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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY," OCTOBER STH 1919

THORNYCROFT

JAN THORNÝCHOPT & CA, Larrean,

SHITATİLORRY AND ENGINENEM,

Tossos, NorrHAMPTON

AND BASIN INTOKE

Shanghai Office: 65. Szechuen Road.

MARINE MOTORS AND MÓTOR BOATS.

MOTOR LIGHTING AND PUMPING SETS.

SU ALLOW DRAFT STEAMERS, THORNYCROFT QIL FUEL SYSTEM.

Commercial, High-speed and Pleasure Craft.

THORNYCROFT WATER-TUBE BOILERS. THORNYCROFT MOTOR VEHICLES.

Our Motor Engineer and our Naval Architect, both Thornycrüft experts, a resident in Shanghai, will give attention to all inquiries.

Early deliveries can be made of is-h.hp, 30-bhp, 45-hp and 7h hip. Kerosene Marinë Engines.

KK KOXBURGH,

Manager for China.

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TABAQUERIA FILIPINA

HIGH-CLASS TOBACCONISTS.

WE BEG TO NOTIFY OUR CUSTOMERS

THAT OUR STORE IS NOW OPENED AND

INVITE YOUR INSPECTION OF OUR

HIGH - CLASS GRADES OF

CIGARETTES AND TOBACCO.

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CIGARS.

10, DES VOEUX ROAD CENTRAL,

OPPOSITE KING EDWARD HOTEL.

TABAQUERIA FILIPINA.

IMPORTANT NOTICE.

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IN Manufactures the most Important Point is Improvement, and in Dietetics

Cleanliness. Sciençe always inrista on these Maxima,

Groundnut or Peanut Oil can be used as a substitute for Olive Oil Butter or Lard, but when Slightly Dirty is injurious to health.

In China, by the Ordinary Methods of Extraction, Dirt and Dust, are not guarded against: Our Method shows a great advance. By the use of New Machinery and New Methods Berupalous Cleanliness is Assured.

Our Machinery during the Process Filters, the Oil while our Factory is Free from Dust. Our Oil is Clear, Sweet.and Fragrant; and Compares most favourably with other Oils used for Culinary purposes: there is no residus-

Prices are moderate so sa to induss now business.

Analysis is always given before Shipment to Foreign Countries.

NAM CHAU OIL FACTORY, Office:-No. 28, Connaught Road West, HONGKONG Factory:-No. 26, Ewdi Lid Street, SAMSHUIPO. This Sole Proprietorship of this concern belongs entirely to Chinese Citizen. ****

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PARLIAMENT OF HUSTLE. SEVEN YEARS WORK IN SEVEN MONTHS!

BY CHARLES T. XINO.)

The gentle old parliamentary cabriolet, creaking and leisurely, has become this session a super Rolls-Roger, and as men bers went off from Westminster on August 19th, for a two months ress they could} at least feel that the legislative machine

ad,achie verbis praction

In outpa; of great

Bes

this session has produced in seven months far ore than the pre-war work of when years. The reason is that there has heen of Opposition, that all panty serv protest or attempts it obstruction or tinkering have gone down before the raased Coalition hosts in the livision lobbies, and the hosts have held gether because we are not get out of the huma financial, and industrial mass of the Var. So the House of Commons has passed almost all the great measures of reconstruction placed before it by the Government.

When

remembers that before the war a year was a Home Rule Hill year"

Welsh Church Bill year) gear of some other one or two Bills that did not blatter a a brass farthing to the hearths, honies, wages, food, leisure, plea sure, or well being of the English ople. one realises the amazing character of the practical legislative output of the few months that have sped see the new Par liament met in February.

or a

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or a

SESSION'S AMAZING RECORD The following Bills, amor

among others, have passed into last this session

Bill

Transport roads, ruli

-Secks to galvanis pur

tramways, and ways, dicks, pirts, harbours intu new life in order to distribute and export quickly in the enormous renaissance of British

Leator which we shall attain if we are

and united.

Health Hill-Sets up Ministry of Health and serks to do away with the condition

things in which, in a crisis

of the.. war, we were deprived of a mil lion strong Englishmen through avoid- able unftness.

Housing Bill-Stimulates loent autho-! rities to set up housing scheines and · pre- vide Statt money to make up the difert cuce between the rent that the working elasses can pay and the rent that would pay those who in these abnormal times, build hous No chance at present of an economic rent.

Disabled Men Facilities for Employ: inent Bill Seeks to smooth the way for more employment for men disabled in the

Civil Contingencies Fund Bill-Gives the Government power to spend scores of millions quickly on vast stores of over- scas food and other things.

Policy Bill-Deals with the machinery. by which the police may lay all griey- ances before the aut

but forbids them to join a union.

Preference Budget Bill the beginnings of a "Escal reform for which the Dominions have "asked, and raises colossal sums in this

country by taxation.

Coal Mined Bill-Gives statutory Torce to hours agreements.

Coal Industry Commission Bill. --- up the great Commission, some of the res commendations of which are to be car ried out this autumn.

Profiteering Bill-Sets up central and local tribunals to see what portions of the high prices are unavoidable and what portions are due to crnel profiteering. Se probability of this Bill bringing down prices generally with a run. The Gov "erminent information is that a vaNĂ. amount of the high cost of things bas nothing whatever to do with profiteering. War Loan Bill-Gave the Chancellor of the Exchequer legal powers in the re CEL

Foan. Restoration of Pre-War Practices BilL -An arrangement with Labour for 1014 conditions with differences.

Seeks

Welsh Church Temperalities Billi old and aching con to end an troversy with the help of the eternal foun

of the bottomless British

CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS

2-in. 3-in.

4-in. 5-ip.

In Stock

T. E. M. A., Shanghai

Importers and Engineers

2 North Soochow Road

Telephone North 462/3

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

MOTOR DEPARTMENT.

Distributors. for

COLE DODGE & OLDSMOBILE Cars,

FEDERAL Trucks-FISK Tires, HARLEY-DAVIDSON Motorcycles. ARROW BRENNAN, JACOBSEN, MEITZ, RED WING, ROBERTS, SEVERIN Marine epgloes.

&

VENN-

We stock Spare Parts also carry a complete line of Auto-Accessories and Motorboat Fittings.

Motor Car Storage and

Repairs of all descriptions under European supervision.

Re-painting a speciality.

Inquires and Inspection Invited

No. 7. Russell St,

Call at our Motor Garage

or.

Phone 659."

FONSECA'S SHERRY

FINE

be

of Peace Bill-Perhaps Treaty greatest reconstruction measure of all.

Consolidated Fund Bills-Authorise the Government to take from the coffers of the State some hundreds of millions for all sorts of fighting and other ser- vices.

In addition the Bill to find land for re- construction-the Acquisition of Land (Assessmen Bill and the Land Settle- of Compensation) Bill-and ment Facilities Bill have passed into law." Other Bills of practical importance

the

have been introduced this session, includ-

ing those toning up our patent laws and the"

The Per trade marks regulations. Yomen's Charter (the Sex Disqualification Removal Bill) has passed the House of Lords and is awaiting detail attacks in the Conimons the autumn. The Electricity Supply Bill is also held up until the autumn.

The motto of this Parliament, instilled into it by the Government "and by the powerful competition of great virile rou peting countries overseas, is expressed in the familiar phrasë, *: Get on or get out.”

GERMAN, U-BOAT

"BREMEN"

A THREE-YEAR SECRET.

Some light is thrown upon a three-year- old war mystery by the following tele gram from Reuter's Berlin correspon denti→

The Foxxische Zeitung learns from usually well-informed source that the entire crew of the German mercantile

submarine Bremen, which disedi The Fears ago, has arrived in

paper says that Great Britain kept them prisoners for three years, and shut them off completely from the outside world in order to keep the whereabouts of the vessel secret.'

Reuter's

ter's correspondent adds that in well-informed quarters the report ja saip to be incorrect.

The Brenicia was a so-called

boat, simi to the Deutschland,

similar

tile

and after the latter had reached Americn in July, 1910, the Bremen also essayed the voyage. But nothing more was beard of her, and although it was reported that she had been sunk or captured, there WAS no definite news as to berate An & matter of fact, she was sunk, and her crew captured. They were interned a merchant seamen, and the German Gov ernment thus was kept in ignorance of] what had happened.

BOTTLED

IN SPAIN

OLOROSO

SHERRY

$2.75 per bot. $30.00 per case.

CHOICE OLD AMONTILADO

$3.25 per bot, $35.00 per case.

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P.&O.S. N. COY.

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THE

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MARSEILLES

& LONDON. For Passage and Freight apply to-

MACKINSON MACKENZIE & (0,

es, Tea Vreux Road Central.

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WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. Swatow Drawn Thread Work. Canton Embroidery, Grass Cloth, Filet, Cluny, Point Crochet Lace and Silk Fancy Goods, etc., etc.

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KEATINGS LOZENGES

cure the worst Cough

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By Anime

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THE SUBMARINES AND

BOVRIL

During the War food supplies. were greatly restricted in the United Kingdom owing to the submarine blockade, and -Bovril was so indispensable to the soldiers, wounded, and the people that it had to be retained, in the British Isles, where it is made, or sent to the £ghting fronts,

Fresh supplies of Bovril have now arrived and there is no longer any need tớ mako shift, with' sabotitutes which look "Ità maiqna tilil and "esörgling properties." Bovril is the food whose body building powers have been 'proved, by indepen- " dent scientific experiments to be from 10 to 20 times the anciant taken.

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