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ARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of

Phe feiting by Febiio Auction Balo,

te bo held on MONDAY, the 10th day of June, 1918, & P., at the Offices of the PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, by Order of HI EXCELLENOR THE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND 1 Kowloon, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal of a CHOWN BENT to be fired by tho Surveyor of HIS MAJESTY THE KING, for ons further term of 75 yeam.

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NHE Business hitherto carried on by us Tin Hongkong and elsewhere under the name of B. MONTEITH WEBB & CO., has been acquired by Mesir. ARNBOLD EBOTHERS & Co., Irp, and will henceforth be carried on in their nume.

Dated the 1st June, 1918,

B. MONTEPTH WEBB & Co.

NOTICE.

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THE Business of Messrs. B. MONTEITA

TV & Co. in Hongsong and elsewhere has been acquired by us and will henceforth be carried on under our name,

Mr. B. MONTETTU WEBD has been appointed Managing Director of our Business in Hong-

kong and will Sign for our Company.

Dated the 1st June, 1018.

ARNHOLD BROTHERS & Co., LTD.

NOTICE.

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Moorburge of our Firm's business here from this dito, upon Mr. E A. SOOTSMANJHS leaving the Colony shortly,

ABDOOLALLY EBRAHIM & CO, 78, Wyndham Street...

Hongkong, 1st June, 1918.

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"KONGKONG CRICKET CLUB. TENNIS TOURNAMENT.

OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES."

WING to the sedilen state of the ground the abere Tennis match had to be postponed, yesterday afternoon, and if the weather will parmit the match will be played on WEDNESDAY next, at 4.30 PM.”“

P. M. HODGSON, Hon. Secretary..

Hongkong. lat June, 1818.

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$525 COLLARS OF REAL FUR

BLACK SKUNK; $100 PEARL THREAD NECKLACE

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY JUNE SRD, 1918

WM. POWELL, LTD. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHARE HOLDERS in the above Company will be held at the Company's Offices TO-MORROW (TUESDAY), the 4th of June, 1918, at 12 n'clock Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to the 28th February, 1918.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 26th of May to the 4th of June, both days inclusive

H. O. HOLT, Secretary, Hongkong, 16th May, 1918.

NOTICE

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ANY EUROPEAN, Non-Asiatico Indian

desiring to leave the Colony should Apply in person at the CENTRAL POLJON STATION between the hours of 9 to 1 P.: and 9 Ft. to 4 PM. daily,

Applicants will be required

to produce Passports or identification papers.

All persons with certain exceptions who remain in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register themselves under the REGISTRATION or

ORDINANCE 1916 PERSONS

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

The Pensity for non-compliance is a fine 20h nao di in 1950

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THE DAIRY FARM COMPANY, LIMITED.

THE Business of the manufacture and sale of Ice and the business of Cold Storage hitherto carried on by the HONGKONG IC COMPANY, LIMITED, has been sequired and ill in futuro be carried on by the DAIRY FARM COMPANY, LIMITED. Consequent upon much sequisition the name of the DAIRY FARM COMPANY, LIMITED, has been duly changed to "THE DAIRY FARM ICE AND COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.," and its buelacas will in future bo carried on under the new namo."

M. MANUK, Secretary,

THE DAIRY FARM ICE AND COLD STORAGE (X). LTD.

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OUSES on Shameen, Canton.

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The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, 3RD JUNE, 1918

war. Ground was repeatedly defended to the last man. British officers held the bridges to the last moment and perished with them when they were blown up.

them when Aided by constant reinforcements, the épemy succeeded at night in crossing the Aisue between Vailly and Berry-au-Bac, and, later, the Vesle, taking Soissons on their right flank, while seriously threatening Bleins on their left, where the Britishi are under

fire from the north, east and west. The Ger mans now nearing the Marne, along which runs the Paris-Chalons Railway, the main communication between Paris and Verdun. Happily, their pro

is being arrested by the arrival of grces the Allied reserves, who have already dealt them some heavy blows.

are

CHINESE TELEGRAMS. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] GOVERNMENT OBJECT TO PRO. POSED SALE OF A CRUISER.

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE CONSCRIPTION BILL. (TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG DAILY FRESS."I

PEKING, May 31st.

Sn, The most interesting part of the. The Chinese Government has advised statement made by the Attorney-General the Foreign Legations that the propound on the Conscription Bill was that they by Mo Yung hain to sell the Chinese Government were prepared to deal cruiser Konghoi, at present in South, sympathetically with the question of ern waters, will not be recognised. The allowances for the dependants of those · price had been fixed at $500,000 and men who might be sent to the Front." Japanese were mentioned as probable This is the crux of the whole matter. What does the Government's sympathy buyers, but the transaction is unlikely.

amount to? We must bear in mind that it is not the intention to send every Sonic retained in the essential

THE FLEET AT CANTON.

It is understood that the independent physically fit man to the Front. feet at Canton is willing to return to will bo

VALLEY.

3DS IN YANGTSZE

J

its allegiance to Peking on payment of interests of the Colony, and the phrase, as the Attorney-General was careful to its outstanding wages.

explain, covers the essential trade SERIOUS

interests," which, being interpreted, means the large private business enter- prises something, be it noted, quite dis- tinet from the interests which are directly concerned with the maintenance of sup plies, and therefore essential to our | fighting strength, that have been

Floods in the Yangiszo Valley are threatening widespread devastation.

SINO JAPANESE AGREEMENT -SIGNED..

At the outset there was considerable doubt as to whether this stroke was merely a feint designed to cover a greater thrust in the neighbourhood of Amiens, and there is still

doubt on this point. It is some recognised. however, that the enemy strategy is largely opportunist, and, whether the theory that General LUDEN- DORFF wiehed to avoid a collision with the Allies strategic reserves and sought a surprise be correct or not, it is evident. that at the moment the enemy's whole strength is being employed in the battle raging between the Aisne and the Marne with the object of exploiting to the fullest the advantage already gained and push- ing on to Paris. We may be sure, how- ever, that Generalissimo Focs, though careful to guard the way to the coast ports, has not neglected the defence of proposal as regards intervention

The formal Sino-Japanese Agreements brought under State control. were signed yesterday.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] THE SIBERIAN SITUATION,

JAPAN'S POLICY OUTLINED,

Under the Conscription Bill, it is to he presumed, many emall business men with wives and families to support will have to leave the Colony, their homes will be braken up and their prospects blighted. "Oh, well," it may be said, they will LONDON, May 30th. only be doing their duty; they will not According to the Daily Mall correspon. suffer more than thousands of better men dent at Tokio, Baron Goto says that have suffered before them." Perfectly neither Japan nga de Antes made in true, but what have their "sympathisers"

to say. The circumstances of life in a

the capital. As a glance at the map will Siberia, but Japan will sympathetically Far Eastern Colony are far different from show, the enemy occupy the inside consider the proposal if and when made those at Home. Would it be too much to of a semi-circle with a splendid service A homogeneous Army is essential to the of railways at their commnnd, enabling expedition. It would be therefore bezor but Japan never seriously objected to

ask that the wives, should receive, say, $200 a month, with an extra $50. for cachi

them to bring up troops rapidly from afif Japan were allowed to conduct it alone child, to be fixed at the present rato

considerable distance. In the circuin- stances it is probable that Generalissmo Allied participation. The question of of exchange and paid in sterling if the FOCH decided to yield ground in the south, compensation would depend on varying women and children desire to leave for where there is more room for manœuvr-circumstances, but Japan at present le some country which, although not to be not thinking of compensation, but merely compared to England, might still be ing than in the west, so as to avoid the furthering of the Allied cause. Japan regarded as preferable to this small dislocating his reserves until he could be is equally opposed to Bolshevism and Ger- istand. "Whist nonsense!" I can hear sure of the enemy's intentions. Neverthe man domination. She desires a powerful some of the plutocrats engaged in "the lese, after the assurances which have been and well-ordered China.

essential trado interests exclaim-1 trust given that a surprise was impossible, Baron Goto declared that Great Britain the unofficial members of the Legislative some explanation seems to be needed of was the factor responsible for the more Council will not be among the number the fact that the Allies were caught cordial relations between Japan and Where is the money coming from !!! unawares, especially if it be true that the America Daron Goto denied that he was Well, gentlemen, this is not a charitable observation services had reported the dis pro-German or anti-English, to wns appeal but a fair statement of the case appearance of twenty derman divisions above all Japanese. He thought the war as I se-it. Continue to sell your Ameri from the northern front, that the High would still last a long time, but he was eas and Japanese goods for the benefit of the Empire, and thank God that you Command had endeavoured to discover confident of an Allied victory.

are able to trade upon so large a scale their destination, and that prisoners

SIR C. S. ADDIS. ELECTED TOthat the Powers that Be regard you as taken on May 25th described enormous

essential. You are saved a great deal of concentrations of troops and tanks an

discomfort.. warned us that the attack was fixed for May 27th. It looks as though we have been out-generalled, and that we have had to rely once again upon the superiori- ty of our troops to avert the full consequences of being unprepared.

The Gazette contains particulars of the amendment of the Vehicles and Traffi Regulations.

THE RENEWED GERMAN OFFENSIVE. SINCE they resumed the offensive at the beginning of last week the enemy have admittedly achieved a very considerablo BUCOLAS. They have driven a wedge Major I. 8. Cobbe, It.G.A., who before FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES in Kowloon. twenty miles into the Allied frost the war was stationed with the Hazarı through difficult country, intersected Mountain Battery at Kowloon, has been Apply to-

by ridges and rivers, between Noyon promoted A/Lieut-Colonel. HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE and Craonne, thus crtering a region further south than they have occupied CO., LTD. Alexandrs Buildings.

since the beginning of trench war fare in 1914. They claim, also, to have captured 35,000 prisoners and a tremen-

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BANK OF ENGLAND.

LONDON, June 1st.

Sir C. §. Addie,” of the Hongkong and. Shanghai Banking Corporation, has heen elected a Director of the Bank of England for the remainder of the year, in place of Mr. A: G, Sandeman, retired,

CANTON NEWS.

ID DOMETRY OF THE " CHIEN TUOI -RATE PO."]

THE FLOODS,

CANTON, Jnue 2nd.

And what of the Government?

Is a

scheine impossible bonuse it may be with out precedent? Is it always necessary to seek information from other directions" before you can decide? Has not the gre it war yet succeeded in jerking you out of that rut in which you are popularly supposed to pass your placid and uneventful lives, The Treasury is burst- |ing with money. Even were it depleted what difference would the cost of the allowances suggested make in next year's

It is reported that the flood is increas-budget? You know perfectly well that the matter could be so arranged that no ing daily. The trains of the Canton

real sacrifice would be entailed upon Bombr. J. T. Newey LG.A., who, Samshui Railway can only reach Sai.

anyone. Why, if the worst came to the short time ago, was a gunner in the 8thnam, as the stations beyond are flooded, worst, you might even stay for a few Co. RG.A. in Hongkong, has been pro SWATOW REPORTĄ,

months the development of any moted End-Lieut. for service in the field.

motor-roads. That, of course, might be m

Commander Chan Kwing-ming, in view

new

dous quantity of war material, including Dr. James Herbert Sanders has been of the Canton forces' resent victories, has little hardship, but remember how often

guns of the beaviest calibre and an appointed a member of the Medical aerodrome with machines. The attack Board, during the absence on leave of HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER ALESUND 102, TI PRAK, BIX was delivered with a forca estimated at 25 Dr. Robert Maclean Gibson, with effect

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LANGUAGE SCHOOL

NEW CLASS for "BEGINNERS” #31 commence on TUESDAY, 4th Jans, 1918, if sufficient support be forthcoming

Application for enrolment and enquiries regarding hours of School, Feos, oto, shquld be made to the aderigned as early as possible.

By Order,

Hongkong, 27th May. 1918.

A. R. LOVE, Acting Secretary,

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from the 27th May, 1919.,

The following cases of communicable dieses were notified in the Colony on Saturday Cerebro-spinal fever, 5 cases (5 deaths); bubonic plague, a cases deaths), diphtheria, 1 case (1 death); puerperal fever, 1 case (1 death). the sufferers were Chinese,

All

divisiong along a front, lightly-held, ex tending from Noyon to Auberive a distance of about seventy miles-and evidently took the Allies completely by surprise." We are told that the Germans first subjected

our lines to an intense bom bardment with gas-shells, compelling the troops who were holding the Chemins-der Dames to wear their masks, with the

It is notified in the Gazette that all result that it was impossible to give and understand orders. Following closely persons now residing within the Peak in the wake of a lifting barrage, the District and all persons who may here after desire to reside within that District, infantry then advanced in dense waves on the flank of the position from the excepting algas the persons teferred to Corbeny-Juvencourt region, outnumber in section of Ordinance, must make ip-Council for permission so to reside.

sent officers to recruit 30 regiments of you have preached the necessity of every-

new soldiers. It is said that the milione "dung his bit. If you are unwill- try measures in Swalow have greatly ing no other word can be used to adopt. a plan approximating to the one out- lined, say so, but do not prate any more of sympathy It is time to stop the

increased since Dr. Sun Yat-sen's arrival.

KWANGTUNG AND KWANGEZ

We are informed that the Kwangsing-wagging and to get down to hard leaders in Kwangtung will be driven out facts. In such a case as this "sympathy," to save it from the charge of hypocrisy, of the Province. General Lak has ordered the Tuchur in Canton to be must be translated into deeds-Yours prepared.

faithfully, an in

A PRACTICAL MAN. Hongkong, June 1st, 1919.

TRANSPOIFTS SUNK

The Tuchun has received reports that two transports full of ammunition, which were captured in Hunan, were capsized and sunk, on the way to Canton. REVOLUTION IN BEUNG SHAN

Un Tai, after declaring indepen

TIMBER YARD FIRE.

EXTENSIVE DAMAGE.

An extensive fire broke out early on

issued a manifesto deunpanciar General Cheong timber yard, xitusted at the

ing the defence by five to one The dinapplication in writing to the Governor denes in the Heang Shan district, has Saturday morning in the Kwong Hig CHINA, JAPAN, STRAITE BETTER enemy had been foreseer, and, as 800 Applications should be addressed to the Lak and the Tuchun, Muk Wing-son corner of Shantung and Reclamation

MENTE, INDO-CHINA, PHILIPPINES, ZTⱭ.

1918

FIFTY-SIXTH ANNUAL ISSUE.

Large Edition Abridged

FRICK

$17.00 $7.00

culty due to the liberal use of gas by the

hat the Ge

Clerk of Councils,

PREPARING FOR A GERMAN MONEY TRUST.

Un has appointed one of his supporters Streets, Yaumati. The fire, fanned by a as magistrate of the district. It is said

as it was clear that the Germans had established themselves on the crest, an

that General Lung has sent supplies to slight breeze, spread rapidly, and the Un from Chin Shan (near Macao), which adjoining dwellings were threatened. order was given to abandon the whole of

Lung's supporters are occupying It is The fire float and several firemen left the ridge and fall back on the Aisne,

The Chairman of the London County also reported that certain leaders declar- The retirement was carried out in excel.

and Westminster Bank at the annual ed independence in the Shun Tak district Hongkong, but before they arrived on the scene valuable assistance had been lent order with small losses. The pressure mecting voiced a warning that a German the other day.

rendered by the Police Reservists and also money trust under government guid NORTHERN TROOFS. being maintained, our troops were ace would endeavour after the war to It is reported that large armies have by Bir. Stutz. obliged to cross over the river. As control the world's finances by use of always, they fought with magnificent Deutsche, Dresdner and Disconto Gesell been sent from Kiangsu and Anhui Pro-

schaft banks working together. He se

said vinces to Kiangsi These armies have valour; indeed, the operation is described recent British bank mergers were cal arrived at Kiskiang (Kiangsi), and are

proceding to meet the Canton forces. as one of the most brilliant feats in the calated to counter this move.

The origin of the fire is not known. The yard is insured up to 26,000 in various companies.