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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 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 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 Tifin 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
The Savoy is the outstanding Hotel
In Bengkong and one of the Bank appalate in Basth Obins.
HOTEL METROPOLE HOTEL BOA VISTA.
22, Ioo House Street.
Maono.
UNDER THE BAME 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
Tela, K. 608-609, Cables KOWLOTEL. HONGKONG
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PALACE HOTEL.
H.J. WHITE
Manager
Tel. Kowloon No. 8
Tel. Address "PALACE!" Three minutes from "Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. Entirely, under English Management. Electric Light and Fans throughout. Every Room with, Private Bath, Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms. Unrivalled Cuising under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Terma moderate. Special terms to families on application to:
Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietress.
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and Saturday.
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HOTEL
SINGAPORE.
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Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director.
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Gloob-Foor-SERVICE-CLEANLINESS. Moderate Monthly and Daily Rates. CABLES-PERRYBURNS, Hongkong. Tels. K. 999 & 1.000.
W. H. Perry, Proprietor.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THE MISSING "TIMES” CORRESPONDENT. ·
NEW THEORY ABOUT MR.
RILEY.
mystery.
TUESDAY,
ARTISTS DRIVEN TO PAVEMENT.
SAD STORY OF Å GIFTED ENGLISHMAN,
A LONDON DIALOGUE.
In the shade of the north wall
SEPTEMBER 20.
¿BLOOD TEST FOR
PATERNITY.
AUSTRIAN PROFESSOR'S VIEW ACCEPTED BY COURT.
An Austrian Court has accepted a blood test as proof of paternity in an affiliation case. A woman port of her child from a man named Rosen claimed for the sup- named Siegbert, who, she said, was the father,
Court called upon Professor Dr. He denied the charge, and the Reehe, Vienna make an examination and apply University, to blood-test system, says a West- correspondent.
A visitor to Shanghai from Chengchow who was in the city at the time of the disappearance of Mr. F. B. Riley, London Times correspondent, has some interest- ing new points to add to the of St. Martin's Church-Itself
work of art an artist sat on the Mr. Riley, according to this in-pavement putting the Onishing formant, left the house of the Bcl-touches to a copy of Rembrandt's gian railway officials where he was self-portrait (672) in the National staying at 6 o'clock in the morning Gallery, says the Art Critic of a In order to keep an appointment London paper, and continues: with Mr. Chen, local Y.M.C.A.
It was drawn within a lunette,minster Gazette worker who was going to take him round the border of which an in- The Professor explained that to inspect a village near Cheng- scription referred to the great whereas 500,000 persons might be chow. The appointment was to Dutchman's death in poverty and have been at 6 o'clock and Mr. to the enormous prices now paid Riley left the house without a coat for his work. and without a hat. According to this information, the idea that Mr. Riley may have take the train out of Chengchow is disproved, as he was dressed ton informally for a railway journey.
of the
long to the same blood group, it was engy to establish close rela- tionship, such as father and son, by a morphological and physiolo rical comparison.
The copy was excellent, in every way the work of a man who had been trained in a school where draughtsmanship was
Out of 50,000 only 10,000 would highest importance. That was ap600 the same nose, 100 the same have the same shape of head, parent. But which Was the atelier, who the master? To the right of the picture I found what was to me an unmistakable clue in the few words written in white pastel:.
"Aknown artist, Pupil of J. P. L. Out of work."
Moreover, and Interesting to note, the walk through the city of Chengchow, from the residence where Mr. Riley was stopping to Y.M.C.A. building where he had his appointment, was a matter of only 15 minutes. His disappearance occurred during that space of time as he did not reach his appoint-You studied in Paris under Jean
Another aspect of the case Paul Laurens," I said to him. which gives rise to a certain His face reddened amount of rumour and surmise iswered, "Ah, you recognise the the fact that Mr. Chen did not ar initials?" rive for the appointment, but gave out the information that he was indisposed.
ment.
All the Chinese in Chengehow, according to our informant, are of the opinion that Mr. Riley was killed, though how, when, and where are points not ventured for conclusion.
as he ans-
and
"Yes," I said, "I also worked at Julian's with Bouguereau Ferrier at the Cour du, Dragon in 1895-96. Academy. That was before your time?"
Ruined By the War. "I joined Jean Paul's class.two years later." replied the man. "No, I never did black and white work. Painting occupied all my time. Before the War I held ex-
MOTOR CAR ACCIDENT.hibitions in Paris, New York, and
ON CASTLE PEAK ROAD.
According to a report made to the police, motor car No 27, driven by a European and containing three passengers, met with an ac- cident on Sunday last.
At the time of the accident, the car was on the Castle Peak Road, going from the direction of Kow loon, and the Lam Kei and Nei Wai villages.
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elsewhere. But in its course my people were ruined, and ever since I have struggled hard, to keep my head above water. But three months ago I was forced to art is still in a bad way, and about
the pavement. I know others who have been similarly reduced" and glad to earn a few coppers as am doing.
I
"No, I cannot tell you my name or anything more about myself.. Disclosure would pain my friends and gratify my enemies, Good day, and thank you.”
The bursting of a rear tire I have known several other un- caused the car to swerve and fall commonly gifted street artists. over the embankment and turn One who used to sit regularly not turtle. The three occupants of far from Charing Cross Station the car were thrown out but for- was deft-handed and an innova- jared, excepting a lady passen-the Flagstone School to drew still- tunately they were not badly in-tor. He claimed to be the first of
ger who received a few cuts on the tomatoes, and such like things. shoulder.
"Eatables are always more popu- lar than flowers," he told me.
The car sustained comparatively little damage, the right mudguard being torn from the body.
This morning. Harbour Office reports gave 16 arrivals and 14 departures, of which five and two respectively were British, leaving 6 vessols in harbour, British 21. Freights inward were low, but through registeries were heavier with tonnage above the average for the past few days.
An old Chinese woman has been found by the police in a sick and destitute condition beside the body of her dead son in a matshed at Tai Kok Tsui. The woman was taken to the Kwong Wah Hospital for treatment and the remains of the son have been removed to the Kowloon Mortuary,
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I was also informed of a sure, way to know a genuine pavement artist: the right side of the nail of away by rubbing against the pave- his little anger was always worn ment-unless he had just returned from doing a months" "time."
The most tragic case I know was that of the "Prince." By his renius. Well-educated, handsome, confreres he was regarded as a and a brillant
craftsman but
trail of purpose, this young Scot ment to sleep "a la belle elofle." gradually drifted to the Embank-
home up the river, and he kept A wealthy man took him to his straight for some months, but once more he fell, and ultimately on a winter night he was found dead of the Thames.. on a doorstep on the south side
MONEY IN TINFOIL.
HOSPITALS AND "ŠILVER.
·PAPER."
Not since an enterprising firm of New York cluckmakers offered as an advertisement-to equip the outstretched arm of the Statue of Liberty with a wrist watch has so interesting a use been found for public statues as the one just invented in Madras. There se- The majority of London hos- veral lads of the village have justpitals now have outside the pre- set about the stone effigy of mises a large collection box. for Indian Mutiny General with ham tinfoil, into which passers-by are mers and crowbars on the ground, asked to drop the "silver paper" according to A brief telegram, from cigarette packets, the foll that but for the deceased officers' in which tobacco is packed, and activities "India would have been also chocolate wrappings. free long ago." This is a much This practice was first started, better form of sport than just believe (says a Scotsman corres- grumbling at public statuca be-pondent) by the Charing Cross cause they are ugly or inadequate, Hospital, but others quickly fol- and it will be a brighter England lowed suit. when the habit has spread to this One hospital in the south-cust country. It will be exciting to see of London has found that the sale an infuriated Protectionist taking of a cwt. of tinfoil brings enough a running kick at the Cobden money to keep a patient for a statue in St. Anne's Square or week, but its box must be emptied some last, lingering Jacobite scal every night for three weeks be- ing the Cromwell Monument in fore ita contents reach that weight. order to punch Olivor on the nose. Bags to pack the tinfoil are pro- vided by smelters, who after various processes extract the metals which the tinfoil contains
lead, aluminium, and tin. It has been estimated that if every cigarette smoker in Great The following are the replies to Britain were to save the pleces to-day's questions:
in his packet, two tons of tinfoil
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?
Aurricane Holengo occurring in Australia.
and cinema industry have caused an enormous
1. One third. 2. The new name of Spalato, would be obtained daily. Dis- a Jugo-Slavian timber-exporting port on Adriatic Rea 8. Mineral ell. 4. Osaka; cocarded tooth paste tubes, which ton textiles. 5, Great Britain and the United contain a certain amount of lead, States of Amerlen. 4. A circulas storm of are still proving a valuable-aid to Los Angeles; the oil boom, real estate boom, revenue at several hospitals, and Increase Ju population in the last ten years. the only difficulty seems to lie in 8. Cacho: by the negro cultivators of the persuading the public that empty Gold Coast 9, 824,000,000 cuble mlin, or food tins are of no value. Quite about fourteen times the volume of land above sea lorel. 10. An istand pouression of Nor recently a big hospital had to pay way in the Arctic Ocean: coal 11. The Cas for the diapodal of a large number alquiere, in South America; it feeds both the Orinoco and the Amazon, 12. Forty-four net of empty ting contributed by well- Real miles seven to eight hourE.
meaning but misguided persons.
ears, and 200 the same eye, while no two would have exactly the same lines on all the fingers and on the palms.
Rare similarities which are found between only closely related persons give absolute proof of this relationship, in the Professor's opinion,"
The Court decided to accept this expert testimony, and order- ed Siegbert to pay alimony.
SHARE PRICES.
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.
The following is the list of local sharo quotations issued to-day:
Banks.
Hongkong Bank, $1135 n. Chartered Bank, £207 b. Mercantile A. & B., £32 n. Mercantile C., £133 - n. P. and O., £91 b. East Asia, $68 n.
Marine Ins.
Canton Ins., $570,8,
China Underwriters, $1.50 n. North China, Tls. 143 n. Union Ina., $292 s. Yangtsze Ina., 843 b.
Fire Ins.
China Fires, 3210 b.
H. K. Fire Ins., $600 a.
Shipping.
Douglases, $33 b.
H K. Steamboats, $21 H. K. Tuga, $1 s.
9.
9.
., Indo-Chinae, (Prof.) $30 n.
Shell Trans., 92/- n. Star Forrics, $54. Waterboats, $17 n.
Refineries.
China Bugars, $13 Malabons, $30 9.
Blining,
Benguets, $1,70 d. Kailans, 58/9 b.
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Langkats, Tla. {17) n.
n.
S'hai Exploration, Tis. 3.15 n. Shanghai Loans, Tis. 5 Raubs, 84 b.
Tronohs, 19/3 n. Ural Caspians, 5/-. .
Docks, etc. Kowloon Wharves, $115 ga. Whampoa Docks, $35 n. Hongkews, Tls. 142 b... Now Engineerings, Tis. 44 b. Shanghai Docks Tla. 92 b.
Lands, Hotels, etc. H. and S. Hotels, 6 n. H. K. Lands, $56 Realtys, $6 n. Territorials, $136. Humphreys, $121 B. Princes Bldgs, $95 b. Rural Lands, $11 n.
Coltens. Ewo Cottons, Tis: $7.65 Orientals, Tle. $1.50 "b. S'hai Cottons, Tls $47 n.
Buses, Trams.
China Buses, Tls. 5 Tramways, $20 n Peak Trams, (old) $14 Singapore Trams, 12/6. · b. Taxis, $1. n.
Miscellaneous. Amusements, $192 sa. Canton Ices, $5 . Cements (Comb.) $7-s. China Lights, $12 b. China Prov., $4 n. Constructions, $138. Dairy Farms, Blái n Der A. Wing, $6 n. H'kong Electrica, $53 Macao Electrics, $37 b. Ropes (Old) $10 Lane Crawfords, $5 a. Mackintosh, $22. 8. Sinceres, & n. United Abestos, $12 Watsons, $111 Powells, $5 s. Telephone 3.70 ..
TO-DAY.
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Dollar on demand 1/11 18/16 Lighting-up.
6.28 p.m.
1927.
“The first love, the first sunrias, -The firat South Sea Island,
are memorios apart"
ROBERT LOUIS S (EVENSON
A STORY of life and love in the South
Seas
MOANA
Filmed by ROBERT FLAHERTY
The man who made
"NANOOK OF THE NORTH"
SEE the Sive SivaDance (the Original Hula), the Proof of Manhood, the Bridal Festival, the Fight Udder The Sea, South Sea Love etc.
THE SINUOUS SIRENS AND FASCINATING CHARM
of the South Seas as never before shown in book or pictures.
AT THE
QUEEN'S
An Amazing Revelation of a Woman's Heart!
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TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20.
12.
1
4
TIME The Comedian
AT THE
WORLD
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW Orchestra'at'5.15 and 9.20 Chinese Interpreter at 2.30 & 7.15.
What lies beyond the door?
ROLAND WEST'S
production
The
MONSTER
from the stage success by. CRANE, WILBUR
AT THE
THAT does it -mean? Who
WHAT
can solve it? You'll keep guessing until the very end. Ro mance, comedy, thrills they're all in this great mystery. picture:
inth LON CHANEY JOHNNY ARTHUR
Metro Goldwyn
STAR Continuous from 2.30 to 11.
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW