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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from FRIDAY, the 19th, to the 28th July, 1918 (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be Registered.

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or about the 20th inst- striking difformco in Chinracter between NICHOLAS ROMANOFF and his wife. That the latter was the stronger and more determined personality of the two is well established. When some of his more outspoken: relatives and intimates complained of the scandalous manner in which the CZARINA dismissed Ministers.

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CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

(THROUGH: BEUTER'S AGENCY.) TIBETIANS REVOLT AGAINST CHINESE.

LONDON, July 22nd. The Times' Peking correspondent, wir ing on July 18th, states that Tibet has revolted against the Chinese. AB the Mr. W. C. D. Turner, of the Hongkong Central Government is unable to ânance ad Shanghai Bank, who is leaving the frontier forces, it is impossible for Shanghai for Dairen, on transfer, was the latter to withstand the Tibetian presented with a handsome solid silver advance. An armistice has been arranged. salvor at a meeting of the members of the Shanghai Stock Exchange last week.

[BY COURTESY OF THE "CHUNG NGOI

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A LULL IN THE FIGHTING.

PEKING, July 23rd..

Chan Kwang-yuen, Tuchun of Kiungsi has also wired to Peking that his troops are unable to fight at the present time.

PEACE DISCUSSIONS.

The President, it is said, is busily engaged discussing peace terme,

The following cases of communicable monk RASPUTIN, NICHOLAS wearily discases were notified in the Colony, plied: "I would rather have a dozen during the week ended July 20th:-

Ng Pui-fu, the Northern leader on the discontented Ministers of State to deal Bubonic plague, 9 (8 deaths); cerebro. with than one infuriated women.” Thatinal fever, 8 (9 deaths); enteric fever. Hunan front, has wired to Peking ex- 8 (7 deaths); diphtheria, 2 (2 deaths); re.plaining why he arranged an armistice. NEW OFFICES, with lift, in the old A small quantity mixed with either sentence sums up his character. He was

one of those who meant well, but neglect lapsing fever, 1. Except for one British Mercantile Bank Buildings, corner of Queen's Road Central and Ice House Street

cd his opportunities. At times he had case of enteric fever, all the sufferers were Chinese. During Saturday and many people who dally with dreams, ho Sunday there were & cases (3 deaths) of Bystematically followed the path of least bubonic plague, 1 case (1 death) of enteric fever, and 1 case of cercbro-spinal fever.. Summer resistance.

Wo understand that the Superinten- dents and Inspectors of the Hongkong Police Reserve have opened a Fund for the benefit of the widow and infant son of the late Sergeant Glendenning. Lists to the various Clubs. sent will be Members of the public desirous of sub scribing are requested to make use of these lists, if possible. Subscriptions may be sent, in cases where the lists are not accessible, to the Deputy Superin: tendent, or to Staff Inspector Arculli of the Police Reserve.

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N INTERIM DIVIDEND of TERCENT ADOLLARS per Share for the six months oding both June 1918, will be Payable on FRIDAY, 26th July, 1918, on which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Company's Office.

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The State Department has anounced that General Luk's present peaec terma

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are

CANTON NEWS,

[BY COURTESY OF THE "CHUNG, NGOI BAN FO."]

SHUM CHUN KUEN.

CANTON, July 23rd.

Owing to General Luk's inability to come to Canton, Sham Chun-Huen-wente yesterday to Kwangst to consult Luk on certain important questions,

The story of the reign of the last of the RomanOrry, except for its modern setting, seems to belong to the Thirteenth Century. If we had been ignorant of it and had read some of the incidents in a novel we should have exclaimedEx eiting, but impossible in these days." The most astounding chapters are those in which the sinister figure of the monk RASPUTIN appears To say that this charlatan, who was finally murdered by scions of the nobility of Russin, was an unmitigated blackguard is to understate the case He was a greedy, Heentious and

Mr. Littlefield McCoy, of the firm of unprincipled beast; a sort of Twentieth Messrs. Anderson, Meyer & Co., Shang- Century personification of the pre-historic hai, charged under the espionage act of cave-dweller, who determined to satisfy May 16th, 1918, with writing disloyal his cravings at all costs. Russia was, of language about the military forces of the course, in a bad state, and the Court United States in a letter to his mother circle was no better than any other

was sequitted last work

week at the preliDia- section of society, porhaps worse. But ary bearing in the United States Court when the exalted peasant-monk, in his room before Mr. Raymond P. Tenney, drunken orgies in public restaurants, Vice-Consul. In giving his decision, Mr openly boasted of his infamies and Tenney said he believed Mr. McCoy to heare about to surrender. bemirched the name of the Czar's Cona loyal American citizen, but warned him sort,

some of the young nobles resolved to be more careful in future. that the limit of endurance had been

reached. So they baited a trap for their

CHINESE

JURY RETURN A VERDICT OF MURDER.

victim in the way that they knew would MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF appeal to his sensuous nature. The

•Hatchanalian supper-party to which he was invited contained all the attractions promised, but the was very different from anything imagined by the man wilo,

end

Ak

Shum Chun Huen has requested the authorities not to allow the re-opening. of the Pak Kop Pui lottery, as it was first abolished by him when he was Viceroy of the Two Kwangs. TUE LUI-CHOW PRONT.

It is said that the leaders of both partics on the Lui-chow front are pro- posing an armistice, and Lung's troops

NORTHERN SQUADRON

Coinmander Chan Kwing-ining, hearing that Northern gunboats are approaching Swatow, has sent special missions to investigate. He is informed that several gunboats have been dispatched from Shanghai, and that a raid on Swatow may be contemplated.

Who

SITUATION AT KING-CHOW.

have The Northern recruits, just arrived at King-chow, are under training. Several regiments of these re-

LONDON Orrica: 181, Biasi Braint, B.O. the moment, was the most powerful Trounding the death of a Chinese named cruits have been sent to Lai-chow..

The Daily Press.

in Russia. His dead body was flung into the river like so much carrion, and although the Czara subsequently be fieved that she had recovered it, the spell How Be of RASPETIN was shattered!!

RASH

HONGKONG, 21TH JULY, 1918

obtained his unique influence over the CZARINA is a ong story by that he used THEROMANOFFS. scouts impossible to regard as other sort of crade animal magnetism and hypnotic suggestion in connection with than true the painful report that the ex-

the health of her only son there is no Czan of all the Bussins has been murderedoubt. Both the Czar and CZARINA were by his own countrymen in Siberia. And we may conclude that one of the most extraordinary pathetic figures in all history of the Royalties of Europe bas paid the great penulty which other

At the Hongkong Magistracy, yester day, Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, Coroner, con eluded the inquiry into the circumstances

Chan Kwai, whose body was found in a decomposed condition near the Bay View Police Station.

Messrs. Leo d'Almada, and J. Gardiner appeared on behalf of two per sons who are suspected of being concerned in the death.

It is reported that Lung's troops in King chow are supplied by the merchants

and the local in Kwong-chow-wan authorities are requesting the French. authorities to stop this:

Lang Yu-kwong, General Lung's bro- ther, has reported that a great deal of provisions destined for King-chow have been seized by Canton gunboats and the route to King-chow is being flocked.

The following were the jury: --Mesers D. K. Blair, A. Slark and M. Victor,

it will he remembered, in connection with the case, that the evidence showed superstitious to a degree that can scarcely that a party of men, including the deccas. a sampan. They were be credited. They firmly believed thated, went but RASPUTIN held in his hands the keys of met by some other men in a long-boat

Co., Ltd., at Kowloon, whenes delivery may be monarchs have paid for failing to make all their hopes centred. It may be that, of which revolver were fired at the The inquiry was continued, yesterday,

life and death for the youth in whom and an altercation ensued in the course

are hersby informed that their goods wits the counselon with bore Stater Consignthe exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables are being lauded and stored at their risks into the the Hongkong sud Kowloo Wharf and Godown obtained immediately after Isnding.

bazardous Bad or extra hazardous Go lawns of

here,

Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unless proper use of the powers entrusted to intimation is received from the Consignees them. For the same cause one English befors NOON TO DAY requesting it to be landed king was beheaded and another for-

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned Goods remaining unclaimed after the Sith inst, at Noon, will be subject to rant and landing charges.

All claims must be seat in to me on or before the 30th inst., or they will not be recognised

• All damaged packages will be examined on WEDNESDAY, the 24th inst, at 10 A.M.

THE RECENT FIRE IN BELCHER'S STREET.

NO INDICATION OF ARBON"

It

Was Bug- by Mr, J. R. Wood, Coroner, into the in our charity, we can forgive the parents ocupants of the sampan.

gented that the deceased met his death circumstances surrounding the outbreak their folly for this reason.

What might have been!" must be as a result of a shot which struck him. of fire, that occurred recently in Belcher's feited the throne, though he saved our first thought as we think of the poor There was a mysterious stranger in the Street.

Mr. Lammort, Appraiser of Buildings," stated that on the day of the fire, he his life by fleeing abroad from the life which has so abruptly ended. What boat at the time who subsequently dis. wrath of Ins curaged subjects. Aan opportunity for a man of character sppeared.

After evidence had been heard, the visited the place and, looking at the French KING- and hib QUEEN Were What a tragedy that he should mate with the victims of the Terror of more such a woman. If only his wife had Coroner said that the witnesses were buildings 29, and 298, thought they were evidently attempting to hide certain of well stocked with oil. The fire seemed to

No Fire Insurance has been effected, than a hundred years ago, and, in spite been a wine and enlightened counselor the facts which might throw light on the have been very serious in 290, is the oil:

F. RADAMELLE,

Agent.

Hongkong, 17th July, 1918-

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of the mystery surrounding his fate, what a difference it would have made to case. The first question the jury had to tins burnt there were of there is little room to doubt that their the history of Europe! The world-war consider was whether the body was really colouration allogether from those in son, also, whe murdered. In more recent would have been over by this time. Bussin that of the man who was identified by a A and B. He heard that the goods had times, however, the feeling has grown would have been in a state of prosperity | woman as her husband. The next point been insured for $09,000 and he was there- up that the lives of rulers, however bad, and content instead of in hunger and was whether the man met his death ns fore satisfied that the goods in the godown sto secure éxcept from the assassin. That chaos. The whole world would have been a result of the shot fired, or whether he were worth very much more than that

Council, however hurriedly and im

concentrating upon the arts of peace was drowned There was sufficient evi sum,

Mr. Lewis-Have you any comments to perfectly constituted, should deliberately

As we shot. The next point was who murdered Mr. Lammert replied that he was not weapons and horrors of war.

on the spot when the fire broke out. He easy. You do not have to replant or connection with above Stearner Consign- decide to commit the crime of regicid instead of wearily struggling with the dence, to fer that the man had been make on the water supply t

If they found that he was had heard, however, that a 4 cr 5 inch ees are hereby informed that their goods transplant, because the sexie germinate and with the exception of Opium, Tressure and in the Twentieth Century appears almost think of the corruption of the Romanoff the man?

Valuables are being landed and stored at their incredible. Yet there is every reason to Court, and of the betrayal of hundreds murdered, then all who were in the long-main was used. That was hardly suffi boat from which that shot was fired were cient to serve such very large buildings are the correct distance apart.

riske into the hazardous and or extra haxardons Godowas of the Hongkong and helieve that that has happened. And so of thousands perhaps millions of simple equally guilty assuming that they were as had been erected in the neighbourhood. Kowlom Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, at the man whose great Was

The jury found that the body was that $20,000 that would be the pries paid for Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained peace, who summoned the nations of the peasant soldiers at the front, our in-aged in an unlawful adventure He was able to salve oil to the value

murdered. They further stated that the forms any conclusion as to The origin of after landing p

Cargo will be forwarded on unless world to seek ways and means of beating ignation almost deadens our feelings of of Chan Kwai, and that deceased was the oil when sound. He was unable to

pity for that poor dethroned monarch boat in which

had com- the fire. is received from the Consignees their swords into ploughshares, has met who has paid, with his life, the penalty mitted an unlawful act and that Won

stated that the books The godown-keeper before Noor To-DAY requesting it to he

a violent end in the midst of the most of his weakness. The end of the storyPing, one of the men arrested on susp of godown No. 30 had been burnt, le landed here intersigned by

Bils of Lading vill be

the fire, when suddenly he heard the long beat, and was ing terrible war has prisonce from the, had fired the shot at was sleeping in the godown on the

shouting from the street that a fire had after the 25th inst, at Noox, will be subject human race. We can almost visualian can hope that the son, who instinctively therefore guilty of the murder.

Mr. d'Almada contended that there was occurred. He opened the door and ran people outsido evidence that his client, Won Ping, out There were several on the uncorroborated testimony of one directed to the stair-case, Jurther

evidence the long boat, and his client should not be Coroner stated that there was no indica

meet yok bend tion whatever of araon having – heen indicted for murder,

The Coroner committed Won Ping for committed, and he ordered the goods to trial at the next Criminal Sessions.

be released,

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HONGKONG

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All claims must be sent in to me on or the poor lifeless body of the ex-ruler of satellites, and behaved well with the before the 31st, last, or they will not be one hundred and sixty million people that one of the mess historic in bad fired the shot. They had to rely only his godown. His attention was then

is recognized.

lying in some out-of-the-way and almost Europe. As we think of the Rongreffe man. There was no evidence of an unica fire to the eviden

we wonder what fate has in store for ful act on the part of the men in the

All damaged packages will be examised on THURSDAY, the 25th inst, at 10 AM

No Fire Insurance has been effected.

F. RADAMELLE, Agoil. Hongkor, 18th July, 1918,

unknown spot in the Urals, and we

cannot fail to contrast that tragic picture with the pomp and circumstance of his coronation.

the Hohenzollerna, for we are constantly being reminded by history that "Though the wheels of God grind slowly yet they grind exceeding small,"