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INTIMATIONS

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,

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HE ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS

THE

in the abure Company will be held the Company's Offices, on TUESDAY,

INTIMATIONS

NOTICE.

TONGKONG SUBSIDIARY: COIN the 28th of September, at Noon, for the in reasonable amounts can be

H° purpose of receiving the Report of the obtained by the public AT PAR on General Managers, together with application to the Hongkong and Statement of Accounts to 30th June Shanghai Bank.

ED. C. WOLFE

Gomul Treasurer.. Hongkong, Sept. 5, 1916

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED- from the 19th to 8th September. both days inclusive. *

DOUGLAS-LAPRATK & CO., General Managers. Hongkong, Sept. 4, 1918:

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TIRE Undersigned baving been appointed "AGENTA for the CUWIE HARBOUR COAL CO., LTD are prepared to quote prices for best quality SILIMPOPON JOAL trimmad into Bankers at SEBAT. TIK or SANDAKAN (British, "North Borneo

SILIMPOPON COAL compares favour. ably with the batter grades of JapanTSE Coal and gives good results on a very moderate comsumption.

Stosmart calling xi. SEBATTIK :or SANDAKAN exclusively for SILIMPO POS COAL (either cargo or Bunkers) âre szempt from payment of all Port charges.

At Sehabtik Steamers are berthed along side the Company's wharf where there is a minimum depth of 27 to 28 feet at low water Spring Tides.

Chart of Sibuko Bay (Sabattik Har- sour), Prices and all other information concerning the Port can be bad on Application to the Agents,

BRADLEY & CO., LTD.,

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Hoogkoor Dec. 9. 1975:

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Hongkong, Sept. 3. 1916

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bex to inform the Public that I bave This Day Established myself as Watchmaker, Repairer, etc.

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An article in the "Contemporary Re-Helgoland and the shelter the ind view" on "The Heligoland Mistuko ' offers an interesting object-lesson in the danger of ignoring the specialist and the still greater danger of allowing considera. tions of naval strategy, which are all but permanent in their validity, to be sub-consulted. It is only a few month since ordinated to temporary feelings of amity Viscount Grey secretly offered Cyprus to There are other with one or another Power. When Heli. Greece for termS goland was occupied by Great Britain storevias judgments founded many -directions in which the tendency to-day!

1807 in was seized in obedience to con decades ago on strategical considerations siderations urged by the country's naval in deference to the feelings of smalby advisers. At the time the urgent neces which now prevail in cerian directions. sity was to provide an entrepot" fram which British goods could be cleared in light craft through the cordon which Napoleon's Perlin Decrees had placed round the Continental markets, and, incidentally found these of Germany. Napoleon desired to keep British goods. It was one of the. out of Germany. Navy's tasks to get them in. From Heligoland merchandise of immense valne was cleared into the Hansa porta and the estuaries of the Garman riverJ

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That the island could be so employed. was due to its unique position it regarding strength of the German artillery has During the past few days the increas to those estuaries and to its aurious been noticeable, especially the heavy natural formation. The Admiral on the guns which have been firing at a longer spot pas under no illusioni ak to its range and wildly with a view of making MANILA Messre Macondray &

*** With... amall ex. things uncomfortable to our rear. Owsia strategic value. pense he wrote, this island may, bé u to our superiority of obecreation,

aver. Little Gibraltar... It is a key to the German aircraft, the enemy have been

the

of the rivers Em Weser Jands, Libe, and wasting mädanmunition while our Eider

anti-aircraft Sushi prozed from 1807 anti-e aft guns have hardly fred shell for weeks Our artillery's To 1815, and such, even in neutral hands work has been a wonderful achieve it was to prove once again in 1870, when ment Our success in this great the French Fleet, merely by riding out battle is largely due to the science and sida its territorial waters, was able to during of que gunman find the maintain an efective blockade of the Bousands of men in the Homeland,

by both and body in making Jweating and ammunition. A

gunk What, it may be asked, induced. Great workshops would meaning in the Britain to agres to the cession of port

the cutting off of the

support

is desperately possessing auch strategies possibilities needed. the Germans are. bringing Suraly no possession in Africa could be age of fire has endde a great wall through up many men and batteries. Our bac considered as offering adequate compensa which nothing could pass and it has cut tion for its loss to Power whose very off the Germans from their reserves existenco depended on the control of the Some of our men, taken prisoners on the

The fact that the island had been sent to the rest as the

morning

To the first attacmans did not be Occupied originally for use not against not care to emerge from their duk Germany; bat against France should outs The Germans were

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