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[719 May, 1916

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Nasmuch as it desirables & Arrend the 31st May, 1916, commencing at 11 AM. the Articles of tion providing for the

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Non-playing Members and in certain other respects, an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Club will be held at the Club House, Happy Valley, ou MONDAY, the 5th day of June, 1910, at 6.30 o'clock in the afternoon. when the Subjoined Resoln- tions will be proposed les of Asia

1. That article 18 of the articles-of associa tion of the Club he altered by adding after the word Resident in the first line the word "Pinying and after the word “and in the saine line the words "Non playing and."

2. That article 10 of the articles of associa

at the Toyu Kisen Kaisha's Godown (and afterwards at Messrs. H. Skott & Cos Godown), Kennedy Town, SUNDRY SHIP'S GEAR AND FURNITURE

ex MB. CHIYO MARY"

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Centre Tables, Mirrors Coloured Glass

tion be struck out and the following article ows Mattresses, Rugs and Carpets,

substituted:

The subscription for a Resident Playing "Member shall be 85 zmonth and for Non-playing Member. 32 per month payable on the let day of each month “in advance or such other sum as may "from time to time be determined at a "General Meeting of the Club,

3. That article 24 of the articles of associa tion be struck out and the following Artiolo substituted:

No member shall participate in any of “the advantages of the Club or vote upon “any question if he is liable to be posted under the Articles or Byelaws of the "Clubs for the time being in force." That article 23 of the articles of associu tion be altered

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shaft, que misin injection valve, and one econd line, by spare condenser

connection with the afore formerly used in con, all having been

"April" for substituting the word chest with valves, ono bulkhead flauge for

and 1910 for 1913"

in the

and "85" for "84" adding after the word

third line "or such other sum, as may

time to time be describined at 740 said engines- Built in 1904 and been in use"

Meeting of the Club" and adding at the end of the article or such other sum as the committee my from time to time determine."

4. That article 37 bo altered by adding after the word “Visitors”in the second line the words "not being residents in the Colcay" and altering the

in the seventh gare line to the figuro **5..

Any Resolutions which may be passed by the required majority. will be submitted for confirmation" as Special Revolutions to a Second Extinordinary Meeting which will be subsequently convened.

Dated the Twenty-Seventh day of May 1916

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to which the German Chancellor is pecu liarly addicted. We cannot credit him with the shortness of memory required to forget, the number of women and children. that his country has already done to death in thr's war to forget the sinking of the Lusitania and of the Perma, the Zeppelin raids or the execution of EDITA CAVELL His Own Government having CONSIGNMENT perpetrated horrors which it would re quire u kern: search of history to equal, be has the braven offrontery to charge bia foes with the very crime of which his country is guilty. No serene minded neutral," he says, "no matter whether he Invours us or not, can doubt our right to defend ourselves against this

of starvation, which is contrary to interna tional law" He failed to state, however, when it was that the cutting-off of sup plies to a beleaguered city or a beleaguer ed country became contrary to interna tional law; it was, of course, not con

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mans starved Paris into surrender. But, this sudden tenderness for international

The name of Mr. A. D. Keigwin has been added to the list of authorised archi teots in Hongkong.

The King has been pleased to approve. of Beflor Don Anibal Puccio as Consul of

Pora at Hongkong.

A meeting of the Sanitary Board is called for to-morrow. The agenda coa- tains purely formal business.

HE the Clovernor has appointed Mr. Herbert George Hegarty to be 2nd Lieut. in the Scouts Company of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps.

Mr. R. A. C. North has been appointed to net as Scoretary to the Licensing Board during the absence on leave of Mr. George Albert Woodcock, or until further notice.

Mr. Fred Taylor, inspector of eith at Hongkong dockyard, has arrived homs to take up a similar appointment at Pent broke Dock, South Wales. He was at

Pembroke Dock before coming to Hồng

kong.

Mr. S. Bheba, editor of a Japanese

OLD TOM low, in view of the use of poisonous sur daily paper published in Honolula, has

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THE COMMODIOUS. DWELLING HOUSE, With Offions, Servants' Quarters; elog No. 14, SHAMEEN, CANTON, from 1st June, at prosent in the occupation of the Imperial Russian Consolate.

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thousand of type characters used by invented a machine designed to set the

Japanese and Chinese printers. He has also inventod a system for classifying the 5,000 characters used into about 100 units

An engagement is announced between Osborne Robert Sacheverell Bateman, Slogapore Rifles, and Secretory Singa- pore Chamber of Commerce, and Jeaneste Margaret Graham, younger daughter of A. H. Cooper, W.S., 54, Manor-place, Edinburgh, and West Glenturret, Perth-

shire.

Salvage work was begun on the 22nd inst. at the Carlowitz godown at Por- tang which was destroyed by fire. Messrs. Funder & Co. are undertaking the work, and it is thought that a large amount of recoverable cotton will be salved from beneath the debris, which is many feet... deep (says the N.-C. Daily News)

on the battlefield and the sinking of Issenger zbips without warning, is only another exhibition of the Chancellor hypocrisy. A more interesting point is as to Germany's right to defend herself against this war of starvation." No one would deny this right. The only way, how in which Germany can re- move the blockade is to gain possession of Does the most sanguine opti. &mist in Gmany think for one moment that this can be done by torpedoing

passenger ships of the Allina

the commerce of her enemies cannot help Germany's starv ing women and children, nor will they give Germany the command of the seas. This can only be gained by the destruc tion of the British Navy, a task which Germany shows a strong disinclination to attempt, in spite of a few initial suc Cesses.

The real arm of defence" of Germany is not being used. Instead, she is making use of certain weapons of

Mrs. A. M. Chalmers, wife of the Bri- offence, apparently with the intention of

tish Consul-General at Yokohama, has. doing to the enemy that which she now

bern injured in a motor car accident near pretends to regard as opposed to interna

Kapama Tomioka. The party, which included the tional law, though she was the first to declare a blockade of foodstuffs

Consal-General and Captain Rymers, H.B.M. Naval Attache, was passing an Indeed, as further evidence of the Chun- cellor's hypocrisy, we recall that incline, when the wheels skidded, throw- only recently he was attributing thing the machine off the road.. Mr Chal- HERE BAIRD At Geneva, on April 10th, rise in prices in England to the raids

mere escaped with slight injuries, FRANCIS CHARLER HERB, of Canton, to

nude on British shipping, evidently The engagement is announced between Gladys Muriel, daughter of late JAMES and Mrs. BAIRD, Glasgow.looking forward to the time when British Lieutenant-Commander Philip Shepherd, MABON WAVELLAt H.BM Consulate, women and children would be starving.R.N., and R.N.A.S. Ron of the late Mr. Shanghai, on May 23rd, and after There can be no doubt that if Germany George Shepherd, of The. Poplars, wards at Holy Trinity Cathedral,

were in Britain's position she would Bishopthorpe, York, and Miss Jessie Anne STANLEY, Joungest son of Alderman R. MASON and Mrs. MASON, of Whiteley follow exactly the same policy that Campbell, only daughter of the late Mr. Bay, Northumberland, to Marjorie

Britain is now following, and probably Donald Campbell, Kalmeta, Connel Ar- BLANOHE Second daughter of Mr. and Mr. STANLEY WAVELL, late of Caris facrcituate it by those outrages and gyll, and niece of Mr. Alexander Camp brooke, Isle of Wight

exhibitions of frightfulness of which bell, St. Brannocks, Eastbourne, and PEMWEMADEATHS.

she has ahow herself a master.. The FERGUSON. On May 22nd, Doctor

LUTHER M. Fenduson, US Army Allies are not making war against the Medical Corps, videst son of. Dr. women and children of Germany; they JOHN C. FERGUSON, of Peking, as the are making war against the German result of severe injuries. (By cable.) Army and against the men who have MCCRONE-At No. 2, Kingping Rond, used it to acrve their ambitions. If the

Shanghai, on May 22nd, ISOBELLA,

German Governunt deprives the women the beloved wife of W. D. McCZONE

and children of food in order to feed tha (Shanghai Dock and Engineering Army, the crime of starving the women Co. Ltd.), aged 46 years.

and children must be laid at its doors, and all the evidence goes to show that this is what is happening that the army

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The Daily Press.

HONGKONG EDIR MAY, 1916

GERMAN HYPOCRISY.

Shanghai)

The marriage between Captain Clauds Stewart Jackson, Coldstream Guards, youngest son of the Into Sir Thomas Jack-

son, Bart., and Lady Juckson, of Stan- sted House, Eas0s, and Laura Emily, ascond daughter of the Hon. William Pearson and Mrs. Pearson, of Victoria.

is being well fed at the expense of the Australia, was a arranged to take place civilian population, just as Germany is

starving the people of Belgium in the very quietly at the Brompton Parisa interests of the Army of Occupation. Lei Church on Saturday, May 6th.

u take inother instance of the Chiu-

cellor's suppression of the truth The We wnderstand (says the 30 Daily forces which before the war houndtres) that Mr. H. P. Wilkinson has been gether, the anti Gerumn coalition,” he

says, " were the lust of the conquerori, appointed Judge of the High Cout at the lust of revenge, and jealousy against Weihaiwei, the reason for his appoint the German competition in the world's

markets? How did the Chancellor arrive ment being his experience of Chiness at these remarkable deductions? Evident affairs. The post is to be held in conjunc ly by suppressing all the facts preceding

DR. BETHMANN HOLLWEG, the German Chancellor, is probably the most skill the war. Where was the lust of the tion with his duties of Crown-Advocats apologist now living. If a stranger from for a Continental invasion; in France, appointed to undertake the duties of conqueror in Britain, which had no army for China. Mr. A. C. Mossop has heen

another world wore to visit this planetmittedly imperfect, in Russia, which was Crown Advocato for the Territory,

where the military organisation was ad and receive bis frat impressions of the largely dependent upon Germany for her war from the lips of the German Chan war materials? Surely, if the lust of the Admiral A G. Winterhalter, Com cellor, he would infallibly form the idea conqueror reigned in these three countiander-in-Chief of the American Asiatic- that the other nations of Europe ha Germany could not at first discover it. Ficet, has been presented by Cantonese tries it was so well concealed that even

Would Germany have gone to war so guilds in Shanghai with a magnificont formed a conspiracy to crush Germany readily if this imaginary lust of the mainly out of eney for her success, and that Germany was in reality engaged in a struggle for the liberation of oppressed nationalities. How is this result achiev ed? Dr. PETHMANN-HOLIWRO is far too skilful a dialectician to indulge in the direct lie. His method is rather to sup against him press the truth, when it tells and to stretch it when it is in his favour, Take, for example, his discussion of the question of starving-out Germany. - W. need not quarrel with his cheery assur ance that the Allies have entered upon an impossible task; but when he plays to the gallery by saying that the enemy's intention is to extend the war

A

conqueror had heen practically man silver cup weighing 44 lb, "in memory of fested in the way that Germany has been the remarkable exertions made by the manifesting it for the last twenty or Fleet for the relief of the sufferers of the thirty years? The Chancellor's reference to the lust of revenge can only be great flood in Kwangteng Province in inken to refer to France, for neither 1916. The cup is to be a small arms Britain nor Russia had any cause to feel trophy to be shot for annually, and is to this passion. But if France was unpre pared to play the part of a con remain the permanent property of the queror, she was equally unprepared to give way to ang feeling of revenge, even if it existed, which we doubt. It was

Mr. William Entwistle of Aberdeen the German menace which kept alive the militarist feeling in France. As for University, son of the Rev. W. E Eat the feplouay of German competition in wistle, of Liuanchow, has taken his MA commerce, the evidence of German com

mercial activity in all the British degree, with first class honours in classics, Dominions and Colonies is a sufficient obtaining the Simpson prize of 263 and answer. It would be impossible to find a the Dr. Black prize of £28, which bad to single direction in which German trade be resigned, the Seafield Gold Medal for was discriminated against in the coun Lin,with distinctions in Comparative tries under British rule. Germans en Philology and Greek History: These suc British extraction, they had the advan- cessos carried with them a sizarship at ing them, some ugly memories recurfage of greater freedom than under their Cambridge University Mr. Entwistle, Hypocrisy is a vice which is rightly held own laws, and they were in no way ham who has now joined His Majesty's forces, in universal détestation, and it is

redzby restrictions out equally apple was educated at the C... Boodle Che cable to persons of other races,

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