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LIFTS

and

NOTICES

WAYGOOD-OTIS

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

ELEVATORS

FOR ALL PURPOSES.

FOR QUOTATIONS APPLY TO THE

SOLE AGENTS

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

MACHINERY DEPARTMENT.

THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE GO.

New Scheme for Children's Early Endowment:-

Principal features:"Small Premium. Liberal Surrender Value. Ya Medical Examination, Return of Premium in the Event of Death, and Numerous Options at the Age of 25. WEITE FOR PAMPHLET ARD FULL PARTICULARS TO

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THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING .D:

ESTABLISHED 1883.

MANUFACTURERS OF

PURE MANILA ROPE

3

STRAND

to 15"

PER QUIFERUENCA,

CABLE LAID

4 STRAND 3" to 10" OIRCUMFERIANO

5 " to 15" CIRCUMFERENUL

Ol Drilling Cablas of any size up to 3,000 feet in length, Priosa, Samples and full particulars will be forwarded on application.

SHEWAN TOMES & Co.,

OWING to the present high rate of EXCHANGE we are now offering our KODAKS and FILMS at very lowest possible prices. Inspection cordially invited.

A. TACK & CO. 20. Des Vœux Road, Ctl.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT

17

COMPANY, LIMITED.

“

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Caaks of 375 lbs, net. In Bags of 250 lbs. net.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

General Managers, Hongkong, 16th August, 1916.

HONGKONG JAPANESE MASSAGE ASSOCIATION.

Mrs. A SUGA

Hr. U. SUGA

8 Queen's Road Central.

Hongkong."

METALS

of all kinds, especially for ship-. building and engineering works. Largest and best assorted stock in the Colony. «

SINGON & CO.,

(Established A. D. 1880.)

Phone 515 HING LUNG ST.

MEE CHEUNG

PHOTOGRAPHER,

FOR ARTISTIC PHOTO. GRAPHS CALL AT ICE HOUSE STREET RING UP 1013.

OR

THE NEW FREMÓN REMEDT»

THERAPION NY1 THERAPION NË2 THERAPION N0.3

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General Managers.

THE CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE CO., LTD.

(Capital Paid up...$1,250,000.)

Loci z Mortgaga ni Romana Property, In Goods cited on Storage Adres made on Kerchdi Loans made on the Provident System.

TELSTER, EXECUTOR OF WELLS, ATTORNEY, da Uzderzakar and Xosegid. (Batar and Pardoziare un applastics).

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Managera.

- NORTH BRITISH

AND

MERCANTILE INSURANCE CO,.

in which are vested the shares of THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE CO., LTD:

AND

THE RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE CO.

The Indersigned AGENTS for the above Company are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates, SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

Agents.

MASSAGE HALL

13. FLOWER STREET.

MR. T. TAKAYE, MES. MORITA. CERTIFICATED MASSEURS.

PATIENTS CREATED IN THEIR OWN HOME

1 DESEED.

PUBLISHED ANNUALLY.

THE

LONDON DIRECTORY

with Provincial & Foreign Sections, enables traders to erpomanjunta direct wij MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS

in London and in the Provincial Towns and Industrial Centres of the United Kingdom and the Dentinest of Perupe. The LEMON, addresses and other details are clamité'd under more than 2000 trade beadings, intinding EXPORT MERCHANTS

with datafinci partienes of the Goods shipped and the Colonial and Fortigo Marivets suppliect; STEAMSHIP LINES

Awanged under the Ports to which they mass, |ind indicating the approximate Bailinga."

C BUSINESS CARDS ✅f Pirtna desiring sexthend sandy spanacuicte, or Trade Garde gi DEALERS "HEEKING AGENCUS

can be 'prkoweʼN SAU $2,1000. Je nach Pada Wakdings stoder which tówy sen komenke Larger küvetiamata from 42 to ex**

A copy of the diesesory will ta sänt by parcel post Lot #2, att osch with order.

THE LONDON DIRECTORY, 00, LT#

25, Auchures Lem, Londen, Z,C. 6, Lugizas.

MED 105 YEARS. /

GENERAL NEWS.

PREVENTING CRUELTY. “ According to a report of the Superintendent of the Shanghai Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to animals the following is the number of cases prosecuted during October:-Seven cases of convaying birds cruelly (5 fined, 2 cautioned); seven cases of ever- crowding birds (6 fined. 1 forfeit of binds); one case of conveying calves cruelly (Defendant abscond- ed and calves were forfeited).

BRIDEGROOM AGED 90, Mr. John Godfrey, aged 90, was recently married at Reading to Mrs. Sarah Parsons, who is

76 years of age, Mr. George Fosell, parish clerk, aged 93. acted as best man. The bride- groom, who is known as the Railway Poet," was for 40 years on the G.W.R. This is Mr. Godfrey's third marriage. "1 was afraid to be alone at night" was the explanation of his last matri- monial alliance.

L

BULL ON LIVE RAÍL. There was excitement on the London and South-Western Rail- way line recently. A bull rush- ed from the Nine Elms depot and ran up the line between the live rails. He received a slight shock as he came in contact with the f line, and this caused him to start running madly. When he had almost reached Clapham Junc- tion his career came to a sudden end. Blundering on the live rail he was instantly electrocuted. The current had to be cut off while the carcase was removed. and the traffic on the electric sys- tem was delayed for half an hour. "GIRL SOLDIER'S" STORY. Sapper" Dorothy Lawrence, the only English woman soldier. has written a book on her adren- tures as a Royal Engineer in the 51st Division in France. She says she joined the Army and saw service as a "tunneller under) fire. Meeting two British soldiers at a Paris cafe, she persuaded them to get her a uniform, cap. hadge, and puttees. She then wrote out a "pass" for herself. she says, and got a passport 10 Amiens, going there by rail, and cycling thence to Albert. Even. tually a sapper helped her to get to the trenches, where she was ander fire with a night shift of the R.E.s. Later a sergeant in- formed against her. she was arrested, tried at 3rd Army Head- quarters, and sent to a convent, where she remained until dispat- ched to England by the Army authorities.

"WITHERED" APPETITES.

Mr. W. E. Johnson, the leader of the American prohibition crusade in England told a meeting of members of the Independent Order of Templars at Whitofeld's Institute. recently, how prohibi- į tion "got a grip" of America. The problem of the unfit, he said, had always appealed to America. They bad provided for all the unfit except one class, and that! was that of the man with the withered" appetite. All they had done for him was to prey up- on him, to ruin him, sell him prisonous drinks, and to make hell and forment for his wife and children. That got upon their nerves and they declared..before God, that they would quit-they did quit, and that was what they called prohibition. It had been from the beginning a popular

FRIDAY," NOVEMBER 14, 1919.

NOTICE.

Tyres Made with a Determination to

Make Them Good

ין

You will find this spirit animating the workman bending over his ma- chine the inspector keonly vigilant for fault or fair-the floor foremän checking the work as it leaves his department.

You will And it evidenced in the long list of Goodyear, contribu- tions to the tyre business-contribe- tions in machines, in methods of manufacture, in factory and sales practice.

You will find it expressed clear- est in the Goodyear Tyre itself.

For the effort spent the en- deavours for improvement made, the scruple exercised to make these tyres good, have had effect.

Goodyear Tyres really deliver great mileage at small cost,

There is a certain way to prove it, if you are dubions-by fitting them to your inter can You will be surprised at the result.

SOLD EXCLUSIVELY BY ALEX?ROSS, & CO.

4. Des Voeux Rd. H.K.

GOOD YEA

BANDITS AND POPPIES.

TWO GREAT PLAGUES

OF CHINA..

There is no doubt about the

the trees on which they were hung for display, another band of robbers were at work almost under the branches of the same trees! If something is not done to clear up the routes it appears that

NOTICES.

PIANOS

$10

FOR

HIRE

per month

THE ROBINSON PIANO C

DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO.

Tel 482 24, Des Voeux Road Central, Tel, 487

Agents for South China:- HUDSON,

ESSEX,

CHANDLER,

OVERLAND CARS

A consignment of HUDSON and ESSEX Cars

expected shortly,

Orders may now be booked.

Cars for hire.

Lessons in driving at moderate inclusive prices,

1; $ ཨིནྡཝེཏྟཾ ཨབྷིཎྞཾ ཏི རིཙཏྟཾཝིཏཾ &ie: vii te{ 1=l { + ! { + { — + { ¥ { #tཨ

FOOK LEE & CO.,

always in stock, large quantities of

finplates, Wire nails, Pig Lead, Pig Iron, Steel Plates, Black Sheets, Galvanized Wire, Galod Sheets, Yellow Metal Sheathings & etc.

Telephone

1174 & 1950.

BRITISH TRADERS.

Nos, 2 & Hillier Street, and o

York Building, Chater Road,

REGAINING LOST GROUND. Outsiders will never know cr

even

BERKSHIRE QUAKES.

HOUSES SHAKEN.

an

Mr. H. L. Hawkins, Lecturer commence to realize the in Geology at University College, enormous burdens that the Reading, has given the Daily British Empire and her industries | Chronicle correspondent bad to bear during the last five account of his experiences on the strange Fears. Some firms have had to recent night, when a entirely cease their production of convulsion was felt in many parts goods required by a peaceful of Berkshire, world and devote all their time, "I was sitting quietly in my energies and machinery to war study drawing," he said, "when needs. Consequently, people out I felt a strange vibration as of of Great Britain have almost the passing of very heavy motor. come to believe that British for lorries. This was followed by a eign trade was on the decline, if sort of erascendo, lasting some not already wiped off the map. saconda, growing louder and

Such is not the case, however, louder.

says a writer in the Pan-Púcific. "I began to alarm me some- W bat- The friends of Britain need not what and I exclaimed, fear for her laurels, and her trade ever is happening? Then there rivals will soon commence to was a tremendous thu l, as though worry. British manufacturers are a traction engine were running wide awake, and people will soon into my house.

the find British peace industry rising] "Everything vibrated; like the Phoenix from the re, house shook, and the windows' with renewed vigour and strength. rattled. It was quite different Prices will never return to what from anything heard in the they were before the war, but of an ordinary explosion.

I think the occurrence is due now, as then, quality will be the. predominant feature of British either to an earthquake or the goods.

explosion of a big meteorite. If local, doubtless it was the latter, In this after-the-war scramble but if the sensations extended

movement-a people's law. For fact that bandits in and around the time will come when trade to regain their old territories, over a wide area probably it was

travel.

of a

but it As

British manufacturers ara resort-

an earthquake." on some of these highways must 300 years the question of liberty Kusicho province have greatly absolutely ceass.

It is true that ing to, many devices-none of

The atmosphere was oppres- had been part of the American increased during the last fex China lies, a weltering chaos, in them efficient. In some parts of kind of weather for an earth- them spectacular, but most ofsive and still, which is just the system. At last they had eman years and it is rather disquieting the bands of her official and un- cipated themselves, and they felt to see how the main routes into oficial plunderers; and Kueichow the world. Canada, for instance, quake. The season of the year. that now, by the grace of God. and out of the province are be and the neighbouring portion of

one will have noticed the advent 100, suggests an earthquake, for they were free.

unsafe for ordinary Hunan hoid a prominent place in coming

new selling agency-the they occur during the change of British Manufacturers Corpora- the year. A BETTER WORLD.

fixing this notoriety upon the tion Limited. Primarily, it is so A few years ago, says a writer Mr. Arthur Henderson, M.P.,

However, as the whole thing state.

Opium is freely coming through, organization to foster the sale terminated in a bump and a big Speaking at Birmingham Town to the North China Daily News,

of, and sell, British products: bang, without subsequent shak- an escort of a few valiant bearers and the trade all over the pro- Hall in connection with the an

unique in this, of ancient Mausers was consider-

is nual conference of the National

vince

most áctive. The'

ing, it points more to an explo- it does not confine itself to Britishsion of a natural type high up in. Brotherhood Council, said thated quite an abundant shelter Southern forces hold Hunan to a new ideas of economic recon-under which ordinary commerce point midway between Shenchow good. It is an organization, set the air rather than to &

earthquake. struction and social reorganisat might seek refuge for its moving and Taoyuan. Where the Nor- upon its feet by British firms in-

It is still the one theme of con- ion were beginning to take shape, wares, but now a very different thern forces have control, under terested in engineering products, and it would be a fatal thing if state of affairs exists in some General Feng, an attempt is made to make a profit. It is strictly versation in the town, telegraph's

business from the word "go, the Daily Chronicle correspo any section of the community parts. An escort of 100 soldiers to suppress opium trading, and Essentially it cannot sell goods ent, for ninty-nine out of every stood in the way of their realisatis no

many rigorous search is made for it on

Own hundred inhabitants felt the ion. It would be an incredible for traders, travellers, all persons, loads, ships, and rafts, in competition with its

In shock more or less. thing if such a war as the country moving into or out of the pro- Some opium thus confiscated has Principals manufacturers.

that regard the corporation uses Nearly everyone compared it had passed through should fail vince. From the eastern exit of been destroyed.

every endeavour to place the to the rumbling and shaking goods of its principals in every caused by a super-motor lorry, market, and push their sale.

considered too

or

Hollowed-out

real

to produce a better world, a world the province down the Yuan The attempts to get- opium in which the people would be river, through Hunan, no boat of through are numerous, and the

something to carry 100 tons or £0. free from the domination of one any size is travelling without its devices endless.

But these lines are limited to House shook so that crockery particular class. A world free soldiers aboard. The boats travel stools, table-legs, table-boards, from the burden of armaments in groups and many of these poles, etc., have been packed with the goods manufactured by about was broken, chairs rocked, and and free from the poison of flotillas have a Chinese gunboat pum. Gowns have been padded twenty of the largest engineering windows rattled. The black- militarism was the hope to be following them for protection. with it. One min filled a coffin, firms in the Old Country" and boards at a Caversham school Recently General Wang, of and trussed the coffin up in the Canada, and if, for instance, the were shaken from their trestles realised. To-day there was the competitive system, which made Kueichow, killed about 2,000 so usual red silk, and actually held ex representatives of the corporation and hurled with a bang to the an extensive toll on human life, called robbers. (of whom many pensive funeral rites at one place, in their endeavour to sell these floor.

Children were wakened and What was wanted was a system no doubt, were genuine bandits) to get through. But the fragrance products, find a sale for other en- of public ownership and control and this has helped matters from the coffin was the fragrance gingering products not handled by screamed when they felt the bed that would take out of private hile. The slaughter of those of the drum, and he lost his all their principals, they are authoris moving sands the means of production people took place near Kueicka, when the coffin was opened. Pred to go after the business and esta A mother said that the raise. and make the workers, partners. in Hunan, in a place where served eggs have also been stuffed an independent Frant for the core was as though her children ind In that way lay economic con- one person me that he with opium-but discovered poration. For instance, should a got out of bed and fallen hes tentment. The humanising of passed through the day after Opium smoking has increased at industry must be secured and the the execution of six high-res great rate worker must be made to think waymen. These gentry were re- that he was working for the lived of their heads, and bolore general good, rather than for these gory articles of homin

equipment were taken down from the en private gain

told

corporation salesman in Canada long down the stairs.

the

the pro the drug has fallen 800 per ont. Jast year bgures, ow

run across an inquiry for "an article not handled by the firm exclusively, he will, if be con ion's 298] sider it works while, lamediate" oncials ther

ret in touch with the

unturned tu