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[351 Hongkong, 2nd March, 1916.

THE NATIONAL LOAN OF THE THIRD YEAR OF THE REPUBLIC OF OHINA. SIXTEEN MILLION DOLLARS (316,000,000)

AND

SUPPLEMENTARY ISSUE OF EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS ($8,000,000). CUBSCRIBERS to the shove LOAN sro hereby notified that the Interest Instal- ment for the month of February, amounting to Dollars One Hundred and Twenty Thousand ($120,000) has been duly reosired by the Under- aigned and brought to Loan Service Account.

F. A. AGLEN, Inspector General of Customs, and Vice-Chairman of the Bureau of

National Leans.

Inspectorate General of Customs, Peking, 10th February, 1915:

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THE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO, SHAREHOLDERS.

FORTY-SIXTH

TMEETING STARCHOLIARY will be held at the Offsen of the Undersigned

at 12.30 T.M. on THURSDAY, the 18th Marck, 1915.

HOUSES TO LET.

TO LET.

DOWN, No. 31, Fraya East.

Applry

KWONG SANG HONG, LTD.,

No. 248, Dan Vear Road Central

[305 Hongkong, 19th February, 1015.

TO LET."

THE GROUND FLOOR of No. 8, DES TOUX ROAD CENTRAL, occupfed by Madame Gains, ets,

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FOUSES in CLIFTON GARDENS,

HConduit Bod

OFFICES, facing the Harbour between the Hongkong Club and Post Ofice.

25, WONG NEL CHONG ROAD. 1. HILL SIDE, 110, Tay PEAK. GODOWNS, New Praya, Kennedy Town. GODOWNS, at Wanchai Toad, Apply, etc..

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD. Henghong, 1st March, 1915

TO LET AT THE PEAK.

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 2WD, 1915

0.2, STEWART TERRACE, NFarnished and newly dons up.

Apply

H. L. POLLOCK,

Prince's Building Hongkong, 20th January, 1915.

TO LET.

in

Knutsford

Terrace,

Kowloon.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company A HOUSE

will be CLOSED from the 4b to the 18th

March, 1915, both days inclusive,

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,

General Managers,

HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE CO., LTD,

Hongkong, 1st March, 1916.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES, -

KOREA,”

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P.M. 83. FROM SAN FRANCISCO, JAPAN PORTS AND MANILA.

THE abovementioned Vosel having arrived,

Consigases of Cargo are hereby notified to send in their Bills-of-Lading for counter signature and take immediate delivery of Cargo from alongside, Cargo impeding discharge will b› landed immediately at Consignes tisk an l'expense.

Cargo remaining on board 3rd March, at Noon. will be subject to landing chirges,

and if undelivered 8th March, at5 P.M., will to subjec: to both landing and storage charges..

No Fire Insurance whatever will be effected. All chafed and otherwise damaged Cargo will be examined at the above Company's Godown 6th March, si 9 AM.

No Claima will be entertained unless accom. panied by short delivery, note or list of excep tions taken at the time of delivery to Consigneer and signed for and on lehalf of the Pacifie Mall 8.8. Co.

All Claims met be filed on or before 15th March, otherwise they will not be recognized.

R. C. MORTON,

Agent. Hongkong, 1st Maioli, 1915.

NOTICE.

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HE OFFICES of the CUINA AND TAPAN TELEPHONE AND ELEC TRIC CO., LTD. have This Day been REMOVED in 18, Ics HouSE STREET.

Hoogkong. 1st March, 1915.

DIOCESAN GIRLS SCHOOL, KOWLOON.

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CHOOL WORK will be commenced TO-DAY (TUESDAY), the 2nd March,

at 9.A.M.

Boarders return on MONDAY afternoon, 1st March.

[332 Hongkong, 26th February, 1915,

HONGKONG GYMKHANA CLUB.

HE ANNUAL MEETING of Members

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[45 Hongkong, 1st March, 1815.

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GODOWN, No. 6, Duddell Street.

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No. 163, THE FRAK, "THE KENNELS,

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TO LET FURNISHED. ISHOP'S LODGE NORTH, No. 12, THE: B From 1st May xoxt. For further particulars, apply to

PALMER & TURNER, Alexandra Buildings, 3rd Floor. 1509 Hongkong, 30th January, 1915.

QUEEN'S BUILDING.

TO LET, the South Weet portion of the FIRST FLOOR, including Treasury

on Ground Floor, lately in oseupation of the German Bank.

GODOWN, No. 9, Ice House Street, Apply to

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jas

Fathan Road, Kowloon.

FLATS in Humphrey' Buildings and

SIX-ROOMED HOUSE in Minden Bow.

FOUR-BOOMED HOUSES » Kowloon

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Alexandre Briklings. Hongkong, 12th November, 1914,

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(28)

the 2nd March, 1915, at 5.15 F.N., at the Rooms

IN ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, 2nd-out Caus, Ground Floor of Annexe VERY CONVENIENT OFFICES of Hongkong Club Members of the Jockey and ROOMS. Including Fine Commodious Club interested in Gymkhsons are invited to

Salin attend.

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Hongkong, 1st March, 1915.

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CHEMISTS, DRUGGISTS AND PERFUMERS, ETC., ETC.

.:

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WATSON'S

CHURCH MISSIONARY

"ASSOCIATION,

six per thousand higher than it ought to be. He tells us that the death-rate of New Zealand is less than nina per thousand and that this is about the ANNUAL MEETING OF HONGKONG death rate of a number of healthy and well-to-do districts in Britain herself. "It

BRANCH.

AT THE MAGISTRACY.

ALLEGED FRAUD BY TRAM CONDUCTOR.

A Chinese tram conductor, named Leung

The annual meeting of the Hongkong Shiu, was yesterday charged at the Hoig-

branch of the Church Missionary Associa-kong Magistracy with issuing 20 third- tion was held at St. Paul's College last class forged tickets to passengers. Mr. evening, there being a good attendance. W. E. L. Shenton prosecutes, and Mr. The Bishop of Victoria presided, and Preston defends. The case was formally among those also present were the Ven. remanded. Archdeacon Barnett, Revs. V. H. Copley Hoyle, N. C. Pope, C. L. Cooper Hunt, and D. B. Reynolds, Major S. T. Wenborn (Hon. Treasurer), and Dr. Wilkinson, of Faochow.

OPIUM PROSECUTIONS.

Lately there has been a very marked

diminution in the prosecutions for posses- sion of opiuma, but there were several at The CHAIRMAN said he regarded the the Magistracy yesterday. In one case a Association as one of the most valuable seaman, charged with possession of ten organisations in the Diocese one of the tiels of prepared opium, was fined $800, few that seemed to connect the two sides or three months, and in a second case, in of his work. The Association was also which a boatman was prosecuted by valuable because it helped them to fulfil a Revenue Officer Wilden for possession of binding obligation, to preach the Gospel 250lbs. of raw opium, & remand was

ordered for the production Analyst's certificate.

of the

is therefore demonstrated that unes the conditions of life are now saying in the United Kingdom is a year six out of every thousand of its population. As wo have sixty-six thousand thousand people, it follows that the peace casualties of the United Kingdom for a single year number no less than 278,000. They, let us mark, are the killed; the number of more or less seriously injured in a year by accident or preventible disease runs into millions.” As against these figures Mr. MONEY takes the British losses in the first four mouths of the war as about 7,000 actual death At this rate of loss we would be losing on land 21,000 men in a year of war, while the number of men aged over nineteen in the United Kingdom is, in round figaros, thirteen to every living creature. Never was that millions. Applying the same test to the obligation greater than it was to day.

A DISORDERLY PRISON WARDER. German Empire with its sixty-eight People were talking about the war having thousand thousand people, with a death possibly a hindering effect upon the

An Indian warder at Victoria Gaol, rate of about 15.5 per thousand, there Church of Christ, but it ought not to be

be suffering from over- would be a saving in German lives of allowed to have such an effect. It was alleged to 442,000 in a single year, if the German certain that the war had not come to the indulgence in the cup that clicers

nuisanco death rate were brought down to the New European nations because they were but also inebriates, was making of outside this Zealand figure of nine per thousand. It is Christian, but becuse they were not suffici. himself doubtful, we think, whether this saving, if ently Christian. It would be remembered Police Inspectors quarters near the it were immediately possible, would equal that the Church Missionary Association Central Polico Station when a Inkong Germany's actual losses in the war. But was born in the time of war, when Napo came along and tried to arrest him. The oven so, accepting Mr. MONEY's figures, we leon was waxing stronger and stronger, warder was not at all inclined to accept can well exclaim with hin: Beside and in a particularly critical period for the escort of the lukong, and, it is alleged, such figures as these (the peace casualties) the English nation. The times of the assaulted the policeman. The warder how relatively small room the casualties Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny appeared before Mr. Wood at the Magis of war And how much more insigni- were times when there seemed to be a tracy yesterday, and the case was reinand- ficant they become when we remember that revival of missionary interest, and they cd till to-day for his records to bo the casualties of peace go on every year, prayed and believed that it would be the produced

MISSING GOVERNMENT OPIUM.. while a great war is a thing of rare same in this crisis in our national history, occasion. At the same time we think it After expressing the gratitude felt at the

A man employed at the Government possible that events will not show Mr. work of certain laymen for the Associa

entirely tion the Bishop mentioned that the total Opium Farm at Tin Lok Lane was charged MONEY's calculations to be sound. It is misleading, we consider, to membership, between 60 and 70, was not with the larceny of two balls of raw contrast our actual losses at the front satisfactory, and he hoped that in the opium, worth $60. The man, in answer to "the ensuing year it would be substantially the charge, admitted the theff, and said with census statistics showing

that he sold the drug to a Chinese whom number of men aged over nineteen in the increased.

The Hoy. TREASURER, in presenting the he named, and who fired in Now Street. United Kingdom": it would be more to the point to compare the loss with the financial statement, said that the year The police visited the address, and, while number of men of military age, who had been started with a balance in hand they failed to find the stolen opium, dis represent about half the total quoted by of 2028, and they ended with a balance of covered 14 taels 7 mace of opium dross. Altogether their day with unlawful posession of the A.S. WATSON & CO.. Mr. MONEY. Even then, Mr, MONEY may $866, practically the whole of which had This man was accordingly charged yester-

bo justified by events in saying that at since been disbursed. the end of the year the population of the receipts during the year amounted to opium. LIMITED,

Mr. T. H. King, Deputy Superinten- United Kingdom (as well as that of $1,978,83, which was nearly $100 less than Gormany), will be much bigger than last year, when they received a consider-dent of Police; said he had no grounds for asking leniency; he believed the first able sum from a sale of work. the beginning; for in both countries the

Dr. WILKINSON, who has just returned defendant was a bad scamp." births per annum are, roughly speaking from Home leave, then related the growth The first defendant told the Magistrate nearly double the number of the deaths of the medical mission work at Foochow that he did not steal the opium, but he But in the case of France, unfortunately, from 1900, when the first arrived at the admitted the theft in the hope of being

discharged.. the same conditions do not obtain. Within city, up to the time of his departure for

was sentonced the last decade there have been years in holiday, and emphasised how much medi- which the deaths in France (in peace time

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HONGKONG OFFICE:10A, Das Vaux ROAD C. LONDON OFFICE: 181, FLAT STaxes, EC.

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, MARCH 2KD, 1915.

The first เออ.

to

at work did to destroy the suspicion with three months hard labour, and the other

be it noted) have exceeded the births by which Chinese often regarded their lan was fined $280, or two months.

many thousands. In 1911, for example,

motives. Dr. Wilkinson also referred to deaths exceeded births in France by 34,860; but in 1912 the births exceeded the need for higher educational work in

Fukien Province. deaths by 57,911. Between 1907 and 1912

HELD TO RANSOM,

Before Mr. J. R. Wood, four men, said The Rev. C. COOPER HUNT (Army to hail from Kwangsi Province, were CASUALTIES IN PEACE AND there was only one year in which the Chaplain) gave a chatty und very charged with detaining one Chin San

WAR.S

excess of births over, deaths rose to a

" the naine of the

Mr. P. 8. Dixon appeared for the defendants, while Inspector P. O'Sulli- van conducted the case for the prosecu

tion.

The Complainant, wo formerly resided

higher figure, namely in 1910, when it humorous sketch of a recent trip up the Tsai, an ex-mandarin, against his will Ir there is one thing about the war on stood at 71,418. In twelve months of war West River to a number of Mission with the intention of proe ring ransom which there is no difference of opinion it having regard to the large forces engaged, stations, with a vivid narration of his for his liberation. is that every nation engaged in the conflict the actual deaths in the French Army are experiences all a Chinese motor-boat, is suffering appalling losses. On o our own certain to exceed that figure, and it is, which "sported side we are almost daily being told of therefore, not very obvious how Mr. Tien Lung, meaning Electric Dragon,

heavy," and

not infrequently of Catozza. MONEY comes to include France because of its enormous speed. (Langh "enormous," losses being inflicted on the among the Powers whose population is ter.) He also made reference to the onomy; while in the German communiqués likely to be bigger at the end of the war work at Nanning, which, he said, seemed in Fukien, said the first defendant came to his house in Hongkong, and showed him the world is being told that the KaIER' than at its beginning.

to be in its initial stages. There was what purported to be a warrant for his armies are from time to time inflicting

great difficulty in obtaining the necessary arrest on a charge of being a revolution- land, to build the Church, because of the great losses on the enemy on both fronts.

ary in the country. The first defendant That the losses of each army are heavy

anti-foreign feeling that prevailed. If the took him to a house in Turg Shing Lane, is established by the publication of the ground last week for a temple on theficials or magistrates discovered the where he was detained. Defendant and.. casualty lists, and their number and length lead men to speculate in the most An announcement of interest to the sub-would send him to prison, and the mission some others forced him to write a letter gloomy fashion upon the future economic scribers to the Chinese National Loa2 of ary could only get his land on under stating that a sum of $3,000 was set against his liberty. Ultimately the men stato of the countries concerned if this $10,000,000 and the supplementary icane taking to see that the seller was well fel| agreed to accept: $200 and the letter was much of $6,000,000 will be found in the first while in prison, and that he would use sent. In the meantime the Police had been appalling slaughter continues

every endeavour to get him out as quickly informed of the disappearance of the longer. It is refreshing to come in con- column of this page,

as possible.

complainant, and after enquiries he was discovered and the four defendants" arrested.

The Freemasons of Manila

"broke

Escolta, estimated to cost 700,000 pesos. -

OFF in looking Harbor, tact with a cold-blooded statistician like M. Roume, the new Governor-General

FFICES ST.

immediate poszcasion.m

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SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. Hongkong, 3rd Dacamber. 1914.

TO LET.

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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE TWENTY-EIGHTH ORDINARY. ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE- HOLDERS will be held at the Offices of MABBYR. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD., on THURSDAY, the 4th March, 1815, at 14.30 A.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statement of

TO. 1, NA THAN ROAD, Kowloon (No. 1, Accounts for the year ending 31st December, ir), fra int February 1914.

No. 1, GOUGH HILL BOAD, THÉ PEAK, Famished or Unfurnished. From 1st April,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 52nd February to the 4th March, 1915, inclusive,;".

By Order of the Board of Directors,

W. S. BROWN, Secretary,

1915,

person who sold missionaries land, thay

The Bisnor, at the close, expressed the ME, CHIOZZA MONEY, MP., who is preof Indo-China, was due to arrive at thanks of the members to the speakers for pared

to affirm, and attempt to Saigon yesterday. M. Rourne has had a

their interesting addresse prove mathematically that so small song and varied experience in the French great actually, is the Colonies, and his appointment as successor. comparatively, if loss of lives in modern warfare, in spite to M. Saurrant has given much satis of all the death-dealing implements which faction in Indo-Chins.

have yet been invented, that it is true of Germany or France, as of Britain, that

His Worship intimated that he proposed to treat the case for commitment.”

The case was adjourned.

ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.

UNITED SERVICES LEAGUE:

CAPTURED CABLES. USEFUL GERMAN LINE BETWEEN. TSINGTAO AND CHEFOO. One vase of plague was reported from at the end of the war the population will Hunghom last week. This makes only the The submarine cable laid by Germany "SHORNCLIFFE, Garden Road, to let be much bigger than at the beginning third case for the year so far. Other in the Far Eastern and South Seas region furnished (6 Rooms).

Tsingtao has reached a length of about "KOGATE," Austin Read, Kowloon, from Such a statement as this is a staggering cases of communicable disease reported in after the establishment of her colony in 1st February, 1816.

BILANDONAN." No. 54, Mount Kellett Surprise for most people, and in the case the Colony last week were two cases of 4,000 miles, the line extending from Kino Bord & Rooms, unfurnished, from 1st March of France, at any rate, it cannot he diphtheria, and three of enterie fever.chou to Yap, Celebes and Guam vid No. 2, DES VEUX VILLAS, AI, PEAK maintained, as we shall attempt to show. Two of the enteric cases proved fatal. All Shanghai. Of these cables, the lines

the patients were Chiteca

between Shanghai and Yap, Celebes and (Unfurnished)

Guam belong to the German Dutch Tele PEAK. But, first of all, it is instructive to note No. 7. MOUNTAIN VIEW" PEAK. ROOMS, suitable for Offices, on the First Mr. CHIOZZA MONEY'S statement that

Many friends, the A.G. Daily News graph Co. and cannot be confiscated by afternoon, when they meet on the Club Japan. The line between Tsingtao and ground in the U.S. League. The kick-off Floor of No. 3, Duddell Street. THE Undersigned have received instructions No. 62, THE PEAE. (No. 2, CAMERON exaggeration 15 so common as lo be says, will hear with deep regret that but Chalon extending for about 400 miles,will be at 5 15 p.m., and it is requested.

which had been operated by the German

Hongkong, 15th February, 1915

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PONIES! PONIES!! PONIES!!!

PUBLIO ROUP.

to sell by Public Rotp

·TOMORROW - (WEDNESDAY),

the 3rd March, 1016, at 3P.M., at the Fountais, opposite the City Hall, SEVERAL WELL-KNOWN RACE PONIES. (Fall Particulars from Catalogna) TERMS-Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH, A notioneers.

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VILLAS.) Furnished.

"KIRKENDOA" Farnished, No. 122, Plantation Road, Pesk.

"BEACONSFIELD," Battery Path,

*** No. 59, THE FALL (6 CAMERON VILLAB) Small Bungalow adjoining "GLENSHIEL, Barker Boad, Peak,

Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS,

Sal Floor, Alexandra Building. Hongkong, 13 February, 1915.

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the

almost the normal habit of expression of poor reports are received of the health of mankind, and that we commonly entertain Mrs. C. D. Bruce, who went home some ago with her husband. and the most exaggerated conceptions as to months the losses in the war, which he admits daughter. It was found necessary to are had enough of a truth" Taking the operato again, Sir Victor Horsley per United Kingdom frat, he reminds us that forming the operation, and by the last letters from home Mrs Bruce was in a

HONGKONG FC V. POLICE,

The Club and the Police will engage in further trial of strength on Wednesday

Government, was seized by the military that the Clubmen do their best to turn out authorities as a trophy of war on the fall punctually. The Club team as selected of Tsingtao and is being used for official will beJ. Edwards, A. Hamilton and J. communications, The Communications Department is planning to connect the McCubbin, W. C Bond, J. Stalker, and line with the newly laid line between M, L Bailton, A. Aitchison, J. Tod. Shanghai and Nagasaki with a view to W. V. Pennell, J. Stewart, and P. W. A. the death-rate is still as high as 15 per nursing home in London not able to be facilitating telegraphic communications

between Japan and Ching-Japan Mail. Wilkie, thousand, which he endeavours to show tal moved.