MANUFACTURED
in
ENGLAND
BY
W. D. & H. O. WILLS.
151
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
NOTICE.
The
Three
Castles
Virginia Cigarettes
The Cigarette with the Pedigree
TUESDAY, AUGUST 22. 1922.
HOTELS
LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS
HONGKONG:
Hongkong Hotel,
Peak Hotel.
Repulse Bay Hotel. SHANGHAI:
Astor House Hotel,
Palace Hotel,
Grand Hotel' Kalee. PEKING:
Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits.
The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.
In conjunction with
The Shanghai Hotela, Ltd.
and
The Grand Hotel das Wagons Ltd.
KING. EDWARD HOTEL.
CENTRAL LOCATION,
ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING,
TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR.
HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMER-,
Telegraphia Address::“VICTORIA
J. WITCH ELalog
FUL. 373-
Manager.
THE EUROPE HOTEL.
SINGAPORE.
DANCING AFTER DINNER
EVERY
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY.
TEA DANCES-
TUESDAYS and 3 HURSDAYS.
The Hotel Orchestra under the Direction of
Mr. F. R. Martens.
Telephones in every Room.
Telegraphic Address:-"EUROPE, SINGAPORE.”
Telephone Na 2740 (9 lines).
KINGSCLERE
THE EUROPE FOTEL, LTE
ARTHUR E ODELL Manager,
MID-LEVEL
KOWLOON
.:OTEL
KNUTSFORD HOTEL
SACHSE, LENNOX & Co. General Axents
Are resident Managers.
PALACE HOTEL, KOWLOON.
NK..
Tel Add. Palace,"
Two mizure fthms Ferry and Railway Station. Five minutes by Perry from Hongkong
A best mass fluted in error respect and under English management.
Cassior somer personal enpervision of the Proprietor.
2 oz. marad Billard Ho
Te Mod rate.
djeca, amandments for families on application to
J. EL OXBERET, Proprietur.
ENTERT
THE
CORONET
230. 5.15. 7 15 & 915
WHITE HANDS
LARRY SEMON.
រង
THE FALL GUY.
TOP.CAL BUDGET.
KOWLOON THEATRE
at 9 p.m.
NEGLIGE
DANCE.
Booking at MOUTRIE'S
$1.50 each.
WORLD
PHONE: 1337
THEATRE
PHONE. 1337
Hongkong's Most Modern & Coolest Picture Palace.
3.15 and 9.15 p.m.
STUART HOLMES & ELLEN CASSIDY in
LOVE HONOR & ?
2.30 & 7.15 p..
EILEEN SEDGWICK in. "THE GREAT RADIUM
MYSTERY"
Episodes 4 and 5.
Usual Prices. Booking at the THEATRE.
THE TELEPHONE QUESTION.
Pafenued from Pane Ja
i know of no difference be- tween the basis of valuation in name of the National Telephone Company and that arlupted
Fale.
la rad by B2.Agaricas TDC.
to $95 per annum for service with in one mile of the exchanges.
It is to be observed that the Committee, although showing a great desire to escape from Mr. Cook's valuation of the property and plant, avoid committing then salves to any other valuation.
A Query.
tim.mk Lt."
EXCHANGE.
—
Opening Rare: donis Rase
TF Demand 30 dia
on Page 11
SELLING.
DU NIPPON
AROWER
VTOKY
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD...
HONGKONG,
RIVER LEVELS.
As a guide to shipmasters and others interested in the water levels of the river we have bean requested by the Board of Con- servancy Works of Kwargtung to publish the following table of water levels. The levels are taken at 10 am, each day. *
*1634 2/6.1/18
50 d
SOLE AGENT.
4 m/s
247
T/C Shanghai
Cóm
110W
120 197
& New York.f
579%
14814 No..
7 25
Hige W. L
1922
Lowest W. L.
BUYING.
Place of Observation
WTEX
W. L. I W. L
recorded
2 79% 2:77% 2.794
Agg. 20 Aug. 21,
Feet
Fet
Wactow,
West River
-42
Kongmoon,
-0.80
9.30 9.00
21834
Linkonghon, North
0
12.50
11.00
Jamshui, Sbaklung, Exst
-5.00
14 80
14:0
+ 15.35
-0.98
3.90
380
TIDE TABLE.
STAR THEATRE.
PEKING ROAD, SOWLOON:
'Phone. K. 795.
The biggest house exhibiting the best pictures. ›
TUESDAY 22nd. to THURSDAY 24th.. 5.30 & 9.15. p.m.
MARGUERITE CLARK
IN
-
"COME OUT OF THE KITCHEN."
Booking at the Star Ferry Waart for Hongkong Resident FREE FERRY TICKETS BOTH WAYS.
Open Day 4.33 to 1,15 pt. and § to 9 pm.. Saverlays to 2.15 p. 4.3 5.15 p.m. and 6 to 9 pm. SEE HAND BILLS.
T/T Singapore. T/ Japan T/T India..... Demand, India T/T San Francisco
T Mr. Cook it the presect instance. The system known as
Part II The Committee's re- the Tramway Terms; Le proper commendation that the Govern and plant a valuation, plus 10ment should install a system of per chat far compulsory sale, audits own to be in working order by plus goodwill, was the ope
1930, at once gives rise to the applied to the present Case
question, wby, if Govern meat without any addition for goot-ownership and administration are T/T Java will, going cancera or compulsory desirable, and if it is an assured T/T Marks It is not yet known what the thing that in their hands the rates T/T France
could be brought below those Demand. Paris..... depreciation will be in the future, agreed on by the experta, and if except that by the Agreement it the Committee believe that the must not exceed 8 per cent.
4 min. 1/C Part 11, Clause 5-The pro-and that these profits in the Company is earninglarge profits,
4 m/s. D/P party from its wituation is bands of the
6 m/s. L/C Government recessary for the business.
would result in lesseding 30 d. Sydney and being astualed 10 or For the rates and giving a fair rear to the Telephone return on the Capital employed, 30 die. San Francis-} Centre. It is proposed in erecting why does the Committee not re- the new building. to add two commend the purchase now of floore for public offices which this profitable concern? would be let until the time arrives because an immediate considera- when the whole of the building tion of such a transaction would Tight bo necessary for the business. This should be a source value of the undertaking. on press bome the fact of the real
which rates have to be based and a fair and reasonable return obtained?
of revenue to the Company.
The New Rates.
Is it
GERMAN DRAMA BOOMING.
Part 11. Clause 6.-The new subscription rates have been the subject of caraful considération and of agreement by the two experts, both of them specialists in this connection. The Com- ruittee seems to have made no calculation to justify ibe According to Mr. Albert II. schedule of rates they propos- Woods, one of the foremost in substitution of that of Messre American producers, who has re- Cole and Cook. They simply turned from a playhunting trip to allege that the subscription rates Europe, "Germany is the liveliest
j
Melbourne
ro & New York) 4 10/4. Marks
mis. France
5338
Nom. .7 60 * mfe. France......... 770 Demand, Germany. Demand. New York 57 T/T Bombay
Demand, Bombay... 197 Til Calcutta
Demand, Calcutta....197 Tu Yokohams.......
120
Demand, Manila
1:6
Demand, Singapore. 110
3n Haiphong
Demand Batavia... 1482
On Saigon On Bangkok Sovereign
METEOROLOGICAL.
Sarometer
Temperature.... Humidity
Previous
Day
on date,
on date.
at 2 p.m. 5 m. 2 pm
****
Eeet
-.9.50
+ 14.70
+57.00
+3.25
29.66 29.61 29.57 82 77 .86
$3 99 72
recorded
Foot
12ad. to 28th. Aug. 1922
Height.
9 26A 5 i
Elonghons
2. m. 1.1
1675
S la 05
Water
LOT WICH
EST Meme The
NOD
b. m.. it. in.
813%
22 1478
Wind Direction
W
CALM NW
Wind Force Weather.
1
2
Nad, 23 m
6. Į
10 7 5.5
ot orit.
Tour, 24 m #58 7.7
m 3 33 $1.9
1 $1,57.
Rain..
Gold leaf per Tanl... -
............ 7.65
Bay Silver, ready... 34
forward
..........33
Bank of England rates 3%
* SUBSIDIARY COINS.
are too high, and the Commit country to the world, theatrically. New York/London... 4.48 te put forward the figure of $84 ❘ at the present time. England is fastead of the existing £10, thus the deadest. I brought back little lessening instead of increasing English material because there'kong 50 où piacer the average rate, which the £ 0 ¦ is not any. With the exception has, until lately, produced. Dar of Somerset Maugham, English
10:
5
ing the years 1905-1917, the £10 playwrights seem to have faded Caton sub coin. subscription produced from $113 out of the landscape,"
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0:47 0.00 0.91 | T. 25 m 10:54 13
JAPAN COAL
AND
GENERAL IMPORTS AND EXPORTS
AGENTS FOR:-
THE MIT UBISHI MARINE & FIR INSURANCE CO. THE OSAKA MAKINE & FIME INSURAÑC&•CO.
ITÕUDIÓN
MITSUBISHI SHOJI KAISHA
(MITSUBISHI TRADING CO., LTD
HEAD OFFICE:-TOKYO
No, 14, PEDDER ST., HONGKONG
BOVIET AMBASSADOR TO
CHINA.
Ambassador to Chiva description of his career and
• Thé, Shanghai New Times ft. activities under the Bolshevist ports that Nikolai Dmitrievitch regime is reprinted from the m619 8okoloff, Petrograd barrister, Izvestia under the title
has been appointed Soviet Traitors of Russia.”
3. 26 m 11.51 6.8
Jan. 77 0
5 18 17 512 17
0.5 6.1.
Highest open air
Temperature on the 21st 85 Lowest.
*p*a air Tamperature on the 22nd 76 Mon, 23 = 55. BU
18.6% dis. T. F.CLAXTON, Direction.
par par
3/16% dis
-Hongkong, August 22, 1922,
159-54
-7 12 25
H.K. Observatory, Aug. 22.
-morning a. afternoon /::
Printed and Published for the Proprietor by Alfred Ics Home Street, in the City of Vis