NOTICES.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY.
America 1841
Established
Europe 1891.
HEAD OFFICE: NEW YORK CITY.
WORLD WIDE SERVICE.
Exclusive Offices maintained at all principal cities in America.
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Foreign Offices.
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BARS OF GOLD FROM SEA BED.
WORK ON THE LAURENTE.
Londonderry. Aug. 1. The Admiralty salvage steamer Racer, that floating mass of pumps
cables. winches, electrical ma- rbiners, oxygen chambers, and what not, left the Foyle this even. ing after coaling, and warted bark to Lough Swilly to operations four
miles off the Donegal coast, where the wreck The Laurentie Bes 25 fathome doan.
TRAUTE
C. H. BENSON,
MANAGER.
Hongkong.
TO STOP DUELS.
COUET FOR DISPUTES OF
HONOUP.
IS JAPAN GUARDIAN. OF
CHINA?
BRITISH AND AMERICAN;
DIPLOMATS CONFER.
New York, July 28-British and American diplomats met as the state Department yesterday in a conference which, it is believed, will have an important bearing on the differences expects ed to arise over anti-Japanese legislation in California and the efforts of Japan to extend her authority over China,
Those who took part in the conference were Mr. Bainbridge Colby, Secretary of State: Mr. Roland Morris, American Ambassador to Japan; Sir Auek- land Geddes, British Ambassador to the United States; and Sir Bielby Alstrom, British Minister to China, who is on his way to England.
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 16. 1920.
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
THE GREAT NORTHERN TELE-
GRAPH COMPANY, LTD. The following Unclaimed Tele grams are lying here
Palmstag Kremlin from Shang- hai.
American
Linchingkee, from Amoy William, Dupes Transport President Grant co Consulate, from Tokyo..
Dashkoff Pakside Comersial, Company Tobolak, from Vladivos. tock.
Toksinghan from Shanghai. Yuetai, from Shanghai. Starice, from node, Brandenburg Forkwoki, from Vladivostock.
Chengtonchoi, 16 Morrison Hill Road, from Peking.
N. LUND Act. Superintendent, Hongkong, Sept. 8, 192 1
One of the abjects discussed, it is understood, bare directly on EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRAL the maintenance of friendly
AB14 & CHINA TELEGRAPH ĈO. relations between this country
Chapeau Freres, from Djibouti. and Japan. which are likely
Crone care Netherlands Trad- to be affected by the refereduming Society, from Amsterdam.
Crowe Seamen's Institute, from Sidnes.
ita
to be taken in California November on the question of the repeal of legislation that permits Japanese to acquire title to land in that State, and on the anti- Japanese sentiment and legisla
in British Columbia.
tion
| Australia, and New Zealand.
THE 1917 AGREEMENT. The general situation in the
Dallas St. Stephen's College, from Leeds.
Standard. from t'altura. Ursulina, Hongkong Printing Press, from Shanghai.
M. E. F. AIREY.
Superintendent,
Far East, as it affects the in-Hongkong, Sept. 9, 1920. terests of lireat Britain and the United States, was also consider. ed at length.
understood here that fiteat Britain sympathises with the American contention that the Lansing-lahji ugreement entere! anto in 191% did not give Japan hand with respect to China e recognise that Japan was the quanlian of thing in an applica tion of a Far Eastern Monroe kassasyon tarthatcountry,asfamar argues it down."
It is asserted in Washington that the escomeons construction. placed upon it by the Toky
overnment due to fanity translation of the agreement int Japan
WHERE WHISTLING IS FORBIDDEN.
WATER RETURN.
Level and Storage of water .. Reservoirs on Sept. 1, 1920. SITS AND HILL DISTRICT WATER
WORKS LEVEL
1:2
35
3-0 Becom
1 x **
STORAGE, IN MILLIONS AND DECIMALS OF BALLONS.
1200
17.9
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BANKS.
ASIA BANKING CORPORATION
AN AMERICAN BANI
Capital $4,000,000.
Surplus $1,100,000. Head Oflice, New York U.S.A.
BRANCHES
TIENTSIN MANILA HANKOW CANTON CHANGSHA
SHANGHAI PEKING
All Descriptions of banking business transacted. Interest allowed on Current, Savings Accounts and Fixed Deposits in Local Currency, U.S. Dollars, Starling of Francs.
American Bankers Association and Guaranty Trust Com pany of New York Travelers Cheques, sold by us payable throughout the world.
N. E. MULLEN,
THE BANK OF CHINA.
(Specially authorized by Pra sidential Mandate of the Republie of China on the 22nd of Novem- ber, 1917.1
Authorized Capital..$60,000,000,00 Pail up Capital.......
12.279,800.00 Reserve Funds 3,197,400,00
HEAD OFFICE: PEKING
| HONGKONG. BRANCH: 20:21 Concaught Road Central Bran- ches and Sub-branches all over China and Correspondents in San Francisco. Singapore and Tokyo.
Lonion Bankers-The National Provincial and Union Bank of England. Lid.
New
York Bankers Irving Trust Company.
Interest allowed on Current Ac- count and Fixed Deposits. Terms on application.
Every description of Banking
Business transacted.
Kosn
on Krsnied securities.
approved
Special facilities for Home
Exchange.
Interest on Fixed Deposits al the following rates:—
For 3 months 3 per annu For 6 months 4% per annu For 12 months 5% per annum
im8w,
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STORAGE IN MILLIONS AND DECIMALS OF GALLONS.
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA LTD.
AN IRRITATING NOISE”
Acana Guam) June 26. Whistling is prohibited in the guwuON WATERWORKS LEVEL. eity of Akaus under penalty of s hive-dollars fine by order of Capt ain Gilmer, governor of Ginam Several depres including:
and commandant of the United General de Castelnau and the Stres naval station here.. His Abbe Lemire, placed before the order ads: French Chamber recentir a Bilt
The practice of whistling is an the suppression of duels in entirely unnecessary and irritat-
ing noise, which must be di continue:l.
France.
The proposed law will institute) 3 sort of compulsory arbitration court for all sorts of disputes ron regning honour.
It therefore, undered arid (decreed that
shall no peron whistle within the muts of the Duels will be strictly forbidder Leits of Agana.
and duelliste liable to imprison The penalty for a violation of The crew confess that it has ment varying from one month to this order shall be an executive heen a disappointing quest this one year. In the case of one one not to exreed & dollars. season. Practically no bullion the adversaries being killed the Captain Gilmer a absolute bax been secured so far, beyontesponsible duellist would be sent four or five bars, each represent to prison for five years. ing £1,500, pre-war value. But
The propoved Rill also provides the British Admiralty diver is no for severe punishment
pessimist, and the Racer has a seconds.
picked team of 10 divers on board.
big fellows who have walked on
authority in making the laws of Guam, this perhaps being the only Tnited States possession
for thewhere one man has this power.
Reuter.
Agana is the expital of Guam, which is one of the Ladrones
the bottom of many weans. Inundone the work carried out last island in the Pacine. The popu charge are two officer divers who
year.
About 250 tons of metallation of Agana at the last census
hold the record for depth work, bull or deck plates had fallen on was over 6,000 each having gone down the main objective of the divers- fathoms, the most extreme-depth namely, the strongroom. All this at which divers can work, and accumulation had first to be cleared! then only for a few minutes at aaway, which meant that each) time.
separate piece had to be hitched
2
At 25 fathoms. one of the menipio slings, boisted clear of the explained, the work is not so ex-bottom, carried considerablel hausting, but while a man can distance, and dropped into deep
lowered
to this depth in water a tedious business. About less iban half
minute 30 tons of obstruction have still requires half an hour to raise him to be desit with before the gold without risk of collapse. RO
can be reached. gradually must his lungs and blood be brought back to normal
pressure.
Even then the difficulties will not be at an end. for so shapeless At the Laurentic's has the hall become now under depth you can see about 18ft, all the pressure of the water that the found you, except in muddy water, divers can do little more than when you have to content your guess where the stem and where self with seeing about three or the stem lies, and where exactly four feet.
the contents of the strong-room
HIMRODS
Gives Instant Relief
NA METAL WEX TRIM (TOR?«PRIMET Organs may be eaten bz terms whe
ASTHMA, INFLUENZA, NASAL CATARRH, OR ORDINARY COUGH.
- Amamitham tametsa vargar) ↑
■"resentation peres that in Campty
FAKZU TÜR A YEAR Sold in mar by ali khan leza and Store throughout the Coantre,
Bgwine 20 turiyentoze
CURE FOR ASTHMA
A. H. HULLINGSAURIN,
PEAK TRAMWAYS CO., LTD.
บ
TIME TABLE.
WEEK DAYS.
NIGHT CARS,
at 13 3Gp Vers
SATURDAYS.
EXTRA CAR 1200 = $2.8%. SUNDAYS.
27 10 27
12.99 Koma
26
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Every 'IS
NIGHT CARS.
A no Wank Dari SPECIAL CARS.
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IT RAINGEMENT OF THE CARPETTA ATRICI, PLANASERI BELLIDES,
TEEL WI
Conditions of diving have been may be looked for. The strong-YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM
greatly improved in recent years. room itself has collapsed: this is! For once."ou now have proved by the fact that bars of
telephone wire in the tube through gold have been found separately. JUST received a large Consignoient of (1) LACTOGEN the which air is pumped down. It is But, once the base metal is not most digestive food for Infants which keeps in quality during no longer necessary to depend of the way, the Racer's big 18in. Hot Weather: (2) LACTOSE (Milk Sugar) for sweetening the foods. upon signals conveyed by tugging sand pump will do the rest, and of Infants and Dyspeptics: (3) MILFORD-MCGRATH FLUID a rope. You can tell the men on the divers still hope to get the INSECTICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Fleas, Mosquitoes. dock exactly what you want and balance of the
Bags, Flies and all other Insect Pests in Summer days; and (4) Laurentic's bow son feel. Another improve millions above water before the JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA ment has been the sending down end of September. The weather, SOAPS for keeping everything clean in Houses.
PRICES are
of air by electrically-driven so far, has been greatly against
emps, which give absolute stead this year's work. At one period cordially invites Very Moderate. Inspection and Enquiries are
iness of supply.
nothing could be done for a Discussing the causes of this stretch of 10 days, for when the year's disappointing han) of gold, ground swell becomes heavy, the diver explained that when the diving has to be suspended, Racer med operations about owing to the risk of the air-tabe three month ago, the diver found suddenly, receiving an excOSSÍV? that wifirms bad practically strain, and snapping.
Acting Manager.
BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE
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Authored Capital
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# 250,000, bar
150,006, 200
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BRANCHES
11
BANKS
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI
Paid-up Capital Resarva Funds
BANKING CORPORATION.
$15,000,000
£1,300,000
$23,090,000
Sterling...
Silver.
Romero Zinazisty, of Proprietors $13,808.
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LONDON BAKK YES : LONDOVI PAUNTE WESTMINSTER
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N. J. STABB, Chief Manager.
Hongkong. March 1st 1920.
HONGKONG SAVINOS, BANK
THE Businene of the slave luat in condi 33,3 0,000**** HONGKONG AND KHANGWAY BANCIAS.
CORPORATION
Rave Ben Desitalanden opptention. INTEREST za deposits is allowed » 1) Mataḥy Jainasto at 234 per SAZUMĚ For the Rəngləng and Shangaa) kablo Corporatio
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CURRENT Accorey opened saŽ: FIXED DEPOSITS feed
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Zamin deserigars of Bashing and Exchase. Besant dilatates French spabange.
Bonel-. th Ward 1500
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BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE.
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Frazer 43,208,200
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Paid-up Capital ... $2,000,000.00 Reserve Fund
200.000.00
Urdiaited Prents over $400.000
21.
Directors.
When -AY 201 Timot Tho
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J. L. CROCKATT.
Manager. Hongkong. 11th April 1914
BANK OF CANTON
LIMITED.
HEAD OFFICE, HONGKONG
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and
General Banting Business
Transacted.
INTEREST ON FLIED DEPOSITS.
For 3 Months 3% per annum
For 6 Months 4% per annum. For 12 Months 44% per annum.
LOOK POON SHAN.
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Company Satiseni THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK-LTD.
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Capital (fully pasi 271 Reserve Trad
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Ratia
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THE INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK, LIMITED.
Head 0ice: 6. Des Voeux Road, Central, Hankow Branch: Rumise Concion DOMESTIC & FOREIGN BANKING. SERVICE PROMPT, Current, Savings, and Fixed Deposits bear Interest at Rates 2%, 4% 5%, respectively.
J. USING LY, Masager. Hongkong, 7th July, 1919.
MARTIN'S TAM,
APIO & STEEL
GROS PILLS
A french Kemedy for alt frfegularities of Norte's Fille im, the Hecate, in theater.
NEW TORE: J. Mgan & Cn.
Every dates.sting of basking and machangu | Barnow k1190 Kneipean tram Kanted
1 BERISDOAGUE.
Baghear. Cetibar Zzai, 1913
THE MERCANTILE BANK OF
INDIA, LIMITED.
Brad Dc 13. Armerzbarob $1eet, London, C. 1
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BASKERE
The Bank of Engisat.
25.000.000 1.800.000 1,000,000 1.050,00
The Londes Jon21 City & Midland Ban, Lid.
Boobsy Calcutia
Cricbo Delhi Galle
Hooghatt
SEANCHE: —
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BONGLUNG ANCH
Every description or Hasking and Zrebangs borlater 120nvicted.
interers allowed on Current Locount at 2 sez Gem je upam da Dajły Baissant, and on Find Deposita na rates mbich may be asserts; and en speladat.
st. WILBOX.'
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1. Queen's Road Central, Hongtang, 12th December, 1912.
THE CHINESE, MERCHANTS BANK LTD.,
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INTERNATIONAL BANKINO
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CAPITAL AND JURYLUS: Đ.C. TIN UNDIVIDED PROFITS;
U. . $300,00 Owned by the Kuilenak Çidy Bask of New York BLAD OFFICE: SAW TORL
BRANCH,
LONDON: 34 Bishopaguse, S. £. LYDES: 27 Fisce Fuldas SAN FRANCISCO: 232 Westgamerr krast CHINA: Chales. Haskow, Harbin, Bengkong
Peking, Shanghai, Thalsiz, Treglas DOMINICAS REFGALIC: Fozia Fizik, Ea
Pedro de Mavorir, ` Stasher. Suassago Banta Danings.
INDIA: Bombes, Talraila, Rangova. JAPAN: Robe, Tokohama, JAVA: Batavia, Souzaberá | PANAMA: Coins. Fantus.
PHILIPTISE ISLANDS: Cebu, Mazāls.. STRAITS BETTLEMENTS : Singapore.
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AZALIL: Babla. Ferzanbuoy, Ferio Alegre Bagia de Faneity, Bantor, Rue Packs,
CHILE: Säntiago, Taiparsing.
COLUMBIA: Barangalila, Bogota, Medeltia. CURN: HAPIs sod 22 other eision in Canne STALY: Deson,
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