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LAMMERT BROS.

AGOFIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS,

-Public Auctions-

THE

UZ Undersigned bave mrozived in- structions to sell by Public Auction, SATURDAY, February 5, 1822,

commencing at 11 a.m. at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street, One Indian Motor Cycle complete

with side can,

One ease of Batteries in good,

condition.

One American Combination Safe

Cabinet

Oce Grand Piano,

Three Gramophones fumu).

On view now.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

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LAMMERT BROS..

Apetioneers

Hongkong, January 21, 1921.

FOR SALE.

NE HORNSRY-ACKROYD OIL

Fece Foxer, Fuel,

Kerosene Complete with cooling appara- tos in good condition. May be viewed by appointment at Gun Cleb Hill Bricks, Kawlana. Apply to the undersigned

LAMMERT BROS.

FOR SALE

MILNER'S SAFES

Apply to

LAMMERT BROS.. Dadell Street.

I say

KEATINGS LOZENGES

cure the worst Cough

MASSAGE.

Mr. HONDA and Mrs. HONDA.

Trained male Massur 13 years' experience Formerly of Tokyo Miliary Hospital WILL VISIT PATIENTS' RESIDENCES IF PREFERRED No. 24, Wrodham Street. (Opposite to the China 3)

MUMEYA.

Japanese Photographers. We have removed par Premises to No. 36, Queen's Road, C. Sitting hours from 98.. to 9 p.m. Passport photos finished

in one hour.

To arrive shortly, large

White quantities of

Glazed Tiles, also Cast

#

Iron Porcelain Lined

Baths and the last word

in bidets.

-C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.

Nos. 30 & 31 Des Vaux Road Central.

Extablished 1200

Telephone 370.

THE CLEANING OF SUMMER FROCKS is an important matter and we make a speciality of "refinishing" light Frocks- and Costumes so that they keep clean longer than when treated by ordinary methods.

Our processes are thorough and reliable! Our facilities and re sources enable us to carry out nil work quickly and our charges are really reasonable.

Write for Price List and See!

The Diamond Dyeing and Drycleaning Co. -

Agent

CASSUM AIMED.

Jeneral Tr per

2 & 34" Wellington Street.

Branch

Nathan Road, Kowlóen. 'Phone 145%.

INIMATION

YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO

BE WITHOUT THEM.

JEST norived a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestire food for Infants which keeps good in quality during Hot weather (2) LAC the TOSE (Milk Sugar) for sweetening foods of Infants and Dyspeptics (3) MILFORD MCGRATE FLUID INSEC TICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Fless, Mosquitoes, Bags, Flies and all other Insect Pests in Summer days, and (4) JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for reeping everything clean in Esuses.

PRICES are Very Moderate. Ins pection and Equiries are cordially insired

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.

Bole Apema JevtRangkets and Souza China

„Nos. 4746), Cannagh; Rond Cestrah, Hongkong- Telephone Nos, 150

理代泰盛

Just Received

LAWN GRASS

SEEDS.

Grass is Mother Nature's. Carpet provided to cover the ground. If there is an abundance of soft green grass your home will rot only be more pleasing but it will also be more valuable.

GRACA & CO., Dealers in Flower and Vegeta- teeds. Postage Stamps,

Toys, etc.

Ba 10. Wyndham Streng

Hongkong. 20. Box $20.

JAPANESE MAKERS.

Every kind of Footwear.

MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & 00.,

PEDDER STREET, Open to Hoogkong Hote! Telepavce So. $9.

Hongkong. March 26, 1916.

TANG YUK, DISTET.

she love IES ZING, 14. DAGERAK STXERT,

TERMS VERY HÖDÉMATA

Commitation trimme

THE NEW

FRENCH REMEDT,

THERAPION NO.1 THERAPION N1.2 THERAPION N0.3

Sa, 1 for Badder Catarrh Net for Bio E Dia«, Foar Paragon GlasLESINEBA

*

ABARI BEER

PILSENE

CRAND PRI

ASAHI

LAGER

SPECIALLY

BE

COMP

PILSENER BERR

ASAHI

BEER

LAGER BEER

SPECIALLY HET

COMPA

SOLE AGENTI

MITSUI BUSSAN KÄISMA.

THE CHINA MAIL.

MEDIUM STRENGTH

CAPSTAN

Navy Cut Cigarettes

10 CIGARETTES &MOUTHPIECES

EVERY

O.WIL

VIRGINIA

CAFSTA

Navy Cut Cigarettes W.D.&H.O.WILLS

used in the manufacture of

pls Le

LEAF

CAPSTAN

SOLD

BY

CIGARETTES

is selected and blended

by specialists, skilled

in the art of their

Profession.

ALL TOBACCONISTS.

This Advertisement is issued by BritisAmerican Tobacco Ce, (China) Ltd

TRADE WITH FAR EAST.

start Chinese factories, and create This is largely due to the ancient organisations throughout the interior. national traditions which made trad Levers and their allied organisation, ing for personal profit among the

The old time|

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4. 1821.

NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD. WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansions96,

Agents for :-ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

ROSSS BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S" NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS,

BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,

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ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery,

Maximum Output.

The amount of production is materially afected by the Belting you use your machine. The conditions of industry today demand an incrassed output to balance the shorter hours worked, and to get this you must hate belts that are made for the purpos

There must be no haphazard method employed in the manufacture of Balting if it is to be depanded upon to transmit, day in and day out, an ample and regalar amount of power

For every class of Drive we make a special type of

Walker's Belking

The Bell that does all it is intended to do- and keeps on doing it !

The extra service it gives is a refection of the extra care that is displayed in its manufacture and the sales tion and taping of the hides from which it is made.

The name "Walker Bolto

is the strongest garantes

you could wish for.

BELTING

Our experience of over

25 pe

is at

your risposal. «

Wm. Walker & Sons, Ltd.

BOLTON, England.

PHOTO SUPPLIES,

DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY. No. 174, QN'S ROAD CENTELL EICHGEONG

LONG HING & CO., Rods and Kodak Flims, E. &c.

HOTELS AND CAFES.

GREATEST POTENTIAL WORLD Price's are good examples of this Japanese 3 dishonourable and a dis❘ THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO.,

MARKET FIK BRITISH QOODS. The British American Tebacco Co, graceful thing.

RONGKONG KEY TO SOUTH CHINA.

Mr.F. A. McKenzie, writes in the Empire Moil

are

The main complaint against the! Japanese among the business com. munity in the Far East is that they are attempting by political influence and by control of means of com- munication to close up parts of the They are giving Far East to us.

OPERATING :---

J

THE HONGKONG HOTEL,

HOTEL MANSIONS, THE REPULSK BAY HOTEL,

AND THE

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

TD.

J. EL. TAGGARE. KAYARKE

THE PEAK HOTEL.

15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of-

Mrs. BLAIR.”

(Two minutes from

Star Ferry).

PALACE HOTEL

has a vast Chinese organisation of Japanese trader, knowing that his! its own, which is the wonder of all neighbours looked on him as a who have studied it. I have been scoundrel, thought that he might amazed when travelling far in the in make his scoundrelism as profitable terior to come up against one of the as possible. This feeling remains in provincial conferences of the some quarters in spite of every effort The Far East presents to-day the British American Tobacco organi of the Government, the great mer sellers. A group of chants and the financiers, by educa- greatest potential market in the sers and

Chinese business tion and precept, to remove it. The world for our manufactured goods, keen, pleasant. The group of peoples stretching men would come together to meet broad general rule remains. The from Siam to Sagahlin number five their European chief, and the pro- great Japanese merchants" are as They ceedings would be conducted with reliable as the merchants of any twelfths of the human race. have been during the past few years the exactness, the zest and the close other land, but there is a suficient swept by a wave of Western reform, attention to detail that would mark proportion of unreliable men among Their picked young men are studying one of the best organised conferences the smaller manufacturers and mer- chants to make the English business in London; Paris and Washington; in London.

The manufacturer who contem-houses very careful of entering into their countries

more and more being opened up by railways; plates tackling the Far Eastern transactions which depend upon their

market should at the beginning ac business honour. they have a powerful and numerous press, in which the art of adver- quire a very real respect for the pes. tising is carried to a very fine point;ple he is trying to cater for. He will their people are rapidly abandoning find possibly much to amuse him in old ways of living, old styles of their prejudices, bat he will find very clothing, old tastes in food, for the much more to respect in their sound styles, the fashions, the methods business qualities. He is seeking and the machinery of Europe and the support not of barbaric folk, but America. Here we have a market of people highly educated and highly Japan practically a monop 1,500 Feet above Sea Level affording special opportunities but trained, with a civilisation older than Korean trade, Korea a land with close on twenty million people. Now equally having special difficulties of his own.

THE JAPANESE PROBLEM. that they control large parts of its own. Many of these difficulties

No one can attempt to do business Manchuria, some of the most ex are of a political nature. The British manufacturer has to confront com- in the Far East without immediately perienced Far Eastern houses refuse petition of a different kind from else- coming up against the Japanese to try to do business there: they where. If the prizes are great, the problem and finding himself up believe that it is no use; they say that against it all the line. The Japanese the Japanese give their own goods obstacles are high.

For many years Britain was politically are our Allies; commer such advantages on the railways there supreme in the China market. It cially they are our great rivals. They and use their influence in such ways was a case of England frst and the are rapidly developing their manu to spread Japanese trade, that the rest of the world nowhere. This factures, not merely for their home English firm stands little or no supremacy has been seriously chal, markets, but for world export. You chance. It is a general complaint lenged, first by Germany and then by will find them, everywhere, strong, that the Japanese control of Tring Japan. German competition was self-contained, energetic and pro- tau has made the market around greatly weakened by the results of agressive communities, fighting bard there much more inaccessible to serious financial crisis some years for trade, tooth and nail, and fight. Britain than ever before.

Alongside of this employment of ago, which caused the collapse of ing hard for the control of trade. some of the biggest German houses, Despite very cordial relations that political influence has gone the and later by the war. But the exist between Japanese as individuals wholesale purchase.by the Japanese i German has still to be reckoned with, and the European communities, the of all manner of natural rights and He is not unpopular among the Japanese as body are not popular commercial privileges in China. Chinese, and is persistent and hard with the English-speaking people of During the war, when England was working. Japanese competition is the Far East. Their uppopularity is too busy to interfere, they secured altogether of a more serious kind.due partly to their very virtues and enormous advantages in this way, I will discuss it more fully later on. partly to their faults. The English-sometimes by the wholesale bribery THE EAST INDIA: MERCHANT HOUSES. man who from childhood has looked of local officials, or by the exercise Their British trade, in the Far Eas" was upon himself as one of the supreme of great political pressure. for generations conducted almost people of the world, does not like it business aim is commercial doming- solely through great firms of Fast when he finds himself being met in tion of the East India merchants, carrying on their business and sometimes undercut sná businesses 'on an enormous scale, andersold by an Easterner who is! with beadquarters at the great Treaty confident of his natural superjority ports and connections all over the over the European. The Japanese land. These forms are, perhaps, the are freely accused of trickiness in ing nearest approach to the princely trade and not keeping to their bar possessed by the Japanese for Eastern merchant adventurers of the Eliza gains, and of adopting methods trade have resolved that it is better bethan Age that we have left among which we do not think fair. There to co-operate with them than to fight ts. Many have their own shipping is some truth in this, but it is not them. Anyone who studies a list of lines and most have great influence the whole truth, The great Japanese Far Eastern enterprises will see now in public affairs. The story of houses conduct their business on the more and more Japanese merchants Jardine, Matheson and Co., for ex-cost stupulously honest lines are becoming the representatives of 'ample, is interwoven with the history Japanese national finance is beyond British manufacturers in Asia. This of Europezo relations in China for the suspicion. But the smaller Japanese is what the Japanese want. They in the most last century. Firms like. Dodwell's dealer is apt to be tricky, and has claim that they are and Butterfield and Swire, are house to be handled very carefully. He advantageous position for doing hold names throughout the Far East. has a bad reputation for repudiating In more recent years we have, seen bargains when they go against him, leading British manufacturers es The quality of his products have to tablish themselves on a big scale, be watched.

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BRITISH MANUFACTURERS AND

་

JAPANESE REPRENTATIVES. Some big British houses, recognis

advantages the remarkable

KOWLOOK

Recently renovated and refurnished, electric light, and far- rockhous and entirely under new management. Calale under the pereres saranzielon of the proprietor. Her and Billiard Booma. Terma modesta. Special time se families on application to

Telephona K. 3. Telegraphic Add.: "PALÁCIE.”

J. E. OXREKRY, Prostor.

HOTEL "ASIA"

WEST BUND, CANTON,

Rooms

en ...

Suite

Roof

& with Hairdressing

private Baths. Salook eta

Moderate Bates.

Garden,

Excellent Cuisine.

to.

Tourists.

Leading Hotel in South China.

attention 41 given Under the Foreign Supervision of,

Special

CENTRAL LOCATION

KING EDWARD HOTEL

LL ELECTRIC TRAMA Pam Kairsnor, ilue- Bathe and Haniary Fittings, Hot and Cold Bad Food and Service Telephora 22. Tewgraphic Address :-" VICTORIA J. WITCHYELL, Maunger.

Arke Lifts, fans dod laglung, Europese business with Asiatics and that Engster System throughout land and America would secure the greatest and most profitable return (Continued on Page 3.)

THOS, G. HUTCHINGS.

FRENCH LESSONS

G. HOURSION.

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