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TAXIS DE LUXE,

FIFTY SALOON CARS FOR HONGKONG.

Five senter saloon motor care, being operated as a taxi service will shortly be in competition with the taxis which are now running Ip Hongkong, according to a state ment made by a representative of a new company which has just been formed.

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The new concern is known as the Hongkong and Shanghai Taxicab Company and has an office on the second floor. of St. George's Building, The managing director is Mr. Shen Kwong-ho.

The Company in a private one, its capital of about $100,000 having been subscribod locally by Chinese merchants.

The Company promises travel de luxe as it has placed a large order for 16.9 horse power Morria- Oxford saloon cars. These will not be changed in any way except for the addition of a taximeler,. Special taxi cab bodies will not be fitted, but the new taxis will have the same appearance as un ordinary private saloon car. The Compuny believes ∙that' this arrangement will go far to ensure the aurceas of its venture,

FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1928.

CHINA'S TREATIES.

THE MOON'S COURSE.

FULL TEXT OF AMERICAN NOTE.

WILL PASS JUPITER IN A FEW DAYS.

New

READY TO BEGIN.

Washington. July 25. The United States Government has agreed to the propiaal by the Chinese Nationalist authorities to negotiate a new Commercial Trenty with China.

The proposed new Treaty will grant China full autonomy in rea- pect of Customs and tariffs, and will stipulato adequate protection of Americans in China and equal treatment of Americans with other nationalities.-Reuter's American Serpice.

Text of tho Note,

Shanghai, July 26. The following is the text of the Note from Mr. Kellogg to CT. Wang:

with great rapidity during the past Events in Chins have moved few months. The American Govern observe them with deep and sym-} ment and people have continued to

pathetic interest:

Last night the moon was Henr|| Libra, (the Balancos), do-night fit|| will bo near Scorpidis and to |morrow night near Saturn. It is interesting to notice the course among the ears taken by the moon. In a few days' time it will be near Júpiter after midnight and then pass near Mars.

Mars has passed Jupiter and in a fortnight will pass -near the Pleiades (the Seven Sisters) and, then near the Bull (the Ilyades).

The Twins are rising a little bel fore 6 o'clock.

The Pleiades are the Chinese) constellation (Minu), the Hyndes are Pat and the Twins are the Well-Contributed..

of

delegates for the purpose

ment of the United States to instructed to request the Govern- Treaty negotiation, and that he is

likewise appoint delegates for that purpose,

"The goodwill of the United Minister to China made a trip and the American Government "Early in the year the American States toward China is proverbial through the Yangtze Valley re- and people welcome every advance gion and while in Shanghal ex-made by the Chinese in the direc changed, on March 30, 1928, with tion of unity, pence and progress. the Minister of Foreign Affairs of We do not believe in interference the Nationalist Government, Notes in their internal affairs.

We ask

Ready to Begin.

"With a deep realisation of the nature of the tremendous difficul-

First Shipment Next Month, in settlement of the unfortunate of them only that which we look Nanking Incident of March 24, fer from every nation with whom The car is, of course, well 1927. "In pursuance of the terms we maintala friendly fotercourse, known in Hongkong and is one of therein agreed upon a Sino-Ameri- specifically proper and adequate the well-known Morris range. The joint commission has been en-protection of American citizens. order for the cars has been put trusted with the appraisal of the their property, and their "lawful} through the local agents, the long damages suffered by American na- rights, and in general treatment in kong Hotel Garage, and the first tionals during that occurrenes. no way discriminatory, as.com- shipment of ten cars is due to

"On January 27, 1927, I made a pared witli treatment accorded ta arrive in Hongkong about the mid-statement of the position of the the. Interests of nationals of any dle of next month.

Unilod States toward China, other country, Of particularly attractive ap-whereto I have often subsequen1ly pearance, with pleasing lines and had occasion to refer in re-affirma- well blended proportions the tlon of the position of this Go- Morris Oxford saloon is the all-vernment. weather counterpart of the tour- "I stated therein that the Unitedtica confronting the Chinese na- ing car of the same power. States was then and, from the mo- tion, I am Impelled to affirm my be possessing an equal ability ofment of the negotiations of the lef that a new and unifled China going anywhere where four Washington Treaty, had been pre-is in,process of emerging from the The roomy body, pared to enter into negotiations chaos of civil war which has dis- deeply uphelstered, given the with any government in China, or tressed that country for many maximum of comfort, while the delegates who could represent or years. Certainly this is the hope four wide doors provide for easy speak for China, not only for put of the people of the United States. ingress and egress. Blinds are ting into force the surtaxes of Atted to the windows and the car the Washington Treaty but for conviction that the welfare of all is excellently finished everywhere. restoring to China complete tariff peoples concerned will be promot- Only the taxi-maler will indicate autonomy.

ed by the creation In China of à that it is not an ordinary private

responsible authority, which will Watchful Waiting. car. The large windows will

undertake to speak to and for the "Ever since, the American Go-hatlon, I am happy now to state provide a free current of air during the summer while the new vernment has watched with increns that the American Government is taxis will be especially comforting interest the development point. ready to begin at once; through the ing toward the co-ordination of American Minister to China, nego- the different factions in China tiation with properly accredited re- and the establishment of a go- preaentatives whom the Nationalist vernment wherewith the United Government may appoint, in re States could enter into negotia-ference to the tariff provisions of tions.

the Treaties between the United

wheels can go.

able in winter time.

The Sume Fares.

Fifty of them will be put on the streets of Hongkong. After the first shipment batches of ten cars will arrive each month until the full order has been completed. The cars will be painted a ereams colour and will be distinguished by a red line.

build its own

carried out.

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"As in carnest of the bollof and

merce Reuter.

"Informed through press despat-States and China with a view to ches and through official reports, concluding a new Treaty, wherein which from time to time have bean it may be expected that full ex- released to the Press, the Ameri-pression will be given reciprocally to can people also have observed with the principle of national tariff au- enger interest these developments. tonomy, and to the principle that the commerce. of cach of In a Note addressed by the the contracting parties shall enjoy At the moment the Company does not intend to put any of the American Minister to China to the in the parts and. territory of the curs into service in owls. It Minister of Foreign Affairs of the is likely that the Company will Nationalist Government at Nan-other, treatment in no way dis- criminatory as compared with the garage where the king on March 30 of the present treatment accorded to the com-

of any other country.- cars will be stored and repairs seur, in reply to a suggestion of he latter concerning the revision of existing treaties, reference wat made to the sympathy felt by the Government and people of the United States with the desire of die Chinese people to develop a sound, national life of their own, and to reuse their aspiration for a sovereignty as far as possible unrestricted by obligations of ex- ceptional character; and it was stated that the American Go- vernment looked forward to the hope that there might be developed an administration, so far presentative of the Chinese people, as to be capable of assuring the actual fulfilment of any obliga one which Calna would of neces- ity have for its part to assume, incidentally to the re-adjustment of Trenty obligations.

The fares will be the same as those charged by the existing taxi company, with the exception that five passengers will be carried In the saloon eara. Officluls of the Company state that the necessary licence has been granted by the Palice authorities. When the business has been fully establish- ed in Hongkong the company will undertake a similar venture in Shanghai,

Middlesex County Council has decided against a proposal for the amalgamation of Edgware and tendon, and agreed that Edgware should be added to Wealdstone.

Visitors to the British Museum last year totalled 1,154,566, or more than in any recent year except 1924, the first year of the Wem- bley Exhibition.

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