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The China Mail

December 10, 1920, Temperature 50

Barometer 30.08

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Rainfall 000 aneh.

號1月二十年十二百九千一英

THE DOLLAR.

THE MARINE DIESEL ENGINE.

Bumudity 71.

December 0, 1919, Temperature 62

五一五一十申庚况童年九國中

No. 18,130.

五拜

BUSINESS

HIGH-CLASS

NOTICES

CONFECTIONERY

CAILLER'S

CHOCOLATES

OF THE FINEST QUALITY, NEATLY PACKED

in ELEGANT BOXES of 1 1, 2 lb. & 4 lbs.

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1820.

Today's closing rate 2:11 11/16 To-day's opening rate 31 11.10

TO-DAY'S FIRE CALLS.

HAPPY VALLEY BLAZE.

POTTINGER STREET OUTBREAK.

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The first shipment of really high-class" the Fire Brigade received a call to

Chocolates that are EQUAL TO

PRE-WAR QUALITY.

At very reasonable prices.

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

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

DRAGON MOTOR CAR GO.

(THE EUROPEAN Garage)

Motor Cars for Sale and Hire, Garages at

21. Pes Vrean Road.

16. Nathan Road,"Kowloon.

Telk. 432 & 3552.

$6.75

will bring you 100 BEST REINA VICTORIA'

Cigars of "LA TRAVIATA” brand (or $3.50 for 50)

TABAQUERIA FILIPINA

38-40, Queen's Road, opposite to LOCK HING & CO.

THE WING ON CO., LTD

Phone 196

UNIVERSAL PROVIDERS

Phone 198

JUST ARRIVED

LADIES' & GENTS'

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SMART FOOTWEAR

IN

BOOTS AND SHOES

COMFORTABLE WHEN NEW

STYLISH WHEN OLD

AH MEN AND HING CHEONG

TAILORS

DRAPERS AND OUTFITTERS have REMOVED to

No. 54, QUEEN'S · ROAD CENTRAL.

1

"CAPE WINES

CLARET

DRAKENSTEIN (Hock Stylej

SAVIGNON BLANC (Hock Style)

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO.. LD,

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When you want to buy y

TEL T

DIAMONDS, WATCHES & JEWELLERY

de not forget that you hare të takoʻ more care in the choice "of your dealer than you would with other, merchandise.~

Buy reputable goods from a reputable frm

JULLMANN &00

French firm, Est, 1800!

As a result of the war, consider. able gaps are to be found in the technical progress of many peaceful pursuits, and in those cases that apply to British marine engineering.. these must be bridged if our position

LATEST SHIPPING NEWS.

ARRIVALS

The 93. "Shangtung," Captain Monkman. 1568 tons, arrived this wording at 7 am, from Shanghai with 495, tous of general cargo and 29 bags of mail

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The ss. "Fin Samud," Captain is to be fully maintained. In this Phillips, 998 tons, arrived this mor country, during the years 1914 to 1918alog at 8 am from Swatow with

1500 tons of general cargo, considerations in connection with the development and abplications of the Diesel engine for mercantile

triple-expansion

·

DEPARTURES.

The ss. "West Jappa,” Captain

The 3.5. "Loongsang," Captaia Simpson, sailed for Manila at 3 pum today with 1,750 tons of general cargo.

The ss. "Chibli, Captain Clare, sailed for Manila via Hoiloat3 30p.m.;

to-day with 2,100 tons of geceral

cargo.

Soon after 11:30 this morning attend to a fire at Happy Valley near purposes were almost completely the Craigengower Club, and on ar- sheived. The exities of this Archer, sailed for Seattle via Kobe at 19 am, 16-day with 500 tons of rival found the top Boor of No. 14, period of stress and danger neces-general cargo. Yue Wah Street, well alight. As it sitated concentration on that type of was obviously impossible to save the floor, the brigade turned its attention machinery-the. to the neighbouring houses and the steam engine most capable of being Boors below, and after a long and easily and rapidly produced by those strenuous fight with the rapidly manufacturing plants less suited to spreading flames, succeeded in saving the duty of meeting the requirements them, though not before the windows of the fighting forces. of the top floor of No. 12 had been scorched and some of the furniture

Conditions operating at present damaged by water. The rep floor of resulting in a large measure from the No. 14 was completely gutted before war, make most potent the claims (the flames were extinguished. The advanced in favour of the principle

cause of the outbreak is not yet known, nor the extent of damage suf- of internal combustion. Quite sue fered by the inmates of the gutted marine, fuel oil has been very widely denly and recently for the mercantile

floor.

The ss. "Kamo Mara Captain recognised as the most suitable com Immediately after returning from bustible. Not the least compelling Ogura, sails for London via Straits the Wanchai fire. the brigade was factors towards this marked prefer at 5 pm, today with 400 tons of called, our to Pottinger Street to at-ence have been the labour and wages general cargo.: tend to an outbreak in a cubicle on movements ashore and afloat. Some the first floor of house No. 22. The fears 216 entertained regarding Bre here was put on without diffi- supply and distribution of liquid No damage was done. The fuel, but with transporting ton- culty. cause of this outbreak is attributed 10 nage increasing and the likely sparks from the kitchen setting a mos quito net alight.

"GEISHA MUST GO"

TEMPTATIONS OF TOKYO.

PRETTY LITTLE LADIES WHO SERVE OUT TEA.

The prodes are on the prowl'again seeking whom they may suppress, This time they have gone East, arm- ed with bell book, and chopper, to make an onslaught on the tea-house of Tokyo, reports the London Star.

The Geisha, they say, must go The dainty, smiling Geisha, who squats on the floor, flirts with her fan, and asks you how many lumps.

WHITED SEPULCHRES.

Poor little Yum Yum and Pitti Sing! Who ever would have thought it!

All these years we have looked upon them as sweet little maids from

The s..."Rajah of Sarawak," Capt. Lawrie, sails for Singapore at 5 pm today with 650 tens of general cargo.

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THE VIOLET TRAIL

A STRANGE STORY.

early development of petrol sub- How AN EMPRESS FOUND HER SON'S

GRAVE. stitutes, supply should continue -

to equal demand. Whether grounds

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may be found upon which to base Strange stories of uncanny such fears, all must be agreed as to experiences in her life, as told by the the fundamental necessity of con- Empress Eugenie, are given by Dr.

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serving available supplies by the Ertel Sany th in Blackwood's Magazine THE GENERAL ELECTRIO Co. (of China). Ltd.

exercise of the maximum economy- for November.

was

The effect of the operation during Oce of the strangest the war of strict discipline in national} corroborated by the independent interests has rendered easier the evidence of Sir Evelyn Wood, acceptance of the doctrines of who accompanied the Express on economy whatever the direction in her visit to the spot where her which they are urged, and has made son, the Prince Imperial, was killed even the most retrogressive of men in Zululand. This spot had been receptive of suggestions to this end. marked by a cairn of stones, but by

· Many engineers have now become the date of the visit the jungle had familiar with the leading principles of encroached so that even the Zala internal combustion, and more Diesel guides, who had been among the work has been undertaken at home Prince's assailants, could not find it. within the last few years, due to "The Prince had a passion for submarine naval requirements, than violet scent; it was the only toilet in any previous period. Many of accessory of the kind he used. the salient points are now appre-Suddenly the Empress became aware ciated, and growing interest is of a strong smell of violets. "This stimulated and met by the techni-is the way, she cried, and went off on cal literature increasingly available. a line of her own,

Recent experience with the most "Sir Evelyn Wood said she tore school, posed delightfully against a modera and economical steam along like a hound on a trail, background of peach blossom; al- installations applicable to merchant-stumbling over dead wood and 105 mond-eyed, rosy-lipped, dressed in men of average speed the steam socks, her face beaten by the high and out, and tremendous hairpins. turbine and double-reduction gearing grass that parted and closed bebind But, oh, my young friends. what bas demonstrated clearly that her, until, with a loud ery, she fell awful harridans they really are: the step from single

to upon her knees, crying, "C'est ici! Whited sepulchres. and not a bit double reduction is not one of mere .. And there, hidden in almost multiplication. New factors bave impenetrable brushwood, they found, been introduced and different values the cairn!

better than they ought to be.

THE ROAD TO RUIN.

And those dreadful tea-houses, where innocent young men are lured away to drink cup after cup of wick- ed Oolong and Souchong.

must be given to the various force in "The Empress told me that the A complete solution, first whiff of perfume had been so operation tion of all or principally upon a few she thought she was going to faint. whether dependent upon a combina-unexpected, so overwhelming, that How many a Cook's tourist has had of the many variables will no doubt But it seemed to drag her along with

early be

his nerves shattered, his digestion number of factors entering into ques fought her way through the jungle found," The large it; she felt no fatigue and could have ruined, by the orgies of tea-swilling tion is suficient alone to suggest its for hours."

THE WATER SUPPLY.

dhe L December, 1990:- Levai apri Storage of water in zœerrdin

that take place in those excuse the nature. The most important of these expression) bells?

are lubrication, aligument of, shafts, And Pini Sing herself: 'Alas, what coincidence of helical angles, material is she but a Japanese barmaid, a and design of inter-meshing teeth. dancing girl, who more than likely pressure and rubbing velocity between winks at her customers, gives them" teeth.. torsional vibrations, all play the glad almond-eye, and probably their parts. The present position. drives them to bari-kiri on the door, however, is such as to give to the step?

(Diesel engine a meater prominence Tytz 711 in Below : 0x Below uratow.

thanit might otherwise have achieved.

BACK TO GRACE.

CITY AND HILL DENTEJOT WATER WOBER LEVIL

PACE

preciow

Fiber Reemat 29 ft.

14 In Below evertow

1920x

*"*. Ok

So the Geisha is to go. The prudes, in spite of the somewhat retrogade American women of course, are out step from purely rotary to reciproca y mediate if {teret, wit

to show her the error of her ways, to ting motion.-J. Richardson, B-SC-, wear her from her sordid life and get in Engineering.

her a nice respectable job in a Yoko-

hama pickle works, at 2 yen a week

and an hour for dinser.

But what are our librettists going

opers was.

Mr. Hioki, the newly appointed

i in Belor merin

Dve dow

ran Tak 13ff1ft. T. Below overdon

·Below overflow Wong Kal reg. 28 17,

Below 10 Below overtow Akful the z. 17. Below dow

Below, gruction

t STORIA DE MILLION AID DACHELLA OF BALLİYE

Pranë, m

*1813.

43.14

1,771.30

100.

5970

11590

14

64.15

Chasomption of wwer. In the City and Hill District in mittions and decimals of gallons during the month of November

to do without her? The poor chaps Ambassador to Germany, in an inter- will stawe.

view with the Taish Nichi "Nicht | Neil momento, For the Japanese tea-houses and spoke of Japan's participation in the their attendant Yum-Yums have been war as an unfortunate business; their bread and butter since comic which must be forgotten as speedily

as possible in the endeavour to "MIKADO." MORALS.

restore the friendliest relations with There is the "Mikado to begin a country to which Japan owes so with. The prudes will be starting on much. If he wanted to bear a that next, smashing the footlights convincing message of goodwill, he and burning the box-office as a pro-show if he could inform Germany would have tangible evidence to test against its blatant depravity.

And what of Madame Butterfly" that its countrymen in Japan hai and The Geisha"? Must these also not had their properties confiscated and their business opportunities dé This attack on an old-established stroyed. This, however, he is unable to do, and his German friends are

go?

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Delimated poparat

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Constant supply in all districts during Beramber of both 1919 sz 1920-

KOTLOOS WATER WORKĄ LEVEL.

192.

1993).

tion Sperátil (below overfew,

de Gavia 2 Ela it in." "Abora

• PROBABE IN MILLING LIE INCIĀLS DE BALLUVRI

1941

industry is but the thin edge of the wikely to judge by deeds rather than togloom Gueritation wedge, and the stage would do well words says the Japan Chronicle

to start a counter-campaign against There bas been no dénial", în Cmption of water in Kowloon In such theatrical pussyfooding, t Japan of the Havas messages which millions and defensis of gallons during the

"A NOTE OF WARNING."

represented the Japanese delegates to month of Novembe

If the source of our scenarios is to Geneva as backing the Frenchs withi

be stopped like this, nothing will be the loyallest friendship, so it is rather

futile for Mr. Hioki, with this on his team. They will start on Chine text and conscience, to say that Baron Hayas The Chu-Chin-Chow" will have to be the must have been-KrouslyŽENS redressed and dished up as a comedy ported in the statement that he agreed of Chinatown, with Limehouse lyrics with France in maintaining the excla

sion of Germany from the Lengua. and patter from PennyBcks.

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