HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
Authorised Capital:
Issued and Fully Paid-up.".$20,000,006 Reserve Funda:-
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.$10,000.00.
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HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG:
BOARD OF DIRECTORS: A. L. Shields, Esq.
Chairman.
W. H. Lock, Esq.,
Deputy Chairman.
Hon. Mr. J. K. Bounfold, 0. Miskin, Esq. A. EI. Compton, "Esq., K. 8. Morrison, Esq.. Hou Mr. 8. H: Dodwell, Hon. Mr. T, E. Paáros D. F. Landala,~Esq.,~ H. V.Wilkinson, Esq.
Sir Vandeleur M. Grayburn,
Chital Manager.
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tleman strongly opposed to the pre-having been robbed by a street walk- After threatening to kill all such sence of fallen women in the streetser.
exhibited this suspect had or London would like to co-operate in women,
suppression. By this means, surgical interest-by asking to witness their
several con- various operations. Another suspect same handwriting was a sufferer from masked epilepsy Each expressed insane glee over the who during his chronic seizures would On the 30th of September, 1888, hideous work, and one stated that the perform the most diabolical acts, but of his the monster murdered two of his vic- next murder would be committed on who on returning to consciousness
in perfect ignorance tims, one immediately after the other. November 9. The fact that this pro- was The fact that the first whom he kill-phecy was brutally fulfilled led the crimes.
a slaughter house was shorter periods in Local and other in the usual doctor to believe that he had been in Because ed was not mutilated
ALSO up to date ́SAFE DEPOSIT way, indicated that being interrupted correspondence with "Jack the Rip-close to each spot in which a victim on terms which will be quoted on application,
investigator argued in various sizes TO LET. On the day pro-was found, 'one
Hong Kong, 25th February, 1989. before satisfying his manla fór muti-per" himself. lation in the accustomed way, he ran phesied, Mary Anne Kelly, with throat that "Jack the Ripper" was a but- in out and completed his work upon the cut and body eviscerated, was found cher and several detectives disguised
on a ground floor room with an un- slaughtermen went to work next victim he could find.
these establishments. One theory was that the murderer was a woman dis- guised as a slaughterman."
that "Jack Dr. Winslow. believed the Ripper" was a man of position
-suffer- a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ing from a religious monomania, and who, while his paroxisms lasted, was bent on exterminating fallen women, but who, when these seizures wore off, returned to his family, probably in the West End of London.
The flend appeared to change his lodgings after, each murder., Some newspaper scribe dubbed him "Jack the Ripper" and the name was soon shivers uporr every tongue. It sent down the spines of Londoners and for a long time limited the activities of the class among whom the maniac selected his victims. Numerous pri- vate citizens
enlisted as detectives. Even one of the autocratic directors of the Bank of London disguised himself. as a labourer and in heavy boots and fustain jacket, with a red bandana tled about his head and a pickax over diversion each his shoulder, sought night haunting neighbourhoods in which he imagined "Jack the Ripper" would appear. -
The distinguished criminologist, L. Forbes Winslow, spent night after night in the Whitechapel slums and at ope time inserted in London 'papers- an advertisement stating that a gen-
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curtained window through which any passerby-might have seen the crime, which had been committed in broad daylight. In the handwriting of Dr. Winslow's correspondent was found beneath an archway the statement: "Jack the Ripper will never commit another murder." And this prophecy also seems to have been fulalled.
"Jack the Ripper was variously be lieved to be an escaped gorilla, a Russian discharged from a París asy- lum and a man from Vienna, who, in a London hospital, had complained of
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HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK.
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FOR THE HONG KONG AND SHANGHA BANKING CORPORATION.-
V. M. GRAYBURN, Chief Manager.
Hong Kong, lat March, 1987.
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA
Incorpcented by Royal Charter, "Lašk,
‚£3,000,000. $8,000,000.
The favourite theory has been that "Jack the Ripper" practiced his but- chery in revenge for having contract- Paid-up Capital ed, from a woman of Whitechapel an Reserve Fund
prietors
£3,000,000. incurable disease which, had under-Reserve Liability of Pro-
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·HEAD OFFICE: LONDON: mined his health and unhinged
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Flower Day To-morrow
Several thousand young ladies and The Hong Kong Branch of the Na tional Women's Relief Association, un- girl students will be placed at strate- der the leadership of Madame Sungle points, In Hong Kong and Kow- loon, wear special badges. The aim of Fo and Madame T. V. Soong, is hold- ing its first flower sale on to-morrow the association is a sale of 200,000 for the purpose of raising funds for the flowers: relief of war victims.
Authorized Capital Paid-up Capital
and Undivided
52, Mosley Street, Manchester, 2. AGENCIES AND BRANCHES:
Fairiis Finca
Gaston
rabaya
Alor Bla
Harbin
Panang
Amritaur
Hongkong
Rangoon
Bangkok Balapla
Ilodio
Balgon
Beremban
Bombay
Valentia &gensten
Kinng
Bhangbal
Singapors
Clivá Brook
Kobe
Bitta wan
Kuching
Kuala Lumpur
Cawnpore
Tiantain
Jabu Colombo
Tongkak
Kodan
(Bhukai)
New York
Taingiao
Halphons
Paiping
Yokohama
Hamburg
(Peking)
Hankow
$10,000,000.00 5,598,600.00
Since its inauguration in 1936, this THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD Association has purchased and distri- buted no less than H.K.$108,000 worth of medical supplies and H.K.$108,000 worth of relief supplies. In addition, funds to the value of well over $100,- '000 have been allotted as subsidies to base hospitals, civilian hospitals, Red Cross mobile units and International Red Cross hospitals.
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Profits
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General . Bankinge... Bilsinnar transacted.
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CUBRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXE 2,888,982,01 | DEPOSITS calvad for One Year or shorter periods in Looal of Qihar Currencies at "Talou which will be quoted on application.
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened In Local Currency and Sterling with Interwet' allowed. 15 rates obtainable on application.
HEAD OFFICE:-HONG KONG, 10, De Vaux Road, Central.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS 1-
Chap,
Knul Hon. Sir Bhou-san Chow, Chairman; Li
Wong Esq., P. X. Kwak, Eng.,
Yu:
In the past, the Association hasTong, Eng., Chan Ching Chak, Esq., Li Lai Bang, Eaq Wong Chu Bon, Esq., Han, Ying. Fo Esq. and Fung Ping, Wah," Eng. limited its claim for funds to more or less private channels, but it is now be- lieved that to-morrow's flower sale will bring the question of medical re- lief more prominently before public attention.
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Head Office: Hong Kong. 26, Des Voeux; Road, Central. Authorised Capital $10,000,000 LONDON BANKERS:— Westminster Bank, Ltd. Foreign Exchange and every descrip tion of banking business transacted.
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