HOTELS.
THE
HONGKONG
BONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL Tolographic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL: PALACE HOTEL:
MAJESTIC HOTEL
"Telegraphic Address:
*
CENTRAL, SHANGHAL"
HOTELS.
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel Dea Wagons Lite, Poking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
Meals, can be had as follows:
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Broakfast 7.30 am-10a.m. $1.00 per Cover Tiffin 1.00 p. 2 p.m. $1,00 Dinner 7.30 p.m. 9 p.m. $1.25 Nothing to equal it at the price in the Colony.
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CENTRAL LOCATION.
Electric Lifts and Lighting.
Telephonos on each floor.
Hotel Launch meets all Steamers.
TELEPHONE: C. 373.
TEL. ADD VICTORIA. J. H. WITCHELL,
Munayer.
KOWLOON HOTEL
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1927.
WELCOME BY FORMER HONGKONG GOVERNOR.
Entertainments.
2.30
5.10
QUEEN'S
7.15
9.20
WITH LEATRICE JOY ERNEST TORRENCE
and
THE FOURTEEN INTERNATIONAL BEAUTY
MODELS
PRAIRIE BY
ADOLPH ZUHOR Jesst
PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON.
Modern Toilot System.
Elovator and Telophones to each floor.
Smoking Room and Saloon Bar. First Class Billiard Table
Recently renovated throughout.
Manager's Personal Attention
Tols. K. 608-609...
Cables KOWLOTEL. HONGKONG
W. HAROLD PERRY
Manager
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PALACE HOTEL.
Tol. Address "PALACE." Tel. Kowloon No. 3
Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. Entirely under English Management. Electric Light and Fans throughout. Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooma. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Terma moderate. Special turms 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.
QUEEN'S
Mon. and Tues, March 21 & 22
9.30
p.m.
JASCHA HEIFETZ
انجیر
Prices. $6, $4 & $3
Booking at Moutrie's
E. HING,
SHIPBUILDING MATERIALS SHIP CHANDLERS
HARDWARE MERCHANTS.
PHONE. CENTRAL No. 1116.'.
Wing Woo Street TEL. 52 Castra!
Printed and Published for the Proprieter by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8; Wyndham Street, In the City of Victoria, Hongkong..
The above picture, showing the Duke and Duchess of York, leaving Kinga- ton Parish Church, Jamaica, is of special interest to Hongkong at it shows Sir Edward Stubb's in the procession with the Royal couple. (Photo engray- ing: S. C. M Post).
- TERRORISM IN
SHANGHAI.
(Continaed From Puge 1)
KIUKIANG POSITION.
Attempts
Settle Strike.
Kiukiang, Mar. 10. The Nationalist flag has been hoisted on the Customs House.
The situation is quiet and the Chinese authorities are endeavour ing to settle the strike and to re- sume friendly relations with for- vigners.
Southern troops in large numbers were sent down river to-day- Naval Wireless.
TIENTSIN CONCESSION.
Discussions in Progress.
BENGAL'S NEW GOVERNOR.
LEAVES FOR INDÍA,
London, Mar. 10. The Hon. Mr. P. S. Jackson, the new Governor of Bengal, left this morning for India to take up his post. There was a large gather- ing at Victoria Station to see him off, including the Premier, Coun- tess Winterton and the Nawab öf Behav.-British Wireless.
OUR AIR POLICY.
(Continued From Page 1)
Force.
London, Mar. 10.
The importance of these Mr. G. Locker-Lampson (Under- Froposals lay in the fact that they Secretary for Foreign Affairs) were illustrations of imperial air
policy that would gradually! stated in the House of Commons that discussions were now in pro-merge in the years to come and gress between the British Govern have been possible to lay without
| whose foundations it would not? Foreign the fruitful discussions that took Ministry regarding the British place at the Imperial Conference. Concession at Tientsin.-British Wireless.
ment and the Chinese
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An Empire Assėt.
SOVIET DELEGATE TO.
In conclusion, Sir Samuel Hoare' HANKOW,
declared that British air policy was, on the one hand, to make the Heported to Be "Ambassador." Air Force as mobile, as possible
Riga, Mar. 10.
and, on the other hand, to direct M. Aralow, who has been repre- the aim of civil aviation not on senting the Soviet Government in to the enclosed spaces and storms their negotiations with Latvia for and fogs of Europe so much as t
the boundless expanses and wide the conclusion of a guarantee pac Eorizons of the British Empire. has gone to Moscow en route for He saw the prospect of using the Hankow It was recently reported that MAralow had been appoint- Air Force as an instrument of ed' Soviet Ambassador to the Can-economy and not as a stimulus to greater expenditure, and of tonese Government-Reuter.
nking aviation an asset and not a Hability to the British Empire Rritish Wireless,
· NATIONALIST LEADERS.
Many Arrive at Harkow.
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According to a Chinese tele-
Question of Disarmament,
Later.
gram from Hunkow, most of the Commissioners and officials of the The House of Commons, carried, Nationalist Government and the by 225 votes to 112, the Air Esti-: Kuomintang Headquarters have mates. arrived there from Nanchang,
were
save our
Mr Garro-Jones (Liberal) urged i General Tan Yen-kai, Chairman disarmament of the air, and men- of the Government, Mrs. Liao tioned that pilobless aeroplanes Chun-kai, General Li Lieb-chun had been developed in the United and other Commissioners arrived States capable of conveying a on the 7th. A mass meeting in plosives 35 miles and dropping honour of these Commissioners them. Supposing a Continental was held on the day of their ar-lower developed the distance to rivál, at which thousands
100 miles and built 10,000 such machines, what would prosent, despite the rain...
General Tan is having his tem-citics? porary office in the Army Head- The Under Secretary for Air, Sir quarters whilst other officials of Philip Sassoon, stressed the vul the Government and the Party nerability of London, and said the are seeking places for temporary British attitude towards air dis- offices. The Kuomintang Secre-armement was governed, firstly, tariat has been established on the by the urgent calls of the fourth floor of the Nanyang Build- Empire for the development of ing. Other departments of the erial transport, and, secondly, the Kuomintang Hoadquarters are imperative need of adequately pro occupying the fifth floor of the tecting the vital centre of the Em- same building.
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THE CAMERONIANS. Leave for Fanling.
pire. When the programme was |completed we should not have the Hargest air force in Europe and therefore wo could not, in justice to our Dominions and our owa The 1st. Batt. of the Cameronians safety act alone or tako the in- (Scottish Rifles) left for camp at itiative in air disarmament. Vis- Fanling this morning.
count "Cecil was making definite
The transport, sa. Bellerophon, proposals at Geneva for disarma- is due to arrive on Monday. She ment-Reuter.
is carrying two pack batteries of
the Royal Artillery, with equip ment, another Armoured Car Sen-
tion, with eight armoured ears, and First Cruiser Squadron, now sta- other detachments for small units, tioned in Hongkong, arrived from in the Colony,The Bollerophon Home yesterday. She fn of similar also carries a large cargo of pro-typo-to . M. S. Delhi and H. M. S. zistons for the troops.
NAVAL MOVEMENTS. 'H.M.S. "Dauntless" Here..." H. M. S. Dauntless, a cruiser of 4,650 tons, forming part of the
Danae, carrying six 6-inch guns, three-Lach anti-aircraft guns, and four three pounders.
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In command of the cruiser aro Capt. 9. DaTillard, and Comman der G. B. C. Watkins, D.3.0.
SHARE PRICES.
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TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.
The following is the list of local. share1otations issued to-day-
.
Banks.
Hongkong Bank, $1,085 sa. Chartered Bank, £21 Morcantile A. & B., £32 n. Morcantile C., £13] 'n.
P. and O., £93b. ----- East Asia, $74 s.
Marine Ins,
Canton Ins., $660 - n.
A+
China Underwriters, $.80 n North China, Tls. 145 a.
b. Union Ins., $285 Yangtazd Ins., $38 IĮ,
Fire Ins.
D.
China Fires, $200 Hongkong Fire, $615 b.
Shipping
E.
Douglases, $314 Steamboats, $22, s. Tuge, $1.10 Di. Indo-Chinas, (Prof.) $30 Shell Trans., 98/- n. Star Forries, $55 BA, Waterboats, $14 M.
Refineries.
China Sugars, $22 Malabons, $34
Mining.
8.
2.
Bonguets, $1.30 n.
Kailane, 38 b.
Langkats, Tis. 24 b.
4,
S'hai Exploration, Tls. 4 n. Shanghai Loans, Tls. 7 n. Raubs,
$4 Tronohs, 21/- b.
#
Ural Caspians, 8/- n
Docks, etc.
n.
Kowloon Wharves, $102 8. Whampoa Docks, $40 Hongkowa, Tle: 1473 b. New Engineerings, Tis. 5 b. Shanghai Docks Tls. 102 b, Lands, Hotels, etc.
n.
H. and S. Hotels, $7.65 B. H.K. Lands, $54 Realtys, $5.80 b. Territorials, $21 s. Humphreys, $122 b. Princos Bldgs, $89 Rural Lands, $1) -- s. Cottons.!
A.
Ewoa Cottons, Tls. 8.50 b. Orientala, Tls. 2. n. S'hat Cottons, Tls. 54. b Buses, Trame.. China Buses, Tis. 9 n. Tramways, $20.90 s. Peak Trama, (old) $15 b," S'poro Tractions 11/ s.. Taxis, $1- 8.
1.
Miscellaneour.
Amusements, $18.60 n. Canton Icos, $5 n. Coments (Comb.) $7 b. China Lights, $14 b. China Prov., $4. B. Constructions, $2.30 Dairy Farms, $17 Dor A Wing, 56 n H'kong Electrics, $55 b. Maono Electrice, $35 n. Ropos (Old) $10 Lane Crawfords, $7 b.. Mackintosh, $19) x. Binderos, $81 b. United Asbestos, $20 n. Watsons $12 Powells, 861. n..
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Paramount Picture
5.15
he DRESSMAKER
FROM PARISE
ぐれ
PAUL BERN
PRODUCTION
WORLD
8.15
When he saw her dainty slippers his heart went pit-a-pat in
Elinor Glyn's
MAN
ANDMAID
WTA
ZEW CODY RENEE ADOFER HARRIET HAMMOND
dirented by VICTOR SCHERTZINGER produced ly LOUIS E MAYER
2
STAR
WILLIAM FOX presents
SURROUNDED by beautiful girls with
every luxury at his command he thought he knew life he thought he understood women. And then along camo a little girl who ran away with his heart.
What a film!
Don't miss it!
Metro Goldwyn Picture
5.15 to 8.45
and at 9.20
THANK
-
YOU
JOHN GOLDEN'S
PLAY HIT BY DE
WINCHELL SMITH AND TOM CUSHING
'A HUMAN STORY OF THE TAMING OF A
TOWN OF HYPOCRITES
with
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GEORGE O'BRIEN- JACQUELINE LOGAN J.FARRELL MACDONALD-ALEC FRANCIS – CYRIL CHADWICK, FRANCIS POWERS := FRANKIE BAILEY — MARIAN HARLAN,
GEORGE FAWCETT- MARK FENTONAS Scenario by FRANCES MARION- JOHN FORD Production