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HOTELS.

THE

HONGKONG.

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL. Telegraphic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG. AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAI,"

HOTELS.

· LIMITED.,

In association with the Grand Hotel

Des Wagons Lits, Peking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms, newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and; Cold Water, also Telephone.

All Trams pass in front of Hotel.

Most Moderate Rates in the Colony,

Hotel launch meets all steamers.

Dining Room and Lounge now open to the Public.

($25 for thirty Tiffin Tickets can be had at the Oce of the above Hotel).

TEA DANCES

MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS

"

Tel. Add. Victoria.

5 to 7 p.m.

Telephone C.878, J. H. WITCHELL,

Manager,

HOTEL SAVOY

Comfort, Convenience and Distinction,

HOTEL METROPOLE HOTEL BOA VISTA.

22, Ico House Street.

MACRO.

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KOWLOON

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KOWLOON

A FIRST CLASS HOTEL WITH ALL MODERN CONVENIENCES.

High Class Cuisine and Table Appointments. Wonderful view of the Harbour and Peak, and five minutes from the Ferry, Wharves and Station.

Drawing Room, Saloon Bar and Billiard Room.

Very moderate rates

on applicatioa to-

H. J. WHITE,

Tel. Nos. K608 & K609, Cables, KOWLOTEL,'

Hongkong..

PALACE HOTEL.·

Manager.

Tel. Kowloon No. 8

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(Continued from Page 1.)

NOVEMBER 10, 1927.

SHANGHAI RIOTERS

ARRESTED. «

the

MOR OF 300 ATTACKS MEDICINE, SHOP.

Thirty-five Chinese last Friday were under arrest at the Shanghai

small-sized riot an, the previous Public Safety Bureau, Great East Gate, Shanghai following day outside the West Gate, when a mob of more than 300 persona charged a Chinese shop, smashed the furnishings of the place, damaged stocks and created a great deal of confusion, during which the place was looted.

Thus it comes about that A Chinese tram conductor who foreign banks in China are com pelled-not through the "unequal knocked down and injured the arm Treaties," to which, of course, the on Robinson Road on the 26th day cial influence, but through the of an eight-years-old Chinese boyNationallats ascribe foreign finan- of the 7th moon was fined $50 and chaos which characterizes the ordered to pay compensation in the sum of $80 at the Provisional country's financial as well as its political affairs-to keep stores Court in Shanghai, last Friday.

A grim feature of the case was of syrce and to issue notes of their the production, by the father of Total imports of silver into the boy, of the injured arm of the Shanghai in the form of bars in latter, which had to be amputated. 1926 were 71,929, about 70 per The father brought this to Court, cent. of which were imported by

British banks, the approximate The mob, it is asserted, consist- unwrapped it from a piece of paper and held it up for the Court's in- total of their note issues in China ed of employees of other chemist (including Hongkong) Being shops. The shop attacked is the apection na proof of the serious'

£7,590,000.

Liu Shou Dong Medicine Shop. nature of his son's injuries.

made... to were If to-morrow The accused, Tsen Siau-doing,

the unequal Attempts

proprietor of the aged 28, was represented during Treaties" were abolished and all sault the

Was prevented the proceedings by Mr. H. N. Muir, the foreign banks in Shanghai shop but this

timely arrival of Chin- of the Shanghai Electric Construc-disappeared, leaving the field clear by the tion Company Ltd., (Shanghai for the native banks, there would ere police. The assault Tramwaya) who, at the be no reliable notes on the market, shop, it is believed, is the result of the owner of the shop not living there would be. asked for the because last hearing, dismissal of the Case as the guarantee of any cover for them, up to promises alleged to have been made to employees last April, complainant had three times while trade would be left with- failed to appear when the case was out any secure basis in the form Following the arrival of the set down for hearing: The Judge, of reliable silver supplies avail-police the mob turned on them and Mr. Wan, however, remanded the able when wanted. That is being for a time there was a lively bat- case and through the Chinese City illustrated at the present time tle, the police using their batons authorities located the complain when, in consequence of the freely while some of the mob arm- ant and produced him in time for embargo, it has been found neces-ed themselves with sticks and yesterday's final hearing.

sary, to ship silver to Tientsin in a British gunboat.

Shanghai Sycee.

до

An extremely important element, in this reliability, which the foreign, banks help to maintain, i is the honesty of Shanghai sycee. Sycee, as explained above, is the term given to silver in ingot form, the form differing in different

ag-

on the

other weapons. Seven constables are reported to have received alight injuries, while more than 3 score of members of the mob were bruis J.

NOT ONLY COTTON WANTED.

Evidence for the prosecution showed that while the tram-car, a raillesa one, was proceeding along Robinson Road about the time the cotton mills in the vicinity were discharging their female employees at the close of the day's work, the conductor was standing upon the step of the car, playfully smacking girls whom the car passed.

In doing so, he accidentally knocked down the small boy who parts of the country. In Shanghai SOVIET INTRIGUE IN EGYPT. was on his way to buy some veget-weighing close on 50 tacls, each ables for his father and carried a tael containing 624.93 grains of howl for the purpose. He fell to fine silver. The production of a sent

ingots are in the shape of shoes,

Cairo, Nov. 9, The Ministry of the Interior has communication to the

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the ground and the back wheel of shoe is the result of a highly skill-American Legation pointing out the car pasted over his arm.

The conductor denied this story, ed operation performed in what that Seminouk, one of the Russian to the onlooker seems a very { cotton delegates, who ig a saying that the car was proceed.

American, having ing slowly, but with the gate shut rudimentary manner, under the naturalised

of

institution failed to carry out the under- worked in the vicinity to corro-public office, but free from Govern propaganda, is considered an un As the Kung. Ko Chu, a taking to refrain from Bolshevik borate his story,

and he produced a barber who

The court found him guilty in spite of this and passed the above sentence.

SEAMEN REPLY TO THE T.U.C.

supervision

known

an

desirable, and should be requested to leave the country-Reuter.

ment control, at which anybody In possession of sycee can have its fineness tested and guaranteed The Soviet delegates arrived in at the cost of two tael cents a Egypt a few weeks ago, 'allegedly shoe. Sycee bearing this institu- on a purely commercial mission, tion's "chop" and stated by it to and have bought large quantities be silver of a certain fineness, of cotton for shipment to Russin. contains precisely that amount of

silver, no more and no less. The

REFUSAL TO BE BULLIED.

| Kung Ku Chu is not in any forminl A lecture will be given by Major sense controlled by the foreign F. C. Roberts, V.C., D.S.O., O.B.E., London, Nov. 9. banks, but their watchfulness and M.C., at Volunteer Headquarters The annual conference of the precision help to keep it up to the at 5.30 pm on Monday next, when National Union of Seamen has mark, and as it works inside the the subject. will be Modern unanimously approved. of

the International Settlement it enjoys training. A discussion of modern executive's reply to the Trade the protection which foreign ideas on Training for War with Union Congress ultimatum of banks themselves enjoy.

remarks on points brought out October 26, demanding that the Unitin eense to support the non-

during last year's home- vres and Staff exercises, etc., will political miners' anion.

be held in connexion with a sug- gosted training programme for the Volunteers whilst in camp,

Banks and Trade,

mancu-

The story of British banking in The reply stated that the T.U.C. Shanghai goes back to 1518, when is a tainted body, and declares the Oriental Banking Corporation, that the Union is oily seeking to now defunct, opened a

brunch. protect the modernte, sensible of the existing banks the oldest According to the Natal Mercury, miners' leaders from dismissal. is the Mercantile Bank, which the Union Government has conclud It will continue this policy until "opened in Shanghai in 1854. In ei an agreement with Imperial

it has the assurance of the T.U.C. 1858 the Mercantile Bank of India Airways, limited, for the erection

comfortable police station in the From 1894 to 1915 the branch was reacy, should be known and un-

pearance of

derstood. Consideration of Chin- ese affairs has tended to centre

that the moderates will have the was incorporated under Royal of an airship mooring-mast in the Tall protection of the Congress.Charter as the Chartered Mer vicinity of Tongaat, 10 miles from Reuter.

cantile Bank of India, London and Durban, where an aerodrome is to What is believed to be the most the Mercantile Bank of India, Ltd.

China, à title charged in 1893 to be established.

world was opened at Snow Hill, E.C., by the Lord Mayor, Sir Row-run as an agency in the offices of und Blades. M.P. It is the new Meaars. Jardine, Matheson and headquarters of. B Division City Co., Ltd., reopening as a branch round the effects on our trade of Police, Architecturally, both in- in the latter year. The Charter-boycott to the exclusion of the side and out, it presents the ap-ed Bank of India, Australia and consequences of allowing the Chi- well-to-do club. China, opened in Shanghai in nese to jockey" us out of the to sound There is a cosy little charge-room, 1857, the longkong and Shanghai safeguards essential where the prisoner and his captor. Banking Corporation in 1864, and dom from Government interfer- Among these are free- can have a chat with the station the F. and O. Banking Corporation ence of the processes whereby bar officer, and a large room, called in 1920. the accommodation rell, which will In 1865, when the first balance-silver is converted into sycee--the hold a dozen or

more persons. sheet of the Hongkong and Shang-sheet anchor" as the late Mr. This room is so arranged that it hai Banking Corporation

Stephen described it, of the mons can be partitioned off to ensure published, China's total. foreign etary position in Shanghai (a privacy for any of the prisoners import trade was valued at Hk. who may desire it. Even "drunks" Tis. 81,100,000, or (at Ilk. Tis. 3, have been thought of, and for them the average rate of exchange that a cell with a patent removable year) £28,050,000. Of this. total wooden floor on which they can fall Shanghai's importations without hurting themselves has valued at about £11,000,000. and amenability of our banks to been provided.

A cat burglar had n narrow

escape from being caught

red-

WAR

were

finance.

freedom which would disappear if the Chinese were given in the in- ternational settlement the powers which they have been given in the ex-British concession at Hankow),

In 1926 (the "1926 figures are British and not to Chinese laws. not yet, available) China's total Let either of these safeguards be import trade was valued at Hk. removed and our losses will be Tix. 985,000,000, or about £168,388..far greater than those inflicted on handed at Camden Holt, Chisle-000, Shanghai's importations being us by boycott. Some day, every- hurst, when, by the merest chance, valued at Hk. Tls. 431,887,000; or body hopes, the Chinese will have he did not enter an upstairs room about £76,340,000.

a decent Government and a reli- in which were a nurse and a dog. Neither 'was disturbed, though he

The total of bills receivable and able currency. stole £500 worth of jewellery from discounted in 1926 by the four the adjoining rooms.

British banks doing business in Shanghal was over £100,000,000, a At present they have neither, large proportion of this total re-and until they have it is absolute- HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW? [presenting business done in that ly essential that our banks should

The following are the replies to to-day's questions:-

port.

An Important Point,

Present Protection.

continue to enjoy the protection which extraterritoriality - and foreign administration of Shang- While there is no occasion to hai gives them. In saying this one Short. 2. Moaleo City,, 3, John Gay (198s-labour what these figures plainly is not thinking only of the pres- Ancient corporation dating from 151 having be fully appreciated without reali- foreign 1732) Scotland Division of Liverpool 5. tell, their significance would not perity of the banks and of the commercial concerns

1. Bir Willam Joynson Hleks, Hz. Arthur Henderson: Mr. W. C. Bridzeman, Mr. Edward

supervision over pilotage round British consis

Greenwich Observatory, was founded. 7. In

anil aver lighthoused and lightshins. 6. (3)zation of the fact that the part which they have helped to create, Cle Frank Dyson. (b) Dates from 1876, when played by modern Chinese banks and with which their own pros- painting, a night-piece, or paining exin China's foreign trade is, as yet, perity is bound up, one is think- hibiting some of the characteristic effects of small.

ing also of China's, prosperity. night-Ught. In mult, a composition, em- bodying the dreamy sentiments, appropriate Some 23 are members of the Her trade, her railways, her grow

Chinese

to the night. 6; Famous Bettiah Jocker (1857-

1880), who headed the Ust of winning jockey

Bankera"

Association, ing industrial concerns, all these

frem 1870 to 1885. . (a) Exempli grata but the foreign trade they finance are the fruits of Sino-foreign, and

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