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SHEWAN TOMES & CO. General Managers.

LIQUEUR

GRAND

MARNIER.

CORD EX

ROUGE & JAUNE

CALDBECK MACGREGOR

& CO.

15. Queen's Road, Central

Telephone No. 75. ̧

HONGKONG JAPANESE "MASSAGE ASSOCIATION.

Mr. U. SUGA Mrs. A SUGA Kr. L BONDA Mrs. S. HONDA 8 Queen's Eoad Central,

Hongkong.

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

SINGON &

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(Established A. D. 1882) ́ HINO LƯNG ST. Phose 315

MEE CHEUNG.... ICE HOUSE STREET.

FOR

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NORTH BRITISH

AND

MERCANTILE INSURANCE CO.,

in which are vested the shareol THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE CO., LTD. AND

THE RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE CO.

The Badersigned AGENTS for the above Company are prepared to ACCEPT RISES against

-FIRE at Current Rates SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. Agents.

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GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

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THE HONGKONG NEREGR

DANZIG..

GREAT CITY.

Dannig, which Prince Lichnow- sky has announced Germany will drive to retain, which Poland looks to as her coveted outlet to the Baltic, and which Polish leaders aver they will fight for if need be, is the subject of a bulletin issued by the National Georgaphic Society.

"Picture a far north Venice, cut, through with streams and Canals, equipped also with a sort of irrigation system to flood the country for miles about, not for cultivation, but for defence, a city of typical Philadelphia streets, only with those long rows of stoops made of stone and highly Idecorated, and jutting into the roadway instead of on the side- walk, and you catch but a glimpse of the composite Danzig" the bulletin states.

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1919:

THE NEW CONSORTIUM.

JAPANESE CAPITĀLISTS

DESIDERATE.

Tokyo, June 7-Representa tives of the firms of Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Okura, Kübars Manchuria Furukawa, South Railway, Sino-Japanese Trading Co., and the Eastern Asia. In- dustrial Co., have submitted a joint statement to the Minister of Finance and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of their opinion on the proposed participation of Japan in the newly created. Quadruple Syndicate. The stats- ment is understood to be the reply to the speech by the Finance Minister at the meeting between the Finance Minister and these representatives some time ago."

While considering Japan's participation in the new enter prise to be inevitable, the stats- ment lays emphasis on the im portance of securing favourable conditions, and, it expresses con- fidence in the declaration by the Finance Minister that Manchuria and Mongolia would be immune from the action of the Syndicate, and

sets forth the following desirable" conditions:

"As a city of churches Danzig vies with Brooklyn; its crooked; winding streets

suggest those Boston thoroughfares of cowpath derivation: and were its grain warehouse more modern the visitor might believe himself in Minneapolis. Minneapolis, that is, until he heard their cames---| suchnames as Golden Pelican.

To the political loans agreed little Ship, Gray Goose, and Milk

upon by the four Powers con- Maid then he be might look

profusely ornamented.cerned there can be no objections, about. for some popular resorts of Balconies overhang the streets but as to the proposed inclusion New York's Greenwich Village. and in spite of the impediment of economic loans with political In no ather German city is they offer to traffic, many of the loans, as proposed by Great mediaeval architecture to be elevated stone porches remain. Britain, it is desirable that, if found in such variety and preser- Gargoyles grin from ancient possible, the two should be kept vation as Danzig. Conspicuous walls. Vistas abound. There are separate as heretofore. The both in Polish and German his-many old water gates. One of authorities are requested to pro tory. Danzig was one of the four these, the Hobe Tor, is fashiondceed with negotiations on the principal centres of the Hanseatic after a Roman arch. Another, following basic conditions, accept- League, while not far up the the Kran Thor, with each ing the British proposal if no Vistula is Marienburg, capital of successive story projecting alternative can be found: the Teutonic Order of Knights. farther than the one below, looks which flourished in Danzig.

like the leaning tower of Pisa.

cretion.

DOW

** Investments by the syndicate should be confined to Physically Danzig escaped

"Danzig's beginnings are not

new loans. The transfer of the many effects of the Reformation. known. Poland, Denmark, rights already possessed by mem- Even in her famous St. Mary's Pomerania, and Brandenburgbers of the new syndicate should Church, one of the largest Pro-held it at various early times. In be left to the possessors' dis- testant edifices in the world, covering an area as great as the Cathedral of Nore Dame in Paris, are to be found reliquaries and manuscripts, embroideries of Roman, Byzantine, and Guthie designs, treasures in precious metals, stones and ivories, and a noted collectior of vestments. Among its art works 4s that famous Last Judgment of Hans Memling.

"In appearance almost as much like a fortress as a church, bring- ing to mind Luther's militant hymn, A Mighty Fortress Is Our God. the church has been called one of the most German things in Germany. In many ways it suggests the Prussian dilitaristic spirit. From the vaulting. for example, projects one of Napoleon's cannon balls.

But the Danzig visitor needs no indirect intimation of militarism. The city was one of the must strongly fortified places in the now shattered German Empire. With Konigsberg. Thorn, and Poser. Danzig helped form a mighty chain of fortifications. Ta the east and south of the city older defences were supplemented in recent years by a score of bastións. Along the Vistula, on which the city lies, to its mouth at Neufahrwasser, four miles away, stretches a line of forts. In ad- |dition, "three sides of the town could inundated by the garrison.

the fourteenth century it came under the sway of the Teutonic Knights. Not long afterward it became one of the four centres of the Handseatic League. With the decline of the league it allied itself with Poland. retaining most of its rights as a free city. It had a flag derived from the red and white emblem of the league, employing the red as a field upon which were three gold crowns, arranged vertically.

The investments of the new syúdicate should be limited to the construction of railroads, the opening of Government highways, and work on rivers and canals. All other undertakings should be left outside the sphere of the new Syndicate. ·

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to have been fixed by the Imperial Government as the maximum for private investments, is considered "Russians and Saxons took the too small. It should be increased city and the score or more neigh-to Y5,000,000, above which sum

was

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bouring villages it governed in all loans should be undertaken by THE SIAM INDUSTRIES SYNDICATE 1734. When Poland was the syndicate. partitinned. four years before the When loans are furnished by!! American colonists signed the the Syndicate and contracts for) Declaration of Independence, the work, or for the supply of Danzig

separated from material for such work, are to he Poland, and twenty-one years let. such contracts, should be later Prussia gained possession divided equally among the parties of it. Again made a free city by concerned." Napoleon, it passed once more to Poland, then back to Prussia in 1814.

The representatives of the eight firms express the fear that the entrusting of the Consortium with "Danzig became the capital of all economic loans will tend to- West Prussia. Government and wards the internationalisation of private docks were located there, China's railways, which they re- Shipbuilding and the making of gard with grave anxiety (purely munitions were introduced and on China's account) but they do amber. beer. and liquors were not propose to stand in the way other products. Its granaries, of a realisation of the Consortium built on an island, were erected scheme because of this mis- when it was the principal grain-giving. shipping port for Poland and Silesia.

"Danzig is a little farther by

rail northeast of Berlin than IMPRESSIONS OF THE KAISER. Streets are lined with ornate Boston is from New York. Its old houses of the Hanseatic population in 1910 was about that PORTLAND CEMENT.period, crowned with high gables, I of Columbus, Ohio."

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General Managers, Hongkong, 16th August, 1916.

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Mr. Suzuki, the Asahi's cortes- nondent in Europe, made attempts.. to intterview the ex-Kaiser now living in seclusion at Amerongen. but failed, like many others of his profession, to gain the coveted interview: He must, Eowever, wire something to his journal to quench the thirst of its renders for knowledge as to the move- ments of the erstwhile mighty monarch in his place of retire- meat. From early morning he loitered about the Amerongen Palace and at 9.30 a.m. he caught a glimpse of the Kaiser and Kaiserin taking a walk together. It was at some distance, but he could recognise their features. quite distinctly. According tal his observations, the hair 1 of the Kaiser is turned snow! white. He wears his moustache but no longer in the Jin Tan style. He wears a pointed beard (perhaps in memory of the -faet that he once held rank as Admiral in the British Navy), which is also snow-white. His looks some- what emaciated, but he still maintains his straight pose. When the Japanese correspon- dent saw the Kaiser he was in a lounge suit and yet there. Was something majestic about his # appearance. The Kaiserin struck the Japanese observer with her marked emaciation and her very gait showed him that she has gone through much. She was Lainiply, dressed and her hair was

white as her husbandd

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