NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
LXD
OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
Company's Steamer
CONSIGNEERTOLYOUS
are hereby notified that the Cargo will be discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, where it will lie at Consignees' risk and subject to Terms and Conditions of Storage at Bolt's Wharf.
INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SÈPTEMBER 12rs, 1924
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.
NOTICE. N
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of Fifty
Acente (50 cents) per Share on the Okl Shares (Fully Faid) and Three cents (3 cents) per Share on the New Shares (31.00 Paid) has been declared for the Half Tour ending 30th June, 1924.
Such Interim Dividend will be payable on and after TUESDAY, the 230 SEPTEMES, at the Offices of the Company, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrante.
prior to Steam leas Notice Exxen, 1924, until the 23
arrival.
The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Godown ca and I after 11th September.
Optional Cargo will be
been given All broken, chafed ad damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays sad Fridays between the hours of 10.45 am, and Noor within the free storage period.
No Claims will be ahuitted after the Goods have left the Steamer's Godown, and all Goods
ramsining undelivered after the 17th September will be anbject to Beat.
-All Claims against the leamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 1st October, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effected
BUTTERFIELD A'SWIRE,
Agents.
Hongkong, 11th September, 1926, „ [1245
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LTD.
From MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.
The Steamship "BENLAWERS."
NONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby inform
CONSIG
ed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra kazanlors God was ot - the FaxGLOR AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GOvown Courant, Ino: whence, and/or from the wharrsa, delivery may be obtained.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining andelivered after the 13th instant, will be subject to Rent.
All Claime against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or be are
atant, or they will not be recognized. All brokna, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 13th instant, at 10 am. No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigued by
GIBE, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,
Agenta. Hongkong, 6th September, 1924.
NOTICE.
.
(1939
NT. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE REOPENS for MICHA ELMAS TERM cn MON- DAY, SEPTEWHer 15m), 1924. Boanler return Un 15TH INSTANT, Entrance Examination for New Boyn will be held on SATURDAY, "Bertinača Pro, 1924, at 0 x.x.
NOTICE.
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UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.
CERTIFICATE No. 7129 for 25 Sharos, C
1 Share Paid up, number 3512665150 in this Society sta
standing in the Name of ROBERT JOHN JACK SNEDDON, of Hongkong, has
The REGISTER OF SHARES of the Com- pany
will be CLOSED from the 18m Szr. SITEV, 1934 (both days inclusive), daring, which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Manager. Hongkong, 3RD September, 1924. [1920
Νο
THE HONGKONG CHINESE MER- CHANTS STOCK & PRODUCE
EXCHANGE MART CO., LTD. --
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that An EXTRAORDINARY - GENERAL MEETING of the above named Company be hold at No. 26, Dzs Værz ROAD CENTRAL, on WEDNESDAY, the 17H SEPTENAER, 1994, at 12 Noox, whan the Sabjoined Resolu tion, which was passed at the Extraordinary Meeting of the Company held on the lar SEPTEMBER, 1924, will be submitted for con- firmation sa a Special Resolation.
RESOLUSION:
INTIMATIONS:
WATSON'S.
AERATED WATERS
ARE PREPARED FROM REAL FRUIT ESSENCES.
* GUARANTEED
ABSOLUTELY PURE.
"
will RASPBERRYADE-Is prepared with the juice of raspberries grown in England and Tasmania.
That the Company be Wound up vol. antarily and that M CHENG MAN PO be appointed Liquidator for the purpose of Auch Winding up
By Onder.
WONG KWAT HI
Assistant Manager," Dated 1st September, 1924.
HONGKONG CLUB.
NOTICE.
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HE FOURTH YEARLY DRAWING.of TWENTY DEBENTURES of the HONGKONG CLUB (1900-$500 each) was held in the Cura House on MONDAY, the ST SEPTEMBER, 1924, when the following Debentures were Drawn for Redemption
416
266
757
.62
291
70
64
375
764
14
179
213
411
€00 607
826
237
and will be Payable at the HONGLONG AND
AGROUND IN HONGKONG HARBOUR.
LARGE OIL TANKER TON CUST ROCKS.
THE POWERS AND CHINA. WHEN INTERVENTION TAKES »
PLACE.
handa. over to various Commissións pro- blems relating to debts, bonds, compensa- tion claims, the restoration of confiscated properties-every problem, in short, that brings to a bead the fundamental differ- REFLOATED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. lished what it calls "a highly significant ences between Russia's economic prin- ciples and those of the rest of the world;
it came alongside and made un-
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The Canton Gazette of yesterday pub- '
,"
"It can no longer he doubted that the Great Powers other than Russia are re-
A large oil tanker. 5.3. Perumarh, be- message" which a special correspondent and it provides that the decisions of those longing to the Standard Transportation has cabled to it from Tokyo". It confirms Commissions will only become operative morning
| Co, ran on to Cust, Rocks early yesterday for our contemporary the very disquieting
when the British Government has guar-
report which Reuter's Agency cabled fram anteed the interest and sinking fund oftes to the Straits vi Hongkong with the following comment on it:
The vessel was on a voyage from the Washington on the 5th inst. and it makes A Russian loan of unspecified size and a cargo of 8,500 tons of refined petroleum. on unknown terms.
When she passed through Lyemun a What specially annoys Joan CITIZEN-Solewhat heavy fog was prevailing and most of all in the City of London is the she steamed slowly down the harbour. solved on some form of active interven fact that the British Government have She entered Hunghom Bay and at 7 a.m. tion in China. And it is equally clear agreed to underwrite the borrowings of ran on to the rocks between Rumsey Rock that when intervention takes place Japan. and Cust Rock. At the time it was high | will be found protecting 'the two special the Soviet Government which has hither-tide and the rocks were, subtuerged. LEMONADE-Has the real
arena which are already mapped out for essence
obtained
to formally and publiely,repudiated its from
Directly the vessel ran aground her inclusion in her territorial system on the Lemons grown in Southern obligations. True, there is a provision in siren was sounded continuously and after Continent, and Great Britain will also Italy.
the Treaty making a qualified exception a short time the Kowloon Dock tngs be protecting those regions of China. in the case of British creditors and (close at hand) Henry Keswick and wherein lie Wanbsien and Canton. claimants, but anyone can perceive that the clause is inserted as a matter of tactics and not as an elementary principle of business morality. British creditors FORMAZONE THE NON-are to receive something of what is owing ALCOHOLIC CHAM- to them by Russia (Chapter 3, entitled PAGNE. It possesses the Claims and Loans), but Mr. Rusty Mac- characteristic stimulating DONALD condones the Soviet's default in and refreshing qualities of the service of the State or Municipal Champagne and has Bonds held by British nationals, and also its immoral repudiation of full liability. On what ground, it is asked, does "our STONE GINGER BEER-The Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary noon, taking advantage of the tide, an Shortly before 5 o'clock in the after- only genuine Stone Ginger assume that British holders of Russian other attempt was made to pull the vessel Beer in the East. Prepared stock would be satisfied with a "com-off. This time the attempt met with by a special process of
is reason to believe that a plan for the position," the exact nature of which success and the vessel was refloated. A division of China into fermentation which gives it remains unspecified? Moreover, the 5.30 p.m. she proceeded down the harbour
"protective" the distinctive flavour which benefits of such a composition are, it under her own steam to the Standard
zones was actually considered during his recent visit to London.. For some time is so pleasing to the palate.
appears, to be confined to certain cate/Oil Company's wharf at Lai Chi Kok. the view has been growing among the She was then well down by the stern: principal signatories of the Washington probably due to the quantity of oil Pact that the moment has come for some pumped out of the fore tanks.
form of activé intervention in China. After the remainder of her eargo has This was presised by the Morgan group
[xceed
en Mr. Hughes before ne left Washing- ton on his trip to London, and it was undoubtedly discussed by him when he was in the British capital-
delicious flavour. `
SOLE AGENTS:
SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION OF TUES AS. WATSON
DAY, the 30 SEPTEMBRE, 1924, in exchange for surrender of Same."
». By Onler,
T. A. ROBERTSON, LT-COL, ".
Secretary. Hongkong, 8th September, 1994, (1239
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
TICKETS will be issued for BOUND TEIPS during the Monthe of JULY TO SEPTEMBER, from HONGLONG to FOOCHOW (Pagoda Anchorage) and Betarn, Calling st SWATOW And AMDT on both the Upward and Downward appointed
by the Company's New, Fast,
Steamer FAI-NING at the Radnoed Rate of $90, for the
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CO., LTD., Aerated Water Manufacturers.
Established 1841.
BIRTH.
A
BROWNE Oo September 10th, at Sba
meen, Canton, the wife of H. Davesi PORT BROWNE, a son.
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Hongkong Office: 1a, Chater Road.
gories of British" bond bolders to be selected in some arbitrary and unspeei
"The British outrage at the former successful attempts to pull her off. place and the more recent act of British Examination showed that the ship had intimidation at Canton are neither spora- been badly holed and the fore-peak of the die nor isolated gestures of British Im vessel soon became filled with water.
perialism. There is meaning and purpose Fortunately, none of the oil tanks had in them. They are a re-assertion of the been damaged.
supremacy of British interests in the great Later in the morning it was Temed Valley of the Yangtze and in the hinter- advisable to pump the oil in the fore land that feeds and nourishes England's tanks into lighters with the idea of vital ganglion in the Far East-His Bri- simplifying the work of re-floating her. tannic Majesty's Colony of Hongkong." Pumping operations took up the best
The message cabled to our contempor- part of the day.
ary from Tokyo is na follows:-
Torro, September 9th, -- the American Secretary of State, there In spite of the denial by Mr. Hughes,
fed manner.
Small wonder that the business com- been pumped out the tense) will unity are indignant, thats the indignato dock for examination and repaira. tion is all the greater and deeper whoŋ)
The s.s. Tecumseh, was formerly known ; "the Niagara. She was built at Firns it is observed that the aforesaid composi
burg in 1009. Her gross tonnage is 6,839 tion the kind of composition one wight toas, her registered tonnage being 5,203- possibly make with a bankrupt of shadyne is a well-known vessel in Hongkong.ciple of intervention in terms of a formul antecedents becomes operative only on
a guarantee by the British Government of the service and sinking fand of a loan to the Soviet to an unspecified amount (the last figure demanded was £20,000,000). It is considered likely that when the Treaty comes up for review on the re-assembling of Parliament it will
as
CANTON NEWS.
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.] CANTON WITHOUT ITS NEWSPAPERS.
Canton is still without its daily news- papers, and the strike of compositors for
He appears to have accepted the prin
affirming the treaty fight of the Powers to protect foreign life and property, and the necessity actively to do so if the pre- sent breakdown of the apparatus of government in the country is not to re- sult in -general state of chaos involving the destruction of the life and property of foreign nationals.
bean Declared LOST, and if at the Expiration the Steam Voyage, including Meals while London Office: 131, Fleet Street, Ehe rejected as unworthy of the natoe and higher wages is far from being settled. Eastern Inner Mongolia and South. Man-
of One Month from the Date hereof the above Document be not forthcoming the said Certi- ficate will be deemed Cancelled and of No Effect, and
NEW Certificats for the 25 Sharea will be issued in its stud by the Society.
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager. Hongkong, 8th September, 1924.
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SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.
SILVER LOAN 1924.
Issue of DEBENTURES FOR SHANGHAI TAKES 1,250,000.
HE SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL COUN
TOLL kartby Invites Applications for
is in Fort.
These Special Tickets will be available for Beturn ONLY by this Steamer, either by the Voyage for which it is issued or by har follow- ing Bailing from Foochow. Duration of Stay at Foochow hours.
The
Trip
occupies 8 to 9 days and the Steamer will Leave Hoxoxorg from the Com- pany's Wharf at 5pm, Arriving at Daylight on her Return (Weather permitting).
The Company' Foodnow Or, if required" sengers from P For further Particulars and Dates of Sailing, Apply to DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,
General Managers, DOVOLAL STRAMBUT Co., LTD. Hongkong, 17th June, 1924.
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PREPAID
WANTED "
The Daily Press.
Boxoxone, Szpraxeɛn 19ra, 1924.
FL
very
When an Indian sergeant twice ordered a coolie to move on, the latter turned a
2%
pro-
Hayti in the interests of tho
moment arrives, Japan is to "protect" Te is understood that when the selected
fune of the country.
Before the Houses Dr. Sun Yet-sen has instructed Governer churia, while Great Britain is to adjourned permission was given the Line Chung-hoi, to order all workers to tect the line of the Yangtze and South Prime Minister and his heachnian, Mr. return to their newspaper offices; but the China Mr. Hughes is said to have re- FONSONBY, to afix their names to the Publishers will only welcome their retum fased to accept the task of protecting
on condition that they must refrain from thy particular area, though the principle Treaty, but only at the earnest, personal demanding higher pay within a defnite of American interest in the Chinese East- request of Mr. MACDONALD. There was period. Dr. Sun is anxious to have the and the right of America to be consulted. Launch will convey THE ANGLO-RUSSIAN TREATY.
ern Railway is categorically recognised ANCHORAGE to
a feeling among members that, after all, papers resume publication, as they, under if and when the integrity of the Hay The cable which tells us of Mr. LLOYD the Treaty committed Parliament to strict censorship, "have been his pro This American reservation is not taken doctrine is likely to be compromised. GEORGE's outspoken denunciation of the nothing.
paganda agency for the last few months. in a serious sense. It is pointed out that Anglo-Russian Treaty, which has yet to
The publishers appear to be able to wait it was a Republican administration that be reviewed by Parliament, points to)
For driving a file into the sea-wall for until after the Full Moon Festival, Ser the sanctity of the Monroe Doctrine; and looted the canal zone while assererating the purpose of mooring his boat, a man tember 17th, after which Dr. Sun, Yet-sen it is a fact that despite of the aforesaid animated Autuma Bession
was fined $4 by Mr. R. E. Lindzell yes-
ia to leave Canton vader the pretext of doctrine, another Republication adminis There has seldom been a diplomatic terday.
(undertaking a northern expedition against tration at Washington continues to pro- action which has occasioned so much
Peking, the leading
· teet Cantonese, Almighty Dollar. through a recent meeting of the gentry wholesale condemnation as the so-called } Treaty which was recently signed with the deaf ear, and as a result he was fined $i leave Canton without any unpleasant pos near Fetsban, have given him a time to Soviet representatives in London. It is by Mr. Lindsell at the Central Magis-sibility. known in popular parlance as the "fake tricy yesterday. treaty." or the "freak treaty," and there is real indignation that any body of men ported to the police yesterday by her able to get back their consulate in the A Chinese girl, aged 11 years, was re- The Soviet Russians in Canton are un standing before the world as the British parents as missing from ajuak in the British Concession, Shameen, as it was Government should have consented to harbour. Late in the afternoon, the sold by the British Municipal Council be parties to such an instrument. With child's body was found floating near the
some years ago owing to the failure to pay the regular dues and taxes. The | the exception of a few.journals Jike the CFRiu On wharf
Canton Government is unable to do any. Shai. Ths. 5,003, Bhai. Tis, 1,000, Shai HONGKONG HANBAED REPORTS Manchester (énzrelian which somehow ure It is reported that the flongkong thing for the Russians, as the former TI. 500 and Shai. T. 100 to ruit
of the "MEETINGS of the usually able to discover that the foreigner Government has given permission for consulate building is situated outside the convenience of Applicants,
COUNCIL for the
is always right, and that it is the busi-Major Zanni, the Argentine world-fiser, tor Government cannot officially recognize Chinese jurisdiction. Moreover, the Can APPLICATION FORMS can be oblamed
Borised by, the Members. from the Local Office of the Howa KⱭNG
ness of our Government to yield on que Stonecutters which was used by Mac-approved of by Peking and not Canton.
to alight on the ABC sea-area near the Russian Consul whose credential is AND SHANGHAI » BANKING CORPORATION OF from the TazASURES and COMPTROLLE BHANGHAI MUNICIPAL COUNCnt, Adininistra-
Earen and the Americans.
THE VOLUNTEERS AND DR, SUN'S tion Building, Shanghai, to whom all En- quiries should be addressed,
INSINUATIONS.
Debentures in the BILVER LOAN OF 1924. RATE OF INTEREST-6 per cent per annum, Payable on June 30th and December 31st in Each Year.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Letters are lying at this Office for Вохон У
PRICE OF ISSUE-Bhai. Tla. 97 per cent. REDEMPTION on DECEMBER 31st, 1954, at par, under the operation of a Sinking Fund. The Debontares may, however, be Redeemed by the Council whole
OSTO 8TH INSTANT, between I in
in part on
HOCAR STREET and CENTRAL MARKET, DECEMBER 31st, 1934, or on any Subsequent OBLONG PLATINUM WATCH. Boward Date, subject to the Council giving Size Finder. N. KIN, cic GOLF CLUB, Bank of Calendar Months Notice in the Afunicipal Clinton Building, Gasstte and Public Preas of Shanghai. In the orant of Partial Redemption of the Loan,
the Numbers of Debentures to be Bodeemed
will be decided by Drawing,"
SCRIP will be fasuod in Denominations of
T
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₤1059
OFFICES TO LET.
LET-OFFICES on 17 and 3D FLOORS, No. 14/18, PEDDER 8Tkarz.
Apply
PROPERTY OFFICE, -JAEDINE, MATHESON & Co., Læv,
ON SALE,
»OUND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG
--B WEEKLY PRESS, January to June,
1924
̈With Inwax.
Prion $7.50, On sale at the Hongkong Dašču Prise Olies.
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LEGISLATIVE Section 1923:
PRICE
85.
·DAY Paza OFFICE.
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tions of foreign policy-the new Treaty with Russia is universally denounced, and public opinion holds that the Labour Government has paved the way for a General "Election before the end of the
THE RUSSIAN CONSULATE
The Moscow report is apparently_cor-"" rect in its assignment of the province of Yunnan to France, which has always re- garded that particular province as essen- tial to the legitimate" development of the Asiatic Empire of the Third Republic.
The
DR. SUN'S NORTHERN
EXPEDITION.
"VANGUARDS' STARTED.
Canton Gazette of yesterday states: At a special Cabinet meeting which President San presided, a decision held yesterday afternoon (10th inst.), at
regarding what may be called the politics of far-reaching importance was reached of the Northern Expedition.
The dispatch of the Expedition was re- Afirmed. Indeed it was reported to the meeting that the funanese and Yun- The coxswain of a steam launch has
nances vanguards of the Expeditionary reported to the Water Polite that at a
The officers of the Headquarter of the border which it was expected to reach Force had alrendy started for the Kiangki
his launch was towing two lighters, a recent charges of Dr. Sun Yat-sen that immediately be issued defining the late hour on Wednesday afternoon, whilst Canton Merchants Volunteers Corps, before the end of the week. It was, bow-. when communicated "with regarding to
ever, decided that a Declaration should
It is considered that except in the lighters and the as. 'ooking. At the of "imperialismuthorities and agents Sun is despatching the Expedition and, collision took place between one of the the organization is being supported by national purposes for which President
for the purpose of
TO-DAY TILL SATURDAY,
year,
at 2.30, 8.25, 7.15 & 9:15.
i
MAY
MCAVOY BERT LYTELL BETTY COMPSON
in
KICK IN
The action-romance that never stops for breath.
THE CORONET.
British
solitary case of the fishing trade the time the coxswain states he was taking going against the Kuomintang Govern particular, explaining the cardinal agreement protects no interests that are the lighters to n P. & O. steamer lying ment of Dr. Sun, did not view Dr. Sun's aims of the Kuomintang, in terms of a engaged in Russian commerce. Shipping Foothing he blew a blast on his whistle British or any foreign influence is domin
in the Central Fairway. On sighting the loose statements as worthy of a formal struggle against the double foc of Im
reply.
They scorn, all insinuation that perialism and Militarism. is put in a worse position than it cecu- and the Fooshing replied accordingly. pied before the war. Diplomatic im blew one blast and be replied; then a always had the goodwill of the foreign marriage will take place in Ceylon in About five minutes later the Feashing teers, according to these in ne Volun
teers, according
in charge, haze
The engagement is announced and the munity is granted to the commercial few seconds passed and, according to the public at home and abroad, because of representatives in Great Britain--a dis-He also blew two blasts; but it was then and their work of local defence and act of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes & Master Catswain, the Foosting blew two blasta. their non-partisan and unselfish, spirit December between Thomas Gerald Ben- quieting fact when we refect upon the too late to avoid a collision and the social service, mich as famine relief, vol and Edna Frances Chattey, youngest Poothing struck the lighter which was unteer fire-brigades, and food conser daughter of lir. E. S. Chattey and the sinister activities of Bolshérists hitherto tied to the starboard of the launch, which vancy enterprises in time of high cost of late Mrs, Chattey of Holywell Friu în countries outaide Russia." The Treaty was damaged to the extent of about 2000. I living and other local disturbances.
Eastbourne, Bussex.
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