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THE HONGKONG DAILY
THORNYCROFT
JOHN J. THORNYCROFT & Co., In
SHIPBUILDER ÄNGINEERS,
LONDON, SOUTH/
THAMPTON
FA
or AND BLINGSTOKE.
FUNAZID
Shanghai Office: 65, Szechnen Road.
MARINE MOTORS, AND MOTOR BOLTS.
LIGHTING MOTOR
AND PUMPING SETS. SHALLOW DRAFT ST
STEAMERS
A
THORNÝCROFT OIL FUEL SYSTEM.
Ma
*agine to Baray's
Commercial, High-speed and Pleasure Craft.
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THORNYCROFT WATER-TUBE BOILERS. THORNYCROFT MOTOR VEHICLES.
Our Motor Engineer: end,.our, Naval Architect, both Thornycroft. "experts," now resident in Shanghai will give attention to all inquiri
Early deliveries can be made of 15-b.bp, 30-bhp, 45-b.hip., and 70-b.b.p. Karosens Marine Engines.
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R. H. ROXBURGH,
Manager for China
[1553
"MELACHRINO
(Egyptian Cigarettes)
FOR
Famous, the world over
QUALITY.
Prices for 100's tias:
No. 4
$3.75 No. 9 --
$2.25
No. 5
3.25. No *0*.
5.50
No. 8
2.25 Imperiales
3.50
We also recommend
SUNSET. LIMITED 888 and
Beret 145
ROB ROY Virginia Cigarettes
A fine and delightful
smoke; none nicer.
TCIA
TABAQUERIA FILIPINA,
10, DES
VEUX ROAD, C.
IMPORTANT NOTICE..
Dietetics
IN Manufactures the most Important Point in Iprovement, and
Cleanliness. Sciascoalwayndveik jön-thème Maxinas deten Groundnut or Fesqut-Oil courbe used as a substituto jo Olive O Batter or Lard, but when Blighty Diet wijkbustoshoalthing I
In Chins, by the Onliary Methods of Extraction, Dirt and Dust are not guarded againan: "Our Method abu pagrostadvance By the use of New Machinery and New Methods Bergpulous Cleanlinessla Asured klupa a day dark
Our Machinery during the Process Filters the Oil while our Factory is Free from Dust. Our Oil in Clear, Swook, and Fragrant; and Comparen most favourably with other Oils used for Callakey púrphide's theže ti thế résidan. -
Prices dre moderate so as to induce new busine
Analysis is always given before Shipment to Foreign Countries.
Thi Solo
NAM CHAU OIL FACTORY, Ofice No. 27, "Unešní's "Rbad
Road Cant HONGKONG torps Nhija: Kwei Lin Street, BAMSHUIPO. of this concern belongs entirely to a Chinese Citizen.
OUR FAMOUS MERCHANT
SAILORS.
GLORIOUS WAR RECORD. The 20th, anal port of the Impe
Marchant Service Guild, recently, jaund in Liverpool, show that 14,000
and men of the British Mercantile Marine gave up their lives for their country in the war.
There are 1,319 names on the honour t for-bravery," "coolness, and intrepidity in time of danger at sea and on shore. At the Dead of the list of decorated-falficers. in the Boyal Naval Reserve "lizg stands the name of Lieutenant marold. Autan, D.C., who won the Victoria Croat, and the head of the long bravery list is Cap÷| tain Frink H. Claret, commander of the Atlantic transport linarumahaka, whose ship was hit by two torpedown and. went down in less than four minutel in September, 1917, off the youth-west coast of Ireland In this dimister 56 ok the officers and crow were drowned.
CAPTAIN CLARET 1 HRBOIM
FRIDAY, DECAMBER 19Tя, 1918.
HONGKONG HOTEL. SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
CHRISTMAS NEW YEAR
1919,
DINNER DANCES will be held on the following nights during CHRISTMAS WEEK
the OHRISTMAS EVE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER HTEL.
“ÖHRISTMAS NIGHT, **/ THURSDAY, DECEMBER STE ...M [BOXING?NIGHT,
FRIDAY, DECEMBER SETT,
SAND JUNE PESA/NEW YEARS EVE, ATAU WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER aler The Popular Entertainers THE MISSES ADDEEN AND DORIS WOODS, il appear in the above CHRISTMAS DANCER
Special Table d'Hote Menas will be provided in t
in the GRILL RO Has $150 per par head
d Patrons are advised to book yearly a5 sccommodation is limited. All tables pre- engaged and not cancelled by
The sitation roads: For extraordin-and in the MAIN DINING ROOM ary heroism and presence of mind when his ship was sunk by the enemy.””
Captain Claret saved 11 of his firemen
and sailors who were helpless in the water of the day, to which such reservation
by swimming with them to a liferaft The survivors presented to him, a, marble clock as a token of their appreciation of bis gallant conduct.
The 1,519 decorations awarded to the merchant service include Bix Pictoria Crosses, 80 Distinguished Service Orders, 87 Orders of the British Empire, 410 Dis- tinguished Service" Grossen, 18 bars to the D.8.0., 29 swards from the French Gor-
apply will be charged for, whether octhided or not.
Bookings may be made at the TEL MAIN OFFICE
J. H. TAGGARTY Manager.
(less
ernment, 363 mentioned in despatches, 70 CHRISTMAS GIFTS commended for servicos, af: 257 decorations
The merchantile marine not only d people of the allied nations during the war, but supplied the premies and the navies with guns and ammunition. addition, the big liners like the Olympia, Ballic, Vacuanio, and Caronia, carried thousands of fons of oil fuel for the Bri tish Navy,
Thirteen thousand officers of the mat- chant service, were serving, duzing the war in the navy, taken from the Royal Naval Reserve, and there were 78,000 fre men and sailors, 20,000 men in the Gov ernment transports, and 36,600 conktwise sailors and fremen in the trawlers which were doing duty as mine sweepers and" submarine chasers.
The
BRITISH TONNAGE LOSSES.
report states that the official figures show that thể total British gross tonnage sunk by the enemy amounted to 6,031,898, and the gain in the way of new construcja tion, tonnage purchased abroad, and
tonnage captured was 0,588 210.
019 which is nearly double, the
the net loss of British toandro
net loga of the other world tonnage.
So far on the list of honours, only one knighthood has been awarded to the Buit tish Mercantile Marine, and the redhian was Captain Bertram Fox Hayes D.8.0. of the White Star liner Olympic, who sock two submarines off Portamouth son May 12th, 1918, and carried nearly 300,000
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troops across the Atlantic and to Mudrose Boule in the Mediteranéen, without losing a man, albough, the liner had some marvel Icasly narrow escapes, as the German commanders were making special efforts to sink ber.
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BERLIN, October Särdalt Count von Bernstorff, who has been called before the committee of the Ger man Assembly, which is carrying on an investigation to fir the responsibility for the starting of the war, testified that be always knew that the adoption of pan- restricted submarine warfars wód d3 mánn the losing of the war by Germany. He Was a consistent opponent, he said, of all, contemplated campaigns of frightful; | ness and ind contently urged the sdop- tion of the offer of mediation made by ¦
Bernstorf said that the British Ccom-c fiscated and deciphered many table-i grams to and from America In this way, he believed, the--note- sent by Foreign Secretary Zimmerman to the German minister at the City of Mexico, suggesting a Japanese Mexican-German Alliance against the United States, had been scopred.
COUNTRY. HETTLING, DOWN, *****
The disquieting symptoms among the Gërman population «are now.. gradu kindppearing and the countrý ze settling. back to something approaching the
Shazia The strikes are collap to the firm attitude assumed
alho, prindpal causes of the s
of the subsiden the Sportscan unrest are 6-facti-that- the labourers have commenced to realice, that extreme Bogialism will only further ruin the country that the difficpl-!| stics of living, are -being » made, josing, to the removal of – the. Salliert
at low price of food stalls imported blockade and the sala by the Govezumsur
the United States. The adoption of fe contract system for workman
to
helping making the employers
payment by hour pla diligent i Berlin under
The workmanson'
railway, havo organized and have
themselves against “#striks ptoj pagandas, declaring themselves in favour of moderate arrangements whereby," the workshops many, be kept open despite the
trike on the line itself.
The decrease in the disquieting labour symptoms, the confiscation: of soms and the extension of the police forces are all belping to restore order in Germany.
Everything for the Motorist”
Motor Car Accessories
Goodyear Tyres
Sold by.
ALEX ROSS & CO.
26, De Youz Road Central.
MOTOR DEPARTMENT.
• Distributors -for
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We stock Spare Farts also carry a complete line of Auto-Accessories and, Motorboat Fittings.
Storage.
Motor A
Pande
Repairs of all descriptions under European supervision.
„Re-painting; akpeciality-stor
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No. 7, Russell St.
Call at our Motor Garage».
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A self contained neat and compact lighting plant of KW.32 volts with go A. H. Batteries or 180 A.-H Batteries.
Starts by pressing a button and stops automatically lyri
Works entirely on KEROSENE - and a demonstration can be showitát anytime at the Offices of the Sole Agents for China and Indo-China.
UNION ENGINEERING CO. LTD.. Ground Floor, 13. Chater Road
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