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CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE ROBERT DOLLAR CO.
The Steamship
ROBERT DOLLAR" having arrived from New York vis Vancouver, Bod porta, On January, 25th, consignees are hereby notified that their cargo
is being landed as their risk into the hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf And Godown Co., Ltd, and stored * consignees TISK.
All bruken, chaled and damaged Cargo is to be lett in the Grodowes
BANKER & CO.
CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
TOYO KISEN KAISHA.
From SAN FRANCISCO vis HONOLULU, JAPAN PORTS AND DAIREN,
The Steamship
~SIBERIA MARU
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
CONSIGNEES
“NOTIER" TO CONSIGNEES.
THE EAST ASIATIC. Co. Lite Copenhagen.
The Motor ship
"ABIA"
håving arrived, Consignees of cargo are hereby informed that all goods are being landed ad stored at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of Holt's Wharf, whence delivery may be obtained.
WEDNE
WAGES REDUCED BY
| 7,000,000 Workers Said To Be ~Affected.
JANUARY:
VENGALI THRORY IN GERMAN CASTER CRIME.
Heirean Who Smoked and
Danced Too Much, Gravely concerned "at" what they describe as an attack on cased in the Kleppelsdorf Castle Had Peter Grupen, who is no» Labour standards,” the Traded Union Congress Eleneral Council Mystery trial, the powers of a
Svengali? - have issued a manifesto dealing
Did he hypooține bis utepu with wages and hours.
daughter Ursula Schade, pause tions for a year mount to notairess friend, Dorolby Rohrbeck, They estimate tif; wage reduc- her to murdar her young million- less than £235,000,000, and speak and then commit aufcide? of a widespread and carefully
It was only yesterday, writes. organised conspiracy to secure the Daily Chronicle Berlin corres- unrestopable reductions in wages pondent under date Dec. 9, that and a draatio, extension of the the Hirschberg court resobed this normal working week.".
Addressed to officials and memlage in its efforts to solve the bers of affiliated organisations, greater attention throughout Ger
mystory, which is attracting ever the manifesto skirɔ :-
many.
HYPNOTIC POWERS. Regarding this point, Fraulein
No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns, and all goods remain ing undelivered after the 1st | Feb, 1922, will be subject to rent. A serious klomp ja trade and
All broken, chafed and damaged abcormal unemployment are con goods are to be left in the Go-sidered by employers a fuins Kisfers, formerly Ursula's teacher, downs, where they will be ex- opportunity for imping reduc-old a curious story. amined on the 1st. Feb., 1923, at | tious in wages and increases in "O on's occasion" she declar. 10.3.
ed. “Ursula avid that her mother In some quarters the spirit of new a man who, when he looked workers appears to inspire emthat person to do his bidding.
getting their own back" on the in a person's syrs could compel ployers.
"Ursula even mentioned the We have to warn auch employ-street where this man lived and it ere that a policy of reprisals is turned out to be one quite near to Bills of Lading, will be counter-ons likely to lead to disastrous Grupen's house at Itzehoe, near signed by
Hamburg.
All claims must reach us before
the 4th. Feb., or they will not be recognized.
No Fire Insurance will be affected.
L
MANNERS & BACKHOUSE.
LTD..
Agents.
Loura
**
consaquances.
Stability in industrial organis1- tion would be quite impossible, and a policy of attack and coun- ter-attack, as determined by opportunities, would take the place of negotiation, the signing NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. of joint agreements, and the fixing of labour standards by the LS credited representatives of em OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. ployers and trade unions.
AND
CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO, LTD.
000 a year.
10
signees are
recommended make necessary arrangements as
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
AND CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
▲ year,
**When she was asked the man'a name. Ursula said abe dare not tell
This same witness added that Ursula was a very sensitive little
girl.
WINTER SHOE FASHIONS
BY MARIAN HALE.
straps.
1
DOROTHY'S FEARS Another witness told a story of meeting Dorothy Rohrback in ESTIMATE OF £5,500,000 & WEEK. Berlin, when she expressed her It is stated that the net reduce great fear of Grupen, who, she tions in wages officially reported (Dorothy's grandmother) a bottle added, bad given Frau Eckert
At the beginning of the season | up the centre of the foot and up to the end of October are £4-of cognac, which she (Dorothy) the elaborate shoe fantasies took joining the encircling strap or 370.000 a week, affecting close on
was suspicions about, -- Consignees of cargo for Hong-7,000,000 workpeople, and it is
our breath away. But as shoes The judge bere intervened to come and go, it seems there is no kong per s.a. "THESEUS are
Brocades of metal cloth are hereby notified that owing to the patimated that further reductions say that the bottle had bean Hait to their gorgeous3088.
inthe wages of employers i found and examined. Apparent Not only the richest and most especially in vogue and steel bead of present state
shipbuilding, engineering and Hongkong due to strike of esmen, cargo for Hongkong will other trades, beginning last month.. it bad contained some oil of ornate of materials are used in embroideries vie with the mass be landed at Shanghai and can-amount to not less than £50,000, bitter almonds, and there was no shoes but the length to which elaborate gown.
question of poisoned cogase.
ocumentation is carried reaches Period shoes are popular and
the high-tongued, square toes of. A friend of Dorothy's from a fantastic mark. In addition, reductions take Laahn, little town hear the
The sandal is still the most the Louis XIV. period may be to insurance etc. accordingir. place without being reported to castle, declared that ahor ly be- popular form with the low cutsean in cloth of gold with big The sage will be brought back the Ministry of Labour, and it is fore Herr Grupen and others sides and the instep strap running paste buckles.
tions at this port become normal.the net reductions in the past "Ethy, we bave little or nothing! to Hongkong immediately condi- suggested that a fair estimate of came on a visit, Dorothy said: year would be not less than to eat ourselves, and now five BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, £5,500,000 a week, or £286,000,000 people are coming on a visit."
During this witness's evidence the parlour at the time of the the spectators showed Agents.
their murder. He himself maintains This witness had warned the feelings so openly that the judge that he was there till the servant With regard to hours, the man-girl to beware of Grapes. Yes." threatened to clear the court. Hongkong, 24th. Jan., 1922.
ifesto states that the assumption shouted the accused man, loudly.
tame with, the news the news that longer hours will make the "If someone had only told me Itioned one jaryman jumped up Irma, declared that he followed When the love affair was men-of the tragedy. His step-daughter, difference between industrial was not welcome I should not be and roundly declared that there her to the lumbar room, ball-way paralysis and prosperity, is based here in the dock." on a fallacy.
was not a single word of truth into the bedroom where the crime TERCAT BY POSTCARD.
the story. RIGHT TO IMPROVED CONDITIONS.
was committed. Only a minute OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO, LTD. In their conclusions the Gen-spoke of the postcard she had smoked too many cigarettes, and to the bedroom and back.
Fraulein Zahn, again recalled,
Darothy, the witness added, was needed to go from the parlour eral Council assert in the name received from Dorothy, on which danced so much that her health of organised Labour, that, even if was written, from Berlin, "Come suffered.
"I was sitting in the parlour koiting," said Frau Eckert, "and employers could prove that re-to me immediately or I will hang
FRAU ECKERT CALLED. duced wagea and 'increased hours
perhaps" fell asleep for a little myself."
Then came the witness whose time, and did not particularly Consignees of cargo for Hong-would leadto industrial prosperity, Martha Mohr. another of: kong per 3.5. DEMOLOCUS they would still be opposed to the Grupen's fiancees; and & servant avidence WAS 1031 eagerly notice what happened. But I are hereby notified that owing to suggestion that the workers at the castle, was called. Her awaited-Frau Eckert, Dorothy's know that Grupen was out of my the present state of affairs in standard of life should be lowered Holstein dialect gave the court grandmother, an old woman 80 sight for a while, perhaps a fow Hongkong due to strike of sea- as the only way to scure this considerable trouble, as she re- years of age.
When the crime was recon- men, cargo for Hongkong has
object.
She told many disconnetted| |lated that three days before the been landed at Singapore and The worker has a moral right tragedy Ursula gave her a letter, stories of the lives of various structed at the castle, I had consignees are recommended to to claim improvement in working with the request that she would people concerned in the tragedy.feeling that he must have been make necessary arrangements as conditions. This claim cannot
give it to Frau Eckert two days She related how she brought away a few minutes, certainly to insurance etc. accordingly. be resisted legitimately until
Dorothy up, but how the girl time enough for him to commit The cargo will be brought on to every forms of privilege is abolish-
Afterwards, however. Ursula cared only for Fraulein Zahn, the deed.
That Ursula did it I regard as stHongkong immediately condied and all artificial costa on in- asked for the latter back again, how Grapen met her daughter (s
tions atthis port become normal.dustry are retroved.
and it was given to her.
woman who has disappeared) as out of the question. She was This was the letter found in the result of matrimonial much too small and weak a girl BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
KRYPTOK LENSES Agents.
the dead girl's pocket and though: advertisement; how they got on to handle a big revolver," are conceded to be one of the very to have been written while she well together, but how their Hongkong, 24th: Jan, 1922.
best forms of bifocal lenses. The was under Grapan's bypnotic in regard for each other changed. bifocal segment is ground and fluence.
"One night," she said, "I heard fused into the distant lens mik- This witness declared that my daughter shout for help. 1 ing the product practically one Grupea did not leave the room, ran to her room, and found it piece of glass. The segmentsbere be was sitting playing Grapen had left it by the are totally invisible and the leas cards with his stepdaughter Irma. bas
It will be remembered that B beautiful
Spectators displayed hostility appearance. Kryptok lenses of any prescrip towards Harr Vielback, Dorothy's earlier in the case the judge tion in either regular or Toric guardian, when he was recalled. remarked, "It might be believed form are manufactured by the He ratold the story of how the that 3ropen had done away with: Hongkong Optical Co., Succes-young heirbes was kept on shart his wife.”
Mr. Johnson, who has spent talingsors to Clark & Cɔ, manufactur- | money supplies.
GRUPEN'S MOVEMENTS.
ten weeks in Indis, told the East ing and refracting opticians,~~the He attacked Fraulein Zaho for Late Isat night, just before the Indis Association, of. London, the little pink laxatives, aid most competent optical mang haring brought her up badly, and court adjourned over Sunday, till there was not a single newspaper digestion, keep the skin clear and facturing establishment in South declared that she spent too much Monday, Frau Eckert gave an in Indis owned by an Indians the breath sweet. Of chemists China-located, in 53, Queen's money, and that bad books ware Important piece of evidence. which did not favour prohibition. or, post free, 60 cents the phial, Road Central. Fitting, glasses allowed to Dorothy, who had a It will be recalled that con- and he did not know of a singla from Dr. Williams Medicine Co., and testing the sight is their love affair with a young officer flicting statements were made public mao in India who was not 96 Szechuan Road, Shanghai, specialty.
whom the governess encouraged. regarding Grupeo's presence in in favour of it, and worked for it.
The above named Steamer hav ing arrived on Monday, the 23rd. Jan, 1922, consignees of cargo are bereby notined to present their Bills of Lading for counter signature, and take immediate delivery from alongside steamer or the Company's Lodown, where Tuesday. ttatil
January 31. cargo impeding immediate when they will be examined by discharge wui be landed Messrs. Carmonael Clarke at consignee's risk. Z.30 p.#.
Storage will be assessed on Claims will not be accepted un-cargo remaining undelivered after less Cargo is no examined by said Monday, the 30th. January, 1922.
Surveyors, prior to the abov All broken, chafed and damag- date. All crarms must be presed packages will be landed into sented within a month of the
the Company's Godown, where steamer's arrival here, after which same will be examined on Tues tbey will not be recognized. No day, the 3ias. January 1922, as claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns,
All goods remaining after Wednesday, Feb 1, subject to rent.
will be
No fire insurance whatever will be effected.
Consignees are requested to send in their bulls of ladingTM for counter-signature.
THE ROBERT DOLLAR CO.,
Ageots,
Hongkong, January, 24th, 1922.
10.0.
No claims will be recognised after goods have left the steamer or Godown, and none will be entertained if presented Ister than three weeks after arrival of
stesmer.
No fire insurance whatever will be effected.
Y. TSUTSUMI,
Manager. Hongkong, 23rd. Jao., 1922.
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217,
minutas.
Later Frau Eckert emphasised ber statement by saying " Grupen was certainly out of my sight for few minutes. That I maintain." This evidence created a great sensation in court, Grupen re- maining silent and white while it was being given.
MR.","PUSSYFOOT” JOHNBON IN
ENGLAND,
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