THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1925.
LAMMERT BROS.
AVOTIONKERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORY.
Public Auctions --
THE Undersigned have received Tintruders con of ADAME
LILY to sell by Public Auction
on
TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY,
INTIMATIONS.
G,
NOTICE.
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FIREWOOD will be on sale at: the Government Firewood Depot, Praya East, nea
Station as From Thursday, 20th August, daily from fa.m. to 12.30. Sales will be at a flat rate of seven rents per piece of about 5 catties. the 2516. 26th and 27th August,No person will be allowed to pur- commencing each day at 11 am. chase more than 20 pieces at any with an interval from 1 to 2 p.m. one time.
at Madame Lily's "Shop, Alexandra Building. THE WHOLE OF HER VALU- ABLE STOCK IN TRADE. SHOP FURNITURE & FITTINGS.
Comprising:-
Evening Dresses, Coloured and Fancy Silk, Silk Crepe. Charmeuse Satin. Chenille Chiffon. Fancy Lilian Velvet. Organdie, Gear
N. L. SMITH, .
Food Controller. Hongkong, 18th August, 1925.
HONGKONG FOOTBAL
ASSOCIATION.
The Postponed Annual General Meeting of the above Association will be held (by kind permission of
W.E. HOLLANDS, Hon. Secretary and Treasurer. Hongkong, 17th August, 1925.
{HIGH CLASS BOOTS AND SHOFS
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TO LET.
THE CHINA MAIL.
TARIFF TALK.
"INVITATIONS ISSUED BY
CHINA.
(Reuter's Service.)
Peking, August 19.
VIENNA RIOTS.
POLICE QUELL, ZIONIST DISORDER.
(Reuter's Service.)
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Vienum, August 19. China's invitation to the Tariff Then fourteenth Zionist Congress - Conference, after mentioning the was opened last evening by Herr provisions of the Treaty under Weizmann in the presence of re- which the conference has been presentatives of the Austrian Gov. convened, goes on to state: Inrument, the Lengue of Nations' connection with the said Treaty and diplomats from Britain, Amer- it may be recalled that on January where. The initial sitting of
ie France, Germany and else 1. 1922, at the seventeenth meet-congress passed off without incidens ing of the Committee on Pacific hut previously there had bern 10 LET.—No. 8B, Orient Build./and Far Eastern questions of theris rioting owing to Ind blood Lending Articles
Conference, Washington Chinese delegation, in giving trinite reaganda.
| caused by the Austria Nationalists"
Correspondence assent thereto declared it was
Colony's Loss. their intention to bring up again and was mastered to cope with Yaumati Robbery
The entire police force of six
Good Sports the question of the restoration to disorders in which forty persons China of tariff autonomy for con- were injured and over
Cheung Chau Notes a hundred sideration on all appropriate | arrested. Much dange was
Running Fire occasions in the future. In purus property. Sentences of from Siberian Maila suance of the above declaration, eight to fourteen days imprison-Tram Frotection the Chinese Government has pro- ment were imposed on those uurreste
Ting (Top Floor), Coronation Road, Kowloon, suitable for Euro- pean family. Apply to:-M. C. Chow, c/o Clark & Iu, 10, Des Vœux Road Central,
FOR SALE
NOTICE.
the
posed the said question bed. Vienna'is now quiet, also brought up at the forth- coming conference, and expects
made to remove the tariff restric. tions hitherto imposed China.
upon
Lieut. Col. L. G. Bird) at Volunteer FOR SALE.-One Five Seater gette Voile. Dress Trimmings, Headquarters on FRIDAY next, "Studebaker" Car, Special Six, Wide and Narrow Ribbons of the 21st, at 5 30 p.m. sharp. All in excellent running order. Trial run that some arrangement will be! varicus, descriptions. Fur and Clubs in membership are entitled to can be arranged. Apply Box No 657 Feather Trimmings. Braids, be represented by Two Delegates. c/ "China Mail." Laces. Fringers, Embroideries, Insertions, Face Veils, Silk Gloves, Flowers. for Evening Dresses Hair Ornaments, Neck Bends. Buckles. Fasteners, Helvings, Buttons of various descript Rons, Coloured Silk and Beaded Trim- mings. Tassels and Girdles' Coloured Sewing Silk. Net and Organdie Frillings, Coloured Silk and Cotton Nets, Hats Trimmings, etry, etc..
Bika
NOTICE.
It is proposed to form an Association of Subscribers to the Kowloon Tong Building Scheme invited to attend a Meeting to be
and all subscribers are hereby
p.m.
Japan Reports.
(Reuter's Service.)
Subscribers of the China Mail not receiving their paper every'
Tokyo, August 19. The Foreign Office is not yet evening owing to the uncertain
able to confirm the press reports delivery as the result of the strike concerning the Chinese Govern- are invited to notify this office ment issuing tariff conference if they would prefer to purchase invitations to the Powers.
boys. direct and have the amount credited to their account.
Con-
very serious the Foreign Office intends giving the most careful consideration thereto before pub- lishing its policy.
done
SHOTS AT BUS.
ATTEMPT ON BULGARIAN OFFICIALS.
(Reister's Service.)
Paris, August 19. An outrage was attempted on the Champs Elysees last night by a band of forty Bulgarian com- who attacked MM. munists Theodore Koulief and Boris Vasoff the President and Vice President, respectively, of the Bulgarian Sobranje, who are
the Decorative Arte Exhibition. The parliamentarians managed to take refuge in a
motor bus
Show Cases, Brass and Glass Per.held in Nam Tong Restaurant, their paper from the street news-sidering that the propositions are visiting Paris in connection with fume Case, Mirrors, Wax Figures. China Building, on SATURDAY, Stands for Dresses, Ceiling and the 22nd of August, 1925, at Tinsel Flowers, Silk and Velvet Table Fans, Brass Rods, Curtains.
Valuable
Furnitures, Shop Ceiling and Table Lamps, Large and Small Tin Boxes. Mezzanine Floors, etc. etc..
and
Hemstitching Machines
Safes.
and
and
One Accordeon Pleating Machine 14 yard wide,
Catalogues will be issued.
On View from Sunday, the 23rd August, 1925.
Terms:
:
Cash on Delivery. LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers, Hongkong, 17th August, 1925.;
HE Undersigned have received Tinstructions to sell by Public
Auction
On TUESDAY.
the 25th August. 1925, Commencing at 10 am.
at their Sales Room. Duddell. St.
(For Account of the Concerned.)
1 Case Blankets.
1 Case Cotton Fancy.
1 Case Madapolam.
2 Cases Webbing Belts.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers. Hongkong, 19th August, 1925.
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repairs to boots and shoes.
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FETER WONG. MOK LIN, CHENG SO. Subscribers to the Kowloon Tong Building Scheme. Hongkong, 17th August, 1925.
HONGKONG CRICKET
LEAGUE.
THE Annual Meeting will be
held in the Pavilion of the Hongkong Cricket Club (by kind permission) on MONDAY, 31st August, 1925, at 5.15 p.m.
H. OWEN HUGHES,
Hon. Secretary,
Hongkong, 18th August, 1925.
NOTICE.
WE have investors interested in sound shares at favourable rates. Offers invited by 'phone C.4630 or in writing to Small Investors, 10, Des Vœux Road.
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Later.
which the assailants rushed. The police were compelled to draw The Foreign Office this after-revolvers when the situation be- noon received the. Chinese invita came threatening. When police tion to the tariff conference. It is reinforcements arrived they dis- stated that Japan is willing to con- persed the demonstrators, two of sider customs autonomy" later if whom were arrested. China so requests..
Famine Relief Tax.
(Reuter's Service.)
Peking, August 19.
It is learned officially from the Waichiaopu that the conditions under which the famine relief customs surtax of one half per
NAVAL TOUR.
AMERICANS CHEERED. IN AUCKLAND.
(Reuter's Service.).
امي
RUBBER WANTED.
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Strike Reviews
CONTENTS.
Page.
Page.
Passengers
is
1-6 Libel Action
13
End In Sight"
.14
6
Wedding
14
6
Canton Warfare
14
6
Tramway Company
14
-6
No Boycott
15
7
F. A. Meeting
15
7
Lawn Bowls
15
Dynamite
16
7
Arcther Cordon
| League Baseball
15
His Master's Car
16
Rents Law....
7
Masters and Men
16
New Governor
8.
St. John Ambulance
Macao Steamers
8
Brigade
16
Funerals.
8
Border Outrage
16
Sold For $650
*
The Real Motive
.16
Coolie's Jeers
9.
Tennis Match
.16
London Divorce
9
Obituary
17
Arm Haul
9
New Governor
17
H.M.S. Hermes
9
"Trick" Cyclists
17
A "Cruel Murder"
9
Sir R. Ho Tung
17
Serious Charge
*
New Motor Ship
17
Rent Increase
.10
Share Market
17
Robbers Scared
.10.
Bolshevik Menace
18-20
Alleged Embezzlement. Little Bidding
10
Not Detained
20
.10.
Good Progress
20
.10
Idle Hands!
.20
10
No Fighting
21
.10
Three of Bamboos.
.21
11
Border Shots
21
11
Sir Edward Stubbs
11
Mr. Cecil Clementi
21
.11
inévitable Woman
11
Bogus Constable
11
Drift to Ruin..
12
No Notice
Back Broken
12
An Act of War?
.12
Admiral Sinclair
Mr. H. Morriss China Coast
.12
.13
New P., & O. Liner Canton Moves..
Local Baseball
Border Shots
Searcher Charged Fatal Night Ride Reclaimed Chinese Lesson
Marking Time Motor Accident
An Octogenarian Local Flying
New Governor
EX-CROWN PRINCE.cesibly reproach the family for
ARGUMENTS FOR GER- MANY'S INNOCENCE.
man can woont Prussian and Ger-
As 50
| EXCURSION DEATHS,
MILLHANDS INJURED BY EXPLOSION.
fighting for German unity when the considers the identical position of the house of Savoy; how any Eng (Reuters American Service.)
lishman can occise Prussia and Germany for fighting for develop Newport, R.I., August 19. Seventeen persons were killed
The new book by the ex-Crown men as a Great Power when he is cent. will be imposed have now and seventy-five injured in the infermany's war guilt, rd that England, by crushing
all other Sen Powers, has won. been finally agreed upon. The explosion of a boiler aboard an
whose contents have been very surtax will be imposed for a period excursion steamer. The majority jaku-ly guarded by the publishers of the globe or how a French- of four months with a proviso that of the victims were employees of spve for the "extracts given to the man longing for world power & should the amount so raised be Messrs. Coat's thread mil at Press in whet publie curiosity, crime when he looks back on Louis
has been published. Now that TV, and Napoleon. Pawtucket. insufficient to meet the require-
Later.. it bas ments of the situation, the
appeared, this thort
If Germany had not pursued a. Chinese Government may extend The deathroll is now twenty bank, entitled 7 Seet the Truth"
three:
Stuttgart and-poly of peace during the Boer War the period for
Doctors say that ten (Verlag Cotte, a further two months. The Chinese Govern-
more are likely to die. The ex- Berlin), contains very little that is and resisted all tempting offers, the plosion occurred suddenly while now for the public to be curiousx-Crown Prince believes that the ment suggested that the surtax the steamer was in front of the about. There are two points about Furopean combination that led to become operative on November 1. naval station on her return from ly to provoke adverse critic the Great War would have been-
Pawtucket after a day's outing im at the outset. One is the fact formed many years earlier. of millhands. Naval launches that the author signs "Wilhelm, the belief that the German strength. and destroyers hurried to her rwhprince," on the cover and of arms was the secret of her will assistance and took off the in-title page, which is likely to pre to strike, several arguments are jured, and conveyed them to thejudice Republicans as patriotic in used to prove, that German arma- naval hospital.
The other andments were the effects, and not the spirit as himself. for more important one, if the book tuses, of her neighbours' efforts. is to rank as the serious contribn Of these the strongest is the evi- tion to the quesion of Germany's dence of General Buat. French war guilt that its measured tona delegate at Washington for Briand's suggests, is that the author shon Government, who stated that the have confined himself to mere events German Army was not at its full, as far as Germany is concerned, power in 1913, when 8,800 healthy ignoring all personalities save that young men were refused, while of the Kaiser in the attempt to Frame had taken every recruit, Akron, August. 19.
prove the entire absence of any idea This weakest spot in his evidence Negotiations for the lease of a of war in German heads before her is the contention that the million acres of land in Liberia for 1914.
mumerical superiority of the Allies rubber growing bave virtually been "The object of the book is highly on August 1, 1914, was such that concluded between the Firestone interesting in itself, as it represents Germanory could only be Tyre Company and Mr. Edwin the standpoint of thousands of Ger- hoped for a leader of gening Barclay, Liberian Secretary of man Nationalists at the present, arose."! Wellington, August 19, State. It is learned from an moment. It is not written to pro- The book in, scurions, unconscious The Maoris entrusted to authoritative source that a $100,- mote the rescinding of the Treaty contribution to the father-and-son Admiral Coontz a casket for Pre-000,000 corporation will be formed of Versailles, "whose crown of problem which has exercised Ger 877sident Coolidge, hoping it would properate the plantation on a scale theme is the Dawes plan but its man literture during the past few be used to enclose a copy of an ensuring American rubber manufac immediate aim is to bring about the years, Brupulous attention is Anglo-American Treaty for world turers an adequate supply,
solemn refutation of the Nole sign-), paid vot only to every utterance or ed by Clemenceau on June 16, 1919, krawie remark before the Great elucidating Article 291 of thy Ver-War broke out, but to every foar sailles Treaty, which deals with the Kaiser ever expressed that the Germany's war guilt. With this Central Powers might be dragged moral victory the ex-Crown Prince into Balkan struggles. An occa thinks Germany would have to be sional note or message that was toci satisfied for a time, for, though temperamental the on excuses from recognition of the fact that Ger-the purely human point of view of many was not alone in causing the momentary and perfectly natural var, is gaining ground, a public exasperation: The whole rings fdmission of the fact has yet to be very true, and for foreign readers, made. This admission, lie, con at least has the merit of summing iders, should be the condition of fun under one hend accessible to all Germany's entering the League who care to read them all the sign- “One jr not excially possible with manta lying buced in a heap
brand on one's brow." He does political memoirs on the vast sub- not think there is any possibility of ject of "Who began the war. altering the Treaty for many years
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* Auckland, August 19. Detachments of the American Fleet imposingly marched in procession through the streets for an hour and a half. They were rousingly cheered by huge crowds.
MAORIS'S GIFT.
peace.
(Reuter's Service.)
JOB OR PARTY?
SOCIALIST GOVERNOR OF INDO-CHINA,
(Reuter's Service)
Paris, August 19. M: Varenne, whose appoint ment, to the governorship of Indo Chine led to his expulsion from the Socialist party, interviewed, said that he preferred to devote his energies to work useful to the country rather than to waste them in sterile conflict of doctrines and opinions.
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to come, though he has no hesita tion, after what appears to have been a very close study of all the. documents, and memoirs, published in every country, in roundly call. ing Isvolsk, Russian Ambassador a: Paris in 1914, the father of the Great Wat
Mrs. H. Peck: "This trouble, in China is very serious."
Mr. H. Peck: "It ls, my dear., At the same time, it's nica
know
Mrs. H. Peck: "What
The Entente the ex-Crown Prince considera, was concluded Mr. H. Peck: "That there' from the same conception of Gar something you can't blame me
"danger?.
for