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A Wushow correspondent, In connection with resous work on the occasion of the writing under date of yesterday, of course, solely due
alaking of the s.s. Loongsang in tho goods
It will be remembered that sup Hongkong harbour during the ply, but in a substantial measure to the assistance the typhoon of August, 1923, the come soven months ago the forces Company received from the loyal King, on the recommendation of of the Generals Li and Wong
took passosalon co-operation by the staff an Trado, has awarded the Sil vor simply by marching into the city, whole, which has always been Modal for Gallantry in Baving roadily and faithfully sivon, Life at Son to the following On behalf of the Company offlcars and seamen of which I have the honour;
the President of the Board of
On the a.. Bowes Castlo.-Mr.
to be Chairman, I wish to thank John Croppor, chief officer: Mr.
you all for so kindly joining us to-day.
of Nanning,
and that there was no bloodshed, as they found that the city had already boon ovaonated.
Now exactly the opposito bas 15,000 troops under the command happened, as on February 26th. Wo also wish to thank 9. O. R. Jonkins, third officer of the Yunnanoso war lord, Gon- our customers for their support Mr. G. T. B. Huggins, apprentice oral Li Chao-yab, marched into in the past and hope for their Won Jak, Hong Kam, Lam Pow. Nanning and took possession, and continued support in the future. and Loong Yoo, seamen.
Of the 8.s. Egremont Castlo.licy again on their side found: —(Applause).
Sir Paul Chator, Intor in the Mr. K. H. Stuart, socond officer any news as to whether there Mr. T. L. Williams, chief officer; troops. There has not yet boon the city ovicunted by the enemy's morning, delivered a brief speech Mr. Harold Wainwright, Mr. G, tomiifying to the high, reputation A. Parkor, Mr. B. L. Garrett, Mr was any looting by either army which the firm enjoys, mention-John E. Snaithin, apprentices: bo distinguished from the not- These Yunnanoso, who must ing that he made his first pur Go Ling Low, quartermaster chase at Lane, Crawford's as far
orious Yunnanase troops at Can-j Sing Yung Bang, boatswain: ton, are so called "Chinese High- back an 1864.
Ching Chin Fong, Lin Ab Yok, landers" and come from tho innor Lee Vin Chan, Chang Chin Pan, and more mountainous di-trieta The moving spirit in the Chang. Pat. Fab, and Ying Ah of the province of Yuhnan. It is founding of the business was Mr. T. A. Lano, the master of a trading vestal sailing to long-Mr A. Lexow, chief officer; Mr Nanning to defend the city and Of the Chinese 8.8. Hwah Ping reported that they are only going to loavo sufficient forces at kong in 1848, who found difficulty. F. Moltzau, socond officer: Mr that the majority of thom are going in obtaining some Nocossary supplies on bie arrival hero. Ab Kun, boatswain's mato: Han oven further down the river, and G. Daksorhoff, third officer: Chce to procood towards Wuchow and Whon ho returned Home haat Sang, Teo Tor, and Lin Chang that their final goal is Canton. foined forcos with a friend, Mr Chin, quartermasters; also the This does not seem to be so Ninian Crawford, and they raised the necossary capital and/Ohinoso fireman and the Chinose unlikely when one considore that! formed the firm of Lano, Craw. cabin boy who formed part of the thoy did a vory similar thing).
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The crux of tho situation scoms to be that while General Chan King-ming has lost in the oast, ho has at loast temporarily gained material successes in the GERMANY & FRANCE. inate betweon Germanys western
west.
This
and Jastern frontiers and does not refer to the possibility of recourse to war aftor a plebiscite, but sug- gosts that disputos should be orbitrated upon.
Returning to Hongkong (of course, via the Cape) with stucke, those pionoors started business in 1850 on the waterfront in a building of the matshod type, on
site whore the Dragon Motori Car Garage is now situated in It is still blowing a quite fresh
The business mon of Wuchow Doe Vooux Road. The business, monsoon outside, but the wind is proclaim that they are fearing a A NEW PROPOSAL. as other departments wore opened more moderate north of this port prolonged war, and that there
Paris, March 1, up, was quickly onlargod, and than it is further to the southward. dace not seem to be any relief in
It is roliably asserted that a the
M. Herriot replied roserving his promises
pushed From south of the Paracole sight yot,
To-day there was, 2 fest 6 in. proposal for a Franco-Gorman opinion pending consultation with through to Queen's Road, coming Islands, cepocially, there are re- out where Look Hing's are now ports of very hosvy weather.
of water on the tido gauges both guarantee past was received by the Alles. The Admital Oriental liner at Wuchow and Dosing.
M. Herriot from Horr Stresomann The German proposal, which ic business.
The proposal is Herr Stresemann communicated The firm continued to grow President Jofferson, Captain H moans that there is about the ton daye ago. space, difforont departments Nicholls, arrived yesterday from same amount of wator on both reported to be more general in its simultaneously to the other Allies, being added from time to time, Shanghai, and had fresh monsoon the first and the second bar 1922, inasmuch as it fixes no limit the Allied chancelleries during acope than Herr Cuno's offer of has boon garuostly discussed by and they continued in theso coming down hore.
bolow Wushow, namely, ton foot. Tho Struthors and promises up to 1905; while in the
Barry
At Sam Shui thoro is 4 in. of duration and cloes not discrim-the past week.--Reuter, interval they had
opened freighter, West Iwan, Captain R. above zero on the tide gauge, ia Shanghai Hoaly. arrived to-day from which means just 12 foot on the and Yokohama. These branchos Shanghai and had similar was-bar. word later takon ovor by local thor. managers, and later wore turned The Wost Carmona arrived Nowe received in Hongkong le into limited liability companies, from Manila to-day and reportea to the offect that Chan Kipg"
GOOD SERVICE."
strong north-eastóru coming up. ming has suffered a series of COMMANDERS IN FLIGHT. During the past seventy-five The Hamburg-American linor heavy roverses in the east. Wai-
Poking, March 1. years, the firm has been closely Tierre arrived this morning from chow is being attacked by the
According to information givon connected with the steady pro-Singapore and had bad weather Canton Government forcos, who out by Ha Ching yi's Peking re- gress of the Colony, and records except the two last daye of her are stated to have seized Swabue, presentative, the troops of the Bhow that it has rendered good trip. The coaster Kriton, Cap: which is halfway botwoon Hongformer, under the command of service on several occasions of tain 0. Lomachen, arrived kong and Swatow. It is further Chang Fu-lai and Li Chichen. emergency. During the soarsen's yosterday from Bangkok and ex-reported that General Lum Foo but subsequently recruited by striko, within the memory of perienced a strong N.E. gale. has deserted Chan and gone over Kan Yu-kun, hivo mutinied at most of us, it was Lano, Craw The B. L. Liner Talambs has with ton thousand troops to the Loyang, and Kan Yu-kun has ford'a who practically kept up the now arrived from dry dook, and other side.
fled, his whereabouts being uni supplies of bread and the necessi- in lying all apick and span in on
known. tios of life.
A-buoy.
up
branches
OHAN'S REVERSES.
CHINESE CUSTOM.
ANOTHER CHINESE
MUTINY.
Hu Ching-yi'a forcos have sur- rounded Kan Yu-kun'e troops al
Away back in the old days wo The Canton steamier Sal On find that for many years the firm loft the Taikoo dry dock this had the only European bakery in morning after her overhauling, JUDGMENT IN WILL CASE other places, and lu Ching-yi Sir Honry Gelton, in the has sont his divisional loader. Hongkong, ad, as now, served and went to a Wost Point Wharf. H.M. Navy with most of their The old Canton-Wushow Supreme Court this morning, Yoo Wei-chun, to Loyang to take bread. It was the firm's bakery stoamer Wab On, which has giving judgment in the case in control and restore order.
Yoo arrived at Loyang ut eleven that came to the Government's boon laid up for a long time, wae which Chak Hoek-ting, father-in-
a sietanco when an attempt was alongside a West Point wharf law, opposed the application of this morning.
The report adds that Liu Chen- made, in the vory oarly day, this morning. It is said that she Chan Shan Shun-sho for letters)
troops; poison the
river chartor of administration on the grounde] Hus, hoaring the report of the and has obtained a in lator years it was Lane, carrying rice, and that she is that she was not a proper potson mutiny, has fled to Sianfu from
to
Crawford's water boats which shartly brought the precious fluid, froo offcbanged. all charge, from Kowloon Bay,
and kept the Colony provided with
poking water during the vory
Tovare drought of some forty)
years or so ago. In fact, many
to
bayo
hor namoj
WORLD THEATRE,
"THE GOLDEN KEY."
LATE PRESIDENT EBERT.
under Chinese law and custom to Hsinhsiang-Reuter, have lotters, held that as it bad been the practice for many years past to grant lettors of adminis. tration to Chinoso widows of intostates it was too late to go. into the proprieties of the TRIBUTES TO HIS MEMORY.
Berlin, March 1. former Governors of Hongkong! There are many things that practice.
Mr F. C. Jonkin appoared for Thousands of torches illumin. have, from time to time, thanked money can buy, and happiness is
the Tiergarton, through the firm for assistance rondored not among them. This is tho the plaintiff and Mr. Elton Potter, ated in time of nood.
irresistiblo conclusion that one K.C, ropresented the father-in-which the coffin of the lato Proel- dont Ebort, escorted by Relcha It might be recalled that the is forced to, after seeing that law." Yokohama store was wiped out in stirring photoplay of modern life Mr. Potter agreed strongly, sind wohr and police, passed at mid- the great earthquake of 1923, the The Goldon Koy" showing at the Chief Justice, that whatovor night from the nursing home to old partner, Mr. McKinnel, who the World Theatro to-day with tho striot rights under the law of the Presidential palace, where it originally in Hongkong, Asta Nielson in the leading role. the Celony might be, the position lies in state in a room draped being killed with most of the staff. In this realistic picture, adopted of the widow in the Chinese with black and the colours of the
for the seroon from the colebrated social organisation rendered hor Ropublic.
A memorial servico in and out: In 1905 a move was mado tonovel by George Froschel, the appointment as the present Hongkong building.famous star brings out her latent inappropriato, and urged that he side the palace will be held on but the filem ara already looking histrionic powers, in which she should exercise tho discration of Wednesday, followed by a milit forward to moving into the now has few supoziors on the screen of the Court in Chan Hok-ting's ary parado and a later service In Exchange Building as soon as Auta Nielson as Mary Vorhag favour. Ho had very carefully the Reichstag. The coffin will bo completed. In 1922 the Wiseman portrays the charactor of a young considered the case and had sent by tall the same ovaning to aito was bought for this purpose.ohorus girl whose humble life come to the conclusion that the Heidelberg, Herr Ebort's birth- place, for burial on Thursday,- and to find the necessary capital makes her dream of the day widow was entitled to letters. the old private firm was turned when she will be able to parade His Lordship reserved the Reuter. io a limited company,
in the most expensive shops and question of costs for further con- This meant also taking over chose whatever her heart doairas.sideration. the bakery and oafo business of
MoEsrs. Wiɛoman.
WAS
PROGRESS.
POTATO FEST.
Every your shows a larger Measures havo boon taken by turnover than its predecessor, and the British Ministry of Agricul
administratrix-
SHARE MARKET.
SHANGHAI QUOTATIONS.
FRENCH DEBT.
CONDITIONS FOR
PAYMENT.
Paris, March 1.
by adding departments as the ture to fight a potato post from the
M.. Herriot, in the course of a need arises the old policy of the United States and to provant Its
Messrs. Elli and Co. have statement before the Senate For- firm is continued to supply spread in this country. In a stato-
with the elgn Affairs Committee, on the kindly supplied 18 residents with all their needs. ment issued recently, the Ministry
Being first in the field, pract point out that the 1924 crop of following cable quotations of subject of inter-Allied 'debts, said Shanghal atock. from their the French debt would have to be loally with the start of trading in potatoes in the United States had
Shanghai offoo:-
subject to a raduction equipment the Colony, tho. company has been so plentiful that export! been able to choose the beat of markets for the surplus was boing Langkats (comb.) Tis. 2014, to that which the Trauch claim on Germany had sustained, and agencies in most European and sought, and small quantities had buyers.
acoount must be taken of the American products.
British olalm on Russia, whose laok of assets should not recoll on France.
alroady boen soat to this country. Unfortunately, the potato fields
Ewos.Th. 1214, buyera, Shanghai Dooke.Tis. 118, As it was in the abipohandlery ant food commodities that the over large areas of the States are ex div., buyers., fem made their first start, special infested with the destructive New Engine: Inge, Tls. -8.50, shows are being made in these Colorado bootloa post of whloh Inos in the windows and show the importation into Britain must rems, and a visit to them is well be guardeded against us for s worsh while,
possibles
buyers.
Orientala-Tis, 3.75, buyers. Shanghai Cattor, Tir, buyers,
France, Italy and Rumanis simply refused to pay unless the 60. question of reparation was takon
into account, Reuter,
Powell
Telephone C. 3146.
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Central.
75 Years Ago
*
March, 1850
when a few matsheds con- stituted Hongkong's "Shopping Centre", the foundation was
· laid of the business of
Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
The policy responsible for the growth of the business during the intervening years has been, and still is, that of service combined with fair dealing.
The directors-desire to thank their customers who have. shown appreciation of this policy by giving their pat- ronage in the past, and "to assure them of continued attention to their needs in
the future.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.