HOTELS.
THE
HONGKONG :
KONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL Talographic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG,
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL: PALACE HOTEL;
MAJESTIC HOTEL.
Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL"
HOTELS.
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hote:
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 All Trams pass in front of Cold Water, also Telephone.
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.873.
Manager.
J. II. WITCHELL
HOTEL SAVOY
Fanots for its Comfort. Conveni
ence, Appointments and Cuisine.
You'll be proud to stay at the Savoy,
HOTEL METROPOLE. HOTEL BOA VISTA.
22, Ice House Street.
Macao.
UNDER THE 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
Tels, K. 608-609. Cables KOWLOTEL. HONGKONG
L. Kowloon No. 8
PALACE HOTEL.
H. J. WHITE
Manager
Tol. Address "PALACE." Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Raliway Station. Bottrely under English Management Electrio Light and Fans throughout. Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooma Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Terms moderate. Special terms to families on application to:
Mrs. J. 1. OXBERRY, Proprietress.
EUROPE
After-dinne dancing every
Tuesday, Thursday.
and Saturday..
Cables:
"EUROPE"
Singapore.
HOTEL
SINGAPORE.
Grill
THE EUROPE HOTEL. LTD.
Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director,
ERVEN LUCAS
BOLS
QUAD-DECANTERS
Four Liqueurs
in one Bottle.
A saving of time
: and
joy to the eye.
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & COMPANY, LIMITED. (Incorporated under the Hongkong Companics Ordinances 1911-1915.) Prince's Building,
Telephone 75 Central
Printed and Published, for the Proprietor by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10,
AMERICAN AVIATORS IN BREM
1927.
AT THE
Entertainments
QUEEN'S
The screen's greatest lover as the hero of one of the most famous romances ever written."
SECOND REVIVAL NIGHT PICTURE
The above very interesting pictures were taken when the trans-Atlantic fliers, Chamberlin and Levine, visited Bremen during their stay in. Germany after flying from New York to near Berlin. In the upper picture the aviators are seen leaving the famous Town Hall, of Bremen, and in the lower they are seen on board the Norddeutscher Lloyd vessel which took them back to
the States.
SCRAP AT LUNGHUA.
SUN'S MEN, INVOLVED."
"
NEW WINGS FOR BUSH HOUSE.
CATHEDRAL OF COMMERCE ON ALDWICH SITE.
COMPLETING THE SCHEME.
MOSQUITO BREEDING.
ORACKER MANUFACTURER FINED FIFTY DOLLARS,
A few details have transpired| of an encounter between armed forces which took place at the
After ignoring the repeated beginning of the week at Lunghua,
warnings of the Sanitary Depart- and was previously briefly report-
ment to abate a nuisance by des- ed. In view of the need for men
troying mosquito larvae at the at the front the Shanghai district
rear of the Kwong Man Loong has been largely depleted of its
London, July 7.
Cracker Factory, at Ma Tau Wa, garrison, and accordingly only
Further development of the the manager was summoned by about 300 men are at present vacant land on the Aldwych plot, inspector Kerrison, before Mr. stationed at Lunghun. It is described as the "nest business W. Schofield, at the Kowlcon thought, that this small number in-site in London." is promised by an Magistracy, this morning, duced an enemy to make his attack. extension of the Bush House to failing to comply with the Sani-
This attack came off either on the westward.
tary Department notification. Monday or Tuesday night. and
Inspector Kerrison said that he although détails of the actual The L.C.C. is to consider at its had visited the defendant's pre- fighting are not available, it trans-meeting to-morrow a recommenda-mises, which adjoin the troops pires that the attacking force was tion of the Improvements Com- Camp in the Leather Factory, on vacant seven different occasions and driven off, not, however, before mittee that the western
·
for
two of the defenders were killed.site be let to Bush House, Ltd.,pointed out to the foreman that In the meantime six of the attack-for 99 years at a rent of £5,000 a larvae, which was found, in a ing par were wounded.
year, and, further, they an op- tank of water, had to be destroy-
4
served on the defendant on July 18 but, on a visit three days later,
the premises were found to be in the same condition as on previous visits.
A fine of $50 was imposed.
It was at first rumoured that the tion, be granted to the company to ed. attack was the work of Com take on lease the eastern site 'No' notice was taken of the munists, but this version is disalso. such option to be exercised warnings and a notification was credited. It is believed that they not later than June 24, 1930. are not organized for such exploits
This means that the whole locally. The theory now held. is
site is within reasonable dis- that they were men of Sun Chuan- fang's army. When that, army)
tance of completion with build- this withdrew from
province ings worthy of its position.
India House. various bodies were left behind.
India House, the new headquar- and although it was reported that they had been absorbed into ters in London of the Indian Go- Chiang Kai-shek's army, it is vernment is to occupy the extreme known that such has not been the west of the site, and, will there- ease with a great number of them. Fore link up with the western ex- In the circumstances it is now tension of Bush House now con- thought that this was an attempt on the part of Marshal Sun's, oldi troops to take advantage of the situation.
It is said that a sum of $400.000 has arrived in Shanghai to be used as propaganda for Sur Chuan-
fatig.
templated..
and
Should Bush House, Ltd., find it possible to take up their option' extend their fine central.
the castward also, building to thus almost linking up with Aus- tralla House, the long-delayed scheme will at last find fruition.
MEN BURNED TO DEATH.
FATALITY AT CANTON
POWER STATION.
An accident occurred yesterday morning at the Canton Electrie Power Station in which two men were killed and three others were seriously hurt.
Two of
The original intention was to A European engineer had This morning's Harbour Office carry out Bush House on the same instructed several workmen to reports gave 13 arrivals and 12 de-ines as the Bush Terminal. Sales clear away the soot at the bottom partures, British numbering four Building in New York, called the of a new stove. In removing the ashes and soot, one of the work- and six respectively, leaving 67"Cathedral of Commerce."
It is understood that the open men, by inadvertence, moved a vessels in harbour, British 20.
court-yards which formed part switch. Immediately fire escaped The weather forecast up till of the original scheme for the site out from the furnaces. noon to-morrow is: "South-west a whole will be retained in the the men nearest to the furnaces or variable winds, moderate to new design. These would lie to were burned to death outright while three others' nearby were light; overcast with rain at first, the south of the new wings.
It may be recalled that in 1924 seriously burned, finer later." The rainfall to date Bush House, Ltd., sacrificed £35,-
-Fire engines were brought in to totals 77.16 inches.
000 as forfeit to the L.C.C. because extinguish the fire. The whole they were at that time unable city was deprived of electric ser- A protest against the continued to complete their building scheme vice for several hours. occupation of Germany by foreign as originally designed. The pre-
troops was uttered by Herr Stres sent scheme is practically on the HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW? mann, the German Foreign Minis-same lines as the one then aban-
tor, at Oslo, in his Nobel Peace doned. Prize speech. "The practical
Bush House is now fully tenan-
peace policy which is being pureu ted.
ed in Germany," he declared, "is
not the work of a single man, but
is an expression of the spirit of
The following are the replies to to-day's questions
5. Iceland has one telephone for every twenty-six of His people; Britain bas ons, for
every wenty-nine of its people, 2. In Japan
ese railway stations. 3. The Liverpool Over-
Proudly Adolphs Zulag
Jesse LLasky
RUDOL
RUDOLPH
SIDNEY OLCOTT
PRODUCTION
VALENTINO
in
"Monsieur
Beaucaire
with BEBE DANIELS, Lois Wilson Doris Kenyon, Lowell Sherman
TO-DAY ONLY
AT
2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20
THE FAMOUS PARTNERS AGAIN!
In
HOLLYWOOD.
WITH
POTASH
AND
PERLMUTTER
ABE AND MAWRUSS IN THE MOVIĚ BUSINESS.
WORLD
TO-DAY ONLY Orchestra 5.15 & 9,20 only. Calnesc interpreter at 2.30 & 7:15
CONRAD NAGEL and PAULINE STARKE
* IN
SUN-UP
AT THE
In the Carolina hills, where drama : lives in the cabins of the lawless, this thrilling screen story is staged. Moon- light and romance-an opic of loves, hates, mountain feuds and undying devotions!
STAR
TO-DAY ONLY from 2.30 to 8.30
Continuous.
-At 9.30-
OUR CABARET IN "OUR CABARET
To-morrow, Thursday, August A young Japanese named M. head Rallway along the line of decks.. Dr. 11, being the Anniversary of the Sado committed suicide last night Panting Canadis incovered by asco. da Constitution of Weimar, the Con- by leaping from the third floor of Gamn on a Christense Day; hence a nemaul for Germany will hold a re-
tree. 6.
the whole nation. Not only our The following ships were ex- generation, but future genera-pected to be in wireless communi tions, can reckon with Germany as cation with Hongkong to-day. she is to-day. It is not, however, Kitano Maru, Kamakura Maru, in accordance with the spirit of President Pierce, President Jack The River Manifold in Derbyshire flow ception at his residence, 115, The a building at No. 51 ̧ Praya East. Locarno that foreign military son, Tinhow, Haihong, Calulu, in Machaon, Songbo, Kronviken, forecs should stay for years a country which has definitely Suisang, Pingal, Baron Inchcape. abandoned all thoughts of revenge. Hozan Maru, and Tottori Maru.
under the Pennine Chain for some miles. 9.
red-for-nothing young man laThe Peak from 11.15 am to 12.80 p.m. He fell into the side channel, life Rizal. Cottons, woollens, and or, in The Consulate will be closed for being extinct when the body was reped me of the sturgeon 12 The lame the transaction of public business picked up and removed to the
on that day.
Public Mortuary,
the order named. 19, Little Albania. 13. The
child in Dickens "Christmas Carol"