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'Guaranteed.

Quality:

in

Moutrie

PIANCS

Obtainable from sil”-

The China Mail.

ESTABLISHED

January 31, 1923, Temperaturo 50

Barometer 30 21.

Rainfall 0,00 inch.

Humidity

January 31, 1922, Temperature 53.

No 18.788 O -+ZBAT-A HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1923. η****-+ØRR+ BUSINESS NOTICE.

MOUTRIE

PIANOS

GUARANTEED

FOR

SEVEN YEARS

(GOOD FOR A LIFETIME')

CATALOGUE ON REQUEST

S MOUTRIE & CO.,

Tel. Central 1313

Tel.

Cen

CHATER ROAD

LTD.

P. O. Box 530

HAWTHORNE & PEARSON

Ladies' and Gentlemen's Tailors

2

4

and

Breeches Makers

Ice House Street,

St.George's Building,

(Next door Café, Wiseman.)

Diss Bros

TAILORS

ALEXANDRA BUILDING, DES VOEUX ROAD.

Fat.

DONNELLY & WHYTE.

Tel Con. 836,

WINE MERCHANTS.

Tol. Cen. 836.

MEE WAH KNITTING & Dyeing co.

General Kuitter Dyer.

Manufacturers of Woollen Singlets, Jerseys, Sweaters &

all kinds of Underwear.

No. 8---18, Causeway Bay.

Telephone Central 1801. Manager: YEUNG PORWAN,

TRIALS SOLICITED BY JAMES STEER

THE CHRONOMETER AND WATCH MAKER (Contractor to H. M. Naval Yard.)

9, le House STREET, HONGKONG.

ECONOMY

IN

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Prebenen Lump Coal eturids for economy In fasl value. All lump Coals have a lagge paleistags of das which are PRACTICALLY WASTK. The dust in FCCLURS Lrap bains fato Estopa se sogn a ibay and cant to balsts. Ferhuen hump coat Luke anally and therefore a decked KCONOMY,

HING IP

OO.

Load 35:rdanis & Contractor" 37, Queen's Road Central, Tal. Central SC, Carly cedrera 'Hindram

ala Agenti for Fuelinen Con),

We stock in our go lowna 13 grades of olhar Frchran Coal

For further informations

The "CONTROLEX??

Self Winding Tell-tale Clook,

Will prove you whether your watchman has done his duty or not as its checking is fault Jess. It should be used by all. the factories, work shops, godowns, banks, etc.

Apply to the Distributors,

J. ULLMANN & CO

QUEEN'S ROAD,

Нокскона

TURKISH

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

(leuter's Service the China Mail.)

TREATY TERMS.

FREEDOM OF THE STRAITS:

RULES OF PASSAGE,

THE DOLLAR. :

To-day's glosing rate 2/3 1/10. (To-day's opening rake 2/3 1/18

NE R EAST WAK CLOUD.

KEHALIST FORCES GATHERING,

GENERAL TARING FON'S POSITION.

PARIS, January 30.

CONSTANTINOILE, January 30. The Turkish treaty provides for the freedom of the

The gravest apprehension is felt in regard to the Straits subject to certain roservations providing inter alip that Turkey is to be entitled to, search, neutral situation, which may develop bere in the event of a rapture at Lausanne. The most probable consequence merchantmes when she is a belligerent. The maximum will be war. While the British have scrupulously force for which any power may have the right of passage, observed the Mudania convention the Kamalists have is not to exceed the strongest fint of the Black Sea been organising forces for the oventuality of a rupture. powers but the powers in any cass are entitled to There are twenty thousand armed Tutke in Constan "passage for a force 'not excording three warships antinople and Rafet Pasha commands thirty thousand men

nose oxseeding ten thousand tons.

The reservations will not apply to belligerents to "prejudice their rights as belligerents in the Black Sea. Tucker and the Black Sus powers, including Rassit, will be able to limit the Lumber of vessels or aircraft of any power wishing to virit simultaneously their ports and aerodromies.

A zone of fifteen (kilometres on either side of the frontier Irom the Aegean to the Black Sea will be demilitarised, also both shores of the Dardanelles on Bosphorus to a depth of fifteen kilometres on either side. The Turks will be allowed to maintain a garrison oftwelve thousand at Costantinople.

ENFORCING THE RULES.

An international commission consisting of reppu- Bentatives of the Great Powers, Tuckay, Bálgatis Greece, Romania, Yugo-Slavia and Russia with a Turkish President will assure the observance of the rules, of passage under the League of Nations.

In the event of a violation of the convention by the High Contracting Partios and in any svent France, Britain, Italy, and Japan will intervene conjointly with all the mean that the Council of the League of Nation shall determines en

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TURKEY TO PAY UP. Capitulations are abrogated in principle but temporary arrangements are provided in regard to judiciary, fiscal, commercial and customs regimes. !

Turkey is to pay 15 million Turkish gold pounds. for war damages at five per cent. faterest, one per cent. sinking (und in 37 annual payments and nine hundred thousand Turkish gold pounts as the first payment March 1, 1024.

FRENCH GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE. PARIS, January 30,

in Thrace.

There is good reason to believe that considerabl artery has been smuggled across the Bei of Marmora, Important Kemalist concentrations have occurred at

smidt and Chatak.

Corsequently, in the event of a Turkish attack the task of General Harington with limited forese engaged possibly on four fronts simultaneously will not be a very eazy out. The force is undoubtedly the finest for its

that Britain has ever possessed and is supported by the whole of the Mediterranean and a large part of the Athiatic flots. The pick of the Air Force can be trust ed to give a magnificent account of itself but it would not be fair to ask for miracles.

MOSUL GARRISON REINFORCED. Troops from Basra and Baghdad are continuing to reinfora the garrison at Mosul with a view to eliminat- ing the possibility of a Turk-incited Kurdish raid.

the main Turkish canerntration in now on the frontier a hundred miles North West of Mosul and Iraq. The vexagonlar papers indicate that public opini›a" turning strongly against the Tarkish.

RUH WARNING.

FRENCH PATIENCE NOT UNLIMITED.

GENERAL DEGOUTIR'S ETATEMENT.

DUSSELDORF, January 30. General Degoutte, the French commander on the Rhine, in a statement to the Press, declared that the Allies do not wish to disturb the normal life of the German people. The German Government's most pro- voostive polioy has not muzoceded in shaking our self- command and moderation. However that does not mean weakness and they are mistaken who think our

Le Temps states that the French Government has written to Angora saying that the draft Treaty handed to the Turks in the French view does not constitate the patience is unlimited. We will break our adversaries"

We intend to use all means to

final text of the draft. It simply warks the present will and impose cure. state of the negotiations and there is nothing to prevent schiave our ends and nothing dan tara as from sur pur

pose. The fate of Germany lies in her own keeping.”

GERMANY'S FLOATING DEBT.

BERLIN, January .30. Germany's floating debt has increased in the ten daye-ending-February-1-from-210 milliard-marks-to-1.811-

further negotiations being opened though the French have already granted more csacessions than they have obtained,

IRISH OUTRAGES.

HOUSES BLOWN UP.

milliards.

GERMAN COAL BOYCOTT.

BERLIN, January 30. The Minister of Railways has issued a regulation forbidding German railwaymen to transport soal and timber from the occupied areas to France and Belgium and ordering that all legitimata maaanres ba used to bring to a standstill French-driven trains. He especially

LONDON, January 30. Rebels in Dublin carried out a motion of attacks on the house of a number of state officials, relative of ministers, direstore, alaff and press yesterday except the British zone. night. Bome were blown up and atheis set afire. The Explosions shook the city.

The residence of Bir Horace Planket near Dublin was burned down by armed rebale to day after the ocoupants has been ejected.

A

*

LONDON January 60. A column of forty-two irregulars was captured at Fermoy.

LONDON, January 30. Armed men burned down the premises of Major] Barrow at. Milestown, South Louth, after ejecting the family. The Kanckbridge. Past Office wrs treated

imilarly,

LATER. Five armed man türbed down the residenon off Senator Lord Mayo at Strafico.

HANGE EXCHA

LONDON MARKET.

LONDON, January 19. -The foreign exchange market was again depressed Marks closed Bominally at 220000/240,000 Prehi fratice at 76/70, Belgian franos at 80/95, lire sterling at 6/81). The rubber share mark firmer on the rise of the commodity to

The press states that already a hundred German pificiats have been expelled."

NO GENERAL MINERS' STRIKE

PARIS, January 30,

It is reported from Damseldorf that all the miners upious on the Ruhr unanimously rejected the proposa for a general strike and carried a resolution against Nationalist intrigues.

"COTTON-SP.NNING TRADE.

CURTAILIMENT OF OUTPUZ.

LONDON, January 30.

A ballot amongst the American section of the cotton-spiuning trade failed to give the necessary eighty per cent majority required for the suggested continu ance of the curtailment of output to four days weekly, thus kaving the trade free to not as it pleases, 731 bár cent voted in favour and bf against. Serarteen did not vote. The committes however, by 37 votes to 4 davidou to recommend continuance.

M. O. C. 14 BQUTH AFRICA

NEW CABILE NATAL January 31. Be'er a moderatecrowd on a waterlogged grourd the Borthern districts match against the M-0. O. start- st3 p.m. The Northern districte mide 133 for 9.

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PRICE, $3.00 Per Month,

BUSINESS NOTICE.

END OF SEASON.

SPECIAL OFFER

OF

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Des Voeux Road

REMOVAL NOTICE

THE PHARMACY (FLETCHER & CO., LTD.}).

Dispensing Chemists

has removed to No. 2 Queen's Road Central- (The Red Building, opposite the American Express Co.)

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