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THORNYCROF
JOHN 1 THORNYUROFT & CO., LIMITED, SAIPTURES AND ENGINEERS,
LONDON, SODIKANPTON AND BASINGSTOKE.
Shaughai Oce:
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28TH, 1920.
65. Szechden Road
15 B.H.P. 30 B.H.P 50 B.H.P. Engines
in Stock,
For quotation apply→.
R... ROXBURGH,
Manager for China, HONGKONG HOTEL.
JAEGER
FINE PURE WOOL
We are now showing the latest Novelles in KNITTED WAISTCOATS
with or without sleeves.
WOOL SWEATERS
white and coloured.
DRESSING GOWNS and JACKETS in pure Camel hair and Fancy Wool
TRAVELLING® RUGS
a unique assortment-
SOCKS
MUFFLERS
white & fancy stripes.
SLIPPERS GLOVES UNDERWEAR
MACKINTOSH
& CO, LTD...".
MEN'S WEAR SPECIALISTS.
16. DES TŒUX ROAD.
BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE
DE CHINE.
FRENCH GOVERNMENT LOAN 6o 1920.
NOMINAL VALUE
PRICE OF ISSUE-
100 Francs.
100 Francs.
Interest payable twice a year on 16th June and 16th December.
First instalment due on 16th June, 1921.
LUESCRIPTIONS WILL BE RECEIVED FROM TO-DAY up to the 25th Novem- ber, 1990, free of commission and telegram charges, and the most favourable rates of exchange will be quoted for the payments made in local or any other currency..
For full details and particulars apply to the--
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BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE,
"STOCK DEPARTMENTS,VT
Queen's Buildings,
5, Chater Boad,
HONGKONG. -
THE LEADING BRANDS
MANILA CIGARS
EL PALACIO
IMPERIO DEL
MUNDO.
BOLE AGENTS:
THE HONGKONG CIGAR STORE
CO., LTD.,
HOTEL MANSIONS.
XMAS SALE.
another 15 days only. From October 16th to 31st
SUEZ CANAL.
UNEMPLOYMENT IN · JAPAN,
HOW PALESTINE CAN HELP IN | NATIONAL INSURANCE MEASURES.
-DEFENCE.
A writer in the Manchester Guardisa, sugs gests that Palestine is to take Egypt's place for the future as the bulwark of the Suez Caust. The imperial Colossus is to transfer
SUGGESTED..
1.
Relief and prevention of unemployment
to be put into application in Japan
are
bill, which will shortly be presented
INTIMATIONS
A. D. C.
IN
is Dist by the Government, is passed DUNSANY'S
to beconte à law. Such a measure-p's will the weight from one leg to the ather
to propose in considered imperative, no The headquarters of the Suez zone gari cording to the Yomiur, in view of the mon, adds the correspondent, are to be at alarming incremes of the unemployed. The Kantura......At Kantern the broad-gauge Home Office estimate as the number railwng built during the war starts on its of unemployed throughout the country at way across the desert to Palestine. Ai pre 10,000 throughout various industries, train de luxe by mining, spinning, silk, weaving and metal yun enn traget in a
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thas line all, the way without changing works. But the Yomiuri disputed the
|_ earringes. "to" Haifa-Ħaila, which is de figure on the ground that the Home Office
Since
hose reports were made, the Yamuri con-. tends the number, must have doubled at least, or possibly trebled.
GOLDEN DOOM.
GLITTERING. GATE.
NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES
STRUTHERS & DIXON, (INC.)
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
AS “WEST JESSUP“ From SEATTLE.
WE Steinship
THE
WEST JESSUP":
having arrived from Seattle vin ports on Oct. 19th, 1920, Consignees are hereby notified
COMPROMISE OF THE that their Cargo is being landed at their risk
KING,
LOST SILK HAT.
Ia Aid of
FAMINE
FUND
Under the "Patronage of 2-m
stined to the the chief port on the Levantine based its estimate upon the reports from THE Const. When the Jerusalem-Jaffa line is different prefectural governments, which widened you will be able to travel from waru.compiled some months ago. Kautara Jerusalem and Jaffa without a changes The principal military centre in Palestine is wear Ramleh, a mile or two from
The measures. suggested were principally Ludd. where the Kantara-Haifa and Jera Anleni-Jaffa lines intersect. Tre Palestinian band upon the decisions made in the Communications, therefore, behind Kantara aterontional labour Conference in Wash Bid the Sarz Conat are all in being. They are:gton, last year that in (1), prevention not very long and they are very reasonably of unemployment; (8), relief, (3), employ- ment agency service; (4), restriction of secure. The desert railway, traverses a hours of work; (5), employment in public uninhabited country and therefore is safe enterprises; (6), emigration; (7), establish- from attack. Let it be added that there ment of a system of insurance against are potentialities of
unemployment.
RELIBE
H.E. Sir Reginal Edward Stubbs, K.0.M.G, HB. Major General F. Ventris. C.B. H.E. Commodore W. Bowlen Smith, C.B.E.
Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak.
Hon. Mr. Ho Foot
TO-NIGHT
Thursday, Saturday, Wednesday,
Oct. 28th
Oct. 30th
Nov. 3rd
at 9.30 p.m. BOOKING NOW OF AT MOUTRIES. PRICES AS USUAL.
Soldiers and Sailors halfpe
1500
and cents Eighty-one), invested, in War Loans Investment Trust of Malaya issued in the name of Mr. Tro. SHAND has been LOST, and if at the expiration of one month from date hereof the above Document be not forthcoming, the sail Certificate will be decmei cancelled and of no
effect..
into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous- Godowns of the. Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. Ltd., Kowloon, and stored at Consignees risk.
Cargo must produce an Import
Consued by the Superintendent of Impor
Permit
& Exports, Hongkang, before Bills of Lading will be countersigued.
All broken, chafed and damaged cargo is teru be left in the Godowns where it will be examined
Year 1920, by the Company's
Carmichael & Clarke,
All Claims minst be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival. here, after which they, gatinot › be recognized. Na Chakma ...will, bờ “ recognised after the Goods have left the Godowas, and Carga delivered on and after | Öctober 20th, 1920, will be subject to rent.
Consignees are requested to send in, their Bill of Lading for countersignature immedi- ately.
STRUTHERS & DIXON, INC., Agent for Divot Opr. U.S. Shipping Board,
Emergency Fleet Corporation.
19. Das Fair, Road Central. Hongkong, October 20th, 1920. [1859
STRUTHERS & DIXON, (INC.)
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
· S.S. "WOONSOCKET", From BALTIMORE.
THE Steamship
"WOONSOCKET"
at 10 AM. on Oct. 27th, 1920, by the Surveyors, Mears: Carmichael & Clarke.
All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here, after which they cannot be recognised. No Claims will be recognised after the Goods have left the e God and Cargo undelivered on and after- 1920, will be subject to rent LTD, HERE Consignees are requested to send their Honorary Secretaries and Treaturers, Bills of Lading for countersignature immedi
O. MONTAGUE EDSately t
Général Manager."
GREEN STAR 89. CORPORATION, By STRUTHERS & DICOS, ING, Agents, Hongkong, October 13th, 1929. [1320"
Magar 2, Des Tour Road Central,
680 Hongkong, October 21st, 1920,
UNION TO SOCIETY OF Oct. 2
in part of the country mapped the xpected that by reducing the hours Kantara Haifa railway, and of a sourewhat of work for those who are already employ- Special Eisd
ed, employment can be given to those who Afready the salubrious character of Pales are out of work. But the Home Office tine has set up the practice de stationing has not as yet arrived at definite plans us. la Palestine part of the reserve of the Armg to carrying out the idea. It is also hoped of Egypt. When the policy fully execut to find employment by starting public ed of making Palestine, not Egypt, the bul-enterprises, and also the plan to insure wark of the Suez Canal this tendency will against unemployment. The Home Office be accentuated, and a large part of the unthorities want it understood that the Palestine gartion will have to be reckoned object of the proposed, instance system, in
having arrived from Baltimore via porta om not to Palestinian but, to Imperial needs.o protect working persons who are able to
Oct. 21st, 1920, Consignees are hereby notifa - This distinction in important at a time when work, but are unable to find work for pro-
that their Cargo is being landed at their risk Per reasons and not to find employment for the tax-payer regards jealously every penny those who do not want to work or who are
Into the hazardous and/or Extra-Hazardous which is spent, and racially on military unfit for work 4 bill will be presented
Godowns of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf expenditures Bus a wise statemanship will also in this connection to regulate the
& Golown Co. Ltd., Kowloon, and stored at look a little farther for its economies. The employment agencies under the govern, HONGKONG AND SOUTH CHINA WAR Cogueva risk. Palestine which is the secrest and the inent supervision,
Consignees of Cargo must produce an Import` cheapest defence of a reserve for the Suez. The socal lervice bureau of the Home
SAVINGS ASSOCIATION.
Permit figned by the Superintendent of Importa Canal is a Palestine, which, like the self- Office is now taking up the work of dealt-
Exports, Hongkong, before Bills of Lading arning Douinions, shall be filled by a ing the law. In brief the actual work, for Straits, $1.753.61 (Straits Dollars All broken, shafed and damaged cargo is tó-
CERTIFICATE. dated, 15th January, | will be countersigned........... devoted. laborious, zealous population, loyal of finding emploment will be entrusted to One Thousand Seven-Hundred and Thirty-eight, be left in the Godowas where it will be examined to the mandatory Power, passionately at différent
prefectual governments Or tached to its own land, and equal to the public bodies, at their own expense,
Company' control of its own affairs. Such a Pales and in case of need the central govs tine can" anly be a Jewish Palestine, ernment will give subsidies to local govern
The ratio of subsidies is to be The necessary concomitant of our new Imments, perial strategy, says the writer, in to inci- fixed at one-half of the expenses of estab. litate the most rapid development of the lishing headquarters for emploment new Jewish Palestine. Only the Jewish Agencies and one-fourth of the expenses of nation can develop the resources of the employing officials and other running ex- country to their starost and give all the senses of the agencies other guarantees essential But if the Jewish Palestine is to be apt for the part ......... allotted to it in the new strategy, it must be Palestine the potential strength of which is equal to the task. That moin! that the boundaries must be the right bou- dari The minst include the corn and eattle lands of Transjordania, the first, his torically of Jewish settlements and some of the healthiest and hest lands in the Near East, and they must include the water re- sources which are the key to the future Water moans irrigation and electric power. bought that genuine antique" writ Irrigation means agriculture where sowing bureau. I looked so old. And the sterility electric power means industry where now is idleness. Since the deposition ravages of the worm were plain for all of the Emir Feisal by the French, all Trans to say. A rusty lock leered from the desk jordania is in anarchy and the eastern fron-id. the drawers pulled stiffly from their tier is in the melting-pet. It can hardly dealer had me. Now I know better.
slots. I repent I had the desk and the be doubted that, here the British Clovern-
A wormhole means nothing to your real ment will ace to it that Palestine has jus tice. The water sources are in the north expert. Often it is condemning in itself, the Litary River, the Jordan, Laky for the artificial wormhole can easily be Tiberias, the Yarmuk River. An the detected. There are ways of effecting the French are putting forward claims which frand. The first is to place your anti- must have the effect and can hard futia a back yard, retire a few yards luve the aim of cutting Palestine off from and fire a couple of rounds of buck- shot into it. This is the quicker-method. its chief water supplies. That is to deny The American dealer is more than expert any industrial future at all to Palvatize. and the best of her agricultural future, at perpetrating this fraud and detecting The French Imperialists invoke the Sykes- Picot agreement in reply to every considera tion of justice and even prudence. Upon this point there cannot be any yielding man, too, favour the red-hot wire, But
stow process, and unless skil. THURSDAYS — However the frontiers of Palestine are the wire is drafted on the north and north-east, they ful done is easy to discover, For your VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE have left the Godowns, and Cargo undelivered must leave Palestine the mistress, of her true wormhole penetrates about one
www waters, Upon that we must insist. The seeds of our Imperial stategy demand it aut legs than our duty to that Jewish Palestiae for which we have accepted the
mandatt.
YOKOHAMA'S FOREIGN -
POPULATION.
CHINESE LEAD, BRITISH SECOND
According to the latest figures compiled by the census takers, the foreign popala tion of Yokohama numbers 6,801, of which 4,140 are men and 2.601 women. Follow
WORMHOLES TO ORDER.
SOME CONFESSIONS OF A FURNITURE FAKER.
"Of course 'it's old, the worm, holes ! "
Look at
I was very young, and I knew just mough to be nicely caught.
I was.
it
RED-HOT WIRE..
The Frenchman and alts the English-
SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE.
STRUTHERS & DIXON, (ING)
NOTICE TO COM EES.
11, PRATA KAST, HONGKONG. 10 the was of ill Men of the Mercantil 8.5. "COLORADO SPRINGS" From SAN
Marine and KM. Navy.
FRANCISCO.
Beading and Writing: Booms Billard Room
room. CPO Boom Botaract EE Steamship Private Cabing “and beds (in Dormitories Concert Hall Cha Motor Launch Damping."
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A. G. DA ROCHATM
AUCTIONEER,
SURVEYOR
GENERAL BROEKR
AND
Grora's Bead Umbral, Telephone No. 2932.
WEEKLY AUCTIONS. TUESDAYS÷
MISCELLANEOUS, GOODS..
SEKUELLENTS: HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURES.
sixteenth of an inch of the wood, and then | SATURDAYS: wish off into holes and corners as the worm bores its way Buckshot shoots in at a certain angle, red-hot picrees foo deep. With time and knowledge, and the handling of many piece, one pen well It takes time, of course,"
A. G. DA ROCHA
AUCTIONEER, SURVEYOR AND GENERAL BROKER.
But wormholes are merely a drop.in the ocean of furniture fakes! Not many miles from London thero exist small fan köries whose hands and hppliances are kept busy turning out the most wonderful
spoofs from morning till night. Her Ko TD Augilar Street, Telephone No.2932. you may see great fron tasks, Acid filled
F
and reeking receptacles for the newlyAVOURED ith-instructions from made fra backs, fire dogs, gates, "Gothic Captain Triers will sell by Public candlesticks, bronze vases, and altar pieces Auction on THURSDAY, October 29th, 1990, tug are the number of foreigners in Yoko which cerer stood in any church. In at yr at his Sales Boom. hama by nationalities Chinese, male o weeks the seid does it work--the 2,466, female, 1,481, British, male 615,
female, 430; Hussian, msin 311, female pieces are taken out eaten wittr rust and
102; American, male man, male 102, female 115; French, malé SAND AND DIRT
male ferals 221; Ger corrosion,
مراة
17, female 50 Portuguese, male 19 Nearby are the chair pits A trolly female 18; Bles, moale 22, female 21 brings along a couple of Louis XV. chairs, Dutch; male 18, fethale 13; Danish, maắn
18, formala 4; Greek, male 12. female 6a Mnimaison setbee, freshly gilt, the seate Austrias, mals 11, female 3. Polish, mnie and backs brilliant with will Wool!· 9 female 8 Spanish, male 8, female 5: Clank!" and down into the Hwedish, male 8 female 6; Italian, male lime-pit go these productions of the year 18, female 15, Norwegian, male, female 1990, only to be hauled up in a couple of 9 Belgian, male 5, fummale 5; Chilean, days, the gilding worn and faded, the male 4. female 4 Serbian, male 3, female tapestries and silks almost colourless. Then 5 Peruvian, male 1; Argentino, male 17 the dus makers wreak their vengeance on Papaman, mal, L
TOO WETRE
the upholstery, blowing in sand and diet by compression until the product of a few weeks will stand the cloe inspection of any (save an expert) alongside the genuine article
One Ford Motor Car
*CLA RADO SPRINGS" having arrived from San Francisco vis porta, on Cet. 24th, 1920. Consignees are hereby notifed that their Cargo-is being landed az thair riak into the Hazardous and/or Extra- Hazarduas Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon
oon, Wharf and Godoxa *Copachtd
and stored at Consignees' risk.
of Cargo must
All bet
&& Exports, Hongkong,
will be
before
countersignedorr chaled and':
Bil
the Godowase here it will as
damaged Cargoda: to be left azamistad at 10 AM on October 29th, 1920,
by
the Company's Surveyors, Mesars Carmal-. chael & Clarks.
All Claims must be presented within tex
daya
of the beamer's arrival here,
after which they cannot be recognized. No Claims will be recognized after the Goods
on and after October 31st, 1920, will be subject to rent.
Consignees are requested to send in their Bill of Lading for countersignature, im- mediately....
STRUTHERS & DIXON, ING.
Agents for Dis of Opr GB. Shipping Board, EMERGENCY, FLEET CORPORATION,
12. Das Your Road,- Central. Bangkong, October 14th, 1920. [1676
(5 Fester) recently overhauled and in good from the above-mentioned pools, Col
running order
Tres Caḥ on Delivery,
DAIRY FARM NEWS
CHEESE
60 cents per lb.
few shipments just received:
GOUDA CHEZSE EDAM CHEESE. AMERICAN CREAM
CHEESE
EVERYTHING SUITABLE FOR XMAS PRESENTS London, and, so that no time, should be you like to work it out logically, obtaining GRUYERE CHEESE
Come early!
Great Reduction..
Don't miss the opportunity! SWATOW DRAWN WORK CO.
14. Don Vaux-Bood-Central Phone Por
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An American business man came to Of course, it is all wrong. It is, if lost, he asked a firm with which he had demand, for these things: The New Rich Our own
money under false pretegoes. But relations to lend him a man to show him want Louis XV. rooms, they must have their round for a day a temperanegan,
be added, but not bigoted Nsfer Gothis candlesticks for the hall of that noon he telephoned that by the following newly acquired castles they want chests week he would be ready for another guide and buffels and tapestries in fact all the
glories of departed centuries.ANA But the middle bit t Don't send that guv with hollow legs. blotting.paper ip his boots.
nobody will gratify this wisbor
FIONIC CHEESE CREAM CHEESE.
¿THE DAIRY FARM-IUM & OOLD
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.::.
8B. "DOYLESTOWN TOY SOUT.
From SHANGHAI vis SWATOW.
THE above-mentioned vessel having aIT1163.
aignees of Cargo are formed that they: must take immediate
of saamis (frɩm/ and alongside,
id all Cargo impeding discharge will be landed at their risk and
expense into the Preike Mail Steamship Company Godowns at West Point, and store at Counguées risk; big
Consigness are also kereby informed that the above-mentioned stemmer has fraught forward Cargo ex S.5. EASTERN EXPORTER Vorage -
of
herenys
Consigaces
Cargo
notified that they must produce an Import Permit signed by
-Bills of Lading, an
the
COD of the
Imports and Exports,
FAIL
chafed and damaged goods are
to
be left in the Godowas, where they will be examined on November 14 at 10 1.
All claims must be presented within a week of the steamer's arrival hers after which they can- not be recognized No claim will be admitted after the goods have left the Cudowns and all goods remaining undelivered after. November. find will be waljeet to reat
No Fire Insurance whatever will be affected Consignees are requested to dead in their Biler of Lading for countersignature immediately
FACIFIO MAIL STEAMSHIP CO
11882
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