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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6,
Notices of Firms.
NOTICE.
THIS YEAR'S CAMPAIGN,
WILL RUSSIA DEFEAT JAPAN NEXT SPRING?
THE IMPERIAL BANK OF CHINA.
I'pointed out the other day, says the military correspondent of the St. James's Gazells, that Have this day Resumed Charge of the the delay on the Sha-ho eminently lends itself
HONGKONG BRANCH.
to the Japanese plan for carrying on her war with Russia. On the other hand, it is an un- avoidable necessity for the Russians, entirely [103 apart from their hope that the arrival of the Baltic fleet, if too late to save Port Arthur, may effect a serious diversion in the rear of the Japanese army.
FROM
E, W, RUTTER, Manager.
5th January, 1905
WANCHAI STORING CÓ
ROM 1st January, 1905, we have Ceased to be AGENTS for the above Company.
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. Hongkong, 5th January, 1905.
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NOTICE.
In
HE Business heretofore carried on THE
Hongkong under the name or style of
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numbers of midshipmen graduated from the Naval Academy in time will partially, relieve the situation in the lower grader, but more Lieutenant-Commanders and Lieutenants ara needed than existing laws provide?
Because of the important part played by torpedo craft in the war in the Far East it is deemed advisable that the larger vessels of this type be commanded by Lieutenant-Com- manders. To illustrate how much older the Captains of the American Navy ate than those of foreign navies the report says the youngest American commander, on the day he attained that rank, was older than the average age of Japanese and about the
the average
of English and German Captains. He had passed the compulsory retirement age for Japanese Cap tains, and was within sixteen months of the compulsory retirement age for. German and English officers. No'specific remedy for this is offered, because Admiral Converse feels that if the need be recognised by higher authority satisfactory means may soon be devised.
sane
经想
1905. Intimations,
GOVERNMENT BILLS.
"TENDERS for SPECIE, BRITISH and MEXICAN DOLLARS, current in this Colony, in Exchange for Sterling Bills drawn at to days' sight on the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, London, will be. received by the Chief Paymaster, Anny Pay Department, until 11 A.M., on the 9th January, rgos.
The Tenders to state the total amount (in Pounds Sterling), and the amount for which each Bill should be drawn, but no Bills will be issued for less than £100.
covers, addressed to the Chief Paymaster, The Tenders to be in Duplicate, and in sealed Army Pay Department, and endorsed "Tenders for Govemment Bills."
The right to accept or reject any or all of the Tenders is reserved.
Copies of Forms of Tender can be had on application.
F. H. HAYNES,
Colonel, A., F. D, H.M. Treasury Chest Officer,
The future plans of General Kuropatkin are now based upon the formation of three distinct armies in imitation of the enemy's 'disposition, under Kuroki, Oku, and Nodzu. Each is to consist of 150,000 men when complete, by which means the Russiaos hope to have half a million of men in the field by the spring. But many of the existing cadres have been so wrecked and shaken by their late heavy do feats that the prospect of bringing them up to the anticipated standard of strength and re-
The authoristion by Congress of two Vice- quisite morale by April next requires a good Admirals is urgently recommended, in order deal of sanguine anticipation, and leave out that flag officers may not be beneath foreign His Majesty's Treasury Office, of account the probability of further heavy officers holding inferior commands. "It is losses in the present field army from batile and manifestly undesirable,” says the Admiral, [89
disease before spring arrives. For it must be for our flag officers to be beneath all others remembered that in April-May the great melt-in the matter of precedence in international ing begins when the whole country becomes | affairs with which they have to do as repre- a vast bag, followed by the great July-sentatives of the United States." It is there- August rains, when operations will be exceed fore recommended that the rank of Vice- ngly difficult, it not impossible. While, there- Admiral be conferred upon the officers detailed as Commanders-in-Chief of the North Atlantic fore, conditions are best from October to April, Oyama is certain to strike as hard as he can before the latter month.
TURNER &' Co., been transferred to Messrs. GIBB, has LIVINGSTON & Co., by whom the same will be carried on in future under their own inute.
TURNER & Co. Hongkong, 2nd January, 1905.
NORTHERN ASSURANCE COMPANY, FIRE AND LIFE,
"ONSEQUENT on the closing of the Firm of Messrs. TURNER.& Co., the Under- signed have been appointed AGENTS for the above-named Company, and are prepared to accept First-class Foreign and Chinese RISKS against FIRE a current Rates,
Also 10 accept proposals for LIFE ASSURANCE,
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co. Agents. Hongkong, 2nd January, 1905.
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Now for Japan's plan of campaign. This, we may take it, is at last clear enough--namely, to fight out the struggle as near to the sea as possible. And in the pursuit of this wise scheme she probably does not desire to advance much beyond Mukden, nor to see the Russians retire far to the north of that point, except as a routed army. Two things have strangely as THE Interest and Responsibility of Mr.sisted her plans-the magnetic influence of TRORET KEN NAWAY LEIGH in
Port Arthur upon the Russian Army, and the our Firm CEASED on 31st December, 1904.
loss of prestige which the Russians believe LEIGH & ORANGE.
they would suffer were they to retire beyond Hongkong, 1st January, 1915.
NOTICE.
R. OUGH and been admitted PARTNERS in nur Firm which will continue to carry on business under the style of LEIGH AND ORANGE.
MR MARTHUR HENRY Save this and
Houses furnished completely.. Upholstering done by experienced workmon under European super- vision on the shortest notice.
Estimates--free of charge,
GENTLEMEN'S OUTFITTING ESTABLISH- MENT:
28, QUEEN'S ROAD,
OPPOSITE THE CLOCK TOWER,
LEIGH & ORANGE, Hongkong, 1st January, 1905.
NOTICE.
Mukden.
Now, in order in ensure the success of such a plan, Japan must be prepared to
place in the field month by month fresh forces, which will not only make good ber cerrent casualties but will always give her an equivalent or greater strength than ber [B5 enemy. Can she do that? For, if so, she can with her fortified mountain region behind her, continue to fight and defeat her enemy as suc- cessfully as hitherto at a comfortable distance from her supports and bases of supply, while she undertakes, after the fall of Port Arthur, any diversion towards Vladivostok that suits
R. BANDOW has been admitted a
MPARTNER in our Firm.
MELCHERS & Co,
Hongkong and China.
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Hongkong, 1st January, 1905.
NOTICE.
tion.
TE have this day authorised Mr. A, M. DA CRUZ to Bign our Firm per procura
BARRETTO & Co..
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Hongkong, 2nd January, 1905.
NOTICE.
her.
Thai Japan can maintain such numbers is now certain, and, although eanguine Russian estimates affect to believe she has touched the bottom of her resources, saner forebodings are
beginning to be heard. The truth is that Japan's resources of men are practically in- exhaustible, and long ago, with that invincible prescience of hers, she prepared a scheme under which new levies can be completely trained and disciplined in three months. Her recruits, hardy, intuitive warriors, possesses an HE Interest and Responsibility of the late infinitely higher fighting value than Russia's JAMES PARK WINGATE (deceased) ignorant desponding peasantry, badly fed, and, in our Firm ceased on 31st December, 1904.
as Kuropatkin has himself complained, TAIT & Co.
oblivious of all they ever learned with Amoy, 1st January, 1905,
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the colours. Moreover, Japan possesses a magnificent reservoir from which to draw trained and efficient leaders, in ber splendid non-commissioned ranks, leavened with men
Intimations.
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
R. RUTTONJEE begs to announce to Mis numerous customers that his Bakery in Kowloon being burnt down, he has Dress Shirts, Zephyr Shirts, Flan-hired another in a healthy part of the town, where BREAD will be baked and prepared nel Shirts.
ander his usual personal supervision and thus ensuring, to his numerous patron, the cus Fine Cashmere Half-hose-embroi-Jomary supply of the same wholesome Bread made of the finest four and materials, that he dered or plain.
has all throughout supplied,
Customers are kindly requested to send their orders as usual.
Stook Ties, Sweaters, Mufflers. Hose for Golf or Shooting. Light, medium and heavy weight
Overcoats.
Check Flannel, Knitted Woollen
and Cashmere Waistcoats.
Bowler Hats, Soft Felt Hats.
Golf Caps, Motor Caps.
Panama Hats.
Black and Brown Glace Kid Boots
and Shoes.
H. RUTTONJEE.
No. 5, D'Aguilar Street. Hongkong. No. 37, Figin Street, Kowloon, Hongkong, 4th January, 1905.
NOTICE:
of high intelligence and standing, perfectly fitted to perform the duties of the ranks above
them. Russia has no such resources. The reserve officers she is now calling up are as ignorant of soldiering as the peasants they will lead, and were it not for her fine artillery, she' would be in evil case indeed.
Japan, therefore, has little cause to fear the boasted Russian glacier of 500,000 such men which is to roll southward in the spring. Everything depends, of course, on Togole ability to cope with the advancing Baltic Fleet, and upon this the earnest attention of the world and the Russian Army is centred.
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and Asiatic fleets, and that the law reviving this grade provide that "no officer shall hold the rank of Vice Admiral in either the active or retired list except while exercising such command, until he shall have commanded a fleet as Vice Admiral-
for two years or else as a flag officer for three years altogether, at least one of those years an a Vice-Admiral,” and that officers may not, as they retire, be promoted to the grade of Vice-Admiral.
Attention is called to the indispensability of cruisers, the report saying: "We require a cruiser squadron in the North Atlantic, South Atiantic and the Caribbean, and also on the European station, all these being ready on the approach of hostilities to combine in one fleet
wherever needed, in the pace is one feet
should consist of a large squadron of cruisers, and on the Asiatic station the battleships thould be supplemented with a full squadron of cruisers."
battleships and the part played by them in the Regarding the paramount efficiency of the
Far Eastern war, Admiral Converse says: "Although a hundred and more torpedo-boats and destroyers have been actually engaged for five months against battleships, which have been exposed to attack times without number, we have yet to learn authoritatively of a tor pedo from a torpedo vessel causing the loss of a single battleship. Those which have been sunk owed their destruction to submarine mines anchored or broken adrift, torpedo vessels not contributing to the result except by the confusion and sense of greater danger due to their presence. It is evident that in the final. summary of losses the achievements of torpedo vessels will count less than was at first supposed. It cannot be claimed, therefore, that there has been so far anything to discredit the battleship as a type; nor is any such out. come to be expected from this war, whatever
may be the casualties among the battleships. To wage successful warfare with a naval force requires now, and it has required in all ages, m type of vessel which shall combine in the most effective
manner the qualities of offence, mobility, defence, endurance, self-maintenance Such vessels are battleships, and they con- stitute the main strength and reliance of a navy."
Early in the report Admiral Converse calls attention to the need of a general staff on board, "an advisory body which shall not be under the control of any bureat, but responsible directly to the Secretary,"
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ING SALOON AND VARIETY STORE may be sent to J. T. TAVARES, at 28, Marrison Hill Road, during the month of January, 1905.
VICTORIA HAIR DRESSING SALOON.
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F. BLACKHEAD & CO., SHIP-CHANDLERS, SAILMAKER · COAL AND PROVISION MEF,
Washington, Nov, 23. How badly off the U. S. Navy is for officers and how seriously this condition may affect the Navy and the nation is told in the annual
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Intimation.
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INFORMATION has been received from the
Military Authorities that GUN PRACTICE CHAZALON & CO. will be carried out as under :-
Pinewood Battery, on 9th and 11th January, 1905, in a North-Westerly direction, at ranges from 3,000 to 6,000 yards. Saiwan and Pok-sha-wan. Batteries on 13th - January, 1905, in direction of the entranca to Junk Bay, at ranges from 2,000 to 6,000 yards, and 600 to 4,000 yards, respectivaly. If the weather is unfavourable on either of the above dates, Practice will take place on the following day.
Practice will commence on 9th and 11th at 9 AM, and on 13th at 9.30 AM., and finish at II A.M., if the range is clear. Practice from Pak-sha-wan will commence on the conclusion of that from Saiwan.
All ships, junks and other vessels are to keep clear of the range.
L. BARNES-LAWRENCE, R.N.,
Harbour Master, &c.
Harbour Department,
Hongkong, 31st December, 1904.
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A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED. Established 1841. AERATED Water ManufACTURERS,
7E
NOTICE.
beg to notify Customers that from 1st January. 1905, Separate Accounts will be rendered for Aerated Waters.
An inclusive charge will be made for Waters and Bottles, and full credit will be allowed for
mates when returned. empties.
(R. PÉREZ & CO.)
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AND
GO TO
THEIR STORE
AT
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Orders for Aerated Waters should be Hongkong, 31st December, 1904, addressed to
A. 5. WATSON & CO., LIMITED, Aerated Water Manufactory,
Des Vœux Road Central.
PRICE LIST:
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Per Doz. $1.70
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An inclusive charge will be made for Waters and Bottles, and full credit will be allowed for empties when returned,
Orders for Acrated Waters bould be
7/11 7/16 addressed to
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SUPPLY CO.
BARRETTO & Co., General Agents, Hongkong.
PORT WINE, Direct shipment from the
COMPANHIA AGRICOLA E COMMERCIAL DOS VINHOS DO PORTO, (Successors to DONNA ANTONIA A.FERREIRA),
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Monopoly for China of THE WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO.
Per Case of 1 Doren..
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Soda Water Soda Water in Bombay Bottles Potash Seltzer and B.P. Soda
$1.70
100
10
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Quinta do Porto Dry No. 3 Quinta da Granja Tawny, 1887, Vintage Tawny, (White Label).......... Medium Tawny, (Brown Label) White Tawny, (White Label)
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1.80
11.00
White Tawny, (Brown Label)
10.50
Lemonade...
1.80
Light Tawny, (Brown Label)
10.00
Tonic Water
1,80
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1.95
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1.95
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report of Rear Admiral George A. Converė, Į; 4 months' sight LJC. Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, approved by Secretary Morton today, Experience, especially in gun fire, Admiral Converse says, has shown that it is necessary to increase the
the estimate made la igoz of the number of officers needed for ships in commission is (a.
White Buckskin Boots CHANTS, NAVAL CONTRACTORS pumber of officers assigned to a ship, so that
with thick red Rubber Soles, suitable for Cricket, Golf, Tennis, Yachting, etc.
New Goods arrive each week for all Depart- ments.
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AND GENERAL COMMISSION
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adequate. It provided for only about half a meny officers as ships of the same class carry in the British, French, and Germ
Navies,
Admiral Converse recommends that the number of Lieutenants be increased from 350-
6oo, and that the number of Lieutenant. Commanders be increased from 200 to 300.
"It is especially desirable," the 4de miral says, "that every battleship and other powerful vespel requiring the greatest skill and experience for proper efficiency should have her full quota of officers of suitable rank; yet many of our battleships have Lieutenants as navigators, practically all bave Lieutenants as ordnance officer," and·| several battleships have ensigns and even midshipmen as watch and division officers. This very unsatisfactory and aven dangerous condition is due to the many urgent demanda for officers, the existing inadequacy of num bers often making it Impossible to detail [44 officer of approplate rank, The increasing
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1st January, 1903, Separate Accounts will be rendered for Aerated Waters, ·
An Inclusive charge will be made for Waters and Bottles, and full credit will be allowed for omplies when returned,
Orders. for Acrated Waters should be addressed to
WATKINS, LIMITED,
PRICE LIST:
$1.50 per doren will be allowed for Aerated Water Bottles when returned in good condition:
Per Doz $1.70 1.80
Soda Water
Bods Water in Bombay Bottles Potash Seltzer and B.P. Soda
1.80:
Lemonade...
1.80
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Tonic Water
1.80
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Chateau Laßte
Chateau Laroso ...................................10.30.
7.50
7.30
8.50
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10.00
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10,00
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11.00
81.30
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Pints.
Volnay vin 1893
Moulin a Vént vip 1893614.50 Macon vin 1899 .......................... Nails vin 1893......
$14.00
$16.00
16,50
119.00:
BURGUNDIES.
19.00
19.50
Musigny vin 1893 8.50 20,50 Corton via 1893.18.50
Chablis via 1893.....
Beaune vio 1893.....
Pommard vin 1899.
Red Burgundy....T
20,50
„19.00 26,00
..19.co 21,00
..29.00 31.00
30.00 32.00
Chambertin vin 18993900
Romance vin 1893..... $40.00
42,00 43.00
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