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THE

HONGKONG

WEDNESDAY JUNE

THE

BLUE FUNNEL

LINE

REGULAR AND FAST | PASSENGER SERVICES |

FREIGHT AND

LONDON SERVICE

AMTENUR & Jans, for Marseilles, Loution, Rotterdam

...

& Glasgow MENELAUS sxits 12 June for Ostatisknes, London, Botterdam, Hamburg & Bull LIVERPOOL SERVICE

CAGAPENON ‘skils 27 June NEW YORK SERVICE

for 'Geuna, Havre, Liverpool &

Bromborough

LHEXENOR anila 18 June for Boston, N. Y., Philadelphin, Baltimore, Muntreal via Manila, Etraits & Rugs

PACIFIC SERVICE (vin Kobe, Nugnya & Yokohamn}

IXION

axils 20 Jane for Vielaria, Vancouver & Seattle

INWARD SERVICE

MENESTHEUS Due 5 Juny

MARON

ATXIUN

CALOUAN

Due 12 June

Due 14 June

Due 17 June

From U. K. via Straits From New York vín Manila Frum Pacino vin dupan & S'hai Brom H. R. via, Straits

Sporishly reduced turel'arà quoted for cargo steaiders with

liilet passenger accommodation.

For freight, wenge rates and information apply 19

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Agents. 1. Connaught Rand, C.

Tel. 30331,

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DR. LTD

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Port Said, Marseillen, Algiers, Oran, Rotterdam (Amsterdam), Hamburg, Oslo, Gothenburg and other Scandinavian Ports. via

Outwards for:

Manlin and Straits Settlements

M.V. "NAGARA"

Passenger Rates:

M.V. "TAMARÁ"

M.V. “PEIPING"

3rd July. 3rd August

SHANGHAI & JAPAN PORTS,

M.V. "PEIPING"

20th Juno 19th July

$18

£55

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Hong Kong to Mediterranean

Hong Kong to Rotterdam

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Hongkong.

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For Shanghai

SAILINGS 1935. -

For Singapore, Colombo, Bombay, Suez, Port-Said, Brindisi, Venice, (London by rail) & Triesto. 4th July. 8. "CONTE VERDE" 9th June. se. "CONTE ROSSO"

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SERIAL STORY

The DARK BLOND

& CARLETON KENDRAKE

CHAPTER XXXVI

there would be but little traffic behind the desk with world-weary through it and fow pedestrians.

Millicent know the man'a type. Millicent stared at the man walking

With any sort of reasonable luck, wide sho

the Sho down" the corridor, her eyes

enough for

stared at kim haughtify and seemed safe with startled comprehension as she moment. It was getting out of the sald, "Lot my noo your register,

real please." recognised him.

building which presented the

He handed her the book and sho dificulty. She dareil not return to not the For adveral seconds tho did

third floor, nor did she dare looked back through the pages un- realise that the unequal illumination to descend to the lobby. She was til she found the name under which of the corridor made it virtually trapped between the floors and would she had registered and the room impossible for him to see her. Only have to wait there until ome op number that had been nesigned to when he paused before the doorway nortunity for escape presented itself. her. Then she closed the register of the apartment she had just loft

She turned the suitcase over on and said, "What rooms have did Millicent fully appreciate that Richard Gentry was coming to the its side, used it as a seat, crossed vacant, please?"-

tucked her skirt about What sort of a room would you them, placed

"I tell you when I see what you ond waited.

some minutes she heard the invo vacant. After thud of feet as two men laboriously climbed the stairs. One of them was talking and, while she could not catch what was said, she recognised Dick Gentry's voice, and could tell that ho

apartment, upon some errand in con- fier ankle, her elbows on her knees want?”

nection with these stolen books. account.

of

Gentry paused at the door, started to fit a key into it, then, apparently changing his mind, he raised his right hand, knocked twice, paused, knocked twice more, repeated these two knock after an interval, then gave one last knock.

and

"By the day, week, or month?" "That will depend."

you

Ho handed ler a chart. Millicent saw that the room she wanted was vacant, but she pointed to another room and said, "What's the price on

"A dollar seventy-five."

was both angry and frighten to this by the night?"

The

pair climbed up the third floor. She waited anxious- return. Millicent, watching, saw that he ly, but did not hear then did not wait for an answer but, The shadows lengthened, a coolness following the knock, immediately filled the air. Millicent felt cramped fitted a key to the door and entered and

and weary.

That

Ilad the two men romained in the the apartment.

It was at that moment that Mill-apartment on the third floor or had cent suddenly realised her predica they returned by way of the elevator? ment. Gentry was undoubtedly go- She had no means of knowing, and ing after those books. He would realised that she never could know discover that they were missing and without exposing herself to danger. it would be but a matter of seconds untli

tli he dashed out to the corridor. theft of the suitenan aware of

books. containing those precious Perhaps he would make for the ele vator but it won far aore likely that, in his haste to descend, he would dash down the corridor toward the

Carrying the suitense, she descended the stairs. The lobby was deserted. staira.

Millicent snatched up the suitense she crossed to the door, tugged it such was her excitement that she open and her heart gave a wild tear

and

She picked up the suitcase, pushed It through the window to the cor- rider, stood latening for a moment but heard nothing except the distant rumble of traffic and the pounding of her own pulse in her cars.

She frowned, slid her Anger, down" until it rested on the room she want- cd.

This room?" she asked "That," he said, “will be $1.50.“ "I'll take it," she told him, opened tho her purse, slid a bill across counter, wrote in the register. "Miss Millicent Jones," and safil, "Will you please have a boy bring up my suit-

banged the palm of his hand down on a bell and yelled, "Front." emerged A sleepy looking bellboy from an elevator, sized Stillicent up with insolent eyes, and picked up her suitcase and the key which the clerk im, Millicent pocketed her handled him, change, followed the bellboy to her rum, handed him a

ever took

was entirely unconscious of its weight as a cruising cab driver, seeing her and locked the dealt tip. closed as she sped

down the stairs. Sho struggling with the door and the the precaution of drawing the shades. had started down the last flight lead- heavy suitense, alid his car to the Then she went to the place where fashed her an inquiring she had concealed the notebook in ing to the fewer floor when she curb

which she had written bringold's suddenly realised that she would be

his dictation. The notebook was still At her nod he slammed on the lobby of the trapped between apartment house and the sidewalk, brakes, jumped across the intervening there. held Enck by the weight of the suit

case.

It would be impossible for her to walk as much as a block with that heavy weight. Thero was, of course, ♫ chance that some cruising cab would stop by and pick her ap as soon as sho gained the sidewalk, but there greater chance that Richard Gentry would overtake her at the curb if he didn't catch her in the lobby.

was a far

ariel

glance.

the

Millicent took the mtebook, dropped

trotch of sidewalk, picked up it into the sultense and faced herself

suitcase, and said, "Where to alls?"

Site had no particular destin the mirror. She now had every bit of valuable evidence in the ease in She dared not go back to Happ's house. She remembered the her possession. She and the short- name of the cheap hotel where she hand notebook which had caused Bob had spent the night which followed Calse so much concern, the books of the account which had been stolen, the Dringold's murder. She gave cabby the name of the hotel and note in Bols Caise's handwriting which n a hurry, Please make definitely linked him with the woman added, "I'm in

black erruing cunt. the it as fast as

you

"What a The cab lurched into motion and!

I would be," she a prize Millicent, flashing a glance back at mattered. "Anyone who captured mo the apartment house, saw a cabriolet now would have

caac. swing around the corner and glide to evidence in the very shred of Her meditations were interrupted a stop at the curb.

by the ringing of the telephone.

Millicent stäred at it with a feeling

can.

There was no time to balance the probabilities. She had to think and Act fast. A window opened onto the fire, cecape and she lung the suitcase

She saw Bob Calso jump fron over the sill down to the steel-barred platform and followed it, almost the car almost before it had come to before the suitcase had thudded to a stop.

Millicent settled back in the grating

She had barely gained the platform cushions, too frightened to look back and adjusted her skirts about her again, fearful thut Bob Caise would ankles when she heard the sound of see her and start in pursuit.

staircase. feet thudding down the Sho turned toward the corridor and saw Richard Gentry dashing past,

rapidly. running

He shot paat the window and she heard the bang of his feet on the lower stairway as he ran down toward the lobby.

Millicent looked below her and saw

The cab awung inte o main artery of traffic and Millicent, suddenly realising that she was a fugitive from leaned back in the corner of Justice, the cab so that her face would be in- curious visible to traflle utilcers or pedestrians.

The cab rounded a corner to the to the curb left, pulled in close

of panic. The stendy, insistent ring- ing of that telephane bell seemed to indicate that she had been discovered. Slowly she crossed to it and took the receiver from the hook.

The voice which came over the wire was that of the clerk at the desk. "Miss Jones," he said, there's gentleman hero to see you."

4

know "I don't want to see him. I no ond in the city. There's some mistake."

"The gentleman," the clerk sald, the bellboy a tip and is on his "gave way up. I'm just letting you know." an alloyway, shaded and gloomy, piled The driver jerked the door

the sidewalk, Millicent gripped the telephone with garbage cans, boxes, barrels, helped Millicent to broken packing cases, and other bits carried her suitcase into the hotel receiver, wondering what to do. As of rubbish. She felt certain that, She rewarded him with a generous she wondered, imperative knuckles

as occasional truck tip and met the cynical appraisal of pounded against the door. while perhaps might rumble through the alleyway, the clerk who

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE

LÅTEST SHARE QUOTATIONS

The following quotations on London Stock Exelange have been received by Messrs. Swan, Culbertson and Fritz in conjunction with Reater.)

June 3. June 4. Dritish Government Securities

War Loan 3%

redut after 1952 £1053% £106

Chinese Bonds

445 Bonds 1898

open,

(To Be Continued).

atared at her from

Austin Motors ord

xb.

61/3

51/-

Boots 6/ s.....

4873

48/414

British-American

Tobacco

122/6

122/6

Canadian Celanese

907-

01/3

(Bearer)

Chinese Eng. and

17/-

17/-

Courtaulds

57/9

58/1014

Distillers

94/5

the

Dunlop Rubber Electric

Industrica General

(England).... Hawker Aircraft upl. Chem Ind. Impl. Chem Ind. Def. 10/sh...

4473

44/10

Musical

26/3

26/-

Electric

55/9

55/6

29/6

20/6

· Mercantile Bank C., £181⁄21⁄2 n.

26/3

35/6

Impl. Tabacco

8/0 13673

130/8

Internat. Nickel

a

no par vai..... ftolis Royce £1

$ 28% $ 28%

*1.

156/3

165/7

Shai. Elec. Constr.

48/-

-487-

Canton Ins., $203 n.

£102%

Tate & Lyle

83/G

83/9

Union Ins., $335 sa.

Turner & Newall

50-/

5078

China Underwriters, 70 cts. n.

£.00

United Steel

28/10

28/9

China Fire, $382 n.”

£80

Vickers ord

13/- 187-

Watney, Combe &

H.K, Fire Ins., $200 n. Internat'l Assce., 'Sh.

£ 984 £86.

Reld def. ord.. Woolworths

71/6 112/-

11/0 112/3

5% Shni-Nanking

Itty,

Miscellaneous

£ 8 ly xdf 51 xửi

Anglo-Dutch Gula Kalumpong

+ 23/9

23/7

£1

5 Tiest.-Pukow

£ 27

£27

Pekin Synd. 2/-

ord ah Rubber Trusts ..

Rubber **** 23/3

23/0

.2/-

31/3

2/m 9173

5 S'hni-1'chow-

Minca

Ningpo Rly. £102

Redeemed

5% Honan Rly... £ 30

£ 30

5% Hukaang Rly.

Burma Corpn. Rs.

10. 9/9

0/9

Common wealth

1011

£ 48

£ 48

Mining

11/1% 11-

5% Lang Tsing U.

Hal. Ry. 1013.. £ 18%

.Foreign Banda and Banks German 7% Int.

Randfontein

£ 18

Eutates

Spaarwater

Mining

Spring Mines

54/-

04/3

Gold

7-

£ 61%

£ BOY

Sub-Nigel Rhokana Corpn

45/7 45/7 271/3 271/3 105/- 105/--

Oile

(Eng. 1ss.).... £102 4% Loan 1908, £ 99 6% Loan 1912 ... £ 86 6% Reorg. Loan

1913 (Ldn. Iss.) £97 5% Bonds 1926-47 £ 95

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HK$255.00 vla Shanghai-Kobe-Nagoya-Shimidzu Good for Three monthe-Final return limit-October 31st.

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& SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL;

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In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Puking

Penang

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In and always has

been absolutely

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mi is eminently

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CALDBECK MACGREGOR & CO., LTD. The leading Wine & Spirit Merchants in the Far East.

£ 6144, Loan 1924. Japan 5% Storling

Lorn 1907、、 £ 82% Japan 0% Sterling

Loan 1024 £ 96% £ 954 H.K. & S'hal Bk.

£124% (Lan. Regd.)... £125 Chartered Bank £5

sh.

£ 14% £ 14% Commercial and Industrial Allied Iron Found-

Associated Elec

Industries

43/9 43/0

28/44 28/0

Anglo-Persian Burma Oil..... Shell Trans and Trad (Bearer}

O, K. Bazaars

63/14 03/14

80173 80/-

71/104 72/0 21/0

Three cases of Diphtheria, and ΟΠΟ case each of Typhold and Meningitis, were reported to the local Health authorities during the three I days ending on Monday.

SHARE PRICES

The following is the list of local share quotations issued this morning:-

Banks..

H.K. Banks, $1018 sa. '

11.K. Bank Lon. Reg), £1243⁄41⁄4 ». Chartered Bank, £141⁄4 n.

Mercantile Bank, A and B.

£31 n.

East Asia Bank, $81 a.

Amt: O. Finance Corp., Sh. China 0. Flan. Ord. Sh China O. Fin. Pref, Sh.

Insurances.

Shipping.

Douglas, $80 b. xd. II.K. Steamboats, $4 n. Indo-Chinas, (Prof.), $80 n. Indo-Chinas (Def.) $38 n. Shell (Bearer), 72/8 n. Union Waterbonts, $11 n.

Alining.

Antamoks, 08 cts. n.. Balatocs, $34 n.

Baguio Gold, 21 cts. n. Benguet Consolidated $10 n. Benguet Exp., 10 cta. n. Benguet Goldfeld; 10 ete. n. Big Wedge, 8 ela. n. Gold Creek, 30 eta.'n. Gold River 7 cts. n. Ipo Mining, 85 cts, n.. Itogons, 30 cta, Ba.

Salacot, 12 cta. n. Kallan, 17/- n.

Langkats (Single), $14 n. S'hai Explorations, Sh. $4% n. S'hai Loans, Sh. $0 n.

Ráubs, 36.15 n.

Venz: Goldfield, $5 n.

Docks etc.

H.K. Wharves Cum. rts. $82 8. H.K. Wharvos, Ex-rights, $81

8.

Runnymede Hotel

-Malaya's Premier Hotel

also under the same management THE CRAG HOTEL Penang Hill

(A health station) CABLES "RUNNYMEDE” RUNNYMEDE HOTEL, LTD.

H.K. Wharves, Rights, $4 s. H.K. Docks, $91⁄2 n. Providents (old), 75 cts. b. Providents (new), 20 cta. ne Hongkews (old), Sh. $2871 n. New Engineerings, Sh, $5 n. Shanghai Docks, Sh. $110 n. Cotton bills.

Ewo Cottons, Sh. $8.30 n. S'hai Coltons (old), Sh. $70. n.j

xd.

S'hai Cottons (new), Sh. $43 n.

xd.

Zoong Sings, $81⁄2 n.

Wing On Textiles, Sh, $55 n. Lands, Hotels, etc.

H. and S. Hotels, $415 n. H.K. Lande 391. b. "H.K. "Land

4%

dobontures,

$100 n. S'hai Lands, Sh. $20% n. Metropolitan Lands, Sh. $10 n. Humphreys, $8 b.

H.K. Realties $3.80-b. Aala Renitica "A" Sh Asia Realties "B" Sh. Chinose Estates, $90 n. China Realties, Sh. $7 n. China Debentures, $123 n.

Public Utfiles. H.K. Tramways, $18 Peak Trams, (old), $8% n. Peak Trams, (new), 80 n. Star Forries, $771⁄2.n. Yaumati Ferries, (old); $20 n. China Lights, $8.20 by H.K. Electric, 863 h,

b.

Macao Electric, 23 n. Sandakan Lights, $5 8, Telephone (old), $19% b Telephona (now). $8% n. China Buses. Sh, $111⁄2 n. Singapore Tractions, 10/6 b. Singapore Pref. 22/0 b.

Industrials Malabon Sugars, $8.50' n. Cald: Macg. (old), Sh. $191⁄2 n. Cold: Macg. (Pref.), Sh. $18 n. Canton Ices, $1.80 n. Cement (Converted), $5 Bi H.K. Ropes, $2.

Stores, &c. Dairy Farm, $13.10 b. Watson, $8.50 n. Lane Crawfords, $8 'n. Mackintoshs, $9 n.

·Sinceres," $8 n. Wm. Powells, 70 cts. n. Wing On (H.K.) $100 n.

Miscellaneou... Amusements, $1.85 m. H.K. Entertainments, $6.40 a 8. C. Enterprise $1.85 n. Macao "Greyhounds," $2 n. Constructiona (old), $1.40 Constructions (now), 45 cts, ni Vibro Piling, $5 nj

Ch. Govt. 5% 1925 G. $ Bonda

'02% *

H.K. Govt..4% Loan 5% prema

b

H.K. Govt. 24 % Loan 2% prem,

Wallace Harpers 38 #..

Agents, Catton-

Messrs DODWELL & CO. LTD, Shameon.

GC Tient. Pukow

Rly.... £ 31

Railway (Supl. Loan