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HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD
BANKING CORPORATION.
Authorised Capital......... $60,000,000 Issued and Fully Pakl-up '...v... $20,000,000 Beserve Fundij
Starling - ........ £6,000,000 Hilver........... 13,85,000
HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG.
10, Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong
Authorised Capital'
Paid-Up Capital
Reserve
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:~~
Beavis [ Proprieture. » » #20,000,000
THE CHINA MAIL.
COMMERCE AND FINANCE.
$10,000,000
5,000,000 | R 1,200,000
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Metro Liability of
Bombay
Melbourne San Francisco U.S. MASS METHOD. Nagsak Ba
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PUSTE RESTANTE.
HEAD OFFICE: HONGKÓNG.
Daloutta
New York Bemerang
Canton
Osaka Singapore
Haiphong
Paris
Bourabaya
Honolulu
Peking
Bydney
BRITISH LABOUR LEADER'S ADVOCACY.
Kabe
Pentag
Trip-h
Kowloon
Looden
Rangoon Baigan Shanghai
Treatin Takyo
COURT OF BIRKOTOKS:- Ton, Mr. D. G. St. Bernard, Chalino.
1. Compton, Meg. -Deputy Chairman,
W. II. Bell, Bor.
N. B. Brown Kaq,
A. Macgowan, Kaq.
ANUT
BANGKOK BATAVIA
GOMBAY
W. Pattanden, Keq.
T. O, Wwall, Kaq.
31. P. White, K.
Acting Chief Mariager. Hon. Mr. A. O, Hymen, i
BRANDRE-
CALOUTTA
CANTON
UBETOO COLOMBO
DAIKIN TOOCHOW MAYPHONO
HLA MERUJELO
HANKOW FABBIN
HONGERW
ILOILO
[PON
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KOBI
KUALA
LUMPUR
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LONDON
LYONS
MALACOA
MANTLA MOUKDEN
KAGASAKI
NEW YORK
PEKING
PENAXO
RANGOON
BAMION
BAN FRANCISCO
BRANGIA1
SINGAPORE
SONGABAYA
SUNGKI PATANI TIENTSIN
TOKYO
THINGYAL
YOKOHAMA
Currant Anoounte openei In Local Currency and Fiza Depoalie Panaived fur one year of shorter periode in Loen! Currency and Staring um Levine which will be quoted to appleads,
Blog Kang, 24th: May, 1997,
HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.
The Baslaser of the shore Banks enne ducted by the HONGKONG AND HUANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. Rulas may be obtained cu application.
FOR THE HONGKONG & SHANQUA BANKING COLPURATION,
4. С. Пупок, Acting Chief Manger
Hongkong, 9th, March, 1927,
BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE.
HEAD OFFICE:
90, Boulevard Haussman, Paris. Subscribed Capital.. Fra. 72,000,000.00 Paid-Up Capital.....Fr. 68,400,000.00 Reserve Fund .... .Fr. 89,384,519.10 BRANCHES:
Bangkok Hanoi Battambang Houg H Gunthe
Pondicherry Hong Sainon Mengtze Shanghai Canton Nam-Diah Singapore Dijbouti
Noumea
Tientsin Fort-Bayard Papeete
Tourané Haiphong Peking Yunnanfu Hankow From-Penh
BANKERS:
IN FRANCE: Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris; Credit Lyonnals; Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas; Credit Industriel et Commercial; Societe
· Generala.
IN LONDON: The National Pro- vincial & Union Bank of England, Ltd.; “Comptoir National · d'Escompte de
Parla; Credit Lyonnais.
IN NEW YORK: J. P. Morgan A Ca; French American Banking Cor- poration; Guaranty Trust Co. of New Fork
Interest allowed on Current Accounts and Fixed Deposits according arrangements.
Manila
Correspondents in all principal cities of the world.
Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted, Loans
ranted on approved securities.
SAFE DEPOSIT BONES to let
KAN TONG PO;
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 21st March, 1927.
/行銀豳工法中
BANQUE FRANCO-CHINCISE pour le
Commeren et L'Industrie (Incorporated in France).
5, Chater Road, Victoria, Hong Kong.
.HEAD OFFICE: 74, Rae St. Lazare, Paris,
Capital fully paid up...Frs.40,000,000 Special working capital. Frs.50,000,000 Fra.18,270,000
Roserves
Paris
Saigon Poking
BRANCHES. Lyons Murroillea Haiphong Hanoi Shanghai Tientsin Hongkong Phon Penh
BANKERS:
FRANCE:--Societo Generale, Banque Nationale de Credit, Banque de Paris et des Paya Bas. LONDON:-Midland Bank Ltd. NEW YORK:-Irving Bank Columbia
Trust Co.
Every description of Banking and Exchange Business Transacted. Corre spondents throughout the world. A. ROLLIN,
Manager. Hong Kong, 21st April, 1927.
M.P., formerly Financial Secretary The Right Hon. William Graham, to the Treasury, speaking at King's Lynn, said that the debates of the past week proved that during the present year there was not the slightest chance of actual public expenditure in Great Britain being less than £848,000,000 to £850,000,- |000. To that sum must be added
SHARE MARKET.
OFFICIAL QUOTATIONS.
Hong Kong, May 30, 1027, 10.30 a.m.
Stock.
Hong Kong
Stock .Exchange.
21.
According to a Post Office notice, T.T. on London Poste Restante Correspondence on TT. on Shanghai..... 77% May 28 was as follows: Frank Ames, (8.8. West Calera), Mrs.)
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"MAKE INDUSTRY EFFICIENT," | Austin, A. E. Barzoso, G. Muna cita, Hongkong Bank $1070 B. L. Brind (ss. Aeneas), R. Burges, do. Lon. Reg... £117
Chartered Bank Capt. A. G. Bury, Chan Kai-pool Silverpine), Geo. C. Clark (8.4. P. & D. Bank (9.8. Benalear), Mr. Chow, (a.a. Morcantile A. & B.... £30
Westmoor), L. Cluney (8.6. West- East Asin moor), Mrs. Crocket. H. C. Dalziel, W. Duffeld, Mrs. R. Duncan, A. Emmanuel, E. Feneek (8.8. Durr-Canton Ingaranice ... $820 dale); L. Finke, R. Foisberg (s.s. China Underwriters. 80 cts.. Indianic). A. Geddes (s.s. Thay North China Insurance F143 Gevan), R. W. Gledson (9.8. West Union Insurance ..... $278 b & sa moor). G. Le
P. C. Ganning-
... $38 M. ing raised from local rates. That Harry, L-Col. A. G. Hill, T. Honey Chins Fire Insurance $200
hem, E. A. Hallaru, C. Hansen, fes made the combined total for tax ands (British Sultan Hospital), H. Fire Insurance.. $600 payers and ratepayers more than Vernor P. Jepson, Capt. J. M. John- £1,000,000,000. In these circumstan (s.3. Koy Yuan), Kadir Kahn, stances the sound course was to J. B. Kemp, Abdul Kagon Khan. Douglases make British industry much more J. H. Klukkert, J. Knoth, L. Kornit H.K. Steamboats.... $22 efficient for the purpose of meeting zar (Diamond dealer), Mr. Lam. H.K. Tugs & Lighters $1.10 the inevitable strain. Deductions J. O, Leary (8.3. (Modesta), N. G. Indo-Chinas (Pret)... $30 must be made from American post- war experience.
approximately £160,000,000 now be. Miss J. L. Groves. R. Greave, Yangtze Insurance
Fire Insurances.
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do. (Def.). $65 Mr. McCurdy, Sir J. R. McDonald Shell Transports 08/ The attitude of large numbers of P. K. Menon, J. M. Mitchel, Mr. and
Star Ferries British people to wages, and the Mrs. Morden, Marry Newman,
Water-boats cost of production was fundamen- Ogiy. Madame Philippot, H.
Refineries, tally
wrong. The American Richardson (s.s. Westmoor), Capt. China Sugars Federation of Labour had worked Ritchie (8.5. Kam Wa), G. Robert Malabon Sugars with enthusiasm for maximum pro- shaw, B. A. Rogers, J. M. C. Rousse,
Mining duction, and they had given a large Salvation Army, O. J. Shennon, F. measure of support to efficiency Silvestri (Entomology Explorer), Kallan Mining Ad... 38/ methods. One of these methada Tio Han Tan (s.s, Remphius), V. Langkats (Combined). T19% alone was estimated to have saved Vladimizeku, H. W. Walker, Wee dv. (Single)... TO American Industry £500.000.000. Sing On (s.s. Silverpine), E. Zeitlyn, Shanghai Exploration. T The result was that real wages in restrante. May 28, 1927: F. W. Raubs
Unpaid correspondence in postel Shanghai Louns America were better than before the war, while in Great Britain, on Cone, Miss I. Dotty; H. M. Hodges, Tronoh Mines a safe calculation, we had just kept O'Mara, I. J. Rogers
Mrs. David Keith, Mrs. A. H. Ural Caspions pace with the rise in prices.
(American Docks, Wharves, This year they would have the Consul), Rupert and John Sutton
Godowns, &c. (s.. West Cajoot). efforts of innumerable employers*
H.K. & K. Wharvas.. $103 List of registered covers In poste K. & W. Docks .... $38 organisations and practically all restante:-J. Chaney (c/o Ameri- Hongkews...... the trade uniona wasted on the can Consul), G. F. Daswani, Aram New Engineerings... 75 ludicrous anti-trade union legisla-Er-manuel, L. Fink, J. M. Gutierrez, Shanghai Docks ..... T100 tion of the Government. In short, Rev. N. Mustala, Rousse-Lacordaire, Lands, Hotels & Bldgs.. they would have endless strife, Teang Ping. where they should have the detail- ed study of the mass of economic and other material now at the dis- posal of British industry, That THE CHARTERED BANK OF
strife would make a third-succes- INDIA, AUSTRALIA &'CHINA.
sive Budget deficit inévitable. He believed that if British Labour met i The Empire Cotton Growing Cor Incorporated by Royal Chater, 1858. that with a constructive alternative, poration have published a report by Ewo Cottons
which included full efficiency in in Mr. H. C. Sampson on the character-Orientals HEAD OFFICE: LONDON. Paid-up Capital
£3,000,000 dustry, with the ideal, as regards istics of several cropa that may be S'hai Cottons (Old).. T51 Reserve Fund .......
do. Reserve Liability of Proprie-
£4,000,000 ownership, of publie corporations, suitable as rotation crops with cat-
(new).. T26 it would win the support of milton in East Africa and the possi Buses, Trams, &c. 23,000,000 lions of electors who in their hearts
bility of marketing them in Bri- China Buses... knew that the methods of the tain. The cropa are divided H.K. Tramways Government were in offect the into four classes-cereals, pulse, Peak Trams (vld) methods of destruction.
-oil-secds, and fibres, and each is" do. (new)
dealt with separately, and their Singapore Tractions agricultural possibilities are dis. Taxis cussed in addition to their market Miscellaneous, value. Mr. Sampson says in many Canton Ices ways the demand for graina Cementa (comb.) were very conservative, and
(old) much more attention appeared to be do. (new)
tora
Agencies and ALOR STAX
Malay Binten), AMBITSAB BANGKOK BATAVIA BOMBAY CALOUTTA CANTON CAWNPORK CKBU COLOMBO DKLill
HAIPHONG
to
HAMBURG
HANKOW
BON KONG
LOLLO
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Every description of Banking and Exchange Business transacted.
Safe Deposit Boxes to let.
CH. LEM,
-Manager. Hong Kong, 28th February, 1927.
NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL MAATSCHAPPIJ.
(NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY)
BAKKERS
Estabilahad 1834.
Hong Kong Galco 2—11 Quest'a Rend Central
Authorload Capital .......................... Gulliers 150,000,000 (£1,800,000) Prid-Up Capital anomenen Wülldare 50,000,000- (£31,008,371) Reserve Fund................. Builders 31.17.8
($1,280,778.) Special] Reserve. mamamaya Quilders 22,600,000-
(21,866,530)
Head Omco-AMETERDAM), Eastern HoxA DIDʊs:-BATAVIA,
KALACHI KLANG KOBN
KUALA KANGHAI
Perak, (P.M.N.
KUALA LUMPUR
KUCHING
Branches. MADEAN MANILA MEDAN NEW YORK PIKING PARANG PESHAWAR DUKET LANGOON MALGON BEMARANG BEREMBAN
BHANGHAI SINGAPURK BOURABAYA
TALKING (F.M.8.) TAVOY TIENT IN TOKYO
THINGTAD
YUKOSAMA
ZAMBUANGA
(Philippine Islands)
ALLEGED "RING.“
How Railway Order Went Abroad.
that a British
List of unclaimed parcels.-Sam H.K. & S. Hotels Lee Lung,Mrs. GG. Thumaon.
EMPIRE COTTON FIELDS.
Hongkong Landa Hongkong Realty H.H. Territorials Humphreys Estatus Prince's Building Rural Lands
do.
Cotton Milia.
$5.00
A
$541 $53 $6
.... 81/2.
.... $89
MONDAY, MAY 30, 1927.
POLICE RAID.
REASON FOR CLOSURE OF UNION.
OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE.
COMING FILMS.
TWO OUTSTANDING PICTURES.
Among the filme booked for early showing are two of outstanding Importance, one of these a scintil In connection with the Police raid lating historical drama, from a on Friday night, as a result of novel by Rafael Sabatini and the which the premises of the Chinese other a throw back to the period Seamen's Union were closed, sub- when New York was hardly sequent to an official declaration more than a provincial town. that the Union had been declared The stara are respectively John) illegal, the following is a transla- Gilbert and Marion Davies,
De- tails follow; tlon of the communique issued to the Chinese Press by the Secro- tariat of Chinese Affairs in explant- tion of the action:
"Bardelys The Magnificent" The ponius of King Vidor, fan- ous screen director, in making his Halifax, Secretary for Chinese characters human, appearing real Affairs, am directed by the Govern- and not as actors, is exemplified ment to publish below the reason again in "Bardelys the Magnif why the Chang Wa Hoi Yuen Kung cant," his Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Ip Lun Hop Tsung Wuf (Chinese production starring John Gilbert, Senmen's Union) has been dissolv-
"Bardelys" deals largely with ed.
figures of ancient royalty and even As enquiries show, the Chung Wa the most casual student of the Hoi Yuen Kung In Lan Hop Tsung drama realtae the difficulty of mak Wul is a political society.
ing this species of character ap- Many strikes in the Colony during the pear human, and the difficulty is ag- grandized when it is a costume pic- past Heveral years were instigated ture as is this opus.
and handled by it. In 1925 the
In "Bardelys," as the royal train. Union did all within its power moves through France, the king boldly and openly to stir up a spies a beautiful winding river. strike among the workmen, and to Halting the train he takes every- disseminate the slogans, "Over-body in wading. Royal ladies in throw Imperialism" and "Destroy waiting, courtiers, knights, min- Hong Kong” It also instituted strels and all, bare their legs to Pickets in Canton to effect a com- the knees and splash around In the plete boycott of British goods: a water. It is a delightful touch and plan which if successful would entirely plausible because at the have ruined tens of thousands of time of the story, the 17th century, Chinese in the Colony. It has also King Louis XIII was a very young spread in Hong Kong seditious pro- man and still of unreserved and paganda with the object of promot- boyish bearing. ing Communism.
Political Organisation.
In the recent movement of the Kwong Tung Government to ellm. Inate the Communists, the Union
great supporting cast is seen in the production, including Eleanor Boardman as leading woman, Roy Arthur, Lionel Belmore and others. D'Arcy, Karl Dane, George K
has actually offered resistance and "Lights of Old Broadway." representing their Union at Han-Old Broadway," Marion Davies has As the background for "Lights of know has issued a notice, stating selected the seventies of New York that the Head Union has been re- City, a period rich in historical moved to Hankow and that they value and marking the.Introduction will recognize no organisation ex- of many great inventions which cept that at Hankow as their Head made possible the great metropolis Unlon. As all such movements of the New York of to-day. have shown, the. Seamen's Union In it we find the first stock- has clearly revealed itself as atickers, the first talking machines, political organisation for the pur- the original dynamos, the first elec pose of promoting extreme Com-tric street lights of New York and munism. It is not only dangerous many other inventions, which have to the general peace of the Colony, been stepping stones of the city's but is also the enemy of the peace-
greatness.
Among the impersonations of in-
On account of this, the Govern- teresting inventive geniuses on the ment has declared on the 26th day way," are Thomas A. Edison and screen in "Lights of Old Broad- of May, 1927, that the Union is Charles Brush. The father of
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paid to colour and appearance than China Lights (comb.) $14.20 to food values. There seemed to
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Two strongly contrasting pic tures of British commercial me- be only two ways of introducing China PrOV. (new), $74 thods are presented under a com- anything new in the way of cereals Dairy Farmis mon head-that of railway electri- and pulses. One was
to import Der A. Wings them and allow them to be sold for HK. Amusementa fication.
It is announced from Budapest what they would fetch until such.K. Constructions Foreign Exchange and General Bank pounded successfully a £3,000,000 realised their value, and the other H.K. Ropes (old)
group has pro- time as the consuming public H.K. Electrics ing business transacted.
Current Accounts opened and Fixed power scheme in Hungary, includ- to have further tests carried out do. (new) Deposits received for 1 year or shortering the conversion to electric work into their feeding value and to ad-Lane. Crawfords periods at rates which will be quoted ing of 115 miles of the railway be- vertine the results. With the lat-Macno Electrics on application,
tween Budapest and Vienna.
ter alternative in view the Corpora- Mackintosh J. R. GEORGE,
Simultaneously, the British tion had asked Professor T. B, Wood Nanyang Tobaccos ... Manager. Southern Railway state that, rather to have feeding tests carried out on.
Sinceres Hong Kong, 7th March, 1927. than submit to the dictation of a pigs and poultry at Cambridge.
British "ring" they have had to place a £120,000 contract for their THE BANK OF TAIWAN, LTD. own electrification requirements
with a Swedish firm.
(TAIWAN GINKO.)
Incorporated by Special Imperial Charter, 1889.
BRANCHEN ;— Bundjernela, Bandoeng), Rom Capital. Subscribed
bay, Calcutta, Uharib
Kota-adja,
FRENCH PROSPERITY.
French trade returns for the first quarter of 1927 show a decrease of
[MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS. | £12,000,000 in imports and an in-
crease of nearly £6,500,000 in ex- ports on the corresponding period
$4.30
$15%
38
$20%
$2.30
$55%
$10
$5
$7
$36
$10%%
1
United Asbestos
Watsons Wm. Powells H.K. Telephones
$8
(Ordinary) $20
1
$11
#
30.
$3.70
EXCHANGE.
On London—
The C.P.S., R.M.S. "Empress Canada (Capt. A. J. Hailey, of 1926. For the three months
Hong Kong, May 30. .Yen 46,000,000 | R.N.R.) will leave here for Victoria French foreign trade showed a da, Dumbar, Djokjakarta, This Capital (Pald-up) .Yen 89,875,000 and Vancouver, B.C., via Shanghal, favourable balance of nearly Bank Wire
..... 2/- Kobe and Yokohama, at noon on
£6.000,000.
Bank On demand..... June 1.
2/-1/16 The Bank of France, it is stated, Rank 30 day'a sight. The C.P.S., R.MI.S. "Empress of has about £20,000,000 as a currency Bank 4 months' sight.2/- Russia" left Vancouver for Hong reserve in dollars and other appre- Credits, four months' Kong, via Japan ports and Shang-clated currencies, while the avail-sight
2/1 1/16 hai, on the 19th May and is due able margin for loan to the Trea- Documentary 4 months' here on the 6th June,
sury, which was,nil, on July 24. last) sight The E. & A. Co.'s a.s. "Tanda" year, is now £65,000,000.
Itagus'
Hobo, MALAMIG Medan, Falentong, Pekalongan, Penang, Pondana, tangoon, interlam'), Samarang, dinghol, Silmiga (Bureters),
Booralala, Boera
karta (Holo), Tegal, Tjajap and Weltevreden,*]|
■' Thosa olica haxs and deposit buses to fat,
Correspondents sil over the world
Braking basin of very
descipticu senasautod."
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·HEAD OFFICE:-Taipeh, Formosa.
BRANCHES:
す
There
On demand........
2/1 9/16
1240
JAPAN:-Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe,
Osaka. London Bankers-National Provincial Bank Ltd. FORMOSA: Giras, Eagi, Karenko, Keelung, Makong, Nanto, Shin-
alku, Taichu, Tainan, Takao, left Noji for this port on May 27, has been no falling off in the in- On Paris- Tamsui, Toen, Haito, Taito. p.m., and is due here on June 18, at come tax and other revenue, and CHINA-Shanghai, Hankow, Amoy, about daylight.
Foockow, Swatow, Canton,
the position as to short term and Cedits 4 months' Bight 1815 The m.v. "Benares" (Swedish other floating debt continue to im THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, OTHERS: Hongkong, Singapore, East Asiatic Co., Ltd.) left Antwerp pro
On Berlin- Soorabaya, Semarang, Batavia, on May 20, and is due here on or Bombay, London, New York, about June 28. Calcutta.
LIMITED.
Established 1889.
Inge
Capital (fully paid-up) Yen 100,000,000 Rezerva fund
Yen 92,500,000
Head Office:YOKOHAMA
Branches and Agencies at: Alexandria.
Newchwang. New York Osake.
Batavia.
Bombay.
Buenos Ayres.
Calcutta.
Canton
Changchun.
Dairen (Dalny).
Rio de Janeiro.
Peking.
Rangoon.
Saigon, SAD
Fengten (Mukden). Seetillaco
Hamburg. Hankow Harbin
Hoạt Long.
Honolulu Kal Ynan. Karachi.
Kobe.
Semarang. Shanghal Shimono shi
Singapore. Soerabaya.
Sydney, Tiantain.
Tokyo.
London. Los Angeles.
Manila.
Nagsanki.
・Nagoya,
Teinantu. Tringtan Vladivostok
(Temporarily closed).
Interest allowed on Current Accounts. Deposita received for fixed porioda at ratas to be obtained on application.
Hansger t Hong Kong, 11th March, 1927.
LONDON BANKERS:
London County Westminster andÄ
Parr's Bank
The Bank has Oorvapaduenta in ne Daumert a Contros in the Europian Continent, Razrin, . M .. onuria, Tvingtao, Japan, Indu-Unina, wiam, In
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THE BANK OF CHINA.
行銀國
Autorent rallowed on Offrent Accounts, and Fixes (Epocially Authorised by Presidential
Mandate of the Republic of China
Deposits at rsten which wil ou quoted in applica tion,
T. TAKAGI,
Manager.
HONGKONG BRANCH:
8, Des Your Road Central Hong Kong, 7th May, 1926.
THE BANK OF CANTON, LTD..
Established 1912,
Head Office Hong Kong.
Authorland Capital (U.K. Currency)..... 17,000,000 Paid Up Capitali
18,200.
800,000
HRANCHES
Canton, Ebanghal, Hankow, Dwatow, Bangkok, New York and Ban Prancisco, MANONDON BANKERIcon
(The Lloyd's Eaak Limited.
COELESPONDENTHÄ, V
iwáll principal pities of the Wortá.i
2 Forulan azthangu and, banking Duajadas of
very description wanaote:
› Boxes (various sizes) at syearly
LOOK TOONG SHAN,
19th Zabrukz5, 1917)
· on the 22nd of November, 1917). ..
Authorised Capital
Paid-up Capital Reserve Fund
$60,000,000.00
$18,278,600.00
# 9,625,125.24
HEAD OFFICE; PEKING.
HONGKONG BRANCH: 4. Quem's Road Central. Branches and Sub-brancher all over China and Correspondenta in Europe, America, and other parts of the world. London BankersThe National Provin- cial and Union Bank of England, Ltd. The Guaranty Trust Company of Now
New York Bankers: The Irving
National Banking) The Equitable Trust Company of NEW
York
Interest allowed on Current Accounta and Fixed Deposita. Terms on applica
of Banking, Busk
Toans granted on spproved securities Special facilities for Home Exchange
TSUYER PEL
Manager
LONDON EXCHANGES.
The Sinking Fund Commission has been able to reduce ita rate of
On New York— interest on National Defence Bonds On demand (the Bank of France recently re Credits, 60 days' alght 50% duced its bank. rate from 5% to 5
On Bombay... per cent, the lowest since the war), and it was able to announce that Wire next year it would require no,
On demand Budget aid,
On demand
nom
483
134
On Calcutta- Wire On demand
134
On Singapore- On demand
On Manila
Rugby, May 29,
-124
On demand
80%
08
On Shanghai→→→
4.85 26/32
On demand
nom.
84.96 25.241
80 day's sight (private
paper).
12.13 3/16
On Yokohama
88.86
On demand
104
20.50.
Gold Leaf,100 fine.
(per tael)
18.15
Copenhagen Oslo Vienna Prague Helsingfors
Sovereigns (Bank's
18.18 18.78
39.651 #26**
84.51
Paris New York Brussels Geneva
Amsterdam Milan: Berlin Stockholm
(N.B Exch owing Hons)
168 15/16 192.90 Vireless Service.
buying rate),
Silver (per oz.),
Bar Silver in Hong
Kong WWE park Chinese Copper Cash nom. Chinese Copper Cents 6%pm. | Rate of Native, Ingri ncomplete terest ... 7% pa
condi Chinese Sub. Coin7 27% dis.
Hong Kong Sub Contour
not, on the condition that they will Wilbur Higby, Julia,
not use again the name of the old Gordon,
Union that has been dissolved, that Bunny, Buck Black and
the Head Union is in Hong Kong others.
subject to no influence outside the
Colony, and that the objects, shall be for mutual economie assistance and for no politieal or other pur- poses,
WORLD THEATRE.
"THE LUCKY HORSESHOE”
TO-DAY. e
many
AT THE QUEEN'S.
"LIVES OF PHAROAH" TO-DAY TO WEDNESDAY.
One of the most magnificent ple- ture subjects seen here in many months, is "The Loves of Pharoah,'
Ernest
Lubitsch produc
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In this film, which starts out as tion for Paramount, Mr. Lubitsch,
a regular western, Tom Mix. ap the croftor of "Passion" and “De- pears for much of the picture is ception" has outdone himself in this Don Juan, Spanish cavaller and remarkable production. lady-killer.
The scenes are laid in Egypt in
The cause of Tom's strange tran- the days of the Pharaohs and to say sition is a dream that comes about that they are massive and that as a third of the way through the pic spectacle, this picture is unrival ture. All through the dream Tom, led, is expressing it mildly! As Don Juan, and J. Farrell Mac
Nor la the story lost in the spec- Donald, as Pancho, his retainer, go tacle. The people of the play. through heroic feats of arme in be- Pharaoh Amenes, the all-powerful half of Billle Dove, who in Lady King of Egypt, cold and cruel as Isabel, the fairest daughter of old the ruler of his people, but tender Spain.
and a vain supplicant for love at The Spanish scenes perniit Tum the feet of a free-spirited sinve and his company to appear in gaudy girl, la made a true character by and lavish costumes, while the act the King of the Ethiopians is clear Emil Jannings. Paul Wegener as tings form a most surprislag con- and definite and contrasting. More trast to the scene. in the western sequences that form the first and Expressive pantomime than that of these two bas seldom, if ever, been Jast parts of the picture.
Tom Mix makes a dashing Don Austrian actress, Dagny Servaes, is seen on the screen. And the new Juan, indeed, and it is no wonder in handsome woman who is also able that the fair maidens of Madrid and to act. She gives the slave giri all Barcelona and Seville al vied for his amile-especially when he came too, as the young Egyptian, whom needed vitality. Henry Liedtke, to judge the beauty contest!
the slave girl loves, gives an anl mated and accurate performance. So there is story as well grandeur to "The Loves of Pha- raoh." It is one of the truly ex-. ceptional works of the screen.
In the supporting cast are seen Ann Pennington, Malcolm Waite, Clarisas Selwyn and J. Gunnis Davis.
AT THE STAR.
"THREE LIVE GHOSTS"
-TO-DAY, M
A "BOBBED HAIR" STAMP.
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A most up-to-date stamp design is One of the most delightful of ra-rent stamps of Salvador. It is that found on the 85c. of the cur- cent photoplays is "Thres Live known as the "Robbed Hair" stamp Ghosts." The story deals with as it bears the portrait of a young three lads who after being reported lady whose hair is fashioned in the "missing," escape from a German very latest style. It is a rather un- prison camp and on reaching Lon-usual design for a stamp, but is
to be live none the less interesting
don, prove the The stamp also serves to remind
ghosts indeed..
Pals in the war-reported lost us that, Salvador is noted for the and now they breezed back homel coffee, as part of the design shows Ane'er do well who, fearing the leaves of the coffee plant, at the law, was perfectly willing to the foot of which we read "El Major stay "dead."
A Cafe," and the English translation,
A blue-blood, shell shocked out of his name and past into a habit
The Best Coffee,
Another product for which the
of stealing anything in sight, country la noted is balsam and this A roaring bucko whose retur is shown on the 20c., where we see rection" spoiled Step-Mama's plans a balsam tree and plantation.. for collecting insurance. It is to Salvador that we have to Add a wife, a baby, two inter-But the portrait is.not really that rupted lovea and 67 complications of the so-called "Policeman" stamp Mix with constant
laugh for a 'nolia Burps of an earlier issue. The design is The featured players are all ar to many young collectora as are Anns the helmet and uniform are certain- Q. Nilsson and Norman Kerry, both ly very typical of the "man in blue." well known to Paramount audi-But the portrait is not really that entes. The picture is artistic and of a policeman. It depicts General the supporting cast all that the most Ereta, who was at one time Preal exacting taste: could: demand dent of the republic.