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OPYTRALMIS OPTICIAN.
The China Mail.
December 17, 1990, Temperature 65.
1845
Hamudity 73.
December 17, 1919, Temperature 60.
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1020. 日八初月一十申庚大豆年九國民中
ESTABLISHED
25, Quvan's React Conizzi, Bonzing
Barometer 30.03
Raintal 0 10 ch..
No. 18,136.
五拜醒 號七十月二十年十二百九千一英
BUSINESS
THE DOLLAR"
HIGH-CLASS
NOTICES
CONFECTIONERY
CAILLER'S
CHOCOLATES
OF THE FINEST QUALITY, NEATLY PACKED
in ELEGANT BOXES of I, 4 be. S 6. lbs.
The first shipment of really high-class Chocolates that are EQUAL TO PRE-WAR QUALITY.
!
At very reasonable prices.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.,
"THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
DRAGON MOTOR CAR GO.
(THE EUROPEAN (GARAST),
Motor Cars for Sale and Eire.
24. Des Viray food.
Garages at
26. Nathan Bad "Kowloon.
Tels. 452 & 3532.
Just unpacked
BURMA CHEROOTS
In Different Sizes.
MODERATE PRICES.
TABAQUERIA FILIPINA,
38-40, Queen's Road Central.
THE WING ON CO., LTD.
Phone 196
UNIVERSAL PROVIDERS
Phone 198
JUST ARRIVED
LADIES' & GENTS'
ני
GEO. E. KEITH
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
CAPE WINES
OLARET
DRAKENSTEIN (Hook Stylej
SAVIGNON BLANO (Höck Style)
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LD.
15, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
When you want to buy
TEL. 75.
DIAMONDS, WATCHES & JEWELLERY
do not forget that you have to take more care in the choice of your dealer than you would with other merchandise.
Buy reputable goods from a reputable firm
ULLMANN & 00.
Freich £ni, Est. 1850,
To-day's closing rate 3.1 3/16 To-day's opening rate 3/1 3:16
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.}
BARTERING PROBLEM,
Lospos, December 14th.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS
(Reuter`s Särvice to the China Mail)
FRENCH INDO-CHINA.
MARSEILLES, Dec. 14.
WAICHOW' DESTITUTES.
BISHOP POZZÖNI'S APPEAL
| FURTHER DONATIONS ACKNOWLEDGED.
We are requested by Bishop Poz- zoni to publish his grateful acknow- M. Loog. Governor-General of
ledgment of the following donations | Indo-China, has arrived here. In an interview, he said that the Gover-appeal on behalf of the Waichos received by him in response to his ment's bold policy is bearing fruit in Destitures:- Indo-China. and is
costing tot France a single certime. He urged Society of St. Vincent de
Already acknowledged ...... 5776.00 commercial expansion, and emphasis- j
PARI
Mr. Lloyd George bas instituted inquiries /ed the fact that the natives' parche | Mt. Marques with representative business men in the ing power & increasing and the count-Mex. A. Leong bope of discovering practical was forty is perfectly orderly. the establohment of a system bartering between Great Britain and foreign conn- tries. Artifical methods of adjusting the exchange are being considered. If Euro- pean commodities can be brought to Grea: Britain by barter. caravanning or small *peddling, exchanges will eventually right
themselve
STARTING CHILDREN.
CHINESE STUDENTS.
W
M. Chui Yan
Mr. G. P. de Martic Collected by a friend Mr. J. M. Noronha Messrs. R. A. Tyrrell and
JEYES
by Royal Appointmemişe THE BEST- DISINFECTANT,
PRICE $3.00 Per Month
BUSIVES NOTICES
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS
FOR
MEN
A UNIQUE SELECTION OF HIGH CLASS MEN'S- WEAR TO CHOOSE FROM. ALL BEARING THE HALL MARK "OF QUALITY AND DEPENDABILITY,,
NECKWEAR, GLOVES, PURSES, WALLETS, DRESSING GOWNS, SILK SCARVES, WOOL MUFFLERS. LINEN STICKS, HANDKERCHIEFS, SOCKS, WALKING CARDIGANS, FANCY WAISTCOATS, RUGS,
KREMENTZ
CORRECT. JEWELLERY
4
VERY "ACCEPTABLE
GIFT
SHAW
500.00 5.00 10.00
Wa Ya School, Ist Star-
dard
30.00
Wa Yan School. 2nd Stan
Zand
20.00
Va Yan School; 3rd Seen-
dard
16.00
10.00
125.00
25.00
10.00
J. T.
10.00! TEL
SPECIALIST IN
ID.00
10.00
63.95
60.10
50.00 2.00 2.00
106:30
Brewer
LONDON, Dec. 14. The Daily Mail, in a leader, ges action in regard to the training of Chinese students in Great Britain to avoid the decline of our trade with China, especially in view of the act WASHINGTOS. December 14th.. President Wion has appealed to Ameryvities of France, America and Japan: cans to roztribute to the reitef of starving It points out the significance of children in Central Europe. Be as Japan's remitting her portion of the : sunoszerd that he will adopt twenty Boxer Indemnity for the establish Collected by Rev. Fr. Sito
ment of an engineering school in China suffed by Japanese, and the fact that the Chinese Minister. Mr. Alfred. Sze graduated in Cornell
children se bis own temporary wards.
WINTER IN ENGLAND.
Lossos, December 14th.
it. T. L. Pereira M. M. F. Lourenco
Collected by Mr. Choy San
Shem
Messrs. Norocha & Co. Mr. E. Buling... Collected by the Chinese
St. Joseph's Society Collected by the Misses M.
Remedios Xavier
and
Almost record cold weather prevails in/ University, while Dr. Wellington Koo; Reel Fox. RA.M.C. England. Thirty-three degrees of frost graduated in Columbia University. has been registered in Northamptonshire and 16 in London. Skating is proceeding on the Thames Falleg ponds. Heavy SHOW- storms have occurred everywhere. Winter sports are general throngbong"the country,
RUSSIAN TRADE TREATY.
LONDON. December lith. The Day Chronicle sass M. Frasin has sabmitted to the Government the Russian amendments to the Trade treaty which aim at the elimination of the clause re garding the Bolshevik propaganda and the removal of the stipulation regarding the recognition of private debe Russia also demands British legislation safeguarding Russian gold from attachment by private persons seeking to recover money die from Kussia,
the
The Daily Chronicle adds that negotiations bave taken a moet unfavour able turn in view of the above demands.
AUSTRALIAN WHEAT GROP."
SYDNEY, December 14th.
The Minister of Agriculture estimates that the damage done by storms in the wheat-fields amounts to £5,000,000. An Overseas market will have to be found far the damaged grain.
AEROPLANE CRASH
LONDON, December 14th, A Handley Page Paris-to-Ladon sera plane crashed 21 Cricklewood. It fouled a tree while leaving the aerodrome, and burst into fames. It is reported that the pilot. the mechanic and two passengers were killed, and six passengers were injured.
CONSTANTINE.
Lucas, December 14th. Ex-King Constantine and family have felt by the ordinary train for Venice, route for Greece,
WAR FINANCE CORPORATION.
farmers.
MIXED BATHING.
BATH SETS THE LEAD.
RETURN TO THE OLD TRADITION.
If anywhere in the jostling modern world the voice of Elegance is heard it is a Bata.
Since Beau Nash
Mr. Chan Chur
KAN S
TEAS TEL
NEXT DOOR HONGKONG' HOTEL
55%
WE *NOW HAVE. LARGE SUPPLIES OF
BEETLE VIRUS.
AND HARMLESS TO DOMESTIC ANIMALS, SAFE CLEANLY TO USE, BUT MOST EFFECTIVE IN THE
EXTERMINATION OF COCKROACHES.
OBTAINABLE FROM
r TEL .345. 22. QUEEN'S ROAD.
THE PHARMACY
FLETCHER & CO.
Archee Collected by Miss Adeline
Demée
114.50
38.50
Mr. A. Baptista "Collected by the Rev. Fr.
Sparta
5.00
TEL 345,
ISS.00
10.00
90.00
25.00
25.00
"10.00 10.00
25.00
Collected by Mrs. Becker. Canton, as per list below Compradore Dept., J. M. da
Rocha & Co.
Mr. Li Chat Hing and
-Family Mr. Mo Kung Ting and
*Family
quelled a princess and told a duchess how to dress, the country is ever recognised that the raste of Bath is
Now Bath has spoken.i supreme. and a much-vexed cause is decided. Though younger boroughs may mar-!
Messrs. Tai Hong myr against it. henceforth for all of;
Mr. Li Kwok Shi us mixed bathing is brain!. The
Messrs. Kwang Nguan Sang -10.00 waters of King Bladed this week Mr. Kong Har
5.00 receive both sexes together. The
5.00 Mr. Li Yam Kow cavilling moralist may complain that Miss Ngan Ngau Bath has changed its mind occe Messrs. Wo Cheong already. In the eighteenth ceny Mr. Ching King Sing in the days when Nash gave laws, men and women and boys and girls Compradore Dept. of the were all in her waters together: This essrs. Yu Catong Loong
Union Trading Co. is the old usage. When Mr. Pepys Messes. Nam Shing looked into the bath he "found the
Messrs. Lan On Messrs. Sing Cheong Messrs. Kwong Lee Ching Compradore Dept. of Hogg.
Karanja & Co. Anonymous Messrs. Mow Fung
King and Queen hall of a mixed lot. good and bad, and so it was therei and everywhere in Europe, as it had been for many 1 century. True. fathers of the Church warned the faithful that bathing was to be per- mited only for the sake of clean- liness, never for amusement, and Messrs. Wing Tack
Anonymous
there is no doubt their
censure
was excited by their horror of the Compradoe Dept. of the In
ternational Banking Cor- bathing which was mixed: True,
paration
the more stere matrons of Rome)
in the early days of Rome's empire Compradore Dept. of the
Bank Line would not use the public baths. Ear- WASHINGTON, December 14th.
lier still, a father would not bathe Messrs. Wah Kee The Senste has passed revolution with his son. But the broad fact is Messrs. Kwong On
Anonymous directing the revival of the War Finance that for fifteen hundred years or more Corporation, in order to affer relief to Bath, like the rest of the civilised Messis. Choy Heong
Messrs. Tai Yau Foorg world, permitted mixed bathing. ¦ What were the motives, what was the Anonymous gain or loss, of the mineteenth cen: Messrs. Fung Ki Chan tury separation of the sexes we will Messrs. Quan Cheong Bath has spoken, and the old order Mr. Lu Kam Cheun not now inquire. It is but an episode. Mesers. Tak Cheung is restored. But we hope that the Messrs. Lai Wo ancient city will be mindful of its Messrs. Wing On Cheung... traditions. There are ample" records
AMERICAN NAVY.
WASHINGTON. December 14th- The first scout cruiser, Omahe, for the American Navy, was launched at Tacoma It is of 7,500 tons, with a speed of nearly 34 knota
It has 19.6-inch guns, and 2 torpedo-tabes.".
DUTCH JUGOSLAV RUPTURE.."
10.00
5.00
$10.00
10.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
$.00
5.00
1.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
20.00
5.00
5.00
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of the customs of the past and its decorations. The bathers of Bath should be required, by its modem
Total to date.......$2.557.85
Bear Nash to endure themselves in Collected by Mrs. Becker, Cen-
the Istoric elegance, the masculine for
THE HAGUE, December 14th. The diplomatic relations between the Dutch and the Juge-Biar Governments have been broken off, owing to differences Waistcoats and feminine ribbons, and Mr. and Mrs Ancier Becker $ 5.40 over the treatment of the Dutch Consul at to refresh themselves from navigable Mr. B. Christiansen Belgrade. The Batch Government has re- trays. Thus a new and piquant at. Mr. C. W. Watson called the Dutch Minister at Belgrade, action will be added to Bath's many Mrs. C. Franco while the Serbian Charge d'Affaires at the
Hague has been informed that his presence proval for the new decision.
charms. We have nothing but ap Mr. W. Diedricksen is supertinous.
We Mr. J. Jeppesen The Times says that the Dutch Consul a dare not say the world's great age. Mr. J. Elysee Belgrade, who is of Austrian nationality begins anew, the golden years re- Mr-Leo Fischer
turn," jest a reference to the golden Mr. R. Grange
and was interned during the war on s charge of espionage, appears to have been ou most friendly terms with the Bulge be misconstrued, but we heartily Mr. Charley Reid gariane.
CHINESE FAMINE RELIEF.
LONDON, Dec. 14, The organisation of the national appeal in aid of the sufferers from the Fanine in China is making good pro- gress. The Lord Mayor presides over a meeting at the Mansion House on Thursday (December 16).." The speakers include Sir John Jordan, Sir... Chas. Addis, and the ex-Chinese Minister in London (Mr. Alfred Sze). while the organisation throughout the country is superintended over by Mr. Donovan, ex-Postmaster of Shanghai. The movement is being warmly sup pocted by the Foreign Office. It is announced that the Chinese Diploma- tic and Consular Stans in Britain, are contributing 20 per cent. of their salaries towards the Famine Fund for a period of three months.
THE GENERAL ELECTRIC Co. (of China). Ltd.
QUEEN'S BUILDINGS, HONGKONG. Telegrams. "Sparkless."
Telephone 518
HEAD OFFICE: SHANGHAI. (BRANCHÉS AT HANKOW, DAIREN AND
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Electric Fang, Smallpower Kutors, Gammon Brakes) Art Metal, and Eteel Conduit Works, Blanningham.
(Lighting Fixtures, Steel Condisit and AcreVASTIAA)
LARGE STOCKS CARRIED IN CHINA OF ALL ELDTHICAL MATERIALE AND EXOTE:Can" "MACHIERE.
Mr. Arthur C. Diss has arrived from London with a large consignment of all the latest materials including-Black and Blue Coatings ---- Overcoatings-Fancy Wanted' and Tweed Suitings Flannels-- Real Harris-Real Shetlands-Erinaghs — Connemaras — Donegals— Bunproof (Bolaro)-&c.
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Alexandra Buildings.
DONNELLY & WHYTE.
WINE MERCHANTS.
10.00
5.00
Tel 636,
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5.00
10.00
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5.00
2.00
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5.00
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of
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welcome the return to the old tradi-Mrs. J. H. Andersen ... tion. In Bath, of all places, there Messrs. Varenne & Proton should be no insistence on the Beer Messis. Many Chuen ing fashions of yesterday or on mo- Mr. Fung Siu rose restrictions. Yet we cannot (Compradore
Messrs. Manners & regret that for a while there was a
Backhouse) law of separation. Imagination in a shudder of despair declines to picture Messrs. Sang Wo Tai Kane Austen's heroines permitting Mr. Lee Chook Hin..... 1.00 themselves mixed bathing but Bath Mr. Pak Yat Shon ... would not be what it is if they had Mr. Lam Kwök On ... not walked its streets, nor would Eng Mr. Ho Tak Pee...... lish life be the same without them. Mr. Leong Ping Cho 2.00 Who dare invent the alterations which Messrs. Hang Hing ... mired bathing would demand in Mr. Ngow Ly Ches... Pickwick Vainly we yearn for Mr. Ng Kee... the comments of Sam Weiler on the Mr. Ng Kai Ming out them. Who would wish to com. Mr. Hip Cheong theme. But we are far petter with Mr. Choi Ty Leci
|plicate_the_parsions of the efärs- Winkle-Dowler with a mixed bathing motive ? - Who - đôës not farn “tróni The BorrEle suggestion of Mr. Pick wick pás "Dr # mixed lot? in the King and Quem?
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1.00
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Kwangtung $20.09
at exchange 11.35-17.60
Toal
$80.00
TER
£38.
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