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HONGKONG BRANCE. MEETING of the GUILD will be held

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October the 2nd, at 10 o'clock. All Women interested in the Work of the Guild are Invited to attend.

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INTIMATIONS

DAILY:"PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8011, 1918.

THE

HONGKONG

INTIMATION

KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS

☛EMBERS ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED

MEMBERS AL GENERAL

MEETING will be held in the Club House TO-DAY (MONDAY), September 30th, 1918, BÈ 6,3Ừ P.M.

BOKEKES

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1. J. BLACKBURN, Hoo. Secretary. Kowloon, 19th September, 1818.

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TAE CHINA-BORNEO CO., LTD.

NOTIO MEETING OF THE CHINA BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED will be held at the Offices of Meera GIBB, LIVINGSTON AND COMPANY, St George's Bailding, Victoris. Hongkong, the Registered Office of the above-named Company

TOMORROW (TUESDAY), the 1st

October, 1918, day of at 11.30 o'clock in the formoon, when the rabjoined Resolution! which was passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held on the 13th day of September, 1918 will be submitted for confrmation as a Special Resolution:

VOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that GO EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL

That the new Articles already "approys by identification

this Meeting and for the

thereof

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PEKING, September 97th. A dispute has arisen over the laure

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CARTON, September 29th. STYLE OF THE GOVERNMENT TO BE CHANGED. We are informed that the Administra tive Directors of the Military Govern- rent have requested the M.P.'s to change of an automobile belonging to the Mongolian Trading Company : by the the Military Government, and lest a Provisional President. The M.P.'s have Tuchun of Chahar, who declines to allow passenger traffic, between "Kalgan and Urga.

Unions and employers would be appoint ed to investigate the labour conditions which rendered the embargo necessary. to advise upen its administration, and to consider what 'measures should be adopted to maintain the increase in the This had the output of munitions. desired effect. In the middle of the pre- sent month the cotton spinners left the mills in order to secure payment to unemployment due to the restriction of output ordered by the Government, but, happily, the dispute was brought jected change, and have asked all the principals and leaders' to approve of it BOBBERS DEMAND MONEY FROM THE CUSTOMS, The Commissiorer of the Kowloon Customs ha reported that the officer in charge of the Kwai Mui Customs has received a letter, from "certain robbers demanding $1.200, and threatening that if it is not paid the Customs House will

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week within a end result of the PRIME MINISTER's sugges tion that the question at issue should be inquired into by a tribunal to be appoint. ed by the Government. Now we learn of a' strike amongst the shipwrights of the cast coast of Scotland, who demand a minimum wage of £s a week-in view, no doubt, of the fact that the purchasing power of the sovereign has fallen by one half during the war. This action is disavowed by the responsible leaders and constitutes a 'ropadiation of the under- taking given in April by the Shipyards" Trades Unions that there should be.no stoppages of work. The vital importance

ubacribed by the Chairman thereof, CHINESE VIEWS maintaining the output of ship

hereby

"be and the zame

thab much Articles "approved, and "be and they are hereby adopted as the the Articles of the Company to

"exclusion of and in subetitation for "all the existing Articles thereof.”

A copy of the new Articles referred to

may be inspected by any Shareholder of the

said Company at the Company's Offices in The Cards are Neat" and Tasteful Hongkong, or at the Offices of Messrs. JOHNSON, STOKES & MAKE (the Company's

Solicitors), a Frinos's Building, Victon and will certainly please You and

aforesaid on any week-day between the hours of 10 AM, and 4 PM.

Dated this 13th day of September, 1918.

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,

Agente.

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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 5th to the 18th of October, both days inclusive.

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HONGKONG 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1918

made announcements regarding the pro

be attacked again. ›

It will be remembered that the Kwai Mai Customs House was ransacked by

robbers and the son of the clerk in charge was carried off. A body of troops has been sent there, but the boy has not been found."

THE CIVIL GOVERNORSHIP. »

It is reported that the suggestion that

||

The Government is unable to control the Tuckus...

(THROUGH RASTER'S AGENCY.] JAPANESE OCCUPY

ZEYAPRISTAN,

LONDON, September 29th. Japanese official statement says:---Our cavalry effected a junction at Rutulov, 306 miles north-west of Blagovestobonsk on September and and gard, and occupied Zeyapriatan,

[BỊ COURTLEY BY TEI "CHUNG NGỌI SAN PO.")

THE PRESIDENT'S OFFICE.

PELING, September 29th. the Civil Governor be elected by the

Feng Kuo-chang has decided to vacate Provincial Assembly has secured the the President's office on October 1st. strongest support, and a meeting to elect

2 a new Civil Governor will be held by the Assembly shortly.

A PROJECTED LOAN.

In deference to the request of the authorities, the principals of the Com- mercial Chamber have sent representa tiven to negotiate a loan of $800.000 with

· THE VICE-PRESIDENCY,

.The Anlu society has decided to vote for Tuan Chi-jui as Vice-President

CHECKMATED. "..

It is reported that certain of the Fungtien troops intended to attack Naz-

troops sent by the Tuchun Li Shun

building at the highest possible level is patent to everybody, for though the depredations of German submarines are being reduced they are still very formid able. Up to date they represent more than seven million deadweight tons, and, though nearly four millions tons of enemy shipping have been seized, there | is still a considerable deficit in mercbant

tonnage to be made good. The Govern-ahe Bank of Taiwan to maintain the king, but were, prevented by the Kiangau ment has delivered the same ultimatum in this case us in these previously men tioned; but it is, perhaps, questionable V hether there are sufficient men in the Army qualified to fill the places of those who have shown such B lamentable lack of patriotism, "for we imagine the Military Government, replying to a that comparatively few were taken away telegram from Hsu Shih-chang, address

Simultaneously led the latter as follows:- from this industry. the railway lines running between

with this disturbance, it is reported that

China Bank notes.

?

[FROM THE CANTON INTELLIGENCE BUREAU.] ADVICE TO THE PRESIDENT-ELECT

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Teen Chun-hsuse and Dr. Wu Ting- fing, two Administrative Directors of

Having read your circular telegram of

the 5th we understand that the illegal

London and South Wales have become Parliament has elected you as President.

A

MILITARY SERVICE

TRIBUNAL

TO-DAY'S AGENDA. Consideration of temporary exemptions granted to the following:

3.30 p.m. Mr. W. W. de Abney.--Messre

Thes. Cook & Son,"

J

3.50 p.m. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton-Messrs.

Deacon, Looker, Deacon & Harsion.

4.10 p.a. Mr. W. B. Hind-Messrs. G.

K. Hall Brutton & Co.

4.30 p.m. Mr. P. J. Taylor.-The Daisy

Farm Co.

4.30 p.m. Mr. G. Blair:----Mesara. Martini

& Co.

5.10 p.m. Mr. A Leach-Vacuum 01

Company.

MORE CARROLLS.

3.

thought he saw-a Colossal

And eminent K.C.; «

Be boked again and saw it was

disorganised owing to a section of their However, through fear of the present employés having strück in order to crisis and your own modesty, you have secure an increase of 10s. week made known your resignation. In thus instead of the increase of offered by refusing, owing to your knowledge of the the War Cabinet and accepted by the state of public opinion, to occupy the Laions. It will probably be easier" to highest position you have our esteem. deal with this difficulty, as the work is But though you bitterly lament the un- not so highly specialised as ship con- fortunate affairs in the country, you have Rexenose Ornica: 104, Dan Vœux RÖLD, C. LONDON OFFICE: 181, Fixer Staxes, «E.C.struction, and substitutes should be more not mentioned anything about the causes. The Government has On this subject, we cannot remain silent. readily found. called" on the Naval and Military Though the present civil war is not due to a single cause, yet there can be only Authorities to assist the railways to

che principle for the salvation of the He carry on military traffic and the trans-

nation that principle is the observance » port of foodstuff, and declares that will not be coerced by a small section of the community into re-opening a ques tion which has already been settled, after long negotiation, on a fair basis. The It seems incredible that in the present latest news is that a mass meeting of crisis British workmen engaged in essen-railwaymen at Cardiff has decided in tial industries should be willing to take favour of returning to work It is to any course calculated to prolong the war be hoped thist, for the sake of their and its attendant miseries. Even if recent events on the various fronts have own credit and the welfare of the coun- made them over-conndent as to the result, similar counsels will prevail amongst of the struggle, they must surely realise the shipbuilders on the Clyde." Although that every day the conflict continues at this distance we cannot pretend to be adds to the casualties amongst their com- fully acquainted with the facts, we may rades in the fighting-line and increases rest assured that in these days the the burden of debt which the nation will Government would not tare a deaf ear have to carry for years to come. Yet

LABOUR TROUBLES IN GT

BRITAIN.

within the last two months there have labouring community. It is only fair been four serious disputes threatening to point out that these demonstrations been confined to have of discontent to weaken either the striking or the

small, though important relatively staying power of the nation, and encouraging the peoples of the Central sections of the working-classes, who have European Powers to continue their placed themselves in opposition to the resistance in the mistaken belief that leaders of their own trade unions. The these labour troubles are an indication great body of the workers are showing by their loyal co-operation in the task of the war-weariness of the masses in of overthrowing Prussian militarism Great Britain. Towards the end of July that they are prepared to back up by the munition workers in certain areas deeds the assurance which the Trades laid down their tools against the advice Union Congress recently sent to Sir of the Trade Union Advisory Committee DOUGLAS Haig, because the Ministry of Monitions for- bade a few firms to engage more skilled labour while other firms were understaff-port." ed. On that occasion the National Federn-

Shanghai bas withdrawn its declara infected tion against Hongkong as

of law, and duty. The life of the nation depends on the constitution; there are those who brazenly disregard it and perform acts which are unconstitutional, and there are others who profess to observe the law of the land set in prac

These are sufficient to tice violate it. create internal trouble. Ever since the unconstitutional dissolution of Parlia ment the principles of the Constitution He have been violated, so that there is no- thing to check the ambitions of evil persons and nothing to placate the

When the Constitutionalist armiës rose

righteous indignation of the people. with the object of restoring order, the bitter enemies. Its cunning plans in. Peking Government looked upon them as crease day by day. It says that a without a Republic cannot Parliament, and it proceeds to manu-

remain

Sir William, C.M.T.

High Justice will be done," he said,

To every X.ML.T.”

12.

He is an utter barrister'

A brief in either hand; looked again and saw it was The D.D. (Southern Land). Clients will fix a telephone,"

Cried he, “to each island.”

3.

5

He thought he saw the Director,

A canny C.M.G.;

He looked again and saw it was

The geais T.L.P.

"

The ads will perfect be."

4.

He thought he saw a Sinologue,.

The Court, Interpreter; looked again and saw it was

A passport officer. L'spose they'll give his job," he said,

"To onu from Manchester."

FUNERAL OF MRB, ́G. 'BANKER,

Mr. George Banker, of 11, Hakow Road, Kowloon, has suffered heavy bereavement in the loss of his wife, who died at their residence on Friday, after a serious and protracted illness.

The funeral took place on Saturday afternoon at Happy Valley and was

Mr. and Mrs.

to any legitimate grievance of the facture one according to its selfish ideas; buy an Overland," be said,

it says the President must have a Auccessor, and it proceeds to elect one- by unconstitutional means. Since your election the people perceive with regrot that the Peking Government shows no sincere repentance. As the same time there is no way of ascertaining your own declaration that you cannot accept office attitude. If you frankly make a public He because of the illegality of the election of, sedition, the people will respect you and that you cannot be a party to an act highly; and even those who looked upon the Parliament as their enemy, when hearing these words, may change their policy. Your noble work in thus pre- renting disorder and violence will not be forgotten by the people. It is a pity that although you have resigned you say not a word of rebuke for the illegality TO LET.

We are under great of the election. apprehension that you may not detect the designs of evil persons and may not SHOP in Nathan Road, Kowloom.

remain firm in your determination not One case of puerperal fever and one

to aasame office. In that case it will very largely attended. KOWLOON MARINE LOT No. 48, tion of Discharged Soldiers and Sailors case (one death) of relapsing fever were be even more difficult to set the country Baker had a wide circle of friends, and in order, and what then will be the these testified to their regard for the suitable for Coal Storage.

offered to undertake any work in muni reported in the Colony on Friday.

The Kowloon Cricket Club" At Home, verdict passed on you by the world and deceased lady and her husband the posterity? If there are suggestions that a multitude of wreaths and many private Apply to:---

tion factories until the strikers had been HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE transferred into the Army and had been which was to have been held on Satur if you assume office certain provinces expressions of regret. After a special At present day afternoon, was postponed owing to will make peace singly, Parliament may service conducted at the house by the replaced by skilled ment

b diseolved, and a new one convoked, Ber. A, D. Stewart, Principal of FL serving in the forces. The Government H.E. the Other Administering the Gov. they are false and are meant to place Paul's College, the cortège proceeded br threatened the strikers that their proterernment has appointed Mr. J. C. Pear you on a beated store and to make im-launch to Stone Pier, where it was joined hope that you will not listen to them. grave-side stood many leading repro tion certificates would be withdrawn and son temporarily to be a Sanitary Insper possible the salvation of the nation. We by a large number of mourners. At the You have had many years valuable sentatives of the business community, they would be enrolled in the Army if tor, with effect from the 1st October.

1.E. the Officer Administering the Gov-experience in politics, and for the sake who thus gave evidence of their esteem they remained idle after a given, date.

ernment has appointed His Honour Sir of your reputation and good name for Mr. Banker, the bend of the well- This threat was accompanied by the pro William Beca Davies,

(Chief hope you will walk in the right path. known firm of Banker & Co. As the mice that immediately they resumed their Justice), to be Chairman of the General We, as old friends and out of love for procession passed through the cemetery. employment a committee, consisting of Military Service Tribunal, during the the country and for you, take upon gates the hymn Abide with me absence from the Colony of the Hon. Mr. ourselves to give you, this advice and was eung. The burial service was impres

sively read by the Rev. A. D. Stewart. trust you will duly consider it. representatives of the Government, Trade E. II. Sharp, K.O., Q.B.E.

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