HOTELS.
THE
HONGKONG
HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL Telegraphio Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL:
MAJESTIC HOTEL.
Telographic Address: CENTRAL, SHANGHAI.”
HOTELS.
LIMITED...
In association with the Grand Hotel Dos Wagons Lits, Peking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL Meals can be had as follows :-. Breakfast 7.30 am-10a.m. $1,00 per Cover 1:00 p.m. 2 p.m. $1,00 7.30 p.m. 9 p.m. $1.25
Tiffin
Dinner
Nothing to equal it at the price in the Colony.
CENTRAL LOCATION
Electrio Lifts and Lighting. Telephones on each floor,
Hotel Launch meets all Steamers.
TELEPHONE: 0. 373.
TEL ADD. VICTORIA. J. H. WITCHELL,
Manager."
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.
Manager's Personal Attention
Tela, K. 508-609. Cables KOWLOTEL. HONGKONG
2
WM. HAROLD PERRY
Manager
PALACE HOTEL. Tel. Kowloon No. 3
Tel. Address "PALACE," Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. Entirely under English Management. Electric Light and Fans throughout. Every Room with Private Buth. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms, Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Terms moderate. Special terms to families on application to: :
Mrs. J., 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
Prices. $6, $4 & $3 Booking at Moutrie's
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
H.M.S. “ARGUS” IN HONGKONG.
MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1927.
Above is the British aircraft-carrier Argus, which arrived in Hongkong on Saturday. The Hermce and the Vindictive aro already in Far Eastern waters, and the arrival of the Argus brings the number of British planes now available in the East up to a total of eighty.
KUOMINTANG PARTY SPLIT.
man.
ILLEGAL SOCIETY.
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members in preference to other reply within 24 hours, full respon- sibility would rest on Mr. Tiech-persous; the ninth laid down a
standard rate of wages to be pai by members for daily labour in The trouble appears to have arisen through a misunderstand the absence of a special contract; the tenth prescribed that any ing, in which the majority of the reach of the regulations should blame did not rest with the blue be considered at a meeting of all jacketa.. At a meeting with the members and that if no agreement Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, was reached then legal proceed- held later, the Labour Union off-
ings might be taken to enforce cials would listen to no reason, the regulations; the last rule either from the Commissioner or provided for the revision of Mr. Tiechman.
the rules if required, by a general meeting of members..
Mr. Tiechman has since replied saying that he has complained to
Continuing, His. Lordship said) the Southern Government and His Majesty's Government concerning he had no hesitation in deciding the demands, which have been that the principal purpose of the categorically refused except hos- Guild, to which its other purposes: pital expenses, etc., which had al- were subordinate, was to afford ready been offered, and that he trade protection to its members. wil. not be responsible for any Combinations to better the condi tions of labour were not unlawful untoward incident.
next THE CASE OF MRS. BORODIN, at Common Law and therefore that
object was lawful. It was No Application for British Aid.
necessary to consider whether the means, or any one of the means,! by which the Guild proposed to effect that object were illegal.
Illegal Regulation.
His.
Hankow, Mar. 12, The National News Agency quotes M. Borodin as saying "I have not asked any British au- thority to interfere on behalf of Mrs. Borodin. The Chinese peo- The only rule which, in ple are well able to prevent any Lordship's opinion, might be harm to her and to effect her re- substantially challenged as illegal was No. G. Any restraint of lease."
trade, incidental to other rules of the Guld seemed plainly, to be proportional to, the advantage of members contemplated therein. A Curious Report.
Two questions arcse in connection Peking, March 12.
with rule No. G. Firstly, did it A curious. report has reached prescribe a restraint which ex-. Poking from a foreign source that tended further than was necessary one of the three Russian couriers for the reasonable, protection of the members of the Guild, and
M. Borodin denies that his wife was carrying military secrets to the Southerners. Reuter.
was a women.
The report states that Madame secondly, If it did so, was the rule Borodin, another Russian woman, an essential part of the principal- and two couriers have been removed object, or was it separable from froto Tainanfu to Wei Chino Chwang, it so as to leave the operation of not far from Tsinaniu, owing to the remaining rules unaffected? fears for their safety in the city due
The first question he would ans-
to the numbers of White Russians wer in the affirmative. The rule there:-Reuter.
CHINA AND LEAGUE..
M. Briand States Position.
Geneva, Mar. 13.
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provided that where, in the course of contract work, a dispute arose, between the building owner and a) contracting member no other member should undertake to com-
W
Talking to foreign press corres-plete the contract so long as pondents after the close of the the dispute remained
M. Council,
un-
meetings of the Briand, referring to China,
settled. That prohibition made
re-
no
wns
reference whatever to the marked that the League could only undertake questions which it merits of the dispute, and it was could juridically take up. China not contingent on a rejection. hy the building owner of a legal divided and he asked,
By its yaward on arbitration. whom, then, could an appeal to language it endeavoured to place! the League be made and in what
a building owner at the mercy of conditions? But, in principle, the an arbitrary contractor, and he thing was not impossible, should was to be hampered in effecting events take a turn enabling the an alternative contract. League to occupy itself with rule in its present form was detri- Chinese matters.--Reuter.
KEEPING SHANGHAI
INVIOLATE.
The Kecent Episode.
London, Mar. 13%
That
mental to the public good. It was inequitable in its consequences, A full legitimate protection for the members could be designed without a disregard of their con- That tractual obligations. restraint
Was "unreasonable, With regard to the refusal of British troops to allow Shantung oppressive, and destructive of in- troops to enter the International, dividual liberty."
The second question was per- Settlement at Shanghai, it is ex- plained that possibly the opisode hapa more difficulty. One state- was the result of misunderstand-ment of the law was that on agree- ing, since it has beer clearly ment was vitiated "If the illegal stated by the Settlement authori-parts go to the main object of the the legal and ties that armed Chinese troops combination or are not, to be permitted in the legal parts are so mixed up as
The Settlement and that complete alene, among the other regula-
to be inseparable." neutrality between the contending tions, seemed to be clearly tainted Chinese forces is and will be with illegality, but it was not in maintained-British Wirelese. His Lordship's opinion one of
IIELP FOR WU PEI-FU.
To Fight Fengtien Troops.
rule
several illegal rules. An amend- ment of its terins so as to include an arbitration as precedent to its The Nationalists in Hankow are prohibition would, in his view,į continuing to send troops and mili- render the rulo innocuous. tary supplies into Honan to help Nevertheless, he did not doubt Marshal Wu Pei-fu's Army there that the officers of the Guild who against the Fengtien forces, ac framed the rules regarded that cording to a report received in rule as of cardinal importance to Canton yesterday."
their general plan. For that rea Three trains are running daily son he concluded that the rule was London-When Is a motorist drunk, if in charge of a motor- between Hankow and Sinyang. so mixed up with other provisions drunk? Judge Sturges, gave his car within the meaning of the Act. The first batch of troops sent Into for the protection of the trade as definition thus: "Where the "Some people," ho added "canonan has just arrived at Ming- to be inseparable from them.
atake very little alcohol but if they king. General Chin Yun-no, who this conclusion he had followed man, normally required in the take alcohol when in charge of a is leading the Wu Pel-fu'n forces leading judgments. manipulation of a motor-car, laenr, knowing it is likely to dimi- Fengtien Invaders, has issued, a
An Appeal?
obviously diminished or impaired
fis Lordship found that the as a direct result of the consimp-nish their skill and judgment, they frcular announcing his accup Kwong Yee Tong was an illegal tion of alcohol, I hold that he is cannot complain of the results." tance of the Kuomintang appoint society, because it had as in ment, adding that he will strictly separable from its principal object observe the principles of Dr. Susan ilegal restraint of trade, which Printed and Published for the Proprieter by FREDERICK It is understood, however, that all was get out in rule of its 1 PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street, in the City of the forces of Wu's Army are gulations, Judgment therefore, Victoria, Hongkong.
against the Fangtlenites.
was for the defendant with costs.
skill and judgment of
in Ilonan to fight against the
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Mr. Loseby asked for a stay of
of Leavenworth, Kan.,-A Leaven- The annual distribution' 14 days and Intimated that the
The birth of Robert living. takes place, on Wednesday at Eugene Price on January 18 made question of an appeal would be prizes of St. Joseph's College worth family has five generations considered.
Mr. McCallum offered no objes 5.16 p.m. Mr. W. W. Hornell, the fifth generation, all of whom tion and His Lordship granted the C.LE (Vice-Chancellor of the are living in Leavenworth. Roberts
(4 | Univeralty) will presiden
great grandmother is 82 years old. application..