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NY EUROPEAN Non ASIATIC OF INDIAN desiring to leave the Colony should apply in person. at the Central Police Station between the bours of 9. to P.M.' and 9 PM to 4 P.M.

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Applicants will be required to produce Pasaporta or identification papers. AD persons, with certain exerptions, whe remain in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register them- of selves under the REGISTRATION PERSONS ORDINANCE 1916. Forms of Registration giving the particula required may be obtained at the G.P.O. and at all Police Stations.

The Fenalty for non complisage is a Bne not exceeding $30

NORTH BRITISH MERCANTILE

INSURANCE CO

WHICH ARE VESTED THE SHARES OF

THE OCEAN MARINE INSUPANCE

COMPANY, LED.,

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3 and

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TOTAL FUNDS AT SIST DECEMBzz. 19:4,

£23.970,967

I-Authored Capital £6,000,000-

Sabecribed Ospital £4,800,00

-£2,437,500

Pakl-up Capital cameravamın 11-Fit Funds

3,937,047 III-Life & Anunity Bend.... 17,567,690

Sinking Fand accouno ......

Revenue Fire Eranch

Lie and Annuity

Brancher.........

Rerence Marine. Department... Other Receipts Boo

128.230

£23.370,367

£2,381,468

2,141,593

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ESTABLISHED

1845

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1918

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HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMERS.

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HONGKONG-CANTON LINE.

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$37,059 Further information may be obtained at the COMPANY'S OFFICE, Hotel Mansions, +475,840

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THE PEACE MOVE.

PUBLIC OPINION IN ALLIED COUNTRIES.

(Reuters Service to the China Mail)

So far as the Cables at present indicate, what the Kaiser mills Germany's “offer of Peace" stands little chance of being seriously entertained at present.

Town to Sunday night neither, the British nor the United States Government had received the German Government's Note.

Meanwhile the reports from the battlefront tell of big enemy retirements under the steady pressure of the Allied

armies.

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THE GERMAN" NOTE TO PRESIDENT WILSON,

GERMANY ACCEPTS PRESIDENT WILSON'S PRINCIPLES.

REQUEST TO SEND PLENI- POTENTIARIES.

AMSTERDAM. Oct. 6,

FRENCH PRESS NOP ENAMOURED- ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO SPUR GERMANS TO WAR EFFORTS.

Pars, Oct. 7.

The general tenour of the FrancE Press comment unanimously takes the view that Germany has at last

ushed the long-anticipated great"

A pessage from Berlin states that penca offensive, and that it must the following is the text of the uncompromisingly be turned dow Chad Note transmitted to Freibeuse pourparlers at present will dent Wilson through Switzerland:

4 German Government re of a victor at the Peace Conferenco

emble Germany to don the mantler quests, the President of the Uitland ultimately recover her, pre-war States of America to take in hand strength and again menace the peace

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matter, and invite, them to sond

"The

aquaint all belligerents on the The Petit "Journal addu:

enemy Goremments realise that they must show their peoples that they are anxious for peace, in order to spur them to new war efforts. One of the chief motives of the Peace Note is the imperative need of saving the prestige of the German Army

Plenipotentiaries for The purpose of opening egotiabons. It a cepts the programine set forth in President Wilson's message to Congress on January 5th and his later pronouncement, especially his speech on September 27th, as

a basis for peace negotiations with and German Militarism. a view to avoiding further blood. shed. - Gennany requests un i mediale emnelusion of an amlstice on lind, water, and uir... (Signed) Max. Prince of Baden.""

The telegram dilds that Turkey is about to take a similar step.

FRENCH OPINION:

PARIS, Oct. 6. A semi-official statement regards the Centrul, Powers peace proposals jus a confession of defeat and points

THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING Go., Ld. || KAISER'S PROCLAMATION out that Germany, after violating the

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WESTERN FRONT WILL NOT BE months, is realising that her hour t

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GERMANY'S EFFORTS MEAN-

TIME MUST NOT SLACKEN, “

Losos, Oct. 8,

punishment is at hard and now geeks protection under the venerated ame el President Wilson, but the Presi dent bad already answered ou September 27th the hypocritical The Kang has addressed a Prodeunds when he declared [that clamation to the German Army and America could not rest] with the Navy in which he announces the Governments of the Central Powers. The statement concludes: There new peace proposal. He affirms that t the Western Front will not be broken, can be no negotiations with the but poluts out that a collapse of the enemy while he is upon the soil of Macedonian Front has occurred at a four country,"

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Oil Drilling Cables of any size up to 3,000 feet in length

Prices, samples and full particulars will be forwarded on application te

Shewan, Tomes & Co. General Managers.onent when the struggle was The Femme Libre says: Ger- Hongkong, April 11, 1012

FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN.

41%

U.S. $6,000,000,000.

Oloses in America 19th October. Applications will be received by THE INTERNATIONAL BANKING CORPORATION up to 15th October on the following terms

10% on application

2nd November.

19th December,

20% 20%

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20%

16th January,

30%

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30th January.

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hardest.

many is fearing on invasion and de The Kaiser then states that he, in faires breathing space from the grip accord with hie allies, is resolved of Marsial Foch. This perfidious once more to offer an honourable manoeuvre will not take us by stra pence. Whether arms will be lower-prise.". ed is, he says, still a question. Until then, their efforts must not Blacken

AUSTRIA'S PEACE NOTE. TRANSMITTED THROUGH SWEDEN.

AMSTERDAM,

Oct."

7.

"A message from Vienno states that

The Journal says: We abair

reply to the Germane, Austrians, and Turk as we replied to the Bul gariins: No suspension of hostili ties without an unconditional accept- ance of the conditions imposed the victors.

The Echo de Paris say enemies are seeking to draw s

takes ventured on the one groc table of 1914, hoping thereby

the Austrian Minister at Stockholm to a peace in order to have their has requested the Swedish Govern- mert to

transmit to President Wilson 8 telegram stating that achieve sublime German unity and to exploit the world by means of Austria-Hungary, which haver waged

economic freedom and a fraternal purposes war except for defensive" and had several times shown her division of raw materials. Such and loans will be granted against this security desire to terminate the present the idealistic phraseology.

the naked sword concealed beneatin enable purchasers to pay in instalments bloodshed and conclude a 'just and covering longer periods.

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honourable" peace, proposes that President Wilson shall immediately conclude a general armistice with her and her allies, and open negotio- tions for peace without delay the

PARIS, Oct. 6.

A Havas message, 1078:- Germany Austria and Turkey have asked for an armistice for the

esgotiations to be based on the four-opening of peace negotiations on

busin of the fourteen points state

teen points of President Wilson's message to Congress m January 8th by President Wilson. Its not sion by Germany that she is LL our Pastes, bear the "Eooster" label and are made from Flour of the Best the four points in his speech of beaten and it is az effort to escape

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