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TFIMATIONS

PIANOS

ON

HIRE

At $10 Per

MONTH.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PIROS, FRIDAY, APBIL 250, 19

THE ARRIVAL OF FRESH JAPANESE TROOPS.

CHINA'S REQUEST FOR AN EXPLANATION.

GOVERNMENT'S ADVICE TO THE PEOPLE.

IFROM THE NC. DAILY NEWS."']

PERING, March 24th, The Chinese Government has addrand on amicably expressed request to Japan for an explanation of the arrival in China of a large number of Japanese troops, whose appearanco is causing great disquiet in the minds of the peoplo throughout the country. It may be mon- tioned that the Chinese. Foreign Minister asked Mr. Hioki for an explanation of

TUNING AND REGULAR ATTENTION this point at one of the conferences. The

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YOKOHAMA,

BLUFF HOTEL.

No. & BLUFF,

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EXCELLENT CUISINE AND HOME

COMFORT.

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FOR SALE.

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NE STOCK ANCHOR, about 5 tong and 160 FATHOMS of 24 inch CHAIN with Shackles Complete. Condition good as now,

Apply

ILOILO PILOTS" ASSOCIATION, Iloilo, P.L Hongkong, 6th March, 1915,

FOR SALE.

All kinds of

POSTAGE

FOREIGN ALBUMS,

and other

[870

STAMPS)

PHILATELIC GOODS;"

si Prices to suit any Buyen.

GRACA & CO.,

CAINE ROAD, No. 114.

Hongkong, 1st April, 1918.

A LING & CO..

19, QUEEN'S ROAD CHETRAL.

FURNITURE AND PHOTO GOODS

STORE.

Photographic Goods of Every Description

in Stook

Developing, Printing and Enlarging, Canton Marbles in Various MEwles.

TELEPHONE 1219]

Hongkong, 4th February, 1915, 194

YEW LER.

AH CHEONG AND L. HANSEN.

STEVE

(TEVEDORES, SHIP-CHANDLERS

and COMPRADORES,

15, LEE YUEN STREET, WEST, Telephone No. 1230.

Hongkong, 27th October, 1914,

[31.5

CONCERNING ANOTHER ENAMEL

"FALCONITE?

(Registered).

99

PERHAPS you will wonder why we aro addressing these remarks to you, and why, with the number of freely advertised Enamels on the market it is worth our while to tell you about "FALCONITE."

IT IS BECAUSE, we honestly believe that "FALCONITE" is better, that we want you to know of it, and give it a trial. "FALCONITE as the Enamel that gives a surface which will reflect like a mirror, when viewed at an angle.

"FALCONITE" Matt to give flat finish is recommended where an article to produes such effect is desired.

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Japanese Minister would not say that the troops were reliefs, but hoped that their presence would influence a speedy. and friendly conclusion, to the discussions which are proceeding.

The Chinese Government has again warned the provincial authorities, parti- cularly theco in Shanghai, to advise the people to be calm and patient in the cir. cumstances, stating that the negotiations with Japan are proceeding eatisfactorily and that no rupture is apprehended

APPREHENSION AT TSINGTAU

TRINANFU, March and. For two days the Japanese have been moving troops here from Tsingtao and making full use of the railway, to the exclusion of the ordinary passenger traf- fie It is said that the troops number between two and three thousand mor

PRINCE OF WALES FUND.

SUBSCRIPTION JUST NO. 26,

Mr. Lam Chik Chai

Tadpolo Al Cheo...? Messrs. Pontrenth & Co. Mr. N D. Harvey's Fund.

Collected by Capt., C. A.

Mutton (Amoy) Mardı:— Capt. and Mrs C

Mutton

Mise E. O, Sullivan. 5.00. Mr. J. Gibson

Mr. J. Noble.....

*

Mr. H. Cadman Mr. S. Wheeler Mr. G. F. Mathews a

Collected

10.00

100

the Victori by Dispensary (March) -- Mr.JH. May

.810.03.

Mr. D. C. Wilson ................. $5.00

Copt. E. S. Crowe... Mr. A. P. Nobby

5,00 5.00

Mr. W. E. H. James ............. 4,00 Mr. Lewis Guy

Mr. W. Stapleton......

Mr. J. R. Capell Mr. F. Rapp

·Collected by Capt. H. D.

Jones (February)

Mr. J. H. Woollscott ....

MWL. Forster....

Capt. H. D. Jones.

Mrs. H. D. Jones

Mr. J. S. Murray

Mr. F. G. Becke

5.00.

6.00

5.00

5.00

COD

10.00

15.00

15.00

15.00 10.00

Collected by J. P. Scott,

Es. (Haiphong) Feb. 23195 Staff, Standard Oil Co. of:

New York (7th Sub) Dr. W. W. Pontse................

169.00 20:00

1200 50.00

THE NEW LOYALTY,

WHAT THE WAR HAS DONE TO

MA-CANADA.

IPERL UNITY

The Toronto correspondent of The Even ing Standard write:-Candians, as o people, have always been loyal. Britons in our country often remark that we make more fuss" on national holidays then is done in Great Britain. We do, Loy- alty with us has been a fine ventiment, an exhilarating emotion, a pleasant exercise for unusual occasions. Without it our political orators would find themselves

INTIMATIONS

JUST LANDED:

HIRANO MINERAL

WATER"

IN QUARTO, PINTS AND SELITA.

Bottled by the

much at a loss for an appropriate climax IMPERIAL MINEBAL WAITH Co., 60.00 to their fine frenzies, "Waving the Flag"!

LTD., OSAKA.

By appointment to the Imperial Household

of Japan, Offcially Recommended by the Medical Colleges of The Imperial Universitie

and Making the British Lion Roar " have long been regarded by Canadians as ofcessary part of the political show. Most of us have laughed tolerantly at such exhibitions and regarded them as one of the national weaknesses, some of us have been a bit affected by them, but the real decps were almost never sounded.

That this should have been necessary is not surprising to one knowing the circush- stances. For a generation or more Canaf Tokyo and Kyste. da has been lapped in peace. War had become a legend, an impossible thing, a nightmare. Almost everybody was a peace-at-any-price man, or would have protested that he was. Domestic prob Iemas of great magnitudo occupied all thoughtful minds, and Canadians were steeped deep in their own immediate 7:00 concerns In celebrating one hundred-

50.00

477.25

Already acknowledged lists 1,25.........234,75) 63

Monthly Subscriptions......

years of peace, as was done by Cana dinas and Americans in New Orleans recently, it was thought that another cen- tury probably lay unbrokenly before both countries,

'A TERRIFIC FAR

: -་ In a day all was changed. War was de- 8235,220.08|clared,and with a terrific jar the Canadian 604.30 people realised that, for them as for Great 35,001.71 Britain, peace might be bought at too high a price. At first all was confusion, and 35,605,22 it was impossible to face the issues intelli- gently, but this conviction was forced 8271,034.33. Less discount on a coins for almost at once. Since that time Canada homs to the most peace-loving Canadians month...

Recently a Japanese nilitary officer of some importance rods out with big stuff, Already acknowledge Lasts 1/25... accompanied by Chinese cavalry as an escort, round part of the city wall towards the south.

These movements of troops have caused some apprehension among the populace, although the ostensible reason given is simply a change of the guards on the rail- way line. However, viewed in the light of the negotiations going on in Peking, this assembling of troops in such numbers may not be without significanco

We have received the following com

municatim from Router'e agent in Shanz- Fini - RE

In reply to a cable sent on the 23rd to Reuter, Tokio, asking our repræsentative there to cover the Chino-Japanesa situa- tion fully, we have received the following" reply, which may prove of interest:-

"No developments are available here. Everyone's alenco is sphinxlike and guessing is dangerous. Special telegrams received from Shanghai report censational anti-Japanese demonstrations. in. Shang- hai"-Reuter.

Remitted to Lon

don on 22nd

$16.22

271,019.72

December, 1014 £17,000 as 1/95/16 Remitted to Lon-

don on 20thi March, *** 1015 £17,000 at 1/10 & 1/0 78.

£24,000.

268,174.61 Balance in hand $284.51

N. J. STABE,

Hon. Treasurer. Hongkong, 31st March, 1915,

CHINA MADE STOCKINGS.

(SAMPLES FREE).

SOLS AGENTY

CALDBECK,

MACGREGOR&C.

SOLIGNUM

FOR

has been little else than an animated in | WOOD WORK, BRICK WORK, terrogation point.

Men, women, and children are reading the papers with an assiduity and generali- ty never witnessed in Canada before, and the results are interesting. Europe used to be a far-off historic land, where all sorts of foreign bodies lived Its affairs were of only passing interest to the man on the street in Canadian cities. Now Europe is just round the corner, and what concerns it concerns us

ETO.

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From being utterly provincial in out- BROWN, look, we have suddenly become students of the policies of all nations. We are, like the oclebrated Mr. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, very fuent in geography, and could draw the map of Europe from me- mory We also display a truly marvel lous familiarity with military technicali Concerning the prospect for Japanties, and discours learnedly of "lines of made cotton stockings in the Chinese enntainment, strategical bases," "en- Gederal in Shanghai, reports to the are not only interested in Europe; we Foreign Office as follows have become a part of it.

The export of Japanese stockings to HEARING BOTH SIDES. China in 1913 amounted to nearly yen

Then, from the news point of view, wo 1,000,000 and Enere was a tendency of the

Apply to the Manufacturers for JAPANESE TROOPS IN CHINA, market, Mr. Ariyoshi, Japanese Consul-veloping movements," and the like. We samples:

WILKINSON,

HEYWOOO &

CLARK, LD.

(HONGKONG BRANCH),

ALEXANDRA BUILDING,

Telephone: 763,

B. 41.

PILLS.

[104

[108-2

acquired or constitutical Dis

-NOW AMOUNT TO FIVE ARMY DIVISIONS:

Telephone 1710.

Hongkong, 21st January, 1916. [[392

When o Mixed Brigade of the Himei omend to increase. But quite recently, get more information, than do the people DON'T GRIN AND BEAR 14.

a large stocking factory has been started in Sungking-fu, near Shanghai, and the new factory with about 100 knitting machines and 200 rubber machines, im ported from Germany, bs achieved a Guess in manufacturing stockings of good quality, Induced by this success, several other factories of smaller plants have come into existence in Shanghai. It

in Europe. American papers are very Many of them largely read in Canada.

Army Divison recently left Kobe for Tsingtau Major General Usuku, the Com- mander, was interviewed by a represont

pro-German, and we hear both sides. tive of the tab The Japan Ukraine

In our country, too, we have over half a million Gorman and Austrian citizens, translates the following portion of what

and a large number of papers are pub Major-General Usuku is reported to have said to his interviewer The world is

fished among them. Certain of these astir, and I cannot tell whether the cur-

payors have had to be disciplined to dis- thin on the stage will or will not be

retion Fines war begen, but nothing ex- trene has been attempted by the authori raised. It is in the hands of the diplo is to be explained that several years 4ge, in the way of suppression, and the matic authorities. We have only to go the demand for imported stockings was To Tsingiau for the relief of the guards limited to the German goods with the consequence is that Canadians get all there The Japanse troops new statina trade mark of three stars, which were of angles of opinion regarding the war. ed in China consist of three battalions superior quality, but later the Japanese older German settlers have proved them

To do them justice, large numbers of our A warranted core for all in Fientein and Peking, the 13th Division stockings were also in good side owing to selvis good Canadiers, more particularly

of Takata at Linoyang (Mazelmu) and cheapness and good appearance. It is to

Mixed Brigade at Tsingtau. When he regretted, however, that the Chinese those of the Waterloo district in Ontario, charges from the there fores stationed at Hankow is incuded public subsequently realized that the and of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, but, CLARKE'S Organs in either sex. Test, the total forces in China will be about Japanese stockings, though low in their native land. Canadians pulise this, naturally; the newer comers side with famous Pills aleo cure Gravel, two Army Divisions When our and no in appearance, are inferior and mal allowances, bat neither loud- Paine in the Back and all

Mixed Brigade Kidney Disorders. Free from h

arrives at Tsing quality and undurable The imports of and the forces sent to Hold or all Cheanis North China and Hankow for relief, Canton and southern towns have follow tolerated in the Dominion, and there se stockings made by native factorica in voiced or active pro-Germanism will be and Storekeepers throughout Manchuria, the total forms will bo

ments in Western Canada, brought up to about five Army Division establishment of native factories in

From this large standpoint, from ovonta Insensitive as the Chinese Government is Shanghai and its vicinity The yarns and chromicks the Canadian is formulat- it will be led to reconsider its attitude used in on the present negotiations, and nothing Japanese futako yarns of No. 32 and then the answers to his own queries. In can be happier if the dispatch of the re quality of the manufactured goods are the last five months we have had time to the difficulty. It will be still happier if factured by hand work in a great many found insight, a deeper sympathy, and a liefs results in a satisfactory solution of far superior to the Japanese being manu digest our impressions, zod we are emerg- jag with a broader view, a more pro General Chang Fisur, of Shairtung, bursts Chinese families. The being so, it is into a passion and beats the drum. It is quite impossibla now for Japanese cotton better understanding. stated that the Chiness Government is stockings to roll in China. La computition prepared to remove the capital from with the Chiness goods. Even if the Peking to a certain distant place. If stackings of the same quality as the capital is removed westward in China, Chinee could be made in Japan, the where facilities of communication are competition is impossible on account of very undeveloped, the Japanese troops the larger cost of production and of may be inconvenienced, but boy will freightage and import duty. The only know where to stop.

way for Japanese stocking makers is to Supply Chirm with woollon steelings, and special varieties for ladies and children, which are far superior in quality and are not manufactured in Ching.........

cess. Bold by all Chemists and the Okayama Division arrives 1ed and this again has resulted in the keen watchfulness in all German settle

the world.

WM. POWELL

LTD.

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AGITATION AGAINST JAPANESE GOODS.

these native factories are

THE DATE OF PEACE.

RISKS OF EMBROILMENT OF

NEUTRALS.

THE MILITANT SPIRIT---

The emergence of the militant spirit hes astonished Canadians themselves. There has never been any niced in Canaria of enlistment posters, and they have not born user. Buy a thing quite as remark- able is the complete faith manifested on all hands, for the cause of the Allies, in the rectitude of British motives and the absolute justics of the thing for which wo battle.. In spite of all the welter of con- fusion arising from the complete disor ganisation of all our ideas and the neces site for readjusting ther, this faith has come out strong and clear,

The feeling in Shanghai against the Japanese is increasing every day, says the

To-day Canada is sending her zone to N26. Daily News Kyon the dealers in

the European battlefields, not because she Japanese goods found it necessary to show

is a vassal State of Britain, but because a beir patriotism by holding a mesting at

new sense of nationhood and responsibili their guild or Monday afternoon and

ty imped her to strike for the right, for passing several resolutions with regard

The Times of February 19th contained freedom, and for Britain. It is quite safe to their future attitude in dealing in the following:-There have lately been

to say that Canadians are more whole. apanese goods. Their resolutions indi- many inquiries for insuranes in con-heartedly whole-mindedly, and whole- cate that no further orders or parclinses exion with the probable duration of souledly British at this moment than ever will be made from Japan qutil the con-

the war, and yesterday 16 per cent, was before in their history. War has strength- clusion of the negotiations, and that any paid to cover the payment of a total tossened the bond of Empire because it has one violating this stipulation will be hould peace not ha desared on or before caused something like individual conver liable to a fare equal to fifty per cent of Aarch 31st, 1910. This rats suggests that sion in the minds of Canadians and the value of the goods ordered or pur- there is though to be a strong chance of mented all the common aims and interests chased a peace before the Spring of next year.

of Brilons and themselves. They have also issued a circular to the public asking a pardon for their being obliged to dispose of their goods still in hand, as a very large amount of capital is involved therein, and declaring that they are making only a small sacrifice now, but are willing to make more when other guilds have decided their policy with regard to yarn, sugar, paper, silk piece goods, matches, modicines, ele

The risk of war within the next six months between this country and the United States, and also between this country and Norway, was accepted at the low rate of 6 per cent, in each case. On the other hand, one leading underwriter stated that he should quote as much as 40 per cent, to cover the risk of war between Germany and the United States within the same period.

Eye Witness with the British | Head- quarters in a recent despatch writes:- At one or two points on the left of our line the Germans displayed unwonted friendlines by throwing cigarettes into our trenches, our men smoked ・ thể cigarettes while continuing to shoot at their loopholes."

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