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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TORSDAY, NOVEMBER

INTIMATIONS

DEC. 2-10, 1918.

HOUSES TO LET

TO LET

NO.1, CANTON VILLAS, Kowloon.35"

Applyin

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT AND AGENCY Co., Iro

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National

Mission

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Apply to

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

WANTED.

HANKS & CO. LTD. Manufacturers of Sanitary Appliances, Barrhead Scotland, roopan to appoint one or more AGENTS for Chios. Correspondence invited...

NOVICE TO CONSIGNEES

FROM: SHANOBA', ZODE and MOJI.

THE ly

GREGORY APCAR,"

having arrived from the above Parts, Cor signees of Cargo see bereby informed that their Groods will be delivered from alongaída..

Cargo impeding the discharge will be landed at Consignees' risk and expense into the hazag dons and/or extra Bazarious Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Gedown Company, Limited Dat

No Fire Insurance has been effected.

Bill of Lading will be countersigned by

DAVID SASSOON & Co. Lue

Agents

Hongkong, Oh November, 1916.

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Repentance

Hope

THE MEDICAL HALL.

C. WITZKE & CO.

REDITORS are requested to send in their

Chims to the undersigned on or before MISSIONER: BISHOP NORRIS.

THURSDAY, the 30th November, 1916.

Dated the 18th November, 1910,

BENJAMIN & POTTS,

Liquidators,

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A BUNE.

Is LIQUIDATION.

"EEDITORS are required to send in their Claims to the Undersigned on or before THURSDAY, the 30th November, 1916.

Dated the 14th November. 1916.

W. G, HUMPHREYS & Co.,

No. 16, Queen's Road Central, Liquidutore

NOTICE.

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bug to notify my natrons al in Cal and

Lave myself Shipping Morchant at No. 1, Douglas Street, the Firm's name of PTO BROS. & Co. having been Disolved.

8. M. ITO & CO. Hongkong, 17th November, 1916.

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HONGKONG TRAMWAY CO. LIMITED (Incorporated in the United Kingdom).

LOST.

THE SHARE CERTIFICATE No. 1638 for 50 Bare numbered from 6829 to 5360 inclusive standing in the Colonial (Hongkong) Register in the name of Mr. Woo Yus Cho, having been LOST, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that unless the said Certificate be produced at the Office of the Company, No. 1, Tussell Street, Hongkong, within 30 days from the date hereof, A duplicato Certificate for the said shares will be issued and the old Certificato will there after ho held by the Company as null and void.

W. E. ROBERTS, Secretary. Hongkong, 26th October, 1916.

NOTICE.

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THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED. THE CERTIFICATE for Four Shares

3389/3392 Nos.

of the Original Denomination of 8500.00 per Share, in this Company, standing in the name of NICOLAS ALEXIS IVANOFF (since deceased), of Hankow, has been LOST, and if at the expiration of One Month from the date hereof the above document be not forthcoming another Cortificate for the equivalent thereof in the premont denomination will be issued by the Company and thereafter no other will be acknowledged.

C: MONTAGUE EDE," General Manager. Hoogkong, 17th November, 1918.

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BECOND 51% RUSSIAN INTERNAL SHORT TERMED LOAN OF 18161 for Bbls. 3,000,000,000,

HR Subscription to the above. LOAN will Ted from 14th Normanber to 26th December, 1918.

The price of issue is 95 per cent. The Loan is entirely free of Income Tax and other taxations

The Iman is redeemable at par on 14th October,

1936, without option for the Russian Government to convert it at an earlier date.

Coupons are payable half-yearly on the 14th April sud 14th October

Ainterest on the above Loan runs from 14th October, the interest acorded on date of wubscription must be taken into consideration

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"KISMET

A.D.C. Production

on behalf of the

"STAR AND GARTER FUND

for Soldfers and Sailors totally disabled in the War.

GALA NIGHT-FRIDAY, DEC. 15TH. 16TH,

SECOND NIGHT-SATURDAY, „ THIRD NIGHT MONDAY,

ATINE E-WED'DAY,

PRICES:

18TH

20TH,

Gala Night-Centre Dross Cirale Seats 10 and all remaining Seats 35,

The Seats for the following nights are

Dress Circle

Stalls

Pil...

84. 3.

Soldiers and Sailors in uniform Half-Price.

NOTICE.

ANY EUROPEAN,

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desiring to lose the Colony should apply in person at the CENTEAL POLICE STATION between the hours of 9am to 1 P.M. and 2 P., to 4 p.ar. daily

Applicants will be required to produce Pass- porte or identification papers.

TO LET,

TO, 42, ELGIN STREET.

PEROY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING.

TO LET.

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INTIMATION

1918.

PLUCKY CHINESE. COMMENDED BY THE CHIEF JUSTICE.

Hearing at unusual commotion in a

is savents-Ave miles ins direct line by rail from Bukharest About thirty miles along this line is Piteshti, the hub of the whole railway system. The farthest point to which the enemy has pene- trated in Roumanis up to the pre-house opposite to his own in Keswick sent is the railhead at Turgujul, Strect, a Chinese engineer got up, ran out of the house, and arrested a man twenty five miles, inside the frontier. CHINA BY LAND This invasion Men the Ron who, with another, was running cony

AND WATER.

marian communications in Wallachis from a house they had broken into. “The and jeopardises Orsova, where the Roucond man was arrested by P. c. Samy manian command the Danube. If the (R). Austri-Germans are able to follow up their advantage and reach Filiasu the Pleasing Pictures of China, all junction with Western Wallachia will be cut. This, says an expert, is believed to be General FALKENHAYN's plan, though the approaching winter will probably then addressed by the Chief Justice as

FFICES in HOTEL MANSIONS Four carefully selected with a view to Oooms(communicating) fading Blake

Pier and the General Pest, Offer. Nos. 9, 10,

Mansions.

11 and 12 on the Third Floor of Hotel

For particulars apply-

MANAGER, HONGKONG HOTEL.

₤1323

F

TO LET AT THE PEAK.

YURNISHED, 3 Stewart Termoe.

Apply

H. E. POLLOCK,

Fringes Buildings,

119

TO LET.

HOUSE. si Observatory Villas, Kowloon,

Apply

A with Tennis Court

ARRATOON V. APCAE & Co. 14, Des VosEx Read Central,

[ISIB

TO LET.

From lab November next ALATS in EWO MESS," No. 6, THE Apply, Property Office,

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD. (1086

TO LET.

LODOWN in Diddall Street. Light and

G Airy Offices overlooking Statue Équare

Moderate rent.

For rent and other particulars apply to- Case of Daily Press Office.

TO LET

1940

From 1st May, FFICES, 2nd Floor, St. George's Bgild.

Ingu Apply to

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. [310

TO LET.

FFICES on 1st Floor, No. 8, Queen's Rond Central, at prosent in the occupation of The Chins Fire Insurance Co, Ltd,

CHINA FIRE INSURANCE CO., LTD.

TO LET.

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All persons with certain exceptions who remain in the Colony for more than 7 daysFFICES at 2 Connaught Road Central. are required to Register themselves under the REGISTRATION OF PERSONS ORDIN ANCE 1916,

Forms of Registration giving the particulars required may be obtained at the G.P.0 and at The Penalty for non-compliance is a fine not all Police Stations.

137 exceeding 850.

PUBLIC AUCTION, HUGHES & HOUGH.

By Order of the Mortgages.

Muired instructions to sell by Fublic ESSRS. HUGHES & HOUGH have

Anction.

ON THURSDAY, the 23rd day of November, 1916, at 3. FM, at their Sales Roma, Ice House Street, Victoria, Hongkong,

Terraces

OFFICES in King's and York Buildings. HOUSES in Clifton Gardens, Conduit Read HOUSES in Broadwood and Moreton No, 21, WONG NEI CHONG ROAD. HOUSES on Shameen, Canton,

Apply to-

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT AND AGENCY Co., LTD.

TO LET.

OUR-ROOMED HOUSES in Gordon Temes and Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon.

Apply to-

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE

Co., LTD.,

Alemadre Buildings.

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WANTED. ALF of FURNISHED HOUSE, Park Tramway Station,

H District,

The following VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY sitmte st MONG KOK Tev in the Dependency of Kowloon and Colony of Hongkong, vind situate,

or paren All that pices lying and being at Mongkoktan in the of Kowloon in the Colony of Hong- dependency kong and registered in the Land De KOWLOON INLAND LOT No. Put- ting on the North side thereof on ROWLION INLAND LOT No. 937 and mossaring there 30 feet or thereabouts, and on the South side

on KOWLOON INLAND LOT No. Moderate rout thereof 935 and measuring thereon 30 feet or there- bunts, and on the East side thereof on a public road unnamed and measuring thereon 34 feet or thoreabouts, and on the West side thereof on a public lane, containing a total ares of 1,020 feet or thereabouts. TOGETHER with SQ Care Payment may also be made in Roubles.

the mossanges and premises thereon known as Applications will be wired to Petrograd free Nos. 2 and 3 of the unnamed public road of telegnphic charges and vesamission,

40 per cent only of the cost of the Bonds aforesaid at the back of Nos. 58 to 330 may be paid on application, the balance to be Shanghai Street, Mongkokini aforesaid) and paid on reveipt of the Bonds,

and la to be added to the price of issue.

The Ruseo ASTATIC BANK in Hongkong is ready to accept applications for the above-named

-Load.

Special favourable rates will be quoted for Bassian Exchange.

with all rights, easemente and appartenan

The Bank is also ready to give every facility thereto belonging held for the unexpired

to anbscribers in the shape of adrances against the scrips.

G. TISDALL, [Manager, EUSSO-ASIATIS BANK,

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JUST RECEIVED. PRESE Supply of FLOWER AND

VEGETABLE SEEDS.

GRACA & CO.,

No 4, WIDHAM STREET,

The Property

residue of a term of 75 years commencing from the 30th day of March, 1889, cremed trein by Crown Lease dated the 31st day of October, 1913, and made between His Majesty King George V of the one

Box 15 Came of "Daily Prima" Ollos

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WANTED.

Can Post Dise,

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TINGINEER, Br, shalainer, for He

giving friends at home a gimpse

At the Hongkong Criminal Sessions gesterday, the Chief Justice asked for the Chinese engineer, who is employed at Kow- loon Dock, to be brought before him. The plucky man, whose name is Lai Yau, was

delay its realisation. In the meantime follow:"I desire, on behalf of the and especially Colony, to thank you for your condot the Entente Powers, Bussia, are hastening to the assistance of on this occasion in rushing out and

Your conduet. Wus in every of the many attractive features of their sorely beset ally, and, by maintain-succeeding in capturing one of the pri

ing a vigorous offensive on the Somme, soners. in the Carse, and in Macedonia, are pre-respect laudable, and 1. shall recommend to the Police that they shall remunerate you in some way.”

Chinese life.

venting the enemy from despatching further forces to this theatre of the war,

At first sight it seems strange that Rou-T

In neat cardboard box ready for manis, with her well-trained army of

posting.

PRICE $5.00.

A. S. WATSON

CO., LTD.,

HONGKONG

&

three-quarters of a million men, ber internal lines of communication, and her strong natural defences, should find

The two men pleaded guilty to attempt- ing to rob. They said they went to 3, Keswick Street, with the intention of committing a robbery, but, unfortun we were not able to do so." ately

Mr. Wakeman (Crown Solicitor) ex-

plained how the men broke into the house, frightened the occupants, and stated that one of the men threw a blanket over a male occupant and also threw pepper into his eyes. It was alleged that the men did got away with some goods. As they were hurriedly leaving the house they were seen by Pc. Samy (R) who at once gave chase. He caught one of tho men and the Chinese engineer pluckily rushed out and secured the other. The iron bar (produced) was found in the house after the mon had left.

herself in this predicament after choosing her own time for taking up arms. Her experience, however, has been the experi ence of all the Entente Powers in turu, including Italy, which, also, waited until she had completed her preparations be fore intervening in the struggle. It seems to prove that, great as their losses have been, the Central European Powera still possess some reserves, although it has been stated that the troops for this campaign have only been obtained by reducing the number of regiments in many of the divisions elsewhere. We may be quite sure that no effort has been DISPENSARY, spared by the Austro-Germans to crush Roumania; indeed, it is reported that the German military commanders have received orders from the KAISER that "the enemy must be destroyed. The reasons for this are political, military, and economic. The KING of Roumania, himself a Hohenzollern, must be punished for placing his duty as a constitutional monarch before his family ties at a moment of waning German prestige, and other neutral uations, who may be wary of German arrogance, must be deterred from espousing the cause of the Antents provided for then on the south bound by witnessing the sorry fate which can steamer, caused a scene in Queen's Road still overtake a small Stule if it dares to yesterday. It seems that upon arrival At home 4th and 5th December, Icestrike a blow for freedom. A victorious it Hongkong the coolies went to inspect

House East Point.

AND

VICTORIA DISPENSARY.

MARRIAGE.

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TAYLOR-BEYER-On the 18th November, at St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, hy the Rev. H. COPLEY-MOVER, M.A P. J TAYLOR to FANNY WHITFIELD BOYER, of Mewhall, Mantwich, Cheshire.

DEATH.

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HowaKong Office: 104, Das Yeux Road, C. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLan BERET, E.C.

The

Baily Press.

HorexONG, 21ST NOTEKBEN, 1816.

THE IMPORTANCE OF

ROUMANIA.

TRE situation of Roumania still gives cause for great unxiety, for, although our latest allies are offering a desperate resistance to the ferce onslaught of the Central European Powers they have found the pressure too great to withstand

most

The Chief Justice took a serious view of the case, and sentenced each of the defendants to five years imprisonment with hard labour, and they were also ordered to each receive fourteen strokes “ with the "cat".

SCENE IN QUEEN'S ROAD, FASTIDIOUS CHINESE COOLIES.

A gang of Chinese coolies who had been brought down, under contract, from Canton, to be sent to somewhere in France, and objected to the quarters

the quarters which had been prepared Roumania would involve the serious consequences to Austria-Hungary for them on the vessel which was to con- CALWELL-Killed in action on October

7th, Lieut. T. L CALWELL, C., and Bulgaria, and the shattering of vey them to Europe. Having, doubtless, Royal Fusiliers, date of the Hong-Germany's ambitious designs in the East. conceived soinewhat big idens as to their kong and Shanghai Banking Corpora Germany would, also, loss the great ad importance in the world, the coolies re- tion, London Staff,

vantage which has hitherto accrued to her fused to settle down in these quarters. from the exploitation of Roumania. and, upon meeting the man who had once used threats and also made a rush Roumanian trade has been practically engaged them, in Queen's Road, they at monopolised by Austria-Hungary and Germany. The State borrowed nearly at him. An European constable endeav £80,000,000 at usurious rates of interestored to pacify the coolies and also. ahielded the Chinese who had engaged from Germany, v which invested another

them. The coolies could not be subdued, £40,000,000 in Roumanian financial, com- mercial and industrial undertakings, and when they made another rush the Besides securing a continuance of these constable drew his baton and struck out This had a salutary privileges for the future, Germany, by right and left. the conquest of Boumania, would obtain effect, but assistance was sent for. A. immense stores of corn, mineral oils, and use of European and Indian Police before their arrival the coolics had dis timber; a good railway system, and the were despatched to Queen's Road, but Whether persed in various directions. Danube as a means of transport. The spectre of famine," says M. N. BABULESCO, a member of the Boumanian Parliament, they will assemble and retura to the would be for ever banished from the south-bound ship is a matter of doubt. at several important points. The Do- German Empire. It will thus be seen árudja may for the moment be left out that the issues now at stake are of of consideration because, although the supreme importance to both belligerents. Busso-Bonmanian Army appears to have for upon their decision depends, in great turned upon its pursuers, this may be acusure, the duration of the war. regarded as a secondary field of opera- tions The campaign in this territory was probably never intended by the eneray as anything more than an offen- sive-defensive, to prevent an invasion of Bulgaria from the north and to draw off men and weaken the resistance on the Transylvanian front. With the Danube presenting an effective barrier on the Test and north, and the Black Sea on the cast there could be little hope of achieving any decisive gain in this din cult region. It is on the Transylvanian

BHAN of the other part, and fue Los Me Eko Apply in own wrking with copy front that the Austro-Get mang are con-

subject to payment

of the annual Crown Bent of $5.50 and the cuts, slating age and miary required to performance and phervance of the covenants and conditions contained in the said Crown Licene,

For further particulars and conditions of mals.

GEO. K. HALL BRUTTON, York Building, Chater Bond, Hongkong,

Seleitor for the Mortgagees, MEE HUGHES & HOUGH

spply to GEO: K

Or to

W. 8 BAILEY & Co., Ltd.

Kowloo

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WANTED.

W ABSISTANT SXGENTARY for the

ALDA Engmoos Guild In Hongkong

Engine Proberson. Reply to

17 NANAIEG BOAD, Shanghai

A mail for Europe vid Siberia closes to morrow at 10 mm.

Owing to interruptions on the cable system, the acceptance of deferred tele grams to and via the United States of America has been temporarily suspended

INDIAN REFORM PROGRAMME.

The memorandum to the Viceroy signed by 19 elected members of the Imperial Legislative Council, in addition to the reforms mentioned in a previous tele- gram; proposes fiscal autonomy for India, the abolition of the India Council, and the following further reforms: The SEC- retary of State to hold a similar position to that of the Colonial Secretary, all the principal provinces to have Governors There were eleven cases of small-pox from home, and India's chosen representa- in the Colony during the week ending tives to hold a similar position to that November 18th (all Chinese, one being of representatives of the Dominions in imported), six of which proved fatal In the same period there were four cases of any Imperial Federation scheme. Times. diphtheria (one British and the rest Chinese, one being imported), two of which were fatal. Of two cases of enteric fever (one Chinese and one Japanese) one Proved fatal,

Chinese who had returned to the opy after having been banished for by years was sentenced to three years Inbour by the Chief Justice yester The man, had been twice banished had twice returned Sir William vies remarked that the prisoner ently very keen on remaining in Colony, and the police were equally aa koon LII Wubing to keep him out of its

The P. and T. Times believes that there a possibility of & general strike move- ment on the part of Chinese employees of French firms in Tientsin. Recently the men at the electric power station downed tools at about 9 p.m., with the result that the Concession was in darkness for a considerable time: Ener- geta masaures, in which the aid of a number of electricians in the U. Army and Annsmite troops was sought, kuc ceeded in renewing the current Inter in the evening,

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