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THE CHINA MAIL.

INTIMATIONS

HONGKONG ST. ANDREWS SOCIETY.

THE

THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEET- ING of the above Society will be haid in the City BALL on WEDNES DAY, 28th September, 1917, at 6.30 PM. for the purpose of wiring the Annual Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st Angust of electing office-bourers für the ensuing year, ko.

K. HENDERSON, Hon. Secretary Hongkong, Sept. 10, 1917.

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DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,,

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THE ORDINARY GENERAL MEET-

THE SHAREHOLDERS in the above" Compacy will be held at the Company's Offices, on SATURDAY the 29th of September, at Nou, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, toucther with Statement of Accounts to 30th June, 1917. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the Bist to th September, both mys Thys Inclusive.

DOUGLAS, LAPRAJK & CO.

General Managers.. Hongkong, Sept. 5, 1917.

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THE HONGKONG AND WHAMFOÄ DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that N DIVIDEND WARRANTS for the INTERIM DIVIDEND OF $2.50 per share payable to all Shareholders on the Company's Register at 30th September. 1917, may be obtained at the Office of the Company, Queen's, Buildings Hongkong, on and after the 8th October,

1917.

Notice is further given that the SHARE REGISTER

BOOKS of the C TRANSFER

will be

CLOSED from, the Ist t the 8th October, 1917, hoth days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

H. M. DYER,

Hongkong, Sept 19

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ST. PAUL'S INSTITUTION. CAUSEWAY BAY.

THE

THE Roverend Mother Superior of the French Convent begs to inform the Public, and all kind friends of the Convent, that, from MONDAY the 1st Detober next, there will be an Exhibition and "Sale of Work every day at the Convent

A large quantity of useful articles suitablo

for Xmas presents, including underwear, children frocks etc. muy be obtained at moderate prices

Keserand Mother hopes that all kind friends will patronize the work of the por Chinese Orphans and this help the Sisters to continue their charitable works.

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NEW CLASS for Beginners will commence on MONDAY, 1st- October, 1917, if sufficient support be Forthcoming.

enrolment

and

Application for enquiries regarding hours of Sehent, Fers, etc., should be made to the undersigned as early as possible.

By Order,

E A. M. WILLIAMS,

: Secretary. 'Hongkong, Sept. 8,1917.

Obtainable from all high grade Cigarette Stores.

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[ BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE

In the midst of our pre-cernpation with [the Han menace_aloft, afloat, and ashore we ought not to lose sight of its diplomu. tie teatarles. These are now being spread with quite particular, energy in Sweden and Norway.

Events Having pnt an "abrupt 'end to German schemings in the Far West and the FarFast--in the United States and | China-they have been promptly resumed in the Far North by the expert plotters who until a few months ago were intrigu-

ing for Kaiser and Fatherlord in Wash 2C88 ington and Peking

NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED (IN LIQUIDATION). (Incorporated in England.)

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We shall do well to keep a sharp eye on Herren Bernstorff, Hitze and Janboint.

Laadon when his father was Prussian late chief of the Turkish Secret Police and Minister to the Court of St. Jumes. From one of the organisers of Armenian „10082 to 1903 Bernstorff was Councillor of | missieres,” The Germap Brabussy in Loudon, where he devoted himself and his undoubted powers of agreeableness and persona? magnetists to the tank of regaining the favour of British society which Ger 'many forfebied during the Boer War, From 1900 to 198 Bernstorff was the Kaiser's Diplomatic Agent and Consul-

· Gencial ́at Cairo. In 1908" he” became"

Ambassador u Washington, and for nearly nine years he was crengied in spizing that nation-wide web of espion age, intrigue, and internecine strife which, the American Government and people have not yet even contrived to tir to pieces. Bernstorff builded well and deep in the United States.

ERZBERGER'S BOMBSHELL.

PERIL THAT FACES GERMANY.

Erief extracts from Herr Erzberger's. called "boribshell speech at the seret session of the Reichstag have already appeared in the Press, but there. are several additional points of interest which it is well to place before the British public. 7

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At a secret seision of the Reichste

when ruthless submarine warfure was Adraral Von Hintze is, if possible, even decided on, two points were emphasised. ature consummate organiser of mischief-first, that by frightfulness áë se Great than Bernstorf. His succesive places of Britain would be rediged in two or three abode singe 10 speak for themselves months to a condition in which she would. Hussin, Mexico, and China. Revolutions he prepared to accept peace, and, secondly would seen to be his forte.

For many that this interval of time was so coor

ars the loses of Hohenzollern and omanoff maintained a remarkable system of persons adjutants" at each other's Courts. Nominally only courtiers who "financed about" with the Sovereign

1 reiet to Coum von Pernstord, who is now co-ordiosting German interests at Stockholms, and to Adiniral von Hintze,

paretively short that the authorities cal- Tati Minister to China, who has taken

heute or being able to keep America charge at Christiania.

Van Hintze

neutral. Erzberger in his speech recalled followed the Berlin Foreign Office's bomb

these statements, and pointed out that, atthough the results achieved by the shipment to Norway a few days after * diplomatic cairívr Kautenfels arrest; spectacular pensions as members of C-boats had execeded, the expectations of von Fernistort has been in Sweden for the Imperial entourages, these adjut the Naval Staff, yet they had failed to They have now joined ants were in reality super-Ambuwalors reach the point uinted at, when Great any OUTSTANDING NOTES will

in Berlin and Putrograd. Their missions Britain would be ready to seek peace be paid on presentation to the under- hounds scross the peaceful Scandinavian igned on or before SATURDAY, 29th penina, I know them and their special and which hinges a throne. In the case had failed to keep America out of the way. were to spy ont velesly that strange teraw. He also reminded them that they September, 1917, at NOON.

talents well, and I may advisedly that they of the Kaiser's emissary at the Winter He then proceeded to point out that AFTER THAT DATE, holders will will hear the closest watching which Palace and Tsarsko Selo we may be sure though the intervention of America had had it necessary to claim repayment in

Allied "vigilance is capable of benfawing STERLING from the BOARD OF TEADS, LONDON, to whom the necessary funds up them. Trouble and turmoil have Prussian Grundlichkeit (thoroughness).another side to the testion on which the

that the work was done with vagated little military value, yet there followed in their wake during the past Von Hintza, a shrewd young unval officer Reichstag had never been enlightened. THE BOARD OF TRADE make s

ten years as inevitably as night succeeded charge for payment of claims out of day. They have never been assigned toits of the Czar on William II's behalf many at the present times dependent on at the time, was appointed to bo az and that was the extent to which Ger monies deposited in the COMPANIES LIQUIDATION ACCOUNT at the us which did not hide some dark about the time of the 1905 Bussion neutrals for food and other supplies. He Bank of England.

Prussian stratagem with consequences

Hevolution. He rendered such effective stated that the United States, being now eventually disastrous to the countries xersice in the realm of underground at war with Germany, had declared that which they blighted with their danicile.

Bernstorf's career is, part of contemplary in Petrogued that he was they would no longer permit exports in 2040 patury history, and is well-known out 1011, when the Diaz-Madero-Huerta cour-ries exported to Germany. In con

Lappointed German Minister to fexile neutral countries so long as three-mental-) Englishmen who keep abreast of inter. national affairs. His nativity predestined eternal chers.

crisis plunged that unhappy Republic into sequence of this Germany in s very short him to be a specialist in English-speak

time would lose all her sources of supply, ing enviaments, for he was born in

will be remitted.

A. R. LOWE,

Liquidator.

Chartered Bank Building

Hongkong, August 17, 1917.

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In the United States Government's and the terrible fact had to be faced that archives there is evid sce in plenty to the figher Command had entirely based show that German intrigue had more than their calculations on these supplies. its share in keeping the Ares of Mexican This was certainly a "bombshelf, and unrest burning. Leaving them well no one in authority could find an answer. alight, with Ville-Carranza dead to The Higher Command, although loud in ensure their unquenchability, van Hitze their protestations that the military situa was promoted again--this time to become tion was now lavourable to Germany, supervisor-in-chief of Germany's machine were unable to give any ides o

"es to the tions in China. His activities were reat source from which they were going to less in Peking from 1914 until his draw supplies. They were not in a posi dismissal by the Chinese Governmentation to advocate the invasion of other few weeks 8-227, I pay von Hintze the neutral countries in order to obtain sup tribute of believing that the War-or-No-plies, and the only answer they conid War-with-Germany revolution new con nake was that of Hindenburg, who, villing Chine is to no inconsiderable longer boasting of the prowess of their extent the fruit of his labour,

armies. was only able to say tost, pro- rided their mies held

Thess are the men now at the helm of German affara inor

Northern rope The records are a guarent will list at nothing to sing interests in that region. It is something margthan

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