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Hongkong Daily Press.

Registered sa a Newspaper at the General Post Oce in the United Kingdom.

ESTABLISHED 1867

二零三七千七西一第 日十月二十年实

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3RD, 1915.

三拜雞

號三月二年四國民華中

THE HOME MAILS.

TO DEPART.

-Philippines Islands And Japan

vid Moji, Victoria, ·BO1y

THE KAILAN MINING

ADMINISTRATION.

Sentte, Wash., and United KAIPING COAL:

Kingdom vid Canada, ot 1 p.ni. per R.S. PANAMA MABU, AMAZ

Feb 4th--Europe riá: Sibería, at 3 p.m.,

per 3.5. YINGcrow.

Now, well known throughout the East for

STEAM RAISING, FORGING, STEEL MAKING. SHIFS, BUNKERS AND HOUSEHOLD PURPOSES.

Feb. 6th-Saigon, Straits, Burial Coy KAIPING COKE:

Fob

Ion, Adelaide, Western Austra lia, India, Adon, Egypt and

Europe, at 11 am por 8.5. CORDILLIERE

6th.-Europe via Siborin, at 41 p.m.,

per is LIANGOKOW

Feb. 8th Philippine Islands, Japan vid

Feb.

Nagasaki,

Honolulu, United

States, South America vid San

Competes with the best quality English Coken ör FOUNDRY, SMELTING AND HOUSEHOLD PURPOSES. HIGHEST

GRADE

FIREBRICKS

FIRECLAY,

STOOK ALWAYS ON HAND.

Francisco and United Kingdom Orvica: QUEEN'S BUILDINGS, HONGKONG, TEL. ADD: MAISHAN, HONGKONG.

við Canada, at 9 a.m., per a.s. Nirrox ManU.

9th.Edrops via Siberia, at 11a.m.,

.....

por is. Sapo Manu,

Feb. 11th Straits, Colombo, Afarseilles and

United Kingdom, at 11 a.m., per 5.8. KAMO MARU.

Feb. 18thStraits, Burmah, Ceylon, Ade..

laido, Western Australia, India, Aden, Egypt and Europe, at 11 am, per s.s. OBIENTAL,

NB-For further returns and for Mails to and from the Const Ports, Manila, Siam, etc., see the Post Offloo Notice on the last page of this issue..

G

INTIMATIONS

BE EN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Caks 875 lbs, net,

In Bage 250 lbs, net.

SHEWAN TOMES & Co.,

General Managera.

Hongkong, 9th December, 1914,

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TELEPHONE No. 1030.

DODWELL & CO., LTD.,

Hongkong, 1st October, 1914,

AGENTS,

F44

SOUTH

RAILWAY.

MANCHURIA

SBORTEST AND QUICKEST ROUTE BETWEEN THE FAR EAST

AND EUROPD, VIA DAIREN.

AATIME TABLE

(Effective from May 1st, 1914, to April 30th, 1915).

THRICE WEEKLY EXPRESS TRAIN SERVICE, compose i of excellently equipped Dining, and First and Second Class Sleeping Cars, is operated between Dairon and Changshur in connection with the Trans-Siberian Express Treize and with Dairen Shanghai Direct Mail Steamer Berries by the sI. §AKAKI MĀRU með KOBE MARU (sach Equippod with Wireless Telegraph) as follows

NORTH - BOUND;

Wagon

Жоляла Велик

But Express (

·Congecking at Harila with-

SOUTH BOUND.

Counseling na lil gebim with

Wagan-Į "Kettina ULAŽE

$.60

Ent Class Tart

Perizoon

#Feb

贼

-Wed

(11:40:

·

I 10.00

FRESH CONSIGNMENT

JUST RECEIVED:

TWIGG'S TIP TOP TOFFEE.

WEISMANN, LTD.

AGENTS.

MOTOR

CYCLES:

& SIDE CARS

At

LOW PRICES.

Call, write or Phono to-

ALEX. ROS8 & Co.,

Tol.27% 4. Des Voeux Road.

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PRICE, $PER MONTH.

HOTELS

THE

HONGKONG HOTEL

AND

GRILL ROOM.

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BLACKLOCK & MACARTHUR, LTD.

TRADE

CLYDESDALE PAINT AND OIL WORKS,

GLASGOW.

MANUFACTURERS OF

WHITE LEAD, PAINTS. COLOURS. VARNISHES. OIL REFINERS, ETC., ETC.

CONTRACTORS TO HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT, COLONIAL AND FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS, RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP COMPANIES, ETC.

J. H. TAGGART, Maneger.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

CENTRAL LOCATION.

ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING.

TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR.

HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS.

Telephone: No. 373.

PRICES AND PARTICULARS FROM—:

WM. STEWART & CO.. ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,

SOLE REPRESENTATIVES,

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Tel. Address: "VICTORIA."

FRANK L. COOKE,

Manager.

ITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA.

(MITSU BISHI CO.)

COAL DEPARTMENT.

BOLE PROPRIETORS or TAKASIMA, OCHI, MUTABE, YOSHINOTÄNI, NAMAZUTA BAYO, SHINNEW AND KAMIYAMADA Colliorios,

*** AGENTS FOR BAKITO AND OYUBARI Conis.

HEAD OFFICE-MARUNOUCHI,

TOKYO,

BRANCH OFFICES-NAGASAKI, MOJI, KARATSU, WAKAMATSU, OTARU, MURORAN, BAKODATE, KOBE, OKAKA, KURE, TOKYO, TOKOHAMA, NAGOYA TSURUGA, #HANGHAI, HONGKONG, HANKOW.

PEKING.

Cible &ddress for above: "TWASAKL” Codes: A1, A.E.C. 5th Ed., Western Union.

AGENCIES

CHINKIANG—Messrs. Grarine & Do. MANILA-Mrs. MACONDRAY & CO. FINGAPORE-Mesra, Bon NEO CO., LTD. GLASGOW-Mossra. AE. BROWN,

MOFARLAND & Co., LTD.

For Particulars, apply to-- --

K. KATO,

Manager

No. 2, Pedder Streat, Hongkong..

Hongkong, 24th April, 1914. ·

SIEN TING.

הן זרנו!

TEL

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Hongkong, let December, 1914.

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M

Ron To

(A2.( ZanusMon

**Rúcsian Train Time is 20 minutes faster than the S.DR. Time,

The above fores do not include the Express Train Borth Foé, tête With regard to the above Time-Table, the Four Express Trains per week connecting twe each way with the Russian State Expresses are temporarily suspended, owing to the partial suspension of the Trans-Siberian Passenger Traffic on account of the European War.

The Two Weekly Express Trains connecting one each way with the Wagon-Lits Expresses, all Ordinary Trains, and the Two Dairen-Shanghai Direct Mail Steamers will

· remaini`izi operation as above,

To the daily train leaving Dairen at 8 pm, for Changchun and that leaving Chang- chun at 11.90 a. for Dairen a Compartment Car has been attached, on which First-Class Pareengers can scoure sleeping accommodation on payment of Yen 2,

RAILWAY HOTELS.-YAMATO HOTEL (Tel. Add. Tamato"). At Dairon, Port Arthar, Mukden, Changshan, and Hooligaura (the flueet sea-side resort in North Chins), all under the Company's management.

TICKET AGENCIES. TheCompnay's Railway and Steamer Tickets are obtainable at all the Agencies of the INCHEN ATIONAL SLEEPING CAR & EXPRESS TRAINs Co.; Moeure. Tros. Coox & Box REISEBUREAU. DER HAMBURG-AMERIKALIwInj

the NORDIAK RESEBUREAU and the Nrerox YUSEN KAISHA, Shanghai; from each of whom all information, time-tables, pictorial guide-books, etc., can be obtained free, or direct from the

SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY CO., DAIREN. Tel. Add.: "MARTETBU.”

· Codes: A.B.C, 5th Ed., Al, and Lisber's.

FUSHUN

COAL

THE BEST STEAMING COAL IN THE FAR EAST. Fresh stocks always on hand at Dairen, Pori Arihar, Newchwang, and Tientain Depot and also at Chefoo, Shanghai, Hongkong, Singapore, and Penang,

MINING DEPARTMENT.~

SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY CO., DAtern.

{91

MITSU

No. 10, D'AGUÍLAR STREET.

URGEON DENTIST,

TERMS VERY MODERATE.

Consultation Free."

BISHI

WM. STEWART & CO.

TIMBER MERCHANTS, MEASURERS, AND TIMBER EXPERTS, 5, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

MFORTERS of Teak, Hardwoods, Oregon Pine and Japanese Cak in Logs and

Tonk and Hardwood supplied Machine Barn to say Dimensions. Floorings Sison to Order,

Philippine Hardwood Wharf Pile in lengths up to 60 foot

The attention of Architects, Civil Engineers and Contrastom is directed to the splendid range of Philippine Hardwoods suitable for constructional purposes.

Prices and Bamples on application. Telegrams-Bosewood,

Hongkong, 2nd May, 1914.

Telephone No. 1468,

P.O: Bar No. 639

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KELLY & WALSH, LTD.

The War of the Nations, Le Quenz,

Vol b

121

$4.00

WHITAKER'S ALMANACK

Germany's Swelled Head...

.80

My Heart's Eight There, Florence L.

Barolay.... www

80

The Fighting in Flanders, Alexander

Powell

275

PRINCESS MARY'S GIFT BOOK 2.00

Nursery Rhymes for Fighting Times,

Thorp and Stevens

Our Teeth and Our Health, H, N. Olver

GRAND HOTEL.

QUAIN'S ROAD CANTAAL.

FIRST-CLASS AND UP-TO-DATE HOTEL, most Central Locations within the vicinity offell the Principal Banks.

Noted for the test Food, Refreshment Aneemmedation and Chanliness, Cuále tiče European Supervision. A First-Clues String Orchestra renders selections from 5.50 ra to 11.30 F.M.

Special monthly terms for residents and for Shipping people.

For further particular apply~}

Telephone 197,

MANAGER

Telegraphic dress: “ CoxFORT,"

PEAK HOTEL.

1,484 THz Apovm Sza Envatů,

FIRST CLASS RESIDENTIAL

TOURIST HOTEL Unrivalled foz Comfort, Health and Convenience, Tele- phonos in Every Room, prompt conneo- 1.60 on maintained by six lines to Central.

Fifteen Minutes from Principal Land ing tage. Moderate Tariff and Excellent Daisins, Roof Garden and Social Rouns, Huropeas Runner mesta Steamers.

P. O. PEUSTER,

Manager.

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Bir John French's Dispatches, No. 2.

With the Royal Army Medical Corpå at

the Front, Viviau

A.B.C. Guide to the Great War,

D'Auvergne

30

**

80

Eo The Motor Best Manual, 6th Edition

Become Quick at Figures .... 10 How to

Modern Methods of Accounting, L. R.

Dickess

Merchant's Book Keeping and Stook Accounts (for the Far East), G. M. Spence...

1.20

1,60

140

1,75

.80

80

PEAK

LIMITED.

(92

Hongkong, Zlat Beptember, 1914.

DEAK TRAMWAY COMPANY,

TIME TABLE.

WEEK DAYS.

100.am, to 8.00 am.... Every 15 minutes, 8.00 to 10,00

10.00 to 11.00...

1130 to 12.45 p.ra....

12.45 p.m. to 1.15

1.15

" to 1.45

·146 1

to 2.15

2.15

1.00

to 6.00

to. 8.10

NIGHT CARS.

10

15.

..

8.50 p.m. and 9.00 p.m., 9.30 to 11.00 p.m.

Every Hall Hour.

11.00 pm to 11.45 p.m.

Every Quarter-Hour.

SUNDAYS.

7:45 am to 10.30 s.m... Every 15 minutes.

10.30

11.

11.00 soon to 1,00p.m....

1,00p.m. to 6.00

6.00

to 11.00

10

to 12.00 noon

15

18

to

6.00

10

சட்டம்

7.00

10

to

-6,00 $7.00

to 8.10 NIGHT OARS as on Week Daya. SATURDAYS.

Exies Car at 12 Midnight.. SPECIAL CARB by arrangement at the Company's Office, Alexandra Buildings, Des Voeux Road Central, treat

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers, Hongkong, 1914 May, 1914,

195

DOCKYARD AND ENGINE WORKS. A.1, A.B.C., WESTERN UNION, ENGINEERING AND BENTLEY CODES USED. Builders and Repairers of Ships, Engines and Boilers and Electrical Engineers, Manufactarers of Contrafle Condensers, Stone's Manganese, Bronze Castinge, Parson's Steam Turbines and Turbo-Alternatore, o, e

NAGASAKI.

TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS" DOOK," NAGASAKI. GRAVING DOOKS AND PATENT SLIP:

The Fighting Retreat to Paris, Kayer

Inghen...

Famous Fights of Indian Native

Regiments...

Times Book of the Army...

Daily Mirror Reflections of War and

Peace, W. E. Haselden

Length on Keel Blocks

Door No. 1. Dock No. 2. Dock No. 3,

610 feet

350 feet

The Wonder Book of Soldiers The Rally of the Empire

714 feet.

Width of Entrance on bottom:

77.

53

$6

*

Water on Blecks at Spring Tido...

20

24

34.

PATENT SLIP-Capable of lifting vessels up to 1,000 tons gress, The Eaivage Steamer OUKA MAHU, 716 fone and, 12 knots, Two Floating Cranes of 60 and 30 tons each, besides 150 tons Giant Crano,

KOBE.

TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS WADADOCK," KOBE,

FLOATING DOCKS.

Lifting Power ...

Max. Length of Ship taken in

Max. Breadth of Ship taken in

Max. Draft of Ship takes in

No. 1. 7,000 tons. No. 2. 12,000 tons.

460 font,

520 feet.

68

26

The Salvage Steamer "ARIMA MARU,” Pumping capacity per hour 3,000 tons.

HIKOSHIMA (Near Shimonoseki). TELEGRAPHIC ADDEESH DOCK," SHIMONOSEKI. GRAVING DOCK..

Depth of Water on Blocks at Epring Tide

Length on Keel Blocks Breadth at Entrance on bottom

368 fost 0 inch.

08

Floating Crane capable of lifting 20 tons weight.

THE NAGASAKI KOBE AND

HIKOSHIMA DOCKYARDS

are closely connected with each other, enabling them to co-operate in the prompt execution of work and to suit the convenienos of castomere

Any Orders will be promptly attended to and Estimates sent on application,

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80 Hoyle's Games Modernized

Baalfeld's Writing-Desk Book

80 The German One Wants to Know...

140 2.75

.80 Drinks and How to Mix Them

The French One Wants to Know... Don'ts for Speakers and Writers.... The Sphere Christmas (is War Time)

Number

.80

.80

2.00

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THE NEW MACAU

HOTEL.

under

20THIS LARGE and ROOMY HOTEL now OPENED

NEW .80 MANAGEMENT. The place has been re- 80 novated throughout and entirely refurnished. Bituated on the Frais Grande facing the ses, cool breeze is enjoyed all the year round. LARGE AND COMFORTABLE DINING BOOM facing the sea. Cuisine under experienced supervision. Terms moderate.

For further particulars, sply tom

THE MANAGER,

Macau, Tel. Add. "Phoenix," Macau.

1st February, 1915,

THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO.,

LIMITED.

Telegraphin Address :-"DOCK, Yokohama.

Codes used-A.B.C. 4th and 5th Editions, Lieber's, Boott's, Al, and Watkin'a DRY DOCK DEPARTMENT Telephone Nos. 376, 506, 681, 2050, 347D.

** NO. 1 DOCK,

NO. 3 DOCK.

NO. 2 DOCK.

Docking Length $15 t Docking Lengin 378 16 | Docking Length 51. A

Every description of repair work undertaken. A large assortment of material including fail shafts are kept in stock. Two powerful tow boats, floating derrick to HE 45 ions, pneumatic, electric, hydralin planta, elo. Manufacturers of engines, boilers, tags, Highters, constructional steel work, ste. Tondon on short notice by letter or cable.

WAREHOUSE DEPARTMENT —–—–

99 buildings, principally of brick and steel, containing private bonded warehouses and agar consumption tax covered warehouses. Floor area 67.917 aquare yards, or 14 noren. Every description of warehousing, Custom-house brokerage and insurance under faken. Estes meterske,

Mooring Basin, 600 feet by 180 feet by 25 feet deep, adjoining the docks and würdhouses.

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VICTORIA HOTEL

SHAMEEN-CANTON. Telegraphic Add.: "VICTORIA, SHAMEEN.” SITUATED ON THE BRITISH CONCESSION."

Hotel electrically lighted, and under experienced European Supervision, GUIDES AND CHAIRS PROVIDED. Every Information and Special Attention given to Tourists. REASONABLE RATES,

WM. FARMER,

Proprietor o