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PREVALENCELQE PIRACY.

A SHANGHAI COMMENT.

If there is one thing that reflects | the present chaotic state of affairs in China, and constitutes a damn- | ing: indictment of the mordad in

Phone Contral 1500.

COMPANY REPORTS.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL

COMPANY LIMITED.

The profit on working account for the year eaded me 31st December. 1972, amounted to $5.38,873.00. The balance at credit of profitaziove

CHILDREN'S CORNER.

SIX LITTLE SNAILS.··

"Six little snails sat in a tree," Johnnie throw a big store,

down came three."

Have you noticed how, when a snail creeps along the ground, bo légvesn shiny truck behind bin? That is

| because ho hang feet and herowe out this guy stuff and then crawls over it and so manages to get along better and if he is climbing a wall or a tree he can hang on nicely.

|

Now a long time ago sails Indi not thought of making this gummy forack and if they climbed a tree it. cook the days to get up and was quite an adventure.

Six of then once managed to che it and all their friends and relation. watched them from down below.

"How brave they are !'' mid ons admiringly.

"And how persevering!" said other and they were looked man it great adventùrers just as wi hink of anyone who goes to the

THE CHINA MAIL.

'OFF TO THE PACIFIC.

Mr. T. D., Aitken, skipper of the Five 15-ton yacht "Elvador" which is leaving Hongkong -to-day-for-a weur's-cruise- in the Pacific.

TENNIS TOURNAMENT.

YESTERDAY'D GAMES.

Four matches in the Open Cimi.. pionship Singles, three in the this

efficacy of the Chinese Cinment. $48.49835 bought forward from North ur South Pole or discovery; und and one in the second, we

acconist, i reading the sin of

the previous your (iter allowing

it is, says Shipping and Engineering (Shanghai), the fact fint pisney $279,370.35 in respect of debatur

a profession is still followed with

a

one new land. ·

The six managed to reach

andere riatere, 4 bedshaltfuigh [clelur, etc., i el $131,098,03 for de

portionella for ww 2. Topy a fi ai hvitled

od 60 carti per share

a

and were sitting coma it umaning to have a bood lem

when-alas for them

Jobbnis, fol of mis onling: Bound to cee what he could

Pal. Ear, when he saw

perhed up high

Why a pe

I wen ay many 1 cu kanck offat ofice.", anti in picked up a big stone, che

aučcess in Chinese waters, a purevidio), is $61,705.03 Alter other part of the world does such darting the derin dividend staté, of alluirs exist, and with anotac to $166677 paid i other nation would it be possible.

Amant, 1922, the sum of $295 A08.03 | Ju, Every week, one might say with reais, and be Directae, will re cu annejd, at the forthevening Ken- truth almost every day, are these ferat meeting to be heldig the 281k instances of sane eliss of verpl | April, 1923, that this balagerin ap being attacked and plundered, by aried hordes, and no part of thei coast of China secuus inumine from these p

There have fun, "quite recently, instances of piracy in South China waters, on the upper reaches of the Yangtze, and, eveg at the gateway of Shanghai. Woosung, and day by day thei pirates seem to becoine ummikukng j und less mintul of the auténtions ad the Chinese Naval andhorities

It-is tine that mostly it is saali. Chinese craft that an: "the vetium, i but occasionally

하

big vored it

attacked, the wa mwet notable in- stuned in recent times being 1

Rises of the Kwangke" and the| "Sui-an," the one while on X voyage from Stangled to Hong- -

"nian" whine kong and the travelling between Maeo and Hongkong, A Chinese steamer, the "Wing Ping," was attacked by junks full of pirates quite recently, when quite close to Canton, and the pirates got away with vahalik loot. All along the coast, and on the Upper Yangtze, have the instances of pirary occurred during the past few weeks, and unless stern repressive ucisures are adapt- ed by the Chinese Government the pirates, emboldened by their many. Buccesses, will become toore during still and their activities will result in further instances of looting and murdering,

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ther and down came time rashing to the ground. Fortionately r the others someone called lid hh, he mu and they we ft in peace. But oh what ubbub there was in Strut land forie of them came along with ticks and others with strong brave which they fastened on with stalk and made adretelers in which they 2.250.00 arried off the wounded suits to ospital. For their shells were herdiy rocked and it was weeks before ly recovered. Then a council of ar was called to decide what they uld do to the enemy, Johhnic

l all boys.

.$ 20.316.00 To quy a Imams of 11

veals p ser um 109.(50

'New shares (So pid up) To transfer to genera

reserve

To carry forward to

new account

12,001,50į

25.350.80

8433.73

$205,024.03

The trindale is." said one of the kiest and wisest smails, "That we Mall and he is so hig. He touki crash us with one fom.“

If our poor bruthers had been ble to hang on to the tree, alf wondi have been well, said another.

The Land and Baibling Reserve "And that gives me an ikea," stands at $1,415,831.96, and the limed in a third, “We must invent General Reserve (cluding the something by which we can hang ale apportionment) amounts on to trees.

to $350,000.

THE SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.

The profit for the year caded the 31st D. cember, 1922; including the amount of $475.120.50, brought for ward from the previous year, after providing for the following con- 1217 Chi Motora, Ltd., tingquies, Les-

stries walten off..............$173,000,00 Net loss on advances to

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*Ah but, what?” cried several ailure.

***That we must think about." be replied.

Now snails as you know are very low and they thought and though: for days and days about it.

decided yesterday,

In a game continued unan @11 vious day when it was not in po owing to failing lighý, S. A, kà, jaha, who left off lending 2 vets 1- and 7 games all in the upstart had no diffinity in winning gaines from S. E. Grea, the for yet capion, thus taking the rate

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AMERICA AND RUSSIA,

STATEMENT BY MR. HUGHES.

The Consul General, for the United States (Mr., W. H. Gale) has forwarded for publication the following synopsis of a public statement issued on March 21, 1923, by the Honorable Charles E. Hughes, Secretary of State of the |United States of America, in an

swering a delegation of Amerjean women who urged recognition of the Russian Government:-

"Our dominant thought is, how ran we help Russia? Charity has been poured out lavishly, but the It is problem is deeper than that. an eibuemic problem. Russia-needs jjadustry and trade, but these can- not he created by political arrange- ments. The need in for permanent Investment ad the conditions which would invite foreign assist- ance of this kind are in control of the Russian authorities. They can not be supplied from the outside.

conditions Agricultural Russia have somewhat improved but are still far from what they should be. The conditions of industry ad trahaportation are lamentable. There have been chmiges in laws æd methods; nil of them are far from adeguile to create the condition which would support industry and trade. Pro- gressive impoverishme.t conti nes because the Roscian authorities. have it yet unpiled the esse til

conditions of helpful interxion ei the world as it exists. In another continued antel beween these matters of ecoretic *I recognize the distinction bet- tween 11. D. Rumjahu and A. import and the questio vand Do. which had been hit of wine diplomatic relations The in de the score reading 2 els 11 mertatens tion is the rgbog iftion favour of the feruor, play was very of a Guerrorect is wires it key and the rest in doubt, toistows blity da disa ition te last. Runjab won the art to discharge i ternational obligations. games in the fourth net but lot d post six, making the store 2 set

Stalinity is entuudian, Tan whal won.al myoil mere stability (it all With alterate huel:bend und were sibi:iiy in the prosecutioẶ forehand drives and playing versja pozi yad opudi tio, and wor steadily, Kunjahat kept has to si | fivea042 }g ese of Ruwia base lite. When I did work up we bowe gry day test of vingl to the el, he frequentis put 4- Faithí an-discharge of lake r

hall into the not, Alter the recto su odrig, timmy Of what vail rend 3 all, Lo led 30 love, but ir.

ramakura ies for the future if this stage Radjahui but it his ow

ulici che jer tinis and rights depenĝa any and won the say the fiscated? The United States is

repadit dad property rs to give him the match.

tot augh creditor but i dhulgemen This was a second round the an H. D. Rumjahn will now have i

qui proper arrangements are Đặc neet R. E. Worthington. in thing and repudiati another. I have yet to bear of any chu yge in third round.

the original Decree of Repulistion. A very even match was Sera f

Iissued by the Bolshevika on Junnry another third round the between 0.21, 1918. This contains the simple Rumjahn and A. Eveleigh, Thatteinent:-- inter placed brilliantly at times but Rumjahn was the steadier, winning: by 3 sets to 1.

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All foreign loans areannullèd.' O. Rumjahın passes into the semi Suggestiong which have been re- fon! when he will play his brother. | ported have been covered by some 8, A. Rumjahu,

other qualifications.. Of what avail Thomas Lay, a greatly improved are assurances when we find pro- player, brat Yvanovich by the perties takes without compensa- sets to me and enters the semi-final ion or restration properties when he will meet the winner off all sorts; the the Worthington-11. D. Rujah of one of our great life i surance

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Yesterday's full results were :-

OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES,

S. A. Rumjahn beat S. E. Green, Anyone who had seen then: 1-4, 6-6, 3-4, 9-7; H. D. Kunjaha would have imagined that they were beat M. W. Lo. 7-5, 7-5, 2-6, 2-6, asleep but they were really 1-3: 0. Rumjaha beat A. Eveleigh, hinking all the time.

6-3, 6-4, 0-6, 7-6 ; Thorns Lay beat Then at last the oldest and wisest. V. Ivanovich, -6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3. (mail cried, "I know.

We must

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W. Y. Nicholson (+1/6) bon

Not only would it be a mis- taken policy to give encourage- ment to repudiation and confisca- tin, but surely there should be no encouragement to the efforts of the Soviet zuiorities to visit upo:1 other peoples the disasters that have overwhelmed the Russian people. I wish I could believe that such efforts had bera abandon- ed. Only last November, Zinoviev said: The eternal y the Russian revolution is the fact that it is of the world revolution. Lenin, before the last Congress of the Third Interaction- ale fast fall, said that The revolu

the organization, the planning, the dment and the substance of re- | valutio tary work. Then I am 'col-' (+15/3) beat H. A. Nott and Mir world revolution will not be good, C. C. Stark and Mex. hviezd, he said, the outlook of the Wentworth (+2/6), 10-8, G-1: A but excellent. And, Trotsky, D. Ball and Mrs. Bevan addressing the Fifth Congress beat H. Phelips and Miss Phelips of the Russian Communists at (+15), 61, 6-2.

Moscow last October, not two years

but ago,

last October, said this:

HANDICAP DOGBLES.

G. R. Sayer and A. D. Hum.

Humphrys (4-1/6), 6-4, 1-6, 7-5,

China Motors, Ltd.... 195,230.05 They all agreed that this wae a Loss on sale of China

good idea and then they set to works W A. Cornell (+15), 6-1, 6-1; C. Press shares....................

(the beginning 24.037.54 to think how they could do it and W. E. Bishop (1/0) beat W. & Bonus to foreign and

in the end they invented this Carrio (+4/6), 6-1, 6-2, native staff for 1921. 11,092.47 gummy stuff which they leave

behind them wherever they go. $404,580.00

How they did it. I, not being a phreys (4/6) beat J. D. and Jonists of all countries must learn mail. cannot tell you but at any rate they managed it and so when- ever Johnny or any other little be came along and tried to knock them off trees they found that it was no longer so easily done.

The chief remedy, reperially d far as the small Chinese craft are concerned, is an efficient systent patrolling by an adequate val force, a force which China, anfers tunately, seens to inck at the pn- sent time. It is a bopeful Big that following a case of piracy at the Saddles sumo time ago, the Chinese Naval authorities at Non- king have announced that they will take active steps to patrof the waters in this vicinity in an endea→ vour to curb the activities of the amounts to$1,015,333.14. pirate craft. Apparently, in this

After deducting $286,925.36 in connection, a number of gambutis respect of debemure and other no to be despatched immediately to terest, bid and doubtfni debis, des the Tungsha Spit district, where a preciation, etc.. the profit remains flotilla of pimtea has been operating ing amounts to 728,408.08 which, at for some time. The many foreign the forthcoming general meeting to gunboats 'which are stationed in be held in Hongkong on the 28th Chinese waters undoubtedly have a April, 1923, the Directors will re-

be apportioned strong deterrent effect on pirates, commend follows:-- but they are here mainly for the Piace to the reserve of the follow- interests and slipping, and while in accounts:-- their presence no doubt as the New Hotel Develop

protection of their various national

effect of preventing many smal .Chinese vessels from attack,. the

whole onun of responsibility, both

ment 54+

Furniture General ... Improvements

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PETER PAN.

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...$221,448.00 30,000.00

... 100,000.00 ... 350,000.00

26,960.08

$728,408.05

as regards foreign shipping and Carry forward to new Chineso, in these waters,, rests on the Chinese Government. The Chinieso Navy does its best fut, as, has been the case for many years, it is hampered in disposition, and The Property Reserves stand at operation by political and military $1,467,874.45, and, with the alloca considerations, and its efficiency is tions recommended as above the undoubtedly impaired by the die General and other Reserves will be satisfaction which is almost univer- brought up to $1,500,000,

sal owing to pay. being many months it arrears, and with no prospects, of any substantial pay- ments in the immediate future. It itrus that the whole question of the suppression of piracy in Chinese waters has become a big problem.

SAMARIANS" LEAVE.

HONGKONG "PRETTIER THAN NAPLES".

I'd love to be a fairy girl With tiny glittering wings, A little dainty offin thing That darts about and sings.

I'd love to be a dragon fly A shimmering scarlet thing, But more than this I feel, I feel I'd love like anything..

To be a ray of golden light Descending from the sun,

A slender glittering dovely beam To shine on everyone.

PETER PAN..

How many letters are there in the word "done?".

Two, because if you take one away only one remains.

Take Care of Yourself.

diganti p you must ret let you howel If you want a clear head and good become ofosent with poitoucUR WORL

MIXED DOUBLES.

ITCHY BLISTERS ALL OVER SCALP

Hair Came Out in Combfuls. Cuticura Heals.

My head itched and burned and Hittle Bilatera broke out all ner my scalp. They ritated and burned and after a day or two broke and, left a more cruption which scaled over., After a while the scales. "dropped off and left my bead very

·Sender, and' my ́halr-cama out la combfala. I could not skep at night. "I began using Cullen Soap and Ointment and after peing one bez of the Ointment with the Hoay, X wan healed." (Signed) Mrs. Gili, Amelia SL, Walwont. London, B. E. 17. Eng. Jani 1, 1921. UssCalcuú för alltoffet purposes. Boop | Djatmentis, bland 24, 43. Sok

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A Parent's Duty

'That means, comradef, that ¦ revolution is coming in Europe as well as in America'; systémia- tically, step by step, stubbornly and with gaashing of teeth. In both camps it will be long pro- tracted, cruel and sanguine. "I desire to see evidence of the abandonment of that policy. I desire to see a basis for helpful ness. We want to, help. We are anxious to promote peace in the world; to get rid of hatred'; to have a spirit of mutual under- standing. What we desire is a world not threatened with the des tructive propagandi, of Sovjet authorities and one in which there will be good faith and the recogni- tion of obligations and a sound basis of international intercourse."

In spite of Mr. H. A, Lam- bat much more could be attempted The "Smaria" with her 400;

mert's persuasion, few bids were to mitigate the avil than is done ot passengers left the Kowloon Whorf

forthcoming at the auction held present. Millions of dollars are ex- at about quarter past five yesterday,

yesterday to dispose of No. 10, pended on useless soldiery engaged and is now on the way to Shang

Seymour Road, standing on the remaining portion of Inland Lot | in destructive internal warfare, while hat and Japan Hongkong, the at the same time China's local tourists agreed, not only held to

No. 588 under the residue of Water-borne commerce, which is on them the fascination of its Chinese

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