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The China Mail.
No. 18,393.
三拜禮
October 19 1921 Temperature 75
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Barometer 29,89
Raintal 0.00 uch
1848
Humidity 93
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19. 192:, 號九十月十年一十二百九千一英
BUSINESS NOTICES
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& PEARSON
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CARS FOR HIRE
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in Hongkong and Kowloon.
FLOOR TILES
WALL TILES.
AT PRICES THAT DEFT COMPETITION.
TEL.
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Having on-band a large stock of all kinds of Tiles purchased at a high rate of exchange, we are able to prote attactive prices for all thing work. Estimates free of charge. A work done under expert supervision. C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD., 30/32 Des Voeur Road. Hongkong, Branches at CANTON and MACAO.
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WINE MERCHANTS.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
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WE BEG TO ANNOUNCE TO OUR NUMEROUS CUSTOMERS AND PUBLIO IN GENERAL THAT WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A LARGE AND BEAUTIFUL. SELECTION OF THE WORLD'S FAMOUS CRYSTAL
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TO-DAY'S CABLES.
October 19, 1920, Temperature 43
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日九十月九酉辛大歳年十國民華中 PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
THE DOLLAR.
(Rosted's Servier to the Chion Morild
To-dy's closing rate 295 8.
Today's opening rate 2958. |
DISARMAMENT PROSPECTS.
ENQUE INDUSTRIELLE DIVIDENDS.
FINANCIAL EXPERT'S REPORT,
TIMANAL OFFENCE ETIDENCE LACKING
LONDON, October 18
WASHINGTON CONFERENCE ARRANGEMENTS.
PREMIER'S PLANS UNCERTAIN.
LONDON, October 18.
The House of Commons was crowded when Parlin-
The Daly Trigraph's Paris correspondent wires with regard to the afair of the Banque Industrielle de mest resugied. Replying to Mr. Asquith's request for a Chine that the report of the financial expert, M. Doyen, statemen; regarding the Washington Conference. Mc. sets aside the accusation of allotting sham dividends and Lloyd George confirmed the games of the British Empire says that profits of the bank during 1919 allowed pay delegation already cabled. He said that he himself hoped rent of a dividend to be declared although it might to go inmediately the parliamentary and general situa have been more prudent to have increased the reserve tion permitted. Sir Auckland Geddes would be a fund. With regard to increasing the capital the report delegate in his absence. General Smuts had decided to draws attention to certain saheeriptions which only the leave the interests of South Africa to the British re-” administrators reimbursed with their own cash, the half presentative who was fully acquainted with his views a million frames leming these irregular subscriptions at the Imperial Conference. The senior British naval This is an infraction of the compazies law. The charge expert Har! Beatty would be succeeded in due course by of breach of trust is said to be only incidental to the Admiral Chadwick, the principal military expert Load failure of the bank, for example the case of money trans-Cavan, the air expert, Air Marshal Higgins, and the fers from branch offices in the Far East to Paris which secretary of the delegation Sir Maurice Hankey. it had not boru paside to collect or buying orders pre ceived by batics and foreign agencie which could not be executed by the Pan- Load office owing to lack of funds.. It seems therefore according to M. Doyen that no per- somal eritinal offece can be charged against any mem- ber of the former of present management of the bank.
• AMERICAN STRIKE THREAT.
LABOUR BOARD'S MEDIATION.
NEW YORK, October 18. The presidents of railways with headquarters at Chicago assert that the proposal to translate the recently ordered reduction in wages into an immediate reduction it freights in order to avert a strike is impossible as it
PRESIDENT HARDING'S HOPE.
WASHINGTON, October 19. Prosbient Harding, thanking the King for the bestowal of the Victoria Cross on the American unknown Warrior, cxpresses the belief that the British and Atheri- can delegates to the disarmament conference will co- operate with the other nations to reduce the burden of armaments through diminishing possible causes of war," ITALY'S REPRESENTATIVE.
ROSE, October 18. Marquis Dellatoretta, the Foreign Minister, will represent Italy at the Washington Conference.
PRINCE'S MILITARY SECRETARY.
would again place the railroads in a precarious position MILITARY ATTACHE AT TOKYO APPOINTED. Snancially. On the other hand. Mr. Stone, the president of a powerful brotherhood of locomotive engineers, asserte that the Government can prevent the strike by taking over the railways which will eventually happen."
CHICAGO, October 18.
Telegrams have been despatched summoning the heads of four milway brotherhoods and switchmen's unions to confer with the Radway Labour Board in an endeavour to avert a strike.
FRENCH TEXTILE STRIEL
SOME OF THE WORKERS ACCEPT TERMS.
LILLE, October 18:
The strike of the textile workers has partly broken down and work has been resumed in some textile establishments at Roubaix where the workers have
accepted the 10 per cent. reduction in wagas proposed by the employers. Some of the factories restarted at Lille after an agreement between the employers and workers, but a meeting of weavers at Lille decided to
continue the strike.
TRADE UNION UNEMPLOYMENT.
SITUATION SHOWS STEADY IMPROVEMENT.
LosDox, October 18.
Official returns show that unemployment among trade union workers is steadily improving. It fell to 14.8 at the end of September compared with 16.3 per cent. at the end of August. The cost living during the same period declined ten points and is now 110 higher than before the war.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS UNION.
EARL OF COWDRAY'S MUNIFICENT GIFT,
•
LONDON, October 18.
At a meeting of the League of Nations Union, Lord Robert Cecil announced that the Earl of Cowdray hnd promised to contribute $50,000 to the Uzion during the next three years.
IRISH NEGOTIATIONS. ., sẽ
SINK FEINERS CONFER WITH CHURCHILL,
LONDON, October 18,
Loxons, October 19. Brigadier General Woodroffe has been appointed military secretary to the Prince of Wales during his visit to Japan
[Brigadier-general Charles Richard Woodroffe, C.B.E., CMG. R.A., was appointed military attache at Tokyo in 1918. From 1907 to 1938 he was attached to the Japanese Army. In 1908 he was appointed Japanese interpreter. He served in both the South African and the European Wars. In the latter he was mentioned in despatches six times. He holds a number of French and Belgian war distinctions.]
GERMANY BANKRUPT
PUBLIC AWAKING TO THE FACT.
LONDON, October 19. Idoyd's Bank monthly report reviewing Germany's financial condition, concludes that in spite of a measure of misleading prosperity, certain fields in Germany have long been bankrupt and the conversion of the mark into foreign bills and industrial shares merely proves that the public at last appreciates the fact. The report points out that Germany's bankruptcy means that she will default sooner or later with her reparations obligations.
CHINESE GIRL STUDENTS.
SELLING DRESSES TO PAY COLLEGE FEES.
PARIS, October 18. Many Chinese girl students attending the Paris Civersity have decided to sell their Chinese dresses and ornaments at the American Women's Club in order to raise money to pay their college fees during the coming Jear
1.
COOK ISLANDS DEV.
NEW ZEALAND ENFORCING PROHIBITION.
WELLINGTON, October 18. The Government has introduced a bill to enforce prohibition in the Cook Islands except of liquor for medicinal, sacramental and industrial purposes.
AMERICA'S FOREIGN DEBT.
SPECIAL COMMISSION TO ARRANGE FUNDING.
WASHINGTON, October 19,
It is expected that the Irish Conference will resume on October 20. The Siun Fein delegates: to-day co- ferred with Mr. Winston Churchill at the Colonial Ofice. favourably reported on a bill creating a special commis-
SMALL POZ BACILLUS.
"BIUTERIOLOGIST: CLAIMS-DISCOVERY,
SANTIAGO DE CHILE, October 18.
A bacteriologist at Atrea claims in have discovered
pox bacillus
A committee of the House of Representatives has
sion headed by Mr. Mellon in order to arrange the-land- ing of repayment of the foreign debt..
„FORMER HAVANSTAN KING DEAD.
"BurarksT, October 19. Ex-King Ludwig of Bavaris is dead.
BUSINES NOTICES
Between Season's Goods.
A few good-value, low-figured lines being featured
for One Week at Mackintosh & Co., Ltd.
Flannel Shirts Seasonable light-weight Ceylon Flannel Shirts in assorted colored stripes
$6.50 each.
Grey Flannel Trousers London-made ready for wear. AB sizes from 22 waist: excep tionally low priced $14.50.
Paris Garters at $1.25 pair.
"Lova White Handkerchiefs Mercerised Cotton at 86,50 daz
Silk & Wool Underwear Might weight quality beautifully alt at romfortable to All sizes a swek. $10.50 scit. Larg: Assortment of Fancy Ties Also Pizin Barathas Silk, assorted outre from 82.00, $2.50, $3.00 * $3,50 Assorted Plain-Coloured Elastic Brates, ivory fittings $175. "Pyramid Handkerchiefs Fancy colored borders, $7.50 doz.
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