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Sterling
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THE AMERICAN EXPRESS. COMPANY, ING.
Hend Office:
05, BROADWAY, NEW YORK, Capital
Reserve Liability of Pro-
prietors
HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG.
Board of Directors: Hon. Mr. C. G. S. MACKIE,
Agencies and Branches-
HONG KONG TOKOKAK
ALOR STAN
(Malay State) LÕID AMBITUAL JFOR BAKUKOK KARAQUIL
KLANG
Ganeys
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CROSSWORD PUZZLE.
HEAD OFFICE: LONDON,
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„17, 15.80,000,000!
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Paid-up Capital
Reservo Fund
£3,000,000 Surplus Reserven .........£4,000,000
U.S.81,572,545
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11
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...820,000,000
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17
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19
20
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BAIOON
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Benoa Blo
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91
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Chairman,
Hon. Mr. J. J. PATERSON,
Deputy Chairman.
W. H. Bell, Esq. A. H. Compton, Esq. B. Lander Lewis, Esq.
G. Miskin, Esq.
T. E. Poarce, Esq.
J. A. Plummer, Esq.
T. H. R. Shaw, Esq. J. P. Warren, Esq," Chief Manager:
V.M. GRAYBURN, Esq.
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Iloilo Ipoh
Peiping Penang
On "demand
S$44% dia.
481
ON MANILA-On demand.... 471 ON SINGAPORE ;-
Amoy
Ou demand
42%
Bangkok
ON BATAVIA:-On demand. sej
PRONO:-
Batavia
Johare
Bangoon
Bombar
Kobe
Saigon
On demand
Calcutta
Kowloon.
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Canton
Kuala
.San Fran.
cisco
Chefoo
183
1/
Colombo
Dairen Lyons
Arranged, with the initials as wellON
an Suranmea in strict alphabe. tical order.
CLASSIFIED LIST
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AND
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Alphabetical lists of Cable
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List of Agencies held by
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BANQUE FRANCO-CHINOISE POUR LE COMMERCE ET L'INDUSTRIE (Incorporated in France), Prince's Building, Chater Road,' Victoria, Hong Kong.
.HEAD OFFICE:
74, Rus St. Lazare, Paris.
Frs.
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Nido Interlaken Juras Firas Lido
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Capital, fully paid-up .... 60,000,000 Special Working Capital. 50,000,000 THE HO HONG BANK, LTD.A Reserves
22,318,000
BRANCHES-ad
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Paria Lyons HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK.Saigon Haiphong Hanoi.
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Chief Manager, Hong Kong, Jeth July, 1930.
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EQUITABLE EASTERN BANK. ING CORPORATION,
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS-, U.S. 84,700,000.
HEAD OFFICE:
18, PINE STREET.
NEW YORK.
An American Bank offering complots Foreign Hanking Service in the principal Markets of the world. Interest Rates on Application.
This Bank is entirely owned by The
CHASE NATIONAL
NEW HÀNH, Yonx, with Resources orer C.S. $2,600,000,000.
D. M. BIGGAR,
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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 Italiano
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,
THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED,
HEAD OFFICE:--- 15, Gracechurch Street, London, E.C. 3.
Established 1917.)
Hean Oericz :—SINGAPORE. Hoxe Konu Orrıca :---13, Queen's Ru. C.
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$8,000,000 Paid-up
*$4,000,000 Reservo Liabilities of Shareholders,
Surplus
$4,000,000 $2,500,000
Branches, Agencies and Corres pondents in the principal cities of the world.
Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted.
TAN ENG HOOI,
Manager.
BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE. Head Office:
00, Boulevard Hausamana, Paris.
Subscribed Capital Frs.72,000,000.00 Paid-up Capital... Fra.08,400,000,00 Reserve Fund....Fr. 102,000,000.00
BRANOKES: Bangkok Hong Kong Quizhoa Battambang Hue Saigon
Shanghai
Manager.
Authorized Capital Subscribed Capital Paid-up Capital
Mengisz
Noumea
NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL, MAATSCHAPPIJ, N.V.
من
(NETHERLANDS TRADING BOCIETY.)
BANKERS
Established 1824.
£3,000,000 Cantho £1,800,000 Canton Nam Dinh Singapore £1,050,000 Djibouti
Thanhoa
Reserve Fund and Rest....£1,080,815 Fort Bayard Papeete Tientsin.
Batavia
BANKERE!
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MIDLAND BANK, LTD.
HONG KONG OFFICE: 11, QUEEN'S ROAD Bangkok
CENTRAL
Authorised Capital
Bombuy
Calcutta Colombo
Gldra. 150,000,000 Delhi (£12,500,000.) Galle
Paid-Up Capital...Gidra 80,030,000 Hong Kong
(23,669,170.) Howrah
Reserve Fund........Gidrs. 40,016,000 Ipoh
(£3,334,083.) Kandy
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and Waltevreden®43
"There"offces have Bafe Deposit Zion To Lot.
London Bankers:- National Provincial Bank, Ltd. Correspondents all over the world. Banking Business of every descrip-
tion transacted.:
A. STOKKINK,
Acting Manager. Hong Kong, 18th May, 1930.
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THE BANK OF CANTON, LTD.
HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG,
Hong Kong Currency. AUTHORIZED CAPITAL...$11,000,000 8,035,600 PAID-UP CAPITAL. ..... RESERVE FUND 1,100,000
Branches!-- CANTON, SHANGHAI, HANKOW SWATOW, BANGKOK, NEW Your and SAN FRANCISCO, London Bankérst TUE LLOYDS BANK, LAD. Correspondenti".
all Principal Cities of the World Foreign Exchange and Banking Business of every description transacted.
ention.
C. L. BANDES,
Manager.
7, Queen's Road Central,
Hong Kong,tle-April, 1991.
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BANK OF CHINA,
Deorganized October 26, 1928, under special charter of Tho National
Government as an..
Haiphong Peiping Tourane Hankow Paom-Fenh Vĩnh
Pondicherry Yunnanfu
Hanoi
BANKERS:
IN FIANCE: Comptoir Nations! d'Escompte de Paris; Credit Lyonnais; Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas; Crédit Indus- Société trial et Commercial; 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 ta let.
A. LECOT,
Manager.
[32 Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1020.
THE YOKOKAMA SPECIE HANK,
LIMITED.
Capital (ally paid up).
Yon 100,000,000 ....Yen 115,000,000
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE Reserve Fund
BANK.
HEAD OFFICE: YOKOHAMA
Subscribed Capital.....$55,000,000,00 BRANCHES AND AGENCIES AT: Paid-up Capital $24,710,200.00 Alexandria Honolula Rio da Reserva Funds $3,800,503.82 Batavia
HEAD OFFICE:-SHANGHAI,
HONG KONG BRANCH;
4, Queen's Road Central.
Kai Yuen
Berlin
ด้
Bombay
Karschi Kobe
Calcutta
Loudon
Cauton Lyene
Owing to our numerous branches in China and large connections in
We also handle the issue of Bonds
Janeiro Rangoon Bourabaya
Changohun Los Angelas Botarang
Dairen
San Francisco Sealda
·Maalla Shanghal Nagasaki Ehinnoseki (Dalny) Bengilon Nagoya Blogspore (Bukdon) Nowelwang Bydnog
Tientsin
OBAKA
Tokyo Polping Tsingtao
the important commercial centres of Humburg New York the world, wo are able to attend to Hankow our clients special facilities for Harbin domestic and foreign banking and Hong Kong
Interest allowed on Current Ac- exchange
counts.
Deposit received for Fixed Periods at rates to be obtained on application.
H. MORI, Manager. Hong Kong, April 11, 1931.
Safe Deposit Boxes (various sizes) and other Public Funds of the at a Yearly Rental of from $5 to Chiness Government both at home
and abroad, 240,
LOOK POONG SHAN,
£7]
Manager.
SHOU J. CHEN, Manager.
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CLUES.
4. Fresh ones are made in the
act of breaking them. 8.A poor mush (anag). 10.If your this is 8 across, stick
to trousers or long skirts. 12. love to him in these Bullen fits," said the banished duko about Jacques (rev.). 14. It is not for him to serve;
in fact, he refuses to work. 15.-These convey messages, some.
think.
17. A nonsensical versifier. 18.-Stress and doom lurk in this description of a vessel. 21.-Self-starter in words.
22
with down-By the very fact.
with 25 across. These are the enlightened people.
27. Their playtime synchronises with the absence of Gray- malkin.
29. A desert where Saul vainly
searched for, David (rev.). 31.-The press has been called the
fourth of these."
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This to this implics much jumping.. 18-Impudence adheres, they seem
to show. 13-He conducted' a great 38 είνα expedition
across
words). 16-A vestiment, pinched. 17-Mouth of Midlothian. 19-The word in old diplomacy. 20.--Horaco's expression of feel- ing for the mob; with two- thirds of 10 it creates strong- dislike 4.-Samson was invincible in this
state.
20. Feminine tools that become unnecessary if you double their last letter. 27-Never mind, was
a philo. sopher's description. 28.-S60 22 across. 30.-Signs of this are to be seen
in Whitaker's Almanack. 33-Astringent. 34-Two saints are concerned in these honourable letters. The solution will be published to-
32.-Commonly associated with morrow.
the Itchen in anglers' minda. 34,-Grating.
35. A kind of sucession claimed
by several churches. 30-Fun for a terrier, but ig
nominious proceduro, for a politician.
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
AGRICULTURA LM
37.-Vehicles are sure to do thisBT
way.
EOED B
to the traffic if they move this ALES 8 10A8 SMG'A I NAU PIPSAL TITLEMIO EXTOL
Down.
1.-Broken ends are his or her LABINNENT
2.-Idle.
concern.
3.-Chanticleer.
6-Clients of a Dumfriesshire
blacksmith.
GARCIA W GAVERN
OPRIZE INNG NOBLESN NIMB.U 5 LEER GOT ILK
B-A traveller in Yorkshire who 8 TOUROU FLORA is continually meeting one■T■0■SET IMANT from Nottingham.
INHABIT LUNETTE
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7. This is nt the bottom of a avene of ridiculous comma- tion.
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