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HONGKONG AND BHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

Authorised Capital

..... $50,000,00

Issued and Fully Fold-up.... $20,000,000. Reserve Funds

Sterling

0,500,000

longkong Currency Reserve $10,000,000 Reserva Liability of Proprietors $20,000 300

HEAD OFFICE:--HONGKONG,

BOARD OF DIRECTORS:--

7. E. Pearce, Esq.. Chairman.

iton, Mr. J. J. Paterson.

Deputy Chaltenan,

J. K. Bouxfeld, Esq.

A. 11. Compton. Es

J. 1. Moon, Est.

ci, tinkin, Est.

Hon. Mr. H. 11. Dodwell K. S. Morrison, Eng M.T. Johnson, H. Hon. Mr. A. L. Brioide

AMUY

D. C. Edmondstań, Erg.

Acting Chief Moninger.

BANGIÇOK

BATAVIA

TOMBAY

CALCUTTA

CANTON

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CULOMHO

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SAN FRANCISCO

NJIANGHAI

SINGAPORE SOURABAYA

HUNGEI PATANI

SWATOW

TIENTHIN

TOKYO

TSINGTAO

YOKONAIA

Current Accounts opened in Local Gur rency and Fixed Deposits received tur periods in Local one your or shorter

and other everencien on terins which will be quoted on application,

ALSO up to date SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES in various sites TU LET.

Hongkong, 2nd May, 1930.

HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.

The Juustueas of the above Dahk is conducted by the Hongkong and Shong hol Banking Corporation. Rules may be ohaiged on appitention. FOR THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CONPORATION,

D, C, EDMONDSTON,

Acting Chief Manager,

Hongkong 2nd May, 1930

The P. & O. Banking Corporation, Ltd.

(Incorporated in England, 1920).

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Subscribed and Paid-uga

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100,000

READ OFFICE: 117-122. Leadenhall Street, London, EC.3. WEST END HRANCH: 14-16, Cockspur Sireet, London, S.W.1. BRANCHES:-Bombay, Calcutta, Calt Hongkong Coimbatore, cul Madros Pullacht, Shanghal, Singapore.

Agencies: all the principal towns of the world.

news

Colomin

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1938.

By Paul F

HOW IT BEGAN Berdanier

WAGE AND Hour

LEGISLATION

IN 1349 ENGLISH FEUDAL LAWI, FIXED WORKERS' WAGES AND HOURS, WHICH WERE FROM SUN-UP TO SUN-DOWN. IN 1860 A LAW WAS PASSED WHICH IMPRISONED LABORERS WHO STAYED AWAY FROM WORK WITH~~ OUT PERMISSION AND BRANDED THEM ON THE FOREHEAD — FIRST ATTEMPT AT WAGE AND HOUR LEGISLATION.

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA.

Incorporated by Royal Charter 1853 HEAD OFFICE:-LONDON, 38 Bishopsgate F.C.I. Pald-up Capital

£3,000,000 Reserve Liability of Proprietors $3,000,000 $3,000,000 Hearve Fund

MANCHESTER DRANCH

11 Masicy St., Manchester.

AGENCIES AND BRANCHEN;

General Exchange and Banking bust.

overdraft Alor Star transacted. Lorna and

Current Amritsar Kranted un approved security.

Bangkok and Fixed Deposit accounts opened,

SAVINGS ACCOUNTS IN LOCAL CUB atevia RENCY-Interest allowed nl rates which Bombay insy he attained un application.

STERLING SAVINGS ACCOUNTS:-Con interent allowed at rates witch may be oblained on application,

Ipoh

Plaatto

Karachi

Calcutta

Klank Kolic Kuala

1.copter Kuching Madras Manita

Medan New York

I'riping

Harbin

Cawnpore Cebu TRAVELLERS LETTERS OF CREDIT, Colombo

PAS- Delhi TRAVELLERS CHEQUES AND SENGER LETTERS OF CREDFT (for Iaiphong on board F. & O, and B. I. Steamers and Hamburg at Ports of Call) are issued at current ankow rate of exchange and free of commission. TRAVELLERS EXTERS AMERICAN CHEQUES sold and rashed.

Rish Income Tax Recovered. Executorships and Trusteeslips under-

G. H. DELL,

Manager,

taken.

Hongkong, 20th March 1930,

HEGEMONY GOAL OF JAPANESE

Litvinov Denounces Aggression

Moscow, June 25,

Bolgan Seremban

Shanghal

Singapore

Sitiawan

Sourabnya

Taining

Tientat Телекан

Tsingtao

fihuketi

Yakobonsa

Zamboanga

(Peking) Petang! Hekong

Rangoon Foreign Exchange and General Bank Ing business transicled,

Current Accounts opened and Fixe Duponita received for one year or shorte periods nt rates which will be quoted appilention.

The Bank's Head Office in Lando undertakes Executor & Trustee businew and claims recovery of British Incora Tax overpaid, on forms which may be ascertained 01 any of Agencies & Branchen,

D. J. GILMORE.

Acting Manager. Hoogkont, lat June, 1935,

Manager.

THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED.

Authorised Capital Pald-up Capital Ieserve and Undivided

Fronts

HEAD OFFICE: HONGKONG IU, Des Voeux Itand, Central. BOARD OF DIRECTORS:-- Sir Shouron Chow, Chairman. LI Koon Chun, Eng. Fung Pins Wat. Esq. P. K. Kwok, Eaq, Li Lan Sang, Exg,

$10,000,000.00 $5,500,000.00

......... $2,770,720.50

Japan is trying to attain hegemony over Asia, declared M Litvínov, | Wong Yun Tong, Esq. Wong Chu Sơn, Esq. Commissar for Foreign Affairs, in a speech at Moscow.

Chang Chung Shek, Esq. Kan Ying io, Esq. KAN TONG 10, E1q, Chier Manager. LI THE FONG, Ɛiq, Menacer. BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:-- Melbourne Shanghai

Singapore Sourabaya Swntow Bydney Talinku

Having tested the factors opposed Amoy to her, he continued, and met with

from the Bumbay material resistance

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Balavia

Calcutta algnatories of the Washington Treaty. Canton Japan has unfolded her aggression Haiphong and "we are witnessing the liquida-Hankow tion of that treaty."

in

Nagasaki Now York Оздка

Paris

Peiping

Penang

Honolulu

Rabkoon

Kobe Kowloon

Salgon

Ban Francisco

that London

Manite

Sentilo

Semorang

declared M. Litvinov also Germany, without Aring a shot, had

trendy succeeded

annulling practically all the results for the salte of which the western Powers ind gone to war.

Tenisin Tokyo

Vancouvel

Yokohama

Every description of Banking and Ex-

BERDANER

BELLA-DONNA

THIS MEDICINAL HERB, MEMBER OF THE NIGHTSHADE FAMILY, WAS USED IN MEDIEVAL TIMES BY ITALIAN LADIES, AS A BEAUTY AID, TO TINT THE SKIN AND DILATE THE PUPILS OF THE EYES. HENCE THE NAME, FROM ITALIAN “BELLA”(BEAUTIFUL) AND "DONNA"(LADY).

THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William

SNAILS

BECAUSE OF

THER

ABILITY TO

UNDERGO

LONG FASTS, ARE TAKEN ALONG BY AFRICAN NATIVES ON SAFARI, AS A SOURCI

OF FRESH ROOD.

Ferguson

EACH YEAR,

IN THE MONTH OF

MAY,

A GROUP OF METEORS

FLASH THROUGH THE SKY..........

REMINDERS OF

HALLEYS,

COMET

THESE METEORS PORMED A PART OF THE TRAIN OF

HALLEYy's COMET WHEN IT CAME NEAR THE EARTH IN 1910...

AND THEY WERE LEFT BEHIND WHEN IT MOVED OFF INTO SPACE.

COPR. 1920 QY NEA BERVICE, INC.

STARTING AT THE

SOUTH POLE, A PERSON

CAN TRAVEL. ICO MILES NORTH, 100 MILESS EAST, AND 100 MILES SOUTH... AND FIND HIMSELF AT THE POLE AGAIN.

5+27

EACH tune a comet comes near the sun it loses a portion of its train, and this material never is recovered Whenever the earth passes through these wandering particles, they flash and burn out In the friction of our atmosphere.

HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

The total Expenditure in 1938 on behalf of

change, business transacted. Louna grant-sick and destitute children is estimated al ed on approved securities,

$27,000, against which the Income to date is Current Accounts opened in Local Cur- rency and Fixed Deposits received for $15,000 only.

one year or shorter periods in Locat and In order to continue its work, the Society Foreign Currencies on terms which will asks for the balance of be quoted on application.

Safe Deposit Boxes To Let.

BẢN TONG TO.

$12,000

Manager. before the close of the Anancial year on

weakened, compared to before the

He contended that the polley of non-resistance to on aggressor was further offensive. encouraging Germany was not content to restore pre-war frontiers and colonics, but was determined to capture strong vital positions, which belonged to

The past six years had seen the former allics of the Great War,

general liquidation of international Strategic positions of Britain and order, and the League of Nations had France in

Meditarrangun in become only a weak shadow, the Spain had already been considerably concluded.--Reuter.

war.

ALLEY OOP

ANRIGHT, OOP LISSEN, WUR-THERE'S (IF IT'S TROUBLE) ND REASON FOR. US

YOU WANT, THEN) HAVIN' TROUBLE, BUT

IF YOU KEEP IT'S TROUBLE YOU'LL GIT!

ON***

be

31st October.

Hon. Treasurers:

Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A.,

c/o Markdnnon Mackenzle & Co.,

P. & O. Building.

Mr. KWOK CHAN,

c/o The Banque de L'Indo Chine,

Ilongkong.

· YER MIGHTY WABLE

TGITCHER BLÅSTED

HEAD KNOCKED

OFF!

By Vincent Hamlin

BOOKS .. edited by ROGER PIPPETT

This One

May Shock You

Y

OU know what it's like to alt for hours in a stuffy, smoke-filled ratiway carriage and then, as the train files on through the dark- ness, to open the window and put your head out to the rush of clean right air?

First Things First, by Frank Tilsley (Michael Joseph, 10s. ed.), is like that; invigorating, vitalising. It is an uncommon book, in some ways a unique book For Mr. Tilsley an uncommon chap.

There is a snatch of autoblography in it, including an engaging reference to his until recent belief that Ibid was an ancient philosopher, probably contem- porary with Ovid. "I was always seclug him quoted at the bottom of pages."

There is quite a slice of philosophy:

"One of the most astonishing and encouraging things about human beings is the way, in spite of everything, they keep on being human, and the way, given half a chance, they will develop into some- thing far better than we would appear to have any right to expect."

There is any amount of debunking of the current irant. "I'm instinctively far more inclined to hit a Conservative on the head with Das Kapital than persuade him to read it," But the greater part of the book is a sort of Tilsley's Testament. And you should know a little about Tilsley be- Тоге ԱՐ come, to the Tesin- ment.

He is, on his own confession, 33, n Socialist, a Northcountryman, a beer drinker. Son of working-class parents, he has had seventeen different jobs since he left (coun- c) school at 14.

In the manner of buys who leave council schools, he entered the proten. sion for which he was least fitted and, with arithmetic his weakest subject. found himself working in an account- ant's office.

When accountancy rated his market value, after 18 years of training. D precisely £4 n werk-and that only when juba happened to be available- he decided that the world musj Joso an audit clerk,

And thusa novel or two interven- ing he came to write this personal statement of faith to find on for Ein- self which things are Best and why.

ft in a blunt, forthright, supremely honest book, written with enorINDUS Rust.

Frank Tilley has something for everybody to take

or to leave.

NOVELS

SHALL set the week's laurels rakisbly on the brows of Chap- man and Hall for the most arousing publisher's blurb of this or, probably, any other-season. After the fulsome stuff we're used to. It comes well.

the smiling. "What

Splanted in red, white and black across the cover of Evelyn Waugh's new novel, Scoop (7A, Od.), is an imag- mary interview with beady eyed, watchful author.

Buch an open face!

[ nlos young mani"

Coaxed Prem Peer

by Society Beauty-Big Chance for Small Town

Boy Threat of War in Afrien's Most Hinterland-News-hawks

Glamorous Mr. Tilsley knocks the non- sense from under you, plants your feet firmly on the ground and then cuts n way through the forest of everyday frustrations and shows you the day- light on all sides.

Democracy, Socialism, Humanity- these things come first, he degkles, but not until he has explored the possibili- ties of other creeds and found them remarkably unsatisfactory.

Exploring with him as guide 15 cx. eiling. For, though you know alter the first page or so that he is going to upset the Blimps, you are never certain just how he is going to do 11. He has a Jolt for the warmongers; "When you are told that buman nature is red in tooth and claw, the thing to do is to count up all the people you know really intimately and de cide how many are and how many are not."

And a shock for the compiacent:

When you read about a million and n half unemployed you should remen- ber that those people are just exactly the same sort of people na no many million engineers, clerks, coal-minera or farm labourers,"

He inveighs against all men of in will, from arms makera (come "people like that would howl against the aboli- tion of leprosy or bad drains if they could make twopence profit out of it"; to law brenkers

Mr. Tikicy pitacks privliege, because under Capitalism privilege ranks higher than ability, and avarice and humbug and decelt and the financial his "first puls oligarchy which things in the background.

But he forces nothing down your throat. You can take it or leave it. It's just that the future place of the first things largely depends on whether you can take it.

S. E. R. V.

Count thE

"TELEGRAPHS" EVERYWHERE

Race for Story Acruss Uncharted Con- Unent-Goat Butts Bluck-Mystery Financier Outwits Reds-Bool Mukes Civod-Editor's Ordeal-Lord Copper Personally Welcomes the Future.

'These are only a few of the thrilla

STOCK MARKET

REPORT

The Hongkong Stock Exchange official summary, issued on Saturday, reads:

There was a fair enquiry for shares during the short session, those most in demand being Humphreys, Wat- sons, Docks and Telephones, Business was difficult, buyers' and selicra' idens being rather too divergent.

Buyers

Hongkong Bank $1,450 Canton THE

HK. Fire Ins.

4220

K. Docks (Old) sin JI.K. Docks (Now) $10% Providents (OM) $35 Providents (Old) $130 Venz, Goldfeld $3

If & S. Totels 40.40

HK, Lands $314' JL.K. Lands 40% beb, $102% Itumphreys $0.10

11.K. Realties $3.40

H. Tramways $15.00 Peak Trams (Old) 50% China Lights (Old) $10.70 Cements $10%).

Dairy Farms 923% Watson 10.10

Marxman (Lon.) 14/0 Conso, Ch. Prov, (Old) $0.10 Cunsu, Ch. Prav, (New) $5.00

Bellers 11. & S. Boleis $6

Salan ILK. Docks (New) #18% H. & S. Hotels $0.43 1.K. Tramways $17 China Lights (Old) $10.70 ILK, Electrica $50 Mneno Electries $10.10 Watsonk $6.20 Antamoks Po. 42 Atok# 274. Ingulo Gold 21 Benguet Consol 9.00 Coco Grove 40 Demonstrations San Maurielo 43 Buyor Consai, 107, United Parocales 20

“GOOD HONK, I CONKED TH

WRONG GUY!

WELL, THAT'LL.

BETH' END OF OUR NICE, QUIET LIL

PARADISE

I

"DANG IT, KNEW IT WAS

TOO GOOD TO

LAST!

recorded exclusively to a Daily tast reporter yesterday by thirty-four-year- old noveltal, Evelyn Waugh.

"I hope it sells a hundred thousand,' But I shall be very cald Waugh. pleased with half that number. Two or three of the characters seem to TRI quite funny. There is a great deal of Gat and a happy ending.””

And, then, the master-touch. "It is stupendous." sa hundred-years-old publishers, Chapman and liall. "Epoch anking. Intoxicating. We have pub ished nothing comparable to it this werk."

Neither has anybody else. For Mr. Waugh is in rattling good form nearly nl the way in this Batire on to Press. A trag comedy, dancing with light- hearted savagery and strewn with be- wildered victims across two continents. A merry massacre In which the Journalists of Britain can take what's coming to them.

There is a great deal of plot, art- fully summarised above. And a very, very happy ending. But not before the Nice Young Marr has shown his sweAL- ing imitators how deftly—I spotted one or two minor misses-this sort of thing can be done. He still carries the same old knuckledusters inside those velvet gloves,

Nice work, Mr. Waugh,

TWO great novelists come to us-one of them for the last time in translation this weck: Thomas Mann and the late Maxim Gorki.

Herr Mann has written long books before-Buddenbrooks, which made nim famous, and The Magio Mountain, in my view the finest fiction written aince the war. Where other authors inke weeks over their work, he takes years.

Now come to latest volumes in hit most monumental effort, the re-telling of the story of Joseph (Joseph in Egypt. Published by Becker and War- burg. Two vola. 15. A score of verses in Genesis expanded to nearly seven hundred pages. Monumental is the word!

And like a manument, the book is vast and awe-inspiring ("However did they build these Pyramids?" and affecting-and, at times, I fear, boring,

too.

In the earlier chapters Joseph is taken in captivity through Egypt, and here Herr Mann is at his best, showing us Hellopoils and the Sphinx by moon- light and Memphis and Phornoh's golden city, Thebes. Then, as Omar- siph, Joseph is sold into the house of Paliphar

The second volume is heavy with the passion of Potiphar's wife for the handsome young exile. The author, who is a master of morbidity, obviously enjoys himacil in the slow, remorseless development of that disastrous infatu- ation. Cencals rewritten by Freud.... And, because Herr Mann is a genius, he manages to make his points la spité of the outworn archato style and tlio accasional ponderousness of approach. But need ho make them again and again and again?

Corki ran to length, too, in his story of the plgrimage of a Russian in tilectual, Úlim Barghin, towards the revolutionary shrine of 1917. The Spectre (Appleton-Century, 128. 0:1) in the fourth and final instalment of a work which covers several thousand pages.

Olim is seen baltling along, in storm of argument and ideas on the Just stages of his journey. Gorki bad not quite finished with him, when he died. But this is a fascinating, disturb ing and memorable book,

For, apart from the immediato sig nificance of the story, you can catch authentie echoes of the great Russian novelists (including Gorki himself). Echops what we still never hear again.

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