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NEW

ADVERTISEMENTS

NOTICE.

TY Firm hitherto carried on a JOHN

MFANNERS has This Lay boon formed into limited Company under the stylo of: HANNERS & BACKHOJSE, LTD.

JOHN MANNERS. -Hongkong, 1st January, 1917.

NOTICE.

7E HAVE This Day taken over the Firm

WHEN MANNERS, which will be

sarried on under the style of

MANNERS & BACKHOUSE, LTD.

JOHN MANNERS, Directore JAMES EL BACKHOUSE. Hongkong, 1st January, 1917.

NOTICE.

T 18 HEREBY NOTIFIED that Mr.

1

been admitted a Partner in this Firm, the Business ofhich will henceforth be carried on at the sno aldross under the style of WORCESTER & LAMMERT.

W. &. WORCESTER & Co.

6. Des Voeux Road,

Hongkong, 1st January, 1916.

THE SEATTLE-VLADIVOSTOCK LINE OF STEAMERS.

Messrs. FLANK Waterhouse & Co., LTD., Seattle, Managers,

F

VIROM date the Undersigned will Act as MANAGING AGENTS in the Fact

for Messrs. FRANK WATEвovan & Co.'s SEATTLE VLADIVOSTOCK LINE OF STEAMERS.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,

Tol. No. 215, sub, ex. 10.

· Hongkong, 1st January, 1917.

KONINKLIJKE. PAKETVAART

MAATSCHAPPIJ

OF BATAVIA, JAYA. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM SINGAPORE,

THE Steamship

THE

VAN WAERWIJCK" having arrived from the above ports, Con- dignes of Cargo by her are notified that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hamidota and/or extra hazardous Gedowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown. Co, Lid, whence sadjor from the wharvse delivery may be obtained.

Goods not cleared by the 6th Jan., 1917, will bo sabject to rent.

All broken, shafed and damaged prokages are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be samined by Mesars, Goddard and Douglas on the 5th Jan,, 1917, at 10 A.,

Claims against the Steamer must be present- od in writing within 10 days after arrival of Steamer, otherwise they will not be recognised. No Fire Inambee will be affected by the undersigned in any case whatever,

Bill of Lading will be countersigned by

JAVA-CHINA-JAPÄN LIJN, Agents.

Hongkong, 30th December, 1916.

NOTICE.

'GLEN" LINË (MCGREGOR, GOW & CO.), LTD.

ERTAIN Cargo er 11.3. "GLEN:

ARTNEY " having arrived here per 8.8. HEUM SANG," Mesar, GODDARD & DOUGLAS will attend at the KoxGKONG AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY'S GODOWNS, Kowloon, on WEDNESDAY, 3rd January, af 10 A., to marvey all damaged packages.

Consignees of cargo arrived are requested to have representatives present;

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., Agents,

· ĠLEN” Lawn (McGregor, Gow & Co.), LTD. Hongkong, 29th December, 1916.

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INTIMATIONS

THE

THE CHINESE ENGINEERING AND MINING COMPANY, LIMITED. 6% FIRST MORTGAGE DEBENTURES (KAILAN BONDS).

DAYMENT of the HALF-YEARLY

LAURYA 1917.

will be made on presentation of Coupon No. 9 at any of the andermoentioned Banks, via. :--

HONGBONG AND SHANGHA]"} BANKING CORPORATION, CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA. Russo-ASIATIC Bank,

At Tientsin, Shanghai

Hongkong. Tiontain and

YOKOHAMA SPRCIE BANK,

LTD. BASQUE BELGE Pour

L'ETLANOKE,

BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE.

Hongkong only. Af "Tientsin end Shanghai only. The Interest. less Income Tax at 5/- in the £

D. ¿, 12. 0

will be

UN £20 BONES.

For Coupon (Grom)

Less Tus at 5/- in the

Net amount payable

£

3, 0

9. 0

ON £100 Ros DE.

£

d

For Coupon (Groes) Lum Tax at 5/- in the

Net amount payable

Os £500 BONDS.

Per Coupon (Gross) Less Tax at 6-in the

3. 0. 0 15. 0

£2. 5. 0

£ 5. a. .15, 0. 0 3. 15. 0

£11. 5. 0

་

Not amount payable Payment will be made in Taels at the Demand Buying rate of exchange of the day the Conpon is presented.

By Order,

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION, W, S. NATHAN,

General Manager.

[1506

THE CHINESE ENGINEERING AND MINING COMPANY, LIMITED. SIX PER CENT, FIRST MORTGAGE DEBENTURES (KAILAN BONDS).

FOURTH DRAWING. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 181, 1917.

23369. 23417 23459 93519 23815 93638 23923 2400 24013 24015 24077 24088 24135 24280 24295 24305 £4341 24359, 24457-24494 24508 24532 24545 24556 24013 94027 94830 24831 24846 24852 24683 74705 24739 24754

4754 24770 24703 $4028 24098 23216 25921 26233 25241 28304 23314 25391 25391 25393 195206 25103 26588 45503 43397 24590 25634 25804 95812 25827 25851 25990 25831 26340 25037 25986 20033 20055. 26225: 26572 28014 2623 26630 26745 0791 20801 23925 £6946 27050 27079 27256 -27314 27640 - 27417 27462 27611 27645 27670 27701 27705 27831. 27636. 27849 27881 27605 28038 28046 29070 28091 28091 28243 28256 29278 28319 28398 38422 450 28409 28479 26503 26532 28561 28615 28671 28743 28770 28807 28808 18804 26678 28935 20036 29288 29342 29344 29301 20360 20423 29449 20474 20502 20538, 29559 29574 20812 20699 99726 29729 20742 20743 29744 20745 20994-29639 29843 20832 30009 3002030070 30106 301ės, 30162 30257 30305 20383 80303 30420 30453 30504 36545 20500 30643 30689 30784. 30771 30782 30848 30908 31070 311 31202 31303. 31486 31493 31044 31640.31573 31709, 31780 31619 31051 31673 31681 31793 31809 41906 31934 32009, 32044 32094 32116 32182 32100 32233 32253 32413 32414 82590 32521 32500 32014 39041 32081 32752 32760 33107 33108 33115 32143 33147 33109 317833223 23268 33300 33338 33340 38308 33532 33541 33044 33349 33672 33609 33624 33646 33672 33673 33886 33726 33767 33646 23861 33904 33920 34098 34136 34201 34220 34244 34306 34307 34383 34508 34550 34625 34629 34845 34684 34700 34770 34825 34914 36012 35014 35050 35032 35095 35111 35135 35155 35162 35178 35107 35230 35232 28245 35231 35261 33270 35309 38317 25378 35382

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The drawn Debentures, with Coupons Nos. 19 to 20 attached, must be left four clear days for examination.

By Order,

ALFRED W. BERRY, Becretary.

Countersigned :--

J. W. P. JAURALDE, Notary Public, Austin Friars, London, E.C.,

in conformity with the conditions endorsed upon the Debentures, the ander mentioned numbers of Debentures of the total value of £24,000 were drawn on the, Second day of November, 1916, at the Offices of the Company, No. 22, Austin Friars, in the City of Lenden, in the presence of WALTON FITNES TURNER.

e of the Directors, ALFRED WILLIAM UNION BERRY, Secretary of the Company: and JOHN WILLIAM PETER JAUBALDE, of 7/8, Great Winchester Street, London, EC., Notary Public.

Notarid Debentures will be paid off at per on the 30th December, 1918, at oither of the following placce:

In London: At the Transfer Office of the Company, No. 5, London Wall Buildings, E.C.; In China At the General Offices of

the Company. Tientsin.

5 BONDS OF £600 EACH, NUMBERED:

3401 3404

3504

2692

31

110

126

140

263

2974

3040 3089

3201 3902 3215

70 BONDS OF £100 EACH, NUMBERED:-

343 317

352 407 430 443 $30

695 552 501

874 882 718 743 749 786 901 977 1030 1044 1133 1164 1323 1527

1768 1986 1530

1876 1573

1703 1889 2013 2062 2110 2144 2197

2393 2401 2012

2034 2388

2909

3032 2948 3163 3165 3368 3600

2021 2932

3135 3137

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3233 5314

3500 3507 3743

3790

4970

4234

4623

3913 4066 4129 4102' 4240 $439 4542 4600 4378 4636 4630 4863 5036 4631 5077 6214 5232 5282 $266 5340

$300

5414 6365

6493 3526 5528 3581 5022

5772 6041

6717 5673 5776 5807 6910 5810 6980 5883

0221 6038

8228 6260

6973 8348 6380 8385 6393 6402

G514 6300

6523

6589 6501 6606 6614

6636

6644

0744

6601 6870 6902

6008

€998

7071 7079 7115

3617: 3029 3700

FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION OF 725 BONDS OF 420 EACH, NUMBERED: ¦

HONGKONG.

NEW YEAR HOLIDAY.

TOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that all

NFIRE INSURANCE OFFICES will

be CLOSED for the Transaction of Publio Basiness on MONDAY, the 1st January, 1917.

By Order,

A. R. LOWE, Secretary.

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Hongkong, 29th December, 1916.

MARINE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION OF HONGKONG.

NEW YEAR HOLIDAY.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that all MARINE INSURANCE OFFICES will be CLOSED for the Transaction of Public Business on MONDAY, the 1st January, 1917.

By Order,

A. R. LOWE,

Becretary: Hongkong, 99th December, 1916. ₤1612

G.

B.

PUBLIC AUCTION. ARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of

Posting by Public Auction Bals, te

held on MONDAY, the 8th day of January, 1917, at 3.P.M., at the Offices of the PUBLIO WOBES DEPARTMENT, by Order of HIS EXCELLENT THE GOVERNOB, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Kennedy Road, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 5 years, with the option of renewal si CROWN RENT to be fed by the Burveyor HIS MAJESTY TAM Krug, for one further Serm of 75 years.

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To the future we look forward with calm confidence, convinced of the justice of our cause and of our ability to carry The fruits. of Lord it to victory. DEY's recruiting scheme and of the... Military Service Act, by which it wo followed on May 25th, will furnish us with some six millions of trained men for the front in the coming Spring, and the output of the Ministry of Munitions will reach its maximum at the same time, enabling us to maintain a continuous cascade of shells upon the enemy's linea and also to equip some of our Allies with the munitions of war. In order that every able-bodied man of military age may be available for the Bring-line, native labour will be used for subsidiary military work, thus counterbalancing the increased man power which the Germans have obtained by means of slave raids in the territorios which have passed under their control.

the Allies wore still inferior to the enemy greatest naval battle in history wa in guns and shells, and, as a consequence, fought off Judiand when the whole Ger the great offensive at Loos and in Chara-man Fleet was badly crippled by a pagne, which opened promisingly, could British cruiser squadron and fored to. not be pressed to any decisive result.fee in naate to the shelter of its ports of Since then Kut has fallen, and Roumania, the approach of Admiral JELLIGE with:

Since that time the which joined the Allies at the end of the heavier ships.

obliged to confine ita. August, has been invaded by the Central enemy has been obl European Powers. There are, however, energies to the ruthless submarining signs that the offensive is being resumed of defenceless merchant ships and hou in Mesopotamia under conditions that pital ships. There is a probability that encourage hopes of success, and that the this form of warfare will be attended.

with greater risk in future, the British Roumanian army has been withdrawn to a place of safety, there to prepare for Government having at last come to the conclusion that it is better to plano their a renewed onslaught upon the enemy.

Russia, which the Germans thought they trust in guns than in the promises of had paralysed, speedily gave evidence of porjurers. At the same time Germany's relations with neutral Powera Becan likely her vitality. Striking hard and un- expectedly in Armenia, her troops storm-to be strained to breaking point by her

indiscriminate acts of piracy. ed. Erzerum on February 16th, took Trebizond on April 17th, and entered Erzindjan in July. Unfortunately, the hope that they might be able to relieve the pressure on Kut was not realised, and, gallant resistance lasting for 143 days, General ToWNSHEND'S force of about 10,000 Indian and British troops, was compelled by lack of food to surrender on May 1st. In the following month the Resin Army in Europe-reorganised and re-armed-bombarded the enemy front with unprecedented violence, and, after furious fighting, inflicted a series of tremendous blows on the Austro-German lines. - Czernowitz and Kolomea were re captured, and the whole of the Bukovina The whole British nation is now being was occupied by the Tan's troops, who systematically organised by the

Government, which has just been formed took over 300,000 unwounded prisoners. by Mr. LadyD GEORGE, with the object of Our great Hastern Ally is still, apparent securing the more vigorous prosecution of the war, and similar measures are being ly, suffering from a shortage of guns and adopted in France. It is because Ger- Emmunition, but when this is repaired many foresees the inevitable results of in the Spring and the new forces drawn these steps that she has lately professed such a passion for peace. No-one, how- from her inexhaustible reserve of man-ever, is deceived by her pose. There car power are placed in the field we may expect to see these successes repeated on even larger scale. In the meantime Russia has gone to the rescue of Ra mania, whose collapse, owing to her in- experience of modern warfare, has been the greatest disappointment which tho Allies have been called upon to bear dur ing the past year. There is reason to hope, however, that the worst is now over, and that the Roumanian Army, like the Serbian, may yet be destined to play an important part in bringing about the downfall of the enemy.. Further south, SIZE-DAVIS-At Christ Church, West in the Balkans, the Allied force, which

minster, on November 2nd, Henry J. Size, Rugby, to Lizzie Holme has been steadily accumulating under Davis, of Pahktun, Limpsfield, General SABRAIL, has puebed forward and widow of H. W. Davis, formerly of

retaken Monastir. Freed at last from the Hongkong, CAMPRON-Haows. At Shimonoseki, risk of Greek treachery by the firm men-

Japan, on December 18th, before E. Hamilton Holmes, Esq., H. B. M. sures adopted by the Allies towards Consul, John William, eldest son of King CONSTANTINE and his pro-German the late J. B. Cameron, to Jessie Mary, widow of the late Capt. J. Henderson Brown, R.N.R., daughter of the late Thomes Henson Dakinfield, Cheshire.

Shanghai, MILLER-DURWARD.—AL

December 23rd, before Sir Everard

CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.

FOLD ONLY BY

A. S. WATSON

(1510

SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.

NOTICE.

THE CAT Gd st, numbered 14115, standing in the Reguler in the name of Her M. M. DA SILVA, haring ben declared LOST, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that anders the said Certificate be produed to the Bociety on or before the 19th March, 1017, A NEW

CERTIFICATE No. 4084 for Oni

.L.

CERTIFICATE for the said Share will be fasued and the old Certificate will thereafter bo held by the Society as null and void,

By Order of the Board of Directors.

C. MONTAGUE EDE, General Manager.

[1467 Hongkong, 18th December, 1916.

HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY. LIMITED

(Incorporated in the United Kingdom).

LOST,

TRANSFER RECEIPT Nod 1277 issued

LOGAN & BASTO for Transfer

of 100 Shares in this Company into the name of Mrs. KHRA WELLS, having been MISLAID, LOST. or DESTROYED, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that unless the said Recept is produced at this Oflee within 90 days from the date koreof, the Certificate for the bid Share will be delivered to the said Mrs. EXEA

WELLS, and the Transfer Receipt will therefter be held by the Company as null and vold.

W. E. ROBERTS, !

Secretary Hagkong, 19th December, 1916.

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NOTICE.

THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED,

C. MONTAGUE EDE,

General Manager. Hongkong, 19th December, 1916. [1474

NOTICE.

THE OHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED,

8095 8731 8769 8940 8854 8024 8061 8368 9012 9074

HE CERTIFICATE for One Share, 9133 9158 9164 9190 0202 No. 5401 in this Company, stand- 9282 9459 9553 9003 9754

9785

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JESTS, of Maso, has been LOST, and 10357 10443 10474 10513 10521 10342

it at the expiration of one month from 10665 10735 10871 10894 10948 10988

the date hereof the above document be 11031 11034 11067 11082 11110 11332

not forthcoming another Certifiosts for 11957 11478 11452 31478 11512 11530

the said Share will be issued by the 11538 11556 11566 11017 17630 11748

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Company and thereafter no other will be 11815 11869 12020

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MARRIAGES,

&

now

to no hope of peace until the monster of Prussian militarino, which has menaced Europe for so long, is not merely scotched

but killed. That is the task to which the

Allies will bend their united energies in the ensuing year, resolutely determined never to relax their offorts until their object is attained.

As to-day is New Years': Day, the Hongkong Daily Press will not be issued again until Wednesday morning

Mr. F. Bunje and Mr. Chung Kam-o have been appointed public vaccinators.

Mr. "Adam Gibson

has been appointed to act as Secretary to the Sanitary Board, in addition to his other duties, with effect from December 22nd.

Dr. H. Balean has been appointed to be a Surgeon-Lieutenant in the long- kong Volunteer Reserve, for the period of the leave of absence of Surgoon-Cap- tein G. Montagu Harston,

An order made by the Governor-in- Conncil provides that on and after January 1st, 1917, the rats of postage on lettere to the Chiness Post Offices will he 4 cents for each ounce

satellites, this force will be in a position

thereof. and seriously to embarrass the Bulgarians as soon as the weather permits of the active resumption of operations.

on

D. H. Fraser, H.B.M. Consul Gene-

On the Western front the tables have

ral, aud afterwards at Union Church, been completely turned. Outmatched in by the Rev. C. E. Darwent, M.A.,men and guns, the Germans are now Christian, eldest daughter of John

standing on the defensive. On February Durward, Dundee, Scotland, to George, second son of the late 21st they started the Verdun campaign Andrew Miller and Mrs. Miller,

in the belief, apparently, that one more Norfolk Terrace, Shanghai.

DEATH.

sharp blow dealt at France would bring BAILEY.-Killed in action, in Frances her down and restore the waning prestige

December 16th, 2nd Lieut. Anthony Drummond Bailey. aged 23 years, of of the Crown PRINCE. The magnificent Messrs, David Sassoon &Co., Ltd., resistance of the French, however, foiled and 8th Notts and Derby Regiment, eldest son of J. A. and Mrs. W. all the German attacks in the end, and Bailey, of the Church Missionary to-day, after the sacrifice of nearly half-a- Society, Shanghai,,

-million men, Germany is as far off her Mean,

HONGKONG OFFIon: 10a, Des Værne Road, O. LONDON OFFER: B1, FLAT STANIT, EC.objective as when she started,

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The Daily Press.

HONGKONG 1# January, 1917.

1916-1917.

while, the Great Allied offensive in the Somme district, which started on July 1st, has succeeded, in penetrating the third Germen line of defence and destroying some of the most formidable fortifications ever devised. It is described by General Bir Douglas HAIG B "DE of the greatest, if not the greatest, struggles which has ever taken place." It had a three-fold object. The first was to relieve Verdun; the second, to assist

or

fraction

A marriage has been arranged, and will shortly take place in Shanghai, be- tween Robert Charles Turner of Beckley House, Shanghai, and Maud Gertrude Eleanor, second daughter of Major A. E. Foole, Military Knight of Windsor, Inte 10th (Royal) Hussars,

Dr. Zimmermann, the new German Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, will be remembered by many in the Far East. After having undergone the usual. training for an official career, he entered the Consular Service in 1893, and during the next eight years was Vice or Deputy Consul at Shanghai, Canton, and Tien-

tsin.

The Gazette contains a regulation made under the Vehicles and Traffic Regula- tion Ordinance which provides tast except with the written permission of the Captain Superintendent of Police, no vehicle shall be driven along, and no pedestrian shall pass along, or be found in the Canton Road (Kowloon) north of Navy Street and south of Jordan Road between the hours of 7 p.m. and 5 a.m.

The marriage of George Home Cook, younger son of the late Redham Home Cook, formerly agent of the Hongkong. and Shanghai Bank at Kobé, to Lilian, daughter of Major C. H. T Byng-Hall, D.8.0., and granddaughter of the late General C, H. Hall, Indian Army, was arranged to take place on Saturday, December 18th, at St. James's Church Bussex-gardens, Hyde Park, W.

For the third time since the Great War broke out in August, 1914, & New Year is ushered in amid the roar of cannon

the Allies in other theatres of war- and the clash of arms. Happily, the

The customary Hogmanay notably in Italy, where the Austrians

social gathering was held in the lecture hall of were threatening invasion-by stopping the Union Church, Kennedy Road, last THE CERTIFICATE for Two Shares prospect to-day presents a marked con- T

Nos. 5414/5415 in this Company, trast to that of January 1st, 1916. Then, standing in the name of Mise FELIBAINA Germany had reached her zenith at the transfer of further enemy troops from night. There was a large gathering, the NOGUEIRA, of Macao, has been LOST, and

mea. After tea & programme of sacred if at the expiration of one month from success; now, she is descending into the the West; and, the third, to wear down majority of those present being Service the date hereof the above, document benadir of despair. Twelve months ago the the strength of the enemy. Any one music, vocal and instrumental, was suc not forthcoming another Certificate for Russian armies, lacking everything save

of these results by itself would have justicefully sustained till midnight, when,

after the usual exchange of good wishes, the mid Sharee will be issued by the Company and thereafter no other will be takill and conzage, had narrowly escaped fed the battle," says General Hisa, "but for the New Year, a short religious ser a hundred thousand the attainment of all three amply compon. Tice was conducted by the Box: J. Kirk O. MONTAGUE EDsquare miles of Russian territory, with sates for the sacrifices of ourselves aud

At the Boman Catholic Cathedral ..........) - General Managdy.

service on the 30th ult. the Blessed Sacra- Hongkong, 10th December, 1919. Ima population of fifteen millions, were our Allie, bringing us long way

Berbia and towards final victory. The enemy's power meat was exposed for public veneration. pocupied by the enemy. Monteagro had been overrun, sad is not yet Braken, nor is it possible to Sermons have been preached daily by the estimate the period before the objects for Bishop and the Bector of the Cathedral, and the services have concluded with the uninterrupted communication had boon REDITJES as required to mad in their established between Berlin and Constan- which the Allies are fighting will be at Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. tained, but the Battle of the Bamme has To-day a soletan Pontifical Mass will be celebrated. Bishop Pazzoni will officiate. tinoploce

the clergay and seminarists being pre- sent. The church has been gaily decorat ed and draped in red, with palms and

sakoowledged,

JEBSENE CO

(IN LAQUIDATIO).

Claims to the Undersigned on or before. ONDAY, the 15th January, 1917. Dalal the 2013 December. 1916,

W.M. HUMPHEETS, No. 18, Quem Bond Centus), ELATE

destruction, and

The diastrous carīpaign

in

Macon achie,

Gallipoli Fad been abandoned, and, theplaced beyond doubt the ability of the assisted by a deacon and sub-deacon, all.

advance op Baghdad having failed, Allies to gain those objects.”

On the mes Great Britain's supremacy General Townsend and his troops were besieged in Kat. "On the Western front: semains unchallenged. On May Blus the flowers.