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J. ULLMANN & CO. THE NEW

Alexandra Building

Chater Road, Hongkong.

WATCH MANUFACTURERS DIAMOND MERCHANTS

& JEWELLERS.

Silver & Electro-Plated Ware's.

Baccarat Cut Glasses.

Fancy Goods, etc.

Houses) in Tientsin, Paris

Shanghai, Hankow, and

Peking.

ཀླ

Actuelle

RECORD

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

Fushe Patent.

FOR ALL NEEDLE MACHINES $1.50 each

Tatbe-Orient

12, Queen's Road, Central.

AMIR'S TOUR.

LOCAL NEWSPAPERS' GLOWING ACCOUNTS.

latest Simla, May 18.-The Afghan papers contain glowing accounts of the Amir of Afghanis tan's recent visit to Julalabad, particularly the inspection of the judicial branch and interviews with vakils.

The former work lasted five Amir hours after, which the received the vakils, alems, ayeds, chlofs and notables, to whom he Factory in La Chaux-de-pointed out that the object, of his

Fonds Switzerland.

1.

Mrs. J. CRAWFORD, Massage Hall

No. 14. Zetland Street,

MRS. SEKAL

MASSAGE

Tel. No. C.4433, 2nd. Coor 2, Duddell Street. Honeko

visit was to enquire into their wel- fare and remove distress if any.

Striking, a personal note, he Assured them that the heat of sum- mer would not frighten him out of the place until he had provided for the convenience and comfort of his subjects.

He congratulated the people on their loyalty and devotion during Jehad and for their independence during the Semat janubi diatur-

All Muslims were ser bances. vants of God and none enjoyed auperiority over the other.

The speech was followed by a The Amir breakfast of wheat. freely moved about advising the

answering and chiefs queries.

HOTELS.

THE

HONGKONG

their

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AND

SHANGHAI

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HOTELS.

LIMITED

In association with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lits, Peking.

KOWLOON HOTEL

THE PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON.

First Class Billiard Room and Saloon Bar. Electric Lift and Telephone to each Floor. Tels. K.608 & K.609 Cable address: KOWLOTEL, Hongkong. Under the Personal Supervision and Management of

FRANK L., COOKE

Proprietor.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

CENTRAL LOCATION

ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING, TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR,

"HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS

Talographic Address " Vidrónia"

Tel. Contral 373.

THE EUROPE HOTEL. SINGAPORE,

Terms: A la carte or Inclusive.

Telephone in every room. After-dinner dancing every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday..

GRILL ROOM

ARTHUR E. ODELL, Managing Director.

Telegrams Europe Singapore

Telephone 2750.

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HING

SHIPBUILDING MATERIALS SHIP CHANDLERS

MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1926.

THE CIVIL CONSTABULARY RESERVE.

In the

Above are seen members of the Civil Constabulary Reserve, recruited during the "general' strike, equipped with steel helmets and truncheons, marching in London,

background is seen the Admiralty building.

STAMPS NOT VALID.

USED ONES AFFIXED TO

RENT RECEIPTS.

Having recently been fined $400

AIR FORCE PAGEANT.

PROMISING EXPERIMENTS

IMPROVEMENTS IN WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

A SPECTACULAR DISPLAY.

Rugby, June 20... The proposal that the four for affixing used stamps to rent re-Royal Air Force machines which Remarkable experiments have ceipts, a Chinese, named Leung are expected to reach England-to-been made recently between Ger Sui-san, atins Leung Chuk-sin, was morrow on the completion of a man vessels and the coast and the again before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this 14,000 miles flight to South Africa résulta have been very promising. morning, at the Central Magistracy, should alight on the Thames at Progress has been made of late in respect of similar charges cop-Westminster has not been favour with short wave transmission and cerning three, receipts. Mr. E. Sed by the Air Ministry for techni with use of wireless for transmit-

The airmen- w$!] - Brooks appeared for the defence, cal seasons.

In reply to Mr. Brooks, Mr. Lind-alight at Lee-on-the-Solent as ting weather charts to ships. The 'short wave sell explained that the defendant arranged. Their machines will experiments with had previously appeared in respect have the fonts removed, prior to transmission have been made on of eight receipta und was fined. In their participation on July 3rd fo

A fined of $150 was imposed..

coastal station was Norddeich.

that case the defendant had sought the annual. Air Force pageant. at the North German Lloyd s. Berlin, which had been fitted out with a to prove that he was not the man, Hendon. but witnesses came forward and On that occasion about 180 air special station for this purpose. The asserted he was the man. Three craft drawn from the Home receipts had aubsequently been Defence Army co-operation and found and they formed the subject training units will take part, in- "Short waves," Lc., such with a of the present charge.

cluding sixteen new machines of wave length of less than 100 metres, Mr. Brooks said that in view of a fresh type. Squadron air drill, may be used with advantage only those circumstances, he would ten-carried out by wireless telephony during the night, but at this time der a plea of guilty, and ask for a orders being given by the they allow of messages with only lenient penalty.

Squadron Leader from his a small fraction of power of what machine in the air or from a wire is required by long waves and their less ground station, will be one of extension is much larger. There the features of the display-is a regular short wave service be- tween Herlin and. Buenos Ayres, British Wireless: i

but it may be used only during some hours of the night. The apparatus used for such services must be very selectivo and specially built. The short wave station installed on the 8. Berlin worked with n | length of 52 metres and required 50 watts, while the normal appara- tus of the vessel works with a wave

D. 4.

HONGKONG IMPORTS.

PIECE GOODS MARKET

IMPORTS.

The fortnightly Price Current and Market Report published by the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, states:

THIRTEEN HOAXED.

PROCESSION OF UNWANTED

MOTORCARS.

wave

A practical joker has hoaxed 13 length of 2,000-2,400 metres and people at Streatham:-a major and requires 250 watts. Both appara- Cotton Piece Goods and Cotton his wife; nine chauffeurs; a gas-tus worked together and the loud- ness was continually observed in Fancy Goods-A slight improve fitter and a grocer.

Norddeich with corresponding re- ceiving sets. Messages were sent from Germany not only from Nord- deich with 68 metres, but also from Bremerhaven, Nauen and Berlin. During the passage, which took 10 days, communication in both direc

"Spot" 9.45d.

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Entertainments.

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UNITED ARTISTS

present

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TO-DAY at 5.15 and 9.15 JANE NOVAK and

GASTON GLASS

in

"THE DANGER SIGNAL"

DANGERI DARINGI ALL FOR LOVE,

"SUNLIT TOWNS?:

MR. LLOYD GEORGE ON HIS LAND POLICY.

ment in local conditions has taken While a birthday party was being place with more enquiry for various held at the house of Major and Mrs. kinds of Spring Fancies but in White, in Hill House-road, a car small quantities. Fairly large sales drove up, and the chauffeur an of Brocades at very low prices are nounced that he had been instruct reported and further amall lots of ea by telephone to call to take six cold Stripe Taffetas and Prints people to the theatre. have been accepted. Deliveries

In quick succession eight other tions was possible during the day

in any land under the sun. All are poor. Prices for both sorts of luxurious cars drove up, and later up to the sixth day with the long

you want is a system which will raw material show a slight decline came a gas fitter to mend a leak wave sets, but only to the fourth day with short wave Beta. At night since we last reported. Liverpool in the gas pipe.

onable you to develop the fe- quotations of the 17th inst. being:

sources He had hardly been dismissed connection in both directions was

that Providence has placed at your disposal bere. Eg. Sakel. 16. 50d. Mid. Amer, when a bottle of whisky and a sy held with long wave apparatus up phon of soda water were de- to the eighth day, but with short

For 40 years I have realized that the land question was of vast im Cotton Yarn-A fair amount of livered by a local grocer, who said waves up to the arrival in New York Receiving from Nauen,

Mr. Lloyd George, summing up business has been done in spot and he received instructions by tele- with Its powerful, station, could his land proposals in à speech in Portance to the, strength, to the security, and to the prosperity of Neither Major nor Mrs. White naturally be held during the whole London, said:"Men want a pro the nation. During those years some demand for selected chops. had given any orders, and the name that short wave transmission is are without hope. You want sun not less The population is f

voyage. The trials have thus shown spect and a hope, and our villages has become more urgent and Quotations are purely nominal and purpose of the joker remain a absolutely superior during night light in the towns and hope in the creasing, our dependence on for- No. 109. $140/160. No. 12 mystery.

This form of joke is becoming timed in the next few months when villages, and that is the land pro- eign lands for our food is becom 20s, $160/185. Arrivals 100 bales, fashionable in Streatham. A do atmospheric disturbances will be of he said, entered into all our social of our own soll is going down year blem. The question of the land, ing accentuated. The production Shipments Nil. Sales 8,000 balestor, an ambulance and fire engine,

greater influence..... Unsold stocks 7,200 bales. Bar all ordered by telephone, recently

and economic problems. It con- gains 2,900 bales.

drove up to the house of a lady

The first trials for sending wea-cerned such questions as housing, year. What was wanted in Woollens.--Market quiet.

vision and foresight. Our pre- in Valley-rond, and on another other charts were made by the the, health of the people, employ-dealing with the land was a little Raw Cotton. No business ension seven undertakers received Deutsche Seewarte with the assist-ment, the security of our shore sent system was antiquated, and instructions to call at a Streatham ance of the Debeg Company on it entered into the question of food was not adapted to modern timer. Metals-Market dull very little house,

April 10. The system applied was and even of trade and our finan- The business of all men and that invented by Prof. Dr. Dieck cial balances. Of the population of

forward at a decline of $2 to $8 per phone.. bale. Market closes steady, with

$165/165. No. 16s. $170/175. No..

report.

doing.

Flour Market.-Stocks: About 100,000. Market: Firm. Quotations: -American Patent, $4.25 per

time. The trials will be con

Millions of persons got excited mann for transmitting pictures. this country over 10 per cent. were women, whatever their party, was over the eclipse of the sun; and The picture sending apparatus was living in conditions which were to see that the fulness of the land, now astronomers in Germany have fixed in the building of the Deutsche officially recognized as overcrowd- which was the gift of the Lord, anck; American Straight, $3.40 P discovered a star 10,000,000 times Seewarte and was connected with ed. In Birmingham, one of the should be distributed fairly sack; American Cut off, $3.40 per as bright and the Havard Obser- the Norddeich sending set by a re greatest cities in the Empire among His children. sack Shanghai Flour, $3.15 pervatory. confirms the discovery, gular telegraph wire. The picture people lived in houses classified as sack; Australian No. 1, $3.50 per Dur: whole solar system shrank receiving apparatus was standing unhealthy. Of London's food, sack; Canadian Cut-off, $3.00

Hisuk.

per

Sugar-Market very dull. Saltpetre. Very little improve ment since last report.

Into relative insignificance when near the sending apparatus in the four-fifths came from overseas. A bold advertising policy was it was learned that Betelgeuse, at Deutsche Seewarte on the same We purchased £400,000,000 worth of vital interest to seaside resorts the shoulder of Orion,, had a table, so that petual direct control of food from across the ocean like Hastings, said Mr. G. R. But- diameter equal to thrice the dis was possible. The result proved which could be produced in this terworth, at the annual meeting of tance between the Earth and the the absolute reliability of the sys-country. We had the largest mar the Borough Association. He Sun. Nevertheless, human nature tem. A normal weather chart wasket in the world for food, and yet pleaded for an extension of this does not intend to be depressed transmitted within 4 minutes. we produced only half of what we policy, since it brought prosperity The Empress of Canada leaves by the discrepancy between its The receiving apparatus has now could produce if we used the soll to the town and contributed very Yokohama to-day at 8 p.m. and is customary scale of measurement beon Installed on board the Ham of this country if the unemploy materially to the reduction of due here on the 28th instant. Wing Woo Street

and colestial infinity, and clections bufg American Liners. Westphalie ed were engaged on the Innd there rites. Mr. Hopton Hadle TEL. 25 Control.

will continue to be held and mon This steamer will have sent a would be a ready market for their president Society of Adver The weather forecast up to noon will run for ofice even though ther chart twice a day from the produce. We have capital with ment Consultants, said community tomorrow is:Southerly winds, many a heavenly body outshines Deutsche Seewarte via Norddeich which to develop it, he added. advertising was of vital imp moderate; generally overcast, the speck of star-dust that is our and this chart will embrace, the We have about the best self in tance to the different hesit

Europe and as good workmen as seaside resorts of the coi

HARDWARE MERCHANTS:

PHONE CENTRAL No. 1116.

Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at Land 3, Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.

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portion of the univorsa,

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