THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
BATHING CAPS.
an
We have just received exceptionally fine assortment
of
BATHING CAPS.
In all the latest Styles and Colours,
The Mall, Question:
We are still wondering when, in the interests of the public, the
DAY BY DAY.
Wathorities intend giving Hong-VICE OF FOOLS-Fope
PEIDE, IS THE NEVER-FAILING kong the same facilities which other Eastern settlements enjw
Tomorrow's'' Anniversary.
by intimating when homeward Tomorrow in the third anni- mails close. At Colombo the mails versary of Japan's declaration of are quite regularly advertised, war on Germany. while we bave just mosived s
The Dollar.
1917.
COMPANY REPORT.
The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.
POLICE RESERVE
ORDERS.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
Practically every boat from Orders immed toklaỷ by Mr. T. Shanghai to the United States F Hoogh, A.S.P. (Haarve), since the first of the year has con- tained a long list of misionaries
Directors of the above Company, Meeting of Commanders. from all parts of Obins, Straits.
A
The opening rate of the doll holders, to be held at the ComClab at 5.45 pro, on Tuesday, time? naks Millard's Review, The
demand to-day
was rate
copy of Penang paper which contains a detailed notice, part |of . which reads as follows:[on
"The homeward" mail closes 2. 11.3/8d. The closing
10
to-morrow ...will be found on Fage 1. Duplicates of letters forwarded by the homeward mail last Thurs-
Opium DrosI. day should not be forwarded by A Chinese was fined $25 by Mr. the mail which closes at 10 a.m. J. E. Wood, at the Magistracy to-morrow, but should be retain this morning, for possessing four ed for despatch by the homeward tasis of opium dross without s
permit.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. Hongkong maidents cannot be to-day, with refusing to move
HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
TELEPHONE 16.
Correspondents are requested to observe the rule aquires them to forward their names and addresses communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily publication, but as an evidence of their bona fides.
to the Editor.
which with
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pany's Hotel, at 12.15 p.m. on Saturday, Septembar. 1, states :*** The Directors beg to submit their report for the half-year
aded 30th Jane, 1917.
The report of the Board of
meeting of Company, Settlements and India. Why are so be presented at the ordinary Platoon, and Section Commanders theme parrous returning to Amari- half-yearly meeting of share will take place at Headquarters', oa in such large numbers at this
answer is found in a recent Augert 28. Uniform optional.
Inspection.
report of the conference of the All ranke will be inspected by Presbyterian and Reformed mis- the DS.P. (R.) on Thursday,sionaries, held in New York about August 30 Fell in at 5.45 p.m. a month ago. The report statem Detailed orders will be issued. that great numbers have gone to France to act. an interpreters för British and French commanders in conveying orders to their sol- diers who speak foreign tongues.
Accounts.
Présentation.
The profit on Working Account amounted to $100 711 61 18
A presentation by the Police compared with $102,228 11 for Reserve to P.O. 681 Gaskell will the corresponding period of 1916 take place at Headquarters' Club mail next week." It is clear
being a decrease of $1,516 50. on Friday, August 24, at 6 p.m.” from this notification that the
The Profit and Lom Account. public in Penang is kept well ... to the "Limelight. eapplied with information con-
A Chinese was charged before including the sum of $42,493 32 brought forward from 31st De cerning outgoing maile, and why Mr. J.P. Wood, at the Magistrady comber, 1918, shows a credit
Looking for Hla-Aunt," The "pretty wit" of which Sentence of four months hard Touchstone speaks is often shown balance of $143,334 93, which the labour was inflicted by Mr. J. R. is the notice boards which our similarly considered we do not away from the searchlights when Drectors recommend should be Wood, at the Police Court this soldiers set up in the trenches. know. There is no reason of requested to do so by a constable, apportioned as follows:-- morcing, on a Chiness who was Thus a frequently abelled trench which we aresware why it would and also with assaulting the con- Į be more dangerous for the Hong-table. For the assault be was
To pay a dividend of
charged with breaking into the junction bears the legend "Don't. Long Post Office to issue such in fined $20 and for refusing to
-$300 per share
room of a married couple in Hing, stand about here--there's a war timations than for the Penang move away was ordered to pay To transfer to Repairs
on 20,000 Shares... $60,000 00 | Hong Bhad. It appears that the on." A writer in Cornhill has authorities so do so. This is sa fine of $5.
occupants were sleep, but the collected a number of these, one wife, waking up, eaw the de of the best being on a spot which important "püblic matter, and if
20,000.00 | fondent
the act of had once been used by the Ger stealing a box. She gave the mana sa a dump for stores. DOW 1,000.00 alarm and the man was caught labelled, "Fritz's Damp-Uader
by an Indien watchman. The Entirely New Management," A. 62,324 98 defendant's excuss was that. besiege battery had the whole side was looking for his aunt, who, of their mes knocked out-you he thought, lived in the house. could drive a gun team into the..
hole where the door had been. On a bit of remaining wall are the words, "Don't Stand Oct There Knocking Come Bight la,"
"
Alleged False Pretences. the precise date and hour of usil- Mr. G. B. Baywood appeared ing cannot be given, surely the bafore Mr. Dyer Ball, at the public could be periodically ad- Magistracy this
morning. to
All communicationsintended for publication should be addressed rise, in good time, when to post defend a Chinese who is charged letters. Failing action by the with obtaining by false pretences authorities, one of our Unofficial
向拉便 of $19.40 and." $26 80,} membere
Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager.
Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.
Telephone : No. 1 A.B.C., 5th edition. Western Union
Office addres: 11, Ice House St.
of
the Legislative from two persons, he baving
Council might do worse than to represented himself to have been raise the question at an early sent by the owner of a cargo bont meeting of that body.
to collect the monies. The care Wis adjourned until Tuesday siternoon.
The All-Rouad Offensive.
Fortune Teller Attacked:
and RenewalsTM Ac.
comat
**
To write off Steam
Leanch
To carry forward to
New Accant
Directorate.
$143,334 98
Mr. Francis Maitland retires by rotation but effor himself for re
election.
Auditors.
A fortune-teller, residing in The Accounts for the Half-Your Bo Cheung village, between ander review have been audited Kovicon City and Sai Kun, was by Messrs. A. B. Lowe, F.C.A.
The Hongkong Telegraph.mely, the general offensive of proceeding to Kowloon City on and Mr. 9. Perey Smith, F.C.A.
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1917.
CHINA'S WAR DECLARATION,
A. O, LANG,
Chairman.
him, to the value of $26.60. The Hongkong. 17th August, 1917. men have not been arranted. The wound is not a serious que.
Profit and Loss Account. Bad and Doubttal
Debta"
in
Hongkong and
Shanghai Bank ing Corporation (Current A¤ ̈. count) ... Balano.
As per last Report Profit for hall-year
to date...
|
ASSETS.
Value of Properties.
1. D
$ 1,110 53 613 35
(The
6,284,07 6,102.23 20,495.44
3,660 66
What we have all been waiting for for many a long day is at last actually in active progress.
Entente Forose. To what the siternoen of August 20, when Messrs. A. R. Lows and H. Percy extent Rossia is participating in be was attacked by two men, one Smith offer themselves for re- the great combined movement is of whom stabbed him in the back, election, at present not precisely clear, bat with a blunt instrument. He had that she is taking part in certain, money and jewellery stolen from and equally certain is it that as more pressure is spolied in the West the less difficult will it be for the Rzasisne and Romanisaf,
Saatcher Sentenced. who at present are doing their The audacity of Chinese snatch- atmost under adverse conditions,ere was demonstrated two daze Crown Bont in the East. Sir Douglas Haig's ago, when one of these light Taxes despatches continue to confirm fingered gentry #hoaawa woman Fire Insurance If any doubts existed as to why Chips" bas seen fit to declare the hopeful expectations entertain carrying a child on her back in interest war on the common enemies of civilisation, they are removed by the ed of the recent offensive in Flan- Canton Road, Kowloon, noceeded Directors' Fees proclamation, signed by the President and eponter-signed by all the dere. Meantime there appears to in stealing a pair of bangles aff Auditore Fees members of the Cabinet, which definitely effects & severance of be a fall in the actual operations, the child's wrists. He was seen, Share Investment
but there is evidence that it is however, and. When be
Depreciation relations between Obias on the one hand and Germany and Ametris merely a "breathing space" be brought before Mr. J. B. Wood, Balance of Repairs on the other. Practically speaking, the whole basis of the breach fore the resumption of hostilities at the Magistracy, he was een- is the continuation of submarine piracy by both Germany and Aasen sa even more extended scale. tended to nios tris, which, as the Chinese Nate rightly deolares, is contrary to a one of his latest communiques, labour and four hours' stocks. international law. The fact is rosiled that, so long ago 'as Febru- the Field Marshal recorde the Alleged Fraudulent Conversion. ary last, Obins protested to the German Government against this failure of the enemy's third "One of two partners in a fiab ¦ Balance mode of warfare, but that protest has been completely ignored, most probably because Garmany counted on the fact that, from & nars attempt to regain ground recent business in the Central Market and military point of view, China a entry into the war would be of y lost south-east of Epehy and he was before Mr. Dyer Bill, at the
mell concern. In other directions, however, China's declaration held." This is most gratifying, wish fraudulentir converting the Balance from 21st
adds that "sil car positions were Polios Court this morning,charged will be a serious blow to Germany, especially from a commercial point of view, and no doubt by this time German writera sre once work being accomplished in other been entrusted to him to pay the Beats of Shops and
particularly in view of the splendid am of $1,006.36, which had December, 1916 again bemoaning the loss of prospective oversesa trade, the more so
Hotel Mansiona eince Germany had great hopes of retaining her hold on the Farreas in Northern France sad debts of the firm. Mr. J. H.
Flanders. So far as British Gardiner appeared to proseonte Scrip Fees Eastern markets.
The Declaration of War is coached in dignified and firm lang big offensive we have every reason was defeading hat could not
participation is concerned in the and stated that Mr. Leo D'Almada Bad Debts age, and it serves to show a real reason why Chins should register to feel extremely satisfied with appear. After formal evidence of Dividends on Shares
covered her protest, in an effective manner, against the enemy's submarine the situation at present. campaign. It speaks of the indiscriminate destruction
J;
W&8
& Renewale Fund as per Statement.
months' hard
BA per -Balance Sheet ..
arrest had been given, the case Exchange
was adjourned for a week, bail Balance of Working being fixed at $1,000.
Account...
per
143,334.98
16,445.75
Harry Lauder, the well-known 42,493 32 comedian has been singing to the soldiers at the frost, sa79 6 100,811 66 correspondent: He wasg, every- where and under sll condition“,**** in the hospitals, to men resting on their arme, to men at the roadside sa they came from or went to the | trencken, to great concourres at prearranged points. One of the concerts' was held on the battle- .. field, another was dispersed by $2,219,062 48 German shells. Of a third Mr.
$2,502,390.60
Hogge says that "Ten thousand men in kilte stood around the platform. The pipers gave an ļa great welcome. Protecting | seroplanes hovered around, "The rains of a French town lay beyond. Then Leader sang "The Wes House 'mang the Heather,' and we were all back $100 635.79 in Scotland. No formalities, nó 3,640.00 stiffaces, cfficers and men alike giving themselves up to an 104,275,79 afternoon of it, and the chorus
7,305.00 smelled like nothing I had ever."
heard before." 96,970.79
́s per last Ac- cogat
Company's Properties were valued by MensTO, Palmer and Ter
00 23rd Augget, 1913, at 400.00
$2,314,215 00) 180.00 Furniture and Fix-
tares, 43.-- Ae per last Account 3,815.03 Biacs added,
41,567.31
143 334 98
$184,002:29
42,493.32
As per Inst. Acoount 40,559 11Hotel'e Steam Leanch— 19.00 As per last Account Leas Written off, sa
per last Report"
Leae Sales, &c."
Installation of E'ecy tric Light Ma- chinery, Plant,
B12. —
392.12 180 00 547.13
100,711 81
$184,902.29
Sbarea in Public Companies (Mxr- ke: Valve at 30th Jane, 1917) Stock
of Lioen, Crockery, Glas-
The Mark of the Hun Removed.
We are gratified to notice that, Į without any waste of time, the purchaser of the German Bank Reserve Fund for Repairs and b18 caused to ba
remov-
Renewals.
ware, Wines,Pro- visions, &c., velcel at Linen, Crockery, Glassware, &o, in
3,467.37
$15,000.00
1,000 00
14,000 00
"
3,020,00
The following in from the Scottish Letter of the N. 0, Daily NewThe Pallars of Perth and the Mathesons of Lews, two of the best known families in Scotland, are to be united in the forthcom- |ing wedding of Misa Helen Pollar and Major J. 8. M. Matheon. Miss Paltar in the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mre. Albert E. Pallar, of Darn, Perth, and her fancee is the eldent sou, and heir of Major Duncan Matheson. An immense ares of land in Scotland, probably half a million acres, is in the hands of Major Duncan Matbeson. He has many mansions, and one of them, Lowa Castle, Stornoway, which stands in 600 acres of grounds, basolten boused Royalty. The island of Lewe was bought by the Mathesone in the 40's for £190,000 from the Seaforth Mackenzies, and they spent some £330,000 on its improvement. Their wealth came from the firm of Jardine, Matheson, and Oo., famous all through the East and Directors, Far East.
104,184.68
8,457.91
i
during the First Half Year 1917,
23,815 03
$ 23,815.03
1188
Premium, &c. psid
in advance Sindry Debtors
**
20,000.00
5,543 84 47,683 53
$2,502,390.60
from Profit and "Losa se per last
Report.... Balance transferred
to Prefit and Los 28 above
of neutral vessels and belligerent merchaulmen, and specifically states that numerous Chinese lives have been lost. What we have A Decisive Tussle. desired," says the Fresident, "in pasce, what we have respected is
On the Verdan front, the international law, and what we have to protect are the liver and pro- Fransh bave been performing in- perty of our people." That, in brief, is the basis of China's clare zamerable acts of valour in their tion of war, and, with the facts as they are, such a step is thoroughly andden attack on the enaby justified. Incidentally, Chins, by soting as she has now done, i torcer. The battle, we read, is stilled the enemy coat of arms which Amount expended ranging herself alongside these nations who are fighting for in its opening stages, "bas the have for so long disfigured the principles which go beyond nationsliem-pinciples bich lie at the mere fact that the French are able premises. All the German eagles very springs of liberty sad progress. The Note concludes with a to take the offensive on the grest which formed part of the design strong appeal to the Chinese people to do all in their power to meinest goale at Verdan isu dramatic of the elaborate verandah railings tain and strengthen the existence of the Republic. There is neces illustration of the change in the on three sides of the premises sity for this appeal so long as enemy subjects are at large in China, fortunes of war since the Crown have been taken down, while this Amoant transferred for, now that war is declared, no German or Austriso can be trusted Prince's adventare in 1916." It morning Chinese stone-catter to respect the integrity of China. Failure to order the immediate alas says mach for the marvellous completed the removal of the internment of enemy subjects is, indeed, the only complaint that we manner in which the French stone cost-of-arms over the door- have to make against the Chinese declaration. The war has given Army has become revitalieed, sa way which for a time was covered us far too many examples of German conceptions of "honour" atea for the determination with by a Union Jack sud Ister plas permit anyone in kis senses to believe that no trouble is to be expect which
bie it
conducted tered over with concrete," ed from the Bus in Chins. Even in neutral countries, Germans the operation in face
Well Punished. * have been guilty of innumerable outrages; how much more are they of a mosesing of enemy troops and
Before Mr. J. R, Wood, at the likely to be up to their games of intrigue in a land the Governmsat
Police Court shie morning, a gans that bes perhaps nevar, of which bas declared war on them? If anyone imagines that Ger before been surpassed, The Chinese was charged with steal- mans, or Austrians either, are going to sit still and watch their abips Italians are also doing " their bit" inge bale of gelatine from a cargo Capital - and businessar, snized and their countrymen thrown out of the
the great <fensive past at West Point. Tas facts 20,000 Shures at Coston's service, he is likely to be nadly disillusioned.
$50 each fally From our Canton, correspondent's letter of yesterday it will have with a vigour and tenacity that were that s party of hooligsne
age much for their organisation, boxrded the boat and stole paid up been seen that enemy subjects there have been whining over the They Big concentrating on the quite a quantity of staff: The 1,500 Mortgage declaration of war and have petitioned the local Government to per Bermanda Heights, which is the defendeat was chased, and, Dobenturas (at 0. mit them to remain, as they are not concerned with military matters. key to Triests, and events are so just before being caught,
per cent.) at $500 They may not have any direct concern with military aff+irs, but from shaping themselves to give threw the bale away. Inspector each what we know of the proclivities of German mezobenia and mission-hope for a necesfal issue of the O'Sullivan stated that the boas- Teas 201 Parchased aries we should be prepared for their doing anything. They no splendid efforts being made by men were in terror of their lives and Held by the wish to appear in the hour of their extremity, as peacefal, law-abid our Ally in face of slapendous from men anch' as the defendant.
Company to date ing citizens. Bat their record of the past three years in Chins diffinities. The whole gigantic The thieves usually, watched the brands them as intriguers and meddlers of the worst type. Intera offensive movementsxtende of over polica and made raids on the boats meat is the only wise action to take against them, and until they are a front of 440 miles from the sea when there was little chance of Reserve Food - all safely under look sad key Chins must expect serious trouble to to the Swiss frontier, and there is their being caught. His Worship per Ises Account break out at any moment, We heartily welcome China to place every indication that it will go sentenced the man to six months Unclaimed Divid among the Allies, but sincerely hope that she will soon pisos ell far towards becoming a decisive hard labour and four hours" enemy subjects under such restraint as will prevent their doing the tussle in this terrifio straggle, Looke. harm of which they are só capable.
ends
LIABILITIES:
B
Sandry Creditor
3 81503
$23,815 03
$1,000,000.00
A.. O. LANG
J. SCOTT HARSTON
J. H. LAGGAET,
Manager & Secretary,
1
•
h. We report that we have ex A reference is Shakespeare's amined the Accounts of the Hong-ass of the work "blinking," haa kong. Botel Company, Limited, brought to a Home paper an omnes with the Books, Vouchers and ing letter from the Roy, Arthur Bscarities of the Company for the H. Robine, who points to ap First Hall Year ending 30th June, equally interesting "anticipation" 1917. We have obtained all the of modern slang in one of Charles information and explanations we Wesley's bymus, The hymn haverequired, and, in our opinion, hegina. "Author of faith," and is. 750,000.00 the above Balance Sheet is drawn No. 458 in the old Wesleyan up so as to exhibit a tras and Methodist Bymn Book. The cozzeot view of the state of the fparth verso reads:— 100,500.00 Company's fairs sccording to
Satan bie thousand eris espays, the best of our information and 649,500.00 the explanations given and se shown by the Books of the -Com- 648,075.78 pamy.
5,839.00H. PEROY SMITH, B.O.A. 38,795.09 Hongkong, 17th August, 1917.
AR. LOWE.F.GA
Auditors,
His agents all their powers
employ
To blast the blooming work to
grass,
The heavenly offspring.
# destroys
Really, Obarian" Wonde