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DONT PUT YOUR WINTER CLOTHES AWAY DIRTY.

CLEANERS

Send Them To Be Thorough Dry-Cleaned and

Pressed it Will Keep The Hoth Away and Save You Many Dollars When Next Winter

Arrives.

THE HONGKON

MAY WE SERVE YOU! STEAM LAUNDRY COMPANY.

HEAD OFFICE and WORKS: YAUMATI. Tel. K. HONGKONG DEPOT: 16, Stanley Street,. Tel. C.1879

62, Praya East. KOWLOON DEFGT: 19, Canton Road. CANTON: 19, Sharki Central, East. KOWLOON HOTEL DEPOT.

Write or Phone

for PRICE LIST.

THE KEY OF LIFE The Vitamin Content of

BOVO-LACTIN

ESSENCE.

BOVO-LACTIN ESSENCE in addion to possessing a high protein content in a most easily assimilated form is remarkably rich in Vitamin "B". Vitamin "B" besides its well-known Anti-neuritic properties is largely con. cerned in facilitating the proper performance of the various intestinal functions. It is in this sense a true vitalizer.

Hence. BOVO-LACTIN ESSENCE is an ideal tonic food possessing marked restorative and reivivifying powers. It has a special indication in case of auto-intrication Cus to habitual constimation.

TONGSIAN MINE DISASTER.

OVER FIFTY MEN

BELIEVED LOST. Tientsin, March 2-4 mudden inflow of olay and sand in a number of galleries in one of the Tongshan coul-mines, entombed 3 miners Digging, continned all last night, has fresh falls occurred as fast as

APE

FORS' RISKS.

Stability of Pre-War Taps at an End.

MARCH

BILLIARDS.

LAST NIGHT'S GAME.

Playing in the first round of the Billiards Championship of the In the pre-war period, it was Colony at the Victoria" Recreation possible for a careful and prudent Club last night, E..D. da Ross investor to be able to count with easily defested T. T. Yik, the final confidence on securing an income score being 800 to 518 Da Ross for himself and his dependents, played exceptionally fine billiards. by investments in securities his position play being a feature. which were either obligations of He struck several brilliant patches the British or other solvent Gor and exceeded the half century mark the obstructions were remored a /ruments, or were, first or priot on two occasions, making no leasi message from Tongshan this evening this or other countries, or on than 15 breaks of over 20. Fik's states there is no hope for the great industries which were so highest score was a 26 late in the entombed men.-Reuter.

far secured against trade fluctus-game. The best breaks were: Da tions that first charges upon their Roza: 57, 55, 41, 33, 28 (3), 27, 26.

25 (3) 23, 52, 21; Yik: 26, 93 (2). reranues might be regarded as practically gilt-edged, writes Mr. Hartley Withers.

CHINA AND RUSSIA.

charges on the railway system of

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PASSENGER 'PLANES.

What happened during the war, chiefly owing to the faulty me- thods by which the war WAS KARAKHAN'S FIRM STAND. financed, showed that the most Peking. March Replying to careful investor had been robbed the Waichiaopa's Note of March 9, of a security which he had worked Hot Meals in the "Clouds. so hard to achieve. It was just the| M. Karakhan last night refused to most cautious investor who had The Air Ministry has placed discuss the powers of the Chinese put all his money into securities orders for the first three of a Best (delegate, which he considera of the kind described above, who of giant all-metal passenger matter of Chinese concert. He was hardest hit by the deprecia-aeroplanes which are to link up disputes the Chinese sssertion that tion in the buying power of cur- the Empire. Passangers in these

rency which followed naturally. machines will have hot meals! there has not bom foreign inter from the multiplication of money served them. ference, quoting the French Minis on a great scale, because the ter's Note regarding the Chinese Governments found it easier to the clouds are to be constructed Two of these "expresses” of Fastern Railway* example finance the war or the expanses by Messrs. Handley Page and thereof

that it caused in neutral count- ries-by the creation of credit the third "by the de Havilland

Aircraft Company. than by taking money from us

as an

Finally, be maintains that China onld either approve the settle in taxes or getting it from us in These orders have been placed (ment as drafted, or retum to his the shape of loans subscribed by in accordance with the inten

tion of unoon-genuine investors. riginal proposal for an

Aviation the Civil ditional recognition and subsequent The result of this policy was istry to open up Imperial air-

Department of the Air Min

Begotiations. —Beuter

that the buying power of money ways-routes that will link up all was very seriously diminished

the parts of and a man who had by life-long the Motherland-and to cast a Empire with

exertions saved up enough to vast network of aeroplane produce a satisfactory income services from London all over found that its buying power wa Southern and Central Europe. greatly reduced. On the other Before the end of this year it may be possible for the traveller. to be whirled from Croydon to Constantinople in the most com- fortable of planes at a speed of 100 miles an hour, and even

PROPERTY SOLD.

OVER TEN DOLLARS.

A FOOT.

hand, those investors who had acquired securities not of the gilt-edged fixed charge type: but ordinary shares. subject At the sales room of Messrs.to the risks of industry

more.

· Lammert Brothers yesterday after-found themselves for the time proa the property known as being much better off than their "Oaklands" was sold by auction. less venturesome. companions. The 'planes will have a range a price which works out at The ordinary shareholder was of not less than 1,000 miles, so little over ten dollars per foot. The subjected. of course, like the that in a single flight they will property covers an area of 29,812 debenture and preference holder, be able to reach Malta from quare foot and extends from to the diminution in the value of London. Later it is în intended Bonham Read up Littleton money he received on his divi-to secure planes having a range

dends and investments, but at the of at least 2,000 miles. same time this diminution in the

BOVO-LACTIN ESSENCE is admir- ably adapted for the elderly, and for invalids wit a defective digestions. cupful as a hot drink at bed times is an exre lent remedy for insomnia. To children either healthy or ailing it is most benencial as a hot drink.

A

Road.

There

In cold Soda Water it forms a most refreshing and invigorating beverage.

Other BOVOLACTIN

Supplied by

proptrition

Invalid Bovo-Lactin.

The ideal fod of in Acute illness. Bove-Lactin Chocolate,

A perfect food high biological valve.

Messrs. A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd., Queen's Dispensary, Colonial Dispensary. The Pharmacy. The China Dispensary. The Kowloon Dispensary.

THE LATEST MODEL

'LADIES'

Spring Hats

are

Smarter Than

Ever.

Prices Reasonable.

LARGE RANGE of NEW

FLOWERS.

YEE SANG FAT CO.

Bare you been ficted by any distressing symptoms of eyestrain? Have you been tormented with all sorts of remedies and bare been given

over to painfof anxiety?

That's the defect of refraction. Come- and consult with our Optometrist.

NATIONAL OPTICAL CO., LTD. GRADUATE OPTICIANS,

26, Queen'' Land Ovatza).

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a large gathering value of money had increased the

The new machines have to be resent and bidding was brisk proft earning capacity of most of fashioned completely

σας

of

Mr. L. E. Lammert started the the industries which were able to steel, even to the propellers. so property at $140,000 Three bi continue during the war.

of ten thousand dollars 2sch brought the price up to $170,000,

WAR'S EFFECTS.

that they will not be affected by the heat of the Tropics. The Air Ministry will not allow rab- at which figure the biggest bid of The English railways were, of ber to be used for jointing the sale,

$30,000, wa course, the prominent exception, for the same reason. registered. A series of ten thousand because in their case a bargain)

Each machine will be equipped' dollar bids followed, the price had been made with the Gover- with 17 electrical cooking leventually mounting to $310,000.ment under which they were

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At this stage one solitary offer of secured their pre-warnet revenue. equipment so that hot meals may | $5,000 was male this being it is interesting to remember that be served on a flight..

advanced by the purchaser, Mr. at the time when this bargain Besides comfortably upholster- Li Sbun-fan.

was made, it was supposed to be ed chairs there will be wash-

CANTON'S NEEDS.

STUDENTS' LETTER TO BRITISH PREMIER. The Canton Gazette publishes to

fallowing letter addressed Ramsay Macdonald London land

an extremely profitable one for basins and taps for drinking the railway, shareholders. In the water in each cabin.

early months of the war, most people expected that industry in Great Britain was going to be

run with very great difficulty, and

probably at a loss, and shipown-money is reduced is to be revived ers, engineering firms and even in order to put more profits into colliery owners, the people who the pockets of industry, all well secured investments with fired then later periods of the war acquir rates of interest, will naturally the bolders of Mr.ed most enormous profits at the Eng

expense of the nation heard with suffer, while enry of the good fortune of the ordinary shares will again be able tailway companies which had to recoup themselves by the larger "Sir-We, the Committee of the been secured their pre-war net rate of profit that may be expect ed to be earned by the industries National Kwangtung University En revenue.

in which they are interested. dowment Fund Movement organized' The actual result was that the

Thus the old problem which con by the student body of the Teachers unfortunate scilway sharehol-fronted the investor has become L'ollege, National Kwangtung ders, receiving dividends at (iversity, extend cur" congratula about the same rate as before the very seriously complicated. He tions upon your assumption of the war, found that their buying used, when we had a gold stand ard, to be able to rely on a fair was power

cut in half by currency depreciation, while the measure of atability in the value of the money in which his interest shipowners and the other mem-

South

high office of Prime Minister of Eng land Conscious of your lofty principle and honourable sense of bers of English industry which was to be paid and his capital justice for all, we now approach you had been left to take are of might some day be paid back to to ask your aid in the matter of the themselves, were able to do so him. This stability was not per- fect, since fuctuations in the return of the proportionate share of by means of enormous rises in the Customs Surplus to the Southern the prices of the product that general level of prices were by no means absent under the mile of Chinese Goremment for use in de they were turning out, and the gold standard, bat the sort of fraying the expenses for education more than recoup themselves the

Buctuations which were produced effect of reduced purchasing in South China

by variations in the supply of power of money.

gold were comparatively mod- "As there has been no Govern

Since the war as everybody erate as compared with what ment university in existence in knows, there was a wild period would be possible if ever Govern

China, Dr. Sun Yat-sen of activity and farther profit mente began to manipulate tha bas ordered the Normal College, making on an enormous scale, currency in order to stimulate the Law College and the Agricu) which was suddenly ended by a industry. It is so easy to begin tural College, all of Canton, to com catastrophic drop in value, accom- and eo difficult to stop. bine and form themselves into a panied by trade depression which

These considerations give un- university called the National have wiped out much of the extra Kwangtung Waiversity.

profit earned during the period usual importance, from the point of view of the prudent investor to of activity. funds are needed for this new un-

the discussion that is likely to be dertaking. It is hoped that the These experiences bave made roused by praisals to stabilizeTM funds from the Castoms Surplus investors somewhat doubtful as to the value of the Englis, porad. may be available for this laudable the policy now to be pursued, and Probably Test of them will and worthy cause. "Our Committee they are naturally anxious when owing to well grounded suspicion in entrusted with the task of secur- they see indications that the in- of artificial interferonea with ing funds and endowments for the fation policy carried out during money matters, prefer the policy, needs of the newly established" Na-the war as a matter of alleged favoured by English bankers, of necessity, is now being urged by returning to the gold standard, tional Kwangtung University. We certain industrialists and some where that is possible, as to the therefore confidently await your politicians as a means of stimulat gold exchange standard, by which favourable response and sympathetic ing British trade. If the system & currency is linked to that of s eoperation."

by which the purchasing power of gold standard country-Ed-

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