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SCHEER'S VIEW OF THE WAR.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

PROFITEERING IN CITY ¦ ́

RENTS.

PUBLIC AUCTION,

By order of the Mortgagees LEAGUE TO FIGHT HIGH Mr. Geo. P. Laminert has received

CHARGES.

High rents and arbitrary action occasionally as others see us. Jon the part of City landlords have The victor can afford this luxury resulted in the formation of “The even better than the vanquished. City Tenants' Defenre Associa- In this instalment of the recol-[tion,"

instructions to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION

од FRIDAY

The arst day of May, 1920.

at 3 pm.

at his Sales Room, Duddell Street. Victoria, Hongkong.

**NEW SUTT ADVERTISEMEMENTS

NOTICE:

HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB.

TENNIS TUESAMENT. Subject to weather conditions the following dates have been: fixed:--

NOTICE.

1920

P. & D. BANKING CORPORA- | TION.

Capital...

.......

in £10 Shares.

£3,000,000

Present Issue $50,000 Shares at £10-2- 6.

A

Lists close in London an or before lections of Admiral Scheer-for Occupiers of City offices who

12th May, 1920. four years Commander-in-Chief bave received notice to ter- of the German High Sex Flee:minate their tanancies, nɛd havə

Lists now

Payments open. a far from flattering picture is been asked exorbitant rents for a

£1-0-0 on application, 25+0-0° painted at the psychology of the continuation, are asked to com-

Final Open Championship on allotment, £4-2-6 an 1st July

11920. English people. To our material-municate with Messrs. H. Gra-

The following valuable Lease-Singles, Tuesday, 18th May, iam, to our striving for power and ham King and Co., chartered a hold property situate at Viesoria

Failing Nominees in London Fini profit, and to our dogma that we counts, 17, 1ronmonger-lane, EC.,

Crah pionship! Open in the Colony of Hongkong, Vix—

applications will be received by are the first nation in the world, with a view to concerted action.

the undersigned who expect ALL THAT piece or parcel of Doubles, Thursday, th May. Admiral Scheer attributes the One of the founders of the

Challenge Round Open Cham-telegraphic information when outbreak of the world war - organisation explained tr ground situate at Victoria afore-

The vietor Admiral Scheer Daily Chronicle representative said and known and registered pionship Singles, Tuesday. 25th Lists closed"

May.

Fall allotment cannot he observes) has the privilege of how it came into being.

in the Land Office as SUB- writing the story of the war; "It was started by ten gentle |SECTION 1 of SECTION C. OF "RESERVED SEATS may now guaranteed. for one mistrusts the vanquished, men--all tenants of the same INLAND LOT No. 1417 Together be booked by Members and Sub- Payment by telegraphic trans- because he will try to palliste landlord," he said. "As ridicul" with the wessuage erected there scribers in the Pavilion, except for against receipts here, and excuse his defeats. But we ous demands were made upon on known as No. 20 Aberdeen between the hours of 4.15 and certificates issued London. are virtors and vanquished at one all of them, they pooled their Street Victoria aforesaid.

Term 6:30 p.m.

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE and the some time, and in demoney to fight them.

1999 years created by a Crown

The lists will remain open at the. "Legal advice has already been Lease dated, the 16th day of June picting our success the difficult

& COMPANY, problem confronts us of not for taken and representations have 1899. Proportion of Annual Crown Pavilion until Friday evening.

Agents, gesting that our strength did not been made to Lord Salisbury's reat $8.50. Area about 952 Square 14th May, after that date they

|Committee with 3 view to feet.

obtaining 3 hearing question of the extension of the Kent Restriction Act in respect to City offices.

last out to the end.

Exceptionally tragic is the fate of our Fleet. It embodied the sense of power resulting from the unification of the Empire, a sense which was conscious of its respon- sibility to provide for the suit able security of our in mensely flourishing political and conomical expansion. By creating a fleet we strengthened our clajm to sea-power, without which the Empire must wither away, were mained a thorn in the side of the British, and their ill-will' was the constant accompaniment of our as possible." growth. The freedom of the

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"There is rank profiteering on the part of some City landlords," he added, "and others are taking very unreasonable and arbitrary action as regards eviction. One tenant who is paying £40 for a room, for instance, has been told by his landlord that £200 could be obtained for it, and a-bed to make an offer as near that figure

"Such cases have created

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seas, which we strove for in line real grievance in the City where with our evolution, England was there are no onces to be had." never willing to grant, even if it - had come to a world war on the too, point

and

as well as ships nam7.9. uch as Irresistible. Invincible. In the four years struggle Iodomitable. Formidable. which Germany waged against many others. the desire of its enemies to de-

This method. fundamentally, is stroy it. the Fleet was able, be- really as the Fales asunder from yond all foreign expectations, taj bars, but still it does not fail to! bold its own, and what is more, leave an impression on many it was our conduct of the naval Germans owing to its pomposity war that succeeded in forcing the and the customery embroidery stubborn enemy to the brink of compmonplaces about promoting destructionBut-nazertheless, the happiness of mankind. On

opposite we have lost the war, and with the

side Prussia- Its whole history the surrender of the German Germany i Fleet the expectations of an in-filled with struggle and distr us,

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conditions of sale apply to

For further particulars and

JOHNSON STOKES & MASTER

Prince's Building, Ice House

Street. Hongkong Solicitors for the Mortgagees.

rep ta

Mr. GEO. P. LAMMERT.

The Auctioneer.

Hongkong, 7th May, 1920.

PUBLIC AUCTION:

M

THE Undersigned have received

instructions from Messrs. | Thoresen & Co to sell by Public Auction on

„Tuesday, the 18th May, 1920.

commencing at 3 p.m.

at their Sale Rooms, Duddell

-Street-an

The Steamer ** DAGMAR "

157 tons gross Beg.

921 tona ne Reg. 1800 tons deadweight caps-

dependent shaping of our desting because the wars of Europe were as she now lies in the Menam have vanished for long enough.. carries! on by proference on is River. Bangkok with all bez The origin of the word-warflefsitoryo ku was the lesion machinery, gear and appurtén- | lies in the opposition between the the Categorical Imperative, ever Anglo-Saxon and the German reads fur privations and sarrifires ances etc. conceptions of the world. On always raising itself again. till it the former side is the claim to the seemed at last to have succeeded. position of unrestricted primary through the unification of the in sea-power, to the dominios of Empire in being able in reap the| the seas, to the prerogative of fruits of its hard-won position of ocean-trade and to a levy on the power, The victory over the treasures of all the earth. "We hard times it had to pass through are the first nation of the world" is the dogma of every English man, and he cannot conceive how

others can doubt it.

i on 17 feet mean draft Speed 10 knots

This steamer went ashore in was due to its idealism and to its the Gulf of Siam, was saived, sor tried loyalty to the Fatherland towed to Bangkok, where she was under the oppressions of foreign dry-locked and patched up. zule. The strength of var defen

Inspection orders on application England hasta process of time give powE: rested abore all to the East Asiatic Co. Ltd.. understood how ID create an things on our conceientiousness Bangkok. ales: universal recognition of and thoroughness, acquired by

its claim. Its whole policy based stric: discipline.

The steamer be at purchasera

purchase money is to be paid.

oo the authority of its Fleet and If it comes to the point that risk after fall of hammer, when the favourable situation of one must decide antagonisme by the British Isles, bas always larma, the foremost consideration been adapted to the principle is no longer "how can I defesd

but **hu that all that may contribute myself!"

can!

For full particulars apply to LAMMERT BROS..

Auctioneers.

Messrs. THORESEN & CO.

fisorkung.

1741/ntersigned havorereived instructions to sell by Public Auction of---

Wednesday, the 19th. May 1920) commencing at ... at their Sales Rooms, 6 Dúddell Street, 100 cases Salamander U. V, P. Brandy

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"ad majorem gloriam Britan- | I hit the enemy *165* nise" is of advantage also to the severely?" Attack, mut dei progress of mankind. The prin-¡fence, leads mos: quickly to the cipal feature of the English goal. The best deterrent from character is markedly materialis-war is moreover, to impress on tic and reveals itselfin a striving the enemy the certainty that he for power and profit. The co-must thereby suffer considerably. mercial spirit, which animates The method adopted by us of des and vidualESSIROMAR Mergers a eficient betale fare, curs the political and miliran an engagement with which interfed dealings of the whole people voired a risk for England, offered Their claims, to themselves not only the greatest prospect of matter of course. went so far preventing war, but also, if war always that they never granted could not be avoided. the best advantages to another, even if possibility of striking the enemy their utilisation was not possible effectively. Of the issue of a fleet to themselves at the time, but action it could with certainty be might perhaps be so later. That stated that the resultant damage bamanifested itself most clearly to the English supremacy at sea in the Colonial sphere.

would be great and correspond The ediɓce of English world-proportionately with our losses. importance and might has rested Whilst we at need could get over for hundred years on the fame such a sacrifice, it must exercise of Trafalgar and they have care an intolerable effect on England, fully avoided hazarding it. They which relied on its sea-power have besides with skill and alone. How far these considera- success, left untried no means of tiens on which the construction accentuating the impression of of our Fleet was based werei

What we zecognised as correct : on power and using it. should consider boastful.was to English side, can be judged from the British only the expression the tactics of England's Fleet in of their end. In support of this the world war, which throughout we may mention such expressions the struggle were based on the We have the ships, we most anxious efforts to avoid have the men, we have the money suffering any real injury.

the

will be transferred to Mesars Moutrie & Co. PRICE $1. esch.

NOTICE.

THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED.

P. & 0.9 N. COY. Hongkong, 10th May, 1920. 22. Das Vieux Road.

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NOTICE.

HONGKONG GYMKHANA CLUB.

The 3rd GYMKHANA MEET: NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

ING of the season will be held The thirty-ninth Ordinary at HAPPY VALLEY on SATUR- Yearly Meeting of shareholders DAY, the 15th inst commencing will be held at the Offices of the at 3.30 p.m. undersigned on Tuesday the 25th May 1920, at 11.30 am.

"

The Charge of Admission will

be $1.00 for others than Members

ADVERTISE YOUR WANTS.

WHAT YOU WANT SOMEONE HAS WHAT YOr DON'T WANT SOMEONE ELSE DOES.

ONE CENT PER WORD PER INSERTION

Two Cents if not Prepaid.

A SMALL ADVERTISEMENT IN THESR COLUMNS WILL BE PRODUCTIVE OF MANY ENQUIRIES REPLIES AWAIT BOX No. :– 346 917 352 &

255

FOR SALE.

FOR SALE - Steel Motor Lighter, length 70 ft. beam 15 ft. depth of hold 8 ft. Cargo capacity

FOR SALE.

FOR SALE --316inch Astrono

Equatorial

65 tons, hatch 10'-5" x 7", 30 H.P.mical Telescope; Kerosene Motor loaded; speed about 614 M. P. H. Practically Mounting: Divided circles; Driv- - new; inspection invited. Applying Clock; Universal Latitude Box 356 c/o "Hongkong Tele graph

Adjustment; Photographie At- tachment with correcting lens: Several eyepieces, including salar

TO BE LET.

TO BE LET-A five-roomed

house at Peak, fully furnished and stellar diagonals; Wedga and conveniently situated to be Photometer; &e: :. All in let from beginning of June for three four months, rent $250 per perfect condition. Apply Harbour month, Apply P.O. Box No. 6.

Department.

NOTICE.

NOTICE.

The Tran-ler Books and Reaf the Hongkong Jockey Cluber THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE JUNION INSURANCE SOCIETY

gister of Members of the Company will be elnsed from the 11th May to the 5th May, both days in clusive.

JARDINE MATHESON &

CO. LTD.

Tieneral Agents.

Hongkong, 3rd May, 1920.

ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL

MONDAY

NEXT

ORGAN RECITAL

AT

6 P.M.

A COMPLETE ERATED WATER PLANT FOR SALE.

PLOMATININEN are manin hạ Messze, krato $5. L':'. Manchester, and guarantem; ka The complete piant wall * 2, IDO de Artated. Watero per dar

KWONG SANG HONG LTE

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B 26.

_PUBLIC_ABICHON==

Gymkhana Club

Soldiers and Sailors in unifor Half Price...

The

Committee invite the Ladies of Hongkong to be present,

Hongkong, 7th May, 1920.

NOTICE.

COMPANY LIMITED.

OF CANTON LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN ORDINARY

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GİVEN that the 51st ORDINARY YEAR- LY MEETING of the Company that the 471b will be held at its Head Office. | YEARLY MEETING of the Nos. 3 and 4 Queen's Buildings on Society will be held at its Head FRIDAY 21 MAY. 1920 at Office. Nos. 3 and 4 Queen's 1230 pm for the purpose of re Buildings. Hongkong, on FRI- ceiving the Report of the Direc- DAY 21st May 1920, at Noon, for tors together with the Statements the purpose of receiving the of Account to 31st December 1919 Report of the Directors together and of declaring Dividends etc. with the Statements of Account..... The TRANSFER BOOKS of to 31st December 1919, and of Members are reminded that the Nomination for Officers

the Company will be CLOSED and N.C.Os, having now been received, from 8th May to 1st May, both declaring Dividends, etc. Balloting for the various Com- days inclusive. panies will take place at Head- quarters on the following dates) and times. Ballot papers will be Lissued at Headquarters.

HONGKONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.

"By Order of the Board.

•

C. HP HAY. Depars fieteral Menezes Hongkong, 4b Mar-1920.

NOTICE.

Artillery Company 6.15 p.m.

Monday, 10th May. Engineer Company 6.15 p.m.

Tuesday, 11th May. Machine Gun Company 6.15)

p.m. Wednesday, 12th May Infantry and Light Infantry It is hereby notified that on Companies 6.15 p.m. Thurs-the 21st May, at the Treasury of day, 13th May

Macao, at 3 p.m. tenders are Scottish Company 5.15 p.ru invited by verbal competition for Thursday, 13th May the Monopoly of Opium, for-the Mounted Infantry Coy. 6.15 period of three years, commencing from 1st August 1920 to 31st July 1923.

.

p.. Thursday, 13th May Reserve Company 6.15 pm

Friday, 14th Mar.

G. F. E. RAPSON,

B.T.. Major

Adjutant, Hongkong Volunteer Defence Carps. Hongkong, 3rd May, 1920.

NOTICE.

REPULSE BAY HOTEL

TE Undersigned bare received | THE MISSES DE VINE AND

instructions to sell by Public Auction on

Monday, the 16th. May, 17a. commencing at 1! a.m.

at their Sale Rooms, 6 Duidell

Street

5 casks Soft Soap

bags Soda Ash

Brandy

20

20

Three Star

MacLaren's Dry Gin

Old To

Gin

1

20

23

Merveille's Peppermint, Sherry

+

Jamaica Rum

Burgundy

12

Creme de Menthe Angostura Bitters

Champagne

Biscuits

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS

Auctioneers..

Bacon Slicer

cases Imitation Vermillion

9 barrels Ship Varnish

5 drums Bright Red Anti-

+

fouling Composition Paint

cases Pickles

cases Jelly.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers.

TERREY

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SOCIETY ENTERTAINERS will introduce

HARMONY AND SONG ·'.

at the usual

TEA DANSANT AND DINNER DANCE

to be held

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 17th:- and SATURDAY, MAY 15th.~~

SUNDAY, MAY 16th.

Orchestral Concerts during Tiffin and Afternoon.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from 18th May To 21st May, both days ¡¡oclusive,

By Order of the Board,

CLH. P. Hay. Deputy General Manager. Hongkong, 4th Mag, 1920,

NOTICE.

·BRITISH TRADERS' INSUR-

ANCE CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN the 54th ORDINARY

All the terms and conditions for the tender can be obtained on application at the Portuguese Consulate in Hongkong or at that the Treasurer's Department in YEARLY MEETING of the Macao.

PLINIO TINOCO,

Treasure. Treasurer's Office of Macao, 22nd April, 1920.

NOTICE

THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY LIMITED.

Notice is hereby given that the Thirty-First Ordinary General Meeting will be hed at the Com- pany's Offices, St. George's Build-, inga, on Saturday, 22nd May 1920, at 11.30a.m. for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors together with a State- ment of Accounts to 29th Febru- ary 1920, and electing Directors and Auditora. The Transfer Books of the Comany will be closed from the 15th to the 22nd May 1920, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors

GIBB, LIVINGTON & CO.

Agents. Hongkong, 4th May, 1920.

Company will be held a?its HUJ Office. Nos. 3 and 4 Quee, s Buildinga, Hongkong, on Friday, 21st MAY 1920, at 12.45 p.m.,. for the purpose of receiving the Re- part of the Directors together with the Statements of Account to 31st December 1919 and of declaring Dividends, etc.

The TRANSFER "BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 8th May to 21st May, both days.inclusive.

By Order of the Board,

C. H. P. HAY, Deputy General Manager. Hongkong, 4th May, 1920.

NOTICE.

· ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE

BRANCH, KOWLOON.

Pitman's Shorthand Evening Classes.

:

A class for young men will commence on Monday 3rd May, For particulars apply by letter to the above address.

DALTON

MUSTARD & Co

ADDING, LISTING

AND CALCULATING

MACHINE

Jel No

Tel. No. 1186