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THE HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY-
1986.
Leap-year Two Firms Prepare For National
Galas
At the
£130,034,110 was subscribed to
neuf companies last year': £66,600,000
in
the borrowing power of two £100 companies; £14,050,000 was invested in 196
nowo, mino and quarry, com-.
*panics.
War As Millions
Pour Into Trade
HONGKONG HOTEL SOPWITH'S NEW ture of anti-gas equipments,
and
PENINSULA HOTEL
SATURDAY
1936
29
FEBRUARY
1936
SPECIAL DINNER
DANCING TILL 2 A.M.
EARLY RESERVATIONS SUGGESTED
The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.
THE
HONGKONG
PENINSULA HOTEL;
HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL;
PEAK HOTEL
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL;
HOTELS
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peking
RUNNYMEDE HOTEL, LTD., PENANG.
CRAG HOTEL,
Penang Bills
(2,400 feet above walevel},
Refreshment Rooms (near summit siation) Hill Railway.
"THE ISLAND'S MOST EFFICIENT SERVICE." RUNNYMEDE HOTEL
On Sea Front.
Private Cara for Excursions Anywhere.
Caterers etc. to Imperial Airways.
Men are interchangeabla no extra cost wherever you have your breakfast, jangbeon, los, or dinner.
Rooms of both hotels have private bathrooms and moderu sanitaiion. At the Rannymede_ewels rooms how is own publie telephone,
The Bannymede Restaurant has undeniably pride of place among botels of the Eeal With Its cuisine, and Suntly clairon by its association to offer the traveller such as
not to be found albewisers.
WHEN AT HOME
The
Thongkong Telegraph.
MAY BE PURCHASED AT
SELFRIDGE'S
YACHT-
UNPLEASANT possibilities are suggested by the information of two private com-
panies among the 13,103 registered at Somerset House last year.
One is for the manufac-ciated Collieries, Ltd., with a new
capital of £4,500,000.
Straining A‘Loash'. and the other proposes to
Apart from the new capital of manufacture chemical vault banks, Investment and finance linings, armoured cars, and houses, most money among the forty-eight classes into which the analysis la divided has gone to bullet-proof vests.
The first has a nominal land and buildings. Here 1,822 new companies have a combined capital of £100 and the capital of £18,537,000. Second £21,000.
LARGEST BUILT SINCE WAR
An order for a 1,600-ton motor- yacht has been placed by Mr. T. O.
M. Sopwith, the yachtman; with Mesars. Camper and Nicholson, the bulklers of the Endeavour, the America's Cup challenger in 1934.
The yacht will be built at the company's Southampton yard.
The yacht will be the largest yacht built in England since the war, and the largest ever built inf the South of England.
Lady
Tule's Nahlin, which at present holds pride of place as the biggest yacht built in Britain since 1914, was Jaunched at Messrs. John Brown's yard at Clydebank in 1980.
,
Despite these isolated regla trations, the total of £136,634,- 110 subscribed to the capital of new companies last year reflects the country's optimism.
Even this colossal total tells only part of the story.
In the mines and quarries soc- tion 195 new companies account for £14,050,000.
Other Industries which are ex- panding are food preparations, engineering, and aviation. ›
Most of the 115 new aviation companies are private flying club, now springing up in all parts of the country.
Messrs. Jordan and Sons in their Two companies with a nominal
cach have annual analysis of the new money capital of only £100 combined borrowing powers of Rowing into industry, say:- £86,500,000. They are concerned
"Recovery has been straining at Designed by Mr. Charles Nichol with the electrification and de-
the leash, and, given a fair Bon, who also designed the En-velopment of railways under, Gov-
certainly chanco, wou'd almost deavour for Mr. Sopwith, the new erament auspices.
break away." vessel will have a radius of 7,000
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The returns show that more miles and a speed of 10 knots, The "millionaire" companies Her overall length will be 162 feet make a brave showing again. new companies, were registered and beam 38 feet and there will There are fourteen of them. At last year than in any year since be three decka,
the head is Powell Duffryn Asso-1930.
FRENCH NEWSPAPERS LOOK BACK ON THE PAST
BACK
FILES
SAN J
REVELATIONS
Paris, Jan. 20..
Absent Minded Londoners
Every day last year 271 people left their umbrellas in London trains, trams or 'buses and more than 630 other people left behind other articles. These ranged from gloves to picks and spades; frem luncheon cases to opulently fitted from expensive dressing-cases;
"If the Italian government was as badly informed as the Italian
on Abyssinia there is nothing astonishing in Italy's wild purses containing valuables to hard- press adventure," wrote Le Temps at the close of 1895 when Italy em-worn bandbags. barked on her colonial war that was to lead to the disaster at Adawa.
The very arguments employed by the French press to-day in were their enthusiastic defence of Mussolini's Ethiopian war ridiculed and held up to public derision in 1895.
Refuting Italian arguments to conquer a mob of badly armed in justification of the war in semi-savage warriors." 1895, Le Temps at that epoch wrote "The Italian press de- picted Ethiopia as profoundly divided when as a matter of fact no country in Europe en joyed more complete calm."
•
Le Temps in its conservative style only faintly echoed the extreme violence with which the French press in general attacked the Italians and defended the Ethiopians
In all 331,373 articles were re- ceived at the Lost Property Office-- 11 per cent. more than in 1934. Oficials can suggest no reason for this increase.
By far the larger proportion of the umbrellas and most of the cases, bags, and articles of clothing were left by women.
Of the 331,379 articles received 108,605 were restored to their
owners..
The Echo De Paris which to-dny is an ardent defender of Mussolini waa ns categorical in its defence of the Ethiopians in 1896.... "It-la derisive to pretend to impose a protectorate upon the Abyssin- ians which they don't nood. They mouthful of an Abyssinian Hanni- have nothing to learn from the bal who could not do anything but the high diplomatic. not bow before from anybody. Italians nor even the chivalrous virtues, and conceptions of his adversory." they can give examples rather than receive them."
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MARK
WE HAVE A COMPLETE STOCK OF NATIONAL STEEL GUITARS, UKULELES AND MANDOLINES AND ALL NATIONAL ACCESSORIES SUCH AS CASES, STRINGS, SLIDES AND PICKS.
SEND FOR AN ILLUSTRATED BOOK- LET OR CALL AND INSPECT WHICH- EVER INSTRUMENTS OR ACCES- SORIES YOU ARE INTERESTED IN.
THERE IS NO Substitute for A "NATIONAL"
TSANG FOOK PIANO Co. 9 Ice House Street, Hongkong.
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
ACROSS
To obtain an instrument that
tailors use is very necessary to
Le mariner. (Two words, 7, 0.)
10. The servant managed with some- thing less than a large pail. 11 Not at. all particular. 12 Reproach.
13
RAY:
lot in such a friend, 17 and in the detective force Frank
was absolutely it. Warning Italy against what it 18 Book a long drink with nothing. Finero then in its heyday pro termed illusory advantages; Le 10 This cortainly won't hold that nounced "The conquest of Abys Journal advised "Stop, don't insist long drink, and there's no grin alnia, the building of a
in and little else. rent pursuing illusory and problematic Eritrian empire which pleases the advantages. Since the Abyssinians 21 Of course I's ve dangerous In 1895 Italy's Abyssinian ad-vanity of the Italian government have never accepted and probably
but allow Harry to make it, alí the same. everybody's will never accept your protectorate 26 Stick It! vonture was furiously denounced are, according to
give it up and be satisfied with 20 Destruction
that makes
one
because of italy's pro-German opinions unrealiseuble utopias."
Times have aince sympathies.
Skout. This newspaper's language then Eritria." changed. The insulta rained upon strangely resembled the vocabulary
These extracts from the French 27 A space not usually allowed for
In a modern house, the Italians at that epoch renched of staunch sanctionists when it
which press
appeared in the 30 Most like this. remarkable heights. Then as now wrote "Nothing has changed in months of December 1895, January, 91 Scottish town. the French press was a pliable in Italy's polley. The elements of February, and March of 1896 were strument in the hands of diplo trouble this policy implies for published by Lu, Paris weekly and
active The violence of the press in Europe are still
POeuvre, libéral daily. 1895-1896 la matched by the vio-militant." lence of the press of to-day, the
macy.
PREVENT many Colds only difference being the victim.
At the first sniffle or svešas, put a few
of these amazing new drape up each nostril. The stuffy, sneesy feeling wate-
laber and, muilly, a cold will not develop,
VICKS
Baritone Soldiers ..
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and
Menelik was the object of special praise by L'Intransigeant, which exclaimed.
A piquant detail in the history of Franco-Ethiopian relations was Obliged unearthed this week.
to pay Germany a heavy war in- demnity after the defeat of 1870. and abandoned by all the European
France still had
опе
The Gazette de la Bourse minced "The Negus, the savage, by his no words hitting Italian pride to good sense, by his tactics and bis powers, the quick when it cruelly remarked, confidence in the right justice of friendly power left to come to her "We advise Italy to limit herself his cause, is showing the superior succour. Ethiopia whose Negus to the production of tenors and races of what their superiority was the first person to subscribe to VA-TRO-NOL | baritones since she cannot place consists. "Italy evidently the national loan to pay off the In-
sufficiently trained men into line imagined she would only make a domnity-United Press.
For Nose & Throat
SALESMAN SAM
Nice Work
Bellhop!
32 This place displays a poster prominently with plenty of room for lotters. (Two words, 5, 8.) DOWN
2.Most people give this without hesitation, and it never lacks point.
3 Amusement which has ruined
many a man.
4 Cheering when taken in the right. spirit, but the dancer who does It is down.
6 Periods when things becomin
disordered.
6 This bird is not likely to be seen
on this river.
7 The dog that does not sound a
graceful mover.
8
Its business. Is
nature.
of a moving
.0 It might be a footprint, but
on a ship, in a most unlikely place, (Two words, 8, 4.)
16 Half a dozen rent in order to
make a call.
16 Mate to the king
20 Character in the "Tempest." 22 He pulle strings to some purpose: 23 A factory feature.
24 County workers?
28 Fitting.
20 Goca hopping in Kent-and
cinowhero.
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(SAM, MADAME SKREECHI'S
SINGIN' IN HER ROOM IS CAUSIN'A LOTTA COMPLAINTS
GWAN UP AN. QUIET HER,
BUT BE DIPLOMATIC |
LEAVE IT TA ME;
'CLERKIE:
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AHHHH!
ME ME ME!
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SORRY, MADAME, BUT WE RE- CEIVED A FLOCK OF COMPLAINTS THAT YER SINGIN' IS KEEPIN'
PEOPLE AWAKE)
YOU DARETO WELL, ER-I MEAN, TH' GUESTS HAVE INSULT ME, . BEEN SPYIN' THAT WHEN YOU SING YOU WORM!
THEY JUST GOTTA STAY UP TA LISTEN, 'CAUSE THEY DON'T GET MUCH CHANCE
TA HEAR BEAUTIFUL SINGIN
OH,
YOU
DEAR
BOY!