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Hongkong Telegraph.
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1939.
HAPPENINGS AS SEEN BY THE CAMERA'S EYE
LIKE TO MAKE A FOURSOME?
If a member of the Highgate Diving Club asks you this, be careful how you answer, for his idea of a “foursome" may be the remarkable dive you soo abovo. The Club members will give an exhibition of diving during the England-Denmark swimming con- tests at the Empire Pool. On the left you see how the divers are linked together as they leave the board during the "foursome."
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THE CHARTERED BANK OP INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA,
Incorporated by Royal Charter_1853 Paid-up Capital Reserve Liabilty of Proprietors £3,000,000 Reserve Fund ............ £3,000,000 HEAD OFFICE-LONDON.
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AGENCIES AND BRANCHES
Alor Star
Hongkong
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED,
Authorized Capital.... Paid-up Capital Reserve and Undivided
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$10,000,000.00
Profits........................................ $ 1,883,532,01
HEAD OFFICE:-HONGKONG 10. Des Voeux Road, Central
BOARD OF DIRECTORA
Str. Shoun Chow, Chairman.
Lt Koon Chun. Esq, Li Lan Sang, E.
12. K. Kwok, Esq.
q,
Wong Chu Bon,. Wang Yun Tong, Eng, Kan Ying Po, Chan Ching Bhek, Esq. FungPingWah Eq. KAN TONG PO, Esq. Chles Manager.
Amoy
LI THE FONG, Esq., Manazor. BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:
Marika Melbourne
Now York
farbia
Amritsar
Bangkok
Ipoh
Batavia
Ilotio
Rangoon Balzon Bemarang Seremban
Bombay
Karachi
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Calcutta
Kiang
Agencfer:
Kabn
Singapore Sitiawan
Batavia Fombay
Nagasaki
Clive Street
CIA
Sourabaya
Calcutta
Fairle Place
Lumpur
Taiping
Canton
Kuching
Tionisfa
italphong Hankow
· Paris
Cawnpore
Madras
Tongkah
Honolulu
Manila
(Uhukot)
Koba
Medan
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New York
Yokohama
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Haiphong Hamburg Hankow
(Peking) Penang
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and GeneraÍ Banking Business transacted,
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITs received for One Year or sharter periods in Local or Other Cur- reneles at rates which will be quoted on application.
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in Local Currency and Sterling with interest allowed at rales obtainable on application.
The Bank's Head Omeo in London undertakes Executor & Trustee business, and claims recovery of British Income Tax overpaid on terms which may ba ascertained at any of its Agencies and Branches
I. A. CAMIDGE,
Manager.
Envoy To Manchukuo
Although Italy had no trade with Manchukue prior to the joint com- meretul treaty, her trade with that country had now attained consider- able proportions, sald the Hallan Minister to Manchukuo, Signor Luigi Cortese, when he passed through Hongkong yesterday in un Italian liner.
The Minister, who is returning to Manchukuo, after leave in Europe, was the first Italian Minister appoint- ed to the country followink Italian recognition. He was accompanied by his wife and daughter Emilia and two sons, Ennio and Luchino. They were met on arrival by the Italian Consul- General, Marquis G. Pagano di Mellto,
Kowloon
London
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Balgon
San Francisco
Seattle
Semarang.
Shanghai
Bingapore
Swatow
Bydney
Hourabaya
Tientsin
Vancouver
Every description of Banking and Ex- change business transacted. Loans grant- ed on approved securities.
Current Accounts opened in Local Cur- ency and Fixed Deposits received for ate year or shorter periods in focat and Foreign Currencies on tema which will be quoted on application.
Bafe Deposit lloxes To Lol,
KAN TONG PO,
Chiot Amager.
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.
SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES
Steamship
Bringing Cargo from Marselies vin Salgon,
Consignees are hereby informed that their goods with the exception of Oplum, Treasure and Valuables are being landed and stored into the Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon loon, whence delivery may be obtain: Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kow-
ml Immediately after landing.
All claims must be sent in to me on or before 18th November, 1930, or they will not be recognized,
Damaged Packages will be examin ed by the Company's Surveyor Messrs: Goddard and Douglas in the presence of the consignees at 10.00 a.m. on Monday, 13th November, 1939.
Consignees must have a Revenue Officer in attendance when any duti able goods are examined by the Com- pany's Surveyors,
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever.
R. ONL
President Gorman Busch, -year-old dictator of Bo- ția, shot to death alloged- 0% suicido, in La Paz 'er attending a birthday tty for his brother-in-law. vichi Saito, a Japanese. ificial version was he was ffering from overwork.
APAN MINE MISHAP
Tokyo, Nov. 12. ty-eight persons,
have been 62 injured some of them seri- and 23 are missing as the re- the sulphur mine disaster in Prefecture in northern Japun. jorous gas and snowfall hom- the chorts of rescue partics. ---
"Who's that your sister?" newamen asked Simono Simon, right, French screen actress, as she arrived in Now York. "That's mother," said actress. is Mrs. Monique. Glorcelli and she lives in Italy."
August Cardinal Hlond, Primate of Poland, arrives Rome to take up residence at Vatican. Aged cléric cently gavo strong speech condemning German govern-
·ent. His remainsṣat Vatican indefinitely.
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French Envoy Arrives
On a routine visit to Chungking, the French Ambassador to China, M.
DEFENCE RESERVE POSTS
The following changes in the Dr- fence Reserve were announced in the Governmut Gazette on Saturday:
Emtential Services to Key Post- Frederick Tyndall,
Henri Cosme, arrived here yesterday Andrew Howie Medride, Edgar Thompson, - Key... Posts Joseph -- Garden - Campbell, from Shanghai by a Dutch steamer.
He was accompanied by M. 37. Beau- will stay in Hongkong before leaving Heux, Secretary of the French Lega-for Chungking. Lion ut Shanghai.
The Ambassador was taken off by a French naval launch to confer with the Commander-in-Chief of the French Naval Forces in the Far East, Vice-Admiral Decoux.
It is not known how long M. Cosme
M. Cosme served brilliantly in the French ranks during the Great War and was awarded the Medaille Mil- taire in 1910, after having made a most dangerous escape from a camp of prisoners in Germany. He also holds the rank of Officer of the Legion of Honour,
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