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May 8, 1931. ON LONDON:-
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YOKOHAMA -
Deputy Chairman,
W. H. Bell, Esq. A. H. Compton, Esq.
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667
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This Large Volume of approximate- ly 2,200 Pages gives, in addition Lo the Usual Lists of Firms," an Alphabetical Lists of Residents in the Far East containing the Namas of nearly
20,000 FOREIGNERS.
Ön demand ................
ON MANILA-On demand.... 471 ON SINGAPORE:-
On demand.gonom 42% ON BATAVIA:-On demand. seg
HAIPHONG:
Arranged, with the initials as wellON as Surnames in strict alphabo-1 tical order.
On demand
ON BALGON: On demand
Bombay Kobn
Sterling
Silver.
£6,500,000 ...............$10,000,000
1113/16
months' *
Reserve Liability of Pro
prietors
......$20,000,000
1/07/16
............... 1/0 0/16
HEAD OFFICE: Howa Koso.
ALOR STAK
Board of Directora: Hon. Mr. C. G. S. MACKIE..
BANGKOK
KARACHI
Chairman.
ATAVIA
KLANG
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1931.
HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI | CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,
BANKING CORPORATION,
Authorised Capital $50,000,000 Issued & Fully Paid-up...$20,000,000 Reserve Funds:-
AUSTRALIA AND CHINA, INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTED,
1853,
HEAD OFFICE: LONDON. Paid-up Capital ................................. Reserva Fund Resorvo Liability of Pro
prietors...
Agencies and Branches:-
HONG HOND TONGKAH
HANGOON BATOON
(Malay Stata) (DGILO AMRITSAR 11011
THE AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY, INO.
Babay Kromen.
Marolles Stamboul
Monte Carlo Shanghai
Manila Hanish
1
3
7
*
10
Head Office:
05, BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
Capital, £3,000,000 Surplus £4,000,000 Reserves
11
1
마
12
13
U.9.20,000,000
14
10
10
17
U.S.81,579,545
U.S.$1,003,200
18
19
20
21
32
£3,000,000
BLANCHES
23
Kera
(Dhaket)
Genera
Glenba
Lucerne Ametite Constan. Autwap Athens Bagle Barlin Hinerler
Palermo
Linepla Lugano Notterdam
25
Edinbare LAIKOT
20
27
Ду
.30
Boalfamp.
Glasgow
Loa
BEMAHANG
Zara
Hentraux
Bingapore
Hon. Mr. J. J. PATERSON.
UOMBAT DALOUTTA
1042
BERLEBAN
Bemisala
Hamburg
Milan
CANTON
KUALA
KANGBAB
BITANDILAT SINGAPORE
Dunes Alres MATKY
Naples
St. Morice Tiantada,
Deird
Internkon
1100
САРЕГОЛЕ CKBU
KUALA
BOURADAYA
Calestia
YDRA Venice
2
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38
34
AN
LUMPUR
TAIPING
Салде
Ludo
COLOMBO
KUULLEND
DAIREN
MADRAS
(F.M.3.) TAVOT
Colombo
Londan
Paris Peper
Tokoha
Zurich
41
$3
++
Copenhagen Liverpool Teploy
MANILA
HATIENG KANDURG HAKKOW HARBIN (North
MEDAN
TIENTSIN TOKYO
Branches of AMERICAN EXPRESS
13
47
NEW YORK
FLIPINO
PENAJO
TSINGTAO TOKOLLAMA
ZAMBOANGA
COMPANY in Principal Cities of United States of America and Canada:
44
49
60.
Manthuria)
51
12
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54:
55
67
68
CLASSIFIED LIST
or
MERCHANTS,
AND
MANUFACTURERS.
for the whole of the Far East arranged, with addresses, in alphabetical order.
Alphabetical lists of Cable
Addresses
List of Agencies' held by
Far Eastern firms.
LARGE EDITION
SMALL EDITION
$12 *** $8
J. P. Warren, Esq. Chief, Manager:
V. M. GRAYBURN, Esq.
TL, 774
dis.
BRANCHES- Amoy
Iloilo Bangkok Ipoh Batavia Johore
Peiping Pennng Rangoon
Calcutta
Canton
Kowloon Kuala
ON BANGKOK¡—
Cheloo
On demand SOVEREIONE, Bauk'a Buying
183/
Colombo
Lumpur London
Saigon San Fran-
cisco Shanghai
Dairen Lyonz
Rate BAR SILVER, per oz......
1/07
Foochow Malaces
Singapore: Sourabaya Sungei
13)
Haiphong Manila
Patani
LOCAL MAPS
Peak District,
Kowloon,
Victoria,
New Territories.
| HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.
DON'T LEAVE HONG KONG
to your
without giving an Order for the Weekly Preis to be Bent Address for THREE MONTHS SIX MONTHS
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, Ltd., TWELVE MONTHS
11, Ice House Street,
Hong Kong.
THE
$4.50
$9.00
$18.00
11. Ice House Street.
BLUE FUNNE
LINE
/REGULAR AND FAST PASSENGER · SERVICES |
FREIGHT AND
LONDON SERVICE.
." AENEAS"
"CALCHAS"
12th May, For Port Sait, Marsoilles, London, Rotterdam, 'burg. & Glasgow, 28th May, For Port Said, Mar, Casablancs,
London, Rotterdam and Hamburg.
· LIVERPOOL SERVICE.
20th May, For Port Said, Genoa, Havre, ELPENOR"
Liverpool and Glasgow. 2nd June, For Port Said, Havre,
Liverpool and Glasgow,
*TAESKUS “
PACIFIC SERVIOE (via KOBE & YOKOHAMA) ~PROTESILAUB" 29th May, For Victoria, Vancouver Besttis. 27th Jane, For Victoria, Vancouver Seattle. "IXION"
INWARD SERVIOR.
Due "THESEUS" 9th May, For Shanghai & Hankow, "DIOMED 18th May, For B'hai, Moji, Kobe & Y'hams, "MERIONES" 2nd May, For S'hai, Moji, Kobo & X'hans,
All cargo steamers with limited piamangur socommodation
at specially reduced fares.
Var Kreight, pasange rates and information apply to the un termostioned.
„Allkonklogy are azbject to the provisions of the Company'ı' Billa of Lading.
Butterfield & Swire,
Agata
Hamburg Muar Tientsin Hankow (Johore) Tokyo Harbin
Hongkew
Mukden Tsingtao
New York Yokohama
(Filippine
andmade)
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking Business transacted.
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for one year or shorter periods at rates which will be quoted oa applica-
tion.
A. H. 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.
HEAD OFFICE:
74, Rue St. Lazare, Paris.
Frs,
:
All classes of Commercial Bank. ing Transactions undertaken..
Personal investment account. handled.
The Company offers to intending travellers the use of its Traveleri 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.8%,500,000,000
C. H. BENSON,
General Manager.
Across
CLUES.
To do this to Martin Tupper'a works would not be a fuera- tivo venture, 11.-Animate.
12-Frenchmien are not, as
L
WC
are, prone to this kind of prejudice.
14-This would shortly have, you
know.
15.A title without one. 36-Latin poets relied for in- spiration on this bahana plant (rev.)
17. See 42 across.
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened in LOCAL CURRENCY and FIXED DE-. POSITS received for one year or shorter periods in LOCAL CURRENCY Capital, fully paid-up .... 50,000,000 and STERLING on terms which will Special Working Capital. 50,000,000 THE HO HONG BANK, LTD:2] 23-Found in front of battle-
be quoted on application.
Hong Kong, 1st May, 1931. [20
Reserves Tarkeshadrinaren 20,310,000
5 BRANCHES :-
Paris Lyona
Marseilles
Established 1917.)
HEAD OFFICE :-SINGAPORE. Hong Kong OFFICE :—13, QUEEN's RD. C.
Pnom Penh Tientsin
Authorcised Capital....Straits $20,000,000 Lesuad
$8,000,000 Paid-up.
$4,000,000
$4,000,000 $2,520,000
**
"
HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK. Saigon Haiphong Hanoi
* |Tourane Quinhon Hue THE Business of the above Bank Thanh-hoaVinh
HONG Feiping 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,
KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. Rules may bo ob- tained on application.
For the HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, V. M, GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 16th July, 1830. [2
EQUITABLE EASTERN BANK ING CORPORATION.
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS-
U.S. 84,700,000, HEAD OFFICE:
JE, PINE STREET,
NEW YORK.
An American Bank offering complete Foreign Banking Borvico In the principal Markets of the world. Interest Rates on Application.
This Bank is entirely owned by Tus CHASE NATIONAL BANK, NEW Tonk. with Resources over U.S. $2,600,003,000.
23]
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.Q. 3
D. M. BIGGAR,“
Authorized Capital Manager. Subscribed Capital
NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL. MAATSCHAPPIJ, NV,
(NETHERLANDS THADING SOCIETY.)
BANKERS
Established 1824.
Paid-up Capital
Reserve Liabilities of
Shareholders
Surplus
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:
06, Boulevard Haussmano, Paris.
Subscribed Capital Frs.72,000,000.00 Paid-up Capital... Fr8.08,400,000.00 Reserve Fund ....Frx.102,000,000.00
www
BRANCHES: Bangkok Hong Kong Quinhon Battambang Huo * Saigon £3,000,000 antho Mengtaz Shanghai
£1,800,000 Canton Nam Dinh. Singapore £1,050,000 Djibouti Noumen Thanhos Tientsin Reserve Fund and Rest....£1,033,845 Fort Bayard Papeete
Haiphong Peiping Tourine Hankow Prom-Tenh Vinh
Pondicherry Yunnanfu
Batavia
BANKETS:
THE BANK OF ENGLAND
MIDLAND BANK, LTD.
HONG KONG OFFICE: 11, queen's adAD Bangkok
CENTRAL
Authorised Capital
*PA | Boring
Calcutta Colombo
Gidrs. 150,000,000 Delki (£12,500,000.) Galle
Paid-Up Capital...Gldra. 80,030,000 Hong Kong Reserve Fund
(£6,089,170.) Howrah Glers. 40,015,000 Inch
(£3,334,633) Kandy
Head Office:—Amsterdam.". Eastern Head Office:-Batavia. BRANGUES---Bandjermada, Bandoeng, Bombay,
Calonita, Oberibos, Djember, Dlakja karte, The Hague, Jiddah, Kabe, Bota-Hadja. Makamac, Medan, Pa dang, Palembang, Pekalongan, Yo mar, Porilanak," Baugoon," Rotter deu, Sumurang, Shanghal, Sibolgs (Sumatrs), Hingapore, Soorata
and
BRANCHES:
Karachi Madras Kota Bharu New York
Kuala Krai Penang
(Kelantan) Port Louis Kuala Lipis (Mauritius) (Pahang) Rangoon Kuala Shanghai Lumpur Simila Kuantan Singapore (Pahang) Sourabaya
HONG KONG BRANCH: Every description of Banking and Exchange Business transacted. Travellers Choques issued. Trustee and Executorships under- taken.
INTEREST allowed on Current Ac counts and Fixed Deposits at Rates Boerakarta (Solo), Tegal, Taip that may be ascertained on appli-
and Walterreden”
| j“Theye"affuz kuer Jafe Deposit Bonie Ja Lot,
London Bankera:- National Provincial Bank, Ltd. Correspondents all over the world. Banking Business of every descrip.
tion transacted,
A. STOKKINK,
Acting Manager. Hong Kong, 16th May, 1900. [30
THE BANK OF CANTON, LTD.
HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG.
Hong Kong Currency. AUTHORIZED CAPITAL...$11,000,000.
PAID-UP CAPITAL ...... RESERVE FUND
Branches:
8,605,600 1,100,000
CANTON, SHANGHAI, HANKOW, SWATOW, BANGKOK, NEW Yonk and SAN FRANCISCO. London Bankers:~
THE LLOYDA BANK, LTD......
Correspondents
all Principal Cities of the World. Foreign Exchange and Banking Business of every description transacted.
Sate Deposit Boxes (various sizes) at a Yearly Rental of from 5 to 840.
LOOK POONG SHAN. Manager
9714
cation.
O. L. SANDES,
Manager. 7, Queen's Road Central,
Hong Kong, th April, 1931.
[20
BANK OF OHWA.
Reorganized October 26, 1928, under special charter of The National. Government as an INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE
BANK.
Subscribed Capital......$25,000,000.00 Paid-up Capital.824,710,900.00 Reserve Funds ....
$3,820,503.02
HEAD OFFICE:-SHANGHAI.
HONG KONG BRANCHE: 4-Queen's Road Central. "
Hanoi
*BANKERS!
IN FRANCE: Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris; 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 Lyonnsia.
5
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,
DA, RONNAUD,
Manager. Hong Kong, 1st May, 1931.
132
THE YOKOHAMA' SPECIE BANK,
LIMITED.
1.
| Capital (fully paid up).
Yen 100,000,000 Reserve Fund
Yen 115,000,000
HEAD. OFFICE: YOKOHAMA,
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES AT Alexandría Batavia Berlin Bombay
Honolulu
Karachi
Bio do
Kai Yuen
Janeiro '
Rangoon
Hoorabsys
San Francisco Seattle
Kobe
Calcutta London
Canton. Lyons
Changchun Los Angeles Samarang Dolron
Manila
Shanghai (Dalny) Nagasaki Shimanoszh Fongilon Nagoya Singapore (Mukden) Nowchwang Bydney:
Owing to our numerous branches in China and large connections in the important commercial centres of Homburg New York the world, we are able to extend to Hankow Osaka: our clients special facilities for Harbin 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, ka
SHOU J. CHEN, Manager.
•
Ticatsin! Tokyo Poiplag Tsingtao
Interest allowed on Current Aci counts.
Deposits received for Fixed Periods at rates to be obtained on application/id
H. MORI, Manager, Hong Kong, April 11, 1931,
351
15 and 22 across.-A neologism, or
A tanner has to be. 20.-Set up, reconcile (rev.).
ships. 24,-See 40,
23 and 25 across.-Retrogressive
peculiarities of language. 20.-Btate of a bill after com-
mitter, 20-Mésalliance between geomo
try and art
30.-Primevn). Jorrocks,
31 and 3 across." Merry and tragica tedious and brief!. That is es
and wonderous strange snow." 33 and 42 across-A word and
of another deplorably used to describe an article which you may decide not to pur chase atter all. 38.-Reverse.
41.-Second part of the lark's
song and of Sir Lancelot's. 42 (with 17 neross)-Test. 44,Whichever way you try, your.... car just won't get in here.
45. Give me another order, and add 38 across to me, and I'll be silent..
46 (with 2 rev.)-A musical.
nightpiece in Venice. 47,-His son looked for his don
keys and found a kingdom. 48 and 10 down-Zante once was, 50.-Watch the conductor for this. 51.-Little in the same place. 52-Loan that Antony asked for
from his countrymen. B3.-Ruled Rome for three months. 54. Small kind of tart or small
5 down.
:
55.-Cowper describes
squirrel
as exhibiting "all the protti- ness of feigned — 36. What the Tyrian trader did (oddly enough) to his corded bales on the Spanish bench. 67.-Often lost at Becher's Brook. 58.-0 down is.
Down.
2 and 31 down-You cannot tell people this sort of thing,
5--This and this last will givə
you ideas on political econo my.
6. William in Ireland; Mr. O'-
Flaherty and Mr. Cosgrav are successors of his, 7.-Unpleasant characteristic
sometimce attributed youth or 'uffice. 8.-Fellow, especially if queer,
(rov.).
10
9.-Mako things this and you'll
create a stir.
10-Uand in n.punning motto by the owners of Chatsworth and their kin. 11.-School seems to begin un
necessarily often 113 this flower.
13.-She thought her grand. mother had unusually large features.
10 and 35 down.-Pressure along.
these lines is equal. 21.-£95.
26-A weekday follows it once a 22.A game with rouge,
year."
27.-What the rustio moralist in the Elegy was taught to do. 34-See 1 down, 38.-See 19 down.
on their 34" A book of ----
pillow lay; which once,' quoth Forrest, almost changed my mind." 37-Duncan suid. there was no this to find the mind's con- struction in the face.
.
44
39.
Ples of the leadet hawker (two words),
30.-One of two ornamenta an. ciently, supposed to be orn- cular.
:
10-A notorious Russian with something left out where it ought to put in. 42-A hot drink containing
bunch of epppers. 43.-Not required, 4-Spunkern sometimes do this
to one who defies them. 30.-Sic.
The solution will be published on Monday.
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
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CALF BOIPLE POO E■ 1 STRIKERE BAPSEN ELEAL
STORMTOSSED
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ILLUMINATISI KLOEN FÜR HP 12 AK ESTATES ET O 3.-Obsolete singular form of a TESTH_C_D_GRID projection (rev.) which may TAPOSTOLIC■■I stenithily drop.
2. Adam's profitable loss,
4.-An American fruit which ERRONE■M■■A
won the Derby for a king..
RATTANG TSEG.N.OC
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.
ESTABLISHED 1918,
HEAD OFFICE:
10, Des Voeux Road, Central,
HONG KONG,
CAPITALI AND SUEPLUS} .... ** OVER H. 88,000,000,00 TUTAL RESOURCES A ... orix H.830,000,000.00 Every description of Banking Accounts and Exchange businsaa transacted.
Current and Fixed Deposit Accounts In Local and Foreign Currencies opened for Clients,
Bavings Account and dafr Deposit Boxo Branches and Agencies all over the world.
KAN TONG PO,
Chief Manager.
Printed and Published by ROBERT TYLER Bangert for the HONG KONG DAILY Parss, Limited, at 11, Ice House Strest, Victoria, Hong Kong, London Office, 13, Plant Street, E.C..44