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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, SHANGHAI."
HOTELS,
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel
Des Wagons Lits. Peking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
Most Modern and Central Hotel'in the Colony, all Bed Rooms, newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telophone. All Trams pass in front of Hotel. Most Moderate Rates in the Colony. Hotel launch meets all steamers.
Dining Room and Lounge now open to the Public,
PROF. C. THERESES
and..
MISS MARGUERITE SENOUR will give Exhibition Dances every
Tel. Add Victoria.
TUESDAY & FRIDAY
.5 to 6.30 p.m.
Telephone C.373. J. H. WITCHELL,
Manager.
HOTEL SAVOY
Famous for its Comfort, Cornveni-
erice, Appointments and
Спіліна,
You'll be proud to stay at the Savoy.
HOTEL METROPOLE. HOTEL BOA VISTA.
22, Ico House Strost.
Macao.
UNDERT HE SAME MANAGEMENT.
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
Tele. K. 608-609.
Cables KOWLOTEL. HONGKONG
H.J. WHITE
Manager
Tal, Address "PALACE."
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
PALACE HOTEL. Tel. Kowloon No.
Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station, Entirely under English Management. Electrle Light and Fans throughout. Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Torms moderate. Special terms to families on application to:
EUROPE
After-dinner dancing every
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietresa.
Cables :-
"EUROPE"
Singapore.
HOTEL
SINGAPORE.
Grill
THE EUROPE HOTEL. LTD.
Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director..
STAR THEATRE
Commencing Sunday, July 3rd.
WILBUR PLAYERS
Sunday & Monday. *ALIAS THE DEACON"
The Unique Comedy
Tuesday & Wednesday Creepy, Sliddery, Mysterious,
"SPOOKS
Thursday & Friday The Sweetest Blary of all. "THE ROSARY"
by Edward E. Rome
Booking new open at Thepire and Moutris'a PRICES, $3. $2 & $1.
Printed and Published for the Proprieter by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
ATTACK ON HANKOW
PLANNED.
(Continued from Page 1.)
BRITISH IN CHINA.
No Official Negotiations.
London, June 29.
THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1927.
FENG'S PRESSURE ON HANKOW.
EMBARRASSING RESULTS ON TRADE AND FINANCE.
Hankow, June 22.. The stoppage on the Kin-han Line Is believed to have been er- In the House of Commons, at dered by Marshal Feng Yu-belang question time, Mr. G. Locker Lamp-who entirely controls Honan and son reviewed the changes, in the wishes to bring pressure to bear military situation in China in the upon Hankow Nationalists from past fortnight, and the British the north, pending the result of naval and military movements.
with General the conference) He said that no apgotiations Chiang Kai-shek. ⠀⠀ were proereding with the Chinese The immediate result is not like- authorities at Nanking or Hankow, but British Consular officers hndly to be serious as long as rice ar- rives from Kiangal, though, the doalt with the authorities as re-indirect results upon local trade gards speciñe cases, involving and finance are very embarrass- British Interests, as they arose.
Ing. Reiter.
CHINA REVIEW.
Cruisers Departing,
London, June 20. Questioned regarding China in the House of Commons, the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs stated that no substantial changes have occurred to the military situation in the past fortnight.
It is reported that Gex. Tang Seng-ch's intention is to proceed to Changsha shortly in order to effect a settlement; if possible, be- tween the military and the pea-. sas.unions In order to make Ho- nan safe for foreign trade, though I do not anticipato this will be practiceable until the silver em- bargo is lifted.
Watchmen Beaten.
June 23.
Sale of Wu Pei-fu's Goods.
"June 20.
It was understood that negotia
Two Indian watchmen, employed tions between various military lead by Messrs. Jardine,, Matheson und ere were proceeding, and appeared Co., have been arrested. by wharf to have resulted in an agreement coolies and taken to the Labour concea- between generals Chiang Kai-shck Headquarters outside, the and Feng Yu-hsiang. Negotia-slon and badly injured before tions are not in progress with the strong action by the British au- Chinese authorities at Nanking thorities could effect their release. or Hankow, but British Consular They were, however, released. officers continue to deal with them. regarding specific cases involving British interests, as they arise, The Nationalist Government are In addition to the British issuing National Treasury Notes. battalion transferred to Tientsin, The issue is to be $9,000,000, and опе battalion has been sent to ia to come on the market at the Weihaiwel for defence of the rate of $3,000,000 per month for convalescent depot established the next three months, and it is there for soldiers from Shanghai. the intention of the Government The only naval changes was that to pay their troops with those the Enterprise has proceeded notes.
from the China Station to the Central Bank notes are at 40 Enst Indies Station, and the per cent. discount and nobody has Emerald will do so shortly-any faith in them, and they are British Wireless.
passed on as quickly as possible.
A HOLIDAY,
Nationalist Anniversary.
Canton, June 30. July 1 has been declared n general holiday in Canton to cele- brate the second anniversary of the inauguration of the Nation- alist Government.
A mass meeting to observe the occasion will be held in the Pro- vincial Kuomintang Headquarters at noon, to which all the Govern- ment officials, military oflcers and representatives from the different public organisations have been invited.-Nam Chung Pao.
THE HANKOW WOUNDED.
Under Proper Control,
The following telegram Has been received in Shanghal from the Nationalist News Agency at Hankow under date of June 22:
"The doctors and nurses sent hure under the auspices of the China Medical Board and Red Cross Mission Institutions to help in the work of handling the wounded took hold of the job im- mediately and are performing on a large number of operation's daily at the two special hospitals, Sanitary work is being supervised by them in all hospitals.
Bank of China and Bank of Communications notes are, how- ever, in much greater demand as they are accepted by the country! people and useable in Hunan.
To-morrow the Nationalist Go- a series of vernment commence
auctions of what is said to be Wu Pei-fa's personal belongings and presents, consisting of silver cups, coats, coins, pictures, silks, fur etc., but on inspection there is really nothing of worth and great value. However, there are to be some 20 auctions twice weekly, and we are told that there are some really good curios to come.
At the first private official view: Mrs. Tang Shon-chi, wife of the general, liked a sable coat, which has now been removed and privately.
sold
RICE BOAT FIRED ON.
*
AN INCIDENT NEAR FOOCHOW.
Foochow, June 22. Following the incident of June 18, in which the proprietor of an umbrella shop was shot dead by two Chinese policemen, another firing incident occurred yesterday on the Min River. A guard-boat belonging to the Bureau of Com- be the guests of Madame Sun Yat-mercial Certificate Tax fired upon sen's garden party on Sunday, rice-boat at Lungkow, one mile from this city, at about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, while the lat ter was passing there.
The doctors and nurses are to
June 26,"
ON ALL FOURS.
INTRUDER IN SERVANTS' QUARTERS.
Or bullet hit a boatman on the abdomen; he is now in a criticnl condition. It is said that the guard-boat fired suspecting that tho boat was attempting to evade the
tax.
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An Edward Laeminle
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VIRTUE OF A BANK HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?
HOLIDAY
The following are the replies to today's questions
HOW A COOLIE MISSED MEETING ARMED ROBBERS
The fact that the day was me of lowes lawyer tu Pickwick
1. An Athenian legislator who lived in the
the Peloponamian in
That he was on his way to visit.
On hearing the news, the Boat- a relative, was the excuse given men's Union held an emergency by a Chinese who was charged mass meeting, and Aled a protest this morning with being in the with the authorities concerned, scrvants quarters of No. 8, Stan- while stopping the communication
The managements of the Tsung ley Terrace, Quarry Bay, at 3 between Foochow and Mawei. Re- o'clock on Wednesday morning. Intions between tax-officers and tax-Kwong Hotel and the Sun Kam San
of Woosung Street, bank-holiday, most probably saved Papara." In Macbeth. The riches. 6
1608—1074,, 4, Whitchurch.hy, BIB Fins, made- without authority,
payers are growing worse and a Hotel, both A cook-boy employed by Mr. T. bitter feeling against the author Yaumati, were charged by the a Bank of China Coolio in Shang- by Joe B Hobbakin 1926.8. Mount Hymettur
CASA. Rapikel"Babatini,, 10:20hư Mond. Bra, 2011) China Light and Power Co. Ltd., hai his life, recently, Grimshaw, giving evidence this 'itiee prevails...
before Mr. W. Schofield, at the Kow- It appears that threa Chinese the year of the building of the City (of Rome) == }} morning, said that about three
loon Magistracy, this morning, went to the Bank of China eide East North o'elock on Wednesday morning he
with unlawfully abstracting or con-entrance at about ten o'clock in the 4. Bei 18 the suming electricity belonging to the morning to wait for a Colle who mast complainants; .
it was known daily left the bank at Mr. H, J. Armstrong prosecuted about that hour with a quantity of and intimated that the meters in money. At 10.20 am, having both cases had been tampered with. certained that the bank would not The Tsung Kwong instructed Mr open that day, the three men left
heard alight footfalls on the A negro who has been setting stairs, and later thought he pins in a bowling alley in Chicago heard some movement in his room. has been discovered to be the son He switched on the light and saw of an African tribal chief whose a man creeping out of the room language la the most complicated on all fours. The fugitive appaar-known. A University of Chicago et to have escaped into the room expert on primitive languages is G. R, Hayward to defend and the the bank and on reaching the corn of an amah employed at No. 7. writing a dictionary of the tongue,
The cook did not follow the in- called Grebo.. He says it is five case was adjourned till next Thursor of Kiangse Road and Biti truder. Instead he went down- times as difficult as Chinese.. stairs to wake up friend of his
who was slooping there at the Every time the minute hand of time. Together they returned to the clock moves up a notch, the the cook's room, but did not go workers of the United States have into the next room after the thief. pocketed $550,000, declares an on- They shouted into the room and terprising statistician of a clock The woke the amah, who on getting company in Connecticut. out of the bed stepped on the average income of the American citizen gainfully employed in a re-
tulef.
A Chinese constable arrested xular eight-hour day is 11 1-2
day. The case against the Sun hing Road, Chinese constable Kam San, who have instructed Mr. thought they were acting somewhat D. McCallum to defend, was ad-suspiciously and commenced to journed till the following Tuesday. search them. Two ran away, but
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NEW AIRSHIP.
TO OPERATE WITH U. s. FLEET. Washington, June 29.
„Nicktains Brenhopigar
Haydn, 19. Ungi Adrian:/ ouses of Parlia
HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.
Set From 1st tơ 1th July,
the other was held and a fully Pridey loaded pistol and 84, rounds of Batur. ammunition were found up his Aus.
sleeve.
Ho
The above was the story, told in the Provisional Court last Friday Tues. afternoon. Dective Inspector Jed. Hunter prosecuted on behalf of the the man on the main road a few cents a minute. He also figured
The primary duty of the propos-police and the defendant, Woo Sze minutes after he escaped from the that President Coolidge receives 50ed new airship will be to operate Dung, was unrepresented. house, the cook and his friend cents a minute as chief executive; with the fleet in contrast, to the pleaded guilty and was sentenced to not being successful in an attempt Will Hays gets a doliar a minute; Los Angeles which, according to two years imprisonment by Judge to detain the Intruder. The cook and Judge Landis makes 43 cents. smilingly told the court, that the Douglas Fairbanks leads the list, the Versailles treaty, cannot be Li.
with $6.67 a minute. A single so- new dirigible's cruising range at defendant was a strong man.
A sentence of six week's hard
labour was passed.
used, for military purposes. The
cond wasted by American workers 60 knots will bo 12,500 miles, but stead of hellum, "It will be 17,000.
would cost $9,980,
if'slio is inflated with hydrogen in-
Router's American Service,
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Beight:
Abie's Irish Rose" has become so much of an established inanitu- tion in New York that it now is flisted in telephone, directories as "Able's Irish Rose of New York." The production is india, fifth year.