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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER

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"CENTRAL ASIA? LECTURE BY CAPTAIN PELLIOT,

M.C., LL.D...

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Old-Established British Firm on

In the Ballroom of Government House

The annual general meeting of the

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The Shameen Defence Corps will be unable to send down a team for this by a tean from one of His Majesty's February, 1817. For runt and other particulars ships in port,

✪ NEW HOUSES now Building in Con--

last evening Captain Pelliot (Military shareholders of the Chinese Engineering competition. Their place has been taken dalt Road. Ready for occupation on 1st

Cross), on whom Hongkong University and Mining Company, Ltd., was held in conferred the honorary degrej of LLD. London on the 19th inst., when the Direc-1 at its recent Congregation, delivered a tors' Report and Statement of Accounts lecture on Central Asia as the meeting for the year ending 30th June lasi was place of Eastern and Western Civilisa-submitted. tion." The lecture, which was under the auspices of the Odd Volumes Society, was well-attended. B.E. the Governor, Sir Francis Henry May, presided, 2nd was supported by the Recturer and the Hen. Mr. H, E. Pollock, K.C.

wero

heard a

in this

This stated that the net result of the year's transactions showed a balance to the credit of Profit and Loss Account of $270.177, made up as follows:---- Proportion of Kailan Mining Administration's Profits, plus China Interest »; Interest in Europe Agency Fees Sundry Receipts Balance brought forward

Expenses in Europe Directors' Fees Income Tax Exchange

£369,001

The teams, in the order in which they will fue, are as follows:

1.-R.G.A-Captain Taylor, and-Lieut. Wilkinson, C.S. M. Heath, Master Cuune Martin. 2.S.L.I.(Team not yet submitted). 3.-H.K. Police (European) Inspector

apply to

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Grant, Sergt. Grinmitt, Sergt Pitt, NO. 1, CANTON VILLAS, Kowlook. Sergt, Boulger.

4-Hongkong Police Reserve-Assistant Supt. Franks; Chief Inspector Mason, Chief Inspector Sirdar Khan, Trooper Relph

Q.M.S. $193,146&R.E. Corporal Grimes,

10.044- Williams, Q.M.S. Black, Sergeant

4,000

Coxon. 56

0.---H. M.S.

Coll-Sergt. Taylor, 99, 159

Lee. Sergt. Eyres, Lee-Upl. Moyse Lee. Cpl. Roberts. 7-European Warders-G. Gipson, A. Calvert, S. Shirvington, W. Gast. 8.--74th Punjabis-Jemadar Mehr Singh, 780 Havildar Nand Singh, 1959 Naik Baz Khan, 1042) Sepoy Kah 9.Staff and Departments--S. 5. M. Harrow, A.B.C., Armr. S. Sergt. Düfield, A.0.0. Staff-Bergt. Denn, A.P.C., Lee Cpl. Shute, A.O.C. £275,37710-HMS. Tamar C.P.O. J. Croe, P.O.

Aggett, S.P.O. Losch, Ldg. Signal-: man Botley,...

Total

DEDUCT

£3,871 4,200

25,307 49

33,627

should

His Excelleney, in opening the pro- ceedings. said that, to those whe present at the conferment of degrees at Hongkong University Inst week, Captain. Pelliot required no introduction. For! the information of those who were not nt that gathering he might say that Capt. Pelliot was an officer of the famous corps of Field Artillery of their gallant' Alley in France. (App). They had great deal about the "5" war. Capt. Pelliot had just informed Leaving a Net Balance of

This the Directors recommended him that he underwent his first instruc-be appropriated as follows:- tion in the work of the Field Artillery Interim Dividend 5 per cent. paid 16th May, in the year that the 5'9"

1918, absorbed brought out. He had served on the staff

Final Dividend 5 per cent, (making 10 per both at the Western front and in Galli-

cent, for the year) £50,000 poli, and, fortunately for us, he was

Balance carried forward, now in Hongkong. (App.) He had been

subject to provision for Excess Profits duty.£175,377 3 years continuously in Turkestan and was recognised the world over as a most distinguished authority on the archæu- logy of Central Asia. (App.)

were

$50,000

£275,377

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Singh, Sergt. 35 Surian Singh, P.-c. 105 Jhu Khan, P.-c. 330 Gelta Singh. 16.-18th Infantry-Subadar Mahbub Khan, Jamader Mizenndin Khan, Havildar Mir Aulab Ali, Havildar Fatch Muhd.

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at 28,880 for the year 1914 and £31,249 tor the year 1915, making a total of £40,120 to be provided. from last year's profits, a sum of 228,000 was reserved to meet the tax for the years 1914 and 1915, but it will be seen that even this largo sum proves to be insufficient by about

the Commissioners' method or assessment,

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HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

RTANDING ORDERS.

appearing in 8. O. 120 (5), page 53, are to be deleted.

DEFAULTENS.

The order issued to men awarded D.D. to attend at. Central Station on Saturday afternoon, December 23rd, are hereby cancelled. Warning Of cers will see that this is noted by defaulters,

SPORTS NIGHT.

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Captain Pelliot, who was well-received, defied the area on the globe's surface which was included in the term Cen- tral Asia. With the aid of a map be delineated its boundaries and described its main topographical and geographical but in consequence of the claims of the features. The name was, in a restricted Treasury under the excess profits duty it sense, generally applied to Chinese Tur is impossible to follow this custom on kestan, a province which was now under the present occasion. The company in- the authority of Chind. It was prac-curred the bulk of its development ex- tically surrounded by ridges and hills pensee during the pre-war years, and as The words "by Section Commanders," and mountains, and formed an immense the Commissioners contend that the pre- table-land, which in some parts was do fits of the pre-war years for the purposes pressed. To penetrate to that table-land of this Act are not the actual profits was not easy, as the means of access, carned by the company in those years, which were chilly passes, were not but the profits after deduction of the numerous, and these were difficult to development expenditure deducted for under what is negotiate, being frequently blocked with income-tax purposes, snow. The great drawback to any per-known as the Vallambrosa decision, the The

company's pre-war standard of profits manent establishment in Central Asit as computed by the Commissioners is abnormally low. The Commissioners of was the lack of water.

It was only whenland Jevenue have assessed the com- the snow had fallen heavily on the noun pany's ability to excess-prodt duty at tains during winter and began to melt that anything like a good supply of Iwater could be had, and the inhabitants by artificial irrigation managed to cul tivate the land, a large part of which

From the standpoint of some of our was of the nature of an oasis. Although 141 In addition to this immediate.

liabinty the directors will have to pro-literary saints and prophets, who when soch a big country, there were only some vide for the stiti unknowa lianity the present war broke out regarded it fourteen hundred thousand inhabitants. under the tax for the current year, as in the light of a crusado which was to It was a more or lets Turkish-speaking well as for the year's capital expenditure render war impossible in the future, un the estate. Under these cireum-there is a hitter irony in the feverish and population. They were a very easy-going stances, and pending the result of an gigantic preparations that have since people, very peaceful, and imbued to appeal which has been lodged against been made by many neutral States to get certain extent with Turkish fatalism and the directors, much to their regret, do themselves ready for every possible con-

increased their field effectives by some-OUR-ROOMED HOUSES in Gordon fanatician. The present condition of the not feel justified at the present time intingency. Sweden and Holland have both

declaring an interim dividend.

thing like 50 per cent. above their pre- territory was first revealed to the world

war standards, America is trebling her

TO LET OR FOR SALE. twenty years ago by Russian travellers,

naval strength and multiplying heavy

KOWLOON MARINE LOT 49 with who saw indications that led to the form in art. The discoveries made in batteries and tanks, and now following

interior, generally speaking, upon the new craze for efficiency among wharf aros 59,000 sq. ft., suitable for Coal belief that in earlier times the inhabit the

people were far all those States which might conceivably Storage or erection of GudowaS,

civilisation ants were an advanced people. Enfor showed that this

advanced in

than be drawn into the present vortex, comes

Apply to would lead one tunately these travellers devoted most their present state

the news that Spain, the one European of their time to geographical explorato suppose. It was not till the thirteenth neutral whom we should have thought notics of the anti- or fourteenth century that the Chinese could have held herself utterly aloof from tion and took no

came on the souc, as the result of reports the contest, thanks to her geographical

SOMO Mongolian travelers. quities of the country, although it was

The detachment, has decided to maintain ac rich in ruins and remains of a past lecturer afterwards dealt at length with army of 1,000,000 during the next five history of great interest. It was only in the various religious influences brought years.

to bear on the people by the incursions Now Spain's moral peace establishment 1884, when Col. Barr brought back par of these diforen racee, including Budd provides fur, roughly, 160,000, and in viewN ticulars about the area, that the interest him, Jardaism, Christianity and other of the penury of her exchequer one may less known religions. In conclusion, the well wonder that motives may have in- of Oriental scholars in it was

lecturer said the East had received frompelled her Government to subject, ber Since then, expeditions from nearly all the West more than it had given, and in taxpayers to so enormous an additional the Western nations had visited it, and religion, science, and art China was ruch burden. But for King Alphonso's known more indebted to the West than she was sympathy with the country and France collected evidence, in the shape of mana usually believed to be. The West received and Senor Maura's recent pro-Ally ut scripts and pictures, which had enabled silk from China. It was very often said terance the avowed partiality of the them to piece together, in some degree, the compass came from China, but that Spanish General Staff for German mili- was not the case. The art of printing tarism might have induced me to lay the history and archeology of this in was known much earlier in the East thantress on Major Moraht's curious hint teresting place and people. Along with in the West, but all the efforts to trace the other day as to Spain's chancer Sir Aurel Stein he (the lecturer) visited the first attempt at printing to China against "Gib" and French Marceco. had proved so many failures. Printing As it is, one can only draw the conclu it, and was able to secure a consider has been evolved spoutaneously in the sion that Spain believes that the present able number of manuscripts and paint-West, and there was nothing to show that campaign may still prove a very pro- ings, which were of some value, and it was invented in China. Paper was a tracted one and that at a certain moment purely Chinese invention, which reached the offer of a fresh army of 1,000,000 which contained internal evidence of the the West through some Chinese prisoners men to the Allies might result in the racial and other features of the history teaching the Mussulmans the art, and satisfaction of some of her colonial

from them it spread to Europe. The ambitions. We can only wait and see of the country. From these and other lecturer afterwards illustrated his re- Ex; evidences it was perpectly clear that it marks by a large number of lantern views. had been influenced in language, litera His Excellency proposed vote of thanks to the lecturer, and said he had never ture, religion and art, by the constant listened to an Odd Volume lecture of

aroused:

murt

by

more absorbing interest. It had been very kind of him, during his short stay and

REORGANIZATION OF THE

CHINESE ARMY,

The Chinese Government has decided

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man with unimpesekable references will be Greece, Persie, India, and Turkey had find time to prepare and give them such to begin by first restricting the military to 4 ra. daily.

all a band in the formation of the ideals a fine lecture, and they were all exceed-strength in eight provinces, namely:-

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and religion of the people as the cen turies rolled on. Many of the statues FOR SALE.

frescoes and paintings which had been PTISTIC CARDS with CHINESE found in a remarkably good state of aitable for Xmas Present.

bore unmistable traces of the Greek (Continued at foot of next Column)

A PICTURES, TOYS and SWEETS, preservation owns to the dry clim,

GRACA &_ 00.. No. 4, WYNDHAM STREET.

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in the midst of so many occupations, to

ingly grateful to him. (Applause.)

The Hon, Mr. Pollock proposed a vote of thanks to His Excellency for presiding the lecture. He also proposed a similar and giving the use of the Ballroom for compliment to Mr. Noble, electrician,

the University, for the great assistance

in person at the CENTRAL POLICE STATION between the hours of 8 to 1 P. and 2 F.M. Applicants will be required to produce Pasa-

Identification

Рарога. with certain exceptions: who All persons

Yunnan to retain two divisions and one porta mixed brigade at a yearly outlay of $4,150,000; Kwangsi; Kueichów and resin te estofor mors shua 17 days Chekiang to retain each one division and required to Register themselves ander one mixed brigade at a yearly cost of REGISTRATION OF PERSONS ORDIN 82,400,000 each; Szechuan and Kwang ACE 16

Forms of giving the tung to retain each three divisions at a costinec,250,000, cash and

he had given in the matter of the lantern Hunan and Shonsi to retain each two sil illustrations. (Applause)

divisions at a yearly expenditure of $3,700,000 each.

The proceedings theu terminated.

gured may be obtained at the G.P.0, and at

Police Stations,

The Penally for non-compliance is a fine nob axceeding $50,