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INTIMATIONS

NOTICE.

HE HONGKONG & CHINA GAS Coons to nutily its Conanmees and the Public that owing to the HEAVY INCREASES in the cost of obtaining its necessities, particularly Coul, it has no option but to INCREASE the PRICE OF GAS by 50 cents per 1,000 en bie fret, making the price. 82.80. par 1,000 entir feet, dating from tho'ist' February, 1918.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

GEORGE CURRY,

Local Secrotary.

INTIMATIONS

WANTED.

COMPETENT BRITISH BOOK- KEEPER required. Apply, stating experience and giving copies of Testimonials. Good salary to espabe

Box No 1804,

MAR.

Co 'CHINA MAIL' In-

Hongkong Jan. 28, 1918.

Hongkong, Jan. 29, 1918..

.85

THEATRE

ROYAL,

THE CHINA MAIL

"Embassy

No 77

"Embassy”

No 77

CHITOSDAY, JANUARY 81. 1018

INTIMATIONS

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansio

Agents for ADMIRALTY CHARTS

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,

ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturarz, High Class English Jewellery!

UNION WATERBOAT COMPANY. LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

HE THIRTEENTE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of SEARE FOLDERS will be held in the Offices of Messrs. DoDWELL & CO., LIMITED, on TUESDAY, the 5th February, 1918- at 11.30a.x, for the purpose of receiving the Report of General Managers together with a Statement of Accounts to lat December, 1917.

The TRANSFER BOUKS of the Company will be ULOSED from the She January to 5th February, 1918, bota dates inclusive.

DODWELL & COMPANY, LTD,

General Managers.

Hongkong, Jan. 23, 1918.

HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND-

FINANCE CO., LTD.

LOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that that ORDINARY ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHARE- HOLDERS in this Company will be held at the HoxUXENU BOTE, Hong- kong, on SATURDAY, the 0th Febru ary, 1918, at 11.30 for the purpose of receiving the Reports of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts. for the year

31st December, 1917.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the! Company will be CLOSED from the 4th February to the 14th February (both days inclusive) during which period not Transfer of Shares can be registered.

JOHN D. RUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managera, Bongkong, Jan. 26, 1918.

་

THE KOWLOON, LAND AND BUILDING COMPANY,

LIMITED.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

the TWENTY-NINTH ORDIN ARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Company's Offices, Victoria Buildings on SATURDAY, 0th February, 1918, at 11 o'clock am. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statements of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1917. The REGISTER of SHARES of the

HONGKONG.

TWO GRAND

(

CONCERTS

SATURDAY, 2nd

“and

THURSDAY. 7th Feb.,

st. 9.15 p.m.

A. MIROVITCH

(PLANO.)

M. PIASTRO

(VIOLIN.)

BOOKING AT

MOUTRIE'S.

*PRICES:

$3.00, $2.00 & $1.00.

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

CORNED BEEF

AND

CORNED PORK.

PUT UP IN KEGS AND- Bázzata

· EXPORT OF STEAMERS USX.

THE VIRGINIA CIGARETTE DE LUXE

Packed in

Tins of

25 and 50

and in

Boxes of

10 Cigars.

Embassy

VIRGINIA CIGARETTE5

WD&HOWILLS BRISTOL & LONDON

Stocked

by all

Tobacconists.

THIS ADVERTISEMENT IS ISSUED BY THE

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO CO., LTD.

DEPORTING THE DIPLOMATS.

PRECAUTIONS IN NEW YORK.

Unusual precautions were taken by

Company will be CLOSED from KING EDWARD HOTEL the Department of Justice to guard

MONDAY, 4th to SATURDAY, 8th February, 1918, (both days inclusive), during which period po Transfer of Shares can be Registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors, À SHELTON HOOPER Secretary to the

HONGLONG LANnd Investment & AGENCY Co., Lt General Agents for the KOWLOON LAND AND BUILDING Co., LTD.

Bengkong. Jan. 30, 1918.

ALFRED HYNDMAN

43-Wyndham Street

Hlas for sale

87

CARBON PAPEE at $100 per dozen

sheets RIBBONS at $1,80 each.

UNDERTAKES to clean and repair Typewriters at $11.00 per machine

per annum.

Central Location,

LL BITI TRAM Pass Entrance, Electris Lifts, Fans and Lighting European Bathe and Sanitary Fittings Hot and Cold Water System throughout

Best of Food siid Service.

Telephone 973 TELEGRAPHIQ ADDRESS:

J. WITCHELL, Manager.

THE ANDERSON MUSIC CO., LTD.

HIGH CLASS PIANOS FOE

2275 SALE OR

For particulare apply to the above iddress.

Hongkong. Nev. 7. 1917.

BILIMIPOPON (SEBATIK)

COAL

THE Undersigned having been appointed

HIRE.

CASH OF

CREDIT:

OOAU QU., LTD., sze" prepared to quote TUNING & REPAIRING ptions for both quality SILIMPOPON

JOAL trimmed into Bunkers at SEBAT

TIK or SANDAKAN- (British - North A SPECIALITY.

SMOON COAL compares, favour‣ [

ably with the better grades of Japanese

Cost

ind

give good results on a very moderate, cunsumption

*** Steamers cailing at

SEBATTIE OF

SANDAKAN ordiasively for SILIMPO

16. Dos Vorax Bond.

FUS 00AL (either cargo or Bankers) PATELL & CO.

ato sxempt fross payment of all Furt

charger berthed along

At Bebattik Steamers

side the Company's wharf where there is minimum depth of 27 to 28 feet at low water Boring Tidos.

Charts of Sibuko Bay (Sebatik Bar- hour), Prine and all other information sonoerning the Fort can be bad, on Applications to the Agent D

BRADLEY & CO., LTD.

Agent Cowie Harbour Coal Company Limited.

WAI KEB.

SAILMAKER

Boad Contas.i

HONGKONG phone No. 1832

ORIENTAL PRODUCE

EXPORTERS,

SILK MERCHANTS,

COMMISSION AGENTS.

“Agencies in KEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCII, USA.

HEAD OFFICE-

"HOBPROSE:

however, to the baggage acrutinising fessional world, stood guard at the The baggage of all the passengers, of Hotel Wallack and the Holland Route. whom there were 1,100, was carefullyThey were under the command of Capt sssrobed, as wers the quarters of the William A. Callahan, and took turns in craw. The liner carried 7,500 tops of performing their duties. general cargo, bat no foodstuffs.

Not until the party boarded the ateamer was the work of the volunteers. completed.

GERMANY'S REST GURE.

Mr. John Pollock sends to the "Nine-

The Germans treat their Eastern.front

Those in the German party on board included Consul-General Hubert Knip ping, Vice-Consul Kart von Tippelskirch, interpreter Kurt Sebirmer, with his sgainst any of the Garman and Austrian wife, daughter and son; Chancellor Herman Gatten, with his wife, two diplomats sailing on the Norwegiau-

sous and two daughters; Dr. Anton America liner Bergensfjord from seeing Arnold, former financial „adviser of any of the New York water front on the Chinese Government; Mi Ateenth Century description of the their way to the ship. The Bergensfjord Bechenthaler, sister of the former atste of Russia. He says:- sailed from 30th Street, Brooklyn, for Assistant Military Attaché of the

German Legation at Peking; Mrs. Trest care for divisions. battered to Bergen, Norway, and it was decided to Strasser, wife of the farmer chief archi- pieces on the West, and have fung all thair fresh troops against the fighting permit the diplomata to leave on her test of the Gorman fortress at Teing Allies. An stack would save Russia, Many of them came from China Others and her daughter; Mrs L Pfutzer- for the sterling qualities of the Rossian from Central and South American reuter, widow of the late representative soldier would be stang into renewed countries. They had with them their of Siemens Schackert at Poking, with her activity. But the Germans, who saw son and daughter; Mrs. A. Ablers, wife where their real chance lay before, any families and servanta.

of Capt. Allers, former representative body else, will be too clever to make of the Krupps at Faking, with her this mistake so long as the inaction of the Russian Army is of importance to them. daughter, Mas E. Ahlers; & son of the late Lieut.Commander von Salden, who was captured by the Japanese and died in captivity, with his governess; Mrs. Ruth Ross, wife of the manager of arer sad Son in Peking, and Paul School, with his wife, three children and three nurias.

Sate conducts were granted by the French and British Governments, a well as Washington, and the diplomats had been in New York several days, many of them stopping at the Holland House and the Hotel Wallick In the party was Dr. A. you Rothorn, whe was Austrian Minister to Chins, and

·WOMEN DRIVERS, CLOSED CARE.

What will happen 1 is the question on all Bassian lipa

bad.

The answer most commonly given, not colz in private, but even publicly now in the Press, is that a Dictator will arise, store order with a strong hand, lead the army to glory, and "Rassis to prosperity. At present there seems no The Austrians, besides Dr. von obvious candidate for the poet, but Dr. George Barthelme, who was arrested Rosthorn, who was accompanied by his should one be found the aspect of the recently in Wichita, Kan, where, raids wife and Dr. Barthelme, were scene sigirt change for the good, even

quicker than it has changed for the Weinzeti and his wife, La Bauer and his. were made on German propagandists wife, Baron von Babo and his wife: If the mass of the Cossacks. 478 million F. Kaenzel, A. Lindenmayer, Dr. Carl warlike soldiers, are really becoming discaptented, as it would seem that at When the party from Chins reached Bernauer, Adolph Kunz, F. Winkler lost some are, the issue may lie in their San Francisco in October the members and his wife, F. Mitura, L. Peter, K J. bands. But whoever the Dietater might Mors with his wife and two children, be he would be hailed as a saviour by were immediately placed under surreil- M. Kara, A. Bajor, H. Steinacker, F. J. almost all thinking men in Russia

MrPollock ends with the remark that lanes and they had been watched ever Keil, Mr. Magy, Mr. Kaas, Miss Rowie is a land of wonders, and the since to prevent them from taking to Gruen: Mrs. De Marteau and Mrs. H.wonder of re-boro patriotism may be Germany any important information Zacharias

UNDER SURVEILLANCE OF VOLUNTEERS. regarding the military activities of

the fork each was under During the entire time the diplomats When the Bergensfjord was about to surveillance of members of the American

sail, twenty-seven automobiles with Protective League, in co-operation with

nearer than any can know..

KAIPING

FOR ALL

COAL

INDUSTRIAL --AND- HOUSEHOLD Į PURPOSES.

FOUNDRY AND SMELTING COKE

FIREBRICK -AND FIREOLAY

FOR ALL "INFORMATION APPLY TO

DODWELL * 00.. LTD., QUEEN'S

BUILDINGS, HONGKONG, OR

KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION,

TIENTHIN, NORTH "OHIMA,

HORLICK'S MALTED MILK

(MALTED HARLEY, WHEAT"

AND PURE FULL-CREAM: MILK),

The Food Drink with all the Virtues.

1. Generates leres and rustaizi H.

Gives strength and maintains ite

Easily digested and completely absorbed

4. Delicious and refreshing,

5. Ready to B.MORIAL.

6. pulls all ages and condllEND

17. Koups in xil elimates. “

Supplied by all Chemisty and Storne

3. Sizes, 1/8, 1/4 and 11/4 (in England).

Also available la Tablet forms to be solved in the mouth.

HORLICK'S MALTED MILK CO., SLOUGH, BUCKS., ENG,

PRINTING

THE

OF EVERY

executed at the Offices of

DESCRIPTION·

CHINA MAIL" LTD.,

COMMERCIAL FORKS

SHIPPING FORMS

CIRCULARS

PAMPHLETS

5 Wyndham Street.

ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMMES

WINE LISTS

MENUS

INVITATION CARDS

BOCKBINDING.

their curtains drawn appeared at the the Department of Justice Six THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LD.

hotels to take the enemy aliens and the volunteer workers, some of whom are Austrians to the South Brooklyn pier. well known in the business and pro- The cars belonged to the Motor Corps

of the National League for Women's Service, volunteer organisation, and members of the cors, dressed in khaki

and led by Capt Helen Bastedo, drova the cars. Also seventy. Secret Service men were signed to the cars to use that note of those who were to sall raised a curtain or pooped out of on the trip across the East River or down the Brooklyn water from There ware sixty alght in the party of aliens. Crowd's collected in front of the hotels. as they got into the cars and ware then hurriedly takes to the pier,

Special Deputy Collector of Customs H. C. Stort hul section of the pier reped off and the Germans - and Austrians were kept there while their baggage wasminately examined. Then they were allowed to board the ship but were required to remain in the main saloon, the ports of which had been covered until

liner was part Sandy

The party Kezivj

fnd the liner did

The Man Who Gets There

Is the swan who has blood

rich god blood and plenty of Its als body.

WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED COD LIVER OIL COMPOUND

"at noon

$1.25 5.

TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: MANIFESTO HONGKONG

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KOWLOON

Iron and Brass Founders, Forge Masters, Electricians. ACETLYENE CUTTING AND WELDING FOR SHIP AND BOILER REPAIR Modern, up-to-date plant operated by our own specially trained workmen under expert European supervision.

All clanes of lights steel work mantfactured by the above procesa.

Droma, Ventilaties, Pipes, de, de

STHE DIMENSIONS OF DOOKS AND BLIPS ARE AS FOLLOWES

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