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UNION INSURANCE 800IETY OF CANTON LIMITED.

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TO LET.

TWO LARGE ROOMS to let for Office

ROGA Central Too Floor, Apply to

"ROOM No. 1 Cara of Daily Press Office,-

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ADVERTISEMENTS.

Letters are lying at, this 'Office for

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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18TH, 1920.

INTIMATION

when he was sppointed Chief Secretary for FAR Ireland. CROMWELL failed, he said,

because he rolled solely on" repressive dagurea. This mistake," I shall not

WINES & SPIRITS imitate. I shall be as relentlers as, Crox

EASTERN CABLE

NEWS.

[SY COURTESY OF THE “ SKINA MAIL."?]

'OHINA. RELIEF FUND APPEAL.

Loxpos, December 14th. At the special appeal made on behalf of the Chins Famine Fund, on the occa sion of the meeting at the Mansion House, the Lord Mayor presiding, many distinguished people were present, ia. cluding Sir John Jordan, Sir Charles Addis, the Chinese Minister, and Mr. F. P. Anderson.

WELL in enforcing obedience to the law, but EWO COTTON COMPANY PROFIT. TO LET-For immediste occupation. Three ASSORTED CASES FOR XMAS. time I shall be as radical as

SHANGRAI, December 18th Large and Light ROOMS anitable for

any reformer in redressing grievances and Offices Central position Apply P. O. Bor

At the "annual meeting of the Ewo especially in removing every cause of com- No. T

EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD VALUE,plaint in regard to the land. Before he Cotton, Spinning, and Weaving Company retired from the Chief Secretaryship, Mr. profit was, announced of over Taels BALrova amply fulled the promise of 2,000,000, exceeding the previous record that statement. He was not only respons by 50 per cent. The Chairman expressed ible for the Crimes Act, but also for the the opinion, that the universal financial already given by Great Britain. Never- Mr. Sze paid a tribute to the help Light Railways At which proved of greate benef; to the peasantry of Ireland, and, stringency was bound to exert a depress-theless, he said, they will have fifteen or

million sixteen

people suffering from starvation before Spring. Large sums

FOR

OR SALE-Ms. L HOWARD" is exhibiting at Room 6 King Edward Hotel, 50 MODEL HATS direct from Now Tork.

[$4

€1930

THEATRE

CATHOLIC UNION CLUB,

GLENEALY

THE CHRISTMAS TREAT (onder Tthe suspices of the Carbolic Union

Club) to the pensioners, under the care of Bt. Vincens de Paul Society will be held

Case No. 1-$25.

3 Bota. "St. Extephe Claret Port, Full Fodied.. Vino de Pasto, Sherry.. Gin.

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|TO-NIGHT TO-NIGHT EDGAR WARWICK

announces the

at the Cts HOUSE, GLESTALY, on SEN. FAREWELL PERFORMANCE

DAY, 19th December, at 3 p.m.

Subscribers and friends are cordially

invited.

J. D. OSMUND,

President. Hongkong, December 17th. ".

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HE BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE THE

ORINE beg to inform the holders of the TEMPORARY BONDS of the Credit National 1919, which have been subscribed through us, that same must be. EXCHANGED in our Paris Office for Definita Bonds before March 1921,

NOTICE.

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HE ADMIRAL LINE are representing the

We have no other interest in this

PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY,

Hotel Mansions.

TS.S. WOLDRICHEM as discharging Agenta

stesmer,

THE

1917

POWER

CHINA LIGHT COMPANY, (1918) - LIMITED.

THE

of the

WARWICK COMEDY

COMPANY

in

"UNCLE NED

Miss Joan Marne aa" MISS MANNING”

Mr. N. THORYE-MAYNE AS

"SIE ROBERT GRAHAM"

Mr. Edgar Warwick as "UNCLE NED**

Miss Marjory Clark as "GYPSY"

THE LAST OPPORTUNITY OF SEEING THIS REMARKABLY SUCCESSFUL

COMBINATION.

Plans at MOUTRIE'S:

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PUBLIO AUCTION.

1

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Superior Pale Brandy:

15 Whisky.

Green Menthe, M.BR.

Case No. 2-830.

Bot. St. Marceaux Champagne.

St. Estephe Claret

Vino de Pasto Sherry. Superior Light Part. Madeirs, Sandeman's, Superior Old Cognac. Whisky

Thorne's No. 4 Old Vat Whisky. Gin.

Uhablis,

Camcao, Red.

Case No. 3-835.

I Bot. St. Marceaux Champagne.

Manzanilla Sherry (5 years old) Very Fine Old Tawny Port. D. Fort, Superior Qld. Gia Dry.

"1

"

"Uld Brown Brandy.

Whisky.

· Thorne's No. 4 Old Vat Whisky. Chablis, Green Menthe MLB.R..

St. Julien Claret.

The above Prices includs duty, which will be deducted for Export and Shipping Onters.

are still urgently needed..

Several large donations were an nounced..

ENTERTAINMENT IN PARIS.

PARIS December 18th. A big entertainment has been arrang"

SHANGHAI, December 16th. The Russian Consulate has ceased functioning. The final status of local Russians is undecided. The Consular Body is discussing the matter with the Chinese and Foreign Commissioner. Deeped here in aid of the Chinese Famine anxiety prevails in Russian circles re- Funds. sarding the final outcome.

RICE CONTROL IN THE STRAITS.

most noteworthy of all, the Triah Land Acting influence on the cotton business for which provided for the issue of £23.000.000 some little time, although eventual ex- of stock by the Imperial. Government for pansion was certain. the purpose of onabling Irish tenants to purchase their holdings' from landlords who | STATUS OF SHANGHAI RUSSIANS. were willing to part with their property. It was calculated that the Act would enable about 200,000 out of 520.000 Irish tenant Farmers to become owners of their boldings ab a reduction of about 40 per cent that is to say the man who then paid £00 a year wont get his holding for less than £50 a year, and others in proportion, and at the end of 19 years the holding would be his. It has cured the Agrarian problem The present-day grievance is entirely political, inspired by a hatred of England which would be incomprehensible in these timme if it had not been definitely ascer. |tained that it is fostered and encouraged by foreign political group whose ambition it is to weaken and, if possible; destroy the political unity of the British Empire. No civilised people cau bave read of the regent series of dastardly murders in Ire- Land with feeling other than those of repugnance and horror, while the measures that the Government has taken to break up this murderous conspiracy must com maad the support and approval of every

SINGAPORE, December 16th.

It is officially announced that the control of rice in the F.M.S. and Straits ceases three months hence, when the pre- sent stocks will be exhausted, as a liberal supply is available from Burma

and Siam.

The programme is exclusively. Chinese, vincluding theatricals and con juring

NEW CABLES TO OKINA' AND JAPAN.

WASHINGTON, December 18th. Mr. Carlton, President of the Western Union, has informed the Senate Com mittee that the company's cable from Barbados, which it was originally desired to land at. Miami, Florida, will be con- nected with the United States, vici, Cuba," SHANGHAI, December 16th,

despite the opposition of the American The P. & O. steamer Deranha sailed on Government, which had notified that it

DEATH OF GRAND DUCHESS ELIZABETH.

SPECIAL CASES PUT UP TO ORDER right-minded man. Wo do not know what Wednesday carrying the remains of the would take the necessary steps to pre

ARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of AS. WATSON &

PART

the letting by Public Auction Sale, ta THE SECOND ORDINARY GENERAL be held on HONDAY, the 20th day of MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will DECEMBER, 1920, at 3 PM, at the Offices be held at the Offices of the Company, St. of the Public Works Department, by Order George's Building, Chater Boad, Victoria, His EXCELLENOY THE GOVERNOR, of One Hongkong, on THURSDAY, the 3RD DECEM-Lot of CROWN LAND at Cocube Road, in bze, 1920, at 11

at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, for the the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 purposes receiving

ag a statement of accounts gears, with the option of renewal at a Crown ind the report of the General Managers for the Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of Has year ended 30th Serv

Consulting Compeber. 1920. and electing MAJESTY THE KING, for one further terms of

Anditora The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from FRIDAY, the 17TH DECEMBER, 1820, until THURSDAY, the 23RD December, 1920, both days inclusive.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Managera.

Hongkong, December 7th, 1920.

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THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY CO., LTD.

LOST.

Tfor Two Shares Numbered: 48491/46492 standing in the Register in the same of EUE YUE BAM (deceased) late of Hongkong having been LOST NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that onlee the raid Certificate be produced at the Office of the Company, &, Queen's Road Central, Victoris, Hongkong, on or before. the 6th day of January, 1921, a new Certißents for the said Bhares will be issued and the old Certi ficate will thereafter be held by the Company as null and void.

SHARE CERTIFICATE No. 1603

MOWBRAY 8. NORTHCOTÉ, "Secretary. Hongkong, December 3rd, 1920.

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HONGKONG HOTEL

NEW YEAR'S EVE, FRIDAY, DECEMBIR. 81st, 1920. THE attention of patrons i diawn o bud THE attention of patrons is drawn to the at the Hotel on the above date, as the entire accommodation has been booked from 9.30 7.75

r.,

I R. WINDHAM and Officers of the End Battalion, The Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Begiment)

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REPULSE BAY HOTEL

NET Completion of the RALL ROOM

EXTENSION has increased the Dance. capacity to 8,000 Square Footy! CABARET DINNER DANCES will be held at the above Hotel" on the

following dates

Floor

"SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18TH, 1920. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1990,

XMAS EVE,

FRIDAY,

DECEMBER 24t¤; 1920.

BOXING DAY, MONDAY DECEMBER 27TH, 1920,

75 years.

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TENDIES in duplicate, which should be clearly

marked TENDER FOR QUARETES," will be received at this Office until Noor on MONDAY, the TR day of DECENKER, 1920, for the letting of the under mentioned Granite Quarries at Hongkong, Kowloon, and the New Territories, for one year Or, en un alternative, for a period of 3 years from the 1st January, 1921.

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CO., LTD.,

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prospect there can be of peace and order Grand Duchess Elizabeth of the House

the outcome of the communications

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VENEREAL DISEASES CAMPAIGN KIN SHANGHAI:

which are now being opened up with some of Romanoff, who was killed in the Rus of the leading fanatics, through the median revolution, for burial in Palestine of an Irish priest. unless it be that the in accordance with the express wish of success of the Government's measures, and the late Duchess. the public detestation of the crimes, which provoke them,, "have persuaded the Sinn Fein leaders that the time has come to abandon their policy of violence and murder which can never achieve the object in view. Certainly bribers by the Govern 11ment in the form of political concessions go no further, and the PETME MINISTER months ago made that quite clear to Ireland and the world..

BLACK-At Nanking, on December 9th, to MH and Mrs. W. J. Buck"; "a daughter."

BOLITRO. (By cable from Bristol), to Mr.

and Mrs E E BOLITHO, Shanghai,

800.

cơn

Prince Azel and Princess Margaretha of Denmark are at present in Siam, on 2

Bairro.-At Shanghai, on December ¦ visit.

12th, to Mr. and Mrs. J. M. M. BRITTO, a son.

Cones. At Shanghai, on December 13th,

to Mr. and Mrs. L. B. COHEN, a son. RowErr Jons-At Shanghai, on Decem. ber 13th, to Mr. And Mrs. T. J. ROWETT JOHE, 1 800.

MARRIAGE..

ANDERSON-RADCLIFFE-At Shanghai, "on"

December 10th, THOMAS REID ANDER-

•

SON, of Shanghai, to MADGE VIPOST, of St. Machaels, Felixstowe.

DEATHS. Souza-At Shanghai, on December 19, MANCIO MANCINHO) GERMANO DE SOUZA, age 59 years. UFCRAFT-At Shanghai, on December 12th, Mrs, EMMA INVERT UFCRAFT, of the American Baptist Foreign Mis sionary Society, Chengtu, Szechuan. Eoanxoso Onton: 104, Drei Tang BD. 0

OFFICE 181, FLEXI BTT, E.

Each tender must be accompanied by a deposited in the Colonial Treasu receipt to the effect that the tenderer has L stated in the schools hereunder opposite to offer, was, ass pledge of the bend giftes of his Crown, if the tenderer refuses to carry out his tender and comply with the conditions herein- after contained, should the tender be accepted.

quarry,

The Goverment does not bind itself to accept the highest or any tender,

Forms of tender can be obtained from the Director of Public Works

The Daily Press.

Hargrave, DzaRKEN 18′′E, 1920,

SHANGHAI, December 16th. Activities commenced on Wednesday in

connection with the lectures and confer ences of the Eastern Commission of the National Council for Combating Venereal |Diseases" now visiting Shanghai. The

port. Press and public are lending hearty” sup-

vent such a connection,

Mr. Carlton stated that he had the plans for direct cables. rii the "Aleutian Islands, to Japan and China. "I have the assurance." he said, "of the British authorities that there would be no trouble in landing in China."

CHINA IN LEAGUE COUNCIL.

GENETA, December 18th. China has obtained a place as a pèrs manent member of the Council of the League.

BRITISH PROPAGANDA IN CHINA.

LONDON, December 18th.

LURE OF DANCING GIRLS.

A great authority on the Chinese and Sir Paul Chater did not arrive by the

SHANGHAI, December 18th. Andre Lebon, and is now expected by the T. Mellows, son of Police Inspector British trade, interviewed by the Daily Mellows, was sentenced to three months Mail, gave it as his opinion that it was Paul Leent next week.

imprisonment in the British Police Court of vital importance to attract more for obtaining money by false pretences. Chinese students

England, if China were

to the old footing

Yesterday morning at 20 minutes to 12 a pronounced earthquake shock was very generally noticed in Hongkong.

Lady Stubbs has intimated her intention of attending a little sale of work which is being held to-day at the Diosesan Girls School, Kowloon.

to

to A Chinese tradesman in his evidence British exports disclosed that Mellows was the victim be maintained on of women at the dancing halls. Mellows of supremacy. If we neglected the most stoutly refused to divulge the name of obvious way of strengthening Chinese man concerned in the whole sympathies, we were "certain

to bo

another

One fatal case of plague was notified affair. in the Colony during the 24 hours ended December 18th. There was no other case of notifiable disease.

SHOT IN A BAE.

SHANGHAI, December 18th. Public opinion is stiffening against the

Mr. B. Phillips, H.M. Cansul, who recently returned from Europe, has gone the local bar district in consequence of to Foochow, where he will take charge until March or April, when he will prob ably go to Antung.

thrust aside. The importance of the Chinese market was growing yearly,

JUDGE GARY'S PROTEST AGAINST ANTI-JAPANESE AGITATION..

New York, December 10th." the Mellows case and the shooting affray Judge Gary, bead of the United States on Monday night in a bar room as Steel Corporation, in a speech at the result of which Mr. B. F. Hazelton, head Japan Society, denounced "the vicious, of the Order Department of Messrs deliberate effort to stir up trouble be Gaston, Williams and Wigmore, was tween Japan and the United States." wounded in the abdomen by an American He said that if the two nations clashed seamatt and is now a precarious condition the Americans would be more blame with but slight hope of recovery.

worthy than the Japanese. He trusted THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

the honesty and integrity of Japan, and

We are informed that H.E. the Governor and Lady Stubby have accepted the invita tion issued by the Portuguese community to luncheon at the Hongkong Hotel, to-day THE IRISH PROBLEM.

in honour of H.E, the Governor of Macno. BIR HAMAR GREENWOOD 18

evidently on

Sir Francis Aglen, Inspector-General who thoroughly agrees with the late Lord of Customs, bas resumed his official Fender SALISBURY's recipe for Ireland-twenty duties. Mr. Bowra, who has been acting DANGER TO JAPANESE INTERESTS declared that Japan was building a navy

PARTICULARS OF THE QUARRIES.

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Nos. 2-5, 7, 8, 10, 19, 20 x

and 25.

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·IN VLADIVOSTOCK.

as the last defence against an attack without reason. Judge Gary emphasised LONDON, December 14th the fact that no other country was spend- The Japanese Embassy has issued sing ab much money on warships as the

Westminister." Tha unprejudiced. specfovernor of Macao, and Madamo da statement regarding the situation in United States, and declared that the

Quarry Lot No.

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Secretary.

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1920.

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NEW YEAR'S EVE,

TRIDAY,

Deczy Bist, 1920. And NEW YEAR'S DAY, BATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1921.

to arrive in Hongkong this morning by the Theatre Royal will commence on the MM. steamer Chili. The season at Monday with The Rotters, the clever dialect and character play which was well received in Hongkong during the former visit of this company

Vladivostock which conclades by declar

tione arising from the Bolshevist develop with the United States, ments, Japan has important commercial interests in Vladivostock which she can not leave to the tender mercies of an avowedly, Bolshevist regime..

ALLEGATIONS OF SLAVERY IN DE BRITISH NORTH BORNEO,

tor of what has been happening in Ireland Silva, accompanied by Lieutenant F. 200 recently tan bardly resist the conclusing Chedas, A.D.C., are staying af Governing that, apart from the political ques Japanese desired intimate friendship

that there is more justification for a policy Tent House as the guests of His Excel. of that kind to-day than ever before lenoy and Lady Stubbs. 100pland's grievance is simply that the The Bandman Comedy Company is due

The Crown Prince of Japan will cot wants a measure of self-government which

travel abroad next year, as has been seminte to a dissolution of the union

rocently reported by Japanese newspapers." srid that is something whith the pre

Views were recently exchanged, the dominant partners-England, Scotland and 30 Wales-cannot afford to concedo, Within

The Colonial Office has issued a White family and the Genro on the subject, and

LONDON, December 14th.

learna, between members of the Imperial

HONGKONG HOTEL

the last twenty years Ireland, ng somebody *80

Paper dealing with the Anti-Slavery a preliminary resolution wag in favour of 750 100 bas expressed it, has been "manured with The Rev. GJ Williams conducts the Society's allegations against the Ad- the tour in America and Europe. Later, CARARET DINNER DANCE EMAS NIGHT,

The attention of the tenderers for Hök Un

British gold” to encourage the growth of services for the last time, before his depar-ministration of the Britiel: North Borneo SATURDAY,DEOENEE 25TH, 1920. No. 6 is hereby drawn to the fact that the road peace and contentment. But crime to-day morrow in the morning Mr Wilama

ture to England, at Union Church to Company, containing the report of Bir however, the resolution was withdrawn, Weat Ridgeway and the Hon-Mounstuart the reasons being that the Emperor stiff between KML 53 and 60 will be completely is as rampant in Ireland as in the times will discuss internationalism and the Elphinstone denouncing the society and shows little hope of recovering from his SMITH AND JACKSON closed and that it will not be available for gou when Mr. BALFOUR intendaged his famous League of Nations in the light of the finding all the charges as untrue. will entertain with the lafesh Chan Songs and Torance of atune to junks after 31st December, Grimes Act. It is not uninteresting to-day will deliver. farewell charge to the cop the fact that the charges have been satis-Crown Prince is kept busy attending Stato Kingdom of God and in the evening he Lord Miner expresses gratification at nervous trouble, and consequently the

Dances on the above fisker.

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to recall Mr. BALFOUR's statement of policy grégation.

factorily met

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