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THE CHINA MAIL.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY WORLD'S COLDEST TOWN.
Banks
The Bank of Canton, Ltd.; Des Voeux Road Central
thins Specie Hank, Ltd 6, Duddell Street.
ska Ohinesa Merchants'Bank,Ltd,
Alexandes Bldgs, Chater Road
Building Contractors Wing On & Oo.
Building Contractors. $4, D'Aguilar Etroet. Tal Cen. 1597
Joal Merchants
Esilau Mining Admin. (ofe Dodwell & Co., Ltd.) Colliory & teamship Owners Rit-minous Coal, Coke, Firebricks.
C. Kimara & 06.
5, Connaught Road Central:
Kwong Hang & Co., C1al Merobanta $ Des Voeux Rd. Cen. Tel. Cen. 2736
Katsut & Co. & Queen's Road Control Merchants, Coal Contractors and Shipping & gents-Phone Den. 1543.
Cotton Yarn Importers
Tosho Kabushiki Kaisha.
Pisce
Toporters Dotton Yarn & 20ls; No. 7 Mercantile Bank Buliding. Tel Con. 2774 and 2008
Jurio Dealers
ark Hing, Chinese Carlos & Silver Ware
Dentist
Karry Fong, Dentist,
Uus No. 24. Qopen's Road
No. 1255,
Electrical Suppliers in Hing Co., Electro platers and Repairers, dựa visaders alan Typewriter
Jogineers & Shipbuilders.
W. S. Balloy & Co, Ltd.. Engineers & Shipbuilders,
Bowloon Bay
New York & Repairs
Call Flag "1、
Glass Merchants
Glasa Morchaute, Faraltare, Mirror and Danton Marble Manufacturer, Electro-plated, Class and Crockery. Waros" and Photo Jupplies. 18, Queens Basd Contral fel, Central No. 1218.
Hotels
Falace Hotel, Kowloon-Corner of
Photographers
Med Uhaung, Photographer.
-28, Ice House Street,
7 BonounBald Aronds (Branch).
• Developing & Printing undertaken.
Printers
The
China Mail," General Printers, Publishers and Bookbinders
6, Wyndham Street, Tel Uon, 25.
Scales.
| Mustard & Jo., Connaught Road Cil~~
Bhip Chandlers .-
Chung Yook, 78 Connaught Rd. CL
First floor. Tel. Contral 630. Shipchandler, Stevedores and Compradora.
Wang Kee & Co., Bhipal adlers, Compradores, Stevedoree Col Merchants, Daaat & Pilot - supply. No. 30. 37, Connaught Road, Tel. Contral No. 940.
Shipowners
Man Wing 8, 8. Co., Ltd.
38 Bonbam Strand West. To, Con. 1710
Regular Fortnightly Barvios Hongkong and Haiphong Ha Holbar. "Britan
tân
Thi Thanh H.Đ. Đêm
147 Wing Lok Btreet, East, Tel. C'en 19 s.Derwoot" 8.6. "Bosrban"
between Hongkong mad Saigon,
Shoemakers
Jam Res, Dealer in Sewing Machine
and Accessorive, Boot & Shoe Mayor.
7 Pottinger Street.
WONG SIU WOON- ROOTS, SHOES & SLIPPERS FON LADIES, GESTI 7. ETCLOKEN, BEST DESIGNS, PRICEŠ PIODERATE AST, PÖTTINGER STE, PHONE IN
Bilk Stores.
D. Chellaram. Royal Silk Stora 8 Queen's Road Central, Estin
•Brick Shine, Goorgette and Pohoomull Bron, 38, Queen's T
Tailors
&
Hongkong Tailoring Co.
Ladies' and Gent's Tailors,
1c, D'Aguilar Street: New Materials of all descriptions. Tel. Centl. 2880.
Young, Tallors, Drapers & Ont- Atters, Hat & Clothing. aite made to order. No. 74 Creon's Boad Central. Tel. Central No. 2830.
Sing Cheong,
Ladies' and Gentlemena Tailor. 94. Wyndham Street, 2nd floor.
Baiphong and Hankow Roads Few Tobaccos, Cigarettes. minutes from ferry.
Importers & Exporters Oba Bros. Ca. Importers and sportem sed Commission Agents
De Vouux Rosd,
Swens San & Co., se Queen's-hoed Central Bo Chi Chung (Manager), Kong Bing Him (Asst.) Tel Cap. 51.
Lasuda Trading Co.,
Justas and Exporters, NIKKO-Japanese fias art curlus,
23 queen' Road Cti. Tel. Cen, 1159
Ham Hing Loong,
87-8-99 Queen's Hoad Jautral. General Storekeepers, Wine & Cigar Merchante, Galera! Importers, Exporters of Chinese Produce, Tel. Central 951.
Patell & Co, P. O. Box 315
Land & Estate Agents Fan Fick Choy Land & Estate agents
Tal. Central 911-1987, 25, Queen's Bond Demiral.
Leather Goods
Nam Kang Saltosus Co.,
Best makers of Leather Suitcases, Haud Bags, Parnes, Belts, etc, i
British American Tobacco Co. (China), Ltd. 18-19 Lounaught Road, Typewriters, Etc. Mustard & Co., Connaught Road Ctl.
Wine & Spirit Merchants.
Kwan Tyo, Ganeral Starckipe
Wine & Spirit Marchant. No. 102, Queen's Road Centr
PASSENGERS.
ARRIVALS,
Per C.P.S. R.MS. "Em: ress of Canada" on May 20-Mr G P Adehead, Mr M. D. Allan, Mr and Mrs John Esa bersy. Mes A. Bissell. Rev. Father 0. E. Bradley. Messrs J. M. Cameron Y: 8. Chang. Chao, Chow Shoo Zoo, H. D. Draper, Mr and Mrs W. P. Denris, Mr Dang Woo, Mr. Georgelin Mr. Glon, Mr and Mrs R. Heinema, Mr F. 8. Heya, Mes E. B... Hornell, Mr. Ip Kwan, Mr and Mre OK. Khauw, Mrs and Miss Khouw, Mr C. 0. Lindsera, Wiss Lauw: Me and Mrs Lay Chang,
Pottinger St., 203 Queen's Rd. Ct.Me Chas Toy Moy, Mr R. 1. Melo,
ad 38 Hüller St
Po Hing, 24 Des Voeux Road. Manu
Mr and Mrs W. D. Mitchell, Mr. Fl. M. Mann, Mr W. G. Moore, Mra A. D Peacock, Mr E C. Rock, Mr F. Ryder, Mr McCoy, Mr N. U. McGrigor, Mr CE
80 DEGREES BELOW ZERO.
Stefansson, the Arctic explorer and discoverer of the white Eskimos," is now going to leave the frozen North to its own devices and devote himself to initiating shortcbt commercial air routes across the North Pole, writes Mr. Bassett Digby in the Daily News Climatic conditions in the North are conquerable," he says. "People are living and flourishing in places where there are colder winters than those at the North Pole."
"We
He is right, of course, should fan ourselves and call for lemonade If we spent Christmas at the North Pole 1" a jovial doctor told me, up in north-east Siberia.
The range of severe winter temperatures around the North) Pole is in the minus sixties as a rule in severe weather, and the minus seventies are occasional. -
Up in North Siberia the minus seventies arg the rule, minus eighties are nothing unusual, and there usually, in some inhabited regions, several readings in the minus ninetics during the winter!
When I was up in the country. around Yakutsk, the coldest town in the world, 2,000 miles' sledge ride north of the Trans-Siberian Railway. I found that minus eighties often occur in the streets of the town itself. It is an amaz- ing country. Netting butterflies. many of which were the same as ours, one July afternoon, when it was nearly 90deg. Fahrenheit. in the shade, I came across a gang of Yakut labourers blasting holes in the dust at the side of the woodland track. I wondered why, for it was alluvial valley soil. They told me they were going to put up telegraph poles and pointed into a hole. There, less than a yard down, glise tened a reef of eternal fee. Yétall around over this legacy of "eighty- below" winters, lay a landscape of rich grass, abundant flowers and bushes, bees and birds and butter-
mu
Our
The inhabitants don't mind living up there where, winter is colder. than the North Pole. The few Educated Russians and their wives tropoina and other me doesn't bother them.usive double windows, treble and quad-| ruple doors, and enormous stoves with thick brick walls that hold the heat at night. Outside the town of Yakutsk itself the natives prefer great blocks of ice to glass for their windows. The snow is curious stuff, not a bit like wet fluffy imitation. It looks and feels like ground rice and white dust. In "eighty below" coming out of doors emerges in a great puff of steam— like a bogey who pops up through a trapdoor in a pantomine, Puffs and wisps of steam rise from half a dozen chicks and crannies of every house that is not in perfect repair. It is as easy to see a leak in your house in winter as a leak in your-boot in summer. Houses are built of thick logs, the crevices stuffed with tow,
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4th June Tonton, Rotterdam sod Hamburg” 11th Juns · London, Rotterdam sad Hamborg 18th June London, Rotterdam & Hamburg
LIVERPOOL
„ÉLPENOR" "PHEMIUS“ "CYCLOPS".
SERVICE
(Dirent or via(Continental Parks) (
1st June 20th June 4th July
M'lse, Havre, Liverpool & Glasgow Ganon, M'lies, Liverpool & Glasgow Miss, Havie, Liverpool & Gissgow
PACIFIC SERVICE
(via Kobe and Yokohama)
"ACHILLES” "PHILOÇTETES ".
NEW
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12th June Victoria, Seattle and
·Vancouver
YORK SERVICE (vin: Suss"or Panama)
5th June
- 25th June.
PASSENGER SERVICE
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"SARPEDON”.
tab June for Shangbel
Tía Suez,
vis Suom.
25th Jane for Singapore & London
9th July for Shanghai
7th Ang for Singapore, Marseiller & Landon
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POST OFFICE NOTICES.
̈On WHIT MONDAY, the 1st inst., and Empire Day, the Sith fast, the Q.P.O, and the Branch Post Offices will be open as fallowam
The G.P.O. and Kowloon Branch Office- to 9 am only.
Wantsai, Saiyiogous and Yaumati Branches-8 to 9 am and 54o 8 pm... Shaungwan Branch (fice 8 to 9 am, and 5,35 to 8 p.m.
The Money Order Office will be entirely closed during the Holidays. there will be one collection from the pillar hoxes and one delivery of ordinary dente al magas on Buod 17, and one delivery of registered correspor
There will be one delivery uvates
wah day at noon.
INWARD MAILS
FROM
MONDAY, MAY 21
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, LONDON Letters via Brindisi 24th Apr...Diomed U.S.A. Japan and Shanghel
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FRIDAY, MAY 25,
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OUTWARD MAILS,
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Needless to say there is no water system. There never can be, for Shanghai, Japan, Canada, U.S.A. Central and pipes have their limit. But "eighty below" does not seem to affect the
South America & EUROPE via VIC, "TORIA, B.-due. Fistorts D.O. 10th electric light system. Every horse Jan Parcels Baturday 19th
Pu and dog, including the blackest, is Rebistration & a.m. Letters 88,M. ***** white after a very few minutes' Biangchaw and Esiphong run: Blobs of ice hang to the Rastow, Amoy Bad Foochow
Bangkok and Swatow horse's whiskers and your own... moustache is soon a mass of ice Amoy Likvidensmear the from the condensation of the steam of your breath.
President Madison Haimun Hailong...... Ewangchow.. Teming Szsahuon
m.
•10.30 0.10
23) p.m. 6 p.
Shanghal, Japan, Honololo, Canada. 11.8.A.. Central, and South Amarlos & "EUROPE via SAN FRANCISCO-duè Fan Fran cisco 14th Jane. Parvels noon. Registrat tion & p.m. Letters Prendent Taft
WEDNESDAY, MAY 23
But there is a jolly exhilaration about the coldest region of the world except when the wind is blowing. Then you muffe even your face in furs, seek cover and Straits, Ceplom Mauritius, T. Mar- think enviously of the lucky South Seaislanders.
COURTNEIDGE-HOLLO-
WAY CO.
SEASON AT THE STAR.
With a capital performance _cf}
ques, South Africa, India via Dhanush- fodi Egypt and EUROPE via: MARSEILLEdge Marseilles 24th Jane Registration 8.45 am. Letters 0,80 . Kitano Haru Mazitoshangkai, Japan, Hondlal¤ ̧ *Canada*.E.A. Central & South America & EUROPE via SAN-FRAN- C1800-dua San Francisco 2nd Jane Registration 9.65.1: Letters 10.30am. Tango Marit Swatow, Amoy and Takao an
KATARINA, Sunique "Poshu Maru THURSDAY MAYA 247
Straite...
Van Overstraten FRIDAY, MAY, 25. Halobing mima. Pror. MoKinley SATURDAY, MAY 26.
acturers of Losther Baitcases, Hand. Bhewkram, Mir G. Seferabayan, Mre.play containing many thrills and Mauila va
"The Bat," an American mystery Swatow, Amoy End Foochow
Bags, Tranks ste.
Merchants.
K. 8. Smith, Dr. 8. In Sato, Mr-F.
Tharome), Mr Tak Tong, Mr Tam Nam an, WG, Weall, Mrs B. Wusthof Mr and Mrs A. F. Whoon. Mr8 0
Lain Commercial & Development Co-Wang, Mrs OE Weeks, Mr H 0: Ames, Chins Bank Buildings (3rd door)Tel. 3000
Gibbu, “J & Co., Alexandre Building.
Millinery Madame Lily-Aleandrs Building. Istost models and crest ons from Paris in Frocks and Millinery. "The Centre of Fashion.”
Miners
China -- Commercial Co.. Ltd
Hinera, Importers and Exporters | 44-50 Queen's Rose Ct. Tal. Cen, 1809.
Modistes
Madame Flint,
31, Queen's Road Con. Tul. Ona bas.
Optician
mach excitement, the Courtneldge. Holloway Company brought its Philippine Islands, AUSTRALIA and Theatre Royal season to a clot on Saturday night,
Three of the more ebrious dranina
Rev. 4. E. Bige'ow. Mre A. Dodds. Mr A...Fisher, Ar0. & Gons. Mowers Booin the Courtneidge-Holloway Com Koo, How C. Shing, W. F. Harris, M.
for the presentation during their pany's repertoire have been chosen
New Zealand vs Thursday Inland dub Thursday, Island 6th June Registration
Zealand Thurndeysaland--due Thurs Wanile, Bandakan,: AUSTRALIA And NAWA
8.45 m Letters 9.108... Aki Mar
8 p Regliteston 1.15 pm, Letters day Island about 9th June, Parcels 25th
Hadam, Bas M. Honry, B. Flynn. Mr and Mits Lee Shum, Mr Lee Heng, Me Lim Bee, Mr and Mrs Law Kwong Mr Joseph Low Mr A. N. L &. dr Li She Chin, Mr. H.-Morrison, Mrs Oing piece to-night will be Bir Mobado, Mr Fosomal, Mr. Hy P. de Roeper Miss E. Roberts My AF. Sous, Mare H. Shem, T. C. Soa, LF.Vigol, Mr and Mrs E. Wocinar, Wearre Wong Qual, Wat Foe Don. 80with admirable opportunities for Yaug, A. I Ting, A. B. Kaya, A., Toffri, J. Tatsoinaté,
three night's season at the Star Cebu Theatre in Kowloon, Their open.
IEPARTURES.
"La
Arthur Pinero's famous drams Balzón, "The Second Mrs Tanqueray which farniebes Migs Chorry Hardy
omotional acting in many impac
MONDA
Marques"). Rentb vie Dhionchrödli aden "EUROPE via MAHSETU
seilles 90th Jimhe."Rogl
Rioned scenes and Me John, Balgon Drinkwater Abfaham Linenin will be offered to-morrow night.
Wednesday night's closing perform ance will beThe Batte play, of the erican crook
15 p.m
TAX 28.
MONDAY, MAY 21 1928.
CORONET
TO-NIGHT in SATURDAY.
at 290, 5:15, 7.15 & 9.15.
PRISCILLA DEAN
THE STAR
TO-DAY at 4.30
CONFLICT THE IDOL DANCE
TO NIGHT at 0.15.
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray.
WORLD THEATRE
| Phone: 1537.
Phone: 1337
Hongkong's Most Modern and Coolest Piature Palace
TO-DAY ONLY at 5.15 p.m. and 9.18 pm.
REALART PICTURES presenta. BEBE DANIELS
THE SPEED GIRL"
Bebe Daniels in the Merriest, Maddest, Swiftest, Comedy
She Has Yet Hád
At 2.30 & 7.15 pm.
FRANCIS FORD and ELLA HALL in THE GREAT REWARD" Episodes, 3 & 4
Usual Frices. Looking at the Theatre.
HORLICK'S MALTED MILK
Drink HORLICK'S MALTED MILK. Whether a baby ce "grópa- ap" the health » giving propertice of HORLICK'S the FOOD.DRINK. sto pod isto operation right away. The blaze hemos partied," send the brain
in Nature lutande her para funk,
Made in an isited by the addition of
a little water, hot oe zoid. ---
Of all Chemiste and Sherin
Creakleni Kapresentative for China,
Hongkong sad Koras.
Wallace Varley,
7. The Ban Shanghai
HORLICK'S MALTED: MILK CA SLOUGH, BUCKSÅ ENG
HORLICKS MALTED MIX
NATURAL MINERAL WATER FRENCH GOVERNMENT'S Springs
VICHY CELESTINS
in hotties, half and splits:
Gout, Diabetes, Rheumatism, Gravel, Arthritis
and: BillonSTORS.
VICHY GRANDE-GRILLE For Liver trouble VICHY HOPITAL For Indigestion.
Refuse substit}
Mention name of Spring required.
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