Stoves of Various Types
Including the famous
DOVER STOVE
stocked and installed by
C. E. WARREN & Co.,Ltd.
CHINA BUILDING.
TEL. C. 269.
HANKOW FEARS."
CHINESE EXPECT AN UPHEAVAL
FLEEING INTO JAPANESE CONCESSION.
£2,000,000-FOR NANKING.
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Hongkong Telegraph
YO品 六拜禮 號四十月五英港香
NO. 22,
PROTEST BY SOVIET CHARGE.
"DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY"
VIOLATED.
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AWAITS MOSCOW'S ORDERS.
London, May 13. M. Rosengoitz, the Soviet charge d'Affairs, has sent a letter to London, May 13. Sir Austen Chamberlain protesting A wireless message from Han-against the raid on Arcos House. kow states that the situation there He says the premises of Arcos is growing more tense since the and the trade delegation were oc- news has leaked out that Generalcupied by armed police, although Yang Sen has captured Jchang and is moving down-river to Han-
kow.
Yang Sen was originally with Wa Pei-fu, and then became a Nationalist, Latterly he had gone over to the Northerners. He was responsible for the Wanhsien Incident last September.
Thousands of middle-class Chin- ese in Hankow, unable to leave the port, are taking refuge in the Japanese Conecasion, anticipating grave trouble in Hinkew
soon.
The Nationalists have seized all the flour in the native city for the troops on the Honan front. The price of flour has risen 26 per cont. The price of rice is rising and it is becoming more scarce daily.
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„The Coolie. Ipeident..................
the premises of the trade delega-
on, in accordance with the Trade Agreement of 1921, confirmed by Foreign Ofice Note of February 16, 1927, enjoy diplomatic immuni- ty.
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Ile declares that during the raid an employee of the trade de- legation named Khudiskov, who refused to give up the key of a safe containing personal papers, and cypher codes of the oficial trade agent, was assaulted by the plice, who carried off the post dresscil to the trade agent which couriera had just brought.
"Flagrant Violation."
“PROVIDENTS."
THIS MORNING'S MEETING.
SATURDAY,
MAY
14. 1927.
日四十四
MISSISSIPPI FLOODS LANE CRAWFORDS.
DISASTER.
FURTHER SERIOUS BREAKS IN LEVEE.
THOUSANDS AFFECTED.
THE PROSPECT OUTLINED.
The annual general meeting of
New York, May 13. the China Provident, Loan and
A message from Baton Rouge, Mortgage Company was held this Louisiana, states that the levee at morning at the offices of the Gen-Bayourdes Glaises broke in, as a big eral Managers, Messrs. Shewan, bend section at Moreauville, nt six Tomes and Co.
o'clock in the morning and that by Mr. C. A. da Roza occupied the chair and there was a large atten-nine o'clock there was a crevasse in the embankment 600 feet wide. dance of shareholders.
The Chairman aaid: Gentle The lovee ut this point is men: You have had the report nine feet high-Reuters American and accounts in your possession Service, for the period required by the Company's Articles, and, with your consent, I will take them as read.
I regret there has been a falling off of more than 50 per cent. in the revenue from the Godowns in 1926 as compared with 1925, but the profits during the year under re- view have not suffered any diminu- tion from the "Lighterage" side of the business as was the case in 1925. A small profit was earned in this department. Large profits were not anticipated, and the de- partment has been worked for the convenience of our clients as a feeder to our main business, which as you know is the storage of car- go.
Effect of Boycott.
1,000 Frantle. Workers. •
Later.
Over 1,000 wolkers have been labouring all day and night to strengthen the embankment and
the break. an effort is still being made to close
Ex-Governor Parker, who is directing the flood operations, says that 25,000 people and 60,000 acres in the immediate vicinity of Bayou de Glaces will be affected by the break, while further afield 60,000 more people will be made homeless and nearly one million ucres of marshland inundated.
It is also expected that the new flood will break down the levees of the Atchafalaya River, jeopardising the safety of over 150,000 people The State Commissioner for Agri- culture estimates the loss from the w flood at approximately $10,000,000-Renter's American
Service.
Yet a Further Break.
FEEL EFFECT OF BAD TRADE.
$30 PER ANNUM
SINGLE UOPY 10 CENTS
Bulls
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Some people really are absont- This argument over the nationa minded. In the Peak tram the lity of the author of "Maritana” A PRESENT IMPROVEMENT. other day, a prominent Govern- must ceuse. Let's have a Polar
ment Official thought he was back Cake instead.
ΠΠ He fell asleep. The loss on trading which has in the office
The clerk who asked permission been suffered by Messrs. Lane,
This week's home hint: To this week to go to a funeral must Crawford, Ltd., during the past keep the bills down, use a flat iron have thought he would bo 48 year was the subject of explana- as a paper-weight,
happy watching the tonnis going to the Valley. tor by Mr.A. S. D. Cousland, A secret breeding place for who presided at the annual general mosquitoes has been discovered at America saves its broath to meeting of the Company held at Taipo. Otherwise crime in the coolidge porridge.
A Monte Carlo correspondent.. the offices of the Company, this district is reported normal." morning.
In the course of his speech, the The Chinese factions could get states that a Scotsman, said to be Chairman said: Gentlemen.The together all right if there wasnt from Aberdeen, came there and on the second day committed suicide. Report and Accounts have been in always something each of them it appears, on investigation, that your hands for the prescribed want to get separately.
ho had heard that people were period, and I will, therefore, with
buried there for nothing. When a Hongkong man tells you your permission, take them as read. The balance at debit of about his past, it's hard to know Profit and Loss Account, after whether he's confcasing or boast- de-ing. making due allowance for preciation, bad and doubtful debts.
brought forward from last year, and deducting the credit balance viz, $2,494,38, amounts to $63,430. 84 which it is proposed to carry forward to a new account. The loss for the year is occasioned
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We are reminded that too much
If all the people who understand fun is being poked at the saxo- phone in these columns. Perhaps the Chinese situation were laid end that is so. After all a saxophone to end, he would feel very cone is no joke.
picuous,
Home papers cull the extended It looks as if they sent dilators wholly by the fact that the Com-Tranchise "Votes for Flappers." to Westminster instead of legis. pany was unable to do the turn- The difference between a flapper, lators."
it has done in and a woman appears to be 30 to` over which previous years. In normal times a considerable amount of business
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sidents in the Interior of China, Owing to the extremely unsettled state of China for some time past and the conseqüent withdrawal of foreigners from ont-stations, this branch of the Company's business has received a severe set back.
Bad Trade.
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What we need in Hongkong is a
radio commission to find some way
These proceedings, the letter continues, were a flagrant viola-
is done with Coast Porta and re- Not content with entrenching to make a transmitter work. tion of Article 5 of the Trade
operations in Nathan Road recent- Agreement, which provides that
ly, the powers-that-be added a gas official agents shall have liberty
attack. This realism, in the main, that signs of bare patches are to The K.B.G.C. groundsmen aay to communicate with their own
is to be deprecated. Government or other official repre- The decrease in the earnings in
be seen in various places. We sentatives of their Government in the Godowns was, of course, due
This week's motoring hint: Be noticed that ourselves at the other countries, and receive or to the political troubles in China,
careful or you will run up bills Investiture. A coolie yesterday walked on to despatch couriers with sealed and perhaps more so to the strike
on "high" examination." pontoon at which H.M.S. Wan- bags exempt from
Dr. Long Lal has been appoint and boycott of everything British, derer was lying. He had no busi- Moreover, in accordance with Arand in particular against Hong-
Bad trade generally in Hong- These entertainments to the eActing Director of Propaganda ness there, and a bluejacket on ticle I of the Trade Agreement. kong. In the conditions obtaining duty ordered him off. The coolie the British Government undertook during the greater part of 1926,
kong has again affected adversely troops suggest that it is time some at Hankow.
00 the volume of business done, one proposed the Amalgamated than spat in the bluejacket's face, not to discriminate against such it was not a rantter for aurprise! Yet a further break is reported Conditions such as have been pre-Union of Concert Parties, with the This week's stray bat from the whereupon the bluejacket knocked trade compared with the trade of that cargo distributed from Hong in the levee at Bordleonville, on the valent in the Colony since the boy-Esperante motto Ne plus yours ultra belfry: "How is it that most com- the coolie down with the butt any foreign country, but the very kong went past the Colony to Bayou des Glaises, where a crovaase,
posers give themselves airs ?" end of his rifle.
ed the spending power both of The British fact of the raid will injure Anglo- Shanghai; we have not figures 100 feet wide, has appeared. Descott started in June, 1925, reduc- special bellicum. Consul has protested to Mr. Soviet trade.
showing the diminution of this perate efforts are being made to Chen regarding the coolio's
important transhipment trade, but save the levee at Torras, on the old commercial firms and private in- The Radio Society is arranging Chen conduct, and Mr.
hast
our records of sugar and flour river, which is reported to be fast dividuals more and more as time to broadcast a symposium entitled poisson..
This has been plainly "In a Hongkong Market," by the American passed. protested to the Consul regard-
de- weakening-Reuter'e handled
evident during the period covered Wyndham Street Hawkers' Gice ing the bluejacket's action.
by. the accounts before you. Party. Listening-in gets will be crease. Despite these adverse cir- Service.
Trade, however, now shows an lent to hospital fever patients. cumstances, the Godowns earned
improvement and I am pleased to a fair profit as you will have seen from the statement submitted to
The foregoing incident ordinarily would be a minor and unimportant one, but at the present time is symptomatic of the tenseness of the atmosphere.
you.
show an enormous
Allegations, Furthermore, during the raid, the most elementary guarantees and demands of common deeency were violated, says M. Rosengoltz; and he further declares that the search was begun before, the pre-
The Mortgage and Loan, section suntation of a warrant, which was only handed to the assistant direc-earned $249,365.26, but of this sum $2,000,000 Nanking Claims.
tor of Arcos, M. Sorottin, an hour the amount of $135,831.77, being! Claims of £2,000,000 mentioned after the commencement of the yesterday, on the part of the Bri- search. All the employees, men tish, refer to the damage find re- and women, of Arcos:
and the parations at Nanking, not Hankow, trade delegation, were detained as erroneously reported yesterday and personally searched, including Sir Miles Lampson, who intends women possessing diplomatic pass- interviewing the British comman- ports, for instance the wife of the ders at Shanghai, is to leave Tien-charge t'affaires and the wife of tain for Shanghai on May 16 the financial attache. Router.
MISSING ATLANTIC
-FLIER.
AMERICAN PRESIDENT'S
"MESSAGE.
Washington, May 13. President Coolidge has telegraph- ed to M. Doumergue saying he hopes Nungesser and Colf will be found, and assuring France that the American Government will everything "humanly possible" in their search for the brave French aviators.--Reuter's American Ser-
vice.
Later.
recurrence of a similar disaster in
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Property, plant, fixtures and fit
口口 Judging from some of this year's tings, utensils, launches, etc., Accounts will show. Stocks have hotter to stop in step-ins! have been fully depreciated as the bathing costumes, it would be
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One man's Esh is another man's
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It is said that the soldiers who are being entertained at local con- certs declare that they "cauna . . Grimble."
Judging from a local case this week, the next best thing to being
in a bar is to be in a barber's.
"Cheating the Grave," vide a
Huge Damage Figures.
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be able to inform you that our
With the daily changing from Mr. Hoover has stated that the
A Kowloon lady who went up already reflecting, this. flood damage will reach the gigan-gures for the present year are red to anti-red and vice versa, it In the would be a good idea if these vic figure of $250,000,000.
meantime, every economy is being Chinese Generals adopted the Peak the Peak the other day had an accident. She slipped on a frozen system-"In" President Coolidge has consulted exercised by the management in calling box
stare. "Out."
口口 interest earned the collection of the Department of Commerce and administering the business. which appears to your Board as the Department of War with a extremely doubtful, has not been view to drawing up a scheme to be taken into the accounts. On the
to Congress in order to prevent & other side of the account, by far embodied in a Bill to be presented the most important item is the
the future..
depreciated. wherever necessary, McWhirter says that language is charge for interest in the sum of $221,413.08 with which the Com-
The press point out that the Investment shows a larger disere-like tea; it's a question of the current advertisement, suggests pany has been burdened. I will not attempt to allocate this amount project is likely to be most delicate paney this year between book blend. sonal search of the women was to the two departments of your as the authorities of the various value and market quotation but
On windy days some of these. business, nor will it serve any States affected do not see eye-to-the nature of this investment as- sures. an appreciable riso in mar- The letter concludes: "I have useful purpose to do so, although eye with each other or with
Americanket quotation when conditions arithmetic
again become norminl. informed my Government of all approximate results might be ob- Washington-Reuter's that has occurred. While await-tained with a great deal of trou- Service. ing their decisions and instruc- | ble. tions, I protest most emphatically of the ab- against the violation ligatichs undertaken by the Bri- tish Government in accordance with the Trade Agreement."
This per-
carried out by male police.
"A Misapprehension.
SLUMP ON BERLIN BOURSE.
New Premises.
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that it is best to go in smiling.
The Police are not taking any skirts leave what is known in action against the local press for improper, advertising raffles at the Queen's.
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The person seeking a home for black cut seems to be out of
"Strength commande respect, respect commands peace," stated a luck contemporary the other day. Now we know howitzer _chieved!
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The Prince of Koren is going on a world trip, perhaps with the iden of gaining terpsi-Korean 'experi
ence..
More To Reserve.
During the year, the Company moved into its new premises in
What's in a name? Disappoint- Gentlemen, at the last annual
Exchange Building and His Excel
ed swoopstuke ticket holders are meeting of the Company, in deal-
lency the Governor, Sir. Cecil
It is reported that the King going to the Queen's Theatre to ing with the proposed leserves of
Clementi, K.G.M.G. Was kind
see kalles. $2,361,915.66, I moved an amend- ment, which was duly accepted by BANKS TO RESTRICT CREDIT enough officially to open the new recently made a gramophone re- store on August 17th, 1926. This cord. That's nothing. We know In connexion with the above, it you, that the Reserves should be
Berlin, May 15.
move was planned and arranged a Kowloon resident who is deter- is stated in authoritative quarters increased to $2.083,111.30. I re-
To-day will be known as "Black before the boycott started in 1925, mined to break one! that M. Rosengoltz is under a mis- gret your Board has considered it
Auntie Caustic says some folk apprehension as regards the exact necessary to further augment the Friday in the history of the Ber- The new premises are well adapt-
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Without making any forecasts, aning of Article 5 of the Trade Reserve for Rad and Doubtful in Stock Exchange, where there ed to the Company's business and, Agreement.
Loans by the sum of $223,423.18. has not been such a panicky feel-with a return to normal condi- simply odour onions.
After anxiously watching some that the benefit of the move will This article says that M. Kin- After, making these transfers, ing since the worst period of the tions, your Directors are confident. chuk, who is the official agent of and taking into consideration the inflation.
he apparent and the extra rental of these ponies, we are reminded we wonder if the main bout at the slumps ranging Tremendous the delegation, personally enjoys sume written off in 1925 on Pro-" immunity from arrest or search,perty Account, Depreciation on from ten to forty points occurred incurred will be easily carried. that the great thing in training a Boxing Tournament will be a caso
proved very popular with the BALLOONISTS FOUND.but the right does not extend to Investments, and Reserves on the inll kinds of shares. The The Cafe in its new quarters has pony' is to give it plenty of rest.
became panic-stricken, the offices under his control. various classes of loans, the de-public.
cently been necessary to extend Moreover, M. Kinchuk's immunity ficit is $2,981,236, which is equiva-throwing shares into the market at public, so much so that it has re-applied to telephone services, appearing in a local advertise- is not the ordinary diplomatic im-lent to half the issued capital or any price, so that thousands of the accommodation of this Depart-Pity some usc couldn't be made of ment, depicted the wearer com munity, but is a special privilege $5 per share. I wish, however, to pounds sterling have already been under the Trade Agreement, while draw your attention that this ad-
As a panic sequel, the Berlin furthermore, the Russian trade de.justment leaves the Company with legation is only permitted to roa General Reserve of $736,437.61 The pilots of the Soviet balloon ceive one sealed bag every week. irrespective of the Reserves which banks, as the result of strong have been specifically earmarked. pressure from Dr. Schacht, -the- president of the Reichsbank, have The Balance Sheet,
agreed to restrict. censiderably,
MISHAP WHEN CROSSING URALS.
Moscow, May 19..
mentioned earlier, who went up on
a test flight at the end of inst month, have been rescued by hunt- era twenty miles from Troitsk," in the Kome district of Siberia, half- frozen and almost dead.
Renter.
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There was n new
Safes To Be Broken Open?
Turning to the Balance Sheet, Londen, later.
turn to the gentlemen, und referring first of It appears the balloon was wreck Arcos raid this evening, when all to the "Liabilities," ed when flying over the Urala-gang of workmen arrived in a Router.
KING'S NEW TITLE.
ing a pneumatic concrete-breaker,
other tools.
"UNITED KINGDOM" OMITTED.
London, May 13, A proclamation by H. M. the King is gazetted, whereby in the King's style and title "United King- dom of Great Britain and Ireland" is aitored to "Great Britain and Ireland."Reuter.
I would
lost.
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but gradually, all credits for speculative or discount purposes.
The first restriction, to the extent
of Hindle Wakes-some time later. 口口
The violet ray is now to be
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An illustration of a sleeping suit.
ment. This has been done with the purple hue occasionally seen plete with sait, boots, collar and in the vicinity of our telephone. tie. Presumably he lost his hat out involving the Company in any
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on the way home. increase of rent.
A local golfer is reported to have holed out in one in his second shot. Many a one would have
Company's Facilities.
According to the Post, Sepoy been discouraged after missing it Sardar Khan won the long jump in
at his first attempt.
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Sheep dog trials will be intro- camera. It is believed that by this means
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What's wrong with Chian.
gangs.
The Happy Valley golfer who drove a bail through a window into To judge from the latest in con- the middle of a ladies' tea-party,
The Company is comprised of Grocery, Provision, Wine and Spirit, Confectionery, Restaurant, Bakery and Cakes, Ladies, Outfit Bag, Jewellery, Hardware, draw your attention to the Ex-of 25 per cent, will be enforced ting, Boots and Shoes, Trunk and duced into Canton in the autumn. lorry and carried into the build-change Reserve of $113,087.10: In the middle of June by Dr. Crockery and Glass, Skip Chand- the authorities will pick up some imagine there's too much Russian.
this is merely a book balance Schacht, who is believed to desirelery, Furnishing, Sports and Toys heavy crowbars and a number of which has already been partially to avoid an increase in the dis- and Motor Car Departments and new ideas in order to assist the about.
wiped off, and will be completely count rate, which might have the wide range of merchandise work of the non-compulsory press
ព ច atilised as soon as our liability to shaken the prestige of the Reichs- offered to the public by those It is inferred that these will be the Standard Of Co., has been bank. He is said to have threaten- Departments, as well as the high used for breaking open the safes liquidated. The Balance Sheet at ed the banks with legislative quality upheld, combined with with the Nanking note, the got into an awful hole in one! the keys of which are being with-31st. December, 1925, recorded the measures unless they agreed to his reasonable prices, are bound to re- Shanghai Defence force may ng
net favourably, immediately condi- held. Reuter.
Mortgages or the Company's pro-demand. perly at $1,085,595.79 and, in ad- Industrialists are of opinion that tlons improve. I now beg to well have brought their wiven
ᄆᄆ dition, there was shown separately credit restriction will detrimental formally propose that the Report
The new seating arrangement of the debt of $1,036,811.06 to the ly affect industry, as reorganisaand Accounts of the Company for
nolee heard in the third Item of Standard Oll Company. All mort-tion of Industry is not yet com-the. financial year ending 28th gagca (other than those on pro-plete, and can be successfully February 1927 (Including the re- the "Harry Laader Sulte" was the the Peak trams reminds us of the banglag of saxpentes, not old adageTwo's comfortabla
Three's not!" perty under llen to our Bankers) carried out only if the Bourse be commendation of the Directors as
cymbals. are now shown in the one sum of able to absorb the new Industrial therein indicated) as presented, be
adopted. shares. Reuter. (Continued, on Page 14.)
TO-DAY.
Dollar on demand Lighting-up.
2/-1/16
6.55 pm,
after alt.
"Musical Reader."
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