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INTIVATIONS,
MIN RIVER CONSERVANCY, Notification No. 9. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
TENDERS are invited for a vertical boiler shout four feet in diame ter and nine feet in height, either new or used, together with the usati sears and water mountings suitable, for use
bailers in good
on a Priestross Dredger. Tenders will be considered only working condition.
fenders stating dimension with other particulars of the boilers and mounliege,
time of delivery, etc. will be received up to 21st December by the Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Mia River Conservancy.
The Conservancy does on biod itself to accept the lowest or any tender.
P. R. WALSHAM,
Hon. Serretary net Treasury to the Min Fires Coaservancy,
Foochow 30th November, 1920-
THE CHINA LIGHT AND POWER
(1918) LIMITED.
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF SHAHEROLDERS will be held at the 45ces of the Company. St. George's Railding, Chater Road, Victoris, Hong- king, on THURSDAY, the 23rd Decem b. 1920, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon. for the purpose of receiving a statement 2f accounts and the report of the General Managers for the year ended h September. 1920, and electing a 15ulting Committee and Auditors The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Cempary will be CLOSED from FRI- , the 17th Deceraber, 1920, until THURSDAY, the 23rd Desember,, 1320, bak days inclusive.
THE SECOND
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Managers.
Hongkong, December 7, 1320.
MASSAGE.
Mr. HONDA and Mrs. HONDA.
Trained male Mass-c 13 years' experience. Formerly of Tokyo Military Hospital. WILL VISIT PATIENTS' RESIDENCES IF PREFERRED No. 24. Wyndham Street, (Opposite to the China Mi
INSTAFTANEOUS WATER
FRATERS
For Gas and Oil. Unlimited Hot Water.
C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD. Nos. 30 & 32 Des Tax Road Central. Established 1900
THE CLEANING OF SUMMER FROCKS is an important matter and we make a speciality of refinishing" "light Frocks and Costumes so that they Freep clean longer than When treated by ordinary methods.
Our processes are thorough and fable. Our facilities and re- cenes; Busbla, ns to carry out all quickly, and our charges sen
really, reasonable.
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The Diamond Dyeing and Drycleaning Co.
CASBUM AHMED.
General Draper,
14-17 Bington Street.
Nathan Road, Kowloon. CG#Phone 148%, 10
INTIMATIONS
YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM,
JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestive food for Infants which keeps goed in quality during Hot weather (2) LAC TOSE (MEL Sugar) for sweetening the foods of Infants and Dyspeptics (3) MILFORD MCGRATH FLUID INSEC TICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Mosquitoes, Bngs, Flies and all other Insect Pests in Summer days, and (4) JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA |
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Houses
PRICES are Very Moderate. Ins- pection and Eagaries are cordially invited.
SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.
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issued 1st to 3rd Nov. 1920, at 25 cents per set.
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No. 10. Wyndham Strest, P.O. Baz 620.
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JAPANESE MAKERS.
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· PEDDER STREET, Oppos te' Hongkong Hoce! Telephone No. 491
Hongkey, Yarch 20, 1914
MASSAGE HALL
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Phone No. 64.
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and depressed. Trattacks
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This letter was written from 2, Ashley Terrace, Katia Étad, Selly Ch Birmingham, in September 191 Over free yours Jalar, on December 22nd, 1919, the proprietora of Ds With's Kidney and Hadder Pills, heard again from Mrs. Peters who said, "I have Szever had a return of any signs of dry tranble since your Pils emed me, five years ago."
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colour feature which distinguishes De Witt's
A friend gave me sample of De Witt's Pille Pills from all other know that they and tabl me to try them as they had done her kave pot their bealing touch on the right syet good. I did, so, sid am really thankful I did, į the kiliseys and, the bladder.
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Most forms of Bladder Trouble.
Sld by chemist and scorekeepers throughout the world. De "Wit's pils are packed in red and gold botes iated in blue, and every gunnina bostle has a red wax seal or the cork. They are sold by the leading dispensaries sad storek epere is Chiza, but if you are unable to abs in them locally send your money to the Shange Dispensary, 74, Foochow Road, Shanghai.
SLAVERY IN THE EAST.
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POSITION IN HONGKONG.
SHANGHAI PAPER BLAMES CHINESE.
WORLD'S FASHIONS,
BEST-DRESSED TOMEN.
ARGENTINE LEADS..
CHINESE FAMINES.
CAUSE CONSIDERED.
MR. J. O. P. BLAND'S VIER'S.
・ The: Argentine glittering with A recent editorial in the Shanghai
In the Observer, Mr. J. O. P. Bland. Mercury said:The Hongkong Gos- wealth-is simply clamouring for
discusses the cause of Chinese ernment is being worried a good deal British goods. I am satisfied we can at present on the subject of the trade beat the world for their trade if we famines, which he finds in the ex- in human flesh. Colonel Ward and only serile, down and work," said Sir cassive and increasing population. In Woodman Barbidge, managing the course of his observations he others have been putting' questions in the House of Commons on the sub-director of Harrods, Limited, to a ject of the sale of Chinese gids. It reporter on his return from South Eays**** was at first denied that Chinese girls America. were bought or sold to any extent in
Hongkong, and of course slavery or the sale of human beings is absolutely! forbidden in British law. Now fur- ther questions in the House of Com- mons have apparently brought the admission that there are girls of aine- teen years of age and probably young er in the brothels in Hongkong. It is not stated whether these girls entered these houses of their own volition, but it is certain that the Hongkong authorities know that in practically every case these girls have been bought by the proprietors of these houses either-from their par ents or from agents. Of course, Hongkong is not singular in that re- spect. Although it was stated that the Chinese abhor the traffic in humani flesh (when it is for immoral pur- poses only. however) as much as foreigners. the system of domestic! slavery, the existence of which en- courages the trade in human fesh for imineral purposes, is everywhere still in existence in China, Chinese girls |
So long as China, maintains a "The Argentine women are really birth-rate which is estimated at fifty- the leaders of the world's fashions" five per thousand or over, the only I consider they are far possible alternative to these periodic he added. better dressed than English, United al visitations would be emigration, States or even French women. They and this would have to be on such a will have nothing but the very best scale as would speedily overrun and British goods and will pay 10 per overfill the habitable globe. To those Now they who are unfamiliar with the facts of cem, more to get them. are dressing in short tight-fitting China's case and with the working skirts and costumes of British cloth of the law of population this state well tailored right up to the neck.mit may possibly seem overdrawn. **Our stores system has brought | Is is, nevertheless, true, and its truth about a change in the social life of the may easily be verified by a simple women..who were seldom seen about arithmetical calculation. Given suff in public. Now afternoon tea at the ciency of food and elbow room, the stores is one of the social functions. population of China, maintaining its present birthrate," would The fashionable, shopping hour is
double itself by natural increase în between 4 and 5, and we scat as many about twenty years. In other words, as 1,100 in our tea-room.**
by the end of the present century, it would amount to about 2,500 millions, that is to say, more than the present population of the globe, and far more than its soil, can support.
This natural increase of one of the strong. est stocks of the human race has for centuries been kept in check within its own borders, and within the limits of its available food supply, by infanticide, by civil war, by pestilence and by famme.
CLUB CRISIS.
BOARING COSTS.
There is something like a crisis, in London Clubland. All sorts of tem- porary expedients have been ried in many clubs to meet the increased cost of living and expenses, but they have been insufficient.
are bought by wealthy families to be 10-GUINEA SUBSCRIPTIONS DOUBLED. brought up to be servants or amabs. The modem, Chinese law may forbid these transactions, but the custom is universal, and there have been cases where a runaway slave has been re- türned to her mistress by a Court. The responsibility for the terrible traffic, therefore, rests on the Chi Some of the, older institutions have nese; and it can only be finally been hard hit. "Premises have been abolished by the Chinese themselves allowed to become dilapidated during taking the matter up and bringing the the war, and the cost of repairs and practice into disrepute. It may be redecorations is a very serious item. admitted that in, most cases these The prices charged for food do not in domestic slaves are not ill used, and most cases cover expenses and many in some cases they may be treated as i club coffee-rooms are run at x loss.
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The problem thus presented is one with which neither humanitarian nor religious zeal can ever cope, so long as we fail to cognise and to attack the fundamental cause of these calamities. As a matter of sober fact, the benevolent activities of our missionary societies to reduce the death-rate, by the prevention of in fanticide and the checking of disease, actually serve in the end to aggravate the pressure of population upon its food supply, and to increase the severity of the inevitably resultant catastrophe. What is needed for the prevention, or, at least, mitigation, of these scourges, is directed first against polygamy and the marriage of minors and the unfit,
the
members of the family, but the fact Servants' wages are a constantly that it is necessary to have a slave increasing charge. Rates, and taxes girls' refuge in Shanghai is a sufficient and the price of coal, linen, glass, and proof that serious abuses exist. It electric light keep on mounting an organised educational propaganda, is the system of domestic slavery, Club committees are in despair. I That readers possible the existence of they load the charges for food and the professional kidnapper. Of course, drink too heavily it is likely to have hoys are sold as well as girls, but the an effect on the number of lunchers hoys are bought for adoption, and and diners, who may be driven to there have beeɑ no reports of abuses restaurants.
and next, lowards such a limitation
of the birth-rate as shall approximate
to the standard of civilised countries.
But as long as Bishops and well- in their case. They are not kept as
The Portland Club some time ago meaning philanthropists in England. slaves but as members of the family raised its subscription from 10 to 20 and America continue to praise, and into which they are taken... As to the unfortunate, sisves in the brothels in guineas, and this course is now con- encourage the glorious fertility of foreign concessions and colonies, it plated by many other clubs, in the East," there can be but little hope is questionable if the authorities do cluding the Athenæum, the Army and of minimising the penalties of the all that they might to stop the traffic. Navy, Brooks's, and the Devonshire, ruthless struggle for existence in Of course, they cannot inquire into The Royal Automobile Club, with its China, and Nature's law. will, there the life history of every inmate, and thousands of members has raised its fore, continue to work out its own they would not elicit the truth it they subscription by 2 quiness to £8 88. pitiless solution, weeding out every
lingu. did, but means might be taken to let for old members and £10 10s. for newear millions of predestined weak- the inmates all know that they can- members, and next year will impose. not be retained in these places against an entrance fee of 10 guineas.
The result will probably be that the their will, even og the pretext of debts. The whole system is abomin man of many clubs will reduce his able, even the domestic slavery, for membership to one or at the most
For five or six. that in almost every case involves: two, fasty
the sale of good looking girls to be secondary wives or concubines. The blame for its existence, and for its in the past continuance, in spite of nominal laws! it. The
to the contrary, rests on the Chinese, will probably for it is abhorrent to foreigners, but authorities, and... it is' questionable if foreigners: bave
WHOOPING COUGH.
your child has hooping bongb be careful to keep they cough loose and expectoration Ky by giving Chamberlain's Cough Remedy may be required. This remedy ill also ciently discouraged quify the, to gh mucus and make if e Commons to expectorate It has been used auorestfully in many epidemies and as it gkong contains no narcotic or other injurious muchstances it is perfectly rele. For mis
by all Chemists and Storekeepers. +/
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1933
NOTICES.
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WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS,
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IS NOW LOCATED AT
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Opposite to LOCK HING & CO.
HOTELS AND CAFES.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.
OPERATING 1--
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HOTEL MANSIONS,
THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,
AND. THE
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
5. H. TAGGART,
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THE PEAK HOTEL.
1,500 Feet above Ses Level.
15 Minutes from Landing-Stage. Under the Management of-
Mrs. BLAIR.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
UENTRAL LOCATION
LL ELECTRIC TRAMS Fans Entrance, Electric Lifta, Fana and Lighting
A Bazopean Baths and Sanitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water System throughout. Best of Food and Servics.
Telephone 373. Telegraphie Address — VICTORIA.
J. WITCHELL, Manazi,
CARLTON HOTEL.
(THE ONLY AMERICAN BOZEL IN KAN OOLOTE.)
ICK HOUSE STREET.
Under American Management. Nice and quat yet only a few minnir walk from the Banks and Cereal District. Eedrooms, Excellent Calsine. Berapalously clean. Moderate Terms. Monthly and Tandly Bates of syplication to the Proprietress. Lafinches weet Pronger, Boats.
Mx.-P. E. CAMERON Telegraphie Adrom "CARLTON."
PALACE HOTEL
KOWLOON.
(Two minutes from Star Ferry).
Recently renovated and refurnished, slactzie light and fans throngbon and entirely under new management. Culsins under the personal supervision of the proprietor. Bar and Billiard Rooms. Terma moderate. Special Verma to families on application to
Telephone K. 3. Telegraphia Add: PALACE."
HOTEL
WEST BUND,
J. H. OXEKERY, Proprietas.
"ASIA"
CANTON.
Booms en Suite & with
Garden, Roof
Hairdressing
Excellent Cuisine.
etc.
private Baths.
Saloon,
Moderate Rates.
Leading Hotel in South China.
Special attention
given
Under the Foreign Supervision of,
TANG JUK Derriz,
the late SIFAT TING,
PERMBÄTERY MODERATE-
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