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TO

NEW

ADVERTISEMENTS.

TO BE LET.

TO LET.-Shameen, Canton.- A well-built and desirable house, suitable for office and residence. Immediate possession. Apply to David Sassoor

Ca.. Ltd. Hongkong.

THE HONGKONO GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Business

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

HONGKONG HOTEL CO, LTD. |

NOTICE is hereby given that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above Com- pany will be held at the ONG- KONG HOTEL Pedder Street,

MONDAY,

£7,000,000 PROFIT ON

CANTEENS

AUGUST 22, 1921.

TO WORK AGAIN."..

The Case for Optimism. BY SIR LEO CHICZZA MONEY. "Plenty of work and a heart to do it" was the motto of a certain report by Mr. Justice Sankey, not altogether unconnected, i

ons, according to the report of now to get to work again, but the Committee on Canteen Profit will there be plenty of work, and ▲ sum of £591,220 was expend-will there be hears for work? of psychology which it is not my ed in the supply of comforts to The latter inquiry raises questions

Comma...c's Proposals for New Organisation.

LET-With immediate

Total profits of considerably NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Victoris in the Colony of Hong Over £7,000,000 are shown by the possession. No. 4 Queen's Road Catniral Hongkong. Offices only that

EXTRAORDINARY kong, on WEDNESDAY, the situats on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th.GENERAL MEETING of MEM-TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY OF Navy and Army Canteen Board, and 5th Floors. Entrance in BERS of the CHAMBER will be JULY, 1921, AT NOON, for the and Expeditionary Force Cat believe, with Coal. The nation is Doddell Street, Hongkong, withheld in the CHAMBER ROOM. purpose of considering, and, if use of two lifts, each door titted CHARTERED BANK BUILD-thought fit, approving the draft with Electria Wiring for lights INGS, & Queen's Road, Central new Memorandam of Association and two lavatories. Arply to Box on Tuesday, 30th August, 1921 at of the Company which will be 593 c/o "Hongkong Telegraph."

4p.m.

submitted to the Meeling. the war. print of such draft new emo-

There has been handed over to Province to treat of here, and I must content myself with ex- randum of Association and the United Services Fund a sum of

successful prosecution of modern (1) To consider and, if appropriat of the existing Momoran- £3,049,000 in cash, and an amount pressing the belief that the od, to adopt & Local Standum of Association of the Com-of £1,000,000 funding loan, having large-scale work demands the dard Form of "Fancypany may be seen at the Coma value at cost of £900,000, while honourable association in govern- pany's Registered Office in the to the forces of America and the ance of all the agents of industry. Piece Goods Contract.

Hongkong Hotel, Pedder Street various Dominions and Coloplas As to whether there will offer 121. To consider a proposal to aforesaid, and a comparison of the sum of £540,000 in cash was plenty of work to do, the answer

raise Members' Subscrip-print of the existing Memorandum given.

is only in doubt in point of time. tions from $60, and $25. per ¦ of Association with the print In addition a further amount We cannot date world trade re-! annum to $200, and $100 of the draft new Memorandum of of £1,500,000 funding loan. having vival, but revival is a certainty per annum respectively. Association will show where in

A value at cost of £1,200,000, sad absolute. In the best year of payable quarterly.

the draft new Memorandum of

trade so far known, 1913, the (3) To consider any

other Association differs from the axist- £900,000 in cash is held.

A tata) sum, therefore, of £7, world bad but begun to nibble at matter which may properlying Memorandum of Association. be discussed at air Extra Should the Meeting approve of 080,220 has in part been dis- its resources. The discoveries of tributed, and is in part held as and methods of science, many of Memorandum ordinary tieneral Meeting

This amount is them quite recant in origin, were or without liquid assets. with THE ATTENDANCE OF modification, the subjoited Re entirely apart from other assets applied inadequately to compar held by the Navy, Army and Airatively small areas. The room IS solution will be proposed 5.5 on the Register of Shareholders | MERCHANT MEMBERS

Extraordinary REQUEST- an

Resolution. Force Institutes, which consist of for expansion is for practical pur- PARTICULARLY at 30th September, 1921.

capital in the business, and of a poses unlimited. The actual rate: namely:

certain amount of surplus stocks of progress in the opening years not yet realised. The total profits of the twentieth century was un- will, therefore, be considerably in paralleled, and the war itself, excess of the amount of £70,030,20 while it checked general progress, was full of expedients and exper- above referred to.

THE HOSOKONG & WHAMPDA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.

Notice is hereby given tha: an Interim Dividend of $1.00 per share will be paid on the 11th. October next to all Shareholders

By Order of the Board.

R. M. DYER,

Chief Manager. Hongkong. 2nd August, 1921.

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction on

Wednesday, the 24th Aug., 1921

commencing at 11 am. at Holt's Wharf, Kowloon

A Quantity of Miscellaneous

ED.

By Onies

E A. M. WILLIAMS,

Secretary. Hongkong. 19:h August, 1921.

COMPANY LIMITED.

SILIMPOPON COAL.

אות

such Association

(1) That the provisions of the Company's Memorandum of Association with respect to its objects be altered so as to

ably see a great advance.

AT YOUR

SERVICE

CARS THAT ARE COMFORTABLE.

RATES THAT ARE REASONABLE.

DRIVERS THAT ARE RELIABLE.

SCENERY THAT IS ENCHANTING.

SATISFACTION THAT IS ASSURED,

Hongkong

BY

PHONING EITHER

Kowloon

The United Motor Co., Ltd.

Phone WORLD THEATRE

Under Entire British Management.

Friday, the 19th to Monday, the 2nd August. 0.15 p.m. only.

Phone

HARRY QARSON presents CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG (The Queen of The Screens

in The Thunderbolt of Dramatic Force.

"EYES

OF

in 8 parts.

YOUTH

TO-DAY'S MATINEES.

read as shown in the print After the shares of the forces iments which demonstrated the signed for the purpose of of the United States of America.markable powers now possess identification by the Chair

the various Dominions and od by mankind. There can be little man of this Meeting.

satisfied, the Committee believe twentieth century, the world's THE COWIE HARBOUR COAL And also for the following farther Colonies and Indis have been doubs that, by the middle of the

purposes, namely

that the amount available as the economic expansion will dwarf For the purpose of considering, share of the United Services the records of the pre-war era And, if thought it, appronng the Fund will not be less than the Food, materials, and manufac draft new Articles of the Company igure of £7,500,000, which hassures will be produced and brought which will be submitted to the been quoted by Lord Byng as the market as never before. The The undersigned are prepared Meeting. A print of such new amount which the fund expects lapse of even ten years will prob to quote prices for best quality Articles and a print of the ex-to receive. freshly mined SILIMPOPON isting Articles may be seen at

NEW ORGANISATION, COAL trimmed into Buakers at the Company's Registered Office SEBATTIK

SANDAKAN |

There remains, proceeded the in the Hongkong Hotel, Pedder (British North Bernent or to Street aforesaid. In such print committee's report, the question working contract for regülar Bunker Sup the portions of the proposed new of the provision of flat and square iron bars. Irun plies for & or 12 months at favour-Articles which differ from the capital for the new organisation. of many workshops. When Brit horps, tubes, Iron washers, Anable rates,

existing Articles are indicated by We consider that it would be ish coal and iroh had it all their gles fron, Rivers, Rolts and nuts.

Steamers calling at SEBATTIK vader ng in black ink and by far preferable that the Navy, own way, however, it was a very Wire, Cable, Typewriter supplies,

or SANDAKAN exclusively for arginalm notes. Should the Meet Army and Air Force Institutes small and poor world of buyers in not be financed from which Britain was the chief ex- Paint, Earthenware. (quaker oath Bunkers are exempt frota pay-in approve of such new Articles should

ment of ordinary Part Charges, with or with our modification, money derived from the pocketsporter. Even with the production The Limum draft of water the subjoined Resolution will be of ex-Service men, even if this and trade of last year, reduced as Alongside the Company's Wharf proposed as an Extraordinary money is regarded as being they ware in volume in compari-heavy. Take, for example, the IF YOU WORRY, READ THIS.

on with those of 1913, we were experienced business men who loan at interest We do not re at Sehartik is 25 feet at low water Resolution, namely:- Spring Tiles. Charts of Cowie!

(2) That the new Articles al-commend, however, that the in-far better off than in the days be bought the firs: Tuts of ex-German

Goods

comprising:

Steel plates, Tin plates. Round,

Emulsion etc.

Terms: Cash on delivery

LAMMERT BRUS

THEUndersized baserere

instructions to sell by Puble Auction on

Thursday, the 45th Aug. 1921

commencing at 11 a.m. at Quan Lee Workshop. Hunghom,

(for account of the concerned

A Quantity of Miscellaneous Goods

comprising:

Kubber bose. Iron pipe fittings. Steel wire, Mastic wall boarding. Engine parts. Antifriction metal, Rivets, Bults. Nuts, Washers.

Files, Wood screw-

Also

1 Set Diving Gear

1 Dynamo

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers.

THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction on

Friday, the 26th. August, 1921

commencing at 2.30 p.m.

at their Sales Rooms, Duddelf Street

A Very Fine and Superior Selection of Genuine Old

Chinese Curios of Extreme Rarity

comprising:

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Bay (Sebatik Harbour) and any equired information concerning the part can be had on applica tion to

BRADLEY & CO. LTD.

Agents,

The COWIE HARBOUR COAL

CO. LTD.

NOTICE.

DE SOUSA & CO, LTD. Hongkong, 18th August, 1921

STILL A FINE WORKSHOP. What will be the reaction of the United Kingdom to that general advance? Britain is no longer the workshop of the world," but one

5.15 p.m. Eddie Polo in

"

"THE VANISHING TRAILS"

2.30 & 7.15 p.m.

1 & 2 Epis.

The

1, 2 & 3 Episodes VANISHING TRAILS

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--

of nervous Rs nepras

are now worth only one-fourth of ready approved by this Meet-stitutes should be taken over by fore foreign industrial develop ships. to several cases the ships USEFULAHINTS FOR DARK DAYS. ing and for the purpose of the State, since we see consider-ment had occurred. He who de-

Many other Worry never brought any good Identification subscribed by able objection to this method of mands industrial'sopremacy must the prices paid to the Govern-!

artecdotes of the to anybody. Still, you say, "I the Chairman thereef, be and conducting a trading organisation go un-atisfied, but he who hopes ment for them.

for much more actual wealth than interesting the same are hereby adopted i

af old need not be disappointed. slump could be related to show, don't worry because I want to: as the Articles of the Com-

Britain remains one of the finest if indeed, that were necessary, it is because I can't help it :or, "I worry because I have so much pany to the exclusion of and

(5) That it is desirable to capi-natural workshops, dowered with that nothing is more difficult that 15 substitution for all the

We all have our troubles, and talise the sum of $1,000,000 fine ports and the means to work to foresee the course of trade into worry about " existing Articles thereof.

being part of the undivided effectively by bringing to them such times as these.

trade position of the wony, of course, makes matters HEREBY AND

profits of the Company stand-the world's materials. In no other NOTICE

(*nited States 23

creditor worse. The patient generally re- ALSO GIVEN that a SECOND ing to the credit of General place, probably, tan the essential! EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL Reserve. and accordingly that factors of industry be assembled nation, with some £4,000,000,000 | cognises this fact without being The doctor who could meet this MEETING of the Company will for the purpose of effecting to greater purpose, and only grave owing to her, is a curious one. influenced in any way by it. be held at the HONGKONG

such capitalisation such sum misuse or neglect can destroy the With less need for imports than HOTEL Pedder Street aforesaid. of $1,100,000 be distributed as natural advantages we possess. any other country, she has the nervous condition and cure it we power to make the greatest call would be the most popular man bonus on Saturday, the THIRTEENTH |

share. In ever-enlarging markets among the We have this day authorised DAY OF ALGUST. 1921, AT holders of the Company iclought to be able to do an increas for imports. She has taken our alive. He cannot do it, however,

for the purpose of

probonion the shares ining business a business much places the chief creditor of the [because the form Mr. E. V. M. B. de Sousa (Jr) to NOUN sign for our Company per pro-receiving a report of the proceed- the Company's presen: greater than that of the best pre-nations, but in those pre-war exbaustion" known curation.

ing at the above mentioned

Capital of $1,000,000 held by war year. The main condition of days when we had a lien ofthenia, of which worry is & to work near the sea £4,000,000,000 or so on the world, characteristic symptom. must be Meeting and of confita ing. if

them respectively on the date success thought fit, as Special fesolations,

bereinafter referred to, and with cheap energy can be satis we needed imports as America cured to a large extent by the

fied here *5 nowhere else in to-day does not. So far from patient. Hata bonus be declared ae-

passing the above mentioned Resolutions

Bot as the nerves depend spon (Nos. 1 and 2).

cordingly. And further that Europe. It is a matter in which needing thern, she is the Company's Board of Dir- to feir failure is to assume incom. severe tarif legislation to shut the blood for nourishment, it ectors be and they are hereby etency. The sun is that the near them out. And still the indebted naturally follows that by build- authorised to satisfy such future will undoubtedly offer ness of the world to America. ing up and reinvigorating the bonus as far as possible by plenty of work to a people well which can only be eventually blood the patient is tackling the the distribution in manner fitted to cope with it. If they fail satisfied, either as to interest or, actual root of the trouble. And aforesaid of 100,000 shares of it will be through neglect of what principal, by more imports and that is why Dr. Williams' pink $10 each credited as fully has been given them in most get more. goes piling up. It is pills bave proved so successful in paid up among the person abundant measure. With some of possible, of course, for America cases of neurasthenia and ner- who are registered as the the finest coal known we have to postpone the receipt of importa vous debility, for they supply the holders of the shares cop-no excuse for not, developing by re-investment abroad, but each pure rich blood necessary to feed

gar investment leads to a further the nerves." stituting the Company's pre-economic energy.

You should white to-day for lien upon imports. Such a sent Capital of $1,000,000 on RECOVERY WILL PROBABLY situation checks American ex- the book "The Nerves and such date as the Company's Board of Directors sball Noone knows how long it will be ports, but American exporters do Their Needs," and read the not desire to be chocked. More chapter on neurasthenia. Many decide such last mentioned before we regain what we have shares to rank pari passu lost--the hundreds of millions of over, America aims at a great people have written. This des with the shares constitut-sounds' worth of trade sacrificed shipping: a great shipping also cribes my case exactly: I am bings great imports. Always trying the treatment and being the Company's pre-in the last few

A-copy will be sent months; ths

the picture is of reaching out for benefited." The sent Capital of $1,000,000xport orders abandoned. in respect of all profits probability is that recovery will more trade. and always. again, free if you address a post card to the picture is of a ban on imports. Dr. Williams' Medicine Co.,.96 of the Company earned since be slow, for the world is not in a There is a good deal of humour Szecheen Road, Shanghai. (3) That each of the existing

the 31st December. 1920 position to bay freely, and the in such a situation. But, lest Dr. Williams' pills are a true 20,000 fully paid up shares

and such distribution to be in machinery of exchange is still our amusement too greatly grow, nerve tonic particularly suitable of $50 each conslituting the

Business satisfaction of the aforemen-dislocated.

of men,

we roay usefully remind ourselves for nervous, neurasthenic people. Company's present Capital of

tioned bonus.

whatever experience, are not in that America is not the only Most dealers sell them, or direct $1,000,000 be divided into 5

AND NOTICE IS HEREBY a position to speak with any nation which simultaneously and post free at $1.50 per bottle. fully paid up shares of $10. each so as to make such ALSO GIVEN that a THIRD confidence of the probable course calls for imports and rejects $8.00 for 6 bottles, from the above

GENER of events. All we can do is to them. In our own land I have address. Capital $1,000,000 consisting EXTRAORDINARY of 100,000 fully paid up aL MEETING of the Company repair damages, to cherish peace, often seen in the same news-

TOYO KISEN KAISHA.

Should the first of the above Resolutions (No. 1) be co.firmed as & Sperial Resolution by the requisite majority, the alterations NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. the Company's Memorandum

of Association consequently to Ivolved will be submitted to thes Supreme Court of Hongkong for confirmation..

THE Steamship

AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that the said EXTRAORDINARY SECOND GENERAL MEETING to be held as aforesaid will be continued for the purpose of considering. and, if thought fit, passing the

SIBERIA MARU." From SAN FRANCISCO via HONOLULU, JAPAN PORTS, DAIREN & SHANGHAL. The above named Steamer has ing arrived on Sunday the 21st inst. Consignees of cargo are here- following further Resolutions as by notified to present their Bills of Extraordinary Resolutions, name

Storage will be assessed on Cargo remaining undelivered after Monday, the 29th August, 1921.

Bronze and Porcelair vasek. Lading for countersignature, and ly:-- Incense burner. plates, Sgures, take immediate delivery from or the Com- ginger jars. flower pot. bowls, alongside steamer wing cups, tea pote, josses, lions pany's Godown, where all cargo and ornament. Pekin Glass enuff impeding immediate discharge bottles and vases, Crystal, Agate will be landed at Consignees' risk. and Jade Figures, vases, lions. josses and ornament. Neck lace. Pekin cloisonne vase. Enamelled plates, bowls, Lacquered screen, panel, side-table, chairs, Soochow Blackwood chairs inland with porcelain panels, Mandarin coats, and Porcelain of Kanghi. Yong ching, Kienlang. Kabing and Towkwang periods. Including Scrolls of Tang, Song. Yuen, Ming and Tsing Dynasties,

Also

Agate Incense Burner and

cover

No view from Thursday the 25th inst.

Catalogues will be issued, Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS...

Auctioneers.

All broken, chafed and damaged packages will be landed into the Company's Godown, where same will be examined on Wednesday, the 31st Aug, at 11 am.

No claims will be recognised | after the goods have left the steamer or Godown, and none will be entertained if presented later than three weeks after

arrival of steamer.

No fire insurance whaterer will! be effected."

Y. TSUTSUMI,

Manager. Hongkong, 21st August, 1921.

י

shares of $10 each.

ing

SŁOW.

THE FALL IN AMERICAN,

TYPORTS...

firures:-

U. 3. COMMERCE TEN MONTHS ENDED APRIL, 1920.

Exports Importa

Dailors. 5,849,000,000 3,264,000,000

will be held at the HONGKONG to reduce the cost of production, HOTEL. Peddar Street aforesaid, and to seek business with eater paper & demonstration that "Ger- an adjacent column by demande (4) That alter the division on WEDNESDAY, the THIRTY-prise. I believe the case is éney must pay, accompanied in month. Or, look at the following

aforesaid, the Capital of the FIRST DAY OF AUGUST, 1921, in which special measures in the for the frustration of imports

from Germany, Company be increased from AT NOON, for the purpose of direction of stimolating cheap restoration of $1,000,000 consisting es aracaiving a report of the picceed-production by subsidised energy,

ahove mentioned pending the foresaid, to $2,500,000 divided ings at the into 250,000 shares of $10 Meeting in so far as regarde economic energy, would be each by the creation of 150,- Resolution Nos. 3, 4 and 5 above justified, but it is probably useless 000 new shares of $10 each and of confirming, if thought fit, to raise the point, although I feel such new shares (subject as such last mentioned Resolutions hereinafter mentioned) to be as Special Resolutions. issded at such time or times Dated this fourteenth day of and on anch terma and the July, 1921. conditions in very

By Order of the Board..

#pect as the Company's Board of Directors may thrak.fit.

J. H. TAGGART,

Manager.

Excess of Exports...2,585,000,000

This" meant great increase in a

With so much due to the United States from abroad, American constrained to mention it. Many imports fell in April to only 264,- opinions are being published that 000,000 dollars, 9 compared with rapid recovery may be looked for, 496,000,000 dollars in April 1929. but they can be only based upon Exports also fell, but as they vast world indebtedness to the guesswork. Business men every-were much as 340,000,000 United States, for simultaneously where have been taken on dollars in April, it is clear that there were great American * Iga awares by the stump and losses the world did not pay interest in visible exports." It is an amazing. which have been extraordinarilyommodities to America in that position,