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NOTICES

UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS

BEST

AND

MOST

DURABLE

IN

THE MARKET

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10,

NOTICES

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THE CHEAPEST

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IT

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LASTS

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Telephone 1209,

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HOTELS.

THE HONGKONG

GRILL ROOM.

HOTEL

AND

DODWELL & CO., LTD.,

General Managers.

Telephone No. 41.

Hongkong, July 14, 1914.

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OUR NTEMPORARIES.

South China Morning Post.

* Business in : Hongkong. We miss, of course, the German and Austrian lines which made Hongkong a port of call, also the vessels of one of the British lines which have been employed since the war on other than merchent service, but other ships are beginning to take their places and the freights carried by those vessels which have been able to "CeTry on" without a break are abnermally large and profitable. Hengkong hos indeed been wor derfally fortunate since hostilities brake out. Not a single hostile orciner has dered to approach the colony and not a ship has been

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SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. Grand Hotel de l'Europe, Singapore.

General Managers.

Hongkong, 16th August, 1910

-THE

LONDON DIRECTORY

MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS

(Published Annually). MR. LI HON FAN, & Chinese bien traders throughout the World, to graduate versed in litera communicate direct with English tare, has been a teacher to European officials and merchants

in each class of goods. Besides being a this Colony for over ten years completo commercial guide to London& He has a good method of train-its suburbs, the directory contains lists of ing: Europeans to pass in the

EXPORT MERCHANTS Chinese examination, and is possessed of a first rate certificate with the Goods they ship, and the Colonial a. Chinese teacher: He has and Foreign Markets they supply: also a good knowledge of Manda-

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Those who intend learning the arranged under the parts to which they Chhese language are requested gall and indicating the approximate to write c/o Hongkong Tele- raph office or direct to No. 14, Graham Street, lat floor, Hongkong, 29th Jan., 1912.

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of lending Manufacturers, Merchants etc., in the principal provincial towns & industrial centres of the United Kingdom. A copy of the current edition will be forwarded freight paid, on receipt of

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Under English Management.

H. R. WARINO,

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NEW MACAO HOTEL.

PRAYA GRANDE, MACAO,

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Penang Thanks to the strength of our defences and the vigilance, of the navy Hongkong has suffer ed comparatively little as the result of the war and the best way in which loyal Britishers can ahow their appreciation of the work so well done on their behalf is to abun the pessimist, carry on veel as for as possible and do all they can to inspire a feeling of confidence in the minds of our near neighbours, the Chinese, many of whom are unfortunately. too prone to look upon the black side of things at the least pro vocation.

Daily Pres.

The Press Bureau,

If one of the objects of the Press Burean is to prevent the British public from becoming "heady," then in this direction, at all evente, it is remarkably successful. Anything in the usture of a scare or food for abnormal elation has been so dexterously handled that people with temperaments which can be disastrously played upon have never been allowed to fire up with shouts of victory or to moan aloud at defeat. And at a time. of such strain and tension, tho literary leavening' of the nature now being carried out daily at the Press Burean officea cannot but be of service to the nation at large, Waiting for news is a proceeding which invariably jingles the nerves of the most cool-headed, but to, persons whe seem to be made up wholly of nerves it acts in the na'pre of a narcotio. They have nothing te feed them, pad, though perhaps very restless, have to remain quiet and harmless bath to themselves and to others. The danger comes when, following such a period of waiting and watching and, we have had to experience many such · blank perioda daring the progres of the war sozeational and fully "drossed" story either of or defeat is launched public already trembling with expectation.

victory or

upon.

A

China Yail.

German Art Destruction. The German Governor General of Brussels, we learn from ID article in the Literary Digest (New York) to hand, is much con- cerned about assuring the world that only in a casual inspection"

Telephone No. 1683 of the damage done at Louvain

RAMSEY & CO.

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by the invading Germans will it Beem much greater than the actuality. This statement of the worthy Von Der Goltz, of Turkish upon a report issued recently by a Army fame, is said to be based whose duty in stated body of men to have been the protecting of art treasures, alter Brussels and other Belgian towns had fallen into the hands of the Belgian

know that the Germans German vandals. It is good to to take of art treasures, cognizance civilised enough regarding which their troops have shown a deplorable lack of reverence while engaged in their mission of destruction. It appears that the report of the Commission traverses the ground passed over by the conquering forces, and a careful estimation of the eneding damage is attempted,

Printing & Bularging- v neki

July, 1918

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