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This Large Volume of approximate. ly 2,200 Pages gives, in addition to the Usual Lists of Firms, an
Alphabetical Lists of Residents in the Far East containing the Names of nearly
20,000 FOREIGNERS..
Arranged, with the initials as well in Surnames in strict alphabo- tical order.
CLASSIFIED LIST
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.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY
HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI | CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,
BANKING CORPORATION.
Authorised Capitul........880,000,000 Issued Fully Paid-up...820,000,000 Reserve Funda:--
Sterling
................. £8,500,000 Silver...... .......................................$10,000,000
HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG.
Bourd of Directors: Hon. Mr. C. 0. S. MACKIE,
AUSTRALIA AND CHIMA. INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER, 1933.
HEAD OFFICE: LONDON:
13, 1931.
THE AMERICAN EXPRESS „COMPANY, INO,
اگرام
Head Office:
es, BROADWAY, New Yonk.
Amsterdam Cozata
•Edinburgh
riormos
Jeneva
Lakor
CROSSWORD PUZZLE.
&
$
Capital
U.S.$8,000,000
11 11/16
Reserve Liability of Pro-
prietora
........$20,000,000
Paid-up Capital £3,000,00 Surplus Reserve Fund...... Reserve Liability of Pro-.
prietors
£4,000,000 Reserves
U.S.81,379,345) U.S.$1,009,209
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12
...................... £3,000,000
BRANCHES :-
13 14 15
10
17
18
Lanerne Palermo
Agencies and Brancho's: ALOD STAR HONG KONG TONGEAIL
(Many State) (2010
Antwerp
tinopte Engaað
Athens
(Bhuket)
Dute tratin
Hotterdam Home Stamboul
19
20
21
Honte Carlo Bhanghal
26
AUKINNAR IPON
BANGDON”
'Biarritz
DANOKOK KARACHI BAIGON
Babay
ATAVIA
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HLANO
SEMARANG
Bremen
Harana
Manteaux
Bingapore
24
BOMBAY
KUS
BEREMBAN
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MITAD
CALCUTTA
XUALA
BHANGHAI
KANUBAR
KUALA
BOURABAYA
LUMPUR TAIPING
KUCHING
(1.1.8.)
MARHAR
TATOY
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Paria Colombo Loados. Град Copeshares Liverpool · Fuplor
Naples
St. Moril Tintein;
24
24
30
31
32.
Venice
Yokohama Zurich
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W. H. Bell, Esq. A. H. Compton, Esq. B. Lander Lawis, Esq.
G. Miskin, Esq.
T. E. Poarce, Esq. J. A. Pluminer, Esq. T. H. R. Shaw, Esq. JP. Warren, Esq. Chief Manager:
GHAYBURN, Esq.
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Peiping Penang Rangoon
rev
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\'Th. 771 80% dis
47*
Amoy
On demand
41
Bangkok
Ipoh
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Batavia
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Bombay
Кове
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ignor, ON SAIDON:--Ou. demand ON BANGKOK :--
Calcutta
00%
Canton Chefoo
Kowloon Kuala
Saigon Bat Fran-
Сувсо
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Shanghai
On demand ............... 185 SOVEREIGNS, Bank's Buying
Rate
Colombo Dairen
London
Singapore
Lyons
Bourabaya
10%
Foochow
Malacea
Sungei
BAR SILVER, per oz.
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Yokohama
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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.
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened in LOCAL CURRENCY and FIXED DE- PONITA received for one year or shorter periods in LOCAL CURnewer Capital, fully paid-up
Fro.
.... 50,000,000
Manila Houtkamp
Kuntot
Branches of AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY in Principal Cities of United States of America and Canada,
All classes of Commercial Bank- ing Transactions undertaken.
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Personal handled
investment accounta
The Company offers to intending travellers the use of its "Travelers 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.82,500,000,000
C. H. BENSON,
General Manager.
and STERLING on terms which will Special Working Capital, 60,000,000 THE HO HONG BANK, LTD.7
be quoted on application.
Bong Kong, 1st May, 1931.
Reserves
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Hue
92,319,000
BRANCHES :- Paris Lyons Marseilles KONG KONG SAVINGS BANK. Snigon Haiphong Hanvi
Tourane Quinhon THE Business of the above Bank | Thanh-hoayinh Phom Penh THE
is conducted by the HONG Peiping Shanghai Tientsin KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING
Hong Kong CORPORATION. Rules may be ob-
BANKZES: tained on application.
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.
For the HONG KONG & SHANGGAI BANKING CORPORATION, V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Munager. Hong Kong, 16th July, 1930. [2
EQUITABLE EÀSTERN BANK. ING CORPORATION.
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS- U.S. 84,700,000.
HEAD OFFICE:
18, PINE STREET,
NEW YORK.
An American Bank offering complate Foreign Banking Service in the principal Markets of the world. Interest Rates on Application.
This Jank ontirely owned by THE CHANE NATIONAL HARE, New YORK, with Resources over 'U.S. $2,600,000,000.
D. M. BIGGAR,
98]
Manager.
NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL-` MAATSCHAFFIJ, N.V.
(NETHERLANDS TRADING BOCIETY.)
BANKERS
Established 1824..
San Francisco: Bank of Italy,
Every description of Banking and
Exchange Business transseted. 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.
Authorized Capital ..... Subscribed Capital
Paid-up Capital
Established 1017.)
HEAD OFFICE-SINGAPORE. HONG KONG OFFICE:-13, QUEEN' ÏD. C.
Authorcized Capital....Straits $20,000,000 losued
$8,000,000 $1,000,000
$1,000,000 32,523,000 ||
"
#
Paid-up Rosurve Liabilities of
Shareholders.
...
Surplus
Branches, Agencies and Corres pondents in the principal cities of the world.
Every description of Banking and Exchange businces transacted." TAN ENG HOOI,
Manager.
BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE,
Head Office:
06, Boulevard Haussmann, Paris.
Subscribed Capital Frs.72,000,000.00 Paid-up Capital ... Frs.88,400,000,00 licserve Fund....Fra. 102,000,000.00
BRANCHES Bangkok Hong Kong Quinhon 13,000,000 Zantho
Battambang Huo Saigon Mengtur £1,800,000 Canton
Shanghai Nam Dinh Singapore £1,050,000 Djibouti Noumen
Reserve Fund and Rest....£1,668,8-45 Fort Bayard Papseta
Batavia
BANKERS:
CHI BANK OF ENGLAND
and
MIDLAND. BANK, LTD..
HONG KONG OFFICE: 11, QUEEN'S ROAD Bangkok
CENTRAL
Authorised Capital
Bombay
Calcutta Colombo
Gidrs. 150,000,000- Delhi (212,500,000.) Gallo
Paid-Up Capital...Gidrs. 80,030,000 Hong Kong
(£6,009,170.) Howrah Reserve Fund........Ģildre. 40,018,000 Ipoh
(£3,334,583.) Kandy
Head Office-Amsterdam. Eastern Head Office:-Batavia. BRANCHER;-Bandjermals, Bandoang, Bombay,
BRANCHES:
Thanhoa
Tientsin
Haiphong Peiping Tourane
Hankow
Надсі
Paora-Penh Vinh
Pondicherry Yunnanfu
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,
Karachi Mndras Kota Bharu New York Kuala Krai Penang
(Kelantan) Port Louis Kuala Lipis (Mauritius)IN
(Pabang) Rangoon Kuala
Shanghai Lumpur Simla Kuantan Singapore (Pahang) Sourabaya
HONG KONG BRANCH: Every description of Banking and Exchange Business transacted. Travellers Cheques issued. Trustee and Executorships under-
cation.
INTEREST allowed on Current Ac counts and Fixed Deposits at Rates that may be ascertained an appli-
O..L SANDES,
Manager. 7, Queen's Road Central,
Hong Kong, 20th April, 1931.
Calotta, Cheribos, Djember, Djokja Art, The Hagan', JkMan, Koba Kolaadi Hakamar, Kodad, Pa dang, Palembang, Pekoga, Petaken. A Pontianak, Rangoon, Hettar, datamarana", Shanghai, Sibolga (Sumatra) Bingapore, Bob Boerakarta (Bold), Tegal, Tiliatjar, Kad Weltevreden”"", *These flees kore Bafi Deponit Brass Tu Zak,
London Bankers :— National Provincial Bank, Ltd. Correspondente all over the world. Banking Business of every descrip.
tion transacted.
A. STOKKINK,
Manager. Hong Kong, 19th May, 1931. [30
THE BANK OF CANTON, LTD. HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG,
Hong Kong Currency, AUTHORIZED CAPITAL...$11,000,000 PALI-UP CAPITAL RESERVE FUND
L
8,605,000 1,100,000
Branches:- CASTON, SHANGHAI, HANKOW, SWATOW, BANGKOK, NEW Yonk and SAN FRANCISCO, London Bankers :--- THE LLOYDS BANx, LTD. Correspondents
all Principal Cities of the World, Foreign Exchange and Banking Business of overy description Galo Deposit Boxes (various sites) at a Yearly Rental of from $5 to
transacted.
$40.
97]
-LOOK POONG SHAN, : Manager.
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LONDON: The National Provin cial and Union Bank of Eng land, Ltd.; Comptair 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.
Across,
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ULUES.
4
3--What is sold on the field or
exposed on the table. 8-Witter of oblivion. 9-Imbella's brothers cut this with a sharp knife to the bone:" 10-Bottom of vessel, colloquial-
ly rubbish.
11. They asked the old man af Dundee, Does it do this Ho replied, "Yes, it dòca; it'e à ̈ horrible brate, -- 12-They may hold ashes or ten." 13.-A little relation; with the addition of kin you'll get a
bird. 18.—Byron, looking at a famola sculpture, called on these to arise and glut their ire. 19. A flower that opens with a
hint of mendicancy. 22.-Kinemas' and talkies ihreaten.
it.
24-Famous Lancashire cricketer
of the past. 23-Jura is beyond its sound. 26.—Badges that were once officers. 28.-Heavenly twigs.
31,-A bag of this may serve for
A fox.
34-Quantity.
36.A church official.
7.Found in 22 neroes'; menaced
by industrial development,
14. This artloss young thing is now gonewhat of a rarity. 15.-By using your name thus you may make yourself gravely responsible.
15
No more they make a 17.~Comparatively slender,
fiddle-inddle about a
20.
boot or saddle," wrote one of the elder Pitt's critics:
Two brothers made this name fargous to children and philo- logista.
"Methought I was enamour-
od of an wákoned queen.
3-A word which
"aid the
ቢ certain Roman historian would have used appropriately if asked to explain his name, 27.~One of the twelve
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. proximately produces this
restless follow. 20.-Asaign for a special purpose. 30--He who does this requires
íodine.
A strong dislike, such ak Burns might have felt. 33-Infinite.
35.-Tester or tizzy.
The solution will be published to-
37. No land in a 29 of war is morrow.
likely to be this (rev.).
38.-Jezebel's father-in-law..
30-Little Oliver,
unknown.
41.-Repository of oil and vine-
даг.
40.-This. is, speaking briefly, YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
8.0 PO BIFIC|0|0|| 8 ENO MARL HYDRANT ARTICHOKERDI BE ETV EPICURE
NANEAR T-S NËTTLED SHYLOCK Erious ETADAT
42. This is not preferable to what
is adequate.
43.—A Roman governor inquired about it was he joking, E Bacon thought?
Down.
1-Bewildered, upset.
O
NOTWITHSTANDING MEL--ID-L ■ON
A Frenchman finds a home CRARTERREGEDED** of his own here (two words). ▲ 5 ■ KOCHREL "R 4.-Nothing can be more comDISTORT ON|OI
pletely single than this
5.One stage in the fly's life,
6. If you won't take you're importunate.
BOPUNDUTIFUL
this,
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A. BONNAUD,
Manager. Hong Kong, 1st May, 1981.
THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK,
LIMITED, W
Yen 100,000,000
BANK OF CHINA.
Roorganized October 23, 1999, under
special charter of The National Capital (fully paid up)
Government as an INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE Reserve Fund... Yen 115,000,000
BANK
Bubscribed Capital.....$25,000,000,00 Paid-up Capital...824,710,200.00 Reserve Funds. $3,890,603,82 Batavia
Berlin Bombay Kabe.
HEAD OFFICE:--SHANGHAI.
Hosa. Koxd. BRANCH:
4, Queen's Road Central.
Owing to our numerous branches in China and large connections in the important commercial centres of the world, we are able to extend to our clients special facilities for domestic and foreign banking and
...We also
exchange handle the issue of Bonds and other Public Fonds of the Chinese Government both at home and abroad. See det
SHOUT. CHEN, Manager.
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.
ESTABLISHED 1918.
HEAD OFFICE:
10, Des Vœux Road, Central,
HONG KONG.
HEAD OFFICE: YOKOHAMA
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES AT:
Bio Alexandria Homplulu
KAI YUGO Janeiro Karachi Bangoon
Boorabaya
CAPĮTALI AND SURPLUSİ TOTAL RESOURCES ---
San Francisco Beattia
Calculin
Cautos
London
Lyons
Manila Shanghai
Changchun Los Angeles Semarang" Dairon
(Dalny) Nagasaki
Fongtion
Butcocorela
• Nagoya Singapore Mukden) Nowohwang Bydney. Hamburg New York Tiontain-
ankow
Osaka
Tokyo Barbla Peiping Tsingtao Hong Kong
counts
Interest allowed ́op ́ Current Ac-
Deposits received for Fixed Periods at rates to be obtained on application, in VARLAKLA
H. MORI, Manager, Hong Ky, April 11, 1931..
** H. 88,000,000.00/ **** H.$30,000,000.00, Every description of Banking Accounts and Exchange beelnose
transacted.
Current and Fixed Depoalt. Account în Local and Foreign Currencies opened for Client,
Savings Account and Bafe Deposit Boxes. Brancher, and Agencies all over the world.
KAN TONG PO,
d Obief Manager.
Printed and Published by HössRY THIER BARRETT, for tas HONG KONG DAILY PERES, LIMITED, at 11, Ice House Street, Victoria, Hong Kong, London Offices 53. Fleet Street, B.C. 4.
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