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HONG KONG MARKET REPORTS.
RAW SILK.
NOV. STATISTICS FROM U.S.
Mesars. Pentreath & Co have Meurs. Hoenhy, Hemelry & Co.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS
"DOLORES "THE
“VAMPIRE-
"AND SHE CAN'T HELP IT!
ECHO OF LONDON TRAGEDY.
ન એવા
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21st, 1929.
OCCUPATION OF THE RHINELAND
AND THE REPARATION
PROBLEM.
The conference of experts, mest. ing cleven years after the end of London, February 18th (UP) to settle the still unpaid A real, firing vanire, has emerged reparations from Germany, has in
PROHIBITION AT WORK.
SMUGGLING ON THE GREAT LAKES
USE FOR U.S. 15 NEW CRUISERS!
The officials responsiblą at Washington for the enforcement of
INTIMATIONS.
SAN OFFER OF SERVICES:
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Undersigned have medved
THE Adverter
Firstselaer English Basinom Cor respandauen, undirs FussTypist. Quite Capable of handling in Fatire Depart to Box 7418, afo Hong Kong Badly-Fries.
Quotations at yesterday's local handed us the following, letter from trom Bobemian London to at the voked a storm of criticism, mostly the Volstead Act are now fairly ment or do Secretarial Work Replies market for rice and sugar were a Liverpool, of January 4th entire city talking. She is Dolorent from Germany, protesting against well pleased with the results of
Pet
$7.23
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“the beautiful model," who admits that her attraction for men has been
the curse of ber life.
She talka frankly of millionaires,
the allied occupation of German soll. Figures have been presented, however, which indicate that the occupation will probably continue
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princes poor artists muuciane until another mightyean have breaks out with added vigour on There in Good at for
"Prices have moved within a mar Tow range during the past week, Picul and, or balance, values are about
unchanged.
The following November atstistics with regard to America are "DOW available
dapted, unless Germany docs like 1928. 1928.
1927. Bales Bales Bales. doreas of men who have pursued her France did after the Franco Prusian War, and pays of the since she was 14 years old. Dolores bill earlier than was expected.
French, British, American Bel- speaks freely to reporters, writes
*glan and Italian troops were aigned articles for the Sunday originally stationed on the left newspapers, and gives the money to a hospital,
followe
Rice,
Blue Lionin
•White Longen
7.09
Green Battle.......
-25
Red Seal White Bran
2.91
Green O Tanz
7,06
Red Seal White
6.
Double Sword ...............
6.17
Green Beal White-
8.06
Green Pearl No. 1 Broken
5,06
Red Seal No. 3
6.62
Red Seal No. 1 Broken
5.81
Sugar.
Per Picul
Manila Green „
87.03
Java Brown
4.63
Tung Ma.........it
6.30
No. 20 coarse powdered
7.59
the season (July 1st), with compari sons, are as follows:-
No. 15 coarse powdered
No. 24 coarse powdered
7.83
CANTON FOOD MARKET.
Quotations in Canton at Tues. day's market, for rice, sugar, four and oil were as follows:-
Black Dragon Blue Anchor
Rice..
·Japanese exports to US
36,948 40.756 44,193 Importa 48,134 20,030 59,070 Deliveries to
Mill
47,709 18,047 47,834 Stocks in
Warehouses 40,806 52,000 47,130 In Transit 93,800 £6,000; 19,700
She is the most Bohemian of
their elaborate precautions to stop
But this highly: læerative entor ram running on the Atlantic coast. prise, though checked on one of the vast borders of the United States, another where it is harder to cir that liquor smuggling from Cumrca The oficial gura state Canada Into the State has increas ed by more than 75 per cent in the last three years, and that in the last fiscal year more than million gallons of whisky were
DEVELOP YOUR TRADE.
TOW is the Time to push your Trade
Various Commodities in the Interior A LIVE GO-GETTER OPEN for IMMEDIATE ENGAGEMENT Spiska Beveral Chintan Diadenia, Wall Convert with Businese Methode, Willing to travel for Firman who dovire. to de Business in the Interior Replies to Box 7410, o/o Hong Kong Daily Frack
"Instanctions
TU BILL BY PUBLIC AUCTION,
TUESDAY WEDNESDAY,
THURSDAY.
THE ÖTE, OTH AND ITE MARCH, 1850,
HM. NAVAL TARD, HONG Kone:
DEAR AND AT
KOWLOON NAVAL DEPOT. COMMENCING RICH DAT AT 9.90 1.3. - “WITH GAZ -INTERVAL, EROTİ ́Noor.
To 1.30 PM
OLD AND SURPLUS NAVAL STORES,"
Comprising
The totala from the beginning of London's Bohemiana, the thousande Treaty was evacuated in 1999. It Takes, and the more cypical of POO ON HERBS are within Sampan, Cars, Gies. Tube Ex
1999, 1328, 1927.
of artists who live in the Chelsea district of this metropolis. Dolores Bales. Bales. Bales. does not mean to be a siren or a
vampire, but she can't help it.
230,519 920,801,914,418 945,877 248,007 242,731
"
Japanese exports to U.S. Imports Deliveries to
Mills 37,198 £32,000 £4,739 Stocks in
Warehouses 205,432 373,690 172,917 The technical position of the mar. ket is healthier, and there is a bet ter mill enquiry. There is also a Pical.better feeling in piece goods circles os account of a good Spring de $10.99
mand. Business in spot silk is quiet, but prices are firm, and it is believed that futures are reason- able.
Per
THE TIN MARKET. Messrs. Carroll Bros, have been advised of the following dividends; Klang River Tin Dredg. Co., de: 15 per cent, interim, & per cent bonus.
Petaling Tin, Ltd.: 7 per cent final, 5 per cent, bonus, 10 per cent. Per interim. Picul. Kuala Kampar Tin Fields, Ltd : Taoised. per share.
Tin Bentong, no liability: 1/- per 8.40
share interim.
She gave her life story to Fleet Street after a young artist, Frederick Atkinson, the twenty years old son of miner, killed himself beennse of his infatuation for bet. Other mon had told Dolores good-bye and gone away to commit suicide; Atkinson was the first who made good the threat.
The Ugly Duckling.
cleared for export from the one bank of the Rhine merely so. a guarantee of reparations and country to the other, security measure The first tone,
-Most of the smuggling is at pre- as stipulated by the Versailles
sent done by way of the Great is also stipulated in the Treaty
American press comment suggests that the second one will be erscu-
that if no other use can be found for the projected fiftem new ated this year.ENERGE
The Third Zone, which comcruirs there will be plenty for prises Hesse in the Rhineland and them to do in patrolling inland the Bavarian Palatinate, need not be evacuated until 1938, according to the Treaty
"X7HT' ` Continue to suffer when
your reach-Pimples, Catarrh, Asthma, Bronchitis, Cough, Constipation," Dia- betes, Dropsy, Riedmade, and many
Jhinese Herbe. Ne
Steel Girders. Iron Trel, Davits Farmoniam, Air Purifying Plant, Out- pandare, Wrenches - Water: Motors, Magnetos, Oil Load Battery Plates, Electrical and Wireless Talegraph Fit
Glycerine, Old Electric: Cables
other Diseases. No Drugs, Parely grade Water Closet Pans, Bydraulic
POO ON HERBS CO. 66, QUEEN' BOAD OHNERAL, in 2002. TEL. C. 6009
energy that has been spent on the HOUSES AND FLATS Atlantic seaboard, there remains the vast artificial border line that
waters on revenue work. But on all hands it is realised that with. out co-operation between the Gov- Some Tacła and 'Figuras,
ernments no" effectual remedy can Eved if shipment in The summer of 1998 Baw 87,000 be found.
the United States, with the same soldiers in the Armies of occups-balk across the Lakes be tackled by tion in Germany. 1991 there were 138,500, composed of 12,800 Ameri- cans, 7,800 British, 25,400 Belgians and 63,000 French. It was during the occupation of the Buhr that the greatest number of allied soldiers were in Germany. At that time there were 116,000 French, Dolores is not transually beauti34,200 Belgians, 11,000 British, and fuh She has called herself the about 10,000 Americans. family ugly duckling. Her youD- ger sister, Kid sister Mabel, who is now believed to be in Canada, was much more attractive, but escaped the attentions of man and the pestering that began to bother Dolores in her early 'teens. When she was fourteen the private secretary to a distinguished lady wanted to marry ber. He later committed suicide.
Green Seal
10.80 10.50
Red Pearl White
11.10
Blue Lion White
10.95
Green Lion White
10.00
Three Marks
·8.78
New Moon
10.00
Red Feach n
10.10
Green Elephant
9.70
Green Stars
9.65
Green Bird Siam
9.35
Red Seal
10.08
Chai Mi Native
11.23
Sugar.
No. 2 coarse powdered .......
No. 3 coarse powdered
8.00
No. 30 coarse powdered
8.10
No. 1 Granulated "................
10.00
No. 1 Fine Granulated
11.00
Waichow Nativa White
9.80
Spring Candy
8.00
Flour.
Per
..Bag,
84.20
Silver Seat
1.15
Banana...
4.10
Cheung Luk
4.10
Do
Maize.............
4.95
P. & G. Banks mami. £9) bók.
Sword of Kwantai
4.18
East Axis Books -gamin
Cannonda
4.80
Cantor
Cabbage
4:40
Insurances...$590. buy, 700 ms. Caión Intrades
Dog's Head
4.40
Five Swallows
4.06
North China Ies Lin. 160 buy. Yangtze Inmrsace....... $50 now.
men.
ou.
Per
Pical
Man-of-War
Groundnut;
Fanchi
Min How
Dairen
Tientsin...
Kwongsi Wood
Kwongsi Tea Beed
HONG KONG STOCK
EXCHANGE.N
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
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FEBRUARY 2011, 1929. A.K. Banka.............. $1,345 bay. Do *London,.,£1464 nom. Chartery, flasks £22 buy. Kercantile Banks, A. B.. £341 nom,
run from Duluth to the Pacific. The cost of polising affectually its hundreds of miles of prairie is one which even the wealthiest nation might well hesitate to face. The American Government has ap- proached the Canadian Govern- The performance of consistent re- parations deliveries by the Germent for a stiffening of the anti- mans after the occupation of the smuggling pact of 1924, and the Ruhr, brought another reduction Treasury officials are understood to in the number of troops. In 1928 Dope that one result of a fresh con- ference may be a Canadian em- there were 68,000 French, 7,400 Bel- gians and 8,000 British, the barge on liquor exports to the Americans having gone home.
After the Locarno agreements the total was again diminished until the strength was 65,000 French, 5,500 Belgians and 6,750 British.
States.
The stiffer sort of Canadian opinion takes the line that it would be an astonishing precedent for a nation from which smuggling According to Dolores own story, Charle Chaplin was practically It is unlikely that the German is condusted to undertake respon- brought up by ber mother. When campaign to obtain a further re-sibility for stopping the practice, Chaplin first joined Fred Kazno's duction of the troops will be auchut the average Canadian will pros famous Mumming Birds," Sister cessful. The German recall now the bably feal that, precedent or no, Mabel danced with him a Mabelle fact that Bistarck, wanting to it la time his country took steps to rid itaulf of the charge of "act- Fourniere. Dolores used the stage be considered a magnanimous name of Dolores Frot. She has statemen, withdrew the German 10 38 st funnel through which illicit goods are poured across the been married three times, the last troops of occupation from France time to an American jam band long before the time stipulated in boundary of a friend and neigh-
bour, conductor who is said to have in the Treaty of Francfortai troduced the saxophone in England. The French recall, however, that When she was dancing at the the indemnity of 6 billion franes Hippodrome in "Jig-Saw," the gold, which at that time was con- door keeper appeared at her dress-sidered stupendous, was paid off ing room to tell her that two men in record time by the French Re-" were outside, one asking for his public, in exactly two years and wife, the other for his missus.' three months
years She had to tell the door keeper that During the x years of inter- she was married to both the gentle-national bickering that preceded -the Dawes plan, the Germans paid She has lived in expensive fats off about ten billion gold marks, and walked the streets penniless. a small part of which was cash, While a Canadian millionaire was and the rest confiscated properties acting as her "daddy," her first and deliveries of raw materials to Steamboats..... #27j zadiv.b
husband appeared, and the three *** 2** 2008 went on a
the Allies. BRY
motor tour, with "daddy
posing as her father. Dolores, a real Bohemian lady of ups and downs, is truly grieved over young Atkinson's death, and especially resents the assertion that
Underwir $9.35 bay..
Thins Te
China Firm Laruanosa...........5285 bay. Hong Kong Fire In... $790 bay. Douglas
Taels RK Tag
Indo-Chinas (Prof)
24.60
24,00
Da (Del.)
23.60
Shall Transports
24.80
Do
99.20
Union Waterbosta...
19.50
Benguete
CANTON COTTON YARN MARKET.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
No. 10 Sailing Vessel
City of Gold
City of Gold
$14 bay.
$50 bay.
$90 nom 95,71 kom.
891) nom. 12) bay. Kailan Mining Admin....71. nom. Tang kata (combined)......Tix. 14 nom.
Do (angle), 9,55 25. Ts. 7 nom.. 8'has. Explorationis, 3 nom. Bhanghai Loans Ranbztoimessard
...$61 bay.
17/6 1020.
Tronch
BK. & K. Wasris.....3154) bay. H.K. & W. Docks .340) 2011 China Providents... bug, &
•iza, 3,05 sol.. Blongkows
buy. Tls. not. m 110 bus
111 sel. & 2.
Ewe Cottons.... Tls. 13.61
13.80 1,
2638 Cottens (old) 20 a."
buy
GIRL FIGHTS - FOR A
REVOLVER.
PAST
2 fellow Bohemian should have LOVER'S QUESTIONS ON HER squandered his money on her," and ended his life when his savings. were gone.
JAVA RICE CROP.
ENDANGERED BY DROUGHT
A girl's startling experience on Barnes Common late at night was described at Mortlake Police Court when Cedric Clarence Noble, aged thirty, an hotel porter, pleaded guilty to assaulting Miss Jeanetle Chahney
a pantry-maid, of St James-place. He was fined £3 and bound over. AN
Miss Cushney said that Noble had
On account of the long drought the rice crop in East Java is in imminent danger. Reports receiv-been courting her for six months. ed from Sourabaya are very die They went for an omaebus ride to quieting, and unless there is, a lot Barnes one night, and walked on of rain in the near future à com plete failure of this year's crop is feared. Much depends on the rain
the common. Noble asked her to tell him her past, and she did, but he did not believe ber. He gave her
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165 bay hoped will be sufficient to prevent made her nose and mouth bleed. CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS |
7 Coda: 1831 buy..
260. Bhanghai Landa.
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New Engineerings
CANTON; Feb. 19th.
Shanghai Docks
*
Per Bale.
Bely
8266
Oriental Cottons,
2 COL
Lotus Bee
250
Do
(now)......Tim. 55
buy.
Peacock
234
No. 19 Fui Kwai
EK
Victory
973
No. 20 Good Harvest
319
H.K. Tramwaj
Ng. Fook
306
Humplareys Estates... 1410 buy, HK Realtior
bay, 20.90
buy
City of Gold
327
• sel, 20, sa. Peak Trams (ald)....$13 L
Man Clock
319
Bo
Globe
299
Star Ferries
Shepherd
208
China Tights
(now) 36,80 mm.
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300
Globe
201
-489
Macao Electrics
432
Sandakan Lighta
454
456
Do. (new).
536
bu bay
Butterfy
No. 6 Lion
189
Lion No. 2
200
Do. (Prof.)....17/0 b97, 18/3 sel. China Segara 31.35 buy, Malabon Bagats 629 buy. Canton Loos
Cements (combined).............. 19f buy.
Do fold)37.50 mom... Do
No. 16 Fui Kwais
No. 32 Pine Deer ...
Double Horse
Cheung Hee
Tin Hoon
No. 42 Fui Nee
H.K. Glectrics (aldi) ......354 buy, & sa..
Do. (new) ...$59) buy.
35 com.
Telephone: (old) in 7.10
o buy.
12/
338 Bingapore Tractions.........
11/6 nom.
CANTON STOCK EXCHANGE.
LATEST QUOTATIONS.
CANTON, Feb. 10th.
$3.85 Electric Light and Power Co. 4,63
H.KA Bopes (old)
Do.
United Asbestos... $50. Dairy Farms 2,$211 pol.
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47:11/32 9/81 1/10 9/32 4.83 7/32
New York
Water Works
Canton-Hankow Railways
0:50 Stoneras
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25.235
·02.65
18.16
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·1/0
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He then took but a revolver pointing it at her, said, “I will do you in and myself as well if you do not tell me the truth.
There was a struggle, and she took the revolver away, but after and
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Police Constable Dillow stated that he heard cries of "Daddy Daddy do help me from Barnes Commcnt. He rushed to the spot, and maw Miss Cushney standing by abush She was crying and bleed- ing from the rose and mouth. Noble said when arrested, "I am the man you want. I assaulted her, and I will kill her."
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Noble, on gabh, said that he offer ed Miss Cushney marriage if the was straight and told him her history. She admitted having asso- ciated with other men, and he It questioned her further, he said something and he hit her. He was villing to marry herself
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