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GREEN ISLAND CEMENT. COMPANY, LIMITED,

NOTICE IS HERERY GIVEN chat FXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Crren Istatus Cement Company Limited will be held at the Ofice of Messrs. Shewan, Toner & Co. the General Managers of the

_13305 St. Gestery Bailding. Chater Victorin in the Colony of Hongkong, on FRIDAY that fifteenth day of December, 1210,

at twelve o'clock noon for the purpose of considering, and if thought be passing as Extraordinary Resolutions the following. Resolutions, that is to

Jay

(1) That the expital of the Company

reduced from Son (Four: be million dollars) divided into 4ond (Four hundred thousand) abures of $16 (Ten dollars) each, 20$(Three million dollars divided into 4xx (Fone hundred) thousandy shares of 37.30 Sever dollars Anıl fity cents) onch, And that such reduction be effected by returning to the holders of the

Four hundred thousand shares that have been issued paid ip capital to the extent of $250

Two dollars and

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BUME & REIT.

IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that Mr. BERTHOLD REIF will no longer use the firm name of BUME & HEIF but will carry on Business in future under his own name.

GIBR, LIVINGSTON & Co.

Agents, Hongkong. Dec. 3, 1916.

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cents) Lity

from 810 (Ten dollars) to $7.20 | (Seven dollars and fifty cents).

(3) That, applicatiền be inale to the Supreme Court of Hongkong to confirm the reduction of the of the Company in con- with the fureguing Should the above Resolutions be passed by the requisite majority, they will be submitted for confirmation s Special Resolutions to a Second Extr ordinary General Meeting which will be subsequently convened,

Dated this fifth day of December, 1916.

By Orner of the Board,

SHEWAN, TOMES & D», •

General Manders,

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SECRET HISTORY.

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MR. BEGBIE'S DISCLOSURES,

A correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle writes: I have not observed that any newspaper has called attention to the bits of sceret history which Mr Harold Begbie has introduced into Vindication of Great Britain." Some

merit.”

but in a time when Europe was con- stantly disturbed by political unrest,

no change of that kind could be made without the gravest danger

Mr. Begbie's book is a challenge as well is a vindication. It is a challenge to all with being unprepared; it is a challenge those who charged the country to the Press and the writers who attacked and maligned the men who were respon sible for the payal and military policy of this country before the war. So far as

taken up..

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of this secret" history relates to Lord I have seen the challenge has not been TAKASHIMA, OCHL, MUTABE

Haldane, with whose defence the book is largely taken up. we are told, for instance, that Lord Faldane was a favourite of the late King Edward before

as Minister for:

RECORDS.be became one of his Ministers, and that

bis appointment as

terse War in Campbell-Bannerman's Cabinet was made at the King's suggestion. King Edward's attitude towards Germany was the same as Lord. Haidane's.

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Hongkong, Nov. 7, 1016.

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SILIMPOPON (SÉBATTIK)

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1HE Undersigned having been appointed

COAL CO., LTD., are propated to quote prices for best quality SILIMPOPON COAL trimmed into Bankers at SEBAT- TIK SANDAKAN (British · North Bornec

SILIM POPON COAL compares favour- ably with the better grades of Japanese Coat Lid, gives good results on a very moderate nobaumption.

Stormers lling at BEBATTIK or SANDAKAN zelusively for SILTMPO PON. 001 (either exrgo or Brokers) ara exempt from payment of all Port charges.

At Sebattik Steamers are berthed along. side the Company's wharf where there is a minimaro depth of 27 to 28 fost it low water Spring Tidos.

Charts of Sibuko Bay (ebattik Bas bour). Prices and all other information aoncerning the Port can be had on *pplication to the Agents

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His (King Edward's) policy, having

The newsuper-Dreadnought "Arizona, seen the entente of his own county the most formidable fighting graft in

with her sister ship the Pennsylvani with its anciens enemies, Russia and France (concerning whom our Jingo the United States Navy, was placed in Press had quite recently been utter commission recently at the New York ing the most ferocious hatred and Navy Yard. The ceremony of declaring, unit of the naval strength of scorn), was to persuade Germany, thus the nation took place on the quarter isolated and imperilled, to make a fourth party in this grand alliance of deck, ces card the orders of the

Great Powers for the peace of the strict world. It cannot be too emphatically Navy Department putting vessel ja stated or too widely known that commission, and when colours were Edward the Seventh

Loisted never suggested,

a mighty cheer went up from never supported, and never once en-workmen clinging to the lattice work of tertained the notion of isolating. the fighting must. Germany. He mind was not destruc-No. 1 across Whitney Basin to the sen The Arizona was towed from drydock tive, but constractive.

wall soon, after two o'clock. A. forest of Mr Begbie gives us an excount of the false anffolding had been cleared away Haldane mission to Berlin in 1813 with- and workmen were busy with minor out adding much the statements details of the ship's completion accom which have been polished 'concerning it, but it is interesting to note that this anied by the ship's band, the newly

collected crew of chapter of the bus was submitted to the zbip. They were healed by the Arizona went aboard Lord Haldane,

who, withou: endorsing Marine Guard, commanded by Captain it, said it was not inaccurate. The M. E. Shearer, US, M. C., who has been indications given buggest the conclusion that the publication of the Berlin des assigned to the Arizona

Brief as it was, the

of com-. e ceremony patches would be a complete vindication missioning the ship made an impression MANILA. Messrs Macoudray & of Lord Badane."

on those who witnessed it. Rear Admiral

Co LORD SITCHENER'S APPOINTMENT. Nathaniel Usher, One of the mythe industriously pro mander F. B. Upham and Lientenent

yard, accompanied mandant of

by his sides, Com SINGAPORE: Mesare Borneo Co pagated by the Northcliffe papers is that Ralph P. Craft, went aboard the ship

Ltd they appointed Lord Kitchener to the soon after four o'clock. Commander GLASGOW. Messrs A. R. Brown War Offies. The fact is that they ao Upham stepped in front of the group of more appointed him than they removed him, although they tried to discredit officers, at the bead of whom was him. Saya Mr Begbie

Captain John D. McDonald, commander That Lord Kitchener should go to the department relt, placing the ship in

of the Arizona, and read the order of "For Particulara, apply to the War Office was Lord Haldane's Secretary

by Assistant signed suggestion made at the very beginning commission. Rear Admiral Usher, then of the crisis; Mr Asquith adopted this said: "I

place this ship in commission. fuggestion before the newspapers

Taoism knew that way was declared and Immediately the flag was hoisted and

ist, the colors and break the pennant only Foreign es anxiety about the pennant was broken from the fight Lord Kitchoner's command in Egypt ing mast while the band played the delayed

the appointment for a day or national anthem Officers and man stood two. These things are perfectly well

mention until known to everybody who has any died

at attention

the last

strains sway. acquaintance with the history of those

read

the Then

him in daye. Here is another item which appears to be news:

the

had

Captain McDonald mand of the vessel The Arizona from

that moment became a

ст

The ship will remmin at

remain at the Navy Lord Haldane, indeed, was the first for ten days, it is expected, before joining statesman publicly to advocate the the first at sea. To gather a crew for her formation of a North Sea Squadron three ships. (the Felmont, the Raquas at a time when practically every new and the New Hampshire) were place, ship of the British Fleet, was conces reserve and parts of their crews were trated in the Mediterranean, and a selected. Lientenant Coromander Staford man-of-war under the white ensign HLR Doyle, who built the eruines for was very infrequently seen in the Northboard her as senior engineer officer the vessel, has been assigned to duty

A great deal of the attack on the der W. R. White, C. C. Block and Richard Government for its alleged unpre Benderson paredness before the war contres Naval constructors at the Navy Yard round National Service. that if the Government of the day had which they regard is the finest craft b It is, inil art expecially pleased with the Arizona, owly adopted National Service chers be buit in the history of the yard. Her would have been no war, or if rar, then keel was laid in March, 1914, and the we could have beep ready to meet the was launched on June 19, 1016. Sho was completed at a saving of more than fact that the leaders favour of National Series Lord 81,000,000 from the estimated cost,

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Efter full consideration, National Fer- woe was rejected by the General Staff of the British Army It was rejected by the Ceneral Ets, after a most careful oxamination,, on männe! mili tary grounds, which commended them.. selven to the shrewd and careful judge! ment of King Edward's War Minister. It was definitely rejected because such

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