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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

WANTED.

WNISHED ROOM with Private

17ITHOUT - Board, NICELY FUR

Bathroom. Higher level preferred.

Apply to

M.V.D. Care of "Daily Press Office.. [1907

UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG. APPOINTMENTS IN THE FACULTY

OF ENGINEERING.

HE Council of the University require the Closs of TWO LECTURERS in Civil and Mechanical Engineering. Salary 400 pounds. per annum, with quarters or £100 per aanam allowance, maximum rate of dollar 2. The selected candidates will be

required to take up their appointments in September, 1918.

Applications should be sent before the end of May, to the Registrat, from whom further details of each appointment may be obtained.

[1908

ST. GEORGE'S NIGHT | DINE IN THE GRILL ROOM

OF THE

HONGKONG HOTEL,

7.30 PM.

Special Menu $3.50 Per Head.

HROUGH the generosity of the Hotel TH

Directorate the entire proceeds of the Dinner will be given to St. George's Day Fund for War Charities.

ST.

THE

$1900

INTIMATIONS

HỌNGKONG TRAMWAY CO, LTD.

(Incorporated in the United Kingdom)

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

NOTURNA BY GENERAL MEETING

of the HONGKONG TRAMWAY CO., LTD. will be held at the Offices of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON de Co., LTD, Pedder Street, Honz- kong, on WEDNESDAY, the 24th day of April, 1918, at 12 o'clock Noox, to transact the Ordinary Business of the Company. By Order of the Board of Directors.

W. E ROBERTS, Secretary. Hongkong, th February, 1918

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 19TH, 1018.

THE

HOUSES TO LET

TO LET FURNISHED.

BOM the Middlen June for Bone months

No. 7, STEWART TERRACE, THI Apply

PEAS.

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Go

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB

NOTICE.

HE HALF YEARLY MEETING of 15 Mombera will be held on SATURDAY, the 27th April, 1918, at 12 o'clock Noor, at the Offices of the JoCKEY CLUB on the Ground Floor of the HONGKONG CLUB ANNEXE Chater Boad.

By Order.

T. F. HOUGH Clerk of the Course Hongkong, 13th April 1918

11890

THE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LIMITED.

¡OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an

NEXTRAURDINARY GENERAL

TO LET.

F. SUTTON, P.W.D.

(1903

YODOWN in Wanchai district, area 4300 square feet, moderato rental Apply

Box No. 403, Care of "Daily Press Office, [1891

TO LET.

RESIDENTIAL

Bailding. Apply to

FLAT in Prince's

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY Co., Lm.

N

TO LET.

TO. 3, CANTON VILLAS, Kowloon.

Apply to

18761

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY Co, LID.

1876

TO LET

MEETING of the HONGKONG, ICE COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held at the Registered Office of the Company, Fodder Street, Victoria, Hongkong, on MONDAY, the 6th day of May, 1918, at 12 o'clock Nook, when the subjoined resolutions which were passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held on the 16th day of April, 1918, will be submitted for Confirma-MMEDIATE entry, Four very desirable SHOPS, luated in Ice House Street, DAY tion as Speoint Resolutions: opposite the Grand Hotel, recently recon-

(1) That it is expedient to effect an structed.

amalgamation of this Company with For rent and other particulars apply the Dairy Farm Company, Limited, | to= and that with a view tueret this

TILE MANAGER Company be wound up volumtanly

HONGKONG ICs Co., LTD. and that Messrs. Jardine, Matheson

40, Connaught Road Central, &Co., Limited, be and buy are hereby

[900 appointvel Liquidators for the purpose 01 auch winding up...

GEORGE'S

FUND.

WITNESS FOR

THE DEFENCE?"

REPEAT PERFORMANCES:

THURSDAY, 25th APRIL, SATURDAY, 27TM APRIL,

AT 9.15PM.

ORDINARY THEATRE PRICES.

BOOKING AT MOUTRIES from FRIDAY 19th inst., at 9 A.M.

Soldiers and Sailors in uniform. Half Price to Pit and

llery.

NOTICE.

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UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.

ITHE 'CERTIFICATE No. 3051 for 36

of

Shares Nos. 11410 to 11445 standing in the books of the Society in the name of FRANCISCO DE PAULA ČEMBRANO, late of Wimbledon, Middlesex, England, has been declared LOST and if at the expiration one month from the date hereof the above document be not forthcoming another Certificate for the asid Shares will be jasnert by the Society and thereafter no other will bo acknowledged

C. MONTAGUE EDE, General Manager.

A

· Hongkong, 10th April, 1918.-

(4) That the conditional Agreement sub-

mitted

to the meeting for the amalgamation of this Company with

TO LET

the Dairy Farm Company, Limited,OUSES on Shameen, Canton,

ujion the torms (inter alia) of the acquisition by that Company of the complete undertaking, business, good- will and property of this Company in return for the issue to this

Company of $2,000 shares the Dairy Farm Company Limited, of the nominai value of $7.50 dach credited as fully paid up (being eight shares of $7.50 each of that Company for each share of $25 each of this Company) and of the issue by

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD.

198

TO LET

Limited, to the Dairy Farm Company, A FLAT in Nathan Road, Kowloon.

Messi8.

· Jariline, Matheson

of

& Co., Limited, the General Managers of this Company (upon their entering inte restritive covenants which have. beat agreed upon and by way bonus as compensation for their loss of office as General Managers of this Company) of 1,000 shares of the Dairy Farm Company, Limited, of the nominal value of $7.50 each credited as fully paid up be and the same hereby approved and that the Liqui dators be and they are hereby authorised pursuant to Section 185 of the Companies Ordinance 1911 to adopt the said Agreement and carry the samo into affect with such (if any) modification either before or after the xoention theroof as the said Liqui dators may think expedient.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 1st to the 10th May, 101, both days inclusive,

Dated the 16th day of April, 1915.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,.

General Managers,

FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES in Kowloon.

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HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO. LTD, Alexandra Buildings.

₤1628

FOR SALE. USCULUM, Barker Road, 165, Peak.

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DUNCAN CLARK, Care of LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.

FOR SALE.

GROOMS

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ALESEND

PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, MACAO.

NOTIFICATION.

Apply-..

THE DAIRY FARM CO, LTD.

for

PPLICATION has been made to the Directors of this Company to iskus to WALTER DOUGLAS GRAHAM of Hongkong (deceased) a duplicate Certificate or Certi- ficates in lieu thereof apon the statementT IS HERERY NOTIFIED that during that the Original Certificate No. 1909 for Shares numbered 28775/29834 and dated 11th January, 1809, has been LOST OF DESTROYED AND

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that if within 30 days from the date hereof no claims or representation in respect of such Original Certificate is made to the Directors they will proceed to deal with such application for a Certificate.

M. MANUK

Secretary. Dated 4th day of April, 1918.

₤1800

THIRD LIBERTY LOAN.

THE Subscription List for the THIRD LIBERTY LOAN of U.S. $3,000,000,000 carrying interest at 1/4 per cent, per annum closes in America on 4th May, 1918. De wij THE INTERNATIONAL BANKING COLPORATION

two months, counting from the dato of publication of this Notification in the STUDY OF WATER SUPPLY" in this "BOLETIM OFFICIAL,” tenders

addressed to the Council of Administration Colony will be received. The tenders of Public Works must be received in this Department within the above specified time.

The conditions of the work are open for inspection in the Portuguese Consulate all week days

Public Works Department, Macao, 8th April, 1010,

FARIAMAIA, The Engineer Director. 11893

NOTICE

NY EUROPEAN, Non-Asiatico. Indian

Is prepared to receive applications up to 28th A desiring to leave the Colony should

April, on the following terms --

6% on application.

20% on 31st May,

35% on 11th July.

40% on 8th August

and will also grant loans against this Becurity.

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ANTED for Japan, YOUNG FEMALE

SCHIPPERKE TERRIER (black) State price, age and full particulars, with Blato if possible.

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experience, salary required

eferences. Apply

and

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Applicants will be required to produce Passports or identification papers.

All

with certain exceptions who pezzors remain in

the

Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register themselves under the KEGISTRATION

PERSONS ORDINANCE 1916.

ON

Forms of Registration giving the parti- culars required: may: he obtained at the G.P.O. and at all Police Stations.

The Penalty for non-compliance is a fine not exceeding €50.

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the moral armoury which sustains our cause have been those made by Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON

President WILSON, The British labour leader who for forty-two months of the conflict nourished the hope that the terrible

ope that the alaughter might end if the Allies did their utmost to conciliate the enemy has now publicly declared that he abandon's hope of any such result. It cannot be doubted that the striking contrast between the actions and words of the Germans in Russia have made him realise

During the 24 hours of, Wednesday 10 cases oferebro-Spinul fever, were notified in the Colony, all of them Chinese. The deaths numbered 8.

The property recovered by the Police the Race Course dienster will he handed over to the claimants next Sun- day, At the same time, property not yet claimed may be seen at the Central Police Station.

CANTON

[DY COURTEST OF THE

NEWS.

CHUNG NGỜi

CANTON, April 18th.

PROVINCIAL: LOANS.

We learn that a loan of over $280,000

Banks by the Treasurer to meet military hna been secured from certain Native

expenditure. It is said that another. loan from a foreign firm for purchasing Larms is under consideration.

LUNG 5 REGRUITING AGENTS

that democracy can expect nothing but slavery from the Central Powers. The speech of President WILSON, at the meet ing commemorating the first anniversary of America's entry into the war, reveals just the sanie traces of disappointment and disillusionment as that of Mr. HENDERSON, I call you to witness, my fellow countrymen," said President WILSON and there is almost despair in the words, call you to witness, ny fellow-countrymen, that at no stage oi this terrible business have I judged the purposes of Germany intemperately." And what is his conclusion now? There can only be one answer, for the facts are notorious, When he offered the olive branch to the Germans they answered in unmistakable tormas. They avowed that it was not justice but dominion and unhindered execution of their own will whien they sought. The recent disclosures made by the late German Ambassador in London unly serve to confirm the well-established factorrest of General Lang alive and $50,000 that Germany willed this war

for his corpse.

It in reported that General Lung Chai kong has recently appointed several native leaders in various districts in Ko Chow and Lui Chow and ordered them. to recruit a thousand-new soldiers each, for the purpose of re-attacking all the lost positions.---

GENERALS LUK AND LUNG,

We are informed that General Luk Wing-ting, has wired to various leaders on the front offering $100,000 for the

4 VICTORIOUS LEADER,

Chief Commander Li Kan-yuen retuin- ed to Canton, yesterday, and reported s victories in Young Kong, Li, it is said, has been requested to lead his troops to reinforce the expeditionary forces in Hunan,

Despite the plain atatements of the political leaders among the Allies it in still pertinent for us to mak, if only to remind ourselves of the issues at stake, for what are we fighting? Frimarily, to destroy both the Hohenzollern, and Hapsburg Empires. That means, if it means anything at all, that we must insist upon Germany becoming den A regiment of Yunnan troops whe cratic. The historian of the future will mutineed in Swatow, arrived in Canton, marvel that the German Government, according to orders, yesterday. They through long years of bloodshed and will either he dispersed or sent to privation, contrived to conceal from Hulan. its people the true character of the war. The success of its gigantic, camouflage

A. S. WATSON & traceable to long insistence upon the

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The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, 19TH APRIL, 1818.

CONCILIATION IMPOSSIBLE. DURING the last few days. announcements have been made con

variaus.

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MUTINEERS RETURNED TO CANTON,

[FROM THE CANTOR INTELLIGENCE BUREAU.] SOUTHERN SUCCESSES.

Li Chin-pin, the head of the rebellious forces and second to Lung, has been taken prisoner. Lung's rebels may have to evacuate Kaochow before the Ching Ming season is over as forecasted by th Intelligence Bureau a week ago. Teai Chun-hua, formerly Chief of Canton Water Police, and another agent of Lung day, eccoridng to official advice just were shot as spis at Bwatow the other

received.

General Li Lich-chun,, formerly Tutub of Kinngsi, now operating against, Lung, has

reported the recapture of Tien-pah city, taking prisonar. 1,200 rebels and a large quantity of arms and ammunition. General Li Chin-yuea, until recently Civil Governor of Shenzi, is also fighting Lung, whose defeat is possible within twenty days,

doctrine of the dynasty. In Germany- which is

state of intellectual bondage from which Englishmen escaped two hundred and fifty years ago, and France escaped more than one hundred years - ago--nl] pacific, scientife, and philosophic investigations are permitted only so ng ns they do not ran counter to the intercats of the dynasty. Nothing has altered in Prussia, in this respect, for two hundred years. Under the German Constitution of lo-day there it no legal connection whatever between the Army and the people. The German Anny does not exist for the sake of the country, but for the sake of the EMPEROR HEGEL 'secularized, or modernised, the nected with the intellectual, rather than drastic idea. He created a new divinity, the military aspects of the war. In our which seemed to resemble that suggested ongernas, for news about the great buttle by VOLTAIRE and the French philosophers, Yunnan troops now in Canton hava on the Western Front we may ho tempted and called 16 The State. His philostrategetic points between Kwangtung been detailed to guard the borders ond to pass by these important statements Sophy was, indeed, an intellectual force, and Kiangs and are preparing to meet without giving them the attention they and Germany is saturated with it. His the advance of Northern forces. The

failure of Lung is enabling the Canton- deserve. The gratitude of the freedom followers have been named the intel authorities to pay more attention to Loving plus of the earth goes out to lectual bodyguard of the Hohenzollerus," | operations against the North, the brave soldiers who are holding the and they are the bulwars of the dynasty. line in France and Belgium, everyono Just as there can be no religion without TRADING WITH THE ENEMY realises that, for the moment, the one goda, no art without ideala, so it is thing

most essential to save civilisation demonstrably true there could have been

CHINESE FIRM FINED $100 and democracy from eclipse is force no. Armageddon without people At the Hongkong Magistracy, yester But, despite their military and political saturated with blind faith in the day before Mr. Dyer Ball, a partner of power, dynasting could not continue their autocratic powers of a dynasty which is Messrs. Feok Lee & Co., one of the supposed always to ut, in an abscare biggest metal dealers in the Colony, was schemes, of aggression unicas they had and almost divine manner, for the benefit charged with attempting to trade with behind them the support of intellectual of the State " PE Kehding, of Medan, Sumatra, Forces For that reason the HORENZOLLERNS

Tho storm-wind of history will not enemy firm on the Statutory List in Pre- have controlled the Universities and have only free all the peoples on earth from clamation No. 21 of 1916.

the perils which the German system of Mr. Leo Longiutto, Assistant Crown appointed and rewarded only those philosophy has brought to them it will Solicitor, conducted the proscention and duvants upon whom they knew they could lead, also, to political and intellectual Mr. C A Hooper, of Messrs. Johnson, emancipation in Germany itself. Else, Stokes and Master, appeared for the rely SCHOPENHAUER once ironically all this gunstly horror has been in vain. defence, my remarked, that no dynasty would appoint British, French, American and Swiss Mr. Longonotto said it appeared that professors who taught the opposite of than a century, and it was won also by ant heard that the firm of P. Kehding have possessed such freedom for more some time in December luat the defend that which forms the foundation of its the Italians, Swedes, Norwegians, Dance, was willing to do business in metals. governing authority. He added, with Dutch, Serbs, Houmanians and Greeks Messre Fook Leo wrote to them in biting sarcasm, that the Clerwan official decades ago The German classicista and December 25th, asking them if they philosophers of his day, such as HEGEL lessly where those of other nations received in January to the affect that champions of liberty broke down help would open a connection. A reply was and SCHULUNG, did not live for, but by, triumphad. BISMARCK was Germany's Messrs. Kehding were unable to do any philosophy," and therefore they could not blundor, as well as Germany's fate. It business as they could not get a land be regarded as unprejudiced investiga that his patent rement of blood and Longinotto added that it was only fair is awful for us to contemplate the fact ing certificate from the Coneul, Mr. forg of the truth.

iron, which binds the people to the to defendant to state that when he found The

series of events which have throne, can only be dissolved by the tears the firm was on the Statutory List ke

s of millions. Is it surprising if the stopped further transactions. recently taken place in the intellectual thought of those tears makes us unable Mr. Hooper said the defendant firm world must have convinced anyone who to forgive those who caused them? The was now run by defendant and his required such proof that conciliation and HEGEL philosophy and the HOHENZOLLERN brother, both young men, who had only cruft have made the Germans mad and lately taken up control of their father's compromise with Prussian autocracy is this generation, at least, will find it business. The name of Messrs. F. Keha impossible. The hateful thing has to be diicult to consider them sane, even when ing did not suggest enemy origin and twful slaughter and horror of the Germany said, at the outset of the war, at all of trading with the enemy, and, destroyed, and, much as we zorrow at the their wretched system of philosophy has there was nothing in it to put defendants been scotched. Those who knew the real on their guard. They had no intention struggle, we are grateful that each week was impossible to conciliate a mad as a matter of fact, they did not trade. which pages only serves to accumulate g" Since then many other people The offence was really a technical one

have been forced reluctantly by the Mr. Dyer Ball, imposed a âne of $100, evidence of the determination of the Germans themselves to admit that con- and cautioned him to be very careful in Allies to fight until a real, and not deiliation, is impossible. There is only his future dealings and to look up the one way to stare victory. It is to Statutory List when he had any doubt. false, victory is assured Perhaps the increase our efforts to shatter the German whatever of the origin of the firm he two most remarkable recent addition to military forces,

desired to do business with.