12
HOTELS.
THE
HONGKONG
HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL Tolographic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG."
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL: MAJESTIC HOTEL,
Tolographic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL
HOTELS.
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel Dos Wagons Lits, Poking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL Mouls can be had as follows :---
Breakfast 7.30 am-10a.m. $1.00 per Cover Tiffin 1:00 p.m. p. $100 +
Dinner
7.30 p.m.-.9 p.m. $1.25
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Nothing to equal it at the price in the Colony,
CENTRAL LOCATION
Electric Lifta and Lighting. Telephones on each floor.
4
Hotel Launeb moets all Stonmars.
TELEPHONE: 0. 373.
TEL. ADD VICTORIA. J. H. WITCHELL,
Manugor.
KOWLOON HOTEL
PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON
Modern Toilet System.
Elevator and Telephones to each floor. Smoking Room and Saloon Bar. "First Class Billiard Table
Recently renovated throughout.
Dinner Dance Every Thursday
Manager's Personal Attention
Tole. K. 508-609. Cables KOWLOTEL, HONGKONG
WMHAROLD PERRY
Manager
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15,
1927.
THE PUNJABIS AT SHANGHAI
Men of the Punjabi Regiment after they had reached the Race Club enclosure at Shang-
hai. They are shortly returning to Hongkong,
NEGOTIATIONS AGAIN
GIRLS AT OXFORD.
FAIL.
friends with Britain are the last things they intend?
"
REFUGEE TALES.
(Continued From Page: 1.) THE NEW VARSITY WOMAN,
ing him that if the company .did i am told that every girl at Ox- would be kidnapped and held for has her own car, says a womar. agree to their demands heford-and, I suppose, Cambridge Transom. Several attempts had writer in the Daily Chronicle. And
been made to try and got him to
in it she goes to her lectares, her
Inot
(Continued from p
page 1)
the further humiliation of negotiat ing with men who have proved be- yond any possibility of doubt that sincere negotiation and to make Chinose residences, from which he coaching, her games, and in it. was sure that he would have been too, may sometimes be seen her kidnapped. In cach-instance, how male counterpart out for a joy
ride before he disappears to lec- lever, he evaded the invitations. Want Troops Away,
All of the refugees say that the tures, or Hall, or the eight. situation throughout the two pro- It makes me realise the changes The game they are playing is alvinces are appalling In. many that the universities have seen. most brutally plain, as the inter-places the centre wing of the Kuo- since I went up. Friends and re- view with Eugene Chen reported mintang has succeeded in agitating lations did their best to prevent it, to such an extent that whole but fortunately I had far-seeing to-day by Itouter shows. He bland- Tel. Addrean "PALACE."
estates have been seized and parents, and the friends and re- Thres minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station ly ignores his having informed Mr. divided up in much the same man-lations had to content themselves Entirely under English Management. Electric Light and Fane through O'Malley in writing that his Redner as was done in Russia during with remarking that I always had out. Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billard-Rooma.
masters will only discuss. of Bri-the revolution. In other districts been "a queer girl-with very odd Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress.
the military have taken rich ideas." Terma moderate. Special terms to families on application to:
tain's generous offers if there is no Chinese out and executed them in Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietress.
discussion of them with Peking, order that they might be examples! Higher education was Now he tells us that an agreement to those who do not wish to hand thing for women in these days, over their fortunes. There is a Girton, after making a false start is ready for signature and awaits sny system established through at Hitchin, had moved its handful only Britain's decision about which
the military practically of students to Cambridge, where the troups. Could anything know the financial status of all they settled down in 1873-two be more false} But at the rich Chinese. The whole miles distant from the town lest
Tel. Kowloon No.
PALACE HOTEL.
EUROPE
After-dinner dancing every
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Cables :-
"EUROPE"
Singapore.
HOTEL
SINGAPORE,
Grill
THE EUROPE HOTEL. LTD.
Arthur E: Odell, Managing-Director.
DISCOMFORT THE ENEMY.
external, as when the red itself orils surroundings are unsuitable.
nre un-to
neys.
under
the
should
Come to
A new
harm
through, too close contact with the University.
any cost of truth, logic or de-
[country
Cantonese they cency the Rods must get those jurisdiction has practically been troops kept away from the Yang-milked dry and there is very little tze, or the upshot might be to be given. More than 60 per
Newnham followed two years. China in which decent and orderly cont of the Chinese business later, largely through the influence Chinese might live at peace and houses in the provinces have been of Professor Sidgwick, on ardent liberty.
forced to close their doors and
feminist, and expanded quickly Are all the doings of recent Chinese business is suffering in-
under its Orst mistress, Anne weeks to be as if they had never finitely more than is foreign busi-
Jemihuu Clough. The Oxfor been, their lesson to be forgotten
women's colleges, Somerville, Lady or ignored? At this moment
Margaret Hall, St. Hugh's, and St. there are large numbers, perhaps
Hilda's, followed in due course, and by 1893 the new movement' hundreds, of British homes all up and down the Yangtza, wrecked
was well on its feet.. and plundered. Many of their: owners have been brutally mal- treated by these "Nationalists,” some are refugees in Shanghai | destitute of all but the clothes they escaped in, some try to carry on their work in steamers anchor-|
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HOUSTON STEWARD
CHAMBERLAIN. ·
DEATH OF A RENEGADE ENGLISHMAN.
Even so it had its detrectory and remember, when it was re- garded as an experiment of cranks -before Philippa Fawcett had startled not only Cambridge butain recently died at Bayreuth." all the cultured world with her
Rome. The new law for the dis- Tripos result and made up realise ed in the river opposite their ruin-couragement of bachelorhood, that women were at last coming
ed homes.
Worthless Pledges,
moreover,
which came into force with the into their own. New Year, fixes the age at which
is liable to a
a man
burried
RAILWAY DISASTER.
TWELVE KILLED IN EXPRESS .COLLISION.
London, Feb. 14. Mr. Houston Steward Chamber were killed in a collision near Hull It is estimated that twelve people'
Chamberlair was the son of a Withernsea and the Scarborough, the express from
between
British admiral and the nephew of express. Six Withernsea conc a British general, and he spent the passengers in which were most most of his life in besmirchingly school children were telescoped. with tongue and pen the land of The salooni poach containing busi-
ness men was wrecked. Reuter.
his birth.
He was born at Portsmouth in
LUXURY FOR 1d. A MILE.
THE WORLD'S 'CHEAPEST TRAVEL
fine from But we were badly hampered by At Hankow and Kiukiang the twenty-five to sixty-five years. conventions. Those were the days 1855, and was educated in France They may be internal and due "Nationalist" party sit on stolen The Emperor Augustus let off the when for us to meet an under and at Cheltenham College and disease either of the body or mind. British property, of which they bachelor at sixty. The tax is to
In early all forms of sleepless got possession by a deliberately be progressive, varying from 10 gradante was an event. Were we Geneva. Later he seliled at Dres- PEOPLE WHO CANNOT SLEEP mess there is a tendency both to incited attack of an organized mob. to 100 fire, and the funds derived to see an acquaintance in the road. den, and in 1916 became a natural- Fortunately sleep sellom leaves understimate the actual amount Last October they undertook, at from it will go to the National discretion bade us bow and passised German subject. This did us altogether, but few of us escape of sleep obtained and to exaggerate Canton, to call off the boycott; Maternal and Child Welfare work.on. Not that we always listened not prevent him in 1921 from try- periods during which we fail to the evil consequences,
again and again they have pro is expected tu bring in some to discretion, but if we did stop ing to beneft by the will of his
sixty millions,
and speak to the young man our late uncle, General Sir Crawford This is foolish. · We are.all abla mised their protection to the peace- obtain our normal ammunt, writes
Chamberlain, but Mr. to do with a considerable redue-ful British. What have these. A few criticisms of the law have hearts were in our mouths and Trotter a physician to the Daily Mail.
and Justice 0. P. Lawrence held.
"A saloon passenger, for a figura This varies very greatly with the tion in our sleep-at any rate, for pledges been worth? They have been whispered. It is suggested our conversation
that he had forfeited his interests, not much in excess of 1d. a mile, *.. age and habit of the individual time; and, in any case, rest in given,
solemn as-that, from a fiscal standpoint, the apologetic.
Bicycles had been invented, and and all he received was some bit is transported to Australia and application of the tax will be diffi The average is probably seven or bed, with muscular relaxation, ja surances that Christian property cult, because of the large number though fashionable London had ter criticism in the German news lives without additional cost com- taken to riding its two or three papers for his attempt. The Ber-fortably and even luxuriously as A certain extent a substitute should be respected. But across eight hourk, but there
of exceptiona-priests, second doubtedly people-Napoleon was for sleep. Dread of not sleeping all south and central China the one who manage to get along and desperate efforts to sleep only "Nationalist" trail is scarred by lieutenants, and people suffering laps round" Battersea Park, we iner Tageblast anid:
We must sorrowfully record in a first-class hotel," said Mr. with only three or four hours make the condition worse. Many burned and looted missions from from hereditary discases--while it were forbidden them as being un- sleep.without any damage. patient has found that the best which many of the occupants seems unfair that those who do auted to a university atmosphere that Chamberlain was an English-I. C. Geddes, presiding at the on- Lack of sufficient sleep may way to regain the lost art of sleep-barely escaped with their lives; not marry because of insuficient We walked to our lectures, each of man, unfortunately became a Gernual meeting of the Orient Steam
Imeans are to be thus burdened, which was attended by un oficial man, wanted to be English again, Navigation Co. in London, take various forms. Thus the ing is to go to bed quite indiffer and to-day Shanghai harbours
and is again Deutcher, but he is no difficulty may be in getting off to ent as to whather sleep comes or scores of disillusioned and dis-Others criticise it from the moral chaperon-poor bered dear!
We sat in groups far from the Teuton. sleep within a reasonable time, or not.
couraged missionarice of all sects side, pointing out that the edict
I understand that nowadays is in flugrant contract with these men.
The White Ribbon, we may find that we can go to Lastly, sleeplessness should al- and long service in China, who Christian principles which Fas-men and women sit together, and During the war. Chamberlain's
be carefully investigated. have suffered the grossest humilia-
I am glad to hear it.
activities were anti-British eism declares it followe more unable to go to Whereas no one should resort to tion. at the hands of disciplined closely than any other Gavern Dances in my time were restrict-vigorous that the Kaiser gave him of long voyage saloon passengers,"
drugs without medical advice, troops. What is to be thought of ment. Christianity regards matri-ed to "Commem." and May week at the Iron Cross, in common with In a third variety our sleep is nevertheless, they
often the mon who have done these.
could let thousands of other people-but to Australia, he remarked that many as the fusion of two souls; Cambridge. Then we frequently broken throughout the proved helpful in sleeplessness, things? How can there be anythe Government, proposes to tax ourselves go for that brief time, with the White Ribbon (for civil-such a service could only be main- night-often owing to nightmares when properly administered.. notion of dealing with them that or disturbing dreams.
does not evoke an instant feeling the man who has failed to find but even so we did not go far ian services).
"A nation of dissemblers, for-tuined--if at all-at the cost of a Lastly, it may be the quality Paris-The day of the skirt is of personal and national dishonour?ation of the bachelor tends to re-idea of a woman rowing-and in his twin soul. In short, the tax-Tennis was our only game (the
gers, llars, and cheats," was one formidable subsidy. To create, rather than the quantity of, sleep passing, according to Paul Poiret, The news of Mr. Eugene Chen's
gard man too much as an animal shorts... horror), and we were
Motherland by this man, of whom lest our movements be impeded. was liable to be tried for treason sidy would be to put saloon passen-
And now undergraduettes can if he came within British jurisdic-gers on the dole. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 13— lines distinctly masculine. Trou-importance. We would urge that Forty-one years of railroad service be seen in cafes (I have seen themtion. In his book Democracy and
"For a relatively amall number British organization ini
without a single accident, is the myself), at the theatre, at dance Freedom" he declared that "there Shanghai and every British firm record of which James E. Kirk-clube, on the river--and they have is no freedom and no democracy of passengers and mails we bellove that can command any influence patrick boasts. Kirkpatrick, who their own curs! Things have either in Englund or France." that the future les rather in the Chamberlain, having divorced his air than on the ocean, but whether at Home should cable its earnest is 63 years old, is at present a con- changed. Ichabod--the glory has representations against the terrible ductor on the Frisco railroad, departed! The glory? I wonder!
music, married in 1908 a daughter concerned with the manning of wish I were forty years younger of Richard Wagner, the composer, airships I do not know.”
aleep easily enough, but wake up ways early and are sleep again.
have
Во
"The melancholy fact remaine that for many months' in the year our ships sail with only a handful
As to a proposed 22-knot service
that is at fault that is to say, al-fashion dictator. The Mussolini visit to Mr. O'Malley may, we useful in increasing the already urged to wear short skirts-"a fult of the epithets bestowed on his under existing conditions, a North though sleep comes during the of the costume world predicts that sincerely hope it does, mean less superabundant Hallan population. two inches above the ground"--Mr. Justice Lawrence said that he/Atlantic standard of spiced by sub-
night, on awakening in the morn-la 30 years women will be wearing than wo fear, But the present) ing we still feel tired and unre-a new and hygienic costume with moment is one of the most crucial| freshed.
Discomfort is the great enemyxer skirta will be the vogue, heļevery of alcop. The discomforts may be predicts.
Printed and Published for the Proprieter by FREDERICK
Victoria, Hongkong.
PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street, in the City of Inossibility of some fatal weaken making the run from Kansas City And whon I cease to wonder Trst wife, a German teacher of the Orlent Company will ever be.
to Sapulpa, Okla.