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ADVERTISEMENTS.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
HE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public
Auction
ON
SATURDAY, June 11, 1932, commencing at 11 a.m., at their Sales Room,
4. Duddell Street.
5 Cases Silk Piece Goods
and
14 Cases Raincoats
(The above goods are sold on the Instructions and on account of" the interested parties.)
Terma:--Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers.
Hong Kong, June 7, 1932.
LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERB AND SURVEYORS.
– Public Auctions
THE
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CHINA MAIL.
ANNOYED
HEAVY SOVIET OIL LOSSES
COMPANY MEETINGS CLEMENCEAU FAMILY
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
TOTICE IS HEREBY
N that the TENTH ORDINEN Paris Municipal Council
YEARLY MEETING OF SHARE- HOLDERS will be held in the Company's Board Room, 1st Floor, Exchange Building, Hong Kong, on WEDNESDAY, 8th JUNE, 1932, at Noon.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 28th MAY, 1932, to 8th JUNE, 1932, both days Inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
Uncomplimented.
OUTSPOKEN LETTER.
Paris.
Failure of a Tremendous Gamble.
NO CAPITAL TO EXPORT
TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1932.
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE
STOCK
Opening Daily Official Quotations, June 7, 1932. Next Settlement Day, Tuesday, June 28, 1932,
Buy Sell Sale Now
JBAY
Last divikul and when paid
Banki
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Russia's foreign oll depots, es tablished after years of endeavour, The family of the late Georges may shortly be closed down. That
Hong Kong Bank............ Clemenceau has refused the invita- is one of the many grave situations
(Leo. Reg.)...i tion from the Paris Municipal which confront the Soviet rulers at Chartered Bank Council to attend the ceremony of the present hour.
Mercantile Bk., A&B. unveiling the monument dedicated It is realised in Moscow that the to the memory of France's greatest closing of the foreign depots would Bank, of Asis$115. statesman.
be a shattering blow at what re-Amer. O. Fin, Corp.M$ mains of Russian prestige in the outside world.
A. W. BROWN, Manager & Secretary.is Hong Kong, 20th May, 1982.
SPORT NOTICES.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
The letter conveying this refusal couched in terms which are high
21
Insurances
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ly uncomplimentary to the capital's
Every effort will be made to Canton Ins, ........ 1200 municipal council. It declares that avert the entastrophe, especially in Union Ins......................$ the children and grandchildren of connection with
depots in China Underwriters...$ Georges Clemenceau will have Great Britain.
China Fire Ina, .......$ 600. nothing to do with the dedication
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able pressure of events, It had been known for some time It is estimated that Russian THE EIGHTH EXTRA RACE "Grand Old Man" had strenuously twopence per gallon.
that the descendants of France's petrol is being sold at a loa's of MEETING will be held brected to the design of the manu (weather permitting) at. Happy ment as well as to the site chosen promise of any substantial rise in World overproduction leaves Bittle Valley on SATURDAY, 11th June, for it, but it had been generally price for a long time. 1932, commencing at 2 pm,
Russia has no money to export to Union Waterbosts ...$ expected that the dispute would be The first bell will be rung at settled and that the family would carry the losses on the foreign de- 1.39 p.m.
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE. in the end bow gracefully to the pots. Members are notified that they well as the aggressive language the last blow to Russia's hopes of present letter, as The failure of the wheat crop is Tinstructions to sell by Public Badges irrominently displayed.
and their Ladies must wear their employed therein, has revived the raising funds abroad.
No one without a badge will be dispute and will probably have That, in brief, summarises the Langkau (Single)...Tlx. admitted to the Members' Enclosome repercussions. Trans-Oceanį story of two of the most gigantic)
Loans ........la. aure. Badges admitting Non-Kuo Min.
gambles in history.
The Soviet dictators believed that Raube ..... wheat at such a price that the grain Benguet Explorationa ş markets of the world would be cap- Docks, Wharves tured to the profit of Russia, and
Auction,
Undersigned have received
ON WEDNESDAY, June 8, 1932, commencing at 11 am,
at their. Sales Room,
4, Duddell Street,
A Quantity of MISCELLANEOUS GOODS
Comprising:-
Grey Shirting, White Shirting, Cotton Repps, Poplins, Pongee, Sateen Drill, and Oatmeal Crape, Woollen Serge, Woollen and Cotton Piece Goods, Caps, Handkerchiefs, Socks, Toilet Soap, Laundry Soap, Aniline Dyes, Glass Buttons, Mir-
rora, Indigo Paste, Lamp Burners, Padlocks, Matches, Wheat Flour, Pencils, Sugar, etc., etc.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, June 4, 1982.
THE Undersigned have received Intrudersigned have received
Auction
ON
FRIDAY, June 10, 1932, commencing at 3 p.m.,
at the Sui Heong Yuen Godown, Cheung-Sha-Wan.
210 Tins Kerosene Oil.
70 Tins Matches. Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS..
Auctiopeers.. Hong Kong, June 4, 1932.
HONG KONG HEIGHTS
For the information of visitors aoighbourhood. SCHOOL for GIELS the following Hat of some of the
and SMALL BOYE. A few Boarders highest points on the Island and received in the House of the Principal Mainland is published:— Individual care and attention.
Particulars apply to:
MISS RUTH CULLEY,
(Camb, Higher Local, Camb. Teachers' Diploms).
MISS GERTRUDE TURNER,
(National Frodel Higher (Certificate).
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
Island.
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sure and Club Rooms at $5.00 for FAT MEN'S TOUR OF with slave labour they could export Venezuela Gold Fields $
Gentlemen and $3.00 for Ladies (both including Tax) are obtain- able through the SECRETARY upon introduction by a Member,
EUROPE
such Member to be responsible for Members of Stamboul's payment of all chita, &c.
"Fatty Association.”
Badges admitting to Members Enclosure will NOT be on sale. at the Race Course.
Godown, &c.
the demoralisation of all capitalist H. K. & R. Wharves.. grain-producing nations.
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Stamboul.
combines of the world and thereby N. Engineering ...The. London is to be visited by the fat raise much needed funds abroad. Shanghai Docks ...The. men of Stamboul this Summer. Succeeded for A Time. ing the Mesting.
Tifine are obtainable at the The "Fatty's association," which Both plans partially succeeded for Club House provided they are now has 150 members, are going a time.
of Europe. Several of ordered from the No. 1 Boy In ad-on a tour
The grain markets of the world them are trying hard vance. Telephone 21920.
to gain a were disorganised. America and PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.
few more pounds to impress Lon-Canada suffered most heavily from Shanghai Lands ...The. The Price of Admission to the don. Paris and Berlin with their the Soviet competition, which re- Metropolitan Lands Tis. Public Enclosure is
in bulk as much as possible, $2.00
cognised no economic law, and sold Humphreys .................... cluding Tax, for all persons, in- "I bewail the fact that I only at any price obtainable..
H. K. Realties...... Arif Bey,
Asia Realties "A" ...MS cluding ladies, and is payable at weigh 23 stones," said
Then came the crash. The Rus-
"B"...M$ the president of the Association, sian wheat crop failed. the late
The trac- Chinese Estates. Soldiers and Sailors in uniform when interviewed by Reuter's cor- tors which were to revolutionise China Realtia... are admitted Half Price..
respondent. Then his face it with agricultural methods broke down in China Debentures...Tis. Bookmakers, Tic Tac Men, &c., hope as he continued, "My am-such numbers that it was impossible will not be permitted to operate bition is to reach 25 stone and to repair them. There were food Ewo Cottoas... within the precincts of the Hong feel the full benefits of a fat man's, riots in the towns. Kong Jockey Club during the Race paradise."
The figures of exports of wheat Shanghai Gorton.....Tis, Meeting.
"I have gone on to a strict diet," to Great Britain tell the story:- | Zoong Sings .......TU. Tifica will be obtainable in the he went on. "I have emptied twelve In March 1981 the Restaurant in the Public Enclos-dozen bottles of cod liver oil, and amounted to $455,901.
Public Utilities H. K. Trasaways ...$1.80.1.18 used an equal number of yolk of In March 1982 they were £3,785. egy injections. I am hoping to With all their willingness to take
(new) ...ß{ *** reach the height of my ambition the bread from the mouths of their Star Ferries $21 this Summer, before we start on our own people, the Soviet rulers could Yaomati Ferries (old)..$ (new)...$ long-planned tour."
nat export more than £3,785 worth
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8. A. SLEAP,
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......826 gun to imitate her Western 'sister, a war of attrition in which the H.E. Tola, fully paid $ and ́plumpness is frowned upon. capitalist combines are outlasting
part paid $8 Her ambition now is to retain "that the Soviets.
China Bares.........T. {girlish figure" and to reduce her When Russia invaded their S'poreTractions(Ord.)s/-
walat line. Dancing tennis and markets in 1922 the oil kings were
" (Pref. walking are very popular, and many making enormous profits.
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Croton Ice emòr Shareholders the hope of becoming
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Niall Rankin, British Consulate, from Londonpo.
H. H. Tule, c/o Hong Kong Hotel, from Sydney Sub.
C. C. CLARKE,
Manager.
Hong Kong, June 2, 1992.
The following unclaimed tale-. grams are lying at the office of the Great Northern Telegraph Company (Limited) of Den- mark:--
Camperlane, from Shanghai. Sovfracht, from Hamburg.
F. V. JENSEN,
Superintendent.
Hong Kong, June 1:1982.
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