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THE

WORLD RENOWNED COCKTAIL

BACARDI

AND. ITS MANY USES.

BACARDI RICKEY

Wine-glass of Bacardi

Juice of half a Lime.

One lamp of ico

Sërre in high-ball glass .

Add Sparkling Water.

BACARDI GROG Qas qusit of:B10 ardi

Oas pound of Sugar

Dao quart of Forincas Oolong Tea

“Use the grog, widing qual

Part of very hot water

Serve with slices of lemon

Dissolva sugar in hot water,

AGENTS:

BACARDI HIGHBALL Place a piece of ice in glass One glass of Bacardi

Fill glass with Sparkling Water.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 7th, 1928-

BACARDI MILK FÜN CHI

One glass hot Milk

One tablespoonful of sugar

A punch of nutmeg

The yolk of an

egy

A glass of Bacarth

Best up thoroughly the yolk of the

Egg with the sugar

Ada milk Bacardi and nutmeg Mix it thoroughly

A delicious punch and a splendid

berarage for Calds.

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. HONG KONG.

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Best Portland Cement.

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HONGKONG.

EXHIBITION

FOR TEN DAYS ONLY

from 9 am to 5 pm. of delightful

PICTURES

WATER COLOURS

and Pastels

By the foremost "artists "of Japan.

The Pastels are all suitably framed. The Exhibition is being held at the Salon of

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and the Prices range from $2.00 upwards.

Ideal for Wedding Present

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DUTCH FEN FIRES.

CATASTROPHIO PROPOR TIONS.

OLD MAN BURNED TO DEATH.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

AMSTERDAM, May 8th. The Drentsche fen fires are 43- suming catastrophie proportione.

CAPT. COURTNEY'S PLANS.

ANOTHER ATLANTIC FLIGHT.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

"CLÚSING "QUOTATIONS.

MAY ETH, 1948. A.K. Bank

$1,295 now.. Do Londen...£130j nom. LONDON, May 5th-

Chartered Bank...........£21 buy. Horcantile Back, A. £... £33) nom. Captain Courtney, who attempted

Do

O#141 boy. the east to west Atlantie fight last P. & O. Pank

Fast Amin Bank September and gave up at Cornnua

Canton Insuranc will again make the attempt this Union Insurance

North Domier Napier. month, using

Twenty houses have been destroyed machine, the dying of which he is in one village and a man aged testing at Pisa. She is of German sixty is believed to have been burn design built in Italy, and has two ed to death. Eight workmen nar-British Napier ongines developing rowly escaped death by swimming

over 1,000, horse-power. a canal.

AMSTERDAM, May 4th. The Xan fires in the Province of Drentsche are becoming more ex- tensive and it is feared that only the cessation of the wind, accom panied by heavy rain, can end the conflagration.”

The spread is largely due to the inadequacy of the extinguishing facilities in the sparsely populated moorland region.

The district round Emmen on the German frontier is now a raging furnace and many houses are burn- ing.

An area of several square miles has been evacuated and the at- mospheric conditions-resemble a eclipse of the sun, so dense are the smoke clouds.

The atmosphere is suffocating while the columns of smoke are viefble for miles.

L

INVENTOR KILLED.

PLANE WITH MOVING WINGS.

[12UTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]

CURTISSFIELDS, New York. May 5th. 3. Bonney, the inventor of the Seagull" aeroplane, with moving wings, crashed and was killed while experimenting.

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AMERICAN ELECTIONS,

WALSH YIELDS TO AL. SMITH,

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE)

WASHINGTON, May th The Democrats are agog becausa Senator Walsh has practically with drawn from the campaign for Presidential nomination in favour of Mr. A7 Smith, the Governor of New York State.

Senator Walth ħases his action on Governor Smith's victory in the primaries

COLLISION IN CHANNEL.

BRITISH NAVAL YESSEL DAMAGED.

•

(THROUGH LAUTER'S AGENOT.]

LONDON, May 4th. The s.1. Bacchus, store-ship to the Mediterranean Fleet, collided in the English Channel with the Greek stesmar, Joannis Fafalios, during a fog last night,

The Greek vessel was badly holed and sank rapidly, the crew of 22 being picked up by the Bacchus.

The British naval vessel was also badly damaged and it is now re- ported to be sinking, and to have been abandoned by the crew and the survivors "of the Joannis Fafalios.

∙LTER.; The Bacchus has been towed into Portland. 10 Greeks were drowned and two died after being rescued.

SOVIET DIPLOMAT SHOT.

ATTACK BY EMIGRE.

(THROCON REUTER'S AGENCY.]

BERLIE, May 4th.

A message from Warsaw states that a Russian emigre fired a re- volver at a car in which M Lizareff and another member of the Soviet Legation were travelling ML Lizareff was wounded in the hand by a bullet and his face in- jured by splintered glass. His

assailant was arrested.

The assailant's name to Georg Wojciechowski.

A representative of the Folish Foreign Minister called at the Soviet Legation and expressed the Government's regrets at the occur rence. He gave assurance that the azasilant would be severely punish- ed in accordance with the law.

JAPANESE DIET.

CENSURE VOTE PASSED.

(THROUGH ZAUWER'S AUKSOZ.1.

TOKYO, May 4th. The Diat which re-assembled after

a three-day prorogation has passed a vote of comisure against the Home Minister, who has already resigned. The motion was carried by the nar- row margin of fire votes, 233, to 298) It is expected that a vote of non- confidence is the Government will be introduced to-morrow.

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THE ATLANTIC FLIGHT,

YON HUENEFELD'S GENERO- SITY.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.)

NEW YOLL, May 5th. The prize of $12,500 offered by Alwanner Gren, Stockholm, for a successful flight from Europe to America was presented at a dinner last night to Baron Von Huenefeld.

He handed it over to Fraulein Herta Junkers, insisting that she should give it to her father, who built the Bremen.

SEAPLANE ENDURANCE

RECORD.

30-HOUR FLIGHT.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.)

PHILADELPHIA, May 5th, The United States naval seaplane P.N. 19 has landed at the Navy Yard at the conclusion of a thirty. six hours' secret endurance Aight.

It is claimed that this beats the record by over seven hours. previous seaplane endurance flight

MINE DISASTER.

33 NATIVES KILLED.

(THROUGH EXUYER'S AGENCY.]

JOHANNESBURG, May 5th. Thirteen-natives were killed and five seriously injured in a skip disaster on the East Rand pro- prietary mines, when the cage got out of control, and crashed 150 feet

WAGES OF COTTON

WORKERS REDUCED.

ENFORCING THE DEMAND.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, May 4th.

A proposal to reduce the wages. of cotton-workers by 12) per cent is contained in a regalation-passed by the General Committee of the Federation of Master Catton chester to-day. Spinners Associations at Man-

most important development in the The resolution is regarded as the cotton crisis

A copy of the resolution was sent to the embers of the Federation with two ballot papers, one for the American Section of the industry. and one for the Egyptian Section.

The Federation Members are being asked to vote whether they are willing to leave the question of the reduction of wages to be dealt with by the Federation"Com- mittee and to close the mills if it is necessary to enforce the demand.

FRENCH FILM QUOTA.

REQUIREMENTS MODIFIED.

{THROUGH 'KEUTER'S AGENOT.]

Pants, May 4th. The decree of, February 18th, lay- down that a quota of one French film must be sold in the, United States for every four American films produced in France, has given rise to considerable acerbity in French and American film circles.

The friction has brought Mr. Will Hays, the American film magnate, from America to negotiate a modification, of tha ruinous ??. conditions of the decree, în conre- quance of which American cinema establishments in France threatened to close down, rendering 8,000 French employees idle.

An agreement has now been reached, not modifying the quote, but ameliorating the methods of its application by substituting import Licences for block booking, thereby enabling

French producers :tion negotiate directly with American firms.

COUNT POURTALES,

DEATH OF EX-AMBASSADOR. (THROUGH REUTER'S LOKNOT,]

BRESLAN, May 4th

The death is announced of Count Pourtales who wae Gerzona. Ámbss- mador at St. Petersburg in 1914.-

......75 nom.

3680 nom. sial bay, de mă. Tis. 140 nem *M. $47-buy

China, bur

Ins mons Insurance .... angtare

404

China Underwriters... buy. Chins Fire Insurance....ills nom. Hong Kong Frs in.....3760 num. H. Steamboats Douglass H.K. T

•Tags ...: Indo-China (Prof.).

(Def.)

Da

Shell Transports Waterboats... Bengueta Kailan Mixing Ad.. Langbats (combined). Lo. (singls) S'hat, Explorations Shanghai Loans

HK. & E. Wards.. H.K. & W. Dock.. Chine Providents Hongkens ....... New Engineerings. Shanghai Dooks

BANK NOTES IN CIRCULATION.

STATEMENT FOR APRIL

The returns of the average Amount of bank notes in circula tion and of specie in reserve in `Hong Kong, during the month end- ed April 30th, 1928, as certified by the Managers of the respective Banks, were

Average Banks. Amounts.

Chartered

Specie in Reserve.

Bank $15,392,018 88,000,000* Hong Kong

& Shangbai

Bank..... 816,995,833 83-1,000,000† Mercantile

$37 buy.

378 noin.

.98, nom.

st nom.

Bank

81,763,077

$600,000$

74

Total $64,139,753 840,580,000

Tie. Si nom. „Tik 9,83 nom. Tis. 3 nom.

..17/6 nom „5137 HOL

$5.80 el. „T. 159 buy.

Tla, 3 bay.

Tis. 119 bay.

Orientale Cottons.

Lotions..."Tis. 8 buy, 8.40 wel.

The bay 8'bai. Cott

.Cottone (old)

Do. (new)....lls. 29 sel BK.45. Hotels buy, 8) wol

1851

B.K. Lands Bhanghai Land

Humphreys Estaten..............$1ág nom. HK. Realties

„18) buy,, 8) sel.

HK, Tramways $25.20 mon Peak Trams (old)..... ...$13) buy.

(new)..... R DODI. Star Forrics........ .30% sei. Obina Lights • (old).....—...$11.40 Bel,

Do, (new)......$il sol. Do. (1928 Lenae)...37 20m. H.K. Electrice.163702 mely 705 18 Macao Xleatzios TelephotB „...................

buy. Quin Basar..........11. &t bay. Singapore Tractions......9/- bay,

China Sugars verkamenn Malabon Bugaram..124) num.

antan Icm *** Cements (combined)..............$9† sol.

Do. ((old) "8) nom Do. (now) buy, dz 88.. HK. Ropes (old) .....

374 01.

$10 Rom.

Do.

Cnited Asbestos

Fairy Farms. Watana

Der & Wings ............

Lane Crawforde..... Mackintoshs...... wm. Fowells. Sinceros

H.X. Amusements

„122), nom. $14 Day. $0.50 nom 83% buy.

$11 buy.

#28 bay, 29

HK. Constructions. nom. 'que, Indus, G.Bonds...@xx buy. HK. Gort, Loans.71% prem, nam. buy--buyum; sol-sallors; sammide j nominacinal

EXCHANGE RATES.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

RUGBY, May 4th.

Paris Brussels Amsterdam Berlin Copenhagen Vienna Helsingfora.......

Lisbon Bucharest.

Buenos Aires.

New York

Geneva

194 34.94

12:10

50.40

18.20

34.075

1031

2

785 47.13/16 4.88.1/16 25.34 *****82.85 Stockholm ........ 18.105 Oslo

Milan

Prague

Madrid

Athens

Hio

Bombay Yokobama Shanghai

Hong Kong.

Silver (spot). Silver (forward).

18.225

1041

29.315

3721

6.59/C4

1/0

1/11.13/84

2/7

2/01

98.15/16 26.13/16

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* In addition Sterling Securities

are deposited with the Crown Agen's valued at £1,271,000,

FOR SALE.

RARE ANCIENT CHINESE

BRONZE 'INCENSE -

BURNER.

THIS was used by the Kings of the Chan Dyomaty 3,000 Years Ago for Saarificial Rituals and is worth Thousands of Dollars,

For Inspection, Please Apply to

ME THANG YU TSANG,

TUNG HING PAWNSHOP,

t. In addition Securities deposit. 62, Prays East, Wanchai, Hong Kong.

ed with the Oro 1- Agents

and Straits Government valu-

ed at £3,313,119.

In addition Securities depòsit | ed with the, Crown Agents valued at £180,000,

DEPS

AT this season every

body needs the Peps breatheable tableta to ward off cold and abili dangers. As Pepa dissolve in the mouth, their rich medicinal fumes any soothing and hauling benefits direct into chest and langs,

Jaflammation and soreness in thrakt or bronchials is quickly allayed by Peps, coughs and esida are sipped in the bud, and, the entire breathing system is wonderfully strengthened and fortified.

for COUGHS

&COLDS

Of medicine inalzes 6 storns everywhe

INSURE

YOUR

Vichy Celestins Natural Mineral Water

from the famous Celestins spring, is a very pleasant corrective for gastric troubles and liver dis- orders.

It gives zest to the appetite and helps one to enjoy the. pleasures of the table.

VICHY-CELESTINS

Obtainable at Hotels, Clube, Chemists and Stores, or from the

Sole Agents

The French Store

Beaconsfeld Arcade.

BAGGAGEMARTIN'S

WITH

GILMAN'S

APIOL & STEEL Sure and certain for all Female complaints. Every lady should keep a box in the house.

Chemists and Stores sall them throughout the world.

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ON SALE,

YTONG KONG HANSARD RE-

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"OCEAN" COMPREHENSIVE of the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

POLICY.

for the Session 1927.

....

Revised by Members. PRICE ₤109 HONG KONG DAILY PRE” Orsics.

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