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INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION

·COMPANY, LIMITED.

QHAREHOLDERS are reminderit of

the EXTRAORDINARY GEN ERAL MEETING of the Company to be held on TUESDAY, the th day of October, 1918, at 1poelock Noch, at the Offices of Messrs JARDINE, MATHESON & COMPANY. LOITED, No. 6, Pedder Street, Hongkong for the purpose of

consider thought fit confirming as Special Resolution the Beaution net out underneath which was passed at the

held on the 19th day of Sep

ordinary General Meeting of the

tember, 1913.

The China

Mail.

Bongo, SATURDAY, "Sept. 21, 1918.

THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

THE CHINA MAIL.

little, tight little island," beset by submarines, are not doing badly, cren though food and raiment are costing! more. There is at least no actual scarcity of food and garb, whereas the ncutrals are going without new clothes. In Sweden no mun now adays is allowed more than two suite of clothes. Only fich men, as a matter of fact, could attempt such a possession, for a suit, it is said, cannot be obtained much under £50.

tion

THE MAGISTRACY,

'A SERIOUS CASE.

Before Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, this morning, three Chinese were charged with behaving in a disorderly manner

AMERICAN BANKING PLANS FOR FAR EAST.

American banking plans for the Far past were crystalized on August 8th in the announcement of the Asia Banking Corporatidh that its organization has

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 1918,

ENEMY BANK MENACE,

INTERPORT TENNIS'AT SHANGHAI.

SIR A. STANLEY'S STRONG SPEECH. at Shanghal last Saturday, when Messrs.

AFTER WAR FOLICY.

In the House of Commens on July

on the Fraga, at Wanchai. The been completed by the election of 23rd Sir Albert Stanley made the

the

is

An interport tennis match was played L. Parbury and A. E, George, represent- ing Hankow, took three straight sets from Messrs. C. G. Humphreys and J. Excore, playing for Shanghai Some 150 people, says the China Press, JAN the mixture of sensational and mediocre play. The entire proceeds were turned over to the Allied war funds. The sots weat 6-3, 6-9 and the Hankow players experiencing little dificulty with the b local representatives, because the Shanghai men played a net s

et game. At In moving the second reading of the several stages of the match Humphreys alms at making it impossible for en hary and George returned the lobs with new Trading with the Roemy Bill which and Elmers were dangerous, for when they lobbed to the hack lines both Fare this country banks to be established in for five years after the war, Sir Albart difficulty,

The Stanley declared that it was designed to play of Bamphrys and Parbury meet a real merace. It would be a great stood out The former Fatmed with banks to be re-catablished after the war him in his sterling defensive phy mistake.

allow these drives, and serves of tremendous power be insisted, to

while his great height and reach uiled. hey had been established not to take They

banks, says The Times.

of trade in

game, playing equally well at this ret

an honourable part in the development Parbary played a splendid all-rand deliberate national policy of commercial and at the back court. Elmore care

n this country, but as part of and political penetration. He explained tributed the sensational tennis but hi that the Bill dealt not only with banks, dishes were offset by many smasher into bat with all enemy Boazelal undertak the net. George played a great net.

Sir Henry Dalziel gladly recognized

game.

Bat 11 of the 37 games went to deuce.

accused was further charged with being

ment that has yet been heard from the in possession of an automatis pistol and officers, and that a head office would be strongest and most convincing state opened presently at No. 66 Liberty Treasury Bench on the subject of enemy attempting to shoot a junk master..

The first accused said the pistol was Street, New York City. The Company Even scarcer that clothes in Sweden the property of his master, Mr. Buje, proposes to engage in international and foreign banking in Chine, in the depen are ten, cocoa and eren wilk. Outs and he denied shooting. small children are allowed milk now, Inspector Sim said threo dencies and insular possessions of the and this lack is having a perceptible defendants were employed by Mr. United States, and, ultimately, in effect on the adults. Tea is about Banje on board bis yacht. The first Siberia.

Charles H. Sabis, President of the under "the impression £f the kila (about gh) and imita accused was

coffee is maile by the that the complainant, the junk master, Guaranty Trust Company of New York, President of the new company. The peuple themselves from what they was in love with accused's sweetheart vice-presidents are Albert Breton, Vice can gather from the herbs of fences and wanted to take her away. There President of the Guaranty Trust Com :und ditches. Even the Crown was a quarrel and the accused went to pay, and Ralph Dawson, Assistant Princess, our own Princess Max-his master's yacht, secured the pistol Secretary of the Guaranty Trust Comics.

ARET OF CONNAUGHT, goes out and what at complainant Inspector pany. Robert A. Shaw, of the Overseas theftone of conviction in the Minister's/In the last set, after Shanghai led 48. with her children to dig up dandelion Sim, said the C. 5. P. took a serious Division of the Foreign Department of speech. He congratulated him, amid the Flankow dao came from behind and view of the case and asked that the first the Guaranty, the treasurer. The general laughter, in being neither a con- accused be committed to the Criminal directors are Charles E. Sabin; Seward scientious objector nor a conscript, to his own policy, Sir John Butcher urged Promer, President of the Bankers Trust that at the expiration of the period of Company; Thatcher M. Brown of Brown years an extension should be Brothers and Company, who will people and their military governors bad 'considered, unless the German carefully represent the interest of the Mercantile materially altered: their character and

methods Sir Bank of the Americas; Eugene, Wurther, and auggested that the probihi- Owen Thilippa went

Ludendorff has realized with con- Stetson, and Albert Breton, Vice Presi-tion should be fixed now at seven or 10 siderable indignation that when Ger- dents of the Guaranty Trust Company years. Criticism came from Mr. J. M.

man prisoners are taken by the French Henderson, who regarded the Bill as they are very liable to give valuable of New York; F. I. Kent, Vice-President attetapt to pre-judge the conditions of information, and an order of his, dated of the Bankers Trust Company; Ralph peace. Dawson; Herbert Fleishhacker, Presi Mr. Ranciman admitted that it was June 10, attempts to check the practice. dent of the Anglo and Londos, Parie co use viewing the mutter as purely one The order is as follows:-1, National Bank, San Francisco, Cal. M. of economics. Nobody, be said. could captured document taken from the F. Backus, President of the National hut his eyes to the fact that German (Second French Army Corp, and dated hanks with branches in London had May 26, proves that two German

roots, which make a fairly pleasant though bitter abstitute for coffe when roasted and coarsely ground, These few facts suffice to indicato that there are less desirable places in the world to live in just now that Hongkong and the Treaty Ports

of China.

NEWS OF THE DAY.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Kinga Exequatur empowering Mr. Eisaku Suzuki to net at Consul General for Japan in Hongkong has: received His Majesty's signature.

Iris confidently expected" that there will be a General Election at Home, in November. Mr. Lov GEORGE, it is said, sees strong reasons for an Antunin appeal to the country. The life of the present Parliament has recently been extended That the regulations. contained for a fifth time, and while it has to the meeting and for the purpose been clear to political observers for of indentification sulscribed by the Chairman thereof be and the same some time that a General Election aru bereby approved and that such could not be much longer delayed, Adopted as the Articles of the Con yet there will be general agreement fell in the 24 houra endel at 10 o'clock regulations be and they are hereby

with the statement of The Times that this reming. We have had well over 12 the Government obviously spot inches this week and the end is not take an absolutely binding decision ret

the printed document submitted

in the

pary in substitution for and to the

exclusion of all the existing Articles

thereof."

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Dated the 20th day of Sept., 1913.

By Order of the Directors,

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The Ministry of Finance is sending

Sessions.

The three accused were remanded until Monday, Mr. Wolfe saying that he considered a separate charge should be brought against the first defendant. UNLAWFUL POSSESSION

OF EXPLOSIVES,

A Chinese was charged before Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, this morning with being in unlawful possession of 31 sticks of gelignite and 90 detonators.

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was a quarry master at Yaumati. He/Adams, Vice-President of the Firstladen for the main purpose of increasing who were made prisoners to the north Inspector Angus, said the defendant Bank of Commerce, Seattle, Waab.; Cused their financial strength and know soldiers belonging to the 7th Chasseurs,

was discovered in possession of the axpisives on the launch going from Yaumati to Hongkong.

His Worship Bined accused $250, in default, six montha' hard labour...

DEPORTEES IN TROUBLE

Before Mr. J. R.. Wood, this morning, two Chinese were charged with stealing a pair of shoes and a pair of boots from the steward of a steamier in the barbour Evidence was given to the effect that 60 deportees from Singapore were being

National Bank, Portland, Oregon; and the belligerent Atrength of Germany George E. Smith, President of the Royal He was anxious, however, to secure that of Chemin des Dames on the night of of the the value of London as a great inter- Alay 15 to 26, revealed to the enemy Typewriter Company and American Manufacturers Export Asso national centre should not be diminished the imminence of our attack. Probably Sir A. Steel Matthad, replying for the they told all they knew of the pre ciation, New York.

Government, denied that the closing of Preparations are being made to open the German banks would endanger the parations made in their own and branches in China and as a preliminary future position of the London money the neighbouring sectors. The enemy step a central branch will be established market. He contended that the best thus learnt valuable details concerning at Shanghai. With that object in view, method to paraue was to go on steadily the hour and form of curattack, artillery a Special Commission will be sent into clasing lenks, so that the enemy might the Far East by the Asia Banking realize that the longer be struggled the Corporation. This commission, will be home the grip of the Allies upon beaded by William C. Lane, Vice-Presi dent of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York; Mr. Dawson, Crawford

him become..

3. Bishop, former Director of the Far ST. JOHN AMBULANCE BRIGADE. Eastern Division of the Bureau of

our Parliamentary history. A Novem- Mr. eme Tien Yo to America to put on board a police launch in Hong. Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the HONGKONG AND CHINA. DISTRICT.

of the

United States Department of Commerce. They will be accompanied by other

No. 1 V.A.D.

resume negotiations for a loft for the kong from the steamer, and the steward and Canton-Hankow railwaya. construction of the Szechuan-Hankow later made a report that he had missed representatives of the company who are Commandant:-Lady May, Lady of chary of these two prisoners the

ber Dissolution is contingent on two fetors the "completion Register and the absence of any unexpected development of the war position. The Register should cause no difficulty, as the Cabinet have giver instructions that it is to be brought into force on October 1, o month earlier than any possible cession which enter places outside the appeal to the country. Accordingly, said settlement or concession and the barring the emergence of the second Waichiapn notified, the Diplomatic

A Northern Chinese news agency states that the Chinese authorities have decided to tax the vehicles of the Shanghai foreign settlement and con

the articles.

to be stationed permanently in China. The accused said the steward, had The Commission will visit Japan and will make a survey of local conditions made them a present of the boots and in that country as well as in China. shoes, but Mr. Wood refused to believe. The commission experts

to leave the story and sentenced each defendant America early in September.

The Asia Banking Corporation was formed under the laws of New York State with a capital of $2,000,000 and a | surplus of $300,000, all of which has

to aix months' hard labour.

STEALING UNIFORM.

actor, it is accepted that Parliament Corps at Peking to that affect on the F. D. C. Wolfe, this morning, with New York, the Bankers Treat Company,

will not complete the full reru ol 12th September. eight years which it has recently been

stealing uniform from the Bowan Road Military Hospital.

Sergeant Wells said the accused was employed in the Hospital, and was arrested at Shaukiwan wearing some of the slothes.

Grace of the Order of St. Joho Acting Commandant:-Mr Hickling,

LR.C.P. and S.

Wednesday, Sept. 25th.

5.30. p.m.-Lecture by Mrs.. Belleek at

the Military Hospital, Friday, Sept. 27th. :

10:00am.Examination in First Aid at the Royal Naval Hos- pital, by D. Surgeon-Gene- ral Drenper, R. N. Sept. 30th. :--

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6.00

Monthly Competition, at the Helena May Institute.

(SK) M. Bairas, Adjutunt and Hon. Secretary No. 1 V.A.D.

Hongkong, Sept. 20th, 2018.

A Chinese was charged before Mr, been paid in. Among the stockholders

are the Guaranty Trust Company of Monday, the Mercantile Bank of the Americas, the Anglo and London, Paris National Bank of San Francisco, the First National Bank of Portland, Ore.; and the National Bank of Commerce" of Seattle, Wash. In New York the bank will occupy the second Roor at No. 66) .. Liberty Street. Present plans contem- ST. JOHN AMBULANCE ·BRIGADE. plate the establishment of branches in Hankow, Peking, Tientais, Harbin and HONGKONG AND CHINA DISTRICT. Vladivostok. When the Russian situa tion clears the new bank will be ready to establish itself in Russia and Siberis, or to Affiliate itself with oki or new. Russian Banks. The Company is pre- pared to increase its capital according to requirements:

engaged in voting itself. Many of His Excellency the Oficer Ad- the objections to a General Election ministering the Government has been! in war time have been removed by pleased to appoint, provisionally and the provision in the Reform Act that subject to His Majesty's pleasure, Mr. it is to be completed in one day. Chan, Kaiming to be an Un-oficial The result of the election is a foregone Member of the Legislative Council, The accused said he had redeemed conclusion if the straight issus is during the absence on leave of the some of the clothing from a pawn. approval or disapproval of the Gov- Ionourable, Mr. Lau Chu-Pak, with broker'a shop.. The remainder had been ertment's war aims. It is perfectly effect from this date.

given to him by his brother.

Accused was sentenced to obvious that the frankly Pacifist

months' hard labour." element. have not a ghost of a chance in the present temper of the people. The uncertain clement in the election is low the women will exercise the

A Shanghai resident, who saw Sir Heary May on the Empress of Japan, writes in the Shanghai Gazette: Sir Beory looked the picture of bealth andi

vote that has been given to them, was apparently, none the worse for the

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COMPENSATION FOR AN

ASSAULT.

three

Mr. M. K. Lo appeared for a Chinese with assaulting a boy employed in the Mercury Garage. Defendant pleaded guilty.

Will they consider the great-politic, quarter of a century that has passed who was charged in Mr. Wood's court since he and the writer met on the field inste, or will they be influenced of battle in the sporting world of Hong. General Garden Purposes.to vote against the Government kong. Hard work and the exercise of by ucli domestic considerations us the buman brain is apparently conducive 1394 the serious rationing of coal, and

to the retention of health, fan few of Sir gas on the cold, dark autumn nights?

Henry's comrades of The women's vite will evidently, bei

quarter a An important factor in the next century ago can boast of either to the the distinguisbed General Bection, whenever it takes same degree as

Governor of Hongkong, MAIL place. For example, the new register

OVERLAND

CHINA

for York City has 14,000 nale names and 15,000 female names,

Mr. Lo asked the magistrate to dia- charge the defendant. On doubt, he had zommitted a serious offence. Defendant bad apologised and offered to pay 810 compansation to the complainant."

Inspector Sullivan said the injuries were alight abrasions.

After the defendant was bound over in a surety of 800 for six months and ordered to pay compensation of 310 through the court, he was discharged

HONGKONG POLICE RESERYE.

Orders issued by Mr. J. W. Franks, A.S.P. (R.).

COMMAND..

The Captain Superintendent of Police has appointed Mr. W. Franks, A. 6. F. B, to take command of the Palico Reserve during the absence on leave of the Deputy Superintendent of Police Reserve or until further orders, with effect from the 21 iustant

COMMENDATION... Tungkadoo Wharf shares (Shang

hai), saya a contemporary, have taken a

THE WEEKLY EDITION OF THE while the registers of any places sudden jump on the Shanghai Stock

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show that over filtyper the electors are women. Un the big issue of the war, however, the women

England are no lees sound that the nien, and we can count upon them PRICE 25 sts. (cash) par Copy giving the correct answer to the

right uppeal.

THE FIRST CHINESE NEWSPAPEL EVRE ISSUED UNDER

PURELY NATIVE DIRECTION..

The Chinese Mail

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THE LEADING CHINESE POLITICAL AND

COMMERCIAL JOUL

PEZLISHED EVREY MORNING.

DOSTAKEN THA Móry Retiasta TELEGRAPHIC NEWS FROM

NORTH CHINA/Z

THE LATE Inzettors FROM ZB> TAKIGEN, PORIN IN OSINA AND JAPAN.

Oper Annam delivered in Hongkony

$19.00 to all Coast Forts

THE COST OF LIVING IN EUROPE.

REPORTED ARMED ROBBERY,

Report has been made to the police of grined robbery, on Friday night last,

of

Exchange, going from Th: 73 to Tls. 15, which is semi-confirmatory of the rumour which was circulated some time go that that property was about to be sold. It is known that a Japanese, at No. 203 Reclamation Street, a sum

3150 being stolen. The tenant of the representing Japanese interests, has been

premises stated that a man knocked at investigating the property with a view his door and asked for a man named Ah to buying it. The Hongkow Wher Company, owners of the Tungkabdoo Pong. The door was eventually forced Wharf, do not confirm an intended sale, open and six men rushed in and It is estimated by those in the know ransacked the place.

We are constantly hearing much that the wharf property is worth about the increasing cost of living in about three lakhs it the outside. The ORDER OF THE BRITISH CRADLE, the Far East, bat we are in Paradise Tungkahden wharf is on" the Pootung

given In this respect compared with the aid of the Wangpoo, opposite the to more people than wanted them, de

A great many Orders had been position in any country in Europe, Chinese Bund. The site is an excellent clared Mr. Pett Ridge at the opening of The cost of living in England is one and would afford berthage for a day nursery at Wood Green, bet no stated to be up about a hundred and medium draft ocean going vessele, as of the British Cradle for toutkers who twenty-five per cent, compared with well as river bouts.

the pre-war standard, but the poss tion in England is quite comfortable.

When a goose selia in Austria for 200

and Germans are buying second-hand;

clothes and bout from Dutch work

THE TYPHOON.

one had thought of creating the Order:

brought up their children well under Dimoultes.

J

No. 9 V.A.D. Wednesday, Sept. 25th.

7pm-First Aid Lecture.

8 p.m.-Squad and Stretcher Drill.

No. 3 Y.A.D. Monday,

Tuesday,

23rd.

and

preparation, units engaged, etc. Another s document dated May 26, and seized by us, shows that the enemy commanders, expecting our attack, warned their troops against gas and brought on to the heights between the Aisne and the Veslo. the reserves available in that part of the front, namely, the French. 13th Division. The resistance of this division cost, the life and health of many German soldiera. But for the tres-

surprize of May 27 would have been would completa, and the sucTESS have been even greater than it was. It has also boon catablished that our attack on June 9 was known to the enemy as the result of prisoners' de- clarations which were the only reson for the enemy preparing to meet it. One is amazed to note the accuracy and wealth of detail in the information the French derive from German prisoners. I request orders to be given. for Immediate, and urgent Instructions to be issued to firas line troopa and troops in the rear as to the conduct they should adopt in the case of capture by em-- phasizing to them the shameful, charac ter and deadly consequences of such an attitude. I request top that armies: should publish in the papers issued by them the text of the present omfor and articles inspired by it. Most men who have the misfortune to be taken prisoners, unlike deserters, do not realize how far statements made by them, even about trifles, not only dndanger the lives of their comrades but compromise the success of attacks and surprises.

The infamous conduct of a few

Pad and Stretcher Drill. individuals cau notably bava, very grave

24th.

B p.m.-Band Practice. Thursday, Sept. 28th.

6 p.m.-Band Practice.

Friday, Sept. 27th.

7 p.m.-First Aid Lecture. Saturday, Sept. 28th.

p.m.-Squad and Stretcher Drill. No. 4 V.A.D.

Monday, Sept. 231.-

4.20 p.m.qund Drill. Thursday, Sept. 26th.

4.20 p.m.tretcher Drill.

No. 3 V.A.D. Friday, Sept. 37th-

5.15 p.m.-Squad and Stretcher Drill,

(at Queen's Coliego).

Victoria Nursing Division.

Friday, Sept. 27th,

3.30 pm.Nursing Practice.

(d.) E. Razras Acting Assistant Commissioner Hongkong, Sept. 91st, 1919.

results on the victorious issue of the war, and may very. aoriously prejudice the Fatherland as a whole. The soldier who refuses to speak does honour to himself, preserves his conscience clean his own eyes and those of his chief and country, and eventually compels the respect of his adversary."

An American Consular notification reads: The attention of the travelling public is called to the fact that under instructions of the Government of the United States the consular officers of the United States are no longer visaing the passports of persone travelling to the United States for pleasure and recreation or for purposes of ordinary Eealth requirements or otherwise than for a purpose both accessary and con KRYLENKO TURNS SCAVENGER.sistant with the policy of the gor ernment to restrict travel both "A dispatch from Moscow, via Vienum, into and within the United States The "Pass List" is posted on the states that frylenke, be wha appointed While wide discretion has been given

Commander-in-Chief of the Russian

Inspector Butterfield is commended by His Excellency the Governor for his prompt action on the 25th Angust, 1918, in rescuing a Regular Chinese Constable and a Chinese lunatic from the Barbour.. "POLIOR ACHOOL. 191807

Mr. T. E. King, AB. P. reports the following as having Passed with Credit

Or, Bergt. 565 Roza. .P. 0.745 J. A. Guterres

Notice Board at this Office.

BALUTINO.

The following is to be inserted opposite page 49 of the D. O. Book:

The alute with the left hand is abolished. All salutes are to be inade with the right band only. C. B. P. Memo 403, 14th September, 1918. reptember 21st, 1018.

CHAMBERLAIN'S COUGH.

REMEDY

MF: Fett Ririgs told the story of a boy remedy has no superior as a cure for colds, croup and whooping of who, on being taken to a Hoxton cough numery, cried bitterly wher his mother It has been a favourite with mothers of left him. Next morning the young children for almost forty years. mother stayed few mingg

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Army by the Bolshevika, recently the consular oficers of the United incurred extreme disfavour of Lenin.

After the dissolution of the Army, Krg States in this matter and radical, lente was employed as public prosecutor arbitrary or otherwise harsh or em hefore the revolutionary tribunal at Dioscor. Suddenly Lenin removed him barassing action will be avoided, never from his post, und decreed that in futuretheless it is incumbent upon persons Krylenko should be employed as a strest proposing to visit the United States to scavenger.

When Krylenko protested Lenin inquire whether thelobjet of their vint replied that under the Bolshevik régime thereto is such as to me the approval s street scavenger is considered to be as of the American authorities and it is useful to the community as a public advisable to submit the usual alien prosešitor or a commander-in-chief, and

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the trip capacity.

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