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THIS OFF OF WILD TO AS NGON ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 1478, 1918

Licensed Warehouse cannot be open on that day.

D. W. THATMAN, Superintendent, Imports and Exports. Hongkong: October 923-1918,

TECHNICAL

THE INSTITUTE TUESDAY

Students will bee Office only, and entry forms

THE

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THE HONGKONG. DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10TH,

THE Undersigned has received instroo

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30TH NOVEMBER 1318

LADIES STALL will mesin be arranged in connection with &T. ANDREW'S

AIR, and all Scottish Women willing to

BLACKHEAD & COMPANY, FEL. HOUNS F. J. R. SCHWARZKOPF, E. H. THIN and J-B. DANTELAET in pursuance of an Order of the Hoaukong Government to sell by Publics Auction at 8 o'clock in the afternoon,

TUESDAY,

the 15th day of October, 1918, at his Anation Rooms in Duddell Street, THE VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY

sitaste and being SHAUKIWAN MARINE LOT No. 1 and kuown as Blackhead's

Soap Works |-

IN ONE LOT.

feet or thereabouts and consists of level The Property has an area of 85,800 square ground with a sos wall in good condition on the water front. On the property stands a Soap Factory and buildings in connection therewith comprising two todownY" ODS with coolie quarters over, & Manager's House, Boiler and Machine House, an Iron Shed, and a Tank.

A RESERVED PRICE OF $155,000 £45 HAS BEEN FIXED

The Property is held for the residue of

's- term of 900 years from August, 1890. The Crown Rent in 8440 per annum.

Particulars and Conditions of Sale may be had from :-

MESES DEACON, LOOKER, DEACON

& HARSTON,

Solicitors for the Liquidator,

or from

M. GEORGE P. LAMMERT

The Auctioneer.

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ARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of to be held on TUESDAY, the 16th day of October, 1818, # 5 r.... #. She. Ofteen of the Punto WORKS DIVARSMENT, DY Order of His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR. of One Lot of CHOWN LAND si Yanmati, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal si a CROWN RENT to be fed by the Surveyor of His MAJESTY THE KING, for one further Merts of 75 yours.

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DAIRY FARM NEWS

A desiring to lure the Colony should apply in person at the CESTRAL POLICE There is no substitute for any Bros between the hours of 9 AM-30 EPL And 3 F.M to 4 P.M. daily.

Applicants will os required to produce Passports or identification papers, etc

All

with certain exceptions, who persons remain in

a in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register themselves under the REGISTRATION of FERSONS ORDINANCE, 1316

Dairy Product

FRESH MILK

is both Food and Drink.

Forms of Registration giving the parti. Children must have it adul

culars required may be obtained at the G.P.O. and at 11 Police Stations

The Penalty for non compliance is a fine

ed at the Education not exceeding $50.

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Regalar supplies of Messrs Borden's Sweetened and Unsweetened Condensed Milka, also Sterilized Milk, have been arranged, the first conagment being due to arrive during the next few days. -2

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A Chiness was sentenced by MrJR Wood at the Magistracy, yesterday, to a month's hard labour for stealing, a suit of clothing from the servants" quarters of the Chief Justice's house, No. 104, The Peak ***

The Hon. Secretary of Club de Beoreio, Kowloon, acknowledges with thanks donations of $95 from Mr. M. J. Patell and #20 from Mr. E. Howard to the Portuguese Red Cross Fund, which now amounts, to 84,556.·

be

A small fire occurred, from * - known cause, in some matsheds. at Repulse Bay on Wednesday. Six of the sheds, which were used sa coolie quazTESE, were burnt to the ground. Nobody. was injured by the fire..

The Chinese who was charged with manslaughter, as a consequence of kun- ning over and killing a little girl with his truck in Des-Vaux Road, was die

first demonstrated that, and perhaps it may be his own undoing in the end. It is noteworthy that the KAISER has addressed his appeals to President WILSON. We can, of course, understand charged by Mr. J. Wood, as the CHINESE his reluctance to approach the French Magistracy, yesterday, as the videres or the Belgians direct, after the diaboli- showed that the accident was not due to cal crimes which he has committed negligence. against them. Nor is it surprising that,

The new Governor of Macao, H.E. after the many evidence of his hatred Arthur Tagminini Barbosa, accompanied of Great Britain, he should wish to

by Madam Barbosa and child, arrived at avoid appealing to our Government. He Hongkong from Lisbon yesterday. His may think that President WILSON is 80 Excellency was met on arrival by Mr. academic, such an idealist, that he can E. M. V. R. de Soum, the Consal for Por be easily duped; but if so the KAISER tagal. The party, which includes His never made a bigger mistake. Mr. Excellency's brother who is acting us GERRARD has told us what Mr. WILSON A..., is staying at the Hongkong Hotel, has said to him in conversation, and we and will lease for Macao on Saturday know that it accords with the President's morning. public utterances." President WILSON

Four men were committed for tridi at- was very patient and tenacions in the days before America declared war, and the October Criminal Sessions by Mre we need have no doubt that he retains. R. Wood at the Hongkong Magistracy, those qualities now. In April, 1919, an yesterday, on a charge of carrying out admirer wrote of him: He maintains that national honour in the strictest sense of the word, is the first of all national interests, and that an unswerv- ing regard for its obligations should be the determining principle of national policy. He has consistently avoided all ambiguous diplomatic phraseology and be has successfully appealed to the better feelings of his countrymen. It is hope les for the Kaiser to attempt to beguile or bluff such a man. He will have to give convincing proof of his sincerity by withdrawing from the occupied portions

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The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, 10TH OCTOBER, 1918

THE KAISER AND PRESIDENT WILSON,

As soon .A.X the news of the latest German attempt to negotiate for peace renched the Colony we warned our read-

of France and Belgium. It remains

an armed robbery in 167, Wabu Street, on September 25th Robbers visited the house, and, after threatening to kill the inmates, ransacked the place and stole 81s. They were arrested by the Hang, hom Police while leaving the premises,

LADY MAY'S ROSE FUND.

'LIST NO. 7..

Already acknowledged Mr. Eric Moller Mr. AF. Arenlli

$1,773.50

300,00 $65.00.

Mr. F. B. L. Bowley Societe des Missions Etran-

30.00

geres (per Rev. Father Robert)

50.00

$2,038.50

to be seen whether the death-bed repen FAR EASTERN CABLE

tance of the KAISE is all sham, or whether at last he really fears that he may share the fate of the ex-Kings CONSTANTINE and FERDINAND or even perhaps, that of the ex-Tsar of all the Russias Nemesis will overtake the Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs in some form or other, e

THE VACANCY" ON THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Hon. MEE the Colony

SHELLIM from

recreates

ere against jumping to conclusions of a Tax departure of the very optimistic nature. Later cables show that the Press in London and Paris —especially ^ in ̈ Paris-are not at all vacancy in the Unofficial representation sanguine that the days of fighting will in the Legislative Council Appointed by H.E the GovNOE on March 6th, 1913, soon be over. The latest efforts of our enemies are regarded all over the world Mr. BHELLIM's term of office would not have expired, in ordinary circumstances, with suspicion, so thoroughly has the

- until March 5th next, and, consequently, lesson been learned that there is always it will be necessary, in the first instance, to some ulterior object behind any move of

find a temporary substitute. Mr. BHELLIM, the Germans. Two and a half years ago an American used words which time has it will be remembered, succeeded the Hon. Mr. E. OSBORNE, than whom there was made ring with a more vibrant note.

The pit which German diplomacy digs never a more capable, independent, and for fiself becomes deeper as the wayoutspoken member of the Council. It is drags on, was his yerdict then, and it is the opinion now of practically everyone ontside Germany. It is becoming more and more obvious that the people of “Turkey, and Austria Hungary are losing

Bol Japan Ports to Honolulu and Saif indeed, they have not already lost

For particulars of freight and passage ploses apply to

JAVA CHINA-JAPAN LIJN,

Heresy AgentR. Hongkong. October 8th, 1818

TESOL

KONINKEYKE PAKETVAART

MAATSCHAPPY (Royal Packet Navigation Co. cf. Batavia

THE Steamship

NEWS.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.} THE DIPLOMATIC BODY AND THE

·EXPORT OF SILVER."

PAKING, October 8th. The Diplomatic Body to-day considered China's application for an embargo on the export of silver. The Ministern agreed to the request, excepting the Japanese Minister, who formulated con-.. ditions which are being referred to the foreign banka at Shanghai for considera tion

THE PRESIDENTIAL

INAUGURATION...

No foreigners have been invited to they Presidential Inauguration.

ELECTION OF VICE-PRESIDENT.:

It is not expected that there will be. aquorum in Parliament on Wednesday for the election of Vice-President.

MINISTERIAL UHANGES.

Tuan Chi-jui resigns the Premiership,

cipation Bureau. but, remains Director of the War Parts

Chien Nuo-beun. Minister of the

Ministe

Premier and War. Minister will also Interior, who was to act concurrently as retire: likewise the Finance Minister who, however, will retain the portfolio of Communications,

Its believed that another big, loan is ander negotiation.

to be hoped, therefore, that H.E. the Officer Administering the Government will bear this fact in mind when filling the present vacancy, and will select somebody, who will be acceptable to the general community. His task in this matter is that sublime faith which their rulers simplified by the close result of the recent taught them to repoed in Prussia, election of a temporary representative of Whatever we may think, about their the Justices of the Peace. It is to be immediate results,

of regretted that the Constitutional Reform Max of Baden and the peace Association has done nothing during, Ita

directed particularly at Fre-existence of eighteen maths to further heavy skirmishing on the Volga and

Fundo edly reveal the objects for which it was formed. If it | Ural fronte NGK

***** (THROUGH REUTEL'S AGENCY.]

BOLSHEVIK FORCES CONDEN

TRATING IN SIMBIRSE..

VLADIVOSTOCK, October 8th.

It is confirmed that there has been

Large forces of Bolsheviks are concen Strating in Simbirsk, and scyen verzia

south of the town

which are important In the first had shown proper activity we might, by It is obvious to the whole world this time, have been in a position at least to choose for ourselves all the four Euro pean Unofficial members of Council, the Sanitary Board electorate being used to return, the two representatives" "now appointed by the Governor

the tone, both of the speech and the different from that of any of the KAISER and his antellites It is apparent

or perhaps

about

+

One thousand Red Guards attacked the Czecho-Slovaks, bat, after fighting t day-the enemy fede

Two hundred prisoners were taken

[RY COURTESY OF TER CHUED MOOL

PEKING NEWS.

Ing. October 9th. ug, as he finds that he is

osed by the South-West

continue the war

Provincer.

Hant,