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ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL: PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL.
Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL"
HOTELS.
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lits, Peking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
Meals can be had as follows Breakfast 7.30 a.m.-10 a.m. $1.00 per Cover Tiffin 1.00 p.m. 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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Electric Lifts and Lighting.
Tolophones on each floor.
Hotel Launch meets all Steamers.
TELEPHONE: 0. 373.
TEL. ADD, VICTORIA" J. H. WITOHELL, Manager.
HOTEL SAVOY
When in doubt, make it The Savoy!
KOWLOON HOTEL
PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON
Modern Toilet System.
Elovator and Telephones to oach floor. Smoking Room and Saloon Bar. First Class Billiard Table.
Recently renovated throughout.
Manager's Personal Attention
Tels. K. 608-609. Cables KOWLOTEL. HONGKONG
WM. HAROLD PERRY
Manager
PALACE HOTEL.. Tel. Kowloon No. 8
Tol. Address. "PALACE." 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-Rooms. Unrivalled Cuising under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Terms moderate. Special terms to familien on application to:
EUROPE
After-dinner dancing every
Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
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sible, but assistance was rofused at the time.
A short while later, however, an-
Canada containing the ship's doc tor, an offlcor and six of the crow
other boat was put off from the
FRIDAY,
MARCH⠀⠀⠀ ⠀18, - 1927,
LOST REVOLVER,
EUROPEAN CONSTABLE
FINED.
Polico Constable" Charles Find-
Lindsell, at the Central Magis
Entertainments.
STUPENDOUS-
tay was charged before Mr. R. E. COLOSSAL- tracy this morning, with losing GIGANTIC—
his Service revolver, together with the aix rounds of ammuni-
tion which it contained, and the MIGHTY-
to stand by the distressed ship. The Canada herself proceeded upholstor. to her wharf slowly and the whole incident, tragic as it was, lasted somewhat less than half an hour. H.M.S. Enterprise appeared on the scone also aint remained standing by after the cargo ship had boon towed to her rosting place along
side the share,
The Empress of Canada at the time of the accident carried 42 saloon passengers, 30 second claas. 38 third class and 186 of whom were steerage, none Injured. Those at the stern of the boat reported that they experienced the worst sensations, while those amidship had no feelings of real alarm when the Impact occurred.
No Pilot,
Defendant pleaded guilty, aux GREAT gesting that he dropped it with- out knowing, while going up the Old Balloy in the early morning of Wednesday. He reported the on returning to the Station. loss to the Divisional Inspector
The Captain Superintendent of Police, who prosecuted, outlined, the routing duty as carried out by the defendant on the morning in question. Begun at 2 o'clock, his spell would have finished; at 8 o'clock, but, in between this, de- fendant was allowed, according to practice, to knock off for a quar ter of an hour, and to have his coffee before taking out the In- dians and Chinese of Sections 7 and 8. The Indians and Chinese had become rather slovenly in the way The Jinsho Mary carried no passengers, according to her they marched out to their posta, and so it came about that at 4 a.m. gents the Y.K.K, offices, who es- timated the amount of her cargo the duty fall on the defendant to at about 4,400 tons. No pilot lead them out. It was whilst they was carried by the merchant ship were marching up the Old Bailey at the time of the accident, u
that defendant said he drooped his fael which was remarked by Cap- revolver.
the tain Robinson of the Canada
The suggestion was that 68 in his belief the reason for acci- strap by, which the holster was ders of this kind. The smaller secured to the belt, bruke, but the
On this anpiloted veasels in the river, he C.S.P. remarked pointed out, are unable to judge rence as being curious, in view of the chanjel of the river thorough-the defendant's own admission, ly and do not realize the difficulty previously, that the equipment was had by large passenger vessels in order when he started out from In changing their courses or veer- ing suddenly even further over to Giving the defendant's record, their own side of the channel.
Mr. Wolfe, stated that Findlay Accurate details regarding the joined In October, 1924, complet- nature of the accident were, howing two-and-a-half years' service. ever, not available on board the He held a certificate for Canton- Empress of Canada, pending the ese, and there was one' report court of inquiry, customary under against him-for being absent such circumstances and at which from duty at the Station, for full evidence will be made public, which he was departmentally fined
$4.
An Eye Witness's Story.
the Station.
oceur-
Mr. Lindsell, alluding to the de I was standing upon the stern fendant's explanation, said he contemplating the scene of bustle could not see how the heavy and commerce on the Huangpu, weapon could have dropped with- and pondering upon the ease without the tug it caused on the belt which the water traffic moved being felt by the defendant. Even without accident,writes a passen if that explanation was the right to most gross ger on the Empress of Canada, one, it amounted when an ominous shouldering, carelessness on the part of the de- seesawing motion shook the Em-fendant. He would fine defendant press of Canadu from stem to $150, or six weeks' hard labour! stern. The feeling was not die- Later, Mr. Wolfe asked if $40, similar to the sickening rocking for the cost of replacing the lost of an earthquake. I smiled in arms, could be taken from the' fins reminiscence of wartime sub- and credited to the Police Arms marine scares
in the Mediter- vote. Otherwise, they would be ranean as the Asiatic crow came out of pocket to that extent. He, himself, was not sure whether this could be arranged.
tumbling op from below shouting excitedly, I supposed that, we had struck a rock, a supposition general among everyone aboard as later appeared.
Walking forward I observed an interest prevalent among the pas- sengers to see what had happened Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietresa.rather than any concern. Forward
Cables :-
"EUROPE"
Singapore.
HOTEL
SINGAPORE.
Grill
THE EUROPE HOTEL, LTD.
Arthur E. Odell, Managing Director.
QUEEN'S
Mon. and Tues,
March 21 & 22
at 9.30
p.m.
JASCHA HEIFETZ
Prices. $6, $4 & $3
Booking at Moutrie's
we saw the Jinsho Maru, her name plainly visible on the bows, lay list- ing to port, enveloped in clouds of steam pouring from a gaping hole ripped from funnel to the water
line.
Mr. Lindsell replied that he was afraid he had no power to make such an order.
QUEEN'S ROAD FIRE.
OUTBREAK SOON GOT.
UNDER.
Tire broke out in the ground floor of No. 247, Queen's Road, at 3.50 this morning, resulting in partial damage to the building. Firemen took charge from 1.11 early stage, and had the out- break under control in less than half-an-hour.
The Japanese steamer lay broad- side in the river. The bow of the Canadian liner had struck the. heavily laden cargo beat something less than a glancing blow sheering It is believed that the blaze was
through away the steel hull until it had been started
the carolesa turried outwards at right angles like throwing of a light, which came the lid of a tin can. The Em-into contact with combustible press of Canada had reversed her goods stored in the cockleft. engines before the collision,--this From this spot, the flames spread I had observed from my position in and burnt through the floor- the steh-and now lay off a few beams overhead, eventually set- feet from the Japanese ship. Itting are to several rolls of cinema; was a delight to observe the un- films stored on the first hurried but instant discipline on a Further progress was checked at British ship. The port boat was this stage, and the damage at once swung out with crew, and wrought to this floor and its con- doctor ready, while life belts, were tents was due more to water and loosened in their racks for a re- heat than to fire. mote emergency.
floor.
The cockloft on the ground Steaming ahead slowly we came floor where the outbreak originat abreast of the Jinsho Maru on her ed was destroyed, as well as other starboard side where the damage woodwork within the immediate: could be seen closer. The bow of vicinity. the Empress of Canada had sheer- ert to amidships at the funnel and the bridge WRB wrecked to the wheel. The Japanese commander refused any aid, two river tugs had at once come to stand by the wreck
Details of insurance are not yet Available.
STAR 'THEATRE.
There is excellent and exciting
and were now alongside the ship.gereen entertainment at the Star
Apparently she was not going to
sink. But on the deck of the Jinsho Theatre this week, for "Bride of
the wreck. There
TO-DAY til SATURDAY
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at 230, 5.10, 7.15, 9.20
The Thrilling Story of the Red Man's Last Heroic Stand against Civilization
THE FLAMING FRONTIER
with
HOOT GIBSON, DUSTIN FARNUM, ANNE CORNWALL
STAR
"
-Added Attraction at 9.20 only
FULL BAND OF THE BORDER REGIMENT By kind permission of
DOLORES
COSTELLO
in
BRIDE of
Lt. Col. G. Hyde Harrison, D.S.O, and Officers
the STORM
Queen's
CONTINUOUS 2.30 p.m. till 11.15
NORMA
SHEARER
im
WAKING UP
the TOWN
CONAN DOYLE'S SENSATIONAL STORY
THE LOST WORLD
LITERALLY
HUNDREDS
OF THRILLS
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
SOVIET INTRIGUE.
(Continued from Page 1.)
of
Maru it was evident that the ac the Storm," a J. Stuart Blackton of the Communist International. cident was not confined to mereed there yesterday with Dolores
production for Warner Bros. open. He said:
"The real Chinese revolution damage. Ons of the crew had Costello in the stellar role. This began after the proletariat been hurt and a moment later the boat's crew
is the film version of that thrilling Russia became the master of the of the Empress of Canada with a ship's officer and the story "Maryland, My Maryland," country and was able to extend doctor in the stern was pulling for written by James-Francis Dwyer; holping hand to all oppressed na- and Marian Constance.has omitted tionalities. It is under the guid- was nothing more that none of the original thrills in herance and with the help of the acénario. It is so crammed with U.S.S.R. that the Chinese revolu- could be done by the Canadian breathless moments that even the tion has undertaken to attain the Pacific liner. Our stem was bent most inded of picture goers could following results: (1), To clear but the forward compartment was not claim boredom at any part of the country of all foreignere, (2) alono flooded while the port rail the photoplay.
to repudiate all the agreements, was not splintered beyond easy re-
Dolores Coatello-whose wistful, (3) to make the Customs in- pair. Steaming ahead the Empresa fragile beauty and splendid act dependent of foreigners, (4) to of Canada docked but an hour late. ing. won her stellar laurels after clear our waters of foreign vessels, her performance in "The Sea (5) to return all foreign conces- Beast," starring John Barrymore slons to Chinn, (6) to do away --makes a lovely and appealing with all extraterritorial rights, The London Gazette announces herolno. Even in the shabby, All our victories are due to the the titles of two peerages con- graceless dress she wears, her help we have received from the ferred in the New Year's Honours charming personality glows and U.S.S.R. and it is with your help list Sir George Hayter Chubt, the sincerity of her acting is that we shall sweep all the Im- Bart, to become Baron Hayter, of apparent. Older stars in the inperialists into the sea.. (Loud Chrislehurst (Kent), and Colonel dustry are already looking to this choers.)" F. S. W. Cornwallls to be Baron gifted young newcomer to out- Will the Foreign Secretary real Cornwallis, of Linton (Kent).. ahino them all.
the writing on the wall and take action before it is too late?
The amazing tale of a lost continent where
animals roam that dis-
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appeared from the Earth ten million years
ago
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