MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1928.
Phone C. 22 FOR
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HE EIGHTH ANNUAL GEN- ADVERTISINGM will give an address in the
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THEATRE ROYAL on Tuesday, KOWLOON RESIDENTS ASSO- 21st February, 1928, at 4 p.m., CIATION will be held in the St. Twenty-fire Words three inser under the auspiacs of the HONG Andrew's Church Hall, Kowloon, tions prepaid $1. Every addi-KONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF on MONDAY, the 20th February, tional word four cents for
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⚫ BUSINESS. Adoption of Report and counts for the year ended December, 1927.
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PREMISES TO LET.
TO LET Nos. 4 & 5, Fung Fat Terrace, Happy Valley. European Flats with all modern Conveniences. Rental Moderate. Apply to The Wing On Co., Ltd.
TO
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"The Prospects of Commercial Aviation in the Far East" Members of the public are cor- dially invited to attend.
Hong Kong, Feb. 17, 1928.
FANLING
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SPRING MEETING.
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TANTRY FORMS to be returned to Dr. F. PIERCE GROVE, Alexandra Building, BEFORE NOON, Monday, 20th February.
Hong Kong, 13th February 1928.
TO LET.-Large double airy room with bathroom and verandah attached. Suitable for two or three HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB. bachelors or married couple. Ex- cellent cuisine and good attendants. Terms $130 for one person per month; $200 for two persons per month. Apply Box No. 629, c/o "China Mail." "
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FOR SALE.
FOR SALE-Motor Car, 12 H.P., 4 seats, good condition. Owner leaving, would consider any offer. Apply Cie Optorg. Prince's Bulid- ing.
FOR SALE.--One brass "Hung Ming" pan of the Chinese Han Dynasty with automatic springs. Price $1,000.00 Apply Box No. 487, e/o "China Mail."
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HOME TUITION.
TESTOVER STEVENAGE, Within an hour from London, In healthy neighbourhood. SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarders received in the House of the Principal. Individual care and attention. For Particulara apply to:
MISS RUTH CULLEY
. (Camb. Higher Local),
(Camb, Teachers' Diploma). MISS GERTRUDE TURNER
(National Frodel Higher
Certificate).
LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS.
-Public Auctions-
PROGRAMMES and DRAENTRY FORMS for
the FIRST EXTRA RACE MEETING to be held on Saturday, 25th February, 1928 (weather permit- ting), may be obtained at the Race Course, Hong Kong Club, and Causeway Bay Stables.
Entries will close at 12 o'clock Noon on MONDAY, 20th February, 1928.
Hong Kong, 8th February, 1928.
How Corns
Calluses are anded now
This now way stops pain en 3 sooonda Science has perfected new methods. in ending caras and calhus spots. No more paring. That is temporary; that la dangerous.
You touch the most painful corn with this amazing liquid which acts like a local anaesthetic. The pain stops in 3 seconds. You wear tight shoes. walk, dance, in comfort... instantly
Then soon the corn begins to shrive! up and loosen. You peel it off with your fingers like dead skin, 7 The whole corn is gone. Works on any kind of corn or callus. hard or soft; new or old,
Ask for "Gets-It." Results ar guaranteed. "GETS-IT," Inc, Chi- cago, U. S. A.
mittee.
THE OIL WAR,
QUARREL REPORTED PATCHED UP-
AN INDEMNITY FUND.
New York, Saturday.
COLDER STILL.
THE EXTREMES OF
-TEMPERATURE.
HEAT HARD TO STAND.
"Most of mankind feels really
3.
MR. J. G. THOMPSON. KITAIN BROTHERS.
FUNERAL AT. CATHOLIC~
CEMETERY.
TELEPHONE CO.'S TRIBUTE.
The funeral took place yesterday
VIOLINIST AND PIANIST
THERE.
RECITAL ON THURSDAY.
Lovers of really good music will The "World" understands that comfortable only within a very of Mr. J. G. Thompson whose death be pleased to learn that Robert and the Standard Oil and Royal Dutch slight range of temperature-about at the French Hospital after a con- Anatole Kitain, the talented vio- companies have patched up their 25 degrees F. Bolow 55 degrees F., siderable period..of failing health linist and pianist, who are visiting differences and are calling off the for instance, we English feel chilly occurred on Saturday. Ac-price war: No details are issued and our efficiency is impaired un-
Hong Kong in the course of a tour. 31st but it is believed the Standard Off less we keep moving about; and at St. Joseph's College and had classical music at 9.16 p.m. in the Mr. Thompson, who was educated of the world, will give a 'recital of Company is willing to earmark an above 30 F. we begin to complain | served a brief period with the Kow-Star Theatre on Thursday next. Com-nually a part of the proceeds from if we do have to keep on the move, loon Dock before becoming attach-Sons of the famous Petrogad pro- the sale of Russian of as an in-says a writer in the' Manchester ed to the oudoor staff of the Hong fessor Michael Kitain who died in Any other business.
demnity fund for the benefit of ex-¡Guardian. It is earnestly
Kong Telephone Company, was 1915, these two young men have requested that owners of oil property seized by the Wo can stand extreme of cold twenty-six years of age. He was studied under famous masters like members and all others interested Soviet.-Reuter's American Service. far better than extremes of heat. popular with the Chinese staff of Professor Auer and Rachmaninoff, in the welfare of Kowloon will [A New York message of Janu-Work out-of-doors in Canada goes the Telephone Company nuke an endeavour to be present ary. 17 stated:
on pretty much as usual at 30 bee teemed by his employers.
and and they hold a high place in Rus- at the meeting.
sian musical circles. The pro- The oil controversy between the low zero, but 50 below is a more
The funeral was largely attended gramme they are to give in the Star C. M. MANNERS,
Standard Of Company and the serious matter, though
many by representatives of both Chinese Theatre on Thursday night is one Hon. Secretary. Royal Dutch Sholl group, following people prefer it, as almost always and foreign.staffs of the Telephone that is sure to give general plea- Sir Henri. Peterding's criticisms of it is accompanied by a dead calm. Company. The Rav., Fr. Terazzi suré and a thoroughly enjoyable the Socony policy in purchasing oll It is the wind tht one dreads with officiated, the remains from Russia as "against the Inter- low temperatures. In the Eastern buried in, the Roman
being evening may be expected. Admis Catholic sion is at the popular prices of $3, eats of humanity and trade honesty" Canadian cold wave last January Cemetery
$2 and $1, with booking at Moutrie's has been carried a stage further by Ottawa had 20 under and suffered Among the many wreaths sont and the Star Theatre.
It is always the cities were ones from Mr. J. H; Taggart, the categorical statement issued by severely. THE FOURTH ORDINARY AN- the American spokesman of the that suffer moat, na. I have dis- Mr. D. Toljan and family, Chinese NUAL MEETING OF SHARE-Royal Dutch Company, declaring covered white living in Canada and Staff, Telephone Company, Gen- HOLDERS in the Company will be that the Royal Dutch intends to Russia.
In the country one ean eral Staff, Telephone Company, held at the Office of the Company, fight the Standard Oil In any coun- just pile on garments of all sorts Outdoor staff (Cable, department) "St. George's" Building, No. 7, try to which the latter ships "Rus- without paying a scrap of heed to Telephone Company and Mr. Wong Connaught Read, on FRIDAY, the sian stolen goods."
one's appearance. In the city, bow- Ming-yue, and many others. ever, one has to look neat and tidy.
HONG KONG & TERRITORIAL ESTATES, LIMITED,
+
24th February, 1928, at 11 o'clock;
am. for the purpose of receiving
a Statement of Accounts and the
In that same cold snap Northern
Ontario had 59 under. Once it had STORMS AND COLD. Report of the General Managers TOUR OF COLONIES. CO under, or 92 degrees of frost. for the year ended 31st December, 1927, and electing a Consulting Committee and Auditors.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers, Hong Kong, 15th Feb., 1928.
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI '
BANKING CORPORATION.
www
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN N
that the ORDINARY YEAR- LY MEETING of the SHARE- HOLDERS in this Corporation will be held at City Hall, Hong Kong, on SATURDAY, the 25th February 1028, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Court of Directors together with a State- ment of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1927.
MR. ORMSBY-GORE'S ITINERARY.
The Colonial Office
AMERICAN VISITATION.
Now Dec. 31. From the Rocky Mountains to
POSTE RESTANTE.
LETTERS, ETC., AWAITING CLAIMANTS.
A Post Office notice of Feb. 18 The Klondyke goldfields, up in the
gives the following information re- far north-west of Canada, have
garding correspondence awaiting' claimants at the Post Office:- actually known 114 degrees F. of THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the
frost. I believed the coldest well-
G. Adair, J. B. Affleck, H. Arns, Company will be CLOSED from
authenticated thermometer reading Chicago the country is gripped by Madam Balison, T. Brown (Denis THURSDAY, 16th February, 1928. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS. taken anywhere i'the world was a heavy snowstorm and a cold Murray & Co.), I. A. H. Brown, until FRIDAY, the 24th February,
on that occasion, on January 16, wave, with Calgary_reporting 82 Mrs. G. M. Brolta, W. G. Burdett,. 1928, both days inclusive.
1900, in Dawson City.
degrees below zero, Duluth 32, and R. Bigazzi, Rev. & Mrs. C. R. London, Saturday.
When I lived in Leningrad, or St. St. Paul 14. There are four dead Callender, R. A. Donaldson, A. announces Petersburg as it was then, great in Chicago and several deaths are Dubois, R. Ellefsen, D. Fraser, L that the Rt. Hon. W. G. A. Ormaby braziers filled with glowing coals reported from Indiana, Iowa, Min- Goldenberg, 11. C. Hardy, E. Henke, Gore, Under Secretary for the used to be planted at all the chief nesota and adjoining States, from H. Happs, W. Killack, Rev G. H. Colonies, departs on March 15 and intersections of streets by the muai-freezing: arrives in Penang on April 6. He cipal authoritics when
One person was killed de Kay, L. G. Knutzen, Mrs. Leeds, the mer- and several were injured in a tol-[R. Meon, Henry Miller, A. L. Mills, will leave Singapore on June 1 and cury did a bad drop in its tube, lision between trains in a snow. A: Ogden, W. Owen, Mona. will spend a fortnight in Ceylon Wayfarers who collapsed from the storm. Chicago forecasta indicate Ostroumoff, J. E. Ogle, R. Palmer, on his return and will visit the cold could thus be carried along that even the western coast will be Miss E. M. Pye, Mr. Petroff, A. V. | agricultural research islands,
to the nearest brazier to be revived. | subjected to a protracted cold Pinson, Miss A, Platt, O. Peaka, H. The principal object of the tour without a warm-up every half-hour spell with freezing temperatures Pampanga, 0. H. Ritter, M. A. will be to report on aefentific and or so the police could never have in Washington and.. Oregon, and Sofaer, Vim Summera, Boland economic developments in British carried on. Malaya, particularly on
It was extraordinary unusual cold in California, accom- Saunders, Mr. and Mrs. L. F. the pro- to see the way that the snow re-panted by faina. The Canadian Schutt, J. L. D. Stuart, K. Vogel, gress of medical, veterinary, forestry and education a foot of the mass of red-hot coals to be the subject of the lowest Co.), Mr. & Mrs. J. Weissbein, agricultural, mained unmelted right up to within north-west, as usual, is expected M. E. Vittaly (Associated Drug departments. He hopes to visit the when even a slight stir of wind temperatures while oven the Gulf Wong Sing-woon, 3. W. Wilson scientific research stations at prevalled, so severe was the frost. States, through to the north-west (H. F. Ritchie & Co.), H. W. Wel-
the latter On those days overy plato-glass Florida coast, will 'more Buitenzorg, Java in
or lossman, Wun Sun, Messrs. F. D, R. half of May.
shop window - WAS AS opaque as suffer..
H. A. Weller, Mr. Ormsby-Gore will confer though it had been whitewashed, The weather in New York is now! with the Colonial Governments re-Wisps of atcam drifted up from mild, but a rising wind is blow- H. Charence
Unpaid Correspondence. garding the recommendations of the chinks and crannies in every housing and the forecast indicates asulate), W. Hughes (c/o H.K. (c/o Am. Con- Colonial Office Conference last year Out came a great puff of steam zero temperature within a few and on matters arising out of the when a shop door was
Hotel), Mr. & Mrs. Edith Jackson, Imperial
opened. hours, and a heavy snowstorm. Agricultural
Dr. G. M. Lee, Episcopal Hospital, Research Every sledge horse was a white New York Harbour Closed. Conference. His report will be horse. Every passer-by's exhaled Five passenger. and 15 freight **** presented to Parliament.-Reuter. breath jetted from his mouth in a ships are fog-bound here, and un-
[A previous message stated: The white puff. Wearers of moustaches less the fog clears there will soon Kong Hotel), Mons. Cossemille,
·H. Arns, R. Bigazzi (c/o Hong Rt. Hon. Mr. W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore found them becoming an ever-in-be a score of other vessels.
Madame Deutz, Mrs. F. S. Gibbings is expected to reach Malay in the creasing lump of ice. for every Ships are unable to enter or middle of March accompanied by damp breath congealed immediate- leave the harbour.
(s.s. "Macedonia"), Gobald Ram representatives of the Colonially. Smoking was impossible, for freighter managed to enter during ing Co., Kou Yao Kai, B. Krivoas, Katyal & Co., Hong Kong Publish- Offee and the Empire Marketing cigarettes instantly froze to one's the last 24 hours, and none have. L. Lakeman (c/o HK: Hotel), Board. They will visit Penang, lips. Singapore and Jays and return via "It's warmer down below!" the tania" and the "Leviathan" are M. H. Pearson, Miss Rosi Sanches, Nguyen Dan Nhung, K. C. Perora,. London Underground Railway among the vessels unable to pro: Capt. 3. Schrieber, Paul Wolwort posters assure us. So it is up ceed. Traffic la badly disrupted. above, If only, we have the per- Several collisions have occurred (5.8. "Anvera"); Yardynsky (c/o
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Corporation will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 13th February to SATURDAY the 25th February, 1923 (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Court of
-- Directors,
A. C. HYNES,
Chief Manager.
Hong Kong, 6th. February, 1928.
ARE YOU SICK?
-GETS-IT-Why continue to suffer? Inves- Ceylon.]
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS,
THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.
The
HE Undersigned have received grams
instructions to sell by Public
THE
ON
Auction
MONDAY, the 20th February, 1928, commencing at 2.45 pm.
at No. 196, The Peak (No. 2 Flat). A. Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE, (Particulars from Cataloguel) On View on Day of Sale. Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers.
Hong Kong. Feb. 16, 1928.
THE
THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public
Auction
ON
TUESDAY, 21st February, 1928, commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at their Sales Room, Duddell Street, A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF CURIOS. Comprising:-
Porcelain Bowls, Plates, Vases, Ivory Figures, Amber Bends, Table Screens, Blackwood and Porcelain Screen, Old Bronze Ward, Chinese Handpaintings, Lacquer Ware, Jade Articles and Embroideries, etc., etc.
Catalogues will be issued.
On View from Monday, the 20th February, 1928.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
⠀ LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers.
Hong Kong, Feb. 16, 1828.
following Unclaimed Tele- are lying in the E. E Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong:
Allactico, from Saigon,
Lauhon, from Perthwa Mrs. Lawless, Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank, from Lowestoft. Munrolebas, from Barnes..
E. A. LEGGATT,
Superintendent.
Hong Kong, 16th Feb., 1929.
tigate how thousands have been cured of Catarrh, Cough, Bron- chitis, Asthma, Rheumatism,
Indigestion, Gastritis, Nervous- PAN-AMERICANISM. ness, Constipation, Dropsy.. Poo
INDEPENDENCE.”
On Herb Co., Yee Foo Lun, 62A, FORMULA FOR “NATIONAL 1st floor, Queen's Rd., Central Entrance 66, Queen's Rd., Central. Hours 9 a.m. to 12 noon, 1.80 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays 10 am, to 3
p.m.
HONGKONG HEIGHTS
the following list of some of the For the information of visitors
highest points on the Island and Mainland is published:--
Island. Victoria Peak ....
Feet.
1828
Signal Station
1774
Mt. Parker
1734
Mountain Lodge
The Eyrie
Peak Hotel
1725 1725 1305
Taikoo Sanatorium
Mt. Davis
1000 877
Bowen Rd. (Alterbeda)
297
Mainland.
8124
1971
Taimoshan Kowloon Peak
A REAL BARGAIN.
THE OLD ORIGINAL
CHEFOO STAMPS
UNUSED GENUINE SPECIMENS
$2.00 per set of 6 stamps.
Cash' must be sent with urder to Ber No. 519
6/o “China Maik!
der.
Only onc
been able to leave. The "Maure-
Ten Feet of Snow in Japan.
*. Tokyo, Dec. 31. The storm which have been
| Miss V. Smith(5/0 Am. Consulate). Registered Articles.
Ottery).
tinacity to go far enough, for it in New York harbour, Among has recently been discovered that which the liner "President Hayes"
Parcels. although the temperature drops, collided with the freighter ""Taran- Cheah Wing Cuen. in an aeroplane to and goes on dropping, as one rises tia."
Radio TelegraMK a height of several miles above the surface of
Following is a list of unclaimed radio, telegrama:→→ the earth, it then begins to increase. Hayana, Saturday..
from Wongfue, Hong Kong At 84,000 feet the thermometer re- raging throughout Japan have sub- Seattle; Benhedgo, Hong Kong. At the close of yesterday's ses cords 40 under zero F., but braided, leaving many parts of Nerth from Vancouver B.C.; 6075, Hong aion, the sub-committee of the con- 36,000 feet it has risen to 28 un-Japan ander 10 feet of snow. The Kong from..Makasser; Hamlayal ference which is seeking a mutual.
death roll is estimated at 100, Kokaingaytiam, Hong Kong from ly satisfactory definition of "na- ! tional independence," the majority science is what is called "absolute many small ships are missing. A from Semarang: Tayelzoda, Hong The coldest cold known to Many houses have collapsed, and Ktaboemi, Geranium, Hong Kong of the delegates reported in favour zero," 278 degrees Centigrade, be- thousand coplies are clearing a Kong from Soerabaja; Bertin Hong of admitting their inability to low freezing point. The late Dr.track from Akabura Spa, where Kee Chong, Hong Kong from agree as to a formula.
Kamerlingh Onnes, Director of the Princes Chichibu and Takamatsu, Boston Mass; Yathin, Hong Kong Physical Laboratory at Lerden brothers of the Emperor, are now from Manila; Tungfoo, Hong Kong University, managed to produce bound, in order to permit them to
from Jesselton; Scribes, Hong Kong chemically a low temperature only attend the New Year festivities at from Cholon; Shangoaeng, Hong one degree above that minimum the Emperor's palace. Zero,, F, temperatures in Britain
The Sub-Committee will meet and draft a formal report to-day.
Argentina Surprised.
Buenos, Afres, Saturday.
Four students from the Waseda Kong from Cholon; Lee Sing Kam, Senor Alvear, president of the are so rare that they put in an University. who were ski-ing. In the Hong Kong from Toronto Ont.; 2885 4141, Hong Kong from Argentine Republic, has despatched appearance only about once In Japanese Alps were caught in a
Swatow Led Mangostan, Hong letter to Pueyrredon declaring twenty years. The lowest thermo-blizzard and perished. Seven com-
Kong from Soerabaja;, 1915, 7224, rades were rescued by volunteers that the Argentine Government is meter reading in England of recent
from Swatow; Hong. .. Kong surprised at Pueyrredon's uncom years was one of 2 below zero, re from the town of Hino.
Konyune, Hong Kong from Yun- promising attitude In announcing gistered in Lincolnshire the winter.
nanfu; Mohank, Hong Kong from without previous, consultation that before inst
San Francisco; Leo: Rose. Wong, Hong Kong from Detroit Mich.; Leo Bafier, Hong Kong from Solo.
FOINCARE RELENTING.
Olive Branch For Germany.
CHINESE ‘AFFAIRS.
Soviet Anxiety.
London, Dec. 28.
The Riga correspondent of "The Times" states that the rumours of
between negotiations
Marshal
he would not sign the Pan-Ameri- can Union Convention if his pro- posals in regard to tarif barriers were not included. Pueyrredon acted well in announcing the principles for which Argentina stands, but wrongly in' 'regard to the extreme resolution with which ho tried to enforce the adoption of
The Paris correspondent of the Chang Tso-lin and the Nanking those principles. The letter con- "Daily Express (Mr. H. G. Green-Government to tako general mea Bures against. Bolshevism continue cludes by expressing regret that well) writes :— Pueyrredon has confirmed his re- signation. Reuter.
Compulsory Arbitration Principle.
London, Dec. 80.
FRANCO-AMERICAN PACT.
M. Brland's Hopes.
Paris, Dec. 30.
I understand that sensational to circulate in Bioscow and are "It is my forvent conviction that 1928 will be marked by a solemn political developments are pending, creating anxiety, The Prime Minister (M. Raymond The Moscow diplomats in order pact between, France, and America Poincare) is going to his country to forestall the Mukden Govern outlawing war," said the Minister Havana, Saturday, home in Lorraine to prepare a ment's measures are endeavouring for Foreign Affairs (M. Briand) The most important development speech for delivery in mid-January to come to terms with Japan, who when interviewed by the British at to-day's session of the Pan-In which he will abandon the policy is prepared to grast' a concession, United Press Association. American Congress was the ap- that the whole world associates The Soviet Fress is full of prilse M, Briand did not disguise the for Viscount Goto, who is regarded importance he attached to the pro-
proval, in which the United States with his n me. concurred, of the principle of com- "It will be found that he will as an intermediary for the conclu posed pact He expressed the bulsory arbitration as "the key to withhold his hand concerning Gersion of a general Russo-Japanese opinion that if it succeeded it would the maintenance of peace in the many, and that he will be willing agreement, punapea che
be a very powerful instrument for Information from Berlin states the peace of the world; eventually Western hemisphere and as provid- to offer an olive branch. He may ing a logical means for the satile-even be willing to begin the earlier that Germany has agreed to protect embracing other nations. A ment of International disputes" evacuation of the Rhinoland. Soviet Interests in South China Polish-Lithuanian, conflict had been he sub-committee on Public In- "His home policy will probably only after considerable hesitation avoided because a spirit concilia- te ational Law unanimously adopt hint at the reduction of taxation, and certain reservations.tion was shown and he was bts report which calls for a He is either going to steal or bor The Soviet informants assert that vinced that 1928 would see a new Conference at Washington to draw row, the Leftists' thunder. It is German politicians fear complica- step in the development of the in- up a collective Pan-American Ar- difficult to forecast the effect of tions because M. Chicherin's note ternational spirit and the applica bitration - Convention."Reuter's his change of policy on the general directly accuses England of Inspir-ition of arbitration to the organisa- American Service.
Lelection next May"
ing anti-Soviet activity in China. tion of peace:
CON-