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BAND CONCERT.
CAMERONIANS AT LEE GARDENS.
BIG MANILA FIRM SUSPENDS.
THE YPRES MEMORIAL UNVEILED.
A CHINESE COMPANY WITH LONG HISTORY.
PESOS 1,000,000 DEBT.
AN IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY
PERFORMED..
"The fourth Promenade concert given by the full military Band, Pipers, Drummers and Dancers of
· PLACE OF PILGRIMAGE. tho First Battalion, The Camerontans, at the Les Gardens on Saturday night, was another
Yu Bino Sentan and company..
Ypres, July 21. great success.
one of the oldest Chinese firms Around the gaunt ruins of the There was a good attendance in Manila, general importers and old Cloth Hall the new city which and the music provided was well exporters and owners of several has arisen was fluttering with in the inter-island flags in honour of the unvelling, of received, applause being unstint-steamships ugly given after each plece, trade, has suspended payment of the Menin Gate memorial for March Strathspey and Reel by the its accounts while a committee of which every available bit of room Regimental Pipe Band, which in- creditors is examining the books was occupied by hosts of pilgrims cluded "Lady Mary Ramsay," of the firm to determine its exact from England. There were many
touching scenes. "Miss Drummond of Parth." "The total assets and liabilities. Highway to Linton" and "Scotland my ain Inne" being particularly Impressive.
creditor's committee.'
The memorial has been erected by the War Graves Commission,
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The total indebtedness of the
Their Majesties sent a message company, is conservatively eati- thanking the King of the Belgians mated at one million posos. This for his présence at the ceremony Another item on the programme estimate was made by Yu Kou Kain honour of those who made the which was a distinct achievement
Sontun, head at the firm, and by "supreme sacrifice in the immortal in the way of musical interpreta-Dee C. Chuan, chairman of the defence of the Ypres salient.” tion was Lotter's humorous aketch of a Southern Wedding. This little piece depicts the wed-
The business of the company, it ding of two coloured people in one
consists of a "Hall of was disclosed, started on its down-and of the Southern States of America ward course immediately after the Memory," 120 by 66 feet, from the centre of which broad-stair- and portrays most of the events f
armistice, when goods and proper enses lead to ramparts and loggias that happy day. The band faith- tas nequired by the concern at running the length of the building. fully reproduced in music the ruptly fluctunted in value. Duridic
1 Go stealthily. feeling of night and the coon the War. it has been stated, the Altogether 50,000 names are 5 Fumos. aleeping encefully and snoring Yu Biac Sontra and company, ngengraved in alphabetical order on
Proportional. vigorously. Then he is sudden-aired supplies of machinery, food stone panels on the two
11 Snakes. main 12 Ber-dish.. by awakened by the alarm clock products and cther commodities, arches at either end of the hall, 13 Strains, striking and he indulges in AL spirited cake walk. This is fol- which became a depressed stock 48 feet high inscribed "To
the 18 Level. lowed by a wedding scene. In when hostilities ended. The pro-armies of the British Empire who 10 Walk sideways, which the parson is representedperty, thus aequired by the firm, stood here from 1914 to 1918, and 20 Flow.
to those of their dead who have no by the Bassoon: player, the bride-it was stated, dropped in value.
known grave." groom by the trombone and the
A mealing of creditors was call- bride by the flute. After the corned last Sunday week, following Lord Plumer, unveiling the mony, the piece is brought to con-
disclosure of the inability of the memorial, said: "Now it can be clusion by the, "Nigger Band"
concern to meet payment normally said of each one in whose honour plaving the strains of the "Wed-
due. It was decided to appoint àwe are assembled, that he is not ding March" in true Ragtime committee charged with the work missing. He is here."
of examining the finances, and to
fashion.
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The Programme! The full programine of the con- Leert was as followa
March "London Scottish"
ני
(Haines). .(Balfe).
Duct"Excelsior"
Soloists Cornet: -- Eds. G Phillips: Euphonium:--Cpl. C. Talley.
report to the creditors the precise situation of the organization. The committee has been given up to August 31 to make a financial statement. "
Liabilities P.1,000,000,
company
22 Poems.
24 Portable habitation. 25 Give up. 20 Kind.
27 Remark.
23 Nobleman. 29 Affixes. 31 Charges. 32 Covered in blood.
Hard fat. 30 Casks.
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Of a Southern race.
Truly fer fifty months Ypres 37 Adorns.
The King of the Belgians said:
was the threshold of the Empire 40 Speaks. and its name will stand throughout | -12′′ Divan, the centuries as a sympbol of 44 Builds. British heroism and endurance."- 46 Strainer of hair.
The whole service was trans-47 The vanquished. mitted in duplicate, by a special. 48 apparatus taken to Ypres by a British Broadcasting Company engineer, to London, whence it was broadcast-Reuter,
It is estimated that the indebter nes of the Ta Biao Sontua and March Strathspey and Reel
is approximately one Regt. Pipe Banmillion pesos. One of the biggest "Lady Mary Ramsay," "Misscreditors of the firm is a local Drummond o Berth," "The ¦ Chinëse bank, but the institution Highway to Linton" and secured from possible loss due SUGAR DAMAGE OVER- "Scotland my nin Hame."
the fact that the account is. Selection--"The Maid of the Moun- guaranteeck with a strong mort-
wvrns
STATED.
LOSSES NOT VERIFIED.
tains....(Fraser Simpson). Kage and is assured by a number Serenade "Birthday!..(Láncke) of the most prominent. Chinese Highland Dancing (Regt. Pipers). Í businessmen is Manila, who have NEGROS RUMOURS OF HEAVY
"Argyle Broadswords:" L-Cpl. | sind sureties for the company. G. Yates. L-Col. W. Main, | A few of the other creditors are Piper J. Thomson and Piper large foreign, and Filipino con- T. Davidson:
The rest is nil Chinese- Official reports received in First Movement-"Dramatic Sym-
Manila on Wednesday discredit The Yu Bian Sontua and com- frumours that prospects for the phony"......... (Schuberta. Slow March(Regt. Pipe Band). any has been in existence for 1927-1928 Negros sugar crop have
It first started been damaged to "Fel-el-Kabir" and "My Home" about 80 years.
the extent of Humorous Sketch-A Southerns a sole proprietorship. confining1,000,000 piculs by recent storms
its business mostly to retail.trans and typhoons... Wedding
(Lotter) Selection-"Sally" .(Kern). artions in rice and hemp pro-
Letters received" from the Highland Dancing-Foursome ducts. The growth and expan Hawaiian-Philippine Sugar Com-
Real" ..(Regt'l Pipers.sion of the firm has been steady. L-Cpl. G. Yates, L-Cpl. W. Main, The company extended its bust pany's holdings there say the Piper T. Davidson and Piper ness to shipping until today it seasonable weather had done no J. Thomson.
is the owner of the steamships Y. damage to their cane, The Philip "Reel"
..Rext. Pipers). Sontua, San Nicolas, and the pine, Sugar Association has had The Cameronian Rant.
Serantes, the latter being at pre-no confirmation of such a report. sent in dry dock. The company
TRADE REVIVAL.
CO-OPERATION BETWEEN CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE.
also owns a number of large rice
mills in the towns of Pantista and A quarrel between two hawkers Rosales, Pangasinan province, near the Tung Wah Hospital re- The company has maintained sulted in a fight, which ended in Iranch offices and agencies in one of them being fatally stabbed Tacloban and Carigara, Leyte in the stomach. It is believed Calbayog and Catbalogan. that the quarrel arose over a pick- Samar, in the town of Surigao, and pocketing incident. in Cebu, where there are large The secretary of the. Chin-warehouses and wharf's owned and ese Chamber of Commerce, Mr. operated by the firm. The con- bát hy-chuc], has address cern also has maintained large ell the following letter to the se-purchasing organizations in the cretary of the General Chamber of various hemp producing regions of Commerce, concerning the revival the islands. of local Arade..
Ip
Yo Blao Sonia and Company "The question of the Colony's continued unsatisfactory trados a partnership. condition has engaged the atten
tion of my committee for time, and we
some-
have had several
medlings to discuss ways and mittee, to exchange views on the means to remedy this state of subjects. If your committee are affairs,
agreeable to this, will you kindly
"As this question concerns the fix the date and place for such business of members of your meeting, so that our representa- Chamber, no less than it does pure- tives may call on you?" ly Chinese trade, I am directed to ask if your committee care to meet representatives from my dom
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
CASURE, I'M A GOOD
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IMA GETTIN' UP A
TEAM NOW!
WHAT DO YOU. PLAY - PITCHER
OR CATCHER
The letter is signed by the secretary of the Chinese Chamber, Mr.. Ip Lan-chuen.
Reuter tables that, according to the newspapers, a number of Lord Oxford's friends and admirers have subscribed as a present to the ex-Premier a considerable sum of money, in recognition of his great services to the country.
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