HOTELS
LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS- HONGKONG:
Hongkong Hotel,
Peak Hotel, Repulse Bay Hotel. SHANGHAI:
Astor House Hotel,
Palace Hotel, Grand Hotel Kalee.
PEKING:
Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits.
KING
The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.
In conjunction with The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.
-and
The Grand Hotel des Wagons-Lits, Ltd.
EDWARD HOTEL
CENTRAL LOCATION,
ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING, TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR
HOTEL Tal Central 873
LAUNCH MEETS · ALL · STEAMERS.
Telegraphic Addresst "VICTORIA “
J. WITORIAL,
Manager.
THE EUROPE HOTEL.
SINGAPORE.
DANCING AFTER DINNER.
EVERY
MONDAY WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY. TEA DANOES
TUESDAYS and THURSDAYS.
The Hotel Orchestra under the Direction of Mr. F. R. Martena.
Telephones in every Room.
Telegraphic Address --"EUROPE, SINGAPORE”
Telephone No. 2740 (9 lines).
KINGSCLERK
THE EUROPE HOTEL, LTD.
ARTHUR & ODELL, Manag
HOTEL
KNUTSFORD HOTEL
MID-LEVEL KOWLOON
SACHSE, LENNOX & Co. General Azenia-
Are resident Managers:
PALACE HOTEL, KOWLOON.
Tel. No. Kowloon 1.
20. Add. (Palace,
THE -HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WAR ROMANCE,
Bosnian Soldier and Japanese Widow.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 1923,
OCEAN-WHITE KLEPHANT.
£1,408,000 Vessel Costu
£2900,000 to Refit.
WEATHER REPORT.
May td. 9h. 30m.—Warning: to Hongkong, Coast Ports, & 0,2-
New York: Soon the world's Depression or typhoon of un- largest vessel will be seen in known Intensity within 60 miles British waters as a passenger liner of Lat 11 N. Long. 138 E running from New York to Euro-moving NNE
Hay d. 11h 33m.-Pressure pean porta.
stations.
ENTERTAINMENTS
THE
CORONET
To-night at 5.15.& 9 p m. sharp
THE STAR
anticyclone is passing into INTOLERANCE | To-night at 5.30, & £15 p.m.
the pacific.
miles to the north of Yap moving A typhoon is shown about 100:
N.NE.
Hongkong Rainfall for the 24)
18 inch Total since January st. 10.73 inches, against an Terage of 1208 Inobe FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW.
District
Forecast.
Belgrade: Mystery surrounds a recent attempt to steal a will in Belgrade. Information points to & War romance in Siberia between a Bosnian soldier and u Japan. jese woman, and further know. This is the Leviathar, formerly has increased considerably over ledge is being sought through the Vaterland of the Hambarycentral Japan. It has decreased: {diplomatio channels at Tokyo, American Company, which was considerably at Yap, and slightly A thief who stole a document seized by the United States in at the majority of other reporting. from a translation bureau here, port here in 1917 and, after was captured. He told the fol-baving been used as a troop trans- lowing tale:
|port has bean refitted to anter the Ivan Mrkonja, a Bosnian 30 passenger service of the United years old, belonged to one of the States Lines.
Reconditioning of the enormous Austrian divisions which deserted the Central Powers, Mrkonja join-ship (which is 950 feet long, 100 ed one of the wandering bands feet beam, and has a gross ton-hour ending at 10 am, today. which fought Bolshevism and nure of 54.28%, compared with was swept on eastward with the the White Star Liner Majestice Czsahoslavaks.
50,100) was estimated at 7,000,000 In the forests Mrkonja met dollars. It has actually cost the a Japanese woman wandering United States Shipping Board, alone. She knew little Russia which could find no compans but managed to tell him that her willing to take her off the Govern- busband bad been killed while ment's bands, 8,500,000 dollars, or, fighting the Bolshevista. She had Įsay, £1,800,000. been condemned to death, but Altogether since she was taken esoaped into the forest.
away from the Germans the ex- Mrkonja and the woman pense of the Leviathan to the | bought a team and made their way country has been £2,000,000, southward into Mongolia. There notwithstanding that for four they found an interpreter, and years the hugs hulk lay idle in the woman asked him to accom-the North River hero, a mass of pany her to Tokyo and take internal rust, decay, and debris, charge of a silk business left by inhabited by rats to such an ex- her husband. The Bosnian content that the watchmen pat sented and remained. Tokyo aboard could not live in ber, zad for over two years.
were forced to seek quemters ashore.
He was successful in developing | the business, but became homesick for Bosnia and decided to rejoin his wife and child. He confessed to the Japanese widow that he was married. She insisted that he must return to Japan and bring his Bosnian family with him. Also she is alleged to bave made is band-written will in which he was designated as the sole heir to her estate, said to be worth several million yea.
Mrkonja came to Bosnia He remained with his family for only a few days, and then anddenly disappeared. His wife in Bosair does not know where he is, and testimony introduced in the court has not made it clear whether Mrkonja, or somebody sise, placed the much sought Japanese" will in the hands of the translation
to steal
Two wingtes from Ferry and Railway Station. Five minutes by Terry from Hongkong (bureau which the third thief tried A fret clam Hotal in every respect and under English managenes 1. Ouladny under personal supervidon of the Proprietor. Loung Bar and Billard Boom.
Para Bodarate.
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rangements for families on application to?
ASTOR
HOUSE
legraphic address “ ASTOR"
V. H. OXBERRI, Proprietor.
HOTEL.
Telephons Central 170. ↑
13, Queen's Road Central.
Arst class Hotel centrally located in the shopping and business districta, largo' zooma completely renovated and refurnished. Dining Room and Lounge sad; Just spend. Entirely under new management.
- for terms apply to the Manager.
ASAHI BEER
BREWED BY
DAI NIPPON BREWERY Co., Ltd.
TOKYO JAPAN.
Specially Brewed for Export
Sole Ageats-
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, Ltd.
MR. BUSINESSMAN !
WHY NOT SWEEP
SOME OF THAT
HONGKONG.
The Belgrade police have enlisted the aid of the government, which has directed that diplomatic inquiries be made in Tokyo con. cerning the Togachama family.
SIX-TON METEORITE
Interesting Phenomenon on
N. W. Frontier.
A correspondent at Quetta, on the north-west frontier of India, sends an account of the fall of a large meteorite on January 25, to a Home paper.
RATS HOLD THE SHIP. Scores of cats were requisition- ed to fight the plague of rate. They were never seen again after. being reledsed on the decke, and not a scrap of leather or any other material or subetsoce that hunger could drive the rats to eat was left aboard.
Poison gas had to be employed before a crew could man her to Įrake her down to Newport News.
Virginia.
1-Formosa Channel
2 South cost of | N.E. winds, "China between i moderate;
FLE&Lamocks. Į overcast,
3 Hongkong to occasional
Gap Rock..... raid:
4 South coast of
China between
ELE. & Hainan
.K. Observatory, May 1, 1923.
1. P. CLAITOK. Director.
Benson, of the Shipping Board, is 'confident will make her the fastest
as well as the biggest ship.
That she will return any profit for all this quilay is not to be, and infect is nat, expected. Statistics. just
made public show that during the_last_four months the Shipping Boad has lost in the operation of its "vassels with $10 voyages 16,150,- 137 dollars,- (approximately £3,930,000).
The V.te land was completed only two months before the out break of war. She was interned at New York and afterwards seized by the U.S. Governmont.
There, with no fewer than 1,000 firms contributing, the ship has been transformed into a varitable, palace, even surpassing in luxur After having been employed as fousness the appointments and transport she was valued by the accommodation which originally U.S. Shipping Board at £1,404.000. mada bar the most sumptuous It cost £170,000 to convert her | vessel afloat.
from liner to a troopship, and Among other improvements she | £700,000 to convert her engines has been converted into an oil-for oil burning and make her burner, which Admin] W. 8. | ready for passenger service again.
EXCHANGE.
Opening Rate: closing Bate on Page 1)
SEELING
T/T Demand 30 d/.... 60 d. 4/4. T/T. Shanghai T/T. Singapore
T. Japan TT. India Demand India
T/T, San Francisco and New
York
T/T. JATA
BUYING.
4 / L/C......... 4 m/1. D/P.
6 m/1. L/C.
30;8/a. San Francisco and New
York
554
2/4 2/4.1/16
4 m/s. Mare
Nom
4 m/s. Franc# *-***
3.60
6.
8.75
Demand, Germany.
2/41
Demand, New York
54}
Nom
T/T. Bombay
120
T/T. Calcutta
Demand, Bombay
173
1730
Demand, Calcatta
On Yokohams
·54)
1383
-
Nom.
Demand, Manila
Demand, Singapore
Demand, BataVIA
Sovereign
8.34"
46.60
On Beiphone
8.00
On Saigon
On Bangkok
2/4.11/15 Bar Silver 2/4.13/16 forward 2/41
Gold leaf per Tasi
ready
32.9/16
Bank of England reses New York/London.
3% ...... 4.632
SUBSIDIARY COINS.
Hongkong O cent pieces @
10 5
"
Hongkong May 2, 1823.
Canton sub. coins
The fall occurred during the T/T. Marks course of a thunderstorm, at about! T/T. Francs et half-past two in the afternoon, Demand, Paris..... Previous to its impact, a house near the point of its arrival was struck by lighting. About a minute later came the meteorite itself hitting a large stack of baled 30 d. Sydney and Melbourne 2/5 straw. The force of its fall may be gauged from the fact that it| penetrated twenty-three layers of tightly packed straw, almost reaching the ground leval. The molten maes set fire to the centre of the stack, but owing to the absence of sufficient air, the straw did not break into a blaze potil combustion had progressed slowly; outwards to the surface. The direction of the hole showed that the meteorite fell to earth at an Shanghai angle of about 45 degrees, coming Shanghai from the west.
Зарва The only eye-witness at close Shangbai
Strait - quarters seems to have been & Japan native watchman, who saw what Calcattame he describes as a white ball of Straits Straits fire coming from the skies, acco
Manila mpanied by a loud roaring noise. Mais
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To more distant witnesses the Europe via Buez (Parcela only) London meteorite appeared as a broad 28th March...
straight ribbon of lightning, which
Зарад
terminated in a deafening than 0.3.A., Japan & Shanghai derclap.
The meteoric material collected
weighed some six tons. with a
total volume of some 500 cubic Japa
fast. These dats, and the small Swatow
Swałow
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Shantung
Yingchow
Bt. Albans - Kamakna M.
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9.15 p.m. 80 & 60 otu
2.30 & 7.15 pm.
“THE RADIO XING "Epis, 5 & 6
Usual Prices.
Booking at the Theatre,
32.13/16
OLD SOLDIERS NEVER-DIE, THEY ONLY: TADE - AWAY:
BUT
DURO-FABRICS
NEVER TADI, THE COLOUR'S.. THERI TO STAY.
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including two collars.
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A GLIMPSE OF FIELDING. In the case of another justice, who, got into trouble about the same time as Sir Samuel, “Henry Another volume of Middlesex Fielding, Esquire,” noted as a records has been calendared by kind of prosecutor. The author Mr. W. Le Hardy, F. 8. A. It of Tom Jones had been elected. relates to the years 1748-1751, chairman of the Sessions in 1749. and conveys as vivid a sense How far be shared the views of Kaga M.Thurs., 3 inst., 9.30a.m. of London in the eighteenth his colleagues on the theatre does...
Thu, 3 inst., 10.30a.m. century as did the previous not appear. It had certainly not -Thurs., 3 ust., 1.30pm voiame. The Justices, whose treated him too well.
Thors, last., 3.30 pm.
Esans
Biade... Hydranges Leensbor
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Europe
the stack, appear to warrant the Boibow & Haiphong... supposition that when travelling Shanghai, Japan. Canada, U.B through the air the shape of the price meteor was that of a small Vancouver B.C. elongated comet.
The substance of the meteorite,
of which samples have been sent dangkok
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for expert analysis, appears to an Bratow, Amoy & Foochow unskilled observer to include three Philippine Islands
Hollow & Bangkok ... fairly distinct classes of material. Straits, Ceylon Maaritina, 1. Marquee, Firat, adullslate-grey igneous rock, 8. Africs, India via Dhanuskchadi, fairly heavy, and marked with Bombay & Aden *** spots and veins of dark turquoise Sails & Bombay
Wafbuiwei
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Date
Empress of Australia...Fri., 4 inat,
20 GRANDCHILDREN AT AS
FUNERAL
...Fri 4ins, 830.m. perplexities are handed down in these brief entries, appear `to Fazeela 3rd 5 p.m. have been fatherly gentlemen Registration 8.16 a.m. greatly concerned for the morals of Letters 10a.m. young people and the community (Die Vancouver B.0, 22nd May,]
There generally. For this reason they
were twenty » grandë Bibolga
Fri., 4 inst., 10a.m. had no love for the theatre; and children mourners at the funeral Haiching ...Fri 4, p. when one of their own number, recently of a widow named Mary
Fri., 4 lost. p.m. ...B, 5 inst., 8.30 am. Sir Samuel Gower, is charged | Wright, who received fatal
with granting licences to *die- injuries as the remit of beings reputable houses" belonging to knocked down by motor eyele himself his offence is aggravated while crossing the road at Wine by his having been present with thorpe, Newark, ME WE his wife and family at plays and |leaver fifty-eight. -grandch Interludes in Goodorams Fields," and thirty great-grand
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bine; second, a certain quantity Philippine Islands, Australia & New of jet-black highly glazed slag, ·Zealand via Thonday Tulsada Et. Albans resembling black voloanic Java,
with numerous air pockets and
11. ICE HOUSE STREET.
TEL NO.1.
TEL. No. 1.
similar turquoise veins, last, a Bwałow & Amay in material resembling grey "coke in Straite & Egypt "appearance and weight.
Baigon
Ser Sat, 5 m., 9.30 a
Ba, & fk 10
Bat Simt,, 10 m. Parcels 4th Fri., 6 p.m.
Bat Sjost
Registration 945 am 10,30 m (Dua Thursday Islands 18th May) Amakusz M.
Mos,-7 st., 10a.m. Mon, 7 inst, “2 p.m.
Mattor
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