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Brown Brand

SON'S

OLD

BROWN BRANDY

E

QUALITY.

25 YEARS IN WODD.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.,

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

THE HONGKCING

Troupions China.

·DAY

DAY.

China would appost- to-ånd a very peculiar delight in strife and in squabbling, and we fear that

PUT NOT YOUR TRUST IN the collapse of the Monarchist MONEY, BUT PUT YOUR MONEY movement is only likely to be I TRUST. followed by bickerings batweOD thors elements of political and. military life which for all too

Tosmorrow's Anniversary, To marrow “is, the anniversaTY

The Dollar.

Kallan Dirtput.

Couldn't Explain.

JULY 13, 1917.

INDO-CHINA 5, N. 60, In the coures of the same," Mr. TO-DAY'S HISCELLANY

Action Regarding.... Transfer of Shares,

In the Chancery Division of

respect to these absres.

| Justice Eva mid-en

In the month of March, 1916. the respondent, Mr. Cyril Qawald John Hopkinson, sold to Messrs.

Brports:indianta anys the New

| Mortimer, Harley & Co., Ltd., in Fork Evening Food that, in the whose employ he then was sa matter of the Palestinian Jawa, general manager, 930 fully paid Germany has’again, as in the case deferred ordinary shirea of £5 of the Armeniana, chosen the path short a period of time present of the death of ex-President the High Court of Justice, Mr. China Steam Navigation Co., humanity to expedienos. There sach in the capital of the Indo- of least recïetancu, and morifced ed a solid front, forgetting Kruger (1904).

Justice Ers beard a summons on Ltd., for sum amounting in all seems to have been only a 'isable their diffrances in á unity

May 17 determine whether 60 218,541 17. 6d. Of those and ineffective attempt to protect which of itself spelt sucosis, for the immediate obj ot

55 deferred shares in the Indo-shares, 870 were transferred to the unfortunate Jown of Byria. is The opening rate of the dollar Chias Steam Navigation Co the purchasers or their nominees, Germany was bound to defend hand. China's trouble is that, on demand to-dar

Ltd., should be entered on the bus in respect of the remaining them by the terms of her agreement in groping for desirable changes, 2. 7.11/161. The closing rata

company's register in the name 60, all they received was the with the German Zonists who the various parties ash their will be found on Page 1.

of Mr. Frank Ernest Green, of certificate and a transfer in blank demanded seenzances of protection schemes to the point of bitter op-

85. Barleigh-road.. Eofield, executed by the vendor, po-ition to each other, and the

from the Imperial Government result is that whoever comissout on The total output of the Keilan Middlesex, or in the name of Me.

Cyril Oswald John Hopkinson, The Company applice to the when Turkey first joined the top secures the most shadowy Mining Alministration's minee Tha Lodge, St. Catherine's, Guild Court under Sab-Section (i) of Central Powers. Jewish immigra measure of sathority and finds it for the week/ending June 30, impossible to carry cat sny con- amounted to 81,647 tons and the ford, Surrey. Each of these Section 32 to rectify the register tion into Palestine under German stractive reforms. And so the during the period to 65,477 gentlemen claims to be entitled by re-inserting therein the name suspices had been, for more than so have his name registered in which was improperly struck out decade, an integral part of the process goes on repeating itself into 18.

of, and is now without suficient Teatonic Near Eastern policy, and definitely, until the world tires of

cause omitted from, the register, the eurences seked for wäre. the internal apheavala which char A Chiness was found, walking The summons was issued by and on such application the Court actually given. During the first acterise the political life of China, in Wanchai early this morning the steamship company, who has power under Sub Section 3 to 10 years of the war, Germany In the Sath the situation in com carrying a large piece of iron, asked that notwithstanding the decide any question relating to backed by America, managed to plicated by the troubles which which he said he found on the claim of Mr. Hopkinson to be the the title of any person who is a hold Djamal Paabe, the Turkish are being created owing to the Prays. He was acable to give owner of the shares, the company party to the application to have Governor of Syrie, in check by presence of the Yunnan troops, any better explanation, and be should be authorised to rectify the his asme entered or omitted from frequent and vigorous repre- who are glamouring for arrears of was charged before Mr.J.B. Wood register by making euch alters the register, I point this out be sentations to the Porte. Now, American Ambassador rate which pay, in the absence of which they this morning with unlawful pre- tions as might be necessary for cause cas objection raised on Mr the

goos and American

dead. games and addresses with Are said to be terrorising the mision. Inspector Sim asked for the purpose of restoring the name Hopkinson's behalf was that in is

-Meanwhile, Çmunications addressed to the Editår, not necessarily for / Populace and laying their hande s remand for the purpose of get-of Mr. Green as owner of the view of the sttitude adopted by the influence

shares. It appeared that prior to on anything which comes theirting the iron identified.

the date of transfer of the shares Company in treating Mr. Green Germany alone, confronted with way. This is the sort of thing

as the registered bolder there a choice between the lives of one All communications intended for publication should be addressed which makes one almost dea "As soon as he saw me, his Mr. Hopkinson was the registered were no grounde for any applica hundred and fifty thousand Jews pair of Chios, The Tukwan face tarned paler and he attempt-holder, Is May last a transfer sina under, the section by the and the risk of jeopardising her of Cinton is stated to have si to run away," said a Chinees dated April 7, 1916, was lodged at Company or Mr. Green, and that Turkish alliance, solve the pro issued an order to thee Barents Officer to Mr. J. B. the company'affer, whereby the in the absence of an application blem exactly as she did that of troops to balt their Wood, at the Police Court this shares were expressed to be trane by Mr. Hopkinson there was the eight hundred thousand Arm- way to Canton until the money morning, when he was giving ferred by Mr. Hopkinson to Mr. due them can be paid, but inse evidence against a Chiness who Green for the nominal sum of 10e, nothing to discuss, and the sam- enians. German victory dem considerations. "It in the arAWOR missed. mach as the Yanpan officers are was found to have half, s. isel of The usual notices was sent by the mons ought therefore to be disande the sacrifice of all humane Bat in my opinion there is Germany gave in Belgium, in the said to be powerless, it will be opiam, not Government cpiam, company to Mr. Hopkinson, in interesting to see what happens. in his possession at Star Ferry forming him of the transfer, and nothing in this objection. The submarine and Zeppelin warfare. Anyhow, astil Chins can repier. His Worship fined the man he replied saking that the transfer short and conclusive answer to It seems to be the answer the is organise her Army, instil a little 350, or one month's hard labour, might not be registered without the objation is this: that the giving the hard-pressed Jews of wholesome discipline into her

farther notion to him. The com- section is brought into operation Palestine. Rough on the Purchaser. soldiers and the varions Provin-

pany sesented, and notified Kr.

Telephone No. 616.

Correspondents are requested to observe the forward, their requires them to

publication, but as an evidence of their bona fides.

A

to the Editor.

Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager.

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

Telephone: No.-1

Western Union.

A.B.C., 5th edition. Office address: 11, Ioe House St.

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1917.

A BRIGHTENING QUILOOK,

OR:

cial Governments secure a grip of the situation, it is to be feared that trouble and unreat will con- When will the strong tique man arise in China?

American's Part.

Unfortunate Paleness.

charged before Mr. Dyer Ball, been taken. Very shortly after by an improper entry in, or A Chinese shopkeeper was Gresa of the objection which had soon se there is a person alleg. ing himself to be aggrieved the Police Chart this morning, by wards, the company received a omission from, the register, and Inspector Terrett, for having letter from Menors. Mortimer, therefore it is open to the person

Some things are worse than sales operating against the par- Harley and Co., Ltd., by whom the aggrieved, or to the Company, demands the latest broadside from war. Ons of them is a universal Language. "How dw yw spel?" chaser. Inspector Terrett asid that the Foles had a basket transfer had been lodged, asking or to say member of the Com for the return of all documenta attached, which had strips of iron forwarded by them in the mistrer, the section. Mr. Bopkinson had can recover breath to reply. "Not pany, to come to the Court under Marietta, U. S. A., and before we It will be recalled that when, fixed underneath. The scales and Mr. Hopkinson was notified

that way. After careful consideration, the ware eighteen per cent, against of the request. Nothing farther

"it orders as to taken up the position of

în at, air, fare, there, Thus: xt, Uited States determined to enter the parchaser. Defendant said

person aggrieved the wir and fight for the cause of he allowed eight taele for the appears to have been done for weeks before the summons was ar, far, dhar." In an attempt to some time, until by an overnight issned and in these circumstances secspe from his terror, we fall D-mceracy, the Germans profess basket, but it was found that by in July, das to changes in the I have no doubt that the applica into the horror of “Use q in sing, ed to be indifferent, on the ground so doing he was defreading him London staff of the steamship tion is properly made and that I ink, coquar, Thor: sy kq, that before the Americans could be aslf of one tael. A fine cf $10

company, the transfer, which bed have jurisdiction to determine the keqr." Across the page we ses Prezydent Legko's Spite st they (the Germans) would be able prisonment.

Was passed through, and the the enmmons.

the

The news container in yesterday's telegrams conteraing the of mach use as a fighting force was imposed, or three weeks' im I been retained by the company rights of the respondents upon Getysburg." This has a vaguely

Far Eastern Contributions.

Nottall, of

and the

perye from

renewal of the Russian ffensive, with met fruitful reenite, and of the crisis which that development is creating both in Germany and to force a decision by means of

name of Mr. Green was entered. The fact that, ae between the familiar look, and the opening in Austria, in the ebeeriest information which we have had for many their submarine cuspaigo. Io Further large contributions on the register as bolder of the Indo-Chins Steam Navigation lines resemble something we have a werk past, Whatever may be the internal situation in Russia, tuia, as in many of their predic. from the Far East are announced shares in place of the name of Co., Ltd., and Mr. Green, the seen beforeepmewhere: "Foorskoor there can now be no doubting that a very considerable part of the tione, the enemy has found that in the latest list of subscriptions Mr. Bopkinson. Then the com- former could properly have re- and seva virs agon, own fodhes Army is oon-umed with a barning desire to trounce the enemy in the realisation has not quite come to the Red Cross Fand, says, the pany's correspondence with

brast foorth upon dhye kontynent fused to register the transfer 20 the field of battle, and that it has not merely the will, but sleo the up to the expectation. The L. & G. Express to band. There Mr. Hopkinsda •WAS die.

6 ayw neeca." Evidently, this is long se it was insofficiently means, fer putting its wishes into feos General Brasil declares Americans soon let all see that in are, for example, £485 as a far covered,

Londos a amped, could not, in my opinion, the way the words would have been that all for are being directed to the development of the opes the war, as in other things, their ther contribution from the people secretaries of the company, be entitle Mr. Bopkinson to main pronounced by Burbage. Imagine tione sleaty begun, with a view to decisive victory over the common energy and great organising abil of Shanghai and $100 each from sowing that Mr. Green ought not tain the attitude that the transier the Great Emancipator trying to nemy. That in his message to Britain's militare leaders, and the ity would be manifested from the Japanese Explosives Com-to have been entered on the was void and his signature aay: "Wi hav cum in dedykeer mag: i cant successes ju-i reported show that thie declaration is no the first, and since the date of pany (Limited) and from Mr. Gregister, amended the register, nullity. The most be could do was pouren or that fiid as a fayal mere emply use of words. The gallast Russiane base struck out at their throwing down the gauntlet

Bhanghai. the entries now showing the to assert that which wa an-restyg plees faar dhors hw hir the enemy st a moment when the latter thought the former could be to Germany they have abundantly

British Residents and Sym-ehares to be held by Mr. Hopkin-doubtedly the fact, that the regis geev dbar layvg dhat dhat neeen considered as counted oa: quilitarily, and they have secured strategic proved that such is the case. Tasir pathisers in Japan" send a fur-on. Mr. Hopkinson was asked by tration of the transfer while mayt lyg YtYz raltogedhr. points of immerse value, to say nothing of the big baul of prisoners first concern was regarding that ther contribution of 514, the the company to take steps to inadequately stamped could fig and cropr dhst wi cand dw and war material. This turn of evente will put fresh hope and which goes to the very founda Hongkong War Obarities Food establish his right and they also

Dot. operate to tring by. Bat vo a lordje sens, wi determination into the hearts of the Allies, will instil fear into our tione, namely the rendering of another gift of £3 141, 5d. while suggested that Mr. Green should about a legal transfer of the kannot dedykeet, wi kannot

financially, and the Prisoners of War Central apply to the Court to be placed shares into the name of the trans- konsekrest,i enemies, and most likely will draw away from the Western Front assistance the reinforcements taken from the Eset during the recent Rawo in this respect our American Fand receives a donation of £5 on the register, bat as neither of fores. But the fact is that the Cannot is, indeed, the word, German fraternising. The ralae of the new cffensive therefore allies have come forward muni from the people of Shanghai.

the claimants had taken the step Icdo-Chins Sam Navigation unless we are to becomes self-evident.

fioently, relieving Great Britain An Amah's" Savings."

the company was anxious to have Co, Ltd., so far from having the erth." We know that, had there been co Revolution, Russia would of a large part of her financial At the Police Cart this morn the question determined.

notice of insufficiency of the long since have been carrying out the part which she was intended burden and solidifying the Alliesing, a Chinese woman wan charged

The transfer of April 7, 1916, stamp duty paid on the transfer, to play in the general Allied cf-naive. That ff anive was cal forces in a manner that could with stempting to export one was executed in blank by Mr. were informed by a declaration "Cannon fodder,” a ferm näså culated on the assumption that the Bassian armed would, by a hardly have been more effectively bundred silver dollars. It was Certain date, have been in a position to strike heavy blows. The accomplished by any other meane. stated that she was arrested as with the share certificates to Meears. Mortimer, Harley and Co., s-sumer when quoted in their dia- Hopkinson and handed by himab-cribed by the manager of by the Germans, and one that.

Revelation, however, ch nged the sèpect of things, modifying Other Help.

he was going aboard the .s. Meers. Mortimer, Harley & Co., Ltd., and by Mr. Green, that it was favour the pr portions of what the whole Allied plans and postponing the geners! offensive

was stated, sufficiently stamped with a 10-. Sergeant Mulvaney would call an to whiob as look for victory. Nevartbeirse, Russia is at the of her Nvy in European waters,

America alec speedily had part Inspector Brasil stated that, as far Ltd., thereby, it moment showing that she is still a very biz factor in the military ready at poce to participate in as the Police understood, the 4 Buthorising that firm to fill in the stamp, and thereup n. regi-tered "opprobrions epithet," in one of determined game of the transferee and 10 the transfer and inscribed Mr. those boomerangs that return to situation, and the successes which her troops have already the destruction of the Han if an ugler. Ou several previous have their nominee registered as Green's name in the register as give an absomfortable hit to the registred are having a distinct bearing on is-aea even larger

opportunity presented itself.

thrower. Frof. Walter Raleigh and more significant than mere triumphà in the field. The most General Perebing followed with occasions she had been found with i the · holder. M-are. Mortimer, the holder of the shares.

Although for regiony cz000+ point? out from his Oxford ́ses: immediate effect of the Russian thrust is the far which is blog is large ets, after which the bat bad not been charged. In name of Mr. Green, who was in seated with this question of the that few of us, when we use the

a few dollars in her possession, Harley & Co., itd., filled in the felt in Austris at the onward rush of the enemy. The Czechɛ, we Bre told, are surrendering wholesale, and, with the foo pressing hard guard of the Ameri in reply to Mr. Dyer Ball, before their employ, with the view sobie stamp duty his arms was sub term to describe infantry soldiers, 8.8 their sequently struck out, this striking "asually of an inferior quality,” on Austro-Hungarian territory, it is not surprising that the Emperor to take part in the Fourth of July woman said that she was so smeh, nominee. The transfer being out was a wholly onan horised are aware that we ars quoting

¦tingent arrived in France in trebom the case was tried, the holding the shares Kari should be anxion to co the timely any out of the difficulty celebrations in Paris before pass earning $450 per month. The under seal, it was contended by set and must be disregarded. Sh kespeare. Io the London stated to have been convinced that only lies in a declaration by the Central Powers against the policy of 10g on to the Front. This is a

Hi Dot be execated in favour stamped with "tue proper adThe word was used by Schlegel annexatione, and he has apparently pressed the view on the Kaiser record well worthy even of Amer maney represented her savings Mr. Hopkinson that it could The transfer was subeequently Times be gives this deladon and his anderlings in Berlin. What the result of the meeting of an energy; it is also an indication Worship imposed a fee of $10, of a

of the earnest manner in which be no doubt that the poa-ibility of Austria'ʼn breaking away was our American allies have saferal and ordered the money to be cou* therefore, the name of Mr. Green in-tance bas been paid. The defense of the pitiful rascals.

the German Crown Council has been, no one knows," but there can

the

war,

and it is likewise a most:

Charles Hardcoin for Canton.

Women

WAO B

for seven or eight years

fiscated.

TYPHOON WARNING.

transferee whose name valorem daty, and the penalty for and Tick to translate. "food was left", bl»nk,” and. that, neglect to do this in the first for powder' în Falstaff's humorous

was improperly inserted, and was p sition, therefore, when the sam- I whom he bad prest into the King's considered, and at the moment it look rather as though the Im

inoperative and void, Bat Mr. m so me on to be heard, was urvies, Tut, tut! good enough perial Chancellor is to be made to play a somewhat andignified role couvincing proof that the Ger-

Green and the company were this, that Mr Green's name was to tose; fnod for rowder, food for while the Kaiser dissovera a method by which he can appease the mac in their estimate of what

advised that though the in- on the register, and the transfer powder; they'll fill a pit as well Austrians, '» hp ave faced with a serions shortage of food and who the United States would be able to do, and when they were likely

strument might have been void by reason of which Mr. Hopkins better; tush, man, mortal men, reslice that the enemy is creeping forward all the while.

es a deed, the presence of a season's uzme was taken off and Mr. mortal men, Faletsff's eperah in The most signifiesnt and important aspect of the situation thus to do it, badly blundered. Farther

The telegem quoted below was did not prevent is from being Groene entered had been vali! witty sorprizing, profound, ironi. created is the realisation by Austris of the helpless position in which proof of Americen energy i

forded by a statement in one of received by the American Con- valid as an "greement, and cun- dated by the payment of the cal, pathetic, full of that mata.. the ban landed herself by becom ng the partner of Germany in -dey's telegram to the ff et sulate General, Hongkong, from sequectly it: ff-ctively transferred additional duty. In these cir-physical sense to which the tragic med and criminal enterprise Anillo, bele ke a deal, that the firet American Army in the Moila Observatory st 10 p.m the right to call upon the comcumstances it is, in my opinion, and the comic are one and the thoroughly sick of the war, and it will probably take all Germany's Europe will probably be 690,000

pany to register the transferee as impossible for Mr. Hopkinson to sime. The Carmannae of Valstal diplomacy to keep her within the enemy alliance. Germany Imagines that she on pacify Austris by declaring a negative and one that may be relied upon Aperri; moving W NW, or NW company did not require that the and his own restored, and I make toetfu, tostinct wit

Folder of the shares, masmnch as claim, as in ect he does, to language is every alrong truly megnificent force,

Cyclone or trahoon N. of the articles of association of abe have Mr. Green's name struck out have en 38 serios ambiguous policy of " no conqueste," at the same time trying to fasther to prove to the Germane}, satisfy her own people by forming a kind of Coalition Ministry that in the United States the The following telegram was shares enould be trans:erred by the order for which the Company for the seatin Bat these stops will be of small stail if the Basisos continue to

(aske in paragraph 1 of the some humanity, thrust forward as they are now doing, for, the greater the Russian cause of Democracy has a cham received at 11.40 s.m. to-day dead.

After hearing Consel, bie mons, and further order r. spit me of our uncosses, the sooner will come the general allied push, and, when pion that is se willing as she in Orslons or typhoon meer or that begios, we may look to are the enemy demoralised and punishable toassist in giving the coup de over Boothern Formoss; inclin- Lordship ved judgment, Hipkinson to pay the costs of the people who ed antil he soon that ourrender is the only way out.

grass to the common enemy,

| 30-terday:-

ing northwaið.

which he pronouna d on May 25. Company and of Mr. Green..

Kerenosa