1928-09-17 — Page 2

Page

DCL

FACT OLIVER

"The Distiller's Company

"D. C. L."

MALT EXTRACT

WITH

COD LIVER OIL Is made from the finest selected Barley and malted with the greatest care on the Company's own pre- mises by the most scientific methods of manufacture. THE DISTILLERS COMPANY, LTD.

EDINBURGH.

PRICE: Per 1 lb. Jar...$1.00 Per 2 lb. Jar.. $1 80

SOLE AGENTS: --

GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD.,

"ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING. 2, ICE HOUSE STREET.

Tel. Central No. 185.

Bong Kong.

COLGATE'S RIBBON DENTAL CREAM

DELICIOUS

ANTISEPTIC

ECONOMICAL

COLGATE'S

CANNOT

ROLL OFF

RIBBON DENTAL CREAM

OBTAINABLE AT ALL STORES

BOLE AGENTS:

HONG KONG TRADING CO., LTD.

THE

WORLD'S

risз

GAZE

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th, 1928.

J

TORNADO HAVOC IN

AMERICA.

GROWING DEATH ROLL.

** ORCOMA IN DANGER.

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE}

NOT AMERICA'S BUSINESS.

HINELAND DISCUSSIONS.

{RAUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

"

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13th. President Coolidge believes the Caited States Should not partici New York, Sept. 13th.

pate in the Allied discussion on Forty-three persons are reported the evacuation of the Rhineland, killed and scores injured by the and he feels, likewise, that the pro- tornado in Nebraeka, Illinois, Southposals aiming at more clearly de- Dakota and Wisconsin. The dam tining, the German reparations are age la estimated at $2,000,000. | cutie the United States' interest. Thousands are homeless at Puerto If the United States is invited to Rico and 80 per cent of the houses | participate, acceptance will depend at San Juan have been unroofed. en the form of the conditions, under which-the invitations are extended. Support For Briend. XOUGE BRUTER'S AGENCY.}

PARIS, Sept. 14th.

Sir Austin Chamberlain, It is believed, that the liner Orcoma en route from Bermuda to Havana with Sir Austen Chaur berlain's party is in the direct path of the tornado, which is sweeping over the Caribbean Sea.

The storm struck Porto Riest yesterday with, it is feared, many fatalities.

San Juan is desolated, the univer. sity of Porto Rico badly damaged and there has been much loss is shipping

The death roli in north-east. Nebraska and south-east Dakota is at lease twelve, while scores have been injured..

Damage is estimated at £950,000. A little girl was killed and her teacher seriously injured in the wiping out of a school,

"Factory Destroyed,

ROCKFORD, Illinois. Hitherto thirty bodies have been recovered from the débris of a chair factory which was wrecked by a tornado and in which a hun dred workers were buried.

Leeward Klands.

Lospox, Sept. 15th. - The Colonial Office has received a cable from the Governor of the Leoward Islands stating that the hurricane swept the islands and that much damage was dode to Gor: ernment buildings, the telephone system and private property at Antigua, but there were no fatali- tice Communication with other islands is interrupted.

The administrator of Dominica reports heavy damage there.

AUSTRALIAN STRIKE OVER.

UNEXPECTED" COLLAPSE.

[THROUGH REVTER'S AGENCY.]

Manocane, Sept. 15th. Twenty-six

overseas and

39 coastal vessels, aggregating 300,000

crews of eight inter-state vessels have been paid off.

TURNS POLITICALLY, ECONOMICALLY, ARTISTICALLY TOWARDS tons, are at present idle, and the

JAPAN

Where Oriental charms are jealously preserved intact amidet

the most advanced Oriental Civilization.

THE JAPAN HOTEL ASSOCIATION (Affiliated with the D. M. LINARD HOTELS Co. of the Pacific Ocast and the UNITED HOTELS COMPANY of "America.)

MEMBER" HOTELS

ATAMI:

Hotel rates for Single rooms (withoubaib), including meala.

ATAMI HOTEL

MAPEI HOTEL

BEPPU..

KAMENOI HOTEL

Y 12.00 up in cities and somte popular resorts.

Y 10,00 up in country districts.

|≤OBE·

IN JAPAN

OKIENTAL HOTEL TOR HOTEL

KYOTO

KTOTO HOTIL-

MITAKO HOTEL

QHUZENJ (Nikko); MATSUSHIMA –

LAKÁTOR HOTS1.

KAMAKUBA :-

KAUN HOTEL. KARUIZAWA MAXFE HOTEL MIKASA HOTEL

MIYAJIMA-

⚫ PARK HOTIL

MITATA HOTEL

MIYANOSHITA

FUJITA HOTEL

NAGASAKI :- JAZAK HOTEL NAGOYA

NAGOTA HOTEL NARA

NARA FOTEL NIKKO-

KAPATA HOTEL

OSAKA--

DOBIL HOTEL.

CHALA BUTIL

'ITOKYO-

INZERIAL ECEL MARUKOUCHL

Horz Oxom Bol TOKYO STATION

Нотк UNZEN:-

KYUSHU HOTEL YUKI HOTIL

Takarazuki HOTEL YOKOHAMA:—

(Hakono)HIMONOSEKI HOTEL NEW

SANTO BOTIL

IN TAIWAN (FORMORA)—

TAIHOKUTAIWAN RAILWAY HOTEL

IN CHOSEN ---

HELJO --

HEO RAWAT

HOTEL

KELJO :-

EUBAN-

FUSAN STATION

HOTEL *** BEINGISHU : –

SKINGUET STATION OXCAIN HOTEL

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

64]

¡CHANGCHUN

GRAND

IN MANCHURIA :—

BOTEN (Mukden YAMATO HOTEL

TAMATO HOTEL DAIREN :-

YAKATO HOTEL, BOSHIGAURA:-

YAMATO HOTEL

RYOJUN (Pert

Arthur) YAMATO EGTEL

THE JAPAN HOTEL ASSOCIATION

Care of TRAFFIo Buzau, DEPARTMENT OF RAILwara, Tokyo.

Asahi Beer. " Invigorating & refreshing...

Sale Agenta:-

ASAH

MITSUL BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD."

HONG KONG

The Prime Minister, Mr. S. M. Bruce, has refused the request of the Waterside Workers to arrange conference for the settlement of the strike." He says the request is equivalent to asking the Govern ment to be a party to an unlawful

LATER

act.

The shipping strike has collapsed dramatically, A conference of the Waterside Workers Federation de cided by 47 votes to to order the resumption of work everywhere under a new award of two *pick- Work upa" daily instead of one. will be resumed on Monday..

AMERICA'S NAVAL PLAN.

ANGLO-FRENCH AGREEMENT

APPROVED.

{REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE}"

na

11

PT understood that the French Gerament unanimously. approves

position taken up by M. Briand) Geneva, and has agreed to the main lines of the policy to be pur- sued in the course of the Rhine- land conversations.

STANDING COMMITTEE.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SHANGHAI, Sept...15th.

It is reported from Nanking that the Standing Committee of the Central Executive Committee of: the Kuomintang will shortly ap- point a Standing Committee of the Central Political Council which will be responsible for the adminis. tration of all ordinary political affairs of the country.

It is reported that this Com mittee will comprise:-

Aarahal Chiang Kai Shek, Mar- shal Feng Yu Hslang, General Yen General Li Tsung Jen, General Hai Shan, Marshal Li Tea Hsin,

Tan Yen Kai, M. Ha Han Min, Ching Kiang, Mr. Tsai Yuan Pei, Mr. Li Shib Tseng, Mr. Chang and Mr. Wu Taz Hui.

"

•

1. AMERICAN COTTON

SPINNERS.

PRODUCTION CURTAILED.

(THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY.)

LONDON, Sept. 13th.

The State of Trade Committee of the Master Spinners' Association, at a special meeting held in Man- cucer, passed a resolution strong. recommending the spinners. of American cotton to make a curtail- ment of production equivalent to fortnight's stoppage, between "now and the end of October:

No ballot will be taken, but the Federation is circularising mem bers emphasising the seriousness of the position and urging them to support the Committee's decision.

It is expected, therefore, that the majority of the American spinners will close down for a fortnight.

STEVE DONOGHUE IN TROUBLE.

(THROUGH REUTER'S „ADEKOY.]

LONDON, Sept. 14th. The London Gazette announces that receiving order in bank- ruptes has been made against the jockey, Steve Donoghue...

TELEGRAPHIC RATES.

A UNIFORM TARIFE?~

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15th. [THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] -President Coolidge has intimated that although Anglo-French

BRUSSELS, Sept. 18th.. The international telegraphic con- naval agreement would be of great satisfaction to the United States gross discussed a proposal of a

uniform tariff at lower rates for: Government, it would in no msaner affect America's naval pinos. He clear and code, the charge pro- indicated that any agreement could posed being 65 per cent of full only be reached with a full know. rates for zones other than the ledge of America's position as European and 90 per cent. in the regards auxiliary craft.

European zone.

The United States oppose any change and Britain and Canada PORT OF LONDON RECORD. oppose increased charges.

YEAR'S TONNAGE FIGURES.

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE

Ruaвy, Sept. 14th. The nineteenth annual report of the Port of London Authority states that the total net register tonnage of vessels that entered and left the Port of London, with car- goes and in' ballast from and to foreign countries, and British pos sessions and coastwise, during the. year ended December 31st, 1927, with 52,670,755, compared 49,276,173 in 1920:

was

The figures for 1927 are the largest recorded.

CHINA'S WAR ON-OPIUM.

TABOOH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

GENEVA, Sept. 14th, Addressing the League Commit- tee on Opium, the Chinese delegate declared that one of the first acts of the Nationalist Government had been to declare war against nar- cotics

said

Japanese delegate The Japan's small production of opium was exclusively for medicinal pur

The delegatce of the Interna- tional Chamber of Commerce with- drew as an undertaking not to in crease charges was not given.

C

EXCHANGE RATES.

[BRITISH WIRZ89 SERVICE.]

Ruoay, Sept. 15th.

Pazis New York Brussels Genera

-124.20

4.85.1/18

34.90

25.20

Amsterdam

12.10

Milan Berlin Stockholm

92.75

20.33

Copenhagen Oslo

18.13 18.19 18.30

Vienna

34.421

183)

1924

29.451

107

-375

Prague

Helsingfore Madrid Lisbon Athens. Bucharest

Rio

Buenos Aires

Bombay Yokohama Shanghai

Hong Kong

Silver (spot)

Silver (forward)

797 5.29/32 47.11/32 1/5.31/32 3/10.21/32 2/7/20

9/0

28.7/10 26.8/10

FRIGIDAIRE

PRODUCT OF GENERAL MOTORS

Within the reach of every family.

A small first payment puts

Frigidaire in your home You expect to have Frigidaire sometime. You know that Frigidaire not only brings you freedom from outside ice supply -it keeps all foods colder, better, and longer. It makes possi- ble many new and delight- ful frozen dishes. It makes plenty of ice cubes.

venient terms make it easy to own. And Frigidaire pays for itself in better refrigeration- better kept foods--surprisingly low operating cost.

Come into our salesroom today Examine the Frigidaire most suit-

This modern "Ich

You can have all the advantages of Frigidaire macalls once now. Low prices and con:

wik Frigidaire and the ice stays always

able for your use. Get an estimate on operating cost, based on the ex- perience of users in your neighborhood.

→

Come in and let us demonstrate

DEMONSTRATION MODELS ON VIEW AT

OUR OFFICES AND AT

THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC CO.'S SHOWROOM..

DOD WELL & Co., LTD.,

SOLE DISTRIBUTORS FOR HONG KONG &, S, CHINA. 'PHONE C. 1030.

MACHINERY DEPT.

Synol

Paste Distemper

THE COLOURWASH IN 24 ART SHADËS

For over 150 YEARS the W. E. & C. same, kas stred for VARNISHES & PAINTS www-insușinaive but

never skarg

فعلا

Agents

•

"S. C. LAY & CO.

Alexandra Building Telephone Central 263

CLARK

WILKINSON, HEYWOOD &

HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

CLOSING QUOTATIONS."

SEPTEMBER 18TH, 1929,

$1,995 buy. B.K. Banks..........

Do. Londen...£138 nom. 222 buy. Chartered Banks, po£22) Marcantile Banks, A. &B...235 nom.

Do..

0...£14) ax. P. & O. Banks from.

Legf Fant Axis Bank

*****...$77 buy Canton Insurances ......3800 bay, ******$372 buy. #Union Insurances and 5572 North China Ing. ******** $50 nox

TI 146 buy. Yangtze

Underwriters....$2.55 b Chins

5 buy. China Fire Insurances.... $275 bay.

now.

8 доп.

Hong Kong Fire in

Kong Fire Ins.......3800 sel. Douglass $38 H. Steamboats.......................328) nom.

Indo-Chine (Pref.) can

Da (Dal) 372) buy," Shell Transports. 106/6 nom Waterbosta

214 buy: Benguets.....32.18 bay. Kailan Mining Admin. ...65/- nom."

SHANGHAI-HONGKONG

Langkata(combined)......Th. 9) sel.

Do. (ingle)

S'hat. Explorations

Shanghai Loans

Banbe

Tla. 5'sel."

T. 45 am.

TL. 3 nem.

$41 COM.

Tronoh Mines ganga 17/6 дога. A.K. & K. Whards.........$133 nom. B.K. & W. Docks.........97 zom.

Bisel. China Providents.......15.65 buy. Hongkow T 158 nom, New Engineerings. The. 3

nom. Shanghai Docks Tie 108 bay. Ewo Cotions, 9.90 bay,

vs. 2.40 bay.. Oriental Cotton ---., S'hai, Cottons (old) (25) bay

(now)....... 24 bay," H.KAB. Hotels.....$3.55 bay, 8.80

sol., 8.60 H.K. Lande.£65) al Bhanghai Lands Ti 138 buy

...$15.10 buy. &. Humphreys Estaten.

$7.85

bay. LX. Realties... B.K. TramwaJS'' 1824.15 bay.

124.15/20 sa. $13 buy. Peak Tram (old) ......................

Dorm (Bow) 36.B num, -Star Ferries

........585) bay. & Okins Light (old) $12.40bny 1200 el Da new)...$12) bay, 12) sa. Do. (1928 Lane) ...$12 bay.

H.K. Electrics (sid)

Do.

152) bay, & sa. (new).....$51; buy. Macao Mectrice $25/buy.. Telephones

......33.70 bay, Uhizia Busse ma Tla 11 buy Singapore Tractions...12/- buy.. 13. sel

Do. (Pref...18/- buy, 19/sl. China Sugandi sel. Malabon Sugars....$17 noro. Cauton Icon A

Laments (combined)......$0.80 bay.

Do. (old) Da. (18) H.K. Ropes (old) .............

..$3 buy... 31, bay. 38.35 now.

30,30 nom.

"

Do. United Asbestos .... Dairy Farms.. Watsons

A Wing Der Lane Crawfords:

(now)

$6.30 nom. $5 nom.

makin

181 bay.

W Powelle

ILL Amusements,

$270 bay,

327

bar &

So bay..

H.K. Constructions

$21 bay. #20 nom,

B'que, Indus, G. Bonds::64% buy. H. Gort, Loans.6% prom. bay. bay.buyers: sel-sellers; ss-sales;

HOM,nominai