GENERAL NEWS.
Freach and English Art.
Unper the auspices of the Anglo-French Society, Mr. Laurence Biaron delivered a lecture at King's College, Strand, recently on The Relation be tween French and English-Art." After describing the obaracterie. ties of French and English art, which are expressions of national temperament, Mr. Binyon pointed out some contrasts and compari Pons, He dealt in detail with architecture, painting,
and efobing, sad dancladed with expressing the hope that the influence of the two countries on each other would grow stronge: and be for the good of both.
A Ministry of Justica. *Correspondence which has pase- ed between the Minister of Be. Construction and the President of the Law Society shows that the Machinery of Government Com- mittee, of which Lord Haldane is ohairman, has devoted a consider. able amount of attention to the establishment of a Ministry of Justice, the reform af legal pro cedars, the education and orga visstion of the profession. Lid Haldane (states the Law Journal) is firmly convinced that our legs! system, standa urgeatly in "need of reorganisation, and that the creation of a Ministry of Justice is an essential preliminary to the reforme that are required.
Dismissal of 40,000 Women. Within six weeks over 40,000 | women were going to be dismies- ed from munition factories, said Miss Obristabel Parkhurst, at the London Pavilion. Af an inter- view between the women's party and a representative of the Ministry of Munitions, no assurance was given that the dismisssla would not continue. It was horribly alarming, and hardly encourag ing to women to fight for their country. We were recently with in an inch of s strike on mar power which would have meant the end of the war and victory for Germany. It was the women manition workers who prevented it.
Judge and Soldier's Crimes.
and
The Criminal Appeal Court reinend the application of Edward Trelawney Clarence Assell, a mining engineer, who appealed #gainst bis conviction sentence of three years' penal servitude for falsa pretenors at Sidmouth, Appellant in bie ap- plication stated: "I sak that the good I once did may be pat in the balance of the soiles of justice and may be allowed to eet off what I have done." Mr. Justice Darling observed that this was a matter which had been discussed by the judges. That Court could not give say kind of countenance
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1918.
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service gave an immunity 10 com uit crime. E oh case would be judged on its merite,
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WM. POWELL, LTD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the SEVENTEENTH ORDINARYGENERAL MEET- TENDERS are invited for the ING of SHAREHOLDERS in supply of Carpenters, Caul the above Company will be held kers, Platers, Plumbers, Painters, at the Company's Offices on
Opening exensious to the 4th Scrapers.Shoemakers or Leather TUESDAY, the 4th of June,
Northern General Hospital at
Lincoln recently, General Sir
William Bobertson paid a warm
19 8, at 12 o'clock Noor, for the workers, to H. M. Naval Yard
Forms of Tender can be obtain-purpose of receiving the Report ed at the Chief Constructor's of the Directors and Statement
tribute to the work of the medical Office, H. M. Nava! Yard, Hon of Accounts to the 28th February,
service in the war. Of the many great things we had done in this war, be said, nothing had been greater than the development of the organi-ation and efficient working of that service.
Nover
before had we seen such an appal-
kong, and should be filled in and 1918.
returned as indicated in Tender The TRANSFER BOOKS of Form not later than noon FRI- the Company will be CLOSED DAY, 31st May, 19.8.
from the 25th of May to the 4th June, both days inclusive.
E. G. KENNETT, CHIEF CONSTRUCTOR.
ling number of casualties, bas Hongkong, 16th May, 1918
never before had the sick and wounded been so efficiently cared
for. Although millions, of mes
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EL O. HOLT, Secretary.
Hongkong, 16th May, 1918.
THE
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NOT
OTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE TWENTI- ETH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of this Company will be held at the Offices-of- Messrs. Jardine. Matheson & Co, Ltd. on THURSDAY. the 30th May, 1918, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts to 30th April, 1918.
had been engaged in different theatres of operation,{ Some of them notoriously un healthy, there had not been seingle epidemio of any Biod. The Rohievements of the service, and of the many devoted women, constituted s very bright and pleasing spot on s pieture which in other respects he feared could be regarded only with corro end sadness. People at home might be asked to submit to etill-forther sacrifices before the war could be brought in such -a donclusion" aa2 would prevent a redatrence of the horrors, the miseries, and the loss of valuable The absence of enemy seroplane lives that we bad witnessed dur
THE REG18TER OF the fast three and a half yearn- visits to London of late, when to SHARES of the Company will uulil we could "remore the die many people. the nights have be CLOSED from FRIDAY, the giace" to "orvilisation so-called seemed favourable for acob 24th Mays to THURSDAY, the which we saw existing before attacks, has caused surprise ir 30th May, 1918, INCLUSIVE, this bögenho means the waste some quartera. As a matter of By Order of the Board of of labour and the waste of life fact, the atmospheric conditions in Directors, itions maintaining great the Channel, where high, winds armion for the purpose of des have been blowing, Lave been troying each other.
adverge to such visits.
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PARTICULARS AND CON- DITIONS of the letting by Public Auction Sale,to be held on Monday, the 27th day of May, 1918,-at-3-p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of One Lot of Crown Land at Repulse Bay, in the Colony of Hongkong for a term [of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Burveyor of Bu Majesty the King, for one further term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
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