NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
INTIMATIONS
THE HUNGKUNG DAILY – PRESS. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 2621, 1918
HONGKONG GYMKHANA CLUB,
THE FOURTH GYMKHANA MEET-
E HAVE This Day REMOVED ourTING of the Sanson will be held at Why tomo Queen's Road Canil to ST. GEOROR'S BILDING, Ind HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, the Boor.
28th instant, commencing at 3.43 p.m.
"GOLDRING AND PHILIPS, Solicitors, &c. Hongkong, 23th September, 1918. [2457
PROPAGATA Importers anxious to ROPAGANDA BY CINEMATOGRAPH
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DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
LIMITED.".
THE ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above Company will be held at the Company's Offices at Noon on SATUR. DAY, the 19th of October, 1918.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED, from the 6th to the 19th
of October, both days inclusive.
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO. General Managers. Hongkong, 30th September, 1818. [9459|
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HONGKONG CHINESE RECREA
TION CLUB.
"AT HOME."
The Charge of Admission will be $1.00 for others than Members of the Hongkong Jockey Club or Gymkhana Club.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform free.
INTIMATION
A Calendar of
The Committee invite the Ladies of CELESTIAL
Hongkong to be present.
Hongkong, 25th September, 1918. [2451
THE CHINA-BORNEO CO, LTD.
NOT EXTRAURDINARY GENERAL
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN thai
MEETING of THE CHINA-BORNEO
NEWS,
The ordinary general meeting of the FAR EASTERN CABLE Douglas Steamship Co., Ltd., will be held at the Company's offers at noon an Saturday, October 18th.
Russina soldiers who made the Revalu- tion, it was not they who brought it into being; this was done behind their backs. They made the revolution in the sense that they had no inclination to fight for Tsardom. Conscription may prove a
In outlining the programuge for the dangerous weapon. - With
standing celebration of "Our Day, 1918," it was army of men who have been understated yesterday that the amount realised military training and military discipline last year was $24,000. This was an error, all their lives a ruler has a better chance the total sum realised having been of resisting change than he has with an $110,415 the equivalent in sterling of army drawn from all the people, prácti- | £15,100.
WATERWAYS cally co-extensive with the people, and by the circumstances only partially dis have found this out long ago in the pro- ciplined. The KAISER, no doubt, would
seat" war had not the idea assiduously fostered-taken such a strong hold on
Illustrated by six Photogravures
COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held at the and containing twelve Quotations
Offices of Messrs Oma LIVINGSTON" AND COMPANY Hongkong, the Registered Office of the St. George's Building, Victoris,
are named Company, on TUESDAY, the 1st day of October, 1918, at 11.30 o'clock. in the forenoon, when the subjoined Resolu
from the
tion which was passed at the Extraordinary "SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS
General Meeting of the Company held on the 13th day of September, 1918, will be submitted for confirmation sa a Special Resolution:-
same.
"That the new Articles already approved by this Meeting and for the purpose of identification thereof ubscribed by the Chairman thereof, ba and the
hereby "approved, and that och Articles *be and they are hereby, adopted as the "Articles of the Company to the "exclusion of and in substitution for "all the existing Articles thereof."
A copy of the new Articles referred to may be inspected by any Shareholder of the said Campany at the Company's Offices in. Hongkong, or at the Ofices of Messrs. JOBSSON, STOKE & Massan (the Company's Solicitors), as Prince's Building, Victoris aforesaid, on any week-day between the hours of 10 AM. and 4 F.3.
Dated this 13th day of September, 1918.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.
Agenta
[$416
HONGKONG JOCKEY OLUB,
THE HALF-YEARLY MEETING of
with six verses
on river and lake
written by famous.
CHINESE POETS,
Members will be held on TUESDAY, the 1st October, 1918, at 12.30 pa, at the A. Offices of the HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB, on MEMBERS and Friends are hereby the ground door of the HONGKONG CLUB
ANNEXE, Chater Boad.
that the Club's
STUNTEL
*Ar Houx,” postponed from the 21st instant, will take place on SUNDAY next, the 19th instant, at 4 P.M.
There will be Tennis matches between the Champions and the Rest in Division, B and C of the Hongkong Tennis League. Members and Friends are cordially invited to attend.
UN HEW FAN,
Ham, Secretary, Hongkong, 23rd September, 1918. [1450
KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. MEMBERS ANNUAL GENERAL EMBERS ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED MEETING will be held in the Club House on MONDAY, September 20th, 1918, at 6.30 P.M.!
BUSINESS:
Report and account for 1917-1918. Election of Offenrs for 1918-1919. General,
L J. BLACKBURN, Hon. Secretary. Kowloon, 19th September, 1918
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"KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB.
OPENING OF NEW GROUND.
A Report will be made at this Meeting as to certain proposals to substitate' spectators' standa for some of the Matsheda hitherto erected on part of the JOCKEY CLUB property and the adjoining Land.
By Order,
T. F. HOUGH, Clerk of the Course. Hongkong, 10th September, 1918 (2490
THE DAIRY FARM IOB AND COLD
› STORAGE CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE TWENTY-SECOND ORDINARY HOLDERS is the above Company, will be ANNUAL MEETING of the SHARE- held at the Company's Town Office, Lower Albert Road, Hongkong SATURDAY, the 5th day of October, 1918, st Noos, for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to 31st July, 1918
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 27th September to 8th October, 1916, both days incluziva,
By Order,
M. MANUK, Secretary.
Hongkong, th September, 1918. [2444
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Packed ready for posting,
Price $2.50
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CO., LTD..
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
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[YROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] EIGHT NEWSPAPERS SUPPRESSED.
PEKING, September 25th, Eight leading Chiese papers were suppressed on Tuesday for publishing
reports concerning new Japanese Joana. Similar action was taken against the Chiactung Newsagency, which supplied
Davies, K.C., has gone for
The Chief Justice, Sir William Recs the news. Police have summoned the
# week's editors and managora. cruise round the Island on the Govern ANOTHER TASK FOR PRESIDENT ment launch Stanley He is expected! back in the Colony on Monday next. Ho has abandoned his sanual trip to Wei-
WILSON..
A Peking paper suggests that President Wilson be asked to mediate between the North and South,
At the annual At Home of the Chinese Recreation Club 00 Sunday RENEWED ACTIVITY IN HUNAN. General Chang Ching-re reports the afternoon, when tennis matches between the winners and picked players from other { League teams will be played, the hand-resumption of rebel activity in Hunan. some shield to be awarded to the win- ning team will be presented by Miss Ventris...
At the Hongkong Magistracy, yester- day, Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe committed a
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
JAPANESE OCCUPY
BLAGOVESTCHENSK
The Press
LONDON, September 24th.-
Bureau states: The
the German people that they are fightinghai-wel owing to the uncertain weather. against aggression and for their inde- pendence. The time may come when the weapon so finely forged by the KAISER will turn upon his House and sweep it into the limbo of forgotten things just as the House of Romanoff has gone down before the weight of conscription. There is no doubt a great difference between an army well-equipped, well-fed and well- led and one which in facing the foe has to suffer under the misery of hunger,
Chinese for trial at the Criminal Sessions lack of ammunition and ineffective leadership. This would suggest that then a charge of manslaughter. The pro-Japanese Military Attaché "states that Revolution would not have come in secution alleged that he had a quarrel Japanese Cavalry &ccupied Blagovest- Russia had the army machine worked with a 16 year-old lad in regard to a loanchensk and Alexievsk on September 18th. Two thousand Austro-German prisoners of 4 cents, and, after striking the lad, smoothly, had there been no traitors in
pushed bim down a flight of stairs. The surrendered at Kokka on the right bank the camp, and had the Tsar been a man of the temperament and influence of the lad died in the Hospital shortly after of the Amur
wards. KAYSER. Yet at the same time it shows on what a delicate balance the Russian A football match will be played on State rested, how little was pecessary to November 9th, under the auspices of the destroy that balance and send the cour-Hongkong Football League, in aid of **Our Day" Fond. As there will be no try headlong to ruin. What was it that
Lack of "serious" football played this changed the Russian soldier from a defender of Tsardom into a destroyer 1sider the suggestion that the players in winter, the League Commistes might con- As the French Revolution was mainly the the Charity Match be asked to wear fancy work.of" a starving populace, so it may
A fancy-dress football match
& be that the miseries which the Russian
Hanarama Orsion: 304, Dan Virum Boan, C. LONDON DYEICH: 181, Frame Drame, EC.
The Baily Press.
HONGKONG 2013 SEPTEMBER, 1818
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Ir may be but an idle pursuit to indulge in fancies as to the course the Russian revolution would have taken had peace or even auch peace, as obtained at the time of the French Revolution-reigned
THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGA-in Europe when it broke out, yet there is MEMBERS ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED TION COMPANY, LIMITED.
that the OPENING of the NEW
GROUND will take place on SATURDAY,HAREHOLDERS are reminded of the
Beptember 28th, at 2.30 F3,
Member Friends sud Members of other Sporting Clubs are cordially invited to tend. The will be Cricket. Bowls and
Tennis matches.
L. J. BLACKBURN, "Hon. Secretary. Kowloon, 19th September, 1918.
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THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA
DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.
TOTICE IS. HEREBY GIVEN that the
NSHARE REGISTER and TRANSFER
BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 1st to the 5th October, both days. inclusive.
Warrants for the INTERIM DIVIDEND an be obtained at the Office of the Company, Queen's Buildings, on and after MONDAY,
7th October, 181".
By Order of the Bowed,
BM.DTER Chief Manage.
* Hongkong, 2ård September, 1918. "[2447
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fascination in such speculations that goes for to establish them as mentai MEETING of the COMPANY, to be held exercises not without benefit. The men on TUESDAY, the 8th day of October, 1918, who made the Revolution were, after all,
12 o'clock Noës, at the Uffices of Messrs.
not the Angrebisis and Socialists, but JARDINE, MATHESON & COMPANY, LIMITED,
soldier had to endure turned the scale. We all know the parlous position of Tsardom at the end of the Russo-Japanese War. It has been said that the Russians welcomed the war as again offering a chance for the wished for revelation, and that the mobilisation of the army was regarded as a means to attain this end. This in doubtful. No soldiers could have
costumes.
ought to be a great draw.
•
The Seamen's Hospital Society has for warded to the War Charities Committee Photographe of the tablet which has been placed in the Dreadnought Hospital at Greenwich in recognition of the support the Colony has given to the Society. The inscription on the tablet is as follows:-- *** To commemorate a donation from funds
EX COCKTESY OF THE “CHENG NGÔI
SAN.PO,"
PROPOSED LOAN.
PERINO, September 25th. Fung Kuo-chang has sent Wong Ki-man
a loan of £10,000,000. to negotiate with a certain bank regarding
ན་
LI TO GO TO PEKING.
Li Yew-hon has reported that he will proceed to Peking to give a report upon the situation in Kwangtung.
CANTON NEWS. ́
(BY COURTESY OF THE "CHUNG NGOS
CANTON, September 25th THE CIVIL GOVERNOR
We learn from a military source that publicly subscribed in the Colony of by the Hongkong War Charities Com. fed with the appointment of Chak Wong Hongkong and presented to this Hospital the King Wai troop leaders are dissatis-
mittee as a tribute to British seamen upon as Civil Governor. They argue that the whose steadfast bravery the Empire "deposition should be given to one of the pends."
prominent leaders in"Canton, A protest is being made and martial-law is being enforced, with particular strictness in
fought as the Russian soldiers fought in the earlier stages of the war who were occupied with another motive. They went forth to defend Tsardom, and when Tsardom forsook them they threw it over. The war precipitated events that were certain to happen sooner or later if there' were no change in the administration of WAR the country. If peace had been main- tained in Europe for another twenty or thirty years it is possible that the last of the Romanoffs would have maintained
the glories of his House till his death-bed. Everywhere in TOLSTOY's articles on Bussis are to be found suggestions that the end would come when the Russian soldier refused to obey, any "longer the voice of authority. His prophecy has proved true, under a cruel stress, indeed, but one, perhaps, not more cruel than that borne by the Russian peasant and That the populace for many years, reaction bas swept Russia off her feet for
BONUS TO GOVERN-Honam. MENT "SERVANTS?.
INCREASE OF TEN PER CENT
RUMOURED,
It is rumoured that the Government, which recently, voted a substantial house allowance to members of the Civil Service, proposes now to grant a general increase of 10 per cent, upon the salaries of all Government servants, as a war bonus, and that papers asking for the approval of the Secretary of State are already on their way Home.
1r,!,
The high cost of living, attributable,
Another message states that Li Yew-han has received instructions from Peking to protest against his dismissal by the Mili- tary Government. The King-Wai' troop Tenders have requested the M:Ps. and the principals of various societies to attend a meeting to discuss the situation.
"MISUNDERSTANDING."
The troops near the East Gate, owing to misunderstanding, came into conflict with the police there Fighting correct and the Police Station was attacked. Three policemen were wounded. Business in that vicinity was suspended for a time, bat order was soon restored. UN-TAL WOUNDEL.
We are informed that the leader Un-Tai, who recently headed the revolution" in by one of his supporters in Maced dispute arose over certain money affairs. Un was removed to a hospital for treat ment. JAPANESE ADVISERS.
No. 6, Pedder Street, Hongkong, for the the soldiers, and it is curious to reflect the time being is hardly to be wondered to the war and to the disordered state Heung-Shan, was fired at and wounded purpose of considering and if thought it that this was after they had been fighting at, or even that it has carried her into confirming a Special Resolution the Resolution set out underneath which was
on the side of Teardom with a valour the tyranny of freedom. passed at the Extraordinary General Most and determination unequalled" since ing of the Company bald on the 19th day of NAPOLEON's time. It has always to be September, 1918:—
That the regulations contained in the remembered that for some two years the
document submitted to the
A and for the purpose of Russian soldiers beld a large part of the
"identification subscribed by the Chair German armies on the Eastern Froutin
man thereof be and the samNG KIU
68
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thereof."
Dated the 20th day of September, 1918
By Order of the Directors,
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.
General Manager.
(8x10
Annual
A small
of China, created the feeling amongst those in the Government servico that it is the duty of the Government to do some thing to ameliorate the existing difficult One fatal case of cerebrospinal fever conditions, and it is therefore hoped that the war bonus will be something more was reported in the Colony on Tuesday.
than a mere 10 per cent. rise of salaries. The Supreme Court is undergoing its Among Government servants there is no spring cleaning at the bands of difference of opinion as regards the in- army of Chinese workmen. The creased cost of living, which it is no ex- aggeration to state has risen in the past The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice two years more like 30 per cent than Memorial and Afiliated Hospitals 10 per cent acknowledges with thanks the following In this, connection it is interesting to donations to the funds of the hospitals-note that the F.M.B. Government has Mr. Pong Wei Ting, $100; Mr. Tang Chi Ngong, 60; and Mr. Chan Chung Pang, 850.
. Ir
We are informed that the Administra tive Directors are proposing to obtain the assistance of certain Japanese politicians as Advisers to the Military Government.
A BIG FRENCH GUN. Germany having freely advertised her big guns, Allied experts were as a result allowed to tell the public that-the-Allies had turned out guns as large as the big- gest German production and had even surpassed it. Now the French Ministry. just decided to increase the percentagesing the Creusot 520 mm, (20.4 in.) san of War has issued a series of films show- of war allowance which has been paid to which was built to demolish the massives men in its service, as follows:-
German field fortifications. This gun in For men drawing less than $25 per the famous Krupp "Pat Bertha, as the larger in the bore by three inches than mensen, 20 per cent increase, instead of 17-in, howitzer was styled. Its shell is 15 per cent, as heretofore.
of enormous weight, though naturally no exact figures are given. The 20.4-in monster possesses a high degree of
"hereby approved and that much the face of difficulties which it seems. "regulations be and they are hereby impossible to overestimate. Ill-equipped
adupted se the Articles of the Company ill-applied, with more dangerous foes at Court re-opens on October 17th.
substitution for and to the axajnsion of all the existing Articles their back than any they faced, they were the unly one of the Allied armies to cross the enemy frontiers. They saved France from being overrun while Britain was yet in the throes of her mighty effort, and they paid a fearful penalty. All these brave men who gave their lives and suffered horrible tortures fought under the very TEAR whom they came in time to reject, and whose very rejection led to a monthly subscription of $5 from For men drawing over $25 per mensem their destruction as an organised body." W.J.D.," and a donation of 16 from the 13 per cent. increase, instead of 10 per mobility, and has undoubtedly caused The central idea was gone and there Chief of Amoy Fire Brigade (per Daily cent as heretofore, provided that in the terrible damage to the Germans. One of seemed nothing to replace it, and they press).
GBACA & CO.. No. 10, WYNDHAM STREET,
HONGKONG,
Dealers in POSTAGE STAMPS, SEEDS, VIEW POST-CARDS, TOYS,
&c.
!
The Treasurer of the Services? Enter tainment Fund acknowledges gratefully
י
guna.
case of officers drawing-between £300 and its earliest feats was the destruction of resolved into the civil life of the country though it was first believed that it £400 per annum, the total emoluments, spent months in fortifying. When finish- Fort Malmaison, which the enemy had from which they had been drawn. Their would not be possible to ran a Cricket including daty allowance and the war ed it was considered to be proof against effort, however, had not been wasted; it
prolonged bombardment by the heaviest League in Hongkong this winter, owing bonus, do not exceed £400 per annum....... had given time for the Allies to gird to the departure of so many players, it The war allowance in the F.M.8. where, Creusot was brought into position, and One day, however, the 20.4-in. themselves for the mightier struggle to is probable that a meeting will be held take altogether, the comparative cost of fred a single shell, which landed square- come; but naturally it was felt that early next month to discuss the matter. living during the war has not increasedly on Malmaison. Eyewitnesses declare Russia had deserted the cause, and to her It has been pointed out that the RG.A, to the same degree as in Hongkong-will eruption. When the smoke cleared away that the burst was like Yesuvius in GARDEN FERTILIZER. defection, has been attributed the cruel R.E., Hongkong C.C., Kowloon C.C.. be granted during the period of the war the fort was seen to have been absolutely sacrifices that Britain and Francs had Chinese R.C., Craigeagower C.C., and, and for six months after, provided that wiped out, tobether with its garrison. to make in withstanding the whole weight possibly, the Navy might be able to the High Commissioner is of opinion that pounding a church at a range of sixty- Distinctly a greater achievement. than of the German army. While it was the enter teama.
the conditions continue to justify it five miles.
Just Received
FLOWER AND VEGETABLE.
P. O. Box 610.
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