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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,
XMAS AND NEW YEAR HAMPERS
Wa beg to notify customers that Assorted Hamper suitable for tha Festive Season may be obtained from us at the following Bodwood Rates -
No. 1 HAMPER $98.
1 Qt. Moet & Chandon Dry Imperial, 1.Qt. Superb Tawny Port.
Champagne 2 Q. St. Julian Claret.
1 Pt. Blackborry Brandy, 1 Pt. D.O.M.
1 Qt. Martell's XXX Brandy.
Qt. King George IK Gold Label
or Perfection Whisky.
10. Old Brown Sherry, Black Seal. 1 Qt Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin.
1 Qt. Burgundy, Burgoyne's..
1 Phial Pomeranzen Bitters.
No. 2
HAMPER-334.
2 Gta Tawny Dry Port.
1. Guillemart Champagne. 1 Pt. D.O.M.
1 Burgoyne's Burgundy, 10 Martell's XXX Brandy.
240. King George IV Gold Label
or Perfection Wüisky
BQte. St. Julien Claret.
SINGAPORE NAVAL BASE,
MILES OF SWAMPS TO BE CLEARED.
ĮTARODDE REUTER'S AGENCY.]
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12th, 1927.
POLISH-LITHUANIAN DISPUTE
TO AVERT INCIDENTS.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE:]
Rugar, December 10th.
instructions from
on
LONDON, Dec. 10th. Miles of mangrove swamps and
Acting poisonous black mud must be Geneva, the British, French ‹ and cleared" and dredged, says the Italian military attaches or their secand article in the London deputies in Warsaw and Riga hote Daily Telegraph on the Singapore proceeded to the Polish Lithuanian Naval Base, before its four-mile frontier to acquaint themselves
1 Qt. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin. frontage on deep water and a sea with military dispositions in that
1 Qt. Vino de Pasto Sherry.
1 Phial Pomeranzen Bitters.
No. 3
HAMPER-$30.
1 Qt. Bargoyne's Burgundy.
1 Pt. Peppermint Q.F.
1 Pt. D.O.M.
2.Qt. Superior Rich Old Furt.
2 Qts. King George,1V Gold Label
or Perfection Whisky.
1 Qt. Engrand's XXX Brandy.
1 Qt. Amontillado Sherry.
1 Q. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin.
? Ots, Modoc Claret.
1 Phial Pomeranzen Bittera,
Other hampers made up to suit Customer's requirements.
GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD.
TEL. C. No. 135.
HONG KONG.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT Co., LTD.
Best Portland Cement.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
GENERAL MANAGERS,
HONGKONG.'
THE WORLD'S GAZE
TURNS POLITICALLY, ECONOMICALLY, ARTISTICALLY TOWARDS
JAPANE
Where Oriental charms are jealonly preserved intact amidet- the most advanced Oriental Uívilisation.
THE JAPAN HOTEL ASSOCIATION (Affiliated with the D. M. LINARD HOTELA Co. of the Pacião Const aud the UNITED HOTELS COMPANY of America.) MEMBER HOTELS
Hotejates for Single rooms (without bath), inclads in meals.
Y 12.00 up in cities and some popular resorts.
Y 10.00 up in country districts.
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Care fTario Buzau, DerantMENT OF RAILWAYS, TOKYO,
Healthy
Childhood
Growth is a severe tax on stamina. The young growing body needs all the support it can be given. Give your children
KEPLER
Cod Liver Oil with Malt Extract
Bottion of two sizes
4955
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““HAZELINE' SNOW"
*(Trade Mark)
keeps the skin soft, cool and smooth.
Olan pots
All Chemists and Stores
BURROUGHS WELLCOME & CO. {PROPRIETORS: THE WELLCOMKOCHHATION LTNÁ, Lexusa,
LONDON AND SHANGHAI
wall after it can be erected. Inside area, and to assure themselves that the present ill-defined shore, a dock there is no danger of incidente of a thousand feet long will be likely to complicate pacific settle constructed to accommodate the ment of dispute. The League Coun largest battleship afloat and four cil's suggestion that this should be cruisers simultaneously. Probably done was welcomed by representa a decade will have passed before tives of both the Polish and the whole construction is finished. Lithuanian Cornaments. The pre- Local rubber planters complain that
sence and evidence of independent the Government is spoiling the observers on the spot will, it is be- labour market by overpaying Tamil
lieved, have a reassuring effect: and Chinese workers.
BRITISH SUBSIDY ON SUGAR.
INCREASED AMOUNT
REQUIRED.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
RUGBY, December 9th. Parliament is to be asked to grant an additional £800,000 for the sugar heet subsidy, to the present financia! year, bringing the amount of the " subsidy this year to £3,400,000.
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Important. Resolution.
GENEVA, Dec. 11th. At a meeting of the Council to- night the Polish-Lithuanian repre- sentatives agreed to a resolution "that a state of war between mem- bers of the League is incompatible with the covenant."
BRITISH AND RUSSIAN RELATIONS.
SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN
A
INTERVIEWED.
[THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY:]
LONDON, Dec. 10th.
The Daily Herald's Geneva cor- respondent interviewed Sir Ansten Chamberlain on the subject of the Litvinoff conversation.
con-
A supplementary estimate of the Ministry of Agriculture, published to-day, describes the £000,000 being required for," Further pro- vision for payment of a subsidy on sugar and molasses manufactured
Sir Austen said that he hadi trom beat grown in Great-Britain." done is utmost-to-impress-on- The explanation of the increaseM. Litvinoff that Britain was not in that the subsidy is paid on the planning an attack against Russia amount produced, and there has overtly or covertly, or to isolate Leen in unforeseen increase the Soviete by means of a
tinental bloc. production. Counterbalancing the subsidy to some extent, is the excise Juty, which at existing rates on sugar and molasses manufactured from beet grown in Great Britain, is estimated to yield this year £1,008,000. The net cost to the Exchequer this year is accordingly estimated at £3,000,000.
The supplementary estimate will | · be debated in the House of Com- mois on Wednesday. Members on both sides of the House have been expressing concern as to the effect which the preesnt method of paying the subsidy has had upon refiners of imported raw sugar.
PREMIUM BOND
PROPOSAL.
CONSERVATIVE MOTION,
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
Iraay, December 9th"
Sir Austen was inclined to regard the meeting with Litvinoff as pre- mature since neither the British nor the Russian Government haa changed its position as regards questions of dispute. Therefore, there had beengo progress
AIR CONFERENCE PROPOSED.
INTERESTING 25TH ANNIVER- SARY.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
He that is of a Merry Heart
hath
a
Continual Feast."
TO-DAY
order your supplies
for the
Christmas and New Year Holidays.
The Wine of France-
PERRIER JOUET
CHAMPAGNE
Quarts Piats Baby
$7.00 per bottle $8.70
$2.00
The Wine of Scotland-
MARCHANT'S
GOLD LABEL
WHISKY
Obtainable from
Wing On and
Empress Stores, Kowloon and from Sole Agents.
Obtainable at all high class Stores and Compradores,
The Drink of Ireland ASHE & NEPHEW GUINNESS' STOUT
Obtainable from Sole Agents
T. E. GRIFFITH,
6, Queen's Road Central.
TOO MERRY WIDOWS OF
VIENNA.
LIGHT-HEARTED WOMEN IN CAFE CLUBS.
LIKE A 200 MONKEY HOUSE.
VIENNA
The Marry Widows of Vienna.are to be called on to, moderate their merriment in public or to leave the
cafés,
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10th.
The favourite amusement of the President Coolidge has written to the Civil Aeronautical Conferencs, married middle-class Viennese wo which is at present in session here, man at the moment is playing recommending an international civil bridge or rummy in her "clube, aviation conference to be held at, Washington
machine.
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THE INDIAN BOYCOTT.
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December 28th, which reserves a series of tables in which is the 25th anniversary of some café open to the public. The man's first flight (by Orville club is run by come women for Wright) in heavier-than-air profit, and most of them make more than 100 a month in entrance fees. The latest development is the formation of Widows' Clubs and Divorce Clabs," which only those women who have been pre perly qualified by fate, or their own misdeeds, may join. All the outlying suburbs now possess at least one Widows Club," which mecta in a cafe for bridge several times a week.
DOOMED TO FAILURE.” -
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
RHINELAND OCCUPATION,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Viennese café proprietors are now up in arms against these widows, whom they find altogether too merry.
In regard to the suggestion for premium bonds, upon which Con servative members of Parliament have been circularised, Sir Clement
BOMBAY, Dec. 10th. Kinloch Cooke has given notice that he will ask the Chancellor of His Highness the Aga Khan, the Exchequer in the House of the spiritual leader of the power- Commons whether, with a view to tu! Muslin sect, has condemned the assisting the national finances and proposed boycott of the Statutory providing means of securing Commission and has declared the
These noisy, chattering wo money on cheaper terms than has boyects to be foredoomed to failure. hitherto been found possible, to
men," said Herr Adolf Kulka, pre sident of the Café Proprietors meet requirements of social reform, to which Parliament is committed,
Association, drive not only other he will consider the possibility of
guests away, but behave eo autoora waking an issue of investments in A CHAPTER OF COMPLAINTS. tially that the proprietor cannot premium bonds, and so, encourage
call his kitchen his own. At first thrift among a large section of the
the promoters were impoverished community which has not hitherto
ladies of the aristocracy, but now regarded the conditions governing
one finds women running them for investments as sufficiently attrae
The grievous oppression" by profit and trying to provide every tive, and at the same time to offer the troops occupying the Rhine- sort of attraction in our cafés for further opportunity for all citizens land, forms the subject of a report idle women who would be better to possess a direct interest in, the by Dr, Marx to the Occupied Terri employed in their own horora.”
tories Committee of the Reichstag. It is felt that the ostentatiously Alluding to the extraordinary merry clube of widows are in bad damage due
the autumn taste, and an offence to guests who manoeuvres, also the "numerous sit at neighbouring tables and hold different conception of excesses committed by the mili- quite a tary forces on the population, the widowhood. The nuisance," said heavy burdens occasioned by the Herr Kulka, "will be discussed billeting of soldiers, and the con- thoroughly at our general meeting siderable number of coloured this week, aad, I hope, firmly dealt troops, the report aleo records with." progressive step in that the occupa- tion authorities have assented to the abolition of brothels.
fonds of the State.
LEAGUE ECONOMIC
COMMITTEE.
EXPERTS ON VARIOUS
QUESTIONS. :
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
**
GENEVA, December 9th. The League of Nations Council has approved of the appointment of the members of the consultative economic committee, the formation of which was decided by the League Assembly on September 24th.
BERLIN, Dec. 9th...
to
DIPLOMATIC POST.
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
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**W*H*
DECEMBER 10TH, 1927. 'B.K. Bank ......$1,150 tug., 1.155 m.
Do., London...£120 nom. Chartered Bank Mercantile Bank, & B... £31 nom.
Do..
C...213) som P. & O. Bank
...210 am. East Asia Back Canton Insurance $536 buy, Union Insurance wit $293 bay. North China Int...........
T. 143 nom.. M. $ buy. Yangtane Insurance....... China Underwriter......$14 ja. Obina Fire fisurance... $213 com. Hong Kong Fire Ipa.......$640 buy. Dougisses..............
Bball
by bay. ****** 11.70 0.
gom
$30 nom
90%
пода
$17
nom. $21 nom.
Steag boats.. H.K
Tuga
(Def) Indo-Chinas (Pref.).
Do
Transporta Waterboats...... Bangusta Kailan Mining Ad.........63/- ari. Langkata (combined)....... 184 buy.
Do (single). The 10 buy, S'hi Explorations Shanghai Loans Bauba
JT, 21 buy, 12,90 wel. Tha. 6u5 bay. *********
buy. .217/6 buy.
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buy.
LTD.
Tronah Mines B.E. & K, Wharfs3126 buy... E.K. & W. Dock......$35 Bol Chios Providents...24 nel.
Tle. 137 bay. Bongkaws
Ils. & sol. No
Engineerings.
1 1a. 93 now, Shanghai Dooks ...
17.10 buy. Ewo Cottons Oriental...Tls, 1} Shanghai Cottons (old)...T. 4o4 buy. Do, (new). Th: 22 HK. &8. Hotel $1.25 bay.
K. Lands 58 Fuy., 57 158 Shanghai Lands...Tls. 124 bay. Humphreys Estater...$18.80 bug. Hong Kong Resities.....37.40 nam.
$11 nov. H.K. Territorials H.K. Tramways $21.80 bay. 811/21.70s Peak Tramı (old) $14 se},
Do.
(new).........$761,
357 bay: Star Ferrine Uhins Lights (comb.)......5121 bay. (old).39.60 buy. Do. (new).....364 buy H.K. Electrica... $58 bay, 673 m. Macao Electrics.......bay. Telephonet...
..$3,90 boy, China Buses............. Tim. 61 bay... Bingspore Tractions.....11/9 bay. China Bugar 13 com.. Malakan Sugars 580 mel, Canton Icee
-$5 neren.: Cements (combined) $7.10 buy,7,6ļsa.
Do **(old) ......$8.60 mom, Do. (new) ...........Si sol. H.K. Hopes (old)...8? #91..
Do. (now) $2 nom. $12 pel. United Asbestos.
15.10
nom. Sil nom
Do.
„„38 nom.
$22 sal.
For The Hard of Hearing. One of the smartest cafés on the Ringstrasse has a Club for the Hard of Hearing," whose members make a noise which is simply Dairy Farmsni deafening for other guests, haw Watsons ing at one another during their Der & Wings FROM PARIS, TO VIENNA,
Yet Do one! Lane Crawfords.... weekly gatherings,
Mackintoshs.... The committee will be composed
complains. [USITISH". WIRELESS BEZVICH] of qualified experts on questions
The Club of the Virtuous" Sinceres
WEL Powells. affecting industry, commerce, ag
RUGBY, Dec. 9th. meets at the leading hotel fort-
H.K. Amusement$19 buy. riculture: finance, and labour, and includes Mr. Layton Willey and Sir H.M. the King has approved the rightly, and holds the smartest H.K. Constractions.17 sel. Arthur Pugh, representing Britain, appointment of Sir Eric Philippe ball of the carnival season every 'que. Indus. G. Bonds... 1564% bay,
Extraordinary and year, though it is not close that and Sir Chatterjee, representing the Envoy India
Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris, members supply say proof of their HK. Gort. Lasne..... The appointments are for three to be Envoy Extraordinary and qualification for admission to the baye-bayars; Belesellers; 200
Minister Plenipotentiary at Vienna. club.
year
Tel. C. 8517,
CA.P.3.11
PRINCE OF WALES AT CINEMA.
A FINE BRITISH FILM.
CHEERED BY CROWD OF 5,000.
LONDON, Nov. 5th. A crowd of 5,000 people, mostly women and girls, greated the Prince of Wales when he visited the Marble Arch Pavilion to sen the new British film "One of the Best,"
The Prince and his party were expected to arrive from the direc tion of Hyde Park, and it was on this side of the theatre that the Shortly biggest crowd collected. before nine o'clock, however, it was
known that he was driving down Oxford-street from Oxford-circus. The people who had expected to see him drive up from the other direction rushed towards the en- trance of the cinema, while the packed ranks of people on the pavement also broke away and dashed across the road.
In a few seconds the royal car was surrounded by hundreds of
cheering women and girls, and it was with some difficulty that the police forced their way through and cleared a space for the Prince and his friends to enter the cinema. A number of women fainted, and were attended by St. John Am bulance men
Among those accompanying the Prince were Lord and Lady Isling- ton and Lord Charles Cavendish.
Military Scenes..
"One of the Best," the Gaina- borough British film version of the melodrama by Mr. Beymour Hicks and Mr. George Edwardes, makes. excellent entertainment. Bet in the picturesque Regency period, it gives a good idea of military life at that time.
The hero is unjustly accused of stealing valuable secret documenta, and is being drummed out of the regiment, when the heroine arrives on horseback with proof of his in-
nocence,
The military scenea, for the tak ing of which the Army Council afforded assistance, have been fine. ly arranged, and the drumming real sequence provides a out thrill The best performance comes from Mr. Janes. Lindsay as
villainous épy.".
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APIOL & STEEL BE Sure and certain for all Female complaints Every lady should
box in the house. keep i
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