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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Nocnership hitherto existing between LATHAM an CHARLES REGINALD CHRISTOPHER LATHAY, trading ander the Firm
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both of Sings THAM & CO., has been and Style of dissolved by mutual consent xi from the 30th of June, 1918,
All Debts due to or he the above mentionel Firm of LATHAM & CO. will be collected or paid by the said HAROLD LATHAM, who will continue to carry on the Basines under the same Style and Firm aa heretofore.
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N INTERIM DIVIDEND of ONE DOLLAR (81) per Share for account 1918 will be Payable on THURSDAY, the 15th August, 1918, Shareholders A.CO requested to apply for Dividend Warrants st the Company's Offices, St. George's Build-
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CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
The following telegrams have been [BT COURTESY OF THE "CHUNG NGOI
occasion, but their preliminary condi- sions of peace, so that they may be pre pared to meet in a reasonable spirit apreceived by the American Consulate proaches that appear likely to be made in the near future.
He quotes General General, Hongkong, from the Manila Suys speech; of May 17th as finally
Observatory:- obliterating the theory of ending the
9 p.m., August 3rd. Typhoon in about 130deg. Long. E. and war by a knock-out blow," and as
20deg. Lat. N. moving W.N.W
pointing a way to the realisation of a
9.5 a.m., August 4th. Ladrone or Mariana Islands, moving Cyclone or typhoon N.W., of the
N.W. or N.N.W.
A THIEF SHOT. ANOTHER ARRESTED.
Three or four Chinese-believed to be.
THE CANTON GOVERNMENT, Tuan Chi-jui will ask the Powers cot- to recognise the Military Government in Canton,
MEETING OF THE SENATE. POSTPONED.
The meeting of the Senhts in Peking will be postponed, as there are only 208 M.Pa in Peking up to date.
A NEW ARMY TO OPPOSE THE
SOUTH..
Lung Yu-kwong (General Lüng's bro- thor) is leading a new army to the South from Tientsin.
victory permanently securing under Pre- sident WILSON's ideals relief from Ger man militarism. In that speech, which, though delivered at a time of great Buxiety, was couched in the most confident terms, General Seurs said it would not be necessary for the Allies to march to Berlin, which many thought essential. in order to annihilate the Bosche. That sort of victory, even if it were possible, long to a gang of pirates, who had been was entirely unnecessary. If we stood infesting the waters in Chinese territory, on the defence resolutely, calmly and and even in the extreme confines of confidently we should win. He did not Hongkong--attempted to rob a junk think an out-and-out victory was possible lying of Yaumati Bay on Monday. for, any group of nations, but at the The occupants were away at the time, same time he was convinced that the war' and the robbers managed to securo some would have a decisive result one way or booty. When they were making off the the other. We should have to use all master of the junk noticed them and fired our "diplomacy to bring the war to a two shots from a Winchester rifle. One victorious end. From that we gather robber, aged 24 years, received a bullet have broke into the San-wui district city that General SMCTs, who had previous wound below. the right breast. He was on the night of the 3rd inst., and ran- been deputed to hold "conversations" captured and immediately sent to the with the delegates of of the Government Civil Hospital. Central Powers, meant that we must robber was surrounded by the junk KIDNEY TROUBLES not neglect any favourable oppor people and arrested. The others are re
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A LETTER FROM THE FRONT GERMANY'S LAST BIG EFFORT.
The following is an extract from a. letter, dated April 28th, received by a well-known local resident from his son on the Western Front:
CANTON NEWS. [BY COURTESY OF THE "CHENG NGOI
SAN PO."],
August 6th.
WHOLESALE BRIGANDAOB.
It is reported that over 300 robbers
sacked over 200 shops and carried off more
than 100 merchants.
The robbers made
good their escape with booty worth up Business is suspended, and the gutes of wards of one hundred thousand dollars..
the city are closed. FLOODS.
It is reported that owing to the heavy rainfall during the past few days' there are ficods in various places. BERKING FOREIGN RECOGNITION.
Ting-fang and the other Controllers of A proclamation, signed by Dr. Wa the Union Military Government in sign Diplomatic Body requesting them to Canton, has been dispatched to the For
recognise the Military Government in Canton.
[FROM THE CANTON INTELLIGENCE BUREAT,}· THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
tunity of detaching from Germany ported to bave escaped, nay of her war-weary allies. He considered we had fought the war, up to a stage that the enemy was now ready to consider and concede terms. He thought, however, that it was a most dangerous. thing to go to a peace conference before we knew that our principal terms would be considered. The conference that would S. WATSON & ultimately be called would be one
settle the details when the principal.I was bad with gas; only an impossibility I'm quite fit now, but for a week or so corabatants were agreed as to the main to talk remains of it now-like, a bad Issues. There is no sign yet, however, cold when your voice goes. that Germany is ready to accept the terms
We are still in the line, of course, but which have been laid down by the Allies, the battery is taking a sort of breather ner is there likely to be if we are always and a general look round after a searching for a short-cut to peace instead strenuous a time as we've ever done.
The National Assembly reports that of showing that our determination is as I'm jolly gind, too, I was with the battery both Houses have now obtained a legif. great 13 our ability to continue, the and not on the staff.
quorum, The Senate, which requires 134 struggle until victory is achieved. To The battery is now in action in the members to constitute a quorum, has now make peace now when Germany has grounds of a gorgeous country house. registered and in attendance. 142. apparently triumphed but is really The gardens are lovely; just bursting House requires 299 members and now has tottering, when America bas only just into flower; up to a few days there had 330 Twenty more M.Ps. have telegraph. begun, and when Russia is in the deepest not been a shell near it and all the lawnsed from Shanghai that they have bookert aby of misery, would-as M. WINSTON were beautifully clipped and the paths passage on the Aorre Maru, and are dus CHURCHILL points out-brand our race and fower-beds were tidy and to arrive in Canton within a few days. for generations with a fictitious inferiori- kitchen gardens (where we now help our- ty and a sham defeat. "Yet that is sefven!), and the green-houses and hat houses were just as the owners left them. There is also s biggish piece of orna. mental water stocked with speckled trout and swans. It seemed an absolute sin to bring war into such a paradise. ''
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what Lord LANSDOWNE is obstinately beseeching us to do." His appeal, how ever, will fall on deaf ears. His fellow countrymen have not made their appall ing sacrifices of blood and treasure merely to obtain an inconclusive settle- "ment that will compromise the future of mankind." They are resolved to rid the world of the evils of militarism and to prove that Right'is Might. . To do this they have only to follow the advice of the Prime Minister and Hold Fast."
the
The
The members of the National Assembly aim at obtaining two-thirds of the total membership of both. Houses.
The main objects of the present session of the NationalAssembly are to pass the permanent Constitution and revise the laws governing the election of the mem
doesn't look like it at present.
I wish leave would open again, but itbers for both Houses.
AT SHANGHAI. SENTENCE OF A YEAR'S IMPRISONMENT.
I think the war is now in that state FORGED, PASSPORTS CASE where it will either be over by the autumn of go on indeḥnitely. Of course, the Hun is too clever to tire himself out absolutely against cur defence (in which cans, of course, he would be beaten in a few months). He is bound to hold a
Judgment was delivered yesterday. by
the Mixed Court, Shanghai, on July
Sir Havilland de Sausmarcz left Shang-certain number of men in hand with 31st, in the ease in which Otto Selke, hai on the 3rd inst. for Hongkong, where which to treat for peace when be finds formerly editor of the War, and Walter he will preside over the Full Court. of he can go no further. Then he will Rohr were charged in connexion with the Appeal.
either acknowledge himself beaten or we attempts alleged to have been made by
The judgment, which was read by ther Assessor, was as follows:-
Walter Böhr and Otto Selke: We find
LORD LANSDOWNE - AGAIN.
During Saturday, Sunday and Mon- shall have to show him that he is, which them to reach Germany by means of UNABASHED by the indignation which day the following cases of communicable will take longer, though it is so certain forged passports greeted his advocacy of a policy of com- diseases were notified in the Colony in the end. This is Germany's last big promise with our foes in the latter part of Bubonic plague, 2 (2 deaths); enteric effort, forced on her by a starving nation: last year, the Marquean, of LANSDOWNE fever, 2 (1 death); small-pox, 1 (1 death). You at home are not starving, though to "BOTORUA
has returned to his self-appointed and
have, to change your diet certainly is a having arrived from the above port, Consignem thankful task. NOTICE.
of Carge by her are advised that all his first letter on the subject he chose a of the War a special. service was held absolutely certain the German people are For the publication of On the occasion of the 4th Anniversary nuisance and discomposing and entails a certain amount of hardship, but I'm goods are being landed at their risk into the ANY EUROPEAN, Nom- Axatio of oihin sardous tad/ or extra hardoza Godowns or the womens vehen the outlook for the Allies at the Jewish Synagogue on Sunday, the
desiring to leave the Colony should Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. was overcast by the successes of the 4th instant, and a apply to person at the CENTRAL POLICE Ltd., here and or from the whares delivery Central European Powers in Ruexia and resulting in tas sum of $550 being sent collection was made, Eization between the bones of 9 am to 1 F.3. | may be obtained. and 3 za to 4 7.3. daily.
Goods remaining undelivered after the Italy in the one case by intrigue and into the Hon. Secretary, War Charities Pats will be
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Inst. will be subject to rent. or identification papers. sons with certain mereptions who presented to the Undersigned on or before was for the co-ordination of the war- All persons remain in the Colony for more than 7 days the 17th inst. or they will not be recognised. aims of the Allies with a view to assuring are required to Begiater, themselves under
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you guilty of the offences with which you are charged. We cannot accept the argu- ment that the passports which you used, as issued by the Bolshevik authorities in Vladivostock, were not documents in a legal sense. The word document covers any writing the words of which purport in themselves to carry legal consequences FUND
Such a document is rendered false if the Hastings, R.N.) gratefully acknowledges to have, is one which the person execute
effect, which the forgery makes it seçin The Treasurer (the Rev. F. Ɑ. B. the following contributions to the above ing it does not intend to produce, that is go Fund for the period ended th August:-- to say when it falsely purports to be
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Owing to the recent heavy rains traffic to be las in the Godowns, when they will be our focs of our sweet reasonableness in on the Kowloon-Canton Railway is inter- xamined on the 9th inst. at 11 AX, by the hope that they would be won over to rupted, as the track is covered in some Messen. Carmichael & Clarke.
No Fire Insurance is affected by the under the cause of peace and that thas the places with slides from the hills, and in signed in any case whalerez.
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ruin of the world" by the prolongation of others with water. It is not expected that
· ENOWMAN & CO the war might be averted. The British communication will be restored between
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people scorned the suggestion, which, if the termini for three or four days. acted upon, could only be regarded as a Lieut-Colonel T. B. Toke, Weise Regi Pringle.... PROPOSED SAILING
sign of weakness and serve as an encour ment, attached to the Bedfords, has been agement to an enemy, flushed with recent appointed a group commander of a HONGKONG/BAN FRANCISCO
triumphs, to redouble efforts. In the Labour Corps. He served in the China failure of the German offensive on the. Expedition, 1000, including the relief of THE Steamship
Western Front Lord LasaDowns thinks he Peking and Tientsin (medal with clasp), sees an opportunity of reviving the sub was attached to the Japanese Army, in ject under more favourable conditions Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese Now that "we are more confident than
War, 1904-6 (Japanese War Medal, Order over of our ability to hold our own in the of the Bagred Treasure, 4th Class) and deadly struggle he urges that the time the present war, in which he has boen is not inopportune for the Allies to mentioned twice in despatches and pro-
Sins, not "their
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Expenditure Balance
Total
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$1,062.88 802.18
$1,100.20
itself that which it is not. Nor have you correctly construed the meaning of mens rea. These words, for the purpose of the present case, are equivalent to intent," and you have admitted that you intend ed to, usa and did use these documents, which you knew to be forged, to enable you to escape from this country.
plea in mitigation and we find this
We have carefully considered your That you were alien enemies enjoying privileges of civilians in this country, and that to achieve your ends, which we have no wish to criticize, you abused your position and committed a breach of the criminal law. For that you must be pre- pared to pay the penalty. The sentence of the Court is that you be imprisoned for twelve calendar months, and there after bo handed over to the Chiness Authorities.