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Professór MonGAN writes:-
thie
HAND,
CHOLERA AT GÄNTÖN..
"A much more serious offence, DISTRIBUTION OF RICE WELL IN however, is
deliberate killing of the wont ded 18 they die help- less and defenceless on the field o' battle. This is so gravo & charge thas were it not substantiated by the consider ed statements of officera, non-commis
The Tung-Wah Hospital. Heliod Com- sionad officers, a men. one would mittee has so arranged the mains at hesitate to believe it. But even after ità disposal that the majority of the rejecting, 8 one is bound to do, cases survivors of the West River flood aro which may be explained by accident,
mistake, or the excitement of action, How receiving much-nooded assistance there remains a large residuum of cases Three centros have been opened a which can only explained by deliberate Canton, Samahui, and Shuihing, and rice madice. No other explanation is possible is now being distributed at these centres
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NOTICE:
E beg to inform the Public that we are Wthe poly Agents in Hongkong and South China for Messes, HUILERIE & SAVONNERIE DE L'EXTREME ORIENT, Haiphong.
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. (775 Hangking. 19th July, 1916.
NOTICE.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
ths Partnership hitherto sarried ou by Sir SAROON DAVID Bart.. and ABRAHAM J&B David. Eer, at Hongkong and Shang. hai under the asm and style of 8. J. DAVID & Co., hu Casal adstermined as from the Twenty Fint day of July, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifteen.
The Liquilation of the said Firm in Hong. Long and Shanghai has been undertaken by the private Cogapay with litaited liability registered at Hooking unter the name of 8. J. DAVID & Co., LTD., and all Dab a dus by or owing to the said Firm will be discharged and received by the
vid Imited Comp sy
S. J, DAVID & Co. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Private Comesny with Himited Liability. registered at Hinghnag nader the name of S. J. Davis & Co., LTD,, has undertaken the Liquid din at Hongkong and Shanghai of the Firm of S. J. DAVID & C), and (among other things) will carry ou the Businme of the said Firm; and will di obergn and recoiva all Debts due by and owing to the said Firm in Longkong and Shanghai.
S. J. DAVID & Co., LTD..
(779 Hongkong, 20th July, 1915.
NOTICE.
WE bag to say that our late father,
IU HAK MING, alias IU TAK BING, alias In Tsux SHAU, & native of Ping Yuen listriot, Kwong Tang. whe was poor when
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Members of the ASSOCIATION OF EXPORTERS AND DEALERS OF HONGKONG will be held on THURSDAY, the 29th July, 1815, at t o'clock e.. precisely, in the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ROOM, NEW GOVERNMENT BUILDING, for the following purposes: -
(1) To receive the Report and Accounts of the Committee for the year ended 31st December, 1914.
(2) To elect a New Committer. (3) To transact any fieneral Rusiness.
By Order,
A. R. LOWE,
Acting Secretary, Hongkong, 13th July, 1916.
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OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MERTING of Members, will be hell on THURSDAY, 29th July, at 1.33 P, in the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ROOM, NEW GOVERNMENT BUILDING, for the purpose of considering and if thought BC passing the following Resolution authorising an addition to the Halos -
1. That the Rules be altered by the alition of the following new Rale to be numbered XXII, siz:--
Any Member who is the subject of a
imtion between which and Great "Britain a state of war exists stall ipso "facto cease to lie a Member."
By Order,
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the
application is granted it will be- necasey for the applicant to forward two copies of his photograph, and call personally at the Central Police Station.
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The size of the photograph should be about
Q MCT. MESSER,' Captain Superintendent of Police. Hongkong; 19th July, 1915,
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in writing for permission to do so to the Captain SUPARINTENDENT OF POLICE, at least 48 hours before the intended hour of giving name, nationality, age, sex, and occupation of the applicant, and stating the name of the steamer or other vessel or the boar of the train by which the applicans wishes to leave. Applicants should apply in person for their passes at the CENTRAL POLICE STATION between the hours of 8 AM. So 1 P.M. and 2. PM to 4 P.M. daily.
Hongkong, 10th July, 1915.
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NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Seremban, in the Strait Settlements, to work
MEETING of the Members of the above Club miues for many years, a saded in obtaining a
will be held at the Club House, Happy Valley, large sum of money, who was sent back to bi Hongkong, on THURSDAY, the 20th day of native country and invest in real estate, te over Sixty Houses for Sapps in Swalow and July, 1918, at 5.30 r.a., when the subjoined Resolution will be proposed as an Extraordinary Mui Yuen district, and over Twenty Houses, Shops and Saboola, together with over Three Resolution:--
of Mow Agricultural Leand Thousand Those proporties were all registered in the Magistrate Farman of Ching Hai Mui-yuen and Ping-yuen, title deeds being held for then sed tax regularly paid in respect of them.
ours and who proceeded to Ipoh, Perak, and EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL SAVE YOUR BLADES
Unfortunately, our late father died on the 23rd day of the Elsreath Moon last year in his native country. Piar-yum district. There are seventeen sons of the decessed and each of us is entitled to ehare of the said property. Tas fest son, named Is Yeak Hou, died some time
previonaly & left two sons na son was navard
Waa; the second In Youk Lenug alias In K
Pang: the third In Teak Ko, alias In Fak Ngom; the fourth In Yeak Nigo, aliar Ia Yam Sam; the fifth Tu Yeak Kai, alias Shing Chai; the sixth Ta Teak Wah; the seventh In Yeak Fook, alias Ia Kai Mi; she eighth Ia Yeak Chow, alias Ta Chia Pine; the ninth In Yeuk Sa, alias Lou Chai; the tenth In Youk Hing, alles In U fia; the elevouth In Youk Ching, alias In Bet Sng; the twelfth I Youk Tao; the thirteenth ta Yeak Yeung; the fourteenth In Yeak Kwai; the fifteenth ln Yeak Wong; the sixteenth Ia Yeak Ch-ung; the seventeenth Ir Youk Ming; and there are slo six or seven grand-
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per ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB bo altered in the maunor following
Dosen,
That the following words be inserted in Article 42 after the word "Creditors":
or be the subject of a nation between "which and Great Firitain a state of wAT "erista."
Should the above Reaolution bo psed by the galite majority, it will be anbitted for. coufirmations - Special Besolution to a Second Extraordinary General Meeting which will be put gequently convsand.
By
IN
T. W. HILL, Aoting Honorey Secretary.. Hongkong, 20th July, 1915.
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IN THE MATTER OF BERN MEYER & COMPANY, LIMITED, AN ENEMY COMPANY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE SAID ORDINANCE.
NOTICE OF SALE FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD LANDS AND HOUSES. SITUATE AT
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As we have so many near relations, it is feared that among them there may be one or two who might secretly contract debts. All we brothers, therefore, had a meeting and decided that no one be allowed accretly to call mariguga the said property. We therefore be to announce publicly, as we fear that our distant relatives or friends are ignorant of the fact, that the said property cannot be mortgaged or Collyer Quay, De Bonza Street, Prince Street, employed as security for obtaining leans of Rubitaun Qasy, Kanisah Marian Rosd, Mohamed Sultan Road and Grange Road,
money earstly, and if any of our brothers should have secured any loan on such security Singapore.
the creditor, should demand the repayment of
it from the one who is responsible for it. other. wise we will not be held responsible for any debi contracted,
Bigned
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many intervening' who have been wounded by rifle and also in an advance, and have had to be left | villages. While the flood was at ite during a retirement for reinforcements, height and the fire was raging the are discovered, in our subsequent advance,
with vine or ten bayonet wounds or with Committes were unable to make any their heads beaten in by the butt-ends of headway at all with the distribution of rifles. Such CLETE could not have rice, but they are now able to send 1,500 occurred, the enemy being precoat bags of 100 per day to Canton alono,- force, without the knowledge of superior and largo supplies are also being re- officers. Indeed. I have before me evi l- ence which goes to show that German gularly forwarded to the other centres officers have themselves acted in similar of distribution. Mr. Li Wau Tsan is in charge of the distribution, and next
fashion. Some of the cases reveal leisurely harbarity which proves great. of hadics of despatch-riders burnt with river by the Hongkong Government, and deliberation; cases such as the discovery week Mr. Wood will be sent
petrol or pegged out' with lances, or uf
the
soldiers with their faces stamped upon by a visit will also be made by the Hon. Mr. the heel of a boot, or of a guardsman S, B. C. Ross (Secretary for Chineso found with numerous bayonet wounds Affairs) and the Hon Mr. Lau Chy Pak. evidently inflicted as he was in the act of
Good use is being made of the lunches, a bullet applying a field dressing to
up the wound. There also seems no reason to te, which have been sent
River by the Admitty, and the Tang doubt the independent statements of men of the Loyal North Lanes, whom I inter
Wah Committee are of the opinion that, regated on different occasions, that has many as possible of the poor survivors
men of one of their companies were killed on the 20th of December after they had surrendered-and-laid down their arms, To what extent prisoners have been treat ed in this manner it is impossible to say -dead men tell "no tales-but an excep tionally able Intelligence Officer at the headquarters of the Cavalry Corps in formed me that it is believed that when British prisoners are taken in small parties they are put to death in cold blood."
The
are now receiving supplies of rice. good work which is being done by the Committee will be realised from the following letter which has bonn sent by
Miss. Jackson, an American missionary
work in the stricken àrea, to Mr. Ross-
"I am very thankful to be able to tell you that the 100 sacks of rier were The question as to how for these received safely in Kom Shan yesterday. outrages wore attributable to policy and Five Marines were sent with us from the superior orders was at first difficult to Wilmington, and the Coronet. the answer, Professor MORGAN zays. Standard Oil Company's launch, asted especially, as such orders, if giver well in the troubled waters. We paid a at all. were inore likely to
bevisit to the local magistrate and the verbal than documentary, "but the out
promise of his protection was written out and sent buck by the Marines to the Consul at Canton.
rages upon combatants were so numerous and so collective in character that I began to suspect policy at a very early stage in ay investigation." Eventually be ob ined proofs confirming his suspicions to-day have been almost entirely given up
and he gives them in his article. Documen
Pri
*We began distributing rice inmodi- ately we aarived, and yesterday and
to the work. The crowd was immense ÆRATED WATER MANUFACTURERS.tary evidence is adduced in the form of to-day; people said over a thousand. The diari abiained from German prisoners, riem is given away to gedwa-ms, in a and in- que "instapon-gu, order-issvei-|“ Shing " measure each, and this children by a Gorman Brigade General named receive half the amount. Prople are hara STENGTH, commanding the 58th Brigade, from all over the country in indescrib which is translated as follows; To data] ables distress. How thankful we are us from this day no prisoners will be made | be able to help tide them over this ties We distribute tickets any longer. All the prisoners will be I cannot tell you. executed. The wounded, whether armed first. and that is no easy work. Those who hand them and find much difficulty or doféuceless,will be executed.
to keep their fret, even with severed soners, even in large and compact forma- tions, will be excoated. Not a man will soldiers assisting. be left alivé behind us.” Two men of the regiment to which this order was THE reported massacre by German troops issued wore examined by a British Intel of five thousand Russian prisoners of war-ligence Officer, and one of the prisoners at Raworusska is naked savagery ons volunteered the statement that his reg colossal and staggering a scale that there ment had orders to freot Tadian prisoners will naturally be some hesitation to credit | well but were allowed to treat British the story until it is confirmed. There is, prisoners as they pleased, and the man however, no obvious reason why the added that 65 out of 150 British prisoners the latter place, we understand, choleru
HONGKONG, JULY 23ED, 1915.
İNCREDIBLE SAVAGERY.
"One man. told us to-day that he had not eaten rice for three days. I think the large majority are almost, it net quid, as badly off."
CHOLERA AT CANTON.
The water is still receding bulli along the West River and at Canton, but at
has broken out despite the efforts which have been made to prevent any outbreak. of disease.
AN UNHAPPY INCIDENT.
Austrian prisoners who communicated
were killed in cold blood by their escort the information to their Russian on the road to Lille and the escort were captives should deliberately lie about praised for their conducu Other. Ger- the matter, and we may safely assume man prisoners, Professor Mongan says. That the Russian authorities have not have also made statements that they had officially given out this statement without orders to kill all the English who fell into A rather unhappy incident has WE SHARPEN EVERYTHING. | being satisfied that the Austrians who their hands. Reviewing the evidence be occurred at Fati An American mis- "The sionary left her residence in charge of CAMPBELL, MOORE & Co., LTD. reported it were themselves convinced of adduces, Professor MORDAN says:
its truth. What makes ue the more cumulative effect of this evidenc, coupled some soldiers while she went to distribule Hongkong, 22nd July, 1915.
inclined to credit the story is the fact with the statements of so many of our rice. Upon her return she found the that the killing of wounded men and the men who claim to have been eye-witnesses soldiers absent, and cherreideas cold-blooded murder of prisoners has been of wholesala bayonetting of the woundel,
rasisecked and maney, etc., missing. A proved to be German policy on occasions certainly confirms suspicions of the guard of American sailors
Convincing-gravest kind as to such acts having been looking after the missionary's quarters. the Western front. ovidence of this has been obtained by the done by authority. Neither the tempera French investigators and by Lord BEYCE's ment of the German soldier Committee, and in the current issue of character of German discipline (furchther
Ger the Nineteenth Century this evidence is streng frightfully strict-as
man prisoner put it to ice) makes it supplemented by Professor J. H. MORGAN, who, at the request of the Secretary of probable that the German soldiers acted on their own initiative," With such Stato for Home Affairs, undertook on investigation in France into the alleged statemo is as these before us our difficulty breaches of the laws of war by the German in believing that, in circumstances such found dead with a stab wound in his
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PEAK MURDER MYSTERY.
NO CLUE TO BOY'S ASSAILANT
Up to yesterday the polico possessed definite clue as to the identity of the assailant of the Chinese boy who was
cheat on the top. of the Peak Road on Monday morning.
Rumours were current that the wound has been caused by a bayonet, and als that the body had been conveyed to und
A tail for Europe via Siberia closes placed at the spot where it was found. to-morrow at 3 p.m.
troops, the inquirios in England being as we have indicated above, such whole.. Ronducted by others. Professor MORGAN'S le murder of helpless prisoners of war inetheds of inquiry, as they are described as that announced at Petrograd is by him, give the reader the fullest con- casible, disappears. fidence in his findings, and the facts he relates royal conduct so barbarous and revolting as to amply justify him
triat the Gerwans have saying
auta, of over $600 has been cliccted broken all laws, humon and divine, at the Ellis Kadoorie schools on behalf
aven the ancient free-
of the West River Fund.
LUDE, traditions are almost as old as wer itself, has restrained them in their brutal and
"and not
MACGREGOR&C, masonry of whose honourable
Miss Cree, Fairleigh School, has reported to the police the theft, on th
In Year Chow, In Tenk Wah, Sale and form of Tender can be obtained an and WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, licentions fury. Our special concern in night of the 20th, of a pair of shoes.
In Yeule Fook
Ju Youk Tool,
To Tenk 81, after the 25th Tone, from the Láquidator at
In Youk Hiaz, No. 4 Collyer Quay, Singapore, or from the
In Yesk Ubing, In Yeak Teang Undersigned. SISSON & DELAY,
In Teak Cheong, La Yenk Kwal,
Ia Yeak Wong, In Youk Ming.
4th June, 4th Republican Year.
Hongkong, 21th Jun», 1915.'
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188, UHANGE, Azzar, Singapore, Solicitors for the Liquidator. Singapore, let July, 1015.
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The latter assumption may be more or less correct, but enquiries made yesterday elicited the information that it had beom established beyond doubt that the fatal wound had not been caused by a bayonet.
A photograph has been taken of the boy's featurca, and this, together with
the present article is with what the
A telegram was received at the Ameri- his description, has been pasted up in Professor has to say regarding kill-
cat Consulate General, Hongkong, from various parts of the Colony, in the prisoners ing of
and wounded. the Manila Observatory, yesterday, saying hope that some information will be After references to the abuse of the white
that the cyclone or typhoon north of forthcoming which will lead to the das by the Germans, and to cases of | Meiscosima was filling up.
apprehension of the lade murderer.
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