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ter hours.

I understand the working hours are from 10 to 12: hours per day and no Western nation asks labour to work more than 3, and they are demanding in many cases à bours.

Overtime is not increasing a man's pay, and the average wan objects to it even when double. time is paid. It is a bad thing for the workman and worse för the Company because a man's efficiency is so reduced. There cannot be any comparison made between the hours of the foreign af and the Chinese fitters. The foreign staff are pail, by the month, receive their vaca- tion without deduction in pay as well as when absent for all; other causes, while the Diter receives pay per hour. In fact I understand

part of the fitters ATO required to re port at 5 a., and wait until 8 a.m. if no work is found for them by

that time they must return home

without compensation. Why try

it is B

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, APRIL 19.

THEATRE ROYAL

REYNOLDS DENNISTON

NOTICE.

to mislead the public with such KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY. comparisons when obviously impossible to compare them?

“As far as anything that has appeared in the public press the Etters' demand did not even seem worthy of a reply from their...em- ployers, which is just characteris- tic of the far too common way of treating Chinese labour.

"It is high time that lovers of law, order and fairplay give more heed to the man in the factory and remember there is no as much difference as bis greasy clothes would indicate."

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

(British Section)

that on and from Tuesday April The Public is hereby notified th the following trains are can- called until further notice

Up Trains from Kowloon 1833 am, 1.18 pm

2.20 p.m... 6.25 pm. Down Trains from Shum Chun 7.47 a.m.. 3.00 p.m.. 5.04 p.m.,

2.04. p.07.

By Order.

H. P. WINSLOW,

Manager. Hongkong, 19th April, 1920.

-PUBLIC AUCTION

Commencing MONDAY, April 26th, REYNOLDS DENNISTON, LTD:

* presents

THE DENNISTON PLAYERS

LS

UP IN MABEL'S ROOM."

Plans cow open at MOUTRIE'S for the firs: 6 nights of the Season: Tel 527.

Curtain Rises at 9-15., Parcas: $4, $3 $1.

NOTICE.

RUSSIAN VOLUNTEER FLEET,

By virtue of Russian National Laxa promulgated by the former. brogated by any of the successive mperial Government and not

NEW

ADVERTISEME

at 5.15 and 9.15

Tha Baest comedy programme that the Coronet has over presented!

BRITISH GAZETTE NO. 623.

in which Carpentier smiles as he demonstrates

how be licked Beckett.

GOLDWYN'S Screamingly Funny 5 part

farcical comedy in which

MABEL NORMAND

jazzes her way from the lowly mop in the basement to the highly perfumed powderpuff

UPSTAIRS:

And

the one and only

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

in his fourth Million Dollar comedy,

Russian Provisional GoverA DAY'S PLEASURE."

mets, ere Rr. an enterprise or compary is bound to have 1s Head Office, Board of Directors win the barn? jes of, the

Lee and in ronformity with the te. On the ground of these cons i ption of the Russian Volunteer Fleet. the Provisional Golerae it- PRIMORSKAYA ZEN JKAYA UPRAVA - (The Zemstvo of the Littoral Provinces) on f. 25th day of March 1970 Established the Board of Director of the Russian Volunteer Flee wi.h 2 temporary

in Vladivostok (Decree No. 167).

seat

Mr. A. V. Prigarin, the kapwo

THE Code:signed have received Promotor of the All-RUSSIAN instructions to sell by PublicZEMSTVO COOPERATIVE Auction 03

wednesday, the 21st April, 1920 commencing at 11 am.

By the death of Mr. Arthur Heary Bullen, of the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-on-Avon, English literature loses a devoted servant, whose precise prace will not be easy to fill An Elizabethan at their Sale Rooms, & Duddell "to the core, be lived in daily

commune with those things that 12 Bales Deer Hides perpetuate the standard ant

Street

purity of Shakespearean times, Terms: Cash on delivery adding daily to his immense stock

of knowledge and critical wealth.

His claim to public recognition

was acknowledged both by Mr.

Lloyd George and Mr. Asqu th,

(weight about 20 pícula)“

LAMMERT BROS..

Auctioneers.

the latter during bis Premiership THE Undersigned ha vereceived conferring peusion upon Mr. instructions to sell by Public Bullen. They were at Oxford Auction on together.

*

Somebody has been asking whether at previous period of British history have there been as three living ex-Prime Ministers to match Lord Rosebery, Mr. Balfour, and Mr. Asquith. The

Monday, the 26th April, 1920 commencing at 3.45 p.m.

at "La Hacienda" No. 74 The Peak

A Quantity of Valuable

Household Furniture.

answer, as they say in the House (Full particulars from catalogues

of Commons. is in the affirmative. There have been a many as five. On view from Sunday, the When William Pitt became Chief 29th inst. Minister in 1733, the Earl of Shelburne, Lord North, the Duke!

of Portland, the Duke of Grafton!

and the Earl of Bute, who had

preceded him in that office.

↑

+

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS. Auctioneere.

ment.

There will be a bigger rush to see this wonderful pro- gramme **an there has ever been before, so book your seats early to avoid disappointment.

THE CORONET.

NOTICE.

HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

FOR HONGKONG.

AS OCIATIONS, has been - PROPOSED AVIATION CLUB pointed Chairman of the Board orj Directors of the Russian Volunteer Fleet

Captain D. A Lathmare. Russian Voluntee: nection with the above at the A Meeting will be held in con- Fleet Agent, at Nagasaki, bas Chamber of Commerce Room. been nominated General Manager Chartered Bank Building, on of the Russian Volunteer Flee Tuesday, 20th April, at 5 p.m. for the Far East and Executive Diretor of the above-mentioned

The Meating is not confined to Board. (Ordinances of the Pro-members of the Chamber and

NOTICE.

HONGKONG DOG & POULTRY,

SHOW, (1930).

The fith Show will be held, (by kind permission of the Stewards of the Hongkong Jockey Club) within the enclosure Happy Valley on Saturday 15 May 1920.

ADVERTISE YOUR WANTS.

WHAT YOU WANT SOMEONE HAS-WHAT YOU DON'T WANT SOMEONE ELSE DOES,

ONE GENT PER WORD PER INSERTION

Two Cents not Prepaid.

A SMALL ADVERTISEMENT IN THESA CHLUMYS WILL · B 3 PRODUCTIVE OF MANY ENQUIRIES REPLIES AWAIT BOX No.:- 336. 341 & 349

WANTED...

FOR SALE.

WANTED—Services of Nurse on FOR SALE.-One Cole Aero- Peak. Reply stating salary ex-Eight 7 passenger Touring Car. pected, under Box. No. 341 co 1918 model little used, fitted with

Hongkong Telegraph."

wire wheels, complete with spare wheel tyre and tube, front bumper, WANTED. To Rent Small Go-Boyce motor meter & cushion down on OF near Waterfront. covers. Any reasonable offer Immediate possession. Apply accepted. Apply: Shewan Tomes Box 342 ca "Hongkong Tele.

& Co. Garage, 7 Russell Street, Telephone 659. Graph."

LOST.

WANTED. - Bright European woman as filing and cable clerk- LOST, Stolen or gone astray in Previous experience not neces. Kowloon one Ball Bitch, lemon sary. Must commence immedi- and white. Answers tothe name ately. Reply stating education of Beauty. Finder please return received and salary expected. to J. M. A. Remedios, Old Supreme- Apply Box 343 c/o "Hongkong Court Building or No. 3. Ormsby | Telegraph."

Villas, Kowloon.

NOTICE.

CHINA BORNEO COMPANY

LIMITED

(In Liquidation)

rst dividend, or returns of capital Notice is hereby given that a

NOTICE.

It is hereby notified tha: on the 20th April. Instant; at the Treasury of Marso at 3 P.M. there will be received Tenders for Monopoly of Opium for the period commencing from 1s: August. bidding starts from $5,841,500,00 1920 to 31st July, 1923-Upset

visio al Government Nos. 167 and anyone interested in Aviation seated to distribute the prizes as of April 1920 to registered for the Tender can be obtained at

dated Marel: 25, 1920) With the establishment of the legal Board of Directors within Russia, the former Board, which expatriated themselves taking! sea: in Constantinople and since arted arbitrarily at their own discretion and with unjustifiable irresponsibility before the State. is declared invalid by the Provision- al Government.

matters is specially welcome.

By Order.

E. A. M. WILLIAMS Secretary- Hongkong, 12th “April, 1920,"

NOTICE.

RUSSIAN VOLUNTEER FLEET.

To all whom it may concern. Mr. N. D. Fedoro, Russian

at the rate of $17.50 (Seventeen In event of Srat bidding being dolists and fifty cents) Hongkong withdrawn, a second will take Judging commences at 3 p.m. currency per share will be paid on place thirty days afterwards. Lady Stubbs has kindly con- and after Saturday the 17th day All the terms and conditions 1.30 p.m.

Shareholders upon application to the Consulate General of Portugal Entries close 24th inst. at 7 p.m. the undersigned at Entry forms for Dogs, Cats. of Messrs. Lowe, Bingham &

in Foogkong. Poultry and Pigeons may be bad Matthews, Chartered Bank Build-3rd April, 1920.

Treasurer's Office of Macao from the undersigned.

ing.

PLINIO TINOCO, Treasurer.

·Eat ca fee for Dogs $2.00, Cats $1.1, Poultry 30 cents each) bird. Pigeons 30 cents per pen.. Entrance fee should accompany form when sent io.

First and second prizes will be given in all classes and third prizes where there are sufficient entries, in place of certificates &

The right and capacity of al Passian Volunteer Fleet Repre sentatives abroad acting on te-Volunteer balf of the above depatriated Tenruga, acting Agent for Central

Fleet Agro! atin former years. Board would not be recognized by Japan, by virise of Art. 54 of the the present legal Board at Constitution

of the Vladivostok and the Russian Volunteer Fleet, is discharged c/o E. EX. TELEGRAPH CO.,

Russian Volunteer Fleet, as a National from his office by the Board Establishment, would not hold of Directors of the Russian any responsibility for their acts Volunteer Fleet. after this declaration.

are

E. L. FROST.

Hon. Secretary,

Connaught Road Central.

NOTICE.

REPULSE BAY HOTEL-

SPECIAL ATTRACTION American Cabaret Dancera will appear

од

the office

Share Certificates must be pro- duced for endorsement.

E. A. M. WILLIAMS.

Liquidater

Hongkong, 16th April, 1920, ___

PUBLIC AUCTIONS

(Signed)

NOTICE.

FLONGKONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS

The Corps having now been formed, meetings will be held at Headquarters on the under-

THE Undersigned bare received mentioned dates for the purpose of

| instructions from Messrs. Thoresen & Co. to sell by Public Auction on

Tuesday, the 18th May, 1920.

commencing at 3 p.m.

at their Sale Rooms, Duddell Street.

The Steamer "DAGMAR " as she now lies in the Menam River. Bangkok. with all her machinery, gear and apporten-

WEDNESDAY, 21st. April, 1929. ances etc.

and

SATURDAY, 24th. April, 1920. during TEA DANSANT & DINNER

DANCE.

All banks, concerns, and in-Fedoroff has been legalized by The dismissal of Mr. N. D. survived. There were four ex- Mr. Winston Churchill's attitude dividuals tanding in business the Minister of Trade and Indus- Premiers in 1835, when Lord towards Labour at the present conection with Palmerston formed his Govern-moment is naturally exciting a Volunteer

the Russian try of the Provisional Government Fleet ment, these being Lord Russell, good deal of attention and co-earnestly wained not to pay any provinces.!

hereby (Toe Zemstro of the Littoral and Lord Ripon."

It reminds a correspondent amounts owed by them to the of an incident which occurred Rulon Volunteer Fleet, to the Russian Volunteer Fleet warns In consequence of this The It must not be supposed that more than 21 years ago. Late in Representa es not

furnished all banks. the ease with which the barons 1998, on a memorable Sunday he with the ar.horization of the dividua's against Mr. N. D.

concerns and in of Austria and the barons of was lurching with a friend at Board of Directors at Vladivostok. Feders' acts on behalf of the Prussia have shed their titles in Sobu restaurant. This friend, All particulars concerning the Russian Volontier Fleet, for this country, and sa reduced himself a well known Parliament-legality of the Russian Volunteer which acts the Russian Volunteer themselves to the level of plain ariau in later years, was describe Fleet Representatives abroad can Fleet would not tear any re- "Mr." can be imitated by a baroning his recent return from a trip be obtained from the Board of spotibility after this announce- of the United Kingdom. So tend the world. His most in Directors at Vladivostok on apment. Royal Warrant can touch him.teresting companion on the last plication. There was, indeed, one Baron of stage, he said, was a man called Capt. D. A. LUKHMANOFF the cons acts, agreements, obliga- Do all questions arising from Stafford who vanished into Winston Churchill. After lunch Executive Director of the Board. tions, etc. already signed by Mr. obsecurity by selling his title to the two decided to go down to King Charles I. for £800. Nobody Trafalgar-square to take part in

N. D. Fedoroff, as the Represent ative of the Russian Volunteer appears to have troubled about the great pre-war meeting being him; but the House of Lords, held there that afternoo. There THE Undersigned have received invited to apply at once to the Fleet, the parties interested are when properly roused in a was an old horse brs going instructions to sell by Public duly authorized Executive Direct. subsequent case, decided that no solemnly round the square with a ¦ Auction on peer of the realm can "down or single passenger. This Irtier was Wedneday, the 21st April, ga10 the Rossien Volunteer Flee. extinguish bis bonour.”, either by on the roof, and was waring con. surrender, grant, äne, or any Youously a Union Jack.

Our

Capt. D. A. Lukhmanoff, care of other conveyance to the King, correspondent's friend recognised

Nagasaki Agency of the Russian, but that it descends to his descend-him in medistely as his late

Volunteer Fleet (Address: Qura

Owing to limited accommoda- Lots. In still another case-one follow-passenger. Winston Chur

Bond No. 4, Nagasaki)

tion, table bookings should be. of money accepted by the King-chill. It was the War Secretary's

Capt. D. A. LUKHMANOFF | made early either at the Hong- was resolved with great first introduction to London. Soon.

Executive Director. kong Hotel Office (Telephone! deliberation by the Lords that after he began, with the Boer

Board of Directors of the Russian No. 32) or direct to Repulse Bay such surrender was võid.

War, to make his own history.

Volunteer Fleet.

Hotel (Telephone No. 181.

it

PUBLIC AUCTION,

commencing at 11a.m.

at their Sales Rooms, & Duddell. Street

300 Bags Castor Seeds

(Samples on application) Terms: Cash on delivery

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers.

or of the Board of Directors of

The following Dances will be presented :-

A Pretty Girl is like Melody

2. Cocaine to "Rose RoomTM

3. "Ball Room" Fox Trul 4. "Taxi" will be played by Jazz "Trap Drummer"

NOTE

1457 tons gross Reg. 921 tons net Reg. 1800 tons deadweight capa- city on 17 feet mean draft Speed 10 knots

This steamer went ashore in the Galf of Siam, was selved, and towed to Bangkok, where she was dry-docked and patched up.

Inspection orders on application to the East Asiatic Co. Ltd., Bangkok.

The steamer to be at purchasers risk after fall of bammer, when purchase money is to be paid.

For full particulars apply to

LAMMERT BROS

Auctioneers.

.or

Messrs. THORESEN & CO. Hongkong

electing Officers and N.C.09.

List of enrolments in the vari aus Companies are posted at Head- quarters, and a copy has been sent to individual members of each Company. Any member who has not received his copy can obtain one on application to Headquarters.

The following procedure will be adopted. Nomination forms can be obtained at Headquarters.

OFE

The election of Officers and N. C. O. will be as follows:- Candidates must be nominated by member and seconded by another member of the unit in which the vacancy existe and sent to the Adjutant on or before Monday, the 3rd May. The names of candidates will remain posted on the Notice Board at Head- quarters for 7 days after which if more than one candidate for a vacancy has been nominated, a meeting of the unit will be held when the candidates will be ballotted for at such meeting. G. F. E. RAPSON,

Bt./Major.

Adjutant,

Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps. Hongkong, 17th April, 1920.

MUSTARD & CO.

MAGNETIC

STOVES RANGES and HEATERS

T. ND. 1186.