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SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1911.

GABLE ADDITSE "MERCURY" ENJOKEXA

LAC IN ZOICAL „WERTERN PAIRS BXXXTLET'S

F. E. YOU

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MERCURY MOTOR CAR DEVERAL ORICK

-CO.

59-61 Des Voeux Road Central,

HONGKONG.

KÜLGY, BRAJON

BLACK

BRÓW PREK..... BOXXMOX wit

WIFT PIETE EXAnem "Esu WOKE SWIT

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

(Peuter's Service to the Chica Mail)

FAR EASTERN PROBLEMS.

"CHINA'S POLITICAL ADVISER IN LONDON,

THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE.

COMPANY MEETING.

GANDE PRICE AND CO LTD.

THE CHINA MATL

MOTOR KILLS CHILD.

DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS:

NOTICE.

ESSRS. A. S. WATSON & CO.

LTD. have THIS DAY, takan

A distressing accident occurred on The fourteenth ordinary anual the Shashiwan Road, near Taibang meeting of Gande Price and Co. Ltd. yesterday afternoon, when motor was held at the Offices of the car No. 4 knocked down a year old Company, 8 Queens Road, at Chinese girl, killing her instantaneous-over the AGENCY IN CANTON of noon today. The Hon. Mr. ly. The remains of the unfortunate

THE CHINA MAIL" - and Lau Chu-pak presided and there were child were removed to the public OVERLAND CHINA "MAIL" present: Messrs. S. C. Pank (manag- mortuary,

PLAY AT SHOOTING.

ing director] C F Lyson and Lau Po-wing (directors) C Bond (secretary) and the following share bolders: Messrs J. H. Oxberry, Leung Yaupo, D. Rumjahn and S. Yau GIRL'S NOVEL WAY OF ENDING man ciru.

HER LIFE.

This thing is the trigger. You pull when I say Ready!" The little boy was delighted.

The girl bandaged her eyes with a handkerchief, knelt in front of him

"Ready!" she said.

The child fired and she fell over dead:

WHY

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THE

THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE,

LTD.- Hongkong. June 4, 1921.

Chamber of Commerce Room

(CITY HALL).

14th & 17th June,

at 5.15 pm.

VIOLIN & PIANO RECITAL.

Vladimir

Siraido

Violin ..

Virtuoso

and Harry Ore

Pantat Compoker.

TICKETS IT ANDERSON'S at $3, $2 & $L

The notice Convening the terting having been read, the chairman said:

Disappointed in love, a girl of 18 Gentlemen; the report and accounts having been in your hands for the who lived at Huy, Belgium, took her prescribed period, I will, with your 6-years-old nephew for a walk in a permission, follow the usual proceWe'll play at shooting," she said.

wood and gave him a revolver. dure and take them as read. The nett profit for the year under review is $16,16261, which is a de- crease of $15,377 96 as compared with that for the previous year. This, your directors attribute to the fact that some of our hoes had to be sold and told him to point the weapon at at very low prices to meet competi- her heart. tion by other dealers, who were | apparently able to take advantage of the high exchange then prevailing. whereas we had to dispose of our stock laid down at lower rates of LONDON, June 3.

exchange. The profit of $16,16261, Mr. B. Lenox Simpson, politicial adviser to the Government of China, together with the balance of has arrived in London to explain the views of China with regard to Far $4.655.55 brought forward from credit ARE FINGERPRINTS USE) FOR

IDENTIFICATION? Eastern problems, particularly the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. He expects of Profit and Loss Account for 1919, makes a total credit of $20,818.16 to remain in England two months. Referring to his conferences with which your directors recommend to The idea of identifying people by members of the American and Canadian Governments. Mr. Simpson,saidbe disposed of as follows-To pay their fingerprints, a practice which

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. that he found in America general agreement with the statement of Senator a dividend of $1 per share on 18-105 has been of immense value in shares which will absorb $18,105 the solution of mysteries connected Metformick that though possibly Britain and Japan could make a treaty and carry forward the balance of with crime and which is only begin

From EUROPE and STRAITS. acceptable to the American Government they could not make a treaty $2,713.16 to this year's account. mmg treated as positive E Company's Steamship streptable to the American people who had decided the American polity The Company has now to face the means of identification in the com-

"TSCRUGA DIARE," in

American effects of the increased day on mercial world as well, was originally having arrived from the above Porte the Inst election All the members of the

Wines and Spirits, and it remains introduced in India where the British Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed administration wkh whom he bad

to be seen to what extent it will authorities used it to impress the that their Goods are being landed and affect consumption. We are fortun-natives with the fact that there was rate in having a large stock reserve no way in which a culprit could placed at their risk in the Hosekoso of the value of $35,000 also a general escape certain detection. The officials AND Kowtoos War" AND GODOWY Co.'s reserve of $20,000 to fall back upon, of Scotland Yard, seeing in the Godore at Koricon, where each consign- should we require it, but your direc-system a perfect means of securement will be sorted out mark by mark and tors sincerely trust that instead of ing proof that a certain-man had delivery can be obtained as soon as the having to draw on

Goods are landač. our General been guilty of a crime-though there

Optional Goods will be carried on

contrary before NOON, TO-DAY,

Goods not cleared by the 13th June. 1921, will be subject to rent.

"

discussed

the

question showed great anxiety with regard to the naval question In the Pacific and did not disguise the fact that America was strengthening herself in every way possible by shipbuilding, dock construction, etc.

AN ANTI-BRITISH BOYCOTT?

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

Conversing with members of the Canadian Parliament be found them unanimous in the view that if the Alliance were renewed in any form they would insist on the icclusion of a clause whereby the treaty must be ratified Reserve, we may at the end of the be no other evidence of his gutunless instructions are given to the

by the Canadian Parliament before it became binding.

Damaged packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignee's and the Co.'s representatives at an speciat- ed hour. og TUESDAY and FRIDAY, AD claims Must be presented within

current year, be in a position to fur-fadopted the finger-print method of ther strengthen it. Before he left Feking the Chinese Foreign Minister told him think you will agree with rue that of classifications which enabled them Gentlemen, I identification, and worked out a series that China, would regard renewal of the treaty as a formal despite adverse circumstances, we to locate prints at a moment's notice. "ratification by Britain of Japanese policy in China during the war including have had a satisfactory year, and I Experts who have spent years questions such as Shantang. He emphasised that China had no am sure I am voicing the sentiments investigating the subject, claim that real quarret with Japan. It was only a question of policy and inter

of the shareholders when I say that the possibility of persons having the the staff have, in an able manner, prints of their forefingers precisely pretation of document. All ill-feeling between China and Japan would dis- looked after our interests, and I trust alike is only one in 50,000,000, and appear very rapidly if the Chinese views were duly considered. He con- that with their continued co-opera- that the same percentage holds good ten days of the steamer's arrival cloded by referring to the possibility of an anti-British boycott in Chination, we shall have better results to for the thumb prints and those of here, after which date they cannot be owing to the intense feeling of Chinese merchants due to the native press place before you at the next Annual the other fingers, so that the cognized. No claims will be adtitted

Meeting. With these few remarks, possibility of two persons hayafter the goods bars left the Godowns, incessantly alleging that Japan was only the instrament for British policy I have much pleasure in proposing ing the prints of all five fingers

KIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. and that Britain was chiefly responsible for the whole position in the Far the adoption of the report and the same would stretch almost into

Agentr East:

accounts as presented and after they the realms of infinity. The tiny

Hong kong, June 3, 1921. have been seconded I shall be pleased markings on the fingers, therefore, to answer to the best of my ability constitute a far better method of any question the shareholders may identification, than the features or desire to put

even the Bartillon system of accurate In seconding the chairman's re-measurement of the head, the lobes solution Mr. J. J. Blake said he of the ears and other parts of the thought the firm was to be con- body which cannot be altered at will gratulated on the magnificent profit but in which the possibilities of disclosed by the balance sheet-agreement in two persons are far less expecially in view of the competition than in connection with, the prints of with which they had had to contend their fingers, which, barring a wound during the past wear. He was or other accident which causes a sure he was veicing the sentiments scar, never vary from the cradle to of the shareholders in saying that the grave. they were very fortunate in having such a magnanimous dividend placed at their disposal,

MORE BIRTHDAY HONOURS.

EARL CURZON MADE A VISCOUNT.

LONDON, June 3.

The Birthday Honours include the following-Earl Curzon becomes a marquis and the Lord Chancellot, a viscount New "peerages include Sir Henry Dalziel, Sir Ailwys Fellowes, and Sir Marcus Samuel. New baronetcies include William Berry, Editor of the Sunday Times. Sir Robertson Nicoll is made a member of the Order of Companions of Honour. George Nathariel Curzon, K.G., GSCI., G.CIE, MA, P.C. FRS, D.CL. L.LD, JP. DL, has been: Irish representative Peer since 1908. He was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in 1919. He has been leader of the House of Lords since 1914. He was a member of the Imperial War Cabinet in 1916. "He was Viceroy and Governor-General of "India from 1899 to 1905.. He has travelled extensively in Central Asia, Persia, Afghanistan, the Pamirs, Siam, Indo China, and Korea. His published works include "Problems

of the

Far

The motion was carried on animously.

"A GREAT JOKE."

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received ic. structions to sell by Public Aut. lan

IPOR ACCOUNT OF TAX CONTZLEID), ON

THURSDAY,

pm,

Jane 9, 1921, at 3.33 at their Exles Rooms, No. 8, De Year Road, Corner of To House Street,---- About 50 lats Valuable Jewellery. including:- Diamond, Diamond and Ruhe Rings, Diamond Bracelets Neck Ornament Brooches, &e, te

180

•

One 14-Carat Gold Hanting Repeater

(Full Particulars from Catalogue)-

Terms -Cash.

- HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

Elourkons, Juse 4. 1921,

STOMACH AND LIVER ·

TROUBLES.

premises where mosquito larvae and potential breeding places were found during the recent survey by the Sanitary Department?" Other bus. iness includes the report on the NO end of misery and actual sufering prevalence of mosquitoes in the is caused by disorders of the residential districts of the Colony, stomach and liver, and may be avoided and the outbreak of Anthrax at the by the use of Chamberlain's Tablets. Gire, them s trial For sale by all. Dairy Farm Company's premises, Chemists and Storekee are. Pokfulam.

At the Sanitary Board meeting to be held on Tuesday, June 7, at 4.15 p.m. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, O.B.E On the motion of Mr. Bond, second pursuant to notice, will ask the follow ed by Mr. 1. H. Oxberry, Mr. S. C. ing questions: (1) "Will the Pre Pank was unanimously re-elected as sident state for comparison and for a director of the Company.

public, information the respective East". 1894. Messrs. Lowe Bingham and Mat. | rates of pan any pension of First Class The Lord Chancellor, Lord Birkenhead, Kt, (Frederick Edwin Smith) thews were, on the motion of Mr. Police Inspector and of Senior First and Stop Watch has held his present position since 1919. He was appointed Solicitor.SC. Pank, seconded, by Mr. Leung Class Sanitary Inspectors-in 1918 General in 1915. The same year he was appointed Attorney-General. He Yan-po unanimously re-elected as and at the present time? At what auditors for the ensuing year at a page may they respectively claim their served with the Indian Corps in France and was mentioned in despatches in fee of $750.

pensions ?" (2) What steps if 1911. His publications include "International Law in the Far East." The Chairman: That is all the any have been taken to notify The Rt. Hon. Sir Heory James Dalziel, P.C., and MP. for Kirwaldy Burghs business, gentlemen. Dividend war-the householders of the private since 1892, is a newspaper proprietor and chairman and macaging-director rants are now ready, of United newspapers Ltd., proprietors of the Daily Chronicle and Lloyds Ners. He is also managing proprietor of the Fall Mall Gazette, Regnald's Nenspapir, and The Ero. The Rt. Hon. Sir Allwyn Edward, P.C., K.B.E., was Vice-Chamberlain of Queen Victoria's Household from 1865 to 1900, Junior Lord of the Treasury from 1900 to 1905, and President of the CRUELTY TO CHICKENS. Board

Agriculture of

from

1905

· 1906.

Sir Marcus {Samuel, who

bas

travelled widely

Sanitary Inspector Hill this morn- the Far East, introduced the transport of petroleum in bulk through the Suezing charged a Chinese and two boys before Magistrate Dyer Ball with Canal and developed large oüfelds in the Far East. In 1915 he received cruelty to a number of chickens. an official rote of thacks from the Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty for The Inspector said that "services of the utmost importance to the fighting, forces at the present time." about 830 this morcing, be "saw William Ewart Berry has been Editor-in-Caief of the Sunday Times since the defendants outside the Tunz 1915. He founded the Advertising. World in 1901, and has owned and throwing the chickens foto a large Yoep Restaurant in Des Voeux Road,

edhe various other journals. Sir William Robertson Nicoll, KL, MA, crate. The fowls were tied together LD, has been Editor of the British Wechly since 1887, He has in bundles of four or five, One of them writes many books, including **Terous theological works, was dead and several others were bad- Tae Order ot "the Companions of Hönour, created by their master's stall in the Central King George V co June 21, 1917, is restricted to 50 members and is of Market where he made a complaint. Domestic Occurrences Ore class only, to which women are equally eligible with men. TheThe stall holder "Laughed heartily" Order carries with it no tile, and is conferred for "conspicuous services of rational importance." The Order ranks next to and immediately after the First Class of the Order of the British Empire.]

to

AMERICAN ICONOMIC DUTLOCK

FOREIGN TRADE STILL DEPRESSED,

WASHINGTON, June 3. The Federal Reserve Board's report for April uotes an improvement in some branches of industry but a general irregularity continues.' · Retail | price Juctuation is seriously hindering final adjustment of wages. Foreign frade is still arrested or depressed. Unemployment has increased Unfavourable weather has retarded grain and cotton.

AUSTRALI14 PREMIER ARRIVES:

LONDON, Jane 2.

Me:W. Bagher, the Australian Premie attend the meeting of the Dominion prima minister

ly injured. He took the defendants to

...

"OVERLAND CHINA MAIL"

Contains all the News of the Week,

~PRICK

at what the witness told him, and

Leading Articles-gr seemed to regard the whole affair asal and General

Man Man" = "great joke."”

Pulpit Rebukes for

sarius

The Magistrate showed that be did not regard it as a joke by fining the man $10 and the boys $5 each.

TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS.

ALL preliminary notices of forth entertainments, sent for insertion in coming meetings, lectures and

Fruit Growing

25.cts.

CONTENTS,

PAGE

PER COPY

1 1-- 7 Correspondence

Small Pox.s

7-10 Sad Bathing Fatality

Yaumati Love Tragedy: Assault Charges

.10

Adver

.10

Fight with Robbers

-14

Queen's Gardens Robbery.. Mai Ttas Kidnapped Children's Comer

To See America"

An Extradition Case ........ Hongkong House Tax West Foin: Blaze Hongkong Bank..... Wanted A Plaintiff

the news columns of the China Mail, Hongkong Trade are charged for at the rate of $1 each, Local Football-ig a Las announced in May and June of Marine Miadoides last year) providing that they do not About The Ashes wi occupy "more than four lines. In Soldiers in Trouble, future if this space is exceeded the 7) Boycott of Hongkong wild be placed in the advertising Motor Prosecutions. columas at the prevaling raba Company Meetings

Smuggling Opium Disappearing Profits Armed Robbery Fight with Hammers Nearly Murdered ...... Special Cables ...... Drugged and Robbed. A Wet Month sarana - Mr. John Johnstone China Coast................áson Not Satisfied: Wa Climbing Cripple Sportin Passengerą Gi

Local Chinese Steamer Com

manderted ExchanRedienen

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NOTWITHSTANDING THE INCREASED COST OF MOTOR SPIRIT, ETC. WE BEG TO ANNOUNCE THE FOLLOWING REDUCTIONS IS CHARGES FOR CAR HIRE, AS FROM THE L: JUNE, 1921:~

OLD BATE. LARGE CAR AT $8-PER HOUR

WAITING AT $2.- PER BOUR.

SMALL CAR AT $6. PER HOUR

WAITING AT $150 PER HOUR..

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