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VIOLET HEMING,
WANDA HAWLEY,
BEBE DANIELS
I
and
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
One hundred of the most beautiful women
In the world take part in
EVERYWOMAN
THE PRINCE BACK IN THE OLD COUNTRY.
A Royal Ovation.
The return bome of the Prince of, Wales is thus described by Sir Philip Gibbe in the Daily Pranicle of June 22.
Bronzed, with the lives of his face a little sharpened and lined by to sum and bard travel, but with his smile the same as ever, the Prince of Wales came home again to London and had a great a welcome as over the old city has given to a Friuce of Youth.
There are times when Londoc is a grim and gloomy place for a homecoming, in fours and rain be: posterday it was an beautilul as it can look on a June day aven to ages of travellers who, liko tho Prince, bave seen the white reagic of Oriental cities and the Man-baked splendour of palices and moques.
their
LONDON GOOD AND RESTFUL..
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MONDAY, JULY 24, 1923.
HOTELS
LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS.
HONGKONG:
Peak Hotel, Repulse Bay Hotel. SHANGHAI:
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Grand Hotel Kalee. PEKING:
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1936
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T/T San Franciscol
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BUYING.
KING EDWARD
It's WC
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2778
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best frocks for bin, brought out their brightest sunshades to waves. LIC "Hullo" to him.
were
30 đ/m. Sydney and' Melbourne
39d/s.San Francis-}
4 m/s. Marks
The Hongkong Hotel Co. Ltd.
In conjunction with
The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.
and
The Grand Hotel des Wagons Ltd.
HOTEL.
CENTRAL - LOCATION,
ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING, TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR. HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS.
co&New York/
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HOSES ALL THE WAY. By lucky chance it was Queen Alexandra's Day, and alli the rose-girls were in the streets, and not a man or woman or boy for child along all the time of
5 m/s. France............. route but bad & rose in button-
Damand, Germany. hole or hat, and some Demand, New York 3756 gulanded.
TĮ l* Bombay "Waar roses for the Prince!" Demand, Bombay... 19316 said a placard, but the reminder Tг Calcutta we not needed. and there was a
Demsod, Calcutta
1984 glinting kaleidoscope of colour in Yokohama......... 120 on the pavements with these Demand, Macila 11636 zees and these summer frocky, Demand, Singapore. 111 and be living flowers of Eng. Demand, Batavia 150
shirthaod. For the Prince
) Haiphong of Youth it was's pretty pageant On Saigon on me way.
FAMILY GERETINGS.
A Puddington there Was fandy scene wheath King ari Queer
with Queen Alexandis. Prace Henry, Princess Mary, and Viscount Lascettes had the
delight of greeting the young
On Bangkok Sovereign
Nom.
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7.60
Gold leaf per Tuel... — Bay Silver, ready... 3516
forward ***...... 35 Bank of England rates 3% New York/London'... 4459§
SUBSIDIARY COINS.
Sitting by the King's side, so he drra throsh the old familia:| Prince after his long absence of f'kong 50 ct pieces streets after 40,000 miles of wanight months. Pa one of th dering, the spirit of London the Platforms W15 J grandstand.
10 5
par
par
1/4% dis
19 8% dis Hongkong. July 24, 1922.
Foot cla heart of London, and capel in red and goit, for a Canton sab. coins bis place in it, must have reeted | number of special cueste, who gund to him, and restful.
included the Prime Minister, the After all his months of flaenne | fan of Balfour Viroust Birker. the Prince had a look in bis eyes i head, Lark Lea of Pareham, S.-I of aldness to be home in dear | Haar openwood, Mr. Fiber Pity old London, so old, and on Roal, to those who know her 1- he does.
the Lord Mayor, and other s
WEATHER REPORT.
10 miles
To the very seanat at 3.30, the July 2d 10%. Mm.-Warning *rak trew thy and the Prince Hongkong, Coast Parts, &c:- This welcome, this ovation of pamput down, and heartily on-
Dat strant crowds of smiling, cheeringase ? une strig, wan surtoun k waving folk, was a soware for thin for a few mikutes, and or the tremendous fatigue of a meta made way for his greatnesing SAW jabdone well and truly, for Eug with the Prung Minister and lai's sake, with untiring seal. though often tired. Now home
THE PRESONAL TOUCH.
A MATHENS PRIVE
July 24d. 1th. 38m.-Pressure has increased slightly at Vladivo: -spek and decreased slightly
Hongkong. from Weihaiwei to Formosa and
It was not for a pageant that closed with his son, and it was The King looked proud and people came out in their millionsbrous to all the people that by to stand for hours packed tight on geared the Prince tracknowledge typhoon was
At 6 am this morning the snow pavements on a warm
about 150 miles: slope the tremendous Leachatir N.E. of Appari, moving appar-: June day.
ng cheera which rose up from ently to the N.W. slowly. It is London as soon as the Royal car evidently a very small typhoon. riate appeared, with the Fridrei alting by the King's side, with hours ending at 10a.m. to-day, Hongkong Rainfall for the *
ceded and followed by the escort 1. 3116 inches. against the Duke of York opposite, pre 10.1 inch. Total since January of Life Guarde.
average of 48.4 inches.
There was an intimate personal Toon why crowda of well- dressed women, with great num- ber of old dies among them. tank their seals on the kerbstones code the Palace, and up by the Marble Arch, 2g early as 9 o'clock in the morning, reinforord as thin Fara passed by battalions of young girls, lygions of old men, *Mitizen of all ages, fellows walk- ing`sting with the help of sticks. Land men who would not know to the Frince passed except by the noise about them, youngish
in civil clothes but with but toms and medals in their jackate.
not because he
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extraordinary, but because he is ordinary, that he has captured the English beert. With his hayishramite, bilsby, fidgety way when the public gaze is on him, hil love of games, his keen kauka of humour, hisjsanty way, he is typical, as all of us like to think. of what is best and jolliest and healthiest in English youth, as wn saw it before it was cut -down in sheaves, somewhere in
France.
I heard some of the old Indies talking in the crowd, and it was that thought that seemed upper. most in their minds.
"England is all right as long as we have boys like that," said one of them. And another said: | "My Dick used to see him some- times round about Ypres. Ha was one of them."
MEMORY OF COMRADESHIP. That memory of comradeship in. a great and grims adventure, in
which boyhood won all there was to win, was recalled to some
were not
out
since
· District.
AD
The bousee all along the route stresors. To tell the were decorated with flags and¦ FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS
truth, ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW, 107 of the
faded and bedraggled.
having beer. brought the day of the Victory March 1 Farmoss Channel There was no Izvishness or splen dour in those decorations. that was right, in these hard And
timea. For better than bunting | was the fire of enthusiasm which i
it up the eyes of old folk and 3 Young because this Prince of buys was home again.
THE KING'S THANKS. The following Royal message was issued from Buckingham Palace:-
Hongkong
Gap Rock..
Telegraphic Address: *VICTORIA "
J. WITCHMY.L
Manager.
THE EUROPE HOTEL.
SINGAPORE.
DANCING AFTER DINNER EVERY
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY...
TEA DANCES.
TUESDAYS and THURSDAYS.
The Hotel Orchestra under the Direction of Mr. F. R. Martens.
Telephones in every Room.
Telegraphic Address " EUROPE, SINGAPORE" Telephone No. 2740 (9 lines).
KINGSCLERE KNUTSFORD
THE EUROPE HOTEL LTD.
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HOTEL
HOTEL
MID-LEVEL KOWLOON
SACHSE. LENNOX & Co., General Agents
Are resident Managers.
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Tel Add Palen, Trumpet e Four Ferry and Rosiwag station. Five minutes by Ferry from Boeglung A drasticam Bosni in qng nhoard under English managemen Luising uttar, eronatingenti sum of the Proprietor,
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ST NIPPOR
Forecast.
N.W.winds, freshening.
SOLE AGENT,
MITSUI
BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD.,
to
E. or
South coast of variable
China between winds.... H.A. & Lamocks. I light to
moderate;
4 South coast of fair.
Chine between H.K. & Hainan,}
T. 3 CLAXTON, Directoż.
The Queen and I were deeply i touched by to-day's remarkable H.K. Observatory, July 24. 1922, demonstration.
Our joy in welcoming our dear son was increased by the affection and enthusiasm of bis reception from the vast crowds| assembled to grest him.
He bas safely returned from a long and responsible tour: and I am confident that my people share in our humble. thanks to God for this happy and oemorable day.
GEORGE R.I.
PEKING DEFIED.
Tolds at least by yesterday's Peking, July 12-The governor
welcome home.
METEOROLOGICAL.
Previous
on date.
HONGKONG,"
RIVER LEVELS,
As a guide to shipmasters and others interested in the water levels of the river we have been requested by the Board of Con- servancy Works of Kwangtang to publish the following table of water level. The levels are taken at 10 am. each day. ·
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1922
Highest W. Lomut W. L
Place of Observation
-resided
recorded
Yet
Feet
W.LAW. L. July July 21
Yest
Fort
Wachow, West River Kangmoon, Linkonghow, North
+ 19,50
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44.9
+14.70
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UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
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TIDE TABLE.
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90
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TIME TABLE. WEEK DAYS
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24th. to 30th. Jaly, 1922.
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Barometer 29.64 29.64 29.63 Temperature ... 85 Humility..... 71 Wind Direction Wind Force Weather........ Rain......
of Chekiang province has defied Highest open These 6,000 police and 1,000 the Peking government, and it is "specials," who kept the crowdal reported that a movement hes so good-humouredly, so patiently, he started in Chekiang to invits Lowest open were out to guard the way for a lad whe was one of the "Com-to white in forming an autonom
Fakien and Kwangtung provinces
qua government haded by Son Yat-sen...
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MK, OEORGE J. QOULD MARRIS MUSICAL COMEDY ACTE ESS.
rades of the Great War" in which they won all those "big misle which glinted in the ann. That memory of old grim days was not the inspiration which. New York, July 12-Cable brought millions of pretty girls grams to the Gould family today. into the streets, Simply stated, announced the mufige in Paris
0.00 0.00 0.00 34 OUT
Weight:
air
Hongkong
Boggon
Temperature on the
23rd 87
13.229. to 32%.
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Temperature on the 24th 78 T. F. CLAXTON, Director, HLK. Obervatory, July 24.
PASSENGERS DEPARTED. PL 2
Per sa Soudan for Bombay vii
they are all in love with him, with last week of George J. Gould to ports July 22nd-Mrs. Haznevi, S. 30, 2 bleamily felt his gallander, with Alice Sinclair, & musical comedy Mr. and Mrs. J. E, Denham -- Mr. tragmatinam in his-actress. Mr. Gould's first wile, Parker Ness, Miss Parker Nest, Towak, of English Edith Klogion Gould, has been Mr. H. Birbeck, Mr. Grabam,
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SUNDAYS.
THE GREAT NORTHERN TELE- GRAPH COMPANY, LTD...
The following Unclaimed Tele- grams are lying here
Jow Graverly Hongkong Hotel, from Shanghai
Ogino Matsubara, from Tuno- kuchibisen.
Lyons Solano, from Shangbai Yakio Sakuratchi e/o Hikoz aki Marn Nippon Yusen Kaisha, from Tokyo.
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Taulay Amoy
Osihwarchun, from
Silence, from Amoy. Obanfongshan Wingthening Co. Biyingpoone, from Shanghat.
Kooghongtal, from Shanghai. 3037 (2), from Shanghai Ngabuayee, ff a Shanghai Wingon West Point, from Koba,
TH. KRING Superintendenc
Hongkong. July 20, 1922.
EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRAL ABIA CHINA TELEGRAPH Coa
10647/18th, Obrefarm, front Francisco, clo-11029/19th, Riceopal, - frot
Saigon
Milani Hakozaki” Maru, from | Tokyo, es f
Hohendy Jardines, from Kobe. Brazier Faasenger Dongola Mackinnons, from A moy.
Bas Tracy, from Chefoo Toni Trewal, from Kobe Mowwohing, from Tsings. Tm3 Chiaty Hoongsing Kian Kee,from Amoy,
Wong:13 Csius Road from-
12090/17 th, Roberts, GOTE ment Civil, from Singapore.
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