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INTIMATIONS

CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM ASSOCIATION OF HONGKONG.

MEETING

at the THEATRE on M THURSDAY, the and May

1 or to pass the propusel Rales and Regulation (s copy of which mu seen at my Office, 4 Des Veenx Road Central and to elect Odirdes and a

Committee, ari

business.

to transact acher

INTIMATIONS

NOTICE

W OFFICES at New York, Fan Francisco, and Hongkong, under the the name of Katasha & COMPANY.

Our bent otice is situated at No 2.5 Cennunght Road.

bove from This Day OPENED

KARANJA Ariel COMPANY.

floruskong April 30, 1917,

1745

The Honourable Mr. P. H. HOLYOÄKUNTOS INSURANCE SOCIETY OF

will take the chair.

A. 8. D. COPSLANÉ

Hon. Secretary' pro tem. Hongkong, April 27, 1997.

CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE "LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

THE THIRTY SIXTH ORDINARY

MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS

will he heat the of the Euler-

CANTON, LT

NOTICE.

LIROM This Date and duing the Absener of the Endersigned from the Coley, MR. CH. 1. HAY will perform the flatties of the. General Manager of the Society.

By Deder of the Buri,

U MONTAGUE ÉDE

fignefolManager, Hongkong, April 30, 1917,

1748

signed on THURSDAY the def Mays | CHINA FIRE INSURANCE CO. LTD.. WIT, NOWN.

The TRANSFER BOCKS of the Câm Fang will be CLASED from the fath instant to the 3rd May, both days

nclusive. #

JARDINE, MATHESON & Chu, Lrp.

* General Ayesta, Hongkong, April 16, 1917. 1685

THE HONGKONG ELÉCTRIC COMPANY TI

TOTICE IS HEREHY GIVEN that the TWENTY. EIGHTH R. DINARY GENERAL, MEETING WI be held at the Company's Offers, St. eorge's Buildings, SATURDAY, the 5th May. 1517 q 12achek, Nous, for the presenting thei purpose of

Beport of die. Directors together with a Statement of Accounts to 29li February › 1947., and eting Directors and Auditors.

THA TRANSFER BIPES of the Company will 1 CLOSED from the 1 Ar, to the Sen Max,-betty days, inclusive,

By Deler of the Board of Directors, -G1BB, LIVINGSTON & CE

Agens

1

Hongkong. Apri 1 15

188

NDO-CHINA,STEAM NAVIGATION

CO., LTD

(THE TRIKTY-SIXTH ORDINARY

TGENERAL MEETING of the Carpany will be held at the Untres of Jardine, Mar the Ciciral Managers, Matluson & Co Ltd Des Vieux Rd. Pangkung on WEDNESDAY, the th May, as Nous for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, passing the Accounts, and electing Directors and Aulitors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from and May to the 23rd May, both days. inclusive.

By Order of the Board,

NOTICE.

ง

FROM This Tate and during the Pet of the Undersignet from the Colony, MR. C. H. PHAXHI perform the duties of the General Maragen of the Company.

By Order of the Board,

MONTAGUR EDE General Manager. Hongkong, April 30, 1917, 1750

BRITISH TRADERS INSURANCE.

CO, LTD.

NOTICE.

This There are? during the Absence of the Undersigned from the Cluny, M. (1 P. HAY WHE perform the litus of the General Manager of the Damiany.

By Order of the Bourl

C. MONTAGUE EDE

stevient Manager. Hongkong April 30, 1912.

1231

DAIRY FARM NEWS:

CORNED BEEF

AND

CORNED PORK.

PUT UP IN KES AND BARRELS

"FOR

ExPont on STEAMERS USE.

!

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Lim COLUMBIA

General Managers.

Hongkong, April 26, 1917

1730

NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE INSURANCE CO.

IN WHICH ARE VESTED THE #KARES OF

GA

RECORDS.

agag It Was A Lover and His Lass Duet

Whisper and I Shall Hear

THE OCEAN MARINE, INSURANCE 233) Bathrolle (Tales of Hoffmann.

THE RAILWAY PASSENGERS 2572

COMPANY, ET..

and

ASSURANCE CO.

W

NOTAL FUNDS at 31st Decayner, 1914,

TOTAL

Baritone and Quartette

Tenor.

Un

Spring Time

Song of Australia

King and Country.

2542/Absent

I Know of Two Bright Eyes

£23,970,367.

I-Authorised Capital £9,000,000)

2573

(Your Eyes

Lalita

subscribed Oxjsal £4,600,000) ·

· Paid-up · Capital ............................... £2,437,500 -Fire Funda... 3,897;047 [11-Life & Annuity Funds..... 17,567,590

dinking. Fund"Account .....

THE

128,230

£23.970,367

19

Revenue Fire Branch.................... 32,981,456

Lite And Anority |

2,141,693 Besuchte,..

337.230 478.940

Revenge Marian Department

Other Receipts .........

£6,339,228

The Accumulative Kunda of the various Branches are expiately invested, and, ny Act of Parliament, are set aside to meet the claims, ender the respective Depart ments of the Company's Bariness,

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TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1917

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FASCINATING,

GENERAL HAIG'S

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PROPHECY

THIE COMING CRASH.

4COLLAPSE IS SIX MONTHS?

Fichert the Germans have allocated aut two-thirds of their divisions to the Western front and a dozen or so to the Rumunian and Balkan fronts, but by deding these fronts to danger poi they work be able to find a forge of

one million mer for A ack which the rognoseenti

A tremendous Gener Haig has few more or less, will he made on the Western front.

eric assure un Confirmat Brassilot's prediction wrote

then, that our Allies on the four of the military experts recently that ether aureer in

in holding up some sixty or seventy we nay look for decision favorabje to fuzure, ut ferman divisions in chif

done in the past we should have to deal with at least 1 million mens on the Western front and Germandie stons, or ever three and a half

we must not monceal from ourselves that the crash will be tramendots, the strain terrific, and thus the enemy may score

initial advantages,

our arms by August, 191, and we may consider want grounds exist for their optimaisun."

:

the

From a porely military point of view the deviling factors are men, munitions,, and moral, and we are assured that the ongny is falling father behind us in begin to wilt away, whereas the French Meanwhile the German army will all throw respects. We may take it who:

are less extrusted than the Ger rit the fiefmans now have five millions, and the British, v who have mega, in the field, with not more than ally unlimited reserves, should be abli practic aetherillion available in reser field. If, then the Allies can bobl ap

to

maintain their present strength in t and that they have two courses open the Germans for three months, the next to thei They may be cutent to three months should see the enemy use their reserves to make good the collapse, wastage of war as it occurs in which case tiese reserves would not hist more than three or four tenths from the time that serious tighting commences: ur the Germans may take every available man who was in reserve at the beginning of de year and put him into the Seid, in which they should be able to in; shall be dealt with at the close of the The subject of low enemy shipping crease their hektarmy to nearly liver und

SHIF FOR SHIP: TON FOR TON..

there parter millions, and to undertake war will be discussed at the annual con- a serious offensive with nearly one ference of the Association of Chambers millim men. The fornier course may

stave off defent for some months and of Commerce this month. A proposal give opportunity for developmenta from Manchester will be madebet,the detrimental to the Entente se: Out Government be requested not to leave the latter at native is more likely peceny ships free after the war to extend led to decisive results and is more in their share of the world's carrying trule conformity with the flerman spirit and until the enemy has replaced in kind all theory of war. Let assume, then ships and has paid

Full that the Germans will adopt the latter all argous which have beca lost by the compensation for Allies owing to Germany's piratical methods, and to declare that to peace terms should be considered adequate which do not provide for such reparation. Even more drastic are the suggestions which London will make. They are as follows:-"

Conse

GERMAN STRUNKTH TO-DAY,

By the mille of 1918 the Germans had managed to field 150 divisions, ench of which comprised four infantry regiments of three battalions each; but when the Austrians caue to such terrible grief in the autumn of 1916 and the intervention of Rumanis became in

"That in consequence of the sinking of unarmed merchantmen, no ereiny Tenorminent, the Germans met the situation tenners captured or detained in British

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resorting to strict Hefensive on all sneh present allfed ports wero, neutral parts or Allied ports (whether or not their existing fronts, and withdrew whet war was declared) be returned to

f some handred of their existing regiment of three battalions from each the enemy,

(b) That all British or allied steamers. I divisions from which they proceeded to detained in enemy ports at the begin- fury rather more than thirty newning of the war be delivered to their divisions of three regiments each, some owners, or if destroyed, their value (to of which were employed against the he fixed by the Government) to be paid Rumunians. "

to their owners at the conclusion of as we know, carried the fiermante allies across Wallachia, until they canic to a standstill on what

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These

se operations.

refuging ja neutral ports (North and (el That from the enemy steamers

we may call the Line of the "Nereth South American, Spanish, Scandinavian, mainly we may note, because of the &c.) a steamer be taken approximately destinction of the Russian and Ruof the same tonnage mul value for every

munitions

at Arrhungel. Thus British or allied steamer destroyed by the Germente conquest of Wallachia might well be described as the victory in tonnuge or value te adjusted by sur- enemy submarines. That any deficiency of Archangel. We may now assumerender of enemy steamers in enemy that the

new divisions out of old

jeess of wil e in picte..the pr porta

ones by reducing the infantry of all the the declaration of peace, enemy ateamers (d) That for a period of five years after original 370 divisions to three regiments, be not allowed to use the coaling stations by which means they will be able to of the Tritish Empire.

ruise the number of their divisions to (es That foreign tonnage in Empire 170+170÷3

Task 27 divisionsports should conform to the Empire san- each of three infantry They may t

then use the nan interditors regaling shipping. reserve partly to provide the personnel regulations.should favour the shipment That the shipping laws and the of the artillery and other services of goods from one port to another within guired for the new divisions and the Empire in vessels under the British partly to increase the infantry in each, ag registered in some part of the Em of the 227 divisions we may expect them pire, or in vessels belonging to Allied"

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In a case at Singapore, the further hearing of which was postponed by the Magistrate, Mr Mudie, with the remark that he (the Magistrate) would be mobilised for the next fortnight, the following dialogue occurred

·be done

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able that a magistrate should be mobilised and the public work of the Colony suffer in consequence.

Mr. Mudie: I have no objection to you seeing the first magistrate Pro bably it will be necessary to sea the Colonial Secretary.

Mr Elliott I am perfectly willing to sco the Colonial Secretary, or the Gover nor if necessary. Herp work has to be. hung Up because your honour has to go to the forts to turn a handle, which could be done by any coolis Thafis the way work is being done in this Colony at presenta

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