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OUR DRYCLEÁNING SERVICE MARKS

CONDITION THIS POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE.

NO OLD FASHIONED PRESSING METHODS ARE USED WHICH

MAT MERELY DOWN THE FIBRES AND DEADEN THE. FABRIC. YOU'LL LIKE THE WAY YOUR SUITS COME BACK TO YOU.

THE STEAM LAUNDRY

CO.

Sanitary Laundrymen, Dyers and Dry Cleaneri

HEAD OFFICE and WORKS, Mongkok. Tél. 07032. KOWLOON HOTEL DEPOT. Tel. 65008.

HONG KONG DEPOT, 60, Queen's Road Central, Tel. 21879.

PEAK HOTEL DEPOT, Tal 29071.

PENINSULA HOTEL (Visitors only).

HONG KONG HOTEL:

73, WYNDHAM STREET-

SPECIAL VALETERIA SERVICE.

No. 2, Panipaula Hotel Arcade, Tel. 8081.

864, Nathan Road (Next to Majestic Theatro). Tol, $8908,

60, Queen's Road Central. Tel..21979.

When ordering your

BISCUITS

from the Compradore Stores be sure they are

"CARR'S"

CARR'S AFTERNOON TEA

BISCUITS

Afternoon Tea

Made by

CARR'S ☛ CARLISLE. ENGLAND

Agents-

For the nest of all afternoon tea biscuits

You must ach ion and ses that you get CARR'S. The assorted kinds in the afternoon Low tin such as Nice, Brazette Chocolatë, Finger Creams, Oracknel are as good to-day as they were years and yours ago.

No afternoon tea table can be repletë

without CARE'S.

W. R. LOXLEY &

2.

CO.

KING'S THEATRE

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1932-

H.K. BANK SHARES.

INTERIM DIVIDEND OF £3.

According to an advertisement. appearing in this issue the Direc- tors of the Hong Kong and Shong- hai Banking Corporation announce that, aubject to audit, the dividend for the half your ending December 31, 1091, will be £3 per share at 18. 3d.

year.

The Navy's Effect On Your

Business.

[BY W.H.R]

How many Arma in the Colony do' their best to attract the custam of the Navy Representing a large percentage of the European popula

A pum of $500,000 will be writtention, it in a necessary føld for leent off the Bank premises and 83,420,000 | Arms to explore. Once you have: is to be carried forward to next gained your market you will retain it, for the anilor is a loyal customer, Some Arms enter almost exclusive ly for Servics man and, through lack of rivalry, make enough profit during the winter to carry thour through the Ficota's absence during the summers

IMPORTS-PRICES CURRENT.

The reports and prios e published supplied by Importam, and the Chambar cannot socopt responsibility for the Loctirncy thereof.

Motala Market dull, downward tendency.

QUOTATIONS. Continental per pioul 14.90

IRON AND STRELI—

Stoel Nail Boda

Bars

Angios

Boda

Jointe

Bheste

Flater

Small round roda... Hoops, black steel... galvanized...

Black Tubes

Firms dealing in curios, silk, linen, etc., make a special appeal to the sailor as nearly every man has women friends across the sea who expect him to buy such things for them. In fact very few sailers care to face their family after a 5.70. commission abroad,

unless they Ho

4,25-4.70 4.70 5.20 4.140 *9:40

Diaconub

5.20

5,20 have brought gifts for all. 17.00 usually buys too much so as to be

on the safe side.

88%% 58% 10,80

Steam Tubes 1/* Wira Nails, 18...p. plou! Galvan, corrugated shosts, 2401 0.50

24/25...

por 100 1.28610.10 Galvanized int shoots, faz

3/8", 8/92" x ... per lb. $19:30 Galv. wiro 18/25...por ploul LRADI-

17.60

B.M., Spot ... per pioni ́ $15.00-15.30-

To arrive...

Australian

B.H.P., Spot

To arrive

British.

18,20

18.80

18.50

ZING CHEETA, 8°24... per picul

TIN PLATES

English LCW., 207 ± 147,

100 lbs., Spot.p. hox $11.30-13.50-

To arrive... 3?

12.00 English LC.W, 183" x 14";

110 Thu., Spot.... per box 12.10

To arrive

-12,50

Americas C. Spot...p. box no stock

To arrive

$17.00 Petroleum Produsta.

British. Warta Boss BRAND

...per casu 16.68 COMET BRAND.

"

4.48

***

"

6.97 0,00,

To attract the Naval man is not difficult. Sound good at reason able prices is enough Selling is

GERMAN BONDS

AMERICA.

DECLINE IN VALUES.

PUBLIC HIT HARDER

THAN BANKS,

IN

The revelation that sincs 1920: American bankers proposing to floati foreign loans in the United States) have informed the State Depart- bulk 5.40 ment in order to give it an oppor- | BOODNY MOTOR GASOLINE ..... ex80 11.60tunity to "intervene" was made

Cook

RAULI HAGLZ

»

06:45.

SILVES LIGHT. Chowk BRAND... 68 lbs. Itin 8.00 by Mr. Thomas W. Lamont, a part-

81. Falla 6915. Bulk (5.60)

CROEN BRAND

·LAMP Glass,

more difficult. You need tact, and

special sort of salesmanship to help the floundering man in his Bard task of choosing between different colours and textures.

Advertising is most important. Remember that, strangely enough, the sailor who stays abohyd six nights out of seven, is your best customer, as his purse remains full You cannot reath him by window dressing but.only through his nowa paper. A headline to show it in' meant for him and an appealing advertisement will attrnat his attention.- Give your prices if possible and stress the 'soundness of your goods. Remind him of hig loving family at home. An import ant item is to offer to post direct from store to England. He has no facilities for packing, and also | little time to get to the G.P.O.

An opportunity for a special effort is at hand. The Vindictiro will be here soon with relief crown, and men, going home, have simply got to buy somewhere.

A BIMETALLIC CURRENCY.

rays

make

Ultra-violet

Ava good for your

Skin

BILL TO BE INTRODUCED INTO U.S. SENATE.

Washington, Jan, 3.-Senatorpide Burton K. Wheeler, Democrat of Montana, nanounced to-day that when the 72nd Congress reconvenes to-morrow after the Christmas and New Year holiday rocess be will in- troduce into the Senate a bill pro- viding for the establishment of a bi-metallic currency...

Senator Wheelor said his moa-

sure will provide for the establish- ment of a bi-metallic currency system in the United States. It

15. June 5.4 ner in the firm of Meers. P. Mor will provide for the free coinage of 8. galle. 71 lbs, bulk 5.14 gan & Co... while giving evidenco

SHELL Möfok Broker

SCALE

Tax Foo

Z'tins 5.88 CLEO 13.45. a time 12.06 Bulk 11.95

before the Finance Committee of six in the ratio of 16 to 1 with the Senate, which opened an in- gold.

His bill, Senator Wheeler shid, if

galion (ex pump) 1.85/quiry into the sale of forcier benas enacted into law would prove to b

TEXACO MOTOR SPIRIT.

Kaping"

3 tina 8.25 in the United States, "The usual

18

8:00

QUOTATIONS.

procedure said Mr. Lamont, was for

a tremendous boon to the world

He said it would do more than any

per gal, ox pump 1.26 the State Department to send ether single factor to and the pre- Goalk

letter saying that it had no objeevailing world-wide economic and tion to the lona. He did not, how Enancial depression by restoring tho 18.73ever, reveal whether any loan, had buying power of Far Eastern and

ever been abjected to

No. 2 Lamp...par metric ton $13.25 Special Black

No. 1 Blask

No. 3 Black

Flour

18.25 19,25

Regarding the 8908,000,000 loans Houted by Messrs. Morgan on be Quotations. half of the German Government be.

Market: Very weak.

American Fatent ...per sack 14.48 Jetween 1924 and 1920-the Dawes and

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Straight. Cut of Australian No.! Canadian Cut 20

2nd Clear...

Straight... Murture ...

STOCK

American ... Canadian. Australiau...

Bundries,

WINDOW GLL33---

里

2,86-8.10 Young loans,-Mr. Lamont said: 2.98-8.20

There is no reason to question' the 8,15-8,26 good faith and ability of the Gor-

2.95-3.20

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9.10-3.20

3,00

2.00

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man Government and people to phy this external debt." About 200,000 bags 8173,000,000 of it, lie added, was

outstanding.

100,000

80,000

2

4th Quality of 100 sq.ft....p. box. $8.50 Fair average siz......

8.20

16.40

Mr, Lamont gave it as his opinion 280,000 bags that the American public was un- duly alarmed at the German bond situation. The largest trading of German short-term credits by any one American bank ዓት 22 only 1/18" thick (18 oz.)...

$70,000,000, and the institution in China, India and Stzalte Producs, question was so large that this sum

Por Reported salari pion?

picula

was comparatively insignificant. Rough. White... $7.50-7.88

24,281.00 American banks were in no way en-

(Spot) Do.

7.50-7.78 22,888.00 dangered-

(To arrivo) Rough Brown... 7.26-7.06 13,338.00

(Spot) Do,

3,485.00 (To arrive)

BUGARS

Molasses

7.30-7.50

11

MAN WHO SHOT AT M.

· CLEMENCEAU.

SENTENCED FOR CON TRAVENING EXPULSION

ORDER.

In the past ten years, said Mr. Lamont in conclusion, Messrs. Mor- gan bad handled about $300,000,000 for France, $260,000,000 for Belgium, $215,000,000 for Australia, #105.000,- 000 for Canada, and $100,000,000 for South America, the net profit rang- ing from about 1 per cent. to 0.1 per cent.

He denied that many United States banks.. were overloaded with such bonds. The brunt of the de- cline in values, he said, bad fallen: on the great investing public." a Toulon, Jun. 3.-The, Correction. "Yes," interrupted Senator Gore, al Court has condemned, for the bluff Democrat from the West," it violation of the expulsion ordez, | is Tom, Dick, and Barry who have Cottin, who, in December 1918, she taken the loss."

with a revolver at Mr. Clemenceau, The question of the priority of then president of the Council Cot- political and private debta, continu- Lin was sentenced to death, thened Mr. Lamont, would not'" amount his sentence was commuted to to a row of pins." He stated that years' solitary, imprisonment and Messrs. Morgan, had handled long- expulsion, for 20 years.

tarm foreign bonds to the total He stated that he arrived int value of "81,807,570,000, of which Trulon to see his child, who is im- $43,898,000 worth had been with- der the care of a guardian in this drawn. He considered that the city. This statement, protad in re United States had benefited "very trio, but he was not granted the greatly" from foreign loans, which conditional discharge, because he had contributed to the capacity of had a províbus identical copviettäni fiwin Governments to discharge for having arrived at Lyɛn." After their obligations to America, Ho heing released Cottin departed (to admitted, however, that it '"' could Compiegne, the placs prosiribed for be argued that foreign loaning him ag residence.

was overdone

other marketa.

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One of the most important dis- coveries over made in the scientific care of 'the' skin is the fact that fats and oils, when treated by ultra-violet rays, gain greater power to benefit the skin, "

The special patented process by which Ava soap is made includes treatment of the i- gredients by ultra-violet rays: That's what makes Ava SO wonderfully good for your skin. You'll find it. the smoothest The BOAP you ever used. quickest to get a snowy creamy father. The longest lasting in fragrance because of the special Ava process.

Begin using Ava to-day and learn what this wonderful soap with its delightful Enu-de-.. Cologne fragrance can do ter your akin-how fresh and soft it will keep it-how free from skin defects.

Sold by Chemists and Storm. Single Tablet

Bar of 5

Eau-de-Cologne SOAP

Tablets; also White" Beather Triple Milled Soap-Toilut

and Both Tablets,

HOUSEHOLD COAL

CO4L

Further supplies of our well-known Household Coal are now available

DELIVERED TO

Upper Levels

$25.00 per ton

Mid. Levels

$24.00 per ton

Lower Levels.

$23.00 per ton

Kowloon

$23.00 per ton

TERMS:-CASH WITH ORDER

ARNHOLD & CO., LTD.

Gloucester Building. Tel. 28141

PETTER ATOMIC DIESEL MARINE ENGINES

In Sizes from 28 BH.P. to 400 B.H.P.

Two Stroke Cycle, Airless Injection, Cold Starting Type

160 B.H.P. Atomia Diesel Marine Engine Directly Reversible by compressed Air

We welcome visitors at our showroom in Chater Road to

50 B.H.P. two cylinder, 400 RP.M. engine thatpect the

received from the works.

we have recently

The General Electric Co. of China, Ltd.

Con's Building