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YEE SANG FAT
CO.
-Just arrived.
LADIES' NEW
SPRING HATS
Every desirable
style of
For sports,
for
street.
for
dress
wear.
hat for
Spring.
Reasonable prices.
→YEE SANG FAT Co.++++
We are now showing the
NEW MODELS
in
WHITE SHOES
also
Keds
For LADIES, GENTS. and
CHILDREN.
See window display.
*****New low prices.
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GERMAN ACTIVITY IN CHINA.
Failure.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, APRIL
MAURETANIA READY
AGAIN.
Nearly £1,000,000 Spent
on the Liner.
After having had nearly a million pounds spent upon her in redecorations and in transform- ing her into an ail-fuel barner, the Mauretania reached South- ampton fram the Tyne last) month, and will be ready soon to resume her place in the Cunard Company's Atlantic service,
It was wonderful voyage south. There was not the slight-i est semblance of motion. In fact.: st one time or shother, practical- ly every passenger went to the side and peered over to make sure that the liner was actually on the
Move.
It was as steady as a room at home.
TOWED STERN FIRST- There had been something Gil-f [bertian in the buge vessel being: Įtowed down the Tyne stern first; yet this was one of the most striking spectacles of the voyage. With thick black smoke belch.
HOTELS
HONGKONG HOTEL
PEAK HOTEL
1922
REPULSE BAY HOTEL
Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.
KING
EDWARD HOTEL.
CENTRAL LOCATION,
ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING, TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR. HOTEL LAUNCH. MEETS ALL STEAMERS.
Talegraphio Address: "VICTORIA " Fri. 173
J. WYTCHELL,
Manager.
ing from their funnels, the four EUROPE HOTEL, SINGAPORE.
Pag-boats that towed the ship
dawn the river were for long) stretches perfectly abreast and absolutely equi-distsat, and as shrill cheers came across the water from the crowds lining the banks one wondered if the [spectators emotions were stirred by the poetry of the pic- ture or whether the cherring was a tribute to the vessel which bad provided work for so many Tyne- side men during the present dark period of the shipbuilding industry
NORTH SEA TESTS.
Tests were carried out in the Sorth Sea, and these show that the liper's speed. when occasion i warrants. will be greater than eset.
To all intents and purposes she is a new Mauretania. far more luxurious than ever before.
Each of the big rooms has its Įdistinctive style of decoration.
Perhaps the corisst and most de-| lightful place of all is the Louis Seize writing-room and.library.
Then there is the two-tiered dining saloon with its massiva. dome-one of the most magnífi- cent rooms ever constructed on board a ship.
The lounge is representative of an eighteenth century. French estoon. A notable alteration here is the introduction in the centre; of a parquet floor for dancing.
The smoking-room bas also been renovated in a way to bring out the beauties of the Italian decoration of the 15th. century period.
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All the state-rooms have been improved, and many of the ex suite rooms bave been repagallad with silk.
GREYHOUND OF THE OCEAN.
UNDER NEW BRITISH MANAGEMENT.
THE PREMIER 'HOTEL FINEST SITUATION
EXCELLENT
ARTHUR E
CUISINE.
ODELL,
(Late Grand Hotel, Southcliffe, England and
Royal Palace Hotel, London, W)
KINGSCLERE
HOTEL MID-LEVEL
KNUTSFORD HOTEL KOWLOON SACHSE. LENNOX & Co. General Agents
Are resident Managers,
PALACE HOTEL, KOWLOON.
Tel Na K
Tel Add · Palace,
Two minutes from Ferry and Railway Station. Five minutes by Ferry from Hongkong
A ft clam Hotel in every sespect and under English management, Cuisine under penosa) supervision of the Proprietor, Loange. Kat and Billiard Boga.
Terms Modern 2.
Special azkazementi for txmilies on application to
J. H OXBEERY,
Proprieto:.
Hear Sager de
Asah
SOLE AGENT,
DAJ NIPPON BREWERY COMPANY OKYO, JAPANÍ
SPEC ALET VIEWED
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD.,
HONGKONG.
THE
INME
CORONET
2.30, 5.157.15 and 9,15
KOWLOON
THEATRE
HALF
CHANCE
at 9 15
A:
PERFECT
CRIME
WORLD THEAT
PHONE. 1337
PHONE. 133
Hongkong's How Modern Picture Palace. Entirely Coder British Mazagen
TO-DAY!
5 pm and is pm.
-
GLORIA SWANSON
CECIL B
is
DEMILLE'S
Special Production
TO-DAY!
"FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE"
7 parts:
VANITY, JEALOUSY, LOVE and HATE WOVEN INTO STRANDS of GRIPPING,PLOT.
2.30 and 7.15 p.m.
THE WHITE HORSEMAN" Episodes, 12 & 13.
SUNDAY MATINEE 6 p.m. WALLACE REID
in
"TOO MANY MILLIONS"
Usual Prices.
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE-
WEATHER REPORT.
The ball is hoisted half m the 55th minute and full ma the 57th minute. Should th Fail to drop at the correct ti
April 24d. 31b. 39m-Pressure will be lowered at fire mi has decreased considerably from past the bour and the ord S.W. Japan to Weibsiwei and routine repeated at the foll moderately де Vladivostock,bour, if possible.. Shanghai and Foodbow. It has Should the time ball be o increased slightly from Formosa order the above routine wi to Hongkong.
carried out with the flig.“ Z the storm signal masi,
The depression has deepened It was to the north of Fagasaki at 6 am. this morning,
Time signal are also giv night by means- of: three Hoogkong Rainfall for the 24 amps mounted vertically of
| Observatory wireless mast. Hours ending at 10 am. to-day, gb. 56m. Os. to 9h. 0m. Os 0.00 inch. Total since January the lamps are extingu momentarily at the even sed expect at the 2nd, 28th, 52nd, and 34th of saol mine
nepartment of Kiscs to the in the future. In the Yangtzania is as good, if not better, than UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS. PEAK TRAMWAYS CO., LTD. /ish. 11.90, inches, against O
Ministry of Agricultore Commerce, the failure of the and
But after all the most important rasalt of the six months' lay-up is the conversion of the vessel from coal-burning to oil-burning. Anxious to
Already the Mauratania holds the resume their com Blue Ribbon of the Atlantic, and mercial activities with their! former German friends. Accord-
from what Sir Thos. Keyden ing to the investigations of the (chairman of the company) said last night there is little doubt she Effect of Big Stock Exchange Kiangan industrial-development will retain in
department. the signing of the
"It speaks volumes for the de- Sino-German shipping agreement According to the reports of the will lead to other German.signers and engineers," said Sir Chinese industrial-development Chinese commercial combinations Thomas, "that in the fifteenth year of her existence the Maure- and treaty ports, the entire foreign
Chinese busines
in the year she came out. We ex- com. largest and strongest Chinese manities, especially the smart pect and we have good grounds stock and produce exchange, pro Japanese businessmen in China, for the expectation that she will noted by the millionaire Yaare following the movements of retain in the future all the prestige Chia-ching and other prominent the Germans and their resum -be has earned in the past."
The dry-docking of the vessel maytion of commercial relations with merchants of Shanghai,
signed the Chinese, with unusual inter at Southampton this morning affect the agreement
RB. the was as kilful & feat between the Chinese San-peilest, because, since the world war. Steam Navigation Company and the Japanese have acquired towage down the Tyne.
A single tug towed the liner the German Hamburg-America greater portion of the former Line concerning the trans-German trade in China and. Piectically into the entrance of bai shipment of cargoes arriving from therefore, the re-appearance of the dock, and then when everyone German ports to the various ports the Germans in the fields will was wondering how the tog in the Yangtze River as far as surely grove to he disadvan- Chungking.eastern Szechuan and tageous to Japan's China'trade. Changsha, on the Tungting Lake
IRRITATED, AND ́ INFLAMED EYE
of Hunan. Mr. Ya. the principal promoter and shareholder of the Chinese stock and produce ex- change of Shanghai, is also the managing-director of the San-pei can be directly traced in manp Company, cases to the Sunday Motor triy Steam Navigation though the two concerus have and Golfing. The dust from some been administered quite separate sections of the local roads contain 1y, and it is hoped that the failure a decided eye irritant. A sugges
of the exchange will not affect the business of theSteam Naviga tion Company.
.
tion for these trips would be to
THE GREAT NORTHERN TELE-
average of 10.26 inches. FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW.
District
GRAPH COMPANY, LTD.. The following Unclaimed Tele- grams are lying here
1.00
TIME TABLE. WEEK DAYS.
5.00 6. 2
Evert 18 nis
1.00
E
2.30
H
11.30
15 win
12.3
2.38
15 min
– 35 mìə
1 Hongkong
Gap Rock..
Eames Kremlin, from Nanking Mills Sfire, from Shanghai. Pawcbal, Hom Kobe. -Taksingbong, (2) from Shang-..
0578, from Ningpo.. Mogfat c/o Kongping Des could escape, she whisked round Voeux Road, from Shanghai. the bow of the Mauretanis and Yawochong, from Shangbai,:
Chouringkai No. 1 3rd floor anly about a foot to save her Queen's Road West, from Shang- from being crumpled to match, hai. wood.
out of the dock entrance with
PHILIPPINES GOVERNOR-
GENERAL
keep the windshield up and to use Will General Wood's Term
a pair of Sunglasses. SunglassOS
pattern
ANXIOUS FOR GERMAN TRADE of any
with either)
be Extended?
Kiankee, from Amer. Kowcheung; from Array. Hipkeo 210 Rice Street (2), from Amoy,
Yipabkon Motorcar Club Cen- tral, from Shanghai.
2684, from Hankow.. Niptaisou, from Shanghai. 5656, from Shangbal.
TH. KEINO. Superintendent.
Hongkong. April 20, 1922.
The Chinese commercial people, Crookes, Luxfel, Fieuzal, Amber, No announcement has been specially those merchants and de- London Smoke, or Blue leaser made in Manila, says the Bulletin salers who formerly had business are obtainable at very moderate of that city, that Governor Gen- connections with the Gero-ana in prices from The Hongkong Opti-eral Wood bad decided to delay EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRA) - Chitin, are watching the re-entry cal Co., successors to Clark & his departure from the islands! ASTA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO. of the Germans into the Chinese Co., manufacturing and refract-beyond Beptember, but It has been 10294/15th. Apexine, from New foreign trade with great and close ing opticians the most com-intimated during the last few Yorkable interest, and those prominent petent, manufacturing optical days that he might find it neces-
10879/17th, A. F. Bemis Htel Cantonese and Ningpo compra- establishment in South China-sary to remain here several Astor, from Calcutta. dores and traders in bhanghai, located in 53, Queen's Road Cen- months after that date in order to 9877/15th; Mr. Blankenship U. 8. Hauków and other Yangize ports tral, opposite to the Singer Bew-se his programme well on the s. Wilmington, from Shanghai. are reported to be exceedingly ing Machine Company).
way to completion,
Lo 9.30
Lo 13.30.1.10
to 2.30 p.m
1.10 m
NIGHT CARS.
5.50 .. to X.00 p.m. 1.20 2.30 pm to 11.30 p.m. wiry Shəminator 11.45 1.0.
SATURDAYS.
PETRA CAE 12.00 midsizki. SUNDAYS.
7.30 am to 7,45 s.m.-
1.30 am to 11.00 0.1. 11,00 1.3, de 12,00 Moơn 12.00 Moon to 10 pm. 1.00 pm to 4,80 3.1. 4.00 to 1.30p.m.
NIGHT CARS. Lc.on-Work Days. SPECIAL CARS.
BY LILLEUSEMIT AT TEJ OCENCETÝR OVELSA, komandas suñozsos a TORS 1017..
11029/18th, Davisbong, from Adelaide.
8747/13th. Hewitt, from Cor regidor.
8221/12th, Intertext,
Litim,
Sbanghai
8757/13th, Wasbingtonde.'
Forecast.
N.E. or variable
to winds,
* Formoss Channel
light to
moderate; fine to cloudy.
NEwinds, moderate
› South count of the same
Ching between
B.K. & Lamooks.)
as No. 1.
South coast of The same China between
H.K. & Hainan..
No. 1.
The hours refer to Hong Standard Time (8 hours of Greenwich)
METEOROLOGICAL
Previous
'on date.
Barometer Temperature Hamility
29.81
29.8T 76 71
73
-61
Wind Direction EW CALM
T. 8. CLAXTON; Director. Wind Force 2. 40
1.E. Observatory, April 24, 1922 | Weather...
Rain.
177 0,00 10,00 | Highast open
Temperat
TIKE BIGKAIN. from
The time ball on Kowloon from Signal Hill is dropped daily at 10 .m. and 4 p.m., except on Satur 10637/17th, Manager Syc Japp days when it is dropped at 10 D&m; and i p.in. sod on Sundays. Company, froin Saigon.
from and Holidays when it is dropped.
at 10a.m. only
8338/12th, Kongsteel, Bengkok,
M. E F. AIREY,
Superintendent.
Hongkong, April 20, 1952:
Lowe
Temp
T.F.
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