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NOTICES

THE RED HAND COMPOSITIONS LIMITED, LONDON.

Contractors to the Admiralty, India Office, War Office, Crown Agents for the Colonies, &c.

THE RED HAND BRAND." Antifouling Compositions for Ships' Bottoms, Antisive Paints, Ready mixed, for all purposes.

Supplies available from:

DODWELL, & co. LTD.

SOLE AGENTS.

THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO.

Jew Scheme for Children's Early Endowment

"Prinsipal feature: Small Premiam, Liberal Surrender Valos, No Medical Examination, Beturn of Premis in the Brent of Death, and Numarens Options at the Age of 25.

WEITE FOI PAMPHLET AND FULL PART1SULARS TO

DODWELL & CO. LTD. Agents."

YALE CHAIN. BLOCKS.

TRIPLEX - DUPLEX, & DIFFERENTIAL TROLLEYS & TROLLEY TRUCKS/

CRANES &c.

BOLE AGENTS—

BRADLEY & CO., LTD. MACHINERY DEPT. QUEEN'S - BUILDING, CHATER ROAD, HONGKONG.

THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING

ca..

ESTABLISHED 1883. MANUFACTURERS OF

PURE MANILA ROPE

8 STRAND

to 15"

CIRCUMFERKNOR

CABLE LAID

4 STRAND

5" to 15" CIRCUMFERENCE.

3" to 10" CIRCUMFERENCE.

Oil Drikag Cables of any size up to 3,000 feet in length. Pricas, Samples and full particulars will be forwarded on application

SHEWAN TOMES & CO.

LEMOS.

BROOKE'S

FINEST

"Lemon Squash.

SOLE AGENTS:

CALDBECK MACGREGOR

& CO.

15, Queen'e Road, Central.

Telephone No. 75.

0:

HONGKONG JAPANESE

General Managers.

NOTICES.

NORTH BRITISH

AND

MERCANTILE INSURANCE CO.,

in which are vested the shares of THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE. CO. LTD.

AND

THE RAILWAY PASSEN- GERS ASSURANCE CO. The Undersigned AGENTS for the above Company are prepared o ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates,

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. Agents.

Yorkshire

MASSACE ASSOCIATION. Insurance Co.Ltd.

WE beg to notify the Public that we, the undersigned, being proper and fully certificated Massuers, have this day formed the above

-Massage Association.

Mr. U. SUGA Z - Mr. I. HONDA Mrs. A. SUGA--- Mrs. S. HONDA

Sa Queen's Road Central,

METALS

of all kinde, especially for ship- building and engineering wor ke Largest and best assorted stock in the Colony.

SINGON & CO.,

biled A D. [1880k)

Phone 515,

HING LUNG ST.

NEW FILMS

JUST ARRIVED. PRICE MODERATE.

MEE CHEUNG

PHOTOGRAPHER Houm:ßtrost: Telephone 10150

ESTABLISHED 1884.

The Undarzigned AGENTS for ike above Company | are [prepared to ACCEPT RISES against FIRE at Current Rates. SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

AGENTS,

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

PORTLAND GEMENT,

In Casks of 375 Ibu: nut. In Bars, of 350 lbs. not.

SHEWAN TOMES & CO,

HOTELS AND CAFES.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL

ND

GRILL ROOM.

J. H. TAGGART,

Manager

THE PEAK HOTEL

P

1,800 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL. 15 MINUTES FROM LANDING STAGE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. BLAIR.

GRAND HOTEL.

fres-alam and up-to-date. Hodal-mons eentral location within the vichulty of all the prinaly Banks Noted for the best Food, Befreshments Accommodation and Olsenkinam Cuisine under European Supervision. J'£xus-class, maing Orobosirs renders selectious fream 4.30 pm; in 13:30 13

Special monthly terms for residents and for Shipping Feople.

W. BARKER, For further particulars apply

Manager.

Telephone No. 197,

Telegraphic Address

COMFORT.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

CENTRAL LOCATION.

ELECTRIC LIFTS AND' LIGHTING, TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR. HOTEL LAUNCH - MEETS ALL STEAMERS. Yel, 373.

→Telegraphia Address: "VICTORIA

JS WITCHKLIN

** Manager.

THE CARLTON HOTEL.

THE ONLY AMERICAN HOTEL IN THE COLONY,

ICE HOUSE STREET. Management

Under American

Nice and quiet, yet only a few minutes' walk from the Back and Centraljó District. 43 Bedrocms. Exellent Coixins, Scrapulously Clean. Moderate Terms. Monthly and Family Eates on application to the Propriet ein.

Telephore 812,

MRS FE CAMERON:

EUROPE HOTEL, SINGAPORE.

UNDER NEW BRITISH MANAGEMENT. THE PREMIER HOTEL. FINEST SITUATION. EXCELLENT CUISINE.

FINE

For the COMPLEXION.

It beautifies and preserves

ARTHUR E. ODELL

(Laid Grand Hotel, Southcliffe. England and Royal Palace Hotel, London, W.)

NOTICES.

YARDLEY'S. OATMEAL

The purest and finest of Soaps, scientifically com- bined with an Oatmeal

the complezier, 446 specially treated for the

be freely used on" deitualE ait sexsilire suas which

ordinary let soups would

rite and coarsen.

extraction of its bland. soothing, superfacting

qualities.

SOAP

For the "NURSERY.

A perfect Wernery Scap, itsoek ze li debents. its use enables Baby 10 start life with a bealthy and beautƐrt skin and to mala tal is beauty, through

Youth to Age».

PRICES Cts. 60 a Box of 3 Cakes.. COLONIAL DISPENSARY, 14. QUEEN'S ROAD

CENTRAL.

DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO.

CARS FOR HIRE & SALE. PROMPT SERVICE.

Sole Distributors for South China and Macao for the OVERLAND, HUDSON and CHANDLER Motor Cars, and the HARLEY DAVIDSON Motor Cycles. KOWLOON SEARCH, 25. KATHAN ROAD, TEL, K. 226.

PROPRIETOR: C. LAURITSEN.Tel. 482.

FRENCH

LESSONS,

MOUSSION, Morrison Hill Roto

Scripps

27 B.P. SCRIPPS MARINE MOTOR MODEL H.B.

Four trader cycle motor Two-unit lactrie starter Schiblar karsens cartures Sighted magneto

Splash and force feed oiling

Paragon rrŠĪNA ZIGZ

Reverse gear on same abdo Only 3′′ win exped Flywheel all-esolomed

Enamažed black and grey Complete equipment.

A two-cylinder 14 h.p. SCRIPPS Marine Motor powered 35 ft. boat across the Atlantic in the summer of 1912.

ALEX. ROSS & CO.

THE

4. Des Voeux Road Central.

Machinery Department;

Telephone 27.

LONDON DIRECTORY.

(Published Annually) NABLES traders throughout the FABLE6 traders throughout the

English

MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS

in each valam at gooda. „Besides being a} complete summercial guide to London and] it burbs, the Directory contains lists of

EXPORT MERCHANTS

with the goods they ship, and the Colonial and Foreign Marketa they supply;

PROVINCIALY TRADE - NOTICES

of leading Manufacturen, Merchants, etc., in the principal provincial tower and in- dustrial centres of the United Kingdom,

A copy of the current edition will be for warded freight paid, on receipt of Postal Order for 25%.

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Dealers seeking Agencies can, advertise their trade cards for £1, or larger advertise: ments from £3.

THE LONDON DIRECTORY, 00. ATD. 5. Abchurch Lane, London, E.0.

GEN

NEWS

Dreaded Berl-Bari.

not osare of beri-berr--

China and soLE I

198, 18 not yet known: orted that De MVEAWS, „ökyo Imperial Ja

staci, an elabora

the

the abjaot -Medical Conference to

October.

Princess Mary to be Nurst.. London, Jane 25.—Princesa Mary, daughter of King George, will begin this week's course of regular training se,a nurse at the Children'

Hospital in Great Ormond Street. She will work in - the Alexandra ward, The Princess will attend the hospital, two days Feach week and will undertake the usual work of. \"probationer în order to make herself efiment in the care of children.

Japanese Notlon

Among the Japanese the notion still prevails that a wife having no children should be prepared Lat any moment to be divorved

The wife of Shimidzu Ahezo, an employes of a well-known unk brewer at Donski near Kobe recently committed suicida throwing herself into s well. The only motive which can be sug- gested is the fact that she bad no- children, and feared she would bs divorced.

A Costly Provision220 Clean shaven faces in the armRY. will add several millions of dollars: to the annual cost of the US military stablishment. Official Kunouncement was made at the War Department recently that Que resor, one steel mirror and one sharing brush would be issued gratuitously hereafter to every enlised man ordered to Europe. Army regulations

Any European, Non-Asiatic or quire that soldiers keep tham- Indian desiring to leave the selves closely shaver, but the Colony should apply in person wearing of moustaches is not at the Central Police Station prohibited. between the hours of 9 am to

* Flying Accidents.

tion papers.

1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 4 pm daily. In the House of Commons re- Applicants will be required to cently Afr, Morrell naked Major produce Passports or identifica Baird, representing the Air All persons with certain excep Ministry, whether his attention tions, who remain in "the had been called to the loss of life Colony for more than 7 days are smongat, offers undergoing in- required to Register themselves straction in Aying, and whether under the REGISTRATION of he was aware that in 1917 nearly PERSONS ORDINANCE-1916, 800 pilots lost their lives in the Forms of Registration giving the training grounds of this country particulars required may be alone: Major Baird replied that: obtained at the G. P. O. and at the hon. member would be glad all Police Stations.

The Penalty for

350.

non-com-

CAST IRONALA

RAINWATER PIPES.

AND FITTINGS FRANK SMITH & CO. 4. BES YOUX ROAD, CENTRAL TEL 20:30. HONGKONG.

to know that the total number of

pliance is a fine not exceeding fatal dying sccidents in this conn-- try in 1917 was much smaller than the figure quoted in the question. The great majority of scoidents gocurred in Cir. cumstances in which it could not be hoped that any kind of parachute would be of avail,

Starvation Kills More Persons

"Than Battis, -- Washington, June, 29-Some 4,750,000-persong have starved to death since the opening of the wer. Against this: ghastly toll; {about 4,250,000 have perished on battlefields. Publication of thesa figures was made a "basis to-day for a new appeal by the Food Administration for food ssvinge in our country that the Allied astions may go forward with stout bearts and fall stomashe -to the war's end. Much of the loan | from starvation in scoredited to the Bossian disorganization, which left millions of passante in remota sections without ordinary moRNA of obtaining susisnance. Teutonio pressure on Ramenis prostrated that little nation with famine- |Belgiam's and Serbia's stories

account for much of the rest.

PIANOS

FOR

HIRE

AT

$10

PER MONTH.

ROBINSON'S

Lloyd George Speech In view of Mr. Lloyd George's sttitude during the Bour war, it is curious to find him making the the following remarks on extre- ara miete in war time

two types of exkramista war, There is first of ↑ extremiat ;erke is sh aut Peace where