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NOTICES.

THORNYCROFT AND KELVIN®

MARINE MOTORS.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, D'CEMBER 17 1918,

DEMONSTRATIONS AND FULL PARTICULARS, ON APPLICATION TO

DODWELL & CO., LTD...

MACHINERY DEPARTMENT.

THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO.

New Scheme for Children's Early Endowment:-

Principal features: Small Premium, Liberal Burrender Value, No Medical Examination, Return of Premia n the Brent of Death,

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DODWELL & CO. LTD. Agents.

APEXIOR

THE MOST RATIONAL REMEDY FOR BOILER TROUBLES,

AGENTS

BOLE

THE EASTERN ASBESTOS CO.

Queen's Building. Chater Road, HONGKONG.

THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING D

ESTABLISHED 1883.

MANUFACTURERS OF

PURE MANILA ROPE

8 STRAND

be to 15"

CIRCUMFERENCE.

CABLE LAID

4 STRAND

5." to 15" CIRCUMFERENCE

3" to 10" CIRCUMPREESCE,

Oil Drilling Cables of any size up to 3,000 feet in length. Prices, Samples and fall particulars will be forwarded on application.

SHEWAN TOMES & CO. General Managera.

LEMOS.

BROOKE'S

FINEST

Lemon Squash.

SOLE AGENTS :

CALDBECK MACGREGOR

& CO.

15, Queen's Road, Central. Telephone No. 75.

HONGKONG JAPANESE MASSAGE ASSOCIATION.

Mr. O'SUGA - * Mrs. A. SUGA Mr.JF. HONDA Mrs. S. HONDA

8 Queen's Read Central, Hongkong.

METALS

of all kinds, especially for ship- building and engineering works. Largest and best assorted stock in the Colony.

SINGON & 60.

Established, PA. D. 1880.1 |HING LUNG ST.

MEE

Phone 515.

CHEUNG,

PHOTOGRAPHER.

' ...

FOR SALE. PICTURES OF

ST. ANDREW'S DAY FAIR AND MOTOR CAR

TSSION KEN

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 le ACCEPT RISKS

against FIRE at Current Rates.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

Agents.

Yorkshire Insurance Co,

Limited.

ESTABLISHED 1884.

The Undersigned AGENTS for the above Company sre prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates. | SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

AGENTS,

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Casks of 375 lb net. In Bags of 250 lbs net.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

General Managers. Hongkong, 16th August, 1916.

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AND

GRILL ROOM.

J. EL TAGGART,

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1,500

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3 WITONEAL

* Manager:

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THE ONLY AMERICAN HOTEL IN THE COLONT

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Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes' walk from the Banks and fentra. District 43 Bedretes. Freeilent Cuisine, Scrupulously Clean Moderate Terms. Monthly and Family Bates on application to the Proprietes.

Telephone 812,

MRS F. E. CAMELUN.

EUROPE HOTEL, SINGAPORE.

UNDER NEW BRITISH MANAGEMENT,

THE PREMIER HOTEL. FINEST SITUATION. EXCELLENT CUISINE.

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AND ASK FOR··

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AND

YOU will be convinced that Hongkong in How favoured

with the

best brand

of

NOTICES.

MANILA CIGARS.

NOTICES.

THE HONGKONG & SOUD CHINA WAR SAVINGS ASSOCIATION.

APPLICATION

to:

forms Membership of the abov Association may be obtaine from all the Banks or from the undersigned.

THE UNION INSURANOJ SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD. Honorary Secretaries d

Trosaurora.

PALACE HOTEL, KOWLOON, Hongkong. 15th January, 191

Corner, of Haiphong and HankowBoads,

Prisco.

Two Mouser from Fery and Radway statica. This Hotel Eze fast been'completely recoTALKİ X

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Special arrangement for Familes on Application to:

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For the COMPLEXION.

beautifles and prEBSITES the complexion, and may be freely shed oni dellente and sets live skins which order to let soars would frritale and course,

TEL.

NOTICES.

YARDLEY'S OATMEAL

The purest and finest of, Soaps, scientifically com- bined with an Oatmeal. specially treated for the extraction of its bland. soothing, superfatting

qualities.

J. M. OXBERRY, Proprietor,

SOAP

For the NURSERT,

A perfect Nursery Seas, isoothes as it cleanses, its use enables 'Baby to siest life with a westby and beauðlul stin and to malay tain His beauty droegh Youth To Age

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CENTRAL

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PYTLE MOTOR WITH POWER TO SPARE

BUILT TO WITHSTAND THE SEVEREST SERVICE.

INSPECTION AND/OR ENQUIRY INVITED.

SHEWAN TOMES & CO.

MACHINERY DEPART

THE CHINA PROVIDEN

LOAN AND MORTGAGE CO., LTD.

(Capital Pa

...$1,250,000.)

Lolor on Motreazard Husas J'operty, di, Gooded on storage.

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MOTOR CARS FOR HIRE

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SALE.

Sole Distributors for South China and Macao for the OVERLAND, HUDSON and (CHANDLER Motor Cars, and the HARLEY DAVIDSON Motor Cycles.

KOWLOGE BRAXOH. 26, NATHAN ROAD, TEL” K, 226,"

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PROPRIETOR: C. LAURITSEN. Tel. 482.

FRENCH

LESSONS.

G. MOUSSION, 15. Morrison Hill Road,

E HING & CO.

KEIPBUILDINGSMATERIALS, KHI

GENERAL NEWS.

American Aviatrix. to

Far East.

Ming Bath Law, America's foremost aristriz, who în 1916

| accomplisbed a fight from Chisago to New York, and who holda the record of 960 miles, slso for looping the loop, in which she made 15 somersaults · at a height of 5,000 feet, han arrived at Sin Francisco en route. to Japan, Chins, India and Siam, where she will show the nativea how a woman osa fy.

The Chinese la France. That money is not everything to s Chinaman was made very clear to the witness of a little scène Somewhere in Franos, Some coolies ocme into a shop to buy a leather belt. The price was more than all the money the purchaser had in his purse, sa he immediatedly turned to his neigh- bour'e pare, helped himself to. the balance, and got the belt." Neither borrower noz lender made. any ocmment Amongst the neY pantomime songs which are likely to take the popolar fancy this winter in one entitled "

"Hong: kong."

£342,465 An Hour War. In the endeavour to give the publio nome iden af the stupendons nature of our war effort, Mr. Alfred Milnes, lecturing recently: at the National Liberal · Club, esid that 23,585 tons of 22-carat

charge our ́ ́expenditure for the current year. If it were possible to pay for the war in gold-es we wat slong, it would

to

require 11,792 ocal orta CONTBY the bullion. Another

ゅう

method of estimate gave the cost of the war for the current year at £95 per second, at #342,465 per hour. It was, as a matter of fact, impossible to pay for the war in gold, su all the gold in the world totalled only 2,000 million," or about two thirds of the amount » required.

The Growth of Japan.

A very interesting address. dealing with the various changes by which the Japanese nation had "advanced from a Fendal |State to a modern Constitutional Democracy was given recently by Mr. Tonejiro Miyaoka before the Canadian Bar Association. In the ecures of the proceed. inga emphasie waad. laid. on the fact of the extraordinary moothness and rapidity which Japanese revolution had been effected. In France the same re- volution had taken place, the power of the Fendal Lords being crashed by the efforts of Lonia XI, who resurrected the Royal Prerogative and released the - people from the away of Fendal tyrants. It took France cen taries to accomplish what? Japan secured in less than 40 year. France had "gone through periode of extortion from 8a00essive Sovereigns until the Revolution and the military diclstórship which followed it had changed things. Japan had been able to sroid theme terrible convulsione, and the view was expressed that it was mainly due to the enlightened wisdom of her Scvereigna.

Chinis Play in Paris. To celebrate the anniversary of the Chinese Republic, a play wAS performed in Dhinese at the Theatre Antoine, in Paris, entitled, “ La Voile du bonheur,"

which the author is M George Clemences. A troop of Obiness artistes from

the

af

Chinese colony in Paris took part in the performance, There was display by dancers, mimips, and the

jagglern, and

"the audience was, for several hours presented with a dissing vision of the Far East. The sub- 'ject of the play deals with a blind. mandarin who by thaumaturgical akill recovers possession of hie fright,

human life sppears to him very vividly, and he becomes painfully contcions of the untrustworthi nses of his fellow men. Ono more his geke is syarted from the external things of life, but this time his blind nem in that of the ind illusions

BELL GOTT. SZARE AFZEKEREN GEMEINE ZACKETS