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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1921.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

ADDRESS BY MR. POLLOCK,

done. But much yet remained to be doce, and it was necessary for the future welloro of the human race and the restoration of peace and plenty that a determined and organ- "The League of Nations, its aimeised effort be made to secure, world- and objects was the formidable wide co operation between subject tackled by the Hon. Mr. H. E. nations for the general good of all. Pollock, K.C., in an address given at

the

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE

CHINA MAIL.

TO-DAY'S NEW ADVERTISEments.

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PUBLIC AUCTION. PARTICULARS and Conditions of the

letting by Public Auction Sulo, to be

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PUBLIC AUCTION

the St. Andrew's Curch Men's wide co operation could take, ho letting by Public Auction Sale held on WIDNESDAY, the 28th day of Undersigned have received in-

DARTICULARS and Conditions of to to hold on WEDNESDAY, the th

No. of Sale.

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of

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Registry No.

Locality.

Boundary Merethet.

Contents in Square fe

Annati Bent.

of

the King, for ons farther torm of 75 years. PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No, of Nate. [

Boundary Mijancesmenta,

Asking, finally, at form world.

Association, at Kowloou last night. Follock remarked that some of the The Rev. G. R. Lindsay presided. proposals made in the Covenant of day of December, 1921, at 3 pm, at the December, 1991, n$ 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order In apologising for the paucity of the League of Nations supplied, in Offices of the Public Works Department, of Els Excellency, the Governor. the information he had to lay before part, the answer; but they were by Order of His Excellency the Governor Choo Lot el CROWN LAND at Junction

and the meeting Mr. Pollock remarked weakened by the fact that important of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Leard of Pak Hoi Street

Canton Road in Colory Hongkong for, Road, in the Colony of Hongkong, that he had found it extremely difficult states were not members of the torm of 75 years, with the option of for a term of 78 years, with the

renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by option of renowal aba to collect information as to the League League. The provisions of the League

Crown Rent Nevertheless, to become really effective needed the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Blajesty and its achievements the speaker had been able to compile behind them the driving force for one further term of 75 years. a digest of the League of Nations of the educated public opinion Covenant which occupied upwards of of the peoples concerned. Mr. an hour in delivery. He reminded Pollock concluded by urging the the meeting that the League of development of education in the Nations prose from the Peace Confer-absolute economic wastefulness of ence at Versailles and gave the names warfare and its us Icssness even from of the High Contracting Parties," the victors' point of view. He laid or in non-diplomatic language; the stress, also, on the interdependence of countries subscribing to the covenant. the nations, the need for thinking The most notable non-signatory to internationally and the desirability of the League was the United States of international free trade. America, whose abstention hud naturally impaired its influence and effectiveness. Neither Germany nor Hungary had yet applied for admis- sior (which they could do under Article 1) and the Leagys now con- sisted of 1 members.

The great and important objects of the League were declared, in striking language. as to promete interna- tional cooperation and to achieve in- *erational peace and security by the acceptance of obligations not lo resort to war." Other clauses spoke of "the

Some questions were naked and answered at the close of the address and then Mr. Pollock was given a hearty vote of thanks,

ARMS CASE.

A PASSENGER WHO HAD TIME TO LEARN LAW.

An elderly Chinese was charged

Rural

1 Bathing-

fot

No. 195.

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ahout

As per sale pinu, 18,500 58

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PARTICULARS and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be helt on WEDNESDAY, the 28th day of December, 1921, at 3 p.m.. at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of The Lot of CROWN

LAND

je seription of open, just and humour-beto e Magistrate Lindsell this morn-st Coronation Road, in the Colony of

ablations between natious, the ing with the unlawful possession, on Du eraldishment of international the Inutak wharf, of a Colt" pistol. law as the actual rule of coaluct

Defendant said that he had returned adiong Governments" and "scrupulous from America, where he had lived respect for all treaty obligations in the dealings of organised peoples with years, and did not know local

one other,"

Observance of in- ternational law, Mr. Pollock remarked, would do away with abuses of the white fing, sinking of hospital and passenger ships and firing on field Inspitals, and the use of poison gas.

le proceded to summarise the articles of the Covenant and called attention to those of

special importance, amongs Lothers. Article &, which dealt with the reduction of armaments and private manufacture'

regulations,

The police said that the pistol was found fed round the defendant's waist when he was searched on the wharf prior to boarding a ship to return to the country.

Magistrate (to defendant): What ship did you come by ?

Defendant (after some hesitation): Blue Funnel.

When did she come in? Defendant (after another pause): I

of munitions. The members of these back about a year ago.

Lengue undertook, at the end of Magistrate: Oh! and you had the Article to interchange full and revolver all that time?—Yes. Frank information as to tlu scale of their armaments, varlike preparations, ele. In Art the 18 members agreed to carry out in gund faith any award of

League. The penalty for a me ker of the League who broke the

Covenant was set cul in Article 10. The other members agreed to subjert | the nation to severance of all trade or financial relations and to prohibit' all intercourse. Articl: 18 was aimed against secret treutics and provided for

treaties bring registered with the Secretariat of the League. Article 23 faced various labour, economic, trade and health problems and proposed international conventions with regard thereto.

You carry it about with you

аш always-Yes. I afraid of robbers.

The police said that they did not

suspect the deferant of being a bad character. No ammunition was found

on him.

$100 fine, and the pistol con- fiscated.

with the option of renewal at a Crown Hongkong. for a term of 75 years, Kent to fixed by the Surveyor of lis Majesty the King, for ane farther term of 76 years.

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Register No.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

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DARTICULARS the

Plotting by Sand Conditions of t be he'd on WEDNESDAY the 28th day of December, 1921, at 3 p.m. at the flies of the Public Works Department, by Onier of His Excellency the Governor of tine Lot of CROWN LAND en new road Rowen Road to Wanchai Gap, in the "olony of Hongkong, for a term of 91

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3 cars.

OUR BULLET-LADEN ATM SPHERE.

EXEMPLARY PENALTY.

Yah Mohamed, an employed A little information must now be Indian watchman was charged before given said Mr. Pollock, as to some of Magistrate Lindsell this morning with the achievements of the League; it was the unlawful possession, at Mody's necessarily very incomplete and in gadown, No. 192, Praya East, of one this councction is must be borne in! German automatic pistol and 49 mind that the League had only been rounds of ammunition.

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PARTICULARS OF THE LOT,

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Locality,

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Contents

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As per salo plant, 15,300 sa

$102

in existence just over two years. A Defendant admitted possession and permanent Court of International said that the contraband had been Justice had been set up; the British given to him to keep by another Indian ripresentative was Lod Finlay. A who had returned to Bombay. new convention had been framed to Mr. D. Burlingham, A.S.P., pressed TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND suppress the traffic in women and for the maximum penalty. He said children, and a Commission appointed that the defendant had been detained to deal with the murdufes question, by Sergeant Kelly for deportation as Relaxatious in restrictions of pas-vagabond.

sengers' passports had been procured. Remarking to the defendant that A great deal had been accomplished trafficking in arms was a serious on the philanthropic side of the offence, the Magistrate passed the Leagues activities in bringing some maximum penalty of 12 months' hard relief to a war-stricken- Continent.

Through Dr. Nuastu's Committee, 380,000 War prisoners had been re- patriated at a cost of £400,000 Measures had been taken through the League to check the spread of typhus in Eastern Europe'; also to restrict the sale o opium. Another benevolent matter had be the setting up of a National Home for Aamenious, free" from Turkish control. The Longue had also taken sach steps as it could towards the restoration of the interna- tional credit of Austria."

Inbour.

SUMMARY OF AUCTIONS.

TO-MORROW'S SALES.

Hughes and Hough: Fancy Goode,

Sales Rooms, 2.30 p.m.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OFFICE.

Christmas & New Year Holidays. THIS Department will be entirely alased

This BUNDAY, the 25th December, 1921,

The League bad also dealt with the intricate Upper Silesian Quation. Useful work liad been done by the League in connection with the Inter national Labour Bureaux, in regard to dangerous trades, etc. As to the limitation of Armaments, there had ¦ und ist January, 1999. It will be open for been a disposition to leave that sub all purposes if no on MONDAY the ject to the Washington Conference. The air question and the submarino question and the limitation of land forces and armaments still, however, awaited solution. The League pro posed shortly to convene a World Conference to deal with this privaty manufacture of armaments and the offic. in arms, and had passed

a resolution in favour of earnest

2001 Décember, 1991, wed 2nd January, 1922, had for payment of Llogor and Tabacon Duties emfy on TUESDAY, the 27th Desum

er entirely slowend en klitvanys eliteve.

License! Warehouses will be

N. L. SMITH, Saporintendent, Imports Mud Exporta, Hongkong, December 21; 10/21, !

BANK HOLIDAY, ·

and vigorous propagnon in all coun-N acordance with reliance No. 5

tries for the reduction of agamonts,"

of 1912, the EXCHANGE BANKS wilĻb« CLARED for the Transaction of

On the whole, it might be said that PUBLIO BUSINESS on MONDAY the achievements of the League and TUESDAY, the 20th and 27 showed that an appreciable amount instant),

of good and solid work had been dongkong, D.comber 21, 1981,

OTHER INSTITUTIONS.

ALL preliminary notices of forth.

coming meetings, lectures and entertainments. sent for insertion in the news columns of the China Moil, are charged for at the rate of $1 each, (as announced in May and June of last year) providing that they do not occupy more than four lines. In future if this space is exceeded they will be placed in the advertising enlumas at the prevailing rates.

Kowloon Inland Lot

Hoi Street and

Registry No.

Locality.

No, 141.

K. 3. E 17.

It. B. tt.

A por ante plan

structions, to sell by Pablic Auction

on

FRIDAY,

the 6th January, 1922, at 10 a.m. At Royal Army Ordnance Corps Depot, Queen's Road East,

THE FOLLOWING GOVERN-

MENT STORE3÷- Gunmetal, Cupro Nickle and Lead. Brass Old, Steel Uld.. A Quantity of Packsaddlery, and Water Bottles, &c.,

.

Catalogues can be had at the Chief Foreman's Office or from the Auctioneers. TERMS OF SALE:-Cash on deli- very. All faults and errors of descrip- on the tions at Parchaears' risk, fall of the hammer.

All lots to be cleared within 4 days.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Ave Moncers.

Hongkong, December 22, 1921.

Benguet Consolidated Mining Co.

CAPITAL STOCK :

Pesos 700,000 divided into 1,000,000 shares.

An ore carrying higher values and being equally

amenable to treatment be- low the permanent water- level is an exception.

The "BENGUET" is that

exception.

The main shoot on Level

"C" is 830 feet long, has an average width of 4.7 feet and an

average value of

$40.52 per ton U.S. Currency.

Agents:

MOXON & TAYLOR,

HONGKONG

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AND

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NOTICES.

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BEG TO INFORM-THEIR NUMEROUS CUSTOMERS

That from 1st January, 1922. THEIR OFFICES, SHOWROOMS & GODOWN. WILL 312

98A, WANCHAI ROAD, TEL. No. 269. (JUST PAST NO. 2 POLICE STATION)

GANDE, PRICE & CO. LTD.,

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

8. QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,

TEL. 135.

EG to notify Customers that Assorted Hampers suitable for the

B. Festive Season may be obtained froin as at the following reithoed raten.

CAS No. 1 HAMPER.

1 Qt. Moet & Chandon Champagne "Crown Brut "

1. Blackberry Brandy

1 Pt. D..M.

Qt. Martell's XXX Brandy

King George IV White Label or Perfection Whisky

Buperb Taway Fort

St. Julien Olaret

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Old Brown Sherry Bod Box!

D.0 L Old Tom Bin or 1 ry Gin

Burgoyno's Australian Burgundy

phial Pomeranzan Bitters

No. 2 HAMPER.

1 Qt. Guillemart Champagne

1 Pt. D.O.M.".

Qt. Burgoyno's Australian Burgundy

་

Martell's XXX Brandy

King George IV W.L or Perfection Whisky

Taway Dry Port

1t. Julien Claret

DOL. Old Tom or Dry Gin'

Vino de Pasto Follow Beal Sherry

1 phial Pomorangan Bitters

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1

No. 3 HAMELES

Burgoyns'a Australian Burgandy

Get Freres Poppozmulat

DOM

Qts Superior Rich Old Port

King Heorge IV W

Engrand XXX Brandy

or Perfection Whisky

gallis 10 horry White Beni

18. D.072 018 Tom or Dry Glu

1 phial Pomeranian Bitters

$35.

$30.

Hamors of all deadziutione: made up to vált Customers' requirements.

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