NOTICES.
THE RED HAND COMPOSITIONS LIMITED, LONDON.
Contractors to the Admiralty, India Office, War Office, Crown Agents for the Colonies, &c.
"THE RED HAND BRAND."
•
Antifouling Compositions for Ships Bottoms, Astisive Paints, Ready mixed, for all purposes.
Supplies available from:
DODWELL & CO. LTD.
SOLE AGENTS.
THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO.
New Schene for Children's Early Endowment —
"Principal features: Small Premium, Liberal Surrender Valua Wo Medical Examination. Return of Premia in the Brent of Death, and Numareas Options at the Age of 25. #SITE FOR PAMPHLET AND FULL PARTIDULARE TO
DODWELL & CO. LTD. Agents.
Maltheid Roofing
SOLE AGENTS ----
BRADLEY & CO., LTD. (MACHINERY DEPT.).
QUEEN'S BUILDING, ́ CHATER ROAD, ́ ́HONGKONG.
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING
ESTABLISHED 1883. MANUFACTURERS OF
DO. LTD.
PURE MANILA ROPE
8 STRAND
14 to 15
CIRCUMFERENCE
CABLE LAID
4 STRAND
5" to 15" CIRCUMFERENCE,
3" to 10" CIRCUMFERENOK.
Oil Drilling Cables of any size up to 3,000 feet in length, Prions, Samples and full particulars will be forwarded on application.
SHEWAN TOMES & CO. General Managers.
LEMOS.
BROOKE'S
FINEST Lemon Squash.
SOLE AGENTS;
CALDBECK MACGREGOR
& CO.
15, Queen's Road, Central.
Telephone No. 75.
HONCKONG JAPANESE
NOTICES.
NORTH BRITISH
AND
MERCANTILE INSURANCE CO..
fa which sie vested the shares of THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE CO., LTD.
AND
THE RAILWAY PASSEN- CERS ASSURANCE CO. The Undersigned AGENTS for the abova Company are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. Agents.
Yorkshire
MASSACE ASSOCIATION.InsuranceCo.,Ltd.
WE beg to notify the Public that we, the undersigned, being proper and fully certificated Masspers. have this day, formed the above Massage Association,
Mr. U. SURA 8 MP3, A. SUSA
» Mr. J. HONDA
Mrs. S. HONDA
54 Queen's Road Central,
METALS
of all kinds, especially for ship- building and evgineering wor ks Largest and best assorted stock in the Colony,
SINGON & CO.,
Established A. D. (1880.).
Plios 515,
HING LUNG ST.
NEW FILMS
JUST ARRIVED,"
MODERATE.
PRICE! MEECHEUNG.
PHOTOGRAPHER
...
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1918.
HOTELS AND CAFES.
THE HONGKONG Hotel
THE
AND
GRILL ROOM.
J. E. TAGGART,
Manager.
PEAK HOTEL.
1.500 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVIL
15 MINUTES FROM LANDING STAGE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. BLAIR.
GRAND HOTEL.
shaaschim and up-jodaja Zotel, most cantral location within the vickity, of all the pritch Bank Hosed for the best Food, Betrokhrastis, Accommodation and Glasilo per Onisins under European SupervİSİN.
3 first-class, voring Orchestra randers eclections frças 6.30 9.3, to 11.30 PM
-Special monthly terms for residents and for Shipping People.
For further particulars apply :* W. BARKER,
Mariager, Telephone No. 197. Telegraphic Address "COMFORT.”*.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
CENTRAL LOCATION.
ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING, TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR
HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS. Kel. 178.
Telegraphic Address: *VICTORIA
JI WETORKIAL..
Kanage
THE CARLTON HOTEL.
(THE ONLY AMERICAN HOTEL IN THE
COLONY.;
ICE HOUSE STREET.
Under American Management.
Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes' walk from the Banks and Central District. 43 Eedrooms Excellent Cuisine, Seropalously Clesa. Moderate Tarms. Youthly and Family Enter or application to the Frepriskerar
MRS F. E. CAMERON 4 Telephone 812,
EUROPE HOTEL, SINGAPORE.
UNDER NEW BRITISH MANAGEMENT.
THE PREMIER HOTEL. FINEST SITUATION. EXCELLENT CUISINE.
FINE
For the COMPLEXION,
it beautifies and preserves the complexion, and may be freely used on delicate and sensitive såine which ordinery toileivosgs would irritate all coursen.
TEL 1877.
"ESTABLISHED 1884.
The Undersigned AGENTS faz the above Company BY. prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Raten.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
AGENTS,
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY LIMITED,
PORTLAND SEKANT.
In Carks of 375 lbs, net.
In Bags of 150 lbs, met.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
Gastal Managers. Hengkang, 10th Amrust, 1918-
ARTHUR E. ODELL,
(Late Grand Hotel, Southcliffe. England and Royal Palace Hotel, London, W.)
NOTICES:
YARDLEY'S OATMEAL
The purest and finest of Soaps, seientifically com- bined with an Oatmeal specially treated for the extraction of its bland, soothing, superfatting
qualities.
SOAP
For be NURSERY.
A perfect Nursery Soar
it soothes as n cleanaca, Its use esibles Baby lo start, fife with a healthy and' beautiful skin and to maine tain its benuly through
Youll To Ag
PRICES Cts. 60 a Box of 3 Cákes. COLONIAL DISPENSARY, 14. QUEEN'S ROAD
CENTRAL
DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO.
MOTOR CARS FOR HIRE & SALE. PROMPT SERVICE.
Sole Distributors for South China and Macao for the OVERLAND, HUDSON and [CHANDLER Motor Cars, and the HARLEY DAVIDSON Motor Cycles.
KOWLOOK BRANCH, 26. KATHAN ROAD, TEL: K: 216.
PROPRIETOR: C. LAURITSEN. Tel. 482.
FRENCH
LESSONS.
C. MOUSSION,
15, Morrison Hill Road.
NOTICES.
Scripps
27 H.P. SCRIPPS' MARINE MOTOR MODEL B.B.
Four cylinder cycle csator
-Two-unit slectric starter!
· Schabter tamana cartórstar High tensio wa
Splash and for
food ailing
Paragon Tiesa gear
Reverse gear on same ebd Only 3′′ Wine exposi Tybee all-cloned Si volt 50 ampere ballety Esanailed black sač gray Complete equipment.
A two-cylinder 14 h.p. SCRIPPS Marine Motor powered
a 35 ft.boat across the Atlantic in the summer of 1912.
ALEX. ROSS & CO.
THE
4. Des Voeux Road-Central.
Machinery Department..
Telephone 27.
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G.
R.
́GENERAL NEWS.
"Supply of Aeropianes.
The Parliamentary Air Com-- mittee met at the House of Com mona recently and passed a resolution expressing grive anxiety-for-the-arrangement of supply-of high-pawar asroplanes for next year's campaign; at the heavy lom of-life-in-training pilota in this country, and at the inadequate medióal service, As to the Loch Doon serodrome, they felt that the matter could not be left in its present inconclusive position, and further investiga- tion should be undertaken into the unwarrantabla waste of public- money and labour,
Chinese Prisoners Escape.
On 28th July a dexen Chinese prisoners at the Japanese gaol at Port Arthur, while taking a bith, tried to escape. They killed i guard and injured some other gaards who had come to the resoge of their comrade, The guarda fred their revolvers, killing two of the prisoners, and succeded in {arreeting six others. The fo Į maining four, however, fled from the prison compound into the bills | în the neighbourhood. It was not antil some hours later, that thing four were rounded up. The man were serving sentences „of leen than 10 years on charges of robbery and murder.
War Girl Critics."
A fresh aspect of social and scholastic life was revenied as conference" in London recently of the Association of Head Mie ↑tresses. The mistress is no longer dreaded by the pupil and describ ed (tehind her back) by such endearing epithets is "old" ogre." Never," said Mies Faithlall (Obeltenham Ladies' College), "were the relations between girls
Any European, Non-Asiatic or sad their teachera more ehard- Indian desiring to leave the ing than
to-day. they are Colony should apply in person I am often surprised at the at the Central Police Station manner in which the girl 1 pm, and 2 p.m. to 4 pm: dally, and 50, and treats her teacher se between the hours of 9 a.m. to bridges the guft between, way, 15 Applicants will be required to a comrade. I wonder if it is produce Passports or identifica largely because we have given up | the caps and mantles of an earlier All persons with certain excep generation ? " Miss Faithfull
tion papers.
tions. who remain in the Colony for more than 7 days are went on to say that she had required to Register themselves studied the" war girl," and found under the REGISTRATION of her more thoughtful, more anxious PERSONE ORDINANCE 19164ooncerning the things that wer Forms of Registration giving the of vital importance to the nation particulare required may be and to her own life than she was obtained at the G. P. O. and at four years ago. She was more all Police Stations.
adventurous and enterprising non-com- because so many openings and pliance is a fine not exceeding opportunities were before her,
and she was more emotional."
The Penalty for
$50.
CAST IRON A
RAINWATER PIPES
AND FITTINGS. FRANK SMITH &
CO,
DES VCEUX ROAD. CENTRAL. TEL 2050, HONGKONG.
PIANOS
FOR
HIRE
AT
$10
PER MONTH.
ROBINSON'S
A Racecoursa.
Major William Endicott, of the American Red Cross, recently iesaed & report on the work done by that organisation in France during last month. It appears that: the „American Red Cross canteens served 950,000: mania.. behind the lines, whila÷the field. service section supplied 425,000 hot drinks and 450,009 fres mesin. for American, British, and French soldiers, Two new hospitals wae opened, one in a obatean imme- ⠀⠀ diately behind the front, another on racecourse near Paris. Ofer 300 beds were added to existing hospitals. Convalescent-homes I were opened at Cannes and Bjare --
ritz and much assistance was given to a large number of Franch bospitals The latter received from the American organisation £250,000
in- of supplies, oluding 4,500 pillows, 4600 - sheets, 10,000 suite of underwear, 1 500 blacket", and 1,200 awesters. Over 690,000 bags of tobacco and packages of cigarettes were distributed to soldiers of the American and Allied Armiss.” Fourteen farma at yarians pointa behind the lines are being worked..| by the American Bad Grosh to furnish fresh vegetables for hospitale. The hospital built on a Paris racecourse was construct od under a “barty order” to fe- ceive gas case from the Ameri- can front, The satire hospital, comprising 600 beda, wán come pleted in 24 days, including
team-heated operating room, - shower bath, sterilising room, and a complete selectric fighting eratem. The first day the hospital was in operation it received 180 cases of men wounded", "In the te« conf fighting the entire hospit al is built so it can
aken down and moved t
other location, if necessary, on lorries,