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SATURDAY
LORD LLOYD
(Continued from Page 1.)
Change of Policy Sir Herbert Samuel (Liberal) sald
JULY 27, 1929.
Further, the Government was not taking any step Involving the Treaty without consultation of the Domi- nions.
"A Healthy Discussion" Mr. Winston Churchill said the
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tivity in this respect. First the old Hong Kong Hotel, which stood on the site which is at present so conspicuous in Des Voeux Road and Pedder Street was the scene of one of the most terrible fire outbreaks that ever occurred here. The result was that the that the House was far more con papers which Mr. Henderson read Hong Kong Hotel, as it then was cerned to know whether any serious had produced a wrong impression. and had been for many a day, change of policy in our relations They really merely revealed was practically demolished. Con with Egypt had been contemplated? healthy discussion between Lord
Lloyd and Sir Austen Cham the tiguous to it, however,
Prime Minister's Tribute
berlain, both of whom were ultimate- owners, with commendable enter-
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Primely united upon every grave execu- prise, soon had the present Hong Minister, paid tribute to Lord Lloydtive question. Representatives of Kong Hotel in full swing and to-who, he said, went to Egypt under the Crown should have the fullest day it is still the city's premier most difficult circumstances. He had freedom for fearless expression of building in the hotel line.
a great task imposed upon him when their views. They did not want Sir Lee Stack met his death at the puppets trained to sing a popular For many a day post of duty, Lord Lloyd was asked tane, and ought to know that the The Fine the King Edward to fill a position which was perhaps decisions of the executive Govern- Old "King Hotel easily rank- one of the most difficult in the Bri-ment would be loyally carried out.
Certainly the late Government Edward" ed as second in tish Empire when he accepted it.
importance among He did what he considered to be his had not the slightest complaint as Hong Kong's hotels. But it alas! duty but he (Mr. MacDonald) claim to Lord Lloyd's loyalty and fidelity.
"Careful and Cautious" also became a victim to the fire ed that the Government administer- fend. This calamity, in which ing the affairs of a Colony or Depen-
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald (Prime eleven persons lost their lives, is deney must have complete and full Minister) declared he would follow so recent that details are un-confidence in its representative exactly the same methods he em- The Government was going to enter
necessary.
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To-day, it stands a melancholy spectacle in a busy into a full examination of all ques-ployed in the Sarwat negotiations. thoroughfare and speculation is tions connected with Egypt, but no- They would do what the interests of rife as to what purpose the site thing of an official decision would Britain and Egypt required. will next be put.
be come to until the House had question of the military occupation of Caire was under consideration, agreed to its ratification.
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And The "Savoy"
The
and the three Service departmenta "Great Responsibilities"
and all, similarly difficut matters In the disaster that
"We know our great FES-
were being treated in the same care- put an end to the
said
Mac-ful ponsibilities,"
Mr.
and cautious way.
Only activities of the
Donald. "We know our post-when the best possible proposal had King Edward" tion here. We shall do what we one of Hong Kong's newest think best for the interests of this been, devised would the Government hotels-the "Savoy was also nation and the interests of Egypt, seriously involved. Happily, the
The Gov-
commit itself to a vital and lasting instument. He appealed to the
damage Egypt.
destruction was not nearly so seri remembering all the time our respon House to do nothing further to ous as in the case of its next door sibility to this country.
ernment is exploring the situation. neighbour, the "King Edward,"
Revelation Deplored Mr. Churchill had asked for 4 with the result that there is every pledge that the Government would Sir Herbert Samuel deplored the prospect of a new lease of life not go beyond the extreme limit revelation of the differences be coming to the Savoy within a which he and his friends embodied tween the Government and one of comparatively brief period.
in the Sarwat Treaty.
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"All facts
its representatives and feared that In connection with each of the re- the debate would add to our future Thus it will be Berved points, said Mr. MacDonald, difficulties in Egypt. A Business of seen that the there were many proposals as to how must have been known to the Con- "Ups And city, though the position should be handled servative Opposition (Loud Labour cheers). The responsibility must lucky in its There was the question of the mili-|
rest with the challengers." (Renew- supply of fine tary occupation of Cairo. In the
ed Labour cheers). To-day, where hotels, the hotels themselves have Sarwat Treaty it was atated that
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's appeal Now Being the old Grand by no means been over fortunate.this might be revised in ten years to the House to do no further dam- Demolished stood brightly Many of them, so well-known a
Downs"
after-
illuminated in the few years ago, have completely and then every fifth year
ed Mr. Winston Churchill's speech Our communications evening, the builders have all vanished, others have but recent wards. "Is that the last word in age to Egyp: in this debate follow- which Mr. MacDonald described as but demolished the last stones of ly gone while still others are securing
most mischievous. the old building and a vast and going. Thus, in our midst, the through Egypt?" asked the Prime Minister. "If it is, we have come
Mr. Churchill had said that Mr. bad impression. Are gaunt space is present in place of hotel business seems to be even
Henderson had made it most difl- one of Hong Kong's hotels that more chequered in its career than to a very was quite a landmark for many a many that might be mentioned there no means of securing our com- cult for our representatives aboard
murications through: Egypt ex-
views with but had better not be!!
express their cept that? If Mr. Churchill and his candour and courage. (Conserva- colleagues are in any doubt about tive cheers). He declared that that, I will tell them that the whole there was a streak of prejudice in
day.
Ye Olde "Carlton"
Another local hotel
that has fallen
to
The King's Exequatur empower-matter whilst I am talking is being the Foreign Office against Lord on evil days Mr. Kenneth C. Krentz to act as considered by three of the heads of Lloyd, who was not a member of
is the "Carlton"--
the name of more than one a Vice-Consul for the United States the Services Department." famous hotel or club in other of America in Hong Kong, has re- parts of the world, notably in ceived His Majesty's signature. London. The "Carlton," has closed its doors, and will
be occupied as an
the Civil Service. He asserted that
Mr. MacDonald added that the the Government was anxious to same variety and possibilities were change Lord Lloyd because he stood being treated with the same caution, for firmness in British rights, Mesers, J. D. A Hutchison, and only when everything had been and that administrators, great and hotel A.C.A., and I. E. Roberts, A.C.A. explored and the best proposal that small, would have this example of had been devised what would happen if they refused no mure. It seems to have had have been appointed auditors for could be made. a chequered career since, years the purposes of the Companies would an instrument, which was to land themselves to a sloppy sur- vital and o which Government render or retreat (Conservative ago, it was known as the Waver-Ordiriances, 1911 and 1925.
would commit itself, make its ap- cheers). ley Hotel. Not without a mild
pearance. British Wireless Service.
Another Report
London, Yesterday.
said that Mr. Mr. MacDonald Churchill's attack on the Civil Ser- vice was unjustifiable and baseless. He declared that nobody was less
ers
Baldwin (Conservative leader) drew Reuter. attention to "matters of gravity" | arising out of Lord Lloyd's "re- signation or dismissal."
&
that action had to
SOLDIERS' THEFT
'thy
pang have many Hong Kong rest- Telegraphic information has been dents witnessed the passing away received that Mr. John Watson, Hong Kong, Saturday, July 27, 1929. of the "Carlton, quiet and Guild of China, will be visiting which has been Secretary of the Marine Engineers'
In the House of Commons, upon surprised than the Opposition lead- a family hotel of modest pretensions for many Hong Kong next week, arriving by the motion for adjournment for the yearEvidently the building, the s.s. "President Grant" on Tues- Summer Recess, Mr. Stanley taken as regards Lord Lloyd.- STILL WATERS
which also is centrally situated day." will be renovated and let out as
The debate then terminated. Than hotels, few domestic flats.
The forthcoming wedding is an
Lord Lloyd's Successor Fluctuations communal
Reuter learns that while the nounced between Mr. John Fraser Then there was Duncan, mercantile assistant, of No. of Fortune cerns in Hong
He said that Lord Lloyd had Government is yet undecided as to The Hotel the "Astor," which 59, Edinburgh-road, Shanghai, and played his part in
attempting, Lord Lloyd's successor in Egypt, Kong, appear to
Astor also appeared to Elsie Mary Hinch, on her way to the under the direction of the late the name of Sir Percy Loraine, have undergone so many fluctus-
have had so many Colony on board the s.s. "Glenshiel.” Government, to secure liberali Minister to Athena, is mentioned in tions of fortune during the past "ups and downs" that its day of
settlement of difficulties in Egypt, this connection. Reuter. few years. What with destruc-usefulness seemed fast to be Letters of administration of the Mr. Baldwin demanded a plain tive fires and the demolition of coming to a close. In fact, the goods (valued at $20,000) of and simple answer to plain and buildings, the hotel proprietor's last occupants of the "Astor" ran Cheang Loi, alias Cheang Acoi, who simple questions, which were:Are lot does not appear to have been a the risk of the building toppling died intestate in Pinglam village, the Government contemplating a particularly happy one in our down upon them, for it was con- Heungsbau, Kwangtung, inn 1902, midst.
demned by the local P.W.D. To have now been granted to Cheang the Dominions; do they contemplate naw Treaty are they consulting day it seems to have become re Many Hong Kong juvenated and now, under the Wa-ki, merchant, No. 7, Beacons The Old residents will prob name of the "St. Francis," is field-arcade, Hong Kong. Letters going behind the concessions in the materialise), regarding the position "Grand" ably remember the brighter and more attractive than of administration were first granted Treaty of 1927 (which falled to
old Grand Hotel it has been for many a day, in 1903 to deceased's brother, its course more or less successful- no means what it once was, being 1911. The new administrator is advisers: are negotiations being morning before Mr. E. W. Hamilton which for many a day continued Needless to say the building is by Cheang Nim, but the latter died in of soldiers in Egypt; have they con- ly. It was situated at the june tion formed by Duddell Strect, Ice: House Street and Boundary Path, with its main entrance in Queen's Road. A more central site could not possibly be found in the city, and yet owing to one cause or another the old Grand" never was generally popular. A "hoodoo" seemed to hang over the place.
solid and substantial in every Cheang Lol's nephew. respect.
Gone too from
One More Of our midst is CORRESPONDENCE
The Past, therold: ""Wynd ham Hotel,"
FILM CRITICISM
A SILVER BOWL AND A CUP
SENTENCE DEFERRED
sulted any military or naval
At the Central Magistracy this carried on without the knowledge Privates Woodley and I Sexie, of the of the High Commissioner; and are list. Battalion the Somerset Light In- they concluded ?
fantry, were charged with the theft He added that Parliament should of a silver howl and a silver cup, the be consulted regarding any pro- property of the Mak Sang jewellery jected Treaty involving changes of shop, No. 37 Queen's-road, Central The theft took place last night at about concessions beyond those in the o'clock draft Treaty of 1927.
Both pleaded guilty,
His Worship: Is this the old story you want to get out of the Army? Woodley: No, Sir. The Army is all
Asked what he had to say, Woodley
which was a quiet and nicely conducted little family hotel (To the Editor of the "Chian Mati" situated at the top of Wyndhara Sir, While on the subject of film Mr. A. Henderson, Secretary of BOUW Street better known as criticism, I also would like to express State for Foreign Affairs in reply, The Chairman emphasised that there had been to Flower" Street, The Wynd by opinion on same.
He said the right. Its last occupant, bam" served a useful purpose for of the Hong Kong Amusements, Ltd., change of policy. What The if we remember many a day, but alas, it too, was is not altogether at fault, as it is very despatch of May 28, mentioned in War Did aright, was a Ger- ultimately demolished and its difficult to say which films are classified the Lords yesterday, re-stated the said took the bowl because I had man named Reichgite is now occupied by a build- as good and which as bad. A picture principles of the Government's money. I owe a debt and tried to Seale said that he had nothing to
Tay appear good to a certain number,
mann, who apparently conducted ing comprising prosaic Chinese while others would say it is "rotten." policy, following a number of dift some money, so I took the bowl."
the place quite successfully. But fats and small business premises, I am sure the management of the Hong ferences as to the policy between say
His Worship: Surely you have some then the War came, and with it Thus went into oblivion an hotel kong Amusements, Ltd., being so long Sir Austen Chamberlain and Lord the exit of the Germans from the bearing a grand old British in this line of business know per Lloyd, dating from the summer of reason for doing this?
www Seale: I was short of money. Colony, first to Tsingtau of their names.
Efectly well that if they wish to 1926.
own volition; secondly to a local. internment camp and, thirdly repatriation to der Faderland. Reichmann did his utmost to be- come a British subject so as to
its doors, and gradual expansion of their business, the mum of interference with the in their request. They asked the price and prevent a severance of himself the "Wyndham that is now no public could not have been lacking internal affairs of Egypt, and then walked away with the property
their support. Only recently they have liberal interpretation of the de-without paying for them. and the "old Grand" but in this more, we have the "Metropole added the "Majestic another first claration of 1922. - -
His Warship, addressing accused: I he was unsuccessful and the hotel Hotel." "It is comparatively new Class theatre, to their circuit in Kow- The Labour Government, which am going to put you back to concen WES closed, never again to be and seems to have established it toon and 1 am informed that the hoped to submit its policy to Parlathe sentence. You will be held in used for a similar purpose self very well in our midst
have a successful year, they must look Mr. Henderson declared that the Sub-Inspector R. Shannon said that Situated between entirely to the public for support whole trend of Sir Austen Cam there was no damage done. Both the accused went into the shoy, and the The Hotel the latest Carlton Judging from the amount of preberlain's policy had been a mini-bowl and cap were shown them at Metropole
which has closed they realise each year, and the
There was a time A German when der kaiser Rendezvous "hoched
The Victims Of
Contagration – Hon
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When
heartil and re
Military custody until Tuesday at 10
Majestic is also doing well
If those who think that the pictures ment, had concluded that it could fiend which the Hong Kong Amusements pursue a policy with any degree seems in Ltd, are screening in their theatres of confidence if Lord Lloyd's mark are most appalling my advice to themed determination to misinterpret or Kong
is either to stay away from pictures ungraciously apply that policy was entirely or to patronise anot
to continue. Mr. Henderson under by the new route maugurated by the tre which is not run by the Hong Kong took it to enforce the policy until sailing of the “Jervis Bay" from Mel-
the old Grand" and other cities specially to
hi and Prosit this pattention-to hotels
Amus
very often heart.. dir
been sparing in his
German re
years there has been plenty of ac
Hong Kon July 26,
our-mist as during
A saving of five days is expected
led the ratification bourne for London, and which pro-
of the Egyptian people to the vides for fifteen new overseas Aus Brition Parlament.
tralian mais a year