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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

THE

HUMPHREY BISHOP CO.

(Assisted by MR. DENHAS FULLER)

INTIMATIONS

G.

WAR DEPARTMENT CONTRACTS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 4TH. 1916.17

EALED TENDERS will be received at

GRAND CONCERTS Headquarters Omoc, Victora Jarracks

I Am or

Hongkong, natil NooN on TUESDAY, 11th July, 1916, for the Supply of BetQUETTES, Woon, de, for a period of 6 months com-

Forms and

WAR BELIEF FUND

mencing 3st Auge particulars may be at BALL ROOM, GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

obtained personally between the hours of JULY, AT 9.2) P.AL, MONDAY, 10ra

10 A.M. and I rat or by letter to the D. A. D. Booking at Messrs. 3. MOURRIE & Co., LTD. Vitoria Barracks Hongkong, 4th July, 1916.

8.S.ATLANTIQUE,"

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COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES

MARITUMES.

NOTICE

MONSIGNEES of: Cargo from London

connection with above Steamer are hereby informed that their Goods with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables are being landed and etored at their risks into tho Fazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns st the and Kowloon Wharf and Godown

Hongkong owloon, wheuce delivery may be btained frumediately after landing.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unless fatimation is received from the Consignees bolore NOON TO-DAT, requesting it to be

Fanded bare

Each Tender must be properly filled up, signed and dated, and no Teuder will be considered unless made out on the proper form and delivered by 12 Noos on the above date in a closed envelope marked *TENDER FOR BRIQUETTES, WOOD, etc

The right to reject all or any Tenders specially reserved.

Hongkong, 1st July, 1016,

NOTICE

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THE 2 INTERNAL LOAN OF THE 3 YEAR OF THE CHINESE REPUBLIC (19)-4),

HOUSES TO LET

TO LET

FFICES on 1st Floor, No. 9. Qasen's

Bond Central (In Ios Honsa Street) Apply to

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FOURTH PAYMENT of INTEREST of the 2 INTERNAL LOAN OF THE 3RD YEAR OF THE CHINESE REPUBLIC (1914) will fall due on the 30th hof June of this year. With the exception of the detailed regulations, governing the payment of interest of the said Loan, which Inve been published in the Government information of the Fublic by all the establish Gazette and which Inve been printed for the

the following: Important Points are hereby ments authorised for the payment of interest,

published for general information:=

Bills of Lading will to countersigned by the Undersigned Goods remaining unclaimed after BUESDAY, the 5th July, af Nopy, will be mubject to rent and landing charges.

All Claims must be sent in to me on or before the 10th July, or they will not be recognized

All damaged packages will be examined on THURSDAY, the 6th July, at 10 AM.

No Fire Insurance has been effected.

WP. THOMAS,

Agent Hongkong, 30th June, 1916.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

THE F. &O, S. N. Co's StemDDE

*NANKIN,"

Arrived Hongkong on 3rd July, 1914, FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND

STRAITS

Consigneer of Cargo by the above-named amel are hereby informed that their goods are being landed and placed as THIE Rex in the Pongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godvers Company Gedowns at Kowloon, where • nob Consignment will be sorted out Bark by Mark ined re the Goods mes and can be obliged

fart

hain ressol brings on Cargo

From London, 40, ez as "Malwa,"

From Persian Gulf, er as B. 1.9. N. Mind B. & P. S. N. Co.'s Stemmere. Optional "Goode will be landed horavaleme instrtistions sie given to the contrary withia

Goode's

dayd

ls not cleared within 8 date of arrival will be anbjose to rent

including

No Fire Insurance, will be affected by me In any case whatever.

** Domsged phokage must be left in the Đồ downs for examination by the Consigneen, and the Company's Surveyors, leasra, Gordany & DOUGLAS, at 10 a... on MONDAY, "and. "THURSDAYS. All Cisima mnat be presentei within ten days of the simmer's mixival bers after which date they cannot be recognised No Clan will be admitted after the Gooda have left the GLÒOWER.Edge

EV. D. PARR Acting Superintenden

Hongkong, 3rd July, 1916

NOTICE

R.A. VIVIAN HOGG having Resigned

Ms position in our Firm, big Power

of Attorney" is withdrawn us from June 20th.

SARA REISS & CU

Hongkong, 1st July, 1016

NOTICE

HERE

WE HAVE This Day appointed J.

FRANCIS CHARLES Manager of our Canton Bruch, with power to Sign our pune by Procuration.

REISS & C

Hongkong, 1st July, 2016.

NOTICE:

TRATIVIAN HUGG. has joined our

Company as a Director as from the

1st June, 1916

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Canton, 1st July, 1910.

CHINA AND JAPAN TELEPHONE AND ELECTRIC CO., LTD.

NOTICE.

1. The date when the payment of interest

begins: the 30th June of the 5th year of the Chinese Republic

2. The organs authorised for the payment

of interest: ASANKEEPI

a. All Magistrate's

Yamens.

6. The Hend and Branch Offices of the BANK OF CHINA ând of the BANK OF COMMUNICATIONS, The Reliable Agents of the above,

mentioned two Banks

The methods for the claiming of interest: The Public when claiming for the interest must cut down the matured coupons and proceed to any of the above-mentioned organs with the said compons. The aid organs after examining the said coupons will then pay the interest and retain the compons so paid. But the holders of $1,000 Fonds and of 810,000 Bonds must not cut down the coupons themselves, as the said Bonds have to Je examined.

the orgaus

concerned.red as

The matured coupons can he used

cash in

duties. Pent of land tax and interest of the coupons is expressed in term of "Blg.

and if it is required to do converted into taels, or copper cash, then the rate of exchange for different dis tricts wil he decided and posted in conspicuous places by the various Financial

al Bureaux concerned.

The Public are requested to read over the detailed regulations governing the payment of interest, which are obtainable at all authorized organs above-mentioned.

By Order,

THE BUREAU OF NATIONAL LOANS

Poking, 10th June, 1916.

TO LET

SMALL GODOWN in PRINCES BUILDING

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665

in Knutsford Terrace,

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SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.

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1618

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THE CHINESE ENGINEERING AND MINING COMPANY, LIMITED.

6%% FIRST MORTGAGE DEFENTURES (KAILAN BONDS.)

●AYMENT" of the HALF-YEARLY INTEREST doo en 1st July, 1916 will

be made on presentation of Conpon No. 8 st any of the undermentioned Binki, Tix. :--

HONGXONG BRASOMAI BANK AL

ING COLPOTÁTION, NA

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or

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bas come. Moreover, signs are not want- ing that this offensive is but part of the carefully co-ordinated plan for a simultaneous attack upon the enemy on all fronts end, if this be the fact, its object cannot be solely to relieve the pres sure upon the French troops at Verdun, as might, at first, have bron imagined. The Russians, who rang up the curtain upon that which, wo hope, may be tho Jast act in this

drama, ar still grant stradily gaining ground and the Italiang are also intenssly active. It is impossible for the Germans to withdraw troops from

• Verdun. Indeed, it is more than likely that, trusting to our inactivity, they have removed men from the positions facing our own in order to aid in the attack upon the great French fortress. Now they are being struck in that which has always been regarded as the decisive point in the principal theatre of the was, and there is reason to believe that they have few reservos upon whom they can

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fall back. The western front from the

Twenty-fiva distressed Chineso seamen arrived in the Colony yesterday by the 3.9. Nankan..

The P and O. str. Numur, which left Hongkong on 6th May, arrived in London on the 1st inst.

The latest list shows that the total of contributions to the various sections of the F.M.S. War Relief Fund is now $206,201.52:

Wo beg to noknowledge with many thanks the receipt of $20 towards the Hongkong Hut Fund (No. 2) from R. Ed. Incam.

The Bandmann Opera and Comedy Company are returning to the Colony on Saturday, July 15th, when they will open a short season at the Theatro Royal

A large junk, laden with about 40 tong

bour near Kennedy Town on Saturday, of coal, became water logged in the bar-

and sank. Only the mast is now visible.

Mr. Hayward, formerly sub- manger of Messrs. Dodwell & Co.'s branch at Yokohamu, has been appointed. chief assistant in the offices of the Canadian Pacific Ocean Services, Lid, at Hongkong

MEA, G. H Carruthers, of the ses to the Somme is held mainly by the Chinese Customs Service, who for some British armies, with the assistance of the time past has been attached to the London. Belgian Army on the extreme left and a Office of the Customs, has been transfer. few Fronch troops at certain other points. ↑ red back again to Shanghai, As the military correspondent of the Times pointed out a few winks back, it would be better, on purely military grounds, that the operations of the Allies north of the Sommo should be in British harts, because the British supply the bulk of the troops, but General JoFFRE cannot dissociate "Limself from the defence of any sector of the French frontier, and, for this reason, an arrangement which has its disadvantages has been adopted This arrangement may lend, perhaps to some little confusion in following the pregent operations. The offensive, in spite of the French co-operation, is and afterwards at Kobe. mainly a British offensive. It is believed

that the Germans have 40 divisions north

Many Japanese residents, says the Nugasaki Press, will regret to hear of the death of Mrs. MacLennan, wife of Mr. John MacLenuno, sub-manager of the London office of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. Mr. MacLonaah was formerly the Bank's Agent in Nagasaki

At the annual general meeting of aliare- holders of Messrs. S. Mostris & Co. Ltd. A. S. WATSON & the Somme. They have also conton-

trated large forers at Verdun, but the bald at Shanghai last week, p dividend whole of the rest of the line is lightly of 10 per cent, was declared. The net beld. Such a distribution of forces leads fts including the sum of $12,873.13 Magt brought forward from last year, aniount- naturally to the supposition that our enemies always anticipated serious opera;

ed to 258,080, 41. A credit balance of ERATED WATER MANUFACTURERS tions in the North. It it was their origin 14,689.45 was carried forward to next

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OFFICES on 1st Floor, No. 3. Queen's Road

• DEATH Y JANSEN,-At Tientsin, on June 20th, JOHN DE WITT JANSEN, aged 49 years, oldest on of the late D. C. JANSEN and Mrs. JANSEN, 2, Jessfield, Road, Shanghai

al intention to overwhelm the French

armies at Verdun and then to send their spare divisions to overalolm me, in our turo, their plans have boun frustrated. But, although we have taken the initia. tive, it must not be imagined that the task naforð us is a light on. If the forty Cor" can divisions are at full strength they Dumber.no fewer than 800,000 of all ranks in the aggregate, and, acending to expert opinion, such an aggregate will repre-

Honorand Ovičs: 106, Di Varx ROAD, C. LONDON Orwich: 181, FLET Stuart, E.Cland, and as brúnage paid

The Daily Press.

During the week ending June 30th, onn fatal Chinese cuse of plague was reported... tuis occurring in the Mengkoktent district. In the same period there were two fatal. Chinese cases of diphtheria, ten cases of enteric fever consisting of two British, oug Portugiese and the rest Chinese, four proving fatal, and two Chinese cases of purperal fever, one of which proved fatal.

At the Hongkong Sunnary Court yesterday C. H Chaves, clerk in the Army Ordnance Store, Queen's Road East, was «ned by the Hongkong end China Gas Company, who clamed $10.70 for gas supplied. Mr. Grist represented the Uns Company, and, there being no dispute, judgment was given for plain tiffs after the itch, had hech, praveil by a clerk in the plaintiffs employe

in combatants 500,000 rifles and over 3,000 guns. It is it part of this force that the British am now striking, and, in point of quality, these troops are at least equal to those assailing Verdun, and Superior to any others West ur East. As one military expert has expressed it, We must regard it as a tributs to Eng- to. th good fighting qualities of our men, that the Germans, though short of troops to pro voke a decision elsewhere, should feel themselves compelled to miss such import unt forces on our front. Whilst there has been considerable aerial activity and a number of minor operations from Ypres THE BRITISH OFFENSIVE.

to Boucher, and probably over the whole The Wuchow Branch of the Patriotic The news received from the British front of the front, the British have made their League of Britons Ovorsens, which was during the past two days huds almost great thrust further south, between Com in its list of 37 members-practically formed in February, 1015, now includes inevitably to the belief that the long mecourt and Sonime, and the fiercesterery Briton resident in the provines of Liquidators promised offensivý movement has started, fighting appars to be raging between the Kwangsi and host of the British officers For many weary months there has beenrivers Anore and Sorume. Just here the has recently sent to the League's head

on the West River steamers. The branch

as its second contribution towards the

Central, at prosent in the occupation of The Chinn Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.

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BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHISE.

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Honggong, 4rk Joly, 1918,

The South Manchuria Railway Cons- pany contemplaire starting nu iron foundry, using the ore from a Man The ore is said to contab 40 per cent. churian mine, reports the Augunaki Prinsi of the metal and it is hoped that no output of one million tons of iron will will be limited to 150,000 tous at first. be possible annun ly, but the production

A capital of Y. 8,000,000 will he invested. in the enterprise

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,

REUTEL, BROCKELMANS & Co.

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littis to record beyond the minor activi enemy line forms a huge salient, and quarters in Londen a dratt for £18.115 ties of small raiding part, the exple already something has been done towards fonds of the Leaguo. » TO.4, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL, Sion of mines, and the fighting to secure.

First Flock HOUSE, with Offees, Serrants Quarter, sta, has been changed, and, after a wick's the neighbouring villages, all strongly the receipt of the following subscriptions struggle, Fricourt has been captured and Church and Mission Fund acknowledges present in the coonpation of the Imperial cented scale a stondy push forward is

Hongkong and and donations to the Seamen's Institute

$950 Empress of being made ever a front of twenty miles hands. On one front of seven miles Paul Chuter, C.M.G. (2nd donation) The lessons of the past have been well abyrinth of Gorman tronches to a depth 880; Mr. W. G. Lay, 8002; Mr. H. A. GR Of a thousand yards has been stormed, Hance, 220; Sir Robert Ho Tung, $25; Mr. 8. C. Tregilļus, $15; Mr. G. Moxon,

THE COMMODIOUS DWELLING POSSOssion of the craters. Now all tharraightening this out. After a fiered on TPRATT of St. Peter's

No. 14 SHAMES, CANTON, from lat Jaze, at

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THE North Point bathing bench awl pier are within the boundaries of the Submarine Cable Reserve, and as valuable Cables lie bere the Compony are compelled to take action against the owner of any craft

TWO ROOMED FLATS N Rofforts on this occasion will fail through and during the past two days great #10; Anonymous, 310; Total 2545. that anchors within the Prohibited Area Burante o be made in the say the Coupon THERE BOOMED PLATS in Humphrey's paration. Already we see the result of

Hongkong, 27th June, 1916.

WANTED.

UROPEAN ASSISTANT for Time Keeping Office of Shipbuilding and

Engineering Finn

* Apply, stating age and salary expected,

and enclosing copies of references to--

TIMEKEEPER

Care of ** Daily Fresa” Office. Hongkong, 3rd July, 1918.......

WANTED.

OREIGN ASSISTANT for Book Office

of Local Shipping Company. Previous

experience essential tea

For particulars apply to

Hong Long, 10th June 1916.

CBOOK OFFICEA Care of Daily Press Office: 1785

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION, W. S. NATHAN,-

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Hongkong, 1st July, 1915

Kowloon.

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The funeral of Father C Andrcoletti,

quantities of war-material and more than six thousand unwounded prisoners have FOUR-ROOMED FLATS in May Road Mr. LLOYD GEORGE's tirelow and success been taken. The Parisians, we are told, ST modern convenience, naluding ful work, For days, we are informed, have been thrilled by the sound of the Baglish Baths and Kitchen Random Hot the coemy trenches were traceable by a guns, and be gallant achievements of St. Francis' Church The choir was Water and Water Carrings Byrdomā · Law Flats specially designed to socommodate three kind of grey-blue fog compounded of the men onged have been the talk of the bachelors at yousonable rentals. Immediate white and black smoke of tonumerable British Army. Our soldiers further along YAZ ROOMED HOUSES in Gordon

shells The effects of the new British the line Bre all feverishly waiting for geses ure described as most terrible, and more details, and their anxiety and hope the power of our guns as exceptional" are shared by British subjects through The German prisoners who passed out the World. For the time being, how Through the ordeal liken it to “an in ever, we must rest content with the know- farpo. It has always been nuderstood lerize that the offensive is continuing, and TO LET.

that we should move against the enemy that the position is regarded by Sir No. 1, HILLSIDES THE PU

SAVENSHILL, EAST. Pick Bowd, when wa had that superiority in men and Douglas Had as favourable to the RAVEN No:1, and 2. WEST END TERRACE,errante Quarles, às. Yaonat lat Kevember

containing & Booms, Bab Regan, as which it in peccssary for an assail

British arms. CANTON

ant to possess in order to atjack modern Apply

DEACOS, LOOKER, DEACON & lines of trenches with success, and, ap-

HALSTON.

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古定:

THE HUNGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY Co, Las

· Alexandra Buiklinge

who died on Sunday at the Hospital of the Italian Bistors, Wenensi, took plac

est rday A service was conducted at

Formd by the Catholic Clergy of Hong kong and the Seminarists, and after the Absolution and the singing of the In Paradisum the coffin was taken to the cemetery at Happy Valley for intern- at His Lordship Bishop Pozzoni, waR chief mourner and also performed the lust rites Among those present at the tuneral were the clergy of the Italian, French and Spanish Missions, the Sisters and pupils of the two Convents, Brothers of St. Joseph's College, the the pupils of St. Lewis Industrial School, representatives from the various religious societies, and a very large num her of European and Chinese Catholica. A Pontifical Requiem Mass was said at the Catholic Cathedral at 7:30a.m. yestery A mail for Europe, vid Siberia closes day for the repose of the scul of the to-day at 2 p.m.

Axcoased,