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GENERAL HOLIDAY.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, JUNE 29TH, 1915,

YOUNG OFFICE ASSISTANT, TYPISTUDIO Dance No. of 1918,

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FOR THE ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO. ISOUTH CHINA), LTD.

N. L. WATSON." Hongkong, 28th June, 1918,

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Hongkong, 28th June, 1918.

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THE HONGKONG STEEL FOUNDRY COMPANY -- LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS THE EIGHTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERLY the above Company will be hold at the Company's Office St George Building, Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY, the 3rd July, 1918 at 11:30 AM, for the purpose of presenting the Report of the General Managers and Statement of Accounts to 31st May, 1918,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 24th June 10 3rd July, 1918, both days inclusive.

GORDON & CO.,

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und wo must reconstruct some of our views to meet the changed situation. If dur chemies cannot secure a decision by force of arms for what can they hope? It is pleaded that diplomatic negatia- tion, or an exchange of ideas," in essential in view of the magnitude of the war and the number of Powers engaged. Our wat-aims have been plain- ly stated, and on fundamental points they are utterly irreconcilable with the conditions which Germany regards os essential preliminaries to the discussion of peace. After the many evidenceg of Germany's cynical contempt for - her

NEWS.

A list of private subscriptions raised FAR EASTERN CABLE in the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States to March 31st, 1918, for purpose, connected with the war gbów, a total 87,013,545.62.

The leasehold property described as the remaining portion of Section A of Inland Lot No. 905 and the remaining portion of Inland Lot No. 905, together with all buildings erected thereon, was offered for sale by public auction at Mr. G. P. Lammert's auction rooms yester day afternoon. The term of the lease is

800 years, the estimated area 20,000 and

30,000 square feet respectively, and the proportions of annual Crown rent $205.29 2nd 9390.43 respectively. There was only one bidder Mr. For To who secured. the property or $60,000.

ITY COURIERY DE THE CHUNG NGÔI

BAN TO

MILITARY AFFAIRS.

PEEING, June 28th.

Cho Kwan, who is to lead the attack upon Kwangtung, went to Hankow Festerday. Cho has announced that he intends to restore Szechuan and attack Kwangtung later on.

Li How- the Tuchon of Fukien, has requested the Teking Government to sond back the cruiser Ho Chow to Fukien.

REVENUE

nlighted ward, beginning with the viola tion of Belgium and ending with the Brest-Litovsk treaty, it is obvious that the representatives of the belligerent cannot assemble round the conference

The Foreign Ministers have notified table with mutual confidence in each Mr Arthur de Carle Sowerby, the

the Peking Government that the seizure other's probity. There can be no peace hy well-known explorer and naturalist, has of the Salt revenue by the Canton negotiation, and the admission that our arrived in England from China to take authorities is a breach of agreement. Keeps the feet and armpits enemies do not entertain any further commission in the Chinese Labour The State Department, it is said, will hope of military victory must be regard Corps Mr. Sowerby will be remember promise to refund the money when ed ng aus of the most encouraging signsed in connection with the Shensi Relief | affairs in

Kwangtung have bean settled. thất bavy yet been vouchsafed of Ger- Expedition in 1811, when he led a party

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Hengkong, 28th June. 1918.

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BIRTH.

Chancellor is endeavouring to remove rescue some missionaries. For the Last the depression which the Foreign Minis ton years he has been exploring North tor's words have created.

There can

China and Manchuria His father, the be no question," he says of shaking Rev. Arthur Bowrby, has been a mis our confidence in victory. Now, sesionary in North China for 35 years, and before, the KAISER, Princes and people was tutor to the sons of Yuan Shih-kai.

staud together trusting to their incom parable troops and hoping that God will reward the faithful German people with victory. It is difficult to understand upon what this confidence in victory is based Certainly the countless crimes of which Germany has been guilty in the conduct of this war do not warrant

TYPHOON WARNING.

The following telegram has been res ocived by the American Consulate- General Hongkong, from the Manila Observatory:

3.30 p.m., June3th Cyelone or typhoon N.E. of Manila, moving W.N.W, or NW.

THE

Reliable reports state that Liang yee will be requested to form the new Cabinet whoever may be the President.

[THRŐTOH RIUTER'S AGRICT.]

THE SIBERIAN SITUATION.

LONDON, June 26th- Router's Agency authoritatively learne that it is not true that a dosision hau been reached regarding intervention in Siberia. The position of the Bolshevist Governmontis daily becoming more difficult, especially owing to the food problem.

The Bolsheviks are preparing to de- spatch a force against the Czecho-Slovaks DEATH OF AN OLD RESIDENT | between Sumaza and Tomsk and at other

points on the Siberian Railway

The Czecho-Slovaks have turned out the Bolsheviks everywhere except eastward of Tomsk, where the Bolsheviks, helped the Magyar German prisoners, have beaten Semenoff's detachment which took refuge across the Manchurian border. It is expected at harvest time that the Ger mans will make a new orientation of their Russian policy, and signs already indicate that the people are reacting against Bolshevism, which the Germans may supersedo by another form of gov crumcut under Geriau control.

WHY THE DEPORTATION OF GERMANS 18 CANCELLED.

those hopes of divine assistanco which are held out to the starving masses. Boron -Kuhlmann's speech was doubtless victated by necessity. The people had

MR. WILLIAM HUTTON POTTS. to be prepared for the collapse of the grandiose schemes of world domination Many old residents of the Colony will which have been dangled so long before road with regret the announcement of their eyes. They were in no mood to the death which occurred in Denver, receive such an unpleasant. revolution, Colorado, on May 11th, of Mr. William &and, apprehensive of the consequences, the Hutton Potte, who came to the Colony German Government is now hurriedly about 30 years ago and resided here for endeavouring to allay the fears which over 20 years. He was a partner in the have been aroused. The first seeds of firm of Messrs. Linstead & Davies doubt, however, have been sown, and if from 1004 to 1913, and was for many the present condition of Germany is years the auditor of several local public depicted, correctly by those who have companies. He was a well-known azem- recently returned from captivity there ber of the community and was held in it is doubtful whether the process of the highest respect. He left the Colony fermentation, with all its dangerous with his wife and family about five possibilities can be arrested. The Alles years ago and went to England, bus must be doubly on their guard against some months after war broke out he pro- ceeded to the United States and passed away, as stated, at Denver, Colorado, where his wife was born. Mr. Hutton Potts way nearly 72 years of age, having been born in Sunderland on August 13th, 1865. He loves a widow, four daughters and one son.*

DEATH OF ANOTHER HONG-general cheers.

KONG MAN ON ACTIVE SERVICE

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Pore-In London, on June 19th, 1918,

the wife of Lt-Commander R. E. C Pors, R.N., of a son (Alex).

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2

renewal of the peace offensive Evidence is accumulating that failure to secure a crushing victory in France and JONES.-Died of pneumonis while on Flanders will be followed by those under-

Active Service in France, on June 22nd, alvan Ivo JONES, 2nd-Lieut, hand methods which recently proved so Royal Field JONES, proves,

[2188 Porrs-At Denver, Colorado, USAs what Buron von KUHLMANN cuns on May 11th, WILLIAM HUTTON when he says there can be no peace Forts, aged 2.

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without diplomacy." The Allies, bow- HONOLONG OFFICE: 10à, Des Vœux Road, Cever, are not likely at this stage to be LONDON OFFICE: BI, FLAT STREET, EC. deceived by the Prussian engle because

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HONGKONG, ZSTA JUNE, 1918.

THE GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER'S SIGNIFICANT

ADMISSIONS.

At u meeting of the Royal Society of Arts, Afr. Coeil W. Butson of Hankow was elected a Fellow of the Society..

The one hundred and fiftieth exhibi- tion of the Royal Academy, which is now open at Burlington House, contains an

LONDON, June 25th. Baron von Kuhlmann, the Foreign Minister, speaking in the Reichstag, announced that the Anglo-German War Prisoners' Conference at the Hague had already achieved an important result, namely, the shandonment of the detest- nom quotient the Greens

from China.

The announcement was received with

CHINA'S MOTIVES,

The Times correspondent at Shanghai 2ND LIEUT, H, I, JONES, R.F.A.

says that deep disappointment is felt It will be learnit with widespread regret owing to the cancellation of the arrange- that information has been received from ment to deport the Germans. It is pneumonia in France, whilst on Active way from fear but from motives of cable of the death from pointed out that China has not given Home A

Servića, of 2nd Lieut. R. I Jonce, Royal humanity, owing to German threats of Field Artillery:"

reprisals on Chinese and Allied subjects in German hands

The late Mr. Jones, who was 3 years of ago, was educated at Dulwich College,

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made by Baron vos KUHIMANE the more strongly the conviction grows that it sounds the death-kiel of the hopes and The following cases of communicable ambitions of the German people: know that it caused a sensation in the Thursday Cerebrospinal fever, 7 (7 W discases were notified in the Colony on Reichstag, but we have yet to learn its deaths), kubonic jilagur, 3 (1 death); effects upon the millions outside who enteric fever, 1 (1 death). have endured the sufferings and hard sufferers were Chinese. ships of nearly four years of war with a fortitude born of an unshaken belief in the ultimate success of the Germen arms. The announcement that an abse lete and to the war on hardly be expocted by military decisions alone must sound to them like an open con fession of failure What of the boasted "An additional gift from Manils of one offensive which was to separate the case of pipe tobacco, presented by British and French armies and give the Messre. Meerkamp & Co., has been Germana possession of Paris and the received by the War Charities Committee. Channel porto! It has come to a halt for forwarding to London for detribe for a white, and, although it may be tion among the wounded in Hospitals. resnimed at any moment with desperato It has been decided that the special rigour, it is evident that the German allowance of Hs 200 per mensem granted High Command realises that it fas, nos to officers widows who are detained in the power to administer a knock-out India, owing to restriction of pussages blow. It was sought to justify the to the United Kingdom and the Colonies, terrible sacrifice of life by the importance shall cease on remarriage with effect from of the decisive results to be obtained the day following that on which the mar The great thrust was to have been the ringe takes place. The same rule will beginning & the end.. Germany, how apply in the ease of a daughter specially ever, has suddenly anged her tane granted allowance, if she marries,

lenden staff of the North British and

Mercantile

stile Insurance Company, Lid. After remaining with this Company for seven years, he came to Hongkong in Fire Insurance Company, Ltd. May, 1911, to join the staff of the Ching

On the amalgamation of this Company with the Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd., ja 1918 he jeiped the staff of the Society, of which he was a member at the time of his death. Early in 1918 he volunteered for the Front. On the way Home, his ship was torpedoed in the English Channel, but he escaped with the loss of all his belongings. On joining up in England he received a commission in the Royal Field Artillery as 2nd Lieut., and proceeded to France in April of this year, an

DEVELOPMENT OF THE MAR GARINE INDUSTRY.

GERMANS IN SIBERIA.

In the House of Commons on May 5th, Mr. King asked the Foreign Secretary reached Volgoda in the return journey whether the Anglo-American mission had from Biberin, where it had investigated the alleged arming of German prisoners; and whether he was aware that Mr. sionary for Foreign Relations, had George Uhitcherin, the Russian Commis stated that there was no truth in the German prisoner allegation,

Mr. Balfour The British officer who went to Siberis for the parpase mention ed' has, I believe, returned to Moscow. have no information as to the Ameri-

alleged statement referred to in the last can officer. I have not heard of the part of the question.

A UNIQUE SEQUENCE OF

BILLIARD FLUKES..

A unique-if not indeed a record- sequence of fokes occurred during the and Tom Aiken in Glasgow

liard match between H. W. Stevenson course of a fairly big Grant The Scottin

The late Cully" Jones, as he was known amongst his more intimate friends, was exceedingly popular, and his losspion failed to get in off the red, but will be deeply regretted.

the red itself dropped into the middle. pocket-an obvious fluke that caused a slight titter. Te played practically the samo shot again, missed it, and down went the red in the bottom pocke It was announced by Sir George W. red for the third time the red went

the the, and eed to get ather:

one laughed Watson, chairman of the Maypole Dairy down. On this occasion it

time he

that the output of the margarine factories Aiken join in the chorus Company, at the annual meeting recently, pocket. Only then had increased to 2,100 tons a week, suffi cient to provide a quarter pound ration and equal to the home production of but for half the population of Great Britain, ter for the United Kingdom

"în of the chose the the Imperturbable

top

Storenson remarked later 77 daughter-

"could

not recall, in all his experienes of first certainly pot three of the same kind. clans billiards, three successive flukes, and Aiken never saw anything like the fakes