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TO-DAY,

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No 19122.

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Victrola Keeps You Cheerful All Day

There are so many times; when "the Victrola can brighten your daily program of things to be done about the house. Play it while you work and notice how it keeps you feeling happy. If you have, none, visit our store and we shall be glad to show you various models. Terms you will like.

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. Exclusive Agents,

Chintor Road.

SENNET FRERES

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A NEW STOCK OF BEAUTIFUL

FRENCH

JEWELLERY

NOW ON VIEW AT OUR

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HAWTHORNE & PEARSON

Ladies' and Gentlemen's Tailors

and

Breeches Makers...

St. George's Building, Ice House Street.

(Next door Café Wiseman.)

ECONOMY IN COAL

Fachuen Lum Cox stands for stanowy in Goal value. All lamp Goats have a large percent

ist which are FILACTICALLY WASTE. The dust in TUCHTEN Lay araw lampe ka ADUD BE Chey are cas inte bollam. Fachau lamp coal bars graduale und in, tharscurs Aiden CONUMY,

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Coal Merchante Contenció. Quan Road Centra Tal Oviral 270, Carlo náčrom "Eindras

Baie Agarty for Fachven Cons Wantoch in dar galowns ik gradas e other Fachuan, Ocal

PIANOS for SALE or Hire

THÁNG

FOOL PIANO CO.,

Ta. 2127.

THE DO TAR.

ID 184 Today's closing: Eate 2/3 15/16 To-day's opening rate 2/3 15/16

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1924

RATED

Jeves

Fluid

Bolo Agents:

Solo, Agents

MARK

ALEX ROS8 & CO. (OHINA) LTD.

BETREFTA04=+UR PRICE, 98.00 Per Month

WIRELESS THE COLONIES.

EMPIRE * NETWORK.

FOR

IMPERIAL "COMMITTEE'S REPOR

DUTIES OF THE STATE,

SPECIAL COMMISSION SUGGESTED.

f Renter's "General Service.)

LONDON, February 37. The report of the Imperial Wireless Committee recommends that the Post Office should own and operate all Empire wireless stations in Britain' alternatively. An exception should be made in the case of Canada and the existing competition between the Post Office and the Anglo Canadian Wireless Service should be continued, subject to the safeguarding of public interests in any licence granted the Anglo-Canadian Service.

In any licence granted to a private company the State must reserve the right to take possession or to exercise control of the stations in emergency.

AMERICA'S THIRST,

ANOTHER PROHIBITION TUSŠLE.

LESS DRY, BILL

(Reuter's American_Service.)

WASHINGTON, February 28. Forty members of the House of Repre santatives have. announced their intention to introduce a bill next week to legalize the manufac ture and sale of beverages of alcoholic content 2.75 per cent. by volume.

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HOME POLTICS.

ARTHUR HENDERSON ELECTED.

GOVERNMENT VICTORY.

LONDON, February 28,

"The Leafield station should be enlarged and the new bigh power station now being built at Rugby should be extended to a 16-mast station, and held the seat till 1918. In 1919 he became

A second new station of similar capacity should be erected without delay. Each high-power station should have a world range and should be equipped with the latest apparatus."

The Post Office should establish an improved business organisation., The present terminal wire less. station at Cairo should be removed to the Empire system as soon as the requirements of the Admiralty had been met by other stations and the proposed new high-power stations in India, South Africa and Australia were operating

An export, wireless telegraphy commission should be requested to report on the extent and cost of a wireless system, for the Colonies to complete the Empire network of wireless communications.

Private enterprise should be given facilites to develop wireless communication outside the Empire, subject in the case of Anglo-Continental services to payment of royalties or otherwise, in view of competition between wireless and State

owned cables.

There should be free competition in foreign wireless, subject to the State reserving the right to expropriate, take possession or assume control in the case of national emergency.

WHAT OFFERS ?

SHIPPING BOARD FLEET GOING.

SELLING THE LOT.

WASHINGTON, February 28. The United States Shipping Board has invited bids by March 14 for the entire fleet of 1,335 vessels of which approximately 423 are being operated.

The Board will fix a minimum price after valuation instead of the former terms of a minimum of $30 a ton,

WOMAN'S TERRIBLE SUICIDE:

LONDON, February 27. At the inquest on the victims of the Westmins ter Gathedral tragedy a verdict of suicide was returned.

The Administrator of the Cathedral' said the tower would be closed till the balcony had been enclosed to make a fall impossible,

LA Mrs. Davey, of Hammersmith, threw herself over the tower of Westminster Cathedral, together with her two little daughters. She is said to have left a note to her husband saying she was tired of life.]

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The Burnley by-election resulted as follows:-

Mr Arthur Henderson......... .24.571. Mr. Camps.........

17,534: (Mr. Arthur Henderson, Home Secretary in Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's Government, was born in Glasgow in 1863. He served his apprenticeship as a moulder in Newcastle. In 1903 he entered the House of Commons as member for Barnard Castle, Durham, member for the Widnes division, and from 1922-3 represented Newcastle East. He lost his seat at the last election. Mr Henderson has served on many Government and public committees and Royal Commissions. He was a member of the Government during part of the war, member Cabinet War Committee 1916-17, of the and of the Government Mission to Russia in 1917. in which year he and Mr. Lloyd George, quarrelled. Mr. Henderson, who was made a Frivy Councillor in 1915, is a Wesleyan and an abstainer. Two of his sons entered Parliament at the recent election.]

GERMANY AND THE LEAGUE

BERLIN, February 28.

In view of Mr. MacDonald's recent statement, it is noteworthy that the Foreign Minister Herr, Stresmann, in a speech delivered in the Reichstag, declared the government had not rejected in principle the idea of entering the League of Nations, but had not received an invitation from a responsible quarter.

Herr Stresemann further siressed the necessity of guaranteeing full and unconditional rights if membership in the League were extended to Ger- many, including membership of the Council.

TRIAL IN CAMERA.

MUNICH, February 23.. Except for an hour the proceedings in the Ludendorff and Hitler trial were held in camera.

It is anticipated that there will be very few public sittings.

(General Ludendorff, Adolf von Hitler and seven others are being charged with high treason in connection with the Bavarian Monarchist revolt.]

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AMERICAN IMMIGRATION.

WASHINGTON, February 28.

The Senate Emigration Committee has decided to recommend the retention of the census of 1910 as the base for the allocation of immigration quotas, but has favoured the reducing of the percentage admitted from three to two per cent of the 1910 total.

BERLIN QUIETER.

BERLIN, February 27. Herr Ebert, the President, has decreed the raising of the military state of emergency, and the removal of restrictions on personal liberty and the freedom of the press, and public open air meetings. Processions, however, are prohibited.

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Have you noticed how the cockroaches are increasing again That is because you are not using

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You can keep your house clear of these pests, if you. apply the virus occasionally. And remember the Sole Distributors áre

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MAXIMO

BATH SHEETS

The "MAXIMO* Towels

These useful towels have been epecially imported to fill ths" long felt want of a good médium towel at a popular Price Heavy` and absorbent

Size 51′by 28 ins Standard Value Price

$1.50 each.

The "MAXIMO" Bath Sheet

This is the same quality aa our Maximo Towel. Manchester made from, the best available materials. Fawn" and white strips on a self check ground: Fringed ends

Size 76. by 48 ins? Standard Value Price

$3.75 onch WHITEAWAY, AIDLAW & CO., LTD.

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