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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

ST. GEORGE'S DAY. MONDAY NEXT, APRIT. 23£D.

FINE. WETOR

FANCY FETE

AND

CAFE CHANTANT

AT

VOLUNTEER HEADQUARTERS (Specially covered io, and brilliantly lit by

electricity),

Continuous Performance from 3.30 г.M, to 6 P.M.,

CAFE CHANTANT

IN

DRILL HALL.

PICTURES, JUGGLERS, MOVING ACROBATS, SINGERS, INSTRUMEN- TALISTS, VENTRILOQUISTS,

ELOCUTIONISTS, Erc. WORDS and SPACE procinde giving full AndSTARTLING DETAILS of the magnificent assembly of TALENT. WIT, MUSIC, and "SPENDENT SPECTACULAR"

SEE the MENAGERIE and SIGNOR

TOBOLSKI.

FEED the ELEPHANT.

HEAR the VENTRILOQUIST-PROF.

""VOCALI," D.A.M.LIA.

LISTEN to the "MUSICAL TRAMPS."

and

·

DONT FORGET the "MOVING

PICTURES

Extranos' Fors:

To CAFE CHANTANT (including Tea):

Adulte... ...43. Children... ..$1. To SIDE SHOWS.

Adulte...81, Children... 50cts. For FULL PARTICULARS see Official Programme, to be bed on the Premises for & mere Medisum,

A WELCOME FOR ALL and their Money.

NOTICE

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IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Bi

hitherto carried THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL TRADING COMPANY in this Colony has been transferred and taken over by THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL TRADING COMPANY, INCORPORATED, OF CALIFORNIA. in the United States of America.

INTIMATIONS

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 20TH, 1917.

ST. GEORGE'S DAY. APRIL 23RD, 1917,

FAST SAILING MODEL YACHT,

27 inches in length, Automatis Steering Gear.

RAFFLED.

TO BE

TICKETS...

$1.

To be obtained from the Ladies; Ou view at THOS. COOK & SON's Office Made and kindly presented by Lieut POOLEY, R.N.R.

[$28

PUBLIC COMPANIES

HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY, LIMITED

(Incorporated in the United Kingdom.)

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the NORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. of the HONGKONG TRAMWAY COM PANY, LIMITED, will be held at the Offices of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.

INTIMATION

the military regine in Belgium. Then The Hon. Treasurer of the Alien

ада followed the slaughter of women and Memorial

Affiliated Hospitals; children in undefended towns in England acknowledges with thanks the following by bombs from Zeppelins and shella donations to the funds of the hospitals. from warships. Horror has succeeded China and Japan Telephone Co., #211.82, horror, until at last, we find that the M. Alves & Co 826, Hon. Mr. Chai- infamous beast, called German kultur, ham, C.M.G., C. H. Gale, C. H. Blason, has turned upon its own people, and G. Ludin, G. W. Barton, G. A. Dunlop, G. Tisdall, and W. J. Tutcher, $10 onch..

has committed its Intest outrage upon

Polder Street, Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY, ROBERT PORTER & SONS those who have never protested against

the 25th day of April, 1917, at 12 o'clock Nooxy to transact the ordinary business of the Сопараду.

By Order of the Board,

No

W. E. ROBERTS,

Secretary. Hongkong, 2nd March, 1917.

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UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF

CANTON, LTD. HONGKONG GYMKHANA CLUB.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS SINHE FIRST GYMKHANA MEETING.

The Season will be held at HAPPY TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the. VALLEY, TOMORROW (SATURDAY), the

ORDINARY FORTY-FOURTH YEARLY MEETING of the Society will be at April, 1817, sommencing 3 P.. The Charge of Admission will be Si forheld at its Head Office, No. 4, Queen's Buildings, others than Members of the HONGKONG JOCKEY Hongkong, on THURSDAY, the 26th April, CLUB OF GYMKRANA CLUB

1917, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directore together with the 1916 Statements of Account to 31st December, and of declaring Dividenda, &c.REZZAT the Society The TRANSFER BOOKS of the will be CLOSED from 16th April, to 26th April, both daya inclusive.

Soldiers and Sailors in uniform free. The Committee invite the Ladies of Hong- kong to be present..

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COLONIAL

I

SECRETARY'S

DEPARTMENT.

18 HEREBY NOTIFIED that the

I cover are Nopred to LET is OFFICE to suitable tenant Room No. 5 on the Top Floor of the Post Offee Building (New Government Office) in Pedder Street on yearly tensacy,

Further particulars and conditions of lotting may be obtained on application at the Office of the Director of Public Works,

CLAUD SEVERN, Colonial Secretary. Hongkong, 13th April, 1917.

TO LET IN KOWLOON. IMMEDIATE POSSESION.

By Order of the Board.

C. MONTAGUE EDE,

··General Manager. Hongkong, 14th April, 1917.

[16 CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY

LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

ATÓTÍCE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

FORTY EIGHTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its Head Office, No. 4. Queen's

Buildings, Hongkong Or THURSDAY, the

26th April, 1917, at $12,30 PM. for the

together. of receiving the Report of the Directors [$14 with the Statements of Acount to 31st Decem

ber, 1916, and of declaring Dividends, &c.

FULLY FURNISHED up-to-date FLAT. Every modern conveni-

FLAT.

ou

by

A

ence.

Apply

Care of "Daily Press "Moe, [534

TO LET.

The business of the Corporation will be carried on by Ms. JAMES.D, COURTNEY

RA Attorney for the Corporation..

Dated the 14th April, 1917.

THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL

TRADING COMPANY,

Post Office Buildings,

TO LET.

1543

BULL

DOG

LIGHT ALE

IN PINTS AND SPLITS.

Details of the Fancy Fele and Cafe, its provious work of devilry. If the Chantant to be held at the Volunteer German women will stand the systematic Headquarters on the afternoon of St. desecration of their dead they will aub George's Day are given in our advertise. mit to anything. Imagine the feelings ment columns. The entrance fee of $3 of any British mother or wifo on to the Cafe Chantant includes the cost learning that the dead body of the son or of tea. For the side-shows an additiona) husband who had given his life for his $1 each will be charged. The rate for country had been subjected to a treatment children is $1 for entrance and Cafe the details of which are too nauseating | Chantunt, and half-price (ie. 80 cents). and revolting to describe. Yet this for the side-shows. latest infumy is only the logical conse quence of a policy outlined by two such hideous ideas Necessity knows no law" and "Might, is Right." If the ghoulish work did not so utterly blaat our hopes of a regeneration of our enemies, if it did not make us feel so intensely ashamed of the fact that this nation has had all the advantages of the western civilisation of which we are so Frond. we could almost feel that there was something in the nature of poetic justice that the people who have allow

éd this lonthsome beast called kultur to

At the Hongkong Criminal Scasiona yesterday five men charged with armed

robbery and kidnapping at Lantau, Island were sentenced to cloven years"

hard labour each by Sir William Roes

Davies--seven years each for robbery and A Chinese four years for kidnapping. postman and a Sanitáry Board coolie who were charged in connection with the larceny and uttering of a cheque were each sentenced to three years' hard labour:

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grow up in their midst should experience | STANDARD OIL TRADE MARK.

BOLE AGENTS:

at its hands the anguish and "terror

CHINESE OIL DEALER FINED.

The fact that a Chinese oil dealer of

which it has carried all over Europe. -To attribute, as me wall-meaning individuals are likely to do, the blame Queen's Hond West user dises or trade to modern marks which closely resembled the "Eagle" mark of the Standard Oil Com- It is very

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company A. S. WATSON & for these horrible deeds

will be CLOSED from 16th April to 20th April, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board,

O MONTAGUE EDE,

General Manager, Hongkong 14th April, 1917. ? [527 BRITISH TRADERS INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED,

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the LY MEETING of the Company will be hell st its Head Offc-No. 4 Queen's Buildings. Hongkong, on THURSDAY, the 26th April, 1917, at 12.45 PM.. for the purpose of receiving the Repurt of the Directors together with the Statements of Account to 31st December 1916 and of declaring Dividends, de

NO. 2 STEWART TERRACE, PEAL, FIFTY-FIRST ORDINARY TEA

-Furnished. Apply to-

1. E. POLLOCK,

Prince's Buildings.

TO LET

TO. 25, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL, OFFICES to Let.

1st Floor (above the Dragon Garage, suitable for Officer, &e.

Apply to-

ALEX. ROSS & Co., No. 4, Des Voeux Road Central.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

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THE Undersigned has received instructieas

to sell by Public Auction,

ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, the 25th and 28th. April, 1917, commencing erol day at 11 AM, (and continuing in the afternoon), at his Sales Kooms, Daddell Street,

A LARGE Quantity of BLACK AND BROWN BOOTS AND SHOES, Patent Leather Dress Boots, Buckskin Bonta and Shoes. Repe Bole Shoes, Fina Quality Coloured Linen Soft Shirts, White Woollen Bweaters, Woollen Testa, American Lizen Under Suite, Bath Gowns, Bathing Suits and

Apply

Bor No. 14, Care of Daily Pross" Office. [315

TO LET.

No. 3, A. & B. ROBINSON ROAD.

Apply to

DAVID SASSOON & Co., LAD

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TO LET.

TMMEDIATE entry, very

INDIA BY For Try desirable opposite the Grand Hotel, recently recon- structed.

For rent and other particulars apply to-- THE MANAGER, HONGKONG ICE Co., LTD., 46, Connaught Road Central,

1401

TO LET:

Company

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the will be CLOSED from 16th April to 28th April, both days

By Order of the

C. MONTAGUE EDE,

Genral Manager, Hongkong, 14th April, 1917. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ [18. CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

Y-SIXTH ORDINARY THE THIRTY

MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS. will be held at the Offices of the Undersigned on THURSDAY, the 3rd May, 1917, at Noon.

The TRANSFER the

will be CLOSED from the 19th fastanompany 3rd May, both days inclusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.

General Agents. Hongkong, 16th April, 1917.

THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO.,

LIMITED.

Drawers Silk and Lisle Socks, Silk Ties, Sun 1 NEW HOUSE in Conduit Rondwin Company & Offlovs. St. George's Buildings, On Hats, Straw Hate, Silk Mullers, Lady's and Gent's Raincosta,

A Quantity of REAL PANAMA HATS On view from TUESDAY, the 24th inst.

Catalogues will be issued.

Terms: Cash.

GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.

1545

ST. GEORGE'S DAY, MONDAY, APRIL 28RD, 1917.

DISTRIBUTION OF BADGES, ETC.

Daddell Street.

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the TWENTY-EIGHTH ORDINARY Ready GENERAL MEETING will be held st the SATURDAY, the 5th May, 1917, at 12 o'clock Noon, for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts to 28th February, 1917, and slecting Directora and Auditors,

For rent and other particulare apply to--

H.M.H. NEMAZEE, 1. Don Voeux Read

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Fou

TO LET

MOUR-BOOMED HOUSES in Gordon Terrace and Salisbury Avenue, Kowloot,

A FLAT in Humphreys Buildings, Kowloon

TO LEA OR FOR SALE KOWLOON MARINE LOT.49 #ith whart are 58,000 sq. ft., suitable for Coul Storage or erection of Godowns.

Apply to

Went out

ITH reference to the Circular Letter the Ladies' Committee, by will Ladies in charge of Centros kindly note that for the Convenience of those desirous of attending the Gymkhana to be held at Happy Valley on the afternoon of SATURDAY, the 21st inst, TRAYS, TINS and BADGES will ba Tistributed and 1. P.M. continued in the CITY HALL OR SATURDAY. between

The Distribution will be continued afternoon between the hours of 2.30 and 5.7.MO MONDAY, APRIL 23rd, the Centre On Depot has been changed from the City Hall to the HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB PAVILION (kindly lent by the Committee of the KONG CRICKET CLUB). It is therefore requested that

all Tins be handed in st the CRICKET CLUB PAVILION and not as previously advised at the City Hall.

[291

TO LET.

FFICES at 2, Connaught Road Central, OFFICES in King's and York Buildings, HOUSES in Clifton Gurions, Conduit Road. HOUSES in Broadwood And Moreton

CO., LTD.,

science is utterly illogical. rouch like blaming the pistol with whichpany led to the dealer being charged with a man blows out the bruins of a detrade mark infringement at the Hong-

kong Magistracy yesterday. Science is something fenceless child.

Mr. E. J. Grist appeared to prosecute, like a weapon; it assists mankind in

and Mr F. X. D'Almada defended-

Mr. Grist mentioned that the defen WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, the great struggle against Nature. The

supreme crime of the Germans has beendant carried on an oil business at 321, that they have prostituted the uses of Quern's Road West, On April 4t he this weapon, forged at such pains by had in his possesion fifteen cases of noble band of workers, whose lives of kerosene bil to which the Eagle” murk self-denial, and devotion have been of of the Standard Oil had been applied. enormous value in the praceful develop. When the premises were visited by a ments of the world. The extraordinary Sanitary Inspector work was going on organisation for the exploitation of the at the premises, and men were employed dead proclaims, beyond w donht, that in putting oil into tins. The Inspretor the whole gruesome business is the also found all the apparatus on the pre result of a carefully thought-out plan.inises for putting on to the tins the false We are utterly unable to understand how or forged trade mark or cap,

HONGKONG.

TELEPHONE BIG,

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Dongrong 'Orvice: 192, Das Vava Roan, C.

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG 20TH APRIL, 1917,

Lowner Urruz. 181, Fisar dikait, EG. any but the most degraded races, such Mr. W. D, Kraft, assistant manager of as cannibals and head-hunters, could the Standard Oil Company in Hongkong, sink to such loathsome practices. By said the Company wars the registered thef defiance of all laws, human and owners of the Eagle mark in respect to kerosene oil The marks produced were divine, throughout this war the Germans the genuine onts. He had inspected have not only antagonised the rest of various tins which had been shown to him

in Court. Soven of the tins wire the humanity; they have shocked mankind.

property of the Company, and each" had Their references to ALMIGHTY GOD have a trade mark similar to the one produced THE GHOULS.

been, according to our ideas of religion, placed upon them. Those marks, or capt, were forgeries of the Standard Oil mark, and a casual observer ALTHOUGH the words of the German alternately blasphemous and patronis-Eagle Chancellor at the outbreak of war shocking. Their lies, their boasting, their would not notice the difference between He had the genuine and false marks: ed the moral sense of all decent people, vanity and their cruelty have arrayed had the oil contained in these seven tins few anticipated then the dreadful results against their the world in arms. The analysed by the Government analyst, and,

property of the Standard Oil Cổ which would follow an adhesion to the latest outrage they have offered to the according to that test, the oil was not Questioned by D'Almada, witness doctrine that "Necessity knows no law. most sacred feelings of mankind makes The world has been horrified by the us not only sick and blazingly indig- said he would examine the disc or trade

with shame. latest result of the pitiless logic of rulers nant; it submerges us

as Wo knew this German who base the actions upon the savagery Terrible underlying the rule (Might is Right Frankenstein to be, it has done some For two and a half years the Germans thing of which have systematically perpetrated the most enemy could never have conceived it to revolting crimes upon their enemies. be possible. It remains to be seen how These crimes have not been the result the German people will treat the rulers of isolated outbreaks of savagery by who thus shamefully desecrate their certain regiments, which, in the flush of dead. victory or the sting of defeat, wreaked

its most maddened

the

mark on tin before purchasing oil. The "Eagle" mark had been registered får more than ten years. He did not thin any of the discs, which were made at Lai Chi Kok, could be stolen, us a very strict inventory was kept; and the Com pany did not discard any badly made or worn out marks,

Inspector Taylor spoke to visiting the

in connection with limewashing. At the Brentises of the defendant on the 4th inst. same time he inspected the basement to see if it was inhabited or not, as tho owner of the property had been probibik ed from using it. Upon going down to the basement he saw a man at work over & Chinese chatty. The electric light was switched out as he (witness) was Witness shouted going down the stairs. for the light to be put on. It was switch-

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Compsay will be CLOSED from the 21st April to the 5th May, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., A rente Hongkong, 17th April. 1817

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HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI

BANKING CORPORATION. their vengeance in the loathsome To-day is America's Day, and through VOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that methods with which, unfortunately, we out Great Britain the Stars and Stripes

Corticato No. 5/NB 1966 dated HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE. Hongkong 21st February 1912, for Thrs have been made so familiar. The most will float beside the Union Jack over all

Co., IAD.,

Shares numbered 67689, 14921, and 89906 horrible

ed on for a few seconds and way then Government buildings. e of German frightful- Alstandra Buildings.

put out again. An occupant said the registered in the name of Mrs. Mabla Das NEVES RIBEIRO has been LOST or STOLEN.

Resa"

that it has been due to Dr., W. W. Yen, Chinese Minister to wires had been out and a kerosene lamp

was brought by a foki.

Witness again and should this Certificate not be produced to the Heck before the 11th day of M, 1917, malice aforethought on the part of the Germany, bas Rent a private telegram to naked the occupants to switch on the elec New Certificate for the shares will be issued, leaders of the nation; men who have had his family in Shanghai informing them tric light, which they did. Witness went and the aforesaid Certificate No. 5/N8 1956 will thereafter be treated by this Corporation free access to the best literature of the that he has left Germany for Denmark to the far end of the basement, and, found a box apparently soaked with kerosene oil. He also found many tins full world, and who deliberately blunted (says the Peting and Tientsin Times). as Nail and Void. A

By Order of the Court of Directors,

N. J STABB,

not only their own moral sense, but the

We have been asked to state that the kerosene oil, a drawer full of tin discs, trade marks, some soldering liquid Chief Manager. moral sense of whole people

Parece community have

and materials, a funnel for filling tins Hongkong, 11th April, 1917.

When the reign of terror in Belgium cheque for you the bestnetary and Northern Trance commenced, we of the local much of the Overseas Club HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB

offen wondered what excuse those who towards the fund for providing an aero had maltreated defenceless women and plane NHE HALF YEARLY MEETING of childrens could possibly offer for Tember will be held on SATURDAY, childr the 21st April, 1017, at 12 o'clock Nook, at the their fiendish conduct to their own Offlors of the Jooner Clun, on the Ground For Summer Months. No. 61, PEAK (Sir Floor of the HONGKONG CLUB ANNEIR, Chater People who remained at home. There is, in the paychology of every woman, some TCLOSED for the transaction of EX- Roomed House), Farnished

By Order,

T. F. HOUGH thing which instinctively makea here revenue was $100,861,22 as compared in Possession Street.

Hongkong, 8th April, 1817.

HONG

The distribution of TINS TRAYS M BADGES, eta, on SATURDAY next, will

ake place at the CITY HALL

ST. GEORGE'S DAY,

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EXCHANGE BANKS will be

CHANGE BUSINESS on MONDAY, the 23rd instant, at IP.M

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Hongkong, 18th April, 1917. HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

NOTICE.

TH

HEHONGKONGSTOCK EXCHANGE will be CLOSED on MONDAY, 23rd April 1917, at 1 P., ST. GEORGE'S DAY.

By Order,

R. HANCOCE,

[3.80

Perabot.

HOUSES on Sharean, Canton.

Apply to→

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT AND AGENCY Co, LED. [28

TO LET.

170. 8. CAMERON VILLAS, No. 63, Tám

PRAE, Furnished. No. 65, ELGIN STREET.

Bond

9, Nathan Bosd,

N», 2. “ FAIRVIEW," Kowloon,

BROOMED HOUSE at Mount Kellett. Furnished for 5 or 6 months. -

N. 12, BEACONSFIELD

SHOPCONEX

KELLETA OREST, 66, Prax

ARCADE

No. 25 BELILIOS TERRACE, with atrinos on Conduit Bowd. A

TWO GODOWNS, in Duddell Streek,

No. 2, DES YOUX VILLAR, 31, PYAE (Unfurnished)

Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS,

58rd Floor, Alexandra Baildars.

NOTICE

T500

ᎾᎢ

and about eighty empty tins

brand on the premises,

Inspector Terrett spoke to securing all the appartus and false discs under a war- rant. He ales said that be found much oil of an inferior brand to the Eagle

including oil in Standard Oil tina The report of the Hongkong Police Defendant, in the witness-box, said that some of the tins had been leaking and a 1916

tinsmith was employed to solder up the states that the mumber of cases was 15,057 tins and this man had used the Bises

which were found for this purpose.

This an compared with 12,283 in 1916, and tinsmith was not in Court,

Magistrates Court for year

but

be lived

would

bave

Mr. Grist suggested that it Clerk of the Courseshampion of the honour of her sex and

been in defendant's favour if the tin- [390")

a protector of the weak and suffering. I with 875,130.13 for 1915.

amith had been called; and it was some- Next Sunday, the 22nd instant, numerous what significant that he had not been call- exists, of course, in the mental composi tion of all decent men; but we rightly girls and boys will make their first comed to give evidence. It was a very bad associate the gentle sex with the most munion in the Cathedral of the Imma case indeed much inferior oil being put into. Standard Oil Company'a tins, THE Daton for completion of the vanim lofty ideals which they enshrine in their culate Conception. Bishop Pozzoni will and be asked for the full fine of $100 to

ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB PROFESSIONAL PAIRS.

Rounds are Extended One Week

KM CUMMING,

Hon. Becretary.

own persons. It seemed utterly impos officiate and administer the Bacrament, sible that German mothers could fail The Low Poutifical Mass will commence to recoil from the intense barbarity of at 7am.

bo-imposed, and that defendant should

this be made to pay the costs":

Mr. Melbourne imposed a fiue of $100, but gave no order me to costs.