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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBEE STB, 926.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

NOTICE.

WANTED 4 CHINESE SUB OFFICERS FOR FIRE BRIGADE DEPARTMENT.. VANDIDATES, of to 57 Years of Age, who must be Strong, of Good Physique, and Able to Speak, Read, and Write English and Chinese Wall are REQUIRED AT ONCE. Salary: $980 to $1,500 Fer Annum with Free Quarters, Fuel, Light and Uniform.

Apply is Person to-

SUPERINTENDENT,

FINE BRIGADE, CENTRAL FIRE STATION," HONG KOxo.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.

No. 4 or 1936.

COMPANIES WINDING UP.

IN THE MATTOM OF THE COMPANIES

ORDINANCE, 1911,

INTIMATIONS.

NOTICE.

Government of the Straitä Settlements

Tin prepared to consider Applications for thefaue of Lease of a pisos of Crown, Lauck on PENANG HILL for the purpose of erecting HOTEL

The Site has been levailed and is about $4,000 sq. ft. in area. It is situated about 350 from the Top Station of the Penang Hill Ri IN THE MATTER OF THE KWONG CHOW way, at height of about 1,400 feet above sea

level. HOTEL Co., Ltd.

JD

ORDER APPOINTING LIQUIDATOR.

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THE BOY SCOUTS ASSOCIATION (Hose Kono Branch).

THE ANNUAL MEETING of the above Association, will be held at 5,30 rm. on TUESDAY NEXT, 14TH DECEMBER, 8r. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL HALL.

His Excellency the GOVERNOx, Chief Scout

of Hong Kong, will preside.

AGINDAN

Order of the Court dated the 471 RECEIVER of the Supreme Court, Victoria, in the Colony of Hong Kong, has been appointed Liquidator of the above named Company with

■Committee of Inspection.

Dated the 6th day of December, 1926.

E. L. AGA88TZ, Official Receiver and Liquidator.

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NOTICE.

The Lease will be for a Term of 99 years and the Rent will be $ICO par annum.

It will be condition of the Eenso that the of The Years court Lasce agrees to erect a Hotel within a Period have already been approved by the Government of the Straits Settlements and that failure to mant to re-enter and resume possession of the observe this condition will entitle the Gore- Load.

The Leesoo will also be required to enter in to a Bond in the sum of $10,000 for the obser Tance of the shove condition.

The approved Plans provide for the following accommodation --

BASEMENT FLOOR:--- Reception Hall with Passenger Lift and Stairs.

Hotel Office, Post, Telegraph and Telephone

1.Te recaisa and adopt the Annual Mhir Aatherty to sign our Birm Fer Ofices with Frivate Buchung

2.-To. forta

Report and Statement of Accounta

Colonial Scout Council to promote the wolfare of the Bcont Association in Hong Kong. 3.To deal with any other business which

may arise.

42711

(Signed) A WHITE,

Hoa. Association Secretary,

TT PEAK TO BE LET, Unfar nished, and on LEASE, No. 453, TH PEAK-Apply DENISON, RAM & GIRE.

R. SCHMIDT, having lelt CaIMA,

Proonration has UEASED.

Hair Dressing Saloon.

Luggage Boom.

Drying Room for Mattresses, etc.

INTIMATIONS.

Fine PORTS

Invalid Douro Old Tawny Estrella

Very Old Tawny Oldest & Finest

Per Care.

DUTY PAID.

Par Bot

$12.00 41.00 43.00 49.00

61.00 66.00

the

An important meeting of Messrs.

Mr. F. Ross, for five years manager of Wagon Lit Hotel in Peking, arrived in' Shanghai on the str. President Hayes after a leave of absence in Switzerland. He will act as manager of the Palaca Hotel, Shanghai.

During the 24 hours ended December 6th 4 Chinese cases of enteria forer were reported. For the week ended December th, 8 cases of enteric were reported, ? being Chinese (9 imported). There was one Chiuese dam of cerebrospinal fever.

devices & development of trade, within

mpire. By this means the Empire, M. Y. San & Co., Ltd., has been called for the protection ecmmittee of the Com- which supplied, before the war, six or₤.

pany, to be held at 3 pim. on Saturday, seren per cent of the sugar imports into at the offices in Queen's Road Central, Britain, supplied by 1921 twenty-two and a half per cent. Tobacco likawise has risen from a half per cent, to nearly 11 $3.70

per cent, and there are substantial in- 3.60 creases in other Empire products. 9.80 England before the war was regarded 4.25 as a Free Trade country. Liko Hong 5.50 Kong it did not levy taxes on imported 5.75 goods for the purpose of benefitting home industry but simply for the purpose of getting revenua For this reason taxes were levied on such luxuries as alcoholic beverages, scents, tobacco and tea. The war, however, revealed the importanco of a country possessing certain indus tries even if other countries were better adapted for them. Hence there sprang $3.00 up a demand for subsidies and protection

3.10 against foreign competition.

Fine SHERRIES

DUTY FAIR. Par Qas. Per Bot.

.835.50 37.00 40.00

SİEMSSEN & Co Hong Kong, 1st December, 1926.

[4250

Linen Room

Boys' Quarters and Duty Room with Lavatories.

Fine Old Brown

Brown Bang

Light Dry Solera Very Pale Dry Pale Dry Nutty ... 44.00 47.50 57.50

MRS. SEMA. BELILIOS,

DEGRASID.

A Estate of the apore washed Deceased LL Persone having Claims against the are requested to send them to the Undersigned

soon as possible.

JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,

Solicitors, &o..

Prince's Building.

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6th December, 1926.

CHINESE CUSTOMS NOTIFICATION. ACTING under. Instructions from the Inspector General of Customs, I have This Day Taken Over Chares of the CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS FOR KOWLOON AND Durant from life W. O. LAW, Deputy Commissioner in charge ad interim.

F. HAYLEY BELL, Commissioner, Office of Chinese Maritime Customs For Kowloon and District, York Buildings, Hong Kong, 7th December, 1916.

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Wing Store.

with

LaTstories Kitchen Stora.

etc.)

Amish and Ayah Quarters and Daty Room

Manager'a Quarters (2 Rooms with Bath

GROUND FLOGE

Large Lounge,

Gentlemen's Randing Room.

Ladies' Retiring Boom,

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Billiard Room, Two Tables and Bar.

Large Kitchen

Children's Playing Room,

Grown, Bottled and Shipped

Tan Bedrooms with Private Verandahs,

Baths and Lavatories

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE. PROSPECT PLACE, BONHAM ROAD.

THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR begins Entrance Ex DECEMBER 13 sination for New Boys SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11TH at 9.30 4. For Pro pectus for Boarders and Day-boys, apply

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE, PROSPICT PLACE.

·

41623

Another successful dance was given by H.M.S. Carlisle at the Royal Engineers Theatre, Wellington Barracks, last night. There was an excellent attendance, and the company enjoyed a very merry, even- g. The dance masic, was provided by the

Band.. Metro-Goomes.

After being knocked down by motor car in the New Territories, Chinese woman died in the Kwong Wah Hospital. The car, which is owned by the Nam

Hing Mater Bus Company, Sheung Shui, was being driven from Fanling to Sha Laukok, when the accident occurred. 8.40 The argument put forward for fiscal

The case

agaitsta Chinese clerk cm- 375 barriers against outside goods is that it ployed by the New Zealand Insurance is the only way to nurse infant indus Company, who was charged before Major 4.00

Mr. C.. tries, the idea, being that when they attain. Willson with the embezzlement of

$1,200 has been withdrawn. 485

full strength they will be able to stand Balmer Johnson and Mr. H S. Loseby represented the complainants and de on their own feet and there will be no fendant respectively. further need for artificial aid..

That

He is

After 20 years service with the Hong time, of course, never comes, but if it Kong Police, Detective-Inspector W.

Pincott is retiring on pension. did another argument would trotted

leaving by the Macedonia, which will sail by out, namely that a well established in-on Saturday Det-Insp. Pincott is very

dustry must be protected against com.popular in the Force, and his genial dis position has earned for him a host of friends in Hong Kong.

Four Suites with Bedroom and Sitting Geo. G. SANDEMAN SONS petition from those countries where

Room and Private Verandahs

. . . .

UFFER FLOOR Spacious Lounge with Extensive View

suitable for Dancing.

Dining Room for 100 Guests with Floor

Amplo Severies with Food Lifts direct from Kitchen and Pantry.

Ten Bedrooms with Private Verandahs, Batha and Lavatories.

Four Saites with Bedroom and Sitting Room

Private Terandahs.

[4273 KOWLOON HOTEL.and)

ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.

NEXTRAORDINARY

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that An

GENERAL

MEETING of the ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB will be held in the Board Boom

NOTICE.

DINNER

DANCE

9th

of Messrs JARDINE, MATHESON & COMPANT, THURSDAY,

Des Vanz Road Central, Hongkong, on

HY, rae SIXTEENTH DAY

DECEMBER. $2.00 per head inclusive. or

1928 at 5.15 o'clock in the

AFTERNOON when the Subjoined Resolation Dancing from 8 p.m. to 12 p.m. will be proposed as an Extraordinary Resola- tion namely

That the Articles of Association be altered

in manner following

(a) In Articles 47 and 82 the word

"President" shall be deleted,

(b) In Articles 58, 79 and 80 the word "Uaptain" shall be substituted for the word "President.

Coloured Lighting effects.

European syncopated Orchestra.

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF

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HE

CANTON, LTD.

Should the Beasistinn be passed by the re- quired majority, it will be submitted for con- firmation as a Special Resolution to Escend Extraordinary Meeting which will be convened Certificate No. 1553 for Ons Silver

AND

OTICE IS HERESY ALSO GIVEN that at the Same Place and on the Same

Day at Frys TarT O'CLOCK in the AFTERNOON OF 20 20on afterwards the Ex- traordinary General Meeting shall be concluded

* purpose of:

Share No. 1138 now converted into Five

Gold Shares in this Society standing in the Name of CHAB. E BICHARDEON of Hong Kong has been declared LOST, and if at the aspiration of One Month from the Date hereof the shave Document be not forthcoming the

Book Roof Garden Suitable for Dancing.

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Ample Lavatory accommodation on the Sewerage System alas Hot and Cold Water Private Telephone to every Bedroom and Electric Lights througbent.

Applications in Sealed Covers and marked on the entride "PENANG HILL.HOTEL will be Received at the RESIDENT COUN CILLOR'S OFFICE at Pakane up to MÁY. 2137.

19% 1927,

狭

Piana can be seen sad further Information obtained at the Office of W. CAMPBELL

OMAN, F.R.I.B.A., 19-30, BATTLES PLACE

SINGAPORE.

The Government of the Straite Settlements does not bind itself to accept ang application.

R. SCOTT. Resident Councillor, PINANG.

TO. LET.

0.

Apply to NO. 44, DUDDELL STREET.

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THE HON, SZORETÁRI,"

OLUB LUSITANO.

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10 LET-EUROPEAN HOUSES, NCL

the ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of said Certificate will be deemed Cancelled and. 53 and 55, KESSEDY ROAD, and 1 and 2,

the Club will be held for the

Receiving from the Committee a Beport, Balance Sheet and Statement. of Accounts for the Year ended S0TH SEPTEMBRE, 1926.

Considering, and if thought expedient, passing & Besolution continuing the Ad- ditional Subscription of $2.00 per month antil 31st Dec 1928.

Electing 05cers, Members of the Com- mittee, and an Auditor for the ensning year. Deciding on any Breplation which may be submitted to the SECRETARY Four Days prior to the Meeting.

Transacting the Ordinary Basiness of the Glab.

By Order,

ED. MATTHEWS, Licat-Col

Secretary, B.HE.G.C.

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BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE.

PUBLIC AUCTION

OP

THE VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY

BRODWOOD

Kown with all conveniences.

of No Effect, and a NEW Certificate for the Five Gold Shares will be issued in its stand by Apply YOUNG, TEL 0. 906 oz. C. 56%. the Society.

*

PAUL LAUDER,“

· General Manager.. Hong Kong, 22nd November, 1926.

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ANNOUNCEMENT.

INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS OF HONGKONG..

Ox

FRANK D. VAN HORN, Esq.,

Late Superintendent of Highways, NEW YORK CITY. Will read a Paper on "ROAD CONSTRUCTION” WEDNESDAY, Tax 87 DECEMBER, 1925. AT 5.45 PX

Members and Friends are Cordially Invited to be Presen

CHAIRMAN-JAMES ORMISTON, E34,

.. President HON. SECRETARYA LANDSBERT.

LOST.

4233

Wire Haized FOX TERRIER PUPPY. White and Black Markings. Please return to A.D.O. GOVERNMENT HOUAL.

$197 Reward

Situa' at VICTORIA in the Colony of Hong Kong and registered at the Land Offics THE REMAINING PORTION OF SECTION G OF MARINE LOT No. 90, Together with the Meastings of Tenement and other Erections and Buildings thereon known as No. 201,

GARDEN WANTED. Second-hand W The Proportion QUEEN'S ROAD WEST.

ROLLER, Good Condition. Any Offers Apply Bor No. 4253, ejo Hongkong Daily Prem

4263

of Annual Crown Rent22 10. 04.

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- ME. E. V. M. L. Da BOUSA, Auctioneer, THE CHINA AUCTION BOOMA, No. 4, DUDDELL STRET, HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY,

THE END DAY OF DECEMBER, 1826, A. 3 O'CLOCK EX

For further Particulare and Qonditions of Sale, apply tom

MARS, GEO. K. HALL BRUTTON

Mortgagee's Bolicitare, St. George's

Building, Chater Road

H. E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA,

Auctioneer, No. 4, Daddell Street. Dated the 5th day of 1secember, 1926,

[4271

[4104

TO LETE

FLATS in the New Buildings, with all

& Co., Ltd.

Xeres de la Frontera"

and Oporto.

A. S. WATSON

& CO., LTD. Wine and Spirit Merchants

BIRTH. TWILLZY-On November 30th, 1998, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. W. T TWILLEY, & daughter.

Hong Kong Office: 14, Chater Road, London Office; 131, Fleet Street, E.C.

The Daily Press.

RO KONE, Dxcmax 8, 1926.

TARIFF BARRIERS. -

In connection with the final call of new shares in the China Light and Fower

wages and the standard of living are lower and hours longer, or from the rich countries such as USA which are Co., Ltd., deferred in the interests of ing to lose large sums by selling goods below cost in order to capture the market by destroying the home industry and then recouping themselves by raising the prices when the monopoly bas been secured.

shareholders generally the general miso agera (Mesars. Shewan, Tomes & Co.) propose to pay 7 per cent. per annum. until the call finally fulls due on amounts. already paid in advance.

Amongst the passengers who left for Sydney by the as. Tanda was Mra A. Prokofieva. the Russian lady survivor The position, however, in Europa is from the Suaning piracy. She has been not due entirely to these economic con- staying with Mr. and Mrs. George siderations but rather to political feel. Duncan, of Kowloon Docks, whose son, it will be remembered, was the Third ing. "Czecho-Slovakia imposes impossible Engineer of the Sunning at the time of conditions on Austrian goode and Poland the piracy. and Dantzig likewise are waging a tariff war not because they want to safeguard industries but because they find this method an excellent way of asserting their national independence and also of The only gratifying national dislikes. hope, therefore, of general revival of at Htrade in Europe, it would seem, lies in the creation of a better international feeling..

On the eve of the Imperial Conference an international group of bankers threw

NEAR MIT ROAD STATION, TWO & bombshell into the Conservative camp modern conveniences. Apply AFCAR by declaring that the longed for revival & Co., LTD., 1, DES Vaui ROAD ÜENTRAL of trade was delayed largely because the

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A EUROPEAN SHOP in NAMAN ROAD,

Apply to HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE

CO. LTD. Alexandra Buildings.

4025]

THE AUSTRAL CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

FOX- SYDNEY, MELBOURNE & ADELAIDE

VIL MANILA, ILOILO, SANDAKAN,, BALIKPAPAN & RABÁUL. 8.9. "CALULU” BAILING "ON 9TH DECEMBER, 1926. For Freight and Particulars Apply to m

DODWELL & CO, LTD.,

Agenta Telephone No. Central 1030. [4088

SPORTING.

[NVESTMENT Shares Negotiated in small or large lote: Houses and Flats managed and rented for owners going home. Mortgages arranged on serred properties GUNS by W. W. GREENER WESLEY, yielding good interest. Apply the BONG- sad SCOTT, and Other Makers, British, KONG SMALL INVESTORS BRABE French and American. & REAL ESTATE CO. TELEZIONE 0. 4630.

PREPAID “WANTED

ADVERTISEMENTS.

"10 LET.—“STOWFORD No. 2”, 46, BONNAY ROAD, Three Storles, Six Booms, Five Bath Booma, Kitchen, Feryants” Quarters, recently repaired and renovated. --- Apply DEACONS, Paixer's BunziXO,

Inspector. C. F. Aris, of the Hong Kong Police, has left for Australia for holiuay.

A Chinese motor-driver was fined $10 Lat the Central Magistracy yesterday for

disobeying a policeman's signal.

Mr. and Mrs. A. McIntyre and Mr. E. A. Leggatt were amongst the arrivals from Australia by the s.6. St. Albana.

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The strike situation in various Chinese mills at Shanghai remains unchanged, with several thousand men and women unemployed:

It was announced yesterday that owing to the faulty cable connection, telegrams to and from Shanghai and beyond are subject to delay.

tariff barriers were acting as a deterrent

A largely attended concert was given in the exchange of goods. It was Sir by the Hong Kong Male Voice Choir, JOSIAH STAMP, we believe, who recently and local artistes at the Union Church last night. The proceeds were in aid of produced a map of Europe with each the New Territory Missions.

...

State surrounded by tariff walls of vary-·

Miss Peggy Everest, the 11-year old ing heights, raised to scale, and showing daughter of Mr. R. J. Everest, of the P.W.D., was the winner of the Fiat plastically the obstacles over which goods motor car in the draw organised by the hava to climb before they can be trans, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, ferred to another country. The position is much worse than in pre-war days for there are more States and each one is aoxions to assert its independence and its individuality by excluding as many foreign goods as possible.

The summons against a Chinese for- taking a puppy in a sampan across the barbour without permission was dismissed at the Kowloon Magistracy.. yesterday. Referring to the Ordinance Mr. Nibill " FAS said that the definition of a "dog any male or female canine animal not So a puppy younger than three months. is not a dog!

At the Land Office of the Public Works Department on Monday afternoon, Rural Building Lot No. 310, situated near Craigmin Rond, was sold by "auction to Mr. B. Hampdon Ross for the upset price of $1,320. The area of the property is 11,000 square feet, and it is subject to Lan annual Crown rental of $84 There' were no offers, other than that made by Mr. Ross.

A new organization, knowing the Sino- Japanese Association will soon make ita appearance in Shanghai. It is said to have been initiated by Baran Funatsu, who, during his recent visit, felt an or ganization of this sort would help to remove the misunderstandings that have so long existed between the two peoples. A drive for $500,000 is being arranged for this purpose.

Two well known Chinese families will

be united on December 8th, when Mr. Conway H. K. Wong wil be married to Miss Dora Mei Yuk She. Mr. Weng, son of Mr. Wong Chung Yu, merchant, is an ofheial of the Oil Tax Borean at' Fakhoi. Miss She is the daughter of the late Mr. She Tak Choi, formerly of the Hong Kong, Canton. and Macao Steam- boat Company. The reception is being beld the Hong Kong Hotel.

The annual meeting of the Houg Kong branch of the Boy Scouts' Associa- tion is advertised elsewhere. The meet- ing will be held at St. John's Cathedral. Hall next Tuesday evening and will be General Li Ten Chun, Commissioner of presided over by H.E the Governor (Bir Politics of the Canton Government, and Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G.) the Chief. former Tupan of Kiangsi, will visit Scout of Hong Kong. The business on Shanghai on his way to Kiangai where the agenda is to receive and adopt the he will attend his mother's funeral. annual report and statement of accounts; to confirm the Colonial Scout Council; The finals of the Shanghai Ladies Golf to promote the welfare of the scout work Club Championship were. played at of Hong Kong and to deal with any Kiangran OF December 3rd. Mrs. other business which may be brought for. Tweedie Stodart and Mrs. Harrison were word. the finalists and the match was played

over 30 boles..

Commenting on this the Times say Perhaps the International Economic

There will be quite a flood of maila Conference, under the auspices of the

arriving this week from Home" and Mr. Leigh, Boarding Officer of the America To-morrow the ss. President League of Nations, of course, will deal Harbour Department, has returned from Wilson (Dollar Line) is due with U.S.Ag. effectively with the problems raised by a recuperative trip trough Japan and Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai and Manchuria. He has now regained his Europe vid Siberia mail; while the same the excessive height, the excessive fre- health, and returns to his duties here day there should also arrive the .. quency and the perplexing instability of completely set up by his trip.

President McKinley (Admiral Oriental Liac) with mails from American, Canada, many of the Tariff barriers that now

In order that repairs may be carried Japan and Shanghai. Another mail from impede European Trade." Perhaps it may, pat, the Blake Pier will be closed to Home and Europe, vid Suez is dus on traffic from December 13th. Traffic that Friday morning by the P&O. .. but it this course is advocated for usually uses Blake Pier are requested to Mulan, which will bring letters and Europe generally it would seem dificult make use of the Queen's Pier until re- papers, dated London, November 11th, to keep the Safeguarding of British pairs to the Blake Pier have been com, and parcels of a week previous. The outward mail for Home on the week-end pleted

will be carried by the F&O.. Mace- Industries Act on the Statute Book, or

A Chinese youth was sentenced to donia, and will close at 10:30 am on to proceed with a scheme of Imperial forty-eight hours detention and twenty Saturday. Yesterday the Meangeries Agents for W. W. GREENER, LT, Preference, for the aim of the former stroken with the birch at the Central Maritimes Paul Lecat arrived with mail Magistracy yesterday for snatching a from Japan and Shanghai, the Amazone is definitely to exclude foreign goods watch from a Chiness school girl in (of the same line) from Marscilles and which compete unfavourably with British Kennedy Town the previous afternoon, and Saigon Europe,

He was arrested in Hungbom when a mail, and the R.M.S. Empress of Asia productions, while the object of the pawnbroker with whom he tried to pledge from Manila with mail from the Philip latter is to secure by various tariff the article handed him over to the police. A piors.

B.8.A. Air Rides, and Miniature Rinča,

Calibre, Repeating and Automation SPORTING CARTRIDGES of all des criptions.

BIRMINGHAM. ⠀

HONGKONG SPORTING ARMA AND AMMUNITION STORE, 8. BELOWEPInen Ämeant.