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TAR HONGKONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2.ẾT, 1916.

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COMPANY MEETINGS.

CHINA TRADERS INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED.

At an extraordioary general meeting of the above Company the following special resolutions, which were passed at the meeting held on the 4th inst., were con- firmed;

(1)That Article No. 9 of the Com. pany's Articles of Association which

ff now reada v

SHIPPING FREIGHTS AFTER

THE WAR

WAR NEWS.

BULGAR ATROCITIES.

THE WORST HORRORS OF WAR SURPASSET).

An official French port stributed by wirelesssy-

Refugees arriving in Salonika from Ser- are supplying the most terrible details concerning the atrocities perpetrated in their country by the Bulgarian soldiers.

The worst horrors of the war in 1913 have been surpassed in the present cau

What will happen when all the owners of passenger steamers have their vessels Handed back to them There is not at uil Ekely to be any boom in the passenger. trade. At present the Government are perating so many of their vessels tha their services are very much curtailed, but oven then, they are finding that the accom

All Serbians who fall into the madation provided is more than sufficient.paign.. for the domands of the trade. Steamers hands of the Bulgarians are masseered without consideration to their age or their are sailing for the United States with lossex, with the utmost refinement of torture. than a quarter of their passenger accum mmodation booked, and of their passengers very few are genuine emigrants, as the team was understood before the wa

Unaameable acts of cruelty have notabiy

en place in the neighbourhood of Nish where hundreds of women and children were burned alive in the churches, whe o they had taken refuge in the hope that the Many of them aro American munitionsacred character of their shelter woud

command the pity of the invaders, workers, returning home on the conclusi

In Macedonia everything has been 878: tematially pillaged and burned, and to A el an extent that nothing, not a single heuse, is loft standing wherever the Bul-

of their engagements in Great Britain. Others are men who have come across in charge of horses, while there are always serians have passed, few returning American tourists and busi reas men. To Canada, Australia and New Zealand there is practically no passenger trade, and there are no signs of any re-

The Company shall have a first and paramount lien upon all the Shares of any Shareholder for all monies due to the Company either from him alone or jointly with any other held person, and where a Sharo by more persons than one the Comi puny shall have a lion thereon in respect of all monios so due to it from all or any of the holders thereof. be eliminated in its entirety, and that in lieu thereof the following new Articlo bo inserted as Article No. 9 (9.) The Company shall have a first and paramount lion upon all the *Shares Registered in the name of each Shareholder (whether solely or Jointly with others) and upon the proceeds of sale thereof, for his uchts, abilities and engagements, and eclely or jointly with any other person, to or with the Company, whether the period for the payment,vival. fulfilment ör discharge thereof shall have actually arrived or not, sad no equitable interest in any Share shall be created except upon the footing and condition that Clauses hereof in to have fall effect. And such lien shall extend to nif Dividends from time to tim 'declared in respect of such Share," (2.) That after Article No. 33 of the "Company's Articles of Association the "following new Articlo bo inserted as "Article Na 93a:-

So long as so many liners are retained the Government this does not matter very much, but it is quite obvious that there will be an excess of tonnage on the pincipal passenger routes, for some time after the war is over, and that the ship- awners concerned will not have their so- rows to seek At present some of the Com- panies are converting passenger accou cation on their large steamers into cargo paces, and devoting one deck, instead of two or three, te passengers. In ali pro (333.) Save as herein otherwise probability this process will be extended cor vided the Company shall be entitled siderably, for the immediate future of to treat the Registered Holder of shipping lies more in cargo then in pas any Share as the absolute owner sengers, and the day of the cargo liner" thereof, and accordingly shall not, is, with us more than over. It was coming

Court of except as ordered by a

rapidly enough, but it has been hastened competent jurisdiction, or as hy *Ordinance required, be hound toeatly by the war, and the purely passen- recognise any equitable or other Fol liner is not now the great boat it ones During the last eighteen monthis,

claim to or interest in such Share was.

British shipowners will also have their through the liberality of the trustees of

on the part of any other person, work out out for there if any are to re- the Percy Bladez Memorial Fund, Mr. *Firm, Company or Corporation." Reid Moir has been enabled to conduct s

(3.) That the heading of Articles gain all the trade that has been picked series of exenvations in the brickfield of Nes. 94 to 80 (inclusiva) of the Com-up on their routes by those of neutral cons Mossre. A. Bolton & Co. (Limited),"pany's Articles of Association read tries the while they are helping to save situated to the north of Ipswich on the ing The Secretary be altered 20 Europe for civilisation. It is remarkab'e Fonnerenu Estate, and a number of in-as to read the General Manager; bow the foreigner is getting his finger in teresting relics pertaining to the later and that in the last-mentioned Articles the pie evorywhere. It must be a very fan Nos. 94 to 09 inclusive) whorever the thing indeed to live in neutral countries Pleistocene perid have been unearthed.word Sceretary appears such word these days, and we need not wonder that The excavations, says The Times, have

"be eliminated and that in lien thereof the been conducted in the south-west corner

"the words General Manager bo of the brickfield, where n woll-marked

"inserted." "occupation-level," or ancient land sur

FOSSIL RELICS IN SUFFOLK, DISCOVERY OF HUMAN REMAINS.

RELICS FROM RHEIMS.

STRANGE STORY OF "DEALS." IN AMERICA.

newspaper statements According to (says a Central News message from Now York) American art dealers have invited offers from wealthy connoisseurs for several pieces of sculptura purporting to come from Rheims Cathedral.

No information is obtainable as to the manner in which these treasures have reached the United States, and it is a

atter of common knowledge that the greatest precautions have been taken in France to prevent loating from the bom barded cathedral

A certain manitiens magnate is under- stood to have purchased from a Fifth- avenue dealer the head of an angel, on exquisite example of thirteenth century ert. This is said to have been sold with. every evidence of authenticity and under the guarantee of a house which has been in tach with amateurs in all parts of the world for many years.

The head is of the peculiar limeston which was used in many sculptures of the period, Although broken at the neck, as though dislodged or knocked away from the body to which it was attached, it is in a perfect stato of preservation az far as the features are concerned.

AN OPTIMISTIC VIEW OF THE BALKAN SITUATION,

face, occurs, resting upon & weathered sur- of the Company's Articles of Associadeal with all the combatants and to do liniversity College, Look an optimistio

face of chalky boulder clay, and covered by a very hard and compact sandy loam of a greyish colour.

Tuanufacturers. and traders of these countries are straining every nerve to keep out of the war, so that they may (4.) That in the following Articles remain in the position of being able to tisa, viz.:-Articles Nos. 2, 7, 24, 35, at high rates-the work which the com 44, 40, 62, 64, 61, 93, 102, and 128 the batants wore in the habit of doing. The word Secretary wherever it occurs he eliminated and that in lieu thereof extent to which foreign shipowners ar Hertering for British trade is finely seen in the words General Manager

the traffio which is being done with Boot. "inserted."

tish ports.

The timber trade with the Clyde and the Forth is very largely in the hands of Scandinavian owners, while neu- tral steamers now visit Glasgow far mors Frequently than before with all sorts

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD..

An extraordinary general meeting of the

Professor Pollard, speaking recently at View of the situation in the Balkans,

With regard to the foon to Greece, he said it seemed rather a superfluous luxury to provide the sinews of war for a Power. whose ultimate position was open to much doubt. We had no particular reaso to help Greece in her difficulties, and so far as could be seen from the present sit a ation it would pay Greece to join the Allies rather than remain outside.

con-

It appears that signs the people lived who occupied this old land surface, the valley, which is now dry, has been deepen ed considerably, and as the ancient level passes into a small escarpment on the south at a depth of about 10ft to 12ft. trom the surface of the ground it seems that a considerable antiquity must be assigned to the human relies associated with it. The occupation-level under in above Company was held at the office of giling ships have got a fine new lens of wards Asia-might be better called vestigation is very rich in flint imple- menta, which, in the opinion of Mr. Reid the Company, 2, Queen's Buildings, yes Moir, must be assigned to the period terday, for the purpose of confirming re known to archeologists as Le Monster solutions which were passed at an extra Traces of another occupation-level occur above the Monstier deposit, containing ordinary general meeting on December 4th. plements of a totally different type, Mr. S. H. Dodwell presided, and there which approximate the early Aurignas

were also present the Hon, Mr. P. H. examples. With the flints have been found severely hundreds of animal bones, repre Holyoak, Messrs. W. L. Pattenden, J. W. senting chiefly the remains of the horse, O. Bonuar, G. T. Edkins, and A. Forbes and one specimen referable to the mam (Directors), Mr. C. Montague Ede (Secre- competition after the war than there was time progressed, it was obvious that Ger

moth,

Numerous fragments of very rough and primitive pottery occur on and in the ancient land-surface, and tend to support Dr. Rutot's claim that about 500 fragments of pottery were found at Caillon-qui Bique associated with an upper Le Mons stier industry Those portions of the human skeleton have been found scattered upon the old land-surface with the flints and mammalian bones. These comprise a small portion of the upper margin of the cecipital bones of a skull 10 mm, in thick MISSIONARIES nes, the shaft of the left humerus of a

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woman, and the shaft of the right femur of a man. There seems little doubt that none of the bones found belonged to indivi duals of the Neanderthal race, the type of being generally associated with La Monster implements. All the buman and

canditica of fossilization,

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS OFFICE animal bones are well preserved and in a

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香港中外新毅 RUNG NOOI BAN

(Chinese Daily Press),

PUBLISHED.

DAILY

FIGHTING SHY OF FOOD,

tary), and Messrs. Ho Fook, W. Dualar, w. R. Mauafield, and R. F. Hall,

The notice convening the meeting having been read,

The CHAIRMAN eaid-Gentlemen, the object of this meeting is to submit for con- firmation as a special resolution which you have just heard read, and which was pass ed the extraordinary general meeting held here on the 4th of this month. I beg to propose that that the resolution be con

firmed.

Mr. W. DUNBAR seconded, and it was carried unanimously.

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The resolution is as follows::

(1.) That the Capital of the Bociety be increased to $4,000,000 (Four Mil "lion Dollars) by the creation of 3,000 (Three Thousand Six Hundred) Addi- tional Ordinary Shares of $250 (Two "Hundred and Fifty Dollara) cach (whereof $100 (One Hundred Dollars) shall be credited as paid up) ranking "for Dividend and in all other respecta "pari mass with the Existing Ordinary "Shares of the Society and that the « said Additional Shares, so far as shall ho necessary for the purpose, be issued to those Eherebolders of the China Fire Insurance Company Limited, who have accepted or shall accept "the Bociety's offer made to them on the 4th day of August, 1915, such time being in accordance with the terms of a contract or memorandum in writing made or to be made pursuant to the said offer and to be filed with the Registrar of Companies: and that "the balance (if any) of the said Addi-

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A choice between starvation or torture is the dismal prospect before all victims of indigestion, for although they are actually in need of food to nourish the body, they are afraid to eat because of the long periods of pain and discomfort.. that follow even the lightest of meals.

The urgent need of all dyspeptics, of POverybody, in fact, whcese organs of digen

In the oldest and mill immohenrably the hart Advertising imm among the Nation Cmounity, Established for amr PUTT Fireulater large y throughout Southern Chius Indo-China ste

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--Terms for Advertising(Translation frua) san se obtained at the Ofos, 10a, De Voux Bond Cemteni, Hongkong, 151, Flest Street, Lendas cr from the differant Agents

Josumbats treaulated from or fate Clandes or Collormi Chinabe,

ON SALE

DOUND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG Bou

WEEKLY PRESS, JANUARY to Juss, 1916, With INTEL Prlee $7.50.

On Sale at the "HongKONG DAILY, PRINS Hongkong 10h Augisk, 1 15,

tion are unable to perform their impor tant duties, is to gain strength so that the stomach can extract good from the food taken. Pain after eating is the way the stomach signifies its protest, that it is too weak to work; to take purgatives is only to agravate the mischief.

New strength is given to weak stomachs by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, because these Pills enrich and purify the blood supply. This is the natural process of giving strength and tone to the stomach and it accounts for the many cures of indiges- tion and stomach disorders that are due to Dr. Williams' Pink Pille,

From the very first the appetita revives; then food can be taken without pain, and the burden of

en of indigestion is steadily dispelled.

Begin to improve your digestion to-day by starting Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. All dealers sell them, but be firm in refusing substitutes; or send $1.50 for one bettle, $8.00 for six, to the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 90, Szechuen, Road, Shanghai.

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tional Shares be disposed of by the Society's Board of Directors in such manner as such Board shall think most "beneficial to the Society. 8

(2) That Article Society'a Articles of Association which

"now reads:-

of the

go from all parts of the world, It is siso very noticeable that foreign-owned Ife, These are carrying timber from the St. Lawrence, the West Coast of America, and other parts, and are arriving quis frequently on the Clyde and eleswhere The sailer will, no doubt, soon fall back ir to its position of tenth rate importance

when once the steamer comes to its own again; but we cannot assume that the for eign-owned steamer will also retire auto netically to make way for the British. There will be far keeper international

HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS.

CORPS ORDERS WY LIEUT-COS, A. CHAPMAN, V.D.

LEAVE..

1-Sapper S Hamer is granted leave of absence from 1st January, 1918, to ist January, 1917.

FROMOTIONS.

2-2nd-Cpl. D. Austin, Engineer Co., to ho Corporal, dated 14th December,

1915.

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2nd-CplJR-Kinghorn, Engineer Co., to be Corporal, dated 14th December 1916. Te-Op A Davidson, Engineer Co. to be 2nd-Cerpl., dated 14th December, 1915.

Le Cpl. 5. Jex, Engineer Company, to be 2nd-Corp., dated 14th December, 1915.

Sapper T. F. O'Sullivan, Engineer Co., to be Le, Corp., dated 14th December,

1915.

FARADES.

3-Parades for Tuesday, 21st inst.:-

7 a.m. Members of Signalling Section and other Signallers, as detailed in Signalling Section Order, dated St December, 1915, Merso flag practice at Headquarters,

5.10 p.m. Centre Section M.G. Co.

Machine Gun drill at Kowloon Docks. Launch leaves Statue Pior, nt14.30 p.m-

dull at Head-

5.16 p.m. Nos. 1 and 2 Sections Artil

par. lory Battery, 10 quarters. Sergeant Bradley will attend,

5.15 p.m. Right Section 31.6. Co., Section drill and Musketry exercises on Cricket Ground.

5.15 p.m. Left Section M.G. Co., Machine Gun drill at Headquarters. 6.16 p.m. No. 1. Section Stouts Co., Bayonet fighting at Headquarters. 5.15 p.m. Nos. 2, 3, and 4 Sectious Scouts Co., Drill on Cricket Ground. 5.15 pm. Civil Service Co., Drill as

Headquarters.

6.16. p. Recruits of all units (except Right Section M.G. Co. and Sig Section), Squad drill and Rifle exer- cises at Headquarters under 6. M. Higby..

6.10 p.m. Stretcher Bearer Section,

Instruction at Headquarters.

DETAYIM

4.Gan Club Hill, Kowloon:-

On duty until morning of 26th inst.:

H.K.V.R..

Noxt for duty: Right Sestion M.G, Co. Officer on duty: Lieut. Kennett P. of W. Camp, Kowloon,

On duty until morning of 26th inst. i

H.K.V.R..

NEXT FOR DUTY AND OFFICER ON DUTY. December 26th, Scouts Co.

Capt

Stewart,

December 27th, Scouts Co.: Lieut.

Weall

December 28th, Scouts Co: Lieut.

Murphy.

December 20th, Centre Seosion M.G.

Co., Lieut. Wright, December 30th, Civil Servies Cu

Lieut, Lindsell.

December 31st, No, 2 Section Artillery

Battery, Lieut. Danby, January 1st, No. 1 Section Artillery Battery and Left Section M.G. Co. Capt. Armstrong

Orderly Sergeant from December 28th to January 2nd: Corpl. W. Brown,

G. E. STEWART, Uspt.,

Adjutant, K.V.O. HONGKONG VOLUNTEER RESERVES. ORDERA ÉT MAJOR WAKEMAN, '0.0), BET.R.

What the Germans described as a 'oor- ridor-the passage through the Balkans to tuit, or a reservoir, for any forces with drawn from the Eastern or Western thes tre must weaken those centres without really helping the Ottoman Power. It was agreed that munitions might be sent

A wunitions were far loss important than through to Turkey, but in the long run. soon. Even if Germany were to secus the land route to Asia, success in the ent would stiil, as all history has shown, be in

the hands of the maritime Power,

As

Htories which she had conquered, with a many must call for men to hold the terri- diminishing supply on which to draw, en increasing force to oppose them, while the Allies could place in the field

before it, and the cheaply-operated foreign tramp will not be ousted all at once. may not have come to stay, but perhaps he thinks he has, and that means a great Qcal-Fairplay.

CANADIAN WAR HERO. SANG WHILE HIS ARM WAS

BEING AMPUTATED.

(9.) The Society shall have a first and paramount lien upon all the * Shares Registered in the name of each Shareholder (whether solely or jointly with otlion) and upon the proceeds of sale thereof; for

Sergeant Wells, a Cadian who lost an his debts, liabilities and engage ments, and solely or jointly with arm as the result of wounds received in any other person, to or with the Flanders, has arrived at his home in Van Society, whether the period for the

payment, fulfilment, or discharge couver (says Central News Montreal mes thereof shall have actually arrived sage), having been exchanged after spend

not, and no equitable interest in

or

Saxony.sk

any Share shall be created excepting four months in a prisoners' camp in

the footing and condition that Clause 142 horect is to have full effect. And such lien shall extend to all Dividends from time to time declared in respect of such Shares (3.) That after Article No. 34 of the Society's Articles of Association the following new Article be inserted as Article No. 34a:---

Hongkong, 20th December, 1915. Extract from Routine Order No. 365, Mon-

day, 20th December, 1915.

REGIMENTAL COUET-MARTIA).

Regimental Court-Martial, composed as under, will assemble at the Volunteer Headquarters, Garden Road, at 10,90 a.m., on Tuesday, the 21st instant, for the purpose of trying by Regimental Court-Martial No. 330 Corporal Georgs Martin, Hongkong Volunteer Reserve, and such other accused as may be brought before it

YBESIDENT. Major B. F. Currie, 87th Co., B.Q.A.

MEMBERS Captain C. Champkin, Calcutta Volunteer

Rifles, attached H.K.V.R.

A. Bubaltern, it K:S.L.I: (with not less

than one year Commissioned Service).

G. K. H. Baurros, Capt.,

Adjutant, H.K.Y.R.

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

MUSKETEY COURSE, PALT Í.

Part I. of the Musketry Course having closed on Sunday, December 19th, the M.I. reports the following highest

acores:

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BBST ÉN THE CORPS ON THE STAFT. Inspector Sirdar Khan Sergeant-Major Roylance. Inspector McEwan

Musky Inspector Chincher

No. 100 lar AND 2ND PLATOONS. Inspector Lammert P-0. Butterfield Ps. Penning- Pe. W. F. Ford P. Macdonald -

When he was found by the Germans on the battlefield he was taken to a tempo. ary dressing station, and there met a young German officer who was very kind. He told me that the Canadians were brave men, and I thanked him for his raise, gays Bergeant Wells," where upon be ordered some of his men to tako. (348) Bave as herein otherwise pro me further back in an ambulance, so that vided the Society shall be entitled I should be out of the gas, the use of which to treat the Registered Holder of he had deplored to me as not being war any Share as the absolute owner fare as he understood it.

over, but ther

*except as ordered by a Court of

competent jurisdiction,

or as by party had only got out of sight when they ordered me out with Walk, yon Cana diam pig1 and when I saw those bayonote I walked.**

** Ordinance required, be bound

recognise any equitable or other claim to or interest in such Bhare

The wounded man was put in hospital on the part of any other Person, Firm, Company or Corporation. at Roulers, where his arm was amputate (4.) That the heading of Articles The German gas having weakened his No. 35 to 100 (inclusive) of the tent; it was not thought wise to give him "There was a little Belgian Society's Artic #ing the

is

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of Association read. chieroform,

be altered so in," he anys, acting as a nurse, and to Ice the General Manager and while the doctor sawed she took my hand,

that in the last-mentioned Articles and in broker English said: You sing (No. 85 to 100 inclusive) wherever the What you sing? Maybe God be with "word Becretary appears such word

be eliminated and that in lieu thereof you till we meet again,

the words General Manager before been beautiful music, but she held a inserted."

(5.) That in the following Articles "of the Society's Articles of Association,

"And holding her hand I sang. It must

to my hand and I yelled the hymn from

3RD AND 4TH FLATOONS, Sergeant Khawes Khan P, c. K; Hoosain. P.-c. D. Rúmjahn

NO. 2 COMPANY, Po. P. Roza***** Po, F. M. Cruz Bergeant F Ribeiro Sergeant P. 0. Rorario Pc. C. A P. Xavier

NO. 3 COMPACT, I..e. Wong Cho Tổng than 0.1 Sergeant Chow Pak Tim POwen Chan Sergeant James Wong

8282 CREEA FOR PR228 229

F. C. JENKIN,

D.S.P. (Reserve).

ZEEBRUGGE HARBOUR CHOKED WITH SAND

The Society shall have a first and paramount len upon all the Shares of any Shareholder for all monies due to the Society either from him alone or jointly with any other person and where a Share is held"

first verse to chorus and back again That According to the Beko Belge, the har by more persons than one the Society shall have a lien thereon in respect of all monica so due to itziz.Articles Nos, 9, 7, 15, 36, 46, 47, little nun was afterwards sent by her supe-bour of Zeebrugge, which the Germans

53, 55, 84, 94, 183, and 129 the words to the Danish West Indies, and when wanted to transform into a naval base, she got as far as New York the first thing from all

***Secretary wherever it occurs be thereof.

be other telling her all about me and how eliminated and that in lieu thereof the she did was to send a long letter to my words General Manager

Thad got through the operation.” "inserted."

of the holders or any o be eliminated in its entirety and that "in heu thereof the following new Article be inserted as Article No. 9:

completely choked up with and as a resuat sary work. The harbour will remain un- servicosble for a long time. of the lack of men to continue the neces