THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY; NOVEMBER 14, 1925.
11
PEACE TALK.
DELEGATE FROM CANTON,
After many weeks of waiting
and watching, it would appear that
at long last a genuine endeavour
urrived
DOCTOR ON MALARIA.
COST £50,000,000; KILLS 2,000,000,
The direct annual cost of sick-
He added that the world's an. nual death roll from malaria was
is being made from Canton to endness and death attributable to the position produced by the strike malaria is between £50,000,000 and £60,000,000, according to Dr. in Balfour, Director of the London and boycott, There Hongkong on Thursday afternoon Schoot of Hygiene and Tropical a Mr, Lau Tung-ping, from Canton, Medicine, who in a speech at the who produced, his credentials as Guild House, Eccleston Square, representative of the four chief pointed out that malaria was Merchant Guilds of Canton, hold-constantly warring against the ing a commission to enquire the Empire, picking off officers at- views of the merchants and officials tached to the mercantile marine of this Colony in regard to the and crippling trade. terms of settlement. He has al- ready paid an official calf on the two Chinese members of the Legis-2,000,000. lative Council, the meeting taking plave in the rooms of the Chinese Merchants' Club yesterday after- noon, when, in addition to the Hon. Mr. Chow Shou-son and the lon.; Mr. R. H. Kotewall, there
Chairman and ACQUISITIONS BY BRITISH also present the
of the Chinese Vice Chairmar General Chamber of Commerce, the
The Trustees of the British Twenty-Four President of the
Chinese Merchants' Guilds, as well as other Museum. huve acquired several leading members of the Chinese specimens of early
pottery from the collection of the business community.
late Dr. G. P. Crofts, which was sold at Sotheby's in July. The
were
EARLY CHINESE POTTERY.
MUSEUM.
The object of the conference was to exchange views on the question most important of these is a
the Canton merchants.
Voigtländer
HELIAR 1:4, 5
THE LENS THAT MADE Mr. MATZENE FAMOUS!
TEL. C. 4411,
SANDER. WIELER &00
SAFETY FIRST"
IN
THE AIR.
TIMELY REMINDER FOR PILOTS,
1ST FLOOR PaWELL'S BUILDANG.
WARWICK PRIORY.
EXPLANATION BY THE
PURCHASER.
ex-
·HONGKONG' AND `SHẲNGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
HEAD OFFICE; HONGKONG.
Authorized Capital .. Issued and Fully Paid-up
Haryo Fund -
Sterling
'Allver
$50,000,000 $20,000,000
Reserve Llablity of Propriators
BANKS
INTERNATIONAL BANKING CORPORATION.
(Owned by the National City Bank of New York).
Capital & Hurplus 11.8. $10,000,000 HEAD OFFICE:
.60, Wall Street, New York: LONDON OFFICE:
# 4,500,000
SRG 100.000
$20,000.00
Barahona
COURT OF DIRECTORS:
G. M. Young, Eaq: Chairman
H. P. White, Esq. Deputy Chairman Barcelona D.G.M. Bernard, Eaq Hon. Mr. A.O. Lang Batavia W.H. Bell, Raq W. L. Fattenden, H Bombay A.H. Compton, Esq. J.A. Plummer, Esq. Calcutta Hon.Mr.P.H.Helyoak T. G. Weall, Eng.
Uhlef Manager
'A. H. Barlow, Bay,
Manoger: Shanghai-G. H. Btitt, Esq,
Cantos
Gisbu
Colon
Dairen
Hankow Harbto
Hongkong
36 Bishopsgate, E.C. BRANCHES.
Oraka Panama Peking
Puerto Plata
Bangoon
San Francisco, Cal.
San Francisco de Macoria San
- San Pedro de Macoris
Sanchez
Bantiago de los Caballeros Santo Domingo
Shanghai
Singapore
Tiantain
Takio Yokoham
THE P. & O. BANKING CORPORATION, LTD.
(Incorporated in England 1920) With worth is stilisted THE ALLAHABAD BANK, LTD. INDIA.
Authorized Capital... Subsoribed and Paikup Reserve Fund.........
£5,000,000 .02,694,360 ..B360,000
HEAD OFFICE: 122, Leadenhall London E.C. WEST LONDON BRANCH: 14-16, Cockspur Street, London S.W.J. EASTERN BRANOHES; Bombay, Calcutta, Karachi, Madras, Colombo, Singapore, Hongkong, Canton and Shanghai.
The Corporation undertake General Banking and Exchange Business of vary description and is addition to its tranches has Agoncite in all the principal cities of the world.
L.E. HOPKINS,"
Manager.
73, Des Vaux Road Contral, Hongkong.
ORIENTAL COMMERCIAL BANE, LTD.
LONDON BANKERS: WESTMINSTER BANK LTD. CURRENT ACCOUNTS open- Kobe ed in LOCAL CURRENCY and La Vaga
Madrid FIXED DEPOSITS. received for Mits
Commercial and Travellers' Letters of one year or shorter periode in Local Currency and Sterling on Credit, Billa of Exchange and Cabla Current torma which will be quoted on Transfers bought and sold.
accounts and Savings Bank accounts opened and Fixed Deposits in local and 66 Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong. application.
foreign aurrencies taken at ratos that may be ascertained on application to the Bark. We are also able to offer our Customers the servicos of Branches of the Nationa City Bank of New York in the principal countries of South America and in the West Indies.
Hongkong, 21st. Feb., 1924. HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.
The Business of the above Bank, is Mr. Alexander W. Weddell, of conducted by the HONGKONG AND
Kales may
be obtained on TION. A novel safety aeroplane. fitted Richmond, Virginia. U.S.A., who, SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORA
with Mrs. Weddell, has pur- application.
INTEREST on Deposits is calculated of the terms of the settlement: and madel of an oxeart with two with air brakes and device which, chased Warwick Priory,
views attendants standing beside the after having secured the
Annum. Should there be no balance on of the Hongkong merchants. Mr. ox. It is of red pattery, within an emergency, automatically plained in an interview with aor the lowest balance during each com-
his action.
day in a month no interest will bo Buy Lau will' return at once to Canton, greenish brown glaze, and it is simiches the pilot from his seat London journal the reason for plated Calendar Month at 3 per cent par
There has been a misconcep-llowed for that month.
Depositors many transfer at their option where he will lay enquiries before believed to have been found in and lowers him to the ground, jlomb on the Mong Shan hills near Loyang, in the province of has been constructed by Signor tion of our ideas and plans," he
KONG AND SHANGHAI BANK to be BRITISH MERCHANTS APPROACHED.Honun, and to be of the Sai Pietro Magni, the fralian aeron-said. "Before we had even heard Balance of $190 or more to the HONG
RENT RATES. autical engineer.
piacos ou FIXED DEPOSIT at CUR- For the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Mr. Lau later visited the Hon.dynasty (A.D. 589-6181
The cart is closed by panels in
The machine, which has been
&.H. BARLOW, Mr. P. H. Holyoak, with whom he
front and by a long tasselled had an interview in the presence curtain at the back, and probably flown successfully, is really a
ing Corporation.
of Mr. A. 0. Lang, Mr. Holyoak painted out that the demands made represents the vehicle used to monoplane, but there are two guttering, roofing, etc.--and the convey the bride to the marriage small auxiliary wings below the ceremony. The attendant figures are remarkable for their promin-main plane. When the pilot is
the Chinese.. Te considered the ent noses and generally tanding in a small space be
in order to reach a
to a Hongkong Chinese delegatie little while ago concerned only merchants of Hongkong and Canton Chinese features. They seem to moves a lever which rotates these should initiate a sincere discussion represent Central Asiatic types wings until they press flat against
settlement. which are not unknown ainong, Mr. Holyoak referred to the hpm the tomb figures of the Tang and the air and so rapidly check the
A flat base machine's motion. mer-earlier periods. which was being caused to
the model, which chants and labourers alike by the supports
A form of the brake working on a similar principlo was fitted present trouble, both here and measures 211 in. in length by 16! in Canton, and expressed the habelin. in height.
Another important acquisition to the Sopwith "ono-and-a-half that the long-standing good freling) between British and Chivest mer-is a handsome pear-shaped ewer! chants at the two centres would be of white porcelain, with bluish-tracter "neroplanes.
white "ying ch'ing" glaze. It is resumed.
of Warwick Priory and before our arrival in England, the old place had begun to be stripped of Booring, panelling, iron-work, practically everything stairs,
empty shell was announced for sale at auction in September.
It was then bought in by a
•
Chist Manager. Hongkang, 7th. January 1936.
Head Office Hongkong.
local contractor, who intended to TUX DANK OF CANTON LTD. dispose of the stone and brick to builders in the neighbourhood,
.£1,900,000
£1,081,875 $700,000
Foreign Exchange &General Banking business transacted.
SAVINGS
Paid Up Capital............. made an offer which he accepted.Silver Reserve Fund........ At this juncture my wife and I Authorland Capital.. und this material, thus became ours.
"It is not our purpose to
Interest allowed on attempt to reconstruct the Priory
CURRENT ACCOUNTS in America, but it has seemed to us that the use of the stone and'
2% per annum on daily credit balancos from this old brick
place, of over $100.00: bloom of material with the centuries upon it, would not be 1 structure
national inappropriate for
of, a the naturo which will become eventually in pulls a handle. His belt is re-monument, housing an institu- leased instantly, and a parachute tion--the Virginian Historical of lis ejected automatically from a Society which has for many
beon guardian years recess in the fuselage behind historical treasurers in Virginia and whose work has incidentally Thim.
better under- The wind, suddenly pressing been a powerful factor in the
promotion of
between the two
The other safety device on the ne of the finer types of that Magni monoplane is extremely Sir James Jamieson, the British ware which is now held to have Consul General at Canton, is also been made at Ju Chou and other ingenious. In an emergency such on a visit to Hangkong, and spoke towns in Honan in the Sung as a collision in the hir, the pilot on the trade conditions of the pre-dynasty 1960-1279). sent time in an address before! members of the General Chamber of Commerce yesterday.
CHOLERA OUTBREAK.
Philippines Blame Setrage. Dumping.
SIAMESE CATS.
Popular in Britain.
The cult of the Siamese cat is into the parachute, causes it to standing growing. For the second cham- pionship show of the Siamese Cat whip the airmen from his seat, countries. Club, held in Kensington, there and he is then floated safely to were 79 entries, and the club earth.
According
to the
G. HOGG,
Manager.
9 Queen's Road Central, Hongkong.
Bonorve Fund
Paid-up Capital..........
INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA. THE CHARTERED BANK OF
(Incorporated by Royal Charter JB55.)
£3,000,000 ---------------£4,000,000 Reserve Liability of Proprietor £3,000,000 Foreign Exchange and General Banking business transacted.
Current Accounts opened and Fixed Deposits received for 1 year or shorter puriods at rates which will be quoted on
•pplication.
A. H. FERGUSON,
Miningar.
BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE
(BRANCH BANK.).
HEAD OFFICE:
B6, Boulevard Hangsmann, Paris,
Capital Paid-up Capital Reservos
..Fra. 72,000,000.00
.........
...Er 68,400,000.00 .....Br. 59,667,283.54
BRANOHES & AGENCIES:
Hongkong
Bankok
4% per annum DEPOSITS
Battambang Mengtse
Canton Djibouti
Noumen
Papeeta
for 12 months 6% per annum
Haiphong
Poking
6
4% PA
Hankor
Prom-panh
Tr
3
3% 10
Hanoi
on Demand
2% per annum
BRANCHES: Canton, Swalow, Shanghai, Hankow, Bangkok, New York and San Francisco.
LONDON BANKERS The Lloyds
LOOK POONG SHAN, Chiot Manager.
Bank Ltd.
Saigon
Shanghai
Singapore
Tiontain
,
HEAD OFFICE :
BRANCHES-BANGKOK- SHANGHAL
Wost- Correspondents: - London: minster Bank, Ltd; New York: National City Bnak; San Francisco: Valon Trust Co. of San Francisco: Canton Bank. Authorised Capital Paid Up Capital...
5 000 000 1 500,000 Modern banking in all its branches Current accounts savings accounts and fixed deposits solicited. Loans granted on approved secreity,
Dvorsens banking speciality. INTEREST. Current accounts 2 par cost saving 4 por cent, Fized Deposits, 3 months 4 par coat, 6 months 44 per cont. one year 6 por caut,
Bafe Dopenita, Boxes for Rent Our Vaults autoguarded by time olecks and double oumbinations. Aur plate steel doors.
J, Y. LUM,
Manager.
THE HO HONG BANE, LTD. (Established 1917.)
CAPITAL:
Authorised Capital
$20,000,00
Terved
8,000,000
Paid-up
4,000,000
Beserve inbilities of
Shareholders
Burplus
4,000,000 825,000
HEAD OFFICE:-SINGAPORE," Branches, Agencies and Correspondente in the principal cities of the world.
Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted.
HL. HUANG
Manager,
Toursne THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE
Tladivestock
Pondicherry Yourenfu
BANKERS:
In FRANCE:-Comptoir
BANK LTD.
Established 1830.
National Capital (fully paid up)....... 100,000,000 .....Y. 83,500,000 Credit Beserve tund.
Branches and Agencies si
Lyonnais; Banque de Paris of des HEADOFFICE:-YOKOHAMA.
d'Escompte do Paris;
Pays-Bay; Credit Industrial Commercial; Societo Neneral.
21
In LONDON The National Fre- Batavia
vincial and Union Bank of England, Bombay. London Soprabaya Ltd, Comptoir National d'Escompte Buenos Ayres Lyons de Paris, Credit Lyonnain.
Interest allowed on Current Accounts
Kabe
1.
Semarang
Rangoon
Los Angeles San Francisco
Manila Seattle
Nagaakki
Shanghai
Nagoya Singapors
Newchwang Bhimonosek Dasya
New York
Poking
By dasy
Tientsin.
Tokyo
Ie NEW YORK. I'. Murgan & Co. Canton
Calcutta
Changchun
་
and Fixed Deposits according to arrange.
hanking Every description ment. exchange business transacted.n
Dairen
(Dainy)
Of
and Fongtien
$10,278,600.00 89,679,425.24: $64,000,000.00
A. LECOT, Hankow
Manager,
Mukden Hamburg
Rio de
Honolulu
Janeiro
Harbin
Karachi
ASIA
Bai Yoon
Saigon.
"It really seems to me that
THE FANK OF CHINA, between the use of this material
(Spacially authorized by Presidential for factory in Warwickshire membership has increased in three |
French and its use to form the walls of a Mandate of the Republic of Chins on the years from 35 to 125. Quite a number of visitors to the show technical reports thus "safety public institution in Virginia, 22nd of November, 1917.) The following, from the Maria seemed to be looking for nice first aircraft has a wing span of devoted to the promotion of Bulletin, will be of much interest kittens which cost about three 26.2ft., a length of 72ft, and historical studies, the trae Briton to Hongkong residents
guineas) among the pretty young height of 7.3ft. The wing load-could make but one choice. Unless a radical change is exhibits with their white bodiesing is 841b, per square foot, and made in treatment and disput of dark ears, feet, and tail, and blue the useful load is 2821h. waste matter collected through eyes the city sewage system, Manila sharp cry, resembling the wail
Save for their
curious
asi
After more than six ounturies
Paid-up Capital
Resorve Fanda Authorized Capital
HEAD OFFICE: PEKING. HONGKONG BRANCHES : 4, Queen's Road Central. a bronze tabiet in memory of MECHANICAL SIXTH SENSE,
Walter Raynolds, Branches and Sab-branches all over Another safety device which it Archbishop a baby, or the Cry will never be completely Free of
is claimed acts as a mechanical which has been erected in the old China and correspondents in Europe, soul these animals
LONDON BANKERS-The National sixth sense to the pilot, was parish church of St. Mary's, North America and other parts of the World. from epidemic diseases and on-a
as attractive, or perhaps breaks may be certain to take pear
Sir Frederick Green, a parishion-Ltd. place any time, according to more attractive, than ordinary demonstrated at lendon acro. Wimbledon, by the generosity of Provincial and Dion Bank of England
kittens. A voteran much admired drome recently. health service officials,
The apparatus is called theer, was dedicated by the Archbi- The Guaranty Tract Company of New NEW YORK BRANCHES :-The shop of Canterbury Archbishop York. was Iliasaka. Born in 1911, Ria-
The Equitable ** anti-staṭl ** Raynolds, who was tutor to the Irving National Renks. The recent cholera epidemicka is the oldest champion, and Savage-Branson
When the ueroplane is oldest originated from the waters of! perhaps the
existing gear.
Interest allowed en Current Accounts Edward II., was instituted to the Bungkusay cove a little boyd Siamese est. She is the Lying approaching its stating "peed first Prince of Wales, afterwards Trust Company of New York. Tondo on the bay, where Manila":
fish supply hangos is proof that, in spite of their supe, the speed at which it will benefice, of Wimbledon in July, and Fixed Deposite. Terms on applica.[ "Every description of Banking business gear jogs 1298, and was at the same time)
Later he transected. washed before being taken to the enduro as long as other domestic the pilot's memory by giving the Canon of St. Paurs,
control stick forward push. different markets, according 10 [[19,
Special facilities for Home Exchange. Thus the pilot is warned ad the Was Bishop of Worcester, Chan-Loans granted an approved securities.
cellor of England, and Archbishop! the report of scientists who have
approaching danger and is able to of Canterbury. been making a study of the epidemology of the disease.
Laicipate it. Wash basins in the city markers) to which the fish immediately! upon being removed from Bang- kusay are transferred were also
main
posed delicacy, Siamese cats can fall, the
ANCIENT BOAT.
Found In Welsh
Lake.
found infected with cholera Mr. T. Jenkins, a carpenter,
germa, s0
anti-siall
A representative of Lloyd's has tested the gear in the air, and, as a result, aircraft fitted with the gear are to be given "special con- sideration in respect of insu that they are the Llangorae, Breconshire, has re-
Pilots from Imperial agencies in the spread of the recently discovered a bout of an-rance." cent epidemic.
cient design in Liangorse Lake.Airways also have tried the The waters of Tungkushy cove' He had suspected its existence device, and the Air Ministry has it is believed, were infected by for 20 years. It is 16ft. long, 2ft. placed an order.
The apparatus consists of al the waste matter discharged un-wide, and 8in. deep, and is treated from the city sewage hollowed out of a great nak tree. floating vane pivoted on a bracket The boat is in a remarkable state-jattached to one of the interplane system into the bay.
of preservation. The stern comes struts. This vane, in effect, mea- to a sharp point and the prowsures the angle at which the
Director of Health Fajardo in'
& memorandum to the governor ends in a block of solid wood and aeroplane is "attacking" the air. When the angle becomes dangor- general sets forth the discovery is finished with a hook. of the epidemologists who made
The absence of rowlocks sug-ously great the vana mozes and! a study of the origin of the pre-gests that the vessel was either operates compressed-air ap- scut cholera outbreak and urges paddled or poled. The boat had paratus which, in turn, pushes
doption of measures whereby overal unintelligiblo marks in-forward the control stick. bay waters and consequently the side and is most probably one At present, after engine failure time of the in an ordinary machine, the pilot's
inhabitants of Manila may no used during the again be infected with any dis Roman occupation of Groat Bri-attention may be entirely occupied ease which finds lodging in the tain. This assumption is sup-in looking for an emergency land- matter discharged from the city ported by the fact that a Roman ing ground. He may fail to sewage system.
encampment is known to have notice that the machine's spoed The health service would be existed within ton miles of the has fallon dangerously low. Tho contented for the present with lake. Evidence of ancient lake rosult will be a stall" followed by
FLAPPER FANNY says
It's better to have loved and
Lion.
PEI,
Manager.
司公理管菜貨法中
SOCIETE FRANCAISE DE GERANCE.
DE LA HANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE. ETABLISSEMENT FRANCO CHINOIS.
(Incorporated in France).
5, Chater Road, Victoria, Hongkong, HEAD OFFICE:
14, Rue St. Lazare, Paris.--
Capital Franc..
Roserves France
Warking fund provided by. THE BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE
DE CHINE
Francs 60,000,000
BANKERS,
THE DANK OF EAST
LIMITED.
-
{HEAD OFFICE-HONGKONG.
Authorland Capital - - $10,000,000 5,000,000 Pald-up Capital Reserve Fund-
1,000,000
DIRECTORS Hon. Mr. Chow Shou Bon-Chairman Fung Ping Bhan Mok Ching Kong
Li Koon Chua
R.K. Kwok
Ng Ching Luk
Pong Wal Ting
Wong Yan Tong Huyuh Talf Kan Yen Po Chan Ching Sher
Evory description of Banking and Exchange business transacted-Loans granted on approved securities.
HAFE DEPOSIT BOXES to lef,
IKAN OTONG PO Chief Maneger.
-NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL MAATCHAPPIJ.
(Netherlands Trading (Society). BANK.
Established 1824.
Hongkong Branch established 1906.
Authorized Capital Guilders...150,000,000
(#12,500,000)
Teinant
Interest silowed on Current Accounta Deposits received for axed periodı al. rates to be obtained on application.
Mr. C. ARIMA Į Manager.. Hongkong, March 11th-1925,”
T. NAKAO Japanese Shoe Export. TORTOISE SHELL BOXES and CASES A SPECIALITY
Astor House Hotel Building, Queen's Road Central,
Paid-up Capital Guildera...... 80,000,000) FOB ATTENTION, OF MASTERS (86,666,670)0 NORTH-ROUND STEAMERS. Resorve Fund Guilders 20,036,861 (£1,711,405)
North-East 8, during the Special Reservas Quilders 22,660,000
(£1,688,230) Monsoon there is always a Frs.10,000,000.00 HEAD OFFICE.:-AMSTERDAM.
possiblity of North-bound steam Fr.10,790,000.00 Eastern HEAD OFFICE-BATAVIA.
ers running short OF BUNKER BRANCHES ;---
OOAL, this is to inform you that Bandjermanin Kota-Radja Rotterdam TAIT & CO., AMOY, (■ well-
Macassara Semarang Bandoong
protected port with good anchor. Madon Shopghai
age) have stooks of GOOD Padang Singapore
JAPANESE BUNKER COAL Palembang Boorabnia Pecalonan Enerakarta AT REASONABLE PRICES. FRANCE-Societo General Banque Djember.
Tagal Bole) de Djokjakarta Pesang
Wireless messages via Hong- Kohe
Pontianak Tatja, and
kong or Formosa are re-trans. The Hague Rangoon Wellovreden
London Bankers-National Provincial mitted by the Great Northern Telegraph Co. and wire to Bank, Ltd.
"TAIT" or "COALBUNKER" MOY, will receive their prompt attention:
Code, Bentley's Complete Phrase Condensed,
Nationals
de Credit, Banque Paris-ot des Pays Bas.
LONDON:Miriland Bank Ltd. NEW YORK-Irving Bank, Cotonsbla Trust Co.
Every description of. Banking and
Согга
the installation of a chlorination dwellors was discovered some a sudden earthward plunge of the lost-when you can write up your 'Exchange Business Transacted. equipment at the mouth of the years ago in the form of piles machine. Many serious accidents love affair for a confession "pondents throughout the world.
main sewage pipe line.
in the lake.
have occurred in this way.
magazine. Iæli.
A. ROLLIN
Bombay. Calcutta
Cheribon
Correspondents all over the world. BANKING BUSINESS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION."
M. J. HERBSCHLEB,
Azani.