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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10th, 1927.
XMAS AND NEW YEAR HAMPERS
We beg to notify customers that Assorted Hampars suitable to thể Festive Season may be obtained from us at the following Reduced Rates :-
No. 1 HAMPER-$38.
1 Qt. Moet & Chandon Dry Imperial 1 Qt. Superb. Tawny Port.
1 Pt. Blackberry Brandy, 1P DOM
Champagne. 2 Qts. St. Julian Claret.
1 Qt. Martell's XXX Brands.
Qts. King George IX Gold Label
or Perfection Whisky.
1 Qt. Old Brown Sherry, Black Seal. 1 Qt Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin.
1 Qt. Burgundy, Burgoyne's.
1 Phial Pomeranzea Bitter%
No. 2 HAMPER-534.
1. Guillemart Champagne. 1 Pt. D.O.M.
1 Q Burgoyne's Burgundy. 10. Martell's XXX Brandy.
2 Qts. King Georga IV Gold Label
or Perfection Whisky)
12 Qta. Taway Dry Port.
? Qts. St. Julien Claret.
1 Qt. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin.
1. Vino da Pasto Sherry.
1 Poial Pomeranzen Bitters.
No. 3
HAMPER-$30.
1 Qt. Burgoyne's Bargundy.
1 Pt. Peppermint .F.
1',Pt. D.O.M.
2 Qts. Buperior Rich Old Fort.
2. King George IV Gold Labe
or Perfection Whisky,
1 Qt. Engraud's XXX Brandy.
14. Amontillado Shorry, o
1 Qt. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin.
2 Qts, Medoc Claret,
1 Phil Pomeranzen Hitters.
Other hampers made up to auit Customer's requirements.
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CRIME IN KIUKIANG.
NATIONALIST SOLDIERS AS
BRIGANDS.
ARMED ROBBERIES ON CITY OUTSKIRTS.
KITZIANG, Nov. 27th,
Reports have come in of several more foraya by the marauders, who
MAYOR OF GREATER SHANGHAI
GENERAL CHANG TING FAN QUARRELS WITH NANKING
OPPOSITION TO HIS REFORM PROGRAMME.
SHANGHAI, Dec. 3th. After having been Mayor of
Gen. Change assumed office on September 17th, at which time he outlined a very progressive policy of municipal reform, which he at
put into immediate tempted to
recently attacked the S.O.C. mana- | Greater Shanghai for a few days gor near Jaochow. Indeed, condi- more than two months, Gen. Chang tions are so bad that the road to Ting Fan has placed his resigna- Jaachow is now closed to traße, tion in the hands of the Nanking
a no junkman dares sail that way. Government. An eyewitness, who was caught and robbed by these brigands, re- ports that there are a number of soldiers amongst them wearing the badges of the 8th and 9th Armies on the left arm and the usual red practice. Misunderstandings arose Kuomintang ticket on the left betwo him and the Nanking a breast pocket of their grey thorities, which made it impossible uniforms. They are said to be for him to continue in office. Gen. troops of the Yukan magistrate's Chang, in his letter of resignation, ; bodyguard, who decamped recently emphasized this fact and stated After looting the magistrates that his policy with reference to the Kuomintang had also differed from that of his fellow members." Gen. Chang left for Nanking some days ago and has been away
funds.
Singapore Chinese Murdered. The number of armed robberies in the neighbourhood of Kiukiang
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Leen five murders in the past week, ly improbable that he will return Meanwhile, Mr. so thas Chinese have entirely given to Shanghai.
ed.
up moving at night outside the Chow, the chief secretary of the dty timits. There was one parti-unicipality, is directing affairs cularly revolting murder on the until a successor has been appoint Kuling Road. A returned Singa- pore Chinese gentleman was walk- ing out to his house at Shihlipu along this road, when about a mile outside Kiukiang he was suddenly shot through the body. He fell and the murderer then fired two more shots at hira on the ground. All the murderer got for his pains -waa-a-wristwatch. The victim died the next day in Dr. Perkins' hospital,
General Chang's Dareer. Gen, Chang Ting Fan, who is 36 years of age, is a native of Kiangsi. He graduated from the thepartment of engineering, Pao- tinglu Military Academy, with honours, and, after seeing service) ia Kuangtung and Fukien as re- gimental and later brigade corn- ander, was appointed chief staff officer to the" Commander-in-Chief of the Nationalist Armies, and
served in that capacity during the early part of the Northern Puni tive Expedition. Following the
upation of his home province, Gen. Chang was elected a member
Although conditions outside Kiukiang are bad, inside the city and the ex-Concession there has been a distinct improvement since the Nanking hordes that is real If the correct description of them
of the Kiangsi Provisional Politi- moved on to Hankow. The Com Commission and afterwards mmunists, it is true, have tried to stir up trouble. Some caught dis tributing pamphlets bare been promptly shot. It is difficult to find out what these pamphlets coo- tain as no Chinese dare pick them up. It is as much as his life is worth so be seen reading ope.
Death By Strangulation For Girls.
Amongst the executed are two girl students. They were granted the more lenient death by strangu- lation (instead of being shot). Whether the death is really a more pleasant our depends on how much the executioner has been bribed, because if he has not received what he considers the correct fee, he twists the cord and then" untwists it again, them twists it is a little more and so on to prolong the The Chineze method of agony. abrangulation is not by hanging but by twisting a cord round the neck by means of a small stick.
was appointed Municipal Director of Nanchang. He was then trans- ferred to, the position of chief of staff to the Director General of
the Eastern Route Armies and for some months has been chief of staff to the Shanghai and Woosung Garrison Commissioner. Gán. Chang held the latter position con-"| currently with his post as Mayor of Greater Shanghai, North China Daily Neien.
There is considerable local dis satisfaction with the extortionate rates of coolie hire which have to be paid on all goods and cargo shipped through the various hulks. The shipping companies, very wisely, have adopted the attitude that it is for the shippers to settle the rate of hire with the coolies and, eo far, the coolies have had
it all their own way. Head coolies are making between $1,000 and $2,000 per month each and ordin- pary carry coolies 850, 880 and 870 per month-North China Daily
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WHY INDIGESTION OFTEN GETS WORSE.
MANAGER'S ALLEGED realise. Excess of harmful stomach
·CRIMINAL BREACH OF
TRUST.
sours
Shanghai Loans mäsia
..3381 bay.
20 nom.
$1.70 nom.
$30 HOLD, $48 nom. .90%. nom.
$17 DOM.
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&
Tl. 187 bay, Tis. 10 bar.
{TIK. 21 bay. 2,90 rel
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B.K. & Wharfs...$123 buy..123 8. E.E, & W. Dock.........$35 Bai
Chi Providents...... $4 sel.
Bongkaw
New Engineering....
Shanghai Docka
Tha. 157 buy.
Tla, & sel $316,
93 noth Ewo Cations... Tle. 7.10 buy. - Orientals
*Tiz. 1 nom Shanghai Cottons (old)....... Tls. 46g bay.
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buy. Hong Kong Realties......37.40 nom, H.K. Territoriala
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H.K. Tramword) 14 sol.
Stomach trouble gets worse if you don't treat it properly, and alcers may foran before you Peak
Do. (new).........$7 68). acid causes indigestion,
Star Ferries... 3571 bay, 571/58 B and ferments the food,
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Do. (012)......$9.10 bay, ing. The fermentéd food then
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H.K. Blodtrics. 2563 buy. 57 am........ The case in which H. H. Madill, circle and
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Singapore Tractions......13/9 nou.. Court on Nov. 26th with criminal protection against chronic acidaty Chin Bugars
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The application was allowed and accused was remanded in custody.
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