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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

FIRE, INSURANCE ASSOCIATION- OF HONGKONG.

KING'S BIRTHDAY.

NOTICE IS HUBERT OVEN, all INSURANCE OFFICES will be CLOSED for the Transaction of Public Business TOMORROW (THURSDAY), the 3 Jane

By Onter,

A. R. LOWE, Scrotry.

1622 Hongkong, 2nd June, 1915,

MARINE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION OF HONGKONG.

KING'S BIRTHDAY. NOTICE JE HEREBY GIVEN that all MARINE INSURANCE OFFICES will be CLOSED for the Transaction of Pablie Business TO-MORROW (THURS DAY), the 3f Juno:

Ordi

A. LOWE, Secretary,

1623 Hongkong, 2nd June, 1915.

WANTED.

RS. and MISS KELLY (Headquarters

Mase) would be glad to hear of any suitable person willing to set as MAID to them on the rayage Home in rotura for passage Must be a good spilor.

Hongkong, Sud June, 1816.

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SOCIBTE DES PULPES ET PAPE- TERIES DU TONKIN..

(TONKIN PULP & PAPER COMPANY).— Capital: $760,000.- -

Head Office: 9) rue Jules Ferry, Haiphong.

SECOND NOTICE

T GENERAL MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of the SOCIETE DES PULPES & TAPETERIES DU TONKIN, conrened successively for the Ist of March and for the 18th of April, 1913, to discuss and carry on the following Resolutions, 2.143 Shares out of 15,000 were represented on: the frei date, and on the second 3,476 only out of 7.500

Whereas, by law of the 13th of Novembar, 1913, in order to carry on any alteration in the Statutes of the Society, the quorum for the First Meeting must be 3/4 of the Capital, and for the second half of the said Capital, and wheres the Third Meeting pan

an say Resolutions provided ally ear

of the

Capital is represented, the Board of Directors harebe notify that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the SHARE- HOLDERS of the above Boofety le to be held. at their Hend Office, 21 rue Jales Forry, at Haiphong, on MONDAY, the 14th day of June, 1915, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, when the following Resolations will be submitted:

Report of the Directors on the workings of the Society counts to be presented- and pasted,

"Report

of the Auditor.

3. Anticipation of the desolation of the Society, nomination of Liquidators, the limi alien of their powered

For the Board of Directors,

M DANDOLO.

NOTE--Eiery Sheholder, whatever bumber

of Shares he holds, may participate ip the Mesting, sud in sutitted without Imitation to as many votes as thoro ure Shares in bis possession.de

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. FROM CALCUTTA, - PENANG.

SINGAPORE.

HE Steamship.

THE

"DUNERA

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having arrived from the sbon Ports, Consiznesa of Cargo are hereby formed that their Goods will be delivered from dongside, if not already ot erwire arranged.

Cargo impeding the discharge will be

innded at ODCA, st Coaugaess risk and

remaining

THO

board

ou

the Consign.co

argo Srd iunt, at Noon, will be landed at risk and RIJKRÆÐ.

Consignes of Cargo from SINGAPOEK nad PENANG B requested to take IMMEDIATE delivery of their Goods from alongside, sush Carea impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees risk and

AINCUSO.

No Fire Insurase has been effected.

Bill of Lading will be countersigned by the

derzigned

DAVID BASHOON & Co., LTD.,

Agents. Hongkong. 1st June, 10:5

R.

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ON HIS MAJESTY'S SERVICE. VENDERS are invited for the supply of

CARPENTERS,

FITTEES,

CAULIERS.

PLATTER,

PLUMBERS,

BLACKSMITHS and HAMMERMEN, PAINTERS and SCRAPERS,

SHOEMAXXES OF LEATHERWORKEES,

to 1.M. NAVAL YARD.

Forms of Tender can be obtained at the Chief Constractor's Oce, H.M. NAVAL TARD, Hongkong, and should be filled in and returned

na indicated in Tender Form not later than NOUN, SATURDAY, the 12th Jose,

C. D. J. BELL,

for Chief Constructor.

H.M. NAVAL YARD,

· Hongkong, 26th May, 1916.

NOTIOR

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LL Persons applying to the PROVOST A HARSHAL Or Passes are requested in future to apply between the hours af à a to TP and 2 to 4 P.. daily

Hagkong, 16th February, 1815.

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INTIMATIONS

-BANK HOLIDAY.

· THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2ND, 1915.

Accordance with Ordinance No. 5 of 1912, INCANG BANKS will be CLOSED for the Transaction of Public Business TOMORROW (THURSDAY), the 3rd June.

(613 Hongkong 31st May, 1916,

A. S. WATSON & CO, LIMITED.

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the GENERAL MEETING of the Company (since its registration) will be hold of the HONGKONG HOTEL, Hongkong, TO-MORROW (THURSDAY), 3rd day of June, 1915, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers together with a Statement of Accounts to the 31st December, 1914.

N THIRTIETH ANNUAL ORDINARY

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 31st May, to FRIDAY, the 4th June, 1916, both days inclusive, during which period Transfer of Shares can be Hegistered:

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers. Hongkong, 25th May, 1916.

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INTIMATION

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A Chinese who came ashore with twa daggers in his possession was fined $60 at Ho was the Magistracy yesterday, noticed by a Customs ofhoor.

"It will be noticed-in-our advertisement

Yokohama papers announce the deaths of two old residents of the port in Cap tain A. Weston and Mr. L. Harlow. Cap- tain Weston,, who first came to Japan 35 years ago, died at the age of 70, and Mr. Harlow was in his 88th year.

The Honourable Francis Burton Har- rison, Governor-General of the Philippine

Governor Harri- 19lands, Mrs. Harrison, and party, have been visiting Peking. son is taking advantage of a leave of absence from Manila during the bot sen- son to visit Japan and China on a sight- seeing and pleasure trip..

a startled public. Ona of the London nowapapora commenting on it said:-

We confess that we gasped for breath at the insanely reckless, fashion in which the names of British regiments are mon¬ tioned. For mitte months it has been. high treason to whisper the name of a regiment. Suddenly, without warning, columns that the Boa Vista Hotel at the policy of the anonymous regiments is Macao is to be re-opened on the 16th inst. stands for Excellent, and anyone thrown to the winds, and we are present

ed with an old-fashioned bit of war corres inder European management. who drinks sur E PORT, Epondence, in which the gallantry of our famous regiments is published to the world, without any regard for the use SHERRY, E WHISKY

which the Germans will make of the or E BRANDY can bo

revelations. It is a startling departure from the troglodyte policy of the Censor- no doubt that the letter ship. Our regiments ill this despatch

longer fight in blinkers, and the British signifies excellence of a high order people no longer read in blankers. In a

It was notified yesterday in a Hong- and good value for money. By word, the blinkers are off. So intred have we become to the policy of blinker- buying in balk from the very beating that we are disposed to say that it is tong Government Gazette Extraordinary too good to be true. Our scepticism has that information has been received from Arms, and bottling ourselves, we are been eo carefully nurtured by our official

mandarins that we hesitate to believe the Secretary of State for the Colonies able to give our customers better single word of this new aunalist they let to the effect that Italy has declared war

loose upon us without any warning. But value for money then we could by es enoir as our eyes grow used to the on Austria-Hungary and that Germany

Buddon food of light we commence to has declared war upon Italy. importing the same thing by the thrill with pride. Yes, these are our regiments. We recognise them after their case. There is an old saying “ Wines long hibernation. They leap out of the dark, and behold they are the same stuff as the stuff that fought at Albuera and mature in bottle, Spirits in cak.".

Jadajoz, at Coranna and Waterloo It of

is impossible to reall the story of their That is the raison d'être our magnificent wine canlis, which immortal heroism without being blinded by scalding tours. And we sigh regret challenge comparison with anything fully as we think of the weary months of nameless nullity during which a British of the hind not only in Hongkong Army fought and bled and died in the

dark but the Far East. There our wines

The long telegram we published on are bottled off soon after they arrive, Monday recounting gloriony deeds f but our spirits, except for a small regiuients and individuals in the more cent fighting at Festubort is another

the Magistrate that quite a lot of this sert stock to meet daily requirements, indication that something has crackeddonald, who had charge of the case, told- in the Censorship. It has been an open of thing had been going on, and it had are keptfin wood. That is why one-

secret that the Commander-in-Chief of the become a regular nuisance... spirits improve in quality, and British Army in France has pressed- spărite imported in oase do not. Our again and again for more publicity:It was advocated also by the late Lord customers get the benefit of that ROBERTE, Lord Cunzos in à recont speech increment in valtro, as we charge in the House of Lords, in which he pressed

for "

more confidence and less mystery," nothing for it. We cordially invite said he was able to tell the Goverment as our sustomers to pay a visit of the result of a recent visit to France that inspection to our wine vaults, and every man in the Army, from the Com- mander-in-Chief to the humblest private, satisfy themsloves that the above is believed that unnecessary weerrcy was being observed. It may be recalled in this no idle newspaper puff."

connection how after the battle of Mons Sir Johu Fussion, in addressing one of the regiments on a specially glorious feat, declared that their praises would be sung on the morrow in the Press throughout to the Empire-But the Press Bureau had first other ideas. It was quite three months before any news leaked out which identi fed this particular regiment with the fent which had won the high praise of the Commander-in-Chief. The French ord Hongwona Ortion:104, Dun Vœux Roan C. the Russians, and even the Germans, have LONDON Osrica: 181, FASE BRET, .C.done more to stimulate public interest in

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The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, JONG 2ND, 1915.

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the war than the British authorities and the changs recently made in the British policy is one to be welcomed. Hitherto, As one London newspaper has put it, the British public has been expected to realier the nature of the mighty struggle which has been in progress now for more than nine months--compared with which the war with NAPOLEON was a mere series of frontier expeditions from perusal of the amiable optimism of Exo

"THE BLINKERS ARE OFF,' SEVERAL telegrams relating to the war published during the past month must have indicated to many readers a some- what sudden change in the policy of the Witness, whose eye-wash,' as it is com Censorship of news from the battlefield.monly called at the front, bears about the.

Ab the Magistracy yesterday, four coolies were charged by the Captain of the str. Honam with refusing to pay their faves, and ench was fined $10. Inspector Mac-

Corporal Biggs, R.G.A., who for some time acted as instructor to the Volunteers on the guns of Belcher's Fort, died in the Military Hospital early yesterday from dysentery after a short illness. The Volunteer Artillery Company was repre- sented at the funeral, which took place at the Happy Valley yesterday.

At the Magistracy yesterday, Daniel Rees Davies, master mariner, of the str. Luchow, was charged with being thank and disorderly, and also with assaulting ricshi, coolio and damaging a private

was stated Defendant, who, ritslia.

bcen very have

intoxicated,

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all struck out at ariesha The coolic eventually succeeded ting away, whereupon Davies pro- ceded to damage a ricsha which was not his.. He was fined $5 for assault, Alo for being drunk and disorderly, and #2 for damaging the ricsha.

on a

AT THE MAGISTRACY

ANOTHER EXTRADITION CASE-

Before MrWood, the Crown Solicitor (M. PM. Hodgson) applied for the extradition to Canton of a Chinese c charge of murder in the To Shan village, Hengshan district, in April.The.. was one of a large body of robbers, nam- Crown Solicitor stated that the defendant

The deceased man was killed in a shoe- bering about 50 or 00, who attacked the Po Shan village on a certain evening.

FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES in Gordon The first indication of this appeared in same relation to the realities as Parymaker's shop in a market adjoining the a lengthy telegram received about a prattle did to the thrilling times he lived village, and a witness would be called who month ago which described in some in The Pall Mall Gazette remarked of would reenguise the defendant as one of

A FLAT in Humphrey's Buildings, Kowloon, Apply to

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE detail the battle of Neuve Chapelle,the brilliant description of the battle at the robbers. The case was adjourned.

Co., LTD., Alexandra Buillings. Hongkong, 18th May, 1915.

TO LET

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reveived Neuve Chapelle, which we reprcaluce Home The latest

papers

the change, to day, that what it contains helps to throw little light on Just previous to the publication of the dafine what we have missed in all our brilliant narrative of which our telegram official information of that engagement. was a summary, Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN To see the war as such a narrative makes

SERIOUS HOBBERY FROM A EUROPEAN.

Before Mr. A. P. Lindell, at the Magis

The alterations this year are unusually bearyOUSES in CLIFTON GARDENS, in a public speech at Birmingham hads.se it is to feel and understand the tracy yesterday, six Chinese ricsha coolies

owing to changes incidental to the War.

Hongkong, 16th March, 1915.

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were charged with being concerned-in-the.. bitterly attacked the methods of the call of duty with a clearness which no Press Censorship. News may be good lists of slackness can again obscure." robbery from Mr. Hutchinson, Chick for bad." he said, "but no Government Had narratives such as these ben Eagineer of the Ohconphing, of a gold understands our people which thinks that published from the very beginning it watch and chain and 8900 in paper money The complainant, was they will do good work by ke ping back would not have taken nine months for on the 13th us

the people of England to get something riding in a rischa some time after mid- bad news: We have gone through bad times before, and the worse the times were like a true appreciation of the titanie right along the Prayn in the western the higher the spirit of our people rase struggle in which the Empire is engaged district, hoping to secure a sempan to The greater the necessity you show them and to realise the urgency of the call get to his ship, when he was attacked by a party of about a dozen riesha coolies,

which the situation makes upon every

for exertion the greater the exertion they man to respond to the nation's call for On the following morning Sergt. Cockle patristic servies whether it be on the field. Detective Clarke, and Chinese detectivez another man, who was charged with of battle or in the marcher with arrested the six defendants and aisu the Army and the Navy depend for 20

reeving the gold watch and chain. Tho The eas was. ample and continuous supply of the watch was recovered. munitions of war.

will make If I plead that where no military necessity exists bad news should not be withheld, I plead, too, that may have soy greater and some fuller knowledge of the gallant and historic deeds of the regiments with which our city and the surrounding counties are associated. I am profoundly convinced

remanded.

A telegram from Paris, announces that COCKFIGHTING GAMBLING.

that secrecy has been, and is being. Mr. J. Van Vollenhoven, ox-Governor- carried to an extent which is detrimental General of Indo-China, has enlist d' as 24 Northern Chinese paper sayu • →→ to the best interests of our country.sergeant in the 7th Regiment of Colonial In the Wachang tea shota there are Any Government which tries to ride this Infantry, at Bordeaux.

antry in blinkers will never get the best out of its mount." Lord Conzuk had been speaking much in the sata, strain. Then, as if by way of concession or retort, one fine morning the Brilliant account of the battle of Neuvs Chapelle, which we make no exense for publishing in extenso in this issue, was fehed upon the opium for a friend.

A Chinese who was found on a train at Kowloon in possession of a quantity of opium was fined $300 at the Magistracy yesterday, and another $30 was in posed for attempting to export the stuff. The man came forward with the excuse that he was taking charge of

many men who assembly and carry on kind of gambling called the "cock fight- ing game Hundreds of them aro Infatuated by it and its influence is pernicious in the extreme. The temptation to get righ quick induces men to stake large sums of money on this game and consequently many have been ruined. Issued a notice strictly prohibiting this The Superintendent of the Poljes has gambling in tea shops, and the delin- quents when caught will be severely skalt – with