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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WANHSIEN FUND.
HONGKONG CONTRIBUTIONS
TO DATE.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER
FRENCH DEBT
AND A DEBT OF GRATITUDE
Puris, Oct. 28. Hongkong's contribution to the fund for the assistance of the de- The papers announce that the pendents of the naval men who lost Argentine Government, which is their lives in the Wanhien affair a creditor of France for a debt of promises to be a substantial one. 18 million gold poses, due on Janu- The Nelson Day concert orary 1, 1927, after several delays, ganised by the Navy League, offered voluntarily, has now pr Hongkong branch, realised $1,000,posed that the payment should date to suit to which the members of the Com- be deferred to mittee added $200 as personal con- France's convenience, the interst tributions. The Hon. Treasurer, rata, being fixed by Paris. Mr. A. J. Bird, acknowledges dona-. tions as follows: Capt. T. P. Hall. Mr. J: Scott Harston Navy Leaguo Concert ... 1,000 200 Navy League Committes...
.$
M. Briand has expressed to 25 Buenos Aires the French, gratitude. 50-Havor.
Total to data...$1,275 The Wanhsien Fund being rais- ed in Shanghai now amounts to. $254. 88, in sterling, T.4,975 In taels and $6,851 in dollars.
MOBILE COMPANY.
INSPECTION BY THE G. O. C.
THE STINNES TRANSFER.
LOANS RAISED TO COMPLETE DEAL.
New York, Oct. 28. In order to finance the transfer of the Stinnes industrial interesta from German to American control
banking syndicate
two loans underwritten amounting to G. $25,000,000.- Reuter's American Service.
K
Paraded with motor cycles and cars, the Mobile Company of the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps, was inspected by the. Gan- eral Offeer Commanding the Forces, H. E. Major-General C. ". Luard, at Headguarters yesterday AMERICAN evening.
has
1926.
CHINESE BISHOPS.
PAPAL CONSERVATION :
CARRIED OUT. -
Rome, Oct. 28.
St. Peter's was crowded with people of all nationalities to wit- ness the papal consecration of six Chinese Bishops, Philip Chao, Louis Chen, Simon Hou, John Taou, Melchior Souen and Odorico Souen, who are respectively Vicars of Suamhwafu, Fenyang, Taichow, and Hainan, and Pre- fects of Lihsion and Puchi.
most
The ceremony WOR gorgeous affair. Chinese students from the College of Propaganda acted as acolytes. All the pre-
·lates of the Congregation, were present, also Monsignor Constan tini, the Apostolic Delegate to China-Reuter.....
MILLIONAIRE'S AIR ·
OFFICE.
TYPEWRITERS INSTALLED IN TWO BRITISH MACHINES:
Two giant aeroplanes, fitted up as flying offices, with tables and typewriters, have been hired for two months by a millionaire busi- ness man to visit financiers in dif ferents parts of Europe. /
The two machines will also be
ALBERT
Only French Restaurant in Hongkong where the cooking is done by a French Cook Chef.
TFFIN
DINNER-
$1.00
$1.25
For the best food and wine, where shall we go? To ALBERT'S!
22. Queen's Road, Central Opposite H'kong Hotel Building
used to bring to Biarritz and take CAFE RESTAURANT PARISIEN
home parties of business myn. ID the cabins of the 'planes they will,
INDUSTRY. be able to dictate to their secret"
aries, and conduct business ás 1 they were in their own offices.
MASS PRODUCTION
The new owner is living at Binr- The company presented a.vet/
ritz, and has hired the machines- smart appearance when lined up
a Vickers "Vulcan" and a Handley- under the command of Capt. H. B.
Washington, Oct 98. L.. Dowbiggin.
Page Wfrom Imperial Airways. Speaking at the annual bunThey will be in readiness at Balr Major-General Luard arrived at quet of the advertising agencies ritz to fly, at a moment's notice, to 5.45 accompanied by Major F. C. of the United States here to-day. Roberts, V. C. (General Staff Off-President Coolidge said that he any European city. cer), and inspected the Comfany, hoped that American prosperity with him being the Hon. Mr. W. T.would continue indefinitely. He Southern (Colonial Secretary),anid that mass production was the and Capt. N.C. D. Brownjohnbasis of this prosperity and that (Adjutant),
the combination of mass produc- Following the inspection, the lion with high wages presented an Company, headed by their armour-ideal opportunity for cheap goods ed car paraded past the Cenotaph, and an active home market where the salate was taken, the Company then returning to Head quarters.
CHINA AND TURKEY.
REPORTED DIPLOMATIC
NEGOTIATIONS."
"If we proceed under the pr.- sent system there will be little reason to doubt that we shall con- tinue to maintain high standards of wages, output and consumption indefinitely, and with our home market as a foundation, shall in creage our foreign commerce." Ile referred to the curtailment of the national debt and the de- crease in the number of federal cmployees, the reduction of taxa- London, Oct. 28. tion, the limitation of naval armo- The Times Constantinople corments, sinaller appropriations, for respondent says Dr. Sze, the Chi-national defence, cans to Europe nese Ambassador to Washington, for rehabilitation work, and the has spent a fortnight in. Turkey,inancing of South Ameries to the and has gone to Angora to open re-advantage of the forel.com- relations with the Turkish Gov-merce of the United States as con- ernment.
. tributions of the United States The correspondent learns from Government to peace and prosperity a well-informed source that the during the reconstruction period. Bolshevists are interested in Dr. -Reuter's American Servic Sze's visit, which may not be un- connected with a scheme for form- ing a league, of oriental nations. China, Afghanistan, Persia, Turkey and the Soviet Dominions.
that
car-
Sun'
He declares it is known regotiations were recently ried on at Moscow between Pao-chi and the Turkish Ambas- aador to Persia, and It is now be lieved that China and Turkey pro- pose to open diplomatic relations, and that a Turkish mission will proceed to China-Reuter.
INTERNATIONAL COURT.
SUPPORT FROM AMERICAN CHURCHES."
RUSSIAN INDUSTRY.
י}
OPTIMISTIC REVIEW OF
EXPANSION.
Moscow, October 28. The policy of lowering prices view to enlarging the with a peasant market and consolidating the union between the proletariat community is foreshadowed. by Rykoff, in an economic report to the Conference of the Al-Russia Communist Party, in which is stressed the progress of electrifica- tion works,
He says, the coal output in the Don basin has increased by seven teen million tong in two years. Washington, Oct. 28. In the course of a manifesto Government counts on an increase setting forth the fundamental of eighteen per cent in the total principles of national policy, the coal output this year. He declares Federal Council of the Churches the country's industry last year urges the Government to utilise yielded a profit of five hundred the permanent Court of Interna-million roubles, while a thousand tional Justice for every dispute million roubles would be invested capable of judicial settlement, in the current year in Industrial -Reuters American Service. I development-Reuter.
SALESMAN SAM
EQUING
BAN & GUZZ
TO GET ALONG THE BEST TREY CAN, ADRIFT IN A HILD BALLOOK
WE FIND FRANK FORTER DONG HIS
BEST TO KEEP "TA' STORE GOING WHILS HE AND THE WHOLE TOWN GRE TAMING
IN YAIN TO
FIND OUT WHAT!! [BECAME OF GUZZ AND JAM SINCE THEY
TURNISHED
SKV
HEH HEM- WE SURE SETTLED"
HASH-THAT GUZZLEM HOWDS WAS, A GREAT STUNT OF OURS. CUTTING THE ROPE THAT HELD THEIR BALLOON TO THE GROUND, AND SENDING THEM ON THEIT WAY TO CERTAIN DEATH. FAR UP IN TH SKIES
THE N
∙LEM E. SOAKÓM
·AMTHIN
Three pilots, Colonel F. F. Min- chin, Captain R. H. Mackintosh, and Captain G. P. Olley, and two mechanics are being employed.
Independent of trains and time- tables, the millionaire hirer of the machines, who does not wish his identity to be revealed, will be able "to arrange important matters with the principals in person as easily as though they were within a taxi- ride of him.
Three machines were originally ordered but, owing to the present rush on the British cross-Channel air routes, it was impossible to" spare a third machine for so long a time.
:
A stipulation was made that they should be British machines, flown by British pilots.
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