY EQUE FUND.
· 86-
Board
that considering the hurd tune the Bo
not done
Most of the recommendations refaed referred to small matters, the increase of example which was refused on pay to engineers at bath-houses, for
had free quarters. ground that they were not as hard worked those on steam barges and, moreover,
as
the
The CHAI replied that th swers Word all recorded in the Minutes.
Dr. OzoBio also asked What Department is in charge of the licensing of hawkers and why does the Department in charge peruis hawkers to block the entrances of anes for example,
Lung
The
were
Chiu
$18,761:44 £2S 200.00
that the Police AEAN replied that $13,881.44 £25. hawkers, and that as Chiu Lung Street charge of the licensing of was a private street it came under the Sanitary Board. There was serp traffic down the street, however, as there little Hight o of steps at the Queen's Road The street was not within the object would be served by inter
any
HONGKONG TRAMWAY CO., LTD.
The approximsta
of is as follows
receipts.
&
Bernola Rith the hawkere. It was the
new divations have been added to the macott, Griffiths, trapecit, en weer in for the wook ending 17th Octobe market flosite, and he did not think GLENSHIEL," No 140 and 141, a forces of the Central European Power Barnard, Banwell, Hallam, Smith, H.J., on the Italian fronts and the coos Jones, R.B Elder, Cayn, Copper, A, which has been achieved is attributed to Todd Brown, Coland, Howell Gazsed: This Tour... the presence of from three to five German-Gunners Fisher, M., and Hailey Decrease
Last Year, man. 12,399. divmons who attacked from Plea to Shellshock-fluor, Hudson, C.
Co., LTD.,
P.O. Box 72*
YOKOHAMA, JAPAN.
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PRAX
LINBERAD & DEVER,
Beceipts Aggregate
Week for 4 weeks $13,085 $585,017 623,233
25,221
607
of the Department to prevent sa far as possible any obstruction in private streets to scavenging or traffic. The hawkers in Chiu Lung Street offended in neither of these ways.
The meeting shortly afterwards ter- ninated