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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Don't Forget the Kowloon Fair on Saturday 19th, ar Chater Bungalow. Open from 1.30-7,30 p.m. 8.30-11 p.m.

WANTED.

WANTED:- European Ofes assistant for Canton. Experianca in Exports preferred Apply Box 625. co Hongkong Telegraph."

TO BE LET.

TO LET About March next, six roomed house in the Bowen Road. Can be divided into two self contained flats. Apply J. Caer Clark, architect, 14 Queen's Road Central.

TO LET.-One office in No. 4 Queen's Road Central to be let. For particulars apply to Bank of China.

LOST.

LOST—A M. C. L. Bazaar on Gold Safety Pin 12tb. instant.

Brooch with Cats Eye inset. Will finder please return to F. M. Crawford, co Lane, Crawford & Co.

THE ELEPHANTS.

(H.MS. COLOMBO)

will present a varied programme at the Theatre Eyal on November 24th and 25th, in aid of the WIDOW & CHILDREN of a dead shipmate, for whom no provision is made from Public Funds. Bookings at Moutrie's.

You must reserve the dates, 24th and 25th November, at 9.15 pm.

And the greatest of these,

13 CHARITY."

ROYAL HONGKONG YACHT CUB.

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH,

THEUndersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction pa

Monday, the aist Nov., 1931 commencing at 3.45 p.m. at No. 1 Broadwood Terrace A Quantity of Valuable

Household Furniture (Full particulars from catalogue) On view from Saturday the 19th. November 1921

Terms: Cash on delivery.

THEU

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers.

HEUndersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction on Wednesday, the 23rd Nov., 1921

commencing at 11 am. at their Fales Rooms, Duddell

Street

A Selection of High Grade Cashmere and Tweed Sult Lengths, Superior Overcoating

etc. Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers.

NOTICE.

MRS. FCCLES. who studied in Paris, Berlin and Milan, is prepared to give a limited number of lessons in singing and Training for opera or concert in English, French, German. Particulars and terms--Apply, Peak Hotel.

THE COWIE HARBOUR COAL"

COMPANY LIMITED.

SILIMPOPON COAL.

The undersigned are prepared to quote prices for best quality SILIMPOPON freshly mined COAL, trimmed into Bunters at SEBATTIK

OX SANDAKAN (British North Borneo) or to contract for regular Bunker Sup plies for 6 or 12 months at favour- able rates.

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Steamers calling at SEBATTIK Notice is bereby given that anor SANDAKAN exclusively for Extraordinary General Mesting Bankers are exempt from pay- will be held at the Club House, mert of ordinary Port Cha ges North Point, on Saturday Novem- The minimum draft of water her 19th at 5.30 p.m. to confirm the longside the Company's Whart resolutions passed at the last at Sebattik is 23 feet at low water Extraordinary General Meeting.

Spring Tides. Charts of Cowie The meeting will take place at Bay (Sebattik Harbour) and any about 5.30.p m., or immediately after conclusion, of the day's the port can be had on applica

required information concerning |

A. G. LAMPLUGH.

Hon. Secretary.

racina.

HONGKONG VOLUNTEER

DEFENCE CORPS..

Orders by Lieut-Colonel L. G. Bird. D.S.O.

Administrative Commandant.

HONGKONG. Thursday, 17th November, 1921.

Camp. The Mounted Infantry Section, Infantry

and Machine Gun Platoons will go into Camp at LOW on Friday evening the 20th instant.

The 5.27 p.m.. and 7.09 p.m. Trains from Kowloon will stop at "Bridge 47 on Friday, 15th instant. The following trains will also stop at Bridge 47 on Saturday, 19th and Sunday, 20th instant.

MOLNING

Up Trains from Kowloon to Bridge 47-

6.41 a.m. 8.35 m. (Sunday only) 9.15 a.m.

1.18 p.m. (Saturday only) Dress for Camp. as detailed in Corps Orders on Wednesday, 9th

instant.

BAGGAGE

Members wishing to have their. bagage sent to the Camp at LOWU must deliver it, clearly labelled with owners name, at Headquarters by 2.30 p.m. on -Friday, 18th instant, and 100

m. on Saturday, 19th instant.

G. F. ERAPSON. Bt-Major

Adjutant, H.V.D. Corps.

tion to

BRADLEY & CO. LTD.

Agents, The COWIE HARBOUR COAL

CO. LTD.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO, LTD. AND

CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

Consignees per Steamer

Company's

THE STRAM LAUNDRY COMPANY LIMITED..`

NOTICE IN HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Steam Laundry

Company Limited will be held at the Registered Office of the [Company Alexandra Buildi. g. Victoria, Hongkoør, on WeNTE- day, the Thirtieth day of Nov.. 1921, at noon, when the subjoined Resolutions which were passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held on the Fourteenth day of November) 1991, will be submitted confirmation as Special Resolu {tions -

THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 17. 1921.

SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT "MILLIONS LOST ON THE

MARK

DE PAUL.

THE BAZAAR COMMITTEE. | Speculations of the German-

American.

Great anxiety is felt by hundreds of thousands of Gar man-Americana and sympathizers. of Germany in America by reason of the decline in the paper mark to little more than a farthing for the first time in history, JAYS =| New York message.

begs to appeal to the ladies of Hongkong for gifts of

“SOUVENIRS OR PRIZES

for the

38th - ANNUAL AL FRESCO FETE

As soon as quotations in the far to be held on the 4th December months after the signing of the [German mark were resumed eight

(1) That it is expedient to effect an amalgamasion of this Company with the Hongkong Hotel Company Limited and with a view thereto this Com pany be wound up voluntarily and that Charles Bernar Brown of Messrs. Liustand and Davis be and he is bereby appointed Liquidator for the purpose of such winding up

(2) That the conditional Agreement submitted to the meeting for the amalgamation of this Company with the

All gifts will be gratefully received and acknowledged.

Parcels should be sent tu

Mr. J. M. NORONHA,

ca Credit Foncier d'Extreme- Orient

Prisces Buildings

OT

Mr. F. H. BARNES,

FOR HAIPHONG AND HOIHOW.

File far Danglong and Haiphong every

Kieranse Tuesday.

The favourite passenzez nasmer PAI-MUN

[Capt. Charles E. Page).

The Hainan will leave Hooghod? r Baiphong via Hoidom at Noon, Ini Sov. Da, Apply Thom," Kook and Soar or Pong Tai 214, Wire Street

HONGKONG BOXING

ASSOCIATION.

First TOURNAMENT of Season.

THEATRE ROYAL Saturday, November 26th. at 9.15 p.m. Main Event. Featherweight Championship of the Colony. Teddy Neal Hongkong.

Armistice these persons began to Invest heavily-a good many of |them parting with their

life savings. At that time the quota- tion was about fourpence.

GET-RICH-QUICK SCHEME. Stock was taken of the Father- land's position. Germany had not been invaded; her immense industrial machinery was intact: her victorious foes. had crippled themselves, and the proverbial capacity of the people for harð work and thrift were advanced in support of the prediction that' German commerce would soon be flourishing, and the mark recover its normal value, equivalent to a shilling.

The opportunity to get rich quickly was not to be missed. A great flood of paper marks in- undated the country in response to the demand crested, and the paper was absorbed in a scramble of speculation which more than one bank, ba' it said, was not beneath participating in

BLOWING BUBBLES"

It is estimated by one banker that upwards of £200,000,000 of these marks were disposed of in the United States at an average of 2.3.24. per mark.

But now visions of an early approaching life of dignity with ease Under the Lindens” have vanished into the limho of so many other Teutonic hopes and ambitions.

NOTICE.

The OCEAN Accident & Guarantee Corpora-

tion, Ltd of London, England, beg to announce that they have appointed

Mears. DODWELL & Co, Ltd. & Queen's Buildings, as Principal-Agents-to-the-Corporation in Hongkeng-

The OCEAN Corporation is prepared to entertain proposals for MOTOR CAR (Private & Commercial), MOTOR CYCLE, FER- SONAL ACCIDENT, PERSONAL ACUIDENT & SICKNESS, FIDELITY GUARANTEES, EMPLOYEES BENEFIT, BURGLARY, LIFT, GENER- AL THIRD PARTY, FLIGHT RISKS, etc.

The OCEAN Assets exceed Claims Pak Axceed.... Eastern Head Office:

Manager-

£ 7,400,000 £25,000,000 Chartered Bank Chambers, BLYGAPORE ALBERT C. HALL

ST. ANDREW'S BALL

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AND

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No. 270

ON SALE AT

Hongkong Hotel Company 14, Humphreys Avenue, Kowloon Limited upon the terms (inter alia) of the acquisition by the Hongkong Hotel Company Limited of the complete under- taking, business, goodwill, and property of this Company ir raturn for the issue to this Company of 8,000 Eigh thousand) shares of the Hong Fong Hotel Company Limited of the nominal value of $10 each credited as fully paid op and the payment of $10,000 by the Hongkong Hotel Company Limited to Messrs. Liastesd and Davis, the General Man agers of this Company by way of bonus and compensation for loss of office as General Managers of this Company by reason of the transfer of the business, property and under- taking of the Company to the Hongkong Hotel Company Limited and in consideration of the payment to Edward Jobo Chapman, the Managing Director of this Company of $1,000

William Sampel Brown & Director of this Com. cany of $1.000 and to Charles Bernard Brown, the Secretary of this Company of $1,000 by way of beans and compensa. tion for their loss of office as Managing Director. Director and Secretary respectively br reason of the aforesaid amalga mation be and the same is hereby approved and the

The corporation has obtained Liquidator be and he is hereby THE STEAM LAUNDRY Mr. Bell, for the prosecution, the supply by negotiation with authorised pursuant to Sectior

CO., LTD.

"The important fact about sid Wheeler's diary contained a

these radio fertilisers is that they 185 of the Companies Ordinanc

siip which indicated that he was ment and will have the entire

consist of material which is of 1911 to adopt the said Agree-

radium output from their mines NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN an official organiser for the

insufficient value for the purpose ment and carry the same inic that an Extraordinary General Communist party, and that there for the next 15 years.

of making a pure radium extrac with

Mr. Reilly, one of the directorsfion, so that in the ordinary auch (if any) Meeting of the Steam Laundry had been remitted to him by modifications either before or Company Limited will be held at postal order £5 for one weeklia, the Imperial and Foreign

course of things they would be ceglected."

8,000

".

Leading Stoker Britt

H. M. S. "Cairo Prices $5.-ringside) $3-(reserved)

and

$1.--(unreserved) Booking at MOUTRIES. Members only (on production of Current Membership Cards).

Tuesday, November zand. General Public Wednesday. November 23rd, to Saturday. November 26th.

SECRET PAPERS OF

A COMMUNIST.

Mystery Of His Ten Pounds

A Week..

A number of documents con- cerning the Communist campaign.

in England were read last month

At Säcderland Police Court.

George William Wheeler. ap- peared on two charges of sedition, and was sent to the assizes.

ANDERSON'S

ENGLISH RADIUM SUPPLY | radio-activity. He says the BI- TO AID FARMING. periments carried out in France by scientists there were or wrong lines.

Great Developments Expected. Far-reaching results to science are likely to be realised out of the

"corner" in the world's radium which the Imperial and Foreign Corporation has obtained.

the Czecho-Slovakian Govern-

elect

after the execution thereof a-

Corporation, who has just returo- the said Liquidator may think the Registered Office of the Com wages and £5 for expenses.

pany, Alexandra Building. Vic- There was also (Mr. Bell con-ed from a visit to the mines in expedient.

(3) The aforesaid

toria, Hongkong, on Wednesday tinued) so unsigned documest Joachimsthal, Bohamis, outlined some of the immense prospects which the "corner" means. shares of the Hongkong Hote!he 30th day of November 1921 setting out the prospects of suc-

Within 15 years," he said, Company Limited shall immediately after the previous cess which & Communis: can- of this Company convened for the land constituency, and nominat

Comrade Wheeler" same date when the sub-joined ing resolution will be submitted for suitable. the purpose of considering and if Resolution, the following, neme

hought fitpassing as an Ordinary

pursuance of clause 7 of the / Extraordinary General Meeting/didate would have in a Saadete shall bave from 5 to 60

aforesaid AxTeement be allotted

to abareholders on the register of shareholders of the Steam Laundry Company Limited on the Thirtieth day of November

1921.

"BELLEHOPHON " are hereby notified that the Cargo The Transfer Books of the will be discharged into Holte Company will be closed from the Wharf, Kowloon, where it will lis 30th day of November 1921. to at Consignees risk and subject to the 6th day of December 1921, terms and conditions of storage both days inclusive.

at Holt's wharf. The Cargo will Dated the 15th day of Nov., 1921. be ready for delivery from Go

By Order of the Board. down on and after 17th Nov.

Optional cargo will be landed. unless notice has been given prior to steamer's arrival.

All broken, chafed, and damag-

C. BERNARD BROWN,

Secretary.

ed goods are to be left in the CITY HALL

Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 a.m. and noon within the free storage period.

No claims will be admitted after the Goods bave left the

Third Piano Recital

(Romantics).

given by

seamer's Godowo, and all Goods HARRY ORE

remaining undelivered after the

23rd November, will be subject to On Monday, 21st November

rent.

All Claims against the SteamET must be presented to the under- signed on or before the 6th Dec, or they will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be. affected.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents. Hongkong, 17th Nov, 1921.

will

at 5.30 p.m. sharp. LADY STUBBS

honour the recital with

ber presence.

Booking at ANDERSON'S.

of the momioal value of $10)

29

Al-

**His results are so remarkable that be is coming to England to conduct his experiments on a much larger scale and over a longer period if possible in one of the State agricultural research laboratories.

HASTENING CHICKEN HATCHING. Another fact which the profes- nor bas established is that certain vegetable organisms under normis) temperatures and conditions will

thrive much better and develop charged with radiom emanations more rapidly in air which is

than in ordinary atmospheric conditions.

facts of life is another fascinating Radium's relation to the basic

thread which the professor has been trying to unravel.

He has been subjecting fertil- eggs to radio-active at- mosphere, and the effect of the emanations has been to get chickens hatched in half the time. This last series of experiments, which has had such remarkable results, were carried out in in cubators, and in every case the quicker than the others. "radiumised " egga batched

grammes of pore radium, togather in the pitch-blende mines in Czecho-Slovakia there 2TB **PAINTING THE TOWN RED."

estimated to be material to stated, "is causing a biz impres-radium, and the total output on "Communism." the report extract 100 grammes of para sion in Sunderland, painting the the earth's crust is put at only "That in the event of any of the towo red. Will bavs 250 grammes. As a contrast to the 8,000 shares of the Hong-membership of 70 enrolled this show how little there is in the kong Hotel Company Limited week; earolled 24 in a fortnight." pure stata for scientific parposesised

There was a document, sid to-day- France has only got each credited as fully paid the Mr. Bell. giving the thesis of about 1 1/2 grammes in ber State subject matter of the Special Communism in 57 articles, one and scientific institutions." Resolution of this Company of which read: "We must acquire Henceforth Britain will be in passed on the 14th day of repatriation for courageous acts a pre-eminent position for radio- November 1921 and confirmed of leadership. The entire party is logy. for Germany, which has this day being upallotted by to be developed into a militant carefully dished out all her avail- reason of any of the share-organisation for the revolution.able radiam in milligrammes to holders of this Company hold- Every member of the party is a scientific centres, has all told only ing such a number of shares as prospective soldier."

2 to 3 grammes America baa à would entitle such shareholder

This document gave time re-limited supply available from a to a fraction of a share of the quired to make a Communist as mineral called carnotite." Hougtong Hotel Company Limited only had fractional

Industrial workers, three

FERTILISERS. certificates been provided for

months; intellectuals or mid- Most interesting has been the then and in that event such

dle classes, six months. developments in the research of anallotted shares of the Hong- Police evidence showed that at Professor Stockless, the grast Long Hotel Company Limited ane meeting of the unemployed Czech scientist, which, Mr. Reilly shall be sold by the Liquidator Wheeler said he was receiving £5 says, have been made lately in of this Company and the net week from the Third Interna-connection with radio-emanations

oball proceeds

be divided tional of Moscow. He hari de-and the soil. amongst those members of this clared: "I am a rebel of the first "Ivisited the professor's labors- Company who would bare been force. I hold na brief for law and tories," he said. "and found him entitled to such fractions in order."

busy experimenting with the due proportions." Dated this 15th. day of Nov, 1921-and reserved his defence, denied problem. He has obtained, by the Wheeler, who pleaded not guilty object of solving an agricultural By Order of the Board.

that he had received money from use of an original process and Moscow. He was granted bail in special media, immense develop £1,000.

Iment in plant-growth through

C. BERNARD BROWN,

Secretary.

follows:-

WONDERFUL RADICM

Radium will also keep stored potators free from disease; the effect of the radio activity is to prevent them from rotting.

WOMAN JUSTICE WORKS ALONE. Only one Cardiff justice. Mrs J. T. Richards, attended court at a

sitting last month. Sitting alone on the bench .she dealt with Spplications and with two cases triable by one magistrate,

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