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THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUS- TRALASIA & CHINA TELE- GRAPH CO. LTD. (INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND.)

HONGKONG STATION.

INTIMATIONS

NOTICE.

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THE | HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 17TH, 1925

TOTION IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Interest and Bespousibility in our Firm of KK. CHARLES ALEXANDER HOOPER CEASED on the SOT JUNE, 1995. ML GEOBGE GWINNETT NOBLE TINSON Has THIS DAY Been Admitted a Partner in our Firm which woman of JOHNSON, STOKES will be carried on as heretofore under the MASTER

THE Pablis are Informed that owing to the Stopping of Litia in Ofice Buildings car Temporary Mongers have been instructed to Deliver No Telegrams above the Second Floor,&

Those Firms who are abere this level, and who are expecting Telegrams, are kindly Re "quested To Call for same at Our Office.

E. A. LEGGATT.

Superintendent

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THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY, LIMITED, OF DENMARK,

HONGKONG STATION.

!TIE' Public are Informal that owing to the

Stopping of Latts in Ofice Buildings our Temporary Mossengers have been instructed to Deliver No Telegrams above the Exp Floor.

Those Firms who ars abers this level and who are arpenting Telegrams, are kindly Bo quested To Call for same at Ou: Office, V. JESSEN,

Superintendent Hongkong, 8th July, 1925,

NOTICE.

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TR. JULIUS KING, B.S., Architect, M Civil Engineer and Sarveyor hareby given Notice that the Practice which he has carried or at No. 2. Qr's ROAD CENTRAL Has Been Taken Over by Ma A. W.GRAHAM- BROWN, A.RI.B.A...F.8.A. (Scot.), as from be the 24TH DAY OF JUNE, 1925, and wil carried on by MA A. W. GRAHAM-SHOWN at No. 2, Quiz's ROAD CENTRAL for Pericd of One Month from the Date heruf and as from that Date at No. 12, PanDIE Sraz, and all the Responsibility and Liability of Ma JOLI RING CEASEN as From the aid 24 DAY OF JUNE, 1925.

J. RING,

A. W. GRAHAM-BROWN.

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"GLEN " LINE, LIMITED,

S.5 PEMBROKESHIRE." "

of CABGO "from the TONSIGNEES

UNITED KINGDOM and CONTINENT hereby Isformed that Cargo for HONGLONG by which wond PEMBROKESHIRE",

1.1.

otherwise have Arrived Eers on the 11TH JULY, in being Discharged at SINGAPORE, where it lies at the Risk and Expense of the Owners of the Goode

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Agent! Hongkong, 6th July 1

CAFÉ WISEMAN.

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O the Convenience of oar Happy Valley F

and Wanchai Customers, We have Appointed the following Firm as our Agents for the SALE of BREAD, who will have Fresh Deliveries Twice Daily:

H. M. HAJEE ESMAIL,

No. 2, y LuK LANE,

Telephone No. 18

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JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER. Hongkong, 1st July, 1925.

NOTICE.

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A JULY, 1923, the faberest and Berpot- From and including the FIRST DAY or 5 ibility of MR EDWARD MAURICE RAYMOND in the Firm of MOXON & TAYLOR, Sharebrokers, Has Been TERMIN. ATED by mutual consent

MOXON & TAYLOR 2. Y. RAYMOND. Dated the 1st day of July, 1925.

WANTED.

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WANTED Experiensed Machineshop

FOREMAN to Work on All Night Shift Good Salary to Capable Man- Apply UNITED ENGINEERS, LIMITED, SENATORE.

TO LET...

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ODOWNS. in ALEXANDRA BUILD.

INGS (Basement).

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A. 8. WATION & Co. Zan

TO LET.

YOMMODIOUS SHOP and PREMISES, MOLANDIA BELLDINGS, from 181 SEPTEMBER NEXT.

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FFICE in UNION BUILDING-TWO

ROOMS ON FOUR FLOOR,

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CANTON, LTD.

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THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI HOTELS, LIMITED,

WITH

INTIMATIONS

DEWAR'S

WHITE

LABEL

FINEST

SCOTCH WHISKY

OF GREAT AGE.

AWARDED 50 GOLD AND

PRIZE MEDALS,

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WATSON

& CO., LTD.

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ITA reference to the Ofer of New A. S.

1925 Saaren dated the 15th May, (made to Existing Shareholders of the Company) by the terms of which the sum në $7,50

per share was to be paid on the 20th June 25, the mum of $5 on the 30th September, 1915, the Directors here decidel ( (in view of the present condition of affairs) to extend These Datesk.

The Date for Payment of the First Instal ment of $7.50 per share is accordingly extended until the 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1925, and the Date for

of the Second Instalment Payment

Hongkong Office: 14, Chater Road.

We are now Discontinuing the Sals of Bread until the 31яr DECEMBER, 1929 advantage rondon Office:. 131, Flest Street, E.C.

at our BAKERY in Burroughes Street.

NOTICE.

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USINESS FIRMS Win Greatly Assist Bas Diaporal de REFUSE BY BUGN- ING on their Premises as much Waste Paper

possible.

N. L.. SMITH, Head of the bandary Department. 4th July, 1925.

MY

NOTICE.

THE HONGKONG SHAREBROKERS'

ASSOCIATION,

HE JUNE SETTLEMENT Has Been Further PUST PUNED to the lig

THE

INST.

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By Order of the Committee,

J. W. KEW,

Secretary,

NOTICE.

THE SHARE & REAL ESTATE BROKERS' SOCIETY OF HONGKONG.

An regard shareholder who take for these extended thats the New Shares lotted to them will rank for Dividend as from the 1st Octozza, 1995, in respect of half the nominal value thereal and as from the 1st JANUARY 1926, in respect of the full nominal value thereof.

Any Shareholder who makes payment prior to the due date will be allowed interest at 7 per cent per annum on the amount paid by him from the date of payment until the dus date.

This Nation will not affect those Shares holders who make payment on the original dates, is, as regards the Fira Instalment on the 30th JaNE and as regards the Second Ins- talment on the 30th SEPTEMEZ The shares

to be allotted to them will in accordance with the original terms of theofer rank for Dividend on One-half the nominal raine as from the 1st JULY. 1925, and on the Full nominal value as from the 1st Octorex, 1923,

By Order of the Board,

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J; H. TAGGART,

Managing Directar.

THE HONGKONG" &" KOWLOON

WHARF & GODOWN. »

CO., LTD.

CONSIGNEES of CARGO lauded into this TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Unsettled. State of Affairs are hereby Notified

POSTPONED JUNE SETTLSMENT

will Take Place on TUESDAY, 1478 JULY.

By Order of the Committee,

M. FERNANDEZ,

Secretary.

Hongkong, 4th July, 1925.

NOTICE.

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TOMICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the"

NONE SETTLEMENT will be held

on TUESDAY, the 14 day of JULY, 1925.

By Order of the Committee,

A. NISSIM,

Secretary Horákana Stock EXCHANGE.

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NOTICE.

The Daily Press.

HomeKore, Juzr îru, 1925,

HOW LONG?

general strike they can bring us to our

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ended on July 3rd. This 48 hours med CLEAR OUT THE UNDESIRABLES. on July 5th also show a' sil return.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE MONGKONG

DAILY PRESS."

An elderly Chinese was drowned in a nullah at Shaukiwan West during the

No cases of notibable diseases were re- But that is painting the picture in its blackest colours. Reference is made to ported in the Colony during the 24 hours such a state of affairs simply to show how hopeless and absurd is the idea, apparently held by the Canton Govern ment, that by the simple expedient of frightening our workers and declaring week-end. The deceased went there to Stn Sines stizte of emergency has-

wash clothes and was carried away by the been declared, and as intimidation ja current after he had missed his footing still rife, it is hoped that the Authorities knees in the course of a few weeks.

His dead things are at present-and as we have and dropped into the drain.

will take immediate steps to put an end said the Canton Government has shot body was recovered,

the present reign of terror " its bolt and can do no more-trade is

While walking in the Public Square, amongst the Chiness population of this near Temple Street. Yaumati, on Sunday Colony. We must combat these "ter- night, Mrs. Carlobe, of No. 6. Tung Hing Road, was stopped by a man who threw a paper containing pepper in her! face and partially blinded her for the time. He stole her bag valued at e, which contained a $1 note and r pair of spectacles valued at $12.

moving; slowly and sluggishly, it may be but still moving. Moreover, it has now reached its lowest ebb. Every day, as we continue to improve our loen ar rangements it must get a little better. The Canton market may be closed to but Hongkong does not depend entirely on Canton. Thers are the needs of car own Colony, the Philippines, Formosa

:

A band of Maryknoll missionaries

They

to

orists" relentlessly and pursue them

into their dens.

All low-class restaurants and shops. which have "closed their doors should be nailed up and "carefully watched by detectives and police patrols. No idler should be allowed to cecupy or sleep in such places.

and the Coast Ports to be näsidered. A jarrived on board U.S.8. Simpson from All hawkers' stalls in side lanes and number of boats are held up temporarily Yeung Kong on Sunday night, but every day vessels are being entered were Fathers Ford. Drought and Gleasony-ways should be immediately to and cleared, Business has been crippled and Sisters Magdalen. Rese, Dolores, moved, na they provide innocent-looking. but not killed, and Canton will soon have Monica, Lourdes, and Matthews. Fathers meeting places (day and night) for the to realise that it is quite beyond its Gleason and Drought were the two priests seres-society men of the labour unions. power to administer the death blow... who went ashor" from the Stanley a fox)

Now what of the position in Canton ?" days ago and failed to return. The Government there are feeding, or they ought to be feeding, between one

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with cutting down tries wholesale on the hillside above the University, and 18 were fined $10 each, or two weeks' hard labour, Another. a small boy, was fined $5 or one week, and another defendant forfeit ed her bail for not appearing in the

Court.

COST OF LIVING IN CANTON,

OVER 1,000 CHINESE RETURNED

Many of the so-called Unions are no- thing better than szerej societies, and this is why the heads are able to terrorises the whole Chinese population of the Calony by written threats issued under the instructions of the parent society at

Canton. All such unions should be rigorously suppressed by the Government:" Police patrols should see that all streets. and lanes are kept Free from obstructions

and suspicious loiterra.

All suspicious loiterers and idlers found. watching trans and spying at reck corners and under verandahs should be immediately searched, and those unable satisfactorily to account for their pte- sence in the Colony should be deported There is little authentic news from We don't want loiterers and useless food- consumers in our midst, at present. All Caften. but plenty of rumours.

must work or leave the Colony.

YESTERDAY.

Some of these rumours, started for the

Any person who is on n business most part by passengers from the Kwang- tang Capital, may be discounted. but Ferrand, at this time of the day, has no they all tend the same way which is to time to loiter. There is no excuse what- show that things are not so pleasant as ever for loitering in the streets. When they might be in that City

the streets and lanes have been cleared

It

Eighteen men and women appeared bec före Mr. S. B. B. McElderry at the hundred and fifty thousand and two Central Magistracy yesterday, charged hundred thousand Hongkong, people. Very soon, they will have still more applicants for their "free rier" as we are glad to notice that the Police have now been empowered to deport immed. iately any person "found to have no regular employment in the Colony. Even a rich and stable Government could not aintain this procedure for many weeks, and the Canton Government is neither

rich nor firmly seated in power. It has been in existence for a few days only and already there are rumours of a split within its ranka. These rumours may not be true and we do not attach much importance to them. We base our view of the ultimate outcome upon, the fact that the position in which the Canton Government has pinced itself is no

is stated that several military of pastry and macaroni stalls, etc.,, and absolutly impossible one for any Góveru.

leaders are showing open discontent with street loafers, our compradores, - mer- ment in this world to maintain.

Some the present, position of affairs. That may chants and wage-corners will be able to move about in safety and freedom from thing approaching a quarter of a million or may not be so, but certainly the cost people cannot be cowed into admission of food in Canton is rising rapidly, threats Restore the, confidence of the idefinitely When the cost of food in That is an established fact and it will people, and the rest will be easy.....

And finally, in the event of the Canton rises still higher what will the soon, bring discontent and rioting in its normal population say to this huge band train. There seems little doubt that on "strike" continuing, it will be necessary the 1st inst., a definite attempt was made to make a bouse to house inspection and upon the life of Wu Hon Man, the leader comh out the undesirables (men and are cleared out there will unquestionably of the Government. It is suggested that women). be rioting."

Anti-Bolshevists are already at work in That the spirit of unrest is even now

RIVER TRAFFIC.

Canton. Let us hope that the tide is turning manifesting itself is proved by the fact

thousand Chinese passengers and that this is the beginning of the end that the head of the Government-Wu arrived from Canton on the Charles of Bolshevist misrule in South China... HON MAN-was shot at and wounded affordonis and Tang Ou yesterday after Yours faithfully, few days ago. Several military leaders noon, this being the largest number which in the vicinity are said to be waiting has come from them in one day since the opportunity to revolt, and then there the strike began in Hongkong..

Two American lady missionaries and Europeans from the Shameen were

The American ladies were stationed at amongst the passengers on the Tung Ox.

Mei Wah, and the American Consul; sent. a boat up the river to convey, them to Canton.

of idlers in their midst ?

Unless they

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Ir is suggested by some that "the strike" is always the menace of the Yunnanese

is likely to last several months. We are who are still around Canton in consider- inclined to take a more optimistic view.able numbers. In addition to all these The Canton Government, and the strike factors tending towards a quick settle-

There agitators, have done their worst.

the latest report is that plague ment, may be a few more men who can he has broken out in the City. forced out of their employment bat whether they go or whether they stay matters little. In some quarters, indeed, the hope is quite sincerely expressed that they will go; that there will be thorough sweet made of all the frightened

If we had to wait upon Peking or for action by the Great Powers to settle the Hongkong disturbances we would agree that it might be months before we were

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his assailants were Yunnanese.

Over

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PRECAUTION. Hongkong, July 8th, 1928.

Ed. Note: The Governor-in-Council has now given the Police power to deport any person who has no employment in the Colony.I

STRIKE PAY.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONOKONG DAILY PRESS."1

·ALL CHEERFUL ON SHAMEEN.

SI-When I read in your columns One of the European passengers who

that part of the resolution passed by the sentative, said that all was quiet in was interviewed by a Daily Preux repte-

Kowloon-Residents Association in regard- Canton bat the people were being dirto payment of wages for the days in able to return to ordinary routine. The illusioned, since the price of their staple June during which the servants had work- food, rice, bad increased considerably,ed, 1 rubbed my eyes and read it again People in the Shameen, numbering & Colonial Office. The Colonial Office con- hundred, including two ladies, were to make sure that my eyes had not played cheerful, he said. The Shameen is now me false. Yes, there it was as plain as ters with the Foreign Secretary and the well fortified and any attack could be to build up once again, and in a more. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs casily repulsed. There is no communi. Can be "such payment to be spread over cation between the Shameen and the probationary period of at least one stable fashion, our commercial and social will cable to Peking. We anticipate that city, but the shops on the Bund and the week. Ye gods! We know well that organisations. Trade is seriously affect affairs in Canton City itself will come to ofices of the Chinese Maritime Customs the boys are not justly entitled to any

Godowas during the present that all Cargo remaining in Godown after elements in the community so that we Expiry of the Free Storage Period will be subject to All EXTRAORDINARY EX may be left with a clean field upon which PENSES incurred in connection therewith.

"FH CRAPNELL,

Acting Secretary, Hongkong, July 1st, 1925.

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNESS.

The Steamship"EGREMONT CASTLE”

FROM NEW YORK, "

ONSIGNEES of. Cargo are hereby inform od fast all Goods are being landed at thair risk into the Standard Oil Co.'s Godown's af Kennedy Town, whence and/or from the wharves. Delivery may be obtained.

CO

Optional Cargo will be forwarded unl

Governor of this Colony reports to the

ed. There is no use in trying to shut a head before such negotiations are our even to that fact, but the losses completed or any definite policy settled. caused by such a disturbance as the pre- The Cunton Government have attempted sent one are not compurable to the losses a task of a magnitude altogether beyond during a slump" period. It is when their power to handle. They have been prices fall with a headlong precipitancy playing foolishly and criminally with forces that bras suffer. Now, even if trade which they cannot control, and we think was entirely cut off, which it is not, the it will not be long before they find this

NXCEPT in regard to Existing Contracte Notice to the contrary be given before. European houses, forsaken by their out for themselves to their bitter cost.

all the Interest of GILBERT ALEXAN DER HABEIMAN in our Firm CEASED as

the

from: Lite 26ra JUNE, 1945, and the Firm will henceforth be carried on under Style or Name of "HODGSON & Co.

HODGSON & HARRIMAN. Hongkong, 1st July, 1925.

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PEAK KIDDIES ASSOCIATION.

CINEMATOGRAPH SHOW will be held at the PEAK CLUE at 430, EVERY AFTERNOON until further Notice. Open to All Children wherever Romident.

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No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godoras, and all Goods

Chinese staffs, would, simply have to This is why we believe the Hongkong remaining undelivered after 6th July, will be make arrangements to meet their over Strike will be a question of weeks only

abject to Beat

hend expenses. These, in the majority and not months. All Clima

against presented to the Undwxigned on or before of cases, are not large. At any rate they 6th July, or they will not be recognized.

"Rio""

Stemmer mast

be

At the P.W.D. offices yesterday Aber deen Inland Lot, No. 97, was sold to the

are open

Our informant further stated that "the wages at nil having broken their con- late Dr. Sun's old flagship, the 17ing tract and we sternly any "No, boy, I Fang (now called the Chung Sun) and three boats of the mosquito fleet are cannot pay you your wages to-day; you! stationed at the Bocen Tigris forts. He have forfeited them by striking, but I was firaly of the opinion that the will pay you in seven days' time."; eventual outcome of the trouble would he the ousting of the Reds by the mode rates in the Canton Government

TYPHOON WARNINGS.

The K.R.A. I presume, are acting pon the Hongkong Chamber of Com merce's retent recommendation. It might be as well therefore if they were to get. in touch with that body, when they would, pro-

The following typhoon warnings have I think, be informed that the been received by the U.S. Consulate-bationary period the Chamber bad in General by cable from the Manila Unser mind was from six to eight months! So

vatory-

Received 1a.m., July 5th:-Typhoon that the final payment might fall some- in about 135 Long. E. and 170 Lat, N., where about China New Year. What on moving NW

Heerived & a.m., July 8th-Cyclone or earth is the use of one weet? You might typhoon Pacific Ocean, about halfway just as well pay the boys on the day of

examined on the 4th July, at 10.am, by four or five Europeans & sum of $30,000 Aberdeen Motor Bus, Company at the between the Mariana Islands and Luzon; their return for all the hold over them

All broken, chafod and damaged Goods are to can be estimated. with absolute accuracy be left in the Godowas, where they will be and with firme employing not more than Surveyors, Messrs. GODDARD & DOUGLA No Fire Insurance has been affected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by DOUWELL & CO., LTD

Agenta. Hongkook. 30th June, 1925. [2006

to $50,000 would probably see them upset price of 813,630. The annuntinglining Westward, through the trouble even if it lasted for Crown Rent is $22, and the property typhoon E. of Luzon, more than 300 miles truly,

Received 1.15 p.m., July 6th, Cyclone or that such a course would give you - YouTA

PEAK RESIDENT six months.

comprises 13,830 square feet.

distant, moving W.