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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH,

THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD.

Tel. Central 238. ̧

3, Queen's Buildings. ⠀

BOLE AGENTS FOR

BELL'S UNITED ASBESTOS CO. LTD..

MANUFACTURERS OF

"Victor Metallio," "Dagger," "Quadruple" and

、" "

"Hesfer" Packings.

Bell's Asbestos Compositions.

"Salamander" Engine & Cylinder Oils.

"Salamanderite Jointing."

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

MONDAY, TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY,

at 2.30, 5.15, 7:15 & 9.15 p.m.

JACKIE COOGAN

IN

"DADDY.”

ADDED ATTRACTION at 5.15

9.15 p.m.

Entire Change of Programme

Mr. THOMAS ASTROFF

Classical and Oriental Dances

Miss BESSIE LESTER New Comic Songs, etc., etc.

PRICES OF ADMISSION:

At 5.15 p.m.-$1.20, $1.00 & 60 Cts. At 9.15 p.m.-$1.50, $1.00 & 60 Cts.

Soldiers and Sailors-Half Price to Stalls.

CHAMBERLAINS COUGH REMEDY

Coughs, Colds

CROUP.

SORE THROAT,

4 EXPLAINA

THROAT and LUNGS

Sunderlalu Medicine C.

S SMALL SIZE

Chamberlain's Cough Remedy

Cures Coughs, Colds, Croup, Sore Throat, Hoarseness, Bronchitis, Whooping Cough and all Throat Diseases.

Sold Everywhere.

"TOP NOTCH"

"King George IV"

Scotch Whisky

maintains its pre-war delicacy of BOUQUET and FLAVOUR

Sole Agents:

GANDE, PRICE & Co., Ltd., HONG KONG

BRITISH TRADE WITH

RUSSIA.

OFFICIAL FIGURES.

In the current issue of the Board of Trade Journal are given particulars off trade between the United Kingdom and Russia during the first eight months of 1991, together with the figures for the calendar years 1990-1999 and 1913 För 1913 and 1920 the figures apply to the territories constituting pre-war Russia; ; [rom 1991 onwards the Secession States -Finland, Esthonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland are excluded. Below Are the total values of the imports from and the exports to Russia in the years nanied: Imports. Exports. Re-exports. £40,971.000 £19,103,000 £9,301,000 33,523,000 11,092,000 4,$11,000 2,605,000 2,151,000 1,210,000 8,103,000 3,841,000 970,000 9:266,000 2,492,000 1,089,000

1913

1990

1021

1999

1823 1924 (Jan.-

Aug.) 10,505,000 1,358,000 5,175,000 * In the frst eight months of this year foodstuffs were imported from Russia to the value of £3,410,226, the principal items being butter, maize, barley, wheat, and eggs. Raw materials, valued at £4,024,94, included wood and timber (£9,968,383), fur skins, flax, manganese ore, oil seeds, and bristles, and manufac- tures, totalling £2,500,163, included plati- Bam, drugs, petroleum, and dressed skins and furs.

Obtainable at LANE CRAWFORD.LTD

Tabaqueria Filipino, Graco Egyptian Tobacco Store, and all high-class Tobacconist,

At 95 cents per tin of 50

FOR ATTENTION OF MASTERS OF NORTH-BOUND STEAMERS.

S. During the North-East Monsoon there is always a possibility of North-bound Steamers Running Short

British exports to Russia consisted mainly of manufactured articles, includ ing machinery, irao and steel, imple-A ments and tools, cordage, chemicals, leather and woollen goods, and aero- planes and parts, the total value amount- ing to £1,930, 830. Cured herringa and coal accounted for the major part of the balance. Among re-exports were tea, raw cotton, raw wool, hides, and non-ferrous metals.

AMERICA'S TAX BURDENS.

A financial writer in a Londoù paper

Bay's —

To us in Great Britain, fully conscious as we are of the burden of taxation which we have to bear, information as to the burdens borne by members of other nations will always prove of interest, and may produce for some of us a compensat- ing feeling of self-righteousness. The National Industrial Conference Board of New York has just produced an annual study of the tax burden of the United States, some of the main features of which are summarised in the latest issue to hand of " Bradstreet's." Total tax- tion, including taxation by the Federal, State, and local governments of the coun- try, is put at $7,718,000,000 in 1929, sa in- crease of $55,000,000, or 10.8 per cent, as compared with 1992, and of $3,500,000,000 as compared with 1913. Before the war the amount of taxes raised by State and local governments constituted, about 70 per cent of the total tax bill. During the war this ratio declined, but in 1921 it had rises to 50 per cent, în 18923 it reached 57 per cent, and in 1923 58 per cent.

The report examines the relation of taxes to income, and shows that in 1890 all taxes represented 7.9 per cent of the cational income. In 1903 the percentage had fallen 'to 8.7 per cent, and in 1913 to 6.4 per cent. As a result of the war the situation ebanged, the tax burden grow- ing relatively much more rapidly than national income. In, 1919 the ratio of taxes to income was 121 per cent, and in 1991 it increased to 15.7 per cent. In And it fell to 12.1 per cent, and la 183 to 1.6 per cent. In evidence re- cently given before the Committee on National Debt and Taxation the ratio of State taxation to national income in Great Britain, exeluding local taxation, was estimated at 22.9 per cent. in 1029 and 18.8 per cent in 1023. The ratio in France for 1023 has been estimated at 18 per cent.

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INCORRECT CHLESE ALMAKAO.

A Java message says that several meet- ings have been held in the business asS0- elations and other Chinese quarters to ascertain the correctness of the Chinese calendar for next year. The Dutch Gov. ernment observes January 24th, 1925, as

the Chinces New Year's day, and it falls on Saturday. Most of the print ed calendars are incorrect, because they radicate that January 25th, 1925, will be New Year's day, and it falls on Telegram replies given by

have been despatch-

OF BUNKER COAL, This is to Inform You that TAIT & CO. AMOY (A Well-protected Fort with Good Anchorage) hare Stocks of

GOOD JAPANESE BUNKER COALS

י.

AT REASONABLE PRICES. Wireless Messages ris Hongkong or Formans are Be-transmitted by the dazAŤ NOKTAZAN TRAGRAPH Co., and a Wire to "TAIT" or ." COALBUNKER" AMOY, will Receive their Prompt Attention.'

Bentley's Complete-Phrase Code used.

When you see

THE

SIGNAL

TOWER

Starring

Virginia Valli

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You will see the most remarkable and thrilling train wreck ever screened.

To-day, at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15

at the

CORONET.

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PREPAID

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WANTED

ADVERTISEMENTS

Letters are lying at this Office for Bor-IE, XL, XS, YI, 39, 40, 880; 979, 1890.

ANTED for the HELENA MAT INSTITUTE.

Wesident of Non-Resident LADY

SECRETARY AND TREASURER. Hours: 9.30 to 3 (9.30 am to 5 pm.)-Apply by Letter only to "THE COUNCIL," Helena May

[雄 Institute.

KING'S £5,000 A YEAR,

"Ta our present system worth the "money, some may ask? Considerably. over half a million pounds a year goes to royalty," writes Frank Dinot in the Sphere.

ed to tory there say the, Government there ob- serves January 14th, 1925, as their first New Year's Day. The one hundred years old calendar was wrong and a similar mistake occurred about 13 years ago, a

Ministry of Education and the. O the keep up his various palaces

ormous

·LA, ex-

The entire sum is probably well expended for the sake of the ex celicnt return we get in monarchy is an institution. But as a matter of fact the money is not lost. The King has to

for salaries and - expenditure wages, and the money thus comes back into circulation, benefiting all through whose hands it passes in its ever-widen ing distribution. I doubt if in these times the King after meeting all his in- evitable and automatio expenses (thus sending the money back to his people). receives a net personal salary of more

FIRST JAPANESE COTTON MILL IN than £5,000 a year. It is not a large sum

MAHUHURIA.

The first Japanese spinning mill in Manchuris has been erected at Liso- yang and is now turning out coarser kinds of yarn, 10's and 20'a. 10,000 spindles cut of altogether 32,000 are being worked, the entire installation being expected to be operated early next spring In the future, finer classes of yarn will be put out. At present, the Mills employ "700 hands, mostly Chinese, and their number will be increased to about 2,500 next spring. The expert hands have been trained at a Tsingtao Mili allied to the Liaoyang plant

THE RUBBER HÅRKET.

Messrs. "Carroll Bros, inform us that they are in receipt of telegraphic advices from Singapore informing them that the price of Rubber is now 59 cents per lb. also that the Utan Simpan Rubber Com pany has declared an interim dividend of

5 per cent.

to give the titular head of the most successful form of democratic governe ment which human beings hate yet devised."

FINANCIAL SAYINGS OF TEE WEEK.

Cheap capital is the first essential to industry-fr. G. Stanhope Pitt.

London who is not a Free Trade-Mr. Henry Bell.

I do not think I can find a bankır in

The German Loan will be one of the greatest financial successes the world has over seen.-Sir Patrick Hastings.

CINEMA » NOTES,

THE WORLD THEATRE. of midnight adventures in New York's "Broadway after Dark," the picture. region of the "great white way," which begins five days run at the World Theatre today, shows types one sees in all the large capitals of the world.

1924

DUTY

"Why do you always tell everyone about

Kensitas ? he says to me, sir.

Because I consider it my duty, sir.

Duty is the sublimest word in the English language, Jenkyn," he says and I believe him, he knows what's what, he smokes Kensitas himself.

Like yourself, sir, a smoker of taste and discrimination.

Jenkyn

Manufacturers: J. WIX & SONS-Ltd - 1945 PICCADILLY LONDON+W.1 + ENG, Wholesale only: DONNELLY & WHYTE, Distributors for Hongkong and South Chinx. 2 QUEEN'S BUILDINGS. Telephone: Central 435

Kensitas

the preferred cigarette

CHUN HING MOTOR BUS COMPANY.

The following List is the Time Table of our Bervice from Lai Chi Kok to Un Loru and Vice Versa.

From 8 AM to 6 P.M.

Every 1 Hour Service

The Buses will Run every Hour Daily. UN LONG SERVICE.

"

From UN LONG to SHEUNG SKUI,

From 8 AM to 6 P.M.

Every 40 min. Service

From LAI CHI KO

Lut Mox Sou CHVEN WAX

CHA WA.Xox SUN CHARG SUK CHANG ORIG Loar Tou

Soo Koox Mus CASTLE PRAX

to

Lar Mor Boo CLUE WAX Chai Wan KOL SU CHANG. SUX CHANG Cao Luxe Tou

800 KOON MULK. CASTLE PEAX 9 Hoor

141

10. Minta,

HEAD OFFICE at 635-638, SHANGHAI STREET.

TEL KOWLOON 1070.

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XMAS CIGARS

TO SEND HOME

THIS IS THE MONTH TO POST YOUR XMAS PRESENTS HOME WE SUPPLY THE BEST BRANDS

OF CIGARS AND PAY THE DUTY.

A GOOD CIGAR-THE EVER WELCOME GIFT.

ABAQUERIA FILIPINA

LEADING TOBACCONISTS, OPPOSITE QUEEN'S THECTRE

Twice Daily

THE STAR

STARRING

TO-DAY, at 5.30 & 9.15

AROUND THE WɔELY Town

THE LITTLEJOHN REVUE

5.30 2.15

A Compact and selected company representing Music Hall Stars From all parts of the world, on their second year of a world-conquering tour.

COMEDY

BURLESQUE NOVELTY

· Frank-LITTLEJOHN-Melba

The novelty act De Luxe, backed up with a setting of a Million Rhinestones,

The most novel and most beautiful act în the world.

MAY REGAY

Queen of Variety in a song and dance novelty that scale anything ever seen in The Orient

IVY NICHOLLS

Late principal in "ROUND-IN-FIETY." London: Hippodrome, in a revas of Character songs and Impersonations.

MINNIE and WINNIE

Two girls and a Baby Grand Piano, in song and story

LOPEZ and NICHOLLS

The dippy mad conjurer and his pretty numið in a series of Novelty Com, juring, Juggling, Acrobatic Feata, oto.”

MISS BERYL SCOTT

Charming exponent of Marie, Melody, and Mirth. LITTLEJOHN NOVELTY REVUE distinctly new ilen in entertainment by the entire compan

POPULAR PRICES

Matinkus 60 cta. & 81, NIGHT $1.00 & 81.50. BOOKING AT MOUTRIES AND THE STAR.