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EXCHANGE.

CLOSING QUOTATIONS,

April 23, 1931,

Telegraphic Transfer... 11.

sight

Credits, 4 months'

Bight Documents, 4 months'

sight

On demand..............$47

For reliable foformation about the whole of the Far East

use this

DIRECTORY & CHRONICLE

OF

CHINA, JAPAN, corea, inDO

CHINA,

SIAM,

SETTLEMENTS,

ON LONDON: ---

Bank Bills, on démand 1} Bank Bills, 4 months'

STRAITS OF PARIB MALAY

STATES, NETHERLANDS INDIA, BORNEO, THE PHILIPPINES, Etc.

This Large Volume of approximato-

ly 2,200 Pages gives, in addition to the Usual Llets of Firma, an Alphabetical Lists of Residents

in the Far East containing the Names of nearly"

20,000 FOREIGNEES.

Bank Bills, on demand 002 Credits, 4 months' sight 6411, ON NEW YORK:-

Bank Bills, on demand 231 Credits, 60 days' sight. 24) ON BUMBAY!-

Telegraphio Transfer Bank, on demand...

ON CALCUTTA ---

Telegraphic Transfer est

ON SHANGHAI:-

Bank, on demand...

Arranged, with the initiale as wellON as Surnames in strict alphaba-1 tical order.

HEAD OFFICE: Hono Kono.

Board of Directors: Hon. Mr. C. G. S. Mackis,

Chairman.

Hon. Mr. J. J. PATERSON,

Deputy Chairman.

W. H. Bell, Esq. A. H. Compton, Esq. B. Lander Lewis, Esq.

G. Miskin, Esq.

T. E. Pearce, Esq.

J. A. Plummer, Esq.

T. H. R. Shaw, Esq.

ПАЛОКОК HATAVIA DONDAY CALOUTTA CANTON

БАНКРОВЕ

OOLANDO DAILLEN DELHI HAIPHONG BAMBURG HANKOW

HARBIN

(Karth

KOSK

MADHAB

MANILA

Reserve Funda-

Sterling

£0,800,000

11 11/16

Reserve Liability of Pro-

prietors

Paid-up Capital Reserva Fuad ......

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1931.

HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI | OHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,

BANKING CORPORATION,

Authorised Capital ......830,000,000 Issued & Fully Paid-up...$20,000,000

Silver zmes .......$10,000,000

AUSTRALIA AND CHINA. INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER,

1853,

HEAD OFFICE: LONDON.

THE AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY, INC. Head Office:

CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

1

9

3

0

0

7

63, Broadway, New York,

Capital

1,8.80,000,000

£3,000,000 Surplus £1,000,000 Reserves

U.S.81,572,545 U.S.81,009,209

A

ទ

10

.$20,000,000

Reserve Liability of Pro-

1/8/10-

***** 1/7/16.

prietora................................ £3,000,000

Agencies and Branches:

BRANCHES:-

Amiriam Constan Luceras

Autwerp

Athana

ALOX STAR

HONG KONG TONGKAH (Malay State) ILOILO

Bale

(Dhul)

Terlin

Rappin LuguDO Rotterdam Ediburgh ALOT Momson Marvelites Stamboul FODSTA

Falermp

Rome

11

12

AMRITHAL

IPDH

BANGOUN

Biarrit

KALACHI

BATOON

Bombay Glasgo

Monte Carlo Mhanghai Maalin Munich

Bosil batsp

ion

KLANG

SENALANG

Bramen

Antak

Bingapore

10

וי

20

15

17

BELKMRAN

Bestela

Hamburg

Alla

Bt. Morita

KUALA

SHANGHAI

Buenos Aires livre

Napier

Tientalo

KANGBAIL

JINGAPORE

Calco

Interlaken

Vienna

KUALA

BOURABATA

LUMTUR TAIPING

Calcalle Forsalam Mat

Yenica

KUDHINO

Cannн Lido

Para

Tokobama

M.S.)

Colombo London

FORLEK

Zurich

TAVOY

Oopenbaren Liverpool

Telping

18

19

助

21

TIENTSIN

MEDAN

TOKYO

NEW YORK

TSINGTAO

PKIFINO

TOKOHAMA

PENANG

Branches of AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY in Principal Citica of United States of America nad Canada.

$2

24

Manoharia)

Bank, at sight

11. 771 jedis.

J. P. Warren, Esq. Chief Manager:

|

ON

YOKOHAMA 1----

OF MANILA-On demand.... 478 ON SINGAPONE:---

BRANCHES

Amoy

[pch

On demand.

Bangkok

Johore

Penang

"

ON BATAVIA:-On. deraand, seĮ

HAIFLONG:-"

Batavia

Kobe

Rangoon

"

Bombay

Kowloon

Saigon

On demand..... Os Bardon, On demand

Calcutta

Kuala

San Fran-

Canton

Lamper

cisco

ON BANGKOK :—

Cheloo

London

Shanghai

On demand................ 1944 SOVEREIGNS, Dank's Duying

Rule

1/4 BAR SILVER, per

Colombo

Кузба

Singapore

Dairen

Malacca

Sourabaya

Haiphong Muar

Hamburg

Patani (Johore) Tientsin

All classes of Commercial Bank- ing Transactions undertaken.

20

27

98

20

Personal investment accounta handled.

CLASSIFIED LIST

07

MERCHANTS,

AND

MANUFACTURERS

for the whole of the Far East] 'arranged, with addresses, in alphabetical order.

SERVICE TO READERS.

HONG KONG DAILY

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Peiping

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If when at home, they will call or telephone to the above, address, they will receive the utmost assist Alphabetical lists of Cable ance and the latest available infor-

Addresses

mation on all subjects of enquiry will be placed at their disposal.

List of Agencies held by

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HE

Business of the above Bank ia conducted by the HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. Rules may be ob tained on application.

For the HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chief Mandger. Hong Kong, 10th July, 1930.

(2

EQUITABLE EASTERN BANK- ING CORPORATION.

CAPITAL AND SURPLUS— U.S. $4,500,000.

HEAD OFFICE:

18, PINE STREET,

NEW YORK.

39.00 An American Bank offering complete Foreign Banking Service in the $18.00 principal Markets of the world,

Interest Rates on Application.

.

11. Ice House Street. This Bank in entirely owned by Tuz

BLUE FUNN

LINE

REGULAR AND FAST PASSENGER SERVICES |

FREIGHT AND

LONDON SERVICE.

"PERSEUS"

* AENEAS"

29th Apr For Port Said, Mars.. Casablanca,

London, Rotterdam and Hamburg. · 18th May, For Fort Said, Marveilles, London, Rotterdam, 'burg. & Glasgow.

LIVERPOOL SERVION.

"ELPENOR"

THESEUN”

. 20th May, For Port Said, Genoa, Usm,

Liverpool and Glasgow. 2nd Jane, For Port Said, HavIT,

Liverpool an i Glasgow. PACIFIC SERVIÕE (via KOBE & YOKOHAMA) "TYNDAREUS" Bad May, For Victoria, Vancouvor de Hostile. "PROTESILAUS" 99th May, For Victoris, Vancouver à Ecattle.

INWARD SERVICE.

Dao

"ACHILLES 20th Apr., For B'bri, Moji, Kobo, Yokohams,

Otaru & Vladivostook. "SARPEDON” ut May, For S'hai., Tsingtao, Taka & Dalny.

PASSENGER-SERVICE

For

Sails "SARPEDON" 2nd May, Shanghai, Tsingtao, Taku & Dalay, "AENEAS" 18th May, Singapore, Marseilles & Londen,

All cargo etsamera with limited passenger aconmunodation at epocially reduced farea,

For freight, passage rates and information apply to the ondermentioned."

All bookings are subject to the provisions of the Company Bills of Lading:-

Butterfield & Swire,

Agħata."

[28]

CHABE NATIONAL Bank, New Yonx, whoso Total Resources are U.S. $2,800,000,000.

D. M. BIGGAR,

ZAMBOANGA

[Philippia

Inlanda). FOREIGN EXCHANGE and 'General Banking Business transacted.

CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOatra' received for one year or shorter periods at rates which will be quoted on applica. Lipa

A. H. FERGUSON, Manager. Hong Kong, 18th March, 1931.

[30

BANQUE FRANCO-CHINOISE FOUR LE COMMERCE ET L'INDUSTRIE (Incorporated in France). Prince's Building, Chater Road, Victoria, Hong Kong.

HEAD OFFICE:

74, Due St. Lazare, Paris.

Frs. Capital, fully paid-up.... 60,000,000 Special Working Capital. 50,000,000 Reserves

The Company offers to intending travellers the use of its, Travelers Cheques" and Letters of Credit and, in addition, the world wide services of Its thoroughly equipped Travel Department..

Affiliated with

THE CHASE NATIONAL BANK Resources ...... Over G.82,500,000,000

0. H. BENSON,

General Manager.

22,310,000 THE HO HONG BANK, LTD.

BRANCHES :- L'aris Lyons Saigon Tourane Quinhoa Thanh hoa Vinh Peiping Shanghai

Marseilles Haiphong Hanoi

Hong Kong

Hac Prom Penk Tientsin

BANKERS: France: Société Générale, Banque Nationale de Crédit Banqua de. Paris it des Pays Bas. London: Midland Bank, Ltd. New York: American Exchange Irving Trust Co., Banca Com- merciale Italians.

San Francisco: Bank of Italy.

Every description of Banking and

Exchange Business transacted. Correspondents throughout the

World.

A. ROLLIN,

Manager. Bong Kong, at July, 1929.

THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED.

*HEAD OFFICE:~~

15, Gracechurch Street, London, E.O. 3.

Established 1917.)

HEAD OFFICE:-SINGAPORE. HONG KONG OFFICE:-13, QUEEN's Rv. C.

Authorised Capital....Straits $20,000,000 Luod

$8,000,000, $4,000,000

$4,000,000 $2,525,000

4.

+

Paid-up Reserve Liabilities of

Shareholders... Surplus...

10

11

*

Branches, Agencies and Corres- pondents in the principal cities of the world.

Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted. TAN ENG HOOI,

Manager.

BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE. Head Office: 90, Boulevard Haussmann, Paris. Subscribed Capital Fra.72,000,000.00 Paid-up Capital... Tra.68,400,000.00 Reserve Fund Frs. 102,000,000.00

BRANCHES : Bangkok Hong Kong Quinhon Battambang Hue Saigon £3,000,000 Cantho Mengisz Shanghai £1,800,000 Canton Nam Dinh Singapore £1,050,000 Djibouti Noumea Thanhan Reserve Fund and Rest....£1,646,500 Fort Bayard Papeeta Tientsin

Manager.

Authorized Capital Subscribed Capital Paid-up Capital

NEDERLANDSØHE HANDEL-

MAATJCHAPPIJ, H‚V:-

(NETHERLANDS - TRADING SOCIETY,).

RANKERS

Established 1824.

BANKERS:

THE BANK of Exoland

and

MIDLAND BANK, Lap.

Batavia Bangkok

HONG KONG OFFICE: 11, QUEEN'S ROAD Bombay

CENTRAL

Authorised Capital

BRANCHES

Karachi Madras Kota Bharu New York Kuala Krai Penang (Kelantan) Port Louis. Kuala Lipis (Mauritius) (Palang) Rangoon Kuala. Stanghai Lumpur Simla

Calcutta Colombo Delhi Gidrs. 150,000,000- Galle

(£12,500,000.) Hong Kong Paid-Up Capital...Gidra. 80,030,000 Howrah Kuantan Singapore

(20,609,170.) Ipoli Reserve Fund........Gldra. 40,015,000

(£3,334,593.)

Head Office:---Amsterdam.* Eastern Head Office:-Batavia. BBANQUES —–—–Paidfermaida, Basdoang", Bombay, Calcutta, Oberibon, Djembe, loka karia', The Hague', Jiddah, Kobe, Kola-La

Madan, Pa

dang, Palembang, Pekalongan, P mang, Pontianak, Rangoon," Rotter dam Bamirang, Shanghal, bolgs

(Bumátra), - Blëgapore, Boerabada,

aberraria (Solo), Tryal, Titip

and Walterreden”.

377kes offers basa Bife Deposit Bonne Te Zai,

London Bankers- National Provincial Bank, Ltd.

Correspondents all over the world.. Banking Business of every descrip

tion transacted.

A. STOKKINK,

Acting Manager.

[80 Hong Kang, 18th May, 1930.

THE BANK OF CANTON, LTD.

HEAD Orries: HONG KONG.

Hong Kong Currency. Aurnonized CAPITAL...$13,000,000 „Paid-up CAPITAL. ................. 8,045,800 RESERVE FUND 1,100,000

Branches:- CANTON, SHANGHAI, HANKOW,

SWATOW, BANGKOK, NEW "YORK and SAN FRANCISCO, London Bankers:- THE LLOYDA BANK, LTD. Oorrespondenta

Kandy

(Pahang) Sourabaya

Hoka KONG BRANCH: Every description of Banking and Exchange Business transacted. Travellers Cheques issued. Trustee and Executorships under taken,"

INTEREST allowed on Current Ac counts and Fixed Deposits at Rates that may be ascertained on appli- cation.

C. L. SANDES,

A Manager.

7, Queen's Road Central,

Hong Kong, 12th Mar., 1931.

(20

BANK OF CHINA.

Reorganized October 20, 1928, under special charter of The National Government as an INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE

BANK.

Subscribed Capital.....$25,000,000,00 | Paid-up Capital....................824,710,200,00 Reserve Funds $3,820,503.52

TEAD OFFICE:-SHANGHAI,

....

HONG KONG BRANCH:

4, Queen's Road Central.

Owing to our numerous branches

in China and large connections in

Haiphong Peiping Touranc

Hankow Hanoi

Pnom Penh Vinh Pondicherry Yunnanfu

BANKERS:

IN FRANCE: Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris; Credit Lyonnais; Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas; Crédit Indus- trial et Commercial; Société Générale,

IN LONDON: The National Provia- cial and Union Bank of Eng. land, Ltd.; Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris; Crédit Lyonnais

IN NEW YORK; J. P. Morgan & Co.; French-Américao Baoking Corporation; Guaranty Trusty Co., of New York.

¿

Interest allowed on Current Ac- counts and Fixed Deposits accord- ing to arrangement.

Every description of Banking and Exchange Business transacted. Safe Deposit Boxes to let.

A. LECOT,

Manager. Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1990. [39

THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LIMITED

Capital (fully paid Reserve Fund..........Yea 115,000,000

up)

Yon 100,000,000

Head Office: YOKOHAMA.

BRANCHES AND AGENCIES AT: Alexandrís Honolulu Rio de Batavia. Kai Yuen Derin Karachi Bombay Kobe

Calcutta Canton

Janeiro Rangoon --

London Lyons

Sverabays San Francisco Beattle

Changchun Los Angeles Semarang

Daires

(Delay)

Fongtloa

Manila Shanghai Nagasaki Shimonoseki, Nagoya Singapore

Mukden) Newelwang Bydney

the important commercial centres of Hamburg the world, we are able to extend to Hankow all Principal Cities of the World.our-olients-special-facilities for Harbin Foreign Exchange and Banking domestic and foreign banking and Hong Kong

Business of every description transacted.

Safe Deposit Boxes (various sizes)

at a Yearly Rental of from 85 to $40.

LOOK POONG SHAN,

97)

Manager.

exchange

New York Quako

Peiping

Tientsin

Tokyo..

Tsingtan-

"Interest allowed on Current Ao- We also handle the issue of Bonds | counts.

and other Publio Tunda of the Deposits received for Fixed Chinese Government both at home Periods at rates to be obtained on and abroad.

application.

H. MORI, Manager. Hong Kong, April 11, 1931 (35

SHOU J. CHEN, Manager.

30

Across,

31

OLUES.

1.Hero a vehicle and a long range of hille are liable to explode.

DA table

8.—Influence. ́ ́ ́

10.An artist once contrasted this

with impudence. 11.-Where cheese is its reverse. 12,--Turn aside.

13. The task, I think, from personal experience, demands great efforts (hidden). 10.-Games that in pre-War days enst about three ha'pence a dozen containers. 17.-Turn out, 18.This is fairly hard-there's a

Greek letter. 20-Relief-but it sounds harm-

ful to a fruit tree, 22.-None will answer this cor-

rectly, I'm positive. 23-May be quite a good lie. 21.-Pack away.

28.-This may be ni mouth, but it

does not, necessarily, hold a tongue.

20.-Pied.

7.-Shakespeare's Pistol was one. He thought the world was his oyster, and was full of his nubject

9.-There is something darkish about the sound of these edges.

14. In old-time warfare these

were frequently made their own centre.

18.-Hero in a catch, 18.-Again I mislead you. 18.-A man is back in this house

before going on. 19-Indulges in brush work.“ 20-A sharpener.

21. Hang out our banners on

the walls."" Macbeth." 25.-This might be narrow, but

must not be a narrow. 26. This rot is frequently quite

amusing.

97.-Nothing but a lake..`-

The solution will be published to

morrow.

30.-Fine old house, easily built YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.

by a Roman. 31.To make this useful one must CAPACITY MOTHEE give it socks-or, at any rate, AB OOA AME 3

one.

Down.

1.- Carve" (anag) 2-This may be a great

Inok.

3-Rise up at the back.

ROEBUCK SUSPECT

MMONPNĚ■PUT-L-E EXIT ENTEE EISE NBE8 ENP NA draw-BEALXR HEIGHT

4. The Cockney's brief descrip-

tion of Hobson's choice.

OBARRIER

FALCON ARMINO B V_E_W.ACE L H

6.--Who caused the bear to be EDGE AGENT DORA

bulgyt

NWA PWAN 61PN DETRACT INSIPID

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Chlef Manager.

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