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Temporary Office,

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BUSINESS NOTICES

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號七月三年二十二百九千一英

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MARCH 17

1922,

日九十月二戌壬王天谴

十國華中

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

SOTIONS

THE DOLLAR.

To-day's closing rate 2/5 9/16.

To-day's opening rate 2/5 9/16.

NEW VICTOR

RECORDS

JUST TO HAND.

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.

Exclusive Victor &gents. CHATER ROAD.

HAWTHORNE & PEARSON

(LATE OF SAVILE ROW, LONDON.) LADIES & GENTLEMEN'S TAILORS.

Beg to announce that they are now prodacing LOUNGE SUITS from $5.00, cut and finish guaranteed. A visit is cordially invited.

- ENTRANCE J Union Building (First Floor)· Opposite General Post Office,

P. O. Box 530.

Hongkong.

MASSAGE

EXPERTS

· HARRY FURUKAWA

X AXACHI

M. N. TSUCHIOKA

MANICURISTS

19, Werdhan Street.

KOON YICK

DEAPER IN

Chilli Sauce. Tomato Sauce. Chilli Powder, Pepper, Sour Fradt.

Curry Powder and any Powder. Sauce, Etc.

RAIL OFFICE IN

No. 180. Des Voeux Road, Central, Rengkonz.

Master TAM ETT BANG,

ECONOMY IN COAL.

Fachnes Leap d'ud stonds for menuery in fish valle. All lamp Coils have a large petoniars of durt which at PEACTICALLY WASTY. The dust in FCCHDEN Lamp Lars into lumps as MA

ches are

are cut into hnubnet 15mp can human grasslig and is thymyfore a «decided ICONUMY.

EING IF d co.

Cabie hires ·Elzlmaće * Coal Merchants & Contractors 2. Queen's Boud Craimi. Tri, 59.

hule Agenta for Fuchnen Com We tack in one pokoven: 14 graden of uteur Fuchsen Cod,

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No. 6-18, Causeway Bay.

Telephone 1301.

MEE WAH KNITTING & DYEING CO.

General Knitter & Dyer. Manufacturers of Woolen Singlets, Jerseys, Sweaters & all kinds of Underwear.

Manager:-YEUNG POKWAN

YUEN WO STORE,

Harbour Repairers.

Engineering & Building Contractors, General Repairers & Shipebandiers.

0fcr No. 29, Tang Man Street, Phone 2500, Workshop, Canton Road, Kowloon, 'Phone K.731.

Manager K. C. LEENG.

THE

Prop. T. L LEENG.

DONNELLY & WHYTE.

WINE MERCHANTS.

Tel 636,

UNEQUALED

AND

BACCARAT

RANCE

KNOWN

THE WORLD OVER

FINNES CUTARQUITAEGULFIELCERI KENGORBANTRA

Hola Importera

Tol 636,

(Reiter's Service to the China Mail)

INDIAN BUDGET SAVINGS.

DEMOCRATIC PARTY RELENTLESS.

FIFTY VE LAKES COT IN TWO DAYS,

DELAL, March 15.

In accordance with the policy it has adopted for a collective reduction of 5 per cent on each item in the budget, leaving the Government to settle the exact direction in which the saving can be effected the Democratic Party in the assembly to-day continued the cutting process.

SOUTH AFRICA'S: WAR OVER.

RETURN TO THE NORMAL.

NEARLY 6,000 REBELS CAPTURED.

PRETORIA, March 16, A communique states that although the revolution has been effectively crushed, small isolated Red detach

ants continue a certain amount of sniping in desperate efforts to escape the law.

JOHANNESBURG, March 16. Only poliec action was needed today to clear Reductions of 3 per cent were carried for salt, Jeppes and other places. Everyone is talking business

The forestry opium, land revenue, and stamps. estimates alone were spared. There was a strong

demand that stumps should be manufactured in India instead of England.

Mr. Goor said the Democrats would continue their policy unless they received an undertaking that the Government would carry out a total reduction of "per cent in all civil departments.

After bri-k discussion in which Indianisation of the radways was strongly urged, the Assembly reduced the railway wote by 25 lakhe, with the consent of the Government, and the telegraph and postal rote by tea Lakhs

The total reduction during the two days' debates amounts to 55 lakhs.

BRITISH NAVAL ECONOMY,

LIMIT DECLARED REACHED.

"THINGS SCRAPED TO TER BOYE."

LONDON, March 16

In the House of Commons Lieut-Col. Adery, Parliamentary Secretary of the Admiralty, introducing a vote account of the Navy estimates, dwelt on the safe of the Washington conference as showing inery capacity of the Brith Empire to give united effecto a single policy. He repudiated the suggestion of the Geddes committee that £21,000,000. pre-Washington expenditure could have been saved this year and that the Navy was over manned, declaring that the present system of manning was absolutely essential to efficiency, The total redaction in the estimates effected was 15,- 000,000 and the savings resulting from the Washington Conference amounted to 15,200,000.

as usual here.

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The committee of public safety has requested all employers sad work people to resume immediately. Some 250 workmen promptly responded at the East Rand proprietary mines alone.

It is expected that the train service at the Rand will be normal to-morrow.

PRETORIA, March 16.

Except for a few who escaped all the revolutionaries have been taken prisoner, totalling upwards of 6,000.

RIPIRATION PAYMENTS.

AMERICA'S DEMAND EXPLAINED.

WASHINGTON, March 16.

It is authoritatively announced that the Govern÷ ment's demand that $241,000,000 for Rhineland occupa- tion expenses must be paid before reparations are allocated was merely aimed at atfied recognition of the right of the United States for a abare in the German reparation payments. The Government does not intend to press for payment.”

BITTER FRENCH CARTOON.

PARIS, March 16. The feeling excited by the American note is indicated by a cartoon in the Figare representing Ger may pouring gold from a sack and an American soldier grabbing the gold and pushing back the figure of France The words beneath the cartoon are: "Lafayette did not foresee this."

BERTHELOT RETIRED.

FRENCH BANK INCIDENT.

PARIS, March 16

A ministerial decrse places AL Philippa Berthelot Lieut. Col Amery added that things had been stap on the retired list, for ten years.

ed to the bone and it was imposible to go furtherpless

M. Philippe Berthelot was accused of having endes- we wished to drop into the rank of a second of third youred by independent action when Secretary-Genera! rate power which our duty to our fellow Eubjects. theof the Foreign Ministry to save the Banque Industrielle Empire forbade

HOME ENGINEERING LOCKOUT.

INQUIRY COURT REQUEST.

GOVERNMENT AWAITING BALLOT REŠULT.

LONDON, March

Replying to a Labour deputation, Ms, Justen Chamberlain said that the Government was unable to grant & court of enquiry into the engineering kout. until the result of the ballot of the other union was known.

HOSTILE CROWD.

REMARKABLE YAUMATI

INCIDENT.

de Chine.

DUTCH INDIES ·LOAN.

LONDON, March 16.

The Dutch Ladies loan of which the Guaranty Trust Company has arranged to purchase $10,000,000, is being issued at a price of 944 with interest at 6 per cent. It is redeemable at the option of the Indies Government between 1932 and 1962.

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- SMALL FIX AT MAD ZAS.

MADBAS, March 16. "irulent smallpox is prevalent at Madras and some upcountry stitions.

DR. SCHURMAN'S VISIT. LUNCHEON WITH CANTON'S

FOREIGN MINISTER.

many panes glass. As the situation was becoming serious, messages were | sent to Honkong and to Mr. King at Tsimshatsuitor assistance. In the meantime the crowd continued to clamour for the surrender of the The veteran, diplomat, Dr. Wu Indian, and even when Mr. King Ting-fang, entertained Dr. Schurman Following an alleged assault by a arrived with strong posse of armed at luncheon yesterday in the New Iedian constable on a fruit hawker mez, mach tlk and persuasion was Bureau of Foreign Affairs building in Shanghai Street a serious distur- necessary bere, the trouble abated De Wa and Dr. Schurman are friends bance occurred outside the Yaumati and the crow dispersed about 11 p.m. of laag acquaintance says the Canton Police Station on Wednesday. The police didnot make any atrets. Times, having often spoken from the night when a crowd of angry Chinese

scrrounded the station and demanded the person of the Indian for panish- |

ment. This demand, of course, was

Lord Noshcliffe's descriptive let

platform in the United States when De. Wa wd's Minister at Washington. At the lanenson Dr. Wu entertained his guests by relating some of his most interesting expriences in Peking under the late Empress Dowager....

summarily rejected, and Inspector ters from Jan make no mention of Willis sent the station interpreter out the Waterlod memorial at Batavia to exhort the crowd to disprete, This is worth of notice, states the Dr. Schatman was entertained at: aasuting it that an enquiry would be Hanch at Guarlian, for the dieser in the Hotel Asis on Wednes held into the alleged assault inzenptions counter to two day night by the American Arso- and that the Indian would ba generally scepted, beliefs that the cistion. The American Counsal, Mr. punished--if found guilty. The Battle of Warrioo, was fought on Jane Houston presided and over two interpreter's efforts were met with à 18, 1815, ad that Wellington and haired Chinese and Americans wire dow of abase from the rowded. Blucher wermainly responsible for present. When a Chinese sergeant was sent out the victory. The Batavis memorial Dr. Schurman delivered and "sa to help pacify the crowd, it dragged is inscribed to the perpetual memory dress on the Washington Conference him into their midst and would have of that most famous day, June 20, and what Chins had gained there. Dr. man handled him had not four of his 1813, on which, by the relation and a Tinglang made, a characteristic comrades rescued him. The crowd activity of the Belgians and their soesch in the course of which he continued to be partly and the infamour Gerad, Wiliam, Frederick vanced the claims of his go recament pecter had no alternative but to George Ladrio, Prince of Taxem for foreign recognition. Mayor Sun order the door of the station to burz, after terrible conflict on the to also spoke badly upon the abject be barred and all the windows closed. plains of Waterloo, when the al Munipal Government under Com This was the signal for a regular battalions the French had been, imation form Commissioner. Frank bombardment of the station with roated on eary side, the pesce of the w. Loe made a few remarks upon tha stones and other missiles, smashing world dad once more.

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Bongkong

Phone 196

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TIL 75.

VACATION TRIP.

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Friday,

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March 19, at 5 p.w.

March 24, at ipm.

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