Page
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
BANK HOLIDAYS.
N accordance with Ordinance No. 5 of 1912,
the EXCHANGE BANKS will de CLOSED for the transsetion of PUBLIC BUSINESS on MONDAY, TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, the 24th, 25th and 20th,
Hongkong, 19th December, 1917.
Iuxtant.
₤1400
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OFFICE: CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS.
THIS OFFICE will be entirely CLOSED
on CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR DAYS. On the other Holidays the Office will be open for all purposes as follows:
MONDAY. the 24th December,
0 AM to 3P.M. WEDNESDAY, the 20th Docomber,
A
9 AM to 12 Noon. D. V. TRATMAN, Superintendent, Imports and Exports.
[1407
NOTICE
INTIMATIONS
THE HONAKUNU
9% MILITARY LOAN.
REDEMPTION OF DRAWN BONDS.
NHE Lepayment of 6% Military Bonds drawn at the Third Drawing amounting to $1,700,000 will commence on 10th December, 1917. The Repayment will be made in SILVER
THE MINISTRY OF FINANCEI Peking, 28th November, 1917,
12302-19432: 61 12575-12600 122 13795-13865 81 15917-18077 81 14405-1440561 14527-14587 61 14771-14831 01 15137-15197 61 16733-19100:308 19189-19184 12 18308-19429 129 48205-48644 380
DAILY PRESS
87430-87957
186-89013
15989:125
1768-94293
100109-100029 528 103798-104530 104854-105009 1,059
-97950-09045
108026-308357 530 110146-110408 181001-161289
261
6967
50
60
FHUESDAY, DECEMBER 201a,
INTIMATION
ASSORTED CASES FOR XHAḤ.
AB17.
pensation," "the unification of the Ger- wan possessions in Africa, according to REVENTLOW, who knew him well, he want ed the French Congo, and the right of pre-emption over the Belgian Congo, and would have been willing for this to give
America. Trade would soon have repair ed the ravages of war, and in a little - while Gorman Central Africa would have been able, in the words of a Government inspired German pamphlet of 1812, to defy the militia of the South African, South Africa. the whole vist p Union," ie, conquer To-day the whole vast project lies in ruins, but, out of the ruins, the original scheme of fiitel-Africa might still ba rescued. If the conquered territory in. Europe could be retained, it might still be exchanged for a great Mid-African
Empire..
WINES AND SPIRITS up the outlying colony of Togo, but was stopped by the outery in Germany. Ger many did, however, acquire enough of the French Congo to bring her on to and Lake Chad, but it was the Conge and becoming known by now that Lake Chad was merely the centre of an unsatisfac tory swamp, and the proposed railway through the Cameroons from Buca to Chad has never materialised. In 1912, therefore, when the German Ambassador, opinions of many leaders of German Very Old Liqueur Bootch Whisky Prince LICHNOWEKY, opened negotiations colonial policy, has often maintained
Case No. 1. $22.00
3 Bota St. Estephe Claret. Light Dry Sharry.
Port Fall Bodied. Gia.
1 Bot. Superior Old Cognac.
162330-182850
1391
8% MILITARY LOAN.
49405-50164600290930-220959 57005-57384 380 67786-58144 380 60908-61184 380 61565-61944 380 03095-63464 380 -65368-€5744" 280 2568405-69164 760 €9925-70304 380 A47646-4790063 A48101-48109/B
530
30 231025-231654 30 36 231885-231700. 233901-233914 293945-334000) 66 935101-835104 249118-249148 249380-249416-
330
249309-249538
30
2
949899-249658
250190-260628 250250-250238 30 3:0 -250430-250628 -250559-280588, 30
950679-250708- -960850-250880
30%
251009,951158
951240231248
251428-251458
261489951548 -201663-251690 251775-251602 251858-251880
28
13,050
REDEMPTION OF BONDS DRAWN AT A48878-46900 26
THIRD DRAWING.
-A49001-49035 35
·A49097-49200 104 A49501-49518 18 UTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the A49957-49900 || 44 Public that at the 3rd Drawing A60201-50215 15 For Repayment of the 8 por cent Military A60618-50676 50 Loan Bonds held on 2nd October. 1917, A51295-53300 6 Bonds to the value of $1,700,000.00 have A51401.51453 53 been drawn, which amount constitutes A58307.58888.380 about one fifth of the Bonds recognised A59067-59626, 760 by this Ministry A List of Drawn Bonds 481363-61734 362 is published in the Government Gazelle As2851-63262 382 A61027-64408-382 and other newspaper).
THE OFFICES of CHINESE MARITIME Repayment of Bonds sold in Singapore, CUSTOMS for Kowloon and District Balavic and the Philippine Islands will will be CLOSED to PUBLIC BUSINESS be made by the Branch Offices of the on the 22nd instant home the WINTER HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING Con- SOLSTICE on CHRISTMAS DAY, and FORATION at these places. Tas BANK OF on 1st, 2nd and 3rd January next, being CHINA, Shanghai, will transfer funds for Repayment of Bonds sold through the the NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS
A. H. HARRIS, CA.
Batavia Bos Po San. In Duba Hepay Commissioner of Chinese Customs.ment will be made by the Changsha Guild upon surrender of the Bonds to the BANK York Buildings,
OF CHINA, Shanghal in Yokohama by Hongkong, 1th December, 1917. (1408
the CHINESE CONSULATE GENERAL Kiangsi by the KIANOSI BANK Fukien by the BANK OF CHINA in Peking by the BANK OF CHINA. Besides the above cams, Repayment of Drawn Bonds will generally be made by the BANK OF CHINA, Shanghai
HONGKONG HOTEL.
TEA DANCES.
THE MANAGEMENT beg to announca THE
that in future the Charge for TEA, including the PRIVILEGE OF DANCING, will be 81.00 per head, 25% of which sum will bo Douated by the Hotel Company to WAR
CHARITIES.
J. H. TAGGART, Manager.
[1.400
THE EASTERN EXTENSION, AUS- TRALASIA AND CHINA TELE GRAPH CO., LTD.
CENDERS of TELEGRAMS are hemby Notified that from the lat JANUARY, 1918, util farther Notice, the Currency Charges for Telegrams will be collected at the Rate of $0.26. to equal Frano 1.00.
Drawn Bonds when presented must be accompanied by all remaining Coupons, as all such Bonds are not entitled to any further interest after the payment of 11th Coupon If all remaining Coupons presented together with the Drawn Bonds, (beginning with the 12th Coupon) are not then the total amount represented by these Coupons shall be deducted from the repayable principal.
Drawn Bonds must be presented for Repayment within five years from the dato of Third Drawing, after which period of five years such Bonds shall be come Null and Void,
11,025
(1902
THE SHELL TRANSPORT &
TRADING CO. LTDA
ACCORDING to telegraphic adview received In-day, THE SHELL TRANSPORT & TRADING CO., LTD., have declared an INTERIM DIVIDEND on the Ordinary Shares of the Company at the rate of 2/- por Share free of income-tax, payable January 5th, 1018. (Coupon No. 29.
For THE ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO. (SOUTH CHINA) LTD
N. LAWATSON.
(1396 Hongkong, 15th December, 1917 UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.
THE CERTIFICATE NO. 4100 fre
**E* Quality,
Dewar's Scotch Whisky.
Case No. 2. $28.00
1 Bot. St. Marceaux Champagne.
Burgundy "Beaune," Bots
St Estephe Claret.
1 Bot. Light Dry Sherry, Sandeman's.
Port, Superior Light Invalid. Superior Old Liqueur Cognes, Very
Old Liqueur Scotch Whisky
Dewar's Scotch Whisky. Gin
Bo good an authority on Africans Sir H. H. JOHNSTON, with knowledge of the
hopeless, as we have said, since the battle
of the Marne, but there are other ways of annexing a country beside political unexation. The enormous effort made. by Germany to win over Spain through the medium of the 80,000 Germana in that. country is well-known; and German pro. pagandists have freely offered her Gibral
in London on the subject of the Bagdad that Morocco has been the keystone of railway, he included the Central African every German scheme in Africa; it flanks project; it is to these negotiations that three great sea-routes, to India, to the Dr. Sous, the Colonial Minister, referred Cape, to Bouth America, The acquisi
tion of Morocco by direct means has been when he said, Even before the war, we had plans for making a united whole of our African possessions by means of a peaceful agreement." What exactly was proposed is not known, for no official statement has ever been made public; but it is known that the view taken in Britain then, as always was that Germany's desire for expansion should be met as far as possible. At a meeting of the Geografar and Morocco. Spain is to be, in the phical Society on February 24th, 1915, Spanish phrase, a Western Turkey. ";: Sir H. H JOHNSTON exhibited & map and, as the chances of renewed German thowing what Germany might have had influence in South America, with or with in Africa had she not gone to war. This out Spain, are not particularly bright 2 Bolts. Superior Old Port "D" Quality map colours as German most of the Bel- to-day, we must turn again to Africa for
Very Finest OLD BROWN
Brandy
***E* Quality agian Congo, a large part of Portuguese the reason. Here & Spanish Morocco, Scotch Whisky Angola, and part of French Equatorial eaten through and through by German Very Old Liqueur
Africa; it shows German Central Africa" peaceful penetration, would stand "E" Quality,
Orange Curacao.
Case No. 3. $32.00
1 Bot. St. Marceaux Champagne.
Old Brown Sherry "EE"
Quality
1)
Kilty Liqueur Whisky (guaranteed
20 years old).}
3 Bote. 1 Bot
St. Julien Claret.
Gin
Orange Curacao.
united from sea to sea, with Togo as an outlying enclave. The idea was that Belgium and Portugal might sell or lease their African territories, Belgium receiving, in exchange, Luxemburg; while
on the return of Lorraine to her by Ger many. British possessions in Angola wore actually about to be transferred to
Fourteen Shares Nos, 13464/13477 in the name of MARY SAMUEL PERRY has been LOSE or STOLEN, and if at the expiration SPECIAL Cases Put Up to ORDER, as to Frined the matter was conditional
on of One Month from the date hereof, the above documents be not forthcoming. another Certificate for the said Shares will be issued by the Society and thereafter no other will be acknowledged
O. MONTAGUE EDE, General Manager.
[1386 Hongkong, 15th December, 1917. THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO.,
$100 each. Nos Tickets:
125-155
31 1011-104131 1073-1103 31 1135-1196 1250-1299
LIMITED.
BAPPLIANCES for use in connection DEFORE purchasing ELECTRICAL with the Company's supply, Consumers are recommended to communicate with the
with a view to ascertaining Undersigned
1. If the Appliances, and their use, ara in accordance with the Company's Regulations,
2. If the Wiring of the premises, where a1it is intended to instal such Appliances,
is suitable.
Nos.
$1,000 each. Tickets
9-10
2
21-99
2
28-28
J. M. BECK,
Superintendent.
20-39
37-38
31
Hongkong, 10th December, 1917,
[1410
82-83
1554-1584
00-01
1696-1726
THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY, LTD.
·06-00:
-1790-1851
334-835
5689-5563
338-330
6438-6458
354-355
6500-6530
HONGKONG STATION.
956-359
6748-8778
566-367
6810-8840
CURRENCY CHARGES OF TELEGRAMS,
378-379
6935-6965
474-BOG
7523-7558
CENDERS of TELEGRAMS are hereby Notified that from the 1st JANARY, 1918, until further Votics, the Curre-ay Charges for of $0.26 Telegrams will be collected at the Rate
€36-662
27
9210-9316
31 107
3105-3181
·9854-9960107%
3200-3202
3317-3322
to equal Fraco 1.00.
301-3371
4046-4071
27 4153-4179 27 28 4234-4255
4257-4260
4265-4208
4279-4280
4253-4283
4306-1307
T. KRING. Acting Superintendent, Hongkong, 19th December, 1917. [411-
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received instruc
Tious to sell by Public Auction
the
(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED), TO-DAY (THURSDAY),
90th December, 1917, commencing at 10 M, and continuing st: 230 P.M., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of Los House
Street,
A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF TOYS
Comprising
Esquimeaux Dolls, Teddy Bears and other animals-Dolls (large and small), Trains, Motor Cars, Cricket Sets, Soldiers, Forts, Gun Emplacements, &c.
Footballs, Boxing Glove Tea Sets Furniture Bots, Games Small Perambalators, Beds Xmas Trees, Air Guns and Water Pistols, Fire Works, Crackers,
On view from Wednesday at 9 F.M. Twes-Cach
HUGHES & HOUGH
Auctioneer
NOMICE.
01412
A and from the 15th inst, Me- J. G.
GRAY has been authorised to Siga our Firm per Procuration.
& Co. SNOWMAN
1400
NOTICE
4318-4321 4339-4370 29 8096-0112 23 9141-9168 28 9309-0336 0g 6393-9420 28 10117-10144 9 10201-1025658, 10313-10388 | 56 12057-12088 27 19111-1213797 13332-19858 27 12366-19412 27: 12494-1252027: 12856-12682 277 12872-12925 54 12980-13006 27 13169-1310527
· 18223-13276-6 18385-1341127 13489-13513 95 23564-13588 13694-13607
977
IT 18 HEREBY NOTIFIED that
with Regulations, published Borordance under Government Notification No. 514 of 23rd November, 1917, commencing from Jer JANUARY next, All PRIVATE RICKSHAS have to be LICENSED at an Annusi Lica cn fen nf $10 payable in advance.
RICKSHA DRIVERS have to be Licensed
at a fee of 33 cents Hall-Yearly
TCMOL MESSER,
Captain Superintendent of Police Hongkong 15th December, 1917. 1230
$10 each. Nos. Tickets 1993-2373 880 4273-4652 380) 6033-5419 380 5703-6559 760 7313-7609 390 10745-10805 61 11-11171 61 11233-11283-61 11355-11476 129 11501169 01 39148-12208 81
10068-10174 107
31
foregoing infor It is important that the mation should be obtained from the Company, & not only does the neglect to do so endanger property by fire, but in addition may lead to contravention of the Ordinance
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,
Agents.
[1387
CENTRAL BUREAU OF LIQUIDATION OF THE
DEUTSCH-ASIATISCHE BANK IN
CHINA
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that of Foreign
A. S. WATSON & Germany when war broke out, Sir H
CO., LTD.,
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTE,
TELIPHONE 616,
ACKNOWLEGMENT.
112
Mr. and Mrs A. Moxsis beg to acknow ledge with deep gratitude the many expressions of sympathy received by them during their recent bereave
ment.
1405
HongKors Orencar 181; Das V Road, O LONDON, Orvion; 181, Frase Stunes, E.C.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, 20TH DECEMBER 1917.
GERMANYS G ANDIOSE DESIGNS IN AFRICA.
ver against a great German Central Africa, highly militarised; and Mittel Afrika, in the intervals of waging * des fensive war on Bouth Africa and "removing Egyptian pressure on Asia
the Tangier-Lake Chad railway of Zix- Minor," might perhaps find time when
MERMANN'S vision should be built, to exercise a little pressure itself upon
;
Morocco. Its on these lines that come
H JOHNSTON stated definitely that Ger- in Germany dream that the wheel of the many's oversea territory, including Elbe-Equator scheme may yet come full possessions and concessional areas (circle, and that Germany may some day, chose in connection with the Bagdad rail directly or indirectly, rule from the way) would have amounted to two million Baltic to the Zambesi, if not vid Con- stantinople-Cairo, then vid Gibraltar. Tangier, with the Straits in German bands,
square miles with population of 70 millions; and this which she might have bid peacefully, she had thrown away by going to war.
A congregation is to be held at the Hongkong University for sanferring Degrees on Jaukary 9th.
The Hongkong Hotel management an- nounce that in future the charge for tea will be one dollar per head, which will include the privilege of dancing. Twenty-five per cent of the proceeds from the teas will be given to war charities.
Obviously, if Germany threw away two million square miles of territory by going to war she must have expected to obtain even greater results than this. There are indicationg that she did. The scheme of 1912-1814 did not, apparently, touch North Africa; and it must have had the defect, in German eyes, that the Central African bloc would still have had To connection with Germany except by sea. The derision to attack France We are informed by Bishop Pozzai through Belgium rather than through that the Very Rev. James A. Walsh, of Switzerland, though doubtless taken for New York, Superior of the Catholic etrategio reasons, may have commended Foreign Mission Seminary, will preach itself politically as a means of acquiring at the Catholic Cathedral at the 9.30 Mass the Belgian Cungo without payment. next Sunday, and at St. Joseph's Church Moro important is the proposal whereby at the 10 o'clock Mass. Germany sought to buy Britain's nen trality; she would not dismember France, but the French colonies were to be out point in 1910, and to consider what side the agreement, for they offered con- Germany now hopes to save from the nection with Central Africa by land. week of the great plan known by the The refusal by Britain of this shameful The sub offer, and the battle of the Marne, ended catch-phrase "Elbe-Equator.”” ject was first mooted in 1898, after the Germany's chance of acquiring Morocco despatch of the KRUGEE telegram by the or North Africa directly. But a far KAISER, when Germany, as the price of greater thing than Morocco now came the withdrawal of her designs at Pretoria, dimly into view. Turkey as a German at the Guildhall. After refreshments exacted Britain' consent to her scheme vassal was a fact; and, thanks to Bul. had been served there was an mpromptu for acquiring part of the African garis, "Central Europe appeared to musical programme, those who took part The German-including Mrs. Newhouse (piano); Mrs. Colonies of Portugal, if Portugal should be solidly constituted. desire to sell or alienate them. In that Turkish combination, having obtained Caren (solo), Mr. Hughes (song); Mr. year the KAISER went to Damascuit, and Egypt, was to conquer, or obtain at theen (song); Mr. Smythe (song); and though this journey was really supposed peace, the Anglo-Egyptian Soudan, and Mr. W. McKenzie (piano).
Several local ateamers have come to to refer to the Bagdad railway we have thus join hands with the German Central
In view of the different proposals which 25N under instructions from the Minis rare being made for the future adminis
of Finance and the Ministry Affairs of the Republic of China, the business tration of tropical Africa, it is worth in China of the DEUTSCH-ASIATISCHE BANE while to trace briefly the history of has been placed in Liquidation. Astiel Afrika up to its culminating
And all Parties of Chinese, Allied and Neatral nationalities having Claims against the said Bank in Canton are hereby required to notify the Canton Bureau of Liquidation of their Claime, within one month from this dates arti
10282-10493 214" 10710-10816107- 11673-11779 107. 12101-12207 107 19422-12635214. 38 13863-19600 13701-13724 94 -13787-13817 91 14010-14040231 14072-14096 14099-14134 18137-18167 18281-18291 31 18354-18384 31 18842-18046 18679-186739 18717-10823 107 10983-20037: 107. 20787-20803 107. 21001-21107 107 -91429-91535 107
·22071-99177 107- 52927-23140214 23355-23497 73 30001-30034 34 30677-30783107 30391-31104 214 31533-81839-107: -31961-29000 772687
328914201 39693-828942 32596-32700 32737-22951 215 33167-83381 215 34437-34871 215
40
35102-35316 215 26522-37036 215 137487-37896430
38327-38758430
39001-9906868 -39273-39379 107
39808-398103 38821-59825& 39881-39866 5. 39976 $9885 ·30 39888-30205
10
5,430
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN, that all Parties indebted to the said Bank mast discharge their liabilities within one month from this date, after which poriod the Central Bureau of Liquidation will take such action as may be necessary.
LOCAL BUREAU OF LIQUIDATION OF THE DEUTSCH ASIATISCHE BANK, SHEN CANTON, AVVE Canton, 1st December, 1971
[1399 **
PUBLIC.
WORKS
NOTIFICATION.
DEPARTMENT.
PIS HEREBY NOTIFIED that on the
Messrs. Hughes & Hough are holding their annual auction sale of Christmas toys at their Bales Rooms to-day (Thure- day); commencing at 10a.m. and 2.50 p.m. There is a very large assortment of euitable gifts for children to be disposed of without reserve.
A "Social" was given last evening by the members of the Union Church Guild
8th January, at å r., at the PUBLIO tently been told by Herr Fun Africa bloc which would be one of the grief during the past few days. As has
WORKS DEPARTMENT, and before & Committee ZINNERMANN that he had one eye on presided by the Engineer Director of the
prizes of victory; and Germany would
already been announced, the Hongkong
Public Works, tenders will be received for Lake Chad, and that when Germany have through communication by land, Messrs. Marty & Co.) struck the rocks the contract of "ERECTION OF A BUILD owns a Central Africa, containing ING FOR THE COLONIAL SECRETARY'S million, natives and 506,000 Germans, and OFFICER EN
Bea
DIPARTHEST and in the Portugures and North Africa, this development conceived by the mind of man sute Messrs. Thorensen & Co) and a Japan
Macao, Public Works Department, Eth December, 1917.
vid Constantinople and Cairo, been recently near Fort Bayard. Now it m Hamburg and the Congo, act exposed
Hing Steamship Company has been sunk The conditions of the tendoring, the express traffic goes from Berlin to Lake at any point to the dreaded British reported that the ss. Lueries of the Hung Tong Lee specifications and the Plans of the Building Chad in five days vid the Mediterraneza power. It was the most grandiose plan ng the result of a collision with a Sings
pore steamer, and that the ss. to the Public at the PUBLIC WORKS are open
ALSTANDER. – The actual Empire of Gerese steamer are ashore near Bangkok, CONSULATE in Hongkong, where they can will have dated from the German Ex- be examinat all weak days.
PEROR's journey of 1898. ZIMMERMANN many, including the vassal or protected The Captain and crew of the Laertes were hore expresses a truth, the connection of states of Austria, Bulgaria (with Serbia) saved. A
The Kaiser's telegram, in which ha Central Africa" with the Berlin- and Turkey, would have stretched in a Bagdad scheme recently deceased. In solid mass from the North Sea to the speaks of the loyalty of the German nation infissatably bound to its ancestral 1911 came the USSION of the Panther to Persian hills, and from the Baltic to the
A princes, reminds one irresistibly of the Agadir, and the unfolding of German Zamber while its tentacles would, on occasion om which Mr. Gladstone said Seeing to have become attached to the income tax... Al designs upon Moroces. It seems that the one hand, have grasped at Chinn by that the English people
I two strings to her bow; and, the projected. German railway along the ed for an explanation, the GO M
When I say attached,' I do not Singapore, are HONORARY AGENTS Germany
mean as the bridgroom in attached to the of the IMPERIAL MERCHANT SEVICE Morocco being unobtainable at the old silk route from Persin to Kito-Chau GUILD, where subscription are received, new alembers are enrolled and all Members are moment, the idea in the mind of Herr and, on the other hand, a Germanised bride, bart as the captive is attrahertzo welcomed as Visitors during their stay KIDEELIN WORTE then Secretary of Spain and Spanish Meraces, would have the car of his conqueror 80-250
was to obtain, by way of "com reached out to the wealth of South are two ways of being 11368
$5 each.
Nos
2582.3109 5760-0977 6806-7333 7882-8917 9974-10500 14801 67894-68421
(828) 70006-710333- 528 71500-72845 056 6915082677 39200-83733.
RAUL M. DE FARIA MATA,
Engineer Director.
Tickets.
[1363
508
1,056 527
STRAITS MERCHANT BERVICE GUILD
DISPENSARY Buildings Raffles Plac
in port.
bound."