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BATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1923

TURKS GO. DRY.

UTTING OFF THEIR NOSES

TO SPITE THEIR FACES.

(Realer's Service to the China Mall.)

CONSTANTINOPLE, June 15. The Governor, Adnan Bey, has notified the Ailled High Com- missioners that Turkish prohibition law will be enforced from to- morrow.

Special arrangements will be made for the Allied troops, also for foreigners until peace has been concluded.

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case

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The measure is regarded as of cutting off the nose to spite the face as is obviously intended to annoy and injure native Christians, even at the cost of a considerabile slice of

revenue.

ISOLATED.

RUHR NOW FINALLY CUT OFF.

BERLIN, June 15- French troops have occupied the rallway stations from Dortmund te Kray sued, including the important junctions of Langedreer and This means that rail communica- tion between the industrial and noccupied territory is thereby eut

Buchum.

uf.

Dortmund and other centres are now completely isolated and nonc will be able to leave or enter with-1 oat F.ich passes.

FRENCH BANK.

FORMER DIRECTOR'S

EVIDENCE.

PARIS, June 15.

COMMERCIAL.

HONGKONG NOTES AND COMMENT.

PIECE GOODS QUIET,

BEHIND THE SCENES.

HONGKONG'S ANNUAL

REPORTS.

SOME FURTHER COMMENTS,

THE CHINA MAIL."

1

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE GOVERNMENT'S NEW · SCHEME.

[To the Editor of the “ China Mail,"

Sir,The Governalent's

new

RELIEF TRIALS:

SOLDIERS SEIZE FOOD. SUPPLIES.

HONGKONG COMMITTEE'S

QUANDARY.

A Chinese peculiarity is revealed Pitco goods. Very .little

in the paragraph devoted to Births. Achemo is all right as far as it gora,. business of note has been brought The Chinese are described as but leaves out the "small mau."

An announcement has been "careless in the matter of register-I should like to have the option of made in the vernacular papers to book but prices remain firm.

Metals. No activity has been noticed and quotations are receding births, especially those of being granted a piece of land on giving notice that the door-to-door female children. It appears to be which to build a house for my owu campaign by a committee in con ing.

case

by -as⚫ required

060.

SPECIALISTS IN NECKWEAR.

THE LATEST WIDETEND TIES MADE OF THE FINEST QUALITY SILKS, DIRECT FROM PARIS AND LONDON.""

EVERY REQUIREMENT IN MEN'S WEAR, AND ONLY THE FINEST

Tu GOODS ARE STOCKED.

BOW TIES MADE OF THE FINEST ENGLISH SILK FOULARD, IN ALL THE LATEST DESIGNS AND COLOURINGS,

Sundries.-There is not much to Chinese custom not to register As I am not a 'capitalist," nection with the Tung Wah Hos report in connection with sundries even the birth of a male child unless am I gutitled to any consideration? pifal, to raise funds for relief work, beyond moderate business in the child has survived for at least And if so, could that extraordinary in areas devastated by war in

one month, while female children provisions, in which American fequently are not registered at all condition be waived that I can sell Kwangtung, will be stopped tem- makes claim priority.

The custom in China of enrolling teen-the-value of the land is porarily. The reason for this de- Exports-Considerable business

prevents temple doubtless has been done in ginger, most of the child's name at the ancestral, bled; also that I must put my cision is that although funds have QUALITY AND MOST UP-TO-DATE

the money in to another plot of land been generously subscribed, the the trade being with Europe and registration in this Colony of births What happens when the land duce relief committee is meeting, with Ordinance.not double itself in value, as is likely Brent difficulty ju shipping rice and her. necessities to the district. particularly, the London market. A good many small lots of cargo Registered midwives reported when we get back to normalcy? Some days ago, $5,000 was expen- ginger in jars has been put 5304 births during 1922. Deaths seems to me the simpler way wouldded to purchase about 600 bags of through, the prices averaging

totailed 14,569 but the number isbe for the Government to sell te rice which were shipped to Shiu 20 round shillings per

Chinese dealers unrellable owing to faulty birth and at its own valuation and Hing on the West River. Here the CIF London.

registration. 126 died from stipulate that is the event of a sale, need of the popsation was most seem keen to offer ginger in casks but little response has been made malaria, 829 from beri-beri. Plague in fact every sale, it is to come in pressing and several members of accounted for 1,173 and small-pox on a fify-fifty basis! If you are the committee took great pains to going to interfere in the economic casure the rice being distributed to Mr. Walter I. E. Mackenzie has conditions tot 11.E. the Governor the poor.

A China Mail reporter was told! quite an interesting yarn to spin is so fond of talking about, it had concerning the work of the Letter be on the sound lines I have unofficially by a to Hongkong agents to stop ship Veterinary Department. If there indicated. This will save much the canvassing committee that ments on account of dispute with the military, have been cancelled, are any vegeterians in the place time and the necessity of putting so as soon as the distributors left, The rumour is to the effect that an agreement has been reached where 39.450 cattle, 16,362 sheep, and any Ordinances and amending bands of so-called soldiers com- by it will be possible for rice to be 224.149 swine were "done to death" Ordinaces on our already heavily-mandeered the rice at the point of

ał the Slaughter House and taxed statute book. shipped as previously.

brought in a tremendous revenue. From a state of coma they have been translated to ä state of Kharrad.

to the offers.

Nam Pak Hong.--It has been un- officially stated that the instruc- tiens from Canton rice merchants

Flour quotations are dropping and the sugar market is dull.

JAVA SUGAR PRICES.

BOYCOTT CAUSES. SERIOUS DROP. (From Our Outi Carrespondent:)

SINGAPORE, June 15.

It is reported that there has been

The prosecution in the Banque a serious drop in Java sugar prices Industrielle cass called Joseph owing to the Chinese boycott Zuccloi, who was director during against the Japanese. 1918-20. He asserted that the transactions of the Banque always seemed to him perfectly correct,

TEN YEARS OLD.

INTERESTING HONGKONG

BIRTHDAY.

The Japanese having bought heavily of the 1923 crop are now attempting to sell.

WOOL,

AUSTRALIAN DECISION.

204.

they should writhe in agony. Listen!

Yours, etc.,

BROWN SUGAR.

We are putting the Sanitary BLEEPING IN THE STREETS. Department's report aside for future reading. The effort made

to produce it and the interesting [To the Editor of the " China Mail."

information it contains command our respect..

STREET CHASE. CIVILIAN CATCHES THIEF,

MAGISTRATE'S PRAISES.

..

member of

the bayonet, claiming that as they the defenders of the. Républic" tad no rice, the civil population was not going to get sny..

Consequently the committee is

in a quandary, as to what is to be. done with the funds still in hand. Attempts to give free rice would prove abortive as there would be no guarantees that the help went to deserving parties. If provisions Sir, The Government is natural and stores fell into the hands of ly concerned that a false impression the military the best, intentions should not go home regarding would only result in evil, as the those who choose to sleep in the supplies would be used to prolung streets during the hot weather. It the struggle.

does not seem to be much concerned that there are quite a few who do sleep in the streets, summer and winter, no matter what the state Mr.L. L. Lopes, a Portuguese of the weather may be. They do broker, was highly commended by this, not because they like it, but the Police Magistrate, Mr, R. E. bcause they have no alternative. Lindsell this morning who instruct You, on several occasions, have ed Sub-Inspector Grant to bring pointed out the dire need there is Mr. Lopes' action to the notice of for some public shelter for these suitably thanked.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

ASSOCIACAO PORTUGUESA 'DE SOCORROS MUTUOS.

the C. S. P. so that he could be outcasta of Hongkong-the loteam A Comissão Directora pede a com

parecencia dos Srs, socios e suas ́

SYDNEY, June 15.

and jetsam of this place, who serve Exmas. familias e os demais mem- A conference of Australian Mr. Lopes was in Queen's Road us as coolies and are fulfilling some tros da Comunidade Portuguesa a It seems only the other day that wool-selling brokers and wool near the Central Market yesterday useful service. A Rowton Home uma reuniao que se efectuará no fitere was opened to business a growers' representatives has about noon when he saw a small has been suggested. Please force Club Lusitano na proxima segunda store which possessed one of the decided, as last year, to spread the servant-girl crying, "thief" and the suggestion home, Mr. Editor, feira, 18 do corrente, as 17.30 horas.. most artistic-looking fronts it has realisations over at least eight pointing to a Chinese who was and bring it to the eye of some o assunto a tratar relaciona-se com a ever been our lot to see and an months, beginning here September running away. Mr. Lopes at once wealthy Chinese who cout searcely educacao dos nossos filhos, futuros interior quite in keeping. In11.

gave chase and after some time addition there was an air of quiet It is estimated that the Australian caught the thief inside the market. do better than endow such a place cidadaos a quem cabera a gloriosa efficiency about the place which offerings total 1,600,000 bales Six months hard labour was the us I have named. It would be a tarefa de manter o bom nome porte- inspired confidence and when on Reuter.

sentence meted out to the thief this lasting monument to his name and gues no Oriente, e visto o nunca des- morning at the Police Court when confer a boon upon a section of the mentido patriotismo dos portuguesen Mr. Lindsell made the remarks community no-one so far, seems to de Hongkong, Direccao espera que

aloguem deixará de comparecer. mentioned above.

Tenre a jot about.

Yours, etc.,

Hongkong, June 15.

top of all, the coods displayed and

for sale to the discerning ones,

TOKYO-ELECTRIC- DEBENTURES,

were of the very best, it was felt that here was a venture which if it could not command

well

London, June 14. very success deserved it. We are amazed that It is stated that preparations for this opening took place ten years the issue of £3,000,000 Electric ago and that the success so well Debentures are progressing satis deserved has been achieved and factorily. It is understood that the well maintained. Ten years in the loan will bear six per cent. interest, life of any organization is a The price will be ninety-two. considerable span .and the least

we

Can

do

is

to congratulate Messrs. Mackintosh and Cu, of whom we are writing,

on their tenth birthday and to wish

CANADIAN TARIFF.

Ottawa, June 14:

The Budget amendment, increas

TYPHOO WARNING.

The telegram quoted below was received from the Manila Observ atory by the local American Con- sulate General at 10. a.m. to-day.

Typhoon in about deg. Long, E. 16 deg. Lat. N. recurving north 135 eastward.

In rough weather the motor them a continuance of the prospering British preference by allowing ship"Wab Kiu" of 800 tons ity they have enjoyed. Fitting celebration is to be made by our tea per cent discount on duty on (Captain Lane) went ashore at the men's Wear Specialists of this directly shipped British goods, entrance to Su Nam Chau Channel on Thursday night. The ship was has been extended to apply to anniversary, as our advertisement columns show, and we hope to be goods. sent from England for on a voyage from Hongkong to amongst the very many who dearly Canadian Pacific ports and tran-Kongmoon with the usual comple-

the rudder gave way. love a safe and who will attend in shipped at Hongkong on a through ment of Chinese passengers, when

Bill of Lading.. large numbers to offer them con- gratulations in a practical manner;

POLICE WORK.

The Cops, at the Crossing' in-! stituted 3,281 Traffic Regulations prosecutions and secured 3,151, convictions, securing $11,745 in fines. That's the stuff to give 'em. 56 scales were found to be in- correct Weighed in the balance and found wanting,' 26,424 drivers and bearers received licences. Over three thousand rickshas were allowed to be used, in addition to over a thousand chairs. We have 313 motor cycle riders, including the, fiend who goes round our favourite corner at 100 miles per hour. Our Uncle" is included in the 141 licences issued to Pawn brokers. We have 291 sportsmen allowed to shoot and take game. Five, There are 10,194 hawkers. dogs were destroyed at the request of owners. Not enough. Nothing is said about the owners of dogs. 670 revolvers, '301 Mauser pistols, and 35 Automatic pistols were seized and confiscated. We have not sufficient figures in stock to show how mady rounds of ammuni- tion were seized. Believe us, the number was 'prodeegious,

The conduct of the Police was good. Only five reports for being drunk. Well now, its a dry sob being a policeman, and the weather is sometimes cruel,

The Seamen's Sirike is scheduled under "Special Events which is rather good. Likewise the "Suf An" piracy, which was something more than a special event. The other specials include a bar, on the Outbreak of violent crime, Clos ing of Guilds Arms Smuggling, &c, &c. This report also goes in to our library-not under Fiction.

FEATHER BED.

F. P. de VASCONCELLOS SOARES,

Secretario. Hongkong, 16 de Junho de 1923,

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