SIR MODEN BURNETT &
ONDON ADRY
FEASURE+12 BOTTLES CONTAM 67 1004 BILLE -
TWO GALLONS EQUAI DA GILL
BURNETT'S
FAMOUS
LONDON DRY GIN
Gives that Distinctive.
* Excellence to a
Cocktail
SOLE AGENTS:
A
S. WATSON
& Co., Ltd
WINE AND SPIRIT
MERCHANTS:
Powell
Wm.
FOR
Des Voeux-Royc
EASTER
SMART MILLINERY
FROCKS, SILK HOSIERY
Ltd.
SUNSHADES-in becoming Styles
and Colourings.
LADIES' SH
ES
for Afternoon or Dance Wear..
A large selection of up-to-date Shapes.
WHY
and Styles
GO BLIND ?
Take no chances. If your eyes trouble you consult
CHINESE OPTICAL CO.
67, Queen's Road C.
TH
C. P. GOERZ
LENSES CAMERAS BINOCULARS
New stock just arrived Tol. C. 3217. HALL, LAW & CO., LTD
30-32, Des Voeux Road,
Don't be a WALL, "LOWER when yn can now LEARN TO DANCE-Privately-Easily and Quickly at smal cost from an Expert Da cing Toscher. Call or Write
THE SHAW DANCING ACADEMY,
8, Qasen's Rogi C., 1st Floor. Opposite Astor House Hotel
THE MOST FOR YOUR MONEY.
THE CHINA MAIL.
If your piano was
made by us you will have little trouble with
it during this humid weather
If you contemplate
buying a piano, buy
one with a solid Teak case,
strong iron frame,
delicate touch, pure tone and own while paying
Tel. C 527.
S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.
Chater Hold. -
QUALIFIED OPTICAL SERVICE |
N. LAZARUS
Ophthalmic Optician
(Hongkong's only European Optician)
12, Queen's Rd. Central.
Manager: R. A...OOPER
Qualified by Canadian Government Examination Fellow of the American Optometric Association.
France's Plight.
TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1925.
BIG SHIP DEAL
DOLLAR COMPANY'S;
France has consistently refused to pay her war debts. The main reason seems very clear. She would not pay because she could not. And not even a Socialist | INJUNCTION. PROCEEDINGS.
PURCHASE.
Issue to be Taken to the President?
Government has been able to blend idealism with a practical policy, and bring a battered barque into a safe port for
Interest in at least two repairs. The present Premier tinente is being focussed on the turns on his assailants with the the five Pacific Mail "President" U.S. Shipping Board's award of statement that when he took (685) ships to the Robert Dollar
con-
nglo-London-Paris National Bank of San Francisco." An earlier meннago was follows:-
"Ofeials, of the Pacific Ma Steamship Company expressed (the opinion-to-day "that if the
Dollar interests got the. trans. Pacific liners the Pacific Mail wil go out of the business.
"One oficiul said that 'after 'more than seventy-five years of service we expect to ring down the curtain."
"He indicated, however, that there was no intention of giving up the vessels without a fight."
ONE OF THE SHIPS IN THE SCALE,"
Photo courtesy, Pacific Mail,
Here is one of the "545 foot", vessels which figure in the deal.
office France's Ilabilities were 278 | Co. milliards of francs.Terrible. But more terrible when the fact is considered that this sum does not include the hated foreign war debts. If a capital levy is to be the chief plank in the Govern- ment's policy of rehabilitation, It must be conceived that there is sufficient wealth in France to admit of the finances of the country being placed on a reason- ably sound basis. The idea of a capital levy is not knew. It was suggested, but never introduced, ir Britain, and some of its sponsors at the end boggled when! it came to practical issues. That may happen in France. For capital is not necessarily merely liquid cash in banks and money boxes, or stockings placed in chimney pieces: it is often that.
Seen to-day. Mr. J. Oram Me. 11. C. Haile, muzinger of the but it is something more: it is Sheppard (Hongkong general wifi Mail S. S. Co. in Shanghai, bricks and mertar; ships, rail agent of the Pacific Mail Co said told the China Press at the ways, stocks and shares, and the that he had been informed that issue might fully reach the Presi numberless things that go to on April 3 the company had in-up of the U.S.A. make finance and commerce the stituted injunction proceedings Mr. Haile also mentioned that simple yet complex things, they against the Shipping Board and the Pacific Mail Co.'s bid of are. Levy po those and the that the Federal Judge of the U.S.G.S6,750,000.en
a deferred seriousness of the mutter is ap- Supreme Court had granted payment basis, overshadowed the parent. Trance is in a bad way restraining order returnable on Dollar bid of $5,625,000 even and another Dawes plan may yet April 13. Mr. Sheppard had also when interest is taken into con- have to be adopted. It is evident been advised that confidence was sideration. "The Pacific Mail is that France did not win the war felt y "the company that the the most stable steamship com- Shipping Board's decision would pany operating in the Orient It. not be upheld but that, of course, is the oldest established line run- was problematical.
ning to the East and is yearly turning more luck to the United States Government than any "San Francisco, April 2- other company, In addition ta The Pacific Mail ships which this, we offered to guarantee to have been sold to the Dollar the Government a five-yeur ser- Company will be financed and vice, should we get the vessels. managed by purely California 11 these vesels are taken from us, and Pacific Coast interests, we have nothing to compete with according to an announcement other steamship companies in to-day by Mr. Herbert Oriental trade, Above all we Fleishacker, President of the must keep up a suitable tonnage.”
| Registry. Romance.
Something unuspal in Registry office marriages was that which took place #t the Hongkong Registry in January when Miss Mary Ho Tung and Mr. Wong Sik-lam attended with their working of the dictaphone, which friends in correct fashionable
The China Mail enables a busy man to dietate a wedding attive. On that occasion
(Every evening except Sunday. Annual subscription. excluding postage abroad, H.K. $38, payable in advance. Local delivery free.)`
Overland China Wil
(The weekly edition of the "China Mall." Annual subscription, exalbd- ing postage abroad, H.K $12, payable in advance.)?
Published by
The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd.
Printers & Publishers
No. 5.WYNDHAM ST., DONGKONG
Telephones Central 22 & 4641. Cable Address:--Mall, Hongkong.
All communications should b addressed to the Newspaper Enter. prise, Lid, to whom all remittances should be rande payable.
London Offres:-Tb Far Eastura Advertising Agency (London), 1.td... 240- Devonshire Street, Bloomsbury, W.C.1.
Hongkong, Tuesday, April 7, 1925.
A China Früss" radio messige of April 2 read:-
HON. MR. WOLFE.
GOING HOME ON LEAVE.
letter without summoning his lit was as if a breath of romance secretary; of everlasting stencils, had been allowed to ercep into the cold formality of the pro- which will stand any amount of ceedings, but this would apply » hard wear and even after that with even more force to the may be filed for further use; of simple ceremony which took electric duplicators, and adding place in the same office this week-end when a young couple and calculating machines which would appear to have travelled cannot err; of electric addresso- thousands of miles for the express graphs and machines which purpose of getting married in enable an office to do all note Hongkong, and had, in conse- headings, leaflets and other work.quence, to get a speciul dispensa of the Hon. Mr. E. D: C. Wolfs, tion in regard to the posting of
mechanical. accountants.
战 very
as the officials, justifiably in this
INTERESTING PRESENTATION.
The impending departure on leave
captain Superintendent of Polizė,
companying the scroll were a silver figure representing the god of empority and two silver vases forma
g a complete set.
JUDGE'S PRAISE,
CHARITABLE IMPULSE
The
COMMENDED.
A $26,000 AWARD.
arrived at.
fum, who died intestate in 1897.
woman plaintiff in the "$85,000 "Case Echo" was com- without the aid of a printer. the usual notice because their boat
mended by the Chief Justice, Sir Most wonderful of all are the was to sail before the necessary was inked by a farewell demons Henry Cowper Gollan, in the period would elapse. Whether the tration by the Wei-hul-wei con- Supreme Court this morning after book-keeping machines and the bride and bridegroom confided to thgent of the Hongkong Police Mr Eldon Potter K C., had indicat In Mr. D. W. Tratman, acting Seere Force on the Central Police Stationed that a settlement had heen accountancy, the particulars aretary for Chinese Affairs, their compound this forenoon.
The defendant in the case is a first punched on a card, which is reasons for adopting what on the
surface would appear
The departing chief was presented Chinese young man who as a chocked on another machine, put strange method of procedure it is with a hudsone silk scroft worked result of proceedings brought in through a sorting machine, till not permitted the public to know, in gold characters on a red ground. the same Court some years prev- finally a fourth machine returns a
The translation, of the characters fously benefited to the extent of full analysis of the particulars case for all that is known to the Virtue Impresses All." $85,000 as the sole hier of Ho Wo
contrary, are inclined to be required.
reticent on matters involving the A great London Insurance Com-personal feelings of others. What pany has installed 130 sets of actually happens at this very these machines, which cannot be brief form of marriage is that the There were about 150 men of the BUSINESS BY MACHINERY. purchased but are rented out and Secretary for Chinese Affairs ranks present under the command of addresses, the parties and Inspector Booker and other Chinese are maintained by the makers, as emphasises that the signing of officers, It is frequently urged against was formerly the case with the the register is binding even After the inspection by the the older Universities that they linotype printing machine. The though no other rite of a civil or Captain Superintendent of Police do not move with the times, and, model office is primarily intended religious nature shall take place. and a drill display, the ranks formed whilst still affording the best pre- for the instruction of students, Declarations are made and a squaro. paration for a professional or a but business men are invited in duplicate certificate is signed. A
handshake from the acting Regis political career, neglect the vast order that they may see the trar completes the proceedings. field of commerce. As long ago astonishing progress made in Do 1896, the University of London office labour-saving devices. set out to remove the reproach by
forming the London School of
Economics and Political Science, St. George's Society, which has now grown to be a
Societies like nether
gar-
great institution occupying an ments before the introduction of immense building near Aldwych, suspenders are difficult to keep
CORRESPONDENCE.
HONGKONG EDUCATION.
For the purpose of fighting the original case for this youth his guardian, the concubine of the deceased Ho Wo-lum, borrowed large sums of money. It was in respect of this the present claim was made, the plaintiff being the woman claiming to be the person from whom the guardian had borrowed money,
$1.00 ONE DOLLAR-$1.00 (the new business centre), and up. There are exceptions even in agree with "Odd" and directions as far as lay in his power, the plaintiff is to be paid $26,000
BUYS. A
DOLLAR DIRECTORY
FOR
1925
IT CONTAINS A MASS OF INVALUABLE INFORMATION WHICH EVERY RESIDENT SHOULD HAVE.
DO YOU KNOW-
WHO'S WHO?
ALL THE BUSINESS HOUSES?
YOU CAN FIND ALL THIS AND MUCH MORE IN
THE DOLLAR DIRECTORY
LTŐ BE HAD. FROM:"
THE PUBLISHERS
(China Mall Building) 5. Wyn amy St.
"Reformer.
Ja entering judgment on the Addressing the con-basis of the terms of settlement fingunt, through the nudism of an agreed upon His Lordship said he interpreter, Mr. Wolfe compli desired to express great pleasure mented the men on their smart at a settlement being affected as turnout and expressed his grati- the case would have been a very fication at the valuable services they painful one for him to have ad- | Jad rguileged the Government. He judicated upon. So far as the I said that he was quite satisfied with plaintiff was concerned she could the Northern contingent; they had in his opinion look back on what | performed their duties concientious she had done with great personal iv and well, and he had no doubt satisfaction and be very proud of that they would become a permanent (the charitable impulses which institution. He had done his best factuated her assistance to the the Editor of the China Mail).for the men by granting them all defendant when an infant.
privileges in leave pay and in other Under the terms of settlement " Sir,-1 attracts students from all over a place like Hongkong were in 4tion cannot justify its own existence a desired to publicly thank Inspec- include two claims in respect of The Board of Ednea-1 Continuing, Mr. Wolfe said that of the $31,599 she claimed, this to the world. Lectures and classes notoriously hot climate. en- so why continue to waste valuable for Booker for going to Wei-hai-wei Original Jurisdiction actions and are open not only to members of thusiasms soon get lukewarm time by holding a meeting at least and training half the contingent, all other claims, if there be any. the University, but to those who and even cold--or where trans- one every month. If the Board He also thanked Sergeants Dick, against the estate. Each side is to
fers and holidays have been would only tell us what it waerner, Dickson, and, Jessup for pay its own costs, have not matriculated and do not known sadly to affect, organiza originally formed for and how far it their good work. Tributes were Mr. Potter appeared with Mr. wish to pursue a full University tions. But an exception is unhas succeeded, I, for one, would also
paid to the Chinese F. C. Jenkin for the plaintiff, both St. George's course-in particular, to those doubtedly the
Society which numbers hundreds certainly shut up, but till then Jaspertor Chiang Yon-yu, Sergeant being instructed by Messrs John- engaged in banking, accounting, amongst its members and finds
Major Pi Lung-en and Crown son, Stokes and Master. C. W. S..
Sergeant Chi Wan-pino for their The Hon. Mr. C. G. "Alabaster, railway and other transport, com- no difficulty in getting the right
good work in asstating in the KC, (instructed by Messes, Lo merce, and industry, to civil ser- type of "St. George" men, to
training. He felt sure that under and Lo) "appeared for the de- direct its affairs. The difficulty vants and municipal, officials, to in maintaining the traditions
such able officers the reputation fendant.". teachers, and to those engaged in, attached to either the real or Fines of $5 each were imposed be maintained,
acquired by the contingent would or qualifying for social work. legendary Saint, is apparent on seven small craft licencees at
The presentation of the scroll and The latest enterprise at the Nowadays no forlorn maiden the Harbour Office this morning the silver ornaments was made by · Peklåg April 6.—It is stated that' waits. to be delivered from the for lying inshore during prohibited the Chinese Inspector after the the Chinese Charge d'Affaires at School stands to the credit of fangs of an approaching dragon. hours at night. Professor L. R. Dicksee, Professor of Business Organisation, who has
installed a model office containing
But chivalry and succor are ever- :
Hongkong, April 6,
Yours etc..
address, Mr. Wolfe again expressed Tokyo recently reported that the his thanks to all the men of the Cultural Board In Tokyo, which is present virtues. The English. During the voyage to Hong-muks for the present and their at present under the Asiatic Burban man by membership of such a kong of the sis. Hosang from demonstrations of loyalty which of the Japanese Foreign Office. society as that of St George's Calcotta and Singapore, a female the mid he appreciated very much would la future be controlled by the latest mechanical devices. indicates his belief in them and passenger died from heart disease Most of us are familiar, only with his implied desire to further the while at sea. At Slogappre a male
at
civilians instead of by officials. and that the money would be
the typewriter and that
devoted to various enterprises characteristics which are part passenger died from consumption and parcel of the word English- and was buried there. The Presid-
Brussels, April 6-The out instead of to cultural purposes in secondhand but here are to be And being distant from the soilent Jackson from Seattle, via ports, standing feature of the elections China The Japanese Legation achines which bore him it all to the notifies the death of a Chinese hitherto 11 the Socialistegains all has sput a Note to the Walchizopu saving good that there should be a steerage passenger On arrival over the country The Guthalies saying har the report It antrac Society to remind him of the bare the .. Shantung reported, also advanced. The Liberals are asking that the report should place about' WHI
apert Brook
kespeare, having passed a water logged apparently the principal suntarers not based in creating misunder
fishing-junk, anchored and break for builf cases Delimte resules are « standloga Countidy of the
Balletley not yet available-Renter.
found most ingenious"
for ensuring accura
Inbour, WA visiť
algnalled on a time-recording clock