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NET PROFITS AMOUNT TO $17,555,790.

THE WEEK'S DIARY.

To-day.

Exhibition of old Chiness paint ing and caligraphy, City Hall, 11 am to 5 pm

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The report of the Directors of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Engineering Faculty, University

Cricket Medical Faculty Corporation, which will be present ground, Pokfulam, 2.15 p.z... ed to the annual meeting of share- holders, at the City Hall on Sataract Navy, HEF.C. ground, 3.30 Football: Eastern China v. Army day, February 26th, is as follows:

The net profits for the year, including $3,397,722.76, balance "TIMES' " EXPOSURE. brought forward from last account, after paying all charges, deducting interest paid and dne, and making provision for bad and doubtful ac counts and contingencies; amount to $17,356,700.24

.A. SINISTER FIGURE.

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[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ]

The Directors have transferred $14,400,000 at 9/1-£1,500,000 from the Silver Reserve to the Sterling Reserve and the balance of the

the Silver Reserve. Marine Insurance Acount, $250,000

They recommend the transfer of $30,000 from the Profit and Loss Account to the Silver Reserve.!

Including these transfer the Eg- serve Funds will stand as follows:

Sterling Heserve, £8,000,000

Silver Reserve, #13;500,000. They also recommend writing off Bank Premises Account, the sum of $1,000,000.

LONDON, January 10th." The Government may not deem it advisable to get rid of the Soviet Trade Delegation in London, as they have been urged to do Parliament and the Press, 2 & practical protest against Soviet enmity in China and elsewhere, but they are certainly not disposed to welcome a new Soviet

envoy. The position rendered vacant by the death of M. Krassin remains to be filled. I bear in Whitehall that it s likely to lack an occupant for some time to come. The Moscow Government have submitted several names to the British Foreign Office ne being suitable for the post, but Sir Austen Chamberlain has turned down every one of them. It is also said that the various candidates for the office are not particularly in elined to take up & permanent the existing uncertainty and hos- tility of public opinion in England. Several candidates whose names have been mentioned to the British Foreign Secretary have all pleaded that their appointment should not be permanent. Sir Austen has relieved them of any anxiety on that score. He has rejected: all of them. Moreover, he has made it cuunt. clear to Moscow that the

The Sterling eqtivalents of the continu ance as Chargé d'Affaires of Mr.Asecte und Liabilities, a te sorson at Rosengoltz, who has acted in that1/11, the rate fulmig on the last capacity since the death of Krasain, day of the year. will be satisfactory to the British Government in the circumstances. That means that the appointment of a new Soviet envoy is indefinite ly abelved.

Inspection of Scouts and pre- sentation of Prince of Wales Ban Der by H.E. the Governor (Chief Scout of Hong Kong) at Govern- ment House, 4.30 p.m.

H.K. Hotel tea dance, 4.30 p.m Ectal Savoy tea dansant, 4.30

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Extraordinary general meeting vi£450,000 at 2/2-94,258,311.63, Kowloon Football Club, 6 pm. and remuneration to Directors, bearsal (H.M.S. Pinafore), Čathe-| there remains for appropriation dral Hall, '8.45 pm

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The Directors very much regret to have to record the death last May, of their colleague Mr. P. H. Holyoak.

Auditors...

The Accounts have been audited by Mr. C. Bernard Brown, A.CA; offer themselves for re-election." and Mr. John Fleming, C.A., The

It is next to impossible for a Correspondent in London just now to give an accurate impression of The Hon. Mr. A. O. Lang, Mr. opinion in regard to events in W. H. Bell and Mr. H. P. White China. The picture changes from retire in rotation, but being eligible day to day most surprisingly. The for re-election, offer themselves - man in the street, who has only cordingly. foggy nation of the situation, can probably grasp a few elementary facts as revealed in the cabled intelligence, but when he looks for guidance to the London Press be is apt to become bewildered. Some of the leading papers like the Times are very cautious about accepting the nationalist, move ment; others are for accepting the Canton crowd with open arms as the saviours of their country.

deportation. At that time he was Among the latter are journale passing under the name of George like the Daily News and the West Brown, and had pleaded guilty to minster Gazette, representing the four contraventions of the Aliens ald, traditional Liberal Party. Order. The Intelligence Depart They can only set in what is going ment described him as a most on a people struggling to be free dangerous person, being known as from foreign domination. If they one of the underground agents had their way they would give of the Communist International, Eugene Chen, of Canton, all he who has been sent here to foster wants, and then expect everything sedition. to happen as it is made to happen in the last chapter of Victorian novels everybody in the story would live happily ever after...

British Interests,

The man in the street and in the train endeavouring to follow events is mainly concerned about the safety of British men and women and their families. Next, he is anxious. that the prestige of the British nation should be upheld in

The man then masquerading Brown, and now calling himself Borodin, is really Michael Grusen- berg. His nationality is doubtful, but the Times thinks it may be Lettish. In 1919, the Communist International sent him to Spain to conduct seditious propaganda there. A year later he tarned up in Mexico, and later on, with the sid of a Mexican passport, he got inte the United States where he became

Saturday. Commemoration of the Proclama tion of the Republic at Peking.

Annual meeting Humphrey's Estate and Finance Co., Ltd., Hang Kong Hotel, 11 a.m.

pionship Race (racing yachts)

Yachting 9th and last Cham- Football and Cricket: details in Saturday's issue.

1

Fanling Hunt Steeplechase Mest- ing. Kwanti, 315 p.m.

Football Eastern and Southern China Hong Kong Interport Team, H.K.F.C. ground, 3.30 p.m. H.K. Hotel tea dance, 4.30 p.m. Hotel Bavoy tea dansant, 4.30

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Sunday. Yachting: 5th Championship race (cruisers).

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Football Eastern China y. Clab

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Monday, This week the news that the came here in 1922, no doubt on a

Yachting: Ladies' Bection sail British naval strength in Chinese false passport, his orders were to waters has been increased has given act as adviser to the Communist of tie of Championship in satisfaction here. There is some Party, and generally to supervise Handicap Class; Menagerie race

ere for all classes. anxiety regarding the future as it the Communist campaign under in-

H.K. Hotel ten dance, 4:30 p.m. may affect Shanghai; but the structions from Moscow. His prin

Hotel Savoy ten dansant, 4.30 general opinion is that the British cipal achievement was to institute in Shanghai backed up by other Miners Federation, which paved hearsal (H.M.8. Pinafore), Cathe

a minority movement

in the P-2,

H.K. Philharmonic Society re- Europeans will give a satisfactory account of themselves if and when the to the disastrous struggle dral Hall, 5.30 p.m the Cantonese appear on the scene. in the British collield last year.

But when all is said there is sti}}

feeling of anxiety, because, a Pepys used to put it in the famous Diary,

*** How it will all end, Lord knows"

An Evil Genius.

Tuesday,

Mr. A. J. Cook was not at that

Principal Mails:-Inward: U.S.A., time Secretary of the Miners etc. (President Monroe). Federation, but in accordance with the Communist device of pushing their nominees into executive post- tions-rendered possible through

was appointed Becretary,

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of the career of Jacob Borodin, the results that are well known. In Chief Adviser of the Cantonese the meantime Grusenberg; alias Government, about whose activities your readers are well aware. He Brown, alias Borodin, was was sentenced in Glasgo on moted-by-his mastets in Moscow August 29th, 1922, to six months and sent to the Far East to spread the virus of Bolshevism, and gen- imprisonment and recommended for crally to injure British interests

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