THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
W. S. BAILEY
THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE & CO., LTD.,
REGULAR AND FAST FREIGHT AND
PASSENGER SERVICES.
LONDON
"' STENTOR " "' KEBMUN " "NINGCHOW" "THESBUS " **ATREUS''
12th Mar. 16th Mar.
SERVICE
(Direct)
London, Amsterdam & Antwerp London, Amsterdam & Hamburg Londen, Amsterdam & Antwerp London, Rotterdam & Hamburg London, Amsterdam & Antwerp
SERVICE
5th Apr. 12th Apr. 19th Apr. LIVERPOOL
TELAMON"
(Direct or via Continental Ports)
22nd Mar. Havre & Liverpool
KT, of the GARTER" 29th Mar. Genos, M'lles, L'pool & G'gow "IDOMENEUS" 12th Apr. Havre & Liverpool. "AJAX"
19th Apr. Genoa, M'llòs, L'pool & G'gow PACIFIC SERVICE (via Kobe and Yokohama)
"TALTHYBIUS" 16th Mar. "TYNDAREUS " 6th Apr. PROTESILAUS ** 4th May
NEW YORK
"LAERTES"
Victoria, Seattle & Vancouver
SERVICE
via Suez
(via Suez or Panama)
27th March
ENGINEERS & SHIP- BUILDERS, HOE UN KOWLOON.
HARBOUR REPAIRS Call Flag "L"
Sole Agents for "KELVIN MOTORS." Motore from 12 B.H.P. to 50 B.H.P. now in stock also spare parte..
Works Manager... Secretary
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Tol. K.21. K.329. K369.
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K.28.
Harbour Engineer, Telegrams "SEYBOURNE."
CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
The Steamship
"HUNGARIA"
HOMEWARD PASSENGER SERVICE From JAPAN & SHANGHAI.
STENTOR"
"IDOMENEUS"
*** PYRRIUS"
'ANCHISES"
"TEIRESIAS "
12th March
12th April
3rd May 10th June
7th July
for London
for Liverpool for London. for Liverpool for London
For Freight and all Information Apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
AGENTS.
CONSIGNEES.
CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE
ΤΟ CONSIGNEES.
THE STEAMSHIP
QUEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.
AND
"RIOJUN MARU"
CHINA MUTUAL STEAM
From JAVA
NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
Consigness of Cargo are hereby
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AJAX"
Informed that all Goods are being Consignees per Co's Steamer landed at their risk into the Go- downs of the Hongkong and Kow- loon Wharf and Godown Com- pany, Ltd., at Kowloon, whence, and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.
Optional Cargo will be forward- jed univas notice to the contrary
be given before 7th March.
No claims will be admitted after; the Goods have left the Godowns,
are
hereby notified that the Cargo will be discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, whero it will ho at Consignee's risk. The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Godown on and after 11th
March.
Optional cargo will be landed, unless notice has been givon prior to steamer's arrival."
are
FRIDAY, MARCH 11. 1921.
THE OFFICE GIRL
Since war broke out I have had to replace the seven men in my office with ten women. My wages bill is higher now than it ever was, though the work has not risen to efficiency in the same degree. Far from it. And there are one or two things that I would like to toll the girls in my office. I would like to tell them in a friendly
that way--if possible. But I know it isn't. Before had got well begun. I know that the staff would, one and all, put on their hats, powder their faces, and quit. Girls have brought the American habit of quitting to fine art nowadays, writes Old Johnny" in the North China Daily News.
were
ATTENTION LADIES!
OUR FRENCH AGENTS HAVE JUST SENT US A
SHIPMENT OF
PERFUMES & TOILET WATERS
OF THE HIGHEST ORDER.
ALL WELL KNOWN BRANDS ARE REPRESENTED.
MAKE YOUR OWN CHOICE.
THE SINCERE COMPANY,, LTD.
THE THIEF OF TIME.
POSSIBILITIES OF THE PHONE. Well, my first query would be "why do
Again, I should like politely to you object to keeping time?" Only one man inquire what the staff imagines installed into telephones aro in twenty is persistently unpune-offices for. My girls answer the tual: only one girl in twenty ring of a business firm in a voice has any idea what punctuality full of indignation at being dis- moans. With P whole staff) wandering in fifteen minutes late turbod. When their own friends overy morning, the net loss in get on the wire they waken up to the use and the possibilities houre is quito substantial.
of the phone, calmly answering lina engaged" when any urgent customor dares to butt in.
got to work at ones? When a
I wish I could tell my staff
THE CHANCE OF LONG LIFE.
JAPAN AND CHINA.
Statement by Sun Yat Sen.
In the course of an interview with a Press representative Dr. Sun Yat-sen stated:
British Mortality Tables. Life tables for England and
The rumours now afloat in Walos, based upon the observed mortality in the years 1911 and 1912, which have been calculated various parts of China and in Then when they are in, why not
according to a new method de- Japan that I and Chen Chiung- vised by Dr. E. C. Snow, the ming are not on good terms have statistician, are given in 0 beon given rise to by a certain male clerk arrives, ho says Good
Registar Gonoral's Supple-country 28 well B9 the Consignees of Cargo are hereby morning," changes into his office
coat, and without any further that the "boss" isn't a silly old mentary Report with a descrip- malcontents of the Opposition informed that all goods
party who are not satisfied being landed at their risk into the preamble gets into his day's drag.johnny, good only for giving in-tion of the method,
The Registrar Gonoral points with my prosence at Canton, and First there's oroases of salary and from whom Not so the girls. Godowns of the Hongkong and
aven in those times, there are Kowloon Wharf and Godown the hair to arrange and fluff up, one asks days off. I wish they out that before these tables are Company, Ltd.,
fascinating used as a basis for any definite those who are attempting to the blouses to pull straight, the would learn how at Kowloon,
my character and to whence and/or from the wharves complexion to examine and re-business can become if they put conclusione the question how far defamo delivery may be obtained.
store with a surreptitious dab of their hearts into it. I should like the mortality disclosed in the strange me from General Chen, Optional Cargo will be forward- powder. Then, of course, there's to ask them to stop using per years 1911 and 1912 is adversely but the relations between he and the quite essential conversation fume. 1 want to tell them abnormal by reason of any parti-I have been such as have shared ed unless notice to the contrary with Clarice or Emma about tast to stop gossiping during office cular cause, such as an epidemic, our fate for years past and can never be severed so easily." He should be carefully considered.
Interesting figuros are to be further went on to state in re- found to the table giving survivors ference to the relations between at several ages per 100,0 0 born Japan and China thus:
'It is gratifying to note that the according to the mortality ex- perience of the two years named. people of Japan are gradually In the North of England only China. Frankly speaking, the showing a tendency to understand
will be subject to rent.
bo given before 7th March.
No claims will be admitted night, the sympathetic inquiry as hours, to study correctness in after the Goods have left the Go-to whether the morning's post small details. I am anxious that downs, and all Goods remaining has brought anything from "Him" they should know that plain shirt undelivered after the 19th inst, or whether ita's "all off" or not blouses are much more to their with the new one. Then "Oh, employer's mind than fancy af All claims against the steamer just a minute till I jot down the fairs of lace and openwork with must be presented to the Under- address of that little dress naker more or less pink and blue ribbony signed on or before the 22nd inst. who makes such ducky blouses things below, I would like to 105 of every 100,000 boya born Japanese in the past were too for 3/6 each. Yours is simply stick up a notice "No powder or (according to this estimate) reach apt to anti-foreign speech and All broken, chafed, and damag. lovely. Where did you buy the lip salva to be used during office the age of 95 and 2,866 that of 8action, prompted, perhaps, by the ed Goods are to be left in the stuff?" etc, All of which takes hours" But I daren't. They are whereas in the South (excluding notion of nationality. We have a
or they will not be recognized.
up another quarter of an hour, too many for me, these girls, Godowns, where they will be ex- amined on the 12th inst. at 10 a.m.
while the books are still unopen-
NOT WHOLLY UNPLEASANT. No Fire Insuranco nas beoned and the telephone bell rings
unheeded. offected.
Bills of Lading will be counter- signed by
DODWELL & CO., LTD.,
Agents.
"SAFETY FIRST" ON AMERICAN RAILWAYS.
London) the figures are 404 and desire to be intimate with any 7,598. The figures for women friendly nation and need not keep After all, it is rather pleasant survivors at the samo. ages are
pro-Japanese or pro-American, I should like to ask my staff to have them filling a vase with higher-274 reach 95 and 5,020 85, to such a point of view as that of why so many girls take on jobs as fresh flowers every day and putt. 1 in the North, but 907 and 12,163 but it is the fact that the relations
reach 95 and 85 in the South.
between Japan and Chias for the efficient typists when they don'ting it in my room, or placing a
The men of Rutlandshire have past decade have been anything know the first thing about English primrose buttonhole on my desk
Some of the of a morning. So I meekly sub-apparently the best, hopen of but agreeable instead of being or punctuation. letters I have had handed to me mit-and go on reading those reaching 95-the table gives them cordial, having regard to the for signature!!! Sense wrong, mesmerio articles which appear 1,375, whilst the lowest figure in relation of geography and civille- The the countries is Merioneth, with ation. It is needless to say here grammar bad,everything muddled often in your paper on and when the girls regard the Splendid Work Our Girls Are only 84 survivals to 95. But even about its causes which are well this is better than the figures for known to the people of the two Doing." position of stenographer as an
some north-country towns-in neighbouring countries. Only important one which only un
Manchester the survivals to 95 the question of the present mom- intelligent, well-educated person
per 100,000 boys born are given as ent is how to improve their nation- can fill, the sooner will the worries
80.
South Shields holde the friendship and how to maintain of dictators of letters cease. --
wooden spoon with 23 per 100,000. the sentiment of good neighbours.
DAN CUPID.
SCOTTISH WAR MEMORIAL.
Remarkable Success.
Remarkable success has attend-
Bolton, however, has the high In my opinion, it would be most ed the organised safely work
figure of 235. Taking the urban advisable for Japan to give up carried on during thirteen years It's funny to watch the different in the railways of the United ways in which an affare dy Progress of the Scheme. districts of Lancashire together her old political designs and to States, according to statistics cer" affects the respective work
89 reach 95, as compared with steer clear of those tactics of The annual meeting of the 207 in the rural districts of the exploitation but devote her- published by the head-quarters of of a man and a girl. When a the National Safety Council. The youth falls in love it makes him Federated Council of Scottish county. Croydon, with 730, is self to her economic postion with In other words, pure All broken, chafed, and damag-figures show that if the number a different fellow. He takes his Associations was held in London the best of the county boroughs, China.
economic cooperation on the part killed in railway job seriously, and is as keen as in the Royal Scottish Corporation, and South Shields the lowest.
of the Crane Court, Fleet Street Mr. and all Goods remaining nude-ed goods are, to be left in the of persons
Japanese and Chinese knows that unless he works up and improves his position bie | chances of marrying his little lady are small But let a girl clerk fall in love! I speak from experience her days of utility in an offico are numbered.
But
Oven
Ratlandshire'a
livered after the 12th inst. will be Godowns, where they will be accidents during each of the last mustard for advancement, for he John Donglas, F.S.A. Scot., pre-chances for men of survival of 95 should be offected based on com-
subject to rent.
All claims against the steamer must be presented to the Under- signed on or before the 22nd inst. ur they will not be recognized.
examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 a.m. and noon within the free storage period.
thirteen years had been in the same ratio to the tonnage carried as was the case in 1906, 38,621 more persons would have been killed in railway accidents than the number actually recorded.
The number of persons killed in railway accidents during 1919 on record since 1899, whlie the number of persons injured--147,018-is the lowest.
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the steamor's Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 17th Marel,-6975-the lowest will be subject to rent.
All brokon, chafod, and damag ed Goods are to be left in the Go- downs, where they will be exam-
All Claims against the Steamer ined on the 12th inst, at 10 um.must be presented to the under- signed on or before the 31st ate they will No Fire Insurance has been Murch, or recognised.. effected.
No Fire Insurance will be Bills of Lading will be counter-effected. signed by
DODWELL & CO., LTD.,
Agents.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents.
Hongkong, 10th March, 1921.
siding.
mercial morality. fall far short of those for women The Chairman read a letter in Radnorshire, whore of every
"From this point of view if the from the Prince of Wales con- 100,000 girls born 2,320 reach that business mon of both countries gratulating the Federated Coun- age. Rutlandshire, indeed, is the should shake hands with each cil on their splendid work in con-only county in which the better other, that is the quickest way the improvement. of nection with their appeal to Scots chance of survival to 95 is the towards
of
She sits at her desk nibbling in London for £10,000 for the man's--in contrast with areas national relations between Japan her pon, eyes fixed on space, her Scottish National War Memorial.like the Soke of Peterborough or and China. As a result of ex- thecessive issue of political loans thoughts miles away. She car
The promises and actual con- the Isle of Ely, where ries "his letter" inside her tributions to the fond in London, woman's chance is ton and eleven towards China, Japan made an blouse, and every spuro minute
announcement by which she is it was stated, was close uponnes that of the man's.
fettered, and even her pure Since 1910. Taking passengers as is jotting down answers. £5000, while the total amount pro-
economic investment is affected. alone, the number killed in 1919 Instead of her mind being set on mised and partly received at the
In this respect, in particular, I was lower than in 1888, although finding the missing shilling in central offices in Edinburgh was
"The memorial," the report venture to open the
eyes, between those years passenger the monthly balance, it is obsess over £52,000. Sixty newspapers concluded, "will be the means of Japanese businass men 111 mileage increased more than 360 ed by the mighty problem of had decided to start Shilling per cent, and freight tonnage whether "he" will ting up as he Funde, and at the present time preserving the historic Castle of general. increased more than 500 per cent. promised, or if he will ask her a shilling per head subscription age for Scots from all parts of it should by no means be of a Edinburgh as a place of pilgrim- 'As for the investment in Chios, Moreover, there was a note-out again on Sunday night. So was being organised in the paris- worthy decrease in the number far as usefulness is concerned hes of Scotland, and 129 parishes the globe, and will for over be a political nature. of railway employees killed in she might as well be on holiday had already agreed to the collec-worthy memorial to the glorious on both sides should be qualified Lequally, and the welfare of the 1919 as compared with the pre-In fact, whenever I see symption being taken. Every Scottish dead of Scottish regiments."
The Prince of Wales is Pre- [Chineso poople should be taken vious year, viz., 1693 (an average toms of love sickness in any of railway company had agreed to of 0.85 per 1,000 employed), as the staff, I think its about time give free space for advertising sident; the Duke of Atholi is into consideration before every=
Chairman of Committee.
thing." against 2,750 (an average of 1.45). to advertise again.
for six months.
The investors
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