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MEE CHEUNG.
LAUNCHING AT KOWLOON.
Last of Four Sister Oil Tankers.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TENNIS TOURNAMENT.
Handicap Doubies.
The semi-final of the Handicap Doubles between F.A. Redmond and M.11. Roffey (owe 13:1) and The last of the four tankers built Major J.R. Lloyd and A.B. by the Hongkong and Whampoa Rawarth towe 1/6) played on the Dock Company to the order of the Hongkong Cricket Club ground on Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Copany Wednesday, provided was launched yesterday afternoon tussle.
Lloyd and
a very time Raworth The
in the presence of a large number eventually winning D-7,108. of visits. The Pleiodon is pairs were very evenly matched, we of the vessel. The launching but Roffey was playing far below bla uscal form and frequently let ceremony was completely successful,
his partner down. Lloyd and the vessel sliding unoothly down the Haworth are winner of the event greased ways after the customary owing to the absenica from the bottle of champagne had been Colony of H.E. Smith, who with broken across her bowa by Mrs. A. A. Brearley as partner won the
gome
BILLIARDS.
A Close Match.
R. Veneas, the wife of the Marine other semi-tinal. Engineer Supervisor for the Anglo- Saxon Petroleum Company, who has been in Hongkong for time in connection with the work. Amongst these present, in addition to the Chie! Manager (Mr. R. M. Dyer, were Mr. X. L Watson Manager, Asiatic Petroleum Com-
A very exiciting game was wit- pany (South China), who are agents nessed in the Palace Hotel Handi- for the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum cap last night. C. Bond (-75) Company) and Mrs. Watson, Mr. D. played A. J. Edmonds (-100),) 6. M. Bernard (Chairman of the Scoring was fairly even through- Dock out, and at the finish it was any- Hongkong and Whampoa (Company) and many others.
body's game. When be looked
At the subsequent reception held like winning. Edmonds stopped at the draughtsmen's loft, Mr. 249, needing only one point, and Bond ran out to 250, The win- Bernard said that he wished #t thank them all for their presence Der's best efforts were 21, 20, 17 at the Launching ceremony of the and 14. Edmonds made 1, 21. last of the four sister ships. 19. 15 and 14 twice, but was not
consistent.
was glad to be able to say that Mr.
At 9 pm to-night A. Gourley Veness, "who came cut here to supervise the construction of the plays W. B. Haslett. four ships on behalf of his Bern, was fully satisfied with the manner in
The earl has a straight stem which these vessels had been built.) and the excellent way in which the and elliptical stern, with long poop, requirements rked for in the ontogether with a short bridge and tract had been fulfiled. On beforecastle and has been built on the Taherwood longitudinal system of of the Company of which he was the Chainman, he would cow kraming to pass Lloyds' 100 A.1. Mrs. Tece to accept a little pass. The machinery is alt
Accommodation for the navigat- st as a momento of the occasion.
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1922.
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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE FAR EASTERN GOVERNMENT.
CIGARETTES
He requested that those presenting officers is provided to houses on
London, May 4. might join tim jo drinking bridge deck, and the engineers on
separate In the House of Commons, replying to Mr. Lestrange Malone. to the success and prosperity of the the poop, each with
room; also salcon and engineers' Mr. Harmsworth said that the Government had not received the at HALF PRICE Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company-
bited out in an Soviet Government's wireless communication of March 29 sup- The souvenir, a brooch set mess room are diamonde, Vas then presented artistic style. The petty officers", fire. porting the Far Eastern Repablic's protest of March 13 against the men's. seamen's and greasers' quar. sell-elected Merkulor Government at Vladivostok selling Russian ers are situated in the forecastle, property, declaring that the presence of Japanese military forces Sister Ships Giving Satisfaction. and their three mess rooms are in made it impossible for the Far Eastern Government to prevent the On behalf of his wife, Mr. Vents the poop near the engine casing White Guard from footing Russian national property and alleging
consulates were that the Allied
arming counter-revolutionary thanked the Hongk ng and What Both & -uropean and
bandits under the pretext of maintaining order. The British Gov- poa Dock Company for the honour galley are supplied.
ernment, therefore, did not propose to take any action. accorded her in asking her to per-" The Pleiodor is sub-divided by
Replying to Lt.-Comdr. Kenworthy, Mr. Harmsworth said form the christecing ceremony of transverse and longitudinal ulk- he had no information with regard to the Japanese Government's
steamer and for
East Siberia. He had no the heads, stiffened longitudinally, into plans for withdrawing troops from souvenir which had been so kindly 15 male oil tanks and 10 summer knowledge of the alleged Japanese Government ultimatum demand- prevented to her by Mr. Bernardtanks. The pump room is situateding, inter alia, the right to keep military missions on the territory Photographs of Charity Ball | The steamer Plerodon Was
the amidships between No. 4 and No. of the Far Eastern Republic. taken in the Prince's Pavilion burth and last vi ir vesela tanks. 17th. April.
kulls for the Anglo Saxon Petro A dry cargo hold is fitted forward, Dun Company 2: the Kowicea under which is a deep tack for yards, as a part of an extensive either vil fuel From every copy sold 25 cents. will be given by us to the sub-building programme consting of Cross bankers and side bankers are marine Disaster Fund.
10 vessels which were being built in constructed viltight, so that ey different parts of the world. It was can be used for either coal or oil is Atted kis great privilege to have seen the fuel. A double bottom construction of these four tankersjunder boilers for oil fuel and under from the first, and he could assure engines for reserve feed water, and them that nothing but the very best hot Eurward and after peaks are In markmanship and materials had arranged for water ballast for that the remainder of the Boxer Indemnity should be commated
en put into these ships. Tae trimming purposes. The fresh water other sister ships which had pre-is contained in a built-in tapk ait riously been launched from the io the lower 'tween decks. Kowloon yards were
giving
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MARTIN'S
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A French Remedy for all irregularities. Thousands of Ladīm always knop a hex of Martin's Pilis la the boose, so that
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Lt.-Comdr. Kenworthy declared it was useless to waste time at Genoa, trying to make peace with Russia in the West, when an associate Power was doing this in the East. At this point the Speaker intervened.
BRITAIN AND THE BOXER INDEMNITY.
London, May 4.
In the House of Commons, Mr. Lestrange Malone suggested
and applied half for education of Chinese students in Britain and half in sending properly qualified, competent, English perscDS to China to study and report conditions there. Mr. Harmsworth promised to bring Mr. Malone's suggestion to the attention of the of education of committee, which is considering the question Chinese on British lines in all aspects.
.over.
THE IRISH FREE STATE ASCENDANT.
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London, May 4.
The Dail Eireann has appointed a committee, composed of five Free Staters and five of the Anti-Treaty party, to consider proposals for Irish unity. The committee immediately recommend- of arson and ed the cessation of hostilities. Numerous cases motor-car" stealing are reported from Londonderry, Tyrone and Donegal.
entire satisfaction, and it was as The machinery consists of a steam gratifying to the builders as it was driven tripla expansion engine! to tim-elf that they had proved so having cylinders 27 inches, 44 successful. The Plaasrbis, which inches, and 73 inches, with a stroke was launched only last month, was of 43 inches. "Steam is supplied by completed and delivered to the thres Scotch boilers of the Usual owners in 20 days after launching. marine type, haring a working pres Inis, he considered, was a record sure of 190 lbs. per square inch. which could hardly be equalled. The boilers are arranged so as to Free Staters have captured Ormonde Castle, the irregulars' last This would not have been possible be able to burn either oil or coal position in Kilkenny. The operations are now considered to be without the co-operation of all those as fuel, with Zulver Smith system concerned, and in this connection and Howden system of forced he would take the opportunity draught. The usul auxiliaries, in- congratulating Mr. Dyer for the clading Weir's feed heater, ova very efcient manner in which he porator, distiler, and oil fuel pump had personally supervised the con are Stted in engine and boiler struction of this vessel and her sister rooms. The vessels are capable of ships. With regard to the condi- maintaining a speed of 11 knots tions which obtained in the ship-in the loaded condition. yards here, he had worked here for The cargo oil is handled by two the last 10 months and knew all the large horizontal duplex oil pumps, dificulties that had to be encounter-Heyward Tyler type. Pumps are so ed-difficulties that could not have arranged that they will pump from The sensation created by the announcement of the Italo- been completely overcoms were it the ses into any oil compartment, Angora agreement is modified by Mr. Chamberlain's statement ins not for the close co-operation that and from any oil compartment into the House of Commons. The agreement was signed with Constan- oxisted all-round In conclusion he any other oil compartment on oppa tinople, not Angora. The newspapers are awaiting the full text asked them to join with him in a site sides, also pump from oil com before endorsing their original view that Italy has been guilty of toast for the continued success and artment and deliver simultaneously disloyalty similar to that of France on the occasion of the Franco- prosperity of the Hongkong and overeach side of vessel, also through Kemalist agreement; but the Daily Telegraph, referring to the Whampoa Dock Company. (Ap-wain sea valve. A special oil fuel "Italian diplomatic, technical distinction," asserts that Constan- plause)"
pump is in the fore hold for trans-tinople furnishes the screen for Kemalist operation. Mr. Dyer suitably responded and terring oil fuel in the deep tank the proceedings terminated.
forward into the cross bunker aft
The steamer is equipped with wireless apparatus, powerful steam handling windlass, winches for
Description of the Vessel. Following are the particulars of the Pleiodon:
Length over all, 427 feet; Breadth cargo and warping purposes, and extreme sa feet 4 inches; Depth steaza steering gear with teleumotor moulded, 21 feet; Load draft 24 feet control, together with steam heat inches and Deadweight carrying ing in accommodation, and electric
tight capacy 8,400 tour.
ITALY'S AGREEMENT WITH TURKEY.
THE RUSSIAN PROBLEM.
London, May 4.
Paris, May 4.
France's decision to support the Belgian attitude on the Russian question reached the Cabinet, presided over by M. Poincare, who on behalf of the whole Ministry thanked M. Baxthon for the manner wherein he had represented French interests.
LIGGETT & MYERS TOBACCO (D.
BENGUET
CONSOLIDATED
MINING COMPANY.
Philippine Islands.
Brief Report for 1921
Production: 40,941 tons of ore.
Average Value: P 35.17 per ton.
Gold Won: P 1.201.994.
Gross Profit: P 724,201.
Net Profit: P 575.176.
Dividends Paid: P 300,000.
Cash on Hand: P 173,032. Supplies on Hand: P 172.532
Üre Reserves: P 5.782.124.
AGENTS:---
MOXON & TAYLOR, HONGKONG.
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