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HONGKONG HOTEL

TEA DANCES

will be held on the following Days during the month of NOVEMBER

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 14TH. 1919.

GERMAN INFLUENCE

UNBROKEN.

ECUADOR IN PEACE TIME.

[FROM THE TIMEN!

GORRESPONDENT.]*·

QUITO, ECUADOR, (By Mail). In this remota and little-known corner

of the globe, high up in one of the valleys

the Andes, far removed from the thunder of the guns that have shaken Europe, samall British colony has anxi ously watched the progress of the struggle during the four long years of the war with Germany. Some few of the native Ecuadoreans sympathized with the Allied cause, but the vast majority of the people were emphatically pro-German. The rea sons therefor it is not difficult to reco- 21st,guise.

From 4.30 to 7 p.m. TO-DAY (Friday), 14th..

And

Monday, 17th, Friday, Monday, 24th Thursday,

Is the first place, practically the whole 27th.of the impore trade of the country and a not insignificant part of the export Boom trade were, and long had been, in the

Admission to Dance Each Day $2 per head, including Tea.

DAIRY

J. H. TAGGART, Manager..

FARM

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hands of Germans, and it must be ad

mitted they had done everything to de serve it. They adapted themselves, as those of no other nationality have, to the conditions and requirements of the maṛ- ket; they manufactured and exported goods to meet the particular and pecu- liar needs of this people; they carried on correspondence and published catalogues. an price lists, not in their own unknown NEWS language, bat in Spani.h; they met the Ismail, merchant and trader more than halfway in the matter of easy terms of payment; German

agents represented German houses; and in order that no want should go unsupplied they import ed British, American, and French goods whenever there was any call and when

Received direct from the

NORTHERN SCOTTISH

FISHERIES

selected

FILLET

HADDOCK

and '.

KIPPERS

Calculating

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German goods would not mee; the re-

quirements. Greatly to the shame of | British houses these were not infrequent- ly represented here by Germans. The writer knows personally of the case of on- German, acting as the agent for British hardware frms, who as late as well into the third year of the war-1917-could still make it his boast that he booked good orders and collected the correspond- ing commissions. The Ecuadorean shop- keeper had been made to feel his depen dence on the German, and be consequent- ly resented bitterly the restrictions placed apor German trade during the war, for thereby the hope of his gains was gorie.'

Then the Church used all its innence in favour of Germany and taught its people, publicly and privately, to pray and work for the success of the Germans in all possible ways. Not even Germans themselves could successfully vie with the Roman Catholic clergy as German propagandista. The common masses, and the more fanatical of the upper classes, among whom the name of Germany had, previous to the outbreak of the war, been perhaps less known than that of China, in a country where France had hitherto been a household word, became enthusias tic sympathizers with the German cause hostilities commenced. France needs to be punished for her apostasy and the expulsion of the reli gions orders, was the argument used.

Machines en

Addition Multiplication Subtraction Division Constructed for use in

every branch of buslaess

Sundstrand

Marchant

All successful Business Men of Hongkong recognize the economy and efficency, In the use of CALCULATING MACHINES.

ALEX. ROSS & CO.,

Machinery Department, 25, Des Vœux Road Central, Telephone 2487.

1000

GERMAN OFFICIALS,

The army also, partly organized by Germanized Chilean instructors and Ger- man officers, glorying in German uniforme and helmets and the beauties of the pose-step," and convinced of the superio- rity of German military organization; tactics, and arms, was naturally pro- German almost to a man.

Lastly, the Government bad. placed German teachers in charge of their nor mal schools for both sexes, and had re- newed their contracta ́ during the war, and charged German firms and engineeri with the construction of their railways,. had a German German technical adviser at the Ministry of Public Instruction and another at the Ministry of Public Works. Most of these are still at their posts, and their influence cannot be over- 1 estimated. There is reason to believe that insacial pressure, had more to do with the rupture of relations with Ger- many than any question of sympathy with the cause of the Allies on the part of the individual members of the Govern- ment

In such circumstances the British Diplomatic and Consular representatives had no easy time during the war. In spite of all their efforts, however, the Germans in Ecuador while suffering from many restrictions continued to flourish and still do. Surrounded as they have been by sympathizers they navor Jacked "cloaka" and the strictest enforcement, of Statutory List regulations could et no

cave been in time

of what the situa tion called for.

Naturally the news first of the armia- tice and recently of the siguing of the Peace Treaty was welcomed by all par ties. Those of us of Allied nationality rejoiced to learn that Germany had been forced to accept terms of peace; the German sympathizers of all kinds were delighted to learn that Germany was not going to be utterly annihilated. "Hence, though from different motive, peace bas been vory generally and sincerely cele brated bore,

NO REINE MARETAGES.

The War Office issued the following statement last night:---

"

Statements have recently appeared in the Press to the effect that it is "quite a common thing to see British soldiers marrying German girls," and a Leeds soldier, in particular, is said to have de- clared that he went to Cologne Calle- dral and there saw twenty-three British soldiers being married to Germas women."

In response to an inquiry by the War Office as to the truth of these statements, the General Officer Commanding-in- Chief, Army of the Rhine, has replied as follows:

"Report absolutely untrue. No mar- riages between British soldiers and Ger mane have taken place in Cologne Cathe dral, nor have any each marriages taken place in the occupied territory as far as can be ascertained after ip arrogation of the German authorities.”

"

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T.E.M.A.,

ENGINES

SHANGHAI

Importers and Engineers

2 North Soochow Road"

"

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Have in Stock or Sailing:

Telephone North 462/3

"Ruston" High Compression Solid Injection Oil Engines 32 H.P. "Ruston" High Compression Solid Injection Oil Engines 42 H.P. "Ruston" High Compression Solid Injection Oil Engines to H.P.

Ruston" High Compression Solid Injection Oil Engines 65 H.P.. "Ruston" High Compression Solid Injection Oil Engines 80 H.P.

Ruston **CC Crude Oil Engines 15 H.P. Ruston" CC "Crude Oil Engines 20 H.P. Ruston " "CC

""Crude Oil Engines 25 H.P.

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"Avance" Stationary Crude Oil Motors, 8. H. P. Avance" Stationary Crude Oil Motors, 12 H.P. Avance" Stationary Crude Oil Motors, 30 H.P. "Avance" Stationary Crude Oil Motors; 36/40 H.P.

"Brons" Stationary Crude Oil Motors, 11 H.P. Brons" Stationary Crude Oil Motors, 15 H.P. Brons" Stationary Crude Oil Motors, 25 H.P. Brons" Stationary Crude Oil Motors, 30 H.P. Brons" Stationary Crude Oil Motors, 37 H.P.

Scripps Marine Motors, M.B., Two Cylinder, Medium Duty, 9/13 H.P. "Scripps" Marine Motors, M.B., Two Cylinder, Semi-Speed, 13/15 H.P.

Scripps" Marine Motors H.B., Four Cylinder, Medium Duty, 20/27 H.P. Scripps Marine Motors, E. B., Six Cylinder. Medium Duty, 40/55 H.P. Scripps Marine Motors, "Special" Four Cylinder, 15/18 H.P. "Marine Motors, "Dee-Six," Six Cylinder, 60/75 H.P. Scripps Scripps" Marine Motors, "Dee-Four," Four Cylinder, 20/27 H.P,

"Novo" Stationary Oil Engines, 3 H.P.

"Novo" Stationary Oil Engines, 61⁄4 H.P.

THEATRE

"Kromhout Marine Motors, One Cylinder, 13 H,P,

**

New Way" Stationary Gasolene Motors, 3 H.P. "New Way" Stationary Kerosene Motors, 6 H.P. "New Way" Stationary Kerosene Motors, 12 H.P.

ROYAL,

H

MR. T. DANIEL FRAWLEY

presents the

FRAWLEY COMPANY

In Repertoire of the Latest London and New York Successes.

TO-NIGHT

TO-NIGHT

"LOMBARDI, LTD.

SATURDAY,

Nov. 10TH:

MONDAY,

Nov. 17:

TUESDAY,

"PARLÖR, BEDROOM AND BATH.”

"SCANDAL."

Nov. 18TH:

WEDNESDAY,

Nov. 19TH:

Prices as Usual

"THE FORTUNE HUNTER.”

THREE FACES EAST.”

Booking at MOUTRIE'S.

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SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

MOTOR DEPARTMENT.

Distributors for

COLE DODGE & OLDSMOBILE Cars,

FEDERAL Trucks-FISK Tires, HARLEY-DAVIDSON Motorcycles. ARROW, BRENNAN, JACOBSEN, MEITZ .RED

VENN- WING ROBERTS, &

SEVERIN Marine engines.

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

Motor Car Storage

Repairs of all descriptions under European supervision.

Re-painting a speciality.

Inquires ard Inspection Invited.

No. 7, Russell St.

Call at our Mótor Garage

or

Phone 659.

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1 K.W. Lighting Plant works

entirely on Kerosina twice the

capacity of any plant in the market and half the st.

Stocks carried.

180

100

60

260

Pressure Gauges

for all purposci.

Sole Agents for

Ashton Valve & Gauge Co.

Union Engineering Co, Ld.,

HONGKONG.

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TEMPORARY OFFICES:

TOP, FLOOR PRINCES' BUILDING.

HOGG, KARANJIA & CO., LTD.,

1a, Chater Road-Phone 2354.

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We also can supply'

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Roofings.

Plumbings Supplies.

Construction

Materials.

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