NOTICE
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.
ENGINEERS & LAUNCH BUILDERS
MARINE MOTORS OF ALL POWERS IN STOCK:
Works:-Pootang, Shanghai.
Bole Agencies:-Starling & Evinrude Motorg Makers-
"EWO" Motors
associated British Machine Tool
Makers Ltd. --
A.B.C. Boller Snamel.
Roxine Lid, (Leather-cloth)
Edgar Allen & Co. Ltd.,
(Tool Steels 20.)
"Sareo" Steam Traps, Temp rature
Regulators &c.
Linotype & Machinery Ltd. Pulsomater Engineering Co., Ltd T. & W. Smith Ltd (Wire Ropes). Imperial Light LDE.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
EARLIER SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
(From Our Own Correspondents.)
TROUBLE ON CHRISTMAS ISLAND.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1919.
Singapore, December 22, News has been received in Singapore of what were apparently serious riots at Christmas Island. The news comes in a message from a passing ship, wirelessed to Darwin and then to Singapore, with a request for help and medical stores. The Islander is due in a few days at Singapore and steps will be taken to send her back with assistance:-
THE PRICE OF STRAITS RICE.
Singapore, December 22. In view of recent rumours it is officially stated that the Gor- erament does not intend to make any alteration in the price of rice on the 1st. prox.
NOTICES.
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J. ULLMANN & CO.
We sell most of our
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basis.
FRENCH FIRM, ESTABLISHED 1850.
Wagive to our custo1z;
the advantage of
the high exchange
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"Bee Brand "' Manufacturers of
Biscuits & Candies
HEAD OFFICE-Nos. 02-109 Queen's Road, Central, Hongkong, FACTORYNos. 141-145, Wanchai Road, Hongkong, BRANCHES. Monila, Singapore, Shanghai & Canton, China.
CZECHS GOING HOME.
Shanghai, December 22. The steamer Trasos Montes, the ex-German liner Bulow, is here from Vladivostok with two thousand Czechs going to Prague. They are parading here on Tuesday morning and Allied ladies are entertaining them on Wednesday,
GENERAL GAIDA AT SHANGHAI
Shanghai, December 22.
General Gaida is giving a farewell dinner to-night to Chinese officials and Colonel Emerson is attending.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
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THE PEACE TREATY.
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Paris, Dec. 17. The Supreme Council will meet again on Wednesday o draw up a reply to Germany, containing a decision regarding the German observations on the handing over of the harbour material demanded. This doubtless will be the last note to Germany before the exchange of ratifications. This is expected possibly before Christmas, almost surely before New Year-Havas.
The important French papers in leading articles make an eloquent appeal to the United States to ratify. the Peace Treaty before Christmas-Haves.
Paris, Dec. 18.
The impression in Paris circles continues to prevail that negotiations will soon end with agreement, which will permit the signing of the protocol, thus settling, the Scapa Flow question. Judging from the declarations of German representatives it is foreseer that arrangements concerning measures for the transmission of powers in territories to be evacuated can be rapidly concluded Thus no obstacle will remain for the exchange of ratifica- tions which will mark the entrance of the Treaty into force.-Havas.
ELECTRICITY IN TIN MINING.
London, Dec. 19.
With the object of arousing greater interest in the problem of the application of electrical power to tin † mining, Messrs. D. M. Hutchinson and W. J. Wayte sub- mitted a joint paper before the Institution of Electrical Engineers on electricity in tiamining in the Malay States. The paper pointed out that the European owned minės employed the maximum of machinery and the minimum of labour, while the Chinese owned mines employed the maximum of labour and minimum of machinery. The mines under Chinese management in 1918 produced about seventy per cent.of the total output.and as there were under half a dozen electrally driven Chinese mining plants. there should be great scope for the electrical engineer in the immediate future.
ANGLO-FRENCH ECONOMIC AGREEMENT.
Paris, Dec. 17.
An official statement issued from M. Clemenceau's abinet concerning the economic and financial agree- ments reached in London states that with a view to remedying the exchange crisis harmful to both countries the British Government agreed to the issue of a French loan in England. The system of coal export licenses should be continued for a few days to permit further study of the question-Havas.
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A world-wide system of wire- The Vatican is planning for the less weather reports from and to restoration of Catholicism in Asia
The gigantic wall which the ships at sea is in course of organ. Minor and northern Africa, from Dutch are building across the en-ization by the British Admiralty which regions it disappeared dur trance to the Zuyder Zee will be The cost of living in Japan hasing the centuries of Moslem 18 miles long and 230 feet wide increased tenfold since 1887, growth.
at sea level
while wages have advanced four- A soldier who lately returned A glass for X-ray photography fold.
to America wore a bronze medal has been, invented in Europe Negroes in St. Louis, Mo., are which he won as the champion which absorbs only from 10 to 15 planning to establish a co-opera-doughnut consumer of the A. É. F. per cent of the rays, permitting tive department store to be His record was 249 crullers, in 24 much sharper pictures to be made operated exclusively by and for hours. than heretofore.
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The earth travels more than More than 75,000 babies in the Washington was once nick- half a billion miles in a year. United States die yearly before named the Stepfather of bis Bengal is the plice where the they are a month old.
Country."
loriginal bungalows were built..
Heavens ! How Old Does Tag Think Crandpa is?
THE MAN WHO
DISCOVERED AMERICA
WAS NAMED CURSTOPHER
COLUMBUS —ITE-ETG
ETC
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