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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1923

COMMERCIAL

ESPRIT DE CORPS:"

HONGKONG NOTES AND

CHESS BOARD WAR.

SOUTH CHINA'S "LITTLE

-GAME.

COMMENT.

SUGAR MARKET.

The Java-Lin &.s. "Tjitaroem " brought in about 5,080 bags of sugar all consigned to one Nam Pak Hong firm but this has made little difference to the sugar market one way or the other. As ro transac tions of note have been recorded there are no official qutations, there being a disparity of as much as $1 per pica! for the same grade of sugar in offers made to induce business:

Small business has been brought to book in Flour with prices steady,

RICE SLUMPS.

A REPLY.

(Specially contributed.}

Esprit is one of those untranslat

BIG

BATTLE SOON?

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THE CHINA MAIL.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

MARINE ENYINEERS GUILD OF

CITINA.. Hongkong Branch.

to keep up the siege on Wai Chow. „Chum's scattered elements are con verging on Sun's headquarters but i only making little progress. Hsu Shung-chi is moving, round in a circle trying to join hands with Sun. and it is stated that Lam Fu, who drove him out of Swatow, is on his E REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING tracks. The position is complicat-will be held at the Unild fuffice, Sailors"

Home on FRIDAY, 1L JUNE, at 6 o'clock; pa. Efecțion of Finance Committen' and Important Corpondence,.

W.I. STOKES -

Reineli-Secretary, Hongkong, June 15, 1028. -

cd words of our language which, (From Our Own Correspondented but the stage will soon be adopted to our, use, is liable to misinterpretation.

It applies to our homes, our country and our institutions; in each there is something precious and honourable to be guarded as a legacy of the past:

WEST RIVER-QUIET.

reached when neither side can afford to wait any longer-and in- Canton, June 12.teresting developments will be re- Well-informed circles feel that corded.... the climax of the present struggle few days and that both sides will 1 Kwangtung will be reached in at

put all their resources into a de Esprit de Corps is the pridetermined effort to gain the supre which makes a man unwilling to bring discredit on his unit and ready at need to sacrifice himself for its success. Tommy Atkins and his Platoon Commander be come part of the same system which requires a physical and men tal fitness capable of achieving respect and confidence in each and for each other, both working for a common object, both willing to play for the team and not for him-

WUCHOW, June 11. Large numbers of Kwangsi troops. have assembled at Do Sing, which is on the West River between Wu- chow and Shiu Hing Kwangtung gunboats are further down the river. At the moment, there is na fighting on the West River.

CHENGTU ATTACKS.

NOTICE.

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MEMBERS are reminded that

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Hongkong, June 13, 1923.

WANTED.

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macy in and around Pok Lo, a (From Our Own Correspondent.) to near Walchow which separates the two factions. The majority of news received from the front is generally inspired, one way or the other. However, information gained from various sources seem to Bad times are in store for the

portead a battle on an extensive Nam Pak Hong rice importers,

scale, as neither side can afford to Although considerable danger has

wait much longer. Hitherto, on the attached to making shipments to

East River, it has been a war of Canton, either to fill orders or on

movements. A general who can move up a force superior to the one consignment, some of the more self. enterprising

been'

garrisoning the place he is aiming i ones have

There is no cramping an at, wins with very little fighting as able to do a little business.dividual character in the enforce- the weaker general moves off. The Yesterday instructions were received from Carton agents ment of disciplinerec are all sub- ousted general moves away to join ject to it in our daily lives, for hands with another general and to stop further shipments as without it the world would soon be they either" re-take the place or difficulties with the military authorities were expected. This disorganised and a selfish intoler-force another general out of his

After a seven days' battle at immediately caused a further de-ance would take its place.

Does a forward sink his in- cline of from 3 to B cents on the dividuality in a football team? Yes those of his allies are better placed suffered 2,000 killed or wounded, Chan Kwing-ming's troops and Lung-chuang, where both sides. market and no business was done he does, until he gets the ball at his in the struggle as they are fight-General Yang Sen retreated to feet and then we soon judge from ing in their native territory. They Tzechow-Courtesy Daily Belletin. whether he places his side or him- have little to lose. Accordingly, public opinion on the touch line are not is power and, therefore,

they can afford to wait and wage geurilla warfare wherever it suits them. By maintaining the pressure on Sun Yat-sen's forces - and keep- ing his hands full they please the Northern warlords who have to support them by sending arms and money. De Sentor in Sun's THE ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF 20ent (tweuly cent) coins or 200,000

this morning. The s. "Childar and "King Yuan" both brought in rice from Bangkok, all lots being delivered to buyers ex-ship. No- thing was landed into godowns as the shipments had been sold for delivery ex ship sonte time ago.

TOWEL FACTORY.

NEW TERRITORY ENTERPRISE.

present.

self first.

the

Our public school system docs not condemn the boy who is not in the first rank at games but it does pass sentence on him who does not keep his person clean and his hody in full activity, for a healthy boy has a healthy mind. There cannot be much wrong, with a "Hitherto Shanghai, and Couton system which produces the young on a smaller scale, have been the officer who, when dying in France main centres of cotton manufac-recognised his companion of the tures in China. At Sheung Shui, Rifle Brigade and whispered in the New Territories, a factory"Floreat Etona" before he passed: which turns out towels has been

This world of ours would be a erected and should mark the first "barren pantomime" indeed if it step of a profitable industry. The were not for such as these. machines are driven by cual and

"by surrendering to an in- there are ten machines installed at stitution

our moral ruin is About 100 men and complete" then to escape women are employed, the output of catastrophe we must build our towels being in the vicinity of 800 philosophy-on-the-ago and the per day. It is only a small begin future and adapt our lives on the ning but the promoters have con- products of our own poor brains. fidence in the factory as labour is cheap, the situation is quite close to the railway station and a plentiful supply of raw material -is-available.It was learned that 15 more machines are to be fastalled shortly, considerably enlarging the output. If sufficient encourage ment is forthcoming, the owners will put in new machinery which will be able to turn out both hand] If Judas had possessed more towels and bath towels and supply; Esprit de Corps lie would not have a local need,

played into the hands of the enemy' so readily.

The product must necessarily be behind the imported article but there is no telling what develop- ments may be made. If a steady progressive policy is followed there will come the time when employment can be found for a

There is a proclivity to break away from the past, to burlesque the traditions of our fathers and to embrace the ravished catch words of the day."

Perhaps the world will derive more good from Lord Hugh Cecii's} fostering of the League of Nations than the inductive generalisations of Herbert Spencer.

ANW.

Hongkong, June 13, 1923.

large number of people and the STRAWS IN THE WIND? manufacture extended to a larget. scale so that the article can be ex- ported.

COTTON STATISTICS.

During the week ended May 4. the following cotton goods were entered at Liverpool for export to Hongkong:-142,000 squire yards plain, 118,000 square yards dyed, coloured and printed The corresponding figures for Shanghai are 930,000 and 638,000 respectively.

LOCAL SHOE STORES' NOVEL ADVERTISEMENTS.

SUN YAT-SEN'S DOWNFALL

PREDICTED.

A. form of advertising that is gaining favour with Chinese stores along Queen's Road is the political caricature first displayed last autumn when Chan Kwing-miag was in power in Canton. Chan made himself unpopular owing to demands on the merchants and his inability to straighten the bank- note problem. After Chan's ex- Inquiries instituted in 1922 to pulsion by the Yunnan-Kwangs!! ascertain the effect of the competi-allies, this form of advertising was tion of Japanese and Indian varas not seen to any great extent but in the Chinese market, and the during the last week or so all the which were the establishment of new cotton mills shoe-stores,

YARN IMPORTS INTO

CHINA,

ics.

in China due to Japanese enter-pioneers of the movement, have prise, show, according to the been displaying new *Indian Trade Journal, that strictly The pictures attract large crowds, speaking Indian yarn can no nearly all classes finding time to longer be said to compete with read the inscriptions. It has been Japanese yarn at all in the Chinese claimed that they reveal the con- market. The reason is that Japan sensus of Chinese opinion and if ships practically nothing but counts the expressions of those outside the 15 and upwards, while India shops are any criterion, this is quite specialises in counts 14 and lower. true. A China Mail reporter ven- It is with the nutive product that it tured to ask the fekis in a few shops still struggles to compete, though what was the purport of the ads. the advantages of cheaper Political sympathy was at once home-grown cotton, inexpensive denied it being stated that artists labour, and proximity to the had come forward with an offer market weigh so heavily in to supply attractive advertising favour of the native article that matter. Being business and work- Indian yara only continues to beingmen titey could not understand imported because there is not politics. Information was gladly enough of the cheaper counts of volunteered by some of those native yam to supply the present around the pictures. It was ex- demand of the country. Although plained that in every instance the market quotations often show that dig was af Stin who had lost Indian yarn is cheaper than Chin popularity because of the sale of ese, this is not the case in reality. public property. The Indian yara is 1⁄4 to 3⁄4416: Outside another shop. the lighter than Chinese yara por Ching Mail: man was told that bundle, and is generally inferior in the principal figure was Mayor quality, the Chinese yam being Sun Fo who is alleged to have cleaner and whiter, and superior handleif the sales on behalf of the in respect of reeling, a point of authorities. One wag pointed out vital importance to the Chinese voice loud enough for overy. fand-loom weaver in the interior body to hear that the ads, not only Chinese 10's, 12's, &c are conte reflected phbile option but were quently preferred to similar counts acuarate political, Fordenste. He ofdadian yara. As the cultivation maid that sinalar pictorve were dis of cotton and the processes of played before Lung Cha manufacture improve, it appears | Mok Wing-suŋ and probable that Indian yarn will be ming were DULE completely ousted from the Chiay body falling

sure to have a shor

hunting-ground.

favour is that up to the present, Chan's generals are shirking the responsibility of leading the attack on Sun's lines. Sun's men on the ether hand, are not in a position to wage a long campaign as they have only the resources of one province to fall back upon and the reserves in men and munitions are reaching the irreducible minimum.

Sun's main encampment is in and around Pek. Lo endeavouring |

Feking, June 11. General Yang Sen's second attempt to capture Chengtu has failed.

TO-DAY'S. ADVERTISEMENTS

CLUB.

HAPPY VALLEY COURSE.

THIS COURSE will be closed, unlit FRIDAY Dext, 15th instant inclusive.

Py 0:der. PËRCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING, Secretaries & Treasurers. Songkong, June 13, 1923...

ANNOUNCEMENT.

Mr. W. G. R. MÚRPIIY of JONES and MURPHY has arrived from England with the agency for SPALDING AND HODGE LTD.

He has a full range of Printing, Writing and Wrapping papers, of every description; also stationery; and he will be pleased to show Samples and to give quotations.

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PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

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THE Undersigned have received in- structions to sell by Public Auction

MONDAY, July 16, 1823, Commencing at. 3 p.m.

at hair Hale Rooms, Dadall Stro^t,

One fot of mint Machinery

This Int comprises a complete set of Mint Machinery, capable of producing. 100,000 (ooo hundred thousand) pieces

(two bundred thousand) pieces 10-cent tes cent) coiną per working day of 10 bour",

(Farther particulars and inspection erdem may be chtained from repre Gilman & Co., Ltd, or the Uadersigned),

Terms: 20 per cent of purchase money to be paid on Lill- of hammer. Balance to be paid within two weeks of day of sale.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Aactioneers.

Hongkong, June 13, 1993.

*TIHE Undersigned have received instruc-

tions to sell by Public Auction," TUESDAY, Jaxe 10, 1923, commencing at 3p.m.

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at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street... The Valanble Lorse"old Property Comprising:

The whole of the adjaining Lott Kos. 180, 121, 122, 10 nnd 130 D. D. 448- Aituated near Kwai Chung (Gin Drinkere Bay in the New Territories of Hong- kong of a total area of ebons 102,495 squisto feet of which 82,645 square feet are building land and 19050 aquare feet agricultural land. The property ́ebuta on to the sea and there is a depth of 6 feet of water at quedium tide at the -and of the pi-xand-19 fest at medium tide at a distenes of 200 fast from ses- ward boundary of the property.

Ja addition there is one wooden plar] 100 feet long, one water Træervoir with conuretions to all parts of the property. one Delco Electric Light Pant wüh connections and fittings for lighting tha whole property, telephone connected to the Kowloon exchange and buildings odveting a total of atout 20,895 equaro fent including one European-style boure. 6 Chinesa sirla houses, offices, lock-up store house, sheds etc., etc, almost all of. which are practically zów,

The whole of the hud, buildings, électrin plant's. &, dezoribed above sre to be sold in ose let

Particulars of the Crown Lease under which the land is held may be seen at the Offics of the Eistries. Land. Officer South

An zutline plap of the property mao be acer, all Menuja. Lammert's Office tá : whom application for further inform3- tion should be made.

LAMMERT BROS,

Avetiomem.

Bongbong, Jane 13, 1923.

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