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Hongkong Telegraph.

THE PARIS FLOODS.

TODAY LIKELY TO BE CRITICAL

(Special News Service.)

SATURDAY

六拜禮

·魏五月正英港香

LOCAL SHARE BOOM.

Bordeaux, January 4

THE DIXMUDE" DISASTER.

(Special News Service)

EXCITED MARKET : STRONG DEMAND.

Since the Christmas holidays

JANUARY

THAT $3,000.

POLICE STILL HOLD. MONEY:

Perhaps the most outstanding, proof is forthcoming.

rise has been with regard to the Hongkong Rope Company shares | Only the day before yesterday they were quoted at $4694 buyers, whilst this morning business has | been done at $614é for cash, with the March delivery price standing

at $63.

HONGKONG TRADE.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCÈ

REPORT.

1924,

<*+*>$† NAGLE: COFT » CTE.

...BIG P. & 0. LINER,

DUE HERE NEXT MONTH.

The largest P. and O. liner ever to visit Hongkong will shortly! be here. She is the sa Naldara, which left London for China and Japan on the 4th instant, with a very full complement of pas

9.3.

136 PER ANNEN

Firestone 1st Hiles Per Dallar

Indianapolis, May 30th, 1929 in the biggenst racing event of the year, 300 inlles on a bricks. paved track the first four) drivers used "FIRESTONE; Light of the ten money-winning sare ware Firestons equipped; and 'hot one Gum Hippod Card: failed

during the entire rack,

That's how FIRESTONE CORDS stand up under terrifio. heat and extraordinary wear. It is due to their especially tough trend and Gum Dipped carosse.

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

TERRIBLE WELSH DISASTER.

BIG EXPLOSION AT A COLLIERY.

SIX MEN BLOWN TO PIECES,

(Reuter's Service,)

THE WIRELESS DEADLOCK.

COLONIAL MINISTER'S CRITICISM.

London, January 4.

The $8,000 found by a Chinese the local share market has boy in the street is still being Paris so far is Auccessfully defending itself against the food. been characterised by rapidly bed by the police pending

"bulis definite claim of ownership."

* London, January 4. The populations of the north-western industrial districts and rising prices. The agricultural dismicts are particularly affected. In the south-east, on the market are operating Yesterday there was one ap sengers. This is her first trip to A terrible explosion occurred at midnight in Rhosamman the situation is critical especially at Alfortville where many families strongly and there is more plicant- merobant, who said the Far East, having previously colliery, at Rhosamman Brynammain, in Swanses valley. Saven demand for certain shares than that it was his nephew had lost been employed on the Indian and men engaged in driving a "drift" in search of coal were at the sur have evacuated the town and at Choisy le Roi.

The newspapers state that no uneasiness is felt as to the proper sellers, with the result that some the money. As the nephew wasAustralian mail service. She is face at charging time, and the accidant is supposed to be due to the working of the gas and electrical works. Friday is expected to stocks have made a sudden, and in the country, the claim is due here about February 8th. explosives they were using becoming ignited. Six man ware blown prove the critical day, and unless more rain is experienced it is hoped seemingly unjustified, rise. not being admitted until better The Kaldera is 15,993 to pieces, and portions of their bodies were found in the river and that the high-water mark will be reached on Saturday or Sunday,

tons gross register, and, is scores of yards away. The seventh man died in hospital. The ex- . with 10 metres as against $.60 metres in 191

driven by two sets of quadruple plosion shock the neighbourhood, and was heard six miles away. expansion reciprocating eng- ines developing 18,000 horse- power. Her length is 605 fest, and breadth 67 feet 2 inches, with a moulded depth of 47 fest [4 inches. She has accommoda- tion for 434 first salcon passang- Green Island Cements, which

and 247 -ers

second saloon were standing at $2616 on Thurs-

Access from

The date of my departure is approaching and I cannot any day, hare' changed hands this The fortnightly Price Current passengers.

another is rendered longer remain silent on the question of Empire wireless, un which morning at 83136 for cash and at and Market Report issued by the deck to

Hongkong General Chamber of cast by two electrically-driven there should be no real difficulty in coming to a definite conclusion," $3231 for March delivery.

There is an up-to date runs the opening passage of a statement issued by Mr. Bruce, the China Providents, which were Commerce, states

Australian Premier, pointing out that one station in Britain is library for the use of passengers, $24 less than a week ago, have

Cotton plece goods and fancy and also a laundry on board utterly inadequate to meet the demands of the service which the Do- now jamped up to $32 for cash, cotton goods. Although local which will be found of great con-mions desire to the installed, but owing to the dispute between the en ramours of an impending new values have appreciated slightly venionce to passengers travelling British Post Office and Marconis there is no prospect of more that

it is quite impossible to connect with

one station being erected, which will mean that Empire wireless children. The public Hongkong Darks jumped up business on the basis of current rooms comprise, in addition to will be seriously handicaped. Mr. Bruce contends that either the five points this morning from quotations from Manchester. No the

Post Office should reach an agreement with the Marconi Co. per- usual dining saloons, yesterday afternoon's quotation. sales are reported.

spacious music saloons, divans, quitting the latter to erect further stations or à definite statement the price to-day being $160 for

should be published showing why the negotiations have failed, and Cotton Yarn. Since our last and smoking rooms. cash.

Amongst the lengthy list of thus enable the public to allocate the blame. report there bas been a certain amount of enquiry, but only a passengers who are booked for small business has resulted the East by this fine boat we Prices. however, remained un-notice the names of Viscountess Tamworth, Lady Annie Brockle- changed. Quotations are:- $14.50

Bordeaux. January 4.

No confirmation has reached Faris of the reported discovery of two bodies of the Disande victims. The search is being con- tinued in waters south of Cape San Marco, where the tank of the Airship was recovered, with a view to ascertaining the whereabouts of the wreck. The funeral of the Commander will be held at Toulon on Saturday.

FRENCH TROOPS WITHDRAWN FROM GERMANY.

(Special News Service.)

Bordeaux January 4:

issue of shares.

A redistribution of French troops in the Rahr and Rhineland. following upon the cessation of passive resistance, has been in progress since December 28th. By now, seven infantry regiments have been withdrawn from the occupied treritory and have return-o $16 for cash, 817 for Febru ed to France

KRITISH FOLITICAL OUTLOOK.

(Special News Service.)

*

'Berlin, January 4. Mr. Baldwin has informed the Conservative Association of Lon- don City that the Conservatives are unable to co-operate with Mr. Asquith.

GERMAN CREDITS AN AMERICA.

(Special News Service.)

Berlin. January 4.

New York reports that the Washington Government considers an inquiry into German credits with American banks both im-1 practicable and illegal.

THE LATEST LUXOR DISCOVERY.

(Special News Service.)

Berlin, January 4. A coloraal and beautifully carved sarcophagus was discovered in the last shrine opened of Tut-ank-ahmen's Tomb.

BELGIAN MINISTER IN PARIS.

(Special News Service.)

Berlin, January

China Light and Power shares, following the announcement that a new issue of shares is being made, have risen during the

few days from past

ary and $18 for March delivery.

Other stocks have also risen slightly, and the market is fall of boom activity. There are endless rumours afloat regarding the stocks which have boomed! most, it being said in the case of Cements that certain alterations in the Company's kilns will result in a much largeri and cheaper output of cement.

The more responsible brokers 00 the market are not very sanguine about the boom, and think it is only a passing phase, without any real justification.

FAR EASTERN SEAPORTS.

A VALUABLE BOOK OF REFERENCE.

Mr. Allister Macmillan, F.R.G.S., who a while back toured the Far East in connection with a compilation on this.part of the globe, has returned to Hongkong in the course of another visit to China, and favours us with a copy

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Woollens. The market is quiet and clearances are poor,

Nifts.

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MORE “ETHER SPACE" WANTED.

A PROBLEM FOR THE LEAGUE.

London, January 4. Colonel L'Estrange Malone, chairman of the Radio Association

No. 10s $220/240. No. 12s $230-barst. Lady Miller, Col. J. D. 245. No. 16s. 3240.230. No. 20x Graham. Lieut.-Comdr. G. G. $225 235. Arrivals 700 bales. Haggard, R.N., and Mrs. Haggard. Lieut-Col. and Mrs. Nutt, Col. Shipments ail Sales 700 bales and Mrs. Astley Smith. Col. D. 1. interviewed with regard to the recent transmission of American Unsold 10,000 bales. Bargains

Shuttleworth, Dr. and Mrs. broadcasting by the British Broadcasting Company, forecasted that 2,500 bules.

G.D.E. Black, Mr. and Mrs. HA. (1924 would make television, or seeing by wireless, a practical pos- Lammert, Mr. J. W. Alabaster sibility. He emphasised that at present it was possible for one in- and Mr. C. McN. Wilson.

Įdividual to address simultaneously people in Europe, Africa and America. Nobody could foretell the ultimate development of inter- national broadcasting. He urged an international agreement to control and co-ordinate these transmissions, and give a fair share of 'ether space" to all the stations in any country which had first- class programmes or news. The Radio Association had communi- cated with the League of Nations on the matter, and a conference had been arranged for 1924, under the auspin of the League, to consider all aspects of the problem.

Raw Cottons. -No sales to report and prices are unchanged.

HOME FOOTBALL.

Metals. The past fortnight has been interrupted by holidays cad] very little business is repostać.. Market remains quiet and prices generally are somewhat weaker.

Flour Market Report-Stock: SCOTTISH LEAGUE GAMES. 500,000. Market: Dull. Quotation: American Patent $3.60 per sack, American Straight $2.85 per sack, American Cut off $2.50 per sack, Australian No. 1 $2.90 per sack.

Window Glass.Market con- tiques to be strong with buyers offering $12.50 for Spot" Stock.

CATHEDRAL NOTES.

ĮSOME INTERESTING ITEMS.

of his book "Seaports of the Far The following items are taken East," which, as he claims on the from Church Notes (St. John's cover, is a historial, descriptive. Cathedral magazine). commercial and industrial record. Rev. T. B. Powell, M.A., is due

arrive We can add that it is' a valuable to

in Hongkong, book of reference, which should be January 6th, to take up the post the in every office and institution in of Assistant Chaplain at any way connected with Eastern Cathedral.

commerce.

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London, January 4. Amended Scottish League soccer" results on January 1stį

are ——

Motherwell beat Hamilton Academy, 3 to 1.

EMPIRE ZINC COMBINE.

BIG PROFITS EXPECTED.

London, January 4.

Partick Thistle €9. Third Lanark was not played.

With reference to the Empire zinc combination, the Burma cor- Raith Rovers beat Clyde, 2 to 1.poration will pay interest on four million shares mortgaged to the Kilmarnock beat St. Mirren, Iftrustees of Lloyds Bank, regardless of the profits from the zino fsmelting and manufacture of sulphuric acid. The present profits of the company are estimated at £165,000 per annum, of which £133,000 will be produced by continuance of the present rate of dividend declared by the Burma corporation. The directors estimate that in two years the profits should reach £350,000.

to nii.

Airdrieonians best Falkirk, to 1.

Ayr United beat Greenock Morton, 1 to nil

Celtic drew with the Rangers. 2 goals all.

Dundee drew with Aberdeen,: 1 goal all

Hearts drew with Hibernians, 1 all.

the

QUESTION OF IDENTITY.

Paris, January 4. The Ministry of Marine has hitherto received no cónfirmation with regard to the position of the wreckage of the airship Dizmude or the discovery of two bodies of members of the crew. It has not been definitely established that the patrol can discovered at Bam Marco actually belonged to the Dixmade, though it is admitted that similar cans were aboard the airabip.

Faris, January é

The naval authorities at Bizerta, Tunis, have no knowledge of

The Belgian Foreign Minister, M. Jasper, has arrived in Paris. Burma and its capital, Rangoon; the Magnificet and Nuuc Diof eye-strain. Certain types of the reported discovery of bodies of the crew of the Dizmude.

(Reuter's American Service.)

MUNITIONS FOR MEXICANS.

UNFORTUNATE POSITION OF REBEL SHIP.

Washington, January 4.

Derva

On December 3nd., the full EYESTRAIN AND THE "TUMMY". Following a well-written ia-choir attended at 6 pm. as well

Indigestion is mentioned by an troduction to the territory cover-as at Matins, and settings com. ed, we have full descriptions of posed by Mr. Temple Bevan for eye specialist as a frequent effect Siam and its capital, Bangkok: mittis were sung. Mr. Mason eye-strain bring about the Malay Peninsula; Singapore; was at the organ and Mr. Bevan waste, and in persons already Penang: Hongkong; and Shang-was in the congregation. It was deficient in nerve energy, the hai There is a coloured map of probably the first time that set driving power may be so reduced Eastern Asia, and there are tings to the canticles were sung that the stomach will not work numerous illustrations through-in our Cathedral in the presence properly, and fermentation is set out the 500 pages. Not only is of the composer, and Mr/Bavan up, with dyspeptic symptoms of a ballot which embodied the provision of empowering the execu Mr. Macmillan to be congratulatia to be congratulated on his Eye treatment often results in tive to call an tional strike if necessary, in the event of the award almost marvelous disappearance being rejecten, but extreme measures are unlikely before the Union ed on the format of this volume, successful composition.

seeks modification of the award.

and the letterpress which exhibits The Hongkong Male Voice of the stomach trouble." his painstaking work of compila- Choir which has been having its tion and editing, but the pub-practices in the Cathedral Hall, lishers, W.H. and L. Collingridge, and gave a very successfut con- of Aldersgate Street, London, cert. there, on November 27th,

The United States has sold to the Obregon Government five deserve congratulations on the sent a cheque for $200 to the thousand 1917 model Enfield rifles, five million rounds of ammuni-way the book has been produced Chaplain to be used for any pur tion and eight aeroplanes. Mr. Weeks, the Secretary for War, states The clear type and thick art pose he thought good. This was that half the material will be paid for in cash, and the remainder in paper, with the very handsome handed over to the Hon. Trea thirty days. It is not all that Mexico requested, but will meet gilt-lettered leatherette binding surer of the Catherdal and applied her present requirements..

of dark green, make "Seaports of to the General Fund. We are & bandsome gateful to the Male Voice Choir Au El Paso message says the rebel steamer Progreso, with the Far East" supplies for the troops on board, is reported to be on the rocks near externally as it is informative for their very substantial cheque. Vera Cruz, and in danger. Mexican Government ships are respond-within-in other words, the bind-

ing is worthy of the contents. ing to the call for help.

Galveston, January 4. Huerta's headquarters announce that the robels are now in possession of all the Merican oilfields.

COST OF WARTIME, CONTROL-

#

Washington, January 4 Mr. Davis, the Director General of Railroads, announces that settlement has been reached, amounting to 1.896 million dollars, in respect of all claims arising from the Government's control of rail-

ways in wartime.

DAY BY DAY.

Victorian Diocesan Association Annual Re-Union in London.- The annual-re-union will be held

TO-DAY.

Closing Exchange 2. 3. 15/16. Lighting Up-Time 5.53 p.m

NEWS IN THE ADS.

Jurors who have been sum

this year by the kind permission moned to attend Criminal Ses-

RAILWAY TROUBLE POSSIBLE.

London, January 4.

A serious situation on the railways is threatened as the result

SEVERE EARTHQUAKES IN ITALY.

Ancona, January 4 Sixteen earthquake-shocks have occurred in the neighbourhood of Pesaro, Bhocks in the neighbourhood of Mondolfo, Marotte, and San Costanzo caused damage, several people being injured. The authorities are providing shelter for the people, who despite the snow refuse to return to their homes.

YOUTHFUL DUTCH CHESS CHAMPION.

London, January 4.

The twenty-two year old Dutch chess champion, Max Euws,

of the Lord Mayor in the Mansion sions on Monday the 7th. inst., has won the first prize in the Hastings chess championship, defeat- House, on Tuesday, June "the are informed that they are not ing Price in twenty-one mo PËR His Excellency, the Governor 17th Any who would care to required to attend on that date has appointed the Hon. Mr. E. Receive invitations either for but that they must attend on Hallifax, C.B.E to be Comms themselves or their friends are Wednesday the 9th inst., at 10 sioner and the Hon. Mr. Chow asked to send names and adam

VENIZELOS RETURNS:

M. Venizelos kas grrived.

Wther Telegrar

Shou-son and Bir Robert Ho dresses to Lads Sevem, 372, The The Third Tournament of the Tang: LL.D., to be Honorary As Peak The Bishop hopes to be in essor under the auspices of the sociate Commissioners of the England for June the 170 and Hongkong Boxing Association with Plastises Houskong Section of the British to meet many Hongkong friends will take place at the Theatre Royal on Baturday the 12th inst. Empire Exhibition, 1924

Jat this re-union.