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COMMUNISM IN CHINA.'

IS IT REALLY A GROWING

MENACE?

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SWISS DISCOVERY.

FOUR MILES OF CAVERNS HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI

UNDERGROUND.

BANKING CORPORATION.

com-

$50,000,000 $20,000.00

HEAD OFFICE; HONGKONG.

Authorised Capital fed and Fully Paid-up

Reserve Fund Eteriing

Silver -

£*$,500,000 - $16 500.000

$20,000.00

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER

BANKS,

INTERNATIONAL BANKING CORPORATION.

(Owned by the National City Bank of New York).

Capital & Surplus...U.S. $1,000,000 HEAD OFFICE :· 60. Wall Street, New York LONDON, OFFICE:

Barahona

Probably. In no country may dan- Telegrams from Berne report the discovery in the Swiss gerous thoughts be thought so un-

Dolomitce, at depths varying reservedly as in this country, says, from 200 to 400 metres below the; the Far Eastern Times, discussing surface, of a sories of hitherto

unknown caverns. The discovery Reserve Liability of Proprietors the question of Communistic in-

was made by a party of scientis's fluence in China. Apparently the who were making investigations!

of the region. authorities do not care what anyj

which The caveras, body thinks so long as they do not maniate with each other, extend actually, attempt to translate their for a distance of over four

Con underground, and run in a north thoughts into violent acts.

and south direction. Fürther re- sidering how all-powerful the mili-, search beyond this distance was tarists are in China, and bearing in stopped by stones. and rocks,

which blocked further, progress, mind that for all practical purposes, the Constitution is suspended, it is surprising that we have heard so seldom of any high-handed attempt

COURT OF DIRECTORS: G. M. Young, Esq. Chairman H. T. White, Esq. Deputy Chairman Barcelona 0.3.M. Barnard, Esq Hon. Mr. A.0. Lang Batavia miles W. H. Bell, Esq.

W. L. Pattonden, a Bombay A.H. Compton, Esq. JA. Plummer, Esq. Calcutis Hon.Mr.PH.Holyoak T. G. Wenil, Esq.

chist.

The enormous domes of ice were discovered during the party's long subterranean investigation.

Chief Mannger

A. H, Bario, Esq. Manager: Shanghai ~G. H. Stitt, Esq. LONDON BANKERS: WESTMINSTER BANE LTD.

rms which will be quoted on application.

Hongkong, 21st. Feb., 1924.

HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK,

The Business of the above Bank i conducted by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORA TION. Rules may be obtained on Application.

Oauton Cahn Colon

Dairen

Hankow

Harbin

Hongkong Kobe

Madrid,

36 Bishopsgate, E.C. BRANCHES :

Danie Ролаша Baking

Puerto Plata

Rangolico, Gal.

Han

San Francisco de Macaris San Pedro da Macori Sanchez

Santiago de los Caballero Banto Domingo

Shangha

Singapore Tientsin

Tokio

Yckobama

Commercial and Travellere Letters of

Transfers bought and wold. Current

accounts and Savings Bank accounts

5, 1925.

THE P. & O. BANKING CORPORATION, LTD..

Incorporated in England 1920) With woon is aliated THE ALLAHABAD BANK, LTD. INDIA. Authorized Capital.......... Subscribed and Paid-up Reserve Fund

.

,£6,000,000 £2,504,160 160,000

HEAD OFFICE: 122, Laadouhall London R.O. WEST LONDON BRANCH: 14-16, Cockspur Street, London 9.W.I EASTERN BRANCHES: Bombay, Calcutta, Karachi, Madras, Colombo, Singapore, Hongkong,

Canton and Shangha

The Corporation undertake Genaral, Banking and Exchango Business of avery | description and is addition to ite Branches | has Agencies in all the principal cities of the world,

L. E. HOPKINS,

Manager.

22, Dan Vaux Road Central, Hongkong.

ORIENTAL COMMERCIAL

BANK. LTD,

HEAD OFFICE:

----

BRANCHES BANGKOK-

opened and Fixed Deposita in local and 50 Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong. foreign currencies taken at rates that may be ascertained on application to the Bank. We are also able to offor our Customers the services of Branches of the Nations, City Bank of New York in the principal countries of South America and in the West Indies.

G. HOGG,

Manager.

„V Quoan's Road Central, Hongkong.

CURRENT ACCOUNTS opon- The most interesting find, how-ed in LOCAL CURRENCY and g over, was a subterranean lake, FIXED DEPOSITS received for Manila to suppress dangerous thoughts by over 150 metres wide. This lake one year or shorter periods in putting the thinkers in guol. No- contains what are described as a Local Currency and Sterling on Credit, Bille of Exchange and Cable body is invited to make a marty of kind of amphibious fishes, with himself, nobody is irritated beyond exceptionally long tail and endurance by the upwelcome atten- totally blind. The skin of these: tion of the authorities, so that he fish is a pale rose colour and Passes from being, a doctrimaire markedly phospherescent. Communist to being an active hoar Indications were found that at And the result seems to be no time these caverns were in- that the seed of Communism is fulkhabited by human beings. The ing into stony ground, or at any they are the first nen who have explorer believe, however, that rate into ground that is not suit-ever seen the second of the great viently fertilized by the blood of themes of ice referred to the Communist salute. The inter- view with Mr. Karakhan, on the spread of Communism in China, published in the Nation, benra Indirect testimony to the virtual failure of Communist propaganda, except perhaps at Canton. We do. not find Mr. Karakhan "patting him- selt on the back in no uncertain)

Wolves and other wild beasts, tone and with a very sure foot," semboldened by seven years' re- we saw it put a day or two ago, ospite from guns and hounds, are what Communist propaganda basaltacking Russian villages in accomplished in this country. 11 road daylight. In all cattle- claims some sureceps for it, of breeding areas the damage in- THE BANK OF CANTON LTD. ffleted by wolves is estimated by

WOLVES IN RUSSIA,

ATTACK IN DAYLIGHT.

a million

INTEREST on Deposita is calculated on the lowest balanco during each com pleted Calendar Month at 3 por cent per annum. Should there bo no balance 'on any day in a month no interest, will be allowed for that morih.

Depositors may transfer at their option Butatice of $100 or more to the HIỐNG. KONG AND SHANGHAI BANK to be places on FIXED DEPOSIT at CUR RENT RATES.

For the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank ing Corporation.

A. H. BARLOW,

Chief Manager, Hongkong. th. January 1925.

Head Office Hongkong.

.£1,200,000

£1,081,075

$700,000

Foreign Exchange & Goneras Banking:

Interval allowed on

course, but nothing extraordinary. Savier auhorities as amounting For one thing, as is admitted, China to 25 percent of all young cattle, has not yet eashed the stage of and to about 15 per cont. of cattle Author: Capital.. acate economic pressure that can generally. In two months wolves Silver Reserve Fund.

Paid Up Capital.. directly attributed to capitalism have, destroyed over and can be seen as such by any heart of cattle. large number of people; and is. In addition to eattle the pop-business transacted. little use offering a remedy for an ulation has also suffered serious! il that is con-existent, or that, so casualties, and distressing calls far as it actually exists, is not re-for help have been reaching Mos- roznized as such. The resalt is cow daily.

that as a medicine for internal ap- All along the banks of the plication, Communism is not regard-Volga and as far west as the ed, except by a very fow, as a re- | Muscuw province the damage and medy the adoption of which is casualties are increasing. Villages are barricaded at sunset, as if necessary to the saving of life.

they were camps in a wilderness. Children are attacked on their

Looking to Russia.

On the other hand, there is a way to school, and even workers

were

CURRENT ACCOUNTS

2% per annum on daily credit balancer of over $100.00 :

SAVINGS

4% per annum DEPOSITS

for 12 month 5% per annum

6

F1

་་

4%

3

3%

ou Demund

T

2% per annum

BRANCHES: Canton, Bwatow,

LOOK POONG SHAN, Chief Manager.

good deal of faith, not perhaps in, in the field have hoen forced to Shanghai. Bankow, Bangkok, New York Communism, but in the leading flee for their lives.

and San Francisco. Communist state, Russia, as a In a village of the Surátoff LONDON BANKERS :—The Lloyde] remedy, or at least a counter-province there

fifteen Bank Ltd. irritant, for the healing of external casualties in a day. In the wounds and bruises received in eon-Razan district wolves, and even liet with the "capitalist" states of hears have been playing havoc the West, Naturally, the Chinese with sheep. An *epidemic of authorities are slow to deprecate skunks has been reported from suggestions of resort 10 any Kazan.

remedy that promises relief or as- sistance, but it must be admitted

THE BANK OF CHINA.

THE CHARTERED BANK OF

·INDIA, AUSTRALIA' & CHINA.

SHANGHAI

Correspondents: London: West- minator Bank. Ltd; New York: National City Bank; Ban Francisco: Union Trust Co. of San Francisco; Canton Bank, Authorised Capital .............. $5 000 000 Paid Up Capital

$1 200,000 Modorn banking in all its branchos Currant accounts savings accounts and fixed departs solicited. Lans granted en approved secreity.

"Ovoranna banting a speciality. INTEREST-Current secunts

per

(Incorporated by Royal Charter 1063.) cent,anvlogs 1 poi cent, Fized Deposita. 3 months 4 per cent, 6 months 44 per cout, one year 6 per cent,

Paid-up Capital..... Reserve Fund .....

....£3,000,000 .....£4,000,000

Reservo Liability of Proprietors 93,000,000 Foreign Exchange and General Banking

business transacted.

Current Accounts opened and Fixed Deposita received for 1 year or shorter periode at rates which will be quoted on" application.

A. H. FERGUSON, Manager.

BANQUE L'INDO-CHINE

(BRANCH BANK.) ·

HEAD OFFICE:

D6, Boulevard Hausmann, Par Capital

Frs. 72,000,000.00) Paid-up Capitut ...... Ers 68,400,000.00 Reserves

.Fra. 69,667,283.64

Bankok

BRANCHES & AGENCIES:

Hongkong Battambang Mengtss Canton

Noumea

Djibouti Papoots

Saigon Shanghai Singapore, Tientsin Tourano

Hankow Hanoi

Pnom Penh Tisdivesloak Pondicherry Yonnaufu

|Huiphong. Poking.

BANKERS:

Safe Deposits, Boxes for Rent, Our Faults safeguarded by time clooks and double combinations Arieur plate stool doors.

J, Y. LUM,

Manager.

THE HO HONG BANK, LTD. (Established 1017.) CAPITAL:

Authorised dapital

$20,000,0

Issued

Pald-up

8,000,000 4,000,000

Reserve ila bilities of

Shareholderg

Surplus

1,000,000 825,000

HEAD OFFICE-SINGAPORE. Branches, Agencies and Correspondents |in the principal cities of the world.

Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted.

HL. HUANG

Manager.

THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE

BANK LTD.

Established 1830.

in FRANCE Comptoir National Capital (fully paid up)......Y. 100,000,000 d'Escompte de "Paris; Credit Resorvo fund Y. 83,800,000

Lyonnai Banque de Paris et des

Pays Bay; Crédit Industrial o! Commercial; Baciete General.

HEADOFFICE --YOKOHAMA Broaches and Agencies at

Kobo

In LONDON:-The National Pro Batavia

Semarang

Fincial and Union Bank of England, Bombay London Escrabaya Ltd; Comptoir National d'Escompte Buenos Ayres Lyons de Paris, Credit Lyonnuia.

Colentta

In NEW YORK:J. P. Morgan & Co. Canton Interest allowed on Current Accounts Changchun and Fixed Deposita, according to arrango- Dairen

Every description of banking and Fangtien exchange business transacted.

A. LECOT. Hamburg

Mausger,

Spacially authorized by Presidentialment. Mandate of the Republic of Chins on the: 22nd of November, 1917.)

.$50,000,000.00 .$18,278,600.00

that they have shewn no great Armistice Day falls in a Wed- alacrits themselves to use the re-nesday this year. The question Paid-up Capital

Authorized Capital... medy that seems to lie so readily to has arisen on which Sunday the Reserve Funde.

$ 0,629,425.24 hand. So that we have these two Armistice services should be held. HEAD OFFICE: PEKING. facts: indifference to all the Com- The Archbishops of Canterbury HONGKONG BRANCHER : munist talk that is going on, and and York recommended that

4, Queen's Road Central. reluctance to use even Communist where it is convenient the ob

Branche and Sub-branches all over friends as a forcé with which to servance should take place on China and correspondents in Europe, fight the, supposedly, dread enemy, November 8 rather than on No-America and other parts of the World. capitalism. The only people who ember 15. This must, however; Provincial and ion Bank of England LONDON BANKERS :-The National seem to be worrying about Com. depend on local circumstances and Ltd. munism in China are foreign obser, diocesan usage or direction. vers and the representatives of the p

foreign Powers, The situation is The dramatist who in holding remarkably like that prevailing ja mirror up to nature turns it too during the French Revolution, I squarely upon the failings of some when the countries into which the particular nationality, need not complex idea of Liberty, Fraternity look for unmingled gratitude. If and Equality was insinuating itself Mr. Caradoc Evans takes his were apparently not in the least"Taffy" to Wales, one may anti- distressed thereby, whilst the coun- cipate as lively a reception as

were

tries that kept the noxious idea at awaited Synge's "Playboy" at arm's or bayonet's length

the Abboy Theatre. Neither very much distressed to see its Welsh or Irish seem to have dreadful advance outside their own fishment from artistic libel, com- realised yet how to extract nour- borders.

ments the Observer. That is the

Perhaps another phase of the discovery of Abordeen, which Revolutionary movement of a cen- multiplies, prints, and circulates tury and a half to a centary and a the legends of its own parsimony quarter ago will manifest itself as part of the intriguing propa- again. When Liberty, Fraternity ganda of a tourist city. and Equality had doue their best

The Guaranty Trust Company of New fork.

NEW YORK BRANCHES :-The Irving National Banke. The Equitable Trust Company of New York.

Interest allowed on Current Accounts and Fixed Deposits. Torma on applica

tion.

Every description of Banking business transacted,

Loons granted on approved securities. Special facilities for Home Exchange.

.EE PEI, Vanager.

司公埕管蒸寶法中

SOCIETE FRANCAISE DE

GERANCE.

DE LA BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE, ETABLISSEMENT FRANÇO CHINOIS. [Incorporated in France).

6, Chater Road, Victoria, Hongking.

HEAD OFFICE : 74,5Rus St. Lazaré, Paris.

THE BANK OF EAST

LIMITED.

(Dainy

Mukden

Bangoon

Los Angelos San Francisco Manila

Nagasaki

Nagoya

Boattle Shanghai

Singapore

Now chwaag Bhimonosek

Отауа Bydaay New York

Tientsin

Peking Tokyo

Rio de Janeiro

Karachi

Hankow Honolulu Horbin ASIA Kai Yuen Saigon.

HEAD OFFICE-HONGKONG,

Authorised Capital - -$10,000,000 Paid-up Capital Reservo Fund-

DIRECTORS

5,000,000 -1,000,000

Hon. Mr. Chow Shou Son-Chairman Fung Ping Shou Mok Ching Kong

Li Koon Chus

P.K. Kwok Ng Ching Luk Pong Wai Ting.

Wong Yun Tong

Huynh Tai

Kan Yan Po

Chan Ching Shek

Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted-Loans. granted on approved securities.

BAFE DEPOSIT BOXES to let

ĮKAN GTONG PO Chief Manager.

NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL MAATCHAPPIJ.

"

(Netherlands Trading (Society). BANK.

Established 1824. Hongkong Branch etablished 1906

¦ Authorized Capital Guilders

Paid-up Capital Guilders Reserve Fund Guilders.........

| Special Reserves Guilders

160,000,000

Tainaniu Tsingtas. Vladivostock

Interest allowed as Current Accounts. Dopceita received for fixed periode at ratos to be obtained on application.

Mr. C. ABIMA, Manager

Hongkong, March 11th 1925,

T. NARAO

Japanese Shoe Expert. PORTOISE BHELL BOXES and CASES A SPECIALITY

Astor House Hotel Building, Queen's Road Contral.

(€12,500,000)OB ATTENTION OF MASTERS

80,400,000 (£6,666,670 OF NORTH-BOUND STEAMERS.

20,636,861 (1;711,405)

22.660,000, during the North-East (1,888,530) Monsoon there is always a

Fr.10,700,000.00 Eastern HEAD OFFICE :--BATAVIA.ors running short OF BUNKER

BRANCHES -

Bandjermanin Kota-Radja Botterdam Bandeeng Macnamara Bemarang

Medan Shanghai Padang Singapore Palembang Beerabala

Bombay

| Calcutta

Choribon

to ruin the world, to break up Irish tobacco is being imported society, and to set up immorality into London in bulk for the first triumphant, the world remained time for a hundred years. The still very much what it had been consignment of 15 tons left tho before. On the whole there was part of Dublin recently. "It is Capital France... Fr.10,000,000.00 HEAD OFFICE :-AMSTERDAM. possiblity of North-bound steam an advance, but it could hardly be rather strong to smoko," an official | Reserve Francs called with any great degree of of the Irish Free State in London truth, except over limited areas, atold the Evening Standard," but| Revolution. It may be so again, its particular beauty can be best Even Communism may not really savoured when it is blended with Probably tobaccos butter known commer- make much difference. not, indeed. Even Communismcially. "For the púst 20 years does not guarantee us a perfect refund has been doing her bost Nationals world at the end of a perfect day. to make her little tobacco industry ia success, and the principal scat Both because it does not promise us too much, and because it will of it is in County Meath, where a probably not be able to give us even the weed. Bo far our oxport has number of acros are planted with, what it does promise, we may be been small, but now apparently thankful, and, even in China, may English buyers are getting inter- sleep o'nights,

ested."

COAL, this is to inform you thai orang fand provided by

TAIT & CO., AMOY, (a woll- THE BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE

protected port with good anchor France 50,000,000

ago) have stocks of GOOD

BANKERS.

JAPANESE BUNKER COAL FRANCE-Societe General Banque Djokjakarta Penang

Djember Pocnionan Soerakteria AT REASONABLE PRICES... Credit, Banque

'do Faso

Togal *Bain) Wireless messages via Hong, Paris-oi des Pays Bas

Pontianak Tintja and kong or Formoss are re-trans- LONDON ---Midland Bank Ltd.

The Hagse Bangaon Weltevreden NEW YORK :-Irving Bank, Columbia

mitted by the Great Northern London Bankers-National Provincial Trust Co.

Bank, Ltd.

Telegraph Co. and a wire to Correspondents all over the world. TAIT or "COALBUNKER" BANKING BUSINESS OF EVERY MOY, will receive their prompt

DESCRIPTION:

attention.

Evory description of Banking ind pendents throughout the world.. Exchange Business Transacted. Corre

A. KOLLIN, Manager

|

M. J. HERBSCHLEB,

Agent.

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