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"SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1917.

SHIPPING

P. & O. S. N. CO.

ROYAL MAIL SERVICE”

UNDER · CONTRACT WITH "HIS' MAJESTY'S · GOVERNMENT

·TO

WHAT SELF-RATIONING

MEANS.

CONTROLLER'S" DIETARY SCALE EXPLAINED.

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OFFICIAL. NÕUSEHOLD QUIDE

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE MOST DIFFICULT LANGUAGE.

Mr P. Brady asked the question in the Observer as to what constituted the most difficult languago to" scquira, thạt is presumably for the average Britisher For other European Some incline to Lord Devonport has taken bread, meat,shtu or Basque, hut most of the replies that have been sent in ineling to Chinese Japanese. Amongst the wors are the following 7-

MARSEILLES AND LONDON, and sugar as the three most important

TAKING Passengers and OwzOG TÓ

STRAITS, COLOMBO, INDIA, AUSTRALASIA, EGYFT, &c.

Steamaru

to Colombo

Leave Hongkong

Connecting Mail Stoater from

Nooo

Colombo.

Due Af Maravillos 1917,

'Dua London 1017.

Whan Passengers change Steamars #1 COLOMBO,

apoomarcation in the cupacting Steamer from COLOMBO is definitely reaveved in

Hengkong at the time of Booking.

On the Australian Route Tickets Interchangeable with Orient Lisel

SAILINGS DIRECT TO

SHANGHAI, MOJI, KOBE AND

5. S.

YOKOHAMA.

Leave Hongkong About-

Passengers may travel by Railway in Japan between Ports of all fres, charge. Return Tickets are available by Messageries. Maritimes Company-

(Non-

INTERMEDIATE STEAMERS Transhipment) IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE MAIL STEAMERS, WILL LEAVE DIRECT FOR

MARSEILLES AND LONDON, Calling as SINGAPORE, PORT SWETTENHAM; PENANG, COLOMBO AND PORT SAID.

CARRYING IST AND 2ND SALOON PASSENGERS AT REDUCED RATES.

PROPOSED SAILINGA :

STEAMERS,

Leave

'KONU About

Leave S'PORA. Abous

Due t M'HEILLER. if "calling about

Dae LONDON About

THE INTERMEDIATE SERVICE IS TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED.

·WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS.

All Cabins, mis Étted with Electric Faas free of charge and each Barth Furnished with an Electric Rading Lemp.

Round-the-World Tickets and Through Tickets to New York in counction with the Retura Tiskete as faze 102 Palf Evailable to Furags for Two Youn; or to

Principal Mail Lines.

Intermediate Ports for Six Moaths,

Owing to the War in Europe Steamers and Sailing dates are liable so be cancelled or altered with a notice.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES:

Consignees are reminded of the necessity to apply to the Company's Agents regarding urival of consignments expected of which they have received decuments .or advice.

Any damaged packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Cousignees and the Company's Surveyors, Messrs Godèned and Douglas, at 10 a.m. r. Mondays and Thursdays. All claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival hert, after which date they cannot be recognised. No Claims will be admitted after the goods, have left, the Godowný.

For Further Information. Passage Fares, Freights, Handbooks, Dates of Sailing etc., apply to

E. V. D. PARR,

Superintendent.

CHINA MAIL S.S. CO., LTD.

FREIGHT AND PASSENGERS.. S.S. CHINA

WILL SAIL FROM HONGKONG FOR

SAN FRANCISCO

VIA SHANGHAI, JAPAN PORTS & HONOLULU.

SUNDAY, APRIL 15th,

AN UNSURPASSHD HIGH OLASI PASSENGER

SERVICE AT INTERMEDIATE RATES,

O. H. RITTER,

Prince's Buildings.

Freight and Passenger Agent,

Ice House Street.

INDIAN

AFRICAN LINE.

Cargo carried on through Bills of Lading from HONGKONG to BEIRA DELAGOA BAY, DURBAN (Natal), EAST LONDON, PORT ELIZABETH” and CAFE TOWN with transhipment at COLOMBO to Steamers of the INDIAN

AFRICAN LINE...

FECK BONGLONG

PROPOSED SAILING, Connecting with

LT

FLOW COLORD

EXCELLENT ACCOMMODATION FOR 14 AND 2ND URASS PASKOREA..

ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE.

Borular Direct Bervice from JAPAN, CHINA and STRAITS to BEIRA, DELAGOA BAY, DURBAN, EAST LONDON, PORT ELIZABETH, and CAPE TOWN, mailing at MAURITIUS so range_and_afording the Quickest Freight Trasport from the ORIENT BOUTH AFRICA.

For dates of departure. Rates of Freight apply to

THE· BANK LINE. LIMITED.

ELLERMAN"

LINE.

(Ellerman & Bucknall Steamship Co., Ltd.)

JAPAN, CHINA AND STRAITS

TO

UNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENT.

FOR PARTICULARS OF HAILINGS, BHIPPERS ARE REQUESTED TO APPROACH, THE UNDERSIGNED.

Steamers proceed is Baez Canal or Cape of Good Baps at Owners option. Baitot to chamra without notice.

Or, to Reiss & Co, Canton.

THE BANK LINE LTD.,

General Agents

staples of daily consumption; and the suggested limits, arn:

Bread 4lb. (or its equivalent 3lb. of flour)..

Meat 2j1b.

*

Sugar fb. per head per week. Recently he issued the following state- ment in explanation of certain points in his appeal on which there appears to have been soma misapprehension

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Meat includes bacon, ham, sausages, „ganie, rabbits, poultry and tinned meat. The ration of 2ilb, per head per week means ancooked meat, as bought from the butcher, and includes bone and fat.

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Housekeepers are expected to re- duce their household consumption in respect of members of their household "who take meals away from home-

The allowance of Boar for bread making is expected to include that used for cakes, puddings.

Mr Willoughby-Meade Laurent Japanese, for the following reasons (1) The structure of the sentence is most peculiar. Some parts of speech aro no European wanting others have equivalent. (1) The lavish of honorifics, "polite variants of verb ant

use

GERMANY'S SUBMARINE

NOTE.

TEXT OF MEMORANDUM.

The following is the text of tha memo“ rundam referred to in Barlin's raply to President, Wilson's speech as giving de tails of the now measures for the blockade of the Allied countries:-

Froes. February 1, 1917, all maritime by arms in the prohibited waters traffic will be opposed, purely and simply. indicated below, around Great Britain, France and Italy and is the Eastern Mediterranean.

The blockaded areas are

France, marked off by a line running at (4) North': an area round England ang

verbal-adjective forms, particles, and numerative nouns; and variable modes 20 nautical miles distance from the of address. (3) The castom of writing Dutch count as far as the Terschelling certain words in Chinese characters. lightship, the degree of longitude of the These characters have two narucs ench-Terschalling lightship to Udzio, a lino one Japanese, the other derived from running through latitude 62 deg. north the Chinese soul. Each character, with longitele Odeg, to titude deg. north its two names anel its meaning, must be and longitude 3deg, west, thence to s learnt by heart Educated Japanese position, three nautical miles south of know, and use) 2,000 or 3,000 of these the southern point of the Faroe island characters: so that a fair grounding in thepce from a point latitude 0 deg. north written Chinese-itself a hard language and longitude 10deg west to katitude sidey, north and longitude 15deg. west; thence latitude 57deg, north, longitude godeg. west; thence along latitude 43deg. north to a point 10 nautical miles from

coast at a distance of 20 nautical miles to the French frontier:

It is recognised that some house advisable if one is to know Japanese wives will not be able to afford to buy the full allowance of meat and may as an educated person, should (The consequently be compelled to exceed learning of two patire syllabaries the the bread allowance of 4lb. per head | katakana and the hirayan with their

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The Sunshine Belt.

The most Comfortable Route to America, and Europa

5.3. "ECUADOR" SA "COLOMBIA 8.S.

Ballings from Hongkang.

VENEZUELA “

www

30th March, at Noon sard April

gist May,

These Steamers have the most modera Equipment including ALL LOWER HERTHS and large comfortabla Staterooms

(Aingle and two berths only)

The Safety and Comfort of Passengers is de frat Bonsideration. Tickets are interchangeable with the Toye Kisen Kaisha and the Canadian Pacifle Ocean Service Ld."

For further information, rates, literature, schedules etc, apply to-

COMPANY'S OFFICE in Aleandra Buildings. TELEPHONE 141.

Chater Boad.

BANKS

BANKS

TONGKONG & SHANGHAI NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL

'per week. In such cases they are "euraive" or freehand variants. Most Cape Finisterre and along the Spanish BANKING CORPORATION,

expected to keep their purchases of berad at least 11b. pur head per week below their previous consumption. It is pointed out that if four restricted there is still a choice of rice, and similar products for the children's puddings...

MORE BAKAD LESS MEAT.

The position of the man who eats more bread than the allotted supply is that he may save on the meat as it is recognised that overdrawing in one direction can be counterbalanced by economy in another

Japanese words: are written in eine of these, but rustony dictates that certain words should be written in Chinese

Mr. E. Blake auggests Chinese: My reason for this is that, on an 'average it takes the missionarios (resicient in China and provided with native teachera) a full five years to gain a working knowledge of any one dialect. My authority" for this last statement is the word of a medical missionary who has put in over twenty years of work in China. Kaffir would probably make a good second.

Pta. A. H. Bright, No. 7777, R.A.M,C" With the exception of Gaelic pronuncia tion, the European language present no difficulties and of the Asiatic, Chinese

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PAID-UP CAPITAL” RESERVE FUNDS.

Sterling

£1,500,000@3/—$15,000,000-

Silver

(B) South: the Mediterraneau:-- The Mediterranean will remain open to neutral navigation in the area situated West of the following line: Point Espiquette to latitude 3sdeg nin north and longitude deg west, as well as to the north and west of strip twenty SERVE IABILITY OF nautical miles wide along the northern coast of Africa, beginning longitude Edeg. west.

In order to connect this area with Greece there will be a strip twenty nautical miles wide to the north of the following line: latitude 38deg. north, longitude deg. cast to latitude 38deg. north, longitude 10deg east, to latitude 17deg north and longitude lideg. 30min longitude 11deg. 30min. cast and long- east to latitude 34deg north, and

adeg. 30min. cast in Greek terri-

and Japanese present simple com-itude sadeg. 30 plexities of grammar, and the Indian

ГКОРИТЕТОВ

$15,000,000

MAATSCHAPPLY.

(NATHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY)

... 19,500,000

ESTABLISHED 18

$33,500,000 $15,000,000

AUTHORISED

CAFITAL

£60,000,000-(2 1,006,000 -

FAID OF

CAPITAL

11.82,000,000 (£1,000,000.

RISERVI

FDAU

Count or Drźectora.

S. EL Dodwell, Esq.,—Chairman.

J. A. Plummer, Esq.-Deputy Chairman. Hon. Mr." [EV. D." Parr, Bay,

C.E.. Anton, W. L GTM Edkins, Esq. Pattenden, Esq., C.B. Gubbay, Esq. Hon. Mr. F.Shellim.

Hod Mr. P. H. Holyoak.

CHINY MANAGER': Hongkong--N. J. STABR, Esq.

MANAGER: Shanghai-A. G. STEPHEN, 599.

Neutral

vessels navigating in the blockaded areas will be doing so at their own risks and perils. Although mendore have been taken in order that seatral vessels navigating on February 1, bound to ports in the blocked areas de LONDON BANKIERS--LONDON COUNTY AND spared during a suitable delay, it in nevertheless advisable to recommend that they be warned by every possible means and their route changed.

The Food Controller has taken only articles which are the real bisis of the nation's food, and no question is at pre- sant raised regarding limitations in other items of diet, although economy in any particular is to be applauded. Such foods as haricot beans, lentils, peas, and for example, interchangeable, rice are, f and Bord plenty of scope for variety languages, with the exception of Pushtu, Professor T. B. Wood, one of the are remarkably simple (Thibetan is in- experts assisting at the Food Controller's cluded); but Samoyedan in the Tundras will towards the end of this is difficult as having practically no Department, wecke issue the first of a series of weekly regular declensions and no regula articles giving, details as to food valites and other information helpful to the verbs. The African and Australasian fragal housewife

continents have languages called A point to be emphasised is that the agglutinative" These are undoubtedly man or woman) who lunches or dines the most difficult languages in the world; out is expected to loyally observe the scheduled obligations as to self-imposed but even so, are more readily pronounced rationing, and meals in hotels and res-than Pushtu, thus leaving this latter as taurants should be debited against him. probably the most difficult of the world's waters. in the housekeeping, account.

larignages. The

Mr John Cameron Grant mys Ther is no question at all in the matter- Chinese is by far the most difficult of all The Governments of the languages. world admit it in their regulations concerning the linguistic studies destination, diplomatic students. To

To know Chinese you have to unknow" yourself: you must acquire the power of different kind of "think" and the demands not only upon the powers of memory, but upon the powers of sight and hearing and the distinguishing of tones as well are simply tremendous. From the point

general position as to meals in places of public resort is still under con- sideration, and Lord Davonport had a further meeting with the advisory com- wittee of the hotel and staurant proprietors whielt was appointed to go into matters of detail

BREAD BELOW SHOP PRICE,

the blockaded areas may leave the pro Seatral vessels anchored in parts of hibited heaters with equal security it per they take the shortest route to free h

́RIGID RULES FOR AMERICAM SHIPS.. The regular service of American pas senger steamships may continue without hindranes:-

of (A) If Falmouth is taken as `port of

WESTMINSTER BANK, Lrummi

HONGKONG-INTEREST ALLOWED, On Current Account at the rate of Two cont. per annum on the daily balance

Ox Fixed Devourts :— . For 3 months 2 per cent. per annum

2

B

12

5. J. STABH,

Chief Manager.

Hongkong Feb. 24, 1917,

(B) If the vessels both homeward and butward bound take the direction of the HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK. Scilly Islands and point, situated in latitude Sodeg north and longitude 20 deg west. (German mines are not placed on this route).

THE business of the koore Bank

It is practicable to provide home-made brend at about sid. per quartern, which is 2d. less than the prevailing shop price. The experience of a family living 22

conducted by the HONGKONG miles out of London may be cited as an

(C) If the vesels display the follow AND SHANGHAI BANKING COR abject lesson. The local miller grinds of view of inventor and mechanical ing special signs, which will be permitted half a bushel of wheat (28ib.), the whole engineer I have been called upon to deal for them only, in American ports: bull PORATION, Ralsa may be obtained on product being used in the flour, for with the language and have been guided and superstructure painted in alternate/application which he charges 5s. d., plus 66. for upon it by the greatest living authorities

INTEREST on deposits is allowed on the grinding. He also sends, at the on Chinese, with the result that Chinese vertical white and red banda, 3. metres

'wide; on Fach

want a large fag of bite the minimum monthly balances at 3) same price, half a Bushel of white flour is the most difficult to learn.

and red squares!; at the stern; the Ame (or as near white as is permissible). Mr C. B. Tennack says at diferent rican national fag. In darkness the PER CENT. per annum Depositon Then there is the yeast, winch works times he has made some study of various national standard and the painting of may transfer at their option balances of out at foz. for 3d., and the total cost in languages, among the more difficult to the ships should, as far as possible, be $100 or more to the EONGKONG AND is. ed. for 10lb. of bread.

his mind being Turkish.

F

the ardent

claimed for the home-mande bread) and Chinese.. Fe, Arabic, Hussin, visible from distance and the ships BHANGHAI BANK to be placed on It is

the opinion expresses

should everywhere and always be that it is more nutritious and goes fur- that the latter

FIXED DEPOSIT 4 PER CENT powerfully nighted up. ther than the ordinary shop loaf, and it to acquire a knowledge of literary is delightfully palatables

or colloquial, for European The (D) If one steamship travels in each per sunam

For the Hongking and Shanghaf Mr. Trustram Ere speaking at Rugby reason for this is that Chinese has, ak place at Falmouth on Sunday and direction each week; the arrival aball

Banking Corporation. said it appassia would be required if (this in common wit

to bid that legislation to our minds, no grammar has the departure from Falmouth on Wed-

N.J. STABB, aber Oriental with other during this

nesday

Chist Manager any big effort were to he made towards sinnguages) & syntax unlike anything in very large increase of food arising from Europe; and, finally, has to the harvest of

1918;

gives a guaranted that its ships have not agricultural tractors and with the whole "learn to read, and thus, study by one contraband goods on board (according to resources

of the State at the diaposal

who must tall one

of

And, by means of This latter want makes it imp(E) If the United States Government

why a cher at elbow

a ten-

Hongkong May 14, 191

517

• considere he saw no reason Belf. All work must be done with the German lista of contraband goods).

hould not be the sound the various the blockaded areas have been given. INDIA AUSTRALIA"'"& CHINAT

increase

copies of each chart indicating THE CHARTERED BANK OF

obtained: The

he question be put to the ideographs which our words spelt with the above Note Similar Notes farmers was: "Are you going to increase with letters. Further, Chinese, has subhave been remitted to the other neutral the food supply of 1918 and 2019, or do tieties of pronunciation beyond the Fowars. you want the State to do it, or will you, powers of most Europeans, but essential. take to deliver the goods?" with the assistance of the State, under to conveying one's messing with accuracy

to a Chinaman.

YOUR

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THE YOKOHAMA SPECIJ BANK LTD. EXTARCIANT 1880.

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KOET LLIOTANG LONDON *....£1,300,000 LOS ANGELES

£1,800,000LTONS »

£1,300,000

TORTORA PADD-UP CAPITAL

RESERVE FUND...; into Germany is prepared to take. account the requirements of the con: RESERVE LIABILITY OF PRO- tinental passenger service by granting PRETORS .... the free mange eleh weet, in both directions of a Dutch paddie steamer FOREIGN EXCHANGE and Geneal between Flushing and Bouthend-at- Banking business transacted. A

The paddle steamers may cross the febiden water only by day. They must steer a direct inward or outward course from the Noord Hinder lightshin. Alang or shorter periods at rates which will no that line no German mines will be laid. quoted on applications The special signs to be carried by, thess- ships during the crossing and the condi- tions are the cameras for American passenger ships.

The Man Who Gets There

In the man who har biyod.......... real rich red blood and plenty of it is body."

WATERBURY METABOLIZED COD LIVER OIL COMPOUND

makes blood-lots of it-fa giving, brain strength

denishing blood.

CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for 1 year

T. C. DOWNING..

Manage Hongkong Jens, 13, 1116.

THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA LIMITED.

Authorised Canitat

Paid-up Hesome Fun

BANKELS

£600,000

SAN FRANCISCO

SHANGHAI

SINGAPORE

SYDNEY

TIRAGING

TERTAIN

TOKYO

THNAMES

Interest allowed on Current Account Deposits received for faded perioda sö rates to be obtained on application.

· RIGHT ONÓ1 Managi Hongkong, March 13, 1917.

NOTICE

HIGH-CLASS PRINTING.

BOOK BINDING.

2,500 DONE AT 560,000

BANK OF CAMD LONDON Jansz (200K Bank, Lesartani

„Evagy description of Exclu transacted.

INTERESTE allowed

on

THE CHIA MAIL: OFFICE

BOOKS & PAMPHLETSA SPECIALTY

bussiges Prospectuses

Current

Ascounts at per cent, per ann

un Dally Balance and on Fixed Deposits st rates which many boyascertained on application.

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