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P. M. HODGSON,
Hon. Secretary.
Hongkong, 7th May, 1918,
NOTICE.
CARVALHO & COMPANY.
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RTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that MR.
CASTRO has This Day CEASED to be the Manager of our Business at Hongkong and his authority to sign our Firm Name has been withdrawn.
Datod this 6th day of May, 1918.
CARVALHO & CO.
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NORTH POINT PUBLIC BATHING BEACH.
TH
THIS BEACH is now OPEN for the use
of the General Public.
The accommodation is free, with the exception of the reserved portion, for which
CHARGE OF TEN CENTS per person ia made.
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NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS ▼ TUESDAY, MAY 7TH, 1918.
THE HALF-YEARLY MEETING of Members Advertised to be held on SATURDAY, the 37th April, is unavoidably postponed until SATURDAY, the 11th May, 1018, at 12 o'clock Noos, at the Offices of the JOCKEY CLUB, on the Ground Floor of the HONGKONG CLUB ANNEXE, Chater Boad.
By Order,
T. F. HOUGH, Clerk of the Course. Hongkong, 23rd April, 1918. [1890
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIO CO., LTD.
No
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the TWENTY-NINTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING will be held at the Company's Offices, St. George's Building, on SATURDAY, the 11th May, at 12 o'clock Noos, for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors together with Statement of Accounts to 28th February, 1918, electing Directors and Auditore
TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will
CLONEDER of N Copril 7th
to 12 o'clock Noon May 11th.
By Order of the Board of Diretown,
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Agents.
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Hongkong, 20th April, 1018,
CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
THE THIRTY-SEVENTH ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the undersigned on FRIDAY, the 17th May, 1918, at Noon,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 3rd May to the 17th May, both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD,
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THE CHINA-BORNEO CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE FIFTEENTH YEARLY MEETING
KENNEDY TOWN PUBLIC BATHING SHAREHOLDERS of the above
BEACH.
Company will be held at the Company's Office, St. George's Buildings, at 11 a M, on
This BEACH is now OPEN for the use of FRIDAY, the 17th May, 1918, to receive a the General Public.
The accommodation is freo.
W. CHATHAM, Director of Public Works.
Public Works Department,
Hongkong, 6th May, 1918.
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An American Volunteer Tientsin is projected.
A barrel organ is being used in Tientsin to raise funds for the Red Cross. Tien- tsin also has a Tank.
world 1 Will they add to their happiness by conquest? Will the nations they con- quer work for the
Iced them, allow them to live a life of pleasure! The dream has been dreamed before many timen, and each time there has been a sad awakening. The Major of the Palace, the Emperor's slave, proves in the end the real sovereign, to become himself in turn the roi fainéant. It is difficult to shiper ere our own side so clearly, partly be
Three cases of cerebrospinal fever, and cause we are impatient of criticism, but one death from the disease, wete report even here some signs of thoughtlessness ed in the Colony, on Saturday, all the
Mr. E. J. Muller, of Shanghai, has been granted an English patent for his special method of building reinforced concreta
sufferers were Chinese,
CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
[FLOW CUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.}
“GOVERNMENT PERTURBED BY SOUTHERN SUCCESSES.
PERING, May 5th.
The Government is perturbed over the Southern Alco
successes. in recapturing Heng- yuan and Changtch. These successes are believed to be due to diaunion in the Government foreca
TUCHUNS AND THE ELECTION OF PARLIAMENT.
may be discerned. Dardanelles cxpedi- tions, adventures in Mesopotamia and
The Government is requested by elsewhere all show plenty of courage, not
Mrs Pollock informs us that the sum always preceded by severe calculation of 157 has been forwarded to Dr. clection of Parliament and thus satisfy Tucbuns to publish the data for the To enter on a bold adventure is one thing Barnardo's Homes as a result of donate Constitutionalists. when it follows profound calculation of tions during Lent and the sale of work. the cost, quite another when it is pre- An order for 50,000 pairs of leather ceded by little or no calculation at all. shoes has been placed with a Chinese It is true there is always a semblance of leather company in Hongkew, by Mr. calculation. Wait and see conveyed Sun Chit-men, deputy from Generat an idea of profound calculation. The Tsao Kun, Pacification Commissioner in public waited and saw those whom Lord Hupeh and Hunan, MORLEY describes as our distinguished apostles of Efficiency call to the
Paul Lakes, a German, ebarged at the
The election of President falls due August, and, preferably, this should be done by Parliament rather than by the National Council.
DANISH MINISTER AND JAPANESE LOAN.
It is reported that the Danish Minis- ter ia dissatisfied with the terms of
opposing party for aid. They brokMixed Court, Shanghai, on April 30th, the loan of two million dollars, secured
with being at idle, destitute person with- visible means of subsistence and with over to the Chinese authorities for intern- No employment, was ordered to be handed
ment.
down, or thought they had broken down, by reason of the force of circumstance, This may have been so, but the public thought otherwise, and thought otherwise of the Coalition Ministry which rose. from their ashes itself to be replaced by
The following attractive recommenda another band of apostles of Efficiency. tion of his wares devised by a Kornizowa Still old doubts arise After intense milkman is marely worth wide publicity asisevurations that there is the closest co- (writes the XC. Daily, Yewa) : * He operation, a Military. Coancif is deland- | says he sells only the purest milk express. ed as a necessity-us the one thing, ed from the best ox with the present indeed, whose absence has prevented us | care.!! from winning the war. Then everything
An an inquiry at the Mixed Court, is prepared. The enemy may attack Shanghat, on April 30th, into the circum. when he likes; everything is ready downstances attending the death of the rischa to the last gaa-mosk; but when the blow coolie who was mauled by the tiger which coines one has an uneasy feeling that escaped from Harmston's Circus a verdict everything was not ready. In places the
was returned of death from shock follow line had to be held by scratch forces
ing an assault committed by the tiger, hastily summoned-members of the Chinese labour corps and other stray. A motor car fatality occurred on Satur units. All honour to them for the stand day afternoon in Caine Road. Car No. they made. It was magnificent, but was 7 knocked down a little Chinese girl,
THE CHINA FORNEO CA. S. WATSON & it war? The Allies, dispatches informed aged six years whose parents reside at
W. G. DARBY, General Manager,
Hongkong, 2nd May, 1918.
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HOUSES TO LET
TO LET
ro. 1, CARNARVON ROAD, Kowloon, N1 EUROPEAN TWO-STOREY HOUSE, good locality.
Apply to
YU KAM HING, c/o Messrs JousSON, STOKES & MASTER.
$1958
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FLAT in Prince's
TESIDENTIAL
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2. TO LET.
MMEDIATE entry, Four very desirable
have left the Godown, and all Goods remaining MMHOPS, situated in Ice House Street, undelivered after noon the 26th inst. will be opposite the Grand Hotel, recently recon- particulars spply
subject to reat
structed.
No Fire Insurance whatever will be effected. Consignees of Cargo must produce Import permit signed by the Superintendent of the to Imports and Exports Office before Bills of Lading can be countersigned by
THE RANK LINE, LTD, Agents,
AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE. Hongkong, 6th May, 1818.
LOST.
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FN Kowloon, a LIVER and WHITE POINTER DOG, answers to the Name of "Max" Anyone found hereafter in possession of the dog, without reasonable excuse, will be prosecuted.
MR. E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA,
No. 1, Ormany Villas, Granville Road, Kewloom: [1909
WANTED.
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an EXFERT, European, Chinese or American, who has a thorough practical experience in the manufacture of glue from Hide unttings and bones. Good salary to a reliable man. Apply in the first instance with coples of testimonials,
MANAGER,
Care of "Dally Premi” Oflse,
1927.
NOTICE,
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.
#THE CERTIFICATE NO. 3051 for 38 Shares Nos. 11410 to 12445 standing in the books of the Society in the name of FRANCISCO DE PAULA "CEMBRANO late of Wimbledon, Middlesex, England, has been
ene month from the date hereof above
For rent and other
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MARRIAGES. EZZARAVITAt the British Consulate,
Shanghai, on April 20th, and after wards at No. 15, Mohawk Road, ISAAC, third son of the late Isso and "KATE EZRÁ, to Bom ManeUERITE, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs G. RAVIT, of San Francisco, m*, BAMPLINKEELLAt H.B.M. Consulate
General Shanghai, on April 30th FREDERICK STEPHEN, second son of the late Grange RAMPLIN and Mes RAMPLIN ̧ of Ballincdlig, Ireland, to FANNIE, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs N K, Shanghai, Homurang Unics: 10a, Das Varz Bon, Lowpon OfficX: 121,"FLOW Braunr," E.C
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, 7711 MAY, 1918
on the Telegraphs, which has been entered. into with Japan.
SALT SURPLUS: E-
A Salt surplus of 3240,000 will be hand. ed over by the Group Bankers to the Government on Monday, Monday,
CANTON NEWS.
[UT COURTESY OF THE '' CHUNG BEDI
HAH PO,
CANTON, May Eth.
THE MILITARY GOVERNMENT..
to discuss the change of the Military A meeting of the Special Parliament
Government was held on the 4th inst The meeting was attended by about so MP's and the resolution was passed by 14 against 28. Accordingly Generalissimo Sun Yat-sen has announced his resigna- tion of the position of Generalissimo. A COLLISION.
The Civil Governor's troops in Shui Hing came into collision with the Kwanger troups and fighting immediately commenced. Peace, however, was restin- ed after a few hours.
MILITARY MOVEMENTS,
Commander Nagai Pong-ping, who Participated in the battle in Yeung Kong, returned with his army to Canton yesterday. Over three regiments of Yunnanese troops have also returned to Canton from the Ko Chow front.
It is said that these Yunnan troops are to be
dispatched to the north borders, after they have received their supplies.
THE LUI CHOW: FİLONT.-
the world, were outmatched in Bambers No. 26, Shelley Street. The injured child by the enemy.
In the picturesque was immediately removed to the Govern- language of the correspondents, the Cerment Civil Hospital by the Police, but mans came on in '**
died two hours after admission. hordes. Sir DOUGLAS HAIG never uses the word in his dis The third annual report of the patches, nor do his descriptions of the Patriotic League of Britons Overseas German attack give any idea of the shows that the sum of £34,721, 139. ad. connotation of the word as applied to the was subscribed in China up to the end of enemy To him they only came on with last year, and that Shanghai headed the the greatest courage and determination." last with £14,125, 162, 11d Since the But, taking the word borde" as League was formed in October, 1914, the signifying only the immenes number of total received from the branches, which the Germans, it is rather surprising to now number 159, has been £136,813 18. find the PREMIES, under the stress of 2d., and 29 aeroplance have been present. Passing through Parliament a measure ed to the Government. likely to encounter opposition acknow
dgg that at the beginning of the in the Mixed Court, Shanghai, on April A most important judgment was given
offensive the Allied troops were in a 28, in which a Chinese was charged slight numerical superiority. Later, it
with selling opium without a licence. was stated that one of the danger points The Court decided that, is a by-law was where the British had reluctantly, atmust not be repugnant to the ordinary
A message from King Chow states that the request of the French, taken over a law, the ratepayors in 1915 had no Lung's troops are being sent to Lui Chow, part of the French line-reluctantly, he right to pass a resolution empowering the Numerous small gunboats are patrolling cause it involved the line being too thinly Municipal Council to suppress the set the King Chow cause, and all the forts held. This was promptly denied. ling of opium, which was at that time a people in King Chow are afraid that the are guarded by large bodies of men Tho Colonel ReessGTON declares the man:
perfectly legitimate business." power inadequate. The Times refuses to
island is to be raided by the lat Squad- ron. quarrel with its friends in power and dispenses with the services of the gallant Colonel, who thereupon vents his views in the Morning lost-and is fined for doing so. A few weeks almost days after, ships by the gunboat Shutsni, which, wards the Government introduces an swinging round, wrenched her naunder, urgent Bill for increasing the man power and she sonk in six minutes. She is said of the Army, ranning the risk of a revolu-
Latest news states that the ss. Kang Ewan, of the China Merchants SN, Co., will undoubtedly be a total loss. When off Hankow, she was struck nearly amid
It is reported that fighting still con-
are certain important cities still in the Uinues on the Lui Chow front, as there
hands of Lung's troops. The Tuchun has ordered the troops from Ko Chow. SITUATION OF KING CHÓW,
THE NAM HUNG - FRONT,
It is reported that Canton troops were recently defeated by Northern troops on the Nam Hung front, Northern troops are penetrating the city of Shui Kwan, which is expected to capitulate shortly.
LETTER FROM COLONEL WARD, M.P. WIDESPREAD AND CORDIAL
COMMENT
THOUGHT AND ACTION. GIBBON, in what Lord MoRRY regards TO LET
as one of his most desolating sentences, once described history as little more than TOUSES on Shame, Canton,
a register of the crimes, follies, and mis No. 67, THE PEAR, LUSTLEIGH.
fortunes of mankind. If that be the Apply to
case, then mankind has been making THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-history during the last three years with tion in framing its scope, and rushes it to be lying in 80-ft, of water, with only
MENT & AGENCY Co, Lap.
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a vengeance.
One would like to lay the help of the closure. Again, after There is no further news of Capt. Conley emphasis on the misfortunes and believe | fighting for three years in the closest co- with HARDY that man is but an automa operation the Allied troops have been at and the second and third engineers, who
last placed under one Supreme Comman were reported missing. ton, having no power of self-determi der-in-Chief. This is said to have given nation," in the political slogan of the confidence. If now, why not before at a
The Frawley Company are paying a time when there was a chance of break- day; but, unfortunately, there is onlying through The ceaseless, and inson return visit to Hongkong and will com A letter from Colonel John Ward, FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES in Kowloon. too much ovidence of the folly and the sate depreciation of the enemy with which menco their series of performances at M.P., to Mr. Cusack, which was quoted
crimes. The last have been referred to is no doubt intended to create an air of
the correspondents dispatches are filled the Theatre Royal on Monday, May 13th.in the Staffordshire Sentinel, has, save Apply to
“a moratorium of the Sermon on the confidence, but if our cause is a just one. It is not long since they were here be that paper of January 26th, struck the HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE Mount, but one wonders whether the te wo firmly believe it to be, do we need fore and the excellent productions for right note, and caused widespread
Co., LTD,
such sparipus encouragement? Is it not which they were then responsible have caving philosophy of the Sermon on the calculated to act rather as a narrotic certainly not been forgotten. During favourable and cordial comment. In the Alexandra Buildings,
Mount has ever really entered into men's than a stimulant? Thoughtlessness has the forthcoming season a number of new course of his letter Colonel Ward said -- hearts, whether the phrases were not displayed itself again in the demand for plays are promised, and if the same bigh
a Japanese expedition to Siberis, advo standard is maintained full houses murmured mechanically and the senticated by hot headed members of the should be the rules Booking is now open ments regarded as "too bright and good House of Cortimens, with no knowledge at Morrie's, for human antare's daily food." There within twenty-four hours," if the British.
of the conditions, as absolutely necessary At a meeting held in London on March ty, should be unceremoniously suppress- seems no one who is in a sufficiently com Empire is not to go down in ruin. This 10th (says the Z. & C.
& C. Express), Belgion, ed. The moment the race which has manding position to utter words of wis demand for thoughtless, action is even Russian and Polish women offered their adopted Militarism as its shibboleth
accompanied by a complaint that Britain dom to which the nations will listen. has failed in the past by taking too congratulations to English women whose and policy, and by their attitude have There are many cloquent preachers of much thought-thought for other nations enfranchisement would, they said, help forced it upon others, confess their error, the feelings. The best comment on the women of all nations to further progress or are compelled by force to see its courage, but the courage is not of the Siberian expedition question is afforded A Chinese lady proudly reminded the futility, I shall shout, as loud as any, right sort. It partakes rather of what by the action of Germany in demanding audience that while they were struggling Lay down your arms. But until that TRUCYDIDES called the courage that comes that the prisoners of war in Russia for the powers of citizenship Chinese, day, he who gives that ory is and must from thoughtlessness. Germany offers a ary propaganda stopped Germany republic She said that had the means which he is, however unconscious of the should be disarmed and their revolution women were helping to found a great be treated as an enemy to humanity. striking example of this kind of courage. evidently fears that if they did fight it of transit been better, Chips would have fact he may be. I would put him under Her men are dying like flies from theer would not be on the side of the Central sente delegation across 8,000 miles to temporary restraint, until the defenders Powers. Here is another lesson in the grost the new frezdom of England in n of the right have by their valour fadə lack of thought, for what will it avail necessity of caution. Whether it will be more stately manner a suggestion that the world a suitable abode for his them even if they conquer the whole learned remains to be seen.
entranced the meeting,
principles,
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C. MONTAGUE EDE, General Manager.
Hongkong, 10th April, 1918. [1879
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The man who talks peace, or even thinks peace while the evil thing they call Militarism threatens human socie