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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

THE ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB,

THE

VIHE OR Course at FANLING will be RE-

OPENED for Play TO-DAY, SATOB PAT. 23th August.

Tillins for Sunday shonll be ordered before 11 am on Saturday. No Telephone available. PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING,

Secretaries & Treasurers,

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BUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO, LTD.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

NOTICE IS HURRY that

INTIMATIONS

TH

- A NIGHT SWIMMING FETE

will be held at the.

VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB

on 4

SATURDAY, the 25TH INS5, commencing at 9 O'CLOCK.

Baad in attendange, Admission: 81.00: Members, Sailors, and Soldiers 30 ets. Reserved Sent- $1.50

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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2518, 1993,

INTIMATIONS

NOTICE OF REMOVAL

INTIMATION

THE Offices of the "HONGKONG DAILY JOHN DEWAR

PRESS have been removed to 1, CHATER ROAD (3rd floor), to which Address all Correspondence should be directed.

Hongkong, 18th July, 1993;

THE

AMERICAN EXPRESS 00.. INCORPORATED.

HEAD OFFICE

NEW YORK CITY.

INTERNATIONAL' BANKING-SHIPPING-TRAVEL. IT-BITS" interests and as readers the world orET... It is a household Certificate X. 4820 for 8 Slates numbered worl wherever the English language is spoke Cities of the World to provide Commercia Eighty Offices are established in the Principa Thirteen shillings per annum ensures the regular arrival to your door every week. TrrOrganisations and Private Inilividasis with

complete World Wide Banking, Shipping and Brs is familiarly known as the "Green Un.

umbered 54303 to 55339, Certificate No. 4817 for 25 Shares numbered 9981 to 99875; and in the Name of registered 2403 to 2410 all GEORGE ROYES have been LOST or DES TROYED, and should these Cortiñcates not be produced to the Compuny

Certificater for the sail Shares will be axed and the odd Certicutes will thereafter be old by the Company as Null and Foil,

DAY OF SEPTEMBER. 1923, the 157 Remittances should be sent to GEORGE NEWNES. Travel Service.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers.

Hongkong 15th August, 1993,

THE KOWLOON HOTEL. HANKOW ROAD.

OPENING

TAT

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SEPTEMBER.

IKST Class and Most Up-to-date Residential and Tourist Hotel Six Stories of Commodicus Large and Airy Roomma with every Modern Appliance. Elevator.to Every Flor and to Hof Garden. Hot and Cold Water, Electric Lights,

through- opt. Exceptionally well ventilate Bar and Billiard Rooms Moderate tariff and most Excellent Cusine supervised by Experienced Chef. Monthly and Family Bates can be arranged at Most Reasonable Tering

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For Terms, apply to

Mrs. J. J. KLAKE,

Manageress.

THE FAST ASIATIC CO., LTD., COPENHAGEN,

THE "MIS

“JAVA"

having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby

informed that all Goods are being Ianded

and stored at their risk into

the hazardous and/or extra bazardous Godowns of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, whence

be delivery may are landed.

No Claims will bo

obtained as soon as tic Bitted after the Goods havo loft the Godoway, And all Goods after the 30th of remaining undelivered August, 1923, will be subject to rest.

All broken, chafed and damaged Goods where they are to be left in the Godown, will be exammed by Mangry. Goddard & Douglas on the 30th August, 1925 at 10a.m.

All Claims against the vessel must be presented to the undersigned before the End of September, 1992, or they will not ba recognized.

No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD. (190)

Agents.

"THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.

COPENHAGEN.

THE MIS

"AFRIKA" hasing arrived. Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that a Goods are being landed and place at their risk into the Jazardons and/or extra hazardons Godown of the Hongkong, and Kowloon Wharf and Gudowa Co. Ltd. where delivery, can be. obtained as soon as the goods are landed.

No Claims will be imitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain ing undelivered after the 31st of August, 1900, will be subject to rent

All broken, chafed and damage Goods are to be left in the Gotown, where they will be examined by Messrs. Goddard and Datglas on the 31st August, 1923, at 10a.m.

All Claims against the vessel must be presented to the cudersigned before the 3rd of September, 1923, or they will not be recognized.

Na Fire Lustiranee will be affected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD..

Agents.

Hongkong, 24th August, 1922

NOTIER TO CONSIGNEES.

vandedekton

THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COS STEAMER

"MANTUA,"

Azerves HonGLONG`ON. 23RD AUGUST, 1923. FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, MALTA, PORTSAID, SUEZ AND STRAITS. ONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above named vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark and delivery can be obtained as the Goods are landed.

Optional goods will be landed here unless instructions have been given to the contrary 6 hours before arrival of the steamer,

and

Lrp., 8,' Scathampton Street, Strand Loxvos, WC. S.

HONGKONG SMALL INVESTORS":

SHARE AND REAL ESTATE CO.. SHARE AND LAND BROKERS.

No. 8, Des Vœux Road..

2nd Floor

Telephone No. C. 4306.

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LAND AT KOWLOON FOR SALE,

Total Area of

FOR SALE by Private Treaty, VALUA BLE LAND AT KOWLOON, with Sea Frontage, having a Upwards of 97,000 Square Feet upon which are erosted Godowns and four Chinese Houses. For Particulars. Apply to JOHNSON, STOKES MASTER. Solicitors,

Prince's Bikiing.

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TO

FURNISHED HOUSE TO LET.

BE LET. Furnished, from the 1st Nov

passibly longer.

a FIVE-ROOMED HOUSE on BARKER ROAD, PEAK. Close to Tram Station. with Tennis Cours und Garlen.

Apply Box BCD.. efo Hongkong Daily Press.

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FFICES in UNION BUILDING-Four

Rooms on Fifth Floor,

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Every approved Banking Shipping and Travel Transaction.

P. J. TANHECKE,

Manager.

RUSSO-ASIATIO BANK

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SCOTCH WHISKY.

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Lords and Commons.

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brie en Franca.

NEW YORK: The Irving Bank-Columbia

Trust Company.

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HONGKONG BRANCH: Intereat allowed on Current Accounts and Fixed Deposits. Terms on application. Loca! Bills discounted.

Foreign Exchange on the Principal Cities of the World bought and sold.

R. A. RODGERS,

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Manager.

$20 REWARD giren do the Finder BOWERN & CO

of an Airedale TERRIER Bitch, LOST in Wanchai. Apply LAI PAK HOT. c/o CHINA SUN MOTION FITURE CO. LTD., 14. Queen's Road Central. Anybody who keeps This Dog will be proscentell,"

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TO LET SHOPS and OFFICES in the T

New Building now being erected on the

Oil Post Office x të in Quem's Road Central

No. 8, MUSEUM BOLD, SHANGHAL

Members British Chamber of Commerca (Shanghai). Mr. T. W. BOWERN, Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, Incor porated by Royal Charter, London.

STEAMSHIP AGENTS AND SHIFEROKKES, For the Purchase, Sale and Charter of Vessels and Pedder Street, the Ground-flor accom of any Tounge, Passenger and/or Cargo, New mudation Loing suitable for Banks or large and/or Old, with delivery China at Very Low Stores. For Terms, andy to the undersigned. Prices. - H. KOTEWALL & Co., Alexandra Billings.

To

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10 LET-ONE OFFICE ROOM

Prince's Building. Apply HART WICKING & Co.

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O LET-New First Class EUROPEAN TPLATS, Confes and Teakwook Flenz- iag. Facing South, in Jordan Road, Yamati. Garage for Private Motor Cars with Caretakers, at 108, Wasang Street, rear Jordan Rond. Apply 81. Jordan Hol or Phone, K. 376.

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TO LET-EUROPEAN FLATElia Lee Building, Wauakai Gap Boni. Apply

186 to 32 Kenuedy Road..

placed AT THEIR 15K in the pany's OR Disposal at Cost Price. One unopened |

Goods not cleared within 8 days, including date of

of arrival will be subject to rent. Bo Fire Insurance will be effected by ns in BBY ORIG

cake whatever. Damaged p

packages must be "left" In the Godowns for examination by the Consignees, and the Company's Barroyers, Meurs GODDARD That 10 AM, on Mondays and

All Claims must be presented within ten days of the Steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognized.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods hare left the Godown,

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,

Agents. Hongkong, 23rd Aǝguit;-1923,

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HONGKONG WEEKLY

SALVAGE OPERATORS, MARINE SURVEYORS AUCTIONEERS, Coal MerchaNTI, FREIGHT BROKERS, METAL MERCHANTE Machinery For Sale, New and Old in First Can Condition. IMPORTIES AND EPOCTERS, BHARE-B20x129 Members Shanghai Shore-Brokers' Associs tion).

SOLE AGENTE FOR CHINA- GREEN'S PATENT ÅKCHORE,

CO., LTD.,

Wine & Spirit Merchants.

PHONE 616.

BIRTH. Xewnorsk-At the Peak Hospital, en Augu 24th. to Mr. and Mrs. E. NEWHOUSE, son, itibarn, Treox

Hongkong Office: 14, Chater Road. London Office: 131, Fleet Street, E.C.

The Baily Press.

HONGKONG, AUGUST 26TH, 1923.

THE VACANT PRESIDENCY. INTERESTING and "possibly spectrealar developments are impending in the North in connection with the election

-new

President of the Repubiis

This date is

General Wu Pei Fa has found a gold mine and has lost no time in getting it developed. The ming is about ten miles tran Layang, the reports say, and ́a os ra- paug, has been organizel' to exploit t The General, "according to reports, is a' member of the company. Development in this ense will be under the direction of foreign engineers. The ore is said to be espobially" good.

Some distances in the South China

of a President, or for any other purpose, At the annual meeting of the Eastern is remote. Mareover, the terin of the Telegraph Co, Ltd.,, on July 24th, Sir Lower House expires on October 10th: John Denisan-Pender, the chairman, said hence the anxiety to get a President the Board held the opinion" that they tered before that date. Technically should be associated with all classes of LI YUAN HUNG is still the President, telegraphie gúmmunication, and with that though for the past six works he has chjeet they were associated with appili. rensel to function. China, likewise, was cations for, wireless licenses for falt for some weeks without a Premier, with powered stations in Great Britain, India. out a Minister of Foreign Affairs, and and China. without a Minister of Finance; Wichin the past few weeks a better approxima tion to a working Cabinet has been made and this Cabinet vicariously exercises the functions of President till one is elected, There is some expectation that it may have to continue to discharge these duties till a new Parliamentary election has taken place, though what hope there is that a new election will displace the exist. ing representatives or that it will greatly: influence the situation if it does, is not; very apparent. By hook or by crook, the Sex and, the "Philippine Islands" is the next President will be Marshal Tsao KCN, į title of a booklet by Capt. G. H. Penbe who would probably be occupying the ¦ father, of the China Navigation Co., Ltd. Presidential Offer: already had Genera) ¦ 16 is useful information for seafaring men We Pete'not intimatel his opposition presented in a form which makes refer- ! to any irregular settlement of the ques ence Sasy. The Lockist will doubtless find a place in the library of every ship trade, ing Tsso Kus to Peking the Tientsing in the Waters to which it relates. It clique have been doing all they know to printed and published by, Yo Olde get the members of Parliament together

Printerie, Ltd. to complete the draft of the Permanent Constitution and then proces, sieuthily and harmoniously to elect a new" Hoad of the State. Specihl payment at the rate of $29, a sitting has been offered to members for their servires, but the opposition seems to have been equally liberal in their brikes to curlers to There have renin away" from Peking. Leen rumours recently that Marshal Tsxo Copies will be reserved for all those wha Kux and Marshal CHANG TS-Ly have have written asking for them, but wa

cannot undertake Helivery; Messengers: come to an arrangement wirely the should be sent to our Town Office, la, former will beenme-President and the Chuter Road (ärd fear) my time after latter Vice-President, though the minera with a chit being, the name of the in which this is to be agcomplished in applicant, accompanied by cash (20 cents. legal form yet remains to be disclosed. Per copy). The description of the Typhoon is illustrated by pictures of the damage it If We Penzu yields to the deerees of wrought this domination he is considered to he done for is the sight of the nation, while if he resists it is said that the Tientsin Party's threat to promote war between CHANG TSO-LIN and WU PRI-FU this year | We have ascertained that the rumoHIT will he made good. A further develop that Dr. Sun Yat Sen had fled fru

Canton is without foundation. It would ment is predicted in which I EAN seem to have originated in the circuns Hexo, the ex-President, will be the lead-stunee that Dr. Sun Yat Sen left for the ing figure. Re was the 'Cohmander-in. East River on the .s. Pai rayo Chief of the Revolutionary Army in 1911, and he is now expected to come out as the leader of a popular movement against the domination of the Tuchuns. It is olivious that whatever may happen in regard to the "election" of a President in the coming month, it can hit prege a long period of grave political unrest in China and might easily at an early date develop into A war of considerable magnitude.

Manila papers regret the death from angina pectoris of Mrs. A. C. Croefjeld, wife of Judge Croa- field.

recorded with doup

The batterunge is shortly to take place of Captain P. R. Purslow of the 3.5. Sulguing to Mies Mary Elizabeth Smith, en foute from England. -

Dr. H. T. Creasy, the new Director of Public Warke, arrived from Colombo ou to P. & O. Muntun and has entered upon his new duties.

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The old course at Fanling is being re- opened "to-day. Golfers intending to ge out to-morrow should not overlook the advertisement in another column..

THE "RECENT TYPHOON. ILLUSTRATED ACCOUNT IN THE

WEEKLY PRESS."

The applications received for eopics of this morning, have exceeded all expecta The Hongkong 11'eekly Preex, to be issued.

tions.

DR. SUN YAT-SEN. HUMOURED FLIGHT UNTRUE.

CORRESPONDENCE. BRITISH INCOME TAX REFUNDS,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG JAILY PRESS."]

DEAR SIR,-Now that the Finance Bill of 1923-21 has passed into law, no doubt your readers who derive any income from the United Kingdom will be interested to learn its provisions.

Briefly the most important changes affecting non-residents are these:

(1) The standard rate tax has been

reduced to 4/6 in the pound. (2) Cinicis can be made for three years hack, but this limit will gradually be extended to "six years. It will not he possible, however, to claim for years prior to 1920-21, the sec- tion not being retrovative.

(3) Income derived from the Irish Free State will be exempt from British Tax, but liable to Irish Income Tax, which is 5 in the pound for 1023-24.

There are apparently stili niany people deriving income from the United King- dom who are unaware that they can re- cover at least part of the income tax charged on it. This is in many cases due to the fact that dividends are often mark-

A cable from Peking-which we publish to lay says that "an informe meeting of the two Houses of Parliament has decided that the preliminary eletion of à President shall be held on any day before September 13th."

At St. John's Cathedral, A MEMORIAL fixed, no doubt, because it is exactly SERVICE will be held on Friday, August BANUEL WARREN & Co., Ian. (Sheffield) three months front the date, of President 31st, ut 5.30 p.m., in memory of thous ther information on this question, I shall

High-Claas Steel Manufacturors (Tank Li YUAN Huxe's sudden almandonnent of who lost their lives in the recent typhoon

office, and the. Provisional Constitution contains a provision which has been inter- preted as denying to the Calrinet a legal The total output of the Kailan Mining 'right to exercise vicariously the functions Administration's mines for the week of the President longer than three ending August 11th amounted to 88,790 months. This interpretation, we notice, toys, and the sales during the period to bas been challenged, by writer who 83,407 tona

Brand).

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By the P., & O, sis, Mustik, three new recruits for the local force arrived from hoa-J. Hurley, F. C. Dowley and P. Barnice. All formerly belonged to the Royal Irish Constabulary.

ed "free of tax" and in some instances. even to mention whatever of tax is made where they are paid through a local branch of "n British Company, In both these cases, however, tax is recoverable.

Should any of your readers desire fur- he pleased to advise them, if they will address me nt 13, Buckingham Palace Gardens. London.--Yours faithfully,

WILFRED T. FRY. 13, Buckingham Palace Gardens, London, S.W.I. July 16th, 1023.

NAVAL NOTES: "The purpose of the time limita- tion in question is no doubt intended to

Lient. H. H. Rogers was to leave, home WHAT IS EYESTRAIN?

prevent a Regency Cabinet from holding

to join the Despatch early in July

The eye has certain ting muscles.

un indefinitely to power hy obliging it to

Surgeon-Commander Ernest MacEwen. Tin Sutton's Flower and Vegetable When objects we look at do not come convoke. Parliament, in case the latter

who recently returned home from China.. REEDS $22.45 Apply Box Y.D., clo

where he was principal medical officer Hongkeng Daily Press.

up to a sharp us in the eye, these should not be" session, for the object of

in the Fitanin, submarine dépôt ship, bas muscles exert themselves unduly and electing the new President. If, however, A telegram from the Manila Observatory taken up a post in the Vetean, depot enalde us to see clearly in spite of the Parliament is in session, is true in was received at the American Consulate ship of the Periscope School at Portland."; defect. These muscles tire and relax.the present case, but fails to elect within General at 10.15 a.m. yesterday, which

Lieutenant-Commander C. M. Campbell, · using the objects looked at to become the three months' limit, the responsibility renda-Warning low pressure area ex-who is to join the Hawking: flagship of blurred and indistinct. Upon closing the for the failure is on Parliament, and the tending from the China Sea to the Pacific the China Station about the beginning of eyes for a few seconds the muscles he- constitutional provision as to time limit across Northern Luzon and the Balintang September, has been temporarily attached to the Intelligence Division. The date of A real typhoon may develop his joining the flagship has been post come more or less rested and objects does not apply to the Cabinet, which Channel.

dated accordingly... aro clear again for a brief period. must continue to function till an election later. Properly fitted glasses correct eye-strain, takes place. There can be no legal

For having in his unlawful posacasion The new fleet gunnery officer of the whether caused by astigmatisin or age. meeting of the Parliament while the mem-of 990 percussion caps without permission, China Station is Commander S LG The Hongkong Optical Co... successors to hers remain so widely scattered as they a Chinese, who was arrested by Bub Ingham, who joins the Bagalip Harkins Commander Ingham will be Clark & Co., Manufacturing and Refractare. There is one group in Peking, Inspector Fallon on the Teung Wing Wah this month.

Wharf, on Thursday was fined $60 by included in the staff of the Commander- ing Opticians, 82, Queen's Road Central, another in Tientsin and a third in Shaug Me Melbourne, at the Magistracy, yes in-Chief. He has been expert in gunnery have the equipment to fit your glasses hai, and the possibility of a quorum terday. The caps, which were secreted in for many years and saw a great deal of properly.---AuvL

being obtained in Peking for the election ting of talcum powder, were confiscated. service in the late war.

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