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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18. 1920.

THE AMRITSAR OUTRAGES.

THE ATTACK ON MISS SHERWOOD.

The London Daily Express publishes the following from its Dublin correspondent:-

Certain. Dublin

newspapers

This was her reward:

NEW ADVERTISEM ENTS

NOTICE.

Dated at Hongkong this 18th day of February 1920.

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(SD) SVERRE BERG.

NOTICE.

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NOTICE.

Particulars and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Monday,

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Measurement

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Upset Price.

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WAR DEPARTMENT CONTRACTS.

Sealed tenders will be received

NOTICE.

UNIVERSAL IMPORT & EXPORT COMPANY. General Commission Agents Importers - Exporters.

J. E. de Beauchamp, General Manager for the Far East.

Hongkong, 17th February, 1920.

NOTICE.

NEW FRENCH LOAN 5%-

Price of issue Frs 100 - Redeemable at Frs: 150

in 60 years by half yearly ¡drawings.

Interest payable on the 1st of may & 1st of November.

Drawings to take place on the 16th of March & the 16th of September of each year,

Ist drawing on the 16th of

the old wooden sailing ship days; CONDITIONS IN FRANCE. A TRAFALGAR SHIP.

and in the 38-gun ship

HEAVY TAX ON WAR FUTURE OF IMPLACABLE. Trincomalee (still existing under the charge of Mr. Cobb at Fal-

FORTUNES. There have recently been put mouth), a typical frigate; so the

France will start a new finan- forward appeals for the preserva-Implacable was a typical two- tion of the Vindictive and River decker. The three ships together, cial era with a five per cent loan Clyde as mamertoes of glorious apart from their historic at'par, repayable within 60 years As the associations and beauty, provided by half-yearly drawings, with a

I, Sverre Berg of Thoresen & the 23rd day of Feb., 1920, at S episodes in the war. Prime Minister said in reference specimens of the three principal bonus of 50 per cent. on redem have been featuring the revela Company, hereby give notice that p.m., at the Offices of the Public Hotel Mansions (Rooma No. 25, to the proposal to have the River types of naval architecture in the ption. Meanwhile the country is tions of the Hunter Commission in consequence of a wish to have Works Department, by Order of 26, 27) P.O. box 348.

raise in India with headlines. "They the below-mentioned

steamer His Excellency the Governor, of Telegraphic address: UNIMPEX- Clyde brought to England, there most famous days of our sea faced with having to is considerable sentiment attach-power

Let of Crown Land at £250,000,000 in new taxation. The Were Simply Natives," and encarry the family name from which One

COY Hongkong. It was the personal intervention Budget will be three or four times deavouring to portray the affair the name of the Figueras Steam-Shaukiwan Road, in the Colony of wish to bring them home. Yet of King Edward which saved the heavier than before the war, which at Amritsar as a calculated British ship Co., Ltd, is derived I have Hongkong, for a term of 75 years. ing to such vessels and a natural)

Telephone No. 942 1908, for his has cost France £8,360,000,000. massacre. there are weighty reasons why it Implacable in

applied to the Board of Trade, with the option of renewal at a To get some of this money back seems that these appeals must Majesty caused a telegram to bei

To-night at Killiney Castle, ten under Section 47 of the Merchant Crown Rent to be fixed by the During my temporary absence, fail. The Vindictive has broken sent on the very morning of the she intends to levy a supple-miles outside Dublin, Shipping Act, 1894, in respect of Surveyor of His Majesty the Mr. LOUIS ROUFFET will be in her back at Ostend and cann tintended sale for the ship to be mentary tax on those who have talked with a cultured English ship "CARDIGANSHIRE" of Kng. for one further term of 75 charge of our Hongkong Office. therefore be raised in her old for a withdrawn. Six months later, made fortunes out of the war, woman who had been beaten, Hongkong official number 7132 of years..

UNIVERSAL IMPORT & and the Riser Clyde is in such however, she was again ordered and to set up machinery whereby bludgeoned, and triumphantly left gross tonnage 4364.73 tons, PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

EXPORT CO., condition that enormous expen to bo sole, as the Admiralty found it can be collected rigorously.

The depreciation of the franc for dead on the roadside by fan- gister toanage $236.77 tons, hele- would be involved in making that she needed extensive repairs

atical Indian revolutionists. tofore owned by the Figueras seaworthy enough to stand for which there were no funds. this year has cost the country

She is Miss Marcella Sherwood, Steamship Co., Ltd, for permiss- journey from Malta, for whi As the only means of saving her, £1,000,000,000, and, according to Cobb asked that the cost of towing alone would 1 | Mr.

she M. Klotz, the Finance, Minister, of Coventry, who for fifteen years ion to change her name to" PACO £20,000. Neither of these vesse sshould be loaned to him, and his who foreshadowed heavy tex-has been giving to the natives of FIGUERAS" and to have her is worthy of preservation for request was supported by a ation in the Chamber last night, India as & worker in the Church registered in the new name at the own sake. The desire to keep the petition from the Royal Academy the only remedy for the bad of England Missions all that her Port of Hongkong as owned by is based upon their associations and their guests at the 1909 ban-economic position is to restrict magnificent soul could offer in the Figueras Steamship Co., Ltd. Any objections to the proposed the way of education and prac- After a correspondence consumption and to increase protical humanitarian effort. The change of name must be sent to There is another vessel, how-extending over 34 years the duction. ever, says the Times, whose fate Admiralty agreed, and on_page The present spending mania in mothers, fathers and children of the Registrar of Shipping at within seven days is now hanging in the balance. 1,107 of the curr nt Navy List "France is a source of anxiety to Amritsar were her wards. Their Hongkong and which is in quite a diferent the harbour ships will be found the Government, which seems troubles were her personal con- from the appearance of this

She was the ministering advertisement. category. She is one of th, great to include the "Implacable. Late still to cling to the belief that cerr, historical treasures of the nation Training Ship for Boys. 3.223 the dearer things are made the angel to their wants and neces-

it might be said of two nations. Tons. Falmouth Lent to Mr. less will be consumed. It has been sities. for the French have an almost Wheatly Cbb for preservation)." a record Christmas for extravag equal interest in the last survivor It was in September, 1913, that ance. The authorities are ashamed On April 10, bearing rumours of of their Fleet at Trafalgar: The Mr. Cobb took possession and had at the wastefulness shown in re-political trouble brewing to synch-] story of the attempt to save the the vessel towed round to Fal-staurants. Poor people are beroaise with a religious festival, old Duguay Trocin, now known mouth, where she has since reginning to revolt against it, and at she bravely mounted her bicycle as the Implacable. is worth mained in a sheltered corner of Montmartre they have already and rode into Amritsar to close demonstrated against pleasure the five schools and dismiss the recalling.

seekers dashing thousand fran 700 scholars under her charge. This famous old vessel was a

NEED FOR FURTHER OUTLAY. French gun ship, and when "The present position in regard notes.

She was unattended. launched at Toulon about 1790 to the Implacable is that the The caterers wanted a repetition

Groups of friendly natives bade was, named the Duguay Trein. Admiralty report her to be in on New Year's eve of the orgy by order of Louis XVI. The fol need of repairs to the extent of which marked Christmas Eve, but her step, but she disdained their story of her career will be found about £1,000 if she is to be pre down, and there will be no extens-native Christian teachers and M. Clemenceau has put bis foot friendly warnings because her in Mr. Edward Fraser's book, vented from deterioration.

On Friday the 20th Instant, all In departments will be CLOSED. "The Fighting Days at Sea, and this sum is not forthcoming the lot of time for restaurants and scholars were in danger. there is also an illustrated ac Board may decide that the ship

cafes.

appearance Miss Sherwood is a On Saturday the 21st instant, all In order to improve the finan-youthful Edith Cavell. An intel-departments will be

open for: count in "The King's Ships," by must be sold. Although under Captain N. S. Lecky, R.N. A M. Cobb's supervision

cial position. France intends to lectual face is relieved of its business from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. much Trafalgar, the Duguay Tronin, work was done on the ship up to buy in the cheapest markets. As severity by the most entrancing

A. S. WATSON & CO. LTD. under Captain Touffet, was in the August, 1914, at a cost to him of soon as the Peace Treaty with of smiles.

Her story is simple as she tells Hongkong, 18th February, 1920. van of the combined fleet, and as over £3,000, the war put an end Germany is in force there will be the day's fighting closed she was to this process of renovation and something like a boom in trade it." one of the four ships which made restoration, as the demands upon Klotz the Government has given said, "I rode through the town on

with Germany. Through M.

"About twelve o'clock," she good their escape, but which were his income were much heavier,

NOTICE. captured of Finisterre 12 days his men were called up, and the word that France should not

my bicycle. Friendly people later, when the Duguay Trouin material was unobtainable. Out hesitate to buy from her late urged me to stop. I went to each

HONGKONG & SHGHAI put up an especially fine resis of his unique experience of over enemy. She will rely on Germ of the Eve schools and instructed

Mr. Fraser says: No 27 years in connectin with such any for a great deal of machinery them to dismiss their pupils as I BANKING CORPORATION. more creditable defence was perwork. Mr. Cobb believes that and chemical products. There is could see that trouble was immin. haps ever made at sea by the there is practically no limit to reason," declared the Minister. ent. At the Central School, which Notice is hereby hat the French than that of the Duguay the life of these old wonden ships

why France should pay heavy had formerly been a rajah's palace Ordinary Yearly Ming of the hours of 10 a.m. and i p.m. daily, 10th of March next.

Tenders will not be entertained Trouin's officers and men on the if they are built of good material prices to obtain from America I told the two native Christian Shareholders in this Corporation 2nd of November. 1805, and it and the weather can be kept, or Great Britain goods, that we teachers to wait, and that I would will be hell at the City Hall, unless accompanied by a deposit stands out the better, made as it out." His efforts towards the can procure from Germany far get a converance for them to take Hongkong, on Saturday the 28th of $100 as a guarantee of good was by men who could not help latte in regard to the Implacable more cheaply.

them to the European compounds day of February 1920, at noon.faith. France is also looking forward outside the city. being under the influence of the | have included the provision of a

for the purpose of receiving the The right to reject the lowest or stunning shock they had received new upper deck, poop deck, hatch- to importing less wheat from over-

"I passed that group safely. Report of the Court of Directors any, tender is reserved. by having just witnessed 7e way covers, sashes to ports and seas and more from Rumania.

together with a statement of crushing disaster of Trafalgar." stern windows, planking on the

But for the moment her main but people were urging me Taken into the British Navy as sides, and interior bulkheads. The concern is to economise, and to take refuge. The thought of the Accounts for the year ending 31st. the Implacable in direct allusion ship is now in a much better state do this the Government will two teachers to whom I had December 1919.

The Register of Shares of the promised to return was in my to Napoleon's abrupt refusal to than when taken over, at which start a propaganda with the help it. One man aimed a blow at Corporation will be closed from listen to the overtuies for peace time her condition was indicated of schoolmasters, the clergy, and made in 1806 by Fox's Ministry-by the fact that the housed-in the Press. the ship was commissioned by gangway stair on the starboard Captain Thomas Byam Martin. side fell cf from sheer rot. and took a distinguished part in It

Was in fact only the capture of the Russian 74-after Mr. Cobb bad ascertained SHARE AND GENERAL BROKERS. gun ship Seválod in the Baltic in the remarkable soundness of her 1808. Thirty-two years later she timbers and her tightness below was still in the fighting line, water that he assumed the heavy taking part in the operations responsibility of taking charge. Syria in 1849.

tance.

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CARROLL BROS.

RUBBER QUOTATIONS."

Straits

4.30 m. 4.20 sa. 4.50 m.

"As 'be now admits, however, SAVED BY KING EDWARD. work oate ship must be resum-Alor Gajabs In 1855 the Implacable b ed in the sp ing if she is not to Amal Malays came a training ship for boys ; fall into hopeless decay, and Ayer Moleks

while the cost of such work is Ayer Panas Devonport. The number of me, to-day who, having passc

enhanced his resources are less Balgownies able to stand it. Mr. Cobb Bas-etts through her cherish memor:

would be glad to have anybody Bukit Jelotongs of the old ship, as their a mater must run into man associated with him in the work, Bukit Katils thousands, for she was employed but in the meantime it may be Changkat Serdangs in training duties for over 50 hoped that the authorities will Glenealies years. Then, in 1908, came the allow a respite, as the circum-Indragiris first indication that she night stances under which they would Jerams suffer premature extinction. The decide to sell the ship do not ap- Jimahs Admiralty put her on the s: a list, pear in the least urgent. Like Kedahs but she was saved from the ship-the Victory-an older ship by Kempas.. breakers by the petriotic inter-about 35 years-the Implacable Lunas.. vention of Mr. G. Wheatly Cobb, will last for many years yet with Malaka Pindas. who, with his father, Mr. J. R. proper care and attention. It Malakoffs Cobb, had rescued the Boudroyant will be a reflection upon the Mandai-Tekongs. -Nelson's "darling child"-from greatest maritime Power in the Mayfields the German shipbreaking firm to world if such a beautiful and New Serendaba which she had been sold in 1892. eloquent monument of her glori Pajams Mr. Wheatly Cobb has spent ous past is destroyed at the junc-Pentais altogether nearly £100,000 on the ture. As the Admiralty candbt Parit Peraks. preservation of historic British provide the sum needed out of Perak River.. warships, and in making them public funds, it remains to be Pulau Bulangs.. serve useful national purposes, seen whether some patriotic Punggors When the Implacable appeared British subject, or perhaps the Sandycrofts to be doomed, Mr. Cobb made a Society for the Protection of Scudais strong" appeal to King Edward Ancient Buildings, will come for-Sungei Bagans...... and to the First Lord of the Ad-ward to assist Mr. Cobb, whose Tapahs miralty. He realized that the knowledge and experience is such Tambalake ship was more than a Trafalgar that the ship may safely be left Teluk Auson.. trophy, for just as in the Victory in his hands. In any case, the Temerlohs..

to

CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS.

at Headquarters Offices, Victoria September 1920. 1st coupon of Barracks, Hongkong, until 12 Frs: 3.50 to be paid on the 1st of o'clock roon on the dates stated November 1920.

Subscriptions will be received for the undermentioned services.

for a period of twelve months from up to the 10th of March next

by the: Ist April. 1920:-

Forage & Indian Supplies, BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE 26th February, 1920.

L. Berindoague,

Meat & General Supplies "A"

27th February, 1920.

General

Supplies "B" ist

March. 1920.

Barrack Services, 2nd March.

1920.

Manager.

NOTICE.

Transport Services,4th March, NEW FRENCH LOAN 5% 1920-

1920. Hospital Supplies, 5th March, 1980.

Under the guarantee of the

French Republic

Fuel & Washing, 6th March.j

The Local Branch of the 1920.

BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE Tender Forms and any neces-CHINE will receive subscriptions sary information may be obtained for the New French Loan 5% at the above office between the 1920 from the 19th instant to the

1.

NOTICE.

me with his bat, but missed me. Monday the 16th February, to We have this day admitted Mr. In one of the narrow streets a Saturday 28th February 1920. A. D. BARREITŮ, as a Partner native tried to upset my bicycle (both days inclusive), during in our Firm. with his foot, but failed.

which period no transfer of shares "Ither dismounted and walked can be registered..

By Order of the Court of Directors,

N. J. STABB,

Chief Manager.

a short distance from the Central School. I was set upon by a mob and bludgeoned. I was left unconscious and bleeding by the roadside, and I am told the mob who had committed the act be come fanatical with joy and Hongkong, 10th February, 1920, shouted. We have killed her!" From the windows some of my 16.00 m. 8.00 m.

native friends rushed out and 1.70 sa. & b.dragged me indoors. 1,25 m. 1.70 m. 10.75 m.

2

My wounds in the head were Bumerous. One was three inches long, and deep. Primitive Indian 3,50 ml.

remedies were applied. Silk was 13.25 m.

burned to a powder mixed with 2.20 sa. essences and applied to stop the 3.30 sa, & b. bleeding. It was efficacious. 5.00 m.

In the meantime the mob, 12.75 m.

jubilant at my supposed death, heard of my removal, and thun. dered at the heavy doors of my Indian hostess. Brave old lady, she defied them, and with a white lie said there was no English- womai inside, but they would! probably had her next door at the school. That night I was secretly carried cra stretcher into a wagon and, covered with blankets, conveyed to my house outside. The next day I was taken with other European women to the Fort, where I lay for nineteen Į days.

14.25 m.

3.70 m.

6.10 sa. 1.40 m.

10.75 m.

6.20 m.

16.25 m.

2.05 m.

4.40 m.

3.90 52 4.10m.

6.25 m.

1.45 m.

5.00 m.

13.50 m. 6.00 m. 29.00 m. 1.75 m. 16.00 m. 2.30 ra.

(the only other survivor of the fate of the Implacable is a matter United Malaccas... 2.90 sa. great battle) there had been pre-in which every Englishman must Utan Simpans...... 4.35 m. served a typical three-decker of have an interest.

RUBBER is quoted at 2/94 per Ib

"My wounds were severe, and it was on a stretcher that I was carried aboard ship, and it was on a stretcher that I landed in England.

"That is my story,"

NOTICE.

BANK HOLIDAYS.

In accordance with Ordin

ance No. 5 of 1912.

J. M. DA ROCHA & CO. -Hongkong, 17th February, 1920.}

NOTICE.

REPULSE BAY HOTEL.

WEDNESDAY, 18th February -Tea Dansant and Dinner Dance

February- FRIDAY, 20th Tea Dansant and Dinner Dance

SATURDAY, 21st February— Tea Dansant and Dinner Dance

EACH SUNDAY Orchestral Concerts During

The Exchange Banks will be closed for the transaction of Pub lic Business on Friday and Satur-Tiffin and Afternoon Tea. day, the 20th and 21st instant.

Hongkong, 16th February, 1920.

NOTICE.

CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS.

NOTICE.

THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY LIMITED.

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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

Notice is hereby given that the Transfer Books of the above

This Department will be entire-named Company will be closed

The Loan is free of income tax

and redeemable in 60 Years at 15 by half yearly drawings, the interest coupons being payable on 1st May and 1st November of each year.

Fully paid subscriptions at par Partly paid subscriptions at 101-purporting:

Fr. 25 when subscribing Fr. 25. on the 1st of April.. Fr. 25. on the 16th of July Fr. 26.on the 1st of August, 1920.

M. ROUET DE JOURNEL,

Manager, Hongkong. 16th February, 192).

NOTICE

HONGKONG BOXING A SOCIALION

MARVIHON RACE.

M. torists are urgently requested not to use the Route over which this race is being run between 3 p.m. and 4.30 p m. on Saturday next the 21st inst.

WISEMAN, LTD.

closed on Friday the 20th from Monday the 23rd day of TEA DANCES February, 1820. It will be open February 1920 to Saturday the for all purposes till noon on 28th day of February 1920 both Saturday, the 21st February, 1920. days inclusive,

Licensed Warehouses will be en- tirely closed on these dates..

C. W. BECKWITH,

Superintendent. Imports and Exports.

Dated this 16th day of February 1920.

By Order of the Board, GIBB LIVINGSTON & CO."

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(THURSDAY), 19th Feb.

Dance Tickets 50cts, each.

D. M. GOODILU,

MANAGER.

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