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GOVERNMENT BILLS, ETC. .. TENDERS for SPECIE and MEXICAN DOLLARS, current in this Colony, for Tolegethic Transfer, on the Lords Commission of His MarzSTY'S- TREASURY, London, up to and for the sum of £100,000, will be masived by the TREASURY CHEST OFFICER, ARMY PAY DE- PARTMENT, until 11 o'clock on the 22nd July, 1918,
The tender to state the total amount fin Pounds Stellagi. No Telegraphic Transfer will be made for lam than £100.
INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.
...MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 22ND
A AND HALF DOLLARS per Share
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of THREE
for the six months ending 20th June, 18918, will be Payable on FRIDAY, 26th July, 1816, on which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Company's Office.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from FRIDAY, the 19th, to the 26th July, 1918 (both days inclusive), daring which period no Transfer of Share can be Registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
A SHELTON HOOPER, Secretary, Hongkong, 10th July, 1918,
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THE WEST POINT BUILDING CO., LIMITED.
AN INTERIM DIVIDEND of TBREE
DOLLARS per Share for the six months
INTIMATION
WATSON'S
FRUIT
SYRUPS
great havoc in their ranks. The Crown PRINCE's Army cast of Rheing failed to penetrate the main defensive positions of General OGURAND'S force at any point and met with a severe reverse West of
1915
The China Mail Steamship Co, Ltd, FAR EASTERN CABLE have received advice that the sa. China, arrived at San Francisco on Wednesday
NEWS. last.
Lancashire Regiment, the famous Lanca Lient W. K. Tyldesley, Loyal North
hire cricker, has been killed on the western front. He played in his last county match at Old Trafford just before war was declared.
Rheinss, it is true, the enemy advanced on a front of twenty miles to a maxi depth of four miles, but they paid a very heavy price. They crossed tho Marne at a number of points between Fossoy and Dormans, but the operation involved appalling losses. A magnificent Commander Valentine Gibbs, who was counter-attack by the Americas complete-killed while commanding the Iris in the recent attack on Zeebrugge, served on the flagship Barfleur many years ago, as a midshipman, when that ship was on the China Station.
I regained possession of the south bank of the river in their sector, many hundreds of the enemy being drowned in their fight. By the second day the Crows PRINCE's great offensive, which' was named the peace attack" in anti- cipation of the far-renching results it was to yield, had died down into a
ending 20th June, 1918, will be Payable on A small quantity mixed with either series of local struggles. On the third
FRIDAY, 26th July, 1018, on which date application at the Company's Office, Dividend Warrants may be obtained on
casualties amounted
The tenders to be in duplicato, and in scaled covan, addressed to the TREASURY CHEST OFICER, ARMY PAY DEPART. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com Aerated or Plain Water makes a hundred thousand.
MENT nal endorsed "TENDERS FOR GOVERNMENT BILLS, Etc.”
The right to accept or reject any or all of the tenders is reserved.
Copies of Forms of Tender can be had on application.
Persons tendering for (Bills) are hereby notified that having regard to the provisions of the Acts 18 George TIL, Cap. 46 and 43, George 11. Cap. 53, the neeeptan a of any auch Temleris aubject to the expres condi. tion that nnMember of the British House of Commons sill be admitted to any share or part in or to any benofit to arise from the Contract tiroby mado for the allotment of Fuch (Billy).**
"The provisions in question do not apply to Contract entered into by any incorporated Company in its corporated capacity and sado for is general benoßt of the Company
F.JTHUNSBY PELHAM, Lt. Col.,
Treasury Cheat Officer, A.P.D.
His Majesty's Treasury Office, Hongkong 22nd July, 1918.
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GOVERNMENT BILLS, ETC.
ENDER! for SPECLE current in SHANGHA Į, up to and for the This of 800,000) outrank Shanghai, will be recefyd by the TREASURY CURST OFFICER, ARMY PAY DEPARTMENT, mtl 11.30 A. on the 23rd July, 1918. \!
pany
will be CLOSED from FRIDAY, the 18th, to FRIDAY, the 28th July, 1018 both days inclusive, during which period no Transfer of Shares can be Registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
A. SHELTON HOOPER,
Secretary,
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT
& AGENCY CO., LTD General Agents for the WEST POINT BUILDING CO., LTD. Hongkong, 10th July, 1918.
NOTION
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NY EUROPEAN, Non-Asiatico alabin
A desiring to leave the Colony should pply in person at the CENTRAL POLICE STATION between the hours of B AML 10 1 R.JE and 8 pm to 4'P.M. daily,joj⠀
Applicants will be required to producs Pasaporta or-Identification papers
d
All persons with certain exceptions who comain the Colony for more than 7 days
are required to Register themselves under REGISTRATION PERSONS
bo
ORDINANCE 1918.
delightfully refreshing
Drink.
Mrs. A. D. Hickling has been appointed to net na Medical Officer of Health, and Mr. J. L. McPherson has been appointed: to net as Secretary to the Sanitary Board, during the absence on leave of Mrs. D. A. M. Gale, or until further notice, with effect from the 17th July, 1918.
The donth at Nagasaki is annonced
day it was estimated that the German
to nearly one- On the fourth day the Franco-American troops, under the command of General MANDIN, Aasum. Summered the offensive from north of Soissons to Chateau Thierry, a distance of about 30 miles. No artillery preparation pro-was 50 years of nge, first arrived in the orded the attack, which was delivered Far East in 1883. For several years, he with such suddenness that the Germans was Chairman of the Committee of the were caught completely unawares. The Nagasaki Club.
results exceeded expectations. In six
hours an advance was made equal to
Made in great variety of double the distance covered by the enemy
a
Flavours.
PREPARED ONLY BY
Forms of Registration giving the parti. A. S. WATSON
sulare required - may be obtained at the G.P.O. and at all Folloo Stations.
The Penalty for non-compilation is a fine not exceeding 850
08
The amount accepted is to be placed by the P BLANTING PAKRO SEEDTAPE in Benderer to the credit of an account with easy. You do not have to replant or the HONGKDE AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, Shanghai, so as to be availablo on the 24th July, 1918.
Formone tendering to state.
The amount of Dollars current in Shang- hal per $100 for Telegraphis Transfer un the Lorda Commissionera of H.M. Treasury, London
·COVERS,
The tender to ho in duplicato, and in sealed:
addresad to the TREASURY CHEST OFFICER, EMY PAY DEPARTMENT. and endorsed "TENDERS FOR GOVERN ZENT BILLS, Etc."
The right accept or reject any or all of the tendars is reservoir.
Copies of Forms of Tender enn bo had on application.
transplant, because the cada germinate and are the correct distance apart.
GRACA & CO.,
No 10, WINDHAM ŠTRINT,
HONGKONG.
P.O. Box 620,
HOUSES TO LET
TO LET.
1845
Five Bath-rooms, Grass Tennis Court,
PEAK for a year Four Bed-rooms,
·Apply
E. POTTER, Prince's Building
(2232.
Parsons tafering for (Billz) are hereby notified that having regard to the provisions ofURNISHED HOUSE To Ho Let at the The Acts 22 Gerge IIL, Cap. 45 and 41, George III., Cap. 59, die acceptance of any ench Tender La subject to the express condition that no Member of the British Honse of Commons. shall be admitti to any share or part in or is asy bonafit to wise from the Conteak thereby made for the ailment of such (13ills),”
The provisions in
u question do not apply to Contracte anteed fato by any incorporated Company in it for the general bested capacity and made
of the Company
Any farther information can be obtained by personal appication to the TREASURY
CHEST OFFICEE, A.F.D.
F. J THURSBY PELHAM, Lt Col,
Tannry Chest Officer, A.F.D.
His Majesty's Treasury Office, Hongkong, and July, 1818.
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PUBLIO AUOTION. ARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of eloiseg by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 29th day of July, 1918, at 8 pm at the Offices of the PUBLIC WORKS Department, by Order of Hi EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, of Eight Loss ₫ CROWN LAND at Aber deen, in the Colony of Bengkong, for a šermu of 75 years, with the option of zanowal at CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Burveyor form of 75 years
TO LET.
+
PEND your Holiday at Maple Bay (26 miles from Duncan Slatin)
miles from Victoria, B., and four Let with Board in House on Sea. Bathing
ROOMS-To [
salmon fishing within stone's throw, Bosting and excellent cod, fist fish and
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M. R. SPRINGETT, Mapia Bay, B.,
Canada
(2226
TO LET. YOMMODIOUS and Centrally Situated NEW OFFICES, with lift, in the old Road Central and Ice House Street. Mercantile Bank Buildings, corner of Queen's
British Concussion.
Also in Canton House, No. 31, Shameen,
For rent and further particulara spply to DAVID BASSOON & Co., Lin,
BA, Des Vieux Road,
TO LET.
of HIS MASENZY THE KING, for one further HOUSES on Shameen, Cantou.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOTS.
Registry No.
Aberdeen
Wieland Lot
Boundary
(Approximate.}
6,270
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FLAG & SAILMAKER,
No. 1, De Voux Road Central, Top Floor,
HONGKONG.
Telephone No, 1833.
No. 67, THE PRAX, LUSTLEIGH,
Apply to-
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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.
MENT & AGENCY CO., LAD,
TO LEP.
No. 7, STEWART TERRACE, No, 23
THE PEAK Apply to
LINSTEAD & DAVIS 3rd Floor Alexandra Buildings. [1088
TO LET.
CO.,
LTD.,
HongKong Dispensary,
TEL: 18
(18
BIRTH.. HUTTON At the British Legation, Peking, to Marjory (née Price), the wife
of Commander ILLTYD A STEWARD HUTTON, R.N., Naval At- Laché, a daughter.
DEATHS,
in the previous three days. On the left
wing the Allies captured the high plateau overlooking Soissons from the south-west and either eat or brought under fire, the Soissons-Thierry highway, which in the main feeder of the enemy front on the Chateau Thierry sector, and the So15)
Villers Colteress railway, which links up the enemy forces north and south of the Aigne. The enemy's position in this salient is thereby seriously jeopardised, and his offensive in the neighbourhood of Rheiras brought to a speedy and inglori ous end. No fewer than 16,000 prisoners have been captured, besides considerable material. The Americans, we are told, fought like veterans and wtre irresistible. The whole operation is regarded as one of the most brilliant pieces of work in the war, and, in the opinion of Mr. Hugues, the Premier of Australia, marka
the beginning of the end."
Singapore has declared Hongkong an infected port.
The Hongkong Automobile Association is exempted from registration under the Bocieties Ordinance
(FROM OUR OWN CORTESPONDENT-]
GOVERNMENT UNABLE TO MEET ITS FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS.
PEXING, July 20th-
The Government, unable to meet the repayment of the first Reorganisation dollars due, have applied for an exten- Loan, of which there is ten million sion of a year, which has been granted.
Seven Kirin representatives waited on the Minister of Agriculture and tear- fully implored that the Forest · Lona might be cancelled. The Minister replied. that he was unable to act.
THE MURDER OF A BRITISH MISSIONARY,
The British Authorities insist that a representative attend the trial of the
Chinese murderers of the British mission
nocordingly, yields.
of Mr. A. Jordan, Senior Superintendent Mr Graham, The Walebiaopu, for the Far East of the Great Northern Telegraph Company. Mr. Jordan, who
An additional gift from Manila of one La Insular Cigar Factory through the case of tobacco cuttings, presented by the
Acting British Vice-Consul, Manila, has been received by the Hongkong War Charities Committee for forwarding to London for distribution among the wounded in hospitals.
RAIN STOPS FIGHTING.
Northern Generals to
The Government has ordered the commence tha attack on the Southerners. Tunchow and Chenchow should have been attacked on the 20th inst., but General Chang-chi Therefore, it is impossible to carry out reports heavy rains in southern Hunan. these designs.
CHUNG NGÓI
[BY COURTESY OF THE
SAN PO."
SOUTH EREPARED TO DISCUSST
PEACE.
wired to Peking that the Military Gov
It is reported that Liang Shin-yi has erniment and the Special Parliament in Canton are prepared to enter into peace
NO. 10411 Battery Sergeant Major (temporary Regimental Sergeant Major) F. R. Mulhall, R.G.A., who, before the war was a N.C.O, in the 88th Company, R.G.A. and the Hongkong and Singapore Battalion, R.G.A in this Command, has negotiations. been awarded the Decoration Militaire by the King of the Belgians.
SHUM'S OBJECT.'-
The President in an interview states North China British Volunteer Corps Funity of the North and South in Canton. At the Headquarters in Tientsin of the that Shum Chun-huen is working for the
ioned officers and men gathered to take recently, a number of the non-commis
formal farewell of Captain R. C. Wills, who is shortly leaving for Home after two and a half years' service ni Adjutant of the Corps It was announced that a draft had been remitted Home and Capt. Wills was requested to select a suitable gift from the Corps
enteric, on May 24th, the day after his The death occurred at Aden, from
promotion as Colonel had been gazetted, of Colonel F. A. Don, who was in Tien. tsin for several years with his family, keeper in the King Alfred, Sir A. W., on the outbreak of war, accompanied Moore's flagship, when it was on the the British Expedition to Tsingtao, China Station.
being mentioned in despatches for
ARMSTRONG-Suddenly, of pneumonia, in
Lieut. Commander G. A. Luscombe, re- Montreal, on May 20th, Oscan Mcently reported killed at sea, was a watch. ARMSTRONG, engineer, and late of the Standard Oil Co., of New York, aged 32 years PIRYA, La Roche Bernard, Erance, on July 16th, TUROPHILS PIRY, formerly Pontinaster-General, China.
HONGKONG Uvich: 101, DE VIUT ROAD, C. LONDON OFFION: 181, FLAT START, EC.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, 2ND JULY, 1918
ON
Mr. W. N. Scott, who was formerly with Menare. E. D. Sassoon & Co., of Shanghai, has been promoted Captain and is now in command of the 174th Chinese Labour Corps.
uch
PROPOSED CONFERENCES.
The State Department is preparing to start economie, military, and foreign- policy conferencze,
INTERVENTION IN SIBERIA. The Cabinet has commenced to discuss the question of intervention in Siberia.
THE PRESIDENOY.
The Anfu Society has decided to elect su Sai-chang the President and Tan Chi-jui Vice-President, so that the latter declines to assume office, sta may have the Presidency if the former
announced that he and others will accept Tong Kai-kas, Tuchun of Yunnan, has
peace if Li Yuen Hung is restored to the
changed.
ATTACK ON SWATOW.
The Stewards of the Shanghai Race his work in connection with the transport. Presidency and the unlawful Cabinet is Club have decided that the Autumn 1918 To his bitter disappointment he was Race Meeting is to be held on Monday.. I ordered to return to Tintain when the Tuesday and Wednesday, November 11th, British and Indian troops which had 12th and 13th:
fought at Tsingtao were sent home. On
Li Howki, the Tuchun of Fukien re- his return, he held a number of appointmenced the attack on
ports that Northern troops have com ments, being Staff and Intelligence Swatow.
Chiu-chow and Officer to the North Ching Command, Paymaster, and, for a few months, Ad jusant to the Tientsin British Volunteers When his long-expected transfer came it was for service in India, where he spent a year or more organizing Camel Trans- Very sincere sympathy will be felt for port for work in the Aden Hinterland.
Mrs. Don, and her two little daughters, in their bereavement.
At the expiration of three months from to-day's date the Japan Gazette Co., Ltd., will, unless cause is shown to the con- trary, be struck off the Register and the Company will be dissolved.
(THROUGH REUSER'S AGENCY-]
AMERICAN SHIPPING CONTRACTE FOR CHINA
TURNING THE TABLES
THE WESTERN FRONT ALTHOUGH many herce battles are likely to be fought on the Western front during the ensuing three months we can look forward to the issue now with greater
WASHINGTON, July 18th The American Shipping Board has confidence than was possible in the early Spring, for, thanks to the remarkable dimacos were notified in the Colony on
given the Chinese Government yard at The following cases of communicable
Shanghai contracts for four cargo boats speed with which American troops have Friday:Cerdbro-spinal fever, 2
A very pleasant evening was epent of 10,000 tons each and
taken
options been transported to France since then, deiths); bubonic plagne, 4 (2 deaths), when the members of the 25th Middlesex Thirty-five thousand tons of steel will
(2 on Saturday night at Mount Austin, for the building of 80,000 the Germans no longer enjoy their former All the sufferers were Chinese.
more tona. numerical advantage. The collapse of the
Sergeants Meas entertained a large be shipped from America, but the offensive which the enemy launched on
number of their friends at 's most enjoy engines and other fittings will be built. able smoking concert, The excellent in China. arrangements, which made the evening such
SIBERIAS SEVERAL a success, were carried out by CQMS. Bentley and C.Q.M.S. Tatham, B.S.M.
GOVERNMENTS. Gordon · occupied the chair, and the
WASHINGTON, July 15th- musical items were many and various.
The Daily Mail's Harbin Correspond- Major F. J. Browne, Capt. Padfeld, ont states that General Horvat's Govern- Licuts Eastman, Jeffries, Dickenson, ment includes Cadets, Liberals, Socialists, McD. Watson, and Cooper arrived during the evening. Major Browne announced and all who are prominent in the corn- that Lieut. Colonel J. Ward, M.P,mercial, industrial, and agricultural life. C.M.G., very much regretted that sickness following contributed to the programm: prevented him from being present. The
General Horvat is bead of the Chinese Sgt Blaker, Mr. Regt. Sgt. Payne, Eastern Railway. His own Government Mx. Regi; R.Q.M.S. Moorby, Mr. Regt. GERA. Smale, R.N., CER.A. Lovell, must not be confused with the so-called BNC.Q.M.S. Bently, Mr. Regt. Sgt. Government of autonomous Siberia, Davis, R.A., Sgt. Hunting, Mx Best which the Bolsheviks dissolved and whoss Sgt. Craggs, Mx. Regt,; 0.0. Jenkins,
Mr. C. H. P. Hay has been appointed a front of nearly sixty miles east and to net as Assessor upon appeals to the west of Rheims last Monday, followed by Governor-in-Council under the provisions the success, of the brilliant counter-stroke of the Leneral Military Service Ordi which General Foca delivered on Thurs nance, 1918, in the place of the Hon. Mr. day with such, dramatic suddenness on P. H. Holyoak, the flank of the enemy salient between tha Aisne and the Marne is a welcome sign of the new conditions. The Germans get
Mr. P. F. J. Wodehouse has been ap pointed to act as Captain Superintendent out with the object of securing the whole of Police and Mr. T. H. King to act as of the right bank of the Marne from Deputy Superintendent of Police during Chateau Thierry to Chalons in order the absence on leave of the Hon. Mr. C. that the river might serve as a shield for Mel Mester, or until further notice, with their uncovered flank in the final march effect from the 17th July, on Paris. Instead of achieving this they Replies to telegraphic application for find themselves placed in a very pre permission to export restricted goods Apply to:-
carious position. From first to laat must be paid for. The Superin HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE pletely by surprise. Their preliminary is, therefore, authorised to require they appear to have been taken comtendent of Imports and Exports
Co., I
bombardment on the night of the 14th applicants for such permission to pay to inst. was forestalled by the French, whose him the sum of $7.50 in addition to the counter-preparation caught them as they cost of the homeward telegram, as from were massing for the attack and wrought the 1st prox.
A SHOP In Nathan Road, Kowloon,
Alexandre Buildings
$000
of Siberia,
E
Regt.; C.QM.S. Tatham, M. H.N; Sgt. Wellings, Mx. Regt. Lient leader, M. Dedber, has his beadquarters Cooper, Ms. Regt., C.S.M. Blocombe, in Regt. Sgt Rolfe, Mx. Regt; 8-Sgt.
railway-car at Harbin
Lyth, A.S.C.; Sgt. Maj. Flint, R.A.M.C... Nikolek Government, which is negotist- Another Socialist Government is the Bergts. Payne and Leigh were very able ing with the Cacho-Slovaks before pro- Sgt. McKechnie, B.A.M.C., and others.
claiming itself.
sccompanists