1918-06-22 — Page 4

INTIMATIONS

HONGKONG GYMKHANA CLUB.

#FIER THIRD GYMKHANA

HOUSES TO LET

TOM LET.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, JUNE 22ND, 1018.

e of the Season will be alaMEETING TO MORRISON KILL, from 1st July.

VALLEY, TO-DAY (SATURDAY),

the

Stud instant, commenting as 4 P.M.

The Charge of Admission will by 81 for others than Members of the HONGKONG JOCKEY

CLUB or GYMKHANA CLUB.

Soldiers and Sailors in uniform Free

The Committee invite the Ladies of Hong-

kong to be present.

Hongkong, 18th June, 1818

LOST.

NOTICE.

Apply bo

THE TREASURY,

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KowlooD Apply to

OBSERVATORY

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AIRATOON V. APCAR & CO. Des Your Road Central

TO LET.

INTIMATION

WATSON'S

12109 THE

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KINGSOLERE"

IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that BONG

&KARANJIS, LTD., of Canton, have ÖR by Acquired the business carried KARANJIA & COMPANY, Hongkong, as from the First day of May, 1918, and that the name of the Company has been altered from HOGG & KARANJIA, LTD., to HOGG, BARANJIA & CO LTD and that the sald Company will in fature carry on business both at Hongkong and Canton under the latter style.

HOGG & KARANJIA LTD. (Canton KARANJIA & COMPANY (Hongkong)

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OMMODIOUS and well-fitted SHOP in

Cleandre Baildings.

Apply

SECRETARY, A.B. WATSON & Co., Linated.

TO LET

HOUSES on Shameen, Canton,

No. 67, THE PEAK, LUSTLEIGH

Apply to

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

WANTED.

TO LET.

TO.

HROFF, with Security of about $8,000, No. 7, STEWART TERRACE, No. 83,

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Care of "Daily Press" Office.

WANTED.

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For particulaUNG NAM MINING CO,

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Hongkong, 19th June, 1918.

PUBLIO AUCTION.

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BY GRDER OF THE MORTGAGEE.

FR GEO. P. LAMMERT has received.

Mstructions to sell by Public Auction,

on

FRIDAY..

the 28th day of June, 1918, at 3 P.

at his Fales Room in Doddell, Stroet, Victoria, Hong kong,

The following LEASEHOLD PROPERTY

THE PEAK PEE 4-ROOMED FLAT, No. 56, THE PEAK,

STANTON LODGE," Mount Parrish, Kennedy Road lovel

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LINSTEAD & DAVIS, 3rd Floor Alexandra Buildings.

TO LET.

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FLAT in Nathan Boad, Kowloo

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the

OF INLAND LOT No. 005 and THE REMAINING PORTION OF INLAND LOT No. 905 together with all the messages er buildings erecte i therson respectively. Term 007 year. Estimated Area 20,000 and 30,000 Square Feet respectively. Proportionis of Annual Crown rent $214.20 and 8396.43 respectively.

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to go over to America to continue their was repeated in

in an unofficial form, and CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

studits. This movement excited such it was added that the Convention will general commeat that the Japaneze only be enforced when there is an actual

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Baron Goro, enemy menace in the Far East. On this thought it advisable to publish a state point the Japanese official statement is ment on the negotiations proceeding silent. As shove noted, it states that between the two countries, in the cours" ony Japanese troops sent to China in of which he denied that anything was accordance with the provisions of the contemplated which was in any way stub Agreements will be withdrawn at the versive of China's integrity or independ end of the war, but it says nothing ence. The publication of this statement to the validity of the Agreements then practically lifted the ban on any mention censing. If we accept the Chinese official of the negotiations, which were, however, statement the value of the Agreements by then almost completed. Since the is rather remoto; if the silence of the provisional signing of the Agreements by Japanese Government on this point is lo PREMIER the military and naval delegates appoint

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[BY COURIESY OF THE CHINT NGÔI

BAN PÔ.

THE NEW PRESIDENT.

PEKING, June 21st.

Telect

It is reported, on reliable authority. that the electoral members will Tuan Chi-jui as President if Tau Sat chang refuses the office, General Lok Wing-ting has wired Peking stating that the South West Provinces will not be satisfed if the election of the new Pro- sident is

be taken as meaning that the Agreements | Northoruers.

will remain in force after the war, then practically the Agreements menu the for. mation of an offensive and defensive military alliance between Japan and Ching which may have far-reaching consequences on the Far Eastern situation after the war is over.

Mr. Gordon Morries, of Mesars, Lester, Johnson & Morriss, having volunteered for service in the Royal Flying Corps, left Shanghai for Home on June 16th,

ed by both sides, the Japanese Govern ment has issued another statement, in which the reasons for the conclusion of the Agreements are given First among these is the danger of enemy influence threatening the general peace and welfare of the Far East To meet such a danger the two countries have definitely agreed upon certain measures of joint defence, and, although details cannot be publish- ed, it is officially announced that the Agreements contain no provisions calcu. lated to serve any other objects. This, of course is in answer to the rumours. in the Chinese papers that the Agreements. contained provisions similar to those embodied in the celebrated Group V. of the Treaty negotiated by the OKUMA Government. The Japanese Government, however, goes farther than this general denial. No doubt influenced by the wide currency given to the rumours in the Chinese Press, it gives specific denials of some of the rumours as to the contents Thursday:Cerebrospinal fever, 4X4 of the Agreements. Among the specific deaths); bubonic plague, G (3 deaths); denials are that the Agreements contain diphtheria, 1 (1 death); enteric fever,

Bufferers Chinese (2 deaths). All the any provisions for placing a DISTINCTIVE IN FLAVOUR, military expedition under Japanese com. Chinese,

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mand, that Japan has obtained the right. to construct fortresses at any point ia Chinese territory, which she chooses, that Japan assumes the control of Chinese railways, shipbuilding yards and militars arsenals, that she has been given the right of reorganising the Chinese Police system, and that she has a free hand to work Chinese mines producing ores acces- sary in the manufacture of arms and ammunition. Further, the Japanese Government has published some official letters sent by Viscount Moroso, the then Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, to the Chinese Minister to Tokyo,——from

1. Germans are still reported to be doing the vanishing trick from Tientsin, gays the NC. Daily Nens, Dorpmuller and Hack left some weeks ago and the latter is reported to have reached Berlin: The latest to disappear are Benting and Wald

The following cases of communicable disenses were notified in the Colony on

Were

The Germans are now being excluded from the Allied Concessions, Hankow, more completely than formerly, says the

Post. Unless it is a matter of the first importance they cannot get a permit to enter. This is due to indignation over the bombing of the hospitals in France.

At the banquet of Y.M.C.A. workers at

participated in only hy

MILITARY MATTERS. General Lung Chai-kwong arrived at Tientsin yesterday.

Northern troops, recruited by Lung, will be sent to Fukien. Northern leaders wish to settle the unrest in the South- West before sending troops to Siberin.

CANTON NEWS.

[BY COURTESY OF THE "CHUNG NGOL

BAR PO.

CANTON, June 21st, ES RECALLED TO CANTON. We are informed that several Kwangsi

leaders have received orders from the Tuchun to return with their men at once. to Canton. It is said that these armies will be reformed and dispatched to

Hunan,

A. BUDDEN ALARM.

About 10 o'clock last night a bomb was thrown into the quarters of certain troops, causing considerable panic. No casualty has yet been reported. THE YAN PING CITY.

The Magistrate of the Yan Ping dis trict has reported that over 1,000 of Lung's troops have occupied an import- ant position and are proceeding to attack the district city. The people aro in great. alarm.

CORRESPONDENCE.

PARENT'S COMPLAINT AGAINST LOCAL SCHOOLS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."]

the Carlton Café, Shanghai, on June 15th, is was announced that the fund for the new building in Shanghai, for which IR Please allow me to trespuss - a $950,000 must be raised during the next tittle on the space of your valuable paper to refer to the vacation, ele, of the two weeks, had already received a good start Mr. Liang Shih-yi and some various Catholic Schools. Let me begin which it appears that the negotiatious friends have made a donation of Tls. with the St. Mary's School, Kowloon (branch of the Italian Convent, Caine

were entered into at the suggestion of

∙10,000.

the British-American Tobacco.

the Chinese Government, which, apparent Co., through its manager, Mr. Thos, Foad). To this school I would like to”.

ly, demanded, or, at any rate, obtained,

Cobbs, has given $10,000; the secretaries

DEATH

bring to notice three or four facts ROBERTSON-On March 3rd, died of

A promise from Viscount MOTONO that and teachers of the Y.M.C.A have joint (1) Bince the beginning of June it wounds, received in action, 0. T. 4.

has been giving half-holidays daily ROBERTSON, Major, Gordon High-all Japanese troops in China for the ly given Tls. 2,500; Mr. David Gamble, (though it does not make the school-fees landers, Inte of Hongkong at purpose of joint defener should be with Shanghai Banking Corporation, drawn at the end of the war.

a California professor who has been half the usual rate), and, besides, nothing, [2164 Bingapore staff. -

travelling in China, has given 81,200,

HONGKONG OFFICE: 10, DES VOUS ROAD C

Lornon Davion: 191, Frame Starr, É.C.

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, 22ND JUNK, 1918,

THE SINO JAPANESE

AGREEMENT.

No doubt this uxplanation will fail to

is given to the children to do or to study

b satisfy the more forvid critics of these Many Far Eastern residents will be at home. Why is this? As a pretence it called Japanese demands on China, yet

intersted to learn that the officer who is said that the holidays are on account Is not the heat il does not disagree with the most prols was second-in-command of the Vinifictive of the sun at noon. able version of the provisions of the during the successful attempt to block greater at noon than at any other time ?

(2) Pupils of the higher classes bare the entrance to Zeebrugge on April 23rd. Agreements which has appeared in the Lieutenant Commander R. Roso to take 10 cents overy Wednesday for cook- Chinese papers. Of course, the objection

TRAN, R.N, who served on the Chinging Is beating ice cream cooking? I may he raised that while the Agreements Station a few years ago and rendered should say not; still they call it so. Or are nominally reciprocal they are actually distinguished service in putting down they buy a fow one sided, since reciprocity in the carry piracy on the West River, for which, we other things, but after it is cooked nona the military strengths of the two coun- says the Nagasabi Press. Unfortunate (3) Every month each scholar had, ing out of such Agreements demands that believe, he was mentioned in despiches, of the pupils gets a mouthful. tries should be equal, which is not the

ly, Lieut. Commander Ros

wwwag

at Zeo

pounds of meat and teach

attached to their so-called bills, at least 50 or 60 cents for stationery. The children cannot give an account for this expendi- ture, and say they do not remember having taken anything. How is this i

(4)--Why is there no weekly report

THE conclusion of Military and Naval Agreements between Japan and China

aa naturally caused some comment jaease Unlike Japan, China has made everely wounded in the action both countrics. In China this has taken little if any advance in armaments the form of various wild rumours as to during the Inst fifty years. Whether this brugge, being shot in the knee of one leg the contents of the Agreements and a is to be attributed to China's inerudic and having the ankle of the other splin general agitation against them, and in uble pacifism, or to the slackness of tered by another shot. Lieut-Commander Japan of moderate criticisms of the central control, is an open question, but Rosoman, who is a brother of Mr. P. Rnow? I should say it is because injustico Government for the methods employed it may be argued that it is better for Roseman of Nagasaki, served in the was done at the last distribution of prizes, 2168 in ncgotiating them. The Agreements Japan to enter into some arrangement South African War, for which he receive and that too many protests were made. themselves have not been published with Ching thon that she should be forced ed the medal and clasp and has been on If this is not the case, I apologize for 113 officially, the reason given for this being into taking single-handed action, with active service throughout the present stating it.

that they contain military eccrets. Tho all the semblance of aggression whid war. He was serving on the armoured After this school comes the St. Joseph's negotiations for their conclusion, also, || such

The cruiser lake when that vessel was tor College. They usually give 7 weeks for course would involve. 116 were conducted in private, any mention Japanese papera-the chief of which, i pedoed and sunk in October, 1914, and summer holidays to the Loys Is it not too much. I should say it is. The parents of the scholars, would, I am sure of them in the Japanese Press being may be noted, are somewhat severo 116 strictly forbidden, although the Chinese critics of the Government think there s escape death, being rescued with a few be very glad if the vacations were shortened. Lastly, as regards the school papers devoted columns to the subject, and nothing in the Agreements, according to

fees, The St. Joseph's College charge $5 for the month of August also, when the aforcanid month is an entire vacation

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7TH LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS.

men from a raft after many hours', ex no attempt appears to have been made the icial statement, about which such posure in the North Sea. to keep such papers out of Japan. At strict secrecy wii necessary, and they one point in the negotiations, however, deplore the unfavourable atmosphere THEIR MAJESTIES the attempt to preserve strict secrecy created by this secrecy, which allowed broke down, and, curiously enough, over the Chinese Press to disseminate all sorte

WEDDING FUND.

matter which was of trivial importance of absurd statements as to the Agro an agitation among the Chinese studments. The denials, also, are found fault cots in Japan, who were, of course, in with on the ground that they are

Mrs. Ho Fook (2nd donation), Mrs, receipt of their country's papers con- not complete, which gives the idea Lift Mrs. Evan Jones, Mrs. Asger, Mrs.

the taining full information of the alleged that there is some truth in course of the negotiations. These stud statements, not denied. In this con ents, after forming satieties and publish. nection the polut is raised of the ing pamphlets and holding meetings, for period of the validity of the Agreements, which they got into trouble with the The Chinese Government towards the end police, commenced a movement for leaving of April issued an official statement of the country. They ceased to attend the colleges where they were studying, and a considerable number of them actually left the country, while others prepared

the Agreements in which it was said that they would become invalid and in- effective on the conclusion of the war, Towards the end of May this statement

Mansfield, Mrs, Moses, Mrs. Digby, Mrs. Goodban, Mrs. G. P. Curry, Mrs. Stub- bing, Miss Eileen Stubbings, Mrs. J. Morris.

Last lists 7th list

The list is now closed..

85,778.50 430.34

$6,228.81

Some of the teachers would not allow outside. Is this by any means fairt their pupils to use books bought from

Thanking you for your kindness” in inserting this letter, am, etc.,

Z. Y. SOARES. Kowloon, 21st June, 1918.

A CORRECTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG

·DAILY PRESS."]

SIR,

Kindly ser

permit me to contradict

the statements, which appeared in your issue of to-day, to the effect that very large sums of money are kept in tha Treasury and G.P.O. the fact being that practically no cash is kept overnight in the Treasury, while the G.P.O. holds only the comparatively small sum collected too late for payment into the bank of the day of receipt-I am, yours very traly, AW. THOMSON. Treasury, 21st June, 1918.