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HOTELS.
LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS.
Hongkong Hotel,
HONGKONG :
Repulse Bay Hotel. SHANGHAI:
Peak Hotel,
Astor House Hotel,
Palace Hotel,
Grand Hotel, Kalee.
PEKING:
Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits,
The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd In conjunction with The Shanghai Hotels. Ltd.
and
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KOWLOON HOTEL
Telephone K. 608 and 609,
"Cable Address Kowlotel THE PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON. Electric Lifts to all Floors and Roof Garden
Telephone on ail Floors. Daily, Monthly & Family Retes,
Apply Mrs. M. BLAKE
FIRST CLASS SALOON BAR
AND
BILLIARD ROOM.
Proprietor FRANK L CUORE
PALACE HOTEL.
Tel. No. Kowloon 3.
KOWLOON.
Tel. Add. Palace
Five minutes
Two minutes from Ferry and Railway Station.
by Ferry from Hongkong.
A first class Hotel in every respect and under English manage.
ment.
Cuisine under personal supervision of the Proprietor.
Loung Bar and Billiard Room.
Terras moderate.
3pecial arrangements for families on application to
J. H. OXBERY,
Proprietor.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
CENTRAL LOCATION.
LIGHTING,
ELECTRIC LIFTS AND
TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR.
HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS.
Tel Central 373.
THE
Telegraphic Address "VICTORIA
J. WITCHELL, Maiiager.
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 rocin.
Telegraphic Address —" EUROPE, SINGAPORE” Telephone No. 2749 19 lines).
THE EUROPE HOTEL LTD. ARTHUR E. ODELL, Manager.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1923.
SYNTHETIC EUROPE.foreigners Only once I seemed
to see real Germany on a stag geringly bot Sunday afternoon. SÚNDAY AFTERNOON SPORTS.
Turning a corner,, I espied
Adventures in Hotels and
Restaurants.
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ENTERTAINMENTS.
spectators stood up like folk in mourning. The boxing was up pired by a real Englishman of local pugilistic reputation. It, or the heat, knocked me out, and I She was only a Social Butterfly, needed three pints of white bear
but she fought like a Tigress for her baby!
to cool off
what seemed to me a sea of nak- All the time in post-war Eumped arms and legs, and approa-
The open air is Europe's new you are let down. Things are notching I found myself in a vast what they seem. It you are open place occupied by the local craze-even at night some win-
dows are left open. All overį rich your are an absurdity-yan school gymnastic associations.
Czecho-Slovaki And Poland. cannot spend your money's even this sandy plain, some thou boys kick about footballs; all relatively
alsand children, youths and girls over Germany boxing clubs are princeling, writes Mr. Austin in bathing attire, were going starting. "This may turn out to Harrison in the Observer. The through Swedish drill under a sun be England's gift to feudal shops vary with the exchange and as hot as Africa's. I watched the
poor, you are
BADK.
the stocks. One day they are performance for three hours. Europe. Golf remains sticky. empty, next week they are full. first. I thought this was the Germans do not seem able to swing a golf club, though the To the natives shopping is now an "revenge,” but it was only young| investment. You enter a celebrat- Germany at play. The rythmic country is ideal for golf -sandy soil, heather, hillocks-and ed restaurant-only a couple of exhilaration of a thousand bare Americans sit mournfully eating.arms and legs beat Deauvilla hickory could be grown favourab
danced. The big hotels are semi-Asiatic hollow. They
ly. Cricket remains inexplicable stock-exchanges. The patisserie threw the disc, the javelin, the plays our game, the League of to Europe. Perhaps when Europe Hookstempting. Youordera cream-hammer, performed team
Nations will begin in earnest. ice, angol-eate, and an iced-coffee exercise, and gave gymnastic
The Leagues of Youth, accom- (price 531. The cream scales exhibitions to music, of course, panied by maidens, who tramp like dry soap-suds it is probaba piano being carted about by six the country with long hair and ly a soya bean compound: the youths all over the place, anyone pilgrims staffs, are not convin cakeis gritty in eas and soggy sitting down to play it. In came eing. None the less, they are a the coffee is essence. It looked sol seventeen horses, and over they nice, it tastes so flat. Such is went in squads, even the little symptom of the universal revolt- against everything that was before synthetic Europe.
girls taking them with a somer In the hotels you learn an-sault. In came seventeen paral- the war, which is the key-note of Inther lesson the eight-hours led bars, seventeen pole jumps. Europe smoking "Woodbines" up
day. At the reception desk. Finally, they played football, ran the lane of peace. Įseven to eight attendants; in the races, boxed, and gave a "naked" afternoon a totally different sets hisplay, stripped to the waist in the evening, again, a fresh lut.wonfided to the meal, closing} STOPPED HEART RESTARTED. You give the porter an order, with a goose-step parade.
While Elizabeth Jane Richards, with a wink and a tip.
The girls were remarkably pro-64, wife of a' police pensioner, happens. You ring the belt and | ficent, and all this in a tempera- was undergoing an operation at a sandy-haired youth appears ture of over a hundred in the the Elizabeth Garrett Andenon |** Charles is off duty.” The same shade. Even the mammas sitting| Hospital, Euston road, sha with the chamber-maid. Next round seemed totally indifferent ceased to breathe. Her heart, day you cannot find the porter to the heat. This, at least, was which had stopped besting, was anywhere: the whole personel is not synthetic. There was young massaged and restarted. It was changed."
Germany acquiring the sports thought, the woman would re- You repeat the order, with habit. Wher, during a song, the cover, but after ten minutes she, another tip. At night you cum-] Rhine was mentioned all the collapsed and died. plain, but the porter has left: another porter greets Where
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the fat porter? On leave.j Where is the tall thin protes? | Probably in bed How many porters are there? Three, pro- bably four, often five. And soon. It is the sequence of the eight- hours day. It means compound tips: it reduces hotel efficiency by 30 per cent. And you cannot e mplain, for responsibility is delegated, the result is that the traveller's Friend, or hall-porter, is no more: you deal with shift. of hall-porters: you are up against synthesis.
Wm. POWELL Ltd.
(Hongkong Hotel Buildings.)
GENTLEMEN'S
TAILORS and BREECHES MAKERS
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EVENING WEAR LOUNGE and SPORTING SUITS
A SPECIALITY.
POST OFFICE NOTICES.
A
RESTAURANT SYNDIALISM. Intipped waiters in restaurants sound well, but the wise man still tip, with the order. The waiter may not fancy the lady you are lunching with, or he may envy your tie-pin: be can -uin your luncheon. Complain? "Oh, renainly," the man- koks j quite pleased. Up comes the "head."
From He listens gravely, and
Europe
Neguatam (Letters promises to report the matter to
P-par. Loadun tib the local Trade Union After Lodnem via Reisdie 65th Vet that, is well not to press the-ba subject, or the "head" will pro- Sharan hably Frill-up and inform you Europe vie Sara (etters & Fuera Lush that he as Secretary of the W,U".. and is standing for Parlia- ment. What are your credentials?
The synthetic wai.er Armareddon almost makes one
walt & Buick Tong for the martial waiter of swu wa kazakik war, who expected a tip. Hotel life in Euripe is an Angh- American and South American preserve In the two main hitels ar Hamburg not one guest was German: all were American. English Spanish, and South Americans with prices arcord- ingly.
300 15th Cara Parco 11th De US... Lane Japan & Shaughne
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INWARD MAILS.
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Surgon. Pétraidh," "Carlon "Mauritica, "Marque Africa "India via Dhar prabods *iden "Ezypt & *Europe via uamuesijos
bai & Wechow... Batow
In Poland the waiters now control all restaurant-, paying sa much a year. It appoints cooks. "heads," and buyers; runs the entire business, on the whole satisfactorily. A waiter in a
Chill
Androlis. & New Zerland via Thursday Island...
Kochow Tristy -
Aki M....
(Doe
Taran Tilatjap
Vistoria...
Hobo Pakbor & Baizhong. good restaurant makes a jolly gain good income. Here to, it is Saldana & New Zeiland via Thursday
advisable to shell out in advance
In three months I only met one man who declined a tip a Polish railwayman who cleaned car riages. He repudiated the money with a fine gesture of contempt, and a speech from which I gathered that Poland was now a democracy.
land
an Awatow
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traits. Ceylon. Mauritius, & Margom
8 Africa lodi via Desenethodi * Bombay
Manila Sandakan Australia & New
Zoland Tie Thardry_fland
Such is "America's gift to Europe. The word is "democratite Ceylon. Mauritine. L. Marques, ey." out of which no man knows S. Africa India via Dhanoskodi.
Adua
Zarope Egypt A continent of what will issue.
Murillo little Peoples placed over big People, who must synthesise of
¡ disrupt: a democratic system
which has made Trades Unionism Mantle Shangai Japan Hoolin the squirearchy of the new order
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5. Americs & Europe via crearn to emperors.
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I attended a dence in a big! Berlin hotel to see the luxury (!))
of Germans, but to my surprise
Thangbai & Japan
all the girls were extraordinarily Swatore, Amor & Foochow
thin, and most of the men bad
makta
long hair. A waiter explained. Flexits, Ceylon, Mauritius L. Marques, German? No; this is a Russian 3. Aires. India via Dhanuskodi,
Eggy & Europe via Mazsoriler club; everyone is Russian." It! was so. Plenty of champagne, too. Clearly, there are some Rus- sian Royalists left. The real diffi- Jup calty in paper Europe is to find the natives. They are not is the hotels or in the old haunts. The Hamburg dancing places are fall of Englishmen. "Japanese and
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