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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 27, 1938.

CANADIAN PACIFIC

STEAMSHIPS HOTELS -

- RAILWAYS - EXPRESS

*

BERTHING PLANS FOR 1939 ARE OPEN

MAKE BOOKINGS EARLY — to secure accommodation desired

TO CANADA, UNITED STATES and EUROPE

via Khanghal, Kebe & Tokohama

EXPRESS OF JAPAN via Honolulu

EDITRESS OF ASIA .....

KMPRESS OF CANADA via Honolulu EMPRESS OF RUSSIA

.Noon, Tucs., Jan. 24. Noon, Wed.. Feb. 8. .Noon, Tues., Feb, 21. Noon, Wed., Mar. 8.

Alt-conditioned equipment on C.P.R. Trans-Continental Trains Frequent Canadian Pacifio Attantla sailings to European Porta

EMPRESS OF JAPAN

TO MANILA

.Fri., Dec. 39.

Union

Building

Canadian Pacific

N.Y.K.

SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES via Honolulu.

Telephone

20752

LINE

(Convenient connection from Hongkong)..

...... Monday, GU Feb.

BANK NOTICES

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA.

Incorporated by Royal Charter 18X3 HEAD - OFICE:-LONDON, as Bishopsgate, B.C.1. Paid-up Capital .... Reserva Lábility of Proprietors £3,000,000 Reserve Fund Groom................... £3,000,000

MANCHESTER BRANCH:

Ti Mosley 82, Manchester, AGENCIES AND BLANCHES: Alor Star

Amritsar ifolio

Bangkok

Batavia

Ipoh

Karachi

Saigon Bemarang Beremban Shanghat Singapore Siuawan

Bouraboys

Bombay

Calcutta Canton Cawnpore Cebu Colombo Delhi

Klang Koba Kuala

Taiping

Lumpur

Kuching Madras Mania

Tichtain

Tongkan

Medan

(Bhuket)

Halphon

Pelpinist

Taingtao

Jamburg

Peiping

Yokoliama

UPS

Kankow

(Peking)

Barbi

Penang

ilongkong

Rangoon

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

Strangers In London

Cocktail Bar In The Garden

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THERE is a man in London customs of creed, and food and drinke who has travelled the which would astonish the untravelled way from North Afrien to buy a European. cocktail bar,

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI

BANKING .CORPORATION.

Authorised Capital ... 30.000.000 Issued and July Paid-up. $20,000,000 Itekerve Funda:-

Sterling

£ 0,500,000 Hongkong Currency Reserve $10.000.000 Reserve Liability of Proprietors $20,000,000 HEAD OFFICE:—HONGKONG,

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

T. E Pearce, Esq. Chairman.

Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson,"

Deputy Chairman,

J. K. Douxfield, Esq. G. Miskin, Esq. A. IL. Compton, Esq. K. 8. Morrison, Eng. Hon. Mr. H, 1. Dodwell Hon. Mr. A. L. Shielda W. EL LOCK, ES). II. V. Wilkinson, Esq.

AMOY

Bir Vandeleur M, Grayburn, CHIEF MANAGER BRANCHES:-

BANGKOK

BATAVIA HOWDAY CALCUTTA

Foreign Exchange and General Bank. CANTON ing business transacted,

CHEFOO

Current Accounts opened and Fixed COLOMBO Deposits received for one year or shorter | DAIREN perinds at rates which will be quoted or | FOOCHOW

HAIPHONG

Pucation,

Bank's Head Offer in London HAMBURG undertakes Executor & Trutee business, HANKOW and claims recovery of British Income HARBIN Tax overpaid, on terms which may be HONGKEW ascertained

ILOILO at any of its Agenclia & Branches,

IPOK B. A. CAMIDGE,

JOHORE Maniger. KOBE Hongkong, 29th June, 1935,

Crowds Go Miles To Co-op "War"

DAGENHAM (Essex).

At half-past six one morning recently, Mr. F. J. Stanford, the Dagenham greengrocer, who is fighting a cut-price "war" with "One day a Moorish man of con- the local co-operative society, It is likely to become world-sequence may arrive with his en- Chichibu Maru (From Kobe)

tourage. We have times then. The was down in Spitalfields pro- famous, for round it will gather women of the household must remain duce market to buy supplies for SEATTLE & VANCOUVER (Starts from Kobe)

cosmopolites from every part of the upstairs, for they may never dine in the day. (Convenient connection from Hongkong), chromium will harbour some of the into El Minzah from the desert 500 earth, and its glass shelves and public. Or an Arab sheik may drop strangest drinks to fillip the palate. miles away."

Have you heard, for instance, of SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Hilo, San Francisco. Meknos or Fez to be taken, if youmenu-however exotic your

You will and everything on the Los Angeles, Mexico & Balboa to Valparalso.

wish, with marzipan or almond cake at this caravanserai of nations. Ex- Heiyo Maru

from a silver dish?

cept a kipper, which regards Morocco: no inhospitable.

Helan Maru (From Kobe) NEW YORK via Panama

Haruna Maru

Saturday,

21st Jun.

"SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila, Davao, Thursday Island and Brisbane

Kitano Maru ....

BOMBAY vin Singapore & Colombo

"British Monarch

Friday,

13th Jan.

LONDON, MARSEILLES, NAPLES via Suez.

Terukuni Maru

Friday,

30th Dec.

Hakusan Maru

Friday, Saturday,

13th Jan,

28th Jan.

Thursday,

Friday,

20th Jan,

30th Dec. Wednesday, 11th Jan.

Friday,

30th Dec.

Friday,

6th Jan.

Tuesday,

Kamo Maru (Direct Nagasaki)

Hakone Maru (Vla K’lung, S'lini)

Friday, Friday.

10th Jan.

20th Jan. 10th Feb.

* Corgo only.

*Hakodate Maru

RANGOON & CALCUTTA via Singapore

KODE & YOKOHAMA

Yasukuni-Maru (Via Shanghai)

*Tusima Maru

Tazima Maru

scores

of

Round him crowded other greengrocers-little men like himself who had read the story of

toate his fight.

They clapped him on the back, wished him the best of luck, and No? Well, let Mr. Robert Benoist, hoteller, gourmet, and controller of But coucous! All Ben Satour, the offered any help they could give. El Minzah Tangler, tell you some-Moorish cook, and smiling, swarthy thing of the bizarre

Some of his suppliers, hearing of collection of rival to Vasallo, the French chef, pre- the position, offered to sell him pro-

pares. this. It is a Moorish dish

travellers for whom he has to cater.

the

LONDON

LYONS MALACCA

MANILA MUAR (JOHONE) MUKDEN

NEW YORK PEIPINO PENANG FANGOON BAIGON

BAN FRANCISCO SHANGHAI

BINGAPORE SOURABAYA BUNGEI PATANI SWATOW

TIENTSIN

TOKYO

TSINGTAO YUKUHAMA

KOWLOON KUALA LUMPUR

Current Accaunts opened in Local Cur rency and Fixed Deposita received for one year or shorter periods in Local and other currencies on terma which wii be quoted on application,

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

HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.

The P. & O. Banking Corporation, Ltd.

65,000,000

(Incorporated in England, 1020).

Authorised Captiat ........... Bubscribed and Pald-up ***** £3,594,100 Reserve Fund

***********ocanu # 200,000 OKAD OFFICE: 117-122, Leadenhall street, London, E.04. WEST END BRANCH 14-18, Cockapar Street, London, B...1.

BLANCHES-Bombay, Calcutía, Call- CUL Coimbatore, Colombo, Hongkong. Madras, Shanghai, Singapore.

Agenclerin at the principal towns of the world.

General Exchange and Banking bunk ness transacted, Loans and overdrafte granted on approved securtly, Current and Fixed Deposit accounia opened,

SAVINGS ACCOUNTS IN LOCAL CUN- RENCY:-Interest allowed at tates which may be obtained on application,

TRAVELLERS' LETTERS OF CREDIT, TRAVELLERS' CHEQUES AND PAB- BENGER LETTERS OF CREDIT (for tie on board P. & O, and B. 1, Btoamers and at Parts of Call) are issued at curTRER rate of exchange and free of commission. AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVELLERS

taken.

CHEQUES old and castad,

British Income Tax Recovered. Executorships and Trusteeships under-

W. J. WADDINGTON Hongkong, 7th Nov, 1835,

THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED.

Authorised Capital Paid-up Capital................... Reserve and Undivided

Profis

#10,000,000.E 5.500.000.00

*************........... $ 2770,736.79 HRAD OFFICE-RONGKONG 10, Des Voeux Road, Central, DOARD OF DIRECTORS**** Bir Shouson Chow, Chairman.

The Business of the above Bank is Li Koon Chun, Esq. conducted by the Hongkong and Shang-Y. K. Kwak, Esq. nai Banking Corporation. obtained an application, FOR THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI

Fung Ping Wah, Esq. Li Lan Sang. Esq. tules may be Wong Yun Tong, Esq. Wong Chu Son, Esq.

Chang Chung Shek, Esq. Kan Ying Po, EM. RAN TONG Po, E, Chiot Manager. LI TSE VONO, Eig., Manager. BRANCH AND AGENCIES:

BANKING CORPORATION.

V. M. GRAYBURN, 1longkong. October, 1930.

Chief Manager.

Melbourne

Amoy

Batavia

Nagasaki

Dombay

New York

Coletulta

OLAKA

I'aris

WUCHANG REFUGEES Hankow

Felping Penang

Shanghai

Singapore

Sourabaya

Swntow Sydney Taiboku Tientsin

Rangoon

Tokyo

Saigon

Vancouver

San Francisco

Beattle

Yokohama

Canton Tialphong

Fionolulu Kobe Kowloon London Manila

Bemarang Every description of Banking and Ex- ed on approved securides, change business transacted. Loans grant-

Hankow, Dec. 24. collected and donated 1,000 yuan for Members of the Hankow Club have

the purchase of padded clothing and food for the Chinese refugees still in Current Accounts opened in Local Cur the Boone compound In Wuchang, rency and Fixed Deposits received for whose sufferings have increased with or shorter periods in Local and Foreign Currencies on terms which will the severe stormy weather during bo quoted on application.

Safe Deposit Boxes To Let. the past few days. A member of the said food was very scarce, but it Wuchong Refugee Zone Committer

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

made from semolina, mutton, sultanas duce at reduced prices for the dura-was hoped to secure the permission dian colonel show the whites of his and enough pimento to make an in- tion of the "war" eyes.

It is at El Minzab-one of world's most international hotels where dally, you may find an Arab sheik and his retinue drinking their

The survivors slake their scorched favourite mocha beneath the palms, where the men of affairs from every roats with Meknos, a fine, dry wine nation gather to slp an aperitif | of Morocco at 2 francs a bottle. beneath the cobalt Moroch sky.

A MAGIC CARPET

Sitting in the Savoy Mr. Benoist the Is British. of French extraction) said, "As hoteller I have one of the strangest jobs in the world. There is every variety of taste to think of,

Later in the day crowds in Broad-

at the street, Dagenham, watched business separated only by a partition.

two greengrocery shops,

any business to hand over by that time.

KAN TONG PO,

Manager.

Scientists Study Atop Peak

Mr. Stanford sold. "They came "I'm sixty-two. I've brought up

Moscow. from as far as

Scientists have left Moscow for the Barking-four nine children, and I was looking for- miles away-to have a look and to word to a bit of a rest. It looks as Caucasus, where they will studs buy, and I think most of them if I shall have to fight hard to get cosmic rays. Working at an altitudo bought from me.

of 17,000 feet on Europe's highest peak, 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- son Alf some timeing seems to be more and more on after Christmas that is, if there's my side."

ture of the rays which approach the. earth from outer space,

"All Ben Satour," said Mr. Benoist, "is my purchaser in chief. Early in the morning he goes down to

the1 | Tungler market, and huggies and bar- gains and bullies. First the vendor asics too much. Then All offers too little.. It is the way they have in the to my married East."

it.

NIPPON YUSEN KAISYA

General passenger Agents in the Orlent for CUNARD WHITE STAR LINE

TEL. 30201.

KING'S BUILDING

SWEDISH EAST ASIATIC

SERVICE OF FAST MOTOR VESSELS

(with limited, but exceptionally good passenger accommodation) TO PORT SUDAN, PORT BAID, ALGIERS, ORAN, CASABLANCA, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM. (AMSTERDAM), HAMBURG,

COPENHAGEN, OSLO, GOTHENBURG and other SCANDINA-

HOMEWARDS:

B.V. "NANKING"

MV. "PEIPING*

ELV. “NINGPO"

MY, "CANTON"

Passenger Rates:

VIAN PORTS,

OUTWARDS to: Yokohama, Hobo & Omaka,

To London or Antwerp

Hongkong. GILMAN & CO. LTD.

Phone: 30966.

Agenta:

Sailing about

30th Deo,

.28th Jan,

8th Jan 14th Feb.

£53.0.0.

Canton.

G. E. HUYGEN,

Phone: 11405.

PRESIDENT LINER

SAILINGS

BAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES

KODE, YOKOHAMA AND HONOLULU

$ 3 "PRESIDENT TAFT"

# A "PRESIDENT CLEVELAND"

88 "PRESIDENT PIERCE

"PRESIDENT COOLIDGETM

BAILS DEC, 31. 2t 0.00 1.00.

NEW YORK AND DOSTON VIA BUEZ

3 8 "PRZAIDENT VAN BUKEN"

S B "PRESIDENT HARRISON"

AS "PRESIDENT HAYES"

"PRESIDENT POLK"

* A "PRESIDENT VAN DUREN"

BB "PRESIDENT CLEVELAND"

"PRESIDENT HARRUSON"

BAILS JAN. Oth

**

JAN. 13th JAN. 27th

at

st 4.09

FEB. 10th

at 9.00

Midnight

p.m.

DM.

I

JAN, 201

អ

Noon Noon

FEU, 3rd

Noon

FEB. 17th

Noon

MANILA

BAILS JAN, Oth st JAN. 701 at JAN. 20th

At

13

Noon р.. Noon

★ ★ AMERICAN * *

PRESIDENT LINES

ROUND THE WORLD SERVICE

FORMERLY DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES

12. Pedder Street

Telephone 28171.

Soothing

as an Old Time Melodi

Spinet

Spinet

Ovals

THE SUPER VIRGINIA CIGARETTE Che Spinet Hange, sto 1775 Cor

Spinet

The SUPER Cigarettes.

Obtainable at

C. INGENOHL'S CIGAR STORES

"LA PERLA DEL ORIENTE'

and other tobacconists.

P

#

DANCE

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

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

(Companies Incorporated in England.)

Taking Cargo on through Dine of Lading for STRAITS, JAVA & BURMA, CEYLON. INDIA, IRANIAN GULF, MAURITIUS, E. & §. AFRICA, AUSTRALABIA, INCLUD- ING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, RED SEA, EGYPT, KURDPE, ETC.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIHECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMKES (Under Contract with ELM. Government)

Ali vessels may call at any ports on or off the route, -and the route and all millings are subject to change or deviation with or without notice.

Steamers

**BANGALORE

CHITRAL CARTHAGE **BHUTAN

RAJPUTANA *BEHAR

RANCHI

I'SOUDAN

RANPURA

Tons From H'Kang about

6,000) 1st Jan,

17,000 7th Jan.

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· 14,500) 21st Jan, 0.0001 28th Jan.

17,000) 4th Feb. 0,000 11th Feb.

17,000 18th Feb. 8,000)25th Feb.

117,000) 4th Mar.

Cargo only † Calls Casablanca

TALMA

SIRDHANA SHIRALA TILAWA SANTHIA

Destination

B'bay, Muellies, Havre, L’don, *-' | Hull, H'bing, R'dam & A’werp.

B'bay, M'seilles & London. B'bay, M'seilles & London. B'bay, Misailles, Havre, I'don, Hull, Hbg, R'dam de A'werp. Bombay, Marselles & London, M'ecilles, Havro, L'don, Hull, {H'bg, R'dam & A'werp,

Marseilles & London B'bay, M'seilles, Havre, L’don, Hull, Hbg. R'dam & A'werp. Marcellies & London.

All vessels may call at Malta

BRITISH INDIA APCAR BAILINGS (BOUTIL)

10,000 14th Jan.

:10,000,31 Dec., 10.30 a.m. | S'pore,"

Port

BwettenhamO. Penang, Rangoon & Calcutta.

DO.

DO.

DO.

DO.

8,000) 28th Jan.

* 10,000 11th Feb,

8,000 25th Feb.

DJ. Apter Line Diskusere bave excellent sooqtumodation for let a kod Clase provengue

LASTERN & AUSTRALIAN BAILINGS (SOUTEL)

VANKIN

VELLOR

TANDA

7,000 31st Dec, 11 am. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, 7,000 3rd Feb.

7,000 4th Mar.

Sydney, Melbourns & Hobari

Regular monthly railings from H'kong to shanghai & Japan & X'kong to Austratie.

*BHUTAN

*BEHAN

NELLORE

SHIRALA RAJPUTANA

TILAWA RANCHI *SOUDAN

Hong Hoa là Himg10 đại

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,

0.000127th Dec, 0 a.m. 6,000

2nd Jan, 7,000 8th Jan. 0.000 5th Jan.

17,000 6th Jan. 10,000) 10th Jan. 17.000 20th Jan. 6,000 21st Jan, Corgo only.

|Shanghal & Japan, Shanghai & Japan.

Japan.

Shanghal & Japan,

Japan.

Shanghal & Japan.

Shanghal & Japan.

All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice, parcels measuring not more than § x.ft. will be received at the Company's Office up to Deew on the day previous to sailing.

For Passage Hates, Nandbooks, Freight, sto, apply Cone MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. Phone

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