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GENERAL NEWS. “

King Manoel's Work.

No one, not of our own kir, bar more strongly identified himself with the interests of England since the war began than. Our friend King Manoel, says the Globe. He has been particularly associated with the Rad Oros and it is stated that he is DOW deroting himself to hospital work, sad especially to the new ortho- pusdie” treatment of disabled soldiers, King Manoel will havé, peculiar sympathy with those poor fellows, since we believe that he has himself been araferer from an especially painful form of thematism, which, we hope, be has now entirely thrown cf.

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Now French Newspaper. A new daily paper, l' Informa tion de l'Extreme Orient, bas just made ita appearance in Tokyo, under the direction of Mr., Albert Maybon, This new organ, published half in French and bali in Japroose, aime at developing the political, econemical and in- tellectual relations between Japan and France. It is interesting to note remarks the Singapore Free Preta that the number of daily › newspapers_published in French

in the Far East amounts now to eleven, three in Tonkin, four in Saigon, one in Shanghai, one in Tientsin, one in Tokyo, not in cluding the weekly papers and scientific and literary reviews.

Germany's Dream.

"THE" HONGKONG TELEGRA

NOTICES,"

S. MOUTRE & Co., LTD.

PIANOS

From

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$10 Per MONTH.

TUNING AND REGULAR ATTENTION INCLUSIVE.

N. LAZARUS,

OPHTHALMIC OPTICIAN,

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THE ONLY

EUROPEAN OPTICIAN

IN THE COLONY.

DOCTORS' PRESCRIPTIONS ACCURATELY FILLED.

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NOTE THE ADDRESS,

Canon Parfit, who was living at Beirut when the war brol e out, and who began to take an interest in German planetwenty years ago, when living in Mesopotamia, has girsa a most interesting account of a discovery he made in a house near London but two years since. It had been cooupied by a Ger- mso, whom the authorities had promptly interned. In one of the rooms Canon Parfit found « globe map, made in Berlin at least fifteen years before,on which was abowo, in clearly marked lines, all the completed and pro- jected railways by which Germany hoped to gain a new empire. One railway went right to the Persisu Gulfone through Persia and Balu- chistan to Bombay and Madras, Beyond this there ware to be

The German Socialist Press. steamship lines to Australia. It

A telegram from Berlin to the that a is that dream which has prompted Cologne Gas la states the now Gemin blow in the Sccialist meeting, held in the Balkans. They cannot relinquish Teltow-Beskow Charlottenburg it without a fost straggle district, adopted a motion declar- Exchange.

ing that ae the Socialist Vorwante was now a Government organ, it Lady Catherine Berkeley, Foxas vecesary to create a new

Bocialist revipsper. A resolu-i cots, Shipston-on-Stour, Worces- ter, write:"I have just received on was passed requesting the

The Sisters of Charity at Chusan,

cone quent

GENERAL NEWS.›

OPHTHALMIC OPTICIAN 24, QUEEN'S ROAD GENERAL.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

GEO. P. LAMMERT.

AUCTIONEER. SHARE & GENERAL BROKER, THE Undersigned has received instructions to sell by Public Auction on MONDAY, the 4th December,

1916,

commencing at 2.30 p.m. at No. 21, Conduit Road

A Large Quantity of Valuable

Household Furniture Comprising:

Teak hatstand, tapestry cover-

morocco covered Chesterfield

Teak sideboard with bevelled

mirror, extension dining table & chairs, dinner waggon, tes tables, ice chest, dinner & dessert ser Vices, cutlery & glassware, etc.,

a very distressing account from editorial at of Vorwaerts to ed couches, armchairs & chairs, the Content of the Sisters of discontinue work and to make Charity at Chusan, Chins, of the preparations for starting a new couch, overmantels, music cabi- grest poverty to which they are organ. The resolution also urged net, brass fenders, mantle clocks, reduced and the

that the party contributions to Oil paintings, pictures, vases, difficulty they have in maintain. Vorwaerts should be stopped. ornaments, etc., etc.,

The latter part of the resolution teobnical ing their

Lobooks, orphanage, and other good works. adopted by a two-thirds The stress of the war which is majority. devastating the West is also falt acutely in the East, and though Tianed Provisions of the Straits. the Sisters and the little workers There is in the Singapore con- Double brass and brass mount- in the technical schools are simin-rular district a larga demand for ed iron bedsteads, double and ing every nerve to make ende canned provisions and fróis of single wardrobes with bevelled mest, they are actually in wapt of all kinds, reperis the U.S. Consul mirrors, dressing tables chest of the necessaries of life. Ohasan Mr. Harry Campbell. & growing|drawers, washatanda, toilst in an island which does not at any demand is appearing among the crockery, carpets, ruga, curtains, time produce enough to support Chinese and natives for oanged etc, etc. its teeming population. This year fish, especially salmon. The the rice crop has failed, and greas Government statistics indicate Ware privation stares the community that appróximasly $5,700,000 I Grand Piano by C. Bech-

etc,

Also

A Quantity of Blackwood

1 Victrols with Cabinet, & Records.

1 Canteen Set by "Mappin and Webb."

On viewfrom Sunday the 3rd... December 1916.

in the face. Price have risen worth of dry and salted fish, warn stein." enormously, while the sale of the imported into the Straits Settle 1 Cottage Piano, work done in the technical schools ) mente during 1915. These figures by which it was hoped the are given as an indication of the institution would become self-consumption of fab, the demand supporting is greatly reduced, for canned fish being, of course, It is impossible to estimate the only, a umsit proportion of the good which the devotion and self- total. A repræentative bf an sacrificing lives of the Bistara American împoṛting and export- socomplish in that far-distant ing concern nois a good oppor mission, where out off from home tanity for the sale of American and kindred, they labour unceas-mills, if shipping facilities are ingly for the redemption of sowie, available, on account of shortage On their behalf I shall feel deeply of supplies from Europe. There we grateful, for any donation, how is fair market for dried and sver small, to stava'cff the famine, preserved frais, “anticipated this winter."

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THERAPION

Catalogus will be issued. Terms-Cash on delivery.

GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.

KEROSENE OIL. ⠀ guarantee all Eerosene oil sold by us to be pure and unadulterated.

Present price.--

**WHITE ROSE " $5,40 per caso ex store, "COMET."

$5.20 per case ex store,

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168 Des Voeux Road Central

2 blocks West of Cant, Market.

THRU BÆRUČKI: ALL BRITISH POLZİSHİ

KWONG YUEN,

“SATURDAY”

Prepaid Advertisements.

ONE CENT PER WORD

FOR EACH INSERTION.

TO BE LET.

WANTED.

TO LET-First Class shop in WANTED-A second band

Chater Road next Moutrier,

VICTOR GRAMOPHONE Lane at rear. Apply Clark & Co in good condition. Write to A. B.

c/o Hongkong Telegraph."

TO BE LET at the Pear,

furnished, 3 Stewart Terrace. WANTED-EUROPEAN Apply -H. E. Pollock, Prince's

ASSISTANT for Iccal Buildings.

Shipping Ozice, previous experi- ence essentiel-Apply Box No. 1245,** Hongkong Telegraph.”

TO LET From 1st May,

1916, Offices, 2nd Floor, St. George's Building. Apply to

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

WANTED two MARINE EN-

GINEERS with shop ex- perience to act as workshop TO LET-Furnished Rooms, former, also a Foreman Marine

with or without Board:. Bath

Boilermaker and a Foreman room to each Room. Electricity Ship Plater to take up duties in throughout. Apply Palace Hotel, Shanghai-address all ocmmuni- Kowloon.

cations to 2.Y.X. The Tele-

TO LET From 1st November

next, flats in "Ewo Mess,"

No. 8 the Peak. Apply Property Office, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.

|graph."

WANTED. .Typewriting: Manuscript of every kind accurately and neatly typed at short notice by Englishrdan. Terms 30 cents per folio. Com- TO BE LET.-European House mercial correspondence in Eng-

lish No. 19, and Ground Floor of

for Chinese - business No. 20, Kennedy Road, with "r"

gentlemen a speciality. Write bath rooms, detached kitchen) 'Despatch," Hongkong Tele- and servant quarters, also elec Braph." tric lights &c., complete. Apply

'Phone No. 906 or 551, or on premises.

LOST.

TO BE

LET-Four-roomed LOST.-Between Ice House houses in Gordon Terrace

Street, and Gande, Price

Tree Castles

Cigarette

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The secret of success

in business is to

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CASTLES Cigarettes have been making friends

for years and keeping

them.

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.

Have Just Received their Xmas Consignment of

INDOOR

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MECHANICAL RACE' GAMES. SANDOWN ROULETTE, PUFF BILLIARDS, ASCOT, MANIFESTO &{MINORU RACE GAMES, PING-PONC, JIC-SAW PUZZLES, BOMBARDO,

THE "CHALLENGER

IN-DOOR GOLF GAME. DESIGNED FOR THE GOLFER'S HOME; FITTED WITH BUNKERS, TEEING GROUNDS, ETC. DRAUGHTS, CHESS, DOMINOES, HALMA, LUDO, ETC.

and Salisbury Avenue, Ko-Queen's Read Gentleman's LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.

loon.

Gold Wrist Watch. Finder will be

Hongkong Telegraph,"

TO LET OR FOR SALE-Rewarded on returning, it to Kowloon Marine Lot 48. with wharf. area 58,000 sq. f. suitable for coal storage or erection of godowns.

Apply to:- HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LTD,

Alexandra Buildir gs.

TO BE LET.-Ofices at 3, Con-

naught Road, C. Offices in King's & York Buildings.

Conduit Road.

Houses in Clifton Gardens,

Housse in Broadwood & More- ton Terraces.

No. 21, Wong Nel Chong Road. Houses on Shameen, Canton, Apply to:-

THE HONGKONG LAND IN-

VESTMENT & AGENCY

Co., Lid.

FOR SALE.

FOR SALE OR CHARTER.

THE following fast and

powerful Launches at moder- ate rates:-

"TINA-Iength 75 Feet.

Beam 15 Dept. 8. Spied 11 Knots. "TINSHUN" Length 80 Feet. (new) Beam 14 ft. 8 in. Depth 8 ft. 3 in. Fpeed 104 Kuots. For Price and full particulara please apply to:-Mr. CHENG PING, 9, Glenealy Road, or 57, Jervoin Street. Kwong Yuen.

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NOTICES.

ROSENSTOCK'S 1917 DIRECTORY

and

Commercial Gazetteer of China and Manila

will contain complete Directory of Firms and Personnel, the principal Chinese Firms, Government and Municipal Omciais. Con- sulates, Public and Private Schools, Missions and Members, Clubs and other Associations and an alphabetical list of Foreign Residents]

ΑΙΜΟΣ. Antung, Canton.

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Changchun, Changsha, Chefoo, Chiar- kiang, Chinwangtao, Chungking, Dairen, Bangchow, Hankow. Har bin, Hongkong, Ichang, Kinklang, Langkow, Macao, Manila, Mouk- den, Nankog. Newchwang, Ningpo, Peking, Port Arthur, Shanghai, Bhael, Soochow, Tientsin, Tongku, Tsinanfu, Tsingtan, Tochow, Wel- haiwel, Wenchow, Wabu,

together with

a Trade Directory at the Principal Centres, a Commercial Gazet tear of China and an Abridged History and General Trade Report of Chins and a Description and Trade Report of each City.

Information of all Firms, Cluba, Associations, ste, published

Maak Tauras on Applosion to BERWER 4,00, Sals Agrass. Hongkong Hotel Buddie

REPAIRS! REPAIRS!! REPAIRS!!!

CHRONOMETERS, CHRONOGRAPHS, REPEATERS. ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF HIGH GRADE WATCHES. ·. CLOCKS & INSTRUMENTS CLEANED & REPAIRED

AN ENGLISH WATCHMAKER.

- ALL WORK DONE OF THE PREMISES,

JAMES STEER

PRACTICAL CHRONOMETER AND WATCH KAKAR. (LATE OF CHE I DAUFF A-003

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Telaphone Mo, 177 1⁄2 K

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EXHIBITION and Sale of Oil Paintings, executed by E. BELSITO, Esq, in aid of war Charities, under the distinguished Patronage of LADY MAY, at the City Hall, from 9 am to 5 pm"

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