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NOTICES.

EXPANDED METAL

FOR PLASTER WORK AND RE-INFORCED CONSRETE CONSTRUCTION

AS

USED IN

NUMEROUS

IMPORTANT

WORKS

IN

FOR

FLOOR

ROOF,

FOUNDATION,

WALL.

ETC.

GREAT BRITAIN and AMERICA. STOCK LIST, PAMPHLETA, AND PRICES BE APPLICATION. Quotations the Instytion it Xhadiswcy z Bighoming Tant un applantion to DODWELL & CO. LTD. Machinery Dept.

THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO-

New Scheme for Children's Early Endowment ;-

Principal features: Ball Premium, Liber 1 Surrender Valne, Ne Medical Examination, Return of Premia a the Breck of Death, and Kumareas Options at the Age of $5.

WRITE FOR FAMPHLET AND FULL PARTICULARS TO

SOLE AGENTS:—

DODWELL & CO. LTD. Agents.

GANDY. BELTING

THE EASTERN ASBESTOS CO.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPI

QUEEN'S BUILding, chater ROAD, HONGKONG

THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING

ESTABLISHED 1883. MANUFACTURERS OF

LTD

PURE MANILA ROPE

3 STRAND

14 to 15"

UIRCUMFERENOR.

CABLE LAID

5" to 15" GIROUMERICK

4 STRAND

3" to 10 CIRCUMFERINGE,

Oil Drilling Cables of any sins up to 3,000 feet in length, Prions, Samplas and full particulars will be forwarded an application

SHEWAN TOMES & CO. General Managert.

LIQUEUR

GRAND

MARNIER.

CORDON

ROUGE & JAUNE

CALDBECK MACGREGOR & CO.

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

HONGKONG JAPANESE

MASSAGE. ASSOCIATION.

Mr. U. SUGA

Mr. L. BONDA

MPL A. SUGA

Mrs. S. HONDA

8, Queen's Road Central,

Bengkong.

METALS

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

SINGON & G

CO.,

(Established A. D. 1880) MING LUNG ST. .: Phone 515.

MASSAGE HALL

28. FLOWER-STREET, STO MR. TATAKAYE, SPOR MES. MORILEO KAN CERTIFICATEDƐ. MASSEURSE LA Tarances Tazaras på pizza'Cher. Heigna

NORTH BRITISH

AND

MERCANTILE INSURANCE CO.,

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

AND

THE RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE CO.

The Undersigned AGENTS the above Company are pr pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates, SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. Agents.

Yorkshire Insurance Co,

Limited.

ESTABLISHED 1884.

The

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

AGENTS.

•

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, ⠀ LIMITED.

PORTLAND CEMENT:

In Casks of 375 lbs. net. In Bags of 250 The. "net.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

General Managers, Hongkong, 16th August, 1916..

LE CHEUNG

ICE HOUSE-STREET,

EXPERT:

GENERAL NEWS.

BETHMANY HOLLWEG ON GERMAN

GUILT.”

Copenhagen, Nov. 28-Harr von Bethimann Hollweg, in the counse of interview with the North-German Gaaste, said:— President Wilson's 14 points clearly express the opinion that it is really French aspirations to reconquer

Alsace Lorraine

that have kept the world in a stata of unrest for the last half- century. Our guilt consists in our lack of ability to treat Alsace- Lorraine so gradually sa to make the inhabitants forget the change in their allegiance, and at the same time to hinder the great part of the world from feeling that we committed an enormous wrong in 1871-s feeling certainly not general in America and England in 1871. But, above all, we must confess that by the defician- cies of our national character and by the sins of our general be- haviour we have contributed to the warlike tension which filled the air for the last 10 years. Wards which might be taken as provocation

repeatedly attered. The Pan-Germans' sc- tivities at home and abroad have done us the greatest harm, but,

were

ROYAL

ROYAL

Compare the work and then compare the prices. 10" size $140

14" 10"

11

160 180

т

We guarantee satisfaction. and will gladly send machines

above all, our naval policy brought on approval to responsible parties

the most fatal opposition...

TO

some

UNIVERSITY TRAINING FOR OFFICERS, A scheme for training officers demobilisation has been drawn up at Sheffield University, and already

wounded officers are being given instruc- tion. At the annual meeting of the University, Dr. Ripper, the Vice-Chancellor, stated that some- ching like fifteen thousand rfficers were expected to make tequisition for a course of univer- sity study. Facilities would also be given to non-commissioned officers to obtain university train- ing. The foreign languages aide was to be greatly developed and aniversities generally would give greater facilities for training in

commerce.

1

CECSOE'S ISLAND. It gave me considerable shock says a correspondent in the Doily News, to read in a Brazilian paper recently that Robinson Crusoe's island of Juan Fer nandez now has a wireless station of its own. But what a wealth

I

of inspiration to the enterprising writer reposes in this bald an- nouncement. Defoe Up-to-Date would be highly popular, imagine, with the youth of our scientific age. Fancy Friday sending out the S O S from the stockade, while on the send- bagged roof Crusoe, in goatakina and steel helmet, trains the ant- submarine gun (providentially recovered from the wreck) against the cannibal aeroplanes.

NEW ZEALAND'S SOLDIERS. Sir Joseph Ward, Minister of inance, delivered his Budget statement in the House of Repre- sentatatives recently. The total war expenditure, he said amount- ad to £51,400,000 of which £39,250,000 was raised in New Zealand.The Government had pur- chased 394,000 acres of land for the settlement of discharged soldiers and advanced £191,000 to soldier settlers on the land. War pen- sions to March 31 numbered 17,000, representing an annual value of £1,122,000.

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ALEX. ROSS & CO.,

MACHINERY DEPARTMENT 4, Des Voeux Road Central. TELEPHONE 2497.

ITALY'S WAR INDEMNITY. The question of the war in- demnity payable to Italy is giv ing rise to a good deal of discus sion in the Press, writes the Rome correspondent of the Central News. The Rivista Politica e Parlamentare asserts that Italy ought to demand at least 90,000,000 of lire (£3,600,- 000,000) seventy milliards of which would be in repayment of war expenses, ten milliards for damage, and ten milliards on account of stolen material and foodstuffs. The claim would, of course, be almost entirely against "Austria-Hungary, and not against

Germany.

CHINA AND GOLD CURRENCY,

According to Japanese report- Peking is determined to issue the gold currency bonds in spite of the protests of the Consortium banks. It is said that in return for the money the Peking Government is to receive from the Japanese bank's in connection with the Japanese railway loans, the new gold currency bonda instead of the usual Treasury bonds will be issued. The Japan- ese report is careful to say that the Japanese banks will be asked to receive such bonds before placing them on the Japanese financial market. Before very long the formal agreement for the Chi Hui railway loan and the Four Line Loan of the Man- charian and Yongolian railways will be signed in Peking. Iwasa, manager of the Hsing Yeh Bank, who represents the Japanese banks, has already arrived in Peking to push

matters.

PHILIPS LAMPS OBTAINABLE

WATT NOW IN UNITS OF

25 AND 32 C.P.

WHICH CONSUME ONLY ABOUT HALP THE AMOUNT. [OF ELECTRIC CURRENT USED BY METALLIC-FILA. MENT LAMPS OF EQUAT CCANDLE POWER, FURTHER IN UNITS UP TO 300 CP. ARE PROOF AGAINST BHOCKS AND VIBRATION.

FOR WHOLESALE APPLY. TO

HOLLAND CHINA TRADING CO.

HONGKONG CANTON

JANUARY 30. 1919.

"PROFIT-SHARING SCHEME

HAPPY WORKMEN AND

SATISFIED EMPLOYERS.

the following interview in the Daily Chronicia Mr. Andrew Weir, the Surveyor-General of

GALL

THE HONGKONG

NOTICES.

Supply, discusses the future of CIGAR STORE

CO., LTD.

commeres und industry, declares that Labour must become the partner of Capital. in securing

AND ASK FOR

increased production, which will EL PALACIO *

lead to greater wealth and higher wages, and insists on the need of getting rid of suspicion between employers and employed--

A talk with Mr. Andrew Weir, the Surveyor-General of Supply, strengthens one's, confidence in the honesty of the British trader. Mr. Weir is httle known to the not make public. He does speeches. He avoids politics. His patriotism is founded on his faith in the moral qualities of the British characters and for him the sphere of patriotism is British industry.

1 sought him out to get his ideas on the great commercial problems of the future.

He tells me that he has no fear of foreign rivalry in trade. He saya, for example, that the great conatry need not dread-competi- shipbuilding industry of this tion. We can build cheaper and better than anybody else. When I objected to him that in course of time America might so perfect her machinery as to build cheaper than we could build, he replied." And what should we be doing?" The twinkle in his eyes was worth a page of statistics.

I have no fear of the future," he told me," provided the people of this country are loyal to s interests. There is something in British character which makes secpticism of its fature absurd, This and perhaps disloyal. sterling quality is one of our greatest assets. Now when a man is heavily in debt what does

AND

YOU will be. convinced that

Hongkong is

now favoured with tho

best brand

at

MANILA CIGARS.

NOTICES.

* KODAKS

& FILMS Developing & Printing

Undertaken.

he do; what is the first thing to A. TACK & CO.,

be done? It is to count his Busest. We are in debt. Let us count cur assets. If we count those assets, the material assets of the British Empire, we see at

that our debt can discharged.

once

+

be

SOLVENT BRITAIN, "There is no nation in the whole world so well placed to discharge its liabilities. We can pay. There is no fear of that, But when we come to count our moral asseta, the high intelligence of our skilled workmen, the sobriety of the industrial classes, and the essential honesty of the nation, with its courage, its sense of fair play; not leaving out its hamour and cheerfulness, we see at once how enviable is our posi- tion in the world, and how foolish is any doubt as to the future."

I asked him what course he would recommend to allay the anxiety in this matter, which teads to paralyse industrial action on a vast and heroic scale..

"Lord Leverbalne," he replied "is quite right in his call for s definite pronouncement by the Government as to the future. foundations of British industry. We want confidence, complete confidence, before we can make s real start to pay off our debts and purchase s far better estate with our prosperity. The least touch of Bolshevism in this matter will have an immediate and a ruinous result; capital would go to other countries, and the tremendously intricate fabrio of British industry would collapse. That is obvious.

"But there is something more to be said. If Capital has 8 right to aak for a pro- nouncement by the Government, so has Labour. Don't let us for- get that, I believe that our prosperity would be without a rival in the world, if the Prime Minister could establish confidence between Capital and

26, Des Voeux Road Central.

THE CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE CO., LTD. (Capital Faid up...$1,250,000.)

Loson on Mortgage of House Proparty, da Goode veevived du Bongs. Aivazoen mede cu Marchandles. Los zone on the Prov Aant Bysban,

ERUSTIE, PIECUTOR OF WILLA, ATTORNEY, da. Undertaken and Practiled. (Hatas and Parkrigen on sppilastion?

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

General Managers.

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FILLS

BRANDY

for

Connoisseurs.

Try

Remy Martin

made of the best

Charante Grape.

SOLE AGENTS:

THORESEN & CO

Queen's Bldg.

PHONE 450,

Sales agents Canton:

Manners & Backhouse, Ltd.

DRACON MOTOR CAR

MOTOR CARS FOR HIRE & SALE,

PROMPT SERVICE.

CO.

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

KOWLOON BRANCH, 26, KATHAN ROAD, TELL I. 296. ·..

PROPRIETOR: C. LAURITSEN.

Tel. 482.

Labour, if he could make Capital THE ALEXANDRA CAFE,

feel quite certain that Labour will work with a stout heart and with a real thoroughness, and if he could make Labour feel equal- ly certain that Capital will not rob it of the fruits of its heartiness. Now, can this bej doner"

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