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VIOTROLAS

The China Mail.

March 9, 1928, Temperature 64.

No.18.820. 六拜體、 號十月三年三十二百九千英

BUSINESS NOTICE.

Did you get that Victrola?

Why go without, why deny your home the benefit and comfort of good music? For a surprisingly modest sum, you can begin at once to own your own Victrola. Come in today, select any model you want and we will deliver it at once. When it is so convenient to own a Victrola on our plan, you owe it to your family and yourself to get yours NOW. Why delay? Come in.

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.,

Exclusive Agents,

NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that the business of our Engineering

Department has been acquired by THE JARDINE ENGINEERING CORPORATION LIMITED, and will be henceforth carried on by that Company as heretofore carried on by us.

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO, LTD. Hongkong, 23rd February, 1923,

NOTICE.

OTICE is hereby given that we have acquired the business of

Nor

the Engineering Department of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON

& Co., LTD. and that such business will be henceforthi carried on by us heretofore carried on by them.

THE JARDINE ENGINEERING CORPORATION, LTD. Hongkong. 23rd February, 1923.

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Bosidents in tropical climates aro particularly liable to troublesome complaintaarising from impuntion of the blood. The most rollable remedy la WILKINSON'S `SARSAPARÏLLA, which quickly cleanses the blood of all impuro waste matter and builds up health &enstgy.

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SKIN DISEASES,

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WEAKNESS, DEPRESSION, 80.

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BUONOMY IN

COAL

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TAILORS

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WINE MERCHANTS.

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Barometer 30 05

Rainfall 0,02 inch.

Humidity 96.

March 10, 1922, Temperature 02.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1928.

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

(Router's Service the China Mail, )

*RUHR OSAL.

HITCH WITH "HOLLAND,

Pais, March 3,

A message from Eisen states that the Franco-

Belgians have agreed to share the soal weized from the

#Z¶¶EKRA24=+0##+ PRICE, $8.00 Per Month.

THE DOLLAR,

To-day's closing rato 2/8*8)16. Fo-day's opening rate 2/3 8/18/

TURKS AND TREATY.

WHAT

ANGORA WANTS.

CONSTANTINOPLE, March 10.

Acourier has arrived with the Angora Govern. Bohr equally. The passage of opal trains from the Ruhrment's note which worded in very modernta language, to Holland has been suspended, ed and Germany states that fundamental modifications are not proposed refusing to pay a coal tax to the Franco-Belgians, in the political clauses of the draft Treaty but prefers Negotiations thereanent are proceeding between Paris, amall territorial requests also that the Maritza .Brussels and the Hague.

valley be the frontier of Thraca instead FRENCH USE OF BRITISH RAILWAYS.

of the right bank of the Maritza. It proposes LowDo, March 9, that the economis clauses whereon agreement has not No agreement has yet bean reached between the been reached be disjoined from the draft for subsequent British and French Governments in regard to French une discussion. It is insisted that the same prerogatives be of the railways in the British decapod zone but it is: accorded the Turks in the Allied states as hoped the plan drawn up by Generala Godley to fostigoera in Turkey. The note maintains and Payot will be ratified whereby the French will enjoy the declaration regarding the

engagement approximately the equivalent of what they had before of judicial advisor for five years as drafted with the entering the Rubr.

Allies as the last moment and asks for the restitution of the warships and war material seized at the time of the armistion. Finally it suggests a conference, proferably ab Constantinople, within a fortnight,

BERLIN, Match 9.

A message from Muenster states that the French occupied the town of Kronenberg near Elberfeld in the morning.

ZAGHLUK PASHA,

PRIVY COUNCIL APPEAL FAILS,

Lopor, March 10.

The Judicial committee of the Privy Council has dismissed the petition of Zaghlai Pasks for leave to... appeal from the decision of the Supreme Court of Gibraltar whereunder he is now a political prisoner there, The Privy Council found that British law dons not apply to Gibraltar. On the contrary the laws remain the laws of the British garrison,

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- BRITISH STEAMER ASMORE.

AUSTRALIAN COASY DISASTER.

MELBOURNE, March 9.

The British steamer "Mindini" went ashore on Mellish Reef. Her forty passengers and all hands wêre safely landed. The steamer "Tokio Maru" intercepted a wireless message ninety miles from the "Mindini sad proceeded to her assistance.

NAVAL TRAGEDY.

EXPLOSION ON HU.S. COVENTRY." -

GIBRALTAR, March 9.

Two naval ratinge were killed and four injured by an explcalon on the light craiser "Coventry.". A court of inquiry is being held.

DANISH BANK ARREST,

COPENHAGEN March 9.

A former high official of the Landmans Bank has been arrested on charges relating to the Bank's balance 'sheet,'

FLIGUE IN. MALAGA.

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DRUG TRAFFIC.

OUTLERY MANUFACTURER CHARGED.

LONDON, March 9..

A cutlery manufacturer named Howard Montague Fogden Humphreys was remanded at the Guildhall on bail of £500 on a charge of offering to procure morphine, detective said it was alleged that Humphreys wrote to cocaine and heroin for a firm in the Far East. A firm in Japan on January 31 offering to supply the drags mentioned. The police found a great deal of cor* respondence in his office but no drugs. They knew he had been engaged in very large deals in prohibited drugs. Humphreys' solicitor submitted this was hot dace of a man selling druge in London for immoral porposes. Humphreys naver dealt in' drage in England and the transactions had been perfectly opan,

CANADA AND RUSSIA.

TRADE MISSION NOT WANTED.

OTTAWA, March 10. Replying to a question in the Commons Mr. Robb, Minister for Trade and Commerce, said Canada would dzoline to receive a Russian trade mission as some of its members were undesirables, The matter, was in the hands of the British Government who has bsea informed it was inadvisable to admit any Russian trade delegates to Canada who had not a clean record in Britain. Mr. Robb Intimsted that Ganada was not vitally concerned in a separate trade treaty with Russia inasmuch as post of her Russian business was transact- ed in London.

NEW YORK RUM PIRATES.

RAID ON BRITISH STEAMER.

New Yoxx, March 10.

A dramatic theft of liquor by "rum pirates" was effected on the Royal Mail Steam Packet Orbita” as aby lay alongside the landing piur. The adventurers stealthily boarded the liber at midnight while the arew wars in the forecastle and most of the officers were ashore. They broke the customs saals at the bar and infected-and-lowered-twenty cases of Bootch whisky into the launch wherein they arrived. A watchman suddenly discovered the operations and opened fire on the pirates who les pt from the launch and escaped.

LONDON, March-9, Malaga has been declared to be plague all operations are being carried out by lighters.

SLEEPING SICKNESS IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, March 9, There have been 260 cases of sleeping sickness and 112 deaths from the disease in New York City since January 2.

OBITUARY.

WELL-KNOWN PHYSICIST.

THE BAQUE, March 9. The death has occurred of Professor Vandonwaals, the well-kr own physicist.

MOTOR CYCLE ACCIDENT.

DIVE INTO HARBQUE.

TEEDING ON THE WING,

NEW AVIATION. STUNT,

New Your, March 9. Successful tests proving the pomibility of furnishing necessaries to seroplanes whilst flying were made with an eighteen foot courier plane weighing under a thon- sand padads which was hooked on to a trapers-like con- trivance lowered from a larger plane overhead whilst flying at various altitudes. Altogether eight contacte ware made.

TO-DAY'S SHOW.

PASSENGERS.

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P. M. Fernandes Fangni biegen - M place in the grounds of the Cimeppins, Patagliana tear Blake Plez yesterday evening: Volunteer Headquarters this after Argaling Dosenie Pallavicini Ma (I) is believed that, the cycle was

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REMOVAL NOTICE,

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