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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. nowly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone.
All Trama 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 Tin Tickets can be had at the Office of the above Hotel).
TEA DANCES
MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS
Tel. Add. Victoria.
A
5 to 7 p.m.
Telephone C.378. J. H. WITCHELL,
Manager.
HOTEL SAVOY
Fumens for its' Comfort, Conveni-
ence, Appointments and
Quisine..
You'll be prand to stay at the Savoy,
HOTEL METROPOLE HOTEL BOA VISTA.
22, Ice House Street.
Масао,
UNDER THE SAME. MANAGEMENT.
KOWLOON
HOTEL
· KOWLOON
A FIRST CLASS HOTEL WITH ALL MODERN
CONVENIENCES.
High Class Cuisine and Table Appointments. Wonderful view of the Harbour and Peak, and five minutės ,from the Ferry, Wharves and Station.
Drawing Room, Saloon Bar and Billiard Room.
Very moderate rates
LA
on application to
H. J. WHITE,
Manager.
Tel. Nos. K608 & K609. Cables, 'KOWLOTEL,' Hongkong."
PALACE HOTEL.
Tel. Kowloon No. 8
Tel. Address "PALACE," Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. Entirely, ander 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.
Terma moderate. Special terms to familles on application to:
Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietress.
EUROPE
Cables :-
"EUROPE"
Singapore,
HOTEL
SINGAPORE.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1927.
ROYAL TOUR SEQUEL.
NORTH RETURNS TO ATTACK.
RENOWN OFFICER WHO TOOK WINES ASHORE..
(Continued from Page 1.) FENGTIEN ADVANCE.
Against Feng Yu-hslang.. Peking. Sept. 23.
£10,000 LEGACY.
ACTOR'S WINDFALL AND CHARGE AGAINST FRIEND.
A £10,000 lecacy was mention- ed in a case at Marylebone on August 25 when Mr. Alexander Henry, musical comedy actor, charged his friend, Charles Ro-
A sequel to the voyage of the buttle-cruiser Renown, in which the Duke and Duchess of York made their recent tour, was heard at Portsmouth in mail week when, at a court-martin); on board, Reports that Shansi troops are berts. 49, of Willow-vale, Shop- Commissioned Gunner Harry Rey-evacuating Shuntchfu area are herd's Bush, W., with stealing and nolds Horne, Royal Marines, was officially confirmed. It is stated receiving two rings, £15 in notes, charged with keeping wine in his
and a pair of boots from his fiat, cabin in the Renown without they have been all withdrawn to 25, The Manor House, Marylebone- causing it to be entered in the wipe Shihchiach Huang, while the road. book, and also with attempting Shansiites which were at "Shih-
ashore.
The offence was admitted.
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to smuggle six bottles of wine chiach Huang have gone to Hullu. been staying frequently at his flat. Mr. Henry said that Roberts had
It is believed that this is prepara- Recently he (Mr. Henry) had come The evidence showed that when tory to a Fengtien advance south-unexpectedly into a legacy of 310,- atopped by the chief preventive ward along the Pehamn railway 000, and he decided to buy officer as he was entering a taxi- against Feng Yu-halang.
tavern called "The George," cab on June 27, on the return of there are at present no troops in Aldersgate-street, E.C. the Renown, with two attach the Shuntehfu district bandits are Roberts, who had had some ex- cases, Horne said they contained becoming active. The inhabit prience in the management of wine. There were four bottles of ants are panicky as the Red Cross licensed premises, agreed to champagne, one of hock, and one Society alone is attempting to manage the house for him. On of nort.
maintain order.-Reuter.
August 15 Roberts wont away, leaving a note to the effect that, owing to the rotten treatinent he had received after doing his best, he was going his own way. He (Mr. Henry) then missed the things.
Horne threw himself on the! mercy of the court. It was stated that he was senior commissioned gunner of the Marines and next for promotion to lieutenant. The 'conditions during the tour were such that officers were lavishly entertained, and instead of drink-
CHIANG KAI-SHEK.
A
Arrives at Shanghai.
Shanghai, Sept. 23. Chiang Kai-shek arrived at)
this morning from
ing the wine given him he locked Shanghai it up in his cabin and forgot the Ningpo-Reuter. necessity of entering in the wine; HSU CHIEN WANTED.
:
book.
The court sentenced him to be severely reprimanded..
STORM HAVOC AT SWISS RESORT.
ENGLISH FAMILY'S ESCAPE.
Montreux, Aug. 25. From 7 o'clock last night until G this morning 100 firemen fought heroically to save villas and other property from being swept into the) Lake of Geneva by a torrent which, swollen by the tropical rains of the last few days, rushed down from the mountains with a terrify- ing roar.
The river bed was already filled with debris from the floods which caused such, havoc three weeks ago. It soon became a roaring borrent and, overflowing. its banks, covered the adjoining gar- dens to a depth of many feet with broken trees and boulders.
A house standing near the lake ahore was almost buried in mud and stones.
.
Warrant for His Arrest Issued.
Shanghai, Sept. 23. The local Chinese authorities have leaned a warrant for the ar rest of Hsu Chien, who, however, is believed to be in Hankow with Wang Ching-wei and Koo Meng- yu.-Reuter.
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FREE DRINKS.
SALVAGE IN IRISH STORM.
A storm in Dublin last month was an unexpected boon to some hundreds of the city's thirsty un- employed.
A barge, the property of Messrs. Guinness, was steaming down the Liffey with some hundreds of barrels of stout, when it foundered and the barrels on deck went sail- ing down towards th
the sea.
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In cross-examination Mr. Henry greed that Roberts had given him one of the rings, but he denied that he had given it back to him.
Roberts said that he and Mr. Henry had been on such friendly terms that they had worn ench other's jewellery. Both the rings belonged to him. He gave one to Mr. Henry but he gave it back to him. Mr. Henry also gave him the bostat He had never seen the
15.
magistrate discharged
The
Roberts.
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?
The following are the replies to to-day's questions:
1. (a) Tate Gallery; (b) Walker Art Gal- lery. Liverpool: (c) City Art Gallery, Man- cheater. (*) Sir Christopher Wren: (b) 166 feet. 3. The Crucifixion." by Andre del Castagno (1890-1467), 4(a) None; (b) 47,000,000. 5. () Hubert le Soeur: (5). It was commissioned by the first Earl of Portland in 1630. but not erected in Charles' lifetime. During the Commonwealth it was
sold by Farilament to abrasier in Holborn. who undertook destroy it. The bestiar mold knives and forks said to have been made from it to Royalista. At the Restoration (1980), ward was stolen by revellers at the opening of the Royal Exchange in 1844 G. Wyatt. the architect who restored the cathedral In the eighteenth century. He pulled down the tower in order to improve the view of the cathedral from the corner of the clown in front 7. Mr. Colin G, Mr. which it stood. Glyn Phfipot, RA, Mr. Charles Simr, R.A., Bir George Claus, RA Mr. Vivian Forbes.
however, he produced the statue intact. The
of
Despite the growing darkness An English family named and choppy seas scores of small Dalrymple, who occupy a villa boats were launched by thirsty
Mr. AK Lawrence Prof. William Rothen on the bank of the river, had a souls intent on salvage. Two barstein, and Mr. W. J. Monnington. 8. Mr. terrifying experience. As therels were captured near the en- Henry Rushbury Ho is thirty-eight; and produces mainly drawings and utekinke, 0. swirling waters surged over the trance to the harbour and were a print from an engraved copper plate. parapet into their grounds the promptly tapped. Within a few Sometimes the lines are bitten with seld house was hurriedly evacuated hours their contents had almost sometimes the charaving is made with an and the family was obliged to disappeared.
1.
etching needle; and sometimes with an en- graver's "burin." which is special kind-of chinet. Prints from plates engraved within burin should strictly be called engravings and not richings. 10. (a) £472; (b)$1,800. 11. Soane Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fiolda, 12. again A form of pottery decoration, peelfenlly
Dublin
spend the night in an hotel. This Other barrels were stranded morning the gardens were piled. ten feet deep with huge boulders along the coast between
and Kingstown," and here there were drunken orgies.
and mud
This is the third occurrence of the kind in the Montreux district this month.
About 60 barrels were missing the following day.
at
MODERN" MDSIMMER MADNE
English. lt. was frat made at Wmlbam, Kent, in the seventeenth century, Water and clay were mixed on "alip," which was dropped on the body of the pot in fanciful decoration, like sugar on a wedding enko.
AT THE
QUEEN'S
TO-DAY ONLY 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 and 9:20.
MAE MURRAY
in
MASKED BRIDE
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
PICTURE
AT THE
WITH TRANOIS X, BUSHMAN AND
BOY D'ARCY.
SHE was undisputed leader of the boldest Apaches of the Paris n derworld. She stalked her greatest prey a scion of wealth and title using the lures of love-
and then she discovered that she really loved this man she had plotted to betray.
THE MOST AMAZING. FILM OF UNDERWORLD ROMANCE
EVER MADE!
Directed by CHRISTY CABANNE, Bee
LEON ABRAME, S
WORLD
WITH
RONALD
COLMAN
"and
a Notable Cast
TO-DAY ONLY Orchestra at 5.15 and 9.20 Chinese Interpréter at 2.30 & 7.15.
ALL the spice
of
and comedy a French musical show, with drama and
thrill besides.
AT THE
almadge
HER SISTER FROM PARIS-
STAR
TO-DAY ONLY Continuous from 2.30 to 11.15.
After-dinner dancing every
Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
Grill
THE EUROPE HOTEL. LTD.
Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director.
HARBOUR VIEW
Gicon-FooD-SERVICE-CLEANLINEHA. Moderate Monthly and Daily Rates. JADLER-PERRYBURNS. Hongkong. Tels, K. 99 & 1.000.
W. H. Perry, Proprietar.
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Artistic Linishes in Bronze, Antique Copper, and Oxydized Silver.
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DIÖ27 BY MER SERVICE.
AM
ALLAN DWAN
PRODUCTION
WITH
JACK HOLT
FLORENCE VIDOR
GEORGE BANCROFT
WILLIAM POWELL
Alone
woman,
aboard a "tramp” bound for East Africa, Romance
and
adventure
2
Pictive
SEA HORSES
-KEEPING UP YOUR DAILY DOZEN!
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