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THE ALLBOBD ARMENIAN
DE MASSACRES.
(To the Editor of the Hongkong
Telegraph.)
COMPANY-REPORT.
Canadian Pacific Rallway Co.
* THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1015.
FIGHT WITH ZEPPELINS DAIRY FARM NEWS.
FISH
"VIYELLA"
SHIRTS AND
PYJAMAS
The report of the Canadian |Pacilo Railway Company for the year ended June 30 setstee that the grose earnings amonated to 898-|
865,200 and working expenses to $05,290 682, leaving not earn- Bir: I was pleasantly surprised ings of $33,574,027, Of this Exed to come sorose your leaderette on charges absorb $10,448,000, the alleged maasture of Armeni- contribution to pension faud, aus, in as much as all news in $125,000; net earnings of Pacifio connection with Armenians and const steamships, commercial the Armenian question is entirely telegraph, and news department, ignored in this Colony..
Attacked in the air and From the Earth,
(Government Press Barosu), The Secretary of the Admiralty ment on August 12 made the following announos-
Coast last night between 0.00 and WE HAVE RECEIVED A NEW SHIPMENT
Two Zeppelina visited the East 11.45 o'olook, dropping incendi-
and explosive bombs at arious places, resulting in the following casualties:
Killed-4 man, 2 women. Injured-3 men, 11 women, 9 children (all civilians).
Fourteen houses were seriously damaged:
The Zeppelina were engaged some points, bat succeeded in getting away from our aircraft
patrols.
transferred to special income ac This unfortanete nation has count: 81,494,151; and after pro- suffered untold miseries in theviding for the dividend on Pre- hands of the "anspeakable Türks" ference stock for the year, also for for no other reason, but for the four quarterly dividends on the mere fact that they proleas the Ordinary stock of 1 3/4 per cent, Christian religion, and would each, there remains a net surplus rather die than embrace Islam, for the year of $89,914. In add For centuries they bave suffered tion to the above dividends on the miseries of invasion, oppres. Ordinary stock, & per cent, was
Returning Alone, sion and persecution, and for paid from special income. Inolad
Amsterdam, Aug. 13.-Accord- centuries they have acted as but-ing the balance at June 30, 1914, ing to a telegram from Vlieland, fets between the invading boards the special income for the year Zeppelin was sighted there to
One of the Zeppelins was pro bably damaged by the mobile anti-aircraft section
OF SELECTED
FILLET
TELEGRAMS.
HADDOCKS
AND
KIPPERS.
of deis and Western civilization, amounted to $14,068,144. Pay-day, coming from the west. IIMPERIAL CONFERENCE. and for over a hundred years mente to shareholders in dividende cruised northward, then returned, they have been offered as on January 2. April 1, and June and later disappeared sastwards. sacrifice to the manual jealousies 30 absorbed $5,850,000, leaving Baby-Killing Glorified.
of the Great Christian Powers, $8,216,144, from which a dividend
Indian Representation Advocated,
Received Boptember 28. The Times in an article says :-----
NOTICE
THE NEW FRENCH CONVENT.
ANNUAL BAZAAR.
The French Convent Annual. Bazaar will take place on Wed- nesday, October 6, in the New Convent at Causeway Bay. One part of the establishment being completed, Lady May has kindly consented to open this part of the
6, after which she will proceed to open the bazaar.
The Reverend Mother Superior begs that all good friends and those who have always shown such a kind interest in the work of the convent will consider this notice as an invitation and kindly attend on this occasion.
Amsterdam, Aug. 13,-In an wecks has been declared payable October article on "Britain's Shameless. Viscount Bryce once about the Armenians:Among 1, 1915, amounting to $1,050,000. nes," the Hamburger Nachrich the peoples of Western Asis the The working expenses amounted ten says: "The recent airship Armonisua are unquestionably to 08.04 per cent. of the gross raid on England will be grested the strongest; and what I have earnings, and the net earnings to with great satisfaction. The Ger- (Router's Service To The Telegraph.") building at 10.30 am. on October esen of them both in their own 3398 per cent, as compared with mon people sincerely long for anoh Country and in Americs, where 6732 and 32'68 per cent, respec- raids to be made as frequently as mony of them have sought refuge tively, in 1914. During the year possible, with whatever results The Viceroy's acabptance of the and secured prosperity, leads me 231,297 acres of agricultural land may be attainable." so believe them to be, in point of were sold for 88,742,115, being The reason given for this aut-resolation, regarding Indian re- industry, inteReat and energy, an average of $10,17 per acre. burst is that Britain has not suffer-presentation as the forthcoming the squals of any of the European Indnded in this area there were ad enough from the war. The Imperial Conference, ought to reces. They have a national history 6.650 acres of irrigated land journal adds: "Despite our U
herald a reform which should which goes back nearly three which brought 85522, per acre, boats, she feels the war which she splendid aid which India had have been adopted long ago. The thousand years. They were the so that the average price of the has incited far less than is rendered to the Imperial cause frat nation that as a nation, took balance way $15 04 per acre. All appropriate and necessary. Obristianity to be its religion. of the company's outetsuding What chiefly aronses the writer's presentatives at all future Im- makes the presence of her re- Placed between the Roman power First Mortgage Five per Cent. ire is that Brittin should be on the West and the Parthian and borde, amounting at the end of the simply a spectator while her Allies perial Conferences imperative. Persian monarchs on the East, last fiscal year to £2,638,900, were are suffering. they had a troublons time, and satisfied and retired at or before
sometimes the bulwarks
but
GERMAN MUNITIONS.
The Times dironsses past ex-
beautiful and useful work, under- There will be a great variety of clothing and fancy work, made by moderate prices and toys and the orphans; small articles at
sweets for the children.
Visitors will have an opportu
tion that the Cotton Milla of
No chits will be taken.
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS,
able proposal for Indisu repre- THE THIRD YEAR OF THE
THE NATIONAL LOAN OF||
sentation at Conferences may eventually lead us into very doop waters.
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENT.
GOVERNMENT OF THE PROVINCE OF MACAO.
REPUBLIC OF CHINA, SIXTEEN MILLION
DOLLARS (816,000,000)
and
SUPPLEMENTARY ISSUE OF EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS ($8,000,000),
Subscribers to the above Loan are hereby notified that the Interest Instalment for the month of September amounting to Dol- lars One Hundred and Twenty Thousand ($120,000) has been duly received by the undersigned and brought to Loan Service) Account,
F. A. AGLEN, Inspector General of Customs, and Vice-Chairman of the Bureau of National Loans. Inspectorate General Foking, 20th September, 1915.
of Customs.
after they had accepted Christian- their maturity, July expt article concludes, "is not only of 1907 in favour of free trade,
"Britain's shamelessness," the periences at Conferences includ-nity of viewing the transforma-
ing Lord Inchcape's declaration Hongkong are undergoing. ity were anally the allies and ing a few that had not heen pre- abominable; it drives the blood which was instantly repudiated
of sented for redemption. It is pro- to our heads sud makes us desire the East Roman Empire in posed that the Canadian Pacifio and demand a bard punishment by the bulk of public opinion is with the Doean Servioss (Limited) shall for this frivolous and buckatering this is not the time to discuss its long strife
India. The newspaper adds that Sassanid kings of Perain. In the purchase and take over this com people. Therefore it cannot rain such issues but a simple reason- sighth, ninth, and tenth cen-pany's interest in all of the steam-bombs enough on England, nor furies they gave to the Eastern shipe and their appartenances en-can enough of her ships bs des- Empire some of its best generals geged in ocean traffic, as well as trosed." and ablest sovereigna. When those of the Allan Line Steamship their kingdom had been destroyed Company. A moderate estimate by the Turks, a large part of the of the value of the steamship pro- nation was sosttered over Asia perty involved in the transaction, Minor and Northern Syria, and after making one allowance for de- in some of the wild valleye of the preciation, is $23,500,000. The
Perilously Short la First Stages Taurus Mountains they maintain-directors recommend that as a
of War. the ed, like Montenegrins consideration for the steamships
Amsterdam, August 17, The in Europe, an independence and their appartenances and for often threatened never the capital sicck of the Allan Lino Lokalanzeiger publishes the re- destroyed. Scattered as Steamship Company, carrying port of a long interview groated they were, they have clang to with it all that company's steam to an American correspondent by
Ordinanca No. 199 their national traditions and their ship and other properties, the Field-Karabal van Moltke. It is faith. The fallest proof of their shareholders of the Canadian mainly an elaboration of the
Acquisition of a Maritime Dredger. constancy and courago was given Pacific Railway Company accept ususi German argumenta aspiring. when, in the masseres of 1805 as fully paid the capital stock to prove the non-observance of Taking into consideration the and 1896, thousands died as of the Canadian Pacific Ocean nentrality by the United States growing difficulties of access to martyra rather than save their fervica-sanely, 81,082,910, be in allowing the delivery of arms the inner harbour due to the.
constant silting up of the road lives by socspting Islam." ing all excepting the shares to the Allies."
Marabal von Moltke said that stead channel, the depths to The day of Armenia's liberation necessary to qualify the directore is at hand at last. Over 120,000 of the Steamship Company, and were it not for this supply of arms which the dredging is proposed of her best and bravest sons in addition, Five per Cent. First from America the German armies to be carried, the nature of the mud to be removed, the circums- are fighting to-day on the aide Daboutaree or Debenture stock of would already have finished the tances of weather and ses in the
the Allion and in the the Canadian Pacific Ocean Ser-wat on one of the fronts.
places of operation and also the Russian Army to free their vices (Limited) to the amount of Regarding the expenditure of urgency of doing the necessary homes and their beloved land from £2,865,860 sterling, The ap ammunition, he said that before dredging, the Governor of the the yoke of the unprogressive propriasions made for expendi- the warro one had any conception province of Macao, duly authori- Tark, and with the help of the tares on capital account dur whatever of theenormous demands wed by His Excellency the Mini- Entente Fewers, who are fighting ing the calendar year wore for munitions which would arise ster for the Colonies, having for the cause of liberty and free-omparatively small, aggregating from this colossal fight, aprl that beard the Harbour Administra dom, they hope once again to only $3,546,800. Uncontrollable Germany found herself in the tion Board; orders as follows:
1. Within the period of 120 Coome to their own sud to live in conditions caused an abnormal same predicament as her enemies.
days from the date of publication pasce and security:
decline in the gloss revence of "I betray no secret," he said, of this ordinance in the Govern Yours &o.
"in stating that our armies in the ment Gazette, tanders will be the railway lines for the year, F. T.8. and although the working ex-first stages of the war were fre received for the supply of one Hongkong, September 28, 1915.
penees were, very substantially quently dangerously abort of maritime self-propelling dredger, reduced, the net earnings were monitions." Marshal von Moltke of steel hull, for the use of the 28,851,300 less than in the pre-stributed Germany's emergence Macao Harbour Works,
2. The tenders must be sent to vious year, leaving a margin from this dangerous position and barely sufficient to meet the ous- her success in meeting all present (To the Editor of the Hongkong tomary distribution to sharehold- and future demands to the extra
Telegraph)
ere. Against this the special ordinary capacity for work and Sir:-Will you allow me to state income, from which a portion of the adaptability of the old and in your columns that the members the dividend is paid, was $2,- the zon munitione factories, or of the Pulice Reserve regret the 381,461 greater this year than well ne to the patriotic spirit of appearance of any correspondence last. The directors were of opinion German workmen. in the Public Prown which bas as that in the oitonmstances thera it object the provision of was no good reason for waking wheep advertisement for this corps. any change in the rate of dividend.
The reoont leitor of "Anti- Humbug" could well have been written without any reference to the Polios Reserve and certainly
of
HONGKONG POLICE RESERYE,
-14
Administration Board, not later
UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG. MATRICULATION, SENIOR & JUNIOR EXAMINATIONS,
Notice is hereby given that the Matriculation, Senior and Junior Local Examinations will be held ou the following dates:-
December 13th-18th, 1915. Arrangements will be made to hold the Examinations at any town where a sufficient number of candidates offer themselves.
Candidates must send in their Dames to the Registrar, with the fee, not later than October 31st, Examination Fee $10.00 (Hong-
Forms of Entry and all parti-
1915.
versity, Hongkong.
Macao in a sealed cover, address-kong Currency) ed to the Governor of the pro-culars may be obtained on _ap- vince. Proeident of the Harbour plication to the Registrar, Uni- than 3 pm. of the 8th January His Excellency the President 1916, and made ont in accordancs of the Republic of China bas been with the conditions stated below and which are also on view in the sach of the annual value of $400 pleased to endow 5-Sobolarships He denied that Germany, work Harbour Master's Office, Macao, (Faking Currency), tenable at the ed for war, but said that she in the Portuguess Consulates in University by students of Chinese prepared herself for it in x delen. Hongkong, Shanghai, Kobe, the Nationality, who pass the Matri- sive as distinct from an aggressive United States and the Dominion cation Examination. The first of anse. "We advanced through. of Canada.
these Scholarships will be award- Luxemburg and Belgium," he above maritime dredger, the con-
3. In the acquisition of theed on the result of the Examina- German Ships Purchas d. declared
"simply because we ditions ammered to this ordination mentioned above. New York August 8 American wished oursives to
Five prizes of $100 sách will be without open insult to the Regular shippers have purchased the France through the predestined part thereof shall be observed,
reach once and forming an integral awarded to the successful dandi- Police. I soar correspondent German abip Steinbeck, internod theatre of war rather than to see
dates who obtain the highest Maoao, Government House
marks. The winners of the was as well acquainted with the
10th September 1915. work performed by the Regaler at Seattle. It will be given Ameri- the French and British, with the
prizes may enter any Faculty but (Signed) Police as we are he would not be ca registry. The steamship Belgiane cross the same thestre
JOSE CARLOS DE MATA must join the University on
Jantary 3rd, 1916. so free with his criticieni,
Governor of the province
I am, Sir, Tour Obedient levant
F. JENKIN. Deputy Superintendent of Police (Reserve).
Bygis, now at Copenhagen, the to Germany."
fourth of the vessels bought by Mahal von Moltke paid a the American Tranentlantio Com-frank tribute to the bravery of the pany, which is backed by German British troops, the terms of whielt capital, has been granted provi- however, era not reproduced by sional American registry. the Lokalanzeiger,
of Macao.
Holders of the President's Scholarships and winners of Conditions for the above dred-prizes must reside in one of the ser can be seen at the Portu- Hostels directly managed by the guese Consulate at the hours of University. 10-12 noon and 3-5 p,mi:
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