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NOTICE.

THE HONGKONG & CHINA GAS CO? bors to notify its Consumers and the Public that, owing to the HEAVY INCREASES in the COST of obtaining ita necessities, particularly Coal, it has no option but. to Increase the Price of Gas by 50 Cents per: 1,000 cubic feet, making the Price 82.80 per 1,000 cubic feet, dating from the 1st February, 1918.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

GEORGE CURRY,

Local Secretary, Hongkong, 28th January, 1918. [1062

NOTICE.

INTIMATIONS

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20THA 1918

THE WEST POINT BUILDING CO., LIMITED.

N THIRTIETH ORDINARY TOTICE IN HEREBY GIVEN thai MEETING of BHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Officer of Mesars, JARDINE, MATHESON COMPANY

INTIMATION

LIMITED, TO-DAY (TUESDAY) 29th Jan-0OMPANIA GENERAL uary, 1818, at 11.30 AM, for the purpose et receiving the Herri of the Lirectors together with Stazement of Accounts for the years

REGISTER ON SHARES of the 31st December, 1917,

will be CLOS

CLOSED from SATUR 18th, to TUESDAY, 29th January, 1018 (both days inclusive), during whick period no Transfer of Shares on Registered.

be

By Order of the Board of Directors,

A. SHELTON HOOPER, Secretary to the HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & ADENDY

Co, Lab,

General Agents for the WEST POINT BUILDING CO., LTD Hongkong, 11th January, 1012

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THE HONGKONG CENTRAL ESTATE, LIMITED, TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

TILL the Lady who took the LONG W GREY SQUIRREL FUR in mistakeN FOURTH ORDINARY MEETING From the Ladies Cloak Room of the RE Theatre on FRIDAY last kindly return saue to the Hon. Secretary, R.E. ENTERTAIN MENT CLUB, Wellington Barracks 1

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Semi-Finals.

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All

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games to be played at the V.B.C. Winner of the competition to mset

of 1000 un.

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UNION WATERBOAT CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

THIRTEENTH ANNUAL THE

GENERAL MEETING of SHARE

HOLDERS will be held in the Offices of DODWELL & CO., LIMITED, on Mesars TUESDAY, the 5th February, 1918, at 11.30 AM, for the purpose of receiving the Heport of the General Managers together with a Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1917.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 30th January to 5th February, 1918, both dates inclusivo,

„DUDWELL & COMPANY, LTD.

General Managers. Hongkong, 26th January, 1918. [186

HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND' FINANCE CO., LTD.

that the

NORDINARY ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS in this Campany will be held the HONGKONG Horn, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 9th February, 1919, at 11.30 4.M., for the purpose of receiving the Baparts of the Directors together with Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1817.

The TRANSFER

will be CLOSED BOOKS of the Company

to the 14th February (both days inclusive) during which period no Transfer of baren can be Registare.

JOHN D, HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Youngers. Hongkong, 20th January, 1910.

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OF SHAREHOLDERS is the Offices of MossTA, JARDINE, MATHESON & COMPANY, LIMITED, TO-DAY (TUESDAY, 29th Jan uary, 1916, at 11.45 t, for the purpose of receiving the

the Report of the Directors together with the Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December 1917.NA

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from SATUR DAY, 10th, to EUESDAY, 20th January, 1918 (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of shares can be Registered, By Order of the Board of Directors.

THE HONGKONG CENTRAL

ESTATE, LIMITED,

A SHELTON HOUTER,

Becretary tabl THE GENERAL MANAGEED, Hongkong, 11th January, 1818, 18:

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.

MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD.

two-edged weapon and the appeal to it just boundaries for France were those of to support the contention that the

1790. France therefore, retained the French took German territory is worth provinces. just as much as would be an appeal to In 1870 Prussia went to war with a it to support the contention that the boundary map of the provinces ready Germans originally took French terri prepared for the intended annexation. tory, that is, it is worth nothing at all. It was not conquest that was to be undone The Empire was elective, and under by conquest; it was the will of the DE

CHALLEMAGNE's successors sometimes the “German""" and sometimes the "French"-|

TABACOS DE FILIPINAS

NUEVO

CORTADO

EXTRA

$3.00 per 100

A FIRST-CLASS CHEROOT

AT A CHEAP PRICE

NOTICE IS HEBERY GIVEN that the A. S. WATSON

HIRTIETH ORDINARY MEETING

of SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Ounces of less JARDINE MATHESON & COMPANY, LIMITED, TU-DAY (TUESDAY), 29th January, 1918, at Nook, for the purpose of receiving the Heport the Directors together with the Statement of Accounts.

for the year ending 1st December,

the Company will be CLOSED from SATUR- DAY, luth, to TUESDAY, 29th January, 1918 (both days inclusive), during which period po Transfer of Shares can be Registered

1917 REGISTER of SHARES of th

The

By Order of the Board of Directors.

A. SHELTON HOOPER,

Secretary. Hongkong, 11th January, 1918.

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THE HONGKONG LAND REOLAMA- TION COM ETD TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the SEVENTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Offices of

CONFAST,

receiving the Report of the Directors nary, 1918, at 1215 PM for the purpose of

al Accounta together with the Statement

LISITED, TO-DAY (TUESDAY), 20th

The REGISTER DATE: 2017, the

year ending dist December Company will be CLOSED from SATUE DAY, 19th, to TUESDAY, 20th January,

both days during period, no Transfer of Shariashion Registered,

By Order of the Board of Directors

MOWBRAY'S NORTHCOTE,

Secretary Hongkere. 11th January, läis

HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

BIO

MEETING & SHAREHOLDERS in

CO., LTD.,

CIGAR MERCHANTS,

During the week ended the 26th inst here were reported in the Colony 4 cases of diphtheria (all of them fatal and 8 cases of enteric fever (one of which proved fatal).

The weekly religious meeting of the Helena May Institute this after noon at 6.30 o'clock will be conducted by the Rev JK Maconachie, who will give the third of a series on Teachings of Christ with regard to daily life." The meeting is open to all women...

people concerned, as expressed in the ** resolutions of 1790. The elected repre culer was Emperor. From 1483 the sentatives, af the two provinces, hended Haysburgs were chosen Emperors. The by GAMETTA, left this in no doubt it acquisition by France of Alsace and

appears plainly in the declaration which Lorraine was, therefore, an incident of

they unanimously made to the National Chinese Detective No. 184, Wong Kau, the long dual between France and Austria in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Assembly on 18th February, 1871, when died suddenly on Sunday at his house France was in possession of Alsace when France saw herself compelled to make No. 902 Wa Lane. The deceased, it is she went to the negotiations at Munster Peace. They declared that Alsace and stated, returned home after duty and which led in 1718 to the peace of West Lorraine did not desire to be transferred, complained to his wife that he was feel- phalin The 18th century was well ad and that all-both citizens and soldiersing very cold. A medical man was sent Vanted when the Duchy of Lorraine bo pons, to Germany and the world, the A post-mortem examination has not proclaimed by their votes and their wea for, but death ensued before his arrival. Game French. After the war of the Polish

immovable will of the two provinces to revealed any suspicions symptoms. succession, the French Minister, Cardinal

remain French soil. They called on the FLEURY, in 1735 arranged terms between

civilised nations not to allow them to be France and the Emperor CHAPLES: VI, on the basis that Lorraine should be

abandoned to their enemice; otherwise,

ceded to France, and the Duke of

Lorraine should receive in exchange the Duchy of Tuscany. The exchange was confrmed at the peace of Vienna, 1738;

The Youk Chi Girls School, of 9, Arbuthnot Road, celebrated its tenth anniversary on Sunday. The parents of

these nations might, in their turn, be the pupils were shown round and were had tolerated--a prophecy literally fultion. When the school was founded it had come victims of the aggression which they

impressed by the progress of the institu filled to-day. The declaration closed with only ten pupils on its roll; to-day there STANISLAUS, who had been Louis Xy the words:"We proclaim that the are 150 thildren. Sixteen scholars candidate for the House of Poland, be- right of the people of Alsace and Lorreceived their certificates, while prizen came Duke of Lorraine for life, with raine to remain members of the French were distributed by the Ilend Mistress.

nation is for ever inviolable; and we

from its German motherland in time of The French acquisition of pesco Alsace Lorraine, as we have seen, alicated the House of Hapsburg and affected the Holy Roman Empire. That Empire was extinguished in 1808; and the modern German Empire, created in 1871, has no connection with that Empire and is not heir of its claims. Consequently, the claim to Alsace-Lorraine made by the German Empire to-day, so far as it is hased on the histories of the Holy Roman Empire and of the House of Hapsburg, in, historically and legally, sheer non

A cheque for $200.25 has bcen received by the war charities Fund from "Quarry

Bay Children?

reversion to France; and the reversion. fell in on STANISLAUS death in 1760,wear, both for ourselves and our con- stituents, our children, and their descend This is what the Germans call, the

wresting of Lorraine by Louis XIV ants to vindicate it for ever by all means through Mrs. Mitchell for the credit for and against all usurpers." This was the the British Red Cross Fund. The money the provinces, sealed with their blood, children's play entitled, "Cissie in Tos- last expression of the free opinion of

represents part of the proceeds of a. and this is why the idea of a plebiscite land," givon on Christmas Eve, 1917, and finds no favour in France. that there is any doubt about the result, wick has forwarded a sum of 263.15 to

It is not January 12th, 1018. Mr. Edgar War.. in spite of German immigration; it is the War Charities for the Red Cross. that the provinces have twice ananimous Fund, a percentage of the gross receipta. ly pronounced for France, in 1790 and for the "Court Cards" during their in 1871, and that should be sufficient. A short season in the Colony just com plebiscite might seem to constitute an pleted. admission that this was not suoient; it might look as though there were some truth in the German claim that in 1871 conquest had been undone by conquest, whereas, in truth, it was conquest which had avorridden the will of the people.

There is a radical difference in the line taken to day by the propaganda in Franco and Germany, The French say

The people at heart and part of

burg and every town, and resolutions.

provinces are Gormon by language, poured in upon the Constituent As-ancestry and history"they do not add serably. We quote the most important. The people at heart are part of Ger On March 18th, on the occasion of the many. Now nationality is a matter of installation of new municipal authorities, feeling, not of language or ancestry, and the people of Strassburg met in the if the fact that Alsace (not Lorraine) principal square and passed the follow-

largely speaks German were an argu- LONDON OPZOR: 131, FIZER STAGE.Cing resolution: In this square, where

our fathers gave themselves to France United States would have no right to ment, Switzerland, Belgium and the

only with regret, we have come together to cement with our oaths our union with

TELEPHONE 616.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

sens.

The real title of France, to the two provinces, however, dates from 1790. The people of Alsace heartily supported the unification of the national territory car- ried out in that year. Sociates des mais

The Hon. Mr. Thomas Sammons, American Consul General, has received a telegram- from the State Department to the effect that forms for American income-tax returns for 1917 will be for. warded from Washington as soon as iɛ- sued. American residents in China. asked to note that in order to avail them solves of the additional 30 days allowed

aro

Mira MORTIMER O'SULLIVAN and 3m de la constitution were formed in Strass France the Germans reply: The by law they should request such extension

CLARKE bog to tender their heartfelt thanks for the numerous letters of xympathy they have received in their recent terrible bereavement. Also to, the whole community for the magni. ficent tribute of respect shown at the bands, funeral of their late beloved hus

F1580

Road,

The Daily Bress.

her. We have sworn and we wear to give the last drop of our blood to defend HONGKONG, 29TH JANUARY, 1818

the Constitution. If the town of Straes burg has not had the glory of being the GERMANY'S CLAIM TO hrst to set an example to the towns of the Kingdom, she shell at least have that of bung, through the energetic patriot-

ALSACE-LORRAINE.

exist.

The talk about “old German

"

by letter to the Collector of Internal Revenue in their home district, such letter to reach the Colistor before March 18t

THE GRESSON STREET BATTLE. INJURED DESPERADO SUCCUMBS.

speradoes who was wounded in the It is reported that one of the de

Greeson Street battle with the Police died on Sunday afternoon at the Govern

territory" was genuine in 1815; to-day it is merely a blind. What Germany will fight for to the end is the iron munes of Lorraine and the potash deposits of ment Civil Hospital. The dead robber Alsace Without the Lorraine mines, which yield two-thirds of all the German ore, Germany could not have made her attempt to conquer Europe without them, she knows the can never repent the performance. So the will of a people

WE referred briefly yesterday to Count Hanry:wa's reply to President WSON ism of bar inhabitants one of the THE NINETY-EIGHTH ORDINARY demand that Germany should right the strongest bulwark of French liberty."

Alsatian feudatorics France was abo- the 19th February, 1918, st 12 6 dock Noor, aow to examine in greater detail the lighing feudalism; could she deprive the for the purpose of receiving a Report of

Accounts

the Company will be heki at the Office of Wrong she did to France in 1870 bpA question, however, arose over the is to be brought to nothing in order that

the Company, Hotel Mansions, on TUESDAY,anizing Alsace-Lorraine

We propose

in the man who kept the Police at buy till the very last, when he shot himself after a bomb had been thrown at him.

ONE OF THE RUSSIAN LEADERS,

MR. JOHN MCLEAN.

A correspondent writes:-"Mr. John

the Directors, together with Statement of Imperial Chancellor's contention that Alsatian landowners of feudal rights The disannexation of Alsace Lorraine McLean, the Hon President of the Con- electing Director and AnditoDividend and When we in 1870 demanded the tracts recognized by the Treaty of Munster? The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company of land wrong from us in a criminal way, the Empire concerned sent a protest, to

Auditors.r

The various princelets and knights of will be CLOSED from the 4th to 1960 it was no conquest of alien territory, but Fobradox at the Board of Directors,

1918, both days inclusive. By

JOHN ARNOLD,

Acting Secretary,

- Hongkong, 21st January, 1918.

-NOTICE.

the French Government (February, 1790)

what to day is called dis-annexation," In what sense were the provinces ever

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A 8. WATSON & CO., LTD. Oh No, 20941 to 20340 inclusive NE CERTIFICATE for One Handred in this Company. MR. HECTOE V. PRENTICE, bar been. LOST

standing in the name of And if at the expiration of one Month from, the date hereof the above Certificate be not Shares

will be issued by the Company, and thereafter no other will be acknowledged.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. Hongkong, 16th January 1918. .. F1:30

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means of strikes."

German iron magnates may grow fat and scheme for future wars of aggression.

would be the greatest of all guarantees gres of the Soviets, is a master of arts for peace,

no hope of retaining those "German" taught in Kinning Park Public School, of Glasgow University. He is a trained Some Germans realise that they have teacher of first class reputation, who and on April 28th the Constituent provinces except by force, the "Ger- under the Goyan School Board. He was Assembly decided that indemnities German territory? The German case should be paid to the complainants for Lorraine is so indisputably French that on Glasgow Green on socialistic subjects-

man pupulations will not have them. of Fabian tendencies and used to speak

bian tenden like that of Louis XIV, begins with the loss of their feudal rights. The com- it hardly comes in question; but German and labour problema. During the second CHARLEMAGNE—because to the one he was blairants refneed this, and their appeal admissions as to Alawn are interesting. gow, found guilty and sentenced to

year of the war he was arrested in Glaz German Emperor and to the other a

was referred to the Feudal Committee, It is well known that down to 1880 the the Defence of the Realm Act. He was French King Une claim is as good or as

torm of imprisonment for offences against bad as the other, for in those days there France and Alsace rested on the unani resulted in the election of protestataires Labour to revolt against the war by which reported that the unity of Reichstag elections in Alsace always an anti-conscriptionist and incited was neither a German Emperor nor a French-King CHARLEMAGNE was ruler of that ancient treaties and the stipula also well own that many Algatinas mous decision of the people of Alsace, and a protest against the annexation. It is a huge spear-won territory; and, as such, tions of their former rulers could no have left their country and settled in ST. STEPHEN'S GIRLS' COLLEGE Asiatic, Foreign and Colonial forthcoming another Certificate for the said he purported to revive in his own person longer bind a free people. The complaia France, while many Germans-by. 1919 Certificates gained by scholars from the Roman Empire of the West, and ants then appealed to the Powers and about 300,000-have taken their places this College at the Hongkong Umversity treated himself, and was trested, as the war fallowed. When NAPOLEON fell and and that every possible method has been Local Examinations for, 1917, were dis successor of Augustus and CONSTANTINE, the Congress of the Powers ruct at Vienna employed to Germanite the country. Ittributed yesterday on the eve of closing But if we are to go back to 800 A.D. to settle the map of Europe, Alsace has made no difference. So good an po Lander. The following were the succes for the New Year holidays, by Mi why should we stop there! Why not go Lorraine, of course, came in question, Branting, who knows the provinces, Mo la Chong Kam Yuet and Li King server, as the Swedish socialist leader ful candidates: Kwok Sheung Man, Ho back to JULIUS CAESAR, when the Hhine Russia and Britain, at first inclined to has recently stated that he believes from Yung, all Senior certificates, Fear! was the undisputed boundary between favour Prussia, were gradually worked

evidence that on a plebiscito SAMOTES A be a great majority

there

Bew Lo Mo Yuen and Sim Bong Finnc for THE CERTIFICATE, No. 431 for Twenty to the har dentary Ch not go back into an attitude of hostility to the The Tason in

is that new

Kheung Junior certificates. Moe 18030/12006, in this Com the third century E. much of Prussian pretensions; it was even more testing

pró

Opportunity was also taken to present pany registered in the name of WILLIAM what is now South Germany, and the important that Austria ultimately took

has ceased; but the I GOODS, ANDER PARSONS MASTIN, has been LOST; Danube down to Belgrade, were held by a course. In vain did Germas set to work to keep alight the

to rely on

on themselves and if at the expiration of one month from the date hereof the above Certificate be not Gallic tribes! We can trace what is now memorialista, like the CROWN PRINCE

flame of l'idée française. In order that the above examinations, to Kwok Sheung GRACA & CO..ier Certifiesta for the said Alsace-Lorraine se Gallic for some seven

of the current setting toward France might Man (Benior Scholarship) and Pearl Bew Shares will be

by the Company and thereafter no other or others will be acknow Senturies, and an indefinite time pre should be undone by conquest, The Vereinigung What a shameful thing challenge cups will be presented annual Wartenberg, declare that conquest not be anopposed" a pro-German associa (unior Scholarship). In future years, tion was formed the Eliass-Lothringische by consent of the donors two silver lodged: MONTAGUE

α

VIGURLY; it was Wrested from the Gauls Congress slowly groped its way to two comments LIKUWALD that this shouldly instead of the scholambins, It is pro Lee General M DR

(or (allo-Romans) by Germanic tribes principles-that the Allies had conquer necessity

be necessary in a German land. The posed to hold Speech Day at the closp shows how far that landle of the Bammer Term instead of at in the Migration. Ancient history is aed NAPOLEON, Bot France; and that the from being **** German, 22-

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in Alsace,rement

Cheung Shiv, awarded on the results of people the Hon. Mr. Ho Fock and Mr. La the two scholarships, kindly offered by