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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

ROYAL HONGKONG YACHT CLUB

NOTICE.

EMBERS ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED M

CHAMPIONSHIP KACE ill be RESAILED on SATURDAY, FEBRUARY TH

the " 6ra

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY, 10rn.

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A Sailing Hatch will take placa batwson the ROYAL NAVY AND THE CLUB, for details see Notice Boards:

TIFFIN will be provided as the Club House, Those intending to be present must give Notice by FRIDAY NEXT.

By Order,

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E. 8. ROUSE,

*Hon. Sailing Secretary,

CONTRACTORS' PLANT...

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY ́STB,

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

IS that the

NOTICE HEREBY GIVNING

INTIMATIONS

MOTION."

CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS,

N TUESDAY and

of the SHAREHOLDERS in this COR O the bar and 613 FEBRUARY,

PORATION will be held at the CETT HALL Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 331 FEB- RUARY, 1924, at 11,50 am. for the pEZTÓRA of

the Report of receiving

of the Court of Dire actors together with a Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 311) Decembar, 1923,

The Begister of Shares of the Corporation will be closed from Monday, 11th February to Saturday 23rd February. 1934 (both days inclusive) during which period ne transfer of shares can be registered.

be

resolation riz

Departments will be CLOSED for Business.

On These Days

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY Will be OPEN for purpose at Dispensing Prescriptions as follows:-

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10.00 AM to 1.00 2.

6.00 PM to 7:30 PM.

A. 8. WATSON & CO, LTD.. Hongkong, 2nd February, 1994.

NOTION.

A. S. WATHON & CO., LTD.

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The Directors of the HONGKONG ANA NE Certificata No. 7741 for One Hundred

AND NOTICE HERKBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY MEETING of the SH

SHAREHOLDERS of the Hoxoxoxo and BHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION will held on the day and at the place aforesaid immediately upon the termination of the N, Completion of Trai Whares and Ordinary Yearly Meeting for the purpose of

Joharo Causeway Contracts, the Con-20 and it thought fit of passing the i tractors, TOBHAM, JONES & RAILTON,

Bhares Nos. 57851 to 37750 inclusive, in LTD. of London, have a Large Quantity of

SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION be and this Company, standing in the Name of Mr. LAND AND, MARINE PLANT FOR

they are hereby requested and authorised GEORGE HOWARD MAY (deceased) has IMMEDIATE DISPOSAL

by and on behalf of the Shareholders of the boen LOST, and if at the Expiration of One Corporation to take the steps necessary for the Month from the Date beroet the above Certi The LAND PLANT includes Air Com introduction of an Ordinuice into the Legials Acute be not forthcoming, another Certificate pressors, Boilers, Cranes (Travelling Darriskive Council of the Colony of Hongkong

and for the said Sharon will be issued by the Com Goliath and Titan, up to 18 tons lift), Concrete for the enactment of the same by the Governor pany, and thereafter no other will be Mitars, Rock Drilling Machines, Portable Ea-of

"A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. gines, Grab Baskets, Locomotives, Pamps, of Hengoong with the advice and consent at acknowledged.

Raila Bubble Skirt, Shop the Legislative Council thereof to affect the

Hongkong, 2nd January, 1914, amendinents necessary to the Ordinance under Wagons, et Trucks,

which the Corporation is incorporated and

---- BINE PLANT consists of Oman Orrying on Basinger so as to allow of the going Tags, Smaller Tags, Steam an

Lanaches, Steel Hopper Barges and ordinary note isene of the Corporation being Lighters, Wooden Poatoons, Grab Cranes on

regards

Steal Pontoons, str.

dressed to

TOPHAM, JONES & RAILTON, LTD.

Post Office Box 608, Bingapore, S.8.

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incrassed from $20,000,000 to $30.000.000 and

(a)

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HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HANKING CORPORATION.

18th May, 1931, for 10 Shares numbered 842497 TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Certificate 5/NS 7044 dated, Hongkong 84368 inclusive and Certificate Provisional

1912, for 3 Shares of this Bank numbered

so modify the existing requirements Enquiries are invited, and should be ad-issue in the following manner of the incrasie

the deposit of

of security in respect of its note

So that the (namely $10,000,000) of such ordinary note secured by coin or of approved securities amount of the Acta, issue may be at any 193911/15991 induere, both registered in the

(3) Ta

that whatever the total inclusive, provide partienlar time the amount of coin as distinct been Destroyed by Fire, and should these Certi- from bullion or approved securities to be

reduced to the Bank before the ficates be deposited by the corporation shall never be 2310

1924, New Certificates for less than one third of the total amount of the the Shares will be issued, and the aforesaid bills in actual circulation.

Certificates No. 5/N8 7044 and Provisional No. 57/749 will be thereafter treated by this Corporation as Null and Voil

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

·OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.

AND

· CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

From NEW YORK, vis MANILA.

CONSIGNENTILOCHUS

por Company's Steamer

are hereby notified that the Cargo will be discharged into Holt's Whart, Kowloon, where is will be at Consignees risk and subjest to terms and conditiona of storage at Holt'swhart. The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Godown on and after 4th February.

Optional Cargo will be landed, unless notics has been given to Steamer's arriVAL

All broken, chafed and damaged goods are left in the Godowns, where they will be to be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.43 a.m. and noon within the free storage period.

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Stasmer's Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 13th February

ary, will be subject to rent.

All claims against the steamer must be pro- "sented to the undersigned on or before the 26th February, or they will not be recognised

No Fire Insurance will be affected.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

Agenta

Hongkong, 3rd February, 1924.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

CORAN STEAMSHIP GO, LTD.

42TD

1300

CHINA MUTUAL STEAM 'NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

CONSIGNEES per Company's Steamer

*DEMODOCUS"

are hereby notified that the Cargo will be die

By Order of the Board of Directors,

A. G. STEPHEN, Chief Manager. Hongkong, 4th February, 1924.

G.

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have

By Order of the Court of Directors,

A. G. STEPHEN, 240]

Chief Manager.

INTIMATION

PORTS

AND

SHERRIES

For many years we have enjoyed a reputation for Ports

and Sherries second to none."

We invite connoisseurs to

give our "D

& "E" brands

of both a trial. We do not

ask them to buy blindly but

to visit our extensive Wine

Vaults and taste these choice

wines before buying.

HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE A. S. WATSON

COMPANY, LIMGADE.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

PUBLIO AUCTION. PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of NORDINARY ANNUAL GENERAL PARTICUL

the Sale by Public Auction to be held on MONDAY, the 11th day of MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS IN February, 1994, at 3 .., at the Offs of the THIS COMPANY will be held at the Hare Fables

Works

Department, by Order of Ho

KONG HOTEL, Hong

1824, at 11 AM, for ExLLEBOY SAN GOVERNOR, of one Lot of the STX FEBRUAR SATURDAY, CROWN LAND Szok Shan

in the purpose of receiving the Report of the term of the Colony of Hongkong, for

of Directors together with & Statement of Ac 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown counts for the year ending 31st December, 1923. Bent to be fixed by the Burveyor of Ha 75 years. MAJESTY THE KING, for one further term of

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. ·

Kowloon Talad

Begletry No.

Lorality

Che Shin

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| Boundary MeamO TOMELASTIKE,

cat, fees,

Abors

Ansial Bestak,

As per lo plow,

20,000 2

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NOTICE.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that w

Upset Frien

sharged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, where it have This Day changed our Firm Name -will lie at Conaiguses' risk and subject to

of storage at Holt's to

delivery

terms and conilitions of

Wharf The Cargo will be ready for

Excus

Godown on and after 4th February. Optimal cargo will be landed, unless notice

- has been given prior to steamer's arTIVAL, All braken, chafed, and damaged

gooda "are

to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tusedays and Fridays between -the

houre of 10.45 am and Noow within the free Patorage period.

Ho dine will be admitted after the Goods have left the steamer's Godown, and all Goods

remaining and shivered after the 12th February,

will be subject to rent.

All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the undersignal on or before the 56th February, or they will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be effected,

BUTTERFIELD & BWIRE,

Agente, Hongkong, 4th February, 1994,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

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THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO.8 STEAMER PERIM

CONSIG

"ZÍVED HONGKONG DS 4TH FEBRUAHT, 1924.

FROM ANTWERP, IMMINGHAM,

PURTSAID, COLOMBO AND STRAITS.. CONSIGNÉES of Cargo by the above

named vessel are hereby informed "that their Goods are being landed ^and placed AT THRIN RISE in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Gorlowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark be mark stil

delivery can be obtained as the Goods are landed.

Optional goods will be landed here unless

tub hợp been given to the contrary

home before arrival of the steamer. Goods ne

"

"THOMSON & CO”

G. E. &N. THOMSON-Chartered Ac-

conntacts SHANGHAL

THOMSON BROS. & BELL-Chartered

Accountants, HANKOW,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 1st February to the 9th February (both days inaltaive), during which period No Transfer of Shares can be Registered

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Manager),, Hongkong, 23rd Jangary, 1924. [135

HONGKONG BOXING ASSOCIATION.

FOURTH TOURNAMIST OF THE SEASON.

FRIDAY, STR "FEBRUARY, 1994,

AT 9:15 PM

at the

THEATRE ROYAL.

MAIN EVENT: FIFTEEN ROUND FEATHERWEIGHT CHAMPION. SEIP OF THL Colony and the SCOTT

BARTON BELT

STOKER

F, O. JIM CARTIIDGE, "-

Royal Naval Yard,

Imperial Services Featherweight Champion

A. B. CHADWICK, H.M.S. Marazion Lightweight Champion of the

Colony.

CO., LTD.,

Wine and Spirit Merchants

ESTARLINEKD 1841.

BIRTHS. CARRIE A, Peak Road. on February

4th, to Mr. and Mrs, W. J. CARRIE a daughter.

[302 PEREIRA-AC Shanghai, on January 30th, to Mr. and Mrs V. F. PEREIRA,

4. 800.

Hanhora Oues: Lê, Chater Boa Lourdour Office: 181, Fleet Street, K.U.

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, FRERTUART 6TH, 1924,

192

Was

News has been received in Harbin that a Russe Chinese syndicate, after several years negotiations, have succeeded in securing a concession for large coalfields situated on the Chinese Eastern Railday. To enable them to start work, capital is required to lay a railway track of mi

Another motor-bus company has enter- Western standards as has taken place in Japan in the last half century. Whened into the competition as Kowloon. the Japanese abandoned the lunar method This company is styled the Chun Hing of calculating, it is recorded that the Co. There are now four motor-bus com- Chinese then residing at Yokohama, in panies catering for the passenger traffic an incendiary document, which of the Peninsula. It is said that when the audaciously posted at the gates of the Kowloon Motor-Bus Co-the pioneer- Japanese magistrate's office, admonished hid the field to itself it was making a the Japaness for having thus signified profit of sandthing like 300 per cent, by the adoption of the barbarians' time | Hence the advent of rival services. that they had yielded themselves up to be the slaves of the foreign devils." We do not know that this spirit still endures in the evident hostility to the change. The simple fact is that a rever. ence almost superstitious attaches to its observance in the regulation of the daily affairs of the Chinese people, and

miles and to procure the necessary machi- centuries are likely to pass before

nery. It is proposed to ipterest British the ardent Republicans will succeed in persuading the "multitude that the or American capital in the undertaking. first day of the first year of the Brisk bidding took place at the públic Republic," that is to say January 1st, auction of a lot of Crown Load at

which

hold WA

at the means considerably more to them than Shaukiwar does the first day of the lunar new year.

P.W.D. offices. yesterday afternoon. The Even in Government circlès-in Canton los comprises about 370 square feet and as well as in Peking-we get honually the annual rental is 36. Mr. Parker-Rees plenty of evidence of the profound started the bidding at the upset price respect paid to the advent of the lunar of 8310. Offers came in quick succession,

att $30's. It is at this time that we

to 21,500. Eventually, JEŹ new year. hear so much from the Governments $1,630, the lot was knocked down to about the imperative necessity for "tid. Ngai Piu Chung, of 9, the Wood Shed, ing over the financial dificulties of

Praya East. this important settlement date. Even in Hongkong we have the markets closed for three days; the Chinese newspapers take a holiday for seven days-or is it ten -and all Chinese who can afford it take a business holiday at this time! longer than any they take throughout the year. It is, by ancient reckoning, the end of one business year and the begin. ning of a new one, and he is an incur. able optimist who expects in the lifetime assistant, British-American Tobacco Com- of the present generation, or in the next,pany, Lul. route from Mukdea, to see the observance of the lunar new China to Miss Dorothy Ellen Frost, No. year changed to a national observance 11, Magazine Gap Road, Hongkong. of the first day of the first year of the Republic" instead. There are advanced thinkers in Japan, who seemingly cherish a desire to see the New Year festival abandoned entirely, for the reason that it is a relic of feudalism." But, hap-i pily, the Schoongs are as rare in the East as they are in the West. We wish our Chinese readers all the joy they can find in the celebration, and trust that the.

Mr. Frederick Thomas Gardner, ulèrical year that has now dawned will live urastant, Shanghai, to Miss Lydia Sup- to the expectations they associate, with of, Shanghai. the cominencement of the new cycle. Kung hi fat chos!

་་

To-day being the Chinese New Year and a general holiday for the staff, thore; will be no este of the Hongkong Daily, Press to-morrow morning.

Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Dennys and Mr. DE Clark returned to the Colony on the lakuan Maru.

FORTHCOMING "WEDDINGS.

The following forthcoming weddings are arounced.

Lieutenant-Col W. ., N Nicholson. D.A.Q.M.G.. Headquarters, Military Com- and, Hongkong, to Miss Una Phyllis Higgs, No. 9, The Peak.

Mr. Hector Charles Rowson, mercantile

ел

Mr. Adrian J. H. van der Myl Dekken, sub-accountant, Netherlands-India Commercial Bank, and of No. 32, Nathan Road, Kowloon, to Miss Wilhelmina Elisabeth van der Memlen, No. 1, Fang.

Fai Terrace.

Mr. H. Olsen Kasparen, Mercantile

Assistant, Kowloon Hotel, to Miw Afloa Kowloon Hotel. Magrethe Kathrine Hansen, ao of the

I

Mr. James Edgar, veterinary surgeon, No. 18, Garden Road, Shanghni, to Miss Isobel Alexander, en route from England by the a.. Teirealus,

H.M.3, "HAWKINS."

DEPARTURE FOR SINGAPORE.

H.M.S. Hawking, with the Commander- in-Chief on board, sailed at 4 pm. "on the 2nd instant for Singapore. The China flagship will welcome the Empire Cruise Squadron which arrives at Singapore on February 10th, and will remain there for a week before sailing for Fremantle.

H.M.S. Harkins, with the Admiral's An earth coolie was badly injured by visit Batavia and Java ports, and return yacht Petersfield in company, will then small landslide on the site of a new

to Hongkong at the end of March ris building near St. Margarets Church, Bangkok and Saigon. Broadway Road, He was conveyed to the Government Civil Hospital.

Mr. H. S. Bennett, Manager of the Telephone Company, and Mrs Bennett left by the St. Albans on Saturday on a voyage to Sydney.

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CHINA NEW YEAR,

WREX the first Republican National Assembly, in November 1911, passed a resolution adopting the Western Cofen Also One Ten Round Lightweight Contest slar it, no doubt, confidently expected THOMSON BROS. & STEDMAN-CharTwo Featherweights

and One Welterweight. One Lightweight, that the people of China would conform tered Accountants, TIENTSIN and Contest each of Siz Rounds.

and Oxe Flyweight PEKING.

to the new Government edict as readily Hongkong, 1st February, 1924. [878

as did the people of Japan when the change from the lunar to the solar year.

St. Andrew's Church Hall was the for the purposes of reckoning was venue of a successful concert yesterday Accountants, announce that they have

No greater teat evening An interesting programme in- This Day OPENED an OFFICE at 4, Das

5th February at the HONGKONG HOTEL made there, in 1872. Vœux ROAD, CENTRAL, Hongkong, Tele- For the General Public on the '

of loyalty could perhaps be imposed cluded vocal and instrumental music, phone No. Central 4616.

6th February at the HorgronG HOTEL [279

7th and 6th February at Mournir's.

MESSES. THOMSON & CO., Chartered

Hongkong, lat February, 1934.

THE

NOTICE.

fi

THE CHINA LIGHT "AND POWER DO. (1918), LTD., beg to Notify their Consumers that owing to Alterations in the Generating Station the Supply of Electricity will not be available between the Hours of DAM and 5 PM, 6a TUESDAY, tb# 5тx of FEBRUARY.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO..

General Managers.

2011!!

OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY:

THE ANNUAL DINNER will be held

UR SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 167.

·

not cleared within 8 days, including Will Those who wish to be present please

date of arrival will be subject to mat.

No Firs Insurance will be exacted by us in

by say ɑsen whatever.

Damaged packages.

must be left in the Godowns for axamination by the Consignesa, and the Company's Burveyors, Menen. GaDDARD DOUGLAS, at 10 am, on Mondays anË Thursdays.

All Clims must be presented within ten dayı of the Bieanter's arrival-hore, after which dala they cannot be recognized.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods

hare left the Godown.

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,

Aganta.

Hongkong, 4th February, 1974.

₤304

communicate with One of the Secretaricá—–

B. E LINDSELL,

General Post Office

J. E WARNER,

St. Stephen's College.

BOOKING.

For Members Only on the

4th February at Mourmis's.

On people like the Chinese or the monologues, impersonations, mental read Japanese than a requirement to obeying displays, etc. such an order na this, when we bave

FIVE WORKMEN KILLED

AT TAIPO. ·

Five Chinese workmen engaged on a new granite building at Taipo were killed as a result of a fall of masqury on Friday last. Another lies seriously injured in hospital. In the opinion of the contrac regard to the great body of tradition and given notice of his intention to ask the to heavy rain washing away the clay at The Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, R.C., has tor, Shek Koo Ling, the collapse was due NEXT TOURNAMENT - March 8th at the ritual associated with this the greatest following question at Thursday's meeting the base of the building," The five bodies

of all festivals in the Chinese calendar of the Legislative Council - Is the bave been recovered,

USUAL PRICES.

THEATRE NOTAL

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Government offering rewards for infor- mation which leads to the arrest and con- viction of Piracy1

GIRL FROM CHINA:

DISAPPEARS.

*

While, in Japan, the Edict was implicitly NATIONAL LOANS.

obeyed, and the lunar new year ceased to be observed in the Mikado's domains, UBSCRIBERS to the NATIONAL the Ediet, in Ching bas, counted for

LOANS of the Third, Year of the Republic (1914) and the Eleventh Year nought, except in official circles and All letters to Shansi, the peaceful pro of the Republic (1922) are hereby notified among a comparatively infinitesimal vince, are to be censored. General' Yen that the following Daawixes for the number of Chinese business men in the Sbih Shan, the Governor, according to young and pretty girl from China is enga-

The mystery of the disappearance of redemption of the above Loans will be Treaty ports All oficial documents, we the Chinese Press, has recently inaugurat-ging the attention of Scotland Yard, says held this year.

THIRD YEAR 2nd June, 1924: 7th DRAWING (82,750,000 have been dated according to

understand, since the beginning of 1912 ed a consorship," so that no news which a London paper. Miss Dorothy. Crawley approx.) redemption begins 30th June.

the is detrimental or of no interest to the (19), daughter of Mr. P. D. Crawley, 1st December, 1924: 8th DRAWING Gregorian calendar, but the Chinese inhabitants shall reach them.

zub-manager of a banking and shipping (82,750,000 approx.) redemption people at large persist in reckoning by

firm in Wei-ha-wei, arrived at Tilbury begins 31st December.

regulations,

LOAN,

KIB 80

The Dollar Line steamer President with her father and mother on November

in

27th, and went to live in Chiswick during

convent there, and has not been in Eng- her father's vacation. She has spent most of her years in China,, was educated at u land since she was seven, On the 27th. after visiting a theatre, she told her father she was to sleep at her aunt's house that night-in the same road-and she left for thers.

Actually she wrote letters to her father

announcing, it is said, her inten

It is to be noted that two Drawings of the Juuar method. Family records are Harrison yesterday had her faga at this Loan, instead of one, are being held so kept, tenancies of houses tion of the Loan and its extinction indone according to the junar calendar. President Wilson. She was the only ship this year in order to bring the redemp-reckoned, and all the business of life is half-mast as a tribute to the late ex 1925 into line with the schedule of amortisation prescribed by the Loan Heuse the celebration of the Lunar New in port yesterday aying the Stars and

ELEVENTH YEAR LOAN.

Year is universal in Chim Officials and Stripes, excepting the American gun 10th May, 1924: 3rd DRAWING (81,000,000) others who observe the Solar New Year boats, whose flags were not half-masted.

redemption begins 31st May,

obterve it merely as an extra holiday, Mers. Benjamin & Potty are 10th November, 1994: 4th DRAWING and not in substitution of the Lunar New receipt of a telegram from their Shang- tion of rummey, when the left home. (81.000.000) redemption begins 30th Year festival In Japan, on the other hat Office, advising that the output of and though her absence was discovered November. The service of the above two Loans is hand, the abandonment of the Lunar New The Mantoukou Coal Fields (of The within half an hour an intensive warch conducted independently and forma no Year festival was complete. This differ- Shanghai Exploration and Development the girl. Where the bus gode is a mystery, the Chiswick police yielded in trace o part of the Consolidated Loan Service.

ence in popular loyalty to the decrees of Co., Ltel), amounted to 15,614: tops for My wife and I want her to come ruler affords a significant commentary in the month of January. The output for sold the inther. My wife in nearly pros

trate at the loss of our only child. There the expectation that China, some day, December was 14,000 tons. This Company is nothing for Dorothy to fear All we will undergo such a rapid conversion to' is a part of the Langkat Co.

want is to see our daughter safely home.

F. A AGLEN, Inspector-General of Customs." Inspectorate-General of Customs,

Peking, 23rd January, 1924.

ન running away, ond to

to her cousin.