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INTIMATIONS

THE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY,

LIMITED

NOTICE

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that EXTRAORDINARY GEN. ERAL MEETING of the HONGKONG Jeg COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held at the Registered Office of the Company, Pedder Street, Victoria, Hongkong MONDAY, the 6th day of May, 1918, at 12 o'clock Noor when the nibjoined resolutions which were passed at the i Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held on the 10th day of April, 1918, will be submittes for Confirmation as special resolutions

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(1) Thas it xpedient to effect an analramation of this Company with the Dairy Farm Company, Limited and that with a view there to this Company be wound up veluurarily and that Messrs. Jardine Matheson &Co. Limited bo and they are bereby appointed Liquidators for the

such winding up. of purpose That the conditional Agreement submitted to the meeting for the amalgamation of this Company with the Dairy Farm Company Limited upon the terass (inter aliar of the acquisition by that Company of the complete undertaking business, goodwill and property of this Com- pany in return for the issue to this Company of 33,000 Shares of the Dairy Farm Company, Limited of the nominal value of 8.50 each credited as fully paid up (being eight abures of 87.50 cents each of tlust Company for each share of! $2 each of this Company) and of the issue by the Diary Farm Com

Limited to Messrs. Jardine. Phone Co., Limited. the General Managers of this Company (upon their entering into restrictive covenants which have been agreed apon and by way of bonus as com pensation for their loss of office ne General Managers of this Company) of 9,00 shares of the Dairy Farm Company Limited of the nominal value of $7.50 each credited as fully paid up be and the same is hereby approved and that the Liquidators be and they are hereby authorised pursuant to Section 55 of the Com- pazies Urdinance 1911 to adopt the aid Agreement and carry the same into effect with such (if any) modi- fication either before or after the execation thereof as the said Liqui dators may think expedient. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 1st to 10th May, 1918, both days inclasive. Dated the 16th day of April, 1918. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Ltd..

General Managers.

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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED.

TOTIUE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

the TWENTY-NINTH ORDIN ARY GENERAL MEETING will be held at the Company's Offices, St, George's Buildinga og SATURDAY, the 11th May, at 19 o'clock Noox, for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts to 28th February, 1918, and electing Directors and Auditors. The TRANSFER ROOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 12 o'clock noon April 7th to 1 o'clock noon May 11th. By Order of the Board of Directors GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO.,

Agents.

Hongkong, April 20, 1938.

50%

THE CHINA-BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE FIFTEENTH YEARLY-MEETI

ING of SHAREHOLDERS of the above Company will be held at the Company's Office St. George's Buildings, at 11 on FRIDAY, the 17th May, 1918, to receive a Statement of Accounts 1917, and the

to the 31st Dece Manager and Į

Report of the

Consulting Committee, and to elect a Consulting Committee and

Auditor

THE CHINA-BORNEO Co., "L37. |

W. G. DARBY,

INTIMATIONS

LOST.

'N KOWLOON, LIVER and ADAWARD to the name of MAX" Finder will be suitably rewarded on returning samus to

Mr. E. V. I. R. aɛ SOUSA, No. 1 Ormsby Villas Granville Bal, Kowloon.

Hongkong, May 4, 1918.

WANTED.

389

TWO MARINE ENGINEERS with Shop experience to act us Work- hop Foremion, also a Foreman Marine Foreman Ship Boiler Maker and

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THE SEIZURE OF THE DUTCH SHIPS.

ESTAB WEIGHT OF AUTHORITY ESTAB LISHES THE RIGHT.

[BY WILL H. TAFT] ·

and makes use of foreign ships, eveu as bable as property of American such as are not in inland waters, but citizens to seizure for war purposes. in ports and roadsteads within its if our military need for them is great. jurisdiction, and even compels the Such need certainly exists in view of ws to transport troops, amimnuni. the critical condition of our transport tion and implemness of warfare."and our imperitive obligation to feel England acquiesced in the legality our sokliers and our Allies abroad.

the seizure on-payment of full It will be well, of course, to secure compensation. This view, thus the vessela by agreement with Hol agreed upon, is sustained by Oppen-lund. This we undoubtedly could do heim, professor of international law bat for Germany's ntervention and at Carubridge, England; by Coleman threat. Germany has, no just right! Philipson, and indeed by moet inter- to complain of Holland for ageng national jurists, including the Ger- to the sale of vessels to us, when by mune: Dana and Lawrence vigorously the modem right of angary which dissent. It is also declared to be the Burck werted we could properly law in the United States naval War enforce such a sale.

The question of the right of the United States to seize the Dutch ships now in our ports and pay full compensation for them is a nice one, It is asserted under what is called the night of angary. This literally code..

means the right of transport. It was

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An qualogous right of land to seize neutral railway cars in Cume of

á right anciently exercised by a belli- absolute necessity is reluctantly re- THE FATE OF RUSSIA'S GENERALS. gerent to seize vessels of neutmis cognised in the second Hague Con

for the transport of his troops and vention, if compensation is given. The fate of the Russian generals con- munitions. A general principle of Prussia exercised the right in respectinnas appalling, and the name of to Swise railway cars in the war of Kaledin has now been added to the international law is that neutral pro-1870. On the same principle, Great melancholy list of the generalsha- 1914 seized four vessels of carried out the great offensive in 19:0 perty in belligerent territory aliares Britain

there is Brassiloff, broken and maimed the same liability to seizure for war Turkey (then a neutral building in for life; Alexeiell is fighting for bare English shipyards and paid for then..

existence; Rusak, the greatest of them purposes as property of the citizens Perhaps a distinction might be made all; Lechitaker, one of the paramount The TRANSFER BOOKS of thell: Company will be ULOSED from the 4th DAIRY FARM NEWS. of the country. The justice of the in that these vessels were not yet discoveries of the want Radko Dimitrieff. the Bulgar bero Lesh-they are all lost May to the 17th May, 1918, both, days

application of the principle to ships afloat. inclusive.

Doutor Loudan, the Minister for or dead and Sircherbecheff has a price The lesser men are apon his head. temporarily, or to use Huil's phrase "Passingly," in the port of a belli. Foreign Affairs of Holland, insiste epic streets or selling papers! gerent bus been questioned. But that whatever the right may be as to a small number of vessels, it does the weight of authority among text not exist as to a commercial murine writers seems to be that such vessels of half a million tons en blot. It is It is oficially stated that be may be seized in cases of military certainly true that the right has United States Government has planned necessity upon tender of full com never been applied so extensively as both to provide comfortable homes for to protect them against extortion at pensation, Moreover, ships which now proposed. It is hard to see,250,000 volunteer abipyard workers and however, why extent of the applica: the hands of private landlords. - A have peen in our ports for six months tion of the principle should change $50,000,000 (£10,000,000) appropris. or route, detained because of their the rule. The ships are within our tion is available for housing schemes. OLORY MEETING OF SHARE KING EDWARD HOTEL purpose to carry cargoes of grain misdiction and have been here for wltimately destined for our enemies, six months or more because they do not comply with our lawful regula

7. General Manager.

Hongkong, May 2, 1918,

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