HOTEL S.
THE
HONGKONG
HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL PEAK HOTEL
Totographic Address: "KREMLIN, HỌNGKONG,"*
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL. PALACE HOTEL.: MAJESTIC HOTEL.
Tolographie Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL":
HOTELS.
LIMITED.
سمیت
In association with the Grand Hotel, Des Wagons Lite, Poking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
CENTRAL LOCATION
ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING,
TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR.
HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS
Tolographic Address
Telephone Central 373
** VICTONIA"
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. Tols:- K. 608 & K. 609.
Tel. Address "KOWLOTEL" Hongkong
Tal Kowloon No. 8
PALACE HOTEL.
Wm. Harold Perry,
Manager.
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 Billard-Rooms. Unrivalled" Cuisine under the personal: supervision of the proprietress. Terme moderate. Special terms to families on application to:
Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietres.
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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Co., Ltd.
TOKYO JAPAN
Specially Brewed for Export.
Solo Agents:~~~
Mitsul Bussan Kaisha, Ltd.
HONGKONG..
P. T. FARRELL
Consulting Engineer'..
-AND-
Manufacturers Representative.
Agent for Bolinder's Crude Oil Engines Marine, Stationary and Lighting. King'e Building, Top Floor.
Telophone C. 4422. Totographic Address,, PARSEEINO,"
Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street, In the City of Victoria, Hongkong,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1927,
HANKOW, POSITION
CRITICAL.
(Continued from Page 1).
GAOL ABUSES.
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and this condition is often aggra Eugene Chen to maintain law andvated, by the overcrowding of order in the British Concession at gaols. The sanitary arrangements Hankow, as an asset and the are extremely bad, it is statod, opinion in expressed that It de with the result of much avoidable "up to" Chon to prove, that the illness. Also the prisons are usually very damp, the bricks of Cantonese Nationalist movement
the floors belag broken and the is law-abiding and worthy of the water seeping up through the recognition of the Powers. Thero-
cracks. tore, there is some confidence felt that he will carry out the un- dertaking.
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INTERFERENCE WITH MAIL. Prisonors, often have difficulty It is understood, that the higher authorities in London entirely ap with their mall, it is further stated. prove of the action taken it There is interference with their Hankow which was taken on the letters and sometimes they are entire responsibility of the local completely cut off from their British authorities who, the com-families and friends.
To correct these abuses, it is petent authorities think ucted wisely in choosing the alternative proposed that there be lawa passed of an attack by the mob; with prohibiting Cantonese troops protecting the British, to a possible attack by the mob aided by Cantonese troop -Reuter..
to
EARLIER MESSAGES. "A WORD TO MIL CHEN.“
London, Jan. 7.
to
civilized ad-
interference with prisoners mail. Better health conditions should, be immediatel established. Winter and summer clothes should be provided for the prisoners. There should be doctor in attendance. Sanitary conditions should be inspected and improved. The ground and noors
VOCATIONAL TRAINING.
a
TRANS-ATLANTIC TELEPHONY.'
CHIMES OF ST. PAUL'S SENT.
London, Jan. 7. The London-New York wireless
inaugurated to-dny.
telephone service was formally
The first message to be heard in New York, were the chiruca of St. Paul's striking a-quarter-to-two, sent through a special telephone xed in the south tower of St. Pauls. After this, Sir George Murray. (Secretary of the General Post Office) conversed with the President of the American Tele- phone and Telegraph Company, and the service was then opened for public use.-Router.
SATISFACTORY PROGRESS.
Later.
A Post Office oficiul said that the public wireless telephone ser- vice from London to New York had progressed most satisfactory. Ten calls were made in the first 14 hours, and he expected the service to continue til eleven of the gaols should be covered o'clock in the evening, when the The Daily News in "A Word to with a two-inch layer of cement normal service would be opened. Mr.
Chen," hopes that' he and sand to relieve, the dampness.To-morrow calls will be taken will make good his pledge Beds should be provided with between 1.30 and six o'clock. The
"keep the situation in
varnished wood boards, to prevent atmospheric conditions were most hand"
There is no reason to dumpness and vermin. More troublesome at about sunset and suppose," it says "that the Canton Government, with the forces at its windows should be put in the the engineers would not put a command, is unable to perform gaols and bathrooms and tollets caller through unless they can
guarantee a clear line-Router. that imperative duty." If Mr. be kept clean. Chen and his associates are
CONVERSATIONS CLEARLY HEARD. justify their claim to be a re- presentative and
Rugby, Jan. 7. In addition to these reforms, it ministration, they must prove their is proposed that vocational train-
The conversation between Sir instant readiness to perform one ng classes be founded in the Evelyn Murray, Secretary of the of the elementary functions of civilized society by defending the Prisons, in order to keep the General Post Office in London, and lives and property of peaceable prisoners occupied while in prison Mr. Walter Gifford, President of citizens whether "extraterritori- and also to equip them for a trade the American Telephone and Tele- alista" or not, against murderous when their sentences are finished graph Company, In New York, Special classes in Kuomintang which inaugurated, the Anglo- "Leaders like Mr. Chen must be principles and the policies of the American wireless telephone ser- astute enough to realise that with- Government should also be taught, vice, is stated officially to have out foreign trade conducted in it recommended, and every been heard clearly on both sides. circumstances of. reasonable effort made to secure the reforms and to have been on "the whole fairly satisfactory. London sub- security, they will have throttled tion of the prisoners. the goose that lays the golden eggs
New gaols are also urgently scribers to the service who sub- in South East China and would recommended because of the presequently had a conversation with be reduced economically to the aent overcrowding. If financial New York go farther than this status of a crude half-starved stringency prevents the immediata and report complete satisfaction." organism incapable of anything building of new prisons, it is pro-
A London newspaper Director who but a slow and painfully laborious evolution from the beginning posed that the present prisons be conversed with a New York newe- enlarged and made more inhabi- paper proprietor for eight minutes, table.
declares that not once had either to ask the other, to repeat any- thing. "It was like speaking to a London suburb, only much
rioters.
Reuter,
EARLIER REPORT UNCONFIRMED.
Shanghai. Jan. 7.' Advices said to have been re- celyed here privately from Han- kow that control of the Conces- sion has been resumed by the Bri- tiah, are not confirmed. The latest naval wireless from Hankow, dated' last night, states that the Conec 1- ston is still in the hands of Chin- ese military.
American women and children
evacuated. being
are Reuter.
now
THE EVACUATION.
Shanghai, Jan. 7. A Hankow message says 258 British women and children, also a few men, left for Shanghai carly on Thursday morning-Reuter
NO FRESII INCIDENTS.
Rugby, Jan.. 7.- No fresh incidents are reported from Hankow, where the situation was yesterday described as quiet. The Chinese authorities have issued a proclamation guarantee ing the safety of British life and property,
British warships under Rear. Admiral Cameron, Commander of the British Yangtse flotilla, lie alangside the quays of the British concession.-British Wireless.
INSURANCE LISKS.
London, Jan. 7. During the past few days, Lloyd's underwriters, have quoted Ave per cent.. for a month to cover the risk of damage to mercantile property in the foreign concessiona
L
PERAK APPOINTMENT.
NEW MANAGER OF ELECTRIC
COMPANY.
London, Jan. 7.
STRENGTHENING TIES. "
Mr. Waller Gifford and Sir Evelyn Murray both dwelt in their conversation on the important Mr. John Ferguson, the Electri-effects which the service would cal Engineer of the East Indian Railway, has. bcen appointed General Manager of the Perak River Hydro-Electric Power Com pany, in Malaya-Reuter.
BOMBS FOUND,
CALCUTTA YOUTHS
have in facilitating business and promoting social intercourse between Great Britain and the United States, and in generally strengthening the ties between the two countries. Mr. Gifford re- marked that "through the spoken word, aided by the personality of the voice the people of New York and the people of London will become neighbours, in a real sense Falthough separated by thousands. of miles." Sir Evelyn Murray Calcutta, Jan. 7.
recognised that dificulties still Three Bengali youths have been had to be overcome before the arrested and remanded in connec-tran-Atlantic service could attain tion with the discovery of thirteen the standard of regularity and re- "Grenade" bombs and two re- liability which was aimed at. But volvers and ammunition in a house at Calcutta.--Reuter
ARRESTED..
without real influence except In- sofar as it can inflame Nationalist passions, but it will become a per- manent danger to Europe unless the Powers agree on a common policy to check the anti-foreign frenzy.Reuter
he was convinced there was no better means of solving these dif- ficulties than by putting the ser vice to the crucial test of daily
usc;
MAYORAL GREETINGS.
Greetings were exchanged 'by the new service between the Mayor of New York and the Lord Mayor of London. The Mayor of New York. expressed his conviction that the world of commerce would be given The evacuation of British ger added impetus by this new channel
A GENERAL EKODUS.
Peking, Jan. 7.
as well as women from Chengtu of communication between the
at Hankow, one per cent. for a and elsewhere in Szechuan ancworld's two greatest commercial month on property in the foreign ether parts of, southern and marts. concessions at Shanghai, and five wasterp China has begun in some per cent.. for three months-places, and all preparations for Reuter.
FRENCH COMMENT..
SHANGHAI NEXT? --
London, Jan. 7.
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Liquors
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ASSURED SATISFACTION
THE MYSTIC MAZE
By WALTER B. GIBSON.
The Lord Mayor of London Bald this have been completed in others. that the "City of London, in its Altogether 60 American women long history, has been associated and children have evacuated Han- with many great events, but none kow,--Reuter,
more wonderful than this in which Paris, Jan. 7.
through the means of modern Most of the morning papers:
science, the two cities are brought comment on Hankow. "Pextinax"
within the sound of each others' in the Ecko do Paris writes, that
The Morning Post gives promin-voice. For many years past the the Cantonese hitherto have con- fined their attentions to the Bri-ence to a letter by Mr. Leefe, need for closer communications thairman of the China Association, has been insisted upon as a means tish, but the principles they pro- who draws attention to the onor of developing the essential claim affect all the foreign Powers mous British interests in Shang brotherhood of the English speak- without distinction. It is only for hai, which with the safety of some ing races, and now, as if by reasons of policy that they hitherto 7,000 British residents will be magic, we have been brought
Take a pencil. Start at the entrance have respected the French gravely imperilled if the Cantonese through the Instrumentality of the to the mystic moze, and see if you and Japarieso concessions. capture Shanghal, unless adequate telephone, into that real touch that He urges the Powers to defend measures be taken for their pro-we all of us destra so much. Shanghai and ports, accessible to tection.
Ho refers
the to their warships, since trade
cuation of women and child- such centres develops in propor-
Hankow. and tion as commerce becomes impos-ren from
at
ova.
British Wireless.
can discover the picturo" that g
hidden thoro,
There is only one course which will take you into the maze, through its intricate passages, and out again, in one continuous Hinc. When you have 1 discovered the correct path, go over heavily, and it will form the outline of a picture.
A memorial to William Jennings sible in other parts of the country. Bays he does not known who
The Gaulois thinks that dis- ther in the last resort a Britlus Bryan is being crected at Dayton union among the Powers at a cri- evacuation of Shanghal is also con- (Ohio), the place where he fought tical time is particularly regret templated, but if so such evacua his last battle for Fundamental- tabla, for opportunities are there- tion would mean the end of Bri-ism. The memorial is to be coloured pencil and see the result! It by given the Soviets. It adds that sh prestige in the Far East, and teaching institution on Fundamonhas something to do with early Russian Bolshevism doubtless is be a ruinous blow to our com talist lines.
merce with China-Reuter.
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