THEY SAY THAT-
OUR MANILA LETTER.
THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 8. 1919.
The month of March, 1919, was (From Our Chen Correspondent.)
a month of events-ånd so it' must have been the March of events.
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The power of the German War Lords is now superseded by the power of the landlords-They certainly are the all-highest-in rents, at least.
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The only thing left for the tenants to do is to fall into line with the rest of the world, by striking en Woc-The landlords would then not only be up against passive resistance but a massive
Manila, April 4. A loan of G. $10,000,000 by the United States Treasury has been made to the Insular Government which will be secured by an issue of certificates of indebtedness bearing four per cent interest,
DAY BY DAY.
In regard to the Chinese paint. scrapar who was recently found dead at the bottom of a dry dock at Taikoo, the jury yesterday returned a verdict of accidental death.
TO-DAY'S SHARE QUOTATIONS.
8.--BELLEES; BA==SALES; B-BUYERS; N.-NOMINAL.
due in a year, and secured by the telegraphic adrice that the sa. K. & S. Banks s.
The T. K. K. is in receipt of credit of the Philippine Govern-
Nippon Maru ment and
arrived a deposit of silver;
is now held in Yokohama on April 7th, and will coin which the vaults on Corregidor Island.ail for San Francisco from that This Loan will relieve the tension port April 29th. which has been felt in Manila business circles for the past month, due to the shortage of dollar exchange; and demand drafts and telegraphic transfers will be issued at one per cent.
Before Mr. G. X. Orme at the With the housing problem con- and two per cent. respectively.
this afternoon, troversy continually turning up,Owing to the shortage of dollars, Magistracy
resistance.
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Micawber-like, why not sent a caused by large payments extradition proceedings were Douglases request to the Home Government for Liberty Bonds and the instituted by Kuala Lumpur Steamboats to send out a few hundred tanks unfavourable trade balance authorities for the surrender Indos (Prel.) which could be used for flats against the Philippines. Manila vi
Chinese whe was | Indos (Def.) The latter could then christen banks have not been issuing alleged
LO have taken Shella their new residences "Flat Iron drafts within the past week to part in a robbery on the Com-Ferries Villa and other im-press-ive their clients for the payment of mercial Press at Kuala Lumpur as a result of which a large States. Insular Treasury has
Sugars been taking care of this business,quantity of articles of jewellery Malabona Should the declaration made at howover, and has had a record and gold spectacle rims were the Automobile Association meet-demand. ing (that there should be no speed pesos of drafts were bought The assistant Crown Solicitor | Kaituna limit for motor cars in the streets) which meant the retirement of Mr. Leo Longinono) conducted Langkats Combined s become an accomplished, fact, the currency since it was neces-the
while prosecution,
the Raubs pedestrians will glance nervously sary to drawn upon the gold fugitive was represented by Mr. over their shoulders and softly reserve. The Loan negotiated Agassiz. murmur the refrain of a once from the US. Treasury, remedies popular song: "Hush Hush! the situation, however, and with the Commerical Press said that The son of the proprietor of resumption mand for Philippine goods in he was the cashier of the firm. H.K. Wharves b. $123 83, 124/24 American markets the financial The fugitive was employed in his K.Docks
s. 155 x 133 within a short time. situation is expected to right itself firm. The robbery occurrei on Shal Docks b. $197 n. 128
Insular the night of February 14 last and N. Bagineerings b. & ss. $23 the situation is a reversal of the it. Treasury officials point out that he was the first to discover
LANDS, HOTELS and informed his: conditions which obtained two father
AND BUILDINGS. and the Police. ago, when there was a short-Witness identified the jewellery Centrals
b. of pesos with which Ameriwhich was shown to him toget H. K. Hotels can buyers of Philippine goods her with the case in which it was teu-pail their bills in Manila.
situation then called for an ex-atained. The fugitive was in pansion of the circulating medium im employ until Feb.. whep in the Philippines to take care of he left, five days before the increased business.
robbery took place. The last ccasion when he again saw the Mr. W. H. Taylor, of the Manila fugitive was at an identification branch of the International Bank-para le held in the Victoria Gaol Kung Yiks ing Corporation, who has just re- reached a trench called Holborn turned from New York, has begun the 4th instant. Viaduct, via duck boards: and to get into Plug Street without being plugged with a machine bullet, was a thing to be thankful for. Whilst to wander around in the vicinity of Kit and Kat, one needed as many lives as the latter, not to mention the Kitten.
The dose of Peace medicine about to be administered to Germany should permanently cure that country of its disease. But should the
war
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tonic not prove sufficient to do the patient good, then let the Allies forcibly administer
tonics.
During the war it was the fashion on the Western Front to name the trenches after
principal places and thorough
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work on an extensive trade devel- opment and commercial expans- National City Bank of New York. ion programme inaugurated by the which owns a controlling interest of the International Bank. There will be established in the Orient a number of new agencies in addition
The old saying "Every bullet presentatives
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The hearing is proceeding.
HONGKONG TRADE.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE REPORT.
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Green Islands Borazos
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C. Light & P. b. cum rights
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finds a billet" was not the case as "super-consuls ** to report The fortnightly Price Current in France. For to be in billets to the bank and to American and Market Report, published was to be out of range of bullets. manufacturers and exporters. by the Hongkong
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We are now entering upon our rainy season. But, if an adver- tisement we saw in a well-known Hongkong newspaper the other day is any indication, it is also the beginning of the brainy
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That lovely old poem "For men must work and women must weep" was revised to suit the times to For Britons will fight and their women will work"- Yes! And the dirty Hun moaning.
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Some 50 to 100 of the agencies will be established by the bank throughout the world in the course
of this year, entailing an expense continues firm and some forward of $1,000,000. Among the agencies
to be established in the Orient areale were effected for near shit the following Harbin, Mukden, ent during the early part of Tsingtau, Tokjo, Saigon, Bangkok, the interval. Faucie- Colombo.
The National City Unchanged. Cotton.-The latest Bank is a ready operating a branch quotation is 10,11d.
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There was always a rush for the drug store when the naval officers came back from a trip to said Mr. Dominey, the
品 stores manager. who has been with the Borodino for two years. They would clear us out in no time of scented soaps, perfumes, and face creams. Those were the times, too, when there was a rush for the barber, who combined the extra duties of manicurist and chiropodist.
The
average cargo of the Borodino was valued at £200,000, and her stocks were never allowed
to run too low. A special service of trains to the North was utilised to send up goods from the Junior Army and Nary Stores, London, to the Fleet ship. Only on one occasion was the Borodino ever sold out. That was when the American Fleet joined the British at Scapa Flow. They went aboard and cleared the store out of everything, from dried kippers to strawberry jam. two articles of food which only, an American sailor would dare to mix with impunity.
There
are many amusing stories of the Borodino's early days with the, Flees. Everyone regarded the ship as & delight. ful play playground. Card parties were held in No. 2 Hatch and billiard handicaps were fixed up between the officers, who used the Borodine as a rendezvous on Saturday nights when they were at the base. The Borodino's special pride is an electric laun- dry, where the officer's personal washing was done at pre-war prices.
On one occasion the resources of the Borodino were, utilised to
Majesty was on a visit to the and cream for lunch when His supply the King with strawberries
Grand Fleet.
Junior
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UNIVERSAL PROVIDERS,
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Prompt attention given to Orders.
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Tel. No. 2499.
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The latest ard-1, "Chandler "." Hutson" and "Oakland" cars
for hire.
Theatre parties. Pleasure trips."
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Our cars are only driven by experiencst driver, so that all
clients are sure of every safety and comfort.
Large stocks of spare parts and children's "Skudders" De sale. Motor car, launch and cyc's repairing done daily. Call and inspect
CHEAP
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SALE
SWATOW DRAWN WORK, SILK & GRASS LINEN EMBROIDERIES, FILET LACES, COLLARS,
AND MANY OTHER KINDS OF LADIES' FANCY GOODS, Etc., Etc.,, Etc.,
FOR 15 DAYS ONLY, From April 1st. to 15th, 1919.
SWATOW DRAWN WORK CO.,
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PHONE NO. 2850.
TO-DAY'S NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
AMERICAN ASIATIC STEAMSHIP CO.
FOR NEW YORK
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Will be despatched for New York about End of April.
For freight and further particulars, apply to
SHEWAN TOMES & CO.
WANTED.
Agents.
HONGKONG POLO CLUB.
national Banking corporation has reported in our last has con- at Vladivostok, and the Inter- Cotton Yara-The lackness opened
agencies Honolulu and Rangoon,
recently in tinued sud a trifling busine
has transpired. Prices further News of shipments of 75,000 declined, especially in the higher cases of gasoline to the Philip-cunt, Market closes lifeless and pines has resulted in a tumbling a further drop in rates is expect of gasoline prices which have el. Quotation are:-No. Ith at This is an axiom from America: lately been held at a high figure 1922. No. 12- at $202/22. in the Victoria Theatre in new The Dorrors are now appearing "Can the Kaiser "No! I in the Philippines by speculative No. 16 at $213/255. No. 20-songs and dances. The program really don't think he can be, manipulation. Speculators who at 243/265, There is a worm in his head some now stand to face losses. will bales. Sale 1.000 bales. Ship five-part cinema production Army and Navy Stores have
Arrival 10,600 me is a combination of these and
The directors of the where: and the surest way of probably also undergo a government 100 bale, Unsold stock entitled "Loaded Dice". doing the worm a good turn is to ment investigation for alleged 4,000 bale. Bargain 14,000 Keenan's fame as a screen star is ing their gratitude for the work Mr. received over 250 letters express- take of his head. That would profiteering. bring matters to a head very
Bales,
secure. His masterly interpreta- of the Borodine, from officers of satisfactorily.
Members of the Fillippino Inde- Cotton. In the absence of popular wherever motion pictures Jellicoe and Sir David Beatty.
tions have been known and the Grand Fleet. including Lord pendence Mission have arrived intock quotations are Washington, and are scheduled to fuminal. Chine-estaple 4/31.to be one of the best pictures of purely are shown. This picture is said The Purity Movement still be received by the Secretary of Indian descriptions $40/50. swings along joyfully. It has War on Saturday.
his carreer.
It is a drama reached Shanghai now, where, leaves on Sunday for Europe
Woollens-Nothing to report. of remarkable punch, not according to our telegrams, that where he has been called. in
Window Glass Market is melodrama of the usual sort. city is in the grip of vice connection with affairs at the very firn, un account of stock. It deals with food profiteering in the hand of dealers being politics and big business. Unusual of add-vice.
exceedingly light and arrival mat is he who in shaping his An extensive building pro-lew and far between.
life adheres unswervingly to the gramme calling for an outlay of Metal-The market continues God, to whom every thing on earth Sfty-fifty chance that there is no An ancient oath in the East is some 3,000,000 pesos is being doff
and neglected. Many is a gamble and life, death and By the beard of the Prophet": projected by a number of Manila but the modern oath in the West business houses, the new buildings auctioned. The local price ha, gambles of all, who in his game that a SPECIAL EXTRAOR
parcel. of bar have been immortality merely the biggest NOTI E IS HEREBY GIVEN WANTED: Furnished
NOTICE The Annual Gen- ist.
eral Meeting of the Hong- (due to the war) is: "By the beard to be located on Rizal Avenue, receded to $6 10 873 picul. with destiny, stakes everything DINARY GENERAL MEETING Kowloon or Hanzkong. Apply the Club Pavilion, Causeway three Rooms, good locality kong Polo Club will be held at improved and which promises to Chefoo dealers have taken a few on the theory that God is of Members will be held in the Box 139 c/o Hongkong Tele-Bay, at 5,30 pm, Tuesday, April become the principal business thousand kegs of nails of the superstition.
CHAMBER ROOM, CHARTER-graph." While the musical play "Car-street of Manila. A six-storey market at much below
Such a man is Richard Gordon, ED BANK BUILDING, on the stats running in London, structure will be started by the Prices locally are now considered a promoter with nothing to 1UES JAY, 15th instant at 4 the carmen had stopped running, Yangco, Rosenstock Company to be nes: bottom; but holders of while the front he presents to the desirable, pass
promote except his own interest, pm, to consider and if thought through a strike. But many of this year.
the following their places were filled by girls,"
stocks are losing heavily as they world is veneered with a mask of Resolution: who made very charming "car-j
still appear anxions to clear out goodness, underneath is the cheat,
"That it is the desire of the men-ettas.**
TRAMWAY RETURNS. as much as possible.
for this man plays with Loaded merchants of Hongkong that this on the Hongkong C. C. ground There was an interesting match Saltpetre.-1,500 bags. Marke: Dice because he says to win he Colony adopt the sylight Saving last evening, when N. E. Kent met accounts for year endel 31st 2. To pass the report and A little Plymouth flapper,
The following is the approxi-quiet. Export of saltpetre to must do so.
System to the extent of one hour, Yew Man-tsun in the semi-final named May, was so attractive mate statement of the Hongkong Canton is prohibited by the There is but one thing that from 1st May next, until 30th of the Championship Singles. December, 1918. that wherever she went she was Tramway Company's traffic longkong Government.
makes him sometimes-and
eptember next, and t at the The former player was in top form attended by a crowd of "nuts". receipts for the week cuding Flour Market Report.-Stock: philosophy and that is Ross request to introd ce the system sets. Only in the second set did only sometimes-doubt his life's Government be approached with and won easily by three straight A really new version of the old 5th April, 1919 :--
About 250,000 sacks. Quota- Ashton. English country song: "Nuts and
Azaroane cina-Shanghai Flour 2nd,
by putting forward the clock one his opponent show up at all well, May"
Feceipts $2.50 per sack; Australian No.
The strange series of events that hour, at 12 midnight on 30th when he once led by +-1, but Kent This Year... $12,835 $198,360 1 $3.45 per aack; Australian are unfolded in this filza. Besides prove to him that there is a God
'pril."
then came away and won the Germany henceforth will for Last Year:... 12,111 191,670 No. 2, $2.80 per sck; Atist-this film, there is the Pathe's
remaining games. The scores 6,690 alian No. 3, $2.68 per sack.
were 6-1, 6-4, 6-1. Kent will now! meet the runner of the Redmond- Mishima match in the final.
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Gazette and & Comic-altogether a feast in music and pictures. QUÀ
By Order. E. A. M. WILLIAMS,
Her gkong, 8th April, 1-19.
Berretary,
LAWN TENNIS.
15th.
Business
1. The election of Officers for the ensuing year.
3. To discuss any Olab business.
J. H. CONGDON Acling Hon. Sec & Treasurer,
Hongkong Pols (lab, Hongkong, 8th April, 1919.