1918-06-04 — Page 1

MUMEYA

nese Photographers

All kinds of Photographio

Work done in istest stylem

-ho Passport Photos.

Developing and Printing for

Amateurs a Speciality.

No. 8. Queen's Road Cuntraill

Tai 254.

No 17,174

The China Mail.

THORNE'S.

就四月六年八十壹百九千奎英

ESTABLISHED

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1918.

午戊次践年七國民中

BUSINESS NOTICES

BUSINESS NOTICES,

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

No. 4.

SCOTCH WHISKY,

SOLE AGENTE.

A.S. WATSON & Co, Ld

WINE & SPIRITSMERCHANTA

HONGE

Trz. €18.

NOTICE.

NY EUROPEAN Non ASIATIC or INDIAN desiring to leave the Colony should apply in person at the Centri Police Station between the hours of AM to 1 P.M. and 3 P.M. TO 4 P.M. daily.

Applicants will be required to produce Pasporta or identifestion papers All persons, with certain exceptions, whc romain in the Colony for more than 1 days are required to Register them- elves under the REGISTRATION of PERSONS ORDINANCE 1918. Fortes of Registration giving the particulars required.may be obtained at the G.P.O. and and Poffee Stations.

The Penalty for non compliance is a Ene not resecting $50

NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE

INSURANCE 00.

WHICH AIN VACHED THE JHABRS OF

THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE

*COMPANY, L.,

and

(PHE RAILWAY PASSENGERS

ASSURANCE CO.

J

“OTAL FUNDR AF S1ST DECEMBIE, 1914,

TOTA

£23,970,367,

1-Authorised Capital £6,000,000,

Bubscribed Capital £4,500,000

Paid-up Capital uncovinení :22,4377,500

IIL-Life & Annuity Funds... 17,567,590

Sinking Fand Account ......

-Fire Funds

3,897,047

128,230.

£23,970,387

9,381,456

2,141,593

337,239

478,940

Revenue Fire Branch...

12

Life and Annuity

Brancheng | Revante Marine Department... Other Roselped

25.339.928

The Accumulative Fands of the various Branches are separately invested, and, by. Act of Parliament, are set aside to ment the claims under the respective Depart ments of the Company's Business.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO...

Δοστο

AK TRAMWAYE COMPANY

LIMITED.

РЕАК

TIME TABLE.

WORK DAYS

7.00 am, to 8.00a.m...Every 15 minutes. 8.00a.m. bo 10.00 a.m...Erary 10 minuts. 10.00a.m. to 11.00 ....Every 15 minutes. 11,30a.m. to 12.45 p.m...Every 15 minutes. 12.45 pm to 1.15 p.m...Every 10 minutes. 1.15 pm to 145 p.m...Every 15 minuter. 1.45 p.m. to 2.16 p.m... Every 10 minutes 9.10 p.m. to 6.00p.m...Every 15 mauves. 600p.m. to 8.00 p.m...Every 10 min

AIGHT CARS.

!

8.50 p.m. and. 9 p... 950 p.m. to 11.00 p.m. avery half hour.

+

11.00 p.m. to 11.45 p., srey quarter of

an betr

SUNDAYL

7.30 KR.

8,00%.m. to 30.30 am...Every 15 minutes 10.30am to 11.00 Every 10 pilnate. 11.00am to 12 Noon...Every 15 minuten. 12.00 noon to 100p.m...Every 10 minutes. 100p.m to 6.30pm. Every 15 minutes, 5.30p.m. to 8.00p.m...Every 10 minutes. 6.00pm to 6.30p.m...Every 15miniter, 6.20 p.m. to 8.00 pm...Every 10 minute... XIGHT CARS us on Wook Dayc

SATURDAY

Extra Oar ab 12 midnight. SPECIAL CARB by arrangement at the Company's Oce, ALEXANDRA BUILATNOS' Den Vasut Road Oeutral

Season and punch tickets available for

ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS,

KOWLOON BAY.

Steam and Motor Vessels,

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

HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMERS.

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

HONGKONG-CANTON LINE.

SailingsTo Canton daily at 8 a.m. (Sundays excepted) and 10 p.m. From Canton daily at S a... (Sundays excepted) and 4pm.

SERVICE

oF THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD.

HONGKONG-MACAO LINE. Sailinge To Macao daily at 8 a.m. (Sundays 9 am) and

9 p.m. (Sundays I p.m.).

Froth Macno daily at 7.30 am. and 9 pm. (Sundage 2 p.m.).

Further information may be obtained at the COMPANY'S OFFICE, Eotel Mansions,

or from Messra. Tues. Coot & Sex, Booking Agents, Hongkong.

TAIKOO DOCKYARD

BUILDERS OF SHIPS & ENGINES

•

OF EVERY DESCRIPTION

-THE TANCO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPUT

OF HONG KONG LTP-

*** TAIKA 3B2CK"

AGENTS = BUTTERNED & SACE - TELEPHONE KE 212,

་

DRAGON MOTOR.

THE

SUMMER

IDEAL PERFUME

CHANDLER

HUDSON

FRAGRANT AND REFRESHING

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.,

HONGKONG DISPENSARY. Telephone. 436,

PRICKLY Heat remedIES.

Victoria Prickly Heat Lotion.

The only Safe and Certain Qures 50 cts, &$1.00 per bottle.

Victoria Prickly Heat Powder

Gives inuediate relief. 50 cts. $1.00 per tin

Talcum Powder, for Family use. Lavender, Lilac Violet, Carnation.

$2.00.. 1-lb. tins

THE VICTORIA DISPENSARY.

32, Queen's Road Central..

Telephone 298.

alles not sirdy foll running at the THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING GO., LJ.

tims abused in the Company's time tables,

but not for special cars, can be obtained

on application at the Company's Office

No Season Hekenk will be issued until payment therefor has been made in Bank Notes or by Chimae or. Compradors order represahting Bank Note.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Mum

ANG YUK DE

Established 1885 MANUJAUTURERS OF

PURE Manila ROPE

STRAND

bles of any size up to 3,000 foet

STRAND

GABLE LAID

4 to 18

5 to 15%

01 Dallin

TING,

MODERME

∙10%

AND OVERLA

MOTOR CARB

BOLE DISTRIBUTORS FOR THE FAMOUS

TELEPRORE 482.

COME AND INSPECT-

1918

Indian

MOTOR CYCLES

“Ij b. p... 34 b.p.. and 7.0 h.p- ALEX ROSS & CD,

Machinery Dept.

'Phone. 37.

PRICE $3,00 Per Month.

THE WAR.

TO-DAY'S

TELEGRAMS..

? Reuter's Service to the Chaña · Mail.

OBSTINATE FIGHTING

CONTINUES.

FRENCH STAND SHOCK OF ENEMY FORCES.

LOST GROUND RE-CAPTURED BY FRENCH.

Loynoy, June 8,

12.15 am.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

THE WESTERN FRONT.

LULL ON BRITISH FRONT ONLY RECIPROCAL ARTILLERY FIRING.

LONDON; June 2. Ficht-Marshal Sir Douglas Hig

The buttle has continued, peei-reports only sciprocal artillery Briog

ally north of the Churcg to the Marne, ou diferent sectors of the British front. where the engang unde his main efforts.

Our troops withstood. the shock of the enemy forces with obstinate bravery.

The enemy succeeded in regain ng possession of Fiverolles, but the on Corey and Teesnes

attacks fulled

Our attacks west of Seuilly St. Front drove back the enemy | Passy-en-Valois, «

We ré-took Hill 163, 5mmaliately

of it.

CAR CO.After desperate fighting further suth of the Forey Bouresches front two successive themy attacks were broken down.

SILENT GREY HARLEY DATED ON MOTOR

CYCLES

BEST CARS IN THE COLONY FOR HIRE.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LD.

PORTLAND CEMENT

In Casks of 375 lbs. aet.

In Bags of 250 The. nat.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

GENERAL MANAGERS

THE HONGKONG HOTEL

AND

GRILL ROOM

J. H. TAGGART

MANAGER

THE PEAK HOTEL.

1500 Feet above Sea Level 5

TO

15 Minutes from Landing Stage,

Under the Management of--

Mrs. BLAIR.

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On the right wed-captured Char plata and gained gmund in the direes tion of Ville-en-Turtois.

The situation elsewhere is uns changed.m

SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS ON BRITISH FRONT

LINE ADVANCED AND (93 PRISONERS TAKEN.

Losos, June 3. Field-Mursal Sir Douglas Haig

repants

KERIAL ACTIVITIES.

LONDON, JUDE 3. Reporting oa aviation, Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig say":—

Fine weather on June 1st enabled" much observation work to be done.

We brought down 41 German- aeroplanes and drove down four out of control.

We dostroved four balloons,

Four British aeroplanes are missing. We dropped during the day 20 tous of bombs on Zeebrugge mole and on Burity and Flera and on other targets. railways at Armentieres Rosieres,

Long distance "bombing aeroplanes

beavily attacked the railways at Karthans and Metzablons. One British machine has not retumedes

The night of June was misty, We dropped five tona bumba oa tripes in the Somme Valley.

A our n uebines returned..

THE MACEDONIAN CAMPAIGN.

FREMCH REPULSE ENTMY ATTACKS

LONDON, June 3

A French Eastern commaluigne" of June 1at reports that several engray attempts during the night to re-captare positions south of Hama completely failed..

The Greeks extended their gains west of Skrudiliger and took 100 prisoners.

THE MESOPOTAMIA CAMPAION.

A TURKISH OLAIM,

LONIN, June L "A Turkish communiquá states.

We occupied territory south and south-east of Kirkuk..

"We carried out successful opera- tin's in the heighbourhools of Vieux Berguin and Merris, advanced our line slightly at these points, took LOS prisoners, and cuptured a num- ber of machine-guns and trench rnostars. Our casualties were light.

We successfully raided to the South-east of Arms, to the north.} ~ west of Lens, and to the west of Merville tuking 26 prisoners and A compilation by, the National City Bank of New York shows that the rubber capturing three machine-gun, and s

imports into the United States in the freich mortar.

calendar year 1917, were the largest in: We, repulsed raiders to the south the history of that trade, both hr quantity of Villers Bretonneux.

AMERICAN RUBBER - IMPORİS LAST YEAR,

and value, the quality imported for consumption basing been approximately

COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY 180,000 ton against 137,000 tons in 1018,-

PLOT IN RUSSIA, * WORKMEN COMPULSORILY CALLED

ا ما

TO ARME.

LONDON, June 3. The Press Bureau, ata tos —

the former tigh record year and the value in 2017 22:32,000,000 against Meantime $100,000,000 in 1916. America's exportation of manufactures of rubber from America has grown from $7,000,000 o dovade ago to "$35,000,000/ in 1917, while America also re-exported in crude form nearly $3,000,000 wortla

A Russian wit cless reports that the of the rubber imported in 1017.

executive of the Soviets decided

on May 20th to compulsorily cull to arme the workmen and the poorer | 5 peasants of the Petrograd, Moscow, Cuban and the Don regions. They have declared martial law in Moscow and have ordered wholesale arreate of counter-revolutionaries and vigor

OFFICERS IN INDIAN ARMY.

It has been decided that officers of ther Indian Army who hart shown themselves

capable of performing eficient service i

the field, during the present, war may hate restored to them any services for

ous ministres against the Press promotion which may have been certed

The report says a great counter owing to their faire to pass the pre revolutionary plot, supported by scribed examination in peace, and may be replaced in their regiments and in the foreign capital, was discovered at

general list of the Indian Army to the Moscow and Petrograd with ramific places to which they would have been tions throughout. Bussin. The plot entitled if they had unt felled to qualify and responsible for the mating off at the prescribed examinations. Cases the Tebechoslovak Corps, which cap-will be dealt with on their merits, and ured the railway junctions and lines, restoration of service will be subject in every case to the approval of the over- Large owners in other Tygous are put of India and will zetted [mobilising the richer, peasants to service restored by virtue at good service:

résist the conmandeering of fair. j in the fejd. Agents in the cities, including the starvingtuasies are guiant the Soviela pots of flourful Kuba and Don me menacest by a counter-

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