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HONGKONG THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1917,

STARFANRET

BUSINESS NOTICES ·

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

No. 4.

SCOTCH WHISKY.

BOLE AGENTS.

A. S. WATSON & Co. Ld

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

HONGKONG

TEL 613

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 9 a.. to 1 F.M. and '9 PM to daily.

P.M..

Applicants will be required to produce Passports or identification papers All perions, with certain exceptions, who remain in the Colony for more than 7-days are required to Register them- selves under the REGISTRATION of PERSONS ORDINANCE 1918. Forms. of Registration giving the particulars required may be obtained at the G.P.O. and at all Police Stations.

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

NORTH BRITISH & MCCANTILE

INSURANCE CO.

mer A VESTED TER SHAFES OF THE OCEAN MARINE "INSURANCE

COMPANY, ET

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TRE RAILWAY PASSENGERS ¡ASSURANCK-CD] |

TUTAL FUNDS AT 31ST DECAMERE, 1914,

£23.870,367

I-Authorised Capital £8,000,000

Subscribed Capital £4,500,000 ||

Paid-up Capital.....£2,437,300

I-Firs Funda

1,887,047

KI-Lifa & Annuity Funds... 17,M7,6P0

Sinking Fund Account ................

Revue Fire Branch...

123,230

£29,970,367

£2.381.456

Life and Annuity 8,141,583

Branchis. Bevande Marine Department... $97,240 Other Receipts

478,940-

25,339,228

The Accumulative Funds of the variou Benches are amparately invented, knd, by i Lot of Parliament, are'səb saide meet "he claims under, the respective Depart

mente of the Company's Eosiness.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

Agents,

AK TRAMWAYS COMPANY,

LIMITED.

PEAR

TIME TABLE,

WELK DATE

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Fries, samples and full particulare "will be forwarded on application to

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Hongkong, April11, 1912,

BY APPOINTMENT.

WATSON'S PYERIS.

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THE WAR.

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Rester's Service to the China Mail)

REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS

IN GERMAN NAVY.-

SENSATIONAL STATEMENT BY

COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.

COPENHAGEN, Oct. 10

THE PEACE GERMANY 15 FIGHTING FOR.

ANOTHER STATEMENT BY THE CHANCELLOR

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 10.

A sensational statement was made Michaelis, speaking in the Reichstag, declared that Germany I was striving to attain a peace per

in the Reichstag by Admirat von Capelle, disclosing a plan to intro. duce Bussium revolutionary idens inatting her the widest economic and cultural developtrentz So long as the Cieman Nary

four energies demand that we shall

Admiral v Capelle asserted that the Independent Socialist members yield up a single piece of German of the Reichstag, in the course of a soil or attempt to drive a wedge between the Kaiser, and the people, conßrence which retually took place in the Reichstag Building, approved

we shall refuse peace."

Chancellor,then broadly stated. of a scheule by wEich representatives

the peace which Germany was fight- should be selected aboard all ships. who would persuade the men toment on the continent and oversens. ing for, namely for frce develops

The

disobey orders and thus paralyse the She must strive to prevent en

Fleet and force the conclusion of peace. The Admiral, concluded economic offensive aucceeding the am not able to make a statement Present armed offensive against her. on the sequent events in the She must have markets abroad Navy, but the few persons who for therefore her ships must be allowed their duty and honour have freely to enter the world's ports. If their enemies refuse such a pesce, suffered che deserved peruilty t

LATER.

German cannon and submurines must admiral von Capelle a disclosures continue their work, creted the greatest excitement in the Beichstag.

got

LATER.

Dr. Michaelis speech was a reply

Reports of the debite are discono un interpellation by the Indepen neeted, and natially heavily cen dont Socialist, Herr Ditman, who sored, but there is suficient to show complained of the pan-German pro- that the aunt is very serious. paganda in the army.

Admiral von Capelle specifically

Dr. Michaelis denied that the pro- mud three fedependent Socialists. Paganda was pan-German and pro Herren Ditmuan. Hvase and Vogt-veeded to indicate that it was to herr, as having had a conference with explain to the soldiers what they sailers and marines in the Iteichstag: were fighting for. He declared that building, and they supported the those who knew the conditions at revolutionary proposals put to them, the Front would agreed that pro- paganda was urgently necessary both MUTINY ON FOUR, GERMAN

morally and mentally.. THE BATTLESHIPS. ">".

-GERMANY AND ALSACE-

LORRAINE.

A CAPTAIN THROWS OVER- BOARD AND DROWNED...

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 10. Azcording to Vinformation: which bus feuched here, the mutiny to which Admiral-von Capelle referred in veiled manner, rose among

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ships one of which was the Dread. nought Westfalen

FOREIGN BECRETARY DECLARES GERMANY WILL NEVER

MAKE CONCESSIONS.

AYTRIMAM, Oct 10:

Speaking the Reichstag, Dr Kuehlmum, the Imperial Foreign- Secretary, declared that there was

The plutinous sailors, threw they one answer to the question: captain of the Festfalen into the Can: Germany in any form, nuke sea arul his hedy was not recovered concessions guding Alsace, and for eight days. They then left their Loring? He said that the user abijis and went ashore. The Mines No, never, so long as a single were ordered to attack them butt can hold a gun. The refused. The Oldenburg reginicntegrity of the territory has been handed down to us as glorious was called out and surrounded the

inheritance by our forefathers, and metnicers who surrendered

can never be the object of negotiatin on concession.

In addition to the mutinous crews of four battleships, the crew of the Nurnberg, which was at sea, revolt. ed, seized the officers and procceded in the direction of Norway for the purpose of getting interned. En route the Nurnberg encountered torpedo-bost flotilla, which signalled, and the Nurnberg did not reply..

THE ITALIAN FRONT

Dr Kuehlmann concluded by 48- serting that as far as he could read the world situation, the only impedi- ment to peace was France's claim. to Alsace and Lorraine. The other questions could be settled by negot tiation and without further blood

hed

He was strongly of the comion that public speeches did not help fowards peace beca

be simple and could not tile aspects of the intri

The latter p

FURIOUS FIGHTING.

LONDON, Oct. 10.. An Italian official message states: We repulsed repeated

attack, mann'e our Monday, attempting to gain groumi

at Castaignavizes, on the Curvo front. negut

Furious fight enscert and all our of

back with

between Vippaced and Casti

TRENCH SOCIALISTE, AND THE

THE PEACE AMERICA WANTS