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ESTABLISHED

1845

悅,三月正年八十叠百九千春英

BUSINESS NOTICES,

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY SO, 1918.

BUSINESS NOTIOES

巳丁次歲年七國華中

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

No. 4.

SCOTCH WHISKY.

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BOLE AGENTS;

A.S. WATSON & Co, Ld

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

KONGKONG,

TIL 615

NOTICE.

WY EUROPEAN Noɑ ASIATIŬ or

INDIAN siring to leave the Colony, should apply in person at the Gema Police Station between the bours of 9 AM to 12 and 3 ra to F... daily.

Applicants will be required to produce Passporta er identification papers All persons, with certain exceptions, whe en in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Begister them- acives under the REGISTRATION of PERSONS ORDINANCE 1916. Forms of Registration giving the partieniars required may be obtained at the G.PO.

and atall Folies Stations.

:

ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS.

KOWLOON BAY.

Steam and Motor Vessels,

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

HONGKONG, CANTON

STEAMERS.

MACAO

JOINT SERVICE OF THE EONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD, AND THE CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED. HONGKONG-CANTON LINE.

Sailings-To Canton daily at 8 a.m. (Sundays excepted) and 10 p.m. From Canton daily at 8 am. (Sundays excepted) and 4 p.m.

SERVICE or TH HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD.

HONGKONG MACAO LINE.

Sailings-To Macao 'daily at 8 m. (Sundays 9 am) sud

2 p.m. (Sundays. 1 p.m.).

From Maesa daily at 7.30 am, and 2 p.m. (Sundays 3 p.m.).

Farther information may be obtained at the Company's OFFICE, Botal Mansions,

or from Messrs. Thos. Cook & Box, Booking Agents, Hoogkong.

The Fensity for non compliance is a DRAGON MOTOR CAR

fine not exceeding $50,

MORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE

INSURANCE CO.

WHICH 43% TRETED YEH KEJKEN OF. THE COEAN MARINK INSURANCE,

OCMANT, I

and

THE RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE CO.

STVOTÁL FUNDS at Síst Deczwsza, 1914,

£23,270,387,

-Authorised Chapitál gá boogono, Rohmibed Capitaï £4,500,000 Fald-ng Capital, 437,500 Fire Funda.............. 9,537,047 P7-Life & Annuity Funds... 17,567,590 Binking Fund Account ...... 128,230

Karenze Fire Branch

£23,970,367 £2,581,458

Life and Annuity 9,141,583

Brunchem...sun Errands Marine Department 337,239 Ciber Recsipta. Assmannstrec 478,940

£5,339;228

The Accomaladys Funds of the various Bmaches are separately invested, and, by Act of Parliament, azn sot-aside to meet the claims under the 'respectivo Depart

ents of the Company's Bovinces.

SHEWAN, TOMES & 00.,

Agents.

TRAMWAYE COMPANY.

LIMITED

TIME TABLE,

TEO WENN DAT

7:50 K‚m, Bơ . 8,00 Lt..very 15 minutes. 3.00a.m. to 20,00 am...Eỹ 10 minutes. 20.00 to 1.00 am...Every 18 minutes. 11.30 to 12.45 p.m...Ermy 15 minutes. 11.45pm to 1.15 pm. Everý 17 minutes.. 1.15 p.m. to 1.45 pm.ümvery 15 minutes. 145pm to 2:15 pmiEvery 20 minutos 45p.m. to 5.00 p.m...Every 15 minutos 6.07 to 800 p.m...Every 10 minutes

HISTONES CARS

SOCIAL WIKI 29 (UKRAY: 8.30 p.m. to 11.00

p.m, every half hour.

21.00 pm to 17.45pm; every quarter of

un bour

#800k,m, bo 105,90 semua divory 15 minutes. 10, 20 am to 1099 %... Brylő minutes, 17.3 to 19 Noon Every 15 minutes. 22.00 noon to 100p.m. Every 10 minutes, 2.00pm to 1,29 p.m... Krary 13 minute,

7 m. to: 5,909 p...Eray Ul minutes. 6.00pm, bo 6.3 p.m... Every 15 minutes. #90 to tez va $ puma Every 10 minutes, M1017 121 R2 so on Work Days.

Extra Car 15:12 midnight. PEOTAL CARS by arrangement at the -Company's OfficH, ALEXANDRA BuizOTEGE

Then Vores Road Oostenl

Sesina and podch ticket available for

all our Dou already fall running at the

sime stated in the Company's time tables,

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THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING Go., LỠ.

Established 1883

·MANUFAUTURERS OF.

PURE Manila ROPE

STRAND 1" to 15"

CABLE LAID

4 STRAND

5° to 15.

3" to 10" CIRCUMFERENCER

ZERETETIRARER.

CIRCUMFEIZI Z

Oil Drilling Cables of any size up to 3,000 feet in length

Prices, samples and full particulars will be forwarded on application te

Shewan, Tomes & Co. General Managers.

* Hongkong, April 11, 1919.

WATSON'S

OLD

BROWN BRANDY

25 YEARS IN WOOD.

A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd.,

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

No. 616.

THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO., LTD.

(NOW RECONSTRUCTED).

bat, not for special cars, can be objalnet LANGISHERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILERMAKERS, BRA pappákakion as the Company's OffiL POUNDERS All work done in this establishment is gras

Benson Liekit will be mind over thirty years expericno pwn two Slipways and can com Then therdog, has been

Bid of 300 feenkong

Town Ofion, Shipyard: Blu

TAIKOO DOCKYARD

BUILDERS OF SHIPS & ENGINES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.

-THE THIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY

OF HONG KONG LTP.

•TECTINIC AND... *TAXJOCK"

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PRICE, $3.00 Per Month

THE WAR.

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

1 Reuter's Servics to the Chino Mat.)

PETROGRAD BEING DECIMATED BY DISEASE,

SPOTTED, TYPHUS AND SMALL POX RAGING.

LONDON, Jún, 29.

GENERAL SMUTS ON GERMAN COLONIAL

AIMS

GERMANY WANTS NOT COLONIES BUT STRATEGIC POSITIONS..

LONDON, Jan. 29.

General Smuts, lecturing to-night the Royal Geographical

The Times Petrogrid Correspon- dens reports that the newspapers at before last reveal that the population of Society on East Africa, contrasted Petrograd is being decimated by the German and British points of epidemic diseases, the result of view on colonial and world" politics. malnutrition Spotted typhus is He emphasised that Germany was raging with unprecedented severity. not seeking colonies after English All sanitary organization is been modes. She was not looking for abolished or has broken down, while homes for German settlers. The the proletariat meninis in hospitals German East African and Weat dietate to the doctors and nurses African colonies practically had no Many are suffering from chronic sore white population before the war. Ha throat owing to the excess of straw quoted a speech by Baron von chaff in bread.

Gastric trouble, Rechenberg, ex-Governor of German

typhus and small pox are, spreading.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LD.....

PORTLAND CEMENT

In Casks of "3T5 Tha. net.

In Bags of 250 lbs. nas.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

GENERAL MANAGERS.

Just received a Shipment of GIMBALL'S AMERICAN

CHOCOLATE.

Prices Moderate.

VICTORIA DISPENSARY.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL

GRILL ROOM

J. B. TAGGART

MANAGER.

-RUSSIANS BREAK RELATIONS

·WITH RUMANIA.

The

PETROGRAD, Jan. 29- Eolsheviks amounte that diplomatic relations with Rumania have been broken off

East Africa, showing that Germany. cwing to shortage of agricultrima! labour, could not afford to encourage emigration. Baron von Rechenberg said: "Regrettable though it is, there can be no question at the con clusion of peace of acquiring exten- eive teritories for settlement. Thors is no appropriate country and no farmers to settle on it." Germon colonial aims were really not colonial but entirely dominated by far-reach-

AIR RAID ON LONDON.ing conceptions of world politics.

A REPETITION AT NIGHT.

Her real aims were not colonies out military power and strategic positions for exercising world-power in the LONDON, Jan. 29. future. Her ultimate object The Press Bureau states that Africa was the establishment of a there was a further attack by enemy great Central African Eropire com aircraft: on Londen after midnight prising not only her pre-war colonies, and bombs were dropped at 12.30 but also the English, French, Bel this moming.

THE WESTERN FRONT.

HOSTIČE ARTILLERY ACTIVE.

LONDON, Jan. 29. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig zeports

Hostile artillery has been active in

flotte neighbourhood of Havrincourt

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jand to the north-east of Ypres.

LATE Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Hig reports --

We drove off ruidora in the neigh bourhood of Arlaux-en-Gohelle.

There was great hostile artillery activity in the Mouchy-le-Preuz sector

One of patrols, to the north-east of Ypres, did not return.

GOEBEN.

AMSTERDAM, JAN. 20.

A telegem from Constantinople chuims that the Goeber is quite fit for service, and that the serial attacks indicted only unimportant damage to the funnel and annoured plating

THE BRITISH REPORT

LONDON, Jan. 29.5 The Admiralty". states that despite Had weather, in the course of peterul raids bombes were dropped on the Gorben and the gun positions at Nabatepe. The position of the ship was unchanged at noon yesterday.

A CORRECTIOKS

gian and Portuguese possessions south of the Sahara and Lake Chad and north of the Zambesi. She was now claiming the return of her Colonies in order to resums her inter- rupted march towards this objectives.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

AIR RAID ON ENGLAND.

LONDON BOMBED.

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LONDON, Jan. 29. A Press Bureau communiqué states: Hostile aeroplanes crossed the Kent. and Essex casts at 8 o'clock in the evening, going towards London

Some pentrated the Capital and dropped bombs,

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Our airmen brought down one machine on the Essex comat

"ANDANIA BINKS.

LONDON, Jan 38 The Cunard Liner, sa drdani, bás

IRISH STEAMER TORPEDOED.

NO WARNING GIVEN.

TONDON, Jan 25 The Irish steamer, Cork, waE FOR- pedoed without warning at night-tim and sank in five minutes, by

Seven passengers and five of the crew were drowned Space UNM

Thirty survivors were landed at v western port.

GERMARS REPORT GOEBEN

REFLOATED.

LONDON, JEDE 29,

A German officia! message states the,

A correction has come to hand of Gorbes has been refloated and bar entored message which appeared in the the Dardanelles,

Chins Mail last night relating to the scarcity of food in Vienna

message should read

ants in Vienna are. Pak nol potatoes for

osed

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