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Electric Lift and Telephone to cach Floor. Tels. K.608 & K.609. Cable address: KOWLOTEL, Hongkong. Under the Fersonal Supervision and Manageïnent of
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The after-dinner dances are held every Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday. Telephones in every room
The Europe Orchestra playa nightly during Dinner, and for Tiffin on Saturdays.
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Managing Director...
TO WORK IN COMFORT DURING THE DAY.
AND REIT IN COMPO 3D DURIJGTHE NIGHT.
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·SKETOCIDE is nonstaining
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POST OFFICE NOTICE.
The public are advised that correspondence intended for Canton will, superscribed "By Train" be transmitted in the mail closed at 8.15 a.m daily and forwarded by the 9.15 from Kowloon.
Postage stamps should be affixed in the right-hand top
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Radio Trafic with Canton is suspended until further notice. Interport radio telegrams are subject to delay.
Messages in code must have name of code used included in text
The Radio office has reverted to its normal working hours, viz:
G.P.O. Counter-8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Radio Office- p.m. to 8 a.m.
Brd floor, G.P.O. Building.-6 p.m. tɔ 8 a.m.”
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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
FRANCO AMERICAN LOAN NEGOTIATIONS.
Paris, October 2. The press Is disappointed with the result of the Washington negotiations.
Le Journal says: "Thus fruitlessly, in uncertainty and gloom, concludes one of the most painful episodes of peace."
Figaro declares in response to France's generous: gesture of accepting without discussion the total bill, Americs proposed to France
Glovery.
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Le Petit Journal says that certain of the Americans have for gotten the obligations of alliance and friendship,
The Communist newspaper Humanite asks whether the "Anglo- Saxon financiers or the workers and peasants of France are to control French economic life.
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Homme Libre is of the opinion that the final result of the American proposals will be a United States mandate over France.
Reuter,
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New York, October, 2.
LOCTOBER 3 1925.
MODERN PROPULSION.
Flames that Burns in Water.
By a process evolved by Mr. Oscar Brunlory a young engineer, a submerged flame, burning in direct contact with water, can produce instantly steam power capable of driving a locomotive or a steamship. The method is: applicable also to chemical solu tions, for purposes of concentra- tion.
With generator measuring 3 foot by 4 feet 6 inches, Mr. Brunior claims he could generate power sufficient to drive a loco- motive from London to Glasgow and back..
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All the morning papers regret that a full settlement of the French Its application to shipping debt was not accomplished. The Herald-Tribune hopes no political would enable a liner to leave manoeuvring on the part of M. Calllaux will be permitted to cloud harbour immediately, it is claim-| in the French mind the fact that the American proposals are fair and generous.
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The New York World regrets the failure to settle the miserable question. "For five years, thla irritating business will continue to bedevil our relations with France by providing jingoes on both sides with clap trap."-Reuter's American Service.
THE WAR IN MOROCCO.
ed.
mixture of oil and air, which is The flame is produced by a ignited after contact with the water, where it burns fiercely, attaining a heat of 4,000 degross Fahrenheit.
In addition to. its mechanicä), applications, the principle can be Madrid, October 2. applied to the interest of agricul- With the recent captures of the heights, including Adrárseddun, ture in the production of nitric a communique claims the Spaniards have completely established the acid and calcium nitrate, by military base required for an advance to Ajdr and are now masters regulating the amount of air practically of the whole of Alhucemus Bay. The newspapers are burned in the flame. Daily News. - jubilant-Reuter.
.Fez, October 2,
French operations along the front, at Kiffame are temporarily at a standstill." The French troops brilliantly carried' all, the heights which were strongly held by the enemy and reached all their objectives. French Insses in the two days, offensive were only 15 killed and 50 wounded. The air force carried out sixty bombing raids yesterday,
-Reuter.
GERMANO-RUSSIAN NEGOTIATIONS.
Berlin October 2.:
PASSENGERS.
.DEPARTED.
Per Empress of Australia, Octo ber 2nd. Mr. H. A. Anderson and daughter, Miss H. Argent, Mr. V. L. Beecham, Mrs. W, R. Buckber- The negotiations between Herr Stresemann and T. Chicherin rough, Mr. M. Carine, Mr. Choa Insted till four in the morning but did not result in the signing Dijkstra, Mr. E. R. Dovey, Mr. and Po-men, bliss Grace Chun, Mr. R. of the proposed Russo-German commercial agreement, chiefly owing Mrs. H. E. Edwards, Miss J. Gard- to the Soviet demanding a loan of 200,000,000 marks for the pur- ner, Mr. L. A. Goedbloed. Mr. A. chase of agricultural and other machinery, while the Germans were dos S. Gomes, Mr. H. H. Guembel, unwilling to grant more than 100,000,000. The German Foreign Office Mr. J. M. Haat, Mr. J. L, Heenan, Commission will shortly go to Moscow in the hope of arriving at satisfactory solution.-Reuter.
CHILE CABINET RESIGNS.
Santiago de Chile, October 2. Following the refusal of Colonel Ibanez, Minister of War, to resign owing to his acceptance of the nomination for the Presidential election. the Cabinet resigned. President Alessandri has also resigned. Luis Borgono. Alessandri's unsuccessful competitor at the last election, has taken over the Vice-Presidency.-Reuter's American Service..
SUMMER TIME IN GREAT BRITAIN,
London, October 2. Summer time in Great Britain will end officially at three o'clock on the morning of the 4th-Reuter,
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Dr. P. Hermant, Mr. Ho Hon-tan, Mr. Ho Fung-chiu, Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Hoops, Mr. and Mrs. E Hughes, Mra M.. Mowatt Jonca, Miza M. Sinclair, Master G. Sinclair, Dr. E. Jourdran, Mr. W. D. Küder, Mr. A. E. J. Knight, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Ho-sang, Mr. Lee Kang-bor, Mr. Men. Lie, Mr. F. H. Mody, Madame Lily Negre, Dr. L. Noudin, Miss M. Nuttall, Mr. G. H. Piercy, Mr. H. S. Remedios, Mr. T. Sakakibara, Mrs. H. Schryger, Mr. E. H. Scott, Mr. Shun Ping, Mr. F. D: Smith, Miss J. Stockwell, Mr. K. L. Tsang, Mr. Tuck Ting Po, Dr. J. S. Web- ster, Mr. H. L. Wilson and Mr. Wong Foon Po
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EARLIER TELEGRAM.
FLYING OVER GERMANY.
Paris, October 2..
The airman Costo has been released without serving the remaining twelve daya in prison, after assuring the authorities at Freiburg that his firm would pay the balance of the fine Reuter.