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No. 18.882.

The China Mail

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HONGKONG. SATURDAY, JUNE 28 1917.

BUSINESS NOTICES

THORNE'S

OLD VAT No. 4.

SCOTCH WHISKY.

SOLE AGENTS :"

A.S. WATSON & Co, Id.

WINE & SHRIT MERCHANTS,

(HONGKONG,

TAL, 616.

·號二十月六年七十壹百九千壶英

NOTICES,

STEAM OR MOTOR VESSELS

8,000 Tons. 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 SHIFBUILDERS.

KOWLOON BAY.

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DRAGON. MOTOR CAR CO.

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OVERLAND

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CARS.

Applicants will be required to produce BEST Passports or identification papers. All persons, with certain exceptions, who remain in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register them- solves under the REGISTRATION of PERSONS ORDINANCE 1916. Fons of Registration giving the particulars required may be obtained at the G.F.O and at all Police Stations.

The Penalty for non eomplianer is 5. fine not exceeding $50

PEAK TRAMWAYS

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WEEKDAYS

COMPANY,

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NIGHT CARS -

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7.3 1.0. SUNDAYS. 8.00a.m. to 10.30 m... Every 15 miners. 10.30...to (100) Every 10 minster. 11.30am. In 19 Neon....Every 15 pilast 12.00 noon to 100p.m...Every 10 minuta. 1.00 pm to 5.30 p.m. Every 15 minuts. 6,31.m. to 8.00 p.m... Every last 8.00 p.m. to 6.90 p.m. Every 15 minstes. 6.30p.m. to 8.00pm...Every 10 minute. NIGHT CAR as on Week Days,

Saturdaye

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

Arsson and punch tickets available for all or not already full running at the time stated in the Company's time tables, but not for special cam, can be obtained on application at the Company's Office-- No Beason ticket will be insped upl payment therefor has been made in Bank Notes or by Cheque or Compradora order espresenting Bank Notes.

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6" to 15"

CIRCAMJERENA

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Price, samples and full particular will be forwarded on application to

Shewan, Tomes & Co. General Managers.

Hongkong. April 11, 1912.

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THE RUSSIAN FRONT.

LIVELY FIGHTING IN MANY AREAS...

Lostos, June 22,

A German official communiqué speaks of yely fighting in the Siaorgen. West Tarek, Złoczow, Tarnopola

areas..

THE ITALIAN FRONT.

PROGRESS BY MINING.

WHORE MOUNTAIN TOPs BLOWN OFF.

CuNk. June

The Italians are dislodging the

"railway," and Sardjowka, energy from duir most formidable strongholds by means of nines, by witch whole mountain tops are blown

FRATERNISATION ON THE

RUSSIAN FRONT.

ADI.

For example, the most import- ant pek dominating the Fulzarego a Pase, has recently disappeared, bury

GERMANS HAVE HAD ENOUGHg arge minber of the enemy.

OF IT.

PETROGRAD, June 2 Gerran aeroplanes, on the North- ern Front, have dropped messages tabking the Russians for their

GREAT OPERATIONS ON ITALIAN FRONT..

AMSTERDAM, „Fane 29" The Cologne (ingette says that

fraternisation, enabling the Germans the new battle on the Phitgan ar

65 transfer these fremps" to the West front, to support their defence against British and Frengh attacks,

The Inessage Concludes; **Now we have had enough,. We are going to

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In Bags of` 258 lbs. net.

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GENERAL MANAGERS.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL

AND

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MANAGER.

PEAK HOTEL.

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RAILWAY STRIKE IN BUSSIA

ENDED.

Peroduan, Ju

་ ་

The strike of the simpligers of the Petrogrid-Moscow Railway as etuled, thefioverrunent granting increas in wages.

DEMOCRATS FAVOUR A FINNISH REPUBLIC.

"

HeistsuYORS, June 29.

!

It

Sette Communi is extending frota. the Sungoma Valley to Asingo; bis assured extraordinary dinen- sions, all the mountains in the Tyrol echoing the night long with the drin fire.

THE WESTERN FRONT.

EXTENSION OF THE BRITISH. LINE.

Lostos, June 22, Much interest is rinsed by the extension to the north, of the British log in Belgium, as indicated, bj Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig's déspatel last night:

Frend und Belgian troops had The Finish Social Democratic previously held the line to the north. Congress bus passed a resolution in of Yans, but the report of German favour of an hulependent Finnish raids on British, posts at "Joibart- Bepublic.

zyde, on the ୪t coust," reveals officially, that the British now hold - the extreme northem point of the litte.

DROUGHT IN GERMANY.

AMSTERDAM, June 22 Except for occasional violent bhili storus, there has been no rain in the East of tierinary for eight weeks. The hay crop ie, ruined and the position of the grain crops is very

serious.

非

The drought is so Bad in Bavaria that the Ministry of Agriculture bus ordered streams to be dammed in order to inundate Selds.

Hail and thunder storms have deviatuted the whole area between Brieg und Oblau, in Silesia.

GERMAN MUNITION WORKS DESTROYED BY LIGHTNING.

, SUCCESSFUL BRITISH RAIDS.

Losos, June 22,

Field Marshal Sir Douglas Heig

reports:-

We successfully curried out mids. to the south-east of Queunt,”und. the neighbourhoods of Neuve. Chapelle and Annentieres.

TWO Y.C.'S CONFERRED:

Loxox, June 22. The Guzetic announces that the Victoria Cross, has been awarded to Lieuz-Commander W. E., Sanders,

AMSTERDAM, June 22

of the Royal Naval Reserves," ini". The Frankfurter states that light recognition of bis conspicuona gal- ping exploded a munition works ulantry and consummate skill while Forde, in Westphalia, and destroyed corrounding a ship in action, and the work sheds. Two workers were also to Lance-Corporal.. B. | killed and four injured..

FARMSTEADS DESTROYED IN

BAYLRIA..

AMSTERDAM, June 22.

Parker, of.the Royal Naval Division, for conspicuous bravery at the Dar danelles. While in clurge of u battalion of stretcher heaters, Lance Corporal Parker helped to remove

Eleven farmsteads have been the wounded under very heavy fire, burned down at Gross Schoenbrunn, although seriously wounded. He

in Bavaria Many head of cattle showed conspicuous bravery for four were incinerated..

consecutive days.

THE AUSTRIAN POLITICAL CRISIS.

AMSTERDAM, June 22,

A mengage froin Vienna states that M Martinic is trying to fOTTIE IS

FROM ESTATE BROKER TO GENERAL.

TosDON, June 22.

The newspapers pay a tribute

"THE OVERLAND CHINA MAIL" Coalition, Doverspent. He is creat-General Sir Arthur Currie, th new

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ing four extra ministries which will Commander of the Canadian Corps hey offered to 4 Pole, Czech, a France, who was an estate broker Buthenian and a Slav, respectively in Vancouver before the war. They

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declare that those acquainted with General Sir Arthur Currie are con-- dent that be, like General Semits with the South African Forces, will prove the right man for the poss THE NEW ORDER OF CHIVALRY The papers dwell upon the Nguly

fcmics of the appointmen ex-civiliulfato a Thigh

BL. Martinie, in view of the in possibility of forming a Cabinet, hur asked the Emperor to entrust the teak to noneone else

The Prince of Wales has been rder appointed Grand Master of The for the British Empire.