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NEW ADVERTISEMENT

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· BANK HOLIDAYS

Naccordance with Ordinance No, & of 1912, Abe EXCHANGE BANKS will bi CLOSED for the trummetion PUBLIC

BUSINESS on MONDAY and TUESDAY, the 21st instant and lat proximo. Hongkong, 27th December, 1917.

NOTICE OF REMOVAL

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TATE HAVE This Day REMOVED our

W Office to 18 UPS VOEUX ROAD

CENTRAL POWELLS BUILDING, First Floor."

A. B. THE SWEDISH TRADING Co,

FIL IN CHINA, LTD. Hongkong, 27th December, 1817.

FOR SALE.

INTIMATIONS

8% MILITARY LOAN.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. FELDAY,

REDEMPTION OF DRAWN BONDS.

TEE Repayment of 8

Military

Bands drawn at the Third Drawing amounting to $1,700,000 will commence on 10th December 1917 The Hepayment will be made in SILVER

THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE Peking, 20th November, 1917.

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8% MILITARY LOAN,

REDEMPTION OF BONDS DRAWN AT THIRD DRAWING.

10. 42, ROBINSON ROAD, Hongkong

N°7 tooms, etc.)

Apply to-

G. PIERCY

at the above address.

WANTED.

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Mercantile Firm, as Assistant Bookkeeper. Holding all references

Please reply to

Care of Daily Press Office, [1435

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. From SAN FRANCISCO AND KOBE

1HE Steamship

THE

" COSTARICA. Captain Ogden, having arrived from the Shove Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their rise into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company

Limited, Kowloon, and stored at Consigneer wkward expense. risk i

Optional Goods will be carried on unless

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YECEMBER 23rd, 1017.

INTIMATION

ASSORTED CASES FOR XMAS.

follows a defent. To cause the demo- Lay down her arms and confoss herself. cratisation of Germany, it will be no beaten, but these cannot be said to be sary to administer to horenushing dhfent pacific in the sense that ther make no such as Prussia, inflicted upon, France in decrands on Germany, such for instance, 1870. Can the Allies do that?" At present as the complete re-establishment of Bcl- - the chances appear to be remote Get an independence and restitution for VINES AND SPIRITS, many is already defeated in the sense that wrongs committed. It may be assured that

she has failed to achieve her war aims: the samo holds good in Germany-thaha.. Shor has occupied some ternilary in these are many desirous of seeing peace Europe, it is true, but at cost for which established, but not on term, which she will hardly receive compensation. She would leave Germany crushed, her trade las, destroyed her trade and commerce, annihilated, her constitution sabverted, and her patrimony disided up. If we plaged havoc with her innoces, and

She can have not taught Germany, a lesson sufici- estranged the whole world. kurdly hope to take an equal place among the nations for many years to come. Her Bot. Superior Old Cognac.

Ver Quality

Old Liqueur Bootch Whisky acknowledgment of defeat is shown in ker willingness to concluda peace with Dewaz's Sootch Whisky,

Bussin on the basis of no indemnity and no annexation. Would a victorious combatant be content to make such terins with a country from which there was ahvi ously nothing to fear! Bussia's chances

Case No. 1. $22.00

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NOTION IS HEREBY SEX D to the A60201-5082016

Public that at the 3rd Drawing for Repayment of the 8 per nent. Military Loan Bonds held un 2nd October, 1917, Bands to the value of $1,700,000.00 have beou drawn, which amount constitutes about one-fifth of the Bonds recognised hy this Ministry & List of Drawn Honda is published in the Government Gazette and other newspapers,

Repayment of Bonds sold in Singapore, Batavia and the Philippine Islands will be made by the Branch Offices of the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING COB- FORATION at these places. THE BANK OF China, Shanghai, will transfer funds tor Repayment of Bonds sold through the Batavia Sos PO BAR. In Cuba Repay meat will be made by the Changsha Guild upon surrender of the Bonds to the BANE OF CHINA, Shanghai in Yokohama by in the CHINESE CONSULATE-GENERAL : Kiangel by the KLANGSI Fukien by the BANK OF CHINA: in Peking by the BANK OF CHINA. Besides the above cases, Repayment of Drawn Bonds will generally be made by the BANK OF CREN, Shanghai

Drawn Bonds when presented must be accompanied by all remaining Coupons, as all such Bonds are not entitled to any

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11,025

THE CHINESE ENGINEERING AND MINING COMPANY, LIMITED.

Payment of Final Dividend on Shares for the year ending 30th June, 1017.

HE BOARD having declared & FINAL DIVIDEND of 74% (seven and one-half per cent.) per Share, free of Income Tax, for the year ending 30th Jung, 1917. holders of Pearer Shares and Holders of Dividend Warrants received from London heir dividend on presenting No. 10 on account of Registered Shaves, will be of the Baarer Shares, and Dividend

instructions are given to the cout further interest after the payment fonts on Registered Shares, to either of

Noor, 27th instant.”

All bruken, chated, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be mined in MoRDAY, Slat Dee, at 10 M All Claims must be presented #itain FIFTEEN DAYS of the Steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognised.

No Uisins will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods reinaining andelivered after the 2nd Jan, will be subject to reat

Conslene » of cargo are hereby notified that

they mos: prodube an Import permit signed by Baperintendent of Emporia and Exports, Hongkong, before Bill of Lasting can be

seregland,

No Fire Taurson has been shroud, Bill of Lading will be countersigned by

ÉHEWAN, TOMES & COM

|

Tientsin

11th Coupon. If all remaining Coupons the Lollowing Banks at Shanghai or (beginning with the 12th Coupon) are not presented together with the Drawn Bonds, then the total amount represented by these Coupons shall be deducted from the repayable principal

Drawn Bonds must be presented for Repayment within five years from the data of Third Drawing, after which come Null and Vold.

THE HONGKONG AND SHANG

SHANGHAI BANKING CORFORATION, AN

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,

AUSTRALIA & CHINA

THE Russo-Astatio Bang.

THE BANQUE BELAH POUR L'ETRANGER, The Payments will be made in either

Case No. 2. $28.00

Light Dry Sherry, Sandeman'a Port, Superior Light Invalid. Superior Old Liqueur Cognac. Very Old Liqueur Scotch Whisky

F Quality, Dewar's Bootch Whisky, Glitt

Orange Curacao,

Case No. 3. $32.00

it to last hor for the next fifty years then the war must continue till we have. But to fix the period of the war by the political conditions in Germany is to strengthen bec Political conditions and prolong the stragglosindahnitely. It is after the conclusion of the war that a . political convulsion may be expected in Germany. When the soldiers return to

of renewing the conflict are so remote the land and the people have had time to that Germany would be justified, from a realise the condition to which their rulers strategic point of view, in removing all have brought them, we may witness an her troops from the Eastern front and outburst of feeling which will rudely concentrating them elsewhere, as she ap. shake, if it does not shatter, the Hoben pears already to have done in part. It zollern dynasty, may be, of course, that Germany hopes as a result of peace with Russia to enlist the help of the Russian troops in the war on the Western front; that some fals step of the Allies will throw Russia into

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of an enemy. Recent correspondence baa shown that the Katsen bas long aimed at divorcing Russia from the French all ence, and it may be that he has ir mind

A 2 Bots. Superior Old Fort "D" Quality Very Finest OLD BROWN

Brandy EP" Quality, S

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Bate. St. Julien Claret.

Orange Curacao.

The Exchange Hanks will be closed for the transaction, of public business ou Monday and Tuesday next.

A decree was issued from Lisbon, on the 20th inst. appointing Lt.-Commander F. A. Viera de Matos, Commander, of the gunboat lincao, Acting Governom of Macao,

SPECIAL CASES PUT UP TO ORDER, geoure. Russia, under an extreme Social-ary 29th,

period of five years suck Bonde shall be Dollars or Tools as the holder may wish A. S. WATSON &

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at the buying rate of exchange of the day.

GENERAL MANAGER. THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION, Hongkong, 20th December, 1917. (1418

UNION INSURANCE BOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD:

THE CERTIFICATE No. 4100 fir Fourton Shares Nos. 18494/13477 in the name of MARY SAMUEL FERRY had been LOST or STOLEN, and if at the expiration of One Month from the date hereof the above documente be not forthcoming, another Certificate for the said Bhares will be issued by the Society and thereafter no other will be acknowledged. 31

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Nos

$1,000 each.

Tickets:

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21-42

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Hongkong, 20th December, 1917. (1436

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BIJOU THEATRE.

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334-335

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380-367.

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BOROBATICS, SINGING, DANCING,

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HONGKONG HOTEL

THE

TEA DANCES.

HE MANAGEMENT: beg to announcə that in fature the Charge for TEA, including the PRIVILEGE OF DANCING, will be 81.0) per head, 26% of which sum will ho Donated by the Hotel Company to WAR CHARITIES.

J. H. TAGGART, Manager,

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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO.,

LIMITED.

EFORE purchasing ELECTRICAL BAPPLIANCES For nas in connection with the Company's supply, Consumers are recommended to communicate with the Undersigned with a view to ascertaining

1. If the Appliances, and their use, are in accordance with the Company's Regulating of the

the Wiring of the premises, where

it la intended to instal such Appliances, is suitable.

It is important that the foregoing infor mation should be obtained from the Company, an not only does the neglect to do endanger property by fire, but in addition may lead to a contravention of the Ordinance.

GIBE, LIVINGSTON & Co.

Agents

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PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT

NOTIFICATION.

B HEREBY NOTIFIED that on the

To me, at 3 PM at the PUBLIO

WORES DEPART ENT, and before a Committee

prasided by the Director of the Public Works,

tanders will be received for the supply and canalization of sult laying of pipes For

(Extension) the conditions of the tendering, the Specifications and the Plans of the canaliza- tion are open to the Public at the PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, and in the Portugues CONSULATE in Hongkong, where they can be examined all week days.

Macao, Public Works Department, 18th. December, 1917

HAUL M. DE FARIA MATA, Engineer Director.

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MONTAGUE EDE General Manager Hongkong, 15th December, 1917. [1386

CENTRAL BUREAU OF LIQUIDATION OF THE DEUTSCH-ASIATISCHE BANK IN

CHINA.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that under instructions from the Ministry

of Finance and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Repablic of China, the business in Chins of the Deutsch-Astatisone Bank has been placed in Liquidation. Wi

of And all Parties Chinese

and Allied Neutral nationalities having Claims. agninst the said Bank in Canton are hereby required to notify the Canton Borean of Liquidation of their Claims, within

CO., LTD.,

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

Kilty Liqueur Whisky guaranteed the formation of a new Triple Alliance The Hongkong office of the China Mail

20 years old).

in opposition to the Western Powers. Steamship Company Ltd., is in receipt Even if this be the case, however, it of telegraphic advice that the 5.3. Chịn would indicate that the KAISER does not left San Francisco on the 22nd instand, regard the position of Germany as very is due to arrive here on og about Janu-

ist Government, would be a weak reed The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice. for Germany to lean upon, and if the Memorial and Affliated Hospitals Kaiser thinks it necessary to make the acknowledges with thanks the following experiment it proves that his country donations to the funds of the hospitals : —— must be in a parlous state, But, how. Ginseng Dealers' Guild, #80), Tailors* ever parious the state of the country may Guild, 40; Kwong Frong Wo, 350, Tim be, the overthrow of a dynasty which has Kee, 225; Tin Ynt Kuk, $25, Dr. Waa its roots in the popular imagination is a Man Kai, 810- difficult task-much more dificult than the overthrow of an adventurer like NAPOLEON. In the case of Russia we tainly have a stronger precedent, but the mingovernment which has been so glaring ly obvious in Russia for many years has no counterpart in Germany. It cannot be said that Germany has been ill-gov crned indeed, Germany acquired such a reputation for good govemment that many other European countries wore recommended to sit at her feet and study her institutions. It is possible that Germany's government was not so good

TELEPHONE 618

MARRIAGE. BSATIE WALL. On the 30th October, at

Bristol ANDREW BEATTIE, to CHAR LOTTE IRENE, youngest daughter of the late Mr. CHARLES STANCOME WARE, of Bristol.

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DEATHS. DOLLAR-At No. 90, Route Pottier,

Shanghai, on December 21st, Bessis M. DOLLAR, aged 41 yearO; MARTISBON.At Chinkiang, on December

20th WILLIAM MARTINSON,

years

Montacap Urizon; dui Wa Vaux Loan, 0 LONDON, UNION : 181, Fxxar Beamer, M.C.

The Baily Press.

Hosgkono, 28th December 2017.

GERMANY AS A PRELIMINARY

TO PEACE

A Chinese woman has reported to tho Police that while she end another wogun were proceding from Kowloon city to Wo Mi, on Christmas Eve, they we set upon by two men,. between. Chang Lam. Shan mountain und Taipo Road, and robbed of their silver, bangles, valued, at $7.50. The men bound the women's hands with thin wire atut then decamped,

According to the NC Darly News HE the Governor's bag, during his shooting expedition in Koren, consisted of a deer, 168 pheasants, and other game. Originally, the paper states, Sir Henry

as reputed, that a sort of sham prosperi Ma~ intended to hunt, bigger game but ty was created which had an insecure owing to the presence of a Japaness party foundation and would sooner or later on the field be had to be satisfied with have landed the country in difficulties. smaller fry. But in Germany there has not been that complete disregard for personal liberty and free speech which distinguished There has certainly (been a Russie. growing feeling of unrest for several

The master of a licensed fishing junk reports that on Esturday evening, while

his craft was anchored close to the shora at Soi Hoi, în Chinese territory, four men, armed with revolvers, came on

within one THE DEMOCRATISATION OF Jears and a desire for the extension of board One of the men hit him on the political rights, but it would be a mistake back with the buttend of a revolver, and to conclude that the growth of Socialism stole from his cabin #40, an unchar meant as much as was commonly sup valued at $4, and a piece of rope valuad posed. The war bag shown that a large

St $1.20. section-in fact, nearly the whole of

A Chinese woman, a fishmonger," re- the Socialist party were not. Socialists

sense in which the termed porta that ou Christmas day an armed robbery took place on her junk, Eleven,

month from this date.

AND NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN, that all Parties indebted to the said Bank must discharge their liabilities within ona month from this date, after which period the Central Bureau of Liquidation will take such action se may be necessary-

LOCAL BUREAU OF LIQUIDATION OF THE DEUTSCH-ASIATISCHE BANK,

PENDICANTON, Canton, 1st December, 1971.

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In A. G. GARDINER, Editor of the London Daily News, bas advanced the view recently that the democratisation of the Government in Germany must be nocomplished before, and not after, petos

in England hardly, indeed, Radicals, but rather an extreme section of the men, armed with revolvers and knives, negotiations, on the ground that at any Liberal party. When we consider the entered the junk, and after taking a Peace conference the Allied Governments will speak and act in the name of their political conditions obtaining in Pramis quantity of jewellery and money, kid- The complainant was wounded in the respective peoples, while Germany, under and the demands made by the Socialists,apped, one of the women and made off it is obvions that their opinions were struggle, and is undergoing treatment, et 22606-32700 MREP. HENDERSON, ICS, Betired,xisting conditions, can speak only in

starsely more advanced than those of Mr the Government Civil Hospital. of 18, Leinster Gardens, London, W., the name of the Kaise. It would cer

LLOYD GEORGE or Mr. GARDINER himself. wishes to draw the attention of the public in fain]... be the most satisfactory conclusion

Yesterday, before Commander. Chins and the Straits to the desirability of to the war if some such overturn of exist-the-courage of his opinions and risk his Bockwith, B.N., Ho Min, mistress of taking advantage of the present high leveling institutions as has been witnessed in

life in protesting against what he con passenger-bost No. 153v, and Tang Mi- of exchange by effecting, under his advice, Russia wote also to take place in Ger-sidered an unjust war, but Britain's posi- Kot, master of boat. No. (1) 115y, plenaut single premium Insurance Policies

many. For one thing there is little doubt tion towards the Boer Republics and guilty to being under way to the port..

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The advantages may be briefly summarised as under

1. The present level of exchange has the effect of approximately doubling sny money sent home

Mr. LLOYD Gsongs did indeed once have

during the uight of the 2nd instant written permit from the officer without

of the examination acrvice. fined $3 esch with the alterna-

Germany's position to the Allies are obviously quite different. The courage

They required to protest against war which was proclaimed ag one of aggression and tire of seven days' hard hbqur, wherein the opponents were four of the great Powers of Europe is evidently The body of a well-tordo Chinese was different from the courage required to found by a Chinese foreman of the protest against a war waged by a first-Sunitary Department lying on a vacant mul class Power against two small colonial piece of ground at Rigon Street, Republic, which, however well armed way between Nathan Road and Woo Bung Street. The deceased appears ta

that any popular administratica in Germany would be eager to cast off the yoke of militarian and make peses on terms which would be accepted by the Allies. But what are the chances of such 2. Large Insurance protection is immedia demoorstination of Germany being ately obtained, combined with sbsolute effected Is there any precedent for a socority of capital, and an anelloutBountry in the midst of a great war pro- ceeding to pull down its old institutions return at Maturity,

and get up now ones ↑ The case of France 2 Sines Insurance Companies are the pints

and the more recent one of Russia at largest Investors in all War LoanS, BOY money thus sent home helps the Old Hops occur to the mind. In France, how, and trained, could hardly hope to avoid have been shot at from behind, the bullet:

ever, the revolution followed defeat. It defeat. How large is the party, of out entering the nape of the seck, and emerge and-out pacifists in England--those, ing from the right eye. A 39 calibre body. was the failure of NAPOLEON to make

cartridge case was found hear the that is who would make peace on any The deceased had arrived only recently good the promises he gave the people

terais: There are many no doubt, who from Shanghai Robbery was not the which let them to rise against him. If

CANA motive, se a large sum of money was agree with Lord Lawapowxe that encour- found on the person of the deceded. the Franco-Prussian War establishes any

zented in connection with the murder. precedent it is that a change of polity

Country in ita hour of nood.:

which Mr.

Copy of conditions on HENDERSOY's advice is given can be obtained TROL the MANAGER OF THIS PAPER £1006

gement should be given to Germany in understood that a man has been ir-