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PEEK,

THE "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1913.

FREAN & CO.'S

CELEBRATED

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THE

CHINA EXPRESS CO.

Have Connections with the principal Express "and Forwarding Agencles throughout GREAT BRITAIN, THE COLONIES,

AMERICA and the CONTINENT 01 EUROPE..

For the better security of parcels Lahreden's Patent Fasteners are employed on all cases forwarded by us. PACKING AND WAREHOUSING,

1. Duddail Street.

BISCUITS.

BAGGAGE STORED or TRANSHIPPED. Telephone No. 668. CHINA EXPRESS CO.

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AND OTHER LEADING GROCERS.

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BEAR BRAND

MILK.

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SOLE AGENTS.

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TEL. No. 197.

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Notices

A Competent Optical Firm

IS A PUBLIC NECESS TY

** HIT OR MISS" methods will not do where sight is concerned.

Buying glasses without compotent advice is

wrong.

WE USE the latest scientific methods known to the optical profession in testing the sight, thus insuring correct glasses.

SPECIAL LENSES are manufactured on the premises from the rough optical glass displayed in our window. We are always pleased to show you through our work-shop. The various processes the glass must go through before it is finally placed before your eyes us a finished lene, are interesting and instructive.

SEB US AND YOU

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& Co.

CLARK 81

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ORK BLOGS..

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CHATER

HONGKONG

OUR CONTEMPORARIES

China Mat.

Americanization of English. Especially in London are the raus Atlantio strangera in evi- lence, and there the American flag flies as if over a conquered aity. In fact.

To be in London now is to have the chance of focussing the entire American Commonwealth. You find its citizens sitting in the atalla at the opera and the theatre; Auttering through the best hotels and restaurants; monopolizing the Bloomsbary boarding-houses; promenading the Row indefati gably on the off-chance of snap-

hotting the King and Queen; overrunning the coacher and the motor-buses; 'doing all the sights, Baedeker in hand; taking, in a word, all London, and most of England, ander their artless | patonage.

"And London, you may be sure, lays itself out for them. It seems to be almost a British axiom

pooket lies through his or her

SOLIGNUM A30 ls the bed preservative of wood from decay dry i wind verain. te is easily uped, has great

covering power, and la additio's to its preserving pauparties nukes a wok artlapis pain that the road to an American's

SOLIGNUM 15 DEATH TO THE WHITE AST,

wooowouk, whether inside or out,

patriotism. The Stars and Strpes

MADE IN SEVERAL SHADES OF BROWN, GREEN & RED.

The whore 01 the apperstructural woodwork of the new Star Ferry Ping Hongk*****" accordingly floats. temptingly tread with lig

5,0 LE

AGENTS

HÀNG

KONO,

from all the largest shops, prices are marked in American as well ae English money, sales are adve-

CANTONrtised specially for the conven-

ience of American visitors.

ANU

So Cri

CHINA

SIEMSSEN & Co.. (Machinery Dept.) Hongkong & Canton.

SPARKLING

in

South China Morning Post.

Langkat Output. The directors have assured the shareholders that sufficient money is available to carry on the. necessary drilling work and pros pecting for some time to come and that there is no need for anxiety, on that point, especially so long as the company is able to produce enough oil to pay cur- rent expenses. The expenses amounted last year to Tle. 702,-

DEVONSHIRE 018.85 and the amount distribut-

CHAMPAGNE CIDER

ed in dividends and bonus to shareholders was $1,125,000, The average output of last year was of course considerably more than the average of the present year so far as gone but on the other hand the shareholders have already forfeited one quarter's

quart and pint bottles. dividend and may posibly forfeit

Samples on Application

to

another so that matters are pretty well evened up as far as the com pany itself is concerned until the results of the new boring are ob- tained in five or six months from now. If any ray of hope is to be gleaned from the present un fortunate situation it is in the statement of direptors that the prospects of finding oil at the deep level are quite hopeful and

Caldbeck, MacGregor & Co. that they are perfectly satisfied

SAN

(ESTABLISHED 1864.) |--

MIGUEL

DRAUGHT

BEER.

ALWAYS HAVE ONE

AT ELEVEN.

with the work and ability of the technical staff on the estate.

Daily Tra

National Service.

But in view of the strenuous efforts which are being made to increase the strength of the great Continental forces, constituting as they do a growing menace to our national security, something will need to be done to bring the defensive forces of the United Kingdom up to the standard deemed to be reasonable. The question is one which forces itself on public attention with growing | insistence, and unless there is an abatement of militarism in Európe, compulsory service is bound to come in Great Britain, We have seen "traditions" go by the 'board "in the case of the enactment of compulsory Insur ance, and we have in the Colonies men of the British race nurtured in all ite "traditions of freedom," proclaiming by their example the fact that there is nothing incon-

MICHAEL & CO. Agents, sistent with the honour of a fres

man in giving, ander compulsion |some portion of his time to military training to enable him the better to discharge hi patriotic daty of defending his country, if called upon to do so,

Telephone 375.

H. HAYNES, Manager.

"Hongkong, in Ang., 1912.

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Telephone 1463.

ART

PHOTOGRAPHER

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HONGKONG.

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The Peak,

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HANAGER,

Carte or Table D'Hote

Wines & Liqueur of the Res