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THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE

REGULAR AND FAST FREIGHT AND

PASSENGER SERVICE.

LONDON SERVICE

TEUCER

CYCLOPS ACHILLES

(Direct)

21st Jan. London, Amsterdam & Antwerp 31st Jan. London, Rotterdam & Hamburg 7th Feb. London, Amsterdam & Antwerp

SERVICE LIVERPOOL

(Direct or via Continental Ports)

BURYPYLUS NELEUS ELPENUR

וי

21s: Jan. Genos, Marseilles & Liverpool 1st Feb Marseilles, Havre & Liverpool 14th Feb. Qanos, Marseilles & Liverpool PACIFIC SERVICE

PROTESILAUS IXION

TALTHYBIUS

(via Kobe and Yokohama)

31st Jan.

21st Fell

14th Mar. J

Victoria, Seattle & Vancouver

NEW YORK SERVICE

(via Suez or Panama)

via Suez

PASSENGER SERVICE

KEEMUN

10th February.

PYRRHUS PYRRHUS MENTOR

3rd Feb. 7th Mar 218: Mar.

for Shanghai & Japan for Singapore & Loudon for Singapore & London

For Freight and Passage Rates and a. Information Apply to:-

C

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

AGENTS.

ESTABLISHED

1814 100 YEARS.

JOHN

1914

HADDON

AND CO.,

Export and Import Agents

For ONE HUNDRED YEARS in the CITY OF LONDON we have acted as Buying and Selling Agents for Traders,Storekeepers, Growers of Colonial Produce. Are you requiring the services of London Agents to promote your interests? We shall be pleased to enter into correspond- ence with a view to arranging terms to mutual advantage.

CASH

BANK CREDITS ARRANGED. ADVANCED AGAINST SHIPMENTS.

JOHN

HADDON

AND CO.

Colonial Merchants and Produce Agents, SALISBURY SQUARE, LONDON, EC.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

CONSIGNEES.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.

From TACOMA via"JAPAN PORTS, SHANGHAI

MANILA,

SATURDAY. JANUARY 21, 1922.

THE $90,000,000 LOAN.

a Mr. Rodney Gilbert in the N. C. Daily Nora

Officials Confident. Chinese officials are apparently. confident that the $90,000,000 loan will be complated, and they are now freely discussing further Consortium loans totalling $300,- [000,000, on the security of Cas

Corus' dues. The opinion is The Company's Steamship general that Japaness concur- ARIZONA MARU.“ France in the present loan wis having arrived from the above secured by the promised redemp ports Consignees of Cargo aretion of Japanese, loans to the hereby notified that their goods amount of $150,000,000 from the are being landed and placed at proceeds of subsequent loans, their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown

There is a report from Chinasa Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where delivery can be obtained as quarters to the effect that, out of tha prospective loan of $900,000,- soon as the goods are landed.

Goods not cleared by the 25th,000, $16,000,000 will be devoted to administrative purposes; this Jan, 1922 will be subject to rent.

Damaged packages must be left amount to be obtained from Chi- in the Godowns for examinationed to the Consortium, while the nese banking groups when adrait- by the Consignees representative latter will supply $14,000,000 for and the Company's Surveyors, the purpose of refunding loans Messrs. Goddard and Douglas, at 10 am. on Wednesday and Satur- day. All claims must be presont- jed within Ten days of the steamer's arrival here, after which

date they cannot be recognized. No claim will be admitted alter

the goods have left the Godowas. No tire insurance whatever will

I be effected.

Consignees are requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature immediately.

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA,

Y. YASUDA,

La Manager. Hongkong 19th. Jan, 1922.

NEW SCOTLAND YARD HEAD.

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which are secured on the Salt Surplus only.

The Foreign Salt Inspectorate will supervise the service for th amortization of the Chinese loan, togather with the foreign loso.

This arrangement has obviou3- Is been designed to enable th consortium to lend without vio lating the advertised precep: "No For- Administrative Loans.”

eign bankers refuse to discuss prospects, but Chinese officials maintain a confident attitude.

that it will be unfavourable un

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SHIP REPAIRERS. BOILER MAKERS. FORGE MASTERS.

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ELECTRIC WELDERS.

MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL

OF HONGKONG, LIMITED

TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY

ENGINEERS.

te. Anorm

-DRY DOCK-

LENSTE 787 PRES.

LENGTH ON BLOCKS 750 F-3

DEPTH ON CENTRE OF

SILL (HW.OST) 34 FT. 6 ERS.

-THREE SLIPWAYS-

CAPABLE OF HANDLING SHIPS UP

TO 3000 TONS DISPLACEMENT.

ELECTRIC CRANE AT SEA WALL. CAPABLE OF LIFTING 100 TONS AT 70 FEET RADIUS

BUTTERFIELD & SWRE, AGENTS

HONGKONG, CHINA & JAPAN.

· TAM BODOCK” NÕRGAONG

TELEPHONE MR. 212 CALL PLAN: "C" OVER TAKK, FEBRANT,“

PRESIDENT HARDING'S

in carrying out military reform and other peaceful development.

writes

Centenarian Honoured.

MT.

POLICY.

exercise control of the Senate and thought, and it will cause him... House as long as ha has im-much e nosen if he has to taka portant patronage to bestow, and the attitude towards Congress that if Presiden: doesn't in that Wilson and Roosevelt did. treach himself during the first It isn't like Harding to do him year by the use of his patronage self the thing he has honestly be is not likely to be able to take deplored in others. But the alter- control later In the present native of letting the Senate and case Mr. Harding still has a good House go on as they now are is deal of patronage, which he could too serious.

The worst aspact among many

is

ATTITUDE OF JAPAN,

Tokyo, Jan. 11. The reported instability of the Chinese administration is said to be prejudicing the Government's

May be Forced to Control attitude towards China's applica

Congress. tion for a loan, which is now

The most important aspect of being considered. No decision has been reached but it is believed the present session of Congress is na: President Harding's speech, Sir Basil Thomson's Successor, Iless China evinces a better spirit and not the immediate programm?,) use as a levar if he felt like it.

Mark Sullivan. Further than that, in the unfortunate aspects of this political correspondent of the present case, Mr. Harding's bloc system, or group system, It is stated that Major General

Yew York Evening Post. It is capacity to make himself leader that is growing up la the Sir Bortase E. W. Childs, C.B.)

rather the concern felt by Re-rests on a different basis. He is Capitol

that it gives C.M.G., will be Sir Basil Thom son's successor as bead of the

73 YEARS A FREEMASON.publican leaders, within and with popular throughout the country. the public no check on legislation. out the Administration, shou: the The Sansie and House are not Elections are held, like the one | Special Branch at Scotland Yard.

way in which the Republican popular. The members of the last year, between the Republican Forty-five years of age, Sir

House and Senate have got com-Sanate and House know this. and Democratic parties 00 Borlase Childs has seen life fron.

At the quarterly meeting of the sletely out of band,

the de- because they have just definite issues. The success of many angles.

Grand Lodge of England Sir termination of the Republican returned Imm vacations in one party or the other carries a Before the army knew him Alfred Robbins, president of the anders

to do something which they found out how their sadate from the people to carry- ne read for the Bar, but Was

Board of General Purposes about it, and the efforts they are constituents are feeling. The out one programme or the other. Dever called.

He served for reported that it had been brought masking right now in that direc-public makes a clean distinction If. after an election, the Senate pell in an engineer's shop, and

30 the potice of the board tion.

between the Republican President and House breik op into blocs, became a highly skilled mechanic that there had been founded in When they get down to con; and, on the other hand, the then thers is no organization and a first-class carpenter,

London a lodge under

the sidering ways and

means the Rapublican House and Senata, jeзpable of carrying out In 1900, when he was 24, be obedience of the Grand Orient of most immediate sal obvious Mr. Harding could, if he chose, programme and fulfiling the joined the Duke of Cornwall's Belgium, which a few days bacce device that occurs to the testersia use his personal popularity as a promises. Correspondingly, there Light Infantry. Ten years later was to be formally visited by its to peranada Mr. Harding to take leverage to lead the House and is no organization upon whom. he gained his captaincy and en-Grand Master, accompanied by the leadership of Congress him-Senate.

the public can visit punishmeat tered upon bis career proper. A several of the Grand Utticers. Aself. This the leaders have done The Republican House and at the next election. la stad captain be weat to the the Grand Orient of Belgium had and are doing. The President, if Senate would liks very much The President can afford to, lat War Office in 1911 and was a nos been accorded recognition by he chos, could 1498 lesdership just now to edge in under the this bloc system continue to grow Bt.-Major by 1912, and D.AA.G. the United Grand Lodge of Eng over the Rapublicans in the mantle Mr. Harding's personal only on the assumption that he War Ofice 1914.

land since 1998, it was considered Housa and Sansie and reduce popularity. Within & very few wants it to become worse before necessary to warn all dembers of them to party disclpline within months the entire membership it is time to make it better; on the English lodges that they could twenty hours. In any one of the of the House will be up for assumption that be contemplates not visit any Balgien lodge of several cases in which both the re-election in primaries, and in the fature some important and admit visitors therefrom, and itSenste and the House floated their within a year they will all be up fondamental change in the way was desired to impress on them Republican leaders and did what at a general election. The same jour laks are mady and in the the strict observance of their the leaders didn't want Mr. Hard-is true of one-third of the mam- relation between the executive Mosonic duty in that regard.

ing could have prevented that bers of the Senate. A Resubli- and legislative branches. Bot The Duke of Connaught was outcome if he had wanted to can Senator or Representative one way or the other, the

has ever running for re-election can have President will have to nominated as Grand Master for Bat Mr. Harding

RAPID PROMOTION. In this last capacity he went to France with the British Expedi- tionary Force in August 1914, was mentioned three umes in dispatches, and received the CB Promotion came fast, and in 116 he became Director of Per- sonal Services at the War Office, a position from which be retired on March 23 last.

the

is

Lake the ensuing year, and Lord Amp-seemed to care to do what Wilson hardly any ansat so great as responsibility. Mr. Barding real- thill, the Pro Grand Master, sn-and Roosevelt were willing to the President's approval. Very ly has two offices. One Every man who fought in nounced that the Duke of Condo and frequently did do.

soon now there will be calls from President of the United States. France remembers Generat naught had appointed Mr. Frank President Harding could bare Republican Senators and Repres-The other is an indefinite but real responsible Childs as the man responsible for James to be a Pass Senior Grand sent for leaders and members of Fentatives. for the President to nevertheless the granting of the "twelve days' Deacon. Lord Ampthill added the Houses and Seaste himself, write letters in the behalf or to leadership of the Republican Christmas leave," and he saw to that Mr. James had recently and he could have sent members visit their States and smile upon party. When the public tries to it that Tommy had fair play and celebrated his 100th birthday of his Cabinet to labour with them before voters.

parzacify the Republican party it to whittling.

and had been a Mason for over 73 Seastors and Congressmen. If I surmise that Mr. Harding doesn't think of the national_ A MONUMENTAL REFORM.

years. Lord Ampthill also pres- he had chosen to do that he could will do a good deal of thinking chairman, John T. Adams, nor the During his four years as Direcented Hall Stone medals to the have had his way on overy bit of before he assumes leadership former national chairman, Will tor of Personal Services bis great representatives of the first 38 l-islation that has come up. He over Congress. At the same Hays. It thinks of Warren G. can still do it if he chooses to time, the greater likelihood is Harding. He can't vary well aim was to make Army discipline lodges that have contributed the more just-more humane. To necessary quota to the sixsonic Many Republican leaders are that be will come to it. When Lescape the responsibility.

These are the reasons now being this end be was the means of Million Memorial Fund;

arging him to do it now, and Mr. Harding, as a Senator, usid

Barding bringing about the "Suspension

have bopes that the President to criticise dictation fro.n Wilson strongly urged why will take command during the on the White House he should assume leadership of the in the FORTUNE FROM DIAMONDS.

majority new sessions. This hops does not wasn't, 25 Under this Act & soldier sen-

& gool many Republican tenced to death may possibly!

Mr. W. Luscort of Portland is in anything Mr. Harding has others were, merely grabbing any House and Senate; and this London, W., diamond said or done. Whether he has brick that was handy to throw pressure is going to grow.. have his sentence commated to place,

Mr. crystallized intention of Darsocratic President. penal servitude, and then gus merchant, who died in October, pended-all at the discretion of aged 69, bas left a fortune of taking command no person can Harding really meant it. He was the Court. Thousands of soldiers 317,072. Bequests include £500 tell But that he could do it, if deeply disturbed over ita posible have benefited by this reform, for such institutions as the exe-he, wanted to, admits of no effects on our form of gorerament

cutors may select, preference question. which has been described by a great soldier as "the most be being given to those having for mane document in the history of their objects the instruction in the British Army."

the evening of working lads.

of Sentences Act."

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Freckles Has a Future

any

PATRONAGE THE "BIG STICK " It is frequently said by the cynical that • President can

BOMAR ROAD DISCOVERED. Men excavating for a new sewer at Huntingdon came, ata HARDING RELUCTANT TO ACP

depth of 3 feet, on an old Roman The President is tenacious of rost. the surface boulders of ideas that lodge in his mind which had been worn-smooth by

bit. through own proces-es of traffic.

BY BLOSSER

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

AW,GEFWKZ-

WE GOTTA EACH HAJE A LEMON *** |SUCK, FRECKLES

MY DOD GALE ME A DENNY Y BUY

ONE.

YEAH, BUT MY POD WON'T GIVE ME A DENNY-I JUST ASKED

HIM.

AN-GO ON ASK VH AGAIN FRECKLES.

POP-WONT VA GIVE ME A PENNY ALEK AN SLIM EACH GOT ONE.

NOW, I'VE TOLD YOU THAT I HAD NO PENNIES,

WELL- HEBBE -

NO MAYBES

ABOUT IT- THERE" KWT A DENNY IN THE HOUSE!

IDEA

WELL, POP COULDN'T

YOU WRITE A

CHECK?

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