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With reference to the Notice dated 23rd July it is hereby notified that the Office of Dr. S. W. T'SO, Assistant Controller of Labour (Chinese). will be closed as from WEDNESDAY, August 5th.
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STEAMER WRECKED. "THE KING'S PIPE.”
YANGTZE RIVER
DISASTER.
TEUHIBLE EXPERIENCES.
BAD TOBACCO'S FIERY END.
London's docks best the cham- pion smoker i glaud, writes correspondent o o Duly Chronicl he gets through away- dung up to a ton of bad tobacco day, your,in, year out, and yet
With reference to the offer of now sharos dated the 15th May 1925" (made to the existing share The Kyodu Maru in to-day a holders of the Company) by the sunken hulk on the abores of an terms of which the sum of $7.50 uninhabited island of the mouth of per share was to be paid on the the Yangtze, while a Japanese des- js innocent of smoker's heart or 30th June 1925 and the sum oftroyer, bearing the Japanese Ad-throat trouble. $5.00 on the 30th September 1925 miral and the Marine Inspector at- All kinds of tobieco como lo him the directors have decided (in tuched to the local Japanese Con-slike, and it is a matter of in- view of the present condition of slate, and a tug manned by Japan-fference whether his daily ration affairs) to extend these dates.
marines, are searching the au million cigarettes, a cart-lond The date for payment of the waters adjacent to the some of the Havuna cigars, or a ton of first instalment is accordingly ex- tragedy in an effort to find five sling, tended until the 30th September Japanese officers and 25 of the crew 1925 and the date for payment of of the fated rowel, says the the second instalment until the "Shanghai Times," 81st December 1925.
Under the watchful eye of a pazus Customs officer ing, consumes whatever is given him in the 8ft. News of the disaster was brought up bowl of his pipe, and pal's As regards shareholders who to Shanghai on Sunday, when a out the smoke through a 100. take advantage of these extended Chinese steamer arrived carrying.mneystack holder into the times the new shares allotted to five exhanded survivors of the alubrious air of Victoria Tkxk. then will rank for dividend ask, two Japanese officers and from the 1st October 1925 in re-three Chiness crew members. spect of half the nominal value thereof and as from the 1st Jan uary 1926 in respect of the full
nominal value thereof.
The men velabend how the Kyoda Maru, on her regular run between Shanghai and Dairen, somehow got Lent of her course and struck on the arren isic inst Wednesday. The Any shareholder who makes entire ship's crew landed and for payment prior to the due date overal days livedolf such of the will be allowed interest at 7 pervel's stores as they were able to cent. per annum on the amount sivage. Then food and water ran paid by him from the date of pay-font. Several Chinese junks passed, hit, ns the island is sometimes uerd NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.ment until the due date,
This notice will not affect those as a base for piratical operation, An INTERIM DIVIDEND of shareholders who make payment the junkmen refped to go near in fifty cents per share has been the original dates, ie, as re-response to signals of distress. declared and will be payable ON 30th June and as regards the seach help with a small bout. The gards the first instalment on the Finally, it was decided to try and AND AFTER WEDNESDAY,
cond instalment on the 30th Sep- tiny craft was not emripped for
LIMITED.
In his m ro exalted moments he sponds to the name of the King's Pipe, but popularly is known ar The Kiln, and his job in to destroy utterly all hail or unsaleable tobarco at the Port of London Authority warehouses. four sweepings and even cigarettes or eigars for which merchants can find no sale, but can, by Passing them through the King's Pipe, rover the duty they paid.
THE STOXERS,
there a 18. Every day he smokes It seems in Weked waste, but
way abnero wii eh, had it ro amined sweet and fragranit, would ... worth £1,000 on the market.
The Kiln's stokers have to be
THE 26TH AUGUST, 1920, tember. The shares to be allotted navigating the rough waters and d. men of wonderful self-
the original terms of the offer hours without food or to them will in accordance with the quint the difled about for 20tral. The other day they shovel- Water until led several thousands of Havana rank for dividend on one half the they were picked un near Chinghai beautiful to look at) into the nominal value as from the 1st by the Chinese "steumer.
grevdly muw of the furnace with- July 1926 and on the full nominal: value as from the 1st October Consul General immediately des-surrepations band finding its way On arrival here, the Japaneset truing a hair and without 1926.
utched Destroyer No. 5, the 44. poket... Human restraint can
along. Buter a log was sent to the
when Dividend Warrants may be obtained upon application at the offices of the Company.
The REGISTER OF MEM- BERS of the Company will be CLOSED from
THURSDAY, 13TH AUGUST to WEDNES- DAY, 26th AUGUST, 1925, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
W. F. SIMMONS,
Secretary. Hongkong, July 29, 1925.
NOTICE.
MESSRS. LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. announce that they can now deliver goods from all depart- ments, including Groceries, Wines, and Spirits, to Kowloon and Hongkong.
Hongkong, 5th August. 1925.
FOR SALE.
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miral and Marine Inspector goingly go ne farther,
Tig have fed it, with
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cene. Due to the refusal of Chas-400,000 Russian cigarettes, each to man the tug. 20 marines le spuipped with a paper holder. A market could not be found were sent aboard as crew,
Wireless messages received from them, and heir fiery death in the destroyer report
that the the King's Pipe has recovered for Kyoda Maru is under water with their owners the s, 2d, pee H. Ther topmasts awash. No trace of duty paid on their behalf in their
earlier days of promise.
th-crew could be found.
..
THE BEST AND THE WORST,
This installe smoker's work The late of the few of the vessel is in doght, fear being entertained does not go for nothing for the for their safely. It is thought he burns in the kiln sup possible that, unable to endure the lies heat for the tobaco drying
ams in the warehouses. Thus, pangs of bunger and the cravings of thirst, the entire ship's company My Lady Nicoline becomes her embarked on small boats or imen landmaidon. provised rafts in an effort to french, inhabited land or the track of the regular steamers. Another possibility is that the island was visited by parnt shortly after the during quintette embarked on their herojë misska who either killed or carried into captivity the luckless
Pastaways.
Hopes are entertained that the shipwrecked men were picked up by a friendly craft without means of communication, and are now on their way either to Shanghai or Some other Clána port.
The King's Pipe as never likely lack something to smoke, for the are always from 30,000 to 9,000 tons of fohneco in the Port
Lendon Authority's warehouses at the Victoria and Albert Docks, from when he gets his inevitable
share.
It comes from every contitry in the world where they grow tobacco.. Thus you find aristocratic Duboc (Turkish) tolincco worth a sovereign pol in its ray duty-free state, Fund papary rubbish from the Oriont The Kyodu plied regularly be-dant may fetch 3d, a pound to be tween Shanghai and Dairen and made into insect poison.
was on her way to the northern But both of them are tobacco to nor when the decident happened. the unsentimental Customs official, She carries a crow of 28 Chinese and whether they are going to be seamen and seven Jupunese officers. Bond Street cigarettes or green It is believed the vessel is wrecked flies terror, they stand on level beyond possibilities of salvage. footing when it comes to paying
their Bs. 2d. a lb. duty,
Altogether there IN about £40,000,000 worth of tobacco in SPACE ANNIHILATED. the Port Authorities ware-houses,
HEART-BEATS WATCHED 1,000 MILES AWAY.
JF
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Domestic Occurrences Leading Articles Fatal Dive
Strike Breakers Option of Fine .. Missing Striker Motor Crash Canton Strikers Must Not Do It Obituary Baseball League Hongkong's Views Tight Money Hawkers' Reward Unmasked
Coolie Threats
A Mah Jong Face? More "Squeeze" Street Lectures
Rice Exports
CONTENTS
Despite The Strike Hongkong's Lead Who's Who ... Canton Unmaske Soviet Madel
Soldier Jailed
Page.
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1 League Baseball
16
1-4 Coolie Hire...
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A
Nanking Riot.
.16
Hate The Strike
.16
Get Together
.16
A Date Wanted
.17
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Wuchow News
.18
"Lest We Forget"
.18
Typhoon Damage
.18
British Silence
.19
Loyal Chinese
.20
| Experimental Run
.20
.20
Funeral Service
.20
7
£100 A Goa!
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8-
Nurses Rescued
.20
Sun Pao-chi
.20
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Correspondence
.21
9
Driver's Claim
.21
9
Anti-Strike Orator
.21
9
Local Trade
.21
9
Typhoon Damage
10
Valley Flood
.10
Military Sport
10
Local Strike
.10
Our Volunteers
.28
.11
Striker's Pay
.23
.11
No Notice
.28
Daylight Robbery
.11
Macao Picket
.23
Share Market Rubber
.11
Arms Case
.23
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Press Сазе
.24
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Took Umbrage
.24
.11
Lightning Toll
.24
.12
Contradictory
.24
.12
| Mr. Sun Fo
.24
13-16
Shanghai Inquiry
.24
Education In China Bomba Found Outport News Canton Items Black-Shirts H.M.S. Cairo Chase on River.
Seditious Posters Impressive Scenes Sport News Frontier Firing Funeral
Ambulance Test Loaded Pistol Strike Bosses Strikers' Courts The Powers and China.
internal combustion, known as in-
of which £12,000,000 is the value herent vice, which results in it of the raw material and £28,000,000 burning or smoking its own good the prospective duty,
fragrance.
broadcast diagnosis of the case, I have tried to grow it include Eng- and compare the latter with their hund, Ireland, India, Canada, own conclusions, drawn from what Nyasaland and Rhodesia, but there was so mysteriously displayed beis something in the soil of Virginia foro them.
that makes it impossible to equal clsewhere.
NATIVE DANCES. ·
That is where the BASIS OF A NEW HEALTH King's Pipe comes to the rescue,
SYSTEM.
Tobacco is one of the growing trades at the London Docks, The
PARSEE'S MURDER.
Native dances as done by native und women in North and
men
There are aid to be 135 varie lies of Russian tobacco alone," said Mr. J. R. H. Inkster, head of the Port of London Tobacco Depart-Port of London Authority has 29. re-warehouses for it, and four more made in the application of modern ment, to a "Daily Chronicle" scientific discoveries to medien porter, "so there must be thousands are being built to cope with the Bouth Amerie, Australia, Africa matters that it has been possible in all."
demand. It is still a long way be and, other pets of the world form for a record of the besting of a Virginia is easily first in hind Liverpool, however where one the basis of new health system man's heart to be thrown on a screen quantity at the London Docks, and warehouse, the biggest in the coun- which a New Sealander, Mr. F. A. before a gathering of doctors many of its kind first in quality also,try, contains more tobacco than
Hornibrook, and his wife aro miles away. And, while watching although it has been inituted in London's 29 put together.
urging Countries that the screen, they were able to hear many countries.
the civilised world to adopt.
Forty-six doctors and a number of eminent scientists attended a demonstration in London, when, THREE MEN TO DIE.
after a paper read by Mrs. Hornibrook on the acidic side of Unique test of new use for the
Bombay. tranamission of photographs by wire, "However, after years of experi
the theory, a Macri from New The notorious Malabar Hill Zealand gave exemples of the was made in Chicago, New York, ment, Rhodesin is successfully pro and Atlantic City, simultaneously ducing both Virginian and Turkish murder case concluded at the original dances, and Mr. Horni- and successfully..
tobaccos, and there is a great future Sessions Court, when, of the nine brook demonstrated exercises based The action of a mar's heart was for the country in tobacco grow men accused of complicity in the on them and adapted for civilised photographed in New York, and the ing. English and Irish Virginian murder on January 12 of Mr. men and women with little time picture immediately transmitted by is hardly worth smoking."
A..Q. Bawla, the wealthy Parsee to spare. wire a thousand miles to Chicago, Virgininn tobacco comes to the merchant, of Bombay, seven were
The strongthening of the ab- dominal wall is the end to which Here the diagnosis made by a heart London Docks in huge casks or found guilty and two acquitted.
The charges against the whole the system in adapted, and it is expert was promptly broadcast by a bogsheads weighing half a ton. physician to the Atlantic City. There no tens of thousands of of the accused included assaults claimed to have exceptional resulta Convention Hall, where the Amer these in the warehouses, and each on Mumtaz Begum, & twenty-two-in the treatment of intestinal ican Medical Association members represents about £120 in raw year-old dancing girl, and Lieut. troubles. were gathered: There 1.500 doctors tobacco and £450 in duty,
Saegert, a British officer who was "The native dances are really compared the broadcast diagnosis
one of a party which gallantly a system of physical education with a copy, thrown on the screen, For about three years the bogs went to the rescue when Bawia which, judged by its material re- of the electro stethogram, or chart heads remain in the warehouses and Mumtaz Begum were attack-sults or judged by ate hygienic of the heart beat, and the card while the tobacco matures in the by the accused. Lieut. effecte, is far in advance of any ingram of the heart setion, takon in wood. And they do not mature in Siegert was wounded by a knife thing which the Europeans now New York, two him earlier.
thrust peace. Three times a year I sort
bave."
Mr. Hornibrook told a The convention agreed that the of fermentation goes on inside Sentence of death was passed Daily News representative, "You test opened up amazing possibilition causing the tobacco to swell so much upon three of the accused, sinely we Europeans in our insolent con- that the cuore, tumble about in Shafi Ahmed, who was a risaldareit, suppose such dance exercises
any fashion. Occasionally dur: (native officer) of the Indore were merely grotesque na bos mg fermentation, a jale of half-ton State Mounted Police: Shami Rao becoming gestures, without y bogheads in warehouse will be Dire, a captain of the Indore Alt survival value of hygienic Weful thrown around in confusion as if Force; and Nate Pande, a high no by a ghostly grint, and in the still official of the Maharajah of Modern civilised dancing is not ness you can hear them creaking as Indora's household. Four others, enough, Mr. Hornibrook added: they were going to burst, including Anand Rao Phanee, It moves the shoulders said the This is not the only trick of Adjutant General of the Indore logs but the middle port
ture tobacco. On the voyage Army, were sentenced to trans body, the all-in
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THEIR SECOND SUMMER THE
MANGE HARDEST
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OREAKING CABES.
is apt to suffer from a kind of portation for life.
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