1938-12-27 — Page 11

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

December 27, 1938.

CANADIAN PACIFIC

SELAMÓNIPS - HOTELS -

– RAILWAYS - EXPRESS

DERTHING PLANS FOR 1939 ARE OPEN

MAKE BOOKINGS EARLY --- to securo accommodation desirod

TO CANADA, UNITED STATES and EUROPE

via Bhanghai, Robe & Yokohama EMPRESS OF JAPAN viz Honolulu EMPRESS OF ASIA

EXPRESS OF CANADA via Honolulu EMPRESS OF RUSSIA

.Noon, Wed, Mar. 8.

Air-conditioned equipment on C.P.R. Trans-Continental Trains Frequent Canadian Pacific Atlantle sailings to European Porta

EMPRESS OF JAPAN

Noon, Tues., Jan. 24. .Noon, Wed., Feb. 8.

.Noon. Tues.. Feb, 21.

TO MANILA

Fri, Dec. 30.

Telephone

20752

Union

Building

Canadian Pacific

N.Y.K.

SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES via Honolulu.

LINE

(Convenient connection from Hongkong),

6th Feb. ...... Monday,

Chichibu Maru (From Kobe) SEATTLE & VANCOUVER (Starts from Kobe)

Heian Maru (From Kobe)

NEW YORK vla Panama

(Convenient connection from Hongkong)

21st Jan.

Saturday,

Colonel Fulgencio Batista, right, was amazed at President Roosevelt's knowledge of Cuba, when the dictator visited the White House with Colonel Jolin A. Crane, left, and Cuban Am- bassador Pedro Martinez Fraga, centre.

Strangers In London

Cocktail Bar In

Garden

The

THERE is a man in London customs of creed, and food

who has travelled all the which would astonish the untravelic way from North Africn to buy a European. cocktail bar,

"One day a Moorish man of con- It is likely to become world-quence may arrive with his en

fourage. We have times then. The famous, for round it will gather women of the household must remain esmopolites from every part of the upstairs, for they may never dine in earth, and its glass shelves and public. Or an Arab sheik may drop chromium will harbour some of the into Minzah from the desert 500 stramtest drinks to lip the patale,

miles away." Have you heard, for instance of with, with mrzipan or almood cake from a silver dish?

SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Hilo, San Francisco. Meknes or Fez to be taken. If you

Los Angeles, Mexico & Balboa to Valparaiso,

Helyo Maru

Haruna Maru

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE Via Manila, Davan, Thursday island and Brisbane

Kitano Maru ........

Friday.

13th Jan.

LONDON, MARSEILLES, NAPLES via Suez.

Terukuni Maru

Hakusum Maru

Friday, Friday, Saturday,

34th Dec.

13th Jan.

28th Jan.

Thursday,

Friday,

20th Jan.

30th Dec. Wednesday, 11th Jan,

Friday.

30th Dec.

Friday.

6th Jan.

Tuesday. Friday.

10th Jan.

20th Jan, 10th Feb.

BOMBAY vin Singapore & Colombo

British. Monarchi

Hakodate Maru

BANGOON & CALCUTTA via Singapore

Tusima Moru

*Tazima Maru

KOBE & YOKOHAMA

Yasukuni Maru (Via Shanghai)

Kamo Maru (Direct Nagasaki)

Hakone Maru (Via K'lung, S'hat)... Friday.

• Cargo only.

NIPPON YUSEN KAISYA

General passenger Agents in the Orient for CUNARD WHITE STAR LINE

No? Well, let Mr. Robert Benoist. hoteller, gourmet, and controller of El Minzah Tangier, tell you some. thing of the bizarre collection

of

of

You will find everything on the menti-however exotic your taste at this euravanseral of nations. Ex- cept a kipper, which regards Morocco

inhospitable.

BANK

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA. AUSTRALIA & CUINA.

Incorporated by Moyal Charter 115S3 HEAD OFFICE: LONDON. 38 Bishopsgate, B.C.I. Paid-up Capital

£3,000,000 Reserve Leblilty of Proprietors £1,000,000 Reserve Fund ........... 3,000,000

MANCHESTER BRANCH:

71 Mosley St, Manchester, AGENCIES AND BRANCHES:

Alor Star Ipoh

Amritsar

jlangkok

Batavia

Bombay

Calcutta

Baigon Bemarang Seremban Shanghai Mingapore Bitlawan Sourabaya Taiping

NOTICES

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI

St

BANKING CORPORATION,

Authorised Capital ju........ $210,000,000 Issued and ruity Paid-up.... $20,000,000 Reserve Funday-

pergestas. & 8,500,000 Hongkong Currency Reserve $10,000,000 Reserve Llability of Proprietors $20,000,000 READ OFFICE:~HONGKONG, BOARD OF DIRECTORS:----- T. Pearce, Esq. Chairman

Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, Deputy Chairman,

J. K. Bousfield, Esq. A, IL. Compton, Eng.

G. Miskin, Esq. K. B. Morrison, Esq,

Hon. Mr. 2. H. Dodwell fan. Mr. A. I Shields W. I. Lock, Esq. ii. V. Wilkinson, Esq.

Str Vandaleur M. Crayburn, CHIEF MANAGER.

Loilo

Karachil

Klang

Kobo

Kuala

Canton

Cawnpore Cebu

Colombo

Lumpur Kuching Madras Alanila

Tientsin

Tongkali

Delhi

Metan

#huket)

Petping

Tsingtao

AMOY

Pelping

Yokohama

BANGKOK

[(Peking)

HJATAVIA

Penang

BOMBAY

Rangoon

CALCUTTA

CHEFOO

COLOMBO DAIREN FOOCHOW

HAIPHONG

Haiphong

Hamburz

Hankow

Harbin

Hongkong

Foreign Exchange and General BABE- CANTON Ing business transacted,

Current Accounts opened and Fixed Depoalle received for one year or shorter pertɔds at rates which will be quoted or application.

BRANCHES:-

LONDON

LYONS MALACCA MANILA

MUAR (JOHORE) MUKDEN

NEW YO!C

PEIFING

PENANG RANGOON SAIGON

SAN FRANCISCO SHANGHAI

SINGAPORE

SOURADAYA

SUNGEI PATANI

SWATOW

TIENTSIN

TOKYO

The Bank's Head Omce in London HAMBURG undertakes Executor & Trustee business, HANKOW and claims recovery of British Income HARBIN

KONCKEW terms which may be Tax overpalu, un Ascertained at any

ILOILO of its Agencies &

IPOH Branches.

JOHORE R. A. CAMIDGE,

Manager, KOBE

KOWLOON KUALA LUMPUR

Current Accounts opened in Local Cur. rency and Fixed Deposita received for one year or shorter periods in Local and other currencies on terms which w be quoted on application.

ALSO up to" data SAFE DEPOSIT DOXES in various sites TO LET.

Hongkong. 29th June, 1937,

Crowds Go Miles To Co-op "War"

DAGENHAM (Essex).

TSINGTAO ΥΟΚΟΗΑΜΑ

The P. & O. Banking Corporation, Ltd.

(Incorporated in England, 1020).

Authorised Capital Subscribed and, l'ald-up Reserve Fund ...

HEAD OFTICE:

55.000.000

£2,504,109 120,000

111-122, Leadenhall Streek, London, E.C.3. WEST END RANCH

14-10, Cockapur Street, Landon, BW,1.

BRANCHES-Boribay, Calcutta, Call- Colombo, Hongkong. Coimbatore,

Cut,

Madras Shangtial, Bingapore.

Agencies:-In all the principal towns of the world.

General Exchange and Danking bual. ness transacted. Loans and overdrafts granted on approved security. Current and Fixed Deposit accounts opened

BAVINGS ACCOUNTS IN LOCAL CUR RENCY:-Interest allowed at rates which may be obtained ore application.

TRAVELLERS' LETTERS OF CREDIT, TRAVELLERS CHEQUES AND PAS SENGER LETTERS OF CILIDIT (for una on board P. & O. and . L. Steamers and at Parts of Call) are issued at current rain of exchange and free of commtau2011. AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVELLERS'

CHEQUES old and cashed.

urth Income Tax Recovered. Executorships and Trusteeships under.

laken,

Manager

W. J. WADDINGTON

Hongkong. 7th Nov, 1939,

THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED.

Authorized Capital Red-up Capital Reserve and Undivided

Profi

$10,000,000,00 $5,500,000.00

$ 2,770,726.70 HEAD OVTICE: HONGKONG 10, Des Voeux Road Central BOARD OF DIRECTORS -- Sir Shouson Chow, Chairman, Li Koon Chun, Eaq, Pung Ping Wah, Eaq.

Li Lan Sang,

HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.

The Business of the sbove Dark conducted by the Hongkong and Shang. K. Kwok, Esq. hal Banking Corporation, Rules may be oblained on application,

BANKING CORPORATION.

V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chlet Manager. Hongkoni!, 9 October, 130,

At half-past six one morning recently, Mr. F. J. Stanford, the Foll THE HONGKONG ANA SANDAL Dagenham greengrocer who is fighting a cut-price "war" withi the local co-operative society, was down in Spitalfields pro- duce market to buy supplies for the day.

Round him crowded stores of men Jike other greengrocers:-Bite himself—who had read the story of his fight.

Wang Yun Tonn reo. Wong Chu Sơn Chang Chung Shek, Esq, Kan Ying Po, ESQ.

HAN TONG TO, Liên Chief sunlie

LI THE PONɑ, Esq. Managıt, BRANCHES AND AGENCIERT

Amoy Intavis

Melbourne

Shanghai

Bombay

Nartanaki New York

Singapore

Sourabaya

Calcutta

Osaka

Swatow

Canton Haiphong

Honolulu

Sydney

Kobe

WUCHANG REFUGEES Tankow

Wuchsag

Kowloon London Manila

Pari

Peiping J'enany

Randoun

Balcon

San Francisco Seattle Semarang

Talhoku

Tientsin

Tokyo

Vancouver

Yokohama

Every description of Banking and Ex- change business transacted, Loans grant-

Hankow, Dec. 24. Members of the Hankow Club have collected and donated 1,000 yuan for the purchase of padded clothing and ed on approved securities. They clapped him on the back, food for the Chinese refugees still in wished him the best of luck, and the Boone compound in

whose sufferings have increased with the severe stormy weather during But coneous! All Ben Satour, the offered any help they could give. Moorish cook, and smiling, swarthy Some of his suppliers, hearing of the past few days. A member of the Wuchung Refugee Zone Committee rival to Vasallo, the French chef, pre- the position, offered to sell him pro- said food was very serce, but pares this. It is a Moorish dish

Later in the day crowds in Broad- street, Dagenham, watched business at

Current Accaunta opened in Local Cur- A TEREY and Fixed Deposits received for one year or shorter periods in Local and Foreign Currencien on terms which will be quated on application,

Safe Deposit Boxes To Let

of the Japanese to bring in rice on Christmas Doy.--United Press.

travellers for whom he has to caterinade from serpolina, mutton, sultanas/duce al reduced prices for the dura-was hoped to secure the permission!

It is at E Minzah-one

the and enough pimento to make an In-tion of the "war." world's most international hotels din colonel show the whites of his where daily you may find an Arab ¦ eyes. sheik and his retinue drinking their favourite mocha beneath the palms, where the men of affairs from every nation Rather to sip an aperitif beneath the cobalt Murocan sky.

A MAGIC CARPET

Sitting In the Savoy Mr. Benoist (he is British of French dxtraction) Said," As hoteller I have one of the strangest jobs in the world. There is every variety of laste to think of.

The survivors slake their scorched throats with Meknos, a fine, dry wine of Marocco at 2 franes a bottle.

time,

the two Kreengrocery shups, any business to hand over by that separated only by a partition.

Mr. Stanford said. "They came "I'm sixty-two. I've brought up from as for 115 Barking-four nine children, and I was looking for- miles away--lo have a look and toward to a bit of a rest. It looks as buy, and I think most of them if I shall have to fight hard to get bought from me.

KAN TONG ro.

Manager.

Scientists Study Atop Peak

KENYANSEA CI

Moscow. Scientists have left Moscow for the will study Caucasus, where they cosmic rays. Working at an altitude of 17,000 feet on Europe's highest penk, Mount Elbruz, they will en- "I intend to hand by business over "Well, I think I shall win. Feel-deavour to learn more about the na-- little. It is the way they have in the to my married son Alt some time ing seems to be more and more on sure of the rays which approach the

"All Den Satour," said Mr. Benoist, "is my purchaser in chief. Early in the morning he goes down to the Tangier market, and haggles and bor- gains and bullles. First the vendor asks too much. Then All offers too

East."

after Christmas-that

i1.

is, if there's my side."

earth from outer space,

KING'S BUILDING

THE

TEL. 30291.

SWEDISH EAST ASIATIC

SERVICE OF FAST MOTOR VESSELS

(with limited, but exceptionally good passenger accommodation) TO PORT SUDAN, PORT SAID, ALGIERS, ORAN, CASABLANCA, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM, (AMSTERDAM), HAMBURG, COPENHAGEN, OSLO, GOTHENBURG and other SCANDINA-

HOMEWARDS:

N.V. "NANKING"

M.V. "PEPING"

VIAN PORTS..

OUTWARDS to: Yokohama, Kobe & Osaka.

M.V. "NINGPO"

M.V. "CANTON"

Passenger Rates:

To London or Antwerp

Hongkong. GILMAN & CO.. LTD.

Phone: 30983.

Canton.

Salling about

30th Dec.

28th Jan.

8th Jan.

14th Feb.

£53,0,0.

Agents:

G. E. HUYGEN.

Phone: 11485.

Soothing

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as an Old Time melodi

Spinet

Ovals

pinet

DANCE

TEA DANCE 75 cts. TIFFIN DANCE $1 DINNER DANCE Table d'Hote, or A la Carte, no cover charge for non-diners METROPOLE HOTEL Latest Swing Band You will enjoy at moderate expenses. Reservation Tel. 24425.

P & O-BRITISH INDIA (APCAR) AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES

(Companies Incorporated in England.)

Taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading for STRAITS, JAVA & DURMA, CEYLON INDIA, IRANIAN GULF, MAURITIUS, E. & 8, AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUD ING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, RED SEA, EGYPT, EUROPE, ETC. PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS (Under Contract with M. Government.)

Al vessels may call at any parts on or of the route,-and the route and all sailings are subject to change or deviation with or without notice,

Steamera

*BANGALORE

CHITRAL CARTHAGE

BHUTAN

RAJPUTANA *BEHAR

RANCHI 1*SOUDAN

Tous From H'Kong about 8,000 1st Jan.

17,000 7th Jan. 14,500 21st Jan. 6.000 28th Jan,

17,000 4th Feb. 6,000 11th Feb,

17,000 18th Feb. 4,000 25th Feb.

17,000 4th Mar

• Curgo only Calls Casablanca

RANPURA

TALMA

SIRDHANA

SHIRALA

Destination

B'bay, M'seilles, Havre, L'don, Hull, H'burg, R'dam & A1werp. B'bay, 'seliles & London. B'bay, 'sellles & London. B'bar, M'scilles, Havre, L'don. Hull, H'bg. R'dam & A'werp. Bombay, Marseilles & London M'seilles, Havre, L'don, Hull. Hug, R'dam & A'werp. Marseilles & London. B'bay, Macilles, Havre, Lidon Hull, H'bg, R'dam & A'werp. Marseilles & London,

All vessels may call at Malta

Port Swettenham. Penang, Rangoon & Calcutta.

BRITISH INDIA APCAR BAILINGS (BOUTIL)

10,000 31 Dec., 10.30 am. ¡S'pore,

10,000 14th Jan. 3,000 28th Jan. 110,000 11th Feb.

DO.

Do.

DO.

1

DO.

PRESIDENT LINER

SAILINGS

SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELER

via

KONE, YOKOHAMA AND HONOLULU

$ "PRESIDENT TAFT"

99 "PROSIDENT CLEVELAND"

SS "TRESIDENT FIERCE"

SS "PRESIDENT COOLIDGES

-

98 "PRESIDENT VAN BUREN"

SAILS DEC. D1% It JAN. 13th at JAN. 171 nt

101f:

EN 15.721.

Midnigiet

4,00 p.m.

00 1.01.

12 Moon

NEW YORK AND DOSTON VIA SUIZ

SAILS JAN. AAA at

JAN. 20th at 12 Noon FER,

3rd At FEB. 1781 д

Ý S "PRESIDENT HARRISON“

95 PRESIDENT HAYES"

83 "PRESIDENT POLK"

SS "PUSIDENT VAN HUREN“

AS "PRESIDENT CLEVELAND"

S SPREADENT HARRISON"

Noon

Noon

MANILA

SAILS JAN.

ብረት፣ ut 12

JAN. 7th

Noon pr.

JAN. 2011:

12 Nonn

✰✰ AMERICAN ★ ★

PRESIDENT LINES

ROUND THE WORLD SERVICE

FORMERLY DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES

12. Pedder Birect

Telephone 20171.

The SUPER Cigarettes.

Obtainable at

C. INGENOHL'S CIGAR STORES

"LA PERLA DEL ORIENTE"

and other tobacconists.

TILAWA

SANTHIA

0,000 2, Feli.

11. Aptar te Steamers hove excrilent accommodation for 1st & 2nd ciana pakrengur * EASTERN &. AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (SOUTH)

ELLORE TANDA

7,000 31st Dec. 11 am.

7665 and Feb.

7,000 4th Mar.

Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne & Hobari

Regular monthly rattings from likang to Bhanghai & Japan & 'kong to Australia Hong Kong to Sydney-ID days,

SAILINGS

NGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

BHUTAN

*BRUAR NELLORE SHIKALA HAJPUTANA

TILAWA

RANCHI

*SOUDAN

6.000, 27th Dec,, 6 aan. {

4,000 2nd Jan,

7,000 5th Jan. 8,000 5th Jan. 17,000 8th Jan. 10,000 19th Jan. 17,000 200 Jan.

4,000 21st Jan,

Cargo only.

Shanghal & Japan. Shanghai & Japan.

Japan. Shanghal & Japan

Japan. Shanghai & Japan.

Shanghai & Japan.

All dates are approximate and mibject to alteration without notice, parcels measuring not more than a c.ft. will be received at the Company's Omes up to neem on the day previous to sailing,

For Passage Rates, Handbooks, Freight, eto, apply

&&& MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. Phone

Connaught NC.

Agents