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REMOVAL NOTICE.
Andereen, Meyer & Co.. Ltd, beg to announce the retnoval on September 1st., 11122, of their offices from No. 2, Queen's Road Central, to
1 o. 67, 69, Des Voeux 1 oad.
(SITE OF THE OLD
VICTORIA THEATRE)
Th
Hongkong Telegraph.
No, 12,488
SEPTEMBER 12, 1922. I HELE COPY: 10 CTB.
FOUNDED IR21
弍拜體 弍十月九铁快♣ TUESDAY,
ALLIED CONTINGENTS LAND AT SHYRNA.
BODY IN A TRUNK.
PRAYA EAST BECLAMA-
TIONA
KOWLOON HOSPITAL.
Comparative Quiet at Present.
What Has Been Done.
(Reuter's Service.j
Londat, September 11.
Revised Cost Put at ́ $5,233,587.
were
Was
PER
REMOVAL NOTICE.
Andersen, Meyer & Co., Ltd., beg to announce the renioval on September - 1st... 1922, of their offices from No. 2. Queen's Road Central, to
No. 67, 69, Des Voeux Road.
(SITE OF THE OLD VICTORIA THEATRE.) .
HONGKONG GUILDS.
A Year of Disputes.
HONGKONG HARBOUR
SCHEME.
Chinese "Boy" Fined.
Preliminary Work. In The discovery of the dead body!
his annual report, the
In the course of his annual Director of Public Works has the report, the Secretary for Chinese The following reference to the It is feared in London that the Turkish complaint to the League of a man in a camphor wood truck! of Nations respecting alleged Grack outrages during the retreat may at Robinson Road bad sequel at There are some interesting estate-following regarding the Kowloon Afleira says:-A most noticeable Hongkong Harbour development feature of the year was the con- scheme appeare in the annual be the prelude to retaliation, but detalls of the entry of the Turks into the Magistracy,this morning in &ments regarding the big Praya Hospital:-
tinued development and Smyrne received officially show that this was unaccompanied by ex. charge brought against Chinese East Reclamation Salome con-
Sketch plans for various organization of guilde, brought Works:-
re report of the Director of Public cosses. There was a slight panic following the entry, due to indiscri-bay" employed at St. Joseph'stained in the annual faport of the schemes
prepared. A
to more particular notics by a This work was referred to in inate Abooting by either Armenians or Greeks; but quiet was restored College, for removlaga dead body. Director of Public Works. This Contract for site preparation was Reries of disputes between paragraph 170 of last year's in ball an hour by the Turkish commander, who guaranteed that his without written permission from states that the contract for let in October to Messrs. Tung masters and men in various in- Report. The two Engineers troops would not take reprisals. There was a recurrence of random the Secretary of the Sanitary certain specified work was Shing & Co. for the amount of dustries, with which this office required to assist in the work of
awarded to Sang Bếp and Co., $22.660.36. A large portion of this firing, accompanied by looting, on Saturday, whereupon the Turkish Board.
There were no suspicious marks whose tender. amounted
closely concerned. The sounding, taking borings and to work was completed during the following strikes were declared preparation of plans arrived in the commander undertook the patrolling of the city.
on the body to show that the man $2,766,899.70, the contract time the year.
or averted in 1921.
Colony on the 28th. August and had met his death other than by for completion being six years.
The major portion of the work.
15th September respectively, natural causes, but enquiries by The report continues
|ing, drawings, etc., for the hospital the police, after the discovery, The revised estimate of coat were also prepared.
Hydrographic surveys of Tai brought to light the fact that the of the Praya East Reclamation
Wan and Hung Hom Bay were box was purchased from a certain Scheme (apart from premia) to be
1921 Estimates, ...
completed by the end of the year, The Turca-Gruek crisis is causing the greatest activity in Gov-hop, the employees of which borne by those persods entitled 1921 Expenditure, erument quarters. Mr. Lloyd George, who is in the country, is in were able to identify the defend- to participate, including the Gov. Expenditure to
31/12/21-.. constant telephonic communication with Downing Street, as are sino ant se belug the purchaser. The ernment, in $3,744,319.00: the the War Office and Admiralty, both of which are taking the most officer in charge of the cass said original estimate of doet which active steps to ensure unanimity of policy among Britain and the that the deceased was also em-appeared in paragraph 171 of last Allies with a view to possible eventualities arising out of the Turkish ployed at the College but hed year's report was $3,385,000 00.
Allied naval and military detachments were landed at Smyrna with the concurrence of the Turkish commander. Their presence will materially lessen the danger to refugees. The certainty of a shortage of foodstuffs is, howevoi, disquinting,
NUCCERNOR,
British Government Activity.
THE OPIUM COMMISSION.
Later.
Shipwrights and carpenters.
Rattan furniture-makers.
Sandalwood works.
Camphorwood box-makers (no but boring operations could not
...$50,000.00 .4.291.65
guild).
$4,291.65
A BAGHDAD UNIVERSITY.
King Feisal's Foundation.
Tea box markers.
Masons and quarrymen.
Eating house employees.
Matshed builders.
A number of new guilds were
started, and in addition many
be commenced as the necessary tools. bad not arrived from
England.
The expenditure during 1921 was $755.66.
long-established ones redrafted FARIS TRAIN BANDIT EXECUTED. their regulations, and made every
stated to his employers that hel The revised estimate of cost to was away in the country, wheross be borne by Government, includ- the whole time he was living in aling its revised estimated con surreptitious way in the servants tribution of $685,843.00 to the quarters, his work being per-General Fund, road improve.
effort to make their member Jacques Mecislas Charrier, General Adoption of Certificate System Urged, formed by a substitute. When mente at Arsenal Street and East
ship comprehensive in the craft medical student, militant Socia death London, September 11.
came the
which they represent Intimida-list, and train bandit, was execut- servants Point, development of Morrison into consterna-Hill area, resumptions of prop.
tion with the object of compelling ed on August 2 on the fringe of Consideration of the opium traffic was resumed by the Fifth were thrown
Thes concluded that erties involved, and the construc-
An interesting ceremony took men to join a guild, became.com-the Latin Quarter, where he was Commissing of the Assembly of the League of Nations. Lord in. Chelmsford drew attention to the marked diminution in the pro-discovery
body tion of large twin-storm-water Place recently in a garden near moner, notably among the copper born. Charrier played a minor and rattan furniture part in the attack by masked duction of harmful drugs, and gave interesting figures dealing with would led to discovery of the culverts from the grand stand Abamiyah (about three miles saith the production of opium in India.
falsehood and the dismissal of the caclosure at Happy Valley to the north of Raghdad), when King makers; there was keen competi- bandits on the Paris-Marseille It was pointed out that the joint struggle against the drug traffic staff: so the defendant, who was existing ses front, is $2,185,111.00. Feinal, in the presence of the tion between rival guilds in the express in July last year, when a
brother, WEB bad been too recently initiated for any great success to he recorded, the deceased's
The revised total estimate of British High Commissioner and endeavour to enlist the same lieutenant was killed in resisting one of his companions. Charrier and that grave difficulties were encountered in obtaining exact advised to remove it in the trunk. cost of the scheme is therefore large gathering of local net members.
The Magistrate (Mr. N. L.$5,233,587,
ables, laid the foundation stons The total number of new trade Paris, and on the same after. was arrested some days later in figures.
of the University of Aal al-Bait-societies-reported-to-this office
of the
Sir A.H. Steel Maitland urged that strict control should be exer./Smith) - agreed-with-the-police-The-total-expenditure-chargedThe Members of the House- since the repeal of the old Societi noon two of his companions who cised in the manufacture of opium and morphine, which should be that the case might have been a to the Praya East Reclamation hold." ie, the family of the Pro- Ordinance up to the end of the resisted arrest were shot dead by
THE AUTUMN CLASSIC.
Quotations for the St. Leger.
London, September 11.
St. Leger betting is as follows: 11 2 against Ramus: 100-15 Villars: 7 Fred Power; 100 8 Backs Hussar: 14 1 Silurian: 18--1 Ceylonesa: 25 1 Harpenden.
TAX.
Government Remains Silent.
guilda,
12
70
1921 1920,
IL
81
Bacieties
17
-
20
serious one from another aspect, Account to the close of the year. based entirely upon medical requiremente.
the police in the avenue Wagram, year is as follows:- Lord Chelmsford suggested that delegates should press their and be ordered that the $200 bail including a sum of $105,541.81 phet Mohamed.
and a police inkgactor was mor- (iovernments to adopt a system of import and export certificate-on which accused was released charged to Advance Account" The University has been de-
tally wounded in the fray. Char method of dealing with the drug traffic which hitherto had boen he turned over as a fine, this re-amounted to $113,433 51, veloped, if not actually Initiated. Masters Societies, .
presenting the maximum penalty.
rier was the son of Mecistas: adopted only by twenty out of fity-one members of the League.
the end of 1908, a sum of by King Feisal himself, and is Men's Socistie |$17,315.39' was written off the to be built and maintained out
Goldberg, a Russian Pole, who (trade union)
was a well-known figure in anar- | Advance Account and debited to of Waqf funds (plous endow- SINGAPORE INCOME
chist ciroles in the Latin Quarter P.W.E., Prays East Rec'amation,ments), and the land on which it Masters and Men's
joint as there was no prospect of carry- [is to stand is Waqf land.
some thirty years ago. His mo...· ther, a school teacher, afterwards ing out the work.
The primary object of the new
married Dr. Charrier, who rec- The Advance Account, bow institution is to provide instruc-
jognized and adopted the son of ever, was edbarquently reopened. tion for boys who wish to study)
Mecislas Goldberg. At his trial and, in order to keep the pre- theology and religious law with
Charrier declared himself at war vious transaction in evidence, the the object of becoming Judges in (Our Own Correspondent.)
Colonial Treasurer suggested de- religious Courte, Muftis, or re-
with society, and defied the Judge Singapore. September 12.
to take his head. Going down It was stated at the Legislative biting the Advance Account with ligious teachers; but molern
the long corridor to the prison Council meating that the Govern- $57,315.39, crediting a w eub-secular and scientific teaching is
doors he sang the Internationale ment was not prepared to make a head, namely, Praya East Re-not to be excluded. It is intend-
and the Carmagnole, and he want to the scaffold with a Tax pending the return of Sir Deposit Not Availabic, and this scope of the college and to in-
Mary Pickford has many parts cigarette in his lips. In a will, Laurence Quillemard, who is cue was done in 1917
crease the number of faculties to play in "Heart O' the Hills," the grotesque and ironic, he left his via Hongkong on September 21st of the Advance Account, Praya
At the end of 1921, on the close until it becomes a real university. new picture which came to the stomach to the Advocate-General, The plans are the work of Mr. Coronet yesterday and she plays "who is in need of ous," and his East Reclamation, the Deposit J. M. Wilson, of the Irak Ministry them all in the brilliant fashion skin to the Chef de la Surete, and SWATOW RELIEF FUND. Not Available, Praya East of Public Works, who has studied that has won her her world-wide he concluded the document with
under Sir E, Lutyens.
Later.
6 Ramus: 10-15 Fred Power: 100 6 Coreyrian: 26--1 Backwood and Ceylonere
Additional Runners.
(Cooper).
Additional probables are Baton Rouge ((irare) and Silvanus statement of policy on Income clamation Contribution undered, as funds permit, to add to the
-
ORDERS FOR BRITISH IRON.
Scottish Furnaces Being Restarted.
London, September 11. As the outcome of labour disputes, Canada and the United States have recently placed orders for 300,000 tans of foundry iron in Britain, including 60,000 tons in Scotand. Consequently the Scottish stocks are cleared out and the ironinasters are preparing to re-fight the furnaces. At present there are only sixteen furnaces operating in Scotland, compared with seventy before the war.
LOSS OF THE
HAMMONIA”.
Good Rescue Work.
London, September 11. The Kinfauns Castle intimates by wireless that she is bringing 385 survivors from the Hammonia to Southampton. It is estimated that when she left Vigo, the Hammonia had 360 passengers and
· 192 crew.
The steamer Euclid has landed 88 at Vigo, the Soldier! Prince has landed 61 at Gibraltar, and the City of Valencia, bound) for Madeira, has seven aboard.
DUTCH MINISTER'S LEAVE.
The Hague, September 11. The Minister, M. Ysealsteyn, has been granted leave of absence, Pending a solution of the Cabinet crisis, he goes to South Africa and afterwards to the Dutch East Indies to see his son.
MRS. HARDING SLIGHTLY BETTER.
Washington, September 11.
Mre. Harding has slightly improved.
20the Telegrams in Pan
HONGKONG BUILDING
BOOM.
P.W.D. Kept Busy"
In the course of his annual report the Director of Public Worke saye
The year under review was, wing to the unprecedented boom in the building trade, the busiest
|
the figures for 1920 being given in a parallel column for purposes of comparison :---
European house, . Chinese houSES, Buildings and struc- turesothor than the above, Alterations and ad- ditions to existing buildings....
in the history of the Buildings, Verandahs,.. Ordinance Office, and its out-Balconies, chtanding feature was the very Sunshades,
large Dumber of domestic build | Areas,
with.ET
deling is a tabulated
Piers,...
100
580
Singapore Donations. aflur Own Correspondent.)
.Singapore, September 12. The Logislative Council has
laf Fund.
IRREGULAR MAILS.
...
$167,148.81
113,433.51
CINEMA NOTES.
"Heart O' The Hills".
fame.
News in To-day's New Advertisements.;
clamation Contribution, was also
the words:"Last unfinished an closed, and the P.W.E. was coa.
It is not out of place to recall
account of involuntary death." sequently credited with $57,315 39
It is a story of a feud amongst me. Charrier has claimed the Further references to the the fact that the Department of the mountains of Kentucky. True
body. scheme to the report are as Waqts in Baghdad was 85stemati- to a deathbed compact, Mary, as follow:-
cally starved in Turkish times, the sturdy little heroine of the The position of the Praya East when large sums were sent every piece, shakes her curls and "gets voted $11,000 to the Swatow, Re-Reclamation Scheme, Current year to Constantinople. Waqf after" the man who murdered ber Account, on the 31st December, funds can now provide for the father. Running parallel with The Chinese Chamber of Com-1921, is as follows:~~
building and maintenance of a the trail of vengeance she merce Fund has already despatch Total Calls paid by
college, although the pay of the treads to grimly are pleasanter ed $30,000, also 3,050 bags of rice.
M. L. Holdera .. $136,149,91| Waqf employees has been largely paths of love along which ebe
Moutrie'a point out one of the Total Calls paid by
increased, and scores of dilapi-occasionally strays. Her heritage many virtues of the Victrola.— Governinent
30,998.90 dated, religious buildings have is filched from her by a gang of Page 6,
been put in a good state of repair. land grabbers and she heads the Consignees by the Blue Funnel:
Ku-Klux-Klan nightriders who so. Hyson will find a notice an go forth and slay the leader of page 4. the gang. Falsely accused of You can have a band night in having fired the fatal ebot, she your own home with Columbia. is brought to trial but the case Records, Page 4.
Rose of the River" is being falls through when every juryman gets up and claims that shown at the Star Theatre to- amounting to $27,465.00 was paid Some Interesting Reports. it was his finger that pressed the night-Page 12.
The Dairy Farm Company the compensate
trigger. So the story goes on till It was stated that the Governo
Spanish ment had brought pressure of the Marine Rights of R.P. of states that the new Civil Gover-moment when the heroine comes
|Dominican Mission-the owners Our Canion correspondent it reaches its great crisis the advertise skim milk.-Page:7. bear on the P. & O. and British
Marine Lot No. Indie lines on the subject.
40-for the nor has appointed Lau Yue-lun,face to face with her father's
LISTEN { shortage in the area allotted to former Chinese Minister to Lon-slayer.
Changing seasons and adcertis- ing automatically stimulate trade. Maritime Customs and also special Intercourse Minister in
Whether you demand thrills, The final episodes of the Jungle Canton.
heartthrobs or laughs in your Goddess" are being shown at the General Chan King ming has pictures, you'll get just what you | Kowloon Theatre to-night-Page decided to create a new depart. want in "Rose O' The River," 12. ment for the training of soldiers shown at the Star Theatre to The J.C.J.L. advise consignesa for the Kwangtung Army. He night till Thursday. It'e the that the s.e. Tjilabbet has arrived
A Singapore Complaint. (Our Own Correspondent).
Singapore, September 12, Unofficial protesta were made in the Legislative Council with
regard to the irregularity of mails,
BUFFALO KILLED BY MOTOR.
After Knocking a Coolie Down. After knocking down, a coolie
Total Less expenditure up
to 31.12.21 ...
Unexpended balance
carried to 1922
$ 53,715 30 Supp ementary expenditure
CANTON AFFAIRS.
શું
to them on the Praya Eaeldon, as Superintendent of the "Rose O' the River."
Reclamation.
NEW CANTON BANK.
Hongkong Compradore's
J
28
fet de reining General Zip story of an unsophisticated little from America-Fage 42
who was unfortunate enough to
Scheme 1920. 1921. get in its way, water-buffalo,
Kue as Superintendent, with country girl whose life became Upside Down" is being shown 133 which bad broken loose from its
According to reports in Canton, idential Palace,
headquarters at the old Pres-wrapped in the tangled skein at the World Theatre to-night--
spun by an arch villain. "Green," Page 12. Ha 988 fellows, turned into Des Voeux Rays our correspondent there,
Road West yesterday and was Mr. Chan Kang-yue, brother of The assumption of the position and unsuspecting as she was, she The N.Y.K 6.8. Suwa Mard has knocked down and killed by a the new Civil Governor and of Commander-in-Chief by Gen-turned the tables on him and arrived from Europe. Consignees 171 motor car. The mad career of the compradors to the Douglas eral Chan King-ming has been made him a laughing stock. see page 5.
buffalo took him from Connaught Steamship Co in Hongkong, has postponed until the 15th. instant, You'll agree that it is the baut Road West, where he was being decided to promote a new com as General Yip Kue has gone to picture this captivating little star. 2,101 2,575 driven along into Des Voeux mercial bank in Cantons with a Waichow to see his father. has ever appeared in.
644 Road through as side street, the capital of five million dollare, for The representative - to the
Upside Down."
164
300
247
19
5
Total 3,506
tement showing the number. The number of plans appre
for which plans during
236 coolle being knocked down with the purpose of assisting his Tuchun of Fukien, who has been de
29 such force that he sustained a brother in dealing with the curd on a special mission regarding Avery interesting picture is dem
severe injury to the side of his renoy problem.
ment of Hou Sung chi's being shown at,
the Kw
head, necessitating his removal It is stated that this bank will force
hospital. The animal” was be given the
hours?
Loga of insuing lokos.
Ting Theatre, Upside border which Taylor Holmes
Lappear