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1845

SONGKONG, TURSDAY, MAY 29 1917.

BUSINESS NOTICES

មុន GLEED AND CHIA KAIL (PIBID EVELY

MAIL DAY.).

Cudzine the Week's Nowy

of Hongkong and the Far East

Prices (including Postsee to any

part of the world : $13.

.por LEDUM,

No. 18.860.

THORNE'S

OLD VAT

No. 4.

!)

SCOTCH WHISKY.

10-

SOLE AGENTS:

A.S. WATSON & Co, Ld.

WINE & 81IRIT MERCHANTS,

HONGKONG.

Tra.. 616.

NTC E..

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BUSINESS IOTICES.

STEAM OR MOTOR VESSELS

8,000 Tonk. 4,000 Horse Power now Built- Steel Building Work of every Description. Castings, Forgings, Repairs and Supplies. Prompt Attention and Shipment to Destination. INJECTORS AND STEAM PUMPS,

W. S. BAILEY & Co., Ltd.

ENGINEERS and 83IPBUILDERS.

- KOWLOON BAY.

DRAGON

K..

HUDSON

AND

NY EUROPEAN, Non ASIATIC AINDIAN desiring to leave the Colony should apply in person at the Central Police Station between the hours of a A... to IP.M. and .. to 4p.ar daily

All

Applicants will be required to produce Passports or identification papers porn, with certain exceptions, whe remain in the Colony for tore than 7 days are required to Register then- selves under the REGISTRATION of PERSONS ORDINANCE 1816, Furus of Registration giving the particulars Aquired may be obtained at the G.F and at all Police Stations.

The Penalty for non compliance is a fine not exceeding 350

PEAK

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TIME TABLE..

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WEEK DAT"..

7.00 am to 8.00, ...Every 15 minutes. 8.00 mm. to 10.00 am... Every 1 minute, 10.00am to 11.00a.m...Every 15 minuter. 11.30am to 6pm...Every 15 minuter. 12.45pz

Every 10 minuter.

1.15 p.m. to 145 p.m...very 15 minuter. 1.45p.m. to 2.15 p.m...Every 10 minster. 9.15 p.m. to 5.00 pm...very 15 minute. 5.00.m. to 8,00 p.m...Every 10 minutos, WIGHT CARS.

8.50 p.m. and 9p... 9.30 p.m. to 11.00 bim, every half hour,

11.00 p.m. to 11.45 p/m. every quarter of

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SATURDAY

Etes Car at 12 midnight. SPECIAL CARS by arrangerment at the Compazy's Office, ALXZANDRA Benson Das Vaux Road Central.

Besson and punch tickets available for all are not already full running at the time stated in the Company's time tables bat ant for special care, can be obtained on application at the Company's Office- No Season toket will be issued unti payment therefor ban been side in Bank Notes or by Cheque or Compradore order representing Bank Notes.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS SON,

General Mama (Era..

NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE INSURANCE to,

IN WHICH ABE VESTED THE JEAK OF THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE

·Company, Lup

and

THE RAILWAY PASSENGERS

TOTAL FO

ASSURANCE CO.

· FUNDS AT SIT Decenver, 1914,

£29.970.367..

I-Authorised Captial £6,000,000

Subscribed Capital £4,500,000 Pai-op Orpi

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Life and Annuity

Revenue Marine Department. Other Receipts.

£2,437,500 3.837,047

129.250

£23.9TU.36%

#2,881,456

2,141,593

237,980

$78,940

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Oil Drilling Cables of any size up to 2,000 feet in length

Piles and fub particulara will be forwarded on application to

Shewan, Tomes & Co. General Managers.

Hongkong, April 11, 1912.

BY APPOINTMENT:

WATSON'S PYERIS.

REGISTERED.

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especially Whisky..

.

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THE WAR.

LATEST

TELEGRAM S.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail. I

THE WESTERN FRONT."-

MINOR OPERATIONS ON BRITISH,

FRONT.

Losnos, May 29. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig

reports:.....

THE ITALIAM FRONT.

CONTINUED PROGRESS.

Loxmox, May 28,

An Italian 'official message, trans uitted by wireless, ports:

We strengthened our pésitions on

the "Julian front and exptured

We repulsed rulers to the meth west of Cherisy and to the south of strangly fortified trenches to the cust

י.

· Lens, intheting "casualties and cup-god sauth-east of Jamiantt, » Wo turing sons prisoners,

erossed the Tinnvor river and occu We successfully carried out a raid pied San. Govaní, to the Rorts west To the north of Armentieres, in the of Digo. We captured nine Bình neighbourhoot of Wytschnete... We reuched the Gerinan support line and took about thirty prisoners,

THE AIR RAID.

"WHERE THE DAMAGE WAS DONE.

Losɔo's, May 28. Viscount French announces that the chief damage done by the air- raid on Friday. was sustained by

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GENERAL MANAGERS

THE HONGKONG HOTEL

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D

J. H. TAGGARI,

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Adjoining the Tramway Terminus 1400 feet above Sea Level

THE FRENCH FRONT. »

LONDON, May 28.

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guns.

We repulsed two violent counter- attacks on the "Vodice sector, and, on The heights to the east of 'Gorizia. Strong parties of infantry penetrated AF point on our lite to the south- word of Groligns, but we drove them

at, taking 1567 prisoners.

WORK OF BRITISH MONITORS IN

THE GULF OF TRIESTE.

LONDON May, 972 2

Special correspondents' relate the performances of British monitors in the Gulf of Trieste when bombarding the Austrian rear. The first shot was fired. at down and landed on the railway at A French communiqué reports tem

Prosecco, just north of Trieste The Three more attacks on Cahqui and second struck a train which vamshed in Teton in Champagne were completely ghastly rein. The monitor emsahed repulsed.

the heroplane sheds and flattened the The enemy artillery was fairly livaly atation at Prosecco, destroyed a viaduet in the regions of Hill 304, and Morand produced a great fire a Canterello, tomme on the left bank of the Meuse. Austrian .bydroplanea viciously A French détachment penetrated the attacked the monitors but were driven enemy's second line, in the region of off by the Italiau aircraft. Uffholtz, in Alsace, and found many German deac Prizonors were also brought back.

French air squadrons dropped Fix tons of bombs on military establish- meats and railway lines, especially in Champagne, in the region of Thionville. We brought down nine enemy aircraft, two others were forced down in our linds and five in the enemy's lines

AWAY WITH BELGIUM."

GERMAN APPEAL TO TER FLEMING'S.

AMSTERDAM, May 28, Krupp's opun. the Phenisch raffaelische Zeitung, unblushingly declares that Brussels henceforth will be a Low German bulwark... The burning" of Louvain, after all,

THE TAKING OF THE CALIFORNIA | was a small sucrifice compared with

-PLATEAU.

the good which the Flemings bave reaped from it." Millions of German ari Flernish throats must pry

LONDON, May 31, Reuter's Special Correspondent at French Headquarters gives a graphic Away "with Belgium, which has description of the position on Californinused to exist. The Flemings Plateau on the nakel top of which the should not forget that hundreds of French held out for three weeks in thousands of Germane died to secure hurriedly improvised trenches. The their liberty. men aften bad, only one meal a day. The appearance of a single head above

the trenches was the signal for a

tempest of shells. The importance of

AMERICA'S ACHIEVE-

MENTS.

the Plateau lies in the fact that it marks | 109,000 AMERICANS WILL SHORTLY

the eastern extremity of the great crest overlooking to the south, the valley of

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TROUBLE IN "FOLAND.

AMS.2RDAM, May 21, The German paper admit that things are running smoothly, in Poland where the different bodies created by the Germans are at loggerheads, parti- cularly regarding the Regency.

A HEW DEMAND BY COTTON -OPERATIVES.

LONDON, May 21

BE IN FRANCE.

LONDON, May 28

The Press Barsau, in summarising America's achievements since she enter ed the war, states that including the Americans who are already serving with the French, and British armies,” there will shortly be a total of 100,0UD Americana in France. Arrangements have been made for the construction of 3,500 war seroplanes and the training of 6,000 aviators, this year.

LANCASHIRE COTTON. DISPUTE "BETTLED.

SERGAS LONDON, May 23. The Lancashire cottes dispute bes

been settled; the weavers accepting the At a meeting of all the represents employers offer of a ten per cent tives of the cotton spinners in the wivance in wages, commencing from worthern counties, in connection with the first pay day in July,

ADMIRALTYNE

the demais for payment for cleaning RE-ORGANISATION AT THE the machinery as an addition to wage, which at present cover this dity, it was decided to ask the employers to confer with the representatives of the workers in connection with this matter.

A RUSSIAN AMBASSADORIAL.

CHANGE

PETRØJE

free

1274 The repo that M. Ierolaky has been appoin

-London, May 275

The appointment of a number of experts is announced in connection with Sir Eric Geddes department, at the Admiralty, incaling General Coilarit, who is to control the construction and purchase of merchant ressalt, str transporta etc. Sir Vincent Event ho will be responsible for the múkufastum and purchase of ordnance and

i no ques general manag pointment there, although

take over the the flockyards,