COMMERCIAL NEWS.
SPEECH BY ADMIRAL MEUX,
The Cuba Revolution and the
Sugar Outpat. *
Washington, March 21-Da- patches from Santiago de Cuba | antimals that the sugar "output of Santiago has been reduced a third already by the revolution.
Renong Tia Dredging."
Former Hongkong Admiral's
Racy Utterance, ¿
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1917.
ENEMY'S "JUMPINESS.
1-fighting"" Stage on the
British Front.
prove
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Some of the wonders of physic. să reconstruction" that are being schioval in the treatment of dir
led soldier in Francs are Paris, February &The taking described by Sir Henry Norman, of Graadpourt in only the latest M.P., in a special report to the At the opening of Parliament of a series of British nibblings at Secretary for War. Particularly last month, Admiral of the Fleet the German lines on the Samme succesful is the work of Pro Banks Bir Hedworth Mear, who was and the Anore, which are grada. Lessor Joles Amar, to whom, s dressed in the uniform of hit ally but surely preparing the he goes down the street near his Cantons rank, seconded the Address. He way for the moment of a general hospital in Paris, the women North Chinas Renong Tin Dredging pays said he could not help thinking attack, by the seizure of strong smile and say: "That's the man Uniona interim dividend on the ordinary that the naval service would very points and positions from the that gays my husband his arm Yangtazes shares of 121 per cent. (acinal) in much rather be praised by an enemy which might
back." respect of the first half of the year outsider than by one who belong troublesome.
Da the day of Sir Beary China Fires
FIRE INSURANCES, ending, June 30, 1917. The d to themselves. In both the
b. Normen's visit there were in the H.K. Fires dividend in equivalent to 29. 6d. Army and Navy it was very hard
Spread over weeks, as thons per share. Income tax will be to judge to whom to give the seemingly small actions have laboratory three one-armel men deducted at the rate of 6s in the greatest praise. Everywhere was been, and as they are often dis who are earning 61. 81. day
ss. filter.. One, of them whils | Douglases pound. For the whole of the warlare in the bearena above, misted laconically in the com- preceding year * dividend of in the earth beneath, and, un magiques, the public is apt to waiting amused himself by Steamboats Indos (Del.) 12) për cent, was paid. fortunately, in the waters under neglect or underrate them. But ng on a lathe little brass Indos (Pref.)
the earth (laughter) and he did when it is announced, on the shells, as souvenir, as well as Japan's Trade With China.
not know which portion of the authority of Freach expert, any turper could have done. Ferries
that Grandcourt is the 53rd "Profemos. Amir cforad” a Official investigations show credit
Forest deserved in the grey village or sits of a village retaken / Digerette la one man, whose arm | that Japanens Trade with China
Be-thought we all lately, and from the enemy on the Western had been amputated just below Sugars for the first days of the current some of ac for years and months, front since July 1 last, the signis. the shoulder. Sir Henry Norman was about to take a cigaretis month showed an expose of ex had been very much disturbed by cases of this constant nibbling from his own
case in order Kallans pors in the tang of 10,076, 687, the submarine menses and the o1n be judged. exports and imports amounting to constant toll of merchant vessels.
to hand it to the man, who, Langkats Besides the strategic value to 17,923, 349 and 1,840,602 re- He thought it was not too much the Allies of these gains, there is "ying "Pardon me, I can help
Tronohs spectively. The volume of trade to say that we had every reason another result of almost equal myself" proceeded to take ons
Urals since the opening of the year to hope that the same success importance of which Reuters with his steel band. Placing the amounts to 742,404, 482 in ex-which had attended the dispatch correspondent can speak for cigarette in his month be selected GODÓWNS, &C, perts and Y15,276,256, in imparts of the Zeppelin was in a very fair himself from a recent visit to the match from a box, struck it on thowing balance of. 127,188, way of being brought within rea British front and from talks with a box in his wound hand, and H. K. Wharves s 228 in Isfour of exports.
S'hai-Docks' sonable distance by a now effort officers and men at dinerent lighted the cigarette, holding the Kowloon Decks b. x. d. which was being made to counterpoints. That is the growing lighted match in his steel hand.
A second man, using his arti.
LANDS, HOTELS the spbmarine problem; With nervousness and "jumpines" official hand, grasped the hand of AND BUILDINGS. referees to the work of Admiral the Germans all along the line. H. M. Consal at Diren reports Jellicoe, Bir H. Meux read a Formerly attacks were always Sir Henry Norman and sbook it Centrais
The third, who H. K. Hotels ̈ warmly. that the Government-General of letter, one of the most striking preceded by such exceptionally
arm was imputated abore the Land Invest. the Lossed Territory of Liaotong passages of which was as fol- beary stillery fire that the enemy elbow, picked up a needle from Hiphreys Est. b. is contemplating the creation of a lows: "I think when the history was prepared. Now they are the table with a small pair of She Lands sulphurio seid factory. It is of the war is
is written people will daily peppered, and never know hoped the work will be sufficiently realise how much they owe to Ad-when the bail will lift and they disposing forceps. Afterwards West Points
COTTON MILLS. far advanced to admit of the miral Jellicoe, not only for what will find Temmies, bomb in hand, the men gave an exhibition of turning and Aling metal and manalscture of the acid being he has dons but for what he has at the moush of their dug-outa,
Ewos started in the Spring of 1917. The prevented wems other people from This is the newest game, and wood-drilling with a sensitive bit,
The motions of these wonder-Shai Cottons
Kung Yiks enterprise is on a small scale, doing," (Laughter.) He (the it is the delight of oar men to
ful artificial limbs are controlled, Yangtzepoos b." however, the intended daily speaker) believed everyb dy in creep up towards output of acid being no more than the Navy had complete ocnfidence trench under the cover of artillery through siraps and cords, by
MISCELLANEOUS. 20 tons. The market price of the with Jellicon at the Admiralty Ere and then pounce on the moments of the muscles of the
b. acid is to
be fixed by the and Beatty in command of the Germans almost before the splin chest and back, authorities.
Fleet. (Choirs.)
torn of the last shell have sproed.
MEN OF 18 TO 22. Edoh regiment awears it "holda
Dairy Farms One must not forget those who the record, which is always in Immediate Call To The Colours Green Islands Indragiri Rubber Co. At the annual general meeting ships and undergoing quite as were suffering just so many hard-
conde.
|H.K. Electrica : b. of the Indragiri. (Somatra) Reb much danger and Ibey-wars the Ooo officer compared this
The Secretary of the War Off-H.K. Ice Co., her and Guttapercha Co. Ltd., men of the soaroantile marine attack to in-fighting in boxing.
species of incessant nibbling ce makes the following announos, Hr. D. O. Ton L. Boom Kamp. (Bear, Hoar,) These men had very
"Only_su_expart,” he added, who presided, stated that the little chance of glory, and he had on judge the damage done company was in a flourish. iog
condition and
not heard of one single case of any The ordinary looker on simply have recommended more than duty. They trested death and sees two men in grips, but at a 15 per cent, dividend, but it was danger in the matter of the day's
the man whose ribs are being estimated that $40,000 would be work. We owed more than we pammelled, or only watch his needed this year for building cold possibly think to them. nervus elbow jarks and the and to maintain the immature (Bear, bear,),
flicker of his eyes, "area. Apīnterim dividend would
"That's how we have the Ger- In the gracions Speech from mine probably be declared in April. It
now. Each round they was possible that, the company
the Throne we were told to rea- come up with less kick in them." would be reconstructed shortly pond to every call, and one was -Beater. with the .obj at of developing in relation to food. He bad bad
A Sulphuric Acid Factory.
1,000 marea of reserve land,
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In socórdance with the deci- Trams, Low Level b.
on of the War Cabinet, and fol- Trams, Peak, oldn. lowing upon the instruction of Trams, Peak, newn. the Director-General of National Laundries Berrios that Government depart Waterboats
Watsons ments are to cancel forthwith all Wm. Powells a exemptions granted to young Morning Posts D. men of 18 to 22 years of age passed for general service, the War Office has ordered the im mediste call of these men to the
colours.
Iostractions have been issued to rearaiting officers that men of
or lean starved. (Laughter.) Hej Vaterland's Ex-Captain Wants 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22 passed for
presumed the Government. had
steady taken stock of the food
in this country, because-without
to be an American.
general service and employed in Government establishmenłe sze hereby called up for service at one,
The order affects Government
$19
0028ECTED TO NOON THURSDAY MARCH 29, 1917,
BENJAMIN & POTTS, Share and General Brokers,
Princes Buliding..
Tel address: Broker.
EXCHANGE.
SELLING.
2/4 3/16
2/422 2/434
1/4 7/16 9914
109 Nom. Nom.
BUYING.
forecast of Barms for the yeaT
Captain Julius Gabuar, form 1916-17. eaya: The total area knowledge they could not make erly in command of the Vaterland sown with rice in the provinos is arrangements or calculate how and now in command of the Dow eatieated at 10,519.079 seres, long it would leat. Sik George Pennsylvania of the Hamburg-servants of all kinds, including T/T .............. 2/444 an increase of 118,937 acres White, who looked after the food | American Lins, announsed on Fab-policemen, fireman, teachers, men Demand over the area actually planted at Ladysmith, had been likened to ruery that he desired to become in the employment of Leal 30 dis.
1308 in the
the beat caterer sicce Moses, an American citizen. He said he Authorities, Post Ofte serrants, 60 dia. 1915-16. In the sixteen principal (Laughter.) Bat they had exactly realised this action would mean Customs and Excise employees 4 m/s zio-growing districts of Lower 10 days food left when they were the forfeiture of his command, and the Civil Service generally TT Singapore
T/T Shanghai....... Nom. Barma the cultivated area is now
mom relieved, and they did not want but it made no difference to him.
A does not apply to men onge T/T Japan ab that to happen in the business. He smerted he would apply to ged in agricultare, steel prodgo F/T India estimated at 8,225,274 sores, as to the women, who had the immigration authorities at ion, misss, gauzzies, alway Demand, India.......
gaicet
Botani
done
this Ellis Island on February 5 for shops, transport work, shipyards, T/T San Francis-) 8,097,662
gloriously in acres of let year, an increase of 127,612 war, that they looked to see permission to take out his citizen- or to mass in the occupations co & New York/ seres, In Lower Barms the that the ratione awarded to us ship papers.
covered by the trade card saboæse, † T/T Java 18754 In the cases of men of the ages T/T _Marks. Nom threshing-and-winnowing of the were not exceeded. He had been
mentioned above, who hold T/T France....... 3.2514 rice crop is approaching com- reading up the subj sot and found plotion in almost all the districts, that "Very little was anfficinet
tribanal exemptions, with the Demand, Paris..... 326 The war divided England into exception of shoes in certified The crop is reported to be for a man well nurtured.” “Sound threshing out normally in meat sleep cometh after moderate two classes of men. There was oocspations, reviews are to be 4 m/s. LJO districte. The acre ontturn in eating.", (Laughter). "Aman Mr. Greatheartand Mr. Littlefaith. applied for immediately player 4 zafa. D/P Lower Barma is estimated at rises early and bis wits are with (Hear, hear.) He did not know
All War Office exemptions and 6 m/s, 140 - $5 per cent of the normal, him." (Laughter.) & for drink, what became of Mr. Littlefaith recruiting officers' exemptions for 30 d. Sydney & against an seinal of 93 per cent, they were told that "Wius is as because the sather never thought men of the ages mentioned have
Melbourne est in 1915-16, For the whole pro-good a life to a man if it be it worth while to say, but the been cancelled, with the excep 30 dja. San Franc-) vince the yield is now estimated drunk moderately." (Laughter.) House would remember that Mr. tion of a few relating to students
isco New York As for the enemy, if one wished Greatheart came sorom an old serving in Officers Training 4 m/s. Francs 3.3714
4 m/s. Macks at 93 per cent, of the normal as against 91 per cent, yield finally to osptare sad maintain a wild gentleman asleep under an oak Corps who are undergoing train- é me. Franos
3.4214 That old gentleman, ing for commissions in the Forosa, Demand, Germany. for 1916 after the crop had been aimal the first thing to do was free.
thought, the threshed. The district garas try to make onsself acquainted he
author and others under instruction in Demand, New York. 553% indicate
* provincial. onturn with his babita of thought. He meant
old England, soliools of wireless talegraphy, T/T Bombay his name was Mr. A fürther Wär Offiss order calla | Demand, Bombay..... Nom. of nearly eighty-eight million had been trying to account for because
When he mid "old to the Colours men of military T/T Calonita ewis, of cleaned rice against at the barbarities of the German Bonenty year's revised yield of eighty-four nation, which in some ways before England," he did not think that age who have been classified Demand, Calcutta. Nom. million owts, an increase of four the way many people believed to st Scotchman, an Irishman, or a in categories Bii and Oil Demand, Manila ... 11114 million owls. The surpina avail. be a charming nation. And he Welshman would like to claim it, Man classed in Band Categories On Haiphong rem
Dominad, Singapore, 9234" able for export is now estimated still balieved that there were because the town that Greatheert employed in the work of national on a to be two million seven hundred thousands, if not millions, of who came from was the town of importance set out above, and On. Bangkok Toomsand tons of cargo rice, in Germany to-day who ware Stupidity. (Laughter.) His hon. those who have been placed in Sovanega equivalent to forty-five and three much sehemed of their brutalisèss and latened. Hänen kack ruËRKE quarters million owin. of cleaned — we were Philip, the father about people not being in "X
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same ornalty as the Germans of Honsety eventually
**Cruelly was" tutan. Kingdom of Hanyan Wein. Any nation who wan, sa he hoped the stined, it had Invariably British Buspare
100
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HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.
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Established 1880.- Authorised Ospital Yen 48,000,000 {Paid-up Capital ... 30,000,030
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