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NOTICE.

IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that on account of the war the Consul-General

IT

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, AUGUST 81st, 1915.

PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LTD.

NOTICE

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etherlands will not be "at home"WING to post on Logand the TRAM on the 31st August, the anniversary of the birthday of Her Majesty the Queen of the SERVICE will be REDUCED at from

1st September 1918. Netherlands.

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HAMEL, .Consul-General. Hongkong, 30th August, 1919,

ME

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

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R. H. W. BIRD wishes to take this of thanking thosa opportunity Justices of the Peace who were instrumental using him to be elected to the the Legislativo temporary vacancy on Council, and hopes that he may be able to justify the confidence they have placed in

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LEGISLATIVE COUNOLL. ON

BYE-ELECTION. TO THE JUSTICES OF THE PEACE FOR BONGKONG.

GENTLEMEN,

I beg to return my sincere thanks to those Justices who voted for me at the recent bye- Blection,

Although not returned, 1 regard the result of the contest, with every satisfaction in view of the powerful interests arrayed against

me.

The close finish encourages me to hope that ea the necasion of the next election succEKA will be obtained either by myself or some

ther independent candidate...

I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,

Your obedient servant,

A. R. LOWE.

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Hongkong, 29th August, 1918.

ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE, MACAO.

THIS HEALTHY SITUATED SCHOOL THIS

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JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

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(1) To consider, and if thought fit, approve the draft now Articles which will be Hubmitted to the Meeting.

And in the event of the approval thereof,

with or without modification,

(2) Ta cossider and, if thought fit, to pass an Estmordinary Resolution to tho effect-That the new Articles already approved by this Meeting and for the identification thereof purpose of subscribed by the Chairman thereof, be and the same am hereby approved, And that such Articles be and they are hereby adopted as the Articles of the Company to the exclusion of and in substitution for all the axisting Articles. thereof.

Should the above Resolutions be passed by the required majority they will be submitted for confirmation Special Resolutions to a Second Extraordinary Meeting which will be subsequently convened.

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of Constitu- tional government, whereas it is really.

conflict of rival militarists. the South as well as in the North the FOURTH OF JULY PROCESSION IN

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control; if not the direction, of stairs

--More

War

is in the hands of the several leading generals. Each side claims to have the interests of the people at heart, and to be striving for the oft-quoted "funda- mental solution" of the affairs of the country. Perhaps each has come to believe that it is so. By telegraph and by mail they flood the land with their protestations and intentions, to which nobody attaches the slightest importance. To make matters still more' ludicrous, they encourage the belief that they are waging a civil war. True, there has been some slaughter and considerable pillaging pillaging, really, than actual Aghting-but the

is not taken seriously by those chgaged in it. Neither side has any stomach for fighting. The belligerents prefer to keep at a respectful distance from each other, and when, by some mischance, they get too near they either shoot high or arrange an armistice In Hunan the rival forces of the Govern ment and the Southern Confederation have faced each other for months with the loss of scarcely a single life, because they mutually agreed that it WIJ too bot to fight. More recently the system of pretence has been carried further. This make-believe Republic with. its make-believe Parliament was promised a brand new gold currency established by the introduction of gold notes without

gold reserve!

NEW YORK..

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ]

NOW YORK. Several platoons of the Ganners who left Hongkong in the Spring for the front, and one platoon of the Hongkong Defenes Corps marched in what the American, newspapers describe as the

greatest "Pageant for Freedom" ever seen in the "world. nationalities were

Scores of different represented in A

Loyalty Parade," which consisted of 110,000 individuals and wound its way along the famous Fifth Avenue. Now York. Army, Navy and Marines, War auxiliaries, and Police made up the first part of the procession, while the second was composed of Americans of foreign birth or descent. Only one dag was seen the Stars and Stripes-and that was conspicuous everywhere. There were real American Indians, Filipino soldiers and sailors, Czecho-Slovaks representing four. teen nationalities among themselves, Allied soldiers, and women typifying the work of relief which is being carried on behind the lines and at the front. One of the striking features of the parade was a contingent of several thousand persons of German extraction, who carried at the bead of their division a great banner bearing the device: Born in Germany, but made in America." Other banners

→ The

The political situation today is as indeterminate as it was a year ago. The Tachans of the North have agreed that carried by this contingent read: Hat S¤IR-case shall be elected Presid.S.A. is our Fatherland-We know no ent by the new Parliament. Most people other"; "We believe that Victory for are of the opinion that the selection is the the U.S.A. and her Allies means "Freedom. .. S. WATSON & best that could be made, but the point to for the German people."

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DEATH.

LONDON OFFIC: 181, Fam Stamı, E.C.

A DEATH-DEALING GIFT. DASTARDLY ATTEMPT UPON A EUROPEAN RESIDENT.

A dastardly and ingenious attempt to injure if not to kill-a well-known European resident in the Colony was made yesterday by some person unknown. The medium employed for the purpose was one of the most poisonous makes found in the tropics.

It seems that a parcel, neatly wrapped in brown cartridge paper, was posted at the General Post Office yesterday morning at about ten o'clock by a Chinese coelia. In reply to a question by the parcels clerk, be stated that the parcel contained Bower-bulbs, valued at $3, adding that the sender was a European lady.

Taking the coolie's word for

granted, the parcel was duly accepted and delivered to its destination-the office of the European gentleman to whom it was addressed. Being busily occupied at the moment, the gentleman in question told bis office-boy to open the parcel. When the wrapper was removed a fairly large cigar-box came to view The boy pro ceeded to open the lid and, to the con- sternation of all present, a large spoke, reported to be about five feet in length, thrust its head cut and made a dart at the boy's hand. The boy had the presence of mind to pin down the lid immediately. The snake is of the Asiatic species Trimererurus Brythurus, and"„knowa to the Chinese as Kwo Shu She, The reptile's bite is said to C43C instan- taneous death. The European gentleman to whom this gift was consigned immedia ately went down to the Post Offer and lodged

the complaint with

Post- master-General, who, in turn, communi- cated with the Police, with the result that a detective has started making inquiries.

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[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

CHINESE GOVERNMENT PURCHASE WIRELESS

TELEPHONES,

PEKING, August 99th. On Wednesday the Marconi Company entered into

un dgreement with the Chinese Government to purchase 900

General Semenoff has captured Borzia Station. The Bolsheviks a

are retreating to the Onion River, burning the barracks

be stressed is that Parliament is to be instructed as to its duty in the matter.

There were fonts, typical of every That by the way, It was also under country in the parade, and undoubtedly stood that General T8A0 Kex was the most attention was attracted by an in- selection for Vice President, although mense font representing Great Britain. this matter W14 more open and that

Around a young woman refresımting General TUAN CHI-JCI would be re-elected "Britannia were gathered soldiers from Premier. Now, however, there is another many British Colonies as well is from Hichmond an the field in the person of her army at home. Here marched in WANG TA-HSIEn, one-time Minister to the single file of 20 men the Gunners from Court of St. James. His candida Hongkong and one file of the Hongkong wireless telephones with a range of 40 ture introduces an element of uncer-Defence Corps. The Gunners were dress. miles. The price is £300,000 and is to tainty, and makes the appointment ofed in khaki slacks and helmets, and thebe deducted from ʼn loan of £600,000 at the higher officers very open indeed. Defence Corps in shorts, pattees and per cent. The telephones are to bui FRISCHLING. Killed in France, on August Like Hav Sain-CHANG, he would be nece helmets. This tropical, rig-out interested delivered within nine months.

GEOFFREY HEPWORTH FRISCH able to many outside the Peking coterie, the crowds who lined the Avenue many

BOLSHEVIKS DRIVEN BACK BY aged 19 years, Second-Lieut. 12th Batt. East Surrey Regiment, son as he is a man of considerable experi- deep, and there, were continual cheers

SEMENOFF. of F. C. Frischling, Kailan Mining ence and is not a militarist. Mean and clapping of bands as the British Administration, Shanghai,

while. the Yangtze Tuchung, represent. Colonials swung along. Hongkong" Urzich: 13a, Das Faux Road, C.ing an intermediate party who constitute

The saluting base was in Madison a really solid hope as mediators or Square, where the parade was reviewed and destroying the railway on their way. pencemakers, have issued a circular by Major Hylan, Governor Whitman, and telegram advising peace with the South.officers of the U.S.A. Army and Navy. As the Northerners are beginning to The formation in which the troops march realize the impossibility of a military ed was strange to the British units, and Hostmond, 31st August, 1918.

victory over the South, they may be to keep dressing and step was induced to depart from their declared difficult matter, as there were so many policy of subduing the rebel combination THE LAND OF MAKE-BELIEVE and consider a compromise. The views of things around of much greater interent the two parties regarding Parliament have than the chin of the second man on the Tux peculiar paychology of the Chinese hitherto been irreconcilable, Pet they

left was never more apparent than it is today might be induced to compromise by agreeing to the dissolution of the two when to many of the people are regard-rival Parliaments and the election of ed as having responded in degree to contact with Western civilisation. In their customs and habitske-belief enters to É remarkable extent, and in their politics there is a similar disposi tion" to accept the shadow for the substance. Before the revolution, the Manchu dynasty "inade" an exhibition

and authority which of power

than" 'real. apparuat then the Government has been

The Daily Press.

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There were 125 bands in the procession,

another on a basis acceptable to both, which took 12 hours to pass a given point Only by a mutual concession of this The Hongkong contingent had a pipe nature can they be brought together. A band in front, and at the rear a float mentioned already, neither side has any great love for warfare, and it is not representingBoy Travers Cornwall's beyond the bounds of possibility that heroic deed" with another pipe band the generals in the field or their soldiers may take matters into their own hands of the New York Scottish.

The music and reach a decision which their respec- was rather a hindrance than, otherwise tive parties will have to recognise. That, to good marching, as the band in front however, is merely speculation. Wher

MORE MONEY FOR CIVIL

WARFARE.

The Government has received advances which make possible the resumption of fighting against the South, which recent events had rendered doubtful." RUNCHUTZES HOLD UP A"TRAIN. Hunghutzes held up a train on Wednes day three miles north of Chan Chan and

looted 50.000 roubles

TSAO KUN RECEIVES THE SINEWS OF WAR.

"

Tao Kun has received a million dollars. A second milljon will be banded over at Hankow,

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

Tang Shib-yi declares that the election

wasit is remembered that after TRAO KEN played two Scottish sirs most of the time, Since was appointed generalissimo of the and the band behind played. “Over

Government forces, and given a seal of Repub-office of extraordinary value and great There" adapted for the pipes, and a of President will positively take place. lican, but in name only. Parliament historie interest, he declined to heed his really good brass band about 300 yards

control,

at

Was supposed to. exercise but it did not. and when.it tempted to do so it was dissolved as a seditious organisation. China has also deluded itself that it is at war "with the Germanic combination, but since the declaration of war it, bus not made a

colleagues entreaties to go to the front, the disinclination for nighting becomes so manifest that it must be reckoned as an important factor in the present situation. Even the Shantung Tuchun, Chand HCAI-CHI has to be persuaded to return to the so-called fighting-line,

ahead doled out "Bousa" by the mile. drowning both pipe bands at times. The mixture of music together with the fact that most of the eyes of the members of the Defence Corps were turned on the first-door windows, from which pretty girls were waving greetings, made it

[BY COURTESY OF THE CHUNG NGOI SAN.PO."']

PEKING NEWS.

PELING, August 30th.

be desirous of becoming the Tochun of Lung Chai-kwong, who is believed to

Fukica, is sending all his troops fo

On account of the war the Consul single contribution to the military effort General for the Netherlands will not be difficult to keep fine and step, as may Fükien and is evacuating from King

"At Home" to day, the anniversary of required to crash the enemies of civili the birthday of H.M. the Queen of the sation. The excellent services rendered by Netherlands.

TO LET. OMMODICUS and Centrally "Situated the Chinese Labour, Corps are not related. We have been asked to state that car NEW OFFICES, with lift, in the old to China's participation in the struggle, No. 141, in respect of which a prosedu Mercantile Bank Buildings, corner of Queen's for the use of Chinese labour for non-com-Thursday, does not belong to the Hou, tion was taken at the Magistracy on Road Central and Ice House Street.

Also in Canton House, No. 21, Shameem, batant purposes behind the fighting-line Mr. Ho Fook British Concession.

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in France was sanctioned and reached its One case (one death) of bubonic plague,

maximum before August, of last year, when China sent the long-delayed do claration to Berlin. Consequently, it can be asserted with truth that China has not yet taken part in the war. The

and one case (one death) of enteric fever were reported in the Colony, on Thurs day. The patient in the laster ease wa an American. ̧

Chow

be imagined. The bure knees of the Hongkong draft caused them to be dubbed

Hong "Yau-wai, the Monarchist, bug "Boy Scouts and "Footballers from left Peking for Tientsin. Hong, it is France, while one patriotic American, said, is proceeding to the South. China, shouted out as he scrutinized the on being told that they came from

flank man's South African medala:- "But they don't look like Chinese in, that rig."

The Hongkong Defence Corps was re- presented by:-Lieut. H. R. B.. Hancock, Sergt. J. Deakin, Corp, 8. V. Vergette,

The tale of tickets for the drawing of war bonds in aid of war charities, which OR 8-ROOMED HOUSE2 ou Higher explanation, of course, is that China has heen organised by the Hongkong St. Corn. Heath, L/C. H. H. Pegg. Gr. J. cannot do so because of the strife Andrew's Society, commences to lay. IC. Fletcher, Ptes. JT. Ewing, W. which prevails within her own borders, is hoped to sell tickets to the value of Pryde, J. Ralston, J. Home L. Alliston,

$200,000. All detaile relating to the C. Bond, Pierero. C. Logan, This strife in between two partic drawing will be found in our advertising who delude themselves that they are columns.

Currie, Green and Edwards.

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MR TAFT ON TRAITORS.

At Yale University, after the confer ring of honorary degrees on Lord Read ing. Justice Riddell, of Ontario, and Mr. John Masefield, Mr. Taft delivered in speech, in the course of which be refor in the United States red to the propaganda insidiously sprend creating bad feeling

the object of

Great Bri

If any man, be he an Irishman or anything else, questions the honesty or the motives of England in ber associations with the United States in this war he is

liar and a traitor.""