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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

NOTICE.

reception in honour of the 29 BISHOPS of the MISSIONS ETRANUERES at present in the Colony will be held at the CATHOLIC UNION ON SUNDAY, the 6TH MARCH, xt 4.30 r.., to which all Chiholien ale cordially inritel.

J. D. OSMUND, ·

President Catholic Union

P. M. HODGSON,

President Catholic Men's Club.

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OVERSEAS CLUB AND PATRIOTIČ

LEAGUE.

EMBERS are reminded that their subscrip

tions for 1991 are over-due and should bo sent to LONDON HEADQUARTERS direct. If Members prefer to pay locally, we are prepared to receive and forward subscrip "Lions on their behalf. Local payment is $5 and auy balance over the 1- will be credited to the Clab lunds.

O.T. BREAKSPEAK, Hon. Corresponding Sec. (Hongkong), CHARTERED BANK RUILDING.

W. J. CRAWFORD,

Hon. torres cding Sec. (Kowloon), EL.K. & WHASOA Dock Co., LTD.

L339

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION

T

COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM JAPAN.

HE Steamship

"YA'SHING" having arrived from the above ports, Consignes of Cargo by berars Lereby informed that all foods aro being landed at their risk into the bazardous and/or extra hazardous. Godowas of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, whence, and/or from the wharves, delivery may be obtained

Goods not cleared by the th Mar will be

subject to rent.

All broken, obafed, and damaged packages am to be felt in the Clodown, where they will be examined. Claims against the steamer must be presented within 10 days of arrival, otherwise they will not be recognized.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.

General Managers.

Hongkong, March 3rd, 1921,

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SOCIETY OF ST. GEORGE, HONGKONG.

THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of

the Bociety will be held in the CITT HALL en FRIDAY, 1īru Makcu, ut 6.30...

For the following purposes t (4) To receive the report of the Committee and statement of accounts for the part

Year

•

(b) To elect the Officers and Committee for

the eneming year.

(e) To consider the manner in which next

St. Georgo's Day shall be celebrated.

INTIMATIONS

TRA HONGKONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, MARCH 4TH, 1991,

SATURDAY HANKING HOURS.

BY

Y agreement between the EXCHANGE BANKS, SATURDAY BANKING HOURS in Hongkong, beginning on SATUR DAY, the 5TH MARCH, 1921, will be as follows ——

·From: 9.30 AM to 1 Noos only. For all Bunking Business, Hongkong, March 1st, 1921.

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HONGKONG FOOTBALL CLUB

THE

DINNER AND DANCE

THE above will take place at the HONGKONG HOTEL on SATURDAY, the 5T March, at 7.30 r.K.

Plaas of tables at the Hongkong Hotel

Office.

D. J. PURVES.

Hon Secretary,

PREPAID

***WANTED ADVERTISEMENTS.

Lotters are lying at this Offse for F“Borse P., Q., AD. AP... AW, BF, BO,

BB, BV, BZ

FOR SALE-1920 HARLEY DAVIDSON MUTOR CYCLE and Bilecar, Electric Fighting. Excellent condition. Apply Boz BZ, Daily Prose Office.

PQ

TO LET

NE LARGE ROOM with-Verandah for

Obles, in Des Your Road Central, 2nd

floor.

Apply to

N. MODY & CO.

[651

TO LET.

TO JARDINE, MATHESON & Co, Lt. EUROPEAN OFFICES, 1st floor (four in

647],

OX

RD AND CAMBRIDGE DINNER.

IT is proposed to hold the store on BJAT

RACE DAY, MARCH OTH

Members of the two Universitie who wish to attend are naked to and their names, with Colleges and dates, to

CAPTAIN WARNER, Government Eonse.

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Ti

NOTICE OF REMOVAL

M. J. D. STEPHENS, Solicitor, THE Office has been REMOVED" to let Floor, No. 15, Connaught Rand, Central, (beyond the Post Offan).

Hongkong. March 1st, 1821.

NOTICE.

541.

Mr REMOVED their Offices to the ESSRS. LITTLE, ADAMS & WOOD Na BunLDING on Murray Battery, Lower Albert Road.

REPULSE BAY HOTEL.

THE

1830

block) 18 to 19, Connaught Road Central (with use of Hft),

Apply to-

"AB" Care of Daily Preis Ofico.

INTIMATION

life. Such cases are not uncommon, as treated can resort for protection. the continual reports of cruelty to slave seems ludicrous to suggest that, a child" girls in the Courts in Shanghai and

|Hongkong, clearly demonstrate. Such who knows nothing of its rights will fea enses are too frequent to be ignored and to any institution for shelter. If we onn- not yet have a system of registration, wa serious indictment of the whole system.

WATSON'S they constitute in themselves the most

FINE OLD

BROWN

BRANDY

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Apply to

TO LET.

LARGE ROOMS to let for Office Den Vaux Road Central, Top Floor.

ROOM No. 1.-

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Unsurpassed as

a

WANTED

♦Y FOREIGNER FURNISHED ROOM,

district.

Bibot meals, Happy Valley or Central

Ropty-

I.X,LA

·Care of Daily Freas Office.. [550

WANTED.

CHIPSSURGEON for voyage to Australia only. Steamer to sail from Hongkong about 18th March.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agente Australian Oriental Line. [545

*IMPORT EXPORT.

| ENTLEMAN, with large experience in the GE

Import and Export Trade in South THE DINING and DANOING accom-

modation infully booked for the night of China and capable of taking charge of depart

menta, is open for immediate engagement. For WEDNESDAY, 9TH MARCH, 1921.

further particulars, plened communicate with--

928

REPULSE BAY HOTEL

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THE Sprach Roads to the above HOTEL

Turned into drudges and subjected to the need at least the Committee that Lord whims of a cruel mistress or brutal MILSER has suggested to keep sonstant master the lot of these unfortunates is watch over the interests of these girls. Ai often most unhappy. It is probably the present not even the Government can say recognition of this fact which led Euro-

penas and soine Chinese to institute how many hundreds or thousands of them refuges for such, both in Hongkong and there are in the Colony, but it will be Shanghai. In the former it is, we believe seen from the report of yesterday's pro- the Po Leung Kok: in Shanghai the Slave

Refuge and the Door of Hope To these ceedings in the Legislative Council that places girls can flee when their lives the Hon. Mr. Pollock, K.C.. has extract- become unbearable and the Courts willed, from the Government a promise to regularize their staying in such institu

measures

tions. Again, the police will act when add a column in the schedule for the they know of a case of persistent cruelty, forthcoming

tha Census, requesting when, as often as not, the culprits, information desired on the subject. Wo. besides losing their slave girl. are sentenced to some sort of punishment. can curtainly promise that the agita

In the sense that the property in the tion will not cease until some practical child passes for a monetary consideration

into brought aro

oparu- the system may be called slavery: by

these littla reason of the fact that dutside places tion which shall afford to where foreign influence is of importance, girls a greater degree of protection and slave girls may be cruelly treated without freedom than they now enjoy. The doom any remedy, the system may be open to severe criticism, but the amount of real of the system has been pronounced by good that can come out of it leads the the Chinese Government, and a British Liqueur-writer to believe that a much stronger Colony on the fringe of China ought not

case has to be made out against the

delightful to the palate, mellow,

and of fine aroma,

practice than its critics have made un to by word or deed to lend any encourage=" the present.

a practice which is a flagrant ment to Our Shanghai.contemporary in its lead-violation of the universal law of the ing article confesses that there can be Empire. little doubt that as the system standa it does amount to "slavery." "Yet its benevolent aspects," it says, "are such as to discount many of the terrors of that name, and while the practice may be dis credited by the cases of abuse which become known, it is very much open to As a beverage, most healthful doub, whether those agitating against it

bave yet suade out a case as should force the british government to take steps to and agreeable; an aid to eradicate it from Hongkong."

digestion.

Profesor Danenberg's pupils gave a second pianoforte recital, last night, at the City Hall. a large and appreciate audience present. The programme given on Monday was repented.

The collections at the Cathedral, on February 20th, for the Famine Fand in. North China amounted to 3738. The donations were subsequently received, bringing up the total to $703.

A card showing the racing fixtures for On this we may remark in the first this year in Shanghai shows that in ad place that the agitation is not directed there will be 33 days of racing, the "close season being from, the Dragon Boat towards a aulden eradication of the Festival until September 10th, the Mil- practice, but, for the present, towards its Autumn Festival.

We have ne regulation and, control,

A Peking telegram to the Chinese Press reason to suppose it to be the benevolent states that the Government, having no institution that it is often represented to funds for political purposes, has sold certain properties in the old German Cor- We know of many Chinese in this cession at Tientsin for $403,000, which is bu.

Box 307, c/o Hongkong Daily Fresa...... A. S. WATSON & Colony who utterly condemn the practice just enough to carry them over their

FOR BALE

Are CLOBED exporarily for the purpate 62,570 SQUARE FEET OF LAND

of regrading. Patrons arc, therefore, kindly requested to use the steps opposite the Main Entrance until completion of such work.

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A. S. WATSON & CO.LIMITED.

IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

d: To transact any other business of whish N THURTY-SIXTH ANNUAL ORDIN

dae notice has been given.

All members are requested to attend.

Hongkong. March Ist, 1921.

Ü. BLAKER,

Hon. Secretary. 1605

PONIES! PONIES PONIES!

PUBLIC. BOUP". THE Undersigned have received instructions

to sell by Pablic Roup on

FRIDAY,

the 4th March, 1921, at pix, at the Jockey

Cinh Stabl8.

A LARGE NUMBER OF WELL-KNOWN RACE PONIES.

Full Particulars from Catalogue), Trista-Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

PUBLIO AUCTION,

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THE Undersigned inve received instructions

to sell by Public Auction,

"On TUESDAY,

the 8th March, 1921, at 9.30 AM, at The Naval

Depot, Kowloon

OLD AND SURPLUS

VICTUALLING STORES, &., &c.

Comprising

Blankets, Electro-Plate, Copper Pans, Hard-

ARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company (ince its registration) will be held at the Hong- kong Hotel, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, 4TH, MARCH, 1991, at 11.30 AM, for the purpose of receiving the Beport of the General Managers together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 3 ist October, 1920,

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 28th day of February, to MONDAY, the 7th day of March, 1941, both dages inclusive, during which period no truffer of" Shares can be registere

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers,

493 Hongkong, February &ind, 1921,

CHINA SUGAR REFINING CO., LTD.

FORTY - THIRD "ORDINARY

Broadwood acichung, with 7-Roomed House) and Servants Quarters, Kitchen, Garden, Tennis Court and Lawn. For particulars apply to—

GEO. K. HALL BRUTTON & Co., 37, Queen's Bond Central,

FOR SALE.

VE-ROOMED

BUNGALOW," Peak District, Tennis Court, Kitchen Garden Vacant Eastor. Apply to:

Box No. 482, Care of Daily Press Office.

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TENDERS INVITED. DROPOSALS FOR FRESH FROZEN

REFE & MUTTON Daper ment Quartermaster, Philippine Department. Manila, PL Sealed proposils will be received here until 11 o'clock AM, May 10th, 1991; and

then apmal, for furnishing 8,000,000 pounds of Beef and 60,000 pounds of Mutton. Further information on application

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TENDERS INVITED.

NEALED proposals for the purchase of the

U.S. Army Transport CROOK", Manila

THE ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE HOLDERS of the above Company will be held Bay, will be received at the Ofice of the Depart- at the Offices of the General Agents, Poddu'a- ment Quartermaster, Wate Transportation Street, on FRIDAY, the 19TH MARCH, A Division, Third Floor, U.8. Aṛmy Building, 11 AM. for the purpose of receiving the Report opposite Pier No. 1, Manila, natıl 11 A.M., April and Statement of Accounts for the your ending 11th, 1921, at which time and place thay wilf be 31st Decembar, 1920.

opened

PARTIAL DESCRIPTION

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 4th to 18th March, 1921, both days inclusive.

ཀ

JARDINE, MATHESON, & Co., LTD.

General Agents.. Hongk mg, February 18th, 1991.

£464

HONGKONG

HOTEL COMPANY, LIMITED.

TOTICE HEREBY GIVEN that the

ware, Soup Mess Gear, Table Linen, da, Serge,ODINARY YEARLY MEETING Remnants, Provisions, &c., &c.

Terms of Sala:-As detailed on Catalogne. On View.

HUGHES & HOUGH, By Appointment Auctioneers to the Admiralty.

527

SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE

·91, PRAYA EAST, HONGKONG.

S

OR the me of all Men of the. Mercantils

Farine and H.M. Navy.

Reading and Writing Rooms, Billiard Room,

·

Twin Scrow Steel Hall

Toanage, Gross

Net...

Length*** Beam...... Moulded Depth Mean Draft Ligat...

"Loaded

Displacement (normal)

Baitia

Bunker capacity Speed...

Equipped with wireless

...4116 tons

...2703

430° *** 471% 21' 3"

21' 3" ..6300 tons ..:18-2

1368 toas

12 kants

of the SHAREHOLDERS in this Company Full description of vessel, terms of sale, blank will be held at the Company's Hotel, Hongrong, proposals etc., may be obtained by applying to on SATURDAY, 19TH, MARCH 1921, at Nook, the American Conasi General Hongkong Board of Directors, together with a Statement for the purpose of recaring the Report of the of Accounts, for the year ending 31st December, 1990.

The REGISTER OF BHARES of the Com pany will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, 12th March, to SATURDAY, 19th March, 1921, (both days inaltaivo) during which" perío no transfer of shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

J. H. TAGGART, Maragar

Ocers Boom, OP.O. Room Restaurant, Hongkong, March 3rd, 1921.. Concert Hall, Church.

Private Cabins and beds in Dormitories

Motor Launch "Dayspring.”

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TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS. I preliminary notices of forthcoming A meetings, lectures and entertainmente. went for insertion in the news columns of the Hongkong Daily Press, are charged for at the rate of $1 each (as announced in May and Jung of last year) providing that they do not occupy more than four lines. In future if this space is exceeded they will be placed in the advertising

olumns at the prevailing rates,

ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL. MONDAY,

MAKUH 7TM,

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9.10

HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING

*CORPORATION.

THE FINAL DIVIDEND declared for the Tyear ending 31st December, 1920, at the rato of THREE POUNDS STERLING together with a Bonus ef TWO POUNDS STERLING per Share is, payable on and after MONDAY, the 28th day of FEBRUAXY, 1921, at the Offices of the Corporation, where share- holders are requested to apply for warrante.

By Order of the Court of: Direstars,

RA. G. STEPHEN,

Chief Maringor. Hongkong, February 16th 1921.

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ORGAN

RECITA E

MISS BERTHA: MEISCHKE.

CO., LTD.,

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

Phone 616,

us an evil. The Central Government of difficulties. China has so condemned and formally

*

Honorary life membership diplomian prohibited it, but is at present powerless are being prepared at Shanghai for those to suppress it. It may be, as pur Shang-members of St. George's Society who

►

Word has been received in Yokohama of the death of Mr. J. W. Copmann of New York on February 8th Mr. Cop mann was General Manager of the Stand- ard Oil Co. in Japan and for the Far East for a long period of years, having his headquarters in Yokohama.

hai contemporan says, that the little served in the Great War, and it is haped they will be ready for presentation at felave girl án a good family

is the Society's annual celebration on St. generally more fortunate thah she would George's Day, April 23rd.- have been had she remained with her. parents and shared their own moro or less desperate life. Something of the same kind of argument was advanced when slavery WES being suppressed in America. It obviously cannot follow that the suppression of the practice A severe earthquake occurred on [537⚫ Di buying and selling of children February 14th at Gotemba near Mount - ORTON.-At Shanghai, on February 22nd, would deprite good families in China, Fuji. The vibrations were most violent

to Mr. and Mrs. T. ORTON, a son.

near the Kagosaka pass forming the TILLSY-At Shanghai, on February 20th,

boundary of Surun and Kai provinces, where a big landside took place in conse~" quence, and traffic was suspended.

BIRTHS. Munnoot-At the Peak Hospital, on. March 2nd, to Mr. and Mrs. ARTHUR MURDOCH, a son.

late chief engineer str. Patriots TYE At Anking, Anhui, on February

.. 18th,-THOMAS WILLIAM TYS.

Howexors OFFICE 101, Das Vaux Bo. O LOWDER OFFTON : 151, FLA STREET, E.C

the evacuation of the Chientao district by

any more than in England, of the oppor to Mr. and Mrs. PEROY TILLEY, Atunity of rendering aid to poor parents daughter

in desperate straite. Children could still MACKENZIE-At Shanghi, on February their freedom to go into families which Wa chiappa has presented a Note to the

DEATHS:

be hired for domestic service and retain Chinese news agency states that the 20th, M. A. MACKENZIE, aged 53 years, promised to afford them the good treat Japanese Legation at Peking requesting ment they naturally desire, it is very the Japanese police force and demanding plausible to say that a child who is ill. Japan's reply in connection with the bom- treated cau Bee to the Po Leung Kok bardment of a Chinese junk at Mago. in Hongkong or to the Slave Rotuge or

The Portuguese Vice-Consulate at Yoko- the Door of Hope in Shanghai, but what hama has been raised to the status of a Chinese child of tender years has any Consulate, according to a communication. knowledge of its human rights under from the Portuguese Government through the Minister at Tokyo. Mr. Jayme Lour either British or Chinese law! Of course, once Rangel, the Vice Consul, has been. the police will-net-when they know of a "promoted to Consul and will remain in case of persistent cruelty," but the police charge of the post at Yokohama. are not omniscient. Even in Eugland it THE “MUI TSAI" QUESTION.is not left entirely to the ponce to a out where cruelty to children is practiced. A RECENT issue of the North China Daily Nearly every town has ita-branch of the Court of St. James, stating that, as com News contains a special article and also Society for the Protection of Children,

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, MARCH śzu,” 1921.

The Chinese Press reports that the Government has telegraphed to Dr. Wellington Koo, Chinese Minister to the

India have increased considerably in re mercial relations between China and an editorial comment on the agitation in and its uniformed inspectors; and if that cent years, he should approach the British regard to the girl slave question in Hong is required in the towns of the United Foreign Office with a view to the estab

lishment of consulates in various parts of

kong. The writer of the special article refers to the notice that has been taken of in a Crown Colony liku Hongkong, where

Kingdom it is infinitely more Recessary India.

the practice in England and notably in the the practies of buying children is so The Commission on Legal Rights,

states a Chinese Press telegram, in dis- House of Commons, and remarks that general it is too often overlooked by cussing a special court in Shanghai to possibly the matter has assumed a the advocates of lainer faire in this supersede the Mixed Court, have decided more serious aspect than it should have matter that in the vast majority of cases that the latter court shall be abolished done because of the unfortunate term the purchase of children in Hongkong and seven British, French, and German (1) scholars be instituted as jud s. : A that has been applied to the practice," and in China generally, we suppose, is a draft of seven articles has been drown up But whether to be the case or not, the purely commercial speculation. It is and will-be-referred in due course to the writer of the article hoped to show that practice not confined to wealthy families, Ministry of Justice for consideration. the Mus Tras (the Cantonese term) is but is very common among people of The programme of the Organ Recital full of potentialities for good, which slender means such as clerks in business to be given next Monday, at 6.15 p.m., We have in St. John's Cathedral, will include probably are not overbalanced by the houses, and even by amabs.

soveral popular as the possibilities of bad. The matter, is heage one of the leading Chinese residents mesen foul Cavalerie Rusticanas, deemed to have a local application at of Hongkong express the opinion that Handel's "Largo" and the finale of Tacharkowsky's furious Pathetic Sym- Shanghai, "for the practice seems to be fully ninety per cent of the children phong. The vocalist, will be Miss Berths general all over Obina and on that ground bought in Hongkong are bought really as Meischke who has not appeared hers is of interest to Shanghai.”:

& commercial speculation. They are pur- before and who is a diplomée of The Hague Conservatoire of Music. She will The practice is described by the writer chased at a very tender nga for a few be heard in items by Franck and Gounod. of the special article who concludes that dollars; trained to domestic service" it will be seen that the opportunities for a few years, and sold in marriago. of the Mui Tanz in the matter of bettering perhaps for many times the original pur herself cannot be entirely despised if she chase price. In circumstances like these is fortunate enough to fall into the bands it will instantly be recognised that the

of "good" people." There is much virtue system is open to great abuse, capecially in the if in this connection. The in the case of children who fail to develop writer admits that there is

personal attractions which enhance their another side of the picture marketable value. Ws entirely disagree

Peking, a Northern contemporary: seyn, celebrated China, New Year with greater enthusiasm than has been evident for some time past, a fact which is all the mora extraordinary in view of the din tress outside the Capital and the poverty of the Government. On New Year's eye the main streets were, illuminated with red lanterns, and on New Year's Day OverY shop was beflagged, while aeroplanes hovered over the city and dropped good

in which is shown the unfortunate lot of with our Shanghai contemporary when it wishes expressed on printed coloured slips those girls who are sold into families

of paper. Business was completely "sus- -pended for three days, and normal com where vicious mistresses and brutal says that the most that can be done is to masters make for them a mont miserable provide places of refuge to which the ill-ditions were not exported for a week.