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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, LD.

Hongkong Daily Press

ESTABLISHED 1887.

Registered as a Newspaper at the Geners!

Post Office in the United Kingdom.

No. 18,418.

勝八十百四千八萬一第

日九初月四年巳丁 HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MAY 29TH, 1917

二拜體:

號九十二月五年六國民學中

General Manager/gk

OTARD'S

BRANDY.

DOCKYARD

JOHN DE B. LANCASTER.

Acting Trosal Manager.

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