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NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. OCEAN STEAM SHIP CO., LTD., CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGA TION CO., LTD.

AND

CONSIGNEES per Company's Steamer

"IDOMENEUS

sre hereby notified that the Cargo will be discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kow- loon, where it will lie at Consignee's risk. The Cargo will be ready for de livery from Godown on and after 19th August.

Optional cargo will be landed, unless notico has been given prior to steamer's Arrival.

All broken, chafed, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 M and Noor within the free storage period.

INTIMATION

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TRAGEDY.

INDIAN SERGEANTS CHARGED WITH NEGLECT OF AUTY.

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NEWS.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

OPENING OF THE NEW PARLIAMENT,

of Mr. LLOYD GEORGE's statement that A SEQUEL OF THE TAI O FAR EASTERN CABLE more than one hundred and fifty enemy underwater craft, have been destroyed during the past year. When the German people learn these facts it will be on unpleasant awakening from the dreams Th which they have been wrapped for eighteen months. Taken in conjunction with the collapse of their grandiose often vive on the Western Front, it is calculat ed to produce a feeling of deep despon- THE RAPID HEALER, A deney that may have far-reaching effects

REXON A

A Sir F. E. SMITH,declared in a recent speech to the American soldiers in Low [COOLING." SOOTHING.don, of all the diplomatic errors com

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the steamer's Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered: after the 19th August will be subject to rent."

HEALING ANTISEPTIC

A

OINTMENT.

RELIABLE REMEDY FOR

At the Hongkong Magistrues, yester day, before Mr. J. R. Wood, two India: Sergeants--B144 and B152-were charged with neglecting to perform their duty at Tai O on July 17th when Sergt. Glendia ing was murdered and the Police Station was set on fire.

Mr. T, H. King, A.S.P, prosecuted, and Mr. R. E. Belilies (instructed by Mr. J. H. Gurdiuer) defended.

FERING, August 12th. Parliament opened this morning with a full attendance of members, Senators,

and Cabinet Ministers. Speeches. werd delivered by the President and Premier: The proceedings were completed in twenty minutes.

The approaches to the place of assembly were heavily guarded. There were 'no incidents."

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Mr. King said that at the time of the shooting of Sergeant Glendinning both the defendants were lying on their beds in their barrack-room. The noise of the

TIRED OF LEADERSHIP.. first shot woke them up and they only had to put their hands to the arm-rack to

PEKING, August 12th. get their carbines and ammuuition, but;

Chang Wai-chi, the Tuchun of Shan- instead of doing this, they immediately bolted from the Station without making tung, has asked to be relieved of the any attempt to ascertain who had fired chief command of the forces to attack the shot. They ran away, knowing that Kwangtung, as he cannot carry out the Chaag also requests permis the Chinese and Indiah constables had measures fled from the Station. Though they didion to return to Shantung to reassume not know it, at the time, they became his Tuchunahip. aware that Sergeant Glendinning" bad been shot:

mitted by that nation which has com mitted the gravest diplomatic errors in history, the gravest was when they dared to tell the American people that they should not sail the Atlantic Ocean except in obedience to German orders and in ships painted with the German colours, There are today in European waters American battleships giving in the langu. ALL age of the cannon the answer to that insolent defiance, and in ever-growing numbers the valinnt soldiers of the United States are establishing more and more permanently their military glory. The enemy calculated that by the time America had trained an Army large enough to be of any value the means of transportwould have" disappeared. In this they have been bitterly disappointed, for, troops are being poured into Franco from the other side of the Atlantic at the rate of 300,000 a month. America is now represented on the Western Front by a Perkins also stated that he received anrest in the country must be settled be

ERUPTIONS AND IRRITATIONS

OF THE SKIN.

USEFUL FOR ECZEMA, STINGS OF

INSECTS AND ALL KINDS OF

INFLAMMATION.

force of upwards of a million men, and it is mainly owing to their presence that Generalissimo FOCH was enabled to Sold la tios 75 cts. & $1-25.launch his successful counter-offensive a

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CO., LTD..

HONGKONG

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HONGKONG OFFICE: 104, Das Your Road, C.

fortnight ago and to change entirely the complexion of the enlupaign.

Our case each of bubonic plague or enterie fever were notified in the Colony on Saturday..

The usual fortnightly whist-drive of the Royal Naval Quadrille Club will be helde menight at the Royal Naval Cantren Theatre.

Vice-Admiral John Ferris, who died r-cently at the age of 89, commanded the Jerker when that vessel was on the China Station a number of years ago.

Engineer.Commander

Charles Main.

Mr. Wood: How can you prove that? Mr. King: By the fact that first de fendant gave a message to second defend ant to meet No. 2 launch and inform the people on board that Sergeant Glendin ning had been murdered Sergeant

message from the second defendant to that effect. Continuing. Mr. King said he would like further to submit that they. might have exercised some diligence, knowing that B145 was on duty, armed; and, like the Sergeant Interpreter, they might have collected arms from the junks in the harbour, ete, in order to attempt the reseur of Mrs. Glendinning, who, they knew, was at the Station. According to the Police Regulations a policeman was expected to rescue persons from turning buildings. He also submitted that when they heard the first shot fired they should have armed themselves. ficiently and surrounded Ris. having only one armed man to cope with Had they done so, B18, would have been rendered helpless. Instead, owing to their neglect. Mrs. Glendinning had lost

LONDON- Orzos: 181, Fi S, E-C.recently reported killed on active service,an ere as the result of an injury she

The Baily Press.

Hosokawa, 13re August, 1918.

All Claims against the Steamer must FAILURE OF SUBMARINISM. he presented to the undersigned on or before the 2nd September, or they will I not be recognised

No Fire Insurance will be effected.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents. Hongkong, 10th August, 1918

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

8.8. "FCUADOR" FROM SAN FRANCISCO, HONOLULU JAPAN PORTS, SHANGHAI AND MANILA.

wirved on the bar when that vessel was on her maiden commission to China

Trecived from a shot fired by B18.

Mr. Wood: What time was the shot

REINFORCEMENTS FOR KING

CHOW.

Lung Chai-kwong has sent Wu Ling- with seven regiments to reinforca King Chow.

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION,

Fung Kuoichang has stated that all the

fore the election of the new President is procended with.

,

[THROUGH RETTER'S AGENCY.] CHINËSE ARTILLERY IN ACTION.

AMSTERDAM, August 10th

A message from Moscow says that Colonel Semtenoff, after hard fighting, has succeeded, with the help of Chinese arti!-. levy. in defeating the pursuing Rud Gnards and bas dispersed, the Bolshevik forces in Manchuria.

THE COMMAND OF ALLIED TROOPS.

WASHINGTON, August 10th. General March announces that General Graves will command the American troops for Siberia, the nucleus of which will be two regiments from the Philippines, sup, plemented later by troops from the United' States.

General March says that no cominander

From 1907-10 he was appointed to the fired ---Mr. King said he was not quite for the Allied forces has yet been selected.

Hongkong Yard for supervision of gun nointings in the, fleet.

TYPHOON WARNINGS. The following telegrams have been received by the American Consulate- fineral, Hongkong, from the Manila Observatory:—

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of that. He would withdraw that paint, as he did not propose to call Mrs. lilendinning..

The Associated Press Correspondent at Washington says the Japanese General Niketzo Otani will be ranking olor, of

CANTUN NEWS.

[SY COURTESY OF THE "CHUNG NOOI BAX PO."]

Mr. Wood: I should like to know at what time the shot was fired Mr. King: the Allied expedition to Siberia. I could say, but I cannot give proof. Con. timing, fr. King said that with regard to the Magistracy ruling last week about printed" regulations, he submitted that, Angust 10th. even in the absence of any printed re-

CANTON, August 12th. Cyclone or typhoon E, af Luzon, moregulations, there was a common law duty' than 300 miles distant, direction unknown devolving on the prisoners to render

The Shui Hing authorities have res all assistance. Their neglect made them August 11th, 11 am. Cyclone or typhoon E. of northern accessories to the act. It could be argued ported that the Hoods have been greatly Luzon, less than 300 miles distant, moving that their neglect of duty, and their re-increased by the recent beavy rain-storms. fusal to interfere. might have incited the August 11th, 11. p.m.

man left at the Station to commit further Cyclone or typhoon E. of Aparri, les crimes. than 300 miles distant, moving N.N.W.

N.N.W. or N.

August 12th, 10.45′′a.m. Cyclone or typhoon N.E. of Aparri, moving W.N.W..or N.W.

FORTHCOMING BASEBALL MATCH.

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Br. Wood said he did not think that argument could be allowed.

Evidence was then taken, after which Mr. Wood adjourned the hearing till this

afternoon.

$40,000 BAIL EACH

FLODS.

The floods in Shek Lang have risen over 10 fort. All the streets are submerged and business has been, suspended.

The magistrate of the Po On district (near the New Territory) has "reported that many houses were shaken and that there was some loss of life during the rain-storm. The crup has been totally destroyed.

NORTHERN RECRUITS HEACH AMOY."

THE increasing efficiency of the measures adopted by the Admiralty for coping with the submarine menace is revealed by the progressive decline in the loss of merchant shipping by enemy netion. Those re- sponsible for the direction of affairs in Germany have sought to hide the truth from the people by publishing grossly exaggerated accounts of the tonnage destroyed by their U-boats, but the news, of the revolutionary propaganda which has been carried on by sailors at THË above-mentioned vessel having arrived Wilhelmshaven during the past six months TH

from the above-mentioned ports, Con- algnees of Cargo ars hereby informed that their with the object of stopping submarinism Cargo will be landed at their risk into the will require a lot of explanation. As a Kazardous and/or extra Hasardons Godowns of the Elangkong and Kwioon Wharf and result of this propaganda, we are told, ANY EUROPEAN, No-date labia Godowa Co., Ltd, Kowloon, and stored at Con- fty submarines have "disappeared,"

desizing to leave the Colony should signeer' risk.

Consigners of Cargo are hereby notified that from which we may conclude that the apply in person at the CENTRAL POLICE BTATION between the hours of 9 AM to 1 P they must produce an Import Permit aigned by crews have surrendered them to the and 2 r., to 4 ra, daily.

the Superintendent of Import and Exports, Allies. Many arrests have been made Applicants will be required to produce Hongkong, before the Bill of Lading can be Farports or identification papers.

countersigned.

and twenty-three of the ringleaders are All persons with certain exceptions who All brakes, chafed and damaged goods are to remain in the Colony for more than 7 days be left in the Godowns, where they will be reported to have been sentenced to deatong F.C. ground on Wednesday, com-

morement mong be Begister themselves undertained on THURSDAY, 15th Aug. 1918, but though the to

mencing at p... The Cavalry team are are required

REGISTRATION OF "FERSONS the

"scotched" by such methods it will not en route to Manila after having played a ORDINANCE 1916

necessarily be killed. That is proved by series of games with various clubs in day, before Mr. Et D. C. Wolle, twn the fact that the present outbreak follows Peking, Tientsin and Shanghai, and the Chinese were charged with being in pa-

Meiji University team of Japan.

The Cavalrymen have won the Cham. Inwful possession of 300 taels of opium. upon the mutiny which took place on

Mr. Hall (of Messrs. Wilkinson pionship of the Army Baseball League far five German battleships last September, the past two years, and are undoubtedly Grist) appeared for the defendants. as a consequence of which three men were one of the best negro aggregations playing

Inspector Wilden stated that the opium shot and sentences of imprisonment this game. They arrived here on Sunday.

afternoon in the charge of Major Yanzey was valued at $4,650, The first defendant aggregrating two hundred years were and are quartered at the Grand Hotel

The entire process of the game, for was an engineer on a steam launch," while passed upon others. Once the torch of

which a nominal charge will be made, will the second was the coxswain. He wished

to the purposes of the revolution is kindled it is difficult to be devoted erican Red Croes Societies the case remanded till Friday, as he in-He thought he saw the Governor,

Bl expenses have been borne by Meurs. tended taking out a summons against the extinguish, especially amongst the crews British and. of vessels operating singly in enemy Andersen, Meyer & Co., Ltd., who also owner of the launch in connection with

It is safe to assume that the financed the games in Shanghai week of the smuggling of opium. waters.

The Shanghai papers of disaffected elements in the German Navy.

July 28th, devote considerable

"indenting! have been moved to take this extreme the games played at that port, course not by any detestation of the that the game to be played here will he amount to $40,000 in each case that was full of interest and amusement to all

Forms of Registration giving the part palare required may be obtained at the G.P.O. And at all Folice Stationa

The Penalty for non-complianos la fine not exceeding $50

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All Claims must be presented within a month An of the Steamer's arrival bers, after which they cant be recognized

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns and all Goods remaining andelivered after the 17th Aug, 1918, will be subject to rest,

No Fire Insurance whatever will be affected Consignees are requested to send in their Bill. of Lading for countersignature immediately.

FACIFIC MAIL 8.R. CO. J..ORAM SHEPPARD,

Acting Agent. Hongkong. 10th August, 1918.

NOW ON SALE.

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TONGKONG HANSARD REPORTS

MEETING of for LEGISLATIVE COUNCILS Brexion, 1917

REVISED AT THE Mantra

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and a team representing the 8th Cavalry

A message from Amoy states that over baseball game between U.S.S. sailors Army will be played on the Hong- ALLEGED UNLAWFUL POSSESSION 1,000 Northern recruits have recently arrived there. They will be dispatched to King Chow.

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OF OPIUM.

At the Hongkong Magistracy, yestere

Mr. Wolfe said that the bail would

"

ANTICIPATED RAYOLA-

It is reported that Un Tai,, who led the revolt in cung Shan, has recently gone. Un and other to the Po On district. leaders are said to be endeavouring to raise another revolt there,

MORE SUBSTITUTES,

H.E., E.Q.M.G., -.. He looked again and saw it was

The Acting A.D.C.

If he should run the down," he said, "I'll tell the C.S.P."

A tennis champion he;

He thought it was the Registrar,

The OR, R.O.T.,

And Registrar of Companies-

Of Ad., Off T., et/o

the inhuman work in which they are engaged"; spcctators, whether they are familiar with to say, ten times the value of the opium He looked again cad saw it was

but by the inordinate dangers altending the American national pastime or not. but he would fix it at $10,000 each.

As an indication of the interest shown in Mr. Wilden pressed for the full amount it-dangers which are growing day by Shanghai, Shanghai papers state that the to be fixed.

the games nuinbered as

MrHall: I do not think there is any day. Evidently faith in the submarine; attendance nt

many as 5,000 people, and it is to be need for me to consider the question of campaign as a a means of ending the war hoped that Hongkong residents will turn nil, as my clients will not be able to find.

Tickets may be han beca seriously shaken amongst those out in proportion.

Mr. Wolle remanded the case till charged with carrying it into operation. Co., Ltd., Hotel Mansions, telephone Friday, fixing ball at $240,000 each.

obtained from Measts. Andersen, Meyer even $10,000, Nor is this a matter for surprise in view, No. 1920.

He thought it was the C.V...

The King of Cowes was het

He

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