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TO LET

TO LET FURNISHED.

ALTA, MOUNT KELLETT (65, THE YEAR), for not more than 10 months

from April 15th, 1914, BIX ROOMS, Electric Light throughout, Lawa suitable for Tennis, Croquet and Bowls.

Apply to

*W. D. GRAHAM,

65, The Peak. Hongkong, 5th February, 1914.

117

TO LET. ERION, No. 9 and 10, PEAK, Unfurnish M

ed. Rooms. Cheap rental, from la December, 1913, Nowly Painted and Colour washed.

ONE SMALL GODOWN in Dadda Street.

No, 19, SHELLEY STREET.

KELLETT CREST," No. 66, THE PEAK from 1st March, 3014, Partly Furnished.

No 5, CAMERON VILLAS, No:49, PEAK To Lot, Furnished, for one year, from 1st May 1914,

1, CAMERON VILLAS, No. 60, PEAR To Lost, urnished, for 1 year from let May.

"ROGATE, Austin Road, Kowloor- Unfurnished.

No. 68, PEAK, MOUNT KELLETT (Church Mission Society Bungalow), from 1st October, 1913, il 30th May, 1914 Partly Furnished. Cheap rent.

FOR SALE.

CHINESE RAILWAY

CONCESSIONS.

FRENOU SUCORSA,.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5TH, 1914.

PEKING, January 27th. M. Sollier, on behalf of the Banque Industrielle, and the Minister of Com- munications signed a preliminary agree ment on 21st January subject to the acceptance by the head office in Paris for the construction of a railway from Yun- This foring an nanfu to Chungking, exceedingly important strategic line, as it effects a junction at Yunnanfu with the French railway from Haiphong to Chengtu and with the Franco-Belgian railway from Tatungfu in the North of Shansi, which in turn joins the trunk-line from Larichowfu in Kansu to Haimenting on the coast, Thus this concession has given French, Russian and Belgian interests an immense railway system North, South, East and West over China. PINENOM AND ITISH INTERESTS,

PEKING, January 27th French engineers and also the Ameri- cans, Messrs. Dawley & Hawkes, have already surveyed for the line from Yunnanfu to Buifu. It is stated that the French claim that British interests under the Agreement of 1890 are annulled owing to the relinquishment of French parti- in the Pukow-Sinyangchow cipation Railway.

An Anglo-French syndicate obtained a contract in Yuunun in 1992 for working the mines of seven prefectures of Yunad,

"HARTING and ROGATE," or part of but as the people of Yunnan refused to

Kowloon Island Lot No. 114.

Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS,

3rd Floor, Alexandra Buildings. Hongkong, 5th February, 1914.

165

TO LET.

FFICES in King's Building.

Appl

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD

| F Hongkong, lat February, 1914.

TO LET.

TEST FLOOR of No. 4, DES VEUX FEST BURNTRAL suitable for Offices Occupation from 1st March next.

Apply to

DAVID BASSOON & Co., LTD. [167

·Hongkong, 14th January, 1914.

TO LET.

FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES in Granville Avence and Salisbury Avenue, Kowlood. Cheap rentals

SHOP with GODOWN attached, Nathaz Boad, Kowloon. Kowloon Marina Lot No. 49 With Wharf.

WINDSOR LODGE, Kimberley Road, Kowloon, G ROOMS and Tennis Court. A FLAT in Humphreye Buildings. Apply to

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE

Co. LTD., Alexandra Buildings. Ifangkong, 3rd February, 1914.

TO LET OR FOR SALE.

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allow the syndicate to work the mines, it was later on bought out by the Govern ment for Tls. 1,500,000, which sum was to As the be payable in instalmente.. ayadicate lind experienced great difficulty in collecting all the instalments except the first it opened negotiations with the Government last October for a railway enneession from Yunnanfu to Chengtu to be firшnced by the Anglo-French China Corporation, which is a British Company half of the shares in which are held in France. But the negotiations failed.

The construction of the French section of the Hukuung railway from Kweiyang to Chengta is to be commenced shortly, HARMONY OF RUSSIAN, FRENCH AND BELGIAN

INTERESTS.

Reutor's Peking correspondent, tele graphing on January 28th, quotes from an article in the January Far Eastern of Review:

the tpon

co-operation France, Russia and Belgium in Chinese railway project®,

The article points out that in 1808 Russia's desire to control a railway from the north connecting with the French railway from Indo-Chinu was frustrated by the vigilance of the British Govern

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Miss Maud Allan will occupy the Theatre Royal ju Hongkong on Monday, the 18th instant, and the two following nights.

Leo, Jan and Mischel Cherniavsky will accompany Miss Allan on this tour.

As a result of an exchange of Notes Russia was excluded from the rendering a large share of its national fully to the ground Then she seents Yangtze Valley and Great Britain from rights in the Pukow-Singang Railway, imbued with new vigour and flirts round the region north of the Great Wall. An agreement was signed in 1905 by Mr the stage mad with joy again. In "ABO'S (Ed. Grieg) she expresses all the Belgium then entered the field and was Carl Meyer, representing the British and Denth. supported by Russia and France in the Chinese Corporation, Peking Syndicate deep sorrow of a being that knows she is

for the Peking-Hunkow

While and Yungtee Valley Company, a repre- guing to die. In another she seems to be. negotiations

sentative of the Banque de l'Indo Chinese, coquetting with some river god. Railway,

the

des Fleurs" When this agreement was signed,

Comptoir National and other French dancing ostensibly with a Belgian syndicate, it financiers and by the Chinese Central (Tschaikowsky) she is overpowered hy a Her movements are. was found that it tipulated that the Railways with the object of monopolizing beauty of life." Russo Chinese Bank was to be the agent railway construction in the Yangtze perfect and beyond description, for only for the bonds, bank of deposit and the Valley. One hundred thousand shares in woman with a great and beautiful soul

were allotted as could create and dance as she does. Company medium for monthly payments. Great the new Britain obtained four railway concessions as compensation for this breach of fans follows:-France 10,000, Great Britain

45,000, Belgium 10,000. ODOWNS at 98, 98, 99 and 991, Prayi Fifteen per cent of the first issue of Articlo eight of the agreement provides GENE

Peking-Hankow Railway, bonds were sub-that Europeans shall be engaged on all scribed in Brussels and eight-five per cent, railways under the control of the Central Apply to

Chinese Railways, and except in the case in Paris.

The combination having failed to of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, British obtain the Canton-Hankey Railway con and French shall be in equal proportions. and also that all orders for materials and Belgian agents purchased controlling share of the stock of the rolling stock, etc., shall be equally divided TOO OLD FOR WORK AT FORTY-SIX. American Ching Development Co., dis among British and French manufac charged the American engineers and barers substituted Belgians. In 1898 the Russo- Chinese Bank secured the Chengtingiu Taiyuanfu

and shortly afterwards the Belgians secured the Kaifeng-Houanfu concession, with the right to extend to Sianfu. The harmony interests of Russian, French and Belgian. became clear, and the leadership of a group from these countries was entrusted to a Belgian, M. de Vos, in 1911 Possibly this was owing to the Notes exchanged between Great Britain and Russia in 1829-

HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT Co., La.

Hotel Mansions. Hongkong, 4th September, 1913,

TO LET

HOP, No. 12, Queen's Road Central,

(39

cession

No. 9 MOUNTAIN VIEW, PEAK. 2, FAIRVIEW, Nathan Road, Kowloon.

Apply to

M. J. D. STEPHENS. Hongkong, 11th December, 1913.

TO LET.

157

FFICES, ROOMS, and GODOWNS, or OFF and Second Floors, No. 14, 1les Vooux Road Central, ths Premises now occupied by The South China Morning Post, Limited.

Possession, 1st May, 1914, or earlier. FLATS, WILD DELL, Wanchai Road. "HOMESTEAD," No. 45, Peak. Immediate

possession.

Apply to

SANG KEE, Care of COMPRADOER DEPARTMENT. Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. Hongkong, 28th October, 1913.

180

From 1st Juno next.

TO LET

FURNISHEL, IAN MOR, Peak Road, 7 ROOMS, Tonnis Court and Swimming

Apply to

Bath.

HENRY HUMPHREYS. Alexandre Buildings.

Hongkong, 2nd February, 1014.

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concessive

Article eleven says British and French groups respectively shall agree to oppose any endeavour to defeat any schemes competing with the Company in

main business.

MAN WHO WAS DISCHARGED BY THE

GOVERNMENT.

and

The Governinent and War Office are the cause of all this I dread to think what will become of my poor wife and The Far Eastern Revier continues:

She is friendless French interest in the Peking Syndicate four young children.

I implore you to cause reputed to be ninety per cent., and Land penniless.

Oh, help

Iny poor wife ranos participates to the extent of this dreadful news to be broken gently to twenty per cent, in the Chinese Central her. Railways under the 1905 agreement children.”

This message, addressed to the Belfast Therefore, it is quite clear that French and Belgians hold at least sixty-five per coroner. was found in the pocket of Mr. cent of the abarcs of the Central Chinese Thomas P. Wardrop, who committed suicide by jumping from a fourth-storey A VAST SOHEJTE.

Railways. Subsequently the group which M. the

CATSPAW OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCE." window into the street, sixty fest below. Vos représented was incorporated in the

"In other words, the Chinese Central It was stated at the inquest that after Sextuple Group as the official Russian Railway, Ltd., which poses as an oficial working for the Government for seven- Group. Meanwhile . de Yoshad British institution in connection with tl teen years, with a bretk of two years, as secured a concession for the extension of Tientsin-Pukow Railways, is no longer civilian draughtsman. he was given three the Honaniu-Sianfu Railway eastwards British except in came This proves months notice at Hongkong and gent from Kaifenfu to Heichow and west irrefutably that the British Government home, in March, 1010. Wards to Lanchos fu, with a further is being utilized as a catepaw of inter! Since then he had been out of employ- He was almost continually. extension to Suchowfu. The Far Eastern national finance to force through French rent Review states that this railway mustad Belgian interests in China."

described as a man of high character and ultimately connect with necessarily

The change of status of the company ability, but his age--he was forty-six- Russia's Central Asian system. Subse- was kept a profound secret: no cony of was against bin. quently Haichuw was abandoned as the the agreement was ever filed with the Le committed suicide after ooking in. terminus of the line, and the Tsingkang Chinese Government who were vitally vain for work. In a letter to his wife be

China was said:--- or published. pu-Tungehow line incorporated, giving interested,

"I have again been unsuccessful to day. the Belgians a terminus on the north bank punished for granting the Peking of the Yangtze within filly miles of Hankow Railway concession to Belgium. and am in a desperate statio money, Shanghai. Later M. de Vos secured the yet the British official corporation, after no work, and no prospect of it. Yon have good chum to Tatungfa-Sianfu Chêngtu concession, Ou it had been paid the fine wrung from been a good wife and January 21st last the construction of the China, divided the spoils with the French Yunnanfu-Chungking Railway, the last and Belgians.

me, and a good mother to the poor

children.

"Love and kisses to your dear self and verdict of The jury returned a the kiddies. You cheer up.""

link in the vast scheme, was-sccured by On November 14th, 1912, the final Ageen. the Banque Industrielle.

In 1608 fireat Britain obtained the ment for the Pukow-Singang Railway was duly signed as a purely British under- Shanghai-Nanking, Tientsin-Pukow and Canton-Kowloon concessions, and, with taking by the Minister of CommunicaSuicide while temporarily insane.

tions and a representative of the Chinese

the view of controlling the Yangtze Valley Central Railways. Limited the latter from Shanghai. the idea was conceived of extending the Pukow-Sinyangchow apparently forgetting that the French had equal rights in the appointment of Railway westwards to Chôngtu aud con-engineers and in the supply of materiale. structing another line through Hangchow At this psychological moment the French and Nanchang to Changsha As a result asked China for the right to construct a of the keen struggle for concessions in 1893 the organization of a purely British line from Yuunanfa to Chunking. company became essential. to act as the official instrument for the excention of concession The Hongkong and Shank hai Bank and Messrs. Jardine, Matheson &Co., Ltd., proceeded to form the British

Writing of Miss Maud Allan's last por and Chinese Corporation, and later this formance in India, one of our contempor corporation and the Peking Syndicate aries there says:-Miss Maud Allan amalgamated their railway rights north introduced a number of new dances at of the Yanrize under the style of the her performance The stage seems to be Chinese Central Railways, Ltd., the a place too modera and unnatural for Corporation securing the controlling Miss Maud Allan's simple dancing. To really appreciate it to the full one should watch her gliding as one would a wonder-

interest.

MONOPOLY IN YANGTZE VALLEY.

MISS MAUD ALLAN.

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2 Kiraya say,

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IECE YOU!

This was their first misstep, as although ful nymph in some fairy glen, her onlyAPIONE the Peking Syndicate was registered as music being the rippling of the river. British company, a large percentage of She is like a simple child who is dancing the shares were held in France and through pure exuberance of spirit. Her Belgium. For the purpose of eliminating dances are simply interpretations of the competition from French capitalists in emotions of life; she is wholly unre securing the concession for a railway from strained and natural. One minute her the Hankow-Sinyang district to Cheng, whole being is radiant with joy, and the the Corporation absorbed them by zar next moment she is sad and sinks grace

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ONGKONG

AND

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H BANKING CORPORATION.

Paid-up Capital Reserve Funda.....

Sterling

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£1,500,000 at 3/--$15,000,000 ..-817,450,000 Silvor."

$92,450,000 Beserve Liability of Propriatore $35,000,000

COURT or Dinecrons.

S. H. DODWELL, Esq.-Chairman. Hon. Mr. D. LANDALE-Deputy Chairman. G. Friland, Esq. J. A. Pluminor, Esq. D. Goetz, Esq.

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W. L. Patterdon, Esq.

H. A. Siebs, Esq.

Hon. Mr. E. Shellim.

CHIEP MANAGER: Hongkong-N. J. STAND.

MANAGER: Shanghai-A. G. STEPEN.

LONDON BANKERS:

LONDON COUNTY AND WESTMINISTER BANK LIMITED.

HosaxONG-INTEREST ALLOWED.

On Current Account at the rate of Two per cent. per annum on the Daily Balance. Os FIXED DEPOSITS.

For 3 months, 2 per cont. per Annum. For 6 months, 3 per cent. per Annum. For 12 months, 4 per cent. per Annum.

N. J. STABB,

Chief Manager. Hongkong. 9th January, 1014.

NTERNATIONAL

CORPORATION.

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BANKS

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HE Business of the above Bark is con THE Bulbs the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. Rules many he obtained on application.

INTEREST on deposits is allowed on the Minimum Monthly Balances at 3 per cent.

per annum.

Depositors may transfer at their option balances of $100 or more to the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK to be placed on FIXED- DEPOSIT at 4 per cent, per annum.

For the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI

BANKING CORPORATION,

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Hongkong, 1st July, 1911.

EDERLANDSCH-INDISCH

HANDELSBANK.

(NETHERLANDS INDIA COMMEBOLAL BANK.). ESTABLISHED 1863.

Authorised Capital FI. 30,000,000 (£2,500,000) Paid-up Capital... Fl. 17,407,000 (£1,450,693) Reserve Fund..... Fl. 6,518,000 (£649,188)

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LONDON BANKERS:

THE WILLIAMS DEACONS BANK. SW188 BANKVEZEIN,

The Bank transacts every description of Banking and Exchange business, receives money on Current Account and on Fixed Deposit at rates which may be ascertained on application.

G. VERMET, Manager, No. 8, Des Voeux Road. Central. [21 Hongkong, 3rd October, 1913.

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,

AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.

INCORPORATED PE ROYAL Chann, 1883. HEAD OFFICE-LONDON.

Paid-up Capital...

Resurvo Fund...

£1,200,000

... £1,700.000 Reserve Liability of Proprietors £1,200,000

FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking business transacted.

and CURRENT ACCOUNTS

opened FIXED DEPOSIT received for 1 year or shorter periods at rates which will be quote rn application.

A. S. HEWEIT,

Acting Manager,

Hongkong, 14th April, 1913,

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Kobe. Manila..

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BUSINESS transacted.

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FISHI ONO, Manager:

Hongkong, 30th September, 1915.

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$1,500,000

$15,000

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COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT

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GEORGE HOGG, Manager.

8, Queen's Road,

Hongkong, 21st October, 1913.

(190

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LONDON JOINT STOCK BANK, LIMITED.

INTEREST allowed on Current Account and on Fixed Deposits st rates which may at 2 per cent. per annum on Daily Balance be ascertained on application.

A. R. LINTON, Manager.

Hongkong, 14th July, 1913,