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SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1926.

FRANC SUPPORTED.

RELEASED.

THE CHINA MAIL.

LOCAL SHARES.

DECISION OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT:

AMERICAN CAPTAIN NOW FREE.

REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK.

theft May

SUCCESSFUL ACTION.

(Renter's Agency.).

Paris, May 21. The Government's action to app- port the franc, which resulted in vise in the frane on New York,

Was

(Reuter's Service;)

Peking, May 21. The American Consul at Yunnan telegraphed on the 19th inst, any.. ing that the local Governor had received a telegram reporting that Guptain Betta had been released.

Moxon and Taylor. In weekly share, report dated 21, stule

Wo have had a quiet market d'ar ing. the past week but the under- In steady, sellers showing little disposition to accept lower prices...

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CHINA CUSTOMS.

FATE OF THE CONFERENCE.

Shadows Before.

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE MAIL.”

Entertainments,

May 22-Queen's Theatre: "The Ten Commandments."

May 22 Star Theatre: "Reckless

May 22-World Theatre: "The Battling Orioles...

May 22 Whitaqntide Evc. Em- pire Celebration at Repulse Bay Hotel...

May 23-Queen's Theatre; Mac: Murray in "Jazzmaniką” →

May 24-Special toa dance - at Repulse Bay Hotel from 4 to 6 p.m. The May 26-28-Queen's Theatro:

According to the "Hocht," a view is gaining ground among the dulo gatos of the Powers attending the Customs Conference in favour of the cessation of the Conference, in view of the very uncertain and in- secure political situation now pro veiling In Peking. It is contend-Romanes." ed by many that now that the Tuan Shanghai market: remain stendy. Administration, which was recog- The following are the principalised by the Powers, has fallen and According to a previous report

there is considerable uncertainty the decision in create a Captain T. J. Betts, American Lan-alterations since laat week:-

Banke: Continue à good de-as to whether a stable Government centrat clearing ofice to take guage Officer, who, is touring the charge of forward foreign exprovinces for language parposes,mand and have risen to a buying will be organised in the near. fature, it is best to put an end to change dealings. The clearing was captured by bandits on the 17th rate of $1,100,

Captain Unions Have bag a steady the Cuaroma Conference and let office is to lake the form of a joint inet, nour Lal.Tou-po,

the American market and are wanted at $288.

the delegates of the Powers go back stock company. wherein share Betts belongs to holders will be banks recognised Coast Artillery, and is well-known Canton Insurances & Hongkong to their respective homes.

and wanted at future relations between Marshals by bankers and official brokers and in Peking, where his wife and Firea:~Are Arm

mother reside. It appears that Tuotations...

Wu Pol-fu and Chang Tao-lin, the. H. Salisbury presents. "Nol Not

Nanette," 8:16 pim certain industrial groups.

Hotels:Continue in good de two pre-eminent leaders ini Poking May 27-Queen's Theatre: R. H. The Elho de Faris" says that Captain Betts luft Peking in March

regarded Salisbury presents The Quaints," prominent American and British on a mission he voluntarily under mand closing with buyers at $10.40 polities at present, are

Electrics-Are study and are with much apprehension, and the

9:15 pm. <financiers appear to be willing to took for the famine Roljef Com-

wanted at $64%.

existence of 100,000 adherents of ano-operate cordially with France mission, in connection with the or

TransAre rather easier and the Kuominchun still watching for the Etter ener restore congenisation of a new committer in

un opportunity to secure power in fidence at home and among the Yunnanfy. On May 1 he telegraph have come to business at $23.

China Sugars-Are enquired for also deemed

p.m.. A. very disquieting Possesses of French capital abroad na to Peking, stating he had com- in such a way that the latter may pleted his task, and intended to go and could be placed at $2414.

China Lights-Ar: in more de factor in Peking polities. At the violat Capel will dance at the Be induced to bring back, wealth to overland to Chunking, where he France

expected to arrive on June 7 in Vital Dube Wenthered, stend of returning b Hunok by rait. No word of him had since The Brunch situation was dis-been heard. Of splendid physique. exosed by the Council of Ministers. Captain Betta was a conspicaons 3. Peret. Finance Minister anrure in Peking, He was born in nounced that the Treasury had Newchwang and speaks Chinese antisfactorily weathered Thursday- upasually well | the date on which several mards of Treasury Bonds were due for re- payment.

Paris, May 21.

M. Briand, the Premier, and M. ABD EL KRIM FLEES.

FRENCH FROOPS PROGRESSING FURTHER.

(Matas Agency)

Pertt frward conferred with the Governor of the Banque de France, aster which M. Peret announce that the agreement between the Government and the Ramene de France was neven broken in spite of insinuations to the contrary.

Fen, May 21. They were considering new methodk

While the Bastern Sector is con- pourpaiders were progressing satis-solidating the positions recently factorily. The Banque de France, ccupied the French have started had resolved to support the Govern in the Middle Sector another ad- vance. They progressed twelve ment until the Franc was victorious.

kilometres. Beneficial Result

restoring the franc. and the

London May 21.

Ma Feret's promised measures?] have rented favsumably, the French frame in London elősing at 149:75; The Belgian frane sympathetically improvedite 149:25.

Optimistic.

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Paris May 21.

M. Peret, in the course of a state-

Abd el Krim, abandoned by the Beniuri Aphels, has fled westward.

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HAPPY ENDINGS.

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WHY WOMEN LIKE THEM..

"hope it will end happily."" ment after his conference with Malghs Maud as the second act of the Briand and the Governor of the Bunque de France to-night, remark-play closes upon a puzzled audience. John miles. but he need not be ed that the recovery of the frane was made without appealing for superior. Woman wants her plays foreign aid. They hoped that the and novels to end happily because improvement would become more marked.

The ofensive launched by the Government to improve the value of the frane was directed by Lazard "Brothers, who were offering dollars and sterling in unlimited amounts. The selling chiefly took place in Paris and New York.

Confirmation.

(Havas Agency..

are

she kes them to be true to life. More realistic and less sentimentul thingy for than mun, she sees clearer and sees them whole. She knows that in real life the happy" note is struck more often than not..

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Man is more obsessed by ideas than personailties. He drops into

dips theatre or

into

mental novel to obtain either stimulte or a release from life's boredom. In either case he is but an interested spectator.

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mand, buyers paying for the and $9% for the New. after to business at $14 and $10 Steamboats-After coming business at $24, close buyers at this price without at- tracting sellers.

with

Bands-Are. Arme and Are wanted at $62:

Humphreys: Could probably be placed at $14.

Cements:Are steady with more

enquiry:

Wharves-After coming to busi ness at $128, are wamed it $126ke without attracting salers.

Hongkong Docks-re nominal and fow any shares changed

: hands

June 5-Dance display by Miss V. Capell's pupils at City Hall, 9)

June 9 The pupils of Miss City Hall, at 3.15 p.m.

Sports.".

May 22-24-Royal Hongkong Golf Club holiday matches at Fanling

May 24-Fanling Hunt Steepl's.

billiards

May 29-Opening Baseball match of this season between South China (champions) and Japanese Base- ball Club.

June 5-Third Race Meeting of the Hongkong Jockey Club, at the Race Course, Happy Valley,

Auction.

outbreak of the hostilities between the Kaominchuir and the Mukden forces, the "Hoch!" recall the Italian delegate suggested that the Conference should be broken up.

purport was made by the French chases, 3 p.m. 1st race... and another suggestion of the same colegate, when these hostile forces. May 26-Exhibition came into a severe elush at Yang-match Faulkiner v. Leung Kam- tun some time afterwards. This kong, at the Chiese Club, in the suggestion was discountenanced by evening.. the Japanese and American defe gates, who pointed out that if the Conference was discéntinued then, all hopes for its resumption would be well-nigh gone. They also con- tended that although the hostilities went on vigorously, the Tuan Government. continued to function.

the On April 20

"Hochi understands, the British delegate, acting under instructions from his home Government, brought forward another proposal urging the sus Depension of the Conference. and the

Company Meetings. American delegate signified his

May 28-Fifty-third Meeting of agreement. This led the Jupanese delegate ac modify his attitude Union Insurance. Society of Canton

At. & meeting of the Ltd in Union Building, 11 a.m somewhat.

May 28-Sixtieth Meeting of British Japanese.

enn delegates on April 24, the British Trader's Insurance Co.,. in "Tokyo journal says, it was in-Union Building, 1.15 £.m.

May 28-Fifty-seventh Meeting of formally agreed that the "delegates of the Powers should meet to the China Fire Insurance Co., in Union exclusion of the Chinese delegates, Building, 11.20 a.m. to discuss the subjects which were still unsettled, and the decisions arrived at should be submitted to

Ste Peries-A on offer at $625,

Dairy Farms:-ve been more or less reflected.

London Quotations of the 20th instant:--Banks £126, Indor ferred 32 10... Shell 4 138. Od. All middle prices.

Exchange-Demand rate on London is 2/213-16 and T/T on Shanghai is Tls. 76.

Subject to conrmation the Peak Frainways Co.. Lid have declared a dividend of 10 per cent. per annum on 26,000 fully paid an shares a dividend of 10 per cent en. 48,615 shares $5 paid up $3 per share paid up for 6 months, $5 per share paid up for

per annum.

The transfer book of the Com- pany will be closed from May 24, 1026 to May 31, 1926

and Amer-

6 months) and a dividend of 10a new Chinese Government, when per cent. per annum on 1.325 shares it was formed, for acceptance. In $1 paid up, payable on May 28, 1916. the event of these decisions not (being accepted by the Chinese Government, it was further agreed, the Powers should break up the Conference and those delegates who are not appointed from among the diplomatic representatives In Tokyo should return to their respective homes.

WASPS' WINGS.

MANUFACTURE OF NEW-

"SILK"

Two German professors out Kaiser Wilhelm Institute

the

in

ed to play an important part in the textile industry.

These informal decisions have been wired by the Japanese, British and American delegates to their home Governments for ap- proval. The "Hochi" adds that the visit of the American Ambassador. in Tokyo to. Baron Shidehara, the April 20

was.

evidently in connection with this matter: "Japan Chro- nicle."

With a woman it is different. Dahlem, a suburb of Berlin, have Whether the drama is played be-applied for a patent for an, inven- Foreign Minister; on Paris. May.21, Drastic meUGUTES.

contem-hind the footlights, between the tion, which they believe is destin- "plated by the Government for the covers of a book, or in real life, improvement of the franc, chiefly she is not content to be merely an the creation of a clearing house onlooker: she must take the stage. naumes the for alllransactions involving for Unconsciously she

principal role, and in bearing the eign exchanges.

heroine's gorrows and sharing her joys undergoes an emotional stress. which can scarcely bear an unhappy ending.

CIVIL WAR.

MISSILES FALL ON SHIPS AT CHUNKING.

(Reuter's Service.)

Peking. May 21. Mr. Wang Huai-ching has restor- ed to the owners the Hanchu pre- perty is the suburb of Peking which prshal Feng Yu-hsiang turned over to his brigadiers so that the rents would serve as pen- sions for incapacitated Kuominchun

troops.

The confiscation of these proper- ties, it is said; left many Manchus without means of velihood.

new

They claim to have invented a and method of using the hende wings of various heeets, such as cockchafers, wasps locusts, and bestles, as well as the shells of crabs and order crustaces, for thei

substance production of a A rare and delightful possession, containing chitin. This material, this of woman's, given to but few on the addition of certain che

R Ane men. It enables her to live hermicals, can be spur into wedding day all over every time she sees a happy couple at the altar, or sitting at the fireside with a book, to snatch from time sweet memories of daya long past.

now

thread by a process similar to that of employed in the manufacture artificial silk. The new thread is said not only to have a sheen and fineness equal to that of silk, but Among highbrows" it la also to be exceedingly pilable and customary to aneer at happy end-far stronger than silk. Ings. But to accept them requires only a reasonable degree of falth, a quality which separates us from the brute creation and shields its possessor from the rot of self-dis-supply of the insets in question. trast."Daily Mail"

A rehearsal of the parade which

The

a. to take place on June 8 at Happy A message from Chungking aaya fighting broke out on the 18th inat., Valley was held yesterday, between General Yang Sen'a Sze Punjabis and the Indian battery chuanese and the Kwelchow Army were brought across the harbour under General Ying Tau Mih. The on the Hongkong Yaumati ferry former emerging from the moun- company's vessels from Holt's tains opposite the city, crossed the Wharf. river and initiated an attack, but retreated when the Kweichow fgrues ware reinforced,

On the following day Aghting was still proceeding. Between 20 and 25 missiles fall on steamers at Chunking. Marines were landed to protect the Japanese Consulate...

GREAT FIRE.

NICARAGUAN TOWN NEARLY DESTROYED.

(Reuter'e American Service.) Managua, May 21. The town of Matagalpa, centre of the collee-growing region, has been almost entirely destroyed by fire.

Among the many wreaths deposit

This discovery would be of little. practical value if the manufac- turers of the new material had ta depend on the somewhat limited

The two professors state, however, that they have already discovered:

a substitute for the beetles' winge

In the form of a material which obtainable in inexhaustible

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quantities in nature, and at a low, price.

They decline to reveal the nature of this substance until the patent rights have been fully secured.. The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, already famous for its numerous inventions in the realm: Disraelf's statue in Parliament of poison gas, hopea, by this dis square was a large shield of prim-covery in the field of textile re- roses, with the famous phrase, search, to witi na laurela in more "Peace with. honour," worked out peaceful spheres of industry.

ed on Primrose Day (April 19) on

in purple, from the representatives.

of the late Mr. R. E. Belillos, Hongkong.

News has been received in Shanghal of the death of Mr. G. Mobsby, C.M.G.. who died at his home. Cogmill House, Frampton Cottrell, Bristol, on April 6, at the aga of 78. He was one of the old hands on the Yangtze, pilot of many of the famous tea ships to Hankow and Admiralty pilot for H. M, ships on the Yangtze for 27 years. For, services rendered he received the C.M.G., in 1902.

WIDOW'S HOUSE ROBBED.

A Chinese widow, living at No.. 222; Queen's Road Central, lost $720 In money and Jewellery on Thurs- day night, somebody entering her flat by the skylight. The theft was reported yesterday.".

A Chinese workman, employed by the Sang Lee contractors at Third Etreet was, agaaulted by two men yesterday. He was taken to hos- pital and the othere to the police? station.

"Keep busy to keep business." John E. White.

Some of the scaffolding, on that part. of the Hongkong Hotel damaged by the fire on New Year's Day, was blown down about '4 p.m. yesterday. Fortunately no passer- by or wheel traffic was "In range." Beyond causing a temporary ob- struction, there was no trouble

May 26-At the premises of Messrs. G. P. & H. A. Lammert,,| Bark of Canton Building, 2nd Heer, Des Voeux Road Central office furniture, etc., 11 am.

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May 28 Annual meeting of the Peak Tramways Co., Ltd., at. Hong-

ong Hotel, 11 am.

May 29-Yearly meeting of Shareholders of the Hongkong and Shanghaf Hotels, Ltdi, in Roof Garden of Hongkong Hotel Fedder Street, 11 a...

. Miscellaneous. Muy 23-Preliminary parade of Members of St. John Ambulance Brinde on Sookumpoo Recreation Ground, 9.15 am..

May 23-Opening ceremonies. in connection with Chinese. Catholic Young Men's Society, 16 Caine Road, 2 pm.

"GAZETTE" ITEMS.

The following "notifications are contained in the current isäne of the "Government Gazette"-

Mr. D. W. Tratman to be of. cial Receiver in Bankruptcy.

Rev. G. R. Lindsay to be a mem- ber of the Board of Education in the absence of Mr. B. Wylie,

The General Commercial Com pany. Ltd., to be struck off the register and the company dissolved unless at the expiration of three months sufficient cause is shown to the contrary.

The name of C. E. Richardson and Co. (Swatow), Ltd. to be struck off the register..

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