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ONTH BRITISH AND MERCAN TILE INSURANCE COMPANY. TOTAL FUNDS AT 318 DECEMBER, 1000, £14,732,681.

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AUTHORISED CAPITAL... £3,000,000.00 SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL... 2,750,000 0:0 887,500 00 PAID-UP CATTEAL

2,839,716:14 4 The Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, ara pre pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE st Carront Rater.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

Aganta. Hongkong, Stil July, 1901. AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN- SURANCE CON

OF AIX-LA-CHAPELL

1641

THE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE nt Current Rates.

REUTER, BRÖCKELMANN & CO.,

Agenta Hongkong, 21st April, 1807 PHENIX FIRE OFFICE

194

Tho Undersigned are now prepared to GRANT POLICIES of INSURANCE against FIRE at Caront Batos. Per

DOUGLAS LAPRATE & CO.,

Agents for the Phoenix Fire Office.

Hongkong, 17th August, 1887.

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FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, ID. (Established 1836.)

THE Undersigned, having been appointed GENERAL AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS at current rates.

& CO..

P.

LEMAIRE 7th February, 1001) ⠀ (439 Hongkong,

TORTH GERMAN FIRE INSUR

NORD COMPANY OF HAMBURG

Kates.

The Undersigned AGENTS of the sbore Company ura PREPARED TO ACCEPT First Claes Foreign and Chinese Riske at Current

STEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong, 29th May, 1895,

UN INSURANCE OFFICE, LONDON

ForKOND 1710.

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The Vadersigned having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are pre- pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.

SIEMSSEN & 00.,

Agents.

530

Hongkong, 16th Asy, 1892. THE WESTERN ASSURANCE COM. PANY OF TORONTO, CANADA, INCORPORATE 1851.

CAPITAL...

:£40 000):

THE Undersigned, having been avointal AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS Against FIRE at Current Rates.

WM MEYERINK & (0,

Agenia

1285

Hongkong, 18th May, 1900,

SALAMANDER FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY..

THE Undersigned, having bes2 appointed AGENTS for the above Company, ere prepared to ACCEPT ITSKS against FIRE at Ourrent Rates.

HOTZ, JACOB & CO, Hongkong, 2nd April, 1800. TANGA COMPANY OF HAMBURG TRANSATLANTIC FIRE INSUR

The Undersigned, having been appoluted AGENTS for the shore Company, are pre pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at

SIEMSEEN & CO.,

Agents, Hongkong, 16th November, 1872

Current Rates.

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in a great war end hope to emoy, and that the result conclusively demonstrates the truth of his thesis. The following are some of his leading doctrines: Cavalry in useless, artillery is powerless, and long training is no longer necessary to convert the olvilion into a cem potent ighting man. All the anticipations of the antiquated school of military tacticians THE have been bolied by facts. Yet notwithstanding this demonstration, the Governments continue to squander millions upon preparations which cannot possibly lead to anything. This, says But that is what the peoples of M. de Block, is not statesmanlike, but oriminal. Europe have been doing.

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MB, H. G. WELLS, continuing his "Anticipations" future, in the Fortnightly Review, discusses alse the question of the future of war. a grim and sgly pictures, which he draws, especially in relation to the so that is likely to be made of air-sbipa in the warfare of the future-

Few people, I fanes, who know the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim, azd Channto but will be inclined to believe that long before the year 2000 A.D., and vory probably before 1950, a successful aeroplano will have soared and come home safe and sound. Directly that is accomplished, the new invention will be most assuredly applied

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will be very considerably restricted. Of the warfare of the future, Mr. Walls says:

"There will be no definite army bere or there, there will be no controllable battle, thero will bo no great general in the field at all. But somewhere far in the rear the central organisor will sit at the telephonie centre of his vast frost, and he will strengthen horn and ford there, and watch, watch perpetually the pres sure, he incesant, remorseless pressure lint is seeking to wear dowe his countervailing actually engaged, the country for many milos thrust Behind the thin firing line that is will bo rapidly cleared and devoted to the basi neas of war, big machines will be at work mak. ing Bacond, third and fourth lines of trenches that may be needed if presently the firing Line is forced back, spreading out trusverse paths for the swift lateral movement of the cyclists, who will be in perpetual alertness to relieve kudden local pressures, and all along those great

with Colonel Welch, who was at the Sixty-ninth Armoury, loss than a mile away, Among the crowds the report was circulated that Calgorz has been removed to the jail or some other place of confuement, but this was denied by Superintendent Bull and the other polico. Superintendent Euli hus held the full Police Department in reserve, and has made his plaus so that 300 men can be assstabled at police headquarters on five minutes' notice. After consultation with Superintendent Ball, Colonel Sammel L, Welch ordured out the Sixty-fifth and Forty-seventh Regiments of the National Ginard, These regiments were assembled at their arsenale at 8.15 and stood armed in readiness for any call. Colonel Welch, who commande the Sixty fifth Regiment, said that he and Colonel Fox of the Forty-seventh had agreed on this course.motor roads our first Anticipations" sketched, I have ordered the regiants to asserable at these will be a vast and rapid shifting to and the armouries on my own responsibility," said fry of big and very long-range guns. Thes Colonel Welch to-night. They will be prepar-guus will probably be fought with the help of ed to respond to any call to quell a riot or alloons. The latter will hang above the fring disturlance, to protect the police headquartors and to maintain law and order in the city."

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line all along the front, incessantly ascending and withdrawn; they will be continually deter mining the distribution of the antagonist's foress, directing the fire of continually shifting great gans upon the apparatus and supports in the rear of his fighting line, forecasting his night plans and seeking some tastical and strategic weakness in that sinewy line of battie."

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12644 Hongkong, 17th October, 1981. fourteen years devoted himself to the subject, he aets forth his conclusions in a paper of nearly thirty pages. His object in this exposi of view that war as a means of deciding quarrels A tion is to prove from a purely technical point between nations is no longer efficacious. The economic question is the key of the whole military position. Even though the sword be sharp and trusty the army that wields it will [50 be paralysed long before it has struck its

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Hongkong, 15th October, 1901 by one of two methods. If on the old lines, tichised, and that it can only be carried on it would reaalt in the laughter of millions, whereas if waged in the only way possible to-day, it must drag on for years. In other words, on technical grounds, war as a moun of solving dispates is a thing of the past.

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The Transvaal War has supplied a BOTION of Tast object lessons which have swept the remnants of terra firma from under the feet of those dangerous enthusiaste who continue to hag the delusions that war in the old sense is any longer possible. M. de Bloch maintaine that the Transvaal War has relegated the dogan of the necessity for obligatory military service to the limbo of disembodied dreams. It is the death of militarism, and the wiping out of al the advantages which militarista was upen to secure for the uations which relied 1554 cultivated it. M. de Bich then proceeda

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IEN TING to the conditions under our Army, or which campaign was fought. A de rai Bloch maintains that the conditions were much more favourable to the invader than Ls also prepared to purchase med POSTAGE, they are ever likely to be in any European war STAMPS in Large or Small Quantities for Cash.and that the British troops, both in personnes and in material, possessed a much greater AGENTS W 15 to 25 per cent. Discount Allowed (1806 experiority over the Boers thaa ang sombertanta

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