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HONG KONG DAILY
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1931.
HONG KONG AND. SHANGHAI || CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,
BANKING CORPORATION.
Authorised" Capital 850,000,000 Issued & Fully Paid-up...820,000,000 Reserve Funds:---
Sturling CONTA £5,000,000 Silver
...$10,000,000
leservo Liability of Pro-
prietors
HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG
Board of Directors: Hon, Mr. G. G. S. MACKIE,
AUSTRALIA AND OHINA. INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER,
1833.
HEAD OFFICE: LONDON.
Paid-up Capital
-Aganolos and Branchos:- ALOR STAB HONG KONG TONGKAH
((Malay Statoo). FOLLO
THE AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY, ING,
Head Office:
BRANCHEB:-
cleople Lagano
Moreno Marcoline Stamboul
CROSSWORD PUZZLE,
3
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8
0
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£3,000,000 Surplus £4,000,000 Reservea
U.S.20,000,000 U.S.81,672,815
U.S.81,008,209
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prietors
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Palermo.
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Rotterdam Roma
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Genera
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LANGKOK
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st, Holta
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Onlcasts
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Penang
Zurfo
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Copenhagen Liverpool
Pripleg
KAKILA
MEDAN
NEW YORK
PRIFING
FENANG
Manaburi
(Philipplae Luis
Branches of AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY in Principal Cities of United States of America and Canada..
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27
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90
All classes of Commercial Bank- ing Transactions undertaken.
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Chairman, Deputy Chairman. CANTON
Hon. Mr. J. J. Parensos,
W. II. Bell, Esq.
A. H. Compton, Esq. 1. Lander Lewis, Esq.
.G. Miskin, Esq.
T. E. Pearce, Esq.
J. A. Plumer, Esq.
TH. R. Shaw, Esq.
J. P. Warren, Esq. Chief Manageri
V. M. GRAYBURN, Esq.
Peiping
J'oboro Penang
Rangoon Saigon
BRANCHES:
Amoy
· Ipoh
Bangkok
Batavia
Kobe
Bombay
Kowloon
Calcutta
Kunin
Canton
Lumpur
Chefoo
London
Colombo
Lyons
Dairan Malacen
San Fran
cisco Shanghai Singapore Bourabaya Sungai
Patani
Foochow . Manila Haiphong Muar Hamburg (Johore) Tientsin Hankow Mukden Tokyo Harbia Nagasaki Tsingtao Hongkow New York Yokohama Iloilo
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened in
DELHI
HAIPHONG RAMBURG HANKOTY
BARDIN
Worsh
БОИЛАНАТА TAIPING (F.X.8.) ΤΑΤΟΥ TIENTSIN
TOKYO
TSINGTAO YOKOHAMA KAMBOANGA
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking Business transacted.
CURRENT ACCOUNTA opened and FIXED DEPOSIT8 received for one year or shorter periods at rates which will be quoted on applica tion.
A. II. FERGUSON, Manager. Hong Kong, 18th March, 1931.
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BANQUE FRANCO-CHINOISE POUR LE COMMERCE ET L'INDUSTRIE (Incorporated in France). Prince's Building, Chater Road, Victoria, Hong Kong..
[[EAD OFFICE:
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Frs.
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The Company offers to intending travellers the use of itsTravelers' Cheques" and Letters of Credit and, in addition, the world wide services of its thoroughly equipped Travel Department.
Affiliated with
THE CHASE NATIONAL BANK Resources Over G.$2,500,000,000
C. H. HENSON,
General Manager.
shorter periods in LOCAL CURRENCY Special Working Capital. 50,000,000 THE HO HONG BANK, LTD..
pared to give Subscribers and and STERLING on terms which will Reserves
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Hong Kong, 29th Feb., 1931,
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Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 10th July, 1930.
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EQUITABLE. EASTERN BANK- .ING CORPORATION.
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS- U.S. $4,000,000. HEAD OFFICE:
18, PINE STREET,
NEW YORK.
$9.00 An American Bank offering completo. .$18.00
Foreign Banking Service in the principal Markets of the world. Interes: Rates on Application,
11, Ice House Street.
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REGULAR AND FAST PASSENGER SERVICES
FREIGHT AND
LONDON SERVICE, D "ANCHISES"
"PERSEUS"
21st Apr., For Port Said, Marseilles, Londos,
Rotterdam and Hamburg. 28th Apr For Port Said, Mara, Casablanca,
London, Botterdam and Hamburg,
LIVERPOOL SERVICE.
*TEIRESIAS
*ELPENOR"
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Liverpool and Glasgow. 20th May, For Port Said, Gents, Herre,
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For
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All cargu atsamers with limited passanger accommodation
at specially reduced fares.
Ter freight, pange rates and information apply to the andormentioned....
All bookings are subject to the provisions of the Company's Hills of Lading.
Butterfield & Swire,
Agenta.
This Bank is entirely owned by T
CHABE NATIONAL SANK, New Yoпx, whose Total Resources
BIO V.B. $2,800,000,000.
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D. M. BIGGAR,
22,310,000
Marscilica
1.
Pnom Penh Tientain
BRANCHES :- Paris Lyons Saigon Haiphong Hanoi Tourane Quinhon Huo Thanh hoa Vinh Peiping Shanghai
Hong Kong
BANKERS: France: Société Générale, Banque Nationale de Crédit Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas London: Midland Bank, Ltd. New York: American Exchange Irving Trust Co., Banca Com- merciale Italiana.
San Francisco: Bank of Italy,
Every description of Banking and
Exchange Business transacted. Correspondents throughout the
World.
A. ROLLIN,
Manager.
Hong Kong, 1st July, 1929.
Established 1917.)
HEAD OFFICE SINGAPORE. HONG KONG Orrick :-13, Queen's Ru. C.
Authorcised Capital....Straits $20,000,000 Jornod
M $3,000,000 Paid-up
$4,000,000
Reserva Liabilities of
Shareholders
Surplus
Branches, Agencies and Corres pondents in the principal cities of the world.
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34
CLUES.
Across 0-Paeudonym. " 8.--Like the deaf and dumb
alphabet-full of signs. 8-Then may be exist in the
mind, or in A Buddhist temple.
33
13-His father was probably a
Negro,
15-Unit of electrionl resistance. 10.-When I became engaged with
this ginnt, I turn him into an old master. 18.-Unit of porridge.
10-A King of Naples whom we 0-Spirit-like on the whole,
uraet in 10..
11.-Entice.
12-Rises in the spring. 13.-Victorian parents were said
to be this.
14.-The name of many a. Pope, 17.-Don't trip over the first part when you the second part the door in this English town, 10.-A great ecmmotion. 23.-Upset a public vas
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though part of it is rent kangh.
21.-A genus of fishes that is only half fish. The remainder gives solace to many a man. 22.-This alloys pain.
24-A fiddling affair, when all'e
aaid and done, 25.-Mournful.
27.-An accident in front of a 28-Make safe.
coop, may take place
20,--Embowered in a bower.
30.-Small bird of the parrot
tribe, 31.-Deny.
20. Joined. Reverso it, and it is
unjojned.
Take a letter away and it will follow. The solution will be published to- morrow.
SATURDAY'S SOLUTION.
32. Taking more water with it is 84,000,000 $2,626,000 one way to do this.
33.-Ridiculous. 34-Names that will never, die: ATTORNEY GENERAL
Nelson and Wellington, Chid-NONIMENE REN don),
PREFACE ANAEM I A EN TANG DOETH FGBORAG this giant, I turn him into an AI NÖTTERMEKTE handle.
Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted. TAN ENG HOOI,
Manager,
BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE. Head Office;
00, Boulevard Haussmann, Paris.
THE MERCANTILE BANK OF Subscribed Capital Fra.72,000,000.00
INDIA, LIMITED.
HEAD OFFICE:-
15, Gracechurch Street, London, E.C. a
Authorized Capital Subscribed Capital Manuger. Paid-up Capital
NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL- MAATSCHAPPIJ, N.V.
(NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY.)
BANKERS
Established 1824.
HONG KONG OFFICE: 11, QUEEN'S ROAD
CENTRAL
Authorised Capital |
Gidra. 150,000,000-
Paid-up Capital ... Fra.68,400,000.00 Reserve Fund Fr. 102,000,000.00 | |
BRANCHES : Bangkok Hong Kong Quinhou Battambang Hue Saigon £3,000,000 Canthe Mengtsz Shanghai Nam Dinh Singapore Noumea Throlioa
£1,800,000 Canton £1,050,000 Djibouti
Reserve Fund and Reat....£1,046,500 Fort Bayard Papocto Tientsin
Batavia
BANKEDS:
THE BANK OF ENOLAND
and MIDLAND BANK, LTD.
BRANCHES:
Karachi Madras Bangkot Kota Bharu New York Bombay Kunta Krai Penang Calcutia (Kelantan) Port Louis Colombo Kuala Lipis (Mauritius)
(Pahang) Rangoon Kuala Shanghai
Delhi Galle
- (£12,500,000:) Hong Kong
Paid-Up Capital..Gldra. 80,030,000- Howrah
(EB,669,170) Ipoh Reserve Fund........Gidra. 40,018,000 Kandy
(£3,354,583.)
Head Office-Amsterdam. Eastern Head Office:-Batavia.- BRANGUEN:-Randjermada, Bandoers", Bombay, Calcatta, beribon, Djember, Djakju- karta The Hive, ddib, Hebe Kola ladja, Makassar, Medan, - Pa
Lumpur Simle Kuantan Singapore
(Pahang) Sourabaya
HONG KONG BRANCH: Every description of Banking and Exchange Business transacted, Travellers Cheques issued. Trustee and Executorships under- taken.
daag, Faliber anon, Roller-counts and Fixed Deposits at Rates INTEREST allowed on Current Ac
Bang
dam”, Bamaring*, Shanghal; Bibolga
(Sumatra), Singaporn. Boerbak that may be ascertained on appli- NosTakarta (Sal), Tegal, Tylatia cation.
- and Weltevrodra®,
"Khris quines kovo Baf's Depäsit Dama Te Zat»
London Bankere:- National Provincial Bank, Lid:
Correspondents all over the world.. Banking Business of every descrip-
tion transacted.
A. STOKKINK,
Acting Manager. Hong Kong, 18th May, 1930. [30
THE BANK OF CANTON, LTD.
HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG.
O. L. SANDES,
Manager.
7, Queen's Road Central,
Hong Kong, 12th Mar, 1031.'.
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BANK OF CHINA.
Reorganized October 20, 1928, under special charter of The National Government as an
Haiphong Peiping Tourane
Hankow
Hanoi
From-Peah Vinh Pondicherry Yunnanfu
BANKERS:
IN FRANCE: Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paria; Credit Lyonnais; Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas; Crédit Indus- trial et Commercial; Société Générale.
IN LONDON: The National Provin cial and Union Bank of Eng- land, Ltd.; Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris; Crédit Lyonnais.
IN NEW YORK: J. P. Morgan &
Co. French-American Banking: Corporation; Guaranty Trusty Co., of New York Interest allowed on Current Ac- counts and Fixed Deposits accord- ing to arrangement.
Every description of Banking and Exchange Business transacted.
Safe Deposit Boxes to let.
Manager. Hong-Kong,-2nd-May-1929 (82~
A. LECOT,
THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK,
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE Reserye Fund Yen 115,000,000
BANK..
Down.
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2.You may enjoy this in your
garden for two years.
GANDEES SILE 8.X A
UTIIV
3. The cross-word has rather GRINDER BELLONA
knocked this out..
IN BABIDR T
4. This, like modern whiskey, CATTY TB ALIBI
lacks spirit.
5.Inckneyed adjective describ-A ENANTHENO
ing a glade.
LURCHER TYPHOON
6.-Mad and dangerous, 7.-This is among the very large COMMONPLACEBOOK IOWATELICT cities of the world.
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Send a Chit to 11, Ice House Street,
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Six months
$ 4.50
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Twelve months
$18.00
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.
ESTABLISHED 1918; -
HEAD
AD OFFICE
10, Des Voeux Road, Central,
HONG KONG
LIMITED
Capital (fully paid
up)
Yen 100,000,000
HELD OFFICE: YOKOHAMA
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES AT:
Kai Yueo Alexandria Honolulu Bio de
CAPITALS AND SURPLUS] --- TOTAL RESOURCES ...
Berlin Bombay
Karachi Kobe,
Janeiro" Rangoon
Boorabaya
Calentia London
San Francisco Seattle
Ebangini
Subscribed Capital... $25,000,000,00 Hong Kong Currency. Paid-up Capital.........824,710,200.00
Reserve Funds. $3,890,503.89 Batavi
Authorized CAPITAL.....$11,000,000 PAID-UP CAPITAL... 8,605,500 BRARIVE FUND ......................
1,100,000
Branches:-
CANTON, SHANGHAI, HANKOW, SWATOW, BANGKOK, NEW Yonk and SAN FRANCISCO, London Bankers:- THE LLOYDA BANK, LTD. Correspondentr
alf Principal Cities of the World, Foreign Exchange and Banking Business of every description transected.
Safe Deposit Boxen (various sizes) at a Yearly Rental of from 35 to
40.!
LOOK POONG SHAN,
Manager."
HEAD OFFICE:--SHANGHAI,
HoзO KONG BRANCH:
4. Queen's Road Central:
Cauton Lyons
Changchan Los Angeles Bemarang
Dairon
(Dainy)
(Mukden)
Manila
Nugaraki himonosoki Nagoya Singapore Newchwang Sydney New York Tientsin Osaka
· Tokya
Tsingtao
Owing to our numerous branches in China and large connections in Bengtion, the important commonrcial centres of Hamburg the world, wo are able to extend to Hankow our clients, special facilities for Harbin Polping, domestic and foreign banking and Hong Kong exchange♫***
We also handle the issue of Bonds and other Public Funds of the Chinese Government both at home and abroad.
SHOU J: CHEN, Manager.
Interest allowed on: Current Ab- counts..
Deposits received for Fixed Periods at rates to be obtained on application.REFACE ANT
H. MORI, Manager. Hong Kong, April 11, 1931,
Peu
OVER H. 88,000,000.00 ....OTIX H.830,000,000.00 Every description of Banking Assounts and Exchange business imasseted.
Current and Fixed Deposit Accounts in Local and Forelgu. Currencies opened for Cliente.
Barings Account and Safe Deposit Boxes. Branches and Agencies all over the world.
KAN TONG PO,
Chief Manager,
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