CHRISTMAS CONFECTIONERY.
CHOCOLATES
From
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In fancy boxes of 1 lb, 2 lb., 3 lb suitable for presents.
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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13. 1921.
EUROPE'S FINANCES.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
Another Gambling Risk.
The risks at the gaming tabla
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1981.
DAY BY DAY.
SHANGHAI HARBOUR.
BEHOLD, HOW GOOD AND HOW Experta" Recommendations. PLEASANT IT IS FOR. BRETHREN
CHINESE BANKERS.
Association Formed in Hongkong.
jare quite sufficient without haring TO DWELL TOGETHER IN UNITY.)·(Arom Our Oven Correspondani.) | Chinese Hantera" Association ofjhoped for the aristande of such an
gentlemen of the Wild West typa taking a part. This has been the experience at Macao Intely. A week or two ago it was repostad
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Mr. Tauras fel, manager of the ? Bank of Chins and Secretary and Treasurer of tha'Assomïation, who |was mainly instrumental in bring“) ing the organisation into being The inaugural meeting of the expressed how sarassily he had
Shanghai, Dec. 13. Hongkong was bold laat Saturday association hers porna kiren yanzu The repart of the harbour ex-wbon it was well attended by ago, and how pleased ha was now of the local in seeing his plans reallaəd – Ha A truck knocked downs Chine parts recommends the dredging of representatives
■ channel 600 feet wide and thirty Chinese banking institutions. ailed briefly the history of the that a couple of resaris had just in Wanchai yesterday and caused feet deep through the Fairy Flats Mr. Ljung Kwai-tien, manager of development of the first associa been raided. It seems that there injuries to his legs necessitating in the south channel of the the Bank of Communications and tion in Shanghai and how much Yangtare estuary, with the con- President of the Association. it has accomplished since its bave been five of those armed his removal to Hospital. robberies within a brief while, the
tinued deepening at Whangpoo, opened the meeting with an inception. latest taking place on Friday The health returns for the assuring a low water depth of address announcing the objects of Speeches were also delivered night, when the fokis at one of the week-end show that there was thirty feet and a possible depth of the Association in detail and then by representatives of different gambling-houses suddenly found
one fatal case of plague and one thirty-three feet. The report also emphasised the fact that as the banks and were characterised by Hauser levelled at their heads by
recommends the elimination of development of the Chinese banks genuine patriotism and sincerity non-fatal CRAO of small-pox a number of men round the table.(British)
private ownership of wharves and banking is still in the stage of purpose.
Similar associations with a view to the entire harbour of infancy, porseverance and co-
in confadarates Simultaneously swept up all the money, scooping
being controlled by a Commission operative effort are highly necon-existence at Tientsin, Hankow. about $100 How reoklus the
"A Chinese woman, who, was with all the docks publicly owned.sary in guiding it to a proper and Peking, and it is hoped that raiders were la shown by the fact knocked down abat Kowloon It also recommends the building growth. He further said that the they will not only assist in regener
of China sling the finances of China, but that the Indian constable on guard City by a motor car, was remored of public plera at Woosung and economic destiny at the door, in trying to seize one to the Kwong Wah Hospital The Point The Hangohow Bay is bring wholly in the hands of will serve as a factor in promoting of the intruders, was at opre shot yesterday afternoon.
plan bas been scrapped. It is the Chinese bankers to-day. dead, while his comrade was
considered impracticable to estab wounded. The raiders made for
lish a lock lower than Whangpoo. their boat by the Prays and gol For the week ending Saturday Mai-Gan. Black in a farewell clean away, firing volleys to pre last there was no fatal case of address to the American Chamber vent the palice-boat from follow notifiable disease reported. There of Commerce assarted that Shang- ing. It is easy to credit the were, however, sir non-fatal cases bai has a wonderful future if the report that the incident has of diphtheria, and one case each city does its part.
created much uneasiness," and of small-pox and enteric fever.) it is not surprising that the Two Chinese were certified to Chinese gaming-house keepers have died of influenza. have petitioned the authorities for additional protection. If this
Suffering from no fewer than not forthcoming, it may be that;
was removed to the the dispute between Macao and twenty-two cuts and wounds, a Canton as to the cancellation of Chinese
international commerce.
Between Ourselves
CHINESE EXCHANGES, for a bit.
Foreigners Protest at Shanghai.
By Rebt. MacWhirter.
the licences will settle itself; as Kwong Wah Hospital yesterday (From Our Own Correspondents Ferry and no' bothering onybody, have been able to put something
Ay. I've bad enough of spirits Charlie Oliver'he savvied the But I'm no referring, place. It was somewhere out to the kind you're thinking about. Johnstone way, in a main door Nor am I as much as even going up a wea side atreat wi" a to mention a bottle, so keep your cemetery at one end of it. Thare mind at ease.
was a good crowd of folks there Ya Red, the other night as well as ourselves and I should just as I was sitting on the say you mediumistic couple must whose condition is considered the "Monte Carlo of the East
Shanghai, Dec. 13. doesn't a man come on and sit away in the bank, forbye a couple will hardly retain much patronage to be precarious. The man was
The foreign Chambers of Com-down beside if recent conditions
me. As things o' months al the coast every attacked by a gang of four or five
We all sat round in s Speculators sometimes take as men, who, armed with daggers merce have formally published & orned out, he might have been summer.
and knives, intercepted him in statement denouncing the Chin- looking for me, the way he turned circle and I cao mind even when tonishing risks, but most of
Waterloo street as he was return-ese Exchanges.
on the tap of conversation. I'm the biasing gas jet was fall on them draw the line =
po' going to mention bis usme there never wis what you'd call losing when they have woning to his home in Reclamation
Street, Taumati
bat this chap's a kind o' spirit- a glare in you room at anytime. One of the Old Brigade.
alist, that is if subscribing to As a preliminary a lanky larry in Light and the like, entitles bin to a boiled shirt and a preoccupied that description. Because once in air,introduced a sort of colourless an anguided moment I argued wi' looking lady as the médium and
continue.
"Burke" not being available
As the rails on some sections
at the moment, we are left to of the Canton-Hankow Railway
gown.
LOCAL WEDDING.
Nicholas-O'Connor.
which WA!
matter more than any other that France and Britain have reached man's estate before the dis:overed the headquarters of a carried a beautiful bouquet of mind. I promised I would if I a bit and we had to sing " Nearer
police under the leadership of
surmise that the Peerage has lost are nearly worn out and the ties At St. Andrew's Church, Kow-him about this spiritualism he's said she'd try her best to call up its oldest member. As the years rotten, an accident happened | loon, this morning, the Rev. Mr-ever lost a chance since of certain spirits from the back o' want by with the ex-Lord Chan-some days ago when some cars Lindsay (Vicar) officiating, the reviving the subject.
beyond. I didna' like the look cellor still bale the hops was of the train were derailed neat the marriage took place of Miss May
Well, as I was saying, here be of either of them and battoned up entertained that the Earl of Lit-kong station. The engineer Nicholas, of Lodi, Cal, U.S.A. & claps himself down beside me my cont right away. We then Halsbury would live to join the telephoned immediately to repair Mr. George M. O'Connor, of Ligand before ye could say knife at round and after taking bands, ranks of the centenarians. The the broken lines. On account of gett & Myers Tobacco Co. China, was into telepathy and it's cousins like in a jing-ring, the gas was former occupant of the Woolsback this accident, trains could not The bride arrived here on the germane worse than ony foreigner put out of it's agony and all pre- What will be the outcotne of the Lloyd George-Briand has passed away at a year and arrive punctually on that day. 8.5. Golden State, and as a con-practising the English language, sent were invited to join in "Lead
aine months short of a hundred. They reached the Wongsha sequence of the quarantining of He'd a book under his oxter and Kindly Light" After the first · meeting affords interesting speculation and raises once again the vexed question of reparations. There has beenThis probably suces to make his station late at night-Canton the vessel, she was obliged to before the forry bumped against couple overies, the lady began
case a record among public men Times.
be married io A travelling the mainland I was the owner to breathe heavily through her no more contentious question arising out of the Peace of in latter-day history. He was
of deep thereof protem wi" strict instruc anse, like's she had adenoids, but Versailles than the amount to be paid to the Allies by living in the days of the agitation
In the belief that they had blue, with har to match.
She tions to study it wi an unbiased the came up to the surface after Germany and the method of payment. It is on that fover the famous Reforma Act, and
riddle of the hungry forties, gang of armed robbers, party of chrysanthemums and roses, and didna lose it in the meantime, my God to Thee twice before she looked very charming. Miss for we were due to fit the next began to speak and some one then drifted away from each other in sympathy and friendship. The ex-Lord Chancellor "took Inspector Robert Wills lagt eren- Lillian Dickson, who accompanied day and you know what that explained that it was Napoleon and it is on the same account that Germany has been silk as far back as 1865. Eleing raided No. 2 Tam Lang by her from the States, acted as means. Well didna miss it, who held the wire. Maybe it was
of coarse, one of Taptcy. Last year there was an acute crisis created over the surviving "Q.C's," whose virtue of a search warrant. Fourbridesmaid and she also wore though most everything need- bat he must have learnt English reduced (wilfully or not to a state bordering on bank waS,
Hut in the way of a civilised life in the Great Beyond and Mr. J. P. Allen, of the Chins seemed to go astray, and bed time acquired Glasgow accent in the matter and during the current month the leading number is growing very percept men and one woman who wore becoming gown of blue.
ibly salle Unlike the present Preparing their evening meal in politicians of Allied countries will again have to face the custodian of the Great Seal, Lord the second cubicle of an upper Specie Bank, gave the bride away found me wi' the book and nothing the process. I mind o' remarking problem which has arisen out of Germany's claim that she Halsbury, though be probabivfloor, were taken into custody and Mr. G. R. Stevenson acted assle to rand. So I had a good about it at the time. I'll ho try to repeat all the balderdash the After the ceremony the bridal I don't know how it is Wee Corponi got out of his is unable to meet the bill which falls due. France claims occupied the Woolsack longer following the discovery of two best man.
stuff, about spirit- system that night, but Aye that she is able: Britain is inclined to think that she is than any other man in the later deggers in a cupboard, and were
history of Great Britain, did not charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell pair and friends were entertained but unable; while Germany herself pleads positive incapacity attain to that high office until at the Magistracy this roaring to informal tifin at the home alists and their supposed com- the burden of his song wa M. Briand is going to confer with Mr. Lloyd George. M.well advanced in life, being in his As there was no evidence to cop-/of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Theyken,munications wit human spirits that someone in the room was opinion, whilst from Germany there have visited London of Mr. Gladstone over the Home the presence of the daggers is the The honeymoon is being spent at yond, leaves me colder than ham effect. By and by he was sup recently, several leading financial and political experts. It Rule Bill resp'ted in his appoint cubicle, they were discharged. Canton.
to be dealt with, and his Worship as a member of Lord Salisbury' decided to remand the case until is not going to be an easy matter to sett's, and it is ment to the Lord Chancellorship There then remind an old man
He was again obviously one in which certain broad principles should be administration. applied.
appointed when Lord Salisbary to-morrow morning. The female The principle on which Britain is most likely to insist returned to office in 1895, and prisoner, who is the old man's wife, The Liverpools Embark. in my teens and the Christian have gone round the back lane for
office until the was re-tried on another charge.
In to-day's Command Orders it Endeavour after that again. But there was nothing doing. Then is that due regard should be paid to the general economic retained the
avalanche of 1936, when the of being in possession of coun-is stated that the transport, s..I don't know; this confabbing wi' the piano began to play by itself jeft England for the departed ays smells fishy to what sounded like a mixture oʻthe
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LAND SALE.
NEW REGIMENT.
stab at it.
that's been more than a month in posed to materialise sod ghostly the Hongkong Hotel refrigerator, hands began to touch us and 1 Mind ye, it canna' bave been my was glad then I'd buttoned up my upbringing for I went to the coat Twics I lammed out wi Sunday School regular till I was both feet but the citoyen wust
stability of Europe as a whole. The policy which has been Liberal Party regained power terfeit coins, and on this coun: Himalays
she was proved guilty and Hongkong on December 6th. and me. I've read volume "Marseillaise," "Pop Goes The preached by Mr. Lloyd George is that it is far better to after a lengthy period in the sntenced to four weeks hard is expected to arrive at Hong-after volums of alleged evidence Wessel" and "Annie Laurie" and
Despite his age; labour. give Germany a fair chance of remaining a solvent nation wilderness.
kong on or about January 10th. but the familiar spirits and it was just then that I got a bat than it would be to drive the bargain previously made Lord Halsbury
Among the details on board for Wizards that chirp and mutter", on the back o' the head wi' what Hongkong are the 2nd. Battalion Isaiah describes them, have are felt like guitar, but turne! out irrespective of the consequences. It has been suggested the most active of Last Ditchers when the Parliament Bill (for moratorium should be extended to Germany-restricting the functions of the
Liverpool Regiment which is dus ppeared to me far from satisfying later to be tambourine, Wi to relieve the Bad. Wilts, who are somehow. But that's maybe just that I let go my neighbour's a suggestion which has been strenuously opposed Upper House) was under debate:
proceeding to India. The officers because I can see no farther than hands and made a grab but the France who
that and, if the deceased peer was spokesmen of
able to follow political)
with the Liverpools are Captain my stomach, as Janet often says, only thing I got was a picture off Germany is capable of making the payments due but is still
Shaukiwan Lots. Moorhead, Lieut. Humphrey, and No' mind ye,, that I bavena' the wall. Bells began rloging 2nd. Lieut. White. There are 147 done a bit in the way of investiga like mad and I wished I'd spent trying to shirk her responsibilities. The members of the developments during bis closing montbs, it is probable that be
Messrs. Tsang Hin-tong and other ranks.
tion myself. For a while I was the night in the Reference Lib- Reparations Commission are by no means unanimous in held no vers cordial sentimente Cheung Yaen were the purchasers Lieut Sheppard, RE is also quite a planchette rusheralong wi rary instead. Napoleon then bade their opinions, Sir John Bradbury, the British Commis- in relation to the offer to Sing of the lease for seventy-five years coming to Hongkong by the same young chep in the same digs wi' as a soldierly farewell and we
The veteran ex-Lord sioner giving the suggested moratorium a qualified sup. Fein.
of two lots of Crown land at boat as are also the following me in Paisley. Ay, we used to could haar bim tramp along the was, in truth. -port whilst the French Commissioners are openly opposed Chancellar
Shaukiwan, which were sold by Lady Fowler, two daughters and eit of a night writing out spirit lobby outside and wit that the. of the "old brigade,"
auction at the offices of the nurse; wife, nurse and child of messages till I used to get cramp front door barged and somebody to it. To reconcile the three viewpoints of France, ne
and gloried in the fact.
Public Works Department yester Captain Howard of the Liverpool in the fingers. Ob, ay, I got struck a match and lit the gas. Britain and Germany will be no easy matter but M
day afternoon. The area of the Regiment; three Warrant Officers plenty of screeda but it was bardly The medium was found tying Loucheur has reported on arriving back in Paris that Wellsian Wisdom.
two lots (Nos. 481 and 482) is and 14 other ranks of the R.G.A.; worth my bother for when I come like a wet bag on the floor slong- Britain will give her support to the French claim. How English papers out here have 28,736 square feet and the apset the Wives and families to think of it, weighing it up sida a bowl o' goldfish and the far that statement is justified time will show, but it is reproduced what are described price was $1 per sq. ft. The price daster Gunners Hall and afterwards, the
spirits never tambourine was hanging to the almost certain that Britain will try to gain some modificas translations" of special des-realised was $29,550.
of all other Powers assembled at:
Wahington Conference.
Warr; four Warrant Officers and seemed to know anything more chandelier. "Look here" says I to four other ranks Royal Engin. outside the sum total of our Charlie, "I'm for out of this before sers, together with three women combined experience, which made the police raids the place of the and four children; one Warrant me come to the conclusion that neighbours begin to complain." Officer of the Royal Army Pay we were both wasting our tima. And we booked it right away.
patches from H. G. Wells to a ation, even though it be of a temporary nature.
Japanese journal. Mr. Wells" is In connection with the same matter, or rather allied certainly versatile, but we have
HIS 100,000 PRISONERS. to it, is the news which came to hand yesterday from not heard that he writes the
must surmise On a moderste estimate, cvar Washington indicating that both Houses of the American vernacular, so legislature are in agreement regarding the non-cancellation that bis matter is first translated 100,000 prisoners have passed Corpe and wife: Army School So I gave it up, at least I got Was I convinced that there was for the Japanese journal and then through the hands of Constable Mistress Tieraid; eleven signal philandering round wis lass such a thing as spirits?. I was of Allied war debts. A Bill for the funding of them is turned back into English. The Helyer, who has retired from the lers; three men of the Royal that had originally come from not, and never will be until such Army Ordnance Corps; and nine Inverness and the last I saw of time as they learn to materialise now being passed and the argument that it would be better opening sentences may serve as & post of assistant-gadier at
the planchette was the landlady's in the light and give over the to cancel all war debts incurred between the Allies and sample: The Japanese dele- Lambeth Police Court, after 26 Royal Army Service Corps.
In addition, the Himalaya will youngster" trailing it on a antics and tricks of the stage those who fought with them has had to be considered gates have been the object of more years' service in the Force.
also bring the following, who bit string for a barrow. So my illusionist. joined the ship at Fort Said hav-room-mate's money wasna" wast. I'm quite convinced that, alt 'America has rejected the argument, the effect of which is discussions than all the delegates
BORDOES -aze open to fraud sod ing travelled that far in the s.s, od after all. that France and Britain remain her debtors for a huge the
the difference Princess-Lient. Taylor, R.E; When the Craze was on
us that whee they are sum. France is also indebted to Britain and so are Nevertheless, they are also the phasis several other countries, but Britain in her turn is carrying least understood by the public. between East and West comes Sisters Jordon and Staff Nurse though, one night we both went to fraudulent, these enquiries of the a heavy debt burden. It is this matter of indebtedness and To be sure, they are now being strangely from writer who Cryle; the wife of Captain Par- seance that ye paid to get dead are largely governed by the counter indebtedness which is causing not only anxiety but gradually understood, but from declared that the fetish of nation-ker-18 men of the R.A.M.C.; Miss into. I hadns' intended to take emotions of those employed as friction and for our own part we cannot help thinking that the viewpoint of a third party altem must follow the tribal gode Hall who is coming to Hongkong up as seriously as all that, but the media of communication and
it would appear that this is into the limbo of things for to marry Sergeant Rogers. Mrs. you know how careless some folks that of their hearers,--
rather to a disorderly gotten." It would be of interest Norbury who is coming to marry are wi' other folk's money. 1 Of course, I may be all wrong, Kit would have been better for the Allies to wash all these due
debts ont, leaving themselves free to treat with Germany and trained sense of curiosity to compare re-translation and Corp). Savage; one man each mind that night fine for I think but the results are too meagre, in as generous a spirit as possible. Such a step would than to any high sense of original, for the reader feels con- R.A.S., RAP.O.; Miss Carter it was the only once I ever went ambigious and childish to wasts have done much to stabilise the world's finances and respect towards the Japanese strained to infer that the author who is coming to marry Sergt. out all the time I was in Paisley good electtio light ony longer
people." What is a "disorderly of "The Outline of History" has Inglefield; and other women and without my waterproof. encourage the flow of trade,
and trained senze"? The om-lost something in the dual process. children of the units osmed.
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