THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1923
HONGKONG SPORTS & PASTIMES
NOTICE.
NOTICE...
W.S. BAILEY & CO. LTD. METALS
UNOINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS
KOWLOON.
HARBOUR REPAIRS Tags, Barges, Light Draft & High Speed Vessels & Motor Craft.
* SULE AGENTS FOR
"KELVIN MOTORS"
PHONE
Works... Kowloon 21 Manager......... Kowloon 633 HARBOUR CALL FLAO L
STEAM LAUNCH FOR SALE.
For Ladies and Gentlemen JAPANESE BOOT & SHOE
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MAKING EXPERT
S. NAKAO (FAT MAN)
(Late with Nakao & Co.) How Bitestad Daruer Floxar Street.
SHOE
PAIRING
ROYAL & CO.
Footwear Specialists. Tel. 3237.
1. D'Agular Street, Central.
MASSAGE
Mr. N. AKAJI Mrs. E. AKAJI
Graduate of Tokyo massage School No. 8 Queen's Rd. C. Phone C.4395
C. B. WARREN & CO., LTD
Sanitary Engineers, Monumentalists, etc. Offices &
93A, Wanchai Read, Godowns.
Hongkra
Tel. No. 269
Just Received
a new supply of LOWDOWN FLUSH CLOSETS.
NICKEL FLATED, ON BRASS, ..
BATH ROOM FITTINGS
Soap Dishes, Tumbler Holders, Tooth Brush Holders, Towel Rails, &c.
Opal Tumblers-Towel Rails-Mirrers,
Glaxx Shelves, &c."
Brass Canopied Interior Grates, Cooking Bastes, Filters, Sail Pipes, Ec. Estimates free for all Sanitary Installations, Heating B Water Systems.
Mocumentalists in Italian Marble & Bongkeng Granite, to own or Selected desita.
A Large Assortment of Artificial Wreaths in Stock.
of all kinds especially for ship-building and engineering work, Complete stock. Best terms. Immediate delivery.
SINGON & CO..
[Established A. D. 1880) HING LUNG ST.
Phone Central $15.
MASSAGE HALL 257 WYNDHAM STREET MRS. H. MORITA. MR. H. SUGITA.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY LIMITED.
PORTLAND CEMENT.
In Casks of 375 lbs, net.
In Bags of 250 lbs. net.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. General Managers Hongkong.
JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE.
We have over 100 views of damage at Tokyo and Yokohama on sale.
MEE CHEUNG
Ice House. Street, & Beaconsfield Arcade.
T. NAKAO
Japanese Shoe Experte TORTOISE SMELL BOXES and CASES A SPECIALTY.
Astor House Hotel Building.
Queen's Road Central,"
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT. Leading Studios in London are fitted with the latest artificial lighting devices in order to ensure perfection in photography.
The Ming Yuen Studio.
14, Beaconsfield Arcade Is now fitted with the latest lighting apparatus in order that clients may obtain es excellent and artistic photo- graphs as can be obtained in any part of the world.
We are at your service day' or night.
Made for lasting service. THE MOUTRIE PIANO.
DOINGS OF THE DUFFS.
HAS YOUR MOTHER GOT COMPANY, DANNY?
WHO 15 17 ?
YES, SOME LADY I DON'T.
KNOW WHAT
HER NAME IS,
EARLIER SPECIAL CABLES.
(United Press Service to the "Telegraph").
AERIAL TRIP TO THE POLE.
Washington, Dec. 27.;
The Navy Department announces that two ships, the dirigible Shenandoah and several airplanes will participate in the trip to the Pole. It declares that the completion of arrangements is approaching and that the pole route will prove practical
AMERICAN COASTWISE SHIPPING LAW.
"Washington, Dec. 27,
Senator Jones, the author of the coastwise shipping law has rent a memorandum to President Coolidge urging the extension of the law making all shipping between the United States and the Philippines compulsory for American b:ttoms.
THE NAVY TREATY.
Geneva, Dec. 27.
The Commission of International Navy Experts will meet os January 21st to draft a convention extending the Washing ten Navy Treaty throughout the world through the League of Nations.
WORLD, PEACE PLAN, I
New York. Dec. 27. The Federation f'Women's Clubs with a hundred and fifty million members will assist the Edwin Bok referendum. article is now being printed.
(Reuter's Service...
THE YEAR'S SHIPPING.
The
The annual report of the Australian Commonwealthlines shipbrokers. Turner Davidson and Company paints out that while freights and the prices of second band tonnage have decreased, the cost of new tonnage has increased at least ten shillings a ton, chiefly owing to the rise in steel plates. Last year has generally been depressing to ship owners. The breaking up market has been the chief outlet for old tonnage, Germany, Italy, and Holland being the principal buyers. 755,101 tons of British and foreign tonnage was laid up in the United Kingdom up to the quarter ended Oct. 1, of which 727,134 toss was British owned, an increase of 45,999 to compared with July 1. Four eight thousand tonners built in Hongkong were acquired by British shipowners for £158.000 with This two 5,100 tonners built at Shanghai for the 26,000 each. showed a boss which must have been considerably over a million for sterling. The earthquake in Japan resulted in a demand second bandanage up to nine thousand tons and large number of boats bound to, and in Eastern waters were sold-Reuter.
GERMAINE BERTOL ACQUITTED.
The acquittal of Germaine
Paris, Dec. 21.
du, the Communist-
press
-victory
as
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girl. wes, hated by the Communist for the republic and a blow at Fascism in France. and ап act of vengeance for the death of M. Jaures. On the other hand L'Action Francaise denounces the verdict as a crime while the majority of the moderate journals deplore the result of the trial. It is noteworthy that the Advocate General, after claming the full benally of the law without extenuating circumstances recalled that Plateau Christian would have, pleaded extenuating circumstances as did his bereaved mother. The Advocate General asatciated himself with that plea-Euter.
AMERICAN OFFICERS SENTENCED.
Washington. Dec. 27.
A naval court martial has sentenced Captain Watson, and Lieutenant Hunter. the commanders of the destroyer squadron which crashed on to the rocks on the Californian coast several reduced 150 numbers in
months ago. Captain Watson has been
the promotion list and Lieut. Hunter one hundred.-Reuter's Ameri can Service.
FIRE IN CHICAGO HOSPITAL FOR INSANE.
Chicago, Dec. 27.
It is known that fifteen were burnt alive or suffocated and t
is believed that at least three others perished, in a fire in the Chicago State Hospital for the insane at Dunning, which destroyed a frame structure used as a dormitory for tubercular patients. Reuters American Service.
A WAR ECHO.
Capetown, Dec. 27.
Maritz, the leader of the 1914 rebellion, who recently returned
to Africa from Germany, left Lourenco Marques for Pretoria with a view to surrendering and was arrested border-Reuler.
OLIVIA, CÖME IN HERE, I'D LIKE TO HAVE YOU MEET
AN OLD FRIEND OF
MINE
ALL RIGHT, HELEN
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Reason. Enough
on
OLIVIA, I WANT YOU TO MEET MRS
SPENCER AN OLD FRIEND OF MY MOTHER'S)
crossing the
There is no danger of a chill as a result of a launch bathing party if you take a—
HOW DO YOU DO MRS SPENCER GLAD TO MEET
You
HOW DO YOU DO MISS OLIVIA.
* KNEW YOU WHEN
YOU WERE A
LITTLE GIRL
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