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PREMISES TO LET.
TO LET-One European FLAT Wanchai Gap Road, Hongkong. Apply to 32, Kennedy Road.
TO LET-Ofice Rooms, 2nd Floor, New Hongkong Bank Building. Apply Sang Kee, same building.
TO LET.-European Flat, EOA, Kennedy Road 4 rooms 2 bath- rooms servants quarters. Apply Telephone C.547.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
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NOTICE.
It is hereby notified under Section 125 of the Traffic Regula- tion Ordinance No. 40 of 1912 that the Wongneichong Road be-| tween Sing Woo Road and Village Road will be closed from Monday the 25th. Inst: at 6 am. until further notice.
E. D. C. WOLFE, Capt. Supt. of Police.;
Hongkong 22nd April, 1927.
ANZAC DAY,
Members of the Ex-Active Ser vice Men's Association and others. Interested are asked to be present on Monday, the 25th April, 1927, at 9.30 a.m. when a wreath will be laid on the Cenotaph in Memory of the Australians and New. Zoa- lands who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-1918.-
ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH.
KOWLOON.
FAREWELL SERVICE.
Next Sunday, at 6.p.m.
Preacher,
Rev. G. R. LINDSAY, M.A.
THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
Draft Programmes and Entry Porms for the Third Extra Race Meeting to be held on Saturday, the 7th May, 1927, (weather per- mifting) may be obtained at the Race Course, Hongkang Club and Causeway Bay Stables.
Entries will close at I p.m. on Wednesday, 27th April, 1927.
NOTICE.
The Public is Hereby Noticed | that we are now under instruc-! tions and orders from our head office to temporarily stop Business | for TWENTY-ONE (21) DAYS
mencing from the 18th inat. because readjustment of accounts
is to be made during this interval
of time.
THE BANK OF TAIWAN, LIMITED.
Hongkong, 18th April, 1927.
HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMI-
BER OF COMMERCE.
COMMODIOUS OFFICES to let THE ANNUAL GENERAL in No. 7, Queen's Road Central, MEETING of Members of the also two small offices in 1A, Chater | HONGKONG GENERAL CHAM- Road. Apply E. D. Sassoon and BER OF COMMERCE will be held on THURSDAY, 28th April, 1937, Company, Ltd.
atp.m., in the CITY HALL, for the following purposes:-
FLATS als ROOMS, single, double, furnished or unfurnished, mid-level or Kowloon, excellent locations. Partial service, if re- quired. Small Investors. Tel. 0.4030.
TO LET SHIPPING OFFICES in Connaught Road Central, Nos.) 16, 18 & 19, Ground Floors; Nos. 16, 17 & 18, First Floor; No. 16, Second Floor. Please apply S. K. Trust Ltd., 29, Connaught Road, Central.
TO LET-Furnished flat on Peak to let: two bedrooms with bath-
(1) To receive the Report and Accounts of the Committee for the year ended 31st De-i comber, 1926,
(2) To elect a new Committee.
(3) To transael any General
Business,
By Order,
M. F. KEY,
Secretary,
Hongkong, 20th April, 1927.
MACAO RACES.
Tooms, two reception rooms and FIRST EXTRA RACE MEETING.
enclosed Verandah. Modern Sani- } tation. Immediate Possession. Apply Box No, 207, care of "Hong- kong Telegraph."
FOR SALE OR TO LET.-Bunga- low 402, Severn Road, Peak, Partly furnished, four reception and five bedrooms. Tennis Court. Pases- sion from 1st June. Apply Lowe, Bingham & Matthews, Chartered Bank Building..
UNDERWRITERS.
* SUNDAY, 24TH APRIL 1927.
First Race 11:30 m. Entrance to Public Enelosure 40 cents. Entrance to Members Stand $2.60. Special Race Steamers will run as under:
Saturday, 3rd April. From Hongkong. From Macna, 8.00a.m. Sui Aa 8.00 a.m. Sai Tai, 13.00 p.m. Sui Tal. 2.00 p.m. Sul An. Sunday, 24th April. From Hongkong. From Macao.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES AND 8.00 a.m. Sui An. 4.30pm. Sui Tai, 9.00 p.m. Sui Tai 5.30 pm. Sul An. Members are advised that they must show their badges to obtain admission to the Members Enclo-
GENERAL AVERAGE
B.8. "SCOTLAND MARU”
sure.
It is hereby notified that s.s. "Scotland Maru" grounded off Members may introduce two Tathong Point on 12th instant Ladies. Tickets may be had on owing to dense fog, but soon float-application to the Secretary
ed undor hor own power. As, L.B.R.C. Macno free of charge. however, water was coming into Each member lins the right to in- Nos. 1, 2 holds and across Bunker, troduce 2 non-Members to the the steamer voluntarily beached at Members Enclosure. Tickets mari Kowloon Bay, and this incident be obtained at the Entrance Gate. has been declare: to form General Average. The cargo destined to Hongkong has been discharged into and is stored in the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Gollown Co.'s Godowns at owner's risk and will be delivered to consignets against their signing the General Average !Bend at our office, as well as filing with us their Letter of Guarantee endorsed by underwriters agreeing to pay deposit towards G/A con- tributions, as soon as the percen- tage of such deposit is fixed.
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THEATRE DANSO
DAZ ROYAL
Tuesday, 28th April 1827, at 9.15 p.m. BEETHOVEN-CENTENARY-RECITAL
by
Mr. Harry Que (Piano) ainted by
Mr. R. Sanger (Soprano! Mr. II. E. Gardaer Tenori Mr. C. Y. Pasang i Fiolin) Admission $2, $1.
BOOKING at ANDERSONS
CHURCH" NOTICES.
St. Andrew's
Church. Kowloon, 1st Sunday after Easter," 8.15 Holy Communion, 9.30. Military Parade Service, 11 am. Morning Prayer,
and
Sermon. Scouts, Guides and Cubs will parades ,2.15 p.m. Sunday School. 3 p.m. Young Men's Bible Class. 6 p.m. Farewell Service. Preacher: Rev. G. R. Lindény, M.A.
St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, April 24th, 1927. 1st Sunday, after Easter. Holy Communion, 8. a.m. Sunday School, 10. Matins, 11
a.m. Preacher: Rest. FL. Copley Mugle. Collection Tor Red Cross Hospital Com- forts, Litany for the Sirk 12 noon. Evensong. G p.m. Preacher: Rev. G. FeStopford, G. F. Monday St. Mark.
Holy
Jommunion at 7.45 am: Wesleyan Methodist Church, Queen's Road East. Wanchai, fuear Royal Naval Hospital) Sunday, April 24th, 1927. Ser- vices at 10,15 a.m., and 6 p.m. Preacher at both services: Itew J. C. Knight Anstey. Subjects: Morning, "How to use £250" Evening, Dealing with The Crowd," Sailors' and Soldiers' Home, Arsenal Street, (Corner House). Bible Class at 3 p.m.. conducted by Mr. May: Chap- lain's Meeting and Social Hour at 8.15 p.m. Monday 3.15 p.m. 23th April, Ladies' Church Ald Meeting.
First Church of Christ, Ecientist, Macdonnell Road, below Bowen Road Service: at 11.15 am. Subject "Are Sin, Disease, "and Denth Reaļ," Wednesday: Evening Meeting at 5.30 p.m. Reading Room at above address open Tuesday and Friday; 10 a.m. to 12 noon. *Monday and Thursday: 5 to 7 p.m. The Pub- lie is cordially invited to attend the Service and visit tha' Read- ing Room.
"For the Blood is the Life”
Sufferers
from Bad Legs, Abscesses. Ulcers, Piles. Glendaine Swellings, Fezemo, foils, Pimples and Eruptions, Gout, houmalism, shud wyalich hat abe paly sure way to "oungębogini kuptimi veliof ito free the blood of the gutsohunk wasto malter, the can, chati di much trochten. Clarke's Blood Miriure contains ingredients which $500 over- come and expel the imparts. that's why so guany lasticgourou stand to its oredik..
Pizzzzat kotaka.
Of all Chemists and Stores.
Refuse Substitutes.
Clarke's Blood Mixture
"Everybody's Blood Purifiar.”
SATURDAY, APRIL 23,
1927.
LAMMERT'S CONSIGNEE NOTICES CHANGE OF FACE.
AUCTIONS
PUBLIC AUCTION.
The Undersigned have received; instructions from Hon. Mr. H. W. Bird to soll by Public Auction.
on MONDAY, the 25th April, 1927, commencing at 230 pm, at No. 27, The Peak, Lugard Road,
1.
ELLERMAN LINE.
From EUROPE.
The Steamship,
SHANGHAI STUDENTS GO "PINK."
THROW OVER COMMUNISM.
DIAMONDS CHEAPER.
OVER-PRODUCTION IN TRANSVAAL.
Good finds have already been made in the now diamond folds at Grasfontein, one digger report. "CITY OF CARDIFF"
ing that he has taken £1,000 having arrived, Conslences of Cargo Now that anti-Communist au-worth of stones from a pothole, by her are informed that all Goods thorities are in power at Shanghal reports the Transvaal correspon- are being landed at their risk into there is much eagerness, apparent dont of a London paper. Одо the hazardous and/or extra-hazardous Godowns of Holt's Wharf, whence Dey, among all classes to disavow thousand nativos are employed,
all connexion with Hivery may be obtained.
the tobooed many of them getting £5 a month. political faction. Even the at The traffic in stolen stones is be- dents' organisations are alive to lieved to be fairly large. ... the necessity of being other than "Red" as the following, taken from the N. C. Daily News showa:-
From the reports of meetings hold by student organisations over last week end there seems to be
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after 28th April, 1927, will be subject to rent.
Steamer
A Quantity of Valuable House- hold Furniture. Comprising:-
Chesterfield Couch with Covers, Chesterfield Armchairs with All Claims against the Covers, Curtains, Carpets, Teak must be presented to the Undersigned Desk, Teak Bookcases, Picturos, they will not be recognized.
on or before 6th May, 1927, or they
have been
Anxioty prevails regarding over- production. The latest · returns shown that in the six months Au- gust-January the output from Transvaal diggings alone was £2,438,000, and the monthly Ornaments, etc.
All broken, chated and Damaged some indication that at least a yield is expected to increase large- Teak Extension Dining Table, Goods, are to be loft in the Godowns, part of the students Teak Chairs, Teak Sideboard, Din- where they will be examined on any acen the fallacy of working against. The effect is seen in the fact the the local authorities with their that the value of the carat bas ner Waggon, Toak Ice Chest, hours of 10.40 a.. and noon, within campaign of Communism and that dropped in a year from £8 148. to
Tuesdays or Fridays, between Crockery, Glass Ware, etc.,
the From Storage period of One there might be a hope of them rid- Iron and Teak Bedsteads, Teak Weck.
Fresh discoveries are reported Wardrobe with Bavelled Mirror No Fire Insurance has been effect ding themselves of the radical
in the Ventersdorp district. elements. Door, Dressing Table, Teak Chested.
Bills of Lading will be countersign- of Drawers, Chairs, Screen, etc.,ed by, ctc.,
also
One Columbia Gramaphone One Perambulator.
and
One Teak Trousers Cabinet fit- ted with Messrs. A. S. Kew & Co's, patent lever presses,
On View from Sunday the 24th April, 1927.
Catalogues will be issued. Terme-Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, 15th April, 1927.
PUBLIC. AUCTION,
The Undersigned have received Instructions to sell by Public Auc- tion,
on THURSDAY,
the 28th April, 1927, commencing at 2.45 p.m.
at No. 5, Chatham Road,'
Kowloon.
A Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture.
THE BANK LINE, LIMITED. General Agents. Hongkong April 23, 1927.
THE SECRET DOOR.
HOW SMART DETECTIVE
FOUND A GIRL.
On Saturday 50 students repre- senting various local schools met at the Kinngsu 2nd Normal School. at the Small West Gate. The meeting was presided over by a atudent from Fah Tan University who made a long speech in which he said that the Student Union had hitherto been under the influence of the Communists, and pleaded that it should be entirely reorganized on the basis of the Three People's Doctrine. Fur Six years ago a young' woman
ther that everyone in China was sentenced by a Berlin court should endeavour to suppress the to one year's imprisonment for Communist movement, as it was stealing She slipped out of seriously injuring the Chinese peo- court, and the police have ever ple in many ways. shice been trying to find her.
Every now and then they visit ed the house of her parents, where they believed she was still living, but never found a trace of her, Recently another of the periodical visits was made.
Cupboard and wardrobes were examined and heavy furniture moved from the walls, but, as on dozens of former occasions, with out result. Then
of the policemen had
2
one brain wave,
£2 129.
POPE'S SWISS GUARD.
VATICAN MONUMENT TO BE
ERECTED.
Work has been begun at the Va- tican in the courtyard of the barracks of the Swiss Guard on a monumental fountain commemorat- ing the sack of Rome in 1527, when the Swiss Guards, heroically fight ing against odds, were almost all butchered in defending the Vatican Palace. The Papal Swiss Guard is Speeches of a similar tenor were
a force with traditions consecrated made by several other students, in by centuries of history. The Swies cluding the head of the Political Confederation, in fact, which pro Department, after which the fol-hibits its nationala enlisting in for- lowing resolutions were passed: eign armies, makes an exception in 1. That a manifesto be issued | fivour of the Pope's Swiss Guard. acquainting the public with the The commemorative fountain reasons for reorganizing the Studout. represents Captain Boust, who com- Union.
manded the Swiss Guard, ghting That a circular telegram be with drawn sword between two despatched throughout the country falling guards. It is the work of urging the support of General Chiang the Swiss sculptor M. Zimni, mann, Kai-shek and the Kuomintang.
Further Arrests.
3.That all schools be urged to ex- It occurred to him that if he pre-pel students who were Communists. tended that he had left the room
That the unions already formed ithe young woman might by students in various schools be re-
materialise, and so he slammed organized. the door as if he were leaving the room, and sat as quiet as a mouse.
After a quarter of an hour he The campaign against the Com- noticed that part of the wall was munists was continued by the moving, and a
Chinese concealed door Shanghai
authorities. open and out stepped my lady. She had been seated in an alcove, the door of which was so clover- LAMMERT BROS.. ly covered with wall paper that
Auctioneers, its existence was net suspected.
(Catalogues will be issued.) On View from Wednesday, the 27th April, 1927.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
POST OFFICE NOTICE
From
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Enrape vin Negapatam (letters and
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U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan, Shanghai
and Europe vin Sileria" U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shang-
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"OLD BILL" FINED,
い
WAR OMNIBUS GOES TOO
FAST.
"Old Bill," the L.G.O.C. motor- Thirty soldiers of the Political omnibus which carried thousands Department Headquarters at of troops to the advanced areas. Lunghua raided the offices of the on the Western Front during the Seamen's Union in the Native City war, has been fined for going too at 10.30 aim. last Saturday and ar- | fast. rested 12 persons. The raid was The old omnibus was taking made as a consequence of the dis-wreaths to a funeral when it was covery of handbills denouncing timed by the police and it was
the Right Wing of the Kuomin-found that it was exceeding the tang. Four Mauser pistols, two speed limit. The driver, Joha Browning pistols, 11 rifles and Proudman, was therefore summión- 200 rounds of ammunition, as welled at Willesden, N.W., last month. as a quantity of literature were The Clork: So Old Bill can still seized. Two of those arrested go?
were sent to Lunghua and the Proudman: Yes. He la a bit others detained at the police sta-hard to start up, but he makes tion in the City:
up for it once I get him going,
On the same day soldiers raid-
Colonel Pinkham, the Chair- ed the premises of the Gold and man: I cannot ignore the history Silversmiths' Union at the Small of this old omnibus, but thero East Gate and arrested several must be
Dao.
April 23.
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.April 25.
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Amazone
.April 26, April 26.
Taima
April 26.
Athos II
Canada, U.S.A.. Japan and Shang-
hai
April 20.
Empress of Asin
members of the Pawnshop Keep-
April 28.
er's Union were arrested about the
Malwu
Suwa Maru Empress of Asia
.April 20.
May 1. May 9.
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a conviction. The fine suspicious characters, who are be-will be 10s. instead of the usual ing. held for investigation. Two $3.
same time during a raid on the
Union by another detachment of PRIEST RETIRES FROM
soldiers.
FUNERAL.
LAST RITES PERFORMED BY LODGE.
다
Hangchow Clean-Up. Yesterday marked a new day for Hangehow, writes a correspond- ent, under date April 14. A pro-1 clamation was posted that no
An unusual incident occurred at strikes of any kind were to be al- lowed. Over 100 radicals. have funeral in Heaton Cemetery, a Roman been arrested and there are many
Newcastle, at which
to have con- more to be arrested. The General Catholic priest was Labour Union was searched and is ducted the services.
The cortege was followed by the to be dissolved. The local paper
lodre of the stated that the heads of the con- members of servative party would soon return R.A.0.B., and it was the intention to Ilangehow. The Y.M.C.A. ser-
of the officer of the lodge to per- vants came back to work to-day form certain rites after the pries had completed the committal ser There is hope that order will soon he restored.
vice. The priest, being informed of this intention, said he would not interfere with the burial at all, but would leave it to the Buffaloes. On the other hard, if the Buffaloes were prepared to abandon their intention, he was prepared t› per- form the burial service.
No church property has been in- jured or attacked in Hangehow since March 27. In the Shachsing district the Peh Kwun church co tinged to be occupied by the local group even after the proclamation from higher authorities had been shown to them.
There was
make a
a consultation bet- No foreign proparty has been ween the relatives, the priest, and raided. There has been a threat the lodge officials, after which the to take over the property of the relatives, having to Lakeland Community Centre. choice, decided that the burial This appeared in poaters on the service should be left to the lodge
oficials. walls and also in the newspapers. The taking over of the Y.M.C.A. bas also been threatened. That the Christian schools are to be taken over is heard again. I have even beun informed that all Chris- tían property, schools or churches will soon be taken over. This, however, is no more than rumour.
Accordingly the priest retired and book no part in the burial
Don Manuel Gondra, who took part in five revolutions in Paraguay and was twice deposed from thờ Presidency of that Republic, has died in Asuncion,
or four months if this condition is not stopped.
Business Collapse Threatened. Orders have been issued for the protection of churches, schools and foreign residences both by the see- retary of General Lo We-yong and the magistrate. It is too early to
Several men were killed and tell how effective these will be.
many hurt in the outbreaks, bo Business is seriously hindered tween the conservative and radieni by strikes. No shop is allowed to labourers some days ago. Yostor close even if the owner desires to day, however, no fighting Look close. The merchanta say that all place, as was expected, on account. business will go to pieces in three of the strong guard of soldiers.