THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1926.
HOTELS.
THE
HONGKONG
HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL Telegraphic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.”
AND
SHANGHAL
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL: PALACE HOTEL; KALEE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL Telographic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL"
HOTELS,
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lits, Peking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
CENTRAL LOCATION
ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING," TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR.
HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS
Telephons Central 373
Telegraphic Address Vioronia
KOWLOON HOTEL
Premier Hotel in Kowloon
RATES:- Daily $5.00 Upwards
Monthly $120.00 "do'
MODERN TOILET SYSTEM Elevator and Telephones to each floor.
SALOON BAR & BUFFET.
Manager's personal attention. Telä-K 608 &. Ku 609,
Tel. Address "KOWLOTEL" Hongkong
Tel. Address:
"Glenenly" Hongkong,
GLENEALY HOTEL
84, Glenealy
Wm. Harold Porry,
Manager.
Telephone C. 980.
(Near Dairy Farm). Splendidly situated with-
A first class Residential and Tourist Hotel in ssay walking distance of all business centres. Large airy rooms, Hot and Cold water. Excellent Cuisine under the personal supervision of the Proprietress Monthly and family raten at moderate tarma
For further particulars apply to:
Tal. Kowloon No. 3
MRS. FREDERICKS, Proprietress.
PALACE HOTEL.
Tel. Address "PALACE," Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. Entirely under English Management. Electric Light and Fans through- out Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Roots. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress, Termas moderate. Special torms to families on application to
Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY. Proprietress.
EUROPE
After-dinner dancing every
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday."
Cables :-
"EUROPE"
Singapore.
HOTEL
SINGAPORE.
Grill
THE EUROPE HOTEL. LTD.
Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director.
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and
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THE
INTERPORT
CRICKET
TEAMS.
The above photographs of the two cricket teams, now engaged in a Hongkong-Shanghai, Interport match, were taken on the Cricket Ground on Saturday The Hongkong team is 'on top and the Shanghai team below. (Photos: Ming Yuen).
NANKING FEARS.
STRICT MARTIAL LAW IN FORCE.
NEW REGIME EXPECTED.
The Nanking correspondent of the Shanghai Times, writing under date of the 9th inst., says:
There is a feeling of intense nervousness and suspense among the Chinese population of Nanking as though they were fearing some The calamity from some source. return of Marshal Sun to Nanking has been the chief cause of this! uneasiness as it is feared that the peaco of Nanking may be disturb- ed by a change of military occupa-
tion.
STUDENTS IMPRISONED.
The strictest milltary law is being maintained and at night no
ENDING OF COAL IMPERIAL AFFAIRS.
STRIKE.
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FAVOURING ACCEPTANCE.
Later, Reports from a number of coal- fields indicate that majority will be obtained for acceptance of the Government's plan.
The South Wales Miners' Felleration has decided to accept terms "as a matter of loyalty to the Miners' Federation."..
The Lancashire, and Cheshire Federation has endorsed the ac- tion of Its conference delegates in supporting acceptance.
The Yorkshire Miners' Council, presided over by Mr. Herbert Smith, made no statement after the meeting, but it is believed that the proposals were overwhelming ly adopted.
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one is allowed on the street after eight o'clock. There is a rumour
The Derbyshire Council, after that Southeastern University has been closed by the government on an eight-hours" sitting, decided to' account of fear of radical refer the terms to the members tendencies. It is also said that without any recommendation, but many students have been im-it is felt to be accepted, prisoned, but of this there is no definite proof as little is being said on these affairs by anyone for fear of trouble for themselves.
Transporte
are of troops arriving from the Klukiang area, are wounded Many of these." soldiers who had to evacuate the
the success area 011 Southerners, there.
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of the There seems to be a general fear that General Chang Chung-chang of Shantung will come into Nanking.
Fortifications are being streng thened everywhere including, pre- paration on Purple Mountain which overlooks, the city and figur- ed so prominently when the re- volutionaries attacked Nanking from that ridge in 1911.
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ASSEMBLY OF CHANG'S FORCES. Peking, Nov. 10. "The Shantung troops, in view
of the change of situation in the
Kuo Wen.
Over thirty collieries are al- ready working in Northumber Jand,-Reuter.
IMPORTANT REPORTS BY COMMITTEE.
SOME SHIPPING PROBLEMS.
Rugby, Nov. 15.
The Imperial Conference held its twelfth Plenary Session to-day, when the main "discussions on defence, begun on October 26th, were concluded, statements being made by the Prime Ministers. of Canada, Australia, New Zealand: and Newfoundland, by Mr. Havenga, for the Union of South Africa, by Mr. O'Higgins, for the Irish Free State, and by the! Maharaja of Burdwan, for India.
High appreciation was express- ed of the arrangements under which at the naval review, at
Camberley and at Croydon, the
Dominion and Indian delegations
had had an opportunity of seeing and studying the latest service developments.
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"Various reports of economie sub-committees were brought up and approved, and resolutions con. tained in these reports thus became the resolutions of the Con- ference.
On the recommendation of the General Economic Committee, a resolution in the following terms was accepted. "The Imperial Conference welcomes the efforts General Chu is expected to arrive that are being made to reach an here to-night.--Kuo Wen.
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SUN'S NEXT MOVE AWAITED.
Shanghai, Nov. 9..
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Entertainments.
FEUDAL CASTLES,
KNIGHTS IN Armour,
TRIALS BY COMBAT,
THE ROYAL COURTS OF
BURGUNDY
AND FRANCE
LORDS, LADIES,:
PRINCES, COURTIERS,
MAIL-CLAD Warriors,‚'
BURGHERS AND THEIR
WIVES AND FAMILIES;
All the glittering romance, in fact, of the wonderful fifteenth century plays. Its part in
METRO GOLDWYN'S BEAUTIFUL 12 REEL SUPER ATTRACTION.
YOLANDA
A marvellous presentation of high life and low in the middle ages, when Feudalism and Chivalry still held sway and when the Wars of the Roses in England were parallelled by the feuds between the Dukes of Burgundy and the Kings of France.
DON'T MISS THIS GREAT PICTURE Showing TODAY and TOMORROW at THE QUEEN'S
Two Girls with but
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Showing for the last time TO-DAY at 5.15 & 9.15
LEATRICE
JOY
RAYMOND
GRIFFITH
Paramount's Amusing Comedy
CHANGING HUSBANDS
WORLD
His Very Funniest Comedy
JOHNNY HINES
in
CONDUCTOR 1492
STAR
international agreement upon mea- Imperial Conference.
sures for abolishing the evila At to-day's meating, several of! resulting from the discharge of the delegates, in expressing their
5.16 to 8.45 p.m.
and at 9.20
BRAZILIAN RUBBER.
oil in navigable waters, and re-admiration of the work of the BIG DEVELOPMENT SCHEME. A. Kiukiang message of yester-commends the principles of the tanks at Camberley, on Saturday, day's date received here this Draft Convention for this pur declared that the new six-wheel morning says:
pese, recently prepared at lorries, which could be rapidly Washington to the consideration converted into tractors for cross- "According to information. emanating from the Southern of the Governments of the country purposes, were capable of development for peaco time uses, Headquarters here General Li Chi-Empire,"
particularly in the Colonies and in she has not yet arrived here, but,
India Generals Li Tsung-ien and Hu Tsang-to arrived yesterday, lead-
SHIPPING PROBLEM. On the subject of the unifica-.
of:
London, Nov. 15. The Financial Times says that extensive developments in the rub- ber, industry in Brazil are occur- ring. A large para rubber con- cern, in which important rubber Interests are identified, is being formed. The Chairmann is Bir
MORE COMMITTEE WORK.. ing the 7th Army, numbering tion of rules relating to bills of lading the Conference noted with about 3,000 men.
satisfaction, that there is a good Several of the committees of the "According to the information, prospect of the general adoption conference held further meetings Ernest Birch, pnd the Board in- at the time of the general attack throughout the Empire of the rules today. The Overseas Settlement cludes Sir Martin Conway, Mr. F. south, have prepared to gather General Chiang Kai-shek stayed in embodied in the laternational Con- Committee completed its first W: Croucher, a Director of the all forces in the vicinity of Lin front of Lohun and directed the vention at Brussels, in 1923, and survey of its draft report, after Rim Malacca Rubber Estates. cheng for the purpose of reinforce operations of the Southern-forces welcomed the progress-towards-the-explorations covering a very wide Ing the Allied troops in the while the 2nd Independent Divi-achievement international field of inquiry, and the report will The Company will acquire the Yangtze valley when required-sion of the Southern Armies, after uniformity upon the terms of those probably be finally passed to whole share, capital of the Com defeating General Ma Teng-ying's rules. The progress made in the morrow. The main object of the troops stationed in the region of direction of securing the unifica inquiry has been to promote the panhia Paraense de Plantacces de "/ TSINANFU CONFERENCE.
Tehan, proceeded along the raition of maritime law by the re-distribution of the white popu- Borracha, which owns rubber Tsinanfu, Nov. 10. way line and by way of Lushan to preparation at Brussels, of draft lation of the Empire to the beat estates of 415,000 acres, and will At a conference held here with attack Kiukiang and finally cap. International Conventions in re- interests of the Empire as a whole. General Chang Chung-chang, tured the city "
gard to the limitation of ship On the subject of the production apply for an exclusive concession owners Hability and to maritime and exhibition within the Empire which the Brazilian Government Tupan of Shantung, General Pi
"The Southern Headquarters Shou-cheng has been instructed
dent Division advanced on Hukowcomed and the Conventions were origin, the Economic Sub-Commit-
commended to the consideration of tee has now completed its con- erecting a rubber factory in the Inspector Smith, who has been in charge of the Buckingham Palace sociation of Pan-European unions. tary funds for the Anted, several and has occupied the town, while the Governments of various parts of sideration, and a report is being City of Para-Reuter.
Tsingtao. Consequently, police for several years and has was opened in Vienra in the pro-pi left here for Tsingtao yester part of the Division has proceed the Empire. It was agreed also drafted It is probable that at that the work of the Imperial Ship Thursday's pionary sitting, these spent 30 years In the Metropolitan sence of some 2,000 persons, in- Police force, has retired from the clading the foreign delegates and day. Howover, he was immediate-ed towards Wuhsuch,”
ly summoned by General Chang The telegram adds that owing ping Committee le of importance and the Research Committee's! force on account of ill-health. representatives of the Government.
to return for another conference to the interruption of traffic and to the Empire and that the commit reports will be presented for dure has arranged for further
meetings this week, a pertaining to the various military communication to the inner part tee should be maintained on the approval.
The Overseas dolegates will problems. General Chu Yu-pub, of Kiangaf, no information is to present basis, deriving authority Meanwhile, the Prime Ministera Tupan of Chibli, who is at pre- the situation to the south of Chlon from and being responsible to the Committee on inter-Imperial re-witncaun display of airships sent at Paotingfu, has also been chang is available at present. Governmenta represented in the Jations continues to alt, dally and at Cardington, on Thursday.
the Committee on Treaty, proce- British Wireless, asked to appear at the conference.
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