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SAFETY FIRST
"Safety First and take
no risks." We impress
this on all our Chauffeurs.
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MAKE SURE of a good car and a good chauffeur.
INSIST on your car being hired from us. Then you can enjoy your drive.
"SAFETY FIRST; TAKE NO RISKS."
THE
DRAGON MOTOR CAR
COMPANY
(THE EUROPEAN GARAGE)
ORGANISED TERROR.
German Socialist Analyses Bolshevik Conditions,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
NEW DIESEL ENGINE.
NOTICE.
We have this day established ourselves as general merchanka, with offices at Prince's Buildings
R. D. WILKS & CO Hongkong, 26th October, 1922.
THE CHINA SPECIE BANK LTD.
HEAD OFFICE :
St George's Building. Hongkong. Chairman of Board of Directors
Mr. Wong Shiu Ham Chief Manager... Mr. L. S. Holam Asst. Manager... Mr. E. T. Wong
Foreign exchange and general banking business transacted,
Current Savings, and Fired deposits best interests at rates 24% and 5% respectivaly.
L. S. HOLUM
Chief ManagET.
EXCHANGE.
Opening Rate : closing Rate
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1920.
ROYAL HONGKONG VACHT W. S. BAILEY
CLUB
NOTICE TO YACHT OWNERS Yacht owners are requested to submit the names of their Yachts to the undersigned for the pur- pose of registration and classi Seation not later than October 31st.
་
D. K. BLAIR,
Lowe. Bingham & Matthews Hongkong. 20th October, 1920.
NOTICE.
THE BRITISH COMMON- WEALTH INSURANCE
CO., LTD. (lucorporated in England)
& CO., LTD.,
ENGINEERS & SHIP- BUILDERS, HOK UN KOWLOON.
HARBOUR FEPAIRS Call Flag" 1"
Sole Agents for KELVIN MOTORS."
Motors from 12 B.H.F. to 50 B.H.P. now in stock also spare parts.
Works
Manager...
Secretary
Tel. K21.
.K.329.
→
+
K369: K.33.
Harbour Engicear... Telegrams "SEYBOURNE“
LESSONS IN CHINESE.
NE LIDES FAN & CLinese graduate, veted farmature, has been a trajane te European
T#92% 39ATA
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HAVING been appointed Fire Agents in Hongkong. Canton, Macau.and Swatow by the above named Company we are prepared sad meresants in this budday tot uwez to issur Policies at current rates.
UNION TRADING CO.
Prince's Buildings.. Hongkong, 23rd October, 1920.
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The
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Shaw language are reparted to waith DAN IN Vuren i Kad, Cratral d
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When you want to buy
WATCHES, DIAMONDS AND
on Page I
SELLING.
T/T
3/10
Demand
3/1024
TEL.
30 dis
3:108
-482
482
60 d/s
3/10
AND
24 DES VELA' ROAD CENTRAL
4.m/s
3/10
AS2
3552
3552
F/T Shanghai
Nom
T/T Singapore.
15516
T/T Japan
131
T/T India.
No.
Demand, Indis
Nom.
Mr. Chas M. Schwab's Claims.
TT San Francisco Į
6631
& New York.j
2122
Nom 10.30
BUTING
4/1
4/134
63
Nom.
10.90
J.
34. Queen's Road.
11.10
A report from New York gives some particulars of the new type of Diesel engine which, we are told, is
revolutionise the
Co
IT Java T/T Marks I/T Francs Demand. Paris
Herr Dittmann, writing in the Freiheit on conditions in Russia under the beading "The Truth about Russia,” 1455-~
Socialism and Communism do ocean-carrying trade of the + m/s. 1/C not exist among the Russixa world. Mr. Charles M. Schwab,] 4 m/s. DIP pessants, who constitute three of the Bethlehem Steel Com- 6 m/s. L/C fourths of the whole population.pany of America is stated to 30 ds. Sydney andĮ Moreover, at the outbreak of the have anounced that bis firm
- Melbourne perfected Bolshevist revolution the urban has
A two-cycle 30 d/s. San Francis population was not ripe and not marine Diesel engine that pro- ca&New York! fitted for self-government, either duces the same horse-power as a 4 m/s. Marks ..... economically or politically, in four-cycle engine twice its size, 4 m/s. France the Socialist sense of the word. and effects a saving of two-thirds The Bolshevists could only of the fuel expense, as compared Demand, Germany. establish their dictatorship on with a steamdrivenoil-fired vessel Demand, New York 6559 the inertness and ignorance of The new engine," he is reportT/T Bombay the Russian people. Organised to bave said, "reprosents a Demand, Bombay
6 m/s Francs.......................
ed terror is responsible for greater advance over oil-burning T/T Caleutia
Som.
Nom
13H
Noma.
55
5.10 Nom.
193 victims between June 15 and steamships than do the latter Demand, Calcutta ... -- July -15 of this -Fear,fover coal-fired steamships The Os Fokohama not
The counting
people engineering-shops of the world in Demand, Manila 142-Nom. shot dead
Govern which marine engines are built Demand, Singapore. 165 by ment orders without being tried by are already full of orders for On Haiphong
Free motor-driven vessels, or motors On Saigon the revolutionary courts.
are to be On Bangkok dom of the Fress, of combination, for vessels which and of public meeting and per converted. It is stated that one Sovereign somal Heedom are as good as firm of British owners, which has Gold leaf per Taol... 38.40 abolished for other than Com- | already a number of such vessels, Bar Silver, ready...
aunista The elections to Soviet ia haring half a dozen more buil
fork ard bodies take place at public meet-Other British firms have a score Bank of England rates 7% inge, secret voting being forbid of similar vessels in Land: New Yort/London... den. The elections are mostly and the United States, Japan] indirect, and carried out under and Coatinental countries have terrorist pressure, so that an op- placed orders for something position can hardly exist, and in-approaching 100 of large tonnage.
SUBSIDIARY COINS.
convenient elections are quash. It is claimed that by the cow H'kong 50 cts. pieces $1/10 pm
ed.
invention storage space for fuel
Universal military service has is reduced enormously, enabling
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JEWELLERY
it pays best in the long run so buy in an established market. Promotions beying may very be savedal, dat it is dekady a battle of wits with the daw traded against the buyer. Deal with a blubent atta whce principals know rocarb of the marant to speciales, dok se tre show jau ant shock.
ULLMANN & CO.
FRENCH FIRM. ESTABLISHED 1860,
LADIES' NEWS.
We are exhibiting, from Wednesday, the 27th inst, an exquisite collection of LATEST STYLE-Dresses-Cloaks and diverse Ladies"
Fashions, which ure incomparabir.
An early visit will give YOU the oppor- tunity to see everything and get the bes! choice. As the Exhibition will only last one week it will be advisable for YOU to give us a call as soon as possible.
KOMOR & KOMOR ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
$1/10 pm. $110 dis. $12.1/2 dis
BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE
CINEMA STUNT."
been reintrodurel Deserters are the vessel to carry enough for Canton subcoins shot. Economic life is militarized. the double trip, and thus to buy Workers and employees are not fuel in the country of origin. allowed to strike; if they do, they instead of in ports to which it are sent as "deserters from the had previously been conveyed. labour front to concentration Labour costs, it is pointed out, -camps, and compelled to work, will also be ecormously reduced. The supremacy of the Works! Councils has long since been abolished it works. The works ara under an administration above.. The
appointed from
WHISKY TORPEDOES.
Works Councils are only allowed Dodging American Prohibition.
to look after social matters, labour discipline, and party agitation: bave no say in the administration of the works,
Railway Porter Who Nearly Spoiled a Film.
Apper at Paddington Station had one of the surprises of his life recently.
A taxi-cab drew up near him. and the passenger threw puta Torpedoing whisky from suit case into the street and Canada" into the United States lurched from the cab. He was Lake Michigan may sound a young fellow, and looked the The last official statistics of the like a "pipe dream." but, Major worse for drink central committee of the Com. Dalrymple. of Chicago, prohibition Reeling up to the driver, he manist party stated that it had enforcement
officer for the pushed a couple of Treasury 604,000 members in all Russia, territory Comprising Illinois, notes into his hand and made for Of those, however, only 70,000, or Wisconsia, Indiana. and the booking office.
11 per cent, are workers. Of the Michigan, declared that such a The suit case was left in the) remaining 89 per cent. 6 per method of smuggling alcoholic road, and a policeman ran for- cent, are party officials, per drink into this American prohibi-ward and picked it up for the cent. trade untou officials. 27 per tion territory is a reality.
helpless passenger. The pórter's cent military officials and soldiers. "I intercepted ons of these mind worked with that of the 53 per cent. State and municipal | Canadian whisky-laden torpedoes policeman. He too made for the officiala, 1 per cent. assistants in myself," said Major Dalrymple, overlooked trunk, but whereas business. The whole party is who is in Washington conferring the man in blue was allowed to gradually being transformed into with Prohibition Commissioner carry on with his self-appointed -an-army of bureaucrats directly Kramer with a view to procuring task all, the porter got was a nasty interested in maintaining the an iDcrease in the force of projar as the dranken man-rested against him and bore him back. dictatorship upon which their bibition agents in Chicago.
"The existence depends. People al-
torpedo leaves the wards to the wall. 回 ready speak of the new Soviet Canadian border at a moderate Then the policeman took off bourgeoisie. Incapacity, sabotste of speed, about three feet his moustache, put on a raincoat age, and corruption Are under the water, and when nearly over his uniform, and got into al inspeparably connected with spent is picked up by one of the cab with the original passenger.i this gigantic bureaucratic many small boats which infest The porter was left bewildered apparatus.
the lake. My men caught a crew on the pavement, the onwilling
Herr Dittmann concludes that of these offenders right in the act, victim of a cinema stunt. the towns and industrial centres The Great Lakes are filled with "That obap nearly spoiled of Russia"argat present as faë re, Pull kinds of launches engaged in everthing," said Mr. Henry moved from Socialisk and Comfamuggling liquorfrom Canada, bat Edwards, now quite sober, to `a 'munism de thé country distriba. we are keeping a sharp look-out newspaer representative who was The foregoing report du especi-†and are fant gutting the situation in the secret But I wish i ally interesting, coming as it does in band. We have seized over always want as smoothly as that." from an Independent Bocialist 2,500,000 dollars' worth of liquor Mr. Edwards makes a speciality who went to Moscow torepresent In my district in the last several of London seenes in his Hepworth the German Indecendent Socia- months, and in the last two weeks | picture plays, and be was making lat Party at the Third Interna- over 28,000 case of wet göodsja seene for dim called “John
Forrest Finds Himself". tional
hays been takin.
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FRENCH GOVERNMENT LOAN 6 1920
NOMINAL VALUE : PRICE OF ISSUE:
100 Francs
100 Francs
Interest payable twice a year on 16th June and 16th December. First instalment due on 16th June, 1921.
THE SUBSCRIPTIONS WILL BE RECEIVED BY THE BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE FROM TO-DAY up to. the 25th November, 1920, free of commission and telegram charges and the most favourable rates of exchange will be quoted for the payments made in local or any other currency.
For full details and particulars apply to the BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE, STOCK DEPARTMENT.
You can
Queen's Buildings.
6. Chater Road,,
HONGKONG.
depend
upon receiving prompt and courteous service when you place your order with The Quests, Dispensary for Drugs and Pharmaceuticale.
You can also depend upon our prices being the louzasi consistent with quality, which is our first care.
QUEEN'S
Tel. 492.
DISPENSARY
Harper & Co., Lid...
St George's Building
J!
NEW
THEATRE
ADVERTISEMENTS.
ROYAL
THE UNITED SERVICES CONCERT PARTY
will give
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE-Two Lancashire Boilers, longth 28 feet, diameter of furnaces (two) 3 feet. Working pressure 100 The per aq. inch Constructed by Mesars Lindsay. Burnet & Co., Goran, Glasgow.
A GRAND CONCERT 1 good order and condition.
in aid of Italian Convent (West Point)
on
Friday, 5th & Saturday, 6th Nov,
at 9 p.m.
London Successes,
Complete set of fittings with sach boiler. Apply Butterfield & Swire, Hongkong.
FOR SALE.
The U.S. S. SAMAR will be sold at the U. S. Navy Purchasing
Impersonation, Balancing Feats, Office, No. 20 Whangpoo Road.
Twn Comedians and a Motor
Car, etc., ect.
The Party will include many well-known local artistes.
Prices
$3, $2 $1. BOOKING at MOUTRIE'S.
KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY.
(British Section.)
NOTICE.
The Public is notitied that until further notice on account of th present unsettled conditions at Canton the through Train Service is suspended from this date, and additional local trains will run a follows:
Last Ferry
Izaves
Hongkong
Kowloon
Tsumati
Shatin
Taipo
Taipo Market
Fanling
Sheung Shui...
Shum Chun
Sheung Chai. Fanling
Taipo Market.
Taipo
8.45 a.m.
dec. 8.56 ar. 902
X-No. 7 dep. 9.05
9.14
), arr.
♦ dep. 9.13 $ LI. 9.27 ! dep 9.28 í arr. 9.30 dep. 9.32
ETT.
9.40
I dep. 9.41.
Arr. 9.43 I dep. 9.45
"At.
9.50
dep. 10.19 (arr. 10.2
1 dep. 10.5 arr. 10.23 dep. 10.29
F
arr. 10,38
dep. 10.40 arr: 10:4 dep-10.43
arr. 10.55
X No. 10
dep. 10.56
Shatin.
art. 11.05
Yaumati
I dep. 11.07
Kowloon
arr. 11.12
"By Order."
H. P. WINSLOW, Manager.
Kowloon, 26th Oct., 1920.
NOTICE.
HONGKONG WOMEN'S GUILD
AND
MINISTERING CHILDREN'S
LEAGUE.
THE
ANNUAL FETS & BALE OF WORK
will be held in GOVERNMENT HOUSE GROUNDS
07
Shanghai, China, by sealed pro- posals to be opened at 10 am, on' December 20, 1920.
The SAMAR was built at Cavite.
P. I, in 1885. Length 121 feet. Beat 17 feet, 10 inches. Moan draft Displacement when în commission 243 Tons.
The vessel will be ready for inspection on September 10th. Appraised valus $28,000,001U. S | Currency. Further information and blank proposals may be had by applying to the U.S. Hary Purchasing Office.
FOR SALE.
Very valuable leasehold p penty known as "Fairyland" No. 155 Barker Road. Immediate oc- cupation can be given; 6 roomed house, commodious coolie quar- ters. tennis court and garden attached. Further particulars apply
DEACON, LOOKER DEACON & HARSTON, Solicitors for the Vendor, 1. Des Voeux Road Central. HONGKONG.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersignedhavsreceived
instructions to sell by Public. Auction on
Wednesday, the 27th. October. 1930.
commencing at 11 LD.
at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street.
31 pieces English Flag Banting
2 Bales Tobacco Leaves .2 Bales Lamp Borax
581 Bottles Perchloride of. Mer-
“Cury
Kegs Powdered Chlorate of Potash
116 cases Soap
4 casks Soft Soap
4 Chalmers Motor Car Wheels
1 case Paint
Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAM MERT BROS. Auctioneers.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
..
HE Undersigned havs received instructions to sell by Public Auction on
Friday, the 29th. Oct. 1920. commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at their Sales Rooms, Duddell ·
Street
A Collection of Valuable Chlaese
Curios comprising 5-coloured, 3-coloured, and Blu- and White vases, plates, bowls and figures from Kangbi to Towkwang periods, placques with porcelain panels, Agate, Crystal
SATURDAY, NOV. 6th, and Jade ornamenta, etc.
FROM 2 TO 7 FM.
Adulte- Children
30 Cts.
10
NOTICE
ST. GEORGE'S SOCIETY OF
HONGKONG.
ARMISTICE NIGHT, 11th NOVEMBER 1920.
It is the intention of the St. George's Society of Hongkong to to bold & Smoking Concert in the Theatre Royal on 11th November at 9.15 p.m.
Circulars in connection there- with are being posted to each member and any member not receiving same by 26th October is requested to communicate with the Honorary Secretary.
The Honorary Secretary will also be glad to receive the "games of any. Englishmen resident in the Cology who desire to join the Society."
Communications should be addressed--
The Hon. Secretary,
St. George's Society,
Icio Mesera. Gilman & Co., Ltd.
Biso
Sung Celadon vase. One pair Large Black vases with 5-coloured decoration (Tox- kwang}
́and.
A few pieces Canton Black- wood-ware
On view from Thorday, the 28:h inst.
Catalogues will be issued.. Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers.
-PRELIMINARY--NOTICE.
The Undersigned will sell by Public Auction at an early date (to be advertised later).
A SELECTION OF FINE. CUT GLASS-WARE
LAMMERT BROS..
Auctioneer.
FOR SALE. MILNER'S SAFEN
APPLY TO
اتر
LAKKERT BROS.
Daddell
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