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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

CHINA CREDIT REVIEWED

FINANCIAL NEWS COMMENT

BONDS POPULAR

IN BRITAIN

London Nov. 20.

The following extract in from the Financial News of November 14:

All Chinese loans, both secured and unsecured, ara a good market. with prices on the up-grade. We aummarise below some points re- Inting to a special class known as the Chinese Salt Tax issues,,

"As announced recently, the service of the Chinese 4% per cent. Gold Loan, 1908, has been brought up-to-date by the repay- ment of the drawn bonds out-

notice standing. Formni

bas been published that these bonds can now be surrendered against intercat payment, plus accrued

(08. 10 per £100 bond and 18. 4% per £20 bond, less tax), at the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, 9, Gracechurch Street, London, E. C. The, China 41⁄2 per cent. 1908 loan is the first charge upon the salt revenue. There now only remains about £1,000,000 of the issue outstand- ing, and in view of the current high price-the bonds are chang- ing hands round 98--investors are turning their uttention towards the other loans 45f similar but! lower, grade of security.

SECOND CHARGE

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1934.

SEQUIN BLOUSE

Favoured for Winter Evening Wear

ON BLACK VELVET

Glittering acquîn blouses arc popular for evening wcar. This madri was compared en- tirely of gold sequins, and won worn with a' skirt of black reivel.

•

'ALL ABOUT TINNED GOODS

WHEN baying tinned goods, see that the tins are not dented,

PHILIPPINES NORMAL YEAR ·

HEAVY LOSSES FROM TYPHOON

DEATHS TOTAL NEARLY 300

Manila, P. I., Dec. 17.

F2017.

198 16.

CHRISTMAS RECORDS

CHRISTMAS MEMORIES.

CHRISTMAS FANTASY. Pipa Organ.

19820.

SILENT NIGHT.

HOLY NICHT.

20246.

O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL.

JOY TO THE WORLD,

New Empire Orch.

Mark Andrews.

Victor Salon Orch.

Trinity Choir.

20993, CHRISTMAS BELLS. GOOD KING WENCESLAS. DECK THE HALL, WE THREE KINGS.

35788.

The year 1934 in the Philippines 35767. was not дл "unusual" weather year in the opinion of Father 35787. Miguel Selgo, director of the Philippino weather bureau, des- pito a dozen typhoons and several depressions which directly affect- ed the archipelago, taking a toll of yearly 300 lives and causing millions of dollars in damages to crops and property.

35946.

F2639.

The Philippine summer, with the #2640. thermometer ranging from around

80 to 95 degrees in the shade was "mild" and "tempered" with early F2641. raina, interfering somewhat with the completion of the Tenth Far Eastern Championship Gamea,

Rainfall throughout the Philip pines, up to Armistice Day, was 20 Inches above that of 1933, and approximately 12 inches above normal. The year 1934 however, Father Selga says, can not be con- sidered an "unuяnal" year.

Father Selga's long-tabled pleas for more appropriate methods of informing the public of approach- ing typhoons received sympathetic attention after the disastrous. Leas tyhoon of October 16. than a month later (November 14) the approach of the typhoon which swept Samur, Leyte, Marin- duque, Mindore up the Pacific

"First attention is being paid to the 6 per cent. Loan 1912, which ar that they do, not bulge. If, const of Luzon from the southern. when pressed back, the tin rebounds provinces and across Luzon just ranks as the second charge upon at once, it shows that fermentation north of Manila into the China sen, the salt revenue. These bonds has taken place in the contents of was heralded at two-hour inter are in demand up to 81%. In the tin, which should be thrown vals through the sounding of the terest is paid to date both on the away, as the contents are no longer city's largest siren.

fit for eating. If the tins are Father Selga sald the year for drawn and undrawn bonds. The

rusty, it is not advisable to buy the Philippines, as far as crops drawing of the bonds has taken them, as ruat indientes age. Al were concerned, was a fair one. place regularly, but for the last ways empty the contents of a tin

seven years the principal money hus not been paid. Now that the China 1998 loan payments are up

RED CROSS AIDS

directly it is opened. Never your

The Red Cross, from November sugar on to the ment while in the tin. Store tinned goode in nj cool, dry place, and in the very hot, 1933 to November 30, 1934,

to date the programme of paying weather put them on lee or in very uff two years drawings per annum cold water before opening then, will no doubt be carried out.

As

the China 4% per cent, 1908 issue

will be redeemed by 1938 the CHINA KEY

China 5 per cent. 1912 loan will then become the first charge on the salt revenue. The loan that ranks as partial third charge, and earries the additional security of, rultway revenues is the "lukunng Railway & per cerit. Loan 1911. The position of the issue is follows:

115

furnished relief for over 400,000 persons, victims of storms, assist- ed by two $25,000 donations from the American Red Сгода ja Washington.

The disastrous typhoons of Octo ber 16 and November 15, however,

TO WORLD provided the greatest burdens on

FUTURE

BRITAIN RISKS PRESTIGE

EFFECTS OF LIQUOR

the coffers of the society owing to the enormous number of persons left homeless by the typhoons, both in Manila and throughout the archipelago-United Press.

a innd which had such vast un- developed resources as China' had. Sovietism was also making its big- gest efforts in China, because if it could win that country and make it Soviet it would dominate the world.

The ininence of China on the The great thing from Europe's world's future and the effect un point of view to-day was to try the Chinese of Britain's liquor to merit the admiration of the and

ANGELUS.

Tubular Chimes. W. Reitz.

Charles O'Connell.

MESSIAH. Pipe Organ. WHILE SHEPHERDS WATCHED.

IT CAME UPON THE MIDNIGHT CLEAR. Trinity Chair. CHRISTMAS HYMNS AND CAROLS. Pts. 1 & 2,

CHRISTMAS HYMNS AND CAROLS.

UNTO US A SON IS BORN.

O, COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL.

Pt. 3 & 4

Trinity Choir.

Trinity Choir.

St. Martin's Choral

Society. (Recorded at St. Martin-in-the Fields, London). IN DULCI JUBILO,

WHILE SHEPHERDS WATCHED THEIR FLOCKS.

St. Martin's Choral Society.

F2642.

THE CHERRY TREE CAROL THE CRIMSON SUN HAD SET,

COVENTRY CAROL. THE FIRST NOWELL.

St. Martin's Choral Society.

St. Martin's Choral Society.

F2659.

St. Martin's Choral Society.

WHILE SHEPHERDS - WATCHED. THEIR FLOCKS,

O, COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL.

TSANG FOOK PIANO CO.

9. Ice House Street

HONG KONG

OUR BRITISH

Across

3 Talking about bare, is what the

quick-luncher does there?

8 The How's especial pride

That spoils the countryside. 9 If that were the label on the decanter, it would convey the theaning.

10 Anything, but it sounds Light

ufler tea,

11 Famous composer.

12 One by one, so to speak.

13 This egg is just nothing.

16 Mingled tears.

is There's a note mistaid in this

Belgian town.

ing, but it's only a water pipe.

enclosure, but what, they mean Isn't clear. 24 In O.E., pin, I think.

of, Rupert,

"At present only one half-yearly empon is being paid per annum. The money for this payment comes from the Salt fiabelle, and nothing in as yet paid from the railway portion of the Boxer Indemnity, to complete the railway which will connect-Canton with Hankow, and forts a most important link in the Chinese railway system. should materially increase the traffic with that country formed Chinese people. The thing which 22 It sounds like Park tub-thump-

the subject of an address of the had lowered the prestige of the railway revenues. Drawings are still taking place but the prin-asgow branch of the National British Empire in China was the 23 Over a thousand in front of the

Commercial Temperance League al effect of strong drink among our elpal is not being paid. Taking

a luncheon held in the Gordon people in that country. It had into

that consideration

these Restaurant in Glasgow. The done more harm than anything else. honds at around their current) price of 40% carry with them six was the Rev. Dr. Arthur Our country was often blamed for 25 Amor that witnessed a detent

Scottish Secretary of the its part in the opium traffic, but 26 Boney-hearted clan. | years of arrears of interest, which China Inland Mission, and he was the gending of opium into Chinn 29 A British composer.

amounts to 30 per cent.. and introduced by Councillor James B.never did our Empire the harat 32 Benches. roughly 70 per cent of the capital Allan, president of the Glasgow that the sending in of drink had 3 Few and far between. value of the bond, and also the

done. The Chinese were a very 38 Nothing like it. fact that after 1938 they will be-j

Dr. Taylor said it was only a temperate people and did not want 37 They are sound when they re-

present yours. come a partial second charge on the salt tax, they appear to be a matter of time until China would strong drink. How were they go-

In the ing to maintain the reverence and Card twitching for acid, gond speculative security, with the develop and progress. possibilities of capital appreciation, cities China was moving forward respect for Britain? There were current yield IN about quickly. She was the key to the young men going to China EG. 108. per cent per annum world's future. If they studied the business and commercial purposes The drawn bonds of this issue are the great efforts Japan was makthey who were lowering the pres

Far East today they would realise who took liquor freely, and it was quoted round 40. Bonds of the German issue stand at 38, and the ing to get in and take what did tige of Britain to-day. His plea drawn bonds of this tranche at not belong to her and to exercise to that Temperance League was to about 37. These issues will of a dominating influence in China.. do all they could to see that strong course all share alike in any future Statesmen realised that the key to drink was not sent in wholesale

the future lay in the possession of quantities to China. payments of interest arrear

The

SALESMAN SAM

branch.

From Every Direction!

for

38 Varied detail.

10 As to an offence, it's requisite

is the fiddler.

Down

1 Spectacles permitting one lo

take nim.

2 Ita meaning is plain, but not in

Western Europe.

3 Special make, or short measure

in spirita.

4 Thackeray says the book of female this is blatted all over

with tears.

CROSSWORDS

51 Down, but spelt differently. -6-For-the-umpire to decide..

7 Taken by travellers and

efergy.

14 Guerdon (anug.).

16 African town.

16 Own without having.

17 Iulian composer.'

18 Hurry and scurry do.

the

19 Write a note so as to make up

for what you've done.

20 Unsettled, as it were.

21 Not belonging to you or me.

27 About ' couple to minke gooil.

28 This is a grave affair.

80 Hang about.

31 Egyptian goddess in 'n

"bun

(and after a collision possibly). tful-he sleeps

#2 "After life's

well" (Macboth).

33 Winding-up dancos?

34 I seem to connect her, name with

the song of the shirt.

Yesterday's Solution.

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