1922-10-12

THORNYCROF

AND CO., LTD.

SHIPBUILDERS AND ENGINEERS

London, Southampton and Basingstoke.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12TH, 1922

PASSENGER AND CARGO VESSELS OF ALL TYPES UP TO 6,000 TONS. OCEAN-DOING TÜGS, MOTOR BOATS (SEA OR RIVEE).. UP TO 50 KNOTS.

TURBINES AND RECIPROCATING MACHINERY AND PROPELLERS.

MARINE AND STATIONARY OIL ENGINES 8 TO 90 BH.P." MOTOR VEHICLES 2 TO 6 TONS,

WATER-TUBE BOILERS,,„,

FOR QUITATION, APpper,

Dress Wear

for

10. KIUKIANG ROAD,

SHANGHAI,

Dinner and Theatre

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Our scesorie- for Dress Wear bave these" aicetion of 6nish that make for greater distinction, comfort and cruney.

Summit

Collars

zta

Shirts.

TIES-SOCKS-SHOES.

MACKINTOSH

& CO., LTD.,

Men's Wear Specialists.

Alexandra Building,

Des Vænt Road.

CICARS.

BORNEO LEAF.

BOXES OF 25 & 50

AIRTIGHT TIN CASES.

PRICES":

FROM $8.00 To $12.00 PER 100.

Apply for Particularą to

Telephone 3549.

CARTERS,

1A, CHATER HOAD,"

tion.

Lists

A MODEL HIGHWAY. ACROSS THE AMERICAN' CONTINENT

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SINO BON CO-OPERATION I take it your ultimate ambition is to

AT SHANGHAI, `. AN OUTSPOKEN SPEECH BY ME.

G. H. SIMMS,

INTIMATIONS

WEEK!

LAST WEEK!

is HONGKONG. OF".

MADAME ISIS,

ENGLISH

PALMIST

be able to satisfy the Treaty Powers that the important interests both foreign and Chinese in Shaughai can be safeguarded LAST equally well under Chinese management as they have hitherto been under Municipality in charge of Foreigners only. You Chinese gentlemen who repre on big Chinese interests here are under no misapprehension as to the difficulties. which have to be overgeme before that goal can be reached, but in your capacity As members of the Chinese Advisory CELEBRATED ex-Committee you can do a great deal to

bridge over these difficulties by creating who has met with such a greatfsuccese hors, a hotter atmosphere through rank and open discussions between ns un Municipal being gouaulted by hundreds and giving always "There remains just a few short day for you matters, and by removing that feeling complete satisfaction."

Lady. activities we have an ulterior motive of that in every effort on our part towards improving and developing our Municipal to take advantage of consulting this talented

political nature. We on our part will not withhold from you unr sympathy and help in those discussions.

COOPÉRATION DESERABLE.

AND CRYSTAL GAZER

-Hour-9.3 to 1 and 3.50 to 6:00.

Study and Lecture by the Lines of the Hand -$7.50

Study and Lecture by her Celebrated Method of Crystal Gasing—$10.00.

MADAME ITS can be freely consulted on all are all treated with the strictest confidence:

Rocx No. 103, KING EDWARD HOTEL

To summarize, the objections to Chinese Government which have been advanced. and are stil? hell by tite-foreign popula business, financial and domestic affairs, which ion of Shanghai, will most readily be our Chinese friends, are willing and ablo to cooperate with us in nimig g ahead and efficient administration of this LAST WEEK! Settlement.

removed if and when

is seen that you,

trust, Gentlemen, that you will avail yourselves of this favourable opportunity to have an exchange of views, and, thus an atmosphere of friendliness create which ill, I feel sure, be to our mutual

eft.

An undertaking of American national | interest, and of special import to auto- mubilists, is the construction of the Mr. G. H. Simms, Chairman of the Lincoln Highway, a indel road for Shanghai laulerpal Concit, last week, vehicles of every description between Now Imet the members of the Chinese Advisory York and San Frthelsen, a work that Committee and conducted them over the has been in progress for eight years and new Administration Building, when some is now being pushed to rapid compof the more interesting features of the

work of errtain Departments were In nam a permanent memorial is a plained to the Committee by the Heads of

already the Departments concerned. American, whese tuemory is enshrired in the hearts of his country

The members of the Committee were men, it will extend for upwards of 500 subsequently entertained by the Council miles, plainly marked for the entire dis

and "illummated at night, theat dinner at the Astor House Hotel, when longest, he built, best marked and hest the Heads of the Chief Departments of

the Council's Service were also present. lighted roadway in the world.

At the conclusion of the dinner, the Of this stupendous work there was Chairman of Council addressed the completed, daring a beta of 30 members of the Committee in the follow. miles. 12 per cent. of the entire mileage.in tertus:-Mr. Ziar. Members of the melading 10 miles of concrete and Chinese Advisory Committer and Gentle miles of brick, the total amount exprad, men-fu rising to propose the health of el on the year's operations, neluding our guest I am optimistic enough to feel maintenance, being $9.172.000. During the that this sciat reunion will produce right years for which the work has been happy results, that it is the beginning of la progress, the aggregate expenditure better understanding between us, and has mabunted to upwards of $10,000I Trust it will be looked upon as a favour audit is expected that the section from ante opportuulty to remove any false in- New York to the Mississippi River. 1.100 pressions, and to promote that spirit of

cooperation miles, will be finished this year, the

ia Municipal affairs, of balance being in various stages of com

which we hear so much and sie so little. the pletion but already marked for.

It is now over eighteen months sincs entire distance.

Bulk by an incorporated society, with the Chinese Advisiry Committee came funds contributed by the general public existence. As you are aware its mis- as Sustaining Members and by publico is a twofold one. In the first place. spirited citizens, enthusiasts on the sub it is expected to assist the Council in matters affecting the welfare of the ject of good roads, assisted in soute in stuces by appropriations from the avail Chinese.community. In the second place, able rond building public funds of the and by far the most important part of its sections through which it passes, where mission, it is expected to give the Chinese their original construction made their opportunity of studying Municipal development up to the high standard sei affairs from a Western point of view, so for the Lincoln Highway possible, exist that in due course Chinese representa ing roads have been improved and incurtives would be able to take their place as perated in the new thoroughfare, so that our endiragues of the Council. It is a although not complete as an sutirety it matter for regret that up till now little trogress has been made in the already affords a means of travel from or travelable that in June 1919, an army and the time has come when it is nice ocean to ocean and is to such an extent furtherance of either of these two objects,cognized is most abie and honest in their convey consisting of seventy-two vehicles,sary to examine carefully the reasons for sixty-five of which were motor trucks, of this failure,nud if possible make a fresh all the types used by the United States stare fully-determined that our objects Government in the late war, with a per shall be fulfilled.

officers. and of 265) m sonnel traversed the road from Washington to San Francisco, a distance of 10 miles. in sixty-two days, completing the trip only four days behind the schedule laid out at the start. Some of the vehicles weighed, with their loads, as much as twelve to fourteen. tons and all arrived safely, under their own power, with the exerption of one track, lost in the alleg hany mountains of Pennsylvania, during a storm. Much of the route was over uncompleted sections of the highway or roads that had undergone to improve ment, but which, owing to the markers, could be randily followed,

ATMOSPHERE OF SUSPICION,

I will now ask Members of Council to drink the health of the members of the Chinese Advisory Committee,

MR. ZIAR'S REPLY. Mr. Zian made suitable reply. in the course of which he thanked the Council for the honour done the Committee and expressed its confidence and that of the Chinese community in the Council and in its administrative officers, whom they re administration, and as endeavouring to further the best interests of Chinese us

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LAST WEEK!!

MOTOR BOATS FOR SALE.

The Twin Screw Tunnel 'Stern "Motor Launch “ENRICA"

(Built of Steel).

Length overall-56′ 0′′,。. Breadth moubled.—11′ 6′′. Depthi nioulded.—3′ 6′′.

Draught moukled.-15 to 19.

D. W. capacity on above draft-3 tɔns.). Speed knots.

Engines Trin het Kein" Motors. each 30 h.p.

Installed with Electric Light

Price $10,000 or near offer.

The Motorboat "KEIKUNG " (Built of Teak).

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Length overall.-29.8/10". Breadth.-7.5/10'.

Draught (approximate).-18". Engine" Kelvin "Parrafin Motor Price $1.800 or agar loffer..

APPLY

NESTLE & ANGLO-SWISS CONDENSED MILK CO..

11, QUEEN's Road Central.

If New Consignments of the well- known Vafiadis Egytian Cigarettes arriving monthly- Crown Prince, Non Plus Ultra, and Superfines,

FOR THE LADIE—" DAMES" AND

LA FRANCE."

well as foreigners. As to the Chairman a good deal had been expected of the of Council's remarks, he appreciated that Chinese Advisory Committee on its crea tion. bath by the Chinese und by thế Council, and he regretted that little had Speaking quite frankly, an atmosphere in fact been done. In his opinion this of suspicion on both vines is largely resfailure to fulfill expectations was entirely The due to the atmosphere of suspicion on ponsible for the poor results. Chinese are still inclined to look upon both sides to which the Chairman of the Speaking quite foreigners as people who came and set Council had referred led here by force; in other words they frankly, the Chinese felt that the Advi. look upon them as invaders. Gentlemen, sory Committee were rather regarded as your minds need not be agitated on this intruders, in fact as attackers of what score, as an aggressive policy towards he might enll, the vested interests, and Chinese is out of the question. I would were somewhat slighted and so to speak ask you rather to dwell on the maoy put in the cold. He sincerely hoped that proofs of friendship towards China on the this atmosphere of suspicion would be part of foreigners, so recently evidenced dispelled, and believed that it could be, by the Washington Conference, which basif foreigners and Chinese would only The most eminent road building en- gineers in the country have been interest resulted in the decision to hand back take a broad point of view, and regard ed in the project, either in a Fractical iaochow and Weihaiwei, and abolish the Advisors Committer as a Body that had been established to do away with for advisory capacity and as a result of foreign Past Offices in China.

On the other hand in Shanghai any friction and to create an avenue for their eserch, observation and experi ence, there is being constructed, between attempt at development on our part is mutual interest and understanding. Dyer and Schererville, in Lake County, still looked upon by the Chinese with this could be accomplished it could not a further encroachment, fail, he thought, to result in a good deal Indiana, just outside of Chicago, what suspicion, na

of the and is wrecked against the barrier af of useful work by the Committee for the To is known as the Ideal Section

sovereign rights. What the benefit of the community at large. highway, embodying all the improvement: China's and innovations that will make the road Chinese should realize by this time is this end every opportunity should be itself a model roadway. The greater por- that our control of this Settlement has afforded to the Chinese of giving expres- tion of the funds for this model section, no sinister purpose. Our mission here is sion to their views and of having such was contributed by the United States a very peaceful one. that is to carry on views considered, and he ventured to Rubber Company, of New York, the trade with China. We have no territoriul suggest that much could be attained in officials of the corporation considering ambitions whatsoever, and what is known this respret not merely by complimentary

aas. Settlement Extension is merely a dinners, but by frequent inforiaal meet For PRICES, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, themselves, being manufacturers on large scale of automobile tires, as directly natural desire for more space to ineetings when an exchange of views would not interested in the undertaking. The com- the extraordinary expansion of this large be restrained fry reason of eliquette' or pany's vice-president. Mr. J. N. Gung, is and evergrowing city, president of the Lincoln Highway Asso

ONE INTEREST IN COMMON, cistior, the organization that is construct

Both Chinese and foreigners in shang ing the highway for the benefit of the public. With the appropriation by thai have one interest in common, to see Like County Council of $25,000 and that they possess honest and capable ad. $33,000 from the Indiana State Highwayministration, and a well disciplined anil Commissiou, the completion of this section, as a model piece of road-making, is already Property owners along this section häve shown in al commendable wil lugness to co-operate in the undertaking. deeds to the necessary right of wur having already been siguel and provisions included whereby an additional 25 fest of right of way may be secured it later The final constraction plans, after sub mission to the criticians and consideration of the most eminent road engineers in the country, have already been approved and adopted as bave also the beautification plans, prepared by a well-known Chicage landscape architect and a plan of illumina tion, submitted by the General Electric Company, which they will furnish and install free of cost.

283nred. (3rd floor).

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,

TELEPHONE:

3351 & 215.

ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT,

14, PEDDER ST.,, HONGKONG.

Cable:

Hongkong.

MERRYWEATHER & SONS, LTD.

“MERRYSUPER”

"BARK TANNED ”

required.

Passing through or near to many in portant cities along in route, the Lineola Highway is an object lesson in perfect road making to the communities, through which it passes, and it is having a salutary effect on good construction.

the military service bive ex-operated. &

“DUB-SUB INDIA RUBBER LINED FLAX CANVAS

HOSE.

STOCKS-CARRIED.

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ceremony.

FRANCE TO RETROCEDE KWANGCHOWWAN.

PRELIMINARY STEPS.

ethcient force to preserve order. Only

It is stated in Eeking fabers that the on that basis can trade be carried on und the present feeling of security we enjoy Chinese Minister to France, has cabled to is as much appreciated by Chinese the Government stating that the French by foreigners. Without it both of us Foreign Office has agreed to return Kwangchow wa to China and has in would be involved in most serious losse,

The Gnancial interests of Shanghai, ar structed its Consul in Canton to institute. too great warrant our trying any an investigation and make an estima of experiments, and however inch,we way the salue of public properties, etc. After desire to assist cus Chinese friends into the investigation the French Government the Municipal saddle, our paramount will open negotiations with the Chinese duty is to preserve our common interest Government. The Freneb Foreign Office by onintaining and developing the pre- is making inquiries in England in regard seur high standard of administration.

to the procedure in connection with the It must be admitted that China's pro-retrocession Weihai wei by Great. gress towards gand government is-slow Britain. and her old system of mal-administration is ditheult to eradicate time we cannot withhold sympathy from those who are honesty striving for a better China, and it is both our desire and our duty to encourage them as long as their endeavours are wisely directed."

At the same

A TRANSITION STAGE. Foreigners in Shanghai must prepare

transition stage, when the old system of

stage, when the old eye not allowing Chinese to have any voice in the administration of the Settlement will gradually give way to a new system when Chinese will share our respon

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Caunda is faced with a serious ooal famine during the coming winter in con soquence of the prolonged strike of the American coalminers, and Labour troubles in the majority of her own coalfelds. Representatives of leading Welsh collie- ries are visiting the Dominion with a view to establishing British collieries as per- place of the United States mines. manent sources of supply to Canada in LAPA pointer to me madera

FIEUZAL GLASSES.

FOR SALE.

Swatow with rtoried brick and concrete building mitable for afton and godown!: Farther details apply:

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