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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 26, 1938.

CHILDREN'S PUZZLE

ARTHUR THOMAS JAMES

AUGUST

AS MAD

BANKS

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA

Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1888.

HEAD OFFICE: LONDON 88, Bishopsgate, E. C) 2. Paid-up Capital:

HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION:

AuthorisedTM Capital 4.

$50,000,000

Issued and Fully Paid-up... 20,000,000 Reserve Funds:-

Sterling

Hong Kong Currency Re-

.£.6,500,000

..£8,000,000

serve

$10,000,000

Reserve Fund

.£3,000,000

Reserve Liability of Pro-

Reservo Liability of Proprie-

tors

$20,000,000

.£8,000,000

ALBERT JOSEPH

BY TAKING ONE

EACH NAME,READ- ING DOWNWARD,PUP ́E.DOGG CAN SPELL A SIX-LETTER VEG- ETABLE.CAN YOU?

Answer to yesterday's puzzle:

R.A.F. SETS A PRECEDENT

London, To-day.

The biggest contingent of officers

EARRANGE

R ALL OF THE

LETTERS IN THE ABOVE WORDS TO FORM ONE WORD OF WHICH THE PIC- TURE IS ILLUS- TRATIVE.

Answer to-morrow.

Pelican, sparrow, pheasant, eagle, ostrich, canary, wren, thrush, rail, cow, macaw, and snipe.

SO THIS IS HONGKONG

Shanghai.

That which is never published can

Manchester Branch,

71, Mosley Street, Manchester.

Agencies and Branches:

Karsohl

Alor Star Amritsar

Iloilo

Rangoon

Ipoh

Baigon

Bangkok

Seremban

Batavia

Klang

Shanghai

Bombay

Kobe

Singapore

Calcutta

Kuala Lumpu

Sitiawan

Canton

Kuching

Sourabaya

Cawnpore

Madras

Manila

Heden

New York

Taiping

(Peking)

Toket Tsingtao

Yokohama

Perang

Qobu Colombo Dolhi Baiphong Hamburg Hankow Harbin

Hong Kong

Foreign Exchange and General Banking business transacted.

Current Accounts opened and Fixed Deposita received for one year or shorter periods at rates which will be quoted on application..

The Bank's Head Offos in London undertakon Executor and Trustee business, audalaima

of British Income 5000 Tary

Tax overpaid, on terina which may be ascertained' at any of its Agencies and Branches.

R. A. CAMIDGE,

Manager.

Hong Kong, 1st January, 1985.

and men of the Royal Air Force be interesting to many men. “A THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.

Air Force personnel travelling in the Nevasa will number approxi- mately 1,000, many accompanied by their families, thus making a full complement for the troopship.

•

Authorised Capital

Reserve and Undivided

.$10,000,000.00

$ 5,598,600.00

$ 2,776,728.76

HEAD OFFICE:—HONG KONG,. 10, Den Voux Hoad, Central,

even to be sent overseas in one recent, arrival here from Hongkong ship as part of the ordinary troop-remarked in the course of conversa- ing programme is embarking in tion at a local club that "Piles of the transport Nevasa which will drugs are coming in from Japan, in Paid-up Capital leave Southampton to-day.

fact, hardly a day now passes with- Profits out a gang being in Court for manufacturing heroin pills. I never remember the drug business being so bad there ... ..So little is recorded in the local papers as to the seizures. It is not policy to do so. Silence is golden. There was a haul Hos. of opium made by the Naval Dock-Long, E4 Chae Ching Shek, Esq. yard Polite on a supply vessel at Song. Eg Wong Chu Boo, Esq., Kan Ying Po, the Naval Dock wall. Not a whisper as to this discovery in the papers

Normally transports are shared with the Army and Navy and it is very unusual for the full capacity to be used by the Royal Air Force The contingent will be dispersed among units in Iraq, India, Aden, Khartoum and Malta. British Wireless.

R.A.F. FLIGHT BEGINNING

BOARD OF DIRECTORS :— Bir Shou-non Chow, Chairman; Li

Bag Wong Esq. P. E. Kwok,

Esq. and

Amoy

Fung Ping Wab, Esq.

Kan fung Po, Esq., Chief Manager,

Li Tso Fong, Esq., Manager.

BRANCHES AND AGENCIES :—

Batavia Bombay

Manila Melbourne

Seattle

Samarsog

Nagasaki

Shanghal

Caloutta Canton

- New York

Singapore

Osaka

Saurabaya

Haiphong Bankow Honolulu Kobe

Paris

Swałow

Feiping

sydney

Penang

Taikoku

Rangoon

Tientsin

Kowloon London

Saigon

San Franciano --

Meanwhile, Hongkong... goes on as usual and the pantomime, 'Cinderella, will duly be presented at the festive season by the A.D.C. of the Y.M.C.A." Smug snobbery, all the time. If any of the old China hands.could peer into the re- ception halls of the leading hotels would in the colony to-day they marvel at the cmplexion of things. Five Royal Air Force Vickers "Armament and aircraftmongers of Wellesley bombers left Upper Hey-all nationalities closeted with Chi- ford, Oxfordshire, at 8 a.m. yester-nese at different tables. day for Malta, en route to Egypt. mosphere reeks with the carrion and Fixed Deposite received for ans

The bombers form part of the of Mars vending their wares." long range development unit of "Shipping Review." Royal Air Force.

London, To-day.

Similar machines of this unit last. July flow non-stop. from Cranwell, Lincolnshire, to the Persian Gulf before turning westward to Isma- lia, Egypt, where they landed.

..

Tokyo

Yokohams

Koon

Yun

Lau

prietors

HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

T. E. Pearce, Esq., Chairman.

Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson,

Deputy Chairman.

J. E. Bousfold, Esq., G. Miskin, Esq.

A. H. Compton, Esq., K. S. Morrison, Paq. Hon. Mr. B. H. Dodwell, tion. Mr. A. L. Shimla- W. H. Lock, Esqu II. V. Wilkinson, Esq.

AMOY

Sir Vandeleur M. Grayburn,

Uhlaf- Manager.

BANGKOK BATAVIA BOMBAY CALCUTTA CANTON CHEFOO

COLOMBO

DALEEN FUUCHOW HAIPHONG

HAMBURG HANKOW HARBIN HONGREW ILOILO

IPOH JOHORE KOBE KOWLOON.

BRANCHES ¿

KUALA LUMPUR

2

Current

Áooounta

LONDON LYONS MALACCA MANILA MUAR (Johora? MURDEN NEW YORK PELPING

:

PENANG RANGOON SAIGON SAN FRANCISO0 SHANGHAI

SINGAPORE

BOURABAYA SUNGEI PATANI SWATOW TIENTRIN TOKYO TSINGTAO YOKOHAMA....

opened in Local Currency

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MO Fixed Deposits received for shorter periods" in Local and other currencies on torms which will be quoted on application.

ALBO up to date BAFE DEPOSIT BOXES in various sises TO LET.

Hong Kong, 20th February, 1988.

HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK

The Business of the above Bank is: onducted by the HONG KONG AND BHANGHAI BANK- ING CORPORATION. Bales may be obtaineć on application.

FOR THE HONG KONG AND BIĨANGHA. BANKING CONFORATION.

SIR VANDELEUR M.-GRAYBURN, Chief Manager.

tlung Kong,las March, 1987.

THE WING ON BANK, LTD.

Head Office: Hong Kong, 26, Des Voeux Road, Central Authorised Capital $10,000,000 LONDON BANKERS —–—– Westminster Bank, Ltd. Foreign Exchange and every des- cription of bankding business transacted.

Current Accounts and Savings Exchange Accounts opened. Fixed Deposits re- approved ceived at rates which will be quoted Currency on application.

Every description of Banking and business transacted, Loans granted on The at-urities.

Currans Accounts opened in Local shorter periods in Local and Foreign Currencies on terms which will be quoted on appllustion..

Safe Deposit Boxes To Leos.

MOTOR SHOW'S SUCCESS.

London, To-day. That flight was organised by The Association of British Motor Wing. Commander Gayford who is Manufacturers state that at the travelling with the bombers on the Motor Show which ended on Satur- present occasion. British Wire-day orders had been decidedly more less.

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encouraging than last year and that the factories of the leading Manu- facturers would be operating capacity for many months. In- structions have been given for or The demand rate on the Hongders to be speeded up.-British Kong dollar to-day was 1/2-13/16.

LOCAL DOLLAR

“Spot" silver was quoted, in London at 19% and forward at 19-7/16.

Wireless.

REFUGEE FUND

London, To-day.

The London on New York rate The Lord Mayor's Fund for re- was quoted at £LU.S.3476.93 and [fugees in Czechoslovakia now the New York/London_rate at amounts to over $192,000-British | £U.S.8476%.

Wireless."

Juar

KAN TUNG FU,

Chief Manager.

of

taken.

Trusteeship & Executorship under-

Safe Deposit Boxes for hire. PHILIP GOCKCHIN,

Chief Manager.

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