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SONGKONG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1917.

BUSINESS NOTIOKS

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No. 16.780.

THORNE'S

OLD VAT

No. 4.

SCOTCH WHISKY,

SOLE AGENTS:

A. S. WATSON & Co. Ld. WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

HONGKONG.

TEL. (16.

我三十月二七十度百九千壹枭

BUSINESS NOTICES,

STEAM OR MOTOR VESSELS

8,000 Tons, 4,000 Horse Power now Built. Steel Building Work of every Description.

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"Castings, Forgings, Repairs and Supplies. Prompt Attention and Shipment to Destination. INJECTORS AND STEAM PUMPS.

W. S. BAILEY & Co., Ltd.

ENGINEERS and

SHIPBUILDERS. KOWLOON BAY

THE OVERLAND CHINA "MAIL · (PUBLISHED EVERY

- MAIL DAY.)

Cuntains the Week's Newe of Hongkong and tha Far Fart.

rims (including, Postage to my part of the world 213.

per annam.

已丁次年六物中

THE

LATEST

PRICE. 33 00 Per Month

WAR.

TELEGRAM S.

(Reuter's Service to the Chino Mail.)

NOTICE

DRAGON MOTOR

CAR GO.

R.

SOLE DISTRIBUTORS FOR THE FAMOUS

KUDLO

VEILLAN

XOTOX BARE

BILANT

ORET

IARLEY DAVIDSON

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NY EUROPEAN, Non ASIATIC or INDIAN desiring to leave tan Colony should apply in person at the Centra Police Station between the heur of 9. to IP.M. and 2 pil. tế' 4 r,at. drily.

Applicants will be required to produce Reports or identification papers. All persone, with certain exceptions, whe remain in the Colony for more than

clays are required to Register them- selves under the REGISTRATION : PERSONS ORDINANCE 1916. Forma of Registration giving the particular required may be obtained at the .F.O. and at all Police Stations.

The Penalty for non compliance is a fine not exceeding 850.

~TRAMWAYS-COMPANY,

PEAK

LIMITED.

TIME TABLE.

WERK DAYS,

-7,00x1m to 8:00 am...Every 10 minätea. 8.00am to 10.00 .... Krary Iiminuza. HÜM, m. 1o 11.00a.m...Every 15 minutes. 11.30mm. to 12.45 p.m...Every 15 minutes.. 12p.in.c.2.15 pm...Every 10 minutes. 1.10 p.m. to 1.46 p....Every 15 minutes. 1.485.00 to 2.15 p.m...Every 10 minutes. 2.15 p.m. to 5.00 p.m..Every 15 minutes. 5.00p.m. to 8.00 p.m...Every 10 minutes.

· NIGHT QARA"-

9.50 p.m. and 9 p... 9.30 p.m. to 11.00

... every half hour.

11.00 p.m. to 11.45 p.m. evary quarter of

An hour,

7.30.

SUNDAYS.

00.. to 10:30 am..Every 15 minuten. 10:30a.m. to 11.00 a.m...Every 10 minutes. 1.30 to 12 Noon...Every 15 minutse, .00 Doon to 1,00 p.m...Every 10 minotes. 10p. to 5.30 p.m...very 15 minutes. 5 30p.m. to 8.00 pm...Every 10 minuta, 6.00 pm to 6.30 p.m...Every 15 minutes. 6:30p.m. to 8.00 p.m...Every 10 minutes. NIGHT CARS as on Week Days.

SATURDAYS.

Extra Car at 12 midnight. SPEOLAL CARS by arrangement at the Company's Office, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS" Des Voeur Road Central.

Sesso and peach tickets available for all care not already full ramming at the time stated in the Company's time tables, but not for special sam, esa bo obtained ou application at the Company's Off- No Season ticket will be issued until payment therefor has been made in Bank Fotos or by Cheque or Compradore order representing Bank Notes"

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Manuigers.

UNDKR

HE FIRST CHINESE NEWSPAPER

FYER (RUND ·

PURELY NATIVE DIRECTION.

BEST

TELETON 483.

COME AND INSPECT

CARS IN THE COLONY FOR HIRË.

ANISEED AND LICORICE

COUGH BALSAM.

FOR THE RELIEF OF ALL CATARREAL COMPLAINTS SUCH AS COUGHS, COLDS HOARSENESS, AND SOPENESS OF TEE CHEST.

"PRICE 50 CENTS AND $1.00 PER BOTTLE.

TAIKOO DOCKYARD.

GNLDERS OF SHIPS & ENGINES

OF EVERY DESCRIPTION:

THE INKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY

- OF HONGKONG LTD.

-TELEGRIALE $59,-

**

AGENTS:- SUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.

-TiLepas No 312

FORTY SUBMARINE ENCOUNTERS

SOME STATISTICS BY SIR EDWARD CARSON.

ALWAYS 3,000 MERCHANT

SHIPS IS DANGER ZONE..

Losnox, Feli 2.

HINDENBURG ON VERDUN OPERATIONS.

A VERY FRANK ORDER OF THE

DAY."

THE LOWERED MOBALE OF GERMAN TROOPS.

Loxpox, Feb. 2. Sir Bilward Carson, First Lord of

Reuter's Correspondent at the the Admiralty, continuing his speecht

British Headquarters in France on the introduction of the Naval

reports that a copy of an Order Estimates, said the number of armed of the Dus by Marshal von Hin nevelantier: had been increased by denburg, found oua cuptured Ger over 47 per cent, during the last two man soldier, states:—

nonths and the mining was improv The operations at Verdun dur ing, weekly. Sixty-nine Allied "anding October to December are 'serious "Neutral steamers of over 1,000 and regrettable reveries. "Inapadlo tons, and totalling 201,000 tons, were others must ruthlessly be removed. sunk during the first eighteen days The number taken prisoners was of Berember, 1016.05 ships, of a unusually large for German troops. total tonnage of 182,323 tous, were Some evidently surrendered without sunk hiring the same period in offering any serious resistance and January, 1917: 80 ships, of a total without suffering heavy losses. This xge of 208.631 during a like shows thus the morale of some troops period in February, 1917. Alto- | was low, and the reason for this must

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO.,LD. Ketler 118, 91. 184 vesade were be very carefully investigated. The

VICTORIA DISPENSARY. PORTLAND CEMENT

THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING Go., Ld.

Established 1883

MANUFAUTUREKS CF,

PURE Manila ROPE

STRAND

GABLE-LAID

4 STRAND

" to 15

6" to 15% CTCOME.

"3" to 10". CIRCOMFYRENDE,

CIRCUMFERENCE.

Oil Drilling Cables of any size up to 3,000 feet in length!

Prices, ramples and full particulars will be forwarded on application to

Shewan, Tomes & Co. Generai Mamuger.

Hangkong, April 11, 1912.

E

WATSONS

VITABLE.

WATSON'S

E

THE PREMIER

#

SCOTCH.

MILD, MELLOW, MATURED."

In Casks of 375 lbs. not.

In Bags of, 250 ita, net.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

GENERAL MANAGER.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL

AND.

GRILL ROOM

J. H. TAGGART, -

MANAGER

PEAK HOTEL.

ADMIRABLY SITUATED' AT: VICTORIA GAP.

Adjoining the Tramway Termixes, 1,400 feet above Sea Level FIRST-CLASS FAMILY RESIDENTIAL AND TOURISTS HOTEL

Telephones in all rooms. First-class Cuisine, Lounge, Stoking and Loding reeme, Roof Garden.

Terms: From 35 per day.

Telegraph add: 'Peaceful'

PO. PEUŠTER

Manager.

A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., PATELL & CO.

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

TELEPHONE NO. 616.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

Central Location-

LL ELECTRIC TEAMS Pan Entrance,

sunk during the periods respretively. old spirit of the German infanáry...

From the 1st February to the 18th must be revived by training and by February 6,176, ships arrived at and the strictest drill, amongst other 5,973 left the United Kingdom. It things. This matter is of vital is estimated that there were 3,000 importance." ships in the danger zone at any one

tErste.

The fact that we had had BAVARIANS v. PRUSS¿ forty encounters with submarines|

SANGUINARY FIGHT IN A GAMP. during February was an enormous cchievemen Regarding the fate of

"MAASTRICHT. Feb. 22. the Submarines the official reporta

The newspaper" Ina Nouvelles showed every degree from certainty states that there, was a sanguinary to improbability. He selected us a fight between Butariau and Frus instance of certainty the ease of the sans at the cump at Deverloo fast. capture of a subinarine with her week. Thirty-two was killed and crew by u destroyer; and he men-two hundred "wounded. fionyd us, we case, of uncertainty one

where an airship" dropped bonate PRISONERS-OF-WAR EMPLOYED ON just where a submarine and tuin

GERMAN FARMS. mediately previously submerged.

Regarding shipbuilding, he de-!

AMSTERDAM, Feb. 22. clared that no single slip would sel Herr Grueher ha informed the sunoccupied during the coming. Reichstag Committee that there are months while steps had born tukan three-quarters of a million prisoners to meoncile the competing chips of war employed as farm labourers,

of warships and merchantnis. Their number will be increased. appealed to the fastion to 'consent to

I restrictions on "imports in order to make the Admiralty's tusk easier.

SUBMARINE PARTS IN A BUOY.

MADRID, Feb. 21".

The garrisons in occupied terri- tories, will be employed on farms.

EXCHANGE OF CIVILIAN PRISONERS ABANDONED.

Loxnos, Feb. 22.

It is officially announced that i

In the House of Cominous, "Mr. ' buoy containing thirty-one cases of Hope, Parlamentury Secretary to spare parts for German submurines the Treasury, stated that the idea has been discovered in the vicinity of a general exchange of civilian of Carthagena. Three Gemans bate prisoners has been abandoned. been arrested.

LATER,

The Spanish Government is deter

•mined thoroughly to investigate the "buoy" incident, and to punish severely all persons implicated, <in order to demonstrate the strictness of Spanish neutrality.

SUBMARINE PIRACY.

LATEST LOSSES.

LONDON, Feb. 21.

EXHAUSTION, OF GERMAN POTATO STOCKS.

AMSTERDAM, Feb. 21, The Prussian Minister of the Interior, in a proclamation, admits that front lias completely stopped the supply of potatoes, the stocks of which are certain to be exhausted before the new harvest.

This has strained the weak avail-

The small British, steamer Brigadeable stocks of com, owing to the and the sailing ship Centurion have necessity of distributing flour in the been sunk

great cities.

The Minister of the Interior has

LATER

Importers-Exporters A Electric Lifts, Fans and Lighting: The only vessel sunk yesterday therefore ordered the rural authori

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TERMS VERY MODERATE

Consultations fres

schooner Mayola.

PLYMOUTH CLOSED TO NEUTRAL BHIPS.

LONDON, Feb. 21. The Shipping Cuskite announces that Plymouth is closed to Neutral ships-

CLAIMS IN THE PRIZE COURT.

LONDON, Feb. 22.

The Paire Court-ins disallowed.

pel funners to supply foodstuffs.

- DISSATISFACTION IN NORWAY.

CHRISTIANIA, Feb. 12. There is considerable dissatisfac tion in Norway over the Govern ment's policy at home and abroad owing to economic conditions and, the recent friction with Great Britain, There is a strong move

the chain of the crew of the sub-ment in Lavour of the formation of marme E14 (referred to in a cable a National Government...

| Türkish tránsport, but has allowed

dated 29th January) in respect to a

the claim in respect to the gunboats

(Continued on Pars 5.)

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