MONDAY DECEMBER (6, 1921,
INTIMATIONS.
DANTE CENTENARY CELEBRATION.
Hughes & Hough A CONCERT will be held at the
AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT
AND ADMIRALIT,
Comi Contractors General Brokers.
-PUBLIC AUCTIONS-
Deo, &-General Furniture &c.
8.--British & Foreign Stamp:
THE Undersigned have recarea Instine-
Tuto moll by Fabllo auction,
(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),
on
TUESDAY,
December 6, 1991, commencing at 2,30 p.m., at their Bales Boome, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of
Ice House Street, « TEAKWOOD AND BLACKWOOD FURNITURE, BRASS AND TEAK- WOOD TWIN BEDSTEADS, CARPETS,
*c..
$0.4
Comprising:-
Dining Suites, Chesterfield Sofas, Arm-chairs (new), Card and Occasional Tables, Teakwood Twin Bedatosde, large and small Wardrobes, Dressing Tables and Chaire, Washstands, &c. (famed Teakwood), Sideboards, Dinner Waggone, Dinner Services, Crockery, & Glass Ware, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery,
Electro-plated Ware,
Flectric Reading Lamps, Screens, Bundry Blackwood Furniture, Chairs, Cabinets, Pictures,
Also
One Baby Grand Piano by Broadwood. One Victrola Gramophone. (Fall Particulars from Catalogue). Tarma: Cash on delivery.
ADUHUS & HOUGH, Auctioneers.
(POR ACCOUNT SP TAX COMOREN KO), '
00
TUESDAY,
December 6, 1921, commencing at 2.30 p.m. at their Salee Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of
Ice House Street,
Feveral Lots of
Valuable St. Lambert Glas ~Wars, Venetian Coloured Electric Lampe, Mable Statuetkas, Fancy
Goods,
Also
a few pairs Special Blankets and Rugs. Terms: Cash on delivery.
HUGHES & HOUGH
Auctioneers.
(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONQERARD),
THURSDAY, December 8, 1921, at 5 p.m.,
at their Sales Rooms, No.
Dea Via Road, Corner of
Ice House Strent,
A Private Collection of British and Fereign Stamps, including :-- large number of British Coloniale. (Full Particulars from Catalogue). Terma :- Cash on delivery.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers.
(For Account of the Concerned,)
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THURSDAY December 8, 1921, at 2.30 pm, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of
Ice House Street:
A Valuable Selection of Jewellery, Comprising:- Diamond and Gem Brooches, Necklet.
Bracelets, Rings and other Ornaments. An opportunity for suitable Xmas Gifts.
terma--Cash on delivery.
HUGHES & HOUGH. Auctioneers,
{POR ADGGUNT OF THE OGNOREMED},
on
FRIDAY,
·December 9, 1921, at 2.30 pm. at their Sales Rooms,
No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of Ice House Street, Chiness: Porcelains, Durios, Lacquered Ware, &o, &o,
including :---
A variety of 5-coloured and 3-coloured Vases and Jara, Wall Plates, Table Sorcene, Blue and White Vaset, Incense burners, Old Bronze and Braes
•Figures and Vased, Kakemonos, Lacquered Cabinets, Chairs, Screens, Tables, Ivory Waro, Jado, Agate and -Crystal Ornaments, Mandarin Pieces,
Also
Many - Groen
Jado Ornaments, Beads Hand Bags, Embroitored Bags, Amber Nook-lacer, Golden Breast Pins, :Scarf Pins, Steova Buttons, Bracelote,
Brooches, &o, &c. ...
The above stook recently, arrived. from the North and includes piecos from the Ming, Kunghi, Kiontung and Towkwong Pariods,
The bulk of which will be sold without reserve.
Full Particulars from Catalogue), -On view day bofora aule......... Panics : ---Chiah on-dolivory,/!.
HUGHES ♣ HOUGH,
Astationsers.
Theatre Royal on MONDAY, the 6th December, at 9.15 p.fn.'in connection with the above Celebration to which all those interested are cordially invited. A lecture on Dante will be delivered by Mr. G. P. de Martin-M. B: E., B. Å.
Hongkong, December 3, 1921.
NOTICE.
THANKS TO DR. YEUNG ON SHU, SURGEON,
WANT ADVERTISEMENTS
BS WORDE'S INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID. Every additional word 4 Cente
for 3 insertions.
WANTED.
December 15th.
Please keep this date for Madame Lottie Gordon's AFTERNOON XMAS CONCEET, City Hall, for Xmas Gift Fund for the Blind Home, Pokfulum home; also the home for the aged,
THE CHINA MAIL.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
WASHINGTON CONFERENCE.
WASHINGTON, December 1st. With reference to the American boligf that the Disarmament Conference will determine whether outside nations should be invited to attend the congluding negotiations, it was revonlod a week ago that high administration officials con sidered that Germany a and some other nations should be asked to join in any agreement the Conferanse might reach.
LONDON, December 3rd.
PARIS, December 3rd. M. Briand, interviewed, declared that tangible resulta could be expected from the Washington Conference which was not The Times correspondent at Washing- limited to abstract resolutions. Hoton says that at the next plenary sitting denied the accusations brought against of the Conference Mr. Hughes may bo Franco by interested propaganda able to foreshadow the painless demise Frotico did not desin the military of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance or ite hesamony to whch Germany aspired. translation
f
Referring to Lord Curzon's speech be dimensions to a higher plane of four declared that he was always ready to The same correspondent says there are enter inte friendly conversations with signs that Japan will modify her demand Britain, but he saw no occasion for the for a seventy per cent, capital ship ton- early summoning of the Supreme Council nage. Indeed, nome Japanese delegates which might be necessary if Germany explain that the demand has never been sought a Dow reparations plan. Tinando, by which they apparently menn thought this was unlikely to occur during that it has not been submitted formally but only formed the substance of Japan- explained that they did the arguments in the naval negotiations. WANTED:-- An ASSISTANT for a not desire it to be inferred that, because This method of bargaining is not likely THE PUBLIC IS HEREBY inform firm of AUCTIONEERS, one having they catered the conference, China reced to improve the moral status of Japan in Ted that of 14th October, 1921, previous experience preferred. Gooded from her attitude with reference to the eyes of th
whose people is intense. If embarked on the S.S. "EWAH PING" opening for the right man. o/o A. the disputed treaties. With reference to terest in the
S. S. "HWAH PING."
I
A four
at Peru to return to China. days after the vessel's departure I suddenly felt a very bad pain in the lower part of my right leg. When DR. YEUNG, Surgeon of the vessel, and, native of the Mai District, had treated my leg the pain loft me after a few days and, after being continually under his | kind medical treatment for twenty odd days, my leg entirely recovered. In commemoration of and Thankfulness for his kindness, I therefore put, these linea in the paper to bring it to every- body's notice.
IP* WAH-LAM, NATIVE OF CHEK KAL Hongkong, December 1, 1921.
THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO., (1918), LTD.
THE THIRD ORDINARY 1 GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the Company, St. George's Building, Chater Road, Victoria, Hong- kong, on SATURDAY, the 10th December, 1921, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General Managers for the year endled 30th September, 1921, and electing a Consulting Committes and Auditora.
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from THURS DAY, the 1st December 1921 until SATURDAY, the 10th December 1921 both daya inclusiva. ·
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.
General Managers. Hongkong, November 19, 1921.
NATIONAL LOANS,
DONDHOLDERS ARE HEREBY
DRAWING of the 3rd. Year Loan ($2,750,000) and the EIGHTH DRAWING of the 7th. Year Issue of Short Term Bonds ($4,800,000) will be held, as announced by the Loan Bureau of the Ministry of Finance, in Peking on 1st and 10th December respectively and that payment of dawn. bonds will be made on 31st., December.
Bonds of the 1st Year 6 per cent Loan (converted issue which were drawn on 10. November inst, amounting to $2,719,611.40 will be redeemed on 1st,
·Decembe" next, and the interest coupon | $1,631,766.84 will be paid on same
dute.
The interest coupon on the 3rd Year Loan, 7th Year Short Term, Bord Issue and the 7th Year Long Term Bonds due au 31st De ember next will be paid on 31st December.
F. A. AGLEN, Inspector General of Customs. Inspectorate General of Custoras,
Peking, 21st November, 1921.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO.,
LIMITED.
NOTICE.
CHAREHOLDERS in THE STEAM
Kowloon,
B. C.
INTIMATIONS.
A FREE LECTURE
an
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE®
By
JOHN C. LATHROP, C. S. B.
of Brokline, Mass. Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church
The First Church of Obrist Scientist, Boston, Mass.
will be given in the
.CITY HALL
the Wings Conference.
Tho
the lease of Kinochau the Japanesà ex- the report regarding Japanese intentions plained the view of control of the Tsingis accurate, their
of acceptance the 5/5/3 tao railway on the basis of the Japanes tingent upon conditions regarding non- ratio will probably be found to be con Note of September 7th
fortification of baval bases in the WASHINGTON, December 3rd.
Some progress has been made with the
navy circles that it may prove expedient- to modify Mr. Hughes's ten years payal holiday scheme sufficiently to permit of the continuance of building capital ships during the holiday upon a very restricted Evidently the Americans share the view of the British and Japanese delegates that such 山
modification is necessary.
The impression is growing in American Shantung not without
basis.
LATER.
the necessity of
sundry Chinese tactics are also the delegates that reverse of helpful. Nevertheless, the prospect of reaching, through the Con- improvement of the ference, a basis has hitherto been and when the naval situation in China is now better than it
tussle is finished the Chinose outlook may also be clearer.
WASHINGTON, December 3rd.
It is understood that a new, stage in
It is reported that Britain, Japan and the negotiations regarding the naval ratio, described as very formidable, has France have agreed to remise much leased been reached by the Conference between territory to Chine on conditions which the British, United States and Japanese Chinn is expected to meet. It is baid delegates. An official statement says: that the Japanese have agreed to give "Mr. Balfour, Baron Kato and Mrun the leased holdings in Shantung, M. Hughes had an extended interview rus.Viviani expressed France's willingness to Chamber of Commerce Room pecting the naval proposals. No com-remise Kwang Chow Wan and the British mont upon the interview can be made at have offered to withdraw from Weihaiwei. THURSDAY, 8th. December 1921, at present."
WASHINGTON, December 4th. Immediately afterwards the 5.30 P.M.
Japanese began to cominunicata with Tokio. You are cordially invited to attend.
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A communiqué statos? Dr. Wellingtoni Koo explained the history of the leased WASHINGTON, December 3rd. territories, concluding that both Britain The Sino-Japanese delegates discussed and France based their claims to leases the Shantung question, entering into the on the ground of the necessity for pre- hear of the controversy. Each side re-serving, the balance of power in the Far asserted ils position taken up in the last East, Conditions had entirely altered in four Sino-Japanese Notes, particularly the last twenty years. With the elimina with reference to the Tsingtao-Tsinan-fution of the German menace a particularly Railway..
important and disturbing factor had been
LATER. removed. Russia had also disappeared..
A communiqué states: The first meet-Similarly, the misrule of the Manchu ing of the Sino-Japanese delegates was dynasty had disappeared. The very fact held yesterday. Responding to opening that a Conference was being held at remarks of Mr. Hughes and Mr. Balfour, Washington for arriving at a mutual. who expressed gratification at the Sino-understanding indipated an added reason Japanese acceptance of their good offices for dispensing with the necessity for and the desire to extend friendly inter maintaining the balance of power which vention with a view to securing a fair was the principal ground of the Powers' and satisfactory arrangement of the: Shantung Question, Baron Kato replied delegation believed that the time had original claims. Therefore the Chinese expressing his gratification at meeting
my
the Chinese representatives. "I cannot come for the Powers to relinquish control let this occasion pass without expressing of the leased territory.
appreciation of the offices of such leased territories greatly prejudiced Dr. Koo added that the existence of Hughes and Mr Balfour. Japan is cargerly looking forword to an early China's territorial administration and settlement of this protracted controversy, integrity because they were all situated It is the desire of the Japanese people to upon strategient leaseholds. They also eliminate all cause of misunderstanding hampered the work of antional defence between China and Japan in order that by constituting in China virtual these neighbouring nations may live in imperium in imperio. Furthermore the the future in perfect harmony. He had shitting of the conflict of interests of no doub that the same sentiment was different leaseholders had involved China fully shared by the Chinese.
nore than once in complications, of The Japaneas not unmindful of the which the Russo-Japanese war was caused difficulties with which the Chinese Govern- by the Russian occupation of Port ment was confronted in entering into Arthur and Kinochou brought the Euro- direct negotiations on this subject. The pean war to the Far East. Some of these Japanese are confident that if it is territories were utilised with a view to approuched from a broader perspective economic domination of vast adjoining the question should be susceptible of a regions as pointe d'appui for the develop- speedy solution. The vital interests of ment of spheres of faterest to ne detri- the two nations are in no way conflicting ment of the principle of equal opportu and it is unfortunate that the real issues nity for the commerce and industry of all Are very largely misunderstood by the nations. In the interest not only of public. The term
Shantung Question "
"
was i'self a misnomer. The question does China, but of all nations and especially her relate to the whole province; the im- for the peace of the Far East, the Chinese portant points now awaiting adjustment
delegation usked for early, annulment of adjustment relate only to the manner of the teases and urged meanwhile that the restoring to China territory less, than frases should be demilitarised, the lease- half of one per cent, of the province, also holders undertaking not to make use of the disposition of the railway, 200 miles the leases for any naval or military pur long, and its appurtenant mines, formerly poses. under the exclusive management of The Chinese delegation were fully Germans.
conscious of the obligations upon them There is absolutely no question of the after the termination of the leaseholds. full territorial sovereignty which 18 China would be prepared to respect and bevel and Storage of water tu reservol exercised by China throughout the pro safeguard the legitimately vested interests vince. Careful examination of the cor- of the different Powers within thosè respondence recently exchanged, shows divergences opinion more apparent than M. Viviani announced that the French
territories. real. The Japanese are hopeful that this
Government was prepared to restituto meeting will be able to determine com- leaseholds.
THE WITER SUPPLY.
on the 1st October, 1921
HIT AND HILL ÞÍSKRJOT WATER WORKS
LEVEL
1590
1021
lylam 1 ft. 2 in. Below. 7z Below orezkom
arerfow Tylam, Byewash 21 it. in Below orezdow
in. Below overflow The Intersediata
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LAUNDRY COMPANY, LTD., Naloos. at it. ala. Below overdow entitled to an allotment of shares of
14. l. Below trefow in The Hongkong Hotel Company, Limited are requested to forward their claims to the undersigned as soon as possible...
.H. N. BEAUREPAIRE,
Secretary. Hongkong, December 1, 1921.
No
NOTICE.
HYDRAWN, IN MILLIONS AND PROMATS DE GALLONS.
1920.
1
Týtam Intermediate imm
275,00 1169 104.00
1.119.00 26.24
1199.78 1,619.00
24.45
2,098.45
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mon accord regarding the essential terms of settlement, leaving" matters of detail Mr. Hanihara said Japan had not obe or local for arrangement by commis tained leases from China directly, but, gioners of the two Governmente who will as the successor of other Powers at a be specially appointed for that purpose. sacrifice of men and treasure, it had of the Kinuchau Railway Question the leasehold and had succeeded Germany in During the Sino-Japanese discussion succeeded Hussin in the Kwangtung Chinese delegates blended for complete Kiaochou. Japan had already announced restitution and offered Japan suitable her willingness to give up the latter re- financial consideration. The Japanese garding which conversations were now 340.80 counter-proposal urged the advantages of proceeding. He added that Japan, had no a system of joint Sino-Japanese control present intention of relinquishing the LATER. important rights she had lawfully ac- The communiqué mentioned above was quired in Port Arthur which formed part issued by the Chinese and Japanese of the region, where, by close proximity 2,055 10 Delegations. Mr. Alfred Bag following to Japan, she had vital interests relating Consumption of water in the City Baron Kato and added his thanks to Mr to her economic life and national safety. ad Hill District fo millions and decimal Hughes and Mr. Balfour for their friend. This fact was recognised and an assur- of gallons during the month of September, of arriving at
offices in connection with the object ance we given by the American. British fair settlement of the and French Governments when the inter- SOLO 269.60. It ́ Shantung Question. which, he described national consortium was formed that a
as vitally important to China. He said vital interests of Japan in this region that the diffoulties connected with the should be safeguard. The interests question worn well-known and it was established in Kwangtung were regarded unneccesary to dwell on them. It was as an essential part of Japanese economic, universally admitted that the condition life. was unsatisfactory and an early an Mr. Balfour pointed out that the lease. speedy resolution which wa
would be fairvi just and satisfactory to Chinese desires holds were held under very different and and aspirations was necessary. He ex very varying circumstances. .... Britain
Chinese gratification
held two different kinds of leasce which Preognition of the difficulties confronting must stand on, à diferent looking had the Chinese Government regarding the been asked why it was considered neces method of settling the question-diffien!: bary that the leased territory of Kowloon ties which male necessary resort to the should come under the same, adminis present proceduto initiated under the tration as Hongkong, but that was le good offices of Mr. Hughos and Mr. Bal cause without leased territory Hongkong, wap population106,040 181,610 four on behalf of their respective Govern perfectly indefensible, would be at the
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1921. Jomanation “Helźmašić popala Man ... 200,200 $83,440, » Jonsumption per kend
31.1 24.4 ations Constant supply in all districts during Heptember pf both 1920 and 1921,
KOWLOON WATER WORKS LETAL,
[OTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that. the HONGKONG DOLLAR DIRECTORY has been acquired, as rom July 7th, 1921, by the undersign. ed with all rights and titles, sud will hereafter be published by them. No claims against the Hongkong Dollar || Directory incurred prior to this date will be admitted by the undersigned.
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5. Wyndham Street.
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· Mon · Einervoir..... 3 with overdow wilk orden {EPORAUN IN NIGROSS ARE DECORATE OF HAZLONS.
1920
1991, Cowloon Oravitation
374.00 desertolz után
$76.00
Onovamption of water in Kowloon in pillions and decimals of gallons during the month of September.
Insoumation ..."
lonemption per hand
per day commiarpetar, 5
The Goverment Analyst's reports show bat the water is of excellaos quality,
Public Works Department. !
LA FERREI
Water Authority.
And
| mercy of any Londay with modern artil- When the meeting was resumed in the ery. The safeguarding of Hongkong was afternoon Mr Tokugawa replaced Baron not merely in British interests, but wan Kato The two delegations concerned one in which the whole world was con agreed that in discussing Shantung they cerned as it was cally. Arst among the take the actual facts and not nendemle world ports, Mr. Ballour proceeded to viewpoints as a baris which would be solely directed to promoting mutual rent extracts from the United States Government Commercial Handbook” on and good to giving China supporting his contention that, the the least inference, that the position of Hongkong in the world le unique and unparalelled, Hongkong, was
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