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THE
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Agents Hongkong, 26th May, 1915.
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HOUSES TO LET -
TO LET
DREMISES at present occupied by CHS. J.GAUFF & Co., Alexandra Buildings, Chater RoadS Appizon premises or to
LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS,
Liquidators.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the EIGHTEENTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MELTING of this Company will be held at the Officer of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., Lrn, on THURSDAY, the 1st of June, 1910, a Nons, for the purpose of
receiving the Report of the Directors together with Statement of A
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counte to 30th April,
Com The RESHARES of the
te N Tennis Court, Within 10 minutes of pany
will
1 of the Season will be hold 2HANY the 27th May, to THURSDAY, the 1st June, Tran
VALLET 10-MORROW (SATURDAY), the 27th instant, commencing at 3.48 E.M
The Charge of Admission will be $1 for others than Members of the HONGONG JQUERY CLUB or GTMKHANA CLUB.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform Half-Price. The Committes luvite the Ladies of Hongkong to be present.
Hongkong, 24th May, 1916.
NOTICE
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TE HAVE This Day authorised ME.
the name of our Firm in Hongkong and
China, CA AN
We have This Day authorised Mr.
1916, melusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
PHILIP R. WOLFF, Acting Secretary. Hongkong, 20th May, 1916
722
01% RUSSIAN INTERNAL SHORT TERMED LOAN OF 1918
for Rbls. 2,000,000,000,
THE Public is hereby informed
that the Subscription List to the above LOAN will be Closed
TO LET FURNISHED.
70. 5, THE PEAK SIX ROOMS and
Apply..
INTIMATION
WATSON'S
FINEST OLD
Mr. AsQUITH pointed out, the Poles have inconvenience to neutral trade. They are already had some illuminating experi- prepared to justify the legality of all ences as to what is meant in Berlin by the measures they have taken as covered free evolution along the lines of the by the principles and spirit of inter- mother tongue." The attempt to Gernational law applied to the developments manize Prussian Poland has been for of modern wae. They have been carried out with the strictest regard to humanity, the last 20 years at once the strenuous purpose and the colossal failure of Prus and, added Mr. AgqUITH, "we are not of the Allies' sino domestic policy. The use of the Polish aware of a single instance of a neutral
in schools was restricted until life lost by language
blockade." it was only allowed for religious instrne
With great ingenuity Herr BETHMANN- tion, and finally even this concession was
стедкол
BRANDY withdrawn and the little Polish children How endeavoured further to enlist
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1. A. LAMMERT.
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QUALITY
FFICES on 1st Floor, No. 9, Queen's
Los Central (In Ice House Street). Apply to
WILKINSON & GRIST
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FFICES on 1st Floor, No. 3, Queen's Road
GEORGE MASON LAKIN to Sign the on 26th May, 1916, and not 28 Central, at present in the occupation of
nsing of our Firm by Procuration in
Hongkong and China.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & C Hongkong, th May, 1910.
NOTICE.
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THE Underaigne having acquired the interest in the Von Riegen," Fatent As the "ECLIPSE" PATENT FIREBRIDGE Firebridge Bar, it will henceforth be known.
BAR.
from:
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ON HIS MAJESTYS SERVICE": TENDERS are invited for the Supply. of CARPENTERS, PLATERS, CAULIERS, PLUMBERS and SHOEMAKERS to H.3. Naval Yard.
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Forms of Tender can be obtained at the Chief Constructor's Office, H.M. Naval Yard, Hongkong and should be filled in and returned as indicated in Tender Form not 8th June, later than Noos, THURSDAY, 1916.
C. DJ BELL Chief Constructor.
1.M. Dockyard,
Hongkong, 18th May, 1916,
PUBLIC AUCTION.
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HE Undersigned has received instructieus
to sell by Public Auction,
ON MONDAY.
the 20th May, 1918, commencing at 11 AM at the Toyo Kisen Kaisha's Godown (and afterwards at Messrs. H. Scott & Co.'s Godown) Kennedy Town,
SUNDRY SHIP'S GEAR, eX 28. "CHIYO MALU
Comprising
Steam Winches, Boat Davits, Brass port scuttles and frames, Brass Saloon window frames and windows, Electric Fans and Laps, Copper whistle and syren, Brass signal gun, Engine Room telegraphs and compasses, Electric water tight shutter box, Copper and Brass Steam Pipes, etc., etc.,
and
One Searchlight
N.B. Further sales will be notified inter. Ou View from FRIDAY, the 26th inst. Latalogues on application. Terms--Cash on delivery.
GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.
Hongkong, 20th May, 1918.
1719
PUBLIC AUCTION. HEUndersigned has received instructions
to sell by Public Auction,
TH
ON WEDNESDAY
the 31st May, 1916, commencing at 11 AM, at the Toyo Kisen Knisha's Godown (and afterwards at Messrs H. Skott & Co.'s. Godown), Kennedy Town
SUNDRY SHIPS GEAR
FURNITURE
ex 8.5. "CHIYO MAR","
Comprising
AND
Leather Lovered Armchairs, Revolving Baloon Chairs on Iron Frames Wooden Folding Chairs, Nickelled Brass Bedsteads, Iron Bunk Frames and Mattremes, Patent Fokling Wishstands, Oak Writing and Centre Tables Mirrors, Coloured Glass and Carpets, Windows,
s Ruga eta.
ete On View from MONDAY, the 29th inst Catalogues on application TERMS: Cash on delivery
GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.
Hongkong, 24th May, 1916,
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FOR SALE.
VERTICAL MARINE
ONENGINES With three cylinders of
35 inches, 24 inches and 40 inches diameter, with Condenser and Pumps, complete. Also three bilge directing boxes, one reducing valve, two discharge
one set double asfety valves, one steam distributing valve chest with valves, one bulkhead flange for one main injection valve, and one spare condenser door, all having been formerly used in onnection with the afore said engines Built in
Bad been in use
1,083
In 3004
only 141b-Self-Hardering Steet. 1,877 1ha-LA. Turning Steel 926 lbs Oval Chisel Steel
800 lb Bound Punching or Turning
Steel
and
One hundred Kilos Metal Packing,
Open to Offers ME
For further particulars, apply to
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
4, Duddell Street.
heretofore advertised.
The terms are as under
The Price of issue is 95%
The Loan is entirely free of Income Tax and of other taxations.
The Loan is redeemable at par on 1st February, 1926, Russian style, without option for the Russian Government to convert it at sa sarlier date.
The China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
Apply to * -
CHINA FIRE INSURANCE Co., LTD.
TO LET
BUILDINGS. Reasonable rent,” ̈ Apply to
THE UNION TRADING Co.,
6, Queen's Buildingi.**
1874
Chupona are payable half-yearly on the Est interest on the above Loan runs from 1st/14th February and 1st August, Russian style. As OFICES in SECOND FLOOR, & IHEN'S February, the interest accrued on date of subscription must be taken into considera- of issue. tion and is to be added to the price
The Russo ASIATIC BANK in Hongkong in named Loan. ready to accept applications for the above- for Special favourable rates will be
be quoted Russian exchange,
Payment may also be made in Roubles.
TO LET
Applications will be wired to Fetrograd OFFICES in Princes Building
free of telegraphic charges and commission.
40% only of the coat of the Bonds may be paid on application, the balance to be paid on receipt of the Bonds.
fire or
The Bank is also ready to give every facility to subscribers in the shape of advances against the scrips.
G. TISDALL, Manager, RUSSO-ASIATIC BANK.
Hongkong, 15th May, 1916.
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE,
G. PRIEN
HILL BERGDABL & CO., F. LORRIA (IN-LIQUIDATION),
Brown Brandy
Apply to
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AVENSHILL EAST, Pak Boad,
A. S. WATSON Bontaining 0 Rooms, 3 Bath Boome, CO., LTD.,
02 R
Bervante' Quarters, &c. Vadani 1st November.
REDITORS are required to send in their
Claims against the above to the Under signed, No. 5, Queen's Road Central, on or before WEDNESDAY, the 31st May, 1016.
Dated the 12th May, 1916,
J. HENNESSEY SETH, ASAA,
Liquidator.
TO LET.
TO NO. 5. MOUNTAIN VIEW, PRAL
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BOOMED FLAT to let at the PEAK. KELLETT CREST, 65, PRAK No. 141. WANCHAI EOAD, Large und Spanions Godowa.
"SHORNCLIFFE," Garden Road, to let Furnished, 6 Rooms,
"WOODBURY," No. 4. Hankow Bond, Kowloon, from 1st May, 1916,
GLENSHIEL, No. 141, Plantation Boad, Peak from 1st November, 2015.
Austin Boad, Kowloon, HARTING." No. 8 BELILIOS TERRACE No. 35, BELILIOS TERRACE, with entrance on Condals Road
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NOW ON SALE.
THE
DIRECTORY
AND
had to learn to say their prayers in German. The wholesale strike of the children, theo barbarous floggings that were inflicted on them, the arwats and imprisonment of their mothers, form a black chapter even in the annals of Prussian culture, It is with this record that the Chancellor sheds tears ever the fate of what he calle the long-suppress
the sympathies of neutral nations and strengthen the resistance of his own people by distorting Mr. AsquITH's utter
a
He made a great point of the fact that on December 9th ho declared Germany's readiness to talk about peace. His actual words on the occasion referred to were? “If I am to speak of peace proposals- I -
ance in regard to the terms of peace.
ed Flemish race, and declares it to best first see the peace proposals of our the future mission of Germany to secure enemies. If our enemies come to me with peace proposals proper to the digni for them a sound evolution bused on their mother tongue. What, I wonder, ty and assuring the safety of Germany, do the Flemish race themselves think of the we are always ready to discuss them the prospect which is so opened out to "What, therefore, the Chancellor means them? The Chancellor goes on to say by a readiness on his part to enter inte that after the war there must be a negotiations," commented Mr. AsquITH. is that the initiative should come from Belgium which is not to be a Franco English vassal, but between whose people and the decision rest with him. In and the Germans who have burnt their other words, we are to assume the atti- churches and pillaged their towns and tude of a defeated to a victorious ad- versary. But we are not defeated and laid waste their fields and trampled on
we are not going to be defeated." De- their liberties there is to be in the future. the_collaboration of neighbours Aapite the arrogance of his attitude, how- new development, indeed, of the theory ever, the Chancellor is aggrieved because of the rights and duties of neighbour the Allies have shown no disposition to avail themselves of his magnanimous hood! My answer is a very simple one. We, the Allies, desire and are determined offer. With Mr. Asquera, indeed, he is to see once again the old Belgium. She highly indignant for insisting upon. must not be allowed to sufer permanent ly from the wanton and wicked invasion of her freedom, and that which has been broken down must be repaired and
restored."
the complete and final destruction of the military power of Prussia as the preliminary condition of all peace nego- tiations." This meant that "united and Free (1) Germany' was again to become
The Chancellor's justification of the impotent as in former centuries, ex- campaign offrightfulness at sea as posed to every lust for power on the park “a legitimate measure of self-defence of its neighbours, the whipping boy of against the attempt of Germany's Europe, bound in fettera still after the enemies to obtain by "starvation and war as regards the development of What Mr. blockade what they could not achieve by its economie “strength.”
APP DEACON, LOOKER DEACON & WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. their arms" was destroyed by his own ASQUITH did say as für back as Novem-
HARSTON.
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The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, S6TH MAY, 1916,
MR. ASQUITH AND THE GERMAN CHANCELLOR.
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admissions, For he went on to declare,ber, 1814, was that we should not sheathe in a spirit of braggadocio, that the the word until the military domination German people possessed perfectly of Prussia was wholly and finally gigantic moral reserve," that enabled it destroyed." That is to say, as a result to diminish the standard of life, which of the way we intend to establish the Chad greatly risen in the last decades. principle that international problems Nothing would be achieved by the enemy must he handled by free negotiation on if Germany bad for the time to return, equal terms between free peoples, and as regards consumption of meat and that this settlement shall no longer be other conditions of life, to the state of hampered and swayed by the over master- things which existed in the 'seventies. :ing dictation of a Government controlled. The enemy should remember that the men hy a military caste." Great Britain and of 1870 were ** strong. enough to distribute France, added ASQUITH, entered the strong blows. In other words, the Ger- war not to strangle Germany, not to wipe- mans are in no danger of being starved. her ell the map of Europe, not to destroy The Chancellor proceeded to attack Eng or matilats her national life, certainly land and her Allies for their indifference not to interfere with (to use the Chan- to “the rights of neutrals in legitimate cellor's language) the free exercise of trade and traffe with the Central_her_peaceful endeavours. We were European States. He complained that driven to take up arms in order to pres England had not shrunk even from vent Germany (which for this purpose forbidding the humans efforts of Ameri- means Prussia) from establishing a posí can philanthropists, such as the efforts tion of military menace and dominange to soud milk to German children over her neighbours. We know, of course, from Lord ROBERT CECIL that this talk about the shortage of milk is cant and humbug, because the Germans have plenty of dairy cattle of their own, to say nothing of those which they filched from Belgium without any
Kowloon residents are not to lack amusement during the summer nights, concern for the children of that country
open-air Milk, it may be explained in parenthesis can be used for making nitro-glycerine for we understand that an The hollowness of Germany's laboured cinema is to be established on a piece excuses for her gets or piracy of land near Chatham Roadies numerously signed petition was sent to the Government by the Kowloon resid
On the occasion of the dinner at which the Government entertained the French Benators and Deputies in London last month, Mr. ABQUITH delivered a crush- ing and categorical reply to the hypocritical speech which the German Imperial Chancellor had made a few days previously in the Reichstag un the subject of the war Her BERMAKN-HOLLWEEG sought, by an elaborate travesty of the facts, to repre- sent Germany as an injured innocent, who did not want this war, but, having had it forced upon her by the Just for power on the part of her neigh bours, is now playing the role of the saviour of Europe. Germany, he de. clared, would never again of her free will
ASQUITH,
clearly revealed by Mr who reminded his audience
that
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surrender to the rule of reactionary Russia the peoples who have been liber
the German submarine blockade of Great ents, as a result of which the Governor ated by Germany and her Allies between
Britain was in fact commenced and de-in-Council has given the required per- the Baltic Sea and the Volhynian veloped long before our Order-in-Council: mission swamps, be they Poles, Lithuanians, of March, 1915, Among other instances, We are informed that arrangements Balts, or Letts! This determination
the Dutch resuel Maria and the American have been made with the Humphrey was evidently not due to valtruistic vessel the W. P. Frue, both carrying food Bishop Co. to give an entertainment in to the British Isles, were sunk respec the theatre of the Peak Club on Monday muživos, but was dictated by a desire to
1915 On February 4th, 1915, the German Government depared their intention of instituting a general submarine blockade of the United Kingdom with the avowed purpose of cutting off all our overseas supplies. It was not till March 11th
CHRONICLES prevent Russia, with the aid of French tively in September, 1914, and January, next at 9.30 pm, when a specially
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gold, from using the land of the Vistula as a gate of invision and falling upon unprotected Germany." Poland after
the war will be a new Poland. In the West, too, Germany will create for her- self guarantees that Belgium shall not
that we announced those measures
selected programme will be performed, Tickets $2, available for members and their friends, may now he had at the Peak Club. The Cinematograph enter- tainment advertised for the 2nd June bas
been postponed till the 9th idem,
bo zpade into an Anglo-French vassal State and a military and economic bul against German trade which the Chan- At the Magistracy yesterday a Chinese. wark against Germany
ay." Germany cancellor now suggests were the cause of named Tam Chilk, manager of the King not again give over to Latinization the
the German submarine policy. In adopt. On firm, of Wing Kut Street, was sum long-oppressed Flemish race. Are we ing and pursuing a policy of economic moned by the Superintendent of Imports
at 1, Connaught Road
Hot even now striving to restore the life pressure the Allies are, of course, exer and Exports for importing 22 bags of rice without a permit Mr. Lloyd, OFFICES in King Bailding
Cising belligerent right expressly who prosecuted, mid the Crown Solicitor HOUSE CLIFTON GARDENS, of the country as far as war allows!"
oxclaimed the Chancellor, with a fine consanctioned by the two greatest German wanted a day fixed to argue the legal Condatt Boud.
aspect of the case. The whole point No. 1 HILLSIDE" THE PIAK jedley, 26
tempt for the fact that millions of Bel-
Chancellors, BISMARCK and CAPELYI Teemed to be concerned with the defini WEST END TERRACE,gians are being kept alive by the charit cognized by every fighting Power in taction of the word "import The Magi
able contributions of other nations Old World and the New, and they have trate decided that they should go Berrier Chanthate with the evidence and deal with the because the country has been denuded of endeavoured and are endeavouring law afterwards, and after evidence had
mitigate as far as possible the resulting been called the case was remanded. everything by the brutal invader.
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