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General Managers.
· Hongkong, 16th Legust, 1916.
New Consignment of
"KODAKS"
Just unpacked to-day
Inspection Cordially Invited
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(opposite City Hall
METALS
of all kinds, especially for ship building and engineering works, Complete stock, Best terms. Immediate delivery.
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"KODAKS
FILMS & SUNDRIES.
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GENERAL NEWS.
SECOND OLDEST SCHODI.. Mr. Richard Williamson. Low- l'estoft. has been appointed bead- master of Oswestry Grammer School, the oldest school in the kingdom zfter
Winchester. Founded in 1407, the school is mentioned in lasters written by Oliver Cromwell and Charles I.
WASHED LT BY THE SEA, A bottle washed up at South- ampton contains a message writ- ten on an envelope and purport- ing to be an appeal for help from Gustav Hamel, the airman, who was supposed to have mot his death while crossing the Channel from France to England on May 23, 1914, but whose body was
IRISH TERRORISM,
London, Sept. 30.
1920.
“FASHION" IN CAR DESIGNS
THE “EGQ” IDEAL.
Ever since the internal com- bustion engine became a practical
The state of Ireland appears to grow worse daily. À party of pisca, of machinery, to be used police were ambushed at Killoskeehan, Templemare, two policemen and understood by ordinary folk, being killed and one wounded. Many of the inhabitants, fearing it has been the fashion to predict. reprisals, have left Killoskechan. A military patrol was fired on at year by year, standardization, if Dundrum, Tipperary, an officer being seriously wounded, while a not finality of design in all but sergeaut at Cloughjordan, Tipperary, was kidnapped fraza bis the most trival details, says the lodgings at the military court. As regards the murdered policemen at Tine motoring correspondent. Miltown Malby It is reported that six of the Constabulary were faully People have argued, and always murdered with flat-nosed bullets. A volley was fired at a sergeant of will argue, that the results the R.1.C. at Drimafeague. He received five bullets in the chest and of continuous experiment and is dying. His assailunts escaped. In the reprisals at Mallow it is research must be an ever-increas- estimated the damage amounted to two hundred thousand. Twelve ing similarity between all types houses, in addition to the damage reported yesterday morning, were of motors until, within the limits destroyed and fifty damaged. The town folk glowingly tribute the of price and quality, there will efforts of the local police to extinguish the dames, thus saving the not be much more real difference greater part of the town,
between the "Jones" or the "Duval" earthan there is between one egg and another. The truth is the upposite. One might useful. ly invert, the French proverb and say, "Plus c'est la mame chose plus ca change.", There occur from time to time waves of stand- ardization, or rather fashion, and
FRANCE'S REMARKABLE RECOVERY.
Brussels, Sept. 28.
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At de Financial Conference the Frencie delegate. M. Arenal,jone may see a dozen makes of gave a remarkable account of France's present ecosmical situation,ars with a rommon feature. But stating that the Republic, without waiting for the liquidation of her to the writer's thinking we are a rights from the Peace Treaty, at ence started fe institution of good deal farther off the "egg" properties of all kinds destroyed by the war. Over three and a mideal than we were to years ago: millions of acres were put again under ultivation, thus enabling 1920 has separated France to do without half her impartation of foreign wheat and
farther. relieving by so much the world's supply. Due billion sterling was In the course of nearly two: supplied by France's thrifty peasants and workers und was spent in months' wandering over the roads: restoring the devastated districts and work was still proceeding¦ of the kini dəm, I bave had special
<tatement apare. The
was followed with keen interest, all the opportunities of seeing the latest delegates, even the tierman, applauding.Here<
machines in circumstances more jilluminating than those of a Lon- dar showroom or of a learned and diagrammed description in the Press, and I have been struck by | the remarkable variety to be found in the design of new cars. It is not only in lesser details that one Paris, Sept. 27,
the (seea
ovidence of many- According to "Le Petit Parisiens" Brussels correspondent facturers independence of mind, rumours are about respecting the conclusion in the near future of a box in parts which one would military agreement between France and the Netherlands similar to have thought to have really * (the recent Frame-Belgian Treaty. --Harcı
reached a measure of standardiza. tion by now. Take, for example, the question of valve desigo. It there was one subject on which). one imagined the majority of makers ID he unanimous last pear it was the superiority of the overheul valve to the mushroom variety. Yet there seems to be
FRANCE AND HLLAND.
ANOTHER GERMAN WHINE.
Paris, Sept. 271
The chief features of the tierman report seat the delivered to quite as many supporters of the the International Financial Conference at Brussels are known and later as of the former. In fact are causing but a moderate stir for, behind an imposing array of judging by these new cars which) figures, lurks the same old crafty plea to awake pity and eventually I have met on the road. I should! exact revision at the Versailles Treaty under the threat of be inclined to think that the over-i wholesale bankuptcy. This fresh attempt anly shows the necessity head valce is declining in popul-} 9 M. Millerand's jusicting upon the execution of the Peace Treaty-arity. At any rate, what is be Harc...
to
RUSSIA AND POLAND.
Warsaw, Sept. 30.
It is reliably stated that M. Joffe. head of the Bolshevik Peace Delegation, has received instructions to accept all the Polish term however harsh excepting any disbanding of the Red Army,
BARON MATSUI SAILS EAST.
Marseilles, Sept. 201
Euron Matin, the retiring Japanese Ambassador to France -alled For Yokohama aboard the Hamo Maro.
T
CONFIDENCE IN MILLERAND.
Paris, Sept. MS.
Irond doubt is the unflinching| Tropfidence for the moment of
etory maker in the type of his| choira,
Then, again, there is anythingi but unzaimity over the question of detachable versus orthodox i cylinder heads. These are those who talk si the advantages of swift and easy decarbonization, while their rivals of the fixed type tell hair-raising tales of undepend- jable gadgets. the horrors
Di valve grinding. and the (chances of warped heads. Simil.
erly, neither won nor spiral gear final drive seem to have
honours being divided definitely ousted the plain variety, about equally. The three-speed gear- box is gaining in favour, partly, Iperhaps, owing to the increased tegiency and flexibility of modern engines, but mainly on account of the lessened cost of production. Oa this point alone are there any real signs of possible unanimity with the pex: few years on the part of designers. As regards the
Many Councils General, that is Provincial Assemblies, are now sitting in open session and are wiring to M. Millerand their expres-frest of the chassis anything is siopa of entire confidence.-Mores,
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(From Our Own Corresponderd.),
SIR JOHN BUCKSILL
possible, and we may find the strangest reversions to almost forgotten practices and the most advertised and cherished innova- tion fung ruthlessly Over- board.
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Spirit lamps for curling Irons.
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Memta, Benger's Food Ltd. are able to announce that sapplies of Banger's Food should now be readily obtainable throughout India and the Far East.
Should any consumer ind dizienity in obtaining Benger's Food, communications addressed to Benger's Food Ltd., Manchester, England, will receive prompt attention.
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thing with the central fillers. of some absorbent material which Where the tank is carried behind, would bok oil for a long period the dashboard it is nearly certain and keep the springs in a properly that you will find the filler behind lubricated condition. No part of instead of in front of the a motor-car is so systematically Reviewing the new machines windscreen. This means that the neglected as its springs. Their be proper care is a tedious, difcalt, examined since the 1920 models front seat passenger must there is one important criticism.disturbed whenever it is necessary and disagreeable business, and to refill the tank, and it is almos: the result, in 99 cases out of 100, The comfort and convenience of the owner-driver have been certain that petrol will dribble is that they get no attention from ta another. Singapore, October 1.
down during the operation on one year's end. in many instances seriously Sir John Backmill. K.C., Chief Justice of Singapore (formerly disregarded. Engines are by no boards. If the tank is of the gaiter was a step in the right clothes. upholstering, and floor- The introduction of the plain Attorney General of Hongkong) leaves for his new post in India on means sufficiently accessibly Monday.
designed more especially dashboard type, the proper place direction, but only a short one. for the filler is inside the bonnet Gaiters will keep dust away small CZYB. ID 2 number
SOLDIER'S SUICIDE.
Singapore, October 1. Private Cottrel of the Stafford Regiment has committed suicide gever found. The message reads: at Tanglin Barracks by shooting himself with his rifle.
" £5,000 reward. I am in the hands of savages on Cape Verde Island. W. Africa. Please send belp.-Gustav Hamel." The writing has been affected by the
water, and it is difficult to make
HERAPION NO.2 Most of the message is in printed
out the exact date of the message.
HERAPION NO.2
5-CKTURIR FEKCE IN ESCLAPILD
MLISATION D
RUBBER CRISIS.
Singpore, October 1. characters, but the signature is The Perak Chamber of Commerce does not agree in appealing clearly written, and should prove to the Government to help with the rubber difficulties. whether the document is a joke
The auctions showed improvement but later this was not or a genuine message.
maintained.
in
CLTS
of minor points there is shown a 00 the induction side. In the from the bearing surfaces of lack of attention to the needs of majority of cars it would be fixed springs, and, in that, and the the motorist which betrays hasty so bigh up as to preclude ang usual difficulty in removing and design. In this respect
possibility of danger, and in any replacing them, lies the owner's were shaping a good deal better filling would be no greater in bulk them alone "until next time."
case the drippings. from careless principal inducement to leave. before the war.
than the inevitable losses from When one conside, what an To take an example or two the average carburettor.
immensely import azt is atraudon: Why is it that the
Koper Another point that strikes the played by springs f majority of, lower priced cars casual observer unfavourably is and vient hour of have badly stranged oil fillers?the inadequate protecti u afforded a car, it I really astonishin Most of them are much too small, for the springs of most cars, · It | tba! 90 hirle hay making the replenishment of the is true that, at the majority of duns by manufacturers tog engine a slow, wastetol. and case, these are now oased in best out of them, Properly messy business. Where
is gaiters of one type or another, speaking, the spring of a motor- the objection to giving; if necess- but a mere shield of this kind is car sh-utt work in an oil uath, a ary, a vent 4in or6in. in diameter, only one degree better than rigid container being out othe instead of an absurd opening of nothing at all. What is required question. Something on the lines, an inch or two which necessitates is a combination of protector and indicated above suggests itself c the use of a special funnel? "Io Jubricator gafter covering the some new care, it is the same lan inner jacket
made maker,"
progressive S