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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1920.

Hughes & Hough

AUGSTONIZES TO THE GOVERNMENT

General Auctioneers Share, Coal and General Produce Brokers and Commission Agents.

PROPRIETORS

*To-kwa-Wan' Goal Storage.

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Bentley's

4th & 5th Editions.

A 1 Telegraphic Code.

Telegraphic Address "MEIRION" HONGKONG,

-PUBLIC AUCTIONS-

INTIMATIONS.

THE CATHOLIC MEN'S CLUB, Garden Road,

will be opened by

HN LORESHIT Benor D. PazION! TO-DAY

(WEDNESDAY), 16th June, at 9 mv.

TT is hoped that all Members, and

Trine Catholics intering to be

come Members, will endeavour to be present

Members may bring their lady friends D WEDNESDAY evening.

The General Committee specially hope that there will be a large attendance of Catholic members of the Naval and Military forces, for whom the Club is primarily being opened.

A musical programme is being arranged.

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO.

WE

E bare installed an additional TELEPHONE and clients can new ring up No. 482 or 3532

REPULSE BAY HOTEL

TO-DAY

WEDNESDAY, Jace 18th.

TEA DANSANT from 4 to 7PM. DINNER DANCE from 8 P.M.

SATURDAY, June 19th.

TEA DANSANT from 4 to 7 P.X, DINNER DANCE from 3 P.M.

SUNDAY, June 20th:

ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS

during

TIFFIN and AFTERNOON.

www.

*FLYING SUNDAY, June 20th.

(Weather permitting)--- Commencing at 2.30 P.M. Tickets for Blights and full particulars may be obtained at the Hongkong Hotel Main Office, or at Repulse Bay Hotel.

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NATIONAL

J. H. TAGGART,

Hunager.

CREDIT 5% 1920 UNDER THE GUARANTEE OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT.

THE Local Manager of the BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE

begs to inform the Public that sub- scriptions for above French Loan are opened to-day in its office, 5 Chater Road, and will be closed on the 20th of June, at 12 noon.

5% Premium Bonds of Frs. 500 each are issued at the price of

Frs. 485.-only.

Interest at 5% will run from the 15th of June.

The Bonds are non-convertible be fore 1940 and redeemable in 75 years by means of drawings (EIGHT DRAWINGS A YEAR) purporting yearly Frs. 20,000,000.-the first prize of each being

ONE MILLION FRANCS

ROUET DE JOURNEL,

Manager. Hongkong, June 2, 1920.

DOLLAR ACADEMY SCOT

LAND CHARLES S DOUG. ALL, M.A.. (formerly Eglinton Fellow, Glasgow University,) Head-master. which re-opens op 2nd September next, provides at a moderate costs complete HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION in all Departments from 10 years of age up- warda Wustrated Prospectases may be bed on application to the EEADMAS TEE, or to THOS. J. YOUNG, F.C. L8, Secretary.

HONGKONG GYMKHANA CLUR

THE

GYMKHANA EXTRA MEETING OF THE SEASON will be held at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, the 19th

commencing at 4 FK

instant.

The Charge of Admission will be $1.00 for other than Members of the Hongkong Jockey Club or Gymkhana Club

Soldiers and Sailors in uniformn Half Price.

The Committee invite the Ladies of

Hongkong to be present

Hongkong, June 14, 1920)

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

WANT

35 WORDS 3 INSERZIONE," $1. PREPAID.

Each additional word & Cents (for 3 insertions.

WANTED.

(ANTED—A LADY TEACHER to give pritate tuition to a girl 10 years old, Eve times a week-in ordia- ary school course of studies. Apply Bar 1906, ejo "CHTA MAIL."

WANTED:

First Class EURO-

PEAN or EURASIAN NURSE. Apply to No. 137. The Peak.

CITENOGRAPHER WANTED:-For

Swatow Export and Import Ecose.

Good opportunities to the right party

LOST.

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JAPANESE POODLE OST.-At the Poak, a small Black &

Answers to the name of "TODDLES Finder will be Rewarded, Box Na. 1200, | c/o " Cursa Max."-

Kowloon.

TO 'LET.

who is willing and eficient. Fare paid TO LE-A SHOP in Nathan Road, and living quarters included. Call Apply to Humphreys Estate & Finance room 455, HONGKONG HOTEL, by TUESC, Ltd, Aldri Buildings." DAY, Noor, for interview.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received instructions from MR.

LAR VEN KEE, to sell by Public Auction,"

on

THURSDAY & FRIDAY,

the 17th & 18th June, 1920, commencing each day at -230-p.m. at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street,

A Valuable Collection of Antique China

& Curios from Sung to Ming Dynasties and Kanghi to Towkwong periods

comprising

5-coloured, 3-coloured, blue and white bowls, plates, rases, incense burners, figures, pictures, snuff bottles, ornaments, flower pots, screens, placques, etc, etc.

Very fine gold inlaid bronze vase, Sung, Very fine green jade incense burner. Very fine celadon vase, Sung..

Very fine white "Goddess of Mercy,” Ming. Very fine jade inlaid pictures, Kienlung,

Also

A Few Pieces of Boochow Redwood Ware.

N. B. The Undersigned will give a 2-weeks guarantee

as to the genuineness of the articles offered.

On view from Wednesday, the 16th inst. Catalogue will be issued.

Terms: Cash on delivery,

Hongkong, June 11, 1950,

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

THE OPTICAL COMPANY.

#1, Quany's BOLD CENTRAL SPECTACLES, EYEGLASSES, LENSES, etc. Optometrist-in-Charge:-E. CHAN, Opt. D. TIES TESTED FREE OF CHARGZĄ“

ESTABLISHED

1814 100 YEARS.

JOHN

1914

HADDON

AND CO.

Export and Import Agents

For ONE HUNDRED YEARS in « the CITY OF LONDON we have acted as Buying and Selling Agents for Traders,Storekeepers, Growers of Colonial Produce. Are you requiring the services of London Agents to promote your interests? We shall be pleased to enter intò correspond. ence with a view to arranging terms to mutual advantage.

ZBANK CREDITS ARRANGED. ***

{CASH ADVANCED AGAINST SHIPMENTS,

JOHN

HADDON

AND CO.

Colonial Merchants and Produce Agents,

SALISBUET SQUAKE, LONDON,”

THE CHINA MAIL.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

(Beuter's Service to the China Mail.)

EGIPTILN

AN HOMB OUTRAGE.

Carro, June 19th. Said Paha was inotoring to office when a powerful bomb was hurled at the car, wounding täs chauffeur and two passers-by. The assailant flot pursued by a police man who continued the pursnis, though twice wounded by the smallant's automatic pistol

The aussilaat took refuge in a house The Premier was somewhat shaken, but carried, on a duties He described his ascapo ss due to the direct intervention of Providence.

where he was arrested,

The

BREAD SHORTAGE.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS,

{Bouler Service to the China Mah.)

IMPERIAL DEFENCE. ·

LONDON, June 19th. Royal Colonial Institute, Lord Selborne Speaking at the annual dinner of the urged that the lesson of the war was the necessity of settling pians of mutual Im the League of Nations could only be main- perial defence beforehand. The ideal of sained if behind it was the British Em- pire determined to make it good, and was part of the Empire to settle for itself the organised for the purpose. It was for such

manner and nature of its defenos which should then be co-ordinated.

Lord Jellicoe, responding, said that he found in the Dominions a great realisa tion of the fact that sea-power was all in all to the British Empire. The use of tho LONDON, June 19th.

sea depended on the strength of the mer Daily Telegraph's agricultural cantile marine whose deeds in the war will perrespondent forogates that the European ever be forgotten. He urged the neces bread shortage in 1991, is not justified by sity of organizing the naval defence of the facts. He points out that, recent reports Empire, in which the views of all parts of from Americand Cañada have been more the Empire must be consuited." He hoped encouraging than those of a month ago, that in the discussions which will take and believes that American exports will place in the near future no parochialisin equal the exports of recent years. The will be displayed. winter-sow Crops in Britain, dusízia, Belgium, and Egypt are progressing. The writer hopes that some Indian wheat will also be available.

BOLSHEVIST INVASION OF PERSIA

GOVERNMENT COAL BILL.. "

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LONDON, June 12th. The Daily Telegraph understands that the Government Coal Bill has been com-

LONDON, June 14th.pleted and will be introduced in the House The Council of the League of Nations Commons next week It provides for met at St. James Palace this afternoon of the Board of Trade, headed by a Secre the establishment of a Mines Department consider, inter alia, the situation created. by the Bobberist invasion of Persia-

for the lines who will be supported

owners, miners and ethers concerned-in

Sir Eric Drummond, the 8 Secretary-Gen- by an advisory committee composed of coal- Lord Curzon, representing Great cluding doctors, while sabordinate con- Britain, M De Fleuriau: representing mittces will be appointed at each pit.

eral

Frano and Price Firouz representing Persia, and also the representatives of Spain, Belgina. Japan, Italy, and Greece! were present.

Dr. Nansen, who has been charged with the repatriation of Allied prisoners in Siberia, was present in capacity

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MELBOURNE'S WOES.

advisory

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UPROAR IN ITALY.

ROME, June 19:b. Reilwaymen at Crempaa and Milan have struck against the despatch of munitions

Poland,

Violent demonstrations have taken place at Trieste as a protest against the despatch of troops to Albania, civilians and Arditi participating. Revolvers wtre: fred and bombs thrown An officer was MELBOURNE, June 19th. The gasworkers have struck and the suportally wounded, and two soldiers badly plies are the lowest possible. The electri-rounded in a Eght near the Arditi camps. cians threater to strike to-morrow, step- Troops restored order. ping light and power supplies.

THE MOSCOW REVOLUTION.

THE SPA CONFERENCE.

LONDON, June 14th. The report of a revolution in Moscow are It is pointed out that discredited here. similar reports have been frequent and. have proved unfounded.

Uficial circles in Paris are ignorant of

LONDON, June 14th. In the House of Commons, replying to Mr. Charles Palmer, Mr. Lloyd George said that a definite date had not yet been fixed for the Spa Conference, pending the constitution of the new German Govern- the matter, but it is stated that since Jate ment, but probably it will be early in July.th the French wireless stations

received only incomprehensible messages from Moscow.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

LONDON, June 14th."

TOKYO, June 10th.

A newspaper learns that a Moscow wire- esa message Vladivostock stated that a counter-revolution had occurred in Russia,

In the House of Commons, replying to Sir Harry Brittain, Mr. Lloyd George and Treky was murdered, while Lenin stated that the British Government has fed, and that General Brusiloff bad form- contributed £3,000 to the funds of the ed a new Government.

League of Nations during the last financial year. The Government has no information

in regard to the amount subscribed, or guaranteed by, the other nations.

AUTUMN SESSION OF PARLIAMENT.

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LONDON, June 14th.

BRITAIN'S HOUSING PROBLEM.

LONDON, June 19th.

Dr. Addison, interviewed, said that it was necessary to introduce another Hous- ing Bill empowering the local authorities In the House of Commons, to-day, Ming the powers to prohibit luxury builc to take over unoccupied houses and enlarg Bonar Law announced that an Autumn session was inevitable.

GERMAN GOVERNMENT.

BERLIN June-12h Herr Ebert bas entrusted Herr Mueller with the task of the formation of a Cabinet

Herr Mueller conferred this afternoon with Herr Crispien, the Independent Socialist leader.

The Reichstag has twenty-two women deputies as compared with thirtysix in the National Assembly-

REPUBLICAN CONVENTION,

CHICAGO, June 12th The Convention nominations were accom panied with the usual tumultuous scenes,

At the conclusion of Mr. Allen's speech nominating General Leonard Wood thou. sands of coloured turkey feathers, the badge of General Wood's supporters, were loosed from the ceiling, covering the dele gates. The demonstration lasted forty minute

The housing schemos, hitherto sub-] ings. mitted to the Ministry, exceeded ten thou sand with a total of three hundred thousand houses.

THE MOSUL DISPUTE.

LONDON, June 15th. The Times Paris correspondent draws attention to the Mosul dispute as typical of a large number of questions poisoning Anglo-French friendship, and says that the time has come for drawing up list of each questions and a statement of the minimum demands of each country, and to endeavour to reach a general agreement on the lines of the 1904 understanding, which is the basis of the Entente Cordiale

THE MONSOON.

BOMBAY, June 11th,

The Monsoon has burst

WOOLLEN GOODS NOT WEARING

APPAREL

NEW YORK, June 11th. The Convention gave sa ovation to Mrs.

The Federal Court has dismissed the Robinson, the late Mr. Roosevelt's sister, charge of profiteering againm the Ameri- who seconded General Wood's nomination, can Wollen Company brought by the being the first woman to perform that Attorney-General, the Court sustaining the function

objection raised on behalf of the defend- National Convention and the Beasts that woollen goods did not constitute publican leaders are already speculating on wearing apparel the head under which the effect of the adoption of the League of the charge was brought

Nations on the chances of the party's suc cess in the November elections. It is pointed out that the Republicans favour an international association

confor.

instant and general internating an threatened. The Republicans bes

that the United States

ence whenever"

can participate in it without compromising national independence of involving it in multitude of quarrels the merits of which. it may be unable to judge.

CRICAGO, Juce

12th.

NEW AMERICAN BONDS.

WASHINGTON, June 11th. The Treasury is considering the issue of and 8 per cent, Indebtedness Bonde of

the amount of $400,000,000.

AMERICA C

CUP.

NEW YORK, June 11th.

ANNAMITE TEMPLE IN FRANCE

The first ballot resulted in the nomina The Vanitic defeated the Resolute à tion of Govers Leonard Wood, 2871; Mr.second time in a 30-mile trial by 23 seconds. Lowden, 2111; Senator Hiram Johnson, 183; Mr. Sproul, 84% Mr. Hoover, bi

The second ballot showed four leaders, namely, General Leonxed Wood, 289; Mr." Londen, Senator Eiram Johnson,

Mr. Sproul, 781 The result of the third ballot was: General Leonard Wood, 303; Mr. Lowden,

22h; Senator Hiram Johnson, 148

The fouth bellot resulted as follows:- General Wood, 314); Mr. Lowden, 288; Senator Hiram Johnson, 180.

The Convention adjourned until 10 F 'clock in the morning.

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PARIS, June 11th. The Minister of the Colonies presided at Nogent-sur-Marne erected in memory of the inauguration of the Annamite Temple France's Indo-Chinese soldiers who fell in the war..

HERR BOLF LEAVES POR JAPAN.

BERLIN, June 11th. Prior to embarking for Japan, Herr MONTREAL, Jone lith. Solf, interviewed, said he believed he would

Federatiers, President of the American be able to establish most useful "relations) Labour plank adour, condetened the with Japan with which Germigny had", no

by the Repubien conflict of interests, now that Shantung Convention particularly the section of the was eliminated.

plank providing for the settlement of

strikes affecting public utilities, like rail seven German misionaries and a number Herr Solf's fellow-pastangers included ways and telegraphs, by a tribunal similar of traders

to that provided by the Americas Railroad

Act.

DAVIS CUP

- Amormat, June 12th.

In the Davis Cup Doubles, Van Letneg and Diemerkoel (Holland) beat Winslow and Raymond (Bouth Africa) by 6-2, 7-5, 6-4.

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