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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 2nd, 1927.
SHANGHAI GUNMEN. THE MANILA HOTEL SALE.
TWO AFFRAYS IN SINZA.
PURE MANILA
ROPE.:
THE CORDAGE YOU CAN TRUST."
MARINE ROPE
TRANSMISSION
JOF
POWER ROPE
CABLE LAID
HAWSERS
WELL
DRILLING
CABLES
ESTABLISHED 1836 !
YNCHAUST
ROPE
FACTORY
MANILA
ROPES OF ALL SIZES FOR ALLA
PURPOSES
MADE FROM
PURE MANILA
HEMP
MANUFACTUR-
ED BY THE MOST MODERN
MACEINERY!
STOCKS ON HAND OF ALL SIZES ENQUIRIES SOLICITED.
FACTORIES:-MANILA HONG KONG OFFICE:
P.I. KING'S BUILDING. TELEPHONE: CENTRAL 3165. TA P..]
ISAKO'S CIRCUS
KOWLOON
OPPOSITE-
HUNGHOM RAILWAY BRIDGE
COMPLETE CHANGE OF PROGRAMME
The 4 Flying Arko "Kings of the Air will perform the hazardous feat with eyes blindfolded and enveloped in sacks.
TRAINED stallion "Sourabaja" will dance the most-up-to-date dances under the
conductorship of Mr. F. ISAKO.
Daring Acrobatic feats by Gridnieff Bros.
New Eccentrics and Musical Acts.
ENTIRELY NEW PROGRAMME SELECTED
MATINEE:
Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday,
AT 4 P.M.
CHILDREN HALF PRICE
GREAT OPPORTUNITY :-
During Intervals Children will be allowed to Ride HORSES, PONIES, CAMELS,
DONKEYS, etc.
ALPS
MILK
BANIZ
SOLE AGENTS : A. B. MOULDER & CO. On Sale at all Stores.
ON SALE.
OUND VOLUMEB of the HONG BKONG WEEKLI PRESS, January to June, 1996,
WITH INDEX, PRI $7.00. On sale at the Hona Kowe Daily
THE PICNIC SEASON
HAS STARTED
Let
BEAR BRAND MILK
serve all your needs.
It is delicious in Ice Cream. Can be carried with no incon- venience for use in Tea or by itself Childreu love it and it in absolutely safe.
(A.P.B.]
THE KEY FLENOR MOONDI.
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TWO CHINESE KILLED AND BUSSIAN WOUNDED.
Two Chinese policemen are dead; at the mortuary, two are injured and one Russian constable has bul- let, wounds in his leg as a result of a serious affray with armed roh- hers fast Thursday night, says the South China Daily of May 20th, The police catne to their injuries when they encountered six armed rublers in the Sinza district at 9.to!
last evening.
The police had left Sinza Police station under the command of Tem porary constable Kluken about 7.10
p.. and had covered the district
quite thoroughly. On approaching an alleyway on the east side of Curler Hond, they noticed 51 X literers, The police challenged them and received no reply and when within about four yards from them the men opened fire simultane ously.
HONG KONG-SHANGHAI HOTEL COMPANY INTERESTED.
JAPANESE INTEREST IN PHILIPPINES.
The Owners of the Waldorf-
Astoria, New York's best known hotel, and the Hong Kong Shang- hai Hotel Company, which operates the principal hotels in China, are interested in the Manila Hotel and have pakett Malacañang for detail.
Varning
DERBY RESULT.
"CALL_BOY," THE FAVOURITE, WINS.
SICKLE NOWHERE.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
LONDON, June 1st.
The result of the, Derby, ran at Episom, was as follows:-
t'all Boy
Hot Night Shian Mor Twenty-three ran. engths: eight lengths second and third.
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Won by two dividing
information as to the conditions of its sale, says the Manila Times, Two big shipping concerns, un derstand to be the Canadian Pacific
The Betting. and the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, The closing betting was have also inquired
the about
41 Call Boy: 9 to 2 Hot Manila Batel, its book value, net | Night: 22 to 1 Shish Mor.
capacity, and the
LATER. proximate rice
which the Trent was ridden by 1. Bensley. Manila Railroad company would Damon, Money Maker and Dark be willing to dispose of its shares Antony were withdrawn; otherwise in the property.
the ruuners were identical with i The inquiries were made through the probables previously mention friends of the owners of these coin- Fed. panies. The information desired has been furnished them.
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The entrance of these powerful į foreign interests in the bidding practically puts local capitalists out of the runing, according to those experienced in the hotel basi- ners. As far as the reading of
Latest Scratching. Official scratching for the Derby, Moneynker at 10 jam. on Tuesday.
Further Detalls.
The police were entirely unpre- pared for Alin mustanght. They, imwever, drew their pistols but not of signs is encerned, the Manila i nouseed that the horse was scratch
efore U.P.4. 180 fell dead at their Test. The police returned the fire but the rabbers continued to shoot with the resith that every man in the search party, with one excep tion, is either dead or wounded. The constable on point duty gave chase and received a bullet in dw
The robbers separated and ran westward along Sinza Road and the Russians constable and a Chi- ne policeman followed them for a distinge of about 100 yards. Their injuries prevented further pursuit and a passing policeman took up the chise but would not get into action because of the crowd
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The Derly probables included Dark Antony (no jockey given).
The trainer of Money Maker al
owing to shoulder trouble.
Hotel would net the government at last 12,000,000, a price believed too high from the standpoint of
Call Boy's jockey was, Elliott, local investors. This is only a litot Night's Wragg and Shian Lave. The winner's the less than its book value, which Mor's F
trainer was Mr. Watts; Hot is about P. 2,400,000.
Night's Mr. Crawford and Shian Mor's Mr. B. Jarvis.
Three bids from local capitalists have been officially forwarded to Malaenian. Only that presented by Amerienn grup headed by E M. Bachem 15 considered strong enough to put up a fight against foreign bidders.
THE WINNER.
Call Boy, early in his career, won T. Murala, bend of the Japanese the Middle Penk Stakes, the Liuton commercial mission which left Ma- Stakes and was third in the July nila on the President Cleveland,¦ Stakes. He was, however, unex believes that the day is not far dis pectedly beaten by Hurry On. gant whs palural tes mrves of the Both on two your old and three Philippine Islands will be develop-year old form, he gained his place
tween him and the murderers. led with Japanese capital. He dens this year's Derby favourite, The latter disappeared in alleyclared that there is a billion yen which, for once in a way, was justi ways and no arrests have been of Japanese capital invested in | Seal, mide. The body of C.P.C. 130 was development of Oriental possessions removed In the mortuary and and he does not know why part C.P.C. 1200 to Paulun hospital of this anney should not be used where he died within an hour. The to advance agriculture and ather others are all reveiving medical af industries here. lention.
Hotel Bid Rejected, Nine shots were Gred by the police" with what effert is unknown. It Because the terms were consider Jas been reported however that avd unsatisfactory, the B. Haldanes tailor on Carter Road was wound- Duncan bid for the Manila Hotel ed by a tray butlet.
was rejected by the board of direr- A Sinza Police station last even lors of the Manila Bailroad, which ang, Chief Inspector Aiera said that controls the hotel, at the special the deceased constables were among meeting on Friday afternon. No the best in the entire force.
THE FOLLOWING NIGHT.
THE LUCKY OWNERS.
Mr. Ersuk Curzon, the fortunate esener of Call Boy, is the well known theatrical manager who at one time had nu less than 5 West El theatres under his control.
Sir Victor Sassoon, who owns very well-known Hot Night is member of the famous Sussoon family. Sir Victor, though associat el chiefly with the family business in Indin, is frequently in the Far East.
other offers were submitted.
The terms of the Haldane-Dunean bid were
not made public. No counter proposition will be made Major J. S. Courtauld, M... by the Manila Railroad, tieneral M.P., the rer of Shian Mor is Sinza, onquestionably Shanghai's Manager Pact, chairman of the a member of Courtauld's, Ltd., the hotel board, announced after the Famous manufacturers of artificial most rullanly district, staged an-
However, nothing pre silk. meeting.
He had a distinguished war other battle between polier and gun men fast night, says the Shanghai vents Mr. Haldane Duncan, who record and at the last election won 1 Filipino-American the Chichester Division of West Mercury, Fortunately there were represents
group, from making another offer. Sussex for the Conservatives.
no casualties.
For the second night in succes- sion the Sinza police were called won to face the bullets of armed Last evening at 9.90 a search party under the command of
Jameson, consisting of ten
| Nord Chinese police, encoun-I
tered two suspicions characters in Freshas. On being called upon to halt one of the men leaped from his vehicle and immediately open ed fire on the party, retiring in the direction of Shanhaikwan Road His companiou was immediately arrested and was found to have a 25 entre automatic, of probable Gorman muke, in his sleeve.
The rest of the search party con- tinued the chase after the man who had opened fire, shooting at him as they went, but owing to ing tram
11) stopping directly their line of fire, he was not hit.
DILSK-
BOATSWAIN OF A.P.C. STEAMER KILLED.
EATAL FIGHT BETWEEN
RUSSIANS.
As a result of a refusal to obeyi an order, a fight ensued between two Russians on board the A. P. C. steamer, Chin Kuang, at Shang hai last Thursday afternoon, and one of them was killed.
None of these three has won a Derby before. Last year, of course, the classic event went to Lord | Woolavington's Coromoch and in 1925 to Mannat, owned by the well known Shanghai owner, Mr. H. E. Morriss.
LOCAL MAN WINS £8.000.
DRAWS CALL BOY IN SIERRA
LEONE SWEEP
A Hong Kong man, said to be a Judge Ziar, at the Provisional Portuguese member of Messrs. Jar- Court, was inde nequinted with dine, Matheson and Co's staff, drew the facts, when Det. Sergt. White Call Boy in the Stillwell Sweep related that he arrested the defend. stake, organised in Sierra Leone art, Constantite Viozehovitch, 22 The value of the first prize years old, on a change of murder. E8,000. ing Philipovitch, a boatswain, on beard the 8.s. Chin Kwang.
Sear Shanhaikwan Road, in a On inquiries made, it appeared. maze of alleyways, the indild the defendant to help him with anid the witness, that the deceased
was cornered in a cul-de-suc
a closed door from which point he opened & Farious fusillade. After
the work, but the latter refused. A
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The Charleston Done
the way they do it in MONTA BELL'S
Goldwyn
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PICTURA
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PRODUCTION
with scones f
Technicolor
PRETTY LADIES
with ZAZU PITTS TOM MOORE LILYAN TASHMAN,
Added Attraction ANN PENNINGTON From the story "Hearts" by ADKLA ROGERS ST. JOHNS Adapted by Alles D. G Miller
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TO-DAY till SATURDAY
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quarrel ensued, during which ROYAL HONG KONG GOLF
an exchange of about sixty shots, Viozehovitch pushed Philipovitch, the position was forced from the and the latter slapped Viozehovitch side, but the guerilla, possibly with on the face. Some blows followed, the connivance of householders, had effected his escape, leaving behind and the defendant rushed down to him an empty 7.65 millimetre auto-his cubia, got a knife, and on con matic German pistol. Both the up again thrust the knife into pistols are perfectly new with the Philipovitch, killing him instan-
taneously, lueing still untarnished.
The prisoner taken carlior, on ex- amination, would only give the in- formation that he and his partner had come from Yangissepoo
After formal evidence of arrest was given, Chief Engineer Moore, off the "sa. Tien Kun, told, the Court that although he did not ace the knife thrusi into the deceased Is It A Guerills. Plot?
he saw the defendant pull out the There are a number of vircum-knife.
Wau Suin-dah, the No. 1 boy on stances surrounding the two latest affairs in Sinza which lead to the board the s.s. Chin Kwang, corto- belief that these men are not armborated Sergt. White's statement. ed robbers of the ordinary type. The defendant pleaded guilty, but said that he did not agree with The fact that the pistols taken are invariably now, the reticence of Be particulars of the evidence prisoners, the inclination to shoot given this morning. at sight, and the general air of truculence prevalent in the district,
Sinza's Truculent Demeanour. suggest that another campaign by "long-gowns," such as created the The better part of an hour speut reign of terror before the capture in a gonerul tramp through main of Shanghai by the Southerners, throughfares and bye-stress of the and inunediately after, is hatching. Sinza district brought the convic
Officers of Sinza do not entirely tion that the whole population of
with this theory. They point the district is in an extremely tru Agree
a short-cut be calent and anti-foreign mood. out that Sinza tween the Chinese districts of To the observer with an
intimate Nantao and Chapei and that bad knowledge of other Chinese dia characters who are known to infest triets, oven in the notorious Mill the Chinese areas find it a conven- District, there is no such air of ient pathway between the two ill-will visible as can be noticed on points.
practically every Chinese face in (Continued at fout of next column.) ' Binza.
CLUB.
ADAMSON CUP,
In the Adamson Cup Competition for May J. M. McBride qualified with a score of 93--18-75. .
Other scores were:
F. H. Glover ... 95-18-77 A. Goldenberg 94--16-78
RIVER LEVELS.
KWANGTUNG CONSERVANCY
BULLETIN.
West River at Shiubing: May 30th, 20ft 4ins.; May 31st, falling highest level on re cord 41 feet; lowest on record (in. North River at Tsingyuen: May 30th, 10ft. Bins. May 31st, falling; highest level on re- oord 26t. 7ins.; lowest sin. -North River at Samshui: May 30th, 12ft. Dine; May 31st, 10ft. 3ins. highest level on record ft. 3inn.; lowest 3ft. Dine.
East River at Shoklung: May 30th, 14ft.; May 31st, rising; highest 15ft.
gina.
lowest
aft
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