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No. 18,021

The China Mail.

August 5, 1920, Temperature S2

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BUSINESS NOTICES

WATSON'S

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WHISKY.

MILD, MELLOW,

MATURED.

Pre-war high quality still maintained

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.,

TELEPHONE 616.

DRAGON MOTOR CAR GO.

(THE EUROPEAN GARAGE),

CARS FOR HIRE IN HONGKONG AND KOWLOON Agents in South China for:- Hudson, Essex, Dodge Brothers and Siddeley. Armstrong Motor Cars, Denby Motor Trucks and U. S. Tyres.

GARAGE AT

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TEL. 482

GARAGE AT

26 NÁTRAN RD. Kow2003

CHEAP SALE

(From 1st to 15th August, 1920)

at

THE "BON TON" LTD,

11.

LADIES TAILORS AND DRAPERS,

No. 37, Queen's Road Central.

Piece-goods, Fancy Voiles, Shoes, Boots, Sun-shades, Foreign and Chinese Silk, Ready-made Blouses and Skirts, etc... .etc.

At Extremely Moderate Prices,

YEE SANG FAT CO.

MONEY SAVING SALE

FOR ONE· WEEK

SATURDAY, 7th.

Ending

SIX

ITEMS

Gent's Rain Coats $6.00 to $15.00 each

Ladies Rain Coats" $7.00 to $10.00 each.

Gents' Rain Umbrellas $2.25 to $250 each.

Bubber Over Shoes $1.50 to $225 a pair.

Boys' Washable Suits 20% discount.

Girls' Summer Dresses 20% discount.

SALE FROM MONDAY TO SATURDAY, 7th,

TAILORS

Diss Bros

TAILORS

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DONNELLY & WHYTE.

TEL No. $26.

WINE MERCHANTS.

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Humidity $9.

August 5, 1919, Temperature 54.

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1920. 日一廿月六中庚大年九國華啦

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

(Rexter's Service to the China Mal)

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POLISH ARMISTICE.

NO NEWS REGARDING NEGOTIATIONS.

PROGRESS OF HOSTILITIES

LONDON, August 3. Up to the present no news has been received of the progress of the armistice negotiations at Baranovitch According to the Times corres- pondent at Warsaw the Polish Government possesses Soviet orders that hostilities are in no case to censà before August 4..

The German Government has informed the Allies that it has ordered the, officials concerned to send German troops into the Allenstein plebiscite arez if the situation on the frontier necessitates this step.

THE CONFERENCE THAT WILL COUNT,

LONDON, August 3.

THE DOLLAR.

To-day's closing rate d`14 Today's opening rate 4/13

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE UNIVERSITY.

[To the Editor of the" China Mail."}

Dear Sir. My card will tell you that although a mere visitor I may ekim to speak "earnestly in defence of the University, which I do in case any reader of your note of Tuesday may have thought wrongly that the University was not much of a success,

I want, but I want all the Far East

Publicity is what you want and whar)

to know what so magnificently is being done; whereas I think you believe, that the insular and peninsular resident wants to know anything that is being done badly.

Did you know that there is hardly a town in Ching now without its

A Moscow wireless message states that the Russian delegation at Baranovichi informed the Poles that it was impossible to conclude an armistice unless the Polish delegation was authorised to sign the funda-Secondary School (I use the English term to cover all the names used in mental conditions of peace. The Poles accordingly left for Warsaw on

U.S. systems of higher educatión), Augest 2 in order to obtain authority for authorised delegates to meet at

that 1,500 of their students proceed Minsk on August 4 in accordance with the Bolshevik suggestion.

BOLSHEVIST OBJECTIVE.

The main force of the Bolshevist attacks appears now to be directed to the capture of Lemberg, partly with a view to possession of the rich oil wells southward of that city. They are still at least 30 miles from the city. The Poles report that in the latest encounters they were repulsed with heavy losses.

RUSSIA'S WORLD POSITION.

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WASHINGTON, August 3. The Government is still uninformed officially with regard to the pro- posed Allied and Bolshevist conference in Loudon, but official circles" indicate that the United States will very probably be represented at any conference seeking to solve the problem of fixing the status of Russia in

the world.

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GERMANY NOT TO PARTICIPATE.

LONDON, August 3.

:

U.S. Universities annually, and abour 150 to Brissh, and that the re- maining thousands ought to but don't send a few hundreds to Hongkong. the only British University in the Far East? Then there are the Chinese (of Siam, Malaya. and the Dutch Colonies, who too should look this way more than they do, to say nothing of British boys, Malays, and Indians.

If there is one thing Hongkong University does stand for, it is that culture which makes gentlemen, humane humanity or finer types of mankind, and the same ideal has always blazed before the old-time Chinese scholar. These things are as necessary (and I've watered down the adverb) as expert knowledge of medi- cine, engineering, and of economics.

money changers would drive "Arts " our of the Temple!)"

In the House of Commons, replying to Commander Kenworthy, Mr.But I'm told that your merchants and Boaar Law stated it was not the policy of the Government to invite Germany to co-operate in the hostilities against Russia.

CAPTURE OF BREST LITOVSK CLAIMED.

* -LONDON, August 3. A Moscow wireless claims that Brest Litovsk was occupied on August 2 and that prisoners and booty were taken.

LONDON, Angust 3.

The Bolshevists are fiercely attacking Brest Titojsk, but the German report of capture on August 2 in at least premature.

FRENCH DÉFEAT TURKS.

SIX BAYONET CHARGES WIN FIERCE BATTLE,

BEIRUT, August 3. French troops severely defeated a large force of Turkish Nationalists at Yemidje. The Turks who had numerous gues and machine guns fought fiercely. The French made six bayonet charges. Four hundred Nation. alists were killed and 250 taken prisoner, including a German officer. The booty includes 600 rifles. The victory has considerably improved the situation in Cilicia.

MESOPOTAMIA.

TRIBESMEN ATTACK BRITISH COLUMN.

DISTURBANCES CONTINUE.

LONDON, August 3.

It is right, it is good, it is politie to spread this knowledge and this cul- Calendar in hand waiting for boys in ture, and not sit with the University

Yunnan, in Homin in Nakon, in Menado, and in Alor Star to apply.

Advertising may be vulgar, but we may call it bringing good tidings, lightening_darkness, making plain the Way of Learning, a3 so preserve form and good taste.

You, Hongkong, have a great thing in your University, and you owe it to the Far East to have faith in it, and to spread the faith that is in you

"We have lit such a candle, good Master Ridley-"-Yours, etc.,

-TJANDI.

CHINESE FOR CEYLON?

QUESTION OF LABOUR FOR. FOOD PRODUCTION,

A Ceylon morning paper under- stands thar the Ceylon Governinent is now in correspondence with the Indian Government on the question of lebour necessary for the work in connection with increasing the Island's food sup- A War Office communique with regard to Mesopotamia states that a authorities interested in the present ply. is understood that certain strong British reconnoitring column which set out southwards from Hilla Government scheme have suggested was attacked and roughly handled by tribesmen on July 24, but succeeded the desirability of introducing-Chinese in cutting its way back to Enla after sustaining 300 labour; but the Government has post- casualties azd losing

poned the consideration of that sub- gun, twelve machine guns, other material, and a large number of horses and mules. The disdian Government. The question of ject pending negotiations with the In-) turbances on the lower Euphrates continue. The railway from Hilla to supplying food to the imported labour- Bagdad was cut several times. The garrison at Diwani has withdrawn iners is also receiving the attention of Ibaali, which the tribesmen unsuccessfully attacked on the night of July 28. Government. It is felt that if a large There is no news of the garrison at Kufa which was invested..

field a

ECOUTE JAMBOREE.

BOYS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD.

LONDON, August 3.

number of inbourers are brought their food problem may, present some diffi- | culty at the present moment,

NOISELESS COINS.

A NEW TYPE PROMISED.

Many thousands of the public visited the boy scouts' jamboree at Olympia, the chief feature of which up to the present has been the great march past Sir Robert Baden Powell by thousands of scouts from all partatieth century, will soon see a new type It is quite probable that the twen-

of the world, including South Africa, India, Ceylon, Malta, Gibraltar, Siam, of coin, noiseless and clean, which and Malaya

LORDS PASS NAURU ILAND BILL.

LONDON, August-3. The House of Lords passed the third reading of the Nauru Island without discussion.

FAMOUS TRICK AVIATOR KILLED.

AEROPLANE FALLS A THOUSAND FEET.

may replace the metal ones, which become grimy and dingy with use. It experiments now being conducted at the royal factory at Neissen are successful Germany may have two and five mark. coins in constant cir Bilculation. The experiment, carried on at the request of the Ministry of Fin- ance, give promise of feasibility, as the composition is light and, compact and, while as washable as cops and saucers, is perfectly durable. It is said that these coins would be difficult to counterfeit because of the technical apparatus required for their minting.

LOS ANGELES, August 3. -Lieutenant Omar-Locklear, famous for the trick, of "passing" from one seroplane to another in mid-air, and Lieutenant Plliot, his assistant, were both killed while performing for the cinema pictures. «The aeroplane fell a thousand feet.

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OUTFITTING DEPARTMENT

LAST THREE DAYS

OF SALE THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY

FURTHER REDUCTIONS

TO CLEAR.

"PLENTY OF GOOD BARGAINS

STILL TO BE HAD.

NEXT DOOR HONGKONG HOTEL

THE PHARMACY

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WE HAVE Jest RECEIVED A FRESH SETPLY OF

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