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AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY.
America 1811
Established
Europe 1891.
HEAD OFFICE:- NEW YORK CITY.
WORLD WIDE SERVICE.
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RIO DE JANERIO HAVANA MONTEVIDEO. WARSAW
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Advice on Packing. Shipping Routes, Foreign Custom
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Issuance et Drafts, Money Orders, Travelers Cheques, and
Letters of Credit.
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Dellars.
Commercial. Time and Savings Deposits received in local
currency. Pounds Sterling, United States Franca. Peso. Tael and Yen currencies.
YOUR ACCOUNT IS INVITED.
C. H. BENSON,
MANAGER.
Hongkong.
THE HONGKONG TELEG
WIRELESS SECRETS THAT
· LEAK OUT.
REMEDY POSSIBLE SOON.
The enormous advance recently mada in wiralssa talography and
baa brought thei telephony Marconi Company face to face with the great wireless problem of the future--haw to keep messages private.
to
"At present there is nothing with A prevent anybody wireless set, worth only a few pounds, from listening to mos- | sages which may be of the most private nature,” said an official of the company to a Daily Chronicle, | representativa,
"Of course, there are various tricks which may be employed. One which was used a great deal during the war consists of chang- ing the wave-lengths during a
message.
ONLY A TRICK.
If one starts off with a 600 metre wavelength, and, after a few words alters it to a 1,000- metre length, the listener is lost. Such methods, however, are only tricks.
UNCLAIMED
THE GREAT NORTHERN TELE-
'GRAPH' COMPANY, LTD."
The following Unclaimed Tele- grama ars lying here >=;
Dasbkaff, from Vladivostock: Focksangloang, from Shanghai. Takainghang, from Shanghai. Total, from Shanghai. Brandenburg Jarkwski,, from Vladistock.
- Ngginkwee, from Amoy,
265, from Shanghai. Kober, from Shangbai. Tamlaan Causeway Bay, from Shanghai.
N. LUND.
Act. Buperintenden Hongkong, Sept. 23, 1923
EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRAL- ASIA & CHINA TELEGRAP 1 CO.
Daisy, from London. Kavarana, from Bombay.
M. E. F. AIREY.
Superintendent.
What in wanted is a definite method of preventing messages from being overheard by unau- Hoogkong, Sept. 23, 1920. thorised persons. We ATE now conducting experiments to this end, and before long something. may be perfected.
Speaking with regard to the latest wirelasa marvel, the am- plifying apparatus, which will
WATER RETURN.
Level and Storagṣ of water
shortly make it possible for Reservoirs on Sept. 1.1920. ordinary telephone subscribers
to speak through their inst-CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER ments on to a wireless wave.
and thus communicate with ani asroplane passenger, the Daily Chromite informant said that in; theory this was already quite Teen le possible.
MUFFLED WORDS.
"In practice," he added. ' there are a number of little mechanical difficulties which have to be overcome. One of the principal of these is the amount distor tion which takes place an a land
Wire."
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"It is not generally known that | Wapachas that there is far less distortion by Faham ma a wireless telephone than by the Lordinary Type and distance makes no difference at allin this respect,
THREAT TO PROHIBITION N1 that the success of local veto that mufling which is so sx29-
THE U.S.A.
LOTAL OPTION AS A SAFETY VALVE
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BANKS.
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BRANCHES:
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All Descriptions of banking business transactad Interest allowed on Current, Savings Accounts and Fixed Deposits in Local Currenos, U.S. Dollars, Sterling or Francs. American Bankers Association and Guaranty Trust Company of New York Travellers Cheques sold by us, Payable throughout the world.
N. E. MULLEN,
Acting Manager.
THE BANK OF CHINA.
(Specially authorized by Pre- sidential Mandate of the Republic
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of China on the 22nd of Novembribed Capitul ber, 1917)
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Interest allowed on Current Ac- counts and Fixed Deposits. -Terms en application.
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For instance, a long distance telephonic message sent by wire- less is weaker than one sent over
· Cobrymptina yr) 2. J a shorier distance, but the words are just as clear. You do not get Asp at see th3 kad 150
KOWLOON WATERWORKS LEVEL. valves"
ajperating on a land wire. ་་
1130 "There is no doubt, however, Lovism the success of universal prohibition with no that these difficulties will be
safety valves.”
overcome before long, for the Will experience justify the as-new methods are being developed These develop- sumption? That is a profoundly vary rapidly. interesting question. The answar! monts are all due to the wonderful will shape policy and influence thermionic.valve, without which action far beyond the borders silong distance telephony would not
be possible." the State.
The decision of the finited States Supreme Court declaring the Prohibition Amendment to the Federal Constitution and the
At present the answer is not Volstead Enforcement Act to be clear and prediction is impossible. constitutional and valid is rather So far as the answer is indicated the begining than the end of at all the signs are not favourable.
reaction In chapter. Signs of a
the first place, following! against nation-wide probibition upon the ratification of!
constitutional amendment. are sccumulating. An article in the
established national Monthly Note, the organ of the wbich
came A Temperanca Legislation League, prohibition.
State places in an interesting light plebiscite which gave a consider- some recent symptoms of the able majority for the sale of four trand of feeling in Massachusetts. per
beers. This was The substitution of a uniform followed by the enactment of a system of coercion for that play law (vetoed by the Governor of local opinion and feeling, which the State, pending the decision local option allows, threatens to of the Supreme Court) permitting result, not indeed in a repeal of the sale of 2.75 per cent. leers.
cens.
option votes (raken despite the fact that national prohibition was the law of the land) have given remarkable resuits.
prohibition, but in a modification Meantime, the annual local of the Enforcement by a vote of Congress which will permit the
ale of light beers and wines.
In Massachusetts the latest local option polls show significant results.
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General Manager:
10,5 1,100
Suden Barthele 5. J Paznokio
BRED OFFICE:
24, Rua JalavZajkro, PARK
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& PARK'S BANK, LIMITSIN
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N. J. STABE. E Chief Manager
Hongkong, March 1st, 1928.
HONGKONG SAVINGS BANE
TRE Buaian of the shove bush jo anauhat 59 186 HONGKOSO AND BHANGMAT SANCTUM. CORPORATION.
Mules may be obláčard un appbration, INTEREST »n, deposit in alleend 'an th Minimum monthly Valkosnt at 134 por sus maje For the Hunghong and Shanghai. „Makin (Carpatskira.
N. J. STABB,
Chief Manage
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND
CHINA. ..
Troutpotashed by Masak Charles TRAF
|PATO-EP CAPITAL
REBRNUR FUND.
RESTATE LIABILITY OF
PROPRIETOR
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CURRENT ACEDENTE 1999nd sad PIEM DEPOSITI Pe+Bud Tay 1 year or sharbat
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TELIGRAPHIC ADDRERA
CUBANKIND"
Iterest om murrent konvmata_aed Fized
approved | Douise 30 Terni Cutronen und in Bold. Saras
Special facilities for Home
Exchange...
Interest on Fixed Deposits at the following rates:—
For 3 months 3% per annum For 6 months 4% per annuro For 12 months 5% per annom
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en opalestina.
Kvara deseription'a' Staking and Brez ka Je
Bread familitlen for French vishange.
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BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE;
(PRISON TASL)
Eved Offro; 13 bia Reu takie, Pain,
Fra 49, 100, 305
15:2
Loves
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Manager.Capital...
Reserve
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150#
BRANCHER AND AGISCHER
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA LTD. |
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A. H. HOLLINGSWORTH.
Waver Authorita
PEAK TRAMWAYS CO., LTD.
TIME TABLE. WEEK DAYS.
Evert 15 a
NIGHT CARS.
156 y
"Everybody'
950
100 y m. 120 pm.
11.30 p.m. Avery
Blood Periber.":
SATURDAYS.
SUNDAYS.
SAVARESSES! SANTAL CAPSULES
The "city" polls in December.j 1918, and the "town" polis (in) Massachusetts, the article the spring of 1919. increased the quoted points out, has provided, aggregate State majority for for forty years, a good field for licence by 15,714. Thirty-one accessful experiments in local "towns" (ie. townships) chang- option, but the line between "no ed from no-licence to licence licence" and "licence" areas has, the result of the polls and onls subject to occasional and tempor-three went the other way. In ary Buctuations. been clear and the following December (1919)) fixed. It has been, broadly speak-eighteen of the nineteen ing, an urban and industrial line. licence cities" changed The larger cities have voted for licence, while in the spring of PHYSICŁA licence as persistently as most of this year, 103 no-licence." towns" the rural townships have voted changed to licence. and mix} for "no licence." Before the -enactment of Federal prohibition,
no- to
licence "towns" to no-licence. "
The results were unprecedent-
there seemed little prospect of ed. Places which had never
EXTRA FAR 12:dargah
Jan 3 3
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to 6.40 7. m.
.m. to 30.
1.10 p.m
NIGHT CARS.
SPECIAL CARS.
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JT SKRINGEMENT AT THE COMPANY'S MIKA, CLATURAZA BEYED1959. DBA AREA. Read v1
previously rated for licence gave YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM
sati-prohibition majorities.
change in this respect. As the Secretary of the Society which
What does it mean? Only the organised the "no licence" Caro- paigns in the State put it some future can say. That it indicates Fears ago in an official report: a reaction against complete and The 'no licence' places are be-leompulsory prohibition deem
and in clear. Whether the reaction is a
coming more solid, a is imtre and tempora, ons, or one that will
more firmly entrenched."
enture and develop into propor This was the problem which tions which will compel & modi Federal prohibition had (and has fication of the law, remains to h to meet. In the chief centres of seen. The one thing that is cleai The Stafe its task was, and in, to is that the nations of Europe accomplish by legal coercion ) must wait before they can hop (upon the prospects and merits to gather trustworthy guidano of which the people chiedy con- from America's great experimen cerned, had not been directly in national prohibition. Mear consblied) what free election and while, everything should be don sutonomous powers had failed to to liberate the forces of progres achieves. Is had also to assume in this and in other lands.
JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestive folk for Infants which keeps good in quality during Hot Weather: (2) EACTOSE (Wilk Sukar) for sweetsning the foods of Infants and Dyspeptics; (3) MILFORD-M¿GRATH FLUID Fleas, Mosquitoes,
HEAD OFFICE ——
No. 2. Queen's Road Central, Paid-up Capitel... $2,000,000,00 Reserve Fund 200,000,00
Undivided Proßts over $400,000
Directors.
Ma. Pong Man Tits, ChairmIS.
X- Nanmen
V: Frbine
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BASIZES.
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J. L. CROCKATT.
Manager.
Hongkong, 11th April, 1974'
BANK OF CANTON LIMITED,
HEAD OFFICE, HONGROFO
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking Busine Traźnacted,
INTEREST ON FIXED DEPOSITS.
For 3 Months 3% per annum.
For 6 Mentha 4% per sunpa For 12 Months 41% per annu
LOOK POON SHAN.
Chief Manager".
IN FRANCE: Comptoir Kniesis facom THE YOKOHAMA SPECTE BANK LT
de Paris: Credit Lyscanda; howeve
de Paret der Parken; Credit Jadamise et Commerc) Beverse
Gavarr
Ettuzte 12000
7.1. DR. JOS
IN LONDON: The Nationa) Provincial and? Capital (raize paid up) -
Time Bish at Coriand Lxt. Cam pisis Neljanai d'Kasomate de Paris, Credi
Reserve Fas
J. 50.900.0õe
-EEAD OFFICE, KORŊMAMA",
Broguhri sud å ginele ers Kai Furn
IN NEW TORX: 3. P. Morgan (4) Co
Tapeters on Cerval Ärerokie nad
Macaris Fred Deporte sço«rding...to arrangement. | Mr Kas Tɛng Po, Er L. Bone Chos 23 Mak Thing Kong.
Entry Seretiption of braking zað virkates | Miugud kynse burlacu waze. 3 Mr Wong Tan Tong, Mr. Fast Png Shoa 2. P. 2. KWA.
Ka
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Caset Manager:-Kan Tong Pa 294. Ams Manigiri-La Tas Tang. Bra.
Porgy description of Kaaba cai tinkange Leake framed as (approved sengrition
fateness allowed on Currvas Deposit Arceus19 at the rate of 2 per VERT. Det skrum 433 on Fraud Deponita at the (allowing tutan ze
For 3 months at the rate of 5 % per sa For menthe ad the rate of A 2% per aADAN
Toy Lê months on the rate of 5 % per assom.
KAN TING TO.
Skier Manager. Bangbang. Ternary 13th, 1
THE INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK, LIMITED.
Head Offier: 6, Des Vorm Road, Central Hankow Brasch; Butrian Concestion.
| DOMESTIC & FOREIGN BANKING.
SERVICE PROMPT. Current, Savings, and Fixed Deposits bear Interest at Rates 2% 4% 5%, respectively.
J. USING LY. Hongkong, 7th July, 1919.
MARTIN'S -PIOL & STEEL
INSECTICIDE the Best Fluid for destroy samen des and A, a Lake PILLS
JORN CABILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything clean in Houses
YASCRS are Very Moderate. Inspection and Enquiries" am
cordially invited."
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41
SHIUFUNG TAI & Co.
Sole Agence for Hongkong and Sould
47 and 48 Connaught Rosi Central, Hongk ng.
Telephone No. 1239
ATrenchs Remedy for si'irregularitim "Tinerende at kádian shetys karp & i
APIOL
1. WKRIYPosats.
Fourring. Getobe: Zirt, INES.
THE MERCANTILE BANK OF
INDIA, LIMITED.
Hand Dev 19, Cimerinish tre, Londen, C. L
Authorized Capital Saktershed Capital Pud Dy Capsat Reserve Foed
FAXXXES
The Bank of England.
1.05F DOW 1.050,860
The London Jose City & Midland Ban Lio.
FRAICHEF:-
Bonne
Sweetie
Calamba
Der's;
Galle
Hongkong
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Kazbeki Issa Bhara Kuala LumU JETOS Madras
New Tark Fenang Rasgow Shanghai Port Louis (Mauritius) Bingkporn
HONG KONG BRANCH.
Every devasiption of Banking sad Isukkage SOLETKETS TERREBALANS. ·
Internet allowed en Current Acaounist 2 p *ent per Rakam do Daily Balanews, and 'on Tiani Deports as roses which may be ascertained
By Biscaturas ve
KAWILSON, (keting Manager
7. Queen's Evert Crusini. Hongkong, 12UB DecembÉS, INUR.
THE CHIFUSE WERCHANTS BAIK., LTD..
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Sine Ax gelas - Battle Tres Dals Practies Mahdan · Bossvaki
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Markty
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Thesmisla rousivation Ezná pucính Doanšen, · De obtained en appliantžų,
3. KASKINETEEN
Henrich, • k. Kaptumber, 1929,
INTERNATIONAL BANKING
CORPORATION.
CAPITAL USE BERFEES 2 (V. 3. BIF CULPONG CSDIUIDIÐ SKUTKIMU
Owjid by the Xustová) City Pouk at Zar Yost. - REAL OFFICE; - SEU TORE. BRANCHED 1
LONDON: 36 Bitbangata 1. C
LUX 77 Pinez Tuition* BAN FRANGIB00: 22 KopijuİTY Berat CHINA: Cassim. Baslev, Martin, Mangion
FORE, TÜMga), Tientsia, Za
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Fadro de Simeris, Jaovies" Dan heb Haute Domingoding INDIA: Bemner, Balastin, Tripson, JAZAN: Bake. Tekukama DATA :., Batavin, foursbags, PARLISA ; CAMME. FINEPING PHILIPPINE ISLANTAS, TAPES MERATIO SETTLEMENTS 45
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