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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

FOR SALE.

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IMPORTS AND EXPORTS DEPART- HENT.

NOTICE

EMPIRE DAY. DEPARTMENT will be open for purposes fall Noor on SATURDAY, MAY 14TH. Licensed Warnbou-es will be entirely closed on that day.

D W. TRATHAN,

Superintendent, Imports and Experts. 11:0

Hongkong, May 19th, 1919.

WANTED:

i

NOMPETENT ENGINEER with Good Shop Training for Local Engineering

Works

Apply stating experience and salary required to-

Box No. 777, Cars of "Daily Presa" Office [777

A

PORTABLE GARAGE with all appartenances, and a Five-seater Car used only 14 months. No reasonable affar will be refused. Owner learing Colony.

Apply

Box 778, Care of "Daily Press " Ofios.

1778-1

NOT

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the COMMITTEE of the MISSIONS TO SEAMEN in Hougtong intends at a carly date to apply to the Legislative Council of Hongkong for a Bill intituled A Bill to provide for the Incorporation.

SEAMEN of the MISSIONS TO Hongkong.'

Dated the 19th day of May, 1919.

DENAYS & BOWLEY, sulicitors.

in

HONUKUNG' DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 20TH.

INTIMATIONS

THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE,

LIMITED...

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

STAIRTY.EIGATH

ORDINARY TY

TYEARLY MEETING of SHARE

HOLDERS will be held at the Otters of the Undersigned on WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1918 at 12: 30 A. M.

The TRANSFER BOOKS and REGISTER of Members of the Company will be CLOSED from the 7th May to the Stat May, bork

Inclusive. days

Immediately after the above-mentioned Masting the General Agouts in pursuance of Article 17 of the Company's Artice purpose to the Consulting Committee to sanction 4 call of monies

on the shares held by members of the Company.

Tanpa Bharu in respect of the

At the same time the General Agente will lso, under Article 104 (p), ask for the sanction

of the t

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of a

THE LIYERPOOL & LONDON & GLOBR INSURANCE CO., LTD.

BRITISH MANUFACTURING HOUSE KEWLEY will take charge of the Compangor

doing Large Basicons in General Brushware, Hardware and Fancy Goods, etc. with all the principal Wholesale Houses in the United Kingdom is open to take up extra Agencies for those classes of Goods, either on à Commission Basis, or own Buying Basis; also wanted red cock feathers, bundled, for brushes Ball sample and prices.

*Write Box 888, SELLS LTD,

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YOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, wing to the undersigned procooding home on leave, MR. HIGBY EL F Hongkong Branch as Acting Local Manager as from MAY 1ST.

JOHN B. LANCASTER, Acting Local Manager. Hongkong, May 19th, 1918.

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HONGKONG AND SOUTH CHINA WAR SÅVINGS ABSOCIATION.

NOTICE.

All

E beg to announce that all 168, Fiest Street, London, EC., England. W Straits Settlements War Loan taken up by this Association for its Members has now been exhausted. moneys paid in to this Association will, in future be invested in British War Loan bearing interest at 5 per cent per UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.

Hon. Becretary. [730

PEAK TRAMWAYS - COMPANY,

LIMITED.

TOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN

ANNUAL the

ORDINARY of SHARE- GENERAL MEETING HOLDERS of the wove Company will be held at the HookUNG HOT, Hong- kong, ou THURSDAY, MAY 1975, 1918, at of receiving the

Report of the

Noox for the ptors together with s Statement of Accounts for the year ending April 30th, 1939,

Ine TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 28th instant to the Sist instant, both days inclusi se

PEAK TRAMWAYS LOMPANY, LTD,

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers. Hongkong, May 20th, 1919,

A. G. DA ROCHA,

AUCTIONEER,

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SURVEYOR AND GENERAL BROKER. Queen's Boad Central, Telephone No. 28. FAVOURED with instructions

The Concerned,

from.

will well by Public Auction on WEDNES DAY, May 5. st, 1818, at 2.30 P.M.p

at his Sales Boom

Á “QUANTITY, OF

SHIPCHANDLERS' AND MISCEL-

LANEOUS GOODS.

TX-Cash on Delivers.

Hongkong, May 14th, 1919.

DA ROCHA

AUCTIONEER. SURVEYOR AND

GENERAL BROKER.

Queen's Road Central, Telephone No. 2932

VOURED with Instructions from

The Concerned,

FAVOURED

will sell by Public Auction. '

SATURDAY,

May 23rd, 1919, at £30 PM,

at his Bales Room.

EXCELLENT HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE

- Comprising

Chesterfield Couch and Arm Chairs, Bisch Wood Furniture, Brass and Iron Bedsteads, Tables, Brussels Carpets and Bags, Brass Tenders, Overmantels, Bilk Tapestry Covered Drawing Room Suite, Sofas, Easy Chairs, Decasional Tables Extension

Dining

Table Bevelled Mirror Wardrobes, Hat Stands,

Dinner Crockery, Glasswar

Curtains Bed Sheets,

Pictures;

Ornamenble-top Washstands, Cooking

Storos

Clock Catlery, Toilet Bets, Electric Reading Lamps, Cabinets, Sideboards and a long line

Bundries.

Catalognes will be immed.

TERMS--Cash on Delivery, Hongkong, May 30th, 1919.

HONGKONG POLO CLUB. EMPIRE DAY.

EATHER Permitting

POLO

CLUB GYMKHANĂ will be held" at the RACKOOURIL, HAPPY VALLEY (by ind permission of the Stewards. Hong- kong Jockey Clab) on BATURDAY next, MAY 24TH 80 4 PM. Admission $1.00 (including Tes) Children under twelve Half-price

Programma includes: TENT PEGOING, BALIN-FIVER! MOUNTED COMmar, do, do,

Caab Swoops.

RACE,

S. E. GRIMSTONE,

Hon. Secretary, Hongkong, May 19th, 1919... [774

THE CHINESE ENGINEERING AND MINING COMPANY, LIMITED.

Payment of Final Dividend on Shares

for the year ending 80th June, 1919.

BOARD having

declared

TINTERIM DIVIDEND of One Shilling

OD

per Share, from of Income Tax for the year ending 30th June. 1919, bolders of Resrer Shares and hoiders of Dividend Warrants received from London account of Registered Shares, will ba paid their dividends on prossuting No. 13 of the Bearer Shares, and Dividend Banks at Shanghai or following Tientain

• Couputs on Registered Shares, to either o

the

of

THE HONOKONG. AND SHANGHAT BANKING

CORPORATION.

THE CHARTERED BANE, OF INDIA,

AUSTRALLI & CHINA.

THE RUSASIATIO BAXX.

THE BANQUE BRA POUE L'ETRANGE The Payments will be made in either Dollars or This as the holder may wish, the buying rate of exchange of the day.

LENKRAL MANAGER, THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION.

Hongkong, May 8th, 1918

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A JUMBLE SALE

will be held in

or

FRIDAY, MAY 2310,

from

Racing Committee to the payment

Dividend of $50 per share

inmond

Lipaserve

ately after the call) out of

Should there sanctions be obtained the Transfur Book and Register of Members

INTIMATION

WATSON'S

FORMAZONE

(REGISTERED).

to take effect on March 90th, and, unless All the world knows how splendidly re- a'settlement was reached before then, some peated calls for fresh sacrifices were met. three millions of organised workers were Now, the workers, who can never think pledged to come out”

of more than one thing politically at a To the credit of the leaders of Labour time, demand that these fair promises in this crisis it must be said that they shall be redeemed. It is decidedly awk- endeavoured to keep the peace.

Men

like Mr. SMILLIE, of the Miners' Federaard that they seem to expect everything tion, and Mr. THOMAS, at the head of the straightaway. Endeavours on the part railwaymen, gave proof-not for the first of the Government or of employers to ex time-that they possess qualities of realplain that big increase in wages and statesmanship. But men of acknowledged shortening of hours cannot be conceded position are not always able to restraint are ignored; even the logical the extremists in their own Unions. Targument that industries must be given time to be set in motion again are re- |latter, mostly young men, are pushful

garded with, profound suspicion,, as mere and headstrong, and ready to resort to shuffling and evasion and attempts to fub

off a settlement. You promised is 11 new heaven and a few earth," shouted a miner'a delegate to the PRIME MINISTER when he met 600 of them in conference after they launched their strike madi.

violent methods to achieve their enda. Sometimes the ends are not quite disin terested. In the Labour movement the men at the top of the ladder maintain office by a tenure as precarious as that of a Prime Minister dependent upon a fcato. "Yes," retorted the Prime Minis turbulent and disaffected following. Thus, ter, but i never promised it by Mareh

will be closed for an additional là days, A Refreshing, Invigorating and while it was known that fears. SMILLIE 20th until and including the 4th June, 1918.

JARDINE, HATHESON à Co., LTD,

General Managers.. Hongkong, April 9th 1919.

1203

UNION INSURANCE BOCIETY OF

CANTON, LTD. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. ‚“ NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY FORTY-SIXTH YEARLY MEETING of the Society will bo busen Bailding, Hongkong, on THURS beld at Nos 3 sad DAY, MAY gero, 1919, at Noom for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statements of Ascount to 31st December, 1918, and of declaring Dividenda ste

of the Society. The TRANSFER BOOKS will be CLOSED from Ma 15th to May gand, both days inclusion,

By Order of the Board,

UH. P. BAY,

·Deputyeneral Manager. (36 Hongkong, May 9th," 1919.

THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE

COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

and THOMAS were both opposed to the recent threatened strike, having regard and Palatable Drink. Particularly the vitally urgent needs of the country to the present situation in Europe and

suited for Tennis, Shooting and

Bathing Parties.

Plats $1.20 Per Dožen.

Splits 70 Cts.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the A. S. WATSON & CO.,

FIFTIETH ORDINABY YEARLY

MEETING of the Company will be held at ita Head Office, Nos. 3 and 4 Queen's Build-1 ings, on THURSDAY, MAY 2ND -1918, at 150 par, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the

LIMITED.

Coupled with this demund furry quick settlement of what Labour desires is a very mischievous idea that national

to be eradicated, but it will take time. wealth is as exhaustless as the waters of

the Seven Sena. It is an idea that has

to re-start essential industries, they Mr. CLYNIS; who succeeded Lord RHONDDA were forced by pressure of circumstances as Food Controller and is one of the outstanding figures in the Labour world, to place themselves at the head of the said recently I would like to express strike or see themselves supplanted by frankly what I think is a delusion in rivals hungry for power. The popular the working-class mind. It is that, at

we could spend so many thousand mil impression that Labour leaders of the lions in a few years in the prosecution front-rank in England to-day, are mere of the war, we have unlimited financial "agitator" engaged in fomenting trouble means for meeting any kind of demand on the Enancial resources of the country.” as a means of livelihood is pure moon. He added that the workers ought to turn shine. It is "fortunate that, in view their attention to increased production of the future of Democracy in Great and thus increase the national wealth.

War profteering is another cause of Britain, the taunt is meaningless. We industrial unrest Deep down in the way "fortunate" advisedly; for, what hearts of the people there is bitter resent- eyer one's political or personal opiniona who took advantage of the nation's diffi ment at the shameless rapacity of those may be, it is certain that the accredited enltion and exploited the public in regard leaders of organised Labour to-day will to the necessaries of life. The cost of living standa 120 per cent. higher than have a large share in shaping the destinies it was In 1914, and wages have not of the country in the Labour Government advanced in a progressive ratio.

revolutionary agitator has not been alow of to-morrow.

teturn to account the popular feeling towards profiteers, whom he represents as class. With cunning adroitness he makes belonging to the predatory Capitalist the situation serve his sinister purposes.

The

That strike on a uational scale should have been threatened at this june ture before the Peace Treaty is signed and the world made safe for Wemo-

So much for some of the outstanding causes of the Labour troubles. In addi- cracy," was in the highest degree unpattion there are inside the Labour move riotic. It has been described as some†ment, forces which are working steadily"

to create friction in every direction thing in the nature of blackmail, and Without question, Socialism has gained an attempt to hold the country to ransom.enormously during the war, though it is

Statements of Account to 31st December, RATED WATER MANUFACTURERS | Yet, paradoxical as it seems, from first to be noted that Socialists have become 1918, and of declaring Dividenda, ecc.

The TRANSFEE BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from May 13th to May sad, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Boardy

C. EL. P. HAY, Deputy General Manager. Hongkong, May 9th, 1919.

1718

BRITISH TRADERS INSURANCE

COMPANY, LTD."

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

FIFTY-THIRD ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its Head Office, Nox 3 and 4, Queen's Buildings, Hongkong, on- THURS- |DAY, MAY 19ND, 1915, at 12.45 P.M., for the purposa of recent the Statements of the Beport of the Directors together. Account to 31st December, 1918, and of declaring dividends etc.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from May 19th to May 22nd, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board,

'Q. H. F. HAY, Deputy General Manager. Hongkong, May 9th, 1919.

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A. B. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.

to the 31st,

TEL 138

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DEATH.

JENNINGS-At the Military Hospital, Hongkong, on May 19th, HERBERT CROLL JENNINGS, beloved son of Sergt. Major Jennings, E.A.0.0., and Mra Jennings, aged 16 years. Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.15 p.m. to-day!

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HONGKONG OPTION: 101, Da Vaux Boao, C. London Office: 181, Flax Stammt, E.

to last the men who threatened to strike and also in respect of their ultimate aims, more and more divided in their dogmas

evidently saw nothing unpatriotic in Most of the Trade Union leaders are their conduct. The miners who demanded Socialists of sont, and, outwardly at any rate, professed believers in State or a six-hours day and 30 per cent increase Guild Socialism, whereby private em en current wages, regardless of the eceno ployers are to be replaced by Stato com mic consequences of such demands if tro, this end to be achieved by Parlia

mentary action. We saw this policy ad- granted, are of the same stuff as their vocated in connection with the recent 'mutes' who cheerfully served as soldiers strike threat, one of the avowed objecte of the Unions being the nationalisation for a shilling a day--and died for Eng of mines and railways. It is symptomatic land. This bed-rock fact has to be kept of the march of events and of the attitude of Parliament that the principle of some steadfastly in mind in trying to grupe form of national ownership of the mines our way through the dark forest of:

was embodied in the Bankey report of present-day Labour troubles in Great the Coal Commission, and it has been formally and publicly accepted by Britain. Obviously it must influence our the

Government. Then there thoughts in trying to arrive at a con- Socialista of the "KARL MARX sidered opinion. Why, then, was aplexion, while others again are frankly national strike planned? Why did the out for Communism, which is anether name for Bolshevism But the British Triple Alliance refuse to wait until working-man has no use for Bolshevism.. SOME CAUSES OF LABOUR Peace was concladed? No answer como has always hated political doctrin plete in itself can be given to these or Bolshevik element is at work it may be aires under any label. Although a certain UNREST IN. BRITAIN.

similar questions that suggest them regarded as negligible so long as its in- Taz general feeling throughout the selves, but, all the same, there are certain sidious methods are known and exposed in the Press. This poison in the body country at the outcome of the Govern factors which give the clue to what i politic is to be met with chiefly in the ment's negotiations with the Triple happening--pivotal facts that are dis South Wales coalfield and in the ship. Alliance (railwaymen, miners, and trans coverable in the welter of things class yards of the Clyde the hotbeds of trouble port workers) is "writes a Home Corfied rather vaguely as "Labour Unrest. suspicion that German gold is reapon- all through the war. There is more than respondent-one of profound relief. We In the first place, the object of those who sible for the particular manifestations of discontent in these areas, and pur readers,

The Baily Press.

Hongkong, MAY BOTH, 1912,

are

Com

of the Consulate oficer at Shangha, ade centre from which to foment disorder in India, will agree that the Germans are

in Great Britain. They certainly did not in the case of Ireland."

No doubt there will be strikes and time to come. They must not; however,

【OTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that there conscious of having narrowly escaped engineered the proposed strike is not with recollection of the use Germans made Chire Sliver Wars Cabinet, Tok ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH HALL, THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL ao industrial conflict of unparalleled economic only, but political. Perhaps it ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the gravity. For weeks while conferences were would be right to say it is mainly Compray (since its registent on) will be on FRIDAY, the 23rd day of MAY, 1919 miners representatives there were days political. However that may be, it would not likely to have overlooked possibilities held at the HosexONG HOTEL, Hongkong, proceeding between the Ministers and the at Noo, for the purpose of receiving the when it was touch-and-go whether the be contrary to human experience to find 3 o'clock to 6 o'clock.

the Report of the General

a population calmly settling down to with a Statement of Acagers together activities of the country would be sud-] ONTRIBUTIONS of any description December 1918

gratefully received. These may

"REGISTER OF SHARES of the denly arrested. If the strike had taken pesco conditions after such an upheaval rumours of strikes for some considerable be sent to the Church Hall on THURSDAY, Company will be CLOSED Lrom MONDAY, place, as planned, it would have been as that which has shaken Europe to its

Isth of May Monday, Proceeds in Aid of the Howlon Branch of days, 1919, both day, the 20th bitter and might have been protracted foundations. It took over 30 years

which

period no Transfer of Ebars In any event, the down tools threat from 1615 to 1848 to re-establish social 1787 can be

in the mines meant the closing of every order in England after the Napoleonic D. HUMPHREYE & SON,

factory and workshop in the land Coal wars. There was a period of transition General Managers. Hongkong, May 19th, 1918 01[748

is as the breath of life to modern marked by a demand for an extension of industry. Of course, shipping would political power, which found expression have been affected, nor could any house in the Reform Act of 1862, and which

A. G. DA ROCHA. AUCTIONEER, BURVEYOR AND GENERAL BROKEK,

Queen's Road Central, Telephone No 2831

TAVOURED with instructions from

The Concerned,--

F

will well by Public Auction, on TUESDAY, May 27th, 1918, at 1.30 pm,

ONE OF THE LARGEST AND OLDEST STOCKS OF CHINESE FROCKELAINS AND CURIOS EVER PLACED ON

- AN AUCTION FLOOR FOR SALY

MAY 2230

the Ministering Children's Lengua

SITUATION WANTED."

DORTUGUESE with several yours

the

during

mercantile experience, versed : “in Import, Export, Book-keeping and General Possesses A 1 testimonials. Ofice Work is open for engagement THE "STAR" FERRY. COMPANY, hold have failed to experience hardship despite that great concession, continued

Apply...

Bor Na, 754.

Cars of Daly Promí, Ofai-

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

Le time to sell by Public Auction,

LIMITED.

NOTICE TO BHAREHOLDERS

be taken seriously as an undiesh never spread of revolutionary notions of the Pression easily conveyed by highly con- densed cable messages or the perusal at leisure of the mails. For party papers naturally are coloured by the political outlook they represent, and although the opinions they express may honestly pre sent their point of view it is a view that opinion at the moment. It is subject to -refects, while seeking to guide, public modifications from day to day as fresh consequent upon the lack of fuel. On for many years afterwards. In the mean the Coal Commission is a case in point)

facts come to light (the evidence before: top of this there was the prospect of a time, the country was subjected to indrand new developments arise.

What complete, disorganisation of the railway trial disturbances, and to disorder such really matters in attempting to interpret the meaning of "Labour Unrest" is ten- IS HEBEBY GIVEN that the systemy of the country, and transport of NOTICE

TWENTY-FIRST ORDINARY every description That we have been the Chartist Riots. Similarly, it is to dency. That is an essential fact, and in ANNUAL MEETING of this Company saved from a disaster of this magnitude

be expected that England, after the world that connection no doubt can possibly

exist that the heart of the country i dwar, must undergo some corresponding sound. The task before the nation. held the Offow of Menari

MAY 2972, 1919, 86 11 30 4x, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the People did not lose their heads. Man of which the new forces of Democracy will to changed conditions, and to proceed Directors toge her with a Blatereat ofuked whether we had faced with unstrive to assert themselves. The attempt, with the great work of Reconstruction by Accounts to zwh April, 1918 der Bad

nests of evolution and not by revolution, The REGISTER OF SHARES of the daunted courage the des

deadly perils of

indeed, has already begun. A recognising, as the best intellects in Eng. Company will bECLOSED from FRIDAY, Armageddon, and emerged triumphant The mames were Rourel with damn'di land to day are doing, that, in the famous over a formidable foreign enemy, only iteration, as Falstad says, that we eating, Congress in 1882 c. The dogmas of the

zorda Abraham Lincoln used in addróma

5 dari Plates, Ette and White THE Undersigned has received intrao-Mason 09, Im on THFESDA & dainly due to the sanity of the nation transitional developments in the course people of avery-clear is to adaps well

Larga: Nariety of coloured and and Figures, etc, including Incense Barnock of Huang and Wing Dynastics, Peking

Crystal, Agate mid Jadestoso. aves, sod Ornamenta, etc, and a zumber of

Lacquered Screens, Fanels, Old Chimes Engravings and Kakewonor and a long line

Bundries.

Catalognes will be issued.

www--Cash on Delivery. Hongkong, May 20th, 1919.

On WEDNESDA 1

May 21st, 1915, at Noow, at his Balos Rooms,

* Buddell Street f

The Wreck of an 88% ORIYO MARU® as she now lies the Lema Islands

"TER18 :---CMB' on fall of the hazamen when viewed will be at panchiser's rikku

P. LAMMERT-

May 23rd, to:THURSDAY, May 29th, 1919.

1.3. By Opter of the Board of Directors,

BROWN

to succumb to the disruption of our to war to destroy, sutocracy, and create a quiet past are inadequate to the stormy

Still, there was this ugly | new-and-better world. England was took As our case is new so we murri

think snew and, "act:angu. We were be “ a land flowing with milk and boney.

escape history."

national li

Lact

'the miners' strike notic