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FAR EAST OXYGEN & ACETYLENE

Head Office:

75 Qual d'Orsay,

Paris.

COMPANY, LTD.

(S.0.A.E.0.)

Oxygen gas

Hong Kong Office & Factory To Kwa Wan. Rd. Kowloon,

Phone: 57789.

Dissolved Acetylene gas

Carbonic Acid gas

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Welding & Cutting Blowpipes

Welding Rods et Fluxes Calcium Carbide

Electric Welding Plants Electrodes

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3rd FLOOR 17, QUEEN'S ROAD C. Tel. 21024

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FRENCH Limited Company. CAPITAL 40,000,000 FRS.

Head Office

Saigon.

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Tel. No. 34522.

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THE FRENCH COMMUNITY

APPROXIMATELY 120 RESIDENTS

MOSTLY MISSIONARIES OR SISTERS

The French Community at Hong Kong consists of approximately į · 120 people, half of them missioraries or sisters.

being

Jules;

At the Consulate M Leurquin is the Consul, and M. Charles Renner, the Vice-Consul.

At the French Library the President is M. Montargis, and the Treasurer M. Evelie.

The French Library, located at the Chancery or the Consulate, i

bas nearly 4,000 books. Members have to pay a monthly fee of $1.00. Other Institutions

The following are the other local French institutions:-

Union des Francais de L'Etras- ger: M Montargis, «Delegate.

Read House of the Sisters of St Paul: Rev. Mother Xavier.

St Paul's Hospital (French Hospital) Causeway Bay. Superior: Rev. Sister Eusebe..

Founded in 1898, the Hospital

is managed by the Sisters of St. Paul

(of Chartres). It come prises 42 rooms and 8 common rooms for destitutes, altogether 130 beds.

St. Paul's Institution (Anglo- French Convent). Head Mistress: Sister Beatrice. Managed by Sisters of St. Paul (of Chartres) the Institution has boarding andį. day pupils, altogether about 300.

M. Leon Blum, above, the first Socialist Premier of France, has assumed office at a time when the country is stricken with labour, unrest of all kinds. A feature of the conditions in the country im- mediately after he assumed office was the stay-ix strikes in the heavy industries. No sooner were they settled than the agricni- turalists began to give trouble, and they are reported to have been called out for a strike to-day, on the day of the Fete Nationale.

FETE NATIONALE

(Continued from Page 7)

St. Joseph's College, Head-States General met, the King and the aristocracy desired that the master: Rev. Br. Stephen.

sit in three La Salle College. Headmaster: members should

houses or bodies--the nobility, the Bev. Br. Aimar.

Managed by the Christian clergy, and the third estate. The Brothers, these two colleges have common people, however, had de- respectively about 750 and 800 termined leaders; and they saw that it would be in vain for their popils.

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-July 13, July

1936 1918

Ct. Ct.

POULTRY.

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lb.

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48

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Procure des Missions Etrangeres chamber to pass a useful measure de Paris (French Mission). Pro- because it would be voted down by eureur General: Rev. Fr. Vircon- the other houses. They insisted, delet

therefore, that the entire States Nazareth Printing Press (Pok-General should sit as one assem- fulam). The property of the bly; and as they were in the majo- Societe des Missions Etrangeres rity and had leaders who knew de Paris, the Press is able to print what they were about, they car- in almost every language of the ried their point. Following many

Geese Far East.

of the clergy, some of the nobility

Pigeons, Canton, Bethanie's House (Pokfulam)-fell into line and a new Parlia

Haikow A rest house for the Missionariesiment called the National Assem-

Turkeys, Cock

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came into being. This was!

"Satpe Etrangeres de Paris. Scperior: the beginning of the French Re

the close of the Pheasant the Bight Rev. Mgr. Deswazieres volation.

There was, as there is in every Franco-Prussian War the French Q Banque de l'Indochine: Man- such case, a moderate faction who Republic was proclaimed, and Partridge

wished to carry through reforma Napoleon was exiled. In a real Banque de France Chinoise: by constitutional and legitimate sense the French Revolution may] Lemons, China -

be said to have come to a close in 1871.

Commercial Firms

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Manager: M. Jusserand

Compagnie čes Messageries Maritimes: Agent: M. Ohl

Compagnie Insechinoise de navi- gation: Agent: M Ohl

means, providing for regular ses-i sions of the States General and for equal taxation. But the Re- volation, once started, got beyond

Mme. Jules. Learquin, wife of the French Consul in Hong Kong.

perous At

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The main accomplishment of the Revolution was the fact that the abstract idea of equality had gain-

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Carambola Coconuts Apples (California) Lemons, American Lichees, Dried ...

Charbonnages du Torkin: Man their control and wretched banded something more than existence Oranges (Canton).

ager: M. Geneaud.

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Masseboeuf.

Aero Trading Co.: Manager: Morant.

ing. starving, beating and maim-) Ming, were transformed into verti-

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Franco-Eastern Trading Co.: Manager: M. Caudron.

Far East Oxygen and Acetylen Co.: Manager: M. Pinet.

Hardivilliers Olivier and Manager, M. Lederhofer.

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as an ideal. This was possibly Oranges (Sweet) clubs, encouraged at the prospect | Compagnie Optorg: Manageri

of relief and filled with hatred one of the most striking individual, Pears (Canton) M. Mathieu.

Persbuzione, Lamego Manageress: Mile engendered by decades of cheat changes emerging from the Revo- Oranges (American) each

lation as a whole. In 25 years Pamelo, Siam from 1789 a new generation had Waleats grown up to which the exemptions Grapes and monopolies of the old nobility

Artichokes Ugly Picture In History

were merely hearsay. And they

Beetroot The taking of the Bastille, the could not be restored. The Church

Long famous State prison, by the woob also and the powerful merchant Beetroot started a delirious period of guilds had lost their special Brinjals, Green

Red Co.:cesses, forming an ugly picture in rights; all Frenchmen were equal

Cabbage, Chinese history, in much the same way as before the law. Nowhere was this

(Shanghai) Brokerage: M. Montargis. mass revolutions always developmore clearly seen than in the Cauliflower (Large) Rondon and Co.: M. Tavares.

Bands of peasants rose in revolt, army, where Massena, General of

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their former oppressors were pill-Iranka. Another meteoric rise to aged, "set" on fire and plundered fame was that of Murat, the in- everywhere. The poor of Paris comparable leader of cavalry, rose in revolt. Men of violence Marshal of France and King of obtained control of the Assembly, Naples, who had been a waiter in and the King and Queen were an inn. The present Royal House, hurried to the scaffold, in the

of Sweden is descended from the company of hordes of their syco Gascon Bernadotte. phantic followers. A thousand

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A dictatorship was appointed, and the vast estates of the nobility Parsley (Baltimore, USA) at 11A for- dan Boad, Kowloon, the privilege borne into office on the watch-and Church had been appropriated of travelling on the Chinese Na-words of "Liberty, Equality, Fra by the State and sold, so that the tional Railways at special reduced ternity." The army was charged titles had passed through many

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The Minister of Communica-public and the liberation of the viously impracticable to restore Rhubarb (French) tions, Mr. Yue Fai-Pung, as stat-Italian cities from Austrian do the soil to its original owners Turnips, Punti ed in his letter to the Director for mination. As the need for an even if that had been desirable or China Office, has also instructed efficient leader became evident, generally desired

an In short, the Revolution, though the China Merchants Navigation Napoleon was appointed Consul. Steamship Co. to give an addition-In 1804 he had himself proclaimed accomplished with vast sacrifices

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effectually? More just ideas” of

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