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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1923.

POMMERY & GRENO

LIMITED

TILEPHONE 87, SDAH AVENUE.

TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: ·" POMMERY, FOX, LORDON"

COMES ABC.571 8YS EDITIONS AND BENTLETS.

24, Mark Lane,

London,

21st March,

19 23

E.C.3.

Messrs Caldbeck Macgregor & Co. Ltd.,

CHINA and HONGKONG.

Received 4-5-23.

Answered

4-5-23.

Dear Sirs,

*POMMERY

As you are the -accredited Sole Importers of

Champagne into China and Hongkong, we authorise

you to advise your Clients that we cannot accept responsibility

for any "POMMERY, which may be shipped to your Märkets not

bearing your Label as Sole Importers.

We remain, Dear Sirs,

Yours faithfully,

POMMERY & GRENO LTD.

My Hillurn

DIRECTOR.

SUMMER DRESS GOODS

AT

WHITEAWAY LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.

The Largest Stock in The Colony

OF

Voiles Sponge Cloths

British

Ratines

Ginghams

Etc., etc.

TOBRALCO

RECT

Colours & Printed Desin

"Llamany won't mind,

dah

Todralco,

NOTE OUR SPECIAL

PRICE ON

TOBRALCO.

FOR THE

Month of

THE LINCHENG AFFAIR.

be "PRINCE OF KURDISTAN”

extra-

Of "Untold Wealth" Unable

to Pay Hotel Bill.

was mentioned is believed to named MacDonald.-Revier.

United Services Association Condemn Outrage. Peking, May 9.—At an ordinary general meeting of the United Services Association a re Shanghai, May 9-The Danish solution was passed viewing with subject, Mr. Jacobsen, of the indignation the outrage perpetrated British-American Tobacco Company, by bandits on the Tientsin-Pukow of Kurdistan, sppeared in the

Escaped Captive's Thrilling Story.

A tall, dark-skinned young man carefully dressed in silk bat, frock cost and striped trousers, and giving the name of Zendecheno Mohamid' Saide Kazebo, Prince

who escaped on Monday states that lins and assuring His Majesty's dock at Marlborough-street Police the bandits were not much con- Minister of unqualified support in Court, London, recently. cerned with the question of ransomany steps taken to obtain immedi- The Prince," who had aö- as the withdrawal of the soldiers; ate release of the captives and nounced to the manager of the from their neighbourhood The prevent any recurrente ci & similar Hyde Park Hotel that he was bandits released Jacobsen in order incident, no matter be drastic. "worth untold wealth." that he should proceed to Peking and also suggesting that trains charged with fraudulently obtain-

ing £23 188. 7d. credit. and present this demand to the carry armed guards. Government.

After leaving the train four

CHINA'S FINANCES. bandits dragged him across a field. Here the passengers were all cul

Fengtien Affair May Kill lected and a forced march was then

Loan Prospects. made until daylight, covering twenty to twenty-five miles practi- Peking. May 9-li Ceo-yuan cally at the "double, the bandits resigned this morning. It is un frequently beating captives, and officially reported that he left for finally they reached the mountain.. Tientsin. A post-dated cheque is Late in the afternoon the cap due on the 10th inst. for 600,000 lives were given water but neither dollars. There are not sufficient they nor the bandits had any food. funds on hand to meet the cheque Fighting began between soldiers and pay the police and gendarmes. and bandits, dering which Jacobsen This general shortage of funds has started on his mission amidst a led to his resignation. It is semi- hail, of bullets from both sides. officially stated that a thirty-million Rushing down hill he fell and loan with the old Consortium is remained unconscious for some time, nearing completion, and is secured Regaining consciousness he found by the salt surplus, but foreign two bandits from another gang quarters feel that the Lincheng.

May watching Lim. The bandits sat incident will postpone and possibly:

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AND FANCY AND WHITE

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COLARS AND STRIPES

SEE NAME ON SELVEDGES

Price 95 cts. a yard

Call and Inspect New Goods

NOW SHEWING IN ALL DEAPRTMENTS

WHITEAWAYS HONGKONG.

20, Des Voeux Road.

(Next Jardines Corner.}

there for two bears and finally kill the loan prospects-Bruter. one left, the other frequently prodded him with, his rifle in order

EYE COMFORT

to arouse him while he pretended means better health and better unconsciousness. Eventually

the resulta from your work, and if bandit turned his back whereupon your eyes require glasses you Jacobsen grabbed his rifle and have had careful and expert ex- precipice, then amination in fitting the proper threw it oTCI D tackled the bandit and pummelled correction. Eye comfort requires him till he couldn't see and then left also just an expert care in the him. He reached and crossed a plain manufatus. You will find of and adjustment of where he met some soldiers and worth while to consult & reliable was escorted to the Headquarters firm.devoted exclusively to optical of General Ho, Military Commiswork: over ten years' experience sione:.-Reuter.

in the colony. You will find no B. & S. Representative a Captive, better equipment anywhere than Shanghai, May 9.-Mr. and Mrs. in the office and factory of The Pratt are not among the captives Hongkong Optical Co., SUCCERBOTS to Clark & Co., manufacturing The British representative Messrs. Butterfield and Swire who and refracting opticians, located

in 53, Queen's Road Central.

Di

Was

On his arrival at the hotel, it was said, he bad told the manager that his secretary and the luggage were "coming on by the next boat."

He was given credit and finally left without paying bis bill.

The manager. said he bed advanced the "Prince" £20, and had paid a motor-hire account of £21 18. 3d.

At the Turkish Embassy a detective said be had been told of a noble family of the name given by the defendant, but whether he belonged to that family or not! was not known.

A remand on bail was ordered.

THE UNKNOWN HAND.

Nocturnal Gifts of Money, Sweets and Smokes,

A mysterious nocturál visitor, who has never been seen at his work, has been leaving gifts of money, chocolates and cigarettes for the people of Cobden-street Warrington.

In the early morning these gifta sills of houses on one side of the have been found on the window-

street guly, cally for 18 months, and a watch This has been going on periodi-

bare frequently been-kept but without result

have been burned and the money The chocolates and cigarettes

washed.

THE VICTROLA is superior: We can convince" by demonstestion. MOUTRIES—Bole Agents.

ALLISON

(THE GREAT ENGLISH PIANO)

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MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD.

HONGKONG,