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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS TO LET:

OOMS to Let Post Office Buildings

Rtop door).

Apply LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS, Chartered Bank Building,

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ON HIS MAJESTY'S SERVICE. TENDERS are invited for the Supply of

TCARPENTERS, VAGAREES, PLATERS,

PLUMBERS PAINTERS, SCRAPERS, Suor- MAKGES OF LEATHERWORKSES, to H.M. Naval Yard.

Forms of Tender can be obtained at the Chief Constructor's Office. H.M. Natal Yard, Hong- kong, and should be filed in and returned as

PUBLIC COMPANIES

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 19TH, 1917.

PRAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that: the

ORDINARY ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS of the the HONG above Company will be held at

on SATURDAY, HOTEL, Hongkong on KONG the 20th May, 1012, at 11.30 AM, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Statement of Director together with a

1017.

Ho

HOUSES TO LET

TO LET

YOUSE No. 10, Seymour Terms.

Apply to

Accounts for the year ending 30th Apany Ne

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the will be CLOSED from the 22nd instant to the 29th instant, both days inclusive.

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

General Managers. **

643 Hongkong, 15th May, 1917.

ALS. WATSON VUOKRAVENE

TEREBY GIVEN that OTICE IS HEREBY

PMLN. DA SILVA,"

Det Your Road,

1852

TO LET

TO 68. PEAK (Partly Furnished).

Apply

90. BONHAM ROAD,

TO LET.

indicated in Tender Form not later than NOON, BETH THIRTY SECOND ANNUAT▼ 03, 3A & B, ROBINSON BOAD.

THURSDAY, 31st May, 1917

G

C. D. J. BELL,

hief Constructor.

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R.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

Con

ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company (luce its registration) will be held at the Honarono lor, Hongkong, SATURDAY, the 26th day of May, 1917, at Noox, for the purpose. of receiving the

report

of the tieneral Managers together with a the girt Desember Statement of Accou

1916,

The

REGISTER of SHARES of the Com pany will be CLOBED from MONDAY, Elst May to MONDAY, 28th May, 19 7, both days iaclmire, during which

DARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of Shares can be Regy pence to Transfer, of

the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on TUESDAY, the 29th day of May, 1917, at 3 P.M., at the Offices of the PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, by Order of

HIS EXCELLENCY: THE GOVERNOR, of Two Lois of CROWN LAND at Causeway Bay, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of rongeal at 75 years, with the option

of

further

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers.

Hongkong, 12th May, 1917.

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Apply o

DAVID SASSOON & Co., LE

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INTIMATION

tration Under the former regime the newspapers frequently submitted to re strictions which were irritating, and they asked in vain more than once that their position should be clearly defined for their guidance Ultimately the pre- sent Regulations were introduced, bus, G. SANDEMAN SONS as we pointed out at the time, they wer

& CO.

FINEST

PORTS

TO EFT

AND

ROSHEAL

No. 118 Tas PLAK,

newly done up.

CHATER & MODY,

5, Chisen's Bond Central,

1814

TO LET

UNION WATERBOAT COMPANY, LTD., NO, & STEWART TERRACE, Paik,

AND REDUCED NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

CRO RENTS to be fired by the Surreyer TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company of HIS MAJESTY THE KING, for ene term of 75 yesTalk

No of Sain

Registry. So

PARTICULARS OF THE LOTS.

South of Inland Lot Adjun

Locality.

Boundary Heasuremezra (Approximate)

Kabort!

Annual Ken

Upper Price.

will be CLOSED from MONDAY, 14th May, to THURSDAY, 14th June, 1917, both days inclusive,

The return of Capital of $3.00 Share will be paid to shareholders on and after the 20th May, 1917, on presentation of Bhare Certificates

for endorsement,

Furnished. Apply to

SHERRIES

HR POLLOCK.

Prince's Building

WINES FOR THE

TO LET

NEW HOUBE in Conduit Road Rendy for cocaption. Also 3 GODOWN in Duddell Steven, DODWELL & Co., LTD.,

For rent and other particulas spply tom

HHNEMAZKE. [625

1 Des Voeux Road.

General Managers Hongkong, 10th May, 1917. **

THE

teat foot

Asper

Ale plan 30,000 172 9,041

20,618 212 12,377)

PUBLIC AUCTION:

1680

PARTICULARS CONDITIONS

the letting by Public Auction Balo, to be held on MONDAY, the 21st day of May, 1917, at 3 pm, at the Offoes of the PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, by Order of HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, of Ons Lot of CROWN LAND 2070 Bowen Road, in the Colony of Hongkong, for term of 76 years, with the option of renewal at

A

CLUB HOTEL, LTD.,

УОКОНАМА

NORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above Company will be held st The Yokohama and Tokyo Foreign Board of Trade Rooms on TUESDAY, the 19th day

of May, 1917, at four o'clock in the ecto for the purpose of receiving the Report and

the year ended the endants for 31st March, 1917

LAN EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at snie place, and on the same day, at five o'clock in the afternoon, or 50 soon after. werds as the Ordinary General Meeting shall be concluded, for the purpose of considering

isale

TO LET

CONNOISSEUR

SOLE AGENTE:

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TEMMEDIATE entry. Two very desirable SHOPS inted In Ios House Street, opposite the Grand Hotel, recently recon

For rent and other particulars apply fo

THE MANAGER, Howtorone lớn Da Lat, 44, Connaught Boad Central)

VEICES

the position of the Company and s proposi-OFFICE tion either

Debentures or to place

the Company in voluntary liqui

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD,

No. B, Yamashita-cho, Yokohama 3rd,

1658

May 3

10170

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

HE Board having and

an

TO LET

A. S. WATSON

CO., LTD.,

so tramed that, it construed literally, a newspaper could be penalised for almost any statement to which the authorities might choose to take exception. A month later we were officially advised that it would no longer be necessary to submit any news for censorship, but that the papery would be scrutinised, and, if the regulations were contravened in any way, the matter would be referred to the Attorney-General. This

This was rather sug- gestive of lorking the stable door after

Crown

Since that time we have, without receiv→

ng any protest, published the names of. a number of men many of whom were in the loca] Auxiliary forces leaving to volunteer for active service. Indeed, in to-day's issne a similar announcement appears in the Volunteer Reserve Orders issued above the name of the Crown Solcitor. Moreover the Allied Govora- ments make no greater secret of General JOFFRE's visit to America than thi British Government made of the late) Lord KITCHENER'S mission to Italy and. Greece. Up to this moment no attempt. bas been made to justify the contention that such belatednews

as we gave

might even indirectly be of ser vice to the enemy. All that the prosecu tion did was to call the Deputy Censor to say that the military authorities

directly useful to the enemy.

the horse had gone. The fact that the considered that it "might be " consent of the Chief Law Officer of the or indirectly

rown was essential before a prosecution. They could, of course, say that about could he started, however, would, we anything Unless they are to be called hoped, prove a safeguard against any upon to furnish evidence in support of thing in the nature of peraccution, and their opinion a trial becomes a mockery. we welcomed it on that ground, although If it were worth while, we should have we felt, at the same time, that a cadet no hesitation in appealing against tho

have been drawn in such a make anything an offence which the adthorities see fit to regard as such According to the contention of the Crown Solicitor, all instructions issued for our guidance prior to the date of issue of the Regulations have been automatically rescinded, though they have never been withdrawn. If this be, indeed, a fact we & can only say that bad the Government been seeking deliberately to set a trap for the Press they could not have exhibit ed greater ingenuity. The magistrate, whose fairness we gladly acknowledge, declined to endorse the view of the Crown Solicitor, and we can only express sur prise that it was ever advanced.

(40) WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

2, Comzsaght Bead Contra-

OFFICES in King's and York Buldings. HOUSES in Olton Gardens, Coifull Rand HOUSES In Broadwood and Marencë

HOUSES of Sashaor, Carion,

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT AND ADENCY Co, Lru.

TO LET

UROWN RENT to be fixed by the Burveyor of One of HIS MAJESTY THE King, for one further

Shilling Share free of Income TOUR ROOMED HOUSER in Gordon herm of 75 years

16, of Kale

Raghatay Nuc

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Boundar!

Loesty

[Approximate }

··fest

male plan 15,990 | 90 |1,659.

(about))

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PUBLIC AUCTION,

HE Under

ed has received instruc

the Liquidators of tions from Mosara. Jakks & Co. in pursuance of an order of the Hongkong Government to

per

for the year ending 30th June, 1917, holders of Bearer Bhares and holders of Dividend Warrants received from London son account of Registered Shares, will be paid their dividends on present ing No. 9 Coupon of the Bearer Shares, and Dividend Warrante on Registered Shares, to either of the following Banks at Shanghai or Tientsin:

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HANKING

CORPORATION,

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,

AUSTRALIA & CHIRA

THE RUBBO ASIATIC BANK.

Termoe and Fallsbury Arenas, Kowlous A FLAT in Humphreys Huldings, Kowloon TO LET OE FOR SALE, KOWLOON MARINE LOT 18 with barf area 58,000 squ to suitable for Coal Skage or olion of Godowns.

AMPHREYS ESTATE♣ FINANCE

“Alerepára-Bauding

WANTED.

Tas Barque Brich POUR L'ETLAKOZE,FFICE at the Central Location.

The payments will be madein- ofther Dollars or Taels, as the holder may wish, at the buying rate of exchange of the day.

GENEILL MANAGÈRE. KAILAN MINING ADMINIS-

TRATION

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1630

FURUKAWA 200.

Apply to

20. Den Vanx Food Central

(62)

WANTED

TELEPHONE 618.

MARRIAGE.

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in the Civil Service sitting as a magis conviction on this count, for we are con trate to try an issue between the Governvinced that no impartial jury would ment and the Press might have some return a verdict against us.

The second charge brought against us diffidence in dismissing a case backed by such an authority. The position to-day was, we admit, very much stronger. Tho is that the Press stands in the midst of Regulations prohibit reference to any. a maze of pitfalls, for the Regulations ships in the waters of the Colony. This way as to restriction, however, was in foret sonta months before the Regulations were issued, and bad exceptions of different kinds not been made to it from time to time it would be illegal to mention even the Star Ferry As a consequence of these exceptions the local newspapers have been free to announce the arrival and departure of a number of vessola, and of fifteen names, published in our columns on May 7th, two that should not have been included were passed by mistake owing to the fact that there was nothing in the return supplied to us to indicate that they were proceeding beyond the limite deûned for our guid. ance. In further palliation of the unfortunate technical offence which wa committed we were able to show that the movements of one of the vessels, which flew the fing of an Ally, were proclaimed broadcast in the newspapers issued in the country to which the vessel belonged and also in the British newspapers in Shanghai, where, although it is an Inter-

The two offences with which we were charged were described by the Crown Very serious indeed," Solicitor though there was a wide difference he tween them, One consisted merely in mentioning the pane of an officer in & HUTTON PRICE At the British Legations et departures from the Colony, and

Chapel, Peking, on May 4th, by the Rev EJ Bentley, Commander ILLTYD A. STEWART HUTTON, Royal Navy, to MARTORY KATHLEEN, only daughter of Mr and Mrs W. T PRICE

DEATE

HANCE Killed in action in France on 8th February, 1917, CYRIL EUGENE AGATHON HANCE, Corporal, 10th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force.

be

the other in recording the arrival of two national Settement, they are, of course, ships in the port. The first was based subject to British Law Consequently, not upon the words in the Regulations there was no risk either of offending an that prohibit, the mention of the move, ally or of giving any information to the ment of troops, but rested upon the enemy. Both this ship and be british might ship uumed in the summons occupied con- Assumption that the information

useful to spicuous positions in the Harbour in directly or indirectly, the enemy. It was pointed out that no broad daylight for some time before indication was given in the paper of the their arrival was chronicled in these Hongkong Oran a W. Das Voux Roiu, Cofficer's destination or date of departure, columns, and therefore any interested London Orfics: 181, Four Snæ, EC. or of the ship by which he travelled. He person could have ascertained the fact might, in fact, have gone to Cantum, the long before we recorded it. The magis Philippines, Macao, Japan or Canada.trate, however, held the view that it would His departure was widely known and never he a defence to a charge under the many people went on board to bid him Regulations to plead that the information farewell Moreover, the day before the could have been obtained elsewhere. If rame appeared amongst the list of de the Regulations said that the names, of partures in the Daily Press the informa vessels must not be published the Regula tion was published in Routine Orders, tions must be followed. We do not gutes which are issued by authority and are tion the soundness of this ruling, and freely accessible to the public. Further, was only in mitigation of the penalty it was admitted, in cross-examination, by which the Crown Solicitor pressed that

that the Deputy Censor of the Colony

we sought to show that the precautions

The Daily Press.

Homerore 19mm May 1917.

A PALTRY PROSECUTION.

The Hongkong Dasly Press has been selected as the first victim under the new Censorship Regulations which were pro-

bell by pubile sustion at 12 o'clock (aon) RUSSIAN 52 INTERNAL LIBERTY A 100-Rate of Pay $7.00 per day for auigated by HE. the Governor in-

TUESDAY the 31st day of Joly 1917 at his Bales Rooms Daddell Street, THE VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY Stunte at The Peak, Hong- kong, and being RURAL BUILDING LỚP No. 19,ES

In On Loz.

The Property Consists of:-

The place or parcel of ground and premises known sa Lysholt, 104, The Peak, situate near Mount Gough, in the Colony of Hongkong, with an area of 194,029 aquate. feet and registered in the Land Offers Rural Building Lot No 10,

Ru

The Lot is held for the unspired resi

term of 25 years created therein due of by an indenture of Crown Lease dated the gard day of April, 1896.

The Annual Crown Rent is $85.00.

For further

1917

The

LOAN 19173

Cateoription to the LIBERTY LOAN S Opened at THE RUSSO- ABIATIC BANK"

from dala to the 26.3J K18). Hongkong, The price of issue is Thom is 100 of Income Tax and other The Loan la inward for 56 year and will b redeemable at pse by yourly disringe beginning fin December,

The Loan may be reimbursed at pur after tàn 20th March, 1927,

Compona are payable balf yearly, on the 18th Marda and the 29th September.

Interest on the loan runs from the 29th March, 1917-interms from thai date to be added

Sposi fevourable rates will be quoted for

free

at salo apply 3, 48d conditions get banget

KER WILKINSON & GRIST Solicitors for the Liquidatore,

or to the Undersigned, e

GEO P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer: A

1597

FOR BALL

NE 101 B.H.P. HORNSEY ACKROYU DIL ENGINE Complete with and coupled direct to ans 6 W. Continuous Current Shaat Wound

ASONERA SWITCHBOARD

ACCUMULATORS. DYNAMO, a, complete

with instruments for 100 Amps

For further particulars apply to -.

IINSTEAD & DAVIS.

Alesandra Buildings.

Applications will be wind to Petrograd

of telegraphic charges and Bonda wil be for würded free of portal supenses.

The Bank is ready to give every facility to wubscribers in the shape of ademena sgainst the Bond

G. TISD ATLA

FOR BALK

OLLECTION OF

GE

STAMPS.

all different for

(of 50/70 voll

for

$,000

GRACA

609

N EUROPEAN ENGINEER for HM

seven days per week.

Apply to

CHLEY ENGLÆDER,

HM. Book yard.

6510

WANTED.

Care of

WANTED:-

Serkibonte, 5 der, steam and knowledge of French and

Frees ↑ Office. 654

GENERAL OFFICE ASSISTANC with knowledge of Bookkeeping and Shorthand

Apply to

Care of "Daily Prees," Ons

WANTED

FIRE PROOF SAFE Inside measure

inches wide and 18 incher dee Apply stating laureat price

1641

Care of Dilly Frver” Offee.

WANTED.

when Major-General Key, the Officer enjoined by the Eegulations in this case

Council loss than two months ago. This Commanding, left dongkong in 1915 a fact causes us no surprise. It is true request was made to the newspapers, by resembled the devico of the ostrich in mistaken impression, that, by doing it that summons in respect of one of the his express instructions; to annouice the burying its head in the sand under the charges brought against this newspaper hour and place of his departure, and nodes its whereabouts from the enemy.

Neither by its action in taking this was issued against a local contemporary, objection was raised to the publication but that, it appears, was withdrawn upon of the name and destination of the ship Ase

prosecution nor by its method of conduct. an apology being tendered. The offcnoca by which he sailed In these circum

ing it do we think the authorities have of which we have been convicted raised stances surely the newspapers cannot added any lustre to their reputation. no, question of principle for which we fairly be blamed if they sure that such All that has been achieved could have should feel it a duty to contend, but, as information as the Officer Commanding been achieved equally well by means of the Magistrate recognised, were obvious is anxions to make known in regard to a letter to the Editor. Instead of taking ly due to a regrettable oversight on the his own movements will not be regarded this simple course the Military authori part of a staff working at very high pres as dangerous when it refers to one of his ties, the Attorney-General, the Crown sare owing to the conditions brought subordinates. It was sought to make Solicitor and the Senior Magistrate, and about by the war. For two years and a capital out of the fact that, in a leading we know not who also besides, have frit- half the course adopted by the authorities article criticising the Censorship last tered away a great deal of time which, we in such cases has been to draw the atten March, we asid" We were forbidden algo should have thought, could have been tion of the local Editors to the publica to mention the names of individual better employed in the midst of a great officers who left the Port by the regular war. The air of solemn mystery with We fully expected that the which it was sought to invest the prooses- liners." article in question would be remembered, inga can only be described. Gilbertian but it is obvious, from the context, that 16 was more calculated to hamper the we ware expressing surprise at the absur defence than to serve any patriotic par

foally, it was sought to When dity of attempting to place such an inter-

Dibelante in the Delence | have the case heard in secret wa felt com- priation upon

tion of anything which they regarded as dangerous, sad,hough at tause they

Ament not lose than 38 inches high, 31 have taken wow that appeased to as extravagant and not warranted by the regulations in force st Home, their wishes have almost invariably been respected. The only two exceptions that we can recall have been when the Liberty of the Press, as defined by Statute and rearm. Since the Fed by Ministeru

upon in

NOGRAPHER by Belping

Chry of Dully Pr

outbreak of war, regard to the criti

of local adminis

of the Realm Regulations that stipulater pelled to protest for we were disinclined that the movements of HM's ships and to park with the protection afforded by forces must not be made known. It is a

Not being ashamed of our BELEESBOROT publicity,

actions we preferred them to be invest ignicant fact that the prosecution brought their coas 03 Another pretart

goted in the full light of day,