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NOTICES.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1919.

UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS.

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MACHINERY DEPARTMENT.

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ESTABLISHED 1883. MANUFACTURERA OF

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STRAND

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LEMOS,

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METALS

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General Managers. 3

NORTH BRITISH

AND

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in which are vested the shares of THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE

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AND

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GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Coaks of 375 lb. nat.

In Bags of 250 lbs. nat,

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

MASSAGE HALL

21, FLOWER STREET.

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ooking

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THE ABOLITION OF CONSCRIPTION.

4

INCREDULTY IN JAPAN.

it ja

Their

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DRAGON MOTOR

MOTOR CAR CO.

Covenant, some time ago, the conscription is very welcome to British and American delegates Britain and America supported the proposal, but the assuredly prejudicial to Japan's A. TACK & CO., Japanese, French and Italian interests. He remarks that inas- delegates discountenanced it. much as Britain and America are The British and American possessed of inexhaustible finan- delegates realised that their cial resources they can complete As might be expected, the insistence upon its abolition all arrangements for an expedition telegrams intimating that the, in the face of the opposition by in a very short time. abolition of cocscription has the other delegates might en-geographical position, moreover, been decided upon at the con-danger the successful drafting of pate them in an advantageous ference of the five Great Powers, the League of Nations Covenant, position. Not so, however, with is received with undisguised and finally conceded their point, France and Italy, which have surprise in Japan, and there is a the question being definitely strong Powers in their immediate strong inclination among the dropped. The Mainichi thinks contiguity. As for Japan, she is Japanese] to discredit

that the mistake arose from the la country of very limited financial report. The Asahi

misconception of Reuter's cor-resources, and, denuded of the that

who when the present system of conscription information regard-respondent, ing the alleged decision has military terms to be imposed she would be thrown into a

Germany

case of been received by the Tokyo "POR

were decided serious the to include Government. Even if the report

abolition of emergencies.

In its brief comment on the is correct, it is inconceivable that conscription in Germany, evi-

00

the Bays

dilemma in

the Japanese pesce delegate gave dently jumped to the conclusion alleged decision of the Council his consent to the decision with that the abolition of conscription of Ten, the Hochi confesses that the the news came to it as a surprise out first consulting his home is equally applicable to Government. The probability Allied Powers. As regards the and says that it is disinclined to

French and

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|Tel. 482.

is therefore, that if allegation that the Japanese, give credit to the information. THE ALEXANDRA CAFE. true that the Japanese delegate,

Italian delegates In the paper's opinion it is highly bas given bis

eventually yielded to their opin-improbable that 3 question of consent to the proposal, it must have been ions our contemporary says it is such importance should be settled subject to reference to Tokyo. pure fabrication, and declares in so eff-ban a manner. If by The procedure to be gone through that the Japanese Government any chance the report is well when application is made by the has never endorsed the idea of founded the Japanese peace [delegate who gave his consent to Japanese delegate for instruct-abolis ing conscription.

-ĠENERAL NEWS.

ions will be firet to hold a con- A military authorty who is the proposal lays himself open ference of Field-Marshals and quoted by the Jiji emphatically to the charge of having acted ins Fleet-Admirals on the subject. denies the report, which he manner which is very disloyal to The matter will then be referred attributes to a stretch of ima- his country.-Japan Chronicle. to the Diplomatic Advisory gination on the part of a Reuter Council for further consideration correspondent. He nevertheless [If the professional militarists thinks that the question will be have a deciding voice it is rather taken up by the Peace Confer- a bad look-out.].

eace at some future time, though MONEY FOR BOLSHEVIKS STOPPED. The Mainichi flatly denies the he is irrevocably opposed to such

The U. & Federal Reservə, accuracy of the Reuter telegrama proposal

Board has prohibited foreign ex- The Osaka journal says that A certain military officier, who change transaction between the when the question of the abolition is said to have returned home United States and

Russia.

of conscription was taken up by from Europe quite recently, is Similar action has been taken by the Peace Conference at the time quoted by the Hochi as stating Great Britain and France. The of drafting the League of Nations, that while the proposal to abolish Reserve Board acted at the

OBTAINABLE

request of the State Department. Evidence was obtained that large sums of money were made avail-

able in the United States for the

use of the Bolshevik agents. Practically the only means of stopping this was to shut off these

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