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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

EVEN THE MOST PERISHABLE FOODS

REMAIN FRESH

in

Frigidaire

REFRIGERATING EQUIPMENT.

COMPLETE

INDEPENDENCE

OF

OUTSIDE

ICE SUPPLY

WHICH ONE

NJ

FOR

YOU

?

Frigidaire

OF GENERAL MOTORS

sole distrIBUTORS:

OUR

REPRESENTATIVE

WILL BE PLEASED

TO CALL ON YOU

PAT YOUR

CONVENIENCE

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

Phone

1080

Machinery Dept.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL

LIGHTS AND SHADOWS.

GERMAN ECONOMY IN THE YEAR 1927.

CAR RECOVERED.

PRACTICAL JOKE ON THE 'OWNER.

1928,

The reported theft of motor

Viewed from an economic angle, the year 1927 has been the most favourable since the war. Industrial car No. 705 belonging to Captain production

a Evers from his residence. In marked increase. The coal output, Stubbs' Road proved to be no more for instance, up to the end of

has experienced

November totalled 104.4 million than a practical Joke played on tons in the corresponding parfod of the car-owner.

the previous year. Iron and steel

have also been produced in aug. It will be recalled that a report mented quantities, the figures hav-was made to the polica by Captain ing increased from 9.0 ml, and Evers to the effect that on Fri- 12.3 mill. In the year 1926 to 13.1 day night at 10.30 p.m, he left his mill, and 16.8 mill in 1927.* car outside his house in Stubbs

In general there has been a Road and on emerging from the satisfactory, development in the house half an hour the carnings of Industrial enterprizes had mysteriously disappeared.||

It now transpires that a garage

The improvement in the economic eituation is best reflected in the un- employment returns.. At the middle received a Lolephone message of January, 1927, the number of land was instructed to tow away out-of-works figured 2,000,000; by a car which had broken down in the middle of October they had been Stubbs Road. Men were accord- reduced to 442,000, followed, it is ingly sent to Stubbs Road and the true, 'by an increase reaching to 1 car outside Captain Evers resi- dence was removed in due course: million at the turn of the year.

[J

DISESTABLISHMENT.

NO STATE RELIGION IN

TURKEY.

Constantinople, Apr. 10.

Agriculture also showed some im--hence its mysterious disappear- provement. The crops of bread-lance. grain amounted to 10,250,000 toña comparing with about 9,000,000 tons In 1926. A further indication of the general betterment la' to be found in the continued rise of wages and in a certain risc of the price curve such as commonly ́ac- companies an improvement in trade. The foreign-trade returns-name- ly imports valuing 14.1 milliard R. M. and exports 10.2 miliarda- reveal the fact that the improve- ment in the economic situation is duc mainly to a better home market. Angora There was truly, an increase in ex-proved the bill, separating Church ports; thus, the monthly average in and State.-Reuter. 1925 was 733 mill, R. M., in 1920 [In a message dated the, 6th, 815 mill. and in 1927 802 mill.; this action was forecast, as the still, this ratio of increase is small motion to that effect was support- as compared with the general curve ed by 120 deputies. The result. of the modificatians will be that Islam will no longer be the State: religion, and that the Deputies. and President of the Republic will no longer take the customary oath

of trade.

Weak Point.

But this is just the weak point in German economy. Exports have

The National Assembly at

has unanimouslly

op-

not revived in the degree requisite in the name of Allah, but on their

to meet the circumstances in which honour.]

the country is placed. Even now

they are still 25 per cent. behind

of

the pre-war figures, while the im- in the press of various countries ports have already surpassed those during the closing weeks of the 1914. Germany cannot even year has been watched with calm pay for her importa with the in Germany. People are agreed amount of her exports; how then here that the amount of the Re- is she to pay off her Reparation parations must be definitively fix- burden? The adverse balance ined in order that German economy her trade had to be met last year may know the burden which it has by borrowing abroad. While, how to hear. The decisive factor in ever, to cover its requirements, the matter is the curve of the ex- German economy will remain deports, which, for the moment at pendent to a large extent upon im-any rate, does not suggest the ported foreign capital, there are feasibility of any considerable pay- evidences of slow but stendy pro-menta. Even in the relatively gress in the accumulation of home favourable year 1927, tho batic funds. The importation of foreign | problem of German economy re- exchange in 1927 may be computed mained unsolved, namely, how to at about 44 miliard marks. find adequate markets for the pro- ducts of an industry whose capacity has been essentially extended:

The lively discussion concerning the Dawes Plan which took place

TOES THAT TELL THE TALE

OF THE TIMES

"A Household Necessity"

MILKMAI

TED MILK

MILKMAID

EVAPORATED MILK

ASAHI BEER

taceSpl Brewed for Export

DAI NIPPON BREWERY Co., Ltd. TOKOI, JAPAN

Solo Agents?

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD.

HONGKONG.

EUCHARISTIC

CONGRESS

SYDNEY

September 6th-9th.

WHEN MEN FIRST WALKED – "THEIR SHOES, DIDN'T HAVES

ANY TOLS A'TALL!

NEXT

AHD

-TALY TIRHED UP THE TOES FOUND THEM SO MUCH MORE COMFORTABLES THAT" SOME MANY STILL

WEAR THEM-

THEN THEY WENT

TO THE OTHER EXTREMENT

AND BUILT DES ON THEIR SHOLS THAT WERE

*FAR IN ADVANCE

Preserve and decorate the Woodwork of your House

with

TIMBORITE

WOOD PRESERVATIVE AND STAIN COMBINED

IN

THREE SHADES OF BROWN

Dry Rot Decay land

STOPS Destruction by White Ants

Tint Cards and Information from

Agents

8. C. LAY & CO. Alexandra Building Telophone 0,763,

WILKINSON, HEYWOOD & CLARK,

Shanghai,

Hongkong.

For Particulars Apply:

Thos. Cook & Son, Ltd.

Pedder Building,

HONGKONG.

MONÉV GLANCA IN THE OLD, FAMILY ALBUM

"REVEALS THE "RAKISH ; "UPUFTED TOUS ON THE

NIFTY NINETTES

WAND THEN FOLLOWED CIES (PEAU "Brimmel of T Val-Doe DIS:~ IN THE <DAYS WHEN DAD STEPPED

OUT-

WHICH DRINGS US UP TO

"NOW!AK

WHEN MEN ARE ON THE QUARE

EVEN TO THE MPG" OF THEIR TOES-

P. T. FARRELL

Consulting Engineer & Manufacturers Representative

Agencies for

Bolinder's Crude Oil Engines Marino, Stationary and Lighting.

**WYANDOTTE. Boller Cleaner and Cleanser.

King Building, Top Floor,

Telophons Ontral. 4422. Telegraphic, Address

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PHONE CENTRAL No. 1116,

Wing Woo street TEL: Central 25

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