Page
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 10th, 1927.
THE TWO LEADING BRANDS ON THE MARKET
FIRST STILL
1627
300 Years
THE MEMORIAL TO MEXICO'S UPHEAVAL
INDIAN SOLDIERS.
LORD: BIRKENHEAD'S ORATION.
STILL FIRST
1927
Y
[BRITISH WIRELENA SARVICK.]
it's stood the test, And still of whiskies is the best; "Tu "Scotch" but that's a trifle vague→→ To get the BEST SCOTCH call for
"HAIG"!
JOHN MENIČ & C$ 179-METRADING MARINOK, KITLARA
Barngad Varun | Pat Hat Ban 1W/
SOLE AGENTS:
GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD.,
St. George's Building, Ice House St.
Tel. C. 135.
[193
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.
Best Portland Cement.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
GENERAL MANAGERS, ¿
HONGKONG.
THE WORLD'S GAZE
Indian soldiers.
SENATE PASSES VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IN CALLES.
EX-PRESIDENT'S BROTHER
KILLED.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE. I
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
AK Bank
Ocross St, 1997.
$1,150 nom.
Do London.....£120 non, Chartered Bank.
Moronutile Bank, A. &B...£31} nom..
Do..
P. & 0. Bank
East Asia Baak in
Caston Insurance ............
China Underwriters North China Ins Cajon InsuraŁGA
Wi nom
...E134 BUD,
eloj num. .45 uom.
$570 noor.
菜
Ruasy, October. 7th. Lord Birkenhead, the Secretary
$1.35 nom. for India, delivered a striking
New York, October 8th.
Tl. 13 nom. cration at the unveiling at Neure
.........$29 nom "Here is another, rébel general," Chapelle of a memorial to the rend a placard pinned to the body China Firs Lusarance....210 bay.
Yangtare insursbee.............. 1. 84th bus.. of Dels Huerta whose death is sur Hong Kong Fire la......90 nom. He dwelt on the three special rounded in some mystery.
His Douglass...........
Eteamboats. sapects of Indian participation in friends declare that he was kidnap | H.K. Tags .......... the Great War. Firstly, Indianped from United States territory | Indo-Chinas (Prof.).
Do (Dot.) troops fought thousands. of miles and assassinated at the instigation | Stall T
Transports from their home, in strange and of President" Calles, while the Star Ferries unfamiliar surroundings, auong Mexican militaries mintain that terbongo...$17 nom.
Phits Sayers13 peoples whose tongues they did not he was killed while leading a band Malabon, Bagars koow, whose ways were not their of Yaqui rebel gainst Federal Benguet ********** Kalan Mining Ad... ways, whose civilisation, betfer or troops. The executions of two more
Lat(combined).. Generals charged with muting are worse, was not theirs.
(single). reported from Mexico City,
Secondly, they fought in a climate to which their bodies were not inured, and for the endurance of which they lacked habituation. Most of them made swift exchanges | of the scorching heat of India for the weeping skice of Flanders.
"I saw them," said Lord Birken bead. "I can see them now, shiver ing in those early and primitive treaches, standing up to their, kners in foul water, their features always composed in that mask of fatalism which gives an impression of pathos altogether poignant, the intui Live belief of mankind through the ages be well founded, if the region of happiness awaits the true and valiant, may the now that they
men that region
The Mexican Senate has passed a vote of coaßdence in Calles.
|
Established 1914
Kelvinator
Electric Refrigeration
Cold Frosty Dry
$21
bay.
Absolutely
...$30. DOM.
19 buy.
i now.
Automatic
3 bay.
Perfectly
-
III PSLન
..31.65 Bom. ...03/- sch
12. 171 apm. Tis, of nom
3 not.
.3 .ܐܐ hane.xplorations
Shanghai Loans RALUE......... Tronch
Slines
Ural Caspiana
H.K. & K. Wharfs
W. Docks....
New Engineering.............. Bhanghai Doka B.E.ES. Hetsia ELK. Lands
End Of A Chequered Carcer.
A.K. & NOGALES, October 8th. The gruesome spectacle of the Hongk body of Alfonso Dels Huerta, brother of the ex-President, pub licly exposed in the street marks the end of a chequered career full of hairbreadth escapes from foes. He recently crossed the frontier but was kidnapped, taken back and condemned to be shot, but escaped when the officer in charge of the fring party recognised him as a former superior afeer and joined him instead of giving the order to
did not die in vain. Their bodies A band of 100 Federals was sub- were often broken by the elements,sequently sont ent to hunt Dela but their souls were never en Huerta, who with a companion, quered.'
General Medina, gave them a fight. Riddled with bullets the bodies were brought back..
Thirdly, these men who had died, fought in a quarrel of which their understanding was less perfect than was that of those by whose side they confonded. The Belgians re- membered a happy and innocent country which they had alipos: wholly lost, The French saw all around them the cruel tigns of local destruction, and must in their nements have apprehended the loss of Paris and the spread of the menacing invasion into yet further areas incalculable. It would be ih this sincerity to pretend that in sense the objects with which this
known, or were known, to the majority of the Indian Army. Many a humble goldier must have thought of his far away village, sun swept, unmenaced, and wandered what in scrutable purpose of whatever deity he worshipped had projected him into this sinister and bloody mael-
TURNS POLITICALLY, ECONOMICALLY, ARTISTICALLY TOWARDS! was waged could have been
JAPAN
Where Oriental charms are jealously preserved intact amidrt
the most advanced Oriental Civilization.
THE JAPAN HOTEL ASSOCIATION (Afiliated with the D. M. LINNARD HOTELS Co. of the Pacific Coast and
the UNITED HOTALA COMPANY of America)"
MEMBER HOTELS
Hotel rates for Bingle rooms (without bath), inclade in meals.
Y 12.00 up in cities and some popular rescrts.
Y 10.00 up in country districts.
CHUZENJI (Niko);KYOTO ——
LAKESIDE HOTEL KAMAKURA- KLITY HOTEL KARUIZAWA KAMPRI HOTEL KILALA HOTEL KOBE:-
ORIENTAL HOTEL
TOL HOTEL
IN JAPAN:
KYOTO HOTEL
MITAKO HOTEL MATSUSHIMA sa
PARK HOTEL MIYAJIMA—
MIYAMA HOTEL MIYANOSHITA
(Hatone) -
FUJIYA HOTEL
¡NAGASAKI :-
JAPAN HOTEL NAGOTA":
NAQOTA HOTEL NARA
NARA HOTEL NIEKO :--
HOTEL
XANAYA NIKKO HOTEL
(burat]
IN TAIWAN (SORMOSA) --- TAIHOKU TAIWAN RAILWAY HOTEL
IN OLOSEN — ...
FEIJO
KELO RAILWAY
HOTEL
KEIJO :-
PUBAN:-
FULAN STATION
JOSAKA:-
ОЗАКА Яоти SHIMONOJEKI
BASTO HOTEL TOKYO
IMPERIAL BOTIL OXORI HOTEL TOLTO STATION
HOTLI
TuxL SHITDESI HOTEL [barn!]
IN MANCHURIA :— CHANGCHUN
YAMATO HOTEL
HOTEL .. DAIREN - SAINGISHU YAMATO HOTEL
BUNGA STATION BOSHIGAURA:-
KOTIL YAKATO HOTEL *Open from April 1st until October 31et.
DECIEN HOTEL
84]
HOTEN (Makdan YAMATO HOTZI
[BYOJUN (Port
Arthur)- YAMATO HOTEL
THE JAPAN HOTEL ASSOCIATION, -
Care of Tarrio BURIAU, Department of RailwAYE, TOKYO.
When she needs a touch of colour. she uses
The Woman who
motors
knows the
value of
HAZELINE
HAZELINE
(Trade Mark)
ROSE FROST"
Both la glans pota
(Trade Mark)
SNOW"
Applied to the face before, starting, it prevents dust entering the pores of the skin. On arrival, another application removes
all
traces of the journey.
All Chemists and Stores
BURROUGHS WELLCOME & CO. {{PROPHISTOmar The zindana Foundation LTD." Lenaan. Exp.)
LONDON AND SHANGHAI
All Rights Reserved
#
strom.
nom.
....Th
JU,60 bay. ...19/3 nom. y mom. 3113 buy. $35 nom Tin. It's boy.
bay.
416. uz buy.
01 nom. $50! sel, 56 ** Ti 118 BOL
$1 el.
Shaughai Lands Hong Kong Ronity's.....36 nom B.K. Territorials Humphreys Estates...$128., 19.10 mt. Prince's Buildings... ....$110 buy. Bumi. Lands
Ewo Cottons Orientals Bhanghai C
Tis, 7,80 sal. Tl. 1.80 bay.
i Cottons (ald).......Tla, $7 zom
Th.20
20 buy, fin. Sinom. $20.10 buy-
China Buses..... H.K. Tramway Peak Trama (old)
Do..
(DAW)... Singapore
pore Tractions......1/6 is.
Do...
314 aoi, ...87 Bul
13/8 nom.
SI QUID.
sté nom
$6 not.
90 20.
Amusements..............$19; sam. Cauton Icas
.$5 Dom. Internal Position Obscurs, The war continues to obscure the Comenta (combined)......57 vel. Du (old)...$6.60
now.. internal situation of Mexico. Re
251 21. (new) St el... ports received on the United States Oana Lights (comb.). 312
512 Rom side border are most conflicting.
Do.. (all) ......$91 nora. Hitherto it has been impossible to.
Do. (new)
161 nom determine whether the revolution is China Providents.... aimed against the whole of the Constractions...... Mexico body politic or whether Dairy Farms. General Serrano and his adherents Der A Wings'.......
been have
the victims of the H.. Electrica...
Marad machinations of Calles and Obregon
Electrics who are desirous of sweeping all EX. Roper (old) Do. (now) Crawfords.. opposition from the political arena. The Mexican authorities have estab
Mackintosh... listed a most rigorous censorship and any attempt to telegraph views Sinceros......
United Asbestos hostile to the administration would
Watsona (old) probably lead to the instant expul. Fowalls....... sion of the offending correspondent Telephones
A Retreat.
Mexico CITY, Ocotber 8th. The President News Bureau It was in all these circumstances states that Generals Gomez and. a special soldierly virtue of these Almeda have abandoned the posi troops that they met with stead-{tion they had taken up on El fast eyes the clash of a novel and Triunfo fianch and retreated south- horrible war, certainly without the ward. The Federal forces, under
Escobar, clear, and perhaps without any General
occupied the discernible, stimulas of danger to ranch, but did not sight the enemy. their own homes. Whence then
Quields Plant Removal. came this spirit of endurance and high endeavour? It came from the. twin sources of inborn and simple loyalty, and instructed and very perfect discipline.
-
JAPAN'S FINANCE.
MESSRS. MORGAN'S REPRE- SENTATIVE IN TOKYO.
PLAIN-SPEAKING.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
TOKYO, October 8th Mr. Thomas Lament, the New York baker, the nature of whose visit with Mr. "Jeremiah Smith is
NEW Yoan, October 8th.
• The Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company announces that part of its alldelds equipment has been removed from the Mexican fields to Venezuela, owing to the unsettled conditions in Mexico.
**Intellectual Leader."
Lane
$32 buy.
5.43
Ho
$10 nom.
35 nom.
85 BCL 822 ael.
nom.
$12 sel,
Şili nom. $5 aǝl.
3.70 mel
B'que. Indus. G.$ Bonds...52 bay. bay-buyers; sel-sellors; zaitu '; Dom.-.jinal,
EXCHANGE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
-*KOTNOT KO
1
Cctober 8th, 1927.
..1/112
Telegraphic Transfer
O PARIS
201
1,220
Bank Bille, on demand...1/11 178 Bank Billa, at 30 days' sight Bank Bilis, at 4 months'
night
1/137 Credita. 8t4 month.
sight 2/04 "Documentary Bills, months' right
Bank Bills, on demand.
Yoax Bank Bills, on demand Credits,
, at 60 days' night...
Transfer ... tellectual leader" of the revolution. Telegraphic
Back Bills, or demand...)
The World's Mexico City cor" respondent says that Felix Pala vicini. founder of the newspaper
Eli Unirerral and the best-known Os month'sight... 1,295
journalist in Mexico, has been dis covered in biding by Federal agents Or "BoA and will be tried 3 "the in-
It is stated that a letter signed ON CALCUTTA
to by Palavicini and addressed General Gomez urging an armed
the subject of much speculation, revolt against the Government was O speaking at the Japan-Ameries found in a trunk left by Palavicini, Society's dinner, stated that though who fled on Saturday. He was ar at Colonia del Valle on Tested
ON Messrs. Morgan's were always ready to do their best to facilitate Thursday, taken to the military ON
for high treason."
Transfer Telegraphic Eazi Bib, o domand BHABGHAI
Back Bills, at sight Private, 30 days sight YOKOHAMA-On demand...
On demand MAXIMA
FOR-On demand...
the flotation of Japanese loans on Prison at Santiago, and indicted and
the American market, Japan, if she wishes to raise money in America, must firstly adopt modern and more effective industrial methods to im- prove her industries; and, secondly, offer attractive securities.. With reference to the atter, which is vine qua som, Mr."Lamont ca phasised that "the security which would be welcome to the British investor is not always welcome to the American."
BOLSHEVIK CELEBRATION IN RUSSIA.
PRISONERS GRANTED AN AMNESTY
(THROUGH RENTER'S AGENCY.]
Moscow, October 8th. Workers undergoing sentences of imprisonment not exceeding a year for less serious offences will be liberated under an amnesty, which
AMERICAN AND BRITISH RELATIONS.
MR. BALDWIN ON DISARMA- MENT.
(Tusotun REUTER'S AGENCY.)
LONDON, October 8th. The Anglo-American peoples are friendly and great enough to thresh out the question of disarmament, and if they cannot agree will differ like friends and gentlemen, declared Mr. Baldwin in a reference to the Geneva conference. Addressing the American Legionaries, at a dinner at the House of Lords, he said that an Anglo-American war was un- thinkable not only on the ground of sentiment but because “It would destruy the whole of civilisatioa which was worth preserving.
Tribute To President Coolidge. The failure to reach agreement at it is proposed to grant on the occa- Geneva had not made the Japanese estimates. sion of the forthcoming tenth an- increase their naval niversary of the Bolshevik revolu-President Coolidge, as far as I tion, intensive preparations for can learn said Mr. Baldwin, which are being made throughout behaving like the statesman I be the Soviet Union. The amnesty lieve him to be. When our ext does not apply to counter-revola Naval Estimates are presented the tionaries, bandits or persons con- world will know we have no inten- vioted of embezzlement or acception of building against any
nation." ing bribes.
O
OF SAIGONO demand.
43.
4:3
182
Reliable
Good for
A Lifetime
Costs little to operate
All steel
exterior-
built like a
bridge. Finished
white lacquer
the interior
of white porcelain
Cali at our office for a demonstration
14
REISS, MASSEY & CO., LTD.
לן
EXCHANGE BUILDING
TEL. C. 876
THE TYPEWRITER
that interested
H.M. THE KING
"IMPERIAL
The
W
"TYPEWRITER
IL
is now on sale in Hong Kong,
Not only because it is
էր
BRITISH
but because it is
CHEAPER and BETTER.
Every Firm interested in
EFFICIENCY and ECONOMY
should call and inspect this wonderful
new machine for themselves."
Sole Agents:
T. E. GRIFFITH," Ltd.
732 102).
6, Queen's Road Contral.
15
119
Ox HairponG.—ÛA
ziom. OF BASGIOX. On demand "... 941 SOVEREIGN, BRUK's Baying rate, 89.50 Gold Lraz, 100 fine, par tael...
2611/18 | BAR BILVER, per OL
EXCHANGE RATES.
[BRITISH WIRELESS HERVICE)
RUGEY, October 8th.
Paris Brussels Amsterdam Berlin Copenhagen Vienna Madrid
~ Lisbo
Bucharest Buenos Aires Shanghai Yokohama New York Geneva........... Milan....... Stockholm Oslo Prague Helsingfors Athens
» Rio
.
Bombay Hong Kong
124
34.95
12.13
20.421
18.17
34:50
27.90
2 7/13.
7824
47 57/81.." 2/6 1/10 31/32 4.86 13/10
23.24
89.16
18.08
18.47
1341
1932
207
5 20/32
-1/5 15/16
1/11 Silver spot & forward 25 11/18
Tel. 0. 3517.
[A.P.5.3]
UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS
f)
"STANDARD, QUIET AND PORTABLE MODELS
REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE WORK ABE OUR SPECIALITY.
KEELOX brand of Typewriter ribbons in air-sealed tins for all standard makes of machines always. in stock.
SOLE AGENTS
TEL
DODWELL & CO., LTD. 1030. C.
BOLE AGENTS FORRONEO OFFICE APPLIANCES.
SAFE-CABINET SAFES, BURROUGHS ADDING MACHINES.