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HE Undersigned has received instruc Tour del by Public Auction,

on WEDNESDAY,

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AND

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INTIMATIONS

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, JULY 26rn.

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

N INTERIM DIVIDEND of THREE A. AND, HALF DOLLARS for Share for the six months ending 20th Jane, 1016, will be Payable FRIDAY, 28th July, 1918, on which date Dividend Warrants the may be obtained on application Company's Office.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will to OLUSED from FRIDAY, the 19th, to the 28th July, 1818 (both days inclusive), daring which period no Transfer of Shares Order of the Board of Directors, can be Registered.

A. SHELTON HOOPER, Secretary. Hongkong, 10th July, 1818.

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to warn Germany that the mere pre- sumption that the torrible war is being prolonged to satisfy the annexationist aims of any foreign State will en danger the Alliance. In view of this utterance it is surprising that he docs not claim on behalf of his own nation

anything more than that she is fairly free" from canexationist desires. Unless she is

prepared to renounce such desires entirely, and even to make some sacrifices, there is little hope

of

success attending her efforts to arrange acc. It is true, as Count CZERRIN says, that she is less unpopular, less dangerous and more moderate in her demands than Gormany, but that is not very convincing proof of her virtue. Nor is the fact that there is no direct friction between her and Great Britain of any

A DOLLARS pershare for the six months A small quantity mixed with either great value in the present circumstances.

ending 20th June, 1918, will bo Payable on FRIDAY, 28th July, 1918, on which date Dividend Warranta may be obtained on application at the Company's Office.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com-Aerated or Plain Water makes a pany will be ULOSED from FRIDAY, the 19th, to FRIDAY, the 26th July, 1918 (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Bharos can be Registered. By Order of the Board of Diretors

A. SHELTON HOOFER,

Secretary,

THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT

& AGENCY CO, LTD, General Agents for the WEST POINT BUILDING CO., LTD., [202] Hongkong, 10th July, 1918

NOTICE.

WY EUROPEAN, Non Alfatic or “olnbăn

A desiring to leave the Colony should spply in person at the CITRAL POLICE STATION between the hours of 8 AM to 1 FIL and 2 PM to 4 P. daily.

Applicants will be required to produce Passports or identification papers.

OF

All persons with certain exceptions who remain in the Colony for more than 7 days so required to Register themselves ander PERSONS the REGISTRATION ORDINANCE 1918,

N Forma of Registration glefog the parts are required may be obtained at the The Penalty for sen-compliance la fine cot exceeding $50,

N.B.-All the Teak Furniture is light.P.O. and at all Folice Stations.

stained.

On view from Tuesday, the 30th July, 1918. Catalogues will be issued.

Terras-Cash on delivery,

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CANTON NEWS.

[DY COURTESY OF THE " CHƊNG NG01: BÁN PO 31

July 24th LUNG'S TROOPS IN LUI-CHOW SURRENDER,

It is stated that Lung's troops, who have been besieged in Lui-chow city for nearly two months, requested the Canton

leaders to allow theirs to surrendor un tering. Over 1,000 of these troops lavo

forces The war on this front is thus now been incorporated in the Canton

ended.

TONG SHIU-YEE.

A message from Shanghai states that Tong Shiu-yce has returned to Shanghai from Japan. Tong, it is said, will come to Canton with certain Japanese politici. ans who will offer their assistance to the Canton Goverriment.

MILITARY MOVEMENTS.

The 31st platoon of the Kwangai patrol

FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY-}

JAPAN AND SIBERIA.

· Tonio, July 24th. The Privy Council, presided over by the Emperor, has passed the Government agreement regarding Siberia. Particulara

are not known.

ALLIES REQUESTED TO AFFORD JOINT MILITARY ACTION.

VIARIVOSTOCK, July 24th. The Provisional Government has re-

quested the Allies to afford joint military

action."

Two thousand Germano-Magyars and 1,000 Red Guards are opposing the Czech®, who are strongly entrenched on the Ussuri River; while a further 4,600 ex-war-prî- soners and 8,000 Bolsheviks, with 43 gune. are fortifying the positions south of Khabarovsk

So long as she lends support to Germany she is Great Britain's enemy. In any guards arrived at Canton yesterday. case, the Fatents Powers are one and indivisible. That was clearly demonstrat-authorities to placo one division, of

Shum Chun-buen has requested the FOUR THOUSAND COSSACKS JOIN

GENERAL HORVATH, ed when they rejected the Emperor soldiers under his command in order to Kant's offer to arrange peace on the

HARBIN, July 24th, strengthen the Confederation Government, On July 13th, as a result of an agres- understanding that the territorial de- mands of the Allies were limited to

Steps are being taken to recruit this ment between General Horvath and the force in various places, and one of Shum's | Czecho-Slovaks, it is probable that. 4,600- Alsace-Lorraine and that the Central

followers will be appointed Commander Cossacks in the Nikolsk region have Powers evacuated all occupied territory,

of this division.

joined General Horvath. Belgian sovereignty being unconditionally restored. It was urged on that occasion

[BY COURTESY OF THE that if Germany should prove intractable

BÁN PH great variety of her hand could be fored by arranging an armistice between Austria and the Entente, which would be followed by a revolution in Germany instigated by the Minority Socialists. Attractive na the proposal appeared, President PoNCARE

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THE SPECIAL PARLIAMENT.

July 20th.

In view of the fact that the special Parliament is to be opened on August 1st, the Chairman has urged the Speaker, Wong Ching ting, who is in Shanghai, to come to Canton at once with the Northern M.Ps. who have promised to attend. Wong has replied that he and many other unless M.Ps. Are about to leave Shanghai by the Trieste ---and Japan-mail, and will arrive in Canttu exchange for shortly. KARL

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ebjected AFFAIRS IN KING-CLOW,

A report from King-chow states that Lung Yu-kwong, General Lung's brother, called all the leaders together the other day, and they decided to appoint Li. Kar- pan, Chief Commander of all the troops who will be dispatched to Lui-chow for fresh attacks.

GUNG NGÔI

ARSENAL EXPLOSIONS.

Two explosions, due to the beat, occurred in the magazines in Shensi nud Shansi, respectively, and a large number of workmen were injured.

MEDIATION.....

The President, Fong Kuochang, has requested Liang Si-yee to mediate with. General. Luk and has sent delegates to mediate with the lenders in Hunan and...... Szechnen.

to this arrangement on the ground. that France did not occupy Silesia, whereas Austria was in possession of Trieste and Trentino. M. Rinog, the French Prime Minister, confronted with the alternative of rejecting Austria's proposals or aban doning Italy's claims, felt himself bound to choose the former, and his decision was acquiesced in by. Mr. LLOYD GEORGE and endorsed by the French Parliamentary Committes on Foreign Affairs who subse quently reviewed the negotiations. Since [11___ | then, President WILSON has expressed his earnest sympathy with the nationalistic

The situation of King-chow is affected aspirations of the Czecho-Slovak and by the surrender of the troops in Lui Yugo-Slav peoples, and the Supreme Warchow, The bandits in King-chow, are also Council of the Allies has associated itself revolting with part of the troops. with the United States in this matter. SVRLENDER CONFIRMED.

AN APPOINTMENT REFUSED.

The Cabinet has approved of the appointnient of Tso Yu-lin as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Communications, haf

A large body of Lung's troops has beenTso has declined the dual office. sent to meet those who previously revolted in the eastern part of King-chow..

DEATH.

M.M. MCCULLAGI,--G... D, M¢CULLAGH,

Corporal, Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Killed in action in France, March, 1819. Late of Hongkong and Shang- hai Banking Corporation, London Staff.

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Fighting has been bitterly continued during the past few days and Lung's troops have been defeated.

When we remember the oppressed nation. It is confirmed that Lung's troops in alitics embraced within the Emperor the Lui-chow city, are willing to surren

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Kanu's ramshackle empire and the der, if they are paid two months' ad- LONDON OPTION: 181, Franz Braza, E.C.ains which the Allies have set before vances. They are only too willing to themselves, we cannot help feeling that cooperate with the Yunnan troops, as they there can be no short cut to peace such are Yunnanese themselves, as Count EzeRNIN suggests, but that, in the words of President POINCARE, the war can only be ended by the complete mili- tary victory of the Allies. That, happily, Seous at last to be approaching.

The Daily Press.

Honokono, Sora JULY, 1918

MEDIATOR

AUSTRIA AS CONSIDERABLE interest attaches to the speech tlint was delivered by Count CZERNIN in the Austrian Upper House a day or two ago on the subject of peace. Signs have not been wanting for some Limo past that the people of the Dual Monarchy were growing weary of the war into which they were inveigled by their neighbours. They see no prospect of adequate compensation for the sufferings Also in Canton House, No. 31, Shamoen, which they are undergoing. Russia is British Concession.

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Two cases of bubonic plague (2 deaths) and one case of cerebrospinal fover were notified in the Colony on Wednesday,

Lieut. Col. J. Urmson Hope, 65th Brigade R.G.A., son-in-law of Mr. A. Sholton Hooper, has been awarded the

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administration's mines for the week and The total output of the Kailan Mining

ing 6th July, 1918, amounted to 61,344

tons and the sales to 51,519 tonų.

The leaders of the Carton forces have received over 1,000 modern rifles from Lung's troops.

ANOTHER PRACY.

JUNK ROBBED OF CARGO WORTH 80,400円

KÜKIEN TROOPS REWARDED

PERING, July 25th.

Li How-ki has reported that the Fukis troops have re-occupied Tai O- shan and Ting Chow. The Government, has accordingly awarded $10,000 to these. troops.

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

The Aufu and the Communication Societies have co-operated and are busily preparing to elect Teu Saiichang Pre- sident.

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

EDERS 199UKD BY MR. F. C. JENE LN, C.B.L

INSPECTORS AND SERGEANTS. The attention of Inspectors and Sergeants is drawn to D. 65, also to paragraph 4.) of the Regulations of the Gor- ernor-in-Council, set out at page 67 of the DO. Book.

Unit

· MONTHLY · STATER,

Commanders (see D.0.1 (e) are

required to render Monthly States to this. Offee on or before the 4th day of each month. Forns must be ok-. tained from the Secretary.

A report has been received by the Police that on Saturday last, when Li Sze, master of the trading junk No. 197311., was sailing in the direction of Tai Long in Mirs Bay, a long-boat containing five men came alongside and ordered the junk to stop. The men, who were armed with: and, after threatening to do bodily barm rifles and revolvers, clambered aboard, These reports are in future to be return-

ed direct to this Office. to the occupants, drove them into a cabin

and closed the door. The robbers then The following telegram, sent from sailed the junk into Chinese waters, where London on July 20th, 1918, has been they stole cargo to the value of $2,400. received by the Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak After the robbers had escaped the men from Licut. I. R. D. Hancock, and will be read with interest Hongkong parties arrived yesterday, all well

Hancock."

released themselves and set sail for Sai Mun, where they reported the outrage to the Chinese authorities and also to the Customs officials. They later informed the Police launch at Mirs Bay.

No arrests have been made so far.

The Police have received. a report from the village of Fui Sha that a married Woman, aged 23, committed suicide on Friday last by hanging herself from a ST. JOHN AMBULANCE BRIGADE.. pale in her cubicle. The reason for the rash net is not known, and there are no suspicious circumstances.

sure for the peace overtures which the Emperor Kant made to Franer. The dis. NO. 7 STEWART TERRACE, NG 93 closure in May of those overtures, which proved unsuccessful, obliged the Emperor to give proof" of his Edclity to Ger many by dismissing Count Ceisin, upon whose advice he was believed to have acted, and by submitting to new treaty of alliance that virtually amount ed to annexation. Now we find that Count CZERNIN, who is likely to be invited to form a new Cabinet owing to the collapse of SEIDLEE'S Ministry, declaring that Austria is predestined for the rule of mediator between the belliger time ents.

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PARADES AND PATROL REPUETS.

SEARCH SUPERVISORS.

Heference Orders of July 23/24, members of this Squad (except Ambulanca) bave been warned to report at Centraj instead of at the Wharves. Pending possible re-arrangement of duties, they will, after reporting, be sent out either on Section Duty or to the If sent to the Wharves, Wharves.

they will report off to the Reserves Sergeant in charge, and not at Cen- tral

DEPARTMENTAL ORDERS.

On page 6, the D.O relating to Leave from the Colony is incorrectly sein- bered (9). It should be (6),

SERGEANTS.

Commandant Lady May, Lady of Grace All Sergeants are ordered to return their

NO. 1 HONGKONG V.A.D.,

of the Order of St. John.

Members are reminded of the monthly competition, which will take place on

rifles to armoury between the bours of 5.15 to 8 pm, on Friday, July 6th

HEADQUARTERS, CLUB,

Monday, July 29th, at 5.30 pm The Band will play as the Club on Fri- day, July 26th, from 6 p.m. to 7,lo Holler bandages will be required.

p.ns. Members will attend in alphabetical order as below:-

5.30 p.m.

5,45 pm.

8.00 p.m. 6.15 p.m.

Members may alter their tarns by private

arrangement

**** (Bd.) M. RALPES,

Adjutant and Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 25th July 1918.

GLENDINNING FUND

This Fund has been opened for the bene- fit of the widow and infant son of the late Sergeant Glendinning, list 18 at Headquarters Club.

By Order.

T. F. HOUGD, A.B.P. (B.) and Adjutant.

July 25th, 1918,