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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 BHANGĦAL”
HOTELS.
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel Dea Wagons Lita, Peking.
KINGTM EDWARD HOTEL.
Rooms will not be available for the Public, neither the Lounge & Dining Room, till after the 14th day of June. There is a special lounge at the back of the Bar for the Public.
HOTEL SAVOY
The Havoy is the onlanding Hotel
in Hongkong and one at the front appointed in South China."
HOTEL METROPOLE. HOTEL BOA VISTA.
22, Ioo House Stroot.
.Macao.
UNDER THE SAME MANAGEMENT.
KOWLOON HOTEL
PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON
Modern Toilet System.
Elevator and Tolophanes to each floor.
Smoking Room and Saloon Bar. First Class Billiard Table
Recently renovated throughout.
Manager's Personal Attention
Tels. K. 608-609,
Cables KOWLOTEL. HONGKONG
"H. J. WHITE
Manager
PALACE HOTEL.
Tel. Address "PALACE." Tel Kowloon No.
Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Forry and Railway Station Entirely under English Management. Electric light and Fans throughout. Every Room with Private Bath Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms, Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Terms moderats. Special terms to families on application to:
Mr. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietiesa.
EUROPE
After-dinner dancing every
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Cables :-
"EUROPE"
Singapore..
HOTEL
SINGAPORE.
Grill
THE EUROPE HOTEL. LTD.
Arthur E. Odell, Managing Director,
CAFE
RESTAURANT PARISIEN
REMINDER
COME ALONG FOR YOUR WEEK-END ENJOYMENT
A spacious, comfortable and cosy private reception and Dining room is now open: for engagements.
Bast of Service Assured
Poddor Building.
Telephone C. 1576.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1927.
JAPANESE LADY ACCOMPANIST.
2:30
QUEEN'S
Above picture shows Miss Suzoko Yamamoto, who will be the accompanist at a 'recital to be given by Mr. Solfire Tatsumi, the American-born Japanese tenor, at the Nippon Club, Whiteaway Building, to-morrow night at 8 p.m.
WUHU SEARCH THREAT HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?
FAILS.
(Continued from Page 1.)
they can reinforce any front when ever the situation necessitates.
The following are answers to to-day's questions.
1. The Chinese, Pickade or Firadello, abont 1000, a house of entertalament, B. Started by Ptolemy Philadelphus in the palace of Alexandria. 4. Baron Newman, 1818, d. 1040. Edward VI, 6. Mr. Llanel" Lukin, 1780,
13. George II. 14. Merion College, 1. The costs of Norfolk, Tasar, Kent, Sussex, and
In the meantime three defence. 104. Frem. Calicut, in Malabar, India, 8. Blackheath, 1008, 16. Herodotus 11. A fines of the Ankuochun have been medieval bedr, governing the Counties Pala- decided as the first line at Hsuchow, das. 12. Pore in prologus to the "stires," the second at Tsinan and the third line at Tientsin or Chunliang-Hante. cheng. It is learned on good au- thority that General Wu Chun- ahepg will be appointed the Com- mander-in-Chief of Reserve Forces at Chinchow.
NATIONALIST ADVANCE.
No Aftempt to Loot.
The roller skate is no longer just a juvenile plaything. It has be- come a power, in Chicago's trans- portation system, Health authori ties, while admitting that the in- vigorating pastime is beneficial, fear that crossing accidents will A Chinese traveller who has re-increase, due to the fact that turned from Yangchow and Chin-skates have not yet been equipped kiang to Shanghai reports the with four-wheel brakes. The fad Southern advance up the Grand started when the faculties of the Canal and the Northern evacuation two large universities banned the cars by students. have been accompanied by little, use of motor
now high school if any, losses to the civilian The collegians turned to roller population. Yongchow is now in skates, and the hands of the Nationalists but students and office workers skate the city changed hands without to their daily duties on the level a struggle, and neither the out-boulevards. going Sun Chuan-fang soldiery
nor the advancing Southerners
made any attempt to loot or worry 25, addressed a telegram of the townsmen, so that the place wears an air of peace and pros-apology to Mr. Yada from Teing- perity that is unusual in a comkiangpu, expressing great regret munity that is a bone of conten- tion in a Chinese war.
at the incident. The telegram reads: I at once Inquired into the Armoured Train Moved.
affair as soon as I received your Since the British warning against the transport of Shanghai-telegram, and, as a result, it was Nanking Railway rolling stock found that, it being a dark night across the Yangtze at Nanking at that time, the soldiers fired does not have any bearing upon
the return of Tsin-Pu cars or the upon your vessel, mistaking her rolling stock of the Shanghal-for an enemy ship. Such being the Hangchow-Ningpo line, the Nation-
alists have been busy during the case, I hope, you will take the past week taking the armoured matter into consideration."
trains that once belonged
across
to to
Chang Taung-chang Pukow and have also shifted three engines and 20 wagons belonging
to the Hangehow, line across the
river.
S.-N.R. ROLLING STOCK.
Transference of War Prizes.
An agreement has bech reached
Evidence that the Shantung between Dr. C. C. Wu, the repre- 'troops left Pukow in some haste
when the Nationalists crossed sentatives of the bondholders of
the Yangtze at Nanking, is made the Shanghai-Nanking Railway clear by the number of captured
guns that are being brought back and the Kritish authorities where- here for repairs, minus breech by certain rolling stock left on blocks and other essential parts the Shanghal-Nanking railway by One Chinese observer counted 22
18-pounders and one 9-pounder the Shantung-Chihli forces as well passing through a few days ago."
JAPANESE MISSION.
Apology for Momo Incident,
as locomotives and cars of the Shanghai-Hanchow railway will be transferred to Pukow to be used on the Tientsin-Pukow line.
an ac-
When the Nanking military au- Shanghai, May 28.-Mr. S.thorities first suggested that they Yada the local Japanese Consul-would transfer trains from Nan- General; three Foreign Office in-king to Pukow, they were notified vestightors; and Mr. T. Funatsu, that this would be disallowed and Director of the Japanese Cotton H.M.S. Carlisle was stationed at Min Owners' Association in China, Nanking to prevent such who recently left here for Han-tion. The British officials took kow to inspect the conditions this stand bo uphold the neutrality there, after stopping off at Nan- of the line and to protect the in- king en route, returned here yes-teresta of the British bondholders. terday nboard the destroyer Subsequently the point was made Morno. The party of the Foreign that some of the desired rolling Office officials are now putting up stock was not property of the line at the Astor House Hotel. It is but were prizes of war. It was said that they will leave here for then agreed that three trains home on the 81st on board the could be moved, but there were Shanghai Maru.
no locomotives to move them. The Chinese thon ediled attention to the fact that, although there is
Sun's Telegram.
In reply to the protest fled by a British bondholders' Interest in the local Consulate with Marshal the Shanghai-Nanking line, there Sun Chuan-fang against the firing is none in the Shanghai-Hangchow 'British authorities upon the Japanese destroyer Momo line. The on the 18th insinnt, on which Mr.thereupon withdrow their protest, Printed and Published for the Proprieter by FREDERICK Yada and the Foreign Office in so long as the effectiveness of the vestigators were proceeding to Shanghai-Nanking railway la not PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street, In the City of Hazkow, Marshal Sun, on May interfered with. Victoria, Hongkong."
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thew with ZASU PITTS, TOM MOORIL,
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Beom the story "Hemix" byv ADELA ROGERS ST. JOHNS Adapted by Alloo D. G. Miller
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Pals in the war-reported lost and now they breez ed back home!
A no'er do well who, fear- ing the law, was perfectly willing to stay "dead"
A blus-bland, shell shocked out of his name and past into a habit of stealing any- thing in sight.
A roaring bucko' whose "resurrection" spoiled Step Mama's plans for collecting insurance.
Add a wife, a baby, two in- terrupted lores and 57 com. plications! Mix with con- stant surprises and laugh for a solid hour!
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