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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.

THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company

TH will be CLOSED from the 2nd May to

23rd May, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD, General Managers. Hongkong, 21st April, 1917.

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WANTED-IMMEDIATELY. (ECON) ENGINEER for British Steamer Manila $20 Philippine "StarMAN."

currency.

Apply

G.

18, NATHAN BOAD,

Kowloon

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B.

VICTORIA GAOL: HERE is a VACANCY in the Victoria To for Hospital Warder.

Salary:-40 to $1,200 per annum on com plation of a year's satisfactory probation. together with $10 per month. House Allowance Candidates must be under 35 years of age, of good education, and physique.

Knowledge of Medicine not sexential, as s suitable man will be inatenated.

Further particulars can be obtained by personal application at Victoris Gaol between 10, and 12 Noos.

No application will be received after the 30th lostaat.

C. Mc. I. MESSER,

Superintendent,

Vistoria Geol. [555

ST. GEORGE'S DAY. TODAY (MONDAY, APRIL 23RD.

WET OR FINE.

FANCY FETE AND

CAFE CHANTANT,

AT

VOLUNTEER HEADQUARTERS (Specially covered in, and brilliantly lit by alectricity).

Continuons Performance from 3.30 F.M. to 6 P.M.

CAFE CHANTANT

IN

DRILL HALL.

MOVING PICTURES,

JUGGLERS,

AGROBATS, SINGERSĮ INSTRUMEN-

TALISTS, VENTRILOQUISTS,

ELOCUTIONISTS, Ero.

WORDS and SPACE precinde giving fall and STARTLING DETALLS of the magnificent assembly of TALENT, WIT, MUSIC, sal "SPENDENT SPECTACULAR.”.

SEE the MÉNAGERIE and SIGNOR

TOBOLSKI.

FEED the ELEPHANT. HEAR the VENTRILOQUIST-PROF.

YUUALI," D.A.N.I.LA. LISTEN to the " MUŠICAL T., AMPS.”

and

DON'T FORGET the "MOVING

PICTURES."

Extrance Feen:

To CAFE CHANTANT (including Tes):

Adulte......3, Children......81. To SIDE SHOWS.

Adults....1, Quildren... ...500ks For FULL PARTICULARS 06 Official Programme, to be had on the Premises for a mere Medicam.

A WELCOME FOR ALL and their Money,

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HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

NOTICE.

THEHONGKONGSTOCK EXCHANGE Twill be CLOSED TO-DAY (MONDAY) 23rd April 1917, at 1 P.M., ST. GEORGE'S DAY.

By Order,

THEATRE

R. HANCOCK, Secretary,

1380

ROYAL.

SCENES FROM

SHAKESPEARE”

(as arranged for ST. GEORGE'S DAY) WILL BE REPEATED IN AID OF WAR CHARITIES ON WEDNESDAY, 25TH APRIL MATINEE AT 5 PM

ON SATURDAY, 28TH APHL, AT 9.15 P.M. Booking at Mass. HOUTRIE & Co. PRICES AS USUAL: $2,

$3,

$1.

(Children Hall-Price on the Matinee). Soldiers and Sailor in uniform will be admitted at Fall-Price:

NOTICE.

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by

PUBLIC COMPANIES

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 23ED, 1917.

HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY LIMITED

(Incorporated in the United Kingdom.) ··

TOFICE HEREBY that the

INTIMATIONS

PUBLIC AUCTION,

THE Undersigned has received instructions

to sell by Pablia Auction,

ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY.-

NORDINARY GENERAL MEETING the 25th and 26th April, 1917, commemoing

of the HONGKONG TRAMWAY COM PANY, LIMITED, will be held at the Offices of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD., Pedler Street, Hongkong on WEDNESDAY, the 25th day of April, 1917, at 12 o'clock Noon, to transact the ordinary of the Company

By Order of the Board,

W. E. HOBERTS,

Sourecary. Hongkong, End March, 1917.

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UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF

CANTON, LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FORTY-FOURTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Soolaty will be. Hongkong, on THURSDAY, the 26th April, held at ite Head Offee, No. 4, Queen's Buildings, 1917, at Noos, for

of receiving the the pregime Report of the Directors together with the and of declaring Dividemis Statements of Account to 1st December, 1916,

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

By Order of the Board.

C. MONTAGUE' EDE, General Manager.

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CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED,

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the No

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

Buildings, Honor 12.80 P.35., for this purpose 28th April, 1917, at

of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statements of Account to 31st Decem ber, 1916, and of declaring Dividends, &c.

each day it 11 AM (and continuing in thê afternoon), at his Sales Rooms, Daddell Stree

A LARGE QUANTITY OF BLACK AND BROWN BOOTS AND SHOES, Patent Leather Dress Boete, Buckskin Boots and Shoes, Rope Sole Shoes, Fine Quality. Coloured Linen Soft Shirts, White Woollen Bwoaters, Woollen Veete, American Linen Under Suite, Bath Gowns, Bathing Suits and Drawers,

Silk

and Lisle Socks, Silk Tice, San Hote

Straw Hate, Silk Matters, Lady's ad Gent's RaincoatEAL PANAMA HATS

A Quantity of

On view from TUESDAY, the 24th inst. Catalogues will be issued. Terms-Cash..

GEO. P. LAMMEET,

Auctioneer: Ma

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NOTICE.

ROYAL HONGKONG GOLD CLUB. GOVERNOR'S CUP FOR "BHANGHAI" FOURSOMES.

FUL

FULL particulars are posted on the Club's

Notice Boards as Entries olose 30th April.

KM CUMMING, Hon. Secretary.

WANTED.

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NOUR or FIVE-ROOMED HOUSE,

Furnished, about May 15th. Middle levels preferred,

Apply

"A. D." Care of " Daily Prom" Office. [547

10 TRANSFER BOORS of the Company N25. Pls above the Dragon Garage,

will be CLOSED from 16th April to 26th April, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board, -

C. MONTAGUE EDE,

General Manager. Hongkong, 14th April, 1917.

No

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TO LET DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL, suitable for Offices, &c.

Apply to→

ALEX. BOSS & Co., No. 4, Des Vox Road Central. (544

NFurnished.

TO LET.

0.3. STEWART TERRACE, Prax,

Apply to→→

BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.. JOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIFTY-FIRST ORDINARY YEAR- LY MEETING of the Company will be held at its Head Office. No. 4, Queen's Buildings, Hongkong, on THURSDAY, the 28th April, OFFICES 1917, at 12.45 P... for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statements of Account to 3 let December, 1916, und of declaring Dividends, &c.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 16th April to 26th April, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board,

C. MONTAGUE EDE, General Manager,

[518 Hongkong, 14th April, 1917.

CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS, THE THIRTY-SIXTH ORDINARY will be held at the Offices of the Undersigned, on THURSDAY, the 3rd May, 1917, at Noox. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 19th instant to the 3rd May, both days inclusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,

General Agenta Hongkong, 16th April, 1917,

INTIMATION

&

fined; the houses of the unemployed wore have gone to dig trenches in France; raided; the roon were seized and sent off some, it is believed, are destined for: to unknown destinations and to German Roumania; some have been forced to work. Such sets were breaches of inter- | sign agreements to work in Germany: gational law, ernel violations of the Wherever it may be they are alike in rights of a civilian population, and this--that they are out off entirely from contrary to every feeling of pity and their homacy,

The Imperial Chancellor, in the early humanity. Men by the thousands have been taken from their homes, forced to daya of the war, when the prospects of ROBERT PORTER & SON'S work, and treated an if they had no victory seemed vory bright, cynically human rights at all. The only excuse admitted that the invasion of Belgium crime. His frankness blasted that Germany has offered is that these was men were out of work, and work had Germany's reputation for honesty and to be found for them. Could shy state honour-and her Ministers can no longer of unemployment justify such measures? afford to be truthful. So we find Herr Yut this state of unemployment, which HELSERRICH getting up in the Reichstag Germany pretends to remedy, she care to explain the elave driving in Belgium fully and deliberately created. Cho has as thoroughly consonant with Inter- forced Belgian citizens to do military national Law," after the Socialists had work for her, to build. aerodromes, to denounced the deportations as contrary dig trenches to nid her directly in fight to The Hague Convention and pointed ing against their Allies and against their out that the neutral nations had pro- own countrymen, not because they had tested against them, HerT HELPEREICH "They will not be no work but because she brad, first of went on to say:

given any work which, according 40 all, taken their work from them!

The National Committee of Belgium international law, they should not per- form. Moreover, in so doing we fulfil has, since the first days of the German

our duty towards our own troops. They occupation, provided work for the un-

BULL

DOG

LIGHT ALE

IN PINTS AND SPLITS,

SOLE AGENTS:

A. S. WATSON

CO., LTD.,

&September,

employed. Its efforts were approved by have an interest in eering that peace the German authorities and have been and order should provail in those dis- very successful. It was helped by the tricts. There is no greater enemy to action of many manufacturers who kept order than idioness. It would be in. their factories opex, and, though unable tolerable that an idle and turbulent po- to run them at a profit, were able to pulation should remain there. It is in pay their workpeople small wages until the interests of the generally good and industrious workmen of Belgium that public work could be found for them,

should not bo people who when they were released that they might there.

in and Year out idly fold earn the higher communal wages, Such year

their hands. The population must was the position at the beginning of

not lose hope in the future of its own and BO successful were the Committee's efforts that in the pra country," This statement is a series of vince of Luxemburg, for example, there calculated lies, deliberately made to were no unemployed at all. In September deceive the German public, for Herr the German authorities suddenly stopped HELPERRION surely could not hope to mis lead. neutral nations like America and this work in many communes, and large Holland, who have done so much for WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, numbers of men became unemployed. Belgium and her people and are well informed as to the conditions obtaining there before and during the deporta tions. We know that Germany is de sperate for men. We know from these two years of war that she can act with- out pity and scruple; yet, even knowing to believe before the fact that she would. these things, we should have besitated force a whole people into slavery, drivo them like cattle from their homes, and starve them till they worked for her. That, however, is what she is doing. Can any nation dishonour itself by speaking committed? of peace when such crimes are being

HONGKONG,

H. F. POLLOCK.

Prince's Buildings,

TO LET..

TELEPHONE 6ld.

FFICES to Lot.

Apply

Bax No. 14, Care of Daily Pres" Q5p

TO LET

0. S, A. & B. ROBINSON ROAD, 'No.

Apply to

DAVID SASSOON & Co., LTD. [473

TO LET NEW HOUSE in Condali Bond. Ready for occupation. Also 1 GODOWN in For rent and other particulars apply to

H.M.H. NEMAZEE, 1 Des Voeur Bad,

Duddell Street

TO LET.

18 (402

MMEDIATE entry, Four very desirable SHOPS tasted in Too Home Street,

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MARRIAGE.

Christ BROUGHTON PRIESTLEY. ---At

Church, Ashton-u-Lyne, Lancashire, on March 3rd, by the Rev. Canon. F. H. Burrows, Joan LEASTER, younger son of WILLIAM W. BROUGH Manchester TON, Whalley Range, (and Shanghai), to ANNIE, youngest daughter of Mrs. PRIESTLEY, Balis- bury House, Ashton-u-Lyne,

The authorities admitted that they hope to compel these men to work on German railways or in German factories.

But

Mr. Francis Aslet has been appointed to be a Second Class Sanitary Inspector.

The Wing Hung Steamship Co., Ltd., and the Wa On Co, Ltd., have been struck off the Register.

the Belgian employers at once reopened their factories, and took back their men, and so the first attempt to drive Belgians to German work failed. It was followed at once by a second. All workmen were outside their own. forbidden to work

Those who know Belgium communes, know that the communes are very small, nad that the majority of labourers work beyond them. The immediate effect of this second decree was that thousands The German authorities Lecarne idle. had prepared the conditions that they desired. At once they were turned to account. We will follow this now slave trade, as it was carried out in one town of Brabant, for it is typical of scores of DEATH. DAWSON At the Government Civil Hos-others. The military authority de manded 100 men. The municipality re- pital, Hongkong, at 3 am on Satur- day, 21st April, EDWARD WILLIAM DAWSON, of the Revenue Department,fused to supply them or give a list of names, or to do more than announce the aged 38 years.

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work and leave the men to accept or It was in-

to be obeyed: The Aldermen were con- formed that German orders were made

Gned to their houses and the town was fned £5,000 a day until the men were found. Then the German authority took steps to find there. The Director of the Unemployment Service refused to hand

At the offices of the Hongkong Sani. over his lists. He was imprisoned; bietary Department on Saturday morning lists were seized, and the police were Inspectors W. Old and S. Kelly were the occasion of their leaving Hongkong with Ler those who have spoken of peace, who forced to go from house to house and recipients of farewell presents on the have lent an ear to the offers of terms arrest the unemployed. As if that were the intention of proceeding to the front. A Chinese boatman has reported to that Germany has made, who are in not enough, all workmen, whether cm-

refuse it as they desired.

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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO.,

LIMITED.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

TWENTY EIGHTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING will be held at the Company's Offices. St. George's Buildings, on SATURDAY, the 5th May, 1917, at 12 o'clock Noor, for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts to 28th February, 1917, and electing Directors and Auditors.

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

By Order of the Board of Directors,

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO. Agente Hongkong, 17th April, 1917

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HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Certificate No. 5/N8 1856 dated

opposite the Grand Hotel, recently recon-

strusted-

For rent and other particulam spply tom THE MANAGER HONGKONG ICE Co., Ln.. 46, Connaught Road Central.

E401

TO LIT.

MOUR-ROOMED HOUSEB in Gordon me and Bellsbery Avesne, KiwJonn.

kingayne Urrice, ils, Das vœux Road, O. LONDOR OFFICE: 181, FLU SEE, F,C.

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, 138 APRIL, 1917.

VAE VICTIS,

Mr Tee Ching-fong Senior Chinese-

ap-t Master, Queen's College, has been pointed a public vaccinator,

Mr. Gordon Lowder is going as Com-. missioner to Aroy, and Mr. Mayers is leaving Amoy for Chinking

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The Rev. Father Agustini Plazeck, Roman Catholic Cathedral yesterday, made -11 brief reference to the virtues of St. George. preaching in the

Mr. R. A Lawson, of Mesra, Butter- field & Swire, who won the golf cham-y pionship of Shanghai this season, has Government,

Home to offer his services to the

17-

·wharf area: 58,000 th witable for Cool clined to think that the Allies shouldployed or not, who were met in the the police that on Friday night three

A FLAT in Humphreye Buildings, Kowloon TO LET OR FOR SALE. ~KOWLOON MARINE LOT 9 with Storage or creation of Godovia,

Apply to

HUMPHRHYS ESTATE FINANCE Co., LT Alexandrs Ballding

FO LET.

OFFICES in King's and York Buildings. HOUSES In Clifton Gardens, Conduri Bosd HOUSES L. Broadwood and Mersion Tran

HOUSES mi Bhameen, Canton.

Apply 10--

MENT AND AGENCY CO, LTD, '

forget the past and be content to have street were also swept in. They were armed men boarded his boas in Yaumati ter of the boat received a stab ground, board were bound and saved themselves from present, destruc confined in the barracks that night; their Bay and got away with $300. The mas tion, read what Germany is doing now anxious women who gathered there in and all one in Belgium. She is treating her as she the hope of woeing them were driven off; gagged. would treat a native Schutzgebiete, and the next day the men were carried forcing labour from the unhappy people away. Similar slave raids were made in with the same brutality that she used to many towns and villages. Men the despised natives of East Africa, com taken wholesale. As maXY BE mitting cruelties there in her days of thousand went from Belgian Flanders in desperation greater even than the cruel-one week. They were taken with every circumstance of discomfort and cruelty. ties with which she celebrated her

were

fifteen

The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Afiliated Hospitals, ac knowledges with thanks the following donations of the Hospitals Dairy. Farm Co., $100; C. G. Alabaster, $15; N. Yanagita, $10; J. D. F. Mulder, $10; Morris, $5. SE Green, 10; J. Bentley, 310; A

THE HOW AND INVEST hours of victory. In numerous pro. Nothing was done to make a brutal A dinner was given at the Hongkong

Hongkong 21st February 1912, for ThreeFFICES at 2, Connaught Road Central, Share anmbered 67659, 14321, and 69966 registered in the name of Mrs. MARIA DAS NEVES ILIBEIRO has been LOST or STOLEN, and should this Certificato not be produced fa the Bank before the 11th day of May, 1917, New Certificate for the shares will be issued, and the aforesaid Certificate 5/NG 1956

No. will thereafter be treated by this Corporation

Null'and Vold. ZA TUMA By Order of the Court of Directors,

N. J. STABB,M)

Chief Manager,

1500 Hongkong, 11th April, 1817,- HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

NOTICE

IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that the

carried

by Business hitherto THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL TRADING COMPANY in this Colony has been transferred and taken ov TRE INTRESATIONAL COMMERCIAL TRADING COMPANY, INCORPORATED, OF CALIFORNIA, in the United States

The business of the Corporation will be darried on by the

1D COURTNEY Attorney for Dated the 14th April, 1917, THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL

TRADING COMPANY.

Post Oflee Balidings

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HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER of Americ

TO LET

198

auspices of St. John's Ambulance open cattle trucks, exposed to all wea Brigade Mr R Ralph (Officer in clamations, General von Biaging, the decree less harsh. They were packed in Hotel on Saturday evening under the was supported by a numerous company, military governor, whose death was an- nounced a few days ago, professed his there, and poorly fed Many went for charge of the District) presided

three days without food at all. Most which included Bir Charles Eliot, Lt- McKenny, Mr. A. W. Holyoak, Da NO.8, CAMERON VILLAS, No. 83 Ta desire to see the economie life of the with firmnere refused to do the military Col. Ward, MP the Hon. Mr. P. # Letwork to which they were not. They were Grant, and several of the leading mem

bers of the Chinese Community

FAX, Furnished. Vitex

country restored. In Angust last he No 55, ELGIN STREET. For Summer Months. No. 61, FEAK (Six rennounced that persons in receipt of

charity who refused to work would be at once put in close confinement, with Boomed House) Fornished.

EFAIRVIEW. No

SW,” 8, Nathan Road,

punished. He even punished those who nowhere to sleep and with insufficient Kowloon

8-BOOMED HOUSE Mount Kelleti,

gave charity to the poor—a Gorman ver- food, until they were slowly starved into NEXTRAORDINARY GENERAL

MEETING of all Members of the Furnished for 5 or 6 months, leg

No.12, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE sion of the Beatitude-because by zo submission. The very beasts that work doing they encouraged them to refuse for Germany were treated more humans OF COMMERCE called for 431 P.M.

2ND TEL. 66, PRAX TOMORROW (TUESDAY) the 24th April,

No. will German work. So anxious was he toy. To hide their infamies as far as they in the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BOOM,

secure employment for all, that he order can, the Germans have preserved the New Government Building. All Members untrance on Continii Road

TWO GODOWN8, in Duddall Streek. are strongly urged to be present.

By Order,

No. 1 DES VOUX VILLAS, 51, PRAK ed the communal burgomasters to pro- greatest secrecy. The men, taken and vide him with lists of their unemployed. denly in the street, are sent neither they E. & M. WILLIAMS, (Unfurnished),

Boeretary

Apply LINSTEAD & DAVIS 1519

Hal Flour, Alesandra Baillie If they refused they were imprisoned and nor their families know whither. Some Hongkong, 20th April, 1917

At the Hongkong Criminal Sessions

Chinese was charged with making a on Saturday, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty in the case in which misstatement of affairs in bankruptcy commented "All I can say is that yo In discharging the man the Chier te

are a very lucky man." Two Chin

imprisonment and another to two year who were charged in connection with forgery were sentenced one to a rea imprisonment