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INTIMATIONS

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD..

ESTABLISHED 1875.

BABY GRANDS

BY

RACHELS,

PLEVEL,

KEMMLER

AND

ROSENKRANZ.

PRICES FROM $750.-

FOR LIGHTNESS

or Tover,

QUALITY OF TONE,

AND

DURABILITY, THESE PIANOS

ARE UNRIVALLED.

ENTERTAINMENT

THEATRE ROYAL CITY HALL

FOR TWO XRIFTS ONLY.

FIRST APPEARANCE THES

> THE

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNE DAY, JULY 10тit, 1907.

RECENT CHANGES IN JAPANESE

FIELD ARTILLERY.

The changes that have boon recently intro. daced by the Japanese in the training of their Beld artillery are, at the present moment, of considerabla importases, embodying as they do the experience derived during the war in Manchuria. This war, they consider, bay shown that there is no necessity to change the main principles of their field but that regulations which detract fram artillery drill manual. simplicity or restriot the range of practical YEAR application, instructions that are vague or liable to be misread, points that have en brought to light by the exporines of the late war that have hitherto escaped notice, changes in drill pass- sitated by partial aberation of material, all tha hato, in the light of rent experienc nesosaitatod minor alterations in the del-book.

NEW BANDMANN OPERA CO.

RA

LONDON ARTISTS

Under the Direction of MAURICE E. RANDMANN.

For the First Time in Hongkong- TO-MORROW (THURSDAY, July 11,

THE DAIRYMAIDS.""

Farway, July 12.

THE BELLE OF MAYFAIR.”

YEARS NEW PLAYS. NEW SCENETY; New Sosus;

NEW COMPANY; NEW EVERYTHING,

A GUARANTEE FOR A TEST

PERIOD

Two OF

GIVEN WITH EACH INSTRU-

It is consideret that the principal beans to Fu learned from the war are the necessity 45 for closer co-op ralion and bitter communication

hotwoon artillery and infantry in the attack;

Lion the disadvantage of govered as compared with direct positions; (3) the as possible to be made of the darkness of sight. As regards denils, the following are among the chlaf changes that have been introduced:Field calls are abolished, commands being given by roles or signal, preceded. If nocasury, by whistle, Gummer and drivace, as far as their sorarat duties will permit, are enjoined mutually to assist each other Battery foot driti i odered to be curtailed, attainment of proficiency in this direction not only taking man, days away from field training, but using also somewhat outside foot drill being obtefly disciplinary, the same the requirements of artillery; also, the ebject of result can be obtained by individual drill or drill in fauks, only simple movements are ac dingly provided for. Section command rs a detach

Its own Orelies! ra.

stand, and a cottonweal plug for the park of gudoors is recognized as necessary. Extra Peters or ADMISSION: $3, 82 au 31. rapid fire is abolished, as are a'so giovaTE DELLA in cokamus of sections. The statent that Plan now open at S. MOUTRIK & CO, LD. artillery ap sn action at long ranges is ennealled, it being ennsidered user say so, sites to do so is the natural ile of gand, and the statement consequosty becomes fiable to misconstrution. It means of comunication ezis', an inereal interval betwes batteries is

longer a

disadvantage, and at the sung time the elaces of logs ara diminished; the regulation that the batteries of

command should not be parated is, therefore, encelled Special circumstances, other than the decisive attack, i may require the advance of guns into the zona will usually be Laying

MENT. INSPECTION INVITEN. The Company this year is Trav ding with monte will kneal in action unless ordered to

SOLE AGENTS

8. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.,

York Building, Chator Rond, Houghong, 30th July, 1996.

BRITISH STEAMER

BY

188-2

NETHERTON '

DY ORDER OF THE UNDERWRITERS, Dth Vadersigned are proparod to receive

Tenders for the Purchase of the above Stormor as she now liesut Singapore in a Fire Damaged condition.

must be dois vel um inter than Joth July.

GILMAN & Co.,

Lloyds Agouis, Hongkong, BL Jun-, 1907.

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COGNAC..

MESSES JEEJEEUROY & CO.

Hollywood Road, beg to inform their Customers and the Coneral Publice that they now have on Bale The following brands of COGNAC, which a patronised by cannois. seurs rongbout Faulo-China?

Festes tell the hottie

HotTILLIE, VÀ MELAND i của SN FELIX TILLAC & Co's

GEORGE ROZBAU & Cos......

Hongkong, 1st July, 1907

1680 14.50

1152

KUNG VIR GODOWNS, A

Comice nt. p.3. sup. Hongkong, 2nd July, 1997,

1161

FOR SALE

FOR SALE.

and a splendid hack. CHESTNUT WALER MARE, very quiet

MANAGER. Apply to

Kudy's Horse Repository. Hongkong, 4th July, 1917.

FOR SALE.

до

(of afectiva rifle fire,

TWO VERY VALK BLR PIECES OF 10% distans brought it on in

LANDED PROPERTY Silme at

which in the past he had despised. A greater. point should also be made of studying the language; and he further believed that more could be dorio by judisions advertising.

A short discussion followed, to which Mr. Crowe replied, stating in answer to one ques tion, that thara was ao discrimination against foreigners in connexion with Japanese Govern- ment contrac' §.

CURIOSITIES OF MEASUREMENT,

The standard yard provails throughout the United Kingdom, but the longth of the Bug- lish, Scots, and Trish mile is different in each, which is the more curious, swing that the English and American wils are lentical. But tho occasional local variations in our English Gere are oven za ma reta sekable, pays the "Globe." Those were perhaps originally dos o the iwixaelitudes of ancient land surveying, which was comparatively of such a free st counties, not to say adj went parishes, some- easy description that the aeros of voighbouring times varied,

to

A book published in the reign of Edward VI. gives the following curiously untive instructions GA the subject: Stand at the door of a church and small ones, as they happen to pass on!. Co Sauday and bid sixteen man to stop, tall ones Then thank them put their loft foot cas bihind

ather, a right at lawful rot to measure the land length thus obtained shnil bo with, and the sixteenth part of it shall be a right and lawful foot.

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to apply to one of the older dictionaries to find This is alast laughable, but we have only

tion or of fact, is quite a madara sietifie that anything like exactness, whether of defini development. And the story of the nero is a case in point, It wa

supposed to bare book radured to a common standard in 135, but it was not until 1931 that we ouaote the astute agre of 1,8ards.

With the

of tasurement sjetom interval, it is not surprising that the so- prevailing for the greater part of that long called acry" was too often what the local and wont it seems probable that the discrep incier wisacres happened to mik of it. By long nas thus arising asionally orgatalled into customs, of wiek nomo examples still service. A Weah aary was formerly twice as large ne an English one, while a Scatfish acre is larger than ours by more than 1,000 square yards.

UNITED STATES AND JAPAN

THE PHILIPPINES QUESTION. A New York correspondant sy

According to muthorits, there are viven different asures till in use by whic's the more may be variously defined. Lancashira has within hor borders ueras musared on austomary local seal, while the 7-ci Cheshiro direct unless the situation and ground complacre is oven Farger than that of its Walsh the occupation of an euticoly covered position, neighbour. 1180

when the indirect method will be employed It the ground prevents it, uniform" fatérvais between guna beed not be mainaine, aad in order to escups observation or diminish prasibin

by in creased guna brought into aution succ siou. As regards targata. it is considered that stations, machine guns, al search-lights are the enemy's hea lesartor staff, blloons, observing suitable objetivos, but that against shields gu8 6e a suemy under cover little effect will

obtained axept from oblique bies. Incros stress is laid on the necessity of developing the greatest possible volume of fire at the moment af answalt, but it is sousidered that the potion of ranging with time shrappol requires further brini hefore it can be laid down na a regulation procedars As firing at balloons is likely to b of frequent necurrence in fatura warfare, ha subject is now treated in detail, as is also that of night firing.

CAN FOX ar tas Hongkong, Cautau and the river. The bote catale by atasare mout Macao Stumbo Company's Warland facing 59ngs" the Title Daed run bà son of the of the Valarsigunt.

For further particulars, apply t

GOLDRING & BARLOW, Solicitors,

14. Quan's tond Central. Dou strong, 22nd May, 19907.

COLLECTIONS

POSTAGE STAMPS

O F

MIXED STAMPS. SOT for $ 3.)

USED

ĮN PACKETS. ASIATIC STAMPS,

100 for $1,8

150

1.75

2200

13"

9.50

230

5.75

275

10)

1300

2000

3900

10:00

20,000

35,10 95.00

99.00 Also Stamps in baga, aeis, &, &C. ARTISTIC PICTORIAL POSTUARDS all other Philatelic Goods. Enspootion invited.

GRACA & CO., Hongkong Hoist Corridor,

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the NOIS, TRY BY BIN that the TUNG TADI, Praya West, en (M. Lt Nos. 21 to 205), formerly known as the Po On Godowns-the Lensi for which haring Expired-have been taken possession of by the Landlords, and business will he herd, after continued under the hame of the KUNG YIK GODOWNS. The owners ars prepared in secast goals on storage at very mtes, Brail of the opportunity le give notice that loan- at 1145 most favourable rates of interest may to Oktained from tha Undersigned against goods stored in the Kusa Yi Góbowas The KUNG YIK GoDowns, Agents ho SAB WANG LAND INVESTMENT LOAN AND AGENCY COMPANY, LD.

SAM WANG & CO., LTD,

TELEPHONE: No. 321.

Audress: 81, Queen's Road Central.

YUK CHI, Managing Diroc'er.

Hongkong, 3rd July, 1907.

A peroly Vepe-

sable Swae1- mak, Jarnining most agreable method of admin istering the unly serisin Kenedy Ne Intestinal di Thread Wstu.

It is perfectly safe

and wild. expect

lly adapted for

Children

Sold in Bottles

by all Druggista

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KEATING'S

WORM

TABLETS.

Proprietor, THOMAS KEATING, London.

INSURANCES

85

TORTIT BRITISH AND MERCAN.

No TILE INSURANCE COMPANY.

TOTAL FUNDS AT 31 HOMRER, 1905 £17,837,119.

—

1,

AUTHORISED Capital... £3,000,000 SUBOTUND CAPITAL........... 2,750,000 PAN-UP CAPTIAL......... 637,500 0 0 3,384,720 19 8

II. FIRE FUNDS

The Undarakçzed, AGENTS for the alot: Company, er prepared to ACCEPT RISUS agat of FIRE at Current Refe.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO

Aranta

ffongkong, 27th April, 1967.

346

UITE GLOBUS INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG.

THE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, ars prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates,

CARLOWITZ & Co. Hongkong, 13th August 1906.

AACHEN AND MUNICH FINE IN- SURANCE CO.

K

O AIX LA-CHAPELLE.

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

REUTEL, BROCKELMANN & CO.

Agents. Hongkong, 21st April, 1897,

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ON SALE.

A TABLE OF THE

RATES OF EXCHANGE AT HONGKONG

For Demand Drafts da London on the day of or preceding the departure of the English Mails; also Table of the Yourly Approximate Averages for 33 Yours FROM 187 Tá 1908. Price: $ Cash. On sale at the "DAILY PRESS" Ofice, or Local Booksellers,

BOARD AND RESIDENCE

FIRST-CLASS BOARD & RESIDENCE

RAESIDE."

AT

It will be soon from the abure that the con clusions reached in the majority of osas no cide with those that govern the training of the artillory in this country, the chiof point divergente loing possibly the question of the value of direct as opposed to indirect fire.

TRADE WITH JAPAN.

A special meeting of the members of the Lan loi Chamber of Commerce was held ou Juno 3rd, at the oflies, Oxford-court, Cannon strost, Sir Roper Parkingten, a mambie of the corucil, presiding, to hear an address on "Tra le with Japau,

from Mr. E. T. Crowe, Commercial Attach to the British Embassy at Tokyo.

por

Mr. Donison, of the Japanese Foreign De parton, has thought it worth while to make a reassuring statement a newspaper intar.

ass barsations between the United States and Japan. This fact sould seem to indicate that the situation is not altogether playing to the Japannes Legation at Washing- to Incidentally Mr. Denison expressed the perfectly safe opinion that even if Japan desired the Philippines very badly, she would not go to or with Amarica in order to obtain those islands.

Nobody is able give a satisfactory or planation of the revived auti Amrican fooling in Japan, and the oxitomeat which the cable informs as prevail, ju ali the puse cities over the trumpery attack upon the Japa

restaurant in San Francisos a month ago. There are shrew in at Washington, not located at the Tarkins Legation, who are disposed to beliera that Japan is making all the present fuss, and will systematically magnify every anti-Japanese incident in this country for a deliberate purpose

That purpeas, it is suggested, is to bring about a deal for the acquisition of the Philippines.

r

There is t

considered certain that fan woull joyfully Despite repeated offcial disclaimers it is pay for the islan is a good deal more than the United States did alus years ago. That, indeed, goes without ayin, sing that the United States has since

spent illicas ea Mr. Crosse, in the course of his addres, in reducing the Filipinos to order, and main- permanent improvements, and millious more said that the tuisi of Japanese trade for lost taining nu army of occupation of over 20,00 your was again a record, imports and exprote-

nan. But AmericanS, while disposed to together amounting to £83,000,0 0, or£3,000,000 more than in 1905. Ho urged that won this able over the most are by no want in- clined to give up the hilippines for any co try must see that we secured nafair share ou

amount of monży. of any increase in imports although it wasonly here whose members damage the poling, of to be as a party to be expected that the bulk of the growth in Imperial ux passion with which the present raw material. List Fear was particularly Administration, has been intitled, but the vast remarkable, owing to the fact that, for the majority of Amerieus wohl andoubtedly look first time since 185, there was an ex of ex-upon our withdraw from the Philippines As poris over imports amounting to about £50,000

national humiliation." compared with an excess of inports in 195 of £17,000,089. As regarded the British share of LARGE AND COMMODIOUS the trade, the United Kingdom still held first RESIDENCE standing in its own place in imperts, with 24 per cout; the rest of grounds, with Tennis Courts, Oood Dining and the British Empire esme segond, with IS Reception Rovias, Large Airy and Woli.; the United States third, with 17 Furnished Bedrooms, very hour comfort. Fine China four h, with 13 por esa; and Germany

pont View of the Harbour; Terms tanieratu

ifth, with 1 per cent. En exports of course. Apply to Mr«, F, W. WATTS,

we took a auch lower position. the Waited Braeside, 20, Macdonnell Bead States, China, France, and Karos, in the order

Hate of Tang Ynou.")

namel, sing Japan's chief customers. With 143

regard to the future, Japan intended to becoms one of the important manufacturing nountries, that direction. She had alen we utly increas1. her tariff capocially against manufactured goods and a-called luxuries In the Cirenieslances, therefore, it appeared as though ultiontly aay large growth in her imports w bin raw sterials and partly.mauufor ured goods. Before, however she could attain the psi- tion mentioned, she must not only purchase larg [1 anotities of machinery, but must also train her pople to and understand what she baght. The Batish honen established in Гараа played a vet important role in Gushing and in developing the foreign trade of the country. For some time the Japanese hart wiched, in ertaines to die.thout tho

Hangkook, 27th Jaue, 1905,

PRIVATE BOARD AND RESIDENCE and she had already taken extensive strikes in

M

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for this desire, but the question was whether it would not pay them belfer to devote capital at they had to the d-relopment of their fot-rma' trode and means of communities, and to loare the financing of extornal Frade to the formigu merchacts. As far as the British manufacturer, was concerned, putting sentiment presumably did not 1 ? kissu

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goods at a fair profit; but the prospect for the British merebant established in Jepan did, perhaps give the pessimists anime occasion to LITH was himself, however with the who balioved that there was still! of scope for the British merchant, but ho must be content with smaller profits, ha full of energy, and be prepared to lock after trifles

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