TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1929.
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AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS,
- Public Auctions -
HE Undersigned have received Tin Fuctions to sell by Public
Auction
ON
THURSDAY and FRIDAY the 4th and 5th July, 1929, commencing each day at 11 am.
NOTICES.
NOTICE.
THE CHINA MAIL,
THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY
HOME to their friends on the 4th July, 1929, 11.30 am to 1 p.m. at the American Club, Duddell Street.
Hong Kong, 1st July, 1929,
WATER EMERGENCY. COMMITTEE.
RAILWAY LOANS
WHAT CHINA. IS"DOING AT THE MOMENT
COMPLETION OF LINES
WEI-HAI-WEI
BRITISH TO KERP COALING STATION?
NEGOTIATIONS WITH CHINA
Shanghai, June 23,
Shanghai, June 24. The National Government yestrocession of the naval base at Wei- Sino-British negotiations for the re- terday negotiated a second lean hai-wel, located on the northern coast with foreign financial interests of the Shantung peninsula, became for the purpose of obtaining new deadlocked to-day as a result of refusal equipment for the Government of the Chinese Government agree railways, as the present loan to grant the British Navy the right to amounting to approximately maintain a coaling station, at Liukung- G$800,000 is covering the par-tao Island, located at, the mouth of chase of new equipment for the Wei-hai-wei harbour. Shanghai-Nanking and Shanghai- Hangchow Lines.
Nine locomotives and 24 steel frames for passenger cars and Wei-hai-wei. was previously discussed All inquiries and communica-140-ton steel-covered freight cars between the British Minister and the tions regarding the importation of are also included. water should be made there.
WILL STEAMSHIP AGENTS PARTICULARLY NOTE. No. C. 2527 & Govt. No. 284.
By Order,
with interval from 1.00 to 2.30 p.m. A Control Office has been opened,
at Carlton Hotel, No. 20,
Ice House Street
A Large Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
WANTED. Young
stenographer
Chinese for Amoy.. Reply Secretary, P.O. Box 22.
male
Comprising:-
WANTED-By Japanese, a position
Teak Hatstand, Hall Mirrors, Chesterfield in an Hotel. An all round man will-1 Chesterfield Couch,
ing to do anything. Apply Bax No. Chairs, Armchairs. Teak Book 800, c/o "China Mail."
Cases. Teak Dining Tables, Chairs, Teak Sideboards, Glass Cabinet, Curtains, Carpets, Crockery, Glass
SITUATION WANTED Ware, Cutlery, Teak Ice Chests,
EURASIAN GIRL with experience wants, position as NURSEMAID. Will live in. Apply Box No. 607, c/o "China Mail."
TO LET
TO LET-Furnished, one room; use of bathroom and kitchen. Apply: Mrs. Chan, 587, Nathan Road, Kow-
loon.
FLATS TO LET-First, Second and House Third Floors, No 20 Ice Street (formerly occupied by Carlton Hotel). Cool and Central Locality. Grand outlook towards Public Gar- dens. Modern Sanitation. For fur- ther particulars apply to H: Buttonjer & Son, 15, Queen's Road Central.
TO LET OR FOR SALE.
TO LET OR FOR SALE.--On Broad- wood Road two semi-detached 5 room- ed houses with Tennis Court and Garage to each house...Reply Secre- tury P.O. Box No. 22.
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE-On Broadwood Road 3 roomed Bungalow. Reply Secretary' PO. Box No. 22.
FOR SALE. "Barkers," Sai Wan. A
Ceiling and Table Fans, Ceiling Lights, etc., ete.
Teak Bedstends, Iron Beds. Teak Wardrobes with Bevelled Mirrora. Teak Dressing Tables, Teak and Marble Top Washstands. Toilet; Sets, Blankets, Table Cloth, Linen. Mosquito Nets, otė.getc.
also
One Piano by S. Moutrie & Co. A Quantity of Blackwood Ware
and One Safe by James Black, London,
On View from Wednesday. the 3rd July, 1929.
Catalogues will be issued. Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctiobeera
Hong Kong. 28th July, 1929:
BEST COAL & CHEAPEST PRICE
KWONG HÁNG & CÔ.
Tel. C. 2736.
43, Des Voeux Rond Central, Government and Admiralty Coal Contractors.
HOUSE COAL.
fine 4-Roomed Bungalow with large Peak Garden. Excellent Bathing facilities. Ideal place for Summer Hotel, For Upper Level full particulars apply Box No. 595, Middle Level c/o China Mail"
WATER TANK FOR SALE
100-gallon Steel Drum for sale, these are good strong tanks for re- serving water for household use, and are galvanised inside and outside, no rust will Occur. Price $15.00 each. Kwong Sung Hong Limited, or 184/5, Praya East, Wanchai,
MISCELLANEOUS.
YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly and promptly printed.-"Chiru Mail" Office, No. 3A, Wyndham St. Telephone Cen- tral 22.
HOME TUITION.
WESTOVER-STEVENAGE.
Within In healthy
en hour from London. neighbourhood. SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarders received in the House of the Principal. Individual care and attention.
Particulars apply to:
MISS RUTH CULLEY
For
(Camb. Higher Local). Camb. Teachers' Diploma). MISS GERTRUDE TURNER
(National Frodel Higher Certificate).
PHOTO-SUPPLIES
Kodaks and Cameras. Films, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and
Enlarging.. ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES Price Moderate.
A Trial Order is Solicited.
A. SEK & CO.
Tel. No. C. 3459.
26A, Des Voeux Road C., Hong Kong.
NOTICE ̈TO SHIPOWNERS, MASTERS & AGENTS.
The Yuen Wo Seamen's Institute __ always has men available to skip as watch- men, seamen, &c.
by
Our men are employed the leading passenger Ines. We guarantee satis-
faction.
Please phone or call K661— No. 2, Saigon Street, Yamma ti
C2560 No. 36, Tag Mas Street.
.at $23.00 per ton
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H. S. ROUSE,
Hong Kong, 1st July, 1929,-
TO-DAY
The loan was negotiated by Mr. Sun Fo, Minister of Railways, and the British and Chinese Corpora tion.
Both British and Chinese authorities refuse to make any statement, but the "Ston Pao" published a report that when the question of retrocession of
old Peking Government, the Peking Government granted the British a right to a permanent coaling station at Lin- kungtao Island, and that the agree ment was initiated by Dr.Wellington Koo, who at that time was Foreign" Minister in Peking.
To-day's Views
Bidding in England All the equipment will be pur- chased in open bidding in Eng- Secretaryland as the nature
The agreement, however, was not of the loan signed, hence the Nationalist Govern- being to hire and purchase."ment now refuses to concur in the Pek- The loan is carrying an interest of ing arrangement, and declares it is not eight per cent. repaid in month-able to grant the British a naval coal- ly instalments from the earningsing station, which is tantamount to continuance of the Wei-kai-wei naval, of the railways.
base.
and every day
drop in for a
"quick one
at the
ST. FRANCIS
HOTEL.
FREE SNACKS
every day from
10.30 12.30
and
5.30 -7.00. p.m.
GROUND FLOOR LOUNGE.
The above prices include dell- Tel. No. C. 5134. Tel. No. C. 5134. very charges to destination.
PAIN
ís miraculously relieved by the..
new form of aspirin
GENASPRIN
for sale at Chemists and Dispensaries
Sole Agenta:
W. R. LOXLEY & CO.
It's not Bear Brand
GALVD, PIPE FITTINGS
FLANGES
BENDS
SOCKETS
ELBOWS
TEES NIPPLES
A. MING & CO.
105, Des Voeux Road Central (opposite Central Market). Tel.-C. 6147.
TANG YUK, DANTIST
Successor ta
the late SIRN` TING, 14, D'Aguilar Street.
TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free,
SPORTING GUNS AND ACCESSORIES.
GUNS: Greener, Webley Scotts, B.B.A., J. W. Needham & Raick Freres Air Rifles-Revol- vera E. &W-Rifle-Accessories Aperture Sights Sporting re- quisites Cartridges, to`sult - all bores. THE HONG KONG SPORTING ARMS & AMMUNITION
WE STORE 5-6, Benconsfield Arcade. ·
ALL CARS
REPAIRED
FIAT GARAGE 87A MB, Des Voeux Rde
Your Baby's Future health depends largely on the food you are giving him to-day. "LET IT BE THE BEST —
"BEAR BRAND"
NATURAL MILK.
Sole Agents for H.K. & So. China
· A. B. MOULDER & CO., LTD, China Buliding, Hong Kong.
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.
The following unclaimed tale grams are lying at the E. E Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong?—
Fact, from Singapore. Hamo, from Singapore, Kee Chong, from London.
8. LACK.
A similar loan of this charaċ-
Examination of the minutes of the ter, the first transaction between Washington conference when Lord Bal- the Nationalist Government and four announced the intention of Britain foreign financial interests, was to return Wei-hai-wei does not specify nogotiated last January with a that any conditions shall be attached, Belgian bank for G$2,000,000, hat British Minister, Sir Miles Lamp covering the materials used in the son, is stating the right to maintain a Lung-Hai Railway.
coaling base although he is willing to These purchases were also ob-relinquish control of Wel-hai-wei har tained in the European loan, the British have controlled since 1898. hour and surrounding territory, which guaranteed by, the Belgian share Chicago Tribune." in the Boxer Indemnity, carrying six per cent. interest.
Canton-Hankow Railway: In addition to the foregoing, a recent meeting of the Central Executive Committee in Nanking authorised another railway loan of G$75,000,000 to be è secured from the British and Russian Box- er Indemnities, covering the cost of the completion of the Canton, Hankow and Lung-Hai railways before 1933.
This loan is also expected to be negotiated with European finan- cial interests due to the British interest in the completion of the Canton-Hankow Railway.
CHINA AND SWEDEN
REQUEST FOR NEGOTIATION
OF NEW TREATY
EXPIRY OF THE OLD ONË
Shanghai, Juné ̃26, The Chinese Government to-day no tified the Swedish Government of the official expiration of the Sino-Swedish treaty which terminated on June 14 of this year, and asked Sweden to ap- point a delegate for the purpose of negotiating a new "equal treaty," re- placing the treaty signed in Peking 20 years ago.
While Ameritan engineers and fnanciers have been investigating the questions of the American in ancing the railway construction In China, no definite results have yet been announced. "Chicago on "absolute equality and mutual res- Tribune."
"ADVERTISE”.
The Chineze note declares that the political, commercial, and economic conditions of both China and Sweden have changed in the past 20 years, making a new treaty necessary based
pect for each other's sovereignty in order to suit the changed conditions.'
Those Still Left The Chinese note to Sweden which amounts to the official termination of
NEWSPAPERS COMMENDED TO the Sino-Swedish treaty narrows
CHURCHES
REACH THE PUBLIC
St. Paul, June 26. Newspapers were commended
WE, NONE OF US, LIKE TO HEAR A WOMAN SWEAR, BUT CAN YOU BLAME HER?
DAMN COCKROACHES
THESE
USE PETERMAN'S
ROACHFOOD
AND KEEP THE HOME HAPPY.
Obtainable At All The Leading
Sole Agent
· Dispensaries And Stores.
WM. PETERMAN, INC., Represented by
HAROLD F. RITCHIE & CO., INC.,
NEW YORK.
HARRY WICKING & CO. HONG KONG
TOY BALLOONS.
TO AID SAFETY OF US. AVIATORS
STANDARD TIME.
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN COLONY
Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong for July (Standard time of the 120th Meridian, East of Green-
hydrogen until it will support a weight of 40 grams and then is re- leased, Under these conditions, it .12 will soar skyward five and one-half. fect per accond.
the best means of reaching the eision of the Powers who participated face of the landing field. public, and the use of paid advertis- in the Washington conference in 1922. The toy balloon is inflated with ing in the press was urged to the
The American, British, French and churches of the United Statea, in Brazilian treaties will all expire before the annual report presented to the 1935, but China is now pressing an im- 141st Presbyterian General Assem-mediate revision-Chicago Tribune? bly by Walter Irving Clarke, nation- al director of publicity for the denomination.
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Washington, June 28. Toy balloons at now being used to aid in the safety of aviators..
They are employed, the depart-wich), are as follow ment of commerce has announced, in determining the "ceiling" of airports to insure safe landing. China's so-called anequal treaties per- "The chief concern of pilots," taining to the question of extra- the announcement said, “is auf- terrior:ality to the United States, ficient ceiling height at the Great Britain, France, Brazil, practic- Terminal Field to assure a safe ally all other nations having either landing, the ceiling height is the negotiated new treaties or made de...height of the clouds above the sur- clarations to this effect, pending the de-
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A stop watch registers the time, elapsing, between the lease of the "The business world spends mil-
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exploit their attractions
"One single-brand of cigarettes of the many brands advertising ap- propriated $12,500,000 for this year's advertising, ons half of which is being spent in newspapers alone, The continued experience of regular advertisers demonstrates that news- papers offer the most effective medium of appeal. Pioneers in the use of the radio apportion their ad vertising budges accordingly,
"The presbyterian publicity de partment has faith that some day religion will be adequately advertis- ed and will reap vast rewards as are now accumulated by less worthy enterprises.Associated Press,
CREEP TO SHRINE
MEXICANS AND FEAST OF ST. PETER
Mexico City, June, 24. The first public mass since Superintendent. August, 1926, will be said in the
Hong Kong 27th June, 1929. church of Nuestra Senora de la
THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO, LTD., OF DENMARK
** The following unclaimed tele- [grams are lying at the office of the Great Northern Telegraph Com pany (Limited) of Denmark
Fajibun, from Osaka George Lynott, from Shanghat. -H. Kong. Kwok- from Osaka..
Milladvert, from Dairenc
Guadalupe, Mexico's nations! shrine, next Saturday on the occa- sion of the feast of St. Peter, and St. Paul
Prominent Catholics are planning to have the pilgrims creep to the shrine on their knees over three miles of cobblestones. — Associated Press
50 TRAPPED MINERS
Nagasaki June 26. Frantic efforts were being made to-day to rescue 50 miners who were EVA JESSEN
entrapped last night when the Superintendent Masushima mine became flooded, Hong Kong, 27th June, 1929.
ress
Eternal Love at the Qmen's Theatre, July 4-6,
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BAN ON FILIPINOS
Sacramento, June 26. Dr. Walter Dickie, director of the California department of public health, informed Governor Young's council to-day that the unrestricted immigration of Filipinos to the United States is "a serious menace" to the state's health, labour and ao- eial status.
He emphasized the danger of the Filipino as a carrier of the epidemic meningitis germ and he expressed. en opinion that the next congress would realize the coessity of a restriction of Filipino immigration."
Associated Press.
BOULDER DAM ACT
Washington, June 25. President Hoover faened a pro- clamation to-day making the Bould- er Dam act effective. This was another step towards the construc tion of the Colorado river dam, which is the greatest government project since the building of the Panama Canal-Associated Preas.
FIRST STATE ENVOY
Vatican City, June 25, Pope Plus to-day received at a formal audience the first Ambass8- dor from the Kingdom of United Italy ever officially accredited to the Holy Bear The Ambassador thus received was Count de Cecchi Dival Cismon Associated Press
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