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The tourists of the Empress of Scotland appear to be thoroughly enjoying their visit to Hongkong and the beauties of the Island and New Territories
Yesterday two groups visited tho Peak, whilst the third group did an interesting tour of the New Territories by motor- enr. To-day the group that went to the New Territories yesterday will visit the Peak, group" will do a tour of the New Territories; whilst group" Ç" will go around the Island. To-morrow each of the parties will do the trips not pre- viously covered in different directions.
A large number of the tourista con- tinued their shopping expedition, and the hunt for curios and souvenirs yester- day; whilst others visited the Chiness New Year Bazaar.
Among the passengers on the Empress Scotland is Miss Marion G. Hension, of New York, who crossed the Atlantic with that cinema idol, Rudolph Valentino, who was then only 10 years, when he went to America from Italy. Miss Hennion gave him, during that yoynge, his first lessons in dancing.
THE "FRANCONIA.”. ANOTHER TOURIST LINER
SHORTLY DUE,
Another tourist liner ia shortly due to arrive at Hongkong, this being the Cunarders. Franconia, which ja scheduled to arrive at this port, in the course of her around-the-world tour, on March 21st.
Already three tourist liners have called at Hongkong on a cruise round-the- world, one-tha R.M.S. Empress of Sent- land-being at present in port. Others that have previously called here are the ss. Carinthia in November last year and the sa. Belgruland last month.
The
This leaves three more to come. next two are due within a day of each other, and incidentally both are vessels belonging to the Canard feet. The first of these is the s.s. Laconia (a description of which appeared in the 'Daily: Press earlier this week), due on Saturday, March 20th, and the other is the s.1. Franconia, due to arrive on the follow. ing day. She is chartered by Mesira. Thos. Cook & Son, Ltd. The liner's agents in Hongkong are Messrs. Butter-
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The cruise of the Franconia commenced The world tour is "being made on the from New York on January 14th and in liner by Miss Ella Mary Martin, of ber circuit of the globe she makes a call Berkeley, California, who won the world at the following places:-Funchal, Gib tour contest conducted by the San Fran raltar, Monaco, Naples, Athens, Alex- cisco Chronicle. She was elected the andria, Port Said, Bombay, Colombo, winner out of more than 3,000 contestants Padang. Batavia, Singapore. Manila, and was given two round-the-world | Hongkong, Shanghai, Chinwangtao, tickers on the Empress of Scotland, being Yokohama, Honolulu, Hilo, San Fran. accompanied on her trip by Miss Mary cisco, San Pedro, Balboa, Christobal, and Helen Pletienberg, also of Berkeley....
There is a daily newspaper, known as the Ein Press, which is published whilst at sea on the liner. Personal items, re- lative to the passengers appear in it, and international news is obtained by Marconi from the larger news broadcast. ing stations.
Havana, thence to New York. The total. distance covered will be over 30,000 miles extending over four and a half months.
The Franconia, which has been specially designed for world cruising, is over 600 feet long and has a gross tonnage of 20.000. Her accommodation, "which allows the very highest degree of luxury, in As on every ship at sea the Rumour cludes many distinctive features. For Committee is the busiest body aboard. It instance she possesses a wonderful sport- assembles more misinformation in eaching arena. It includes a gymnasium twelve hours of daylight than "Who's fully equipped not only with the ordinary Who ever published. But on the Em-host of mechanical electric devices such apparatus for physical culture but with press of Scotland is a newly organized unit, cryptically known as the Society for the Propagation of Scandal. A baby leopard, now known as Ananias, is being offered for the best scandal.
as can only be found, in the highest typ of physical culture schools on shore. racket court. in addition there is an There is a large swimming pool and a extensive sun deck where all manner of sperts can be held in the open air. Нег When the liner crossed the equator just public rooms include a card room, writ- before arriving at Padang, Sumatra, smoking room, and a magnificent dining ing room, garden lounge, drawing room,
more than a hundred were inducted into | saloon. In addition to superb state- the Order of Neptare. The Ancient rooms, the Francinia also has a number Order of Things was revived and all of private suites and excellent en suite volunteers were lathered, shaved, and apartments with private baths. turned upside down in the swimming The question of ventilation is of the tank on the forward deck by Father utmost importance in a ship which is Nepture and his suite. After the cere. engaged in cruising in tropical climates, mony an engraved degree, countersigned and this has received special attention by Father Neptune and Captain Latta, in the Franconia. She has been fitted with commander of the Empress of Scotland, the latest system known as directional entitling them to a knowledge of the valve, which, as the name implies, can secrets of the deep and to exoneration be directed at will by the passenger. The from future initiations as "the line." Fennenna las also a fully equipped Tolls aggregating $25,233.90 were dis-laundry which is of considerable con- bureed to pass the Empress of Scotland venience to passengers,
through the Suez Canal, which is an
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ARMED ROBBERIES.
phia: Mr. and Mrs. Harold V. Land-JUNK AND SAMPAN BOARDED BY quist, Jamestone, NY, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Kauman, Buffalo, N.Y., Mrs. A. M. Wichman, Bellerces, L... Miss
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Marion G. Hennion and R. B. Yerxa, Iteports have been received by the New York City, were guests, while the police of both a junk and a sampan being ship was in Singapore, of Rajah Horn, held up by armed men, who stole from the rubber king of Jobore. The rajah the occupants money and other articles. invited the party to his Jobore paluce, In the first instance a trading jank, in situated in a 196-acre garden overlooking which was the master, of Tau, Ping great artificial lake covered with water Chau Island, and a fuki, was boarded lilies His gardens have more than 1,516 by two men, armed with revolvers, while
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A NEAT TRICK., SANITARY DEPARTMENT FORMS USED.,
Two Chinese were charged at the Central Magistracy with obtaining $3.50 Road East, by false pretences, but the from an eating house at 137, Queen's second defendant was discharged as In spector Spear had no evidence to offer against him.
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day heard
Many music lovers of Hongkong yester. for the first time the new Orthophonie Victrola, which is expected to herald a new ers in musical reproduction. The demonstrations were given by Mesars. S. Moutrie & Co., Ltd., Victor distributors, throughout the day,
From the evidence given it appeared of the demonstrations was the dramatic which is sent out by the Sanitary Depart- One of the most significant features that the other defendant obtained a form, story of how this new musical instru have their premises lime-washed, and, ment advising the occupants when to ment was developed. It was explained alling it in, he had it served on the tea it was in British waters between Sha Tau that the Orthophonic Victrola is a purely house. A little later defendant called on On Christmas night the Empress of Kok (Chinese territory), and Kat O Scotland was in Jerusalem and the World Island. The junk, which trades between sound from, secards with an efficiency lime-washing done, but the occupants had mechanical instrument, which reproduces this house and asked if they wanted any Cruise Masonic Club visited the quarry Shalin and Kat C, was overtaken by the fully 100 per cent. greater than that of discovered the fraud perpetrated. of Solomon, tunnelled 700 feet under the inen in a rowing boat while a drop in all previous types. This remarkable im- Sanitary Inspector Witchell said that city. It is in this cavern of white lime the wind had becalmed it. Two stone that King Solomon is said, to have boarded it, leaving third man in the attained by re-designing the instrument usual one sent to tea, bouses and it bad men provement, it was stated, has been the form which was used was not the instituted Free Masonry about 975 B.C
Towing boat. When on board the junk in accordance with a newly applied not been sent out by the Sanitary De- The World Masonic Club comprises they produced their revolvers and stole principle known as matched impedance. partment. members, 42 of whom attended the quarry The, robbers then royed away.
moucy and articles to the value of $87.
It was this principle of matched in the forms, but he could not say offhand The Secretary had charge of ceremony. Col. Edward W. Renouf, of Montreal, is President of the Club, Mr. Kong Cheung Lung rice shop, No. 68, By translating this electrical principle
In the second case a salesman of the pedance which originally made possible whether it was possible for anyone to
long distance telephone communication. Lobtain one.,, John R. Glasson, Brentwood, England. Vice-President, and Mr. Ernest KidsConnaught Road Central, was the victim. Inte mechanical terms, it has been said that he obtained the form from the The defendant, in reply to a question. worth, Mass. Secretary,
appears that on "Wednesday afternoon Sir Arthur Mayo-Robson, the eminent he was returning in a sampan from Yin Possible to eliminate those elements in chief office British surgeon, why is on the Empress (where he had been to collect debts) heretofore have prevented faithful and should be looked into by the police.
talking machine
His Worship suggested that this matter of Scotland, was invited by his old to Sha Tau Kok and was accompanied undistorted reproduction of sound. friend, Sir Laurence Guillemard, Gover by a friend, who is a partner in a piece-
It was stated by Inspector Spear that nor of the Straits, to inspect the pro Another sampan approached with six men worked out by engineers of the Bell similar offences, but this was the first
goods shop at Chinese Sha Tau Kok
Application of this electrical principle a number of complaints had been received posed British naval base, doing so in the
to the mechanical talking machine was from the Sanitary Department regarding company of Dr. Willian Turner,, of payover, forded their one havia laboratories of the Western Electric time en offender had been caught. London, a fellow-passenger who is equally men stole from the salesman the sum of to the Victor Talking Machine Company, to six weeks' hard inhour.
revolver, their sampan.. renowned as a physician and lecturer.
Company. When the formula was offered His Worship sentenced the defendant $100 and from his friend a silver watch engineers of that company had reached The robbers, who were thought to be pickets, told their vietina that they must point in their own independent contribute to their funds and also tried arches which enabled them to take to persuade them to go on board their immediate advantage of this revolu- the entire range of musical sound sampan, but the victims refused to go.
tionary principle.
with fidelity-notes which heretofore were and the robbers then left in the 'directionmatched impedance has necessitated com distorted in reproduction are reproduced Application of this principle of either lost altogether, or were badly A cabaret concert and dance arranged
plete redesigning of the talking machine by the new instrument with their by the Kowloon Cricket Club, in aid of
as it has been known in the past. The original purity of tone colour, the widow and four children of the late
chief changes lie in the diaphragm, tone
Photographic fidelity in the phrase Mr. D. A. G. Allison, took place at the
arm and hora. The new diaphragm is that probably best describes the out King Edward Hotel yesterday evening Last night's weather report, forecast an almost uncanny sensitiveness. Every phonic Victrola. The harp, the harpsi made of very thin duralumin, which has standing characteristic of the Ortho and proved very successful.
The dining room spa attractively de-vatory stated:---
and remarks by the Hongkong. Obser curve in the sound passage is mathemati chord, the tympani, and other instru corated for the occasion, and a fine pro
cally designed, and the orthophonic hornments which were the despair of talking gramme was gone through. There were and has increased slightly in intensity, length. It is possible to build such a duced in their true beauty with unim The anti-cyclone remains stationary is just two inches less than six feet in machine designers, now can be repro about 200 people present, and dance The depression has passed into the length of horn into the cabinet by a paired timbre. An entire band, orches music was provided by the aa Empress Pacific Strong monsoon will continue unique method of folding, similar in tra or chorus can now be recorded, and
along the 8.E. Cost of China and over effect to a snail shell. the Northern China sen
CHARITY DANCE.
"GLOBE TROTTERS” ÄT KING EDWARD HOTEL.
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of Australia Orchestra,
During the dance Dick Norton and his band of "New Globe trotters" gave selections.
of Sha U Chung.
WEATHER HEPORT.
The
Local forecast: N.E. winds, fresh to strong, cloudy, some drizzle or mist
This new principle of design has made possible the reproduction of practically (Continued on next Column.).
reproduced with the same effect as if the ensemble were actually present, as was demonstrated by the records played at the demonstration: