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CYERLAND CHINA MAIL

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No. 18,185.

The China Mail=

February 17, 1921, Tampérature 55

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TO-DAY'S

BUSINESS NOTICES

THE BEST PREVENTIVE OF-

INFECTIOUS & CONTAGIOUS

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Hurudity St.

February 17, 1920, Tompersture 56

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WILL LIVE FOR EVER

N. LAZARUS,

-OPETHALMIO OPTICIAN. „QDown'4 Ional Cintes). Hauekone

PRICE $3.00 Per Month

BUSINESS NOTICES

HANAN

SHOES

DISEASES

IS

HYGIENOL

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1921.

CABLES.

"(Rester's Service to the China Mail)

TRADE DEPRESSION.

CONTINENTAL PRICES DEFY BRITISH COMPETITION.

THE MARKET IN CHINA.

LONDON, February 16. That some European countries are deliberately and systematically inflating exchange against themselves in order to undersell and get their

To-day's closing rav Today's opening ra J

THE SHIP THAN WAS-

DERELICT BANQUE,

SAILS UP, THE THAMES.

A British ship that passed out of enortal ken, thet isy stranded sad hali- buried in the silting sand of a foreign shore for twenty years, and was given up as a total loss by the owners and

Thames.

A highly concentrated and perfectly safe industries going before meeting their indebtedness, was a point urged by underwriters, has just sailed up the

DISINFECTANT."

SOLD ONLY BY

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

'Phone 16.

DRAGON MOTOR CAR GO.

(THE EUROPEAN Garage).`

Open and Closed

CARS FOR HIRE

TEL..

482. 3552

in Hongkong and Kowloon. TEL

HOUSEHOLD COAL

On and after November 1st, 1930, watil further notice we se prepared to accept orders for HOUSEHOLD COAL re-screened in Hongkong at the following prices - Delivered to Peak District (abore Bowen Boul)...$22.00 per tau.

.. Ewen Road' and Lower Levels

and Kowloon...321.00 per ton. TERMS: CASH WITH ORDER

482. 3552

こ

(CHEQUES PAYABLE TO "KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION")

KAILAN MINING

ARENTS

ADMINISTRATION

*HEAD OFFICE:Tightsin."

DODWELL

HONGKONG

CO., LTD..

YEE SANG FAT CO.

FREE!

$1.00 WORTH

FREE FREE

OF MERCHANDISE WILL

BE GIVEN FREE.

DURING THE LAST THREE DAYS OF

OUR DAY AND night SALE.

On Thursday, Friday and Saturday will be given FREE $1.00 worth of merchandise with every purchase of $10.00 or over. There are no further strings tied to this. It is an out-sad-out offer, for Thursday, Friday and Saturday. ONLY THE LAST THREE DAYS. Date 17th, 18th and 19th instant.

YEE SANG FAT CO.

Where the Big Sale is Now Going On,

CAPE WINES

CLARET

DRAKENSTEIN (Hock Style).

SAVIGNON BLANC (Hock Style)

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LD.

15, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,

For the

RACE WEEK

it will be a

SURE GAIN TO YOU

to buy from us!

TEL. 75.

GOOD JEWELLERY SEVER LOSES

its value.

JULLMANN & UO,

The vessel is now lying moored in the middle of Canada Dock, just be- low Rotherhithe.

Sir Peter Rylands, a member of an infinential industrial deputation which waited on Mr. Austen Chamberlain LO urge alleviation and postponement of taxation on industries "during the present de- pression. It was pointed out that continental prices defied British

The superstitious sailor will write competition. Moreover, there was great difficulty in obtaining remittances her down in future as "the ship that in certain countries. Mr. Chamberlain replied that the factors mentioned was "the Southampton bailt, four-

masted barque "Andrina." cow the, were beyond the Government's control. The difficulty in the case of

re-named and Chilian-owned " Alex- markets like India and China was not concerned with remittances and Exandrina." that left British shores 22 change but was a question of the impossibility of disposing there of goods years ago. · ordered in Britain.

UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM.

GOVERNMENT TO HONOUR PLEDGES TO EX-SERVICE MEN.

LONDON, February 17. " In the House of Commons Mr. Clynes moved an amendment to the address regretting that the Government had failed to fulfil its promises to introduce legislation for the relief of unemployed, the numbers of whom had trebled in the past four months. The Rt. Hon. Mr. Macnamara replied that the Government intended to enforce its unemployment policy and carry out its pledges to ex-Service men by shortly increasing unemployment benefits.

U.S. PACIFIC FLEET.

BIG NAVAL BASE FLANNED FOR HAWAII,

HONOLULU, February 15.

On December 8 a stevedore's row.' boat took me alongside the ship, dimly outlined in the fog, writes & Daily News representative: She was dying the Chilian flag, and was discharging a valuable cargo, of grain from the States. A dusky Chilian showed me the captain's cabin, and, seated at a table with his wife and three little fair-haired daughters. Ceptain Fred A. Gjertsen, a Norwegian, told me the

romantic story of this derelict...

"This barque was wrecked on. Tierra del Fuego-{the Land of Fire] in 1898, as she was rounding Cape Horm, about 250 miles from Punta [ Arenas,” he said. "She was deserted and forgotten, and eventually the

Combine the best

materials and: good. workmanship with perfect fit and comfort,

WE HAVE A SHOE FOR EVERY FOOT...

MACKINTOSH

& CO. LTD.

Men's Wear Specialists.

16, Des Voeux Road.

Telephone 29.

WE ARE NOW CARRYING STOCKS OF HIGH CLASS

DUTCH HAVANA CIGARS

THE PHARMACY ̈ 22, Queen's Road.

Tel 845

Tel. 345

sheep ranchers and the natives strip- THE GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. (of China), Etd.

ped her of most of the wood-work,

sails, and tackle. They say that the Patagonians built many a fine house out of her timbers.

*

"Well, twenty years passed, and she was given up as hopeless." Then, Plans for the expansion of Pearl Harbour as a United States naval base in 1918, when there was a world at Hawaii with a view to enabling it to supply and accommodate the entir shortage of ships, a Punta Arenas firmu Pacific Fleet are now under way, according to Rear-Admiral Shoemaker of salvors arrived, dug a channel in the sand, got her out, and floated her. who bas just arrived to take command vice Rear Admiral leter who Her present owners are the famous has been transferred to the American-Naval Commission at Rió de Janeiro. | Menendez firm of Punta Arenas Admiral Shoemaker says that the plans should not be interpreted so as to known as the Wool Kings of Pata- give the impression that the United States expects trouble but as a routine gonia, owning vast sheep ranches. development tending to greater efficiency and fulfilling the original purposes

of the station. A part of the Pacific Fleet will very soon be based at Hawaii.

NORWEGIAN SHIPS.

COMPENSATION SOUGHT FROM AMERICA.

CHRISTIANIA, February 17.

"The salvors, of whom there were about 50, lived on board during the operations but the vessel listed over 21, a sharp angle, and fresh quarters had to be built.

"The remarkable thing about the Alexandrica' was that although she had been derelict for 20 years, and had endured the rains and storms of ail that time, her masts were standing

"The Norwegian Minister at Washington has presented a note to the and the hull was in good condition. United States State Department requesting that the claims of a group of After working for over four months Christiania shipowners on the American Government for $14,000,000 in and she took in scarcely a drop of the salvors launched her into the sea, connection with the requisitioning of ships during the war shall be submitted water, which says much for the sound- to arbitration unless an amicable settlement is reached soon.

POST-WAR READJUSTMENT.

—

FINANCIAL EXPERT CONTEMPLATES FUTURE CONFIDENTLY.

1

WASHINGTON, February 16. Mr. Harding, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, in his annual report, expresses the opinion that the United States has passed the crisis in post-war readjustment. He contemplates the future confidently. America at present is finding her exports only partly paid for by a large portion of the world. Trade will soon have to be cut down to the most vital essentials unless Europe's normal credit and buying power are restored. Mr. Harding advocates the creation of a corporation to arrange long-term credits.

·SIGNOR CARUBO.

GREAT SINGER'S CONDITION STILL SERIOUS.

SERIES OF ILLNESSES,

ness with which she was buik. She was towed to Punta Arenas, refitted, and equipped, and a diver who exam- ined her reported her seaworthy.'

It is the ship's first visit to London since Iter rechristening, and no one who saw her being “mothered " into the dock by the tugs guessed her identity. She has a mixed crew of Chilians and Norwegians and one or two Germans.

FAMINE RELIEF FUND.

SOME BIG GIFTS.

PRESIDENT GIVES - $30,000.

"

Two large gifts to the National Famine Relief Drive have brought the, special campaign fund to a total of $65,000.

Mr. Charles R. Crane, American Minister, to Chins, gave the commit- tee $15,000 and his contribution was soon followed by another from the Methodist ch Board which sent

New York, Febrzaty 16. After paying farewell to the members of the Metropolitan Opera Company at his bedside Signor Caruso rallied but în still Jama serious condition. Signor Caruso has had a series of illnesses since early December. First he was injured in the fall of a stage pillar, then he strained his side in $20,000,

Both the new funds come from by slipping and falling on the stage, and afterwards burst small blood

sources that have already given liber- vessel in his throat while singing at Brooklyn. He recovered but afterally to famine relief. Both Mr. and that he had successively lumbago and pleurisy, the latter ailment necessitat Mrs. Crane have given donations ing two operations to the ribs. Subsequently he was suffering from acute before and the Methodist organize- струета.

REPARATION TERMS.

SIMONS STILL BREATHING DEFIANCE.

BERLY February 16,

tions have assumed a large part of the relief burden.

The Methodist-fund-was sent to China by the Methodist Board For

QUEEN'S BUILDINGS, HONGKONG. Telegrams, "Sparkless."

Telephone 518

HEAD OFFICE: SHANGHAI. (BRANCHES AT HANKOW, DAIREN AND

TIENTEIN.)

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(Electrical Plant, katers, nymamos, Switch Geer, etc.) ORE--GLED, Lake Work, London,"

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am-Zube Seta, Conveying saxi Mining Plaqua) Prečli-Generć Cabla Warka, Kouthangkan.

{Cable, When, Hexibles, Insulating Materials, Tapes) Chamberlain, & Hookham, Ltd., Birmingham

Cähters for House Service. Power sind Traction Purposes.] Balford Electrical Co. of All Descriptions.)

Manchester.

(Electrical Instruments

Heel-Gormar Telephone Works, Ltd., Coventry.

(Complete Telephone instalations, Switch Roard, Telophia s Comper Magnetos & Ignition, Co. Ltd., CoreDY,

*(Magastos tar Cihs and Aeroplasms?

Express Lift Co., Ltd. London

(Electric Passengera & Cargo Elita.)

Froqzer Fan wind Carbon Worka, Hürriaghat.

(metrie Van, Sojail-power kotita, Carbon Brushes) ATI METRI, 834 Steel Conduit Works, Bhymingham..

(Lighting Fixtures, steal Conduit and assuasorise.)

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Established 1900..

TAILORING

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TIL. 23$3.

DONNELLY & WHYTE.

Tel 636,

WINE MERCHANTS.

Tel 038.

GEORGE BING MOTOR BOATS 00,

Hongkong Station at...

Murray Pier Tel 1904.

FAST

Kowloon Station at Police Fier Tel 171.

& COMFORTABLE MOTOR BOATS. FOR HIRE AT ALL HOURS. 82.00 per Hour or Part thereof or $100 per Trip... Eot exceeding, 16 Minutes.

THE

werk of the China churches in the HANDLEY PAGE

own fields but the directors said they. believed the nature of the United International Famine Relief Commit- tee was such that the funds would be After conferring at Baden with the Cabinet of Karlsruhe Herr von best expended under its direction Simons addressed the Diet. He declared that no German statesman would which has been characterized hỳ dare call on the people to perform a forty-two years corres under Enteste efficiency throughout. conditions. Germany must therefore refuse to sign such an undertaking. United International Committee be An empty treasury confronted the Two important factors in the impending clearing up of the situation would fore, the drive was inaugurated and be whether Germany would retain Upper Silesia and what would be her the new funds give promise that it relations with the United States, a

"ANOTHER DÄVIS CUP CHALLENGE.

PARIS, February, 17.

France has issued a

for the Dayis Cop.

will be replenished. His Excellency; |"President" Hsu Shih-chang gaye $30,000 last week and the North Ching Unico Language School has given $3,000. Other large gilts are expected before the formal opening of the drive on February 20.

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