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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1918.

BUSINESS NOTICES,

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THORNE'S

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

No. 4.

SCOTCH WHISKY.

SOLE AGENTS, A.S. WATSON & Co, Ld

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

HONGKONG.

Tam. 616.

NOTICE.

ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS.

KOWLOON BAY.

Steam and Motor Vessels,

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

HONGKONG, CANTON & MAÇÃO STEAMERS.

JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MADAD STEAMBOAT CO., LTD. AND THE CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.

IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that the following revised Passage

NY EUROPEAN Non ASTATIC or TE PUBLween Hongkong & Canton will come inte force on 95th March, 1818.

INDIAN desiring to leave the

Colony should apply in person at the L'entral Police Station between the bours of 9 A.M. 12.M. and 9 P.M. to 4 PM. daily,

Applicants will be required to produce Passports or identification papers. All persons, with certain exceptions, whe remain in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register them selvas under the REGISTRATION of PERSONS ORDINANCE 1916. Forma of Registration giving the particulars required may be obtained at the G.P.O. Boda al Police Stations.

The Pensity for non sompliance is a fine not exceeding 350,

NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE

INSURANCE CO.

WHICH ARE VESTED TEN SHARES OF

OCEAN-MARINE INSURANCE

COMPANY, LED., ind

THE RAILWAY PASSENGERS,

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AL FUNDS AT SLOT Dacas, 1914,

TOTAL £33.970,367.

I-Authorised Capital £8,000,000

Subscribed Capital £4,500,000!

Paid-up Capital £2, 137,500

Il-Le & Annuity Funda... 17,587,500

Il-Fire Funds.....

3,837,047

Sinking and Acount

128,230

293,970,367 £2,381,456

Revenue Fire Branch

Life and Annuity.

Branches 2,141,698.

Rerenue Marine Department... 337.259 Other Receipte

478,940

£5,338,228

The Accumulative Funds of the various Branches are separately invested, and, by Act of Parliament, sro set aside to meet the laime under the. respectire Depart sents of the Company's Burines.

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Daybouts.

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HONGKONG-CANTON LINE.

Sailings-To Canton daily st 8 a.m. (Sundays excepted) and 10 p.m. From Canton daily at a a.m. (Sondays excepted) and 4 p.m. SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD. HONGKONG-MACAO LINE.

Sabings:-To Macao daily at 8 a.m. (Sundays am) and

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

From Macao daily at 7.30 am. and 2 p.m. (Sundays 3 pm).

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THE GREAT BATTLE IN

FLANDERS.

FIERCE AND BITTER STRUGGLES.

י.

Reuter's Service to the China Mail:

THE FLANDERS STRUGGLE British retreated out of .9 hell of

shell-fire unknown to the enemy who is now undergoing the same ordeal.

ENEMY CAPTURES BAILLEUL.

Losnox, April 16,

19.30 p.m..

Field-Marshal Sir Dough's Haig

reports

The enemy last evening launched

The British between Merris and Wytschaete have so far repelled battalions of special "shoes troops. und Alpinists, who were ordered to take Bailleul at all costs. These

4 very heavy attack, preceded by an suffered heavily, the dead lying piled intense bombardinent, between Buil-up below the railway embankment leal and Noure Eglise. Three pick-near Bailleul. The waves of Ger fed German Divisions, not previously mans weru mown down by our

engaged in battle. delivered anmachine-guns,

assault and, after a fierce and bitter While there is no attempt to con- struggle, carried the high ground ceal the fact the situation in stuf south-castward and eastward of serious. It is pointed out that the Bailleul known as Mont-de-Lille and German progress is vastly slower the Heveliberg.

and such offensives rarely re-gain the

We have fallen back to new posioriginal momentum. tions northward of Bailleul and OUR STRATEGICAL POSITION NOT Walverghem.

Bailleul fell into the

| hands.

Fresh German attacks are develop- ing this morning in the neighbour. heod of Wytechnete.

We repulsed an attack under cover of heavy artillery and trench-mortar fre south-westward of Vieux Berquin und took prisonera.

BRILLIANT.

ENTIRE GERMAN FORCES NOT USED AGAINST THE BRITISH.

LONDON, April 18. Colonel Repington, in the Morning" Post, expresses the opinion that our strategical position is not exactly brilliant, but estimates that a quar ter of the entire German forces op There WAR 0 successful minor the British front have not been used

enterprise south-eastward of Robecq:/

VIOLENT ARTILLERY DUEL ON FRENCH FRONT.

J

Lospos, April 18.

A French communiqué states:-- The artillery duel is very violenti in the region of Hangard-en-Santerre. Our artillery dispersed chet assemblances on the outskirts of Démuin.

There was lively cannonading on the sector at Avocourt.

FRENCH OFFICIAL

REPORTS.

, FLANDERS FRONT STABILISED.

LINE MODIFIED SLIGHTLY.

Fans, April 16. Asemi-official message says

During the last two days the

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Po Kowloon, Hongkong Lelephone Zia, 9,

WONG FINE WAT Maser

15 Minutes from Landing Stage.

Under the Management of

Mrs. BLAIR.

Flanders front has become stable. It is very satisfactory to see that the eneiny is contained along a long line. constituting an enormous salient und

offensives. The modification of the linc, cuused by the abandonment of Nouve Eglise, dos not exceed a hundfed, metres..

up,

while

Generalissimo Foch's French reserve have not yet given. signs of life.

GERMAN LOSSES ESTIMATED AT 400,000,

The Daily Nica expert estimates' that the enemy losses are 100,000. GENERAL FOCH'S APPOINTMENT.

UNIVERSAL SATISFACTION.

LONDON April 16. "General Foch's appointment a Generalissimo has been received with noiversal satisfaction. Indeed it is regarded as an imperative necessity, after the recent events, to have all the. Armies under a single control. avoiding the system of watertight compartments,

The French pay a tribute to the generous 'action of Great Britain,

THE REICHSTAG AND PEACE.

„A RESOLUTION THAT HAS BEEN SET ASIDE,

"AMSTERDAM, April 18. Declarations by prominent mem bers of the Progressive People Party that the Reichstag resolution of July, 1017, no longer has any force have been confirmed by the Centre organ, A Germania, "which" says: The Centre Party has re- GLORIOUS DEEDS OF OUR served to itself a free hand in

MEN.

Losos, April 16, 4.40a.m.

EPIC FIGHTING.

West

The Mittags Zeitung saya: July resolution was merely a tsc-

The brilliant performances of the tical means of securing peace in the been set aside. British Against the overwhelming East. It has now hordes of Gerrans continue to form The air now is to gain a victorious f the theme of Correspondents" nar. peace by force of arms in the West. zatives.

́ ́| MR. CHAMBERLAIN TO JOIN THE

WAR CABINET.

It appears that Neuve Eglise was not taken by gassult but by artillery fire. The gvacuation preceded some of the most desperate fightg of the

war

LONDON, April 16

The Tintea states that Mr. Cham

the berlain has been included

The Germans at first vainly tried Home Rule drafting Committes, and then fumiling enveloping tactics, and suggests that he has joined the War then, tried to rush the place. The Cabinet

enemy broke into the ruined streets and met small parties of the Wit-

shires and Worcesters A terrible

hand-to-hand struggle ensued in the

»QANADIAN PARLIAMENT AND

THE WAR.

backyards of ruined houses and SECRET SESSION TO DISCUSS cellurs

The enemy several time cleared out from most parts of the town, the British holding out a hollow square under a heavy fire of shells, traf

enemy stul cont

THE CRISIS.

Orfawa, April §10% The House of Commons has des

on the wilenttend.

a secret sitting on

discuss the situation" Front, The Berateras