SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1925.
FRANCE'S FINANCES.
INDUSTRIAL LEADERS.
OFFER HELP.
PLAN UNDER DISCUSSION.
(Beuty's Strutec.)
THE CHINA MAIL
NEW FOR OLD.
CHICKEN
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AT WATSON'S.
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ALLEGED ARMED ROBBER
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USEFUL CHRISTMAS
GIFTS
DRY CLEANING AND DYE- ING FOR CLOTHES.
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FOILED ATTEMPT SEQUEL.
A WIDE RANGE OF CHOICE!
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MODERN METHODS.
WINES AND SPIRITS
MUSSRS, H. BURTONJEE
AND SON
GOOD CHER FOR XMAS,..
Discarding the chickens with An excellent range of presents Caraful and scientific chemical Tho name of Messrs. Paris, Dec. 18 which bona fides had been estab-combining use with ornament is cleaning is guaranteed by the Ruttonjee and Son is a household The papers state that with a fished and admittance gained to that to be found at the establish-International Dry Cleaning and word in Hongkong, for this firm view to solving the financial the first floor of No. 32, Westernment of A. S. Watson and Co. Dyeing Co. (19, Wyndham Street) one of the oldess established problema, the industrialists of Street, on Thursday afternoon,Few fair hearts could resist the for ladies and men's clothes in- in the Colony. They hold wole goodi many the Departement du Nord have two armed robbers escaped on charms of the perfumes which cluding fox furs and trimming, agencies for,
cushions, furniture, breweries, distilleries and wine Jaid before President Domergue some women inmates raising there stocked here to suit the most curtains,
carpeta etc. • By producers in Greav. Britain and and M. Briard a plan for ruising alarm, throwing away their other discriminating of tastes-Caron's coverings,
Coty's abroad a loan of fen billion franes equipment which consisted of Riguad's.
Yardley's, hygienic treatment faded colours on the. Continent, getting the guaranteed by one-leath the turn- duggers und wire gaps.
Houbigant's etc., whilst the vexare renewed or more fashionable wines and spirits direct in casks French This robbery was reported ined question of what to give "him" tints introduced as desired and and bottling them on their arrival over of the whole
All the latest yesterday's "China Mail" It buscan easily be settled by an in- the entire winter wardrobe or in Hongkong, industry.
A plan whereby the lenders of since been gathered that a man spection of Messrs. Watson and house attings may be renewed in machinery is kept for bottling and the local product is guaran industry can help towards the has been taken into custody, Co.'s stock of male requirements this way. solution of the financial crisis was alleged to have taken part in the Kent's English hair brushes
The local offices of this com, teed to be equal to that of the He was to have been which are world famed for the pany have only been opened since best turned out at Home aubmitted to M. Doumergue by affair,
They brought before a Police Magis-satisfaction they give and their May but they have had consider-Those wibing to lay in the Nord Industrialists. suggested that all French industrate this morning, for remand, durability; safety
able experience elsewhere and the supply of 1nes and spirits for trialists should float a ten mi to enable further inquiries to be other shaving gear of the best satisfaction they are giving is the festive season should visit Hard Town both at home and made.
makes: pipes in the newest styles evidenced in the large orders Messrs. Ruttonjs's store at No. Divisional Inspector P. Grantbearing guarantee of permanent they are attending to. Prompt 16, Queen's Road Central where abrofil, seented on a tenth of the business turnover of the French is in charge of the case.
satisfaction by such names ness is a feature of the service and and Peterson, Dunhit, Orlik
charges & FG industry.
moderate Bewley.
Clothes are returned fresh and A toothsome assortment of smart within a few days, confectionery and chocolate also makes a tempting display and here one notes, new designs and Hlavours of some of the very best makes, such as Foss' Keillor and Fry and Kohler, the Boxes being beautifully decorated and the contents exquisite.
WHS
M. Bomergue touched by the offer and the plan is already in the early stages of -discussion in ministerial qua-
ters,
FRANC LOAN,
SCHEME TO AVOID TAXATION.
(Reuter's Service,}
LOCAL PROPERTY,
TIN MAGNATE BUYS BIG LOTS
NEARLY $1,000:DAD,
South
razors and
As
MIDGET ROGUE:
CRIMINAL'S POSE AS A JOCKEY.
AMAZING CAREER.
"Said to have been a benefactor
Householders will also find it to the Hongkong University to the extent of $60,000: a southern useful to consult the Arm when rin magnate is reported to have it comes to the question of stock- Puris, Dec. 18.
purchased three extensive lots of ing the cellar for the festive
"Little Ernie" the last of Varias important groups of real property the combined season. Messrs. Watson and Co. French industry, including the silk values being nearly $1,000,000: being prepared to put up to:
"Bludger Bill's" gang of world- and metal, will adhere in prin-
Yesterday's vernacular, papers order cases containing assortedi
wide confidence tricksters. «win- They also ciple to the plan of the Nord indus-say that a Mr. Yu Tung-suen, wines and spirits.
dlers, and cardsharpers, which trialists, who are chiefly textile who made his fortune in tin furnish Christmas hampers in a rounded up in Paris in 1923 was sentenced at Bow-street and most vulnerable to Auctus-mines, and has been an unofficial beautifully made baskets.. tions. The frane loan would be legislative councillor in the island cases contain some of the
Police Court to six months" hard purely voluntary effort hurched of his labours, has formed a known brands of champagne, labour for robbing & Scotsman especially in America, the pro-syndicate to buy up property in sherries, claret, burgundy portal outside Australia House, in the
and white wines. coeds of which will form a sinking | Hongkong.
Strand, of £20 by a trick.
The M. Y. San shops in Queen's Road Central at over $580,000,
fund for the amortisation of the The loss which are stated as public debt Thus it is hoped to having passed to his ownership avoid the necessity of the crush-nre:- Ang new taxation proposed by the various finance ministers and to restore confidence in the Enture of the French State finance. The plan has been generally ably received...
The Kam Wing Bank premises trecently built), also in Queen's favour-Road Centrul as $168.000.
BANDIT RAID.
AMERICAN VILLAGE
PILLAGED.
ROBBERS $810.000 HAUL.
Kundan's Emeriegn Servier
Dowse, Iowa, Dec. 18., After taking prisoner. the town
tele- the . marshal,
the phone operators d -railwaymen and severing the
The best
UNCLEAN PLAYS.
BEELAN PARTY'S BIB PORE PRESTIGE.
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they can rest assured that their wants will be supplied to their sutisfaction.
Among the agencies held by Messrs. Ruttonjee are those for Pot Roger Champagne, Peter Dawson and Sandy Macdonald whisky, Kitchiner's gin, Kopke's. port. Bardinot's liqueurs and for the naval and military needs. supplies of Steel Coulson's ale.
300 FEET FALL.
WOMAN'S WONDERFUL
ESCAPE.
CHAT WITH RESCUERS..
A middle-aged woman had wonderful escape from death on Beachy Head
At a point where the cliff is but 400ft. high she fell 850ft.,. lodged on a ledge."
About 3.80 a coachload of visitors from Eastbourne drove to the top of Beachy Hend, and His renthe woman was one of the pas
sengers who alighted and strolled towards the cliff edge.
This notorious eriminal lá known to the police by a score of alfases, including Edward Robin- son, Ernest Little, Ernest Riddle, Ernest Rhodes. Ernest Fortescue. and Derek Robinson. name is Ernest Riddle, and he has A new ichen has flashed into the been convicted many times in his The former Chinese exchange minds of the Nationalists to pre-country and South Africa, where fronting on lee Flouse Street, forserve the high mond Character of he was once fogged
Detective Sergeant Peter Roste. over $220.600.
the German stage, which they say Efforts to trace the gentleman has been condamnatal by im xorted of Bow-street, to whose clever have failed so far. The name asign plays, and at the sun time work "Little Erule's" arrest was given above is according to the grease their dwindling probige.
due, described him as "one of the Cantonese pronunciation of the
Be a better to the Minister of most accomplished international tricksters in the confideneč Icharacters.
the Interior and the Chief of
world.***
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AERIAL VIEW.
LOCAL COURT.
SHOOTING INQUIRY RESUMED.
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She was seen standing there by Mr. B. Farrell, of Pinner View, near Harrow, and then she appeared. He immediately to the coastguard station near, and the men turned out,
Chief-officer Whitmore, Petty- officer Hartfield, and Signalmen Cleveland, Smeath and" Hanover; Police, 1「:༤ Nationalist genap, He is a dapper little man. little together with a civilian, Mr. in the Reichstag attacks the more than five feet in height, and Arthur Boniface, of Eastbourne, laeomingness? of certain German has played many parts in the descended the cliff with ropes. revues, and, requests the fldvern.! course of his chequered career in Finding that the woman was. moet te wildraw from the csinos different parts of the world. Halive they signalled to the top, a USED FOR FIRST TIME IN. 1 sees it, which made ofresses favourite role was that of the stretcher was lowered, and the His diminutive woman was strapped to it and let. pra actors' again." This hostility is crook jockey... Fließy dialed gainst a mudel size and horsey" appearance dowy to the bench, stones falling remedy From A to Z," which was helped him, and his tunfederates,around her all the time.
Police who had arrived carried Hinigitally entitled "front Paradise in their swindles. which, it is
estimated, brought them in ather two and a half miles over the For the first time, yesterday, a te Findenburg,"
beach and rocks.to the nearest wires communicating with other photograph taken from the air,
ambulance One of the biggest coups which point, to which an towns, half a dozen bandits made was used as evidence in a Hong- the most spetacular thing that Bludger Bill and his gang could come, the journey taking
The new revne is supposed to be least £50,000 a year. an inroad into the village, wreck-kong "police court.
The brought off involved a sum of two and a half hours. During⚫ ed the safe in the bank, and 'car-
The occasion was the continua Berlin has ever seen. ried off cash and securities valued tion of the inquiry into the boro-malists frawn on the new show, £28.500, which the swindlers her removal to hospital » she at $870,000.
der incident as a result of which he is a shocking me, und uns obtained from Sir Waiter Cocker-chatted to those around her.
From letters found on her she two Chinese were killed by Sub-worthy of the "alena buclilies of line, a rich shipowner of Hull.
1 Sir Walter was spending a holiday is believed to be a Mrs.~Alleg. Inspector D. W. Barnett. The the Germe "mudian.“ photograph in question was al The revise will probably be modi on the Riviera, and met "B" but her address is not known, Wandsworth and view of the district where the tied but not withdrawn together and his, associates, who induced The letters have addresses
has agreed him to part with two cheques for Battersea, events occurred in order that the The Communist, Party Jury, which sat at the Central to support the Nationists in their £15,000 and £8,500 in connection Clapham. Her condition is
garded as serious. Magistracy with Mr. R. E. Lind-ampaign, bus the prime mover in with betting transactions,
"Bludger Bill" fed from the sell as foroner might follow the timespaiguri themia sēk
Riviera immediately after this movements of those present at
coup, and motored to Paris in his the time.
He was the Rolls-Royce. He was arrested by: ccaled in the car.
where he. employed detectives at the entrance to the owned of a luxurious flat in Ken- city, and when his motor-car was sington, searched jewele and money to the liveried servants, and lived at the value of £20,000 were found con- rate of £100 a day.
LATEST MARVEL.
WIRELESS TALKS FROM TRAINS.
be extended to other trains soon. us possible.
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Router's Service)
Berlin Dec. 18.
Three villagers were called and Order made by the Governor Recent experiments in wireless 'telephony from railway truing the Coroner remarked that there in Council under section 2 of the have been so successful that from were considerable discrepancies Evidence Ordinance, 1889, Ordi- January 4 travellers on expresses in their evidence. After one of nance No. 2 of 1889, on the 17th between Hamburg and Berlin wij them had contradicted himself Way of December, 1925,
The International Banking be able to telephone their families several times the Coroner said: and friends easily as if they don't believe you saw a single Corporation of New York, United were at home. The service will thing. I think you are inventing States of America, a foreign XXXXX
this out of your brain, such as banking company carrying on. It is."
business in this Colony, is hereby "One of the villagers called said recognised as a bank for the pur- that the women who had been poses of the Evidence Ordinance, robbed by the men whom the 1889: Inspector was after told him that only one was armed. When wit- ness Nuw the three suspects emerge from a gap in the ridge and go down a side path in the direction of some brick kilns, her to called to the Inspector who had got to the scene by his cycle. The Inspector fired a shot and the men ran back up the hillside. Inspector Barnett ran after them, witness following at some diar tance and he saw the Inspector fire two more shots, both of the men falling.
SOVIET ENVOY.
(Iiculer'a Service.)
Berlin, Dec, 15. M. Tchilcherin has arrived here from Paris en route Moscow..
LUCKY AMERICA.
Rruber's American Service).
Washington, Dec. 18. The House of Representatives passed a B reducing taxes by $325,000.000.
After this evidence the Coroner intimated that the inquiry would run over to another day. There were two other witnesses and his His Excellency the Governor summing up and direction of the has been pleased to appoint the jury on the law would take some
following officers to act us ไม่ Honorary Aides de Comp -Captain Hugh Blackwell Layard
Dowbiggen, Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps, with affect from December 11, 1925.
time.
The inquiry was adjourned until next Tuesday at 2.15 p.m.
EXCHANGE.
Hongkong, 19th December, 1926. On London
Bank, Wire.
On demand.#47/18.
11
30 day's sight...
4 months sight
24-9
Credita. 4 months' sight .. 3/5-3 Documentary, 4.monika sighk 26–3. On Fazl
250-1
On demand an M On Berlla
Credits, 4 months sight.
On demand...
On New York-
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On demand
Credits, 00 days', digik
Bombay
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Wire On demand...
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Wire
'On Singapore-s Un demand
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His Excellency, the Governor haa
Ja Bhanghai On demand
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Bubadar Major and Hon, Laout, been pleased to sppoint Mr. Amar
Punjabia, with effect from of 3dnestion: "and" Mr Boland (Bar Bürge November 1; 1925.
Arthur Charlie North to act me Bubadar Mangal Singh, Hongkong Chief Assistant to the Secretary for & Singapore Brigade, B.A., with Chinese Affairs, with effect from effect hum December 11, 1935.Decomber 16, 1920:
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Ebeg to notify Customers that Assorted Hampers suitable for tho
W Fortive Bosson may be obtained from us at the following. Reduced
Rates:
No. 1 HAMPER.
1 Qt. Moet & Chandon Dry Imperial Champagna:
1Pt Blackberry Brandy.
D.O.M
1 Qt. Martell's XXX Brandy
2 Qt4. King George IV or Perfection Whisky
1 Qt. Superb Tawny Port
2 Qts. St. Julien Claret
1
Qt. Uld Brown Shorry E.8.
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Burgoyne's Burgundy
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No. 2 HAMFER.
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PL. DOM
1 Qt. Burgoyne's Batrendy
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Qua King George Ty, ex Perfection Whisk
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QL. D Q.L. 014 Tom on Dry Gin
Vino de Parto Shery
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11 G. F. Peppermint
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George Vor Perfaction. Whi
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1 DOL, Olá Toms or Dry Gin
Qu. Medon Claret
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