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LOSTA Brown Setter Bitch white breast and right fore foot. Return to William Russell, No. 10, Post Office Buliding.

FOR SALE.

FOR SALE -Two valuable tota central Western District and Queen's Rd. C., about 18.000 and 9.2 0 S. F.: valuations approx. 8402.000. each. We buy corner building in central district also house with tennis court. SMALL INVESTOR'S., Tel.. 0.4630,

PREMISES TO LET

TO LET One European FLAT Wanchat. Gặp Road, Hongkong Apply to 82, Kennedy Road.

TO LET Office Rooms, 2nd Floor, New Hongkong Bank Building. Apply Sang Kee, same building.

TO LET AL Fanling, four-room ed furnished house with garden for ten months from March 1st 1927. Apply Box No. 142, care of "Hongkong Telegraph."

TO LETA three roomed Euro- pean FLAT on top floor of No. 14, Condult Road. Apply to H. M. H. Nemazeo.

COMMODIOUS OFFICES to let in No. 7, Queen's Road Central, also two small offices in 1A, Chater Road. Apply E. D. Sassoon and Company, Ltd.,

TO LET-European house, 4 VICTORIA VIEW, KOWLOON, three minutes from ferry, near New Kowloon Hotel. Vacant

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

NOTICE

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Tho Exchange Banks, will be closed for the transaction of Pub- lie Business on Monday, the 3rd of January, 1927.

NOTICE.

We have to-day admitted Mr. Michael Howard Turner as a part

ner in our Firm,

DEACONS. Hongkong, 1st January, 1987.

NOTICE.

We beg to announce that we have been appointed by the Her- cules Cycle & Motor Co., Ltd., Birmingham, as their Solo Agents for Hongkong and South China for their famous Hercules Bleye

les.

J. GIBBS & CO., Bank of Canton Building,

1st floor. Hongkong, 1st January, 1927,

NOTICE..

I hereby give notice that as from the first day of January, 1927, Mr. W. T. Stanton will join me in partnership in the business' of a Merchant, Commission Agent and Broker in Flour which has hitherto been carried on by me) alone under the name of "L. Dun; bar."

The business will in future be carried on by us under. the name of "L. Dunbar & Co.,,.

L DUNBAR.

Dated December 31st, 1926.

HONGKONG BOXING

ASSOCIATION,

FOURTH TOURNAMENT OF

THE SEASON,

SATURDAY, 8th January, at

9.15 p.m. at the

THEATRE ROYAL,

MAIN EVRENTS. Stoker Norman Morris H.M.B.

"Hermes"

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January 1st Apply Tung Tak"A. B. Bromley H.M.S. "Wishart" Co., China Building, 6th floor.

COMMODIOUS Ground Floors of Nos. 15, 16 & 17, Connaught Road Cand Firat Floor of No. 16. Next P. and O. Bldg. Suitable for shipping offices. Apply S. K Trust Ltd. 29, Connaught Road C.

ΤΟ LET Fully furnished HOUSE on upper levels, close to motor road. Long or short lensa. Immediate possession or available In March. Write Box No. 184, care of “Hongkong Telegraph,"

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

From STRAITS, COLOMBO, AUSTRALIA, HOMBAY, EGYPT KEDITERRÁNEAN FORTS and

LONDON.

Through Bill of Lading Issued for Batavia, Persian Gulf Contin- sutal, American and South Afri can Ports. The Steamship,.

2.

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“NYANAZA,”. Capt. LM. Gordon, RN.R. carrying His Majesty's Malls, will be despatched from this port on or about Wednesday, 5th January, 1927, at Noon taking Passengers and Cargo, for the above Ports.

Silk, Valuables and Tea for Italy, France and London (underar- rangement) will be transhipped at Bombay into the Mail Steamer pro ceeding direct te -Marseilles and

London

Parcels will be received at this office until 6 p.m. the day before sailing. The contents and value of all packages must be declared, For further particulars, apply

to

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & COMPANY,

Agents. Hongkong, Dec. 31st, 1926,

THE INTERNATIONAL RACE AND RECREATION CLUB OF

MAÇÃO LIMITED."

MACAO,

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Inaugural Race Meeting for China ponies.of this Club will tako place at Macno on the 6th February, 1927, next, if weather permits. Thore will be only one event at this Meeting, "The Trial Stakes."

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The frat annual Spring Meeting for China ponies is scheduled to take place on the 16th, 17th, 18th and 24th April, 1927. The Cham- pion Sweepstake will be run on the 18th April, the Brd. day of the Meeting.

By Order,

8. W. CHENG,

Secretary.

Major Alvaro de Castro, the for- er High Commissioner of Mozam- bique and twice Prime Minister of Portugal, is lying seriously ill in the Fort of Elvas, where he has been confined as a political prison er.Dr Domingos Pereira-a-for- mer Prime Minister of Foreign Affairs, is also seriously ill.

BOOKING at MOUTRIES. Members 5th and 6th January, General Public 7th and 8th... January.

USUAL PRICES.

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NOTICE.

BERBLINGER & COMPANY.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that as on and from the 31st day of December, 1926, the partnership between A. Berblinger and F. Feld

TO LET-Furnished February, who heretofore carried on business 1927, a good four roomed house at Canton and Hongkong as with boxroom and servants' quar- Enginerrs, Contractors and tors. Modern conveniences. Ap- General Merchants under the ply 5, Observatory Villas Obser- style of Berblinger & Co. has been vatory Road, Kowloon.

NOTICE.

PIECE-GOODS GUILD AND SUNDRIES GOODS GUILD.

Notices hereby given that, arising out of a communication re scelved from the Compradores As- sociation intimating that, as from Zat Junuary, 1927, a compradore's commission of 1% shall be charged for all goods, whether contracted to arrive" or sold from "Spot cargo jalut meetings of the un- darsigned have been held to die- cuss the matter. As a result, It has been resolved and decided that,

dissolved by mutual agreement and that the assets and liabilities of the aforesaid 'business have been assigned to F. Feld who 'will continue to carry on the anid business at the same places as heretofore an sole owner under th style or name of "F. Feld” and also under the former Chinese Hong Name of Bo Be Young Hang.

BERBLINGER & CO."

And

F. FELD.

Canton, Januhry 1, 1927.'

CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN &

MORTAGE CO., LTD.

NOTICE is hereby given that

for all future orders for purchase, the TRANSFER BOOKS of the of goods, only the usual % com- Company will be CLOSED. from pradore's commission will be paid, Friday, December 31st, 1926, until as hitherto, and no increase what-Monday, January 3rd, 1927, both ever will be recognised. Apart days inclusivo. from notifying the Compradore As. sociation of our above-mentioned resolution, tals advertisement is nserted in order to give the mat

public notleg. PIECE HOODS CUILD AND

SUNDRIES GÖQDS GUILD.

cong, Decembar 28, 1926, Hongkong,

Before You Advertiso COUNT THE TELEGRAPHS" On The Kowloon Forry,

SHEWAN TOMES & CO.,

General Managers. Hongkong Dec: 22nd., 1926.

CHINA AUCTION ROOMS.

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SPIES OF THE CUSTOMS.

HOW SMUGGLERS GET CAUGHT

MYSTERIOUS PHOTOGRAPH;

"SPIRITS" IN CHURCH OF

JOAN OF ARC

What is the significancer of an A revival of smuggling on an ex extraordinary "spirit photograph," tensivo scalo by American travel at present in the possession of the lors returning from Europe.Is Church Army, which shows Lady causing the customs officials at Palmer, the wife of Sir Samuel New York and other terminal Ernest Palmer, standing beneath a points to become unusually wary Union Jack in the Basilica of Joần Hays a New York correspondent to of Arc, at Domremy? the Evening Standard. eg] Lady Palmer was the moving Unprecedented diligence, is no-spirit in the prescutation of the ticeable on the piers, and annoy-British flag to this church, and sho ing incidents when people wrongly was alone, but for a woman com- suspected are subjected to search panion, who took the photograph, have been increasing of late.

intho church. Yet, by her alde, Ond woman, a mid-western in the photograph, appear two school teacher, who recently ar- "spirit figures" of prieste in full rived from France, was taken investments, who were undoubtedly hand by a female inspector, and not visible to the naked eye. compelled to disrobe entirely, Lady Palmer, telling her story Nothing was found on her beyond to a press representative recently, what she had declared.

said that she and a friend visited. The officials wore apologetic, but Domremy last year, and made a during the proceeding the unfor- pilgrimage to the Basilica, – a tunate woman fainted twice, and shrine to the honour of Joan of would have a good case for "moral | Are.It is filled with paintings. de-T and health damage" if it were pos-picting scenes in her life, and is sible to take action against the not yet complete. Government, which it is not.

Such Incidents are extreme cases, and oro due to wrong identi- fications.

Ju the chapel beneath the main alale of the church," she said, "we found an American fing hanging; on the wall exactly opposite was. In this case, although the cus-an empty Iron clasp evidently tords authorities said nothing, it waiting for a flag. We asked per-" is quite certain that a tip" was mission to procure a British -fing received from one of the many to hang there, and it was granted spies which the Government,em to us. When we returned, to ploys on commission basis in England we ordered a silk Union Europe, but was applied to the Jack, on the clasp of which was wrong person. The real smuggler written, With England's Homago. got through, apparently, unsus- pected:

Absolutely Alone.

"I took the flag down to Fulham ↑ In Europe.

Falace," she continued, where it Every shop in Europe, which was blessed by the Bishop of Lon- does un extensive trade with don. Prebendary Carlile, of the Americans, has- among its clerks Church Army prevailed upon American customs sples. They Marshal Foch, who was in Lonodn aro bona fide clerks who mow at the time, to sign it, and Lord that the Washington Government Haig did the same." pays to those who lodge informa tion about smugglers a percentage of the fines collected.

Some of these clerks sell goods

This took place in June of last- year; in October Lady Palmer her.. self went to Domromy and sho and a friend, Miss Townsend, en-

to a customer and the same day re-tered the chapel again. port their sales to American Trea- sury agents abroad..

"She had a little old camera with her," said Lady Palmer, "and took a snapshot of me, giving it a few minutes exposure. We were absolutely alone.

Best of the smuggled goods found at the American ports are discovered, without recourse to "Later on I wrote and asked her drastic searching to the skin. what had become of the photo- The smuggling is done by griph. She sent it on to me, with- amateurs, travellers who hope to out any word. I wrote back, "make a good trade" by saving the pointing out that we had been 50 to 80 per cent. duty payable on alone at the time, and that thoro their foreign purchasea, but who had been no prieste thero; and sho when verbally examined, usually acquiesced. But the pricats are become nervous and reveal the there, for all the world to see. A Havana Correspondent states The population of Australia was goods.

They seem to me to resemble that President Machado has pro- increased by 12,801-by-immigra- These verbal examinations oc- those in one of the pictures in the mised to study the advisability of tion during the quarter ended Sep-cur whenever the customs inspec-Basilica. It shows Joan, crown- Ilmiting the coming Cuban sugar tember 30. Of these immigrants tors have their suspicions aroused. ing the Dauphin; and it is my It is not always tips from abroad opinion that, as the French sold crop, and general opinion is that 85 per cent. werd British.

that make a traveller suspect.

Saint Joan to us for ten thousand he will sign a decree making the

pounds, and as we burnt her, the maximum 4,500,000 tons.

crime lies upon us both."

Not A Fake

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非

A Suspect

The River Clyde, the yeasèl which was run ashore at the Gal-

It is announced that two impor lipoli landing, has been discharg

tant exhibitions to demonstrate ing coal at Beckton: Gas Works,

manufacturing powers of A member of a rich American The temperance poll at Rothesay the It is now owned by a Spanish firm,

The negative of the picture was has been renamed the Angela, and resulted as follow: No change, Great Britain will be held in Mel- family returning this summer was

wearing a light overcoat, although, submitted to Mr. Richard Speaight," is engaged in bringing coal to 1.972; no licence, 1,366; limitation, bourne and Sydney about a year suspected because he came ashore Britain from America.

the day was very warm. v

the Court photographer, who He was put to the verbal test examined it with his acute pro- and out of the pocket of his over-fessional eye, and stated that the coat.came a number of articles picture was undoubtedly not a bought. in Europe, but not men-fake. ¿

30.

hence.

EXHIBITION

of

PEARLS

at

KOMOR & KOMOR

CHATER ROAD

Mr. KODAKA, thanking for kind patronage, begs in inform that

SATURDAY, the 8th instant.

1.

will be the last day of showing the delightful collection

of mounted PEARLS and invites you for an early call at

KOMOR & KOMOR

ART AND CURIO EXPERTS, St. George's Building.

list,

tioned in his, customs declaration "I have an entirely open mind, towards spirit-photography," he Bulging pockets also arouse the said, "but, on examining the film, curiosity, not only of the offaials I can definitely say that the figures who go through a traveller's lugwhich appear beside Lady Palmer gage, but also of the inspectors at have not been produced by a pre- the exits of the picra, who give the vious exposure of the plate. This homecoming Americans a final can be proved by the fact that the piercing glance as they pass line of the rail, on which Lady through into the land of freedom. Palmer is resting, appears quite The next inspectors quickly paas clear in front of the figures. -- their hands over pockets which "One explanation of how these seem abnormally filled, and they figures, could have appeared, is detain the victim if anything hard, that a priest or priests came quiet- like a bottle, appears to be withinly out of the confessional box. for it is the private bootlegger, The whiteness of their robes bringing home s quart of so of would be sufficient to give the exe. non-poisonous, stuff for his own posure of them in the plate. use who is so carefully watched for.

Trinkets.

Indeed, the increase of boot Jogging throughout the United States is held responsible for the increase in smuggling among travellers.

For many years customs faw has allowed American residents to bring into the country foreign purchases to the value of $100 (£20) duty free. -

This amount was adequate be fore the war to allow the purchase of enough small gifts to meet the To buy liquor from a smuggler average. homecomer's require is not considered an offence by ments. the average American, despite the

Prohibition law;

Right To Smuggle.

From this beginning many. But it has not been raised with Amoricans have come to regard the general increase in prices all smuggling as no more than since the war venial, if one can "get away with So many Americans conelder they have a right to smuggle in

So purchases of trinkets, cloth moderation, in order to ing, jewels, and the like, made dur, the difference, by the simple ex- Ing a European trip are no longer pedient of under-valuing pur- declared with the honesty of forchases,

mer times. They are smuggled The customs inspectorsin whenever the chance is considered general are lenient in these cases good

when the travellera do not overdo Iba

Blany Americans consider the United States Government la lar. gely to blame for the smuggling in small amounts that is so gener- al among travellers.

But, emboldened by this, the tourists usually get out of bounds the next trip, and then the hand of the law heavily descends