THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1926.
NEWEST TYPE OF SUBMARINE.
HOTELS.
THE
HONGKONG
HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL Telegraphic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG."
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; KALEE HOTEL: MAJESTIC HOTEL. Tolographic Address:: CENTRAL, SHANGHAL" HOTELS.
44
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel
Dos Wagons Lits, Féking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
CENTRAL LOCATION
ELECTRIO, LIFTS AND LIGHTING,
TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR.
HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS
Telephona Central 373
Tolographic Addrone VICTORIA
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,
This is a photograph of H.M.S. Oberon, the first British submarine with a name, which was recently launched at Chatham Dockyard. The Oberon, Is the first of her class and'em- bodies all the latest development in under-water craft.
EMPIRE CONFERENCE WIFE'S MAINTENANCE.
ENDS.
BISHOP BEATEN,
NO CHANCE IN SCRIMMAGE FOR BUS.
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mere. pittance, and when this achieved, considerable, efforts dwindled down to nothing, she
Confessing that "he would not would be involved in maintaining started to raise money by compete with the active young' the minimum standard of naval pawning her husband's clothing. ladies," the Bishop of Woolwich strength as contemplated in the She had three children by him, pleaded before the Traffic Advisory Washington Treaty, rinmely, these being still alive, and ahe Committee for better travelling equality with the naval strength of obtained an order from the Secre-facilities, for South-East London. any foreign Power. Admiralty tary of Chinese Affairs against her "It is like a football scrimmage," statements showed that, formid- husband for an allowance of $15 he said, describing the rush-hour able expenditure was required a month. That condition has not scramble for places on trams and within the coming years for the been carried out, and she had been buses, "and I get left again and replacement of obsolete warships left entirely without support for again" by up-to-date ships. Impressed the last three months,
In reply to the charge, which conditions in Old Kent-road and with the vital importance of ens Wm. Harold Perry suring security of the world-wide whs coupled with other charges of Walworth-road. and said that trade routes upon which the wel assault and persistent cruelty, the though the number of vehicles pro- fare of the Empire depends, the man stated that the woman was vided was insufficient, he did not representatives of Australia, New only a ping-tant wife, ie, a wife see how more could be put on the
the already overcrowded roads. - Zealand and India noted with wedded without special intorest the steps taken by formalities observed in n kit-fat "We appeal," he said, "for na He married her only extension of the underground tube the British Government to develop marriage:
Manager's personal attention... Tels: K. 608 & K. 609. Tol. Address "KOWLOTEL" Hongkong
Tel. Address:
"Glenealy" Hongkong.
GLENEALY HOTEL
3 & 4. Glenenly
A first class Residential and Touriat Hotel.
Manager
Tolephone C. 980,
"(Near Dairy Farm). Splendidly situated with
in easy 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 rates at moderate terms.
For further particulars apply to:
MRS. FREDERICKS,"
Proprietress.
મ
PALACE HOTEL..
Tel. Kowloon No.jā
Tol, Address, “PALACE.” Three minutes from Komon Wharf, Ferry, and Rallway Station. Entirely undor English Management. Electric Light and Fana through. out Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Terme moderate. Special terms to families on application to:
Mrs. J. K. 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.
A wonderful Tonic which gradually and permanently builds up the system
HEMOSTYL SYRUP
On sale at all Dispensaries. SOLE AGENTS COMPAGNIE OPTORG.
P. T. FARRELL.
Consulting Engineer
AND-
Manufacturers Representative.
Agent for Bounder's Crude Oil Engines Marine, Stationary and Lighting.
King's Building, Top Floor.
Telophone C. 4422. Telegraphic Address ..FARSEEING.”
Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK" PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street, in' the City of Victoria, Hongkong,
any of
The Bishop referred to trafic
the Singapore Naval Base. In in deference to the wishes of his either from the Elephant and Cas- view of the heavy expenditure in-aged mother, who wanted someone tle or from Borough Station go- volved, the spirit of co-operation' to look after her. The Wanchai ing right through to Woolwich. as shown in the contributions woman, referred to earlier in the There is an enormous population made with the object of expediting case, was his kit-fat wife, and he all along that line, and it would this work, was welcomed. The married her at Canton a year be of inestimable value to the large Conference recommended the res-before the other wedding. He number of workers in that area." pective Governments to create an advanced the claims of this woman adequate chain of air bases and re-to precedence in the matter of fuelling stations to ensure mobi-support.
A Nightmare..
Mr. Tyldesley Jones, K.C., who
lity. The methods for co-ordinat His Worship's decision on this ing the defence arrangements of point, was that it did not matter represented seven south-eastern each part of the Empire were ex-how many other wives the defend-borcaghs, praised the Southern Railway for ita electrification might take. His amined, and an interchange of in-ant
first dividual officers and complete air marriage in Canton, seeing that it schemes, but added that if the com- for the needs of the district he units with the unification of wen-did not have the consent of his pany was incapable of providing pons were among the proposals | mother, might not have been a
suggested, without hostility, to the made."
legal one.
company, that an underground railway or tube should be provided. The Elephant and Castle, he said, was rightly described as a
IMPROVING COMMUNICATIONS.
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HUSBAND'S QUERY.
The report also contains a re- Still urging that his earli dations of the Committee on Im-marriage should be given preced-nightmare, because it got worse at
solution, based on the recommen-
lished.
ence on the claim, the defendant
night; and he suggested the ex- tension of the railway system from that spot in a south-easterly direc
perin! Communicatione, other than those not hitherto pub-asked: how he could be expected to It states that the Con- support both women and the ference was impressed with the children that he had by each on his
It was an extraordinary thing necessity of improving the speed meagre salary,
The query was left unanswered, that, apart from the electrification of ocean communications between varions parts of the Empire and but the defendant was ordered to of the Southern Railway, the faci especially between Great Britain, Pay $20 a month to the plaintif lities. of fint railway were in India and Australia, and between for her support. His Worship re- many cases worse to-day than be- marked that when the man had the fore the wat. They had perman- Great Britain and New Zealand, "They are unable on the informa- opportunity to pay only $15 under ently closed nine stations, and the tion now available to make any the decision of the S.C.A. he fail-whole railway from Greenwich recommendation on a specific pro-ed to do so, and his default would Park to Nunhead had been closed posal that was placed before them now mean, that a further $5 was und partly dismantled.
Mr. Arthur Purkiss, town ciek for an improved service between added to the alimony. Any default) Great Britain, India and Australia. on the monthly payments would of Deptford, said that in the They, nevertheless, believe that an mean that the defendant would rush hours one train passed acceleration", in communications have to go to prison for fourteen through London, Bridge every two
minutea... generally and especially between days. Great Britain and the more import- ant, Dominions, can be brought Magistrate sold that it was not about and they share the view that within the Court's power to make the Governments concerned should an order that her husband should south-eastern boroughs in regard further investigate the possibill return to live with her, but pay-to traffic facilities, Mr. Purkiss ment of each month's allowance ties."-British Wireless.
would be made through the Court.
THE NEW OUTLOOK.
London, Nov. 23.
Addressing the woman, the
Tube Branch Wanted..... Referring to a conference of the
Baid the opinion arrived at was that the Edgware to Morden Tube should have a brunch extending to South-East London, and that the two might be linked together le the form of a circular route.
The members of the imperial forestry research Instead of with Conference, assembled in silk hats the Motherland, and with the lines und morning coats on the occa-spreading out we now have the
Mr. Tyldesley Jones examined sion of the final mesting in Down Dominiona interlocked by econo
Mr. Purkiss with regard to the ing Street this afternoon, when a mic trade tios.
The practical results of the danger of crossing the road, and report of the proceedings Was adopted and valedictory speeches Conference have been very con- naked, "Does it occur to you as n delivered.
siderable, particularly as regards citizen that you have a right to An official, who has attended all the spirit of understanding. For live?"!
"Yes," he replied," in this city the Conference meetings, told instance, people were inclined to Reuter that the most striking think that Gen. Hertzog would of the quick and the dead."
The inquiry was adjourned. feature had been a kind of new find his position dimeult, but this spirit, and this was emphasised by was not so, and Gen. Hertzog is the valedictory speeches, express-returning to South Africa fully Ing the feeling that the Empire (satisfied-Reuter. has reached a definite point in its development.
MARITIME LAW.
London, Nov: 23.
Engineer Commander Harold B. Sears, D.3.Q., has been appointed to the battle cruiser flagship Hood." He was serving at Port Edgar in the Campbell then notilla leader
Up to the present, the common idea of the Empire has been that: In the couras of its final report, of the Third Destroyer Flotilla, the Motherland bas been the focus the Imperial Conference notes when appointed, in January 1924, and the Dominions at the end of with satisfaction the progress first assistant to the Chief Eng- radial lines on the map; but now, made towards the unification of lineer of. Hongkong Dockyard. as a result of the atmosphere of maritime law with regard to the
this Conference there was a sort limitation of shipowners' liability
The Earl of Cromer has been
of web with a growth in the impor and maritime mortgages, and reelected to the Board of the Suez tance of Dominion relations. For tommende the adoption of the Canal to fill the vacancy caused instance, Australia and South Brussels. Draft International Africa how communicate with Conventions on the subject by the death of Mr. H. T. Anstri aach other on such questions, ns Reuter..
ther.
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