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THE TWO LEADING BRANDS

ON THE MARKET

FIRST STILL

1627

300 Years

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 31st, 1927.

EX-KAISER'S SISTER.

́MARRIAGE · TO EX-RUSSIAN NOBLE.

CRAWLEY CASE.

13 MONTHS FOR "FRAUD.

AN APPEAL.

STILL FIRST

1927

DISPARITY OF AGE..

[TIKROUGH, REUTER'S AGENCY.]

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GENERAL MANAGERS,

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THE WORLD'S GAZE"

TURNS POLITICALLY, ECONOMICALLY, ARTISTICALLY TOWARDS

JAPAN

Where Oriental charms are jealously preserved intact amidet

the most advanced Oriental Civilization.

THE JAPAN HOTEL-ASSOCIATION

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the UNITED HOTEL COMPANT of America) MEMBER HOTELS

;'

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Y 12.00 up in cities and some popular resorts.

Y10.00 up in country districts.

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KAMAKUBA :---

KATE HOTEL KARUIZAWA :---

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ORIENTAL HOTEL TOS BOTEL

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NARA HOTEL NIKKO-

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IN CHOSEN 00

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KELIO :-

CHOSEN HOTEL

SUSAN :-"

FUSAN STATION"

HOTEL

SHINGISHU :-

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HOTEL *Open from April 1st until October 31st.

OSAKA OSAKA HOTEL SEIMONOSEKI

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she uses

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[TROVAN RETTE'S AGENTY.)

HONG KONG - STOCK

EXCHANGE.”

CLOSING QUOTATIONE.

B.K. Bank

Do

ROMI.

October 29tu,"1897 $1,150 hur. 1.140-l Do.. Loadan... #1201 20m Chartered Bank o Mercantile Bank.A, ¿B.....€31] com.

...£18 nom, SHANGHAI, October 29th." P.&O. Banke

...C10 nom. BONN, Oct. 9th. The American, K. M. Crawley, East Asia Bank............$63 non.

„3385 the in- was sentenced to fteen mouths' im- Canton lugnance...545 vel. Alexander Zoubkoff,

China Underwriters lo

1,03 m). pecunious scion of a minor Russian priscament. hable family, whose marriage next.

Crawley has voluntarily returned North China Insaneri 148

......8192 bay. week to Princess Schaum Burglippe the 830,000 which was his share in Union Insurance -- will give him the ex-Kaiser as a the swindle. The defence is appears Yangtare Insurance ...........! M: $46 buy. brother-in-law, bas issued an indiging and the Judge agreed to Obins Fire fururance.....

...Sela Hong Kong Fire Ina................. 1590 buy, nant denial of the report that he G.,000 as bail.

(Crawley once earned his living as a dancing

As

35 buy. Douglases urther and wishes the statement an alleged arms deal between an Steamboatsl sol,

H.5. Tags

1.90 nom. contradicted as it **annoys

the agent of a Chinese General. Craw

Indo-Chinna (Prot.).......$30 nom. Princess." He insists also on a

ley was to deliver two million

До (Def.)......$49 Da Ammunition correction of his age-"he is not rounds of

at Bhell Transports.......90. nom. twenty three but twenty-eight."

proximately $73,200. It is alleged The bride, who is sixty-two, bit- that the defendant misappropriate

the money in question, and declin terly complains of Prese attacks us regards the disparity, in age and ed to fulfil the contract.]. says "that experience compensates him for what he lacks in age.

POLAND'S NEW COINAGE.

ISSUE OF GOLD DUCATS.

(THROUGH RECIER'E' ACENOY.]/

LONDON. Oct. gsth. Another new monetary denomina tion has been added to Europe's post-war coinnge. As Austria has reverted to the ancient "echilling, while Hungary has the "pengo " and Belgium the "belgn," so now Poland has -re-instituted the

"ducat."

A Warsaw message states that the Cabinet has approved an ordi- nance altering the monetary situa- tion by virtue of the stabilisation plan recently drawn up by means of big foreign lonas-making the right to mint money an exclusive State privilege..

Gold coins will be issued in denominations of 100, 50 and 25

zlotys." the last-inentioned de nomination to be known as the " ducat."

BRITISH SPINNING OF AMERICAN COTTON.

NO AGREEMENT. -

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

charged

with

Star Ferries........ China Surers... Wateriais..

Malabon Bugara Benguet

BRITISH MACHINERY FOR Kailan Mining Ad...

GERMANY.

GROWING EXPORT TRADE.

EXPORT

(BRITISH, WIRELESS SERVICE] -

"Brosy, Oct. 29th.

"The import of textiles machinery into Germany from Britain. has increased considerably during the past month, states a telegrain from Berlin.

This is not so much due to sea

Lang hats (combined).

Do. (single)

S'bas, Explorations Shanghai Loans Beuke ***** Tronoh Mines Ural Carpins H.K. & K. What H. W. Docks... Hongkew

now.

Established 1914

Kelvinator

Electric Refrigeration

Cold

Absolutely

..83-4 nom.

Automatic

..317 no

nom.

333

Bom.

...330 ani.

4.60 noui.

Tla. 16,80 rom.

Tia, 8.4) al. T3 sel

Tls, 50 nom. 12 buy.

1973

DOM,

...ile com

.$35 sel.

Tis. 145 bay, lls, 41 buy, & a Tis. 89 bay 90se!. ...prem, buy.

Shanghai Docks How Engineerings.. HK. Gert Loan HK. & S. Hatelanom EK. Lands

„4534 buy, 56 sel. Shanghai Lands.....

Tin li? bay, v Hong

Kang Realty, 18 buy.

ona! influence, but to long-term credits granted by the leading British textile machinery 'factories." H.K. Territoriala .....

The German imports from Britain during September totalled 1,216 tons, as against 1.951 tons in the previous month.

During the first nine months of the current year, Germany import ed: 3.90 tons of British textile! machinery, to a value of £635,631, compared with a value of £300,858 in the corresponding period of last

scar.

INDIA'S COMMUNAL PROBLEMS.

AN ATTEMPT TO ENSURE PEACE

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

Calcutta, October 28th. LONDON, Oct. 28th. Prominent Hindu and Muslim Failure to secure the necessary leaders from all over India met majority on the question of sec- under the auspices of the All- tionalising the American branch Indian Congress, to solve the in- of the Cotton Spinners' Federa-creasingly serious communal pro- tion, is revealed in a resolution blem. unanimously, passed by the Ameri- They passed a resolution pro gap section that, in view of the hibiting, forcible conversion and re- fact that a further report on the conversion between the two com- allot shows that 72 per cent. munitiée, and also passed a resolu Favour sectionalism, 17 per cent. tion with a view to the settling of are against it, and 11 per cent, two acute problems, namely the abstained from voting, no useful slaughter of cows on the occasion purpose will be served by proceed of the Mohammadan festivals, and ing with the matter further.

the Hindu processions passing. Mos ques...o the accompaniment of music, both of which have been such a fruitful source of riots in the -past.

TURKEY'S CENSUS.

RIGOROUS-CONDITIONS- ENFORCED.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 28th, The first regular cecaus ever taken in Turkey has been carried oat under most rigorous condi- tions, to ensure a correct tally. ·

The resolutions allowed Muslims to sacrifice cows anywhere but in a publie thoroughfare or in the neighbourhood of a temple. They also allowed Hindu processiona with music, provided that they re trained from anything calculated to annoy worshippers at Mosques.

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The citizens were forbidden to | BRITAIN'S MOTOR VEHICLE leave their houses throughout the

day, in consequence of which all

OWNERS.

the shops were shut and the pave ONE OUT OF EVERY TWENTY nents were deserted, while there was no traffic in the streets.

The waters of the Bosphorus and the Golden Horn were clear of all

niall' craft.

A total of 6,500 officials in Cop- stantinople alone, assisted by the pelice, drew up the list, and soldiers saw that the citizens did not leave their houses.

DUTCH AIR MAIL SUCCESS. EAST INDIES AND BACK IN A MONTH.

ÍTHROUGH DEUTER'S. AGENCY.}

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 28th. Lieutenant Koppen has landed at Schipol, completing his return fight from Batavia, and proving the possibility of performing the return journey within a month.

In an interview, Lieut Koppen said that he saw the German air inen, Kocnnecke and Count Solms, at Bunder Abbas, where they were held up owing to a broken connee ting-rod. Solms had already left for Germany, but so far as he knows, Koennecke is still, at Bun- der Abbas.'

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[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

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| Humphreys Estaten...$12 bay., 12.40 sal.

Prince Building..........8116 buy.. Burs! Lands BWO Carloss •.....Tls. 74 buy., 71.85 m. Oriental

buy. Shanghal Cottona (old)... Tie, 45 ma. Do. (now)....Ti, 20 ga. Ohias Buses

Th. 6 bay. $20,10 buy, $14 vol.

E.K. Tramway. Peak Trama (old)....

Do. (new).......................37 sel. Singapore Tractions..............11/9 nom.

.....31 nom. Amusements

..8191 nom. Cauten Ices............................15 DOM."

$5 Cements (combined).....37 sel.

38,60 NOI, (old) (HOP) ......81 sel (comb.)..............312 nom. (old)......89 nom. Do (new).....$6) Dom.

Do.

Do. China Lights

Do

China Providenta Constructions Dairy Farma.

Do.

дощ..

$10 nom. 33 nom.

.........$pom. $11 sel 315.10: пет, Der & Wings.................35 BOID. H.K. Electrics.

$521 sol. Macao Electrics BK Roper (old)

(NEW). Lane Crawforti...... Mackintosha.... Sinceres........ United Axbortow Watzena (old) W. Powells... Telephones.........

75 дом.

82 Del.

$8 nom. $12 Bel."

$11; nom..

.85 dal.

$3.65 Luy. 'que. Indus, 0.3 Bonda...51% bay. tay-buyers;ellers; lary

Ox

BOID.DJninal,

EXCHANGE

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

October 29th, 1927," Loo Telegraphie Transfer

...1/133

Bank Bills, on demand ...1/14 13 16 Bank Bills, at 30 days sight

Bant Bills, st á months'

sight

144

Credits, at 4 months' sight 2/04 Documentary

Bill, 4 montba' sight.. ... 9/01

OF PAR

Bank Billa, on demand- ...1.236 Credits, 4 months sight. 1,305 ON NEW YORK.

Bank Bills, on demand

60 sight... 19

Talegraphic Transfer Bank Billa, moto). OS CALCUTTA,.===

on demand........

Telegraphic Transfer

Rioux, October 28th. Ministry of Transport, it appears

From a report issued by the Ox BOMBAY that one out of every 20 persons in Great Britain owns vehicle.

The number of vehicles-for, which licences were granted during last year was 1,729,000.-

This compares with 1,517,000 licences issued in 1923.

'U.S. AND, MEXICO.“ PROHIBITION REMOVED.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

MEXICO CITY, Oct. 25th. Coincident with the new Ameri- can minister, Mr. Dwight Morrow's first visit to President Calles, the intter has cancelled the decree for- bidding the departmental purchase of goods in the United States.

www.ac.acc

TREBITSCH LINCOLN

AGAIN.

(THROUGH REUTED'S AGENCY.7"

Loxpox, October 20th.

FOOD RIOTING IN MOSCOW,

MOB PLUNDERS BIG STORE,

The Westminster Gazette learns that Trebitech Lincoln, the ex- (THROPUB REUTER'S AGENCY.]

M.P., who acted as an enemy spy RIGA, Oct. 25th.

during the war, has arrived in Peking disguised as a Buddhist. The scnreity of many necessities It is believed that he is trying to in Moscow, particularly of flour, persuade the Panshem Lama to sugar, salt and textiles, is respon- facilitate his entering India viú sible for the prevalence of dis- Tibet. orderly queues of people anxious to buy commodities wherever they are available.

The police have been posted at such shops to regulate the crowds, For instance one big store in the centre of the city was mobbed by 1,000 persons, who rushed the police and plundered the shop. Mounted militia arrived and effect ed many arrests.

EGYPTIAN PREMIER'S VISIT TO LONDON.

(BRITISH WIRZLÉIS ́BERVICE]"

RUGBY, October 28th. Barwat Pasha, the Egyptian Pre- miler, will arrive in London from Brussels on Sunday evening.

1824

Bank Bills, on demand...) 182) SHANGHA

Ox

Bank Bills, at sight

Private, 30 day

days sight

798

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THE TYPEWRITER

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is now on sale in Hong Kong.

Not only because it is

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should cell and inspect this wonderful.

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191

ON SOn demand nom

941 OX BANGKOK-On demand, BOTEXION, Bank's Baying rate 89.75 GOLD LAY, 100 fins, por taal... BAR SILVER, por of.

247

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EXCHANGE RATES.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

Reday, October 28th.

Paris Brussels

Amsterdam Berlin Copenhagen Vienna Helsingfors Lisbon ..... Bucharest..

JEWELLERY BY THE ARMFUL.

£8,000 WORTH STOLEN IN

REGENT-STREET RAID.

A

ARDENT THIEVES,

"Imitation jewellery by the hun dred weight was the curious booty taken by thieves during a raid on West End premises.

Though the goods were only "paste," they were taken in much quantities that the loss is about £5,000.

The premises raided wore those of Messrs. F. Edwards and Sons, Warwick-street, Regent-street.

124.07

34.061

12.001

20.39€

18:17

34.471

1931

27

795

Buenos Aires ........... New York. Geneva Milna Stockholm Oslo

47.50/84

4.87.5/61

95.25

69,18

18.00

Prague Madrid Athens Rio

18.48 1011

98.481 383% 5.29/22 1/5.15/16

1/10 9/0 2/0

201

Silver (forward)

25.15/10.

great

bulk of goods,

Bombay Yokohama

"Shanghai

Hong Kong Silver (spot)

Tel. 0..3517.

By Cars 3]

"The articles included: Necklaces, Rings,

Brooches, Expanding bracelets, mainly of paste" or marcasite. There were also coloured stones and imitation pears, set in silver" and platinum

Included in the haul are two. cheque books on the Regen street brunch of Barclay's Bank.

A reward of £500 in connection. with the affair is offered by Messrs. Tyler and Co., assessors, Holborn vinduet, on behalf of Lloyd's.

Two Men And A Taxi-Cab, Divisional Detective Inspector Bradley and other Vine-street offi- cers investigated the robbery,

It is believed that the thieves hid themselves tate the previous might and then by means of a skeleton Key made their way to the room where

The charwoman, who arrived in the morning, found the door on an the jewellery was kept. One pos upper floor open, and the placesible clue is a description of two men who were seen near the pre- ransacked.

mises and who just afterwards: hailed a taxicab.

Diligence.

aE』

"The thieves,"

A description of a man who had an Evening Standard representative was told, been seen loitering for some days, must have made hundreds of has also been supplied to the police, journeys up and down the three That the men were expert jewel

established Rights of stairs to take away the thieves in

by the methods they used.

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