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C. LAURITSEN, PROPRIETOR.

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

BRITISH POLITICS AND THE USA.

A MISCHIEVOUS PROPAGANDA.

THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 9, 1920.

THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE LIMITED.

R.

NOTICE.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

QUEEN'S DISPENSARY.

NOTICE.

by

WANTED.

WANTED.-Position qualified Mechanica) · Engineer (British), possesses good know- ledge of Electrical Work & Commercial Engineering. Apply Box 430 c/o "Hongkong Tele- graph."

NOTICE is beroby given that an xtraordinary General Meet- ing of the Members of The Canton Particulars and Conditions of Competent observers report in Insurance Office Limitad will be the lotting by Public Auction! the United States, a alow, but held at the Offices of Mesaleurs Sale, to be held on Monday, marked, renewal of interest in Jardine Matheson & Co., Limited the 13th day of Septembar, 1920, European and world affairs, and the General Agents of the Com-at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the better and steadier feeling 10-pany at No. 16 Pedder Street Public Works Department, by wards ourselves, says a writer in Victoria Hongkong on TUESDAY Order of His Excellency the the Observer. The darkest mo the arst day of SEPTEMBER Governor, of one Lot of Crown ments of disillusionment and 1920 at 12 o'clock noon when the Land at Bowen Road, in the apathy seem to have passed subjoined Resolution will be pro-Colony of Hongkong. for # When the war impulses died. posat as an Extraordinary Re-term of 75

years, with the with them died most of the new-İsolution viz:—

option of renewal at a Crown found interest in things extra-

"That the New Articles con- Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor the Queen's Dispensary has Box 46). American, while domestic pro-

tained in the printed docu-of His Majesty the KINO, for one blems common to every civilised

'meat submitted to the Meet-farther term of 75 years. country in the world after war

ing and for the purpose of PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. absorbed attention. That revul

identification subscribed by sion appears bo weaking. American policy would seem to be shaping itself towards co- operation, limited, perhaps, but effective, in the normal business' of the world.

to

the Chairman thereof be and the same are hereby approV. ed, and that such paw Arti- clea be, and they are hereby adopted as the Articles of the Company in substitution for, and to the exclusion of all the existing Articles thereof." Should the above Resolution de

THE SOURCES OF PROPAGANDA.

While these have been, roughly.} the movements of opinion across the Atlantic, a disturbing and passed by the requisite majority, entirely navel factor in Anglo- it will be submitted for confirm- American relations has made isation as a Special Resolution to a

appearance on this side. A further Extraordinary General anti-American propaganda has Meeting and such Meeting will sprung up. Neither its sources be held on THURSDAY the 7th nor its cause ace, to speak mildly,day of OCTOBER 1920 at the same respectable, but it is not less dan tine and place for the purpose of Anti-British considering and if thought fit can- gerous for ths:

in tha propaganda

United arming such Resolution as States is not a novelty.

Bu Special Resolution accordingly.

its main sources have been the Copies of the proposed New

Dans Les So. 2301

lamality.

Batary Me.armeni

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fre:

R.

NOTICE.

WANTED-To rant, unfurn- We beg to announce that isbed 4 or 5 roomed house, from

January first. Middla level or Pesk preferred. Apply PostOnce

to

ST.

bean removed GEORGE'S BUILDINGS,

(OPPOSITE STAR FERRY).

HARPER AND CO., LTD.

TO BE LET.

TO LET.-Two storied House 4 large and 2 small kitchen, servants' quarters, đa) in Kowloon. Available from Ist November ner. Apply by latter' to Butterfeld & Swire.

« P.&O. S. N. COMPANY. sir weeks from 23rd September.

Irish question and the zeal of the Articles and of the presest Particulars and Conditions of MR. CHURCHILL AND RUSSIA.|opinion than your Council, and byphonated. Anti-American pro-| Articles may he seen at the the letting by Public Auction they have a far better title onpaganda in Britain is new, and it Offices of the General Agents of Sale, to be held on Monday, the democratic grounds to pronounce has its shabby, but native origins at the Offices of Messieurs 13:h day of September, 1920, at 3 COUNCIL CRITICISM.upon it. Are you quite sure that in the drink business. The word Deacon. Locker. Deacon and pm, the Offices of the Public your Council is not confusing American or its equivalent, Harston the Company's Solicitors Works Department, by Order of The following correspondence public opinion with the opinion appears nowadays in an offensive at No. 1 Des Vœux Road Central, His Excellency the Governor, of has passed between Mr. J. H. they happen to hold themselves conection in almost every line Victoria. Hongkong.

One Lot of Crown Land at Bowen Baum, secretary of the Leicester -Quite apart from the House of the "Trade" press and pamph- and District Trades Council, and fommons as

Dated this 17th day of August Road in the Colony of Hong- a whole, there islets, and America is caricatured

kong, for a term of 15 years, | 1930.- Mr. Churchill, Secretary of State the Labour party ic the in its posters. for War

House of Commons. lf those

Has anything happened which JARDISE MATHESON & CO. LTD with the option of renewal at gentlemen wish for a_debat could be held to justify this? A

what you call Russian the first opportunity after the revelations." they can easily have victory of prohibition in Amer I. They are not so unacquainted ica, the British prabibitionists with the rules of the rlouse as no: apparently invited over a puniber

LEICESTER AND DISTRICT

TRADES COUNCIL.

Dear Sir, I enclose resolution passed by the above Council. sincerely hope you will give the matter your serious attention Yours faithfully.

(Sgd.) J. H. Baum. RESOLUTION,

tea

General Acents.

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE.

Re-opens September 13th. Entrance Examination Septem-

NOTICE.

to know the many opportunities of their American brethren to which are open to them. If the advise them and to explain and ber, 11th. responsible leaders of the Labour describe to the public, the causes) party shared the views of their and results of the extraordinary "This Trades Council enters extremis:section they would have revolutions they had effected in its strong condemnation against difficulty in securing the their own country. Even to pat Mr Winston Churchill's secret falles: Parliamentary discussion. who has the strongest possible LADIES' RECREATION CLUB. agreement with General Kolichak First of all, they could put down distaste for probibition, there for the supply of troops to wages vole of censure against the seems co possible cause of offence war upon Serie: Russia; for her. Government,

against

The Committe will be At the in the presence of the visitors Home" to all

37

members

on

it views with alario the continued Secretary of State for War, and in a consultative capacity, and Saturday, October 2nd at 3 p.m. contempt for public opinion a day would be immediately by invitation. To the Trade Members may bring 2 guests at mscifested by the House of Com-given to them. Secondly, they it seemed otherwise, or at least the usual fees. An American mons with regard to these could ask for the Army Estimates: became clear that they migh: Mixed Doubles (Sealed Handicap) revelations, and considers that to be put down on any of the be made valuable ammunition. Tournament will be beld. A the presence of Mr Churchill at remaining Supply days, and they Make an anti-temperance into member may enter with a non- the War Office is a public scandal could have a full debate. Thirdly, an anti-prohibition campaign, member as partner, and two! they could discuss Rassis on the transfuse that with anti-members may enter together. Thej and a danger to the country."

22nd July 1920. second reading of the Consolidat-foreign worse, an anti-Amer-entrance fee for each couple willi Dear Sir, I have to acknow-ed Fund Bill. Fourthly, they can prejudice, and there would be 3 dollars. Entries must reach ledge the receipt of the resolution could discuss it on the ratiou be rosy hopes of all war restric- the Hon. Secretary or the No. 1 passed by the Leicester and Di-for the adjournment for the tions and regulations of the drink Boy at the Club House before) trict Trades Council, and I note holidays. Here, then, are four busmess disappearing in a flood Saturday, 25th September.

within the of offended nationalism.

DOROTHY DIGBY, that in sending it to me you opportunities, all "eincerely hope" I will give the next three weeks, open to the matter my "serious attention." I Labour party in the

WAY

House

A SHAM CAMPAIGN.

The Steamship

"JEYPORE"

5.200 Tons.

will be despatched for STRAITS

PORT

PORTS. COLOMBO, SAID, MARSEILLES, LONDON & ANTWERP direct. on or about MONDAY, the 13th September. For Freight apply to:-

MACKINNON MACKENZIE

& CO.

Agents.

2. Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong.

a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Hongkong. September 7th, 1920. Surveyor of His Majesty the King for one further term of 75 gears.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

OF

abwal 6,210

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD

PROPERTY

NOTICE.

HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD

TO LET.-Furnished Horse on Peat to be let for one month or

Apply Box 433 eo "Hongkong Telegraph."

FOR SALE.

FOR SALE.-Land at Kowloon, about 16,945 square feet, in a very desirable position for European dwellings. For full particulars apply to Liostead & Davis, Alexandra Buildings, Hongkang.

NOTICE.

From the 1st September Mr. L Cain has been appointed manager of the firm in Hongkong to re- place Mr. Gaujoin, former man. ager, leaving Hongkong for the Head Office in Tentsin.

R. GAUJOIN General Manager Brossard Mopin & Co.

NOTICE ..

An Interim Dividend of $5 per share has been declared for the THE GREEN ISLAND CEMENT half-year ending 30th June 1920.

Such interim dividend will be payable on and atter Tuesday, 14th September 1930 at the Offices of the Company, where Share holders are requested to apply for

Warrants.

The Register of Shares of the Company will be closed from 7th 10 14th September 1920xboth days inclusive) during which pered no transfer of Shares can be registered.

By order of the Board of

Directors.

J. H. TAGGART,

Manager.

Hongkong, 31s: August, 1920.

Hon. Secretary

NOTICE.

Situate at Kowloon in the Colony of Hongkong to be sold in parsuance of an Order of the Supreme Court of Hongkong We have his day established

Consulting to i → made in Action No. 99 of 1920 ourselves Original Jurisdiction Hetween gineers and Surveyors. The Bank of Canton Limited

BEST & MAT. Plaintiffs and Samuel Ebenezer Green trading as Banker & Co. Defendant

NOTICE.

NOTICE.

of A. Abdoolrahim. as

A ABDOOLRAHIM.

NOTICE.

on Monday, the 27th. day of September, 1920,

at 3 o'clock in the afternoon by MESSRS LAMMERT BROS. Auctioneers.

13 Chater Road.

NOTICE.

HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB.

CO., LTD.

AN INTERIM DIVIDEND of Fifty cents par shars has been declared for the balf-year endins 30th June, 1920.

Sach Interim Dividend will be Payable on and after FRIDAY. the 17th September. 1920 at Ufices of the Company, where shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.

The REGISTER of SHARES

of the Company will be closed from 5th to 16th September. 1920 (both days inclusive) doring which period co

of Shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

transfer

SHEWAN TOMES & CO.

General Managers.

NOTICE.

KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB.

A Grand laminated Promen- ade Concert will be held in the grounds of the K.C.C. on Sator- day. September 11th, at 9 p.m. The Full Band of the Wiltshire

Crickes nets will be up for Regiment will perform (by kind permission of Lieur-Col Wynd- practice on Monday, 13th Septembars and Officers), and several ber, weather permitting. Mem- bers

ste requested to consult well-known local artists will ap notices in the Pavilion as to 21- rangements for cricket and tennis..

L. 8. GREENHILL,

Hos: Secretary.

NOTICE.

THE SUPREME COURT OF

HONGKONG PROBATE

The most artifical aguation) am quite willing to do so as far as of Commons. If they like to this it possible.

take advantage of any of them that ever was agitated. Prom The resolution begins: This shall be in my piace perfectly bibition, in England. is a dead

LADIES' RIFLE CLUB. Trades Council enters its strong ready to enter into discussion issue. It was never a live one condemnation against Mr with them. If. bowever, they do save for such vitality as the

The first meeting of the Autumn Winston Churchill's secret agree-not choose to avail themselves of many pens and tongues of the

Trade "could give it. No one Season will be held on Tuesday ment with General Koltebak these oportunities, then one can for the supply of troops to wage only conclude that they, like the really believes that prohibition is 4th October from 9 am to 12 and I rest of House of Commons, no not likely or possible in England. No2 p.m. to 4 at the Ladies' Recrea upon Soviet Russia." bave never made any such agree-entirely agree with the opinion one with a shred of respect for tion Club. went, and it is quite out of the of the Leicester and District veracity could describe it 29 the pro- power of any Minister to make Trades Council. You mus: sattle "threatening." But

paganda goes on. It is too usefcl such an agreement or any agree-that with them.

The interest and responsibility ment otherwise than in pursuance Thirdly, I note that your Coto drop. and it bas already had

most of the undersigned in the business hitherto carried on at No. 34. of the policy of the Cabinet.uncil "conaiders that the presence notable successes. The

сад be What your Council is perhaps of Mr. Churchill at the War Office rational of reforms

pussy-Queen's Road Central under the at their Auction Rooms, Duddell

Street, Victoria, Hongkong. thinking of is the agreement made is a public scandai and a danger harmlessly blanketed as with Admiral Koltchak on the to the country." At your request foot." and national vanity can. Dame

The property consista of—ALL 3rd of July last year by the five I have given this point also my with cunning, he tickled into Architect. Surveyor and Civil Great Powers (Great Britain, the serious attention, and you will no condemoing all temperance re- Engineer, ceases as from the 8th THAT piece or parcel of ground

situate in the Dependency of Hongkong, 8th September, 1920. United States, France, Italy, and doubt pardon ine for saying that form as trans-atlantic. For the day of September, 1920.

Hongkong, 8th day of Septem-Kowlo and Colony of Hongkong Japan), in which, after receiving I do not feel able wholly to true heart of historic Britain, thei

and known and registered in the from bim

assurances that if share your view. Still, we live in country of homely inns and cakes ber, 1920.

Land Ofce as Section H of Kow- successful he would establish free country, where everybody and ale, is a limited liability

loon Inland Lot No. 410 together &n up-to-date & free Constituent Assembly on a has a right to abose the Govern company, with

with the messuage erected there- IN on known as No. 15 Hankow democratic fanchise for Russia, ment of the day to his heart's drink factory, subordinating all they promised him a continance of content I wonder, however, the ends of life and society to a

The business hitherto carried Road, Kowloon. Term 15 years their aid and support. This agree what would happen to the mem-dividend of 35 per cent.! In a ment was signed, among others, burs of your Council if, instead of hardy endeavour to do one disan by Mr. A. Abdoolrahim as an from 24th June 1892 created by by President Wilson himself. living under the free British Con-service to its country by obstruct Architect, Surveyor and Civilrown Lease dated the 11th.

Secondly,

resolution stitution, they were enjoying the ing, not prohibition, but necessary Engineer at No. 34 Queen's Road November 1892. Proportion of views with alarm the continued inestimable benefits of Soviet rule reforms, the "Trade is doing Central will an from to-day be onus! Crown rent $20.12. Area contempt for public opinion mani-in Russia. What would happen, another and worse disservice. It carried on under the style of 3,594 Square feet.

For further particulars and fested by the House of Commons for instance, to the Moscow and is helping to embroil us with & Abdoolrahim, & Co. by the

District Trades Council if they people with whom the peaceful undersigned at the same address, conditions of sale apply to with regard to these revelations."

Hongkong, 8th day of Septem- MESSRS JOHNSON STOKES This, I suppose, is another way sent a resolution to Comrade future of the world requires that

& MASTER of saying that the House Trotsky to the affect that his pre-we should live on the closest and ber, 1920.

Prince's Building, . of Commons does not agree sence at the Rossian War Office friendliest terms. Could there be

with you, and that You was

"e public scandal and more convincing example of

Ice House Street," the weight as of the danger of the wish it did. But, after all, a danger to

country?

Solicitors for the Vendor Eurely the House of Commons is I do not think they would the drink trade's influence in our

or to as good a judge of public opinion get a reasoned letter in reply, politics? - as the Leicester and District I think it much more likely

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP Trades Council I observe from that they would be in jail before press, such an opinion, and ** CO., LTD., your notepaper that your Council the night, and very likely in that is the city of Dundee. The

The Ordinary General Meeting claims to represent 78 branches their coffins before the next electors of Dundee returned, me,

of the shore Company will be and Trade Unions and 50,000 morning; or perhaps, if they were to Parliament as their reprenant- meinberg. But the House of feniently treated, they might be alive after ten years' service only held at the Company's Offices at Noon on Saturday the 25th inét, caths ago by Lommand represents the whole) pát on Scala 3 of rations and sighteets

1020 electorate of the country, which conscripted for industrial pur- majority of more than 15,000]

Volás. The quarrel of the The Transfer Books of the at the present time numbers not poses. far short of twenty-two million Under the British Constitution Leicester and District Trade Company will be closed from the 17th to 25th instant both days The members of the gaur. Council – haye, ma-1 have Council is therefore

inclusive

your

#

JOHN MORAES,

WILLIAM HALL

NOTICE.

HLAS LAFRAIK & CO.

MESSES. LAMMERT BROS.; The Auctioneers. Hongkong, b September, 1920. FOR SALE

MILNER'S SAFES

APPLY TO

JURISDICTION.

pear. Admission $1.00,

NOTICE.

}

THE DAIRY FARM, ICE É COLD STORAGE CO. LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE TWENTY-FOURTH OR- DINARY ANNUAL MEETING of Shareholders in the above Com- pany will be held at the Com- pany's Towa Office 2 Lower In the Goods of Herbert Albert Road, Hongkong, on Fullarton Dent formerly of TUESDAY the 1st day of Canton in hina but late of SEPTEMBER 1920 at 12.30 Chestnut Lodge Surbiton in o'clock in the afternoon for the the County of Surrey Esquire purpose of presenting the Report deceased.

of the Directors and 8:atement NOTICE18 HEREBY GIVEN of Accounts to 31st July 192. that the Court has, by virtue of THE TRANSFER BOOKS of Section 58 of Ordinance No. 2 of the Company will be closed from 1897. made an Order limiting the 7th to 21st Beptember 1920, both time for creditors and others todays inclusive. send in their claims against the above Estate to the 7th day of October 1920."

All creditors and others are ac- cordingly hereby required to send their claims to the undersigned on or befuta that date,

Dated the 8th day of Septembe 1920

JOHNSON, STOKES &

MASTER, Solicitors for the Attorney, for

the Executors, 7.

By Otter

M. MANUK,

Secretary..

Hongkong, 1st September, 1920.

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