NEW ADVERTISEMENTS HONGKONG GYMKHANA CLUB,
TH
THE FIRST GYMKHANA MEETING of the Season will be held at HAPPY VALLEY TO-MORROW (WEDNESDAY), the 21st April, 1915, commencing at 3.45 p.m.
The Charge of Admission will be $1 for others than Members of the HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB OF GYMKHANA CLUB.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform Half-Price.. The Committeo invite the Ladies of Hongkong be present.
{$10
Hongkong, 19th April, 1915. THE TEBONG
AND
RUBBER TAPIOCA ESTATE, LIMITED. NEENTH ANNUAL GENERAL TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
MEETING SHAREHOLDERS in the above L'omps will be held on FEIDAT, the 28th day of May, 1915, at 4 P., at No. 10, Canton Road, Shanghai,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 1st to the 28th May, 1915, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
THE
J. A. WATTIB & Co., L., Spretaries and General Managers. 1520
NOTICE LAORDINARY
12
PUBLIC COMPANIES
-UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 20TH, 1915,
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. RTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the FORTY-SECOND ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Society will be hold as its Head Office, No. 2, Queen's Buildings, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, the 23rd April, 1916, at Noos, for the purpose of roaring the Directors together with the Report of the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1914, and of declaring Dividends, &c.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from 12th April to the 23rd April, both days inclusive,
By Order of the Board,
C. MONTAGUE EDE, Secretary.
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Hongkong, 9th April, 1015.
CHINA TRADERS INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
TOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that the
NOTICE IS
VEDINARY
YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its lead Ofce, No. 2. Queen's Buildings, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, the 33rd April, 1916, at 12.15 r.M. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statements of Account to 31st December. 1914, and of declaring Dividends, &c.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 13th April to the 23rd April, both days inclusive,
By Order of the Board,
HOUSES TO LET.
TO LET FURNISHED.
[O. 4. STEWART TERRACE, THE PRAK
Rent $125. Apply
"X. Y: Z."
A. S.
[50$
Care of "Daily Press Office. Hongkong, 16th April, 1916.
BUILDINGS,
INTIMATION
attempt to secure this object by the methods of the brigand? Germany by this method has obtained military posses- sion of the chief Belgian port, but that has not secured for her an "outlet for her trade," and while British naval
WATSON supremacy is maintained, it is certain & CO., LTD.
ESTABLISHED 72 YEARS.
convert
A mail for Europe. vid Sibéria oloses to-day at 3 p.m.
We regret to learn that M. Delaunay, formerly of the Banque de Indo-Chine, Hongkong, has been killed in action in
France.
The Gymkhana, postponed from Sat- urday, is announced to talo place at Happy Valley to-morrow, commencing ut 3.45 p.m..
Albert Morrow, a Scotch entertainer, who styles himself "The Uncanny Seot has arrived in the Colony to give series of entertainments at the Bijou Theatre.
that Germany never will gain this objcet It is the firm by right of conquest. resolve of both Great Britain and Franco to drive the German invader from the soil of Belgium; and we may be quite Aure, that Great Britain will never con- WINE & SPIRIT. MERCHANTS.ent to sco Antwerp turned into
German port, with freedom to it into a great naval base in pursuance of the policy, now fully revealed, to wrest from Great Britain the naval supremacy she has so long enjoyed, and which it is manifestly of vital interest to ker to maintain at all costs. The chief interest of Herr DENNBURG's declaration at the moment is the confirmation it No case of plague was notified. Faffords of a long premeditated design on 'Germany's part to absorb the kingdom
WATSON'S
TO LET
A
Kimberley Road, Kowloon. Apply to
SPANISH DOMINICAN PROCURATION. Hongkong, 15th April, 2015.
[501
TO LET.
FFICE in Hotel Mansion.
Apply to
HENRY HUMPHREYS, Alerard Buildings. Hongkong, 4th April, 1915.
E
[473
TO LET HOUSE Observatory Villas, Kowloon. Apply to
ABBATOON V. APCAR & Co.. [393 Hongkong, 18th March, 1915.
VERY OLD LIQUEUR SCOTCH
TO LET,
(ODOWN, No, #4, Prays Esat,
Apply
C. KONTAGUE EDE,GOD
Hongkong, 9th April, 1915.
Secretary
KWONG SAND HONG, LTD.
No. 248. Des Voeux Road Central.
[aos Hongkong, 19th February, 1915.
AND RUBBER TEBONG TAPIOCA ESTATE, LIMITED. AJOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an GENERAL MEETING of the TERONG RUBBER AND TAPIOCA ESTATE, LIMITED, will be held at 10, Canton Road, Shanghai, on the 28th day of May, 1915, at 4.15 o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of (1) considering and if thought fit approving the draft now Articles which will be submitted to the Hosting and in the event without of the approval thereof with or modifications (3) considering and if thought fi & Rociation which will be proposed as Extraordinary Resolation, to the effect "THAT the new Articles already approved "by the Meating and for the purpose of identification subscribed by the Chairman thereof, be and the same are hereby approved and that such regulations be and they are "horoby adopted as the Articles of the Company THE TWELFTH YEARLY MEETING Furnished and newly done up. "in substitution for and to the exclusion of all A copy of the proposed new Articles may be seen at the Company's Head Offlos.
Shonid the above Resolation be passed by the requisite majority it will be submitted for Special Besolation to a confirmation further Extraordinary General Meeting and snob Mesting will be held on the 11th day of June, 1935, at the same time and place for the of considering and it thought fit purposs
Resolation as a Special confirming sch Resolation accordingly.
the existing Artioles thereof."
The TRANSFER BOOKS and Register of Membore of the Company will be CLOBED from the 1st day of May, to the Twenty-Eighth day of May, 1915, both days inclusive,
Dated the 14th day of April, 1915,
By Order of the Directors,
J. A. WATTIE & CO., LTD.. Secretarios and General Managers.
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· BEN" LINĚ OF STEAMERA NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
8.8. "BENAVON," FROM HULL, MIDDLES RO', LONDON AND STRAITS.
THE [CHINA-BORNHO CO., LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
of SHAREHOLDERS of the above.
Company will be held at the Company's Oboe, St. George's Building, at Noon on FRIDAY, the 30th April, 1915, to receive a Statement Accounts to 31st December, 1914, and the Report of the General Manager and Consulting. Committee and to elceta Consulting Committee sad Auditor.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 16th April to
THE CHINA-BORNEO Co., LTD., the 30th April, 1915, both days inclusive.
W. G. DARBY,
General Manager. THU Hongkong, 13th April, 1916.
TO LET AT THE PEAK.
TO. 2, STEWART TERRACE,
Apply
H. E. POLLOCK,
Pridoo's Building Hongking, 20th January, 1915.
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Three
cases of diphtheria, 3 of enterie fever and 3 of small-pox were reported The small-pox in the Colony last week. and enterio cases proved fatal, as did also two out of the three cases of diphtheria.
A New Zealand paper announces that
of the opium poppy.
of Belgium into the German Confedora- Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Pisarenko have left connected with the Anglo- tion. It is true, as Herr DIENSURG Wellington for Japan, vid Sydney, WHISKY.says, that Belgium has boon taken by business
Germany with the sacrifice of blood-a Oriental Trading Syndicate, formed for sacrifico, let us add, which she was not the development of trade with the East-
It is reported that the British Minister Our Celebrated Every old forced to make by any, other circumstance Liqueur Scotch Whisky is than her own policy of aggression. The has detailed Mr. Wilton and Mr. Hess in a blend of the best Pot statement that Belgium cannot be given Kiangsu to make a tour of inspection in Distilled Scotch Whiskies. p. while England dominates its policies, the province with the object of reporting can only be regarded as a noteworthy the result of efforts made by the Chinese It is of great age, very fine, confession of political immorality on authorities to suppress the cultivation
Until the war and mellow. Its superior the part of Germany. quality has established its re broke out Great Britain no more dominat- putation for over 30 years ased the policies of Belgium than did THE LEADING SCOTCH Germany. Both Powers had guaranteed WHISKY IN THE EAST.the neutrality of Belgium, and the act that brought Great Britain into the war was the art of Germany in treating that THORNE'S
solemn international pledge as a more serap of paper," which when oppor- tunity offered she was free to deliberately disregard. The invasion of Belgium by the fores of Germany was as serious a menace to Great Britain as it was to France, and Germany could not but have known that she was deliberately WHISKY.challenging the British Empire by that
promeditated act of aggression.
No. 4,
OLD VAT
HOUSE
TO LEP
in Kantelord
Terrace
A
Kowloon.
SCOTCH
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY Co., Law,
[45 Hongkong, 1st March, 1916.
TO LET. From 1st March.
HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK GODOWN, No. 6, Duddell Street,
COMPANY, LIMITED.
T2410/2411
THE SHARE CERTIFICATES Nos. for 10 and 25 Shares вис nămbered 12730/12748 respectively, 35858/3588% inclusive, standing in the register the joint names of GEORGE ANDREW HASTINGS and JOBN BARHAM CARBLAKE,
in
Apply
A. B. AVABIA,
Care of El PABAN X,
No. 1, Daddell Street. Hongkong, 2nd February, 1915,
*
Solleitors, Liverpool and Birmingham having NO. TOR
bo LOST or DESTROYED, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that unless the said Certificates be produced at the Office of the Company, Queen's Buildings, Victoria, Hong-
YONSIGNEES of Cargoare hereby informe CONSIGNERS handed at the thath April, 1916, Now
risk into the hardons and/or extra hasardon Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon What sod Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained."
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goode sensining undelivered after the 25th inst. will be subjec to rent.
All Claims against the Steamer must le erated to the Undersigned on or before the
Jel May, or they will not be recognized.
All broken, chated and damaged Goods are
to be left is the Godowns, where they will be
examined on the 26th inst. at 11 am.
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bille of Lading will be countersigned by
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agents.
Hongkong, 19th April, 1915.
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INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION
FROM
COMPANY, LIMITED
CALCUTTA,
BINGAPORE.
THE Company's Steamship
PENANG AND
"KUMSANG" · baving arrived from the above Porte, Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby informed that their floods will be delivered from alongside.
Cargo impeding the discharge or remaining on board after 4 r,, the 20th inet, will be landed at Consignees' risk and expense. No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,
General Managers, Hongkong, 19th April. 1915.
HONGKONG JOOKET CLUB,
NOTICE
64:1
Tove Club will be held on SATURDA THE HALF-YEARLY MEETING of the the 24th April, 1915, at 12.30 P.M., at the Office of the HONGKONG JOCKET CLUB, on the Gronad Floor of the HONGKONG CLUB ANNEXE, Chater
·Road.
By Order,
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T. F. HOUGH,
Clock of the Coures. Hongkong, 10h April, 1016. HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
NOTICE.
Tt the Members of the HONGKONG
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE will be held on MONDAY, the 26th April 1915, at 4 o'clock .. precisely, in the OLD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ROOM (CITY HALL), for the following purposes:- (1) To receive the Report and Accounts of the Committee for the year ended 31st December, 1914,
(1) To elect a new Committee.
(3) To transact any Genersi Business,
By Order,
E. A. M. WILLIAMS. Secretary. Hongkong, 15th April, 1915,
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Certificates for the said Shares will be issued and the Old Certificates will thereafter be held by the Company as Null and Void.
GEO. A. CALDWELL,
Secretary. Hongkong, 25th March, 1915.
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PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY,
LIMITED.
NOTICE.
NOTICE SEASON TICKETS
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
available for Three Months issued on and after Tel May, next, the respective Prices will be as follows:-
Gentlemen
$36.00 $18.00
... $12.00
Ladişa Children .... and that the Price of Servante Panch Tickets available for 20 Rides will be $1.20.
Besson Tickets expiring in April can be extended to April 30th, on same terms pro ráta now in force, but no three-monthly Season Tickets and ne Annual Tickets will be issued in April
Notion is further given that on and after 1st May next, daily refura Tickets and Annasi Tickets will be abolished.
By Order of the Directors,
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers. Hongkong, 1st April, 1915.
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FOR RENT. OUR ROOM HOUSE, Conduit Road, available about lat June Good View Gas, Electric Light, Bells, of Harbour.. Moderate Hant. Option of taking over Fittings at Valuation,
Apply
"HOUSSHOLDER,” Cam of "Daily Press" Olon Hongkong, 14th April, 1016. *
[493
TO LET ALEXANDRA BUTAVINGS. VERY CONVENIENT OFFICES and BOOMS. Linding a Fine Commodious Suthe
SECRETARY, Apply
A. 8. Warson & Co., LTD. Hongkong, 23rd October, 1914
10
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QUEEN'S BUILDING. TTT the Bouth West portion of the FIRST FLOOR, including Tronsury on Ground Floor, lately in occupation of the Garman Bank,
GODOWN, No. 8, Los House Street. Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY Co. LAD,
185 Hongkong, lat March, 1918,
TO LET. MAGAZINE
"KENNELS."
[244
G&P.
No. 169, MAGAZINE GAP, "HARFORD."- Apply
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD. Hongkong, 31st March, 1915.
TO LET.
LATS in Nathan Road, Kowloon,
FLATS
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A FLAT in Humphrey's Buildinga, Kowloon PENYRHEW, Minden How, Kowloon, 8-Roomed House with Tennis Court,
1 and 3. MINDEN VILLAB, Kowloon, 5-Roomed House with Tennis Court.
FOUR-ROOMED HOURER in Humphrey's Avenue, Gordon Terrace and Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon.
Apply to
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
Co., Ln., Alexandre Buildings, Hongkong, 20th April, 1915.
TO LET.
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HOUSES in CLIFTON GARDENS,
There
As supplied to the House of has never been any doubt as to British policy in the matter, not at least since Lords and House of Commons,
GLADSTONE deplored Italy's participation A.S. WATSON & CO.. LIMITED, WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, HONGKONG.
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at
MARRIAGES. TRENCH-DULCIE-On 10th March, Knightsbridge, CHARLES JOBN POER, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES LE POER TRENCH, New York, to HELEN DULCIE, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. WADE GARDINER, of East-
hourne.
JACERON-SUMMERS HUNTER-On 15th March, at Bladon, Northumberland, Lieut. RUSSELL JACKSON, son of Sir THOMAS JACKSON, Bart., to KATHLEEN, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. SUMMERS HUNTER, Tynemouth.
We learn that as Mr. Denman Fuller is himself paying all the expenses of music, printing, etc., in connection with the rendering of the “Last Judgment **. at St. John's Cathedral on Good Friday, the collection (8050) will be given intact to the Prince of Wales', Fund.
The Howitt Phillips Co. at the Theatre Royal last night played the extremely amusing force, "Those Terrible Twins' which was preceded by Sir Henry Ir- ring's great masterpiece Waterloo" The
occupy Saturday and Monday next they play nt the Club Theatre in Canton.
continne to
the
Company Theatre up to Thursday night, and o
M. P. H. Emanuel, & native of Ports-,
in the Triple Alliance as a gigantic mouth, has been gazetted a. Lieutenant in
over
HM the King has been graciously pleased to appoint Captain Dudky Gra ham Johnson, 2nd Battalion, The South Wales Borderers to be
& Companion of the Distinguished Service Order for cons- picuous ability on the night of 5th-6th November, 1914, during de operations
and the Volunteer Civil Force, co-ordinated piece of political tomfoolery," declared: "The best and purest prin- with the City of Westminster Volunteers. oiple of the foreign policy of this country Lieut. Emanuel was previously a gunner (England) is that it has been directed to in the Hongkong Volunteer Artillery, anat upholding the independence of the on the outbreak of the war joined as a Becondary Powers. It is among the private in the V.C.F., and has worked his virtues of England to cherish a ready way up by degrees to his present posi- indignation against the oppression of the tion. weak; and a just cause for the interven- Etion of England in the next great Euro pean struggle is perhaps as likely to proceed from this quarter as from any other." While another source of danger was admitted to lie in the doctrino of the balance of power, a less remote cause as GLADSTONE emphatically put it, and one which made a more legitimate appeal against the Gorman positions at Tsing- tau, and for great gallantry in rescuing to British feeling than the possible several wounded men while exposed to tyranny of some one of the great Powers
heavy machine-gun fire. "the spoliation or the rest, was DEATH.
Penang, says the Straits Beho, will logo MCADAM-On the 19th April, at Shang-absorption of smaller Powers," and in
hai, MARY JEANETTE MCADAM
particular he mentioned the possible a good, sound, busincaslike Judge when HONGKONG OFFIon: 10, De Voux Road C. danger to the national existence of Mr. Justice Sercombe Smith (who was for LONDON OFFION: 181, FLAT STEM, E.C. Belgium. In saying this Mr. GLADSTONE many years in the Hongkong Civil Ser was not making any strikingly original vice) retires in the near future. Cast in statement, because the preservation of the quite a different mould from Mr. Justice national existence of the smaller Powers Thornton and Mr. Justico Fisher, whose of Europe had been a pronounced feature old-time courtesy and quiet dignity wera. of British foreign policy, the governing reminiscent of the most pleasing tradi- object of which was the maintenance of tions of the English bench, he has ever- prace. For the BETHMANN-HOLLWEOs of theless (says our Penang contemporary)
appreciation and our time to profess that this was a prin- won ciple of British policy of which the world both of the Bar and of the public as a PEACE.
had never heard until Sir EDWARD Gay painstaking, conscientious judge who SURROUNDED. As Germany is by an
proclaimed it last August is to assume
got through his cases with despatch and of shot impenetrable "Chinese wall
an ignorance which it is certain never and steel, it is not surprising that the existed in the German thancellery, and displayed both common-sense and know-
agents in neutral countries
it is indeed, but a more plea to cover ledge of the law in his judgments. OFFICES in BT. GROZOR'S BUILDING
Becond Floor, Orerlooking Harbour Germun
should now be putting forth tentative
in act of brigandage which the German immediate possession.
Apply to
proposals as a basis for peace. In this War Lords calculated that the British
- ON THE PEAK. SHEWAN, TOMES A Ca
connection the telegram from America and French military power combined Hongkong, Erd Decutaber, 1814
The severe thunderstorm on Saturday which appears among our cables today was too fechta to prevent. Their design TO LET.
because neither last was responsible for serious dam- giving the gist of a communication made
partially succeeded, by Herr DERNIERO (a former German France nor Great Britain had regardedge to the residence of Mr. and Mrs. G. statesman) to a public meeting is not the German Government as so utterly C. Moxon, at "Red Hill, Plantation without interest and significance. A dead to all sense of national honour as Road, The Peak. The lightning struck a from use of the seas and an outlet for to treat an international treaty, without chimney which crashed through the roof "mere scrap of paper," of a bedroom, fortunately unoonpied at German trade through Belgium could warning, es a
wrote. Cho is and they were thus ill-prepared to the moment, and the fire-piece was blown asura peace," he prompted to ask immediately: Was it meet the aggression. But the subw
qut as though a shell had exploded in it. necessary to bring the nations of Earopoquent history of the war has given Ger- The electric light, gas and water supplies into the maelstrom of the greatest war many a different idea of the possible were cut off by the effects of the light-
Conduit Road.
OFFICES, facing the Harbour between the Hongkong Club and Post Office.
58, THE PEAK, THE RETREAT." 21, WONG-NET-CHONG ROAD. GODOWNS, New Prays, Kennedy Town. GODOWNS, at Wanchai Road. Apply, eta,
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY Co., La. Hongkong, 1st April, 1915,
TO LET.
198
39
THE GROUND FLOOR of No. 5, DEB TEUX BOAD CENTRAL, occupied by Madame Gaius, sto.
Apply to
DAVID BASSOON & Co., LTD, Hongkong, 10th February, 1915.
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WESTWARD HO," Bondam Road, EGGESFORD, No 124 TE PEAR, Unfurnished (6 Booms), from 1st May, 1935..
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, APRIL 20TH, 1945.
A GERMAN CONDITION OF
the
esteom
DAMAGE ·BY LIGHTNING
TO LET. 66 DISHOP'S LODGE SOUTH," No H,
Untarzisked, 6 Rooms No. 25, BELILIOS TERRACE, with strance on Conduit Road.
the time, and this doubtless accounts for 3 ROOMS, suitable for Ofices, at Floor,in history for the more purpose of assur war strength of both Great Britain and ning, which seems to have been focussed ing Germany 'the free use of the seas France. The British Empire has placed around the house. No rain was falling-at- Queen's Road Centr LAR
and an outlet for German trade through in the field army worthy of her the extent of the damage, as rain serves in the world and the to some extent to mitigate the effects of Belgium' " No one knows letter than place
were in the house at the titas, and the Herr DERNBURG, with his experience definite purpose of that army, in ec- lightning. Mrs. Moxon and Mrs. Ram 10 a Gorman Colonial Secretary, that operation with the French and
Fortunately no injury was imagined. seas always have been de free Belgians, is to expel every hostile soldier fright the occurrence gave them can be to Germany as to any other Power from the soil of France and Belgium, and caused to any person,
Slight damage was also caused at No. 131, Mount Gough, the residence of Mr. A chimney-stack and Mrs. Watson. broke and fell onto the roof. There was he internal damage, and no one was injured.
* MERION," "No. 6, THE PRAK, Unfurnished (6 Rooms).
ROOMS BEACONSFIELD and 55, ELGIN TERRACE.
the
the
in the world for the peaceful pur not until that purpose is accomplished
HOGATE," Austin Road, Kowloon, "EILANDONAN" No, 64, Mount Kellett No. 2, DES VEUX VILLAS, 51, PRAX poses of commerca, and, as for the can there be any thought of peace. Road, 5 Booms, anformist (Unfurnished),
ROOMS, suitable for Offices, on the First Floor of No. 3, Daddell Street,
No. 69, THE PRAX (6 CAMERON VILLAS), Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS,"
3rd Floor, Alerandes Buildings. Hongkong 27th March, 1916,
desire for an outlet for German tradó
through Belgium, it remains to be explained why the ventilation of this ostensibly innocent desire has been delayed until Germany has failed in the
Many in Hongkong will regret to see in the casualty list published to-day the name of Lieut. A. Collis Browne, of the D.C.L.I.'s. who has been killed in action,
The electric light and telephone fittings
the Peak. suffered in quite a number of houers en
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