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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

TENNIS TOURNAMENT.

FINAL FIXTURES (Weather Permitting), -typ „TO-DAY. (TUESDAY), 15TH MAY, SEMI-FINAL PROFESSIONAL PAIRS.

8. E. GREEN and 8. H. DODWELL

11,

J. M. SOETERS and H. 3. VERMEY.. FINAL HANDICAP SINGLES B. A. MORSE & L WINKLER TO-MORROW (WEDNESDAY), UTH MAY, FINAL HANDICAP DOUBLES. S. E. GREEN' and 'À. ABRAHAM

COL CRISP and F. A. REDMOND.

THURSDAY, 17TG MAY, FINAL MIXED HANDICAP DOUBLES ME. and Mrs. NISBET

REV.COOPERHUNT& MRS ARMSTRONG. FRIDAY, TH MAY,

FINAL PROFESSIONAL PAIRS. S. E. GREEN and §. H. DODWELL

HA. NISBET and A. G. M. FLETCHER.

MONDAY, 2187 MAY,

FINAL DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP. SF GREEN and Rev. COOPER HUNT IG SZE KWONG and WONG PO KEUNG

The Prizes will be presented at the end of his match. Y

P. M. HODGSON, Hon. Secretary.

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PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY,

LIMITED.

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the NUCE IS UAL GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS of the above Company will be held at the Hox

SATURDAY, LONG HOTEL, Hongkong, on S the 20th May, 1917, at 11.30 AM, for the

receiving th of

the Report of the purpose

Statement of Directors together Accounts for the year ending 30th April, 1917. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 22nd instant to

2

the 28th instant, both days inclusive.

PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LIMITED, JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,"

General Managers, Huppkony, 15th May, 1917.

R.

GOVERNMENT BILLS, ETC.

1643

THE

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

FOR SALE.

•Rare Collection of about 100 WAR STAMPS, several containing errors in surcharges, etc., etc.

Apply to

1.B.C

Sare of "Daily Prem" Office.

INTIMATIONS

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THE CHINA-BORNEO COMPANY,

LIMITED.16

THE FOURTEENTH YEABLY MEET- TINGS SHAREHOLDERS Othe [abore Company will be held at the Company's Office St. George's Building, at 11 2 an FRIDAY, the 18 May, 1917, to rosive a Statement of Accounts to the 81st December, 1916, and the Report of the General Manager Blogt • and Goueniting Committee, and to Conrulting Committee and Anditor.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 5th instant to the 18th May, both days inclusive

The Onix Horneo Cổ. Lro

W. G. DARBY

General Manager.

Hongkong, 3rd May, 1917.

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 15TH, 1917.

AUCTIONS

PUBLIO AUCTION. PARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to

the 10

21st day of

be held on MONDA Office of the

May, 1917, at 8 PM., PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, by Order of THE GOVERNOR, of One KIS EXCELLENCr

Lict of CROWN LAND Above Bowen Road, in the Colony of Hongkong, for tarm

of 75 years with the option of renewal 11

& CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor

INTIMATION

The annual general meeting of the

rents of a rather radical character. Japan and Russia present certain special Peak Tramways Co., Ltd., will be hold lestures. The former, by its geographi-at the Hongkong Hotel, on Saturday, cal position, has escaped the stresses and May 20th at 11:30 am hardships of the war, and, thus, having played successfully its small part in

Captain Carr, B.E., is to read a paper on Bible Symbols at the next meeting

WATSON'S China, bus, not been involved in any of of the Church of England Men's Society

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the mishaps that bava befallen the to be held to morrow (Wednesday) even. Allies. It has, therefore, not been dising in St. Paul's College, commencing turbed by thom politically. The general at 9 o'clock. Dr. Earle will preside election thas has just terminated turned purely on domestic matters. Russia, on the other hand, has suffered severely by

of HIS MAJESTY THE KING, for one farther THE PREMIER SCOTCH the war, more, as it now appears, by

leme of 75 years. ⠀

Registry No.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Homidigy

· Measurements." (Approximate)

per le plan.į 12,080 |00|2,669-

{abwat)]:

638

PUBLIC AUCTION.

AE. WATSON & CO., LIMITED, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

from the Liquidatorn of tions the THIRTY SECOND ANNUALE Undersigned has received instruc ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Messrs. JEBBEN & Co. in pursuance of an Company (since its registration) will be held at order of the Hongkong Government to the HONGKONG HOTEL, Hongkong, on sell by public auction at 12 o'clock (NOON)

1917,

TUESDAY the 31st day of July, SATURDAY, the 20th day of May, Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report 1917, at his Sales Rooms, Duddell Street

THE VALUABLE of the General Managers together with

LEASEHOLD Statement of Accounts to the 21st December, PROPERTY situate at The Peak Hong- 1916.

LOI No. 13, 16 RURAL BUILDING

A

ay will be CLOSED, FA, MONDAY, MAY, MONDAY, 28th May, 104, AT LE inclusive, during which period no Transfer of Shares can be Registered.

pany will be CLOSED from MONDAY, 21st

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, tar Geberal Managers.

[634. Hongkong, 12th May, 1917.

on

IN ONE LOT.

The piece or parcel of ground and premises known as "Lysholt, 104, The Peak, situate near Mount Gough, in the Colony of Hongkong, with an area of 184,082 square feet and registered in the Land Office Bural

Rural Building Lot

The Property Consists of:-

UNION WATERBOAT COMPANY, LTD No. 19.

*AND BEDUCED.

The Lot is held for the

unexpired resi- due of a term of 75 years created therein an indenture of Orown Lease dated by so

NOTICE IS HEREBY Sof the Company the Ford day of April ante

TRANSFEE BOOKS of Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY 14th May, to THURSDAY, 14th June, 1912, both daye inclusive, ale ne

The return of Capital of $3.00 per Share will be-paid to shareholders on and after the 20th May, 1817, on presentation of Share Certificate for endorsement,

DODWELL, & Co., Lan,

General Managera.

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Hongkong, 10th May, 1917.

RUSSIAN 5% INTERNAL LIBERTY LOAN 1917.

BNDERS for SPECIE and MEXICAN DOLLARS, current in this Colony,

Lorda tor Telegraphie Transfer, on the Commissioners of HIS MAJESTY'S TREASORT, London, up to and for the son of £500 will be received by the TREASURY CHEST

ARMY PAY DEPARTMENT,ubscription to the LIBERTY LOAN L Opened At THE RUSSO ASIATIO A.M. on the 16th May, 1917.

BANK, Hongkong, from date to the 26th June,

OFFICE antil 11 o'glock

The

Fannde

Tea

to state the total amount (in No Telegraphic Transfer

will be made for less than £100.

The Tendors to be in duplicate, and in sealed covers, addressed to the TREASURY CHEST OFFICER, ARMY PAY DEPARTMENT, and endorsed

TENDERS FOR GOVERN MENT KILLS, etc."

A23

The

right to accept or reject any or all of the Tanders is reserved.

Caples of Forms of Tender can be had on

Application rendering for (Billa) ars kereler

The price of issue is 85 per cent.

1917

The Loan is free of Income Tax and other taxations.

The Annual Crown Rent is $85.00, --- For further particulars and conditions ofisale apply to

The Loan is inned for 55 years and will be 66. redeemable at par by yearly drawings beginning In Desember, 1922,

after the at par The Lown may be reimbursed 994 Marob, 1987.

the 19th *** Coupons are payable half-yearly en hand the 20th September, Perions

Interest on the loss runs from the 29th notified that having regard to the e provisions

March, 1917-interest from that date to be added

of issue price Asta 29 George III., Cap. 15 and 41, George to the

for the

Special favourable rates will quoted III. Cap. 52, the acceptance of any such Tender

Russian Exchange. aubject to the express condition that no Member of the British House of Commons sabe admitted to say share or part is orte onest to arise from the Contract thereby made for the silotment of such

(Bills)

of

Applications will be wired ŝo Fetrograd free of telegraphic charges and Honds will be for warded free of postal expenses de p

The Bank is ready to give ewry facility to Beads.

The provisions in question do not apply testeeribere in the shape of advancos against the Contracts entered into by an incorporated

Company in its corporated capacity and made

fer the general benefit of the Company."

F.J.THURSBY-PELHAM, L-Colonel,

Treasury Chest Offer, A.PD. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

His Majesty's Treasury Office,

Hot kung, 16th May, 1917.

مارات

THE CHINESE ENGINEERING AND MINING COMPANY, LIMITED Payment of Interim Dividend on Shares for the year ending 30th June, 1917.

G. TISDALL,

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IN THE GOODS of ALFRED HERBERT HEWITT late of Hok Un Works

of the Green Island Cement Co., Ltd, situste at Hok Un in the Dependeney of Kowloon and Colony of Hongkong, Chief Engineer of the Green Land Cement Co., Ltd.," deceased

Court has, by virtue of Sestion 58 of Ordinanca No. 2 of 1897, made as Order limiting the time for Creditors and others to send in their Chains against the above Estate to the 31st day of May, 1917.

HE Board having declared an

INTERIM DIVIDEND NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Shilling per Share free of Income Tax, for the year ending 30th June, 1017, holders of Bearer Shares and holders of Dividend Warrants received from 'London on account of Registered Sharea, will be paid their dividends on present ing No. 9 Conpon of the Bearer Sharea, and Dividend Warrants on Registered Bhares to either of the following Banks at Bhanghai or Tientsin:

TR HONGKONG & SHANGHAI Banking

CORPORATION.

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,

AUSTRALIA" & CHINAL PA

THE ROSSO-ASLATIO BANK.

THE BANQUE BELGE POUR L'ETHANGRE The payments will be made in sither Dollars or Taels, as the holder may wish, at the buying rate of exchange of the

GENERAL MANAGER, KAILAN MINING ADMINIS-

TRATION,

WANTED

FIRE PROOF SAFE Inside measure ment hot less than 30 inches high, 31 wide and 18 inches deep.

Apply stating lowest prica to

JX Y Z

Care of Daily Pres" Office

WANTED

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Competent Man STENOGRAPHER | and TYPIST required by Shipping

For further particulars refer to

Care of "Daily Press Chine,

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All Craktors and

dothora

are Bordingly hereby required to send their Claims to the Undersigned on or befoin that date, Dated 27th day of April, 1917,

JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER

Solicitors for the Erecutors,

Prince's Buildings, W

Ica House Stroot,

Hongkong.

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WAR DEPARTMENT CONTRACTS. CEALED TENDERS will be received at

the Headquarters Office, Victoria Bar racks, Hongkong, until 12 o'clock Neps on the 2nd May, 1917, for the ander mentioned service, for the period 1st August, 1917, to 31sh March, 1916,

** GENERAL SUPPLIES *A" (Vegetables and Groceries) Newark

Forms and other particulars may be obtained from the Oes of DAD, of S. and T. ai Beadquarters Officer

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DIOCESAN GIRLS SCHOOL, KOWLOON.

WANTED immediately, MATEON,

Apply by letter to Mus SKIPTON, Superintendent State references.

629

ME8888 WILKINSON & GRIST, Solicitors for the Liquidators, e

or to the Undersigned,

GEO. P. LAMMEILT,

Auctioneer

HOUSES TO LET TO LET

OS. LA & B, ROBINSON ROAD

Apply to

OF THE FAR EAST

FOR 25 YEARS.

E

WATSONS

4. 140

POPULARITY

MAINTAINED

DY-ITS

EXCELLENT QUALITY

NOT BY EXPENSIVE WORLD-WIDE ADVERTISING.

According to the Chinese Press the request to export wheat from Shanghai made by a foreign contractor to the Hongkong Government was rejected, by the Bureau of Taxes on the ground that the export of foodstuffs from China is prohibited in the treaty,

During the week ending May 12th there was one non-fatal case of bubonic plague reported in the Colony, In the same period there were four Chinese

are four cases of enteric fever, three of which proved fatal, and a non-fatal British case of paratyphoid fever,

inefficiency and treachery than by incapa city to meet the foo. The voies of criti- cism, stifled under the heavy weight of an autocratic polity, was finally directed towards an overthrow of the political institutions, with the result that from a state of political servitude Russia now seems to be on the way towards the establishment of institutions as free as those enjoyed by any country on earth It is too early yet to say whether Russia's political freedom is safe from attack, but at least it may be confidently predicted that the old conditions will never be restored. The war has, thus far, it may be said, not resulted in any diminution of political freedom, but has, on the contrary, rather increased it. It is true that many individual rights have been forfeited under the stress of neces eity, and that in the case of Great Britain there has been an apparently remarkable development of bureauerncy, with, perhaps, a lessening of the power of the House of Commons. But a perusal of the English papers shows that the voice of criticism has by no means been stilled, and that it is only under the stress of circumstances that the growth of bureaucracy has been permitted to take place. Indeed, it would be absurd, in a war which is virtually a struggle for-free-institutions, for the protagonists to abandon that which they

theming for in the case of others.

are

Up to the time of the revolution in Russia it was felt that that country was

S. WATSON & the weak link in the chain of Allied ** CO., LTD., WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

nations--that its government presented anomalous features which could not be reconciled with the trend of the war. Russia, however, has now been brought into line, and it must be recognised that the Allies' cause has been proportionately strengthened, It has been claimed, and to some extent rightly, that since the Horamore Onrios: 101, Dan Vaux Road, Cwar began the Allies, in self-protection, RUSHEAL," No. 119, THE Prax,non Orion: 151, Fun Bnn, EC. have had to adopt the procedure, if

newly dons up.

Apply

DAVID SASSOON & Co.; Len.

TO LET

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CHATER & MODY.

3. Queen's Road Central.

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TO LET.

NO. 2 STEWART TERRACE, PEAK,

Fornished. Apply to

1

Duddall Streek.

TE POLLOCK:

Prince's Baldinger.

TO LET

个

NEW HOUSE in Casdals René Ready for occupation. Also! GODOWN in For rent and other particulare apply to-

H. MH. NEMAZEE.

1 Des Voeur B

1402

TO LET MMEDIATE entry. Two very SHOPS altuated to 100 H opposite the Grand Hotel, recent grunted.

For rent and other particula

SPPY THE MANAGER HONGKONG-Ion Co. LTD. 48, Conninght Road Contrat

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HONGKONG. TELEPHONE 61e

The Barly Press.

HONGKONG 15TH MAY, 1917.

WAR'S EFFECT ON THE FUTURE.

not the ideas, of the Germanic Powers, and that they have thus, to a certain extent, become Germanised. It would be idle to deny that conscription in Britain, for instance, was imitated from Ger- many, and that ideas of national service, organisation of labour, etc., owe their: origin to the same source. There is tainly a danger of the hand becoming imbued to what it works in, but there is the safeguard that such measures, destructive of liberty in times of peace, in time of war are shorn of much of their influence. There are other and sterner foes which may press on the liberty of the people and render them a more cortain prey to the despot, and

exhaustion caused by war, not only in among these, the most deadly is the

Colonel (temporary. Brigadion General) H. G. Casson; C.M.G., who commandat the South Wales Borderers at Tientsin and afterwards during the siege of Tsing- tau, has been decorated with the Serbian Order of Karageorge, 3rd class (with swords) by the King of Serbia.

Tug war, which it is to be hoped is now drawing to a close, is credited with wonderful powers in its effect on the future not only of those engaged in it but of the neutral nations as well. We have been told of the new spirit that will arise among the nations, how they will put aside their frivolities and take a more serious view of their responsibi- desirabilities, and of the new direction which will be given to intellectual progress.. To foretell the direction of events in the destruction of the best manhood of the future, however, it is necessary that the race, but in the labour" involved in the trend of events in the immediate past replacing the wealth that has beca dis- should be followed. As the course follow-sipated. The war has already inflicted sď ̋by a projectile at the beginning of its immense damage on the nations, and thus fight serves to show where it will fall on the individuals forming the nations, so a fair idea of what the future holds and this will be felt for a generation ut in store may be gathered from the ten least. It involves a lower standard of dencies of the past. In what direction living, less leisure and less onlture, To has the war led us! How has it affected expect a quickening of the intellectual the nations of the world as a whole life in such circumstances is to overlook That the war should have the same effect all that makes the intellectual life on each of the countries engaged in it possible. was hardly to be expected, so widely removed are some of them in geographi cal positions and in national sentiment In this respect the Central Powers have the advantage, and it is interesting note that, with the exception of Austria Hungary, there Poweru have displayed a political consistency which has not been

TO LET

FFICES ■* 2, Connaught Rond Central, * - OFFICES in King's and York Buildings, HOUSES is Clifton Gardens, Conduit Road, HOUSEB in Broadwood and Marston HOUSES en Ehamoen, Canton,

Apply to

Tah HONGKONG LAND INVEST. HENT AND AGENCY Co., LTD.

TO LET.

FOUR BOOMED HOUSE

Terrace and Fallsbury Avenue, Kowloon A FLAT is Humphreys Buildings, Kowloon TO LET OR FOR SALE. KOWLOON MARINE LOT 48 with harf are $8,000 sq. fi mitable for Cool Storage or erection of Godowns." Apply to ATA

KUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE

Co. LTD. Alexandra Buildings?

0

WANTED

FFICE at the Central Location.

Apply to

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FURUKAWA & O 20, Des Vaux Road Central

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The honour of Commandeur de l'Ordre de la Couranne has been conferred on Colonel (temporary Major General) A. A Chichester, C.B., D.B.O., formerly of the Staff in Hongkong,

Lieut. Col. RH, McCullock, D.S.U.,

A fine of $2,000 was imposed upon a Chinese

yesterday at the Hongkong Magistracy for being in possession of 35 tsels of opia. The man was found

in

ricsha with a basket in his posses sion, and the drug was found concealed in the basket by a Chinese detective

· It is notified in the London Gazette of 30th March, 1917, that H.M. the King has been graciously, pleased to sanction the appointment of H. E. Sir Francis Henry May, LCM.G., LLD, to be a Knight of Grace of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England.

The full programme of the grand assault-at-arms, arranged by the Hong- Long Police Reserve, will be found in our advertising columns. The display will be given on Saturday next at the Hongkong Volunteer Parade ground, and a very large attendance is expected. Booking at Moutsie's from 11 am, to-day.

The Police have received three reports, of people jumping into the Harbour. A mart was pulled out near the Hoi Hon Wharf in an unconscious condition und was restored by means of artificial

respiration by Lance Sergeant Fowler. Two women of Kowloon were unsucessful in their attempts to commit suicide and are now in the Government Civil Hospital.

COMPANY REPORT,

PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LTD. Subject to audit, the not profits of the

Company for the year ending 30th April, 1917, amount to #93,541,98, which the Directors will recommend be applied as follows:

centi on the Bubsoribed. A Dividend at the rate of 7 per

Capital Carry forward

1,000.00

2,541.98

823,541.68

HONGKONG AND THE GERMANS.

We regret that, owing to an emission,

the sense of one paragraph was destroyed in Mr. J. H. McGuigan's letter, which appeared in our issue of yesterday. The passage in question should have read as follows:

That we are members one of another Is true of the whole humsa race. And

other organ human body that every just as it is well for every organ of the

should be well, and it is ill for all if any one be hurt, að it is well for the people of every nation that the people of every other nation should be well and prosperous, and it is ill for the prophe of all other nations if the pople of Auks. one of them be poor, ignorant or ap pressed

shown by the Governments of the Enten BA., formerly in command of the Brittan NAVY LEAGUE THANKS OVERSEAS

Powers: No doubt one cause is that the Central Powers have been able to main

Legation at Peking, has bad the Legion of Honour, Croix d'Officier, conferred on

BRANCHES.

tain & appearance of success which has im by the President of the French Reameting of the Grand Council of the

stayed such criticism as the smaller de public. grea of political liberty allows. In the

The following resolution was passed at

Navy League in March last This

League desires to give expression

meeting of the Grand Council of the

The weekly religious meeting of the

and Members of the Overseas Branches of esse of the Antente Powers generally the Hel na May Institute will be conducted to its deep gratitude to the Committees voice of criticism in the face of non- this (Tuesday) afternoon, at 5 pm by the Organisation for their most generong Subject: contributions to the Relief Funds for the d pendants of the callont men of the successes has been much more audible and the Rev. H. E. Anderson

Present Times

in the Light⠀⠀ of Navy and Mercantile Marine who lost has resulted in changes of Ministers and

their lives in defence of the, Amnira”? the establishment of new politica amari. Prophecy."