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MUMEYA

Japonesa Photographers. All kinds of Photograping

Work done in latent styles.

also Passport Photo

Developing and Printing for

Amateurs & Speciality.

So. B, Queen's Road Conn

Tat 25-4.

No. 16.968.

The China Mail

ESTABLISHED

號二月十年七十登百九千登英

BUSINESS NOTICES,

SONGKONG TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1917.

BUSINESS NOTIOES

AND

THORNE'S

OLD VAT W. S. BAILEY & CO., LTD.

No. 4.

SCOTCH WHISKY.

SOLE AGENTS.

A. S. WATSON & Co. Ld

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

HONGKONG

TIT.' 616.

NOTICE.

NY EUROPEAN Non ASIATIC or INDIAN desiring to leave, the Colony should apply in person at the Central Police Station between the hours of .. to 1 P.M. and SP.M. tu daily.

Applicants will be required to produco Passports or identification papers. All persons, with certain exceptions, who ramsin in the Colony for more than 7 daya are required to Register them- selves under the REGISTRATION of PERSONS ORDINANCE 1916. Forms of. Registration giving the particulars required may be obtained at the G.E.O. and at all Police Stations.

The Penalty for non compliance is a fine not exceeding $50,*

NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE

"INSURANCE CO.

WHICH LEX VESZED THE SHARDH DE

THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE

COMPANY? LED,

and

THE RAILWAY FASSENGERS

TOTAL

ASSURANCE CO

FUNDS 1731 DECIMÈ, 1914,

£23.970,367.

I-Authorised Capital £8,000,000

Subscribed Capital £4,500,000 Psid.op Capital ...........£2,437,500

Fire Funds

3,83 1-Life & Annuity Funda.... 17,567,590 Sinking Fund Account 128,230

£29,970,367 381, 158 141,693

Revenge Fire Branch

Life and Annuity

Branches Revenue Marine Department... 397,239 Other Receipts. #78,940

05, 139, 228

The Accumulative Funds of the various Branches are separately inTasted, and, by Act of Parliament, are set aside... meet. +ba claims under the respective Depart- ments of the Company's Business.]

SHEWAN, TOMES &“CO.

Agente

PEAK TRAMWAYS. COMPANY,

·LIMITED.

TIME

TABLE

-WEEK-DATE

7.00. to 8.00a.m...Every 15 minutes. 8,00 am to 10.00 μm... Fivery. If minuter. 101,00 am, to 11.00 ....Every 15 minutes, 11.20 at. to 12,45 p.m...Every 15 minutes. 12.45 p.m.to 116 p.m...Every 10 minutes. 1.15 p.m. to 1.45 p.m...Every 15 minuter, 145 p.m. bo 2.15pm...Every 10 minuter. $15 p.m. to 5,00p.m... Every 15 minutes, 6,00 p.m. to... 9.00 pm. Every 10' mhamber,

***** "NIGHT CARE. *"

8.50 p.m. and 9 pm 4.80 p.m. to 12.00 p.m. every half hour,

1100 p.m. to 11.45 p.m. every quarter of

anbour.

8.00a.m. to 10,30 am. Every 15 minuter.

JENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS.

ZIKOWLOON BAYII

Steam and Motor Vessels,

Steel Building Work of every Description, Castings, Forgings, Repairs and Supplies.

DRAGON MOTOR, CAR GO.

HUDSON

AND

OVERLAND

MOTOR

HARS

SOLE DISTRIBUTORS FOR THE FAMOUS DUA

TELEPHONE. 182.

COME AND INSPECT.

SILKT

GREY

HARLET

DAVIDSON

MOTÜR

CYCLES

BEST CARS IN THE COLONY FOR HIRE.

THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING Co., Ld.

Established 1883

-MANUFAUTURERS OF.

PURE Manila ROPE

STRAND

to 18" SIECENFIRINCE.

GABLE LAID

4 STRAND

3 to 10, CLACUNYTRESCE

5 to 15

·CIRCUMIRKEN &

Oil Drilling Cables of any size up to 3,000 feet in length Prices, samples and fall particulars will be forwarded on application te

Shewan, Tomes & Co. General Managers.

Hongkong: April 11, 101,

We have just received

a fresh consignment of

TAIKOO DOCKYARD

BUILDERS OF SHIPS & ENGINES

OF EVERY DESCRIPTION T

- THE TAIVOJ DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING CONFY OF HONGKONG LTR. -

- TELEGRIMIC "AJD.-

AGENTS: SUTTLERELD & SA -"TELEPHONE 2=213-

已丁夫懿年大國民華中

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LD.

PORTLAND CEMENT

In Casks of 975 lbs. net...

In Bags of 250 lbs. nat.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

GENERAL MANAGFES

JEFFREY BEER THE HONGKONG HOTEL

(BREWED IN SCOTLAND).

SOLE. "AGENTS

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS

Telephone No. 016.

THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO., LTD.

(NOW RECONSTRUOTED).

NOTNERS and SHIPBUILDERS BOILER MAKERS BRASS and IFON FOUNDERE. All work done in this establishment is guaranteed. We have 200 foes long, l

A

AND

GRILL ROOM

PEAK

J. H. TAGGART"

MANAGER.

HOTEL.

ADMIRABLY SITUATED AT VICTORIA GAP

Adjoining the Tramway Terminus 1.400 feet above Sea Level FIRST-CLASS FAMILY RESIDENTIAL AND TOURISTS HO

Telephones in all cooms. First class Cuisine, Lounge, Smaiding and Ladie rooms, Roof Garden.

Telegraph

10.30. L. to 11.00's... Frary0 luotas over thirty years' experience. We own two Slipways and can scoommodate any craft TO THOSE GOING AWAY

11:30a.m. to 12 Noon...Erary 15 minutes 100 tion to: 100p.m. Every 10 minuter. 5.00 pm to 5.30 p.m... Every 15 minuter. 5.30pm to 8.00p.m...Every 10 minutes. 6.00pm to 6.30p.m... Every 15 minubet. 8.30 pins, to 8.00 am...Every 10 malnubet,

NIGHT CAR2 as an Week Days.

Hates Chr ab 13 midnight, SPECIAL ARB be arrangement at the Company's

IKANDRA BUILDINGE, Dee-Your Road

for

Inze nou, Karmady, full ruming at the

y's time tablos

of

Town Dios, 48, CONNAUGHT ROAD ORAL, Hongkong. Telephone No. 459, Shipyard; Shum Sui-Zo, Kowloon, Hongkong, Kaumaten furnished on application,

Rengkong, Apti 1919.

hone No 9.

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TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

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THE MESOPOTAMIA

SUCCESS.

THE GREATEST WON ON THE EUPHRATES.

LONDON, Oct.

The success in Mesopotamia considered to be the greatest victory won n the Euphrates, and the most complete since the beginning of the Mesopotamia campaign.

Additious! importance is attached to the victory as Germans had been recently hinting at an. Bfensive again Bagdad, by this very route.

SUNDAY'S ATTEMPTED. RAID ON LONDON,

BARRAGE ZACTICS GENERALLY

EFFECTIVE

LONDON, Oct 2

THE WESTERN FRONT.

VIOLENT ARTILLERY ACTTYLITY, IN MEUSE REGION.

Lospos, Oct. 1

A French communiqué reporta There was violent artillery activity during the night, on both banks of the Meuse, especially between the Mene and Bezoa¥Bux.”

-After a lively bombardment, on the sector at Forges, the German strempt to reach our fine, but our fire easily repulsed them. Another attempt, on the right bank of the Meuse, also failed

Enemy aeroplanes, last night, dropped bombs the region of Bar le due causing damage and casualties Five enemy aeroplanes were brought down, and seven other fell out of control in their own lines, One air squadrons bombed railway station aerodromes, cantonments and works, causing violent fires at Fresnoy and Legrand

REPRISALM

London never, bad such u week | As a reprisal for the borobardments end. The full moon rose on Sunday on the open town of Barleduc, two evening-in an unclouded sky. There of our deroplanes, fast nigh was no breath of wind, bus a slight 300 kilogrammica of bon hy on the ground fog. Police whistles convey fortified city of Stuttgart. ed the first warning of the raid, and

"ARTILLERY" ACTIVITY IN YPRES **** the whistles were quickly followed

SECTORS by the distant rumbling, of guns. Then the aerial barrage opened with a terrific dia, exceeding that of Saturday, and lasting over an hour The screeching of shells over the house tops was very weird When the firing ceased the streets in some parts were left full of smoke.

A notable feature was the absolute absence of panic. Everybody shel tered in the Tubes or cellars in a most orderly manner. The severity of the barrage kept the main body of raiders at bay. Bombs seen to have been dropped in the out-skirts

Field Marshal Sir Douglas Heig reports

There was marked hostile artillery activity, during the east and north of Ypres and on the Nieuport sector.

MORE BRITISH BOMBING OF BELGIAN COAST DEPOTS.

LONDON Oct.

The Adminky announces that naval aircraft on

of London. Some bombs dropped dropped several

in a crowded working-class locality good results, on the lock gates af The casualty list here is not yet Zeebrugge, St. Denis ascertainable. The bombs were all aerodrome, Thourout, explosive and not incendiary No Brugenis works and fires resulted

A large

fire was caused at St. Dema Telegrame from the Kent coast Westrem way that the raiders passed over in couples under an incessant Fire, One,

Where were several aerial com KOSOVA SOTMwo enemy mo

uider was hermed in, by shalls over and one was driven

the Thumes estiary. It flew hither

out of control.

and thither like a frightened blue- la Gotha bottle, but eventually escaped norte lieved

eastward

in

* Mr. Lloyd George, who had been spencing the day in the country, returned to Downing Stree in the Fevenings In an interview, he

Buid

1, must take my share of the ham- mering

Everything points to the general effectiveness of the

The damage done was comp triting

It is reported that the on Friday Buraid

Bolland and has been t

THE CAST

states that

inchie

There

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