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OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between the Undersigned in the business of Solicitors nt No. 33, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, under the style or firm of HARDING & AGASSIZ was dissolved on the 31st day of December,
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THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED.
1TH
HE CERTIFICATE No. 431 for Twenty
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EDE General Manager Hengkong, 1st January, 1918.
→COSTA RICA"- Captain O. A. 1 leto me, easing a'ri ed from the Above: For 5, Cueignees of Cargo are hervig informed that their Goods are being landed a their riss into the Golown of the Hongkong med Kowloon Whaif and Godern Comjang. | ledged. Limited, Kowloon, sau stored at Consignes risk and espanto
Goods will be carried on tunless Optional *instructions new given to the contrary be
before Neon 27th ins
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d'dənaged Goods All broken, onred, a Ebe left in the Gojam be. Wisch, 1hey will be
ined on MONDAY, Deo, a to
DATU O O Baior, Merival here, after ablak date they cannot be recognized.
All Claims must be presented within FIFTHE"
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port having arrived fe m the bore Comaga of "Cargo by, her aze, hereby Informed that. Fll Goods are being landed at their risk into the basardonaty na ce extra Ardous Godowns of the Hongkong and * Wharf and Godown Company Lotas and/or from the Wharem delivery may Be obrained.
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above furniture, etc. has been remove to the Rooms for convenience of Sale.
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armed with
would have been equally justified, in knives, cama aboard, and, after threaten- adopting the same attitude as the Uniteding to do him buily injury ransacked
WINES AND SPIRITS States, which has refused to yield to the the cabin and stole a quantity of money, Japanese agitation for the removal of clothing and jewellery, to the value of the embargo on tron and steel unless a $101, satisfactory rzucił ziro quo is forthcoming.
On infosription received from the in the shape of shipping for the Alice Governor of Hongkong the Viceroy ot Negotiations over this question have India has been pleased to grant the failed so far to reach any conclusion, the title of Khan Sahib to Hashim Khan. point at issue being the charter-rates for the ships. Charter rates in Japan, in the absence of any Government control, have boon swollen out of all proportion to raca Very Old Liqueur Scotch Whisky obtaining in other parts of the world, Pete El Quality
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A notification to this effect appeared în the Gazette of India on hit January, ( 1918 – The recipient, we are informed. is a brother of the Hon. Capt Ajab Khan, Sirdan Babadur, 1.0.M., member of the Imperial Council of India,
Yesterday afternoon the marriage was solemniscaat St. Andrew's Church, Raw 1000, of Mr. Frederick O. Gourdin, of the British American Tobacco Company, and Ming Mabel Elbot Long, daughter of Mra E E. Long of No. 241, Nathan Road, Kowloon The Her. B. fsinted. There was a large Pope gathering of rebitives and friends. The bride, who was given away by her brother, Mr. D. Long, wore a dress of ivory satin and georgette creps with a tulle rell. Ber bridesmaids were the Misses D. and G. Razavet. Mr W. Drude acted as "best man."- Alter the ceremony reception was held at the house, of the bride mother.
and the Japanese Government protests that it has no authority to force its ship- owners, to accept anything ander these rates, although it has no scruples chartering from China, enemy ships at charter rates which, however much they approximate to rates obtaining outside the country, certainly do not approxi mate to those obtaining within Nor is Japan assisting the Allies with the ships which she refuses to charter to them Tho highness of charter rates is a refice tion from the highness of freight-rates, over which again, there has been no Government control. The result is that all the goods supplied by Japan to the Allies are proportionately high in price? There is, and always has been, a control
On Sunday, January 6th, the day over the freight-rate on the subsidised lines in so far its any increase must appointed by His Majesty the King as receive Government sanction, and this bus a day of prayer for God's blessing on been given for these ships once or twice our alps, the following services will be since the war started It is, however, held in St. John's Cathedral -7.45 8.D.
Holy Communion, 11 a.m., Matins with from the extra or unaubardised steamers special prayers and sermon by this that the great lines are able to pay divid-Bishop of Victoria, 19 noon, Holy Com
munionizap.m., Litany 8 pm, Evensong onds of 70 per cent, and over, and freight and
ad special prayers with sermon. 10 am, service for children will be hold in St. Paul's Chapel B. I the Governor, H E Major General Ventris and Commodore Sandeman have notified their intention of being, present at the service at 11 am on which occasion the on will be devoted to a fund for
Thentain and SPECIAL CASES PUT UP TO ORDER. Tat's on these are mounting month by
The Interest, loer Thooms Tax at 5-in the will be:
ON £20 BONER
Per Coupon (Chris) «
Les Ter st 5/-in the
Not amount payable
ON £100 Borns.
Per Coupon (Grois); “Loss The kt 5/- În fie
Not amanat payable
ON £600 BONDE
Per Coupon (Gross) Loss Tax at 5 – in the £ 1. 16 (
Net amount payable
Payment will be made in Toolest the Demand. Baying rate of exchange of the day the Compon in presented.
By Order,
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month. This artificial enhancement of the price of goods supplied to the Allies goes to the enrichment of Japanese ship & owners. Profiteering has been more or
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The Daily Press.
less checked in Europe and America,
but is, a body of men who have
and
are re service at the
such
in Japan it is rampant. A tax on war-
risk of profits is, indeed, announced as a part in camp with the cadets the services on their lives. As all the choir boys are
of the forthcoming Japanese Budget But
as the measure is not retrospective it seem rather late in the day to introduce it In purely military measures on tho other hand, Japan appears to have done
will be sung in unison. The hope is expressed that many will observa the day as one of special prayer.
CANADA'E THANKS TO HONGKONG.
H. E. the Governor has received telegrams from the Secretary of State for the
Colonies as follows
following message hin "bien. received from the Governor Generalizof Canara Ban
Government of Canada desine me to Con express their grateful thanks for the very kird message from the Government, ut Hongkong on the occasion of the terrible catastrophs which has visited Halifax and also for their gencrops contribution is to relief of sufferers by this ennmily.
as much as lay within her power. Her THE HALIFAX DISASTER Nary has been largely used, even sa far as the Mediterranean, and if she has not been able to boast of any engagement with enemy warships this has been due DEATH,
As for sending WATT-Died of Wounds in Palestine, solely to ill luck.
October, 1917. KENNETH MURKAY Japanese troops abroad, the difficulties in WATT, 2nd Lt. 175th Bedfordshire Regt, late of Hongkong and Shang the way of such an enterprise may be said hai Banking Corporation,. Lendon to absolve her from any charge of lack' Staff
of will. Though it may seen a minor detail, the provisioning of the Japanese trong, constitutes one of the dißculties owing to their peculiar diet. To this TORT be added the diffenities of co- ordination with the other troops of the Aflies and, of coures, the problem of transport Would it pay the Allies with all the man-power available in America and soon to be placed at the front, to collect sufficient ships to convey to Europe a Japanese army of a size auffici out to be of any service? Most people would hesitate to give an auswor in the alarmative. It is rather on the economic side that further assistance could be wished from Japan. The Japanese Con- titution has been described as a despotic one favoured by representative elements, be it is noticeable that the purely com
BOROKORO, 3RD JANUART, 1918
JAPAN AND THE WAR.
THE position of Japan towards the war continues to agitate Japanese publicists, who ventilate their opinions in a curious- ly detached way which seems to imply that Japan's share in the conflict has already been performed. Needless to say, these goutlemen have no voice in the governments they consist mostly of University profesors, or merchants and
financiers whose eyes are opened only to the main chance. That the war has brought wealth to Japan is indisputable.
mercial element in the country has long been growing power, whose interests those in authority are went to handle
· Only recently one journal was consolingly
with kid gloves, While in all other remarking that even if Russia should countries private interests have been sub. pudiate her dete, Japaz would lose only a small fraction of the amount she had gained by the war. Nor can it be said that Japan has been treated badly by the Allies or cramped in any direction likely to add to her profits Three of the enemy ships interned in China have been
urdinated to national interests, in Japan they still reign supreme.
A portion of the proceeds derived from showing the film Damon and Pythius at the Peak Club this evening will be given to. St. Dunstan's Home for the
Blind
allotted to her at charter rates which are for below anything obtaining in the During the week ended December 29th country, although she hag withdrawn.
the following cases of communicable dis some of her largest ships from dangereUE
Laws were notified in the Colony Tho routes, where, of course, the need for of diphtheria (both Chinese and one of tonnage is greatest Further, import them fatal), thres of enteric fever (Iwo
OKARMEN Embargoes among the allied belligerents
have been waived in her favour. The of them British and one fatal), and one of
small pox (Finnish), No. 15 BURROW STREET Wanchai, British Government has distinguished ONE GODOWNEA
LEWKNOH" No. 126, THE PEAK, from itself in tins direction, hardly any report has been made to the Police
CONSFIELD ARCADE embargo it has anounced having been?
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Agents
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face of Japanese oppost
tion The not of course, be blac against import embarge they produce, eren although
turers can
by a
employed on board a ship in port, that during the night of the 21st ultimo come person, unknown, protesting broke open store room, in the stake
Wand stole the articles hold of the
large quan they must tity of zinc boiler plates, valued at ANG
CHINESE TELEGRAMS..
[SY COURTESY OF
CHINO RG0%
STATEMENT OF CONDITIONS;
PERING, January 1st
Hang Chi chen has wired to Li Gam
stating the following conditions :-(1)
Withdrawal of Kwan troop, from Handa; (2) – withdrawal of Yunnan troops from Szechuan; (3) appointment of Lung Chai-kwong not to be oppossa. (4) Kwangtung troops not to attack Fukien.
Bhen Chun-hanan will hold a manting at Shanghai to discuss the question of
Wang Chi-heiang left Shanghai rester. day for Kwangtung and Kwanget
CANTON NEWS.
[BY COURTESY OF THE “CHUKO AGOI
CANTON, January 2nd.
General Lang's troops, which have been defeated, are said to contemplato leaving for King Chow. They have sent their leaders to request the Canton leaders ne to hinder their retirement. THE COMING COMMANDER
GENERAL LUNG ; TROOPS,
The ex-Fuchun Chen Ping-kwan, who was appointed Chief Commander to rrived, at attack General Lung has Nanning. Chan will come to Caston within a few days PEACE CONFERENCE.
The Tuchun, Mok Wingon valent
a meeting to discuss the proposed farmys tics General Ling-ting was asked to request thPeking Government to Cancel General Lung. Cha kwong's ap, pointment and to give orders for Lung s troops, which have landed in the Prom Evince, to have at ORGAN 4881STANCE FE FULIENA
́ ́ Although the tugo late of anınınire las
been issued; the President has not stopped konding assistance to Tukien, "We learn that the 2nd North Sigadron received orders to go to Focikum vetere