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B Low Low. Pink Tmza Station

and Exptens of Asia" vid Star Ferry, DIAMOND SOLITAIRE BAR BROOCH.

FOR SALE

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MAZING Yacht “LIZAJ, Heywood Hayos class, Luts won, nimetons enges and is in

perfect adition.

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IN THE GOODS « EÐBERT ANSGAR HEWETT, CM.G.. of the Wellington Club. Grower Flaer, in the County of Middlesex, England. Inte wager of the Painalar aml Oriental. Steam. Navigation Company in Hongkong,

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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has, by virtue of Serlion 48 of Orince No. 2 of 1997. made an Order limiting the fine for Cissliters and others towal in their Clotas against the shove Estate to the 10th day of December, 19IE.

All Creditors and others are accordingly hereby required to send their Chairs to the Undersigned on or before that inte.

Datod 27th day of November, 1916.

JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER.

Solicitor for the Executors,

Prince's Buildings.

In How Strert,

Hongkong.

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NOTICE.

"ELEN" LINE (MQGREGOR GOW di

CO). LTD.

(VERTAIN Cargo M8 GLEN- ARTNEY" having arrived here por S.S. KUTSANG," Mewes, GODDARD & Dovolas will attenint THE HONGKONG AND

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28T¤, 1916.

EXHIBITION AND SALE

HOUSES TO LET

TO LET 3

OF:

OIL PAINTINGS Exsented by E. BELSITO, Engi, IN AID OF:

No

YO. 1, CANTON VILLAS, Kowloon,

Apply

WAR CHARITIES.

Under the Distinguished Patrouinige

SE LADY MAY,

AT THE

CITY HALL, From 1 to 5 PM.

DEC. 2-10, 1916.

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

NO LET,

No,

TO, 42, ELGIN STREET.

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National

Mission

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PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING.

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TO LET.

FFICES in HOTEL MÄNHIONS -Four forge roums (communicating) facing Blake Pier and the General Post Office. Nos. 2, 10, 11 and 12 on the Third Floor' of Hotel Muazione.

For particulare apply

MANAGER, HaxOKONG HOTEL:

TO LET AT THE PEAK.

FURNISHED, 3, Stewart Terrace.

Apply-

INTIMATION

WATSON'S

FINEST OLD

BROWN

map it will be noticed that the shape of Roumania roughly resembles that of a hoot, Wallachia forming the foo, Dohrad in the heel, and Moldavis the upper portion above the ankle. In Moldaviu General VON FALKENIAYN has been held

in check. He has failed, to thrust a wedge between the Russian and Roumanian lines and is consequently unable to purane bis project of reaching Bucharest by way of the Predeal Pass. In the Dobrudja the | Russo-Romanian forces appear to hav BRANDYined the offensive and to have reached

E

QUALITY.

H. E. POLLOCK,

Prinses" Buildings, 1219

糖

P

TO LET.

HOUSE, Observatory Villas, Kowloon.

With Tennis Court.

Repentance

Hope

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ARRATOON V. APCAR & Co.,

14, Des Voeux Road Central.

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TO LET

From 1st November next.

KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY'S MISSIONER: BISHOP NORRIS. FLATS in "EWO MESS," No. 8, 111 GoDowns, Kowloos, on WEDNESDAY, 20th Nowmber, at 10 AM.. to survey all demagod packages,

Consiguens of Cargo srrived are

requested to hare representatives pasient.

SHEWAN TOMES & Co..

Agents,

GLEN LINE A[Guk Grow a Canh Ert.

Hongkong, 27th November, 1910.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

F THE P. & 0. S. N. Co.'s Steamer

"KANKIN."

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Arrived Hongkong on 26th Nov., 1918. FROM LONDON, MALTA. PORT

SAID, SUEZ, AND STRAITS. Consignees of Cargo by the abovi mamei vessel are hereby informed that their goods are being landed and placed AT THEIR BISK in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where encl consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark ad delivery can la obtained as the goods are landed.

This Tessel brings on Carro

From London...exs.." Kaixar-I-Hind." Optional goods will be landed here unles instractions are given to the contrary within 6-hours.

Goods not cleared within 8 days including data of arrival will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance will affected by mejni any case whatever.

Damaged packages must he left in the Godown for examination by the Consign and the Company's Surveyors, Messrs. GODDARD and Dougtis, at 10 .. on MONDAYS and THURSDAYS. All Chims must be prosented: within ten days.of the Steamer's arrival - here, after which date thes maust be recognised, No Claims will be admitted after the goots have left the Godöwas.

E. V. D. PARR. Acting Superintendent. Hongkong, 27th November, 1916.

A. BUNE,

IN LIQUIDATION.

YREDITORS are required to send in their J. Claims to the Undersigned on or before THURSDAY, the 30th November, 1910..

Dated the 14th November, 1916.

W, G. HUMPHREYS & Co.,'.

No, 16, Queen's Road Central, Liquidators,

THE MEDICAL HALL.

C. WITZKE & CO.

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(REDITORS are requests) to send in their Claims to the Undersigned on or before THURSDAY, the 30th November, 1016.

Dated the 18th November, 1916.-

BENJAMIN & POTTS. · Inquidator.

NOTICE.

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hog to notify my patrons and friends that

Shipping Marohant at No. 1. Douglas Street, the Firm's unme of ITO BRÖ8. & Co. having been Dissolved.

.8. M. ITO & Co..

Hongkong, 17th November, 1916. [1300

NOTICE.

THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE

COMPANY, LIMITED.",

#TURE CERTIFICATE for Four Shares, 3380/3192 of the Original Denomination of £570.00 per Share, in this Company, standing in the name of Nicoras Alexis Ivanopy (sinos deceased), of Hanker, has been LOST, and if at the expiration of One

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Apply, Property Office,

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Tab."" ₤1088

KISMET "

A.D.C. Production

on behalf of the

"STAR AND GARTER FUND' for Soldiers and Sailors totally

disabled in the War.

GALA NIGHT-FRIDAY, DEC. 15TH. SECOND NIGHT-SATURDAY, „ 16TH, THIRD NIGHT MONDAY, MATIN E E-WEDDAY,

PRICES

18TH. 20TH

Gala Night-Centre Dress Circle Seats 310.

and all remaining Beats 85.

The Seats for the following nights are:

Dress Circle

**

Stalls

Pit...

$4. 3;

1.

Soldiers and Sailors in uniforin Half-Price.

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SECOND 54% RUSSIAN INTERNAL SHORT TERMED LOAN OF 1916 for Bbls. 3,000,000,000.

THE Subscription to the above LOAN will be Opened from 14th November to 20th December, 1916,

The price of issue is 95 per cent.

The Loan is entirely free of Income Tax noù other taxations.

The Loon is redeemable at par on 14th October, 1926, without optlan for the Russian Government to convert it at an earlier date.

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

As interest on the shore Loan runs from 14th Clotober, the interest sccrued on date of salseription must be taken into consideration and is to be added to the price of lane.

The RUSIO-ASIATIC BANK in Hongkong is ready to accept applications for the above-named Глой.

Special favourable rates will be quoted for Russian Exchange.

Payment may also be made in Roubles. Applications will be wired to Petrograd fiss

of telegraphic charges and commission.

40.

per cent, only of the cost of the Bonds may be paid on application, the balance to be paid on receipt of the Bonds,

The Bank is also ready to give every facility to subscribers in the shape of advances against the scripe.

.G.

G. TISDALL,

Manager, KÚZSO-ASTATIC BANK,

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NOTICE.

R.

NY EUROPEAN, Non-Asiatic or Indian A desiring to leave the Colony should apply in person at the CENTRAL POLICE STATION between the hours of 9AM to 1 P.M. and 2.3. to 4 r.. daily.

Applicants will be required to produce Pass- parts or identification papera.

All persons with certain exceptions who remain in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register themselves under the

Westh from the date horoof the above document REGISTRATION OF PERSONS ORDIN-

Be not forthcoming

other Certificate for thusANCE 1910. --

aqui ulant thereof

will be issued by: *

be present denomination Company and thereafter wlodged.

mootor will be act

MONTAGUE EDE,

General Manager, Hongkong, 17th rember, 1916. [1391

TO LET.

ODOWN in Daddell Street Light and

Moderate rent.

Good loverlooking Statue Square.

For rent and other particulars apply-to-

Care of "Daily Prosa" Office

Brown Brandy

Mr. J. W. Bolles has, we understand, relinquished his position to general manager of the Standard Oil Company in Hongkong, and will shortly return. to America."

A Chinese shopkeeper of 24, Des Your Road, has reported to the police that on the 26th inst, he entrusted a servant boy with 8500 to take to the Wing Tak Hank,

Queen's Bond Central. Both the boy and the

monex

have dimppeared.

The body of a female Chinese, a boatwoman, has been sent to the public' mortuary. While sony boats were being towed by the Lyemun examination launch the woman accidentally fell overboard and was crushed to death between two boats.

Suffering from injuries to a leg, o Chinese enoile has been sent to the Government Civil Hospital. He was decidentally knocked down, by a motor cycle ridden by Loc Sergt. Grant, of the Hongkong Polis, in Connaught Road.

Me D. A. McLeod, formerly ` with Monara, Watson & Co., Ltd, and who went home to join the Ariny about two months go, has obtained a commission in tho Gordon Highlnaders, and is undergoing training with the Officers' Training Corps.

H.E. the Offer Administering tho Government has appointed Mr. N. G. Nolan, chief interpreter of the Supreme Court, to be a member of the sub- committee of the Board of Examiners for the examination of subordinate officers of the police and gaol.

a point eighteen miles north of Constanza. Far outweighing the improvement in this sphere of operations, which has never been regarded na vital, is the rapid invasion of Western Wallaolin from the north-west by the Central European Powers, and the mouace which is now offered from the south. It was only on the 18th instant that the Bouinanians announced their retirement, in the fasc of superior artillery, from Turgujin Now we learn that Craiova, the capital of Western Wallachin, sixty miles south-east of Turgujin, has fallen into the hands of. the enemy, and that the Roumaniaus have been obliged to retire to the left bank of the River Oltenz,' which about thirty miles further cast. From Craiova, which is the centre of a rich corn-growing dis- trict, the railway runs to Filinsu, and thence branches off in a northerly direc tion to Turgujiu and in a westerly direc tion to Turnu Severin, on the Danube, a short distance below the famous Iron Gate. As a consequence, the Roumanian force which commanded the Danube at Orsova must have been completely isolat ed, unless it had previously been with drawn: hope which seems to be pre- cluded by the reports of recent fighting in that neighbourhood and the loss of Orsova and Turnu Severin. The enemy now claim to have occupied islands of the Danube further east at Gighen, Grehov, Lom and Vidin, doubtless with the object of effecting a junction with & the forces driving southwards from the

A very successful whist, drive was beld Transylvanian Alps and thereby cutting at the Police Reserve Club last evening. off the extreme western portion corres-forty-two tables being occupied. Tho ponding to the toe of Roumania. The prize winners were as follows:-Ladies : seriousness of this threat is evident when Mrs. Sears, Mrs. Gerrard and Mrs. it is remembered that Craiova is only | Atkinson, all tied Gentlemen, Me. thirty-five miles north of the Danube. It | Wells; 2, and 3, Mr. Buck and Mr. ia some consolation to know that General Dawson, tied; 4, Mr. Coles; B, Mr., VON FALLENHAYN's successes have s far Hunslead and Mr. Spears tied. been confined to the least important part of Roumania, The dangerous section is in Eastern Wallachia, where victory would place the enemy in posses- sion of the whole of Western Roumania, including Bucharest. signs upon this territory from the north Mr. T. C. Downing, Mr. and Mr. 8. have so far been frustrated, the Austrian Bisney desire to thank all friends and German communiqués admitting, for for the many kind expressions of sympathy in their recent bereave-example, the tenacity with which the Rou-

25 YEARS IN WOOD.

1940 A.

S. WATSON

TO LET.

CO., LTD., From 1st May. FFICES, 2nd Floor, St. George's Bulld. WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. Apply tom

SHEWAN, TOMÉS & C

OFFICES

TO LET.

[$18

OFFICES on lat Floor, No. 3, Queen's Bond Central, at present in the occupation of The China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.

Apply to

·CHINA FIRE INSURANCE 06, IZD.

TO LET

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OFFICES at 2. Connaught Road Central,

OFFICES in King's and York Buildings. HOUSES in Clifton Gardens, Conduit Road. HOUSES in Broadwood and Moreton Terracos

Ne . WONG NƠI CHONG ROÀI, HOUSES on Shameen, Cantor. A

Apply to

F 4

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

TO LET.

199

| NOUR-ROOMED HOUSES in Gordon Terrace and Salisbury Aveans, Kowloon.

TO LET OR FOR SALE.

KOWLOON MARINE LOT 48 with

TELEYMONE €16.

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BIRTHS. CAUDRON-At Taiyuanfa, Shansi, on November 10th, to Mr. and Mrs. R. M. CAUDLON, a daughter, STARLING.--At

the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, on November 21st, to Mr. and Mrs, H, V. STARLING, a

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

EOT,

ment.

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HONGKONG OTO: 101, Des Vaux ROAD, C.

LONDON OPTIOn: 131, Franz Steser, E.C.

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, 28TH NOVEMBER, 1916.

The enemy's do-

Six pairs of binoculars contributed by Mr. 1. Gibbs, through Mr. A, Denison, Hongkong, are now to be added to the list of glasses received and forwarded to the Lady Roberts Field Glass Fund. The total now stands:-One stand telescope, twelve hand telescopes, forty-five bino- culars, donation of $75.

The subscribers to the Cigarette and Tobacco Fund will, no doubt, learn with regret that Mrs, Pentreath, who has. taken so much interest in collecting the valued subscriptions, will be leaving the Colony next Thursday. The Committee tender to Mrs. Pentreath their hearty thanks for the good work carried out by her. Through her efforts something like 2,250,000 cigarettes have been seat to the manians are resisting in the Rymnik Front and 40,000 cigarettes have been dise sector and in the Valley of the Alt, which tributed amongst the local troops. Nearly rises in the Transylvanian Alps and flows $5,000 have been collected by Mrs. Fen- due south, right across Western Bou-treath herself since taking over the work. from Miss Craddock. Mrs. Arthor has mania, to the Danube. At present, we “are told, it will be very difficult for the very kindly undertaken the continuance invaders to advance eastwards owing to of the collection of subscriptions and the the innumerable mountain streams which and tobacco to the men in the Trenches sending of Hongkong's gifts of eigarettes,

intersect the country north and south, and

and Hospital Baker. General voy FALSENHAYS's forced march

THE SITUATION IN ROUMANIA∞ Craiova is described as "merely a

raid

wharf area 58,000 ag. ft., suitable for Coal Att. eyes are anxiously turned at the Storage or erection of Godowns.

Apply to

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE

Co., LTD..... Alexandra Buildings:

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WANTED.

ESSONS in Spanish.

Apply

"A.P.C." Care of "Daily Press," Offee. [1410

WANTED.

YOUNG STENOGRAPHER

A GENERAL CLERK.

and

Apply stating salary required to---

M. K. LO, Care of EWENS & NEEDHAM, [1411

WANTED NNGINGER, Br., abetainer, for Harbour or Shop. Apply in own writing with copy refs, stating age and salary required to— 197 W. 8. BAILEY & CO., LTD.,

Kowloon.

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS.

Forms of Registration giving the particulies Thursday, 30th Nov.→→→ required may be obtained of the G.P.0. and af all Police Stations,

"Heather-Day" for Scotch War Chariti

The Ponally for non-compliance is a fine not Friday, 15th Dec. exceeding $50.

9.15 p.m.-"Kimest” at City Hall,

present moment towards Boumania. In each of the other, theatres of war the Entente Powerscna contemplate the prospect with equanimity and even satis faction, but here the position appears to

intended to cause alarm. The chamy, however, are now attempting to rescu Bucharest from the south. They have crossed the Danube at Sumnitza, which is only forty-five miles distant from the capital, and, although their advance northward from this point was

THE HONGKONG WAR LOAN. FIRST INSTALMENT REMITTED

TO LONDON.

We are informed by the Acting Colonial Secretary (Mr. M. Fletcher) that the sum of $3,000,000. Rathorised under the War Loan Ordinance, 1918, has been subscribed.

Applications have been allotted in full, the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank- ing Corporation taking a part of the Joan." A sum of £80,000 was remitted to London on the 18th instant.

TYPHOON WARNINGS.

The following telegrams have been received by the American Consulate-

Observatory:

he going rapidly from bad to worse. By declared to have been arrested, they claim calling upon their reserves and reducing to have reached Alexandria, which is the number of troops on other fronts about twenty miles inland. Altogether, where the climatic conditions make the Roumania, appears to be in a very par- vigorous prosecution of hostilities im lous position, but the experte bid us practicable, the Central European Powers suspend judgment pending further deve haye apparently succeeded in concentrat lopments. We are not, of course, asked ing an overwhelming force against Bou to believe that our allies have retired mania in the endeavour to crush her be and allowed their territory to be over- fore she can receive effective aid from

run by the invader merely for the pur- her Allies. As a matter of fact, Russia pose of luring him on to his doom, but, is the only Power which can send reaccording to Roumanian circles in Lon General, Hongkong, from the Manila inforcements into the country, and her don, huge Russian reinforcements are task in this direction must have been assembling in the Wallachian plains in rendered more difficult by the loss of the readiness to give battle on the approach Black Sea port of Constance, which is of the invader and the result may be in direct communication by rail with awaited with confidence. It is certain Bucharest. The other Allies can only that no effort will be spared to save Bou-Pelew Islands, almost stationary, help indirectly, as at Monastir, by keep manis from the fate that has befallon

November 26th, 11 am ing up such pressure as will prevent the Belgium, Serbia, Montenegro

Typhoon in about 114deg, long E, anit enemy from releasing further battalions Poland.

15deg. lat. N., almost stationary from the other fronts. The Germans,

Cyclone or typhoon NW of the Peler who have taken command of the opera

Islands, moving W.N.W or NW. tions against Roumania, are attacking

Among the passengers who returned to

12,45 p.m., Nov, 97th. vigorously along the whole of her from the Colony on Sunday by the P. & 0

Cydons or typhoon over N, China. Sea, filling up, tiers except the north-east, which is con- | Company's meil sa. Nankis were Mr. tiguous to Hussia. On reference to the and Mrs. R. Baker,

and

November 25th, 2 p.m. Typhoon in about 114deg, long E. and deg. lat, N., almost stationary Cyclone or typhoon near or over the

Typhoon in about 180 deg, Long. F. and 15 deg. Lat, N., moving N,