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HOTELS.
THE
HONGKONG
HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL Telegraphic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.
AND
SHANGHAI
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
New Lounge and Bar still open to the public for refreabment. Arrangements are in hand for more spacious public accommodation,
Highest dagron of comfort and good tasis. Entrance by public bar: also privateexit All the other accommodation is at present used by the Military Authorities,)
Renovations
and lavish debora-
tions just completed; every modern convenience; entering do tuxos bent food and liquors.
Manager, 7. II. Witchell......
Each room his hot and cold water
private phone, box maitross Etc. spacious publia facilities; attention and service.
Phone C. 373, Cables • Victoria," Hongkong.
THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY, APRIL
4, 1927.
Entertainments.
FINDLATER'S
“TREBLE DIAMOND”
PORT.
A LOVELY SOFT WINE OF PERFECT RUBY COLOUR,
WELL MATURED. IN WOOD. VERY POPULAR AT
MANY WELL KNOWN CLUBS.
HOTEL SAVOY
When in doubt, make it The Savoy!
KOWLOON HOTEL
PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON
Modern Toilet System.
Elevator and Telephones to each floor.
Smoking Room and Saloon Bar. First Class Billiard Tablo
Recently renovated throughout.
"The sign of a very excellent Port."
FINDLA
TREULE DAMENU
PORT
Stocked by:
THE WING ON Co., Ltd.
THE SUN Co., Ltd.
THE SINCERE Co., Ltd.
NAM HING LOONG
SANG TYE
TYE SH ING
CHUEN YUEN
KWAN TYE
PARAMOUNT SUPERSEASON
2.80 5.10
2:28 QUEEN'S 3:18
7.15 9.20
HAROLD LLOYD
IN
FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE
2.30
3:39 WORLD
Orchestra at 5.15 and 9.15
7.15
TOM MOORE
IN
JACK LONDON'S
Romance of the South Seas
"ADVENTURE
2.30 to 11.15
STAR
2.30 to 11.15
Manager's Personal Attention
WM. HAROLD PERRY Manager
Tols, K. 608-609.
Cables KOWLOTEL. HONGKONG
PALACE HOTEL.
HUNG CHEONG, Kowinon.
THE EMPRESS STORE, Kowloon, RAHIM'S STORE, Shameen.
ALSO AT THE PRINCIPAL HOTELS AND CLUBS..
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. EveryRoom with. Private Bath, Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms, Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Terms moderato. Special terms to families on application to:
Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietress.
A GLASS OF FINDLATER'S PORT IS A PERFECT FINISH TO A GOOD DINNER.
EUROPE
After-dinner dancing every
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Cables -
"EUROPE"
Singapore,
HOTEL
SINGAPORE.
Grill
THE EUROPE HOTEL. LTD.
Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director.
THEATRE
HR ROYAL
TO-NIGHT at 9.30 pm,
and next Friday and Saturday at 9.30 p.m. Matinee (Children Half-price) Wednesday at 4.30
The Hong Kong Philharmonic Society
presents
"H.M.S. PINAFORE”.
Booking at Anderson's "For he himself has said it, And it's greatly to his credit, That he is an Englishman !"
HANKOW SINO- JAPANESE CLASH.
Distributors--Cilman & Co., Ltd.
nation. would do and will take sent adulatory policy.
| steps to find out who is guilty and 2. It is resolved that our brethren that they will satisfy the demands at home should be warned against which we shall put forward to being misled by superficial views on them. But there must be no
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evasion or denial of those respon- China held by a section of the people shells were dropped and the damage sibilities which, by the evidence at home. to Chinese property was infinite-not only of British but of ether simal. No Chinese houses caught nationals, have fire.-British Wireldas.
FANTASTIC REPORTS.
3. It is resolved that, in order to already been prepare for the worst, the Govern- Iproved to rest on the shouldere of ment is requested to carry out tem- the Cantonese army and it must porary evacuation of the Japanese be clearly understood that neither residents in the whole region along in China nor anywhere elge can the Yangtze River. British subjects be murdered, rob- 4. It is resolved that in view of bes and insulted with impunity.the Japanese naval force here is not the fact that the present strength of British Warcious.
SHANGHAI JAPANESE.
Ask for More Protection.
The Truth About Nanking.
London, April 3. Reliable information, received authoritatively in London from Consular sources; says.that the evidence of disinterested Chinese witnesses shows that the reports
In view of to-day's news regard. that in the bombardment by Britishing the Japanese Concession and American warships at Nanking Hankow, it is interesting to record thousands of Chinese were killed that the following resolutions wein and property considerably damaged adopted at the mass meeting of are utterly fantastic.
the Japanese residents in Shang Only three Chinese civilian casu- bai held at the Japanese Club on alties were caused by the warships, | March 28;---
sufficient to ensure the lives and pro- perty of the Japanese residents in case of emergency, we earnestly de- sire that the Government will condi
more reinforcements to China.
WANG CHING-WEI RETURNS,
Conferring With Chiang.
Shanghai, April 4.
OWEN MOORE
IN
CODE of the WEST
SUNDAY, 10 ·
at 9.20
CONCERT
by the
MASSED BANDS
of the
1st. BN. THE CAMERONIANS
and
1st. BN. THE MIDDLESEX REGT.
Seats: $3.00, $2.00 and $1.00
QUEEN'S THEATRE
NO PENNY POST.
CHEAPER LETTERS MIGHT MEAN HIGHER INCOME TAX.
about the proposal of his sup- porter 7"
Lord Beauchamp smilingly con- fessed that he would prefer to pay the increased postage than more income tax, although it was democratic measure. Lord Southwark (the R. K. Cau-That was, not doubt, why Lord
Haldane was opposed to it.
The retort scored neatly oft
was considerable looting by Chin-necessary mensures, in order to en- against Marshal Chiang Kai-shok, ton of 20 years ago) put in a
more
The return of Mr. Wang Ching- we, which has been awaited by no houses were set on fire and no 1. "It is resolved that, in view the Kuomintang for several property was damaged. On the of the gravity of the recent Nanking months, has at last materialised. day after the bombardment there incident, our Government should tale, Mr. Wang, who is expected by the with unlinching determination, all extremists in Hankow to join them ese soldiery and a number of houses were guited.
sure the dignity of the Japanese Em-arrived here yesterday and is plea for the reduction of letter Lord Haldane, and the discussion pire and secure the safety of our staying at the Field Headquarters postage to a penny in the House ended in laughter at his expense. An exchange of views has been nationals. in China. proceeding over the week-end be- 4. It is resolved that we, the of Murahal Chiang, where the two tween London, Washington and Japanese residents in Shanghai, deep are conferring on the new situa-of Lords recently. In effect his Tokyo and a joint British-Ameri-ly appreciate the last several days? |tion.
demand was that Mr. Churchill can-Japanese communication is efforts of the Japanese marines for
should keep his hands off the shortly to be presented to the four protection, and that our Imperial
Post Office." There would be a Cantonese demanding reparation Government is requested to send
forces enough to cope with the alter-the Kuomintang moderates have
The Red faction in Hankow and certain increase in postal, busi for Nanking-Router.
i BRITAIN'S DEMANDS.
Warning To Nationalists,
•
London, Apr. 3. Referring to Nanking, in
a
cd situation.
Kuomintang Split.
3. "It is resolved that, in view of come into open conflict. The ness, he urged, If the price were the fact that the safety of the Set Commissioners of Inspection and reduced. Dear postage had kept Elements of Shanghai is being main of State Control appointed by the out of circulation millions of do- tained, despite the troubled conditions Central Kuomintang, most of
and
THE CHINA CRISIS
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DURING THE PRESENT CRISIS, prevailing in China, by their united whom side with Marshal Chiang, cuments advertising trade..
MANY LOCAL RESIDENTS. HAVE elforts, we, the Japanese residents have drawn up an Impeachment Lord Lutan, who replied for the INSTRUCTED US TO MAILA in Shanghai, assembled her in mass of the Central Kuomintang Postmaster-General, said it would DAILY COPY OF "THE HONG. speech at Darlington last night, meeting, tender hearty thanks to the officials Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Minister soldiers and marines of Great Britain, Government in Hankow, which are odd halfpenny from the letter AHHOAD
the Nationalist cost five millions to knock off the KONG TELEGRAPH TO FRIENDS of Health, said that "after the United States of America, Japan, intolorable outrages that have been fly, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Japan declared to be illegal, as the London, Apr. 3.
inflicted on us, the very least we and the Shanghai Volunteer Corpe and Commissioners were not lawfully post, and the Chancellor of the Owing to a decline in the Ameri-
A contract has been signed can do is to demand that the guilty various police organization of the elected at the recent Hankow Exchequer would not do it.
General Conference, which is also Lord Buxton suggested that a|TIC ACCOUNTS OF EVENTS DAY can motor spirit markets, the dis-granting the Japanese Far Eastern shall be punished, that an apology Shanghai Municipal Council.
Journalists' Opinions. tributors of the leading brands of Timber Syndicate a concession to shall be made and that such re-
declared illegal-Nam Chung Poc. start might be made in reform by BY DAY, BEND US INSTRUCTIONS motor spirit announce a reduction
The following resolutions were
THE PEKING CABINET.. paration as is possible shall be
applying a proportion of the Post AND WE WILL DO THE REST. in prices of a penny a gallon, from cut wood and export timber until offered for the injuries that have unanimously passed at a menting
Rates April 4, making the retail price July 1, 1933, over 110,000 hectares been done. We desire to put our of the members of the local Japan-
British Empire to London fourteen to fifteen pence on the shore of Tartar Strait demanda forward in complote har-se Journalists' Club held on Mon-
a gallon from the pump-Reuter. Router.
Moscow, April 3..
Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
mony and co-operation with the day last at the Japanese Club, other nations whose nationala have Boone Road:-
Resigns En Bloc.
Shanghai, April 4. The Wellington Koo Cabinet has
Ofee surplus to development.
"What is the use of taking about reducing what is, after all, a form of taxation said Lord Haldane. The country is short of revenue, suffered. I trust that the "Canton- 1. It is resolved that In view of ese Government, who claim to rank the serlousness of the Nanking inci-resigned en bloc. among the civilised people of the should establisit a definito, and post-Shih-yl will organise a new Cabi- postage than in our Income tax, dent; the Харалево Government It is reported that Mr. Liang It is better to be taxed in our world, wik do what any civilised
Itive China polley, altering its pro- net-Nam Chúng Poo.
What does Earl Beauchamp thlük મને
per month.
$3.60
Foreign Countripă.....$4.20 per month.