WATSON'S
AERATED WATERS
THE HONGKONG
· ARE PREPARED FROM REAL FRUIT ESSENCES
GUARANTEED ABSOLUTELY PURE
LEMONADE-Has the real
CANONICO obtained Lemons grown in Southern Italy. RASPBERRYADE-Is propared with the juice of raep-
'borrlos grown in England and Tasmania, FORMAZONE-THE NON-ALCOHOLIC CHAMPAGNE. It possessed the characteristic stimulating and refresh- ing qualities of Champagna and has a delicious flavour. STONE GINGER BEER-t'ho only genuine Stone Ginger Boor in the East. Preparod by a special process of formentation which given it the distinctive flavour which is so pleasing to the palate.
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Victrola No. 215
The Value of the cabinet Victrola is not only
be found in its decorative attrac- tion but even more in its
claim as a lovely musical instrument.
The Victrola 215 illustrated above is a splendid example of the Victor Co's. high class machines. Always remember that the larger the instrument the greater the resonating surface and that means such, mellow tone.
S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd.
CHATER ROAD.
To the Ladies of Hongkong April 7th, 1925.
Madam,
We would respectfully draw your attention to a special sale of the Famous
MORNY FACE POWDER AND PERFUMED
BATH SALTS
during the month of April. Having been very fortunate in purchasing a quantity of the above goods at a favourable price we are able to sell as follows: -
FACE POWDER
per large box $2,50 (usual price $3.00) BATH SALTS per medium bottle $2.00. (usual price $2.50)'
LESS 5 Discount for Cash.
The fine Quality of Morny is expressed in every article which they produce.
Morny the Perfection of good taste in Powder, Perfume and Tollet Requisites.
Trusting you will avail yourself of this splendid offer, we are, Madam.
Always at your service
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
PERFUMERY DEPARTMENT. Ground Floor.
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DE A FRIEND. MAY WELI, RECKONED THE MASTERPIECE OF NATURE.—Emerson.
1o-morrow, being Good Friday, there will be no issue of the Hongko a Telegraph.
Snapshots of the landing of Admiral Washington and groups of the Hongkong interport rowing toam which recently visited Manila will appear In our Picture! Pago on Saturday,
DEATH OF PATRIARCH TIKHION.
of the those outrages that they cannot do such things with im- punity. The natural corollary to gush an argumont in that, the Chiuose authorities. boing im potent, the Powers should thom- solvos tako action to do AWAY with the abusos complained of. But it does not require much ax- amination of the problem to Stan Hill's football cartoon, to realise the futility of advocating appear on Saturday, will have a humorous boaring on the rooont such a course, or the practical wot weather which has caused impossibility at present of an postponamont of local matches. offoctivo plan of international intervention. Wore anyone in doubt as to the official attitude on the matter, there is the stato moat in the Router dublo wo published yesterday, apparently: an inspired communiquo of tho An accident occurred near the British Foreign Offico, to the east gato of the Taikoo Yards yesterday, a Chincu boing offool that
the Government of seriously injured as a result of Obing is primarily responsible being run down by a motor-car for the protection of foreign ro-belonging to the Dragon Com- pany. The driver has beon do-l sidonts." But the really contained. It was slated the injurios tontious part of the statement is caused might prove fatal. contained in the concluding
Mr. L. M. Whyte,
Hon. sontonco, "diplomatic reprosant-Socrotary of the Hongkong branch |ations seldom fall to ensure that of the Navy League, has received MUSTARD & Co. Inc. all possible protection is given." the following letter received from the Hond Offico in reference to In this very diplomatic utterance the contribution sent by Hong- one does not need to be a re-kong towards the Overseas Relief sident of the Far East to discern Fund, as a result of the Flag Day and concort held on Nelson Day, two things that these repre-1924-" In continuation of my sontations do sometimes fail, and lattor of 29th December last, I that protoction is occasionally took the opportunity of bringing
to the notice of my Executive SIMPLEX PLASTER CO. of which can only be properly impossible. So until a vastly
Committeo at their last meoting, better state of affairs supervenes, the donation of £500 which had foreigners in Chins must con- tinue to reside there ontirely at
10-17 Connaught Road Central Phone, 1186,
The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 9th April, 1925.
PRIMARILY RESPONSIBLE.
their own risk.
Expansion.
A corporation with assols totalling twenty million dollars, possessing chaln of hotels
a
throughout the Far East, with further big building and improve-] mont schemes in hand, such is the great organisation which has grown out of the little company
the
what has
boon received from your Branch in aid of the Overseas Relief Fund. I am directed by my Committeo to oxpross their very sincero, and grateful thanks for this handsome donation and to sond their good wishes to your Branch,"
of value.
MASKED MEN.
FORCE SAFE WITH -
CROWBAR.
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No arrests have been mado.
that but
A Moscow tologram sont by Reuter announces the doath, yesterday, of the Patriaroh Tikhon, whom tho oon. Bolshevista Imprisoned for protosting against the fiscation of Church valuables, and roaleased a year ago aftor international protest.
TO-DAY'S ANNUAL
MEETING.
status
Bocuring
accomplished by one with con- siderable experience in the man- ufacture Of gypsum products. However, it gives me pleasure to roport that the Company ham BILCO scoured another expert, whoso experience in gypsum in- dustrios oven surpasses that of our foriner plant managor, and we hope this year will see our export trado firmly established.
great asuptability. plastering internal brick walls of Chuese awellings, i " wide wood Jurring stripe placed 24" apart
NEW METHOD OF PANNELLING. Speaking at the first annual One looks back through the
ordinary general meeting of the Simplex Plastor Co., Ltd., hold rocont history of banditry in
this afternoon, the Chairman (Mri
1 have pleasure to further re- Chins with somo surprise, for
D. H. Blake) said "Yourport the establishment of a de- thesa outrages have become so
Directors regret that the results partment for the manufacture of of the year's working have not ornamental nbrous plaster under much an expected ovont that it
boon se favourable as anticipated the Departmental management can hardly be believed, so far as
when the Company was formed. of Professor Ciro Tavarelli, WBU the risks to foreigners are con- which, only a few years ago, had The village of Wongnoichong The lose that has buon sustained was been a Professor of Ceramics one 01 the Universities at corned, that it is less than two as its sole possession the Hong-was the scene of a robbery in the however, comparatively small in
who I thorough- yoars ago that people began to kong Hotel. Some idea of the rami-armall hours of this morning, when and has been caused by a series Home, and
informed with
ail140 fications of such a concorn can be a band of masked men raided one of events which could not have ly realise the new order of things. gleaned from, a perusal of the of the houses and stole money and boon anticipated by the General details pertaining 10 1018 Industry. The Company has With the Linchong outrage there spooch dolivored yesterday by property amounting to $844 in Managers.
Managing Director arose the first great stir against the Hongkong and Shanghai
You will note in the balance estabaned workshops, for this During the absence of the tenant shoot that the land is put down department at Ngau Shi Wan, the altered conditions in China, Hotels, Ltd. The building up of ata dinnerat Wost Point, a number as coat price, viz. $14,000. Mr aud has already received con- and the result of that affair is a this vast organisation from small of mon, wearing masks over their Wong Kwok-abuon, shortly after tracts for ornamental plastorwork had acquired the landrom several arquitects and from recognition, ho mattor of history. The position beginnings was, by one of the faces to pravont
shareholders, yesterday described rushed into the house. On boing for the Company, received a one of the largest local shipping of foreigners in this country then as "a magical transformation," told that the key of the safe was tentative offer for it of $120,000, companies. Your Directors navo took a very interesting place in and the phrase represents a true with the absent man, the robbers and
that now 14 16ovory reuson to bullevo tom de- public discussion,
oc-used a crowbar to force the re- probably worth at least $80,000, partinent will grow to considor. the while reflection of
curred during recent years. The ceptacle open, and extracted from so that the $14,000 appearing in blo proportions and will bo diplomats puzzled out just how Company's finest building at it a revolver and 100 rounds of the balance sheet may be taken greatly unoticial to the Company. they could ensure future pro- the moment is without doubt the ammunition. In addition they as a very conservative valuation.
General Managers in money and other "The assembly of the machinery conjunction With the Plant tection to their nationale. The Majestic Hotel in Shanghai, but took away
it is said that even this will be property, the whole amounting in was completed the latter part 01 manager have recoutly designed not result of the negotiations eclipsed by the Peninsula Hotel.value to rathor considerable May and the factory started
and made # machine for the which followed was the proof Coincident with those projecta, sum.j
operations the first week in June, manuracture of wast is com that none of the foreign Powere the Company is busy planning
so the period of operation from monty known as 'sheet rock." the date the machinery starten schemes for the introduction of
is is a large flat sheet of gyp cared to intervene in China, modern ideas of hotel construction
working to the end of the year issum plaster with asbostas paper preferring to leave the whole in conuoction with its other pro-
only seven months, instead of covering, 3/4" thick by 24" wide liko to teach them fult your. As chis year, 18 the janu trum 12 to 14 luet long; This question of adequate stops against portios, so that in course of time would
it will own a magnificent series medicino,
the first of the Company's activi- will no doubt prove exceedingly lawlessness to the Chinese of hotels, of its association with prospects of getting a position ties, the comparatively heavy satisfactory for Chinese types of authorities. It did not take long which Hongkong will have every after qualifying are slight, advi-organization exponses and the
nous, owing to the onespuéss of the la keelt au 16 to convince the most optimistic reason to be proud. It has been an sing them at the same time to try expenses incurred in
instead of that in the prosent state of the hill fight for past and prosent law, dentistry or some other pro-desirous connections had per- Directors of the Company to fassion where the opportunities of sonnet as a burden which will not country the authorities have attain the present position, and in making a living are brighter? materially effect the Company in Hittle power over bandit; and this connection a tribute is due it does seem hard for young mon the future.
to Mr. Taggart, whose organising and women to apply themselves "When the Company started and extending arom oor to later, as further outrages oc-and administrativo ability, as to such a calling as medicine and operations, the General Managers ceiling, curred, it became an accepted well as bis vision regarding future then, after years of training, to anutipated inuing it necessary the brickwork. Bueat took slabs fact that there was no remedy expansion, bavo boon big factors find that there is little outlet for to work the plaut day and might are
the nailed to the turning in the development of this great the application of their abilities, to tulol tho largo cun strips and the Vorticul jul1219 whatever.
undertaking.
tract tor plaster whuch
la butwoon the sbgola are covered been mado With the Kowloon with small mutal or wood bead- From north to south, there!
Tong Company. However, delay fings, Paint or colour waan can have been instances of the scant Hard Times,
A British Trade Union delega- was oxperienced by the Kowloon then be applied to the exp.sed protection foreigners can expect Some idea of tho extonttion which recently visited Russia Tong Campany IN sucurie surface of the sheet rock, and the
Home brought back many interesting sufhcient sites on which to build, auai rosult 10 romoto parts of of unemploymont
A beautiful China nowadays. Of late, two may be gathered from the fact things from that country, amongst and they have not been able to panuolion room at a muoù less recently others ons extremely good phrase, complete the number of houses cust than it native plaster were outstanding cases have prosented recorded that thoro werd no Speaking of the cruelty and anticipated. Plaster was supplied used.
"I'hora themselves for observation-the fewer than five thousand grotesqueness brought into tho tor approximately forty houses
is A considerabli qualified physioiaus in London fine arts by the cult of uglinees instead of one hundred and sixty- amount of praepoouve business detention of a Belgian priest, looking for positions. It was and the reaction against bour-x nouses which the Kowloon for the Company to be bad in the Father Declippelo, now reported added that some of these are to be gooise rafinament, these Labour-rong Company anticipated finish Colony in commuction with the to have boon released after more found a loop at night on the Entes made mention of "the more ing by the end of December last, new buildings now unaor.com. than two months of captivity, bankment that famous resort of decadent forms of syncopated it thus contract for plaster nadstruction, and several large con
those who are "down and out." pafso, known as jazz music." boon completed, your Directora trots tor, plasterwork. and the case of Mr. Tompkinson, In explanation, it is said that Hitherto, America has beanno gaubt would have had a much already been promised to the held at Shonkin by brigands tremendous activity in British credited with, or blamed for, more favourable balance shoot to Company through the General medical schools has created a inventing jazz, but according to prosent. However, ninety ada Managers, This, together, with n who appear to be in a very ugly surplus of both nion and women those British delegetes wamust re-bouees have now been completed air proportion of the other avall mood. There have boon murders physicians since the war, with the viss our ideas ofwhere jazz comes and pity of these will be ready ablu work to be pad and ins de- of foreigners to report, the last result that thousands are con- from and previsoly what it means, for plaster within the near future.velopment of our exporsbusiness, twolveinonth or
froated with the choice of starv. No longer American, it is a Bol The major portion of the boneftius | wis suwole the company, no BO, 48 woll
ing or of abandoning a profession abovik reaction against refinement which the Company will derive doubt, to place before you next as illegal detention, and thoir to which they have devoted years and a decadent form of syn- from this contract will, however, your A highly Batisfactory safoty has become
Of course, thoro acorue to the Company this year.report," of training. It is the old story of copated noise." Dro-
**A. the law of supply and domand, is jazz and jazz; some sounds
few months after blematical matter wherever they and the thought naturally occurs quite captivating, other varioties plant started operations, are away from the immediate whether some system could not even worse than anything con- plaster export, whose services reach of their own governments. be dovised for preserving some coivable under the description nad boon The obvious question
fairly equal standard as between applied to it by these Trade considerabio
tho expense to. which
one and the other. Could not the Unionists. All the same, the Company, became ill and found cherry blumoms bloom towards overyone concerned has boon medical collogos, at a time like phrase is quito a neat one, and, it necessary to leave the Colony. the oud of March. This year asking for some time has been, the present, when conditions are we fear all too true of much that His departure caused delay in (ays the Japan Advertiser) there whether something can be done abnormal and likely to continue is passed on to a long-suffering the development of the Company's is no indication of their, budaing
so for some years, inform pros-and tolerant public as real export business, the intricacies for some weeks. to impress upon the perpetrators pective students that they jazz-music."
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