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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE.
A 8. WATSUN & CO., LTD, NE CERTIFICATE for One Hundred Or Nos. 20941 to 30340 inclusive in this Company, standing in the name of ME. HECTOR V. PRETKE, has been LOST: and if at the expiration of one Month from the date hereof the stove Certificate be not forthcoming, another Certificate for the said
INTIMATIONS
THE WEST RIVER BRITISH STEAM. __________ SHIP COMPANY. NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that the above Company having CEASED to operato the Steamers LINTAN
SANUI" "NANNING" and "BAINAN, all Creditom and others having any Chims against the Company are required to send particulars thereof (a) In
Shares will be issued by the Cujupany, audesera. BurrgeYIELD & Swing to
thereafter no other will be acknowledged.
A & WATSON & UO., LTD. Hongkong, lúth Canary, lu18.
TO LET.
NUnfurished
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- MOUNTAIN VIEW, 6 Rooms
DENNYS & BOWLEY.
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DAIRY FARM NEWS.
POULTRY,
OUR HOUSE-FED CAPONS
AND
CHICKENS
ARE THE BEST IN THE EAST.
Tender Eating
Delicate Flavour.
THEM
JOINT SERVICE
OF THE
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NEDERLAND" AND "ROTTERDAM LLOYD” ROYAL MAIL LINES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE Sternship
PRINSES JULIANA" having are ved Krum BAN KILANCISCO, Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified that all Goons are being landed at their zitk into the basardona and/or extra hasardona Gedowns of the Hongkong and Kowloos What and Godowa Co., Lid, whence and/or from the whieren delivery may be obtained.
No Or will be admitted after the Goods Goods undelivered after noon the 2nd mamaining Jan. will be subject to rent.
Godowns and
́All Claims against the steamer must be pre mented to the Undersigned on or betere klix 261. Jan. or they will not be recognise Redundan
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are ta be left in the Godown, waare they will be azamined on the 21st Jan, at 10 4.3.; by the Complay's Herreyor, Macun. Clodaard à Douglas
No Fire Insurance whatsoever has been
Bils of Lading will be countertigasi by
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJE, Hongkong, 16th January, Iv18, [1390
NOTICE
sub-exchange TAVING - adopted HA
system in this Office our TELEPHONE NUMBERS ARE ENTIRELY CHANGED,
The New Naisbers being 2570, 2571 and 2572
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA,
NOTICE.
LTD. [1501
TT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that, in em- nection with the laying "NEW WATER MAINS, on and efter THURSDAY, the 17th instant, and until further notice, that partion of GARDEN ROAD -extending long the south side of "The Albany, from BOWEN BOLD to PEAK ROAD, will be CLOSED to Wheeled Traffic.
W. CHATHAM, Director of Public Works, ublic Works Department,
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Co
HONGKONG, DAILY - PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY Līva, 1918,
TRE Longkong, (b) in Canton to Measrs, DEACON Canton, in connection with business of the Company at that port, and (c) iu connection with West River Forta to Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Lre., Canton, and in every came before the Fifteenth day of February, 1918, after which date no claims can be recognised.
Hongkong, 14th January, 1912. [1610
THE MALABON SUGAR COMPANY.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
NOTION GINGER
BOOKS of the above Company will be CLOSED from the 1st to the 10th day of February, 1918,
SMITH, BELL & CO. LTD
General Managem Manila, P.I. 7th January, 1915
(Χ14
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE CERTIFICATE NO. 421 for Twenty No. 12338/12030 in this Com- pany registered in the name of WILLJAM ALEXANDER PARSONS MARTIN, bas been LOST,
INTIMATIONS
CONCERT
AT THE
CITY HALL
(OLD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ROOMM
TO-MORROW (FRIDAY), 18TH JANUARY,
AT 9.15 P.M,
GERARD ZALSMAN
Assisted by bia, GEO. GRIMBLE and Local Amateurs ADMISSION $3;
Booking at MOUTRIES.
NOTICE
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ANY EUROPEAN, Non-Aciatio or Inilian desiring to leave the Colony should pply in person at the CENTRAL POLIUR STATION between the hours of § AM. 13 1 P.M And I PIL, 60 49.x daily,
Applicants will be required to produce L'assports or identification papers.
All persons with certain exceptions whe reinsin in
In the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Reglater themselves under or PERSONS the
and if at the expiration of one month from ORDmeliba
the date hereof the above Certificate be not forthcoming, another Certificate for the said Shares will be issued by the Company and thereafter no other or others will be acknow. lodged.
C. MONTAGUE EDE,
General Manager. Hongkong, 1st January, 1918.
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THE WEST POINT BUILDING CO., LIMITED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
Forms of Registration giving the par tiemiars required may be obtained" at "the G:P.0, and at alt Police Statione.
The Fenalty for jnom vompliance is a Ene wot exceeding 650
FOR SALE.
INTIMATION
to regard them with self-satisfied com CHINESE TELEGRAMS. placency, but rather to prepare to play an even more important part on the battle. field, for, as a result of Russia's defec
TRY COURTEGY OF THE CHTUNG NG01
BAN FO
tion, it is estimated that the Central THE PROPOSED DECLARATION OF European Powers will have fully a million and a half troops available as reinforcements elsewhore. Of those proe The President has wired to sixteen
WAR
PERING, January 18th.
We have just received tically one million will be Germans, the Tuchung stating that the mandate declar
consignment
of
LOWNEY'S
CHOCOLATES
in fancy boxes.
majority of whom we may expect, to encounter on the Western Front, which, it must be remembered, extends now from the English Channel to the Adriatic. Although America is training troops as speedily as possible, it must necessarily be some months yet before she can bring
ber full weight to bear in the struggle,
ing war is opposed by three Tuchuns of Changkiang and therefore cannot be issued,
Li Yuan-hung has sent a delegate to inform the President that he will not participate in any conference cou-
vaned to discuss the present position of
and, in the meantime, the task of meet-affairs The President replied that, when the new Parliament is convened he will ing any disparity between the opposing forers will have to be borne in large mea.sk Li Yuan-hing to resums the Pre-
sidency. sure by Britain. Even after the armica
Wang Shi-ohen has wired to sixteen retained in the British. Isics for Home
Tuchuns that the Senate cannot perform its Parliament's duties,
are
Defence have been pared down to the
down to th lowest limits consistent with safety, it will still be necessary, says Sir ACCELAND GEDDES, to obtain a minimum of 450,000 additional men from the ranks of those. remaining in civil life The Government re satisfied that this can be done, with out either raising or lowering the present age limit, by withdrawing exemption cer- tificates from men who are doing work of practically no national importance and by replacing a very large number of the youths engaged in essential industries with women and ex-soldiers. Only men fit for general service, however, will be taken from vital industries, and the num bør required will be secured by a clean cut determined on the age basis for each particular occupation. Though shipping
CANTON NEWS.
[BY COURTESY OF THE CHUNG NGC SAN PO.'*]
CANTON, January 18th.
THE FORMER PARLIAMENT.
The Chairman of Parliament, Wong Ching-ting, on account of Li Shun's (the Tuchan of Kiangsu) proposal to convene the former Parliament in Nanking, has decided to go to Shanghai to consult with Li about the matter.
"GENERAL MOK KING-YC.
It is reported that General Mok King- yu, who fled to Amoy after he was de- feated, has recently gone to Peking to ask
Asiatic, Foreign and Colonial A. S. WATSON & is a vital problem, the successful solution the President for instructions,
the TRIKTIETH ORDINARY POSTAGE
MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS In this Company will be held at the Offices of Mesars. JARDINE MATHESON & CHPANY LIMITED, ON TUESDAY, 29th January, 1918, at 11.30 AM, for the purpose of receiving
her with the Report of the Directors together Statement of accounts for the year ending 31st Decoinber 1917.2026 Late
STAMPS
and all kinds of
The REGISTER of SHARES of the PHILATELIC Company will be CLOSED from SATUR 1913 (both days inclusive), during which DAY, 18th, to TUESDAY 20th January,
Rex starød: apskat period no Transfer of Shares can be
By Order of the Board of Directors,
A. SHELTON HOOPER, Secretary to the HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY
Co., LTD, General Agents for the WEST POINT BUILDING Co., Law, Hongkong, 11th January, 1918. (1507
Nor
THE HONGKONG CENTRAL ESTATE, LIMITED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FOURTH ORDINARY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS in the Offices Messrs. JARDINE MATHESON & COMPANY, LETED, on TUESDAY, 29th January, 1918, at 11.45 ., for the purpose of receiving the
Directors together wilk
the Report of the Statement of Accante for year ending Stat December, 1917:0
The REGISTER of SHARES of
iny will be CLOSE) from SATUR- Company DAY, 18th, 10 TUESDAY January, 1918
EDU [both days inclusive), during which period no
the
Transfer of Shares canters
By Order of the Board of
THE HONGKONG CENTRAL
ESTATE, LIMITED,
A SHELTON HOOLER,
* Secretary to THE GENERAL Managers.“
Hongkong, 11th January, luib, thuốc l
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD.
RYOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the THIRTIETH ORDINARY MEETING be held at the Offices of Messrs. JARDINE, OF SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will
MATHESON " & Company, LIBITED, on, TUESDAY, 29th January, 1918, at Nook, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statement of Accounts for the e year ending 31st December,
CANTON CMS. GIRLS' BOARDINGARTHANKAN SEA Gast the
AND DAY SCHOOL
T. HILDAY-East Parade Ground.
Principals BENDELACE, Dip. EL
The REGISTER
Company ill be CLOSED from SAIY to TUESDAY, 29th January, MA. 1918 (both days
days inclusive) period no Transfer of
lusive) during which
of Shares call
be
By
Board of Directors. the A SHELTON HOOPER, at Secretary, Hongkong, 11th January, 1918............... [1509
School Re-opens January 10th, 1918, Thorough English and Chinese Education. Fees moderate.
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STRAITS MERCHANT BERVICE GUILD.
ISPENSARY Buildings, Raffia Place,
D'Singapore, are HONORARY AGENTS
of the
ÎMPERIAL MERCHANT SERVICE GUID, where subscription are received, new Members are strolled and all Members are welcomed as Visitors during their stay in port
M
WANTED
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Register of
THE HONGKONG LAND RECLAMA-
TION CO. LTD.
GOODS.
GRACA & CO..
No. 4 WINDHAM STEKET
HONGKONG.
HOUSES TO LET
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TO LET FURNISHED HOUSE at Mount Davis, Pokfulam Boad, for February, March and April. Rent moderate.
Apply
H. F. GOLDSMITIL
P.W.D.
[1578
TO LET MURNISHED HOUSE 87, PEAX from
F 1st May to 31st October. 6 Rooms and usual Offices, together with a large Garden.
Apply
W. METRICK HUMPHREYS, c/o W. G. HougHRRTS & Co.,
5, Daddell Street
TO LET
OFFICES in York Buildings
HOURES on Shamsen, Canton, Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT AND AGENCY Co., Ltd. [28
TO LET
■MMEDIATE en ry, Four very desir. Street, opposite the Grand Hotel, recent able SHOPS, situated in Ice House
y
For rent and other particulars apply
THE MANAGER, Honorowo Ice Co., LTD., 46. Connaught Road Central [000
TO LET
A FLAT in Nathan Road, Kowloon.
CO., LTD.,
HONGKONG DISPENSARY
TELEPHONE 16,
(12
MONGKONG ONrion: Lia, Das Vœux Kos), O LOMBOR, UNFIcwy 101, Fram Brant, EQ
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG 17th January, 1818.
viomURY, REPORTED,
The Authorities have received reports from the Yeung Kong front stating that upon the arrival of the Kwangsi troeps a successful attack was made on General Lung's armies on the 19th inst. and con- siderable booty captured. MORE CANTON TROOPS FOR YEUNG KONG,
of which means certain victory," it soems that youths engaged in shipyards and aeroplane fastories, incited by paci- fists, are endeavouring to intimidate the Government in order to obtain exemption from military service at the expense of others. As Sir AUCKLAND GEDDEs warned them in his speech, if they carry out their threats to hold up the output of ships Ngai Pong-ping, the Superintendent of and aeroplanes for this despicable pur- Police, and the lender of King-Wai pose they will meet with a blast of troops, who was ordered by the Tuchun hatred and contempt which will surprise to send four regiments of King-Wai them." There can be no question, as to troops to Yeung Kong to oppo Lung's the urgent need of the nation for the forces, has decided to dispatch the men services of every available person when tomorrow. Serious fighting is expected. we read that arrangements are being in feung Kong. made for the extension of the employment ILITARY SUPPLIES TO GENERAL LUNG. of schoolboys in such work as harvesting General Lung Chai-wong has requent- and cleaning land. In the circumstancceed the Peking Government to supply him it will be felt that the decision of the with military necessities. We are in. Government to compel uninterned enemy formed that the President has ordered aliens to work for the nation in return for their freedom has not been taken a moment too sOODLƏ
Mr Arthur Hesketh Groom died at Kebe on Jan. 9th at the age of 75. He arrived in Kobe in April. 1988. Until recently he was, Chairman of Directors of the Oriental Hotel Co.
THE MAN-POWER QUESTION THAT the British Empire, is playing a part worthy of its greatness in the war was demonstrated by Sir AUCKLAND GEDDES, the Minister for National Ser- vice, in the statement which he mada to
the House of Commons on Monday. In addition to manufacturing munitions, building ships and aircraft, increasing the production of food and iron
ore, and providing other essentials for the use of ourselves and our All
Allics, the British League of Nations has raised not far short of seven and a half million men for the Armed Forces of the Crown Daduching from this total a million native fighters labourers, carriers and others engaged in ancillary military work, we find that the white population Commander U. W. Beckwith. R.N., Chan of the Empire has made a direct contri- | Taong, a wharfman at the China Mex- bution of six and a half millien men to chants wharf, pleaded guilty to being fight the battle of Freedom, and though under way in the port during the official until lately, owing to the inscrutable might of the 16th instant without the Policy of suppressing all reference do the written permission of the officer in charge English troops, the world might well of the examination service, and was fined
England was carrying on the war se to rigorous imprisonment. have believed the German allegation that 83, with the alternative of seven days
Expense of the remainder of the United Kingdom and the Overses Dominions, the fact emerges that the predominant partner” has furnished more than two- thirds of this number, namely, 4,500,000.
This is more than her due share calqu-
lated on the bases of population, and the explanation ia, of course, that conscrip tion has, not been applied to Ireland, FOUR-BOOMED HOUSEB in Kow owing, presumably, to its disturbed state; Bor adopted by the Dominions and Colonies, which have raised 800,000 men
Apply to
NOT EVEN VEENTH ORDINARY (OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN; that the
MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this 1000. Company will be held at the Offices of LIMITED, on TUESDAY, 28th January, 1918, Messrs JARDINE MATHESON & COMPANY
at 12.15 P., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statement of Accounts the year
We Be 128 31st December 191710
REGISTER OF SHARES the AN to take charge of SHIPPING Company will be CLOSED frond SATUR
DAY DEPARTMENT-Handling Ship'e 1918 (both days inclusive), during which 19th, to TUESDAY, 29th January, papers, claims and transhipping. Good period no opportunity for first-class man familiar with Begiate Transfer of Shares can be tan work. - Address, – in own handwriting,
By Order of the Board of Directors, stating salary required, he
MOWBRAY 8. NORTHCOTE,
Secretary! Hongkong 11th January, 1918
are of "Daily Press
Care
Box 151,
Office. #[1824]
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HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE by voluntary enlistment. At the present time the Army consists of four million Co., LTD., Alexandra Buildings
men, the Navy of 100,000 men, and the Air Service of 125,000 men. From this it would appear that the wastage from all causes during the past three years and a half has amounted to something like two million men. Proud as we may legitimately feel of the magnitude of our efforts, only one aspect of which is reveal- ed by these statistics, this is not the time
FOR SALE
MUSCULUM, Barker Rond, 155, Penk.
Apply
DUNCAN CLARK, Lane, GrawforD & CO.
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the Shanghai Arsenal to soad 1,500 rifles and a. hundred cases of ammunition to King Chow. Owing to the difficulties of transport, however, it is doubtful whether thess supplics will reach Lung. THE UNION COUNCIL
The first meeting of the Union Council of the South-West Provinces was held in the Tuchan's yamen yesterday. It was very largely attended. Meetings will be held regularly when the representatives from the various Provinces have arrived. CHINESE LABOUR IN PRAKCE.
A small fire broke out early yesterday morning on the second floor of 123, Queen's Road East, used as a dwelling The British Consul in Shameen has house, The Fire Brigade attended, but its sent a dispatch to the Local Authorities, services were not required, as the outstating that the reports which have ap- break was quelled by the inmates and peared in Canton papers that Chinese the Police.. There was practically no labourers recruited for France are forced damage.
to go to the front are absolutely absurd. The Authorities have accordingly notifed Yesterday, at the Marine Court, before the newspapers concerned to correct the
reports.
The collection at the recent series of informal Recitala given by Mr Denman |Fuller in aid of the Prisoner-of-War
Fund have realized the sum of £58. By
kind permission of H.E. the Governor
THE PHILIPPINE CARNIVAL
The Philippine Carnival this year will be held from February 2nd to February 10th, and the entire proceeds will be devoted to the Red Cross Fund The folder issued by Messrs. Thomas Cook Son, the official passenger agents to the Philippine Government, shows that some striking attractions are promised, includ ing porta, dances, motor-car and flower parades, etc.
Mr. Denman Fuller will give a Pizno An amaby living at No. 7,“ A Block, Recital in the Ball Boom at Government Military Quarters, Kennedy, Road, has House on Monday, February 4th, at 9.15 reported to the Police that on Tuesday
p.m. in aid of
id of the same Fund (and also morning, a Chinese came to her quarters, that of the Ladies Emergenty Com and, ringing the front door bell, called mittee of the Navy League), when Mr. out that he wished to examine the water- W. McQuade will be the violinist. The service Immediately the door was open- programme will be of an entirely differented, be seized her by the throat and, nature, from those given at the Helena levelling a revolver at her, said May Institute and will include many don't want to hurt you but if you make popular and well-known pieces Tickets a moise I will kill you. Five other men (prics 83) may be obtained at all of the then made their appearance and, after music stores and the entire proceeds gagging her and binding her hands, they witzout any deductions, will go direct ransacked the house and made off with into the Funds which the Recital is in jewellery and money to the total value tended to benefit
of 9905