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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 Lite, 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 Telephone.
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.
($25 for thirty Tiffin Tickets can be had at the Office
of the above Hotel). - TEA DANCES MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS
Tel. Add. Victoria.
5 to 7 p.m.
Telephone C.373. J. H. WITCHELL,
Manager.
HOTEL SAVOY
Tor Buray the gaming Batel
The
wall core of the Anest
spported in Monah Cu
HOTEL METROPOLE. HOTEL BOA VISTA.
22, Ice House Strest.
UNDER THE
Macao.
SAME MANAGEMENT.
KOWLOON HOTEL
PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON
Modern Toilet System.
Elevator and Telophones to each floor.
Smoking Room and Saloon Bar. First Class Billiard Tabla
Recently renovated throughout.
Manager's Personal Attention
Tala. K. 608-609.
Cables KOWLOTEL. HONGKONG
H. J. WHITE
Manager
PALACE HOTEL.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
RIVERSIDE RIOT IN GLASGOW.
COLOURED MEN FIGHT WITH KNIVES,
MANY INJURED.
Glasgow, Aug. 16.
A riverside battle between, col- oured seamen, in which razors, knives and a revolver figured, oc- curred in Glasgow this morning outside the offices in James Watt street of the Seamen's Union..
About twelve men were injured, some seriously, and eight arrests were made. The battle lasted about ten minutes, and afterwards an ambulance wagon party col- lected the injured, who were lying on or staggering about the road.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
£150,000 BATHS FOR
· BERMONDSEY."
NEW TRADE PACT COMPLETED.
RECENT FRANCO-GERMAN
AGREEMENT.
MUTUAL CONCESSIONS.
}
A MODEL FOR WHOLE OF ENGLAND.
RIVAL TO ROME,
17.
1927.
Paris, Aug. 17.
A great building, faced with The temporary Franco-German white faience, glittering with new commercial treaty was initiated brass and coloured glass, compris- this morning, and will be signing til the latest ideas in communal later by M. Briand and Herr von
bathing these are Bermondsey's Hoesch, the German Ambassador. new public baths in Grange-road, to be opened by the Mayor, Councillor ed nation principle, but has a list They are certainly the most up-to- It is based upon the most favour George Catchpole, on Sept. 24, which would make the ghost of date in London, and probably in Cobden stare and gasp. It runs England; they would be a credit to for eighteen months, and is really to any borough in the country. tions and to adjust necessity to tive now to cleanliness. an agreement between hostile na Bermondsey has indeed every incen.
neccessity.
Land frontiers are very different The clash occurred between from sea frontiers. French Lo West Indian negroes and Arabs.raine, recovered at the cost of Trouble is alleged to have arisen two million lives, cannot, dispense over the appearance of Arab fire-with the Ruhr coke. The Ruhr men, who had been brought from coal pits cannot work without the London to sign on for a new ves-Lorraine iron, ore, the raw MA- sel. These men turned up at the torial upon which its work is Union offices for their permite, based. On the other hand, the❘ and in the street were gathered German wishes to be able to en- a party of West Indian negroes. joy the fruits and vegetables of
Squabbling between the rival the happy Midi. parties was quickly followed by the drawing of knives and razors, which were freely used, and at least one revolver shot was fired.
The baths ure costing about $150,000, and have been erected by direct labour; but the Bermondsey ratepayers will not have to suffer for the expenditure. "This la our first big undertaking by direct la- bour," said Mr. Catchpole in con versation with me yesterday, "and we are delighted with it:
at huds it so you can i
"Artificial stone is used in vari- ous parts of the building, and we manufactured it on the premises ourselves. The experts have seen it, and are more than satisfied. The work has been completed in eighteen months, and, in spite of the outlay, we have already reduced the rates by 2d. this year, and hope to make
still further reduction month.".
Germany gives to the produce of France her minimum tariff upon the condition that the French, Government undertakes to give three months' notice of a cessa- How Battle Began.
tion of the agreement in case the Tariff Bill, News of the battle reached the projected French
which will be discussed in Parlia-1" police through a telephone mess- age and a detachment of con- ment this autumn, should be re- stables was speedily sent from thejected. If no definite action is taken by either country, the most Marine Police Station, while others were despatched from the favoured nation clause will pre- headquarters in St. Andrew's Aquare.
vail.
The agreement is characteristic of the age in which we live. It is made between two Govern-pool is called. ments which do not trust each other and two nations which do it lasted. Shortly before 11 o'clock not love each other. It is based
"I never saw anything like it," remarked an eyewitness of the fight, adding "it was terrible while
next
The Great Pool. The new structure, which is al- most complete, is comprehensive to a degree. First of all there is the "first-class swim," as the great It is 100ft. by 30ft., Con- and is superbly appointed. tinuous columns span the immense chamber, which shines in all the I noticed two separate groups of upon the Free Trade principle, glory of fresh plaster and clear native seamen aquabbling. They but in effect the French sell wine, glass. Round it runs a suspended began pushing each other, and in iron ore, and textiles (from gallery, while the walls are lined a few seconds knives were drawn Alsace) to the Germans-products with swimming boxes, which can be and a hand-to-hand fight ensued. with which our industry cannot folded up against the wall during Beneath the The Germans give back the winter months. "Some of the man," he continu- compete. ed, "were armed with heavy sticks, their manufactured coke, their bath itself is a giant reservoir of while others flourished razors and films, and their machines and water, which will always be avail- products. The able in case of need an innovation knives. There were about 200 their electrical men atanding at the corner James Watt-street when the turbance began, but they took no part in it, allowing the natives to fight it out among themselves."
seaman.
of countries are joined by river and in swimmingbaths and it is inter- dis- canal, and are economically interesting to note that the Council
dependent.
thinks that it will probably be necessary to empty and clean the bath at least once a week.
Favoured Products.
For the time being the French minimum.is granted to the chemi- electrical, metallurgical. cal, pottery, and prooelain industries
The fight lasted 10 minutes.
During the winter months the On the arrival of the police' it
bath will be covered in, and the great hall which then emerges will enme to a speedy end, and, those who had escaped serious injury
be used as a cinema, concert, and of Germany The same privilege dance hall. Tho Council has als made a wild dash for safety.
is granted to the German leather ready a cinema licence, and hopes Tol Kowloon No. 8
Tel. Address "PALACE.” "The scene after the fight, re-industry. France accepts pro- to be able to run a municipal film Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. marked 1 white
"was visionally the German minimum performance. There is a fine buffet Entirely, under English Management Electric Light and Fans throughout. like a shambles."
tariff, und, the arrangement is and supper, room on a lower floor, Every Roon with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms.
Four men, one of them suffer-subject to special agreements by with ample cloak-room attendance. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietressing from a bullet wound, were Terms moderate. Special terms to families on application 'to:
which, for example, the import of Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietress. treated at the Westera Infirmary, French wines into Germany is while a number of others with cuts limited to an annual contingent of and slashes had their injuries 360,000 metrics quintals. dressed at a neighbouring sur gery. Three of the men taken to the infirmary are stated to be in a critical condition.
EUROPE
After-dinner dancing every
Tuesday. Thursday
and Saturday,
Cables :-
**EUROPE":
Singapore.
HOTEL
SINGAPORE.
Grill
THE EUROPE HOTEL. LTD.
Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director.
HARBOUR VIEW
Good-Foon--SERVICE-CLEANLINESS.
Moderate Monthly and Daily Rates
DADLES PERRYBURNS, Hongkong. Tela. K. 990 & 1,000,
W. H. Perry, Proprietor.
ELECTRO-PLATING.
OVER TWENTY YEARS EXPERIENCE in the Electro- deposition of Metals in Hongkong, places us in a position to offer reliable and efficient service for the plating of articles In Gold, Silver, Nickel and Copper.
Artistic finishes in Bronze, Antique Copper, and Oxydized Silver.
Polished and Lacquered Brassware.
Sumptuous Fittings.
Next in importance to the great bath bath comes the smaller, or second-class swimming bath, which may be open throughout the year. Then come the slipper-baths. of which there are 77 for men and
Champagne and other sparking wines and wines intended for dis- tillation do not benefit by the minimum rate. The limitation Better feeling is stated to exist at big ports between West. Indians. Upon wine exports from France is 52 for women-not forgetting four and Arabs, the negroes claiming to expire if a final agreement is special cubicles, with small bath in concluded on December 15, let into pedestals, for the exclusive that as British citizens they should
1928. The agreement signed to- use of Bermondsey's babies. have first call over aliens in the day takes effect on September 6. manning of British ships.
The bath cubicles are made of M. Bokanowski, the Minister of. Commerce and President of the "marbello," and contain luxurious These, too, are French delegation, initialled the porcelain baths. agreement this morning, and left divided into first and second class immediately for Le Havre, where baths-the distinction lying in the The will take passage on a French qualities of soap and towels and the attendance. Down in the bowels line steamer for America. He is. to be the spokesman for the French of the building are the Turkish and Russian baths, whose fittings are at the legal congresses
almost sumptuous. Their prices, Canada and the United States.
however, will not be proportionate to the luxury. Germany Pleased.
SCIENCE BEATS
FEVER.
A REMARKABLE RECORD.
to the disease. The treatment
Bur
The newspapers do not conceali
Attached to the baths is a great
in
Remarkable progresa in eradica- |ting kala-azar (dum-dum fever) from Assam is detailed in the re- port of Major T. D. Morison, their joy at the report that public wash-house, where Ber- IM.S., Director of Public Health, France has renounced her right in mondsey was engaged yester-
the Assam. It is,
doing established accordance with the Versailles day an
family fact," Major Morison states, "that Treaty tó confiscate German pro-washing. There are great re- coppers, in which before any treatment for kala-perty in France if Germany does volving azar was known at least 90 per not fulfil her reparation obliga- clothes are scoured without any cent. of those attacked succumbedtions.
labour: huge drying tempboards, with hot pipes, where the washing- may be dried in 10 or 15 minutes; mechanical mangles and electric irons. It is possible, indeed, for the Bermondsey housewife to bring the family wash there in the morn ing and return with it neatly fold- ed and ironed by mid-day. These wash-houses have already been In operation for two years but their cost is being included in the total sum allowed for the baths.
now being undertaken has con-
verted this death rate of 000 per cent. into a recovery rate of the same percentage.”
ex-
The most up-to-date - and pensive treatment with urea stiba- mine, the report continues, is now available free of cost to all kala- azar patients and not far from patient's homes. The Public Health Board earnestly requests the general public to endeavour to make the treatment campaign against the disease more effective by inducing all patients to under- go a complete course of treatment as soon as the disease is detected; An untreated or a partially treated kala-azar patient continues to bo Infectious to others.
During 1926 the number of kala- azar casce treated was 49,385, as against 60,940 in the previous year. The number of cases treat- ed from 1920 to 1924 are as fol- lows: 7,188 in 1920, 15,880 in 1921, 19,659 in 1922, 35,071 in 1923, and 48,770 in 1924
ATLANTIC FLIGHT.
Capt. R. H. McIntosh, who has "hopped off" from Dublin for New York.
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?
The following are the replies to to-day's questions:-
2.
1. One of the conspirators sent a lelier to Lord Mountoagie, warning him that something would happen at the meeting of Parliament, and the letter was shown to the King, Jamestown, in Virginia, started by. '■ Londen company which sent out a hundred enigmnia In 1007: 8. John Hampden, becatiso Charles I. levied the tax not only on coxat towne, na had been the curtom, but also on inland places, 4. St. Giles',, Edinburgh, by Jeany Geddes, In 1087, because Charles L. Imposed on 'Scotland a Prayer Book founded on the Eazlish model, 5, Strafford, Charles Ti's Minister, when the King, afler great hesitation, gave way and arremi to the. Blf of Attainder which condemned him in douth, - 6. Turnham Green. He retreated The high-water mark in the
because the London train bands blocked, his number of patients treated WAS
way at Hyde Park Corner. 7. Westminster Hail-font" aulaide what is now the Boys] reached in 1926. Tho
United Service Institution---St. George's, Wind- which steadily rose during a The Now Zealand Government or, 8. Oliver Cromwell to one of his soldiers when he turned out the Homo Parliament. period of six years of treatment, has established a postal agency The haubin was the Mace. 1. for being much. is now declining, and this is due on Pitcairn Island, where the unnarimable Ums s-dying, 18, James to the intensive treatment cam-islanders have hitherto been de- on his fight from Eurland dropped it into the Themes. 11. Maasnare of: Glencoe, The Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK paign which has been systemati-pendent on the captains of pass-Campbells massacred the Macdonald's, because PERCY FRANKLIN, st 1 and 8, Wyndham Street, in the City of cally carried on for the Inst sevening steamers to carry unstamped Vietoria, Hongkong.
mail matter for thers..
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AT THE
QUEEN'S
TO-DAY ONLY
2.80, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20.
The picture starts promptly at the above times.
HERBERT BRENON
·PRODUCTION. PRO
5
FILLUAT
JAMES M. BARRIE'S
Kantunt
"A Kiss For Cinderella'
WITH
BETTY BRONSON - TOM MOORE
· ESTHER RALSTON
A
WORLD of youth,
beauty and heart's desire for old and young alike.
He'll Steal Your Heart Away!`
As real as life, this
great child actor brings to you a story of
a city waif that will draw your tears and win your hearty laughter. Not since "The Kid" hás Jackie appeared in a more human and lov- able picture.
ACKIE COOGAN The Rag
The
Man
AT THE
WORLD
TO-DAY ONLY Orchestra at 5.15 8 9.20 Chinese Interpreter at 2.30 8 7.15.
Golden Cocoon
AT THE
STAR
TO-DAY ONLY Continuous from 2:30 to 11:15
The drama
of a girl
who fought
against love and lost
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